The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1916, Page 3

1A a > _ BALYSSCISES Firs REACHLOW MAR OLY 92 ND Sunda sinall Since Lpidemic Gained Hold in Cit _—_—-— SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT Vieure 25 Health Departinent Arrange for Parents to Visit Hos pital Patient Ninety (wo new f infas Paralysis were reported by the Mord Of Health to-day. This is the lowest @umber for one day ince the epi demic gained bold in New York ity ‘The previous low figure was ninety five last Monday There w an inCreane Over yoater G7 in the number of deaths, but t day's figures show a decrease from Saturday. off f the Health te partment were highly gratified over reports whieh, they od that the epidemic was dying out Following are the tables of deaths and new causes for to Jay, compared with thowe of yesterday DEATHS. Roroughs To-day, Yesterday Brooklyn s Manhattan wv ’ Bronx .... . 2 Queens occ... 2 ’ Richmond ... ® ° Totals a8 0 NEW CASES Boroughs To-day Yes Brooklyn ) ' Manhattan .. 82 Bronx . , Queens ' “ Richmond ........ 01 : Totals .......... “2 108 Total deaths to date Total cases to date ant PARENTS MAY SEE PATIENTS | HOSPITAL TWICE, ‘The Health Department to-day gave out the following information regard- ing visits to hospitals which are tak. ing care of infantile paralysis cases “Each case may be visited during its stay in the hospital by a parent or guardian. If the child is critically ill the parent ov guardian will be notifled and will be permitted to visit daily while the child is dan- gerously ill, Information relative to the condition of patients Is given out at the information desk in each hos- pital, or by telephone in response to 1,850 N telephone inquiries from parents or suardians,” Health Commissioner Emerson to day, after pointing out that the nuin- ver of deaths and new cas in Brooklyn is the lowest it has been since June suid he felt that the epidemic was the wane and that the public schools would be opened Sept. 25, “Dr. Flexner of the Rockefeller In- stitute,” he suid, “poi out some time ago that in epidemics of infan- Ule paralysis the falling off usually begins about the middie of August, aud the point he made is being borne out in this epidemic DEATH RATE LITTLE HIGHER THAN FOR OTHER YEARS. The Commissioner then gave some figures to show that, even in the present epidemic, the death rate in New York 1s not unusually high. ‘The total death rate for the city dur- ing the ending Aug. 21, 1915, was 13.66, The death rate for last week was 15.34, which means 168 week than during 1, 1915. For the weeks of 1915 the for a similar more deaths last the week of Aug. first thirty-four death rate was 14 Rashes, Pimples, Sunburn appt yd lee feetions demand the prompt use of POSLAM ‘tod "quctly AT ALL DRUGGISTS. QorQQ Every Night For Constipation twice | TES BVSHING WORLD, MONDAY, AVOUST 21, 1916. | t Woman Amateur Air Pilot in } Yould Fly for Country it It Went to War OF CATHOLICS IN My Mounting Into the Air Mrs, Waldo Peirce Finds Surcease From Bores Pests Any Woman ( Aviation la the One in Which Speed By Nisola Greeley-Smith. Weide Peiror qualified leet eek es an sir pilot, and she will be foun the only licensed amateur Women Mie and Other Terranecan ‘an Learn to Ply, and Thing in the World Means Salety. Vatied Motes Mrs. Peirce intends to take the lente for the military aviators’ leense, i accept her Rice, daughter of twenty-five years ag SHE CAN DO MANY THINGS BE SIDES FLY Mra, Peirce enn do more unuewal things well than any ther woman of her awe in New York City, shel fm & painter of rugged and real pie] tures which ehow the nfluence @f Zolowga the great Spanish artiat, who had refused pupils always, but Who aceepted Dorothy Rice rhe te 4 sculptor of power, Her skating | Wan the sensation of the years aso. DID motor. “Everybody motors now, #o why! do it," this slim, exotic young crea. | ture asked m when we met in her) mother's apartment in the Ansonia] ‘Hotel, “The best thing about flying is that there no tratfle cops to arrest you for speeding, And in fly ing, you know, the faster you go the! safer you are” | ‘Thin was interesting, I thought. 1 had never heard before of any human town some | She motors or rather ehe! are occupation wherein speed waa not | purchased at the expense of safety any kind of speed you like “L love to go fast. I have to go fast,” Mrs. Peirce informed me with a soft breathlessness, “To go slow makes me positively {ll—almost as {Nl as going to dances or aitting next] to stupid people at dinner parties and having to talk to them. I loathe to ‘And I love to fly, ‘There's ab- solutely no sensation in it except that of being unhampered. Come to the flying field and let me take you for a fight, if you don’t believe me, Flying is safer than motoring. You |don't have to worry over ebildren |running in front of you when you're in the alr, And then in @ car you never can tell what the other fellow is going to do. | WOMEN CLEVERER THAN MEN AS AVIATORS. “[ shall have my own biplane. It has been ordered, but it will be two months before it is ready. Meantime, of course, I shall keep up my flying with Miss Stimpson, my/ She says she would rather that women | taik. lessons teacher teach women than men; are cleverer, “I ha morning months and ha ing fleld for a lesson at 4.30, another lesson toward evening, ishing about $.80. had to work pretty long hours that's nothing; I've done that my painting for years, I'm afraid I've rather neglected my studio of late because I've been so interested in flying. I'm really most anxious to go| been getting up every 3 o'clock for nearly two n out on the fly- 1 have fin- I've | But with So, you see, jod this ye ‘Our charts, said, “show that dying out with than it came on, It b lyn late in May and away just as scient outside points, howe in only recently, it probably will last longer.” Asked ri 14.6) Commissioner epidemic is ter swiftness | Ban in Brook. it 1s passing In a the this whether made b; 0 canvass went out by the Health Department to tri the dis- | ease, the Commissioner replied: | “This work seems to be confirming the theory we have held right along that the probability is infantile par alysis is spreact by personal contact from child to child, or adult to child, But be careful about explaining the position of the adult as a ‘carrier The adult, to serve as a ‘carrier,’ must have intimate personal contact with @ child.” Seventeen persons volunteered yea- terday to give their blood for the) new serum which is being used on paralysis sufferers, There were twelve volunteers — Saturday, I -two ounces of blood were obtai trom | eight of these. Many of the volunteers, Commis- sioner Emerson explained, first go to} the city hospitals to be examined, and then have their own physicians re- move their blood so that it may. be used on stricken relatives or friends, Blood taken from these volunteers jis not recorded by the Health Depart- ment and this, the Commissioner said, | probably would account for | than only Fort ned | | Fall | Rochester, 3 | Health aud w whe recetvee Il, wll ve the only women quell fed to fy for the Unite Mre Delree, lhe every other @edgling since the sorld benau, Is anaious (oO try ber wings and she Wid Me yesterday afternoon she Wants to joln hee fe with (he American Ambulance Corps member of ite tying corpe You have beard of Mre, Waldo Petree oft this, but pot under her married name. As Dorothy the late Inaae L. Rice, has been Ip the public eye almost simee she war born Hut of course I can't go it won't let Ont #he will! 1 know she wouldn't mind my flying for the United States army if we ha ut It does not look as if we were going to have « wag now, does itt! . r 1 waid, frivoiousiy; “there may come a turn for the worse and you may be able Jrop bombs on the Mexicans after all.” “But I don't want to drop vombe on the poor little Mexicana!" Mrs Peirce protested with a plaintive quaver in her voice, “I feel sorry tor the poor little Mexteans! They are ignorant and don't know any better.” I did NOT ask Mrs. Peirce on what particular nation #he ts pining to drop bomba, Her answer would have been 4 violation of neutrality, and that wouldn't do. Instead, I said ‘Are you going to try to intereat other women in army aviation?” NO SPECIAL COURAGE OR IN- TELLIGENCE REQUIRED. “Any woman can learn to fly if ahe wants to," Mra. Peirce replied. “It doesn't take any particular courage or intelligence and I'm astonished more women haven't taken it up. But when they do, I'll take to something else. I want to be the only one. I'm not interested in anything that ev- erybody does." “Apparen interested to France 4 war, up” you have never been in the things that other n do. You don’t dance or * Do you care anything “1 wear the same dress all the time —buy it and wear it until it's worn out—and always the same kind of dress, a simple tailor-made,” an- swered M Peirce. Her answer ignored my question about dancing. I repeated. “Dancing? echoed Mra, Peirce. “Dancing? No, don't put that in. It wouldn't look well in the Pape’. But that's my opinion, But I'm trying to be very good this eve- ning. So just say it's stupid, almost as stupid “ay talking to bores. A how many bores there are, aren't there, One great thing about flying, you know, Is that you can get away from all the bores, Haven't you ever talked to people, nice, well-meaning people, who bored you so that they made you ill, and haven't you wished for a magic carpet that you could Jump on and be wafted away from them? “Well, my biplane will be that sort of magic carpet. Seriously, you | know I think flying is the best pos- sible exercise for women, and keeps them out in the alr all way, keepy them interested and young and alive. Quite apart from my military ambl- tions, I'm glad I took it up. I'm not very strong, and t's done me a lot of good. And then, I really hope to get into a war somewhere! And that would be exciting, wouldn't it?" in the city hospitals Saturday and terday.. Senior urgeon Charles EK. Banks of the United States Public Health Service, who is fighting the epidemic in New York, received a notification to-day at Shodack, N. Y., that any- one bringing @ child under sixteen years of age into that town 1s liable to a fine of $50, The health authori- tles of Shodack do not recognize eith- er Federal or local health certifi- cates, W. T. Meade, chairman of the Hoard of Health of Louisa County, Virginia, sent word to Dr. Banks that from New York are there, Senior Surgeon received re- ports showing that only 197 children left New York City yesterday, This is an unusually low number, and is taken to indicate that parents are following the advice of the Federal uthorities and keeping their chi dren in the elty. aaa CASES OUTSIDE CITY SHOW NO DECREASE; FIFTY-SIX STRICKEN ALBANY, Aug. 21.—There was no decrease noted to-day in the spread of infantile paralysis in the State outside New York City, reports of fifty-six cases and four deaths being received at the State Department of during the forenoon. The deaths were reported from Waverl White Plains, Minaville and O: Bay. This made a total of 156 deaths and 1,876 cases since the outbreak of the epidemic in June. To-day's new cases were distributed as follows Vhite Plains seven; er Bay and Mamaroneck, three Utica, Yonkers, Hempstead and Bay Shore, two each; Huevelton, Port Chester, Greenburgh, Minaville, Columbiaville, Canajoharie, Florida, North Tarrytown, Ithaca, Hudson, Oneida, Croghan, Rye, Fishkill, Hor- ton's, Colonie, Eastwood, ! chelle, Mount Vernon, burgh, Suffern, Blooming iddletown, Liberty ville, Sands Point, Rockville ¢ Inwood, Easthampton, Patchogue, Riverhead Islip and Freeport, one each, oP mm we eee cenit a, U.S. eeeree Peer ee re eee eee eee eer tier t eee eer eee eee eee eee ee ee ee eee eee O84444464 eee rerr cee ceo MOOSE LEADERS na sul Willcox Having a Hard Time Senora Luz de Mendez Toured Smoothing Over Rows in the Slums for Suspects. Various States. Senora Luz de Mendez, daughter of the Minister from Guatemala, and no Latin-American beauty, did some detective work on her own ac. Friction between Republican and Progressive allies has developed so much heat that serious distention eine following the. disappenram breaking out in the national campatam.|\trom ' ner home at No. 86 Rutland| The Bull Moose leaders are kicki@S Road, matbuah, of jewelry worth eev- over traces ang dashboard and the 0.4: thousands of dollar. As a re- | political team in wetting badly tangled) site of her efforty und. chone of Clty in the harness. tives Van Duser, Owens and Filloox 0: blica: armas Ww ee ot the Tap gone kerly, © man whom senora Men- ational ‘ommittee summo % dez employed as gardener a month York Committeeman Hert, charge of Western headqu they talked long to-day over the troubles in various States. The rw [in California, which broke out when Candidate Hughes appeared there, is but a sample of the disturbing situa- tlons in other States. “If Mr. Hughes goes into Pennay! who is in rters, and oO Was arrested, with « girl, aid to| >mplice, and a pawnbroker ld for receiving the stolen Jewels, the Minister's daughter took uso in Flatbush Joseph Bono- twenty-three years old, who gave his address as No. 635 Pacific reet, Brooklyn, asked for work and vania,” sald Democratic Chairman | 4 oe Job. A few days later McCormick, “he will stir up the same) Senora Mendez told him to operate troubles there that he found on the| ‘#6 lawn mower while she went shop. Pacific Coast. The regulars of the| PIN. She missed the jewols on her Old Guard are determined to rule, 1/Peturn and immediately wired the de- | wonder how Progressives like Gifford | Wuls to her father In Washington, He | Pinchot will like submitting to the notified ¢ Whitman, a personal | domination of Senator Penro: friend, who in turn put the case into “The Progressives are beginning to| Police Commissioner Wood's care. find that this is no ffty-fifty com-| Senora Mendez placed her auto at Piaation, but a very one-sided affair] the disposal of the detectives and for which the Old Guard is running for|4@Y8 accompanted them on visite to their own benefit. We are hearing|th@ dena of well known thieves and already from California of Progres-| t® nearby resorts where she and they and y, bend of priests eke pe © core & weet of thought of all thie inet ole bere on the platform 14 of mbewiviel) me coe THREE MILLIONS we . ( fad We ow par mene in handing 1 1ON HAS NOW saneenO wewoene G FEDERATION The * regent Ms Key Convention Shows Whi nny md "the the Great Growth of Move cuguveied thai the as 1s ine enlantion tche slope to puppiy the apm eof ment in Ten Years ma meriean wuidiers om the 1 twee ©) 8 bree be ner as body evuerd je het Condinel came this morming bue ' tt ; ‘ : , ‘ ‘ Secretar ‘ Treasury " edie Would Compel Kailways to Guapd wer ' I was very om mn \ acationiots Against Paralysis the same of entrance he made in|! > ethy Matioon Mqware Garden last night,|iary wae read by WASHINGTON, Aus. Dt ry 4 when bie adeuirers eurrounded him, | Anthony a Gus eae ee pod ome with flags and one bearing « Re. -, piacard ineertbed “Moston.” te Fi over the Mexican situat) to the recognition of Gen. the report said In bie address the cardinal eald Yeoterday was a great epoch tn fa! cause, ond ae Laat on the tame of Madiaon Square Garten look ine without routing them through Mew York Persons with children, he eatd, do not wish to expose them to the Janwer of infantile paralyete. i" th A He asked (he Interstate Commeree . one orying in the] Comeission to put pressure on the Meeting in Moston ten sew York, New Haven and Mart. S | was invited. 1 found there recalled that at the Hal 1 the Pennsylvania Rath forty chesure lepmnes, st to read eh additional facilities one of whom was known beyond hin tmme diate circle of acquaintances. There © no arent politician there, no man oe to the President ary of Mtate to present eat of the againat scroms the Poughl bridge to Jersey City, the only able route that does not touch York City promin Chureh “The two railroads, jointly it~ brominent in business or professional | LOsfem in Mee ne ing a Sunday. train over this rout life These simple, obscure souls were and Secretary Hryan and several] have announeed they will discontin talking federatic And I naid to fterward De the com i — Hept, 17," Le | M Lee 4 " " ‘chairmen, © | haw ile accommodations sold ow % rime, here’a a great cause | mittes’e ch tearing on until that date, It im the only ease Which needs assistance-—-and in the ented by repu ‘ where @ train has been | name of God here moe: hat an effort be mud ued because too many per~ | WARM PRAISE FOR NEW YoRK's @ Republican alliance | 8USspected Bonomart, who had disap- [Aiea eer coming over | Peared, might be hiding. They locac- Noite: Daciocrata! ed his brother's home at No, 440 Mid- At Republican headquarters Chair-] ¥00d Street, Mlatbush, and watched man Willcox is making strenuous e Had eee ie M nas ig serene forts as a harmonizer to smooth out] fom the chase temporarily tate Las the State rows, He thought last week] (ddresn, Tie ws moconrrs aid gat (He he had the Californians agreed on al girl truce while Candidate Hughes was in the State and was grievously dis- appointed that it was not kept. ‘The understanding was that the regulars were to have the candidate in San Francisco and run the meeting there, while the Progressives could have him in Los Angeles Bonomart but: surren¢ had fired se taken along accomplice , In the Flatbush police court to-day she said she was Viola Lyons, tw ty-one years old, of New ‘Haven. Bonomart admitted taking the jew Jun f from a window, red fter the detectives ts. ‘The girl was ed with being an rival committees should stan! had to be figured out in in Piccerilla examination morrow. | Col Roonevelt ts + 1 restlessly eae lchatne under the troublesome condi-| AUTO HITS OPERA SINGER. | tans developing in the se) Gulde Ciccolint Suffers Broken Lew His intimates make no secre’ of de re nal Sulusion, claring that Hughes stock has had a Guido ¢ lint, a well Known opera heavy slump, and that something) cer wan atruck by an automobile radical will have to lone 800 10) truck to-day at Pifty-fifth Stree boost it If the Republican Progressive | Madison Avenue and seriously tnju alliance Is to win. The Colonel is bid-| He taken to. Fle Wer Ho 0 who [ing his time and will keep tun-|M) re pei yates [tl his Aret speech in Maine, twa) ° The sings on hin way to No | weeks off. He has been scheduled Cor} 1h trast Bixtiowy trent on a Madison |but two appearances in the entire|ty by William Finn, | Maine und’an; (Lien st Bronx, wiruel campaign, the one in Maine and ans 1024 8! ate Bronk, airuck jother a month later at Battle Creek, and injuring hin Hy Mich,, on Sept. 50 : eg Wall Stieh Bal inern Lone, Ends Her Life With Gas. JM. Selnell'a ball team defeated Mrs, Sophie Weber, twenty-four the Wall Stieh nine Saturday at Taft's ears old, of N Spruce Street, Oval, Brooklyn, by, a score of Richmond Hill, was found lead on the ‘The pitching of Craig, the floor of her bedroom to-day, w suicide uf McCauley and batting by gaa, featured for the winners, oo ee en As the detectives entered the house | { e come elry, Saying he stole them and sent for | Lang tiegrams have come 10) thesis], who succeeded in pawning national headquarters from — the) them, Both waived examination and Pacific coast complaining bitterly Prore held without bail for the grand , est bits of imaginary] Jury on charges of grand larceny jover the elightest bits of play Senora Mendez was in court. re {advantage gained by one side or the! ceiving the congratulations of frienda other, The Chairman had to decite|when Enrico Piccerilla,. thirty o S ewiliaee ‘could in} Years old, @ pawnbroker, of No, 2 pie how many remem could 8 tho| West, Twenty - firth Street, was chairs on the platform beside the! yiougnt in, toxether with w pearl and candidate and how many Progres-|diamond necklace and a bracelet of gives could shake hands wit) him.| sapphire and diamonds, which the on of how near the| complainant identified as her prop | Byen the question of how near the) saat oe which is still, miseine was held in $1,000 batt for | wished to patroniae ft.” CARDINAL. ‘T jumped tnto the work > Hichmond Blues Killed by Trate, —Reture- would freedom of worship.” to stay not grant # real RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 2 and Fm there now to stay, The out.|WOrsm pe ka a ane from » trip to Aleman 1 subject of the look wan gloomy at frat, the obatacten} Jupnor, of @ national consorship of yh gee” yy Ho were many and there waw little help] motion pictures the report sald Gooch of Hehmond. a in sight, But we kept on and last night came the wonderful meeting in Madison Square Garden arly all films produced to-day have at least one scene jectionable to every which is ob pnsitive Chris the tracks of the Hrederickvburg and Potares an, A_ well informed investige “Whatever the areat Cardinal Arch. | of conditions says that ning out of lene ary: tues Which thee pA T | | bishop of New York and his wonder: (ten films a v, and another thetr weet Pleases Travel on the Broadway Limited is not only comfortable and attractive; it is alluring. 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