The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1916, Page 3

MANY ARE RESCUED “ATEAST SIDEFIRE: ONE MAN BURNED Mugan’s Clothing Ignited as He Groped Way From Sick Bed Into Hall. THREE SISTERS They Remember Brother and Firemen Crawl to His Res- cue—8 Families in Peril. SAVED. Bxciting rescues marked a fire easly to-day tn the four-story tens- ment at No. 237 East Seventy-fourth Btreet, occupied by eight families, One man, Martin Mugan, his clothes PUT CREAM IN NOSE AND STOP CATARRH ‘Tells How to Oper Clogged Nos- tells and End J ead-Colds. “You feel fine in a few moments. ‘Your cold in head or .atarrh will be » Your clogged nostrils will open, air passages of your head will ear and you can bresthe freely, No more dullness, headache; no hawking, snuffling, mucous discharges or dry- Bess; no struggling for breath at night. Tell your druggist you want a small bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm, Attle of this fragrant, antiseptic fu your nostrils, let it penetrate wh every air passage of the head, soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed Mucous membrane, and relief comes tly. It is just what every cold and ca tarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay stuffed up and miserable.—Advt. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package provesit. 25c atall druggists 43 & 45 West 34th Street uate Newest Winter Coats burned off of him as he was groping his way from a sickbed, Is dying in Mower Hospital. A pedestrian discovered the blaze. Frank McGowan, & gray hatred spe~ clal officer, unable to make his way through a lower hall, elimbed to the | first fire escape balcony by digging Into the interstices between the building stones with his fingers and ' thelr nightelothes, he down from the third floor Annie Mugan, twenty-four, and her sisters, Grace, twenty-seven, and Ateluide, seventeen, The young women then remembered |that thelr brother Martin was still in |his room. Battalion Chief Dougherty |sent Firemen Joseph Golden of Truck }13 and William Vaughan of Truck 16 {to find him. their hands and Mugan unconscious. oes, In brought knees, discovered They brought Church gave him the last rites before he was removed to the hospital. On the top floor, asleep, were Pat- rick Sullivan, bis wife Catherine, their week-old baby Evelyn, Joseph, four, and three-year-old Roy Vincent, a victim of the infantile paraly: Jepidemic and crippled in every limb, Sullivan carried the cripple on his {shoulder, the baby in his arm, and leading his wife while little Joseph clung to his coat, got them all out by |a rear fire escape, The fire did $5,000 damage in tho | natis, was the Mugans', the sisters having |teft the door open in their first at- tempt to escape, CIVIL SERVICE BOARD LOSES. Westchester Supervisors Can Fir Salary of an Appointer. (Spectal to The Evening World.) | WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Dee. L— Word was received to-day from Albany t the Westchester County Board of s bas won a@ victory tn the Court of Appeals, which allows the board to fix the salary of an appointees, and that the State Civil Service Com- mission has no control over the salary question. The decision was made in the case of Charles McDonald, Superinten: of Highways in the county, whose ry was fixed by the Supervisos holds that the State Civil mmissioners cannot compel, indirectly, a Boar upervisors to adopt m salary atated mission or stop the board ting & person from the eilgible list at a salary agreed upon by the Supervisors, ‘This was the contention of County Attorney Willlam A. Davidson. who successfully carried on the appeal. ee TOM WATSON ACQUITTED. Pot om Trial for Alleged ene Attacks om Charch, STA, Ga, Deo. 1.—Thomas B. , author and editor, was acquitted to-day by a jury in the Federal Court of the charge of sending obscene mat- ough the mail, ‘The matter for which he was indicted and tried was a sories of attacks on the holte Chure It was the second Broadcloth, Velour, Duvetyn, Montagnacs, With or Without | Fur Trimmings, Very Special Bolivia, ) Suede Velour, Velgur de Laine, Velveteen, { E Broadcloth, r 2. 9) With or Without Fur Trimmings, | Very Special | 125 Fur Women’s & Misses’ Coats | 16.50 Women’s & Misses’ Coats 00 Will Close Out 120 Aftern Charmeuse, Satin, Serge, Crepe Meteor, | Taffeta, various colors and sizes, } Will Close Out Trimmed & Tailored Suits Broadcloth,} clot Duvetyn, Gabardine, | and Serge, Silk lined, heavily interlined, Many handsomely fur trimmed. 16.50 Coat of Cashmere Velour, $32.50 oon Dresses 10.95 Reduced to Reduced to Tho firemen going on| him down a@ 35-foot ladder, but his! condition was such that Fathor Michael Dougherty of St. John's The only apartment it entered | | persuaded women, even Pr THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER i, i916. In‘elden day tne kights wore Hit lasy's gloves, ete, ox hit lance With one of her inimitably dram: fashions of 1914. kimono fell baok and expression. 1 Easter lily petal. talked to me of fr or She comes to this country after a brilliant career at the Athen Odeon, in Paris, and at a large theatre 4 “The war has had a influence on fashion, plained. “Everything has been made simp! ht, free, The eeriousness of th the great, quiet thoughts, have found their expression In clothes. “Even American women understand and reatt to the now influence. Your Mme, Vanderbilt visited the trenches not long ago. The soldiers knew of her great wealth, and they expected to see a woman magnificently dressed. They were amazed and touched when they beheld her long, quietly colored robes, of the straightness, the severity of @ nursing sister. She compre- hended the spirit of the hour.” And then I heard the story of the first demonstration of Prussian fright~ fulness, which took place in the heart, of Parts long before the tnvesion of Belgium, It seems that spies and minions from over the Rhine invel- gled their way into famous dress- making establishments and fullefully substituted Teutonic ideas in dress for pure French taste, Hence the freaks of fashion which culminated in the horrible tight skirts of 1914, In some way the German emissarten chwomen, to buy and wear their dreadful ety! |The detatis were a bit |Mghts flashing from her heavy-lidded ue to but Mile, Notzeux sings a little son describing the diabolical plot when she lectures on “Fashion and War" at the Theatre Francais, THE NARROW SKIRT WAS A GERMAN ATROCITY, “When the war bro.e out in the summer of 1914,” she continued, “the Frenchwoman was wearing the tight, narrow skirt in ‘hich she must take small, mincing steps.” Mlle, Notzeux Mustrated by duck-stepping in front of me. “How,” she demanded, golden eyes—"how could the woman of France, imprisoned by such @ cos- tume, express her fire of patriotism, her heart-felt tenderness, her de- spair, her exaltation ™ “What did she do?” I asked “She flung aside the narrow skirt,” Mile, Nolzeux assured me. T cramped silhouette changed to one with wide, flowing lines, The full skirt, {ts generous d-apery permit ting free move: “In 1915 the skirt was both short and full, But it was only with the greatest reluctance that the Frenchwom. disn’ayed more . | ent, car of her ankles than she had ever | shown before, To make up for this betrayal she raised tho col lar of her blouso high, very high. | This fashion ‘asted till the first | soldiers, | | furlough given our They returned from the trenches and exclaimed in horror when they beheld covered the most beautiful half of woman's body. ‘This! they said, 1 the worst thing we have had to endure.’ And so the decol’ete e returned. Now, ing 1916, tho silhourita again | has chang®d, I speak that eo} you ash mo about the for style {s not color nor ter It fs line, The skirts are longer than they were and & little less full, We are approfiching the lines of the beautiful Greek draperies, the most Straight Lines and Simplicity Replace Monstrosities of Past Few Years, Now Gone Forever—Mlle. Noizeux Says Seriousness of Conflict Has Found Expression By Marguerite Moocrs Marshall, “War {s a terrible, a heart-breaking thing, but war has destroyed the most abominable fashions ever worn by woman. They are ended—finished.” leading woman of the Theatre Francais des Etats- Unis, illustrated (or me the utter extermination of the in Clothes. atic gestures, Mile. Paulette Niozeux, The sleeves of her scarlet tanager from her round, supple arms. Her tawnily brown hair, tumbling over her shoulders in childish waves, framed a round Mttle girl face and a pair of hazel eyes raised to the nth degree of beauty ler voice had the smoothness of an She sat on the edge of her couoh and shions and the war, with the clarity,’ the cleverness, the wit of the Frenchwoman that she 1s. and the in Petrograd, beautiful garments ever worn, which outlined, without concealing, the nat- ural lines of the naturally beautiful figure, “Sometimes to be fashionable it ts necessary to look as if one were suf- fering from tuberculos! Now the too slender Woman must puff herself }of your women,” Mlle, Nolzeux fin- | tients wore not greatly disturbed, “Beauty and chic out. The ideal is the normally curved body. NOW THE MILITARY NOTE I8 EVERYWHERE, “And the military note—it ts where!” Mile. ry. Notsour’s eyes brimmed over with laughter, and her They are lovely In f conversauional brows lifted whimsi- cally. “The husband of a friend of mii she instanced, “wrote to his wife from the trenches and asked her to send him a drawing of her winter sult, He explained that he wanted | 4 design for a new uniform. Another friend, wearing a long coat cut like an officer's and @ helmet-shaped hat, met two pollus during her datly walk, ‘Mon general!’ they greeted her, with &@ salute. “The coats, the hats, the multitude of buttons and the brald—everything is tn the mode of the army. In the customed to wear the gloves, scarts women of France wear the clothes of thelr flighting men—who are not and should not be insensible to the com- pliment.”” #) Mile. Notzoux paused, Her small) face took on an expression at once | defiant and tender, “There are those,” she said softly, “who wonder that the women of France have time and heart te think of the coquet: of clothes, bra’ ven in our dress, during the period of ordeal and while waiting for victory, We must not disappoint when they return from the four walls of muddy trench, longing to be- hold us gay, chic, beautiful. A our men, Bayer‘Tablets ASpirin ing eve had set out @ turkey and other Middle Ages the warriors ‘sere ac-| inner requisites on the Ki The ollce, belleve the n het! or ribbons of thetr ladies, Now thal uttvts “x amelled traced the oder. has we a Bellevue Hospital ambulance rurgeon But we must be | as Today the French women are wearing? the sola Netmet, cloak , buttonr and theif clothes are Cut military style wise great lady once ssid, ‘A co- quette never suffers from cold.’ if she we alive to-day o would add, ‘A coquette never suf- fers from fear’ We know how to give up our lives—not how to give up our face powder!" And I thought I had never heard a sharper definition of the spirit of France, immortally daring and im- mortally debonair, I was to have an illustration of its graceful courtesy. “I must say @ word about the dress ished, earnestly. Long Greek dine? are Comng are two different things. Chic is akin | Beauty is of the It is said that our So are American autiful, to snobbishness, family of art. women are chic, women, and they are very be and they know how to choose beau- tiful clothes and how to wear them, too!" ———————_— AGED COUPLE SIT DEAD BESIDE THANKSGIVING MEAL With their Thanksgiving @irner re: out, ready for cooking, David Lockomu- wits, thirty, @ furniture dealer of No. 805 Park Avenuo, housekeeper, seventy, were fol of thelr home yest defective was Tange bad asphyxiated them, Brooklyn, and his Newfeld, ead in the kitchen day afternoon. Mra. a His aged housekeeper on Thanksgiv- chen table, ML asleep y night lay and 5 late We eas od MARIAN CLARK ILL IN CELL. Movie Actresa Held as Shoplt Attended by Bellevue Doc Clark, rian the moving ss arrested as @ shoplift picture ted to-day to refuse to seo friends, She tod so she had to be treated by erson Market Prison, where she ts lzabeth Scanlon, naive handbags given by the Four exp » are of wilk with silye ther of leather, Pocket Bouse of 12 Bottles of 24 and Frttlee of 100 ABLETS have been not contain the genuine. sold as Aspirin that did There is but one Genuine Aspirin, It is unadulterated, Accept only tablets that have “The Bayer Cross” on every package and on every tablet, mark “Asptrl Office) ts a gu “The Bayer Croas— Your Guarantee of Purity Reg. ace and figure, | | | | | | BUCKET BRIGADE SAVES BUILDING AT BELLEVUE’ 1 Many Pieces of Apparatus Called, but Patients Are Not Alarmed, Fire was discovered at 1.20 o'clock this morning on the fourth floor of the building at No. 431 East Twenty- sixth Streot, on the Bellevue Hos- pital grounds and occupied as @ dor- mitory by the malo attendants, The fire alarm brought an unusual num- ber of pleces of fire apparatus, includ- ing @ fireboat, By the time the apparatus arrived, however, the attendants had formed a bucket brigade and had got the fire under control. ‘The hospital pa- War Wipes Out Most Atrocious Fashions (3) NORF Ci IN CTS STREETS Thirty-two « ir persons atreets of New Y lar traffic during the month of No- | first eleven vember, according to the report of the | Sons were ki Highways to-day, Jeaths of 46 persons, trol. 9, wagons 9. 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