The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1916, Page 3

JILTED GIRL SHARE “MANNING MILLIONS Both Families Lined Up for} Bitter Warfare in Breach of | Promise Suit. ae BANKER BACK AT WORK. Romance Had Kept Him From Wall Street Office for First Time in Years. Jobn Ft, Manning, the cighty-three- | Year-oll banker who jilted twenty- 4, Ilonora May O'Brien, the Skibbercen Venus, by telephone two di ago, tore himself away from the realms and remembrances of ro- mance to-day and appeared at 1 o'clock at his office, No. 2 Wall Street. Never in bis long career had he been absent from business two days at a atretch In such exciting stock market times as these. ot far from No. 2 Wall Stret! forces were at work formulating an attack on Mr, Manning's $15,000,000 fortune, the basis of the attack being & breach of promise sult to be instl- tuted by Miss O'Brien, But there was Mo sign of surrender in the Manning forces. Some, at least, of his #ix chil- Gren had preceded him to his inner office, and their willing hands @rabbed him as he more or less dex- terously dodged an Evening World Peporter awaiting his arrival in the outer public room, John Jerome Rovuney, the young wo- man's lawyer, with whom she con- ferred for several hours yesterday, declared to-day thet no action had becn started, Ile said he was to havo another conference with Miss OBrien in a few days. While Mr. Rooney would not admit | that inability on the part of Miss! O'Brien's relatives to agree as to how much she had been damaged was de- laying the filing of the breach of Promise suit against her octogenarian suitor, from other sources it was Jearned that such ts the case. -yeartuld POS8-2909SF £999090926998 508He BEER $0-00088698300000088 eee FEV o86 3 O04 be By Nixola Greeley-. Almost on the eve of their wedding, which will by POET Oe bEEES PED OO DEE DEE Pee ee er oe A Combination of Romance (Joan Said It) and Good, Sound Horse Sense (Darby's Talking), All Ruled by Love, Real Love (Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Eberle in Unison), and That’s Why Their | Union Lasted Half a Century. smith. celebrated on | love PO DKD OY PedO oO EHEODa nn SYS ane OBRENS DEMAND |Drama’s Darby and Joan, RETURNS $25000 GOETHALSSAYSULS, 50 Years Married, Reveal | Secret of Happy Wedlock ~ ~~ wo STOLEN GEMS HE COULD NOT SELL BRITAIN BY CANAL | Eighteen-Year-Old Thief Diss Builder of Waterway Tells| | gusted When Offered 50 | Cents for Diamonds. | MAKES A CONFESSION. Uncut Stones Taken From Of- fices of the Lamport & Holt | Steamship Company. Washington Bruce, an eighteen- year-old clerk of the Lamport & Holt Steamnship Line, appeared at the of- fice of the company at the foot of Clarke Street, Brooklyn, ahead of time Dec. 15, He told the watchman | ho had to make an early delivery of |tinued, the light of din in her golden | juve ix counterfeit its lasting. » test of real y at ext, a Mra.| At this point Mr. Bberle contrib- ‘The amount of heart balm Mr. Man- | FePruary 7th a . Pegi ate uted to the discussion an old-faah- B will be asked to pay 1s under- Rave, a 1 sep. {ned Senilment trom the old-fash- stood to be increasing hourly, each aratdly (08 Aas " » guwomar.” People on a fow &@ unique debut w-|**? others may be new to m0. aideuss the banker's action in jiltitg gether at the Park | 2uoth Mr. Eber her over the telephone the night be- fore Cardinal Farley was to have per- formed the ceremony. There has been no communication | between Miss O'Brien's lawyer and Mr. Manning's attorneys, but the! attitude of both sides makes it clear the now famous romance is going to be the basis of a bitter legal battle. Attempts to communicate with the banker at his Riverside Drive home by telephone to-day were unsuccess- ful. A woman's voice stated that the family had stopped talking to re- Theatre in Women.” for half a last Mi nee eneney sent he same cast years which have wedding have the I than a few months at |mether. In on [Johnstown food a “Little Happily married century, | Lc night's duction marked | thelr dst appearance in New York In no one of the f assed since ries spent n time year—the year of the the couple had not t love i, if the ouldst be taught, heart wiaet tad la with “ alone: fea love? montit bright, ever liew at al). pro- the ¢ century knows | ter than that. Kut, really, if you jlad heard Eberle recite those nes to Mre bt you would ‘have to dow tx wisdom for a mo- ul Just as I doubted it. has a wonderful voice. Mr, Eber He was in the J oth, in Hamlet, had a nights at the Win- Not the Winter porters, When thiy woman was in-/#en each other for niny months, and " Shhh ing Spppieetie formed that Miss O’Brien was ready | Mrs. Eberle was reported redid the | gite of the Broadway Central Hote to sue the banker, sho replied ig] Victims of the disaster, and for a) Mrs, Iberle, lke her husband, has : and ght her lost. {been assoctuted all her life with fa: ant tones that Miss O'Brien and| Week her husband though ae ad Aiie apieate her tainliy did not concern the Meu+| Naturally, therefore, I thought Mr./™Mous stars, nnd she appeared in a nings in the least, and Mrs, Bberle, who are quite ob-} Ajpany long before Miss Rehan came Mias O'Brien is still sharing the | Yiously in love with each other to- w York and me 0 and apartment of the Misses O'Connor at No, $28 Riverside Drive. She declined te discuss the case to-day, saying the matter was In the hands of her at- | married bliss, But not at all, Joan vf the profession, ee oy ; perils to domestic happiness, do not) ,,/ Put that in t iu hos pathing , James 8. O'Brien, her brother, ac-| Piers in aeparation at all. fo do with, the ater ‘fe companied by his wife, returned to) witty romance that makes the, Would, T could not 7 NES wolene bia home in Newport, R. Ty 18st! nappy marriage.” Mra. Eberle as-| id wctor SUP muilecieliaee to Reae aight. He announced he would ar- sured me, Mrs, Hoerle is seventy. /fN9¥ from sur suluect- how to keep range his business affairs eo that he} the Eberles in fact were just as shy ould return here in a few days and <o, it's not. It's good, sound horse Of discussing their life together as It devote all his time to seeing that his said Mr, Eberle, why is sev- || had caught them on their honey sister received “a square deal.” seven moon. Indeed Eberle blushes aes t's both,” Mrs, Eberle amended, ne Laake gently. And 1 did not undertake to a : and then gandent Ol) Comes ny ldispute them, For though it seems 1 ke in och © maid ine 10: Le to me sometimes that many of {he won't tell yo story of our} TULSA, Okia., D —The Binclatr | qimouitles of marriage grow out of Meeting -thougi tell you how OMl and Gas Company to-day announced |the man's insistence on “good horse to we happily marr ied. Th is only an oll advance of ten cents, making the |mense” and the woman's prevccupa- /ONe WAY. Do oversthing your wit price for crude oll now $1.20 per barrel. | tion with romance, | realized that a) © rye wih before you speak The Sinclalr Ol) and Gas Company is|man and woman who have nad Atty [ance and then | ay the tall D | Ome! wats y recipe 4 r the way we the youngest and also the largoat inde- | Years of happiness together must | y)\\ to get marrted—she grab. pendent corporation operating in mid- continent fields. Independent refiners believe the advance by the Independent company practically means the end of |*Love NEVER DIES AT lade and pecked Oy Francd only In the Christmas size $250 Of a true French distinction, there is no more gracious gift than this exquisite fragrance— masterpiece of that artist-par- tumeur Monsieur Kerkoff. At all toilet counters ALFRED H. SMITIT COMPAN Sale Importers, New York Also sold in $1.50, $2.00 and $5.00 sizes day, would speak to me of the efficacy | of the long vacation as a preserver of This Darby with special | know far more about marriage than jo. SAYS THE MAN IN THE CASE, for Augustin Daly, a » was just as good an actre: the height of erly told me, * and! ate But the other way. She Ie [bed me nd that wis all there was to been responsible for this fifty vears, Now let her as jsume the responsibility publicly |It ALL,” | affair jmy name was not on the bill, But | when he saw me come on he turned to the friend who was with him and said, ‘If Lever marry, that woman Will be my wife. He came to | play several times after t found no one to introduce hi mn Then one doy as he wus going out the knew him, would not take asked him part in tt ‘Nell pany. Now, but the day vrmance of the 5 to me and asked member of not in ‘Nel @ the first p e manager came me if L would lend him @ gown for the production. 4 i pert It would rot ba worn, he , but merely lifted froin a trunk and put back again, We found our own gowns In those and my beet dreas was of white veade and allver, and T had worked iard for the money to huy it, How ever, on his promise that tt would ne be worn, | lent tt ta him having nothing tu do, | snail merchandise packages ure kept, ‘took out a box of uncut diamonds | worth | the | monds to ratse funds for a trip across two packages. He which opened the closet in $10,000 and another package containing $16,000 worth of cut dia- monds, They had been consigned to Americun Gom and Pearl Com- pany of Malden Lane and Adolph Hirsch of Park Row, respectively, on the steamship Zasart from Brasil, ar- riving Dee, 12. Bruce went at once to the Bowery and spent the day trying to peddle the uncut stones, which he had trans- ferred to a paper envelope, to pawn- brokers. He could not sell a single gem. One pawnbroker told him to ‘throw away that funk,” and another offered him 50 cents for the lot. The young man went to a Chinese laundry at No. 46 Hicks Street, Brook- lyn, left the $25,000 In Jewels in care of the laundryman to be called for and wrote a letter to his employers telling them he was ining the diamonds ra than acc ridiculous price for them. | The ered. diamonds were at once recov- ruc was found in Chatham Square by Detectives” Hussey and Christie. | He at“once m a full confession, rich he repeated to Magistrate Rey- nolds in Brooklyn later, In searching him the police found a fine stee: saw in the lining of his coat, which he said he had been carrying in order to saw himself out of prison if arrested, He said he stole the dia- | the continent, at 102 pounds, George Williams. | Seckappenusiea 000 Vickers He Is a prizo fighter under the mame of WASHING | cordance with the original recom- mencations of the Spe Machine ; Gun Board, the War Department has signed contracts for 4,000 Vickers | machine guns at a cost of $5,500,000, and announced that additional con- ts would bring the sum up to about $9,500,000. | The partment’s decision was con- strued as finally disposing of the sug- gestion that the Lewis machine gun, concerning whieh there has been a | bitter controversy, should be adopted as the army standard, 20.—In ace Warn Women of Amerten to Con- serve Their War Ald, That the United States is facing @ great war was apparently taken for granted yesterday at the third anniversary luncheon of the National Soclety of New England Women at the Hotel Majestic, to which more than 200 sat down. All the speeches to compete fairly w CAN COMPETE WITH Merchants So at Astor Hotel Luncheon, The United States soon will be able h British ship- ping by use of the Panama General ‘we W. Goethals, former Governor of the Canal Zone, dect 4 in an address to the New York Mer- chants’ Avsoula at the Astor Hotel this afternoon Gorthals sald American ships soon canal tolls as British ships through a Bill now in Congress, The United States, Gen. Goethals sald, soon degin payment of the debt on the canal, through reven' from He predicted travel soon will become faster by slides have been stopped by widening the channel. He favored turning over resources of the Canal Zone to Ar jean me ptonding that, as American money had paid for devel opment, Americans should gain profit Three cheers were given the guest of honor when he was introduced by Chairman The latter said that its use nts, the the former Governor General of the Canal Zone was a Brooklynite and that the city across the river should be given credit for t Mr. Breed said Goethals had completed the work that Christopher Columbus ad started that no thought of the canal, or mention of it, hereafter could be complete without an expression of admiration for th bullde thals danger of slide suid, was over Wows greethd with a gre applause. As proof of the stability of the canal, he referred to the past season, whieh, he said, had been the wettest in the history of the 1, und there had been no side of any Kind. luncheon ne of the tables were 191 persons, 700'S HALF-TON BABY New York Children Invited to Give Congo a Party Before He Starls South, Weep, chfdren! 1K Congo? The ten-hund r-old baby hippopotamus tn niral Park Zoo, Park Comimis- sioner Ward sent word to-day to Bill Snyder, guide, philosopher and friend to all animals, that Joe I r for the Who d-pound departure of C is South. In the mean time little Isolde Man rh, who gave Congo his name, and ail’ other child- ren, to give the “hippo” child a party, ret - THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT That was o thoughtful Brooke emphasized the necessity of pre hess, and the women were 1 to. make bandages not only the Buropean fronts, but to put plenty on the top shelf against the tme of Amerion's 1 Twenty coloy parts of the country, Fiske, Major Halstead A. and Dr, Clarke guests, Mrs, tor Henry Coe were Me Gone » day to the P presided, watd | going to be country, and be deeds, no we defe this motto now le words! Her hustar the speech 1 Lloyd ¢ then making in London, sal one of the most momentous moments in the history of the world, and wil decide the fate not only’ of other | nations but of this Nation.” Coe, dealing wit one act of ‘Nell Gwyn’ from behind Standard O11 domination In the Okla-| “It's love, real love, that makes |STORY OF A ROMANCE 50 YEARS. the scones homa felds, happy mart Mrs, Kberla con- | OL. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TIFF OVER | Mya, Eberle disclaimed the A DAMAGED GOWN, MMMMIMMMMMMNMNMMMMMAMA Me a true woman, But “You can imagine my horror and {/to tell the story of the roman, dismay when | bebeld a man rolling yet ended, . around the stage floor in a realistic "Our acquaintance t drunken scene in my beautiful whit or Cr=~ Mle eae tine {at brocade, my best dress, ‘That man r t hap this way: Waa Mr: Eberle, who was playing th F 1 shi “ | When f was’ tw hea Mi; Part of Sa 1 opys was From @ special shipment j was with » Supposed to ha je drunk just arrived from France Broadway Hroome bis friends, Wh he h Street, in a play Angel ot & Nery much dar gown the Altic. toward the girl re @ | clos his seawon with M him and whom oO be the oy | was the nenson ‘Of TEA care tama, Wardrobe mistre fraid th (o od to the theacre to see tho play, Thad 8W8 18 a little ty he taken the part at the last moment, so folding it out ized I ‘You'll never ge with im I answered nt knew was in me, 4 Jet him tell you what he did himself, if he is not ashamed.” “What did you do?” [ prompted Mr Kberle, whose face under his thh white hair bad taken o: » permanent blush, “T—well, to tell you the truth, 1 well, T didn't wowho the woman was never dre I she was th I'd vowed Vd marry. [ suid-bet afraid 1 said turned to another actor and who, in a certain plac “That, berle, “was our first misunderstanding. Wa've ha others since, but none so serious tha love would not smooctiec them out love and patience. Bu ence, | think we bo taken the long t make \t plensa thas been piensa? Yea," echoed Mra Eoerle as Pleasant. 1 wini might bg It is | Iya burglar who after unfortu nately setting the house on fire left tools of sufficient value to ) pay alt damages | Works ¢ Charges He Annoyed | Me Matirioe ly Wife and Used Wallop | tion of Public Worka Crna non | When Rebuked Women’s & Misses’ Coats ee ee ae Hija Payn, atty-als yearn oid, of || Broadcloth, Dayton had) felt: cx N.Y. who doseribed him Velour, the to the pract | { uw Payh, the v Dupetyn, Public Works Commissions th County, was arraigned before Magis. | - e | —_ day on a charge of asnault preferred || Buy Trimmings, | | by Edward W. Browntn ce . se iT Ly Votle y DK. uw ontracta cla FR peewee am Ab Week KiBhiy Rohe Bimeete | Reduced to HINGHAMTON, N. Y.. D OF Browning alleges that on the night wing ani attack of ptomaine poisoning, (Of Ocober 21 he attended p theatre with bis wife. He says that . . : vm a1 tmnauet| Payne had the wn" Mex || Women’s & Misses’ Coate ai nthe baal w With hia ell | Bolivia, Kouthern lied tha he made» pro-|| Suede Velour, t nt ter struck him in Velour de Laine. the. ah ura & 1 , and from the theatre. ; ) Serieuluray Rengol at Mur Krowning obtained warrant. tor|| Velveteen, 25 00 A 1 million. dollar sr Mayn's arrest a few days later, Hel hee at Bpringheli, sinsa toed saw him at Sixth Avenue aud Forty, || Sroadeloth, ° State Normal School. xecond Street early to-day and caused With or Without _ |his arrest | ‘ates ar 4 not mullty And Kave Fur Trimmings, Votsoning. nearing on | Keduced to ; emcia to The Krening World.) Fur Trimmed STAMFORD, Conn, De 20.— Mian oposes to Fix Duvetyn Coat, Julia Fo Duncan, popular public sehoot LSTiae, teacher, of No, 98 Clinton Avenue, died Prewident of $27.60 about 1 * morning at her parents ure Prothero, house an iliness of nbout four 1 meetin, y governn ; tactor ae the cause of Propones to fix aixt ablitinge ML of the BpwonhtLoerte ng [oF shetw centena Women’s & Misses’ Coates xt Chureh a tu Camber- _ Wig Increase in Ralea of Ginned, VASHINGTON, Der, 20 an the 1918 crop, prio mounted te bal agains 48,809 for 19 anaun | huren ; totnt Canal, | would be placed on the same basis of: IS TO JOIN A GIRCUS | 1, boss LD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1916. PRETTY DEBUTANTES WHO WILL AID OF SICK CHILDR: DANCE IN Miss “Ra St ce. mber of the season's prettiest | smong them Miss Ruth Miss Marton Whitman, JWI take part in the Russian ballet, whieh ia te Ht giver Hotel | League, ‘The |support of | |New York N pital, | He Is Robbed. The old handkerchief trick claimed 15.00 18. another victim to-day, While John Hencco, a furrler, of No, 431 Bast | Smart, simple frocks of cre, Fifteenth Street, Is bewalling the lows! Georgette crepe, taffeta ail jof his life's savings of $4,500, t®o| the new Spring colorings. swindlers are preparing to enjoy [Christmas at bis, expens: \w on his way to work this it the pol w | men that the other had a bre been killed in the mines in Pennsyl- man of re Rank chief, When Her fully-cut by |FURRIER SKINNED OF $4,500. | BY “HANDKERCHIEF TRICK” » Leak part of the entertain. | iday evening at the Christopher's Is will go to the “x ward in the y and Child's Hos- ehlef he found sev naibility, Snyder will Invite [the $4,600 from the Dry Dock Savings awindlers ney With the $4,000 In a handker- Seeking to Earn Bonus by Caring for Money of Strangers, him, One explained r who had Henceo drew wrapped 4 the handker- i hundred care- of newspaper, AYS LOU PAYN'S SON STRUCK HIM IN THEATRE AUSTIN feth fve. 1. Warren, Forth ¥ nd brid n of Katherine Ha Age Murder. De .—The con tnon, fifteen: wha nontenced to who years’ imprisonment for killing W. at | 4 hotel proprietor, . 1010, to-day ‘wan ‘ourt of Criminal Ap- 1 ded for retri ELLANS Absolutely Removes “nt | Indigestion. Onopackage "te" provesit. 25cat all druggists, Nia} ft 15 Convicted SUNDAY MOVIES LEGAL 1 RUUNG FUSE PLAT }Only Law Applicable Was! Adopted Before Motion Pic- | tures Appeared, He Says. (Secial to The Kveutng World.) OSSINING, N. Y Deo, 20.—The status of Sunday moving picture shows within the juriadiction of th Appellate Division of the Firet and Second Departments, taking fn all | Long Island towns, Greater New York and Sound and Hudson River towns below Ulster and Columbia Counties, has just bean definitely nettied by Supreme Court Justice William Pop- ham Platt In White ins, Te do- eldes that Sunday moving picture hows within the jurisdiction de- scribed are legal, Dr. Albert W. Twiggar, President of the Village of Ossining, is against Sunday moving picture shows, and he sought to close up the Alhambra Theatre, operated by Louls Rosen- berg. Although Corporation Counsel Fagan held Sunday movies are legal and refused to prosecute a case {against Rosenberg, Dr. Twiggar em- | ployed—-presumably at his own ex- pense, for no authorization was given by the Board of Trustees-a lawyer, T. George Barnes, to put Rosenverg out of business on Sundays by. pro- cess of injunet Justice Platt, following the decision of the People vs, Hemieb, holda that the only law applicable to the probi- bition of Sunday moving picture shows is Section 263 of the Ponat Code, which prohibits certain mpecitic performances or shows, and that this law Is inactive for the plain and aim. | ple reason that when it was adopted | motion pletares were unknown and | | nobody bad ever dreamed of exhibit ing motion pictures In public for pa: | The Court that the President lor the vilinge « | proceeding against pat it is long standing rule in law | and equity that courts may not resort to Infunctions to enforce the criminal law or principles of religion or mor- ulity except where property rights are involved, | First Showing ‘ Vania and had left $4,000, He was animal man of the John Robinson cir- | taking the money home to his moth- cus, arrives this afternoon to take! er 'n Spain wanted an honest Cones Was: th Ainerisik Jinan to guard it until the steamer Snyder, afraid to let the cute little | Milled. He would pay a good bonus $2,500 half-ton | ko railroading in | £1, the service, Biadllonits akeniaer| upon Litehel to wait until. the frst thet Diy BUG tie) sean, asked | 4 est th Street warm day after Christmas to start £ flete won. to now. ne ae. B Newest Wi Greatly New Spring Frocks Connection With Any Other Establishment tn the World. WORTH Fitted, Flare and Belted Models Peau de Peche, Cashmere Velour, | Suede Velour, Bolivia, 195 00 Handsomely | . Fur Trimmed, New Spring Black Lace Dinner Gown, $44.00 TAMCAB RATE WAR AFTER HOLDAYS TO MAKE RIDING CHEAP ew Low Fare Concern So Successful Others Will Cut Their Tariff. % After the holiday rush ls over taxi- cab rates in New York are likely to be reduced lower than ever, The experiment of the Black and White Company in cutting under the official tarif® has proved successful as @ busl- Ness proposition and ie so affecting other companies that a rate war is In prospect early In the new year. Maximum o%Neclal rates to-day are fifty cents for the first mile and forty cents for each additional mile, with extra charges if more than two pers sons are carried, This is the charge imponed by the Yellow Taxi company which still maintains its contract hold on certain hotel stands, the Penneylvania station and ferry term- inals, The meter sign fixed by the city for this double rate is a red flag. The Independent Owner tion, the Town Taxi and oth ators charge this same basic ra! impone no extra fare for more than two persons, A white flag on the moter Is the sign of a single tariff charge. For any meter charge below 1s official tariff a green flag te alléwi and this emblem ts now carried only by the Black and White company, whowe schedule is 40 cents for the first mile and 30 cents for h additional mile. At present this is the lowest rate In the city, Threats have been made by com petitors to cut under this low rat and inaugurate a taxicab warfare, The proposition under consideration by rival owners Is to make a twenty? ent drop for the first half instead of one-third mile, but they have not fixed on a rate for additional distance, Heporta to the division of licensed vehicles indicate that taxi companies and independent owners who have been operating red flag cabs and charging the maximum double tariff rates are shading charges to the sin- gle tariff rate regardless of the num- ber of passengers. Ansocla+ Specially Priced 50 25.00 meteor, crepe de chine, and tailleur serge, in all Oppestte ‘BModlnes Mot at nter Coats Reduced Reduced to