The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1917, Page 3

p: PALACE IS PRISON ORFORMER CUA AND HS CONSORT They Are Cut Off From Out- side World With Sen- tries Around Walls, COURTIERS ARRESTED. \ Nicholas Seems Indifferent as Duma Officers Take Him to Tsarkoe-Selo, TSARSKOB-SELO, Russia, March 32) (via London, March 23).—On his @rrival here to-day in the custody of four members of the Duma, Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed Pmperor, was turned over immediately to the Tsars: koe-Selo commander and taken to the Alexandrovsky Palace, where the former Empress Alexandra already was interned, On leaving the spectal train which brought him here, Nicho- jas entered an automobile, accom- ‘panied by his adjutant,’ Prince Dol- goroukoff, the only courtier of the first rank who accompanted him, and by the four Duma commissioners, They were driven to the palace. Nicholas was met at the door in the left wing of the palace by Count Benkendorff, who was his marshal of the Court, and is now under arrest. ‘The former ruler held himself erect, ooking calm and indifferent, al- though he stepped from the automo. be with nervous haste. A battalion of the First Rifle Guara Regiment was at the railroad depot. ‘The commander at Tsarskoe-Selo ta —————— | Ab! What a relief! Your clogged nostrils open right up, the air pas- of your head are clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawk- ing, snuffling, mucous discharge, headache, dryness—no struggling for breath at night, your cold or catarrh INOSE CLOGGED FROM A COLD OR CATARRH Segly Cream in Nostrils te, on Up Air Passages. n't stay stuffed up! Get bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from y now. 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Outside the fence, évery fifty yards along the roadway, were double sentries from the Petro- kradsky Regiment in long blue coats with fixed bayonets. An astonishing circumstance, in view of the attitude of Nicholas toward the population of Tsarskoe- | Selo, which lived entirely upon im- | perial favor, was the lack of public | interest. | In regard to the conditions under | which Nicholas was being held in the | Palace officers declared they knew |nothing. Concorning Alexandra and | the other members of the family, the | following information was given: | All the five children are in bed with | the measles, for which reason Alexan- dra has not been outside the Palace walls for two days. So far as is known |no order has been issued preventing | her from walking about the grounds, She has been forbidden to use the | telephone and telegraph or have any {communication with the outside world, Two hundred adherents and cour- tlers of the former Emperor are un- der arrest here. A correspondent of the Associated Press discovered them in the Nicholas Gymnasium, a big building next to the City Hall, where | the commission of officers and sol- diers who are now administering Tsarskoe-Selo has its headquarters. In a big room in the first floor were seventy persons In civilian dress, for- merly palace sples and provocative agents. Here were also four Rugsian officers with German names who had been arrested by old soldiers on sus- picion of having sent communtca- tions’ from the former Empress to Berlin by way of Stockholm, On the second floor, in a separate room, Prince Putiatin ts held pris- oner. Prince Putiatin was one of re- actionary Russia's most powerful men, He was formerly private secre- tary to the Emperor and in recent years director of the pal RUSSIANS ROUT-TURKS IN BATTLE OF 16 HOURS Troops of the Grand Duke Nicholas Strike at Three Different Points. PETROGRAD, (via London), March 23.-Russian troops pushing west from Kermanshah in Persia have reached @ point leas than 45 miles from the Mesopotamian border. The War Of- fice announced to-day that after a Turkish Army had been beaten in a | sixteen-hour battle outside of Kerind the Turks had retreated to the vicin- Ity of Kerjnd and made another stand there. Another Russian column has at tacked the Turks along the Sherwan Rivor, a tributary of the Diala, about midway between Kermanshah and Sakkiz, from which last point another Russian army has been pushing southwestward into Mesopotamia The Russians also have won a new success near Lake Van, in southern ‘Turkish Armenia, capturing men and material on the southwestern shore of the lake, With the latest Russian advance to Kerind, less than forty-five miles Chance Money Until further notice, The World will pay for old copies at the rate of: 1c for 6 Daily or 6 Evening Worlds, or 6 of both editions. 1c for two Sunday Worlds. 1c for 1 Sunday World and 3 Daily or 3 Evening both editions. 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By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ue 7 aking ACG, retain S ‘ 7 Benjamin Sternberg, “tango lizard,” is in the Tombs Prison formally charged with the murder of Mrs. Elsie Lee Hilair, who registered under a false name at the Hotel Martinique one week ago and was strangled and stripped of her jewels some time between 4 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon, was one lizard less in the Broadway tango parlors 5 RS, yesterday, nor that the number of married women ex- “=. 3 posing themselves to the fate of Elsie Hilair has been| fi ; diminished even momentarily by the murder at the ‘ "Martinique. i Elsie Hilair, married woman of Brooklyn, who met | ceeryreweme= men uNnconventionally in tango parlors, but always This fact must not be taken to indicate that there | “t one hurried home before 6 o'clock to greet her husband| with a welcoming kiss, and who was killed for the diamonds he had given her, was of a type known on Broadway as a tango bug, and considered in| certain circles to be the natural food of the tango lizard, The lizard, in common with other reptiles, is not a courageous anima’ This is the first murder known to have been committed by the type of man that frequents the dancing restaurants to make the acquaintance of sus- ceptible married women and later to blackmail them. TRACING THE TANGO BUGS AND ® LIZARDS TO THEIR LAIR, I saw scores of Elsie Hilairs yea- terday afternoon when I sought the tango lzard tn his lair, By 8 o'clock the lizards were out and sunning themselves in Broadway | clad matrons of all ages and types. It was easy to tell the women were married, because the flattened left hands on the backs of the lzards as they whirled their partners about al most Invarlably showed plain gold tango parlors in the bright smiles | bands beneath heavy solltaires. and the brighter diamonds of sportily | When you thought of the husband hwho was working somewhere for from the Mesopotamian border, the flashing clothes and of what converging Russian and British forces solitaire and that plain gold can hardly be more than 100 miles|/pand had meant—perhaps _ still apart and may be much ne TAHIR reg to hibiea adi Tan eu. AW has been heard recently f the co British, who may by this time be con- | siderably further up the Tigris and | Diala from Bagdad than at the last 400 WOMEN TAKEN OFE BY GERMANS IN RETREAT Inhabitants of Devastated Zone Told These Would Be Forced | to Work for Germa By William Philip Simms | United Prem Staff Corespoudent | WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD, March 2%.—Not only did the Germans sweep that part of France they are relinquishing clear of homes, supplies and roads, but in many cases they swept it clear of its womanhood, In some districts women between fifteen and fifty were forced to go bi nto the interior of Germany, ‘The in habitants loft behind were given to derstand the © being forced to work for Germany At Rouy le Grand to-day I was told ver 400 Women and girls between s« iad been driven to the in f wk. When L asked why?" the refugees merely shrugged P shoulders. is no doubt of the strength of the new Gerumn line ranco-British forces ap nd stiffer h are pinning t rmans tighter ambral Quen N 1809, the City Hotel, near ‘Trinity Church, was a popular rendezvous for New York connoisseurs—but even then Carstairs Rye was a 21- year old favorite, The succeeding century or more has aaed to the quality reputation of Curstairs Rye. the quick glances 1 watches, the hasty gath- |ering up of mink and gable seal and | &ractousls fox; when you saw, as i did, a dainty young woman step Into a high-pow- ered car and begin to blow frantic- ally on the horn for her absent chauf feur, {t seemed to you a sorry and sordid spectacle, And, eliminating the element of biackmall and the shadow of mumer which now hovers over such scenes, you wondered how from any aspect !t could seem worth | while A MISERABLE CREATURE IS THE TANCO LIZARD. For the tango lizard 1s not an tm- pressive creature, I saw scores of him. He ts pale, ill-made, with the hips women used to have before th: straight silhouette came in, He has a dull but wary eye, and all the lizards, blond, dark, or @andy, pos sess one trait n common, their wa of brushing the hair straight back without & part, leaving @ little point which women call the widow's peek niddle of what passes for # 1 lizards dance and with well-dressed and bejewelled woman who comos 1a In one of the liveliestof th the foreli The impartially beautifully every staur ants where “bugs” an@ “lizurds” meet to dance away the afternoon, two young men sat at a@ table drinking lemon seltzer. Two women in the thirties came in and took seats at the xt tab Established 1788 The Lizards and the’ Tango Bupr | pox she would take up her tnter- rupted, drink where @he hi left off| | with neither a word nor a glance at the man who had held her in his arms a moment before, Of course the men's faces showed | that they were past caring . what the women looked Ike or _were.| | There was, however, a concerted rush toward the slenderer patrons, and the last and slowest man had always to ask the heavyweight sirens to dance. | I heard one izard aay to anothe “Theresa a basketful of omen i this Joint t hard boiled | ly granite | en in the Some of looking of all was a'tiny creature in black gown cut like a Salvation lansie’s uniform, ‘She wore @ poke | bonnet and her blond hair was parted |{nnocently, her red lips were parted- not innocent’ | She drank only beer, ordering two bottles at a time and mixing it, and toward 6 o'clock she seemed to re- member the kick she had learned before she was saved, and moved het shoulders and hips when abi danced, Once the lizard who wa her partner protested that her p bonnet was jabbing his eye, and she reached up and patted him on the jcheek, The light from the chandeliers caught the facets of a three carat solitaire and the lizard smiled, en- dured the torture and asked her to dance again. It was in an enco body was humming and some were singing “Poor Butterfly," that an- other lizard calle the attention of his partner to the fact that the goura feather on her hat was tickling his face. And when she laughed he nibbled the feathers am they danced and. finally bit one off, “When they went back to their table he put {t in his pocket with a gallant air, as If telling her he should cherish it for- er when every- Many of the women I saw with g.ound floor, but tables were set| tango lizards were quite obviously ‘about on a rafled balcony abdVe, and | Wives of business men; for some of em limousines waited outside. Old, jth end of the balcony @ pianist! rene neuutitul, bidec or with lizards of their own, all were welcome ¥n the huge room, now heavy with alcohol, Oriental extracts and the musty odor of stale gar- unescorted |pounded out ragtime, leaving, of course, necessary long intervals for the ordering of many drinks, During the first one-step the two lizards eyed | 470 one maT nt A houtormnieres the young women who had entered, | worn by the men dancers of the place. as their bejeweled hands beat im-\oy_y WOMEN NOT WELCOMED! atlently on the table top and thelr es beautifully slippered tittle feet kept} CIN THE TANGO RESTAURANT. But 1 am forgetting, ‘Two women time, Over theit insteps were bands of | ; i clastic which they had evidently ad-|came who were not welcome there ee 4 in the dressing room to keep|For some time I had watched four reseed apiece eoe de beautifully dressed matrons who were their slippers on if they should dance. Mtting jouder abd. louder in. thelr One of these matrons was ail in black | Jaughger and their talk-—the reason save for the bands of ermine on a for the crescendo of conduct and con- | versath eing many rounds of charming cape of black chiffon, Sho| yermation being many wore @ sort of poke bonnet with) suddenly two Sistera of Charity strings tied under the chin and she stood beside the tab’ They said nothing but waited patiently till one of the women reached in a beaded handbag and took out three nickels which she placed in a sister's palm. Men and women at other tables looked from thelr drinks, Ii and tango bugs allke seemed startled looked as innocent and harmless as the plotures of the young Victoria re- celving the notification that she was Queen of England, But she carried a tell-tale gardenia, which is almost as much of a badge with us as the) ny the apparition in thelr midst of cameliia became in France after|these sombre figures of renun Dumas Fils wrote his famous play. | cAtlon. | ‘Fie music had gradually A grown furious by this time, the plano A “PROPER” INTRODUCTION OF jjiayer bobbing up and down on his LIZARD AND BUG. stool as if he were in the saddle, The | brasaes seemed more brazen, Tango Seeing the gardenia, one of the) jizards and tango bugs whirled in |Manrds took heart of grace each other's arma, And suddenly the “Hello, Gardenia,” palle: oss | head waiter saw the two nuns, An Hello, TORIES “We Called :Goros: lexpression of outraged indignation toner. crossed iis face, In a second he was The lady of the gardenia smiled! beside them. No one heard what he aatd, but it was effective, Meekly ve the Sisters followed him to the door, ote goldarn you! she replied. meekly the t out with the n And, thi nstiluting an introduction, | following — te Jerate their lea the two lizards glided over to the}taking. And as the only two woinen table and asked the tango bugs to tha deb een ay H i os | lor pasaer 0 doo! ° dance, and in & moment they had} igo iaurds and the tango bugs | Joined the prancing, sliding, one- | whirled on, steppers on the floor, To me the most interesting and the most significant feature of the after- noon was the slow, decorous dancing | which began at 3 o'clock and the |wradual rise in temperament as well | as temperature which one could feel As the afternoon wore on the ragtime grew more choppy, the brasses louder and men and women who had begun soberly and decently enough showed | in thetr movements and glances the | double intostcation of ragtime and} aleohol, ‘The most sordid thing I saw wan a group of tired, pale, undersized young | nen paid by the management, whose | fi é °25 ) ase« waten yo walk futy It was to ask every woman without is get subur in town to bu the children, these weary up. an woine anguldly over to qutte obvious ru ask them bers for without caring whe t old or young, bad was unpleasant en dan: wer dark blond. or wen, tners good 01 But to see back to their tables, pull out cha them and then slink back to their cor: | breathe and rest till the music | to pound again, Was sickening an unwritten law of that the dancers attached | ask women patrons tc myerse with the women conversation as them escort their p ra for | ers to began It seen much plus we | IT’S ALL COLD-BLOODED ano! 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