The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1919, Page 20

APRIL 1 TUESDAY, 1919 History Shows No Man Ever Punishes Vampire Only Her Mirror, Her Own Will or Another Woman Ever Brings Her to Book For Proof, Witness What Happened to Most Famous Vampires in History--Delilah, Cleopatra, Lu- | | An American Sailor’s Strange Experiences As a German Prisoner of War Two Years Ago Leo Leroy Graham Was an Oregon Apple Picker, He Shipped as a Common Seaman on an American Schooner, Then This Is What Happened to Him: TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919 ‘New York Girl’s Adventures * ' In Wartime Budapest Were Thrilling---But Saf Miss Maude Burke, There Since 1914 and Witness. of Revolution That Put Karolyi in Power, Her Experiences Prove Great American Girl § and Respected Wherever She May Go. By Zoe Coprrient, 191 Beckley. 19 Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) : ., , - S pretty a tale as you could wish of adventure, ag 5 crezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Prisoner Seven and Went on Strike With A Asserienn gitl enterpcise tkipped down the gangplank or La Elizabeth and the More Modern “Vamp,” Lola One Half Months on Other English Speak- raine yesterday in the person of Maude Burke, vaudevillist, My x Montez. i By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprritht, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Rrening World) Police Judge Boettner of Newark going to vault into the limelight of ] —and got away with it? His Honor believes he can suppress the sirens of Nowark by the six ple expedient of photographing them for the first offense and thus identifying them for stern punishment when they are brought before hjm next time. He says he wants to make the punishment fit the crime, and, al- though he does not offer more exact spécifications, any) one familiar with the iniquities of the vampire will agree that nothing short of death or solitary confine- history as the ONLY MAN who EVER visited vengeance on a vampire: ' the German Sea- Raiaer Wolf, Prisoner Seven Months on a German Railroad in Schleswig-Holstein, Prisoner One Month on a German Farm in the Away With It.” Landed in World. Home to Oregon ing Prisoners and “‘Got New York Penniless Until He Sold This Story to Evening Now Has Been Sent by the dence in Budapest: with a revolution ter-revolutions and massacres, The blond Miss Burke suddenly Hast 123d Street was growing fl. able from the viewpoint of novelty. Maude was delightfully pretty. Act a bit too. So when some girls forming to go to Budapest—vaudevil She could sing. | Burko says she has learned at least two things during her five years’ (1) That the Great American Girl, be she Venus | Terpsichore combined, is Perfectly Safe and Absolutely Respected no mi ter where she may go, or how, or why. trusted not to mes (2) That Hungary can be tru ss it up with machine guns and cou All of which is good news, you will ad decided in the summer of 1914 th stale and unprofitable—that is, unproft She had lived at No. 64 since she w: a tot and Mount Morris Park and the tracks of the New York Central hi } begun to pall. And she could dane she knew said: “There’a a company le and movies—come on. Maude, it'll be fun to see the world,” Maude found it easy to sign a fontract, and easy ment is what she DESERVES $ bios : |to pack her trunk, She glanced at Dad's face, however, and concluded it yf gt But History—who, according to the Greeks, was a PLL Same Province. > a Red Cross. would not be easy to gain parental permission for her enterprise. a. i P Againaa lady muse and so probably does not flatter other women, am lho LeRoy GRAtAnd 4 | oehece _ aie phe es hat lage suru auld Goal Gece “ame especially naughty ones—-proves to us that what the B . Les loa Graham | most a yanr. Capt. Cameron's story “Where in the world have you!boys. We wore sent to the Stackow) She reached Berlin in July, 1914,|¢ume rumors of the coming ane wampire deserves is quite a different matter from what she G More y TOY . appeared in The New York World last |been?” Nerger asked in excellent |farm, an estate of 750 tonnen or about /ang GCGGCHINDS Ae) (ABA | IBA ANE CAE meaeea HELA fhan once a positively virulent vampire has died in an odor of sanctity and} CRM. 1919. by The Pom Fubleting OW | 4 pyp4) English of the skipper of the Ma-|4,000 ures, that milked 200 Holstein] tm She didn’t like Ber-| “But {t was the funniest thieg,” @uberoses, And when sho does re- - Two years ago T was an apple-| My ship—my first and |tonga., “Didn't you know we needed | cows. 0 be on her way | smiles Miss Burke reminiscently, “We eelve her “comeuppance,” the coup de| packer out in Oregon, | believe—was the Enc this coal?” Which, as the fellow says, mhandz included 14 eta r us “au happy | Woke up on the morning they revo= @rece usually is self-inilicted or) Vor more than a year T had been|er belonging to the considered @ very good joke in} nen and womea— | | Sear Harlem girl in the | luted and he mhota: he: cooks: sed , Gomes from the hand of another! Jtonging to get away; to “wo some-|Navigution Company of San Fran- © days. | Pritishers and myself, We and beautiful Hungarian capi- | fused to go to the siore for rolls. ‘The ey oman—not from any man. © and Be something.” Like | cisco. The Captain was Antone Olsen The Wolf also took two horses off not care to flock with thelia: where the subway entrances a boy-of-all-work buried hishead in @ i He is ever vulnerable to her many another young fellow, I wanted |The crew numbered ten. We sailed and for the next few who, if I must say so, were|Sainted majolicn ornaments and mil-|featherbed and couldn't be budged. i thrusts, but, like the bird paralyzed to travel. from Astoria, Ore. April 25, 1917,| days we had fresh meat, damn: dirty, and Stacke™ gave US Al itary officers wear red trousers and | ‘Tho landlady was swooning, with thw ‘ by the serpent’s baleful glare, he Well, I have travelled, and if I| with a cargo of Oregon fir for Aus-| The Wolf laid 110 mines up through |dormitory to ourselves over the mairl | : @eems utterly unable to strike back. Take the case of Delilah, dean of Lucrezi haven't seen ALL the world, I have | tralia, of them, the beautiful Mary, Queen| The Wolf, as Capt. Cameron must Java Sea, finishing about thirty We were better fed than pale blue capes (that it costs all their pay to keep clean!) smelling salts clutched in her hand. “IT said: ‘Now look here, . Maude, h $ apore The dec pI oe ” ve! ” . of Borgia Turned Saint jseen quite enough. Now I want to x Weeks later—on July 14-1 had | miles from Singapore. The decks of heen o oad. We) Everything went smoothly, you're @ brave American girl. You fpempires, who picked a true super and Wen Apolegi get back to Oregon, And when Ij just come on watch in the morning | the raider were lined with tracks. /were given our lberty on Sunday on) comts Miss Burke. jepen the front door and rec what's man for her victim. Her snaring of| nay gon her many male apologists.{ walk Into the little house at No. 44|when T aw a steamer on our star- | The mines were toted around on little |condition that we show up at nieal-| good business, got doing.’ So I did, And what do you Bamson was, you may remember, an often men will not even punish aj Union Avenue, in the City of Port- | board bow. Until she ‘a cars, Many a night Ii: \ ned to these |time and get in before d Th rej had a good time, The people were! suppose I saw? Threa army trucks essentially cold-blooded performance. | vampire by telling the truth about|land, some day next week, and] signal I thought she was a Ja cars In my hammock below and pic-lwas no twine in the co Welcrazy about Americans, Anything [coming down Andrassy Street crowded 3 He bad shown his susceptibility tol io. aster whe is dead mother and I have done fussing and| transport. With the signal she | tured Akg they Pad beaerdtd meant (o/bad to cit and bind the grain by} American was a success from the| with soldiers. The cockades on thetr fj ine charms, dd his enemies] 1p, ermiiats aa ‘ , ot I can name | hoisted the Germa in TY) re | 80me good ship of the Allies, hand, art, ican girls were respected | cap: be * ol . femin! se ain ead to | ,,2W0 Rotable English vampires Ived| crying over one «ano ie | Holpted: the German flag, ahen we |"0n te ae cn a, 198, we reached| And nei ore-want on tine jatart, American gi © ted }caps had been torn off and white vi gent Delilah out to “get him dea at the same period of history, Onelone happy young American who isn't|/saw her G-inch guna, We stopped. |. : LG uatioe Been 5 . no end! Talk about it being unsafe | flowers—little white asters-—fastened — fights," promising her many gold a going wandering again from his own Kiel and were sent to G P On the Sunday beforo armistico|for q pretty girl to bo out alone at in their place, The boys wero sbout- ing and firing shots in the air out of sheer happines. I reminded Miss Mande that that # several months ago, and that @ pieces for success. After two bare- |camp, From here we went to the|day one of the Hnglishmen and the! night in European cities—it's not #0. faced failures, which would have railroad job at Oldesloe, We prison- Australian visited our old pals on!yniess the girl herself invites insalt. ers numbered thirty, There were five the railroad job, ‘The railroad bunch! Tt is the same there as here. I or six German laborers with us aod had heard somehow of events on the! have been spoken to on Fifth Ave- three Prussian guards over us. western front and they told our boys! nne, or coming home from the thea- of Scots, brought to death almost} fireside. oy om trange Ox- *levery man who loved her. Her ador-| Here are some of Pay swe ventas @pened the eyes of any man NOt ing ‘secretary, Rizzio, was cruelly |Pericnces in an eventful halt vampire-hypnotized, she sheared MM) stabbed in her very presence by her} Common seaman two and a ha } : er. f his strength and he was blinded /Hushand, Lord Darnicy, ‘The latter} Months on an American Vane have told, was a vessel of about 12 000 tons, with a crew of 450 men, under Commander Nerger. A prize crew came aboard the En- core, lowered our fis ‘and imprisoned. Now what happened to Delilah? She Got away with it | was found dead after the mysterious explosion of a house just outside Samson, when B18 |yo4inburgh, where ho was stopping, and Mary was supposed to have had’ him removed in order that she might marry her ardent lover, Bothwell ‘Their union lasted a month, then he | was driven abroad where nine |later he died, @ prisoner and insane. | While she was imprisoned in Eng- land the Duke of Norfolk, who longed Delilah “Vamped” Samson and “Got Away With It” air bad grown again, pulled down | the command of Queen Elizabeth. in her behalf and was beheaded at the house upon the Philistines, But/ But when her own head finally lay there ts.no hint in the Biblical text|/ upon the block to which devotion for fo show that anybody took any sort/her bad went many others, her death |1 had sold this briet chronicle to The of vengeance on the arch-traitress| warrant was signed by no man, but Fvening World and was able to walk and vampire, Probably she lived on|by kitzabeth, Sct a vampire to catch |into a restaurant confidently. fer Sll-gotten gold pieces to the ripe|a vampire! old age of sixty-eight or thereabouts | Por Queen Elizabeth, “Glortana," | world” To my mind, the most perfect aNd) tmough less beautiful than her cou-|which js sending me home. picturesques vampire in real life oF /ein Mary, had the magnetic red hair fiction Nile.” Bho led Julius Cacsar, lord Of} neither happiness nor peace. ‘was @ mere kitten- has eo amusingly portrayed in his yest play, “Caesar and Cleopatra.” Besides the common, ordinary lovers whom she kissed at night and killed in the morning, following the fashion eet by the cynical Sultan in the “Arabian Nights,’ there was, as every one knows, Mare Antony, who first threw away the world and then his life for the “lass unparallel'd.” What was the end of Cleopatra? Poison, self-administered. No man, stabbed, choked or otherwise ex- tinguished her, to avenge all the blood of men which she, vampire-like, had caused to flow. That marvel of Queen Elizabeth Grew Old and Ugly—Her Mirror Punished Her, a ring from her finger, had the mar- riage articles drawn up—then gent him home, where he died two years later, And she had handsome young Lord Essex beheaded, although she seems to have been genuinely at- tached to him, But in @ moment of an, as crooked In mind as in figure,” and naturally she resented this dead. ly insult—with its element of truth, She died in bed, when she was wel) |past seventy, unpunished by man for her fickleness and cruelty, Time took vengeance, however, for he grew old and ugly and came to know it, and, a6 Kipling tells us, “She faced the looking giass (and whatever else there was) And she saw her day was over and she saw her beauty pass In the crue] looking glass, that can always hurt a lass i" More hard than any ghost there ts Cleopatra Poisoned Herself. self-control, Octavius Caesar, had not even the smug satisf. tion of dis- : playing her in a Roman triumph, and could but concede, after she had satie- ‘fled ber “immortal longings’ with the asp, that “She looks like sleep, , As she would catch another Antony op her strong toll of grace.” Nor did any masculine vengeance fall on the poison-distilling vampire, or any man there was!" lLacrezia Borgia. Besides the numer- In modern times, we ous minor victims ascribed to ber |gan) vampire wes wo ag the most , ire was Lola Montes, for subtle brews, her second husband, | whose love a famous French editor Alphonse of Aragon, who was deeply | way killed in a duel, for whose love im love with her, was murdered by King Ludwig of Bavaria was tipped her brother, according to many re- low his throne, Yot at forty-two her porte, with her connivance. Ercole |charms fuded, sho died quietly in » Btrozzi, an ardees admirer, was mur- sanitarium at Astoria, L. L, id ig dered by her jealous third husband, |buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Man's vengeance on the vampire decidedly does not “take. it But i she lives long enough there is alwa: 1 ‘ ve Years | prisoners who went on strike during to marry her, plotted with the Popo| penmark and Scotland. mir tae coorseas ot oialte inp rarapire e3nue--Ci ten I find that {t is all there—and Hier dos tt braves Coneme, re ot ae tove for her bn aes et the half has not been told. After ShalY had been knocked about by the butt world, a merry dance when she /mirtea for ten years with the poor|¢nd of bayonets on that Schleswig- mpire, as Shaw |Duke of Alencon, pledged him with| Holstein railroad because I did not | underatand the orders given to us In pique he called her a “vain old wom-4{ Prisoner seven and a half months) , hoisted their on the German sea raider Wolf. | Prisoner seven months on a German railroad in the Province of Schleswig- Holstein. Prisoner one month on a farm in the same province. One of several English speaking own and asked for something to eat. I'll not weary you with my tale of Ifo aboard the Wolf, She already had on board the crews of six British ships and Nerger was glad to take the Encore's aix tons of flour and the Encore's excellent pastry cook, an Australian by the name of Victor Henry. The Wolf proceeded north, picked Up a wireless message reporting that the Matonga had sailed from Sydney to New Guinec with foodstuffs and was returning with coal—and waited eight long days to take that coal from the Matonga. the armistice deliberations and “got away with it.” Red Cross. protege tn Germany, Sent home to the Btates by tho American Consul at Liverpool. Landed in New York penniless. Coultn’t “see” your city at all until The barracks was over a pig sty. I was taken sick and frequently coughed up blood, We had, as I have said, little to eat, After three months we began to get our sed Cross pack ages. Each package contained a of beef, one pound of rice, one pound of sugar, @ bar ot soap and some bread, Oh, boy! Oldesloe is a town of 6,000 or 7,000 people in the midst of an agricultural country, The rainy season came, Farmers couldn't get in thelr crops. Volunteers were asked for. Two 'engli..men, an Australian and I ac- knowledged that we were farmers’ Found the “greatest mother in the again-—in the Red Cross, Go Well ‘As I look back over what has been German, I mastered a working know!- edgo of that «alfficnit tongue. ‘Twatquestions have been asked #0 frequently sinee my arrival in New York that Tam going to answer them here before I review my experiences. ‘Whenever I tell about the bum grub they gave us in Schleswig-Holstein somebody is sure to ask whether this was due to their hatred of us. Well, I don’t suppose they loved us, but while we wero hard at work on the railroad or on the farm I suppose we represented something of value and it appeared to me at the time that we fared no worse than the great | masses of the people around us, ‘To illustrate: Hamburg was about 20 kilometres from our camp at Oldes- toe and girls of thirteen and fourteen \made the round trip to carry fifty- pound bags of potatoes back to Ham- burg. They dodged the railroad to escape the Government inspectors, 1 am also asked about the attitude of the German women. We found them, as a ruje, kindly. How they acted toward Allled soldiers 1s some- thing I know nothing about, We were seamen, non-combatants. That may have made a difference. For my part, I | dhall never forget the old grossmutter | (grandmother) who always had tea-| kettle and water ready for us when the Red Cross package came and oc- | casionally sneaked some potatoes to | us. Grandmothers are great institu. | tions wherever they are, Many 4 night I fell asleep in my chamber in 4 German barn counting the money I waa going to make with my story of “Seven Months on tho | ’ Wolf; a Story of the Sea Raider,” 1 | Hes x é returned to civilization to find that | Ci Cani Salug io, Stanley Ee eu of the bat and parasol of bi yy ab 2 Matched Hat and Parasol; With Any Gown my What could be more practical and at the same time decorative than this | ik aad white taffeta which can ee | nad provisions enough to carry us that they were going. on “strike,” Our two, rather sceptical, remained overnight. In the morning, sure enough, twenty-six prisoners on the railroad Job refused to move. When we heard about it we put the boss that we were done. | “It's wakenstilsten on the western | front,” we told him, “and we are gv-) ing to have it here.” i} Defying the sentry to do his worst, | We started off to visit seven English prisoners on another farm. We ar- rived there at noon, They quit at once, Meanwhile our sentry had called in Jan unterofficier, or Sergeant, and in short order that dapper young man was before us with his tunic “care- |lessly” opened to display @ shining | new revolver, | He explained the law to us and wound up with: “Mocks sie arbeit jets?’ (Will you work now?) “Nein!” we answered in chorus. He said if wo didn't work we'd starve, because he would stop our Red | Cross parcels. We told him we should worry, be- cause (thanks be to the great and | glorious and wonderful Red Cross) we through. ‘The young man “came down.” All right, he said, if we wouldn't work we needn't work. | Three days later we four and the twenty-six on the railroad were sent to Parchin to be repatriated, ‘Then | back to Gustrow, by freight train to Waramunde, and finally for Denmark on a Danish ship chartered by the | British Red Cross. Anrus and Viborg | in Denmark, Leith and Edinborgh in | Scotland, Liverpool—and home! | 1 don't know how many times | mentioned the Red Cross in this |recital, but to me the greatest thing | |about the war-the greatest thing in| the world!—Is the Red Cross, ‘Thanks to the Red Cross, I shall be |nor-ward bound when these wonds appear in print, | | Back to Orczon, the grand old State I thought I wanted to get away from, , the glorious old State I have been praying to get back to! And if you ever hear anybody say; |that Leo Leroy Graham of No. 44| Union Avenue, Portland, Ore, is Jook- | ing to go to sea again, or craving for excitement, or anything like that, do| me @ favor: | Teli him he's a condinged tabri- | cator. | COMPRESSED COAL GAS FoR| MOTOR VEHICLES. Though only six inches in diameter a tank invented in England for the| use of compressed coal gas for motor| vebicle fuel can withstand a pres: e worn with any sure of 10,000 pounds to the #quar a | tre But that's all there ts to it. It never goes further. I have no patience with girls who are forever complaining of being ‘pursued.’ We were not pursued even in Budapest, where a self-respecting woman is pound of coffee mayne, four pounds bosses in the stable and notified the| supposed never to venture out alone after dark. ‘They are Americans,’ people would say with a shrug. ‘american girls do anything they lke! Are not all Americans a little crazy? But every one was kind to us and tremendously respectful. “When the United States entered the war I thought surely there'd be trouble, I went to the police and told them who I was and that I realized I was an ‘alien enemy,’ The officers simply smiled and sald report once each week, Thoy told me the mifl- tary law required this or they wouldn't bother me with it! “They suggested too that if per- fectly convenient {t might be as well if I left the Hotel Royal and lived with some private family, ‘So that you will not be subjected to any un- pleasant observation,’ they explained, for there was a terrific dragnet out for spies. I acted on thelr suggestion and made my home with a widow whose only son was a Captain tn the army. ‘There was a bit of flurry at the theatre, Miss Burke admits. Because the naughty manager took advantage of wartime and cut salartes, English songs and dances, he pointed out, were at a discount. “But I'm not English,” said Maude Burke of Harlem, vehemently, “I'm American. You put the word ‘Amert- can’ under my name on the billboards. | Tell ‘em I sing American and I dance American—-and you'll make more money than ever!” So her salary was not cut, and the y/ manager gained a new feather for his | cap. The only way Miss Burke felt the| pinch of war was that the prices of everything performed the same avia- tion stunts they did here at home. he landlady demanded more board, joulash and sausages began to soar, Laundry bills trebled. Gloves and hoots cost much and wore little, Even theatre rouge, No. 24, went up to twice what it used to be, “Just look at these duds!" invited milady, “I paid 2,000 kronen for this awful suit, That is equal ta about $100, and no style to it at all Tt would cost thirty on 42d Street now Fight hundred for these shoes, and look at them—paper! This blouse was 300, “It cost me 12,000 kronen t home (about $600), for I was he five weeks in Switzerland gettin pass vised.” (A “krone,” Miss Burk says, Was worth at the beginning of the war about 20 cents. It has now @unk to an insignificant 5.) Zhea, just as the girls wora making brand new revolution had been staged within the week while she was being nice and seasick on La Lorraine. “Doesn't matter!" she exclaimed confidently, “It will be just as orderly and bloodless as the first one, when Hungary was declared a republie President Karolyi 1s almost univer sally admired and trusted, There are differences of opinion, of course, just as there are different poltical parties in this country, But there is no mill- taristic party in Hungary as there ts in Germany, and I will bet my new clothes (as soon as I buy some) the Hungarian Soviet Government will stay put and teach a lesson to the world.” How does she know all this? you wonder, So do I. And I asked her. Miss Burke's verbal answer was as- sisted by a warm pink blush. (A-hal Enter the romance!) “Well, my—er—fiance, Lieut. Kart Fuerst von Maroth, used to talk poll- tics with me a lot. He belongs to an aristocratic famfly in Budapest. As soon as his country will let him he's comtng here, He seems convinced that the American girl is tho best in the! world!” -_—_~. —- EVENING WORLD PUZZLES By Sam Loyd A Puzzle From Aesop DSOP tells of @ sportive y PN bare that raced with a to: around a circular track white was 100 yards in diameter, giving him a@ start ot one-eighth of th distance, hare held such poor opinion of] tho other's abit ity that he lo nibbling the grass, an that the tortoise up @ great race when they met at a point when the hare ha run but one-sixth of his distane |}Hlow much faster than he went befo |must the bare now run to win th race? . tered along only realized putting ANSWER TO BUYING EXPER} ENCE, This problem readily solved orking backward, when it ts led that T must have started wit! the ron had $50 and the Cow und T had lett $00, u each doublin wving then on & ctively, After th md round 1d $80, the Bare and the Count $80, ‘Them {Count and | each doubled our mom at the expense of the Baron, and , were each left with $100, and I ' the ony loger, to the extent