The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 3

SCORES OF APFLCTED VST HEALER AT TRINITY CHAPEL ~AND ALL SEEM COMFORTED ushers, who took down names, & slight physical history and notes based on intuitive observation, the men and women who sought “treat- ment” were beckoned from their pews and escorted to the choir seats on the right of the chancel, where they sat facing the drooping silken folds of the United States flag which stands in the half shadow of the pul- pit. One by one Mr. Hickson motioned them to the altar rail, where they knelt; the women took off their hats and dropped them on the choir benches before kneeling. Sometimes severai, anticipating his gesture, knelt side by side. Singly he bent over them, asked questions which were not audible to any save the supplant for relief, and then placed his hand on the back of the sufferers head and raised his eyes to the cross on the altar, while bis lips moved. ‘Thirty seconds, a full two minutes, three minutos, the laying on of hands continued, Hickson's hands dropped to his side, If he were a man the wecker for help almost always arose brushing his eyes with his coat sieeve; if a woman, dabbing genuy at Uhem with a handkerchief. One by ono they came back down the centre aisle. Most of them picked up their wraps and handbags and walked out, rather more springily than they came, Some, though, went as they had approached, feeling their way from pew to pew uncertainly, All of them hud a look on their faces as if they were braver to meet the troubles which had followed them to the door of the chapel. Some stayed | to pray for a few moments. There was one young man, weak and trembling, who was helped to a seat in the middle of the church by two men and @ woman, He was young, but drawn, and his features were gray white. The men fanned him with their straw hats and the woman with @ palm leaf, One of the women ushers went up to and spoke to Mr. Hickson as he finished with a woman who brought him a very weak little baby who had come into the workl two months too soon, only a month ago, and who was hardly strong enough for the fight. Mr. Hickson followed the young mother, who was kissing the baby and then turning away her head so her tears would not fall on its face, until he reached the pew in which his assistant pointed out the very sick ma For the first time he addressed the gathering. , His voice had the intonation of a clergyman, or because of his British habit of speech it seemed to have. “To those who are not here for aid,” he said, “I must explain that it ia important for what we are trying to do that all those who are. here unite earnestly in the éffort to strengthen the faith of those who are suffering. ‘There are, doubtless, those here who have come from curiosity, to see what is going on. It is impor- tant that they help us to help the sick and suffering help themselves by Jearnestly entering into the spirit in which these gatherings are held.” With the same intonation he spoke one or two prayers which did not follow word for word any that are in the prayer book, but were close paraphrases such as might be made by one who was saturated with the phraseology of the “Book of Common Prayer.” He laid his hands on the sick man’s head. There was silence for a minute. Mr. Hickson turned and walked back to the chancel, a sturdy figure of a middle-aged business man in a steel blue tweed suit. The sick man pulled himself up by the front of the pew, aided by his friends, and was helped out of the church. A young father and a frightened mother between them carried a little boy in a middy suit wp to the chancel stops. “All Sorts and Conditions of Men” Moved to Tears by Mr. Hickson. BABES IN ARMS THERE. From Wall Street, From the Chorus, From Bar Rooms, All Seek Solace. At half past ten o'clock to-day, as for a week past and for two weeks to come, James Moore Hickson, a layman of the Church of England, who is as unclerical in his looks as the general . Manager of a haberdashery shop, stood at the head of the aisle in Trin- ity Chapel, Twenty-fifth Street off Broadway, and recited a few passages from the Dpiscopai ritual for the vis- itation of the sick. In the pews along the centre aisle were a hundred or more men and women in nearly equal numbers. Standing in the aisle, waiting almost nervously for Mr. Hickson to begin his ‘laying on of hands to give spiritual if not physical strength to the sick and afflicted, were a score or mora’ ‘They were eager as though they had but a few minutes to spare from their offices or stores, or per- haps because they had stolen a few moments in fear of exciting censure from shopping or other companions who did not know of their desire to test Mr. Hickson’s power to ald them. Four women, one or two of them members of the Communion of the Chapel and the others volunteers who have fallen into the work without even giving their names because they saw they were needed after having gone to the church as attendants to seekers for relief, stood in line across the front of the chancel to keep the over-earger from stepping forward prematurely and crowding to the espace outside the altar rail where the Jayman-teacher-of-faith waited. “ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS” OF MEN AND WOMEN. It was not a gathering of those who fo to Trinity Chapel regularly to worship. ‘There were among them men and women who had never been inside. an Episcopal church before, and were uneasy Decause of unfa- miliarity. There were young women there unmistakably marked with the flair of the chorus; just as certain there were men there who had sald, “What's yours, sir?” before putting ‘bottles on the bar. Also there were persons present wery used to the lights of the chancel windows, the quiet gloom of the high gtty wals, who had never seen such persons as these others in any of the chapels of Trinity before and were surprised and thoughtful therefor. There were women there who sel- dom stay in New York as late as June and men who ordinarily spend their time between their Wall Street offices, their clubs and sanitariums. And finally there were quiet, simple, troubled-looking New Yorkers seek-| ing a new way to put into their lives something which they knew they| It was long after 12 o'clock, when needed but which they had not|the meetings are supposed to end, courage to manufacture in their| before the laying on of hands and the prayers with all of those who needed faith in Christ's will to heal were over. hearts. One by one, selected by the women M e 7NNC? «.. Whenthetea potisfilled with Tetley’s for dinner, you'll never again have trou- ble in getting the family down on time. Until you have tried Tetley’s, you don’t know what a cup of teacan mean, Why? Because of the delightful flavor, an expert blend of teas from 15 or more tea gardens. Because of the refreshing fragrance —it’s thoroughly delicious, A cup of Tetley’s clear, amber col- ored Orange Pekoe puts a new mean- ing in tea. ra TRIAL MARRIAGE BRIDE WHD ASSERTS. We Lave | AIOOLEOO BRIDE AS REPEL MSE ASKS COURT TOEND | TRIAL MARRIAGE Society Bud Says Husband) “Pitied People Who Have Children.” It cost Mrs. Virginia Blair Reeves Warner, stepdaughter of Commander Archibald I. Parsons of the Philadel« phia Navy Yard and society bud of ‘Washington and Philadelphia, just $15 an hour for ten hours of a Supreme Court referee's time to undo her ro- mantic secret marriage to Henry H./ Warner, a youthful but robust inspeo- tor at the Hog Island Shipyard. Mrs. Warner, who insisted late as yesterday that she is still Mi Harris, and whose friends still call her by that name, is an expert swimmer | and tennis player. She made her debut in Washington in the winter of 1916, She is a graduate of Cathedral School, Washington, and the Corcoran School of Art. Alfred H. Townley, the referee, to- day submitted his report recommend- ing an annulment of the marriage. For two years Mrs, Warner, who is Just 21, and her husband, who is a year younger, made a secret of their trial romance, Not even her parents or her girl friends knew that on June 15, 1917, she made a non-stop motor trip from Montclair to New York with ‘Warner, obtained a special dispensa- tion from Mgr. Lavelle of St. Patrick's Cathedral and was married in St, Andrew's by the Rev. James P. Hearon. When the newlyweds made a non- stop return to Montclair to finish their week end house party with the Misses Marguerite and Helene Wit- tenberg, Warner hurried back to his war work at the shipyards and Mrs. Warner returned to Philadelphia, wher she went to the home of her society chum, Miss Agnes Repplier. It was not until after Warner, ac- cording to his wife's testimony, told her that “he pitied married people who had children, because they were @ lot of trouble,” and “did not care for her any more,” that she confided her secret to her parents. They de- cided that the legal proceedings by which she should end her alliance with Warner should be as secret as the romance itself, so the suit was brought in New York City and tried in the seclusion of a referee's office. All the parties reside outside New York. When Warner returned to Wash- ington afier his marriage he met his wife in her parents’ home at No, 1870 Wyoming Avenue. They did not even John 'H. Kieth, a lawyer with an| kiss, for fear the Commander and his office at No. 40 Wall Street, who has| wife should suspect that there was been notified that the rent for his| even a love affair between them, He seven-room apartment will be boosted | went away again and returned to his trom $1,500 to $1,800, presented some | bride in Philadelphia, Not even Miss figures he obtained from the Centre| Repplier, with whom she was stay- Realty Co., trom which Arndt bought | ing, saw them kiss, and as for their the property which 1s assessed at|being married, pooh! That Miss $825,000, ‘The rents obtained in 1917|Repplier, her closest friend, should amounted to $93,600 and in 1918 to| not know the secret! $109,735, “Where did you spend the hours Under the proposed increases the|With your husband while he was at total will be for 1920 $142,550. Had the|the Repplier home?” Mrs, Warner Centre Realty Company retained the} Ss asked house the increases for the forth-| “IM the parlor and no place else,” coming year would have averaged 10|*¢Plied the society bud. “I never even per cent, The tenants figure that | walks with him. ‘Then later, in $88,920 will more than cover the an-|Vashington, I saw him at the Pow- hual expenses of the property, in-|®&taln Hotel, where my parents were staying, but I only saw him in the cluding interest, taxes, upkeep, and noe i : vogomnc rng lobby. We met again at the Chevy : Chase Club, near Washington, and FF sy Nar Maspeth Lod ae be St) we had breakfasts there, Father and J if the: thi. 1 ‘ connected with the Musical Courier, |Moter Knew nothing of our mar Walter E. Goepel, an importer, and | 48° eriatt wher A ‘ “One day I told Mr. Warner about iam Brady, a lawyer, were other! ..46 ¢riends of mine, Anna Gray tenants who testified, nd Lieut, Gray, whose wife was g0- Rafalsky interrupted the proceed- | © id #7 § nba at VIRGINIA B, Re WARNER Cl\nedinet Studio, Wash. THIS LANDLORD ADMITS HE 1S OUT FOR BIG RENTALS Christian Arndt, Naturalized Citizen, Tells Inquiry Body He Expects High Profits. Christian Arndt, a retired coffee] broker, living at No. 3% West End Avenue, was characterized by Com- missioner of Accounts Hirsheld at a meeting of the Mayor’s Committee on Rent Profiteering to-day as ‘the worst type of profiteer.” Arndt, who is a millionaire, has recently pur- chased the nine-story Grinnell apart- ment house at 167th Street and River- side Drive and has notified the ten- ants of the eighty-two apartments through his agent, Mark Rafalsky, of No. 21 East 40th Street, of rent in- creases to take effect on Oct, 1 of from 331-3 to 66 2-3 per cent. Eleven of the tenants and Arndt and Rafalsky appeared before the committee to-day. The tenants sald they had protested in vain against what appeared to them to be exorbi- tant rental demands and had at last decided to appeal to the committee. ing to become a mother, “I'm #0 ings several times, Finally Arndt,|sorry for them,’ he said, ‘I do pity an elderly man, who said he ‘thas| people who have children,’ “Did he pity any one who had chil- dren?” inquired the young woman’ lawyer, “Yes, he did," she replied, eighteen when we married.” “What was the reason you did not live together?” was asked, “He said be simply could not," sald been an American citizen since 1838 was called. The burden of his testi- mony was that ‘he has a right to get all he can, He refused to say how much the property cost him or what percentage he expects on his invost- ment. “He was THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919, Aviator and Alice Drexel | Who Eloped and Married Await Parents’‘ Bless You’ chk pian Capt. Barrett Says He Has “Enough to Keep Wolf From Door.” Capt. William Barrett of the Ameri- can Air Force, who yesterday at New Rochelle married Alice Gordon Drexel of No, 1 Bast 62d Street, told an Evening World reporter to-day that although he is not wealthy he hai “enough to keep the wolf from the door.” Mrs. Barrett's grandfather, the, late Anthony J. Drexel of Phila- delphia, left a fortune of $30,000,000, ‘The Captain's last pre-war occupa- lon, he says, was that of private tutor, He was educated at Harvord, in England, His nearest relatives are second cousins in that country, He was born in Washington, D. C. Capt. and Mrs, Barrett were at the St. Regis Hotel this forenoon wait- ing for Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel to drop around and say “Bless you, dear children.” ‘The Captain was in his pajamas when a reporter called at the Bar- rett suite on the tenth floor, He) said there wasn’t much to say about | his hasty marriage to one of the) richest young women in America and month.” he appeared to be surprised by a| William A. Day, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Soclety, statement attributed to Mra. Bar-\ioig the Joint Legislative Committes rett’s parents that they “have not on Housing to-day that there will be had the pleasure of meeting Capt.| more Government loans. Mr. Day Bi tt," made this statement in answer to a sph » pe |auestion put by Chairman Charles C. ‘I came to know Mrs. Barrett,” he | Lockwood of the Committee, said, “through Princess Murat, Prin- | “The Secretary of the Tresury told cess Rospigiiost and other friends.!me so himself,” Mr. Day said. I have met the members of her! Mr. Day thought the cost of labor jWouuld continue to rise and wages family. * Mr. and Mrs. Drexel are’ he higher, He didn't think it wax coming to gee us this morning. We) the short of money that had went to New Rochelle yesterday, and | stopped building. Lack of materials atter stopping at the license bureau, | A" tho high prices were responsible, he anid, dropped in on the Rev. A. A. Bouton | Archibald M. Woodruff, Assistant of the New Rochelle M. E. Church Secretary of the Prudential Life In- simply: because we wanted a quiet) surance Company, testified that | the little mi with. . assets of that company w 571,000, - eaiceeu a need ui areek 1| 000, that It had invested $85,000,000 in Ans hee edo apaghoe | Liberty bonds and to do so had bor- have spent most of my life abroad. rowed $40,000,000, The company has Eighteen months ago I joined the $12,000,000 in mortgages. About $20,- Kablicah Ale Woree” | 000,000 of this is in New York City roperty. The reporter observed that the) \ihramn I. Elkus, Chairmad of Gov. Barretts must have had a late supper |Smith's Reconstruction Commission, or a light breakfast, ‘There were the) read a communication which had ps dey Ag sh been set to Gov, Smith, in which in a ble perk tuart of champagne lit was suggested that’ exemption and there were two glasses (empty) | from income tax by Congress of on the table, mortgages on real estate properties “We have already applied for| nd bonds of the Land Bank of New passports,” Captain” Barrett said,| York State would stimulate loans for “and will spend our honeymoon in| Dullding purposes. Europe.” Asked if he had any business ex- perience, the captain said no. ‘He also said he isn't contemplating busi- ness, “I have given the subject little thought,” he suid, “and really have no plans. is short and somewhat Barrett stocky, after the quarterback type. He has black hair in great abun- dance. He is 32 years old, Mrs. Barrett 1s 27. The only witnesses of yesterday's ceremony were Stanley Fargo and Miss Margaret Graydon, both of New York. Fargo is described by Capt. Barrett as his “best friend in America.” He is said to be a gon of the vice president of the Wells Fargo Express Company. } The romance was of such recent | development not the most intimate | friends of the couple seem to have | known any more about it than did the parents of Miss Drexel, | Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel for- merly lived in Philadelphia and have @ summer home on Ochre Point, New- \ port. Mrs, Barrett, the bride, has -,, two brothers, John R. Drexel Jr. and 7 Gordon P, Drexel. She made her dobut several years ago, but did not care much for society, though she is a mmber of the Junior League and has taken part in all the important parties here and in Newport for the last six years, GOVERNMENT BONDS BAR INSURANCE COMPANIES FROM BUILDING LOANS Metropolitan and Equitable Heads Tell Lockwood Board Money Is Tied Up in War Paper. Testifying before the Joint Legis- lative Committee on Housing to-day, ypecial g Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the Pure Djer-Kiss Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- paby said: “Tn my opinion the reason there This week and next week your dealer will sell you: 1 box of Djer-Kiss Face Powder 1 handsome box of Djer-Kiss Rouge for $1.00 only. These two would ordinarily cost $1.15. In honor of new Djer-Kiss’Rouge we have arranged this special combination offer, of course, always on your toilet table, DAYLIGHT SAVING REPEAL FAVORED BY HOUSE Interstate Commerce Cor ne Fixes Last Sunday in October iy as Date in Resolution Passed. | WASHINGTON, June 6—A to repeal the daylight saving law last Sunday in October—the day the] clocks go back to standard ti hes favorably reported by the House it state Commerce Committee to-day, Making the repealer effective coli” cident with the turning back of the: clocks waa done to avold ys Chairman Esch of the committee A plained. Adoption of a daylight savings law bi | New York corresponding to the Nat , act also made the delay practically FOUR TRANSPORTS HERE TO-DAY WT 1,858 SOLDERS Frazier Hunt, Returning From Russia, Says Lenine Is Swinging to Conservatism. f he Four troopships, the Von Steuben, Madawaska, Pretoria and Pannor a, arrived in New York to-day with 10,658 men of the American Expedi- tionary Foree, The Madawaska brought a stow- away, Bobby Chevrueuel, cixteon, of Mayenne, France, whom the Immi- gration officers stunted off to Ellis Island to join Mike Gilhooly and Roger Jobey of Charlerol, Belgium. Robert desires to remain and grow up with the country, Frazier Hunt of No, 71 Post Ave- nue, Bronx, a newspaperman, re- turned on the Von Steuben with in- teresting stories of life under Bol- shevik rule in Petrograd and Mos- cow. Just as Premier Clemenceau of France turned from extreme radicalism to conservatism, he says, so Lenine in turning to the Right or conservative clement among the Bol, shevikl, ‘The Von Steuben camo from Brest | $f, jnost nutritious and easily: i Be with 2,814 officers and men under| ‘Phe {deat Accompaniment for “aa meats and berries iter we Nc toast ever browned on a Mae cas Major Lambert Welrda of the Reg he ular Army, whose own command Is| {a"sigee wy Gread int ail ue ua large package 1b¢ at your grocer’s, i the 619th Engineers Service Batta- Me lion, ‘There wore twelve officers and Mate . 868 men of that organization on nowy ay board. Holland Rusk Company, — The enlisted men of the 519th are negroes. Yesterday they assembled on deck for an old-fashioned camp meeting. Col, Percy L. 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Face Powder that you love so much is, New, fashionable “I left the matter of rents to Rafal- sky,” he said, “and he tells me I can get more than I am asking from people who ar nxious to move in, I shall do as I please with my prop- erty and it is none of the tennis’ business, “Then it's purely a matter of dol- lars and cents with you?” inquired Commissioner Hirschfield, “The moral aspect of taking advantage of shortage of apartments doesn't ap explanation, but the ¢ said ihe didn't want to h more after Arndt's ec was out for all he cou ommissioner ssion that he wet. ASKS flD IN RUNNING DOWN Rear Admiral J. H. Glennon of the and co-operation of the var Attorneys in and about York in running down and criminals who masquerade form of the navy. These men, he says, have Infested the welfare organizations, ng add essed to sailors and t Greater punish! in the unt the senders for money dollars have been stolen and the miral suggests that the prosecutin torneys urge vere punishment for the offenders. District a anything | MEN DEFRAUDING SAILORS Brooklyn Navy Yard has asked the aid| jus District | to by 1 . | New| Warner did not actively contest the z letters raphing to Thousands of Ad- i upon the courts more se- ae aed Mrs. Warner, “He explained that he did not have enough money to support me, He had no position just before our marriage. He finally got $20 a week at Hog Island and was raised to $35. 1 made out a family budget after bis salary was increased showing how we could get along together nicely on $150 a month. Then ked him why wo could not live together and he said: ‘Yes, I suppose that people could live together on $160 a month, but for peal to you?" personal reasons and for lack of in- “I can get more from other tenants | terest in you I could never live with to-morrow,” insisted Arndt was | you,’ excused after the Commissio “LE told him my. position in society! called him profiteer of the we intolerable, I was married, yet I type. Rafalsky wanted to make an not his wife, 1 insisted upon| knowing what I was to be and then) he told me he did not care for me, and I realized that there was no love on art. I told my parents then.” dhe hin in the same house?” was asked, “You understand whe that would call for?" | quired. to be the mother of his children, , A. Parker Nevin, Street, cross-examined as to her willingness to live with her husband, Warner eladmitted that the marriage was imply a test of the endurance of the affection he once had for the society girl Mrs, Laura, Blair Parsons, mother of the young’ wife, testified that she never knew of the marriage until His attori No, 30 Church | Mrs. Warner suit. ‘Attorney “Swann-“promptly carly this year and that her daughter fhimpekt on “record as feady’ to. then confided toh « the tion, trea of being a ever ask you to live with) ‘0,"" Mra. Warner replied, “Would you nave done so?” “Yes, and in e of the money | | question,” sho replied | obligations | lawyer in | “1 do and I was willing at all timee | isn't very much building going on at the present time 1s that there isn't sufficient money in circulation for lending purposes, “There are many good reasons for the shortage of money just now. The | experience of our company may be | typical. 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