The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1920, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FE 3629 NEW CASES Can’t Cast First Stone, Says Mrs. Spiker; War Baby Strengthens Love tor Husband OF FLU REPORTED, DEATHS INCREASE, —+ Pneumonia Kills 184 in D 75 More Than in Preceding | r" enty-Four Hours, | H AT STRIKE MENACE City Starts Training Class of Sixty-Five for Duty as | Nurses. Figures for the twenty-four hours ending at 10 o'clock to- day showed an inorease of 956 in \ fluenza, an increase of 56 new cases of in n new cases | of pneumonia, an se of 69 in| ne deaths from the “Fiu" and an in- | crease of 75 in deaths due to pnen- monia. The figures as given out by the De- pactment of Health: NEW CASES. + Borough. Pneu, Manhuttan . . 837 Bronx . . 17 Brooklyn 198 Queens 9} Richmond . Total to-day .. Total yesterday Total same day 1°18... Total to date $011 Jealous at First, but Rorough. Pneu. Manhattan 83) Bronx ..... 1 By Fay Stevenson. Brooklyn 56 11166] WOULDN'T advise every wife Queens 12 I to forgive and forget the way Richmond 5 I have done, but there are cir- cumstances where a 184] 5 yoman must Total to-day woman eee to the best that is in her and Total yesterday 109 | 100k at life face to face Total same day 1918. ssc| This is what Mrs, Pearly Spiker Total to date . 24g | told me as we sat side by side upon a hard, uncomfortable benth at Ellis Island and waited for Guy Spiker, her brother-in-law, to buy $1,000 worth lof Liberty bonds to secure the free- dom of little Emily Knowles and her baby. Can any novel, any war play, any movie be as thrilling and ag full of emotion as the Spiker-Knowles case? Tt has been pointed out that the usual “eternal triangle” has been extended to a “quadrangle.” Certainly, it is the most wonderful case of a wifes love and forgiveness and of four people The number of deaths was the largest in the epidemic up to. date, which Healtth Commissioner Cope and ascribed to the fact that on Tan, 28 the total number of “cases” reached its peak, It is to be expect- od, the Commissioner said, that the high death rate will continue for the next three or four days “As a matter of fact,” Dr. Cope- iand said, “practically all the deaths in this epidemic should be crodited to pneumonia, Some are recorded as) having been caused by influenza, but| a practically every case the ‘flu’ is|#!! thinking alike upon an emotional followed by pneumonia. The in-| Problem that ha fiuensa ttscit 1s mainly an dncon.|! the love-world’s history. venience to those about the suffering | ist © ever been known not only willl and is omy fatal after pneumonia g to forgive, to forget has developed. and accept conditidns without a “I hope the public wil not be tea| WBimper, but she is willing to give by the change in the weather to for-| 7! her womanly wit to make these sake the precautions New Yorkers | CoMdtions as right as she can. Then are jthere is the husband who makes a have been taking. 1 wish 7 could | ee ee ae ee ome ive reach every one in New York and|‘l@#n conf . wit a | . toll them, above all else, to keep their | ‘He child he brought into the world feet dry until this trouble has|® "me. Then there js the brother, passed.” | who ts willing to step in and do his Health Commissioner Capeland | Pat @ brother whi does not ask “Am will to-day meet represe: ives of 1 ™Y brother's keepe but who the engineers’ and firemen’ unions | Sladly gives his to the child and of hotel and reaity interests in| WhO would otherwise go throussh life another effort to avert the strike} jvith a stain upon him, while his that would make thousands of duild- | other bore the taint of the scarlet ings heatiess at a critical time, The | letter and dreaded the day when she negotiations yesterday ‘were: unmuc: | TOT there ip ihe alti: Tt le. no. onky ceseful and the men declare they) thing to promise to wed a man “sight will go out at 8 A.M. ‘to-morrow. | unseen;” even though you have loved If the joint conference to be held} his brother. Brothers are not alike in thip afternoon is ineffective, Com-| locks oF actions. boys eee oun a a ‘al | Sirl is not a matter of makeshif 6 ieee peer lle nenmpeera te of twenty is exacting, and appeal at a mee e [this little girl, a victim of a war he Central Opera House, 67th Street | mance, was willing to leave hi and Third Avenue, to-night. ‘owed mother in England, travel William Flanagan, Secretary of the) with a four-months-old infant stationary Firemen's Association at| marry of the man No. 211 East 45th Street, said this! really loved orning that the firemen were willing in oreonede some points’<in thei: de.| THINKS THE FOUR PEOPLE CAN BE HAPPY. ands if they thought that this would | YAN any of these four people he ( happy? Can the wrong that has name ro- wid- alo esuit in a settlement of their wage | controversy without endangering the p © e rough a heat me ee ey | been done be righted? I, for Officers of the Health Dena one, am broad enough to think they ved notice on the mi of amusement that immediately be to-day se vf fourteen places conditions must jean. I have seen the wife, the | brother-in-law, the girl and the baby wisely hanged for the better or their houses| (Pearly Spiker remained in be closed, The moving picture) seclusion in Baltimore) and as 1 se at No. West 44 8 aakad Wnts ther tuae Oe lall vee che Sean aeeeniaa tte | the wee baby's, [ felt that they were ad of the department to show cause | taking the right course ‘ sim jers should not issue| "Can the man and his wif pane oe nér to-day: received | BAPPY again?” you may ask, ter See er only answer is—yes, if the.w { the newspapers ¢ | enough to forget Mrs, Spiker is. sket-makers had tei prices.| As to the young couple themselves, owner who can predict the futu young man of tw girl of twenty? happini nty-tive of any and er ‘ The girl is sw: case | faced and kind; there iss at | almost Madonna-like in Charles A, ¢ nano N 4M "}iman is young, established in hittan A . wrot te Depart-| and iron mill and appa we @ complain shat the | ently: just. as n love as if he ow ad im 0 r the usual condi Mt 4-58 nhattan that mun and a maid meet he Ww aie: SV iG slightly lame from an illness in he cha 2 nd this very st t lim f n wrote. at onymou s out a tenderness a ‘ ve ' e Hea n his future wife, Hot , slender, i : n impression of Hmily} is M nomitte that her brown eyes ' ‘ 1 i certain little twist ned a <M " and the way she had of No. 102 W Stree ibby little Vinds Wife Dena | Bent inate v n Staret nest fn ¢ s Is not she t ‘ real-1 y H v iis res usband is moral and { would not be Mia wile, who was twenty-four | afraid: to th ng woman In urs ain th Vili my home?" Did she not tell me that ‘ % levery woman mus life tace t jUiue eves moted the tirm bur sweet ‘1, Wife in Human Quadrangle Declares She Was Spiker Ready to Wed Girl. all there is the wife who is |: USS EMILY KNOWLES, Has Forgiven—Guy - expression in her fi of hey life traged: WIFE SAYS SHE IS LIKE ANY) OTHER WOMAN. | DO NOT want people to think | | she bravely oe that I am not like other wo- men,” she said. “L am! At first when I heard my husband's con- fession I was jealous. I felt all the pangs and suffering that any other Wile could possibly feel. 1 wondered | what I should do. Womanlike I | closed my eyes ahd pictured the whole | thing over to myself. I could see my husband alone with the romance of war all about him, with the feelings almost of a boy, a single man. He is but thirty-two; I am twenty-seven. Men are not like women. There were bright young girls, happy faces all about him Other men ‘© joining the fun, perhaps he might be killed. It isn’t as if he had Idved a girl in his home country, I told myself, And then there is our little girl—our little Yetive, who is only seven years old. | Had I the right to deprive her of her | father because he had made a friend- ship on the other side of the water | when the whole world was in chaos I topsy-turvy? | Knowles {is a reflued little | ish girl and she was kind to my | En. husband when he was in the service. | She acted as a clerk for the service herstit and they saw much of e other daily. arettes and fruit | were hard to get and she dil every- thing in her power to secure them for him. ‘Their friendship rmpened into love. Am I the one to throw the first one at them m thankful now that I see just the way they were. kful that I did not allow m to think of my own wounded vanit but rather of my husband as a man | of flesh and blood. We love each | other to-day more than in our honey | moog days. Life i er and dearer to us, for we tasted the bitter-sweet of Jife. Personally, Tj would never advise a wife to forgive | her erring husband if she 1s jealous | or inclined ever to speak of the past. | But to the wife who can see ‘the | side,’ who can view life the way ly is and not the w: » woud | to imagine it is, 19 tor- | forget.” | When Guy Spiker came back with his Liberty bonds the authorities at Ellis Island .permitted him to go to Pmily Knowles. Guy had been per- mitted to see her once before, but it | s to be the first meeting of Bmily, | and Mrs. Spiker, So it was | te I gave my full atten- | | HASTY, very hasty, kiss was | lA given to litle Bmily while| | Mrs. Spiker almost forcefully | cause the baby in er ns and buried her face in his. Holding it) close to her heart and without a |word to Guy or Emily she walked several feet in front of them to Bilis A silence fell over the Island barge flit part There was a decided fecling there, yes feminine cling. Ag Mr sat in. the stern of tha boat to pose for the camera. men her eyes were moist Th baby had made It all seem 80 «ul, go true But in a second this broad, forgiv- ing woma who n facts, Ina rogained her composu She | other want you to com Lasked Bmily Know! to America rt 1 e clung to her baby and codd!e Mshe did, and she didn't," was the | prompt reply pair of large brown s looked into mine and said many things that only a woman under stands, She felt that you were old enough lto decide that for ygurself,” I said, | assistance "responded Emily, | coming to her Yes, that wa who is not ex pretty but has a | most fascinating, magnetic appeal And ther 1 4y and he} t her r ker patted me upon the | ht they went to Fall River home of Mrs, William Bat ered to 18 ‘wish ther ¢ world as ‘pon t last act of the wonderful Knowles. | Spiker “quadrangle,” ) | officer MISS KNOWLES - AND BABY RESTING AT COUSI'S HOME Will Not Wed Guy Spiker To- Day, But Plans Ceremony Within 90 Day: (Special to The Bening World.) FAUL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 3.—Mis: Emily Knowles and her baby son, Alfred Ray, are to-day tucked safely away snug New England cot- tage, again members of a real family ina real home. Their weeks of trying adventures, sickness and sorrow are over and now ‘they are content to rest. Tired and calm, this plucky girl stepped from the Fall River (boat Plymouth shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. She was accompanied by Mrs. Pearly Spiker, wife of the father ot her child, and Guy Spiker, the father’s brother, who seeks to marry her. . She went to the home of Mrs. Kate Battersby, her cousin, thus complet- ing her promise to the immigration » meeting of the girl and Mrs. Battersby, a gray haired, moth- erly woman of sixty years, took place in a at the railroad station adjacent to the doc To The Evening World correspon- dent Mrs. Spiker and Mrs. Battersvy said the wedding is not to take to-day plac That they plan to marry be fore tho ninety days of grace given the little mother by t immigration @uthorities have p: ed is admitted But by all concerned y Spiker and Mrs, Pearly Spiker declare they intend to return to Baltimore oO night. According to their positiv: statements the mother of little Alfred | will still be Miss Bmily Knowles o: their return to their home, At present Emily and her baby are going to remain quictly with the Bat- tersbys and try to recover from the ordeal they have been through, There was something pathetic about the little party that walked down the Plymouth's gang plank in the darkness of mornir Mr Spiker carried the baby. Emily fol lowed and Guy Spiker brought ip in the rear, carrying the baggame The baby ‘held th re stage, blinked sleepily at the ar overhead and rubbed a chubby fist against an equally chubby che They sat in the waiting 1 rly an hour, waiting for Mrs, who arrived after 6 With outstretched arms she dvanced fely handed the baby back toftoward Emily, who arose and went while Guy sat down beside | rather hesitatingly toward her and hold a bundle, a little} “son” cried Mrs, Mattersby, “I wh Mrs. Spiker had . ee war from Baltimore | Would know you instantly from your mother's looks.” Phen the family party admired the baby, who mean time had. gone to sleep. They started in an automobi for the Battersby home at No Holden reet. — SAYS MAGICIAN TOOK VIOLIN. Man to Pace Charge Wh Prison Term & served After } month n Davis will be t h With stealing av vou $y from He maker, het a Amat BRUARY 3, ; 1920. $25 A WEEK GIRL WORKER DAZZLES CHICAGO SOCIETY Arrested for Embezzlement After Living in Luxury as Member of Smart Set. (Special to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Rose Schwel- terg, the $25-a-week bookkeeper, who Was also “Miss Monda Rose,” popu- of the North Side society, wired to her for from Win- nipeg that she was happily married. lar member younger set mer employees to-day N.Y.Women May Clean City Streets Copeland Asked to Use Them in Fight Against Flu | Peril. Mrs, Marie Whitaker, a widow of |No. 330 Henry Street, to-day sug- | | gested to Health Commissioner Royal . Copeland that, as long as the De- | partment of Street Cleaning cannot leet sufficient men to clean the streets | |and thus lessen the danger of farther |spread of influenza, he should or- nize the women for this work, Mrs, Whitaker is a sborn New Yorker, ‘but has spent most of her life in ‘Texas and other parts of the West. She has two sons, one six- teen and the other eighteen, who are both now in T When the war came Mrs, Whitaker's sons were too young to shoulder a rifle so she de- cided to do her bit in the du Pont Powder Works. phe women who work during the war good work in Whitaker told this morning. for the realize she did such 00d can do just as this emergency,” Mrs. the Evening World “All that is needed is authorities to make that this is an emergency and| to organize them. T am willing to take them the lead and to do whatever is re-| quired of me at this time, Certain str of New York should kept clean now, and if they can't get men to do the work, they can get women,” ——— KITTY GORDON TELLS) OF FILM INJURIES Scorched on Mimic Battlefields, Says Actress Suing for Ten Phousand Dollars, of Miss Kitty Gordon's wgainst the World Film for personal injurie have sustained at N. J., studio of that oo trial suit ation, been They sent no congratulations A second message w on ree ceived. It was from Police Chief Newton of Winnipeg saying the young woman She is charged with the embezzlement of $10,000 from the leather house by which she employed here, and it is said her shortage may reach $50,900. The young woman as Miss Monda Rose lived alone in a luxuriously fur- was under arrest, |nished five room apartment at No. 5131 Winthrop Avenue. Under her own name she worked caghier, bookkeeper and stenographer for Biehl & siffe dealers at No, Street. Miss Monda Rose not only lived in high style but owned a $1,500 saddle horse, was a member of the Parkway Riding Academy and had thousands of dollars worth of jewels and finery and a $2,000 automobile, Rose disappeared Jan, 24, ination of her bdodits Frederick Biehl, company, her arrest. “I had perf: ann, Wholesale leather 10 North Desplaines Exam- followed and head of the leather obtained a warrant for pt confidence in Miss Schweiburg,” said Mr. Biehl, “She was reliable, faithful and my most eMcient employee. The first indica- tion of any irregularity was a raised eheck cashed by the Mochanios and ‘Traders’ Bank. The original check was $175, [t had been raised to $1,975." Rose Schweiberg them nearly fifteen years at $25 a week, and each week her pay was turned over to her mother, a widow employed in a box factory ana who lives at No. 3303 Leavitt Street, Tt was two years ago that “Miss Monda Kose” appeared on the North Shore Bridle Path. She was an ex- cellent rider. She made friends, The Edgewater "younger set” asked Ro questions. ‘They did not know she worked, She was asked to join the Parkway Riding Club, and did, It was the general belief in the neighborhood that she was wealthy, While the police were searching for the girl the leather company attached her $1,500 saddle horse, her automo- bile and the furnishings of her apart- ment. The gray-haired mother said had worked for to- day the girl had gone to work -when| twelve years old to help support the family. Mr. Biehl announced to-day he would go to Winnipeg to try to in- duce Miss Schweiburg to return to Chicago to face the change against He and aph T. Hass, a de- will go armed with extradi- tion papers, to be used in event Miss hwelburg declines, house Electric and Manufacturing Com- pany filed @ suit in United States Dis- trict Court here to-day against the Goy- ernment, in which the con 1, recover $42,671 paid under protest os munition manufacturers’ tax SIrom Maine to California the filming of ay The Beloved Adventur o the night of May 7, 1917, was begun | to-day before Justice Philip J, MeCook the Supreme Court. Mi Gordon ‘testified that, in the role of Red Cross nurse, she went out | pon @ mimic battlefield to rescue an- | ther nurse, impersonated by Miss | Pinna Nesbitt, whom the witness tden Frederic Kruger. hair caught dire," | and white 1 to help her t arn y eyebrows and was in bed my d from | , — | NEW SECURITIES ISSUE. | permission to iasue new securities, 0,000, to be used tn pur fously Issued nd Deo. 17, the Con 100,000 to the Wlectri Lawht pa between Novem: aver, 1919, $8, etic Light and en March, 1914, 1919, $385,000 to the Queens Company, nd durin 1 $450,000 to the Union f the Bronx Highth Death After Fire ry of No. 373 1oth A J., died in the New “ Hospital y to-day, making th h vietim of the. fire er jay mi “gin the apartment house at that address of) DENSE FG TS UP ~HARBOR TRAP -CARSINCOLISION | Ships Unable to Reach Quar- | antine and Ferries Delayed | in Early Morning. | AS OTHERS CLNG. TO ROCKAWAY IE Two Sons of Late Ex-Register Lundy of Kings County Lose Battle in Bay. A Clayton, Allen and Stanley Lundy, twenty-one, nineteen and seventeem years old, respectively, sons of the late ex-Register Frederigk Lundy of Kings County, once known as the “King of Coney Island," and Edward Sheckelton, nineteen years old, left Sheepshead Bay at 9 o'clock last | One of the thickest fogs of the win- ter rested over the harbor this morn- ice making navigation so dangerous that steamships could not come up to Quarantine, ferries moved at a snail's pace or not at all and com- | mercial traMe in the fiver and bay ‘was almost paralyzed | Staten Island ferries were running) Right for Rockaway to load their half speed from midnight on. From duck boat with provisions for ’ ' Schmelk Island, Jamaica Bay. the tip of Manhattan to Brooklyn imelk Island, Jama: y. ferry slips the service was almost| The Lundy family owns the islamdy , vhere There ar extensive oyster abolished, although a boat from| W Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, made in| beds, and since the death of the elder 55 minutes a trip that normally takes|-Lundy, last Novembef, the sons have ten, Other Brooklyn lines sus-| been looking after it. Their home te pended service for a time at No, 2120 Voorhies Avenue, Sheepa- From the Jersey side ‘hore were} head Bay, and they had been visiting there yesterday. The provisions were loaded into the boat at, Rockaway, and the four started ¢ the island, which ts not far from shore. They fought the lee floes until they were within 200 feet of the island, about 11 P. M., when 4 cake of ice crushed the bow of their boat and it capsized. Stanley and Clayton Lundy, weighted down with their hip boots, sank immediately, Allen Lundy and young Sheckelton clung to a cake of ice, kicked off their heavy boots and began a fight in the drifting floes that did not end until midnight, When they crept ashore at Rogk- away they were exhausted und half frozen, but managed to reach a bung- alow and telephone for aid. ‘They were * treated by an ambulance surgeon, who thinks they will recover. The Coast Guards and police are searching for the bodics of Stanley Patrick MeParland, of a Second Ave-| and Clayton Lundy, Clayton Lundy nue 4 train, did not see the! served twenty-six months in the avi- westbound Grand Central subway | ation Service, being discharged Dec, train just ahead of him as he started) 12 last to pull ipto the Long Island, City Lowery Avenue station of the Queens- Borough pxtension at $:30 this morn- ing. As a result the front of the vated train crashed into the rear of the subway train just as the latter was starting to move out. ‘The rear car on the subway train was derailed and the front car, wooden one, on the elevated was shattered. ‘A panic followed among the 300 or 400 passengers on both trains, and it was with difficulty that the conductors quieted the rush hour crowd. Several rut by flying glass Antonie Mahowski, of No. 116 Street, Winfield,” fainted and | was taken to St. John's Hospital. ‘Th: line was blocked for more than an hour. A passenger train that had stopped at Woodside on the Whitestone Divi- | sion of the Long Island Railroad wal ferries running, but they were so slow and infrequent that most of their regular patrons used the tut in- stead, which caused unusual crowd- ing. ‘The cutter Immigrant, and the Eliis} Island boat did not try to operate at all in the thickest of the fog, but waited for at least a partial clearing up, which began.at 10 A. M. The | Governor's Island boat moved very | slow |. ™ rry boat Eeonia, which plies | |between Edgewater, N. J., and 130th Street, was lost in the fog for more than two hours. She left Edgewater at 6.30 o'clock and could not find her slip on the Now York side until al- anost 8 o'clock. Meanwhile she wan- dered up and’ down the river, con-| stantly sounding her whistle to avold collision Because of the fog, Motorman elev f ANCRE “% Wh the Genuine Roquefort Favor CHEESE A spur to jaded appe> tite. A flavor you'll de- clare “just right.” This zestful, dainty, creamy white Ancre Cheese. Made by SHARPLESS, Philadelphia Notice to Advertisers struck by @ freight train) at 9.26 == o'clock this morning. Nobody was hurt, but passengers were shaken and Advertising copy and release or~ ders for either the week day Morn- ing World or The Evening World, if received after 4 P. M. the day pre- ceding pubNcation, can be Inserted only 4s space may permit and in order of receipt at The World of- fice. 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