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¥IRST. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE "FRISCO 1 DEMOCRATIC CON VEN 10) ON WOMAN WRITER, NOTED EDUCATOR, TIRED OF UE Mary Helen Fee Wr Fee Wrote Good- by Letter, Then Tried | Suicide in Park. LONG IN PHILIPPINES. Friend Says Letter From Tur-| $ key, Where She Planned to Go, Depressed Her. Mary Helen Fee, educator and au- thor, was found at the entrance of St. Nicholas Park, 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, shortly after 2.80 this’ morning, her wrist cut and apparently bleeding death, by Patrolman Feudner the West 186th Street Station, In hez right hand were two letters, one to the police asking that her name be kept from the papers, and that Mrs. Virginia Ault, No. 676] Riverside Drive, be notified. It also said, “I have chosen this spot so as to avoid making trouble for any one.” | The other letter, addressed to Fred- {rick Fee, No. 125 East Avenue, South ye Park, Ill, a brother, said that 6 “was tired of life” In this let- F she said that in a trunk at No. 28 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, would be f@und letters to him and to her | friends explaining everything. to of where Miss Fee bad been taken in a| serious condition and Identified as the writer and educator. He could give no reason for ‘her desire to die. Mrs. Ault eaid later: “There is no Joubt thi, whose work as Philippines and cational sut is so well known. cannot imagine what has caused h act, but I know she hoped to return} to Constantinople soon and that she yesterday received a letter from that city, which seemed to depress her greatly.” At the Brooklyn address E, R. Noyes, who occupies the house, said that the place had changed hands re- cently and that he knew nothing of Miss Fee except that when he leased the place last Wednesday an arrange- ment was miade whereby she retained the use of two rooms. Her belongings are still m the house untouched. From other friends it was learned that Miss Fee hat spent some time in Turkey durin the war with the Red Cross. She was born in Quincy, Il and for mony years was head of- the English department of the Philip- pines Normal School. She has writ- ten a number of bouke, THREE BIG LINERS SAIL WITH 5,000 s Is Miss Fee, edicator ‘mn an as a writer on edu- I in 1364, Ambassador Jusserand Among Those Who Are on the Way to Europe. Three big transatlantic liners will sail from New York for European ports to-day carrying more than 6,000 passengers. They are the Ad- riatic anc the Mongolia of the Inter- national Mercantile Marine fleet and the Savoic of the French Line. All are sold out. Among the passengers on the Adriatic are Major Gen. Sir Charles V. F, Townsend, hero of Kut El Amara, and Senator Edge, of New Jersey, Marshall Field, of Chicago, also sails on the Adriatic, as does the Princess Hatzfeld, The Mongolia will go out under a new captain, E. J. Madden, who succeeds Capt, H. R, Lewis, as- signed to shore duty by the com- pany. Sho will carry Theodore Drieser, the author, and Mr, and Mrs, Otto Pruser of San Francisco, The Savoie carries the French Ambassador, M. Jusserand and Mme, Jusserand together with Capt. Lav- erne, French military attache and Lieut. Tavara, French naval attache at Washington. a see NEW YORKER ROBBED OF $50,000, HE SAYS Complains to Cincinnati Police of Loss of Diamonds and Valu- @ able Securities. (Special to The Evening World.) CINCINNATI, July 3,—Complaint ‘was made to the police here to-day by Jacob Jentleson, who is registered at the Gibson House as from No. 71 Nassau Street, New York, that he had, been robbed of a pack: of diamonds valued | at $25,000 and a wallet containing securi- ties valued at more than $25,000. One item of securities was a promisory note for $2,223, ‘The Job 4s believed to be that of hotel sneak thieves, who had followed Jentle gon to this city, though Frank Rice, de- clared by the police to, be a Cleveland man, who failed to appear for a hearing {nm police court to-day on ch of lke nature at the same hotel, forfelting a $2,000 tipad, is being searched for in con- aqetlon ‘Abb te Jentleson case. The police at once got in touch} with Mrs. Ault, and Terence Ault| hurried to the ‘Harlem Hospital, pee 4 Ria? 30) BOO) F040 OO490H006060464 | $ ° ‘VOTES IN DETAIL ON WET, DRY AND THE IRISH PLANKS PO4EE DEG EDIDDS PIGOOES 896499944 DHPOIDDIEDDES FHS 109 PE PPA SEOG ESET EEEE HOE OESDE REDE pee bee 040000005 * BEQUEST 10 WAI OHAMBERS We Woodin Twins Twins Manufactures,” Took From Foundling as : Asylum Win Contest. f Charles Woodin and Clara Belle - Woodin, twin waifs whom the, late John R. Chambers, wealthy manufage turer, took from an orphans’ home and surrounded with luxury, will not be forced to go back to the founding: asylum. The provisions in their fos- ter father’s will have been upheld. Surrogate Cohalan to-day decided that although Mr. Chambers had not « legally adopted the twins, neverthe= less, it was clearly his intention, ae expressed by his last testament, to provide for them, Thus the childrem, who after, a brief taste of fortune were facing poverty again as the result of contest by relatives of their benefactor’s will, are assured comfort and competency for life. Chambers took the children from an institution at Lakeville, Conn, im November, 1918. He surrounded them with every comfort. In his will he referred to them a® “my ehil- dren,” designating them by names he had chosen for them. He died, how- ever, before the adoption had beem legally completed, Oct. 28 last. He bequeathed each $20,000 to be set aside from the first moneys realised from his estate even to the total exe clusion, if necessary, of other be- bequesis. Chambers named his sister-in-law, Mrs. Corinne Gall, a rdian for the twins, and provi Fiso Ci = for her services in caring Hie directed that. the children's hers itage should be held in trust by the $966064040000506090666 sveeeseeeesees 00006969 5 POLO APOPES QOS PLATFORM SILENT ON LIQUOR ISSUE BY WILSON’S WISH WET AND DRY PLATFORMS OF COCKRAN AND BRYAN THAT CONVENTION REJECTED .-oSAN_FRANCISCO, July 3. SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. et plank offered by W. manufacture light wines and beer, preserving to Bourke both rejected by the to etin, -2 to 155 1-2. amation his plank demanding a Constitutional Amend- ion of treaties by a majority vote of the Sen- the Constitution In the interest of personal liberty, to and sale for r wishes honestly and in good 1 Glass Explains That President} Bryan Plank Wet Plank(Irish Plank |“ e ay cere | Total Vote State Yes No Yes _|__No Yo: | Ne idn’t Wan nything to 24 16 a 24 Cloud League Plank. Z 4 le 5 ie SAN FRANCISCO, July ’—Tha:}Only 15514 Votes Cast for the Bone Dry Pro- 26 ton per ae ey 18 the Presideat's influence was para- 12 Taieul| > crit fA 12 mount in the framing of the platfyrm posal, But the Wets Rolled 14 Gonnecticut. 14 13 12 2 was disclosed to-day by Senutn 6 Delaware 8 ers : 6 Glass, who explained why he and Up 346. Pye te Hen ptees 2 19 jother Administration leaders coun- 8 lean hese ‘3 _|8elled silence on the liquor question: OLLOWING are the texts of the * $8 Illinois. $3, i 37 46° 12 ‘That was done, Senator Glass sald, Cockran and the dry plank by W. J! Bryan, 30 Indiana. AOE A ee 6 24 so tlt nothing should be permitted convention: 26 lowa.. 20 q 3 1 2 |to cloud the issue nearest President Yar 9 20 Kansas Poses tgs 20 | Wilson's heart—the League of Na- . ; OCEAN s ir Le fy 26 Kenucky. | 4 2 H lions. ‘The President wished the ‘The validity of the Highteenth Amendmen ae 12 ens Hy 4 7 League issue to be sharply drawn| as been sustained by the Supreme Court and any law enacted under 16 | 1514 8 8 against the Republicans, and wanted| its authority must be enforced, 36 Massachusetts 33° 36 .... {it made the outstanding feature of| conserve the rights of the States, we favor Federal legislation under 30 Michigan et 3 26 the platform, and it was deemed in-| the Eighteenth Amendment allowing the A) } 3 4 4 advisable to allow any other issue to] home consumption only of elder, 36 914 | “gig i9i4 1514 |be raised which would throw the} the various States power to fix any alcoholic content thereof other 8 Montana. rag [ied rams oer Ss League question even partly into the} tnan as fixed Ly Congress as may be demanded by the opinion Tek NERIRANE: 10 | 3 13 | 3] 12 |Packsround tn the campnign. | ot each locality."—Defeuted, 726% to 84. evad | | ‘That the league issue 4s } 48 N. Hampshire) “i He ees ieee Bion al tae 6 and unmistakable now the election BRYAN’S DR¥ PLANK. ie Newsleeeay Wi 4b A oss 28 g° | Will constitute the “solemn referen- “We heartily congratulate the Democratic Party on its splendid 90 New York... 3 | 73° «| «12 ‘80° 10 dum” which President Wilson in his! jeadership in the submission and ratification of the Prohibition Amend 24 North Carolina) |... | eee 24 aa Shan Day ale faaades, Arpt ment to the Federal Constitution, and we pledge the party to the strict | o longer any doubt, party leaders My Bae Dakota 5 Wage an i A 7 Aa Mau enforcement of the present enforcement law, 20 Oklahom 20 20 2 18 Comment was caused to-day by a] faith, without any increase in the alcoholic content of permitted bev- 10 Oregon... 2 i Abe Blige 0 change made in the n after| ,erages and without any weakening of any other of its provisions.’ ennsylvania..) 7 || 44 | Senator Glass read it © conven- Defeated, 929 1-2 to 155 1-2, 8 succes lend. pokes eae a Woo fe 18 tion. The change was made in the = +—____—_—_ Pu 10 South Dakota 4 3 8 i 9 plank relating fo disabled soldiers, * 24 Tennessee 24 24 | which reads in part BRYAN SUFFERS FIVE DEFEATS 40 Texas. 40 nee 40 “The fine patriotism exhibited 8 Utah..... i 8 1 7 by American soldiers, sailors and : 8 Vermont, ] 1 4 4 ‘4 , kbs teas a | TH marines—constitute a sacred heri- "NNINGS BRYAN suffered five defeat Aue c 1 ! " Hp 7 tage oe poateriiy, (tae ron oe ALLIAM JENNI bd DRY suffered five defeats in his e te Wenge! 8 sgt 4 24 H PONT erence cae atibed amend the Democratic platform: 26 Wisconsin... 4 (eer { 19 9 17 from the treasury, and the glory He lost his bone dry plank by a vote of 9291 6 Wyoming. sue Ne ges 6 6. . 6 of which must not be diminished He lost by a a ‘ ern F 224 | 4 : | ye 4 by any such expedients.” ment providing for ratifi 1 a 6 Hawaii pg || 4 | id The change consisted In elimination | ate anc practical acceptance of the Lodge reservations. 6 Philippines... . 1 | of the wqrds “by any such expedi-| * He lost by acclamation his plank declaring against compulsory mili- 6 Porto Rica... i | ents." Senator Glass explained that | tary training in time of peace, iis Zone oon i eo i ue ihidiat my Be ae cae but He lost by acclamation his plank on profiteering, the convention 04 Toul 15514 Wage | 12614 es nies form. He natioed the er. |adonting the committee report on that subject, - — ror in. fecalne tt and caused the He lost by acclamation his plank prov viding for the establishment of | change to, be made. a Fuderal newspaper, to be called the National Bull DIVORCEE DRAPES BOY GIVES LIFE - — ’ RING RED AND BLACK IN SAVING GIRL’S| STATE SOCIALISTS MEET. |; ost $1,200,000 SAYS | Says Her Ex-Husband Proposed to | Her Half Hour After Decree | Was Granted. | Vearing a wedding Winck and red ribbons signifyin, explained, her divorce and her thereat, Mrs, Florida Rogovoy, romance with George Rogovoy, Russian musician, recently, brought to abrupt termination by the divorce co in Seattle, and who returned here y terday 1s to-day receiving the congratu lations of her friends, “The black ribbon indicates the di- vorce and the red ribbon shows my joy at being free once more,’ she explained, | | in| she | Joy | whose | ring draped an t ‘The Rogovoys were married in 1911 following an introduction by Oscar | Hammerstein, She was Florida L Waldman of Philadelphia, She sald to- day that less than half an hour after she received her decree in the Western | clty, her former husband proposed to| her again. ‘The court gave her the cus- | tody of her five y | ar old child. _ | Shot in Heel Halts Alleged Robber, A negro calling himself Harold Don-| aldson, thirty, no address, was shot In| the heel early to-day while trying to} escape from n Otto Mutz in| West 144th He is a prisoner in| Harlem H d with trying to | rob Lillian rs colored, No, 247! West 141th: Street, irene, | young woman ci |crowd on tho»beach, Rescues Her From Surf at Coney, Then Is Drowned While She Disappears in Crowd. Samuel Strauber, seventeen, of No, 426 East Ninth treet, guve his life yesterday to save a young woman who was drowning in the surf at Coney Island, Strauber was athing off the foot of Twenty-ninth Street, when tho jed for help. He got her into shallow water after a hard struggle and just as she gained her footing. Strauber sank from sight. ‘The young woman disappeared in the v sin chi his tun ing in mo? to es SAY FAKE CLERK STOLE BAG. Algernon Lee De: lature In Key he first airman of keynote ate for es Lusk © history as st frset it.’ lature, which he State 1918 opened to-day 15th Street, and Algernon Lee the address he the Socialists that nev wisdom is most né hav treason and done Socialist at opening ng the 8 102 Lewin conven 7 East was made ssion saldtit was for the » recorded mitted least work Nominations for State offices are ex- |pected to be fone to-morrow. WILL PASS ON ON WAGE AWARD. rul YOUNG BROKER | Syracuse. Man Claims He Was Re- couping Here When Arrested on Larceny Charge. Robert Mc stock broker, arrested here In 8 young Syra a to-day on a charge of grand larceny, told the police | he had lost more than $1,000,000 in stocks a the als in a few months and had come w York with the hope of making enough to pay a $350,000 debt and thus| the larceny charge. He committed to Jail by Magistrate Froth- ingham in Har n Court, to be held for square wa RUSH HOUR TIE-UP ON L. I. RAILROAD Trains on Entire Electric Division Stop When Power House Val The entire electric Ive Sticks. division of the Long Island Rallroad was tled up from 8.02 to 8.15 o'clock this morning When a valve on a sixty-cycle machine in the Long Island C! ity power house stuck, creating a vacuum which reduced steam o'clock that the normal operation, trie current. service sure and stopped the generating of was not until 8.20 was again under ‘YOUTH HAS $1.8 80 But Lumberman’s Son Owes $42} Auto Hire and Hotel Bill and Goes to Jail. Assistant Manager of National City Clyde Graham, who says he ts the} Company Accused of Stealing son of a California lumber man, came Bonds. down here from Montreal last Wedne: day to spend the holidays, Justice| John H, Grassman, assistant manager + Ten ¥ extended ck In West the city's AFTER SEEING CITY Side Court to-day welcome to the youth, but sald he would have to enjoy Columbia Trust Company until they became of age. The Surrogite placed the cost of the contest upon the cont — TRUSTED MAN HELD IN BIG SHORTAGE ; for the National City Company at ite + branch office, No, 514 Fifth Avenue, waa « arraigned before Magistrate Schwab im | ‘it in jal, Yorkville Court to-day ‘charged with f'!Graham sald he went to the Ho-| grand larceny in the theft of two $1,000 brea Belmont and gota suite. That night| American Telephone and, Tele Me joyed a good show and looked over | bonds belonging to George Turner, {what’ ts left of Broadway's bright | valuod at $1,860. ie Hghts, The next day he rented rooms! Accurding to Detective Sergt. Gegan, im the Hotel Astor and Friday he met|Grassman has confessed to the thett-of young woman, w York, #0 Graham hirec from Hess Brothers in West 434 Street. Graham couldn't pay, and was arrested on a charge of ‘The charge was $42, Aisorderly conduct. Detectly told the court of the Hotel “Judge gested the ‘the workhouse, “Thanks d Graham the answ Threats of damage suit the special rent laws, ar fleld and A. J. W. Mayor's Committ Profiteering. One instance landlord alleged the given to the did not follow rent demanded that thi Court.” Commissioner any tenant who pays the ing to fear. > Policemen Halt Truck Both wanted to. see Astor against Graham. ‘Will you pay these bills?” asked the court The youth smt'ed cheerfully and said, ‘d certain! ke to, but I've ear MES ae eae shortage. Mayer told Magistrate oot itor wire home to father,” sug-|Schwab incomplete investigation shows “if you want to avold suggestion,” “I'll think it over.” _ SAYS LANDLORDS THREATEN TENANTS Hirshfield Reports Proposed Dam- age Suits to Frighten Renters From Appealing to Courts. Py tenants, to frighten them out of ap- pealing to the Municipal Courts under being made by landlords, according to state:nents of Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- Hilly, Chairman of on is that of a have written a tenant that although he might think was too high, courts would Hirshfield sald that re by the court under @ stay has noth- NAB 4 MEN AND 46 CASES ¢ OF WHISKEY | in City After Bottle Is Hurled sdcur|ties valued at $125,000, wlt'or Whien”” he is sald to have admitted losing im Wall Street. Grassman has been confidential man for the National City Company twh years and thoroughly trusted, it was © said by officials of that company, which is a subsidiary of the Natlonal City Bank. Last Weenesday Harry F. Mayer, general auditor of the company, found % an auto Moffann bill a short: fe of at least $50,000. Grasa- man, walving examination, was held in $7,500 bail for the Grand Jury. ‘Grassmnan lives at No. 686 Toth Stree Brooklyn, and recelved a $3,000. He is single. FAX. Se BUY $400,000 GOLF COURSE. te Breet Flashing Coantry C! 150,000 Quarters, The Flushing Country Club hes bought the Garretson and O'Connelt farms between Flushing and Jamaica and will lay out a new 18-hole golf course that 1s expected to compare fn~ vorably with any in America. There are sixty-three and seventy-eight acres respectively in the farms, and it Is re- ported $400,000 was paid for them. The country club will tmmediately erect a temporary building with a large dining room and lockers for the 490 members, but expects to have on the property @ new club house to cost $150,« 900, to be erected next spring and te be social centre for residents of Flushing, Jamaica, Forest Hills an@ surrounding country. against Kent it rt a ee = er mere em me agree with him, In such a case, tho letter stated, even though the rent I 4 fixed under a stay granted by the Court, was pald by the tenant, he! {ght become the fefendant “in a| CANDIE separate ‘action in the Supreme} THE EIGHTH STORE nt fixed MILLER’S SEVEN CONVENIENT STORES T42 Broadway 421 Broadway Astor P ‘At Canal St, Atlantic |More Than 1,000 Ratiread Union| the Syracuse authorities. 4 ‘ at Them 440 Broad: ‘535 Police Claim 11 Pawntickets for Officials to Meet in Chicago, Morris took a furnished apartment at| In the wait trains stopped all along a J PP Co Ca At Boring Ralchsy Pacha: ic Hama. CHICAGO, July %—More than 1,000 |N0 387 Lexington Avenue, »|the line and lights went out. Great] ATLANTIC CITY, July 3.—Four men| o60 Prenty . Seer Charged with the larceny of a travel- |ofticials of the sixteen railroad brother-| he was arrested by De congestion was caused at Pennsylvania| were arrested and forty-s\x cases of 120 NASSAU 8T, ling bag valued at $49.50, Otto B. Wille, |noods will m cago July 19 to|@nd Ryan of the East 104th Street Station and the Brooklyn terminal at | Old Shannon whiskey in their motor Between Beekman and Ann Sta, twenty-two, of No, 354 11th Street, pass on the 1 of the United | tion the Atlantle Avenue Station, |truck were seized by the police here Brooklyn, who told the police he was |States Rallroad Labor I He said that last July he borrowed | - > to-day offices at No. 2 Rector Street until a flood Chairmen on all Unes running out | his note, and thn lost this money ard| Wher the ining ship of | the truck emerged from a garage op- ae aa cate A atertmear dea ee | Onleane. ese ilals $850,000 more, He was arrested 4n Syra-|tng New York State Nautical Schoo, | Poste the Rending Station and shouted detective TI rd of the West 30th To Retry Stokes Suit. cuse and released in $5,000 ball. He|jeayes Stapl Island anchor. | 9rders to halt, ‘The only reply, tne SUdording to the police he entered the |. 4 new trial was ordered yesterday by|said In the few months he had been in|age to-morrow morning she will carry | Paved at them trom the trick. The store wearing a cap which he rolled |the Appellate Division of the Supreme New York he had cleared $50,000 in|100 cadets, graduates of State public! bottle broke and the policemen began up and placed in his pocket and then |Court in sult brought by stock deals and had expected to maki old who are In treining for the mer-| shooting. The truck helt andthe | posed as an employ: eleven ways pawntic! for home, tive Ford | O'Brien, ts leather i. D. and her’ @aughter, bana Phage worth 1908 were found in Heaton of of his book to reopten! troy Willa | Stokes a balance due for the pubs “The Right to Be aad, $25,000 more to-day. He is married, and his wife is with relative, Torenta, h in ite tnt Ltn adnan mamas Ibe marine ining crul service abroa, a that will last until Oct, on their nan n gave s as Otto Kirk- j man and Charles Theias of 4 and Safaue! Gross and B. W. Atlantly City. York