The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1920, Page 19

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920 : / en. Barragan Is Peeved; Ibanez CalledHim ‘Johnny’ Duel May Be the Result | Mexico’s Handsomest Man Seeks Revenge Soldier Who Is Supposed to be Hiding in New York May Even Fol- low the Great Author to Spain—and then—“Maldicion! Si! Si! By Martin Green. ’ Coprright, 1920, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The Now York Brening World). _ dent Venustiano Carranza of Mexico up to the time when the bearded G" JUAN BARRAGAN, whp was Chief of Staff of the army of Preat- President was eliminated from Mexican politics, is very indignato ft Vincente Blasco Ibanez, the distinguished author of the “Four Horse- Men of the Apocalypse,” which 1s a way of saying that Gen. Barragan is hot under the colar and looking for He is supposed to be hiding in New York and fiom his hiding place he bas sent out a word that he yearns Pombatir enduelo a 1a muerte with the aforesaid Ibanez, which means that he sapires to meet the novelist on the » field of honor and slay him pronto if not sooner. ' Senor Ibanez spent six weeks in Mexico last spring and wrote volu- minously ‘about what he saw and heard. A prominent figure in Mexi- gan affairs at that time was Gen, Barragan, who is twenty-seven years old and reputed to be the handsomest man in Mexico, if not in the whole ‘world, Gen, Barragan did not make muchranza Generals will challenge Senor i trouble, and actresses to jo to Mexico, oar to the am ble chief of with savings amounting t two hundred thousand dollars. “‘Juanito’ id no to any ene. He was capable of surren- dering Don Venustiano’s head if isked for it with real in- “| left Mexico City without bid- ding adieu to the Apollo of the revolution. Poor and ami boy! | can Carranza read y.' It is quite likely that other Cor- of @ hit with the observant and sar- eastic Senor [hanes It so happened that the Senor did not write out his impressions of il after his return to the tes. The writings of Sen- or Ibanez did not get back to Mex- ico. shouted n. Bar- yn an the purport of the penetrated his understanding, \ tfelt curse. Senor Ibanez called Gen, Barragan “Juanito,” whirk is the Spanish equivalent for “Johnny,” and went on @ speak of him as follows: ith the bright blue of his uniform and his gold braid he was a dazzling sight. He bought a new uniform every week. He seemed to have just stepped out of a toy box, freshly varnished. “During the past few years it has been fine business for singers tony Thanez to combat to the death on the campo di honra, which is the same thing as the Yield of honor, as soon as they get out of jail. For it ds they who are meant in this passage in one Wbanez's articles: of Senor venders of dry vegetables or Mex: ican hats, hungry rural school teachers or mail carriers can ac- cumulate several million dollars in five or six years.” It was told of Senor Ibanez when he was living In New York that he has fought duels in hia native Spain, Undouittedly he will find a way to reply to the challenge of Gen, Bar- ragan. Maybe he will select. hot tamales or frijolis ns weapons, Senor Thanez is the possessor of a Latin sense of humor, He could see some- thing funny about the Mexican Army. Warsaw, Battle-Scarred for 400 Years, Now Engaged in Its 13th Upheaval By Roger Batchelder, Copyright, 1020, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World) 8 thirteen an unlucky number for Warsaw? I In the past 400 years this stronghold, now the weakening outpost of the civilized world, has been the pawn of nations, has attempted, successfully or unsuccessfully, to stem the tid the West, has resisted the eastward —— advance of Prussia and Sweden, and has been racked with the throes of insurrection and revolution. Twelwe times, defeated or yictorious, she has been in a state of siege, and now the world awaits breathlessly the result of her thirteenth great fight, agains the ons! ht of the Red Terror While Warsaw 3 closely to Russia, and not far from Petrograd, ft is 700 miles from the Ihussian capl- tal, 400 miles from Berlin, and only 1,000 miles from Paris, On that ac- count the diplomats of Hurope regard with grave concern the threats of the Reds to push forward to Berlin, and thence to Paris and London, The Polish capital had ite beginning fn the ninth century, when Conrad, a Mezovian Duke, erected a castle on the banks of the Vistula on the present site of the city. Two centu later the castle was built into a fortress, and from that time on the hundred inhabjtants grew steadily until they became the 750,000 of to-day. From the beginning of the seven- teenth century possession of the cap- ital was in consiant dispute between the Swedes, Russians, Israndenburg- fans, Prussians and Austrians, After the union of Poland ¢ Lithuania Charles Augustus of Sweden captured Warsaw, but lost it a year later when the Poles in a bloody encounter over- came his forces. ‘They los. it imme- diately to Augustus 11, and in 1703 Cha, les XL. of. Sweden captured. it, 1818..the, Warsaw's Thirteen Sieges 1, Charles, Augustus, Sweden, 1655, captured Retqken in 1656, . Augustus IL, Saxony, capture! Charles XIL, captured. . Russia, 1764, captured. Russia, 1794 (following bat- tle of Praga), captured, . Napoleon, 1806, occupied. Austria, 1809, captured, Russia, 1818, captured, Insurrection, 1831, captured. . Insurrection, 1863, unsuc- cessful, Insurrection, successful, 1656, Sweden, 1702, 1905-1906, un- 921 only to give it back when peace was signed a year later, ‘The Russians captured the fortress in 1764 and after its subsequent re- turn took it again jn 1794 after the bloody battle of Praga. 1t was given to Prussia a year later and remained in her hands until its occupancy in 1806 by Napoleon. Three yeary later the Austrians took possession and in eguln annexed tt, Only 100 Fire Fightere Now Alive—Force Numbered 7,000 in 1865—Furnished Their Own Beds and Clothes. j “y F) } ae , Ae) DEIDRICK 0.GALE Finst movie MACHINE AT NOUN TEERS? HEADQUARTERS a indl- made ep 4 Poy L. H'cordel?. (The New York Brening World.) | ‘M tired of those peaple who think disease,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “It's the latest fad, and Clara Mud- young dentist who has opened an office in the neighborhood, can, by her than Higher Thought!” “Well, don't you have anything to with young Dr. Gilbert Gumm," ad- vised Mr. Jarr, “She's got a hus- “Walt a minute!” interrupted Mrs. Jarr, with icy insistence. “I'm to be in the eocial relations of my friends, IF you please,” and she put ninety “Well, I don't want to start any- thing,” grumbled Mr. Jarr. “I only turer” — “MY Dr.Gumm?" asked Mrs, Jarr. introduced him to me, And, Clara Mudridge-Smith happening to come she afterward remarked to me that she thought him so interesting and so you acctise me of conniving at clan- destine meetings and—and—and I began to “pipe her eye,” as the sailors say. retorted Mr. Jarr hotly. “I never said anything about any clandestine mcet- you'd better have nothing to do with getting them better acquainted,” Jarr, “I'm sure I just happened to say Clara Mudridge-Smith thought taken up teeth extraoting for nourit\s and eugenics and social reforms, and be suppressed. “although, and I know it just as Jarr went on, “Clara Mudridge Smith has only taken up those sort of now to discuss unpleasant topics. “Time was, Clara sys, when one of thinking about such things, but now if one 1s not fully conversant fregaried as not being at all cultured or refined.” ate orary,” remarked Mr. Jarr “So when that’s said the most charitable them of thetr discussions.” “Perhaps you are right,” remarked Dusenberry thinks the world is com- ing to an end, but I think ail these Me Clara Mudridge-Smith simply to extort money from them Clara declare she was a membe ol The Modern Mothers, he told her that day social unrest. ‘It's ‘bad teeth makes Bolshevism,’ he said." ‘He sald bad teeth caused Indixes- tion, indigestion created peevishness, en from taking a broad view of life and, not having a broad view of life, “So, Dr. Gumm sald women should bring pressure to bear on the Legis- body to have their teeth attended to, especially women th gestion, having indigestion them peevish''- “You said all that before! All wom- en should have their teeth putled, But be was afraid sarge farther, { Covrtient. 1020, by The Prom Publuhing Co, dad teeth in the cause of every ridge-Smith thinks Dr. Gumm, the extracting all her teeth, do more for do With her getting better acquainted band, and'— the judge of what 1s right and proper horsepower emphasis on the know that your Dr, Gumm is @ tor- “Why, I only met the man when you along, I Introduced him to her, and cultured and so distangay—and then don't know what!" And Mrs. Jarr “You bet you don’t know what!” ings. All"I said was ¢hat I thought “Well, who began it?" asked Mrs Dr. Gumm was very interesting, She's is reading all the books that should well as I know I'm sitting herd," Mra, things because it Is very fashionable would have been afraid even to think with the most dreadful things one is “[ think most women of these times thing i# said, and we won't discuss Mra, Jarr, with a sigh; “poor old Mrs. fad@dists are using the silly women “Why, a8 800n a8 Dr. Gumm hear bad teeth were responsible for present “Why? asked Mr. Jarr in surprise peevishness prevented men and wom- they rabelled,"" Mra, Jarr explained lature to pass laws compelling every- teeth attended to, women got "Yes, yes!" interrupted Mr. Jary then thelr moutha will be so sore”—— a ving thelr j Story and Pictures by Will B. Johnstone. ‘ Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). GEORGE ‘S, BRANT 'P to 1865 New York, now the largest olty in the world, was @ rube town. {It 1s hard to belleve, but prior to that date the foremost city In Amer- {ca was only protected by volunteer firemen, If you want delightful evi- dence of this fact,q@o to old Jeffer- son Market, Sixth Avenue, just above Eighth. Street "L" station, and talk to some of the old sirvivors of those gallant days, They still have head~ quarters here in the Market at No. 10 Greenwich Avenue, “We have these quarters signed up until 1982," said John Carroll, ancient fire eater, “and after that we won't need th We'll all be dend. Out of the seven thousand volunteer fire- men of the old days there are only about one hundred alive to-day.” ‘The quarters should be preserved as & museum after 1982, because it 1s practically that now, containing equip- ments of the volunteer days—engine, trumpets, red shirts, paintings and photographs of this honorable body of self-sacrificing New Yorkers who gave their time without pay for a most dangerous service. “Before the paid department was established, in 1865," sald Carroll, “we alone Rave protection and color to the clty, We didn’t have uniforms, but we had badges and red shirts and high ‘boots of leather, The city was divided into districts and in each district were located firchouses, hose, engine or truck, all separate. There were about fifty men to a company and each had a key to the firehouse. ‘The companies had picturesque names and were numbered in omer as they were established. ‘There were 60 engines, 60 hose and 18 trucks,” er estimate puts It at 60 engines, 30 hose and 50 trucks. Take y of the celebrated names Perry Hose Company, Horatto Street; Guardian Engine, No. 29, 42 West 10th Street: Gullick Hose, No. 11, West 10th Street; Columbia Truck, No. 14, No. 96 Charles Street; Valley DB. WRAY ( Picturesque Fire Headquarters of City’s Historic Volunteer -“Smoke-Eaters’’ Still at No. 10 Jefferson Market > When Snow Was in Streets the Veterans Pulled “Big Mary’’ Along Via Sidewalk Trail—Thrilling Rescuesin Old Days. SOLLIER PRES KEMPT wie Men's ASSty Forge, No. 46 Charles Btreet, ing still standing. “It was @ great honor to belong to The men took great pride in their different organizations and were ambitious to be the volunteers, cent. firemen, shsings and things by He to rlarms, which tower still 224 Street bell and run in the direction (steamer), and Lafayette, 19 199 Christopher Street, the build- No. the city, Ished our beds and clothes. “We would quit our jobs to respond were sounded by bells located about the city. stands in Mount Park, at 1224 Street, Other bella were at Jefferson Market tower, Union Mar- ket, Post Office, Clty Hall tower, Hia- sex Market, also Marion bell, Spring and Prince, one at West 38d Street, Spring Stroet tower, When a bell sounded we would of the sound until we found the fire,”* Deldrick D. Gale and Fred Kassel of Lafayette, No. 19, then ohimed in. “There was always a race to the sounded,” “You see the first man the privilege fire house when sald Kassel, there had ‘roller,’ in each occasion, for which apparatus, and honor was easter pull the wagon with th didn't have horses or and the pounds (Here Fred by a comrade who claimed “ Big Mary Ann w alarms machines weighed of being 18 ropes, was elghed SUMMER GIRLS OF 1920 ® Diagnosed Froma Dicky-Boy’s Diary No. 4.—The Fishing Girl! all know her, We seo her everywhere as soon ax the season opens. And: from the tips of her tiny toes to the sparkling Waves of her shining hair, we admire her--and sometimes fall in love with her She ts always at the the beaghes, al- ways by languid summer lakes of the mountains, and sometimes, strange at it may seem, in woodland ks and corners where there is not n a brook in which to practice her art For the fishing girl does not seek one the dwellers of the blue sea, limpid lake or the purling brook. ome may that that Is only pretenae, only her pose. Her real alm is to fiah for the hearts of men, with well- halted hook to catch them, and land m, struggling, at her feet, where e can look upon them with pity and disdain, and wonder how they could be foolish enough to be oen- snared by her irresistible lure. Then, deed, 1k she happy and content Her bait ©omes not from the fisher man's can of ns or from his pail of gleaming fish or from his book of fil Her bait is her own heart, and the golden hair, the beckoning lips and the bewitching eyes are only the spoons which lure the unwary to her Une,’ SALMON PK iT AwAy FROM HERE ion 7 No. 100 per We were supplied the We One bell Morris being he got his name the company's honor book for The roller was tho man who guided the tongue of the besides than having an to We motora then 1,200 disputed Onjine” 1,400 pounds), It was hard going in win- ter snows. When the street was blocked we pulled her along the sidewalks. “The intense rivalry between companies to get to the fire first was amusing, as we look the old days,” Ikughed Gate, bac waa a racket at every fire. I well remember cutting off: a nelghbor- hood company at a corner once and in the eneuing fight 1 waa hit over the head with a trumpet, sul have the sear on my hend.” Kassel smiled and — recollected “Why the boys would be playing dominoes, ‘Then came an alarm. They would be at blows during the fire and later return to thelr Yriendly game of dominoes. The woret fire I remember,” sald Kassel, who Js elghty-three years old, “was Allen Hays soap factory at Firat Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets, ‘This was in 1863. Tt Inated tor two days, ‘The other was Good- win'e cracker factory at the foot of Pike Street, “A chimney fell there and killed two of our boys. I nearly got It mynelf, The city did nothing for the fuinilies of the dead. ‘The fire escapes on buildings In New York didn't come In until the eighties,” Kassel went on “Our #-foot ladders took thelr place. The buildings were mostly tree stories high. All the hotels had rope fire escapes coiled in the outwide rooms. “I once rescusd @ woman and two bables by hanging over the roof and swinging them up from the window They didn’t have a atiteh of clothes t was down in Baxtor street ngines were pumped by hand in our day, but we could maintain a 282-foot stream for tho atretch of half an hour," George 8 c Frant contributed the in- formation that the volunteers who sometimes alept in the fire hoses used the stair banisters for a f when they slld down an alarm. wkiel Wray, &1, Joined the Vol- inteers on the 4th of March, 1861, the day of Lincoln's firat | inau guration, He wos with Marry Mow- rd Hom 115 Christophor pride oh old how his out its own pockeet » thelr fire house made into a brown stone front Kaanel stated that one July his company ing the day off a eannon." § recalled how they der Fourth of made 27 runs dur- “Hetween fires we shot eof the old boys used to hold an- and clambakes, also chow partion on Saturday night In the belle fire houses ax Tweed wa foreman and hia umpet Js on View at the headquar ern John J. Gorman waa another pollt!- cul light of the old daya who served, to say nothing of Sherif James O'Brien and Richard Croker, and Sen erick, shot in California by yin '49. Lorengo Delmon co, who stirted New Yorkers eating was a member of the Vol © Simon Brentano, who, 1 <i, founded the flumous ue bookstore. James F, ounder of the Cotton Ex- who ‘ahd schautteinn theo } d ‘Cm LL TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920 APER CLOTHING | Att _——_—$$—$—$ $$$ es BY NEAL R. OHARA ‘ Mi..." by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) The Classy Tailors Can Issue the Latest Editions Instead of the Latest Styles; You Don’t Send Your Suit to the Tailor So Long as You Have a Rubber Eraser. APER shoes and paper Panama hats have been an enormous bit this season. ready has @ couple of quires of from London, Now we've going to have paper suits, The Government al- the latest styles being sent over here The idea ts to spread a few woodpulp togs among the natty dressers and fn no time at all the whole nation will wear ‘em. The House of Kippyatyler will soon be using more paper than Congress, and Start, Shuffling and March will start buying up forests, And the woodpulp sult should be a success, We've had paper sult cases for twenty years—why not branch out and have paper sults, too? Protty soon they'll be running off fabrics from printing presses with the colored supplements for fancy vests. A guy can then have a sult of the same material as his pawn: ticket. A tailor will get @ shipment of cigarette papers and announce to the trade he's got all the makings. A sult made of newspapers will always have the press in it, anyway, And you can get a snappy raincoat from a roll of tar paper. The London idea amells like a success! There's a whopping advantage in The classy tailors can paper sults. as they look, mates—not when you ; give the matter thought. They're al- ready wearing envelope chermisesy paper dresses are a short step from those. As soon af paper outfits arrive for ~ the ghickens you can count on a nifty surprise or two. We'll see flappers clad in tissue paper and the chorus girls will wear fancy confett!. The dames will have paper wrappers for household wear and soap wrappers, of course, for taking a beth. And they'll have scratch paper for winter flannels, which figures out as a neat All the High-Toned Flappers Will Be Draped in Final Editions. issue the latest editions instead of the latest styles. Material will be all woodpulp and a yard wide, with a vellum finish and scented, too. You don't send your suit to the cleanser so long as you have @ rub- ber eraser, and a rich guy can un- dress with a paper cutter, A mao can also wear a paper napkin for a vest, although lots of guys are doing that now, Only one drawback ap- pears on the surface—when all the world uses paper euitings there'll be no more fire sales of men’s and boys’ clothes, The fad may even spread to the fair sex, which wouldn't be a bad idea, But if women ever made skirts out of woodpulp there'll be a paper shortage always in sight. When the dames step Into the foolscap garments you'll see one fine bunch of paper dolls, And the chances aren't so slim idea, And it isn't outside the realm of reason to have blotting paper for babies’ clothes, If they can turn out an evening * paper for three cents a copy they / can make evening gowns for the same price too. A dame’s ballroom © dress would be no different from an evening paper so long as the front part left plenty of room for makeup © and the back page of the gown ° showed one spinal column. The wall flowers could wear dresses made out of wall paper, and the dead ones, of course, would wear crepe. And that’s the scope of the paper suit fad. It sounds fantastic when ” you think it over, but so did fig © leaves when they were in vogue. + And here's one sure tip for the book, The woodén kimono is only a joke « now, but the woodpulp kimono will . soon be here, THE WIFE OF ~ ALL TRADES . Sopa BY TRENE- oes. MAN from Miasourl has ap- pealed to the New York police to help him find bis wife who disappeared last March, This man describes his wife as a “neat dressier and a hand worker and may be employed as saleswoman, mil- liner, telephone operator, cashier, beauty specialiat, confection maker, piano player, or posstbly aome other work.” Small wonder that woman left. It this wife did all these things, she was a much overworked woman, If this man #xpected that his wifo might be found in any one of these trades, then she must have worked long enough at them to have given her sufficient practice to earn money at any of them. As she was only twenty-six, ac- cording to his description, some of these various Kinds of work must have been done during the time she was married What a tired woman ehe must be! Doubtless there came a day when of ninety-five, joined the firemen in 1841. He wos a highly respected member, so much so that his asso- clates had his picture done in oils. The main one at the market is a landmark of Greenwich Village. On the windows its antiquity Is ip ed: “Association of Exempt Fire! Organized Oct, 14, 1842." John Mulligan, G. A, R. veteran, te President of the Volunteer Piramen's Association, ‘Housed here is the Ex- empt Association, George Collier Preaident, and the Uniform Company, Daniel L. Mott, Foreman. The Uniform Company parades every Whshington's BL hday, and put & wreath on the statue of Wash- Augustus 28, Ington in Union Square. Collier, old. time brother was raised Green , 1x aU @ fine figure of old stock American manhood. a John H. Harris ts the lone survivor of his company only Indu ment, outside of glory, extended to the men who Nteered for fir duty, waa a tax axemption of $1,000, freedom from jury and == military service Although exempt from duty nen} the « reo! s two regiments the with the ument In Gettysburg” to-day; a fire man in red shirt and boots and hel- met standing with @ soldier boy, in wel . |, forever, abe Was 80 weary of work that she , “ellently stole away.” Perhaps if thia husband had not Permitted her to emgage in all af these activities, he might not be searching for her now. ¢ Methinks it must have Ibeen a case of “al work and po play,” and Jin became tired of the grind, as happens in the best regulated families, ; T have known women like this, who 4 have gone on day after day, month , after month, year after year, work! this, that, and the other thing an effort to help husbands, little + ining what they were losing In process. And the husband has been ‘blind to the cost, Some women will never stop doing long ag they are permitted to do. Many & husband has lost a good wife decatse he has not put a stop to it. | He haw allowed her to be too mush -* helpmate and not enough playmate, If some men's real Want Ads. could bo orinted right out of thelr thoughts they would read something like this: “Wanted—Wifte who can cook, sew, clean house, take cart of children, out gras, hang wall paper, help me earn a living, and love me, She must be sweet, kind and have no temper, never forgetting the deference due me an the head of the house. For this I am willing to pay her hband- somely by letting her bear my name,” It happens that such men do get wives, but they don't keep them—not They may use all the elustve balt during the oourtabip period, but what Is expected of the wife ta dis- covered by her sooner or later. If she has the courage, she leaves when whe haa no children, But woe to her when mother-love creeps in, and she must bear the burden for # protracted period The day is kone when a man can hold a woman under these ciroum- stances The world {# wide and opportunity ia open to her. With her grandmother it was dit. ferent. What was expected of her by her lord and master she did. Cheer fully, if she loved him, and undes protent if she didn’t, “But sho rarely loft, There was no escape. He was the bread-winner. »-day she can do the same, refore no man can hope to hold rman if she must do too much of pread-winning to keep thi going In their ‘domicile - ee The man who would keep his wife t not permit her to be the wits oP all trades, but rather the wite of his heart and home, and the mother of his children, Thie ia CS ‘nidiineaatth tes 2 TSeee Se acrid ,