The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 3

Ce ee pear 2 A SE A TS “I've _eaten up history ever since I was a boy.” CAST OFF, SHESAYS, WITH BABY, WHILE. pie ENIOYS LUYURY But Court Waris Woman Not | to Annoy Real Estate Man Who Denies Paternity. Yrsa ne. Palmer, twenty-six, good- blond, blue-eyed and wear. fg a long seal cout, was arraigned in| he West © Court to-day charged} \ith having assaulted Michael E. Pa- ro, real estate operator and tilder erno & Son, No. 200 “P’'m_in_love with America that’s why I want to see her history set aright.” a ah a TE = “The Chinese Consul General said to me, ‘You know more about China than our statesmen do,’” “That's the way J am, ROME BB SS A t No matter where I am, I'm always studying something.” “I may be rusty on details, but Lthink I can tell you something about all these things.” Commissioner Hirshfield, New York Historian by Appointment, Brushes U| on American History dee dc eee ae ee “When you read history you “That's easy. L guess every. skim over the dates and names, jody knows fhe Eighteenth All ud want is the events.” Amendment.” a A TL NL Pa LK A “Who did Henry George jr, run against? I think it was Abram 8. Hewitt.” Hirshfield ‘Loves America’ And That’s Reason Why He Wants History Straight |Mayor Hylan’s Historia to Revise Text Book New York and Proves It Though,He’s Rusty on Names and Dates Opposed Henry G Geor; ge Jr. for Mayor. | By George Buchanan Fife. Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- field leaned back in his swivel chair, his hands folded placidly in his lap and in a low, tense tone, said: “I'm in love.’ West Paterno alleged the} As the interviewer was not en- womar t night}gaged in obtaining the Commis- t Td Street and Broadway and] sioner’s vital statistics there was a tapped him in the face with a hand|momentary silence. ‘The Commis- bag sioner broke it, ‘ Sentence upon her eventually} “My affection knows no limitations. ispended by Magi: Simpson,! Sometimes | can't find words to ex- time in eatened to bind her or the proceedings to keep She told the court she had| Paterno for a he thie peace lived with wears and that er child, Mic! four years old. was named a pondent in the di- rce Mrs. Paterno obtained two y zo. Just that, Yrsa Palmer tated to-day had gone through a, marriage ceremony with Paterno. of of She | number was the father after When Magistrate Simpson t her avany Deters nue school children | he must not annoy Paterno s an-| Of this great city Rraved: Tt must be said that the foregoing “T can’t leave hiim alone. I've no; Was not the inception of the inter- noney, my baby is sick and Mr. Pa-| View with the Commissioner of Ac- erno has cast me and the baby in| Counts, nut it was part of what he he gutter, while he rides by in his|Said durin a talk upon his recent " | and still persisting research into the otor car ja 3 Mix-Justice Josephs, attorney for| text books supplied te the pupils of Daterno, denied the woman's \state-| the public schools. Some time ago the nent as to the paternity of the child, | aying he had atlidavits from her to} »rove Paterno was not the father. He | Hirshfield | set ss what I feel.” here was something so personal in the confession that the interviewer looked out of the window, afraid Mr. would detect a growing in the theme. Again the pre curiosity | Commissioner came to the rescue. he said “And “I'm in love with America n the same surcharged voice, that's why [ want to see her Mayor, recipient of a number of com- munications in protest against the manner in which the early days of ‘aid also the woman had made threats| the republic are chronicled in the o Kill his client, had gone to hotels| text books, particularly with refer- chere he lived and made disturbandes | ence to the struggles of the Colo- vhich resulted in forcing Paterno to| nists and the War of Independence, Beave asked Commissioner Hirshfield to go The court advised her to seck re-|through them and discover wherein, ress, if she felt it to be due her, in| !f so, they diverged from accepted Soother court | facts me Rerence, but all information as to| @sked tie Commissioner Was ae to By about was refused the progress of the work f Yrea Imer lives at No. 6 © It’s getting on,” he replied. “Here's 2 Mount Vernon, and some re stuff."” Brno at tie, 823 RORNEre AyeAus From a basket on his desk he drew SUBWAY AND “L” % CARS COLD IN A.M. ) Also de of Lack of $ —Wra Boa morning tr ' e mornin mblin urs oh t . i Thi because it takes Biation before they ave really fit fo e Iso far warmth is concerned _ ia fte arin tt nhway rl have not even t ventilat I pasenge d to in ru urs to open ven Bators have refused, saying their Mrders from the starter at the ter final of the Third Avenue Rajet no ventilators ure to o 1 cold weath The Transit : issior ] check up on the rer 1 lolation of o of heat and ver “pation. put thirty or forty typewritten sheets ind added: “I've got an assistant who's reading all the histories on the shelves of the Department of Educa- tion to see what he can find, and thi st fi part of his report, 1 . ate Saturday and I haven't had time to look over it. You s Ive got 154 city departments to look att and that doesn’t give me much ime to go into the history matter.” For a moment the Commissioner cooked through the pages, mumbling to himself as he read, The inter- viewer caught only @ word here and there. ‘Then the pages came down und Mr, Hirshfield said: “But I'm lot of histories too. I sup- 1 i've already gone through thirty umes. I read them at night, after I've got through with the other city business, And when T finish all the madly marked out for myself Thane ead all this”—he indi- ued the report but not with. any real show of affection—"and write a report on it “Haven't you learned a lot of his- vy in all your readin he was asked when the wei look was gone from his eyes. “Yee, | supnose T have. ve caten p history ever since [ was a bee. r ans only Amertean history, but that of other countries, in Europe ind A | remember some. time here leaned back again wit) a chuckle that presaged a jolly ninisce I was talking with the Consul General of China. We got| © talking about affairs over in his country, and pretty soon he turned to me in surprise. ‘Why,’ he sald, ‘you w more about the conditions in the interios (han the Chinese etatce- history | n TellsWhy He's Fitted s for School Children of and Hazy About Who; YOUREA1922 EVE,’ COURT GHIDES HER, FREEING HUSBAND Wife Fined $2. for Starting | Movie Fight and Dragging in Loyal Spouse. STEFANSSON SUES HIS PRESS AGENT FOR OVERDOING I Explorer Wants $20,000 From Lee Keedick, Charging He Hurt Reputation. “It was Eve who got Adam into] yinjalmur Stefansson, the ex- , i ‘ trouble, and you're a 1922 Eve who| plorer, stands in a class by himself Terug YOu See Fd een read-| nas got her husband into such a jam} among public characters, He threw The Commissiéner Pame that he doesn’t knew how to get out."’ | * bombshell to-day into the ranks of in his chair, pride in his eye. iar a: Galncian thus ane actors and actresses, movie stars, the way 1 do,” he continued. |e be scat politicians, captains of industry and matter where I am—in a car, smok-| Mrs. Henrietta Sawyer of No. THESE CIRRE ERY WOOO LING BIWRVE ’ "| fnance, preachers, authors and pub- studying something. I've got to do it| Church Avenue, Trooklym, in Bridge | jjshers who employ press agents to ioe ei 154 city departments to] p} Court to-day in fining her $2] 'eep them before the public by de- ee » for an attack last night on Abraham | nanding $10,000 from Lee Keedick, At this juncture the interviewer | Cohen, manager of a motion picture | press agent and lecture manager, as Placed before the Commi: + a theatre, at No, 368 Bushwick Avenue. | damages for overexploitation pony rg ee Bay exami iia tian pe ner, 4” Maurice Sawyer, her husband, Keedick engaged Stefansson for a Pupils of Grade 8A of the Grammar) Clved a stspended sentence, ant jecture tour two ye efans School. “Do you suppose you could; David Parnpan employee of son refused to live up to the contract page that?” he was asked theatre, was disch d and Keedick sued’ him. Mr. Hirshfield took the paper with! Mrs, Sawyer and a woman friend «gp and a masterful hand and bent to it. It he if nail out iA Exa, ated and untruthfil rep- began with an inquiry as to wi the theatre to call out Mrs. pesentations were made with respect and by whom New York was settled Sawyer's moth who was attend to the defendant's scientific work and and ended with “What was t! show, Cohen sald he would let qiscoveries,"" says Stefansson in iis ade Wala gd difficulty and 1} ¥AS/ only one of them go in to notify Mrs. answer to Keedick’s suit, ‘tand these After a glance down the questions, | Sawyer’s mother, Mrs. Sawyer be- were of such a character as to seri- the Commissioner lowered the paper | came enraged, it was said, and ad- gys| yinjure his reputation a long enough to say: “This is in-| dressed tart remarks to the manager, scientist and also as an authority on tended for pupils Who are fresh from /after which she wont’ out and got a are toraecuoeer alas iter Ace are reading, piece of ice and threw it so accurately “wouldn't that knock an honest, “I think I can answer most of| that it hit Cohen on the head hardworking press agent for a row of these,” he remarked finally 1 may Mrs. Sawyer then went home exclamation points Ne oes be rusty details, but T can teil! cq ner husband she had been it And Stefansson wants $10,000 more something about all these things because, he claims, Keedick, although Dates and names escape a man now| sulted. Sawyer accompanied her back assured that he was ill and unable to and then, but he ought to be ‘There was an occasional mumble as he read. He glistened with interest. “It's pretty hi to answer of them off. * he explained in a pause from study. ‘But there are any number of books that would give the answer» When you read history | you skim over the dates and name: | all you want is the event fl took | the time I could answer a lot. ‘Who| settled New York everybody knows it was the Dutch Reserve Bank. A Fede at I believe it's drifting a ite moorings.” The Commissioner's mar ner was confidential. “Hut that’s onl an opinion, It may be w Jadded. With this } & pi Ja quick firt and I< answer most of But I'm rusty on vmor the questic und the friend, and his ¢ Kled ag {It was the last q eof about the Behring 5 Mculty “I remember t quant gitated the state ° try and Great Britain f A iby the time it was ar ed t seals had been kil! d 1 " that question by pute over the ash neries, Atte , was doing only what he his some | blamed, protectorate ble tol to the theatre, answer these some sort of way. It'S|fignt ensued in llike this, s T've been practising | (, : law for abou ty yea and I'm| Cohen's part. a better lawyer than I was when T| Parnpan w started out, but I don't believe I} night in jail. could pass a bar examination now. your taba and there nts of good lawyers} Hae jwho couldn't.’ victim of de The Commissioner resumed his| frail little wife, reading of the examination paper. husbandly wa: seals.” At fleld through the turned the end of who ° ign. 1 1 lived then, too. run against? I S. Hewitt, A tion.” that @ think arrested and sp but you c around question and, it was alleged, a lecture, kept exploiting him and ad- rc} van took vertising him until many people which Parnpan took’ Tiined the impression that he The Sawyer (Stefansson) was not reliable in the nd was the innoc rage of poor the court said duty. He an."* can't 8 establishe f the run Mr. Hir and started ba Another f “what were the purnoses of miliar word caught his eye. It colonization of Virginia, Pennsylvania, | ‘State a recent amendment to 1 Massachusetts?’ ‘That hard one,;United States Consti ‘or course the object was to extend | Commissior tw tor | trade ) financial aid for the| brightly than ever. ‘That's an ¢ countries the colonists came from one,’ he said, "I guess every We may 1 the details of | knows the Eighteenth the answer, and a lot depends un the Again he went hunting and one marks your examination | across an inquiry as to the thre¢ paper.” Here the Commissioner r rtments of the Government leased another chuckic y consist.» He had t it a here in what colony § soon us he had read you'd rather e_ lived hat's a| question, ‘Executive, leg matter of taste. If you were re-jjudicial,"’ he called out Uti ligious you'd have chosen Massachu-|other questions,” he went on uf Isetts; if you'd been a tradesman | another glance at the paper, ‘1! [you'd e gone to N York; if|do with date nd you know you'd have been a mer or alrusty a fellow gets on those. } Quaker you'd have selected Pennsyl-|that's a very fair examinatic \vania, and if you'd been a gentleman | should say. I could pass it if 1 | you'd’ have seitled in Virginia, How|held down to dates and a name hi about that? and there." “When if asks for the name of a a Prominent jeader in ea 1} The Commissioner, having pas suppose I could give tho wve|the examination, took a try at thought to i wi yon to the {ether paper, a list of twe next.’ questions prepared by an ex — the histor the country, beginr Mr. Hit i ! with John Kn's raid and te 1 ii with a query the dat MID Ae cap et 2 Chicago fire, Mr, Hirshfield the Thirteenth, Mourt Tatas wean enth vendinen SVT a Parser tak is ; there he ee ft nena nes are ee i could answer t i ught a th ‘ ons while,” and then ed OR Oncb |e oes or wae Ele member But who think it ie thought was over the matter of keeping appointments. nn q The tim F you are contemp! Discounts of Crystal includes not but every item of tab! "The Gift Shop | FIFTH AVENUE VEAL IS NASI SI TS 1A SIT a dinner service is now! a dinner service of the very first quality, the discounts of the January Sale amount to such a respectable sum that it is the part of wisdom to buy your dinner service now. The customary January Sale of China and tess needs—-for nothing in that wide and worthy collection is exempt. OVINGTON’S 2 AT 39TH STREET DAY OBDURATE, TUDENT SHOOTS SELF CATROW TO SUE DURING CLASS LECTURE eeldentally to v WVilllam K mtinuation Vo Viren Ar Pintol ested. Ke Prohibition Refuses Director Make “Retraction”—Nothing to a pupil in th pl at 157th Retract, He Says. feet and Third Avenue, Bronx, took joaded automatle pistol to wchoot wit Ralph A. Day, Prohibition Direc- sn tea Ww Arse 0 Beles ie tor, has refused the "retraction" de- Pesor in’ the electrical wirlng class, manded of him by Col. H. G. Catrow, |, "delivering a lecture to forty boys his former assistant, whose resigna- [rin, one of the class, reached tate his tion he recently demanded and ob- jt [and trocplitel wea edit tine tained. Col. Catrow says that if alfe touched the trigger and the pistol written “retraction is not forthcom|# discharged. | The rxplosion start ing he will sue for slander. Ja lett the room, Walking down to Mr. Day said, “for I have not even Hdentally abo: Himbelts: oh a unds fn his left hand and Yetective McCarten took suggested that Col. Catrow left the service because of any fraudulent or dishonest act. I asked for his resi nation because he permitted the 1s- suance of a grossly excessive. with- drawal permit contrary to the rou- tine and custom of this offige, and it subsequently developed that this per- his thigh, the boy to mit shou!ld,not have been issued. | Col. Catrow was my personal pointee and I had the utmost con- fidence in him. His failure to safe- guard the interests of the office was my reason for asking for his resigna: tion Col. Catrow sa Mr. Day was present when the permit for the withdrawal of 1,000 cases was issued Mr. Day declined to comment on this WOMAN BURNS TO DEAT! Mrs. Hannah Barnett, fifty-four, off death when her clothing ught fire while she was cooking at her home to- day. Her husband, Kalman, fifty-nine, was burned about the bands in his ef- forts to extinguisi the flames. He was attended by a surgeon from Harlem Hospital, oe .. CAMBRIA HERE WITH The army transport Ca Antwerp Jan, 6, arrived to-day after . stormy voyage. She had on board 0 troops, mostly of the Sth and 50th 120 TROOPS | nbria, from 1 fantry, who will be — renssi here Were ten officers and seven & come eral prisoners and three destitute soldiers. smoking.” e to buy | tures—one lating the purchase of 10% to 5 dinner services alone le service which a hos of Fifth Avenue” Sth Avenue at 35th Screet—N.Y. Established 1879 Parts 1S KNITTING FOR SPRING and the newest in weave and cut to Best's. EADING ftom left to right in the picture below, a knitted suit in which the knitter has drop- ped a stitch. and achieved | a stripe! The other, equally | smart, has the trig little jacket of the type the Frenchman wears In sport mix- fibre silk trimming. Fordham Hospita, a prisoner, Klein, who lives at No. 508 Brook Avenu:, said he found the pistol. ci tidba N “nkido a LOCAL BREVITIES. William Cannallon, twenty-fiv No. 347 East 24th Street, raigned to-day in the Yorkville Court on a robbery charge preferred by Will- nm Geraghty, bartender in a saloon at >, 404 Firat Avenue. Geraghty says Cannalion held him up with @ gun in a saloon on Nov. 6 while another man took $30 from the till Cannallon was arrested last night at 26th Street and Third Avenue by De- tectives Brennan and Lambert. er yoe't partner is under conviction for the crime. John F. Reynolds, fifty-seven, a broker, of No. 18 Wost 74th Street, ‘was arrested to-day by Detective Carlson for Jumping $2,000 bail in General Ses- \8 yesterday, Boston police, who \# it him for alleged bad check trans- actions, arrived to-day to arrange for tradition. f. SUITS “pour le model with