The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 3

Ged) Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Ch ief of eer Fire Girls THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922 see EVENING WORLD TEN-SECOND NEWS MOVIES we Or) : Serie dahl Freedom Tolerated in the Girls of Bisel LT trrrrr irr “Youth fs on a spree. 1 don’t want to see youth hit and. hurt itself against notaral laws.” “I think the restless, feverish world is runn’ng away with the 1 donit | ke it’ modern girl. HALEN SUBMITS * {INVALID VETERAN EW TRANSIT PLAN} ALLEGES BEATING FOR ACTION BY CITY) AS HE LAY ON COT alls for Scrapping 3,000 Trol- leys and Replacement by 3,500 Buses. Lieut. Clynes, Just Gver Ap- pendicitis, Alleges Brutality by Sergt. Kelly at Fox Hills. Grover Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, in a letter to (Mayor Hylan as Chairman of the oard of Estimate and Apportion- ment, to-day presented his plans for p municipally owned and operated bus system to replace the trolley Nines of all boroughs except Rich- mond. The report is a supplemental ‘one to the request made two weeks ago for an issue of corporate stock amounting to $25,000,000 to put the Plan into operation, The appropria- tion is before the board to-day for His jaw broken, his head in band- wes and his body weakened by an operation for appendicitis two weeks! ago, Lieut. Sdward Clynes, who served in the 'y during the World| War and was until to-day a patient at; the Fox Hills Hospital, was carried | into Magistrate Croak ton I., where he mac igainst Sergt. also a-Wwer vétefun find 4 fellow patient Fox Hil Lieut. Clynes state that last nigh Kelly forced. his w into his priva room at the hospital, apparently un ult Kelly, consideration. the influence of liquor, and locking ‘Along with the routes of 201 bUS the door behind him, er Mnes that are to afford transportation iow: we'll see who the pest the Commissioner submitted maps of man! With that, according to the four boroughs and annoujwed thet C1ynes, Kelly dragged him from 1 4 separate problem is presdhted bY threw Him on the floor, picked him Staten Island. It ts to be made the ay, and eave him a severe beating, subject of a separate report. While posuiting in a broken jaw and other not anngunced, it is understood that injure: Richmond is to have the tracklest ““Giynes sald he called for help but trolleys. it did not reach him for haif an hour, Declaring that the trolley system He asked Magistrate Croak to have hes broken down, that there is no him sent to another hospital for treat- nope of rehabilitation, that its oper- jnent and also because he feared ation by the municipality is mprac- other atack by Kelly. The court o tfeable and that it should be discarled gered the Lieutenant semoved to St. ag an obstruction which had ceased yincent's Hospital at West New t@ function as a public utility, Com- Brighton, A policeman was sent to ssioner Whalen asserts it should be the fox Hills inatitution to bring ped out. The plan to sell the system to’ the oity is denounced as an effort to con- vert worthless traction issues into corporate stock of the of “New | York. Commissioner Whalen then de- slares that the motor bus system will provide not only adequate but also ‘quicker service in all sections of th Kelly to court. PARIS GROWN. UPS NOW CARRY LONG AND LIMP DOLLS ARIS, Jan. 27. c city and will increase the capacity of Dolls for grown-ups, dolls that the streets, reduce the accident! nre from three to five feet in hagard and earn profits for the city.] length, that hang limp, with The routes submitted are divided trailing limbs, are the latest craze as follows Manhattan, routes 1 ¢ | in fashionable Paris, Manhattan and Bronx, route A favorite Is a pale-faced Pier- 58 to 70; Bronx, routes 71 to 96 rot, with w staring eyes and Brooklyn, routes 97 to 159; Brook bright red, bow-shaped li He and Queens, routes 160 to 1 is placed in the corner of a set- Queens, routes, 172 to 201; total, tee and his white face id black routes. f silk costume produce an artistic "As the first step in the city’s pro-| effect. gramme it is proposed to eliminate Another type is a shock-head- fifteen car routes in the Borough of| ed peasant, a grotesque leer on Manhattan, as follows: Broadway-|* his rubicund face and dressed in eventh Avenue, Ninth Avenu a blue blouse, red and white Wighth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Madi-] strircd trousers and wooden son and Fourth Avenues; Second Ave- nue; Avenue B, and on the following sabots. cross-town streets: 86th, 69th cars now in operation. Three thou 31th, 28d, 14th, Highth and Grand sand trolley cars now seat 150,000; Btreets, the buses will seat 122,000, but Mr. This will mean the elimination of Whalen insists the quicker method of about 120 miles of s travel will double the capacity and 750 trolle cars, they will seat a maximum of 245,000, Whalen. As well ‘| Commissioner Whalen closes his service furnished hy trolley ‘communication by ring that his Ifmes, it posed to operate four |programme ‘for the solution of the additional ss-town bus lines, vexed traction problem by climination through 79th, 96th and 110th jof the trolley-systems’and the substi- Stree [tution therefor of muniecipally owned The removal of these trolley lines, | ani onersted motor by doptec it ts said, will climinate traMe con-, Bernard Sheppard, appear- gestion that exists at various ihter- ed as a tax zed that sect’ons, enumerated as follow part of Commissione en's report Fighth Street at Astor Place, La- covering the estimates for operation, tte Street and Fourth Avenue; maintenance and depreciation on the 4sth Stre hird Avenue, Fourth ground it. was too general. It devel Avenue, Broadway, Fifth and Sixth oped later that he represented Austin Avenues. P. Fox, who, In behalf of the City 23a eet at Fourth Avenue, Transit Company, Ine., applied for Broacway, Wifth and Sixth Avenues, city wide bus franchise ome time Sith Street at Fourth Avenue, > And whose Appliontion was ordered Fifth Avenue, Broadway and Seventh filed. Tt ws sug y Mr. Shep Avenue, 42d Street at Grand Central Station, Madison Avertue, Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Broadway, Seventh Avenue and Fichth Avenue. 59th Street at Third Avenue. ineton Avenue, Park Avenue, pard that the bus plon be first tried by private canitel inasmuch as it was in the experimental stage, Commissioner Wh company Mr. Shepnard sented was compnred of drivers on the Madison Street line « had repre- Lex- "ifth Avenue, Broadway and Eighth Ave- that its capitalization was o ue (Columbus Circle) Mr. Sheppard seid he pre Broadway between 424 and 46th | scandal a yrar ago in the present bua treets (Times Square), » Broadway and Sixth Avenue, be- ween 83d and 35th Streets (Herald juare). Mr. Vhalen's plang onl! for 9400! supervisors, ses, which he declaros wil! serve the confessed blic fay better Shan the 3,000 trolley year ago. | system in that he had exposed gruft bus routes with the result that Com- One Thir of the superviver occurred about “that Iam denouncing modern young | people. en said the bus three bus in connection with the assignment of | missioner Whalen suspended all bus “You can’t blame anybod, sixteen for what she does, bat “There should be somebody to look after these boy-and-girl dauces—to whom a_ girl can pig you ean he tremendously sorry for her.” her.” ¥ “I have never smoked a clga- rette, and I don’t like to think of young girls do'ng It.” 1922 Youth Is on a Spree; “*Feverish World Too Much For Smart Girl of To-Day’’ —Mrs. Oliver Harriman. Chief of 140,000 Camp Fire Girls Condemns Prevalent Conditions, Especially the Cus- toms and Practices of Boy and Girl Dances, Bad Influences. of Restaurant Life and Lax- ity of Parents and Guardians—Suggests a Remedy. « Marguerite Mooers Marshall. )with her. And I can’t say that I like “Youth,” said Mrs. Oliver Marri- miling a little but with serious “is on a spree!’ she added quickly, At this point sho added the cau- tion already quoted, against twisting her words into a denunciation of youth. I wouldn't denounce any-| « yody; denouncing isn’t a part of my religion. But you know how you feel when you see a beautiful child run ning straight into a stone Wall! You don't ant its little,, lovely face marred. And I don’t want to see youth hit and hurt itself against na- 1ural laws, which are there in the just Ike the stone wall."" ‘ou can't,” she pointed out, with a protesting little smile, ‘blame any- body of sixteen for much of anything she does, But you can be tremen- dously sorry for her. You can pity her and yearn to help. You can won- der why her natural guardians, her mother and father and teacher, have not looked after her more y “Youth outlaws the chaperone to- day,” I pointed out. that once Indispensabl given a new lease of life sn't way, should be We were in the reception room of Mrs. Harriman's unusually cherming and individual town house, at No. 142 th Street, talking about girls, or Mrs, Harriman, a leader n New York's social world for years; and one cf Its great beauties, Is now a leader of American girlhood. As President of 140,000 Camp Fire Girls, she h heen working and. making plans thelr behalf all this week, at I'm sure, ery time she goes out on th nswered Mrs. Har- riman, sensibly, gut 1 do. think | there should be somebody to look after these boy-and-girl dances. The chap- erone need not be an elderly person, but there ought to be at least two or three young married couples at the dances, so that, in any little embar- rassing situation, a girl would have some poised, experienced woman to whom she might appeal, These mod- ennual conference of Guardians, now ern Aances sometimes are provocative 1 at the Russell Sage Foun-|f embarrassing situations! ‘cutting-in’ that they all love—it’s aw- {fully hard on a girl who is not as re | popular as the others. ‘There ought to “What do you think of the girl of) be somebody at the dance to whom Mrs. Harriman chin on one smooth in the in dation. I asked, deltea to-day he and turned considering eyes on reste palm me. More jseen in New Jor the F CLOSIN OF any woman I have she 1s one’s iden ench Marquise In the old} Her smile, her delicate | even the prematurely than York, days: i brows, court hair that looks as if It were {, suggest irresistibly “I'ancien |regime." Only the cunning folds of c her violet gee—it was 9.30 in the morning when I called by appoint- ment—were stamped with the modern- lity of its clever designer. | | “Do you wholly approve of the { yirl?’” L added, as Mrs. Har- riman did not answer once, “If | ipprove, What are your objec: | Sh started to speak, hesitated, nervous gesture with her | fingers. Then it came} mad shapely W at Sixth Avenue, the upprove modern girl's} free ud Mrs, Oliver Harrlman “1 think she has too much of it. 1 think thig restless, fverish world In| M wl living Is running away | the first time, ready greatly reduc have been made. These real Tue SUCCESS of our December re- ductions, justifies the continuance of our lower scale of prices. children. Comparison ¢f Values Invited ’ E. M.GATTLE& CO, Platinumsmiths + Jewelers 630 FIFTH AVENUE Oppostie St, Pasrich’s Cathedral “Do you think | to} hoe economies equally to shoes for men, she can turn, when she wishes, in- stead of having to cling to a boy.” “What about the increase in drink- ing and smoking among young girls, of which we hear so much?" Pasked. Mrs. Harriman raised protesting brows. ’ “To me it seoms utter she sighed. Then she which may interest followers—from believe to be ‘fashionable follle “IT have never smoked a cigarette," she said simply “L don’t like te think of young girls doing It, although y regrettable,” ided something our fond young afar—of what they believe many of them take it up Just as a bit of a spr And to drinking—where young people got the stuff I don't know, unless frota their elders,’ she interpolated rue fully, her lower lip caught between her teeth, eyebrows and shoulers itt ing to express something between deprecation and disdain, “But th get it and, of course, since Prohibi- |? tion It has the favor of all forbidaen | $o some of them have a bit of a lly speaking,” 1 ob- isn't ‘spree’ the best of youth's present name for man performance: “I think so,” nodded Mrs. Harrt man, “I don't think so much about the eriticisms of the modern guts} clothes, since clothes are ruled nvention and change so frequently What shocks us to-day will be ou of style and forgotten by to-morrow. “But"— Again « pause, while | the delicate brows drew together in « {frown and the hands sped tightly {and then fell apart, where they lay jagainst folds of violet silk. “L suppose Iam old. fashioned |admitted, in a quick rush, “but jnot like the things young people jin the theatre, the things they the things they talk nbout! It se there is ther too much ther y go to that make even me feel em- assed, and buy these novels uc ce with subjects which they are too young fully to comprehend, and then they get together and talk everything over, It seems to me quite undesir- able—and unnec che Ido “Restaurant hfe furtunute effect on you | was brought up, In the social life centred in did-our entertaining restaurant, where the , She sees ways of dr which are not our Ww the 1 goe | behavior New York and but irlish G DAYS THE JANUARY SALE oF Alexander Shoes corner 19th Street ANY LINES have been reduced for while on others, al- ed, more drastic cuts apply women and Sale prices range as follows: Women’s Boots, $5 to $9.80 Women’s Low Shoes, $4.85 to $9.85 Men's Shoes, $5 to $10.85 , and are from today’s repk: 10% to 30% less than cement cost by \ these “1 do not tike the things youu People see in the theatre and Tead, and talk about.” “Restaurant life has an unfor- tunate effect_on young girls, ‘They tmitate what Is not girlish.” which she is quick to imitate. So much of this youthful ‘spree’ is sheer imitation of youth's elders, “And ever so many of the girls— boys, as well—have too much money. It gives them a chance to commit follies. As somebody sald the other day at the Camp Fire Conference, the parents who givesa boy an expensive automobile and allow him to drive it fare committing an offense against the community and almost inviting him ty get Into trouble. Of course, many girls and boys with less money {mi- tate so far as they can the lives of the well to do. “There much 1 is tl toc much freedom, ssness—and = T too Mrs. Harriman summed up her case Then, with her lovely, warm smile, she added her “recommendation to mercy:" “The remedy, it seems to ine, is in more guardianship and more comradeship from the older women i eernnet teach youth to seo all the beautiful things in life, all that ts worth while to know and to do. Tan't it a pity to let youth miss so much? M. strongly | disapprove of the drinking and smok- | ADISON AVENUE « DENIES FILM STAR WORE NO STOCKINGS Detective on Stand for Reine Davies—Venlict Expected To- Day in Her $500,000 Suit. Counsel the $500.000 sult brought by Reine Davies, stage | in damage and screen star, against the Briar- cliff Lodge and Sime Silverman for injuries she received bile Adent their uttal at noon in an automo- 1919, finished to-day, Jua- in June, re! tice Finch ordered u recess unt!! one o'clock after which the lawyers be- gan summing up. The case will go to the jury late this afternon and | {t 1s expected Justice inch will order a sealed verdict. In refutation of an allegation by Herbert C. Smyth of counsel for the Briarcliff Lodge that Miss Davies had been carried into the Westchester Resse ae CITT rt tee = on eo oO te x Ok Oe oO “There is too much freedo and I disapprove of the drinking and smoking.” Avenue Police Station following an nectdent when her automobile col- lided with a troiley, and was without shoes and stockings, Detective Frank J. Piekett of the 53d Precinct ap» peared In court to-day and denied thé allegation, Hoe said Miss Davies had been Iald on a table, #iffering front a knee and scalp wound, and that a police matron had removed the stocking ’ Brightens up the darkest day. Simply cannot ever freeze. Serve it almost any way— Creamy, zestful— New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper FIRTH. 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