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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1922. FORTY FAMILIES TRAPPED BY FIRE; 2 DIE; MANY HURT Blaze onCJround Floor Quick ly Cut Off Only Stairway in Wooden Tenement. Society Women Will Help Trade Union Girls to Home of Own; Craving as Old as Eve, Mrs. Willard Straight Asserts ncrAiiunr- ULI HULI Ul ipUUU tT " r J m Partv of Wealthy South Ainer-41 icans Detained on Their Arrival Here. MILLIONAIRE S SON HELD ON ISLAND IN RUSH TO FIRE ESCAPES. There Victims and Rescuers Are Scorched as the Flames Burst From Windows. Firemen and policemen after sev eral hours' search early to-.day be lieved only two lives wero lost In tho blaze that swept through the threo wooden tenements housing forty fam ilies on Atlantic Avenue, near 111th Street, Richmond Hills, Queens, last tolght. The dead are Mrs. Cunningham, Blxty-flve years old, and her grand daughter, Edith Kronenberg, nine years old. Tho police list of injured Include Berlna Camilla, twenty-three; Albert Itjen, & mechanic, cf No. 2563 Atlantic Avenue; Mrs. Charles Dean and her daughters, Kazel, twelve, and Doro thy, thirteen; Mrs, Mary Dllmalno nnd her two sons, Louis, two, and Frank, four; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kusch, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fitch and lier daughter Marlon, twelve. All these were taken to tho Mary Immaculate and the Jamaica Hospi tals. Firemen Mark Jancsko of Engine Company No. 292, John Scherer of Engine Company No. 294, Ike Shaw of Hook and Ladder Company No. 143 and Frank Ross, driver for Battalion ChlaC Moore, were burned about the face and hands making rcsoues. Many persons wero carried from the During buildings by policemen, firemen and civilians. Borne of them were painfully hurt, but not listed by the police. It was believed at first that many lives had been lost. Four alarms wero sounded, bringing Act lng Chlcif "Smoky Joe" Martin and Fire Commissioner Drennan. Most of the tenants were forced to relyon the fire-escapes, as the flames npread through tho shops on the street floor and destroyed the stairways be fore the tenants could get out. in a tfew minutes tho fire-escapes also .were swept toy flames bursting from lhe -windows of the wooden structure When the first firemen arrived the panic-stricken tenants were milling on the Are escapes and screaming for help. Policemen shouted encourage mcnt and prevented several of the women from Jumping. Extension ladders were thrown agnlnat the front of the buildings and noon tho firemen and police were liandlng down the nlmost maddened tenants. Some of tho women fainted. their hands clenching the ladder rungs, and it was with difficulty their rescue was accomplished. Flames shot from nil windows ns the last were saved, and the flro es capes became red hot. Fireman Mark Janeska scurried up tho first ladder placed against the building and climbed to the top floor, where Miss Serlna Camilla, twenty three, had fainted on tho flro escape. Tho fireman carried her to the street. ' Policemen and firemen wero sent up and, down the laddeis and finally gill thoso who wero within sight were talcn down from the flro escapes, llrs. Cunningham and the Kronen bei'ff girl, her grandchild, were found dead In a third floor hallway just be fore tho whole- placo became a mass of flames. po far as can bo ascertained tho flro was discovered in the butcher shop at: No. 11,317. Between that and tho tailor store at No. 11,319 Is the en trance to the apartments above. Be tvvcen these stores was tho only stair way. 4 YEARS IN SING SING FOR $3,000 BOND THEFT Will Face Another Chitrgr on Itr leniir Slnj-er Sentenced. Horry Schmlsel, twenty-three, of No, 213 East Klngsbrldge Road, was sent to King Sing for from two to four earj to-day by Judge Uosalsky. Schmlsel out on a suspended sentence for stealing tonds worm JJ.000 from a Wall Strep jneiaenger, stole J 1 0.000 worth of bond on March 30 and was caught after chase down twenty fllRhta of stairs in the Bankers' Trust Building. 11m sen tehee was on the old charge. Ho pleaded guilty to the newer crime and will be sentenced on Friday for that. Peter J. Masterson, twenty-four. Nb. 57 East 130th Street pleaded guilty tol manslaughter in the sccapid degree bfore judge Mcintyre to-tiay and wa sent to tho Penitentiary for three years, :fla killed John Clark, a Negro, with liaseball bat In a free-for-all flfiht over (, K gome In May of last year. COP STOPS RUNAWAY , BY SPECTACULAR LEAP Cnnnlnghiira lnjnreil lint tlrfunrx Mrdlcnl Attentlnn. Jumping upon the running board of a automobile, ratrolman Ilitimet Cunning ham In Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day followed a runaway horue attached to laundry wagon and leaped to the ant mars head, stopping It. Cunningham's left hand, knee and leg wefe1 bruised, but ho refused medical nwltanco and went .o hlin home. No 4705 Fourth Avenue. The policeman wa iff duty at the time. He Is attached t he West 47th street station. X. Y SIII1' II1SA1H.KI AT Cll, BOSTON, May 1- An S O H Inter ceDtccf here to-day said that the steam hp William A. McKenney was totally disabled on (jape fliay, jv. j., with a broktn tail shaft. Sho is bound from New! York for Pacific ports. Th l'.jMvfii.lc Tlmrlnw. z III nillf'M iiwmv wns rJ.Vul . I h,.. In Ynrfnll, m mm m m m m mm mm m m m 4 iwti m-m m m m m m) m) m m m m m m m. m m Tlie ' lore of ftone the deslro fqr a spot essentially one's own, "No uopoly forts! N Inborn In nil women." clclr Toilers in Shop Think Most About Nest Mrs. Willard Straight Telling ot the Need ot Society Working Women for Club Comforts. How It "We Are Ally By Gabrielle Elliot. VE IN HKll GARDEN KNEW And It has gone down attribute of tho feminine for a spot essentially one's own, to which only friends may bo ad mitted, is Inborn in all women-folk, since our llrst ancestress swept out tho fallen leaves and warned Adam not, on any account, to muss the overhanging branches as he came into the cosy foiest nook which Eve had elected to call 'home.' " . Thus Mrs. Willard D. Straight, who, in her own beautiful home on upper Fifth Avenue, and In the midst of her liusy life as Its mistress and tho mother of two active little boys and one girl, has yet. found time to think much of the problems which other women and girls must moot in trying to nchleve their natural desire for what sho calls "home-happiness." The woman In industry has no stancher friend than Mrs. Straight, who, as Dorothy Whit ney, first began to interest her self In soclul problems, and who has since devoted a large patt of her thne to co-operating with the workers In their efforts to better their conditions. Just now, "May Day," the special occasion which labor at home and abroad considers Its particular "holiday," finds Mrs. Straight heart and soul in a campaign of the Women's Trade Union League to secure and eciulp a building which working girls and women can use as their moro fortunate slslcis do the exclusive uptown clubs. "Of course they want their own home, just as every woman does," exclaimed Mrs. Straight. "And naturally they begin to think about It most urgently in the sprln?. May Day may no asso ciated in some minds - th tlots, parades and street-corner speech es, but it ulso means spring-time and the spring makes every woman 'home-sick,' to uso tho word In the tense of lons'ng for a home. ' "The working girl Isn't a bit different from the professional woman, or the society woman, or tho farm woman, or the old-fashioned woman (If there really ever wero such a petson!) Bhe wants her own home, and slnco life has become so complex, and modern industry leaves scant tlmo or means for individual homes, thousands ot girls and women In Now York have mado up their minds to havo a community home, a common centre which will bring to all ot them a little ot what is suggested when moro fortunate women say 'home.' "No masculine monopoly of club comrorts! Women In so ciety raised that cry somo time since, when they founded, In spite ot criticism and derision, the women's clubs which are now so successful, Soclul freedom is taken a a matter of course by women of Independent means, who have never stopped to think what It would bo to have literally no placo which you might call your own. There aro almost 100,000 working women in Now York without tho opportunity to satisfy that natural longing. They will havo the opportunity soon." Mrs. Straight is a flnu believer "There are of clubcom- 100,000 working Women In so- en In -'cw York raised that cry." out opportunity." and House in the Spring All Their Own masculine mo- "Eve in Her Garden Knew It and It Has Gone Down Through the Ages Since." "Of Course They Want Their Own Home Just as Every Woman Does." "The Working Girl Isn't a Bit Different From the Professional Woman or the Woman." "We Are Not Patronizing the Girls or Imposing Upon Them Our Ideas of Should Be Run." What Are Called Allies and an Stands Shoulder to Shoulder With the Other Half of the Alliance." IT! through the ages Blnce, a special sex. The love of home, the desire In trade unionism for women, arid lias identified herself closely with the work of Miss Hose Schneider man, founder of the New York branch of the Women's Trade Union League, In which women of tlip different unions como to gether to discuss common prob lems and to co-operate in their various activities. The new build ing will also be a headquarters for this organization, now in cramped' ottlee space at So. 31 Union Squat e. "Please icmember that-In try ing to help the league get this house, we non- wage-earning women ate not 'patronizing' the girls or imposing on them our Ideas of how their centre should be run once It is statted," said Mrs. Straight, earnestly. "We ate what Is called 'allies' nnd an ally stands shoulder to shoulder with tho other half of the alli ance. "Just what Is an ally? 'A man or woman of any class not a worker In any organized trade who subscribes to the following league platform: Organization for all workers Into trade unions, equal pay for equal work, eight hour day, a living wage and full citizenship for women." "That's the technical definition, hut when you apply it, It comes down to simply being a real friend nnd our friends . don't patronize us, for wo won't stand It from them! "So wo "aro helping these girls get a iiome, nnd, after that hands off! It Isn't patronage to endow a college building, Is it, or does it give one the right to dictate what courses the students shall take? No, sir! We know the spirit of tho workers, their fierce lndependetico and their pride in what la their own. After tho hotiso Is provided, they may be trusted to maintain It." Mrs. Straight paused a moment and smiled. "After all." she said, "the new woman Is the oldest. There was a time when the woman In indus try was an anomaly. People be lieved sho ought not to bo there and, with ostrich logic, tried to keep her out by ignoring her. A ghastly waste ot human power, nerve force nnd life ifelf result ed. Then tho fact that often women must work was reluctant ly accepted; but let them bo ladylike about it. Tho trade union woman was tho next ob ject of the system of first Ignor ing, then fighting and finally ac cepting as a natural evolution. "But, whether she's a house wife (whom haughty census takers classify as without occu pation, never having been one), or a factory girl, sho'i first of all a woman, with tho tamo age-old, prlmltlvo lovo of a home. It's a far cry from Eve's simple forest housekeeping to tho buzzing ac tivity of a modern woman's club with its hundreds, often thous ands, of members, but tho same Instinct Is there, and it simply must out, "Enough to cat, lime to rest, nnd beyond these, home-happl-ness nnd social treedom that Is every woman's lieht. This club nlniosl "So wn nre -helping worn these girls pet a home, with' and, after that hands off." BUILDS FORTUNE ON HIS 'DOLE' FOR UNEMPLOYMENT Swiss "Ponzi" Turns His Francs Into Marks and Saves Tidy Sum Each Day.' KARLSRUHE, May 1. How to build up a fortune on an unemployment "dolo" is told by a Swiss workman who lives at Constance, which Is on the Swiss side ot the lake of that name, although the town itself belongs to Baden. lie draws the dole, 10 Swiss francs a day; turns It into about BOO German marks, spends 100 marks on food and lodging, nnd saves a clear BOO marks a day. He has Just bought a house for 40,000 marks. SECOND TRIAL SAVES HIM FROM ISLAND TERM llroiikl'n Mnn Freed After Ilelnir Sentrnceil on Illnortlerlj- dinner. Magistrate Brown, In the Fifth Ave nue Court. Brooklyn, to-day dismissed a charge of .disorderly conduct against Max Wels, 323 Soutn Tinru street, Brooklyn, who was arrested Jan. 2t by dpterth-es of the Fourth Avenue Sta tion on the Bush Terminal Pier at the inn- nf tlat Htreet. Phnrles Hprljac, of St. Louis, who w.i nbout to take ship for Czccho Slovakia, t-ald said ho felt Wels's hand ii i.u -wallet Docket. When arraigned hefore Magistrate O'Xeili at the time, Wei. nsked for an adjournment, to on tain counsel. Magistrate. O'Neill denied his request, and on Henjac 3 testi mony sentenced Wels to six months on lilackwell's Island, Theio the man obtained counsel and appealed the case to County Judge J. Gtatton MacMahon. who, on April 3, ordered a new trial In the Magistrate's I'ouri. n enjac had sailed and oould not be produced as a witness lo-aay. so me chsb -was dismissed. AGED EDITOR ATTACKED WHILE IN BARBER CHAIR (irorur White l'uiieheU, t'onlrni-tnr llrlil, In Jrrirr niri-tlon How. First blood was drawn in the Hart- man recall election iikiu ai L.onc Branch to-day, when George While, agpil editor of the Long Bniach Press was hit In the face, according to sev eial v.-itnesse.M, as lie sat In a barber's cl.alr. Michael Viiaeola, contract gar- gabe collector, was arrested and held in J100 ball for the Grand Jury by Re corder l.vo J. Warwick, on a charge of assault and battery. According to White and several wit nesses, he was being snaveii wnrn ii- acola, an ex-soldier, thirty-live, warned him not to put Vlrac-ola"s name In his newspaper and then, when White re plied "I do not even know you, move 1,1s fist Into White's face. White Is ii supporter of Samuel llart- nian, i'uikH and i-roperiy c jiihims- sloiu-r, subject of the special tecau election to-morrow. 4 FARMER CALLERS WERE DRY AGENTS Milllvnii WH Foolr.il nnu - Tlirm llooe, Tliey Allt'Kr. John J. Sullivan, who operates a sa loon In ltiverhead. I.. I., discussed ag riculture in general nnu tne corn crop in particular with four very Intelligent farmers and drove UP In a farm wagon yerterday. Then, according to tne farmers, wlicn tney uskcu lur a uiiim, he sold them whiskey ot seventy-five cents a (lush. The farmers wero Just make-believe. They really weie dry agents with "Izzy Klnsteln make tips. They served Miiiuvan wun a paper. He said: "I'll be dog-goncd!" house will bring to many women, not a privilege, but a right a lw.no ot their own." The building, which clubwom en experienced In problems of lo cation and management ore searching out for the Trade Union League, will bo located somcwhero between 23d and 42d Streets, Mrs. Straight said, and Is to be a central meeting place and headquarters for girls In all trades and occupations. It will have a largo assembly hall or au ditorium, as well as smaller rooms for educational classes, union mcotlngs and such activi ties a.s are developed by the wom en themselves. Possibly a cafo terla will be Installed, and there will surely be a comfortable, roomy library and plenty of fire places, low lights, soft cushions and all the other things that give a homey atmosphere. Verily, any modern daughter of Eve might well leel that nt least this would be a llttlo corner ot paradise In a hurried, noisy city whore factories and loft buildings somehow seem fco grcatl) to out number the '.- u s u if ! ',pi( Uvei , "Thnt when the woman In ninst Industry was nn an-omnly." "There wns a time tantly accepted, hot let them be lad) like." Southerner Sets a A Regular Rilz Boudoir, Which Keeps Culinary Marvel Happy Terrapin, Chicken, Fritters, Waffles, C&c, De light Guests, Who Find Secret in Old Mammy's Comfortable Quarters. l.KESHURO, Va., May I. (Copy-i Ight). Aristocratic Loudoun County, Virginia, lays claim to-day to Its first real modern "cook trap." It is on tho country estate ot John Y. llas well, formerly ot Columbus, O., and wns exhibited to a party of Mr. Bas- sell's Columbus friends who stopped off here on a motor trip to New York. The visit was morked by a remark ablo luncheon. Virginia ham, chicken a la Maryland, diamond back terrapin, corn flitters, waffles, peach brandy and honey carried tho visitors, who were no mean epicureans themselves, Into the Klysian fields of the culinary art. Naturally, they marvelled at tho manner in which the food was pro pared and served; marvelled that In these post-slavery days the country roundabout here could boast and keep such a master of the kitchen. "It's the cook trap," explained Mr. Girl, 17, Talks Thug Out ot $4, But Gives Him Jersey City Miss, More Braves Revolver to At Liberty and Ferris Streets, Jer sey City, three blocks from her home, No. 215 Lincoln Street. Miss Cath arine Markstein, seventeen years old, was conftonted at 11 o ciocu last night by a young man who put u re volver to her head and said: "Cilvc me all the money jou have got!" Miss Markbteln said sho was moro angry that lrignieneii; sue oeuoveu the young man was a paitlcularly crude joker. Ho lepcated tho de mand. "Why," said the young woman, you aro not a real robber, aie you?" "What do you think I am, a plumb er; he growied. uome ucross. ' "Seems to me," she said, "you could find somebody more worth They are Good! Buy this Cigarette and Save Money "She's first ot work was relitc nomaii, with the age-old, prjmltT of n home." "Cook Trap " Bassell, with a broad grin. "What In the world?" Tho host anticipated tho expres sion of surprise. "Walt and sec," he commanded. And then when tho luncheon was over he conducted his guests to the trap. As tin Integral patt of a new biick garage, Mr. Uassell has built a bou doir which might have been plucked right out of a Ml- hotel. Tiled bath, lure curtuins, telephone, electric lights with a push button on the wnll to snap them on and off; brnss bod. fine rugs, a dressing table with three mirrors these ato somo of tho accoutrements ot the "coolc trap." "There It is, gentlemen, and it woiks like a charm," nald the host with a proud sweep of tho arm. The old colored mammy now serv ing as cook is positive no one can ever get her out of the "trap" until she dies. Meantime, Mr. HiiH30.ll Ih the only "farmer" In Londoun County with a waiting list of cooks. One of Her Five Angry Than Scared Argue With Footpad. while to hold up than I am. I've only got $3." "Then give It tc me," said the man impatiently. "I nm after money, not talk." "See here," said Miss Markstein. "1 had to work for this monoy and I don't want to give It up." She took five Jl bills from her pocketbook, drew out one of them and handed It to the high wayman, "Now won't that be enough until j;ou find somebody with more money and who doesn't need It so much?" she asked, , The young man put his revolver In his pocket, snatched the dollar out or her hand nnd walked off, grumbling. Then Miss Markstein went home and told her folks and they telephoned the police. Detectives hunted the nclghboiliood for tho rest ot the night, but no trnco of tho highwayman was found, No icpoits wore received of any other tobbcries by him. often women 1U nil u "It's ii far cry from same Etc's simple house- loro keeping to the nctJvlty of n woman's club." Elopements Now Banned in Bill Before Congress Uniform Marrincc anil Divorce Laws Sought In New Measure. WASHINGTON, May I .Hep ie.se it tativn Oeorgc 1 Coild of Michigan, former Mayor of Detroit and for more than ten jearfl a Clicult Court Judge. bus a resolution before the House Ju diciary Commltteo which would give Congress the right through a Consti tutional Amendment to establish uni form laws on marriage and divorce. Codd proposes to follow this meas ure up with u bill which would re quire lovers to wait for a week or ten days after obtaining a license be fore they could wed. He contends his hill would cut down the number of ill-united matches which wind up In the dlvoiee courts. "Romantic marriages," lie callM hasty marriages, He wants to put a strict bun on "midnight senllnien tullty" nnd IWng all marlnigeH out Into the sunlight. His bill would carry u provision that onluy reglsteicd ministers, priests and rabbis could perform a wedding ceremony, tlius putting an end to thrilling flights to obliging Jus tices of the I'eaee. Codd says that his bill is aimed, pri marily, at obtaining uniform dlvorcu laws for tho country. He pointed to the action taken recently at the con ventlon of tlie League of Women Voters In Baltimore, representing mora than seven millions of women, whloh went on recorij us favoring: Health certificates as requirements for marriage; notice of flvo to ten days before marriages; reduction to only four grounds for divorce udul- tery, drunkenness, desertion nnd ex treme ctuelty; mlnlmum-marrlugo nge of eighteen for a git I and twenty-one tor a man, and outlawing of "com mon law" marrluges. (IVIMIIOIIR IIV HAS IX OI'KIOK. William Kclalr, thirty-eight. No. 820 I'ast 17Gth Street, was accidentally overcome by illuminating ga In an of fice nt No. 40 John Street to-day. Walk up, my friends here are quiet; rest and White The all -Ceylon Tea The Blxteen-jeur-old son of Kran. cesco lluertodo, one of tho wealthiest men In Bouth America, Is detulned'at Kills Island to-day In default of a S00 bond. The youngster, Francesco, Jr., t Is deaf and dumb' and before bo sailed -with hla family from Costa Illca 'h bond had been placed with United . States officials to assure his niluilt- , tance licte. Tho Kills Inland ductals havo not received the iwnd or been-"1 Informed of ItM existence. '' While Influential Americans and., Latln-Amcrlcan diplomats aro ma---novcuvrlng with Washington, the father and son, together with another: V son, Atljandro, fifteen, and ,tbe. mother, Anna, nro all detained on tlte Island. They arrived on tho United Krult liner Ulna, which docked to-day at I'ier 15, Kast Hlver. a day hio. e Hcnor Hucrtado nnd his wife ca'rtie ' here to visit nnd "shop" while pW Ing tho two boys In private schools. The bond for Krnnresco Jr., Is to avoid his becoming a public charge althoUgV ll's lather Is a millionaire many tlnves- ' over- i. ! X terrific storm off Cape Hatteros..- Thursday Is chiefly responsible for tho delay of the Ulua. Kor hours'irt "I a time, waves broke over tho navlguT--' lng bridge of tho ship. ... 1'elloWx passengers consider thoy havo saved tho life of Dr. Sola Polp, onti of the Peruvian delegates to" the Tacna-Arlca boundary dispute in. wosmngton. nr. t'oio ueclared he was going to wear his new straw Jiat to a ball game to-day but he was warned against It. He then offered to change to a silk hat, but finally was prevailed upon to shun both. SUMMER GIRL'S ,l RAIMENT TO BE t' RIOT OF COLORS. She Will Be Visible a Mile Away, Says Authority on Dress. ; "A dozen rainbows mote or " less, will have nothing on the American summer girl," says tho Dry Goods Economist. "It is now definitely settled that she will bo visible a mllo away, , . from a given point of observa tion. "Kach of the primary colon, red, yellow and blue, and the k secondaries, green, orange and' violet, representing tho strong est hues possible to dye, will " bo a leader. Not Infrequently they will be worn with white. , which in .many cases serves to . intensify, by striking contrast, any one of tho foregoing favor ites." Hit ctr 'ftose S3 t 1