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Cwi?osiad by !_?___ Hopkins Adairu?.
This department is devoted to separating the eheep of
advertising from the goats?and hanging a bell on the goats.
It deal? with a very serious topic in a way that ia not too aerioua.
Its honest endeavor will be to answer with fairness, either in
print or, where that ia inexpedient, by private letter, all fair
questions about advertisement?, while reserving the right to plead
ignorance when that is the right answer. It ??It? nothing for its
services except the confidence of its correapondents in giving
their names and addresses, a confidence which will never be vio?
lated. Plea?? state clearly whether you prefer to have your name
withheld from answers printed here. No unaigned communicationa
will be read. Address: The Ad-Viaor. The Tribune, New York.
On the editorial page of to-day's Tribune r?? published
a letter from the Berlin Labora'cry, too long fur pub?
lication rn this department, defending their product,
Intesti-Feryvm.
According to the Berlin Laboratory's letter to The Tribune, "w do
rot claim that our tablets have a direct food effect." According to the
Berlin Laboratory's printed advertisements, Intesti-Ferm?n is "a helpful
food in concentrated form."
Again: "Our literature and advertisements assert that Intesti-Fcr
min is not a medicine in the sense that a drug is a medicine, and that
L-ttesti-Fermin contains no drugs." Intesti-Fermin is guaranteed under
the national food and drugs act. If it is neither a food nor a ?hug, why
guarantee it as such?
The letter lays stress upon the action of the tablet to arrest putrefac?
tion in the intestinal tract, and argues from this that its glorious claims
as a promoter of physical and mental health and an aid to high efficiency
nre justified. The advertising goes further. It bears the inspiring rres
:-igc that Intesti-Fernv.n will "correct nervous exhaustion and irritability,
insomnia, headache, pain in the back, irregular heart action, vertigo, dis?
orders of vision, dyspepsia and loss of memory, disturbance of the liver,
digestive organs and nervous system, loss of vitality and the serious af?
flictions that follow approaching old age." If it will do all this, it is ob?
viously not a food, nor a drug, but a miracle. But why omit from the
magic list falling hair and writer's cramp?
As to the bald attempt to capitalize the name of a famous medical
rner.tist for private profit against his protests, the legal status of the
procedure is still to be determined. Its ethical aspect requires no comment.
I des-.re to call your attention to a suit of clothe* from Spero
Brothers. Nassau Street, N. Y. City.
Toward the end of December, 1914. I ordered a marie-to-order suit
of this firm. At the time that I selected the material I was informed
?hat it was durable, of fjooii value, etc.
During the next few months 1 wore the suit infrequently and soon
noticed that the trousers were wearing badly. I called at Mesan. Spero
Brothers, and thev made some excuse about the softness of the material,
e'r They finally offered to re-seat the trousers. This they did, using
material different from that in the suit Nevertheless I ?pain wore the
? a few limes, but soo:. noticed that the trouscr? weie ..gain wearing
?.long ?he front part of the legs. I again usited Spero
Brothers, but this time they refused to do anything to make good the poor
rraterial, saying *hat they cculd not foresee that the goods would wear so
y The suit is of no use to me now, and its value is and always was
practically nil.
However, who is the loser, myself?once burnt, twice ?hv or Spero
Brothers, who have lost a customer through misrepresentations and unfair
dealing" JEROME A. LEDERMAN,
Part of Mr. Lederman's suit is of good cloth. That part il the patch
"Unfortunately, it matches the rest of the suit so ill, both ii quality and
re.-ism, as to recall forcibly the limerick:
' \ genial old Chief of Foli?e
For a joke once arrested his niece
! or patching bis parts
With a qui'* of l.er aunt's.
made the breeches of piece "
The suit itself is of shoddy material and is worth very little so far
as wearing qualities are concerned. In paying in the neighborhood of
$20.00 for it the purchaser was badly "stung" from the first. To ansve.*
his question, the Ad-Visor's guess is that, in the long run, the Spero
concern is the loser. Merchandise like that suit is its own best and worst
advertisement?
In connection with the er.clo?ed, I herewith request return of money
per agreement on your editorial pace. Affidavit? furnished on request
rther proof is necessary. Investigation will easily convince you.
End ..'.(I an article from your pen would do the most ,
innual irritation. YV. s. FITZ RANDOLPH.
Two hundred and nine passengers on the steamer Robert Fulton, of
the Hudson River Day Line, who had paid $2.00 each to see the intercolle?
giate boat races at Poughkeepsie, and had seen practically nothing of
the races, joined with Mr. Fit/. Randolph in a protest to the steamship
Company, The company has adjusted complaints as far as possible, ?nd
meantime The Tribune, having returned Mr. Fit/. Randolph's two dollars,
has followed up the matter to an interesting conclusion. The Ron?rt
Fulton arrived in due time at the scene of the races and took up i fa?
vorable position. Shortly before the races started the wind changed, und
i- shifting her anchorage to avoid fouling other boats as she swung she
lacked into the course, whereupon the U. S. Coast Guard patrol - p
proached and gave her ten minutes to get back into the line. Accord?
ing to testimony, in less than ten minutes the Fulton was put under ar?
rest and banished, thereby punishing not only some 2,000 innocent pas?
sengers, but also an innocent boat which attempted to meet an emergency
in the be.-t possible manner. This was subsequently shown in the findings
cf the government investigation, which dismissed the charges against the
Fulton and, in essence, found the patrol officer unreasonable in his de?
mands and ignorant of the requirements of his position. The officer in
charge of the patrol was Captain (.. S. Carden; the boarding officer who
I laced ihe Fulton under arrest was Acting Carpenter K. S. McCann. It
.?terns regrettable that in a matter affecting the enjoyment of ten** of
thousands O? Americans the government should fail to select men of
competence and judgment for the responsible positions of management.
According to the verdict of the official court, the Hudson River Day Line,
as well as its passenger.-, were the victims of an unfortunate abuse of
authority. As a corollary, which might conceivably throw light upon cur
mismanaged regattas, why should an acting carpenter act in quite another
capacity from carpentry on the day of the intercollegiate boat race?
Yesterday I started for the Thirty-fourth Street store of Blank _
to buy a couple of shirts On the way I passed window after window
of shirts undergoing ".-pcrinl sales" and marked vsrioosly from 10.49 to
$1.?'.?. At Blanks 1 found mountains of shut-; Osaa had been piled upon
Pelion. It seemed immoral that so many shirts should be gathered to?
gether in one place.
All seemed to be marked down from their former prices. Four dollar
and a half shut- were go ng ?OI 18.80 Three dollar and ? half ones
were com?: at 82.65, etc. I said to the clerk: "Where are your regular
88.00 shir- "Right over here, now selling at $1.30 " he answi-ied.
"Are all the shirts in the store included in this 'sale'.'" 1 a.-ked. Ile
?an! "Ye?." 1 shook my head. "1 am skeptical of thcr-c sales." I said.
He said 1 could not have tried Blank's sales before. I told him I had
not and left.
\-er fruitless search for a store not having a "sale" of shirts I
bought two Silk one. at Dash ?V Co.'s. Thev were represented us selling
normally at 83 50. 1 paid |
You have filled in? with a holy skepticism of all sales, Mr Ad*ms.
Flease tell nu- when a sale, especially of sh rl
W D. I.
Alas and alack! Hert- from the mouth of a friend is confirmation of
the accusation.- of the enemy. The Tribune, our opponents have been de?
claring, :n undertaking to criticise bad advertising and merchandising,
would bring the good M ?roll as the bad into suspicion. In this case the
Worst has happened. We have sown the seeds of skepticism and thev hav<
Snrouted. How to 'indo the work? How to eradicate the un faith thus im?
planted in W. D. I..'- mind? As it happens, the first sale which he at?
tended is a season .! fixture, the shirts being marked down to make room
for newer designs, and it is thoroughly reliable. The second, where h?
bought, is also I standard sale. In neither of them would he need tj
fear unfair treatment And in either, as he might have noted had he
i?a?? the advertising columna O? The Tribune, he was amply protected.
r-ince they are Tribune advertisers and the purchaser, if dissatisfied, can
always get his money back from The Tribune. In case W. J). L.'pur-.
chases shirts oi other goods from Stores not thus guaranteed. I suggest
tie following test of reliability: Ask for a specification on the sale-slip
that the art ule ii perfect and u.- represented in material and character;
and that money will be refunde?! if it falls short ?if the representation upon
which it was sold. No swindling concern can afford to put itself on rec?
ord to this effect. No honorable concern can afford not to.
I am setnli g yo i herewith lbs booklet issued by Nature's Remedy
Company, of Boaton, Masa. Any i-formation that you can give me a
the merits of this purooited -ure for rheumatism will be verv much
swreelated ? r mii.i.n'kk
"Resto," sold by the Nature's Remedy Company, of Boston, as an in?
fallible cure for rheumatism, is a delugion and a snare.
SUNDAY CROWD
SEES WOMAN
KILLED BY 'BUS
Vehicle Runs Her Down in
Broadway as She Steps
from Behind a Taxi.
RIDOEWOOD AUTOIST
DIES AFTER ACCIDENT
Kindly Chauffeur Gives Man a
Ride Dashes Away When
Swerve Throws Guest.
During the mid-afternoon traffic on
? Broadway yesterday a well dressed
woman stepped from behind a taxicab
at Sixty-seventh Street, directly into
the path of a 'bus. She svas knocked
down and instantly killed. Hundred?
of Sunday afternoon strollers saw the
disaster. Policemen and Michael Egan,
chauffeur of the 'bus, had trouble keep?
ing back the crowd while they dragged
the woman from beneath the wheels.
She was carefully and painstakingly
dressed in a light white gown and a
black velvet hat. Her height was 6
feet 2 inches and she weighed about
120 pounds. Police who are working
to establish her identity think -he was
about forty-five years old.
Joseph R. Brackett, twenty-three
years old, well known in Ringewood,
N. J., society, died after hi? automobile
turned over near Allendale, N J.. yes?
terday. The young man ?is ??one irt
his car, and no one saw ?he accident.
Richard Schuatt. of Ridgewood, an em?
ploye of Brackett's fatner, found the
machine bottom up at the side of the
road. Its driver was lying twenty feet
away. He died a few hours later in the
Paterson Hospital.
There is a steep grade on the Allen
dale road at this point. It is believed
that Brackett went down this at high
speed and lost control of his car on
the curve below. The young man was
a lieutenant of the 5th Regiment, N. G.
N. J., and a member of the Ridgewood
Country Club.
A motorcyclist riding on the wrong
side of Twentieth Street and a taxicab
chauffeur driving on the wrong ?ide of
Third Avenue collided at the cerner
last night. Both machines were badlv
damaged, and A. Alleda. the motor
eyclist, was cut about the f3c-, Will?
iam Braudgun. of ISO West Thirty
first Street, the chauffeur, was unin?
jured. Both were arrested on the
charge of violating traffic regulation?.
Elizabeth Adams, twenty-three years
old. of 115 Washington Place, was in?
jured near Springfield. Long Island. '
yesterday, when the car in which she
was riding with Patrick Murray, of 113
East Fifty-third Street, collided with a
machine driven by Charles Surtez. of
160 Glen Street. Brooklyn. The young
woman was taken to the Jamaica Hos?
pital suffering from a fractured knee,
bruises and shock. No one else was
hurt, although both machines were
wrecked.
Four men in an automobile ese.ined
serious injury yesterday when their
machine turned upside down near New- j
ton, N. J. The steering gear broke
while the car was making a fair rate of
?peed It skidded and turned over,
throwing all of its passengers out.
Roddy Walker, the chauffeur, was
badly cut about the head, and was
talen to his home, in Newton, The
Other three were only shaken up.
Patrick Flanagan, of 184 East Nine?
ty-sixth Street, was riding on the
ffont seat with -the chauffeur of a
taxicab on 120th Street yesterday,
when the car swerved to avoid running
down a child. Flanagan was thrown
to the street, landing on his head.
The chauffeur continued on his way.
After a deep -calp wound on the man's
head had been dressed, Fbinagan told
the police that he knew the driver of
the car only by sight.
Thrown twenty feet by an automo
bila at Fourth Avenue and Eighteenth
Street last night. Miss Catherine Os
borne, a pupil nurse at the Lying-in
Hospital, was taken to the hospital
with a possible fractured skull. Miss
Sidred Gorgensen, another nurse, who
\?as ssith Miss Osborne, ssas not injured.
Isidor Goodman, of 405 Fifth Street,
driver of the car, was arrested for fe?
lonious- assault. He declared the
\oung woman stepped into the path of
the rar. Miss '?sborne's home is in
Montreal, Canada.
Returning from a'wedding at Chad
N. J., to Manasquan, N. J., last
night, five women and three men svere
flunr* into a ditch, in which gasolene,
ignited by the headlight of their
wrecked automobile, was blazing. Will?
iam Carmen, owner of the car. was
driving. Between Point Pleasant and
Bay Head he skirted the di'ch too
closely, and the machine went over the
bank. The men pulled the women to
safety, bul not before t.ne of them had
received painful burns on the arm and
the dresse? of two others had teen set
afire,
Numerous other motor accidents oc?
curred in and near the city yesterday.
In most easel the victims were only
slightly injured.
CONEY CABARETS
UNDER GAG RULE
Actors May Not Talk to Friends
on Floor?Four Entertain?
ers to Sue Police.
Not content with compelling Coney'
Island cabaret lingeri to choose hymn?
like offering.-, the Godley squad of the
Police Department, now trying to
purify Coney, has ordered entertainers,
not to talk with friends in the place
where the entertainer is engaged.
Three week.-, ago Acting Police Com
missioner Godlav went to Coney Island
and was shocked. Immediately he
i a man :n each cabaret show. In?
spector Murphy, in charge of the
Island, ? .me busy.
The result was a personal investiga?
tion of every entertainer. His home
?sere gone over, and
then I aspect oi Murphy ?aid some must
go. Coney lilind must not be shocked
er.-.
M Oit of the managers agreed to the
police e?ii?-t when it was made
that refusal tc comply meant a uni?
formed man in front of the place and a
enforcement of the excise law,
But all ?I n -- well for the police. In
one place th.- officials made serious
charges againsi four .men. who are pre?
paring suits against Godley and Mur?
phy The Major representing the city,
will probably be made a co-def?
The men will charge defamation of
character, resulting in the loss of their
positions. The owners of this place are
klae contemplating action, saying they
bave been discriminated against.
Col. Roosevelt, Father of Bear Mountain Park,
Hailed on First Visit by 'Teddy! Quick, Teddy!'
Colonel Theodor? Roosevelt, as cuest of George W. I'crkins,
inspecting Palisades
IQfMlaf Photo
preeted by pleasure seekers at Y. M. C. A. camp while
Interstate Park.
8???lee. )
With Mr. Perkins and Thei
Families He Marvels a
Inn and Lake, Surprise:
Girl Campers, Poses anc
Has Bully Time.
Colonel Theodore P.oosevclf, goini
j the rounds o Pausad Interstate Taris
which as Governor, he founded tifteer
years ago, was greeted by thousand
of pleasure-seekers yesterday. He hac
never seen the place befor
While he was accompanied by Georg?
W. Perkins, the man behind the Bui
Moose party, the mcetm?.' had no polit i
1 cal signi .canee. Mr. Perkins, who i?
'president o-* th ? commission and ha?
been ?in Ro It first org nized it
wanted to r.how the Colonel ?ust what
has been accomplished with the $?v
000,000 set aside for the extensive park
system.
There was but one suggestion of poli?
tics on the entire trip. That was when
the Colonel posed for a young woman
who wanted to snap his photograph at
Bear Mountain dock.
"You know, I starte.l this park fifteen
years ago," r_id the Colonel, smiling.
Her escort shouted back: "Going to
start something in 1?U6, too. Colonel?"
The ex-President laughed, and, hopping
into Mr. Perkins's automobile, was
whisked away from the inquisitive
stranger.
The Colonel, when he reached Mr.
Perkins's home, after covering seventy?
five miles by automobile and motor
boat, spoke of the beauty of the park
and bestowed lots of praise on the com?
missioners who have developed it. with?
out receiving one cent for their trouble.
The inspection party, which travelled
in three automobiles comprised Mr. and
Mrs Perkins, Colonel and Mra. Roose
vclt, their daughter, Mrs Richard Der?
by; Quentin Roosevelt, Miss I'orothy
Perkins, George Perkins, jr., and Mr.
and Mrs. James C. Rea, ot Pittsburgh.
W. A. Welch, chief engine? r of the park
system, who is responsible for the new
construction, gui led party along
the route.
Perkins Proud of Work.
The first stop was made at Car
Pond, a flooded area of seventy-five
acres. Then the party continued ?.ver
the fine .stretch of new macadamized
, highway extemiing from Tuxedo gate?
way to Bear Mountain. This rond is
sixteen feet wide, exclusive of the so
called "shoulders," and about . n miles
long. Something less than a mile of
the highway, although now traversed,
remains to be completed. When it is
done, Mr. Perkins announced, jitney
1 'bus lines will carry tourists at low
fans between Bear Mountain and
Tuxedo.
"We'll show the State Highway De?
partment what can I"- done in road
work by that," raid Mr. Perkins in
comparing th? new highway with
? cf the mis? idl the tour?
ists had gone over m Roekland County,
When the tourists reached Bear
Mountain Inn they were entertain id
at dinner by Mr. Perkins. Then they
inspected the large refreshment
pavilion. When the colonel was shown
into the refrigerating plant he
his gaze on the meat racK
tongues hangin;- up there," he said,
"remind me of teeing l>u:v
; similarly hung up out West \car?
ago."
When the party was making il
out of the pavilion the ci
exed the identity of the r..
with the automol ' und broad
brimmed Panama hat. Wherever he
. went after that persons would step
aside to look at h:m and remark:
?'Teddy' Quick! Teddy!"
When he wai introduced to Police
Chief Wiiliam Gee, the Colonel said:
"Let me see ?? u were in the army.
A sergeant, I believe. Well, 1 want to
: shake hands with you again" The
Colonel then went to the boathou.-e,
? where park visitors are allowed a row
boat for forty minutes without charge.
Somebody luggesl boatride, but
when the Colonel pointed to the only
bout in dock a young woman leaped
into it and rowel it out onto the lake.
' The Colonel's, party then went to the
, swings, the neu danc ng pavilion, and
finally to the dock. There he saw- the
replica of Hendrik Hudson's Half
Moon anchored along the shore.
Colonel Visits I.iris' (amp.
Leaving Bear Mountain, with its
throng, the Colonel ?a.? dashed ?;own
to the Y. W. C. A ea rls on
the park property at Blauvelt There
the ? ?
to about two hundred girls. "You ?ion't
knot? how glad I am to mi ?
of you," he said to the gris, who were
g on ? :'amp. "1 might
envy you your hike. 1 wish I could I
take one myself." The trirls sang two
songl in honor of the C.donel and Mr.
Perkins and then made botl
them for photogl
"I dor.'t know but this is the best '
sight we ha | Mr. j
. , from the
he caiied at the country around.
The party then made off for Kngle
wood Wiile howling through Alpine ;
N J. they drove into the speed t:ani
set by Mayor Mahler, who w-a.- u- f *** I
rever;-' ipeed
lag in Nyack. The first policeman
I
passed and wigwagged a signal to th~
second one further down the road.
When the latter recognized the Colonel
he let the machines .-peed along with?
out even beckoning them to slow i own.
At Englewood all hands entered -i
fasl police motorboat and took aeruiaa
down the tiver to ?ee the camps anl
ha-hers along the shore.
When thev put into the Alpine slip
to change boats there were six strag
fdera on the dock. <>ne recognized
Colonel Roosevelt. In five minutes
.'?"" Misons had drawn up from all di
rectiona. As the nartv darted out of
?he slip a steamboat saluted ivith
three blasts from its whistle and the
crowd sent un cheers. The ?'o'onel
[ doffed his hat until he got wel! out of
the crowd's sight.
The day's tour ended at Mr. Per?
kins's place at Riverdale-on-the-Hud
! son. Once while praising the commis?
sion's work in laying out the extensive
I .-irk system the Colonel said: "It's
iust marvellous, and Mr. Perkins, you
know, has been the mainspring of it
, all."
Speaking afterward of how the dav's
I journey had impressed him, the Colo?
nel said: "No other city of rhe frs*
class in the world has such a nark at
I its threshold, with the combination of
a great tidal river, cliffs, lakes, moun
i tains and forests. The park includes
nearly 40.000 acres."
DOWLING BEATEN
IN SWIM BY TID1
Quits Reluctantly Afte
More than Eight Hours
in Water.
Robert W. Dowlinf, aged eighteen, s?
out from the Battery yesterday morr
ing to swi-n around Manhattan. Bal
fled by the tide in the Harlem Shi
Canal, he had to give up his projec
after spending more than eight hour
in the water and :-w-imming twenty-fiv
miles. His father, Robert E. Dowlin,
president of the < ity Investing Com
pany, wa?, in the launch which fol
lowed the swimmer.
For four months the young man ha
trained for the undertaking, and it wa
not until the approach of dusk ren
dered Iti accomplishment manifesto
impossible that he abandoned il
Through the wash of numerous ex
cursion boatfl an?l countless launche
he battled his way up the Hudson t?
the (ntranre of the Ship Car.aL
A tugboat captain bellowed >t hin
not to attempt that narross- channe
on account of the fierce tide. Never
thelesi the swimmer kept doggedly on
The water boiled and swirled abou
the bluff bows of the coal barge
moored in the canal, and its water
ordinarily teeming with youthful bath
n -, wer.' deserted?
The youth's father, with whom wer?
Mr. Howland, instructor of the Sprini
Lake Swimming Club, and Mr. Walsh
of the A. A. 0? advised him to giv.
up. Young I>owling only shook hi'
head in response and bored into th<
stream.
After a lengthy and arduous strug
gle had advanced him a bare quartei
of a mile into the waterway and i'
be came evident that the current wa:
increasing rather than diminishing iti
strength, Dowlinej turned on his bad
and drifted out into the Hudson again
He wai still unwilling to leave th<
water, and seemed to cherish aom?
hope that a later attempt might provi
rucceilful. With the launch creepitu
along in his wake, he crossed and re
,-r?,- ed the mer l?verai times. A.
half-past five, eight hours nnd thirty
live minutes after h.s start from th?
Battery, Dowlinf* was hauled aboard
the launch, which lan?led rim at th?
foot of Weal Seventy-ninth Street. II?
had done about twenty-five miles and
was far from exhausted. The course
he attempted is thirty-eight miles.
Howling entered The Tribune swim?
ming contest last year._
A-CHOO! SEASONS
OPEN NOW ; A-CHOO!
Yesterday Was St. Hay Fever
Day Faithful Will Sneeze
for Two Months.
Are vou subject to involuntary re?
flex respiratory acts caused by irrita?
tion of the nerve endinps of the mu?
cous membrane of the nose, or by stim?
ulation of the optic nerve by a bright
light? If so, according to Britannica,
you are a sneezer -one of 25,000 iti
this city who will have air rushing
ronorouslv through their nasal foaaa
for the next two months. Yesterday,
August 15, was St. Hay I-ever Day for
New York.
The United State? Hay Fever Asso?
ciation anticipates a prosperous sea
:on. In Texas and the cotton belt the
sneezing ii well advanced. "About
this time expect a warning tingle,"
wa? Secretary Perej Y lerome'a rr.es
Mf*a to Ph ladelphia on Friday. Bos
tonians will beg.n to reach for their
handkerchiefs to-day. Sneezers in
la will join in the chorus before
lay.
Secrctarv Jerome was packing \e>.
terdav preparatory to leaving for I'.'-'h
lehem, N. H., where the annual conven?
tion of the aasieation will be held on
September 2 and '?'.
"How many New York sneezers will
be there?" he was asked.
"A-choo," he replied.
"Do vou know any cure for hay
fever""
"A-choo pardon me ye- A-choo -
.-r Wendell a-choo i Holmes in?
vented the classic cure. S;x feet of'
a-choo clean gravel, ?is a-chro
lown he suggested to a ?neez
mg friend."
EXTRA 10 YEARS
COST HIM WIFE
Contractor Sued Because
He Misrepresented Age,
She Says.
John Laufet, real estate man an<f
contractor, inserted an advertisement
1 in a newspaper for an office assistant.
'? Miss Ida Stein answered it, but instead
of becoming Laufer's office assistant
, she was engaged as the rich man's life
j partner. They were married June 27
last.
There is a great disparity in the ages
i of the couple and Mrs. Laufer, now
? suing for a separation, intimates that
i while she was not averse to a mar?
riage between spring and fall, a union
j between spring and winter, such as
I she says her marriage proved, is die?
I tasteful to hei
"He was considerably older than he
| stated," says Mrs. Laufer. She says
i that her husband gave his age as forty
| three and she insists that he is fifty
three.
Mr. Laufer retorts:
"I told her ? was about fifty. She
planned this very action before she
? married me, and her intentions all
along have been those of an adven
turess and n >'< those of a wife. The
more I have thought over the matter
I the more I am convinced that I have
; permitted myself to be blindly led into
' this marriage.'
Laufer based his conclusions as to the
| plans of his wife partly on a letter she
wro,te to Mrs. Louie A. Parker, of Lon?
don. Mrs. L?ufer wrote:
"I had two chances to get married
here, but the boys are not my style, so
I am single. The other fellow-, to whom
I send postals, writes me letters like to
a girl of sixteen. I am sorry this boy
is not twelve years older."
Before he looked about him, Laufer
says, he was greatly in love with his
young wife. He denied her nothing.
But when she suggested that he place
his bank account in their joint names
he became somewhat suspicious. How?
ever* he consented to partly comply
wi'h her request.. He drew $700 out
' of the bank, intending to redeposit it
in their joint names. When he awoke
' next morning, said Laufer, he found
his roll of banknotes had shrunk to
$425. There were also several pieces of
jewelry missing. His wife told him,
according to the husband, that she had
packed her trunk and intended to go
abroad, where she intended to pose as
! a single woman and, if possible, marry
, again. Then, in company with one of
her relatives, she left the house and
never returnee.
Laufer never found the $275 he
missed from his roll nor his jewelry.
VISITORS AT BAR HARBOR
Governor Walsh and Mrs. Har?
rison Among Arrivals.
[By Trlrfrtph to Th? Trlb'i.'.r J
Bar Harbor, Aug. 15.?The mixed
' doubles tournament will open to-mor
| row on the Swimmi-ig Club courts with
; the following er.t.-ies: Mrs. John Jacob
Astor and Edgar Scott, Miss Katherine
Force and J. T. Boaten, jr.; Miss
1 Eleanor Cary and Richard Harte, Miss
Augusta McCagg and Louis B. McCagg,
; jr ; Victor N. Cushman and partner,
It. S. Davis and partner. Miss Dorothy
Fremont Smith and J. Brooks Fenno,
jr.; Miss Bissell ind Mr. Bell. Miss
Mary (aniield and Cass Cantield, Miss
? Margaret Erhart and Edward Samuel,
, jr.; Miss Dorothy Sturges and Rush
>"i":es and Mr. and Mrs. Townsend
Moigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Topping are
entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Morgan
Townsend.
Governor Walsh of Massachusetts is
here for the week-end.
Mis. Benjamin Harrison, widow .f
ex-President Harrison, an<j daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Harrison, of Indianap?
olis rre vis *ing friends ir. Northeast
Halber and >eai Harbor.
FOR m^F^h??Tpolls
The Honest Ballot Association has
sent a letter to the Board of Elections
protesting against the board's decision
to use only ten school houses : . polling
places at the fall lections.
The ''onest Ballot Association con?
tends that one half of the 2,000 polling
F daces could be accommodated in pub?
ic buildings. They further claim that
the reason which the Board of Elec- j
tions advances, that the rlan has not
been tried out sufficiently, does not
In view of the experie-.ee of Bos?
ton, Springfield, and other cities. '
SLEUTHS-GROPING
FOR MURDERERS,
ARREST 2 YOUTHS
Smudge on Pane Only
Clew Found in Fifth
Avenue Crime.
HILDENBRANDT'S SON
HATED BY PEDLERS
Tried to Drive Them from Dis?
trict?Prisoners Held for
Similar Burglary.
Remote clews were avidty snatched
yesterday by the scores of detectives
searching for the burglars who mur?
dered John Hildenbrandt at 1446 Fifth
Avenue on Saturday evening. Two
youths, against whom there is no evi?
dence of complicity in the Hildebrandt
case, were arrested for a burglary com
? mitted last January because it bear?
some resemblance to the crime in the
Fifth Avenue house.
The prisoner? are Herbert Wheatley,
seventeen, of 128 East 128th Street. !
and Arthur French, nineteen, of ?*2
East. 120th Street. They were arrested
by Detectives Riley, Finan and Disch
' ley, who named as complainant Mrs.
i Julia Elias, of 62 East 120th Street.
Mr?. Elias's home, like that of the
i Hildenbrandts, wa? on the top floor of
the house. It wa? entered while ?he
! was at home, the burglars cutting out
a pane of glass from a window. When
they discovered her the burglars are
i ?aid to have attacked Mrs. Elia? with?
out hesitation, beating her unconscious
: with the butts of revolvers. No charge
i of assault, however, is made against
! Wheatley and Frenen.
Finger Prints on Window.
Both men were taken to Headquar?
ters. The detectives also took the
I pane of glass which had be?n cut. from
1 a window of the Hildenbrandt home. It
I bore several smudges, which were de
I veloped into blurred finger prints. It
was said that the imprints on the glass
i were not the same as those taken of
; the finger tips of the two prisoners.
Wheatley and French have been un?
der suspicion of the burglary in Mrs.
Elias's home for some time. They were
j once arrested and discharged, Mr?.
I Elias becoming hysterical and failing
? to identify them at Headquarters.
Their arrest at this time is taken to
mean that the police persuaded Mr
Filias to try again to identify them
? that they might be held and ques?
tioned as to their possible acquaint?
ance with any men desperate enough
to have committed the Hildenbrandt
burglary.
Inspector Cray and Acting Captain
Cooper, of the Fourth Branch Detec?
tive Bureau, have given orders to
; light no detail in the search for the
murderers. They have resolved that
the Hildenbrandt murder shall not go
unsolved, as did that of Moses Goot
man, another retired merchant of Rar?
' lern, who was surprised by burglars
and killed several years ago.
Detectives from the Third and Fourth
; branches were sent out. Some lounged
into the resorts of Harlem's thugs and
lent attentive ears to any gossip of
blood-stained clothing or recent 'Mobs."
A good de-eription of Mr. Hilden-'
, brandt's watch was obtained, and
inquiries were made in various shady i
j quarters. It is said most of those to
whom Mr. Hildenbrandt's assailants
might try to sell the watch hive been |
i sufficiently impressed with the ear
' nestnes? of the search to render dis?
posal of the timepiece wellnigh impos?
sible without detection.
Pedlers His Enemies.
Mr. Hildenbrandt was fifty-eight
years old and had retired from busi?
ness. Evidence of a violent struggle
was found. Furniture had been upset
and curtains torn. His body bore many
bruises and several teeth had been
knocked out. The revolver whicn sent
a bu'let through his heart was held so
eloae that his clothing was burned.
Neighbors toi?! the police that they had
heard a shot about 8 o'clock. It was
not until after 11 o'clock that Mr. Hil?
denbrandt's daughter Sophie discov?
ered the tragedy.
John Hildenbrandt, jr., son of the
burglars' vietiut, is one of the found?
ers of the Harlem Merchants and '
Taxpayers' Association and an ardent
foe of the pushcart men. He had ?*__.
said their presence in the neia+^T?
hood d?-precia'?d real'y values an?i ?_
unfair to shopkeepers. *'
Mr. Hildenbrandt had made ?...
enemies among the vender? by hu-J?
paign against them. While the W
glars were entering hi? home SaturA?
evening young Mr. Hildenbrandt a_
in the West 123d Street police ststZ
making a complaint against putfcM
men for alleged violation of t\lj\?
di.lances.
One theory is that the crime a*?
committed by unpractised hand?. Jv?
finding of a pair of scissors m ?i
courtyard of the building !?nds eolaru
this. It is said. It is believed the taU.
sors were used to cut swsy the ]???*.
to remove the window pane?s nuthaj
of procedure which the police ?rt ??J
to attribute to any orthodox barj'ij^
Anothe. burglary committed taf.
Saturday evening in sr. apar*-.?.';
East 117th Street, directly iB th? raj
of the Hildenbrandt home, wag re**on^r
to the police of the Fourth Brine? D?]
tective Bureau yesterday.
JILTED GIRL TRIES
TO DIE AT WEDDING
"He's to Blame." She Says, Thei
Fires Shot Into Mer Tem?
ple?May Die.
Spurned by the man who hid proa,
ised to marrv her and an unweleoa?
guest at the reception ce.?bratinr bis
marriage to another hr.de, Am?!;?
Bugailis, a twenty-year-old Brook'n
girl, shot herself in the temple ?k?
i wedding guests tried to eject her fron [
128 Jackson Street, Ne v-;r',<.
She will die.
"He's to blame for this!" she eriH.1
pointing her finger at Joseph Czt'ciJ
who had just, mar: . ..-.venu
Amelia left her h |
Street. Brooklyn, yesterday mor-iia
with several photograph I ar.d a in??
of paner under her arm The nict.-ti
were of Cze'kis. The paper w?s 4 mar?
riage license obt 1 lelldl is.
herself last January from the Msr.
riage License Bureau in Manhattan
The bnual par*-, wai having a m?rri|
time when she force', her way 'nto 'h?|
room. She tried fo argos with CmU_J
but he repudiated her. Trie s-.o-Uinil
followed.
Big steps down! ,
1472 pairs of men's shots
in a Sale.
Oxfords, mostly ? black,
tan and wi?h contrasting up?
pers.
(Picking is better in the\
narrow widths, j
187 pairs were $5.00
1 03 pairs were 5.50
388 pairs were 6.00
267 pairs were 6.50
45 pairs were 7.00
389 pairs were 8.00
49 pairs were 9.00
44 pairs were 10.00
$2.45 now.
Suits!
Men's two-piece suits now
$15.00.
Men's three-piece suits now
$15.00, $20.00 and $25.00.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway
at 13th St.
Broadway
at Warren
"The
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Corners"
Broidwaj
at 34th St
Fifth Ave.
it 41ft St.
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