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Enrolment of
Women Is Light
Throughout State
Only About 25 Per Cent
Register for a Vote at
Primaries
War Work the Cause
Expectations of Suffrage Lead?
ers Not Realized in West
chester Towns
_
The women of the State of New
York, outside New York City, so far as
the rather ragged returns indicated
last night, enrolled in smaller num?
bers, on a percentage basis, than the
men voters.
Without making a close calculation,
and in the absence of returns from
the villages of less than 5,000 inhab?
itants, the percentage of women en?
rolling would seem to be rather under
25 per cent, although in some locali?
ties it ran higher than that.
In Johnstown and Gloversville there
was a "war chest" drive on, and the
enrolment of the women was light in
consequence.
Elmira seems to have taken the palm.
In one election district having 400
women voters, only two women had
enrolled up to 6 o'clock. When re?
proached for it, some of the women
said that when the time came to vote
they would vote independently enough
to satisfy the men critics.
In the village of Bath, where the
women have been enrolling since May:
16, only twenty Republicans, one Demo?
crat and two Prohibitionists "have en?
rolled altogether.
Nearly 40 per cent, of the women
eligible to vote in Albany enrolled as
members of some political party. Of
the 34,543. 13,207 went through the
formalities entitling them to partici?
pate in the September primary elec?
tion.
Westchester Enrollment Light
In White Plains and Mount Vernon j
only about six hundred women enrolled, j
while in Mamaroneck, New Rochelle
and other towns in Westchester County
the epectations of the women suffrage
leaders were not realized. The reason
assigned for the light enrollment was j
the interest the women generally felt .
in war and Red Cross work. In Mount !
Vernon and White Plains about eight !
hundred women enrolled, while in Rye,
Tuckahoe and Bronxville not more than |
one hundred and fifty women enrolled j
up to 6 o'clock.
In Yonkers the light enrollment was
said to be due in part to the fact that :
the city was busy sending off a large
draft contingent.
In Binghamton, with a woman voting I
strength of 12,658, about 3,500 women j
enrolled, while in Johnson City and En- j
dicott 1.500 enrolled. The large major- ?
ity of those enrolled are Republicans, ?
and indications are that the prohibition j
enrollment will exceed the Democratic ;
enrollment.
In Troy the enrollment was heavier ;
than was erpected by the politicians, j
in view of the fact that no special ef- ?
forts were made to get the women to I
the polls. In comparison with the en- I
rollment of the men, the enrollment of ,
the women yesterday was said to be
heavy. The figures in the Republican '
wards show much largr than in the I
Democratic wards.
In the city of Geneva, with a woman !
voting strength of 3,100, only 385 had ;
enrolled by 7:30 last night. Election :
officials did not estimate that the total ;
would exceed 500.
In the city of Hudson, while the en- ;
rolment was light, it was noted that all ;
the women who backed the suffrage ?
movement last fall were on hand. Miss
Florence Soule and Miss Catharine i
Clancey, clerks in the office of the j
County Election Commissioner, were ;
the first to enroll in Hudson.
In the city of Middletown the atti- j
tude of the women seemed to be that I
they did not care, generaly, to enroll j
in any party, but will wait and study ?
the candidates of all the parties.
In Newburgh, with 4,200 women vot- ?
ers, only 400 had enrolled up to 7 1
o'clock last night.
In Ogdensburg neither the Republi?
can nor the Democratic organization
leaders lifted a hand to get the
women to register, and the registration ?
was light in consequence. The party ?
papers were silent and the women who j
did enroll did so voluntarily.
In Little Falls the enrolment of !
?women voters was on a basis of about j
20 per cent of the voting strength. '
In Malone, out of 2,000 eligibles, only |
S44 had enrolled by 6 o'clock last night. :
In Cortland 800 out of 3,200 entitled '
to vote had enrolled at 6 o'clock last ;
night. Cortland voted 71 per cent dry, :
and the women who enrolled yesterday j
will very largely, it was ?aid, support
Governor Whitman because of his atti?
tude toward the ratification of the dry
amendment.
Republican Ranks Swelled
In Canandaigua just about one
quarter of the women entitled to vote
had enrolled at 6 o'clock last night.
Leaders assert that a large majority
of the 500 enrolled are Republicans, as
the Democrats made no efforts to get
the women enrolled.
Fewer than 1,000 out of a total of
5,000 women eligible to vote enrolled
in Oswego, but this was considered
good, as there was a heavy storm in
the afternoon and evening.
In Ithaca, where great interest was
manifested in the wet and dry election
last month, the enrolment will not ex?
ceed 500, or about one-seventh of the
voting strength.
On Long Island the Red Cross drive
kept the women busy, so,that not many
of them got to the enrolling booths.
In Hempstead about 300 enrolled, in
Ik Freeport, 400; in Glen Cove, 500, and
? in Rockville Centre, 250.
^ Hastings-on-Hudson women seemed
to be alive to their privileges yester?
day. At the last spring election 450
women voted. Three hours before the
enrollment board closed its labors
last night there Were 218 women en?
rolled.
Less than 300 out of a total of
2.400 Oneida women citizens enrolled.
Medina reported that the bulk of the
women enrolled cast their lot with the
Republican party. From Romo came
the word that the enrollment was less
than a quarter of the woman vote in
the recent local option elections, when
6,000 women voted.
?ipO Enroll at Poughkeepsle.
In Poughkeepsie less than 400 women
tool: advantage of their enrolment
privilege. The small number was a
surprise to the machine leaders, who
had figured on about ten times that
number.
Out of approximately 2,300 women
registered in Plattsburgh for the re?
cent special election, only a little over
20 per cent, enrolled with the party
organization. The majority are Re?
publicans.
In Tarrytown the enrolment was also
disappointing to the political leaders.
Mr?. Marshall L. Bacon, one of the
Westchester County leaders, said she
was not surprised at the low enrolment.
"The: women **re taking up their new
responsibilities slowly and intelligently
and are not going to rush into either
party,** said Mrs. Bacon. "The enrol?
ment shows the women are going to be
houghtful voters."
In Corning out of 4,000 women citi
n
Former Lady of White House
Registers as a Voter Here
Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee Enrolls?Some of the Women
Are Puzzled by Ballot, While Others Fill
Blank Without Trouble
Women who enrolled yesterday as,
; members of political organizations
i were, in some instances, frankly puz
| zled by the whole performance. In
i some instances they were not.
A former "Lady of the White House,"!
| Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee, of 49 West
? Seventy-second Street, who kept house
i for her father, Benjamin Harrison,
when he was President, enrolled in
i a temporary wooden structure at Sev
I enty-third Street and Central Park
j West.
Mrs. Anne F. Curry, eighty-six years ?
| old, mother of John F. Curry, Commis
; sioner of Records for the Surrogate's
: Court, claims the record for being the
I oldest woman in the Democratic party.
; She. enrolled at 73 Amsterdam Avenue,
. escorted to the polls by Fred F. Straub,
Deputy Commissioner of Taxes.
Knows Just What To Do
There was the young women wear
j ing, among other things, a green tarn o'
shanter and a purportful air, who
' strode into the enrolment place at 191
j Columbus Avenue, clasping a double
, armful of pamphleted advice for wom?
en voters.
"I'm equipped to avoid the male
snicker," she said, eyeing the grinning !
clerk and depositing the documents i
. upon the desk. "We must be educated
to vote intelligently."
The ambitious young woman gave \
her rfame to the clerk. She was Miss I
Fannie Hurst, short story writer, in- ;
? tent upon her privilege to vote.
At the Tenth Assembly District, 32
Sixth Avenue, Mrs. Tessie Russo, 22
i Sixth Avenue, signed her name by the
| aid of the clerk's guiding hand. She
i could talk no English and write no
i Italian, but when it came to going on
record for her party, she knew where ?
she wanted to place the cross. Her |
husband, Sebastian, who has won a j
medal for keeping Fifth Avenue clean, !
looked proudly on, although he admit-1
ted that he had nothing to do with !
1 Mrs. Russo's political convictions.
Miss Nettie Sposta, 10 Spring street, !
a young Italian teacher in Public ?
School 160, declared, at the polling i
station, Sprirfg and Lafayette Streets, I
, that there were too few Mrs. Russos.
' "I'm going to make all the mother's of
my pupils vote before the day is over,"
she said.
"I'm going to make a house-to-house
canvass and tell them just what it
means to them."
Wanted to Take It Home
One of the women who will know
better next time is Mrs. Laura Rose
bault, of 1 West Sixty-seventh Street,
who tucked the card carefully into her
pocketbook and started toward the
door.
"This way, madam," the clerk called
after her, nodding toward the canvas
inclosure.
"Oh, I'm going to take it home and
let my husband show me how," she ex?
plained.
After the clerk had brought her to
understand that this was not the usual
thing she emerged triumphant, having
placed the cross in the proper place
without her husband's aid, and declar?
ing that she would "know better next
time."
In the public school at 124 East
Fifty-first Street two women district
leaders stuck to the job all day. They
were Mrs. Bayard Dominick, jr., Repub?
lican, and Mrs. John Smith, Democrat.
They were disappointed that Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller had not enroll; d. but
found consolation in the visit of Miss
Elsie Ferguson, who declared she took
politics very seriously.
Enrolment Is High
The proportion of women enrolling
in this district was very high, ninety
two having enrolled at 5 o'clock. The
number of men voting in the last pri?
maries was two hundred.
In the garage at Amsterdam Avenue
and Seventy-fifth Street a woman elec?
tion clerk, Miss Beatrice Cassell, won
the admiration of the man who was
working for the other party with her,
Arno R. Domeycr.
"For nine years I've been inspector
of elections," said Mr. Domeyer, "and
I've never seen the equal for speed oi
Miss Cassell."
"When I've been inspector for nine
years I'll be a Congresswoman," re?
ported Miss Cassell.
zens only 1,088 enrolled, and in James?
town 4,000 aligned themselves with par?
ties. About 800 enrolled in Fredonia.
The Election Commissioners kept the
exact figures and the party affiliations i
a secret.
25 Per Cent of Women
Of East Side Qualify
To Become Voters
East Side mothers apparently thought
more of their holy day and their
Saturday housework than they did of
the privilege of enrolling in political
parties yesterday, for while their sis?
ters in some uptown districts stood in
long lines to qualify for the primaries
the women of the Bowery and Eaet
Broadway struggled in casually and
infrequently to avail themselves of the
first experience in the great adventure
of voting.
With their babies on one arm, their
Sunday dinner under the other and
their naturalization papers tucked in
somewhere among the carrots and po?
tatoes, about 10 per cent of those eli?
gible did appear in the morning and
afternoon, however. These were Ital?
ians, Irish and unorthodox Jews, for
the orthodox Jews may not write on
their Sabbath. It was not until after
sundown, therefore, that the Jewish
mothers appeared in any numbers. The
East Side women as a whole ptrobably
made about a 25 per cent showing.
If it had not been for the working
girls of the East Side, there would
have probably been even fewer enrol?
ments, for everywhere the mothers
were piloted to the booth by their more
aggressive young daughters, whose
first act on returning from work was
to take "mamma" by the hand and
lead her to the candy store or barber
shop to enroll. Mamma would often be
self-conscious and fearful of her right
to enter the sacred booth, but the dif?
ficult business of answering questions
and the painful duty of signing her
name were engineered through by the
daughter, who then would rattle off
the answers to her own questionnaire
with the air of a veteran.
Half of All
Women Voters
Here Enroll
Continued from page 1
to benetfi the community, they must
exert their influence in party ma?
chinery.
"Party Women" Prepare
The other class were the "party
I women," wives and sisters and friends
I of politicians, who have been building
| up their party organizations for sev
i eral months, preparatory to the fall
\ campaign.
With the exception of the East Side,
i where the enrolment was light in part
I owing to the Jewish holiday, all dis
tricts of the city responded with equal
: enthusiasm. On Morningside Heights,
i around Columbia University, the college
j girls and school teachers swamped the
; registration officials, who were unpre
? pared for so large a showing. Fortu?
nately, the women had brought camp
', chairs and knitting, and made a merry
event of it.
In the crowded districts the Demo
? cratic captains had a corps of women
I out early to hold babies and stand
; guard over market baskets while the
? housewives registered.
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of the
| Governor, enrolled at a flower store at
;980 Sixth Avenue. She was No. 23 on
i the list. Governor Whitman's official
i residence is tho Hotel St. Regis.
Although the election officials diplo?
matically suggested that women over
j thirty need not tell their exact age,
| Mrs. Whitman scorned this device and
; boldly declared herself to be "thirty
i six."
i She was accompanied to the polling
i place by Governor Whitman, who
frinned broadly when his wife said she
ad enrolled as a Republican.
"That's one vote I'm sure of," said he.
"When I went out I stopped every
l woman I met," said the Governor's
| wife, "and asked her if she had reg
; istered."
Miss Hay a Republican
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of
the Woman Suffrage Party, who has
kept her political sympathies a dark
secret ever since woman suffrage was
granted, admitted yesterday that she
had enrolled with the Republican
party. Miss Hay was the first woman
to enroll in her own district, which is
the 2d Election District of the 9th As?
sembly District.
Miss Hay added that "just beeause I
enroll with the Republicans this time
doesn't commit me to anything. I'm a
great believer in the scratched ballot.**
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, and Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, its honorary pr?sident,
'.
lost their chance of enrolling because i
they were attending the annual con- J
vention of the Massachusetts Woman
Suffrage Association in Boston.
"It's the first time 1 ever got ahead i
of those two," laughed Miss Hay.
Complain of Delay
There are many complaints from |
women throughout the city of the slow- I
ness of the registration clerks and the I
crowded conditions of the booths.
Suffrage leaders, who telephoned to |
the city officials, were informed that, i
the law provided only one set of books
for each district, and that there was no
way of doubling up the wor*"*?
Mrs. Robert Oliver, suffrage leader of I
the 11th Assembly District, had to take
command of the ship of state at Pub- i
lie School 165. in West 108th Street,
as the two regular registration offi?
cials failed to appear. Mrs. Oliver was
equipped with a copy of the election
law, and read from it that ten citi?
zens could choose and swear in clerks
for themselves in such an emergency. !
There were seven indignant house-I
wives, anxious to get home and cook
lunch, standing around waiting to reg?
ister. Mrs. Oliver sent these on a
scouting party, and they presently re?
turned with three men, who made up
the ten. Then they picked two volun?
teers who had no hungry husbands, for
clerks. The janitor of the school ad?
ministered the oath of office and Mrs.
Oliver went on down to suffrage head?
quarters, satisfied that her own dis?
trict was in perfect working order.
Headquarters Busy
It was a busy day at headquarters.
Three suffragists answered the tele?
phone from 8 o'clock in the morning
until nearly 10 at night. Thousands
of women were unable to find their
registration places, and called up the
only source of information they knew
about.
One was an anti-suffragist, very
plaintive.
"I have been to three places al?
ready," she said, "and they were all
the wrong ones. It's pretty hard for
an anti to be rushing around like this.
Won't you please tell me where I ought
to go. You got me into this."
Mrs. Mabel Russell, executive secre?
tary of the Suffrage party, answered:
"If you hadn't been an anti. but a
suffragist, you would know where to
register," she was told.
Sirs. Charles F. Murphy was exDected
to enroll (of course nobody asked with
which party at an empty store at 297
First avenue. Late in the afternoon i
she had not appeared but the district
captain said she had promised to come |
andvknew she would not fail.
"I never could make public my po- I
litical preference before," said Miss I
Hay, "for I wanted the education of |
the women citizen under Jhe auspices
of the Woman Suffrage Party to be.
free from the charge of partisanship." |
Ten of the twenty-three Assembly
districts in Brooklyn reported a total
enrolment of women last night of
39,529.
In Staten Island neither the Repub?
lican nor Democratic organization had
made any attempt to recruit women
voters.
Miss Hay made a tour of inspection
of the registration places in Manhat?
tan, and declared at the end of the trip
that she was indignant at the crowded
conditions of many booths.
Complains of Conditions
"It is very evident thnt a time has
come for radical reforms," she said.
"The booths are unsanitary and over?
crowded. I went in one that was a
tailor shop, crowded with pressing
tables even before the registration
board moved in. When a number of
district watchers and a dozen women
with little children clinging to their
skirts crowded into that tiny space the
condition was pretty bad.
"I have no sympathy with those j
women who protest against registration ;
places in barber shops just because j
they don't think they are ladylike. In j
general a registration place is all right i
if it is clean and large ?nough. With i
the great increase in the electorate, !
due to woman suffrage it is evident j
that,none of those in use at present are j
going to be large enough.
"I cannot say to-day what reforms I j
believe we should ask for, but 1 shall j
study the law and consult with the :
election officials, and within a week I |
expect to be able to offer some sugges- j
tions."
"My Sadie, she so smart." said one
mother admiringly to the clerk. "Butj
me! Ach, it's the hardest thing in life
to sign such a name as 2mine.' The
> name was Rathinboskowitch, and the
clerk agreed.
U-Boat Cruiser Sunk
British Escort Submarine Gets
It Off Portugal
LONDON, May 25.?A German sub?
marine, of the cruiser type, was sunk
on May 11, in the latitude of Cape St.
Vincent, by a British Atlantic escort
submarine. The Admiralty made this
official announcement to-night
Adjuster Seized
With 3 Others in
Insurance Plot
George W. Comstock, Man?
ager of New Jersey Bu?
reau, One of Prisoner?
Fake Fires Alleged
Companies Said to Have Paid
Small Losses Without
Investigation
NEWARK, N. J., May 25.?George W.
Comstock, manager of the New Jer?
sey Adjustment Bureau and head of
an insurance adjustment business in
New York, is under arrest here, with
three other men, all of them being
charged with complicity in a scheme to
defraud fire insurance companies. The
alleged plot is said to be the most com?
plex and extensive attempted in the
East since "Izzy the Painter" betrayed
the "arson trust" in New York five
years ago.
Comstock and his alleged accom?
plices, William A. Baird, an adjuster,
and Harry Harris and Lewis Diamond,
insurance solicitors, were far less reck?
less, according to the indictment
against them, than New York's no?
torious fireburg. No charge of arson
has been made in connection with the
arrests. It is asserted the accused re?
garded fires as a needless risk and
never indulged in them.
Avoided Fires, Police Say
They thus avoided, it was declared
by Lieutenant Stadlman and Sergeant
Rath, of the local detective bureau,
any danger of loss of life or investi?
gation by firemen. Their alleged
method was to take out insurance in
*the name of one of the members of
the ring through a broker, who also
was a member, turn in a report of a
fire through an adjuster who was like?
wise a member of the ring, and then
split the proceeds three ways. In some
instances the man in whose name the
claim actually was made is said to
have got only $15 or $20 as his share
of $300 or $400.
Sometimes, for art's sake, the insured
man would scorch his walls and wood?
work with a torch, it is said, but that
is as close to an actual fire as the con?
spirators are. said to have found it nec?
essary to go. The insurance companies
relied upon the adjuster's report, the
claim never being large enough to
arouse suspicion or encourage the eje
pense of investigation.
The "fires" are said to have been
confined to dwelling houses, generally
the actual homes of the insured men,
though, it is said, one of these is be?
lieved to have collected insurance at
least five times within the year on
"fires" in the same premises, his only
precaution being to change his name
each time.
Neighbors Didn't Know of Fires
In belated investigations of t/ese
"fires," it is charged, it has been dis?
covered that tenants living in the same
building where a "fire" causing $500
"loss" occurred never knew that there
had been a fire. It likewise was found,
it is alleged, that the sole offspring
of a man who recovered several hun?
dred dollars for the ruined "opera
gowns" of his daughter was a girl
eight years old. The fireless fires are
said to have been occurring for at
least a year. ?
About twenty-five of these are under
investigation, and it is expected that
more will be discovered. Although at
least one of the men under arrest has
extensive business interests in New
York, there is no evidence to show that
any attempt was made to profit by tho.
scheme outside of this city. One other
man has been indicted and is a fugitive
from justice, and it is said others prob?
ably will be arrested.
The charge against those under ar?
rest is conspiracy to defraud. Comstock
has been released in $3,000 bail. He and
Baird and Diamond pleaded not guilty.
A plea of non vult was entered by Har?
ris.
Girl, 15, Behind in
Studies, Ends Her Life
Leaves Dinner Table and Fires
a Bullet Through
Her Head
Jane Paris, fifteen years old. a first
year pupil in Manual Training
High School, was uneasy last night at
the dinner table in her home at 579
Fulton Street, Brooklyn. A postal
card lay on the table in the next room,
that her father, Salvatore, could not
fail to see when he went in to get his
evening paper.
It had come yesterday morning and
betrayed the fact that Jane had been
absent, from school for two days and
was behind in her studies. "I don't
care for dessert," said the girl, and
went into the next room. The sound
of a shot summoned the family to her
side. She had fired a bullet from a re?
volver through heir head and was dead.
Her father told the police he had no
idea where she got the weapon.
Money Offered
To Convict Mooney
"Objector" Awaitng Slacker
Sentence Clams He Declined
Bribe of $17,000
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.?Nicholas
H. Treanor declared to-day on the wit?
ness stand of the United States Dis?
trict Court here that he had been of?
fered $17,000 to testify falsely against
Thomas J. Mooney, now under sentence
of death for murder in connection with
the preparedness parade bomb explo?
sion here in 1916. Treanor was await?
ing sentence on a charge of having re?
fused to submit himself to physical ex?
amination for the selective draft.
Treanor was sentenced to one year
in the county jail after he had testified
that he was a conscientious objector.
In the course of his testimony he made
this statement:
"I was offered $17,000 to testify
against Mooney and attempt to swear
his life away. I refused and testified
for Mooney." He named an Assistant
District Attorney.
New Shipyard Sites Picked
WASHINGTON, May 25.?Sites for
five government yards for building
concrete ships have been recommended
by engineering experts of the Shipping
Board. The selections are understood
to be Wilmington, N. C, and Jackson?
ville, Fia., on the Atlantic coast; Mo?
bile, Ala., on the Gulf coast, and San
Francisco and San Diego, Cal., on the
Pacific coast.
The board has not acted on the rec?
ommendations.
The yard at San Francisco, privately
? owned, already is in operation. It
i built the Faith, the experimental con
1 crete Bhip now undergoing test trips.
i\
MISS LUSK IN THE COURTROOM
Copyright, Underwood & Underwood
Wisconsin schoolteacher, who is on trial for the murder of Mrs. Mary
Newman Roberts, will know her fate in a few days. The defence !
has started to introduce the testimony of alienists in support of i
the plea of insanity.
Cropsey Opens Way |
To Enter Race
For Governor
Virtually Presents Platform
Hearers Believe He
Will Run On
SYRACUSE, May 25.?Supreme Court
Justice James C. Cropsey, of Brooklyn,
to-night laid the foundation of his an?
ticipated gubernatorial boom, when
speaking before the Syracuse Credit
Men's Association. He hurled veiled
attacks against the present state gov?
ernment, and pledged for full partici?
pation by the women in partisan poli?
tics in order to stimulate the male
voters from their lethargy. He asked
for a state executive with a moral
| as well as a physical spine, and judges
who can give judicial instead of "hand
made" decisions because of personal
interest.
While the attack was well camou?
flaged, the Brooklyn jurist's audience
needed no explanation, for Judge Crop
seysey virtually presented the so-called
; planks of a probable platform. He
j came out in bitter denunciation of all
; things German and put himself square
; lv on a platform of patriotic appeal.
j While he attacked no special phase of
; government and called no names, he
I flayed the entire scheme of politics
i where leaders and poltical machines
! control the will of the electorate
through its willingness to follow and
! accept the wcrd of others.
Accompanied Judge Cropsey
John T. McGovern, one of Brooklyn's
| most alert politicians, who played a ;
I prominent part in the last municipal I
j campaign, came here with Judge Crop
I sey. So did Senator A. W. Burlingame,
I of the 8th District. While neither did
| any active campaigning while here, the ?
! probable significance of their visit was
manifest.
During his speech Judge Cropsey
outlined what full citizenship means
and what remedies are needed in the
government of "to-day.
"We need/ people more interested in
| the country than they are now, and I
, hope that the women will stimulate
i the male population to its civic duty,"
j he said.
"As good as the government may
? be, it can be made better, and I be
! lieve it will be when the women do it.
We need executives who can stand
! on their own feet and have a moral
! as well as a physical spine. We need
I executives who can think for them
? selves and then act.
Independent Legislators Needed
! "We need legislators who should not
? be considering their personal interests
! and who will not give their votes be
! cause some political personage directs
j them to.
"We need judges, too, in all the
; courts of the state, who will first be
i men and then lawyers. We need judges
who will not see how little work they
can do or how much vacation they can
j take. We need judges who can give
judicial decisions and not hand made
i ones.
"I believe that only through political
j parties can the country be governed.
? But we need the best political parties.
| We need leaders who think first of the
! country, then of their party, and lastly
i of themselves."
I Egypt and Palestine
| Linked as in Olden Time
i
"Egypt and Palestine are now as
closely linked as in the days of the
I Roman Empire,'' writes a correspond?
ent with the British army in Palestine
j in a letter forwarded through military
l channels to the Provisional Zionist
Committee
"The broad-gauge railway has been
brought up from Gaza to a point close
to the front line, a distance of about
| fifty miles. The old Turkish line from
i Lodd to Jerusalem and the more recent
j military branch line from Gaza to
Surar Junction have been restored and
brought into us?.
"Metal roads, able to beer the daily
passage of our lorries, have been built
and rebuilt over the mountains and
plains, and thousands of laborers,
drawn partly from Egypt and partly
from the local villages, have been en?
rolled to keep them in good repair.
The communications along the front
lines, which are constantly expanding
stretching now across the whole
breadth of Palestine, from the Mediter?
ranean Sea to the Dead Sea, have been
firmly established, and we move for
ward with as certain a direction and as
ample a purpose as when we advanced
last autumn on Beersheba and Gaza."
Miss Lusk Was Insane,
Expert Testifies
First Alienist for Defence Is
Called After Defendant
Finishes Life Story
WAUKESHA, Wis., May 25.?Grace
Lusk completed telling the story of her
life to-day at her trial for slaying
Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, and the
defence immediately besan the intro?
duction of expert testimony to prove
her insane.
Dr. H. W. Powers, of Milwaukee, in
answering a hypothetical question
nearly five thousand words in length,
declared that in his opinion the de
| fendant was not of sufficient mental
1 capacity at the time of the tragedy to
distinguish Hetween right and wrong,
and that she was suffering from
paranoia.
The question recited at great length
Miss Lusk's early history, the fact that
she frequently suffered from headaches
which rendered her unable to perform
her duties as school teacher, that there
was an apparent strain of insanity in
her family, that just before meeting
Dr. Roberts she had suffered a nervous
breakdown, and her relations with the
veterinarian. Stress was laid on
points which had been emphasized in1
the testimony of both Dr. Robers and
Miss Lusk.
After Miss Lusk left the stand her
aged father, A. P. Lusk, was called by
the defence and testified that when he
was on his honeymoon his wife at?
tempted to commit suicide because of
some trivial remark he had made.
'More alienists will be called Monday
to tesify for both the prosecution and
r defence.
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Red Cross Fund
Tops Its Goal of
$100,000,000
Continued from page 1
succoring wounded but in sheltering
and saving women and children in all
countries stricken by war, is beyond
all computation. From the moment j
of the massacre of Serbia its work j
has grown like the mustard seed un- |
til it is now one of the humane in- I
stitutions in the world. In now ex- j
tending its operations to cover new ?
responsibilities which will fall upon i
it through the active participation of i
the American army in the war, I wish
it all possible success. I am sure
that the resources of mercy and gen- ?
erosity will prove inexhaustible.
"I am, my dear Ambassador, yours !
sincerely, D. LLOYD GEORGE."
Much elation was expressed at the !
spirit evinced by the workers in the !
final hours of the drive, no longer
being satisfied with securing the al- ;
lotted amount, but now determined to
get $30,000,000 or bust." Funds turned :
in yesterday, particularly from the
boroughs, seemed to encourage the new
limit. The Bronx now reports a total
of $150,000, Brooklyn shows a total of
! $997,686, Richmond has realized so far
! $83,000, and the total for Queens was
$250,000.
Colonel Thompson, of the corpora
I tions division, turned in an additional
| sum of $330,000 for his division. The
house-to-house committee reported ex?
tra gifts totaling $15,000, while Louis
Wiley, chairman of the newspaper di?
vision, forwarded to Red Cross head
qaurters a check for $1,496.25. Six
Federal departments in New York re?
ported subscriptions totaling $16,000,
representing 12,000 Federal employes.
Gifts from divers sources continued
to pour into the marcy chest all day.
The Master Plumbers' Association sent
in a check for $4,500, while the New
? York Newspaper Web Pressmen are
? giving $6,000.
The eSaboard National Bank an?
nounces a gift of $10.000, and a $10Q,
000 contribution is reported from the
National Bank of Commerce, though
made some days ago. Mrs. C. Yada,
who was in charge of collecting funds
from her Japanese countrymen, for?
warded almost $29,000. Samuel C.
| Lamport made public a gift of twelve
j ambulances and a motor truck, which
i he is turning over to the Red Cross,
? and Miss Florence B. Vibber, a school
! teacher, has turned over to the Red
i Cross to be sold an ancient watch,
| made in Paris in 1790. A handsome
j sum was realized, too, from the sale of
; superfine vegetables at the Ritz-Carl
| ton, a bunch of asparagus being bought
by Colonel F. C. Henderson for $150.
Two carnations sold for $90, and three
posters by Harrison Fisher were sold
in the Ritz dining room for $500 and
$600, respectively.
Canvassers collected large sums from
j the crowds that witnessed the military
: drill on the Sheep Meadow in Central
Park in the afternoon, hundreds of dol
? lars being also realized at the large
meeting in front of St. Paul's Chapel,
where Justice Clarence J. Shearn made
an address.
Walter Stabler, of the house-to-house
committee, said that permission had
been obtained from the Police Depart?
ment to canvass to-day. Mrs. Joseph
R. Swan, the vice-chairman of this com?
mittee, said that, in view of this per-:
To-day's Events in
The Red Cross Drive
9 A. M. to 11 P M.?Red Cross art
exhibit, Greuze Ballroom. Ritz
Carlton.
2:30 and 8:30 P. M.?677 Fifth Ave?
nue, exhibition of posters and
musical entertainment.
7:30 P. M.-~71st Regiment Armory,
Thirty-fourth Street and Park
Avenue, meeting under auspices
of Polish Citizens' Committee;
Ignace Jan Paderpwski and
Captain Thomas C. Seddon will
speak.
8 P. M?Century Theatre, musical
and vaudeville entertainment.
mission, probably fifty thousand women
in the garb of Red Cross nurses would;
comb the streets to-day.
Among the interesting events calcu
lated to quicken the drive to-day is a'
great mass meeting of Poles at Park
Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street dur?
ing the evening. Ignace Jan Paderew
ski, the famed pianist, will preside, and.
an address will be made by Captain
Thomas C. Seddon, c? the British army.
There will be a concert to-night at.
Temple Israel, 26 West 114th Street.
Cantor Maisels will sing and addresses
will be made by several rabbis. --The ;
collection of art objects and paintings ?
that have been on view at the Ritz-?
Carlton will be on sale to-morrow night, j
King Albert's message said:
"I would not fail to take the oppor- '
tunity afforded me by the second appeal !
for funds in favor of the American Red -
Cross to express to you all my people's
gratitude for the splendid generosity
displayed by the American nation tow?
ard the army and civil population of
Belgium.
"Both the material help given and
the friendship of your great nation will
always be remembered. I am glad jp
say how useful the work done by
Colonel BicknelJ, Major Van Schaick
and the Commission for Relief in Bel?
gium has already been and to pay a|
tribute to their valuable and efficient i
activity.
"The relationship between our peo?
ples, cemented in this time of suffer?
ing, will strengthen confidence, sym?
pathy and good will' and increase the
devotion of every citizen of the Allied
countries to the sacred cause of liberty '.
and justice."
The President said in his reply:
"Your majesty's message has been
read with deen pleasure and appre?
ciation, and I beg to assure you that
nothing that the American Red Cross
or the body of my fellow citizens have
done has been done more truly from
the heart than the aid, all too little,
which they have been able to render
the gallant and suffering people of Bel?
gium. We feel our common dependence
with them upon the full vindication of
the cause of freedom."
! National Figures
Put Red Cross Fund
Far "Over the Top"
WASHINGTON, May 25.?-With sub
! scriptions to the American Red Cross
I second war mercy fund now estimated
; at more than the minimum quota of
$100,000,000, workers in the campaign
' rested to-night in preparation for a
! strenuous closing day Monday. Offi?
cials expect a big outpouring of dollar?
at the finish, and expressed confidence
to-night that the fund would be heavily
oversubscribed.
A message from King Albert of Bel
I gium to President Wilson, thanking the
; nation for its aid to his stricken peo
i pie, and another from General Porshing
' commending the Red Cross work in
France, were received, and were ex
Sected to give impetus to the war fund
rive.
' General Pershing said:
"Our people may well be proud of
j the record of the Red Cross. The won?
derful story can hardly be told in
? words. It could best be told by the
i widows and orphans of our gallant Al
! lies and by the mutilated soldiers to
j whom it has ministered. In giving
j prompt and efficient relief the Red
I Cross has won the eternal gratitude of
j millions of people. The armies of
I France, from commanders down, testl
: fy to the great good it has accom
; pushed. With our rapidly increasing
? forces in France, the care of our own
j men now becomes the most important
i object of our solicitude. In this great
work the Red Cross is indispensable."
Headquarters of the Red Cross here
were flooded to-day with messages
; from over the country giving subscrip
I tions for districts, cities and counties,
| and it was impossible to tabulate all
! returns. Those counted showed that
! $97,021,803'* had been raised, but it has
1 estimated that many millions in addi?
tion had been subscribed.
The figures for the fourteen divi?
sions, as announced to-day, follow:
Atlantic, including greater New York,
$35,319,518; Central, $10,605.000; Gulf,
$2,001,775; Lake, $8,566,475; Mountain,
$1,887,550; New England. $6,457,000;
Northern, $2,362,000; Northwestern,!
$2,574,723; Pacific, $4,139,519; Pennsyl-!
vania, $6,067,055; Potomac, $2.004,924; I
Southern, $3,511,047; Southwestern, I
$10,625,419; foreign, $900,000.
Theatrical Ball Nets
Good Sum for Red Cross
If there were anyone, even remotely'
I connected with the theatre, who were ;
i not at the Hotel Astor last night, their j
I names escaped memory for the mo- i
! ment. The Red Cross Ball, held under '
i the auspices of the Allied Theatrical !
| and Motion Picture Team, proved a j
?huge success. Unlike many similar;
! affairs, the ball was dedicated to a
i good time. And everyone had one. i
"Stunts" were few, but what there ;
were, were good.
Margurita Fonterse, of the Chicago
i Grand Opera Company, who was the
I model for the Red Cross poster, "The
j Greatest Mother in the World," ay
! peared in the poster costume and auc
| tioned off 200 pictures of herself in it.
\ Belle Storey sang George Cohan's new
| Red Cross song, "Their Hearts are
' Over Here While They're Over There."
! Later in the evening four copies ,auto
\ graphed by President Wilson and
! George Cohan, were sold at auction.
There was a beauty contest and a
i beauty brigade. There were flowers
! and badges and buttons and whatnots
i for sale. Anyone who escaped irom
| the ball with a five cent piece was con?
sidered a slacker. It was all for the
I cause.
Among the box holders were Mrs.
i William K. Vanderbilt, jr., Cornelius
! N Bliss, Lou Wallick" Morgan J
O'Brien, Major August Belmont, W. L.
i Sherry, Fred Sperry, Biliie Burke
? Grace George. William A. Brady, John
| McCormack and a score of others.
Clinton Prison Inmates
Give $500 to Red Cross
| PLATTSBURG, N. Y., May 25.-Five
! hundred dollars was contributed to-day
to the Red Cross fund by the inmates of
j Clinton Prison. Eighty per cent of the
i prison population of 1,200 men sub
i scribed to the fund, the subscriptions
| being taken from money on deposit to
| their credit with the prison clerk or
from their daily earnings.
The move to contribute to the fund
came from the men, and the drive was
? conducted entirely by them.
Engineers Re?lect Stone
CLEVELAND. Ohio. May 25.?Warren
S. Stone, grand chief of the Brother
; hood of Engineers, was reflected by
| acclamation for a term of six years
I by the delegates at to-day's session of
I the triennial convention.
Traction Workers
Urge Women to
Oppose Hylan
Union Men Say Mayor Re.
fused to Hear Them on
6-Cent Fare Question
Appealing to the members to urg,
their "wives, daughters and wome?
friends" to enroll, John A. Phelan
president of the Brotherhood of Inter."
borough Rapid Transit Company Em?
ployes deo'ared that the women
should "prepare io cast their votes on
Election Day for candidates for publi?
office who will not turn down the
workingmen with kaiserism, but gi?.
U3 an opportunity to be heard."
Mr. Phelan said he had in mind tie
treatment representatives of his or.
ganization and the Brotherhood of
New York Railways Company Employei
received from Mayor Hylan when they
sought an audience with him recently
to discuss the proposed six-cent fare.
The Mayor kept the two delegations
waiting for hours and then dismissed
them without a hearing. A similar ap?
peal was sent to the members of the
Brotherhood of New York Railway?
Company Employes by T. M. FazskeriV
its president. The appeals were signed
by the organization presidenta.
In the Interborough Brotherhood
letter. President Pheian said:
"You instructed your officers w?eks
ago to endeavor to obtain an in*er
view with Mayor Hyian so that they
might place before his honor their
hope of adequate wages through a six.
cent fare. After considerable corre!
spondence and delay, your committee
succeeded in making an ?appointment
with the Mayor for 12 o'clock noon on
the 23d inst. * on
"We proceeded to the Mayor's office
and, after waiting three and a half
hours, were ushered into the Mayor*?
room. A moment or two after the
Mayor entered and asked if we wanted
to talk about the six-cent fare. I, ??
your president, told the Mayor we did.
He said. 'You may talk to me abont
? anything else but the six-cent fare,'
and he withdrew. That ended our con
i ference."
? President Fazakerly described a sim?
ilar experience with the Mayor on
; April 16.
! "We were told to wait in the corri
I dor for about ten minutes," said Faz?
akerly. "After two hours the Mayor
i came out, asked who we were, declined
to discuss the merits of the case or to
: hear what we had tosay, and abrupt
i ly dismissed us. It" is evident that
j political influence is necessary in or
: der that the merits of a case may be
! considered by those in authority.
"Let all of the mothers, wives, sis
; ters and the worum friends of the
Brotherhood of New York Railways
Company Employes take this opportn
: nity to enroll in the" primaries and pre
. pare to take an active part in the po
; litical campaigns from now on to make
: their influence felt toward the choos?
ing of public officials who will give the
; railroad men of this city a fair deal."
j Women Aliens Must
Supply Photographs
Must Also Submit to Finjm*
Printing When Register*
ing With Police
When enemv alien women present
j themselves at the police stations be?
tween June 17 and 26 for registration
I they will be required to furnish five
i photographs of themselves with the
i hair pulled back and be forced to sub
, mit to finger printing.
These regulations were made known
j yesterday, when the. local Federal au
! thorities received their instructions
i from Attorney General Gregory regard
I ing the registration of women. In his
! expression of policy, which is con
'. tained in a 200-page pamphlet, the At?
torney General carefully identifies
those who will be required to register.
All women of German birth or wom?
en of any other nationality who are
married 'to unnaturalized Germans are
I required to register. If a woman of
American birth has married a German
not naturalized she is an enemy alien
and must live up to the provisions of
j the extended espionage act; and regis
j ter, or she will be arrested immedi
| ately.
In cities of more than 5.000 popula
' tion the registration will be done by
I the police, with the cooperation of
I patriotic women's organizations.
What Is Going On To-day
ONE MEAL WHEATLK8S.
Convention o! the Independent Order B'rlth Abra?
ham. New Star Cajino. 10 s. m.
Convention of Jewish Organizations, auditorium,
Washington Irvine High School, 10 s. m.
Sermon hy the Ko?. Dr. Stephen 8. Wise on
"What Shall We Give Our Children:" Ix/ort
the Free Synagogue, Carwsgle Hajl, 10:30 a m.
Memorial Day service? of ths New York Cf_P
of ?Confederate Veterans, Mount Hop? Cemetery,
afternoon.
Memorial parade, review and service of ths Ne*
York Letter Carriers' Asjoctation. Fifth Ave?
nue, from Forty-fifth Street to Sewnty-alit"?
Street, to Temple Beth-El, S p. ax.
Address by George R. Klrkpatrick on "The Right*
ol Man, ' Beethoven Haii. 210 K~t Fifth Suse?.
afternoon.
Addresses by United States Senator William M.
Caldvr. C<mmilsa:onei' ?f Cbaritie,? Bird S. Cei?
and others at anniversary co-ebration of to*
Rrookiyn Hebrew Asylum Building, 373 Rslp*
Avenue, Brooklyn, 2.:?0 p. m.
Dtxlicatiou of tbe Seabury Marvel House. S? Bast
Twenty-fifth Street. ?1 p. in. ?
Memorial service? of the Defmdim As?o>-i_?>n
i of the 22d Regiment Bnc'jieers. N. G. V. ???
I Church of the Holy Rood, Fort Washington
! Avenue and 170th Street. 4 p. m.
Address bv Major Orrln F. Wlghtr.ian on. ""??f*i
ill War Time," Young Men's Clristian AmocU
tion. 5 West 125th Street. 4 p. m.
I Concert for the beneflt of the Roman CatlKJi*
orphan Asylum. Hippodrome, 8 p. m.
! Address by Professor Roy W Foler on "T?
Young Men's Christian Association ?u.d OW
Boys" at patriotic rally. Bethany Presbyterian
Church. WQUs Avenue and 137th Stre?, ? P. *?
? Address bv Ldwin Markliara on "Is There An??tbff
Ufe" before the Bro,.tklyn t-'ivl: Forum. VutMt
School 84, Glenmore and Stone avenue*. Brot*
?yii. 8. p. m.
! Address by Dr. Thomas Travis on "Witn t*?*
Soldiers on Uie Firing Line in Flanders.' Par?
? Avenue Church, Park Ammo and Eighty-???"
Street. S p. m.
-, ?
German Socialists
Would Curb Kaiser
I Propose Taking Away His Power
to Declare War or
Make Peace
LONDON, May 25.?A wireless press
dispatch from Berne says that the G*)***
man Socialist party has appointed ?
committee to draw up a revised pany
programme, which will be submit??
at the next Socialist congress.
It will make the following *UJ?**?
tions: Universa' and equal surTrag?
to both sexes, parliamentary govern?
ment, the revision of the constitution
depriving the Emperor of the right to
declare war, conclude peace or "?i**
tiate treaties and conferring these
rights on the Reichstag, abolition of
secret diplomacy, an international
I tribunal with a view to disarmament.
i permanent government control of the
! distribution of raw materials and **??
: nationalization of merchant mar?*"?
1 traffic on rivers, ?-anal? ?and lakes.