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MAID AIDS MISTRESS
IN 'POISON PEN' CASE
Pays SIstcr-in-law .of Mrs. Pol
I lard's Accuser Used
Typewriter.
TELLS OF FAMILY FEUD
Deputy Sheriff Asserts Attempt
Wits 31 ado to Bribe Him at
' Time of Arrest.
Elizabeth, N. J., March 11. Minnie
Sohltr, the last witness for the State
against Mrs. Ne'.son L. Pollard, the al
leged author of scurrilous letters to her
IRXt door neighbor, Mrs. Charles P. Jones,
swore to-day that Mrs. Thomas a. Joms,
slstcr-lti-iaw of thu complaining witness,
hud "snc.-ikcd In by the baok door" of the,
Pollard house and used Mrs. Pollard's
typewriter several limes.
Miss Sohler was Mrs. Pollard's maid at
the time tli; letters arc supposed to have
been written. Her testimony, with the
statement to the Jury or Mrs. Pollard's
attorney at the opening of the defence
this altirnoon that he would prove there
was a conspiracy nga'.nst the defendant,
the result of a criminal, wilful, diseased
or Jealous mind, furnished two of the
three stnsntlons or me uay tor listening
Elisabeth notables, who tilled the court
room.
Tells of Offer of Bribe.
The other sensation came when Deputy
Bherlff Thomas L. Cary asserted that
Dr. Harrison K. Dunn, Mrs. Pollords
brother, had offered him a bribe not to
take her to pollen headquarters when he
arrested her on May 31 last year. This
was denied later by Dr. Dunn.
Miss Sohler was called by Prosecutor
Stein apparently Just to prove that Mrs.
nniiar.i owned a typewriter. He went
a lypewr.wr. """
no further with her. but Samuel Bchleimer.
Mrs. Pollard s counsel, kui.
rauniiel. ifot her to aamil i r.
' i:.T; i... -h. hrt eenlves.
many people use It. The maid said every
one seenud to have the right to use It
"I saw Mr. Itlttcnhouse use It' she said,
and added. In answer to other questions:
"Mrs. Tom Jones was In the room where
the typewriter was very often. I saw her
lttlne at It and working it once or twice.
Mrs. Tom Jones was asked to stand up
In the court room and Miss Bohler 'l'n,u
fled her as the woman who had used Mrs.
Pollard's machine.
The prosecution wjs stunned for an In
tant Then Mr Stein questioned the maid
aa to how Mrs. Jones got Into Mra.
Pollard's house.
"She alwas sneaked In by the back
floor as long as I worked there," answered
the maid, "and I worked there four years.
J don't mean that she broke In. but she
did not want Dr. Jones or Mrs. Charles
Jone to see her coming In the front door.
Dr and Mis. Jones and Mrs. Tom Jones
Were never friendly."
The prosecution rested at once, ab Mrs.
Tom Jones passed out of the courtroom
for the recess she said to reporter :
"Every word that girl said Is a He, Ab
solutely false. I ntver wrote on the
machine." . . .
Sheriff Carey testified that when he
went to timet Mrs. Pollard Dr. Dunn
offered him "a money consideration to
Induce him not to Uke Mrs. Pollard to
Police Headquarters.
Mr Schlelmer brought out the fact that
the offlcr had mado no report of the
alleged bribe to h: superiors.
Carey added that ho had granted Mr.
Pollard's request not to take Mrs. Pollard
put tho Jor.e house next door.
Denies Offer of Money.
re Dunn, who was called for the
defence In the uftemoon, denied offering
Carey my money except cash ball for
Mrs. rollard.
I am m-t Kolmr to give you supposl
tloni na Mr. Kinsley did." sold Mr.
BchUlmer In an address to the jury when
ho began the defence after recess. "The
evlduico shows t....t Mrs. Pollard djd not
know Mrs. Charles Jones and that Mrs.
phnrin JnnpH did not know her. There
fore there could huve been no reason for
wrlttlni; an offensive letter.
"1 will show you the enmity existing
or that did exist between Mrs. briwat
Jones. Mrs. Tom Jones and Mm. Charles
Jones and that Carey's testimony Is false
In every particular."
The lawyer hinted that Mra. I'ollard's
social position had stirred Jculousios, but
was Interrupted by Judge Connolly before
he could outline the conspiracy he pro-
poses to prove. Dut It Is understood that
be will put William Raytleld. a negro
convict, and Mlse Sohlcr on the stand
to-morrow to prove the conspiracy.
One story to-day waa that Kayfleld
aw the alleged slanderous letter In an
ash barrel In Mrs. Tom Jones's bock yard
and later eaw Mrs. Charles Jones take It
out again after she had thrown it there.
Another stov waa that Rayneld waa
hired to take Mrs. Pollard's machine over
to Mrs. Tom Jones's houne about the time
the letter Is said to have been written.
Rayneld was a "Jack of all trades"
about Ellrabeth. He In serving a sen
tence of seven years In the State prison
at Trtnton.
Joseph O. Mallonee of Mount Vernon,
the dofence's typewriting expert failed
n rfhake the testimony of William J.
Kinsley, the prosecution's expert, who
aware that the allged scurrilous letter
and letters Mrs. Pollard admitted she
nt were written on the same machine.
ft.r Mallonee had testified this after
noon Judge Connolly ruled that all hto
testimony agreea wim jir. a.
ARMY OF J0BBLESS WON'T MOVE.
aeramcnto Shuts Off Fooa anal Is
sues Ultimatum.
Bachamento. Cat. March 11. The un
emDloyed army members refused to accept
the offer of Yolo county officials to-day to
ship them out In batches of thirty or forty
each to points within a radius of fifty or
sixty miles of Sacramento. Contra Costa
authorities and those of Oakland are op
nosed to admitting the army. The work-
less received twenty-four hours more to
reconsider the offer.
Yolo oRlclals turned back Adjt-Oen.
Forbes, commanding the National Ouard,
who with a halt dozen of his staff,
fully armed, started to Imped tho camp
df the unemployed. It wun feared that the
soldiers' presence would cause a riot.
SLcramento oltlclals and the cltlxena'
committee gnve orders to-night that no
more foud be furnished to the army.
WARRIOR WILL BE SAVED.
Wrecking Company Captala Hays
Vamlrrlillt Yacht Is Bound.
Cupt. W C. Hnrrett of the noyal Mall
liner Danube, In yesterday from the West.
Ind'c. Buld he had a .talk In Savanllla
with dipt. Johnon of the Merrltt-Chap.
man wrecking steamer Relief, und that
Capt. Johnhon had declared he surely
would save the Vanderbllt yacht Warrior,
aground on the Colombian coast Capt
Johnson had pulled the yacht half a mile
from her urlglnul position, and said that
all he needed to get her clear waa a
few days of good weather. He made
a careful Inspection of her hull and found
It practically unscratched. The charts of
the vicinity where the Warrior grounded,
Capt Johnson declared, were no good.
They showed fourteen feet of water where
there was shoal. He said the whole
coast In the neighborhood needed rechart
in. Wlsnrr Defence Rests.
Ths defence rested Its case at the re
trial of Archie L. Wlsner and John J.
Meyers In the United States Dlstrlc
Court last nlgh(. Th jury will probably
bCla Its asllBillaM UUa afUraowa,
MRS. .WISE DEFENDS PLEA FOR
WOMAN'S FREEDOM IN LOVE
True Independence of Her Sex, I
She Says', Involves Volun
tary Motherhood.
In view of the rather sensational color
given to the discussion Tuesday evening
at the Church of the Mcs.ilah on "Ken I
nlsm," Hume reports having It that certain
speakers hud argued for "free love," Mrs.
Klorenoo Wise was usked to explain more
exactly her own address.
Mrs. WIo Is secretury of the Women's !
Trade union League.
"In the first place," Mio sold, "1 am
a perfectly dutiful wife with two chil
dren and u very pleasant home. Free
dom In love depends on economic In
dependence. Hveu after working women
have sullied their freedom us workers
through trade union they wllf still have
to work out their freedom as women.
"To do that they will hare to change
existing conventions. We should have an
organisation of feminists, for public opin
ion can be changed only through propa
ganda through constant nugglng at the
public
"We must work for conditions that
will make women so free and so equal
with men that they will not have to
bestow their love In return for support.
There should lie no economic considera
tion In love. '
"Of course that means the economic
Independence of married women. Kvery
adult ought to work.
"What wouM boooin of the rtilldren
.If mothers worked? Thore are mnny
women who can take care of children
better thin the mothers tlnxnselves. Thy
are better trained and they have more
natural fondness for clilklren. These ox
pert nureea must be treated tui assistants
of course and not aa Inferiors.
"The mother doesn't feel It necessary
to do the actual teaching of her children.
She leaves It to some one who Is better
trained,
Why not leave the actual bath-
edlng to another expert? Even !
Ing or feeding
i. ,h, mnfh.r ePe hr llvln, h. I
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"My children occupy much of my L
mental time, although I spend many of
my days here In the office.
"I believe only In voluntary mother-1
hood. an-way. There are many persons.
men as well aa women, who are better oft
without children. The peripatetic wander-
ing sort should hever have them. ,
"Many unmarried women, on the other I
hand, want children and there ouirht to h
an opportunity for the expression of their I
Innate mother love.
I . . 1 , -
"Theit are any number of women who
believe these things, but are afraid to aay
thn. It is time we arltated for free
speech without Its penalties." I
Kree love Is a misnomer," said Mtas
Jane Olcott of the New York State Suf
frage Association. "It should be called
the freedom of love. Love should be set
free. A man or a woman should be free
to give love wherever) it Is natural. The
marriage ceremony Is only necessary vo
protect the children and to maintain the
family's social and economic condition.
Convention has to be regarded for eco
nomic reasons.
Love Is volatile, and when it goes I
bellevo It Is Immoral for man and wlfo I
BONDHOLDERS SUE
ALUS-CHALMERS CO.
Say 911,148,000 in Securities
Was Fraudulently Ignored
in Reorganization.
A complaint alleging fraud against th
bondholders of tho Allls-Chalmrrs Com-
cany In the receivership proceedings two ,
years ago wnien resuuea in a reorganim-
tlsn of the company under the name of
the Allls-Chaliners Manufacturing Com- together In special meeting to act upon !robauly not untl1 further orders are re
pany was filed In the Supreme Court yes- 'the verdict of the special committee which . "a'Vw numb!'"' of the Keweenaw
terday by Augustus O. Paine A Co. of Investigated the charges against Mr. county strikers, applied for their old post
200 Fifth avenue, owners of 122,000 of Oeorge. expressed confidence In him and 1 tlons to-day. It seems certain that if th i
bonds. In behalf of themselves and other requested him to go on with the work as matter Pt to a vote the men will de-
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bondholders. i
The plaintiff charges a conspiracy par-
tlctpated In by the Allls-Chalmers bond
holders' protective committee, of which
James N. Wallace, president of tho Cen
tral Trust Company, was chairman i the
common stockholders' committee, of which
Alexander J. Hemphill was chairman, and
the preferred stockholders' committee, of
which W. Emten Roosevelt was chair
man. These committees made up the
reorganisation committee which formed
the Allls-Chalmers Manufacturing Com
pany, which Is named as defendant The
plaintiff asks that a receiver be appointed
for the company If necessary to carry out
the court's orders.
The complaint recites that during the
year and a half prior to December 31,
1911, the AlUs-Gtialmers Company, In
common with many oilier manufacturers
of heavy machinery and engines, suffered
a bustneuj depression, competition was
keen and prices were cut to get orders.
The Allls-Chalmers Company was "ham
perud by extravagant organltation and
laxity of management," it Is alleged, and
In the hitter part of 1911 the directors
were trying to convert the assets Into
cash in order to pay off the Indebtedneea
prior to reorganisation. As a result the
eighteen months previous showed a book
loss of 1600,597.
The plaintiff alleges that In the fall of
1911 the company and Its officers, who
either held Its notes for iloans or were
connected with financial Institutions which
held them, conceived a plan of paying off
the unsecured creditors In full and then
through the device of foreclosure and
reorganization to transfer all the assets
to the new company without paying off
the old bonds.
Pursuant to this plan the Indebtedness
was reduced from 15,000,000 to 12,500,000,
and with cash of $931,047 on hand tho
company decided to default on the pay
ment of $27,700 Interest on the bonds.
It Is alleged that the members of the
bondholders committee were large hold
ers of the company's notes and that their
acts were opposed to the Interests of the
real bondholders.
The complaint charges that to carry
out the purpose .of paying the unsecured
creditors nt the expense of the bondholders
tho company caused a friendly receiver-
ship proceeding to bo Instituted In Now
Jersey, and Its president Delmar W,
Call, wss appointed receiver. For a year
later the net earnings were $ROQ.ooo, but
Instead of bclm: applied to payment of
Interest as would have been done had the
trustee under tho bonds nlud the re
ceivership action, thn money was used
for other purposes. This resulted In an
Immediate loss of $1,000,000 to the bond
hoMrrs, It Is alleged.
The plaintiff also alleges that the re
organisation committee bought the prop
erty, worth $19,310,313, with additional
quick atseti of $1,500,000, for a total of
only $7,250,000. The committee then fixed
a value of $36,000,000 for ths same prop
erty and Issued $16,500,000 of preferred
stock and $26,000,000 of common stock.
An assessment of $5,193,000 was made
against the security holders of the com
pany. The complaint asks that the new com
pany be compelled to pay the principal
and Interest of the $ll.KI,00 In bonds,
or that a new mortgage be executed. It
also asks an Injunction to prevent any
act which would render a Judgment (or
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even to appear to live together except for
the sake of their children. In that caie
each should be free to bestow love else'
where by mutual agreement It would
bo better for the children, us both would
be happier,
"in many cases It Is better for the
father and mother to separate entirely.
Hhe should havo alimony when there are
cnlldreu to take up her time. When there
are none she should be able and willing
f re "one 0 Bnu
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. V10 woman wno accepts support rrom
the husband she does not love Is on the
lowest poasiuio moral plane.'
"ny f."Von,nlp- "owv correct con-
veniionaiiy. is wrong wi en people oo not
,ove , BOla rn
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'nR; Hnd..ih? fbor .e,,1,or of ,,he Womo1n
.'er- . 1 bL,eve .therefore In economic
maepen.unce tor an women, even it tney
""whj i"nu, a nicu urvnups
w ' nve snorier woraing aay
fnd fathers will be able to see moro
"f thclr children. Mothers can worlt
half tin,. tV..
time three and a half hours
(lay
It Is a terrible thing for them
to have to be with their children twenty
four hours a day for seven davs a week.
They must be relieved by women wIm
have made a profession of taking care of
children."
Mrs. Marie Jenny Howe, who was
discovered getting her husband's dinner,
refused to dlacuss the questions brought
up at the meeting or upon the pink tights
which she happened to mention.
"I simply said that you could not
lurnn feminists," she said. "Some want
to show their figures In pink tights and
others would die before they would do
such a thing. Feminism Is too nebulous
for discussion."
GEORGE UPHELD BY
NATIONAL DIRECTORS
Highest Body of Junior Repub
lic Gives Him a
Clean Bill.
William n. Oeorge. founder of
the
Oeorge Junior Republic, was urged
to
continue as national director by dlrec-
io ui me .wionni Association of Junior
Republics yesterday. The directors, called
In the past The board of trustees of the
Freevllle Republic where It was alleged'
that misconduct ownfnH niu.. mat in m.I
city and put themselves on record aa
believing In his moral Integrity.
Eleven out of the twenty-four national
directors attended yesterday's meetlnr.
seven being a quorum. There were three
or four proxies, Secretary Lyman D. Stowe
said. Those present agreed that the re.
port of Joseph H. Choate, Supreme Court
Justice Seabury and Miss Lillian D. Wald
"exonerates William R. Oeorge fully In
relation to the one serious charge, and
while criticising the parental attitude of
Mr. George toward the citizens of the re
public, finds no Intent or purpose or desire
to Injure or abuse in relation to the other
matters under consideration."
The special committee or Investigation
found Mr. George guilty on two of the
charges of 'wilful misconduct" before
they added the clause "no Intent or pur
pose or desire to Injure or abuse." It Is
thought that the national directors found
It hard to reconcile the one with tho other.
They feel certain of the truth of that part
of the verdict which had to do with no
Intention of Injurlng'or abusing.
In their resolutions the directors said
they were cognlimnt of the "animus un
derlying the accusations." They decided
that the pending matters of the now
Junior Republics In Ohio, Iowa and Ore
gon be taken up again by Mr. George
and advanced as rapidly as possible. He
Is also authorized to assist and counsel
the various Junior Republics as hereto
fore, and to aid In forwarding .the pend
ing project of the training school for
Junior Republic assistants.
The national directors at yesterday's
meeting were : Henry liurden. chairman ;
U H. Stowe, Hecretary ; Summerfleld Bald
win, Jr., of Baltimore, Walter D. Brooks
of Boston, Dr. Alexander Forbes of Bos
.ton, Ruford Franklin of Summit, N. J
James Oarrettson, Mrs. James Garrett
soh. the Rev. C. W. Helser of Ithaca,
N. V., William It Hereford and John C.
Oswald.
Judge Ben Lindsay sent a telegram
from Denver In which ho said : "I am
In hearty sympathy with Daddy Oeorge
and you, and wish to be recorded on his
side."
U. 8. WILL DEPORT HINDUS.
Tblrty-llTe In Krlnoo Barren1 So
F. n try on Philippines Passport.
San Fkanctsco, March 11. The Immi
gration authorities were sustained to-dsy
In their barring from entry the thirty-five
Hindus who came here on passports from
the Philippines and tho men, 'now at lib
erty under bonds of- $500 e'ach, will be
returned. The authorities are upheld In
a decision by Judge Pooling In the United
States District Court He holds that
Hindus who land In this country with
passports procured In. Manila are aliens
nevertheless and should be deported on
the ground that thty may become public
charges.
Washington, March 11. The Insular
Bureau Is taking steps to restrict the en
try of Hindus from the Philippines Into
the united States. The same law con
strued as prohibiting the entry of Hindus
and Malays Into the United States 'pre
vails In ths Philippines, but It Is Mid th
authorities titer tutva Man lax in Its an-
THURSDAY, MARCH
WOMEN RESCUED AS
FIVE HOUSES BURN
Policemen Carry Out Invalid as
Flames Eat Through
Floor Above.
LOSS PUT AT $200,000
Wild Panic Among Negro Ten
ants Prowler at Fire
Is Arrested.
A row of five story brick tenements ex
tending from 126 to 134 W(st 134th street,
and occupied entirely by negroes, burned
yesterday afternoon. When the rtre was
about under control another Are was dis
covered at 118 West 134th street, but It
was confined to the third floor of the
building. The tout loss was estimated
at 1200,040.
The first fire companies to reach the
blute found the tenants pouring out of the
buildings and making desperate efforts
to save their household belongings.
Above tho roar of the flames rose the
walling of women, the babbling of In
numerable children and the shouts of
hardly less oxclted men. They banked
their furniture In the street and Insisted
on standing by It. Three more alarms
unrl thit rlnnv'n. it tw.11.. i.r..t imIh.. . I
wnisnes set tne wnole neighborhood In
" '""'V- Th w ta and wild
luuHiucr anu even prayers as tne names
leaped from one building to another with 1
unchecked fury.
Engine 9 wa the first to nrrlve. The
firemen found the water pressure low
and their earlier efforts were tnide under
severe handicaps. A standplpe truck was
planted In front of 132, but the stream
couldn't get higher Uian the third Moor.
The pressure Increased later to normal.
Patrolman Peter Lennox and Oustave
Brock carried Mrs. Gertrude Held, who
waa 111 In bed, from the fourth floor of
130. The flames were already eating Into
the floor above them and they had to
work quickly. They also carried out
Mrs. James Dobbins from the third floor.
Leon Sohn of 202 West 137th street
Insisted on going through the tire lines
at Seventh aenue and was arreNted.
Irving Hicks, a negro, of 25BC Fifth
avenue, woe seen examining bureaus and
other things that didn't belong to him.
When starched he acknowledged owner
ship of a rasor that was taken from his
pocket. He was locked up for carrying
a concealed weapon.
SENT STRIKE IS CALLED OFF.
Calasnet Union Officials Angrrel ky
AttltneV of Merer.
Calumet, Mich., March 11. "The cop
per strike has not been called off and
will net he rnll-d off now at any rate."
said President William Klckard of the
Calumet local of the Western Federa
tion of Miners to-night. Klckard madj
this statement after receiving a telegram
from President Charles H. Moyer. who
was reported In Chicago to-day to hive
said that the men might go back to work
regardless of the Western Federation an I
treat cither Individually or collectively
with the mining companies, although he
suggested that they take a referendum
vote on the proposition.
The strikers were Jubilant believing
that the strike was declared off, but the
local union off cers were angry that
Moyer should shift the responsibility to
them. .
The telegram from Moyer said :
"Am surprised that you should pay at
tention to reports? I simply restated the
proposition to the Congress committee,
made by Hilt in, and that Is that the men
on strike themselves treat with the com
panies. The strike has not been declared
off and will not be called off unless by
a referendum vote of the men them
selves." Richard saya that the mntter of dcclar
Ing off the strike will not be put to a
vote before the men, now at least and
' clare in favor of calling off the strike.
BEARDSLET CASE NEAR END.
Agra Poor Director Trlls of Belnsr
Shot by Ontlnw.
Dunkirk, N. T March 11. The case
of Edward Beardsley, the Summerdale
outlaw charged with assault In the first
degree for shooting Superintendent of
Poor J. O. W. Putnam, will go to the Jury
to-morrow morning In Mayvllle. District
Attorney William 8. Stearns on the stand
to-day described the squalor In which
Beardsley lived with two sisters of the
Austin family and his nine children. Put
nam related the visit of Sheriff Anderson
and himself, carrying clothing for the
children. Intending to take them where
they could be cared for, and Beardsley's
apparent welcome, which suddenly
changed to rage as he ordered the men to
leave and began firing his rifle nnd
wounding Putnam In the neclc and groin.
Putnam, aged 70 and enreeblrd by the
rifle wounds, alleged that Beardsley. aim
ing the gun, said. "There's the door; now
get out!" and began firing as Putnam
backed out.
Beardsley's defence was that the Sheriff
and Superintendent of Poor presented no
warrant requiring him to give up his
children and that he was defending his
home and family.
SULLY TREASURES AT AUCTION.
11 role era and Htaaie People Rid In
Cotton King's'' Urlnnglnas.
Some of the things that onco decorated
the Watch Hill. It I., country house and
the New York home of Dnnlel J, Sully,
one-time "cotton king" of Wall Street,
were put up for sale yesterday In nn
auction that will run the rest of the
week at the rooms of Darling A Co.,
(i East Thirty-third street
Morris Menges of Shcepshead ll.iy paid
$C75. high bid of the dny, for n set of
English onk dining room furniture. Rose
Coghlnn bought a white bedroom set for
$100. Rose Sydell, of burlesque show
fume, and Thomas J. Rutter, bond broker,
also were among the bidders. It was
said that a number of Items were bought
in by old time Wall Street friends of
Bully, who knew him In the days he
was cornering cotton. None of the names
was made public.
Especial Interest that Is not altogether
asthetlc uttuches to the Sully pokor table
of Inlaid woods. Attendants tell you
with bated breath how ''more "n a million
dollars" found new owners uround that
table In tho days when the Sully table
stakes game ut Watch Hill whs going
gloriously. The table, It was explained
further, was the gift of a titled Italian
who had been lucky In cotton.
Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, wife of the
actor and daughter of Sully, la said to
nave crougni aoout tne auction.
Train Cook Has Smallpox.
Marcellus Earle, cook of a wire repair
train on ine rennsyivama Railroad that
hat been stationed near Trenton, N. J
waa found to be .suffering from smallDox
when the train pulled Into the Pennsyl
vania terminal yesieroay aiternoon. He
ws taiten to tne Kingston Avenue Hospl
lal for Contagious Diseases In Brooklvn
All persons who cam In contact with the
cook wsre ordered vaccinated and th
train iinnigitso. . ,
12, 1914.
FREE BREAD LINE
IS AGAIN DOUBLED
More Women Come for Loaves
Than on Any Other
Day.
THEIR STORIES VERIFIED
Diet Kitchen Association Sends
Needy Mothers to
tho Depot
Twice as many men and women came
yesterday aa came on Tuesday to get
their fresh loaves at 260 Elizabeth street,
whero The Sun Is distributing bread to
all who ask for It between 2 and 4:30
o'clock.
Before the doors were opened there
was a crowd of men outside. The women
b"gan to arrive at about 2:30. and from i
that time on they came In even greater
numbers than the men. Many of them-
said their husbands were III and they
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canes were mvesiigaieu anu in eacn case
the conditions were found to be worse '
than the women had described.
Most of the men came from the region
of the Howery. Many were Inadequately
clad and they shook with cold as they I
stopped In the depot to brenlc their loaf,
tinrl .nl It fnrthflL'lth.
Hut there were !
eome men wno came .rem urn e
tenements. Thry brought their children
wun uiem, no uuuui an eviuence uui
they had families. Some of them said
that they wcro widowers and were out
of work.
One of the callers was a representative
of the Mott street branch of the New
York Diet Kitchen Association. Hhe bald
that her work kept her In touch with
needy mothers and asked If It would be
all right for her to send some of them
around for bread.
"Send all ou know." she was told, and
half an hour later she came back with
five women who liud among them
thirty-one children. One of the wome-tt
had nine, the eldest of whom wus 13
years old. All five women were either
widows or had husbands who they said
wero HI.
In the course of the afternoon there
wero a dozen vsltors, men and women.
who had rend of the charity made posxlbln
by. Robert Kamber's gift of 11.000 to
start a free bread fund and who dropped
In to see how things were going. One
visitor was a man who watched I
that time was so moved that he wanted to
contribute sufficient money forthwith to
Install a coffee making device and supply
free coffee.
The Sun has received many letters
from readers who are Interested In the
work. The additions yesterday to the
fund amounted to J138. They were:
V. 8. Mulford $100
Mrs. Henry 8. Patterson
M. M 25
It L. A. S
Tun Sun will be pleased to refe'va
money from any who wish to contribute
toward the continuance of the free bread
depot
ROBBED AND CUT TO BITS.
Confession of Allestrd Slnyrr Dis
closes Grave of Dismembered Corpse.
Boston, March 11. Following the al
leged confession of Mlchuol Zaklan, pro
prietor of a coffee house In Lawrence, the
police of that city and of Andnvcr dis
covered to-night portions of the body of
John K. Shamllan, an Armenian Jewelry
salesman, hurled In the woods Just outside
Fryo village. In Andover. Zaklan and
time Armenian mill woikern are under
arrest In Lawrence charged with the mur
der. The Lawrence police say Zaklan con
fessed that the man was murdere-d on
February 9 and hli body was hacked
to pieces In a hallway there. The arms
are said to havn been sunk In the Mi'rri
mac River. Zaklan suld the salesman
was murdered for his money.
Shamllan had a little store In this
.
countrymen In the various mill towns
to fell his goods He started for Law-
rence on February 9 and did not return,
Ills wife reported his disappearance.
THE SEAQOERS.
Depnrtnrrs for Knaland, the Con
tinent and llrrmnda.
Sailing to-day by the Hamburg-Ameri
can liner Kaiserin Augute victoria for
Cherbourg, Southampton and Hamburg:
Mr 1111 Abbett. Oeiu and Mrt. C. D.
J. U. Anderion. MocDourall.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. w. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Ilscon rjarquand.
Mr. Kliubeth Hoehtn Dr. and Mr. E. Pill
Tan Kndert. man.
Mr llord Iiooeock. Mr Cornells Rider
Frederick O. Wnjhajn. VoMrt,
Frank DamrOKh. W li Ryrhinan.
Ml Juliet ae Cornet. Mr. ami Mr. Ernest
Albert Dufour-Keronoe. H bclielllng,
Mr. and Mra Illalr O. I). Turner.
FalrclUlO. Mr, ll. r.. verrsn.
BaroneM Sarah von Count and Countess
llnlkrll, Vu-tnr Hon.
K 11. Huxley. Mr. ami Mr. Treton
Mr. John F. Tsnd. Wlllierspooii
Mr. and Mr. J. C. Mr. Waltr U Wood-
MrMaliy. low.
By tho White Star liner Baltic for
Queenstown and Liverpool:
Mr. and Mrs. A.' II. A M. Irvine.
Adam. Mr. and Mrs. David
W, Walpole Hell. Ktppel,
Mr. nnd Mr. H. K. J. D'Arry Padler.
llurliidre. W. II. Klomi
Mr. nnd Mr. Hsrry 9. Victor A. C. Taylor.
Fuller. William Curtl Thorn
Mr. and Mrs. Frank ton.
HurnUT .-ir. A. w. wyide.
Passengers by the Royal Mall liner
Caribbean for Bermuda:
Mr. M. L Arnold. Mr. T. E. Lake.
Edfur A. Blanchsrd. Mr A. V Orr.
Mr. und Mrs. W. II. Samuel Smith Oiborn.
tlryant. Mr. and Mr. John
Mr. and Mrs. C. 3. Sirtrnt.
Caawrll. Dr. and Mr. F. E.
Mr. and Mra II. B. Squire.
Kkln. Mr. and Mr. D. E.
F. T. Ucndenon. Wheeler.
nnralar lllrs From Hhut Wnnnd.
George Stevens of 102 Hast 133d street,
a burglar who was shot through the left
lung while trying to escape with two othor
burglar from the drug store of James 11. 1
Ryan at Tompkins and Putnam avenues. !
Brooklyn, laat Friday morning, died In
the Swedish Hospital last night. One of
the other burglars, William McHenry. Is
believed to be dying In St John's Hospital,
n
G0
are the b?st fitting and best wearing shirts made.
I he Spring styles sparkle with new patterns,
unique colorings and novel effects. $1.50 and
up. iivery shirt typical of
TROY'S BEST PRODUCT.
EARL (Ql WILSON
MAKERS OF RED-MAN COL1 ARS
KITCHENLESS HOMES ARE
PROMISED TO WOMEN
Mrs. Gilman Says "Laboratories" Will Do Away
With the Cook Problem and That
Housewives Will Rest,
A new solution of the servant problem,
ft central laboratory where food could be
cooked by experts, was offered by Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Oilman In a talk on
tho home past, present ant' future at
the Astor yesterday.
"The home of the future wll have Its
grass plot and its hearthstone and Its
children, but no kitchen," prophesied Mrs.
Oilman. "The housewife of the future
will do her ordering the night before from
a laboratory Indorsed by doctors and ex
perts. There will be dosens of labora
tories and she can patronize the best
The food will be delivered hot In thermos
boxes. The system Is already In use In
Qertnuny. , , .
"The home of to-day Is a crippled,
abortive, primitive method of doing work.
With what Jano Addams calls Its small
group of belated trades" It Is a check on
human development, fifty per cent, or
the people In the world are busy waiting
on tho other CO per cent, and yet the
work could be done by 7 per cenu
..-uT ..,h..r. have asMired me
"Cooking teachers have
v... ....... ., , thirty
mat one cook . - --
She can ute one rang a and one '
utenslln. See tho saving n
"What will the other cooks d o? one or
the women in the audience IWJre,1r ,
"They will have to do tomethlng else.
Some or them win iook aner
'"""v haVe a chance to do
her own cook . win ' inre "
Ana llie " "
mii ".-
KOEHLER PLANS APPEAL
DIRECT TO PRESIDENT
In disc of Conviction Secretary
Garrison's Comments
3Iay Make Trouble.
New okdon. Conn., March 11. If
Major Benjamin M. Koehler Is convicted
by the court-martial at Fort Terry a
direct appeal will probably be taken to
President Wilson on tho ground that
Khler rights have been prejudiced by
Secretary of War Garrison's statement In
Washington yesterday.
Although Koehler's guilt or Innocence
has not yet been panned on by the court
martial, Secretary Garrison, one of those
who will review the court's findings, was
reported this morning as having said:
"If them Is any e-onsplracy against
Major Koehler It began with me and
ended with me, fJr I handled the case
myself and I alone am responsible for
the court-martial.
"The charges were presented to m
from. I think, eighteen different witnesses.
I knrw of the report that they were the
result of a conspiracy. I directed Capt
James J. Mayes to make a personal In
vestigation of the charges. He Investi
gated the motives of the accusers an I
found only four who had possible ulterior
motives."
Secretary Garrison's statement was to
clear Mnjor-Oen. Leonnrd wood of sus
picion of having anything to do with the
caxe ngalnst Major Koehlvr. Miss Sophia
M. Koehler, tho MnJ r's"slster. Is under
stood to have recalled on the witness
stand thnt her other brother. Major Lewis
M. Koehler, had once had trouble with
Gen. Wood.
Lewis Koehler had trouble In 1907 with
Major Hugh L. Scott now a brigadier
General In the Philippines. Gen. Wood
ruled against Lewis Koehler and ordered
him court-martlalled. He wna sentenced
i to bo reprimanded, and afterward ap
pealed from the reprimand administered
by Gen. WooJ, comp'alnlng that It was
unJUHtly severe. William H. Taft as Sec
retary of War, nnd Theodore Roosevelt
as President sustained Jen. Wood.
Friends of Major Benjamin M. Koehler
havo Implied that his trial was a revenge
...nt-,, i. ) uituuttcn ,119 utvutci iw.uv ec.cn
years ago.
Secretury Garrison. It Is understood,
wired to Fort Terry to-day to expedite
Major Koehler's trial. Rebuttal will be
j cut short It Is believed, so that the trial
. may end on Friday.
THIS IS HOW TO PUT 'EM ON.
Corsets I Yoa Mast Me on Voir Baek
and Wlsra-le Yonr Toes.
Philadelphia, March 11. Dr. Maude
L. Dunn, the lecturer on eugenics, after
shooing all tho men out of Wltherspoon
Hall to-day told un audience of women
about the evils of tight corsets.
"You can't be a smiling sunshine In your
home when your corset presses against
you," Dr. Dunn told the several hundred
women. "Husbands are Just tike cats.
They want lots of petting, and If they
don't get It at home they will 'go else
where and your worst enemy will be the
wohian who hasn't any pressing corset."
Dr. Dunn wnsn't absolutely against cor
sets. But sho wants them loose. She sug
gested that the one wny to ascertain If a
corset Is Just nbout right Is to take physi
cal culture cxeiclses while wearing one.
Sho also said there was but one way to
put on a corset, and thnt Is while lying
flat on the back and wiggling the toes In
the nlr.
The expert prophesied a race of slnnt
shouldered, big hipped women If the tango
anil the debutante slouch are Indulged In
excessively. She said the body Is the tem
ple of tho soul and Miould be treated that
wny. nnd that the perfect body Is 5 feet I
Inches In height, 7 Inches at the waist
lino anu tne nips measure 41 Inches.
BLIZZARD WAS 26 TEARS AGO.
To-day la the Anniversary of Jtw
York's Itrrnrd "torn.
Twenty-slx years ago to-day tho record
blizzard pitched Its tents of snow- In
New York.
At 1 o'clock In the mornlnir of
.12, 1H&8, the snnw began falling and
It kept on fnlllng until 4 o'clock
In tho afternoon of March 14. The
nverngn snowfall was forty Inches and
tho lowest temperature was & degrees
SHIRTS
"But my husband hates deilcattswn
food." objected another.
"Yes," agreed Mrs. Oilman. "Evtf.
man clings desperately to the Idea of h t.
Ing hln own private female er.ik. i,
eorry to say It doesn't matter. Ti j
won't llko the new arrangement. ,
won't like it But It's coining and i'ojf
children will thrive under It. for they ;;
have the sort of food they need and tot
what the. head of the ramlly wants to
eat."
"ifut would tho laboratories be rl.,.
questioned n woman. "Many of Ui .
taurunts are dreadful."
"There would have to bo women p.
spectors, of course," said Mrt. Oil i
"Uut wouldn't It be ery ejp.-i . u
questioned another woman. "Coukm -.mu
Is terribly expensive now."
"The only reason It teems so Is bvHj
you do not count In the time umjI r
cooking and the expense of kttplni
up the kitchen. The inei chant doe that
There would be a great having not only
in help but In time. Women would hNt
leisure not only to work but to look sftn
the beautlflcatlon of their cities. Thl
minds would grow.
"The home of the future will b a
place for rest and not for work. The
only work done In It will bo by profn.
slonals for a few hours a day. It will not
fall when the womun got out to work.
It will not miss the man when he lea
In the morning. And she will look for
word to It as a haven of reit while h.
helps man In the development of th
world."
SAYS HE WAS TRICKED
INTO INSURANCE FRAUD
Doctor Accuses Agent and
Butcher of "Making
Him- a Crook."
Dr. Francis K. McMurrough accusal
two men called to the Tombs court 'f
terday on summonses of tricking him an',
getting his assistance In obtaining r.i
from Insurance companies by m
the old "death rattle sw.ndle."
The men before Magistrate A.
were David Alexander, nn Ii.j
agent of 1053 Southern Boulevard. .
Michael Goodman, a butcher, of 20j V.'ti'
Fifty-fourth street It was nald thev
conspired with two Insurance agents to
defraud the Philadelphia I.lfo InruMnro
Company out of $15,000 on the life of a
man who died of diabetes not long nltr
he took out a rollcy.
Dr. McMurrough said they got him to
pass the man as physically sound, an v
added: "Tliene fellows are crookc .r;
they made tne one."
He said In an affidavit that two mr
representing themselves as tnm-ai
agents got him to be "lenient" In hit
amtnatlons of prospective policy !"v1r!
who might have dUbetes. He admi '4
that he did not us all tin- medl -al
In the case of Snmuid Com rV.y ..f
West 144th street, who was lii'UKi !
him by Alexander Comlnky dw .
months after the Insurance romp,.:,:
accepted him as "In tine conditio- '
Mrs. Comlnsky tcslltle-d in omr
Goodman, a brother-in-law, i m,
her husband and herfcelf to take j: .
cles which Goodman kept In his - f
said they paid no premiums and :lat ..(
her husband's death one of the men i amee
In Dr. McMurrough's atlldavit vainly t i u
to get her to release her claim on iay.
ment of $2,S00.
The hearing will be continued on Tu
day,
ANOTHER TEACHER IS A M0THES
Charars of .ii!rc of Dnty As.
linn
Mrs. IHnncbe WrlsTBt.
Mrs. Blanche Mario Wright a tenclie
of Public School 66. Osborn street' nn"
' ..,
enue. Cast New York, gave blrtr.
to 11 baby three days ago at her hone
119 Schenectady avenue.
The school board or District 39 wu
to have tried her at thb school Ut',
night on a charge of neglect of duty mid
by Supt Charles W. Lyons, but Mrs
Wrights legal representative em Id thi:
she nnd the baby and her husband.
George H. Wright are out of town.
The hearing waa adjourned art!
April IS.
Half-lion! Half-lamb'
Quick change now
to
Spring overcoats.
Our stores are full of them.
Variety to satisfy the most
exacting.
Gay grays, sombre grays,
browns and Oxfords.
Many cut with Raglan
shoulders.
Scotch tones predominat
ing. For rain or shine
Spring overcoats of fancy
"Scotch Mists."
To the eye just smart
Spring coats of fancy Scotch
cheviots.
To Spring showers abso
lutely proof, as shown in our
windows the other clay when
water streamed all day long
over coats pulled out of regu
lar stock.
Rogers Peet Company
Three Broadway Ptoiri
at ul
Warren St. 13th St
4th St.
forcemeat. .
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