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. THE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION -OGDEN, UTAH, AUGUST 22, 1914.
Women, Repre
senting the Top
I Notchers of Lon
don, Paris and i
! American Society
Arc we reverting to l lie cave man
days when Ionian loved the brut
ish man most'.' Are women again
returning to the worship of brute
strength 7
The woman of the ball room va
riety long ago decided the man she
was to worship was the man with
the pleasant manners, who could
dame the best and enter into po
lite conversations. Particularly had
the voted unanimously for the man
l with the fine clothes.
Though women secretly have
loed the strong men. It has been
an age since she would publicly
acknowledge she loved brutality.
She has made a great Fhow of hid
ing her eyOs from sights of brutali
ty for go long that the world was
surprised the other day when 1000
women witnessed the Bombardier
Wells and Colin Bell match at the
Olyrapia. The world was equally
astounded to see an equally larse
crowd attend the W elsh-Bitehle
bout and cheer for the lighters with
all their might
Women of every class were there.
There were Trench women present,
German?. English and Americans.
Thrir diamonds sparkled In the
crowd?. It was a great gat tiering
like that at the horse shows of En
gland and Fm n e.
The Johnson-Mora n bout n. the
Carpentler-Pmith mixup drew the
pa me (irowdfl When the big black
pugilist beat 9oran the beauty and
wit of the cotirt of Paris was there
Garbed In full evening Areas',
thousand -f men and women
jvs' ked the seats around the ring
side, waiting impatiently for the
big tight of I he evening, that be
tween Jak Johnson and Frank Mo
ran, foi ihe heavyweight champion
ship of the world They watched
the preliminary bouts that were put
on by the fight official Without
showing any enthusiasm. Men who
tame from all sections of the world
to pee the con ten' . the llrst real
L World's Championship ever staged In
K. Pari?, Were In the audience Arnunc
the spectators were members of
noble families' of England and Con
tinental Europe. Including Luke
LOUls d'Uses, the diief peer of
France Former Premier Barthou
arm several members of the present
Cabinet also had obtained scats for
the great contest
Mr. jack Qourand the society
leader, entered the ball, escorted by
Prince Miskinoff. She was lavishly
bedecked with pearls, diamonds and
emot "ids.
six h i y GON1 M M.
DECLARES ENGLISICM V V
Just before the European war
ClpUd turned the attention of every
body to the bis war :n Europe. .
famed English financier declared
Society was mad and tl-0 women the
maddest of the lot. He deplored
the changing tastes.
"The people -ne demented." he
continued. ' Look how nations and
private persons alike are spending
money above their earnings. Look
at the women dressing, or ur.drea.s
in?. In a fashion that makes every
right-minded man bluth for them!
Look at the Futurist craze In paint-
L
in?: Look at the rage of the Rus
sian ballet, which is purely .'cnsual
satisfaction! The suffragettes are
not any madder than ihe rest of the
v. omen of London "
Curiously enough, this outburst
by a financier finds an echo in an
article by Philip Glbbe, the English
novella! end journalist, whose work
in both capacities has shown keen
obseration and restraint.
"What is happening.' asks Mr.
Gilbs. to the spirit of the T".nl l--Ii
people, which is leadin-r to so many
strange adventures In ."'minlne au
dacity and hastening the pace of the
social whirligig so in the rush for
pleasure? Men and women are los
ing all restraint. Is ;t only a pass
ing phase, oi Is the- end of this
J ear's season the beginning of a
si eater end, involving the decadence
Of the English people"
It has been a season of sensa
tion. Never within living memory
has the town been no Riven up to
gayety, Xeer In that Lime hae its
entertainments been so deliberately
audacious in luxury and liberty.
Never has the programme of trie
season been so lllled with a thou
sand and one events, demanding the
presem e of society, or. at least,
that section of It Which has no duty
but I hat of pleasure.
"It was the women who set tho
pace. At tho very beginning of the
season it was obvious that they were
out for sensation, for audacity, for
laughing defiance at cd conven
tions, for a splendid time at all costs.
"Although antlmllltants by class
r.nd instinct, something of the spirit
of the suffragette seems to have
touched the women of fashion and
the society debutantes. Liberty ha
been their watchword and an old
fashioned looker-on has been tempi
ed to echo the cry of Mnie. Ro
land: 0: Liberie conirhe on t'a
jouee en ton nom!'
Liberty first of all in dress and
figure has been the order of the
day issued by modistes and is rc
ealed in a startling way by the
complete abandonment of petticoats
and by the daylight saving bill, so
to speak, as regards the upper por
tion of the costume which has be
come as decollete as the evening
dress of our respectable grand
mothers. "Yet, this was only the beginning
of a new reign of liberty for wom
en B limbs and women's taste. Thev
were not satisfied with such audaci
ties which are now the merest com
monplace. They desired to appear
in fan dress show
' How far were they really pre
pared to go" The opportunity was
given society in such balls as those
which took place In the Albert Hall
and at the Savoy for dear chaiit':'
sake. Well, they went pretty far,
and even strong men had to retire
early to recover from the shock of
seeing all those Futurist and Vorti
elst ladies, who made one's eyeballs
a-he With the garish colors of their
wigs, tho bizarre designs of their bi
furcated garments and the macabre
effect of their whitened faces and
jeweled bodies.
"For dear charity's sake ntrang
I
A'i BOTTOM Crowds
ol men at the old-time
prize fights. At top Draw
ings, showing women en
thusiasts with the men. Up
per left lack Britton. Up
per right Packy Mc Far
land. Center Freddie
Welsh.
things are done In these costumed
balls. In earlier history fashion
able women have been known to sell
their kisses at bazaars There is the
well known story of King Edward,
who paid a guinea ond asked for a
spare cup Instead of the one which
had been touched by the lips of the
stall holder but for the llrst time
In social England pretty women put
up themselves tor auction and rai
ded their own beauty.
"Other Etarthng innovations be
sieged the town before the season ut
spring cleaned itself The night
clubs opened their doors down many
... :
Bp'l . Lable people nice people after
midnight
"It is true that they had begun
the day early and that they had
in (;o .'"he lunches and tango
teas and maxlxe dinners and after
theater suppers, but really it is too
ridiculous to suppose that, in a sea
son of sensation, full grown men
and women should return to rest
when Bit: Hen boomed 12. So there
were cabarets of the highest class
provided them, with an all-night
lb ense.
"They developed a taste for prize
tiyhts, and. in spite of all Iho corre
SpOndehce in papers from old fash
ioned folk. signing themselves
'Shocked Matron' and 'Paterfam
ilias,' they have ?one In their cava
lier cloaks to gaze upon the physical
splendor of Bombardier and Gun
boat Smith and of Carpehtler, th
Adonis of the ring "
'i be BIm k landers
Bomb throwing, murder, kid
napping, white skiving and black
mailing have become established
industries In New York. "Mechan
ics'' for Bla k Hand ;angs will
throw bombs for 525 or $30. and
an ordinary murder one in which
the returns will not be so grent
will be committed for $2. The sac
rifice of human life means nothing
to these men. At a trial of one o?
the bomb throwers recently one of
p-e. . -iv ''p
sldi turnings and enrolled mem
bers as fast as taxicubs could put
them down. It wns discovered that
there was a great lack of amuse
ment and refreshment for really re-
tbem wa3 asked If he hd no re
gurd for human life.
"It was Just the same to me us
kllllncr an insect," he replied.
Tho trial at which this nalvs
statement wag maae ana at w nic-n
an astounding tain of wholesale
murder was told appeared at first.
io le rather an Inconsequential
case, that of the State against An
pelo Sylvcstro. who had been in
di ted as a Black Hand bomb
thrower. Alfred Lehman, alias
"Schmitty." and Bocco Pucclarello,
alias 'Zump." were witnesses In the
case, but before they had left the
stand they corroborated each other
in telling of the operations of a
Black Hand gang which had lor
years been dealing In every kind of
crime, from petty larceny to mur
der. fcach of the witnesses swore that
he had set off bombs containing dy
namite enouch to wreck an entire
tenement without the slightest
thought of the lives of women and
children he might destroy. Leh
man a pale-faced, under-sized
youth of 2:;, who was the first wit
ness, told how he planted bombs in
thirl -three Instances how he had
been Implicated In killing two men,
how he had abducted girls for
white slavo purposes and how he
had committed innumerable thefts.
He told his story In a calm, mat
ter of fact way, as though he had
been working at a trade as any
Other man, and saw no reason why
his story should cause any special
excltcnieut. And he was the one
who assured the Judge that he
would Just as soon kill a human
belnu ;-s an Insect. Pucclarello.
who followed "Schmitty" on tho
stand, was questioned along th
same line, but he was sllghtlj more
model. lie in his anHwers.
"Have you no heart.'" he was
asked.
"Sure. I got a heart," answered
the witness
'Didn't you care how many wom
en and children you killed?"
How do you know 1 didn t
care?"
How many bombs did you
plant ?"
"Oh," he replied carelessly,
probably between thirty-five and
forty."
There are two groups of this great
Black Hand organization. Tho
ringleader of one. according to Leh
man is Gulseppe Farraro. known to
the police as Joe Fay. Fay's flr.t
lieutenant is Antonio Leventrlnb.
The loaders of the other groups are
Bietro Giambruno and (jiiisoppo Pa
loro. the latter known as Budnltz
In a general way the two groups
work together.
Giambruno Is said to be the most
intelligent man in th organization,
lie wrote the letters warning well-to-do
Italians that if they did not
S'come across" with the money de
manded sums varying with the
supposed means of the victims
they, or members of their families',
would be killed. He also conceived
the Idea of having a rubber stamp
01 ide bearing the design of the skull
and crossbones, and other rubber
Stamps, by means of which he could
send blackmailing letters without
running the risk of being detected
through chirograph'
Baloro was also one of the more
Intelligent members. He could do
some letter writing himself by tho
use of the Ingenious rubber stamps.
Giambruno and he did the scouting
for the organization; they made it
their business to seek out wealthy
Italians and designated the victims
for operations. These two took no
active part in planting the bombs.
This work was left to ' Schmitty"
sod "Zump." and for that reason
they were known as the "mechan
ics" of the gang.
i he bom S ued were manufac
tured, according to the confessions
of tho two members of the gan
who testified at the recent trial, by
a man named Bolari, in a saloon.
Vhem er one of them was needed
on a Job other members of the gang
obtained them from Bolari.
Most of the members of tho gang
I
are In the Tombs. Joe Fay and
Budnitr. learned In some way that
the mechanics had "squealed" and
ran to eoer. The police are look- j
ing for them now, The majority of
these arrested have turned State's t
evidenco and will testify against I
the gang. j
Zump" p lame His chief fun'-- j
tlon in bomb operations was to a' t j
M lookout "U'hcn a bomb was to j
be planted Ha went to the place '
where it was to be set ofT to ascer- l m
tain whether It would be Bafe to at-
tempt it. if everything seemed to ii
augur success he gave the word.
After the explosion he would re- i--'"i
malll in the vicinity of the place I
and renoit what happened to his f
superior a
After the rubber stamp warning f
h id been sent if the victim did I
not respond ono or more of the f
mechanics would be rent to touch
Oil a bomb that would make much
noise and smoke, but which was not t
powerful enough to cause loss of
life or do serious damage. "
This initial bomb was merely
snt to emphasize the warning con- J
tained in the letter If both the
letter and the mild bomb did not j
result in the victim's pajing the
stipulated money, all negotiations
ceased and a bomb was set off to
make good the threat In the letter
If others besides the person who re- I
fused to be blackmailed were killed I
that was their misfortune. fl
With the same Indifference with t
whii h he told of the various bomb 9
outrage? he had committed, Leh-
man told the court how he playeJ
a part ih two murders One of
these was the killing of rharlcy I
Lem, a laundnman With two j 1
others of the gang "Schmitty"' said r I
he went to the store. His aecom- I
pi ices choked the Chinese while he
went into the back room to search jj
for a sum of money the victim was j
supposed to have. When Lem made I
;i fight, "Schmitty" said, he heard j
his accomplices beat him over the f
head, and when "8chmitty" came F
out of the back room he saw the f
laundryinan lying on the floor, b
dead I
This crime, Lehman said, had "fB
been planned by Jo(.- Fay. He said I
that he and his two accomplices in I ifl
the murder had been paid $2 each jf
for their work But this sum paid 1 fl
for a murder which did not pro- ; I
duce revenue was only a small k H
fraction of the wages the "median- ' H
les" received in their bomb plant- H
ing operations. For this they re- H
Ceived from $25 to $30 each, de- r
pending on how profitable the job H
had proved for the leaders of tho
gang. S
Another murder In which Leh- H
man confessed he was a participant
was that of a member of the gang, I
Louis Lulglana, who was black- -B
jacked. There had been a dispute
over the division of spoils, and in- igg
structlons hud been given by the
leaders of the gang that Lulglana I
should pay the penalty of his stub- r. I
bornness with death. So three of I
the members sought him out, I
"He never knew what hit him, ill
said "Schmitty" complacently.
They found him dead the next
day." fKfl
The operations oi the gang were
not without a touch of underworld rfl
romance. Joe Fay wanted to mar
ry a cirl named Nellie Pecarro.
The father refused to sanction tho
marriage. Fay made threats after
he bad tried milder methods, but
Pecarro was obdurate. This attl- g
tude of the father so angered Fay iH
that he demanded $5,000 from him. fgfl
Pecarro Ignored these demands. IH
Then Fay sent three of his gang to
kidnap tho girl, but tho janitor of
a motion picture theater near the ggfl
tenement where the Pecarros lived
ordered them chased away. jH
For this the theater was satur
nted with kerosene and set afire
while it was Plied with women and
hlhlrcn. Fortunately the blaze was iH
extinguished Then Fay sent
"S hiultty'" and another of his me
chanlcs to blow up the apartment.
They carried a bomb to tho land- 1 fl
tng in front of tho apartment.
lighted the fuse with a cigar and
went downstairs. Thev waited
some time, but there was no explo
sion. Then they returned and re
lighted the fuse This time they
waited out in (he street half an
hour. They Investigated again and
found that someone bad cxtin- i
guished the creeping spark.
The testimony brought out tho
extraordinary versatility of the
gang. Zump' tobl how he had J
"Shoved" counterfeit 50-cent picc
which had been furnished him by I
members of the gang, but he said
be did not know who made them. M
Plain ' urglarles were a side lino of
tho gang. I
In a mall way, alr.o. the gnn I
did a small business In arson for In
sura nee. According to "Schmitty'a"
onnfe"slon on the witness stand, he
had ?et fire to only two houses, but jfl
this line Of business had paid him W
better than touching off bombs, IfH
participating in burglaries or com
mtttiug murders. For on Job he
I e i' o
ved $-00 and for the othe'