The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-29
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
BROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER

BROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER.
The enlargement of women's sphere of
action is just now occupying some OF the
brightest female minds on this continent,
and 1t seems as il they were gaining some
thing every day. Twenty years ago there
was hardly female reporter to be found
on any of the daily papers-now they
swarm all over the city; the success of
sharp girl on one of the largest journals
here has set hundreds of young females al
most crazy, and now they are laying them
selves out to catch rascally old brokers and
fool lunatic doctors, so as TO furnish SEN
sational paragraphs for the papers at fifty
dollars column.
A few years ago we did all we were able
to do here on the female suffrage question
when we allowed women to vote for school
trustees. This year two ladies were placed
on the Board of Education, and, as matters
| have turned out, the appointment can
scarcely be called a success; from the hour
of their first meeting down till to-day the
board has been ia hot water, and 1t is a
| mercy of providence that it has noS been
| knocked all to flinders. Miss Gra ce Dodge
is a most estimable and gifted lady, andthe
same may be said of Miss Atkins, her
coadjutor, but it is evident to their friends
that they are both very much out of place
in the Board Of Education.
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| One of the most respected lady teachers
in the city was Miss Mason, a Virginian,
and the niece of Mason who was taken
from an English vessel by an American
cruiser early in the war in company with
Sidell. Miss Dodge had scarcely received
her commission than she resolved to let the
board know that she was no drone in the
educational hiye, and she startled her as
sociates one morning by demanding that
Miss Mason be investigated. The whole
matter was turned over TO Mr.. Jasper, the
Superintendent of Public Schools, who asked
Miss Dodge for the proof of Miss Mason's
questionable doings. Miss Dodge had none
except an anonymous letter which some
one had sent her, charging very naughty
conduct on the part of Miss Mason. Very
properly Mr.. Jasper refused to jeopardize
a lady's good name on an anonymous ac
cusation; then Miss Dodge went for the
superintendent, and she came very neal
getting him thrown out. For few weeks
the Board of Education was in an uproar
members took sides; it was Jasper and anti
Jasper; Dodge and anti-Dodge; Mason and
anti Mason. The correspondent with Miss
Mason was Mr.. McMarsters, but Miss
Dodge was the power behind the throne
She would not be put down and she could
not be put down, and she was bound tC
have Miss Mason investigated or die. Al
last, after despetate fight, Miss Dodge got
a committee appointed; they sifted the
meagre evidence thoroughly, and the result
was the triumphant vindication of Mis-.
Mason and the consequent discontinue oi
Miss Dodge. Miss Dodge is a millionaire
heiress, and Miss Mason had nothing buI
her character and her talents, and the re-
suit OF the affair is that Miss Mason turns
around and sues Miss Dodge for $4,000
damages.
The whole story is in a nutshell. Mr.
McMarsters has the misfortue to be q very
good looking man, and he is blessed with
little puppy wife, who is as jealous of hei
husband as the Grand Turk is reported tc
be Of his wives. Mr.. McMarster was &C.
quainted with Mason, who is also blessed
with moderate share of good looks, and
the jealous little wife took il INTO her head
that Miss Mason was trying to make of
with her handsome husband. 1t was she who
wrote the anonymous letter to Miss Dodge
which was the cause of all the trouble; and
now Miss Dodge may have to pay the
piper. AT anK rate the Board of Education
is heartily sick of the female members, and
the next Mayor land his name won't be
Hewitt) will be requested to rule them out
, AS sad case as any that has demanded
the attention of the courts for years is that
of DeBaun, the late assistant cashier of the
National Park Bank. DeBaun was raised
! in the bank from boYhood; he had worked
his way up step by step till the time of hi:
: flight. On the death of the president Of
, the bank the faithful cashier was promoted
from the cashiership to presidency, and the
: assistant-cashier DeBaun was promoted
to be cashier. Then he seized 100000 Of
} the funds of the bank and fed to Canada.
: It then transpired that this model cashier
whom no one suspected, had been a thiel
for ten years; and he had gone on lobbins
year after year, and by false entries hat
covered up his tricks till longer conceal
ment was impossible, and then he seized al
he could lay hands and fed to Canada. L
almost seems like a dream. A few month";
ago and there was no happier home in tn,
city of Brooklyn than that of Frederick De
I, Baum on South Oxford street. The fact o
his position in one of the richest and mos
conservative banks in the Union was
, quasi endorsement of character, and h
was a central figure of the most exclusiv,
= set on the Chill" and member OF two o
the most fashionable clubs.
. These fashionable clubs, while not reco
l gnlzed as gambling-hells, are nevertheless
the nurseries of that fatal habit which 4
a daily leading ioany Of our young men dow
a TO ruin. In all of these fashionable club
v little gentlemanly poker parties are formed
they are all gentleman, so it is all right
but it frequently happens that those fin
gentlemen sit up all night, and one, tw,
o three hundred dollars is no uncommon
loss; hundreds grow to thousands-thel
+ robbery, forgery flight. What mus