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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
THE MASKS OF CRIME.

good story has just leaked out about Charles
c. Black the Jersey City lawyer. and last years
unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket. Mr.. Black based his campaign upon
the equal taxation of franchises and corporate
possessions. subject in which the masses needed
instruction and he swept the State in whiriwlno
of political speechmaking. He devoted many GAYS
to addressing factory at the noon hour. ms
secretary one day made arrangements Tor the can
dfdate to deliver an address to the employees OF
Aaher & Flockhart iron founders. in Newark the
firm were stanch Democrats, and completely IN
svnnathv with the equal tax movement ana Win
tbe candidate. When his carriage arrived the men
were assembled in orderly array. !ney were =
rorcb looking lot with the CRIME of the shop upon
tb1,e{ostic THE candidate took a bird's-eye view
- tbenn thrust one hand into the air, the other
in MS trousers pocket and began; -
We men of Italy he cried. when Carl oaiui
frem his home q.
'.-Tbese chaps are not Italians" whispered he OF
the committee fraRtieally. ane candidate took a
closer look at the faces before HIM He was nos
easily feazed however. He went on.
s.NIen of Erns Isle he ventured. men with the
soon got down facts and presented his cause
with his usual clearness and ability. He made
one Of his most telling speeches. so his party said
ant when he finished there was mot whisper OF
applause: the silence appalling. However. the
members OF the firm approached. 1T was all o.
X" they told him. only every man we've sos
hannens TO ha blooming Engllshman"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
MORE FUNDS NEEDED.

1t is estimated that the department will need
between $25.OO0OOO and 5,5OOOOO for current
penses next year This would be between $2.5OO0OO
and $S,OO0OO0 more than was available last fall for
1905 The estimate for the general school fund.
from which the salaries of the teachers paid.
the principal item will require about S19SO0O0O and
the special school fund between @5o00OO and $780,
coo The chief item under this fund is that of sup
plies
The new teachers will cost it is believed, 1911 900
in the elementary schools, $2100O in the high and
training schools and about $4,000 in special
branches. The estimate for the evening schools
is about 100000 and for the recreation bureau
about $230,0O0.
The bureau of supplies is preparing for extern
sive economies in 1905 This year 1t saved about
$4,000 The supplies for next year will cost $l44S
423 so OF this sum S133. 1873 80 is covered by the
estimated increased attendance for 1906 of $3.50
children in new schools at 81 O1 each. OF the
$26I 423 % increase in the requirements $4,000 Will
go toward the equipment of the new Stuyvesant
IIion school OF the manual training In Man
haitian. and $4,000 toward the equipment Of the
teachers training school IN B[9o6yn $t1S0
Sl3 $50 for thIrtynine new kitchens and $500 for
additional vacation school supplies next summer,
1860 viii be used in caring for the estimated IN
n pupil $i5.50i will be asked for conveying emil
dren to schools in the thinly populated districts
dren OF abe East Side TO Public School No lOl in
Coal next year viii cost $45Scs So reduction of
Sl52G 81 from the cost OF coal for this year. in
schools TO he heated. Next year the schools Will
use $40 tons Of coal and III cords OF wood less
than IN 1903
The Incidental fund next year will require Sll2.-
127 Last year $4,000 allowed. and 1t is gone
now. The printing Of the Beard Of Education VIII
cost $4,000 for this year; the telephones, $1,000 and
stamps 5000. The other ncidontal5 come TO less
So O0 SIS will be required for supplies for
the two truant schools and board bills for
child incorrigbles in outside institutions. The
school which is TO be opened in Queens next
spring viii perhaps reduce this item by withdraw
ing the children from outside quarters
Only $I 36, lS IS of the &9830001 required for the
general school fund next year Will accrue from
the legal app ppraon Of three mills each dollar
of assessed property in this city. The Board OF
Aldermen might injure the schools by refusing the
100000 additional thus preventing the appoint
ment OF teachera
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

Some new features will be added to the school
system in the year just beginning First Of ALL
there are $4,000 more sittings and 1000 new
teachers This year will the introduction OF
a new time schedule in the elementary schools. A
new teachers training school will be opened and
another will be turned over to the city by the
State. Trade night schools are to be opened III
the spring the most modern tuant school In ex-
istence will be ready for use.
The most important pedagogical work imme-
diateIy before the teachers will be the introduce
ton of the new time schedule. This has been ar
ranged by the Board Of Superintendent Of the
Department of Education the result OF two
cause.-the outcry against "fads and frills' and
the demand for shorter day in the first two years
of elementary school work In the new time
schedule both popular sentiments are met haII-
way The time devoted to certain on-essentlaIS
is reduced and boys are freed from the necessity
of learning to sew; while, in the first year. ninety
minutes daily devoted to recreation instead OF
to study periods. These changes have been an
nounced to be ''readjustment' Of the course OF
study after two years trial of the heretofore ex-
listing conditions
The following is the time schedue aTrdhseu
on the basis of 1900 minutes week:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.

intermediate schools will be established at PUBIC
cobooI No "a at 128th-st. and Madison-aVe ana at
No g. at Hester, Essex and NorloiA s'S' II. ~ ~
~ [.ld,,, +ventv-e!ght rooms will be used for
.ta danartment. and in the second fifty rooms a
,nta of 900 sittings No other schools OF the sort
In he established until the results of the work OF
these have become evident The intermediate schooi
=, orLing toward another development the sec
- - oLooI or pre-academic school When that
bItsbed It will have the work of the last two
- - +1a present elementary school course and
The first year of the present high schooi course
The high school course will be reduced 10 'nf''
The intermediate school plan is by no means
- Itch the educators of this city or Of this
liberation. It is simply the outgrowth OF the
Grammar school idea Grammar schools were es-
tablished in Brooklyn years ago. ana NaG as .l-Dl
l7,,,, elementary schools The ward
taIleS sur "cboois prevented its introduction into
an January / 1906 the Jamaica state SoT T
so6ooi beeorSsx the property OF the board OF Aou-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
SELLS LOTTERY TICKETS.

When it is realized that the schatchens-that
is. the most disreputable members Of this class
sometimes assume the character Of rabbis and
marry clients after having made the match in
their proper role; that they then, rabbis issue
gets and finally cap the bgamous climax by
providing husbands for both parties. their
power for harm VIII be appreciated. One other
phase Of the schatchen's activity-he is not only
agent IN the great game Of chance. namely
love, but also Of other hazards. He is the lottery
agent Of the East Side, and the vender Of financial
well matrimonial chances Moreover, he has
his corps OF assistants. his intelligence depart
rnent in the subsidized housekeepers Of big tene-
houses, and from them he learns Of the
eligible daughters He is not infrequently in
structor Of Hebrew. going from family TO family
teaching the youth. and incidentally discovering
opportunities for the main chance namely.
rage
When he has scented possible troker-made
union the schatchen seeks the parents of both
parties. He announces the probable dowry of the
bride and the prospects Of the man. Then tho two
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
TEMPTING PROPINQUITY.

boarder in some Jewish family, he is brought
in contact with the feminine fraction of the house
hold This acquaintance carries him to balls and
picnics concert halls and theatres all to him.
Here again this strange, charming creature the
American bonn bred Jewess. fascinates him. Her
charm begins to disturb him. The difference be-
tween her and the bewigged and orthodox house
wife he left at home weighs upon him The brill
liant American woman. with her gay dress, her
spirit Of independence and her thousand points of
superiority inevitably disracts his attention from
the poor old wife in Europe. Among the new
pleasures dancing is potent, also In Europe the
immigrant knew dancing except the gallop at
wedding when the male members Of the family
cavort together; in America the dance is no small
element in breaking down the family tie already
strained by the lapse OF distance.
In the midst of all this Frightening social eX-
istence the immigrant usually finds 1t convenient
to pose as unmarried. His popularity is far more
assured in this role, moreover, all inconventent eX-
home is forgotten, the prospect of a second con-
jugal alliance, this time with American Jewess
with hank account, is too alluring to re
sist. The girl. her side. has been educated
to the belief that matrimony is a duty as well as
an economic necessity. The crime OF blgamy IS
not fixed in her mind, for the potency of the rab-
bincal get" remains a salVe to her conscience:
With her money the husband secures a get
which. with a of money for settlement, he
forwards to wife No. / in Russia. Now wife
No. does not suspect the "get" is worthless in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
THE LUST OF THE EYE.

Another source of bigamy arises from a slightly
different set of circumstances The immigrant may
really bring his wife America. He may remain
faithful amid all the feminine distractions about
him, and with sore labor finally the neces-
sary money for her passage. On the great day he
goes Ellis Island to claim the wife of his youth,
and he finds bewigged and wizened little woman.
foreign in every detail, the absolute antithesis of
the bright American woman whose charms he has
so steadily withstood. For him illusion and do
nestle felicity end at the pier. The European wife
is immured IN a tenement. to keep house and do
the drudgery, while the husband soon begins to
bring to the abode of his feminine friends He
spends his nights out at the lodge and club he has
Joined The presence of the attractive American
girl soon starts a fine family 'muss." After many
Wrangles the contestants hnaly reach some sort OF
settlement. Usually the American girl puts up
money to provide get and a monetary salve for
the injured sensibtles of wife number one, mar
rying the husband as her reward This device lasts
for time, but later wife number one
criminal law on such a situation. She starts to
replevin her husband and the courts speedily have
bigamy case to unraveL Not infrequently the
sympathy of all concerned rests with the remarked
ana not with the first wife, who has sold out her
interest In her husband and then refused to stand
third class of bigamy practised frequently on
the East Side involves the schatchen in its proc
esses. A marriage is made which, either through
accident, is not recorded The rabbi performing it
may be totally ignorant of the fact that the cere
mony should be recorded. Then one of two things
on the scent df anotPer atrim@niai fee msV
inform the husband that the marriage is not bind
ing. If the union has been unhappy and the
dowry spent he will need little argument. AS much
as he needs the clever schatchen will supply IN
the charms Ct some female client Then wife
number one is divorced and there is a second mar
marriage of the first wife, of quadrilateral
bgamy. OF course If there is record of the mar
ly such case is complicated by a raj 6infcal d.
vorce Then both parties are likely to be black
mailed if one of them finds out that get ile-
gal. In this curious situation there is a first mar
rage without legal existence then divorce, equal
ly illegal, and finally process Of blackmailing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
DISCRETION IS COMMON.

Then there is the bigamy that springs out of the
romantic affection that ends in the eope-
of the immigrant boarder with the wife Of
self the plot thickens materially. The runaways
get married In another city and settle down. By
and by the deserted husband comes along. or the
deserted wife, both; then there all the pos
sibilities of a fight More frequent the cases of
simple desertion, where the husband gets tired of
the burdens of an ever increasing family, and is.
perhaps, the victim of financial troubles From
this situation he seeks relief in flight. Presently In
another city he finds better luck and another wife
and settles down again. Ultimately, the usual dis
ing Nemesis invades the quiet peace and prosperity
OF the second union and then there is typical case
of bigamy.
These fair samples of the thousand and one
giles of the East Side. all of which involve bigamy
That WitZhoff could operate in such COM
munlty is neither hard to understand nor difficult
to believe To the average Jewish girl who has
not been fairly Amer,caniZed the European idea
of marriage economic necessity and an
The Schatchen is a recognized agent. The rab-
bintcal divorce is final and irrevocable separa-
ton. Her attractiveneSS she we'll knows, Increases
with the size of her dowry All this is disturbing
situation but It has its brighter phase With the
American born and educated Jewess the schatchen
and the rabbnica1 divorce equally hateful
She has need of broker to get her husband
When her anxious parents bring to the house
she sends him about his business with a hearty
benediction Of American slang. Moreover, she not
only chooses her husband but she keeps him In
truth 1t is a fair statement of the situst ton TO
say that he seldom finds any reason to wish TO
leave her. Bigamy is survival of old Europe on
the East Side, but Young America has no share
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

families meet and discuss the business advantages
OF such union. These preliminaries over, there
follows the 'brautshau'; by translation. the bride
show. Dressed up in her best the girl is exhibited
If she satisfies as well her dowry. the final
treaty is drafted and signed, treaty with in
demnity to both the schatchen and the prospective
husband and a marriage follows soon.
Passing from the schatchen-made variety, the
student of East Side bigamy will find few
other interesting and significant causes for this
evil in the ghetto all less closely related
to the rabbinical divorce. The following were sug-
gested by a prominent resident of the East Side
who has made careful study Of conditions there
First among these is the bigamy incident to the
separation of and wife following the immigra-
ton of the former TO America. Usually the man
precedes his family by several years at the end of
two years he has saved enough to bring his chill
dren 1t may be four five years before the
bined earnings of children and father large
enough to warrant bringing the wife Meantime
the immigrant has been subjected to certain dis
quieting circumstances. He goes TO work in
factory and the first time sits touching elbows
with women. In Russia the sexes separated
in shops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
WAYS OF MARSHALL FIELD
Hoo the Chicago Drygoods Ma"
Conducts His Business.

Chicago, Sept. 10 Especially interest was
taken in this city in the marriage OF Marshall
Field and Mrs Cation. which took place the
other day In st. Margaret's Church LONDON
as Mr. Field has long been Of so much business
prominence here.
One of his ruling characteristics Is MS Li'ol-
erance of delay in any purpose he seeks to &C
conpIish. In such matters the cost is of little
consideration with him, provided he has de-
cided in his own mind that the end he seeks is
desirable At such times he becomes impatient
to do things for himself, and although amply
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
caA4 Advances Along Well in Some Others
Will Be Made in New York This Year

Anniversary Day. The Sunday schools Of the Dor
ough have observed this festival for many years
and the local Department of Education accepted 1t
without question. After consolidation the Board OF
Education took a stand antagonistic to the grant
ing of holiday for the occasion. The arguments
against the granting of a holiday to the children
for Anniversary Day were two-that Saturday
might be chosen as well school day. and that
one borough should not be favored above another
missioners to grant a holiday last spring opposi-
ton developed and his motion was lost. The Brook
lyn Sunday school authorities went TO Albany for
relief and the Governor signed the bill emitting
the children to a day of freedom from school for
Anniversary Day. .
In the coming year the truant school IN
Queens will be opened. 1t is now being erected on
a farm of 100 near Jamaica 1t Is hoped mat
this Institution will be ready by April or May
The school Is being built along the lines OF the best
and most successful truant schools of the country
cipal models There is to be main administrative
building and various special buildings The chi
dren will be housed in cottages and q new cottage
will be added whenever neceSSarT.
The present truant schools of this city are IN
ADEQUATE for of all the boys found lncorrlgl-
HE The new compulsory education laws permits
the school authorities to retain the lnInat les TWO
years. making the accommodations all the more
INADEQUATE. The hoys to be taught everything
chat they would get IL the ordinary schools ana
,,iany 0tbe, things. such agriculture and horJ-
culture There will be no whipping at the school.
All forms of corporal punishment at the Tuant
schools were abolished at the time that they Were
stopped in the regular schools The new institution
will he called the NeTy-YOrk Parental School
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
TEACHING THE TRADES.

A marked advance will be made in the evening
schools when they open on September % Thls VIII
be the teaching of trades for the beneht OF lhe
young who starting out in life. DIT. Matthew
7 E,Igas the district superintendent in charge OF
the night schools took great care in adjusting ms
position with the trade unions de asserts thal
he is going to teach the philosophy or trades
supplementary not elementary, instruction. Even
ing trade schools for men and women will De
opened at the Manual Training High School, at
7tb-aye and 4th-st Brooklyn and at the Bryant
High School, Wilbur-ave and Acadehy-sl.'
Iaf6naicS I0ne Island These two high schools are
esneciallv adapted for the teaching of trades and
MS any other similar schools in the world. Here
tofore some attempt has been mace IN tile evening
vniine who have started out to learn trades, but
before been tried anywhere 80, .,
The trades in which instruction of both theoretic
and practical nature viii be given are carpentry
and ioinery cabinet making, pattern making, oiack-
smthing tinsmithing PlumDhgi mdGr nttir5 5nop
mechanical drawing. machine design, architectural
drawing electrical ann ton Industrial Chemistry
and appIied physics for the men for tie women
Jro,,etting millinery and domestic science with
particular attention paid TO the co-orolia'oh VI
menus I'm Speaking of the need of trade schools, DR. Ell
gas said recently W are ~, az ii. era trnoad t
%IIGH R%caiIines Of life well as the profess
slons mas on the part the people that
R0ard of Education shouid pIoVnIIe - a. oppoiI
ta au for the battle OF life. Our successful
professional men recognize tHe
business S ar Educational system that VIII enable
the pupil to his Twins n 0r @ coee ereS nj MIN
for Ssa majority of boys never enter the
high scnool Oh 80 on completing the elementary
sehoo Or gce en a Feaeh m hS
highest grace % the high school drop out before
I'll the end Of These R sc60 Rs the
duced TO onIv Of themselves but OF the commu-
Ry large , TO be e9nf ans0 ourselves to the
Tnards of localities"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
CONVICTIONS ARE RARE.

There remains other potent factor in the
bgamy of the East Side Not only IS the crime
frequent, but the conviction IS wellnigh impos-
sible This phase clearly explained by Mrs.
Rosalie Loew Whitney, who, attorney for the
Legal Aid Society in past years. accustomed
30 meet with weekly average Of twelve cases Of
deserton or of other domestic trouble arising out
of bigamy. Mrs. Whitney said:
The plain fact is that it is not only one Of the
commonest of local crimes, 1t is also one of the
safest. The reasons for this are not hard to find
First of all you have the difficulty of language
standing in the way of securing evidence. Then
you have such compIicating circumstances as the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
MORE VACATION SCHOOLS.

So, successful have the various activities OF the
recreation bureau been this year that movement
has been started i'll the Board OF Education 10
Increase them if the funds can he obtained Next
summer if all goes well, the vacation schools Will
number forty-one instead of thirty-three. and the
Fairgrounds lightweight instead of siXty-nlne The
number of Fairgrounds where mothers may take
their babies will be increased from eight to ten
and fourteen roof Fairgrounds will be opened IN
stead of eleven. The recreation centres which open
only, from October to June viii be increased from
tventv-one to twenty-nne, and the public baths
will he kept open all year round To make Poss.PI7
tbe extension of the work of the recreation oCtSu
it will be necessary for District SuperlI Gu
FIvangeIine E Whitney to have $500 4l4oie ''-
i9o6 t6an she had for this year, or $Z2S'yp +s
There are 10I public school buildl.ss WIN W. 6'5rS
for los qIj pupils either Just completed III GU
Of construction whose plans are ready oi o ere
advertisng of bids u.lol them OF the w IN 10
are n which have been begun ana "a t IN VII ~
started as soon the contracts Tor liIII
lion can be let The schools that are IN me -
of construction Will seat 9t'Ioo puPi' 4
TO the city is to DE N3, $780, Ol ,o. 90 sittipgs
The following table shows the nu5noeI G 49, com
that will be furnished by the buiiuli57 J"7
pIeted and still under contract;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

oo+,or A committee Of city officials is now fgur-
Ing on the value Of the institution f9g tne that Pl
Ptbo Iands buildings and appurtenances thereunto
Belonging shall transferred and eonX I ed to the
city school and public school on the first day
Of January 1906 upon terms to be nG of Iu Mayor
SppDtroIier and President of the Board of Educa
ton of the city and Conmlsslonei ol '''1
This win give the city five fine schools for train
-, - +aachers one in Queens. two in Brooklyn
nIs nF which is not yet completed, and two in Man.
Rattan The great majority Of teachers VINO haDe
&c, a5uated in Jamaica in recent years teach
e., E2nard o. EducatiOn.