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The sun., 1907-12-16
NEW FORM OF WELFARE WORK
FREE SYNAGOGUE TO HAVE 4
RABRT FOR THAT PURPOSE.

First jewish Organization 60 Take such n
step, n % Declared Jacob schlH says
the Movement May Advance Judaism
Views OF the New worker Heard.
The Free Synagogue Of West Eighty
first street. Of which Dr. stephen s. Wise
is rabbi. held a meeting last night for the
purpose of initiating and organizing the
social service activities of the synagogue.
The Rev. s. ". Goldstein has iust been
appointed assistant rabbi 90 look after the
sociological work i'm this city. The Free
Synagogue ir the only Jewish religious
organization in the country to have such
an office and the meeting last night was
held in celebration Of the circumstance.
Addresses were made by Jacob II. SchifS
the Rev. Gaylord s. White. head worker
of the Union Settlement at 1O4th street.
and DR. Wise and Mr.. Goldsteil.
The last named subjected the present
methods OF relief work. both public and
private. to a severe arraignment. Mr..
SchiR said:
This movement which you are inaugural.
ing may well become inside Judaism what
the Ethical Culture movement has amounted
to outside OF Judaism. There is nothing
more cruel in this world than Spencer's law
OF the survival OF the ffttest and any move
Y
souls left behind in the struggle cannot but
meet with the full approval Of any right
minded man.
Mr.. White in his address had this to say:
It is refreshing to find at last religious
body which makes social service basic
and not merely an auxiliary part Of its work.
The step is 50 rational. so obvious, that 10 Is
hard for us to realize how revolutionary II all
is. Yet up to twenty years ago Ht the most
am now speaking Of the Christian Church,
which I know bese-all ecclesiastical efforts
were directed simply toward the Individual,
to the salvation of souls rather than to the
salvation Of society.
Rabbi Goldstein then made an address. in
which he outlined his duties and inciden-
tally Iaid his respects 70 the present man
ner OF conducting relief work.
1t is too limited. too fragmentary." he
said. Rarely is it carried on as whole:
rarer still is it to find Q correlation Of the
different branches Take for instance the
method of administering the orphan asylums.
The good man dies. the children are pro-
vided for. but the mother 10 neglected. No
one tries to get her suitable employment;
no one tries 20 make accommodation for her.
Is that right or according to the Jewish ideal
Of Justice. do you think?
Take the hospitals. Prior to a couple OF
years ago their only interest in a case was a
surgical or medical interest. II the mans
family starved while he was undergoing
treatment. If the man himself died after dis
charge and during his convalescence, why, It
was no affairs Of theirs. Recently. however.
they have begun to realize that there is some
thing more To a sick man than his sickness
and have begun to look into the attending
circumstances of each case. But this work
is still very incOmpletely done.
The sun., 1907-12-16
DEAD. AND HI ISBIND GONE
Newark Police Looking for Man Who Is
said 20 Have Mestem ISIS Mfe.


Mrs. Ellen Scott, ~ years old, of ~ ProoYne
street, Newark, was found dead in bed ir
the home OF Mrs. Frederic; Weels at CI
South Orange avenue, that city, yesterday.
When the Circumstances tha: preceded Mrs.
Scots death were made known to County
Physician Elliott, he decided to perform
an autopsy on the body to-day and ordered
the arrest Of tie woman . husband Matthew
Scott, pending all investigation
Last Thursday Mrs. Scott complained
that early that morning her husband struck
her over the head with stove IiFtet This
complaint Was dismissed by Judge Herr in
the Second Criminal Court after Scott was
arrested Mrs. Scott talked 80 much while
the Judge was trying to get at the facts
that he ordered her out of the court room
and discharged Scott. Scott at the time
said his wife's heavy drinking was the
cause Of their domestic troubles.
Mrs. Scott refused to return 10 her home
and went to live at n Milton street Satur-
day night she appeared at the home OF her
friend Mrs Weeks, and asked the latter
TO shelter her for the night. She said her
husband had found her stopping place
and had assaulted her again. She said
she feared her spine was broken az a result
of a kick. When the story was related by
Mrs. Weeks to the County Physician the
latter asked the police TO arrest Scott.
Scott had not been apprehended last night
The sun., 1907-12-16
FISH FOR ILLINOIS DIRECTORS
Declares he Proposes TO Fellow the spirit
and Letter Of the state Law.

anu ShbtO Law
CHICAGO. Dec. l5.--It was stated by per-
sons in tho confidence Of Stuyvesant Fish
who talked with him at the Auditorium
Annex to-day that he intended to name as
his candidates for the Illinois Central direc-
tory three citizens Of the State OF Illinois
and himself
Over a wear ego Mr. Fish asked in
directors meeting whether II was not
legsIly required that a majority Of ths
board Of directors should be citizens Of
Illinois. The que stiOn was referred To
counsel for the company. No PnsweT wes
made until early last summer when an
opinion wcs rendered 10 the sfeCt that
inesmuch as the charter VI the Illnoie
Central Entadsted the law requiring
a majority of Illinois directors in an Illinois
railroad corporation. counsel was in doubt
Mr.. Fish declared to-day that he thought
the Illinois Central could not do better
than 20 conform to the spirit OF the present
Law.
FAC. that in a circular dated November 81
signed by Il. II. HaTriInan'and seven uf his
fellow directors the following stat e:nent
ras mRde:
We therefore believe that the welfare
" the COMPANY villa be promoted by
giving OF proxies 70 President Harahan
and Secretary Hack sta1. who intend 10
vote for the reelection Of MessTs Astor.
Hartman and Hackstah tone of whom
had been a director for twenty-four years.
one for fourteen years. and one secretary
or viue-president for ninetsGn years. and
for some prominent, responsible and
thoroughly Independent man for the re-
raining position 10 be filed"
Two ur three TnoIths ago the name OF
the president Of a great hicaGO tank was
mentioned AS Mr.. Hartmann 5 fourth Candi
date and 1t was even runored by his fol-
lowers that he contemplated putting in
two Illinois candidates. Little has been
heard Of the bank presidents candidacy
oH late, and it Is understood that he will
not be On the ticket.
The sun., 1907-12-16

childhood. She want while still q young
girl 20 travel In Europe with her parents
and to study singing and music in Rome
and Florence. II was in Florence that she
met the late Hubert CTsckenthorpe. who
inspired her with desire 10 write. IL was
also then that she met the young Bavarian
baron. who courted her In French. because
he knew little English and she knew less
German. She is described in the BOoSHaGn
as doing her work in her husbands g ancestral
Castle OF Steinbach, with gray stone tur-
rets and time worn walls Once started on
novel she writes for hours every day in a
white beat Of enthusiasm, not allowing
herself 10 be disturbed until her allotted
task is finished.
nr. s. Weir NIitchells new novel "'The
Red City" begins in the January Century
and will run through the volume. H. is
announced as a mate 10 Hugh Wynne,'
and the earlier chapters introduce some
OF the characters of tho story Of Hugh
Wynne.' A young Huguenot emigr6 is
the hero. and the scenes are set in PhiIa-
delphia In the time Of Washingtons second
Presidency.
Allloverso OF old books are familiar with the
volume put together by IEaak Walton. which
In as the title page explains "a collection
Of lives letters. poems; with characters of
Slndry personagss and other Incompatible
pieces Of language and art by tho curious
pencil Of che ever memorable Sir Henry
Wotton.' MFR. Izsak Walton did not belong
to the modern school Of scientific historians,
and his book. while n delightful bit of per-
sonal reTniniscenoe. is not complete and
IL often inaccurate. Mr.. L.. Pearsall Smi tn
presents this year q new Life and Letters
Of Sir Henry Wotton." The greater part
Of these letters have been found among
the Venetian papers se the Public Record
ONCE. where they have been buried under
the dust Of some three hundred years.
The archives Of Florence, Venice and Lucca.
as we'll AZ the manuscript collections Of
English country houses, have been ran
sacked for documents concerning this dip
lonat. who was born four years after Shake
speare and lived until the eve Of the civil
war.
Edward Frederic Benson. who at the
age Of rs startled the London world by his
satire on a certain smart and intellectual
section Of society, published under the
title OF "Dodo." is the third son Of the late
Archbishop Of Canterbury. The heroine
OF his story was said TO be- a real person
whom everybody knew and one Of the chief
spirttsin founding that esoterio ooterie -The
Souls OF which one of his near relatives
was a shining light. Mr.. Benson is de-
scribed by Ella Hepworth Dixon al "slert,
witty. charming talker, and still on the
sunny aide Of forty" He lives in a pretty
house in Chelsea, filed with his two hobbies
old Jscobean and Georgian silver and old
French and English furniture
The sun., 1907-12-16
ROBBED. SAYS DIR. CRONSEN.
And HAS otto Weiss. q Former EmUIo, &c
Arrested.

Otto Weiss oT $40 Fast Eighty-thiri
street was locked up yesterday afternoon
at Police Headquarters on a charge OF grand
larceny. preferred by DR. Reuben Cronsen
of 1873 West i22d street.
Dr. Cronsen told Central Office detectives
that while Weiss was in his employ last
month he stole a diamond brooch valued
at s6OO. a rair of or era glasses worth Sa,
and about sI5e worth OF clothing. Weist,
was found by the detectives at 100 Elton
avenue. The Bronx.
The sun., 1907-12-16
RATE CASE TO SUPREME COURT.
Judge PrItchard signs Final Order In suit OF
O.. A. N. 70. 10. vs.. virginia Commission.

AsHEvILLF, n. C., Dec. Is. United States
Judge Pritchar1 has signed the final order
in the case of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad against Prcntiss and other rail-
road commissioners for the State Of Vir-
ginia. The defendant entered three pleas.
which were each In turn overrlled by Judge
Pritchard. who sustained the jurisdiction
of the court.
The case will go to the Supreme Court.
az the defendants in the case have already
filed petitions OF appeal. which have been
granted.
The sun., 1907-12-16
4. \. Steel 90. TO Consolidate Tube Selling
Agencies.

PITIsEURG. Dec. l5.-The sales depart
ments Of all the big tube interests OF the
country are to be centred under one head
at n Broadway. New York. after january 1 j..
The National Tube Company. with six plants
In Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana: the
Shelby Tube Work 9, with six plants scattered
and the Western Tube Company of Kee-
vance Ill.,. will all consolidate their sales
departments. The three big conoerns con
stitute the tubo making end OF the United
States steel Corporation.
The sun., 1907-12-16

guarded Last night she broke loose and
when Howell went into the barn she charged
him, knocked hkn down and ore him Will,
her horns.
and with a pitchfork she drove the COW
out of the barn. NeiRhbors were sum
InOned and carried Mr. Howell into thc
house, where doctors treatment was In
vain.
The sun., 1907-12-16
NO MORE BAD MOVING PICTU RES.
Makers. Renters and Users Of Films Form
Protective Association.

CHICAGO, Dec. i5.-At the same time that
200 manufacturers. rensers and users OF
moving picture films formed a combina-
ton in Chicago last evening it was pledged
that no more Objectionable picture films
known al the United Film Service Pro-
tectivs Association Of the United States.
The following officers were elected:
President. J. x. Clark. Pittsburg; vice.
president. Fred G. Aiken. Chicago; treas
ursT, Percy G. Waters, New YOrkg
The sun., 1907-12-16

The Baroness Won Hutten, che author ~
Pam and Our Lady OF the Beecbes,'
was bern in AI1cIicP, where she rasSsd her
The sun., 1907-12-16
GOREp 10 DTATH EY . COW
AGED garmer's MNc Drives thr vicious
Animal Away Toe Late.

EAs1PoRr, T.. l.. Dec. l5.--Nat Howell.
x, wears old, farmer OF this village, was
cored 20 death by d COW this morning.
The COW had long been considered danger
oIs and was usually kept securely tied and
The sun., 1907-12-16

The scene OF the first part Of Vaughan
Kcster's John o Jamestown is laid in
Westmoreland county. England, where MIR.
Kester lived two summers ago. The little
village stands near the site of Roman
camp. the lead seals OF the Roman soldiers
are still found in the soil. and tho road
built in the time OF the C,esars crosses in
front OF the hOuse The book was written
at -Ben Venue" OH the hanks OF the Po-
tomac. Mr.. kester. who seems 10 have a
fancy for old places. ia now moving into
Gunsivn Hall in Fairfax county. Virginia.
Il was the home Of George Mason, author
Of the Virginia bill Of rights. and IL is a ira
dition that Jefferson there made his first
rough draft of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence. Mr.. kester is cousin OF William
Dean HOwells and brother Of Paul Kester
the playwright.
The Baroness Won Hutten, the author oe
Pam and "our lady of the Beecbes,' =
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rorefully Hidden Studio in Mev York
Where Stanford White Entertained
Men of His Stripe in WAYS Thar
Riualed Days of Fabled Eastern
Luxury
Was House Within a House Where
the Light of Day Never Was Az
lowed to Penetrate---Only by Sc
cret Passages Could Entrance Be
Gained.

yow York. 49, Ever since Eve
Nesbit Thaw told her story
tho witness stand so that
mon might Judge whether its tell
we're not enough to turn husband
sa--eyen before that, ever since the
mi shot that killed Stanford White
!, lime let loose on the ears of men
nrtess stories of revel and debauch
N only legions of shameful ghosts
smed left to guard the memory of
dead architect, curiosity has been
avn irresistibly to Whites Twenty
NTH street studio. 1t is the place
sieh Il half the stories told were
No White had dedicated to that part
his life which ultimately led him to
death-the place where he played
yde with few depraved companions
ME TO all the rest of the world he
as distinguished and an envied
xvii; a place which was heaven of
&auty, and also, according to report,
helof sin.
j No other spot in New York has so
hired the imaginations of thousands.
d other spot has been at once such
4 commonplace of gossip and yet so
8terly unknown, such a closed mys-
8y to all. And today, stripped of
uch Of its mystery and of all the
amour and lure of it's wonderful
easures of art, with only the dull
bier walls left to give mute testi-
Ony to the reality of the wild scenes
ley once sheltered, it remains with
b parallel in the history of this or
BY other modern city.
July Well Concealed.
1t Is not just suite of rooms or
be or more floors of a house cleverly
ftected from the observation or in
tson of other tenants. Still less is
an ordinary house. the windows of
fich, however thickly curtained
q screened, must still look down on
ssersby in the street below and be
posed in turn to the curious gaze
any and all who cared to raise their
Dads.
You may have trouble to find this
zee" Wrote Harry Thaw when he
H appealed to Anthony Comstock
d the Society for the Suppression of
Zee to put stop to the infamous
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I othef men he would ind no hint IN
lead him to that of Stanford White
mat gilded temple of the senses
STANDS apart, a house almost within
mouse, inclosed within two rows of
other houses with blank walls ON all
sides to shut it off from all view and
observation. 1t was place used only
IN the night time and, with no need
Tor the light of day, ordinary windows
ana their outlook had no place in the
designers plan. Only secret mas.
sage. cunningly walled off in the main
mousse fronting on Twenty-fourth
street, could it be reached, and only
through a secret door which slid open
at the touch of hidden spring could
friend or visitor enter that passage.
Belongs to Other Days.
The studio is situated in the small
open court that lies between the rears
of the houses on Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets. AS II stands
to-day. dismantled and untenanted. it
NcNiu hhuht an lutdl haunt LOT XIII
napers or counterfeiters, or any of the
other desperate plotters who figure so
largely in romantic novels, and for
this reason, even in its present, it's
most commonplace aspect, it seems to
belong to medieval days, an age
younger by centuries than busy, prac-
tical, modern New York. But as it
was when Stanford White was the pre-
siding genius there, lavishing all the
brilliancy of his perverted fancy on
nightly entertainments so bizarre that
no roue was so jaded that he did not
eagerly seek an invitation to attend
1t belonged to the days of tabled east
ern luxury and splendor, the days OF
the Arabian Nights, with all their wiz
ardry of imprisoned genii, enchanted
palaces and young girls beautiful as
the dawn.
And the site for this lordly pleasure
house, this secret haunt where the
master might hold his visitor prisoner
for hours or days, this dream house of
art and abandon, of refinement and
revelry. was chosen, as if in deliberate
Joy in the contrast, in the heart of the
most respectable and commonplace
surroundings.
Il sat up in the bed and started to
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-"~Qh.s-~aN"~--V>.s-~eN
I Charles Edward Sells an Invention |
! By Harrison Rhodes 8
E}yt--Nt~s~tr-e-%l~~.s
By Harrison Rhodes


creetly," he would have liked to say
of purchasing a FIVE dollar &c Id piece
for dollar" he said instead
lie Went no further. for the youne
woman clasped her hands together In
AN apparent ecstacy of innoc Ince and
rapture.
oh, | should Just love to- she said.
II hope IT is IA good thing Ls
II? II looks very funny to RE some
how.
Everyone started This then was.
the explanation of the young man =.
seeming madness
Lady Angela again produced gold
piece and looked appealngly at the.
men around. Moved by chiValry and
by the love of sensation also, they
rushed forward to examine the coin.
ITS bad one. madam, II ever
there was" said reporter with red
hair.
81 think it's horrid of him." com
planned the young woman, tlrning an
accusing face upon Charles Edward.
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Few Knew of the Place.

Will ruin.
Few Knew of the Place.
Very few persons ever dreamed Of
street studio" Some of these were
workmen, who constructed it under
the architects own direction; others,
those in his service, who from time to
time would carry there his choicest
art treasures. One at least, we'll
known fire insurance man, must have
known it-for the house and its con
tents were insured for thousands of
dollars.
Others who entered there were club
men, like himself, Apostles of the I'm
usual, ever seeking a new sensation;
young women of pleasure flattered by
the notice of one in the front ranks of
wealth and fashion; little country
MICE" like 16-year.old Evelyn Nesbit,
whose fresh beauty gratified him in
the splendid setting provided and
whose senses were Immediately dazed
by the unwonted, oriental luxury Most
of the visits there were made at night.
Many of the guests would have been
unable afterward TO find their way
there Enough, it was Stanford
Whites domain, held beneath the spell
of his genius. How he first conceived
it, bought it, built it, threw his thick
mantle of secrecy over it, nobody
knew.
Just why the house came to be dis
mantled, and when, remains myB-
terry. Dinners were given there up 10
within very few weeks before the
night of June %. Perhaps some rumor
| reached the owner-who knows? Sc
! crecy is ever on its guard; to be in
vestigated" most trying to the artistic
nature. Whatever the motives, dis
mantled it now is. The great mirrors
rudely torn from their fixtures, the
priceless Bokhara rugs bundled up In
| a hurry and smuggled away. The oc'
cupants of the adjoining houses con
| tinue TO go and come on their daily
rounds, with little thought of the grew
some house in their rear, What Is
! likely to become of it is hard to pre-
J dict. Stanford White is dead; and the
veil of secrecy he drew over this, his
pet haunt. has been rent from end to
| end. P,t the house is still there and
| still his. No other occupant seems
likely TO hold II. 1t remains monu
ment to the Genius, Art and Ruthless
GeAj Of one man.
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a w,,tS which he said were carried
lOubIe" hum Its walls; you may have
Facealed." '"'S place. FOR 1t is well
,ap tro ooncealed it is. for though a
\ arch a, street aud number he might
! his wa, uay and never find 1t, going
\ had a ~, al last satisfied the address
he stroo was wrong. No stranger In
1anford I've ever saw the windows OF
Rss thu, mites studio; a man might
buse ash the outer door of the
1ilding wander all through the
Ay Sc. ana though he would find
10 the studios or rooms Of
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worked With the architect for . soid
week on the fairy.tale scheme. "It
cannot be done" was his own appalled,
objection when the plan first was un.
folded. I'VE will do it," said Stanford
White; and no conception proved too
novel, no price too high. for his fancy
and genius to overcome. 1t was in
this room that the great white bear
skin was spread on which Evelyn Mes
bit posed for some OF her best known
pictures and here were gorgeous ross
Du Barry portieres. curiously carved
pieces of teakwood and Japanese
furniture, rare lace curtains. screens
inlaid with ivory, and huge old cedar
chests carved deep with elephants
heads, with ivory tusks set in. Price
less rugs were on the floor, from
Khorassan and Serrebend, from Box.
hara and Tabriz, and on the walls
were paintings by Rubens and Gerome
and Millais and Bourgiono.
Whites Most Private Studio.
On the floor above was smaller
studio. fitted up with the same royal
magnificence. This was the room with
the red velvet swing and the big Japa.
nese umbrella in the ceiling through
which the feet of the swinger crashed
when strong arms pushed her high.
Here White had his ordinary living
rooms, bedrooms and dressing-rooms.
On the floor above, reached by a tiny
back stairway of which few indeed
knew the secret, was studio-almost
boudoir--smaller and daintier still.
Back of this, separated by curtains of
heavy gold-crusted tapestries, was the