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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
BADLY BEATEN FOR sofa
Printers Devil Takes Wrong
Method to Get Tourney Fee.

Fourteen cents was small recompehse
for the beating Thomas O'Connor re-
ceiyed when he was caught stealing
money from Morris LibewitB trousers In
tho gray dawn Of YESTERDAY Lioe"itZ
had watched OConnor for some minutes
but when the burglar began to take out
fourteen pennies and count them-this
was too much. Libewitz rose up from his
bed and fell on O'Conuor, and then all
tho Llbewitz family. and, I'm fact, almost
every one In the tenement house at NO.
IA East l0sth street, Joined in, Justify
shouting Fire" Murder Police"
and Help" O'Connor was beaten 10 e
custard when a patrolman rescued him.
The prisoner said he lived at No. l25
East 1OSth street and was printer
devil. but had temporarily taken up the
profession OF burglar In order TO obtain
an entrance fee for Harlem pocket bill
iards tournament. The tournament was
held last night, but O'Connor could not
70. Tho police would not let him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
CAMP FIRES SPREADING
Girls Organization Now Num-
bers Nearly 5000 Members.

From Maine to Cal!fornis, Florida 20
Washington and Hawaii TO the District
Of Columbia the Camp Fires ara spread
Ing.
This does not mean war. II means
that the Camp Fire Girls. started a few
months ego under the direction OF DR..
Luther H. Quick, have been adding TO
their number, untiN now nearly eight
thousand girls are learning the pictu-
rescue ceremonials, and learning, too.
the previously plain tasks which the new
movement has made picturesque.
Getting DR.. Gulick to tell about the
tremendous success OF the Camp Fires
isn't difficult, because that is one OF the
things he likes to talk about; but Just at
present another subject shares the upper
layer of his thought. This he spoke
about before launching into the develop
ments OF the Camp Fire Girls.
Every one is contradicting what
said in Chicago the other day." said Dr..
Gulick. my position seems to be DIFF
ferent from that Of all the other fem
inists They say q woman ought TO vote
because she is, after all. much like a
to because she's so entirely different I
am what you might call radical con-
sentative. / don't believe she is chang
ing her functions. but she IS carrying
those same functions out into a broader
field and adapting them to new condi-
tions.
The Camp Fire Girls, by teaching tho
girls how to organize and at the same
time showing them the romance OF work,
can be made a powerful factor In the
transition. Women are getting 10 have q
consciousness not Of freedom but OF q
broader obligation, an obligation 10 the
whole community which is new, trenen-
dous and compelling.
Here is an illustration OF how we need
the different kind Of power that women
have. Men have made places out Of our
cities that are good to work In, but they
are not good places to live In. Women
have made our homes good places 10 live
IN. When women can do FOR the COM
munity what they have done to the home
a new world will be with US.
isn't 1t queer how we lose the beauty
OF the things that are close TO us7 ride
every day in the subway and go over
those wonderful suspension bridges, and
last week saw q biplane flying through
the air. Every day the elevator carries
Inc up forty stories to my office, 900 feet
in the air, and my little girl goes TO
school such as was never dreamed OF at
any time In the worlds history before.
For some reason or other We close our
eyes TO all this, perhaps because getting
used to things furnishes the gold.
THE fundamental purpose Of the Camp
Fire Girls is 70 treat the things Of daily
life 80 as to brush away the dull gray
coating OF apparent drudgery and revive
the inherent romance and achievement
and the adventure Of human life.
ITO learn how TO make ten kinds OF
soup and to stand before the ceremonial
FIRE and be honored for that achievement
IS not chlld's play. II is NOT gliding lead
1T Is cleaning gold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
NEW PAVILION NEEDED
Ferryboat at jackson st. Draw
back to tuberculosis Work.

Walk across tho slantinS deck ana
climb the almost perpendicular stairs
that give a backward sloping sensation
on the old ferryboat at Jackson street
and you Will know why an appropriation
of $4,000 has been asked for BUILDING
pavilion on the new pier.
The old ferryboat. which is used &c
day camp for incipient cases OF tubercu-
losis eats up It's maintenance allowance
IN repairs. II seems especially appro-
pirate that the nfesaving station 10 close
beside II. Mrs. Mandel, who is one OF
the most enthusiastic helpers IN tno
work says: Whenever We threaten 10
20 like McGinty to the bottom or the
sea. the lifesaving people come 10 the
rescue. Every now and then the old boat
springs q leak. and the first thing we
know we have three or four feet OF water
in the bottom OF IL"
Tho district which this day camp serves
is bounded by Stanton, Columbia ana
Rutgers streets, East Broadway ana the
East River, but whenever there ~ room
to spare applicants from OUTSIDE the uis-
trict ere accepted.
During the season when the sweatshops
are busiest the boat is not so full. Mrs.
Mapdel says: We cant get them !"
leave their work rs long as they can 90
It. and sone OF the men VINO 90 piesslnns
work at IL sixteen hours on a stretch
putting their entire weight on the IRON
You can Imagine how good that is for
Consumptive.
In the summer time the children do not
bother with schoolbooks. but that doesn
mean that they stop learning; some OF
the girls are dressing dolls and some are
making petticoats for themselves. the
prize for the best petticoat Will be enough
pretty trimming 10 go on II.
While the girls are WORKING on these
things the boys are struggling manlully
10 learn how TO sew a coat on 10 Dut-
ton. They will succeed in time.
Sewing is pleasant and profitable Tor n
while, but there is still greater delight
along the bank beside the boat. This is
the garden Commissioner Stoyer lets INC
children have. There are little beds for
more than nifty children. and when there
work in partnership. The garden IL
wonderful place, full Of rndishcs, be-
gonias, lettuce, nasturtiums, tomatoes,
sunfiowers, beets and other things Ike
that.
There is a miniature clinic room on
board the boat. and the only drawback is
the steepness OF the floor. which renders
the scales untrustworthy. Even TINS Us
not without !ts cheerful aspect though,
since they make the patient about three
pounds fatter than naure makes him.
The district 10 which the boat belongs
has, Mrs. Mandel says, great deal OF
incipient tuberculosis among It's jewish
Inhabitants. She believes that this sort
OF treatment is Just what they need. since
splendid vitality. II IL 10 this that she
attributes the remarkable success which
has attended the work OF this camp.
Tie new pavilion is needed not only
usefulness are limited. but because the
proposed pavilion would accommodate
many more paticnts and the demand for
such treatment Is great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS NEWS NOTES
Presbyerians Will Lay Cornerstone of Another Church for
italians Tomorrow.

PresbyterianG will lay the cornerstone
of another church for Italians to-mor-
row. The cost of the structure is TO be
$4,000. The land cost $40, 900 additional.
The location is in l06th street, near
First avenue. in the heart of an italian
quarter having n population of 10000.
About one third Of the money for the
enterprise comes from the late John S.
Kennedy bequest, but others of the
Presbyterian faith are sufficiently inter
ested to subscribe two-thirdS of the ca
pense. and they may eventually give all.
Representing tho Presbyterian Church
at the laying Of the cornerstone Will be
the Rev. DR.. Robert Mackenzie, late OF
Rutgers Church. The Rev. Norman VI.
Thomas and the Rev. Francesca Pirazzini
will assist him.
The proposed structure will have
front strongly suggestive Of Southern
Italian architecture. There Will be
basement containing an assembly room
and q church auditorium seating more
than four hundred. Clubrooms and Of
fees and roof garden are other feat
ures planned Until the new structure Is
completed the regular services and Sun
day school are being held in rented
quarters
There are three hundred Italians in
the neiShborhood who are now Presby-
terianS and more than three hundred
italian children ore receiving religious
instruction In the schools held each Sun
day. Speaking Of the work among the
N
NJ Thomas, familiar with conditions,
said:
We are not seeking 10 attract and
convert Italians who are true Catholics
and who find in their religion real
source OF spiritual uplift. There are
vast numbers Of Italians In New York
who arc Indifferent TO all churches, and
an increasing number OF them who are
distinctly hostile to tho Catholic Church
as they have understood II. Their oppo-
sition Is. am sure, not so much on doc
trinsl os on political grounds. Presby-
terians OF New York are not spending
money 70 get Catholics 10 become Pres
byterians, or even Protestants, nor are
they trying TO win away Italian chill
dren from Catholic churches. We are
trying to bring in Italians, parents and
children, who belong nowhere"
In 116th street, near Third avenue,
there Is the East Harlem Church, with
services in italian and in English, and
worshipping In 1t. but separately organ
lied, are the members OF the First Mag
var Church. In. The Bronx, at 153d
street, near Norris avenue is still an
other Presbyterian italian Church. There
is also a Neighborhood House in 11sth
street, near First avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27

''rhe whole trouble Is that woman
work has never been given status. il u
known whether a woman speaks we'll
writes well or dresses well. but how can
my wife be sure whether she is good
home nnaker7 Science is only possible
where measurement IS possible, and there
hasn't been any way OF measuring
woman's serious business In life. y!
giving an honor for three or four kinds
OF definite activities performed according
TO a recognized standard the Camp FIRE
Girls establish status for womans
work.
Have YOU noticed that after party IL
e quite an adventure for everybody
o1,ests and all. TO 20 to the kitchen and
wash the dishes? But, as my daughter
once remarked, they won't stay washed
The same thing has 10 be done after inc
next meal, and the next, end the next
when there arc no guests 10 make the
thing exciting.
MY daughter eaid 70 me: You go 10
your Office and work certain hours ana
then YOU are out, but at home am never
out- never get the house so clean but
Il could DO got cleaner, and everywhere
go unfinished work ia looking OF me and
calling TO me-
The Camp Fire Girls have endeavored
10 find some measurement OF the work
girls do, as we'll as to help them see the
romance of It. do not know how fair
those measurements arc, but that Is not
the point. The point is that everything
counts-and we never had that before
Tho principle Of giving definite rccogni-
ton for definite work in the home is new
In the world OF womon's work.
Domestic work cannot como into the
rank OF the worlds professions until u
can be measured ss other things are
measured
How are women going 20 learn this
eort OF thIng2 BY learning 70 DO team
work. Boys get licked into team work.
but girls haven't been getting any In
their training.
The Camp Fire Girls give oil girls
the opportunity OF learning how TO keep
step"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
CHARITY VETERAN RESIGNS
w. j. Nichols Ends Sixteen Years of
Service with Brooklyn Bureau.

william G. Nichols, for the last six
teen years general secretary Of the
Brooklyn Bureau Of Charities. No. 60
Schermerhorn street, Will turn over his
desk to Thomas j. RILEY. until recently
director of tho School Of Economic Re-
rearch. st. Louis. on August I. Mr..
Nichols resigned last year and his resig-
nation was TO take effect on May I. but
the officials had trouble IN securing
man 10 take up the work and asked Mr..
Nichols to continue with them until
August /. He has now consented to re-
main couple OF weeks after Mr. Rlley's
arrival 10 help him get acquainted with
the organization and It's methods
NO. I've got nothing in sight at pres
eiII.' said Mr.. Nichols yesterday when
asked II he was going to take some other
position. II want a rest have been
In this office now for sixteen years, and
in that time | have had only one good
vacation. I'm sixty years old now and |
feel that 7 need y breathiNc qpell"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
Work FOR HUMANITY
THE NEWS OF CIVIC AND SOCIAL pROGREN

ment Tcaretting the departure OF the lat
est Office boy.
"He was q perfectly good ONCE boy"
she said, until he got excited, and then
he was q little cross-eyed. Anyhow, l
never had FIVE duh minutes while lie was
here, between correcting him and laugh
ing"
This kind Of work is strain not only
on woman's judgment, quickness OF de-
cision and tact but there are many, many
times when her sympathy 's touched and
the happenings of the day make her sad.
No one likes to di5possess a family, and
It IS all The harder when an agent has to
put out q hard working, good wife and
mother because her husband is objection
able or won't work 10 pay the rent. 1t
isn't pleasant work either to serve dis
possess on a we'll meaning, deserving man
because his wife can't get along with the
neighbors and continually surs up STRIFE.
Besides these problems, which are, after
all, only tho commonplace ups and downs
Of the business, there happen OCCASION
ally other saddening things.
Not long ago q little hunch6ack WHO
lived alone without kith or kin died I'M
expectedly. The other dwellerB in the
house had their own companions and
their own interests and they came and
went as usual without missing him. Not
until his rent fell due was his absence
noticed. and then they found him.
Tho older OF these two model groups IL
a little further from the river-at Hicks
and Baltic streets Marie Saint-Gaudens,
a niece of the sculptor, has charge OF
these buildings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
MUST PASS INTO HISTORY
Famous French Market in New Or.
leans To Be Reconstructed.

New Orleans, July 26.-The French mar.
ket, which was established In the latter
part of the eighteenth century. is soon
to pass into its ample space In history.
The bazaar where four generations OF
New Orleans housewives bought their
story writers haunted dark hooks for
echoes of ancient New Orleans, is to be
sacrificed on the altar Of modern sani-
tation.
War on the househy is mainly respon.
slble for conditions that led up to the
edict compelling almost complete recon-
struction of the market
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
BRIDEGROOM KISSES HIM
Court Abashed by Excess Of
Bussing from Newlyweds.

Acting Judge Martin. OF Mount Vernon,
got kissed oftener yesterday than he
cared to be. He didn't mind the bride
saluting him on the forehead, but when
the newly welded husband bussed him
upon the check the court was abashed
Miss Della Reiss was arraigned on the
charge Of attempting TO kill herself.
When Judge Martin hoard she had done
go because thwarted IN Move and that she
was devoted to David Schier enough 20
marry him the court said that he would
perform the ceremony as soon as the
license was obtained. No timo was loat
getting the license, and after the cera-
mony came the kissing.
It appeared that tho young woman
father had other plans for his daughter
than that she marry a Bronx drug CLERK
but after Celia swallowed lysol the mat
ter passed out Of her parents hands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
UMBRELLA HIS UNDOING
Riley Got Away with Ice and Tongs,
but Sunshade Put Him in Jail.

Chicago July 26.-William Riley stole a
piece of ice from a wagon in North Clark
street. The ice was heavy, and he went
back and took the ice tongs. The sun
was not, the ice melted rapidly and Riley
took an umbrella from a stand IN front
of a furnishing store to protect the ice.
Riley was seen to take the umbrella
and this was his undoing.
He told his story TO Municipal Judge
Caverly to-day and was sentenced 20
thirty days in the bridewell.
TT would have been all right
hadn't taken the umbrella" Riley MUIR
INJURED, as he was led TO jail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
SHEEPSHEAD NOT A FARM
City's So, 300, 900 Assessment on Race
track Confirmed.

The Appellate Division Of the Supreme
Court. Brooklyn, has decided that the
Sheepshead Bay racetrack shall no long
or be considered farm land and that the
assessment of ;2.5OO,OOc placed upon It
by tho city IS fair.
The Coney Island Jockey Club, which
owns the land, conteuded that the track
could be assessed only as farm land and
that n fair valuo for It would be $780,
600. The club contended that at the
time the town of Gravescnd was annexed
TO the city of Brooklyn, I'm 1894, proVi-
sion was made that all land not then
laid out In streets should bo taxed as
farm land and that the provision bound
the city.
The Appellate Division holds that the
provision is 70 longer binding.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
NOT BURGLAR. BUT TENANT
Vigilant Patrolmen See Him Climb
ing Fire Escape for Dinner.

Patroman Pless ran hurriedly up the
stairs Of No. 1872 Washington avenue, The
Bronx, yesterday morning, while Patrol
man Nesbtt hustled up tho steps Of tho
next building. Both had seen man
climb the fro escape and 20 I'm third
floor window. Pless went up on the roof
and then climbed down the fire escape.
With drawn revolver he went IN the win
dow.
Hands up! he commanded Of a man
who sat peacefully eating at the table.
"Oh, put that thing up. 1t scares me.
Lcmme go on with my dinner" said the
man.
lie said he was Samuel Goldstcin. lie
lived I'm the nat and he had lost his keys.
And he proved It by his wife and the
janitor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
PEsTERED MAYOR; rs INSANE
Greek Who Accused Inventors OF Con-
spiracy Sent to Asylum.

John A. soubirous. a Greek, who has
been annoying Mayor Gaynor with let
tors and by calling to see him, was COM
mitted yesterday by Justice Giegerich 10
the Manhattan State Asylum for the In
sane en- Wards Island. The application
for the commitment was made by tho
Commissioner OF Charities, following an
examination of Soubirous by an aienist
who reported the man insane.
His deluslon was that Edison, Marconi'
Tesla and others had conspired to prevent
him from making living lie MADE
statement to tho court In ramplihs
way, in which he tried TO prove MS
charge OF conspiracy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
WHY BISSELL RESIGNED
Buffalo Man Finds State Hospital Du-
ties Require Too Much of Him.

Buffalo. July 2G.-ilerbert p. Bissell
to-day gave out this statement confirm
ing the report Of his resignation from
the state Hospital Commission:
I accepted the appointment reluctant
Is and with the understanding that the
work of the Office would require only a
part Of my time. I find that IL demands
substantially all OF my time. The Coy
ernor has known of my desire TO re sign
for n long time, and I fled my reSlCnn-
ton with him several weeks ago. Yes
terday / asked that he accept the resig-
nation at once but ut his request ! con-
scented To- remain with the department
some time longer
After the acceptance Of the reSigna-
tion / do not expo { TO be connected
with the state service In any way. In
my interview with the Governor yes
terday TO other subject was discussed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27

Boston is up to the ears In wide
spread agitation for moro chlldreH's play
grounds In the metropolitan psik system,
and at the psychological moment Mayor
Barry OF Cambridge mentions the fact
that his city pays the second largest
assessment for metropolitan park pur-
poses, but that very little Of the park
system thus paid for IS located In Cam
bridge.
1.-THE Daily Advertiser" says in an edi-
torial:
The metropolitan park system should
be for the use OF all the people, not
merely for the people who are wealthy
enough 10 own automobiles. or carriages,
or canoes, or motor boats, but for the
people who ride out 10 the parks on the
trolley cars as a memorable outing when
ever they can afford to pay the fares. The
parks should De made attractive TO the
poor as well as to the we'll 10 do. The
parks arc beautiful. but are for the few,
and they should he the great pleasure
ground Of the people OF the teneInents who
want to get way from home and the city
parks. occasionally, just as their richer
neighbors or townspeople do.
- costs veto 10 install n few swings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27

A complaint against the legislatures
that have failed to pass or even report
out OF committee bills to forbid marriage
without certificates OF health Is made by
the Ohio State Board Of Health In Its
monthly bulletin. But the resolution
adopted by many clorgymen 20 require
such affidavits before they perform the
marriage ceremony Sc ems better solu-
ton Of the problem. Without the sup
port Of those persons who perform mar
riago ceremonies no law could be Ter
fectly enforced, and with such support
no law Is necessary.
The same bulletin admits a few weak
points in legal armor by predicting that
dishonest physicians would flourish on
the income from false certificates, Just as
now there are those who write prescr1p-
tions for liquor in a dry land-when sum
ciently urged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
WOMEN HOUSE AGENTS
Their ArduOuS Work Requires
Tact and Judgment.
SETTLE MANY DISPUTES
Model Tenements" a Boon to
Poor Who Can't Afford
Airy Rooms Elsewhere.

There are two groups Of tenement
houses IN Brooklyn which are managed
o. women. One of these groups is famous
as tho Oldest model tenements" IN
America, and, though these buildings were
planned and erected more than thirty
years ago the philanthropy that prompt
I'd the experiment was so genuine and so
far sighted that the buildings arc still
model They have become classic Instead
IF going out OF fashion. How model they
are depends largely on the ability OF the
agent 10 play successfully a great many
roles. To be the agent for a big group
Of tenement houses IS to need enough
different kinds OF ability TO qualify FOR
dozen places. The woman who has thus
office Is called upon to act nnofhcially as
a fudge Of domestic relations, an arbiter
Of neighboriy disputes, an admonisher or
youth and q general source OF informa-
Jon and advice. Judging from Solomons
reputation, he never tried that Job. Be
sides these unofficial and entirely extra
services, the agent. acting IN her othcIa'
capacity, IS supervisor Of painters car
penters, plumbers and miscellaneous
workers, Including scrubwomen and an
Price boy.
This is g sample Of the problems nut
before her for arbitration:
"She spoke dreadfully 10 me- said
Mrs Blank, q tenant, OF her neighbor.
But, Mrs. Blank" ventured the agent,
''surely you must have said something
too. 1t takes two 10 make quarrel, you
know"
Indeed I didn't, miss. spoke very
nicely to her. did. All 1 ever remarked
was: What do you mean by raising your
children like Hottentots? You're crazy
and ought to go to the crazy house
Another difficulty brought TO the agent
for adjustment was between one OF the
stair cleaners and tenant who called
her out OF her name" The cleaners YER
Won Of the dispute, as she related It TO
the agent, was:
Please miss, she threw clean water
on me. and that's breaking the law. She
came upstairs and I only threw Dttle
of the water out Of my pail on her, end
The law never says anything at all, miss
about dirty water. But she threw clean
water on me, and / could have her ar
rested"
From the foregoing instances. which
are but two out of many, It viii be seen
that the woman who undertakes the agen-
cv OF tenement houses needs not oniy
the wisdom OF C Solomon. but the feciaI
control of a Sphinx, az well