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New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
BEST READERS
TWo-ThirdS of the Library Books
Go to Young.
WOMEN HEAR MISS TYLER
Official Story Teller Talks to the
Members of the New York
Jewish Council.

The children are the readers Of this COM
munity. according 70 Miss Anna G. Tyler,
who, as story teller for the New York Pub
lie Library to His Majesty the Child, has
an excellent opportunity for learning chill
drens literary tastes. Miss Tyler told the
New York section of the Council of Jewish
Women, at its monthly meeting. at Shea
rith Israel Synagogue. yesterday. how the
Public Librarys work OF catering for the
children had grawn in the last ten years.
Then she finished by telling a story. TO
which the two hundred women listened as
If they had been children themselves
Ten million volumes are given out by
our circulating department in the course
Of a year." she said, ''and two-thirds OF
these are to the young. In some OF our
East Side branches anywhere from 500 to
1,5OO books are given out to children in one
day. It's a wonderful sight to see these
little citizens crowdng In after school TO
get their library books. So crowded Is 1t
that in some East Side branches we have
had to ask the little mothers and little
fathers who must bring their babies along
TO come at special times on Saturday, Then
there is more room for the babies
"As soon as baby gets big enough to look
at picture books there is provision for
him in the chidrens room. The children s
rooms at some OF our public Libraries are
really charming places, with low tables
strewn with picture books. There is moth
ing fashy here. you may depend upon it
no comic supplements: only the good. old
things-Hans Christian Andersen. and the
Grimm brothers, that children always love-
and some new things. too, but always the
best things"
Children have natural taste for the best,
Miss Tyler said. and especially, she told
the Jewish mothers before her. the jew
ish children.
do you know what books those Jewish
children on the lower East Side call for
most?" she asked. The Bible and Shake
speare. We can scarcely keep enough Bible
stories to satisfy them, and you should see
how our Shakespeares are thumbed. Then.
there IS great demand down there for the
books that will make them good citizens
| have seen those boys and girls sit by
the hour over some book about civics or
the government OF our country. No one
need tell me that children are had. | nave
seen enough OF them I'm my library work
TO know that children are innate!y good.
Their invincibe tendency TO rise. in the
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
MAY BE ALIVE AFTER ALL
Woman Thinks Identification of
Brothers Body Wrong.

After removing from Potter's Field a
body she believed was that of her brother
and having IL reburied in the consecrated
ground of Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Anna
Most declared yesterday before Surrogate
Cohalan she was not quite sure that IL was
her brother; in fact, she had doubts about
the identity she made at the time-about
FIVE years ago
Mrs. Most's brother was John F. Muir
ply. He disappeared in 1907. when he had
s., 500 on deposit in bank. One day a man
who had given the name of John F. Muir
ply was taken dead from a Bowery lodging
house to Bellevue Hospital, and then to
Potter's Field. Mrs. Most heard of it, and
together with Mrs Murphy they went to the
pauper cemetery and had the booy ex-
humed.
Then II was shown that Murphy had
drawn checks on his hank account month
after the death of the man Mrs. Most be-
lieved was he Murphy's sisters divided his
money none Of the personal property be-
longing to his wife. The latter, not believ-
ing her husband dead started a search for
him and advertised, but without hearing
from Murphy. Now Mrs. Murphy has a
will which she would like to file If her hus-
band is dead.
Mrs Most, declaring that 1t was not her
brother whom she buried in Calvary Gene
terry, asks that the letters of administra-
tion issued to her be revoked, although all
the estate has been distributed and there
is due Mrs Murphy the proceeds of an in
surance policy which the company has re-
fused TO pay for lack of proof of Murphy's
death.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
W News Of ntgrgSt g.
" to ,Mgmgn ~

face OF all there is to keep them down. is
wonderful"
The storytelling hour was started in the
libraries about ten years ago, Miss Tyler
said. "One of the assistants at that time
told story to little girl who came for
books-a story about a tulip garden that
was turned into vegetable garden by a
practical person who considered that tulips
were no use. and about how, over the
grave of the old woman who had planted
the tulip garden. nothing but tulips would
ever grow; and how the fairies came at
night and rocked their babies in the tulip
cradles. The little girl listened with big
eyes, and when the story was done she
asked timidly:
Please, are you lady or a fairy?
THE story teller replied cautiously that,
we'll, she supposed she was a lady, but she
had seen so much OF fairies that she almost
felt that she was one OF them. Then the
little girl asked If she mightn't have the
book with that story In IT, to show her
grandmother, who loved flowers and used
to have a garden.
"'The story isn't in a hook the assistant
had to tell her, but you can remember IT,
you know, and tell 1t to your grandmother
Yes the little girl said 1 can And
she went happily off. And the assistant,
as she returned TO her desk. thought to
herself:
IF telling one story to one child has
such an influence, why not widen 1t outF
Well the work has widened. Last week,
at the Seward Park Library, 125 children
crowded into the room all at once to near
the stories told there. II is much the
same at all of our thirty-six branches.
There are some children who won't read,
but rarely one who does not love TO listen
to a story"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
DEFEAT FOR PRINCETON
clubmen Downed by Heights
Casino in Squash Series.

Squash players of the Heights Casino, OF
Brooklyn, defeated the team of the Prince
ton Club on the latter's courts at Gramercy
Park yesterday in the postponed series OF
the Metropolitan League championship
The final tally was five matches TO TWO,
Armin w. Riley, the Princeton champion
ana S. Hinman Bird, second string OF the
Princeton forces. both scored in splendid
style. Riley defeated Charles M. Bull p.,
me famous Crescent Athletic Club and
Sssino player, after three gruelling SETS
az 1918, 15-11 and 15-12 Riley was
steady and determined. He handled all OF
Bulls fancy wall shots cleverly and then
returned the ball TO Bulls back hand
Bird in his match also went the limit OF
tnree sets. with J. o. Low scoring at 1b-1l'
t-lb, 15-1I The Princeton expert hit
straight to the front wall with terrific
.orce. and in the rallies his speed overcame
LOWS clever handling Of the racquet
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
SCANDAL ON EAST SIDE
"RiChest NeWsboy" Says Wife Is
Gone with Another Man.

"Rauby" Kolotkin, who lives at No 81
East Broadway, is known throughout the
East side as the richest newsboy in the
world" and he bears his honors lightly.
He has stands throughout the length and
breadth of the city, and six of them at
Far Rockaway, where the summer folk buy
their magazines and papers.
Eight wears ago "Reuby' met pretty Es-
teIle Cohen. 1t was at Public School 1877.
where Miss Cohen was making two
speeches on vital topics Of the day-for gold
medals. Her first attempt was "Chinese
Exclusion Laws" followed by woman
Suffrage" and when Estelle got through
Superintendent Maxwell gave her the
medals-both of them.
'Reuby" was then just laying the foun-
dation OF his fortune He was introduced
TO Estele right there. He kept company
with Estelle for three long years until he
heard her whisper a shy Yes" TO his
pleading.
And what a wedding that was! All the
East Side was dancing and eating and
drinking-at" "Reuby's" expense-and then
they went TO live In the little fat in East
Broadway. A little girl came two years ago.
Every one envied "Reuby" and his happy
household and their entertainments were
famed afar. Three months ago "Reuby''
took in Louis Salmovitch as boarder, His
other name Is "Hoppy," because he's lame
in the foot "Hoppy" was poor and Kolot-
kin took pity on him, and told him he
could sleep and eat at his home and Hop
py" did. That is until five weeks ago. when
"Reuby's" brother Harry, who had TO sleep
on a couch complained that he was cold at
night. Then "Hoppy" was told to move.
The star" boarder went. breathing ven
geance, but things went on as before I'm the
KolotlSin home, as far "Reuby" knew.
He tells the rest of the story.
Would you believe 1t. meester? That
'Hoppy' feller is a loafer. Listen. He stole
my wife away and she was wearing all
them fine clothes. The two feathers in her
hat cost me so. The ring on her third
finger was worth 1866. and the pretty dress
cost me $40. 1t makes me sick in the head.
when l went to work at my stand on
Saturday Stella come and talk so nice TO
me all the time. Then at o'clock she left
me and said she was going home. l did
not see her any more. That 'Hoppy' feller
he got her-and all that jewelry! Then /
went TO where Iloppy' worked, an they
told me he had never been there since
Saturday. Then l got suspicious right
away. ran home. and everything was
mussed. My suitcase was gone and my
nashy neckties and pins and $2l for the
rent.
81 found out that when Stella talked so
nice to me on Saturday this loafer was get
ting my goods from the house here, and
a., ! they ran away together. Tonight /
sent out an alarm for them and full de
scrlpton of the jewels. Do You think
they'll get them? They cost me good
money"
Asked how much he was worth, Reuby
said: "Oh, what's the use2 Twenty-Five
thousand dollars, maybe more, | don't
know" He said he would forgive his err
ing wife If she came back-with the jewels
and the suitcase.
SUNDAYS NEW-YoRk TRIBUNE
Mailed anywhere in the United States
for $3.50 a year.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
WORLDS FAIR BEAUTY DEAD
Filing of Will Reveals Mrs. Nellie
H. Grants Distinction.

Through the filing of Mrs. Nellie Helmick
Grants will here yesterday It was learned
that the woman 10 whom the judges at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago awarded the prize
as the most beautiful woman in the United
States had died on August 16 last at the
Murray Hill Sanatorium.
Mrs. Grant was a native of Missouri.
She left her estate OF ST, 500 TO her aunt.
Mrs Annie II. Crotsenburg, of White
Plains, Mo. who had brought her up as a
child. She did not mention her husband,
Alexander y. Grant, or her father, Elias
s. .Helmck who lives in Mexico.
Mrs Grant died a day after she was
taken to the sanatorium In a box which
she left were found some papers, including
her will Mrs. Crotsenburg came here from
Missouri to take charge Of the effects of
her niece. Mrs. Grant made her will in
December, 1910, while she was living at
No 1877 Manhattan avenue.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
nelly BITS OF SPORT
lrbarIie Herzog Signs a Three
Year Contract with Giants.
aos1ER ALMOST COMPLETE
,vo, Street Opposed to Changing
Time for Baseball Games
to Begin.

.,,e 1Ierzog. the dashing third base
- the Giants, signed three-year con-
pan osterday. lie received the docu-
rae. sor,e time ago, but delayed affixing
men. .,srature to the same until he could
~ NcGraw and talk over the long term
o,osition. He came up from his farm
Hfeyyland at the time of the schedule
.,ng of the National League in order to
,he New York manager. McGraw was
.u,rp enough to make sure of Herzog for
VIZ ,,oars and the two men came to
terms readily,
rx, tbird haseman is the fourth member
..ho Giants 10 sign a long term contract.
s,orcuard signed similar document this
while McGraw and Matty did the
49, last wear. Larry Doyle Fred Merkle
~I chief Meyers are now the only play
=. who are not in line for the coming
season.
onnosition 10 the plan of starting the
.,ssbau games at 80 o'clock next sea-
am is found in Wall Street. A list con-
.s,,,ne four hundred names was posted on
,he Aoor of tho Stock Exchange yesterday
.rotesting against the change in time. IL
= ovnacted that several hundred more
..mes will appear on this list, while mem
80 of the Coffee, Cotton and Produce eX-
obonges are working in harmony with the
opposition Ill, 10
cancelled 10 miss the first few innings OF
: game If the time for starting is changed.
IN the other hand, there are thousands OF
commuters who are forced TO miss the last
,ew innings in order TO catch suburban
trains. so Joe O'Brien, Of the Giants ana
Tom Davis. of the Yankees have a dlfncult
task confronting them in trying 10 oe-
ternine what the majority wants
George NJ. Clark, Of the Sioux City team
Of the Western League last year. signed
a contract yesterday with the Yankees lie
&c q lefthanded pitcher Of great promise
and good judges who have seen hin say
he will make good" in fast company
Clark won fourteen games and lost four
taan last wear. He stands feet tall and
weighs 100 pounds.
"One Round" Hogan, the California hght-
weight. was matched last night 10 poX
"Packey" Mcfarland, the Chicago wizard
in tCr-round bout before the faIihohl
Athlet!, hub in two weeks
"Kiockout" Brown will either step down
a notch in the ranks of the lightweights or
else those who believe that he is an eX-
ageerated boxer will be forced to admit
his worth when he faces Matty Baldwin at
the National Sporting Club of America TO-
morrow night The silent and modest
Danny Morgan said last night that Bald
win was the most dangerous man in the
ring to-day, and that if the Dutchman
beat him decisively it would settle all
doubts about his merit.
Several boxing clubs will conduct bouts
to-niCht. The best of the lot will be
ten-round contest between Leo Johnson and
"Kid" Egan, of Washington. who meet at
the Malvern Club, of The Bronx. Irish
PADDY" and Louis De Ponthieu will cross
gloves at the American Athletic Assocla,
hon. Of Brooklyn; Johnny Daw and 'kld
Ghetto will appear at the Sharkey Siup
while Jimmy Flynn will face Tommy Carey
al the Maspeth Club.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
CARE OF BOOKS.

The care of books while they are resting
on the shelves does not receive as much
consideration as It should. Books are some
times seriously injured by being packed too
tightly together on the book shelves, as
roo great a pressure in time loosens the
covers. Quickly pulling book out by the
back part of the cover when 1t is tightly
bound between other books hastens this
Ioosening. as does also the pushing OF II
hack again. 1t is a mistake, however, TO
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
EXPORTER SUED BY WIFE
Mrs. Francis NJ. Sutton, of Brooklyn,
Wants S574 a Month AlimonY.

Mrs Louise S. Sutton, of No. 1S9 Balm
bridge street, Brooklyn, yesterday began
action for separation against her husband
Francis NJ Sutton, All exporter. when she
applied to Justice Marean, of the supreme
Court, for alimOny and counsel fee.
She says that she needs S5l a month
to provide for herself and three children.
Her husband is the head of the firm Of
Francis NJ. Sutton & Co., of No. II Bat
terry Place, Manhattan, and she says he
makes $50, 900 a year and is worth at least
$iO0, 600.
In his papers Mr. Sutton says he gives
his wife $50 a month, that she owns the
house in which she lives, that he gave her
$1,000 Of which she has $1,000 left, aud
The couple were married in February,
1893 Their oldest son, Sherwood, Is at
Princeton.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

An invalid often depends upon views from
window for amusement In winter Jack
Frost is apt to decorate the window with
a picture of his own fancy and while that
picture is gource of amusement for a
time, weary invalid prefers the constantly
moving scenes in the street. Try rubbing
glycerine over the window pane to prevent
the frost from thus obstructing the view.
Alcohol and Kerosene are also recommended
for this purpose.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
Gathered Here and Cbere

Hiring children not to catch cold sounds
rather absurd, but works admirably, ac-
cording to a popular home periodical. The
mother who originated the idea reports that
her small son has now forsaken the prac-
tce of sitting on the ice and that his little
sister consents TO wear rubbers without a
murmur. The reward of all this virtue is
only five cents a week but the children evil
IDENTIFY consider it worth striving for
Mrs Mary Gaunt an Englishwoman, who
recently penetrated to the interior of West
Africa. reports that she found something
In the nature Of paradise in that supposedly
benighted region. For example, she states
that cruelty to children is unknown among
the natives, and that poverty, as we know
IL, is non-existent Even the women,
chronic malcontents for the most part In
the countries that call themselves civilized,
find nothing to complain of in this African
paradise Every woman. says Mrs. Gaunt'
NAV be described as leading a comfortable
and happy life.
How TO dispose Of the souvenirs Of travel
is a question that vexes many minds.
clever woman who collected lot OF charm
ing postal cards during trip through Nor
way and Sweden last summer has solved
her problem by using the cards in the deco
ration of a screen. She had four-panelled
screen made and mounted the cards at the
top. Two-thirds Of the way up she used
brown denim and above the denim she
fitted in her cards Now she has the salts
faction of having the cards continually in
evidence and yet not in the way, and she
has acquired a pretty screen besides.
Would you know the reason why? They
have neither proper food nor sleep. As
soon as school is over they must hurry to
their stuffy homes to help the mother earn
a few more cents to support the family
II she makes violets for my lady's hat or
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
LADIES' CHRISTIAN UNION.

Mrs. j. II. Knowles will preside at the
weekly devotional meeting of the Ladies'
Christian Union, to be held this morning
at II o'clock in the chapel OF the Collegiate
Church Of st. Nicholas. Fifth avenue and
4gth street.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
SOME PRACTICAL RECIPES.

heaping teaspoonfui OF baking powder
sifted with cupful of -four and beaten
with one cupful of milk and an egg makes
delicious pancakes. A few spoonfuls or
cold boiled hominy are a nice addition.
Serve these pancakes In European style
with lemon juice and powdered sugar. It.
makes an attractive change from mapls.
syrup. o.
For steak la tartare an egg yoik ID
broken into raw, chopped meat and the
whole seasoned with tiny young onions
(rninced), paprika and salt Celery salt is
very nice with II. 1t is sent raw TO the
table heaped upon lettuce and garnished
with tiny picked beets and onions. For
this savory dish use only the very freshest
of inspected beef.
For a sweet at college spreads" ana
other informal functions butter hot toasted
crackers, spread them with little msrma-
lade and arrange them upon platter, al
ternating here and there with cream
cheese balls rolled in chopped parsley OF
some bit of piquant green, or IN mlhcso
pistachios or other nuts.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
Browns BASKETBALL s HERE.

Srcwn Uniyersitys basketball team VIII
puAke its first appearance OF the season
mere when 1t lines up against the College
~ tae City OF New York In the latters
gymnasium tonight. Last year the ProV-
ssence i've defeated the local team aiter
NE closest kind OF q game, q 20 70.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

French fried potatoes are sold by street
venders in France, especially in northerH
localities much as popcorn is sold heres
They can be bought hot in paper cornut
copias. holding one or two pennies worth<
after they have been cooked in the pusht
cart before ones eyes. They are not es<
pecially reserved for meal time, but are
eaten at any time, just as popcorn is ested
in America.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

Goals from field-Snow %, SiS5on i5l MaIge-
son 90. DE la Reusile 80, Mensel 20. Goals
from foul-SissOn %. Uhl 90, Kahler t3l, sub
stitutes-Gibson for Souden, Jones for Gibson
Gibson for Margeson. Felt for Uh Referee
Dr. Al sharpe Yale. Umpire Clarence Wey-
mouth, Yale Time Of halyes-Twenty minutes
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

corsage. the children can wind the stems.
and they are often kept at this work until
midnight, with nothing TO eat but bread
and tea. For all this family labor the
mother receives one cent gross-ond
penny. that is, for IA violets. IL the moths
er does sweatshop worl-perhaps fnish-
ing boys REFERS at four cents each-their,
little fingers can sew on buttons, and still
younger ones-three and four years Old
can pull out hastings. About fifty cents
will be realized from this combined effort
of the family. And for the sake OF that
fifty cents the child is robbed of the educa-
ton that the city pays for. 1t goes ia
school, but is too weary. sleepy and spirft>
less to learn. 1t looks to me like very
bad business"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE WINS.

81 Johns College. OF Brooklyn, won
nard fought basket ball game when 1t do
teated Washington and Lee University last
snight by score OF p to lS The lineup
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
TO cIRcUMvENT JACK FROST.

put the books in too loosely, as dust and
dampness settle between the pages.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
PRINCETON FIVE IN A R0UT
Lose Listless Game to Clever,
Fast Dartmouth Team.

Dartmouth overwhelmed Princeton at
basketball last night in catch-as-catch can
game in the I'D Regiment Armory. The
final score was 42 to r. but it could have
been anything else for all the players or
the handful of spectators cared. From
start to finish it was Princeton rout' but
the Hanoverians did not play first class
basketball by any manner of means ana
were fortunate in getting the Tigers bewil-
dered at the whistle.
Team work was absolutely lacking ana
the monotony of the contest was not even
relieved by brilliant individual playing.
Even the officials lost interest and toward
the end did not even blow their whistles
and let the game take it's own course
For the most part the game was played
to empty seats, and the players found
themselves lost in the middle OF the I'M
mense drill hall
Princeton scored the first point OF the
game but the score at the end of the first
half stood Il to in favor of the Hano-
verians. SissOn, Snow and MarGeson did
the burden Of the scoring for the Green
Near the end of the half LOuden, one OF
the Dartmouth guards, was sent 10 the
bench for making four fouls. In the sec
ond half Princeton scored points 10 Dart
mouths 49, De la Rouslle made three held
goals for the Tigers in this half, all they
made in the game. Snow shot FIVE baskets
Tor Dartmouth, making his total seven for
the contest.
The Victory puts Dartmouth in second
place in the intercollegiate league series.
The lineup follows
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
29. Position. Washington G9.
SO John's C22).

nnelo-bt Johns; Tracey, keenan, CD, DriscoIi,
Syslnny ~. Bruchell (2). Washington and Lee:
1sa 1sa'es ~, Hannis (2). Goals from forl-Iracey
M cFnny CD, Rafferty, 90. Referee-Ed.
msvtpe asDtpe De Ia Sale Time Of halves-I"enV
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

Mrs Ada N. Plummer, of No. IS Westl
6lst street, has applied for patent on an
emergency needle and thread holder The
device consists of frame of light WOOD
cardboard or leather. containing four sets
of six needles each, all threaded with diff
ferent assortments of cotton, linen and silk
and available for instant use, and the in,
ventor expects It TO prove especially usefut
to travellers
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

To teacher who complained OF the stuS
pidity Of the children whom she was try<
ing to instruct in Greenwich Village. e
social worker said:
New-York tribune., 1912-02-21

The Booker Audito-
rum is one of the best
appointed in the city
with ample room and
seating capacity.