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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-19

Mrs g. G. Round has been elected
president OF the Manassas branch Of
the w. C. T. Y. Mrs. n. Fl. Prescott is
recording secretary, Mrs. w Baker,
corresponding secretary; Mrs, A. II.
Spies, secretary; Mrs. G. D. Baker, or
ganist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
MAY" BUSHES DAINTILY AS
HE PROMISES TO BE A MAN
Man Who Lived Woman Twenty-Five Years Changes
Name to Charles and Assures Judge He Will
Try to Get Used to Trousers and Work.

when YOU get out of the workhouss
try to live like a man
Il will, your honor" responded
MAY" Miller, whose name on the court
records is now Charles Miller, and he
glided daintily out of the Special Ses-
sions Court back TO the Tombs prison,
where the barber clipped of two feet
and nine inches of hair from the pris-
oner's head.
Charles was taken into court yester-
day morning 10 be resoutenccd on a
charge Of having drugs IN his posses
sion. Since there were no mems
clothes available for him in the prison.
he appeared IN the same clothes he
wore when convicted. lie was dressed
i'm neat womau's suit. a chic black
hat with "a heavy veil and a chinchilla
coat. and he carried heavy mufT, in
which he buried his face while await
ing summons 20 come before the
judges.
The fact that "May" was "a man and
not a woman was brought to light on
Tuesday evening, when one Of the
matrons in the womens division OF the
rombs discovered that the prisoner
was much IN the need % "A shave. and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

notified Warden Hanley. An inyesti-
CATION followed. and May was
changed 10 a cell in the mems prison
Yesterday. when Miller reached the
bar. he raised his veil with dainty
gesture and smiled self-consciousiy at
the reporters.
what is your real name?" he was
asked
81 think" he responded, "that was
baptized Charles"
Then Charles it is" Judge Forker
told him. "And now, Charles, we are
going To send you 10 the workhouse
for three months. as we decided yes
tcrdav. They will dress you IKE
man and you will have 10 do man
work"
Charles blgshed his thanks. lie hal
feared that he would be sentenced TO
r longer term since his imposture had
been discovered.
For several months he had been liv-
ing at 2i3 East 10th ST., where he tol
the landlady he WAS an actress out OF
work. According 10 his story he -
twcnty-nire years old and has appe.rei
in several burlesquc shows, IN when
he was either a chorus girl or TOOK
small parts.
81 was quite successful" he said,
"and | had an awfully good time. In
sorry that this has happened, and !
suppose now that they Will make me
dig bitches or something like that
Charles says that he is one Of fam
ilv If five children and that his moth r
wanted n girl when he was born. Con
scducntlv she dressed him IN girls
clothes and he has lived IN that mas
Lucrade all his life. .--.--.-.>
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
SCHOOLGIRLS ROLL
WAR BANDAGES
Students Busy at Salvation Army
10 Aid Wounded German
Soldiers.

Instead of going to matinees one
hundred girls from the nigh schools OF
this city spent their vacation afternoon
Yesterday rolling bandages for the Ger
mans at the Salvation Army headquar-
tiers.
Julia Richmond. Wayh ington Irving
and Morris High Schooia were repre-
scented at the long white tables GOV
cred with piles o. snowy Ine.. which
under def fingers quickly changed INTO
piles Of bandagCs wrapped IN the blue
cross folder Of the army.
II was the first time high school girls
have helped Commander Eva Booth,
though grammar school children, both
bows and girls. have held regular
Wednesday afternoon bandage bees for
weeks The French got the first lot o.
bandaceS, the Belglans the second ana
Yesterday il was the Germans turn.
Material for half million bandages
is piled as high as the Collins In the
head0uartcrs. and twice as much more
is only waiting 20 be called for. Let
ter, IRON the French, Belgian and
German ambassadors have assured the
Army of the great need Of unlimited
supplies of haudaCes. But the Army
cannot get enough workers TO roll
them
II now proposes 20 call i'm the assist
auce Of the unemployed in New York.
One hundred women will be given work
at 81 day. if somebody viii give the
Army the money to pay the workers.
we have the best equipment ~
New York" said Commander Booth
Yesterday. "Wc have sterilizers and
rolling machines. to say nothing of thi,
large hall and long tables which are
not in use New York could well af-
ford TO help the sufferers in both
places. the wounded on the battletields
Of Europe and the unemployed in New
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
TELLS OF ITS HELP
TO HIGH SCHOOLS
Rockefeller Board Says
Grants Raised Public
Sentiment,

The establishment o. public hign
schools and the creation OF a public
sentiment that would permanently sus-
tain them and place chem under wise
local leadership nave been features Of
the work of the Genera Education
Board, according - another instalment
OF the general report made public yes
terday.
The board made appropriations to
state universities for the salaries and
travelling expenses of professors OF
secondary education who we're to be
regular members of the institutions
faculties. These professors. cons stent
with the policy of the General Educa-
ton Board. the report says. became
state and university officials. answer
ing TO their state and university su-
periors and TO them alone.
The board did not dictate or suggest
the lines along which these professors
should exert themselves. /. W salts
fed. the report states, TO provide the
necessary funds which would enable
the state university school representa-
tive and other interested agencies 10
work out the local problem in whatever
way their judgment approved.
The first contract or this character.
the report records, was made in Nir-
ginia in 1905; the latest in Kentucky.
in 1910. Cooperative work in this field
is now under way in Alabama, Arkan-
Sas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ten
nessec, Mississippi, North Carolina.
South Carolina. Virginia and West Nir-
ginia. In Louisiana the work begun by
the board has beer taken over by the
state.
Since the appointment of the profess
sors of secondary education ia four
year high schools have been established
in North Carolina, rs in Georgia, IS
i'm Alabama. 81 in Tennessee, Is in
South Carolina, - in Florida. 81 in Ms
sissippi. in Arkansas and Is in West
Virginia.
In this same period. the board re-
ports, very considerable sums have
been invested i'm new school buildings
of improved -S1,750, 600 in North
Carolina, $1,5OO,OO0 in Florida, ST..
265.00 in South Carolina. $500, 600
IN Mississippi, q little under $2,000,000
in Tennessee, almost 100000 in
West Virginia. more than 100000
in Georgia and more than S4,000,00O
in Virginia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

children and to die herself because
the lawyer was not free to marry her
A woman. believed TO have been Mrs
Caroline Rogers, the real wife, visited
the dying woman yesterday.
District Attorney Francis Martin OF
Bronx County visited the Fifth De-
tective Branch late last night 10 ask
whether any information had been
found which might warrant the arrest
OF Rogers on a charge of bigamy. The
matter will be passed on to-day.
Rogers himself discussed frankly the
possibility of bigamy charge.
"If you are trying to work up big
amy charge, you might as we'll stop
now" he said to Mr.. Martin. you're
working in vain. ! am lawyer, and |
tell you there aren't any grounds for a
bigamy charge"
Up 10 last October Rogers and his
real wife lived in the Madrid apart
ments. at 552 Riverside Drive. They
made this their home when they came
from Chicago, five years ago. In Octo-
Der they moved TO Mountain View.
near Paterson, y. j.. the reason
ascribed being their love of country
life. They have been living there since.
Rogers, il is said by his friends, was
devoted husband, and only on rare
occasions absented himself from home.
Rogers's second domestic establish
ment was maintained at pa West 18TH
ST. There, with her two children, lived
the woman who called herself Mrs. Ida
Rogers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

Rogers is foity-fve years old. He has
his law Offices at 81 Park Row. Tie
was cncc an actor, it Is said, and wears
his mass of gray hair IN the pushed
back" manner sometimes adopted by
theatrical people. The two women IN
tine case are slightly younger, and IT d
believed that the Bronx woman Is
the slightly younger OF the two.
Miss Giddings was the lawyers sec
oud wife. He was married in 1894 and
was divorced in 1909. He married Miss
Giddrgs the same year.
By the first marriage son was born
who is now eighteen years old. lie Is
said 10 be frequent visitor TO ms
fathers Office.
Dr. John Riegelm-n. after perform
ing the autopsy on the body OF the IN
FAINT Lauretta, said that death hac
been caused by sufocation, due to the
action of the bichloride of mercury ~
swelling the mucous membrane OF th'
larynx.
In the certificate of death filled out
Yesterday at the Lebanon Hospital un-
der the heading mo. 4S,376, December
20" Lauretta Rogers is stated TO be the
daughter Of L. Rogers and a woman
whose maiden name was Ida Snihen
the address of both being given as ~
West 167th ST. ,.,,
DIR. Riegelman said that Mrs. ldi
J Rogers was herself IN pretty good con
dition considering the great amount o.
the poison she had taken and mIgh'
live a couple of weeks, but that the NJ
tie son. John, who is two and halI
years cid. would very probably de.
Rogers, sinCularly, was descrlDeu ny
the neighbors Of the Bronx home as
"bomc person" who rarely left Mrs
Rogers alone except during WORKING
hours. The manner in which the law
yer contrived TO devote ms tiihe u
both women, if he were keeping eacf
in ignorance of the others existence
was puzzling the authorities last night
The lease of the Riverside Drive
apartment still is held by the lawyer
Who sublet when he and Mrs. Rogers
moved to Mountain View. Inc apart
mert is extensively furnished.
ole was most particular as to whom
he leased the apartment" said the
agent Yesterday. "When he and Mrs
Rogers left they took comparatively
few OF their belongings with them
Mrs. Rogers is woman OF great re-
fnement."
At the Office of Rogers, y. l.. Jacobs
once his law partner. defended the
lawyer and denied stories that ms
former wife had obtained a divorce
because of cruelty. The ground on
which the divorce was granted was
desertion. he said.
mir. Rogers's practice was not iall,
ing Off" said Jacobs. so that could
not have been the reason for his wlie
attempt at suicide. lie has always hadi
a good practice, and is IN much demand
as trial lawyer. spoke TO MN over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
WAR And FILMS
BROKE FISKE
Saws Public Won't Pay 81
for Seats in These
Times.
LIABILITIES EXCEED
ASSETS BY $4,000
Producer Names Playwrights
and Wife in His Petition
in Bankruptcy.

The war and moving pictures are de-
dared responsible for the financial pre-
iicament Of Harrison Grey Fiske the
heatrical producer, who yesterday filed
petition in bankruptcy, with liabili-
ties Of $4,000 more than his assets.
On Tuesday night Mr. Fiska closed
the play. Just Herself" in which, one
week before, Lydia Lopokova, the
dancer. made her debut as an actress
20 the Playhouse, in 48th 81. The show
was not making money, but the mem
bers of the company were very much
surprised when, on reaching the stage
door OF the theatre tuesday evening
they met "a man who was chanting
g.oomily;
"TbereW be no show inns evening"
,1ereTl be no snow tonight!
Nr. Fiske is inclined 20 believe mat
the moving pictures caused ms down
ran. but other theatrical personages
assert that the war Is the cause
"Our theatregoing public has no
money TO spend on entertainment, they
saw. "You can't put on 81 show ana
I'M So seats The highest you can ask
from the majority of theatre patrons
during this period Of depression IS ST.
he petition i'm bankruptcy rs filed no
t. United States District Court The
liabilities are $9i.l98 and the assets
S7S.7qf
From a statement made boy Robert
1azet. attorney for Mr.. Fiske, the cause
a.. r.t1,rr t,s.. ffri iuf4H d the
rreasing he'd of moving pictures upon
the public The attorney also stated
that William A. Brady and klaw d Err
LANCER had volunteered to assist Mr.
Fiskc whenever he was ready TO begin
again as 81 theatrical manager.
The liabilities listed in the petition
include a claim foi $5,6U loaned by
Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mr.. Fiske's
wife: $500 due Klaw d Erlanger;
S4.33J due the playwright Edward Shel-
don for royalties on Salvation Nell
1895 i'm royalties for "The HiEhroad,'
and $3.50 for salary due to the Russian
actress Lydia LOpokOva.
Other liabilities are $1,000 20 Ed
ward Knoblauch for "Kismet" royal
ties. and 1861 to Margaret Anglin in
association with the production Of
Lady Betty MartIngale.'
The assets include claim Tor Nl,ZUO
against the Hans Bartsch Producing
Company for expenses i'm producing
Where Ignorance Is Bliss. one-halt
share in "Kismet." valued at S12.422.
and theatrical properties and scenery
valued at S32,144.
Mr.. Fiske. who has been a theatrical
producer for many years, was also
editor and publisher of "The Dramatic
Mirror" from 1880 until 1911.
One Of the most spectacular Incidents
in his career followed his war with
Henry W. Savage, in 1908. over the eX-
elusive rights TO produce "The Devil
in this country, which both managers
claimed. Mr.. Fiske was placed on trial
by the National Association Of Theat-
rical Managers and found guilty Of UNI
becoming conduct and deceiving fell
low member.
For many years he stood for the
independents" among the managers
and fought the so-called trust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

lam Bohn. Of the Ethical Culture
School. advanced yesterday at the Firm
Avenue Suffrage Shop for his belief IN
votes for women. Another reason was
he said, that women were called upon
to perform tasks about as hard physi-
cally as the tasks demanded of men.
THE anti-suFrage women cart slip
through the loopholc OF physical DIS
ability" he said. go thought of that
one day when / was m the Metropolitan
Life Building and the army OF scrub
women came on. Have you ever
scrubbed floors have.
MANY Of those women were old and
bent. out necessity drove them to the
work and they did it, And ! think they
are strong enough to east the vote and
to defend il if necessary. Il Is easier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

to shoulder musket than 20 get dow
on the knees and scrub floors
Dr.. Bohn said he had no patience
with the contention that women were
different" from men.
81 have a wife and daughters DO
said. "and / could never see anything
mysterious about them. They appear
20 me normal human beings like mn
self"
"As DR.. Bohn says. men are Away
telling us what mysterious, evasivo.
pcrplexiuc creatures Wc are observed
Mrs. Charles f. Winch, president o.
the Study Club. yet they 20 conf
IDENTIFY to the polls 20 express as b.
their votes. Bland. mistaken, cons
Gent. they speak for us year after year
even while they complain TO us that ",
puzzle them So
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
Interned German Ship Bought

Announcement was made yesterday
at the Office of Breitung & Co., Of II
Pine ST.. that it had purchased the
small neutrality-suspicious. freighter
Dacia, informed at Port Arthur, Tex,
at the outbreak of the war. +. y
Breitung said that the vessel. which
was transferred from German to Amer
lean registry on December 10. would be-
used 10 carry cotton from this country
TO Bremen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
SING SING AUTO AT BAY
Some One Must Pay License,
Saws Mitchell May.

Secretary Of State Mitchell May has
sent to Warden Osborne Of Sing Sing
Prison notice that the license for the
automobile used by former Warden J..
]. Mccormick and David A. Sullivan
the bank looter has cXpirec.
Who owns the car is still the prison
mystery. Il is IN the stable under the
care of Peter Duffy. Nobody mas
claimed the auto since the eX-Narden
was ousted ard sullivan reincarcer-
ated. and Warden Osborne rs gong 10
ask storage if the owner ever puts I'D
an appcarance. he will not renew the
license. II Is certain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

Go ernor. On! ! simply can't explain
it there must be two men of the same
name"
The lawyer paced the corridors Of
Lebanon Hospital all day and far into
the night. After the death OF Lauretta,
his eight months old daughter, he was
taken by the Coroner 20 identify the
body at the Morguc. There he swore
that the child was his. He was so
affected by the sight, however, that he
begged to be allowed TO make formal
Identification Of the other child, John,
aged two and one-half, while he was
still living There is sean, nope Of
saving the boys life.
DYING. She Keeps Secret.
In the case Of Mrs. Rogers. it cannot
vet be determined whether she has a
chance for life. Told by the Coroner
that she will probably die, she refused
to give any information about herself
other than to say that she was born
i'm New York. She speaks with. a
Southern accent however, and has
many Southern mannerisms. Her
maiden name, IL is said was Snitfen.
Rogers at one time told the Coroner
that the woman was his wife, but re-
fused TO swear 20 the fact. Coroner
Healy, recognizing that the man was
on the verge Of collapse, did not press
him TO answer
Mrs. Rogers explained that she had
the poison i'm her home ever since the
birth of her second child, eight months
ago. Although her act was first
ascrbed to a depression in her hus-
bands business, 10 was discovered yes
terday that ne Us prosperous. The
woman. il is believed, tried to kill her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
SAYS WOMEN WORK
AS HARD AS MEN
Shouldering Musket Easier
than Scrubbing Floors.
Saws DR.. BOhn.

There is no difference between men
and women in the matter of logic. j
ors | ever knew. man who had both
Young men and young women in his
classes"
That was one Of the reasons Dr. VIII
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
MEXICANS ARREST
AMERICAN SOLDIER
Third Cavalry Trooper Re.
ported Sent to Monterey
Train Dynamited.

Brownsville. Tex. Dec. 30. Private
Won Bismarck, of Troop L. Sd United
States Cavalry, has been arrested In
Mexico and sent 10 Monterey, accord
ing to dispatches to-day from Rio
Grande City. on the border near here.
Won Bismarck was arrested IN
Rancheras, 20 which place he had per
mission from his officers to 20. lie
claims 20 be related 20 the German Am
bassador at Mexico City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

we are going TO give up having
Johnny get an education
For what reason ~
well. we can't get him ster.lized
every morning In time to 90 20 school
Dundee Advertiser
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

Juarcz. Mexico, Dec. 30. General
Nagdaleno Cedillo and his entire com
mand Of Villa soldiers were killed to-
dav at Hacienda Limon, sixty miles
east OF San Luis Potosi, when the troop
train on which he and his troops were
moving to San Luis Potosi was dyna-
mited by Carranza troops.
Advices received tonight say prac-
ticallv all the troops were killed IN
stantiy and their bodies strewn for
hundreds of yards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

,By Telegraph 70 Tho Trhune)
FL Paso. Tex. Dec 30. Secret nego-
tiations for peace in Northern Mexico
bv Calranza and Villa generals have
been terminated by the Carranza gen
erals because of wholesa'o executions
i'm Villa and Zapata teitor Inc
conference was held at Saltllo and
closed to-day.
II was only upon the ending OF the
conference that It. became known that
such negotiations were bong held. An
agreement by which Villa was TO get
control Of Monterey, Salulo and all
Carranza cities in the northeast ana
Carrauza was to rule Sonora and the
northwest coast cities had practically
been reached, when q demand wa"
made of Villa that executions both by
Villa and Zapata cease Immediately.
fl had been agreed that hosullucS
should suspend and Carranza forces
moving from Paredon toward Juarez
and Chihuahua had been halted FOL
lowing the closing of the conference
armies OF both sides were ordered 10
resume the offensive.
Laredo. Tex. Dec. 30 Generals Ga %
Gin and VALDEZ. Villa commanders. de
HHAfUU
hattie at Ramos Arispe, between Mon
torey and Saltillo. on December y, ac-
cording 20 refugees reaching here to-
NIGHT from Monterey, an 1T Is also said
that Villa has taken SaltillO. Four cars
hearing wounded reached Monterey.
Among prominent refugees reaching
here from Monterey tonight with tales
of bardships and suffering was the
widow of Geronimo TrevinO, famous
general under Diaz.
Washington. Dec. go warning
that Americans who 20 into Mexico 90
so at their own risk was issued to-day
by the State Department II followed
receipt of consular dispatches from
Tampico saving that Americans return
ING from the oil fields Of Texas and
Oklahoma were finding difficulty IN get
ting work, and that there were more
destitute citizens of the United States
at the Mexican port to-day than at any
time since the revolutionary troubles
began. The department does not advise
Americans 10 return 10 Mexico, even
when they have secured employment
there.
"It would appear adds the state
ment. that many Ameri-a are under
the impression that because this GOV
eminent gave them financial aid III
leaving Mexico on account Of the con
ditions prevailing there it would do 50
again should they return to that coun-
try The department cannot too strong
~ emphasize the fact that no provision
has been made for continuing to trans
port Americans from Mexico at the eX-
pcnsc of the United States govern
ment."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

Princeton, ~ j.. Dec 80. Professor
Franklin H. Giddngs, the sociologist of
Columbia University. when seen here
this evening said the news Of the
double life led by his brother-in-law,
L. +. Rogers. came as a complete sur
prise TO him.
For the last three days Professor
Giddings has been attending the an
nual conventions of the American
Economic and Sociological societies.
lie said his sister Caroline was mar
ried to Rogers between four and five
years ago and since that time he has
had no intimation of domestic diff
culties. lie asserted he had never
heard OF Ida Rogers, who yesterday
poisoned herself and her two children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31

must have been out of her mind when
she did this"
The Giddings family. 10 which Mrs.
Rogers belongs, is Of old New England
stock Professor Giddngs. its most
distinguished member. hods the chair
OF sociology and history of civilization
at Columbia. His volume, principles
of Sociology is regarded as an author
ity and has been translated into half a
dozen languages He has written many
other works.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-31
DUAL LIFE OF
ROGERS Barred

Continued from page !
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-11-16
FALL FESTIVAL CAROED
FOR FIRST N. {. CHURCH

The boosters Of the First Metho-
dist church are making llans for q
high time Dec 16. II and Is.
1t will be the first annual fall fes-
tival of the chur h.
Committee are busy making ar
rangements. The plans include
First-Three evening musical gala
An oratorio by choir and special
soloist from Kansas City.
Second evening-An art recital by
o. NJ. L. faculty.
Third evening-Old fiddlers' con
test.
The ladies plan an eight circle
bazaar. The Aid society will give a
States Dinner. where. at least. nvc
states viii be represented by Guthrie
citizens formerly from these states
This will be p big affair Of toas,s
and songs.
The young people viii look after