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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
SANITARY REPORT
SUSTAINS DR.. DAVIS
Declares Conditions Good,
Both in TOmbS and
Penitentiary.

at would be well for those who are
always prone TO criticisc to bear in
mind that the sanitary conditions of
correctional institutions Of the Depart
ment of Correction to-day are far SUI
perior TO lodging houses in many sec
tons Of the city, and even to some
schools which might be named"
With these words Commissioner
Katharine b. Davis concludes long
statement issued last night in conjunc-
tion with a report Of the Department
Of Uealth's investigation Of conditions
in the Tombs and the penitentiary in
Blackwell's Island. at seems that the
wild charges Of agitators which have
been aired in the public press have
found a lodging place IN the minds Of
certain of our citizens" she says. To
learn the truth from competent and
unprejudiced source, the Commissioner
asked DR.. s. S. Goldwater, Commits
sioner of Health, TO arrange for an
inspection of the buildings. He re-
ferred the matter to DR.. Haven Emer-
son, deputy commissioner.
On the day DR.. Richard p. Walsh in
spected the Tombs there were 7S0 men
and sixty women confined there. AL
though he found there were only
500 calls and two dormitories, each
containing fifty-fve cots, the report
states that there is no evidence Of
overcrowding from the sanitary point
of view. The cells are ventilated ade-
quately. All plumbing is in good con-
dition and all fixtures are properly
trapped and water supplied" The tank
on the roof from which the water sup
ply comes is reported to be clean. II
is stated that bathing facilities are
adequate. All prisoners having tuber-
cular or venereal diseases are kept
on the eighth tier of the main build
ing. Habitual drug users are kept in
the main annex. All blankets and bed
clothing are sterilized before using.
DR.. Charles Yer Nooy found 1920
cells at the penitentiary on BlackwelPs
Island, with 1882 prisoners at the time
of his inspection. These cells, he re-
ports, are too small TO contain two
prisoners. Were these cells on pri
vate property complaint would be
made as 10 the lack of sufficient air
space" As in the case Of tthe TOmbs,
no criticism is made as to sanitary
conditions and cleanliness of the in
stitution Ii was noted At the peniten-
tiary that the cell buckets were COW
cred and disinfected, and that the
.hree funnel-shaped water supply
"dunnegans" which are discharged
into the East River were sanitary and
clearly.
A similar survey Of sanitary condi-
tons in the institutions on Riker's
Island and Harris Island will be made
public later.
In a letter to Commissioner Gold
water asking for the assistance of his
sanitary inspectors in this work, Com
missioner Davis calls attention to the
fact that it is absolutely impossible
for the Department Of Correction, un-
der the law, to refuse commitments to
its institutions when these commitments
are made in accordance with law For
this reason, she says, the overcrowding
cannot be prevented for the present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
TAFT, ROOSEVELT,
ROOT, HEAD LEGION
Plan to Aid National Defence
Brings Their Names Together
Once Again.

Ex-President William Howard Tafts
name will nestle close to that or for
mer President Theodore Roosevelt on
the front page of the American Lee
gion's new prospectus, to be issued this
weak. Next to the two ex-Presidents
will come the name of Elihu Root. In
terest in national defence, though di-
vorced from politics, makes strange
bedfellows.
When the plan of organizing vol
unteer emergency reserve for the Unit
ed States Army was first made public
Mr.. Roosevelt not only accepted the
craftsmanship of the governing council
but also offered his four sons as pro
spective members of the organization.
DR.. John Z. Hausmann, secretary OF
the Legion, announced yesterday tna'
the council Is now complete, with three
ex-Secretaries of War and three ex
Secretaries of the Navy added TO the
Roosevelt Taft Root combination. Jacot
NJ. Dickinson, Henry l.. Stimson anC
Luke L. Wright bring experience OF
war folios, and George Won l.. Meyer
Truman II. Newberry and Charles j
Bonaparte have represented the navy
in former cabinets.
Management and control Of the
American Legion is vested In an ad,
yisory membership of three hundred
representative citizens, chosen from
ali sections OF the country, over which
is the council of nine headed by Mr.
Roosevelt.
Each mail, according TO the secre-
tary, brings additional names for the
RAPIDLY growing list of the advisory
membership. Among the New York &C
ceptances recently received are those
of Joseph II. Choate, George W: Wick
ersham, Morgan J. O'Brien, Frederic
r. Coudert, John G.. Milburn. Robert P
Perkins, William T. Hornaday, AleXan-
der S. Cochrane, w. Barclay Parsons
]. MAYHEM Wainwright, Ernest lselin
David NJ. Goodrich and Henry Collins
Walsh.
al see by your letter that the object
of the American Legion is definite,
writes Mr.. Choate, land is one which
have very much at heart. | therefore
gladly accept the invitation to become
an advisory member"
Howard Elliott, president of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Rail
road. writes: 81 shall be glad to serve
and do what | can to help along the
idea of having the United States pre-
pared in better way than at present
in case Of shy disturbance requiring
military protection"
Headquarters for the Legion is a.
10 Bridge Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
GIRLS ARREST THREE
GAY YOUNG MEN
One Alleged Masher Gets Beat
ing After His Airy
Remark.

Strenuous rebukes to young men af-
ficted with flirting fever were admins
tered by two girls yesterday.
While on Fourteenth Street Andrew
Chrissen, of St. Marks Place, who
says he is "head man" at the Hotel
Marie Antoinette, met Catherine and
Annie Smith, sisters, of 266 Avenue b.
my, but you look awfully nice to-
night" said Chrissen By way OF open
ing the conversation. Miss Catherine
responded with blow. In the tussle
which ensued Catherine not only held
on to Chrissen, but dragged him sew
eral blocks TO Patrolman Lane. at First
Avenue. He was locked up, charged
with assault.
With a crowd of two hundred cheer
ing her, Anna Goldsmith, aged twenty
two years, of 1871 Prospect Place,
Brooklyn, escorted Louis Markowitz,
aged twenty-five, of 1889 Prospect
Place, and Murray Zeipkin. aged
twenty, of 1858 Prospect Place, TO the
Brownsville station yesterday after
noon.
She told Lieutenant King that while
she was in a dispute with her brother
in front of their home yesterday af-
ternoon. these two young men tried TO
enter the argument. They were ar
rested
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
BARNARD READY
FOR CELEBRATION
Twenty-ffth Anniversary
Will Be Celebrated
This Week.
STUDENTS TO TAKE
PROMINENT PART
Well Known Women to Make
AddreSses-Greek Games on
Programme.

Undergraduates Of Barnard College
will vie with one another in song, dance
and athletic games, according to the
ancient Greek custom, on Friday after
noon, in the Columbia Gymnasium. Sew
eral hundred girls OF the sophomore
and freshman classes will take part in
these classic contests, which will feat
ure this weeks commemoration Of the
twenty-ffth anniversary Of the found
ing Of the college, that in lSS9-'90 num-
bered only thirty-siX students.
A dinner will be given on THURSDAY
evening at the Astor Hotel for alumnG
and undergraduates. Nine. Marcella
Sembrich will speak on the musical
profession. Miss Agnes Repplier on lit
erature and Mrs. August Belmont on
the stage.
In the afternoon. at $3.50 o'clock, ju-
bilAn services will be held in the gym
nasium. Bishop Greer will read the
opening prayer and Dean Y. {. Glider
sleeve will greet the guests Addresses
by Mary Emma Wooley, president Of
Mount Holyoke College, and George
McAneny, President of the Board of
Aldermen, will follow. All the stu
dents of Barnard, clad in like costumes,
will be present, and will sing several
college songs, after which President
Brown Of Union Theological Seminary
will close the exercises with benedic-
ton. Immediately afterward an infor-
nal reception will be held in the col
lege buildings.
Representative of Bryn Wawr, Vas
sar, Wellesley. Radcliffe and other col
leges will attend the ceremonies. From
April 20 through September 80 a public
exhibition of manuscripts from the
collection of George A. Plimpton. illus
trating the history of the higher edu-
cation of women. will be held in the
New York Public Library.
Barnard College was begun, under
many difficulties, in private home at
343 Madison Avenue. in the autumn of
1889. The young women who were
graduated from this place formed q
"3-4-8" club. but larger quarters were
provided by those interested in the
undertaking when Columbia moved 10
the Heights in 1897. Degrees 20 1877
women have been awarded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Charges Girls in House of
Mercy Were III Fed and
Tortured.
RIOT LEADER
SENT TO BEDFORD
Withdrawal of Charge Prevent
ed Her Lawyer from Exposing
Treatment, He Asserts.

Asserting that the girls in the House
of Mercy, who reyolted Saturday night,
were ill-treated, poorly fed and clothed,
and tortured by the water cure"
Thomas f. Turley, Of rs Cedar Street,
attorney for Dorothy Gilmore. leader
in the riot, said he would demand to-
day that the District Attorney inves-
tigate the institution.
The lawyer further announced that
two Of the girls accused OF running
away had been working and had only
tainted from lack Of food. To dis
guise this fact, he said, the nuns In
charge of the home had said they had
tried TO escape.
Two of the nuns, officials in the
House of Mercy, Sister Gertrude and
Sister Marguerite, appeared in the
vomen's night court last evening and
testified in the case of the Gilmore
girl. They said she had been ipcor-
ricible since her commitment 20 the
institution April -. At their request
the charge Of disorderly conduct
against the girl was withdrawn, and
Magistrate Herbert transferred her TO
Bedford ReformatOry.
In commenting upon the case nitsi
ward the magistrate said: Nothing has
come before me in any way TO the dis
arrangement of the House of Mercy.
The management is perfect In my opin-
ion"
Mr. Turley said he regretted that
the charge of disorderly conduct
against his client had been dropped.
"If it had been pressed" he assert
ed. 81 would have had chance to cross
examine Sister Gertrude and ask her
questions. II she had been sworn as
witness the door would have been
opened TO criticise conditions In the
institution"
Four other girls, ringleaders In
Saturdays riot, when much furniture
and crockery were smashed as a pro-
test against conditions which, the girls
said, prevailed in the House of Mercy.
had their cases postponed to Thursday
night.
The Gilmore girls term in the house
would have been up in six months. 1t
is understood she will be released from
the reformatory at the expiration OF
that time. As "a reason for her trans
fer, Sister Gertrude said that her
charge had been unruly, had sworn fire.
quently and had threatened TO punch
the other girls in the eye" IL they re-
ported her misbehavior. Before she
was sent to the House of Mercy Dor
othy Gilmore had been a singer in
cabaret. Her lawyer said she had been
"railroaded" to the institution on the
false testimony of two policemen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
TROUT FISHING AT TUXEDO
Warm Day Attracts Hundreds
to Clubhouse and Villas.

Tuxedo Park, n. Y, April ?5-At-
tracted by the summerlike weather, So
ciety people from various parts Of
the country motored here to spend
Sunday. 1t was the first warm day Of
the season and outdoor life was ideal.
The golf links were open. the lawn
tennis courts were crowded, and many
went trout fishing.
Luncheon parties were given at the
club and newly opened villas had week
end parties Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Underwood, Of New York, entertained
a party at luncheon at the clubhouse
and Christopher K. Corning enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. f. f. Darrell, Miss
Darrell and K. Darrell Wilson.
Among others who had parties were
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lawrence Green,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Delafeld, Mrs.
jefferson Coddington, II. Gallatin Pell,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph +. Stevens, Will
lam 2. Lyman, Mrs. Ernest X. Adee,
Edward Robinson, Robert d. Wrenn,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Wells and r. B.
Cutting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Montgomery Hare will
spend the season at the Carey cottage
and Mr.. and Mrs. Phllp Rhlnelander
will be at the DinsmOre cottage. Mr..
and Mrs. James p. Lee open their
Tuxedo house this week and Mr. and
Mrs. II. VI. Alexander have taken the
Comley cottage.
Among others who spent Sunday
here were Miss NJ. VI. Hare, G. ".
FORSYTH. f. J. Dieter, Miss Harriet
Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Pell,
Miss J. Z. Emmett. Miss NJ. L. Emmett,
Frederick Juilliard, Forsyth Wickes,
brewster Jennings, Thomas II. How
ard. d. NJ. Hare, William Hare, Rob
ert D. Wrenn, Alfred Goldman. II.
Auchincloss and Mr. and Mrs. L. S.
Morris
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26

Fishel, of ID Manhattan Avenue, New
Rochelle. Roberts fell in the path of
another car driven by John Bonanin, Of
263 West Thirty-ninth Street. New
York. demonstration for a motor sales
company. His skull was cracked and
he died an hour later in Stamford
Hospital.
Bonanin and Charles +. Kroge. Of
New Rochelle, chauffeur for Mr.. Fishel,
were both held without bail pending
the coroner's inquest. In the car driven
by Bonanin were Walter II. Red
man. Of l66 West 129th Street. New
York. and Miss Margaret Lavie, his
sister-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Fishel and
Mrs. Fishols mother were in the other
automobile.
Newport, Il. l., April 25.-Bertis A.
Hoyt, of this city. died to-day from In
juries received last night when an auto
mobile in which hSwas riding tipped
over. His skull was fractured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
OFFICIALS GAS VICTIMS
Councilmen Burned, One May
Die, by Explosion in Sewer.

Asbury Park. n. j., April 25.-Coun-
Gilman Karlson Larue, of South Bound
Brook, y. j., was burned, probably
fatally, this afternoon, and Council
man Raymond Stryker and Sanitary
Engineer Walter c. Bowen, Of New
Brunswick, y. j., were badly injured
by the explosion of Illuminating gas in
a valve chamber in a sewer tank at
Ocean Grove.
The victims, with Councilman August
Morecraft and Mayor George NJ. Bald
win, came here on a tour of inspec-
ton under the guidance of Sanitary
Engineer Clyde Potts, of New York
They had visited the Belmar plant, and
had just descended into the valve cham
Der when the accident occurred.
IL is thought the explosion was caused
by Stryker striking a match to light a
cigar. Larue and Bowen were taken
to the Spring Lake Hospital and More
craft to the Long Branch Hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
THRILLS AT VITAGRAPH
Detective Drama Is Feature
Other Films Interest.

"The Girl Who Might Have Been" a
tlree-part modern detective drama. Is
al the Vitagraph this week. 1t shows
the ways OF crooks, makes a robber
band leading feature and provides
plenty of thrills. Betty Gray takes the
leading character.
The Awakening" in which doctor
is forced to choose between woman
he is engaged to and a beautiful girl
Of the slums. is well told, and holds
the interest in a series Of interesting
scenes. The comedy films include "The
Jars Visit Arcadia" "When a Feller's
Nose is Out Of Joint" "Cutey's Sister"
and Lily in Bohemia"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
War Death Causes Suicide.

Brooding over the death Of his
nephew, killed in the German army in
Belgium, Louis Hoelzel, Of Duchess
Junction, shot and killed himself in
the home of his sister in Kempton, y.
Y, yesterday.
He was ffty-one years old. Before
the war ne lent $500 of his savings
TO his nephew to go into business in
Bremen. The news of his death made
the uncle i'll and respondent, and he
went to visit his sister HIlda. She
:ound him dead on the floor with a
bullet in his temple His daughter,
Mrs. Minnie Weiss, lives in Mill Plain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26

one dividend on preferred stock, which
was portion OF the large accumulation
Of dividends which had accrued ana q
portion of the dividend due for the
current year, the total amount thus
paid amounted to bur S78O,0OO. At the
same time, the company voluntarily in,
creased the wages OF its miners and
steel employees by total sum Of $500
600 a year. Here again the effort to
discredit this company and those con-
nected with it for Interior and selfish
purposes is obvious.
"The same writer above referred to
has stated in a published article that
it is undisputed that $4,000 men left
their Jobs and only 200 or 300 remained
at work. and the $4,000 promptly Joined
the union. This is entirely and alb
solutely false"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
To Aid Negroes in Schools,

Ways and means to help the negro
in the public schools will be discussed
on Thursday at a conference to be held
bv the Public Education Association. at
1870 East Twenty-second Street. Promi-
nent educators and city officials will
be present and report just issued by
Frances Blascoer on "COlored School
Children in New York" will be con-
sidered.
According to Miss Blascoer's report
some Of the best work for the benefit
of the negro is being done BY negroes
themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Kleuer Riddles Play Will Aid
Battle Against White Plague
Bright Brooklyn Children,
Trained by Lillian Metz
Conover, in Entertainment
for Benefit of German
town Clinic, Which Is
Fighting tuberculosis.

Lillian Metz Conover will present her
"Klever Riddles" tomorrow night at
the Masonic Temple, Lafayette and
Clermont Avenues, Brooklyn, in pro
eramme of character specialties. The
proceeds will be turred over to the
emergency fund Of the Germantown
Clinic, an organization of doctors and
nurses fighting tuberculosis in Brook
Ign.
Among the "Kiddies" who will take
part are the Misses Hazel Dudley, De
ronda c. Reynolds, Mirism Snyder,
Beatrice Underhill, Kathryn Walton,
Dorothy Spedick, Nettie Fuller, Caro-
line Butler, Helen A. Trottor, Hortense
Maher. Evelyn Halperin, Dorothy Por-
tingall, Helen Dillon, Amelia NCOmans
and Thelma Van Norden and Masters
Edward Stiles and Walter Ashcroft.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
NEW HIPPODROME FILMS
Costume Musicale" Also on
Bill at Big Resort.

"a Costume Musicale" introducing
a dozen Of the most famous operate
waltzes, a new group of living pictures
and the chorus Of fifty voices, heads
the bill at the Hippodrome this week.
when 1t Strikes Home" featuring
Grace Washburn, and the latest Char
lie Chaplin picture set off the motion
picture part Of the programme.
The Hippodrome tank continues to
play big part in the spectacular por-
ton of the entertainment. Fountain
effects set off with bewildering color
blending, charming women as water
nymphs and the usual surprising finale
fiji out the rest of the bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Fire Threatens Fish Estate

A forest fire on adjoining land yes
terday, for the third time in a week.
threatened the farm OF Stuyvesant
Fish, near Continentalville, Putnam
County. Neighbors put out the flames.
Careless hunters are blamed for set
ting the fires, which have burned over
about 100 acres of woodland owned by
Mr.. Fish. Superintendent MacBeau, en-
ployes and neighbors saved the build
ings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Dynamite Causes His Arrest

Charged with having two sticks of
dynamite in his possession, James
Courtney, of 3l4 East Fortieth Street.
was held yesterday for examination be. .
fore Magistrate Murphy in the York
Vile court. He was arrested after Jo-
seph Griffin had reported finding the
dynamite in an apartment recently va
Gated by Courtney. The prisoner de-
MED any knowledge of the explosive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Game Pictures at Strand

DR.. Edward A. Salisbury's Wild Liz.
Pictures continue to head the bill AZ
the Strand. This week he takes mn
migratory birds and duck hunting o,r
ing an interesting talk Of his exrsr;
ences in gathering these pic,p,ss
which are said to be remarkable s,nd;a1
IN Wild life. \ photo dramatizat;on IS
David Belasco's famous American III -.
May Blossom" is the feature aim S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26

Stamford, Conn, April 25.-While
Crossing the Boston Post Road in West
Stamford st saltwater Avenue, this
s.'ernoon, Royino Roberts was hit by
sn automobile owned by Theodore 5.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-14

upon a doll before. These dolls were
coiffeured as no doll had ever been
coiffeured before. For weeks he lay
upon his back, helpless, except to dress
the hair of the myriad OF dolls that
were laid upon his bed each day. Now
he Is up and able to hobbie about.
the master of a new and useful ar,
which will return to him and his de-
pendent family a handsome living as
long as he survives.
Artists Are Stricken.
Scores of other incidents each as in
teresting as that of the wig maker are
related by Nine. lie Verrier. Vast
improvements have been made in the
arts of doll and toy making through
this war. sculptors who responded to
Frances call to arms have been re-
turned to the hospitals far from the
battle fronts SCARED and MANNED for
life. Some have lost their legs and
in consequence are doomed TO spend
their remaining days in a wheel chair
Many famous painters sailed forth
to return so terribly injured as to
preclude all chance of their ever
touching brush or canvas again
Many soldiers whose circumstances
prior to the war did not afford them
the opportunity to give vent to their
artistic talents are now deprived OF
the trades that heretofore put bread
into the mouths of the little ones de-
pendent upon them. These sculptors
artists and artisans now are all con.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-14
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York. where she Is taking an active
part In the exhibition at the Knicker-
booker Club. Her husband is presi-
dent OF the Chaptal College in Paris.
and In the course of visit he paid
to this country four years ago he lee
tured for the Alliance Franchise.
II was as the guest Of Nine. LIE Yer
rier that ] visited the doll and toy
bazaar and az we approached each
group she had some charming story
to tell In connection with this or that
doll or toy, adding a personal touch to
the whole tour of the huge room
which could not have been obtained
under less delightful auspices.
There IL nothing more interesting
in the collection than the group OF
historical dolls made after some OF
the most famous persons in the world.
Each Is costumed correctly az to the
period II represents. and also depicts
accurately. in features. the persons for
whom they stand. These dolls gowned
as Madame Siddons, Princesse Matilde
Bonaparte. Empress Eugene and VI
gee LIE Brun and others equally ceie-
brated. were made under the direction
of the managing director OF the House
Of Margarine La Creix. himself war