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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
Mrs Julia Gertrude Lyle, Victor in Fight for $2OOOOOOO
Estate Becomes the Bride Of Alexander
Wenyon Samuels, of London.

, officiated. Fred Goddard was best man.
Mrs. Lyle was attended b. her sister,
Miss Margaret Harmon, of Tenafy. In
the wedding party were Louis Wiley,
Felix Doubleday, s. Stanwood Menken,
James Warwick and Master Winston
Samuels.
Later in the day the couple departed
for Palm Beach. where their stay will
be indefinite. They may settle in Lon
don after their honeymoon. When the
license was obtained Mr.. Samuels said
that he was an attorney and lived at
Is Gramercy Park. This address, Mrs
Menken intimated, was only temporary.
Mrs. Lyle's age was given as thirty
eight. Her husband is thirty-one. The
couple met at an entertainment given
by Mrs. Menken since the death OF
Mr. Lyle.
Mrs. Samuels has been a widow since
July, 1912. The period intervening has
been full of excitement for the former
nurse, who became the bride OF her
wealthy patient in Yonkers on Septem-
Der 20, 1910. Within a month after
the death of Mr.. Lyle, who was ninety
four, his will was offered for probate.
All of his vast estate, except 100000,
was left to his wife.
Contestants appeared and kept Mrs.
Lyle busy for several months until
May %, 1913, when she won a complete
victory. Three days before that she
had contracted for the erection OF a
memorial bell tower and chimes that
were TO cost $4,000 and cause her in
hnitely more litigation than her hus-
bands s20,000,000 estate.
When the chimes were installed they
made their presence known in Tenafy
at each quarter hour. Then followed
succession of court proceedings, in
functions, agreements. orders and COM
promises that availed nothing. Ten
ahy suffered Not that it wanted to
forget John S. Lyle, its richest citizen,
but because the chimes told the same
story day after day and night after
night The committing population got
away in the daytime, but couldn't sleep
ST night.
This state OF affairs existed for
months, Mrs. Lyle's devotion to the
memory of her husband in conflict with
Tenahy's right TO life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Finally Vice
Chancellor Lewis received the case and
ended the continual booming of the
chimes. Thrice on weekdays end four
times on Sundays, he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
JURY DEFENDS DOGS BITE
Censures Boys Who Invaded
Towboat and leased Animal.

Gyp, n mongrel dog, whose ownership
was repudiated by several persons, was
upheld nevertheless by jury in the
Supreme Court yesterday as to his legal
prerogative TO have just one bite before
being condemned as a vicious animal.
II was uncontroverted that Gyp bit
Solomon Dubinsky. fourteen years old,
on the leg. The assault occurred on a
towboat at an East River dock. The
boys father, Max Dubinsky, sued the
Moran Towing and transportation
Company, the owner Of the boat, for
$4,000 damages.
The company denied ownership Of
the dog and refused to be responsible
for his act. On the other hand. il was
brought out that Solomon Dubinsky
and other boys were on the boat, where
they had no right 10 be, and that they
had been teasing Gyp for some time
before he resented their attentions. The
jury decided in favor OF the defendant
company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

, | can't see from the quantity Of bread
consumed on the island that any one
refuses it.
"Now, to get down to the mentality
of the guards. | think the guards, "a
a whole, are as good mentally Is the
police. The latest twenty-five of thirty
men we have taken on have come from
the Catskill police. They are of aver
age intelligence"
The Commissioner did not agree that
men trained in old style prison methods
necessarily hated" reformers.
$50 far as tuberculosis is con-
cerned. don't see that a man would
necessarily have TO contract it, unless
he we're in a cell with a tubcrcular
man." she said. "You know. we are
doubling up on the island now. The
city turns all these men over 10 me,
and can't refuse them. We are send
ing tubercular patients up TO the hos
pital on Harris Island. Tobacco juice
stains the cell walls, and they are sell
dom washed out Well, if they are not
il is the mems fault. They have
plenty of time in their cells to wash
them out"
Coming 10 the allegation that "a
more material influence" might affect
changes in Jobs, the Commissioner re-
marked that she had discharged two
guards last year on such evidence.
No Dark Cells, Says Commissioner.
"'Old-timers say the island is worse
now than it has ever been Well.
think it is-for the prisoners!" she
said. 81 think we have pretty well
knocked out the dope traffic. Spying
is stricter than ever'-l hope it is.
The stoolpigeon system has spread to
an astonishing degree | don't know
anything about that. So far as this
man Marshall is concerned, he should
be under careful surveillance if he's
the man | think he is. He was in the
riots, and he's a dangerous man."
Miss Davis laughed about the "cool-
ers" She said prisoners were always
talking about coolers" and dun
geons." when, as a matter OF fact,
there were no dark cells on the island,
the Coolers" being simply twenty-four
ordinary cells, walled Off, in a sepa-
rate part of the building.
eyes, it's true we are short on I'M
derwesr," she said. ave are living
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

Z hand-to-mouth existence, and y.
haven't got the money"
She ran hurriedly over q few pan.
graphs. commenting on them, and Tier,
coming to the statement that visitsn
bring in dope. she said:
yes. the riots were provoked By d,
fact that we discovered letters goits
cut telling these visitors how 10 bring
in dope. No less than forty-seven lsi.
tiers we're discovered in the nose-hss
of horse. The prisoners got mad vita
the guard who found this out and BE-
gan TO sling plates at him in the mes
hall.
81 suppose there was criticism Of the
organ" she continued. There always
is criticism Of anything by some pro.
portion of any population. II didn'
play for five weeks. Well, maybe hs
motor was broken. Covering up things
from visitors. What is there to cover
up?"
Once Miss Davis Threatened TO QaIt.
The Commissioner was in a hurry y,
keep an engagement in Englewood. s'e
she could not dissect the stAtehsh'
made by the outside observer who US.
tied the island. When her sttsatsn
was called 10 his statement about m'
underwear she said:
"Well, | would have to 90 into Us
thoroughly to explain 1t. | hare.
got time now. The statement 90
stands is ludicrous. We can't get ni'
terial. We can't do any work until W
get orders for il. know the mea
don't work enough. but we haven
work to give them. It's difficult gn
TO provide work for 1900 men. iN
whole statement is so ignorant ne iur
ny. would have TO go into II 70 "
plain the facts" "a
As she said goodby Miss DAVIS ,as
that she thought she knew the sour.
of the statements. She said earlier J,
her talk that the New York Pnses
Commission had investigators We
were privileged to go and talk 70 Pr.
oners and that some religious and een
table bodies we're also permitted y
visit the island unhampered. she 90
ed that she couldn't have eyerypVs'
going over there as they wished, "
cause "it prejudiced the diseiphn,
She said she told the Mayor 81 "a,
time If a certain pass wss optsin''
over her protest she would resign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
STORK BRAVES SUBWAY

The stork descended into the sub
way yesterday.
Mrs. Esther Brown, twenty-four
years old, of S63 Home Street, The
Bronx, was taken i'll while she was
changing from an express train to a
local at the Grand Central subway sta
ton. Her husband, with the aid Of a
guard. led her through the crowd on
the platform 10 the waiting room in
the Grand Central Station, where a
matron took charge of her.
Before a physician arrived baby
Girl had been born. The mother and
infant were taken TO the maternity
ward at Bellevue Hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
I. w. w. DINERS
GET $40 FINES
Don't Pay" Plan, Tried Second
Time. Gets Four Youths
Into Trouble.
Waiter. ue DON'T IKE 10 troubls yor.
BIZ i~f uS eGt or MS.
-. .., noe The ! dOu bfr- ~

BIZ ief rs cGt oar 6lls,
Fo- ne are me ! dOublc-W.
Ard John " l0ots the bih,
= ". W. Lyrics
81 don't believe in asking. believe
iu taking. Next time | am going to
Childs restaurant and dine at the ex-
pensa Of John ID. Rockefeller"
Thus spake Benjamin Belmont,
salesman. OF 1863 Chrystie Street, when
he was arraigred in the Essex Market
police court yesterday. lie and three
others Harry Israel, shipping clerk;
Jacob Greenfield. a clerk, both OF whom
live in the same house rs Belmont, and
Harry Grossman, an engraver, who sald
he had TO home-were charged with
ordering meals for which they refused
TO pay. All four are nineteen years old.
Max Hammer. OF 124 East Houston
Street, was the complainant. lie sald
the quartet had entered his restaurant
at noon yesterday and ordered a simple
but substantial meal. When their
checks were presented they referred
the waiter 10 Mayor Mitchell. Hammer
called Patrolman Kasdorf.
III Mayor Mitchell won't give me
Job, let him feed me-" Israel told Mag
istrate Corrigan. He explained that the
incident was part of n campaign recent
ly inaugurated by the |. W. w. The
magistrate asked him if he hadn't been
offered work by the Mayors committee.
Eyes" he said but won't work for
30 cents a day. That's scab wages
All four had been arrested before on
similar charges. This time the magis-
trate fined them $40 each, which they
did not pay. Many /. W. W. sympa-
thizers were in court. and the decision
brought forth many muffied jeers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
MALTBIE'S TURN TO-DAY
End of P. S. @. Investigation
Not Far Off.

Commissioner Milo r. Maltbie will
probably go on the stand before the
legislative committee investigating the
Public Service Commission late to-day.
There remain one or two lines of in
vestigation that William Hayward,
counsel, wishes 20 take up with Com
missioner Williams, and he will return
10 the stand when the inquiry is re-
sumed this morning. He will be fol-
lowed by Commissioner Msltbie. who
will be the last of the five commits
sioners placed on the grill.
The speciality OF Commissioner Malt
bic has been the regulation OF lighting
corporations, and Mr.. Hayward will ask
about the delays in some Of the rate
cases, which has caused considerable
complaint. Mr. Maltbie, who opposed
the dual contracts, may be asked to
give his vtsy1tAbous them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
Dean Schneider Says His
System Is Right Nine
Times in Ten.
HE JUST WEIGHS UP
LADS PECULlARlTlES
Finds Psychological Tests Are
Not Yet of Use, So Relies
on Characteristics.
Rv HENRIETTA RODNAN.

Dean Herman Schneider OF the ln'.
versity Of Cincinnati. now engaged by
New York 10 develop vocational work
in the public schools. spoke las; night
A. the High School Of Commerce. He
told how 20 discover DO what Kind OF
?. position q gwen young man win 90 the
49,. bes, work
Experimental psyohoiogy has not de
sveloped 10 a point" said Dean Schne'-
dor. "a, which 10 can tel! whether a
man car nh given position SatSia'-
,oriIv or not, So we have been thrown
''-baek on the old method Of trying ne
man on; IN job. After study ne nun
dreds Of cases We nave lou"u 90
- Commentaries in the men when he!p
ms 70 determine IN what type Of posi-
40, given man Will be success'ui.
some mon we find. arc strongly
mental. others are distinctly man
nal About 30 per cent are botn men
.aV and manual About 20 per cent
.of ali men are definitely outdoor men,
Another 20 per cent arc indoor men.
The rect don't care.
"Sonc men are OF settled type;
, ,thers are rowing The latter will
.. change. even 20 Jobs paying less, Just
for the sake OF the change.
There are men who are deliberate
a. course. and others who are 'impul-
ave Some are initiative ana others
original: some directive, others de
pendent.
There is the man whose mental pro-
cosscs are rapid, and the other man
whose processes are slow. He might
be a GOOD teacher, but he certainly
you'd not he a good shortstop on a
baseball field or successful locomo-
"Some men are 'diHuse' and others
concentrated; some dynamic others
static ...-...
The man who is static, initiative
settled. indoor and dependent might De
6rst class bookkeeper, perhaps, while
The man dynamic. original, outdoor
rowing and directive would 60 crazy
~ such Job. ,...;
Most men, perhaps all, are directive
in some things, and dependent IN
others; original in some ana lm''a-
& tive in others. 49,.
"a success. II a man fails at one kihd
Of work. he may be successful IN WORK
Of an opposite type. Shift your IN
Efficient men 20 Jobs Of different
kind We say TO employers.
"Bv following this unscientinc but
nractical outline we have reduced our
percentage Of failure in three years
from is 10 less than /. Our guaran-
Zee Of a certain man for certain
lob has been successful IN more than
20 per cent Of the cases we have
oealt with in the last four years.
To the question, Gould the public
schools discover these Characters
tics?" Dean Schneider replied, "Ihey
might" ....
Foreign languages and mathematics
do not Indicate vocational gifts.
Real School Council.
What the United States means 10
those who are struggling against des-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

ready been opened for men, and the
Committee on Unemployment among
Women, Of which Mrs. James Speyer
is chairman, has four workrooms for
women.
The committee has raised among its
own members and a few outside con-
tributors $4,000. Mr.. Gary announces
that $500 900 is needed Immediately, as
there are thousands eager for the re-
lief offered, and hundreds are turned
away daily. Henry P. Dawson, OF J. Z.
Morgan & Co., % Wall Street, is treas
urer.
In the workrooms now operated 1912
men and 700 women are engaged from
10 o'clock to 3 and are receiving so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
BOYS THIRD ESCAPE VAIN
Swan Icy East River, but Is
Caught by Threat to Shoot.

F-r the third time since October, An.
thony Di Mario, sixteen years old, Of
S65 East l7Sth Street, by means OF
picking locks with a hairpin escaped
Monday from the House Of Refuge, on
Randall's Island. He swan the East
River. but was captured last night by
detectives and taken back.
Monday night, after dark, the boy
sneaked to the river front. Bundllng
his clothes in the form e turban. he
tied them around his head with belt
and took the long swim in the icy wa
ter. landing, at a point somewhere in
Harlem.
Detectives Pickett and McGrath no
ticed the boy last evening at Webster
Avenue and 10th Street, The Bronx.
Their attention was attracted by his
clothes. He fed and did not stop until
Pickett threatened TO shoot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

Wedding bells drowned out yesterday
the famous TenaAy chimes-thrice on
week days and four times on Sundays,
By court decree and Mrs. Julia Ger
trude Lyle, who inherited 100000, 900
from the late John S. Lyle. became the
wife of Alexander Wenyon Samuels, Of
London.
Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, Of "a West
Fifty-second Street, whose husbands
law firm acted as counsel and drew up
the contested will of the Lord & Tay-
lor partner, announced the marriage.
She was the matron of honor at the
ceremony, which took place in the
brides apartments at the Hotel Plaza
shortly before l o'clock.
Monsignor Lavelle, Of St. Patrick's,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

and 60 cents a day and their ncord,,
meal. The hours make it possible ID,
the workers to seek regular emplo,.
ment. Women are making clothins d,
themselves and children, while the me-
roll bandages for hospitals and rpsr
shoes and clothing.
Through the Children's Aid soerr
buildings have been obtained for {.
use Of the women at Hester and Elm
beth Streets, Tompkins Square, xG
Street between Prince and Hous,s.
Streets and in East Broadway. Nn
find emergency employment at q bale.
ing of the Department Of Docks ni
Ferries, Twelfth Avenue and IVES. M.
ty-seventh Street. The lower East Side,
The Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn al
have their emergency workshops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
100000 NEEDED
FOR UNEMPLOYED
mavor's Committee Wants
Money to Maintain More OF
Its Emergency Workshops.

The Mayors Committee on Unem-
nIovment, through the chairman, Ebert
II. Gary, issued an appeal yesterday
for funds to maintain emergency WORK
sbops. Six Of these rooms have al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

Do the teachers really think that the
schools are as good ss they can be. or
are they afraid that changes may make
them worse?
Is their fear or q small board based
on the belief that the present large
one IS better than any other that Mr..
Mitchell could possibly select
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

Brooklyn Teachers Association
dance, Friday, 8 p. m. Brooklyn Train
ing School for Teachers, Park Place
and Nostrand Avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

DR.. William II. Fitzpatrick, Of Teach
ers College, Columbia University. will
speak on Initiative" before the New
York Public School kindergarten As
ISOLATION this afternoon at o'clock.
The meeting will he held at Hunter
College, SiXty-eighth Street and Park
Avenue. All who are interested are in
vited TO attend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17

Leave the schools alone. is the
appeal being made by the various
teachers organizations 10 the Legis-
iature. No necessity exists for educa-
tlOnal legislation, they insist, and they
ask that no bills vitality affecting the
public schools be enacted into law in
advance Of general charter revision"
From The Globe" Feb. l6, 1915.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-16
HAS LIVELY RECOLLECTION
OF BIG SNOW OF '54.
William s. Fletcher Was Aboard Fish
ing Smack Off Georgia Banks Then.

A recent inquiry in The Bulletin
from a Mansfield man who wanted to
locate the date Of a big snowstorm in
April, in the year 1854, brought a very
lively recollection of the date to Will
liam S. Fletcher, the veteran grocer of
the Falls.
bers the date very well, as he was
New London, fishing for halibut in %
fathoms of water off Georgia Banks,
when the storm set in, about O'Clock
in the morning. Right from the start
the snow began to fall very rapidly and
with strong wind it looked dangerous
on the water. Capt John Chapman, in
command of the smack, ordered to
weigh anchor and started for home,
and as the wind was blowing in a
strong, even course, they dashed the
wheel and for several hours no helms
man was needed. Several times with
in g. few hours they were forced to
shake the snow from the sails. They
headed straight for Nantucket shoals,
which they reached without any dan
ger, and then proceeded for Block ISL
and. They tried to enter Block Island
sound, but as the snow was falling so
thick at this place they were forced
TO retreat along the south side of Block
Islard and proceeded to Long Island,
but as the storm had not abated any
they were forced to seek shelter at
Fire Island, where they anchored until
the storm passed. The captain, anxious
to land his catch Of fish, took the first
opportunity to dock after this.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-16
PARENTS SAW WORK OF THE SCHOOLS
Special Visitors Days Thursday-Chidren Had Written
Invitations Manual Training and Domestic Science De-
partents Aroused Particular nterest-Regular School
Work Was Carried Out to Show Actual Conditions.

children in the kindergarten and the
children in the other grades also did
themselves credit. At the conclusion OF
the session the ladies were served
tea in the senior room by the prin-
cipal who was assisted by the other
teachers.
The manual training work attract
ed especial attention at the Mount
Pleasant street school. In the primary
grade the children were heard in
reading lessons while grades two and
three had number work. During the
last half hour of the session the 7th
and Sth grades had their music lesson
Drawings and examples OF writing
were on exhibition. After the school
the visitors inspected the building and
a social hour was enjoyed with the
teachers.
At the Wequonnoc school at Taft
Vile, the kindergarten and the lower
grades of the school attracted the at
tention Of visitors in the morning,
while in the afternoon it was the up
per grades to which particular atten-
ton was given by those who came to
see the work.
In the afternoon at the West Town
street school an exhibition of the work
done in the manual training was ar
ranged for, the boys showing the
broom holders, sleeve boards, hat
racks and other articles that they
make in their lessons
AT the Broadway school building, the
girls Of the school showed what their
| domestic science. lessons had taught
them as they had a table decorated
| in red and white, the senior class col
ors, on which were displayed samples
| Of their cooking, and between and
o'clock the girls In caps and aprons
| served refreshments to the visitors
| There were between 80 and 40 who
visited the school and saw the regular
work carried on in addition to the
| special exhibit.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-16
AFTER THOSE WHO
EVADE INCOME TAX.
Federal Officers Are Looking for Those
Failing to Make Returns.

Acting on orders of the internal de-
partment in Washington, investigators
are operating in New London with a
view to rounding up those who through
negligence, Intentional or otherwise,
have not complied with the necessary
Formally of filing a sworn statement
of income in excess of $4,000 annually
on or before March l, 1914.
Archibald Spalding of Norwich and
Captain Kennedy Of New Haven, in
come tax collectors in the employ Of
the internal revenue department. have
been there for several days, and 1t is
rumcred that their mission is along
lines similar to those which the inves-
tigators are following. The penalty
for failure to make return under the
income tax law is a severe one. In
the first place, it entails the payment
Of so per cent. additional tax and a
fine of $50. Besides this, prosecution
may follow under the criminal law,
with the possibility of fine and i'm
prisonment.
Since the income tax law went into
effect, the collectors and others con-
nected with it's enforcement have been
cautioned in regard to giving out any
information relative to those who We're
subjected to it. For this reason no
definite information is obtainable. 1t
is rumored, however, that there have
been numerous evasions of the law in
New London.
One way in which the department
in Washington gains information as to
delinquents is when a certain member
of profession, such as medicine OF
dentistry, pays his income tax and
then finds out that his neighboring
member, doing as much or more bust
ness than he is, has not paid. Often
a prompt "holler'' goes up that reaches
federal ears, and then there is trouble
brewing.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-16
LIBRARY COMPETITION.
Sets of Books to Go to Two Organiza-
tions Receiving Largest Popular
Vote.

Thirty of the storekeepers of the city
met in the dining room at the Waure-
gan house on Thursday evening and
heard explained to them the details of
a library competition which is to be
conducted for three months beginning
next Monday.
s. G. Wetzler of Newark, N J., was
the speaker who showed how the plan
would be carried out, enabling custom
ers at the stores which enter into the
plan to record their votes for their
favor4te church, school, lodge, club or
society in Norwich. At the end Of the
time library of 500 volumes will be
awarded to the two organizations
ranking first and second in number Of
votes cast. Three hundred and fifty
books will go to the one receiving
most votes and $50 to the second high
est.
The scores, it was explained, are to
be published each Saturday in The
Bulletin, and the books are now on ex-
hibition in the windows Of the Plaut-
Gladden. store.
Ali the stores which are participat-
ing in the plan will have ballot boxes
into which their customers will drop
thei1 votes. Charbonneau & Andrews
are to receive the sealed envelopes of
votes each week and forward them to
headquarters to be counted.