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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

Public Buildings and Grounds Working on Idea
Gnup-Go Course Base Ball Diamonds Tennis Courts Foot
Ball Fields Proposed Stadium and the Bathing Poos
Asked Next and Soon Money OBJ
High Exhibitions
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Copyright. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
MONTEVJDFo Uruguay

Copyright. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.}
MONTEvIDEO, Uruguay.
F0HE war with Europe is throw
ing the trade of Uruguay into
the lap of the United States.
q There is now strong preju-
dice here in our favor. Within the past
five years more than s50,000.000 of
American money have been invested in
the republic and the present situation
caused by the troubles in Europe de-
nands more and more money. French
and German loans are now impossible.
South American investments. and
everything financial and commercial is
coming our way. Up until last year,
when the war began, Great Britain
had planted more than $250.000.0 900 in
Uruguay. 1t had built and financed
most of the railways. 1t had great in
terests In cattle and meat factories,
and its people still have large estancias
here and there over the country. The
chief public utilities of Montevideo
have offices IN London, where they are
practically owned. This is so of the
Montevideo Gas Company, the water
works, the street railways and the
telephones and electric lights. It is
also true of the most important rail-
ways.
Much of the national debt of Uruguay
Is held in Threadneedle street. The
country has public loans amounting to
SS5,o00,000. which are secured by the
customs receipts. These are collected
daily. This debt Is administered by a
council of foreign bondholders in
London, and the agents here are the
London and River Plate Bank. a Brit
ish institution. Uruguay has also other
debts amounting to thirty-f1ve or forty
millions. which were arranged for by
Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co, and additional
loans are now needed which will prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

posed to levy n tax Of 6 cents per head
on all the cattle and / cent a head on
smaller stock. There will probably be
an additional import tax of per cent
and other tax levies may be made. At
the present time business is growing
better.
Uruguay Is now ripe for American
trade and our business men should
has been against US. We have bought
large proportion of the wool and
hides that Uruguay sells. and of late
we have added to this our importation
of beef Our exports to Uruguay have
been small. although they. are con-
stant1y increasing. AS 1t is now we
furnish about one-tenth of the imports.
This is not half as much as comes In
from the British, who have the lead in
both Investments and trade. They have
large importing houses. They own the
chief coal supply yards and large de-
partment store. The Germans have es-
tablished branches of the chief bust
ness houses Of Hamburg and Bremen.
I'm to the time of the war the German
steamship lines were among the most
popular that called at Montevideo. and
they had a large share of the carrying
trade.
AS to the French, they had the chief
business in wines and liquors. They
sold most of the fancy drygoods and
millinery, and had practically the
monopoly of the trade In women's ap-
parel.
There are number Of American
firms in Montevideo and some Of them
have been established for years. The
chief companies handle various kinds
of American machinery. They sell our
cash registers, our pest known type
writer's and adding machines. and a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

charge was her lack of discipline and
friction with the rest of the staff.
"Mrs. Friedman has made SO many
untrue statements" Mrs. Ely said,
that we must say something, although
the incident is closed now and all is
tranquil at the home. The situation
was this; ! was confronted by the
alternative Of asking Mrs. Friedman to
resign or of seeing the entire staff
leave us. II was simply a personal
matter between the staff and Mrs.
Friedman.
As soon as Mrs. Friedman left the
girls began TO get mutinous, and at
dinner time the revolt broke out. Ten
Of the girls were arrested. From their
cells at jefferson Market they sent this
letter yesterday afternoon TO Mrs.
Friedman:
Dear Mrs. Friedman: Most likely
you have seen in the papers of the riot
up at the Magdalen Home. Now, Mrs.
Friedman. we are down here just heart
broken. But if we could hear from you
or see you in night court on Tuesday
night, why, it will cheer us up great
deal. When you were taken away from
us we felt like we were losing our
mother. You will be surprised when
you hear who they are holding as ring
leader. Love from your poor lost chill
dren, Lena Resnikoff, Marion Bennett,
MAY Kelly. Helen Walker, Mary Austen,
Mildred Strang, Mollie Stern, Esther
Movers, Kitty Grimm, also Evelyn Will
son. All for your dear sake"
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In the statement yesterday that the
sole reason for Mrs. Friedman's dis
try more humane methods among the
girls. such as Mr. Osborne has put in
force az Sing Sing.
shortly after that a woman agent
Of the Tammany people in Special Ses-
sJons came TO Mrs REYNOLDS and other
members Of the board OF directors Of
the home and told them that ! was
unfit 20 he In charge there and that
there we're eighteen charges pending
against mo IN the Children's Court
The Mills bill. YOU know. separates the
Chiidrcr's Court from Special Sessions
end takes lot Of patronage away from
the politicians.
Mrs REYNOLDS told me about IT, and
we diSproved all the statements made
against me. She was my friend and
believed in me. Blu, shortly afterward
she was taken sick and went to Rich
mond. Va. She has not been gone ten
DAYS. and now ] am fired out
Mrs. George ". Ely, vice president,
IN charge during Mrs. Rcynolds's alb
sence; Mrs. Herbert A. Scheftel, second
ice-president, who mas been in active
charge during Mrs Ely's absence. and
Miss Janet Macconachie, assistant SUI
perintendent and head nurse. concurred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
CITY'S MEDICAL EXAMINER
SOON SOLVES MURDER CASE
Police Coroner and High Officials Proceed Along Well
Beaten Trail Until Telephone Clears Doubt as
to How Unfortunate Woman Died.

o'clock this morning The door Of the
room was locked from the inside. The
whereabouts of the man is not known
to US.
"The woman evidently left the room
by way of the window and down a
back stairs to the ball park. We expect
TO get Thompson and, in addition to
his arrest, two more will be arrested as
material witnesses. The fact that there
were no marks of violence does not, Of
course, mean that the woman was not
murdered. She may have been given
knockout drops"
A telephone bell interrupted Mr..
Murphy. He went to the instrument.
This was heard:
ayes, yes, this is Mr.. Murphy. Whatf
Pneumonia, you say? Are you sure?
"Well, well, what do you think Of
that?" he said as he hung up the re-
ceiver. at was DR.. Schultz who called
up to say the autopsy showed death
was due to pneumonia"
Late last night brother of the
woman identified the city. He said her
husband. Charles. a plumber. had not
lived with her for several years and
had lost track of her.
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force US TO do this when Congress
might set us free. I say you are going
to create a bitterness between men and
women which it will take years TO over
come"
Mrs. Benedict warned the Senator
that the suffragists would not fan 10
use the means at their command the
power of the women voters IN tie
West
"Now," said Mrs. Colt, Senator
O'Gorman has been very patient IN
listening to us, and | think we ought
to give him chance to talk"
81 am glad that have had the OPP
portunity of listening to your eloquent
presentation of your views" the SEN
ator told his visitors, "but | cannot
respond to your call. am unalteraoly
opposed to changes in the ederal Con-
stitution. The sole effect of the pro-
posed amendment would be TO force
woman suffrage on states that are OPP
posed to it. Why do you abandon the
method by which you have secured
eleven states? Those states have
adopted it without compulsion, and
why deprive other states of the same
privilege?
'hememDer, "HdI 10 BOVu ANA " -
ern state, with a sparse population,
NAV not be desirable for New York;
You who are here represent large and
influential element, but | could =
semble in another room an equal num-
Der of women who do not desire the
ballot"
When he added that the women be-
fore him were too hasty in demanding
the ballot, Mrs. Boissevain fired up.
az don't believe anybody under TINS
broad sky can be too hasty in demand
ing freedom" she said.
"Would you have the white women
beg the black men of the South for
freedom ?" demanded another woman.
Then Mrs. Colt called halt on tie
heckling, and the Senator was invited
to be photographed with the ladies, to
which he agreed smilngly. Miss Paul,
chairman OF the Congressional Union,
stated after leaving that the interview
was very satisfactory. Senator O'Gor-
man had indicated at one point that
if New York indicated a strong desire
for the enfranchisement Of its women
he would obey. This, she said, was all
they could hope for.
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murder" case was solved in New
York City yesterday. Since it was con-
sidered a mysterious murder from the
time the body of woman later identi-
fed as Mrs. Ernestine Heldman, thirty
eight, of West New York, n. j., was
found in a shanty on Lenox Oval, a
baseball field, at Lenox Avenue and
l45th Street, until the autopsy was per-
formed by DR.. Otto Schultz, New York
County's first medical examiner, II is
BETTING the facts be recorded from
the beginning.
Walter Dooley, eighteen years old,
caretaker of the ball field, was appealed
TO by q woman outside the shanty
about o'clock yesterday morning. She
mumbled that she was sick. 1t was
raining, and her appearance was so
wretched that Dooley told her to go
into the shanty until the weather
cleared. He went about his work on
the field. returning to the building
about an hour later.
Dooley was startled TO find the wom-
an dead. He ran 10 the Dolphin Hotel,
the doors of which open into the ball
field, and told employees of the circum-
stance, and they notified Patrolman
James Mahan.
Then things proper 10 all murder
mysteries in good standing began TO
happen. First was the arrival of Act
ing Captain Cooper. of the 4th Branch
Detective Bureau, with five detectives.
Inspector Faurot and a corps of Off
cial photographers and finger print ex-
perts were given clear road from
Police Headquarters in large touring
car with the large up. D." displayed
conspicuously on the hood. Coroner
Hallenstein came next, with his physi-
clan. Assistant District Attorney Dea-
con Murphy next made his appearance
with the county medical examiner.
A careful examination was made. No
marks of violence were in evidence.
Photographs were taken, finger prints
looked for and Dooley was sought. He
had gone. A search was made for him by
two detectives. They learned that he
had gone TO his home, at 242 West 143d
Street, and changed his clothes. More
detectives were sent for him. He was
found on the opposite corner from the
happening.
The customary third degree next was
flashed on the film, Deacon Murphy ad-
ministering il 10 Dooley.
More mystery and scurrying around
by detectives. They scurried until
they found Rudolph Click, a friend of
Dooley's. Long brown hair, similar TO
the dead woman's. was found entwined
around button of his coat. More mys-
terry. and a hurrying out of more de-
tectives. They returned with three
young girls and another man. No
names given out.
Then came a lapse Of more than an
hour, with no outside signs Of activity.
II was broken by Deacon Murphy, who,
accompanied by Inspector Faurot, came
downstairs and said: From every in
dication now there has been a murder
committed. There is much to be cleared
up. For instance. our investigation so
far shows nat the unidentified woman
was registered in this hotel with a man
as Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson They were
In room II and came here about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
MAGDALEN HOME
TROUBLELAID TO
TAMMANY SPITE
Superintendent OuSted for
,Favoring Mills Bill,
She Says.
TELLS OF THREATS
FROM COURT AID
Mrs. Friedman Declares Her
Humane Treatment of Girls
Was~ Opposed.

A plot TO drive her out Of prison and
social betterment work, aimed against
her by Tammany politicians because Of
her alleged support Of the Mills bill
90 reform the inferior criminal courts.
was one Of the causes given yesterday
by Mrs. Antonio Friedman for her
abrupt dismissal as superintendent Of
the Magdalen Home. in Dyckman
Street
Coupled with this, she said. was the
opposition within the board Of directors
of the institution 10 her employment
in the home of Thomas Mott Osborne
prison reform methods.
"Up until few weeks ago" she said
at her home. 80 East Tenth Street, 81
was a probation officer attached 10 the
Childrens Court. One day Frank
Smith, chief clerk Of the Court of Spe-
cisl Sessions, sent for me and accused
me of working for the inferior GRIM
inal courts bill.
"He said that II the bill passed, he
and a number Of other of the attaches
Of the court and Judge Mayo would be
out Of their jobs He told me to stop
my activities, but | told him | knew
nothing about the bill. He sent for me
later q second time and said, I'll get
you if you don't stop working for that
BILL
Two days later eighteen OF my pro-
baton case records disappeared, and
later two Of them were put back with
entries changed. There was one case,
that Of Clarence Kyle, for which made
UP from memory the entries for the
month Of January for the reason that
II was due for report TO the court.
"Then suddenly charges were brought
against me of classifying the records,
conduct unbecoming an officer and
other things. ! was taken sick from
the shock with nervous prostration.
My sister can tell you what happened
next"
Her sister, Lydia Krause, said that
Smith sent for Mrs. Friedmans badge,
and she went 20 see him TO explain that
Mrs. Friedman was sick, and she did
not want to search among her belong
ings for the badge.
"Mr Smith said the matter was not
serious" Miss Krause said. land that
my sister could beat them with a good
lawyer. HI said the board had brought
the charges against his will. saw him
next day and he was very different. He
said my sister had grown too big for
her job and was trying TO run the en-
tire court.
when ] asked him who stole the
records he appeared much embarras sed
and said nobody stole them. and ad-
mitted that he had the Mackay case,
one Of the records which had disap-
peared, in his Office. He said my sister
was not on trial for that. but for the
Kyle case"
Mrs. Friedman then took up the story
and said that after she recovered from
her illness she did not feel strong
enough to 60 on fighting the opposition
10 her, and resigned as probation Off
Ger, and the charges against her were
withdrawn.
"There was a strict understanding"
she said. that was to be left alone.
Two weeks later Mrs. James Bronson
REYNOLDS. president of the Magdalen
Home, appointed me as superintendent,
with the understanding that ] was 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

Mary Wilson, three years old, fell
out of the window of her home, on the
second floor of 5S5 Amsterdam Avenue,
and was killed.
DR.. Abraham jacob will be the guest
next Thursday night Of the medical
staff of the Bronx Hospital at dinner
at tn, Hotel Aston in honor of his
eighty-ffth birthday.
Giuseppe Grazino, laborer, Of 1872
Park Row, was dispossessed for nom
payment of rent and committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head.
The Gaelic League and the All Hal
lows Institute will give concert to-
morrow on Ellis Island.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heck, a widow, OF
East Orange, was found asphyxiated.
She left the landlady 81 10 pay for the
gas she used o kill herself.
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Opposed to Change in Federal
Constitution, He Says, and
Several Delegates Boo
Women's Words Convey
Threats for Future.

Senator James A. O'Gorman will be
photographed with the suffragists
deems it a great pleasure to be asso-
ciated with the ladies but so long as
he sits in the United States Senate he
will not, unless his constituents force
him to it, use his vote to enfranchise
the sex. So much the Congressional
Union found out yesterday, when two
hundred of its members called upon
him at his Office at 81 Wall Street.
The Democratic Senator took his
stand upon states rights and admon-
ished the suffragists not to seek to dis
turb "that great landmark, the Consti-
tuition" They were, he told them, over
hasty in demanding freedom. They
ought to remember that what is good
for Utah may not be good for New
York. They ought to reflect that while
not actually casting the ballot in New
York they had powerful influence. The
delegation, led by Miss Alice Paul, Mrs.
William Prendergast, Mrs. Henry Bru-
ere, Mrs. William Colt, Mrs. Eden Bis
bee, Mrs. Henry Butterworth, Mrs. Inez
milholland Boissevain, Mrs. Crystal
Eastman Benedict, Miss Doris Stevens,
Mrs. Edward Livingston Hunt, Mrs.
John Rogers, IT,, and Mrs. Talbot Per-
kins, accepted the rundown graceful
ly, except that some excitable ones in
the crowd could not be restrained from
booing when Mr.. O'Gorman made his
remark about indirect influence.
Previous to calling upon he Senator
at o'clock the Suffragists held a
meeting in front If the Sub-Treasury
Building. A huge crowd Of men and
boys heard Mrs. Bruere and Mrs. Jessie
Hardy Stubs make speeches. A brass
band played tunes until it decided to
consider itself overworked.
Liquid refreshments, however, re-
vived the band, and it consented to ac-
company the procession to 81 Wall
Street.
Headed by Miss Janet Burns and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
NEW COURTHOUSE
In SIGHT AT LAST
City Grants Permission to
Take Title to Needed
Property May 6.

The new Courthouse is at last 70 be
realized The boards committees on
city plan and on corporate stock budget
granted Yesterday the application OF
the Courthouse Board to invest title
on May s TO the property TO be ac-
quired for the building.
II was decided, however. TO leave the
vesting Of the title Of st. Andrews
Church, at the corner of Duane Street
and City Hall Place, until the COM
mittee could consult with Cardinal
Farley and some arrangement be made,
either 10 leave the church where il is
or to move il 10 some other location
in the neighborhood The site for the
Courthouse. with some additional prop
erty now provided for, just north OF
the Municipal Building, was previously
determined.
Controller Prendergast raised the
only dissenting voice. Although the
Controller voted for the original site
and the additional site, he voted
against taking title apparently as a
matter of urgent economy" at this
time. The Controller said last night
that IL he could find a way 10 block
the project he would do il. He ex-
pressed doubt. however. as TO whether
anything cold be done, as the Legis-
lature made il mandatory upon the
city TO erect the building.
In explaining his objections the Con-
troller said that many things had hap
pered since ne favored the project,
and that he voted against it now be-
cause he did not believe the Board Of
Estimate had any clear understanding
of the cost.
ut is proposed 70 sell the property
that is not needed" said Mr.. Prender-
CAST. Assuming that the cost of the
original site is 100000 and the cost
of the additional site 100000. the
total is $4,000 o, and do not believe
the city will be able TO sell the prop
erty not required at a figure that will
hold the needed site at less than 3d.
100000. | do not believe that any Of
the site can be sold to advantage until
after the Courthouse is built"
The recommendation adopted author
izing the vesting of title also recon-
mended that the layout Of the site by
the Courthouse Board be approved,
that the President of the Borough Of
Manhattan be requested TO take the
necessary steps for the construction of
temporary roadways within the site.
and that the Bureau of Franchises be
directed to enter into negotiations with
the railroad corporations for the shift
ing of their tracks from Worth and
Centre streets TO other streets.
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Miss Matilda Spence, carrying a huge
banner. inscribed "Will Senator OGor-
man Vote for the Federal Amendment
This Year," the women marched into
the Office building between lines OF
curious stenographers and messenger
bows. They we're admitted to Senator
O'Gorman's office, where they had not
long to wait. Almost instantly the door
opened and the portly Senator walked
81 am glad to see you, ladies'" he
said, with a smile.
The talkfest opened at once. Every
body stood, though Mrs: Boissevain
pressed the host TO sit down In the
armchair at his elbow. "We'd all be
much more comfortable IL you would.
and we'd feel it perfectly courteous,
she said. He replied that he would
prefer Mrs. Boissevain to take the
chair II remained unoccupled.
Mrs. Colt, acting as chairman, IN
rapid succession introduced Miss Ste
VEINS, Mrs Rogers, Mrs. Prendergast,
Mrs. Benedict and Mrs. Boissevaln,
each Of whom made a brief speech
Miss Stevens told the Senator that the
suffragists remembered very pleasant
ly how, as a member of the steering
committee, he had voted to create a
majority woman suffrage committee.
"This," she told him, "is the first
Of a nationwide series of Populations
to enlist the help of our statesmen In
securing the passage in the Saith Con-
gress OF the national suffrage amend
ment."
Mrs. Prendergast asked Senator
O'Gorman why woman suffrage should
be a matter OF geography. 1t was, she
said, homogeneous for President OF
the United States TO listen with the
respect which the ballot commands to
the women Of one section OF the coun-
try and ignore the opinions of another
section. Mrs. Boissevain laid down
the principle that when anybody want
ed very much to do a thing he did il.
Then came Mrs. Benedict, who alone
Of all the speakers awoke fash of in
terest in Mr.. O'Gorman's unresponsive
face.
81 appeal to you as woman to
man." she said. "If the men OF this
country compel the women TO win suf-
frage state by state, to work on and on
like an athlete overstrained, condemned
to unnecessary, racking tests, if you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

forced to remain in the jail mucn
longer" 4,
Justice Brady stated that he viewed
the case from the standpoint of hu-
mainly and would be glad to consider
a motion to adm it the woman to bail.
"While she is under indictment for
murder" he said, eve must look upon
the humane side of the case as well
as the legal. 1t is very sad matter,
not only to those who have been con-
nected with it in an official capacity,
but also to the whole community,
which believe almost unanimously
sympathizes with the prisoner"
Com nenting upon the determination
of Rogers to marry Mrs. Walters as
soon as his wife, Mrs. Caroline Gid
dings Rogers, obtains a divorce from
him, Justice Brady said this would be
an act Of humanity and an honorable
amend.
The Justice set May as the date Of
the hearing, and suggested that an at
tempt be made to obtain Surrogate
Schultz's courtroom for the trial. He
also asked that an appeal be made to
have a justice assigned to the case and
for courtroom, if the Surrogate's
could not be had.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
MAY BAIL MRS. WALTERS
Justice Admits He's Moved by
Plea for Unborn Child.

Mrs. Ida Snffen Walters. indicted
for the murder of her two children
last December, will probably soon be
admitted to bail. This was the intima-
ton of Justice Brady. in The Bronx
County Supreme Court, yesterday,
when a motion to dismiss the indict-
ment was made by her counsel, Abra-
ham Levy.
at would imperil both the life OF
the prisoner and of her unborn child"
he told the court, If she should be