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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Woman in Limousine
In Dead Baby Mystery
Blue Shirtwaist May Lead to
Person Who Left Girl in
Ardsley Sand Pit

Chapter Of the mystery woven
about the limousine containing the
woman with the vituperative tongue
and no shirtwaist began On Wednes-
day. Early that afternoon guardsmen
watching over the aqueduct near
Ardsley marked the machine standing
on the Sprain Ridge Road, near the
sand pit.
Chapter 2 ended yesterday, when
James Aganano, a teamster OF Ards
ley, halted his truck beside the sand
pit, and then lifted from it the body
OF a newborn baby girl.
The police of Hastings. where the
tiny corpse now lies in Bakers
Morgue, are trying to write a con-
GLIDING chapter to the strange tale
woven just so far b. circumstance
and then abandoned. They have only
one clew.
About the stark little body was
wrapped blue silk garment WON
ans shirtwaist.
The big car stood so long in the road
on Wednesday that several Guardsmen,
filed with WEAKNESS induced by profit
less sentry-go, strolled across the
fields to see what was the matter The
machine had been deserted. they de-
termined when they approached IT. One
Of them opened the door Of the limou-
sine.
A young woman lay upon the uphol-
stery. For a second they believed that
she was dead. She was pale, and wore
no shirtwaist. The next second caused
the soldiers 10 abandon their foul-play
theory. The figure sat upright, the
door slammed in their faces, and they
fed, pursued by "a choice line OF talk"
as one of them expressed IT. Out OF
voice range they paused and watched
the car until they saw two men climb
out of the pit. leap into the machine
and drive away. None OF the Guards
men noticed the motor cars license
number.
Aganano set out from Ardsley for a
load of sand As he jumped from his
wagon at the pit his eye was caught by
the iutter of cloth. The baby which
he unwrspped from the silk shirtwaist
had been dead from twentyfour 10
forty-eight hours, physicians say. An
autopsy will be performed by Coroner
Angle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Mews of the Play World
Curious Product from Russia
Seen in Presentation
of "Nju"
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

Do YOU believe in squirrels? This is
the question which "Nju' set before
puzzled audience at the BandboN Thea
ire last night. An American theatre
goer might as readily swallow a samo-
var as understand this peculiar product
from Russia. As our theatrical stand
ards 60, the tragedy by Ossip Dymow
is inept, as we'll as curious. Only here
and there does IL win interest.
Nevertheless, it would be somewhat
ridiculous % dismiss the play in cava-
lier fashion. "Nju" has been played in
every great city Of Russia, and thou
sands Of Slavs have wept and wallowed
in its gloom and tragedy. Without
doubt it is faithful to the traditions OF
theatre which demands no action, but
merely the most painstaking and subtle
development Of character. The task
of putting the play into English
by no means bridges the gap between
the American and the Russian theatre.
For our taste the story would have to
be told anew. In fact, this has been
done approximately, for THE Fugi.
tive" represents the English approach
and treatment Of a problem not unlike
that Of "Nju."
II IL were possible 10 understand
"Nju" IL is probable that il would be
found a much bigger play than that OF
Galsworthy. Here and there is the
CLINT of greatness. Despite its mar
ticulate appeal. every now and then
there is a telling suggestion OF the
Russian tenacity in the search of the
soul. Though a Russian novelist or
dramatist burrow himself ever so deep
in the mud of mortality he always
keeps one peephole clear so that he
may look up. Life gets frozen so fast
out there on the steppes, or wherever
the Russians live, that they always re-
gard the discussion of death as most
inspiriting. Before the revolution, at
any rate, aspiration was not only the
easiest. but the most natural thing for
a Russian TO go into.
Still we can't quite get them. II may
be their boards and it may be their
philosophy. We hear but do not under
stand A Russian dramstist makes an
American auditor feel that he is listen
ing TO some family story which the
author shares only with his fellow
Slavs. Thus, there is no question in
our mind that people in Petrograd
would sympathize with the heroine
when she burst into tears as soon as
her husband promised 10 buy her
white. open work stockings. Undoubt-
edly there are associations of one kind
or another linked up in the Russian
mind with white, open work stockings.
A good deal Of "Nju" is like that.
II is about a woman who can't stand
her husband and leaves him for n lover.
Then she can't stand her lover, and
she dies. Some said she poisoned her
self, but the case was not proved.
Joseph Urban has mounted the play
with designs which are interesting and
beautiful. But he is tyrant lie fixes
his lights in all sorts Of odd places for
purely decorative purposes, and when
the actors come upon the stage they are
privileged to take the light or leave 1t.
Frequently they left it. and whole
scenes were played in which the illumi-
nation was centred entirely upon
chair or a footstool, while the actors
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

NOV as to the ideal of woman, as de-
~ termining the system of national de-
Strange as it may seem at first the kind
of defence system maintained depends
upon whether the ideal of man or the ideal
of woman is predominant. Every democ-
racy is the mOtherIand of its people.
Yet this motherldnd ideal of nationality
is not limited to democracies.
L'Italia is the motherland of Italians.
La Belle France is the motherland of
Frenchmen.
To Observation-Disclosures they live in
Great Britain itself or in Canada, New
Zealand, Australia, South Africa or Sou
dan-England is always the mother coun-
try!
OnIy one people IN the 1Corld-the Ger
ndnS-hGUe Fdtherldad!
Germany is the male among nations.
Certainly, Germany has produced fem
remarkable women. women who are lead
ers in the world of thought; but in Ger
many the ideal of womanhood is low, and
woman's influence is a negligible factor
in public affairs.
In 1914 Germany had population of
68,000,000. Yet not more than 10000
women-members of womens clubs
were interested in matters of public policy
but one-th$rty-f fourth of per cent of
the population.
Conditions are different in our United
States. Nowhere in the world is woman
held in such high esteem.
The United States in 1914 had a popu-
lation of 100,000,000, and there were
100000 members of women's clubs.
In proportion to the same unit of popu-
lation there are f0rty-One women in the
United States interested and active in pub
lie policies to every one in Germany.
The voluntary system is based upon the
idea that a gentleman should never pro-
tect a woman who is being insulted or as
saulted unless a group of his fellows offer
him a bounty or pension for doing so. 1t
creates a false ideal of action for the man
who is to protect the woman, in that it
implies that it is not his duty to protect
her unless his cowardly associates offer
him a bounty. 1t creates a false ideal of
inaction for his fellows in that it implies
that they are released Of all gentlemanly
duty to protect the woman because they
offer a bounty or pension to one of their
number to do that which each one of them,
as a gentleman and as man, ought hon
orably to do himself without thought of
reward.
The ideals of the German military sys-
tenn are determined by the predominant
idealization of the man and the lack Of
idealization of woman.
The male has been always the hunter,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Sunday Picks Home
On Riverside Drive
Kingsley House, at l82d
Street, To Be His
During Revival

From a Stah Correspondent Of The Tntunel
Buffalo. March 22-With his cam
paign here drawing 70 its close, Billy
Sunday has already picked out the
house where he will bivouac while con-
Quoting his assault upon the forces of
evil ir New York City.
The evangelist and his party will oc-
cupy the home Of Mrs. William VI,
Kingsley, in 1921 Street, near Riverside
Drive. The dwelling contains twenty
two rooms. There are eighteen persons
in the Sunday party. II is only a min
ute from the tabernacle by automobile.
Il realize New York is u vastly bigger
proposition than this" said Sunday
as he gazed out at the sea Of faces IN
the tabernacle here tonight. But
New Workers are the same as Buffa-
lonians-the same as the folk back IN
Podunk. They arc surrounded by more
temptations, but that doesn't make
'em weaker-it makes 'em stronger
Then, they're more sensitive more
quickly touched, think. III get
'em."
The campaign here will end next
Sunday with Billy preaching four
times in ten hours, whirlwind finish.
The result of the eight weeks re-
viyal is difficult TO estimate. In round
numbers $4,000 persons have shaken
Blly's hand and protested themselves
20 be trail hitters." How many have
been actually converted to the Chris
ian creed cannot be stated. Opinion.
while divided. leans 20 the belief that
Sunday has done some good"
Opposition leaflets, which are being
widely distributed, raise the question
whether this is sufficient 10 Offset the
good that could be done with the per
sonal offering" which Sunday will re-
ceive on the last day OF the meeting.
Boston, recently revived" by the evan
gelist, gave him S50,s2s.64. There are
those in official Buffalo who say the
campaign has been worth a million 70
the city"
Billy emphasizes his disregard for
money by never carrying any with him.
81 hate monkeying with it," he eX-
plains. George looks out for that
end"
A proposal that he insure himself
against disability 20 cover loss due 20
his possible inability 10 carry through
the New York campaign was vetoed by
Billy Sunday His advisers urged him
TO take out $4,000 or 100000 Of short
term insurance. ,
Nothing doing" he decided. "lff
God wants me in New York he VIII
keep me on earth; II he wants me IN
heaven up 20 Him. I'm willing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

the aggressor, the conqueror deSlrouS OF
conquest. The human units or the Ger
man military system are not aggressive
and DESTROYS of conquest because OF the
system; the same system in France and
Italy has not produced like results. The
ruthlessness and savagery of the German
military machine grows out of the Ger
mans attitude of primal masculinity.
The German system builds up an ideal
of military lordship, military male domi
nance. And as a natural consequence the
ideals, the welfare, of other factors of ma
tions are subjugated to the dominance, the
welfare and the support of the military
system.
An American army of fve millions could
neUer develop spirit OF conquest and
ruthless aCarfdre among orr people, be-
cause Of our high idedlizdtiOn Of tCOmen,
because of our recognition of woman as
a vital factor in our national life and
policy.
We need a system Of ever ready de-
fence; a permanent system, but not the
German system; we wish one that will
not interfere in times of peace with the
life Of the individual citizen, nor with our
industrial welfare We need a system
that will never be loss-a system that
will benefit the individual and render
value to the nation, even if undesired
events should not demand that its men,
bers defend the country upon the battle
field.
In the determination of such a perma-
nent system of defence the woman ele-
ment must be considered.
We must have a system of defence that
will make every industrial factor, every
factor Of communication and every factor
Of transportation as efficient as possible;
a system Of defence that will make each
individual physically and mentally fit for
the pursuit Of life and happiness during
times Of peace and fit for the defence OF
the nation in times of war.
We must adopt a system Of defence by
which the entire nation-man and woman
can be modified to crystalline the ideals
of democracy, to insure social and indus
trial justice and to protect ourselves, if
need be, in time of war.
The man must be made fit; the woman
must be made fit And to accomplish this
the mothers of the country must render
aid those who have vision must teach
others; they must teach the destructive
nature of the system based upon ideals
of conquest; the wanton waste of blood
due to our system; the necessity of adopt
ing a system that in time of peace will
develop universal fitness, that in times Of
war will save the blood of thousands
and perhaps, in view of the gigantic wars
of to-day, the blood Of millions of our sons
and our fathers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
New Violinist Heard
Edouard Deru, a Belgian,
Makes Good Impression

There we're two recitsls yesterday
afternoon in the music world-at
Aeolian Hall and the Princess Theatre.
At the former Edouard Deru, Belgian
violinist. and Jan Sickesz, Dutch
pianist, made a joint appearance. Mr..
Deru is newcomer. though Mr..
sickesz has been heard here before.
Mr.. Deru proved himself a violinist OF
excellent cslibre. possessed Of 2 warm,
rich tone, musical feeling. and an ad-
mirable technique. The Brahms A
major Sonata he and Mr.. Slckesz gave
with perhaps an excess of sentiment,
vet they none the less made IL interest
ing. Mr. Sickesz played, with a good
deal of color, the Chopin + minor Fan
TASTE. They are both artists distinctly
above the average. and Mr. Deru espe-
eially so. A large audience greeted
them warmly.
At the Princess Theatre Beatrice
Hubbell-Plummer gave what she en-
titled IAN hour in her own verses and
songs for children" Mrs. Hubbell-
Plummer has a very pretty feeling for
childhood both in her verses and music
and a voice adequate for all its de-
mands She was assisted by Emil
Polak at the piano and Edward V.
Meyer. Autist-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
8 People Exist on ST a Day
Plea Made for Widow and
Seven Children

Mrs. d. is a widow with seven ehil.
dren. The youngest is baby girl OF
eleven months and needs the constant
care of her mother. There Is only one
boy Of working age. whose earnings are
but 81 a week. This Is the only source
of income the family has, and Mrs. d.,
with the greatest economy. cannot pay
rent and feed and clothe her large lam
ily on less than double that amount;
I'm order 20 keep this home together
until a state pension IS granted or UNIV,
10 bov's earnings are increased. IT viii
he necessary 10 give Mrs. d. weekly
allowance OF 81 TO help oHt with food
and rent. Large and small contribu-
tons toward fund of $50 fol. three
months assistance may be mailed to
the BROOKLYN Bureau of Charities. o.
Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, marked
"For 03lO IT,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Society
Ice Skating Fete to Aid
New York Exchange for
Women's Work

Under the auspices Of the women in
terested in the New York Exchange
/ for Women's Work an ice skating fete
will be held this afternoon at Iceland,
Broadway and Fifty-third Street, from
to o'clock. During the afternoon
there will be an exhibition of skating
by professionals. Tea will be served.
The pstronesses include Mrs. Carl A.
de Gersdorff, Mrs. Cornelius R. Agnew,
Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. John Seeley
Ward and Miss Mary X. Choate.
A sale of Irish laces, linens, poplins,
neckties and bog oak ornaments Will
be held in the ballroom of the Ritz
Carlton this afternoon under the di-
rection of the Marchioness OF Aber-
deem. The sale will be for the benefit
of the Irish Home Industries Associa-
ton, the goods having been especially
sent here by that organization. There
will be harp solos by Miss Maud Nor
gan, who will tell the story of the old
Irish harp, and colleens viii sing and
dance.
Among those who will assist Lady
Aberdeen are Lady Lister Kaye, Mrs.
French Vanderbilt, Mrs. Burke Roche
and Mrs. John Wood Blodgett
A sale of articles made by wounded
French soldiers was held yesterday at
the house of Mrs. Reginald de Koven,
1925 Park Avenue. There was vaude-
Vile entertainment, and tea was served.
Mrs. Herbert s. Harde gave her final
talk on Three Afternoons in Garden"
Yesterday afternoon in the ballroom OF
the Colony Club. The proceeds from
these talks on gardening will go TO the
international Child Welfare League.
Mrs. George W. Wickersham was
hostess at the regular meeting yes
terday afternoon at the headquarters
Of the Association Opposed 70 Woman
Suffrage. She was assisted by Mrs.
ward r. Hewitt, Mrs. J. Allen Town
send. Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Nrs.
George Zabriskie and others.
Mrs. Waldo Richards will give the
first Of three morning readings on
Gardening with the Poets to-day at
the house of Mrs. Oliver Gould Jen-
nings. So Fifth Avenue. Next Friday
he talk will be at the home OF Mrs.
John Henry Hammond. 9 East Ninety
first Street. and on April - at the
home Of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James,
80 East Sixty-ninth Street.
John Frits Holm has returned from
a three weeks stay at Palm Beach and
Washington.
Mrs. A. Moore Richard. of 118 East
Fifty-fourth Street, has announced the
engagement Of her daughter. Miss Alice
Richard. 10 Dr. Heman Lawrence Dowd,
son of Colonel Hemsn Dowd, of Orange.
y. J.. vice-president Of the Equitable
Trust Company. Miss Richard has
been engaged for some time in social
service work at the Polytechnic Hospital.
She is a granddaughter Of the late
Auguste Richard and A. Mumford
Moore.
DIR. Dowd is associated with 81. Luke's
and 81. Mary's Free Hospital for Chill
dren. lie is a graduate Of Princeton,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Espagne Brings in
Soldier Visitors
Prospective Bridegroom Is
Among French Fighting Men
Who Return on Leave

With more than sixty French SOL
diers, wearing uniforms Of almost every
arm of the service, lining her rails, the
French liner Espagne came IN yester-
day afternoon, after trayersing the sub
marine war zone, from Bordeaux. Most
of the soldiers have returned for
twenty-six days leave with their fam
lilies at st. Pierre Miquelon, y. +. Sew
eral wore decorations recently awarded
for bravery on the battlefield. Among
them was Sergeant Raoul Paul Ledoux,
of Detroit, who has won the Legion OF
Honor and Medaille MilitaiYe, the lat
ter recently awarded during the French
offensive on the Ancre for saving his
captain under fire.
Ledoux was met by Mile. Josephine
, Bagnault. 20 whom ne was engaged be-
fore the war Blushingly she admitted
that she expected to be Nine. Ledoux
before twenty-four hours should elapse.
The Espagne did not leave the mouth
Of the Garonne River until midnight on
February II, having received French
Admiralty orders 70 wait day before
departure. The following morning pas
sengers were startled by cannonading.
and many rushed 10 the deck, believing
a naval battle with a submarine was IN
progress. They found, however, that
the gunners were at target practice
with the bow gun, 4-inch, mounted
on a steel platform, similar 70 the bow
gun on the Roehsmbeau, which arrived
two weeks ago.
For forty-eight hours the Espagne
followed the French transport Mar
Unique, bound for Morocco with mem
bers of the crack Chasseurs d'Afrique
Regiment and native troops. During
the voyage no submarine or raider was
Seen.
The majority of tho hfty-three cabin
passengers were composed OF buyers
returning with their regular spring and
summer models.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Finds Plague Preventive
Professor Fights InfantiIe Pa
ralysis with Salt and Water

Rutland, Vt, March 22-Announce
ment that Dr. Edward Taylor, profes
sor Of tropical medicine at the Univer-
sity of Vermont, had made an impor-
tant discovery as 20 the manner in
which infantile paralysis is spread was
made to-day by DR.. Charles S. Caverly,
president of the State Board of Health.
Or. Taylor has apparently shown"
DR.. Caveriy said. that diseased noses
and throats allow the passage of the
virus into the central nervous system,
while normal noses and throats seem
nose and throat with warm salt water
is perhaps as good preventive as we
have"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Plays and Players

De Wolf Hopper. the inimitable prin-
cipal Of many a Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta, has been engaged for the
leading role Of the next Winter Garden
Passing Show" now In preparation.
Is will follow the "Show Of Wonders
at the Fiftieth Street playhouse in the
latter part OF April. Mr., Hopper has
been with motion pictures for the last
year.
Stuart Walker and company chosen
from his Portmanteau Players will
enter Keith vaudeville week after next
at the Colonial Theatre in Every Naked
Boy" Later the Portmanteau Players
viii give Lord bunsany season az
the Palace.
Justine tombstone, admitted BY many
to be New York's most beautiful show
girl, will open justine Johnstone's
Little Club" on or about April 10 IN
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre Build
ing. The keynote of this venture Is
quietude, and there will be nothing
but a jazz band TO disturb the calm
Of the club members, who, among
number Of things. have TO part with an
initial fee Of $50 in order TO enjoy
access 20 the clubrooms. Miss John
stone will act as hostess and treasur-
err, arriving at the club after her APP
pearance in ooh Boyl" at the Princess
each evening. and remaining until the
early hours OF the morning.
The Hippodrome will celebrate the
35Oth performance Of "The Big Show
tonight.
B. Iden Payne announces the forth
coming production, under his own d.
rection. Of play of Irish peasant life.
THE Grasshopper," by Padriac Colum
and Mrs. Washburn Freund, from the
original of the Baltic poet, h. V. Key
serling The play is in four acts, and
will be interpreted by large cast. in
Guiding Eileen Huban. Jane Ross,
Lillian Jago, Mrs. Dudley Diggs, John
p, Campbell, Thomas Donnelly, Ash
ton and Philip Tonge, Charles Webster
and others.
The Community Players OF Richmond
Hill made the first presentation in
America Of the Quintero brothers
Spanish playlet, "a Bright Morning.
at the Masonic Temple, Richmond Hill
last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
LOUIS r. REID.
d one stanza of If Eve Lad LED he Appe BOugh0
An Impression.

She passed before the window where sat
Her hair had fallen-almost to her knees
Her hair-a magic brcwn-suggesting red
The kind that Parrish paints for Princesses'
She looked for all the world like Melisande-
thought I saw her by the fountain, there
Her hair hung down-she tossed her wondering
High in the ART seemed to reach the sky
And all the while she sang a soft, sweet song
Ny heart vas sad-and all at once seemed void
Ny only wish was 10 be Pelleas-
To touch her hair-to feel it my cheek,
About my neck and in my eyes-and then
And then-somebody laughed long, loud laugh
And asked me II I'd have cigarette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Nj. Banjac Jailed for Treason

NJ. Banjac, the Mayor of Liesnitza
SERBIA, has been sentenced TO twelve
years penal servitude on charge Of
high treason. lie was alleged inter
ALA to have sheltered the assassins Of
the late Archduke Ferdinand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
"Nju," a tragedy by 0ssip Dymow, at
the Bandbox Theatre. Presented by
Joseph Urban and Richard 0rdynski.

we're of In a dark corner some place or
other talking about their souls. The
play is indifferently acted. Ann An.
drews, as Nju, was beautiful and read
her lines acceptably, and Frank Mills
was good as the husband. Henry Stan
ford was poor as the lover.
BY the way, the j." in "Nju' Is not
unlike a child. 1t should be seen but
rot heard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
20 Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?'

From a. ~ Dary manI
Undertaken Joyce Unada has automobile heae
which as fine Of be found between Albany
md best into his equipment
And an advertisement in Will Whites Gazette is inserted by
Emporia's Exclusive Undertaken"