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New-York tribune., 1918-08-20

l determined then and there to get out
and find place withing the limits of
the sum which any officers wife would
pay.
Il had list of apartment houses, ex-
tending from Fifty-ninth to Ninety
fourth Streets, on the west side.
not only followed my list but stopped
at every apartment house in that dis
<trict which displayed to let sign. l
remember that went to the Hotel des
A!artistes, West Sixty-seventh Street.
1hey would not hear of taking me with
children. Next door to the hotel there
is an apartment house, where l ap-
piled for rooms. was turned from
the door On Ninety Street,
near Riverside. l found a delightful
apartment, just what / wanted and
quite within my means. 1t was to be
sub-let and consequently my dealings
were entirely with the rentee. When
the time came to sign the lease how
ever, the landlord threw up his hands
at the information that l had children.
| was refused the rental Of the apart
ment
! was rnet at the door with the uues-
tion-'Have you children (Which. I
knew, would shut me out imme mediately:
or having escaped that, l would be
caught up on some remark such as
this will make a nice nursery for the
Children The agent would inform
me that I could not have the rooms in
any circumstances. l repeatedly as
sured them that I would pay for any
damage done by my babies. l pointed
out that they were too young to do
anything more than injure a painted
surface or the wallpaper. 1t was of
no avail. Children were simply
tabooed.
Finally Found Apartment.
$50 there I was, my husband in
France and l not even able to find a
home for my children. l shipped them
off to the country for the summer and
finally found an apartment. but one
tor which l had to pay Sl25. AS an
officers wife l had intended to pay
SIS or $S6. made up the difference
from my salary as professional
woman. But looking at the problem
as an officers wife, I don't think I
solved it,"
When the case of Nine. Sylvia was
brought to the attention of Col Roose
velt he wrote this letter to her secre-
tary:
Il will unhesitatingly approve any
law making it a criminal offence for
any landlord to take such an attitude
as you have described"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Somers Opposed TO
Removal of Ban on
Married Teachers
President of Board of Edu-
cation Makes Exception
for Soldiers Wife
No General Ruling
Deferred Glass May Be Estab-
lished to Provide for De-
pendent Women
No General Ruling

Little hope for opening the doors un-
ccnditionally to married teachers in
New York was held out yesterday by
Arthur Somers, president of the Board
Of Education.
When asked what action the board
would probably take on the recent
recommendation of Federal Commits
sioner Claxton to suspend all restric-
;ions prohibiting married teachers
from serving in the public schools, MIR.
somers said he opposed such whole
sale lifting OF the ban.
"If married women teachers have
husbands able to take care of them and
are admitted to the schools they are
simply standing in the way of the next
single and self dependent womar's ap-
pointment,' he said
MI Somers makes an exception Of
-he married teacher whose husband
does not support her, however, for
which eases he said he would estab-
lish preferred class. This class
would include women whose husbands
are incapacltated mentally or physical
" from WOIh ana tuOSe whose nus
bands are now in the United States
service. He said that each case should
be treated individually by the board
and passed upon on its own merits by
the members, who would determine
after hearing whether the woman
were forced to earn her living or not.
Mr. Somers said he thought this class
would amply provide for the gaps in
the teaching force of the city. He ad
vocated the establishment of the "pre-
ferred class as a permanent fixture,
however, from which teachers might
always De drawn,
Commissioner Claxton's recommenda-
tion has aroused great interest among
teachers in New York who were prom
inent in the ''teacker-mother" fight
here four years ago. Miss Henrietta
Rodman, who was chairman of the
woman's committee that supported
Mrs Sarah Bresow at that time. said
yesterday that she was "overjoyed to
think that people are finally under
standing that married women are still
in the capable class"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Spanish Influenza
Found in New York


DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, admitted yesterday that
there were authenticated cases of
Spanish influenza in New York. Re-
search by experts, who have made cult
ures from the blood of q score or more
sufferers who have arrived here from
Europe, established it's presence. So
far, the Commissioner stated, the in
huenza is present only in a mild form
and there is no ground for alarm.
"The department." said DR.. Cope
land, "has obtained names and ad
dresses of every person who is believed
to have been affected by the disease
and also has under observation all other
persons who have come into contact
with those affected"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Book Praising Kaiser
Ousted From Library

There is gaping hole on one of the
shelves at the Queens borough Public
Library. Until Saturday it was COM
fortably filled with a brown volume
the cover of which bore the title "The
Great Powers Of the Present"
Then The Tribune noted the fact
that "The Great Powers of the Pres
ent" devoted much space to extolling
the virtues of the Hohenzollerns, and
commenting on the relationship exist
ing between William the Peaceful and
the Almighty. Now the book is gone.
In connection with The Tribune's
disclosure of the presence of the book
at the library, it is interesting to note
that the only copy possessed by the
library was placed on the shelves Of
the Ridgewood Branch. at 754 Seneca
Street, the heart of the most densely
populated German district in Queens.
Heads of the library, however. dis
claimed any intention Of giving circu-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Successful Women
Sworn In as Marines

VI the several thousand girls exam
med at the recruiting station of the
united States Marine Corps last week.
me eleven who successfully passed the
examinations took oath yesterday. Of
those accepted and sworn in the greater
part Will go to Washington. Two of
the successful applicants, Mrs. Mabel
Tocnrqne l,&l. Owen. 1873 Davis Avenue,
" est Brighton, Staten Island. and Miss
Mary C. Kelly, 425 Central Avenue.
Newark, N. j., accepted on the first day,
nave been assigned to Washington and
ordered to report on August q. Miss
Martina L. Wilchinski, of 944 Leggett
Avenue, The Bronx, Will be attached to
headquarters here
The remaining women who passed
the test are Mrs. Helena Dupont, whose
husband is a sergeant now in France !;
Miss jane c. Kurgan, Mrs. Dupont's
sister; Miss May Balfour, Miss Edith
D: y: carton, Miss Violet Van Wagner,
Miss Elsie Manis, Miss Marie T. Schlicht
and Miss Florence M. Weidinger.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Merchants to Help
urd to Equip N. Y.
Police Reserves
Field Days Games Ex-
pected to Attract $4,000
to See Special Races

Sixty of New Yorks best known mer-
chants and bankers met with officials
Of the Police Department at luncheon
yesterday at the Bankers Club to boost
the drive being carried on by the po-
lice for s5o0,O0O fund to equip the
Police Reserves.
Commissioner Enright outlined the
need of the Police Department. Prob
ably 5000 men will be taken away from
the service when the draft age is
raised, the Commissioner said, 500 have
already gone and 700 are engaged
strictly in war work. There is little
possibility of the police being exempt
ed on the grounds of being in essential
defence work, he said and the public
must depend entirely upon the Police
Reserves.
The purpose of the police drive is to
games and concerts to be held at
Sheepshead Bay Motordrome August "a
and 81.
The sale of these tickets is proceed
ing favorabIy, Frederick A. Wallis.
Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner
announced. One block of 10000 has
been purchased and several of 5000.
The buyers will distribute them among
soldiers and sailors.
William Fellowes Morgan, president
of the Merchants Association, promised
to clrcularize each of the 5000 con-
Germs in the association and urge them
to take tickets. jefferson De Mott
Thompson, Bernard Gimbel, f. E. OIL
cott and w. c. Breed arranged to buy
tickets for their employees and let them
attend the field day.
There has been added to the field
events race by Ralph de Palma, in
which he will try to break his own
ten-mile record. lie will also race all
aviator IN government plane from
Mneola. Dario Resta and Harry Hark-
ness have promised to be present. The
programme will include variety of
sports and field events with more than
1900 entries, concerts, sham battle
and an exhibition of aerial warfare. in
which forty-two aviators will take part.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
New War Problems for Women
Many landlords in N. Y. CITY
Bar Babies From Apartments

Every day the 1918 crop of babies,
war and otherwise, continues to ar
rive. No one would deny that they
are war essentials, just as is the wheat
crop or an adequate coal supply. Yet
these future citizens are meeting in
New York City from the moment they
enter the world a discrimination that
amounts in some cases, almost to ac-
tiv< hostility.
1t lies in the rule existing among
many renting agents that denies to
families with children the privilege of
renting apartments
This rule applies particularly
among the apartment houses which
rent for q moderate sum, those that
are within reach of the families whose
men folk are engaged in fighting a
war and who must live on the modest
salary which the government paws it's
soldiers.
Several instances of flagrant dis
crlmlnatlon have been called to the at
tentlon of the Tribune OF late. Here
is the case of Nine. Marguerite SYLVIA.
prima donna of the Chicago Grand
Opera, which she related in person and
which is typical of conditions in this
city. '''''
Nine. Sylva's Experience.
Nine. Sylvia is the wife of Major Ber-
nard l.. Smith, United States Marine
Corps, who is now on duty in France.
She has two children-Sylva. aged two
and one-half years, and Daphne, aged
ten months. The birth of her children
necessltated the singers withdrawal
from professional life for a few wears.
during which time she was with her
husband in Washington.
Nine. Sylvia says:
when my husband was sent to
france 1t was necessary for me to re-
sumo my profession. l gave up nv
home in Washington and moved with
my children to New York. AS nv
voice is an asset which may leave me-
at any moment, came with the inten-
.lon OF living on his salary, which is
that of any major
New York was not so ready n ra-
celvc me, though. When I sought to
snoaa ooaaln looms rooms at the Hotel Colling-
wood, where I had once STAYED for =
snort time, was Informed that I
should have to pay 500 month moro
rent Tor the apartment had previouslv
occupied because I had a second child
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
To Open Nurses Club

A Red Cross houses for nurses wboro
reereational facilities will be provided
Iof army, navy and Red Cross nurses
passing through New York. will be
opened at I20 East Nineteenth Street
soout September / by the New York
Iounty Chapter Of the Red Cross. This
rouse will be to the nurses what SOL
nasrs a, and officers clubs throughout the
c,sy are TO the military men, Offering
neeping quarters, reading, writing and
ssseture rooms during their stay in
Nsw York. The government furnishes
.eoon odatsons for nurses, but offers
such ~ the new club will afford.
The Committee In charge Of the fur
aishing Of the club IL composed Of Mrs.
~usust Belmont, Miss Mary Parsons.
Mnorsee e. Andrews and George NJ.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Obituary
John w. Dewey, Custom
House Broker, Is Dead

John William Dewey, fifty-four years
old, of $50 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn,
treasurer of the Brooklyn Public Lii
brary Board for the last eighteen
years and of the Andrew Carnegie
Commission, of Brooklyn, died Sunday
of heart trouble at Watertown, n. Y,
where he had been passing the sum
mer.
Mr.. Dewey had lived in Brooklyn for
forty-fve years, and was one of the
oldest and best known Custom House
brokers in the city. He was senior
member Of the firm of Dewey Brothers,
in the Cotton Exchange Building
He was q trustee of the College of
New Rochelle and had served on many
city commissions under various ad :
ministrations.
Mr.. Dewey is survived by his widow,
Katherine Kelly; a son, j. Edward De-
voy, in the Naval Aviation Corps; two
daughters. Miss F. Elizabeth Dewey and
Mrs. Frank Allaire, of Brooklyn, and a
brother. Charles Dewey, Tax Appraiser,
of Brooklyn.
He will be buried in Holy Cross
Cemetery, with services in the Queen
of All Saints Roman Catholic Church,
at Lafayette and Vanderbilt avenues.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Women Volunteers for
Canteen Service Wanted

Women volunteer canteen workers
are wanted by the National League for
Women's Service to serve in eight hour
shifts in new cantcens to be open TWEEN
ty-four hours day. Applicants arc
asked to see Miss Leith at the Office Of
the league, 257 Madison Avenue.
The Volunteer Clearing House is also
asking for women volunteers to help
the woman's committee Of the Police
reserves in ten-day campaign for
funds, beginning to-day. Hundreds Of
these volunteers are needed for booths
in department stores. hotels and thea
tres. to begin work to-day. Apply MISC
Salon. 90 West Thirty ninth Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
The Tnbune
Fresh Air Fund

lhere was an unwonted touch of
color in 229 modest New York homes
last evening. From their centre tables
and mantlepieces glowed the armfuls
OF flowers which the little sons and
daughters of the homes had BROUGHT
back with them as the spoils of their
Fresh Air vacations.
Fosslbly one home of the number
missed its bouquet, but there was GER
tainly not more than one youngster out
Of the 229 whom The Tribune Fresh
AR Fund returned to the city yester
day that did not bring with him an
armful of the glory of the fields and
garden of his country host.
AS they streamed off the dozen trains
that brought them into the Grand Cen
tral Terminal they looked like an tin
Grant flower show and shed a glory
over the whole place. But there was
one thing brighter even than their
howers.their smiles. They were glad
to see familiar faces again, glad thew
had been away, glad Of the treasures
they had acquired (ther arms were
tull OF them), happy at the thought of
the big stories they had to tell to the
lncreduous who had not been to THE
COUNTRY.
There was ample evidence of all
these emotions in the scraps of conver-
satl0n that drifted into the ears of the
bystanders who watched them romp
across the concourse toward the sub
way. Groaned one girl, as she shifted
her bundle from one arm to the other,
Gee. now we're back in dirty old
N'York; and l wished l never seen it
again"
Bubbled another as a familiar pair
Of arms swept her in, ooh, mamma, l
wanted to see you for a week, but l
had grand time"
'Looka what got in crab bag we
had this morning after breakfast" "
burst forth another proudly displaying
doll to the teacher" who was shep-
herding the particular part of the flock
to which the youngster belonged
That called forth dozen cries Of
"'An' looka mine" And dolls, knitting
bags, popguns, books and games of one
sort and another waved wildly under
teachers" nose.
There was something fundamental
that underlay the general enthusiasm
over the good time that was over which
not all of the children recognized-pos-
sloiy not any OF them, though one, the
smallest of the lot, disclosed the Sc
cret to those with discerning ears. Said
she, "She was an awful nithe lady that
was with-she kithed me when went
away an cricd!"
One Of the escorts who accompanied
the boys and girls on their return trip
bore out the tiny girls report There
were many who wept as the children
boarded the train" added she as she
overheard the tale of the "kithing"
The flowers that spread glory through
the tenement homes of the youngsters
last night were gathered in the gardens
Of kind folk who had entertained them
in Lime Rock, Bethel, Sharon, New Mil
ford. Lakeville, Salisbury, Danbury,
Redding and Newtown, Conn.,, and
Watertown, Millerton and Copake Falls,
N. Y.
Danbury liked it's experience so we'll
with It's party Of seventy guests that it
took in another party Of TWENTY-FIVE
yesterday few hours after its first
party left.
Contributions to The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
By Haywood Broun

"a Very Good Young Man" contains
much material which shows first class
observation In a lesser degree it has
al amusing and interesting generalza-
tion from its observed facts. This phi
losophy of life seemed to us plausible
and agreeable, for Martin Brown. the
author of the new play at the Plymouth,
maintains that the nerves of wives are
not tangled because their husbands
take to drink, but that husbands take
to drink because the nerves Of their
wives are tangled.
Brown is a new playwright. His play
is first play. it has great many
virtues and some obvious faults. The
author can hardly be blamed, because
not all his observation is first rate nor
all his characters real. The pulse OF
play never reaches to the top and bot
tom Of every cast, but when Mr.. Brown
is a more experienced worker he will
learn to invent almost real persons to
mingle with those that breathe. He
will be able to supplement the gaps
between bits of first class observation
with second rate observation. His
worst will be only a little spurious
and thus it will pass for real. In "a
Very Good Young Man. the things
which are good are SO excellent that
the lesser things stand out more sharp
ly than they would in more inditfer
ent play.
Roughly speaking two-thirds Of the
new play is capital. 1t has humor and
a gentle lift of good humor at the end
to SAVIOR it ell. 1t is about home folk,
and thus falls into that rare and al
ways to be hailed class-an American
play. Brown shows a knowledge Of the
phrases of Williamsburg and Green
point, and something a little deeper as
we'll.
The central idea of the play is
familiar enough, although much of the
treatment is original. A very good
young man is engaged to a girl who
comes to fear that he is too good to be
true, since all her friends tell her that
a man must break out at some time or
another. Eventually, convinced by all
this talk, she tells him that she can
not trust him because he has never
had his fling. Of course he goes out
and has 1t and gets into all sorts of
difficulties. Indeed she is near to los
ing him, but in the end the lovers are
united and the good young man an
nounces that he intends to go on being
good because it is more natural for
him.
Martin Brown is successful in send
ing his hero out to have his fling and
in bringing him back again. Only the
fling fails. No one but new author
would blithey attempt to keep young
man inebriated and humorous as we'll
throughout an entire act If we had
never seen Fair and Warmer" we
would say that it was impossible to
reproduce the high spirited hilarity
of alcoholic inspiration. Observation
is no use to the playwright here. An
accurate portrait of the gayest drinker
who ever raised glass would fall
fiat, for after all the high spirit and
the wit of the roisterer is an entirely
seif-contained thing. The man who
drinks makes jokes for an audience
of one. Nothing dampens a party so
much as a single sober companion.
Last night the young gentleman who
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Birth Control Arrest Made

>. A young woman describing herself as
Street, was held in $1,000 bail yester-
day for trial in Special Sessions by
Magistrate Simms, Of Jefferson Market
court, on a complaint by the New York
Society for the Prevention of Vice that
she distributed birth control literature
in violation Of Sections 1141 and 1142
Of the Penal Code.
Miss Marion, who said she was used
20 being arrested, as she had been a
militant sufragist in England, waived
examination. Assistant District Attor-
ney Kastenbaum asked the court to fix
her bail at $4,000, on the ground that
she was the business manager of Mrs.
Margaret Sanger, all alleged birth con-
troll advocate
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
GEORGE H. PROUTY

SHERBROOKE, Que, Aug. 19.-G. II.
Prouty, former Governor of Vermont,
was instantly killed when the automo-
bile in which he was riding was struck
by q Grand Trunk train near Water
Vile to-day. The chauffeur, ]. W. Blay,
was knocked unconscious.
Mr.. Proutv was on his way from New
port, Vt, to take train at Lem OK
Vile for Jackman. Me, when the chauf
feur failed to observe the approaching
engine owing to dense fog. The lat
ter was taken to the Sherbrooke Hos
pital suffering from concussion of the
brain.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Plays and Players

Adolf Philipp who will shortly cele-
brate the twcnty-ffth anniversary of
his career as manager and author,
whose successes have included "Alma,
Where Az. ! -iinou? 2" adele" and "The
Girl Who Smiles" announces a policy
of strict Americanism for his new
theatre, the Yorkville, on East Eighty
sixth Street, near Lexington Avenue
MIR. Philipp, prefacing his announce
ment with the statement that he be-
lieves 1t an atfront to the American
people, in the present circumstances,
to continue as a manager of q Ger
man-speaking theatre, promises a new
play, called "Tell That to the Ma
rines," of which he and Edward A..
Paulton are co-authors.
Following this play, the Yorkvlle
will house only plays Of America, writ
ten by American authors.
Lee Baker, last seen in New York
as a member of Mrs. Fiske's cast in
Service" has been added to the COM
pany Of "The Woman on the Index"
Joseph Miller has been engaged for
an important role in John Cort's pro-
duction of "Fiddlers Three"
Gan Ideal Husband,' with which
John D. Williams and the Shuberts
will open the Comedy Theatre on Sep
tember 49, will commence-its season in
Stamford on September g.
The Sunday night concerts at the
Winter Garden will be resumed on
September LIST.
When the seat sale for the first 1O1
performances of the new Hippodrome
show opened yesterday the line reached
from Sixth to Fifth Avenue on Forty
third Street, and continued in robust
condition till the six box offices closed
late in the evening. Approximately
$1,000 tickets were sold.
Floyd Gibbons, who will return from
France within few days to begin
lecture tour, having just recovered
from the wounds received going cover
the top" with the marines at Chateau
Thierry, where he was correspondent
for "The Chicago Tribune" will bring
with him a letter to the American
people from Marshal Foch.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
"Work or Fight" Objector
Will "Work" for Six Months

WAPPINGER's FALLS. N. Y, Aug.
19.-The work or fight" order drove
A. X. Rush. conscientious objector.
to toll. Every recruiting officer for
miles around rejected him. After two
weeks in printing office here. test
suggested by local authorities. he gave
up his job to-day and told Judge Ed
ward Smith that he Simply couldn't
get accustomed to work" Judge Smith
decided that he hadn't given the ex-
pertinent fair trial and sent him 10
the Albany pcnitentiarv for six months,
assuring him that he'd be accustomed d
to work when he got out.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Out of Senatorial Race,
Is Gov. McCalps Message

BOSTON, Aug. 19.--Governor Nc
Call to-day announced ho had recon
sidcrcd his decision to become Il candi-
date for the Republican Senatorial
nomination. An intimation that he
contemplated withdrawing from the
political arena altogether was con
taired in his statement, which said:
"Ar IT IL most unlikely | shall ever
again appear before the people Of the
commonwealth for their suffrage, /
take this occasion to thank them most
deeply for the generous confidence
they have given me-"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20

lation 70 pro-German propaganda
throughout the borough "The Great
powers of the Present" was yritten by
PROFESSOR r. Kjellen. Miss j. Y. Mid
dieton, acting librarian, stated yester-
day that she was grateful that the true
nature Of the book had been brought to
her attention.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Drama
"A Very Good Young Man
Has First Night at
Plymouth

"A Very Good Young Man." by Martin
Brown. At the Plymouth Theatre.
Presented by Arthur Hopkins, with the
following cast:
New-York tribune., 1918-08-20

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