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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22
Girl Dies From, Injury
Received in Auto Leap
Accepted Ride From Man, BE.
came Alarmed and Jumped
in Front Of Another Ger

NEWBURGH, N. Y, Sept. 21.--Flor-
ence Hub, Of Elmhurst, Queens Coun-
ty, member of last years senior class
at Hunter College, New York, died to-
day in st. Luke's Hospital from frac-
ture of the skull she received Septem-
Der II when she flung herself In panic
from an automobile driven by Launce-
lot Ryan, of Cornwall.
Miss Hub and friend, Florence Bar
Der, of New York, accepted lift from
Ryan while tramping near here. They
became alarmed ON realizing that he
was not following the course thev had
mapped out, and Miss Hub jumped to
automobile, occupied by Supreme Court
Justice SeegeEA Ryan is under arrest
for failing to report the accident to the
police. He had taken route new to
the young women because repairs ON
the state road necessitated detour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22
A Horse Of Anoihey coh.

Goodness; you're forgstt;n.
stop at 81" scolded dapple =, g. .
Winnie, tearning with Nesa az !!
seasoned" Knickerbocker ho,.. |
oh! I see there's a sign" sns,
ogized Winnie. Like q wo,r nss :
mumbled Ned - believes !.
signs, but talks before she r..s'
them. Our customers who l;s.. ,
there have moved" "Sorrr.s =
lose them," sighed WinuI;.'a Y
they had such nice ch;Id...|
and such good apples" You's'
lost them, but KnickerboeL,...
hasn't-their move lust n,ssss
that a horse of another eo,ss
with a less distinguish.
team mate, is delivering ths;s
Knickerbocker Ice.
This Conversation suiN remind ,,,,
soho are movfng October III n s'a
Kniekerboekey. Address-4I Eo,. " sa
Sfreet- Tel. Murray Hill 2127 ''aa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22
Patrick Nominated as
Army Air Service Chief

From The Trtbune's WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept 21.--Settlemen
of the Menoher-Mitchell controversy
within the army air service was &C.
complished to-day by the selection of
Colonel Mason NJ. Patrick, an engineer
officer, for the post Of director of the
service. His nomination for that Of
flee, with the rank of major general,
was transmitted to the Senate for con-
'firmation to-day by President Harding.
Brigadier General William Mitchell
will be retained as assistant director
of the army's air forces for the time
being, while Major General Charles T.
Menoher, who recently asked to be re-
lieved Of the air service detail, will be
given months leave of absence prior
to his assignment with troops. 1t is
probable that General Mcnoher will be
placed in command of an army corps
area, three of which will soon be
vacated by retirement Of general Of
fcers now In command of them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22
20 of IS Murders Unsolved
In 4 City Boroughs Since june l
"a Per Cent of Slayers Have Escaped Police as Com
pared With 54 Per Cent Who Got Away First Half
of Year; Killings Average "a Month

Eighty-fve murders have been COM
mitted in four of the FIVE boroughs Of
greater New York since June / last,
according to statistics furnished to The
Tribune by the district attorneys of
those counties--Manhattan the Bronx,
Brooklyn and Queens.
OF these cighty-fve killings the per-
petrators of twenty-nine have escaped
and the crimes must be added to the
long list Of unsolved murders in this
city.
Compared with the statistics for the
first Ave months of the year, those OBJ
tanned yesterday by The Tribune would
indicate that while the man-killer is
slightly more active, he is less success
full in eluding justice. In the period
from January l to June l. there were
400 murders, of which fifty-nine were
unsolved, an average of slightly mere
than Sd per cent. The average from
June to date, twenty-nine unsolved
out of total of eighty-fve, is about 81
per cent.
Figures Of Four Boroughs
In the latter period, however, the,
killings averaged more than twenty
four month, while the average from
January / to June was fewer than
twenty-five q month. A comparative
table follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22

A.--No, think the whole transaction
took a couple of days, and he brought
me the report on it and brought me
the check as we'll.
.Q.-Did Mr.. Ryan ever speak to you
after. you received this about letting
you in again? Al think he did at
that time. He said, "We may have
something else some other time"
Q-But you had never heard of that !?
A.--Not yet. have hopes.
Q.-You keep them yet? A.-Yes.
sir.
The hearing will continue this
morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22

were Elizabeth Chaplin. Of Ma,
and Mary Landon Baker, Of NV s" Yots,
Simeon B. Chaplin, an nn sa.s c.t7,
bride, gave her away. Van ne Of tss
ton, of New York. was best n we. Bur
man Armour Nichols ana a AIN. Her.
Mccormick were ushers. Tba ansster
was performed by the Rev iIsferssay
Casey, pastor of the church 'osepa 4
Rev. Father Shannon. Tier. and lie
a ae9apt Nor. At the home Of the b nss
auHt, MIS- FRANCIS K. Nav. .iaes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22

Ogden ArmOur's Cousin l
Welded to Yicomte de lane

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-Alice Silver
thorne, cousin of J. Ogden Armour,
was married to-day at the Church of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel to Vicomte
Frederic de jane, of Paris. Mrs. John
j. Mitchell jr., a cousin of the bride,
was matron of honor. The bridesmaids
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22


The classification as unsoived MUIR
ders is given to all killings in which
the guilty person or persons escaped, OF
to those in which arrests wei. made
and the suspects discharged for lack of
evidence. In many instances. such as
cases in which tangible clews appa-
rently were being followed by The
authorities. the police were given the
beneflt OF the doubt, and such entries
were not placed among the unsolved
cases.
Many of the prisoners taken in the
crimes tabulated have either been tried
or are awaiting trial after Indictment,
List of Unsolved Murders
The list of unsolyed murders since
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-22

cans returning from their states and
districts spoke of the strong hold the
Harding Administration has gained on
the Dl1bIic
The Washington times., 1921-10-02

Ions to the mood of the moment.
She observed that she felt different
ly in different gowns. that her
moods responded TO her frocks
and that sha could change a dark.
dull. drab day into one OF triumph
by the simple adoption Of the right
color and fabric. .... O.. ..'.i--' "a
'oh, II could only bring this
message to all women" she thought.
What would It not mean to the
tired ones all over the world. A
simple gown, that looks elaborate
enough for any occasion, and yet
slips on like a wrap, -fastens with
only a single snap, and is also of an
exhilarating or a soothing color, as
the occasion demands. That shall
be my work for women"
SO this little reformer, the true
artist, who doesn't preach or
moralize, but smokes a cigarette all
the time. and yet inspires in you
the greatest confidence in the world,
for she is a real IF. r. w." an
aristocrat. set about this work, and
when she was invited to costume
studios, like that of Maxfield Par
IRISH. she went along and showed her
gowns. those simple affairs that are
80 stunning. -. 49,.
And then down upon her descend
ed the wrath Of the British woman
costumist, who said:
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sible for the reports that spooks pay
nightly visits to the official dead
house and indulge in gristly pranks.
This same old colored man is re-
ported to have returned to the
morgue one night with super
cargo of gin aboard. He lost his
bearings after entering the dark
building and climbed onto one of
the death slabs, mistaking II for bed.
When he awoke in the morning to
find that his bedfellow was the he
mains of a suicide, his yells alarm
ed the neighborhood, and he fled
incontinently from the place.
A wharf character known as
Skid" takes delight in describing
what he terms the ball at the
morgue." He declares that at in
tervals the ghosts of the dead house
assemble there and dance from mid.
night to daybreak. He says the un-
canny dancers are led by a head.
less man who was decapltated by q
locomotive and the music sounds
like that produced by an aeolian
harp. l -.
Morguemaster Schoneberger sx.
plains that at the beginning of the
world war Congress appropriated
$500 for a modern refrigerating
plant, but the money was not used,
hang insufficient Congress last
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berger had left enough grewsome
material to form a composite Of
many bodies. which was buried by
the District, as John Doe, un.
identified" The Inquest was held
over the remains of but one victim,
Theodore I. King, December 30, 1906.
and Engineer Hildebrand, whose 10.
connective was hauling the train of
"empties," wss held for the action
of the grand jury. ~ ~.
''Will" schoneberger, as he Is
Familiarity termed by his many
friends, was made morguemaster by
an act OF Congress July 1, 1904.
Some years ago he was presented
with a gold and ivory scarf pin de.
signed-as skull and crossbones, as
the emblem Of his calling, and he
proudly wore It on his necktie until
II was stolen. ~. o.,
One OF his fads 10 little morsus
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museum he has established on the
second floor Of the dead house. One
Of the exhibits is about all that was
left Of the foreign anarchist who
exploded a dynamite bomb in front
Of the home Of A. Mitchell Palmer
when he was Attorney General. 1t
is part of the fellows scalp covered
with coarse black hair and is
mounted on a wooden head form.
Another is the ''cat.face baby found
by the police in an alley, which is
preserved In alcohol. other relics
Of crime and casualty include pint
bottle labeled Dew Drop whiskey,
Compound" It contained a Vol.
stead act substitute for .'hooch,"
and killed it's man, whose remains
were taken to the morgue for identi-
fication.
A pair Of woman's shoes Of sty-
lish make occupy niche in the
morgue museum. They were worn
by woman who committed suicide.
When a local cobbler identified the
remains he explained that at the
woman's request he had sewed sew
eral hundred dollars in the soles.
Schoneberger removed the outer
layer and found the cash, which was
used in defraying the funeral ex-
penses.
A bottle OF Jump Steady" which
brought down two turnpike-tourists,
= Is beside another vessel containing
poison used by a poor fellow out of
employment and starving who was
found in a room in a cheap rooming
house. -.....-
Colored folks and some white ones
along the river front aver that the
morgue is haunted" The wierd,
wild stories related by a venerable
colored man, former janitor Of the
building are In some measure respon-
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New York, has been associated In
her work with great success.
Il always name my gowns" says
Miss Willoughby Ions. This one
is the Flame Crested oudouchanI
Yes, I invented the Oudouchan. It's
a tropical bird. This other one is
merely a Tahitian Coral design,
from Noa-Noa, somewhat like eau
gums ideas in color.
"One day when was showing
my Greek gown. this one here, with
the Greek frieze at the bottom,
which 1 designed from a wooden
statue Of Homer Enthroned" q
had it in a book. a good old South
ern nanny saw the thing, and all
she could say, as she gazed at the
Greek heroes adorning the hem, was
this: 'Jes' look at the dogs an In
tins! This deep turquoise with the
burnt orange l call the Taj.Mahal.
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
BY VICTOR FLAMBEAU.

II she had refractory doll among
her own little family Miss Willoush-
by would discipline the recalcitrant
one by making her wear a conyen-
tional pattern dress. They were not
so pretty then as nowadays. In fact,
women's gowns IN general were all
rather ugly. prim. high-collare6.
long-sleeved affairs.
Originated First
Party Dress.
But the occasion Of Miss VIII
loughby Ions complete emancipa-
ton from home rule came with her
first party. IT must have an en-
tirely different gown" she told her
mother. r.
why. no." exclaimed the good
lady. What will they think of
your
But little Willoughby (they called
her Estelle in those days) persisted,
and she evolved a Transformation at
fair which she wore to the party,
and so became the cynosure of every
eye.
They couldn't deny 1t was beauti-
full. but It was strange. they said.
They didn't understand 1t. They
were shocked. Thus little wiIlough-
by graduated. p: -
In later years when she began to
be known in New York as a most
original designer OF Battik gowns
(which as you know 10 q Javanese
process of dyeing. with wax used in
the protection of the material, while
you are painting on 1t the most sim
pie or complicated fisures).
Thought She Wore ..--.
Priests Robe. -
A Japanese at studio party ap-
preached her once with hostile looks.
and said:
why you wear shinto priests
robe?"
mo, indeed" answered Miss VOL.
loughby Ions. II have no Shinto
priests robe. designed this my
self. and I was never in Japan in
all my life"
But" said the japanese. uncon-
WINGED. you wearing Shinto priests
robe. know. My father. Shinto
priest. Nobody else have right to
wear Shinto priests robe. I know,
cause you have on it Japanese
Spring dawn color.".
Sure enough, the child had ac-
tually evolved in her fancy dress
costume the precious spring dawn"
of the Japanese. And yet, 1t was
a psychological response in Miss
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ed studio of her own in New York.
One thing she never does is to
make two gowns alike. Every one
is different. absolutely exclusive.
There are lovely Batik blouses. with
most varied colors and designs, at
$25 each. The gowns come higher,
from SIS to $1,000. They are of
all colors, iridescent as a butterfly's
wing and filmy as a bit Of cloud.
Each Creation Has
Its Own Name.
Dream crepe" that's a nice sub
stance, worn over a contrasting
color. The sense Of color seems to
be innate with Miss Ions. OF
course. her charming cousin, the ar
list in the family, Miss Adele Clark,
of Richmond, has given her some
hints on color. And the past few
months the artist, Mr.. LuBloc, of
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
GRAlANE
AENNA s. BROAZ,e

do you want common women
wearing our gowns? Do you realize
that with the prices you charge,
any woman will be able to obtain
these beautiful gowns?" !. 4
y why. yes" said simple little Miss
willoughby. who isn't simple at all.
but quite the match for anybody. IT
thought that was the purpose Of our
meeting: To make beautiful dresses
possible for all women. And IL work.
ing women should be able to buy
my gowns, I should be only too
happy, because ] think a woman
who works deserves a beautiful
gown more than any other woman
in the world. She has earned IT,
and 1t would be 80 restful for her
to have the right gown. 1 never
would have come to your show IL
hadn't understood that was your
purpose.
She had them there.
So at Beatrice Forbes Robertson
Hale's exhibit, and on many other
such occasions. Miss Willoughby
Ions gowns were shown alongside
the most exclusive Of Mrs. Fifth
Avenues and Nine. de Paris crea-
tons, and Miss Willoughby Ions OBJ
served that when her .frocks were
purchased by dealers for say, 500,
they made the price for them in
their shops 5000 or. $3.50. She open.
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BY the clever originality Of her
colorful dress schemes she has
brought down upon her youthful
bobbed head the Ncensure of English
and other costume designers who
see ruin staring them in the face If
all woman adopt Miss Ions fascinat-
ing ideas Of simplicity in costume.
They don't look SO simple, either
these elegant Batik hostess gowns"
but appear rather to be very elab-
eorat and finished productions. quite
suitable to receive the highest
diplomat in Washington, or even the
President himself.
What I have tried to do" says
Miss Ions, lis to make them look
elaborate and yet have them SO very
uncomplicated that they slip on over
the head in one or two pieces and
fasten with a single snap. The other
costumes designed look simple, but
they are very difficult to get into
and to adjust"
- 1AOiS SNSi huAy phcocHI OcBdl "
count the needless hooks on her own
garments, except one or two who
had already emancipated themselves
from corsets and complexity.
2, Miss Willoughby, who belongs to
a distinguished 'F. F. w." of Fair
fax county. and was brought up
with the. right people. had a hard
time of 1t for while. As a little
girl she disliked conventional
clothes exceedingly, and the only
sympathizer she found in her Pc
culiar tastes was an artist grand
mother, who had been a pupil Of
Turner.
Began Designing
Dolls Dresses.
He was eccentric enough as a
painter and man, though the
grandmother who had studied with
him had no proclivities so pro-
nounced as those of her erratic
granddaughter. Miss Willoughby
dressed her dolls in all sorts of fan
tastic ways, and later she began to
experiment with her own clothing.
If her mother purchased a nice
conventional pattern, and made it
up into sensible dress for her little
daughter, the young scamp would
find some way to dispose Of the
article. Maybe she would hide it
under a rock in the fields. Her
practical family thought her very
careless in the matter OF losing
things, but they never discovered
what became of the lost clothing,
and so the young lady got by with
1T.
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old No. Z police station at First and
F streets northwest, designated now
as No. 6 and located on New Jersey
avenue and its number changed to
six, the morgue was transferred also.
1t was located in a small room be-
tween the station house and its
stable.
William Schoneberger, the pres
ent norguemaster, was appointed
janitor Of No. 8, August 4, 1891, and
q year later was given the addi-
tional duty Of caring for the morgue
victims in the rear room, twelve
by twenty feet in size. In this al.
most thirty years of uncanny ser.
vice schoneberger served as
morguemaster under five coroners--
Drs. Patterson, Woodward, Ham.
NETT. Carr and hewitt.
The first big disaster to overcrowd
the little morgue was a holocaust,
known as the "stumph fire. Six
persons were fatally burned when
the stumph mattress factory at
Seventh street and Massachusetts
avenue northwest, flared UP, caus.
ing a spectacular. blaze. with the
mass Of combustibles stored within.
Then came the disaster at the old
Ford Theater, on Tenth street be.
tween E and f streets. where Presi.
dent Lincoln was assassinsted In
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1855. The latter accident occurred
in 1893, and was caused by the fall
ing Of the upper floors, due to under
mining in the front of the build.
ing. The hundreds of employees were
at work when the collapse came and
many were killed and MANNED, the
structure being used as the old rec
ord and pension division of the War
Department. ,-,
Disaster Caused =. Is, .-.
Congress to Act. ,&g.s.1
The conditions presented at the
small morsue were, narrowing. The
remains Of the victims were literally
piled like cordwood. and it was
necessary for Shoneberger and his
assistants, to unpile the bodies at
frequent intervals for the purpose of
identification by grief.stricken rela.
tives and friends. 1t was, largely
due to those conditions that popu.
lar cutlery started and kept alive agi-
tation that many years later impelled
Congress5to appropriate money for
the erection Of the present morgue
on the river front. t. ~.
The outstanding disaster since the
establishment of the present official
deadhouse, July /, 1904, was the rail.
road wreck at Terra Gotta, d. c., a
small station of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, just beyond the city
limits of Washington, in 1906. A
train OF empty passenger coaches,
running at high speed, telescoped an
excursion train that had stopped Mt
the little station. A large number. Of
those in the halted train were liter.
ally ground to pieces and identified.
ton was difficult in many cases.
After the last mutilated body had
been identified and taken from
the morkue. Superintendent shone-
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I have even begun Batik portraits.
This IL Ada Foreman, the brilliant
New York dancer. and the design is
to be exhibited at the Grand Central
Palace ,... .'..'h '.'-........ d. II.
Here we paused to look, also at
Mr.. LuBloc's drawing in black on
white silk Of the Greek pediment.
THE Frieze Of the Chariots," an ef-
fective studio hanging. Other crea;
lions by Mr.. LuI3loc were scarfs Of
batik design. simple and elaborate.
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BY CAPT. j. WALTER MITCHELL

By CAPT. j. WALTER MITCHELL
On two occasions Congress, realiz-
ing the necessity Of a modern cold
storage arrangement for the morgue
has appropriated money for a re-
frigerator machine. The amount in
each instance proved to be too small
owing to war prices of materials.
Now that cost conditions are getting
better, the Coroner, DIR. ]. Ramsey
hewitt. believes the installation Of
the plant will be only the matter Of
a few weeks, as the District Of Co.
himbia Committee Of the Senate and
House are impressed with the neces-
sity for the Improvement.
recall the time. about thirty.five
years ago. when there was no Dis.
trict norgue. The bodies OF victims
Of accidents, suicide and murder
were held for autopsy and inquest
IN sheds or stables in rear of the
Police station in which the fatality
occurred. That was before the pc.
Rod of artificial ice-making ma
chimes. and the remains were placed
on blocks OF natural ice until the
coroner had disposed of the case.
The first District morgue. so des.
ienated by the District authorities,
was dilapidsted stable in rear OF
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MorguemaSter
For Thirty Years

Morguemaster VIII Schoene-
berger, still holding the job. is
the original superintendent of
the institution and his personal
recollections, part of which are
contained in the accompanying
article by Captain Mitchell, in
clude practically every sanguin-
airy detail Of the history Of the
District of Columbia since the
late eighties. He has small
room near his office where he
keeps such souvenirs of his grue-
some position as have been pre-.
served during the long years OF
his service. - as q. .
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CANNOT COMPLICATE NOR CAN SNAPS BEWILDER
ARER OF GOWNS DESIGNED BY VIRGINIANS SYSTEM
Stylish Kim0nO
Is Tokyo Wonncn'S
:. Biggest Pleasure
TOKYO. .Oct.

: !. p z TOKYO. Oct. I. n
THE wearing of a beautiful
kimono was stated to be the
greatest pleasure Of $50 wom-
en- Of Tokyo in response to q
QUESTIONABLE sent out by the,
Hochi, a daily. n.
Attending the theater came
next, 720 women calling It
their greatest Joy. One hun
dred and fifty women answered
Visiting friends as the great
est satisfaction Of life. !,
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Fails to Answer Call,
Deaf, Mute is Shot

SHELBYv1LLE, Tenn, Oct. H.
Cyril Williams, sixteen, a deaf
mute. was perhaps fatally shot at a
toll gate house near here by WI
liam Smith, the gate keeper =.
Williams knocked on the door Of
the keepers house but did not
respond to calls as to who he was
and his business.
The Washington times., 1921-10-02

year increased the amount to
$4,000, which was not used. 1t is
understood Chairman Focht, Of the
District Committee of the House.
expects to ask for an increase Of
the latter sum soon after Congress
a' .'
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
Copper King Dozes Off;
Finds Aims i'm His Hat

DETROIT. Oct. 1,-G. c.. Boswell,
= Of Missoula, Mont, millionaire
copper magnate, fell asleep at the
entrance Of the Cadillac Hotel.
When he awoke he found forty
cents in iis hat. '.... s....''. 3.
Boswell wears heavy dark glasses.
When he dozed OF to sleep his hat
fen on his hap. bottom side mp. Y
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
Real Value for Money.

I .oNDoN, Oct. George How.
lette bought q suit of clothes
when he married. Nothing unusual
about that except that he Is still
wearing it--and he's eighty-eight
years old and has been married
sixty-five years. .....
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ORIG MORGUE TO BE COMPLETED AFTER MANY YEARS

Long History of Public MOrtuary Recalling
Disasters and Famous Criminal Cases May Be
Traced i'm Gruesome Collection of MementOeS
i'm Private Museum Maintained by MOrgue
Master will Schoeneberger.