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Evening journal., 1921-08-04

NEW YORK-Two "blighted ro-
mances" are involved in the Shaw
divorce Casa court drama that
has taken the place. temporarily at
least, Of. the Sullman case in cap
turing New York's interest.
Mrs. Elinor Jordan Shaw charges
her millionaire broker-husband cast
her off for a Follies show girl.
The ex-Follies girl. Madrienne La
Barre-the Butterfly Girl"-weeps
that she thought Shaw was unmar-
ried and that she was preparing her
wedding trousseau.
Philip NJ. Shaw denies his wife's
charges Of misconduct with Miss La
Barre. This is what Mrs. Shaw says:
Shaw spent $4,000 a year main
tanning Miss La Barre in homes in
New York and Somerville, Mass.
He closed his home TO his wife
and wanted her to accept $500 a
month in lieu of a life in which
their expenses were $4,000 a year.
Miss Ia Barre wrote him Sweet
heart" letters and was seen with
him at New York hotels.
Through With Him.
This is what Miss la Barre Says:
Il am through with him. l am
bitter. 1 am through-through-
through. We were to be married
December /. We talked OF our
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
European hnkeepers
Pick TaueLer Clean

In Italy, also, the hotels as well as
restaurants have evolved what
amounts to a double tipping system.
Placards announce that no tips will
be accepted. and that instead OF
service charge of from ten to fifteen
per cent. will be made. But. to get
out without tipping takes an accom-
plished burglar. one proprietor,
when asked if the service was paid
for replied, well. yer, but -."
A cover charge is also in the list
of refined extortions. In one tiny
restaurant in Venice the cover l had
certainly had made more than
enough to buy a clean one. The
service was rendered by the pro-
prietor's small son. Both charges
were nevertheless among those pres
ent.
There is, however. one new con-
venience. Almost every man who
went home from England or America
to fight has now become waiter or
porter. so that knowledge OF an
extra language, except for arguing
with the taxicab drivers, is almost
superfiuous.
Though Holland is to Monaco as
a washtub is to a fingerbowl, II Is
for a visit the most pleasant coun-
Try Of all. One is sure Of courteous
treatment and the inhabitants rad
late contentment It is not neces
sary, as it is in Italy, and, TO a les
degree, in France. to tip everyone
for the most elementary courtesy
The place is extraordinarily clear
and the food extraordinarily good
1t is a delight. also, to talk TO I'M
Hollanders-most OF them speal
English, French and German. The
are broadminded and impartial
When there is so much jealous!
abroad it is refreshing to ma
country small enough to know it d
small and yet big enough not to tr,
continually by intrigue to get bigger
When Holland wants more territory
il pumps some more water out OF th'
] Zuider Zee.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
TRY TO AVERT
COAL SHORTAGE
State Dealers Fear Repeti-
tion of Last Winters
Trade Condition
ONLY 80 DAYS
SUPPLY ON HAND

Ways and means no avert fuel
shortage in Wilmington and vicinity
next winter will be considered at the
quarterly meeting Of the Delaware
State Coal Club, in Rehoboth, on
Friday, August 26.
Date for the meeting Of the club
was fixed and preliminary arrange
ments we're discussed by the board
OF directors of the organization, yes
terday afternoon, in the office of the
clubs president, E. r. Pusey, $40
Shipley street.
That the situation is serious was
emphasized by the directors and the
discussion at RehobOth will prove
Of unusual importance. Coal dealers
have confirmed the reports that un-
less some plan Of action speedily Is
taken, conditions are likely to be
worse during the coming winter than
those OF last year.
The employment situation has had
sharp effect on the coal situation.
Despite the fact that local dealers
have not increased their prices this
summer, following the custom of
years standing. sales have been at
low ebb. An increase in prices will
go into effect on September l which
will make it still more difficult for
the public to purchase its winter
supply of coal.
An Improvement in business and
| employment conditions in the early
/ fall would result in an abnormal de-
mand for coal here. The local sup
ply is said TO be sufficient TO meet
demands for a period Of thirty days.
I but it would be difficult to meet a
heavy demand.
A factor in this connection
is the falling off in produc-
ton at the mines which. during
( the past few months. has reached
serious proportions. These matters
will be given full consideration at
the quarterly meeting and an at
tempt will be made to reach an
equitable solution.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
DROP Agent At
iron HILL, Md.
Railroad Contends Business
There Does Not Warrant
Maintaining Agency
WET WEATHER HOLDS
UP CARNIVAL

Special to The Evening Journal.
ELKTON Nd, Aug. 4.-Notwith-
standing that the residents OF the
Iron Hin section made objections
the Public Service Commission Of
Maryland has granted permission to
the Philadelphia. Baltimore and
Washington Railroad Company to
make Iron Hill a non-agency station.
The company contended that the
business OF the station did not war
rant an agency.
The manager OF the EllSton A. A.
baseball team has booked a game, to
be played at EllSton, Saturday after
noon. with the Wesley A. c. team OF
Wilmington, Del.
District Deputy Game Warden
John Anderson has received notice
from e. Lee Compte. State Game
Warden. that within the next few
days he will ship to Elkton about
100 ring-neck pheasants for distri-
button in this section Of Cecil county.
He will also ship about so OF the
same kind Of birds to High Falls. at
Port Deposit for distribution in that
part of the county A special effort
is being made to establish this spe-
cies OF birds in Maryland. The law
prohibits the killing of the female
bird this year and sportsmen are also
being appealed to also not to shoot
the male birds this year.
The Town Commissioners OF
Ridgely have offered a reward OF
$1,000 for the arrest and conviction
Of the party or parties who set fire
to the Amus-U Theatre in that town
last Friday night. This is the sec
ond time this building has been fired.
The carnival. under the auspices
OF the Elkton-Cecil County League
baseball team, which was to have
been held on the lot adjoining the
/ Eikton Armory. all OF this week, has
not yet opened. With a large crowd
present. including the Elkton Band
/ and the Marching Club OF oxford
Pa. Monday night. the grand open
ing was found impossible on account
OF no lights. The carnival will open
as soon as the weather permits.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
SARA COWEN IS
LAID TO REST
Roueed Women of Broad
way Mourn in Motley
Funeral Crowd
ONE PEW FILLED
WITH NURSES

NEW YORK. Aug SARA Cow
ems Broadway friends did not desert
her at the last. The mortuary chapel
OF Bellevue Hospital where funeral
services we're held yesterday for the
woman who was once a beauty and
A social favorite, was filled largely
with pale4faced young women with
rouged lips and young men Of the
chauffeur stratum OF society.
L; was the members OF this group
who had sent the handsome wreath
and the blanket Of pink roses with
which the coffin was draped.
Bob Potter, the young chauffeur
with whom the dead woman had
spent her last days. sat through the
services. In the front pew young
girl. carefully and tastefully dressed
and apparently OF quite a different
social group from Miss cowen's later
friends. wept quietly all through the
services.
There we're many others present
who had known Sara Cowen and
liked her. One pew was filled with
nurses from the Postgraduate Hos
pital who-had known her when she
sought to take the training for
nurse.
William NhOries, general manager
o. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
was present as were other old friends
OF the family.
A woman fashionably dressed in
.black placed a cross and bouquet OF
lilies in the dead woman's hands
Many present supposed her to be
Miss Cowen's aunt. her only other
living relative beside John +. Woods
a nephew, who took charge OF the
body. But she said she was Mrs
George Baxter. merely an old ac-
quaintance. who had known Miss
cowen 15 years ago in Paris and had
never seen her since.
she was is years old them she
said, "and radiantly beautiful, with
plenty OF money and the high spirit'
OF the typical American girl There
is nothing left of her beauty now bui
her wonderful copper-colored hair
The Rev William Smith, a Uni
versalist clergyman OF Brooklyn, con-
Quoted the services. The body wa'
taken for burial TO Aiken. 5. c.
where Miss Cowen's mother is buried
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
DISGUSTED WITH
WASHINGTON STREET

To the Editor Of The Evening Jour
nal:
Sir Residents of washington
street between sixteenth and Eigh-
teenth are having a serious time fig
uring out whether the street is to
continue as trout stream, a brick
yard or Burton Holmes scenic
railway.
In its present and past state the
condition OF the street is and has
been too serious to swear at and in
too pitiable a plight to condone. or
the important interests involved we
are wondering whore 10 fix the re-
sibility-whether the Gas Com
pany or the Traction Company or
The Stree tand Sewer Department, or
the public is responsible. In any
event II s unsafe and unfit to use
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
France to Ask Franco
american Alliance At
Disarmament Conference

sion, including the Russian ques-
tlon.
The attitude OF the American eov-
ernment is. that the Russian situa-
ton is a matter which must be dealt
with by each sovereign power. but
n discussion OF international prin-
ciples as applied 10 Europe could
scarcely avoid consideration Of Rus
sia, in the opinion OF diplomats
here.
While the agenda for the confer
ence has not been decided on as yet.
diplomats here who are in touch with
the exchange Of notes leading up 10
the conference invitations. are
agreed that the conference will pro-
ceed along these broad lines.
First. the settlement OF Far East
ern and Pacific problems as a pre-
liminary to any naval disarmament.
Second, the question OF American
participation guaranteeing European
security as a preliminary TO French
land disarmament
Third actual discussion OF land
and naval disarmament
Fourth, an economic survey OF
Europe with special reference &c
protection Of Americas commercial
interests with Germany and to IN,
ultimate payment OF the allied deb
owed the United States.
Fifth. discussion of the Russian
question.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

honeymoon in Northern Canada, and
1 didn't know that all the time he
was married"
Although Mrs. Shaw's suit for di-
vorce was filed early in May, it did
not become public until late in July.
Efforts of detectives to find Miss La
Barre resulted in her fleeing from
her Somerville home.
The ex-show girl later was found
at her studio in the Back Bay dis
trict of Boston. As she told her
story of disillusionment a friend
knocked a bottle Of poison from her
hand in time to save her life.
Asks Large AlimOny.
Mrs Shaw has asked for allmony
of $1,000 a month. $500 counsel
fees and $4,000 for expenses pending
trial Of the divorce suit.
Among the documents filed by
Mrs. Shaw is a postcard she says
Miss la Barre sent the broker. 1t
read
Just the fondest recollections
from another little Butterfly. Birth
day greeting. Sweetheart"
Another letter was introduced
addressed: MY Darling Sweetheart
and signed: your loving little
sweetheart. Madrienne butterfly. ."
In this letter mention was made OF
being engaged to be married"
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
BY CLYDE a. BEALS.
written Tor the United Press'

(Written for the United Press.)
LONDON (By Mail). The open
season for travelling in Europe is
on and the average American who
come over will be shot as full OF
holes as a decoy duck. Every hotel
keeper is bent on squeezing the
lemon dry for himself. and. on re-
ceiving a complaint against the most
unreasonable extortion, smiles OBJ
seauiously and murmurs the new
European slogan, But you have
dollars"
The only real good the exchange
does Americans, as a matter Of face
is to make them feel richer. In
Central Europe. Germany and Italy
the prices are still relatively low.
In Belgium the level of food prices
begins to approach the American
and in France, and, strongey
enough, Holland, one pays dollar
for dollar and sometimes a little
more. In all these countries one
may find relatively cheap hotels and
restaurants, but they are both well
off the beaten tourists tracks, and
dirty. 1nt INT btAWNNAA NAAN tNNN
and bad places is rather sharp.
No American need fear the foot
shortage, even in Austria. There il
is still practically impossible TO ge
white bread, though this in the sur
rounding countries is readily avail
able.
1t is discouraging to try 20 trave
for pleasure, however, in any Of tn
countries except those along the At
lantic and North Sea. The trail
services, owing to the coal shortage
have been so curtailed that the car
are hopelessly overcrowded.
The hotels are continually filled
one must reserve rooms from one &
ten days ahead, and, the complete
traveller must be equipped with
fun assortment of bug and itcl
ointments. The bugs have become
so brazen that they don't wait t'
begin operations even until the light
are out.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
Fashions AID FAps

Plaid skirts show belt and pock-
cts trimmed with colored leather.
Tailored dresses have a decided
flare to the skirt below the hips.
Straight slipover tunics button
down the back from collar to hem.
Amber. yellow. orange. coral,
blues and green are favored shades.
For motoring light-colored woody
wraps are worn over summer
dresses.
I The white pique gilet. frilled lin
gerie cuffs and jabot are very pop
uar.
A simple dress OF marine blue
serge has a richly fringed black
satin sash.
Overblouses have wide sashes. the
ends OF which are fringed with
beads.
SpeclSled monkey fur, dyed rabbit
and dyed squirrel are used on fall
models.
A hat Of white felt is decorated
with hand-crocheted flowers in bril-
( liant colors
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
MILLER FURNITURE
SALE DRAWS MANY

Bargain-loving housewives have
taken advantage OF the proht-shar-
ing August sale being conducted by
Miller Brothers. Ninth and KING
streets. Nathan Miller, head OF Mil
Ter Brothers. store. remarked today
that despite the fact that many per-
sons are CRYING hard times" the
company had a greater volume OF
business since the opening OF the
furniture sale on Monday than at
anv time since they went into husi-
ness. Yesterday being Dollar Day
an even larger crowd attended the
sale than on the previous two days
What strikes the eye upon enter
ing the ground floor OF the store Is
the luxurious setting OF the house
hold goods offered. Substantial re-
ductions on practically everything
in the store have been made Many
real bargains in parlor suites ana
kitchen furniture including the
Hoosier kitchen cabinets, are being
offered. These kitchen cabinets could
be had and delivered to the home
the initial outlay OF one dollar yes
terday.
For the music-lover a variety OF
Victrolas in many pleasing styles
including the table size and the finer
cabinet style OF machine, are on
sale. together with a large collec-
ton OF records. The records in
clude any class OF music the buyer
may prefer.
with much talk now going on
about soft shaded parlor lamps as a
means OF making for happier homes
Miller Brothers. present a display
that dazzles the eye. Lamps In every
form and with as many different
colored shades as a rainbow are or
display. Practically every style OF
lamp is shown except probably
'Aladdin's Lamp" which is said &C
be only a myth, anyhow.
Porch furniture for the mansion
or fer the smaller home can be had
In number OF pleasing designs. in
Guiding the rustic sets or in wicker
effects. With the porch furniture
can be found any number OF swingi
and hammocks. either for dad,
who likes something cosy after Z
hard days work. OF for baby, wh'
has TO have something light ane
artistic.
Courteous statesmen are In attend
ance to show anything the customer
may want TO see or buy.
on the three upper floors OF thu
store anything from a carpet to I
bedroom, suite can be had. For tn
newly married couple It would b.
hard. indeed. 10 find store wherl
everything required in setting up
home can be had at so REASONABLE
prices.
Purchasers at the store need hav
nc fear about getting their goods de
hvered. as the company has an ex
tensive delivery service. which GOV
ers nearly the whole OF Delawar
and a part OF Pennsylvania. Deliv
cry service is free.
Mr.. Miller thinks that the sale wi
break an previous records OF IN
store
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

spread famine are branded as
groundless
The south Is not starving There
is plenty Of food there. But IN,
people have been eating the wrong
kind Of food. And that is what
caused the pellagra outbreak.
Too many people in the south
live on a steady diet Of salt pork,
corn meal and molasses." said a
Public Health Service expert.
They don't get enough fresh meat,
vegetables or milk.
The reason pellagra is especially
widespread right now is because
tenant farmers. reduced to poverty
by the cotton crop failure. have been
living on the cheapest food they could
get.r
Pellagra sufferers undergo intense
suffering. In the last stages of tn,
disease the victim becomes crazed
In many cases victims have to b,
removed to aRlums and some re.
main permanently insane.
The stricken area Is the great bel
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
POCKET PICKED
OF NEARLY SlOO
Magistrate Wood Holds One
Negro and Dismisses
Three Others
FAIR OFFICER ALSO
LOSES POCKETBOOK
special TO The Evening Journal

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
DOVER, Aug 4.-Alonzo New
man. Negro, OF Wilmington, charged
with picking the pocket Of Henry J..
Lawson. OF Millsboro. at the Kent
Sussex Fair at Harrington last week.
was held under $1,000 bail for
county court by Magistrate Wood
yesterday afternoon. julius Thomp-
son, OF Lakesvine, n. c.. and Joseph
johnson and Percy Palmer. OF Nor
folk, an Negroes. who had been i'm
plicated with Newman. were dis
missed
The hearing attracted a large
crowd to tho Magistrates office
John d. Hawkins represented the
defendants. Mr.. Lawson told OF his
pocketbook containing 500 disap.
lpearing from his pocket while watch.
ing the races at the fair, but did no
know who took IL.
Albert Fisher, James NJ. Hoxtei
and Emily -Goldsboro. all Negroes
testified that they saw Newman pui
his hand in a white mans pocket
while the man was running toward
the fence to watch the horses come
down the homestretch. but they
were not sure Il was Mr.. Lawson.
Ora c. Sapp. vice-president OF the
Fair Association. told OF complaints
made to him as an officer Of the as
ISOLATION about pickpockets being
on the grounds. He said his pocket
book also disappeared. but he did
not know whether he lost Il or II
was stolen.
Mr. Hawkins asked that all -four
defendants be dismissed, contendinl
no case had been made out agains
1 them. Magistrate Wood then hel,
Newman and dismissed the other
with a warning to leave Dover
which they agreed to do.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
LONG Fight TO
KILL PELLAGRA
Year Will be Required to
Wipe Out Epidemic in
South
PEOPLE EAT WRONG
KIND OF FOODS
BY Newspaper Enterprise.

BY Newspaper Enterprise.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Health
Service officials say relief work must
be conducted for at least a year in
order to stamp out the peliagra epi-
demic in the south that threatens to
claim 100000 victims
Aid probably will proceed alons
these lines:
One-Physicians and medical sup
plies will be rushed to the afflicted
areas
Two-Aid OF local health officers
in southern States will be enlisted.
Three-Donations OF funds may
be asked to send proper foodstuns
to the suffering districts. preventing
pellegra from claiming fresh VIC
Tins.
Four-A campaign OF health edu-
cation will be started.
Early reports that the pellagra
ipidemic is the outgrowth Of a wide
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
EVENING COMPANY.

The Misses Mary and Kathryn
Toomey OF Greenville entertained
last night. Dancing was one OF the
pleasures. Those present were the
Misses Mary Haley. Sara Lynch.
Nellie Duffy. Nellie Toomey. Frances
O'Donnell, Bessie Mcdonnell. Mary
Toomey OF Newark, Ann Toomey OF
Avondale, Mary Toomey, Kathryn
Toomey Hannah Murphy Thomas
Brown, Jack Toomey. Bill Brown.
Lee Ferguson, James Healy, Mack
Toomey Hugh Toomey Edgar
Brown, Matt Toomey, A. Ford
Brown, Jr.. Mrs. Jane McDermott.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Ford Brown. Pat
rick Toomey. Mr. and Mrs. ELS
worth Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Toomey and children.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
nRoTHERs GUEssNG.

ATLANTIC CITY.-Johnny Demp-
sey, the champions senior by two
years. says the fight will go five
rounds. He bases his opinion that it
will take Brother Jack that long to
catch Georges in corner. Brother
Bernie Dempsey thinks three rounds
enough for that.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

When wading across streams in
the summertime. probably you have
frequently wondered, How swift
are the waters?" No longer is is
necessary to ask the question with
uncertainty as to the answer.
An automatic steam gauge, joint
lv used by the Geological Survey and
the United States Forest Service
determines the rate OF flow auto
matically and with precision.
The gauge is electrically operated
and by means Of a cable suspended
over the creek or river, soundings
are taken once or twice a day.
The operator varies his position
over the stream by a "car" which
! he propels by a pull at the cables
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

which likewise support the vehicle
suspended above the earth and wa
ters. The body OF waters whose rate
of flow is TO be determined is pre-
viously cross-sectioned. the velocity
being revealed at certain intervals
Of the cross-section.
The purpose OF the automatic
stream gauge is to yield data for an
ticipating the expected flow Of water
over a dam where electric power is
20 be generated. The instrument is
supposed to determine the feasibility
of constructing such dams. The
maximum. minimum. as well as the
average velocity Of the stream are
ascertained, the observations pos
sibly extending over period Of nine
or twelve months.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL

F9sSiSfeiSi5l5l9i99iSisi=ls =lstSiei5iSiSiSleiSiels
Miss Ida Black, assistant secretary
for the Street and Sewer Depart
ment, is spending her vacation on a
motor trip through Montreal and
Quebec, Canada
Miss f. Carolyn Hertei. 1907
ans street. a stenographer for the
las Powder Company, left yester-
.dy for Baltimore, where she sailed
for Boston She will spend her va
cation in that section, returning by
rail.
Miss Agnes Humphreys. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Humphreys.
Of Centerville, Is visiting friends at
Easton, Nd.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. f. Humphreys OF
Winterthur left yesterday for a va
cation trip in upper New York
State.
The Rev. John Emory Sparks.
rector of St. James Episcopal
Church. Newport, is spending his
vacation at Rehoboth.
Miss Marion Talley. Of Elsmere,
has taken a cottage at Lenape Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Frederick, OF
Centreville, who motored to Atlantic
City on Monday, are expected home
today.
Rollo F. Taylor, Of Winterthur, is
spending his vacation in New York
State.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Broomell,
303 South Porter street, have re-
turned home from a western trip.
-0--0
The United States produces more
corn annually than all the rest Of
the world.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04
sHAnRocK DANcERors

NOV YORK.-Returning from a
visit 10 her old home in Ireland, Mrs.
z. A. fShanks brought along a bit Of
the "ouid sod, with shamrocks
growing in Il Customs officials ruled
shamrock came under the head Of
dangerous plant fungi" and Mrs.
shanks had 10 throw IL in the At
lantic.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04


The Pan-American Union Building
is the most suitable building in the
world for an international confer
ence.
Twenty-one nations-republics Of
North. Central and South America
contributed to the fund for building
Il.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

for purpose OF traffic. II might be
termed a disgrace. without fear OF
contradiction, and a menace without
arrest. Measures should be applied
to correct what is a real nuisance
at the place above mentioned WIN
out further delay.
DIsGUSTED.
wilmington, Del, Aug. 3, 1924.
Evening journal., 1921-08-04

Thirty four miles OF wire cable is
used for the elevator system OF the
Woolworth building. New York.
Fourteen-inch beaded fringe edges
the side panels OF an evening grown
OF Paulette crepe.