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.20 13W BASHKIRTSEFF DIARY DISCOVERED i i 2 Ydunz Russian -Girl Whose Memoirs Were a Literary Sen sation Left Other Werk. FOUND IN OLD CASKET Rjcent Death of Her Mother at Nic Will Probably Lead to th Pub lication of tho Document. i fMnlilil. tia. a Ttrt Xlmm ispeeUI Cable to Ths Nsw XtmK TtMse.

ARI8. Teb. 4-Jaat afeoat a year are tlXlce there died a looelr old Hessian lair. Umc Basfcldrtseff. Altboach Uxflnc la a large villa aha bad been 14 ding-.

a. Utm comparative poverty rsJvljr visits apart from a ew Intimate friends who. together with her, rri-rlshed the memory of her dead da Jghter. Marie. Baahktrtseff.

whose ex-tr ordinary memoirs created euctt a sea as Ion rbea published. "ha mother'a death passed almost un-tu teed and without comment except by a few who resnembered the Strang I loeopbv of If aria's diary a pfaUoeo-pY of' which the depth and sincerity re so treat that It had hardly seemed ec xetvable It was- the creation of a yc jbs; girt who passed away in her early -ntJes- 1 today ft Is asam be Ins; recalled. ZHriair the years which have elapsed sJ.a Marie Bashklrtsef died, la IB. fc mother had left untouched all the -pi to re, objects and beleaglncs which su Toonded the Strang roan- slrt dur-tn ber short life. intone them was a small 'coffer raid of sombre colored wood.

Opened fKr, this plaJn-lookiag- casket has been to wd to contain a farther diary of 24 rte Basbklrtseff filled with tepres. el' ns written in her scrawling-, nervous, ai rtost feverish writing. It Is hoped th -M remarkable notes which threw 1 resh light on the young; Russian flrTs pocaliar genius will before tons; to pub- uaned ta eatettsev Meanwhile appeUtes are whetted by a aeries of extracts nubllshed today. The following, for Instance, written when Marie Bashklrtseff was only 1. is a characteristic example of the strance mind and almost tortured Introspection which seems the inevitable burden of premature genius: -What vexes me worst is to realise my life is marked by failure.

You must understand that It was a kind of Ertde with me to create for myself a fe made all of beauty and glory- regarded it with that egotistical love with which a painter works at a picture which he wants to make his masterpiece. I am me! mo stianrely that I look upon my life as a thing which is quite apart from my ego. ana ne pimc-j in this life of mine ail my happiness, all my pride. But for thU wouw oe whn p.a tnr notnlns. RMiiMiilwr these words well, for they explain all my past, present and future sorrows.

I. who would have lived seven lives at once, am only living a quarter of one I am In chains. God will have pity on roe. but I feel weak, it seems to me I am going- to die mln merrthlnc in fight Either I will see all that Ood per mitted me to have a glimpse oi ana understand, which will mean that I am urth trrf Kim. or I ahail die.

For Ood. be tnr unable without roro- mitMne- Injustice to give me everjimna. rannot be so cruel as to allow to live sn unhappy being whom he has gifted with Mmnrehenalaa and the ambition to obtain what she comprehends. ood cannot nave given roe ikui-ty of seeine all things and then to torment me by giving me nothing." A Uttle later she writes: rind beinr unable to give me that which would render life possible for me gets oat of the difficulty by killing me." Amosg other remarkable entries la this curious and pathetic diary are: It Is in me I would live, love and die no. listen: I would live where I feel at home, would love everywhere and die now.

here." Vengeance is not a Christian but a noble sentiment." on must mt the sreatest attention to arr.aU things; it Is they which make up life. By neglecting; them one becomes almost an animal." Can one forgive? can one oe master of his memory? So long as one remembers one has not forgiven." Is there any merit in being calm, seeing that calmness is a part of Nature herself? These are but a few quotations taken hanhaxard from the curious entries made almost daily In the diary by the talented young painter whose strange philosophy reflects so remarkable a genius and explains so much which is not always easily comprehensible to Western people. JURY TRIAL ASSURED IN JERSEY DRY LAW New Measure tm Require Indictments and Make Infractions Misdemeanors. While bootleggers and the thirsty enjoyed a respite from the State Enforcement law. following the setting; sside of the Van Ness act by the Court of Errors and Appeals, prohibition leaders In New Jersey were busy yesterday considering new legislation for Introduction In both houses of the Legislature tomorrow night.

A bill Is to be introduced by Republican leaders as a party measure, sponsored by the Anti-Saloon League. It win provide for trial by Jury and eliminate many of the objectionable features of the Van Ness act. it was said. A conference was held yesterday In Newark at which the new measure was agreed upon by Majority Leader William W. Evans of Passaic.

Assistant Prosecutor Vlckers of Hudson. Assemblyman George S. Hobart of Essex. Prosecutor Charles Wolverton of Camden, Wilbur L. Mott.

former Assistant Prosecutor of Essex County, and G. Rowland Munroe. counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. Violations of the enforcement legislation will be classed as misdemeanors Instead of disorderly acU. and prosecution will require Indictment by a Grand Jury and trial before a petit Jury and County Court.

The penalties will be similar to those In the Van Ness act. a maximum of $500 fine or six months' imprisonment or both for first offenders. and Imprisonment for two years or a rine of S1.0UU or notn tor secona oi-fenders. Majority Leader Evans and Assemblyman Hobart. who was a co-author of the Van Ness bill.

Issued the following Statement after yesterday's conference: The decision of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, in setting aside the Van Ness Enforcement set. makes it imperative that the Republican majority in the Seaate and House of Assembly pans adequate enforcement legislation which will accord, as far as can be de termined, with the several opinions expressed by the various members of the court. "A bill or bills will be presented to the Republican member of both houses i on Monday nisht next." I AMATEUR WIRELESS A BOON, SAYS MM Organized Protest Will Be Made Against Federal Order to Restrict Broadcasting. CITES USES IN ACCIDENTS Says Valuable Aid Is Rendered In Time of Floods and Mishaps and to Airmen. Wireless amateurs will protest the order of the department againat broadcasting music and general notices, according to Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford.

the President of the organisation of amateur operators. We don't care about the music, which is an annoyance to amateur op erators." he said. but the order includes general messages, which have been developed into a service of great value to the public. Hundreds of au tomobiles are recovered every week, for Instance, because the amateur wireless operators aid the police of most cities by sending broadcast the numbers and dcacrlUona of stolen cars. "infoimation about floods and accidents are broadcast, for another thing.

In many esses where roads are impassable broadcast messages are ent out to warn automobiles. Recently a flyer in a United States mall plane lost his wsy on a trip from Cleveland to Chicago and could not find the landing field in the darkness. He sent out a broadcast message asking. wireless stations to communicate with the landing stations and ask them to send up rockets. They sent up rockets Just In time for him to land on his last few drops of fuel.

There are now thousands of amateur Instruments for every one in existence nine years ago during the Dayton flood, but the only means of communication rot cut off at that time was the amateur Wlre' of tt ntowwt Import- i 7 v.V mi ana cities go nn ith ua country that metujoo. ine neens or the people and the means nt mhl ww wvuiu oe made known by hundreds of Inntru- menis. me case OI a great floor, tidal wave or nmuir catastrophe today. The mualr- la i often six or more sending Instruments are broadcasting' phonograph music at me aame lime on me zuu-meter wave imricira and communication between Individuals becomes almost impossible. A man oroaacasong music on a 200-meter wave length can compel every amateur In fifty miles to listen to.

him. We frequently peaa wim mem 10 lane oir me phono. I The Nut IVrnrtniHii t.i. T- IUfct- ivw7r nireKn ana is never interfered wnn oy amateur music The protection nf th nrv4 npklVttu. i broadcasting of music Is protection only for the amateurs themselves.

We have noi nsseu ror it. as rsr ss I know, and we don't know iitlv tk. i it is given, home think the Intention of the order Is to give a monopoly on the broalcastlng of wireless music to the commercial rirms which send on the 300-meter wave-length. It is true that they cannot thrn ailnilaal fU II 1 giving of three concerts has some rom- merciai vaiue. Because tley give talks ir-i rrn me acts ntwut thejr apparatus.

Thtr Mrp I rrrrt J. mira tions giving these professional concert! ana ni-y are noi airected by this order. There are ma m. in ness that listener will usually hear several concerts st once an orchbtra. a monologue, a soprano and a dialect sxor.

an going on at the same time. So far as I knnw ntww troduced department store and mlaceN ww4a aavRruajsg mto wirsiess unwismiig. NEW CLAIMS, $977,366. Total Against State Now Amount to Canal Chief Cause. ALJJANY, Feb.

aggregating $77.358 have been filed against the State, it was announced todsy by Charles I Cadle, State Superintendent of Public Works. The claims which arose from canal construction and ooer ation number 222. of which 182, aggregating ST92.204. arose from barge canal construction. count for 37 other claims, totaling ine remaining three.

amounUng to tlon. rmring the last year Mr. Cadle said claimants of 14 cases received out of a total demand of In 276 other cases In which a total of $1,506,193 was asked there was no recovery. An aggregate of 919.800,003 is sajasaa, sss wsaussBJ tMIUM, gl9 mm 111 StADI LIOYIE HAH HAD CAREER HERE clsthes. to t.

his money, sad sufficient means provide for her. He had occasionally siifered severely from neuralgia and thought this had affected his mind. Hv once told bis aaoghter that bo had hwi a la dm of memory far a yeas after kd left New York. i The way to which Mrs. Robins learned thkt her first husband was not dead ws dramatic.

She and her daughter -w-e at a moving- picture theatre one cbrv two and a half years asm when suddenly Deans-Tanner appeared on the screen as eae of. tae principal racters In the play. She recognised immediately, although he was wkhout the -mustachs which he had wrn when she was married to him. That is your father." she exclaimed to! her daughter, and her daughter then had been friendly In New- York with the husband of Eleanor Cordon, an actress, and they found him one day in Saa Francisco, where be was Just out of a hospital. They sent him to los Angeles to get his health back, supplied him with money, and when he was weil again got him work with a moving-.

picture company. He acted a little, became a director, and after that his success waa rapid. 'or two years during the war be was an officer in th Canadian Army. When be was shot be was to the position of having his productions featured under his name Instead of that of the star who played in them. rtennts Deans Taaoer was -much the same type of man.

He was younger and had served In the British Army as a Lieutenant during the Boer war. Be came to New Tork after his brother had married, and also went into the antique business, being associated with A. 8. Vernay on East Forty-fifth Street. He was manager there and was looked upon aa the counterpart to courtesy and culture or ma Brother.

He married stiss Ada Brennaa in 1S07. and had two children, and at the tlma ha- diaaDDeared lived at 347 West 104th Street. He was aing and left at about o'clock. Mr. Taylor escorted me to my automobile at the curb and we chatted a moment After the car started away and as it was turning around I turned and wavwd my hand to him.

He was standing on the sidewalk." Miss Normand was asked who was present at the Taylor house during the lor house on Thursday, was the final visit. She replied that the only other person there besides herself and the slain man was Henry Peavey, the colored servant. left the house fifteen or twenty mlnates before I did." Miss Normand said. The witness said that Mr. Taylor bad promised to telephone her at her home later that evening.

She added that she went heme and retired and did not again hear from Mr. Taylor. Charles Eyton. general manager of the Lautky studios, where Taylor bad been employed as chief director, was the first witness. He testified that Taylor was 43 years old and had once been married.

The coroner questioned the witness concernlng- briefly la visnrana. athletto anan mjnA waa a 4 ri'ffilir TvTw was "mber of the NewToi Athletic ClebT tJntimkm wITum TvLil Tt! Dennla Deane-Tanner's wife became 1 fJi tIaatUSalm '1Q- to the Adlrondacks to re- lterf eta? In her children with her bus. ar.wered bis daushtef Utter, and they from Europe the day before Dennta and bis manaaer met him and went with him to the anon to discuss business. That waa the last Mr. Vernay saw of him.

The next morning Dennis kissed his children and left the house in good spirits. lie never returned. Search fee tioaals In Vain. k-rt vp a regular correspondence. 1 lie once came to New Tork.

she said, and met his doorhter. They had a long taiic together, lie was delighted to see her ss she wse te see aim. told bis 1 daughter then that ba was not renari rixi. and ears. Robins says she Is sure what he said that he was teuing rc tne- trh.

He intimated that bevould MX. JDeane-Tanner came back from i'g? tne mAmtn. and with the help of i. 1 n-Tanner was of a fins old Irish he peace osnducted a long search for Tsv.ily, Mrs. Robins the son of a her husband without success.

80 did an to, the British Army -He was a fnsuranoa cbmpany which had insured of the erttlsh Public Schools IV .7. wwv AociaUon. which comprises alumni his Ufa, Hie accounts were to good 'frrvra the famous public schools of Eton ahape, and there was nothing to account a ri Harrow. And was Jsan English dlsappesvrance. unless It was univrrsuy man.

He had two brothers uyv-ea T. .7 ari two sisters, but Mrs. Robins knew that he eravsd more freedom to follow err the one brother. his own desires. From time to time S.ra.

Robins said -that she rot her dl- rumors came beck to the Vernay shop voma oct statutory greunds in New that Dennis bad changed, Ms name and Tork. but that she did not name co- a-oo into the-moving picture business, rtxmdenC She said that she had no What started these rumors nobody knew complaint to make of him. and that she yesterday, they were the more remark-' ou.d not lmaclne bow any one could because until Taylor was killed have had sufficient cans to kill him. non cf hie New rork associates knew In Siis dealings with others be -yas ai- that the moving picture man was the wais considerate, she said, and every who left the city In 1908. liked Mm.

There was some sseculstlon yesterday The daughter Is now attending an art to whether Taylor had sent for Ms brother and persuaded him to alter hi life, as ha himself had done. If Dennis did ge into moving pictures, he changed his name so completely that a search of books on the moving picture industry failed to reveal a man who would suggest the former New Yorker. The possibility that Dennis Deane-Tanner did actually drop out of life mors completely than his brother is sng-gcrted by the later connection between William and his brother wife. She went to Monrovia. CaL.

where she has relatives, and has been living at 424 a search or 'a-hnnl in New -Tork. but Mrs. Robl woo Id not say which one bocanso she -'dots not want her- daughter brought Idio the case. She -was asked she wocld gr to California, and said that i wopid all depend oa circumstances. it THalhas's stssesd Tpneeveeed.

i Tjj" roorder of Taylor which led to I the) discovery of bis first marriage and I hi abandonment of his wife, a chapter 1 wfclch Mrs. Robins bad hoped "was or-- gotten, also curiously enough resulted la Htncoverias; tne paFX nwioryoc nm 1. Avenue. V'L1tJJZTiVU iiTl I the dead man papers showed that be when she was recovering from a severe I illness to the Adlrondacks. and his two 3 children.

Both men had Been connected I wiQi antique shops and both had van-- ishrd so completely that their New Tork friends never again came in contact wlh them. T)je picture of Taylor as a man austere arvi scholarly, who paid Uttle attention to rwotnen. as drawn by some of his carina--picture sssocittes. was also shattered, for there are persons In the city who, while- admitting that both the lieane-Tanners had been men of culture and nleaalnar peraonalltlna. said that their affairs with women bad been such that no one who knew them could help Just when the Dee ae-Tanners came to this country was not definitely estab-: iwied yesterday, but it is believed that Wtjllaro.

the elder brother, came here originally-about thirty years ago while I vrty young and went to I settlement near Harper. estsb- tUbed by Ned Turnler in 1887 or 188 for retniiiance men tae impecunious sons or English society. There was a young man named Tanner to the colony ror a htrt time, and old residents of Harper 3 said yesterday that they rememmbered him. and that be left the colony in a short time and went back to England or Ireland. He later returned to this country but did not go back to Runny-mede.

Xhe next heard of Tanner wss when he married Miss Harrison In 1001, and when he later became Vice President of the English Antique Shop, conducted by A. fJ. Crawford, at 240 or 24 Fifth Ave- nue. betweenj Twenty-seventh and Twen-f ty-eighth Streeta His wife was known i aa a very accomplished woman, who had been well educated by her' father when ,7 he well to do end was a pianist of some ability. Deane-Tanner was hano- some and gallant, popular with all who I knew mm.

He was active in the axraj nt th. LwKrrmnr YjHt ItlH luw had been aivina her a monthly allow aace, which would Indicate that he wss as ignorant as she of his brother's whereabouts; or. it was suggested, he may have been acting as his brother's agent in transferring to ber money for her support. LAYS TAYWKS DEATH TO UNKNOWN SLAYER I 8 quest in Los Angeles Ends Abruptly Without Hearing All the Film Stars Summoned. Special to The A'sto For Times.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4. Ending with dramatic suddenness after a few witnesses had been examined, and with detectives rushing from the scene in sn automobile on a mysterious clew, the inquest ovsr the body pf William Des mond Taylor, film director, who was murdered In bis home on Wednesday night, today added new sensations to the murder case The developments at the proceedings the career of the The second witness was Dr. A. F.

Warner, county- autopsy surgeon. He testified that the bullet entered Taylor's body at the left side, penetrating between the lobes of the left lung and lodging to the neck. Tom Ziegler. Detective Sergeant, who was the first official to reach the Tsy- witness. He explained how he made the preliminary Investigation, explaining that when he first arrived It was be lieved Taylor had died of a hemorrhage.

The only weapon found tn the house was Taylor's revolver. Zlegler said. It was In a dresser drawer in the bedroom and was a .12 -calibre automatic gun As Zleglcr stepped from 'the stand Coroner- Nanee remarked That is all." and the inquest abruptly ended. Many of the spectators, anticipating the questioning of others prominent in motion picture circles, appeared to be dazed by the abrupt termination of the proceedings. MISS NORMAND'S LETTERS GONE Detectives See Possible Clue in Fact Revealed by Actress.

ANGELES. Feb. Mabel Normand. a motion picture actress who was with William Desmond Taylor Just before be was killed In bis home Wednesday night, said tonight that letters, written to her by Taylor at different times, are missing from ber home. The letters, she said, were friendly to tone, and there was "nothing in them to be ashamed of." She was unable to ac-l count for, their disappearance.

Police detectives put much weight on this development, saying it was the first indication pointing to a possible motive for the shooting. Miss Normand went to the Taylor horns today with Jetectives and there re-enacted the events of the hour she spent with Taylor before his death. After this she told the detectives that she wanted to look for her letters. Search failed to bring them to light. Miss Normand said she was sure the letters were there not long ago.

because' after Taylor's home was lobbed recently, he showed her over the place and displayed a packet of letters and, telegrams she had sent him from New York. This dVew the attention of the officers to the fact that few personal letters or papers had yet been found, save those I in Mr. Taylor's safe deposit box. which I chiefly related to Investments. It re sulted in their sending out men to find a former business associate of Taylor, who had been active in the investigation.

ln the hope that he could throw light on Miss Nortnand's correspondence ana outer pnvaxe papers. ft Larrhtnont Yacht Club between -fcVTja mjta Amn iivrt pc oHapcmiTu, uvi i wae a member of the Art Committee. Drank Heavily Refers Dlsappesrssee. "1 i began to drink quite heavily short-- ly pef ore bis disappearance, and It was 1 thought by those who knew him that he Was unhappy. A few days before he A 1- Sj race on Lmc Island and It waa said I yea.eriay by his associates of those days tut An a tnn, tH.t wound up in the old Continental Hotel, a which In those days was on Broadway nineteenth 8treet.

He aent to his of-Stflct for SHOO to be sent to him quickly. i It Was delivered to him st the hotel and -1 fa) asas never aeen asain in New Tork. i rew years 01 ueue-iunrri lire 5 drrro- out of the story here, and be nex tarried up on the Pacific Coast. He is 4 Alaska, where he became ill In Nome. r4 later to have found his wsy back to San Francisco.

He was down and out a wreck of the former handsome I man-who sold women expensive antiques 'end played around the yacht dub. He Henry Peavey, Taylor's negro servant. collapsed when take Into the Morgue to view the body Just before the Inquest started. He was revived, called to the witness etsnd. and there became hys teric a I.

lauKhlns- loudly when asxea what he did upon rinding the dead body of his employer. Coroner Nance suddenly halted the Inquest after calling but one of the motion picture actresses summoned. Mabel Normand. and several of the Jury then retired and returned a verdict thai Taylor was killed by a gunshot wound Inflicted by a person or persons unknown to this JurA with intent to kill or murder." 7 Captain of Detectives David Adams reached the scene Just as the last wit-ness was excuafd. Ho summoned De- tectlve Sergeant Herman Cllne and other police off lore present and they drove away In sn automobile, going weet on Tenth btret-t.

A vast crowd of curious persons was attracted by the inquest, the first formal hearing In the case many who were unable to gain entrance stool In the street to get a glimpse of actors. actresses, and others who actively participated in the proceedings. There was a hush of expectation when Coroner Nanee called Miss Mabel Nor mand as a witness. She appeared calm as she walked to the witness char and formally gave her name. 1 saw sir.

Taylor at his home on Wednesday evening." Miss Normand stated. I called at 7 o'clock that ere- Gunther Reductions A Noteworthy Occasion In Fur Economy 1 Coats Wraps Raccoon Coats The most exclusive as well as the most popular furs are well represented in this distinctive assemblage. A fine selection of utility coats short, smart effects so much in vogue this season. These values are indeed unusual. 245.

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A Handsome Wrap, Dyed Hudson Bay. i- Sable collar, was $4500, novv 42500. Mink Exquisite Cape, Natural was $3500, now $1800. Handsome Coat, Natural skins, 1 was $1950, how $985J Ermine Beautiful Cape, choice -pelts, was vUVSU, nou Exquisite Wrap, Russian skins, was $2500, now $1375, Caracul Taupe Caracul Wrap, with Viatka Dyed Squirrel, was $1250, riowl $595. Black Caraoil'Ca collaraiid cuf of other furs, skins, was $1250, a ju( uuuiv juai i was1 $750, DgM4: was $975, noiv Hudson-Seal Smart Wrap, Jenny model, 1 was $950, now "$495.

Day Coat, 36-inch length, V'; i was $395, now $195: Smart PftnterFashioimWm February. Prices -t Handsome Fur-trimmed Suits, $75 'j $95 -I (Values to 3225) 1 Hlel Trig Street to (Values .4 i Youthful Dance Frocks at $55 i (Values to $125) Dinner and Evening Gowns, $75, $95 (Values to Fur-trimmed Evening Wraps, $95 to (Values to 3295) i New Corset Salons INTRODUCING THE "ODETTE CORSET Corsets and Brassieres, of our own making or brought directly from Paris, will be shown in. attractive variety! Many are ready for immediate wear; others are modeU for special orders. i iss Fay CORSET1KRE All Fittings will be under the personal supervision of Mis Fay, formerly of 16 East 37th Street, who will be irj. charge of the Gidding Corset Salons.

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