100 YEARS AGO IN THE SARATOGIAN
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1919. Janette Cooper of 177 Woodlawn Avenue goes to city court this morning to swear out arrest warrants for her two teenage daughters, The Saratogian reports.
Mrs. Annie Crandall, age seventeen, is accused of child abandonment, while her sister, thirteen year old Helen Cooper, is charged with incorrigibility. Their arrests this afternoon follow their arrests in Ballston Spa yesterday.
Mrs. Cooper’s daughters left the house on Saturday night, leaving her two year old child behind. Crandall allegedly told her mother that “she would be back early,” but neither she nor Helen Cooper had returned as of this morning.
By the time Mrs. Cooper files her complaint, her daughters had already been released from a Ballston Spa jail and given fare home to Saratoga Springs. What they were arrested for is unclear from the report.
In city court tonight, Helen Cooper is sentenced to the Hudson Reform School, but will be held as a material witness in her sister’s ongoing case. Three more people are arrested following tonight’s hearing, but their identities have not been disclosed by the newspaper.
U.S. Hotel Bought By Leland Sterry
Grand Union hotel manager Leland Sterry is elected president of the United States Hotel Company today after purchasing a majority interest in the Saratoga Springs facility, The Saratogian reports.
The brother of Plaza Hotel proprietor Fred Sterry of New York City, Leland Sterry “is well known in the hotel world and is very enthusiastic over the future of Saratoga Springs.” He leaves for Florida immediately after today’s stockholders’ meeting in the Spa City. In the spring, Sterry will return to Saratoga Springs to “operate the hotel personally.”
Sterry retains General James W. Lester as secretary of the hotel directors. Lester states that “Mr. Sterry has many plans for the improvement of the United States hotel and that the hotel will be run in a first class and up-todate manner.”
What’s Happening
The Broadway Theatre wants to make clear what today’s feature presentation, “And the Children Pay,” is not before describing what it actually is.
The movie, “a striking lesson to parents as to what they should and should not tell their children,” is most definitely not a “white slave picture,” “a picture of the underworld” or “a gilded vice film.” Instead, it’s not just “A picture that every father and mother should see,” but also “a picture that every boy and girl should see.”
In it, a drunken college student gets his girlfriend pregnant but refuses to marry her. The baby is born crippled and sickly and the girl becomes a prostitute. The student is arrested and eventually dies of shame.