The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1903, Page 8

GOT ; “by the Press Publteting Company, No, 68 to 03 Park Row, New York. Hntered at the Post-Ofice at New York e# SecondClags Mall Matter. NO. 15,124. ASSESSMENT AT FULL VALUE. If there were any guarantee that the tax rate would in fixed at $1.45 as proposed there nvould be no occa- for apprehension over the full-value assessment of estate, At this rate the tax bills for most property ‘would be smailer than at the present rate of $2.27 in the old valuation. ‘For example, where Mr. Depew paid taxes of $1,929.50 year on his residence at an assessed valuation of 000 his tax bill for the current year on an assessment $120,000 would be only $1,740, Mrs. Henry C. Potter's tild be reduced from $6,242.50 to $5,800 and other house- ders would fare equally well in proportion. They uld @lso indulge the pleasing but delusive belief that a THE = EVENING= THE LOVE LETTERS OF LAURA.; BY ROY M’CARDELL. Artist Powers’s Idea of Broadway and the Theatrical Competition in-the Near Future. im New York from fi Writes Her swee heart She Does Not ‘Think She’ Reuben Durzenberry, P8-999-9-2-95-9950O04O999SOO My Daniing Reub: My darling sweetheart. 1 reached New York just Aunt Mary and Uncle Henry were at the «tation to meet mo when I got off the steam cars. And $2,724, We ds the possibility not to eay the high probability of 3 it is for the purpose of giving it opportunity ‘an@ legal permissfon, by extending the debt limit, to . more money. We know how this kind of thing _ Works with an individnal and we know how it will work th an incorporated community of individuals, So far _ from there being any guarantee that the tax rate will re- mafn low there 1s every likelihood that it will gradually yeturn to the old figure. Where there 1s the desire to Spend there is the means for the gratification of it, and > the desire is always present with the executive officials of this city for extravagance, Already, as by this morning’s news, we have “the Mayor planning for a hugo public huflding” and “an ad- ministration scheme to use the $140,000,000 adtled to the debt limit.” With the money in sight there ts to be no delay in making preparations to spend It. Does the rent-payer realize how he will eventualiy be “called on to bear the burden of an increased rate? When ‘thie Iandlord’s taxes grow heavier he will look for higher rents from his tenants. Tho appreciation of rents from other causes within the past decade has been all out of proportion to the increase of property values, ‘The pros- pect of any addition may well be viewed with alarm by Has his salary or income increased to corre- A 'WEST SIDE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. The formation of a Committee of One Hundred on the ‘west side ‘‘to take an active interest in the present agita~ Hon for improved car service” 1s important because this association of pitzens is to all intents and purposes us much a vigilance committeo as that which kept order in lawless San Francisco helt a century ago. It 1s formed to safeguard the travelling public from imposition at the | ‘bande of a traction company, and the wonder 1s that its existence should be necessary in a highly civilized com- munity. Yet remembering that there would now be four ctr tracks on crowded Amstentam avenue but for the pre- ventive efforts of a similar committee two years ago we _ know that there is plenty of work cut out for it. - Phe formation of such committees is made necessary ‘by the traction manager's theory that no concessions are to be made to patrons except in response to urgent popu- “Jay demand. It is a mfstaken theory. Was not the Im- proved service on the west side lines of the elevated as "feasible before public pressure was brought to bear as | after? Where the comfort or convenience of a road's _ patrons points the way for improvement the improvement {4s bound to come; the sooner the road yields to the in- eyitable the better for its standing with the public, ‘There is an abundance of traction reforms for this committee to put its hand to. The service on the Broad- way nd Seventh avenue line is sadly inadequate. No +proviston is made for the theatre-going crowd in the early ‘evening or for church passengers on Sunday mornings; ~ ‘there is not even standing room in the cars at such times ‘and they are run at infrequent intervals. ‘The service of the Highty-sixth street crosstown line, ‘also, is such as few villages have to put up with. Old _ ‘an@ foul-smelling cara lighted dimly by ofl lamps are an ' | @nechronism in New York. Mr. Vreeland has said that - ‘within a month after right of way is secured from one block of Highty-sixth street property owners he will have \@ crosstown electric line through this strect from river ‘\te river. In exchange for that remote luxury a long- | suffering public will be willing to accept a slight present | improvement, _ ‘These and numerous other changes for the better the | West aide committee can effect by force of agitation and ‘publicity and The Evening World wishes them well of | their endeavors, A DANGER IN DRUGS. Dr, Lederle's discovery of the wholesale substitution of acetanilid for phenacetine by druggists is an alarming ‘thing. Does it not go far to explain some of the numer- ous cases of sudden death from the use of “headache powders” of which phenacetine is an important in- gredient? ‘Whatever is to be sald of the very general habit of New ) Yorkers of secking relief from headache by tmmediato Pecourse to drugs they should at least be enabled to know that the drugs they buy are pure, Given a congestion of “I head causing pain the medical method of removing the sufferer swallows a drug which is a much affected. An extra dose or a dose taken before the of the preceding one has worn off might result h phenavcetine at $1 an ounce and acetanilid at 24% the temptation to substitute might easily overcome of an unprincipled druggist. It would prob- be exceedingly difficult to prove malicious intent the phenacetine is simply adulterated; it may have ged through various hands between the factory tn aa and the patient in New York, But to prove a tution need not be difficult and once proved should be made of the offender as well for the public as for the vindication of reputable not throw the headache mixture out of the they took me home with them to a ‘was last year. That ts to eay, a rate of $1.63 would make] piace Aunt Mary called Brooklyn, but his OM) $1,986.and the-old rate of $2.27 would increase it] Uncle Henry anid tt was Greater New > York, I could not go to bed without writing to you. bie tired -whenI@otto Aunt such an aiiition that creates apprehension. ‘The now] ntery’s houke, but she had a good hot ‘measure is admittedly not designed to enable the city to supper Cor me end I'll tell you it tasted good after two days on the cars eating cold fried chicken and the ple and bis- oults mother put wp for me in the pasteboard box. I did hoar tell that you could get meals on tho train, But they oharged a dollar apiece for them. Ac- tually @ dollar apiece! won't delleve ¢, but it 1s true, Why, you Isnow Cousin Bred Baxter who keeps the American Hotel tn 6mith- ‘ile, only charges twenty-five cents for a square meal, and everybody eaya that no Giving orftter can beat his wife ory- ian MMS PLay i ‘then I was that sore and cramped sleoping in them pesky car seats, I was toll that you could eleep in the train, but they charge you $2 fore bed. Just Beems to me thet there's nothing Sut millionafres ¢traye! on them steam care, A drummer with the loveliest mustac! (now don't you get jealous, Reb) wi awful kind to me. He bought me @ lot of wandy and ploture books, and told ‘me how much money he made and how much goods he sold for hfs house, and he had a big roll of money end the fin- He tried to get fresh coming through a tunnel, but I told him I'd elap his face, and that I was en- It made him powerful angry. For pretty eoon he got up and went to another car with his carpet bag. There ‘wasn't no valise as big and black and shiny as the one I had, which dather ought to go to the Legisinture down at Indlanapolis when he was elected on the Prohibition ticket fifteen yoars ago. Aunt Mary wants to adopt me, and wants me 6tay here with her, Ofcourse, Tl have to stay a week, if I can etand it that long, But, Reub, my heart ts 1 had a good cry think of that, $2! est diamonds. 3400 breaking for you. when I got up to my room, a lovely bookcase in my room, but no bed, but after a while Aunt Mary come up and just touched the bookcase and it turned into the loveliest bed you ever saw. Now, Reubd, if you flirt with any of the girls, or buy any los cream for that masty Maggle Hammond, or bring Idezie Allen or Gertie Jones home from prayer meeting, I send you @ hundred kisses. | « I won't forget how to turn out the « for you remember how father came near in Indtanapolis blew the gas out, besides burning his whiskers, which saved his Ne, because hia face smarted and ‘he couldn't get| <> to sleep and got up and hollered to the landlord of the hotel on account of the awful emell in his room. Dear Reub: I don't think I oan stay | ¢ here a week. 1 want to see you. | you go to any parties or taffy-pullings | ¢ while I am away, because I now that | | hateful Lizzie Allen will choose you in the kiss games. ‘Well, ft 1s awful late, away past 10 o'clock, and 1 am tired. Please write aa soon as you get this, and remamber mhat I say, be back again with you. With love and fond affection, your own sweetheart, 22S 09S5O99629-2689600 9HOOOO9OO4 THE DAY’S LOVE STORY—WITH HOOPS OF STEEL. A Sweetheart’s Strategy that Fails. , 8.-You'll know what these mean: sy William H, Osborne. SER RRXRKREREE xxuexnunuxxxxunxxx x! Six of the Best Jokes of the Day. (Copyright, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) I-I'm engaged to—-toy “What's her name?” numerous creditors. Think it over. near to his sweetheart as it was possible to got. The lamp burnod low. It was late wn the evening, and was nearing Hardwicko's usual hour of departure, Tho girl's head rested upon She remarked casually that she would Iiko to rest there forever, Of course this was merely figurative, for Hardwicke would have a good time going to business and up and down Broadway with a young woman's head amMxed to his shoulder, that, just as like as not, tt w som9 comment. sented, and sat, somewhat unorlginally, that he too would Iie it always to rest there, And nowhere else, From the tenor of these remarks and also from the fact what these were the only audit. re- marks for an hour, at jeast, it is ap- Parent that both Hardwicke and the girl wero pretty hard hit. But Hardwicke had been restless all the ovening—as restless as he was on the night that he proposed, and that ts sayipg & good deal. her mind that he had something on his mind, so she removed her mind from his shoulder, and taking him by the lapels and looking him squarely in the face, ‘The girl geve a sort of smothered shriek, Her mother upstairs must have heard {t, for there was a rap from the celling above which Indicated that it was time to adjourn the session of the HARDWICKE." sponded the youth; ‘she's old Burnett's| ‘Now, address an envelope just as I daughter, the steam pipe man.” “And sho’s sensitive, is she?” went on “Miss Charlotte Bunnett, ‘231 Parker Ave., City, nd there you are." gasped the young man, “am I to send that to her?" “Of course you are," she replied; that she will think that you have mixed nd aent your taflor's to her and her's to your taflors, when she gets it—my! won't she be “Awtully,"” responded Hardwicke, “Well, then, I'll tell you what," con- et her break the ongage- went on Hardwicke, couldn't really help tt. She was « girl and @he seemed to like me, and T''suppose I was flattered by It, It happened last lon’t you see ee Ae exclalmed Hardwicke. young Mr, Softleigh to my daughter the other evening, “I belleve that any fel- low, no matter how etupld and ‘homely, find somebody ‘Why don't you prove it, Mr. Soft- loigh?”’ asked Angolina, sweetly, ‘That certaluly imherited.— up two, letters Over and above ‘Oh, yes, she would, piled the young lad: rich and ehe's senaltive. hought you wanted her only for her money—suppose you make her think that And confidently re- months older than T am, and though not pretty—not at all Ike you— why, one night the moon must have struck her face just right, or the band have been playing sentimental pieces or something, but TI kissed her, and then I proposed to her. didn't seem go bad, until I met you, I--I didn't Inow there was anybody like you in the whole wide world before, and when I met you Id fell In love for the only tlme in my Mfe, and I knew then that I didn't love the other girl, 1 then,’ he proceeded miserably, “I pro- you, and you accepted me, and T haven't had @ chance to break with the other gtel, and—and I don't know how, and here I am, engaged to two And what am 1 to do?’ Now dt mustn't be supposed that Hard- wicke proceeted as set forth above, H: confession was interlarded with excl tears, groans, kisses, caresses and 60 forth, aa his mood or the mood of his listener varied, Und after he had finished Hardwicke ¢ound that it But neverthele Hardwicke was radiant. He was proud of it, and proud of the qoute little intellect that con- Tt was only after the thir- the knock from ‘The idea was you're only a fortune hunter—what girl's genius 13 Pittgourg Dispatch. then? How about that?” teenth ropetition of above that he was able to tear himself ‘I didn't think of thas, Bus how can I make her think that with- SHE FILLS THE BILL, Ils wife tnsists on lots of "dough" ‘To please her every whim, But he has wealth to burn, and so She's fu the match for hin. —Philadehtila Press, Next day he ascended the ateps of No, 2$1 Parker avenue with a palpl-| open from the head to the tall. ‘The yitet organs and entrails He was admitted, He was just taking @ good big brace upon his spirits when he heard @ rustio of skirts and Miss! rish was made to the side to seo him sink, but the company She| was astounded to wee the fish make off. First he swam carried a square bit of paper in her] titty yards away, returned to the steamer, then went off on She Hterally sailed up to him,| another teck for e'bout thirty yards, came back to the vessel ped her arms around his neck andj and swam astern, and was still swimming when he was lost “You poor, | sight of. ‘That the fish could swim away with the whole of !) Then she ‘The little giri arose, took him by the coat collar In a coy sort of way, and sat him down in front of a desk. ‘Take ® pen and a plece of paper!" sho commented. He obeyed. uNow,"' she continued, “who are your The parlor was empty, ds to reduce the heart's action, If in place of phenace-| ‘The girl made up RECORD TIME, Charlotte Burnett was upon him, “Bo you were & guest of the ohauf- tour?’ said the Sriond. w heart depressant the heart is sure to be injurl-| “W—what's that go to do with it?” asked Hardwick /hemmed and hawed and hesitated for a time, declared finally blurted out the trut “Well, now," he began, “you'll think I'm @ beast and all th here, now, if I tell you the exact truth will you believe all that I say—all, wered him with kisses, dear boy," she exclaimed. hie letter out, end explained to| simply raised the hair of the piiots and orew, who hat never He accepted the | seen nor heard of the Ike befo’ “And to think, “that she geplied, “who are echoed Mujor Bourbon. "Why, by the time you could pull out your flask you would be In a Prohibition State, and ®y the time you put M back you would be out again.”—Chioago Daily “Very well, now you write and I'll dictate, Now put down just what I/ him his own mistake. explanation meekly, you poor thing,” she went on, you have been in financial streits ai) this Ume and bore up bravely as you My dear, dear boy, don't let it h Me eT ane tan Have you ever heard of a class of people called “red for the amount of your bill, intend to pay, and then, we will just hurry up that wedding and you can use all of my money that you Lke-—you'll have a right to, then, my dear, dear Lord & Lord; , ‘Gentlemen—I received your very ur- mt letter requesting immediate pay- ent of my account, which, as you has been running so long"— jut I don’t owe ‘em @ cent," he pro- Bhe said she would. went on Hardwicke, with all your hear that I love you with all my hoant, that I never loved any- body else, and that tf I can’t marry you i won't marry anybody? It’s all true. Do you belleve tt" ‘The @iri—nice Hitle girl she was, too— leaned down and put her arms around hie neck (he was gitting at ber feet) and “Now firgt, then,’ “Do you believe hadn't been so hard to tell it, after And the litte girl—wel uch @ matter of fact lit aod #o very much infatuated with Hurd. THE SGHOOL FOR SCANDAL. “Look at the crowd of women going Into Mra, Getybie’s house, which I Wwicke, and so determined not to gt him up that she didn't lose a minute’ time in solving the problem. ‘Do,"' she replied lightly, ‘why, break your engagement 0 on," she commanded, ‘ln that connection I want to say to you that if you sue as you threaten to you will have your trouble for your “Detraction. The sewing circle meets there to-day," —-Pitiadeiptiia Prees, RUBBING IT IN. Wife—Did you ever notice that a loud talicer is usually @n ignorant person? Husband—Well, , a8 I have nothing, other hand, J am able to state to you, confidentially, that I am about to marry Miles’ Charlotte Burnett, "Yos, ma'am,” replied Hardwicke, the ‘exuberance of hiv spirita he didn't] summe: sorts of the Southern mountains, ead in @ wage know just what elae to say, Hardwicke and Miss Burnett mber—® winter bride] ania of the Baujues of Southern France. They do 206 tegke. It was a reiuer frosty | courage, for # company of chem served In Hai ; Jet Wature cure? Seventy-five per cent, of from @ disordered stomach which a + but how?" protested Hantwicke, ion to dict gs bh Of the remaining 26 Ys “she~she's #o sensitive, and I've never Gone anything to hurt her, ¢: “Of course I do," she replied, “if you you needn't talk so loud; 1'm not deat,—Chicago News, tho wealthy steam-pipe man, and if were you oan hold off for awhile I shall haye “1 did @ay #0," returned he. hnd bridegroom. “Well, say @ again,” she suggested, AND SHE KNOWS, ‘He obeyed. : a, rari ae 8 san lea wn te glean! nd as Aas - HOW GATES GOT MORGAN'S $10,000,000. 4g] 7 must have been hard for John W. Gates to take that $10,000,000 away from J. Plerpont Mor- gan,” said the Cigar-Store Man. ie “For anybody else,” replied the Man Higher Up, “hy would have been like extracting the teeth from a hen. | For Gates it was like taking flowers from a grave.) jj Getes has made a lot of easy money in his time, but) this fall he took out of Belmont and Morgan for $10,000, 000, and a aide bet of a couple of million more was almply, | an exhibition bout. He couldn’t do it again if he-trained- for five years. i “Not that Gates isn’t as wise now as he was when) he pulled off his assault on the Morgan bank-roll, there are no more opportunities as juicy as the one thas! jhe picked up that time. There isn’t anything left that: Morgan doesn't own. “Gates got in on the L. & N. the way a wise second~ story man gets into a plant. The second-story man goes in while the family is at dinner. Gates went in while Morgan was at the hot baths in Germany. “Morgan went to Europe to get boiled out. He took the mud baths and the soda water baths and the ink baths and the other tortures they put to a man over there. When he wasn’t doing this he was getting the X-rays flashed onto himself. Belmont was keeping cases on the race track and enjoyingMhimself on his yacht. Gates looked over the field, took off his coat, rolled down his suspenders, spat on his hands dnd got busy. “Of course Morgan had bis men here to look out for his bit. These men had instructions to keep their lamps on the business graft and cable him when they thought # somebody was going to turn a trick, “The Morgan look- outs thought they had the board covered, but they didn’t know that John W. Gates had bought a stack end ™ declared himself in. “They let his modest pile of chips set, and paid noat- * tention to them. As@ matter of fact, they thought Gates was a come-on, and they were simply waiting for him to lose his pile and get out of the game. Gates had an advantage there. Nobody took him eeriously in the Wall ' street gambling business. wt “He had stung them a few times, but they thought | it was luck. They couldn’t understand his ways, and figured that when he went out gfter anything the would go with a brass band, a calliope, a siren whistle end a| steam printing office to issue bulletins every hour. In} Wall street they think that every man who comes out of the West works on a pressure of 95 per cent. windand 5 per cent. brains. “Right there is where John W. Chicagoed them. He put on his gum shoes, loaded up his electric dark lantern and started out through the back alleys. In the mean- time he left tis son Charley and his: partner, Drake, to’ stand down in Wall street and holler as loud es they, could every day from 9 to 8. “The stall worked. The wise young men in Morgan’s office looked out the window and saw Charley Gates and Drake hollering until they were blue in the face. Then , the wise young men lit fresh cigarettes and remarked / how utterly ridiculous those Western fellahs are don’t you know, ehh, 1 “About the time Oharley and Drake were : to think of the oxygen treatment for lost breath John y, ‘W. came back and he had the L. and N. !n his bag, The next day he put on his store clothes, walked over to Morgen’s office and spread the ewag out on the table, ‘I’m @ merciful man,’ said John W. ‘I don't want your socks, if I have got the rest of your clothes. Whet “7 q 9999000 OO2 reward and no questions asked?’ “If Mont Polee had exploded that day the world would never have known about it. The explosion of J. P, Morgan would ‘have buried the sound. All Morgan could do was produce.” “Do you think Morgan will ever get back at Gates?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “Not unless Gates submits to the administration of an anaesthetic,” responded The Man Higher Up. Re eee t A SHAKY SHARK YARN. ‘The representatives of the principal Australian papers were taken out to Kea about fifty miles from Brisbane in the ptlot- boat to meet Mme. Melba on Sept. 16, says the Sydney Tele- gram, She was travelling from Canada to Australia by: the mail steamship Miowera, While the pilot-boat was waiting tor the Miowera the ship's company had @ remarkable and probably unprecedented experience, A great gray shark, about twelve feet In length, was hooked on « echnapper dina, which broke. A second time the big @sh got on the schnapper | line and escaped. Then a large shark-hook with @ chain wag thrown out, and the ravenous brute grabbed it and caught, All hands, pilots, cook and press-men, tugged the! shark to the vessel's side. A huge hook on the anéhor tagile was put through his jaw and one eye, and the dsh was then hauled out of the water. One of the crew ripped the monster were thrown overboard, and then both jaws were hacked out for the sake of securing the teeth, Nothing but the shell of the fish remained, and the shark was lowored overboard. A his interior from head to tall and the jaw and one eye gone f per { A STRANGE RACE OF PEOPLE, | bones?’ They are the most pecullar people in the United Btates, No one living absotutely knows the ra withoh they sprang or whence the original settlers cam uve very nearty on the boundary line between Bouth end Georgia, in the northwestern part of the tiret ‘They are very clannish, mix yery little with t race, and in @ manner are quite thrifty. In| In slavery times they owned slaves, visit od the put on quite a iittle style. While I have nothing bug sition to glide me, | am of the opinion that they are ; ring the late clyli war and bore themaclves bravely, Pig Beir dned Their skin ln of a swarthy red,