The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1903, Page 10

by the-Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to & Row, ‘New York. Entered at the Post-OmMce ww Wark as Second-Class Mali Matter. UME’ 4s. AiekerencINO: 16,188) FRANCHISE LAW DECISION. @ insertion of a provision in the Ford Franchise iw that was eventually to invalidate it was com- fed_all the art of the corporation lawyer. The tactics to defeat the measure will well repay the dy of the youth just entering on the law as a career. ‘The bill as originally drawn and first passed pro- ied for the assessment of franchises by local tax ds, Thereupon came a cessation of the general ition attack and the concentration of all the oppo- M against this particular provision, ‘The corporations concerned, it was pointed out, would Wholly at the mercy of local prejudice and subject to quent exactions which would be averted if the nents were made by the abler and juster State uninfluenced ty this local prejudice. That was je thing, and Gov. Roosevelt was persuaded to make ® concession in the interest of perfect fairness, An tira session was called and the law re-enacted with the Provision stricken out and the desired new one tn- 2 in its place. “Then at onoe began the attack which has invalidated i 7 jorporAtion counsel immediately proceeded to eHinconstitutionality of a provision that violated Of home rule. Granting that the franchises| eWere to be taxed as real estate, the authority! ‘tax was vested only In the community in ¢ tate Hes. This was their argument, tained by the Appellate.Division of the “So, by the combined efforts of lawyer and lobbyist, the will Of the peopin is temporarily defeated through trategy. No. attempt is made to prove the Ford! itself untenstitutional; the right of the clty to} THE LOVE LETTERS OF LAURA.| BY ROY M'CARDELL, NO, VEL To Mr, Reuben D ville, Ind. EAR MR, DUZENBERRY: I am hav- D ing a charming time, and cannot say at this writing when I shall re- turn home to Smithville. The fact Is that I am taken up with my ateno- graphic studies and the dizzy whirl of a round of eoclal gayety in Brooklyn, 1 am sorry that both the W, C. T. U. and yourself misunderstood what 1 wrote concerning the play about the German Prince. It would be useless to enter into explanations, as I fear your views of life are so provincial that you would fail to comprehend. Howover, I am not angry and hope wo shall continue good friends. Last night my aunt gave a progressive euchre party in my honor. ‘The very best society peo- ple in Brooklyn attended. Everybody was astonished at my playing, although I had never played before, and 1 won a. prize because my ticket of the game was not spolled by having holes punched in it as the others were. Nellie Johnston, the girl next door, had her ticket ac- tually rutned, but they gave her a prize too, to encourage her. Poor girl, she erry, Smith- seemed quite happy over It, so I did not Say anything to mar er enjoyment. 1 am getting along nicely in stenog- raphy and expect to take a poaition in New York shortly, I can taka In short- ject the franchises to taxation as real estate is not Deen an interesting fight, most profitable for: ‘to follow. Inasmuch .as there can be no col- Of the taxes assessed againstthe corporations dur- past two yéars the lawyers have well demon- ‘trated their usefulness to their employers, They have d their fees many times oyer. Another Qpportunity P Iness is presented them by the anticipatory| bon ‘of ‘the City Tax Department officials in making| assessment of these franchises as real es- Tt was a shrewd move, providing, as it does, for collection of taxes in 1903 under the Jaw as amended “with the power of levy restored to the city, it they have not shown that the law ts wrong in ne ple, and they have made it certain that the re-en- nent of it amended to accord with the judictal de- by if.that decision is sustained by the higher court, il probably be more favorable to the public interests t before, IN THE LINE OF DUTY. ‘There is praise for the firemen at all times, but they crepe to have merited It during the recent cold }.Aad.‘particularly in the Cooper Square and Grand Lfires, Within fifty hours the downtown division of ent was called upon to put out fourteen fires, two of which necessitated five alarms and two others four. *Only a few days before the firemen had had an ex- “hausting all night encounter with the stubborn fire at u and Allen streets. The city {s prepared to echo “Acting Chief’ Purroy’s trfyute: “I capnot speak too pee eqid yesterday, “of the conduct of these men. ‘experience I have never known the men to be orked at such a pace.” _ {Phese fires were general engagements, to use the Popylar military metaphor, following a long succession ‘Of skirmishes which are daily episodes in a fireman's @areer, The Evening World has borne so frequent tes- ‘timony to’ the fireman's bravery in the face of almost tart danger in the line of duty that any repetition ie ‘be deemed trite. But it desires to ask its rere they remember the name of the fire hero killed f Cooper Square fire dr the names of the two fire- Performing the ga)lant human-ladder rescue from the tning tencment-house in Grand street? ‘Probably Firemen William McCabe and Philip Hub- ‘Nts, of Hook and Iadder No. 18, will figure on the Roll of Merit,for “meritorious action at personal risk.” It is seblect jlist; on which only nineteen names were thought pind to be enrolled in 1900 and twenty-one in 1899. fréman James Corbett will have as his reward the sim- ry,in the department records: “Killed at fire.” iiry stands opposite many names. Sometimes mithiee in a row as at the recent Arbuckle fire the East Forty-fourth street metal works fire in 1900. . It is grimly terse. It shows why there is m hand very rapidly. But as yet I cannot make out what I have written, But Nellie says that if you get a nice boss @ pretty girl like Tam will not find this any dizwback. That was nice of her, wasn't it? Tho young man across the way brings me home from night school, His name ls Frank. He says Brooklyn after dark ie filled with desperate characters, but ho keeps close to me to protect me. I have not told him we were engaged. For I do not know that 1 can trust yo and f feel eure you are not true to me while 1 am far away, alone in @ great clly. This ls unkind of you, Mr, Duzen- berry. You might at least be frank to me and tell me the truth. e Give Cora Smith my dearest love and tell her that I have elght new dresses She is a hateful thing and It will make her even more spiteful to hear it. tell her that I am wearing my hair in Langtry, the ‘ed before the King and Que of England, wears hers, I am going to send her @ picture of Mrs, Langtry with her hair this way. She will try to fix hers that way and will look ugiler than ever, as it isn't b coming to fat faces and low foreh You will exouse me from writing mo as 1am fatigued. Your friend, LAURA SLOCUM. vi. To Miss Slocam from Mr, Dusen- berry. 168 LAURA BLOCUM, Brooklyn: 1 gess you are gitting stuck up. you better cum home. If you are playing cards and gamting you will git talked about, silas Baker was cotched robbing chicken roosts and was tarred and feathered. Captin Gowdy has bin elected policeman and his pictur ts in a new york paper at Tompson's barber shop, as “a terrer to evil-doers.” you ax me to be Frank with you, and then you tell me you have another Frank with you cumming from nite school. you better cum home. 1 don't want to brake your hart, but 1 can keep com- pany with other girls, 1 got @ letter frum a man who wants to cum to new york to buy a lot of genuine coun- terfeit money. gosh, 1 can git rich itt want to. Wel, good by, no more at present from R. DUZENBERRY, Six of the Best Jokes of the Day. ON THIN ICE, Old Portly—Look here, what do you mean by following me about the skating 0 “*6f more Bennett, or Stephenson or Bonner ible It so often happens that the men most worthy ema cinnot step forward to recelve these decorations _ Sr bravery, in the face of personal danger, Boitas a mi ¢ BENEFICENT BORAX. Mhas*been the lot of few drugs to recelve the warm and certificate of character that is given ‘ax by its defenders in the adulterated food contro- The Chinese have long held ginseng in high os- the ancients thought arsenic most beneficial, In n times a particular product of the pharmacopoeia ovride’ of gold has been singled out for com- , But it has remained for borax to elicit the ‘tribute to its virtues from those who advocate ‘asa food preservative. ording to one admirer, Mr. H, L, Harris, borax ‘these healthful qualities: meat, such as ham and bacon, more easily “ ita the formation of ptomaines, employed in its manufacture and “taking into more borax and boracie acid in a day than } Would consume in foodstuffs in a month, even bwenty years,” enjoy better health than most work- Ie deoiaiog glory, the late Prof. Virchow, who bs y for his health, celebrated his elghtieth swallowing a double dose! F tributes needed? Is not borax, in view to its ameliorating medicatory effects, ww the most beneficent of drugs? 11 fur- “B short and agreeable route to good on ‘obstinacy will refuse to travel. pehol #hould be without st; it should appear the chances are that it) Germany Aneto its daily appearance) oxi4, ‘6 health has| two comparim: angel) ‘on, on one of which are the mi: " ppi-| ‘oti etna fii a pond so persistently? Boy—I've got orders to plant one of deso ‘danger’ signs wherever yer pens to fall, sir.San Franolsoo Chron- tole, THE OLD STORY, A chump who would canoeing go, By foolish daring goaded, Once tried to shoot somo rapide, ‘Twas horrible! He didn't know,’ It seems, that they were loaded. Philadephia Press, oO: HIS CLOSENESS EXPLAINED. "They tell me your @on is a close student” “By gum! he has to be, I don't allow him but « dollar a month spendin’ money.'--Cleveland Plain Dealer, A CLEAR WIRE, She—I wish Miss Blank could hear of that, He—Then you'd better tel it to some. body in strict confidence.—Detroit Free WERE SMALL, What portion of the chicken u like, Mr. Newocmer? . Newocemer—Oh, half of it will be ample, thank you.-Tit-Rits, KNEW WHEN NOT TO LOOK, Jane—Charley ®now @ dangerous char- acter? Why, he wouldn's jook at @ ot In the street car, if he had she didn't have one—Bosion ‘Transcript, A NEW EXPLOSIVE, The london Colliery Guardirn scribes a new explosive pat Ht conalse dee ited in of & mixture of ont nts bY ® thin tn pari. end he A A bg peayter ‘oe e pared 4g 4 i District Court. IM Poss 81.5 / TELA YouR PEST IONE NEIGH HH 5-G. Also | ¢ SSRITVIOTDELOY oe re: 8899489 S29S00S EASILY STOLEN, » that hotel clerk is very with the leading ac Yes; when they give him any Gdiamonds to keep he always @ leaves the safe door open. GLOESH HOHE DOLE POG DPD OFDS HOGBDOHH-D: OLD STYLE WwoMAN BANKRUPT AnD THE NEW \, ‘When fair woman starts to pleading for a bankruptcy proceeding, The folks she's borrowed from won't be surprised to hear her say: “On food, grudges, jewels and raiment I have ‘called in’ every payment, And the song that ne'er can reach my heart is ‘Pay, pay, pay!'” NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Insurance Agent—Now that you have a wife, don’t you think that you ought to take out a life polloy? Newed—Oh, | guess not. 1 don't think she is going to prove dangerous, PCE aS have two million Werany @ miltion—kick beca HUMAN NATURE, Miles—What would you do If you had a million dollars? Giles—Same as others who have 1 didn't 1 $90006-400909099000600 RO4AORADAALDD®DIDDDDRD>RADDDODD DODO 99 ODOHIDHODO® ©6-.4046-4969.09490O99EO0OSHH44OOOOHOOS WOMEN WON’T EVEN LEAVE BANKRUPTCY TO MEN. | Artist Powers Pictures the Cuteness of the Sex in Dodging Debts. Mrs, Caroline M. Cruikshank, of No. 164 West Seventy-fourth street, yesterday filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States Her labilities are scheduled at $5,855.45, and her attachable assets nothing.—Yesterday’s News Item, | 800 & $99906 30955 98-99-9980965-3-085-59006-H eed aah IF I HAD NoY Gone THROU Gu THE ‘ BANK RUPTCY,Covrr WOULD NOTMAVE HAD THis ANOTHER VIEW OF IT, VOionr Stern $ no Income how do you expect to get alang if you marry my daugh-2 ter’ Sultor—That’s not the point, sir, How am I to get don't marry her? WINTER EVENING AMUSEMENT IN THE HOME. MAN IN THE MOON, The Soap-Qubble Trick. Blow a large bubble between two} horiaontal rings so that {t gemains ae. | tached to them. Separate the rings un+ | tH) the bubble i# drawn out into a gylin- der, Insert @ smail tube wer with soapmuds through the top of the cylinder | and blow another bubble until it presses | | @paingt the “bilge of the first, which |{s now barrel shaped. ‘Then withdraw the tube, The inner bubble will not fa)l, aa it is held by the shape of the barrel, Jf the wire rings are moved pobiv8 Peon ie THE DEAF MAN, ‘The person on whom this temporary infirmity i# imposed must stand out in the middle of the room, and to all that {a said must answer three times follow- hear.” The however the answer must be, “T can hear,” The tun to al! but the unfortuni victim is for the first three times to make to the deaf man sbme agreeable proposal, to which he is obliged to turn @ deat while the fourth thne he is requested ‘to perform some humiliating act, such as to sing & gomie song, rece extempore verses, in praise of prettiest girl in the these : rae I. >! the Man with the Whiskers, ON BANK- WRECKING AS A PASTIME. © (<] SEB that Kimball and Rose have pleaded guilty to ] putting the Seventh National Bank on the bum,” remarked the Cigar-Store Man, thing of the kind,” responded the Man Higher Up. “Putting a bank on the bum is a crime. Kimball and Rose entered a plea of ‘guilty to an irregularity.” Their lawyer, Ed Lauterbach, made that specification, He told the Judge that if a president of a bank certifies a check, knowing that there is no money behind it fa the bank, the best that can be put up ageinst him is @ misdemeanor, “All bankers do it, Mr. Lauterbach said. A customer goes into a bank and says that he needs a million or 80, He hasn't got enough in the bank to buy a day's supply of cigarettes for a ‘longshoreman, but he says he will put up @ million or so of securities in the afternoon, There- upon the president of the bank certifies his check for @ million, and this wind money passes along the Wall street section in company with good checks and cure rency. Talk about doing business with stage money or Confederate bills! This certified check graft has got them both beaten to death! “If you should happen to have about a thousand of the long green in the bank and draw a check against it for a couple of thousand, they could put you in the booby hatch if they wanted to. But if you happened to be a friend of the president of the bank, he could certify your check for you, and the man who got it would think * that there was money behind it. That is the difference between being dishonest and being a bank president, “Wrecking banks ‘has always been croquet in the Hast of games of crime. It is harmless to the wrecker as @ general thing, if it does put a crimp in the depositors that leads some of them to divorce themselves from their own lives. Even if an indignant jury does find a bank wrecker guilty and he gets a sentence in the place with the high walls around it, he has the privilege of putting rugs and a pianola in his cell and keeping in practice on the prison books. “After a little while his friends get busy and interest politicians, The politiclans see the President of the United States, All bets are off after that, If there is anything a President of the United States Iikes to do it is to pardon a bank wrecker. They pardoned one down in Pennsylvania a short time since because his friends convinced the President that he had suffered great mental anguish from having to go to Jail. “It a crook breaks into a bank, blows a safe and gets off with a few thousand they hound him to the ents of the earth, goak him for life when they get him, and a suggestion to pardon him would be looked upon by the President of the United States es an insult, That is the difference between a crook who breaks in from the outside and a bank president who breaks out from the ide. » ine Canfteld’s place {fs closed. and Canfield fs in Europe. Jerome says he won't come back, and maybe it is true, put if he would come back and orgamize a bank, making himself president, he could do stunts that he never thought of doing in his gambling-house, He could over- certify checks day after day and nobody would kick if he passed the collection-box in church on Sunday. ‘There appears to be a wide difference between a gambler who uses a crooked faro box and a bank president whg uses crooked checks. If I didn’t have a conscience I'd start The Cross-Eyed Pian And the Man with Whiskers. They Have an Intricate Talk on the «n” ' observed the Cross-Eyed Man, as he and the ‘fan with the Whiskers boarded the Sixth Avenue ” at Fiftieth street and took up their usual seate on opposite sides of the aisle. “‘It won't be long now before they get us to ‘Harlem In fifteen minutes. sf ‘But not unless we happen to be golng in that direction,” observed the Man with the Whiskers, No, of course not!” chimed in the Cross-Eyed Man, “ge we were on the way to Flatbush or Jersey for instance, they NOuldn't get us to Harlem in @fteen minutes to save thet 4f they dragged us there, T supose,” hazarded ye “That ia, if there were enough of them.” “pa like to see any one drag me, shrieking, to Harlem Afteen minutes, against my will,’ thundered the Crows-By, Man, in belilcose fury. “It would be @ violation of freedom’s, hte. aor nearly as much of @ violation ax if tt were only, half as inviolable,” hopefully suggested The Man with Whiskers. A ‘But a whole lot violabler than if tt was twloe astnviolate,” muttered the Cross-Eyed Man. “I take a serious interest th this road's welfare. We've had so many sweet heart-to-heart you and I, When they shut off the heat r ra a worsted motto I'd worked myself, It read: ‘Many Are Cold, but Few Are Frozen.’ They wrote i: back to me that they weren't shutting off the heat, but were just trying @ new process called ‘heatless steam,’ '* cut off the heat because they couldn't get coal, poor things,” sighed the Man with the Whiskers, This anthnes cite famdine"— “The anthracite famine doesn't seriously bother me," chuckled the Cross-Eyed Man. “I never was a very hearty, coal-eater, even in ny hungriest days. Now if'— “If it were & dope famine," rudely cut in a Cholenle OM Gentleman in the corner, “it might blue-pencil your pipe-supe ply and then the rest of us could ride in peace once in m while." q “hey say," proceeded the Man with the Whiskers, coldly ignoring the interruption, “that the ‘L' ls saving a fortune’ by not heating these oars. Bvery cold train is @ gold mine to them.” ¥ “A port of ‘L'-dorado,"’ suggested the Cross-tlyed Mas, | ‘That ta" i" “Oh, Gear me wuz!" walled an Elderly Lady from the other end of the car, “I've always heard that when folks got ees old they took to hearin’ wild, foolish sounds, An’ now know it's true!” fas nia : j "Bpeaking of ‘Harlem in een minutes,'” pursued Man with the Whiskers, when the Elderly Lady had bead led sobbing from the car, ‘I solved that problem more than ten years ago. It came to me in @ @ash; just am ol mgr briliigntest thoughts do. 1 “Whet was it?” queried the Cross-Hyed Man, “Wity, it was Ike this: Any train can get to third street in Afteen minutes'— rf