The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1903, Page 8

@t New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 48........cccecseeeseeeee NO. 18,187. MR. KEENE’S TAXES. ‘The attempt of the city to collect arrears of personal taxes to the amount of $1,737 from James R. Keene is important as being the first use of the new form of sup- _ Plemenurry proceedings for this purpose. These taxes are two years overdue. They were levied on an assessment of $75,000, and payment has been re- fused on the plea of residence in Hempstead. It will be recalled that Justice O’Gorman’s decision was in effect that voting and paying taxes elsewhere does not exempt @ citizen having a New York residence from taxation here. Mr. Keene is popularly regarded as a New Yorker. He has a house at No. 569 Fifth avenue and he keeps In closer touch with the Stock Exchange than residence on Long Island would permit. The suit is important from another aspect. Mr. Keene in fighting the Harriman !nteresta for control of the Southern Pacific Railway has admittedly acquired 50,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock. At the low mar- ket rate of the week, 65, this stock is worth $3,250,000. Is not an assessment of $75,000 ridiculous in the case of ®& millionaire whose financial resources make it possible for -him to hold this large block of stock? It does not follow that Mr. Keene was as well off in stocks and other Personal property in 1901 as he is now. But on the other hand it does not appear that his great wealth has been @cquired overnight. Mr. Keene's case is, of course, not the most aggra- vated, There ig Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who received @ check for $8,000,000 as his quarterly Standard Oil divi- @end last Monday. Mr. Rockefeller is assessed on $1,000,000, which does not represent 4 per cent. of his last year's income from the Standard O{] Company. It is an assessment on less than two weeks of this multi- millionaire’s income. It is an unfortunate feature of the personal tax sys- tem as at present administered that the assessor over- looks these large items of income, while his eyes rarely fai) to see the small estate. ‘He rates Mr. J. P. Morgan at only $400,000, Mr. J. J. Astor at $300,000, Mr. Russell Sage at $600,000, but he finds without fail the little properties of $20,000 and $50,000 that are supporting the widow. They are in the hands of trist companies and there is no escape. And when the collector's 21-4 per cent. has been deducted from the 4 or 5 the property :s earning there Is little left. Within ten days the tax books, opened Jan. 15, will ‘be closed, and the two months and a half of evasion and : perjury ended. Up to the present time more than 15,000 persons have sworn off their personal taxes, and the aggregate assessment has been reduced by fully three billions of dollars! Is it not a mockery of injustice in the bearing of ounicipal burdens that this default of the rich from thelr here of taxation should be so leniently dealt with if not encoureged? TSNOERLOIN COURTESY. It te @ pleasure to observe that the new Captain of the Tenderloin district, O'Connor, is maintaining the traditions of courtesy there, In the haunt of the Ches- * terfelds of crime should not polite deportment prevail? apt. O'Connor showed himself qualified in courtesy fey his new post when on Thuraday night he made the rounds of the precinct and visited twenty-one places sus- ‘pected of being illegal resorts. At only one did the Captain and his Olcerone, acting Inspector Walsh, {n- trude. In the words of the report, “thoy walked up the stoops, rang the doorbells and on being informed that nobody was in” they politely refrained from entrance or from further questioning, No intrusion, no rude attempt to verify suspicions, Bo axe, It is only the outsider, the investigator from ‘Headquarters, who adopts these provincial methods, ‘With the Captain of the precinct the word of the man at the door fs received in good faith. Do we not recall the historic doorstep interchange of courtesies between Capt. Walsh and “Honest John” Kelly, when the Cap- tain accepted the assurance of the gambler that there ‘was “nothing doing” within? * The policy has much to commend it. Urbane meth- 046 usually prevail in the end. Just now they have put More gambling-houses out of business than all the axe Steaults of a year. TWO WAYS TO AN END. Referring in an Evening World interview to the very , disgraceful condition in which the subway contractors have left Park Row—a very morass of material with sink holes and pitfalls for the uncautious, Public Works THE O32 BODSSHHOSSOG-9S 9-8-9999 950599909690 oe 0004.61.6.6.0666-6.4-446 THE OLD JOKES’ HOME. By Roy L. McCardell. STEELE & MURRAY, The 1 Convernntioualin and Kingpins of Song and Dance. EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! Prominent Vaudevillians Voluntarily Surrender Some of Their Old Jokes to the Care and Cus- tody of the 8. P. C. H. & employ moral suasion as well 1s W force. In one noteworthy instance at least intimidation has not been necessary to secure the freedom amt re- lease of a jot of old jokes long over- worked in vaudeville. The case in point s set forth in detail in the following new lot arrives In a fow days you will recelve this handsome emblem of mirth- mercy. Stecle & Marray Confens AML Prot, Jorh M.A. Long As hearty {ndorsers of your Old Jokes’ Home, which, in our estimation, fills a long-felt want, we feel that no stone should be left unturned that will result in promoting the Interest of the good cause which you are espousing Although we sympathize with you, in- asmuch as it is your painful duty to print a conglomeration of deceased liter- ature, which has been resurrected In or- der to occupy your retreat, we hasten assure you thwt the good you are complishing In confining these ancient ‘augh-producers, which should long since have been quarantined, will in the end Justify the means, be It ever #o mean, As proof of the powerful influence which your ancient humor histor umn is working we beg leave to o to you that you have touched a chord of contrition in our hearts, and that ta Commissioner Livingstone says: T realize the condition the Row is in. No one understands Mt any better than I do, but what can I do? I thave been on my knees for months past asking the Rapid Transit Com- mission andthe contractors to remove all unnecessary ob- structions as rapidly as possible, I have made some head- way, but nothing like 1 sought to acoompish, Under tho Tew that gives the Rapid Transit Commission hs right to construct the subway and make excavations the Depart- Ment of Public Works ts practically nothing, We must walt on But Park Commissioner Willcox has a better wa: He ordered an objectionable stone-crusher out of Forty- fecond street and when it was not remoyed on time he Secured a platoon of police to guard his men and had it removed, The city generally has adopted the suppiiant role Mr. Livingstone recommends, It has put up for @everal years with discomfort and inconvenience which, dn the light of Chief Engineer Parsons's boast that he fan tunnel Broadway without disturbing the surface of the street, is now shown to have been unnecessary, | The contractors have abused the town’s patience too with structural! steel piled high in cross streets two before it was needed, and with a mining camp up- of the streets that could have been averted if it mot been so supinely tolerated, The efforts now ing to clean up the streets are most commendable. all you could touch us for at present. We have been no exception to this It Devery should run for Mayor -we it xpect an extension over the entire town of the and vociferwus hurrah which marked the cele campaign in thy Ninth, With free groceries, tree free booxe. fireworks, and chowder parties over Mt would be «@ case of bread and the circus once the entire community, the Lebbyists,—No lobbyists on the foor of Albany? The times have changed since PD. caine. Lon" Does it indicate a progress Tealimation of some perils| as econ. “geen” are rule, and in order to show our sincerity in the matter we have grouped a few of our faithful employees, who have worked overtime for us without supper money, and knowing they will meet many old time frlends In your asylum we cheer fully condemn them for Hfe, with the proviso that mo appeal be taken In the case, Wo have versed them In order to make your duty less A fellow met by the name of, Anale Kind And this lady was @ bird, lady bind; He wan deaf and dumb and he could never speak his mind. So he didn't say a wont, He got a tip upon a horse they sald 1d surely win The horme’s name was Sausage and he said it was a skin Hie went around to #ee the «tr, but couldn't find her in, Because the girl waa living out I went into the Waldorf Just @ week ago And i bought a clgarette I met a man who wanted me to bet upon But Mecouldn't get m bet, Hy sald he'd bet ‘me fifty that I never slept in bed To make {t interesting then he bet that Twas dead The elevator boy came in and this is what he said, Now I'll have to take him up, O94004 SCRAPPIE SISTERS letter, While the lamp holds out to| % burn the Hest vaudeville taskmaater | ( of good old jokes may yet reform! Let this, and the fast that a new supply of 8. P. C,H. badges will soon be on hand encourage us al. If you want a badge send qa two-cent stamp and when the THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1909. THE -—=EVENING = TH @ 2-O->4O91b 004000 — RY REASONABLE OMPARED To THe THE BOY SLEUTH S— THEIR FACES ARE No FAMILIAR TO THE croons” g TOUGH GAME - ‘ MAYBE HIS > HE LOOKS LIKE THE INFANT cook :— “WELL, TLL STAY FI GIT Five POUNDS OF CANDY AND A QUART OF 4CE CREAM THREE TIMES A Day If 98 Gee ke ie, Boy POLITE Ay ae re eS @BAT ME AW!!! Z KIN BEAT YER FER MAYOR wWiD ME HANDS T1E0!! t ae YO" GOING) ( scoot Tyo MeRROW ERHpUSE pont IAS ANO scene! | The appointment of Oren Root, jr., who is still under thirty, as street car boss may lead to the infusion of “young blood” inte other positions hitherto held only by grizzled “grown-ups.” DD999GDH9HOH0DLOI-HHDHHHGOHIOOGHEDHHOD HF 6HO0HOHGGHH HHS GHHOHHH 995090004 Lowe and RP atlroad Stock »++ By E. J. Webster. A Northern Pacific Deal That Cupid Engineered. 1909, by Dally Story Publishing Co)! be shared by the transportation com-| touched a thousand.” »REW WILKINS was undoubted-| panies. But old Andrew Wilkins said) But all unknown to Jack, unknown ly one of the most obstinate farm-| taat it wasn't the amount of stock, but) in fact to many of the shrewdest brok- ers in the whole Northwest. He/ the principle involved that mattered. | ere in the United States, two of the which swept ont the largest margins But N, P, was going up, up, up. “'N. P. 200, 225, 200," called out the boy who was taking the quotations at the vowed that the Northern Pacific Rail-| "No daughter of mine ahall ever mar-| greatest financial combinations in the| ticker, "300 bid, 400, 000.” ‘Thon came a way Company had overcharged blmona/ry a man who is a stockholder in the| world were preparing for battle, and| little delay, “'N. P. rising; 10 quoted, Te aire any seemed to go on | PMIWAY company that cheated me on! the prize was the control of tise North: | 760, 200 sold at S00, 200 at 900, 250 itm way. serenely deaplite Nee my freight rates,” he declared with un- ern Pacific Railroad. At 1,000, Wrath, But the obstinate old man's vow ecestary Yehemence, when Besale plead-| y5cx tamtin mas called to New| The broker's office wie bussimg with af WeAReADa teusetnis Toupte 0 [24,4 MAD Might hold atock in the Falls] ‘yon on “rallroad bamdness, While [*Xcllement. Bome men were pale, the Jick Hamitn and scarce s to Ane, PoMd and stil not be a probable cri’) Were he thought he would drop into a] C°Mmer spelled ruin to them; others were drew's pretty daughter Bessie. inal, : broker's office and watch the quota-|"@diant, they had made fortunes, But Jack held » good position in the em-] "And it’s only Atty shares,” she added.| tions on Northern Pacific. He found |Jack paid no heed to them. He was ploy of the railroad company, In itself]"He bought thei as an investment, not roker's office filled with an ex-|'nkne of Bessle Wilkins and the words that was all right, for Jack was aJto speculate with, He says the stockloited pushing crowd of men eagerly {9% her father: “When Northern Pacific sells at a thousand you can marry Jack Hadiin with my consent." ‘ And Northern Pacific had sold at a thousand. Old Andrew Wilking had his faults, splendid worker and had good hope: advancement, But the situation to go higher, complicated by the fact that ae was al Her father sniffed with contempt at mont ardent admirer of Bessie Wilkins, |the idea that the stock of thi And Bersie thought there was no man In the world to be compared with big, has already risen and that it 18 lkely| watching the quotations as they were placed on the board, or else in their impasience standing over the stock ticker so as to get them without @ second's delay, good-natured Jack Hamlin. Jack was ajcustomens the way they have m ‘Whet'a the excitement? queried! but he was man of tis word, lie man most fathers would have been|asserted. “So Hamlin thinks the stock | Ick was dased when Jack told the story of tlad to have for a Boncin-law. In most] Will Ko higher, does he?” he added with] ‘Ther say a corner has been eprung| the terrible corner, but if Jack wanted in Northern Pacific,’ was the reply, “and no one can tell what figure it may Bessie and Bessie wanied Jack all that remained for him to do was to give his Just then & messenger boy an attempt at a sneer, which rather of @ failure, for Andrew was at bottom circumstances Andrew Wilkins would probably have felt that way. But Jack Jiceman ot run over by @ trolley] Was employed by the ‘ated railroad|@ good-hearted man and his counten-| uch.” hi ‘Jack @ tel , oar oie fy rm tralian company. Worse tll, he said the com-|@nce was not Adapted to sneers, “Well,| Jack pushed his way through the) the broker in ‘New Tork, 1d read Noe HAMA E! enogced him of his heats ne| PANY had treated him fairly, and that|you tell Jack that when Northern Paci-|orowd to where the ticker was tick-| "Bold, your stock for Have sent Wasn't built’ that way: he meant to give tt his best service.|flc goes Up to & thousand he can have|tacking out the figures watoh meant |°'TE> ‘ine comer was worth nearly thir- He waa in tt with both feet And, to crown hia iniguities, Jack held} you with my consent. Go up higher!] wealth or mun to thousands all over thousand to you,’ «aid oe andrew, Fe ee inte es Rack oe” (e* 404 mock in the company. Not much, to be| The idea!” the country, ‘The man had told the| Weil, rp Ry or | And ‘when Uolity Gatie along he lay fre hs holdings being only Atty waares|| “Rees to ¢ thourand” Jack exclaimed truth. “Nerihers Pacito had bees sor eae Vorset ‘about’ chose” freight ow back. which Jacl purchased at a low|in dismay. Just Pie . § "ee cat Went oh tnetrecke ™ *] rate and held as an investment, be-|as well eeld Then oe & prosperity of the great| is 9 strong badly, MURRAY. Heving in the North weet and hal ‘that this prosperity aust: oie THE STORY HUNT. tee) Chirpy Dick Arouses the Research Microbe. HIRPY DICK and The Melancholy Man met im the, “Li! this morning. ‘They hate one another as the | frisky dog detests the lugubrious, caterwaullng, mid- night feline. And each has 6worn,a solemn swear-word to! send ‘the other to an early grave. Chirpy Dick began: “Did I ever tell you The Story"— “Oh, lots of times!" groaned the ead-eyed one, “— of The Mule That Died of Consumptton?” “Of course—of course!" The Melancholy Man hastened ts assure him. "The mule ate too much. There is no point ti the joke. Of course not—there is mo point to the mula; elther—ate {ts head off!" “Thanks!” said Chirpy Dick, with a smile. He referred! to a newspaper clipping headed “The Old Jokes’ Home’! and added: i “Have you ever heard”— “Undoubtedly!” snapped the Lugubrious One. ‘—The Story of the Little Dog That Passed Away?" “Back!” screamed The Melancholy Man, “Back! to the Noah's Ark! I know 4t—I know {t! The lttle dog got mixed with the paint pots. They washed st with Denzine. Little dog lay before the fire to get dry. Little dog hasn't BENZINE since! Back to the Pavilion!" “That isn't the story!" Chirpy Dick cried. “What!—Not it! ‘Then, for the eake of the other victims, which of the thousand dogging, dog-eared, dog stories un- chained do you mean? Oh—samo story—new version. Little dog—paint—dog had fleas—benzinc—fire. We've got no Uttle dog now, Got.fleas, thopgh.”” “That isn’t the story,” yelled Chirpy Dick victoriousty. ‘The other passengers stared. The Melancholy Mas arose to his'feet and shricked: “I've got it!—I've got it! Dise pute about ownership of dog. Dog in court, Judge sald ‘the owner the one the dog recognizes first.’ Dog barked at the Judge, bit three polloaman and bolted through the door."* “That Isn't the story yet,'! smiled the irrepressible Chirpy Dick. The Melancholy Man sank into the lap of the lady who had taken his seat, “For the sake of humanity,” he groaned, “what 18 The Story of the Mule That Died of Consumption, and what 13 The Story of the Little Dog That Passed Away?" ‘The passengers rubbered with eager, swan-like “Yes, they whispered hoarsely, ‘‘tell us—tell us “I don't know myself,"" murmured Chirpy Dick, “I was only seeking for information" STEPHEN CHALMERS. A THING ON SPRING. Positively the First Verual Poem of 1908. What in the world's the use to sing Every spring about the spring, When {t's just the same old thing Tha’, the spring springs every epring? os, Juut the same old “bind on wing;" Same old bieds begin to eing, Same old trees begin to bud, In country roads the same old mud. The same old breezes fan the drow, ‘The same old low from the same old com, ‘ ‘The same old grass from hillsides looks, : ‘The sume old babble in the broolcs, Hearts “ightly turn" to eame old love. 1 The coo we hear's from same old dove, The same olf waking up of things We've seen epring up for springs and springs, What in the world’s the use to eing Every spring about the spring, When it's just the eame old thing That the epring springs every weriee? |. W, WILLIAMS, CURIOSITIES OF SOUND, In yery high or mountainous regions sounds become 4i- minished tn loudness, 80 that a,conversation cannot be oar ried on in an ordinary tone of voice, In mines or in @ diving bell the reverse of this !s the case, says the Baltimore American, Speech becomes go startling that it must be car vied on in whispers to be at all endurable to the ear, Sounds ). of all kinds become musical tf the vibrations of the alr arg uniform and rapid enough, It {9 aid that the puffs of an engine would make a tremendous organ peal of musio if they could be made to attain the rapidity of Afty or aixt; second, Everything in nature has 4s keynote, as tt were, and at- tuned to one particular musical sound. ‘This fact can be very easily verified in every-day life, Stand near an open plano and speak in an ordinary tone; while speaking you will suddenly hear a string within reverberate to your yoice, The tick of a watch, the aound of every tuman voice, the bark of a dog, the mew of a cat, the noise of 4 wagon, the roll of thunder, the fall of rain, the running of water; in fact everything about us can eastly be placed by an atten- tive ear on fits proper musical note—one of the sounds of the scale. This 1s @ most Interesting experiment and easily vert- fed. It ds said that the ear can distinguish eleven octaves of sound, but as a rule those made by quick, short vibrations are most easily conveyed For instance, the whir of » locust makes more distinct Impression than the sghing of the wind through the trees. A whirlwind in its approach ts nolscless; it is only when ft strikes some obstacle that the volume of sound becomes terrific to us. Then we receive the secondary shorter waves from the destruction of this obe stacle. ‘Tyndall says all friction ts rhythmic Flames are notort. ously senettive to sound, They will bend and filcker, and even respond with a leap of quivering Heht to @ high, shrill sound, This is another interesting experiment, If we use e tube with @ smal) jet of gas, by lowering or relaing it certain points we can cause it to shriek out ebrilly er to . ¥ 10 ie own Keynote