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Publishing Company, No, 82'to 63 Park How, Now York. bd at the Post-Omice at New York as Second tive of swearing off all taxes. lew York City, ite or it should all be exempt. ‘e's burden should be insisted upon, i i Claas Mall Matter. »NO, 16,988, Ou ate doing the public a service In repeating to Mr. Belmont the injunc- Subway cars should be better lighted.” It is almost impossible to read paper in them after the train starts, Right you are also in advocating the ‘opening and shutting of side entrances and exits, as 1s done on up-to- eis no reason, The Subway was built by and for the people York, and they are entitled to the best possible equipment and ser- | ‘There should be cluster lights through the centre of the cars, as on | ted, instead of the present sickly string of single bulbs. And) gevelopment away from old conditions, evice should be adopted for emptying the cars at the sides and ‘them from the ends, or vice versa, Give New York the best, Mr. Belmont, FOR HONEST TAX LAWS, Following the mortgage and stock transfer tax bill the Saxe bill to fevent {ax evasion should receive favorable consideration, This bill pro- that personal property shall be taxed where it is located and that the | of assumed non-residence of the owner shall not result in tax evasion. | Although the present tax law provides for the taxation of “all per- §onal property situated or owned within this State,” the payment of the Max is habitually evaded. Wealthy men give the Tax Commissioners the | oice of taking what tax payments they choose to offer with the alter- Fictitious residences at Newport, Lenox | ind elsewhere are utilized to escape from contributing to the revenue of | Either all property of any specific kind should be taxed at the same Either the stocks and bonds and other sonal property of all citizens should be taxed or the stocks and bonds the less wealthy or more conscientious should also be exempt, as is in | ‘fact the personal property of the wealthiest of New York’s residents. A * The whole tax system needs a thorough remodelling, There should y no loopholes, Either tax or exempt from taxation—not tax some and ow others to escape. Justice and a fair, honest distribution of the pub- | | only Said on the Side. un Sa ot some people think too good a time, The servants are not to be allowed to bother her, the ohildren are er Ife-ketrt-dancing and poker work, It sounds brutal, but perhaps woman was not intended to live free from all bothers, Perhaps woman was Intended old cares only to assume the graver ones of settling the higher problems of human destiny and mundane existence. eee But dealing seriously with woman's there are sald to be 25,000 young wom- en employed in business in tho district between City Hall Park and the Bat- tery and the east and west side ele vated jines, And earning all kinds of incomes from Miss Amendt's $12,000 a year down, Growth of this army of intelligent, competent and self-reliant cffice women within a quarter of @ century 1s perhaps as remarkable as ony other phase of American progress, wocial or material, ee Absolutely harmless Fourth-of-July cannon invented by a Lehigh professor ought to please the small boy about as much as an entirely safe race-course Pleases the automobilist, eee Tom—I wonder why Fred's siceetheart gave him the mitten? Jack—Because he told her a lot of yarns, I believe. eee Bilverware to’ the value of 32,00 dug up from under a rock, But by oversight of the real estate agent in Edgewater, N. J., and not in the Bronx, oe Someth'ig in that drop in May wheat which must have given Gutes a far. Popular actress who fainted on the stage Saturday philosophically says “ius only a habit with her and thet she “might say she had fainted a thousand tmes, If tt did not sound like an exaggeration.” Old medical theot | was tha a fainting spell furnished t because during its duration the heart entirely ceases action, Still, olute rest the human system ever Bets Murder in the Gas Jet. By J. Campbell Cory. SH Lae? By Martin Green. SUBWAY IMPROVEMENTS. not to be allowed to bother her, her of The Evening World: husband is not to be allowed to bother BIB,” said the Cigar Store her, She ts to be tree to lead the high- Man, “that our retteemed ia | town,” police department is make ing a noble effort to sup. press gambling in Chinas Apid-transit lines elsewhere. The Subway is a great boon as it is, Why] to take her share of the world's work, fj of the world’s bothers."’ Obviously “ fan't It be-equipped with every possible improvement? i A superfolal view, tlie tact beltiw that ‘Ah, slush,” replied the Man W. G. EMERY. — | she 48 emancipating herself from housa- Higher Up, “That Sunday night raid must have been planned by the Stage carpenter of a dime museum, Fine business when a bunch of smooth Chinke can make a patsy out of the Detective Burea “Did you ever hear of anything to stick wp with that rafd! The gathe ering of the sleuths up on the weste ern side of Central Park? The zige zag journey downtown in cabs and Automobiles! The concerted attack upon the Chinatown dens of iniquity und the round-up of 160 laundrymen, The cases clogged the court for @ whole day, and it {s a safe bet that when everything 1s off there won't be a Chink punished. “Ot course, a Chink is a Chink, They are not citizens and they have no rights, But if our police are go- Ing to make raids in Chinatown without any warrant of law or evle ‘leuce except what they have pumped into them by Chinks with axes to grind the practice will make then careless in their dealings with white people, “if ‘Honest John’ Kelly and Lou Ludlum had used the Police Depart- met in an effort to put the kibosh on Phil Daly in the days when gambling-houses were running in the enderloin there would have been solia cops up on charges, That is the situation in Chinatown, A bunch of Chinese gamblers are using police- men as lobbygows In a war to deter- uf } % The defalcation and arrest of Banker Bigelow in Milwaukee point) to undergo # thousand would, Bae tore mine which tong will control the the old moral—there is dynamite in using other people's money without | }f {Sti immended. games in Chinatown, The heathen fy ° 2 Chines is a crafty guy. In foxy du- i ‘ir knowledge and consent, | trent, to the controversy over the rela- Contribution by Dr. McHugh, of Mon- plicity he can stand a New York policeman on his head and spin him ? tive merits of woman's figure nd § y “pi Be BOON FORGOT! , ati | man's: “From my study of anatom: voles es Was not “Big Tim” Sullivan right? Is not New York a “nine-day | ana experience gained in practice," says NPAs heasoroueret “IT do not hesitate to say these raids are made to discourage * \ ,, “town?” the Doctor, ‘ae i that the average male 1, as to shape | N \ How otherwise could it be possible that President Ahearn seems to jana symmetry, far and away supertor | :\ | \ Chinamen from paying blackmail” i to the average of the fair sex.’ Testt- J; tar tl | have forgotten the things he was going to do to Supt. Hopper for the Hon enema to be acoumulating. that | declared the Cian store Man, ; | buildings that fell down? lold-time remarks about "the female}: “Lt seems to me," remarked the » How else could the horror and the lesson of the cluttered fire-escapes | f°" Atay Ledge au wate |e Man Iigher a Py ue ie ee ih the Allen street holocaust so soon have passed not only beyond official | otmer dispelled :ustone $4 nade : te Neha an BON! SUACORIER? Welhers NY 84-9 OSO4-9006 ae QKOOb- XS nae 4 Notice, but apparently out of the public mind? Army officers and enlisted men de- tatled to “sample’ the plug tobacco sub: New York ought not to be too forgetful or too heartless to look after | the safety of lives and property. It ought not to forgive official inspec- | mittea by contriotirs, fon As ne tion that does not inspect, nor condone criminal carelessness in its servants, Hane The Shorter the Better. Women and Men Cats, By Nixola Greeley-Smith, | ‘Mrs. Nagg and Mr.— | .. By Roy L. McCardell. .. « “piping times of peace,’ ee aa ee , gird Pn N a recent edl-| ect jt, But occasionally one is sur- | The germ-laden dust-clouds in the streets still further darken Tam-| Ae Broton yiria are of high degree; torial on “ant-| prised to receive instead of what Is | | "9 ; to Wi \ ¢ my busine Piriatty's chance of holding on to its ill-done job, Bo beautiful (8 eacn, nad analogies" | technieniiy Known as “one In tho uve" | KG | ONE vet TT Te a Gtnarinny + . F er called | shia i perl oy ea Beene ys j ve «writer called TD and dengerous and periape | | don't go again and very happy, because all of There's Uttle doubt ineir family tree oy Ae aurention to |Dis letters seem to read as if he hay hunting with Prest- ! Oe Was certainly a peach. perfect accord be- Untair to the cat tribe to bait THE CITY'S OPPORTUNITY, eS teh eat aes minor dent Hoowrat 3 trouble, and tn one letter he adareased iti ersof many wom: Fi age? I am gu * ‘erwilllger ag ‘d | » In the general recognition of the weak legal position of the fran- get en and all cats cat 1s that it ts You voted for hi: d HA rasa Ma aE hises under which the Consolidated Gas Company is operating there is] “Love me: love my dog.” Myateriouy Phe Ukeness 1s F RiApeTeRT nae ane | [last fall, becaus iheeAiaa| CHAT ROUAEES BIE if , fj RA woman in black, "cousin of @ New York ne which men Ked predisposition to | you are a great, big i Hele OAR Hope for a sensible solution of the gas and electricity problem, All the| society leader, reponied as weeping at have rcognimd 1 glean a | softy, that's always apd) He. epuld) be eh ae Tr ve of th rt hie 8 ply t djective | fa , then i would be a good thing to BP older gas franchises have lapsed, as The World weeks ago made clear, and |{h@ szeve Of has Bulmoriet Imo Mem ere | beein: | ventiv fo. the meiineat traith of Numan Pets ose ae |Susan ‘Terwlitiger wits, Not that I D iM 10 5 5 in ime, Bu f Heh women have by ne opie, any c| the officials of the company have admitted before the Senate Com-| Smith senour mourning, inconsclable, the resemblance Is nS An exclusive copvrieht. my thunle you got for NE ea Puch aay eas Ty ‘i he death of her clever “st Elmo, daar oe nas the meanest dh very i SPM Ties vere granted by the Board of Aerman for tity.year| ste amen ere oie ta| yey ttt te oR | Qenmeeremmnnrenecnrenenatg | fet write toy be Maarael |p 2 "aty a om sum M . ‘ ered ti LA ie 9 you? lo, he did > a1 H Periods and the grants have expired. The electricity monopoly is based | 44¥ Cer oi nlemjonninemer ert sy the Idea that there foes rests colt TO A GIRL. { | nobiand You kviow Itt yea, i aie He Ae Waa ere AE < 1, q jon, pat arly a 5 <Ni vow. ve M ve ye 5 "| ‘j “on flagrant violations of the contracts between the city and the two elec | tive seas os sel ouy) he lata te not spnerst ty. ered ata lori ciaay I KNOW what Is the object | at Ae you i go hunting with 4, ike Mr. WsobakM: wren to ee ed 6 ‘ ie tle sigh, » because a little tl 0! ye} meeting of the Equitab directors, ba- ‘trical conduit companies, noe of the present anement in te nevi] aitying, "ot tloketing things 90 far ee {A ang why the accra fanguor 10m OU BON eee eee ae hia policy had lapsed and he however, . /e 3 T ’' ey, Irrespective of the power of the Legislature to fix the standard of pain yeatow cur now in the keeping off virewee and vices essentially masculine, | f yoy smile? Foul herr gee corns} | eetcah = What would you 11Ke toe ee ie ee aiant dainew flogen Hyde And yet Z ede , it ini the Sheriff of Cumberland, Md., whosefand another inherently feminine. | i mi * me talk about nex} Sunday? and aa have mixed up @ little sulphur} agalose Ja vgen Wy y Bas and electricity, to provide a legal minimum of candle-power and heat, tecumony ia relled on to deckle a mur-| ‘The qualittes peoullar to the cat) fete Mra Rte LCR BAGEL Fae eAteieea Grill and, molasses for the children you dnt Tet you go, anyway, How oa A q as ga trial. tribe, slyness, eoft-footed treachery| Naiiered his 18, 90; suit me. might as weil take a tablespoonful for|a woman trust any man these days after + to insure electrical as well as gas meter inspection and to fix a fair and | dor trial tee tbe 8 GL tt footed iad weap | ¢Petehance you now suspect I, A week, and if It doesn’: do you any| what one reads in the papers? | feasonable price, there is the independent opportunity open to the city| not @ murmur of # etrike and Mayfone in a velvet paw are genorally and T know! | good it won't do you any harm, and| “dust two days ago 1 was reading - ae aki y i bees ‘than a week away, rightly aturttuted to women, Nev I know wh 7 ms Amanda Scadaday says {t's remarkable | stout a maryied womin eloping with @ authorities of making their ud) bargain with the gas and electricity | 407 eee theless, men oocasioally have them,|% Ana CAC Ve ane ir ea eT how sulphur and molasses cleara up the| schoolboy, and withough you are not monopoly or re-letting the privileges embraced in the expired franchises.) ..cninatown raid Bunday night a treat|}O%d When they do they have all the| 3 Writ on the brow tho secrat | complexion, jschoolboy you ure as silly as one, and ‘The gas men confess a recognition on their part of the situation in| for sightsecre.”" Several tree shows of |i. a" gizcaeug. ont Yer HVE4 Praten| | I read. that you would keep! | “But just as Twas saying when you | iow would T know vou wore foals ie king legislative validation of their lapsed or forfeited franchise rights.| ‘* kind Iaat meek sino darlin ie bats lant the eae of worens tobe auth ws.| re Rie Foulll leatn Aeme moter.) eects tant aa at atl fretord of leuding aw double Ute somes iva 4 fj fi “} room raids. in can generally take | yi ; ee mina ther’ 4 ef Remsen bill was in itself a confession that such legislation was neces-| weens hie eyes open sees many things | ror EY. Ppeceoe Mogericeel Pete aa ane thle 18 90) ut Espinal id ret ; i alone here ue i 4 chance you now suspect It, j “$ary to insure the perpetuity of the present monopoly. The situation is|°!, interest, mot on the routine pro- Toeing ready for tt, Forewarned In tore: | WienaeiS hunting in Colorado with the President, | !nvest and he lost It In Wall street? y. n is hotel veranda ene “pip h djus! eraming.. Free ollie ob 8 Nee ee clawed so far es they are concerned, and then your ploture would be In the | thing breaks a woman's heart like ipe for fair and honest adjustment. for Be hal) AE aiaalt unlese eee napa ee be born with | }I know your laughter's renson, papers like Mr, Dubh's was when they h pevtidy. When Mr, Gilfeather anid, 4 > ny + at whic! ,( persons ambu-| more than the usu supply of fools) And wh: : ew! ping invest h Em- y ture come to a fair and honest business arrangement with the gas! pnyatation to consciousness, aly et Shak thea ie) ones tenderest uch your woman's heart! of one of the fashionable new medi. | dled in Wall street, and she nearly erled i ee ary armor| }You smile? You'd learn some morn-} | eines. her eyes out. The stocks went ‘way if parthidhe resulting, benefits of better’ and cheaper gas and cheaper Latest word on alcohol by Prof. Sima| Plate, But with @ man it's different, | ing, a stand while you were out in Colorado | down, and oven If they did go up again fight and heat for the great consuming public, or will these benefits be| woninend, of Cambridge, England: | 0, one auspeota ia suppomadiy frank | } Sweet maid. why this Is ko; you might spend your evenings In Den=| Oi eh tie summer ta coming and apportioned by some secret deal between the New York Contracting and| “i, metical clrelss ft ta SOP" generally Ueno does anything with that particular | $1, jase all feeling, know ent Ot Rae a ade fe a ere al Ata EU ER UES . ecogriet t 5 , i . ‘Verwilliger's husba ait we oney to spare Wwe Trucking Company and certain Republican leaders? As Jay Gould used| suimulant in the true meaning of the} Nennon: one expecta It to be of the} —New Orlesns ‘Times-Democrat, Tete ou thier Hight 08 Well ee nlc preeinineiied “ HT ” rarer yond, Jcohol is a paralyzing agent."’ c ' ‘es Ol to @ ” ce- Lj i yvers have, ut a : -book knows olitic ’] Words: F . ‘y Ho sends her @ hundred dollars aj your mind ie set on going hunting, ty to say: ‘‘A check-bo $ no politics,” and when it comes to dividing! “prraiyze?"” Word has been heard be- week and doesn't want. her to come| you say, wy I emnaes Twi have (@ public plunder there is no partisanship except that of graft, fore in this connection, near him, and it Ie my bellet that he| Hwy With my old one, os 8 8 It Saves Hard Work. {y married again, PO OMIT WERE RAT Ocoee RENE “Not that IL care what has happened! asked, but you were not, Mr. Naga!" “T see, Josiah, that somebody has found out that college life decreases the desire of girls to marr “Plt vet the trouble is, Nancy, that it decreases tho desire of the young fellows to marry 'en."— he Peo Pp le’s Corner.) Main Dester, Member of the Bronxdale Ladies’ Aid Society complained that the cakes and lomon ples she made for a sociable were appromniated by the society's officers and smuggled away from, the guests, Should console herself with the tacit tribute to her superior cooking. oe If John W. Gates has lost $8,000,000 in trying to corner wheat he $ got no more than his deserts, If he had lost his last dollar and been The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. WE note that Brother Murphy spent Easter at Atlantic Clty getting the GAS out of his lungs, It is so nice that Charley ts abla to LEAVE the district every few. days for a bit of recuperation. His constituents probably share our pleasure. They continue, however, to enjoy the RICH and fragrant atmosphere handed out Hall, balmy spring, thou time of bliss! Thou makest glad my soul! And I'll come back and finish this— When I've put on the coal | ee Demand for Free Seeds, ad a Congressman is entitled to Murphy the Spinner! (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) sy 15,000 packages of seeds," eald Congressman ‘Thomas 8, But- ler in the Delaware Coumy American, “but Ihave demands on me for 49,000 1 bedeve, ‘The people write to me from all sections of the district for seed sheolfying in many instunces whet they want, Here fs a number of long liste etters from Evening World Readers Yen, by Refanding Price of Ticket, ‘To the Editor of The Byening World: Has the manager of a dance hall the privilege of refusing an objectionable character if he has @ ticket to go in? Vo the BAitor of The Evening World: @ pollueman supposed to ace that ts man leaves @ store if by @ young lady to do ao? FM. B, gun hem by Mr. Rockefeller and his philanthropl i He Can Run ort Police drama by policemen in Jersoy from Swarth fa {to them by Mr, Ro an s philanthropic assoctates, ay ie ne Often as Me Be cry will probably be an. all-sar.por- KEAN ioe Woe only met ceneth kinase ye] Gas Smells as SWEET as violets when It pays BIG ENOUGH [ust ® person making a will have it | To the Wiltor of The Bening World: | formance, eos n NN) flower and vegetable seeds, and I can't | dividends, furnish everything asked for," Mr, Butler sald that besides sending many ‘mindreds of packages of his own, ho has “borowed" seeds from Congres- men whose constttuents do nat come for flower and ganden seeds, and ithese he ia using, But for alt that, he tas had to answer many letters, stating not eupply seede asked for, 4 favs written as many as 3,000 letters, Ube. [Waves Relating to eeeds atone,’ be anid, We like to have Murphy ENJOY himself, By keeping out of the district he wil be able to give his followers a CHOWDER party at College Point some time during the summer. College Point Is not QUITE UP to Atlantic City, but it Is NEAR BY and. the beer Is plentiful. ; iaaucnnt may not TOIL much, but he does some FINE’ Can a President of the Liutted States | to by a Inwyer or is it sum- be elected three times in succession? | lent to make tho will and then sign it the presence of two witnesses? Remarks by Dr. Adler on “men In charge of great trusts who are spectres, | ghosts, morally dead," And for a brand- new cxample, the Milwaukee bank president, former president of the Amer- |{can Bankers’ Association, who is al leged to be a defaulter to the amount of $1,500,000, And just because wheat dropped below ‘par’ Instead of remain- ing ten points above it, BE, Complain to a Magistrat: To the Editor of ‘The Bening World: My husband gives me © cents a day, and pome times not that, to feed five children and myself. I must also have 4 £0 per for him when he comes home, He earns a good silary, ‘«% G G., Brooklyn, fend of a fan Wolghe it pounds, f % 4 Hand asm a the head, of iy, the bor . tal, ot doen i “I don't have no trouble tryin’ to pronounce deae Rooshin General's nami "Gee! How's dat?” "TE don't try." 4 iP AYNuAN