The evening world. Newspaper, June 8, 1905, Page 14

) Eventing World's Momo Magazine, @ubliones by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered st the Post-Ottice at New York us Second-Class Mail Matter, Cy VOLUME D........ccceeeeeeees teers NO. 18,007. (sh hecstislanal pe . - : BR, T. IMPUDENCE, If the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company keeps on figuring it will im that the city owes it money, and that the more privileges and fran- | chises it has ihe less it should pay for them, The United States Supreme © Court having decided in favor of the Franchise tax, the Brooklyn Rapid P/Mransit must seitle the past five years’ indebtedness, which amounts to some $2,000,000, It has been required to pay five cents a car toll for the Brooklyn Bridge, and also a small rental for the use of the bridge power- house, which the city owns. i It now seeks to deduct all these payments from its taxes. If its claims were sustained it would le equivalent to holding that the city is » entitled to no rental for the use of the Brooklyn Bridge and the power- * house. » ** Corporate impudence like this is an additional reason, if any were | 'neded, for the city to insist on full value from every corporation which fs permitted to use public property. Mr. Anthony N, Brady’s audacity apparently knows no bounds. DIDOOVASODD as a AN EQUITABLE CATECHISM, How long has the Equitable looting been going on? For many years. , Who divided the loot? Equitable officials, high financiers and poll- .hticians with a pull. Was it the duty cf the State Insurance Department to prevent the , booting? It was. Why did not the State Insurance Department do its duty? “Wow- etwow-wow.”” _»4.. A full and honest public investigation will give another answer, AN ACRE OF WALL STREET. ‘ ‘A little plot of ground not as big as a suburban garden plot has been 04 for $700,000, which is more than a year’s average earnings of a “thousand American workmen and farmers, The building on thls patch| $ of ground was considered of no value, It will cost money to take it away, | $ and the land would be worth more without it. \ % At this rate of $700,000 for a lot 39 feet by 30, equivalent to $598.20 | ¢ & square foot, or $4 a square inch, an acre would be worth $26,000,000, | ‘ or more than the aggregate equalized valuation of all the property, real and personal, in any one of thirty counties in the State, All the farms, | : houses and Improvements of every kind in Schuyler, Sullivan, Warren | $ and Hamilton counties are worth less than this one acre. The whole of | $ Elmira or Binghamton, or any one of several other cities in the State, | $ fs of much less value, It happens that this patch of ground fs located at the southeast cor- . mer of Wall street and Broadway, That is what makes it valuable, Its ‘iprice is due to the industry, the ability and the prosperity of the people | ‘ ‘the City of New York. All its owner did was to draw his rent for forty years and to let the millions of New Yorkers add to his riches, ¢ At its market price in dollars a Wall street acre is worth more than the whole of the Catskills and the Adirondacks, Measured in public bene-| fit, how infinitesimal would be the ratio. Suppose the public were asked | $ the question which would they rather do without, am acre of Wall street | $ ox all.the wild forest lands of the State, Mey ¢ MARRIAGE SERVICES. 4 Compared with the usual fasitionable American marriage service the public wedding of the Crown Prince of Germany had features of im- The marked difference was in the giving away of the bride. _ 1p most of the American church services the bride walks up the church | alste with her father and he gives her im marriage both figuratively and * tn.the words of the marriage service. In the service used in the Palace Chapel, instead of the question being ‘asked, “Who giveth this woman in marriage?” and the father responding, the German Court Chaplain used this language: “Do you take out of | God's hand to have and to hold, according to God's word and will?” Instead of the bride walking up the aisle with her father she entered with her husband, for the legal comtract had already been made according fo-civil law. Under German law the two were man and wife before the meliggous ceremony, and the ceremonial in the Palace Chapel was purely weligious and in no legal sense was it contractual, The-real Mr. Raffles will instantly acknowledge his identification, It fan interesting test going to show that police identifications are by clothes mot by features. If anybody denles he is Mr. Raffles then he is the wrong My, Raffles, The right Mr, Raffles will not deny. The Amalgamated Copper Company makes the interesting state- ment that Its assets are worth $393,403.18 mage than its capital stock, , Mis sounds lke an Equitable report. ‘Another trusted clerk has been convicted in the Court of General “Sessions, The demoralization of high finance 1s not confined to its! 4 apptentates. aime | |) How can a grown-up jury determine whether or not a bronze group! 4 ‘ of statuary Is proper for boys and girls to see? eC } , ad Seventeen hours to Chicago will make {t still easier for Chicago’s millionaires who live on Fifth avenue, ‘The People’s Corner. ‘ALetters from Evening World Readers A Brain Twister, ita reception when the body of Pay)‘ (te the waiter of The Wrening Word: Jones arrives? Why put the remains ) Here is & problem for your mathemat- | Where only the few can ace them? It ts foal readers; Three men, A, B and O,| the peoplo who should be obeyed, agree to well a peck of apples between Annapolis, ‘them. The peck contains ninety apples. | ‘A: receives 10, B 30 and C 60, ‘They all ‘agree to well at the same prices and to Drivg back the same amount of money, “ahar grives do they sell at and how mitioh money do they bring back? ‘This problem can be done, G.F. M. Why Should Annapolis Get Paul uy Jonest not VAL T, 8, Hip-Pocket Thetta, To the Editor of The Evening World: I warn ail men not to carr, arry an: money jn the hip pocket of ther 4 trousers. While riding rear end of a car one I was robbed by pick 80 ) f $89 in bills which I had In a bilifolder in my hip pocket, Ss. M ‘the WAdltor of The Dvening World: I agreo with Mr. Maxten, jr, who asked what right Roosevelt has to give to Annapolis. I sug- to let New York ly, What right hus The Day of Daya, V'm golng on m happy honeymoon; not because my boss! is going to elevate my pay; not because | my mother-In-law is going far away: not because—but what's the use of not it Point, te het Then why Paull pecausing more? It's because then at Annapolis? Have those at An-! washion lets me wear a lightsome sum, Sentriouted anything towamt mer straw. a & WARR. of v BOSE 9OFEOO9IGH9-494$4HHEHODHGHHHIDSDHIDOSS HDOHOSC HOD uA wrath. “True enough,” fthur aeaenerei vicina! Eee Nothing Left but the Hyde? By J. Campbell Cory. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE ASIN AFTER A FEW MORE RESIGNATIONS ARE HANDED IN. : i Jungle Perils Here at Home, By F. G. Long. T nope Hig - Uda °. BLoop ISNT s+ wea COLE TAINTED: <a THEY WILL BE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE MISSIONARY » Li 1 iN THE WALL ST: JUNGLE. LADIES AND GeNrs: WE ARE NOW PASSING | THROUGH THe FEARFUL JUNGLE OF BROADWAY- NOTE THE FIERCE AUTOMOBILE PHANTS: AT PLAY! WE HAVE 01 EVEN A Few | © HEATHEN IN our MIDST, Ke THE FEROCIOUS, ei Nee oY . UNTAMED x Aa“ y ~ ANIMALS OF , Ai ; =e BROADWAY-ARE FAR. ‘ sel tu : MORE DAKIGERQUS THAN THOSE > : ive i Op THe JUNGLE. ecretary Brown, of Foreign Missions, Says There Are Worse Perils and Discomforts in New York Than in the African Wilds. ’ 194 ODEOLOGD9OO09O0 OOOO DOO4 2OGODEOEDODOOOOD TURN ABOUT. soft answ: remarked the party | the = first tb “turneth away WELL MATCHED, » George,” sighed the lovesivk “I'm sure I'm not worthy to be A SHOPPER. Gerald—What does she want with a copy of Burke's Peerage? She hasn't money enough to buy a count, let alone oon ty wi ponded. the party of the second p: “but wrath al Jess—On, no, I believe her hope ts eplied George, weatlly, "'m | a duke, tumeth away a soft auawer.”—Louls. | that she will soon be bis widow. Phila | fas Wong mated cee Gd | Giadye—Maybe not; but a girl can will ourler, y har q i deiphia Piaas \ ceed, cant ahe?—Fiusbung Peak a The New Secretary of the Navy — a Sailor and a Gentleman. A Vitascopic-Stenographic Interview with the Mary- Jand Reformer Showing that While Only Re- cently a Sailor He Has Always Been a Gentleman—The Effect of the New Bonaparte on World Politics. ¥ By Roy L. McCardell. YOU ure Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore? rather! Q. Secretary of the Navy succeeding Paul Morton? A. Yes, sir, Q. What were your previous occupations? A, Lawyer, civil-service reformer and grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Q. There are no kings of Westphalia now? A. No, nothing {s left of Westphalia’s greatness but the famous Westphalia hams, ‘This, although it is using slang to say it, shows that Westphalia is ‘on the hog.” Q. Are you a Republican? A. I am, but I can restrain myself, Q. What do you consider the duties of Secretary of the Navy to bef A. To keep the naval yacht May flower in seaworthy condition an@ always ready for dutv to take the President's family on nice little trips. Q. Why did President Cleveland use lighthouse tenders? A, He could get aboard and ashore easily, The lighthouse tenders are equipped with derricks forward. Q. How long do you expect to be Secretary of the Navy? A. Oh, as long as one*of Roosevelt's Cab- inet generally stays—till I get @ nice offer at a salary worth while from some big corporation in New York, Q. What are some other duties of your new position besides the ones you mentioned? A. To study up how to run subways or railroada or typewriter factories. Q, What precedent {s there for Secretaries of the Navy accepting such positions? A. A good one, Don't you remember “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things—of ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings.” Q. So after a Secrotary of the Navy discusses these things he goes inta shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings? A. That’s just what's pus- ziing me-—the king part of it. Q. How is that? A. Already foreign potentates are asking their naval attaches to find out what this Napoleonic revival in America means, They connect me with my great-uncle, but, alas! he is no more; the last of his set was Hiram Cronk, but Cronk has croaked, Q. What are your plans as Secre- tary of the Navy? A. I will sit ata ght desk and listen to the knock- ing birds by day, and by night I will attend society affairs in Wash- ington and be gushed over by high officials’ female friends, who will ask mé to see that young men whom they know to be lovely dancers be not sent on those dreadful foreign cruises, bat be kept in Washington on shore duty in the bureaus, Q. Will you accede to these re- quests?) A. Well, I will consider them, but before I can come to any decision I will be transferred to some other Cabinet position or else come to New York to run the Equitable or a telephone company or something of that sort. There fs always something doing for’ . Beore of the Navy if he wil only Re close to his desk for a week or two and keep away from rough) sailor persons, Q. Do you think the American Navy should be larger? A. What does President Roosevelt think? Q. He thinks it should, A. Of course it should. By the way, I inten@ to correct a lot of errors. I measured a sixteon-inch gun once and foun@ it was twenty feet long! Come to see me. You will find the attendants polite, I belleve in civil service. That all? Thanks! Spell my name core rectly, please. A. Well, The Lighthouse Tenders Are Equipped with Derricks, | Measured a Sixteen-inch Gun Once, — The Man Higher Up) By Martin Green, . ‘SHE,” sald The Cigar Store Man, “that former Mayor Low and rT} some of the other backers of the plan of Bishop Potter to servo malt-moistened music at St, Nicholas Garden this summer insist that the project shall be strictly on the water wagon.” “Then,” declared The Man Higher Up, “they are framing up for a frost that will make it unnecessary to start the ice plant when the 8t. Nicholas is changed into @ skating rink in the fall, Bishop Potter, knowing from experience as keeper of the Subway Tavern that music is a great booster of thirst, stands for beer with the band, Mr. Low, whose attitude upon the Mquor question was well established when he served lemonade to the news- paper reporters waiting at his house for the election returns, has every right to his opinion that a summer garden can be run without beer, But he can't point his finger at such a summer garden, ; “Wagner music is to figure heavily upon the melody bill of fare at the Potter-Low Summer Garden. Who will pay money to hear Wagner in allo- pathic doses? The Germans, they being a phlegmatic and patient race af people, But even the Germans cannot stand Wagner without beer on the aide, so what line of public patronage do the managers of the St. Nicholas ect to tap? Pr diealial people do not drink, This {s proved by the fact that all who drink love music, As soon as a man gets @ bun ho ralses his voico in song. He loves to hear anything melodious from the warble of a dioky bird to the agonizing strains of a sireet piano, He will be moved to tears by a a. anise ie fea ee who would pay for tickets to hear classical stc in a water-wagon resort because ‘they will fall to anything that ts fe tly respectable. But they buy once—just once, In the mean time acaba ace be willing to take their classical music with an aloohclis baie i will flock to places where the latest from the Twenty-eighth ae foundries is served to the accompaniment of ice tinkliniy beatedy Lev understand,” asserted /The Cigar Store Man, “why formen Rev, Ernest M. Stires, George Foster Peabody, Spencer Trask ap (i j y standing should go into the business cf running @ and others of simila: id , with beer or without. ‘ pu et replied The Man Higher Up, “you're not playing @ solo part in that,’ ” NO COMEBACK, HER GIFT6, Nodeau—You've made me a fine pair Wa Lent tae Me Ergin that actress u credit, for | exceptionally fi Re ener NH give you i inty asavert igi ‘Tallor—Thank you, sit, 1 wish I} “she had more diamo: and pearl ould return ‘the eermpli fal Pipe ar ‘