The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1905, Page 20

Th e Eve ning — World's Pe ee aT Povlished by tho Press Publtsting Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, Bntered at the Post-Omoe at New York as Seoond-Class Mall Matter, —__— VOLUME 46. \ A policeman passing the saloon and dance hall at No, 57 Great Jones street, early yesterday morning found it strangely and suspiciously sflent, Not a woman was loltering about the doorway, not a thlef or a cut- throat was visible through the dark- ened windows. The meeting-room reserved for the use of a gang as headquarters was empty. In the rear of the bar, battered and dead from a bullet wound, lay the only occupant of the place while in the overturned chairs and tables, the discarded revolvers, the bloodstains and the butlet- holes were the evidences of the fight which had preceded his death, What |s the powerful political influence to which this low-browed Hive owes the long immunity from Interference It has enjoyed? ‘What are the services the gang leader Paul Kelly renders, in return for which he Is shielded by the police, as Recorder Goff has sald he was? ia The purgation of the Bowery’s evil resorts in recent years has driven ® _ but-all the old haunts of vice. It has forced the Sulclde Halls to close and | 3 made the thoroughfare respectable. Why hes this den of murderers alone i survived? What enables it to withstand the waves of reform whidi e pertodically sweep through the Bowery? For twenty years it has existed in open defiance of decency, In ft fobberles, assaults and murders have been committed. Who is behind It? Who is behind Paul Kelly? What hold has the dapper little Iteftan hug and jailbird with an Irish name on the powers higher up In his party? 3 For what “value received” in services performed and for services of what 4 pecullar nature has the gang terrorism he has created been permitted to go unpunished? Except for the nine months’ sentence Imposed on him in December, #901, for an act of assault and robbery so flagrant that, as the Judge sald, the police were shamed into arresting him, what penalty has he paid for ad of lawlessness? When he was arrested in November, 4903, for a f assault, why was his alleged victim too fea consequ to make complaint? : ao “~~ Among the many charges brought against Kelty during the years of his development from a prize fighter to a gang leader, and includin; a . ¢ sr eat a conducting a disorderly resort and taking shooting affrays, is the charge of colont: aie Hing charge of colonizing brought against him in , How far does his aptitude for that kind of dirt i : Plain his value to his protectors? a OM The Flat Car Wheel Crusade. War has been begun by the Board of Health on the flat car-whee! | mutsance, Three cases against the City Railway Company which the Corporation Counsel's office is prosecuting in the Seventh District Court | tall for penalties of $250 each. It is to be hoped that the Roard 1s proceeding In its prosecutions fwith due caution and deliberation, Are its officers quite sure that thelr cause fs just? Their fight on the smoke nulsance maintained by the Inter- borough brought out the statement by the company that it was commit- ting the minor offense only to avoid the worse one of imposing on the clty the burden of double prices for hard coal, It is quite possible that the City Railway Company retains the flat car wheels from similar motives of benevolence, A Chicago Professor | has said that the rhythmic clank of the car wheel educates the passenger's ¢ar to a better appreciation of poetry. Three men are to be shot for Insurance frauds, This Js in Mexico, “Romance of a Peor Young Man.” Te the Biltor of The Brenine World: ‘When a young man I was somewhat prepossessing, and secured a position ae private secretary to a young Woman fm addition, made me many valuable presente—always treating me with great kindness, Thus it happened I be- came very much attached to her, though the marked difference in our soctal standing kept me from telling my love One day she laughingly sald “You must give me a month's notice before you marry, and I will do the same for you.” I assented, and now mark the sequel: Still afraid to speak my love, I became engaged without and they defrauded the insurance company. | A New Yorker's Strange | ~ & & Quest for a Pirate Hoard | 8 BYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS ‘not now! T've no more ficht left Vs amazement deepen He re- Metford as one of pluck- t daredevil men of hiv day at & man always eager for a He could not account for Paul's evident cowar end his retuo- accept a challege from an op- #0 much shorter and of so much Gray was right,” muttered o | Matt ‘l must be going daft Do you know what bappenedt”’ “Only thet you threw me # hara It § | knocked tue Hie out of me for the time,” “It 'd thrown you as I meant to, the life would never have come back to you, I tried to t you over the olift. one bef » It was barely @ yar he hed fale. There was & of fifty feet to the stony i ha: acon, meets Gault, The two a ’ Soe; 7, 4 the ptrate'e ald Gentt, with foroed light- } ry Spe wore maite t softened your heart at the earth jast_ moment?’ 4 ane fury, toy Nothing softened my heart. but : = thing turned my arm, I picked q CHAPTER v y 4 ars Nght an 4 tthe iT a child | ’ . an prew u—or trie t Drow you} | over the led, was t any such A Miracle or—What? | great ‘feet; bar you sesmed to rebound PIN @tephen Gault opened tim | just as if I'd thrown you against a even be was, for the moment, | Wall; and you tnmbied to the turt there | to sick and dased to realine |Detde, the path. Oh, yes! Laugh all | what had happened. The windy blue of |; 1 the my, flecked with driven clouds Beemod ft whirl in a wild dance before him, His ears surged with the rush |, of blood and @ nauseating faintness! Milled bis whole being. But the athlete was in perfect phys foal condition, and in a moment the faintness had passed, He recalled the sudden rush of steps behind mim, ad the sensation of being ltted from hits feet. Ho gueased at once that Moetford had Deen his aasa/ and his long expertence with savage animals led him to wonder why Pau hed not foll wed up the attack taised himself on fis elbow, drawing his feet under him | happened to fall in your ph a he did #0, in r a to spring up| plan of tossing me over the should hts foe rely awaiting bis | seme tiny return to conse! : : As Btephen img you on the turf. But aken in what followed, I you and | waa of two ds whether to roll you over the when— ledge or put a knife in you, when — “When what?" « L of a aud@en I fond myself A there I to my on the gro senses and goa it Ta been ee work KH of ed Gault, contempt replao. 0 Bit you're. an 4 a tht end! Can't what ried Metfon, giving the month's notloe, and was at place? In this cent: eople fempt homicide without g mo- ou-you'd stolen my 1" de- red Metford, a shadow of his usual a] manner returning at memory of the first don't att tive, Y t . 4 , amatn |hls wrongs, "You stole my secret meres 2 me ie Ore away, I can’t fant y uj You thwarted my plane for wealth, Lh eke Mag @ was) Som pingsqoeth pk fet Ben Ber You are trying to rab me of what is How did happen to be on ¢ geuln,” : Lie . qround?” wondered Gault’ “1 wareiy| [Us terror was pitinble to witness Tt A in mone way Gp Anion Get ae @ouldn't have knocked aim o ed Gault himself. Al» next words ieproved the thought. fell, He looks like a man tr ft the mye, he treasure 1s mine!” eaperted tho from f knockour blow. +; | ind, @4) nig man, with fanatical fervor. "Mine ‘Wha! * you, anyway Danted | | by hereditary right, 1 belong to the Blethu 1, staggering across towant lim, Gs Btephen sprang lightly to his feet Btood on guard, “Ave you & mw wilt” ‘Tm & man—a man you attacked gowardly fashion from betind,” ‘ wed Gault, hotly, “Now what we rx ‘to face”. * he murmured angrily to ve Memisned the preposterous jon, Nhe riven the blood from fis heart, he said loud: “Tt doesn't matter what balked your older branch of the family, You are of ‘unger branch,” e's out of his head," conjectured Gault, at @ loss to account otherwise for the incoherent talk. ‘Taking ad- vantage of the sadly shaken condition from which Metford’s ordinarily stron; nervous system had not yet recovered, No," aa Mottond,. bactdng the woared Pook willl in bis bx “Te away, | iind intention of murtering me, Will Diack! you tell me why you attacked me tn Bt paid to him ebarply: “Bi"aown there! ‘Now look me in of wealth, She paid a good salary, and, | To the Bditor of The Mrening Worl4: | “What are you, anyway? Are you man or dell?” jthe eyes!" A Ticket of Leave. By J. Campbell Cory. Letters from the People ~ ‘ Answers to Questions Glscharged by the hetress, she| Know thetr duty as election officials, Gi "ng ase reason, “too teint Qeerted fs j eee do it, even if it injures the ‘ | which they belong, Again, when one Bandisfel’d, Mass. | considers the duties of a poll clerk, who On Side Nearest Curd. aly ib: ie: Barboh ag whom abe bow ouracy of the returns depends, his com When walking with two ladies is {t pensation is but a poor return for the proper for a man to stay on the inside, time epent, labor and worr; ie middle or the outside af the side-) RT. WHLLLAMS De Girls Care Only for Funt walk? x. Mt Moket, To the PMitor of The Bening World: To aa Base ire ena Wane | Can young girl readere explain why When one considers the amount of |they do not lof a young man unless aplit ballots that were cast this year," !# € “sport? Iam eighteen yeare permft me to suggest that it ls not any 04, and because I cannot take @ gift wonder that some olerical errors were | to the theatre once or twice a week, no commttted [n the tallying of the votes, girl seems to care for me. I earn a Be {t known that tong the rank | good salary fer a young man and T Home Magazine, Friday Evening, party | Cannot afford to Javigh money on gits| and file of election officers are men who dress neatly, but as it is necessary for "Yes. Israel Metford’s cipher vere, You sang it. I heard you. J saw in @ flash that you had found the key and that you, too, were on the track of his treasure, Lt fs my one dream In life to find that. I am hot on the trafl, In an ‘other month, at most, I must find it, Vor years I have worked over that cipher, I have sacrificed my whole career to the quest—perhaps my sanity, too, Did you suppose | would stand by ind let another live to win what was rightfully mine? Td sweep my own father from my path If he stood In the way of my winning my heritage.” As the epeaker rambled on, He spoke ag though putting one of his dangerous beasts through {ts tricks, He kept his eye fixed on Pamal and ex- erted all his half-hypnotic will-power. 1 An attemp: would of course have cd utterly had Metford been in his normal state; but the condused, fright- ened giant sow obeyed the lion-tamer as an insane patient obeys his keeper, Aware that Mettort’s contusion of mind and weaktess of body must quickly pans, Gault made the most of his brief opportimity, St fixing Paul com mandingly with his eye, he sald with intentional ourtngsa; “Why de you think I stole your|more and more excited, Stephen Gault secrot’ 7 r was doing some of the quickest thinking of his whole life, “Ierael Metford's Glpher “The cipher! You've gained hold of & copy of It somehow,” anewered Met- ford, strugziing feebly and vainly against the control of the other's trained willpower, “Why do you think #0" "You oohe BAS of ‘the verse.” “The verse! "Phe track of ‘hts treasure, recalled humming @ fragment of the dog: gerel tre had read scratched on the bat tered top of the old pirate ancestor's growing wh me to “turn tn’ most of tt home, I Just to keep thelr acquaintance If any | girls care to expreas their opinfons on this subject I am sure I, and many others, would lke to hear them. HONEST NO. & ‘The Servant Problem, To the EAitor of The Evening World: There are @ lot of so-called “Indies” {n soolety that should not have ser- vants, because they don't know how to (reat them. I have been in private service as a chauffeur, and the way these poor gins get overwo.ked and {il-treated 1s astonishing, If I had a sister I would never let her live with Novem be r 24, 12 9 | party.” Setanta ett renee TANS EMRE PS ONE, NEW YORK THRO’ O5.. FUNNY -GLASSES By 1. 8, Cobb, A halt was dyed yellow with one sort pink with another sort, She had touwhed ‘her eyebrows with a black pencil YOUNG woman turned out of Forty-something street into Broadway. Her of pigments and her cheeks were dyed dabbed her nose with white powder, and her lips were xd. In her haf she wore the stuffed, distorted carcass uf a dead bird and along with !t a bunch of feathers from the tall of’another dead bird. Her feet were cramped into painful, varnished-leather boots with French heel, ‘woman tottered as she Walked. Her halr dour with @ bunch of wool Inside to give 5 8 high and spindling that the young in front was piled in a massive pompa- the superstructure form and durabiity, A set of @tays, shaped like an hour glass and unylelding as a Pilgrim Father, Compressed her waist out of its normal proportions, Her frock was tight as & glove and had more colors in It than Joseph's, It buttoned all the way down the back with @ row of exaggerated tingel buttons, About her neck was a airing of Dig blue beade, about her watst a yllt chain and on her fingers were baubles that ittered, Her chatelaine, with tte dangling what-you-may-call-'ems, must have ‘weighed a half pound, On one wrist she moved I!ke a runaway milk wagon, As the young woman pessed a place graceful, simple plaita, On her feet were ‘without oramping the toes. Her guwn, of giver, Her cheeks were touched lightly of Ivory-white elks’ teeth. “Isn't {t astonishing how barbarously Nearly all the rest of us think the ai centres of population. @tricken crow. At ome time they had away of the alums and the activity of « typhus germ can only breed amid the im practitioners will tell us that they have ni California's giant trees, the sequotas, mosquitoes. Tn Germany the common ca considered the best insect-destroying fish, ENNSYLVANTA College boy sand- p Dagged on his way to a fraternity Intttatton thought {t was part of the pertormance. Making of & law abiding oltinen of New York In this yeuth. see “Lively monkey breaks up a dinner Occurred in an Ohio village, however, not at ener: | 8 Parent who took his boy out of school because he wes asked to describe the clreulation of blood in a tadpole’s tall acted without due consideration. Boy so instructed would be eligtble for mem- ‘bership on the Board of Dducation when he grows up. | ; nome of these so-called Indies, CHAUFFEUR. : The Lion Tamer ¢# By Albert Payson Terhune ‘ 4 _ had that verse to do with the treasure? Was it really true, the old family tradi~ tlon that Israel Metford had buried a hoard of gold somewhere? And could the doggerel on spatoh box have has ¥ bearing on the treasure’s Stephen was in- at the whole notion 4s nongensical, But he recalled the famtiy tradition that this supposedly my vn- foal treas| buried bg rg cae ‘ord wal despatch box; the doggere! that, years) pirkuing a Bee segren of Bome sort, ago, had caught his Povtsh faney and a ‘that he had sot to musio. ‘Dut what hat haurd conoerul ug ‘Pails nooturned | pi . New York's Commissioner of Police that fo down over her knuckles and hampered her hand. She rattled as she outlines of the body from throat to ankles, girdle of beadwork and the girdle was fastened with a broad clasp of hammered ‘The young women looked at the Indian girl and eld; tthe dinty, overcrowded slums of those days, and amid the equ: had @ gold bangle as heavy as a hand- cuff without Detng as useful, and on the other wrist @ bracelet of glittering links where they are holding a sportsmen’a show an Indian girl came out. The Indian girl's black halr was braided Into coverings of soft deorskin, which fitted dark blanket clath, followed the natural It was drawn tn the waist with a with yellow ochre; she wore @ necklace these savages dp get themeaelves up!” THR FUNNY PART, me way, Popular Science Notes. RITES Dr, Andrew Wilson: ‘Typhus fever was once very rife in our Dig In Edinburgh {t was often epidemic, being bred in d, poverty 12) cases in the hospital. o clearing anitary bodies, who were told that the pure air of overcrowded places, sufficed to put typhus fever on a very different plane, To-day many students and even ever seen a case of this allment,” jousands of years old, have been pre served to this day because of their enormously thick bark, From time to time, in the course of ages, forest fires have swept through the big-tree lands, destroy- ing everything, yet only scorching for @ couple of Inches’ depth or eo the almost fireproof of bark. The flames haying carbonized that much of the bark, could nos penetrate further, for the carbonized portion formed an absolutely fireproof covers ing for the remainder of the Interior bark. According to German scientists, fish destroy many annoying tnsects, espectally rp, the crucian carp ind the redeye are SAID ON THE SIDE, wanted by Chicagoans to tnstruct them in trafflc regulation, Nothing in the invitation to imp! ythat they will ask him awkward questions about practl+ cal thief catohing. ee Kubelfk's fingers insured for $59,000, | National interest as to how lange |poltey would be needed to insure the fingers of life {navrance presidents, 8 Mayor mistaken for @ tramp whet his automobile broke down, must havd been dressed in realistic chauffeur garb, o 8 Hospital nurse reprimanded for filrt- ing with a doctor might allege that she was only practising before trying her hand on @ rich patient, A Wonder-Story of a Wid #& & Duel the desolate pees | ¢ measurements he } the myster; habit of tra’ of the and; had been seen mak cerning his dec in presence at @ tants he avoided ie recreations he wus 's babble of # cipher! fore olpher verse be ee led t) fee ‘ul js dog gerel feauy s . er telling the whereabouts of the Ph std hoar At all events Paul ford evidently thought so, d the bellet, fantastic an probable it seemed, to take hold of ‘# practical ‘ou of a cipher verse,” he sulk, “How aid you get hold of HT" “For that matter, how did you?’ re toried Lad with a flaah of hie for- PARTS raared ston enereettiy sauteed =" id ot verae’ “rom” Hanoi! Metford's papers, ot course. If you stole a copy of the veres from me you ought to kuow that much, If you didn’t steal it, J can’t see how you! — "Do you mean the Hannibal Metford ‘ou once sald was your great grand- her?’ “Ot course. You said he was your great-grandfather, Bo you see | [teal to the elder branch, @ money io mine right of" — “How ald you find the papers? And fhow did Hannibal Metford know the verse you speak of was a cipher? What did he know of Captain Tame?” . # ‘re pumping me to see how much 1 Teetty Peet @aserted = Metford lehty, “You're trying to catch mo a lle. Bur You oan't do It. I know \ Hows Island, before he had a chance |! to dig up hig hoard or te where he had hidden ft, the fami; went over his affects for a olue, but all they 01 find was a. core, box with that verse on it. They hadn't the sense to seo ft was a mor rather a elpher-memorandum—that Israel had robably jotted down for his own bene- Rt dn case he should ever forget the solution of the cipher. gotten at the parchment. They had an of the letter were punctured with regular ir fo i h th 148 hecome of ft, I hart ‘ the box, And no one on earth shall and lve. Understand: thet ‘once ane me where you much of it you've with the “Unseen” “His body was cast eshore where below Indian Head," resume Paul, In the same excited half-whisper, “and tho Islanders looted it. Hit was a fool, She mourned him @o wildly that she never thought to open the packet he had iett with her, She put { In the chest with other relfos of her dead husband. Three generasions lator the chest came to me along with & lot of old truck, at my mother’s death. That wes three years ago. I went over the ancestral effects, thro away most of thm as rubbish, tll I came across that packet, The first half of it was Intmot, It told of the treasure, that it was on Island, and how Hannibal had learned of tts location. Then followed the verse, and after the verse Hannibal had written ous the full But rats hed gnawed to i tanene. uIp the Inst halt of the doo- fen the verse and the earlier holes from thedr teeth, But than two or three words were not more quisdng from the verse, And I'm stead supply tn, in the missing words, I'm narrowing down the list quickly, another four weeks Mt longest I on the right Tera)’ fo pen Ch he treasure to know what * of some o7 Ise in iy aed ne el 4 I suppose the verse was on bg we it, Not mutilat But I'll wie tn leer ieee Til win me and for reise ll St rrevocably gone. lance, don't know threat want ag Bt man, got that verse, id how exact epot where he'd sunk the treasure, [his voice thick “with Gagemen’ have But when Hannibal Metford came along he had eyes in his head and saw what | s you, the whole verse? If 1 thought 1 ae the verse was. Hoe worked on the| “Think what you ‘please,’ retorted clpher—clever man was Hannibal Met-| Stephen, “but keep your thoughts to nd he found where the money | yourself, They don't Interest mé, You was hidden, He wrote out the direc- tions and left them with his wife In case ‘he shouldn't come back. sailed for Block Island. H. the Palutin “The Palatine?" echoed Gauit. ship that was lured on the roc! by. the wreckers? Whittler's poem But Metford did not heod nor hear the Interruption, his own, reoltal and was talking to him- self rather than to Gault. Stephen saw dat the pursult which had engrossed the man's whole life until it had at Inst become almost a monomani him ones more In ts spell his weakness, his feat nd mom Influence Stephey force onat over him were Paplaly, away, “The sald just now that Metford flercely, ‘I didn’t What? Gi when, ALL No, no! Ho was carried away by | jt, exiatende—Mt annoy me, If T possession or it T of yours, You'ye attacks auch and ud If the wasure to get hola “of Sete je verse. 1 said nothing of the sort! © an; t ure Pent 3, I can find jt But if that is te entirety! rere “There, that'lt do!” ult. 1 Told yo prove that kate alvays ve the verse in my ve not, l6 no concer! one In in verse hold of it in ; ‘4