The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 6

* f ¥ } \f " « known to have such @ defective vi ¥ with regard to cows that the evidence | oath tyat Jim fred » Publivted by the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Omfice at New York as Seoond-Class Mall Matter, VOLUME 46... NO, 16,196, What People Pay for Street-Car Monopoly, All the local transit lines of New ye of the franchises in the streets, in the public property which bat-eyed corruptionists in office have sold to franchise-grabbers for modest bribes. The “water” got into the system by degrees. The original bonds built the original roads, Every re- organization meant a “recapitaliza- tion.” When you pay a fare you pay for the cost of the road as it is and for its cost as it was. You pay a profit upon rails that are rust, horses that are dust and cars that are kindling wood. You pay for “water” upon water, and for mist veils wreathing the water and for the impalpable, ~ {invisible vapor of values lighter and more ethereal than all. The people might be getting three-cent fares, or half rates to school- children, or more generous transfer privileges, and they wouldn't need “municipal ownership” to get these things, either, All these service bene- fits combined would still leave a handsome profit upon honest capital. The bogus, the dishonest, the corrupt capitalization of the city dweller's hard necessity of riding to his work amounts to $100 for every individual—to $500 for each average family. The extra, the unnecessary, the extortionate taxation of every family hy the transportation companies costs every year two-thirds as much as the school system of the city; costs that enormous sum over and above an honest profit upon an honest capital, What it costs in overcrowding and discomfort, in pneumonia and consumption, in fatigue and wasting strength in delicate victims of bridge crushes and car crushes, no man can calculate. Yet in New York we cheerfully go to the polls every year to vote for boughten bosses, and build bonfires of victorious rejoicing at the news| that the despoilers and the exploiters of the city have once more won it | as their prey. . Little indeed in common sense is “Tittle old New York!” Vas there ever such a Christmas before? Was ever the weather more pro- | pitious for preparation beforehand? Were such things ever before seen in Man- hattan's shopping streets at midnigit as last Saturday? Was so much money ever spent upon gifts, in charity? Christmas as a tremendous fact in trade and in the life of all the people is “growing up with the city.” | | Rarely has Brooklyn had a Christmas gift which it will more appreciate than | ft will the news that Mike Dady is down and out—if he is, Boston's Mayor-elect, an ordinary politician, said recently that he Intended to inject some of our “snap” into the Massachusetts capital, President Eliot, a Massachusetts spokesman of a different order, said at the dinner of the New England Society: There {s now in Massachusetts no liberty for adulterated ar spofled foods, drinks or drugs; no liberty to spread contagious diseases; no liberty for pwbile- service corporations to Issue stocks and bonds at thelr pleasure; no liberty to con- duct in secrecy the business of banks, savings banks, Insurance companies, trust companies or transportation companies. In Massachusetts government still stands for honesty and the rights of the people, for the common interest and not the special interests of | capitalists. In Massachusetts laws are not drafted on stock tickers. State street is not the State, Boston may need “New York snap.” New York certainty needs! Massachusetts public spirit.: | The only people who aren't particularly merry are the haggard, overworked Post-Office men. (Copyright, 1905, by Little, Brown & Cod 3 and !'d like to BYNOPSIS OF piaprens.|Orne © EM paey ee OFF Aiea if mi're gure inoorrupt i ous." Come to the point,’ says Sprynkes. “But, says 1, "1? Judge Sprynkea finds that the late Mr. Ry met hie death fn a fair duel with Bals then’ “Well?! “Then there's @ citizen named Hi a New | Sprynikes 8 apt to be reminded by haart ga pd and Chatewannos | tie Ryan estate that he o a heap hasits Balshannon | of money from the t ge min face, i Ryan| On that we had considerable rough snalkeye ise, until the judge called the meet- g to order, Then he remarked, sort of casual, that he knew a citizen named Sprynkea who was apt to shoot at wight when he met up With @ certain rious honse thief called Chalkeye was set aside CHAPTER XVI, and for the) ays had to keep & wary eye Mostly Chalkeye n citizen Sprynkes. He was an awful | as of my near eve has led to! poor ap an, and mbstly always f mistakes on my part, epe- wed; but once I got a bullet througa ally ow I mist brands at. A Mr, Bprynkes aa- on a hought they he-| mitted to h ends that he preferred tonge 4 ndopied the poor|» restful landscape and a less braging lone nm ways been fond of climate beyond the range of my guns— animals, any Again, 1 argue that | so he ed out for Yuma, and I saw & person with two eyes had ought his kind face no more 4e9 much more truth than f can with| Now, I don’ say anything only one eye; hut { don't find that folks! unkind about Judge Sprynkes, or his eral in making allowances. They | Jury, or tnesses, in that Inquest ard names instend on Mr, Ryan; but for Jim's enke h is needful to point out ac wore yy, thet was specially tho Ryan inquest, 1 test the case remark Rak Suen bled a natin hee | siayed In the “Sepule! eause it would have been o ely un-| tend the gunfight, elght were unable natural for Ralstannon to mise iim at | ( testliy, being dead, three because ve paces, Moreover, as T saw things, @Y had gone to hospital, two because Jia never fired at ail until Ryan was were engaged elsewhere at La Mo- dead, and op; began to shoot when he And ONG; WeIOn 1a Me, On soaHuRt Tae Seung Wiichasl tuming loose fer Jefective vision. Of the rest, the Battle. Judge Sprynkes Ay et part Mt ert from Grave City and Wstant Deputy-Coroner, allowed that 1 toMy disappeared. There remained had been a whole Jot present at the SM" Michac J we ety a je Be Age, and was entitled to my one-eyed Pie thse wiineae unre on poet yews but ¢ etna hes that Jim came to the gun-fight to the jury that the witness was well 4 attended by Curly McCalmont and ten 1On"| masked robbers, They also swore on the first shot, killing was tarnished on the point at issue, M ‘Judee,” says L, “this is @ court of Ryans The Court returned @ verdict that ’ York could be replaced for one hun: | dred million dollars, They pay 4] per cent. profit upon five hundred | millions. The difference is the value | TKS EVeri ng Werle’ note Mewentney Mondcy Evening: December 25, 1905 “How Happy Could | Be with Either, Were t’'Other Dear Charmer Away!” NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES | | | | | | | Letters from th Ves, fo the Maittor of The Hvening World When @ young man, accompanied by a gentleman friend, meets a lady friend | t! and he introduces the man (0 the lady, fs ®% proper gor the man | raiee his hat as che oller does wh is introduced? c Subway iovwdy lem. To the Bitar of The Evening World I read the leiter of B. K. R rough treatment he rove hands of hood!y in the « es at ibway | Fourteenth street and wish t say that this fs not due to viclousness on the part of the hoodiums. This is a station! where many commuters change the local to express trains in order to catel train « Grand Centr ‘and one minute at Fourteenth qtreet may mean @ 4ifference alt an hour and often more to them. It peoplel | George Ryan came to } ands of James du C! ommended his arr deliberate wilful 1 am not compialn The Court rep- resented the majesty of the people and that auguat flag, Old Glory, « $4 right enough Court, * had strayed out and got {6 death at the nay, and rece pon the charge of urder, way ng, but Just stayed good onaible, being friends were takin at the hotel Good morning, Ryan,” says 1, but I kept my votce all smooth for fear of racking up my temper to oo advan- wae. nee morning, sit,’ saya Ryan, ‘T come to congratulate you,” says 6 1 thank you, Mr, Davies,” says he | ort of tronio, Don't mention it," saya 1, “for 11 | Ain't done no kindness to you, and I) don’t aim for cash or than | By J. Campbell Cory. e People # & Answer wroulé ‘travel inthe forward part of @he An Old Man’s Accident. e Id not be troubled, as tra! a not be aun ast | 20 the Waite of The Evening World * 8 neares » T-want to tell you what happened to Grand Central. Keep me yesterday at the Manhattan end of nd other Vicy the Bridge, I am out of business now being too old to attend to it. But yea- terday something called me over to the id avoid the hoodlums | HOODLUM IMUTER, | Moynt Vernon, %. ¥. Thumbnail Sketches. . Seaver: Senator A. J. Bevertéye. Favorite Sport—Creating scund-waves. Favorite Task—-Aasisting destiny. Favorite Book—"The Ohild Beautiful” Favorite Author—Cushing. Favorfe Artist~Demosthenes, Favorite Fruit-The immature pippin. Fay Plant—Perennial climber, Favorite Vehicle—The gas-balloon. Favorite Musical Instrument—The pronoun I Favortte in History--The Boy ural , e hearty Mberal way you've {in what Im | y ed tc his gun, which wes | apt to get fatal, only | a! grabbed him before I A ei says Ryan, “This man | Ita me t would be tmpos you_on the us Way you as: | ge and them poor é-hearted 1 destitute my, frien," dent, bil said the Maretal, | {fT hear any con- Ing any contempt of hal you shares my | “Let Me Bel” Says Ryan. “This 1 lemon,” T \ 1 feo! any | company, and I'm alming to refresh m or any Of We ‘nose in tie open.’ 1 paced back, st an only say by siep, through the door, “My ad- hare (hat shame most fitter," \dress.” ways 1, “If 1 live, will be Las Phe a'r was getting ealtry, with Just | Salinas, and there you'll find a man who 4 faint Moker of guns, ‘Te any of you cayn't see to tell the trudh, but can see geatlomen,” says 1, “is feeling unweill|a whole lot to shoot. Gentlemen, for pila: {ust let him step outside with | adioa!" me, anc 1" me, for I 4 nes mudi something Goud fn this aig’ h“welked hi P ao eta S to Questions m Brooklyn, and on my retura When I took the Pulton street ¢rain at (oe Bridge I fek through the espace ‘here Is between the car platform and the bridge platform amd hurt myself. Bome Kindly took hold of me and helped me up, It ought to be made so |Shat @ peraon could not fall in even a way, Don't you think #0? JOHN TOOTHILL. A min Manners Needed. To the Eiltor of ‘The World: | L appreciate the correspondent's eom- Plaint about growing boys who act like | hoodiums on the Subway expresses. My | dress was badly torn in ane of their football rushes to board a train et Four- teenth street the other night. Ci « ig polloeman be put on duty there, Mr. McAdoo? One or two clubbings end an arrest would give a fine lesson in de- cency and manners to these young rut- fans BA LEAGIRL, Man Insults M Was Out of but nobody offered limself up to serve for my target, | reckon that the funeral ceremonies i nape of the late wh Free Py “frlends mad ven onals of eo ees PEM ol ica ab Paka in Ne ~ WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES oso A Tale of the Arizona Desert es~ By L. 8, Cobb, HERE was a man who lived in one of those mateh-safes which tn T Harlem are called fla It was a fine place to live if you didn’t get any inflammatory diseases, ‘The dining-room was almost as large and bright as the clowet under the front stairs where they keep the gum Overshoes and the umbrellas in a real home. The bedroom greatly eug- gested an upper erth, except that when you pressed the button you got @ dumbwaiter instead of a porter, Need it be sald that the man worked on a salary? And eo, being on a salary, he started oul right after Thanksgiving by deciding that he wouldn't give any Christmas presents to anybody this year, It was 4 foolish, expensive habit anyhow, and vobody exceps chirp dren under seven, who still believed in Santa Claus, had any right to cele- brate it, and the whole observance of the holiday had degenerated into a mercenary proposition and—but what's the use? ery man who ever tried | to make a dollar buy 75 cents’ worth in New York knows the argument by heart. But along about the 16th of the month somebody {n the ofice—It was the cheerful idiot in the made tie who always gets up subscriptions and belongs to a society whose members sit up with the sick—he started a litile paper around, the purpose of said paper being to buy a gold-headed cane for the Old Man, who only had six gold-headed canes already. Our hero didn’t feel like hanging back. 80 he ebipped in his share. Then the first deputy cheerful {diot suggested that it wouldn't do to overlook the lady, bookkeeper, and he kissed another bill good-by. | Once having forsaken the straight and narrow, the rest was easy, He fecided that he might as well buy a little piece of jewelry for his wife; but he didn’t buy such a very little piece, because the wise shopgirl eaw him first and sized up his pile by mental processes, and sawed off some- thing large, spangled and axpensive on him. After that ho concluded to unbuckle slightly for the benefit of the home-folks and « lot of plain and fancy mixed relatives. By this time his roll was reduced to a emall pale | #een core, But was he through? Not at all, He wasn't through yet. You could have found him Saturday, at the eleventh hour, playing Cos« gack among the Moujiks at the department store, trampling down the weak, the sickly and the halt, as he fought his way to the front to buy things for the couple wlio used to live naxt door to him {n Thirty-fourth street and for the fellow in Fort Wayne who gave him such « dandy present when he got married aud has been collecting annual interest on (t ever since, end for @ whole slew of people whose first names he has forgotten, and for every.’ body ejse he can think of, It will be July, 1906, before his wallet begin to fill out again. THB FUNNY PART: | He'll be do!ng the same thing over again this time next year, ot Popular Science Notes. ‘s winter to be unusually severe? Bome of the unoficinl weather prophets Delieve that tt will, and give as reason for their falth the fact thet the southern part of the Arctic Ovean haa been sealed with ice at an extraordinarily early | data, catching @ fleet af San Iranclaon whalers tn its toils. ‘The belief ts very, | genera) that an early formation of fo» in te southern part of the Arctts Ocean presages an uncommonly severe winter further south, or that this ice formation may in itself be a cause of the {noreased cold A new type of bullet, known as the “'D," Is being served to the French fafantry. This projectile consista of @ cigar-shaped cylinder of bronge, inetead of Irad, and ts onmed with nickel. On belng fired it revolves at the rate of $60 turns a second during Might, mys the Chiogo Tribune, At 80 yards it will penetrate the equivalent butk amd reaistance of #ix man, etinding one behind another, One of the most prolific of fiwhes is the turbot. The number of eggs in five specimens examined by @ scientist recently varied from over 6,000,000 to more than 10,000,000, The heaviest of these specimens weighed only twenty-one pounds, and the belie! !s expressed that St Turtles as Motive Power, N the North Bomeo Herald {it ts recorded that two Fngl!shwomen, Mrs, McMnroe and Mrs, Darby, recently paid a vy to the lonely fsland of Tage anac, Among other adventures there the two eat up one night to watch fot turtles, and at midnight saw a large one come out of the sea on to the eands, When {t was returning to the water, first Mra Darby and then Mrs, McEnrod mounted on its back and rode for some distance. = By Roger Pocock but one has aritable. PAs the Weekly Obltua to try Our town bw (ype, the occa a city which had f two prosperous years was able to give | iiduigent a around byt points to mere mushroom towns like | the police flocked ta Bisley, Benson and Lordsburgh, The | Ariana. whic t at the Newspapers in those three rival burghs | Gates of Hides with thy Breath of made light of the affair in a way which | Maine by way of excuse for a clima @isplayed mean envy and a nasty, carp: | Peres a sort of comfortable, small ing spirit your-fiture-lome feeling avout old Arl+ zona which attracts such ducks. Any where else they would get thelr necks hed, but in Arizona they can eleod AB for me, 1 had got myself disiiked @ whole lot, 6o I felt it would be Most decent not to attend the exercises I had a feoling that 1{ called upon wo 1d police out of thelr own reply to any shooting I inight disturb Then '¢ they happen to indulge the 10! which should alwnys at little bigamy or thieving or shoot. tend a sce1e of pudlic grief. Besides| ing, the lawyers get them off, that, It fell to me to arrany bunal| love the law whieh pre of my old patrone, aa difi- | nocent, so vou may ¢ Cun, tne preavne’ hearses, | law-abiding citizens carriages and all the funeral fixtures] Now aa io us plainsmen, The bad | being engaged that day, and likewise] side of us js phinb ront to the also the grave-yard. I had to go with-| naked eye, and If the! & good side Moreover, out the cowboys w mnemtly away at work on the round. UP, so I only caught eight of my trive to help me. We iald our friend on a it's known to friends, not adver tised to strangers, We wa't claiming to be law-abiding ciluzens when we know the judge for a sure-thing Dianket, then four of us gripped the! ticiun, the Iawyers for runaway jail- corners’ up to the horns of our saddirn | pirde and the jury all for sale @t | And rode slow, the other boys coming of a dollar a thief. We're lew! behind untll we gut to the place @here| sig) sgh, until we see the law dealt we had dug the grave. There was cy) one man of us atl well educated, and| (hat was Monte, who had been raised |for a preacher before he 0 lowe to |Punch cows Monte was shot in the face, weak and fever! T had to feed him whisk felt proud enough for hi 4 yy wervice, the re ey / wealth, ‘sonlps, and when Uirough w re elaine: them ( ‘alley before we filled. the OR Halnamen on the Fange (pot Feht Vp piled rocks to keep off wild animale,| nie ind ry and killing ate bad medicine, but innocent, hol, if red with Arizona las hat was a. proper. stockman’s funeral, ra ts ms Wah ane In the di an reckon the Great Father in r hers quit heaven knew we had done our beet in| by twoe and tae sys So ons, Lad & brave ian’ honor, mmell at old Grave city and find out Bee what the geography-book says why she'd ext a swollen head, ‘They uit by honest men. Are you fed up>with one-cyed. sere mons from a cow-thiet? Well, suppose We apply the facts, Here was two boys ed down to trouble, Th thelr blood ot our tribe I Sowiel for t n_ men OW | ing Ryan offered, plenty every, abot Arizona same size as Eng: | | ons, project! to see Tand? ‘Bhucks! Thore's homely. lgners | AONE Around saloons. projecting see ance fi in oMce. duck who dreame| jooal breed of whiskey; they gathered oan use a tape-moamure to size up| desert, In England, if you wander | around after durk, you're apt to fall | off and get wet in the ocean, But you in pure stray off tie edge of Arigona without the least chance of @ wot, be- oanse the desert just rolle on more continuous than ever, dill you're due to die of thirst. There's @ ‘practical difference in size, which your book theorist wouldn't be apt to survive, Again, by the books we're a com- munity of sixty thousand pink and white citizens, all purely yearning for nd justice. Hy the facts, we re it wp into two herds—the town men, woo uae the law, and the range men, who naturally prefer a alx~ |» and made war-talk in the street; they, came around me, wantiig to know whether or not to break out and eat that town, Bova, “it you-all round with mean eyes and dan; miles, these here citizena ts gu hole up in their lone cellar fend for the army, We don’t aviny Mewing around our game, Jus! you whirl in now and play wnee, and make good medic! Lay DW, Hive yo’ ponies a strong feed—and wait for the night. “Chalkeye ono of them, “it 1 told him, "I'd firet stalks ‘oud ty ‘and, it the thle to be ‘if i was war,