The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1906, Page 16

Evenin _ pubbtishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. Bhttered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NO, 16,208. VOLUME 46...., —_——__—. The Yerkes Millions. In an interesting way the Yerkes 5 ‘| millions revert to the public, whence Ae they came, and this in spite of the fact that New York is the beneficiary at the expense of the cities where these millions were accumulated. Chicago and Philadelphia nickels and London pennies built the Fifth avenue mansion which is to become the Yerkes Art Gallery. They piled up the $8,000,000 endowment of the proposed Yerkes Hospital in the Bronx, an institution which should ; fill a wider field of usefulness than any other of its kind in the nation. Incidentally they built the fine Yerkes Astronomical Observatory in Wisconsin and the Greenwood mausoleum. Such is the variety of monuments which he left to perpetuate his name. Whatever may be thought of the methods by which these millions were amassed, their ultimate disposition shows that they were virtually Id in trust until death made them available for the public benefit. To go into the ancient history of city councils and street railway franchises in connection with them is to verge into speculative realms of tainted wealth. The beneficent use to which they are finally put is a be- lated atonement. The Yerkes will i- a finishing master stroke in an extraordinary and Tomantic career. From a Pennsylvania jail cell to a Fifth avenue palace isa far cry. + Yet there were these contrasts in the life of the man whose con- striictive genius conceived the traction merger and made it possible and revolutionized the antiquated methods of transit in London; who along with exceptional business ability showed an equal aptitude for the culti- vation of the fine arts and the promotion of humanitarian interests of the highest order. The Telephone Monopoly. Last year 51,491 rew telephones were installed in-th: five bo-onghs' of New York, more than 150 a day. For this necessity of business and Social life patrons pay $60 a year for ‘an office service limited to 600 messages and $54 and $45 respectively for a residence service over a di- tect or a party line. Assuming that the charge averages $55, the com- Ja new customers haye added $2,832,000 to its income in a single ; Tue figures furnish a striking illustration of the enormously lucrative monopoly enjoyed by the New York Telephone Company. In answer to complaints of overcharge, it points to the reduced rates in force since last spring as evidence of its spirit of concession. Yet these rates are low only by comparison with the exorbitant charges of $240 a year under which the monopoly robbed its patrons in 1895. The present rates are actually as high for a limited service as they ‘were in 1881, when the company was inexperienced in extortion, for an unlimited service. They are higher than the charges in Washington, Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland and in other cities where competition has enforced moderation, They are far higher than most foreign rates, Ten cents for a half-minute talk over the telephone is as excessive a§ 40 cents for a half-mile ride on a surface car. It is a surviving an- \ To the Editor of The Evening World: New subway. of the east side since I came to New. York and I claim Third avenue is en- titled to any privileze the rapid transit may give the busy people. I admire | ‘The Evening World for its promptness | in securing everything {t can for the pedple, Tiqwees 5. 1906: NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASS ya8 By I. 8. Cobb. al NEW YORK MAN-—that Is to say, a typt:el New Yorker, exo cf the , kind who always refer to the Big Road as “Dear Old Er: Away" t undertook to show a friend from the tall and unveneered over the | town. As is customary among our own pecple, he started ost by a fy tasteful references to New York’s manifold advantages over the rest earth and the heavens above and the waters below. “But,” said the stranger at the end of the first lecsuz, “Sct | ova see it. You call it living—but is it? You reside in indlyidual-s.c¢ Gates eight or ten of you—little, bitty holes in the side of o cried mrd Aaseal like banic wwallows; you pack yourseives on elevated trains like wheat In Ai bin; you elide through underground burrows Ike moles. You pay 9 hig) Priced 'police-force:to perform ¢clubotomy on your brow wheal you deg: ag | sTowd to find out who has been run over by an automobile while lag a .| €r0ss a Street: which you have teen taxed to bui What aré y: cars th the:giad pneumonia days but cold-storago plants on-whecls? are your milk wagons but watering carts in disguise? I'll bet there man‘in town who keeps a cow. As for your’—— *\ “But, my dear fellow,’’ replied the New Yorker, looking dowa upom || him from’a great height, “you don't comprehend the broadness of our views the-abounding depth of our life. We forget, we ignore, we rise above petty» discomforts of living; they are swallowed up, engulfed, in the magnitude and,the vastness of our environment. All our institutions, our amusements, are pitched upon the loftiest possible plane—built on the widest pozsible » Friday Evening, g@ World’s The Puppets. By J. Campbell Cory. sy Let Chicago brag in the vulgar Chicago way of Mrs. O'Leary's cow scale. and the macadamized river. What are they compared to the surpassing: archftectural beauty of our post-office and the unparalleled grac2 of the Statue of Robert Burns in Central Park? What other elty, I ask you, pros vides the most magnificent Zoological Garden in the world for its peop! without charging anything for it?” tia “And lo:ate it so far away that only exploring expeditions visit it,” interrupted the friend, who had made the round trip to Bronx Park hime self. “Where else,” Sntintet the typical one, “will you find lofty SCAT ERISND houses going up in a night, so to speak?” “And coming down in a minute—when the mortar thaws,” said the, ¥ lconoclast from the ensilage belt. “Ah, yes, my poor country mouse,” went on the New York man, “as 3 say, it is the monumental, the magnificent, the enormous which alone ig | worthy to catch our attention! The trivial, the small, the inconsequential things we pass unnoticed by with never a glance’—— But at this juncture he suddenly broke away from his ftiend to dive. across the street and spend ten minutes watching a sidewalk faker demon-+ strate a patent collar button. THE FUNNY PART: His fate is the common fate of all. ‘Letters from the People .»* Answers to Questions fly. They range from four to nine in| dren are fast asleep. Readers, which ege. They are good children and not ‘are the pariahs, thoee kickers or our Iam delighted to see that Third ave-|Dolsterous. But the people in the fiat /little family? I'd lke a d’scusston. nue is.to have first chance for the, below compiain all the time of the run- Mrs. C. T nave been a resident | INS of the children’s feet on the floor| A Western Girl om New York. of our hallway. The children do NOt |x, tng waitor of the tvening World: Face up and down the hall in romps, |" 1) togwer to A Brees en com. but keep out: of the hall as\muoh 88) ising that New York women all look possib'e. It isn't possible to keep 4 Sy |Sour and cross in public conveyances [ere Lively heality,/ otaliisens perleeis. oa (ontthe iatrestisietimal colli Hist tat inert and still in a city flat. But the | daily complaint greatly worries me. The [the majority of the men in this city Praises Evening World Idea. man can smile in public strect car: and streets and not be insulted by a masher. Let the men stop being so conceited and “the women will not look as if suffering from some physical or mental atiment." * A WESTERN GIRL. The Third Avenue way. To the Editor of The Evening World: | 1 am glad to hear you are trying to set the Subway down Third avenue. I hope they will run it to Mount Kisco Thumbnail Sketches. UBJEOT—Dr. Parkhurst. Favorite Sport—Viewing with alanm, Favorite Task—-Remodelling creation Favorite Book—“The (Red) Light That Failed.” Favorite Author—Jeremiah. Fayorite Artist—The coftin-trimmer, Fayorite Fruit—Raspberry, Favorite Plant—The weeping willow, Favorite Vebicle-The mourner’s carriage, —, M. I. HALL, Mount Kisco, N.Y. achronism of extortion for which there is as little excuse as for 10 per cent. intérest or five-cent posta ze. URLY (Copyright. 1905, by Little, Brown & Co.) astonishing, outrageous villain perform- ing simultaneous crimes in several Places at once. My tigers purred for more, Then came a whole page of revela- ons concerning “the kidnapped Croe- sus,"" otherwise styled “the stolen mil- Uonaire’ and the ‘‘brigands’ prey." It was clearly proved that the Chalkeye | villain, Jim du Chesnay—described as x of |" broken-down swell’—and Captain a With |McCalmont had joined together in pur- lointng Michael Ryan and hiding him ERS, | Balahannon buys Grose. Ran i Eskaoea. ving, thers, Wit with his wife and Nt. MoCalmont, leader ot a canon ei tf Mroubere nator seas supports Meee pres ea up in a cave, the place being well ral others, “Chalkeye | known to the authorities, This cave fe" hor, aa Jim to scans. | a8 {naccessible by land and water, — a renee hela” oat Gat at ‘aren guarded with machine-guns, and sup- Suny opuucdered the iden Ht x ate ee Buea all modern conventences, es- inven e old | pectally searchlights. “Our special rep- a a raat ar tans ly resentative" had been there, “but do- im confesses gat abe tn ein, 0, her, fellow-tusitive Jim, was pecetive,, tm. |cHned to give parttculars for fear of driving the bandits to still more des- Mote fying sity Bia stn oases pile they are! nerate measures.” { ely “lisa Jove with pan ‘They retreat,| Last came “our special supplement,” with the very latest news. It seems that Michael had written to his wife in New York; likewise that somebody stole the letter from her and sold it to the New York Megaphone. Then all the papers copied Michael's letter and laid the blame on the Megaphone. Here Js the letter: ‘int Curly’ to Chatkere's maid relatives of wien? (D¢ MIM to some otf MeCalmont thon xidna and hold him for ranaon, Michael Ryan The aos reli citizens try to lynch but he escapes and goes to his ‘house, "wher Curly ie ‘hiding? nn the door mlarma him, “alkere and Curly escape as re-rounding the house, They telas, where Chalkeyo's men 1° posse te no to the mouee Are encamped, CHAPTER XXVI, $1,000,000 Ransom. N giving my own account of this un pleanuntness which happened between the Du Chesnay and Ryan tamilies I've just grabbed Truth by the tail and tried to stay right with her, But Truth rus swift, and raises plenty dust of Iles Around her heela, so, maybe, whirling along I missed good facts. Happens T've been poorly provided with one eye and a lot of prefudice to see the trail @head; likely I've not been the only party interested. Anyways, outsiders sould watch the stampede without get- ting choked with dust, Now these conclusions struck me Obdrupt Mike a bat in the eye when I sat “September 8th, 1900. “Dear Kathleen—On 28th ult, was ab- ducted at Grave City out of my car by brigands and carried blindfold, lashed on to the back of a horse for several hundred miles through frightful country, arriving here 4th instant, When I got here I welghed ninety-elght pounds! In- deed, I was nearly dead; but now the robbers are feeding me up, so that I'm gaining flesh, although I'm still kept prisoner in clos» conflnement. “I don't know the whereabouts of this fhouse. but it's a large ranch building of logs In the middle of pine woods. nights I'm almost fro: high up in some range of mountains, The country looks flat from the window, A robber told me once that the place! {8 in California. Gown to rest In camp at Echo Spring,! “Now, dearest, you wiil take this as Before leaving Grave City, wh!lo|™¥ authority, and ralse the sum of one thinking of othe: worsies, I had caught | Jon dotiars to pay my ransom, and save me from being murde: You iknow ~sho to go to, and offer securtites for the loan, getting tne best terms you | can. nth in U, balance tn notes of ( jane under. Bring i Arizona, and ask for milltary There you ill charter a wagon have the trdasure delivered at ti | Where $e Tuba roRgeD @ G0My Of a local paper, stuffed the ame in'my rear pre"et, and disrumem- | ‘ered naving such possessions. 1 5. thought of it until my Uaers, hunger- for news.caught sight of the bu P ‘Fuahed my camp to grab. Weekly Obituary ting apound and ‘ instruction, iim certain Chutk~ Ko be moat ! ores: 8. gold currency, ) Atty dol WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES& eS: A Tale of the Arizona Desert <4» g By Roger Pocock This money must be paid one-| {21 and the | struck them. * I vatneaas its » Flagstaft, in| whatever to we ov to deliver any moni full ransom; or to mark fe le for fu‘ure ident: ahi he ns Sr oe soon, We will have trolleys ‘soon {n Mount Kisco. We have them in our heads already. MART M'NEELY, Mount Kisco, N. Y. Favorite Musical Instrument—The hammer, Favorite Character in History—Jonah, people downstairs stare at us,as ff we |*f@ So “fresh” that a woman can't were pariahs. They have no children, |!00k pleasant and smile. If she does Chtldren and Kickers, but they have a cross, birking dog, a| te male sex are ready to flirt with To the Editor of The Evening World: Pianola and a phonograph and all three [tee I have lived here one year, com- There are three children in our fam-|keep noisy at night long after my chi!-!ing from a Western city, where a wo- Re ae On the thing morning 1 loaded the G -DY, ey ere n Curly, pointing, for Rob- iors 0B. * AL mlantene cary fede into the town of Flagstaft. Afterward, following the pe) paren {ident ‘on a stage-coac! th a load of (tourlat sechanced to a ret! tne ae tame with, rheumatism, hx bis linch-pin, fo she wie ch rere-pit "whe would talk sata, but Curly ppunaher get ee ont ys curious ‘epg at anything -un- ing antelope a’ a ee ee way of @ume, £0 she ra ea all their tpt ag Bi ren 4 fer Gyine mother which whe fald.them good alst, at vais “tO qwoioh. for BBs olin ge how robbers drink bomen ahem a for ie uke Scurky imparted a fe pa culars “i pode away with a bigh when she cai oping for breake t's plum ridiculous, but—th at's ne ransom.” ahs ‘o’re dreaming, Curly. This of troops Is sure death to Ryan. zee sk the killin’ of a. common & millionaire!" where the joke comes—he ain't a millionatre!™ T saw her quit her oreakfast al) une taste | “Cayn't you be serious, child, once?" I asked, but It made me athe te to see her face that way. daren’t be serious, T daren't, ttnke I daren't. Just you look et them par pers. Latte oend theeent eer hee as opened {t, and thought been locosd. ‘There. were the Thendlines “Ryan Combine Smashed. Collapse the Trust."—-"Panfo on ‘Change. ne Kidnapped Milllonatre, a Confessed Pore jurer and Cares Pa - mits that He “ssehel na Bile Lass. ae ogee = Pie a ae Himself a5. All Hope ‘ot Te ol ded Ac 10 dite: Ni Movemen Joa Reef Interv! “Forces Taking ‘about the | w: bksh-atrang hat wa som dragon-fly, na | nat i ae Fra ai! bend ite bull pines, -whiaper, eI at haha oe. cloud herds. Rraai hon lke my wounds, sec! air pagel 2%. foci Alka the toon a she stuffed a Boas pound ef pel ed ria. leakes “Oh, throw at te deon- then broke out laugi- Sand wh: tor: i. this Pow iiocoea?” ja a etalon 1 felt ‘the git) was laughing so a8 not to| ¢! i] just. X Sie 1," a! bhe, ‘‘there’ | ne tah shen, End a Yor Of A Siren Marshal with « ‘chin whisk and depu jes, Na i, yee omy Vonipfes patent ies ae hisckeat peounarsly that ever disgraced when several witnesses though! Apart from his Seaous sim cera me by are was p party tok was 3 Ireland, his later Ie Hoy Bary. leacue money leave nie count arrest. y sihned Tare nunished, for as "iene aot the robbers peat leCalmont’ ere, Bot Bectuse Pwumcwed ‘inten, ‘and Te via su OS shea sek ie Romiea, his foreman, and a son went there to get crime. Once Balshannon actual the gang to rob my fi of “under such elreu awed by, the sublime the miudie of the Painted Dese he wagon must be abandoned. theteecore 40. WiEnCraw to Canon nlo, ieaving no spies behind. f of the robbera tells me that the he sends with a team to get this will be a perfectly innocent and that any parties attempting molest. toln, or follow him, wll be 10 no Gulek they never know what | ry detail within forty Muat id OY MYO OL I9c0 murdered» If the ganaom mis detivered. aa) Per instructiocs yy Ith October and found correct. the e robbers will then disgerse and have no J fired tinst. jin the ttn watish ta further de forme. ‘They promise thes ‘hee e old! man's death; ‘and un- , deliver me at the neirest ranch or; ‘hitned as ser 1 tried to be Worth OF: én ya on oF before ‘iat November. fe futher, seized, Sow, denrest, of ms own | Of, 3 nishan’ that there wae ever @ quarrel nd withbut compulsion from gon i "T realize Jngwthate ne Tour for (ous families,” of a wrent Burden. by eontessine to you Ht “rather as f toughe for ane ASRS eae aone: T shall to, Holy Church i€ over f get tlt Buttsereselar tie sci eas interente, T tHe oh ann stile movement against pat Uaaat hey pal ee fay" thelr true light ‘Esa hetnd guilty of. RY, tath y coin Sh whet ber: Maree Rates nisst a yt | SOB, chap ap Bi tthe ahaa vord ere’s not, the s! lou! roe a Balwosnngn was’ ono of the! met hav ane pa Helshannon murdered hin; } She Jmped. to a gees pak "T must soresy = PA? zou year Benigh De Cont!nved) itch or track the waco’ pri ita re prior to my release to permit iatons leh?