The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1906, Page 8

0. §3 to 63 Park Row, New York. ‘Published by the Press Publishing Company : Second-Class Mall Matter, Entered at the Post-Office at New York ——__ VOLUME 46 ...........066 16,216, sconces sencee ceveee NOL Wake Up, Dr. Woodbury! We present a portrait of Dr. John McGaw Woodbury, Commissioner of Street Cleaning. It is a frank, handsome face, and should be better known to the people of the town. It should also become better known | to some persons in his own depart- ment, Dr. Woodbury is a deserving of- ficial, an expert on sanitary econom- ics; but his forces are not cleaning the streets as Waring cleaned them; they are cleaning them as Tam- many does everything—about half as well as it honestly should be done. Perhaps the Department has been hypnotized by former Senator George Washington Plurkitt. Mr. Plunkitt is not very busy just now— ~ & young man by the name of Marx has taken his place at Albany—and _ he is able to devote his entire time to the collection of “honest graft,” and seems to have selected the Street-Cleaning Department as the most fruitful field for effort. | Outwardly things are well in the Street-Ckeaning Shop. The stables are neatly kept, the horses well groomed, and the sweepers throw out| their chests on drill days. There is a brisk military look about things when the Doctor thunders past—and then they sink to rest again, as Matthew Arnold puts it. The streets are not clean. _ the pavements with gravy, filthy. Dr. Woodbury came over from the efficient Low administration. It would be a magnificent exhibition of courage and capacity if he could Overcome the incubus now put upon him and master his department again By again to reach a point where his subordinates will not wink at each » other after he has gone by! Light Up, Mr. 1 Ahearn! Borough President Coler, of Brooklyn, is disgusted at the lack of =~ street signs, and purposes to see that something is done about it in that _ borough. i He will have a report prepared at once upon the best street signs and their, cost. Next he promis:s to fight to get them. ae Borough President Ahearn, why rot imitate Mr. Coler? © backward city that does not mark its streets by day and by night. The sidewalks are covered with gruel and New York is merely dirty. Brooktyn is Es It isa _Two-Cent Railroad Fares—Why Not? The agitation to remove the restrictions put by the railroads on the Purchase and use of mileage books bids fair to extend to a general demand for raitway fares at a flat rate of two cents a mile, To prevent scalping, it is now the practice of the roads to charge an excess of $10 on $20 mileage books, repayable on the surrender of the cover. Five cents now carries a city railway passenger ten miles. It Oarries a Steam-railway passenger less than a quarter of that distance, Though net earnings for passenger traffic increase yearly on almost all railroads, the > rates of fare remain at the high-water-mark figures of twenty years ago. | or Philadelphia or Boston, The Boston fare of $5 is for six-hour trains, | For a five-hour passage three cents a mile is charged. Yet on this road Sees en), Te ORS Eee Evening World’s” Homeo Magazine. Saturday Evon It still costs more than two cents a mile to go from New York to Chicago | Letters from th € People . Elementary Mechanics. To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 : “It an|the lower end, ‘the net annual passenger earnings have increased more than $2,500,000 | Meet _!s Placed! in a giass globe « 4 | since all the alr pumped out, wil} bje F Oe hang susnended or drop to the bot- Ei i iti i 2. |tom?? The same experiment in a lit iste are war Drices for peace conditions. Boonomies. of Operation) ty airrerent form is an old one in cle- and enormously augmented traffic make them unjustifiable, They should come down. x ae re SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Edward Merton, a wealthy young New Yorker, with musical tastes, falls in lo’ with Sophia Were back and seated before the fire; | ‘this {s Thursday, a stebmer sails on lari Saturday, which 1s called Christmas | music. iaater. Jeve in thts country. ‘The season is Mates: Sees ta ere teteel scien | tavoretie, tor at such times every one Alexis | {s thinking of his own enjoyment, and even officials become careless and good Aa Rey netured. I can buy tickets for our Merton, aided 'by Patrolman Mullen, a | Darty without exciting suspicion, and errvant of his father’s, undertakes to | you, doctor, must be prepared to meet thi ish if Mainat! tells | “ Be ieopesn tne ae eal ee bac ttle | the ship's ‘physician. rare Coens to her as the price of her hand. She agrees. | Should arise in putting ‘him on boar.” jeantime has been kidnapped by | +. rs wee & Russian secret society. Orloff, who also | lve all that to me,” responded a of theirs, Emanuel Mainati, i Nicholas Orloff and others. One > Sophia accosts Merton with the cry, iy ‘They have found him and him to Ri | Wagner freedom st |Semvitch. “I am a registered physi- eome pers that inorimin- hy Y Bie Orica Cote Fess, eet toorimin- lofan in this city and have thought oat all the detafis, as have you." “Ah! groaned Trelitz with a shake of the head. “It it was not for my oath I would have no hand in this, for T liked the count. He has shown him- self brave and noble. Even though he Knew us to be enemies, he received us dark |!" ‘his house as guests, joined in our music, nor ever breathed a word to his jdaughter. I must have a glass ot |vedid to steady my nerves. Will you |Join me, comrades’ CHAPTER IV. Edward Merton’s Per- plexities, UT of Professor Wagner's O eyes the Nght slowly faded and his head dropped forward. ‘the whole frame appeared to relax. The feet Beeeetes torwerd on the rug and the) rhe Voaicd,” in thls case a foroad shoulders scomed tc sink and be-| whiskey, was drunk by all ttre: ana iY me round. tnen, leaving the doctor behind, the Russian and the Pole, both well dressed snd fine looking, descended to the street 8s usual, for Sophia Wagner had not yet grown anxious over the absence of Holding his watch in his left hand Dr. Gemvitch pressed the professor's wrist And so stood for some minutes. At he dropped the hand, snapped the gold case of ae mraioh lane then | her father. Perret, con <lowed ere not think | We can imagine the agony and des- ARAN OW solemn Testatance, hat | Peration of a man who, unable to swim ; ees | the drug at first acts as an |!msel, sees a triend drowning just out ja, He will sleep for mavy hours, /°f Teach, and in this way gain @ cone ception of Edward Mer‘on's deapatr and sense of utter helplessness, After leoving Malnat! and Sophia at the Tyrol, he blundered on, not knowing exaotly and scarcely caring whither he Went; but he had a dim notion that he would find @ telephone and call up the Fecent excess of vodki, and {t might be well to talk with him again before we try another dnjection.”” "But what are we to do with him In the mean time?” asked Oriog, who | evidently was not prepared for the doc- bare trees and the Irregular patches of} By Mis time, Professor Wagner ap- | snow that he realized his surroundings, @ to be in a deep sleep, but, un- usual expression of intellect ~ maths the face had in it an {70 the river, and had passed many eribable Jook of idiocy, | *elephone places on the route, of and Trelits, both very power- | H® Was about to cross the square at lul men, carried the professor into an S'*teenth street when he ‘heard his name ining room, and stripping him to called, and the next instant was hay- Underclothing. put tim to bed and | !ns ‘is hand pressed by his old school mepentcara [friend aud distant kinsman, Don Free- mentary mechantcs, a long glass tube 1s used. a feather a small lead ball are placed in the tube! fully on the hand so as to break off a #or's siriden action. central 8ffice, all the week and Just the man I’ve been "Strip him and lay him on the bed It was not esant |Searching for all morning exclaiped i ao te pine toon. ALU here ain, tne |Don Freeman, a good-looking young i ep ‘i nviteh, fellow of Merton's age, | Was over at your apartment in Wayh- though he had walked nearly @ mijg|!méton Square, but the Jauitor told ‘me that a short tlme ago you hud suddenly left with Hi, after paying two months’ rent In advance, great @ recklessness as running into | debt, and, to crown all, no one seemed to know whither you had flown or if you had yet Ut"? Instead of a @ Kidnapped in New York,| Pitted Against the Lowe of a Plucky New Yorker. eee See “Jus: the man I've been thinking of! An hour ago which ts nearly as Strong Arms. By J. Campbell Sort y: a exviausted Piece of the filamemt; the broken p Will always be found on the side ni est the earth. WILLIAM B. HALSEY. Insurance Grafters. is the ball that Justice, ing it at the time. nothing to do he action of the force of sravd-|75 the Ealtor of The Evening World: cept to retard the fall of Are the people going to allow the in | betrayed position of a body in @ vestigation of these flagra criminal | dvs be easily shown by taking | |, raters’ to lapse ‘into ‘a state | Dolley-he 2 2 Answers to: turned upon the ing, Jone z 2900+ grafters may be brought to o only! let the searchlight be legislators. who have their trusts, and the McCur McCalls who have deluded tie rs of thelr companies, but Questions, ‘9 bear through the publie press upon) | Gov, Higgins for a further investigation, A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. T's POMPOUS Hittle man with the : iH { Slgantic headdress and th tiny horse is not a comic opera Sul- tan, but a real-life priest. He is one of the famous fighting priests of Bika- mir, In India. His turban is sur- mounted by a steeple-shaped cone of drapery. Breastplate, shield and innce form his armor. He rides into battle at the head of the savage armies, urs- ing them on to death by glittering Promises of a very gongeous paradise. His horse wears white knickerbocker trousers on his hind legs, extending from loins to knees, The picture 1s from the Illustrated London News, Prof. Korn, ef Munich, clafms to have solved th@ problem of telegraphing photographs. The experiments which the professor has already carried out prove that it 4s possible to transmit a photograph or sketch, six or seven inches square, In a perlod varying from ten to twenty minutes, These experiments were carried out on the telegraph line from Munich tu Nuremburg, @ distance of about one hundred miles, but Prof. Korn declares that precisely the same remults would be obtained mitted by @ telegraph Tine or submarine cable 6,000 ‘These are the hand- prints made by Hin- doo women as they were taken out to be burned to death. In former times when a Hindoo died living at this work, | his widow commtit- —— i ted sulcide (death Prof. W. J. Mow | by burning). As the Gee, the scientist, | widows walked to the funeral pyre they pressed their sooty hands against wall. The !mpression was later carved fwto the stone. slept four montha | without @ ded on the hot sands of Arizona to regain his health, { His scheme was a. success, He spent high’ time studying desert insects and reptiles, Jack London, the author, has tramped about many cities of the world: Lone’ don’s experiences as a trainp havé not made him open-handed and hospitable. Onb the door of the London home in San Francisco 1s a sign reading: “No admission except on business; no business transacted here,” while on the back door is me | other sign, reading: ‘Please do not enter without knocking; please do not knock.’ There are no news- © boys in Spain, An American ‘has invented a life-say- Women sell newspa~ Ing Jacket which promises to | pers on the street, greatly the perils of : thesea, The “jack- A burglar forced et’ is a sort of his way into @ loose vest which wholesale toy store in Minna street, San | Francisco. and stole 1,000 jumping-jacks, loan be adjusted in | fifteen seconds. It possesses pockots which contain a flag, a foghorn and a torch supplied with an electric ig- nition battery, says the London paper trom whioh this {l- For the saving 08 | would-be suicides the municipality of Rome has decided ‘ to employ mollce motor ‘boats on the” lustration is repro- Tiber. 1 duced. The wearer — cannot sink and The pay of the can lie at ease Russian private sole among the waves dier has been in} creased more than © 100 per cent, that is to say, from $1.35 to $3 a year. signalling for help. ‘The largest chain cable ever mae is being constructed for one of the new Cunard turbines. Each link weighs 160 In the year 194 coroners’ juries in; pounds. London passed on forty-two cares of starvation. A year on the planet Neptune ts a little longer than 1é1 earth years—it is 0,000 days long. Because, in one day of ten hours, cently, the almshouse barber of Beth= nal Green, London, shaved 230 men, there is sonte talk of raising his wages, | | France exports about $5,000,000 worth of ralf of them go to England. ee ee eggs a year; AA Thought for To-Day. (Special to The Evening World.) 4 Washington, D. C., Jan. 13. The*man that lays his hand upon a woman, i Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch “I thought,” said Merton with a man- an electric Mgnt bulb which has a) of innocuous desuetude after the untir-|Upon the unscrupulous and corrupt lawe Whom it were TL Oke Bie ” Act. I fs broken filament. and striking it care-| ig ‘efforts of Mr. Hughes to get th:|‘ere Who have cold thelr ssrvices to 5 p 5 - LU. H facts on record? Let pressure be brought | taese cornorasions, ST: - , The Machinations of a Russian Secret Society By Arthur ochefort, Pe “Ah! If it were not for my oath | would have no hand In this!” and—and study." “Study! Study what?” demanded the other, “Must. “That olf fiddle again?” ‘XYea—yes." Speech, “that I'd go off for a eal “Well. by George! You don't seem to be Rrowing fat on It. Why, old m: Freeman held his friend at arm's lengthy, ‘d him with an anxious louk, ‘you are thin as a ghost:and haggard as) Sophia Wi @ tortured martyr! What's up?! rs ‘ Tmall dght, ' nd sur No, he would not countermand thas or- der, no matter what happened, “Well, to-morrow night,” Don Free- man went on, ‘we are going to have a royal splurge up at our house, a Christ- mas tree and all that. Sister Nellie's best fellow—you know Dick Nelson? Yes, well he said no end of others wiil be there, and amongst them, whom do you think? no effort to answer what he thought the simplest of all questions, the friend con- tinued: “Why, Allee Lansing! You were once in love with her. Came over with her from Europe two years ago, Oh, she thinks you're no end of a fine fellow, and therein differs from some of your friends. Now, you'll join us? Don't say no for your life; an you love me, don’t deny mo in this, Remember, 014 felluw, ‘Christmas comes but once @ yeur, and then it brings'—woll, never mind, I've forgotten the song and you look as {f you'd forgotten that and everything else. Ah, here is my friend Charley Moore's, Let us drop in and talk and refresh." Even if Edward Merton had been more himself he could not have resisted his breezy friend. And so “inaugui Seeing that Merton made | AUTHOR OF “‘THE DETACHED BRAIN.” | Merton haa aot thought of tt. nor ata he belleve that a reward would avail } “But.” he said, “I'll try it. and if you! Start right off and advertise in all the! Papers that'll be a great help," 5 “Well, get up the advertisement andi Tl have it sent, or will take it to alls the papers. Don't you think about, $.006 would look dignified and be just| the thing?” { Merton: did think that By rent, gave his | thought ‘necessary to pay ten aman ee | 4 then took the urth avenue oa) him down as fara lenborhgod of the Centra omes, "° "e ' ‘Be at your place about 4 o'clock this Tl call and repo may i may sce Miss—Miss to’ “24 ‘ Miss “Wagner.” pros lerton, | WAP X00, Minn Wasner, ta oe our | lu revoir,” | ait rovolr,"* called. out: Don Brees | man, Bot off the car; th added mentally, “Ed M. I one of the rt level-headed ef, Yo over met. Wonder if he isnt rotting A, i Pant the boys on'the Bowery ‘bugs | Before he had westward ‘fifty : duces Merion ped by Tony ~” ing the coming festivities by a slight Ubation.to the genus of time,” as Don Freeman put it, they began after a few minutes to talk more seriously, At Jongth Merton made a clean breast of his troubles, : ell, upon my ‘word, that is the ™most extraordinary case I ever heard of!" sald Don Freeman, when his com- panion had concluded his story. “Axd, unfortunately, it is tru Merton, “And the lady is as accomplished and ‘beautiful as you 'say, Ed?" “It would be difficult to exaggerate either,” “And you think yoy love her? “Chink ?”? “Oh, pardon me, old fellow; but of course you do, Well, really, this is: all never sick in my life," stammered Mer- ton, who permitted his friend to dra, bim across the square and in the direc- ‘tion of Fourth avenue, where there were some oxcellent “refreshment Joints,” as Don called the first-class res- taurante, ‘Now, let me tell you why I wanted you 80 much a@t this time,” pursued Don Freeman, in his boyish, hearty |way. ‘Don’t you know that to-morrow Don 'ig Christmas Eve?” Bnd. ust X would ah. 90. wt orice, ad a ” sooner, if that were possible; but “Oh, yes! T haven't forgotten. that,’ | even sooner, re A 1 jaa I've never seen lerton saanegey bat say, and h ahh Eoan't | is T help your’ Merton, desperately, “Oh, yes; to be gure. Well, if I could inks 0 1, and i Se ge a 4 very astounding. But, I say, how can|® “Bind Prof. Wagner for me,’ replied | r the gentleman, | boy, Avy “What for? Tf there was rend any news don't , Him to hear ier7°UN gay would be the Ree be aon few ho Ind a crosa one up at Ei nth etree? % Mullen took the young man’ tog tim orth along the 6 with athe shop fronts were great, the size size c of thn ing to the ; ea? Ir pockets or the size of $ kets tions a ” Ho went to tl Tyrol, promis} Mullen that’ ne would try to fe on a fd was told by the old servan it had just + he wen: ; fens cats t to tell Wat Be was staring: Ry the, * eh te