The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 14

ny, No. 63 to @,Park Row, New Yorke By J. Campbell Cory. : IVING in the residential district where Col. D. Crockett Mann, in a roa ok decor ‘ . [ good old ante-Belmont days, used to harvest most of his coon-pelts, ‘Bi co be to aio ela iala ————- CAN'T You Don't BLAME ME? is a banker with a convex tummuy and so many double chins thad | LAT ACE Ch De oe ee eee ~ NO. 16,220, MOVE UP A LITTLE IWAS. FORCED INTO he can’t fasten the top buttons of bis vest. - ores TIM? Potirics! Some night a business agent of the City Yeggmen's and Housefinishers* NEW YORK THRO” FUNNY GLASSES, By I. 8. Cobb. Crowding. Union calls off the lockout on the banker’s home. He has just succeeded ini breaking into its domestic arrangements when the head of the household, a light and fastidious sleeper, is awakened. This gentleman arises in his Gobelin tapestry pajamas, slips on a pair of diamond-mounted, solid gold brass-knucks, and fells the walking delegate as he is in the act of invoicing the movable silverware. He then detains the visitor by sitting on his head until the butler can decide whether the hallboy or the second man |.should go to summon the somnambulist on the beat. The papers are inclined to make much of the banker. He becomes the subject of a double-column chapter from a dime novel entitled “Rich Men Do NOT Like To Be ROBBED” on the back page’ of a paper making @ specialty of syncopated editorials; those editorials which look so much like musical scores that many take them home to try on the plano. He te Begin Here, Mr. Jerome. When the vaudeville proceedings which are now engaging Mr. Jerome are concluded will he turn his atten- tion to the affairs of the Mutual Re- serve Life Insurance Company? The plight of the policy-holders who are struggling ineffectually to rerorm the conditions under which they have suffered should enlist his interest. The policy-holders of proba- bly no other company have been so badly flesced and gulled as have these victims of outrageous chicanery. They have found in their policies features of deception not unlike those which farmers have discovered to their cost in contracts made with swin- dling lightning-rod agents. The evidence on which the District-Attorney can act is abundant and ready at hand. There is no necessity for a special Grand Jury. This is the best possible plac: to begin the vigorous prosecution of insurance ras- cality, of which the promise has been given but the performance too long delayed. A Mouse from the Merger? By the incorporation of the Belmont-Ryan traction merger all the tailways in the Borough ef Manhattan, surface, subway and elevated, are brought under one-man control, together bi all the Bronx lines ‘now under way or in prospect. The “conflict of interests” being thus eed ard the warring ele- ments harmonized, what is first to be done to “prove that the unification will be beneficial to the travelling public?” What “immediate extension of transit facilities” will there be? Which of the projected new subways will first be bid for on terms satisfactory to the city, and work rushed through to make it speedily available to reduce traffic congestion? For some reason subway projects are postponed. On the plea that a new subway cannot be built and put in operation in less than four years, the old plan of a third track for the Third Avenue Elevated road id Tevived as a temporary remedy. Is this the best that.can be done to fujfil the abundant promises of improved facilities? Is only a mouse to come from th: laboring merger? Must the question of additional subways wait until the time is ripe for More stock jobbing? VD LIKE MoRE ROOM SMALL I SEND Fo! A HorrceR sient Praised as a wealthy person who has the courage not to be pillaged of h@ belongings, But let us examine closely into the facts. ‘ Often he rides in a hired cab and when the cabby charges him two fares’ and a half for taking him half a mile he pays without a murmur. Weekly he bestows much baksheesh upon the janitor at his office be cause he lacks’ the moral courage to refuse. He knows that his butler is eplitting up with the grocer, the florist and the caterer, but he silently endures because it is: @ very superior bufler with side whisk:rs which have been admired on ‘oth shores of the Atlantic and an expression like a death mask. For similar reasons he ignores a comm’ aity of interests betwen his head groom and the liveryman: If he gocs to a cafe for lunch he hands a tip as big ag his bill to a waiter who brought him things he didn’ order and treated him with silent contempt. He pays a fashionable physician ten aplece for visita worth two, and he smilingly submits when a lawyer charges him fancy Peer er Wilkes ween ane once a so long he is held up by the pub- ee ce ote A ilinasiuees ee izen for subscriptions to editions de THE FUNNY PART: 4 Yet he objects to a poor burgiar tapping him occasionally. -. Illiterate Old New York, AN you read and write? There is about one New Yorker in every nineteen who can't By ‘illiterate’ is meant a person at least ten years old who can't write in any language. The whole country's percentage of illiterates 1870 was 20. In 1900 it had shrunk to 10.7, New York's percentage in 1870 was 7.1, and in 1900 it was 5.5. So the rest of the country is/making far greater Modern Improvements. proportionate strides in education than New York is. As Pendennis and Warrington walked through the Strand the latter Let us take New York State by counties and see how the illiteracy is aiviged : va) up. Wyoming County has fewest illiterates, proportionately. It seems to be the Pointed to the lighted windows of the newspaper office and said: “Boston” of New York counties, the illiteraces being only 16 per cent. ‘The most eet tie de Gas ue on Renal beaten ara| Letters from the People ~® Answers to Questions|sxres scteeces Pom mec wanes along with armies and her envoys walk into statemen’s cabinets, They are ublq- and Richmond 3.4 The three counties containing the largest percentage of : un and sisters and half brothers and sis-| Price's daughter marries Charles Jonn- Model Tene: nto. illiterates are New York. Clinton and Fianklin, the last ed, uitous. Yonder journal has an agent, at this minute, giving bribes at Madrid, and esi reiee ee: acta tera. Mary has one child. Mary is no:|son. Ella's half-sister 1s also her step- lise ep a cuataaelet 6) i DASE DASE See another inspecting the price of potatoes at Covent Garden. Look! Here comes the] 79 “he maker of he yea mma who blared ot ues child, Bue eae eh mother. aus steed and VAiap tor T ‘have read much of “‘model tene-| Chenango County has fewest illiterate voters (2.1 per cent.), ‘and Clinton the - read. grandmother to her own c! band's mother-in-law, also|menta” In th largest number (% per cent). In all classes there | i foreign express ealloping in i braised Jona D. Boa peteler for bose peer pa ae aun Mee ee oe eduslawsi Whaat) ivalation| "are | ihisrelarellime: roots aoariases iene | EWeNET-GVe yearm.ct ageithan’ below “ILUraGy, ances auilacm praeie arsic) This was when journalism was young. The modern society journal pes Pek avrias Note for Se, Oll in @ very aay is Joha' Brows, {n'a crate sont: Jolimon 8 fcbliaren’ tai tne aeons Sass: had at an average of $2.40 a week. What| lliteracy {s less prevalent in cities of 2,0 inhabitants or over than in smaller has improved on that. It has its representatives in kitchen cabinets and| snort tee went up to 7 cents for five- | 180 ‘3 stepgrandma, Ei y' . B., e City, Utah |is a poor man with, let us say, a family| cities and country districts. There is more female than male jiiteracy. In 1900 2 cg fe A a ry FH. HL + |consisting of a wife and two children| there were fewer illiterate negro voters than in 1870 in New York, although the chubs, in millinery shops and in parsonages; in the boudoir and in the] s*¥on = Scns weaatn whose ages are from ten to fourteen| negro population here had more than doubled in that period, Towa has the Servants’ quarters. eee x een Th rs b: il Sk tt hi ®| years rien with an apartment ‘of two| fewest illiterates of any State (2.3 per cent), Louisiana the most (38.5 'per cent.). x . . , | To the Editor ening B umbnai etches. rooms? Is he to divide toe dining-room| New York stands nincfeenth from the top of the list of forty-four States It has mandolin players at fashionable musicales, professors in girls’| Here ig an actual occurrence (names sarc ei nea or kitchen or whatever you prefer to|in this respect. All these statistics are issued by the New York State Educae finishing schools. Its agents are in Wall street, in the offices of bankers| Sotstious) in my own expertence: Jol ee ae eal yess call it into sleeping apartments? Or {al tion Department. y = Brown marries Mary Jones. They have Favorite Task—Promoting votes, . one room to be @ combination dining- and corporation presidents. What the butler hears over the walnuts and} four children. John Broa ety oe Favorite Sport—Getting ‘em countea, room, kitehen, laundry, Mbrary, parlor, i eileee = " ‘ tigi widow wimartion ce. Favorite Book—“The Bowery After Dark.” &c.? It may be argued that a man hav- : the wine, and what the lady's maid tells the pon flies straight to the | His Saiacgnlt pay, Esewa Lites Favorite Author—Theodore Kremer. ing a large family can procure an apart. A Thought for To- ‘ay. editorial room with the silent directness of wireless telegraphy. At its] ates, the mother of saree children. Le perverts onan wae nest ment of three or four rooms. So he,can HAT Zal once said to Rustum doxt thou know ?— i i children are ers sistera an vorite Frult—Tammany plums. if he can afford it. But I wish to say “7 ib ! behest countesses take the pen in hand and dressmakers practise prose Meeciene gui Wait Sisters apa tous! Favorite piahteDheltigee lly. [estes tives aera Think ieonesgonlem ples tho kd hg foe? composition. of them are stepchildren to Price. Price Favortte Vehicle—Charley Murphy's shoes. apartment he does not seem to me one ee gale tn re * et ariekles) amiatt ic. directi: it i work, | marries the oldest daughter, Mary Favorite Musical Instrument—The harp. wi! er off than e secured the ich lower drowns the camel, load and all.” Under the systematic direction of one with a genius for the *| Brown (his stepdaughter), and that Favorite Character in History—Brian Boru. samme. nisiber ot rooma sin aby. of the —THE OSE GARDEN OF SAADI. the modem society sheet has the old Strand daily beaten hollow. mukes Mary stepmother to her brothers! & = MAX FRIEDMAN. |Q.. . ‘ eo aT eR A TOR ee ee RR N The Lenten Croft Robberies Partin ftewi ig gy Arthur Morrison gil! 0, |< the Lenten Croll ROETES Partin ftewitt, Investigator. By Arthur Morrison, ——NO-d ,, nothing. I don't remember any- | Lioyd, he sald, “but I 1 up the trade of private detective. His business was always conducted with- | myself fcr nebody win: thing. “thank you,” said heey hastily. |can be trusted must go. ill you Just out the help of professional assistants. He maintained that he had no “sys- ! yy " : = aeeaek yu. Now morning-room, | wore ea back @ police constable with you? pe n ‘dinary faculties. The follow: neces # : jam tem" Leyond a judicious use of ordinary f te ing experie) i da Aho ocak Hewitt stayed were narrated by Hewitt to his friend Brett, a newspaper man, , OS ' but a few seconds, doing ttl tayed | 772 lis servants know, will you? Of ( Ais han “casually” glance ‘Outrof the ‘wins | Course there will be a female searcher 7 SRN \Gi ‘ In the room above he took big Soars. Tyylert police setoes Ani a SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ) was she out thent” ‘ uh : Hi? | He ionger tine, jainee eee you know, ‘That sort of. thi by Br omen, ‘Norris to investigate a series ot | “No, I think not. Indeed, she goes ‘i f j i q dications about its contents. erie ean “And See, yar bet TPESsiss Geet hn cash Wea Botae match |OUt Very ttle her health is usually y op Fant | ' | Places of draped silk work. bun When Howitt returned. to the smoke) Being, find fying on the wot whence. the | bad. She was indoors, too, at the time . ja \ | SU I Q the furniture, and Japenese wilk 1403) ing-room sir James said suddeniy:| dewegia have | removed, of the Heath robbery, since you ask. > \ 4 iW mm VAN ti} ‘tal: “Why, bless my soul, Fhare is,no apparent clue to the thiet, Of T deat Wie: thin aes Y \ : r i ot i window was ® cage oontalnng ® gray | haven't fed you! I'm awtully Sorry, the attair th apparcatiy an inexpien: But come, now, jon’ this, | / ie parrot, and the writing table was dec-) 7. "came in rather late for lunch, you fakes {nquiries, but} i ; > j HI) | we Bie mystery. _ Hewitt maxes inquiries, but! ridiculous to suppose that she knows ; | | orated with two vases of flowers. aad this business himseif pretty comfor- anything of it.” 4 2 amen) oust race, DOnIEORS, 1 clean forgot everything CHAPTER III. SiiGealt supeaselib ae Titers ead f iY 1 ys : poy Mad lik Cilkely. anybody ‘would be here | Rete be, taner EIR Se = ‘J am only asking for information. That , - a ig i while he’ wae out, at the time that |reiily sorry. Come along. ‘i A Strange Request. is all your resident family, I take it, i } } a 4 Seat rerod Hewitt, aeditatively. nk you, Sir James,” Hewitt re- DON'T suspect a soul, Sir James, | 84 you know nothing of anybody le 5 a ; : x suppose not." "I won't take much. A Cow Biss “6 : "| else's movements—except, perhaps, Mr. 7) Wii ughifully out of the |CWi8 perhaps, or something of Me Howitt answered, beaming gen- | ‘se’ mo , nay h J tll deep in tough or nd, by the by, if you don't ally, “not a soul. You see, 1) Lloyd's? : H | , apie one rather thi should luke to sappect people until 1 know some-| “Lloyd? Well, you know yourself H ? i , Yyed- umye | thing about @ they were. It's quite | that he was out with the ladies when : atl Rap sas Waar ee fove th MM be inc ai | the firs. robbery took place. As to the adi | a Indow he at : Any. rook you ike. Where Ty. posele will be incependent evl-| others, I don't remember. Yesterday J 1 “ Mt! coming back in aay? diriing-room's her ad dence enough as it is, but you m' he: was probably in Ais) room; writing. S i \\ 5 i ‘ pa ‘es, I think BO, Rega eayciing | bu fat there's, pl ptudys that's Rainer pai i ACNE > se you would care to see fer help me if you can. The visitors, now. |T" ening that acqults him, “eh?” Bir | | ' Hi } \ or thaple your Hewitt replied; “I | "Hérhaps 1 can fo sito Mr. Liewda Was there any visitor here each thme—| James looked quizzically into the broad | € \ \ room for pelt an < Fi fe even on the first acd last ocasions| face of the affable detective, who f j f think he'll mind, and it's. pretty coms | pir | smiled and replied: | : , i ope Be: gr “Certainly, If you'd, ike. Ba tell ‘No, not one. Amd my own sister,| “Oh, of course, nobody can be in two Rh, been'thare* Kes aay “T ‘ them to send s6u wha they've Perhays you will be pleased to know. | places at once, else what would become Le 4.% —=J | Bir James Norris ted the tmet T shall be able to give you | £ swan only there at the time of the first) of the alibi as an institution? But, as i] = h! (Way | thier sently." they al aso” ae sen, a har ot eueee | robbery.” | Ihave aid, 1 am only getting my facts, & = = Have you jE geiibe eee and a. walnut: 24 ott’ te tad ob “Just so! And your daughter, as J| in order. Now, you see, we get down) I H mine. have gathered, was clearly from |to the servants—unless some stranger IM y vapor ccreeeara ania be a tn Feit an Tehnws rather a god clue, |, Acmhat?, A lump of f sugar and the egot each thme—indeed, com-| Is the party wanted. Shell we go cut- | ; f =e bo pian, NOrHe. your daughter,“ 6ir etzhough T can't t nd ood a efte that homent, wit fg ek bell to pany with the party robbed. Your) = ‘ to Knew now whether you| /Oh: i; ot hale | “Lenten Croft was a large, desultory yer tate poe, Tou want te, Ae | areicerernip leipronmsute when You) My and stred after this de ‘Why, hang it atl, Mr. How’tt, T can't | €0Ft of house, nowhere enore than three | Foniaifulllcuarterichlan Rounltewite. chevced aie eh James following her in the cor- C ve eA TG, * Bir Jamon talk of my niece as a suspected orimi-| Moors Mgh, and mostly only rwo. It had § 9 WES ORBLE WIE ee OhooMmy 3 thts ie Mae, Hewitt, who i ea is the daroese, "When the vehicle bringing ‘tack fat! The poor gina y protec- | been anned to bit by bit, until ft zig- | a ight.” last he came away and overtook Sir miorning-room: the other ts Mr. Lloyd's me, leh toe tees wre ae eae ir aca know—thi Serre rary | A Sowite “eee. tion, and 1 really | heen added to bit by bit. until it gig- Sir James felt for his own matchbox, | James that gentleman was about re-) ¢,™M¥ reorel A fort of study, oS t- | Temember anyth ning happening at any of | entering the house, Hewitt raised Norris expressed it, “like a game of but Hewitt had me, and wi lighting (ees three times. ir 6 ad go wae Son, YOU wil gee at once, “Sik fe indy, bowed iy; and wala tn painace Gi Howitt examined {ts ex- his cigar with a match from a box| “f bes your pardon, Sir James,”| James,” Howitt pursued, with an affa- al rae dear sir, haven't I said tt ternal features carefully as they handed him by the groom. A smart| Hewitt said, ‘for leaving you in that| ble ‘Getermination. to ‘win the baronet legate ara Cieaneis?S Raby, < “Of NE gierastiat nuit! 156 ist aie: strolled around, and stopped some little ttle terrier was trotting about by the| uncefemonious fashion to talk to your | back to goed humor— you will gee ot the oe how tho people, were discribuced, as Walle before the windows of the two coachhouse, and Hewht stooped to rub| groom, but a dog, Sir James—a good | ire “Weatig ease, anybody. looking | "You found Mrs, Ai ot & Bervant oy or” | 1 Think a i aah tee ain cate uae Te bedrooms he had just seen from the its head. Then he made some observa- | dog—will draw me anywhere." from elther of thete rooms would have |jocked, |X ed | Howitt th Mhoudh hes] t2 8 lowittremartie ae Pi SAIN, ules aig sently they approached the! tion about the dog, which enlisted the} ‘Oh!’ replied Sir James, shortly. seen It’ ‘when fey ees sourney. Butte) oa Tystord The ‘men, eras mises, 7 think, who) found that sire. 1a coachhoust, where a groom | groom's interest, and was soon ab-| ‘There 1s one other thing,” Hewitt| | “Of course! The Scotland Yard man wen ote fo Petlove it. was locked. |'*1e te > fact Jo, we must| standing In the hall with Mr. Armitage's door was locked—this 4 hing the wheels of the dog-| sorbed in a chat with the man, Sir| went on, disregarding the other's curt-| Guestioned sverybody Be 0a, tthe DOF | vee, it was” 1 here, tts ko, 8 frond, “pated mod deny cage tm 4h fact—on the day ehe lost her brove: | James, waiting @ little way off, tapoed | ness, “that I should lke to know.| the rooms when the thing occurred; et) "Had the xox bean lett inty e a anysy coe gad ‘the ‘ "Yew, tt was. Do you mind my smoking?” Hewitt | the stones rather impatiently with hia | There are two windows directly, below | any rate nobody saw anythin Pe acd a AE OR A hg ear gparmea. Hen think,’ rani pirat ae “Just so—at the time when Mrs, Ar-/c2%eq S.r James, “Perhaps you wili| foot, and presently moved awa: that of the room cocupled yesterda “Still, I think I should like ‘6 look out q om psy D y ¥ Mrs. < h floor. of those windows mys Will, “ut | sheroo Soon happen 1) mesonge tio ova esien his ing Nai @mitage herself had forgo! whether take a cigar yourself—they are not so| For a full quarter of an hour Hewitt |.roo ? cl Seat give me an dea, of nat was In Tua intrae- @o Be Co @he locked it or not. And yosterday— | bad, I think, I will ask your man for! chatted with the groom, and when at ‘the round view and what wae not, if anybody had Tao