The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1906, Page 14

Entered at the Post-Oflice at Now York as Gecond-Class Mail Matter. [SS een ne eed eee mean VOLUME 46......0ccc00 sesseescescseeee covcescvseee NO. 16,288. (aa SEE EAE hee A Question of Hot Air. ‘At the Albany merger hearing Mr. W. N. Amory, a stockholder of the old Metropolitan company, said in the heat of argument: { “Mr, Jerome knows the guilt of the Metropolitan management, but _ funder his administration all big criminals seem to be perfectly secure. {Whe District-Attorney’s office is getting to be regarded as a laboratory of hot air.” It may appear that excessive zeal in a cause to which he has sacrificed fils time and devoted his personal fortune led Mr. Amory to this use of extreme language. But is his characterization of the District-Attorney to bz received with tntire incredulity? Is it abusive overstatement merely or has it some basis of truth? Weeks have now elapsed since The Evening World, noting how Mayor McClellan had kept his promises, asked Mr. Jerome when he pro- posed to begin to keep his. The public was given to understand that by February something would have been done. February is now here. (What criminal prosecution has been begun? What altempt has been made to “follow the trails of wrongdoing and corruption even into the Offices of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company” if they led there ? What has been done to arraign those “most dangerous, most power- ful, most vindictive influences” which are now engaged in their most menacing assault on the public interest? How far advanced is the prosecution of the beneficiaries of insurance corruption? Has it even been begun? Must a reluctant assent be given to the accusation? Is the District- lAttorney’s office only a “hot-air laboratory?” Are its emanations but sound and fury, signifying nothing? Even Wall Street cannot understand the complicated statement of the merger finances. In its main features, however, Ryan's arrangement with the Interborough stockholders resembles that of the Yankee on the bank of the Columbia, who hired Siwashes to collect driftwood and gave them half the wood in payment. “Local Expresses” for the Subway. Under the happy-go-lucky schedule of subway train trons have learned: That there is practically no saving in time and sometimes a loss in quitting a local at an express station to take an express to the next. Be- “tween Fourteenth street and the bridge time is as often lost as gained. . That the small amount of time sacrificed in taking a local between | the Grand Central and the bridge is more than made up by: the comfort | of a seat. j That a local leaving Ninety-sixth street just as an express pulls out will frequently reach the Grand Central ahead of the next express, In a word, under the present “thirty minutes to Harlem” rush-hour 4 actual running time the local service, except for long distances, is the * more satisfactory. ; Why not develop it further by a system of local expresses to relieve the rush-hour congestion? Why not have alternate local trains, properly marked, run express to Forty-second street and make all stops above that * point? They would draw largely from the packed expresses. They _ would diminish the time lost by expresses in unloading and loading. , They are entirely feasible, and to judge from the increasing reliance of { passengers on the local service would meet a manifest want, operation pa- i A New Detective Series By Arthur Morrison, Author of ‘‘Tales of Mean Streets.”’ @oor he met our late neighbor, who had turned suddenly back. “Your umbrella, 1 think?’ asked, offering it. “Yes, thanks.” But the man's eye had more than its former hardness, and his j Jw muscles tightened as I looked, He turned and went. Hewitt came back to me. “Pay the bill,” he said, “and go back to your rooms. I will come on later. I must follow this man—it's the Foggatt case.” a cab rattle away, after ft another. I paid the bdéll and went home. 2 Martin Hewitt, a brilliant private , with unique methods, is hero of these adventures, re- by his friend Brett. The first story of the series was “The Lenten Croft Robberies.” ——— S@xNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. A, gemi-rectuse named Foggatt 1s found na fury ives w erdic of death by Secident, but Hewitt belleves the man wes murdered. Hewitt and Brett dine | Sten Italian restaurant and fall into talk With an athletic young man. Hewitt the and immediately it —Lo— was 10 o'clock before Hewitt turned up, calling in at his office below on his way ' CHAPTER II. up to me. “Mr. Sidney Mason,’ he said, “is the gentleman the police will be wanting to- morrow, I expect, for the Foggatt murder, He is as smart a man as I re- member ever mesting, and has done me rather neatly twice this evening.” “You mean the man we sat opposite at Luzatil's, of course.” “Yes; I got his name, of course, from the reverse of that gold medel he was good enough to show me. But I fear he has bilked me over the address. He Suspected me, that was plain, amd left his umbrella by way of experiment to The Apple Clue. new friend, it seems, had him- eclf been a prominent racing bi- oyolist a few years back, and was presently, at Hewitt's request, ex- hibiting a gold medal that hung st his guard. ‘That was won, he explained, in the old tall bicyole Gays, the days of bad tracks, when every racing cyclist carried cinder wcara on his face from numerous ac- cidents, He pointed to a blue mark on is forehead, which, he told us, was @ track acar, and described a bad fall that bad cost hin? two teeth, and broken others. The gps among his teeth were plain to seo as he emfled. Presently the waiter brought dessert, end the young man opposite took an apple. Nut crackers and « fralt knife lay on our side of the stand, and Hew- itt turned the siund to offer him - ‘enough to notice the circumstance, and to avail myself of it to follow him. 1 was hasty and fell into the trap. “He cabbed it away from Luzatt!'s, and I cabbed it after him. He has le! me a pretty dance up and down London to-night, and two cabbies have made quite a stroke of business out of us. In the end he entered a house of whicli of course, I have taken the address, but I expect he doesn’t live there. He 4s too smart a man to lead me to his den; but the police can certainty find something of him at the house he went katte, “No, thanks,” he eafdg “I only polish @ good apple, never peel it. It's a mis- take, except with thick skinned, foreign ones.” And he began to munch the apple as only a boy or a healthy athlete can. Presently he turned tis head to order coffee. The waiters back was turned, and be had to be called twice. To my unutterable amazement Hewitt reached way. By the way, you never guessed that simple little puzzle as to how I swiftly across the table, snatched the | found that this was q murder, did you? half-eaten apple from the young man's | You sve it now, of course?" plate, and pocketed it, gasing mme-| “Something to do with that apple you Gately, with an abstracted air, at a painted Cupid on the celling. omething to do with It? T should Our netgtibor turned again, looked | pink 90, worthy Innosent. Ju t Goubttully at bis plate and the tabi we'll borrow Mra, Clay- cloth about it, and then shot a ki chine oil again, On the unce in the direction of Hewitt. He | nignt we broke into Fopyatt's room maid nothing, however, but took his cof- fee and his bill, deliberately drank the former, mzing quietly at Hewitt as he id tt, paid the latter and lett. Immediately Hewitt was on his feet, and, taking un umbrella which stood followed. Just ge be reached the ou saw the nutshella und the bitten remuins of an apple on the sideboard, and you rethembered it; and yet you couldn't possibly see that in that piece of apple possibly lay an important plece of evidence, Of course, I never ox- you to have-esrived at any, com- fPubnshed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 58 to 6 Park Row, New York As he went out I heard) Bee if I were watching him sharply! in at—and, I expect, left by the back |, | | rhe BVOHINgG Worlad*s Nome Magazines Friday Eve Groundhog Day. By J. Campbell Cory. i} aH th LU I Ih {/ Why fis hole very cautiously this morning and looked for the lamp-post, so he could throw a shadow. He looked like he might throw a fit, but he didn't He didn't feel very ft. Nobody would suspect there was a hole to come out of since C. F. Groundhog pulled the hole in after im some time ago. But it was part of the burrow that be and Brother Jewn are digging for Mr. Cassatt, the Person who called in the passes and is now to be investigated !f he doesn't give up. Even if Mr. Groundhog doesn’t see the sun to-day Mr. Cas- satt will see a great lght. But that is another story. “Has that Bingtam person formed a py } AV, et Miia pst 7 Hy) if Uiitee clusion, as I had, because I had ten inlnutes In wolch to examine that appl and ty do what I did with tt. |icast you should have seen the posal- blilty Uf evidence in it. “Hirat. now, the apple was white. A you must have ‘ob- acryed, (Wu a reddis. If left to stand long. Di of apples brown with dift tles, und the browning always v at the core. of the twe it ts aseti A Teowd tell, « Newtown pippan, Hoar ts 001 , & Newtown pippin or other apple of hat kind, which will brown at core in -drom ¢menty. to half, apple on the efde! But a | The | the part where the teeth had left tho lps marl C. Francis Groundhog came out of | groundhog squad?” asked Mr. Ground- hog, apprehenstvely. ‘I'm afraid of coming out of my hole for fear of con- tracting a cold. That's about the only thing I'll be abie to contract for some time by the way it looks from where I ait, Still you never can tell how your picture is going to look. Sunshine will drive me back to my daily snooze, so what care I? My specialty has been underground work, anyway.” “What {s your prediction?" “Looks like about four more years of frost for mine. The early frost has killed all the plum trees and the appie- bushes are completely spoiled. I pre- dict a long, cold, dreary perpeual winter. - Martin Hewitt, Investigator - an nour, and in ota is in a quarter of an hour soi When we saw it it white, with barely a Unge of brown tne exposed core. — Inference, dy had been eating it fifteen oF twenty minutes before, perhaps a Httle longer—an inference supported by the fact that it was only partly eaten. ed Like Bye, and Lound tt wrk of Very irregular teeth, vu were gute I ofled it over, lilng down to my rooms, wherd T always have a Ute plaster of handy for such work, took a mould of lo to {us- ince tortie ponee to. tae the police i? "they. thought ft. ‘Looking’ at ay moukd, It wae lain that | appear to have een fairly sound, were n “You don't mind the cold, do you?” “Mercy, no! They're making it too hot for me as it is, now. I have been Toasted every day for the past month and the only thing about me that have been cold are my fee. And they've given me the boots, at that.” “We see Lewis Nixon calls you a punching bag by way of compliment,” “Wy didn’t he make it football while he was about it?” “They did hand you the shoo-shoo, sure.” “Yes, sir, it looked strange when I looked to the Haul to foot the bills and they footed me, 5 ‘Weil, suppose you don’t see your shadow to-day?" ‘It'll be @ chilly day for Cholly, any- had ‘bitten that uppie had lost two teeth, one at the wp and one below, not exactly opposite, but nearly 80. ‘She other teetn, although they would in size and Ui Now, the very excel- reguiar and sharp, with none missing. ‘Therefore \t ings Februa C. Francis Groundhog Looking for Shadows. way vou look at {t."* “Does this Fire Department now tn- terest you?” “Looks like Mac was the whole Fire Department by the way he's fired all the workers.” “Is there any significance to Mr. Nix- on's calling you a punching bag?’ “Not unless he ment that they used me {n training for ballot-boxing.” “Sausage and omelette go well to- gether, we understand.” “How's that?’ ° {Ground hog and egg in the shoe.” “Well, when I crawl back Into my hole there will be only one way to ever get me out again.”” “And that !s"— ‘Make a noise Ifke a contract.” To my unutterable amazement, Hew itt reached quickly across the table. irienuly conversauou sua preceded the muuruer—withess the drinking and tne of the appie, Whetner or nut the police noticca these things 1 can say, If they had had their best men on ‘they ‘certainly would, I tbinig, ‘but t lo a fough observer, looked one of accident or sulckle bly they didn’t, ¢ ry 2, 1906.6 Teer A Group of Oddities in Picture and Story HIS is one of the pddest cups ever made. A year of two ago its in- trinsic value would have been al- most double what it is to-day. But as ® curio it is still priceless, The cup {3 carved from @ single lump of cannel coal and weighs more than 100 pounds. It 1s @ football trophy and has been competed for by many British teims. ‘The cup was made by George Turton, a colliery engineman. The chalice 1s highly polished and bears an inscrip- tion, while the base is decorated with a carven garland of leaves. Owing, per- haps, to ite great weight the cup has Deva found hard to “lift.” By turning the handle of an organ the Italian in England obtains nearly eight times as much per week as he can earn in ‘Italy, more than four times as much as the English farm laborer, ani nearly three times the pay of the po- liceman who moves him on when re- quested. Thousands of skilled artisins who have served apprenticeship as car- penters, painters and joiners get only half the organ grinder’s pay, for the Italian reckons Jt w very poor week in- deed if he makes leas than §15, and he often gets $17.80 to $20 or more. An enterprising German has patented a device fr filing phonographs to dours. As the customer enters the door of a shop. a voice will call out, “Flour is choaper to-day ;"’ “New consignment of special quality it meat just re calved; try some,” and similar invitations. Very curtous ts the method of fishin of Malacca. The fisherman lets down fr canvas stretched un wood. struction and try to leap over it, with tl and are thus captured, 1s followed by the Chinese in the Straits om the side of the boat a screen of white ‘The shoal of tish mistake this for some floating ob- he result that the fish Jump into the boat This method is employed by Malays in their waters. This photograph of the Tsaritsa’s Christmas present to her little son, the Tzarevitch, wus taken at Tsarsk-ve- Selo on Sunday, Jan, T—the Ruselan Christmas Day. ‘The Tsaritsa, who is an expert wood- carver, fashioned the toy herself. It fs an exact mode! of the Tsar's fta- vorite chalet, or summer-house, {n the Imperial pleas- ure grounds at- tached to Tsarsloe- The Dog Procession. To the Editor of The Evening World: New York is literally going to the dogs—at night. There isn't an evening 1 go fora walk that I don’t see about sixty dogs, leading thelr owners (or oftener thelr owners’ husbands) in a melan- choly parade along upper west sido streets. They're all measly little dogs, too. Scarcely one honest big dog in the bunch, I've lived in lots of other |etties and I think this nightly dog pa- |rade 1s peculiar to New York alone. Why not exercise the dogs by day? Are thelr owners ashamed to be seen with the little curs by daylight? COLUMBIA SENIOR. In Behalf of Osteopathy. To the Editor of The Evening World: I read that the assistant of a man lately arrested for alleged quackery calls himself an osteopath. Personally I doubt if he is one, In any case such ‘a statement bends to cast a slur on « etraight profession and one with many genuine cures to its credit I am not The Case of Mr. Foggatt so on, but I had a olfent with me, and r ‘on about, T took Wtle eral oul men Slob trouble. ‘But ‘to-day, finding the mame ith @ Vacant seat opposke oni! certainly managed to draw nim won Salt tet Pam, ate I ably ke this ttle ‘plaster mould of mine."” He produced from hie pocket an tr- regular lump of plaster, about three inches long. On one side of this ap- peared In rellef the likeness of two ir- regular rowe of six or elght teeth, minus one in each row, where a dep gap was seen, in the position spoken of by my friend. He proceeded: » {This was enough at least to set mo after this young man. But he gave me the greatest ry nce of all he turned and left his apple (eaten un- peeled, remomber!—anobier depo teet triviallty) on plate, Wwaan't at all polite, an or dnt rentat_the temptation, to’ steal y it fempt lon foot Wend nete it is" young man with « “Quice for the if Pook "the Spportuntty of making, pose. ‘There the mame i ou = 80 fortt—are wimple @, Jong letter before a3 a witness itary iy vm -| the inquest of the scout ve acc Selo Palace, The model, which is beautifully carved in soft white wood, Is built up of eighty-four sepa. rate pleces, and can be pulled to bits by the Mttle Prince and put toe gether again, Owing to an error in caloulation made in 1820 the height of every Alpine sum- mit, says the Alpine Post, will have to be written down by about ten feet. Letters from the People. an osteopath, nor in any sense blowing the trumpet for osteopathy, nor hallihg {tas a cure-all. But I do know of many |wenuine cures it has effected, and also |thrat it ts based on common sense; also that It ts a legalized and recognized practice in many States of the Union, G. D. MARRINER, New Haven, Conn, Defends Capt. Van Schaick. To the Editor of The Fvening World: I think Judge Thomas, who sentenced Capt. Van Schaick to ten years in pris- on, should have put the blame on those that were the initial cause of the Slo- eum accident, I don't think the captain Was to blame. He did the best he could, and any one who knows anything about seafaring wouh probably tell you the same. I have uncles and cousins who are captains and pilots and know all about the wat'’s surrounding the lace where the Slocum was nd a good many other places. Now, ¥ Was all the blame put upon the captain? How about the tors? EB. M. M. teal, “That wim do, I think,” ere ‘To-morrow morning, Brett, I up these things in @ small end take them round to “But ‘are. they’ euffieleme y sufficient the Hewitt came into the me. “From our friend of last night," Ge said; “read it.” has 9 slight This letter began nt or Pet dated, and was as e r ;-To Martin Hewitt, eaq, Sit Lard Rleorl y perms frets yon ea ihe mee read ‘hia pame on ‘his modal, and had «| from me my name, ‘ike address 1 bie to ball tine, he spoke of them h tlthounn "by “the “tame, you, reads “Now, ‘i 4 you will probably have found it there are several tail, athletic young sy (yet! eolicitor. That however, wae eben sod ttle “tee to "vo T am removing myself, I think, Be eat the reach even » Dey 0 | OF HOUR Abilities o¢ search. X idea thet fe wou cinily atter Your somewhat discourteaus my upple at first amazed And Was @-little doubtful as to whether You had really taken it—bu' ‘as my fingt Warning that vou might be playing. & deep kame against me, Incomprehensi- ble as the action was to my mind. I stg a peat Rt Sr ide a ik an apple, instead u 1 drink he first cfered in the dead wretoh's rooms on. the to his merited end. Brom sume that your design wai Way to compare what “emained {Yo ,Applow—altts igh 1°30 not m the depths system, ne oak able, to some extent, to to-night, I admit that Fees this cage alone Is something beyond ms, eet One bitten cide, placed Against ‘alf of the mold, Atted pro- lcisely, a projection of apple Alling ox- folly the deep gap. The other side sim- Naty fitted the lower half. “There's no Ket Lg ini sald. somebody else had been 1 sali, after the Inquest 4 was Me tewitt Tating that apple. “Dot make myselt| unadle to devote uny immediate time to | £06" indie” teach wan. a aul Sieur ke the case, but I resoived to keep my| tone but this is aa plain “Quite! Go on!” es open, The man to look ror was| SXtire’ or his thumb impre: |. “Rore wore other inferences to be young, strong and active, with a/ PAture on Me oumen bite exactily alll linadessiighter, but’ all pointing the] Very ‘Irregular set of teeth, 'a tooth} never find Sum men mes Genye sume way, mivaing from the lower jaw just to the| RO matter, whithoy Shee oenye et Hor inutance, a man of Foggatt’s| left of the centre, und another trom the| teeth mes OF i, Mare Pf tee ne: age does not, a6 @ rule, ununch un tune) Wee! ANw, a ikle further, stint Toward [lh Ate, Cid” rom thle apple, und com: apple like @ school boy. in- “/ te a HeSenco, young man, and healthy, | 8° feon about, the premises (i Hetle Why I came to the conclusion that he 2, no » of water was tall, active, a gymnast, and f= | OO ‘a hard haps a sailor, I have already told you, nae hen we examined the outside of were, ¢ indow. It-waa also pretty clear the ry was por the motive, sinus ase 0 not know by whom onary! commissioned to hunt me, nor extent you may be acquainted with my connection with the creature 1 killed,” L.have suMfcient respect for ever, to wish that you should th lous criminal, ‘ gard me as a a Couple of hsuts to wpare in "to offer you an explanation that vince you that such is not all + the cage. A hasty: and'vidleat I ut poaensiie; but even ni cannot forget the one crime it has led t for it' ie 1 eu? hy 2 before the ‘eyes of him with shame, dered m er, murde’ her because she prgees hears, ie me tte’ but for, 4