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the $100 now bid is an important item of municipal economy. It fs an The Evening ‘Mall Matter. Entered at the Post-Oifice at New York as Second-C! VOLUME 46......ceesee cesses sees seeees seveee cogeve NO. 16.297. Ill-Advised Secrecy. If there is “nothing to conceal” in) the Equitable report but “trade secrets," why the concealment? Why the muzzling of directors? condition of affairs which in, addition to “a hand on the brakes’’! needs a gag in the mouths of trus- tees requires a fuller explanation than President Paul Morton vouch- | safes. The inviolability of “trade} secrets” does not commonly neces- sitate the use of such extreme pre- cautions. Any course of secrecy is a mis- The only sure way back to public con-} taken one for the Equitable. fidence is publicity in the fullest measure—candor, frankness, methods which are open and above board. Nothing else can so quickly rehabili- tate the company in public favor; and no tactics can do so much to delay and retard that result as tactics of evasion and concealment. | Is the lesson of' the Armstrong investigators so soon forgotten? If there are disclosures in the report involving names not previously smirched, the sooner they are out the better for the company’s reputation. __ The ice men will not be without an excuse for holsting the price of ice next summer even if we do have a cold snap. Cheap Light for the City. Eighty-cent gas for the general consumer is still a future contingency, @ependent on the susceptibility of up-State legislators to the siren voice of the trust. But the saving to the city of $500,000 a year in the lighting bids testifies to the good results of the new Stevens law. The reduction of the cost of single arc lights from the exorbitant Oakley rate of $146 to encouraging approach to fair dealing on the part of the electric companies under statutory compulsion. - There is some logic in the attitude of the gas companies which re- fuse to bid on the ground that to furnish 75-cent gas to the city would prejudice their case against 80-cent gas for private consumers. The public cannot see just why what it gets cheaply in its corporate capacity | should be so much dearer in homes and offices. Representative Sulzer wants to find out why the National City Bank Pays | Mo taxes on the old Custom-House. There aré others who would like to know, Baggage. Some fun is extracted from the fact that the Chinese Imperial Mis- sion now in town travels with nearly five hundred pieces of baggage, containing among other things rice, tin wash basins and cooking utensils. Why not? An Englishman travels with a leather hatbox, a big! bundle of canes and umbrellas, a tin bathtub, a canvas “hold-all” and various valises and “Gladstone bags.” An Englishwoman is similarly equipped, except for the shape of the hat-box, and she has in addition a contrivance with which she brews tea punctually at 5 in her railway train, which is a sloppy and messy proceeding. : The average American girl will not go fifty miles to a house party without from two to six huge trunks that seriously strain’ the baggage men to handle. Any railroad man will say that the amount of baggage «carried in proportion to the number of passengers is so rapidly increasing | that its transport becomes yearly a more serious problem. Perhaps Tuan Fang and Tai Hung Chu merely wish to compliment Pubhsnea py the Press Publishing Company, No. & to 63 Park Row, New Yorks | _World’s Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, February 3, 1906. ; The Mathematician. By J. Campbell Cory. VD QO SSS AISA SSSSSs SA ap i gem Letters from the People Another ‘Domestic Problem.” = ~=Answers to Questions Seventy-second street to West Seventy- | of the clock and wait three or four piain it? A single trip over second street and other crosstown | days. Your clock will be like a new rash hours will prove my ‘To the Déitor of The Evening World: % I read with Interest your “Domestic | Pont This Is a crying necessity. one—akip no mere; tt will atrike a2 Of Son” Whom Mild Winter Marte. Problem.” Here is another for reqders CAR-CHABER. | o14, and as you look inside you will tor of ‘The Evening World: Cleaning an O1d Clook. | find the cotton batting black to puzgie over: I have a family of five dust. children, no more nor no less; and one- |r, ine paitor of The Evening World: The fumes of the oll loosen the par-| ions: i iten “Hee tone ata half of them are boys. Can readers| pave any readers a clock they vatue| ticles of dust, and they fall, thus clew ! solve this vroblem? BOONTON. | tha: seams to be near the end of tts !Dg the clock. I have tried !t with euc- Pecks Sabwa 7a: usefulness? Does st skip a beat now | cess. A.B. To the Pilitor of The Evening World: Cranky Subway Passengers. While we're in the subway buflding business let's dig four tunnels under the park, east to west, and run underground crosstown trolley cars to cut off hal’ and then, and when ft begins to strike seam to be in pain? Let me tell you To the Editor of The Fvening World what to do, Take a bit of cotton bat-| I find passengers in the Subway mucr “dng, the sizo of a hen’s egg, dip tt In| more cranky and quarrelsome rule on snow to transport the sellers and workers of weather is to nters, all those men the Western peoples by showing that they know “what's what,” A New Detective Series By Arthur Morrison, Author of “Tales of Mean Streets.” ON pe See Martin Hetitt, a brilliant private) | sore seen? Ki detective, with unique methods, 8| | while Fogwatt, beling hate is the hero of these adventures, re-| | sorbed the larger share of the profita counted by his friend Brett, The] |' brief, my unhappy and tooltsh father’ Fer hatory af the caerten was “The | wae @ mere tool in the hands of the) y Lars | ining scoundrel who pulled all the Lenten Croft Kobveries. Wires of the business, himself unseen @ 4nd frresponsible. At last three eae nantes, for the promotion of which my father was responsible, came to grief in a heap. Fraud was written large over all their history, and, while Fog- gatt retired with his plunder, my father Signed. all with SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. A semi-recluse named Foggatt is found in his rooms, @ platol beside him. The ‘a Jury gives @ verdict of death by jent, but man murdered, Hewitt and Brett ding Qt an Italian restaurant an4 fall Into talk was left - Martin Hewitt, Investigator erosene, and place {1 on the floor of | and inconsiderate than “L’ or surface; he clock, In the ‘corner, shut the door! car passengers. Why ts thls, reader: either starve or break Into other rowded trades. POL ECON. The the time mow spent in going from East ‘athletic young man. t abstracts an avple the young man en just bitten into The teath-marks cor- id with those tn an apple found In t's room on the night the latter died. fewitt later recetves a letter from the wth admitting he killed Fogratt and vin- Uicating jeed, CHAPTER III. [The Confession. 66f\ F my father I remember very Uttle,"" continued the conte sion. “Hs must, I fear, have been a weak and incapable man In many respects. He had no business adilities—in faot,, wes quite unable to Understand the complicated business matters in which he largely dealt Forgatt was a consu:nmate master of @ll those arts of financial Jugzlery that make so many fortunes, and ruin 80 many others, in matters of com- pany promoting, stocks and shares, to meet ruin, imprisonment. From the beginning to the end he and he only was responsible. There was no shred of evkience to con- hect Foggatt with the matter, and no means of escape from the net drawn about my father. He lived through three years of imprisonment and then, entirely abandoned by the man who had made use of his simplicity, he Gied—of nothing but ehame ard a broken heart. disgrace and “Of this I knew nothing at the time. Aguin and again, as a small boy, I re member asking of my mother why I had no father at home, as other boys 'ad—unconsclous of the stab I thus in- ‘don her gentle heart. r most of the succeeding ycara ife does net comeern the matter In it. 1 was a lawyer's clerk in my| efactars’ service, and afterward a ed man among thelr assistant He was unable to exercise them, how- | All through the firm were careful, a ever, because of a great financial | pursuance of my poor mother’s wlahes. disaster in which he had been mixed up| that 1 I not learn the name or “| thrust the pistol in his face and shot him!’ NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES By Irvin 8S. Cobb. T DUE season we have moved along, evading ticket epeculators and other | predatory classes, until we reach Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street. On the northwest corner we see a stone building with high cheek bones. On the front stoop is a stone hobby horse, The hobby horse jis the emtiem of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which inhabits this building, only the society doesn’t know it. Let us pause in front of the building and consider the passing throng, Here comes a young woman dressed up fit to kill, In fact, there has al- ready been some killing. A beautiful, harmless bird, @ snowy heron, has been killed by a pothunter and stripped of the bridal tuft in its breast, so that the young woman may have a white algrette for her toque. There is © bright possibility that the killing of the snowy heron means a brood of fledglings starved in their nest. A considerable number of pretty little \ chinchillas also died that the young woman might own a fashionable fur Jacket. And yonder is auother woman, who likewise wears a zoological morgue, Her hat is heavily loaded with flora and fauna, It suggests a planked steak. The superstructure is of gray squirrel skin, Gray squirrels, it may be re- called, are playful, innovent creatures, and frequently, by their antics, keep | the policemen who have been sentenced to Central Park from going mad in captivity. On one side of the hat is a gem of the millinery or bird-murder art compounded of a parrot’s head, a sea gull’s wing and a pheasant’s tall The woman crags by a chain one of those queer Ittle creatures which would look so much like Roycroft settoes if they did not look more Mke andirons, Ab, yes, thank you; dachshund {s the word. Nature has built the dachshund | So close to the ground in the first place that he starts out in life with mala~ | rial tendencies. And now this young woman keeps him locked up in a two~ | grain, steam-heated flat. She holds him a fettered prisoner when he goes out | for his bi-weekly airing. She feeds him on bonbons untll he loses a tooth | every time he sneezes, and his digestive apparatus refuses to recognize him when they meet. Let us shed a tear for the dachshund. We ought to sym~ | pathize, anyhow, with one who was born so longwaisted. i But behold now the prize exhibit of all. It is a large, rich family out | riding behind their span of carrlage horses. The horses have their heads. | checked up until their necks are twisted into cramps and thelr mouth are | pulled open by the pressure of the stiff, heavy bits. Their tails have been | docked into whisk brooms. Docking 1s a performance calling for the use of | sharp knives and hot irons. It must be more or less painfud éven to a simple horse. No doubt, however, the persons responsibie for the operation stand ready to convince you that it is really a very humanitarian proceeding, be- | cause it gives the fly brothers—horse and house—a chance to enjoy them- | selves in summer without interference on the part of the horse. Shall we go inside end call the society's attention to the things one jee at its doors—the mutilated, bit-tortured horses, the slaughtered birds and beasts, the candy-fed Fido? It wouldn't be any use. The society has gone over to Brookiyn to prosecute a heartless woman who fed her canary German verbs in order to make it sing Wagner, THE FUNNY PART: So many who are inclined to swallow the elephant whole choke on @ gnat capsule, _—— A Unique Invention. | An tngentous new lamp is now being shown in St, Louis, the merit clatme@ | for which 's that the danger of oll overflow in filling is averted. This is done y means of a plece of glass of prism shape inseried in the top of the reservoln and with one portion extending down Into the off space, Thus It 1s possible to tell as soon as the ofl reaches the lower part of the glass extension and the exact level of the ofl can be seen and followed as {t rises toward the inleq hrough which the lamp is being filled. paso eae The Costliest Diadem. What {s probably the most valuable diadem in existence ts the gift of the women of Spain to Our Lady del Pilar, whose shrine [s situated near Saragossm ‘The diadem is an imperial crown surrounded by a Gothic wreath. It {s composed of solid gold, but such is the number of precious stones that hardly « square incl of gold is visible, There are 6.000 large diamonda, of which tle finest ts the gi of the queen-mother, and 3,000 smaller ones. The remaining stones are emeraldm sapphires, rubles, pearls, turquolses, opals, topazes and amothysts. Case of Mr. Foggatt ‘The crea- Averything was clear. very marked chanacter,’ I sald. “Core svt in fear of me, never imagining tainly no fool, And, if his tale is tru | that I did not’ know him, and sought to | Fogwatt Is no great loss to the world. buy me off—to buy me from the remem- "Just so—if the tale is true. Persone brance of my dead mother’s broken | ally [ am disposed to belleve it." heart for £600-2£500 that he had| “Where was the letter posted?" made my father steal for htm! I/ “It wasn't posted. It was handed te sald not a word. But the memory of|with the others from the front doom | all my mother's bitter years and a sav-|letter-box this morning In an ume age sense of this crowning insult to|stamped envelope, He must hevp myself took a hold upon me, and 1 was | dropped it tn himself during the nigh} a tiger. Even then I verily believe | Paper,” Hewitt holding ft that one word of repentance, one tone ,Up to the light. “Turkey mill, rule@ of honest remorse, would have saved |foolscap. Envelope, blue, offcial shape, him But he drooped his eyes, snuffled | Pirie’s water mark. Both quite ordi nary and no special marks.” “Where do you suppose he's gonet* “Impossible to guess, Some might think he meant sulcide by the exprese ston ‘beyond the reach even of your abilities of search,’ but I scarcely think ne is the sort of man to do that, No there Js no telling. Something may bo got by inquiring at his late address, of course, but when such @ man tells you he doesn't think you will find him you may couat upon it being a difficult Jot His opinion ts not to be despised." ‘ “What ahalt you dot “Put the letter In the box with the casts for the police. ‘Hat Justitia,’ you know, without any question of sentle/ ment. As to the apple, I really thini, if the police will let me, I'll make you @ present of It. Keep it somewhere as & souvenir of your absolute deficlency ’ suspicions’ and ‘no {Il will.’ stammer. Presently he looked up and saw my face, and fell back in his chair, stek with terror. I snatched the pistol from the mantelpiece, and, thrusting it in his face, shot him where he sat. “My subsequent coolness and quiet- nesy sucprke me now, 1 took my hat and stepped toward the door. But there were voices on the stairs, The door was locked on the Inside, and I left it so, I weat back and quietly opened a window, Below was a clear drop into darkness, and above was plain wall, but | away to one slde, where the slope of ti! gable sprang from the roof, an tron | gutter endel, supported by a strong bracket, Jt was the only wiy. I got upon the ef]l and carefully shut the window behind me, for people were al- ready knocking at the lobby door. From the end of the aill, holding on by the reveal of the window with one ‘hand, in reflective observation in this casa and look at it whenever you feel yours self growing dangerously conceited, 18) Ratt il few years before, and which made | wt Ocithe aan wha chen. Ratt’ ras) somes to ithe rola tml Utite more, if that wouldn't satisfy 1 be avolded futare, ked her ilfe a n i fei you, and’—— fort of secret and informal portn orm T had gone with an ac. |* Tather fine picture he had lately |drop in to-morrow evening, perhaps 1 {long usage to athletic training has! man, almost @ stranger, offer me £500, ship with my father, who, ostenslb lone In the business, acted throughout @n the directions of Fomgatt, woder gainst ted and turned | Raiheias litierntnt hi . Door, | pale, exhibiting sisns of alarm that I simple man, as a schoolboy would ave }could not understand ane, I net him twice or thrice after that, | ‘Phe transactions carried on went from | and on each uceasion his manner grow Small to large, and unhappily from) more friendly, In a servile, flattering | honorable to dishonorable, My ri} and mean sort of way—a thing un- relied on the superior abilities of Fox-] pleasant enough tn anybody, but doubly @att with an abrolute trust, oirrying|so in the intercourse of a man with ‘each May jthe directions given him| another man young enough to be his tely the previous evening, buying,| own son. Still, of course, I treated the : osp eiguingtman olvilly enough, On ene occasion bought, and observed casually, lifting | may have a Mittle proposal to makejsiven me @ distaste for both practices @ large revolver from the mantelpiece: | Will you? and I declined. At last began to "You see, 1am prepared for any un- | “I assented, wondering what this Pro | taix about myself. He was atrald that welowme visitors to my Ittle den! He, | Posal could be. Perhaps this eccentric | 1 Lroresional prospects in tiis coun- he!’ Concetving titm: of,course, to refer 8 fentloman was a good fellow after Take tol aeaat tut Hieuhad eeard to burglars, I could not help wondering |) @nxious to do me a good tum, and} 14° 11 some of the colonies#—South ut the forced and hollow character of )//4 ewkwardness was nothing but a} 0° oo ople—young lawyerm his laugh. As we went down the siains | Httural delicacy tn breaking the tee, 1” ot Danitien he sald: ‘I think we know one another | Was not so flush of good friends as to| 4 brilliant opportunities, pretty well now, Mr. Mason, eh? And {®e willing to lose ume. He might be “If you'd Ike to go there,’ he said: if 1 can do anything w advance your |destrous of putting business in my way. | ‘I've no doubt with @ little capital, a professional prospects I shall be glad “I went and was recelved with cor-|clevey man like you could get @ grand of the chance, of course, I understand | diality that even then seemed a ltt | practice together very #00n. Or you the struggles of a young professional | OVereffusive. We sat and talked of} might buy a share in geome good estab- e, hel’ It was the forced laugh| One thing and another for a long while, |Iisted practice, I should be glad to again, and the man «poke nervounly, and I began to-wonder Me, let} you have 00 pounds, or vem * A a or even more, ‘if that wouldn't satisty’ What claim had I on tum? “IT shouldn't Uke to bear you ill-will because of what has happened in the past,’ he sald. ‘Your late—your Inte lamented mother—I'm afnaid—she had unworthy suspicions—I’m sure—tt was best for all partles—your father always appreciated’'— “I set back my chair and stood erect before him. This grovelling wretch, should cure you.” leaning and stretching my utmost, 1| "), caught the gutter, swung myvelt clear] aiZua,!4 the history of the withered ang and serambled on the roof, I climbed|in my cabinet among @ aumber over many roofs before I found in an| tapleme sts adjoining street a ladder lashed per- pendicularly against the front of a. house In course of repair, a “Prusting that you will forgive the|Jeft almost undisturbed, and he hi oad’ froak of a mana erimingl, tet us| kone, Wiunout anything In the way. #ay—Who makes a confidant of the man|Cnd°without leaving any trace of hie set to hunt ‘him down, I beg leave to| intentions, be, sir, your obedient servant, (The Dixon Torpedo,” wheretm “SIDNEY MASON." I read the singular document through | ™** Hewitt 1» confronted with Nuasian scoret: and handed It back to Hewitt. " rooms were Tt