The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1906, Page 14

Nas ‘Pabtenes vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to 6 Park Row, New Yo! “Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. «- NO. 16.241, The Coal Strike Peril. The signs are ominous of war in the coal industry. The operators are adding to the mountains of reserve supply heaped up in anticipation of a strike. The Steel Trust and the railroads are ac- cumulating large stocks, Many prudent manufacturers are likewise looking ahead. There are no coal reserves in tenement-houses or in the bins of small dealers, If the emergency comes they will look to the operators for supplies at famine prices. It is on the small consumers everywhere that the brunt of a strike would fall. While miners and employers contended for “principles,” they would bear the burden. While the parties tthe dispute wrangled _ Over wage scales they would pay the bill. From every breakfast that is cooked toll would be taken. There is something ironical about “prin- ciples” which are enforced at the cost of disease and death from insuf- ficient warmth in thousands of humble homes, “Everything depends on Mitchell,” says President Truesdale, for the operators. Is there no blame on the operators? The public is not in a mood to put up with claims of superior virtue on either side. It is equally tired of “principles” and of “divine right” of the Baer brand. What it clearly understands is that a strike will be a crime, and those by whose obstinate rejection of reasonable Proposals it _ tSbrought about criminals, It demands that every possible effort to avert calamity, every/compromise and conciliation, be put forth by the men ‘whose decision will precipitate or prevent it. “Certain defeat” is what District President Dolan foresees for. the miners if they drop their picks while 75,000 non-union miners in Penn- - Sylvania are ready to take their places. Certain suffering for the public 4s a far greater consideration. 4 Has C. Francis Murphy, Esq., heard about the “false Czar” who has been ‘personating Nicholas of Russia and got caught? Bogus bosses run risks, Criticising a Napoleon. , ‘The examination which the Dutch stockholders of the Kansas City ‘ Southern have made of that property since they got it back from Mr. au Harriman’s control has led them to criticise American methods of railroad They find that in six months there were 715 wrecks and derailments, _ The roadbed was in bad condition andthe rolling stock in bad repair. There was much wasteful expense, and a “surplus” of $2,000,000 was found to exist on paper only. Hence the criticisms. _ But allowance must be made for the ultra-conservative nature of Dutch ideas of railway management. The investigators seem not to understand that the Kansas City Southern was a mere link in the Harri- man lines, a pawn on the chessboard. | It held the same relatton to this railway Napoleon’s schemes of consolidation that a petty Italian princi- pality held to Bonaparte’s schemes of conquest. To criticise this bit of mismanagement in a master of transconti- nental mergers is like twitting the “sun of Austerlitz” with the loss of a mountain skirmish. LY The Evening World’s Home Magazine, Wednesday Evening, February 7, 1906. A Bird of Paradise By J. Campbell Cory. YOU NEVER MADE Al DISHONEST DOLLAR DID YOU TOM ? Identification for Warships. HE German Admiralty has resolved upon furnishing ships of war wit® I means for recognizing each other's identity at distances too great for read- ing. This 1s to be effected by the use of rings or bands on the chimney- stack, differing in number and color. The colors used will be black, white, red An Immigration Barrier. A salesman won $250 at cards on an ocean steamer and, fearing that he would be considered a card sharp, jumped overboard in the harbor. He need not fear Suspicion. The real sharp is less sensitive. | THE NEW «2 «x w DETECTIVE Martin Hewitt, a brilliant pri- vate detective, with unique meth- ods,.is the hero of these ad- ventures, recounted by his friend fn) the other, when I became conscious of a shadow across the window. I looked up quickly, and there was Mir- sky hanging over from some ledge or prafection to the side of the window, staring straight at me with a look Brett. . $|of unmistakable <error and apprehen- ® | sion. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.| “The face vanished immediately. I Plans for a torpedo, invented by had to move a table to get at the win- :| dow, and by the time I had opengd it ‘t, | there was no sign or sound of the right~ ful tenant of the room. I nad no doubt now of his reason for carrying a parcel downstairs, He probably mistook me for another visitor he was expecting, and, knowing he must take this visitor Into his room, threw the papers and rubbish over the press and put up his plates and papers in a bundle and se- creted them somewhere downstairs lest his occupation should be observed.” “Yes, but I don’t at all understand this business of the drawings even now. How in the world were théy taken out of the ea the plans, photograpned the plana. Me oeks Mirsky out and destroys’ the ves. s —_—_—. CHAPTER ITI. An Odd Discovery. ly sneak- 6M left off talking, continued Hewitt. I heard him qu: ing off," “Perhaps his consctence was not suf- ficiently clear to warrant an appeal and to the police, but it seemed ta me; place. and how in the world did vou rather probable at the time that| find it out?” that wae what he was going for,| “Nothing could be simpler; and yet Fx 60 I hurried on with my work, I] the plan was rather ingenious. I'll tell found three dark slides—the parts that| you exactly how the thing revealed carried the plates in the back of the| itself to me. From the original descrip-| camera, you know—one of them fixed in the camera Itself, These I opened | and exposed the plates to ation as before, I suppose nobody ever did so Much devastation in photographic | tlon of the case many people would consider that an*{mpossibillty had been | performed, Nobody had gone out and ody had come in, and yet the draw- had been taken away. But an im- s@tudio in ten minutes as T managed. oselbility is an impossibility, after all, “I had spoiled every plate I could find, nd as drawings don't run away of and had the developed negatives safely | themselves. plainly somebody had taken in my pocket, when I happened to| them, unaccountable as {t might seem. glance at a porcelain washing well un-| Now, ag they were in your inner office, der the sink. There was one negative! the only people who gould have got at fn that, and I took it up. It wes not! them tsides voursel’ were your assit- @ negative of a drawing of yours, but of) ants, so that it was pretty clear that @ Russian twenty-ruble note!" jone of them at least had something to This was a discovery, The only pos-|do with the business. You told me that @ible reason any man could have for| Worsfold was an excellent and intelll- sphotographing a bank .note was the|«ent craftsman, Well, {f euch @ man manufacturing of an etched plate for|as that meditated treachery, te would ) the production of forged copies. 1 was| probably be able to carry away the ‘imost as pleased as 1 had been at the | design in his head—at any rate, « Uttle ) | iscovery of your negatives. He might|at a time—and would be under no ne- % (bring the police now as soon as he| cessity to run the risk of stealing a eet |) iiked; I could turn’ the tables on him| of the drawings. But Ritter, you re. + jeompletely. 1 bogan to hunt about for| marked, was an inferior sort of man, 5 lap relating to this negative. | ‘not particularly smart,’ I think, were 5% found an inking roller, some old| your words—only @ mechanical sort of r ‘of blanket (used in printing from| tracer. He would be unlikely to be able ). and im @ corner on the floor,|to carry in his head the complicated ‘over with newspapers und rub-| details of such designs as yours, and, being in a subordinate position, and Martin Hewitt, Investigator. °° and yellow. According to several Uberal German journals the ships of the opposing squadrons frequently mistook a friend for an enemy during the recent manoeuvres, owing to the absence of any meang/f !dentification. | who could not write such a passage correctly. His FOurth Case ss # THE DIXON TOR {i} co Ne I i) \ EL 1 “There was Mitac staring straight at mel” Mirsky (or Hunter—as you please) came into the outer office, and my attention ‘was instantly called to him by the first thing he did. Did you notice anything able path to start on. “When I looked round the rooms I Pushed open the glass door of the bar- rier and left the door to the inner office that as soon as he entered the place he put his walking stick into the umbri by the door, close stood, a most unusual And pattern as one already there, also a curious thing, I kept eyes carefully on those sticks, and continually overlooked, he would fing tt impossible to make copies of the plans in the office, So that, ¢o begin with, I thought I saw the most prop- ca void i ajar, in order to be able to see any- thing that might happen in any pert of the place without actually expecting any defi development. While we were 4a it happened, our friend. peculiar yourself?" “No, really, I can't say I did. He seemed to behave much as any traveller or agent might.” “Well, whet I notieed was the thing for @ casual caller to do, before even Knowing hag Aig Wee! e This me wat y. percelv interest. that with. inci ¥. $ Les Salas aaa CHINAMAN named Ah Zick has defeated the Australian commonwealth. The commonwealth authorities found that he was a “prohibited tmmigrant” because he could not write a passage of English bristling with treacherous words. Ah Zick appealed and the Judge sustained his appeal on the ground-that , the passage contained fifty-three words instead of fifty, as prescribed by the act. | t th a8 1a be- His Honor, moreover, declared that there were thousands of British-born people COmPlsined of the perilous pitfal PEDO. &3@ kept my - A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. - HIS dog !s a celebrity in England and {s said to be the only living canine decorated for personal merit. He ts London Jack IL, and he won considerable newspaper fame not long ago for his feat in wandering about with a basket into which a sign- board invited kind-hearted people to drop subscriptions for a raflroad or- phanage. The Committee of Manage- ment of the Orphanage of the London and Southwestern Railway have pre- sented London Jack II. with a hand- ome silver collar, relieved with silver medals, each representing a collection of 9600, Jack, who has a glossy jet- biack coat, has been collecting for four years and a half for the orphanage. It is said that every man has some little trick or other which he performs : unconsciously, especially when he {s thinking. The soverelgns of Europe have all their own peculiar habits, Mor eximple, King Edward has a way of passing his finger backward and forward under his chin; the German Emperor twirls his mustache with energy, while the King of Italy strokes his gently and affection~ ately; the Emperor of Austria combs out his ers, and the Czar frequently passes his hand over the top of hia head. Lastly, the retiring President of France, M. Loubet, has a trick of shrugging his right shoulder and he same time emoothing the front of his coat with his right hand. A homing pigeon, five months old at the time, was released on thesle of Man in August, 1908. It was long ago given up for lost. At lust it has returned to its loft in Liverpool. A two-headed box tortoise ts the prop- erty of Mr. E. 8 Schmid, a taxiderm- {st of Weshington. Concerning it the Sci- entific American says: “Theturtle,which !s of & common and well- known variety and whose scientific name is Terrapene Carolina, was found in Fairfax County, Va., near Mount, Vernon, and with the exception of ite superfluity of heads appears to dif- fer little from the ordirary representa- | tives of ils kind. The animal appears to be about four months old, ard measures some two by one and three-quarters inches, the shell being possibly a trifle larger than would ordinarily be the case, The two heads are neirly of the same size, and as far as can be even are perfect in all respects. Its other visite members do mot exceed the uewil number, and !t is probably not incorrect to conclude that the multiplicity {s confined to the heads. These do not feed together, but do #0 separately and alternately, and appear, furthermore. to be otherwise independ- ent." ‘The acompanying photograph of the tortoise is reproduced from the Sct- entiflc American The London Vegetarian Messenger commends footwear ‘without animal tint.”* ‘The soles are made of “Balata”—which is made of canvus and rubber; canvas {s used for uppers and “bright American cloth" for toe-caps, straps and trimmings. : < Letters from the People. Exit Lights Wanted. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World ‘Why do not all the big “gardens’’ and New York City have red lights exits as the theatres have? While atten crowded functions at such places I'am etruok by this defect. | There is often nothing to indicate where | the exits are, and in case of accident or | panic this negligence might prove very @angerous. Neither is there any one who seems to be in charge of the exits, and there would be no one on hand to ers, we let the matter drop. But those pitfalls are still there. There is often at least twelve inches between car door and station platform. The guard-drones “Watch your step!'? but often {s not heard or understood. So I have seen People (especially in thick crowds) step. into the opening an@ nearly break @ leg. This is a shame. Let it be cor rected right away. even if it costa poor Mr, Belmont a few dollars. ONE VICTIM. Slow Long Island Trains, open them in case of danger. Why does |ro the Editor of The Evening Warla, not the Fire Bepartment look ‘Rete '| Allow me to register a complains * Yonkers, N. Y, Pitfalls on Subway. To the Editor of The Evening World: When the subway was opened people against the Long Ishand Ratiroad (Mone tauk division) for the ti ween, trains bound for the Long Talend City t, Rockville Ceni depot from” Free} Lynbrook amd er towns in the icine To inhabitants T think foe 4 of BeaEy 000 Inha 4 tween platform and train at some of'to at least decent train meine the stations. Then, like all New York- LYNBROOK COMMUTER. By Arthur Morrison, Author of “‘ Tales of Mean Streets,” couki be learned by staying, as, in fact, known that they had been away.” ‘Yea, they didn't give you any much time to miss them. We I took the liberty of fetching it fell, I thinis back from Westminster, because I con- célve it to be Ritter’s property.” j Hewitt produced the stick. It was an ordinary thick Malacca cane, with @ buckhhorn handle and a silver band Hewitt bent !t across his knee and laid it on the table “%t was plain at once thet this was no (Malacca cane—It wouldn't bend. Inside it I found your tracings, rolled up tight- ly. You can get @ marvellous quantity, of thin tracing paper into small com- pass by tight rolling.” “And this—this was the way they were brought back!” the engineer exclaimed. “T see that clearly. But how did they get away? That's as mysterious as ever,"” “Not @ bit of it! See here. Mirsky gets hold of Ritter, and they agree to get your drawings and photograph them. Ritter is to let his federate have the drawings, and Mi is to pring them jback as soon as possible, so that they shan’t be missed for a moment, Ritter bebitually carries this Malacca cane, and the cunning of Mirsky at once sug- gests that this tube should be made in outward fac-simile. This morning Mirsky’ keeps the actual stick and Ritter comes to the office with the tube, kos Beapesnd when you the firet opportunity—probably were In this private room, and Wors- fold was talking to you trom the corri- dor—to get at the tracings, roll them up: tightly, and put them in the tube, put- ting the tube back into the umbrella: stand, At half past twelve, or whenever 2 aud i - I : ; a} t