The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1906, Page 8

@ubhened vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 0 to @ Park Row, Now York Botered ‘at the Post-Office at New York as Seccnd-Class Mall Matte:. VOLUME 46..... NO. 16,244. The Real Rapid Transit Plan. York for four years—long enough to build a Subway. It was introduced for the Citi- zens’ Union and has been indorsed and urged by the Central Labor Union and by practically every civic club and association worth considering. But Mr. A. B. Boardman, coun- poses it, as he and the Board have opposed it from the first, Why? The bill provides for the separation of construction and operating contracts and for dividing the former if necessary. Why not? Few) contractors can take a $35,000,000 job and make $7,000,000 to $8,000,- 000 profit merely by cutting it up in pieces and subletting them, as the} Belmont people did. Only one company is now ready both to construct and operate. The bill provides for pipe galleries. Why not? No engineer ever aw the Subway without asking that question. Mr. Boardman himself Mnswered it two years ago by saying: That part of the bill, I learned from a representative of the CON- SOLIDATED GAS COMPANY, will be strongly opposed by his company. | The bill provides for shorter term contracts—twenty years if the! contractor equips the roads, ten years if the city equips them. Why not? ‘The Interborough has a seventy-five year contract, on which it is water- . thg an expenditure of less than ten millions into “capital” of more than ® hundred millions. Why shouldn't the people have the profits? The bill provides for taxation of the franchises. Why not? Bel- mont pays no taxes, even, on his great coup. The bill provides that the city may operate subways where it cannot tet the franchise to advantage. Why not? It may not wish to do so, but'this may be its only defense now against monopoly. The bill provides for gradual reductions of fares when it is shown that they are possible, beginning with school children. Why not? ‘Three-cent fares are profitable now. The extra two cents pays profits on the water in the stocks and bonds. | The bill has from time to time been slightly changed. It is at pres-| ent proposed to make it include cast-iron clauses against future mergers. | Why not? Ryan and Belmont have a half-billion merger now, four-| fifths of which is water. Shall they make it a billion? 4 | Why not, indeed? And now two “whys:” Why is Albert B. Boardman opposing the measure? Is he repre- | senting or misrepresenting Alex E. Orr and the other members of the, Rapid Transit Conimission? If he is representing’ them, why are they misrepresenting the city opposing its interests? ‘The Bowery’s Congressman. / The Hon. Tim Sullivan, surfeited with Congressional honors, is re-| yom. ees rhs eErmine Bers Is there such a word as “Pierrot?” am under the impression !t {sa Germa Kindly give me definition ported to have chosen Harry Payne Whitney as his legatee and successor for Representative from the Eighth District. But will the Bowery passively acquiesce? Will it consent to exchange its Webster for a mere millionaire? : Or can a silk-stocking Representative ever manifest that responsive chord for the interests of his constituents which is “Big Tim’s” right bower in Bowery hearts? Young Mr. Whitney has good credentials for the place—ability, an ample fortyne. , But has ‘he the Ciceronian elo- quence of the present incumbent? What is his record on chowder parties, Christmas dinners and the free-distribution of shoes? How many bail bonds has he ever signed? In the Eighth, though the Constitution does not count between friends, other things do. There are essential qualifications in a candidate SV a By J. Campbell Cory. lentine. rphy’ The Elsberg bill has been before | the people and Legislature of New | sel for the Rapid Transit Board, op- | had seventeen horses, leaving one-half of them to one gon, one-third to an- other and one-ninth to the third. Here {s the solution. Taey consulted a neigh- who brought one of his own horses thus making eighteen horses. ‘Then the neighbor divided the horses ‘The first son, that wus to got nine horses; t/ French for Buffoon er Clown, joa the. 09 mots, than two eke at the most, s0 ei often out of the question not beach the boat a ast River and see. fe could not until he aid PURITAN 8. 5. The Horse Problem, To the EXiitor of The Brening World: A correspondent tell Germ Seatterers, To the Battor of The Eyenine Wort From my windows I see the street- When it is very receive one-half, second, who was to recelve one-third, cleaners sweeping. cold and dry the dust from the brooms Right opposite is a bak- ns etand in front and the men carry bread out to them. from sweeping settles on Many may get sick from eating the cake, bread and rolls thus spri with fine dust. K. Van Schaick Again. - Thumbnail Sketches. UBJECT—Thomaes C, Platt. Favorite Sport—Runniny Favorite Task— Express Com- Favorite Bonk—'Yellow Dogs I Have Known.” Favorite Author—Pepys. Favorite Frutt—The crab. Favorite Plant—Any wood but Mae Wood. Favorite Vehicle—The glacier. Favorite Musical Instrument—The tclcle. si i 7) 2 di ny ‘To the Editor of The Evening ‘Worl Y » besides those in a Murray Hill voters’ directory. Tim's indorsement will| Beise ® ‘deep water man” I'\know is hei i ah lwhat ol@ Capt. Van Schaick had to go far in his heir’s favor, but Mr. Whitney must “make good” in many poe with. The men that work on ‘uch boats as the General Slooum are ‘ways before the district gives him its entire confidence. THE NEW « sx ¢ Merecro: Martin Hewitt, Investigator. eg nnn? The pulled his hand from his pocket and Martin Hewitt, ‘a brilliant pri-§ | extended it, full of silver, with five or vate detective, with unique meth-$| six sovereigns interspersed, toward ods, 4 the hero of these ad- | Wilky. ? “T'N have three quid," Wilks said, ) oentures, recounted by his friend} | win aecision, taking the money. | We lurched into a public house and | drank 2 very Uttle bad whiskey and OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. water. eK Gaustoa jewein ae Bolen "iat {How about our old pal down in Gold Liar ‘@ man on board « : * \ the yoboery & man ol onan: | a Do anything with him now 2 PAE to the eof the| Seen him lately?” fe lawyer, Hollame. caw ne | WHks lookea up at the ceiling and a cima yg ogg Cbrgeerd as- \ shook his head. Tho "bee contained, "That'a a good Job. Tt ‘nd be awk- | parser gin, Wilke nan | Ward {f you were about there to-day, qpald out’) part Of athe plunder | I can tell you." ‘Dears Hollame’s house he ea Wilks | ‘D'you mean the police are on it?" ? Fush forth. his clothes torn, Hewitt looked cauttously over his shoulder, leaned toward Wiks and CHAPTER III, said: “Look here; thie ts the straight orite Character in History—The saffron canine, Fifth Case * THE QUINTON tip. I know ‘iis got tt from the very The Trail. spy that's given the #how away. By ¢ e Trail, o'clock 8 Gold street will be turned in- aide out like an olf glove and every & Ifttle while Wilks approached small crowd gathered about a wom- an fiddler. Hewitt touctelt my arm and @ few quick steps took us past our Spparent'delight. “I haven't piped vour mug* for a stretch.t I thought you'd fell,¢ Where's your cadyf'} ‘Wilts locked astontwhed and sus- piclous, “I dont know you,” he sats. “Xou've;made a mistake." Hewitt laughed. “Tm glad you don't know me,” he anid. “If you don't I'm pretty sul gif FH i E cady. Strange blokes don't th ” Wilks as still suspicious. "I don’t ow what you mean,” he sald. Then, after @ pause, he added: “Who ere you, then?" Howitt winked end screwed tis face ly aside, ‘‘Hooky,"* eald, “I've ® loxky touch and I'm Mr. Smith , Mill I've melted the pieces. You come yand damp it” 5 ished the sentence by crossing his wrists like a handouffed man. asker “Ie that straight?” it?" replied Hewitt with om- phast, “You go and have a look if ‘you aint afraid of being smugged your- yet—I know thet” Wities fidgeted, finished his drink and ‘well, if you won't have another’ re. plied Hewitt. But he was gone, the door. ‘He has suddenly develope) hurry. I shall keep him in sight, but you had better take a cab and go straight to Huston. Tale tickets to the nearest station to Radcot—Kedderby, 1 think it 1s—and look up the train ar- much and keep an eye on the entrance, Unless I am mistaken Wilks will be heels. If I am wrong then you won't see the end of the fun, that's all.'’ Hewitt had of @ gudten asemmed the the cab and did as he wished. There was an hour and a few minutes, I found, to walt for the next train, and one in the place will be’—- He fin-| ‘Wilks looked in Hewitt's face eal | velf. Only I shan’ S | CAltd Bene eo nest No. 3] Jum as well 2s I—the Quinton ruby, Wilks has bidden it, and without his help it we expressed hin intention of going, “Very | ete it teem a ate Were Kedderby station was about forty miles out. At each intermediate stopping sta- tion Hewitt watched earnestly, Wilks remained in the train, Hewitt observed, 1 sharp lookout across the, move off. “I must keep a lookout st) Kedgerby he may take a fly. To stalk @ man on foot in the country is dim- cult enough, but you can't follow one another without spotted. | But if he’s #0 smart a I think A man travelting in a fly Js nobiced and remembered in these When we | places,” He did not take @ fly, At Kodderby we saw him jump out quickly and has- ten from the station. for a few minutes, and he was out of | “Good!” gnid Hewitt, moving toward | He Sprang at Hewitt Like a Cat! quadrangle. Barely five minutes before | the train was to leave, and just as I| off unexpected): was beginning to think about the timo of the next, acabdashed up and Hewitt He hurried tn, found me, and drow me aside into @ recess, just as an- otner cab Irrived. each station, in case our friend goes “And now, perhaps," I satd, tell me what we're after?’ Hewitt laughed. in, you know," h take your luck ms it comes, alight we shall have to follow Wilks jagain, under the most difficult possible Take | conditions, in the country, in | often quite impossible to follow a man rangements. Don't show yourself too You wanted to join said, “and you must he won't do St. there pretty @oon, and I shal be on his ree minutes,’ thing depends on his not seeing us get into this train. Hewitt:hurried after Wilks, and I took ‘The train stood Letters from the People ~* # Answers to Questions waoetines 4 subuses 10 woo do not got six horses, and the third son, who Was to recelve one-ninth, got two horses, thus making eeventeen horses evenly divided, and the neighbor took his own horse home again. FJ. Patriotism in Our Schools. To the Editor of The Evening World: Having heamt many people my the public schools of New York do not teach Us patriotism, I take this oogasion to tite that what they say ts untrue. The felpals and the teachers do all in their power bees us to become = later y ood citiz patriots. think that {fsome of those Bho, crite cise 90 harshly would visit us and hear our “Salute to the Flag” they would change thelr opinion about the schools . PoSEARY DAVIS. Graduate of Public School No. 184. Canada, 3,745,574 Miles; United Staten, 3,025,600. To the Editor of The Evening World: Vease let me know if Canada is bigger than the United States, apart from the Islands, What is the size of each? G. Bz. the right, From the ticket collector we ascertained that Radcot lay in that di- rection, three miles off. At last we saw, just ahead, the square tower of an old church, set about with thick trees. “The churchyard!” exclaimed Hewitt under his breath, “Le close and let him pass. Wilks reached the churchyard gate and again looked trresolutely about him, At that moment a party of chil- dren who had been playing among the foward and out of the gate, and Wilks walked hastily away again, this time In the opposite direction. Now!" unobserved, It {s only because it 1s the | the station before we alighted. Through only way that I am undertaking it now. time I ocompled s@ best I might, we were seated and the train began to| As to what we're after, you know that could see him walking brigkly away to “So far so good,” said Hewitt, when the radlings behind the platform where Hewitt threw his blue spectaci+s away, It was now menrly § in the tive, | tain whether the peaks which arise out s s Rd JEWELS ® Author of ‘‘ Tales of Mean Streets.” |. Wilks dropped at once and cronohed | yiterence, it's a fair cop and I'm graves came chattering” and laughing phat's the place, clearly,” Hewitt an ‘We must slip across quictly us far énough down the road. We hurried stealthily across through the gate and into the churchyard, perilous form of sport or of scl- entific research. It is a combina- ton of the two and has its host of de- votees and its frequently-broken records a9 well as has any more generally rec- ognized branch of athletics. The Jung- frau, in Switzerland, 1s perhaps the most popular and one of the most per- lous of the semi-inaccessable moun- tains which find favor In climbers’ eyes, Up to 1811 it was considered impossible to scale the Jungfrau. Since then Alpine clubs have been formed, regular routes of ascent mapped out and little huts erected here and ttiere along the slope as rest houses. Guides, to whom long custom has rendered the climb less menacing, conduct tourists to the sum- mit for @ trifing charge. All that can be done to minimize the dangers of the ascent has been accomplished. In spite of all these facilities and precautions deaths aro still only too frequent. The sipping of m foot, the breaking of a rope, a misstep, an avalanche—any of a hundred common mischances spell sud- den death to the adventurous sclentist or sportsma: ‘Tho date of the first ascent of Jung- frau was 1811, by the brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer, mana- «ers of a silk factory at Aarau, says the London Graphic, from which the ac- companying fllustrations are reproduced, ‘They desired, they sa!d, to learn “the relations between the various vest basins of eternal snow,” and to “ascer- M OUNTAIN-CLIMBING {s the most of them could be reached.” They climbed Jungfrau; but when they told their story nobody would be- Neve it. Wherefore, to silence the volce of calumny, they climbed Jungfrau — again in 1812. 5 Nowadays, of course, Jungfrau {s often climbed, by many routes, and from — many bases, club huts facilitating "he ascent by enabling the climbers to get @ g6od night's rest, high up above the valley, where the hard work begins, It ts not a difficult ascent as difficudiies are reckoned at the present time. One does _ not often hear of Jungfrau accidents, and mere children have been taken te the . pit there is a long scramble up the Roth-thal, which 1s called valley only by courtesy, and looks much more like an enormous chimney. Somewhere up ‘among the rocks at the top of it there ts @ hut; and, afer leaving the hut, there fs a long, slow grind, of from ix to elght hours’ duration, according to your pace and the the uttermost.” weather, with oer- The traversing! / tain possibilities of of the Schreckhora } entanglement = In couloirs {ts alse { intricate and pro- fraught with dan- found crevasses, ger. Rocks and such as that por- avalanches fat trayed fn the flus- tration. You can descend, if you Hike. on the other side to Grindelwald, taking the Bergil Hut upon = your time, and {t {a bed. to 6e hit by them. way. Schreckthorn, frst ascended by Sit Leste Stephen in 1861, and not wrongly named Peak of Terror, !s a more awkward peak to tackle. The rocks are much more dim- oult than the Jung- fran rocks. “We were frequently,” says Str Leslie in his graphic man- ner, “flattened out against the rocks, Uke beasts of ill repute nailed to a barn, with fingers and toes inserted into four different cracks which test- ed the elasticity ot our frames to them held out until the eighties, and a few until the nineties. One at least, Algullle du Ghent, first scaled by the four Signori Sella in July, 18% end festooned with ropes in all the difficult places, was only surmounted in the Instance by driving tron stanchions for hand and foot hold into the cliffs. aon By Arthur Morrison however, sonsiderabbe | though they era | pale before those | of the Aiguilles (iterally “need- 7 les,") peaks 80 called from their sharp points «nd high, that they actually, were 80. 2 evening and the sun was setting. Once | “How much d'ye think I'll gett p Again Wilk approached the gate, The} asked. form of Wilks stood out large ani/ “Can't guess,” Hewitt replied. “, black against the fading Nght in the}as we shall probably have to give evi.) west as he atealthily approached |donce, you'll be giving yourself a: through the long grass. A light cart ir you talk too much.” came clattering along the road. aad| «on, I don't care; that'll make ‘on his knees till 1€ had passed. Then, !ror jt You got at me nicely, staring warily about him. he male/ ime ¢hree quid, I never knew @ straight for the stone behind whicn/'>° 4. that before, That blinded Bown wees But was it kid about Gold street?” I saw Hewitt's dark form swing| “No, it wasn't. Mr, Hollmms ts end polselessly round to the other side of/shut up by this time, I expect, and the stone, Wilks passed on and Giopped on his knee beside a large, weather-worn slab that rested on @ bilok understructure a foot or so high. | Well, you've «ot it up mlocly for ‘The Jong grass largely hid the bricks, | mdst say. S'pose you've been fo and among {t Wilks plunged his hand, |me all the time?” feeling along the brick surface. Pres- ently he drew out a loose brick it on the alnb, He felt again in the place ‘ard brought forth a small dark object I saw Hewitt rise erect In the gathi ing dusk, and with extended arm held of ‘awét. ‘Yow rolseleasiy toward the stooping man.| 14. you imew Wilks made a motion to-place the dark |o ty have you pnt object in his pocket, but checked itm-|_ i searched self and opened what appeared to be Aang gry pipe, ® Md, ae though to make sure of ti safety of the contents, The last light, straggling under the trees, fell on a brilliantly sparkling object within, and, like a flash, Hewitt's hand shot over will ghoulder and snatched the Jowel. i actually screamed—one bees curios, sharp lttle screams that one may hear from @ woman very sud- Seer’ denly But he sprang at mr rah eR NG itt Ile @ oat, only lichens at Bo pans ovabatel te tae Ra rd eel Lp leccongeet ea 1 pkey staying for the night, despite an incom | nl serene oe deme | venient want of requisiies, at the halk ies hs ney sll pocket | There were, in fact, no late traing, ject Tanelereblet. ‘Then we marcheed hin, |tol@ Sir Valentine the story of to his amusemen: struggling and swearing, to the village. bats viteg tons te When in the light soust walked much: Ma verdant ne ot | sane" Bie Valente omar zed us he had & dant. ‘That was ier recosrin Afterward he calmed down | ‘hat pen Robt (Ta