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62 by the Presé Publishing Company, No. 63 to @& Park Row, Now Tort: _ Bitered at the Post-Omce at New York as Seccnd-Ciass Mall Matter. were NO. 16,248. AN INTERSTATE MONOPOLY. The Ryan-Belmont interests, by their absorption of the Public Ser- Wire Corporation of New Jersey, have accomplished what the vice-presi- ent of the Prudential Insurance Company calls “one of the most remark- "able achievements in engineering and finance this country has seen.” . . That is, the long arm of the traction monopoly has made an unusually far reach and effected a particularly rich grab. The “engineer” is Belmont. { ‘The hand employed to finance the deal is the practiced hand of Morgan, to whom the work was intrusted as a job of his size. % By this extension of the Interborough merger all the trolley lines of "* neighboring New Jersey and all its gas and electric fighting utilities are brought under Belmont-Ryan control and joined to the traction and gas monopoly which they already dominate. Through the Belmont trolley interests in Queens and the “gentle- men’s agreement” with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit—by which the advan- tages of a merger are secured without the handicap of single fares between boroughs—the entire metropolitan area is virtually fast in the grip of this two-man monopoly—fast as if Styx had girt it nine times ‘round. It is, in truth, “one of the most remarkable achievements” of combinatior against the public welfare “this country has seen.”” “Some of the effects of this widening of the zone of “harmonious co- operation” are afready evident. The plans drawn up last September for * a competing Hudson River tunnel with an outlet at Chambers street are now indefinitely postponed, The stock-jobbing aspects of the deal are visible in the project to put on the market the $12,500,000 of unissued stock yet remaining in the treasury of the Public Service Corporation. It is not much by comparison with the merger’s $108,000,000 of fresh “water” in Manhattan, but it « Serves as a hint of possibilities yet to be realized in bonding leases and cap- italizing the discomfort of passengers. ; Backed by insurance millions, including those of the corrupt Pruden- tial, and defying all competition, this sinister monopoly if unchecked is prepared to exercise a malign influence on transportation facilities for gen- » erations to come. In the light of its latest exhibition of audacious power, will the State _ | sanction this predatory alliance? Can the Legislature so betray the people | asto confirm its grip on the greateseity.for centuries? ie 1 Hold-Over Hendricks is still head of the Insurance Department, though his term has expired. Some people dodge the Inevitable a long while, “GOLD BRICKS.” Comptroller Metz’s remarks are rich in metaphor. ‘The other day he { 4 Spoke of “stage money” and “hot air” in connection with subway projects | © fic other than those submitted by the Belmont'Ryan combination. Now he |. Pronounces the city’s Carnegie libraries “gold bricks,” But is the Comptroller quite sure that he knows a gold brick when he » Stesit? In expressing his preference for Interborough bids for new lines of transportation because the bidders are more likely to “make good,” was there not in plain view before him a gold brick he did not ize ? Does it not occur to the Comptroller that a third “L” track for the} of To the Editor of The Even!ne Worl: zing Little problem In fractions for read- ers to solve: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Letters from the People A Fraction Query. Here is an apparectily easy yet puz- o 7 —x—=<1 16 W. T. Definition of Patriotinm. I etténded a lecture at Public Schoo! Telief of trensit congestion is in the nature of a “gold brick?” Congress will not pass a bill to flog wife-beaters in the District of bla, but that does not prove that the custom is considered correct in recherche circles. THE nce Martin H any of those, “I was amazed end horrified. I put the thing away and went home. Al) that night I lay awake in a state of distraction, quite unable to decide what | to do. To let the cameo go out of my Possession was impossible. Sooner or later the ‘fongery would be discovered, | and my reputation—the highest in these | Colum- | ~—eeeeeeeeeeeeee ee eeeeree Martin Hewitt, @ brilliant pri- vate detective, with unique meth- oda, is: the hero of these ad- ventures, recounted by hia friend Brett. SYNOPSIS OF PRDCEDING CHAPTERS. named wl turn, eells matters in thés country, I may safety | dard Bares Coe e wicien Hom (claim, and the growth of nearly fitty | has broken int>| years of honest application and good | Soo ety, cts tine orersiinr, (Juderent—this reputation would be; in private and 8°-| gono forever. But without coridering | this, there was the fact that I had taken | | 25,000 of Lore Stexway's money for a| |mere plece of glass, and thet money I must, in mere common honesty as well | as for my own sake, return, But bow?! The name of the Gtanwny cameo had | become a household word, and to con- fess thet the whole thing was a sham “ . would ruin my reputation and destroy Re pleaded; “I beg you won't #29080! 11 conpdence—past, present and future me! I haven't harmed a soul but my-| 1. he end in my transactions. Hither Y\ way spelled ruin. “Even if I confided in Lord Stanway privately, returned his money and de- j@royed the cameo, what then? The | CHAPTER III. The Confession. HE sweat stood thick on the deal- if e's face, and he gasped. “Don't expose me, Mr. Hewitt!” I'm an old man, Mr. Hewitt, and my | professional reputation has been spot- Jess until now. I beg you won't expose | we” famous would excite remark at once. | ‘Hewitt's voice softened. “Don't make!It had been presented to the Britieh ‘an unnecessary trouble of it," he said. Museum, and if it never appeared in| “Let us talk the affair over; tell me U2at collection, and no news were to be| | about tt.” ‘ got of it, people would guess the truth | | "It was that swindler Hahn who de-|®t once. To make h known that I my-| | eelved me in the beginning,” Claridge |lf tad been decetved would have | sald. “I have never made a mistake |@vulled nothing. It {s my business not | | with = cameo before, and I never|t> be deceived; and to have it known | thought ao close an imitation was pos-|that my: most expensive specimens | sible, I examined it most carefully, | mest be forgeries would equally mean and was perfectly satisfied, and many |ruli, whether I sold them cunn.ngly as experts examined it afterward and were |@ rogue or {gnoraritly as a fool. ail equally deceived. I felt as sure as, “Every expedient scemed useless but I possibly could feel that I had bought | One—the one { adopted."” one of the finest, if not actually the| ‘Well, well, we shall see, One thing finest. camons known to exist, Itwasnot/I don't know, though—whether you ‘until after it had come back from Lord | climbed out of a window to break open #tanwey's and I was cleaning the/tne trap door. or whether you got evening before last that, in the course | through the trap door itself and pulled No. 165, by Prof. Lee, of the Johns Hopkins University. The professor sald that the true patriot {s the man who educates his children according to his means; teach- he most | ng them by his own example to be honest, truthful, ewitt, Investigator. sudden disappearance of an article #0} * “Home } The Mayor's Valentine. industrious, charita- sal iat ‘agazine, By J. Campbell Cory. ble, manly, with profound respect for he lawa of the land. Children 89 raised, he sald, woudl make every sac- rifle for thelr country in time of need. They would cast thelr yotes feartessly and conscientiously. Fair play would be given the working man by the em- royer, and the employees would be | gent enough to realize it, acai hon- est enough to acknowledge it, P. O'N. Another Brain Twister. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: What reader can solve the following: After travelling an hour a train was de- ‘ayed thirty minutes. When starting igain it travelled eix-fifths as fast as at first, reaching its destinattcn ten min- ates late. Had {t travelled twelve miles F Claridge was obliged to pay it, knowing the man had swindled him. Of my work, it became apparent that|the bolt with a string through the thing was nothing but @ consum- | jamb, eo as to bolt it afler you.” mately clever forgery. It was made of| “There was no available window. three layers of molded giass—nothing ‘more or less. But the glass was treated in @ way I had never before known of, @nd the surface had been cunningly Worked on tH tt defied any ordinary @xamination. Some of the glass imi- tation cameos made in the latter part Of the last century, I may tell you, are| had reached the roof, wel Tee leave a genuine appearance, I thought but this wes and, the I used the string, as you say. My poor Uttle cunning must seem very trans- parent ta.you, I fear. I spent hours of | thought over the question of the trap- @oor—how to break it open a0 a8 to! th) rst. place; pectilly how to bolt It inside after I 1 Megarded as marvellous pieces of work, | hat succeeded beyond the possibility of indbed, command very fair prices; | suspicion; how you penetrated the de- someiRing quite beyond | vice sumasses my comprehension. How, to begin with, could you possibly know that the cameo was a forgery? Did| you ever seo {t?” | “Never. And if I had seen it, I fear| I should never have been able to ex- press an opinion on {t; Lam not a co: noisseur. As @ matter of fact, I didn't, | Know that the thing was a forgery in what I knew in the first place was that !t was you who had broken into the house, It was from that I arrived at the conclusion, after @ certain amount of thought, that the cameo must have been forged. Gain ‘was out of the question. You, beyond ® ee further before gietention tt would hav* arrived at {ts destination four minute later than !t did. How far did trai: travel? At how. many miles an how before detention? JOSEPH TURNOR. A Wife's Allowance. To the Editor of The Evening World: How much should a wife be ailowe. & week to support @ family of seve: and have to pay a Si-cent milk bil: and % cents insurance and also fur- nish thread and needles, te.? ‘The children are very hearty eaters. 1 ask readers’ opinions, K. B.A. Hot Shot for All Mankind. To the Editor of The Evening World: L. 8 says if men found their supper ready when they came home from work ca ore Hut | Aa thing to save—your professional repu- tation, for instance, Looking at it so, it was plain that you were ¢uppressing the cameo—burking it; since, once taken es you had taken it, {t could never come to light again. That suggested all men, could never sell the Stanway|the solution of the mystery at once— cameo again, and, besides, pald back Lord Stanway's money. I knew enough of your reputation to know that you would never incur the ecandl of a great theft at your place for the sake of getting the cameo for yourself, when you might have kept It tn the beginning, with no trouble anid mystery. Consequently I had to look for another motive, and at first another motive seemed an impossibility. Why should you wish to take all this trouble to lose five thousand pounds? You had nothing to gain; perhaps you had some- you had, you had discovered, after the sale, that the cameo was not genuine.” “Yes, yes—I see; but you say you be- gan with the knowledge that I broke into the place myself. How did you know that? I cannot Imagine « | trace’’— ‘My dear gir, you left traces every- where, In the first place, it struck me as curious, before I came here, that you had eent off that check for £5,000 ta Lord Stanway an hour or #0 adier the robbery was discovered; It looked so much as though you were His Sixth Case THE STANWA pet, ek w # Answers to Questions here would be fewer broken homes, yhat about the millionaires who desert heir wives? Don't they have thelr upper ready? Oh, yes, men are always coking out for their dinners and their own comfort. I buried two husbands, and I know what I'am talking about. store shame for lazy men to allow heir wives to work for a living! They want to eat the minute they get in the nouse, 60 they can get out to their pais and the rumshops. Mrs, Mc. “Gotham's” Origin, To the Biltor of The Evening World?” What fs the origin and significance of “Gotham” as applied to New York City, readers? @Vho can settie this question? L a Y CAME sure of the cameo never coming back, «nd were in a hurry to avert suspi- Jon, Of course, I understood that, so as I then knew of the case, you were the most unlikely person in the world, and that your eagerness to repay Lord Stanway might be the most cred- {table thing possible, But the point was worth remembering, and I remembered ft. “When I came here I saw suspicious old hat hanging below the trap door.” “But I never touched {t; I assure you, Mr. Hewitt, I never touched the hat; havon't touched it for sonths"— “Of course. If you ‘had touched It I might never have got the clew. But we'll deal with the hat presently; that Wasn't what struck me first, The trap’ doors, That is all, X think.” ‘ 24s 1906. NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES. By Irvin 8. Cobb. bi "6 y T 1s the fate of New York that we must ever have with us one of t Messrs, Hyde—James H. or Formalde. At present writing the # 5 named is in Paris, but the presence of the other has bees noted in oum’ midst by Dr. Wiley and assoctates. Consider now the native who is addicted to the quick-Innch or legerde=| main method of storing provender. After he gets under way at breakfas® he makes you think of the Swiss Bell Ringers. When {t comes to tossing | bites in the air and catching them coming down he has no equal among the! -biscult jugglers of Chicago or the knife swallowers of Pittsburg. You may! have seen him load his fork with a quantity of food and then fling the wholq \ inside of his face. If lucky he gets the fork back. There ere parlor magty) (clans In New York with enough flat silver in them to serve the oystes} ; course. The motto fs “Hat in haste, repent at leisure.” } Eventually he is taken with digestive paroxyams sou’ by sou‘west of the! solar plexus. He decides it must be adulterated food that is undermining his gastric fixtures. He reads up on the subject, Horrifying revelations await him. = All unwittingly he finds he has been converting his stomach into = dark room. He learns that thore is very little difference nowadays between Preparing food products and printing a set of dry plates, The back end of every butcher shop looks like behind the scenes at a photograph gallery. Herr Schmidt retires to a recess with a fire-proofed bone and a bottle ruary ) | of hypo No, 2 and turns out your pot-rosst while you walt. Ingredlents of Hamburger steak call for a half pint of carmine writing fluld, a strand of dogmeat, two tablespoontuls of benzoate of soda and one imitation {singlass onion chopped fine and dashed with ammonia. Tomato catsup Is practh cally the same etuff that the reubens use to paint red barns. Table sauce ls merely an appetizing blend of hearth varnish and horse liniment with a guare antee of purity on every package. The canned green peas would be strictly on the level if they only didn’t omit the qualifying noun “Paris.” It ape ‘pears from the papers that the only way to avold turning into a chemticak laboratory and dyeworks {s to live on hard-boiled eggs and break ‘eng yourself. Comes a happy thought to the victim. There are no decorative effects in the straight vegetarian diet. So he hits up the shredded whiskbroom, the malted bran-mash and the almost-lamb chop. But one horse’s meat fs an- other man’s polson, He begins to look like Dr. Tanner did at the end of forty-fifth day. os So in despair he goes back to the sulphuric acid sandwich, the fromage' de borax and the compote of copperas and anilines. He finishes life om “t!. spoon victuals and consultations of specialists. At the autopsy his liver ta! ys found to resemble a map of the Holy Land in five colors. Family of de! ceased blame it on the formaldehyde. THE FUNNY PART: It never occurs to them that the rapid-fire style of eating may ha { anything to do with it. ait, ——_———_- t+ _. A Longevity Record. UST about the time when the Galapagos Islands were discovered by the Spane! ish, not quite 400 years ago, a tortoise was born there. died @ week or two ago in the London Zoological Gardens, The same tortoise { Thumbnail Sketches. UBJECT—Nicholas Longworth, jr. S Favorite Sport—Basking in the sunshine, Favorite Task—Toting "‘Tordles." Favorite Book—"‘Allce in Wonderland."* Favorite Author—Mendelssohn. Favorite Artist—Cupid. Feyorite Fruit—Pears, Favorite Plant—The family tree. Favorite Vehkle—The Philippines steamer, Favorite Musical Instrument—The wedding bell. Favorite Character in History—The bride's father. ene By Arthur Morrison, a 0. ® Author of ‘“* Tales of Mean Streets,’* [door first took my attention. Consider.) Mr. Claridge looked (now: Here was a trap door most inse-|at the floor. “I'm ances down curely hung on external hinges, the| “that I took an unsultable role when ¢ burglar had a screwdriver, for he took) undertook to rely on m ‘i when & off the door lock below with It. WhY! ceive men like you, I thavent one then didn't he take this trap door of | wasn't a single vulnerable en gene by the hinges, instead of making @ no!s®| defense, Gut you walk veme tyne and taking longer time and trouble to at) the! frre atieaphe mly through burst the bolt from tts ever think o f those raindrops? iwhy, if he were a strang | “Come,” said Hewitt, with 4 jto plant his jimmy from the outside JUSt) wnat sounds uni ¥ exactly opposite the Spearlon pained ees now to Lord Baawers eR and, 3 jas only, one mark on the fram | think £ should apotogizn terine meee that precisely in the proper piace. | {MAK f meee Me Bt One |. “After that I saw the leather case. It! “ror ‘Stanwar, who, th, heh H jhad not been thrown away, or S0M@/ two of renection left him after parting | oorner would have shown signs of {h®) with Hewitt, had come to ther baller jfall, It had been put down carefully) that ne had employed a rey whose | [Whereis was found, But ial these were) nina wag not always in orcat; roseivetd ‘unkmportant compared wit eaingiy| Hewitt's story with natural’ she | |The hat, as you know, was exceedingly in doa: thick with dust—the accumulation of! ment For some time he was in doubt | as to whether he would be doing right | months, But, on the top side. Vin Acqulescing in anything Ta erenaeel ented toward the trap door That | {TWard publio statement of the facts was all. They were new marks, for; Connected with the disappearance of the there was no dust over them; they had) raven but in the end was persuaged to merely had time to dry and cake the| e affair drop, on receiving an as- dust toey had fallen on, Now, there/fUfance from Mr, Woollett that he un-, had been no rain since a sharp shower! peservedly accepted the apology offered Just agter 7 o'clock last night. At that) "i 17 Mt Se ciey, | (time you, by your own statement, were 9/1), ¢ latter, he was at least suf- | in the place, You left at 8 and the “ently punished in loss of money and rain wae ail over at 710 or 7.15, The PeTonal humiliation for his escapade, | | trap door, you also told me, had not/ But the bitterest and last. blow he aus Deen opened for month: ‘The thing! ‘ined was when the unblushing Hahn was plain, You, or somebody who was Walked smilingly into his oMce two days here when you were, had opened that| later to demand the extra payment trap door during or just before that agreed on in consideration of the sale. hower, I eaid little then, but went,|He had been called suddenly away, he oon as I had left, to the police exclaimed, on the day he should have tion, There I made perfectly certain/come, and hoped his missing the ap- that there had been no rain during the! pointment had occasioned no inconven= night by questioning the policemen who lence. As 0 the robbery of the cameo, were on duty outalde all tie time. There of course héswas vory sorry, but “pish- fiad been none. I knew everything, ness was pishness,” and he would be “phe onty other evidence there was }8!ad of a check for the eum agreed on, pointed with all the rest. There were| And the unhappy Claridgo was obliged no rainmarks on the leather case; it|to pay it, knowing that the man hag had been put on the roof as an after-} Swindled him, but unable to open hig thought when there was no rain. A zon to say so, 4 ver or afterthought, let me tell you, © reward remained on offs Teron thle would thecer aways useful | long tina; indeed, it sali case that concealed his booty and pro- tected it from breakage, and throw it PEeladae's death. And several away just #0 as to leave @ clue as to| fact ‘that an inary bi direction hp had gone in, 1 also| pletely baftied a , in the lumber-room, a number of | {Cumen of Mr. Martin H packing-cuses—one with a label dated two days back—which had been opened with an fron lever; and yet, when I mado an excuse to ask for it, you sald thore was no suoh thing In the place, “The Affair of the Inference, you didn’t want me to com: Tertoise,” will begin in to- pare it with the marke on the desks and | morrow's Hyentng World, _ known private detective. (THE END.)