The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1906, Page 16

@udNanea vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to 6 Park Row, Now Yori ‘Bantered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. FOLUME 46.......00000 cosccccsscoceces socese cocsee NO. 16,250. A CHALLENGE TO BE ACCEPTED. Notice. has been served on the Rapid Transit Commission by the Belmont-Ryan interests that if the Elsberg bill becomes a. law the In- terborough-Metropolitan companies will not bid on new subway routes. All or nothing; both construction and operation, or neither—that is the merger’s ultimatum to the city. What better indorsement could the bill have? What better argu- ment for its passage could be ad- b = 5 vanced? The threat goes far to justify the claim for the-measure that“It furnishes the only practical means Of relief from the encroachment of traction monopoly. The withdrawal of the merger interests will eliminate from future subway construction the very influences most inimical to the sound devel- opment of city transportation. It will mean that the new subways are not to go ito the stock-jobbing pool created by the merger, that the proc- ess of bonding leases and capitalizing undeveloped earning capacity is not to be repeaied, in this case at least, and that the further production of | watered securities for unloading on the investing public is at least tem- porarily checked. There is, besides, a reasonable possibility of three-cent | fares on an independent line, where under merger control this hope was at best a forlorn one. Some of the estimates of subway construction brought forward by the opponents of the Elsberg bill excite incredulity by their magnitude. Comptroller Metz, for example, “has been informed” that it will require $60,000,000 to build a new subway with private capital, and $20,000,000) more, or the enormous amount of $80,000,000, if the city builds it. Why must the city pay three times as much as it cost to construct the original subway? Has the price of materials, labor and engineering talent increased threefold within five years? To apprehensive minds in the Comptroller’s office the construction of a new subway by any but approved private capital appears to possess all the bugaboo aspects of a failure that the pioneer line had for the timid. As that line yielded $8,000,000 profit on a contract estimate of $35,000,000, there ought to be “something in it” for bidders on a new route at $60,000,000. Mr. Root is quite confident that there will not be any anti-foreign outbreak | fn China. Perhaps not. But all the materials for a very lovely row are easily reached if any one feels like it. | SPEED IN CITY STREETS. | It is surprising to find the West End Association indorsing the new automobile bill with its provision that a motor car may be driven at a speed of twenty miles an hour on park roads and city highways, “in the; discretion of the driver.” | . Is this the association which has so vigorously combated speed perils! i on the upper west side? Twenty miles an hour means doubling the present legal speed for aiitomobiles in cities. A car starting at the Battery and going north at © that pace would reach Hastings, three miles above Yonkers, in an hour. -It would reach One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street in twenty-seven min- utes, though a Ninth avenue express takes thirty-four. From the City Hall to Ninety-sixth street it would almost run an even race with a Sub- fme Eventiwg Workds Home Magerine, Friday Eventnd, February 86, F900. Where He Is. By J. Campbell Cory. #\ SSANDARD »)) 5 BILLION, (Memorandum.—Thle Is Stasda.d Ol. “Dividend Week.”) ss way express. Going across town through Twenty-third street it would cover the distance from river to river in about seven minutes. t This rate of speed is as preposterous as it is perilous. By a sugges- tive coincidence the proposal to increase the leeway of automobile reck- lessness is made just at the time when Fire Commissioner O’Brien finds it advisable on account of the congestion of street traffic to direct engine drivers to exercise greater caution in answering alarms. Jor Si That is to say, the brakes are put on a necessary form of speed just] 2 as they are to be taken off one wholly unnecessary and equally dangerous: What is the West End Association doing on that side of the fence? THE NEW a T. DETECTIVE eee Martin Hewitt, a brilliant pri- Letters One day recently mounted policeman Wh haven in the morning on his way to Dieppe, and was brought back to Lon- vate detective, with unique meth-> | don. But now Nettings met a check. ods, is the hero of these ad- Late that afternoon he called on ventures, recounted by his friend} | Hewitt to ex “We've got Brett. Goujon," he sa “but there's $] almeutty, He friends who can swear an Rameau was seen SYNOPSES OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. | alive at 120 o'clock on Saturday, and yegaeeer Ramen. .2 coi Guniered, Innis | the girl found him dead about 3, Now roons, with & paper pinned to hig chest on | Goujon’s two friends, whieh are the Words in Frenoh; ‘Punished n Tyan ‘avenger of the tortoise.” with him from 1 0'¢ | Tromeh | Borer neces who bad ternoon, with the exception of five min- | Guna e pet, torvalse. Goulon is msn utes, when the girl saw him, and then the murder ound: he left them to take a key or something, {_ ———_ tothe housekeeper before finally leav-| ~ ing. They were wa on the landing CHAPTER ie below when Goujon spoke to the house-| The Fugitive. maid, heard him g, and had| © you mean that the man who/ seen him go all th y up to the| removed Rameau’s body com-| housekeeper’s room mitted the murder?” repeated | looked up the wide | case. They are m place, and seem to “D—D back, as they | Inspector Nettings. “No, I don't,” replied Hewitt. “"No- have good charac body could have been more innocent of perhaps hall find some- that.” | favorable them. They “Well,” Nettings concluded with res-| rinking with G ib seoms,. by, fgnatioa, “I'm afraid one of is| way of ‘seeing him o rather thickheaded, What will youd now.” quoth Hewitt, ‘vou re-| “Interview the person who took away | what map I told you to look | the body,” Hewitt replied, with a! aty | smile. k | | “But, man alive, why? Why bother » you are.” Hewltt! : about the person if it isn't the crim) .ched an atlas from his book shelf 4 {onl ow. look here: the biggest fsland as “Never mind—never mind; probably| of ths iot on this map. barring Cuba oo, the person will be a most valuable} 4. yj.ytj, You know as saothags 5 ness.” }that the wes t of that Island is Yo you mean you think this person—| whoever It is—saw the crime?” lf “1 think it very probable indeed.” | 4-44 face “Well, I won't ask you any more.) \i.), i I shall get hold of Goujon; that’s sim-| yor ple and direct enough for me. I prefer |saent aft » apled by the 1 that the countr nus show “I shall have @ good look at a map of the West Indies. and I advise you to @0 the same. Good morning, ‘Within, two hours Goujon was cap- ured and eage in a cab bound for Bow erect, He had been estopped at New- the fastance of these ruffinns, and, a3 a consequence, the most deadly feuds spring up, and the Presidents and their followers are always themselves in danger of reprisals from others, Per. haps the very worst of these Presidents | French—Creole > island on the map, “Tortuga.” “It is. fo ATEN OBIS NN 10 ssc Extra! A Policeman at Work! ‘To the Bator of The Evening World: He took a shovel from a workman and shoyelied the pavement off at the corner of Sixty-second street and Central Paric "ho said Bingnam wasn't 0, K.? All papers free to copy. A Wheel Problem. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Will readers try to solve this prob-| number of patrolmen Martin Hewitt, terminated, Now, I will show you that ‘Tortuga,’ however, 1s only the old Spanish name; the Haytians speak ‘Here from the People ~ Answers to Questions lem: Two wheels are adjusted with) protection to the public. Look at that| lution of the question. A sporting man springs and joined together by teeth daring burglary in West Seventy-first | opened a large hotel, He drew up quite (one having 2% and the other 6 teeth),| street and the recent hold-ups, All|@ number of rules for the benefit of his so when one with 2 turns 5 times the! those things call for better protection. | patrons, and the twenty-third rule was Il turn 23. times; how ; other with |§ will turn 25 times; noe| The force of vatroimen should be in- ran ol withe sS teoth be to wind | creased 300 or 40) within a week. A.C. marily expelled from the hotel, He had Up the other 25 times and itself turn| Oncluore Th only 3 times? Y. L. B S Seeeeieacpe see infortunately, to put this rule into prac- To the Faltor of The Evening World: tice on several occasions, and thus the In reference to the query as to the]; “23 came by degrees to be con- Suggests More Patrolmen. To the Editor of The Evening World ices on) the expression "23," I’ read | nected with the meaning it now holds. to give better! some time ago what seems to be the so- WIL at 330 P. M. a actually worked! or objectionable conduct should be sum- CUR Ms Gen. Bingham ought to increase the] origin of IAM MOSKOWITZ. His Seventh Case os os LU THE TORTOISE C Investigator. «2 aun sf RA comm _ to deal with the heart of the case—| forces his way top: ‘| inmurrection, as they all are sooner the murder {tself—when there's such] irq most horrible and dloodtitesty ex. | ter: 8nd compelled to fly the country, clear evidence. as I have." Tecgven uacdering Mik Opponentn by tel Temiane end Ha nephews). On8 AF Uitatiell look: 1 UtHe| Into. thats) too; |nundced and seleing thelr property. ior om ee cea te Any one would have taken the newcomer for a cabman on a holiday. Riptage Hewitt aaidy Vand, o If youl nines. and hia satellite, who are| ee oe ee. rate as Hike, I'l tell you the first thing I shall] tevally as bad us if not worse then the |2N4_™many members of the opposite| French atlas; now see the naine of that —the tortoise, or La Tortue—clear brother, probably. I see. Well, this do." Piasidan’ bicosslee Wholaitarailiessenealll Ae ree ‘siand | tslard."* enough. It would seem that the dead|a case, “What's that?" aa fara ares men, | lying just to the north of Hayti, but| La ‘Tertuel’’ man sometiing to do with the| “I think the relattonship probable. women and children—are murdered at|were sought out there and “La Tortue tt isthe tortolse, Tortu-| maseacre there, and somebody from|Now' you understand why I was in- almost ex- | the island is avenging it The thing's most extraordinary.” “And now listen, ‘The name of Do- mingue’s nephew, whd was Chief Min-| ister, was Septimus Rameau.’’ Rameau—his he hadn’ ga means the same thing in Spanish. But that island ts always spoken of in Hayti as La Tortue. Now, do you see the drift of that paper pinned to Rameau's breast?’ is @ ‘Punished by an avenger of—ce.from! “And thie was Cassar } | man you wanted.” What is Its name?” “Ot course, of course! the chap who wrote been euch en ignorant that all persons indulging in uneeemly | 2 i NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES, By Irwin S. Cobb. UT in the provinces, which to an incurable New Yorker is everything north of the Harlem and west of the Twenty-third Street Ferry, the clergy generally take their theology straight. There are places where, 4f powdered sugar is served with the strawberries at the dinner to the Min. isterial Alliance, a Presbyterian always wants to sprinkle his, while the Baptist brother isn’t satisfied unless he can dip ‘em. But there is something about the atmosphere of a big city that causes many a pastor to decide his custom-made theology doesn’t fit him across the shoulders any more or is getting too tight in the collar. So he has to cut it over to fit. Hither he hops right in and designs a pattern of his own and then begins to canvass for customers, or else he kicks over the traces alto» gether and refuses thereafter to have any dealings with the eleven stubborm jurors at all. Hence, we find more than fifty-seven varieties of new and original styles in the spire region, which adjoins Painlessville, the dental district of Brook. lyn on the east. Hence, we also find the woods full of ex-gospelers pursuing the canny penny to its lair. We are arrested and painfally clubbed by a Policeman in a white tie, who got his strength emphasizing doctrinal points on the top of the pulpit. We read editorials penned by the hands that once were clasped in unfeigned joy when somebody brought real money to the donation party. We see plays written by the Rev. Tomtgm Dixieland, who has joined moral forces with that other great upper-cutter of the dramatic world, the Hon. Jawn L., in drawing the color line. Jawn L. wouldn’t fight | ‘ | & negro and the Rey. Dixieland won't fight anybody else. | In our mind's eye we picture St. Peter on the job when one of those | who bolted his own caucus comes confidently tripping up the stairs. The | ~ good saint sizes him up while he is yet afar off. 1s “Anh, sir,” he says, “you look as if you might have come on the Congre- fey gational Limited? A very ular train from the East.” The stranger shakes his head. | “Possibly you favor the Methodist road’s Eleventh Hour accommoda- | tion?” foes | “Perhaps {!t was the Episcopal parlor car, vestibuled service?” ie : “No.” “Or the Royal Blue Flyer of the Presbyterian system?” “No.” “Couldn't have been one of the Baptist tan! CNET aan 6 Baptis! ik Line boats, I reckon?” “Oh, yes; I see. You are one of those Human Minority Reports from New York. Well, you'd better go back there. You wouldn't ike it teas So many in this neighborhood favor the old-established routes.” “ THE FUNNY PART: Splits in all parties seem to be chronic in this town. ie ' | ———— + | China’s Modern “Civilization.” | AYS the North China Dally News: ‘The following almost inored: tales0e. S ing that this ts the twentieth and not the fifteenth century—is Fa tous | & trustworthy correspondent: The Governor of Honan is being spoken of | the men in the street in n> very flattering terms. He had only one daughter andebe died. Rumor says she was in love with an actor and pined away because he could not marry him. However,she died; her father was determined that her favorite | slave should accompany her into the next world, and ordered his bodyguerd te | beat the poor slave girl to death. She pleaded to be allowed to take opium BF | anything else that would kill her, but the Governor said that could not be. for ig | she committed suici@ she would not be free to attend her mistress. Report has | dt that the Governor himself got so enraged because the girl died so slowly that he Mimself finished the ghastly deed. This ts worse than the Canton Viceroy’s recently drinking the blood of a decapitated bandit, but it shows what savage im stinots may still linger in Chinese high officials,” | The Science of Yawning. | AWNING is beneficial. It serves the purpose of lung ventilation. ‘The Ihe | are not filled or exheusted by ordinary respiration. There ts a certain quantity of alr which physiologists call “residual air left in the recesses, | of the lungs after the ordinary respiration. This in time becomes vitiated affects the blood, and. through {t, the nervous centres. The result is a whioh ia really a atretching of the respiratory chamber to ‘ts fullest capacity an@ the filling of it with freshly tnspired air, which drives the vitiated alr ott. —awne [ne also opens, stretches and ventilates the vocal, nasal and awttory chumbers in immediate connection with the mouth, E Author of ‘‘ Tales of Mean Streets.” | If he'd only have put the capitals to) through the breast of his coat, like as the worts ‘La Tortue’ I might have| though there might be a sling inside” “That's clined to doubt that Goujon wes the And now I I must try get a nigger— prsgorecs paper, I wish ¢ nlewer, thought a little more about them in- stead of taking it for granted that they meant that wretched tortoise in the basement of the house. Well, I've made a fool of a start, but I'll be after that nigger now.’ “And I, as I sald before," said Hewitt, “shall be after the person that carried off Rameau’s body. I have had some- thing else to do this afternoon, or I should have begun already.” “You said you thought he saw the crime, How did you judge that?” Hewitt smiled, “I think I'll keep that Uttle secret to myself for the present,” he sald. ‘You shall know soon.” ‘There was a cab rank and shelter at the end of the street where Mr. Styles's tuilding stood, and early that evening a man approached it and hailed the cab- men and water man. Any one would have the newcomer .at once for a cabman taking a holiday. ‘The brim of the hat, the bird's-eye neckerchief, the immense coat buttons, and, more than all, the rolling walk and the wrinkled ers, marked him out distinctly, heer!” he exclaimed affably, with the self-possessed nod only pos- sible to cabbies and 'busmen. “I'm a- lookin’ for a bilker. I'm told one o’ the blokes off this rank carried ‘im last Saturday, and 1 want to know where he went. I ain't ‘ad @ chance o’ getting ‘is address yet. Took a cab just as it got dark, I’m told, Tallish chap, muffled up a lt, in a long black overcoat. Any of ye seen ‘Im?” The cibbies looked at one another and shook thelr heads; it chanced that none of them thad been on that par- ticular rank at ‘that time. But the water man said: ‘'Old on—I bet ‘e's the bloke wot old Bill Stammers took. m the rank, but the a ‘ansom—wanted a four-wheeler—so old Bill took ‘im, Biggish chap in a long black coat, collar vp an’ muffled thick; soft wide-awake ‘at, pulled over ‘is eyes; and he was in a ‘urry, too, Jumped in sharp as a woal 2 rdn't see ‘Is face, did ye?” “No—not an inch of too much muffled, Couldn't tell if head a face,” “Was bis acm in « sling?’ Any of ye tell me where | I might run across old Bill Stammers? © He'll tell me where my precious bilker went to," As to this there was plenty of infor mation, and tn five minutes Martin Hewitt, who had become an unoccupied cabman for the occasion, was on his way to find old Bill Stammers. That respectable old man gave him full par- ;ticulars as to the place in the East End where he had driven his muffled fare on Saturday, and Hewitt then began am elghteen to twenty hours’ search bee yond Whitechapel. At about 3 on Tuesday afternoon, a6 Nettings was in the act of leaving Bow street police station, Hewitt drove up in @ four-wheeler. Some prisoner’ é peared to be crouching low in the: vel cle, but, leaving him to take @ himself, Hewitt hurried into the and shook Nettings by the band, “Wall he sala, “have you got the murder Rameau yet?” fe “No,” Nettings growled. well, Goujon's under remand after all, I've been thinking may know something”—— “Pooh, nonsense!” Hewitt ‘ou'd better let him go. Now, Duhavell’ got somebody,” Hewitt an slapped the inspector's shoulder, “I got the man who carried” r body away!" ¢ “The deuce you have! Where? him in, We must have him"—— | “AN right, don't be in a Ht won't bolt,” And Hewitt stepped out] © to the cab and produced his ‘ A who, pulling bis hat further i eyes, hurried furtively into the One hand was stowed in the his long coat, and below the of his hat @ small piece of dage could be seen; and, as gasped. he Wettings Yeneth what pote R Be Contin - —— ee Sunday World Want