The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1906, Page 8

day Evening, Fobsucrs 21, 1906. A “Lock ’ Canal. ODDITIES IN AUTOS T: latest novelty in PwaMenea vy the Press Publianing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New Yort™ ' Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. “WOLUME 40...... wseses seeses coseee NO. 16,288, AN “UNWISE” OPINION. ‘Doctors disagree radically re- garding the Armstrong Committee’s prohibition of stock ownership by life insurance companies, President Hepburn, of the Chase National Bank, for example, con siders this particular recommenda- tion “the wisest and most important suggestion in the report.” On the other hand, President Peabody, of the Mutual Life, calls ski sport is to use the sk{ in connection with the motor car, Both motorist and ski-runnera have to exercise the ut- most care, or else the Int- ter, who {s towed by meitis of a leather strap, speedily comes to grief. At the Northern Sports this year a ski and mo- tor rice combined will be included among the events. The photograph is by Berliner Tlustra- tions-Gesellechaft. It shows the ski-man, alert and crouched forward, his staft gripped ready for emergency. The leader {s om |an improved motor cycle capable of going through fairly heavy snow at a high | rate of speed. The ordinary automobile goggles serve excellently to guard the THE DURNED KEY ' WONT FIT it “most unwise.” To which of these opinions will the public incline? The President of the Chase National Bank and former Comptroller of the Currency has a well-earned reputation as a conservative financier of high character. His judgment of the inadvisability of stock dealing by a life insurance company, particularly in view of the glaring instances of it revealed in the legislative investigation, will carry much weight. It is probably representative of the opinion held by most policy-holders. Mr. Peabody's opinion loses much of its force by reason of certain circumstances, It is the opinion of the same Mr, Peabody whose prac- 4 tical refusal to furnish information for a thorough investigation of the (Mutual by the Truesdale “housecleaning committee” blocked the com- mittee’s work, rendered its labors abortive and led to the resignation of Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, whose honorable intention it was to make a real investigation, Mr. Peabody’s opinion is the opinion of H. H. Rogers and the Stan- dard Oil interests. It is a direct reflection of their views, as his attitude in opposition to real reform has been their attitude. Mr. Peabody’s declaration two months ago, on taking the Mutual presidency, that he “understood the sacred responsibilities” of the place | and was “nobody’s man,” was taken with a polite reservation. That, moreover, was before the Fish episode; before Justice Peck- ham’s rebuke of the Mutual management; before the hints of unprobed Scandals which it was held to be injudicious to follow up. There is no need to reserve judgment any longer. Mr, Peabody opposes further investigation of his company unless he can make it him- stif. He favors the continuance of the insurance stock-jobbery which has shamed the State and robbed the people. His is a good opinion for the Legislature to “copper.” REALTY VALUES AND SUBWAYS. To an imagination not dulled by the magnitude of Manhattan real- estate transactions, the sale of the old Broadway Tabernacle at Thirty- fourth street and Broadway contains an element of the marvellous, = Together with an abutting parcel, this property brought $2,225,000. | iio When sold in December, 1901, it realized $1,450,000. Thus within four | years this unimproved corner has gained $800,000 over a valuation at - that time regarded by many experienced investors as excessive. Just i around the corner toward Fifth avenue the Clews mansion has jumped from $250,000 to $750,000 within a relatively briet period, All over the greater city, from Wall street to the Bronx and to Ja- » maica, a phenomenal rise in real estate is noted. From valuations so high as to be considered fixed for years to come, prices mount up with boom-town rapidity, but with the difference that there is no decline, Is there not an abundant guarantee of new subways in this enormous appreciation of realty values? It does much to dispel debt-limit alarms, ith every upward movement the total of taxable property is largely a increased, and the limits within which new bonded obligations may be incurred are to that extent expanded. It is a fair inference that within a half-mile radius of the Waldorf alone since the completion of the Subway additions have been made to charles A: Peabody: a A OPEN HER UP THEODORE / \eyes against snow-dust. It remained for an American to invent the long- desired motor sleigh, such as 1s here shown. For many years such an innovation was considerod ut- terly t{mposs ible. Here t# the moile of |propulston: This |slelgh is propelled by eight pointed shocs Jon the rear truck, | with an action sim- {lar to those of horses’ hind legs, These shows are shaped like a horse's hoofs, but are sharp Jenough to set | | hard-frozen snow or }ice. They work in sets of twos, two shoes being always jon’ the ground at ‘one time, and read- [tly follow uneven surfaces. Pointed steel stakes ure used as brakes, The mo. This is probably tne smallest first- | class automobile in existence. It !s | owned by a rich Westerner, who had it made for his little boy. The machine carries three children with ease, and is manipulated tn every respect Ilke a full- sized auto, It has a speed of about jfeven miles an hour, and its small chauffeur Is the object of neighboring children’s envying admiration. In Engiand, nearly a century ugo, erade aut Hes were devised, but pudlic opiidon and legal restrictions | quickly checked the grov craze, One | restrietion was a law de ding that a jn carrying @ red flag should walk ad of every auto. tor can be fitted with gasoline or pe- trol engines of any orse-powor, It ts Boston man's n= but has rly herald- the other side of the Atlantic. It hoped that teh al spewdy vehl- cle through the overed”) many @ quntry neighborhood never before vise ide world. Letters from Germ-Bearing Telephones, To the Editor of The Evening World: Health Commissioner Darlington should see that We have clean and healthful telephones In public use throughout the elty. Physicians in different cities have | claimed that many telephones are dan- gerous and help to spread disease. This would seem natural, considering that thousands of different people in all con- Gittons of health are continually using them. RALPH WIMPLE NEW industry, the making of mattresses and pillows of sponge, has been started in Florida, The sponge material is cleansed of all foreign matter by a scrubbing process in large tanks of water, then run through wringers, and the drying continued by subjecting tt to a cold-atr blast. taxable values almost sufticient in themselves to build a new subway, by machinery, sterilized and rendered odorless by chemical treatment and sub- \Jected again to cold-air drying, when it is ready for use. Science Finds a New Pillow. | A An Odd Moorish Custom. Sa people the Moors wre already well inclined to anything that gilda life. A correspondent says: “Nothing delights them more, asa means of agree- ably spending an hour or two, than squatting on their heels in the streets It is then shredded or on some door-stoop, gazing at the passers-by, exchanging compliments with tlve “swells” consequently promenade with a piece of felt under their arma, on which to sit when they wish. their acquaintances. A Landiady Tentifies. ‘To the Eltor of The Evening World: “Vietimia” scores Sunday night boare- Ing-house suppers. I conduct a board- ing-trouse, and of all the meals this Sun- Gay night supper is the most distasteful to help and landlady. Twenty-one times a week you must look at thls hungry the People. horde who are criticising and wondering whether they are getting their money’ worth at the table, not considering that we have any other expenses and think- ing ther Httle $7 per week in time will make the landlady a bloated bondholder, ear In mind, Victimia, that all other trades and professions have holidays and Sundays. We boarding-house keepers don't. The domestics and landlady are oa duty from 6.9 or 6 A, M. until 8.30 y.M. LANDLADY. Apply te “Woman's Exchange.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can a woman place fancy needlework to sell?? c. 8 People’s Chorus, Cooper Union. To the FAltor of The Evening World: Where can I get good vocal instruo- tion free or at a nominal sum? W/Z Gime A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS @%, By HENRY BLOSSOM, S The Famous Dramatist. iin This story is here aiapted by the author frou Fritzi Scheff's comic opera, ‘M1 le, Modiste,’’ now at the Knick- erbocker Theatre. SYNOPSIS OF PROCEDING CHAPTERS. i Capt, Ktlenne de Houvray, a younk French emian,,1¢ betrothed. by his une Frochi § Count of ‘st, Mar. to Mi ‘4 Bilenne repudiares fallen in 1 ‘i fl, g of Vd 4 ‘ chard then ones Etienne ows to Kill Etonne if ¢ wreak with Fit) and. Bi 5 OWN buch other In ehildhond. Starts for the scene of the sropoed duel. CHAPTER III. Bs Love’s Young Dream. a im A mind filled with a thousand fleet- ing visiona of the little girl tn the pink frock. Picture after picture § hat engaged his rapt attention. His pulse at times had pounded as with a fever, After breakfast, without ap- prising any one of his intention, without asking leave of absence, he had placed @ short log against the wall of the drill @rounds and had vauited the fence and | made for the ppen of the valley again. ‘He had but descended a few paces on tho villa side of the knoll, convinced | that his presence In the vicinity was mot even suspected, even by the dog, When he felt a pair of small arms about his neck. Turning, he found the copper-colored hair pressing against his cheek, wiile the Witte head was buried, Fs Bobbing, on his shoulder, ‘The story she had told him artlessly Was one of Jisps und tears. It did not @eem at all strange to her that she @hould be impelled to confide in him LL night he had lain awake, his alone, She had been an inmate of a found- Ung asylum in Paris. With her heart erying for freedom, she had one night Ey @RCADEd the watchfulness of the : > mmd had fled Into the night. She had ‘ wandered far and jong, first through the atreets of ihe clty and then throush sniles of wooded roads behind Kk. The < People in the villa below the apple tree 3 tad taken her in. They were for re- Suroing her at once to the asylum, but ( Feoonsidered this intention, She had : Bince forgotten it herself, Farmers, vhe fd wife and her older Qmsband had at last decided, after a @onference, to udopt her for the benedit et her pervices, some day THE LITTLE MILLINER | marveling at the complex character of the human organism that makes these swift transits from grief to mirth one of the curiostties of some natures in formative perfods. Then with her head on his shoulder the little yirl had asked iim wistfully to take her away. She had dreamed many times, she sald, that some one would come and take her away where she would be al- ways happy. She had not known until yesterday Se her savior, During the night tt had ‘come to her that at last she was to be freed from the oppression of the old couple, and he, Etienne, had come to her in her dreams and taken her| hand. The old couple, she had added, would not be back to the villa until late in the afternoon. have time to travel far. The dog was chained and could not follow. Would they start socn, please? Etlenne's boyish emotions as he found {himself thus suddenly made the cham- pion of a creature in distress swept back over him again now in the flacre as the afternoon under the apple tree In tho long ago lingered with him. Gravely, after much deliberation, he had told Fift —that was the name the Httle girl gave him—that {t would be wiser to walt 2 day before undertaking @ step so fraught with hidden dangers. Of course he would take her away and at once, and take her far where whe would ever be happy, but he must be given time ‘to plan—a single twenty-four hours at least. And then the parting that day between the little man and the little woman at the summit of the knoll, little Fit cry- ing as {f her little heart would break and he trying his best to look brave and hopeful and strong but inwardly in a tumult of confusion in his strumgies to conceive some plan that would be prac- ticable for the rescue of the girl without sublecting her to the terrors of pursuit by the old couple and the dog. And the Iater events, how consistently now to Btlenne im the flacre they all tumbled nto place In this wonderful ro- mance! Caught as he was scaling the fence of he academy next day, all determined to take Fif away and leave their ultimate @esunation to fate, he bad been sent un- der the guard of one of the patrol to hts uncle. He had tried to escape from this minion, but he had lacked running speed first and strength to free himself from the harsh clasp of the man’s tight | Bileone in the facre-comght himseit! grip of his wrists later. Then the lone pallway trip in the closed compartment that it was he who was to) They would; 1 St (Ni) ie | to which he had been committed just before the big engine had moved out of the station. His relatives had watched him several days during his stay at this place, Reims, whither he had been de- spatched. But he had found his chance to e- cape at least on the fourth day, and, stealing to the station, had bought a ticket back to Paris with the franc notes he had kept concealed iu the band of his hat for just such a con- tingency. How fest he had hurried through the streets when the train had again reached the capital aml he was free to go where he would! How hur- edly ne had made for the vale, reach- ing it at 10 o'clock In the morning. ley, in his romance, and had her start the wheels of the department of Jus {ce going around, wich the hope is ringing to the surface some clue to the He had reached the villa et noon. It! girs whereabouts, But the former oc- was mpty, The shock of this discovery |cupants of the villa behind the knoll had proved one of che most tragic things | bad disappeared as if swallowed by the in his lifel earth. He had succeeded even i interesting And the sorcery of circumstance that his uncte’s sister, the Duchgss de Long-had atrangely returned Fin to him! In Another Instant Fifi Was Sobbing In Etienne’s Arms. He had been visiting an artist friend whose studio overlooked the rear of the gilded shops of the Rue de la. Paix. | pi A Ine ran through a pulley block from this friend's window sill to the sill of the rear of one of the shops op- posite. His friend had bantered him for being @ sldier amd not @ painter, Piayfully, Henne bad answered that hatless, the blouse open just as was the boy's denim blouse been on th long ago summer's day, his hair blow ing across his face just as It was at the moment he had crossed the Knol! for the villa the first time, when his attention was arrested by the vibra- tlon of the pulley ne that ran across the court to the shop window opposite. A girl, her head lowered, was at the opposite window. To the rope, whose other pulley was at his wooden pins varlous fabrics of differ- ent shades. As Etienne turned to gaze across the court, the girl raised her head and looked at him. Instantly, the fabrics she held had toppled to the court below, the girl herself fall- ing backward into the room. As Btl- enne gazed transfixed with the revela- tion of Fif returned, grown, some girls in the room opposite had hurried to the window and closed it. How Etienne had raced down the stairway of the atelier and rushed around the comer to the entrance of the millinery: store of the Rue de ta Paix at whose rear window he had espied the vision made Btienne gasp afresh as ho re- called his filght. Amd the heavenly several minutes he had then enjoyed with If alone, when he hed asked the mistreas of the ostablighment to clear the stockroom in which the girl had swooned while he revived her, ae en old friend! Fifi changed somewhat, bat the same, had recognized him instantly. He still wore tho blouse of this friend, the ar- he would then turn artist. He had|tist, streaked with its dried daubs of thereupon pioked up the blouse of the] paints and oils, She had nestled artist after doffing his own bussar’s| against it in the old way when re- Jacket, and thus attired had sat on|covermg as on the afternoon under the sill of the open window. the apple tree #he had nestled toward He had remarked when putting on| him when another denim suit hed the blouse how strangely in color and| been his costume, She just couldn't fabric the denim of the blouse re-|nelp herself sho had told him later. oalled the denim of the uit he had on| jt never had entered Fifi'’s head that when he had seen Fin the first time| ne might himscif be even an artist. and the second, for a big part of his|gne had been grateful to find him ecstasy, during their two meetings had! again; she had not cared what ho was been based on the knowledge that the| os long aa he was with her again and little girl's frankness and trust had | yeu, For a long time Fil had thought fed by whasever was pure-| ium but one of the many of the poor artists’ helpers of Paris. tghen he had told her who he was, Her instant shyness at the revelation’ had made, him instantly sorry that he yaa confessed his rank, But gradually fas importunities had worn her re- serve away! ‘The flacre, which had been moving eleng at & smart pace, here cleared tva station. to while mistaking him for @ neighboring joughboy, and #0 he had rapturousiy decided to let ber belive until the day should arrive when it would be happiness to surprise her with ie dust who he really na the endless arbor of maples that line roadway at one stretch of the reat Versailles highwa: In another Uttle while the cab would ave arrived at the grounds. What ul become of Fifl if he never ré turned from the encounter? True, -he ;4iad made provision for her in his will. Her wants would always be supplied, She, who would never accept aught of him save the most inconsequential gifte in life, would have to take that which he would be able to force upon her by elbow, she was fastening with longs it death, What did his uncle mean by his siz- nificant appearance at the preliminary meeting of the seconds? Had he been a part of a plot, as his threat would seem to warrant one to suspect? No, the duel evidently was the issue of the insistence of Capt. Frochard alone, Frochanl’s sister, the Countess, had filled his mind with ther views of Etienne’s attitude toward her. That alone had brought the thing about. It was to be a fair combat between * the two, anyhow. But he was never sure of his left wrist. But then, not more #0 was his advgrsary, as the pre- Uminary arrangements had developed. Perhaps it would have been wiser had he consented to permit his seconds to accompany him in the fiacre as they had entreated. ‘These thoughts about Fin had tended to Ah bim with a dis- turbing tenderness. * A Jolt of the flacre, as it wheeled over a atone, suddenly thr Etienne for- ward in his seat. He stretched cut a hand to eave himself from impact againzt the opposite wall of the cab, The end of something that looked in the dim ght lke a plece of black cloth showed on the floor, protruding from under the seat of the vehicle as he half rose. Instinctively, Etlonne reached down and took hold of the cloth. Drawing {ts end toward him, he was surprised to discover that the seo , ton he held was but part of what seend a fairly largé fold. As he drew. the fabric toward him, the swinging punel or flap that acted as a shield for the compartment under the seat swung outward, Glad of something even lightly to distract him, Etienne now stood up in the flacre with the inten= tion of drawing the fold of fabric forth, Stooping down he lifted the flap, As the panel came forward and Tleared the angle, giving him full view beneath the Etienne uttered a cry. In another instant Fif, sobbing, was tn Etienne’s arms. ; (Lo Be Continued.)