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by theres: Putting Compeny, No. Sto & Park Row,.Noy Tort | 5 r nsad ae the Pose Ottee tt Nom Bark as Bencot-Cinan ined Sweet. 4S 20: nas sneneee sovece NO. 16,271. REAL MUNCICIPAL OWNERSHIP. In the midst of al the pother about municipal ownership one Phase seems to hawe escaped atten- tion, This is: the ownership of the city’s representatives in the Legisla- ture. The most economic move the town.could make would be to ac- quire possession of these personages. Do the people exercise the slight- est ownership in Patrick H. Me- Carren, Bernard F. Martin, Thomas sy F. Grady and Charles Cooper, whose . ww votes in the Senate Cities Committee Denaton Chas Corer | have killed the Elsberg bill? Not a Particle? Yet they keep on electing these tools of the traction interests, and shout themselves hoarse for municipal ownerstiip, Each one of the: men named is in the Senate for “what there 4s-in. it” for him. This fact is perfectly and publicly known, but it doesn’t seem to disturb anybody. They will probably keep on being “honored leaders.” One of the four, Cooper, is a Republican. He is entitled to more of the limelight than he has been getting. Cooper some ; twenty years ago engineered the first great franchise steal in “Brooklyn, which gave the Willoughby street “gang” its initial pros- perity and incidentally did away with the old, crude Tweed methods of direct robbery and brought in the new and more profitable industry of the sale of public privileges. DUMB AND STUPID OXEN. Mr. Judson C, Wall has earned a good word from the public-for ‘his insistence in dragging from the State Railroad Commission the details of one piece of robbery of the New York City Railway by the Metropolitan Securities Company. The process was simplicity itself. The “holding” securities company’ ‘ “bought” the notes of the company it “held” at 70, and they were re- deemed at par. Profit to the “holding” company, $2,797,200; loss to the New York City Railway Company, $2,797,200. Any bank woukd have taken these notes at par and 5 per cent. What Kind of people own the subsidiary railroads “held” by the Securities? ‘They must be dumb and stupid oxen. Charles S, Ludlam, of Haskins & Sells, should be given a busy half hour before some investigating com- mittee. A GOOD BEGINNING, The indictment of the President and two Vice-Presidents of the ‘Mutual Reserve Life on charges of grand larceny and forgery prepares the way for a series of prosecutions to fit the crimes. It puts the peni- tentiary procession in motion, The experience gained by Mr. Jerome in these trials should be inval- wable to him. It will be of sovereign importance when he comes to deal ‘with the big fellows. His ’prentice hand will then have become practised, ' a ‘ CHINATOWN MUST GO! * Tenement-House Commissioner Butler adds the weight of his testi- mony to the arguments for The Evening World’s Chinatown park plan. To each of the three departments which care for the city’s health, the safe housing of its citizens and the security of life Chinatown is equally a plague spot. Its abolition will solve one of the most baffling problems with which they have to deal. How the blight of the evil conditions there has fallen on property | ‘Interests is indicated by the low assessments of realty. All the land on| “both sides of an entire street, Doyers, has a value for purposes of taxation | ‘of but $95,000! The assessed valuation of all the land on the three, ‘main streets is less than that of one business plot in a more eligible loca-| “tion. | * Chinatown has existed too tong a municipal disfigurement. Its squalor ,and disease, its opium fumes, its ancient rookeries and dens of vice too “tong have defiled civic decency. It must go! TNIGHTSTICK, on NOZZLE A Roueres of Menhettan by elise in the house?” he asked the women. Mane aoa a faroiman, and Hom Gaal “No, alr," she said deferentially. }gul girl from an uptown potel fire Jason ‘Maggie won't be home for a few days, H men are Injured, The Fir. ota iS |Ghe's gettiog old and I sent her to see Hf eiye any clear account of horvelt win the|@ lece n Harlem to spend Thankagiv- ; as wii and. a y Garvin, Fe- | ing.” to kam more about her. J setae dod 3 Her keen glance took in the expen- sive and well-chosen clothing worn by the gtrl, her dainty cloak, coat, her gown, the decidedly French shoes, none of these escaped her. Lenox gave an sign, and ehe followed him into: the other room. “Well?” said the woman questioning- mtoty. ly, “T know you have eomething for do.” CHAPTER V. acer “I have something for you to do," The Yellow Brick House. | $4 Lenox. “Something that you will Him caretage rolled to the curb and do well.” “Will do well, or must?" stbpped before a small yellow A faint smile appeared on the young ‘ forick house. ‘The driver, whose| policeman’s face. Jemite had by this time disappeared, re- ‘on:hie box. Lenox still held the “This girl ves on my beat. I do not know her name. I chameed to be in a weak form of the girl against him, ‘with ber head resting on his arm, restaurant where she and a man were taking supper, She lew me, On der With his right hand he assisted her| way out she dropped a note to me to from the carriage and up the stoop to the front door, help her, There is some aort of plot + He rane the bell. There was a delay to destroy her, but she is reticent about it. While she is in deadly fear of thone L of about three minutes, but Lenox, who Pad been in the place before, did not with mhom ate seems most closely con- R nested, yet she protects them. She has ghow any impatience. ‘At last the door was opened on a not told me her name.” “Well? What has all this to do with crack and the face of a woman ap~ peared. me—I mean whes is it you wisd ne to R ‘8 all rigt#,” eald Lenox. “Let me tn. “Oh, tet you, sir?” asived the woman, aor" “I am coming to that. In my effort to ae she fiting the door open wide. “Come sin. ‘Whet has happened?" assist her, I fired at a man who was to @ll appearances handing her over to mt reply Lenox took the girl mto parlor and settled her on the ome person I did not see, in another Ge carriage. I fired at the man, but shot the girl instead. one of New York’ yatertes, “white I} owe the girl ail the T can 1 aet-enly aasi dew lite. bight “You ‘see now, that althougt this ie| °° Leda Roady rapide erc:s. peculiar ictpgis Ho me Moagazin A Change of Flags., By J. Campbell Cory. 1 FEEL LIKE 4 SPONGE ! ‘e, Friday Evening; March 9, 1906. ] — —— The Mock Orange Bridge Cub ® B&B B 467 DECLARE I never was eo outdone in my fe,” said Mrs. Oliver Quiver, I Vice-President of the Mock Orange (N. J.) Bridge Whist Club, biting a ladylike sob in two and touching the end of her nose with her handker chtef. ‘Here for weeks and weeks I've been getting headaches and almost bring- ing on nervous prostration from mental strain, laying out my new spring gown in my mind. And then to have things turn out the way they did !s almost more than flesh and blood can stand! “It was all my own design, too—that is, tt amounted to the same thing, be- cause all I got from the description that the paper printed about “Alice Roose velt's going-away gown was the idea for the material and the color and the trimming and a suggestion for the cut The arrangement of the buttons was every vit my own, and so wus the rest of {t, too! “That's what I alwzrs pride myself on—getting up my own {deas for my gowns. Most of the women here in Mock Orange are perfectly willing just to sit down and copy sometiing conventional out of the Homely Ladies’ Journal!— I do despise a copy cat—-but I always ‘try to get up something really chio n@ original. Of course make a few mistakes that way, and occastonally you have to throw away a frock because It doesn’t develop as you thought tt was going to do, but then the result in the long run always justifies the expense, even {f Mr. Quiver does complain that my dressmakers’ bills are running him into debt. But I'm sure he simply says that for effect, because neanly every month when I need some money all he has to do ts Just to signa plece of paper and ge: another man to stgn it and just take it to the bank and get the money. And I'm dure that’s a great deal easier than having to work for it; yet stil he frets and frets and never stops vo think of all the trouble I go to trying lto get frocks that will be becoming to me. “Well, as I was telling you when you tried to interrupt me, I gok my new princess gown home yesterday morning. I thought I never had seen anything 8 stylish and effective and absolutely original in my lfe, It was Allce blue, Fou know, with the cutest elbow sleeves and three broad bands of black velvet of me. yourself, I can fix that.|““Wihat do you mean? I did not think But that Is not allot myself.” “Whi—you are a I know you are an honest policeman. Any other man, knowing what you do of me, would make me pay m good price m. I have never “No—it Ja @ bullet wound in a youn: and healthy cheek. Leave that to me. you wanted." “No. That is really only a emall part ot what Iqwant. I have had some talk of taking the young lady to the house of a-friend. She will not have it that way, She ineiste that her presence is constant menace. That her enemies and shrewd an. paid you a cent,” “There are two ways of looking at i. Your crimes are of a minor kind. ie true you have received stolen De property, But if I Stolen I it to apeak to you and if you can ft it is return- no place to go Jed, and I get thief. We must do be sought, Xl@uch thin: ‘at in Bot it were am looking for mn s to Rides. | Phe inert of ‘ene 70 one, ou, ent of @ good By Grinnan Barrett around the bottom of tho skirt and just the grandest big blac! velvet buttons all the way down the bank. And as for the fit—well, I couldn’ ‘usten dt at all for ever so long, and I hail to re-lace myself tighter twice, so you can guvss for yourself what a splendid fit it was. Why, I couldn't breath for eve: so long after I got tt hooked up. “And then when I got ‘to Mrs. Bob Darrow’s for the meeting of the chub yes- terday afternoon, and swept in very slowly so as to dazzle the rest of the mem- bers, I almost dropped in my tracks! There were nineteen other women there and eleven of them had on Alice blue princess frocks wiih elbow sleeves, just ike my own Idea, and black velvet rows around the bottoms of the skirts. And four of ‘then had actually gone and had the nerve to steal my dlack velvet buttons down the back! And Ithen that spiteful Mrs. Darrow she satled up to me and smiled that lady-Judas smile of hers and said out loud so everybody could hear: “‘Ah, my dear, so you readi all about the White House wedding, too, didn't your ‘ “J was so unhappy and furious and disappointed I oonldn't keep track of the game and mean little Mrs, Wiseburd beat me out of the prize, although I always will believe to my dying day that she cheated on the last hand. And I came home and had a good cry. : “I wish I never had heard of Alice Roosevelt's old going-away gown. T al- | ways have thought from the very first that she might have done better than marrying a cran that's so bal he has to take off his callar to brush his back- hair. I just wish Judge Parker had beaten her father for Presiden. Mr. Quiver says Roosevelt had a clove cnll as {t was; he says that Parker would have wot | tt everybody who vated for him had been twins. So I gucss Roosevelt needn't | tect so stuck up. | “But just to think of all those beautiful black velvet buttons practically moing to muste! I belleve I'm going to ory again! WD RRADRAAAAAEADALCARE LVAD OA TAA AAA AAR AAA BAB ABAR AANA SAPARD ‘ullet through the cheek of a girl he ts trying to reseu *Stil, you frightened off the men. You probably saved her from death or worse and the bullet wound will heal." “TN have a talk with her before I go. I want to run down her foes tf I can. Bu: she doesn’t seem to want to give me any information. “Tr seems mixed wp. “It Js mixed up, bit IM unravel tt Now, take all possible pre- j cautions, will yor somehow. promise you.” The policeman turned to re-enter the parlor. “Wait,” sald Mra. Foby, Lenox turned, “You—know—I haven't seen Jake now in six month “I know," continued the woman, “there are ‘six indictments waiting for him to show himself, I know you are looking for liln. If he should come here he would be nabbed, and that would mean at least ten years, all told.” s,"" sald Lenox in a half whisper. ow, since we have entered into this—this little plan, one in which you are more interasted than I am—can't you shut your eyes a couple of nights walle you are on duty and let Jake come and see me? He's bad, I know, So am L But other police shut their yes gometimes, I knoz you don't want money. But—for the sake of the gtrl— i could Jake come to see me—once— sie Lenox breathed ham. Jake Foby was one of the best-wanted criminals of New York. It had been Lenox who located him in the yellow brick houso, Where he always wore a disguise. It had been Lenox who had watched him, Peddal af HUAI iD) Nu) sh NA wil) | ' H turned him Into the watchful care of detectives, and had been generally in- strumental in bringing wt the in- dictments. But in some way Foby had leas thad escaped, And now Lenox was asked to shu his "eyes and permit. tho criminal te visit his vite. sr “Com e¢ int Come int What has happe ned?" . ee Rea known," he said, “it would A ais i a ean j “So will this other. It (s not necea- but In all probability I have destroyed) "You thought, of me? No. | You | would pay me well now by taking good ee fee chee. of a thought tof the girl, You did not think | care of that girl. Now, what did you | sry for elther to be iknown, her beauty. ‘You did ‘not even think of|mean by the statement’ that I did not Fut She moved close to him. think of myself? “Dia you ever see this girl before?” “Why—this Is @ shooting case, Tt matter who. dla the mooting, doesn’! Lent niece. e EAB ite You say there. was & man, If he is a8 4, Hn ee repens TOU mMved from). Well Daye J rant Hor niece in| “Don’t waken her, I can question her way place. the. atthe totere your sae | xen Meee obably, very high tn, the sootal | when I come again.” Deriomm aca not omy get back the giri| Hayen't you thomht of her sinoe?™| tole. Ia that, & enctie t0 dB TE gg | ug Ne igtin cat? of Her LOR but rub you.’ “Don't ye Y {is Mossitor,| right, and to-morrow you won't knd “{ must take my chances. I consider | o¢ vate When ue ey in feoece bot ine oat is the Jackson Vil dices. thak wound ae’ sgn we myrel{ a friend to this girl and am do-|taurant she picked you out as the one| ‘And you send the boy money through Stason) you alo. wii {ng this,es © friend and not aa @ po-| to suve her again. Yo! she had passed] herr i Fane Ser eee joumna’ jozens Oo} inary. cemen, ant Yee." “Just the same af ft dg found out you| not know you would be at the restau+| ‘But whet do you fear from know «what ‘wil it. Is OE el that whe haa} .'T BN were sly cl 1. happen, We fet \t egps I owe this gtri 2 pales 2 ral"s {on a hero wearing something tasty in rawhide, {square with the Mayor, Common Council and Board of Trade present in. NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY-GLASSES By Irvin S. Cobb. UT West the call of the tamed wild is all for the up-to-date society 0 drammer. The day has passed when the regular patrons at Wing. fisher and Seattle will be satisfied with “Lady Audley’s Secret,” “Sea of Tce,” “Zaza” and “Fanchon the Cricket” for the regular bills; ladtes ad- mitted free on the opening evening when accompanied by one paid admis- sion; souvenirs to all at the school-children’s bargain matinee; an elegant plush sofa and a desirable silver card receiver given away on Saturday night to the lady and gent holding the lucky numbers—a coupon with everp ticket; don’t miss the grand street parade by our All-Star Silver Cornet Band daily at 10 A. M., rain or shine. Never again for “The Black Flag” and “Hazel Kirke” in the shearet and domesticated West. While the bank-roll holds out to burn the good people of Butte, Tomtstone and Spirit Lake will stand only for the real dress suit play, reproducing with exact fidelity to setting and detail the atmosphere of the Hast. The curtain rises on a back drop showing Pea- cock Alley at a time when Peacock Alley was not feeling the est in the world. The foreground is filied in with a tasty papler-mache palmtree and a parlor set borrowed on the strength of two season comps from the Panay. instalment House on Main street, with tags-attached-stating the amount:due down and how much a week. The hour is supposed to be 10 o'clock in the morning. Acccordingty the he-troupers come on in dinner coats that fit them almost as well as if they had been made for them. The lady members appear in deck-o-leck gowns and white slippers with bead embroidery on the toes. In the Inst act, dex picting the annual hunt ball of the Meadow Brook !Club, the ladies wear rids Por UP THEr SHOOTIN’ IRON, PODNEK | ing boots, red reefer coats and carry dogwhips. ‘lhus are the unities pre~ * served. By these agencies also do the best famities of Tucson-and Medicine Het acquire their belief that the fashionable male population of New York ts} made wp almost altogether of imported lords and home-grown Johnnies. They 4 don’t begin to realize how many kinds of Johnnies we have, ranging from t the Coal-Oil Johnnies at the Waldorf to the Beefsteak Johnnies at the Dry <; Dock. ‘ On the other hand, Broadway clamors with lowd erles these days-for the 7 leather pants drammer. The idol of the matinee mademoiselles has tearned his bitter iesson—he goes to the tanyard for his wardrobe. We Insist now We have a villain who / dresses up like a saddlery and horse-goods exhibit with a revolver where he would have to be a contortionist to reach it find a cartridge belt full of four-grain capsules. It is customary, for purposes of realism, to provide a genuine Indian chief, who commands an imaginary tribe of redskins on a mental reservation, and has a dislocated feather duster trailing along his spine where the butions would be if he wore the princess effect. Also an elderly person—miner, stockman or retired scout—lurking in ambush behind a dense copse of Shetland property whiskers. Tlfis character always refers to his daughter as “lass” and hails the tenderfoot who comes on at the end of the third act as “stranger.” We regard this as hot and timely local color. But {ff a man called a gir? “lass” or a newcomer “stranger” wet of the Kaw River he would be burned at the stake, or if the wood were wet he would be lynched on the pubite _j pee body, and those who did not go to his funeral would approve of it heartily, THE FUNNY PART. Even on the stage we huve to go away from home to find out the news about ourselves. ETTERS from the PEOPLE ANSWERS ® QUESTIONS 4,0% grains, and as 6) pounds make a bushel of wmheat we will have 40,03h- 996,687,737 bushels 44 pounds and 4,006 grains, which at $1.a bushel Would cost $400,319,906,878.11; 00 pounds to a ton will ¢ive us 1: pounds and 4,005 gra Red-Haired Girl Testifies, For a Univer: To the Eiiitor of The Brening World: Tt the eame company bosses the ‘*L,” the subway and the surface cars, why hinye three sets of fares, especially as all’ are on @ five-cent basis? Why not have a universal five-cent ticket, good on any of the three routes? It would rently simplify matters and would! 7 the Editor of The ‘Byening World: ave trouble all around. We could buy| It me tell “A. O'C.." who asks @ bunch of suoh tickets and not havo|Ted-halred girls make good wives, that, to grope about tn our pookets for the| he 18 distinctly jucky to have fatlen ta right one or for the exact change, |love with a red-haired woman. I am! Khan ever, Ubblp Hobson, one myself, and therefore competent to} POL. BCON. pass on the question. Red hair, that High Rents, siorlous tint whioh artists rave over‘ and women dye for, 1s no more an in- ‘To the Editor of The Pventme World. I have read of the cruelty of land- ; The outward h dication of bad ‘temper or fitkleness lors in raising rents on poor families, as our famfly were raised on March 1. I cannot tell how mean we feel about It Our men get no higher wages, but the rents go up. What ts going to be-~ come of us working people? WIFE. The Grain Problem. To the Editor of The Evening World: Mr. Leary asks the amount of a grain geometrically doubled upon itself from the first to the sixty-fourth square of @ chess board. ‘The shortost way to find the number of grains is to raise 2 to the 6th power and subtract 1 from the product, which will give us 13,446,744,- 078,709,651,615 grains. Allowing 480 grains ta an ounce and 16 ounces to a pound we will have 2,401,919,801,264,2¢4 pounds nnn go to your friend's she objected, be- ci that would put you and your riend Ig that not proot you? “Tt seems 60," Lenox, a slight lush appearing on his face. Oe You, theme little eyes of mine can see more than the pawn- broker's acid mark on a@ plece of gold. You love her.” “Oh, I know. Now think. I'm an old Ero ven eo Poby ay as worthless a piece of furniture as now. Bore “fnother js my husband a there are things T want to see him about, I am afraid’. YOu atts Reni] go see the’ boy." “Mhat's news to me, I did not know fon." had a 4 ‘ ightcen, and is at a school in Me city “UD the river—-I do not fear . He is at Peekskill,” (etee oho ‘know “that you are his eHoM inks he is the eon of Maggie's than Js) any other color. signs of a woman’s temper and dis-% position are shown by ‘her general } facial and other physical character<t’ Isties, and not by the coloring mattert}’ of her hair, VERMILION. The Money Division, ‘To the Falitor of The Fventng World: Joe Rubanow propounds a probiem me witch he asks how much mmuy eactt} of three sons recetved and what was §, the entire amount ff the first got one-\, third of the total, tae second one-third §| of the remainder and the third one- | third of what ‘was loft, when at the + end there were $24 left. This is my | answer: ‘The entire amount was $$, , They received respectively $27, $18 and {/ $12. GOLDIn. &J a CEI hie own sont” a +! fe isn’ lake's son. le was my) won before I married sexe, I've eam | tarred twice. And al moperty f Wil ‘be the, boy's and Juke knowa fe | That's why I am afrald” { iene yeu want Juke to come home?" §) % ‘ \EYVNAE ood wilt that dor" want to make him 6 \ pers, "It he doce note me OM sa poe not, wit then?" \ est him on the Indictments, shall’ not live ten years, and before’ he gets out Eddie witl be bf uge and. will haye his money whether I live or dic ‘T shall return ‘to duty In a few daste I shall first have a detall, and wheg my arm comes out of the sling I shas. be on post, Week after next I am on | night duty." i “Who will take your place on post? “T don't know, Some man taken from a detail where he can be spared," “Ant he won't know Jake. Good. You run no ristk."” ren nodded and stepped into the parlor. “Poor girl,” sald the woman. "She is nothing but a child, and to be dragged into the maelstrom of this olty's darker