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. NO. 16,272, THE ASSAULT ON ALBANY. The gathering of the insurance clans at Albany to fight the Arm- strong bills is the most spectacular and in point of numbers the most impressive assault on a legislative measure the capital ;shas seen in a long time. Sentiment has been “drummed up” in all parts of the State by, the most skilful and experienced manip- ulators in the employ of the com- panies, with all the persuasion which the lure of a free junket lends. From. this brass-band part of the opposition there is less to fear than fom the still hunt from which it serves to divert attention, The danger 45 not in the open presentation of their case by the companies; the public {will-be satisfied with the verdict of the facts. But what is going on behind the scenes? That ts the matin thing. (What argument is the insurance lobby advancing behind closed doors and warying to mest the prejudices of individual legislators? What material pleas is ts putting up as “man for man?” What conversions is it plan- ting to make “as sudden as Saul’s” among coy legislators? ‘The prospect that legislation originating in the Armstrong disclosures __ figorruption will put an end to long-continued robberies of policy-holders | fas naturally aroused the beneficiaries of those robberies to a supreme effort of resistance. It ts the death struggle of insurance graft, and they wealize it. They are in their last extremity, and theysare prepared to apply It ts the attempt to apply those remedies which must be watched. ‘[Po-tegitimate and outspoken arguments the public will give a respectful © bearing. But it will keep sharp watch for any’ evidence of the argument __ ‘unspoken. 5 ‘The “nomination” of Mark Twain for the Supreme Court by a speaker at the Patzel dinner had come foundstion of fitness to ft. A sense of humor in Judges + te desirable at times, In 2 Judge of Special Sessions, of course, it is not so de- ~ VOLUME 46...... “from _ THE UNION FERRY COMPANY. ~~ The Union Ferry Company says it is going out of business, and " offers its worthless fleet, dock leases and a little real estate-to the city for * $3,500,000. When Henry B. Hollins and tls assoclates looted the corporation in 1893 they paid about $2,100,000 to James S. T. Stranahan and his asso- ‘lates for the stock, which included all the property the concern is now “able to offer, at a time when 10 per cent. dividends were the rule. Bonds “were issued, which lowered the cost of the deal to the promoters, leaving the stock as “velvet.” The company fs now earning a fair dividend on} its cost to the financlers who paid a high price in open market for much of the stock. Any deal the city makes that involves the payment of a _ cent over the actual book value of the company will be robbery, The Mayor and Comptroller announce that it will be “necessary” to buy the ferries, on which not a cent has been spent for boats or im-| provements in thirteen years. At least one of the tubs was a gunboat “during the war of the rebellion. The rule is about to work again: Load the worthless public-service | properties on the commumity and give the great, valuable rights to Ryan! : and Belmont to be merged and watered into the billion-dollar monopoly which is on the cards for the near future! | : “Millionaires who taugh are rare,” says Andrew Carnegie. Still it is possible ‘that John D. Rockefeller from his subpoena-proof retreat is indulging in an ‘ tnward-chuckle. The laugh ts not on him. +h WER EAY The Evening Worltd*s Home NOTHIN’ Dow Asks Ketten, for More Wings. ‘To the Editor of The Mrening World: ANSWERS I was so deeply interested in Maurice Ketten's cartoon, of making a suggestion. Vhen the Wings Be- at 1 take the Mberty I, too, would LETTERS from the PEOPLE cx QUESTIONS Magazine Saturday E mT reea! By J. Cam pbell Cory. t 1 if ty | clerks, &€, who seem to forget that) women are entitled to any consideration | or respect, A.C. Re “The Ideal Temperament.” ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World: | Referring to the inquiry about red-| tain almost any heights. Red-hatred women are more finely organized than their dark-hatred s: They have more Int nsity, are more sensitive and high- they are affable and amiable. Not only have blonde women made history, but the world’s greatest artists have ever adorned their famous Madonnas and “heavenly inhabitants” with locks of red or gold. What more can be said? ONE WHO KNOWS. New York's Miidy Water. To the Editor of The Pyening World: Before we sneer at the clay eaters M “The city must buy them,” seys Comptroller Metz of the Union Ferry lines, “What was the Comptroller saying the other day about “gold bricks?” 4A A Romance of SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, @ Lenox, @ policeman, falla in love ; & xirl Whom he has rescued from % fire and whose very name he does not Bio, iis saves ‘ner from abduction. anda 34 Hight ensues In the course of which she VBP ’wounded in the cheek, Ghe begs Lenox 2, take her,to a place of safety whore oer z ous persccutore cannot find an Baer her, He cond to the houre r of stolen goods, ry ‘band ie a . The woman promises care for Leno's wounded pro- SS CHAPTER VI. The Man of Mystery. BELLO, old man! Game arm get- 66 4 the good, Thought I'd see you} the house, but with your usual mod ‘patter, anyhow?" As he spoke Fireman Garvin spreat) Himeelt out on a sofa and divan in a| | avay to ease his foot. “TE didn't say there was anything the matter," answered Lenox. "1 can't be impolite I am in your own rooms, therefore your guest. As I ey, I cannot do anything impolite. Novertheless I shall consider it my duty to kick you tf you do not behave." “Behave? You kick me? With one werviceable foot and the other in har- eas, you are goingtokickme? Very Well, There acems to be kicking enough Against your department and mine with- | ut & kick inside of botix"’ _ "Don't talk like an ass just because Pou know how, Where is that @lrl?” SWhas girl?” Garvin atirred his bandaged foot es he would throw it a¢ Lenox. "We wore friends,” “Wo are," eaid Lonox, with the uc- on tho ‘are.’ ‘We aro friends ‘by # tle that Js indissoluble, * know it. Byt don't you see? Can't ‘mderstand? You are destroying ‘hance of promotion.” NIGHTSTICK ad NOZZLE- ting better? My foot is all to|DAave done is absolutely right. 5 ty you falled to show up. What's the |” Menhettan “Promotion in ‘what? tnnocently. Garvin rose to his feet, his bruised foot shaking under him. He was in a mge. asked Lenox “Lenox—no, I will say Davie, as we used to say in the years that seam a long time ago, will you lIlsten to rea- “Nothing would please me better {f I heard any, You seem to be excited about something, You have not told me what, but you seem to think I have |done something wrong." “No, I dpn't, I think whatever you But [ think you are getting yourself tangled up !n a mystery that will cause you trouble. This fs all pn account a pretty face. I do not blame you tor that. What T do ‘blame yoo for !s that you are keeping the matter a se- cret, so that I may not be able to help you out {f the opportune time should come." “I appreciate your generous senti- ments," eald Lenox with a sort of half laugh. “But I q not expect any dra~ matic om ‘ragle developments.” Garvin sat far several minutes think- ing, Then he gradually rose to his feet with eome difficulty. As he stood he Wat his grasp on his crutch and it foll to the floor. “Here you are," said Lenox, spring {ng to the floor and restiring the crutch, “Permit a limb of the law to restore a mb of the'!— “Devil?” asked Garvin, "No, I didn't mean iimd, branch. Olive branch. See?” Garvin @d4back into a chair, He held the awkwam crutch before him end sxamined {t with some ostentation, “That ts am ollye branch in reality, ut not in appearance,” ho aafd, ‘Tt is the emblem of peace and harmonious action between my two legs. Now, In this case, you have restored to mo en artificial prop, or leg, but you are not’ T meant like to see some wings sprouting, es- peciadly on some of the public's servants that women have to come !n contact with: street car conductors, policemen, LAAT EU ATAATAAAAAAAATIA TUS EUNT MELETONMECASAATE TAS TUEEEED “You shot her?” leaving me a real leg to stand on." “I haven't the slightest idea what you mean," said Lenox. "Yo game } here for the ostensible purpose of ask- | ing me to supper, What your crutch has to do with it J don’t know. You have not sald you were to have a les of mutton, a leg of calf, a leg of pork. A_ log of wood Ja not to be thought of, Wihat do you mean?” “I moan,” eaid Garvin, “that you are drawing away—you have something you fave, not oxpldined. Whore Is that bal} jow you are gotting at your quos- tlong in somothing lke orders Ie will reply to your question. The girl ts in bap hands,’ her ,, Se, You were asked to protect “Tea.” Yeu shot, hes a : ef the Sou and the dirt eaters of hatred girls I would say: A red-haired | of woman js never ordinary nor common-/| Africa and India, let us clear our own place. Tf she has a good brain she|dear New York Clty drinking water can, with her rare temperament, at-!and stop taking tnternal mud baths venin » March 10, 1906. 'A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY HIS is perhaps the most widely and indignantly discussed photo- graph to-day in all England. Not from any oddity of pose or costume, but from the fact that dt 18 a snapehot of @ man to whom uniforms and all their wearing implies were supposed to be as distasteful as a red rag to a bull. Tho man ig John Burns, the great labor leader, whowe almost exaggerated plain- news of attire has been a@ sallent char- acteristic and hag endeared him to many of the Isboring class. Burns was recently made a Cabinet Minister, As President of the Local Government Board he was required to wear the Gorgeous uniform in which he here ap- Dears. Many of his constituents de- every time we swallow a glassful of alleged aqua pura. There is no ex- cuse for the filthy, brown water that ‘we bathe in, cook tn and drink. Can't} |New York afford a dig fiter or some other way to stop this annual spring nuisance of clouded Croton water? olared Burns would refuse thus to de- part from his regular custom of unos- temtation. But at the King's new Minister arrived at Bue Palace in all his new glory and was kodaked as he approached the palace gate, Burns Is rumored to have arguol with the King beforahand on the sub- Ject and to have ¢rled to shaw cause why he should be exempt from un!form-wearing. ‘The United States Post-Office says that Chicago ts the word most frequently and most horribly mis-spelt by foreigners. It is claimed indect! that this word has been mis-spelt in 189 different ways. Some of the ways are: Zizazo, Jagjago, Hipaho, Jagiga, Scheechacho, Hizago, Chach!cho, Shieahbsdo, An off NMfe- saving device for long - distance swimmers and for thoee learning to One of = the most brillant of ail Eton's mas- ters some years ago was a very absent - minded wim man. He was be Resi suet reported to have, been perfected. been seen one{ A float in the day chasing @ form of a tube, hen down Wind- hese yard: sor Hill in the e/eong: fond belief that is inflated by the swimmer and is wound erouna his body. At eaca end ‘is a tube, which is stopped up with a plug, and a leather strap, which serves to fas- ten the float to the body. It ts wound around the waist, then the neck, and finally around vhe arms, Perhaps the oddest house in all the world is owned by Fritz Schermer, of St. Louis. The house stands ali by itxelf out in the northwest ste of the city, only @ few blocks from one of the greut breweries, and from the outaide it has the appearance of an ordinary “cottagy’ frame and shingle cottage, with a rather wide porch and odd angles to the roof The strange feature of the house is that she was his tiat! About the time the Galapagos islands were dis- covered a young turtle was born other day in the there, He died the Zoological Gardens, London. He was at least 30 years old. When he was feeling well he would eat as much grass as an average cow. vs built entirely of beer kegs. This is not a decorated horseshoe, but the part of your brain that enables you to move about. The pi re shows a flat section of the cerebellum, or ltttle brain, which presides over the co- One of the best-known houses in Northamptonshire, England, was designed to represent the days, weeks and quarters of the year it has four wings facing the ~ ordination of voluntary wovenients : four quarters of the heavens to represent the four quare Tennfs was the mos: pop- ters of the year, 365 wine ular game played In London last sea-| dows, one for each day; fifty-two chime son. 70,09 games were played, cricket] neys, one tur each week, and peven coming next with 2,379. Bowls scored | entrances, to represent the seven days 17,69 games and football 16,525. of the week. ‘The werks of a clock made for the cathedral of St. Gervais d'Avranches weigh two tons; there are five sets of wheels, and the hours are struck on a bell welgh- ing over six tons by a clapper of 220 pounds. For the quarters and the carillon there are twenty-two other bells, the weight of the quarter bells ranging from uilmteen hundredweight to two tons. ‘Mere are four faces to this clock, which is ye largest In France, This queer-looking automobile ts the invention of a French mach’‘nist. DISGUSTED. Legal Ala Society, 239 Broadway. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Dhere ds motey coming to me and I am always being put off. and think tie debtor js trying to tire me so that ! won't care to press the matter. The claim does not amount to much, but has cost me $65, which I am in no ctroum- stances to lose. Where can I apply for redress? J.B OM. enough after you translate it into Eng- ,{Ush and don't care much about gram- mar or syntax, It seems there Is a body found so;mewhere. It is now at the morgue. There seems to be some mystery about It." “There is always a mystery," growled Garvin, am going home.” “walt till 1 get a paper.” He bounded downstairs and bought an extra. “What good will that do? We are not on duty,” asked Garvin. “But sten! Can you listen? This man waa found at the foot of Thirty- fourth street and East River. Ho was tall. He was clad in evening clothes, He had dark hair and a smooth face, except a mustache, He had elegani underclothing."” “Well?” said Garvin, aa he wabbled ‘on his crutch as if ina hurry to go. “I think I will take a run to the worse and see If I can identify this Pitnke you know it?" asked Garvin carelessly. “Oh, I brmpaplyavoun not know, but I have nothing e! to do.” h my foot wolla et “Then wis! mell. I want to be on active duty This crutch doesn't fit my hand as weli as a nozzie.”’ if “See you to-m: ? “T don't think so. I'm booked for a shopping tour for Thanksgiving. what Thankeriving 4a in my house?" “Er—the last Thursday in November, I suppose.” “Yes, and more, This year it happens to be my mother's birthday.” “And you’— “and joing to have of ey lure fom to ya think?"” the give “Yes; uninten tionally.” with sall it has had to mako tt “Never mind, you shot her, great, ies hever given Us @ man like you: Now, how do you expect to explain this when it comes to an investigation?” Keep what you ir secrets to “I shall refer them to you, since you| yourself. Hold back uo know more than any one eléo,"" ‘hink mi, come to those who ald you Now vou are getting—nasty, I havelin this matter. But when you ‘ist car eta hal 4. Circumsta: rye «" reno% 5 area dameen' sont, “I cannot be helped. matances | on me. Lenox, you ‘ool, @re such that I cannot tell you any! but the est “man know. more ant have," pe pou gg ms te “Then fromm: int of view the} ,0' sorry you i, said. case stands thus’ You rescued a «ini. | “You, know so much” ebout—what's @hot her in the attempt, and now have hidden her away from all her own Allaboudamurda- friends and yours, even at the risk of loging your position, Am I right?” “You refuse fo tell me, your best Srigpd. Where ehe 1s.” “You know that ‘he case ts Ilable to be, , ted one nd involve you,” - none rete ia Sas a to san |°™™ Licey Geen do. “A aise hupdred-doliar bill to do what she Hikes with.” “L envy you.’ “Wi? usly lau; Garvin. soetive I’ have the hundred a0tier Lenox, eimost savagely. "8 easy. Good-by, old Take Thursday inner with ust’ “Thursday?” “Than! ving. you ope,’ “Oh! Yes, I wilt. Thantca Tell that gous, snother, of pours I will be on ‘Lenox bed not forgotten the Mo! hurriedly on. his oat and test reac! rave would fin suddenty= tioulation had gone ‘The body on the slab he was looking et wes the man at w in Herald Square—and had hom he fred net hit—the Know | move It when he wants to turn around. Owing to Sts strange conformation, “coweatcher,” guards, &c., It ls clalme ed to be far safer than the motor cars now in use. Place for a groom to alt “tger fashion” {s provided at the beck, and a sort of magnified bicycle chain is employed for propelling the rear wheels. In Mexico a gold mine has just been sold for $150,000, for the discovery of : which chickens are entitled to full credit. A few months ago the value of the property was unsucpected, but one day the employees of Albert Palos, a merchant of Tapalpa, found grains of gold 4n the crops of his fowls, and immediately took steps to acquire the land where the birds roamed. BINKS THE BELLBOY. By Mark Madigan. “0h vour life,’ said Binks the Bell) ‘He told the valet to-hand me a five Boy as he lolled on the bench | bundred spot and divide the change be- under the stairs this morning, | tween us and as I ducked for the door “but you never saw a real sizzling| he was telling the valet to charter an ‘burn ‘em up,’ ‘eat ‘em alive, Jack!’| @utomobile, an occan-golng yacht, @ Proposition Hke that young feller that] Private hansom, a victoria and a tally came in from Pittabung this moming| ho, and then I figured he was going to and tock the whole south side of the| work some kind of a swell advertising house on the seventh floor, with an| scheme. When I got back with the box extra $25 a day for the exclusive use of| tickets he was laying on a sofa with ‘an etevator. one of the house barbers shaving him, “Say, when I first saw him I thought|@ chlropodist powd>rin’ his tootsies and he was a walking ad. for a ready-to-|@ manicure workin’ on his mitts, wear clothing house, with all his sam-| ‘“Therewas two walters standin’ by ples on him, All he had for bagguge Eherandelly neeve some: Crisis wate de was a roll of ills tied up in a shawl- no Beer RUpg Burgundy: x08, z strap and a bulldog that’s got w jaw| Deakfast, and the valet was telep! to Tiffany's to Lring down a be so big that the valet has to help him| of necklaces that he waited z over, “It looked to me as though I for enough easy cnoney to last the summer, but what do you He was here to marry a chorus shat was sue to re Rag the iihelin to-day, But shel out) awe cable joeiend, Gabe snes a “I to merry a duke; wi lo vou he does when he gets that cadle? gives the bull pup to the porter, pearl nerkiace to the c' and gct the housecleaner to wash windows with what champagne ——— “When he ordered his roams he told the night clerk he wanted a case of champagne put on {ce in every room, He said he bated the bother of going out of his way for @ drink, and he left an order for the steward to get him ix barrels of lavender water for his bath. I got the call to take him up to ‘his room; then he told me to go down- stairs to the news-stand and order him “He told the valet to for. @ box reserved for every show in town things he'd ordered sad | 9 the wubo~ \” that had a chorus in (t, mauie. out and ride to ” is jen me and the valet was “E told him that would set ttm back} nim on with his coat, aa he was leavin, abcut three hundred and fifty, amd he! he sald: pres 1 4 " ‘Some men would shoot themselyes Jet out a yell and sald, ‘Get out and 0 anew whet 0 as I tell you. You fellows have HOOD: A 0. 708 Pin gomnt een so used to walting on ptkers| | mySyWe% do’ “And we sald we'd no \. . around here thet you have ito begin tu) ‘’Then he stands atralnt and eye: talk about money the minute a man bet . opens his mouth.’ Up i'm golng to Phil leep.” aly ‘And that's the limit, sure,’? Avista Thumbnail Sketches. UBJECT—August Belmont. Favorite Sport—Taking care of the pennies, Favorite Task—Likewise the dollars, Favorite Book—''Treasure Island,” Favorite Author—Ryan on Mergers, Favorite Artist—Jacob Sharp, Favorite Frult—Carved watermelons, , Favorite Plant—Subway fungus. Favorite Vehicle—The watering oart, Favorite Musical Inetrument—The snare drum, Favorite Character in History—Jesse James, | ,