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

@eeMonea vy the Press Pubilshing Company, No. 63 to 63 Park Row, New Yert Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Seccnd-Class Mall Matter. fa Lenehan eae A CUISUIM EVA si js ec cessssei sass cevseciess SelsseceassesINOs 16.8780 Mier adresse es tletese me ctcet eet eseoses eee A GOOD RAPID-TRANSIT BILL. The favorable action of the Sen- ate Cities Committee on the Elsberg bill raises hopes of the speedy passage of that measure as amended. Is the vexed question of future subways solved at last? If so, some share of the credit must go to Will- iam M, Ivins as the author of the amendments, The bill as modified is designed to quiet the objections of its oppon- ents as originally drawn, while yet safeguarding the public interest. It provides that contracts for construc- tion, equipment and operation must be let separately by the Rapid-Tran- sit Commission unless the Board of Estimate and Apportionment shall also decide that public Policy will be better served by combining them, limits the term of the operating lease to twenty years; authorizes the construction of pipe galleries and em- powers the Mayor to fill vacancies in the Board, as he has himself sug- gested that h essor might do. Thus the occasion for criticism of the Commission as a self-perpetu- ating hody is removed, two vital mistakes of the city’s first subway ven ture are corrected, and the problem of separate or joint construction and operation is left to the adjudication of a board well constituted to guard the city’s interest. The bill, indeed, appears to meet all rational objections and to pro- vide a satisfactory basis of agreement which distinctly brightens the out- look for rapid transit. The City Club, of course, remains to be heard from. Will it con- sent to the sacrifice of its pet Page bill which the acceptance of this) compromise measure makes necessary? On its attitude toward the new Etsberg bill will depend the construction to be put on its motives in op- posing the bill as originally framed with a measure which had the outward aspect of legislation drawn for the benefit of special interests, TOU MANY WATER COMMISSIONS. Senator Gardner, of Brooklyn, has introduced a bill to abolish the City Water Commission. There are now four bodies which have to dq with New York City’s water supply, not including either the Legislature or the Board of Estimate. These four are Commissioner Ellison, who looks after the old water system; the bi-partisan Aqueduct Commission, which draws salaries for prolonging the construction of the Croton storage reservoirs; the new City Water Commission, which has charge of the Esopus scheme, ang the State Water Commission, with supervisory powers. This complicated subdivision of responsibility is absurd and expen- sive. There should be only one Water Department in New York, and the man at the head of that should be in charge. If he is faithless or in competent it is the Mayor’s duty to remove him and appoint a better | man. The subdivision of power greatly accounts for the enormous water | waste and the failure to utilize the watersheds which the city already owns. “CHILDREN OFF THE STREET.” | A speaker at the Mayor’s hearing on the bill to remove the tracks from Death avenue said that the children killed by the trains there were those who tried to steal rides on the moving cars or to pilfer from then. He added: Let the clergymen who are protesting so lo enth avenue tell their parishioners to keep their he rest of the speech wa: angry trance ret tie ¢ elements in the commu It is the attitude of the automobilist who da hour through a country ge and Siete thi off the street if they do vant them to be killed.” It is the attitude of the trolle maintained thro: of the curele blasts. It is about time for a revival and better enforcement of the good old common-law view of the streets as public highways where any man may go upon his lawful occasions and where even a child is safe. Y PDA 0000 00000000001000000071:00000000000000000 WIGHTSTICK ard NOZZLE- A Romance of Menheiten by SEWARD W. diy against the tracks on Elev- hildren off Eleventh avenue. S$ never heard, being drowned in a roar of pinion was typical of the attitude of many hes at forty miles ar n keep their children| 1 igh crowded streets that endangers life. It is th attitud i Ee Be dark scenes en y is usually to» ro) 3 8 i ime moon, end the Y 8 fire the Su urs. But there fs | Pe noise some iin the + a with ie chum, | Somet : | a ch the yellow | There was a silence of about a min- be here alweys Is," Garvin was Vt a long eve that woman it poke up “Can't we smoke?” sitin the Night. ] the of ‘ellow i vther silence followed, ve Was not a out nan on the post for the i them, He looked sharply, That you, Lenox.” The police ni with stow 1 ull alo. we sh ebatable 1 on in the gloom, ispered Lenox a few min- truth * repl But into ¥ ouse. Bee ve we any a sudden @ olin © steps of the yellow Ic hous “Whit dl Nobody Lenox had op mn that yicinity it was no’ you think?" asked Garvin, that a rs \ b They are pably here for Pern is eps che tee: sg cor | MT% Foby. Possibly she hae doter. + PEFR nore opposite the yellow | Mined not to return to-night, and has hem brick = hovs@ from which the two] for clothing or something 1 ir magnate who orders a speed to be contractor who makes the street dangerous with heavy)“ young) girls for be! Tam ¢ euchre, theat: stylish, but 1 I embroider, wai and can Tam not n_ were sure there was no y was fumbling with ¢ y left their did so the t Inside the house. As rapidly as G. crossed the s 8. Hl was pet the dining m of a om Jantern than Garvin. se his nd saw They hi buffet. » snealt burglar, tehers obtained a complete view at | ¢!se.” of the residenge of the well] “Could be burglars,” euia Ganvin. b nat rested eseest rs tre avenue seems to come They oad with them Droceeded with profess: The Evening World's Héme Magazine, Friday Ev Ai Barly Plant By J. Campbell Cory. ening, ETTERS from the PEOPLE AN. ‘have my housework to do every ma ly at the front uu. one looked around as her. an ectly dark, and yet ther 1 t was a dark Lenox stepped through the hall more apidl Garvin went slow erutch made a noise If ry. i in’ the deep shadow o: the two thieves opened a drawer in an old e lock. find out what they want," sald plare and as wo men disappeared could original speed, arriving at {ts destina- tlon two hours late. If the train had run fifty miles further before break- aon it wold hat ‘ved at destination forty minutes sooner. What was the distance between the | stations?" Will readers work out the answer to this? ROBERT P. THRONE, Sayre, Pa, Manners and Thermometers, ERS to QUESTIONS VR my acquaintances to be thus accomplish- | riends there Is only usework. She | | To the Editor of The Evening World: | I read the letter of the Viginian who | complains of New York men's manners Balter of The Evening World: [ana says men here don't tike off their “ed the followine example; | hats when entering hotel lobbtes ard after a train left a cer-| when meeting ladies on the street and station the engine broke down | don't leave their hats off while talking and then pro t three-fifths its/to them, It m be well enough for VANUATU EIT OD \f makin The othe: | \ odble ended | nd as ak: } “Let's get what we caa and clear out," ld the other. Lenox took a match from his pocket, In an Instant the scene changed. Knowing just where the gas jet was located, Lenox, by a quick and’ certain motion, had struck the match, and the two astonished burglars saw the flame of the gas, and under !t a man with one lame arm, but holding a revolver tn hie @ came the pre 5 that she was suc’ oncer. Yet here was practical proof ut she was keeping up her old busl- hed his side and looked nox's shoulder, caos of the dark lantern made at wT on hee sound hand, bracelets, rings.! the Gay crouching. fenres, geen won “Dave Lenox!" gasped one. ‘hat 1s joot to Carvin nudged Lenox. There was no| There was an ugly look on both facer. the pickpocket, | response, “T aim worry to intrude,” said Lenox, | é y replied the other Ing gleam “when all the stuff her onal thief. it could be on the stage e would make @ hit. The police- 1 ireqan, both snjured, the he two ourglars In thé waver. of the lantern, and the bag of caumly, “but I happened to have w little ‘business here myself to-nigh' that we are together, perh: in order for me to tell you tl my. 3." ankn: ers in Fifth, valuables, mad “ki 4 “Not al full," eaid the taller of ae One of he uaa Fone ay the coats ‘ila dantanea Seemed to tn they TSpAep se tigre la anyebine to ont suite t26 oles wo inwtantly Deople to do that !n warm Virginia, but for New York pevple to do that when the thermometer registers twenty or more below zero it wouldu't do very well. cH Overcrowded Car Platforms. To the Editor of The Evening Whrid: With thousands of others I voice the; | sentiment of Magistrate Poole in regard | to the street railroad company allowing | the rear platform to be crowded | when there are plenty of ecats In the car. No one should be permitted to’ stand outside when there are seats In- side. Many times you will see both | women and men left standing on the corner unable to fight thelr way on | board, the platform being crowded, and no effort made by the conductor to clear {t. J. BT. ; ou may shoot fret,’ sald Lenox. “I don’t care to shoot unless I am com- pelled to do so, You know me, und, of gourse, you know that I recognize you. Suppose vou killed me. There is an- other man looking at you who 8 you, and who would have you in poke he was handling his pls- | ssly. They put theirs back in thelr pockets, Then he did the same. “What are you going to do? asked ‘one. ‘ ‘1 am going to take you to the sta- tion,” “Can't we fix up some way?” “Not with me."” ‘Now, look here, Lenox. You know this thing means a long time for us.” “I should think so." “What's the use? You don’t gain anything by running us in. Why not come to some agreament? We'll act fair. You don't want this stuff. I have +o @ hundred with m “I don't want it,” along und he quiet. Where Is your other wnan2” “one he" sa nox, “he'll arrive.”* The burglar who had sald nothing about coming to terms, ieaped at Lenox and struck him, “You won't take me," he gald. Lenox, slightly staggered by the} blow, fell backward, but reached for! his revolver again. The burglar dashed for the door, There was a peculiar swishing sound, and the next moment the cross-arm of the crutch landed on his head. He “Come | fell flat and unconscious, and Garvin hobbied Into the romn. “Just in time,” he sald. “A crutch from this time Lenox isa tough thing to run up again: The remaining burglar glanced | Garvin to Lenox. B: ‘had his revolver in his hand again, i ttit’s up to you," ald the Dburgiar, | “It you can’k ‘make @ deal, do what | you. please.” ‘ Garvin,” sald Lenox, ‘Tf can hold this fellow coveted. You get some 2. Garvin had never been in the house before. But he made about three hob- bles toward the kitchen door and re- turned thereform with a clothesline. “You don't need that,” said the bur- glar who was conscious. won't fight,” pas can’t trust the other fellow," said enox. Both were bound, water was used to revive the victim of Garvin's crutch, and in ten minutes @ most uliar pro- cession lef; the vellow brick house and headed for the precinct station-house. The officer on post met them and Is that your sun bath?" he gasped. “Keep your eye on the yellow hou said Lenox, ‘Somebody may go the: The man on post swung his night- etick and tried to find a rift in the bank fdiocks es if somebody had," he zt vihadl Caeleee March = 16, 1906; 0 NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES. E have here a practical working model of the old-style, flat-tire fabte equipped with electricity and other modern improvements. and the Tortoise ran a go-as-you-please race from the Battery to One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street. aboard an uptown trolley car, “is going to ‘be like hypothecating the glu cose gumdrops from Baby Gladys. I'll leave the opposition so far behind Br'er Terrapin is running last in to-day's race or first in to-morrow's. We come of a mighty fast stock any way you take us. Look at the Belglum grip microbes don’t make a much better showing than that. Sometimes 1 think the President makes a mistake in not adopting one of our folk presently I'll hop out and catch the Through Red-Lamp Limited on Mr, Ryan’s Road and I'll be hitting the homestretch while my hardsheil Bap- But in the mean time I think I might as well enjoy a nap So he lit a fresh cigarette and eased his eyeglasses off the bridge of Travers Jerome that lasted thirty minutes. Then he put on his hat and dropped down into the subway. On the platform two ambulance surgeons By Irvin S. Cobb. W Once upon a time—that’s the way they always start—the Hare “This,” said the Hare to himself after watching the Tortoise climb at the finish that parties in the grand-stand won't be atle to tell whether ‘branch of the family—four sets of babies every year—sometimes five. The for an emblem instead of a stork. But, speaking now of this speed contest, tist friend is admiring the legs on the Seward statue passing Union Square. his nose and put his feet up on the desk and drifted off into a Willlam were assaying a ticket-chopper for pot-metal. “What is that?” asked one of them, “a nugget?” * “No,” said the other, “it’s a lung. Hold his legs a minute until I get the granulated T-rails out of the aesophagus. His wind-pipe looks lilos ¢ right-of-way.” But mere steel particles, even !n bulk, couldn't bluff J. Henry Hare He climbed aboard a northbound express, found his favorite strap and pre pared to do the Harlem hike in record time. But the regular fast schedule had been laid up for repains ever since the day the road was finished; the trip was thickly punctuated with fullstops and semicolons. For all the harrowing details see any regular patron of the line. Meanwhile the Tortoise was progre g toward the far di: tination in a conservative but consistent manner. The trip ¥ by pauses when the motorman, leaning over the dashboard, plucked pan ticles of pedestrians in the past tense out of the fender, or the conductor administered the Mrs. Minor Morris treatment to lady passengers who hat falled to ask for transfers when they first got aboard, or th= crow lined ug on the platform to salute one of the Metropolitan jury-fixer: on they journeyed, past bird-box apartment-houses and squirrel-ccce is unti they neared the goal. It was near night. The official lan rhter of the Up per West Side was turning on the gas in the only street lig! hat burn regularly north of Fifty-ninth street. Five hours later the Sutway express, direct from the I withou change of cars, rolled into the station at One Hundred and Tw nty-fift Street. But Aloysius Tortoise, wearied of waiting, had th amount of the wager and gone to bed. THE FUNNY PART: The “fifteen-minutes-to-Harlem” slogan needs revising a heap mort than Aesop does. collected City Table Talk. By Charles R. Barnes. I. SB city folks ts queeris!—I never secn th’ beat Th’ way they mumbles nonsense w'en they set down t’ eat! Young Tom, th’ son I visit, brought out th’ queerest chat Last evenin’ at a dinner he give here in his flat A lady says: “Caruso, ain't he th’ cunnin’ dear!™ My Tom allowed th’t poker gits played more ev’ry year; Another feller murmured: “I do adore this town!” An‘ Tom's wite says: “Oa, Mamie, ain't that a lovely gown!” TL Sich babblin’ an’ sich chatter fr growed-up folks Ike themt I kinder plans t’ stop it, an’ says: “A-hem, a-bemt I been a-readin’ lately some solentifik man Has figgered out f'r certain jes’ w'en th’ world began.” I thought p'haps they'd holler: ‘‘D'Je ever see th’ beati” But, no. One says: “Oh, really!” Another says: ‘How sweet!" An’ then they took t’ gassin’ about th’ styles in cloves, Quite frequently revertin’ t’ them fool Broadway shows. lL W'y, dang me, in th’ kentry w'en we set down ¢’ eat We talk 0’ somethin’ serfous—th’ crops, th’ price o’ wheat, Er ‘bout th’ preacher's sermon, er politics, b’gosh, Not foolish schoolgirl topics an’ soft dressmakin’ bosh. Th’ clty fellers guy us an’ call us rubes an’ yaps; They say we've got no oulohure—th’t may be true, p’haps. But in th’ rooral deestricts all decent folks ‘ud balk At anythin’ approachtn’ this city table tall. THE MOCK ORANGE BRIDGE WHIST CLUB. By Grinnan Barrett. ES, they've taken poor Mrs. Gabalong to the sanitarlum,'. sald Mrs 66 Oliver Quiver, Vice-President of the Mock Orange (N. J.) Bridgo Clut “and now her husband is going around everywhere saying that it waa @ brought on by bridge. Dk you ever hear of such a thing! “if you really would like to know, I can tell you exactly what's given Mr Gabatong the nervous prostration. It was the new rule the club passed prohtblt ing conversation during play. Now, Mrs. Gabalong’s {dea of a glorious immor tality would be to have a Jjuwbone that never got tired. I venitabiy boleve he conception of heaven $s a place where you have your cholve between a pair a wings and another tongue! And yct eho's forever eaying that eh very few words. That may be true, but as she uses all of ther again @ great many times, {t amounts to the same thing in t “Yes, indeed, I'm quite certain in my own mind it was the that sent the woman off to the sanitarlum. Of course, from the ¥ ecided that talking at the table would be disconraged, but natwes any attention to that—that ‘r, af course, nobody who had se: the run of the cards in her head and tallc at the camo time paid any it—but there were a few ove-sided creatures who insisted that minds off their game. And, finally, Mra, Colefect lost a prize 8 pers ao and ove sho got s interested hearing Mrs, Acidlook tel! about her symptoms that she forgot to save herself. She promptly raised a fuss, So they passed tie rul amybody starts to say anythtug at the table the other three and then, of course, when they do you that way you are lc get even, And at yesterday's meeting it sounded sometimes ehooing a lot of hens out of a flower bed. “well, !t was just simply too much fuer Mrs. Gabalorg. Ard now she's tn | place where the nurses <0 around with rubber-soled shoes on, and the fvors ex all padded, and the doors swing on leather hinges, and nobody «penks a word ou And Shan v whe ¢ tha " ng for a chauce gy 3 If somevody wa loud, and they whn’t let you eat popcorn because It mates a colee when yo chew it. I guess Mrs, Gabalong will go crazy there in earnest. If they reall want her to got well It's my private opinion they had bet:cr send her to @ phom graph factory, “Dear me! I know I have more troubles than any ‘rman allve. The bil from the catever and the drcorntor and the povltryer—bat Goorn't sound exactl somehow, but, of couree, you couldn't call hi cht. er—all came in ts gether, and now Mr, Quiver ix cuying my extrave e 18 gting to drive him the poorhouse, Ho never stops to think about al! the beautiful prizes I've He just puts bis head in hie hands and groans in a very depressing way and says “ "The man who eald two could live us cheaply a# one meant they could sf qm