The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 10

wy Fe: fe MP dis vision. He saw near ‘Dntered at the Post-OMmece at New Published vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to © Park Row, Now Yorls | York as Seccnd-Class Mall Matter. — IWOLU MEAG... ...500c40 cocnssccsces coseee sees NO, 16,286, unpleasant duty,” might well apply to Mr. Jerome himself. | Mr. Jerome, it seems, has not the judicial temperament. * He used to have energy. When will he use it? by @eplores he himself excited. Yerome. | of authority to grant. franchises, The franchise drawn by Engineer Nichols exacted stringent terms, but terms entirely in keeping with modern ideas of the worth of such It limited the life of the franchise to twenty-five years, with ex- tension on revaluation, and required a payment of $250,000 down, $50,000 a year for ten years, and $100,000 a year for the ensuing fifteen, It bound the railway to treat all freight shippers in New York alike and _ forbade freight differentials to other cities. Since then the Rapid-Transit Commission has cut the amount of rights... compensation in half, abandoned the nated other obligations recommended franchise which provokes the Mayor's criti |. neglected the interests of the city {or the interests of the company. The Mayor's attitude is the right one. the doors fly open because the Pennsylv sage through the city must be on the ment which endeavors to ease its way on the plea of public benefit, one “A Romance of by SEWARD SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Dave Lenox, a New York policeman, sulle love n, with whom he tus Feecued “trom “a Oo earning { Ggrom Annie that ste is | danger froth ome mymerious sour fate keeping, to @ Mra. dives in a yellow brick Bide and Ina receiver of stolen 4 Foby, a orimtna' Kes het has been husband, Jake ¥e hired by “unknown ‘per ki Annie | auasten. His wife, I this, epirite the girl mway {to Another house. | Lenox the iow houses dnadvertently Stolen treasures ‘exponen the pollo Mrs, trayed y are arvin, a fireman, nat Poby. Fesoued by Da Lani v 3 ne Vollce Com: d_ before missioner and told of @ Rus romoters are In New York, Fle te of pecially to ca plrators' agent. at the request omisxtoner and Fuby attack the horsea CHAPTER XVIII. Get Them Dead or Alive.’ there was not one within BS) othe saddled horse of a mounted officer, “whose nider had gone into headquar- ers to transact police duty. Another oMcer was guarding the “npree. ty) Lenox mae a rush and a Jeap. Shenox had sped He could still see the carriage as {t through the crowded he‘crewds into doorways jn street saw% mob pursuing, curs ¢ He cculd net fre without Te Aaa ee aes What Justice O'Sullivan said-to the Grand Jury, You are not to go seeking shelter as an excuse to avoid When will-he get after even-one big insurance thief? JEROME CONDEMNS JEROME. ! Mr. Jerome seems to forget that much of the clamor which he now Who made the first Ryan charges? Who made the charges against the judges? Mr. Jerome. |Who used insurance corruption as a stepping-stone to office? Mr. Who has failed te make good and who has now become the defender of the respectable rogues? Mr. Jerome. 5 THE “CONNECTING LINK.” The disposition to regard the Pennsylvania Railroad as a favored bidder and to look on the connecting road through Brooklyn for which it seeks a franchise as a work of public improvement was properly rebuked | by the Mayor before the Rapid Transit Commission. The New York Connecting Railroad is not planned to benefit Brook- lyn, though it will incidentally do so. The railroad bid is a business proposition, to be dealt with as such with- out sentimental considerations. That point it is well to have made clear. The compensation originally offered for this valuable right of way was ridiculously inadequate. The counter proposition submitted by the Aldermen brought-about the deadlock which resulted in the Board’s loss NIGHTSTICK ano NOZZLE rposely be> | nenda for | Warsak, | i; HERE owas no other carriage !n \ sight. Lenox swept the strests to] 2 see a mounted policeman, but Hold on''— the officer started, but | A PROPER REBUKE. Justice O'Sullivan yesterday in charging the Grand Jury made hash of District-Attorney Jerome's absurd contention that the Penal Code doesn't mean what it says when it declares that robbing Peter to pay #4 Paul is larceny. According to Justice O'Sullivan. the Penal Code does mean what it says—a fact that laymen had begun to suspect in spite of Mr. Jerome's | flounderings. | Mr. Jerome set in to lecture the Court upon “misconceiving the mat- ter.” There is no misconception. | When will he begin to do his duty? Mr. Jerome. It is projected to make money. The Evening World”s Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, March 24, 1906. “When the Elsberg Bill Is Ryanized.” THE MARCH WINDS BLOW By J. Campbell Cory. How CHILL ! OH NO- HE neue rate regulation provision and elimi- by Mr. Nichols. It is this modified ism that the commission has It is not enough to have | 10: > LETTERS from the PEOPLE ys QUESTIONS ANSWERS A Queer Trait. ‘To the Battor of The Fvening World It is a queer trait of ve to wateh peop’ Americans to K death, The sk issi most attractive us feat Is page ks for admission. Its pas- | rest eee Napetted Jeath-defying! city’s terms; and that is a false senti-| Prize fights and tooth games, risk life and limb, wre far more atu {tive to people than conte of mere Manhettan WSs | oa HR \Jeopardizing lives, | So on he spel, scattering the crowd as \the carriage had done Suddenly the turned into Hyrouston — s:reet could hear r|shouts and saw a crowd running. | When he on the borrowed horse swung round the corner he saw the carriage smashed against a bullding, the horses frantically trying to free them- selves from the harness, and one of | them bleeding from cus tt had re E) ceived ay tt went through e plate glass window in its mad rush, | nh the beard could not driver seen The excited crowd ser dashed up. He les vated as Lenox | 1 to the ground and opened the earriaze door, Lenox was panting bo m exette- | ment and the exertion of the chas Bystanders quieted the horses Lenox sent in a Inside 1 | pack | tho ther. » Headqua le Warwak la against ught at first he ow was no wound, D He d to I chink he sion that he had d the wes in the carnage abome, Wut | f tam | “Wo, 1 did not notice the driver.” MAnd-you do not-know whotherst aras Fee ik Aceh th toh hhh hh hhh heh hh hth teh ha skill, tralt in our modern make-up? N. DORT, Jr. | “Paradise for Microbes.” always | Mo the Editor of The Prening World: would help fill the cars quicker and al- leviate the long delay of piling people into the cars at single file. As it now 4s, a lot of folks can't get aboard in time, and find the gentlemanly platform man barring them from the Paradise (for microbes) just as they are about to step on. Buy a few up-to-date cars, Father Belmont. I also notice you still use a number of those old wooden cars, Why? STRAPOLOGIST. Wants Sword's History Traced, Who can explain this savage To the Editor of The Evening World: he Subway expresses could save sey-| I have in my possession a very old near the handle which are: “C. Ho sier Sc J.” I should lke very much to have some information fro} persons who understand such matters and who can tell me what the words mean, and what the sword's provable history and age may be. WINSTON RAYNOR, Freeport, L. I Dimensions of Bridge To the Editor of The Evening Worl Which is the longer and broader, the Willamsburg or the Brooklyn Bridge? M. M. R. ‘Tho full Jength of Brooklyn Bridge is 580 feet; of Williamsburg Bridge Width of Brooklyn Bridge | feet; width of Willlamsburg Bridge 118 eral minutes between the Battery and| sword. It 1s three feet in length and| 7. Harlem by having doors in the sides of one and one-quarter inches across the | feet the cars, as well as at elther end. ‘This blade, There are words on the blade! feat He could not fire without jeopardizing lives, so on he sped. you to Police Head-| rhed ta look at you as oar I had given 1 to go. | Y of mitack, ve, in front of Pouice | “When a man gets sa dosperate ns) sergeant. Foby," said Lenox, will do anytiing| Lenox related what had taken place. and take any chance for xain, But he} When he had finished two men were « ortainiy have ne Who saw] waiting to speak. “When the carriage turned the cor- ner," eid one, “the driver, a thick-set Head-| young fellow with a beard, jumped to ote \the sidewalk ent ran, (He mingled man jump from the carriage?” ed the crowd, By lime several men from auertece hed asrined“in. alts cell at NS oats adi idee aed LAWL ae eee eAAAMAATTAMANAAAAAS with the crowd, and {t was tmpossible ty tell which way he went. I think he j Nent west. Then, when the carriage crashed into the store, the other fel- low jumped. He ran in that butlding over there,”’ The speaker pointed to a drinking { place. Instantly Lenox, leaving De Warsak in the care of the others and followed by two men, raced across the street anil into the cafe mentioned. “Where is the man who ran in here just now?" demanded Lenox. There were two white-aproned men behind the bar. Both were inclined to swear, evidently, from thelr looks, “T wish I knew,” said one. "I fired @ bungstarter at him but missed. He Knocked over a table, broke three glasses and spilled @ bottle of brandy. ‘Was he crazy?” “Which way did he go?” asked Lenox without replying to the question. “He went out the bear door. ‘There ts @ Uttle alley there, and you can enter two or three houses or stores.” ‘The police dashed away. ani “every hiding-place In the lock was searched, Flats were entered and frightened in- mates who perhaps had more reason than one to fear so sudden a descent of the police were questioned. Not one knew, or at least not one admitted, Knowing anything of Foby, Lenox was really the only officer who could carry on the search effictently, for the was the only one who knew Foby, Two hours were spent in the search, Then Lenox returned to Headquarters. ‘The Commissioner looked up inquir- ingly. “They nearly killed De Warsak and wot away" said Lenox. ‘That man Foby {s.a devil. He {s a fiend, He is the toughest character the department has had to deal with in years,” “I am very well aware of that," sald the Commissioner, “‘and that is why I chose yon to get film. You've got to get him, I tell you, Lenox, there are few things I am 0 desirous of as I am to have this thing ended right. We are held responsible for these lives, You've got to get that man.” “Til get him,” sald Lenox, viciously. “71 get ‘em all, And some of ‘em may he dead when vou see them." ‘The Commissioner smiled grimly, “Let mo see them dead. or alive," he said, “It ts all Task." -AiBo “Be Continued) {T Why the United States Ts What Tt Ts Co-Day. | FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SKETCHES, What They Did; Why They Did It; What Cau'e Of It. By Albert SEBASTIAN CABOT, the Man Who Scored a Successful Failure. HE expedition ts a failure!” “The Miser of Europe’—in other words, iis Gracious Majesty Henry Vil. of England—mare the complaint, and he filled the air with lamentations over the useless way in which his hard-hoarded money had been squandered by those two foolish mariners, John Cabot and Sebastian, his son. After Christopher Columbus had proved the earth was round instead of flat and that a land—which everybody supposed to be India—could be reached by sailing westward, an Italian, John Cabot, had cajoled Henry VII. into fitting out an expedition to discover the “trading portion” of India. He contended that Columbus tad merely found certain islands lying to the east of the mainland, and that the glory and profit of finding the main- land itself might yet be won for England. Thus John Cabot and his three sons, sailing in 1497, really discovered North America. They sailed far enough along the const to find that it was a continent and not a mere island they were. skirting; then returned to England with the news: “It's not India, but China, that we have found!” Pleased with the prospect of winning the riches of so vast a land, Henry Sebastian Cabot back with a larger fleet and instructions to discover the coveted “shorter passage to India.” Sebastian sailed from Labrador to Florida, landing at various spots and planting the flag of England on virgin soil, claiming, unconsciously, a new world for the miserly monarch who sat at home fuming over the delay in finding that sea passage which would bring the commerce of India to his door. But Vasco da Gama, of Portugal, meantime, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, came upon the sea passage to India and won the plaudits of all Europe. Consequently when Sebastian Cabot returned to England with the news that he had discovered and claimed for England the largest con- tinent on earth he was met with the petulant whine: “The expedition is a failure!” And in those grateful words Cabot's career as an explorer was brought to an end. | Isabella of Spain had financed Columbus's expedition as a modern woman will play a 100 to 1 shot at the races, in hopes of unheard-of returns in the way of wealth. Columbus had embarked on the first westward cruise with the same idea. He did not discover an El Dorado, only a new world. So he and his sponsors were disappointed and chagrined, The Cabots had been sent west across the unknown ocean to discover a passage for the promotion of English trade. Instead, they merely found and planted England's flag upon a continent destined te be the greatest on earth. Hence their backer, the royal miser, cneered at them as failures and bewailed the money he had foolishly thrown away on so petty an enterprise. Money—hope of immediate and visible profits—had been the motive power of both the Columbus and Cabot voyages, But .or that longing for wealth America might for centuries longer have remained an undiscovered wilderness. Yet, find- ing what was destined to be of more value to both Spain and England than whole mountains of gold, both discoverers were discarded and per mitted to sink Into temporary obscurity. It is a strange fact that no permanent settlements and real “homes” were founded in America until Europeans ceased rushing thither in search of Gold and came for Freedom, * Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine, crossing the Atlantic seven years after Columbus, was clever enough to make the most of his second-hand explora- tions and to win tremendous amount of brief local fame thereby; even succeeding in giving his name to the land which another had discovered. Cabot, though his discoveries won him no personal aggrandizement, succeeded in arousing the world to intereet in the new continent. Adven- turers by the hundred began to visit the country—alwa in search of wealth or power—and, ignoble as were their aims, they “broke the way” for those who, with higher motives, were destined to follow. Payson Terhune, 2. 4“ North America’s $ Real Discoverers. o The Return and Disgrace of Cabot. j Anybody Who Reads This Column Will in a Short Time Know All That's { Worth Knowing About the History of This Country. od +4 NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES By Irvin S. Cobb. HERE 1s something radically wrong with a system that permits people on incomes to design fashions for poople on salaries, Right this minute many a man is making up his mind that he won't be able to afford to buy a touring car until fall because his wife has to have one of the new frocks at Mme. de Gouge's. When you see a man in a nine- dollar overcoat coming downtown, with a faraway look in his eye, making marks on the back of an envelope, the odds are that the lady of the house has just told him what her gown is going to cost. He's figuring up the schedule for the Hability side of his bankruptey petition. When a woman begins to flirt with some of this spring's styles it means two kinds of pro- ceedings—preliminary for her, supplementary for the husband. The amount derived by putting a second mortgage on the furniture in the flat will sometimes, however, provide a comparatively simple aster outfit at one of the real creme de la crematory shops. But somehow when the proud owner gets it home and unpacks it, and straps herself in ‘t, and dislocates both elbow joints fastening it up the back, she often finds that it doesn’t seem to pan out someway as it did at the modiste’s when she saw the model try the same thing on. At the dressmaker's place they slide a tall, willewy young Phoebe Hebe into a frock that fits her like the peeling fits the pawpaw, and she glides out with a Marcel wave effect rippling down her spine and more curves to her than Mautice Ketten ever dreamed of, and the assembled lady ous- tomers make a rush for the cashier and turn over their bank accounts and implore the proprietor to write her own tickets. ‘Take the woman with the good figure, hippopotamusly speaking— the kind who's built as close to the ground as a carpet-sweeper and who couldn't wear plate armor without wrinkling it amidships She nearly always falls for something in an eight-inch plaid design, made double- breasted, which throws the buttons so far around on the sides that they remind you of the stops on an accordion. Or else she leans to the girlie- girlie idea and piles on as many white flounces as the-traffic will stand and gives unconscious imitations’of a draped lard cask, On the other hand,. the tall, lean one, with the stern and rockbound face and the form like four laths and a cross-arm, generally demands the acutely tailored suit and the hanging garden of Babylon hat, thus framing up for dress parade like a Maypole, with all the decorations at the However, the pattern of the hat is swhject to change if she chanves to have one of those astrology noses that is constituted by nature to aim at the Big Dipper when she walks north, In this case she buys a sassy, cocky, turned-up-in-front lid‘and emphasizes’ the star-sniffing impression, THE FUNNY PART: Rea, ~