The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1906, Page 12

a ork, @Pwensnet vy the Press Pudlishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New ¥ Batered at the Post-OfMice at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. YOLUME 46... vecseee NO. 16,289, MR. ROCKEFELLER’S COYNESS. , Mr. Rockefeller’s motives keeping out of sight while the Had- ley Commission was taking testi- mony have been misunderstood. According to Vice-President Arch- bold, he has not remained in hiding because he is afraid to tell what he knows. He does not know any- thing to tell! And as for being the directing head of Standard Oil, “there ain’t no sich a person.” If in the last ten years the great in oer ean posers corporation which has gone on; growing richer and paying bigger dividends has crushed out competition and violated the law, it has been without Mr. Rockefeller’s knowledge. Having nothing to reveal, it is solely because of modesty that he keeps aloof from subpoera-servers. He “hates notoriety,” shrinks from court: | Toom publicity and dreads those whom Mr. Archbold <alls the “d—— artisis.”” Yet if Mr. Rockefeller has nothing to tell why should he fear to come into court to say so? His ignorance would be an impenetrable shield. It would baffle the cleverest cross-questioning and demolish hypothetical arguments like a | house of cards. Why not try it rather than let concealment like a worm! in the bud prey on his honest intentions longer? It has paralyzed his benevolent activities. It has interrupted his philanthropy. His favorite university cannot find him. His hospitals cannot get to him. And all because of a few words left unsaid! Why should he not | shed his shrinking modesty as a garment and come into court? As Mr.| | | Hadley has no intention of going to Lakewood he must do so sooner or later. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Archbold might advise him with a fellow in- terest in the matter. They had to appear in the end. THE INSURANCE BILLS UP. The Legislature has begun consideration of the Armstrong Commit- tee’s insurance bills, and this most important work of the session will oc- cupy some weeks, : _ It is work in which the people without exception should have a deep interest. Policy-holders naturally desire that their money shall not be| further stolen and wasted by the inside rings. Policy-ho'ders and all others alike naturally desire that the honor of the State shall be cleansed of the | stain of insurance corruption which its seal has sanctioned and its officials have permitted. In this work the people can help. Public opinion expressed to the Senators and Assemblymen by letter, or better still by word of mouth, will pass the bills, And they should be passed without mutilation, with only such changes as the committee itself shall make, : awe eate oe eal] SETTING THE GRAND JURY RIGHT. Judge O’Sullivan’s explicit charge to the Grand Jury on the invest- ment of insurance trust funds is refreshing by contrast with the jugglery of terms in Mr. Jerome’s statement. Whether the gift of money to po- litical parties by an insurance company through underhand means involy- | ing the falsification of its accounts is larceny within the intent of a statute | prohibiting the investment of trust funds is for the jury to determine and not for the District-Attorney to settle off-hand to public detriment, It is well also to have emphasis laid on the Propriety of the jury tak- ing the law from the court and not from the Prosecuting officer who is not swom to interpret the Penal Code for the protection of defendants, The spectacle of a Judge rebuking this officer from the bench is no more extraordinary than the circumstances which have justly provoked it. It is not necessary to go far hack to find a District-Attorney in whom the need of such a rebuke would have been accepted as good presumptive evi- 7, To the Editor of The Evening World: even in our private Institutions ts very | detrimental to the studious excellence of the scholars, toward frivolity and disregard of study | Ky Scores Co-education. Co-education in our pubile schools and We find an Inclination dence of incompetence meriting summary removal, NIGHTSTICK and NOZZLE Romence of Manhetten by SEWARD W/. HOPKINS SKE SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Dave Lenox, a New York policenums, sts fn love with ie Buasten, woom be nus | Tesoued fro hotel fire. On jearnlug | from Annie that e ia In great canger front @ome mysterious source, he tal er, gate keeping, to @ Mrs. Foby. Mrs, Foby lives in a yellow brick house on the west @ite and {a a receiver of stolen goods. fer ‘Margie 1s still sick. She ts old, She talks too much. Jake went to eee her and she told him. He wes wild. He} was like a madman. He was at first | going to kill me, and then realized that that would defeat his purpose, Then he swore he would kill Eddie." “When?” “To-night. Don't you understand? It must be done before I dle. If I dle all e- | my property {s Eddie's, I have slaved Is Haas torduthver anale into for him. I have stolen for him, He ‘Fob: ie wife lure never knew. He need never know the to @ ruined hovel near r 4, poole arene then ro] kind of woman his mother was. But if Teeou sah) Gah "| Jake kis him before I dle of course Di ARE GPE en ie ehone Jake gets the property.” A a Rust Promotors are in New ‘York, Ie ts ordered | Lenox nodded. E tex to rack them Gown, capeelaly “where 1s Eddie?" Cure Fody. who je the onspirators “On the tugboat Jackson with his ef a Rusalan oftict ;| Supposed father, He came down from im rand “set aie iy areey janes toe | Cory Peekskill for a few days, and I know ho 1s on the Jackson. The boat is usually fim “and “chan “escapes ¥ aga! rcered 10 CaD- gereogtts ve >"! around the foot of Wall street whon ead cr ative. 8 wound, pute Am fo FRR rd eS Ped CE ties up. But she may be any- tie lito ’oe née eon, by a fornet marriage | where.” iy (tor the a: “And what about Jake?” i it tho way, grente bel SPs one gC ene] Way, “He will be looking for the Jackson.” “And having found the Jackson you CHAPTER XX. tear he will do something to your boy?" The Cry for Help. oi what Way can I eave your “I Ienow it." And you want mo to protect him?" aa “You spoke of a deal, boy's Mfo?" need Lenox, “You remember what I told you ‘What did you about Jako?" meant wwWhy, I recall now that ron enta| “Well, you will find Jake thers, won't womething about him not knowing the| you? ‘That's one you get, Annie's doy waa yours, and that you did not|unclo, Buaston, ts ving in a ‘house— want him to Irnow because he might Injuro—klll the doy, “Yor—to mot my oreperty, Ho alt not Qnow I owned thie hens Whe he found, it out he expected money for RUae tho etc, But that wag pro- ow he hag learned that tho ta ming,” pee feared | No, i Hisky street, You know where it le? Down on the east olde, AN right, You will find Lvasten thers, He goes by the name of Gosslevsicry.” “What te hia object In Now York?” “Ho ja the Now York agent of a band, They have thelr headquvartors in Paris, They are banded together to deatroy in general and disability to concentrate | To the Eilltor of The Evening World: the mind on serious subjects, Co-edu- cation ts being upheld and contended for On the frosty alr of the night rose a shrill cry. his friend. Cassabla, the ‘head of the movement, is in Paris, and Annie w: to ba his wife if the plot sucneede. But the Government of course is against Cassabia, and so are the merchants end peasants and Jews, All the interests Qro ogainst him but the lawless, “Buasten ia here to get monoy, if he can, or If not, provent the opposi- tion gotting !t, You see? Annie is his miece, He believed she knew all the! rascallty, and I suppose she knows a lot. Jake is one of the gang, but then he would do anything for money, Now you know what I know. Will you save my boy Maddie?" “"Fes," said Lenox promptly, ‘What be Government of Russia, Buastn is did you tell me hig supposed father’s matter if you hide from it P—>>LETTERS from the PEOPLE SA. ANSWERS to QUESTIONS CEDARS D ers also favor it. almost a failure in many scheols and r zing its inadvisability. aes if LOUIS for the Prevention of Cruelty to An-' rhe Brush, By J. Campbell Cory. }Imals, Would it not be far better to an association to more effectually y to children? To-day a going home from school was knock vn. hit on the head by a) Snowball thrown by one of a lot of urchins. It is possible that meningitis |may follow such a hard blow, and while the fun goes on a child's ‘death; | often changes a happy home to one full | | of sorrow and sadness, Kor humanity's Some teach-| sake let us call the attention Of the hb und | police lo these shameful attacks and| But it has been found | feu ‘severe punishment be infileted on| Attle scoundrels, eae PA FAMILIAS. other co-educational instit ns are | RPEN, Noo i. To the Exiitor of The Evening World: Cruelty to Children. Iezertee dies oes aa Benne as ee | toothpicks on a family table and to pass the toothpick dish around? MAXIMILIAN, ‘There is in New York City a Society name !s?” matter if you forget all about {t, sooner “Morsit.r, He 4s captain of the |or later the cycles will meet and you Jackson." will be face to face with it. I believe The woman's volce came slower and | it." weaker. “Possibly,” sald Lenox, fishing tor a “We'll take care of Eddie,” said Gar- | dime in his pocket. “but I don’t exactly vin as they went out. see what the devil that has to do ‘well, how strangely things happen,” | with Mrs. Foby.”’ maia Lenox as the two started for the They rode to Rector atreet and elevated. walked across Broadway down Wall, “Truth, alr, {s stranger than tho big- | ‘The great money mart of the city, that west Me ever written, I knew {t would come your way, I know a fellow—a wort of writer chap—who believe’ that life 1s but n ser! think | the ferry, Policemen and detectives he calla them . ays that striled about, for the dead line had you can't get away from anything, No been re-established, and no. Tho river front was not as busy as pulsatea with vibrant and vigorous lite during the day, was ottll, A few persons went toward or from The Evening World’s Mome Magazine, Tuesday Evening, Maren 27; 1906; The Flogging Practice. To the Editor of The Evening World: I read in English papers that in Eng- land schoolboys are still whipped, to the age of twelve or fourteen years, with birch or cane by headmasters. Also that in the English navy appren- tices and other lads are flogged. _Also that Parliament {!s concerning itself in the matter. This seems to me a relic of barbarism. The whip and the slave- feu are more or less inseparable. Here, in the freest land on earth, the whip in school and navy {s lon, discarded. So, also, in most civilized lands. (England is also a highly civilized and great count Hence J cannot understand why they still flog. Can some Englishman expliin or intelll- gently defend his country? ANTI-FLOG. during the dey, but it was far from deserted. Men were sleeping while waiting for incoming schconers or sloops or ships, On the ferry pier an employee stood waiting for a boat, the Ughts of which could be seen halfway across the river. “Do you know the tug Jackson?” asked Lenox, “Mossitor’s boat? Yes. She plies around here. I don't think I've seen Mossitor to-day. Not since I came on duty. He may be tied up. Ain't much doing to-night.” “That's queer,” sald Garvin, “What is? That there isn't much do- ing?" askea Lenox. “No, for I think there will be. Hear that whistle?’ It was hrill whistle unlike the or- dinary signals trom steamboats. “That's one of the Boston boats. @he's in trouble. Now watch the tugs." Tugs are like rate and umbrellas, You may not see one, but let a cause arise and you will be amazed to see many, ‘You will wonder whence they could all have come. It was wo now. It seemed as though the river had suddenly come to life. The snorting, energetic tuxs dashed to- ward the sound, “There! There goes Mossltor!" cried the ferry hand. “See that tum ont there by the ferry-toat?”’ ‘The tug was about quarter of the way across the river, She was going up stream as fast as her steam would take her. “We won't get her now, “Couldn't make her hi wouldn't stop, anyway. In another respect tvs are like rats rellas. They dis eae tae they appear, ‘Agaln was tt so in this Instance, The ferry-boat ‘came on, It's engines stopped, and silently it ewung into the Gin then, out on the frosty alr of the night rose, o shellt ci irowning!"" There was a eplach. ‘Then there was another, The terry hand was alone, The polloeman and fireman had together fe Aunt an element that nok thelt ft) Be Continued,) —_—— Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wonders " gala Lenox, "and she gone was + Sooper oper oem fate of the first band of these settlers is still unknown, i SoTL ERENT Eee ERNIE Why the United States Ts What Tt Is Co-Day. ea Sepa FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SKETCHES, Whut They Did: Why They Did It; What Came Of It, By Albert Payson Terhune. 3.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH, the Man Who Brought Homes to America. UEPN ELIZABETH of England—great of mind, shrewish of tem- Q Per, red of hair, homely of face and inordinately vain—paused in her walk as she came upon a muddy spot in the pavement. A courtier—young, obscure, ambitious—one Master Walter Raleigh by name —saw in a Slash a delightfully unique method of currying royal favor. He stepped forward and, throwing his cloak into the mud, besought Her Majesty to cross, dry shod, upon the garment. The act was unusual and at once drew upon the youth the white light of royal favor which older and more studious men had for years sought vainly to gain. Incidentally, that courtly and cleverly planned bit of gallantry was the initial step toward colonizing America. The statement is by no menns far-fetched. Almost the first use Raleigh made of his new-found favor was to request leave to form a col- ony in America, for the honor of England (i. e., of England’s Queen) and for his own advancement, He visited the country himself and sent over various colonies. He gave Englishmen thair first impulse to regard ° Raleigh 8 valle for? America as a place to live in rather than as @ North America: mere land of fabled gold. ry They settled in Virginia, a tract which Raleigh named for Elizabeth, his “Virgin Queen.” These colonies, it 1s true, did not meet with immediate euccess. The They were either massacred by Indians, whom they had treated with truc Anglo-Saxon bru- tality, or else wandered far inland and never again came into touch with civilization. For, the Indian, peaceful and conciliatory at first toward the invaders, had by this time begun to copy his white visitors’ methods of action and was an inimical force to be reckoned with, from then on almost till the present day. But subsequent colonists were more fortunate, Three great innovations were due to these colonists, und incidentally to Raleigh. The first of these was the !mportation into Europe of potatoes, en In- dian tuber hitherto unknown east of the Atlantic, and whigh in later years did much to check the periodical famines which swept Great Britain, Second, tobacco was for the first time introduced into Burope, and at once found high favor there, the Virgin Queen herself not disdaining to yellow her royal teeth by constant use of what she was pleased to term “that bewitching vegetable.” Third, and most important by far, Raleigh's returned colonists taught overcrowded Europe that in the New World there was land fer the asking, and a place where all might live free and in the midst of plenty. The tide of immigration, slowly at first but with a force indomitable and destined never to ebb, swayed westward. starvation more than a mere name. The New World held out trresistible allurements to the poor and the oppressed. And thus Americ began to grow.’ As for Raleigh himself, he fared, ultimately, little better than his pre- decessors, Knighted and made for a time the oi Sn A alate 4 + Speen: of His Service. —__~~ | Death the Reward CCU ISIEE } without her consont, Her successor,/James I., hated the gallant ad- venturer, and in time found pretext to cast him into prison, adding one more to the many thousand instances of the gratitude of princes, Raleigh languished in the Tower of London for thirteen years, and was at length beheaded. But the westward impetus that he had given to traffic and colonization centuries. Thus, to the young courtier’s first act of subtle flattery toward a vain old woman, North America owes the spirit of colonization that has over eince dominated the Western World. ‘Anybody Who Reads This Column Will in a Short Time Know Ali That's Worth Knowing About the History of This Country, By Irvin S. Cobb. LAS! that we cannot always go frivolling along in the sunshine while Mr. Merryman, full of his Shakespearian quips, holds the banner for the little lady to jump over at the Garden and the inimitable William Transit Jerome turns out hls mirth-provoking comicalities in the Courts Building, where so much justice is dispensed with! there is ever a fly in the ointment; sometimes several of them, including the blwedottle variety. pressing. We wonder at the increase of crime in our fair city, yet no sociologist puts the fault where it properly belongs, We marvel that so it variously to the Saturday-night hang-over and the effect of the Rainese law sandwich. Why not face the facts as they exist and fix the blame in the right place—on the Sunday-night supper of the New York boarding house? Bome sweet, far-distant day the great problems which to-day confront us will be solved. Years and years from now, when the color question has faded and the labor question has worked itself out; when perchance even ‘Tom Lawson hes quit running in Everyhody’s—yea, even as long a time as’ that—a benefactor of the race will show how real food may be provided for the Sunday-night boarding-house supper, But in the dyspepsia-tinted present we must go on and on enduring, One tate is the common fate of all, for by the rules of the order the night supper must be the same through the length and breadth of the Greater City> We enumerate: Item 1—A large, dank platter, reminiscent of Bellevue's cold gray slabs, dotted at intervals with what appears to be vemeered leather findings; in reality corned beef, dating back to the Old Red Sandstone era—corned beet which passeth all human understanding and which, being spurned of men, yet returneth after many days, relncarnated os hash, Item 2—A slightly smaller dish, furnishing forth a frugal display of potato salad, the same being garnished with mother of onion, This pleas- ing mixture has a death-like chill and tastes as if it had been in storage in the subway. Some fow landladies favor decorating the potato saiad wit slices of pickled beets, but that arrangement 1s decried by the best judges of what e boarder should eat, It is regarded as being too sport!ve-look- ing to suit the spirit of the occasion—too muoh as if a careless hand had spilled a stack cf red chips in the kitty, petted darling of the court, he fell at last into | dire disfavor with the Queen for daring to marry . endured and has grown greater, year by yesr, through all the succeeding © NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES, But we cannot always be gay and lightsome, We must remember that ‘ No poor man in England might own land. Taxes were heavy and , ‘We must occasionally consider that which is vital, e’en tho’ it be de- : many husbands are in court Monday morning for wife-beating, attributing ; Jtem 8—Four small equares of pastry petrifaction, These relics of the ’ Glacial Period possess an amazing hardness and durability, und are further protected from the inroads of time and climate by a burglar-proof glaze on ‘ top of them, in appearance much Ilke a hard frost. Such confections, while commonly to cut their jaw teeth on, ores 4—A saucer containing a prune, nine days drowned tn !ts gluey juices and now become a bloated floater, mutely clamoring for the rind offices of the Coroner, regarded as food by landladies, are rarely used for that purpose, » They are, however, of value to geologists and may be given to hardy chile ~ <n Item 5—A cup of almost-tea—but why profong this painful narrative vo familiar to so many? Z THE FUNNY PART: Most. of the boarding-house keepers