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should furnish the prod which is sadly needed, wk, Fublistied by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, Botered ait the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Mutter. VOLUME 46 . NO, 16.298, DR. WOODBURY’S STREETS. Said Mayor McClellan of the | charges made, and now to be inves-| tigated, concerning Dr. Woodbury’s Street Cleaning Department: They have got to vindicate Wood- bury or else declare him guilty. If guilty, it is a question in my mind whether he might not be sent to prison. There is no danger of Dr. Woodbury’s going to prison. No- body supposes that he is corrupt or has guilty knowledge of corruption. What a good many people do suppose is that the people aren’t get- ting the worth of their money; that Dr. Woodbury’s trusted officials are neglectful or worse; that Plunkitt, the “honest-graft” expert, is inaking a good profit out of his dealings with the department; that snow-removal methods are a scandal; that there is waste in many directions, “graft” pos- sibly or probably in some. If Dr. Woodbury doesn’t know what is going on in his department fhe should know. The people are entitled to better service for the money. GRAMMAR SCHOOL FIELD DAYS. The suggestion for a series of school field days which the Sunday {World on March 4 submitted to the Public School Athletic League has met with an enthusiastic response. To the first one hundred grammar schools of Greater New York ar- ranging to hold special field days between April 5 and the end of the school year the Sunday World offered 2,000 medals—twenty for each school. It further agreed ‘o supply the entry blanks and programmes, to print trom time to time articles descriptive of the event and to provide five honor plaques, to be awarded to the school in each borough having the highest percentage of actual competitors in its field day. These field days are designed to be preliminary to a final meet in the fall, with prizes of gold, silver and bronze medals, open to winners of the spring events. iihe events comprised are the fifty and one hundred yards dash, relay taces of 440 and $80 yards, and the standing broad jump and high jump. This offer was immediately accepted by the Public School Athletic League through its secretary, Dr. Luther H. Gulick. It has also received tne cordial approval of Supt. Maxwell. The warm reception it has met among the schoolboys bespeaks the athletic spirit to which it appealed. puch a series of athletic meets is certain to exercise a beneficial influ- ence. They will bring boys together in friendly rivalry. They will stim- ulate school pride and foster a love of outdoor sport. They will leaven a somewhat barren school course with some of the zest and incentive which best make life worth living for schoolboys. They will give tone to inter- school relationship. The cordial support of the project by the school au- thorities assures its success. ’ WHERE THE PROD IS NEEDED. The Mayor’s attempt to get at the bottom of the delay in building the Blackwell's Island Bridge will have popular approval. Half a million people are impatiently waiting to find out why this public improvement has been retarded to the point where delay has become a scandal. Why has progress been so slow in this important public work during a time of unexampled rapidity of construction on private contracts? Who was responsible for the loss of a year in strikes? What is there beneath the surface which has roused the suspicions of east side and Long Island civic associations? Some of the delay is ascribed to the tedious process of land condemnation; has the Corporation Counsel’s office been as ac- tive as it should have been? The Mayor's investigation will be looked to to expedite matters. It The =e Way of the Peacemaker Is By J. Campbell Cory. PISH PISH! WHY SHOULD > == >> LETTERS from the PEOPLE ANSWERS se QUESTIONS {immortal statues and much of tts other ‘Wave-Power Query. | fame. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Scientists tell us that waves do not hence for similar greatness. America might lve 3,000 years But, {deal Will some scientific reader explain this?| nation of money worshippers will stand R. @. CORNELIUS, for more athletic glory. Rhinebeck, N. ¥. CORNELL UNDERGRADUATE. The Train Problem Again, To the Faltor of The Evening World: You published this problem recently: ‘A train after running one hour breaks Money va. Athletic Fame, To the Editor of The Evening World: | The idea advanced by a Columbia) senior for mammoth Olymple games to! gown, continues at three-fifths speed be held in America and to outrival any-| until reaching destination two hours thing on earth--an all-around athletic) sate, had gone fifty miles fur- carnival—must strike a responsive chord | ther be reaking down it would have {n every true sportsman’s heart. To her athletic sports and their national importance Greece owes most of its arrived forty minutes sooner. What was the distance travelled?” The correct answer {s 200 miles, time six hours, AVATAR EAA AAA NIGHTSTICK ard NOZZLE- A Romance of Menhettan by SEWARD Uh [SS iss esis SOS SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | Dave Lenox, & New 201k policeman sass in jove with ‘Annie Buasten, whom de ‘is “Me, sir. That man who was here last night is here again.” fescued from a hotel, fire’ 1 ob ceeeaias | “All right.” fom Annie that she is in great dau y from Annie that sheurce, he takes ner, fory Lenox dragged himself trom bed and co in low. brick” Rouse Uves ina yellow ibiick Dovten goods, Her | He opened the door and admitted the hhusbend, Jake Foby, a criminal, has been visitor, hired by “unknown ‘persona to ‘kill Aneie “She wants you and the other fellow," ‘Buasten. 6 lure Lenox and Annie to ey ane vel near’ the. Williamsburg | $414 the messenger. Bridge and try. to Kill them. ‘They a Who wants us? Mrs. Foby?" fA CaS els s, And a lawyer, She feels bad.” rvin can't go. He is om duty. o) 7 i Promoters ure In New York red | J'll go. I'll get a lawyer. I suppose \ try to track theca ear it 1s about a will. wore Fob eatigation is, mat It did not take him long to finish of a Russian official, dressitig, Then with his companion he ihe De eer be 7 Ks and woun:s| hurried to a drug store and telephoned him, and then escapes wit ihe pid of a/ to a friend who was @ lawyer to meet gorfegerate., Leroy ive ° P| him at a certain street. The messen- Mra, Fol, ving fom 8 mound. puts) ger went his own way, as it was no lon- Lenox on Fibre son by a former tarringe, | Ger necessary to guide Lenox to the whom Foby (for, the sake of Inheritance) | house, Manta toveet ont of the way, laren {lenox and Garvin hunt up the boy, who| ‘Te lawyer kept the engagement and ‘on ving temporat boat tn the the two en! 2, rer find him en: emissary ue wo entered the room of Mrs. of Foby's throws e river, Lenoy | Foby: ort eye wulcces i 4, later, |' She was falling, as Lenox could see. arrest the w empted the inurder,| Her weakening eyes roved about: the ‘The latter ts u deckhand, ‘King secretly in. Foby's Interests. room. "anrough the prisoner's help Lenox captures | ‘Where tn the other?” she asked. fe cleared up|, “le is on duty. He can't come,” sald atens her Ife is | Lenox, I have bro: ht the lawyer, j esian Anareh-) \\} is you want’ nything happen? And Lenox gave her a history of the events of the ni! r | ‘Phat's good enow | want to make @ will, Eddie Lage. CHAPTER XXIV. The Sequel. ENOX was enjoying a well-earned “y | My s0n's name is His father died two years | rest, His dreams were untroubled, after he was born, I want to give alist and perhaps the preity face of a| of houses I own, and I want you and| girl in the , a virtual prisc Garvin to be the trustees of his prop- | for her owr gave them ‘© erty, He is only a boy. You are two| shape, honest men, ill you be Eddie's | But he was not to remain sted | ¢ He never did wrong.” | ‘long. | sald Lenox. “T will answe;| ‘There knock at the door and he | 4 rvin, You may name us as trus- | Pose wearily to a sitting position, “Who is it?” tees. The lawyer prepared to write the will “We will take up the question and go into a committee of the Commerce Club witnessed her signature, and the inventory of the property, Mrs. Foby had the matter well in her mind and the work did not take long. “There,” she sald as she attached her signature, “I feel better. I've been a | wicked woman, but perhaps that will atone for a few things. Don’t tell Ed- die how bad I was." She lay back weakly and Inox stood and looked at her, while two servants This was the passing of a type once in common New York, but watch Is every the re The la t less wartare of the police. 1 walied, they left the room Mrs, Foby died that night, Lenox went to the hospital. it growing scarcer owing to “Have you received any orders from which {s at the rate of fifty miles per) old parents, The first duty a daughter first hour, and three-fi or thirty| or son owes aged parents Is to respect miles ver hour for five succeeding | tham, and look after and support them hours. If the train had goue fifty miles|to repay them for all the trou- further before breaking down, that|ble and hardshin they had to en- would be 100 miles at fifty miles per| dure in looking after the children’s wel- hour (or two hours), leaving 100 miles| fare and comfort before they were able at three-fifths speed or thirty miles per|t© Provide for themselves. Children hour (three hours and twenty minutes); | Ought to be proud when the oppor, ‘total, five hours and twenty minutes, | {ty of payment presents Its which is forty minutes leas than six ria Aa epee na Mea Tera s en hours. If train travelled the whole dis-| | When ¢ fate or reetare feeble and v elas t plan is, vi ed | ance (200 miles) at fifty miles per hour cause a progressive movement of the 4s the plan Is, It will never be carri y : K surface water. Why is it, then, that a out. ‘There is more money in side|{t would arrive In four hours; there-| need to De odes oe ae te boy is able to stone his hat ashore?| shows and Wall street de: And no! fore, on account of breakdown, was| takes very le y WREeTE TOPE be to, need people, and may God bless CONPEARING MAN. Race Poet Breaks Loose. To the Editor of The Evening World: Now racing's on in Eastern States, The crowd can get a thrill. ‘The sporty clerk can dodge his work And tempt the boss's till. And, oh, what opportunities ‘Twill give to work the trick So dear to all true sporting men two hours late. E, WILDEY. | Son Is Already a Citizen, To the Editor of The Evening World: | A German came to America and aid not draw his citizen papers. He mar- ricd and had a son, Is that child a | citizen, or must the child take out citi zen papers? H. DIBTZ. | Children’s Duty. To the EXiitor of The Evening World: I wish to repudiate the statement | made by “Husband” that a man ought| And known as “get poor quick!" not to be expected to support his wife's EINNA. AAW 0000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008 few things. In the first place, your uncle 1s dead. Your cousin and Foby are under arrest, and Mrs. Foby dying of your shot." “Ah, did I really wound her? Ought T to be sorry?” “Well, as a matter of ethios, I sup- pose we should say yes. I fancy, though, ft was a mighty good thing you aid. Let us say we regret the necessity which arose.” “And shall T be arrested?” “No. You may be held on a@ tech- nical charge, but that will soon be dis- posed of. You did no more than any one else would have done In the same circumstances had he the wit. I wanted to speak about yourself, Of course, you are free to leave now, but where will you go? Your home Js not here,” “I have no home, I shall find a quiet boarding-house and remain in New York. I may find work. I have little money.” “Mrs. Garvin wishes you to make your home with her. Tom 1s away from home most of the time, and she Is lonely, She is a fine woman, and you will have a pleasant home unttl"— She looked up at him wonderingly, “Until” he said, as he looked down Into the eyes uplifted to his, ‘we take up the question of home from the table and go into a committee of two to re- consider !t."* She blushed. “I'l go with Mrs. Garvin," she sald. And now, when ‘fom has a night off, and Lenox 1s at the desk in the day- time, fur he is a sergeant now, there are gay times in the house that was once 80 quiet, and Mrs. Garvin Is plan- ning her own plans for the future, for she says Annie must have a’ fine wed- ding. And she probably will. (he End.) ——.-——— Onn 1$ on Monday “The Return of Martin Hewitt,” by Arthur Mor- vison, will begin in The Even- ing World. The first of the am private detective’s ad- ures recounted will be “The | of two to reconsider It.” | the Commissioner?” he asked. | “Yes, Miss Buasten can be seen now.” | inswered the orderly, Annie's eyes brightened as exe saw Lenox, “Tam so glad to see you again,” she sald. ‘I was anxious. They sald no one could see me, Has anything hap-| pened?” “Well, ve juice Mystery.” pc ae uel Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wonders yes," waid Lenox. “Quite al PERE de ela CES [Why e the United States Is What Tt Is Co-Day. FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SKETCHES, What They Did; Why They. Did It; What ne Of It, By Albert Payson Terhune. 5.—John Smith, the Man Who Won What He Could Not Hold. OHN SMITH—adventurer, soldier of fortune, braggart, born leader of J men—stood leaning patiently on his flail in the Turkish grain flelds, the abuse in silence, for to rebel was .o court death, i He had learned self-control in a hard school, had this young English captain. Born 1579, of poor, tenant parents, he had run away to sea at fourteen to dodge apprenticeship; had crossed Europe afoot, enlisted in the Austrian Army, risen to captaincy in the war against the Turks; had in single combat cut off the heads of three Turkish champions and had finally been. captured and sold into slavery. His Turkish master, glad to humiliate 80 doughty a foe, daily insulted him. On this day the torréat of abuse culminated in the slash of a slave whip across the captive’s face, a blow for which America has lasting cause for gratitude. For it freed Smith. Forgetting prudence, he laid his tyrant dead with one blow of hi flail, donned the slain man’s clothes and in them escaped to an England: bound ship, Oe Arriving in his native land, he attracted) | Founds Firet Permanent the notice of Gosnold, whose interest in i Virginia Colony. { Raleigh’s colonization schemes for Virginia ~® quickly communicated itself to the adven- turous young Englishman, with the result that in December, 1606, Smith joined an expedition of 105 emigrants who were destined to form the nucleus of America’s first permanent Anglo-Saxon colony. These men were not wholly the sort who make good citizens or even settlers. Broken noblemen, gamblers, ne’er-do-wells of all ranks, their dream was of gold and conquest rather than of home-building. Nor were the second instalment of emigrants who, a little later, followed to reinforce the colony, of much more promising type. Moreover, the Indians, taught ° cruelty and hate of the white man by Raleigh’s treacherous fellow-explore ers, sought again and again to demolish the little Jamestown settlement. A mutinous, lawless band of men, who considered manual work de grading; a wild land wherein ground must be cleared, crops sown and houses built; savages without and starvation and dissention within—this, in & nutshell, was the situation. The same collection of ill-events had previously turned to failure all efforts to colonize North America, But for Smith another suth failure must have been scored. Unused to handling any implement less martial than the sword, the captain set to hewing trees and tilling ground. He sccomplished a far greater task by coercing his idle fellow-colonists into doing the same, Then practically singie-handed, he set out to pacify the neighboring Indians, In this latter task he incurred a series of adventures whose hair’s-breadth escapes would make the typical Wild West dime novel read like a Con- gressional report. These escapedes culminated in the famous scene in the camp of King Powhatan, when the monarch's daughter, Pocahontas, interposed her own life to save Smith's. For this story of sensational rescue posterity de- pends wholly on Smith’s own statement, and it has unfortunately been proven that Smith’s accounts of his own adventures are often wholly free from any basis of fact. Nevertheless, the truth remains that Pocahontas, through love for Smith, became so deeply interested in the fate of the little Jamestown colony that she persuaded her father to spure it, and | sent thither supplies which carried the shiftless English settlers through a famine winter. America owes an everlasting debt to Woman. To a Spanish Queen's generosity it owes discovery; to an English Queen's favor it owes its first impulse of colonization. To a savage Princess's charity it owes the life and permanency of its first English colony. In partial payment, perhaps, of this great debt, woman enjoys a higher, freer position on this continent than anywhere else on earth. i Presidency and he returned to England. 2 «But in 1614 he sailed again to America, this time visiting New England, making important explorations there and drawing up the first map of that section. It was his ambition to found & permanent colony there, but owing to a combination of disappointmgats the plan ‘ell through. Worn out by a hazardous life spent in the thankleas service of others; ermabittered by ingratitude and seeming failure, Smith wrote to a frien® just before his death: “T have two children, Virginia and New England. I have spent many years and iny fortune in their service. And in neither do I own one foot of land; not even the house I built with my own hands. I live to see noes | eranteles shared by men who knew them only from my descrip- Thus John Smith—leader of men, soldier of fortune, braggart and gentus—died, following into temporary oblivion and thankless obscurity, Couumbvs, Cabot and Raleigh, but leaving, perhaps, as glorious a heritage © to posterity as did any of that trio of immortals. eee Anybody Who Reads This Column Will in a Short Time Know All That's Worth I-nowing About the History of This Country. } ———- NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY-GLASSES The Virginia colonists, wesrying of Opens New England Smith's rigorous rule, deposed him from the to Colonization. struck in August, mooning around worrying about what they are going to give their wives for Christmas. And at present, when the belated pneus monia blooms still bud in the shady places, and influenza lingers in the lap of spring fever, the same men are beginning to figure out where they are going to spend their vacations, This town is full of folk who get so far ahead of the seasons that they have to sit down in clothing that is entirely unsuitable and wait for the climate to catch up. It’s @ little early yet, for summer resort Iterature, which in the end stingeth like an adder, and which, considered as pure fiction, beats the floral catalogues a mile, and ranks up very favorably with the prospectus of gold mining stock. So the professional forelock-grabber contents himse"* with making mind-bets on his month off. Past experience teaches him that the mountains are chiefly beneficial in summer to the people who stay there all the year ‘round. It’s a good thing Rip Van Winkle did his sleeping when he - did. If he dozed off nowadays anywhere in the Catskills he would be prose. cuted for trespassing on somebody's hotel property. In the perpendicular And in August, when the landscape begins to moult, and the hay feyer graduate stands kmee deep in the goldenrod with a handkerchief to his eyes sounding the college yell of his dear old alma mater through his nose, and the hen house flies come off the nest with the second brood of young ones— Oh, fine! vi? That doesn't leave anything to fall back on except tho seashore. But when the early bird mentions the seashore to his friends they cross thelr | fingers and croon lulabies to him of its joye—with the malaria microbeg:big. | enough to wear long penis and the extra large golden-russet {mported moms quitos taking all the red corpuscles nway frci you by the artesian system, | THE FUNNY PART: wae. So, in the end, he'll decide to stay in town and run down to Goney ‘ occasionally of @ Saturday night, 4 while his master, the Pasha, berated him for laziness. Smith bore al | co “y By Irvin S. Cobb. is AKING time by the forelock ts well enough if you don’t happen to ag tangle up in the breast-yoke and be poked in the ribs by a shaft and 4 run over and mussed up. There are a class of people who get sun- iG a oe { portions of the commonwealth everything bigger than a doghouse is a hotel ie these times. In the Catskills the woodpeckers dig two sets of holes and = || ‘ raise a family in one and take summer boarders in the other. When you. _ | see a thin, hungry-looking woodpecker, that's a boarder, en) tie Z