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-asked to determine the legality of the undertaking, When is the city to *s Daily Magazine, Monday, May 28, 1906. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. © to @ Park Row, New Tork Entered at the Port-Oiice at New York aa Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 48 ecsccese NO. 16,551. HIGH TIME TO ACT. Two quest Jealing It has lai ion and in rt The City Club attempt to steal a franchise of great value.” e of the facts it appears to be. If the opinion of | his view, the company should be made Let us have the opinion. ight of the Belmont interests to pro- ity with the construction of the st River toa Manhattan terminal— of an express provision in its charter f this action “a shamel That is what on the f the Corporation ¢ to pay the cits The other que: ceed under an old so-called Steinwa Forty-second st The attent es was Called to this “unlawful invasion of the city’s rights,” as it has been characterized, on Sept. 15, 1905, and again on Noy. 27, 1905. On April 14 last the Corporation Counsel was the ion concerns the tter of dubious tunnel under fhe E: know where it stands in the matter? Except for the temporary revoca- tion of a permit not an obstacle has been interposed to delay work on the tunnel until the charter can.be tested, In each case a valuable franchise has been appropriated, in the one instance without a shadow of right, in the other under conditions of doubt- ful legitimacy, Are injunctions only for the use of Corporations? Every effort should now be made to regain the ground lost by procrastination, “REASONABLE” TELE PHONE RATES, i Whatever the outcome of the telephone war may be, it has been of Prime educational value. It has given the public an insight it never thought to have into the possibilities of telephone profits. Whether OF not the Atlantic Company gains entrance into the city the death knell of ex- tortionate charges has been sounded. : The trust already shows a disposition to come down. It admits the right of the public to “subject it to regulation to secure reasonable rate "/ It is ready to discuss the question of compensation for its enormously lu- Crative privileges. This is something, But if a new company, with the heavy expenses of installation vet to be met, can profitably pay. the city $100,000 for the right to string its wires and $640,000 for their use for twenty-five years: if in addition it cai ‘ vide free a municipal service for which the city now pays #200 000 4: nually, and yet derive enough profit through moderate char es to” ait it in surrendering its plant at the expiration of that period, ie SCE that compromise rates proposed by the trus i o the present rates cut in half, H ust to be “reasonable” must be BANAAAAAASASAAAAANANAAAAAA ALAR ENON AM AMEE E TE SARR;IERRRMERES TH» SYNOPSIS OF Pri Lt With something of a revelation. | On his first sight of her she had appealed to him | ) 88 @ Strange blending of youth and self-posaession | +8 girl with a woman's clearer perception of life: tater he had been drawn to study her in other aspects—as a possible comrade and friend; now for the first time he saw her as a power in her own world, a woman to whom no man could deny a| consideration, She looked taller for the d sf | between them, and the distinction of her cx 4 added to the effect. Her black gown wns exqu!- ? | Sitely soft—as soft as her black hatr; above her forehead was a clugter of splendid diamonds endangere f morphia, manstfp, and privacy orphia 4 tases onon more, Laden. ure opta. He | 008 to Chiloa be strangers. Loder h Sno vildenecroane sicinwe that | Shamed lke a ooronet, and a band of the same eat eh) emazed | Stones encireled her neck. Loder realzed in a xchange lance that only the most distinguished of women could wear such ornaments and not have her beauty eclipsed. With a touch of the old awk- ‘wardness that had before assafled htm in her pres- mace he came slowly forward as she descended the tatrs, | “Can I help you yith your cloak?" he asked. And as he asked it sumething Mke surprise at his own timidity crossed his mind. For a second Eye's glance rested on his face. Her expression was quite impassive. but as she lowered her lashes a faint gleam flickered across her eyes; nevertheless her answer when St came fom Later roen to is waiting to help him drem for the reception. —_—-—_—_ 1008, 3004, by Harper & Brothers) (Copyright, CHAPTER XIII. (Cominued.) T the opening sentence Loder had turned A aside, but now, as the man finished, he} wheeled round again and looked at him/ dlosely with his keen, observant eyes. i) “Look here," he said, “I can’t have you speak to | me like that. I may come down on you rather | was studiously courteous, sharply when my—my nerves are bad; but when “Thank you,” she sald, “but Marie will do all I I’m myself 1 treat you—well, I treat you decently, | want.” | at any rate. You'll have to learn to disoriminate.| Loder looked at her for n moment, then turned Look at me now!" A thrill of risk and of ruler) aside. He was not hurt by this rebuff; rather, by ship passed through him as he spoke. “Look at|an Interesting sequence of {mpressions, he waa me now! Do I look as I looked this morning—or | stirred hy {t. The pride that had refused Chil. yesterda: and the self-control that had refused tt | The man eyed him half stupidly, half timfdly. ly moved him to admiration. He under| “Well?” Loder insisted. | Stood and appreciated both by the light of ver-| Ul, sir,” Renwick responded with some slow=| sonal experience, | , “you look the same—and you look different | ‘'The carriage 1s waiting, str,” Crapham's A healthier color, perhaps, sir—and the eye clear-| broke in, i pores y er." He grew more confident under Loder’s half-| Loder nodded and Eye tumed to her matd humorous, half-insistent gaze, “Now that I look/ ‘Theat will do, Marie,” she sald. “I shall w: closer, sir’— cup of chocolate when I get back—probab. Loder laughed. “That's it!” he safd. “Now) o'clock, She that you look closer, You'll have to grow obser- | and moved teward the door. Then she vant; observation is an excellent quality in a ser- | looked back. ‘Shall we start?” sh vant. When you come into a room in future look Loder, sti watching her, camo forward at ones first of all at me—and take your cue from that. | “Certainly,” he said with unusual gentleness. Remember that serving a man with nerves is Iike| Ie followed her as she crossed the footpath, but serving two masters, Now you can go; and tell | made no further offer of help; and when the mo-| Mrs. Ohtloote’s maid that I all be quite ready | ment came he quietly took his place beside her In at a quarter past 10.” the carriage, His last {mpreasion, as the horses “Yes, sir, And after wheeled round, was of the open hal! door—Orap- "Nething further, I s ham in his sombre livery and the mald in her atl w her cloak about her shoulders ised and ate" t you agaty to-| night.” He turned av (i moved} biuck dress, both silhouetted against the dark toward the grewt fire th 1 background of the hall; then, as the carriigo fn Chilcote’s room, But as th moved forward smogthly and rapidly, he leaned! the door he wheeled back as more, Renwick! Bring me some sandwi @ whiskey.” He remembered for that he had eaten nothing eince early af At a few minutes 10 Lac room, resolutel; néed the sts is position In the hall. Resol word to apply to such a proceeding, but so! thing In his bearing, in the attitude of his shc ders and head, instinctively suggested it, Five or six minutes passed, but he walted with- out impatience; then at lust the sound of a car- riage stopping before the house caused him to lift hie head, and at the ne instant Eve appeared at the head of the staircase, back in his seat and closed his eyes. | During the first few moments of the drive there silence. To Loder there was a strange, new! ant, He wns so near to Eve that the sligi ent from hgr clothes might almost have} his own. The Impression was con-! yet vag delightful. Tt was years since! he had been so close to a woman of his own class —his own caste, He acknowledged the thought h a curious sense of pleasura Inv juntarlly | ned and looked at her, | Sho wns sitting very straight, her fine profile cut clear against the carringe window, her S55 monds quivering in the ght that flashed by them Sho stood there for a second, looking down on| from the strect. For a space the sense of un- him, her maid, a pace or two behind, holding her ity that had, pervaded his first entrance into Sloak, ‘Tha picture she mate strack upon.bis mind | Chilcote’s lite touched ttm again, then another | The Evening World lé NlaSquerader sation {n this companlonship, so clove and yet! § A Study in Patckes. By J. Campbell Cory. {MILLION DOLLA The President on the Money Power—This is the day for the man with a patch on his breeches.” NANTES RSE VUNVAAAAAS AAS DADASAS RTATETATNES VOSS UTATASAAA GY: 7 “Can 1 belleve my luck In finding you alone? more potent untarily a@aning forward he arm * he said ¢ Then he had eling rose to qui look r ftuen her slac thin, jald his tye, do nd withdr ned speed, ge fell into Ine outside hand lightly you remom- w his hand, then stopped fell's feeling far or In a drama than an ordi- situation, Tt was the and a little tired ODER ¢ 1 Lady the window at the Ib more like an ac gaze returned to he nary n in a pecull: “You look very b uid, His first thme he had played Chilcote to a purely so- velce was low and ils manner un his words had the effect he desired She turned her head, and her eyes glunce of curtosity and surp Sitght as the triumph was St tied him. sinall scene with Chil came back to him; his own personality moved him agaln to a’ (' reckless determination to make Qis own yoloe waa strongest, a cheery vol but met his in a| crowd os The the position again ¢ niiment wien the sensation of wnt ) halled im, and, clal audience, and the first time for many years |that he had rubbed shoulders with a well-dressed {bly brought together for amusement, °. As he followed Eve along the corridor that led to the reception-rooms he questioned tho reality of and again; then abruptly, at Waularky Why the United States Is What It Ts Co-Day. FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OP THUMBNAIL SKETCH4S What They D'd; Why They Did It- What Camo Of It, eee By AJbert Payson Terhune, No. 30—The Second War of Independence, ¢67 CONGRATULATR you," sata Turgot to Frankitn tn 1783, “on winning your I War of In bs | ie: nu monn the Revolution. r |The War of Independence is yet to come. was a war FOR not OF independence." And Franklin, as usual, was right. For, as Lossing says, until the close of the | War of 1812 the United States was only nomfnally free, The nation had waxed indorendence, It dreaded another war mer than fight again tt endured countless nny and insult from © ns. Soctally and fnanctally we largely dependent on E: ing a country free from’the Britt le hh yoke this lack of co may seem unnatural. { than modern departures from the stern probity and British Tyranny Grows Unbearable. stalwart simplicity that were the foundations of our Republic. Hut thon ,as now, in time of actual crisis, © the American nation was ready to shake off the shack- les of ease and comfort and fight to the death for flag and freedom. When Jefferson's second term ended two men who were his political disciples were mentioned for ithe Presidency on the Republican ticket. They were James Madison and James Monros, The former was nominated and elected. It was no easy tak Madison found awalting him. Dhe situation of the country early in 1809 1s best summed up tn the following quatntly worded extract from a report presented to the Massachusetts Legislature: “Our agriculture ts discouraged, the fisheries abandoned, navigation forbidden, commerce restrained {f not annihilated, our navy sold, dismantied or degraded, the revenue extinguished, the course of justice interrupted and the nation weak- ‘ned by Internal animosities and d fons at the moment when ft is unnecossarily and tmprovidently exposed to war with Great Britain, France and Spat: Truly @ cheerful outiook for the bewlidered y Madison tried to straighten out the Mternational tangle. England coquetted with him and ended by refusing to grant any real redress. British warships cruised off tho chief ports of the United Stars, where they Interoepted American merehant vessels and sent them to England as In only one case an Ameri- can ship successfully opposed this legalized piracy. Added to this, the Embargo Act had cut down the Indians’ revenue from furs and made them resentful. British emissartes (as in the Revolution) stirred up the savages to warfare against the Western so'tlers } These combined outrages aroused the American people to tury. To make mat- tera worse English newspapers filled .thetr columns with coarse abuse of our country, one journal openly boasting “The Yankees cannot be kicked Into a war!" ‘The time for forbearance was past. On June 17, the United States de- clared war against Great Iiritain. Some idea of the daring of this declaration may be gained when {t is recalled that at that time the British Navy consisted of adout 900 ships of war with 14,00 men, while our navy contained but twelve large ships (carrying {n all 300 guns) ond a handful of gunbonts which scarcely sufficed for coast guards. Moreover, the United States was torn by internal disseneions, A strong “Peace Party" bitterly opposed tho war and did all tn their power to clog the wheels of the Administration. There were no great lenders at hand, The heroes of the Rovoluttan were now for the most part dead. The few who remained were oid. Yet from these aged survivors {t was necestary to choose the leaders for the new war. No George Washington nor Paul Jones rosé to guide the ship of state through the troubled soas that lay ahead Henry Dearborn, a sixty-year-old it mander-in-Ch el reltc tea Com- were alpo —_—_—_— War Begins with Disasters to U. S. aoe west forts, captured !t and att ter city, weakly surrendered It fused the Indians would be chikiren of the place. Dearborn planned an invasion of Canada. hundreds of the soldiers refusing to cross they had merely enlisted in a war of de men who had starved at Valicy Fork The Peace Party praised this cowa: factions when it should Lave combined as or first yoar of the War of 15i2—n series of almost nies. 1 We on aea, to the eternal glory of our Nation, a different story remainod to told. uit the a. y was rent by t the So ended the 4 disasters to the Amer- CANATUAN AAA TAS ATA SAA AAAA OTA TAU AAA AAS latherine Well Wiumsfton Again Eve said nothing. But silently and with A more subtle meaning she found herself echoing the words, turning, he saw the square shoulders, ight eyes and pointed mustache of Lakely, the owner of St. Gi 's Gazette. a y at the epberoe the man and the sound of his; Until he was qnfte close to her Loder did not rat doubts and speculations vanished, | seem to see her. Then he stopped quietly. | Tae semeials of Ilfe rose gain to the position) “I wns speaking to Lakely,"* he sald. “He wants lthey had occupied three weeks ago, !n the short) me to dine with him one night at Cadogan Gar- | put strenuous period when his dormant activitles | dens.” ad b tirred and he had recognized his true| But Eve was silent, w: mae ie littea nia head unconsciously, the efinde| Blessincton, She glanced at him quickly, jot misgiving that had crossed his confidence pass-| though thelr eyes met he did not catch the me | ing from him as he smiled at Takely with a keen,|{ng that lay in hers. It was a dificult moment. {ng for him to address but alert pleasure that altered his whole face. | She had known him tncredibly, almost unpardon- Eve, looking back, saw the expression. It at-/ bly, absent-minded, had in bly becn tracted and held her, like a sudden glimpge into] Whe7 he was sufert u ‘ae eho a secret room. In all the years of her marriage, | phrased {t to herse © was obvi- {n the months of her courtship even, she had/ ously in the jossession of unclouded faculttes never surprised the look on Chilcote's face. Tho| She colored slightly and glanced under he {mpression came quickly, and with !t a strange, | at Blessington. Had the s | warm rush of interest that receded slowly, leav-| She wondered? But he w {ng an odd sense of loneliness. But at the mio- sult of Chinese armor that stood close by in a ment that the feeling came and passed her atten- niche of the wall. | tlon was claimed in another direction, A siight,! “Bobby has been k me amused while vou | fair-haired boy forced his way toward her through | talked to Mr. Lakely, id pointedly, the press of people that filled the corridor, Directly addressed. ed and looked at “Mrs. Chileote!” he exclaimed. “Oan I bellave! Blessington. “How d'you do?" he said 4 {ful cordiality. The name of Bobby conv my luck in finding you alone?” ing to h Eve laughed. It seemed that there was relief in her laugh. ‘How absurd you are, Bobby!" she! To his surprise Ey. ked annoyed, eaid kindly. ‘But you are wrong. My husband Is/ Ington’ sh-color deepened in to: here—I am waiting for him." a slow uneomfor ion he was Bi ngton looked round. “Oh!" he sald. “In- baving struck & deed ° Then he telepsed into silence. le was the There was pause. The | soul of good nature, but those who knew him best | ™more by intul factual sight, Bless! | ton saw ‘om him ith quick tact he saved th “How d'yon do, sir? he t "I congrat well, I © comimi sort of scout at pi posts.” He spoke fa Ing, but his boyish voi Eve thanked him mustn't interfere w |knew that Chilcote'’s summary change of secre~ taries had rankled. Eve, consctous of the little jar, made haste to smooth it away, | “Tell me about yourself,” she said, “What have you been doing? | Blessington looked at her, then smiled again, his buoyancy restored. ‘“Doing’?" he said. “Oh, call- ing every other afternoon at Grosvenor Square—| only to find that a certain lady is never at home.” | | At his tone Eve laughed again. The boy, with lhis frank and {ngenuous nature, had begullet sit on on active | rauny a dull hour for her in past days, she sald ai: sides, we have our oy t had missed him not a little when his p’ through,” She smiled a | been filled by Greening. Arin indicated the rec ‘Puc T mean sertously, Bobby. Has soracth!ox) When they entered the larger of the two rocms Lady Bramfell was still receiving her was a tall and angular woman, who, n beauty of hinds and feet anda certain simi- ed nothing | King to & group good turned up? Blessington made a wry face, “Something !8| on its way—that’s why I am on duty to-night. Old | Bramfell and the pater are working {t between the So if Lady Bramfe!l or Lady Astrupp bap- pen to drop a fan or a handkerchief this evening | I've got to be here to pick it up. See?” “As you picked up my fans and handkerchiefs t year—and the year before?!’ Eve smiled. Blessington’s face suddenly looked grave. “TI wish you hadn't sald that,” ho sild. Then he | paused abruptly. Out of the hum of talc behind} them a man's laugh sounded, It was not loud, but it was a laugh that one seldom hears {n a London drawing-room—it expressed interest, antsemoent, and in an inexplicable way it seemed also to ex- press strength. Eyo and Blessington both turned involuntarlly. “By Jove!” said Blessington. Evo said nothing, Loder was parting with Lakely, and his was the laugh that had attracted them both, The in- terest excited by his talk was still reflected !n his| face and bearing as he made his way toward saved “By Jove!" sald Blessington again. “I never >. Chiloots, nena 0. %A1l,"Sest of her sweet and rather drawling tones touched Loder with a curious momentary feeling—a vagre suggestion of awakened memories, Then the gestion vanished as she turned and greeted Dye. “How sweet of you to come!” she murmured. And It seemed to Loder that a more spontaneous smile lighted up her face. Then she extended her tiand to him, “And you too!” she added. “Though ] bore you dreadfully,” est he saw the chango of expression as her eyes turned from Eve to him, and noticed a colder tone in her voice as she ad- dressed him directly, The observation moved him to self-assertion. “That's » poor compliment to me,” ho sald. “To be bored 1s surely only a polite way of being in- | ane." Lady Bramfell smiled. “What!” she exclaimed, | “You defending your social Teputation?” a ~Ro.Be Continned dg ’ ~~“ ° ad