The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1906, Page 9

@edtaned by the Press Purtishing Company, No. 6 to @ Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Omce at New York as Becond-Clase Mafl Matter. Fost pasate cision visatssEGO 1G)SRO\. S OF TRAFFIC. Ever since the looting of the Brooklyn Clty Railroad in 1893 by| dewts & Fowler, Prank A. Bar naby, of the Slocum disaster fam | and H. B. Hollins & Co., the con cern now called the Brooklyn Rapid | Transit Company has been a finan 1 cial scandal and a transportation dis THE DISTURBER one a ee grace. What conserva had been a { horse railroad was by ge various hands turned into a combi-| nation of electric wrecks, to which) were added the three bankruptcie: | the Union Elevated and oF 4 klyn Elevated, Ipbn stilts known as the Bro ? Kings County Elevated : The tw Laughlin ri * Jourdan, the St earns eee aeat ae former had their birth in corruption which enriched the Mc- | The latier was af of high finance engineered by James rd Oil's Brooklyn Gas man. The Atlantic avenue sys- | tem, developed by the good Deacon Richardson, the Tom Johnson piracy ‘iowa as the Nass system, and the heterogeneous Eastern District lines {in time all fell into the pot—all over-apitalized and under-administered | > like their fellows. ! It would be. tedious to reveal the intricacies and rascalities by whi all this was brought about, or to recite the raking of Wall street fore and aft-by-the Brady-and Flower combines It is enough to deal with exist-| } ing conditions. Here we have a great city at the mercy of a single com- | | bination. There is but cne independent corporation in the borough, and } this serves a small section. The rest must depend upon the B. R. T. The Coney Island demonstration, with which the town still rings, + would not have been possible had the road been well managed in other respects. But the manaement when not wicked has been incompetent. The Brooklynite never gets relief. The ty-minute bridge crush is the least | of his troubles and the ten-cent fare dispute a trifle. It is the unending! burden put upon him that grinds and produces the present volcano of| swrath and resentment. | } crushed in rickety, unclean cars on the cross-town lines. The theatre cars| » from the bridge at night are more crowded than during the rush hours | ttbetween 5 and 6. The Sunday schedules are ridiculously inadequate. ‘There are no switchmen at curves and cars lose from five to seven min-| utes on a trip while motormen are engaged in digging out the switches. {There is neither enough light nor/pewef in the winter months. There, * is no progress, no improvements, no respect for the public rights This has endured for thirteen years. Enforced reforms now and then Piring a little relief, but the Brady-Harriman interest now in control cares mothing for Brooklyn. It only wishes to squeeze out the nickels and give has little as possible in return. Perhaps at last the thing has been overdone. Perhaps the public has | j turned, and turned so definitely that there will be no going backward until | {the community has had permanent and adequate relief, | THE OCTOPUS AND THE SEA Cow. At the Aquarium can now be seen a real live octopus. By an un-| fortunate coincidence the sea cow is dead. The octopus is thriving and bhas a healthy appetite. Any one of the general public who may not have understood why a tions which enrich themselves at the public expense are called octopuses | ¥ } will be quickly enlightened by a visit to the octopus tank in the Aquarium. { An octopus is a capacious elastic stomach with numerous arms tadiating in all directions. Each arm has scores of tentacles and suckers, | 4 | which fasten with a death-like grip to whatever they come in contact with. | These tentacles must have a sense of taste as well as touch, because any- | thing edible which they can reach they transfer to the always ready stom-| ach. This process is constantly going on. When everything edibte | within the tentacles’ reach has been taken, the octopus floats a few feet } further and repeats process The sea cow is an opposite kind of an animal to the octopy harmless, mild of di on and useful in its production of milk only one mouth instead of several thousands. It is not dangerous to mankind and performs useful service in tHe’ economy of the sea | An octopus and a sea cow do not get along well together. Yet if it{ ‘were not for such inoffensive animals as the sea cow the octopuses would | starve. Sea cows work for their food. The octopus spends most of his time lying still and gathering in whatever comes within his reach. The Spanish have an old proverb about the public being a mfich cow. The modern American has never come in contact with any other | octopus than the great se tentacles reach into every home { and suck from every citizen's pocket. | The aquarium also has another animal after which the American| public would do better to pattern than a sea cow. That is the spiny lobster, which is the natural enemy of the octopus and: keeps down their number. The spiny lobster is a species of lobster with a rigid, highly | developed and rougtily corrugated backbone. If there ts an actopus near- | by the spiny k aster tackles it in The lobster’s hard shell is tts claws It can nip off the ter Prived of food and starved to death. | by exposure to sunlight tent left but « huge hungry ston When the American pex cease to he Ike see cows-and imitate | te spiny lobster the American corporation octopus will become as harm- | the Bermuda octopus in its aquarium glassicage, It is} referer ce to seascows or inoffensive fish. | With 1e- vious to the octopus’s suckers. me by An octopus ca an be put on a rock a an be lopped « cles me. 2 be k nd nothing cles ‘The gross earnings of the Subway and Elevated lines for the June quarter whowed an increase of $741,321, of which $509,423 was earned by the Subway | ‘What per cent. of tt 's to be spent for stet! cars to replace the ‘copper-sheathed | Minder boxes? The question ts made pertinent by the Pennsylvante’s order of 8,000 all-stee! cars for use in its North River tunne! and by the announced tnten- of that road to construct all future passenger equipment of steel. The -sleep- of steel which the Pullman Company is building for the Pennsyltvani ara olerailrond oalety, i Re cannot go out at night to the nearest local theatre without being | 4 | and Lora Averiey?” The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Tuesday, August 14, 1906. Up Against It! By J. Campbell Cory. Ey OT ee ET Te | } ) $ NEW YOR FUNNY GLASSES — fpvin §. Cobh him Adventure No. 9.—The Ninth Customer and the Casket. (Copyrigbt, 1908. by W. G. Chapman.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS & benutiful 6x eri, Keeps her decease? euding the return of hie miaing 600, rer, “Vark by her James 1s 1 ¥ | CHAPTER II. | AR varcely restrain herself frorn an outbreak when she heard this wretch #0 cooly discuss tbe use he imended to make of the profits to be derived from his villainy, However, she kep? herself calm and paoceeded gaining hie entire A ould to con! you ie Peters, we will sa) borrowed tt remarked, tronically; “but don't you think that was rather | & dangerous proceeding?” “I didn't et the time.” eaid Peters, ruefully; “as I didn’t know my lord kept letters in tt I 414 not fancy he would ask after it. However, he did ask two days ago and found the, it was lost.” “Did he think you had taken {t?* “Lor bless you, no!” grinned t wn a fool as to be caught like that valet. “T ain't quite My lord's rooms h It has| cave been done up lately, so he thought as perhapa the | fluffy y paperhangers or some of that low lot stole the box. "In that case you are safe enough,” sald Hagar, en- raged at the ingenious villainy of the creature. aid you come to learn that there were lsiters hidden in thie box? You didn't know of them when you pawned it? “Ne, anise, 1 didn't,”’ confeswed Peters regretfully; “but yesterday I heard my lord say to ® friend of his that there | were letters to him from a married lady Mm ghe secret | piace . so I thought" — ree pon would find the secret place.and use the letters to get money out of the married lady’ “Yea, I did. That's what we are going to do, ain't «T" “le the married lady rich?’ asked Hager, answering the question by asking another ‘Lor’, miss, her husband, Mr. Delamere, has no end ot money! She'd give anything to get those letters back. Why, & her he would Givorce her for sure! He's e proud man. Has he any suspicion of an inirique between his wite mina; beg stop & if be hed. Ob, you may give « long price for those letters.” "No goulr.” easented Hagar, “Well Mr, Peters, as I am your partner in thie very admirable scheme you had let me soe Mra. Delamere get more out of her better ne than you woul : ar ‘esy, mise. You're « sharp one, you ere! Btu ll ee res tir? eee ee ee it I xet.a Rood mum you shall have half.” re- piled Hager, ambiguously. "But where dose Mra. Dela- eiagy rect, miss, the house painted a Mght red You'll always find her in now about 1 o'clock Squeese her Je ail she is worth, miss, We've got @ good thing on tn | * “But if I 29 would seem 0)" replied Hager coolly. a! f casket a9 soon were YOU, Mz. Peters, 1 would redeem could You may et into trouble else.” wl tale ‘ont of my share of the cash.” sald ape Rented. Don't you take lees than five hundred, mise those letters are worth It" wee to afl that. To-morrow I shall in- Mire Delamere; eo if you vome and see me the day will tell you the result of «ny visit. “Be oortent; Tl like “But hom, son, there can only be ove result with « sharp oni w grinned Peters, [7 you!!! Bay tall her husband, and she'll pay “You, aquecse Maw. Dotemere Mike an! your honor." miss, My stera, you're & eharp girl!) dare yout Mr. Peters departed with thie compitment Just, tn time te read only one, but I have no doubt that {t fe « sac stop Hagar from an urtioly desire to throw the casket at P/© of the others, If Mr. Delamere read what I did 1 am hia head. The man waa a greater scoundrel even than Whe | Afraid that you would have tf: the divorce court 4 thought. and she trembled to ihiak of how he wou! a) With Lord Averiey as co-reapo ve extorted money from Mra Delamere had he obtained You—you are lawkily for that lady Gefenw ds of a wommn far more her foolish epistles were rable than herwelf mien untitled, Mrs. Delamere was m very «reat Indy.) MO U8 to Ne to me,” waid Hagar, curtly. “I have ly whe wae « beutiful one and many years yourger | vu What you said to the man; that 1a enough. However. her master, Mr. Delamere was a woalt? ar HO call to judge-you. T caine T give you the tetters mmoner = 10 -weening pride. | ¥°4 hold them ; she @ pedigree and an overweentng pr n your hand: eo I go.” Tmmersed In politics and bite books. he permitted hia friv Wait! watt! You have been very good. Surely @ little Bye tnd Mouthtul wite to do am she pleased. provided she money aia not MAIne Aa eo at Ha crore naeartiegnoes| CLS ie Machcmamsery dartia es el ac apealins mice Diensed Dut that. She could be as extrayamant as she Had Lord Averiey's valet become pieneet aratity her comtty whime and Mirt—tf ame no those letters you would have bad to pay thou Tame of Dele! chemee—with fitt pat tf once’ the | “884% of pounds tor them.” & poanday woe mea ee nites ak ection with], “E know, 1 know,” whimpered the fooiiah little woman; scandal she knew well that her bust erek elthora “You have been good and kind: you have saved me. Tak & separa ‘ ‘ this you have saved me. Take 7 at A divorce, Yet, with all this knowledge, | this on" — atty, silly Mme, Delomere wae foolish qgourh to igtricue ‘No, 1 want no gifts from you,” sald Hagar, golng to the th Lord Averiey and to write him compromising letters. She never thought of danger. Averiey was a gentieman,| “Why not—why not?’ @ man of honor, and he had told her a dozen times that he Hagar looked back with « glance of 1 be « always burnt the letters she wrote him. It was, therefore, a | tem A Ske: Dothing ‘fogs |G ‘womad cee tae ne Matter of amazement to Mra. Delamere when a mypaysiike | Sueband.” she said trangulily Matar Gee enaee irl called (0 see her with « sealed envelope and mentioned | 947*—4n4 be rereful how jou. write letter to sear on that such envelope contained her letters to Averley. lover. He may have « valet a aeey pat aiso;” an n i Hagar left ie magnificent room with Mra, Déimere standing in t ae with rage and terror and humiliation. In those few Qpur temptuous words of the poor gypsy girl her ain had come home to-her. s Hagar had come to the Weat End to see the woman who “Letters: Letters! said Mra. Delamere. brushing her if low curls off her forehead. “What do you mean?” T mean that your letters to Lord Averiey are in thie en- yelope.”’ Teplied Hager, Jooking coldly at the datnty dof be- fore her. “I mean also that did your husband eee them he + ree Givers: Teer" had written the letters; now she walked back to her Lam- Airs. Delamere turned paje under her ronge, “Who are| [0% Pawnshop to interview the man to whom they hed you ah been sent. : asped. her bine ever dilating with terror. My name is ; «seme Se? Tam gypsy trl and I keep TA pawn-shop! How 414 you get my—my lattersT’ “The valet of Loni Averiey pawned a silver box in which they were concealed.” oxpiained Hagar. “He intended to wee them aa a means to extort money from you. However, f cbenined the letters betore he did, and I came tnetead of “To extort money also, I suppose?” For the life of her, Mra. Delamere could not help making the rematk. She know’ that he waa speaking falsely, that (ils sini with the grave, dark, poetic face wan not the kind of woman to biackmal) an erring sister, Still the guilty Mt- Ue creature saw that Hagar—this girl from a pawn-shop of the slums—was «ttting in Judgment upon her, and already, | mankind, in ber own mind, condemned her frivolous conduct. Proud! True to the hour, and haughty Mre. Delamere writhed at the look on the face | Carby'a Crease, of her yisttor, and terrified aa #he was at the abyas which | parior, = she enw opening at her feet, che could not help making a siighting remark to gall the woman who came to mve her D he @be said K on the impulse of the moment, and’ impulse had| “ot eorres Far Psi apa nog A cost her dearty many a time. But for the fact that Hagar| mentioned that you’ had moe ceca ey: “But be was a noble woman, it would have cost the frivolous bewuty | gay ? ag my emehet Teame. It te here, She was not a girl who did things by halves, and, bent upog thwarting in every way the scoundreliem of John Peters, she sent « message to his master, In reply Lord Avyeriey had informed her that he would call on her at the time and The time was § o'clock, the place the dingy parior of the pawn-shop, and here Hagar intended to inform Lord Averley of the way in whitch she had saved Mra. Delamere from the greed of the valet, Also she intended to make end repay the money lent on ft. In all her dabblings in romance Hagur never forgot that she waa @ woman of bual- hess, and was bound to get as much money aa possible for the hetr of the oid oiser who ed fed and sheltered her | When she had coine « fugitive to London. Hagar’s ethics would have been quite incomprehensible to the majority of Tard Averley made his appearance in and was admitted by Hagar to the back 1 have no doubt you wondered at recetving « letter trom you deariy now “No, Mra. Delagere,” reptied Hagar, keeping her temper- Pre sree ese on Miver box Of @ near sholf and placed ‘it for reolly. thin weak Mttle creature was not worth anger—"T | oo pie guia sales im. “It was pawned here two wedks ; uletly “T lent thirteen pounds: go. if you beg me that eum and the month's interest, you can have do not wish for money. I came to return you these letters, and I should advise you to destroy them.” ‘— ahall certainly do that!” aid the fashtonable ledy, - seizing the envelope held out to her; “but you must let me| Whhout « word Loni Averley counted out the thirtedn reward you.” ‘Pounds, but he had to asl her what the interest was, Hagar “Ae you would reward any one who returned you » lost| tol him, and in @ few moments the transaction n Jewel!” retorted the gypsy, with ourling lip. “No, thank|Uded Theo Averiey spol, you; what I have done for you, Mrs. Delamere, is above! “How did you know it was my caskett’ apy reward.” | "The man who pawned & old me 90, I " | Theat was strange.” een ang comsses stammered the other, wondering if “Not at all my lord. I made him ta, me Pe . + ‘Tm! You took clever,” said Averley, ooking ar think responded Hager, gravely, “I have eaved Pe “May I ask the Ge ae cried Mrs, Delamere, furiously. “How | pawned this?” “Certainly, He was your valet, John Peters,” i “Baved my honor!” Hew dere yout” dace, because I happen to Gave read ome Of Ghose from the foolish ones we wear, w+ ing openly on bis appearance. American game of Beating It {f he lingers too long in ane spot newspapers ask him searching questions wit! has any skeletons !n hts closet we pick the lock magician who borrows a stranger's high hat and finds a scandal The sauce-for-the-gander part of the proverb does a personal application. THE FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLMES im take back the casket | Entertaining Foreigners — The Reciprocity Game, HTS tn the town where nobody says “Tho axcopt the walter, and T he doesn't aay it for Jess than a qua Yet n our fellow-tawnapeople have 1 their first voyage to the other, or Cook's tour, side, the: tn home laden with st { Bure pean Incivility, They express pain that the pi should extort a charge almost Half ax large a8 b demand for the same distar Persona who ha five-cent ride to Coney Island on a ter t unconcealed bitterness to the brutal Continer a railway car, Many betray disgust at } foreigners who can't even understand plaid Rog F 4 1 currency | ‘ doran't match Ur tate y Of course, we have to make allowan f ' Whea the average American decides to take tr e sondem nt imself to six month hard lab " i behavior, all wonder, then, that the milk kind abbers within him and he lands in-the . bebly at home he ney * « 1 4 A. Com stock has contracted an ave 1 ( r to a fringe tramping through missy art § wants ee 7 — cumny | | es woor { . SOMETHING lto be out somewhere buying souvenir posta to find an l{ce-cream soda. A gentieman who ha tat 1. ing thirty feet sq and twenty stor ph of | architecture is prone to get bells on his disposition mpelled to spend two or three weeks contemplating the pyr € which haven't even got decent janitor or elevator » ce acon ar = He recalls that the sanitary far Ku; : he New York Morgue. But, on the other hand, how do we t ished guests from other climes who occasionally come to our town? we hand t triple concentrated extract of lemor and often? It’s an easy answer. If the tr appens to wear cloth fterent m around In crowds bim to th Our eemen introd ost treet ork Is - he ¢ parlor a. New Y THE FUNNY PART irtke os at Saving HAGAR CF TH: PAMNSHOP By Fergus Hume, j taken! Peters te an honest man! | “He te a scoundrel and a thief, Lord Ave for me he would have been a biackma: aS | “A. bleckmatier? “Were letters!” anid J rrie ow the x toward 90 You know the secret Yes; I found the secret recess a: lucky for you that I did so. Your {nate hs iend informed Peiare-tiae i : the et. He t tk Already removed th Aud whore are ¢ 1 gave them back to the married w who wrot * rote How #id you know who w 7 asked Lord | Averley, raining his eyebrow 1 read one of the letters and namie of the lady. He proposed ¢ ostensibly agreed went ‘to ae wave back t ! the cuaket irae etn Peters. He me to-mors thinks—the y means of th is the whole story Ita @ queer one ° certainly dinchar t thieving kn the dangerous to be “They're not » Sow, 4 are back to the x wrote the $ave thom That was aald Averley, satirical “May I ask the name of Hetoellyy ; you know! Mra. I ; Averley looked aghast for a moment t and ¢ Yo laugh quietly. “My dear young lady att beran | as he could bring mirth | have been better td have o: those letters? #04, a soo within bo: i onsulted me vefore giving back 0." sald Hagar, boldly, 1 sees ene r you might not beve ertainly 1 not have hari | eaid Aver urat of laughter, ee yhy not? “Because she never wrote them. a Durnt all tho letters I got from Mra, Delamecet, (84%, 2 her I had done #0. The let t naket stent, Ltd trice’ were from a different lady 1 ‘Bea- fo seo Mra. Delamere. She'l! never 1 have ® comedy!” and he began laughing age what Hagar war annoyed. Sho had acted tor doubt, but she had given the letters to the were eet Ne Shortiy the humor of tha ralstoke struck ner aoe Onte laughed in concert with Lord Averley tor, and she I'm sorry I wade a mistake,’ she weld. at "You couldn't help it." replied Ave Ase eres that scoundrel Peters who put Bae sn ane rao him tomorrow k oo lotiers of Meatrice back from Mra, Delame “And you'll leave that poor Uitte woman alone? salé agar, am she escorted him to the doo | ady, now that Mra. I ‘ read thor 1 leave me a severely, he'll never for. give me. Good night. Oh, me. what a comedy Lord Averiey went off,~ca and ail. Peters never leame back to get his share of tho blackmail, #o Hagar upposed he bad learned fro « master what aye had fone, As to Mrs, Delamere, ten wondered ahat sho said when she read those |e ned “Beatrice.” But only Lord Averley could have told her that; end Hoar never saw him again; nor did ehe ever eo Petors, the Finally, she never sef eyes a@ain on the biackmatler Cinque Cento Florentine casket, |ietters ofthe wrong women. } | END OF ADVENTURE NO. & wiiloh contained the love Adventure No. 10, ‘*f he Tenth Customer and the