The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1906, Page 13

ei —. <i Publted by the Press Pubtishing Company, No. @ to @ Park Row, New fori Mntered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Ciass Mali Matter VOLUME 47. Chieti A SEAT FOR EVERY CHILD. When Mayor McClellan took office January two years ag fo this paper: “There are three things the people of NE \ . York : want: First, to keep down t! and Commissioner McAdoo wi that; second, to provide a seat for ¢ r Crush at the Brooklyn Bridge.” The second of thesedesixes of the p with renewed force te 1 child schools lay when the 7 school sit school sit vide; Although } ave been s erected and ding education is an individual allowing tens of th jury. Every hist fastitutions. This mu he teaching of | may well wait until nultiply, The teaching of La ul avetwrg wat over? chit fe TET tt Amerikan language. The teaching of bot } up in ignorance is a public ¢ R's and enough of the d the nature of Americ ry of the United Stat bra, geometry and calculu w to add, subtract and xlern foréign languages Spel TER aaa wine the , Physiology, geology and many other valuable subjects may well wait until every child has learned | Hae histeses ard tt Higher e: age boy goes to jmpiitaliie of the Uniied SGatee on is beyond the means of most families. The aver- york at the age of fifteen or sixteen. This is because his parents cannot afford to support him longer. It is for this very kind| of child that the public schools should do the most. wy » ii If it were necessary in order to seat every child applying for admit- *tance to primary schools, the high schools and the city colléges could be turned into primary schools rather than that the children who need cdu- cation most should be deprived of what is their due. It is impossible to construct at once enough new school buildings t Accommodate the waiting children. But it is not impossible to adjust the public-school conditions so that the primary schools shall have first claim, So that if necessary there shall be morning and afternoon Primary schools and two sets of teachers in them. The Evening World gives Mayor McClellan credit for the fullest desire to provide ample school sittings. It should be his first ; ul dut on his return from his vacation abroad to make this desire a fully accon s of children for| n public schools do not fully ASE new JOHN e ¢ jars you \ ) \ \Stupvine /, / § Za 1 child’s right to an r to the community from | \\ RIANA NN THE MEN in THE NEWS—Straight Talks to Them—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. A Gentle Reminder to a Wall Street Magnate That Bing,” and Pols Bek ee CREE re ot “Mev INE Ree His Househo!d Annoyances Are Not the Only Ones. plished fact. THE MAN WHO IS INTERESTED. In the opening chapter of Mark Twain's “ Autobiography,” in the current number of the North American Review, there i larly fine sentence. This is it: If 1 should talk\to the stenographer two hours a day for 2 hund 1 should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the thing interested me in my lifetime. This declaration is as inspiring as a confession of faith. Indeed, it 1s suct-a confession. tt expresses faith in-men and inthe world a5 thing worthwhile. It is the embodiment in simple words of an o creed. It sets forth one very excellent reason why Mark Twain gone past the seventy years, is still going at an undiminished rate The man of a thousand interests does not travel in a_rut. He i not wearinrg himself out at one spot all the time. His th: usand inte make a harp of a thousand strings, and he goes along to the mard music of ideas daily fresh. m aes Society's ablest friend is the man who can be inter foe is he who loses himself in apathy This land of ours presents government of the People, for the peor by the people only in so far as the people interest themselves in havin it.so. That is why it happens often that ¢ ernment shi something for seif-seekers, conducted by th ple who toil on merely | king on. . There is a large distinction between the ma terest in seeing affairs move forward and his fell only by a selfish desire to the men of real interests run evefything, if they Sept. 18 to the State of 1908, How deep are t . of “the gang” that is i rules and ruins is It is b Otherwise px are no matter-of-goy serts of people may a books, from a a say 1 years, | which have piumist » havin ested. Its wor WS itself self-seek with the pe ush himself ahead primari the range of pointed daily work t Interest is free, that costs. In the Spring of perennially Mark Twain will w fer lines than those beyond counting. A a ee New. York hag/$100 available with which to Proceed on the $1 @ertaking of drawing y from the Catskills, It has money h the leakage and waste y h make the present Croton supply insufficient mot attend to the nearer and cheaper duty and let the dearer Over, “8 well it may? THE PEOPLE. and farther job go! .o* us do tay * ‘a ‘The Evening. Woridis Daily Magazine, Monday, September 10; 19M Recollections. The FIFTY GRE BY J. Campbell Cory. > f | EVENTS in, | Br Albert Paysc | No. 25.—coroarevs; and Hie 8noceneot Fae East by Sailing West. TP sine Preceding seriea, “Why the United Btates I story of ee y ¢ | A from fts discovery to modem Hence, in the At articles our own country’s a fer to thase of o| without a brief in @ land that was destined to desert *arly sMwlements je world has ever known, Y Ys Christopher Columbus, Genoese mariner, etude at an Charges of he resy and Inganity in ing the dea that Might in time b the earth w ope to arriv te WS Queen el f h @ feet of three irings of European ports, ¢ begeare, led by @ fanatic on a mad < educated worma y : is reached San Salvador Iss Sy ts of the new cor I £ | nnn, Brace, Was imprisoned and di ; / 4 | Discovery of the with | New World and beat : —_— { be Fate of Its Explorers. explored Nort nnn K | wh: informed by that w orthy m a Sir Wa. r Ral ho a few years 1 perce, ft is He named the newly sett n ing up New Bogla Balboa, in lens wilderness Soto explored ¢ an untimely gr u @ latter was muntere Hendrik Hudson, English a York tn 10%, landing uch for discover whole careers, not ¢. aking. America was {1 ATRL ROUTE. Badiieed: dine Vee York, England the New En @ English colon! of the other How the New | Territory Was Divided Among the Nations. nen! fittle colonies, under George W iB success for their rights, at | The new na still Under republic ond war hetv! rth and South bh tig Fe freedom and patriotism to th | New York By Irvin S. Cobb. Politics—And What Makes | | r is now almost tim the ucks for polit Mible to all Suppose the dumbwaiter, aden with your supplies halted obs inately mid- | way between carth and the tmmediate heaven of a goud dinner and. deaf t and pitiful entreaties, remained there till you ries and delicatessen t hings happened not h mn calendar rotation t you grew y 88 your downtown elevated express or the fife Ys &nd you lived on the seventh floor! A break in as I saw in r main t }tor Tillman, tauquas hide Bitte fet 22 By Heppner Blackman). the Effete East. =~ | for ly ng purpores, to x 1 out of among over the a show of ha He will feel ¢ than the br n the Metropotit THE FUNNY PAF Tre Sullivans are often beaten before >! during elections. assault upon a walter, ——_— -+e-—________ TWO-MINUTE TALKS WITH NEW ° By T. O. McGill. (i | T is not known] on telegram an to moat peopie | ike Detroit an: but the audi-| know well am a in the Broad-| only come to « way theatres during| “There ts one the early montha of| comes along at the eeason when | a theatre party the pleasant weath- hotel and the 1 feny glace sees “Phviadelphia ple fer every | wack home aft | wame aa the pe from the near | fon, er prevatle are made up of people trom| most everywhere but New York.” Bo says Lou Phelps. who ts Frank meaene Sehtle fellow « oniet of ort Ja toe scum Hi the management of the theatres aie rien: an runs, theatre every Sa “In the audience of one theatre ae back hone on | Saturday night we had on Lao yr coun! OES | A ne 200 seats that were engaged by men for the eleotin and women from Tome River to Clevé-| cougo we don't land. them except on n wort “It te no unusual thing for people in om R ad Ohio and even Chicago to come W!Lbng Isiand Broadway to see @ play and go right places, Putting back after the ahow, 2. war i “The fast traing on the big trunk ge BE, ‘whe Meee make this possible, and we book | giuddy weather THE TRIAL WAS SHORT, OLD Bitt was FOR QUICK AS WE COULD THE JURY WAS