The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1906, Page 12

Daily Magazine, Mo nday,; October 8; 1906: Nervous—That’s All. The Evening World's pestis? By J. Campbell Cory. Publishes dy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to & Park Row, New Tors _ Entered at the Port-Oftice at New York an Second-Class Man Matter. VOLUME 3 VOLUME 47, .....-ee--se oe ws NO 16,484, AUTOMOBILES. | “Wind resistance is the practical | it fo the speéd which any me- nical device can attain. Since —threswind + ressure-can-be-somewhat . avoided by cénical construction, it _is-mechanically- easy-to exceed in an! automobile the speed of a. railroad | train. | - “Fhe annual-races for the Vander- pilt Cup have the strongest: tend-} ency to encourage the striving for speed at the expense of every other B considgration. If engines of forty- horsé power can cause the driving. wheels to revyolye a thousand times to the minute and prope! the automobile-more-than-a-mile-a-minute, it} t< merely a mutter of more and larger cylinders to cause the driving Wheels to revolve twice as quickly and the automobile to proceed with) twice the speed a | Were this matter of speed and power the only factor to be con-| sidered, an automobile could be built which would cause the driving; wheels to-revolve ten thousand times a minute, and if the ratio of speed | to power continued it would attain a velocity of ten miles a minute and} cqoss the continent in five houts. San Francisco would be.within lunch-| ing distance of New York. : : This is impossible on account of the pressure of the alr. A man in| walking does not feel the air’s resistance until he encounters on a stormy | day the violent breezes of the Flatiron Building or some confined space as on Nassau street. The strongest winds which Nature blows at the surface of the earth on Manhattan ‘sland rarely exceed eighty miles an __The automobile which won the Vanderbilt Cup had to face a_wind —sterm-—more—viclent than_any_pedestrian_encounters. When-the speed of -any-object-moving in -the open-air is increased beyond that of the prevailing favoring breeze Ue eeiattaen wind “siorm, and When the speed exceeds a milé a minute then the moving object has to resist the violence of a hurricane. The hurricanes which cause such devastation in their path are little more violent than the local effect\ oF the wind resistance at such a speed -as-two-miles to the minute. = : ——-Fhe-power-of this.wind-pressure-Is known-to-all- trotting -horse-men, and appears in the difference between the records of trotting horses pre- ceded by running horses with wind shields, and the best trotting horse record fs less than third the speed of the automobile record. - * The real permanent public interest in automobiles will not be in the} speed they can reach, but in the valuable services they can perform. The field for the automobile as a racing machine is limited. The) sport is too costly and too dangerous to be participated in by many. | | '™4 SO DOQCED NERVOUS eed Yy OH WILLIE HOW CouLD THE MEN IN THE NEW S —Straight To the Young Millionaire Picnic Impresario ; Who Supplies the Air and Landscape for Hs Guests. u} Canadian automat developed telias-in-the The good roads movement is spreading throughout the United States. The New England States and New Jersey have now : iceable-road systems. ___ New_York will have a complete system_« State roads when the present plans are carried out. i | “. It will then be possible for the products of the farm and of the fac- tory to be transported with one loading and one unloading ‘within fadius of at least 100 miles. At slow speed, less than ten miles an hour, fie cost of automobile traction for fuel does not exceed one cent a tot Inite, The cost -for-repairs-is-higher-than-this through the expensiveness | tn people. ing resign eo hast A= tow f being poor, | on the advantage oF ; onginatty, Mr Ro on our ex the world. | object 0 A great your pub As such, ny of © > appearance as a comm: Ato charge nn extra price of admission to If you can pply the lemons to/ be familiar with the growth and non of the season {s the excur- bf_the rubbér.tires, but in freight transportation over good roads rubb Hires wile becnacessary. : ao [Two-Minute Talks Don't Let The great future field for the automobile is in providing competitive with New Yorkers. | Transportation. There can be no monopoly of it, because it requires n tar tracks. The economic changes which it will make possible will be a i ] general public benefit: : — (ECT MAF WOR LIME = $ < == sarees © Srzes Bret @ Fans Coke Stes —f Few eer ae + = _ Letters from the People ia erential like the] Vanderbilt’ Gor -crone sh }T 155 DONE Ai theretore t to use the best, as To the Editor af The Ey ape ——An__Amerloan__citize tona in America. wink Chine, —and—there havo —a SGHYis matenianione horn to then. Ix the son an Americar Crowley Js one of New Yorkers} citizen or a Chinesd subje x Gow ———one-Horse Post THATS GULLY HEINIE! Money weuse ower mich sae ost FoR TUM manigor and most «popular } ecting plac ars ag since To the“ New York's ge saddest exoure for a post offic) exists. 11 is primeval all r can't get a forelgn money inside of twenty minutes, 1 get It you've got to wal quarter of a mile to post 9 Why notte a} money order room? JE The Seme Seach 1 ie Huntred az atat RORSAN WILL Give You"s.o00 For it ANS e& ITS MARVEL OU the A, ORDWAY — al cia Seeret of Perpetual Youth, und av! OELIC10U3?, L es for their in| urs down In the! started for tho | k Friday ¥ taliiing wl who same 1 know ® man wame seat in the May tral every day. If aw . eet there: and up + wants I taken he walt fo fe time t rst of the special trana} ' art «rtd We heart from several thou tis ya and s who were talk- 1 to wee the ‘death- | | }i of all sorts of | nicked up aa| we felt like @ inix- | Rents and Taxation, rd Ground of The Evening: W editorial (you., #9 t plice! a ‘garage? and pertlen sc : ection night 4 ta Tein ! ‘ r wel @ot every ’ a bea 1 Px closed. and t woat expe t out of the Jot ‘ ust worked thelr val it ed t ate suid Tako Ms c ws that were eis nor 7 | hil f 1 90 although on Jt is no: wh nd ana Iba! ¢ read tleker SOW wave that they'd have a | chen the gut ag lon garth, and alll next, 1 wonder, and when The FIFTY GREATEST }Ne. 37—The Fall of the Bastile and the Dawn of the French EY. | Mttle knowledge of poverty and of the needs of a nation that she could not ‘| Monarch’s" vices and extravagances with none ot his genlus. _norant of hia wheresbouts, the prisoner would Inger o -Smith., an understand- | | EVENTS in HISTORY _ By Albert Payson Terhune Revolution. OUR MAJESTY, the peaple are starving for lack of bread!” “Then,” replied Queen Marie Antoinette of France, in utter surprise, “why don't they eat cake?’ The frivolous Queen did not ask this question as a jok | e. Sho had so understand how unappeased hunger can exist. This one speech of het sizes up bettér than could a whole volumé the grievances that led to that, j red horror, the French Reyolution. Those high in authority neither knew | nor cared how the great mass of the people existed. Louis XIV., after {mpoveriahing France by his extravagances, had been | succeeded by his great grandson, Louls XY. Tho latter had all the “Grand | Ho left France almost bankrupt. The clergy and the nobles were exempt by law | from taxation: Thus the fearful burdet of taxes fell on the tradespeople and \‘pensants., To make matters worse, the taxes were “farmed out," and the jcollectors wrung: the-helplees poor sttll further-to-obtain graft’ for them= {selves out of tho trinsactlon, So while the court revellod {n unheard-of- i luxury and magnificence. the plain people who pald for it all were lett | to starve. : 8. Moreover, the aristocracy, teking their cue from the King, oppressed and | iM-treated thetr luckless tenants, grinding them to the dust; stealing their 4 faifest daughters, often beating thelr sons to death for some fancied lack ot |respect, and oven posting sick-old men at night in the malarial marshes to | quiet the croaking of the frogs so that the noble lords of the estates might sleep undisturbed. Other and unspeakable outrages were perpetrated by | the nobles against their defenseless peasants and tradesfolk. Undeserved life imprisonment, torture and death were common occurrences. ‘And for centuries the people of France had submitted; so long, in fact, | that ers ha 4 to regard {t as possible that the downtrodden [eee nee rca slaves could ever revolt. But, during all these centuries the seeds of revolution were germinating—seeds which were one day to burst into a bloody harvest of retribution that should set the whole @ world aghast. Among the vilest abuses of © the era-was the Bastile. This huge forte State prison and the citadel of Paris. When @ monr larch, a nobleman or a man of powcr bad An encmy he could not legally ats- pose of, he procured (If he had svificient Infioncey a pecrat warrant enown- as a“iettre de cachet," and had his foe or vietim selzed and conveyed to the Bastile. There, with trial, wichout hope of rescue, with bis friends ig-. ften for a lifetime. power, and as-euch- Tyranny That Led to the Revolution, oO. The Bastile was the visible symbol-and sign Of despotic the people of France hated {t even as they feared {t. Louis XY. bad been wise, in lis way. He had calculated to a nicety wouid continue to endure such treatment, the number of years the peop! “It will last out my time,’ sald he, “Mut Tplty my grandso’ ‘And the painted, bedizened Duchesse de Pompadour at his side croaked the grue- somely eplgrammatie prophecy: Aid-now Toculs owas dead aid hie grandson, Louis VL retemad tn stead, This sixteenth Louls was an amiable, stupid, weak-willed fellow. married toan Austrian, Archduchess, Marie Antoinette, whore mother match an d cowched the girl-Qneen how to promote a's influ at th euch court. Marie Antoinette was friyolous, willed, fond of poltiteat intrigue and possessed of a hearty contempt }for-her gentle; thick-headed husband. On only one. point ‘of government did ithe two agree: Both were firm bellevers In the “divine right of kings. | And that -beltef was destined to cost them their lives, which was the rather high price that Charles J, had! patd for holding the same tdea, . Louls XVI. had begun his refgn with some vague theories as to the rights of the people. Bat Mario Antofnette and her party at court had acon | driven such notions from his stupld head. The finances of the country were lin a deplorable condition, By a rare stroke of good luck Lous recured the services of Necker as Minister of Finance. But Just as Necker was stralght- ning things out and starting an cra of rotrenchment, Marte Antoinet'e, who could not see any use {n saying money or In cutting down expenses, adj him removed. le wns eucceeded by Calonne, who curried royal favor throwlng-money-about- ines reckless fashion-and-ended by wrecking the: Treasury. .As usual, the burden came on the people. ‘They grew to loathe Mark ntolnetie-ane i herfor thelr suffering. eS Thé American Revolution had met with warm support from France, but plunged that country into disastrous war with England and, moreoyer, flred the people witt’ republican fdeas. If America hed cut free from the bondage of r despotism wh. hould not France? "The people began to awake—and to think. Vamine was rifv throughout the rural dis- ‘Throne of countrytolk flocked into oe Varis. Riots and other disturbances sprang p. A National’Guard was formed by the mnnictpality and Lafayette was placed at its head. For {ts banner he chose White, the royal color of France, potween. Red and the colors of Paris. This was the origin of the Revo- nto} y and of the present French flag. ‘The people w ast arc ad. They gtd not yet dare to turn against royalty ftself, but they assailed {ts most hated symbol—the Bastile. On Jul; 14, 1788, a mob marched on this fortress, calling on the Governor, De- y, to surrender. Delaunay refused. Then the crowd attacked. D. a stanch, loyal old soldier, fought them off for hours, till some af the Guard came up, with several picces of artiVery, and forced him to yield. The mob (soldiers, peasants and townsfolk alike) rushed {nto the Basttle, oners {some of whom were insane or dazed from long ‘oon= eties fe wl ut wy, anil piseeat ed to tear down the fortress. On tho | wall of one tell they found thix prophecy, scrawled pee ‘O. the exposed magtetant = Senne OeN ry eller by, “Five Basttie-shatt-be-destroyed-and-the people shall dam males ; sis au He a prophecy wos fulfilled hy Penen peat a streaked revolutionists, who accompanied their wil wild. songs of vengeance. Bs eter tla td The, French Revolution had dawned, THE CONVERSATIONS OF _ MRS. FUZZAN: FEATHERS le By Irvin $.-Cobb.— : “VI {his | Hew id planned the (es ee France Took; tesson— $ from America. Fis fin: , | Y DEAR.” sald Mrs, Fuzzan Feathers to her hue- — pandas she sat-down—where-she-could wee her= self in the mantel mirror, and began feeling “under the arm of her chair for a Wad of chewing gum she'd left re_the day batore, "my dearsI have decided to take mterest in politics hereafter." ‘ chead.” yaurmred Mr> Feathers trutally, “poll < is getting xo {t can stand almost Wpything. Yee! weii—oy lls Wife) 1h US absorbed t0-notlee— sarcasm, “at the meoting of the bridge whiat.club to- Mrs..Crowen Henn made quite a little speech,” ‘1 bet she did.” said Mr, Feathers, “one little one and big 0: a aid sh4 thought we all ought to go tn’ for women's Sou ought to seo her husband," commented Mr. Feath- e fn ocighta”” at he needa ie a few noche Ss = eB he etyUac in England,” went on Mrs, Fuzgan Feathers, “all the peeresses | ana duchereex’put on thelr most becoming gowns and go to the huatings—h Heeeee the name the English have for thelr conventions—go to the ings, and campaign for their husbands, and It ts just lovely. Oh, yeat and sald that sometimes they Kina the voters, y do what?? asked Mr, Feathers | "T sald they Kiss the Wel oth ns yar paper at "CODS sald Mr. Feathers, as ho opened 5 tae Wall street oporling: here. od ts Wie, “LL Women do take Up Sule About us. Well never get into dread: fey dues, and rairoad Ownership of Vuestiuna (nut nobody, Unuerstanda,”” of tue Lad) 1» indeed a hardy race, und pewan reads anda. jomely Journal Feathers, “wits ACUl mAss-n tr die “an cheer oursélves nud and then go. to, some oid WiNoon: and drink chee, and dil pickies, Ynd come home fue around in the } horrings snd 9) sh, much presi. that's running 1 unink |e ta, For w.ta such strate! the life of me ht whiskers on to have whiskers?” inquired Mr, Feathers, bitterty. rear ant him to Marcel ‘em 7" iT lich Mr. Hearst better,” went on bis wife. “He wears much lovel: gh jyikhd such dreams of Use and such grand acarfpins, and he has @ NE woulful eyes. I'm sure he'd make a xplendid Mayor, or whatever it ts. Bu} | bis soutien Henn dsn't for him. She gays her husband considers him thé dangerous’ man Th, puvite HDo 1 what, Clara Mr “Whom do you consider the most “Joe Gans,’ id voto for al ‘eathors, testily, dangerous man in public lite?"