The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1906, Page 8

{Sama The Evenin wf —here the widely 1 he took frainca = sxinnin: was all clu! ~.~Dedestrian can surpass. Published by the Press Publiching Company, No, 52 to @ Park Row, New York Entered at ‘the Post-Omice at New York as Second-Clars Ma!t Mat o caressiacasassnesoee N Bnlted The miles of horse-car lines operated by the most half as many as the miles of trolley tracks, 98.49 as agai Tb takes 2,533 horses to accommodation. 213.38. | padequate These horses and cars are ‘stil carried as among tangible as of the Metropolitan” Street Railway, Company, and are included in the ine yestment manuals as-part of the s¢- ACRCERE ap alization of $513,500,000 of the In- “merger is based. ; This capitalization accounts, for the continuance 6f the antiquated horse-car systenr of passenger trans-| portation... The bas! =e the traction ___merger ‘equipped these roads with the underground trolleys is that its capi : —tion-is-so-inflated-that-it-eannot_raise the money to make the change without Mr. Ryan and Mr. Belmont going into their own pockets for it.| The Interborough-Metropolitan 4 1-2 per cent bonds are selling at} 82, or one-fifth less than par. The preferred stock fs selling at 76 oe) {he common stock_at4Z.,..To raise the actual cash required for the re: construction and re-equipment of the horse-car lines iid require | the issue of additional securities and would depress the prices of the out- standing stock and bonds. : That is one of the penalties which any community must pay for __permitting the inflated capitalization of a public utility. By allowing the issue of stock and bonds, based not on-actual investment but on possible | earning power, the future is mortgaged and the equipment and operating expenses must be scamped. ia Old New York is less developed than Manhattan Heights and sec- tions of the Bronx which have been built up the tast few years. “Tite “whole lower west skle retains for the greater part ifs venerable single dwelling-houses, and its methods of transportation are so defective t aman can go from the-City Halt-to-the-Grand Central Station or to Seventy-second street in less time than to Abingdon Square. The lower east side has no transportation facilities to speak of. Thi ~ Bowery has an underground trotiey service, but east of the Bowery the old. style horse-cars jog along, growing dirtier and more foul:smelling every year. That is one.of the reasons for the cutting off of this section cd the city from the rest of Manhattan Island. It is easier to go to Browns- vine from the east-side- than: to Chelsea Square. The Belt Line, which should give a speedy service between ail the ferries and-piers, nuns an occasional horse-car ata speed which a good Lines like the Chambers and Fulton street, and, North 7 Ot as reason why has which ‘Should give speedy communication between_the East rivers, are less comfortable than furniture vans, and often. ‘There are several official bodies which could correct this and compel “the proper operation of these lines or the forfeiture of their franchises, The Rapid Transit Commission and the State Railway:Commissio: “have supervisory and-directory powers. The Board of Estimate —assist_in_bringing about an adequate servi 2 terborough. - Metfopolitan ‘Traction jor} World’s Daily Magazin Nov 6; Saturday; , Domestic Haps and Mishaps. ooo THAT TORKEY DOVE, 1 aUVESS, > T (tT BaAcK NWT AND 5 ov ore, A: nent to mf iy RST PRIZE, $3, Mwarded to: r the 3 apply} iN THE THE GAS TURNED) IT WILL WEE HOT TILL. THE GUESTS ARKIVE n who glued tng to-ttto-says-enoagh-to-buy his wite enon eet: VLL JUST By Quincy Scott.’ | 17 You FOLKS Wilh UST EXCUSE ME mK Rew minute DS, RUN! QUICK; SOMEBODY » AND T N AN ALAI N. Bhim 33 each week na, which need not bo accompanied by drawings, for Domestics Haps and Mishaps" comic sortca. THE COMICS EDITOR," Evening World, P. 0, Box 15H, New York week's prizes have been awarded as follows: the suggestions must he PTAC TR. No: 2 Lincoln place, Brooklyn, . of $1 ench awarded to; t, of No wt One Hundred’ and Nineteenth atrest, ish self to he was t | | | GUSTAV OLNHOFF, No, 1210 Washington aven| cggs in an inoubator for twenty-one days and forgetting to start the incubator machinery; = Soe s J, 8. MarDOUGALL, Box 6%, Bridgeport, Conn., fof the tngurance soticttoy who mistoak bis daughter's lover for a man he had been after to write an insur ‘ance policy; MISS HATTIE A. LOWDEN, Ignbrook, L. L, for catching fier sister 5 paper; WILLIAM H, CARRICK, No, %4 Hatfield avenue, Port Richmond, & 1, for turning the {ce-box into a coal bin tn winter. Duties of the Engaged Girland Man @ ~@ B N after years mon and women, especially women, are apt to look back, even from a happy marriage, to the period of the courtship as being the most Ddilssful and care free of thelr lives, tho world ts rpdiant with In-the f tentions, nt in the earl er own devotion in nlacrlages must of necessity bring responsi! and sorlous duties; the most Joyous note poltind ttt dark relative minor which sax be struck at | any time by the hand of croel fate, Moreover, it 1s a well- known fact thet antictpation ts, in many cases, more de- ehtful than {te utmost realization can be. Indeed, nearcely enough, for the beloved one whom nosen from all other women to be his future wite, neless, nomettmos, after he has become accustomed to the t sho whom he loves ‘6 his own, his ohly, be ts liable to forget the the charming courtesies which sere ¢ days of courtship, nich a woman takes more genuine satisfaction than to et doing Uttle mervices for her, each one eloqu It la usually @ time when for fond lovers all seen through rose-colored glasses the dew of love and youth. ‘Dae transports of loye a man cannot do too much, has ‘Never source of mind y Helen Oldfield into insignificance. Their desire 4s to be in each other’a company, lost in the of oné another's eyes. Such complete absorpilon may de delightful, but it ‘3 not well bred, and gentle cdurtesy, rather than openly displayed affection, ts | the correct thing In con Yy, whether for aManced or married people Abdoye all the woman uld be cargfu) nevel to parade her power over her lover. he is mistress of the sicuation during the engagement, In most caxes, she should use her power graciously and gently. She may receive the full am o? homage due her, yet 1 no wey humiliate her jover: It fs en old saying that “Men are April when they woo, Decenber when they we: ja not to be Gented that there are some who lure thelr sweethearts Into a state of contented seourity before marriage, with the full Intention to cease thelr, submission and have everything thelr own way when tho nuptial knot fs tted. When thid {s done deliberately, the man ‘a mean. 5 : Nothing 1s more Ukely to causa an unhappy marriage than for a woman to sbuee the power over man which his love for ber gives her: to trade on that Jove. so to peak. Tiare are-many men who take thelr first risk of body or soul for the sake of a woman. Moreover, a man will often do for his aweetheart what le will not do for a wite; wherefore it beliGOVEs the woman to be caretul how she usos her influence over her lover. The min would be weak in apirit who did not resent the arbitrary use of such power for selffih ends; something more than hu {f ho did not vow to himself to repay tt with Interest when able to do so. pleration for er—coméort—and oth return. Tt {s the min who knows how to 1oo ff trifles which show SINT donn thoughtlessly, but all the same many girls make their lovers epend more -ltis evident that only -compulsi transportation equal in facilities to that of any population. “That: compulsion should te out-some.of the water from the ___ Letters from the People, A SRT re toot ow much {m- ‘which most 7m jan Is to «iow tis fanoes that the love-wesen n be proved by actions more eléquent than words, Inrt to demonatrate his devotion in all that pened with discretion. In ttye midst of their a —wrtete ion —iof at money on them phan they can afford. They are never aatisfed unless their lovers | | the atiding m | her. “New York Thro’ Funny Glas ber 24, Love AFaIrs 2 Fo OLCOL, by Rtvola Greeley—Simtl) No. 4.—Dante’s Platonio Love for Beatrice, ) chrontele @ soldfer’s love affairs means to 1 I facts. To tall the love story of a poet means tos a ro of fancies. Soldiers love and carry an. Hoels love and and ofte: love, but very often they p regret 1t when they do, ¢ one Woman and marry an case With Dante Allghtert, who tell tr rl when he waa nine years old, er Goath, and then inmired hes’ x ono enpecially for he: 2 poem, “Tl Paradiac.” | Dante saw. Beatrtos only once of 1 tls Ife, His love for her essentially platen / ne married another ne de Hardt—and 5 never nware of the devotion sha {nsbired tn ote c; World's “greatest poets, = = In the: Vita Unovn, ty tol the story of Da ception-{n 2274, when He and Heat poeg .euth In The Story of His $1! Grand. Passion. je -patd that be F at tw call her, qed ante? day . Kirdied and adorned in oment I saw that was of a a good deal for Some time later Dante records stient wh blessed one’ ti! teciared: hope that [shall yot #v hat hath not 6 more than renlized tain hope to thovhone BEES pn Sus el His Wasa Good } } Avorage Marriage. $ teawes a poot 2 » Dant Te becaine tnvol ually da are his exile, 1 Dut wherever hi | 4S teechest thoughts qw- centuries, the His gre sees her, as he #y ne affatr platon{o love/That was love dépends, of course, on A that ft ow Lov Sti 5 _By Irvin S. Cobb. Merely as an Evidence of Our Complete Sanity. Mamhiattan “tis the bonat or tie maiee; And x0 rm De Daakion to sro borom of avery to be trusted » of the Winds, WE z Kets for hia five mothballs tn his event noke from the blastn, Base ereund ata scheoriottion a speaks hia pi z ound for the profedntonal “of -ctgers-that-the> aiwe: fore the prize bull of the bellow ? Of course, the dinnet dinner speakers. ib are--aftn auent dinner gives these drite to lighten their holds of the moulating eii-the sumer and fe intervals they would perish miserably uttered conversation and wh ted bromides, i. The scene rarcly varies. In the centre of the table ts a fl extn: looks an if {t mieht be playin x for tt ie ec neral okea and hefora each“s iar-shoutder- nohte te ern sown he man himself {x often to blame, lly than he really ts. But the fa: of courtship as mu: wer to the oft put question, “Why 4 foyer should always give his aweetheart of his best, but he will show bet 2 © not to overload her with presents. He had fur better reserve such at- tentions for thetnmarried life, when such things are apt to be for#ottan, Neither | will any thoughtful and right minded girl accept expenstve presents from her rt of beven 1 New York's Sleep Robber: To the Editor of The Bye: Ma halt 2 oY ah, Awe oiling 0,65) 4, Jahn a tha-las: Brookly: City, being game t he poun sthe- bre: fans. lr ~ er 271. Voorhe rthe trlob son Int Robinaos ‘ehh pea EE Faces ar Fire, gear-olds i r Pwindtall -fitar, 110 Dudia, 1) 910; Buad *Hitoho Entry: Becond Ad onal, AE Boy, the Slanking Dotties of the mitic- in and thanke-[ ihe result isi The fourmil Fe TOT 4 Aa — hh ce — ve — rate 4074 $25 — Foes meceasary and they ere awful on those | &nd the other man will walk 4,041 5-15 “Wie need sleep to brace them up for | feet the @ay’s work, The whistling delivery The Svectest Language. ‘Te Os ihditor ef The Dwening World: HG. asks which ts the most musical } melodious man, thy phouts of jenttor and baker, the unfiecked equawia of baby in the ‘Hext fat the winging of the sarty-rise- @n he takes his bath, AM theso ere un- | Hfcessury, and they are a cruel form oF | y, torture to those who need sleep. Let the Health Board wake up and do something. SCHLAF N.C, VOLE. Vublio Interent, spoken languags. ‘To thie —ewestest, — mi my | fu my eats a ‘To the KAitor of The Bening World: , | CAvtlvating mualc that Why it tw-that { somebody invents | Volco comes from Spar some really useful or great thing he or | America you do not i ar auoh m notice, while any-| Rese of tone. One must jour he theory of n hus too n half-time m: Ited fidelity or in some tn n be. ta! Sha} ray about from one NEEDS CULATS a helishers L, ELSHEMUS, Edian had r market his w Suw Sword in Sky, i , . | To the Falter of The Brentr : At AU tthe: publa wits A Jorsoy reader says } in the terest as Goes the C streak that looked Mko « i looked ike 9 to al) this ne writor saw the very The, Walking Iropt plienomenon some months ago at Mo the Editor of The Evening World: N, J, and asked a num- e if they had seen it; but 3’ one who had R. BH. DUD: A correspondent many feet will each starting at the ame t ingu "How ends of the Brook West Orange, > they meet, one w Lhe anging Feat, sniles on : halt miles ample: bridge to be At ron to get change wigualy, tf tt anda} for ap ish money). Hae —~ialt mites i 4 moet | wanted as ehtllingn ay xtxpencea, tn “one \how » were halt | with one sixpence over, How did he of seven. and a h gwtit? My xx » 18 abil would meet in Ustxpence This equals 20 en, It therefore only romainy to fad |1 pound or FRRD VENTER, | etely absorbed tr each other that all else td ta _ratha: _stela_do_not think tha: re Tat it exists nore can seny—Chwage Iribine, LM: GOING FORA WALK, DEAR, COOPED UP in: THE OFFICE. ALL wee You know? _ F. Flinn SOMETHING TELLS ME TO GO-TO THAT Monkey Housel! IGT hs we CARUGO ARRESTED! \WELb, WHATS You THINK. OF THAT D ho launchd the Petty __Or Jf m medical society fa responal sponds to\the truly delightful toast, * with a Hammer? uf smons.—Ha has x gremt-train oft and subject to derailment, However, he maaron to nm five minutds allotted to him, So do many of Along about 2 o'clock to-morrow morning tes with a fnw strictly original romaris, « clasps banda with everybody and sings ‘words: oF not: &—40rt-¢f- BR se the most of the § hey take-n-nar] nite Ad awee the. nd then everybody astends Auld Laing Syne’ whether -they f "And that's what the SaR a, his av | HE FUNNY PART: ‘Brave volunteor ts alrays willing to give up ce You Might. Give Me a Refere By Walter ,A. Sinclair, HUSBAND fn a parlor sat; he waa a doleful man, rs A His lttle wifa was leaving on the Mrs, Parsons pian, “My term expires, love, to-day,” his wif sald, with m cough. “For good behavior I recelye at loast this six months off 7 The Busband tied the abron’ on and, grasped tho pald-head broom He gazed around the parlor—'twa) he merry n4 a tomb, : He tried to act Nght-hearted, but it couldn't work that And to Mn time-expired wife these words he then did sayt “You might gtve me a reference. before you teave mo, Pearty Tt might come handy chen I try to stgn a second gtr, The Hime of parting was agreed, that fact I've altcaye knotong But PU admét I'm not prepared to run the ranch alon& Oh, can't you pause a moment, only tong enough to wortte I never beat or aoolded and I came home ev'ry might? Ths marriage-trial 4 all tha rage, and ao J tolll not ory. You might give mo a stingy Uttio reference, Good-dylt The years rolled by. That wife wan wed some dozen times‘or She lost her Jooks and Nigger, or she'd made an even score, She finally got old, became quite active in the church, And Hubby Number Twelve ‘Just up and left her in the dure She sat up in an attlo thinking sadly of her past; She had enough certificates to win a’ prize at Inst. But still she was down-hearted, and she drooped her snowy 4 Yor as she sat she thought about the words THAT hushand "You might give me a refetnce,” to,