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i : i s a i > ee vs re oseanmantonten te poeta spitemn-nm nny - - eres Sat as : i) a esscacnytne porvon eS . \ v The Evening World's Daily Magazine, ‘Thursday, December 18, 1906. : ‘The Moths and the Flame. . Love *Afrairs oo : By J- Campbell Cory. CO OF es Grec/, 4) | by Kirola Greeley—Sintth.— Mozart and Constance Weber. “Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No. 62 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Ofice at Now York as Socond-Clasa Mail Matter. VOL MEA ipciececcecessceasctecesepeece esoace rreses tt Os 10,000. THE TRACTION TRINITY. Every existing transp n line in New-York is overcrowded now. (hat the overcrowding co! es all day instead of only during the | Morning and evening rush hours is due to the greed of the traction * of the greatness of his gentus2* sala, ever proposed to, “I saw in him 7 noth! = i ne was Al lus young Woman, who trinity, Belmont, Ryan and f But the rush-hour crowding cannot Aameicetnen ett d who en- ‘lieved without comprehensively adding New York’s transi couraged the entions untfl , Dé relived without comprehensively adding to New York's t calaioat ieee SoReal facilities. | spurned bis faed tor con- he eles 0 er he Subway solation to he young lady pele He - 7; else ( “i i had: a ansp! Mozart all com was opened. way has already re mated capacity, PaUnleatlon an adhe aver tian the urban traffic, declaratic « {ntentlons. The Penns} McAdoo tun Teele in k - agreed to th he cove- not relieve it. nanted the rest of | ad not married her, i oom than the | go on,.the surface of the which are already mongpo- “They cannot be built in the | alr because there are no more ayail- | loverts arms, “Dear Mozart?’ she sald, “I need no wrt Neve your word Her fasth was: J. m yous, 1 bee stifled. In 1782, notwi!thata psoition of Mozart's ey A Pea Py ne } father, the young couple wero m ¢ and able. elevated routes, Underground | s eat Heicaa cag aneetcanay they must go. te § y ” their emotion . was moved to tears, ey ; a | His Eamily Opposed ; He The necessity and ‘the. manner of p ‘athe marringo, ictoualy begun, The necessity and th nocd § the Marriige. proved a very happy ons nce way neither théir construction being beyond argument, there remain only the details of the plan. Here the community divides., Four million people want better : ~ service and lower fares, a compre- hensive compet s that avill-enable rapid transpo tation from any part of any borough to any-part of any other borough | for a singie fare and that fare three cents, The hostile faction to the mass | of the community is made of the traction trinity; their lawyers, brokers and other satellites, both political and personal, who want profits. | Exorbitant profits and public comfort are incompatible. Crowded | cars'and slow trains keep theoperating expenses ongthe elevated and the! present Subway down to two cents. Five-cent fares pay 450 per cent. | profit on the operating cost and make pissible the enormously inflated stock and bond issues. : Naturally, what the trattion trinity wants are feeders, not competi- What the people want are better service and lower fares, not in- » ered ed overcrowding at five-cent fares with an additional fare as soon as the East River is crossed, | The routes which the Rapid Transit Commission and the Board of ne have voted to advertise give the traction trinity ‘what it wants = ahd do not provide for what the people-want— ard = mission's are cae SE at seri poe He a ii trea “ » Predicts thi ill be no competitive bid- i “ding for; these routes. In-this case the present plan will fal! diy ough 3 except what feeders the traction trinity wants, and these it expects to get of its own terms, which assuredly will not include a betier service or a three-cent fare. 2 & brilliant nor bea made Mozart ood wwife, She never allowed any one to filnt that he Was not tho hest’ of husbands, dismissing all storfes of his escapsdes that Were brought to her as “chambermaid’s tattle’ | not_marry to support ive system-et nanage Constance’s nature were brought waa asleep when ced tt on her bed “row you good d that nothing has Be careful not to take cold, not to stoop, not to reach for with the servant. Take he threnhold in passing Keep all the domestte ; and the finest qualities put by the necessity of nural he left hen he alwayn wrote a | for her to read when sho wakeried. Hete t morning, my dear little wife. I ® @ Usturded y ¥ } not to rise | Eetterito anything, not to be | Invalid Wife. care, also, not to fall upon RR ee from one room to at troubles till I come, w h will be soon.” Mozart was a model husband when he was with Dis wife. But sometines | when away trom her he fell into disstpated habits wrote this } r to his dark: b a wit I shall be delighted to Irn to you What an enoyable Iife ove will lead! I wij} work, and work #0 hard that I may never again get into such a distressing position." But a few. ing this letter Mozart died of typhus fever. Hts wife, in her Aespair, tried to contract the disease by sleeping in the bed the corpse had beex taken from, but shb failed tn her suicidal efforts and survived her famous hus~ band In great poverty for many years. 2 | The Girl at the Candy Counter. By Margaret Rohe. 447 SSC strong for Mrs, Stuyvesant Fish, and I want the I fact known,” sald The Girl at the Candy Counter, “If she ever comes tn hero whe can have a double allowance of for the price of a aingle.” ‘Mrs, Fish will be glad to hear of your Indorsemem,” sald the Regular Etghty-Cents-«-Pound Customer, ‘Juas how has she cnanaged » please your’ “She got back from abroad the other day,” said The Girl at the Candy Counter, ‘and she took ocoaston to say! she didn’t bring any excess baggage in the way of Parte. frocks; sald the American brand wns good enough for hen | Now that Mrs, Fish has come out with this sort of talk, | ft's.bonbons to peanut britde nine-tenths of the fashionable. # 7 | % Y v om A i x a f i ladies will follow her lead. I don’t know what hae hela : = HE JA AMI if dell = them back long, ft 1s. Certainty any woman whol! Seen I RR | LY By Roy L. McCardelt (URIS) wien tak x fne ae ns, Comet ay come a Kia pi girl tells me that a gentleman called twice to; Huh!" snorted Mr, Jar; ‘4f you walt till any relation who finds a gold wayo knows that American women are as far ahead of | This would be a failure to meet a public necessity’ Provision should be begun at once for this. The Rapid Transit Commission should lay out one comprehehsive interborough route, from the Battery to the extreme limits of the Bronx, with long arms reaching across the new _ bridges, through Brooklyn to Coney Island, and through Long Island City to the Ilmits of Queens County. The road should go as far as'the jurisdiction of New York, and it should have one three-cent fare from any point on its routes to any other point. This would be a-real relief tiv outrageous conditions. Nothing else would, feo us yesterday while I was out shopping.’’ sald| mine cumes around. to dave you share tt with him you will walt tl! there are| French worben:in dress as American men are ahead of Frenchmen in manlintds. | Mes, Jarr-to her husband as he came in the| snow-clad mountain peaks in—in-in Harlem!" ‘ Woe used to have a girl at the order counter who camo from Paris, Her shoes | housa the other evening, “I wonder who {t was?’ | ‘m sure MY relations would give me everything the}-have, only they | looked like they aere made for a policeman, and the way her gowns fitted hee | “It was no one who had a million dollars for us, you | haven't any: “sald Mra. Jarr, with asperity. ‘I know YOUR relationa would| waa @ acream. Of course, sho wasn't very classy, but ste had worked In Paris can het on that," aaid Mr. Jarr, carelessly. eo me and my children etarying in the streets while they rolled by in thelr] shops where the emart society folks flocked, and she told me herself the French "Oh, how do you know? Strange’ things happen some-| automobiles and eneored at us!" ‘ women simply weren't i t: for style with us over here. I auppose we have * os, sald Mra, Jarr, “Della says he acted very mys Sever mind about our’mutual relatives now,'! sald Mr. Jarr, apprehonalyely. | got wo in the habit of talking big talk about Parte -atyes that we are ashamed oun." re talking about the man that called to see us. He was a life Insurance|: break loose and patronize our own pre t. Wiesritt t something about "You want to look out for those fellows,” said Mr. ears or a book agent." 2 a prophet not having apy honor in his Gwn country? I thow 0. Well, thats Jars, na lot of them Ko around that way to seo “I don't belleve ho anything of the kind," ‘replied Mrs. Jarr, ‘Delia sald] tng Fish came along." are to Durelurize the plate Inter, as a pleasure to talk to him, Oh, I do wish I know What has made our women do thelr shopping abroad, {fit wasn't for "end Mra. Jarr, ‘“Burglars always iT ah resulta?! asked the regular ct sty! red handker- rl, positively, ‘Why any sane person ear ough fur capa and masks and he Plamb foollhness," sald Saar 2 ets ground thelr necks and carry @ dark-lantern and a ous half-brother of Hope, and he gets us into trouble nine times out of ten," should want to send thousands of miles ¢or nothing Chey oan get better a Gontlemen of the Rapid Transit Contmission and the Board of Esti revolver. ‘Thin was ns an" | "Well, I notice that men have as much curios!t¥ as women,” sald Mra, Jarr,|\.ome peata me. It :eminds me of Tom C 8 colt which was so crazyly mate, the poople of New York want a competitive and comprehensive sub “How do you know hoy fa burglar or a gentieman Iooks rply, “I never nee a crowd gazing at some little street happening, or adyer-| yy cm all the way across the Mids! { River to get a drink of water.” ‘: be a gentleman {f you were the only sample I “but I've seen lots of pictures of bur rs, and t'a the way they dress, and they alway way system, not the further fastening of the hold of the traction merger.| san. vv Atee Jae The people want interborough transportation for one fare, end a three-cent| tye. seen them tn plays, ndow-s! but what I notice {t's mostly composed of men. about Mother Ive? Wasnt tt curfosity'-—— began Mr, Jarr, when ho SU a eae Hee Harlem Pastorals; Signs of Something. <4 have | was 3 fare at that. hoarse volces. Delia sa this man had a very soft volce. ul “yr w that's the inysterious stranger! sald Mrs, Jarr, ‘Let me go!” You are public ‘servants, sworn by your oath of offi ” “Yes, and you have a soft head {f you think anybody is calling here to seo tut!? rald Mr.” Jarr, reprovingly, “Curiosity! Curtosity}"’ ; publle Interest. Da. yaim dusty. Sten whitandontee er tcely £2F| us for our benefit. It's Ike the calla L get downtows trom peoplo’ who want | cen yep A ne ‘ : By Walter A. Sinclair. traction trust will nover aieapra DS aR Banton gl 88 keseiem econ girooe abet sta Una easy og paI SUN ager sant Menem Tag dr the doors) | rT ts in this chill Decomber that some peop’ ration trust will never bring real rapid transit and It will add nothinc | is «portant for them, but not for me, It's generally a touch for two dollars husin Henry, who had struck It rich?" he aald. “Stranger ii Erightigieroét is when they sheetus in tho!day to your reputations, ‘Maybe it's your Cousin Henry that went to Kansas years xgo and who}! thin ned, ch?” That they Ike to brigttly gr ey . Waste the public's money If you must, but do not waste the public's | "Tote You for money so often,” sald Mrs. Jarry in ‘Don't you remem- Ho was back in a minute, wild with rage. Now thelr service tsn't slouchy, nor thelr talk and bearing grouchy, time. The months before Mr, Boardman's prediction Is to be fulfi Pi ) Ser he sald he'd pay you as soon ashe sold a mule ho had? But he r did. “Gosh darn itt" he erted, “why didn't you answer the door, as I wanted you And they seom to beam in manner strangely Ray, f bi ay Televi P s to be fulfilled should| at teast he never sent the money, Mhybo he loved the mule, and maybe he's to? Now I've heen served with a subpoena in that case of Johnson's! To think, as aay gre all these ehanges: any one mont passing, strange let jo spent by you in laying out one real Interborough system, and when the | found a gold mine and wants us to go out to the snow-clad mountain gorgea of after having Vit 20 far, T should walk right into {t! Darn! Darn! Darnys| Why, We ask, ar er ela eneect al tat tas now? Present farce is completed then proceed in humble contrition to do wha: | Kansas and share tt with him.’ | And Mr. T mourned and refused to be comforted. Why_does each one love the dear o) ES OM pee ie ull the 4,000,000 of the people of New York, except the traction trinity. wan ee With the butcher-boy or grocer everything 1s: ‘Yes, sir,” “No, sir! ee —_—— I YOU Hada Wife Bike DNS: 602 Go 6-2 Bye Glog) sae \ Letters from the People. [weer l rooays THE HArPY bay!) {1 susPECT Onl ers Rr ingley : : Howe the prospects make ‘em tingle} as Were “There on for this conduct, rather strange, jane ano diy "BON J ro Sone There's a reason’ for this conduct, rather str a "tL pul the only reason ‘MAS BON UP ‘To SOME Nees = pe In this'coming Christmas season, For the changes are {n hopes of other “change.” um-YE5, SHES Ree ‘ t Z oT = SWELL PLACE! PLUMP- AND NOT 3° } ) THEY'LL PROBAGLY. VERY YOUNG- IT'S HAVE ONE IN THERE y FoR My WIFE: Pyt IT ON ANO LET'S See HOw IT -, Whe Subway ‘Fniry Tale.’ We the Editor of The E ‘Twenty-seven mia 6 press this morning i second atrest to the Bri BERS A, Capital Puntahment. The Evening W Tewponde at anya on capiin B. Oh! the prospects bright, you bet’ll put the whole bunch on their mettle An thecservice will be dandy for somo days. © es ig But the tlmo will cme to reckon when the spreading palm will beckon, For you Know the wheeze: ‘Politeness always pays.” ‘ So enjoy the fullest measure while tt {s thelr royal pleasure, Tor you know that good things seldom ever last. e There's a reason for these manners. They are very foxy planners, ‘As you'll learn when Yulotide holldayw aro past, day. mistike in the deginn! that delicious little col tales they misc had said The Subway Jingle, Jingle! i Old Kris Kringle! Drop the tipa in pairs and single. There's a reason for this sudden etiquette. Asiybody can be pleasant | When he hopes to get a present. | Why, who wouldn't snite to think of what he'll get? Let onc eal of this LEX None To the BAlwor of The 7 4 Muyo we w ndtional 4) country? i The Latte® Ia Cor You CAN'T Fool. ME, YOU DECEITFUL WRETCH! I KNO CHARMING) A DREAM! JUST TOO LOVELY! THAT'S ‘HENRY W\PECK IN THERE: ATHE VILLIAN [aca fr, 00 BELIEVE me | He's FLIRTING AGAING) Ac f ( ) 5 AA x | j Sentenge Sermons for Busy Readers. ‘ NSTAN Translated. birth to remorse, R Little frets call for largo virtues. » The, best work of all ta worl for all 5 Qyolman, keops up his reputation by ‘talking about, tt i t iin st th ts Dut weakness who forgdts tho weal | Idle words ary by no means idle affer they aro uttered Fear moro the foes jn your hoart thin those in the open, No man ts ordatned of God until ho ts ready to werve mon, _ Tt ts casy vo sneer at tho Boodness you cannot acquire, The emoothest path Ja always on tho other siile of the road, To get oven with the wrongdoer you must drop to hts level, Show your faith in your pmyers by your follow-up system, People who easily dol over do little toward washing the world, | —Chieago ‘Tribune, Wi if Beethoven @hould oor re would by to netd a: mit: hia cara qr barring bin >the future, readers, you goo @ ma: lowa to abut out etree, qoleee, en fed womnn workink—tt you car stone dent for twentysfive year: ne of these dedaucles © Sal \e '