The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1907, Page 16

(>) Bntered at the SUME”T THE ALLEN’S CHARITY. -In-proportion to his means The Allen is one of the most charitable ‘men in New York. He pays the doctor's bills of the poor of his neigh “borhood. He gives them coal, helps them out with the rent and prides self that he has never turned away a hungry man. =—The Allen is yell off. His. pool-room ‘has been profitably: conducted ind_-his charity ‘has not-exceeded his thrift. During the forty-odd years that he has accepted whatever bets any one, white or black, cared to make he has been raided by the police 112 times. He has never been con- Wicled, the evidence against him being insufficient to convince the jury. For persistency, assiduity and the strict observance of the principles of. his-business The Allen would defer to no one. Since The Allen has had no other occupatign than the running of a able-gifts have béen derived mp ishing the men of the neigh- ~borhood in his Sixth avenue rooms; “he bountifully dispensed charity to their wives and’ mothers at his home on Eighth street... Naturally these charities cannot ‘have equalled his profits, because he has always lived well and accumulated, a con- siderable fortune ‘besides, for all of which his pool-room paldy “On tha same day that The ‘Allen gave to the public a defense of. his life's career, the record was z made-up of-the men who had given the-largest sums ‘of monzy.in the United States during the past year. {This list is headed with Andrew Carnegie, whose donations In 1906 Twere $11,094,000, truly-an-enormous-sum.—-Mr..Camegie received the Steel Trust alone $300,000,000 5, per ceut. bonds, giving him an an al income from this source of $4,000,000, more than-his charities. Itis oubtful if The Allen's net income over his charities last year was 4 pe “cent. of this. “The-hext-largest-t Hf is ; o pany. No, fj to 6! Park Row, New York BEE eee lr aeaana takes uan mteaoe wa. NO; 16,572, in. amount_Is the $7,085,000 given by John D. little over 10 per cent. of Mr. Rockefeiler’s esti- —mat portion to his means, his charities are trifling, com- pared with The Allen's, i Reece ——‘Fhe-next largest_giver Is Charles T. Y kes, who by ‘will tuned » over part of the large estate which after his release from the Pennsylvania 9 ary ated through-buying-tranchises-fromthe Alder- men-of-Chicago-and_over-capitalizing bad street-car 3s = ~~ Next come Marshall Field, whose estate Chicago is now suing for tax-dodging, and P, A. B. Widener, who was one af the founders of the Metropolitan Strect Railway system of New York City. 3 ould join with The Allen in objecting to be called ny eaten Le Evening_ World’s Daily Magazine, _A_ Nosegay. TET TEE 77D $<) 0a, ze ZF. on C2 ee PES Ee ere og od ie er 2 SIS look down upon The Allen, and yet The Aten “gamblers. They would ‘ ad rione of their-special-privileges to despail other people. —Without-the tariff-and-without_railroad rebates, especially without Steel Trstand the Standard-Oil-Trust, how Jarge would Mr. Cas- ‘omes be? What would Mr. Yerkes's ang ing payments forthe hones D ‘Mr. Widener’s estates have left after ded valuation of their street-car franchises? = The Allen boasts that he never paid any blackmail to politics. Can ‘these other distinguished gentlemen truly say the same? How much would they have teft if they did restitution before charity? Letters from the People. Ser-tre-have-had—in Nex York for_tha E Priel at st past month. Rain, for, warmth, with | will smasn 1 onily_occastan nt clear, { anaps, andj snewh—w ‘comparatively. 11iUe wees nar prevaits at prenent™prospertt Ag a survivor of the panlo af tho early tines of 183, Yalm Trees on Long island, Go the Editor of The Evening ‘World: ts-reguiar-fngsish—winter weath= he child ta no S60 palm trees ehore of 10 fentific Ing on thi f they de I'd Uke a Svening World Tp Waluting a Indy ehould a mi his hat with the & farthest © from her ‘in me © the street? a few words LL, Jr. To the Editor of The Eve: lam a poor boy anc J stammer a good 4 know how to cure | mortt : Stammering bullding lem over thor €9mo to the c etill a remedy. ous affection. ¢ general health. | ng exclt it and forcing. one'y spoak with extreme | #lowwens beration the defect may often | faa De ay eollect thelr Iawful fees from employment (as jn t ale enipi mar-}and % y > to tell you of ona happy a collect a feo from a-pyo- i But. many a workingmun with oa Mungry family looking up to him for) teen y . and hi New Jersey threo yeara ago. | comfortable | pugh money to and some for @ little We haye no. instalnent « men’around, and no’penny | woes for beer or whiney, If some others haye done bettor tt would do me lots of good to hear | trying to Sf « pay all bills amusement, Insuran: Will realtors and lawmakers give Pholr opinion of this question and con- the matter fully, (20 ISRAEL A. EDELSTEIN, _ Prosperity ya. Panic. ny improve. | pé pina, when we get him properly civilized, must throw nway hin bolo and the pantsis-machete for th 0 forswenr hystert — | remvania-asneare. Gt tears, sobt A jo _ Has any woman over solved to her own sadafaction the provlem—ay tot Setrntiner-meag-euceumbs to ber te Ast or becauso of the nwfitl/way she looka wh ti T this season of the year almost every man we know he veroacniarly phrases It, cn the water wagon, climted aboard with the New Year with a Axed determination-to stay there.) Meantime, wh fenbier—nalt-oc the hapachold been reso hasn't resolved yet, what should ahe reso ] half climbs aboard the water wagon she should ctimb off the; pitertin«e | 2 Hy other words; ae chg-xtops-dcnking ehet Susuld renee erying,-one casting of the “curse: of rum, o other the tyrency of tears, = _Lknow it requires great fortitude on a woman's part to foremwear tears, for the most joxicaland Téast-teartut—ot “3 discover In the: course of Ife that tn dealing with man| 9 tear ts worth a thousand reasons, If you seo what you fs the bert advice one could «ive a lady} 3 bjugation of man, Uniler theso conditions it] seoms rather foolhardy ¢o resolye and to urge other women| to resolve Tat there shetl-be-no—more-teare,_But as the! more advanced Weances of ctyitization,-eo-{t4s-oury and yoluntartly deprive ourselves of the untutored motting effect on his heart ea NSC Oris “Wamen-tn-w ries million cries artisticall: and deprive ourselves whether it is. worth while to harrow a man's feelings {f at the parma time we show him that we can look worse than the homeliest nightmare vistor [he has ever met, g gracefully down from the watering aff By J. Campbell Cory. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Most of us rs nee nosos cod squint up our eyes ir ‘mout! ebape whatever. Knowing this, we should ask 2 TCs better ane Termore -becomingyané-lothe lang run twioe na. sft tule -by smiles than by tears, : Sefer the male half of the population drive the water wagon, while we climb — 4 Sentence Sermons-for Busy Readers, — E lve hy the joy we give. Bignificance ts not a matter of bulk. Good Will-on earth 1s God'e wit for man. ‘Thore are no saints without their service. _A-weok end religion is weak at both ens. He who cheers another encourages himself. ——There-aro-no-single admission tickets to glory. _ _ No man can be free ‘who hotds another (n bonds, Many have found Ufe's crown bending over a cradle. The dew-ot-hee-ren—ta—pot_Ja_tha_miliee on th: Reon — THERE 19 NOTHING SO TIREIERE ALP DIIINA YOR OWI WALT RRRE Coot won't TONGS ARE PELEASED veel \\ 43.300 48 THE (LP THE &UTOM SERVING ibe ZNTERS THE QING R007. Hints from the House Horrible; or, How to —- \g Ag By Jean .Mobr, YOU CAN KAYE A SERIES. OF SIGNALS. ARRANGED. WOTH COQ. OME SELIS-OF A BELL FOR “SEND IN COFFEE # HOW HE KNEW. Teacher—Now. what little boy in this | Bunday-sohoo! can toll me what a pyt- nid 1s? Tommy Tuff—Why, dat's de shape de balis ts eet _up tn for de break.—| rope oocastonally,”’ A YANKEE COMEBACK. “Aw, but everything here {8 so new, t y'’kijow. You have no ruins here, nov’— “Only those thet visit-us from Eus } 3) B. Tcathollc Standard and Timea, Philadel rience, put in: Gotham.—| you ait on to milk? BARGAIN DAY. “Ia ‘this the Stock Exchange?” S NATURALLY, Farmer—So you've, had some expe- have yout ‘Yes, madam." Youth—Yes, str, esr Samer cee Farmer—-Well, what #ide ot & cow do oH} 0 exchange. thase |se- Ree ourtties for some that will pay divi- _| } Who Slight |The Girl +1018 TWENTY-FIVE VA a ROMANCES «+ PROGRESS Vi ‘ No. 24,—HENRY BESSEMER, tho ‘Failure’? Who Won Success. OSES ra A first half of the ninoteenth century to find himself the laughing-atock of KEngland. Hix name was on all Ips, and the story of his Intest folly was pordained failure In Ife. Here In brietty the tale -of-his odd-tH-fick>———_— The stamping system in the Britlvh Government offices was carried on in an Yented an. tmproved stamping dovice, which was so excellent that, In'apite of- the Increased money outlay involved, the Governmeit decided fo adopt (t In-pay- salary of $4,000 a year, It was unhenrd-of good luck for so young a mah. Bes- xémer ta hia delight became overzealous and forthwith spoiled tila prospects by ogmld. ja continued profitnhly-at no-extra_expense ar special_alteration. In othor words, he “improved! away the necessity of his own promised postition. There system, thetcby saying much money. Bessemer recelved not ono penny for tho’ Invention, and was, moreover, out of a $4.00 q year Job, All England laughed; terma applied to the youngster. : : 3 He stbod ridicule bravely; and by means of snyeral lesser {nventiins (gold Itmself. Soon the Crimean ‘War broke out Englafd— wan I prepared. Bessemer ‘devised a long projectile for That Brought Luck.{ adopt the Invention. So he carried it to France, where” A A test was made, It wax proven that such cast-lron fire the new oblong shot. It was declared useless; and once more peopla laughed at Bessemer, - z fame and fortune. Had ho received the easy Government job promised him years before he would probably havo rested content and done little for Progress, ~ventor— a Ca nS When, however, the French Emperor rejected his new shot, find eome stronger material for cannon. Ifo know little of metals, but begin @ careful etudy of them. At that time-tron, not atecl, was used for railways, dig was far too expensive tor common use. Fow men were employed In working oa-~ Svand these -used~a tedious, laborlous-process.tn_{ts_praduction. steel was an alloy of tron and carbon In certain proportions, end-he invented the following-process-for making. itz. “By Albert Payror terkane YOUNG tnventor—Henry Bessemer by name—anroke one morning in the told and retold amid tho derision of a nation, He was potnted-out-as—a fore~ expansive and old-fashtoned’ way. \Beasemer, though ttle more than a boy, Ine ment Bessemer was to: reretye x olife position-aa-superintondent of stamps at a invert! till another system whereby the old-time arrangoments for stamping waa no. longer any need of his services. The. Government adopted -his second for there In scantaymypathy for d fool, and ‘“fool"* was-the mild the many, paint, yelvet-making,-and-tmprovemanta in type-caating) he managed-to-suty [at aroun eek “use {a amoulh-lore cannon, “His Goverment would. not “eannon as were then in use were not strong onough to But, inadvertently, these two fatlures formed the.foundation of his future Had his projectile been adopted, ho might haVe remained @ mero cannon-ball-in- that no cannon wan autficlently strong to fire tt, Bessemer simply set to work to —"") guns, and noarly every atructure requiring metal. Steel was hard to make and But Bessemer wea not content with the modes then in use. He knew that. Ho drove a blast of alr through masses of pig tron that was in process of ,| fusing until It was cleared of carbon. Then, by Introducing the proper propor- von af carbon, he fouiid he -had-nn éxeetent quality of-steel.—He_could thus make steol far more rapidly than {t had ever before been manufactured, and et fa mero fraction of its former high price. Je also found that by blowing through molten pig fron until! all tts carbon was oxidized he could produce a fine grade of malicadle fron. ‘ . In 1856 Bessemer patented his stecl-making process, At once tt revolutionized Industry. BheMeld was England's chief steel centre, Tho manufacturers there refused to take up Hessemer’s tdea and ancered oo F impragticable. 80 he opened {Revenge on Men $ etty and undersold hia rivals H terms. The man (hat Engtand had taughed-et-awas-be-——' re inning to Bet Nts toning. ——— ee Btesl became at a bound one of the world’s forernbst industries. ‘The “United States at once took the lead in its production. Before Bessomer's invention our annual proauctton of steet -was-ebout11$36-tons—Afow years jater it had risen to 015,90 tona a year, Bossnmer wns the fither-of” utoel rails, “steel frames for akyscrapers, steel ships, steel cannon and modern | armor-plate. His invention gave work to millions bf men all over the -world, [Through him Progress maida one of tts-greatest-strides: a But_he had not forgotten that early ocoaston when England had regarded” him as a fool. When he waa too rich and famous to bo negtected “he demanded” that the British Government make him sone retura=forths—stamping—deyicw- they had adopted: and for which tic had reorived no pay. Hoe no longer needed the fow: thousand dollars that representet the device's money value. But he In- risted on wome recognition of his service, Accordingly, Queen Victoria made him a knight, thus granting tardy reparation to the poor youth whom her offictat subordinates had once regarded as a mere butt for their jokes ounter._* By Margaret Rohe. af art thing you know Jersey will be losing Its repu- +-tation—for justice.” said The Girl at the Candy Counter, prophetically. Se =o __‘Where do you get your information?” axked the Regu- lar Elgnty-Cents-a-Pound Customer. a th ~ taal at the Candy. Counter. “0 trend. +1 don't, exactly know her, but sh Tm etrong for anybody that-can-acttike she-can.— Miss Barrymore was his neighbor, and beau- @ he got her-to-sit-for the fgure_of ‘Justice.’ made him ro ‘Waa Miss Barrymore's name to be on the painting™ asked the Regular Customer. |. : z es “Certainly: not. said_the Girl “You never s¢e the name of the person who poses for a painting or stwtUe marked on-it,-do-youT- Nobody but _a Jersoyman could fgura_out how f be ent work for our Ethel, or why tt—— wasn't.ncceptadle. They just didn't want her on thetr decoration because she was an actress. What I'd ike to know !s where anybody gots tho !deathat a— Ss chariiieie hel Barrymore, who ts Treoetyed in the best soclety and ie making ati honest -iiring-on (tworttry—to—represent-Iustice.:!——_f “Nfey be-Lhe..Commism on _ for hi fe muggested tha Regular Oustome: —— = ‘ “Other Ideas nothing," eald the Girl,’ postttvely, ‘tDo’ you suppose” they’a have made any outcry if the figure had been posed for by a professional model at fifty cents an hour? Not s bit of It, And what I want explained to sca if whete-a Mftx-centa-an-hour model comes in-as being better than-a—$1,00-a, actress." z wine = nd merchants, clerics and Se Docking the Congressmen. ~ By Walter A. Sinclair. ('Congreraman Gaines spoke in ayer tt Sane cocarenoe onty-for the estualls eorved.™. =u a OJIN WESLEY GAINES, that pile of brains, says sad’s his lot, eke Mann’ J ‘and Payne's. : : ane The lot of John Sharp Williams, too, {s such as makes him very dlus, And now he has evolved a plan to “dock” the lazy Congressman, To make him work on every day for which he hopea to draw his pay, To make each register his time or get the julcy citrus lime— By sme calted “lemon,’* #o explains that statesman great, John Weasley Gaines, John Wesley Gaines endured great pains because the modest Houne refrains From boosting pay-they never earn, and now he sees a way to turn, = He thinks they ought to have a clerk to keep, the time of those who work. The hard-worked Congressman would thrive, the loafers scarcely keep allve For when they falled to punch the clock ‘they'd have to stand a little dock Or—it would be an awful fate!—to hand them time-checks at the sate, - John Wesley Gaines has racked his hratns and now with modesty ‘explainas “t¢ all the House were Manns and Paynes—you note, I do not mention Galnes=— ‘Pwould earn each cent it got from you. But one thin line of heroes blue, Fights all tho battles that are waged while all the others engaged — ‘At loafing, betting, private’snaps and Jegal work for trusts, perhaps. If to my scheme: you now give heed you'll see I am Great Gaines indeed.” Odd Statistics, i IGHT bine eyes are generally the most powerful, and next to these ate sTay. The lighter the pupil the greater and longer continued ta the degree of. tension tho’ eye can sustain. ) : 3 Champagno stakes up much time and care in the making. Altogether a Cottle» of champagne gocs through two-hundred different operations, covering a perlod of two nod a half years. And tnaddition It is sometines Kept two oF mks longer in tho yaults maturing. li In Persia bells ring for prayers five times a day, a customers rush off to the mosques, leaving all business at a atandatill, i Bnalls are slow even wheri it comes to dying. One woll known naturalist — who had mounted a ehell upon @ oatd was eurprised to find, four years later, that the warm water employed In so the shell off the mount had revived the inmate, which he had long supposed to be dried and dead. + ~~ : Beveral specimens In another collection were revived in a simile manne. fter they had lain in a drawer for'sbme fifteen years. These had not been glued to a card, Out had been loft lying toose, and, though: frequently handed, lite, \‘They were thrown into tepid water with the idem to shells, ‘but to the surprise of the owner tho snails were about the basin when he returned to complete the task,