The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1907, Page 10

The Evening World’s Daily Pudlished by the Press Publishing Company, No, 83 to @ Park Row. New York x) Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matt IA = RS “NOLUME 47 verre eee eee ~NO,. 16,587. ee — me 2 2 FOUR CENTS A DAY. ‘For the first time in its long career the Rapid Transit C mmission has done something-which the Hon. P. H. McCarren publiciy disapprov That'something-was-to-adopt-t! ald. i borough subway plan. Senator McCarren hasten + this iniquitous scheme which would save the p sand central Brooklyn four cents a day and def =veneficent monopoly. “4 from Albany to, upset ple of Will BR. 1f-t were_oply McCarren It might; not beso bad. ‘But McCarren. has ‘a Coraptrotler, and he ts the politi- cal.adviser ofa Mayor. The one; jominated and politically—cre-| The other: is: so unfortunate; ys to need a staff on which | McCarren has ‘supplinted Murphy as the staff. s ‘Therefore Mayor McClellan and} Comptroller Metz have joined the “Hon. P.H. McCarren ‘in emasct-; 3-cent plan and in giving the B. R. T. what Anthony N. Brady he ated, dating the Wants, = ‘There will soon be three bridges across the East River—the old Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. The old Brooklyn Bridge is overcrowded=now,jammed-to_suffocation. in. the rush hours, disgraceful at all hours. The obvious wal to relieve the? overcrowding is by diverting traffic to the other bridges. What else are the other bridges for? = = This isthe essence of the McDonald-Evening World plan. Under hata subwayloop would connect both ends of the Manhattan and-Wil- fJamsburg bridges and would extend by a spur past the old Brooklyn Bridge to Broad street and South Ferry, It would direct therWall street oR travel from the old. bridge. It would- carry Williamsburg passengers ; Most-of-all,-it we aE uld inaugurate a 3-cent fare, Who objects to. this except the B. R. T., and what right has the B. R. T. to object? Does it own these bridges, or did the people pay for —them?— Has it any contract or vested monopoly? Has it a Jegal or moral “wight to compel the citizens of Brooklyn to pay dividends on its watered - The B, R. T. is universally execrated. On a popular vote it could ot-find-enoygh friends and sympathizers to act as election inspectors, What is its strength? : = The Hon. P. H. McCarren, the friend of every corrupt corporation ——and-public-monopely. “And George B.. McClellan eto curry fa turns his back on the: people's best wel- or with Pat McCarren. ; Four cents 'a_day saved to 100,000 passengers is $4,000 a day, or $1,200,000 a year,” This means a great deal to the B. R. T. It means a great deal more to the shopgirls, the typewriters, the errand boys and the clerks whose pennies fill the B/ R27: treasury: ; : As for Comptroller Metz, he is aman of gratitude, ~ McCarren made him polilically, and he is responsive to the demands of his creator, But as for George Bo McClellan, what has McCarren ever done-for-him? ——What-is-McCarren_daing for hini*now except blasting -the reputation of ——en-administration that held cut great hopes after the declaration of inde 2ncefrom Murphy? [ana the | PPHEEODSSEOPBODOOHSOHTOHBOEOLOROLE © POECTSHREODEGHEDRDP 1 OROCSEHECOE GS GOHOBHOHOLO @ C3 7 ° The Evening @B. * * * * * @ Hi Glasses $ To Green © Glasses he ® At Funny ® Glasses, Va. st & @® @ By Irvin ‘S. Cobb @ an upp but Tdi I've be Mat that 1 felt me right «w My room here da shout—the-sise—of | box + ayercoat,| and it fits me so Ught across the cheat that J haye to ks tO bed with the transom open, Under thease clreum- stances: sleepin! lke cam 1 regretted t had the 4 fering been ta at! to me. At the stout party who. from defective fu He had deepbreathing exercises. af decduse he d phe went to ‘t begin practising unti! wep, After he got started st of us kept thinking the d stopped, because we couldn't it any more, % It did stop protty often—one of un absent-minded trains that's for- ever remombering something It forgot and golng back after It. It reminded me oO one of our Subway expresses on th ayenoe line Yowudays the only oronce between a ay local and a Subway exprest 18 that while each maken the same number of stops the express generally stops at a potny where You can't get-off. I _enjoyed my visit always enjoys bel on his native he home. _A_ fellow * the Grand Linma th. He Koes away, a stringy, sad-eyed dub of a red-necked Fooster without an egg in the whole barnyard -to-call_him—fead names, and when he comes back tn mbout three rs he's the Consecrated Emu of Holy Writ, swith ahead ful of self-rising {yeast and bis chest thrown prominently forward iia dormer eff Ae Tocaa't IW Tinve WHNe wayehtig ott nee.1n. the meanwhile 10 the plaudits of his fornier fellow-townsinan Tho more fact thal he's beech living the same town th ck anderbilt boyd make: premium jumbo-squab yy Ri he And_yet the probabiiity tm that doesn't Know as much now as he did when he went away. He may have bevome an adept at boring through tho/ full-sized meals a day and top off with! which we of tho city are following— that is to say, following. catching up. [ward-trom-inbor—to—refresivent tna! y breakfast, a grab for lunch, a Ruess-| plain, commonplace buggy with noth- | Ing conteat at a table d'hote place for) Ing but Inp robes and rubber tires and) Among us here in’ New York almost tnblet every |g atrtte j you along. the exhtinrating spread the muctlage when we return toj eight mile ride in a perpandicu Switch for one of the Old Home| tion, meanwhile holding to a commodl-| ous” and moder : Jammed re of 9 stran, palpitating core of a Bridge ruah, but saying ‘''Scuse ime" when he hits a cripple and knocks him catty-cornered Experience in. tho terrible crowded hour of noon’ on Naked atfect MNF have taught him how to eat faster, bu Ita likely that he's forgot how to digest. His chest measure ha froveased,—-buthim disposition haa whrunk, The property hae acquired + fresh) coat of shellac: 1) injertor_turnishinga “need” repalro—_1te ‘ong-in-e-Harlem #n an upper berth is hh JO inter me was ute tt-must hare vo he 166k em { he} probaity—iwiahe—Hitle Wonk og! Magazine, Swed Saturday, January 19, 1907. The Chorus Girl Yor!d’s * Has Dopey Mc By Roy L.. McCardell JUST dote Ea wardes” rr Girl, USAy. —think-she's-out ae girl a chance, but sc stars {ster Tog eversth Why. Low if cause 1 had a few tion right away part cut, and then you she “penionland” tested pat Me long and the Maid.’ had my hie's playing stock In Toltdo now, and away with it somehow, it. She won't have o 6! thero with the looks. ja—craoked.. bent pan, Sure, her face wanted “Hot Um on Broadway, ¢ she's playing stock In Toledo. ing but good of the dead onos, 80 and plece with Ben’ Tmal. sin week at nine In the morning! And I "HEE it's ‘One might-as—well-drink habitat th 'for the teeth. He used to eat three) Istence pevect-or-atght npples—and halt _a_peck} cracked —hickary nuita Just before) g. Now he hae a xwattow ci dinner-and..a -dyapopals hale hour during tho evening. Tur We “trie “metropolitans do! for How G. Weeks, How we expand with’ satstace} tlon until our profile has the pouter pizeontooking Wke-o punctured tire, ne | Letters from the Pe hiformetion= Hardin Get {{ fre the Editor of The Hyening Wortd: ople._ Benttte—The sible aoon_girex tomy thing of merit its hearty approval; bu fn_the line of comic opera, standard opera-and light grand in English. the: on Paula E rail the Chorus t "She aln't atratd otitis of then: nf omerabee es in the] ‘gecond_act and took the situs] jookaut at an from her, that wonder than ‘The Mimic It's wonderful how they do trl in her company who !s She has no volce, and no shape you know sho wears symmeiricals, and she has a you know sho Wears #y head ay hie furnished o knock, eaukl tell you things about her. nif I'm not working, let's say I ajn't working, but I'm rehearsing for a new, Something's the matter with ‘Oh, 1 kiow you wouldn't believe It, but he ts. ‘eo been getting up at eight three days fn the ATi” so nervous that every time—T-hear jarm clock I beat it In under my harness ikea} ast ruined my health. I actually can't sleep after cight in the morning, and Juat HAVE 16 to have such ‘Mamma Do Branscombe stys that tt-1—kecp-on ithout "a atrug-|]1 he wanting to-seep-al night-and-I'l pasa outl faculties except his thirst. And ha stays wherever SaaS SE —————ee “The Musical Swede hao roofned in the park so many yoars he can't alcep laying down. and has to have the night wind’ blowing on. him. of the Hves ‘of my friends entirely, + MDo'-ror “It ahould be and wander through the flat, and Miolet, our color mo chronic with i you ——L nate: —who- sleeps oul, —comea in at acon tok like “Them Crucl Worda f Can't | ty : : k my! at. trex and,—poor-gist-for—she'a a _goad-heart=) § yonight Dopey siya Ue theme-ett po TaN Hee et creuture even If she la w dinge=poor gts}, she thinks s round ke @ ANK*} Sunday might ® monologulat te VaUdes they | iimilwalking sin! miy sleep. Lcomes to him, but as he amokca Exyptians now andy e freq bier are wane Me house frequented by what are aup- ~“Wihtewshe—did-raglisa yesterday that I had beets) don't roll hin own, tie has no paper to Jot down the] oceg to be the wiseat: proplecin to mail Iwas suf! notes, and so he forgets emo) farang ane OF Tvs EERE CERT URI OTO: mea! ©The Musteal Swede has beén rooming tn the park} couss t Tisaltavteaic tin thatesst Ginge foros atche “ran t-alesp ta + tore what the w or You to slee} that) shane, BE) you want to see haw it's almost as happy as If they was oc toe ome tricks with drank and snuffed, Just helr spacto: Seecripllon te Lewhlcheee anny St them drug i Fon tap. | or-ourse. the In-ATRAN ACO WHRHCT Waeee gots| “Why, the fends stand Jf tine for It. And, once in| the a while, a dream urn! spades and gets a quarter's on {t, and then fqlds up the ca [nis furnished room to Hght e. worth of hop smeared! jogs gets co and hikes back to! little Jamp and baké) the legs. uldn't! a park ora thati ing with th. "Mamma I emt ny =that's)puttees, her-flan: ent of such-things, 4 otsn't, | he-hasn't an: » for people who haven't the price| Amy's flanc for at least a pint. | him, He's got the early-rising bug. He stays up! tie knows such people Ive, Mamma De Bran ‘ail night so as not to oversleep himaelf. And, what] combe saya; but, as he says, It takes all ror: do_you think? He's had us rehearsing three morn-| poopie to,make up a work | going to snitch, —}—"¥eire asking about Depey McKnight. Well our! “Say, she heart Is broke with him, Since Old Man Moneyton/ though. Sh made ua take him back and is paying more money above a wh! }-for-hie board Depex presumes on ft. And he Insists | along, ing higvotd trtend, thee uin Twas telling you about, to the fav on di agent;-we-aln:t hone much. id-unybody Oink “that called and se:n) Ask me! 8: the Musical Swedo tn our flat? | Hfo's-so-rlewed-all the -time.that he's Jost afl bial and tt } more gold in his teeth and less une) we inwardly compare your prosale ex-|q forelen gentleman addicted to the xar- ite [lic habit and a damp umbrella breathes down ,our collar and stands in a re- rarely [Posefil] attitude upon our feet. For Lousehott pets -you-must-content scl? exch tures as Inet setters and milch- cows. with the mad glittering but You drive soberly home= n own one of those fascin- 2.20 trotting. mare to help | anybody We pay our five cent pleces {iting € pleasure: ofan | dag-if tolier and a o5s You never have uny excitement-of-« eur nasa) Sunday afternoon unleas some. lodge ally In| k breadth member died {n tie middie oF the week ady’s wufst pattern, while }and waa held over-for a largu funeral little it Tr posle jcaterptiiar-if it had a, few more | were a ran witl Laugh Knight Near you set lm: 7 Sea ti and improvises: melodies on; thy ctocharncthecright—winet do-you thine? ‘Taey—pull Gis ssfa ap = Indow, throw It wide open and let the ay * i le audevillia vy no beat-tn-on-them-and—sices—pitaatall Hanjeaves tha found a: paint er drops_in with an ace Of] unadulterated “Hobo pajamas {s evening papers pinned around) Just watch on-a-qold night when you're passing “Mamma Do Rranszombe {aso much in love with ls playing chuperon te parting th to call for bis wine in a loud yotce, that ahe doesn’t} of| know what's golng on in her own house. And I aln't{ heck. | Because If yuu are out with a wine man you toak Swede, that ; have ta-talk-Ioud atid Tequtek to" think—up-nxtura} | ways to praise the brand tn a lndylike manner at now that Amy De Bransombe ts-m=| tne top -of rour-relee. _ What are.we golng to do with the Musical Swede? terrible to grew old and rummy and have no one to love you and call you ‘kid!"™™ fashioned crea- | A-antevals” theag-aroutdbe e+ Dap Braye alkers Joe Miller. Sizes Up the ste Up-State ; Race-Track * Statesmen. * * as Her Again 5 BPSSESES ITTLE ad 'T think,* |. By Martin Green rald Joe ab Author of ooo atithers air ~ 2 BAL ees letters ne checks s luxurt TTR | \dway oMce— Res did t think. years and himo'on the eofa tn 2 Af youll, write ¢ time sy-them-in Suttday-rohonl-entere— Jaming on him ta tatidnle tate it the next performer came ont: nop Where they can: bi but that's only thelr bodies, 1d, 89 they put on the hobo_pad: red from a little trip 1 talked with a Jot of the Idea o¢ putting the kibosh on the race-tracks in and around ;New York City. You know how m just retu ew the Rubo is when he 1s home. of open hallway and sce the rummies snosz-| ts him_on hie own ¢ yams elr legs wrapped round with newspaper|he makes about the iniquitor 8 fy 5 tracks sounils like a mass meeting Cooper Union, But get him off where Ne~is “our of range of the Epworth Leagues and ho'll admit that them thare Mce-(acks ain't #0 bad after all, by artistte “a calling that all she Untnke of} t George takes out Pe “Lhe reason for this 1s plain. “The State ta virtually a partner with the Jockey —Chit—in—matntaining gambling — places in this city, Baratoga and: Brie County, The partnership was manip {tas bythe Rube Jegisiators moss Whom-are interested in the county ‘fair Agsociations. OC every dollar that ts taken Iq mt the Thce-track «ates or from the book” makers-tho Empirs Stata gets tts bit ‘The bit goes to Albany, where it ta | uplit Feveral ways tot vas allemaal fi Sar ural societies for the -support-ot— Me county fairs. No matter what {nftu ences you find trying to shut down the race-tracks, the Rube will be found [lined up with the Sickey Club as long as he Kets’ his graft. R “It tie Stato will agree to subsidize | the county flrs the Rubee will withs— draw thelr approbation of tho raee- tracks and the rural doxislator that vot vipat the moasure to Kilt Gem | Wil -feel Tike an itiiotiak Sener | Brownsville whe he sees bagk. domes 7 Tho fate-of tre rmoe-iracks doesn't dad 5 pead--o-much Upon ; - was almost up against it the other night. had such a Cold Wat ate-coutan't tate sper, and George didn't want her to go jay. ain't tt ange—but when you're all in you're Town wnd-outt—— - right after church. Whereas, we can | £0 out almost anywhere on the Sabbath day and he run over at least once by &n- Imported nutomottle belonging to wealthy _and-prominent people | The only club you know anything PAbOUIS Ue Elte Presskig Chib; a asl Mr down and a dollar a month, clothes called for and delivered. But we have the Aneat-clube—tn ‘the country and-2 man of moderate menns always bas the fivivilees of going to any ono of them j and-standing outside and tooking-in-the windaw i. z torney Jer Well, goot-by.—Green. Be good and|State do o¢ think. You'll by conspicuous, Yours, HI. | Rube. “One of the features of the county fuira In the, face-track, Trotting races are held every duy anda majority: of— tho bills Include races between quarter’ borsea_Voots ure sold and betting ts ded v ‘openly —taduiped tn. —Sitrong-arm aren; to Haney ea CaewaKT ih wn “wttemptl helt workers and all-around. erook” #oheltum.—_By—the-aid-ot-aciit; Gparate—under-a-specint-iense—at-th—— —lowaat _temperatirea yar pe. | corded “tr that—reached recent has Hitthe-to-approve or tata: lotus have some good reproductions ur the good operas of several years ago, ADMIRER OF GENUINE OPHRA- Longfellow’s (The Day In Done. Po the eattor-ot Thee vente Wee — In_what poem do the -foli atl ola “their ten Arabs and as silently steal away ELLIOT M'LEA fj Nene—tintreran tty —oner rer Ty the Editor of The Eyening World How many legal holidays are there in the United States?) HARRY TR WI Power as an Alarm Clock. 2 the Biitor of The Evening World; ‘All In" asks how to overcome jn- somnla. On ‘retiring Jet him. sick ni h ‘oncen- To the Edttor of ‘The Evening World trate his mind and say to himself, A correapondent says factory girls | ow rometimes don't make good wives, be- | ea ones Me awake to-night, but will cause most of them do not know how | {#1 asleep In a minute or two." Let to work, It te very evident the corre-| 2M bo absorbed in thia one thought spondent ‘has been trained to victui invests Intrusion of others, and let sich am a Paterson factory girl wife, hm relax his muscles with the object would be ashamed to put before her | Of rest, leaving the window of hia room| Husband. Come to Paterson and you ;OPen sufficiently to get fresh afd and wh. find that a number of good square | repos Sweet slumber will follow. “All meals ure cooked by factory girls, We j18" may dispense with an alarm clorx | have hundreds—ofthe best wives that hover miss awaking at a given ever stepped into a kitchen, right Te if he will on retiring Just con- in-Paterson, who cane straight trom |centrate his mind for a minute or two. the factory, and typewriter'a desk, who, | on the timo he wishes to awaken, and/ PORCH. bt the Wilitamebure ‘These proceedings were begun three “years ago, and I hardly think tt just the city should Gak people to walt-alt helromoney. I presume there_must be-a reason tor-the—deiny; hit it aia —aceme tok: what tts. ~F-have-tred to get the Informauon Trott} my. lawyer, but he hardly seems to “know any more thin T do.” Tne intor~ mation certalnly te very hard (Bet. In the World Alma ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can 1 find a list of Presidents ofthe United States trom Washin; Bet MEE W, A Voice from Taterson in a cooking bout, would eanily ‘beat | give an order, n+ it were, to hin aub-| thone olf country mothers and wives, | Jectlye mind, to curry out his wishes. | PAT oN, Nl In's"’ experience may be of tn- terest to many readers he will t et °) M -. TINICLE. staat Ah ETA ate it after a fair trial. C. WINKLER, | To the Kaltor of The Evening World: aie i It New York ¢ two high- Jobs Loat by Delaya | Priced opera organizations, it can sup- ort @ good organization that will give ®tandard and grand opera tn Eng- Ush at prices ranging from $1.0 to wents.”” ‘This statement, made by a ra- went contributor, 19 (rue in every re- npect and should bo q! matter for thoughtful consideration on the part of | theatrical managers. A firat-class Btock fcompany, presenting legitimate opera, | might. readily make a home in ona of gthe theatres tp this olty, qnd recelya| Let this boat turn around in midatroam from. tha theatre-going and( muato-lor~| and let us have a mhow to be on time. {tag publ the auppore it woupd ao richly bom OK, Arlington, N. J, * i FEltor of Event World: ers on the will soon | dreams—a road over the | aur p to ato twent rush how the nulsan. ute delay outside the allp caused by th | Fail River boats? There are times when | 1 have knpit) Workinemon and working} men tg loso their positions through two or three such delays in a week. 35+: if £5 Alien d cogn. of tse county. fait ie cra we community sung 10 8 Olstar a_funny thine thi "a°couuty fair, “should bo eek co air, shoul (o contribute tothe support, Sot une State amusement enterprises. W EK Uhs Legteature— ti State for the bie : and?-——And—dor't—H—eurpeiso— Jearn..that the pool-ropm keepers. & ined up in support of the race-tradka. ” Ifthe tracks are cloned jt will be tha he the pool-rooma of New ‘eure to that of the atmosphere, a d Bree of cold —was- created which, ~ by 2 aizzon's | formuin;-ameounting- to —ba-degrees-C Piteivm,-howerer—did-not-dnttet yy and jhe accardingly aasumes that its. boiling point must be below —27!, and that there ts lttle prospect of r |e Maura: : Sia By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ENATOR COBB has reintroduced a bil at Albany S WHICH the Legisiature: failed to pass. last. year the general “trend of whieh is to make It more aittieut © get married, By its terms marriage Mcenses are mado obligatory, and the clerk issuing them is empoweredl £ fomand proof of the contracting persons’ ages, and 4 apa anything else that occura to him at the moment yehe written ‘consent of parents when partes to a mare lage are under age ts also required. As yet, no one lay devised’ a Dill making It necessary O° ecure the approval of the janitor of the. Mat the Joung couple intend to move Into, or Hermitting the clers¥+ han or the license clerk to Inspect the bride's teeth tn an ifort to ascertain whether or not she has told the truth || bout her age, but doubt! some up-State Solon will! joon remedy thin omission. \ Generally when an American young man bas won the consent of the girl herself he considers that he has dom nobly. But'{t appears that he has been wronk In this assumption and thet oon the question of what woman he is to wed must be solved by popular referendum, us are all public problems to-day in Switzeriand. ‘The idea of the new bill seams to be the’ improvement of public morals, In France neither men nor yomen may marry without the written connent of both parents unul the axe of twentys! five hay been reached, It cannot be sald the improvement in publio morals fe wuch-as to recommend the Idea for Amorican {mitatien, ‘ i Difficult marriage will not benefit domestic Ife as much as easy divorce had, The number of people ts increasing dally who do not think that the genaral\” good in promoted by making individual unhappiness permanent, Tho economig and soctal conditions of to-day tend to discourage marriage, Why whould 1 he mado any more difficult? Happinoxs can't be, legislated for or againat. mont: successful murrlages are: oftun the youngest; the most‘ unfortunate redult of mature unjons where the cheracters of both man and woman Were) too set" for their necessary readjustment to each other, | Baten Marriage, iko fishing, tm largely a matter of luck and letting things al “The Complete-Anslerta pleasant to read on o summer day, but tf you try fish according to Jt you'll rarely catch anything, And if @ lot of paoph around telling. you what to do you never will. It's tho aame way with BRONI, 2Botersrery ng mer are Peer Hatter nn HN he