The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1907, Page 12

Wally Magazine; Monday, ‘january 21, ‘1907. Sieve Taucis SIXTY HEROES - By Maurice Ketten. WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Poysop Terhune. % @wd"ished: by the Press Publishing Company, No. 82 to 6} Park Row, New Tor ‘ Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 47.. NO, 16,589. TRINITY’S STEWARDSHIP. f “Trinity Corporation has found Its first public defender and apologist the correspondence column of the ‘Tribune. The Evening World ked How, where and for -what—Trinity's-great_income was expende EN. O. M., who he is “a member of one of the chapels,” explains thatthe salaries of twenty-five clergymen, the heating and lighting of the ‘churches of Trinity Parish, the care of: Trinity Cemetery and the organ- | eee ists and choirs account for the big discrepancy which The Eveni World pointed out. <r Is N. O. M: correct, orrare his as- ’ sertions. based on falth, hope and -charity-Instead of a knowledge of the facts? = Ey Trinity ‘Corporation makes’ no No. 4.—LEONIDAS, the Hero Who Fought the Bravest Eight o in Wistory. ¢ 7 HANDFUL of men tay intrenched ina Httle-cteft In Mount Oceta; {no ‘A Greece, one day in 480 B, C. The cleft was bare'y twenty-five feet © wide, yet {t was the only puss across the mountains to Athens and jthe heart of Greece. It wax known as Thermopylae (Hot Gates). The men [who now defended it were Spartans -and-afiies-ofthelra, perhaps four thous- jand in huimber, ~~ Thoy were under the commrand-of the Spartan— King, | Leonidas, , SS Encamped beyond the Pass of Thermopylae and preparing to rus down e through that Uny gap in the tillis was the largest: army ever is . Its niimvbers have been estimated at, 2,100,000. Its commander was | Xerxes, Emperor of Persia and Media — eS orcs poe Persia had been made by Cyrus the greatest, richest, most: powerfut = nation .on earth. Some years befor the events now to be told a Persian = jarmy had ultacked Greece and -had been utterly routed at Marathon, The Persian mohareh, Xerxes, bad burned ‘{o wipe out the memory of this de- | feat. So he had invaded Greece with ayenormouy and army and w ficet “YEAR BOOK AND REGISTER Parish of Trinity Church} i llc stat t of its affairs except | (ae almost equally large ‘Some of the Grek staies had weakly surrendered ay Mair aoe is “Year Book and Register.” To’ ; i soon aa he drew near and had let him pass untolested through thelr terrt- i a to C ‘ ; a 5 5 * | |tory. Greece was a sumil, numerically weal: country. divided up into’ sep= 1" «this. publication ‘The Evening World arate states, Such, of these as did: nat yield to the Invader combin:d to plan.’ HP appeals for verification of ‘the. state- sone means of defense. They could raise barely twelye:thousand men, and?) ™f ! ) ‘ment that Trinity's charitable and of thess!4,000 were sent under Leonidas to check the enemy ut Thermopylae, ae eapleath . Teer 180, .. Xerxes, marching an unopposed, was astounded to hear, that a Iiftle band i | religious expendit i of Greeks were awaiting him at the Pass. Hs sples reported that the‘ ; 881.17, and of. this $79,201.62 was «8, ilefenders” were engaged in athictic sporta |B s volintary contributions, . leaving » arqund their intrenchments and showing no “only $101,679:55 ais i fanaa fat tists of fear: —Xerves realizing, how stubbora f rie) ah ,679:5. charg STATE, [ile es st De leneeds 2a resistafico a fow men’ might make 4h so nar- 7”, t great income. ’ ( LE oe Tow a ‘defile, sent a message to Leonidas : ; aR efit m Gls plaining that sooner or latér the ‘pass w Greece Bab-" « is statement is incorrect. blame the “Year Book and Register’! L ATU RE dued, and_adding that {f Leonidas would would make him 1 ee Sand Trinity's ( Comptroller, Hermann H,Cammann, who grve-Fhe-Even- +O G = viceroy of thd whole conquered country, Leonidas sent back a curt fefusal. die ‘ eness and ats = CPX tA —teNt eit-a tong aad lowers document commanding Leontdas—— + ng World reporter the book and vouched for its completeness and to yield up ifs men ani_weapons, Leonidas sent back the parchment with * two Greek Words scrawled across the bottom. he. words were ‘Molon labe!”’ (“Come and take them iD 1907 “Trinity Corporation owns over $80,000,000 of real estate on Nan-/- ss dian yanguard of his army against the attan—Island. —Three-fourths-of_this is exempt from taxation, being Ve fl — pass, Leonidas drove them back with terrible slaughter. Next-Xerxee-rent— S=—-oocupled. for churches and graveyards, and brings in little-revenue. The i‘ i ] / i; = . ‘ forward his ‘Ten Thousand Immortals,” the picked corps of the Persian ee dese eee ‘ = = //) y | \ Army. These, too, Leonidas forced to retreat. The plucky Grecks held the other quarter ts the old Bogardus, Jans and-Kings-farms,which stretched |. ¢ = ——— 4 Wy / = | pass for-days againet-all comers..In vain the Perstan millions were dashed Z Ly t i “from Fulton to Christopher streets on the lower west side. Nf f Ge Hving—wall_bf-ueroes.—Xerxrsrichest-king—on—earth_and leader ——On-this-property-Trinity paid in_1905 $91,411.53 taxes, Under —many-of-the-leases the tenant_pays the taxes. On_a two-third assessment and a 4.50 tax rate this property is worth about $10,000,000, and on a ai cent. net_rental basis, which is low for tenement property, the ‘Qnnual income applicable to religious and charitable purposes is at Teast ify r YUE) t yf ify : the greatest army, found limself hopelessly balked by a petty Spartan UY : ve ad by @ force less than oue-flvo-hundredih the size of his own. MLL, ee 1 How long this deadlock might-have-endured can_never he known. For y WY Gees! - oe +a-Greok,.Ephinlles by name, went privately to Xerxes and told him of a ii A XS E ig SESH{ | cecret path -leading—up- tho mountain to a—plateau that-commanded—te— Ly > wy : Pass and the Greek {ntrenchments. One morning Leonidas awoke to find tho heights above the Pass in the hands of the enemy, Further resistanco was hopeless. So he dismissed his allles and sent them safely home. Then 000, Taking the records of the Register’s Office instead of the Tax he consulted the oracle and was told that “Either Sparta:or. Its King must a: <a Ts, yesnaes = rises = : > pérish.” To save his country (for the ancients belleved implicitly In uracular ‘Office, Trinity's net income Is-over a mittion doliars. : ; messages) he resolved to stay and defend the Pass until he should be killed, : The -Evening-World asks again: Where does this money go? Who — SH = y With 300-Spartans- Leon!das awaited the charze of tho eerelaan : istittare " fe : Xerxes attacked from all sides. in the first skirmish Leon{das fell. 7 gets it? How is it accounted for? The Year Book accounts for $101,- herofe comrades fought on until they dropped dead atout their slain King. — 79.55. The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the head rector, says he does not Only one man escaped alive. He returned to Sparta, where he was cursed . 5 a 7 = Van as a coward and a traitor, and was henceforth shunned as though he had know and has nothing to. do with the financial affairs. . Comptroller esletcomartfandkastraltor tend ber ajshaned{asi nous hineting Cammann refers inquirers to the Year Book. into mourning, who had been killed dressed ns for n festival. Who-knows where it goes? Twenty thousand Persians had been slain in the effort to capture Ther~ Seas oats — ae A mopylae. In rage at memory of such slaughter, Xerxes had Leontdas’s Here isa great charitable and religious corporation, favored- by the = body hanged on a gallows. By this abominable State in the exemption of the butk of tts property from taxation, enriched = solely by the increase in land values on Manhattan Island, to which it = = treatment of a gallent foo he won for himse! { ‘A Defeat that Turned {tna contempt of all tho world: ——— Into Wortd Victory: Leonidas's act in -sacrificing—-himesit-aad has-in-no way. conlibuted, but rather retarded. — C his followers for a hopeless cause was not one of fe - 2! x = = — tbravado. It was an object lesson and an example to Greece, and *-Itis-a great trust. To whom does it account, and why are its books - —-—— d what heidway a few heroes” might make ugainst—mor: —hid- even_from its own clergymen?. It encouraged the other- Greeks -and..gare_the Persians 20 white: Let N. O. M. answer these questions: i : : : z some fear of molesting such a-nation, It had another and more far-reaching. see il Love Affairs of Great Men ue ue oe w- By Nixola-Greeley-Smith. | «tect that changed the world’s history. | For Inter, Alaxander. (he\ Creat, cj gta Set sina . e = ren.embering how 300 Greeks had held at bay all tho power of i 4, What salaries; commissions and-fees do the vestrymen draw-or}——— culated that a small Greek army might overcome Persia Itself, |! received zs sind 3 John Ruskin’s Sacrifice. mother had chosen to keep her a month longer, we should have fallen quite | oniy-30,000 men he attacked and conquered Persia, and later the whole? f ‘4 ae | melodiously and quietly in love, and they mtght have given me an excellently 2. What are the relations between Trinity Corporation and the Real J OHN RUSKIN, authe s nd Liltes,"* aan Pleasant Httle wife, and set me up, geology and all, In the coal business, with- _ hie " ; Fe x i Seven Lamns of 1 ea other works| out any resistance or further trouble on my part. When Charlotte went away | hy d his comrades waged between the narrow walls of Ther la ci Estate Trust Company, of which one vestryman is president and othe: osukin. Bree tes F over and) with her father, I. walked with har to, Camberwell Green, and we sald good- fudlrectiy to making Greece AS eeiorithe world, Hate Re -vestrymen-are-directors ? f a Be some oth Was NOt Mulf-so ortst-— hye, rather sorrowtutly, nt the-comer-of-the New-read; and. that possibility. a! - ~ = nat-in-hte-works-as-In-his-lito. meek. hanp! SS EAM ile kehilatatt fires 3. What are the relations between H. H. Cammann & Co. and FE cE UN era Re eR ES Trinity Corporation? 3 : known earth. = Thus was Leonidas, the fearless Spartan, avenged; and the brave fizht Ho had several love attairs of very pastel coloring before: gotinted'-a- marriage for -her-with a seallsto-do trader, whom she took because great -rom: of his life began with his marriage to she was did. He treated her pretty much as one of his coal sacks, ang-in a ~— : fata GhnimsesOrng tons with hor tore and year" tn ae ded : *"*\Mme. Melba Weta reaaers to the great pa Millalan+ ‘thonsh his “iret love Was ao child: for- whom -heowrote: ponderous eazaya, “4, Why did Trinity Corporation pay taxes on property to whick ——— aihomare a Jestry1 =} ne title? ¢ most Important of his preliminary love affairs was | Ty ‘ % = & nior-Vestryman Edmund D. Randolph held the title? ~ P} Ruskin married {n 1848, when he was twenty-nine years old, the girl for whom 5 = . Senior shi Atlant tte sso ue -|he devised his firet fairy story. ot £5. Who: got the profits in the sales and exchanges of property be Buplenia Gray wan an extremely atatuesque beauty whom he met at a ball Six Talks on Voice Culture. m ixteen™ d whom he admired about as hs might St. Paul's Church or Lincoln Cathotral, ~ ne tween Trinity Corporation and its vestrymen? 6. What rate of interest does Trinity Corporation's cash balance —_draw, and_do vestrymen owil “stock in the depository banks and iri Written for The Evening World Exclusively, ~~ _ he was,” eful in An unfinished | Soon after the meeting he proposed, and she accepted him, though the feeling and sinall wild extremely Intelligent, |on helther side was stronger than fflendship. Marriage aid not strengthen It, { % _2 2 Advice to the Girl Who Is Talk No.2a—srtudying Abroad. # ot st ot affectionate, wholly _right-minded, and mild in plety. Anj|and> when Ruskin brought the handsome young pre-Raphaelite painter, John altogether sweet and delicate creature of ordinary sort, not! fg pleasant toonee,-repeelally If har—eved are. got 10 } We—dap: als, to his home to paint Mrs. Ruxkin'y portrait the result was swift and }inesltable The artint and hin sitter fell in lave, and being honest and uncon- ventional, ‘they told Ruskin abouw it, The latter mét tie sttuation aw" tew men | ise nee aR Sina clhaye aver done, He promptly secured the annulment of marriage, and at Bes golig broad x atudent the wedding of hla ex-wife and Millais, which followed iminediately, he gave with any ambition should get « { hearing. bdofore some person, —preferably-—a—misician, whe has a ——knewintpe pf The conditions and artistic-atmosphere of the great music x of Europe. A person Whd his only leay experi= enos cannot tell what ts demanded for If YOU Had z 2 ByF. G.Long | eed | LoS ST 4 } / 4 companies? ¥ pretty, but qu ; Frinity-Gorporation—-is_notoriously. the svorst big Jandlord in New |and her mind =~ York It-has blocked the growth and development_of'the lower west side econ Paci tirectty-atistenement-overcrensding -anithe-aya ice -6 f-Saiee- sand supply the dem: ard haw hero and has-at ce-of Richard Wagner, of which more did her Rreat reread WY en erations one natunilly gots more I= timate knowledge of the “art and a truer appreciation of all tts retatio Senay pece / woe OTHER MEN ARE GET- z aie TPIT TSN'T IR PERE COME STING RICH. You ARE: SATISFIED WITH. 4 , ed PE! NEW RLANL E| Sie iN- ; : 3 tian a the nower ope SaaS SE } OR PERCENT FROMTHE SAY VESTMENT../N_TOWN, es ey {a stiN-somewhat of a luxury, | | PALTRY FOUR s oy meer tf PIO er. zai z we abe hayo mentioned in the prevanis Ll jINGs BANK! You HAVE J WHAT Lucy?! au oT lesson, study abroad gtyes—a—better ritwo- 2 sinless BILIT TS gy eq fuear ear caves a HAD, JN THE Savas, " ! : i Rramp of languages. ; m {iat RLS. See BS Rs IS Te ae L Ke EET SAaW ae te i regan @ residence tn Franee, rate ie But-has it the right-to seal its books-and-to-refuseto give-a_py —aecounting of its ktewardship? What is it afraid of? If its great income Ap tow bio HE PN KNOW NY) 6 APG Be } NATI ES and Germany aa invaluable to — tha student with ambition, - A wopranc-going to—Parts-F-would-ad-———_ has really been expended for “charitable and religious purposes,” the 4 ¢ “ By viso to study with Marohest ~The; if, rea Be , x D =>F student in German’ musato should go to credit ould be correspondingly great’ IN > ; * LAL-Lohmann.. As for Ttaltan teachers, 4 sa b q I could not give my advice, as I ati bs my Italian roles with Verdi, Leoncavalle and Puccint Of course I strongly advocate, where !t is posstble, for the singer to study | with the composers. Viet ‘A reafdence in foreign countries gives the singer an Intimacy and confidenss) ~ that could never be obtained in any other way, even by the inost atudent. F The girl who Js studying abroad should bear In mind one thing. She must, Letters from the People. very Httle chance of her bene ann Ig any stenomipher or othe lacking {n welf-réspect tt In lier own se For Lower 1 "To the Editor of The Evening Worl: ‘I would like to: say soenething the plan of living on #3 a we choice, and auch girls require the ald People would not put on so m * organization to reform them not, in hér enthusiasm at getting ol the foreign ‘musical advantages she cin amd Inaiet on Mying | Ao hot the men, stpso. | f= 7 practise too long. 1 : Mr teey would ect along deter. y Pennies and Thekets Syou Lose! SoKRy, BUT WIRES CROSSED! , T ain ma adyocato of very short practice and very long study. Never efttempt tha could easily Ret w nice lictle flat of four] m, ny paitor of The Bvenine We WRONG STEER! BETTER LUCK NEXT THE! to sing any music ti you know St thoroughly, For a gtrl to slt dowd at a) awit rooms for 31, and in a nice nelehbor-|' 1 saw Mra. J. N's wrtlele on “Penner oC plano and try to sing through an aria she knows only moderately woll is a great poo hood, Then they could yo to a | on the Elevated." und I fully agroe with mistake and {s a tax on the yotco. It js only when she has thoroughly mastere®, Iau “of amunement once in awhile, and_hare| hor, ‘The tlcket-ellers do claim wornen | music that she should attempt to_stng It j bu @ Uttle bank account, rive them pennies, for I have had jus One half hour's actual practice ts enough each day, uniess the student hap’! he K. ARNOLD, ~ | atch oxperlences. On one occasion at exceptional cnhyslaue) then shiereguld practise a half hour In the mornmg-and | ae - ' subWayistatl: " : : ther half hour later In the day’. } the panes Glepan author Urenener aan Leto? LEER Gee Uhl soot calirse there are plenty of young singers etudying not only abroad, but. KV Be, the alter of The Evening world FAL AGUAS A AO hehe nome, who are led to, bolleve that they are accomplishing wonders by praotis! ay! Meets: ASV ety remren ttt [Refusing to'accept penalee inte’ by the hour, This is a fatal mistake, and tx one which ruins many yotces. le TIA Bia" peaposed by. 1 wilckily buon peatloniactoncr eee eet When the student is beng trained she must never in her enthusiasm use-hemt - ff fat! Sisson Another time.on the 8! ati @ until {t becomes tired. \ tha frame Geers i.1n nadie ea om SR PNG BESAEA Yen UBALTE ng have nad-the auestion askod me many times: How fong should a py eet At OO aI pea a ett eal study abroad? ‘This depends entirely upon the mental rapacity of the studanb, | ken Position, reaulros xr oadvothareulag pea LAN he Young slngers cite to'me my own case, for 1 atudied only nine montha abroad be’ | pechect fer s2ron she ilaksubinaeccianttcrarmetine fore I became a full-fledged star, I would not adyise many students to try being, low, male employees. Her own self re: t. 80 1 received the ticket. Abt prima donnas at the end of nine months’ Huropean study, however, for I was! Rpeot is her wafeguard, and if she o hard looks from him. 1 ndvise | born with a natural trill and an absolute control of breath. At seven Piles ducts | herself per manney | ot Recta. has "pennies: shoved | could trilt-end control the breath {n a manner that many students only " i there 19 na.toan w a dare Insult] other tleket. 1 ae eet after hard study. Me abn eNO i pid tn thot, refuse tas aly | I would be frank to say that {f @ girl could not give a good account of may, eeapa ne Tet will You great oa yoico in three, yeura’ atudy ahe had better come home from Europe andwgive. up dog an hax Oarege 69 @ singer Scuba) ameter te atten epee oar an i es bys