The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1907, Page 14

d’ 7 The— Evening _ Worl 7 see NO. Te: CONDESCE NDS. Jeiphia, has waked, up to the ‘fact The merchants of, Philadelphia ed to ¢¢ ompel the making of an equita- ble contract betwee en the ariel ion which monopolizes street trangporta* | *fion and, the beople ot Philade Iph 1s 16,89). | | | yis.to pay into its own Se so that its tock wil? represent-an actual | aatered capitalization of its franchise: —“Phis}- cota tranpetiation_sysiem, an additional sum i sAnyestmentinstead~ of money ls tobe used tops; cars and a better service, {6 build suburban exten Philadelphia R. T. fulfil its functions.as'a public carrier. The future profits are to be annually computed.» After lawful in- “terest has been paid on the-actual investment and a sinking fund set aside the. net. profits are to be divided half to‘the city ain chaif to the ‘stpck- holders, . The sinking fund iS to be of such ‘size that at the end of fifty} He will pay: “off the capital stock and the city shall then become they owner_of the- ‘property._of the Philadelphi a Rea locluding all “its | “franchises. } ‘Philadelphia is one. of the’ last of the big cities in the United States | k justice f for its citizens, “After much trouble and many: political | Toe Chicago has come to terms’ with its R. T. New cars are to be built, larger power-houses installéd, a better : service given and the profits divided between the city’and its R. T. W 4o-fiymish_ more and-to-make the}. ‘Toledo, Cleveland, Detron, Bostoyoand- other cities had already adopted the aititude of treating their public corporations as servants in- “stead of masters, reptidiating the theory that any men or set -of men have a_vested right to rob the rest of the community. New-York is left almost alone, of all the cities of the United States, fh Its confession of servitude fo ifs public-service corporations. — While Philadelphia” merchants” are compelting Philadelphia's R> T.to: sufrender j : al-rights-New York's Mayor receives: in the City Hall a>yisit rom the Hon. | Hon. P. H.. McCarren, pasha of Brooklyn, who “brought witht if him President Winter, of the B. R. T. Mr, Winter told New- York, ‘through its Mayor, that the B. R. T. would accept a subway-foop and that when the-city had built this loop the B. R. T. would condescend to run cars therein forthe small price-of fiye cenls a_passenger, - McDonald-Evening World plan contemplated-a threes cent fixe; a trifling difference of four cents a day to 160,000 Brooklynites, or $1,200,000 a year to the B. R. T. The Mayor was gratified at the great concession made by President Winter in ignitying his villingness | to ~~ accept a subway when he had hitherto insisted that the city should Build | i an | élevated loop. ested going to at ‘for biiding +e loop? 1eSvill cost millions of dollars. “The property to extend the switching tracks of the B. R. T. at Park Row will alone cost $4,000,000, The Williamsburg Bridge has already cost many millions of dollars, ~The actual investment —by the city in the Willlamsburg Bridge, the’ old Brooklyn Britige, the Bemminals aod the subway will he more than all the surface tracks, cars sean 2 and. power-houses, of. the B. Rw. great expenditure ‘what are the people’ of New. York Love Affairs of Great Men. R Wilhelmina | Planer, Rontgsberg, whither he had ‘petng musteat—comivctor, but, he obtained anather and more ment_elsewhere. The marriage was ur e mid ICHARD WAGNER, musical \jrouble maker, troubled ilfe and had a troubled romance. kone fn “Under the McDonahtEvening World plan the pepple would get a three-cent fare. Under the B. Ra plan the people will get the Privilege of paying the interest on the bridge and—constristion bonds.‘The dif. ference would pay the dividends on d-be his favorite life the mumcal though, anomalous as it may soun was not water, political and domest! ‘the greater part of his Mfe. love of his Mfe, Cosma, daughter of Franz Lis of Hans von Buelow, S0 fathered and so fius would seem that any oni{nary Ww would have heen content. Cosima and Ric hard) were made for Ach Oar -AT tense they thot G2 &2 &2 Richard Wagner and Cosima.von Buelow. was more Important, led. Daily Magazine, Wednesday, tne Eternal Enigma — By Maurice Ketten, a In’ 1833, But appare when he was twenty-three years old, he married A young actress at the Theatre of} the expectation of jresttt fu Tho engagement fell through thappy —T advantagedus nga came an apluraseater ® fireveater, which he spent! Wagner dled tn 15 Before that Ume Wagner had met the second and gre 9) Siegfried. [due the trasctbitit Woman's Curiosity wore, and, v vith & ta should be anything, of was cettainly th Bis oper, and His second at hls of his hrter years. and too miata. ecugnitionr that meiioertty” Rrextqnddttersreea hie By Nixola Greeley-Smith, they conyinesd von Buelow, who agreed {¥tinctly’ novel remark that ho was glad Indeed that deemed worthy of acceptance by the master. This te ever mfd to one musictan-by another, The Wagner and his second wife were Sdeally ever Componed In embodied tn oho? the—tirth-ot—his-xon, > the great was written In cele Hee Wie tite roach happier, did much te eb- feaper, h owas isa, modified ty the tremendoys His youth had been Kiven-to-a-long, fierce _struszie finda fo easily nod a ciyolubonary geniue A an unwill i Uiulerieok!to-carryien his work, and sho ls now foativals at Bayreuth, t production of “Par tists wh wil K part tn ft ji amos aS Tht aw Many people | [Wewny Peck / You Hane No CONSIDERATION FOR "q ie PLEASURE! SOULE YER IBNES MME To THE. THEATER S-OTHER-MEN- TAKE THEIR WIVES th Sime—Kind of ir = Palio as blyman Wagner was “pied 4 and that the auger was inserted-in- the traction ‘trinity estigating asin the gas and “insurance an HUSH DEAR] Wek: } = we fe O-To THe SMEATER SS WONG Ta Tera ands Wat To the Editor of Tne Ey The complaint 2 ands drawbacks HOH of Dee nsbe TAXDR Fers oH we Rorth shore of mo reqular and adequate ~ water, Water was de lf YOU Had a ‘Wife Like This. ed You. UNDERSTAND? THIS ORDER COVERS WEEKS. January 23, |WHO MADE HISTORV made her own first foretgn invasion. | A Speech That | $ Cost the Speaker's Life, again BRING PIY WHEE SHES. ALITTLE H) RD OF HEARING YES: from a T would the other boroughs think o: HENRY PECK! WHAT DO You MEAN BY BRINGING ME: 70 THIS Place! _ Robert Browning. Ainy 0 Fo the Editor of The Evening W Who was the author “and where could I gecure oom? The Tatiy-Tatky fo the Edhor of The mx WWhy do iris talk or four ‘umes tn my on the verge of £ geome girl, but st mo out of it Aeseription of an ‘giggle, xabble, Ko: @boutsums up st % know do. \ each them to keepp room Hfo I ° Oliver We TED, | 4 In Rush fours, Come WITH MIE THIS INSTANT AM OUT TRYING To LooK \\ (AT THE STAGE! | { Now /F You must HAVE THIS KIND OF A. THING To Look AT, YoU CAN SEE, IT AT HOME AND NoT MAKE A PUBLIC DISGRACE OF YOURSELF! ONE HOUR LATER kk at some oh Ara A little more ex-; myo feet again in two: weeks.!! y ese? XWoell, dgdn't be do it?’ asant names? sO catand “at the ~Smith'a| yea, but you can Bo on playing all the eerowaligte iti!) an empty car comos Net sheremsarilk but7-1] He' did) indeed.! 1 tind to rel, my aecent copie nay “would La to lo at {Ddieycle to pa bil COE RS Ade ah a ‘quality.—llistrated Blix: (Weekly. * * Wo. the Kaitor, of The Fven(re World \ PIn defense of the so-called 3 “and “end-seat thurs,” = Hike to know what ts ¢ ‘ WHAT HE WANTED. — | A MARTYR TO POLITENESS, people who are ter Tobdacconist—Perhaps. you'd ike ta] Th Seated at the pianoforte, a young lady remarked to a bachelor of muale, are a lo To this “TH Dite # you no BETRAYING THE TRUTH. “T believe old Dixon must be making isttor: 3 3 oung fellows about Tr CLE, (chet £ m the folly: ~Protimmedinte-cotd: — pease SIXTY H Bey: Albers: Poysen Ferhune. 5,-REGULUS, the Hero Who Kep! His Word aud Lost No, 5 His Life. HIS An tee Slory of almost the only Roman-who ever thought { worth aie while to keep his word ton foreigner. His wame was Marcus AUMUg } Regulus” fie pald for his honesty with his life. | Rome-hadsflovrishied and grown great since the early days when Romu- lus founded the clty and sacrificed himself for !t.. Roman power had spread junttlit controlied the whole-Italian-peninsila. In 280 B_C. the rising coun- | try had suffered {ts first Invasion, when Pyrrhus, Prince of Wpirus, had overrun Haly. But.be had been: beaten back, and sixteen years Inter Rome Her foe now was the city and state of Carthage:: 2 Carthagsras-butit-by-merchant adventurers on the ‘Atrcan const of | the Mediterranean, Through commercia! 6k/Jl, raft and energy an empire | had sprung up, ‘with the city of Carthage as Its centre, and Carthaginian ‘arnues had won. provinces jn Spain and Sicily. ‘It was only a matter of | thme before two fast-growing and over-ambitions powers Hke Rome and rthage must clash, And that time came in 204 B.C. Two factions were Lat odds tu Sicily. Rome was appealed to ‘for ald. So was Carthage. Both [sent rellet armies, in the hope of finding some pretext to #elze now terrl z | tory. "These arm'es naturally came to blows. ‘In two years Rome had cap- tured nearly evéry‘Carthaginian possession in Sicily,‘and was ruler of al- most al] that rich island. 4 But Rome, belng an tilane city; tut—n0 mary to speak of, Sage was a maritime power, and her navy not only won back much of Sieily, but WF flso Captured and destroyed many coast towns ae ‘Italy. Rome at once set to work on a navy; and promptly beat Carthage's strongest fleet Not sat- .° isfied,-the Romans decided to carry the war Into, , Mtri A Jarge’ army was raised and ‘ent ‘against Carthage under command of ‘the Consul, Regilus. The soldiers! had heard Africa was full of monsters, and they refused to sail for sifch aland. Regu ius put dowmthe mutiny, forced the ficet to sail,/met and overcame a Car | thaginian flotilla and landed his men safely on the shores of Africa. There he found no army that could cope, With his., For nearly two years ht and his. ‘Romaps ravaked Carthaginian: terrizory, and at last at- i tacked the capital‘ itself. ‘The Carthaginians asked for terms. tegulys , mould grant nothing short of unconditional surrender. Carthage hesitated: : to grant such humiliating concessions, and as a last resort indyced the Spar- tan General Xanthippus to take command of the demoralized Carthiginian armics,‘The Spattan-qnickts-reduced-the senred- rabble to discipline and } | | eee eee 1} Rome's First Quarrel with Carthage. OEE eer | marched against Regulus. Regulus, thous worn =a long campaign, met the Cartha --the-verywalle-of Carthage. The Romans 3 1 | men.” Regidus Himself was captured. For five. years he remalned a priteo7 | oner 3 i Meantime Romie had con(inued-tve-warin Slelly. proved ro | [strong that Carthage, unatile- to withstand “her attacks, da peace j treaty, Carthaginian ambass to Rome to aru the matter, 1 and with them went Regulus. as allowed to revisit his old home un- | der his colemn promise that in case the treaty negotiations should fall he, } would return to prison. In.this way the wily Carthaginians Usought to secure his Influence: in favor of the treaty. ; Arrived in Rome, the ambassadors urged. most eloquently the mutual | | advantages to be derived by such a treaty as: Carthage proposed. The S j late was almost persuaded to sign It, when Regut were well-pleasedthat thelr arguments should be Ticked an advocate, Buf {héir pleasure was short-If iTus, speakiig trom the personal knowled, e,he had_xleaned ‘of Car begged Rome s and kow fooll vaecept: part, when hy. force she might wih ‘all, 8 a result of his words the-F refused to a sign the treaty, and packed the envoy: No one.had the slightest Idea that Reilus would kecp his rash prom of returning toCarthage. After his speech he cottld hope for nothing ther but instant death. tHs friends, his family, the Senate, all implored him to Temain: in- Rome. -But-he- atu, duly. turned his back on eiF plemdttngs amt———— | insisted on fulfilling his. promise. Back to ©: hage he went with the Givors, The carthastntans-tn fry: H4s--unforoseeis patriotism ta balking their signs, are said to have elids to be cut off. and then exposed him to the giare of the tropic sun, After which, according to the nLOF they placed him {na cask tuthof-spikes-and—rovied him-doan_a_hill News of his deat_comtng—to—— Rome,-the wife and-son_of Megulus are sald to have submitted two noble Carthaginian prisoners to precisely the same fate. Regulus, by keeping his word, Jost-his life. But he was in time avenged, for Nome continued—the war against her African foe and in-the course of time destroyed the city and cmpire of Carthage and carried her people away Into slavery. | Gives. Evening Mme. Melba World. Readers, _ Six Talks on Voice Culture. | Written for- The Evenicg World Exclusively.-———— ia Ik No. 4—S°o? 1B {a |nponalble for at caused bi —_—__. —3 Health « ana Priysique -} Required by a Singer! rareor as he singer yee girl to hay Anne ta wlihout, good health, nenual, =The care of the health canno’ thistdo-notomest-that-becaiae a ghil-lasa vols become-A alae to fads and crankising. Too wy Wd pampering ists Pedr eer tie egphewh eos ‘Common sense should be a “and there ta absolutely-to- ve beying books of rules and. treating herself an than any healthy, _sans-lhuman—boln ~ mist make-asiight oxception, wane anda preren tly healt heated-apartments. To the singer the steam-heated apart- ment ia-w-terrible menace: T if-keep the temperitire: _ of my rooms always at 60 degrees. = I allow the tem: perature to ery aboye this-point,, and:f-haxe-the regeetmrent: ont ii itrep ened: with pure atr ——The-siiger-must-tearn to-become-a—hanty- plant, blighted at the first Vit of exposure Yor-thia reason. sleam-}eated apartments should be nvatded: in fnet. warm rpanis, Tor (ie moment the Kirt with -a-voice goes out into the cold out door alr ahe ts going to become palntuity-aware-of>the-del of her-vocal organs. She will soon lear too,that heat is enervating and makes her Mable - Tet but by: omit RoTURAt ge not-a hothouse tawer, tobe ae ould learn to take aenatble precautions, but far more Important than swathin her throaton cold days la Uie necessity. of keeping her feet and antes dry on damp, molnt days, There are too many détices of modern hygiene to permit a sensible girl nese jecting her Neat, = ai At the besinning the young singer My advice to the young singer of exercise and: treaty: atv She must never take exercise, . Another } necesstty— ht hours’ rely henefioial, Ha, " a young person whose upon tn her b nice at night-and @.nap in the middle of U moreover, necessary. Sleep is the og nervoun system ng well as her menta’ profession, ‘A singer should eat plenty of frult and vogetables. I myelf take for breake Because he Js always talking to the) so-called white elephants of ‘Burmah asd Siam treprosent another..typa. :'Th ot | menagerie-founded In 1527 In Laat Pi fast only a cup of tea and toast. For luncheon [ eat lightly of frult and a Mghé salad or entree, with no rich foods, and my heaytest ineal ts, of courne, dinner which I-take rather late unless Tam singing It might be well In thls article to answer a question often asked ma: How-young may.a girl atart to. develop. her volee?, Never before. she-ta— seventeen. I strongly advise any girl never to start in Ul sho Is past sevens teen, asseven a Mmited study before that age would Interfere with the devele fg opment of tho vocal, organs and sometimes entirely rwn them, Among my_t letters are scores of communtcatians from girls of Nftecn and alxteen asking for a hearing, but, of course, they aro too Young, ‘As for the age limit the other way, I think {fa woman really has an excep= ional volee It ts not too Inte for her to start in at thirty to bein study, Origin of Menageries. attempt to trace the origin of soological gardens gna riaturitl Kistory: mie voums bas been made by J. von Pleyel, “a. Ge eH conctades that monagerles originated partly in the worshty of sacred arinns iid partly) ihe ambition of rulers to collect #peclzens of rere, vauable arid eavaico: creature: The simpkist form of zoological garden. win known to tho Chines Indians,» Greeks, Romana and’ vre-Sprnish Mexteqns In very ancléht times, ¢j Chines ~ moriagorls datinis from 119 B. C, being. the oldest an record.” Phe den of “loge eont” by Darius, of whish-wo-aretold tn the Zook of Dantel, Is an Ulistration' ot Ops primitive mensgerier, and the, sacted ayhite horres of Greece and ome and th London, seems (o have’ miggeaied optowk, eatablishmentin Paris of what ts regarded us tha eartlestn