The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1907, Page 12

orld’s Trae Te d by the Press Publishing Company, No. 52 to @ Park ‘Watered at the Post-OMice &t New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. ME 47... «- NO. 16,612. PAY. FOR ACCIDENTS. ay eesece re England, and the sol States. i workman injured-in-an 2 formerly. difficult: for ‘any. “Of nis emp joymént 4 alawyer,- |. The new English law. passed bildren for injury from accidents. There will-be no defense of con- pligence—t contributed to the accident, and the only question to be ascer-| | is the extent ‘of the ‘injuries: R Soran ere a workman-is killed by accident his family are entitled {o re- jon. Where the injury-does-not-cause- death, -but-inability.to recovery is to be a weekly payment up to half the weekly i xceeding-£4,-or-$5,———________ pee “English law makes the employer liable for this payment, but how, New York EGLIGENCE cases are crowding =4-— the-calendars-of.the-courts,-and at almost every Bar Association meet- ing there is a discussion of contin- gent fees, and ambulance cases. present system of recovery for “physical injuries is defective in its _ Speculative nature. This defect has “been recognized in Germany and in tions in both} those countries will likely lead’ to analogous legislation-in the United dent -to4- darhages. | This was-on. the theory that the risk of accident was |. and that his wages covered payment for the risk | ° ir Could recover: because he had“ paid his re,-the-motorman and the conductor injured_in the same accident have to goto the charity hospital, and If they were. maimed for life, to the is. This, strict rule has been modified by employers’ liability ‘acts; by tactory laws, by taking foremen and superintendents from ‘thé = of the fellow-servant exemption, but still there was always the of-going. to court, and the great uncertainty he new by the present Liberal and Labor Par- nt will after July 1 automatically compensate all workmen, women ‘is, that the injured did or omitted to do some-} yunt-equal-to-his wages forthe past three years, or £150, |" 8 INSANE tas nt insurance policies so that the risk will, be distributed. h =system :there-is-a-direct tax-upon-employers to | ‘Under this system workmen and their families receive payments ‘of accident and of incapacity to eam wages due to sickness, or In this State there is the greatest irregularity in the amounts found u negligence-cases,-The-verdicts for accidents causing death from $120 to over $50,000. Broken ankles have been compen- tations on injuries.are: Broken arms, $1,000 to $11,500; hired eye, $600 to $5,000; loss of a finger, $250 to $4,000; amputated JOO: 1H $12,500; fractured “skull, $500 to $19,500, The -loss of fex-has brought a_verdict_as_high_a rh Josing-both-legs-has been. put as low. as $2,500.” 'y fixing-a price, on all kinds of injuries resulting from accidents on =a-nercentage basis according to the nature-of-the-emptoyment-and -the tf weekly wages the whole negligence: practice of the courts could @iminished to.a doctor's examination. The people who are hurt in is would bea great deal better off, because.they would get prompt Beiter payment without: lawyers'—fees—and_court. delays. - The em- ‘vould be better-off because universal liability. would-lead. to-an ( ling prices which would make the consumers—that is foie community—pay_the bills. a etters from the People. alivice to Schoolboy. Jrorot ‘The Hvenink ‘World urd to tha” fourteen-year-old «who complains that, after f good record, he has failed gt —the--Jast_promo- “he can do nothing but turn over & vat arid utart all the work ot the] ‘Class as though he had not been there before, Then possibly at the of two or three months he will be able to go ahead. An far as the princi se concerned, I don't see Ber n pro C <The ~prinetpal} — ‘can promote him. Trey he work the boy aves | Te the Faitor ef the Evening World: will keep a scholar; The reason for the poor attendance Me qtidor advance-| at night achoola is obvious, ‘The the- ‘ti worry—he'll come} MtTe, the pool-room, the dance hall, the he mentions only the defensive sie oF yartere. I think ¢hése poaseasions arc Hivalouvie-t6-Unsie Sam. ‘Theyarecar coming stations and aiso give protuction to-all-etray ships under. our fag, —Tn-or- der'to maintain @ navy ablo. to trayel to distant -shores:et a moment's notice (We must have atattona where supplies and @inmunition can be stored and Where @hips can go for repairs and safety, For these reasons I belleve that these telands should be kept. FRED E. KUEHNL. Night Scho. Attendnnors ack {f he or # ent. “He shouldn’ ima Rata £. Cc. B, galopss have areater t m to A Pupll of "Old Fifteen.) [782 Who has worked all day than tne ; Ta 5. school room, where he is expected to 4 Right? and “Withdraw,” ental work; thence to return home tho E4Kor of The Evening World: to bed and close th ; or AMON Lowe eyes on n fu correct: ‘AM ris dno pleasure in a Which is correct: “Withdraw” th-draw?" JLNOR SENIOR, Haledon, N. J. The Dost Fire Department. tainmenta to t PAltor of ‘The Evening World: [are conatantly Sid response to the query “Whlob ch¥) continue thi the world has the best fre depart- | 4). Lge cer! L must say that the fremen | d fire apparatus of Milan, Italy, seem | “nethe beat in existence. 1 hi round the world several ttm T have never soen quicker and bet- frained firemen than in AIAN, Dhey A Parent's Duty, ive splendid apparatus and very sel-|To the Editor of ‘The Fvening World: You wea A }ife lost-in a fire. This earth ts getting 90 corrupt, what iwéeryautck at a call, The next beat (with munier-sulcide and at aig are those of the United States. {that surely some one must bo ¥, A BCUTLER, of Jt but who and how? d the tea ey try to off: effect»; t tho dis! ng weekly The ‘former we the latter ‘to attendance school authorities clone the a: on account of there not b persona recety em, JOHN MURRAY the city's maintal 18y he cause I'blame the ‘Retendx Expanaton, mothers wh) in thelr children's youth wo Mattor ot The Evening World: ilo not ¥ set in thelr hearts a love f whewer to the letter by the Civil of God o moe Of olny Wereran. 1 wish to show h Phitipyices and Hawnil Won’ to Uasie Bam Ifnot a neceaslty. (aud others dodate thia wamitieatena ) Feasontng 1F clear) but rill not \iet ua Hear what the readers have ‘to Argument. In the first place, ley in the mattert A Commandnienta nployers will relieve themselves from their liability by taking out || the state insurance system, the conduct of which is a public ex- $450 to $5,000 and sprained ankles at from $500 to $4,000. I ission of the brain, $1,118 to $8,000; hurt back, $258 to $12,000; f= deaths -are-aitribuiabie-to accident. ~ Keepers 279, = than those ofa man. every 16 women. “HE MusT f E Daily Magazine, Wednesd | Insanity (ests sleet “By Macrices Kettem: yob are an American you stand a better chance of being killed by accident than if you are English, Welsh or Irish. Thirty-nine out of every 1,000 Amer- ean people who die are killed by accident, and only 3) English out of every 1,000. French people are much more careful, for only 15 out of every 1,00 French Insurance companies’ iife tables tell-you all sorts of curious things. For tn: wtance, that 1f you are a clergyman you havea better chance of living to man‘ fuil-apan of three-eqore and-‘ten than (t_your profession Is.thar of a. doctor Loddly-enough,-a-doctor, in spite.of the risks he runs from Infection, has a bf.ter} -olignce—of life than an_attorney. while the latter's life chances are better than those of a coaghman's; 14 coachmen out of 10,00 dle for every 165 aitorney: The life chances are worrt of all for saloonkeepers and cabdrivers. If the death rate for 10,000 men {s 180 per 10,000, that of cabdrivers ts 265, and of aaloon- Between the ages of 25 and 65 a woman's chances of life are distinctly better Roughly speaking, 19 men die between those ages for Out of every million people nearly 2,000 succumb yearly to “alsqases of the throat end faly 2.90016 consumption. “Phird-in- potnt-of-deadiiness comer-heart-yiving for-twetve months. | Tfor himself or for wiléhever ste woutd-offer-him-the targest-pay— When. Here Are Some of the Chances You Take in Life: disease, which carries off about 1,400 yearly out of each miiilon of our people. Cancer and apoplexy, send each about 600 to their graves, while the danger of smallpox {s 80 slight.as to be less than one one-hundredth that of consumption. ‘A ten-year-old boy can only expect to live Just under forty-eight ‘years, whilo a ten-year-old girl ix justified in expecting to live another fifty-one years six !months. This superiority holds good all the way through Hfe, and even at wix- ty-five a woman's expectation of Ife is eleven years, ugainst nine years nine Yet| Months for a man of the same age. To pyt the expectation of Iffe in anoWer-and= perhaps clearer “way tt-te 33 [to T Tat an- average” boy-between 19 and-15-wilt-_not-dle-within the next twelve. Months. “When you-are-twenty- the ehaners-af100-to-3-|n-your facor. At seven: ty-five It Is still $to.1 that you survive for another year, . q If you are between twenty and thirty the chances are about 8 to 1 against lyour getting married during the next twelve months. Married people live longer by about two years than widowers. It-tho-wite-dies first, the mar survives-on. un average of nine and one-half yeara. But the average widow tas a prospect of e'oven and one-half years more of life after her husband's death. The lives of monarcha are bad risks, The Czar’s life, for instance, ta only worth five years’ purchase. In other words, it fe” only 6 to 1 against his sur- The Cheerful Primer. 5). Will the Man © PO and the La-dy & Be-come Ver-y Well AC-QUAINT-ED? _ By C. W. Kahles. .|stolen part of the tribute money, charged him with theft and banished hint that he was guiltless of his brother’s murder. Alfonso thus for many rea- /Sois hitl little-cause: to-love-the Cid. Yet-the latter_srasso powerful and 1} dajured. We-alone ts 40-#ho-remates-the victien of (gnorance ond mpostuce, SIXTY HEROES. |WHO MADE HISTORY. Albert Poyson Terhune. : No, 14—THE CID, a Hero Turned Robber. YOUNG man, clad in blood-splashed armor, rode wearlly back to tho Castilinn army one day in the latter half of the eleventh cen- tury. Down a double Tine of waving banners, pealing trumpets and cheering men, he made his way, to recefve the praise of his king, While the alr vibrated to thundorous shouts-nf “El Cainpeador! El Cid!* ("The Champion! The Chieftain!"). ‘The youth wes Rodrigo Diaz, son of a nobleman of Spain. Civil war had flamed up between the petty Spanish Kingdoms of Castile and Leon. Rodrigo, the bravest Knight of Castile, had accepted a challenge from the most famous of tho in captains. The two_bad mot in single combat in the -presence of their armies, and after a flerco struggle Rodrigo had slain his foc. For this lie won the title of “Campeador,” by which he 1s still best rememberod. Spatn-tn-those “days was one vast armed camp, and—was_torn_by_per- petual. warfare. Across the narrow. straits from northern Africa bad swarmed the countless sfoors who had settled tn Spanish territory, whore, es~ tabliching Mobaninedanism as their religion, they yearly grew more and More powerful, unui the original Spaniards were threetened with the fate +t the early Britons. ‘Then, in the early years of the eleventh century, Fernando 4,-of- Spatn-made-the firsts stul effort to. check’ their” in- Lertasing power.’ But he died before he could permanently accomplish this. His kingdom Was split ‘up among his several children, who forthwith neg- lected thelr, country's safety while they quarrelled and fought among thom- selves.” Meantime tle various Moorish kings, or chiefs, who bad: divided jthe rule of a larga part of Spain, were also at clyil war with each other as well as with the Spaniards. 1t was at this crisis that the Cid fret toomed up asa ‘figure in national history. 3 : “ROdiz0 Diaz hal already drawn all eyes-to him by @ romantic ex+ heen the theme of many poems, plays and operas.» oe His father, according to the story, had been grossly $ Spain-R FD insulted by oné-Don, Gontez, ‘a cousin of King Fer-. i F eto \ nando, Being too old and feeble to resent-the insult § by Civil Wars. 2 with his own sword, the elder Diaz bade his son nn ——~——~F wipe the sta(n from the family essutcheon, Radrtgo fobsdlently challenged Gomez to a duel and-kitied him, .Gomers. daughter, |Ximona, went to her uncle, tho King, demanding Rodrigo’s-iHfe-tn—pay~ ment for her fathe Fernando brought the, ‘fair avenger and Rodrigo jtace to face; They fell in-love with each other at first sight and, by royal consent, were married. The marriage contract’ {s still preserved {n local archives. SEN Fernando's eidest son, Sancho, at ‘his father’s death, fell heir to the kingdom of Castile, His younger brother, Alfonso, King of Leon, made - war. on him. Rodrigo sided with Sancho, and aided him-in- defeating and — jmprisoning Alfonso. Soon afterward, Jn 1073, Sancho wns. assassinated and Rodrigo inherited the thrones of Castile and Leon. Before permitting him to be crowned Rodrigo {s sald fo havo forced him to take solemn oath so_popular the King cared not openly destroy him.” So he him on a dangerous expedition to subdiie and wring tribute from: the Moorish. king. of Seville. Rodrigo overcame the Moors, collected the tribute and returned to-his master with [r But Alfonro, pretending to believe the Cid had would accept the eervices of a man branded as a felon. Disgraced, smarting from injustice, the unfortunate champion renpunted allegiance to Spain and-to-Chrisitunity,. Thenceforth he became a free-lance, fighting a @ 2nd plunder defenseless towns and castles. Thou- sands of soldiers of fortune flocked to his standard A Free-Lance and His Exploits. § and riff-raff’also joined him in the sure hope of < booty. His army contained Christian knights and he fought under the banner of the cross against the Moslem armies; some- times under the standard of Mahomet against the men of his own race Na_price 3 jeemed too high for a king to pay for his terrible sword. ‘At last, while temporarily serving “umter the Moorish “King of Saragossa, }ival-Moorith army, -The-city.and province of Valencia formed the richest, ‘most desirable section of Spain. The Cld_at the hoad of his band, of ad- ‘on his own account and then proceeded to conquor the whole district and most of the neighboring province of Murcha—In. dolig this-he was: able to much of the territory so rudely annexed. ving thus carred-out with his sword a snug little kingdom of als own, the Cic-ceascd his roving-mare four, Dut the adventurous life he had led began to tell on him. During the next few years he aged greatly and lost much of his old flery spirit. person lead the defenders, but sent out a trusted HMeutenant in charge of his-forces. ‘The Moors cut his army to pieces. Rodrigo, at news of the the {nvaders two years longer, but was’at last forced to yield. The Cid’ little kingdom was wrested“away. But-the-memory of hie deeds at!l) lives fair fighting was not at hand ho did not hesitate to turn wholessie robber glad to serye under so famous a leader. Scoundrels Moorish noblemen, aswell as the offscourings of both nations. Sometimes and religiot His very name grew to be a byword of fear among bis foes. he was sent to relieve.the siege of Valencia, which had been attacked by a yenturers, bore down on (hé Desivgors, drove them off, -oceupied-the-elty revenge himself on 43 old enemy, Alfonso, who held a protectorfte over auder career and settled down in 109/asa@ petty monarch. He wasonly fifty- So when, in 1099, a Moorlsh army marched against Valencia, he did not in dofear, died of shame and grief. His wife, Ximena, held Vatencta against — in end a a jie “Will “forever continae to” be the -nattonal par Time Yourself Reading This MINUTES Vp) with MARCUS AURELIUS ON RIGHT LIVING, ore ony one Dehace dll toward me, let Mm look to tt; the fault to Ms. D I shall act aa nature could have me, and conduct myself acc ingly. Sccord- ‘Onty convince-me that I have sdid or thought a thing that ts wrong, ana T shall alter forthwith. I seek but the truth, by which’ no man was ever yet yout Taka do-my- duty; for the-rest, whether Welig or dying, I hgcs. ao care, Toward man, who shares reason -t0lth thee, employing God's assistance, be aoclal and Kind: Act only thus and a short fe wil serve thy purpose ae well as one that ts long. Alerander the Great and Ma mule-driver, when they died, were “pono par, Their soula sent to God; thelr ashes to tag elements. Q Camm et Umer 7 2 Making Tedditors Out’n of Them. -—---___ By Walter-A.-SInclair,. ssi HE editor eat In his sanctum, smoking his pipe of clay, | ‘Thinking of all tbe portraits he'd printed that weary day, When up oh the dingy stairway that led from the snowclad street Jie heard'the tramp of martlal—though volunteer-martial—feet, ihen into that smoke-filled sanctum, where pulsing thoughts throb end seett hore entered a fearsome vision that was all Big Btick and Tooah, ‘Tho editor kept on sitting, Gis pipe grasped between hia teoth, While over that gloomy eanctum the smoke clouds commenced to wreath; ‘And os he eat-in his sanctum, grasping hie penotl blue, He looked at the fearsome Vision, Suid he, ‘What can we do for ‘The visjon glared In anger as ft laid the Btick on the shelf, Romarking, “Therc's little doing that I cannot do myself. done some police commishing; I've handled the cowboy hooks; ¢ soldiered and sallored and ranchered, and written a bunch of books} T've lectured the foolleh women, at ratlroads. I've wagged my chin; Ip fact, thore Is nothing doing on which I've not butted ta. Now editors get my treatment—let-cach oné obey and trim, For with my Hig Stick I'll be making a Tedditor out’n of him."* The editor wat in his sanctum, charmed to a etmptified spell, His empty pipe tri hls features and his yoloe declaring "Well" He reachod for Ie Jug of rebalt and poured out a bow! of ink, Then paused for a quiet chuckle that ¢ollowed a qulet think. 2 Tho editor Mlled uf his meerschaum, with al of his thinking done, ‘And blowing « ring he chorited: "Thank heavens! there's only onel™ Foreign Game for Vermont. wealth! OME of vat aportsmen of Vermont are now engaged tn a move ment to stock tho coverts of Vermont with forelgn game birds, Among the birds which it ja belteyed can be introduced {nto the State are th daleypa, which {9 native to Norway; tho capercallsie,. mT the husk } which 1s found in the highlands.¢q \ employment unter other Spanish—kings._But—none——— Peeeneateh caren ie.