The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1907, Page 14

orld’s Daily Magazine, “Prstiahed by the Preas Publishing Company, No. 82 to @ Park Row, New York |. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, vening W i i VOLUME AZ yerecanmeewseds/aseeeiaessns saveee course NO, 16,G18, UNIVERSAL FREE TRANSFERS. From the public standpoint the only cri mblyman—Wagner's—free-transfer -bill-is that -—it-could—properly he tmade-more-sweeping, A public hearing has béén arranged for this bill its passage, : : When the provisions of various railroad laws were consolidated and gevited, the adroit railroad lawyers Slipped in little phrases here and “there, which made so many-exceplions to the broad declarations of the faythat the “public have failed-to:receive:-their:share. of: benefits from ress of electrical invention. It is an obvious saving for competing cor- Porations to combine, The expenses of, management are thus reduced; | power-houses cant be better arranged ; . traffic can ‘be handled more ‘profit- ‘ably. Since all the profits -come the- public -Is- entitled -to~share-jn thent. Hence the requirement that free transfers. : In Brooklyn this requirement has| =been-tvaded-bythe-loophole-exceptlon of -raitroads existing before 1884.1 "(Whe Court ‘of Appeals -has decided ‘that this permits a double fare to » Coney Island.’ 5 : But the worst evasion is the Inter-Met traction merger in New York. One corporation owns all the surface and elevated roads, as well as the = Subway, and-refuses_to_give transfers between these -differenttines be. case it was organized under the Business Corporation law and_not under Every loophole shouldbe removed and the doors to every possible| - €¥vasion should-be blocked. Ail the.traction corporations in Greater. Naw! York have an affiliated management. In Manhattan and the Bronx one | _00 ion owns everything and also the Queens County trolley roads.! in Brooklyn one corporation.owns everything except one line. ism that can be made of before the. Committee on Railroads next Wednesday. | It will be inter- esting to watch what honest, legitimate arguments can be made against wreased traffic and the economies in. operation resulting from. the prog: || ~from~the’use-of -pubtic franchises, +~ MT RYAN, 4LITTLE VALENTINE FoR You F | “all roads which combine should. give|:|OL0 'The profits of all these corporations are increasing enormously through the growing density. of population. They should all be re- quired -to-give free transfers,-not-only-on their-own-lines, but-on-all-con- ing times, so-that a passenger could go from the Bronx to Coney Isi | = i from any part ‘of any borough to any part f arty other borough | ; "one-nickel:—-Since “the average cost of transportation ts\ only two tents;-freetransfers would but slightly decrease the 150 per cent. ‘profit ——which-the-traction companies are-now extorting. Thursdaz. February St. Valentine---His Day. By Maurice Ketten. EEEODENTESESESOEESE ITE ONEIGSESE59O04, ¢ ‘ ; : %* Plain Tales from the Hills. + ME.BELMONT, VALENTINE 9 p5SSe0404 frat th bd tlhe at i velbed Hind, Wir HIS ts hot a tale exactly. Tract; and I am jmmensely’ proud called Spencer, 14, 19077 By Rudyard. Kipling. (By Permieston of George Munro'a Bona) sitting {n the veranda in the dead, hots el lose alr, & black-bhie ly, enough: "Thank ‘Gos Ride with an {4% whip, ride with an un-| Then the. Blastoderm turned In hig be & and sald: Handicap. to. the’ table, took up axe umped as if something had 4 the paper o ny ut no man--lenst of all natural — perfectly alcutta Mercantile Adve: ‘The dust. got-up Jn Leth jars; | whistled But-no one was turn thanks ton Heing’ who ne Tis w}exixtwho-tx only. a. figment !—— ie ‘Tiastoderm,' grunted the man tn the next chalr,, “dry up, and throw, me over Making a Tract {sa Feat! — |the Pioneer. We know ull about your aivery man ts entitled to his own re-|fixments.” The Hlastoderm + _| Uxious opinion n © Juntor—haa a right to thrust (these |/rien he down: other ‘men’s throats, ‘The Govert- |” ment eends out weird Civikans now and pagain; but McGoggin wag the queerest | Causey, I mean’— exported for along time. He wan clever| “Hi! Blastoderm, you've give: —briillantly clever—but hia -clevern: ‘worked the wrong way. Instead offthe tree-tops rocked and keeping: to the atudy-ot-the verna: he had read some books written by a man called Comte, I think, and a man| fron, and @ Prof. Clifford. | lls speech. ‘Then he said, pull r slowly (You, will find these books In the Li; crfectly concelvable—dictionary—4 VAs 1 wi ying, “he went ty And mt . "due to perfectly natural THANK You, 2 peas OLD I've BEEN brary.) They deg! with people's |nsides from the point of view of men who have no__stomacha: There was no order st his reading t) but bis Mam- ina should have smacked him. They fermented in his head, and he came out to India with’a rarifed religjon over and above hts work. It was not’ much of a creed. It only proved that men had vo souls, and there was no God and-no hereafter, and dust worry along som the good of iii Tey. es It MoGoggin had kept hie creed, with | 7 the ‘capital letters and ‘lama,’ to himself, no one would cared, but his grandfathers on aidea “had=been Wesleyan preach and the preaching strain came out in hia mind. He wanted every ona att club to mee that th 7 @ good many im, doubtedly had no because he w: wanted to read hi! papers in thi ‘But that ts not the polnt—that je-not-the polit! —Aureiian used to~ gay. Then men—threw—sofa cushions at him and told him to go to any particular place he might belleve in, They christened him the ‘‘Blasto- of that name somewhere, {n the pri ie | ter atrove to choke him dumb, for pb | wus an unmitigated nulsinee att dumb, we t agha “Punjab #0 young, but it did not follow that nis |lump, and that —Utidhe Hedeepeenh eed Pe another world comp! Metric aes—and, by Inmilt and laugh-| It's on eeenteeeen ieee i bring the cool. Very, ¥ far away here: ry fal vhisper, hich was The Conversion Of ite wis, nfugt whaper wien Wa Aurelian, M’ Goggine|:# vin cisiciatsoetttandtead daturals |, Datural- But, once in a wa: i | Why? 1 assure you tt’s only tha Waren the -colt my tort {reauit or perfectly natural cause fniospliorle” phenoniena of Me any ¥ uu should, therefore, out the coming of the Rains, We were all staring at the Biastoderm who had risen 4 9 chair and was fighting with mere etaining r Seemed ta freeze hot the lghtning y in quivers the: Fisctodarm wns a ood pawing and champinu truck Loree, and Nis eee fuil of ¢error, je endings in| ‘The Doctor came over 9 story. ap. rake: nim to hls, roor WOuld com derm came back to us and asia was like all the bys term 1d, due to ‘pe! oa to take leave select Head" fattng in @ nly once Before—in the dimeaif 7 Date fter this."* “He won't be fit fot oes erhalten family.| Work for another three months. he said h ie from a family.| } inearktywortenriine y complete loss of control ov. speech and memory. the Blastoderm qulet, though.” 1 fancy it wiil | Clubs besides being an offense to the| | Two day's later, the Blastoderm found Hae ee jum the ty pa thet fre—all head, po physique and « hun- 5 ters or note, or Woman's Power Over Man Is Overrated 2 « wucht to “mold herself a. PUBLIC NEEDS FIRST. If Central Park grew. orchards like that described in Arabian Nights “where the leaves were all silver and the fruit was all gold, such-extrava-! gances as the Union Square Court-House scheme might be tolerated. But with the streets unclean, with needed school-houses unbuilt, with dilapi dated pavements, worn out waler pipes, a scant supply of fire engines and _the people clamoring for more subways, itis wrong..to.divert-the-city's.h -taxes and debt-incurring capacity to-s wasteful-and needless: va: ances as thé Cio Square Court-House-and the Esopus water schemes. 4 _ the Hall of Records, Underground and part of the surface this land is to u sabove the surface for the constru i d_include the courts and the various public offices which are now | ==paying-$300,000-a year renial to private landlords? i The tand over the Pennisylvania Raitroad Station Is to be utilized by rmomniedpat twilding. ieee Square, built of white marble, beautifully furnished and omamented. But that-isno-reason why the Union Square Court-House sche through untit the many arid much tore pres have been met. : = Letters from the People. me should ga hg necessities of the people clerk, would not healtate at going to t school, but-ms-hours betng so un= certaln I would not risk Joining evening soxsions, We bank clerks have very | thar: Oh — -~—¥, T write 4 friend, “thet tor hin lot is cert: all, I feet positive that Gnd drivers of horses wer to put on lighter loads Overcrowded Cara, 2 the Editor of The Byentne World: We poor victims of overcrowded cars ae inte fer-rettet urging CTasUc 1eEi- tation to e the abuse. Seldom has triumphant ‘indnopoly been’ successfully | shackled by regulation. vila may not} cir horses while:the streets are fn’ such toy condition, that tt would do need 4s great In this ; “Fhe City has obligated itself to buy for $4,000,000 Property_at | his will to hers, Its the Manhattan terminal of the old Brooklyn Bridge, only a few Steps ee ae man shall he the head of the family. few } thi 1. Ofice:— Fhe land-overthe terminattracks “should be used’ - canes It has circumstances. lemur to all her cap! iy tfthe doing ma nworthy passions. Comparatively few women are possessed of hypnotic power | itles be used for switching track S| ‘i . +; lover even the men who are tn love with them, and usually a man who not only} cannot stand the test: ion-of-a: great municipal building, Which to retain ¢ ‘Tradition and custom since the beg: and her dau Teaver ding to his Ideal —_ HEA are taa_things whleh—moregeqeraity ere over hanteat 10 Hie business was wo obey standard tn ail thin SESE and honorable in the sight o! ptance of the term, but is middle-aged and, 4 aha eas i eet ereee y ‘ould no fe with all his bbs ¢ormed, tt ta-an_under- {the men_of his y n hills in fear and trembling, wonder. tated -than tho tnttuence which women Tan contocm ta_his n when a man ts upri That in many} needing no reform.in the ordinary ay the paying goes, “sot in his ways, taking of temerity upon the part of a young woman to marry him with a bellet neither ts tt all-powerful, nor yet can It be depended upon as! in her own ebility to change him to sult her {deas, sure to exist, still less to endure tha yicissltudes of time and| will expect her to conform to atandarda already fixed and unchangeable, and in-| manity. rate. he w lcompatibility of the mort obstinate variety ta Mkely to ensue. Tif none other, fits advisable that young Womea should marry young men. | by means of hits ove for her she Will be able to mold him| such case not only are they more apt to agres in the beginning, but they he-/ Ul the doctor had to warn him that and are much more Ilkely ‘to be adapt- thw was overdoing It. No man can toll en, | men, That it ls great none can dony. changed the destiny of men, the fate of na. Hons, ts matter of history, Nevertheless tt ts ffty-ru) c Tho probability Is that he| ths guhet—advanced. the cas For this reason, The woman who marries a man, fondly fmagining that In according to her own {deas, makes, In? yA Kieal Wad Oflen A Cisdstrois misialo jman- must he wholly-an WONT WS De Yeu W_ToOW her Tead, fo mubmilt without |aensible no ieee Still less ts one Mkety to bend) with each form no small factors in the sum of marital happiness, The loval preak may be granted that mon will do much for thé’ women| which does sot approve thoroughly of tts object is at best a qualified affection, | gined and.currles in Itself the needs of {ts own decay, | Moreover, it cannot he too strongly insisted upon as part of the marriage|matically as if it had been meant to | obligation that both husband and wife shall be tender with and patient towards| embellish, a Tract. 9 times out of| come educated together In the same Sdea. Yable to each other a» time goes on 2 ny _serlous wish to alter, each other would be mich more | take nt. He worked ni at mn for and satisfaction onthe part of i ‘ erstediy tn lore with rices, to dance as she pipes. ch with the man's own humor. History abounds with Instances of men who have sold thelr gods and thelr from the old Court-House and the City Hal S: honor fora woinan's kiss, and most, {f not all of them, TIved to repent the sale, t ee City-Hall and across the street from No woman ever yet ruled a man’s soul except by holding unworthy sway over | each other's peculiarities and weaknesses, shall bear with each other's infirm: That love ts-not worth much, tn the atreas and storm of life, which TANT GT BUPAIIOES SPNTOMTNAT INAS wth” Hire, Tins H covered thy fault with ta klases and loved thee the same? 5, hich of us ts -entled to expect, still more to table sn quality ¢ impression in its strength when the controlling presence Js removed. ing of time haye prescribed that the It wvas-part.ofthe-doom-pronoinesd-aen ghters that "Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he mall ydever Since in the sist masority’ of cases, excepting during e period of courtship, and, even then, {t han been the woman who hares nie of us is perfect, w atUonIn-any other “Bo to my virtues more than kind, suest whieh all ho s_need to prefer. The City now has..one judielal-club-house,located—on saaton MAF . and Mrs. Pinch. = ASMOW PINE HARRY, ROTHS SS OnLy G Se Lt LBANY FOR, SPOUT INVEALES | AvISIT AnD Te TOLD GOTAN iopal/ \ MER We'p TARE HER To ASHOW TO-NIGHT! TARRY, DONT SAL TOL YOU. BUT Yow TVST. TARE YOUR TIME AND SERVE DINNER A. HALF HOUR LA} AREY ARENT TOO-\ READY 2-OIMNER WAS LATE AND WEL CET THERE AFTER THE Snow 1s oveat {toa mi a 8 ride an fancied that thirty-pag canes —t nnd fr. cightoen-annas1n—the rupee fa-June. fering. But McGosati reer keer Tur wt =| 2 | Auretta a little chap. One-day the collapse came—as_dra- It waa{just before the Rains. We were omen. His Deputy Commissioner, | his nO was working on the Frontier he asked was; Aurellan was rolling on « e Doctor et that-—for = [understand itr Aurelian was a-yery 1m quite eane ip {nto the —3Titi. mMEnt) months, and don't fab the: Dodtor:- and keep -abreast-of hy ; ihe Blastodormmy heres me By Helen Oldfield) ie! ik coue| Eh ey Mt “thy “the end of er rebukes he-recrived, and-lnctured a oC distrust, on Aix ridiculous creed out of .oMice, | that he of 1 Naa MeGoxgin your lp. f ‘happens Don't bidme me If he throws a gina at your head. tongue again. The first “What was it?’ ~exxctty— now call his own tn The stroke com | gave him a wholerom The legittmnte e: had been overw xing: him. Soret for three think about Jt," aald ton repeate “itwas my Owe mind $t!* masa area good many and, by the ot -werrice, ther he would be permitted to any sentence he steele planation binael ing had epeect, as a mothe rrthly afras se- Time Yourself Reading This. with, 7 caw hold: by-what-ts fust-and true. but only how we-live and how scedie. 7. MINUTES 2 GREAT MEN | —_ MEDITATIONS OF. MARCUS - AURELIUS. ET-Fancy.tule.no.more: stem the passio weigh justly what befalls thyselfand others, 11 boats not to d¢-angry tolth events, since never a jot do they care, Manage #0 as to gain God's sanction and thine oven. Do you not perceive that there is something mi and truth than fo save or be saved, or, falling in love with life, to Hoe @ length of yearah Should you not-ruther put yollr trust tn God, knowtng that life must come to a close and that the only concern 4s to spend tt wor look. to schat ts defore thoes lore worthy of goodness sue) _ Timely Valentines. Like the corn bearing cars, 20 is life; sone ave mowed “doin, while others stand awhte — Po Hee or dte $80 “110. Eccount, Hoa of hex -otinld, an uh ra Tet when he res Sid ever you come aorosd laying down By Walter A. Sinclair. ES, this ts the day that Dan Cupid holds sway, controlled. Thes must_beabolished The force that defeats our! 1 traffic regulations ts one can sca_wtio-goes—upon in Joy weath Mra (8.3. BAKER. | cain Mtable abuses become ‘vested | Work and Wake: |righta;'' consequently a ‘no-neat-no-| Zo: the Editor of ‘The Evening Werk jfare’’ law would probably be declared | 2 There is much p rty, and many an} Unconstitutional, certainly ineffective by Be “honest nervant longs for good employ-'/ yr necesslty, tf eno cara are not! Ment at $16, $137320 or $25 a month, They | provided. L make tt more profitable | y Feally, need work, ‘Their families aro |to our traction, kings to accommodate + poor, Why do so few girls apply for |the travelling public and their selfiah-| fobs at $0.4 month, with bodrd and | ness can be counted on to furntsh decent | lodging thrown In? Som. | accommodation: and adequate pervice. | /Vante applied eagerly, Abolish car Mcenses, andin thelr plaqe! ® progressive income tax on the earn- ings of each separate car, The fare Sj MOWr aren to WALT to Work ax servants, | Testeter Will serve excellently as a tax : W, B, S,_ | Fesister, BENS, DOBLI. i Too Busy to Study. A Cow Problem. Tp the Editor of The Evening World: —-=MReférring tothe cor Y@iendernens of night schoo! the (writer must not think that Young men have the spare evenings he Writes: of, 1, Lf, 9 tha Estior cf The Pyentng Wortd: A house 20° feet by 40 feet stands in ® lot. At one corner of the house “| cow In tled with 100 feet of rope. How any square feet can the cow graze Ysing @ bank over, réaderat 9 x est IVE FORGOTTEN MY THEATRE LOBBY! THE BLAMED CAR WAS BLOCKED OR 20 MINUTES! WinY DIONT ¥ ST ACT 19 OVER MAKE THE SEATS: HALF PRICE AN! ! YO (INATG SHOWMAN) GER. HED TALKING To! estas How stupiol POCKET BOOK- WAIT Te.845 WELL, HURRY ASI FOR MEIN THE. NOE FAST AS YOU CAN! Both heart-throbs and Jokes to the notable folks - In country or State or In city, + And also a large busted melon, T. R. gets a nice sour pickle, From Harriman great to the chil] Interstate; fo Kolaey trowk Hughes a forewarning, ‘To Dryden a rock for tho one smashed by ahocis, And ikewise a awell sult of mourning, | ‘To Wiley Jerome sonds return ticket home; The ougnr-daubed heart or the sharp-pointed dart | Aro sent to the glad or the walling; Bug here's ome mall "dead" barred by Postmaster Ted, Who censors all stuff we're now mailing: A love cup for “hops,” sent tn Bingham by cops; A ohattered heart gent to McClellan, Because It might screen on tnfernal- machine, By Foraker sent, and what could {t have meant? While Belmont trom each gots a nickel. The Japs, subtle wits! aond thelr kiddtes to Bchmitz— They've sure got his goat with tts capers, But Oler of Ice won't Joln'in and be nico— Yo Jackson hé won't eend those papers. ‘And thus the dead, lottere, drop in. all +. Majeine SNaloei&aa. Dasedduati oon hoe