The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1907, Page 8

—<$—_$____ — lishing Company, No. £3 to 63} Park Row, New Yor OMmce at New Fork as Second-Class Mat! Matter. os+eese NO, 16,622. Putttished by the Press Ps Entered at the Post pees POMBO UME A pe ager ee eeesp eee RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC. GE Ot CRITICAL railroad ‘situation has “been created with which the pub-, lic must deal. The problem is the same whether its manifestation !s the bad service and excessive fare on the local transportation lines, the ° killings-on-the-New- York. Central; / the cutting down of the Erle: com- muting “service; the faflure of the Western ‘railroads to carry _ the! farmers’ -grain,. the shortage off coal cars, —the—feroritiern—to—the great trusts,’ the extortionate toll | levied on fruft vegetables, milk’ and | othér’ food’, products. However. the ret is manifested ){n {ts, mul- tifarfous details, the — -is the . same, Aeon z A raflroad should. be nothing ‘but a public highway’ equipped with the best machinery. for the’ performance “of ‘its functions. Like a highway, its sole purpose should ’be the eco- ‘nomical_and speedy transportation. of freight and passéngers. It should have no other object. It can have no other object without injuring the Purposes of its creation. ; ; ~~ What railroad, if any, in the United States Is now managed or oper- ated to this end? Originally some of, the old. railroads were modified highways, They were-owned by the people of-the communities through, Which their lines -ran. The convenience: of the community ‘was_ their. chief aim. The trains ran as business and social demands required, The charges for transportation were proportionate to the services rendered. Profits were primarily looked for-in the upbuilding: of the community. On this theory-many towns, counties-and- States made-a flon of taxpayers’ money for railroad construction. Localities would: fs- sue bonds that they might receive the benefits of a railroad. The WUnited States gavé bounties and land grants worth hundreds of millions ~~~ of dollars in order that the. transcontinental lines might be built. What “New York City recenily did in using its money and credit for the con- ——-struction-of the Subway—was-of frequent-occurrence in the earlier days of railroad building. : SB ae Walued at twenty billions of dollars, the railroads of the United States have become a-vast-machine-not-for-serving- the-purposes-of-thelr-crea- = at prices absurdly /hen-compared with the high rates upon the mi ‘fruits of the orchards of the Southwest a Py S Which show a profit of 61 Per cent. out of every nickel—are—charged—the laboring population. af. this great-city, while palatial, transcontinental expresses are run at an absolute loss, The stock ticker not the comfort of the public is the power to which “railroad presidents and_managersdo-hon: £e-—Issues-of-steck-and-hondsy- aré made not that the public convenience may be better served, but that —=-the-profits-of syndicators- ant high financiers may. b-advanzed,,, i Necessarily the engineering and-traffic problems are neglected. That vols the reason :there-are-so-many accidents; so Many needless deaths and __ Such untold suffering. From the Wall street attitude the question is only ~qwhether accidents cost moré than a safe service. and, since a safe serylce Would require-a Wholesale’ Feversal of thie standpoint of Wall strect, ac-| cidents cdatinue, : : ~=—Raitroxds area necessity, The stock ticker Is not Safe trans: ____Portation is Imperative. Syndicates and high -financiers-could_be_betler __ Bispensed with. The storni that Is rapidly. gathering upon-the-men-who bre responsible for this situatlon-is of thelr own bringing. { oe —— The Hunt for Fried Mush. } -=-Mo-the Editor of Ths Evening World: = Shaloo!” That editorial in Wednesdays Evening World touched hove thought the same things many times, I am one x thoes who Spore the West, where some provision {x made for feeding people of moderate means MT can reise the price I can always hear grand opera in New York, tit have ever fiectvered a pinch where J-¢ Get freshomush and: the other standard Gaher mentioned. Why don't some enterprising Wenterner get busy and atart a | Festaiirant where his own kind oan. get soma of the comforts of home! I'l see. eo ———-that The Scvening —Workt's-naitorist- wrltar dosen't have to eat alone. No. 690 Tenth atree A Mt ADAMB. Letters from the People. ‘ fe Advantages of Tublicity. \P fo the Daltor of The Eyeing 1 I haye read ar allowing the ne print sho proceed! Is no petter than the fire do- 2 of-other large cites, where| rmined’ by the num: You of tts members that ere} Proceedings, tht wo m t Otr feliow man has recelved Justice. ae- cording to the evidence in his case. Otherwise our courfs would bo out of reach of public opinion, and If they were out of reach of public opinion they migtt then be within r of bribe: C,H. WALLING, fire department's effi- eusured. B. F, 3 Hentleas Pinta, HreiDepertacht T. the Eattor of ‘n: Worta T wish say something about the fway\many landlords treat thelr tenan! respect to hot w 6 the ¢ and cl tof lease the apartment. | (sive nopiotinns aly Serica a i\-Ta ti nO-red would }ike Be faved it Is save “Fitlos the Itvea near from aome of other WICTIM, The Eventng World’s Daily Magazine, The Old-Time «| Stage Hero and the New, Seen Thro’ Funny Glasses irl Discusses. Dopey ig “By Roy L. McGa The Chorus ‘By Irvin S. Cobb. béen deeply pained to And that the ‘Metropolitan drama fe no longer "a. ~~ #86 kind-of stage |- hero that you and I were raléed on. Will you ever forget him? ‘The dear old gcenery-eater with the convex chest who used to etride down stage ns far as he could ‘come without ectting the up- holstering on hia legs afire In the foot- Ughts and bark for a bone. never been any ike him. All the other Boscos are spurious imitations. Ho was he only one who could eat Hamlet alive. And, arcund the hotel on the afternoon he troopers: Kot in trom Byerbure—on os accommodation, wasn’t -he the orig- cluded from .the malla.- “He says ho's for fazt-eand all the time “No,_it ntn't -shont—the- toosovelt first, aid-wie found out, and Manne —vice-of gaming; But ail you need-ta-to—putemupy Je Branscombe said she Gkin't against the bunk of meeting a good-jooking gun inj; that fur collar with ting of moth-eggs nestling under the lapels, waiting for tho spring and moth- Ughtine 1 Sacer en mnaeaes Inight-epeak--up-touder-and-not-.mumbie,And6h0_ of the—-Citinens”-Gwn—-Bank—without—diinking, peat ts was more disgusted when she found out Georse| cause they think {t's a Wasn't sore about tie Verbatim cross-examinattons ; What got George's goat, he said, was that the news~ papers ahould print thing: industry of making imported wine, ‘them newspaper guye that champagne hasn't circulation, and they but wine, und the mooka, the hinges they turn, is @uye_that when thoy get-a dollar of other_people's wads that's only_becn blowing an occasional quart, money in thelr fst they can’t get their hands open ‘cause they was shamed tntd It’ ‘Now, George saya, these duns will scream for! the red ink and pass up the bubbling moist Joy and|come-ons get down hook, lino and sinker tn a acheme | to ewindle somebody and are put hep to tha horne: ays \George, ‘und, If this claret eax hurts the bus! er to come. own a court-house. And when he told the coon waiter to bring him two more fried _egge tt-made you think somehow of G. Washington bidding farewell to his generals, Fine, fine! Yet 1t seems to me now that he was at his best in Richard, the Juntor-Jun- for, Half of his routed army had fled off sand the other-two-had-been-alain: Then it was he smote ‘himself upon his eo with a nole ¢ ~ engine— butting -m—junk-cart—-and—made A-half-dozen-groups of men-fiow-eontrol almost all these highways. the popular ‘remark which has been #0 often used alnce at Yonkers in conneq- ‘Mon with automobile parties, touching - £ x on the need of a Morse, Percheron or tion, but for taxing the community for the benefit of a numerically |Norman peateriats And then he had ayes . his broadsword duel with Richmond, « infinitesimal part of the population. stroke up and a atroke down, the aame As a corollary to this, fares ase high and unjustly arranged. Instead | as SiSpeacerianiyriting; lesson, of the: -charge being -according-to—the-value--of the service, the heaviest | et227_sta® aldrooped hia; tools an extortions are: from those classes of the community who can least afford Femplea Gaya) beer and jth his s7ss BS made a noise like a to bear them. The products of the great industrial trusts are transported | S24, Adee nolee ike trained sea, lon -of-fish,-and-fell-and- dled -with-tro- ! : endeue success while Walter Wilkins’ of the dairy farmer, the vegetables of the Southern truckman and the | seme Band end Opre-drone Orchastry ‘ ‘| played the only sad tune they knew— anata “Buwannes River,” wii variations, <a — 5 ie 5 -}— I'm told _by_A4_pettiors whe remember} i 1 H I when One Hundred and Twenty-ffth encouraged. For wh: printing knocking,azticles the call any more and that th Jng_tor clareta. Such things. | UL it's over their own tila, 1 Mke to hear when them “kind of aour-face4 un breastpli give It out-that {t is the swell play to do #0. You'y ne idea how mech harm them i) does, George sayu. I+ pl shy the monica who nent to be good because {t's the cheapest. ‘That ‘Informal’ nvheese givea him pangs,| burst into tears. All she could say waa that to seo) George says. When that's sprung on him, George| George standing there {n his tan-shoes’ and his Tuxedo, looking ifke ready money, and knowing hia nd_of preag notices “Them words of hisn made Mamma De Branscombe! zays, he knows {ts going to lead up to patronizing cans [cheng i Soin invites tei ie léose cau ior: bu fwrine | apieas rose overywhere, from ChurchiN's to Jack's, and to Near hit votcng tis manty tndignetton, and wire epluttering on the premises, they have to send|to eos how he could grasp the pomibilities of a out for it and {t's brought in from some ginmill tee-| amooth sure’ thing, and then to think of her own incs- John Ix |-boy; who tr-spite-ef- the backdrop, In-@ loud volce Just ito show "em Chere ts one live H-he-coult do,-imeow-no-de' notte in. a Knights of Pythias exit. But| tn-the thrilling rescue scene, and coming | with th ___|out between acts to make furth: nd_cha dor No; the mighty have fallen, and !t/nouncements regarding the elegant set | but you «et ft’ -was-e-tall with_no-Indian-summer.to-It}-of-red-plush-parlor-furniture to bs gava}—Anyhow,-he-lent—eing-starred up-to. 'y evening to the lady or/any noticeable extent around these loved memory, has been exiled tothe} gent holding the hicky-number_orcou-} parte, His_place-has been taken-by- the. ; pallid, interestin=, slender lad with the low but thrilling voice, whose every pos @ picture, and @ copyright plo not any more. at that. Montrose J. Megaphone, of be-| away on Bat’ street was_still some way uptown that Ny he used to be popular on Broadway, this iis clty, He tsed t a Rp Jack's’ and All ‘em at Daly’ Red Oak circuit, whe: still burn cordwood, | e's answering tho doing | atx nig ite a week and two matinees, in| the Clipper calling for ‘‘a good lecturer ‘sinius fn a bathrobe and Claude Mel-| gnawing the freproofing off the Old Milli who can fake a plano and pull teeth ture at that, with all photographio ‘The N ewlyweds--T heir Baby 2 5y George McManus ‘0 1s now engaged, ade mn CHEAR HIM CRY !,0H ,T HEA EXCUSE US! to hme nasoletancts Sa lbalonieni ee e rdel l “wYou should pipe Dopey doing Délsarte. Geo, I's great to be crazy|" T do you think?™, “And they serve it to you luke warm over cracked! sumshoe down dark realdence strects Ww Chorus Gitl. | fee ina goblet, which, as George says, {8 enough to up fie ¢leeve! And rough ow wine make @ strong man sob, It's a-cheap pipy, George} Ds Branscombe says Only agent, who ts Amy De Brans- says. When a gent sa with a tady and ‘wants to! George was to be @ aon to conibe'a Nance, says you newe show her, can he do it by calling for claret, and|to bear up. : then tell her Bddle- Geren Times, tm London, haa | blacklisted the bubbles? George saya it's enough to make fim duck the tx fehere thé money is these days. Hl SPeaaepright —citizeny, Ch BES, WHO KT OAH advine the young to shun the wine cup ts the guch notices: if we had-the price guys that calls a friendty setsto at tadlo stakes ‘the} esa and go Into wire-tapping, ure-thing swindle. 2 the fae | form. oe We -jand chas ISN'THE JUST BEAUTIFUL HE'S SAFE! WHERE 1S OUR 4 CAMERA , LOVEY ? Aur arabe chemi en to her, And that dig, aa {t a knowledge of rural ond-<class worth having. jorry. MoKnight tried to“cheer us up by playing! ¢-‘Fhat'a Why the Dangle In Blue, but with the In the corridor of the Western Union} ¥2¥ Decrees Panning the profeasion, and z S | gloomy ke for -the wine trade,-we-cou iding and they cough up the Habiiities and “nasets} FOoms ou 2 th Trey id Side -with Grorgs when he give Tope: Six on the elghty-elght note * . L“Dopes, of “cours, don't care na! Becrge Bays titre's no deception inthe —wine- ss a trade, Dut hfe opinion, always was that green-goods|!0# Since the Musical Swede haa gone to a » ‘that crabbed the native operators and sawdust and gold brick venders and, ‘trum Dopey haa taken up physical culture. 1 ; ae | Musical Swede wrote hit wire-tapping guna {a citizens to be commende! and | ¢ Because they keep money in the santtartum they had pumped the gold ctire | 4 ; him so much that ff he croaked under tr: shan to buy anytht. 2) Manny ets | Would advise his friends not to cremate [to have im assayed. Tien he dé how ho waa salt through the eetting-up exerciss with= Rs out booze ‘or bar. Since then’ Dopey haa b: about athletics and. deep breathing and fex aim jthe motor musclea, + “You should pips Dopqy doing delsarte. Firat he stands by a window and takes twenty-two Jangstu! trich-quick telegraphy.* [of fresh, pura Cigarette amioke and turns purple in ith the effort of making tt come out of his in doing, and ths tsa feat | that only @n incurable athlete Gan succeastully per ears, which he euccemd ‘ahoo Meficine Show; boozers don’t write; salary small, it sett to stin portunity of ralst people's exnensa. the wit bent down patro 3 loniship, says the Philadelphia Record, and remarked: him. very true to me as far as I can tell, ‘The Iant tino I saw him he.made an intment with me and did not keep the engagement, Why 0, I don't know. Would you ‘Wavise me to write} to him or not asking him why ho didn't keep the appointmant? .FLORENCH, _ | Do not write to ask him why le falled Sa SEEN ac as ho “It was the fret time I ever heard her snitch that)... Donald De Branecombe had been a disappointment | had the nerve to be proud, comraphy a fied ta, ‘Then he twidiles hia Ilttle Angers four hundred and-forty-four times, gives Kinself a rabdown, the piano for an hour and declares it's man of him, Gee, ite great-to-be-crazyt— _" way to bring the money home to mother then to “Any new evidence tn the erentng papere: ka jockay—clud— Well, good-by, brother, hold ‘em play ‘em close to pan 77 (on’t_feel_that_you have hand Remember a cat can look King, but ‘tle better far looking at a kitty, “Yours, HT, AMDAADDD Apap dd, Lord Roberts's Reply. On beliig introduéed to Lor “t- have often fear! af. yox,- bus whadin; eyes with one hand | though the ¢amoum general, being 20 small, could be soon with dimoulty— anche beaten rt have hever heard of you et T ne and defens but fonsion: B fetter Prose tact to wes much an ttem as the follow- lown, plays mede a new —, Drivileges reserve4—a lovely piece of work, who comes out for an encore-and: makes a few remarks that sound tust ee to you, and to call every a to have kings ORD RORERTS once found himaeit among new friends tn a London club, There was a very tall man present, who. evidently believing thtm= § @ wit, solzed every op Ing a Jaugh at other [lations -eice riely to his j the and the Wine Agent * _J°° Miller Fackles the- Thaw Case Bs and John D.’s &: “st Bank Roll & By Martin Green, & ne. my detrat earth pr the a Uns, Tt was z of my diversiong » frixk anclene ned and things original’ jokes under the sun. 8, td, wit: next? Possibly] {I was getting) rim{na\prosecution to create a class of Bolivara who-wfit a consideration minnd trial for crimes ommitted others... In the news- | papera en few years hence wo may ex- Ing: ; “During the performance of tho trag- fedy Ten Nights In & Burrer Cart Tasti— [night Mr. Percy Absinth, the mmiilion- lalre ballooniat, walked up to hile off college chum Archibald Icehouse and shot: him twenty-two times, Mr, Ice-! house departed from Ilfe without delay. OSIe, ABSIT WEN tkken tothe Ten=) Gerloin police atation. He was accom- panied by his lawyer, who had arranged ‘the tragedy; and-gevera! members; of: hie oollega_fraternity._The | lawyer _an- nounced that Mr, Absinth was ready to gubmit a mubstitute, “The District-Attorney was eent for murder three Uimes in the last four years as substitute for gentlemen who ‘were too busy with business and soclety engugements tostand trint therwelves,) was called up on the telephone and asked If he would take the place of Mr, Absinth. Hoe hurried to the station= houne In hin automobile, accepted a_re- tulner of $10,00 andewas locked up in @ cell. Mr, Absinth’ sails for Europe ‘Thursd: 4 "Nothing to tt The scheme has been worked—in—a—miner pt stuffing cases when a. could. net be mpared from his district organi- zation has b impersonated (n court by seme rummy who would bo aa well Jail ea aut The- world do mov “The discovery that John D, Rocke feller 19 really in uli to me," Joa Stf put an a popularity, beer posed that to hin long bu Mr. Looketeler teverorerioninet no bete TOT of $590,000,000 froven the “contrary, Hereatter Mr, Rockefeller'a advice to 7O8py men on coln will be conaldered_ subject to rebate, When © bunch ‘of low-browed wire-tappera can ean wi 000..In-a week per way to get th Betty Vincent's # w. # # Advice to Lovers,| ~ A Lonely Coantry Gtrl. Dear Betty: AMO» Woety sit trom the country. Very attructire in the eyes of my Young gentiemen friends of the coun- try mhere.I came trom. I feel very Geapty the loneliness of the-city. How cas T male aoqumntanoea heret BESSIB G. Through jotning Young Women's Caristian Aspectation or by becoming | | connected with a church you may meet many /congenta} friends, He Fatled to Appear. Dear Betty: AM a young. lady seventeen years of axe, and-for threo months he been keeping company with a young man one year my-senlor. I have found! article, Wh will recogni: glad you di | She Loves Tuto Men, Dear Tetty; ho takes an. ot her he xe docs not ike f) ving me what to do. full explanation without wetthic to waked for one mm Wanted? A Wife. - Dear Betkyi - AM a young man of twenty-one, and shave no trouble outelde of finding a cir), ‘What I woute Uke to know ty where’ ‘how Tecan get acquainted with a good, honest girl. I have a good Mand am a sleady worker, my | 3.0. 8. Do not go around If you do you you chanced to moet AM }: 1 am-twenty and Tlove him dearly 1 have heard + but it Dspeal Hoos he | two, knew whieh m bovh. Pease LORETTA