The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1907, Page 8

ofn.. | —. a The Publishing Company, No. 83 to @ Park Now, New Tork he Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter, @eetished by the Prese Bntered at 1 ¥ VOLUME 47. oth SIND Pil EASY MONEY. HE-new Custom House on Bowling | 16,664 - NO. pancy and the United States) Treasury Department has notified the National Clty Bank to take! title to the old Custom House. Thus a great scandal will have been brought to a profitable fro {Hlon. The old Custom House prop- erty occupies the block south of Wall street and east of William street. This is one of the most wakutte Ulocks in New York. The block adjoining it on the west is assessed for $13,000,000 exclusive of buildings and improvements, and the land alone could not be bought for half as much more. The block across Wall street ts assesed for $8,000,000 exclusive of the buildings. Property on Exchange place is more valuable than on Pine street. Judging from the adjacent values the Custom House block Is worth $10,000,000 @r more. Eight years ago {t was worth less than to-day, but any purchaser ‘buying It then would have offset the interest and taxes against the nor- mal Increase In value. When bids were Invited for (National City Bank had a secret understanding In the Treasury De partment. Any other bidder would * e's have to figure on paying cash for the property and on losing the in- ‘terest on his money and the taxes until he could improve it so that it would bring a revenue. By selling the Property in one block instead of in parcels the bidders were restricted the purchase of this property the Green is almost ready for occu-] | i : BOB & & Foibles of) Rich Men, Seen! & Thro” Funny & Glasses! By Irvin S. Cobb | —_———.—— 2) inves) eares| Giemnnns New York, Aget ¢ leeds sts "bungie with the towers On it and the special accommedations tnaide fer eldevty persons who talk with a wodtiling sight, and the stone Evening World's Daily _Magasine, | PEBLODDDOBPVLOR®. motto over the main doer reading thun:| pebcanlos fcereppstooyien nates ' ASTLAUS. t fm os coowevedt Suit ae nesalda bab ef 1s Cake brothers jotne out with the continusun and starts In to do ground and lofty @abding with intermterions only for meals, the general public wonders how he ever hitched up an-many as*tw Gollars tandem. Also much of the bioorn Qeperts from the peach when we are able to look down a muiti-mifiienalr: and ebserve that he has the exe kind | of tnterior furnishings that a man who) works by the day uses As long «2 © prominent bucocaneer Harptrate-pi!lar of the community 1 roping up the frivoling masuma, amd meanwhile wearing an expreanion ite a to the few men or corporations who a could raise several million dollars fn cash. Little tlme was given for real estate operators or the great office building corporations to prepare bids They were also not bidding on equal terms by reason of the secret understanding which the National City Bank had. The haste and secrecy enabled the National ‘City Bank to prepare ts bid In advance and to buy in this block that was then worth $5,000,- 4000 for a little over $3,000,000. Instead of paying real money, the bank fi gave the Government credit on its books. Then the Government paid _» othe bank 4 per cent. as rental, and by holding back the deed prevented New York City from collecting any taxes on the property. This made ‘a saving to the bank every year of $250,000, of which $75,000 was in fraud of the taxpayers of New York City. The property has been annually increasing In value. The National City Bank will have the benefit of all this unearned increment, besides per cent. interest on what it owed the United States and the saving: in exemption from taxation. The man who was Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury when ‘thts job was put through is now Vice-President of the Nationat City Bank. TaarThe man who was Secretary of the Treasury and officiatty sanctioned the contract is now himself a bank president. Instead of everyb who took part in this transaction being in jail they will in a few montis-be-dividi ae hanged for the warm and State. When that time arrives t off from treating the public nsive apparel hed by his hair cropped and his comfortable stri public treas burglanpreat sts with the tme-icox | what a time wed have if we bad hiss | and hes his reepberry remarks we) stop hating and begin to pity nim. Take for example our olf friend, An- drew Carsegie, sometimes called the Laird of Skkidoo, I chink {t fa Years ago when Andrew was down at Home-_ ead, Pa, where the Thaws come| from, doing @ general business !n stee! | and Pinkertong and ococasionnlly | Plugging the firet-named product into | the midst of a few strikers with the| aid of the @econd, he was = small, at-| lont man. He was still amall and com. paratively ailent when he began pick- img out towns that couktn’t afford it and gare to each of them « square brick Dufiding modelled Uke @ snoke- owes, containing many useful yolumes of reference, such as Congressional Records and seed catalorues, and bear- jowing teortption, to wit: of Miasma, Tenn., thy ANaraw CASE. he bloomed out as an DBD Saturday, PBEDPLSOCE DH ROHVBDOE WHOLE BOHOVBLDROLFRBPHBDSOHWP POSE The Evening World's Laugh-Makers The Chorus Girl Discusses Moving Day and Harriman Home Runs By Roy L. McCardell 1 HOPE | HAVEN'T AME weld the Chorus Girl “Tm the onty dad: Child wichta the threeaile ie that len't deemed Ife Prete. “Haven't you piped itt Why, here they come and there they ogy and jost ing. Bverywhere wanted reference from in “The sbops tried to make} pe! brown « famhionable color, but the blue sult with the bunch of violets, the feoket sem{-masou- bers except 2 ERD Go [ stand} sent wort over by Dopey McKnight that in case the notel was a total loss her home was open te the | fre sufferers that had eared their money and Jew | to thelr dogs. whae I've been wanting to tell you—only won't aten to me—is the awful time we've had mov- Mamma De Branscombe went our presen If we could have got that, we wouldn't have had to go! Down Pxtth avenue end up| Broadway, out of the Wajdort | ™2ve- ‘Mamma De Brangoombe sare it's your fiends get and into Malllard’s! Amd every! you queered. awe ne responsibilities, and the ry one ts weartng « soulful expres | noise Chay make when they call ws what the tenants bes ed aloo and school suit style | Complain of. doctor y MoKnight @kin't want to move! to learn where he Itves, becaum look alike ¢o nim and he can't remember plain num- and unless th |wucn aa 4. 8 U4, he hae no homing | “Whi we have fe wk you they landlord. Why, fee teller, polley gigs, we more | Hne—thet ie, there's @ pocket on the upper lett #ide| on the van with the Tost of the toe feaa | Spee, ee, bambend trom whtch the tep of « handkerchief shows, te what | him to It. et that, when he gots Out, be wtays | Si BS, the dolls are wearing now. | away for Gays ti he's ao be- “They Gon" etop chere They heave the witte fnen et, we have S i and hatred |S" Wedel with the mace tum-~dewn eotlar and the! | tor tim,’ and continually do SS bert eqeveg’ ond Ay 00: Some ‘The batr te all to the Bretyn, to, trem the high- satel pnd taco cool nepect et agmemd aon But when he removes the combination | om “ poy ae | 7U-tell- vem the-story-of-mut> tite’ exprusion. Uees-you-can’ thing. If I didn’t look like myseif P@ “Wem you on Bros@way when the fire trote out?” Fortunatdy ¢ wae mt nearly two o'clock tn the aren oem and elmost everybody Ja the hotel wae getting move, we didn't take @ place in the country, ities we | Po" a's couple of years ago at Seagate, which Ged his “ithe Seveams:to © Woies vows tr estn'te ton © moma edie eacay - adh Profession, you know, and Mama De Branscombe |” to the ni are in for ofd and we were really take our things out | heakth eo much us @ couple of T |wonal promoun and promoting fonetio uncle John D. burst from hie caf] with | mpelling eo thet our common Janguage a horrible yell. | may took more, ite Gootch diatect, he | Byer gines then he has been giving «| ts no longer sent. But stil email. (@rand free strest parede of himesif And Bar einca ton Noboty-ever dreamed that the con-—talling all the time: after-dinner | crete was going to melt speaker, playing vocal aotos on the per- | the seam. then ing morons the front elevation the fol- | Once upon a time Interviewing Rocke- “Oacnesio feller sounded Ife serenading a home Public Library, presented to the town | for deat mutes at two o'clock in the !n the yeer A. C.| morning. The combination was always there was Rockefeller caMope, emitting loud hoarse hoots of Deyish merriment for purposes of pucl- cation At present writing there is only one thing that keeps him from every now and from areund then he haa to stop and take « Dreata. But one day your good old His Thursday afternoons for reparters, Letters from the People. maaibehwar seaxiae tected cabbage, a the case might ; wort, | B®. Yet he eolved the groblem 4 rea. the anme? ‘This is ‘Mard-Lack"’ PROB A Ke Story, Te Oe tr of ‘The me he Byentng World eoause buy necessarh New York Mew follow-employees LLPPING At by « . ‘ ‘ a. 5 st Bin earrie F x . ey, le ke would ¢ Mf be Mol course would x but woe * porons © ape leave turning ‘tor wie fox” would eat the th unprotected the malier up watchword . oes where I am «| ears oF the wocee would ost the ue “Buiter, aol busta” Mrs BURLEY, | we | NEW Jenscy ARE TAKEO PAay TAX WMISIERS $50 | | Moy Nor Tax Tue HE mr ann 6 Tax on Whiskers By Maurice Ketten. WHERE pot cause {ty too much trouble for htm to find hie ‘way ow adress and he will inaist on golng back Veeved = ask total strangers to take him “When * dawned upon him Jacrecnypatl ymmasdeinyl aya! [et Thadl hen Gleestos betw: wed’a etpomn, be he got @ sugar barre! unéerstand ly getting al] heated and excited, andy Neat ng Foe for to alan ax hem. nthe house but the wall paper was pewned that wae tn the hard sumeer of '¥7 “Dopey wanted to know why, !f we was epi y thought it would be grand to more to the and riding all the way in the steam | surprise was her. weren't wtall- eon vies : a whole Mue to look lfke Nellie Butler, Ain't she cute? Then fnd 8 new and, tf we bedin’t apent the| Sot party and they was |Thew's lawyers if they had signed wai’ mete pligas fle drcol iN poner. redeem our and take them to our new fongraiehal she ew other parties that wouldn't | hin to work by the day week, and there's been more repld ection with moth-| “Dopey eald was how woon a house; “She as about as Mr. aed | ing sccomplished than T've ween wince « small cellar | Omid be enptied of a iiecin Wh Ceres, want | Promoter, Ga tran Wal ome sot abet Row nia Mr. Bhonta, the uw bows of the In. shop elgemortoor. ‘© ween Poolroom Syndicate was mak |fre tuned the Hotel Rarannc into a emokeheume last Orcas? of a theattionl bourding-howes take a day | ath, fhe promoter, mld it made’ htm terborougs, cays he ‘would like to sep (Ser at the races, and when she @ot everything | 7 envy to fintnic eo orm tung! April deat. je Wes « letter-carrier ry would tell him to smoke « mild Ineais, und s0 he ducked and blew the asset by lending it to Good Larok Dopay Played the plano ee " Luck Lucy’ hag she cas Eromt, wororive a, ih etore, tory » Decause png Hon as “2 ‘Ef Jonn Doe « the money. | the other Gay « vaudeville tea escaped! qrevy 90) i eer Of sland togot weir baby A ree crmyom) ro, tear. REFOLE as A} * aS a [A Few ie 2 2 + lInto the 2 ‘Bleachers | 2 2 By Martin Green { that mine | erny etvould wette / veak a et tively Tt a oMclally de| ty Beoretary) pat he works! author of| eurtng old am Nar, just now, Just now—now, he's a Li Just now, & ery en bes getting ‘Trust hee started to adul- . ith reat tobacco, y ‘'t_seem to have any nutrt- 2 to a stenoge Advice to magnates—Don't discharge man w jecved you falthtuly fi him to see a doctor, but te turn he hear the Goo y that what be needet was vould walk four or fire hours ‘And then the guy told the doc a he knew when tt come his tarn the after tha ‘consultation to be at Huber's scant Distaiot~atternem| r found that any of the wires! from the headquarier ef the pooleom} syndicate ran into the Criminal Oourte! Buliding? if not, hew do they get Chale bets down? oe hee fe bee. alta for ‘A it turned out the on was detectives and Supposing Senator Grady aid Bit owt of @ poolrwom. vo 1160 @ year ot big, Ale can't live A bew definition of boomerang—A Lae neay Commission Ut migt heave been well for Harry) dese his joo. Ore in the Saranee Hoted | portrax, of Willan Shakespeare will be given for the name of any eouurette! With cambrie tea and seed-cookies, are probably much epprectated at the press, but I haven't heard that the Standard Of directors ever got together and Passed resctutions of thankagiving be- cause ther esteemed fellow member had converted himself into an aie ie oC nn A Sehdaned apen S And now, behold, Dere's Marvin pee ao fing res@y to qualify. Harriman en-|78™* Masen Hyde one time when the waged in pulling @ ratiroad system eur and then squeeaing {t in, the mime as « | who owerlooked ber dog . BASEBALL LN SPRING. “Plagr baili” Bn epeniel which he addressed tolsm Mutiewson eps? on tis posh an. rubbed on Lis thigh Violets had witted and James Hasen felt BOOM LN: Deevish. But when he broke a t a Se sam but Srmmese teene eftsen | neaes Sees that te customarily used by a Towser| 7 $2 Sie" CYeTCat wa oom fine, tat he fall ito error, Now, instead ef be- ee. demnaae tall donned, oweaters ing © commending figure tn the worl of bile the wenpire brenaned a peaye} foance he bas been called « Har by the ‘sand % behind the grand Hered Presidemt, which ts one of the eemmon- tevena tore him bmir est things that can happen to a Repub- THIRD INNING, Nean. Towne stostins in the outfield amd raim; By the z ru a ee te ihe tn, aa fremn time to time ieee at cochers thew, as the late returns conttmue to come tn 4 Gaean to cae I. at the White Beuse that Roosevelt must Dont ‘tran the min came Ou agnim, the have carried the liar vote almost solid); ted Pat sn Years oT | a the fa. Gocwors ta the town ental The Sniff Kiss. By Walter A. Sinclair, (Pret. Mowkins of Yale said that ple luller Ltr Doe idy nad She snuggied close and rubbed his nose in very friendlyway And in « tender, nasal tone these words he then did say: “I do not ash @ genthe hive Te make my joy emownt to bites, Although 4 would not be amiss. I really only usk you tis: Just hold your Mttle nose to mine The while your eyes with love do thine Tor I'll be very happy tf iy We ott alone ond enti! ond enti.” The years roll by, the ages pass, and, meray! what « change! ‘i If modern lovers acted thus we'd think ft very strange. For now when lovers have # spat and each one turns hts beck The sntff then show contempt where all was kissing once, alack! And who will say that motes Kee tis Js sentimental as @ West T's oruel war, all Mt and wes, And not the happy lowers’ Ditss. With noses pointing im the air They make o most unhappy pair. Yow det 4¢ makes @ lot of 07 When lowers otf and anif and eniy. ee The Largest Diamond, HE American Magazine reports the resent Giscovery of the largest @ime mond in the world—e diamond which weighs in the rough 4.10/44 karate | Ane, rr mentee Sok <a T ‘Trenstated into understandable terms, 1 is « stone welwhing « pound | and «@ third, Until the discovery of this wonderful gem the w ord in diamonds was held by the “Exoclsior”—« e@tene of #9 kurate naif pound evotrGupola Three years ago the “Fxcelsior,’” witoh was badiy flawed, wes cut up inte ten stones, valued at $418,000. This in turn utter peed the other great diamonds im ‘the world. Thus: Kobtnoor (after 1 (ting) ‘ 79 karate; Nisam of Hyderabad, 37) Regent, or Pitt, 7) Tiffany (yellow), 12; Orlom, 1M; Bar of the Bouth, 4 Duke of 1 An “Equine Meatare, URING 4he last seven years the number of horses in the ¢ountry has fee D creased about W per cent. from 1,000,0% to 28,000,00, bu value paw inereased about 118 per cent 7 erage price on the farm in 19 ie oladed at 4.00 In 187 It is BM-the highest price of whic ls en offolag record Instead of the eutamobi! ing the horee out of truw we ore = ies (her from the horeeless age than ever Aviom 4 fame along fu Prevent & heres famine They merely shange to ome extent his “ohare a