The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1907, Page 18

World Bnlered at the Post-OfMce at New York as Becond-Ciass Mail Matter, illest. - VOLUME 47. vat STRONG ARM FINANCE. RINE of the many ways by which the Consolidated Gas Company inflated its capitalization Is told in a public] ‘letter to Gov. Muyhes by R. R. Bowker, formerly President of *1¢ Evlison Company. This exposure is Iparticularty pertinent in: view of the legal attempts of «ne gas monopoly to compe! th to pay interest | and dividends on watered st mkt iit 4 ( ves the Public Utiitles bill, and fe ]\ says that if it had the Jaw “the Edison Com- pany, of New York, could ‘not have been captured a ‘by politico-financial buccaneers, nor could Its cap- Balization have been brought from $15,000,000 to $90,000,000 to the @etriment of the public interest.” 4 Beginning with a “Tammany lawyer of distinction, since then a Uustice of the Supreme Court,” charging him $2,000 to introduce him — to the ‘Mayor, Mr. Bowker had political difficulties, He says that “most years there was a strike bill in the Legislature usually engineered by Senator Big Tim.” Later Anthony N. Brady and William C. Whitney | started a series of .“semi-political manoeuvres.” At this eyen J. P. | Morgan & Co. advised Mr. Bowker to let go. Mr, Bowker app moh = til 3 “Then,” as Mr. Edtson graphically put it, “we were to be paid with _ fhe printing press.” Brady and Whitney printed $90,000,000 of stock _ and bonds. They gave part of the bonds to the Edison stockholders and kept the rest and the stock. The capitalization was thus sextupled. | ‘Then the Edison was “merged” with the Consolidated Gas. | The only additional value given for this increased capitalization was the cost of “the printing press.” The property was taken away from Mr, Edison and Mr. Bowker. It cost the new owners only the printing bill, and for this the people of this city are asked in a court of justice "to pay $4,000,000 a year additional profit. ————— _ borne out by the Inter-Mgtropolitan refusing yesterday to bid on the new subways unless the specifications are changed to suit them, They ei another gift of $70,000,000 like the first subway lease. The city should give away no more franchises or leases, It should buikd its own sub- Ways and contract for théir operation on the basis of a 3-cent fare. The four million people of New York should refuse to be dictated to and robbed by the handful of men who contro! the public service cor- poratiqns. They seek to take New York by the throat and go through the pockets of the people. v Mr. Bowker's exposure {s timely. It shows how Ryan, Belmont and Brady acquired the properties which they have capitalized for a Billion doilars. They paid for them “with the printing-press.” Now they refuse to build further subways, except on their own tetms; the Tefuse to give a good service; they refuse to do their dy ¢arriers unless the city will continue to permit their iniqui Is New York a free city, or are Ryan, Belmont and Brady its ulers? } ~ Letters from the People. a A Wife's Allowance. Wo the Bsttor of Ty Evening World gixth of r hereelt, ar this ima fourth o his rewular it te Deve ~ ie able t pomiee. Jie wi aie remnemur t © a Pb f seion Ro busines she r HARRY P. behind in * Whioh Merited the Joby her enous : To the Bator of The Evening World L ewan. busband ave a mas sige Mis plan for elghieen youre Pattee ten PPR iso i AGE 3 ‘4 jes Rae 62,519, the following te He «ave A Train Vroblesm, _ vg ees Te inet The & 5 Worl po we teeming start fr @ end B ead rup towar The Stock Cr at one musted two b Paice OOS Me cues, They mee ral ene ; Se end * half hours after t pao a the sooond train and ¢ n i ? @ietions A and B at the « > wihe | aremiaa tir rae DP form the journey, readers? Sieetes ws li “ a7. ¥. man | hear » plunging Bouts v< A “Lost Articles’ b ° rwelk booms before, but thi 2 I've nb the et ! kheepere OF to wime o ed 9 ) mpanding their » ngs OF poker games euMce Lo gratit epeculating inetinct Buel ok and|on #uc L he le Se Bad it, ae come one in th meget Mkely hes picked tt up Whe can explals COMMBKCIAL TRAVELBK. ' | Pedbsned by the Press Publiching Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New Tork Food of Love and Matrimony. now, disappearance of their rapid-tranait bills of fare, but would increase the size of | the individual meal check to thelr own considerable proft. table d’hote propr’ r be not consun a to play nly liv purveying rattling The Cheerful Primer. fYou RUN | RIGHT Home | \sTHis Manure!) By Maurice Ketten, ‘(Bios ) (WANTED) es newspapers are cussing just 7 not music in restaurants is an aid i digestion. I have.never thought ebout the orchestra Accompaniment to one’s @inner as tnjuring or pro health, but from the (ender ces one sees flashed across restaurant tables and the visible melting of moods at tete- a-tete dinners and suppers around town one is iempted to take the definition of food of love literally and to conclude, that fect on digestion its marked influ nts and destiny of the diner out Is under question iy one which {t seems co me res keepers and hotel men haye not suMeiently considered a View to its effects on profits. As one’s jaws unconsci tune fs aurant orchestra is not o! insatiable hunger of the } To connoleseurs, per! charms to soothe thet The Good Old Summer Time savage breasts, waken the savage sentiment as well ¢ Philistines, and many a gir J point by a be taken betwee But this te merely @ side issue. He 1s SSS sss 7] Sas Daily Magazin Friday, Ap Two Practical Men. r\ By Nixola Grecley-Smith. For the most powerful effect of the res- tie enaily-sated hunger of the stomach, but of the ps, musie at dinners seems & mere crudity, but there are many persons so deaf to the differences between a Wagner overture end that a ragtime accompaniment not only has but to @ int the savage digestion and The average man is numbered among keep time to whatey ed during the mastica Jetor should furnish slow m #0 that too much of t restaurant direct } god an imitation of bilss as may, be found c 4, the owner of the a x y airs, ao that ¢ t is appetite ia 2 polkas (and jigs would not The effect of muste on dl bef. quick steps. only promote cussion when compared with that graver on the tender passion and the matrim A ated opposite him. And if to both these anjoyments be added a dist 6 reoufrence of pleasing sounds attuned to his mgod he gets as if she only knew it, might bring the balking mely request to the orchestra leader for some the salad and the coffee. Man is very til] happier if there {s & pretty woman and de the covers of a novel. matter, and not worthy of dis- more interesting subject, !ts in- 1 mood, or os re ™ . JUST WAIT Th ed —~ By C, W. Kahles, \ \ HER BATTING AVERAGE ON Hin ril 26 en ROE ECC EH ROR INE seo Qoogseneneanarenn2002¢@ FE Rolin tel STORY ; : & The American Nation's Debt to TOCANOMAS. « « = « « «and John Smith By Albert Payson Terhune REGEGESVESS O a brilliant, bragging sc.dier of fortune and to a swarthy little girl of twelve America owes a debt that can never be paid. John Smith, the girl Pocahontas. djd for the future United Scates Three small ships walled from England Dec. 20, 1606. On board were 120 colon{sts bound for Virginia; These emigrants were not an especially prepossessing lot. Théy were not the hard-headed, God-fearing farmers and shopkeepers who later wrung a livelihood out of cold, rock-ribbed New Eng- land. ‘This Virginia-bound expedition was largely made up of down-at-heel adventurers, men who were teaving their country for thelr country’s good, and impractical dreamers, who had heard gold was to be found by the ton ta that Western land of promise. Hardly the sort of men who make ideal colonists. But among them was one born leader, a hero who could make a successftl colony out é6f even the unpromising material he had at hand. He was Vapt. John Smith. Smith was the son of a well-to-do farmer who' apprenticed nim at four teen to a merchant. Smith ran away to sea; then served as soldier under Henry of Navarre and other generals; slew three Turkish cham- pions tn duels fn one day; was finally captured by tbe Turks, sold as a slave, killed his mater and escaped to England just as the latter country was at the acme of its craze for colonizing America. Sir Walter Raleigh had explored and tricd to settle Virginia ‘ate {n the previous cen- tury, naming it for Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen.” But his colony had been destroyed. .vow, in the reign cf James |., it was remembered that Virginia had been described as an Eldorado. Penniless adveutore-seekers, “younger sons” and others clamored to join the proposed colony .o be sent out there. The man was Here {s the story of what the two | England bad another and greater reason for wishing to establish a perma- tent foothold tn America. Spain held the West Indies and was eager to foree her way northwar:. Unless England co-ld forestall the move all North America was liable to become soon a Spanish province. Smith was appointed cne of the council to manage the Virginia settle ment. Bad luck dogged the venture from thé start. The voyage lasted 116 enn lays, the ships were buffeted by storms, fnany \o~9>: passengers died. and mutiny and strife were rie Angto-@axon Clty} livays imminent. At last. on May 12, 1607, the In the New World. expedition sailed up a nobie stream, which they : called at first King’s River and later James River, ‘in honor of James I. After the same British monargh they named their landing place Jamestown. This site fpr (he first English city im the new world was about thirty-one miles up the James River, and situated on a flat peninsula. The location was malarial, the water supply bad and the vicinity alive with hostile savages. Tne bulk of the colonists were too ignorant to observe these drawbacks, but set to work building a fort, a chapel gnd about sixty huts, surrounded by a stockade. Provisions ran short, disease was rife. More than half the settlers died the first year. More came. These, too, diéd. Starvation stared them in the face, Indians threatened their existence. There was no gold to be } picked up, and the adventurers grumbled. The whole scheme would prob- jably have collapsed and America left to fall unopposed into the grasp of } Spain but for Smith's genius. He bullied and cajoled his fellow-settlers into tUlling the land and putting up suitable houses, sent an appeal, to Eng- land for more “workers” and fewer “gentlemen,” and then plunged into the wilderness to buy food from the natives, His will and spirit alone kept — a flicker of life in the settlement. While reconnoltring for provisions Smith was captured by Indians and led before Powhatan, king of the whole region. Powhatan hated the whites and decided to put their leader to death. Smith was bouna and thrown to earth, his head between two stones. A couple of natives prepared to dash out his brains with clubs. Then {t was that Powhatan’s little daughter, Pocahontas, @ child of twelve (not a full-grown and beautiful woman, as romancers are fond of depicting her), rushed forward and pleaded with her father for the brave stranger's life. The King refused, whereat she threw herself upon Smith's prostrate body, sheltering his head with her arms 60 that the executioners could not strike wit..out injuring their chief's daugh- ter. Powhatan reluctanUy spared bis prisoners life and let him return to Jamestown. ‘ Through the famine months that followed Pocahontas kept the colon! from starving by constantly bringing them provisions, She also, by a nnn «=~Umely warning, enabled them to escape 4 whole The Man and the ot sale massacre planned by Powhatan. To this Indian maiden and to Smith America owes the Who Baved America. 2 preservation of {ts first English colony, a colony —r—-F which was destined to grow and strengthen until it produced some of the ieading spirits of the ..evolution—Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson and many another, It is no exaggeration to say the United States probably owes its existence, indirectly, to this swash- buckler and Indian girl more than to any other one cause An ignorant child and « farmer's son accomplished what al! {niernationa!l diplomacy for centuries had failed to achieve. There have been rumors that a love affair existed between Smith and Pocahont: uring the three years that followed the saving of the former's life. It is certain that after Smith left James- town, in 1608, Pocahontas never visited the colony until, in 1613, she was captured and held as hostage for Powha ‘8 good bebavior. Hearing that Smith was dead, she married an Englisli tobacco planter, James Rolfe, in 1614, thus forming the first connecting link between the Oid World and the new. Meeting Smith" by chance in England, ehe cast rigid court etiquette to the winds by rapturously and publicly embracing the em- barrassed hero. ‘ Jamestown was repeatedly swept by fire, pestilence and famine during the years that followed, but endured until Virginia was full of permanent towns and the success of the colony at large was inoured. Then, when | once more burned to the ground, in the last days of the seventeenth century, the unlucky “first city” and Capital was abandoned * One ruined chureh tower alone remains as a landmark of old James town, cradle of the American nation. Betty Vincents « uw w «# Advice to Lovers, I know ats me gives me the best ve spoken to him He Does Not Write. 2 Dear Bet! NE w me | utmost t last summer @ YOURE MAD! oF goog introduced to my sister and very slightly of tt, b afraid to He and I ed anor d 7 epeak out plainiy r simple rea- each other from the first lepwrey reat |208 that I don't thik I eo right most, and since then we have been « to, Now, if we should part, I think it He has been in the habit writing to me very often end some Umes 1 would answer, I wrote last, but he has not answered, Now, Betty, tI know the reason for thts, friends. would break my viee me what to he ht to t | That's what you ad- Don't you think n his religion for me, yerybody tells me. 1 nate 1 Lewd at ieee aeanes weet A to £0 around with him and eccept ell Hae eae tae oemjecious | ia attentions, when perhaps they will not Hike 1 all have to cena of this boy, tely him things of which |®' wit 1% casse Th wall oaly are true, It is over a month | ttn’ vid wr Pc he 7 ony ae art wrote, Shall T write and | sews no ¢ change his religion for ask him the reason for this slience?|) | ” ‘Se ; 4 inue writ: |" ms 1 would like to have him eontinwe Wr") other never there tng faltha, Do not ask any man his int circumstances I think you pleas Under the clroumsta: tions, You are both very young and friendly note asking pete wine Pin corealion that will re | '* Young man whl declare his sove quire an answer oF perhaps an invita. | When he 1s ble-to ion to/aome little entertalwnent. Then) 4 Tittle Quarrel, he will be compelled to reply and ad OP sprit can Judge what his attitude is | |] AM very fond of « certain young mam “a whom I met in Uhe country lag eum To Ask His ‘'Intentions. mer. He goes to college, and we core |) ave « very Gear friend whom 1| responded until « few months age, when think the world of, I bave every) we bad a litte quarrel, and heve not the world to believe (ha! | correeponded-since, 1 recelved « letter feason in | he thinks the same of me, but the name | the other day from his roommate, eek- cid thing is in the way--religion, Hel\ing me if I would write to my friend, ing on twenty, while I am almost) as he seems very much put out about quarrel nineteen, Now, my folks have nothing | our De you Uink it proper for against thie young man, for when I consider it bis place tat reason, Should I ek him If he|to apologize? UNDECIDED, intends keeping company with me with| Certainly, write to him. It is foolish any eertous iptentions? ‘We have|to sland on ceremony in & case af this | knows euch other for némrly eight kind, Of course, be inspired the room years, and bave goue together wil of mate's letien, — ,