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PooThe. Evening She Pabhene vy the Press Puoti« tered at the Post-Omice ct No. % to @ Park Row, New Matter tne Company “ow York a¥ Second-Ciass Mati . NO, 16,701, 7 VOLUME AT w5 A PEOPLE: S) SUBWAY. ener ne - World's Daily Magazine, The Day—of Rest. By ARENT YOU GLAD bach bi O ( RESTFUL THAN AN) J AuTO TRIP Maurice Ketten oweneey Monday, 13, SIXTY HEROES WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Payson Terhune. os peinaeta nissan, ~ No. 49 KOSCIUSKO, Hero of American and Polish Liberty. ? was tn the summer of 1776 that a thick-set man of thirty, with high | cheek bones, broad brow and upturned nose, , handed Gen. Washington a letter of Introd Paris, captain) to the ion from Renjamin Franklin. The letter, dated ideus Kosctusko, Polish artillery speaking highly of the young man's telling of his noble birth, his French military education and the romantic fact that he had left the army of Poland because his commander's daughter had rejected him ng it looks ’ swilling i trom ed the bearer (Thi notice of Washington, commen: FTER many ) a-merger is to be! ay from the troug | aii = apasition tothe city was too | ggish for even théy—venerable . Transit Commission to en- And now comes the city’s ineer with the flat recom- } in favor of an inter- borough subway to be built by the city, just-as The Evening World| ecommending week in} Its merits, Washington took a liking to the young yolunteer and employed Kos- sko ag engineer, In “his capacity the Pole arranged the defense lines for n. Gates at Saratoga, designed the first fortifications at West Point and served brilliantly in battle. At the close of the Revolutlonary War he | rd eived the public thanks of Congress and the rank of Major-General. Incl- | dentally, he had imbibed a deathiess love of national liberty, and thia last j quality he bore home with him to Poland in 1786,.where in due time it made | Masel felt throughout Europe. The torch of freedom, Hghted at America’s flame, wos destined to {lun atime all the blackness of ‘Polish serfdom. _ Poland, up to the cl th century, had been one of the | &t.at nations of Central Europe nal strife and official, blunders j had weakened the country Russia, Austria and Prussia, | had, on the other At last they began to cast covetous eyes on th eless possessions of the Poles. Russia tertain, chief engi mendation ras been rn But inte Her neigh d, grown yearly stronger 2 rich, half “and week. out for along time. “This subway is to run from Pelham Bay Park, in the Bronx, under ‘the Harlem River, down Third avenue, across the Manhattan Bridge to (poYou oFTeN > eUzee PLACE encroached 1 F . < és LOVELY PLACE a 4 IC chec hore and more on Poland ith the de » | exauic “f Flatbush avenue and Fulton street, in Brooklyn, then on to Fort Ham RWWA nt THI TARE THIS TR Austria and Prussia were § 2 Pola with the evident plan of annexation, : fon and Coney Island. In connection with the bridge subway loop ) A es) yes WHEN HUBBY | __In 1772 the th nts compromised by “partitioning” the luck= 1 Spi, 7 ry 2 2 VIEW, JOHN } Fes land, each taking a goodly slice of territory, thus cutting Poland dow already laid out and contracted for by the city, this interborough subway ’ peony MAE WL ¢ Speers aed nds on diavera tile dence tate will give transportation between downtown New York and Brooklyn and| Gao 6 . Ji f oaths Upetel Uprising of national spirit flared up at last among the down- t : Xt) s ; trodden people. A band of patriots drew up = { _ the Bronx for a single fare. een) als ey — | the Patriots. constitution, reste of thelr own anclent The carrying out of this plan will necessarily be left to the new a, : RL —. [Soran ” rights and seeking nst future for- is, nee + ee, rar? v4 4 4 . eI depreda 3 Phe « ORC ho a | Public Utilities Commission, but it is a most desirable saying of time] [j 2 wut i treating rie a : Aaa oeclnaleo a pho Ball >) that the present Rapid Transit engineers should have definitely laid out = ae ay Reese followed. At the battle of Dublenka, Jul ] held 15,000 Rus: t bay for st 3s with only 4,000 Pole ‘the route, drawn the plans and done the Preliminary detail work. All = > = | But Russia had pape fe as a M ied in ; H of this will be available for the Public Utilities Commission to act <x | Polish King, Stanislaus, into peac \ a & N ae the constitution and con: nd pa of Poland &! /\ | between Russia and Prusst : One further point of The Even- i Be Se ko continued to wo 1 night for his country’s frese / : I, *, NOR 1, Bi dom n March, 1794, he appeared s 2 ow ed eflanc ing World's plan must not be over- ANT you Wea teow Har) af eran & © vate against Russ d the ow a at 3 sane ° looked, and that is that a three-cent KNOWATING ene ie THEEVACHINE) <a” : t | Dictator. About 9,000 fare on this new subway would pay AbouT AUTO oe la ce ORE Atte stem itd baie Ss) a profit over its operating expenses e people of W Th yoke of servitué berty and put nmer s small but ever-in He drove the e eath. Koseius grins and (Foun, ALWAYS TAKES IT $0 EASY on SUNDAY and the interest and sinking fund on its construction bonds. The report of the present sub- ONLY F “(VE MILES MOR! THE a) STATION n t the advancing 1 Wild rout, until he WE RE STUCK, THE, Boon DOESNT | Russians. had chased them a the m yment Poland was way and elevated roads for the free. To Kosciusko's genius « his countey's Ib three months ending March 31st RUBS ea pentan DECK 4 : i x her won freedom, But } The last is now at hand. This fully | King, Frederick William, sent 40,000 me 1 1 demonstrates that a three-cent fare will pay a profit of 40 per cent. the large army tussia was already ecbsaerd, this huge triple alliance Kosciusko could c i handful of Ml-equipi ish border. num be © successfully defended t with a force of 4,000, he attacked A flerce battle followed, wherein hopelessly outnumbered. Kosciusko fel 1 to have gasped in swooning This is th |nor national prestige. Merely h 1 patriots. over the operating expenses. Should jover, internal quarrels were be Polish cause. th y subway y only half thi ‘clusko was beset by foes witho 600 men he ee new way Carry only ie ] brave to check Prussia’s ch on W 1 back by sr | ; passengers that the present Inter- borough Company carries there would be a gross profit at a three- cent fare of over three million dol- issian > nt But they were th wounds, and is eld 2) He was taken prisoner and his men 5 Recover- lars a year, Chief Engineer Rice's © as ¢g ing from his wounds! he wns sent to j) where he i 5 4" Rese Ye s natned two ‘ ird “par- pig rel - o ee na Hk wn (] a v3 ie Gana mccc Oana anbhs Friendship) betwe Prussia nd Russia, r elhas a weer ts <> se Sag aw aw A the : A Was practically wi ‘om. im Bay Park to Fortieth a Keli Rejected the ast 0 old-time \° as gone. T 4 freed Kos- | clueko in 1796 and offered to res sWwo What need have I of sword?” he he broken patriot “E (ee no country to def Candy by the Doctor’s Order. £2 2 G3 By_Nixola Groeley-Smith, ry on palace eae back to America on a visit, whe republic b oy d him with’ en- May time he feels the call of confirming his resolve b is girl every would require only two million dollars a year, leaving more than a million — The present subway and elevated roads in Manhattan and the Bronx alone show net earnings of over fifteen million dollars a year, These go | ‘Row to pay interest and dividends on the watered stock and inflated counter. The Cheerful Primer. down of t Candy ts thoug 4 the candy lable By C. W. Kahles, DESPATCH from London quotes a fashionable taking candy for thusiasm, and Congress voted him a large gr Buta sens fair phyaiclam as saying that every one should eat at reat it, Then his sugary purchase w jattach himself-to-no country, now that his own axial. Prone leant @ quarter of a pound of on and a Keele samme land to land be traveled, stopping-fo ; , din Pranes! | , (Noth he sald, san sugar minimum pres. lon of @ quarter of dia d « always, hopelessly but bri fo el Poland. He set= x Leen my way n should mi wo pounds & seek ties satis ed to at Jast in itzerland, wh 7, he wy killed by the fall of his coh maa hele pool Meer Caner Cake aiid i horse over the side of a pre Be p slarly atte 8 Sutter, ; Mae ea Pea} All Europe mourned atriot, . Ever 1a did honor to his a eee oe cap f wd weuig |memory. In Cracow hi rymen erected in his honor a mound | diges hide bis meannen food far six da Soe vovay (150 feet high, composed of earth brought from the Polish battlefields where et ; in ving indorsed gantzing wid exacting | their dead hero had so splendidly waged his grand, hopeless fight for liberty rT lor i : r bia a Pima ele Set i ; Street, Brooklyn, is $40,000,000. The interest and sinking fund on this m™ to cons for this tearing ack It, seems ® \ any even | _— —Ten WAS To Make a Woman Care for a Man dollars to pay the interest and sinking fund on the cost of building ex-| ste craving carefully cultivated in (lis fa shonole aes agape phyeiak tensions and spurs, or for the still further reduction of fare, or for the | than cocktails, to eay nothing of its higher 1 that his ad entirely in | | By Margaret Rohe. city’s profit. fous to bécome the water wage wariotee tooth as it soun 4 — - ——~4 No, 9. eraafies Masriago-—Briog our F niends 0 Dinner U Unexpectedly ; the better three or bonds which make up the half-billion capitalization of the traction merger - - four extra guests on « 2 exactly \ | This money had far better go into the pockets of the people of New Hes cone To Pronaae AN IDEA! deg any a ends to tank up properly before 1 York. TO MISS MULTIMILL reaching the house, so much the better. This should not be | A three-cent fare would save men, women and children who now | MUST For. him! a matter of great diMoulty If approached in the right spirit. y eel ‘The effect of this precyution will be to render your company, have to use the present subway and elevated roads elght million dollars Men Gnas Ibe il chiuin ae stan’ ne nin cake icati ce re to th , ray WC her complete t her ease at once, The better to: entertain @ year. The application ofa three cent fare to the new subway w ould | her, they might be asked to play the plano loudly and sing Save more than this, because it now costs fifteen cents to go from the | in bass, because that is the manly key, and all women love - Bronx to Coney Island and ten cents to go from Brooklyn to any part | the manly note, of Manhattan not within walking distance of the bridges. Far more effective than any attempt to make the traction merger honest-and decent is this plan for the c from the traction monopoly and to reap for its own citiz the profits of its public fran. | * chises | | -_—- Letters from the People: | The Noise Nw We the Editor of The Bvening Wor A few lines tn regant to the to cut loose Alagrace Should she so far forget herself an to call attention to the fact that the hour Is somewt midnight and the neighbors are rapping on the ateam pipes, you # explain vehemently that You, and not the neighbors, pay the rent of the flat, and, further, that you and not the nelghbors paid for the plano, This, if ah of logic whatees ever, should at « convince her of her error, and she will apologise. Should she venture to speak of the fact that the unwonted noise has awakened the babys you should say merrily ‘80 much the better Bhe will doubtless laugh heartily at your wit until {t lp thne to prepare breakfast for yourself and your friei os Science Finds Wealth in Cornstalks. of the Department of Agrt says that inasmuch as every ROF, WILEY hundred pounds @ cornstacks will'yleld six and a half pounds of absolute alcoho}, it iy obvious that the ignorant agriculturist has been allowing am now we shall have # soprano note in the general chorus."® and remain in perfect good humew ful conditions which oxts: ew York weaep yh . sous amount of we to go to waste Clty at the present time 1 ert ’ AN HERE SHE COMES Say that one acre will y om ten to twelve t of grain stalks, or about Rolses which hold «way crt f AT LAST! Now | musT oo pounds, and you have ® ntity of raw rial whic will from ear ' fa ride 4 i) | GET MY NERVE up oes P of absolute alcohol, or 216 gallons Alcohol at the present tt 5 fe gi ap Ii i | \ FRONT T Ground in a wet condition and dried, cornatalks may be kept indefnttely, ang | walker, f nha WN) ' - are ready at any time for conversion into alvohol. Prof, V says that the elamorou + Oe H Alcohol dertvable from the cornatalka that now mo to waste in this county | Sue wien ve a 4 « , © 14 not only drive all the machinery of our factortes, but would furnish the | te pf bait show,” wt « requisite power for all our railroads and steamboats, run all of our automobtleng ) a { . wt ‘ « tos heat and illuminate all of our houses, and lMgbt the streets of every in the | and sloop to rewp #0 } as Union. 4 Liew 5 show a good t \ PO pai ig Hows | D sine Ue question ty Dresses Made of Pure Gold. E HB women of Sumatra wear costly dresses, many of them being made of 1 VON WEBEF Trials of “Mello Gir pure gold and sliver, After the metal ts mined and smelted it Is formed ae r * Bvening ® | into a fine wire, which Is woven into cloth and afterward used teg 1 the @mpla . the Balter of ‘ | dreases. 4 Blow many terms President of Twas @ t apenas : ulted Bates ine a be I Asx, | sme And on 9 : Longest Talk on Record. ] Kew. York Manners. strat 6 (erator are | R. KENEALY’S speech in the English Tichborne trial lasted 10 days, but Biitor of The Kyening ¥ id hee -& tithe amea ae | wit the D the Longest continuous talk te supposed to have been achieved in the Lage Pepvia Keep Vknvcking” | oe *"ipany ovehe to emply) vy tn ialature of British Columbia, when a member, who fon in & minority of © + " ave the Yours ladies ou “ i by speaking twenty-six hours without rst Haein te ca tie cr ly ta it) | Pugent Suit-or Show a BOLD FRONT? peta ob Py re ipsery Shy e i » mere