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Fr The oy tho Press Publishing Company, No. & to © Park Row, New TO’ Funtered at the Post-Otlice at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter i NO. 18,708. TITLE GRAFT. T gr expense New York City maintdins offices for the preserva-1 tion of public records, In order tc protect his title every owner of real estate must record his deed, owner of Th he s must | them entered in order that pyr- chasers and other créditors may be} informed: Judgments and’ liens must be filed so any one can see them, The payments of taxes and assessments must also be kept ac-} cessible to the: public For this purpose the taxpayers every year contribute several million dollars. The Register's and County Clerk’s offices and the Tax Re- céiver's Department are all conducted at public expense and. presumably | NEWYORK solely for the public benefit. The necessity for this is apparent, If there were no requirement that deeds, mortgages and liens had to be recorded to be valid, property titles would be uncertain and the great real and building businesses could not be safely carried on. Yet what are the facts? Can any man who desires to buy a piece of property or has a little Money to lend go to the offices maintained at public expense and there feadily ascertain the state of the title and what liens exist? On the contrary, the condition of the public records is such that the benefits instead of being given to the public who maintain these offices, are trans. ferred to the title companies, and additional profits are every year mad by private corporations which in the end every householder and tenan pay. This is one of the needless items which tend to make rents hig! in New York. Iya Us nie The indexes of the Register's office have not been written up fo Several years. Several scores of ticklers have to be searched and checke. up with the original records, a job which requires an expert man to worl for several days, without certainty then as to the accuracy of his conclu- sions. This makes it cheaper to go to ‘the title company’ and pay its fifty or hundred dollar search fee, and then for protection pay a percentage of the value of the property for title insurance. The records of the Tax Bureau in the Comptroller's office are in such shape that not only is it virtually impossible for a purchaser of prop- erty to find out from them whether the back taxes have been paid, but it, has become so difficult for the owners of property to pay their taxes that the title companies have found another field of profit in collecting fees to Pay owners’ taxes for them. The records of the County Clerk's office, while not in such bad shape as the Register’s indexes and the Tax Receiver’s books, are also in such condition that they are next to useless to the ordinary citizen, It appears that clerks and _Evening World's (GENERAL, y TAs (S QOH! PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ws this place.” 1 don’t care for it,” sald M “Good band, 1 tell you,’ “I've got the spring fever,” said Jarr, yawnini “Ah, those 61 where My, Li public offices entirely on the |7> condition that the title companies rE Rig would moderate thelr charges than . to continue the presenf system by which the public pays twice over for the-same service. Every real estate investor, every builder and every landlord recog- Mizes the title companies’ charges as part of the cost. Therefore, when the tenant comes to pay rent he pays also the title companies’ fees as well as the taxes which were alreatly collected to furnish this service free. | } Letters from the People. Fines for Waitresses. ae water, A watering trough at every two Po the Wilior of The Bvening World: blocks would be @ godsend to them Tam & waitress in a big restaurant.| 4 law to punish people who leave their We sirls are fined if we spemk to & cats to starve would be an equal bless customer. We are fined from 10 cents) ing TAN@r. to % cents if we break « dish. We are fined if any orders are cold when we! In the Werld Almanac, et them to serve and the customer| Te the Exitor of The Bvening World complains, What between ning w Where can I find full answers to the Dreakage and other causes come | following questie Th @ul pretty much poorer at the end of compared to the moon's, How many the week than we ought to This kind! times jarger the sun is than both the of & thing should be stopped. Please earth and the moon? Alao distance Jet us hear from other waitresses on from the earth to the moon and from WAITRESS. the earth to the sun? DAVE GOLDBPRAG. Bad Condition of Str of The Byeut agitation 1 ton of n (there # nO question this subsecs, A and! the nocturnal. inferna! barking 7 Gor of back-vyard notoriety. He is ar W santly numerous in my | &FA all right © fiaam whistle and the nolsy the die strects is that they milk 4 bad condition) t evens to me in 5 Meat the sain to | that conditi: reason why ¢ ya mh te due to the pw a| Coming uptown on « Brosdwa during sleeping hours. talking ¢ to health and patience be cond 0 at at once. A city is no place for| the care w uly sto anyway. CIVILAZED, | the trucks and wagons, whi: were Crechty to Avimals. stalled on account ef the Wet pay MiAitor of The x Worle | L. J. CALILANAN Approaches the #24 Lime wh Yes. a WP to the country, leaving their| m tne patior of The Eves igte Binrve to death, And i» epite of Having co 5 fia @ald, thousands of poople do thing every year, Also, in iseds of dose will | th | | “Let's Th “at “Ah, come on,” sald Rangie. ® good time.” ‘Where'll we go?” asked Jarr, not that he wanted to know, but Just to make | Kuroki, th By Mauri ONE WORD, PLEASE GENE Rx) { ONE WORD PLEASE (GENERAL ENGRAL | THIS IS CONEY ISLAND. be ETS go bawling to-night. The season will soon + ie over,” said Rangie, as he dropped in on his frien Jarr, just at the close of day. “Too warm,” said Jarr, “and did it never occur to yOu that somebody will make big money some day havin= & bowling alley on # roof garden? Why do they always put "em down in cellaraT’ “Ask moi” said Rangle “And speaking of roof gar- dens, I know « nice beer garden in Harlem. If It doesn't rain to-night let's go.” “Take the women folk?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Now, look here” said Mr. Rangle, in an injured tone, “@o you think I'm getting up outing and games for the family and ‘basket parties welcome’ thing? Let's break away for once. Come! ens are all alike; Gull and dirty, cheeky waiters, bum bands. Jart. id Rangle, “and wha: better—good beer.” I don't feel like going any- *“T'll be lonesome. Come on out and we'll have run down to Coney Island and see what's going on,” suggested Rangie. | @ lot of new things at Luna Park and Dreamland this year.” too early,” salg Mr places make me melancholy unless there's @ crowd.” Jarr, “wait till the season is on @ little, Those “We can go down to Steeplechase and see how much work's been done on the Calamity mene "3" Is it a got There's fine music at) Daily Magazine, Friday, May we ee e Hustler. | ce Ketten. ONE WORD, GENERAL = GENERAL, ONE WORD PLEASE ILIRE youR COUNTRY You ARE HUSTLERS LUCE My OWN PEOPLE 1 VERY GLAD To HAVE MET You. BANZAI} “SIXTY HEROES WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Payson Terhune. No, 51.—VIOTOR EMMANUEL, the Hero Who Freed Italy. FIERCE battle waged at Goito, one day in 1848, between an Austrian A army and the mon who were fighting for Italy's weifare. Austria, the bully of Europe, had browbeaton and humbled the greater part of Italy, even as it had crushed Hutgany and Poland, Pui Sa din’ and a few other Italian states held out for freedom.’ At Golto the armies of oppressor an. oppressed met in confilct. For a tim o tide cf battle favored Austria. Then, just as the day seemed lost, an officer, twenty-elght a rs old, rallied the wavering Italians, threy himself into the thic. of the fight, regardless of danger, ani by the sheer force of his wr dare- devil courage and example, turned the fortunes of the day. The Austrians were beaten. The young officer, though badly wounded, snatched victory from defeat. He was Victor Emmanuel; Crown Prince of the, little Italian | Kingdom of Sarina Italy had suffered much during the early years of the ninetsenth cen- tury. First, Napoleon overran and conquered it. Then, on his fal’, the small states and pet.y kingdoms (which made up what is now known 1s Italy) had gradually fallen under Austrian control. A’ group of provinces including Rome and known as the Papal States, were ruled by the Pope. The Austrian yoke was heavy, Italy was not sufficiently united to make successfu: resistance. One man’s military prowess was to make un independence possible. That man was Victor Emmanuel, heroes were destined to devote thelr lives successful on and And three other ly to the same caus. . These three were Mazziniya journalist, wh? iA Gath acres silrred up national spirit to revolt: Cavour, rd staterma whor dlp’ and His Ruined Kingdom. } welded and gulded the icaitared tates and e———_—_—re Garibaldi, man of the op vhose it~ less bravery and geni.s roused the peasantry to arte setae Bek. Sita was the hope of the revolutionists. But Charles Albert, its King, euffered several humiliating defeats at Austr.a's hands, After the last © these, at Novara, March 23, 1849, he resigned the throne to his son, Victor Emmanue. hero of the battle of Golto. The young man thus became king of a ruined, beaten, disorganized country. Patriots looked with doubt on his plans tor restoring order out of chaos. For he had passed a wild, uncultured boy- hood and was of a fiery nature that could not grasp intellectual teachings. But he was a born soldier, and behind his undisciplined, dashing exterior hid the brain of a genuine ruler of men. Where every oier stats in lialy crouched spbdued under the Austrian whiy, he refused to yield to threats or bribery, Thus Italian patriets gradually gathered to his standard Fifanee Enynanue! saw he could not mee: with truc genius, he cast about for some stronger power to dc for him. With this end in view, he joined England and Weatoe thety war again Russia, in the Crimea. Austria had held alcof. Sardinia’s ald enab'ed the patriot King to form an alliance and personal friendship with Napoleon IIL, nephew of the great Napoleon, Em- peror of France. By promising Napoleon his own rich family estates and ancestral -rovince of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel inducea the fickle French Emperor to declare war on ..us:ria .n 1859. fhoagh the French armies eked out cae deficient numbers of the Sardinians, it was the soldierly skill of Victor Emmanuel that won from Austria three great battles—Palestro, Magenta ond Solferino—on May 30, June 4 and June 2%, 1 and forcea the “Bully of Europe” to give up all Italy except the province of Venetia. This and the Papal States now alone stood out against liberty and union. The rest combined and Victor Emmanuel was chosen King. Garibaldi and Austria on equal terms, so, Mazzini meantime had raised an army, with Which they drove the Pope out of Rome and formed a Roman republic. But Spain, Naples and France rushed to the aid of His Holiness, Ves) gallant resistance, Garibaldl and his men were forced to retreat, and guard of French soldiers rong was permanently posted af Rome © aeiond ibe vapal ri The Pope in- cidentally excommunicated Victor Emmanuel, but this edict did not greatly disturb the new King of Italy. He was too busy working and planning for his nation’s welfare to give thought to personal matters. When Prussia made war on Ausina in 1806 Victor Emmanue? the former and, on Austria's defeat, claimed and received Venetia. But joined The Jarr Family's Daily Jars % x x +, x By Roy L McCardell Friede Globe Tower,” said Rangle. “There'll be more done when the weather's settled,” said Mr. Jarr. | “Will you go to Gus's and play pool, then? I'll spot you two balls,” said Rangle. “What's the matter with you that you are so anxious to be a sport?” asked Mr. Jarr, petulently. “What do you want to drag me off to your haunts for, | when I want to go home like # good citigen?” “All right,” grumbled Rangle, “you wait till you are feeling lonesome and want company to go around with you, and then ask me, just ask me!" “Ob, I think we'd better go home,” said Mr. Jarr. “It ten't right, old man, and you know it. “I feel as if I must do something real devilish,” said Rangie. “I think ft | ddes @ man good to break loose once tn a while This being good is monotonous.” ell, I don’t feel tke it,” said Mr. Jerr, £ “Come on, you'll reel like it after you get started,” coaxed Range. bowl,” ~ “Nope,” sald Mr, Jarr. ‘Burlesque show or billiards or pool?” continued the tempter. “Not for mine!” said Mr. Jarr, emphatically. “Run down to Coney, then, and if there’s nothing dotng we'll come right back said Rangle. “Nix!* said Mr. Jarr. “Oh, Mddlesticks!”’ exclaimed Rangle “Let's go out and get stewed!" “Now, you're talking sense!” sald Mr. Jarr, taking up his hat, “Do you | untnk I could go out on the town with you in cold blood and cold sober?” | “You never have,” said Mr. Rangle “And 1 never will,” said Mr. Jarr. present it right! ‘And thus do conspiracies against the happiness and peace of mind of good and worrying wiyes continually ariae. “Let's “When you present + proposition to me, (Mm OVRE THis HOUSE'LL. CATCH FIR® S0mMe Time! | [REAOS STRAIGHT ac AS A 6TRING TO me DIDALL. THIS WATRR By W. J. Steinigans GIMME A $3000 Policy on my vse AIN'T 1 GLA ‘ | GoT AMAR. RCyY SAKES! WHEE | JUST KNW SOMETHING WA GOING TO MAPP friendship for Napoleon III. prevented btm from forcibly taking possession of Rome while French troops still guarded the Eter- nal City. In 1870 the Franco-Prussian war caused the withdrawal of these soldiers. Victor Emmanuel then entered Rome and made it his capital. All Italy was at last free and united. The labor of a lifetime was crowrfed with success. The man who had begun his career as ruler of a broken and insignificant prinetpality found himself one of the powerful monarchs of Europe. In the efght years of life that remained for him to enjoy the fruits of his labors Victor Emmanuel retained the tastes and habits of a simple sol- dier, avoiding display and extravagance, ruling with a wise, kind justice that won the respect of the world. ees | A Life-Enterprise for “United Italy.” Marrying for Love Is Common Sense. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. YOUNG widow, !t was announced yesterda: A surrender $115,000 left her. in her £ x » to marry a poor clergyman with whom she has fallen in love. Nearly all of us subscribe theoretically to the sentle mental idea that the world is well lost for love. But com paratively few are brave enough to put this poetical ab- straction to the test of reality in our own - Women who gtve up $115,000 for love are rara, while those who forfeit love for money by mercenary marriages are too numerous to attract any comment without their irele of acquaintances. ntimentalist! says the world of one it murmurs commendingly of the other, jevel head of the wornam who finds the happiness sle wants and realises that no sacrifice @ to great to attain it, The woman who marries for money soon begins to loo %ipon dol- lara only for what they cannot buy. She learns that happiness cans : be pur- chased, And if she is privileged to know any man and woman genuinely in love with each other, the assurances of pessimists that happiness exists only in hopes of the future fall on her ears like the hollow untruths they are. All people ‘cho love and whose love js returned are happy, In its acute stagos their state of mind may be classified as bites, which tn €9 course of time alters and softens to a sort of chronic content, They are not happy for an hour or « day, but, with a few interruptions, so long as their love lasts. Money cannot give happiness, The most ft can accomplish ts to relieve dis- comfort or alleviate boredom, A woman who Is uncomfortably poor and lan- guishing tor lack of @iversion, and who 1s not in love and never expects to be, and who has no moral revulstons et so cold-blooded « step, may marry for money and improve her eondition. But any woman who sacrifices love for money is lacking in ontinary common sense, She surrenders the positive oer tainty of happiness—for a time, at least—for a very uncertain prospect of com uncertain period. oes ering love affairs resulta net from love, but from the lack of ft. Men and women who love enough rarely quarrel, while quarrels between pert sons held together by the power of money are inevitable, The woman who marries a man for money cheats him by that very fact, and he {# bound, how- ter blind his infatuation, to find tt out and resent it, 8he who marries for love-if it be really love-de wise in surrendering $115,000 or any other sum to achieve her happiness, ———-+ te The Oldest Implement. HP hammer, besides being # tool of universal une, ts probably the oldest | representative of a mechanic's tool kit, The hammer was originally @ stone fastened to a handle with thongs, and {t was as useful as ® weapon us a tool, Hammers are represented on the monuments of Egypt twenty centu- ties before our era, They greatly resemble the hammer now In use, save that they re no claws on the back for the extraction of nails. Claw banmery were invented some time during the middie ages, Illuminated manuseripts o the elevénth century represented carpenters with claw hammers, Ho. epee are of all sisea, from the dainty instruments used by the Jewellers, whicn welsh leas than half ant ounce, to the gigantic fifty-ton hammers of shipbuilding o# tablisbments, some of which have a falling force of from ninety to one hundred tons. Every trade has its own hammer and its own way of uatng It, ” “Frenzied Finance” in Japan. URIOUS ways the Japanese meretiant has of doing business, A spectal agent of the United Blates Government who is now in Japan gives some ilustrations, The buyer, he say#, makes no payment until the arrival | ot the woods. If in the mean time the market has dropped, the Japanese will | Stten go to tie American and intimate that he ts not prepared to stand all the }loas, and that the American should divide the loss with him, though to do se might wipe out all the profit on the transaction, : ete A Strange Barometer. used in y and Switzerland oo