The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1907, Page 12

She @udtienes vy the Press Pudliehing Company, No fered at the Poast-Oftice at New York as @ Pork Row, New Tork 1-Class Mall Matter. NO, 16,708. COWARDS. EAR is one of nals. It can be the exercise of ed States pulation of gent, enterpris as in any other Ame) includes clergy men, lawyers, doctors and engineers, méchanics of all trades, merchants, | manufacturers, laborers. Its standards of education are high. Its per- is low. If any city was to have its affairs honestly 5 stered it was San Francisco Yet for years the majority of the people of San Francisco were Seemingly content that it should be governed by a corrupt boss, A shyster lawyer had made a combination of all the corrupting and cor- Tuptible elements in the community. The public service-corporations were with him because he delivered the franchises and special privileges for which they paid him bribe money. The saloon-keepers were witli him because he let them do as they picased so long as they bought their supplies from his firms, The} brewers were with him because he prevented competition. The big iaw firms were with him because they could get large fees by buying favor for their rich clients. The professional labor agitators were with hin Decause he gave them offices. The small politicians were with him be- Cause he let them share in the graft. { But why did the people of San Francisco’tolerate Abe Ruef? Because they were cowards. 2,782 is as intell They were/afraid of what he might do to them if they opposed him Reputable builders were afraid of his building inspectors. Merchant were afraid of his health inspectors. Manufacturers were afraid of hi factory ordinances. Property owners were afraid of his assessors Abe Ruef, the Mayor, Schmitz, and the Supervisor were in a partner- ship for public plunder. The California Republican State machine, which Harriman owns through his railroads, worked in with the San Francis: gang. So did the Democratic State machine, which Harriman also owns It made no difference whether San Francisco went Democratic or Re publican. Everybody knew this, yet nobody rose in effective wrath until Rue took to taking bribes from both sides in a franchise fight. Then it be- came to the financial interest of the rich men whom Ruef bilked 1 punish him for his duplicity. They did. It cost them several hundred thousand dollars, but they got Ruef and his Mayor and his Supervisors. A special United States district-attorney was secured A detective force was organized The Supervisors confessed first. Then Ruef plead guilty. He, too, turned coward and sobbed and begged in court. It was a solemn warning to all posses not to be double-faced. But the people of San Francisco, are they cow ards still? Are the people of New York cowards? ‘Ate saloon-keepers any less afraid of the police and of Tamman here than in San Francisco? Are property owners in New York afra of their taxes and assessments? Are builders afraid of being interfere: with? Are merchants afraid of the city departments that affect them? Will the New York city government continue weak, corrupt, expen five, Inefficient and unjust until some rich men fig private pockets? Letters from the People. Errand Boy vs. OMee Boy. Ger their ines to « ft and| ’ a w be « t Wo the Editor of the © World | Srease? a x I am interested in office boy eon-| Poor ant 1 troversy. There are two office boys ta As to “Growling.” the place where I am employed Pager mung ae siete ai they claim they have # snap, a8 they ye so ondent says foreigners Mving Gent reach the oMce till $90). 0 ee ting about the oonditior im the morning and ait down and) ory. ty dhs perro make out bills of lading and get the M. and take it to mail ready tor #2’ Peary the post-oMce, and then go home 1 “ ts hard ¢ ait inveatio pointe Gro pounds and trot eround the city | ory uiink o: with them, besides getting chased a! ever tor the clerks and everybody eles. Charity 4 Courtesy, ‘At $ o'clock, when 1 am preparing to go, To the Batter of 7 World home, 1 api called back and told & Boine people oa ohar ouside bundles down to the severe! ex-| New York ate 8 mistake HH press offices, as they have to go out|!ng some trouble with one of my & feet wight Office boys have # cine mi nent being abie gO to a epectalis Dee errand boye get the bard mes ‘ ° rrowttess BEADE STRURT HUSTLER 1 wes o Bye and Ka othe 8 RO A , f * poor Fo the Paitor of The Evening W 4 Bag gl ja 8 very New York Oty poclety called] Pork Ve I wee Y work i some but it i aatenn fe thee Nery quick to p velty to ani-| "Ue & a se Pkt nb yates ec uber t * vs mee, euch as the 6 us Of howmes' | ait this Ie only eter ba s Malla; siso automobiles have many of]. lt the aaphe!\ streets tn euch @ condition rs ARD J. WILMORE the oll and grease (hat drip trom i Wit J that it le @iffioult for # horee to Yes. In 1886, | op lie fest on @ rainy day. Why] By the Euitor wf Tee Biening World | Did Kastor ever fal) am, iste os| te have pane of poms sort wer! Agel mr hac The Evening World's wary © Magazine, Tuesday, May 21, y 1907.. The Brooklyn Handicap. By Maurice Ketten ot nelghbor's h to one person, should cherish affectionate remembrance of, not to The Cheerful Primer. Why Sy Few People Marry Their First Loves wu T 7 HAS long ago passed into ® popular proverb that one can have too much of a good thing. No one, however 4 virtuous, will attempt to deny that most of the minor virtues are susceptible of being carried to exeess, [mn which case they not only become discomforts, put, it may be, ever vices. This t.uth applies with special force to the much lauded virtue of constanay, while Within proper limits. worthy of all the pri 4 upon it by romancers from the thm: try and roma to be. For, when love |s one sided, without reasonable bope of return, constancy ts foolish rather than admirable. and the sensible and correct course ts to eschew it as speedily and as thoroughly as possible When the object ot « hopeless affection becomes the wedd: spouse of another constancy to thet love ls not only tnexpedient but lawful, and degenerates into a yice. ¢ decalogue fortéds any man to covet his neighbor's wife man hold {t aa @ yet more hefnous offense that any woman sh< and. Neither ts tt meet that any man or womar and the laws 4 covet her WILD WEST! SHow Mot-onist Merry MOTI Will the Mer: CON-TIN-UE is His By Helen Oldfield. ormer love. Wherefore tt la the mandate of duty and the pert of wisdom to be off with the old love before one ts on with the new. It is an evidence of th of character and moral purpose rather than of weakness and instability ple to banish the old idols from the shrine; to sweep and garnish the to purity tt from the worshtp of forbidden gods. “He that can love unloved again Hath better store of jove than brain. God eehd me love my debis to pay. ws fool their love away.” manner in which © folk appear to ragur! ich fa not to be r . however undesirable it ell elwe, it ts je duty and right of true ite. their first loves, which, #0 far from being ts a good thing for all those who are concerned. The sid by far rather be her husbansl’s last love than it always is the latest love which te loved yat | we ae One cannot but wonder at t As 4 apecies of obsession w be, forgetting th woman who said hin first was decidedly wise, « “Ww Once & jifetime only.” —Chicago Triune. By C. W. Kahles, Ob-serve the IRATE COW BOY. ~~ SBOE SPPBO FBPESDSP OH FB DEB ® GERTRUDE BARNUM 2 Union League me > Talhs ¢ « LalRs to Girls & & & The Working Giri’s A B C’s. GAWKY young countr n¥ id long worked the ws-room of a «The teacher ted the alphabet on the binckhoard and named the tnk they kn r A. B, C's they handle arity nad o - ey ththk they know r too, and r them as infallible ® the paths of ° the true and the | laid the very key anch » And doe not ce te chumey And be ring and try ucation” to many «iris hh ome to m t 1 “Phthisis” and to define a “Delta.” All of the good, the true and the beaut®ul” which education seems to open up to them je the significance of the ‘Ember and Roga- tion Days’ of the Church, the dates of the Wars of Mithridates and the “Metonic Cycle," the diagrams of the Aphthalinological Society and the influ ence of the Clmabue Madonna upon mediaeval art I know a girl who hungered and thirsted for education, and sacrifiecd much for It. Like ihe farmer, she thought that the A, B, C's could be used to “‘shed tight upon Like him, she was ready to «it humbly and reverently before any crumbs of learning. She work: hop by day to 8 sand the Sin; reeled ¢ work hour res and po jo Taxers, the Dowteltes and Marxian until but the “mc always found herself sitting L. her sweatshop, as before, with scr Ute ust to thread and right behind her were the ever-t shadows of tempiai and crept Dr. Adler's “Ethies’* ut of the Golden Kule seemed to c do you. She ponaered young Rockefellers connection between ho One evening she hee by what she nw about her ange ite form-to but the Do others or Question.” After that she never believed any been taught - “Ha! het” she laughed, “they don't any of them ..ow beans!" She called Tr and advised them to take into their own hands the | What they call education.” she expla: ‘dosen't fit ck of ‘cast-offs’ in a pawnshop. No @ the colles ny other, What the professors n ashe and the other wor ould be understood and belleved. know a real problem when they saw one. "We must begin all over with our A, B, Cs," they sald. And the very first lesson they gave out made the professors feel I!ke farmerm, “Great Gosh!" they exclaimed, “is that A! ae «trie set adout invent They tegular Ghett>-fra” 4 new tanguage, resolved to teach people te The Story of the .°. | Streets of New York No. 4—HiIstoric Lower Broadway. es) ERE the imposing new Custom-House has been erected was firat the site of the okt fort and then of @ Government butlding, which was intended for the residence of the President of the United States -£ the Government had remained in New York, and was occupied Ly Gove. Clinton and Jay. The atte was next taken for a row of residential budings, which for many years were regarded as the finest in New York, and were occupied by some of the wealthiest families and finally as steamship offices. The best house of all, on the corner of Btate street, overlooking the Battery and Bay, was the residence of Stephen Whitney. Next to John Jacob Astor, he waa the richest man and largest owner of rea! estate in New York. The wealthy Whitney family of this day are different people. The best paying stores im Water, Front and South streets belonged to Stephen Whitney, and he personally collected his rents to the minute when they were dye. He was sordid in ohare acter and unpleasant in both appearance and manners, His great ambition was to amass wealth and prove himself not less shrewd in his investments then hie contemporary and rival, John Jacob Astor, His son-in-law, J, P. Phoemtx. lived near him, on Btate street, and was @ prominent man. He lost « grown son by @ peculiar secident at the hands of @ specialist throat doctor that created a sem sation. Other families in this row were Jobm Hone brother of Mayor Philtp Mone, « famous public and social man, who lived in upper Broadway, and the Gthons, Every house on both sides of Broadway was occupied by some prominent Some houses on Broadway were built of fine granite, and all old stores pUlare pf tt No, 17 Broadway had great crouching stone ons. Centre in Grand street, which ts site of the new Police Headquarters, stone Gogs, At No. # Bridge street lived Washington Irving. The sion, occupted by Robert Lenox and his son James, was on the and Bridge streets, James Lenox, who founded the Lenox Lil with hia sister in the fine residenoe at Fifth avenue and Jacob Astor lived on part of the site of the Astor House aoquli of houses, then moved uptown, tore down the houses and built which he wave to his son, William B., for love and the living In much refirement during him later years, Astor died Broadway near Prince street. The plate on the door was Astor.” The house No, 1 Broadway, now site of the Washington Buflding, had famous history, In 1606 there wae a market stand there, and some a tavern. In 17 Archibald Kennedy, the eleventh Darl of Camstiite, posing house of Gel, with ® carved doorway. Gen. Wi it his bi Gens, Gates, Putnam and Lee also ved there was the British headquarters, with Lord Cornwallis, Gens. Howse and Major Andre and others, Later it was the residence of the banker, N. and then the Washington Hotel, The adjoining house wes built by John in 17%, For large entertainments the two houses were thrown into one piazeas overlooked the gardens, which extended to the river front, Cyrus W, Field, who was for « considerable time the largest owner of the butlding, had ail (his history in mind when he became interested in the property, and was not less proud of this ownership than of his possessions in the Atlantia ie E fi i H iF FS ft i i i in ! i ; : i 5 ! g ? i A Horse and Man Famine. HE scarctty of horses and men in the Weet is one of the most noticraile [ features In the progress of Industry, Good draught herses,which eight years ! ago were worth only HO, Are now selling at 120 to $900 ach; a good team ls wort) #40 ‘These horses are pended tn the lumber woods anf on rallway Construction, Wut not enough oan be had. Men to Work in the woods are being paid §70'— month and board. A man with ® g004 team com 8 wears of day hauling lumber and loge Never before have the wirgen been so high ov the prices of horses #0 great as now, ~——0 $2 Science in Earliest Times, Ughtning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 178 to arrest the jetty of the thunder, When the information of the discovery reached | Saul Kataenelenbogen of Wine he @aid that the theory was not new, because It was already known in Talmudic times, and pe pansage tn the Tosefta (third century), where it gaye that “On Mabbath i a perw mitted to plage an tron bar near the hennery to eadeguard the fowls from ¢ and lightning strikes.’ The Talmud vourhes (nat “there ts noth wvperenaen about this belief.” ae Walls Papered with Bank Checks, NEW dosign in fancy wall paper patt A a way (0 Uthilse cancelled checks A: has had all ite ofires with old checks, placed neatly edge to etge, ‘The face Naures of the ary from P10 $1,400, and the total for one room Js 15,000,000 As a gilt moulde ing Tune around the edges of each check-pancl the general effort tx rather plesaiag, to This Dress Took Six Years to Make, 1X years, WW yards of Guchewy silk lace, 0 yarde of wlik thread, and en ‘ comer from Kansas Cy; age finite amount of paticnce were consumed by Mins Amelia M. Reta. ‘DD Marshailiown, Ie, I making ® biack Inow rere, Mise Rede! concelved dip, tee of @ lage dress six yearw wo, and Immediately set to work out thes (dea, Mie hae Just Maisie’ her lak, he wale wd ‘etry eanhy fate in one place ‘Tha denien wan worked out over ® foundation of camimig