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‘Matered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Becond-Class Mall Matter, ‘VOLUME 47 « NO, 16,710, 3 A COLOSSAL SCANDAL. EFEREE MASTEN’S decision in the eighty-cent gas} case ts astonishing law. He holds that the | pired and violated gas franchises are property like an honest investment, and that the United States (Constitution prohibits the people of the State of New York from doing anything to impair the value of the Consolidated Gas's capitalization of these franchises. This Is a starting proposition. If the value of a franchise cannot be Inter- fered with by legiskation then the five-cent fare bill is uncomstitutional; the free transfer laws &re unconstitutional, tie two-cent a mile passenger laws in twenty States fe unconstitutional; the lowering of freight rates by law is unconstitu- tional, and the Public Utilities bill will be unconstitutional as soon as the Governor affixes his signature to it. This decision concerns not only the people of this city, but of this State and of every one of the United States. Its broad application would prohibit any legislative or popular action to lower the charges ad diminish the profits of any public service corporation. ce A franchise is a revocable public grant, not private property. It ha: ) always hitherto been supposed than any act which the Legislature could a3 pass, any future, Legislature could repeal; that any franchise could be 5 ‘2 and that every grant of public powers was subject to with- ‘drawal. j According to Referee Masten’s decision the Legislature can never real franchise without compensating its owners. For certainly Af the of the State is not ample to regulate the terms under which franchise may be operated it has not power to tepeal a franchise en- © Girely and thereby wipe out all its market value. There are some phases of this eighty-cent gas litigation which the law makes it perilous frankly to discuss, but attention may be called thin the law to these phases of the referee's rulings. He allows the Consolidated Gas to contradict the report of the " walue of its tangible property made to the State Tax Commission. He allows it to dispute the evidence of its own books as to the cost of king and distributing gas. He goes over the report of the official @uditors. He also hoids that the public must pay dividends on the value ‘upon them. ~he-Of-even more pressing interest is the question of ‘how the referee's Conelusion became known in advance in Wall street. Presumably no ‘one knew the referee's decision until he made {t public. The knowl- edge was locked in his own brain. How did it escape? f ere was the leak? | “Within the past few days the market value of the securitie 7 affected ‘by this decision increased some million dollars Who profited Pp thereby? The judges of the United States Circuit Court of this’ district can- worth millions of dollars to find out in advance the referee's decision. ) Somebody evidently found out. How did they do it? By what X-Ray ‘The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Wednesday, ein, The New York bachelor would euch @ choloe, or indeed any cholee, were permitted him may be, she has always had « chance to marr eome ong The fact that ahe is single is a certain indication that she prefer ‘That & man ie @ bachelor, on the contrary, does not prove Repairing the Streets, By Maurice Ketten. whe mare seme of these ndings i a convincing commentary THE Chloroform Cure for Bachelors, # ByNixola Greeley-smith. HE anmarried women of South Dakota have petitione’)to marriage. It merely shows that mo woman “ the City Council to ebloroform all bachelors ove wn sho chooses, but nctmatter hos iu/sibsie aiahscreiaedieeasemanace ee a ‘without an absolute hump” he |Shonwtie & worth while to marry him, Marriage is # voluntary proceeding wit forty who refuse to marry. This is very kind @|woman. But no man magries altogether of hia own accord. He ie led more o be glad indeed 4 |leas meekly to the altar and rarely remembers how he got thers, Nine times out of ten by @ double process of oajolery, of which the woman He woull, of course, choose to be married. He is « gallan lis often as unconscious aa he, he t# gently chlorofermed into matrimony. T man. Hut the idea that he could be chloroformed i he pre |chioroform @ bachelor, no matter what his age, is unfair, ferred 4¢ would take the cruelty off his inevitable fate. Th |hacheior if some woman—or perhaps several Mea ts surprisingly general among men moderately wise 1 |, manifest opportunity. other matters that no woman Is single If she ever hae hac) half an opportunity to marry, As ® matter of fact, women as an exceptionally wily person, strong to resist are ¢he only persone who exercise any eholoe about Mar of woman. Nevertheless, the mere fact thet he is @ bachelor demonstrates that riage. I do not bdeliey after tim have deta: bump can marry any “not be too Prompt in publicly investigating the colossal scandal, It was] plain or old or bad-tempered a! He would not be a women—had not grossly negiecte ‘The bachelor himself may not realize this. He may, indeed, regard himestf and cunning to elude the snares. choice—for he would be her husband ff whe had. To blame a tachelor of forty for being one and to punish him for i woul( (D8 es crue! as blaming him for -betng bald or rheumatic, He cannot help on A more than the other. It would be far more just to seek out the woman wh MAA log [might have married Bim but didn’t want to—end viajt vengeance upon her, @pparatus or telepathy or other psychic process did the insiders in Wall Supreme Court of t V "er not the power to exto property. But the tale which th d @icker told this last wee tiate concern to the United State Crouit Court of t h these proceedings are’ pending | _ — —z_,;,— “ - | Letters from the People. oF worne Greatest Spectacle” We the Eo 4 eid tor of The Eve y a who refer to Broadway's ma de on Baturiay after Boulevard” will « later the be Ovening Worle: band Bo ts th ¢ wtrew bat ts 1 tablest, Decomingest masculis sear Why limit ite wear to ys| moathe? The tyranny of that ugiy the Gerby, ls on us the rest of the yea: Why not let fashion extend the straw park and| Nat neagou from May 1 to Nev. 1 4 Hiver combine to make this| stead of trem June 16 to Kept. 6? ane i AE ca. You, | ROW @bOUt the Yorus of A tallor tol t f out of teahion Decades tno were so cheap. If this te true It stampe New York a4 @ elty of snobs ComMvoRT. Bt mnt the Government The Steam Meat Bill New Fark Pos-Omce money- |r ts Baier of The Rrening Ware: lew ike & country Crowds go there on | ‘Steet discover in advance what was going on In Referee Masten's brain? Bill Hustle, of Harlem. Xx | - \ jo ; (ves sm!) THATS THE GOODS! WAKT baie MORROW.! Now GET Anove on! — Y Say!now Much LONGER OOES IF TAKE To MUASURE LONG LEG THAW ® SHORT ONE C2 G2 &2 ByH. Methfessel. Wands AQUARTER, OLD MAN! wanTLe T is perhaps worth noting that 17 ACooma OF Times || | I Mons} May 227 1907. 2 SIXTY HEROES WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Poyson Te. No, 52—GEN. RAGLAN: Horo of the Orimean Wan ITZROY RAGLAN snatched victory out of defeat in the Ortmean wan F In return he was blanied and ridiculed by bis-own nation, was) mis Judged and {1l-treated, and died without knowing he had won suecess for his country and lasting fame for himself, This ts the story-of his «ples did achievement and tragic fate: Ruscia and Turkey were hereditary foes. The former bad conquese® and annexed the peninsula known as the Crimea, and during the quarter of the nineteenth century completed at Sebastopol, on the Soa, a vast fortress that served as a constant menace to Turkep, Russia this and other preparations was seemingly atming at cutting into territory. Europe watched the Czar’s movements with alarm, for it wes evident he was merely waiting an exonse to declare war on the Sultan, The chance came in 1852. Backed by France, Turkey offended the Oser by siding with the Latin Catholics mstead of with the Greek Church im « matter ef religious precedenee in Bethlehem. Instantly a Russian army was ruched into Turkeys Danube provinces. Turkey declared war. France and Engiand (and later Sardinia) formed an alliance with the Sultan against Russia & strong fleet carrying 64,000 soldiere—80,000 French, 27,000 English and 1,000 Turks—landed in the Crimea, about thirty miles north of Sebastopol, early in September, 1854. ‘The British forces were commanded by Lori Raglan. He was the Duke of Wellington's former military secretary, had served with honor in thy Spanish campaigns against Napoleon and had Jost his right arm at Waterloo. He was a fearless soldier and brilliant tactician. $n The Allee Are Led’), The French commander was Marshal St Arnaud, by @ Hero end ®& weak I!ncompetent. History has proven that by an Inoompetent. there are no braver, better fighters on earth than oo Well-led “Frenchmen. But in the Crimea, as later in the Franco-Prussian war, France lacked effi- clent generals. The burden of the work fell on the English. The allies disembarked anu advanced toward Sebastopol. This vast for tress was of course the objective point of the war. It was impregnable from - sea, but less well fortified on the landward side. Large Ruselan armies filled the intervening countries. The first of these, 50,000 strong, under Prince Mentachikoff, occupied the heights above the River Alma, in the path of the invaders. In a three-hour battle Raglan swept the Russians out of his way in disorderly rout and advised that the allies push straight on to Sebasto- pol. Had this been done before the landward side of the fortress could be strengthened the war might bave ended almost at once. But St. Arnaud held back and compelled Raglan to encamp at Balaklava and prepare to storm Sebastopol slowly and in accordance with old military traditions. Haglan could not overrule his colleague, and the Russians thus gained full time io throw up fortifications. ig While the British were at Balaklava (the French being encamped some miles away) @ great Russian army (Oct. 23, 1864) attacked them. The Turk- ish vanguard was utterly beaten, ana the Russians poured in on the much smaller British force. Raglan by sheer genius repulsed the attacx and won the day. A spectacular feature of the battle of Balaklava was the famous charge of the Light Brigade, in which 600 cavalrymen under Lord Cardigan, acting under a mistaken order, hurled themselves against the whole Rus- sian army. Barely 200 returned unharmed. Eleven days later at Inkerman the Russians again attacked, seeking to drive the Allies away and raise the siege. This conflict is known as “the battle of the soldiers,” for in the dense fog at the outset of the assault-no clear plan of warfare could be carried out, and the contest was largely a matter of bayonet work and other close quar- ters fighting. Thanks to Raglan’s quick decision and unerring judgment, the Russians were driven back, with heavy loss. St. Arnaud died and was succeeded in i.e French command by Gen. Canrobert, another incompetent, whom Raglan could not induce to advance boldly on Sebastopol. So the long siege began. The troops died by hundreds of disease. England had been unp; for such a war and the British Government made blunder after blunder. For these errors and the handicap of the wretched French and Turkish com- manders Kaglan received the blame, The English press hounded him. He was censured for the slowress of Canrobert, for b Florence Niontinaci;, the neglect of the War Office, for the by Florence Nightingales disease. He oore the brunt of all this Safast anit and “Gens. January} cism and pushed forward the siege as best he and February.” could. Englana & fund was raised, and Miss a Florence ivightingale, with thirty-seven nurpes, “was sent to the Crimea. After that the sick and wounded recelved better treatment. The Czar, on hearing of the deaths fn the pine armies that terrible winter through privation, cold and {llness, re iner! Hi ' “My most efficient leaders are Gen. January and Gen. February.” Spring came, and with it Raglan's plans for the stege began to bear fruit. Little by little the fortress—key to the whole Crimea and to the fate | of the war—ashowed signs of yielding. On Sept. 8, 1855, Sebastopol was {aken. The Crimea was at the Allies’ mercy, But the Czar peace, and a troaty signed at saris the following spring ended the wen” ‘ Raglan did not live to sce this glorious crowning of his life work. He fell Ill th June, 1855, and died three months before the fortress fell. “Afre | his death the country and press that had so scourged rEect | honored the dead warrior as a national hero. Ly An Pee Sentence Sermons. MPTINESS ts not innocence. . Worship is independent of walls. ‘True religion {a the root of al! reform Triumph te @ matter of ‘The heights never are scaled by the top-lofty. The overtime sermon makes the slothful saint. You cannot fre the hearts of men by frozen sermons. You lose sense as soon as you ignore all sentiment. Polishing the head alone often paralyzes the heart. The church that lifts the fallen never need fear failure The ear ready for slander makes the lips ready to slay, ‘The greatest shame of all ts to feel none at things unworthy. A man th not sound in life because he has much sound on his Ips. The church will not mal world until it ts willing to mix with-the old one. The pulpit often mistakes the thunder for the shower of Diessing, You may climb fool's hill in an auto, but you will pot reach the top any ariler ‘Tho greater the self-consclousness of the fool the less his conscloumess ef hia true self. ‘Thore {# little danger in the discontent with condition that 1s equated discontent with character, bd The creed that bases righteousness op ® legal fiction wil pro@ues emty = fictitious righteousness. You cannot give ® man much light by throwing knowledge et him te ouah a way (hat ne seas stars—Chioago Tripune. The Hard-Working Ant. worker castes are never seen et play, truth seems to be that thelr life t# so strenuous from ite fret of Imagohood to the end of thelr career that there ts no time for of any sort. Work, work, ceaseless work on thelr endless round of @uty IN BOSTONESE. Waldonis,” onid her “You bave been in that awing lot, varied only by scant periods for eating, for sleep, for personal cleansing cocasional mutual “shampooing.” The amusements of ant communttion, they are, are limited to the degendent isisure classes, says it must be remembered that al) of the ,outine labor ts not of the like mining and nursing. Moreover, the liberty to “knock off nable privileges of the caste workere—one that te bused, No doubt, under such ¢ rule, they ‘em #8y More enjoyment—out of life than Bath, 4 restricted at so many points that they seem te be than privileged prisoners of state. _ OH Preached Sermon in Armo N Engtish preacher believes in wnoonventiona] ways One says, to reach the people in religion. Bo he appeared on Crown Theatre, at Peckham, England, arrayed in the tut knight errant of the me of the Crusades, surocost of greasy armored gauntiets, sword and helmet, end vi. 2: “Put on the whole armor of God that ye ma: te wiles of the devil” —_—————— +4 : “liad 2 f