The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1907, Page 10

' i ‘ } The Puptaned New Tork Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to @ Park Row, Metered ties Post-Office at Now York as Second-Clase Mall Matter, .. NO. 16,722. —<—<$—$$— —_—____— Z AN EASY TOWN. HAT an easy town New York is! Not for the honest man, not for the hard-working man, not for the shopgirl or the factory hand, but for the get-rich-] quick man. The Boeck case is one of hundreds. Here is a man who appears with a pedigree of his own manufacture, Nobody knows anything about him except what he tells of ‘himself, Accoriling to} that his grandfather was a German general. His; father was a professor. He himself was a man of family, means and taste, He set up to be an expert judge of paintings, statuary, pottery and diamonds. He joined clubs and lived at one of them. | His clothes were costly and fitted him. On his person were thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry. i é : Altogether he was quite an impressive d important looking per son, and if anybody doubted it Boeck told him he was wrong. New York is the easiest town in the world in thet respect. It takes everybody at his ostensible valuation. It is the opposite to Missouri's Motto, “Show me.” Boeck easily got vases, pois, necklaces and pictures from dealers without paying for them in ad- vance. If he had been setting up housekeeping in a myodest flat he would have had to make a deposit before he could get a kitchen stove. If he had confessed his poverty and lack of personal credit by going to a pawnshop he would have had to give double security for every dollar. ia But Boeck knew his New York. '* He tackled the millionaires and trust magnates, not on their own ground, but on the points where they are most ignorant and ashamed to admit it, He wrote to Senator Clark, who is building the Fifth avenue ¢razy-quilt house, not of copper, which Clark knows, but of “works ol art.” He negotiated with Morris, the rich Chicago butcher, not about hogs and steers, but concerning “a set of Empire bedroom furniture, fourteen pieces, of omolu mounted in gold and bronze."’ Guggenheim, the smelting man, wes flattered by being regarded as a connoisseur of Paintings. They were all easy. et wear (ve KD 0 ' No farmer ever bought a gold brick or went into the green-goods game with less suspicion and more confidence than the sudden million- aires bought chromos, crockery and old furniture at fabulous prices. Boeck handled enough bedsteads in which Napoleon had slept to furnish @ hotel. He produced old masters as if Rubens ran a lithograph press. He sold ancient Chinese vases as if a Trenton pottery were turning them out by machinery. The surprise is that he stopped and disappeared His game was the safest possible. The men whose money he received could not have afforded to expose might have outlasted his lifetime. For, curiously the shrewder a rich man is at the specialty throx which he made his money, the easier he is In his own vanities same kind of weaknesses upon which Boeck pis d were his downfall Letters from the People. O14 Age Pensio Ped shoes? On my twenty-first birth To the Bator of The Prening World Gay this July I shall be discharged fro If our President's strevuousness would| the navy. My possessions will c take @ certain turn it would help hu $1,000 (hard-earned savings), pler manity very much If he w ‘tion and no bad habits. Har ely press the need of Kener arned to take @ serious view of | pensions for all persons, of hoth rexes strugele, my idea ts & atte { who have Mved useful lives. have reached | one of the tra ea ede dies ial the age of sixty and cannot support] of New Yor m do y ders themselves or find employment, hel iteve that after taking & would eam undying thanks and an| one of the , honor far greater than any Which @\ne capable « . Nobe! prise could give. The lot of th an or woman who tolls until aixt Js then turned out to the cold mercie charity ts too horrible to be endured in; Or, if you readers were a and $1,000, w 4 BLUEJACKET nited States steamship Kearsarge this enlightened age. Government pea @ons would insure @ self-respecting ‘There ts No Lewal Limit, peaceful old age. To the Biitor of Te Evening World | POL. ECON How many times can a man be elected Presitent of the United Slaten? Street Ball Games. | 1. K.. STATEN IALAND. fo the BAitor of The Evening World The Canal as # Peace-Keeper: On the east side around Attorney and Broome wirevie are freq ai] games To the BAdtor of The venting W fe the crowded etreet and pessereby| 1 read recently of the value of t ‘ere often bit. A weman was hit whh « Panama Canal In case we s be a ball and badly hurt. The eame thing |(acked by 6 foreign power. That being | beppmet so « lady in our house Khe the case, | wonder vhat the work of was hit ty the oar by @ bal! and was dlissips that canal ts « » Ing for eonfined to bed. I just happe ,|@ single day. In time of peace prepa: @aich the ball from the boys for war. 1 K the mere existence of | the canal will serve to safequerd us ap against foreign foes, HIGH BCH We He Bashir of The Prening World fe It necessary for one's parents to ave been born in the United States tr order for their eon (who was born here) fo became President? Rar. What bell He Det Pe the Matter of \Me Kveniog Word: wu Spruce Subway Guards | Te the Raitor of The Bening Worls | T ave heard many oritictems of th nployees on the Subway trains find them most courteous end neatly | Greased, Mome of the guards take great | |pride in chetr uniforms. They polish ringeed reader kindly | thelr tuitoos and have thelr shoes “ee dents lL. cm llth a ene n= ~ Evening w orld’s Daily Magazine; The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. ee ie ca ZF acy WAY ToHAVE AGOOD See Trays RIGHT. \ tt JUST Tane AUTTLE SNOOZE ees Tata .( Buiet 7) asa rule e of former Ki in truth, ex Qucated Women eration ten years or * himself a wife than DAY of REST, For THERE'S \.No PEACE.ON EARTH YEP, 113 THAT MARSHAL OF —~| GLEN ECHO WHO THINICS WE ARE EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT ae TuPTER HANDING US erations. a OH NOTHING, “we CHURCH 12 AGAINST US Why Men No Longer ‘*‘Marry Young.” ROM all quarters comes the assertion that young men are,) gant and unreasonable, that no man can afford to marry unless he has a stout ‘This al « men do not tumble headlong into which Judging from! jeading than st ing man of the present gen- the sticking poin as soon as he became of of taking ) DO You Own, (THe STREEy? $< Pf oe ccount, which few really young men possess, jana growing bank Beds the truth or untruth of sing nis last indictment, It must b would be absolute penury in this. The man who marries in these degenerate days, when love no longer serve to abolish poverty as a thing to be dreaded, must be ready to forego most of th | pleasures and recreations which popular custom and personal habit have con verted almost will discover that the young wife of the present day expects much more end per forms much Jess than aki her grandmother and her mother tn the samo relution 1AM; HAVEN'T HAD A PONCTURE him even if they knew enough io do it. It is notice) age and nad « He : ae peiihia d dasaulaliats She is by no means always willing to accept the role of wife and mother, in A . , which men nowadays 4 a ner divinely appointed vocation y Cl 5 one thi eam | cluding the duties of hous rand cook, as her divin appoin: lers, not to whom he sold, but from whom he to be so in thelr requirements, #0 extrayar what she regarde as her rightful share thereof—Chicago Tribune bought. aera — see asd a ——— oe Vanity was Boeck’s weakness. Had he let the Th Cheerful Primer 2 wy 2 2 By c. W. Kahles, jewellers alone ‘and stuck to millionaires his game é ° ren sb eA Monday; June 3° By Helen Oldtie!d. admitted that the youth of twenty-two who ventures to marry nowadays must have nto necessities, and unless he ts rarely fortunate tn his choice he 19077 _ SIXTY HEROES ” We MADE HISTOR Albert Payson Te | No. 65.—VON MOLTKE: The Hero Who Conquered France, ‘ec BE fights by the book of arithmetic,” scoffs Mercutio in his denum H ciation of Tybalt, in “Romeo and Juliet." Yet Tybalt outfights and slays the scoffer. French generals, who looked on warfare as a carnival of dash and glory, made the same sneering criticiam of com ] tain Jean, gray, withered old Gerinan in 1870. .A few weeks later that same old mathematician had the French nation lying crushed and helpless. He was the Count von Moltke, Prussia'’s chief of staff, and, incidentally, the active, planning brain behind Germany‘s victorious armies. France and Germany were oldttme foes. The first Bonaparte’s resist= less legions had swept the German States like a devastating cyclorie and had brought especial ruin and’ desolation on Prussia. Now, in 1870, Bona- parte's nephew, Napoleon III., reigned as Emperor of the French. He was a weak, contemptible, vainglorious shadow of his mighty unclo, end bad won his throne by mingled violence and trickery. His uncle had humbled Prussia, and Napoleon III. foresaw no difficulty !n repeating the perform- ance. Prussia, on the other hand, was anxious for such a war, in order to wipe out old scores and to consolidate Germany, As early as 1866 Von Moltke began to prepare for the contest. He organized the Prossian army into a wonderful fighting machine, planned out the routes of march, anticipated each possible difficulty and worked out carefully each problem that might arise. Grim, gray, watchful, he tolled away among his maps, making ready for the great day. So wise was he and so taciturn that a court wit sald of im: “Von Moltke is silent in seven lam guages.” At last remained but to find occasion for war. foolish as to supply this. —_——— j The Man Who Was “Slient } In Seven Languages. } > all was {n readiness.. Nothing And Napoleon III. himself was so He tried to bully Prussia over # question of suc cession to the Spanisl: throne, and was so insolent that King William found it necessary to snub the French ambassador. . France flew to arms. War was declared July 19, 1870. Napoleon IIT, was surrounded by a set of incompetenis and grafters. They assured him of Instant victory and vowed that everything was in readiness for the war “down to the last button on the last galter of the ter of fact, never was a nation less prepared soldier.” As a mat- France's generals were, for the most part, ine Mfcient, and were not even familar with the geography of much of their own country. The supplies were not adequate, the roster of troops was padded by the names of thousands of soldiers who never existed, no sufficient arrangements were m: je to meet emergencies. Yet France was wild with enthusiasm. “On to Berlin!” was the universal cry, and no idea of defeat or even of any check crossed Frenchmen’s minds. The French armies arrived first at the frontier. In a little battle, in which Napoleon III. and his young son took honorary part, a handful of Prussians were driven out of the town of Saarbrucken. It was the last Napoleonic victory. Henceforth Von Moltke acted ever on the aggressive, France's troops in the fleld numbered about 210,000 Prussia and her German allies had 477,000, with as many more In reserve. The moment had come for Von Moltke to set his perfect fighting machine into motion, He did so. In three armies, like a huge, invincible, three-headed snake, the German host was pushed forward across the Rhine and into France, ready to converge at a given point and march upon Paris. No move in chess was ever more methodical. Then the war began in earnest France's two principal armies were led by Marshals Bazaine and Mae- Mahon. Before these could meet, one of the three German armies launched itself upon Bazaine's forces, while another attacked MacMahon. Basaine was successively defeated at Courcelles Aug. 4, Mars-la-Tours Aug. 16 and, with terrible slaughter, at Gravelotte Aug. 18. He managed to gather his de moralized army into the fortress of Metz, where he later surrendered. MacMahon meantime had fared equally badly. Retiring before the German advance, he had tried to join Bazaine, but the enemy prevented une by giertnd him 80 close and meeting him se . S ¢ «(Often in battle that the poor, confused marshal {The Losing of a | was glad to seek safety on Sept. 1 in the fortified y War and a Throne? city of Sedan. There the Germans shut him in, Aunnnnnnnmnmm—n—~ * and next day he surrendered. His was one of the most humiliating defeats in history. For the list of brave, armed men whom he weakly compelled to lay down thelr weapons.and yield themselv: as prisoners contained no fewer than 40 generals, 4,000 other officers ahd $4,000 private soldiers. On the news’of the fall of Sedan, Parts went wild with grief and fury. Napoleon was dethroned, the Empress had to flee for her life and a repud- Me was declared. Within two weeks the Prussians were thundering at the gates of the French capital. Paris was galiantly defended and underwent actual starvation in the months that followed. But in January the plucky city was forced to surrender. Other French armies of defense were raised, but accomplished nothing. The war was over, France paying $1,000,000,000 r either an Independent adequate income, which 1s also secure, or a sublime] war indemnity and ceding rich prorinces to Germany. Never was there ® f so m a Moreover, this tendency ts & belief in himself and his dride-e! It costs much more to live now than ft dia] more crushing debasement of a great nation; never a war so mathemat- t r people have larger ideas as to what is necessary, | ically conducted and so methodically won. What « ne says must be true,” and while, as some! ang life has become mvch more expenatve and luxurious, Nor !s !t only th Von Moltke, in reward, was made a count and was promoted to the s ratd, in ny always has been, as It women Ww © outgrown the simple Ife of the past; men are to the full as! rank of Chief Marshal of Germany. He died in 1891, in his ninety-first ul hablt of nd women," it undoubted! exigeant, and what was an abundance at the beginning of the nineteenth century | year, rea Six Ways to Make a Man Care for a Woman By Margaret Rohe. an ¢ tired and hungry after a hard No, 5—After Marrlage Make His Evenings Real Homey. e always have « few o@i jobs to de seed ek W around the hcuse—the plano to be moved across the room, a few pictures to be hung, the dog to be exercleed. Dinner should elways be a trifle late, empecially if you are your own cook. He will think you are taking extra pains to tempt his appetite, and when it (a finally served his intense hunger him to overlook any slight discrepancies tr vat otherwise might be caustics ally commented on. After dinner he should be proased into service at @ishe Washing. Nothing so pleases and relaxes @ harassed bual- ness man a to be allowed to participate in these homely household, duties. When he settles down at lest in the Morrie chats with a & g00d cigar and the eveving papers let him in on how the milkman never left any cream this morning. how the butoher charges you three ents & pound more for lamb chops than he does Mra, mith, how little Archibald needs a new pair of shoes and baby Claribel some new short dresses, and will he please leave you the money for the gaa bill and a new het that comes home O, D. from Olivett’s to-morrow, He will enjoy, after being away all dag tm the business world, these little interesting homey chats and domestic touches, If by this Lime he seems to be enjoying his cigar remind him that those hore rible tobacco fumes always give you @ wick headache. and if he must smoke to please go out around the block. He will ye only too glad to do this, the menu ee The Book Booster. By Walter A, Sinclair. (The President advised the Lansing far inere to rd “Mrs, Wiggs? Jane’'--Liem) and “Aunt HEN you've written « wtory you hope will win glory, Don't trust it to oritlos for praising, With) boosts that surely amasing. ’ When rate talke grew dreary, when farmers seem weary Of talks on reforms we are needing. Our President lightly begins talking brightly ‘On books for,our coo! summer reading He boosts the “Best Bellers,” not phonetic spellers, But books with quaint dialect reeking, Where funny old gvexers, adorned with wind-teasers, » Do all the philosaphy speaking. Not tales of the Husky Oxen so musky Whose deede and whose thoughts aro so high, No medals are atuck on our wild-cail friend Buck, By Teddy of “Hob Cais and 1" fi fo, authors, get busy, and dash off some dizay And weird dialectual tale, But pix on the mooses and faking exovess ‘That how! on the cold North Pole trail, Just do rome rehashin'’, old proverpe duct emlagh t@, As talked by some old backwoods dame, Who says old stu’ funny, Phen look for the qoney, But Ted wil be capping TOU aA ” aod diechee -enpnab 207 ingng sMuhe eet