The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1907, Page 14

Bake? r hen Bip resin! The Evening Soesis Sven soon Purmenes vy Batered WOLUME 47 0.0... .0..00 sees cosnee coneee coveee senses NO. 16,728. NAME THE CULPRITS. N a newspaper interview Corpora-| tion Counsel Ellison admits the, evils of condemmation proceedings as they have been conducted. He charging the commissioners with extravagant allowances, prpperty owners, especially the great land- lord estates, with exorbitant de- mands, and admits that millions of dollars of the people's money have thus been needlessly expended. ” Continuing, the Corporation Counsel, to quote his exact language, says: “No lasting and thorough reform can be effected uniess tt begins with the men who appoint the condemnation comm#issioners—oamely, the Judges of the Gupreme Court. That is the foundation of the whole system of condemnrtion proceedings. “The judges appoint the commissioners, and they should make appointments Golely with the fitness of the commissioners tn mind, and not for political con- aiderations.” This is obviously true. No man can become a condemnation com- iissioners unless justice of the Supreme Court appointshim. No fees can be paid either to experts or commissioners without a justice’s ap- Prova!. No awards become binding upon the city until a justice has so directed. But Corporation Counsel Ellison should not have stopped with a General statement. He should have gone on and specified the judges to whom he referred. Of the twenty-seven justices of the Supreme Court ‘who, take turns in holding Special Term the majority are in no way in-} volved in these condemnation scandals for the conclusive reason that ~ they neither appointed the commissions nor approved the reports. A custom had grown up of the Corporation Counsel making his motions before certain justices and omitting to apply when other justices ‘were sitting in Special Term. In return for this mark of confidence these ~partiailar justices had the habit of awarding part of this profitable patronage to politicians. The remainder they doled out to personal friends and to one another's relatives. conours with Comptroller Metz, in): Daily Magazine, World’s Tuesday, J une 4, He Knows What He Wants When He Wants It. By Maurice Ketten. BABY DOESNT LIE To PLA WITH LITTL STRAP 9 ANY MORE ! T'S THE Wier: LITTLE Boy, Don’T You LIke YOUR TOYS ANY MORE 2 NS Se memteeee BABY DOESN'T LIE HID BIG BALLOON ® y ANY MORE PRECOCIOUS KITTLE | DARUNG It ts incomplete to say that these appoiniments were made “for political considerations.” Many of them were family and-personal. | The Washington Heights commission, whose awards Comptroller Metz criticizes, had as one of its members a near relative of a justice of the Supreme Court. Why does not Corporation Counsel Ellison singie out this appointment by name? ., Since all the appointments are matters of record readily accessible to the Corporation Counsel, it would be a simple matter for him to tabulate them, classifying the relationship of various commissioners and ‘special counsel to certain justices, also specifying what appointments have been given to politicians. It ts not just that the whole bench of the Supreme Court for this Bepariment, which contains many honest, pure and nobie judges, should te stigmatized by a general criticism, which could be readily made specific. To make the criticisms specific would also go far to remedy the evils which have grown up around the abuse of judicial patronage , by a small minority of the judges. The way to keep the bench pure and clean and to preserve the public respect for Ms decisions and judicial acts is by promptly purging it of every judge who would make appointments for other considera tion than “the fitness of the com- missioners.” This can be done only by the Corporation Counsel and others who are familiar with the facts giving the public the benefit ot their knowledge. General criticism of the judiciary enables the bad | Judges to hide behind the reputations and faithful performance of duty | by the good judges. | A public distinction should be made, and it Is for Corporation | Counsel Eicon and Comptroller Metz to compile the records of their | fespective offices and officially to make their reports. : —_—. Letters from the People. A Teacher's Hard Work. {ny of your readers. I refer to the We the Btivor of The Evening World pestilence of city chicken-farming and No mhopate i» as hard ev a girl, the consequent crowing of roosters raining tor teachers’ protession.| From our window in Greater New At the and of day the shopgiri ls | York there ls a view of « complete free-the prospective teacher « slave te | litte far: f this kind. books offen untti 4 A. M. or later, At om 2 and & o'clock the cod of her wx years’ training she ts sometimes & nervous wreck. Ie it Justion that women who give the best Part of thelr lives tw Uaining for and | Te the Baitor of The Evening World the reat of their lives to teaching mould | Now that the silly season draws near Treeive sinaliee remuneration than ment| I have one or two wise #ugwestions f If the city spent lose money on sancol | the betterment of New Yorkers’ condi. | fede, like cord and basket work, cook~| tion in hot weather. More open cars, | . it might be well able to pay | expectaily te and Cram the suburbs, | equal eslaries IMPARTIALITY evening wething ef the vasious+ Berens of Vitel Mattetion, Desches; quicker and cheaper trans! De the Bote of The Brening Word te seavide end woods: cheaper ice and T wee form in thie city, Hew end | more free evening mumic ki the parks me 1 Oud the record of uw | bo Let other resdem improve on and . ML [444 to thewe sugpestionsn = BL. A Yew * & Downtown Grievance. | Te the Bitter of The Brening World mM WHER ‘The parades nowadays ore usually ru hie on Al uptown, and the pemle on the east aR |e weet sides downtown have no ew to we Mem. |, ae 48 American am Glawusied with such conditions ae thee 30) Lada! Ades of oles the at iy % Dee Ber eerie a ih bet was the Wouble.—Catbolie Jiandard |onee « gadety raserl—Dewwit Zeve | the operation without Love and the Backward Season #&. ww By Nixola Greeley-Smith > ba other day a veteran park policeman told me that, ously he keeps moving, he shivors in the frappeed atmcephere, and if any elevated owing to the backward season, lovers in Central Park/or subway guard discovers @ Gisconsolate and half-crad infant riding to the end of the line and back again and then some more, he had better think twice before dispowseasing the God of Love ¥ The worst feature of this tmminent spoiling of the summer crop of romances are now as rare as re used to be before the seasons Appeared on t « in December, tce in June ed thelr numbers and June © weather man’s vaudeville programme in the brand-new cold and wind and sieet specialty which we is that there ts no way in which the young men and maidens whose hearts are are trying to appreciate just now, This time last year the still congealed under their winter garments can make up fom the time they are seeds of many a summer romance had been sown and the losing now. There may, to be sure, be more romances than usual in July if the crop of autumn weddings was assured. To-day, with the sun be kind, but it will be impossible even though the aun stand still, for the May mercury ly frigid, the young man's not an@ June deficits to be entirely made up. Coney Island ts hundreds of thousands even begun and would-be summer whose nim-|pehind last sedaon. Cupid js no better off. And unless the thermometer takes an ble fingers have wrought miracles of muslin and linen and immediate turn for the better the number of autumn weddings will be dimin organdie during the last two months in Preparation for sea-|ished, dressmakers, milliners ond florists will tear their pair at the lons of busi- shore and inland resorts, are now wonderig if they will ever/ness and the marrying parson, Rev, Heory Marah Warren, will have to turn his et @ chance to put their furs away i attention to praying for a warm wave. As a matter of fact, he should do that Cupid, who put away his winter underwear over a month ago, shivers In the row, If his petition was granted, park lovers and porch lovers, seasite and Ir June and ts beginning t der if he had not better pack his bow and/iand spooners would forever revere his name, and Coney Island would rise as one arrows away in moth balls and stop drawing interest on his fur coat. Ff sa Endl aah olen thanmede Inland, hie former happy hunting ground, has felt the chill, No matter Cee NR: 08 a SPA tee Bee CANT WAIT By W. J. Stcinigans THAT FLAT-IRON 5 BUILDING'S GOING {|MYSELF ! TO FALL SOME DAYR WRITE MBE Look! {T's TREMBUNIWHEN ‘Tp THIS MINUTE ! FALLS | yUST KNow THaT | PLAT-IRON BUILDING 19 GOING TO FALL DIDN'T | Tevet YOU SOMETHING WA® GOING TO HAPPEN! NOT A SLASHER. CROWDED OUT, QUITE A STOIC, PROMISES. Hicks dropped around to eee the| “Bo your hustand wae in « furtous! ‘I hed expected there would be 4 | He promised he'd return the lock of hair Fite Kioses in their Mat last night, but Py of jealousy Tat night,” said the great eplurge at Miss (Pewtyfore’s| She'd given Him in those sweet days alot get im imawtsies Lo the colored cook “Weren't wedding, wut It evoms to Rave passed before her Wicks—Not et home, eh? you afraid of Mm" off quietly.” % Love cooled, “Twas but « promise, and- Hicks-Yes, they were all at home:| ‘Lawd, no!” laughed the cook. ‘He! “Ob, yes; the young @urmitiod there, GERTRUDE BARNUM & Talks to Gils | “The Worrier’’ and Her Ways. IN the next fiat to mine live two girls who work at I neckwear trade. Last Sunday 1 was chatting them In their kitchen. “We are looking for a sinck season again next month,” said the girl with the deep line between her eyes and little criss-croas lines all over her face. “Well, let's don’t look for it now,” protested the girl with the twinkle in her eye. “Jennie never looks ahead,” said the worrler, she"! be worry some day. “I'd rather be sorry some other day than to-day,” slid Jennie, who was pulling on her gloves to go out with @ young man. “Leave the dishes,” she added. “I'll do them when I come back.“ - “You might got back too late,” fretted her sister, “There might be a fire, and we wouldn't have to wash them at all, for that matter.” Jennie turned to me: “Some- thing Is always eating her. The way sh» whistles for trouble ts fierce! * After Jennie had gone gayly off with the good-looking Mr Hrown, I had @ jong talk with her sister, She told me she did not quite trust Mir. Brown, though she could not say just why. She complained that she was afraid her boarders would leave because of the music upstairs. She assured me that she Wid fot Gare drink milk, because she hag read so much about germs. In short, her head was full of vague dreads, fears and prophecies of evil. All rorts of gnawing forebodings were eating her, as Jennie so well expreswed it, and the return of the slack season, when there would be no work in hér trade, seemed her pet worry, *"Jennie wants to join the union,” said she. ‘They trying to get out of night work th busy seasons, so the work will Inst right through the spring and summer. But If we joined we would be sure to lose our jobs. Our forelady don't believe in untona.” T said she would not lose much ff she did lose her Job, but she evidently pre~ ferred to worry along tn her trade and to revel in the reflection that it was get- ting worse every year In her shop. This miserable gtri ts only a sample worrler. Have you ever stood and watched the processions of giris gotng to and from work? If #0, yor y have read their minds. The mafority of them are worrters. One is w: in for tear she will not be in time, another worries because her wages will not cover her bills, « third worries because she cannot afford to get the doctor for her mother or new eyegiaeses for her sister! The next one worries because the forelady te down on her and will fine her at every turn. And so they go worrying, their faces ali knotted up and scowling, the mouths Grooptng like those of sad old women, They see nothing as they burry along, for their eyes are turned Inward. As they cross the perks they do not enjoy the spring green of the trees and grass, nor hear the birds and children sing Poor girls! They 40 not know that ff they would think and plan instead «* worrying they could banish mpst of the shadows of theimtives. Worry comes from fear, and fear is a coward’s weakness. Hope and courage, wit and persérverance, will drive worry and the causes of worry before them. Low wages, bad conditions of work, long hours, trregular seasons and all the other causes of misery which make worrters of working giris can be abolished. Does that seem a fairy tale? It is not as much of a fairy t tory of the coming of spring. Out of the hard biack earth and dark tough branches of trees, tender young grass blades and delicate peach blossoms force themselves, even when no one “T tell her pope the seeds. When girls turn gardeners and pliant and tend the right kind of seeds, thetr lives will blossom into beauty and happiness. But worry must be 1D TRANSIT 5 MER. w DEXTER UW MASGN No. 1—Side-Door Cars- 7s. cen ueccmaeee No. It is an Iilinots Central side-door car. But are affy seats possible with so many doors? There are one hundred seats in spite of the twelve doors, But does it not take a long time to open and close so many dears? They can all be opened and closed at the same time, and as quickly ae @ single door Does It not take # lot of power to do it? It te all done by hand, though compressed atr can be used if desired. Are not people caught in the doors and hurt? No, because the doors have elastic rubber edges and spring connections, #0 that If one should get touched by @ door it would not hurt, and, {f caught, the door can be opened enough to get free. Do these cars handle many people? The heaviest suburban traMc tn America. And do they do it safety? There are almost no accidents now compared with the time when the Mane hattan type of care were used. But why does not the multiplicity of doors multiply accifenta? Because people crowd and push less with so many doors. They can take thelr SUBURBAN SIDE DOOR CAR USED ON THR, ILLINOIS CENTRAL. time and be more careful. The train cannot start till every auor te wafely cloned, his last possible? 4n electric signal bell in the locomotive, and this rings only whem every door on the train is shut. It is an automatic béll, ringing the instant the train fa ready to move, saving all the time and trouble of ringiiig bells by hand from car to car. 1 doors tor for an elevated road, especially ff the stations are properly inc Do not people delay « train by looking for seats before the: No, because there are two aisles inside, one right next to the door, and pas sengers go in at the nearest door and find their seats afterward, How long, then, are the station stops on the Illinois Centra! with these cars? Only @ fraction over seven seconds, or about @ sixth of the average express stop in the New York Subway in rush ho But ere not cars like this in use on not delay trains and #ause more « . The Thiru avenue elevated car ot We same. They open cars, with narrow openings betwepn seats and no safe doors, which resulte m accidents, They are very popular in fine weather, which ts one cause of delay; but the chief cause i# the absence of an aisle, which makes it necessary to hunt for vacant seats and so hold up the train Bo the side-door car has really been # great success? It has, indeed, and It ts the only typo of rapid-transtt car chat can turniih enough seata in New York, It ought to be tried at once on ail the Lines, +. ; When Edward VII. Takes a Puff. ING EDWARD shares with thousands of bis subjects the peculiarly Mngiteh K affection for the pipe, He adores the pipe and Is very fond of hie bring, which ts generous in site and innocent of sculpture King Edward smokes only when he js sate from prying eyes, And ase king with ® pipe in his mouta has never been seen in public, when Hie Majesty goes out he contents with a cigar, But even when he ls op eucial journeys His Majesty takes him his favorite pipe, which was made.expressly for him in the dure London Chronicle. Third avenue han all the oth vated, and do they No Murders on Turkish Stage. » N one point’ the Turkish censor of the drama te