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zed t bars Che ER Amorid | ning Compan ICHARD CROKER His horse won race of the pounds ($32,000), but the da day conrpa with the ne of Richard Croker wil 1 the roll of Derby nks Ww C. Whitney the only other A cans. whose horses came in first. Thus a life of turmoil and strugele ts crowned with success in this most-longed-for achievement. | Croker made Mayors, Judges, Congressmen, | Governors and one United. States Senator. For i Mone‘of these men has he the regard or affecti Orby,the horse that won the race for him. represents years of hope, longing and expenditure. Croker raised yy on his farm near Dublin. He owned Rhoda B., Orby’s dam, | who -cameMfrom Kentucky, and whom he bred to Orme, the sire of Fly-| tng Fox, who won the Derby in 1899. nat he bestows upon} t Syppose that Croker, when he was the ruler of New York, had taken @s much pains for the welfare of the children of New York as he did for his Derby colt. Suppose that in selecting Mayors and commissioners for the government of New York he had considered solely their worthi- | mess and fitness, as in the selection of trainers for his Derby colt. How different would be the history of New York for the past twenty years! Glory is a great thing to achieve. Honor is a most desirable pos- Ng wession. Fame and future reputation are treasures to be highly prized. | Wet is the possession of the best horse out of the nine that started a More desirable thing than the good will of 4,000,000 people, than their praise, than the echoes of their prosperity, than laudable pages in the history of the city where his youth was spent and his fortune made? The nickels and dollars of the people of New York City paid the of Richard Croker's Derby. When Croker assumed the boss-ship of Tammany Hall, when John Kelly’s health broke down, twenty-two years ago, he was a poor man The testimony taken before successive legislative committees tells how | he made his money. He was “working for my own pocket all the time.’’| Whom the was working was the people of New York. What he was working were the offices and the franchises of New York. r During his supremacy Mr. Whitney created the Metropolitan Street | ~ Evening World's Daily Magaziney Thursday; Hurrah, Don’t-You-Know! By THE Maurice I<etten. DERBY STAKES £ 6,500 M of the W. C. Bart, who died W. CT. U. tor inced that the influe: enc T J which she was eep? Surely no well-con@ucted lady may Here na ae oa and Ae every one, even saint Local Option for Heroes and Heroines. The let By Nixola Greeley-Smith. RS. BMBLIE D. MARTIN, for fifteen years euperin-)roes and Heroines may well be organized. tendent of the art and literature department of tne} is. the whole Untted 6ta of the powerful body she repre- |r. lady have to be dramatized before they get even worse. No one ever took a dri |trom ft because he didn’t They deserve it us have lox illain bad. It 18 bad enough to be a heroine I realized this particularly € few nights ago, when I has an-|drame at « Bowery theatre rth act. She was everything that w Wbraries all booksidens and jured a tender youth f | second in the last act when the heroini t throug all the « She drank and f Yet, except 1 ted opium | _June 6, ee 1 ee '@BVLEDBROSVEF >RO® ® GERTRUDE BARNUM ° .& Talks to Girls © &® The Girl the Lord Helps. Y Mttle thilliner friend @uffered long. During the “busy season" she worked from § A. M. to 9 P.M Tt was plece work, which means that the eiris were worked to pleces. i My friend got up et half past five to get In from Brooks n fn time to'avold a fine, and she got home and abed af about 1 o'clock at night, There no thine for cooktne: she anatched bread and tea for bros bread and cheese and coffee at the “noon hour” (wh « half dour) ang”, the ten minutes wupper time—well, ahe felt @ goods man who was to be boiled In balling off after, dn't oare for any lu pper the little milliner cared only Yor.« greemit If she cried it spotled the millinery. She was : to faint until three persons signed her res : woing to the window for atr meant « fine of % centad, tor the toretai @ * J “wick benoiter ef Into wishes je her own health, hb and prosperity gradual! Inst whe decided to do a little thinking in her “‘letsure’ ~ A. M. Then she organized a Milliners’ Union. te Albany to belp fight a new law —& proposed amendment to the “Prentice oming out In the papers. While of Labor about the millinery fac! ynsumer® League got her to mak it helped te eave all the work tay, any girl asked to work more port # to the Commissioner of Labor an thin a week after her trip t bu and slack eraso: inion #ent ening work about which she told the friends ati this to the ceased, she «mil- in the Inst thing the avera, her employer's “welfare work’ pense and tn her own home. r in working girl thinks of, She, to having books, baths and She accepts tips and presents eu of fair wages She says "Please" and thropists and reforniers instead of paddling write her up" er loarn to under RAPID TRANSIT IMER. » DEXTER WMASGNK No. 2—The “Wide’ European Train. WwW HAT is this long, queer foreign tr | It fs suburban train on the Great [astern Railway, taken near Lom | don. what significance haa the picture for New York? uropean corporation will do for the public But what good can those small, short cars be? They can seat sixty passengers each, If the same length as @ subway car, how many would they seat? One hundred and twenty passengers each, instead of fifty-two he longest Great Eastern trains? now seventeen cars with sixty seats each, which ts equal to Lew n seats to a tr | But the subway express trains are only eigh: seats to a trair rs, with fifty-two weats each, Jering all the congestion in New York, why were” to seat as many os the Great Bastern tr use there was no Intention of furnishing enough seats tn the Subwa are the Groat Eastern trains any songer than the Subway trina? at forty-five feet In't scats have been furnished in the Subway? utely no good reason, except that the rapid tra ngiand, e laws cor and they're obeyed : : r ra. Martin's frown Bas ea Alona the law. ‘The public authorities me : Mallway, which Thomas F, Ryan magnified. The Consolidated Gas be-| Sp esha yA aed ada PO Nagy Ey + A ROR OR HN MEAT ii barnipe es (ame 2 monopoly. The old New York was changed to the Greater New | he" n interesting vice. One recen’ © had an inherited i rin eat. t eighty-five side 4 ach side of a train, ag (oom, iy % | pa: In another “beer seller’ the b ded bravely againat | Strange Enginee g oe | York. The city’s expenditures magnified. r fon doe Grink while the monet ap aa Oo” of the largest and most (nteresting engineering undertakings tr " ihe aoa Pc Over Richard Croker, wher! tal tendency in the ladies of her family to bestow of “onstruction at the present time {» th nap street in rh " all sat , taking toll ¢ he would. a 80 The perfect ma vi tn fi Pacts of two unde ground depots and a ° lengt ‘ ee «ee tonk Be . *~ {The flood of polttical assessment and campaign contributions flowed | very decidedly gone ou! of fashto ym ni-|tunnel, which, when completed These « | i ivi »| zation aa the W. C. T. U. may hop im ise of the Metropolitan Subway matn way * Peele tae oants Lae fhrough his hands. Checks were made out to his individual order. He|**tion ae the WC. 7. t may hope to 5 ae het eras Ree ee cetae SR eett tee the and ang] With a Subway cars an y qwas the man with whom the public-service corporations had to deal. thet i her ideas ure carried ‘a Gociety 6 Prevention of Cruelty to He-| floated to location, where they are sunk to the river | B fiae 20: Ne ‘ Then public revolt came again, as tt had come before, This last = ae ai sade eae op epg ah gran ; j2 i 5 t is ng #0 conate The latest thing was to lengthen plotform@, time, rich and old, Croker retired to Europe, where money got as was Calamit Jane ee ee ee ee ee B W J Steini ans | u ville See instead af Aitaens Gat tha abet Saaical CheAae wea his commands more respect than In the United States. y . . . . . . YW. Js gans all the suburban cara, so as to eat six people across the car instead of i TTT) | 6 4 cars we split inthe middle and a section edded His ambition has at last been realized. A man with his strong will / SESMING TELLS WHERE DO” YES MAAM, Cones cour, [TTT ie cain acme capacity very expensive lec 0. { ed | ' You ASTHMA, BLIND STAGGERS I | tainly was expensive, and the company could ill afford it Gear judgment, vast knowledge of men and horses and determined Pur: | Me mar sm cain LOU mabe ed ACTH RALELINO STAGE z all | tt cert per . pose stands likely to win, whether In politics, money-making or on the \ ‘ rast oe e 6 a TY PHOIO TE cn et ley § el leary .pashangere inthe rush hovre en (or en SUE race-tracks. But how greater would be the | f his reputation = wre: Wi 18 1 « | = yeod an great'ne (he Subway express tr which Me i ‘ | | ing with steam. This poor Engiish with an {li-paying suburban. he ‘Applied to the people of New York the same principles which brought \ | salog ie 8 nici sadly on cist ae ee zing vu ered iE Ac gE a ee 7 , yaa ge done nothing as yet to relieve an } ble and ute etters from the People. | a oe ae F : see : I See by the Papers. ! O14 Age Pe « ¥ By Walter A, Sinclair. { | MIBULI'S going on the stage, Alfonso’s kid te growing. , ; | | sd summer time fe here because it, is not snowing. @ Sa on . Bs ta wants w brand-new crew, the last one sprained ite amiie : ' , “9 : | Rw Harvard's head; #0 THAT thought needn't rankle, : ow jan ll-of-fare-the gentie lambkin capers. H Theres quite @ lot that's dolng now, 1 see it by the papers. He i ™ ——THURRY © ?, BO — yOu POISONED, rom Ryan would be Senator. It ds his pet ambition, $ WIFE'S AWFUL DIDN'T | MA AA, BUT Hho om othe Dante sn to viake a Vacant, oule position, a G1 k TELS mveRy- \BRING OL mene AntiLain © ebrieks loud: “Don't kiee the Deter ¥ 1 BooYy | was JARGUND Abt ke Hughes, our Governor, will get what's wanted—meybet ‘ ena An Ar GO'In' To BE 7 Q\hienry) ‘i ranning in the bar'l e# orvel winter tapers, J AGS Remsen Atront a? Fg © brainstorm season's coming on, 1 see tt by the papers BS es. + price of dressed beef's golng up. The cowmen sent « bum stool. . r We'd eat sod but for fear of good old Amty Cometesh. + The Pive-lent Pare to Coney @ not @: , nota Dt, man. Dane Planks’ Lase Hoses A git] may kiss upon the atreet, rules Magistrate Charles \Mtmea. de i nye And Mra. Wood says, “Girls, propose!’'so beat it to the vap.@e ee | . 1 Weepedessag Mig And ‘ick-monds are scarce in York!" WODT @ure, just see the < There's naught from nature-faking and soctety’s wild capers YA To solema things ike shirte d cuffs you can't find in the gpapera Pa OS — , An Ailing King’s Breakfast. HPN KING BDWARD VIL visite Marienbad for the cure Bis diet te W sirited. For breakfast he may partake of egwe, colé hem, wor i free. Lanohkeon i seryed @bouk \am and the following Gilet te " t . mended: Fresh trout, chicken, veal 4d compote of phima, while white wine a Hite. of Gelsshubler water ts Grune A | a >. a tx