The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1907, Page 18

“TH Evening worlia’s- @uvtened ‘x Row, New Tork. Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to @ Par’ Fastin beng Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Mall Satter NO. 16,726. VOLUME 47 THE GAS SCANDAL. Official corroboration of The Evening World's charge that Referee “TI THe PROUDEST MOMENT OF My LIFE Masten’s 80-cent gas findings leaked comes from the Corporation Coun-) $el’s office. Mr. Burr, the assistant in charge of the case, says publicly: | Before | received the draft of the report our office was informed that the pur-) wort of the findings had been known tn certain quarters the Saturday previous. The stock ticker confirms this statement. Whoever knew in ad-| vance profited by his knowledge on the Stock Exchange. | This is a gross scandal. The process of the United States Circuit | Court has been turned into a stock-gambling device. ———-1 Where was the leak? Did the stenographer in Referee Masten's office leak? Did his clerk leak? Who besides himself knew how he was going to detide? Wherever or however the leak, it is the imme- diate duty of the Judges whose court was scandalized to investigate and © to punish. EVERYTHING FREE. RESIDENT FINLEY, of the City College, ts to have a $39,500 house for which the taxpayers will pay. As Alderman Meyers said, when the Board of Alder- men was passing the necessary resolution, the mod- est ‘salary of $8,000 a year which President Finley receives is not sufficient, and the building of a house for him is only proper. This is in line with the Water Department's kind provision for other city employees in furnish- ing them with summer homes on Long Island. Similar provision fs made forgsome of the engineers on the Esopus water scheme. It has been customary for a long furnish sleeping quarters at the city’s expense to policemeft and firemen. oe rene mee ny Comes © to beve free house, should not ail the: professors an assistants, bos Pears even, be provided with homes rent free? The smaller the salary the more dijiiculi It usually is to pay rent. This objection might be met by. constructing municipal tenement-houses in which day laborers—street sweepers and other employees drawing Jess than $75 a month—could live rent free. | For the next better pald there could be built munici- pal apartment-houses, Merely by building on the water- shed property which the city al- ready owns in Westchester and Put- > Ik nam counties and on Long Island, Se} mumicipal summer hotels and cot- %. tages could also be provided. It Daily Magazine, Friday, june @, 1907; | The “Proudest Moment” of Their Lives, SIXTY HEROES _ By Maurice Ketten WHO9O MADE HISTORY By Albert Poyson Terhune. No. 67—-ALEXANDER I1., the Hero Who Tried to Free Russia N no authorized let of martyrs ts found the name of Alexander II. of i ] Russia, Yet if martyrdom consists {n living and dying for principle and iT 13 The ) for country it is searcely a stretch of the imagination to apply the ter (Gertie) yto this bravest and best of Russian monarchs (AZELiNA) m OF MY LIFE / Alexander was born in 1818, just after t i j Napoleonic wars had seared Europe Into new military caution. He was set to work asa boy of sixteen | Upon & series of daily army manoeuvres and routinc that were so severe | they broke down his health. In-thé early ‘50's Russia found herself | plunged into the disastrous Crimean War, In the latter days of this. con- j flict. Alexander's father died and, in 1855, Alexander came to the throne. ; The war had depleted the treasury and had humbled Russia's pride and spirit. The country groaned under heavy taxes, offtial oppression and leraft. The peasants were ground down In helpless slavery to their feudal | masters, Serfdom had been abolished in every modern country, but tn | Russia this form oY enslavement still flourished. Education was at low ebb, laws were inadequate, the entire country {n wretched condition. It was a miserable, broken heritage which Alexander had entered upon. Then the young Crar showed. what manner of ruler hé was. First of all he prought the Crimean war to swift and as honorable a close as possible. “Then he set to work building up the shattered finances: i———~~~~~~~~—~» lowered taxes, spread education, reformed the courts The Freeing } 0d arranged that rich and poor should receive equal } of the Serfe. Justice. These sweeping improvements amazed and | } troubled the old aristocracy, but they were the mere ‘“~~~—~-" foretaste of what was to come. In 1861 Alexander ie. sued ® proclamation liberating Rusaia’s 23,000,000 serfs. This vast host of | Peasants who had been sinves of the most unhappy, {ll-treated sort, sud- jdenly found themselves free men. As an added act of justice Alexander |Pald thetr masters a full indemnity for the loss of the peasants’ services and then set the freed serfs in the way of acquiring the lands they had formerly tilled for the feudal lords. He thus gave them not only liberty | but the ns of earning livelihoods, fon to all this Alexander, In 1865, established an election sy» xy the provinces might choose representatives He was ing toward that greatest gift of a nation—a free parliament. A con- tution would doubtless have followed but for certain unexpeated develop- ments, Ae it was, the first twelve years of his reign marked the greatest : aces in progress and freedom in the country’s whole history. Mean- Mttle by little, Alexander was managing to gain back nearly all his er had lost by the Crimean war. Not only did he make strong ajliances i greatly raise Russian influence throughout Europe but he conquered Caucasus and brought most of Central Asia under his rule. Then he jturned his attention to Russia's old enemy, Turk The Turks, thanks to help from France and England, bad won the Crimean war. Alexander bided | his time for revenge. The opportunity came when Turkey's persecution of ristians tn the Balkan States aroused all Europe to horror. Alexander promptly declared war on the Sultan, and, in 1877, marched two armies inte Turkish territory. He himself took the fleld as commander-in-chief. Osman | Pasha, the Turkish commander, held him at bay for twenty weeks at Plevna |{p one of the most famous of sieges. But at last Plevna fell, Turkish {army was captured at Shipka Pass, and Alexander advanced unchecked |"pon Constantinople itself. His forces were almost. at the gates of the | Turkish capital when the European powers intervened and peace was de clared. | The -oregoing 1s a brief record of what Alexander accomplished during his twenty-six-year reign. The following is the story of the price he pald rivilizing, avenging and advancing the country he loved: In | the first ; his corvices toward the plain people and his freeing of the serfs had set many of the conservative and land-owning classes against him, | In the second, the very people to whom he had given their first taste of liberty at once began to demand far more independence than he felt he }could so suddenly bestow on them. He was making his reforms steadily | but slowly, as most great changes must be made. The “radicals” clamored | for quicker, more violent methods. When these were not granted revole tions sprang up. The revolts were put down. A body of men calling them jselves “Nihilists” (which means literally “Nothingists”) formed to insist on the passing of radical measures. They tried to intimidate the Czar by killing his high officiala. Then they began a series of attempts on Alex ander's own life. | Alexander had tried to free his country from poverty, slavery and |Morance. In consequence he had made his own nobles distrust him, while » the very class of people he had tried to help were now Maapicad fee doing their best to murder him. Plot after plot was formed, attempt after attempt was ma: to assassinate | { Assassination. { him. in 1866 he was shot at; again in 1867, and a spowssasretaes. third time in 1879. In the latter year a train on which ~ ‘would be unjust discrimination for the city to furnish free rent only during the colder months and not to as for the season. gon eneaton br the Commisstoners of Ac- counts have disclosed that many city salaries are ¢s- t sentially gratuities. Out of the great wealth of the ; City of New York its government has devised a gen- eral distribution to aid worthy politicians, plumbers, saloon-keepers, real-estate agents, lawyers and others in adding to their income without the necessity of additional toil. girl al ra~9 he was supposed to be riding was blown up. In 1880 dynamite was placed under his sleeping apartment and he narrowly escaped death Love Is Always War. & & By Nixola Greeley-Smith. | sii tseye tot otter Sonryed ic ut WO young men of East Aupora, I home of PMhert Hubbard, rtv eat Czar) querrelied with him. The unhappy monarch who had so splen- the same girl, engaged in @ fist-fight for her favorjone of the rivals she preferred. snd as a result both have lost her The fact that the young woman Giscarded beth ad-\detests vislence. And if every woman ocolild enforce her love of peace 0 mirers ts a sign of the times and « distinct encouragement|men of her acjuaintance to the to the aims of the Peace Conference. In very early thmes the victor would have taken the/ matter of course. She would not, in fact, have for 4 to express a preference, even to herself, untt!/each other for men's love t round had been fought. od and tamed the oa ed for ise Czar streeiy where his tyrannical tather had walked alo and in safety Alexander was not even secure when Surrounded by FY | N. Y., tamous es the = To be sure, she may not have loved elther combatant. Indeed, it is not x kuards. His wife and eldest son died. His second son (father of the pres for the affections of {all Ukely: she id. for she must have found forgiveness in her heart for that . didly sought to save his country stood almost alone in the world Rut her action has proved that she Goes love peace and a quiet mind and On March 13, 1881, the end came. As Alexander was driving from chureh @ Nihilist tossed a bomb into the Czar's sleigh, killing him ————_2$o-__—__ 1” look about for « nge. Mev } § echémed and plotted and betrayed ranger rena seme es|| Sly Ways to Make a Man Care for a Woman Ad of @ club and hits the girl with it women's favor, Women hai Later the instiuct of pity ye woman's breast till the sandbag of gold ini —_—_——- mor. | a ! in wt her favor was more apt to|inetead of the other suttor But the result in both canes is the sine. The| By Margaret Rohe. anquished in the battle for her i se | Ce Pal.) eceive it than the victor, who, looking around for his world was a very simple place when a man cowid fight with his fete for a girl e — Already the city is the largest owner of aulomo- Ps ward. was opt to find her with his defeated rival's head and ete was 36 twoape nakel, And wot etn ovakes end referee, sa she fnew, it biles in {ts territory. It provides (hese free and OPCT-| 4. ner ap pouring witch bagel on bis wounds - incident at East Aurers proves that at least one woman has survtved|forfelted because her suitors used their fists instead of the more peaceful The tnciden bast Aw No. 6—After Marriage—Waste No Time on Dress. aah AT Oboe io IA stes them without expense for the é tality of the conqueror, the later and) weapons of flowers and theatre tickets and motor trips, by which modern VN'T bother about your personal appearance, Whee i f A A lene eartiest tnetinct of write im the brutalit has fi both suitors aeide for the Pers contend for thetr Iady's fever. I am not eure that she ie right’ But D husband comes home from the oMce at nig it let him ‘lhe y - city officials, their families and | aner tmpulse of pity for pared, Be pees ainly be counted among the pioneers of jc: j find you in the same little calico house gown that i § Cae If automobiles, why not preservation of the mere abstraction, " i he left you in in the Bioraing. Hroad, comfortubl> Congress he) q Cy ss sa 4 om | pabcicte waiters and a noticesble lack of stays should complete yous I irs! With town ‘houses at the city’s Hi rlem G&D GD GQ y ° 6t 6SSEl. sartorial taste and appreciate that you waste neither sme I . ; untry places furnished & | uS 6, ° rier wor money on the frivolities of drcas I expense, country places fun | z | free of charge and automobiles for the asking, it | seems hardly fair that city officials should be com- Always peel your hair back tightly from your forehead Gwhioh should be worn siiny) and wind tt into » hard know at the base of the brain, 7 GIMME =A HAT! TOO SMALL HUSTLE! HusTLE! Eepecia 7 when you ge te the. theatre, with bie tm the n i f : ‘ \ evening, in» { waist and skirt, stick to this | pelled to squander their salaries on clothing, food and DON'T DALLY! elective colffure. If you notice him constantly glancing ab drink. the gorgeously gowned women on every hand, with ae, | There should also be « municipal tallor, of several perctitous smile upon his lips, you may know that he te mentally oontrasting their extravagant get-aps with youg noat but not gaudy attire, thelr ridiculously puffed and marcelied tresses witty your own straightly peeled effect, and swelling with pride in the possession ef such an economical and sensible dresser for his little wife. In winter It te (mportant ¢ | of them, io provide clothing free of charge to cit officials. Municipal restaurants should be establi to furnish free food. Municipal bars would be in kee! erosity, but the opposition of saloon-keepers with whom would compete would prabably prevent this, All this would require nothing more but that the other f people in New York should work a you should affect heavy woollen lingerie. Pointed Paragraphs. air a little more rent, and go without a few A LAWSUIT ts the thief of time and money. themselves. A stitch in time may close the mouths of nine gossips. ee Thrift and atingtness » smiles as they are different . Letters from the People. A aes ie cipro alae a sansa TS : - i orrice! ior | we UAE wove) SA Men with long heads are capable of wing them on ghost noties. j whe Ww: Vetereme Jahaow, Ar this EIGHT MINUTES ASPHALT, | 1 oyer It le the scarcity of thelr remarks thet makes gome women remertatie pyle oe dy hey pte Dian te se g Ow'T IT VM ; , tae Co So RN GOL sO WEED ar Ward increasing the pensions of widows of veterans Nearly al! of these wid P Theatrica. speaking, the herot) Geath scene ie usually lees reaiietic ‘ an her halr-d@ye are over sixty years and unable to i earn thelr own livin oe et month to nat ene nany tatiors (0 make @ man as It talees coflectas te e Kim to pay for the Job to live on #t the prie “The Suddemt Shak Our idea of @ lypocrite fs a man who roally admires is mother-indem, : is A nirary to admit the taet. ae ria ore : x A woman derives more pleasure from planning fvings that never some Ga bar barecninns. |S "the 1 than & man does from the actual happening of things hicogs Newer The Ber © Automobiliet, oy bas gree A dy ase : a u of ee her pet « When « ame ’ | The London Type of “Climber.” x4 v7 COMING HOBTEST t © phrase coined in London to GeserBe @ Afriva a fran hour ov nite gin ee | Australia Solves Servant Problem, | Battle Between Locusts and Fire. tain social wpe there The “looming hostess” te the ohmher af onvibing covid , OCUSTS are proving hardly iras destructive tu German Bouthwest eter te ri siowly On the soolal horizon It le declared that theme . “} | : Aneee ain ree “ ch aspirants fer the coming season than ever before The ; " | rising of ves. not i atte d' more such ang me ee ul in bouses Melvourne, Austrailia, to alleviate the dom ‘ban the three years ng of natives, A settler n ne am age F ki ‘ to Gefend hie little plot of lan) by digging al! around it @ diteh one yard tere of soriala of Sages have bean \sunchad vith ail the glass “ a4 work more quickly aan Ad : 1 i Dubby's par to $11 week The male house oervant i not given broad and of equal depth. at the bottem of which he iit hE ine lonaa oe A, ing \ruat that ladders on which ths) bave clumbed enet A ee vc} | end le not © troublesome. He reaches the ideal age for|# tate the Giteh tii the Ramen ied teen sutinguioh thelr secrete: ‘aah ee te te pooled wala a m= teem and twenty year \ orpene ’ , ih iin - ib ii om . sR ll cll li