The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1907, Page 16

near aaRA TNS eT ‘ork. | emmanae v7 the Prowe Pubiiering Publishing Company, No. 6 to @ Park Row, New ¥ ‘Mantered at the Post-Office at New York as Seoond-Class Mail Matter, j VOLUME 47 CL asics OL COT ee. | : FOOLISH WASTE. NSTEAD of a silver trowel, Mayor McCtellan should us¢ to-day a gold, trowel studded with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and the other most precious stones. The dig- ging on the Esopus scheme. would | then be more appropriately begun. | The municipal excursion to Cold Spring this morning formally in- augurates the most expensive and foolish enterprise to which the pub. lic funds of any city were ever The present supply of water to the people of New York is inade- uate, ‘not ‘because there is not bountiful rain, mot because there is not ‘ sbundant water available, but simply and solely through municipal folly and mismanagement. Imstead of correcting past mistakes and remedying present evils, it b ‘to squander a vast sum collected from the taxpayers of New Work fh a manner which will neither afford present relief nor meet future ‘Pheeminimum éstimate of the cost of the Esopus scheme is $161,- 000,000. “The engineers estimate that it will cost over $200,000,000. Whis 4s fifty dollars apiece to be paid by every man, woman and child in New York, Over $250 is to be taken from every family to _ Make a storage reservoir of the Esopus Creek, that a boy can wade with & pair of rubber boots without getting his feet wet. Then a huge tunnel, “Aarger than the subway, is to be built a hundred miles long from this . Teservoir in the Catskills under the Hudson to New York City. © ‘Phis much money would build a hundred miles of subways and more, For it costs less to build a subway than a water-tight tunnel of ~ this size, built to resist great pressure. ‘The interest on these Esopus ‘bonds will cost. more than to operate a complete system of municipal subways free of charge: _-i— If water bonds can be sold, why not subway bonds? A MMMM, NN MU Be SSSA City y ‘wastes through leaky mains. The water pipes are iron. The electricity ~ @which escapes from the trolleys and the underground electric wires cor- odes these pipes and eats holes in the iron the way moths eat holes in Therefore the pipes leak and the water goes to waste. ‘Also there. goes to waste over the Croton dam in the seasons ol fheavy rains th the spring and fall as much water as flows through the Croton aqueduct. The city already owns the watersheds. It needs only larger storage dams and an aqueduct a few miles long to utilize this waste. + -Asfor Brooklyn, the driven wells, with the new system of pumping, ‘would sipply all the water which Greater*New York requires, An under- “ground-tiver flows under Long Island to the ocean whose course the have mapped and which needs only to be tapped. “i Less than a quarter of the money the lowest estimate of the | Esopus scheme calls for would Mouble the supply from the Croton watershed and would quadruple the “supply from the underground || @ swources on Long Island. Avast Obviously the remedy for & see ds. to make the traction 2- and the Consolidated. Gas Pe ie ich own the electric > put in new pipes, properly Vy But that would cost them several ‘willoss of dollars. 1 The more municipal bonds issued for other Purposes the more diffi- it will be to sell subway bonds and the more remote will be lower and better transit accommodations, ‘What « pity it is that the city’s resources arc Je bo help out New York's two great monopolies | Pewee He i Pointed Paragraphs. ors o b dvmaad manage to keep the truth pretty busy with t= struggies Tile a te Just as well to look out for the man who is always looking ut for himeeit. When they enter « theatre Women should Chiret, . ‘There are times when the still, mati voice of conscience seems to come from the big end of the megaphone It dosen't take « map long to find out how different marr: what he thought it was going to be Experience is « great teacner, but by the time tt hands a man his diploma he ts too 014 to make much use of his knowledge. A maid thinks she ts necessary to « mitn's happiness, a widow thinks « man te moceesary to her happiness, and ® man—well o thinks —Ceago News check their hats and men thetr ete trom matter wha he te Queer Statistics. Of the Mediterranean on the Algerian coast never alued ot $2.11 ie brought Into Great Britain every minute of th and might. | Grasse is eni0 40 be the poorest country of Burope. Mer total weal ‘e 01,000,000,000, oF about half that of Bwitseriand 4 tn France devoied to viticulture estimates the wor ae per cent. of whieh is made in Europe weet tooth during the past year consumed 6,600,000,000 pounds Welwed ot $900,000.00. This ls seventy-six pounds per year for ever | ‘te be the ‘* wine Teeord cosling operation |s claimed to be thet made ‘Calamity Jane worid’s Waily Magazine, ANDRU AND yum \ Gites? To DAY } VOceN ‘te (igaary ote | HABEN 2) (Trio \Ge3d y Ss ae, “UTTLE BRI E ANO Ste 54 ab) UES, ) SHE'CL_HAND You ny’ et Re Dack to it, to have the marriage annulled Henry 8. Pritchett creasing tendency to husband ness seems to bear him out. Thursday,’ J oO er Unc Hash. By Maurice Ketten CY > The Wife Who Preferred Her Job. FTER twenty-four hours of wedded bliss, Mra. Ant even a larger salary out of which ahe would certainly not have 83 weekly to dis- Anstett, who won her husband by answering a matri- pose of as her own. Not until sentiment steps in and the love of the 82% a week monial advertiaement, decided that she preferred ( #4 & week Job she had given up to marry him and went!if she had it. does h leaving the surprised husband to Being sult \riages of successful business or professional women ar Only the other day Prof.| president of the Massachusetts School |only recognized and respected means of livelihood, wome of Technology, declared that women a Prefer a good Jo! And thie latest Instance of feminine fastidious- | sacrifice. showing an tn- to an indifferent And the self THE SUBURBAN [man becomes the iTTce BRIGHT EYES / Tite us To GRAB IT HANDICAP MEETING BETWEEN THE DiSciPLEs oF HUMO AND TRAGEDY “and THE WORLO STILL Goes ~~ {Rouse ) _ = —s=#BF Nixola Grecley-Smith. Inestimadle treasure for which she would sacrifice $25,000,000. marriage go lacking in brilliancy appeal to her. The mar nearly all love matches But formerly, when marriage was the very often sacrific: thelr persona! feelings to establish themselves or their families by ar. advantageous junion. And they did so with the noblest though most mistaken nations of self. low, however, when a wot has equal chances of wage earning with men, the only motive for mercenary marriages is simple laziness and lack of self. Women have always been sentimental. sing tendency among elderty |reapect. The trials of « loveless marriage are far greater to a woman than those persons to discuss the relative merits and resulta of the/the most arduous profession involves, and women are more and more rn European marriage of onvenience and the American mar-|that matrimony for a home they could create by thelr own efforts Is not only an riage of feeling, the wile tendency of our times Ja to make error of taste but of judgment nutual love more and more the only sane motive for matrimony supporting woman 1s entirely responsible for this justification of romance by left it economies. For as ® business proposition, it is not tenable that a woman should ja give up, say 8% a week of her own, to marry a man making « izing The wife who went back co her 82% a week Job ts right And eny woman Making a good salary who contemp ather reason than becau She should never have tes marriage for « had far better FUDGE OMEN K\LLED 2 006% lyueT SEL AS (Ext orr Ty SCAFFOLD, Quien! jir's GOING To OCH, I'M URS HED GOING TO FAtu! Ssoms- BODY TRELL Him TO COME Down! Look! 41s Rope 1> STRETCHING NOW! Come DOWN! Come MESBE You Our K, O09 Kin’ Fer 7 Le 1O1 Diy SOME Timel sv ‘ PROOF OF INTEGRITY THE UBUAL CHANGE. you know our climate chang: “You admire that musician” . " when #14 tone were Pat em board the Carmanis in seven tours er ne ae aime thes Hines le 6 S0FN) De pen mney eae ae Brown-diow Ge you know that? “Te, anewered the Gimpleased oftt- Jone Because he always carries subd jean, “Wut there is no ealisinetion in vik |g mar uagaenn be alengy carder seme me TK siweye meneqee te change i eremn retention? oh. | trem bed be worms! /Weshtngten @uer, | WHAT HE LIKED. | Jeopardy GERTRUDE BARNUM Talks to Girls The Girl Who Likes the Weather. RUMBLING about weather makes a common bead ef sympethy among iris. An ill wind Dips up fellow. feeling under thelr pleture ha \p weather and « rainy Kester washes eweg ol waves, ¢ other erumbll ng pattie after mornity service, three girts they sorted umbrellae an@ gathered said Mary, “I feel ike a rubber plant. I haven't ad my rain coat off for three months." 1 showdn’t think you'd mind the rain,” sata LAlfe; your halr curis natural Pity we ain't fw," sald Anne, “to swim up for sreath. Work all week and stiok at home all @undeys!” onan Just then Mollie spoke up. “All weather looks geod to me," she eatd. “It never Keeps me tn As I paddle’ along with Molle through the wet streets she explained bee feelings about weather. Bho did not believe it was arranged for the express burpome of thwarting human plans. She guessed {f It were not for there would not be any crops, and “all sorte of germs would get us,” and vound up by relating an experience of hers, one week-end tm March. While ; vistting @ friend {n the country at that Ure she first began to pet ecquatnted with what ts called bad weather. Tt seems that she and her friend had planned a long country walk for Gat urday; but all Friday night it stormed, and in the morning the hovseheld seemed completely snowed in. Directly after “breakfast the country girl ough gested that they go for thetr walk “Weil!” Mollie cried. “The snow ts up to our knees!” “Only tn the drifts, id the other. “That's nothing." Bo they put on r let out the four dogs and through the enow ing, blowing weather @yly broke the paths along the country road te the woods. It was glo 8! Plunging and wadtng about, tossing snow over esc other and the *, Just as one plays with the white caps of the surf, “far vetter than going In a pm ina, Mollie th ht. And ever since that Gay a snowstorm sugwests to her feathery trees, fringed hefges and bilowy, white ountry rosds. Yot if tt had not been for that Sunday she might never have gotten over her dread of a blizzard, she said ts, et ‘we come to analyze It, we will find that with most r is largely a matter of clothes, ® rare girl would risk her one party dress . rather than put her cloak tm snows, for only LAMe fores | friend's minted with all kinds of days like people: If one meete it 1 ntly and cordially, {t reveals un numbered charme and virtues, Even the rth Pole. you know, hae charme for some. Getting acquainted with man and nature robs us of all sorts of supersti- tions; that rough weather t* unlovely or dangerous is a mere halluctnation. The beauty of changing seasons ts one of tho great gifts which can be “hed for the asking: yet we ungractously Jenore it, grumbling on and, missing this free Joy of Mfe, cramp and narrow our lives indoors Molife is an outdoor girl. She has cultivated « (taste for all sorte and con ditions of weather. In a thunderstorm she hurries to the park, where the birdie are fluttering to cover, and heayy-leafed trees toss and tumble and swirl under racing black clouds and pelting, diamond raindr When Sunday te misty she takes a ferry trip to Staten Island and watches the mansive, towering city fade like a dream, and phantom eriips drift out thrwugh the Narrows on @ silvercembossed sea, She cultivates gunshine and shadow, sparkling wtnter, velled spring and garianded summer. She has learned to know and love the infinite variety of the seasons and to aay at last: “All weather looks good te ® TRANSIT MER. pw sho: drews eultably for and DEXTER W MASEXN. 7—Accident Record of Greater New York. No. 1905 eer $2,098,009 1908. oer $2,301,185 PERSONS KILLED . DAMAGES PAID OUT. i LEGAL EXPENSES IN DAMAGES . ‘ 1,005,898 1,150,905 TOTAL COST OF ACC IDENTA:..... hownindd $103,001 3,460,$18 rorrect? It possible that these accident figures are They are taken from the companies’ own returns, But how can there be such éatalities and losses, increase? A large part is due to criminal negligence and sheer neglect? Are the companies wholly at fault? Js not the public careless, too? Yer, the public ts carciess, but the companies murt take moat of the blame: Is there not a large amount of fraud tn collecting damages? Do not juries award unfair amounts? ‘There certainly is fraud and there are excessive damages. companies, If t off. Avoiding lian and such an alarming Bat the public feelg Aller treated the publie ity and jury fixing only decently they wor make things worse. How could the companies trast the public better? They know perfectly well. They should furnish suMoient seats at every bour of the day, as ts done in Europe, They should haye cleaner and more comfont- able cars, require their employees to be polite, put adequate signs on the cars, decent ventilation, power brakes and fenders that will work, stop reckless rup- have reduce the fares end olber (hinge that ene se reets calle! out, these things done, and what effect is shown on the cost of ae cldents? Berlin has one of thé largest and best managed street rafiway systems ta the world, The cost of accidents there in proportion to the trae was only one-tenth Accidents there York. tn prepare + 1500 for ome that of New York. Hamburg has a still more remarkable record. cost the company less than § per cent. whet ¢ New tion to the traMc, ‘The. actual cost in Hambur recent year. What olty killa the fewest people? In proportion again to the trafic, Liverpool has a splendid reeord. Im the t two years only four people e been killed each year, which Is only one h of the rate for New Ye Averpool has been greatly helped by the me rkable fender, which hi if to run over anybody, y come tn mein ‘Letters from the People. Sunday Baseball. ) Per ple deplore The act was worthy To the KAltor of The Fventng Worl’ a soboolboy In the name of sport T am greatly interested in thone who call themselves gentlemen ter of playing ball on Sunday, having |hunt to death thousands’ ef the furred . two boya, aged fifteen and seventeen, |And feathered tribes, learned sclentions © Many of the men who are opposed to |perform the tortures of the Ingulsttiqn playing baseball on Sunday have fo [upon Innocent dogs and cate and other Goubt spent their boyhood days at oml- | helpless ereatury d the meet indus lege, where they had plenty of time|try ts responsible untold and space on week days for bi! play- jin transportation of live etogk ? ot hi the Reid” without § @aturday night? He has not had the| the Reid) without tnehe apporvunity of going to college; there 4 Bore tm the Street, my boy playing bell than to see lim the Battor of The Rventng ‘World: going in and out of @ saloon of bil Bunday afier 8 RH line poys of our uptown in ok and White, keep Up an Unctviliged shouting, we ™ The answer was| boys are from twelve lo fifteen of age They sive no heed to the ing. ‘But what about the poor boy| by neglect and indifference, ae who works from Monday morning until | not given, “dominion over satining Ss = thelr helplessness ny uot have euch recreation. 1| Sirs H @HELDON, @tarsdale, would # Mousand times rather have What method, readers, can be em. Mard room, as I see young men GOlME | p)oyeq bate the ” ‘day muleanes | to the Rattor of The Evening World jing ball, ete., causiog danger to meation was aaked, “Are white! triang and hdres, Of the street. denis who have ier te fer hi r colores?’ Th JAMES HAMILTON Port Jervis, N. ¥ Black ts abeepce of color, White is « blending of all colors, es “