The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1907, Page 16

Peeahes by the Pree Pudliening Company, No. @ to @ Park Row, New York ‘ Batered at thy Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mal! Mutter VOLUME 47. NO, 16,740 GRABBING THE BRONX. ‘The B. R. T. possesses the streets of Brooklyn, The old Metroy it, fan Traction possessed the surface of the streets of Manhattan Manhattan elevated possessed the alr over the streets, and the old Inte borough possessed the tunnel under the streets that the city : ‘were not many people in the Bronx in. those days and its streets we © | only partly laid out. What Bronix-treets were worth having th Huckleberry possessed E By the tractiont merger these possessions were capitalized for half a billion dollars. It has been the policy of these corporations not to build and operate }~ @ route unless they are sure it will pay from the start, which means that > unsettled territory must await transit facilities until jt is built up at Private expense. Only when there is immediate profit does the traction! Octopus extend its tentacles. , That is another réason rents are high. If good transportation facilities are furnished to neighborhoods | where land is cheap, people can get little homes of their own. If the/ © transportation facilities await improvement speculators and ca : ‘step in firsi, and instead of home owners they are only tenants. j : In spite of this policy the Bronx déveloped. q Now that it has develdped, what happens? The traction merger j ‘ Proposes to gobble up the Bronx. It expects the Board of Estimate to- ; day to pass a reslution prpsenting it with the new streets in the Bronx 3 which it does not, under its old Huckleberry charter already possess. In| pi a return it’ offers to surrender some streets where it is at present unprofit- a able to run trolley cars. That is, for the privilege of grabbing profitable | aes streets it offers to deprive the people | who live on other streets of any transportation facilities. The traction merger seeks a bar- | gain on both sides of which is a profit to itself. It saves money by abandoning unprofitable branches, | where at present the law requires ic} to furnish facilities. It makes money by taking profitatle new slid a routes. ‘Man Is Easily Mastered by \ Woman’s Praise. wi! a Te t ~~ ms Who owns the streets? The people of New York. Why should the people give their property away? The traction merger gives away nothing of any value. It is not a pauper. It has mo Tight to ask charity at the expense of the public. 4 Next Tuesday the B. R. T. will ask the State Railroad Commission to allow it to isswe $25,000,000 more bonds, To-day the Board of Esti-| 4 ; mate is asked to give Bronx streets to the traction merger. coaxing—a new kid giovi fire, and a man Let @) woman who can flatier bot! oman but succeed tn id of the right imposs.ble Given the opp nd pull it tactfully, all, eo gently that| Thackeray hae given us a brililant exam in shall be felt only ral inclination, and | Becky Sharp. There ts no keener satire upon masculire we she may lead a map whithersoever she will This, too, when | Pair.” Becky Sharp was neither pretty nor rich; her opp ne man would die rather than be driven a foot at the she made the most of them. The chief weape @ bayonet. y—not delicate nor subtle flattery ot Inspire the one whom you jaid on with a trowel, smu or her with love of seit k who ts altogether impervious to ays al for her at d women, subtly and sho may influe: men in her arn etther—but th and thick since even Do love with love ster tenderly of you, fill h to that love, and almost a that runs over w ie In showing this, Thackeray has a ik yours nar p: s ; Exactly to pr things like A clever Engiiwh magazine wriler declared recently t ai hae ' ; this the Public Utilities law yas 4 passed. The State Railroad Com mission will soon cease to exisi ; ‘The present franchise distributing : system in this city is already mori- bund. Why do they not die decently’ For the Board of Estimate to give away the public streets would ‘be like picking the public's pocket, for the streets and the franchises of | New York are as much the prop- Z 3 erty of the peopl¢ of New Youk as the money they cars the surest way to win o with absorbed fnterest an: @rivels abou! himeelf She says Allenated by discontinuing my role of rapt atte tain novelty haa worn off. I have grown weary counts of what 1 said, I thought, I felt, I aid fingged. It may not have been great at any time, b some interest in the man Who makes love to her 5 been reached and passed, one ts apt to weary ris ef earcamm, incredulity, or boredo: woman who pleysto min ne tn an eligle lover or his doings. idles and to play n fingers “to sou gulsed her rea! careless, amusing gayety, and studied y out the pet vanities and weaknesses of al) her ends, The Frei @ saying that every ma * Becky Sharp found the er, tenderly and adroitly me trresiatible. Men adore ) adore the woman who sympathizes wit y !f a woman ts matried to a mar does not she at least ought to pretend t men w nearing for hours detalled ac and my ‘interes: and she be rtea in to ertain stage | those vanitic eternal monolowuc, and as they alw of these are fatal.” Besides 1 must crittctes, never venture to find a flaw admire him More men have been conquered and enslaved | did she marry bh ‘The Cheertul Pima. o« «¢ «#« « : | WAre Talking About . HE man of exceptional industrial ¢ F | world by producing goods, or by ren or profit by, end for which they render him « ret f they may take, and render him thie return for, wha e off fend the services must be such thet the many desire to eet productive ability that hae ever been devoted to sineas of cheapening | @nd Multiplying commodities, or rendering sorta rvices, « id be absolutely | futile unless these m1 4 eervices « od . wants existing tn Various portions of the community. tn or « them, the goods them. All the hig brassBand PLAY a LU-LU EN-CORE? DP Pinres at the tarts Ivins in @ paslty-cook's window. An Innocent Abroad, Pv Maurice Ketten. ‘ AG By Helen Olificld. HERE are three things which best are managed by by the magic art of flattery than by all the beauty and wit in the world. Tot + = tet | ‘ JARR FAMIL BY ROY L. MECARDELL EET BNWothe eldent of those Witherway girls downtown I to-day,” said Mr. Jarr \ I never liked that girl How was she dressed? ald Mra, Jarr “1 didn't notice," eald Mr. Jarr. “She had on « hat am@ she had on f those, oh, you know, sort of dresses “What a singularly | Jarre. lidn't see her at all, but 1 can had onw vat trimmed with red and @ dress with short sleeves, but AU qbecause Bhe thinks she has pretty armas and alse be- aune short sleeves are the style this summer unless she ad a abirt waist ault on. Did she have m whit waist eult?’ ‘Blessed if 1 remember!’ sald Mr Jarr “I suppose you stood there on the street jd description elt you talking to her for an hour. Jarr, “Lt t can get a man ik, to her, @ t care who It it gabble all ald. J ent for me, I muppose,”” etd Mr. Jarr, all the rest of the me sald Mrs. Jarr. “You'll talk with that comes along, and find plenty to aay, and yet when yor come read the paper for noure and never say ® word to me < Phat's-because you don’t say anything plenennt.” ssid Mr. Jar Lt you'll to a fellow nicely stop fretting and complaining and tal would be all right.” dh, I muppose Emma Witherway talked nicely to you. All she dors ts to and giggle like a school girl, and she's two years older than me If she's @ If you'd let me tell you," maid Mr. Jarr, “I was going to any that T simply passe! her on the street and bows! vy, Eo dare aay,” sald Mrs. Jerr “And T wonder what he was doting down “Don't know; can't say," said Mr. Jarr. “Hunting for a husband, I suppose,” said Mra. Jarr m of selfishness?” asked Mr. Jarr id Mrs. Jarr. “§ ecause the way a! the new hats and new tired of them, and the: the next eldest # neem, although Gertrud: no chicken, has her t “The selfish thing!” esem, and the other till the yo t time they are pretty well worn out.” Jer why none of them ever married,” anid Mr. Jarr they're not bad- rou get your tdeas of beauty,” sald Mra Jarr “Emma ered, Grace ts too fat and Gertrude ts sallow, and ands,” eald Mr. Jerr. tris than they are get hu IV's no ta hey haven't married,” said Mra -Jarr. “They com y pursue every single man they meet.” : © oft folks won't stand for ft." suggested Mr. Jar. red Mra. Jarr; “they are worse than the girls, When any mam to catch him that mate {tf s9 apparent that they want the « men gét frightened.” ere's safety in numbers,” aia Mr. Jarr. a thir k a young man {# calling on one tm particular, the reat clear do the o}d folks,” said Mrs. Jarr. “When they lived next door and Mra. Witherway walk up and down tn el! sorts of and » © eeen Mr and Mrs Witherway suffering from neuralgia, just to be muce they XK. be In ie WAY T knew a young Mika who used to there who told @ -— fr Je Ghat the oid fotke cleared the decks for action every time he Jy | \ent | You'd think It was a good scheme.” enid Mr. Jarr; “gtving the fellows @ © world,” said Mra. Jarr, “Let a man think ‘hat he'e w er him when h: js and be won't call often.” s know that?’ asked Mr. Jarr. de, the youngest, when she got a beau.” eid Mra because the older girls thought they should be married first, and now none of them are married, and, whats more, they never will be “Why?! asked Mr. Jarr. |. “Ll don't know. Some girls have no hick, or some are@ born just to be old |maids,” naid Mrs. Jarr. | According to what you any, they are lucky," aaf@ Mr. Jarr T av ‘ eaid Mra. Jarr, “but it's a dreadful thing to he an ol@ imaid. > ou when you say you could have married but dida’t want to. \ ‘And the worst husband ts better than none, then? asked Mr. Jarr. is) I had lots of other offers.” eald Mrs. Jart, “and you know it!” Wut Mr. Jarr only grinned in thac exasperating manner of his. Ghe Story of The Streets of New York. By J. Alexander Patten, An Old New Yorker. . 10—Streets of Famous Crimes. waa quick to seize upon the unsolved mystery of the murder of Mary ers, the beautiful girl who sold cigars in the store of John Anderson, Broafway, near Duane sireet, as the muggestion for his famous story, oo M Roget’ This murder occurred in IS@ and wroused the eltyy rl’ was well known by many prominent people whe the store, N Nassau street, and aot only Anderson's store but this house i vijects of public curiosity. Mary Rogers was respected by all, for her beauty was remarkable and her conduct exemplary. However, disappeared, 1 her body was found in the Hudson River, | Another most mysterious munSr ooourred at No, 61 Thomas street ht te [called “mysterious” because the man Indicted and tfled for \ommitting tt was acquitted, but there was very positive ev fp aenennt Dini, and the greater fy stery was why he waa acquitted. Grten in the newspapers at this day com enty ask, “What happened at No. 41 Thomas street?’ Now there je @ use on the w#ite al © Was a three-story brick dwelling up to the yard A vacant lot on Hudsom A high wall along West Broadway and the twe of the New York Hospital, now razed and torm- ing part of the "Dry-Goods Lkstrict.” Thomas atreet had omly three Blocks ang come up to this wall ‘Lhe whole region waa well sulted for desperate crime, atree by C, W. Kahles, nde atreets Inclosed the grown | MM the Une of tie murder there were only @ few city watchmen, who went wvous | wn oried the hour and “All's well.” ; Ip 18% Hichard P. tobinaon, @ young man of good appearance and excellent | haracter, was clerk in ¢he store of Joseph Hoxey, tn Maiden lane. Helen Jewett, a beautiful girl, had come on a | Robinson was aald to have murdered her. He was acquitted and went to Texne, |= most men under @ cloud did at that time, Gen. Honeton had just won the Independence of Texas in the battle of #an Jacinto. In 1886 t Great White Way" of New York was from Chambers street te Grand mtreot, with jt# most important part about Leonard street. The theatres, hotels, saloons and gambling houses were In that section, which gradually moved plown Park place and Barclay street had many gambling Houses, and Jobm Morriasey, first prixe-fighter and aaloon-keeper of Troy, and then a member af and founder of the great gambling house of Baratoge Springs, had one ld mansions on Broadway at thi ¢ Laura Keene, (he actress who wae pmying at t President Lincoln was killed. had as her husband ® noted gambler who high-toned biishment in Park place Worth street was ® narrow thoroughfare called Anthony street that le@ directly to the Five Points, ® name then known throughout the country ana the world | Jt waa tn the shadow of the Tombs, at Centre and Frantilin streets, where Jeven then all the hanging was done, Just at the Centre sirest comer wae @ tumble-down building occupied as ® groggery, Then you came to a little Ime in Giese of ouch aE - clpaure with pallogs, and all about the fv ete were arimy buildings whene . pacts PaIAe COBENEN HOE Of and in progressive 4 tht and ruffans of the most abandoned kind. It was not ante to ge ae es ite gpep day ig : ty wa : The Bra: 5 PIP-ING a LA-LA LAY. rae street without the protection of @ policeman. Hetween some build: He ppc aor menene. 1B Se 'Snen ae tae \ . Murderers’ Alley," where many deadly crinas had been committed, yl eee) taets eon “ demands h ‘ od. they | a . on the “Old Brewery" was purchased to be turned into charitable inatitue Sseticaity sy sige Reel semnee es : Eee ee GO AVAY, VuNte | 5 t Ney was rained by charging admfasion to view the dinky rooms, with applied to him. He wives tiie vot g oy ay r — Ks secret panels and (rape and tte dark Dalle and cellars, whore all kinds of orime jalation of no par ar sehr Yr Brcmelhy-stpog. 4d been committed. Chinatown ts in the seme district now, but improvements @heapened and pike aed dn die vs a ot one for ona and benavcdant matitutions have accomplished what the frowntng af oles cast for t on ne son cout nor te ene A PRET gee Mae ut The Collect pond was filed wp m 3817. ‘There the Tombs, or city prisen, was ie metern world, by t een b dado ay bully in 18% Some of the granite st came from the old Bridewell (Jail), mejor” never ti ont i . erected tn the Clty Hull Park about 17M and torn down in 188. With tung free, and mur ways te f ' y alned by a lottery, @ new Liridewell was completed Just about the opening wonM . ho N . 1 rent ° the Bevo . that became Ge provomt prigon, and in lot** times the Hall BEY aemocratic. while eps ne “ x The old Tombe waa s srantte ate stir, modelled aller a pleture of am Perrdane 1% gar Keyption tomb which appeared In @ volume of the then resent travels of Johip Thre such tm the case will, t att | Stevens, of the “Hobuken Caatie,” atill to be seen. more bvident jt ' { { Sal a re exerci what im oe ee i Oddities of Gasoline. simita 1 pao sich on my Gatto GASOLINE tank rarely explodes. IC cannot unless it contains gesottmy whet 1 P ° ‘ A or and air th explosive proportions, which latter condition t# almeg @ny true opi J neverepn It dows not explode because it contains too ite ale op th theme : too much gasoll fiven if a jollne Were Lo burt from heat applies | fas \~ > to lis exterior, the confined heavy gaa would not explode if in contact with | . or fire, but would bhrn instead. *A tank of gasoline with ne could do . ‘ 4 siderable damage were it to buret an taming gas ' Will the » uit of a a Yoon : » dangerens a Dion of wiisl @ greed: “ | bun: th of iat amount T™ ‘ would bare ta as of air, to demelioh utterly elinoet any Boat . | * the smaller amount would be puttol i