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by the: Prees Publishing ing Company, No. 8 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the abcalmatants at New York a# Second-Class Mat) Matter, WOLUME 48 1 sececeoeee coseee ereereress NO. 18,780. AN ACRE OF LAND. N Fifth avenue between Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth streets, facing Madison Square, a tract of land — a little over an acre in area has just been sofd for $7,250,000. The old Fifth Avenue Hotel, which oc- cupies this plot of ground, is to be torn down and a colossal office building is to take its _p! Since the present buildings are to be removed, their yalue does not enter into the selling price, which is simply . The first time that this tract of land was sold its value a rrented only a few beads out of one of the strings of giass beads paid to the “Endians who were in possession of Manhattan Island when the white After that there were successtve. ‘eis each one at a higher price, until in 1859 Mr. Eno bought the road-house that then stood on the comer and the yards and stables around it and spent.$2,000,000_ erecting what was then the most costly and the big- gest hotel in the United States. In: 4900, after Mr. Eno’s death, the hotei property was sold at public sale for $4,225,- 000. ‘This sale to the office building syndi- cate is the third in fifty years. “Long before the Dutch founded the village of New Amsterdam on} “Manhattan Island this tract of land was here. Since the geological | | ‘changes which diverted the Hudson from the west of the highlands to its esent valley, ever-since there has been-an island bounded by the North, East and Harlem Rivers, this Plot of Jand has existed in exactly the Same dimensions and area. ’ For the purpose of raising crops it is not as valuable now as it was «then, Its intrinsic value has been further diminished by cutting down the great trees which grew there. Why is this land worth so much? Because it is in the centre of Man- hattan Island. And the area of Manhattan Istand is worth so many billions of dollars fy because so many millions of people live and work here. If there were fewer millions of people here the land would be worth fewer billions A Sleshtng sclentific professor has estimated that the capitalized lue-of the inhabitants-of Greater New York is nine billion dolfars. ‘This is but a half more than the market value of the land area of Greater New York, exclusive == =4 of buildings. Of iE the “Surplus -earn= ing capacity of the’ people of New York over; and: above the Tea RTT a. = ” ee tr July 1, 19073 The Das of Rest. |IFIFTY HEROINES By.Maurice Ketten. : : OF HISTORY. = e C1 WANT THE TROUSERS 2 . tDENT To ToBE PR SSED BY ALBERT PAYSON | ERHU INE! : No. 8—CLEOPATRA--the Queen Who Wrecked a World. ULIUS CAESAR, congueror of the world, sat in his audiences chambeg one day in 49 B. C., receiving tribute and hearing complaints. ‘Three slaves entered the room bearing @ great Oriental rug. This they*une | rolled_at_the eonqneror's-feet. Out of its-foltstleaped-a-marrellously beats. tiful red-haired woman gnd stood in all the glory of her loveliness befor®@ { the dazzled eyes of tho Roman general. She was Cleopatra, {he twenty: year-old Queen of Hgypt. With her brother Ptolemy she had been joing. i ruler of the counjry since the death of her father. Hut Ptolemy had ost | her out and she had fied to Syria to raise an army to recover her crown, Caesar, in his career of conquest, arrived in the Hast. Cleopatra, In orden \j to Jaterest him in herself and her ‘cause, arranged the foregoing meetings , So well did she succeed that Caesar overthrew and killed Ptolemy, and ‘made Cleopatra Quéen once more with her second brother an. eleven-yeare * old boy,.as nominal colleague. But 60 ceop was ‘the conqueror’s admiration © for her that he persuaded her to visit Rome and, indeed, to take up hen © abode there: receiving her with royal honors. In Rome she remained, tothe disgust-ot the populace at large, until, five years tater, assassinated. Then, fearing the Roman people's hatred, she fled to Deve “ When her young brotber demanded his rights ax King she-poisoned him. OH DARN IT After -Caesar’s death the most powerful man left' on earth was hig HE'S BROUGHT THE : { friend, Mare Antony. Through his aid Ceesar’s nephew (afterward knowa & : = as Augustus) avenged his uncle's death,: a and with Antony became ruler of the civile The Man Who Threw Away } i144 world). ‘They divided thelr tecrltaryy World for Love. Antony choosing the Orient and te remaining at Ronie.. Antony was a splen- did_general, a great orator, intensely popular and pospessing all-the quali= ties that Ko ta_make-up-a hero of fiction. He was in a fair way to rule the 0% World. But he was destined to lose not only the world but honor. and eve Lares, Ss Ife for the sake of a woman... The woman was Cleopatra. = = ENS - D Remembering her former success with Caesar, si.e sailed to meet An- tony when ho reacked his Eastern do: inons. Clad-in jewelled robes, she lay {n a golden ehip with perfumed surrounded by musicians and by boys gnd girls, who posed as Cupid and the Graces. Antony’s susceptible heart was utterly captivated by this gorgeous spectacle. A series of costly feasts followed, in the course of which Cleopatra etill further won Antony's admiration by dissolving the moat precious of her crown jJewels—a gigantic pearl—in a goblet of wine and drinking !t. The couplo returned to Egypt, where they dwelt in royal state. An tony's dreams of world-empire faded away, and he lapsed into a Ife‘of idle luxury, Augustus seized this opportunity to mako\ himself sill moro powerful t Rome. As a last effort on thé part of: the absent generalas - friends a marriage was arranged between Antony and augustus’s sister, Octavia. But Antony quickly deserted her and hurried back to Cleopatra, The Egyptian Queen's unpopularity at Rome turned the people ngainst THE Ta\Lon WHAT AM | Going Antony. Augustus took. advantage of this feeling and declared war on SAYS ITS THE Tad02 THEONLY Q ¢ Cleopatra, well knowing that Antony would: fight in her behaif and-would Dwi thus openly proclaim himself an enemy to Rome, This would give Augustus PAIR (HAD WITH tne pretext ae wanted to crush him and welze the whole empire. Instead of acting with his old energy, Antony let a year slip by befor preparations for defense. Then he decided to put the whole the test of a single naval battle. He wailéd at last against Augustus's fleet, Cleopatra accompanying him with a squadron of thirty Egyptian galleys, The battle was waged off Actium. For a time Antony’s fleet seemed on the verge of victory. Then, for no apparent cause, Cleopatra fled, taking her thirty gadeys with her,- Antony, noting her flight, supposed she was Hees - ; wounded. Forgetting the battle and the fate‘of the world that hung on its a ; outeome, he followed her. His fleet, left leaderless,-was-easily overcome. Finding Antony's cause was hopelessly lost, Cleopatra wrote privately fo Augustus offering to surrender. Augustus-replied that her quickest way to his favor would bo the murdering of es PIU eon | Pee ” Antony. She agreed to these terms and if Anabelle Rectang, Planned Antony's destruction with true How It Was Broken. Oriental subtlety. By skilful playing } . * upon his emotions she reduced him to black despair. Then she suggested that, sooner than fall into Augustus’s hands, Ley should kill themselves. The miserable man agreed, and sho ~ appointed a certain great tomb as the place for carrying out their ‘‘suiclle pact." When Antony reached the tomb a servant told him Cleopatra had already arrived there and had committed suicide. Antony, in wild ‘grief, fell upon his sword. As he lay dying Gleopatra ordered him carried into her presence, and he ated in the ai f the falss woman for whom he had» thrown away such chances in-tife-as few men have known. Cleopatra, having found 8o little diMqulty in winning Caesar and .An- i tri h t By Nixola Greeley-Smith, | tony, foresaw an easy triumph with Augustus. Ia all er mature beauty The June Bride and the Railroad. Gx very different man. Augustus was unmoved by her charms and gave her confidences of the indiscreet lover. If the bridegroom choosex to rhapsodize on|to understand sh¢ would be forced to walk in chains behind his chariot at the charms cf his bride to ihe train conductor tn the smoking car, that much| Rome. Her pride could not stoop to this humiliation. She préssed the enduring Individual has to‘lsten, though {t makea the seventeenth rhapsody he| fangs of a polsonuus snake into her arm and died. has heard on one run. The man at the information bureau and all the em- ‘With her death the Jong royal line of Egyptian monarchs came to an Ployeca scattered about the station are compelled to answer wearily but polltely| end. Egypt, once a mighty nation, became a meré Moinan province. And strike, declaring they were not Chinamen. Orders have|a hundred ties a day aa to whether or not they have seen “a young lady in a} Augustus reaped the fruits of empire which brave, fickle, unlucky Antony's been posted’ forbidding the rice throwing, with the naturailgray dress end a bunch of violets ctanding by the flower wtand." {nfatuation had so madly discarded. SBE ERIE effect\of increasing the practice, Two years ago, on a train between Denver and Chicago, I observed a very } Thothis unusual controversy between capital and labor! young and peroxide Juno reading letters which she abstracted from a mantlia on strike because of the unprecedented quantities of rice°and confetti ecattered,jn the station in the wake of depakting June brides. rallway company erdered {ts men’ to ep the ride up, and they promptly went on Ses employees. in South Norwalk, Conn., have gone necessaty food and clothing to keep them alive and in working condition two- fifths goes for land rent. That is, for the privi- lege of being al- lowed “to live here. 7250 00a. __ As the popula- tlon increases the percentage of rent to the total earnings increases. heré-are-several rural counties jn this State ‘where all the land in the 5 esinty is worth no more than an acre of Manhattan Island, That is = Decause these counties are sparsely populated. If they were settled as a proportion of their _Wages and salaries in rents as the people of New Work do. ~~~ This is written in recitation, not in argument. ‘The prediction which =the facts-imply is seif-evident. The economic results are already ap- Parent. The high rents of which the people of this city complain more Aud “more every year are due to economic causes as inexorable in their working as the law of gravity, a Letters from the People. Now York's Virtue anil 8) jonth night hes been rhade hideous by fo the Battor of The Evening Worl he incessant banginx of thee: prets.” ‘People have Knookel New York BSS of boys explxte them nicht and Sag and eo hard that I want to my) day on uptown sirents, Yet not one ®omething in its favor, I am just back | policeman seems to Interfere to save from a year in Great Britain, We 49/ our nerves and prevent insomnia and | hotleee one drunk here Where one wees | avert conflagrations. Were a cowboy to Mitty in moat Wneliatt cities, A drunken | walk down a strett firing Kc (seoman here ie 4 rarity. In Glasgow | cartridges in a revolver he would be Bnd elsewhere ft ty a frequent sight. |arrested and the papere would be ful Wee beating is commiritively rare even| of it Yet those giant crackers are Mn our slums. In Engiand I've seen jnolser and more dangerous. I am: not Many oases of It. Taken all in all, New| a crank. On July 4 my boys always ers iw & vreity decent city, Anyone | have all the fir they want. But $A doribts {: need only vielt Europe. | the daily and illogal use of such ex- YORKVILLE, Plosives'is a shame to fhe Poliae. De- cued ‘Ca¥ Ahend" Nuisance. bartment and a misery to peaceful Wired Sa abe citizens. Sop st, Bingham! You. can. rhe practice of compelling passengers JACOB B. SHYRIZ, Jr. ‘change cars’ at Broadway and Offiee Girls. “Houston street and Broadway nnd Mur-| 1, ene mittor of Tae Evening World: - street without apparent reason OF! ‘Tere are thousands of office boys, but Wight {® a dotestable nuisance. Many jecarcely one office girl. Why? I mean people have suffered’ inconvenience 02 | thers are practically no girls who do of- ‘Broadway after paying for ® contin- nce bey work. Yot the pay {s falr a: ous iris by deine dumped out at the tne prospects good. If women are Polnts T have mentioned, LLM. V. |vading the business fel, way on’ The Virecracker Nuisance. they start as office mt work thelr @o the Biittor of Tae Evening World: way up? There are no duties the average office boy has to perform that ‘heoeetnd law ts clear on the wob- | 2°08? equally within the scope of any girl, Discuss’ my~eympethy—le—entirely—with—the —werkingman,—And—I+ paper bag toa pattent conductor, and-iater she read thein-tome—She was, she think future brides and grooms of South Norwalk andjtold mo, a “Parisian dancer” trom Los Angeles, going to Chicago to be married Poin elsewhere will call the strikers blessed If the senseless cus-|to a Jockey, The letters were the love songs of the enamorce, and they all wound tom of rice throwing can. be done away with. It. 1s true,jup.in the invariably eecentric_fashion. “Yours truly, your passionate lover, of cojirne, that & soul alfve to xentiment migiit prompt ths! Willie.” ‘There must have deen fifty of them, ani tho conductor hed been railroad man to look with leniency upon the pranks of|obliged to hear every ono without, of course, the Interest in the psycholoxy of brida! parties. But the brides and bridegrooms are such an old story to him that emotions which made thnm valuable human documents to me. Paragraphs. M ANY a man who acts Hke a dear is fory. It's easy to discourage aman who hasn't any courage. ‘ it fe natural He qhould-come to regurd them an merely” 8 source of trouble and, When I think of what this man and nearly every man employed by # rail- Nearly all free-thinking men are in the bachelor class: i refuse to allow them to add to his working hours. Indeed, Jt 8 a wonder to road has suffered from, the expensiveness of travelling lovers I am surprised 3 me that all rallroad employees are not hardened cynit#. They see so much of that the revolt against the June bride parties has been delayed so long. Surely To-morrow {s the only time to borrow !f you wouldn't sorrow. thie eternal sameness of love, and they are, moreover, pecullarly exposed to the these long suftering-persons should be spared the rice sweeping. pene : It doesn't do a particle of good to yawn when some people talk. - €2 G5) i) By H. Methfessel. If you want-a thing done well don’t do it yourself unlesa you know-hew. Bill Hustle, of Harlem. GREAT GUNS! CANT 5 We | (ANITOR AWANITOR! il As a matrimonial prise a homely girl makes good more often than a pretty, one. A woman isn’t satisfied éf her husband’ 8 life tv an open book—unlese ft Is a check book. ; GET INTO My MUST GET INTO my ff OFFIZET FORCOT | AR J ~ : ‘When a giri shows a young man # ‘photograph of herself she ‘expects him My KEY! fs ‘ Ths ‘ to ask for it y If men were compelled to practice what they preach most of them would isive up the preaching habit. ‘Aas long as the earth ls Inhabited men and women will continue to stir up trouble for Sach other. Bome people will be awfully disappeinted !f they get to’ houven and cant find anything to find fault with. And a good deal of. the knowledge people acquire ts atfout as usoful tn thetr biis'ness as counterfelt money. Aout the megnest thing a woman can do when her husband's name ts meotiaped {+ tovatgh, look resigned and say nothiny —Chicato Nows, YOURE. WANTED TAKE HIS-NIMBER 1 The Almighty Dollar. AT THE "PHONE, AND ILL CALL HIM RECENT headline, ‘Rule of the Dovlar," hes suggested the inquiry, Whe MR HUSTLE UP, AFTER -1'vE A originated the familiar phrage, “the almighty dotiar?* It was Washington FINISHED THIS Irving, in "The Creole Viliage,"*which he published In 1837, ‘The phrase CHAPTER I GREAT became #0 papular and excited so n\uch controversy in) consequence of @ doubt : whether the adjective were irreverent -that its author had to explain elghteen, fears later that he intended ‘no irreverence: even to the dollar, which he !9. well aware {s becoming dally more and more an object of worsiilp,”" ‘Dollar’ ts cere ~ tainly one of the world’s great words now, and’{t'ts diMcult to reallse that it only moans “valleyer,” the “thalert having been named after the Joachimsthel, in Bohemia, to whose valley it was first colned in the sixteenth century. aa Queer Facts. [rere holds the record for centenarians, ' atthe The British Government owns 2,000 camels, Remains of srrigation systems 4,000 yearn old have ‘been excavated in Bouth Africa. 3 The Pied Bull Inn, at Yelington, t#,nald to have been the firat house ‘th England at which tobacco was smoked. ‘There are forty-elght different-kinds of material entering into the construction of # pfano and they are gathered frem sixteen countries: us ‘ | NOT IMPRESSED. } CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. [| (LEARNING Hi8 LES8ON. ~~ EASY PREY. \ Science and the Camel, “What did that small boy say when ‘The Bride—I told hubby I was gotnt per has no enthusiasm in his na-| TeesI think Miss Pasay expects to E ID the came. develop, his hump because of countless generations of lyou told him he might grow uy be! to give him something of my own cook- be married pretty s9on, burden-carrying in. the deserts? Some acientists say so. The thorough- | President of the United States? eald| tre, and he eald I'd better try It on| ‘What maxes you think so?’ Jess—Oh! impossible: bred meéehari, or saddle camel, of Central Algeria, which carries “no | one achool trustee, the dog first. Wasy't that « cruel sug-| ‘Wit, be never applauds enything et}: -Tess—Fact. She tells me there's &| burden heavier than a alim Arad dispatch bearer, {9 losing {ty hump. Prat, ‘It didn't seem to impress him," @n-| gestion? the theatre, end even aneers at the | etmple-minded young fellow calling at} Lombroso, the Italian anttropologist, has identified atmilar callostiies—mintes ewered the other. "He said nearly| Ger Driei—Very!, I thought your| finest points of the play.” their house now who !s ture humps—upon the nes&t’ and shoukters of Hottentot and Malagasy everybody was deing mentioned for] trusbund wae eo ¢ond of dogs!--Titus-| “Oh, be 62 studying to be a critic, ' obligations to her father, S| explored im werk move. aporepriae (6 cee) wwe me if Kec eancaaa DOWecays,; *—riah Packet, | trated Sits, ~~ ‘ you knew." 0idBite, +" oo Pre ° Ror Naunyn Weae rs SF