The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1907, Page 8

Che @uttiehea Daily ‘except Sunday by the Preas Publishing Company, : Park Row, New York. © SOREN POLITEER, Prec, 1 Rest "Ed Street. 1. ANGUS SHAW, BeeTreas, 01 Weet 119th treet ™ “SEntered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. : For England and the Cen- No, 8 to D Rates to The Canada nang, eng All Countries nator ¥8.75| in the Intesnetlo 2 | One year. Lett} One month.. A 3-CENT HOUR. HEN ‘the first elevated road was built in New York the rate’of fare was ten cents. There were few passengers, The road was an ex- periment. Its cost of operation was high. The profits to Hs pro- moters were not great. It was promptly recognized by both the original elevated com- pany and the public that a dis- tinction should, be made between : ; p occasional-passengers and the reg- * ular dafly traffic. Steam railroads on the surface of the ground had ~ been making this distinction for years. (Comrmiters who travel every Way had been accustomed to ride at a fraction of the cost of uniimited first-class tickets. Trip tickets, season tickets, famfty tickets and the fike all recognized the principle that the steady users of a public franchise should have a reduced rate. : Following this principle the old elevated charged a half-fare during what were called commission hours; that is, the hours of the regular dally travel, approximately from 6 to 8 A. Mand Sto7P.M. The trains at those hours were more crowded and more profitable; the cost of transportation was less. The public received part of the benefit in the five-cent commission hour fare. To establish three-cent commission hours on the Second. and Third ftvenue elevated roads now would not be as much of a concession from ~ the present nickel fare as the establishment of five-cent commission hour: "was from the dime fare. The cost of operation has been steadily _ Wiminished without any diminution In the fare. Through electrical invention economical power has been substituted, a few firemen in power-houses have taken the place of hundreds of firemen on locomo- tives, additional money-earning passenger cars have taken the place of the steam engines as part of the train until there !s more profit in a ——three-cent fare to-day than In a five-cent fare when it was established. LEELA TCE SS ae The traction merger asks the city to give it a franchise for a third ¥ack on its east side elevated roads. These roads are crowded to their utmost operating capacity during the rush hours now. Their cars are >-\packed to the limit of human endurance. Their earning capacity has ‘reached its maximum. Ze But the people have some right to be considered. The franchise tis theirs. The traction merger has not yet got hold of it. It cannot get it except on such terms as the Public Utilities Commisston and the Board of Estimate prescribe. There should be a universal “universal “free transfers. “If the “traction merger were capitalized at ‘its actual investment three-cent fares vand universal free transfers would "pay interest on all the bonds, pro- wide an ample sinking fund and pay dividends on the. stock at a higher rate than any of the watered stock now pays. Betore this can be done the traction merger should __._ “be smashed. he-east side third. tracks have three-cent fare. There should be three-cent fare. —<—_ Jerney- Momrattecs, 'To the Mitor of The ventne World: In reply to Passats Co’ man, who B. pays there are fewer mosquitoes in New the Jersey than tn otho: New Work, { will state tha ten years of | T ‘travelling I, have never met as many | @ Mosquitoes as there are between Jermey cor _ City. and Newark. They keen thetr ' atickers always sharpened for use, and | Wor thetr size they can raine a b most any dimensions, E. C.. VOGT. | Jersey City. The Boston Problem. Mo the Hiitor of The Evening World: Piaterbonush Company and —ane— thant on the B. R. T., thereby ma: g tt R. T. carry them for nothing. nile In would be pald for 1 1t gmve no return 2 only dé carried out If were controliel by one BRA ough ne In The World Almanno. 0 Bvening World rar 1 and myself to ds to the size of! the red with that of the moon and. atara re can we jearn fom,” which says: “A buyn articles at RALPH BONNET jm certain price, and tn selling them fmnakes $18,000. THe reduces the selling | ne Tin price one-third, thus cutting the relling fprice €0 per cent. How much extra patronage must he wet to enable him to double his profits, and how far must | f the have out the price to enable him to | fwin from the new patronage a mum | aval to hin original profits plus wis |¢ erenent profits ening woria's A SILU/SEA ong Is SOAK \SON OUTS IOE —_ Opposition Brightens Cupid’s Flame. They may refu' bounden duty Ko to It is not infrequent tnally unknown to NE thing always must be remembered—jwir.: that O oper and violent opposition to a marriage invariably does more harm then good Conan Doyle makes one of his minor characters say: “Ie ye forbid a lassie and a IAddie to dae anything {t's just the surest way of bringing {t alout. The Lord foond that vot-tn~ the —gainten--o/ Paradies, and rbere's—_no_mucicle change between the folk in Eylen and the foik in Wig- nly is thore this Inherent taste for forbidden frult, but opposition rarely faila to awaken a sanse of martyrdom WEIN WUT” go Mer to strengthen the miepiaced—affection; while with judicious indifference or nid and dovbting tolerance it might have died a natural death, There ts no denytng the fact that parents are often placed in great Aimeulties by thelr dauehter'a love afraire, se to conntenanke . holding st to be their y do, but they cannot ctr ipa question whether te affatr xh them, o- whet leave no cxcum for deception, Indeed, now that xcurcely acting hon: exmores her to the The Cheerful Primer. ———— IS A DOLLAR New Haven, Conn. ney e y : , ou cdn alway» «et to. shore (Phe “Universal Tieket.” n have @ oramp. lt Ja scard the Fidltor of The Evening World mt drowns people—not fatigue or oticed with Interost the | trom|cramp. If tired or cold cone out of the| , cor.” in Fe | water at once. Keep moving all the time Wen of a tiniverss) by “al! the} vou're fn t t Aranait lines of Grevter y York. Dors| JE Y { this-—pian would! ts of one| Nov Me if those of) To the Tethiar of. TO HELPA MAN THROUGH LIFE (& DOLLAR SAVED no 7 ore ngaen of scandalmongers. wally Magazine, Frianay, July TOYFTHOT? The Silly Season in New York. By Maurice Ketten. GOSH DING THE HUMIDITY: wo By Helen Oldfield. Neither ts it strictir ‘honorapie for @ man to make w girl an offer. of mar riago whon he knows that her parents hare @ pronounced and well grounded objection to him aa u son-in-law, So long as sho te under azo or in a dependent posttion he has no right to ask her to either deoetve or to Jely thase to whom the owes ditty and obedience. ‘Tho daughcor ~ho comes short fn her filial duty oannot reasonably be expected to m=xe a good wife No -mar-oushtto resent Seing closely questioned before he ts welcomed into a family, and ho should be ready to give all particulars concerning |ifmsel! which may be asked. Parents who valuo their daughters do well ang wirely to cxereise caution before intruating them voluntarily to a comparative stranger ‘Where vonsont to an ongagement is refused he lover shows his goof breed- Tag aiid oot testing by-rot-trytngto force tls way into a funilly where he is plainly unwelcome. He need not rtecesxarity be fickle, He can bide hie time and wait unt!l clroumstances prove his worth, and allow him, without loss of @ignity, ¢o make another and more successful attempt. Under modern conditions {t would seem ay if the witeat way in which pafents can treat an Ineligible suitor ts to tolerate tim. and Jf posnible make him Hélculous. taking care not to entixt the gtri'e srmpethy {rm his behelt-oy any appearance of persecution Is has deen well eald f often, that the etrongcst hoM which a man can gain upon a good woman’ {a to convince h os her devotedly, and that nis need of her 14 e@ great as his lov hee. A good woman has always the Msposttion to sacrifice herself for the sake of othern.—Chicago Tribune, By C. W. Kaliles, TEL DO NOTHING oF THE KIND, REMEMBER ECONOMY 15 THE ROAD TO WEALTH." TLL PRES: “THEM MYSELF, TSMELL SOMETHING BURNING sae bd lida Ncaatmiilldlaiilbdacraed ities and cemninonadancnsrainn ‘. } i NO. 11.—MARGARET OF SCANDINAVIA—The Ruler of tho North. HERD ts a peninsula running down between the North Sea an@-the BaTtio which in olden time was feared and hated throughoat the whole world. For it was the abode of the dreaded Norsemen, whose very name was such a word of terror that the ancient church Itan{es oom tained the prayer: “From the fury of the Northmen, good Lord deliver wm” ‘The people of Norway and Seveden lived in a bare, rocky, sengtrt land, where farming and other peaceful arta could not afford them a ltvelfhoot, So, with their neighboss of Denmark, to the south of the peninsula, they turned to the sea for a living. Thetr long. serpent-prowed galleys, hung with shields and manned with fierce, bine-cyed, yellow-hatred pirates, swept down upon the peaceful coasts of France and England, buritng towns, stealing everything of value and butohering the panic-stricken tnbabitants, One sea’ king had even advanced on Paris, and had only spared the French capital when he was awarded.e rich province of France for his own. ‘There he settled, his dachy taking the name of Normandy (or “Northmarn’s land”), Another Dantsh ruler, Canute by’ name, in the early part of the cleventh century had made himself King of England. } When the southern countries at iength grew too strong for them.the ’ Scandinavians began quarrelling among themselves. Petty reigns, Dood ¢ . feuds; dynasties wiped out in wholesale kif ings; long periods of anerchy broken by the serm{-occastonal rule of some: really king. Such was the early ‘history of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. And ont of al} this chaos ft rematned for one woman to restore order and prosperity and to bind the three quarrelsome countries peacefully tmto~one, mighty, contented, harmonious nation. This woman wae the Danish Princess Marguret, whose prowess won fpr her the title of “The Semiramis of the North.” She was but twentyeever when, {n 1380, her husband, King Hukon VL of Norway, died. Two year earlier their son, Olaf, heir to the throne, had lost his life. Margaret, widowed and childless, faced the world alone. It was a crisis where the average woman of her day would have abandoned herself to grief or have become a nun. Her career was seemingly at an end. But, as a matter of fact, {t had barely begun, for, instead of letting sorrow and loneliness crush her, Margaret set to work on that mightiest, most engrossing of all occupations—nation buflding. She scoured her position as Queen of Norway, then turned her ettem tion toward Denmark. She had formerly succeeded in having her zany son, Olaf, chosen King of this country. Now that he was dead she clal the throne for herself. The Danes were aghnst at thus being knit to Nor way, a frequently hostile kingdom. But when the matter was brought be fore the Danish Parliament Margaret won that body to her cause promising to {ncrease greatly {ts privileges and to promote Denmm interests. Parllament was thus won to her side and the two countries were joined as one under her rule. Not content, she next turned her wonderful diplomatic skill on Sweden, forming for herself a strong party among the Swedes and Inying clever plans for annexation, The Duke of Mecklenburg clatmed the Swedish throne and war followed. Margaret proved herself as good a general as diplomat. the opposing forces in battle and took the Duke prisoner. was a matter of no great difficulty to annex By the treaty of Calmar, 1297, Mas was made sovereign of the three power northern nations, and found herself the important person in Europe and Quoen The Sea Kings Fight Among Themselves. She routed After this ft Woman Welds Three Baret ful most Kingdoms Into One. © of the greatest realm. With a Hght, tactful, but ever firm hand, she guided the destinies of her triple possessions and not only held all three in subjection but spread throughout thetr boundaries a feeling of loyalty and patriotism, welding the trio of warring, distrustful lands into one splendid, all-powerful king dom. ‘Then she set to-work planntng for the continuance of their By wise laws she endeavored to remove any chance of their separating future years, But here she met her first faflure, for, on her death tn 1418, at the age of fifty-nine, the crown went to her grandnephew, Eric, as she was childless. Erle managed in a pitiably short spaco of time to_unde nearly all his great aunt had accomplished and eventually to lose the throne, thua forever shattering Margaret's dream of pefmanence for the grand, united Scandinavian nation she had so brilliantly created. Six Dress Hints for Swagger Men. By Margaret Rohe. No, 3:—Have Gloves Well in Hand. no fess an muthority than Theodore Roosevelt thet every man should have at least two kids on tie BH hands. Naturally, just how great a part sioves play in the B ocorrect attire of x man af fashion can-readily be seen: Gloves should never be worn buttoned. Ht ls decidedly, Geckasse, Nobody does tt any more, except the oanaille of West End avenue, Larchmont, Tuxedo and atmiler ans lightened districts, The real classy boys turn thetr gloves back in the sauctest way. ‘Any color of giove te permisetble, tut the preterenos: ts siven to the pale yellow chamola effect. Great oare should be exercised in weartng these, how. H ever. When you go to shake hands wfth a friend, {t is well FXEEEEIH to wave thom three times gently before his face, warm MARGARET RON@ ing sweetly all the whilo, ‘These are glowes, these are gloves,’ or he will think you are handing him a lemon. Black gloves are all right gor mourning wear, but ha:tly the correst thing . for evening. f In the present reign of-everything Iinwerie, white cotton gloves are quite Ge thing for specin! functions. particularly concerning big undertakings, amd ape > Much <ottones to-out In Wamogo, Kan: ant other i a taonion mettope Hees, : Tha most striking thing in a atyllsh handcovering 1s the boxing patterns ai though @ plain glove, with brass dnrockte—trimmtngw, ts —usmaDy a kesoekeaa. No really correctly outfitted sport should be without a pair of these abrayn om hand. . Tae ta ts tatorty tn thas Rosere ask The Worst Summer Resort. N this book “From the Cape to Cairo,” W & Grogan writes, “The Kungeaity, ] which ts peculiar to Lake Mynssa, resembles small May Mes, and et acaeons of ttre year they rise from the water in euch stupendous that they Dlot out the whole horizon. Been in the distance the appearance of a cainstorm coming across the lake, landward they make every place uninhabitable by the stench which rives/frem the countless mSltons that lodge and dle on every inch ef sheltered grofmd, thyself heave aeen them lying a foot deep tn @ room, and I was told Are oftan much worse. The natives aweep them up end matte ckkea of “Biting qd poisonous antn are another pest, tut the mosquito ts enemy of man. It was absolutely necessary to turn in half en hour set, and to make all the preparations for the night. I piled all my detongings round the edge of my net and kept a green wood fire tbarning at each and then I tay tnalde, smoked the negive tobacco and prayed for morning. Ag soon aa the sun went down the mosquitoes started operations, “Tt was Ifke taking a tame whirtwind tr one's tent. They could not syave dean worse, Every night 20 or 300 contrived to enter my net—t idea how. The most pernicious and potaonous kind wee mosquito that might possttly have penetrated the mesh. tn tho morning feeling perfectly dared from the amount of Injected during, the night.” possittty, A Trio of Oddities. IAT $6 detleved to be the works récord for Gtrorce oases ts trettt-ty-the W Mungantan city of Ared, Laat year's statistios show that 2 divest were tried by the courts and 210 divorces granted At: prenant there aoe ) divorce cases awatting triel. Arad hae fewer than 20,000 inhebitanta, Tepntyrfive thousand dollars has-been left ty & German merchant wee: f t Cottbus to found a church tf Constantinople for all denominations, ormons are to be preached im Eeperanta.“ London pays $180,000 year for the Water welch fts mifcnen gut nul they sell as gure, | Willams, from Jay Count}, Indiana, a member of Company B Thirty-fourth Indiana Regiment, ‘Che Mght in which he wae mmtucdliva f owed to i Last Man Killed in the Civil War. TE last man to fall jn the, Civil War was a Union eeldter, Jobm. urred at Palmetto Ranch, Texas, on May 18, 1865; more than @ woo'a surrender, The word to lay down arma had not reached imo, end an engagement togk place between a amall force of and @ détachment of