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The Evening Pudlished Dally except Sunday dy the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to @& + Park Row, New York. SOREPTE PULITEEA, Pree, 7 Ress TB! Mireet. 1 AGUS SHAW, Beal oven, 901 Woet 110th Btrerk Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. : r er BOyiaad und the Con- a renee Mie tthe sear *tinent and All Countries a United States. One year..... 7 fn the Internutional 2 88.75 the Internutions rc) One year “| One m Boe j .NO, 16,781. 1ON FACTS. UBLIC investigation of the traction merger begins to-day. It is long $i time that. the facts of this iniquity were spread before. the publi. By a series of stock waterings, plant and equipment which $100,000,C00. would’ re- place have been ‘capitalized for overt half a billion dollars. ‘To give this fictitious capital- 3 one e ization a market value the. trac- tion ‘merger has kept for itself all the benefits of modern invention and ‘mprovements .in transportation” It has retained every penny of the “saving through the use of¢lectricity.. While the cost of transporting a passenger has been reduced from four cents to less than two cenis| fares have not bees diminished at all. y . The service has been cut down so that with a vearly increasine! umber of passengers the ‘mileage has actually been lessened. The object of this ts to crowd every car with standing passengers, whom it _eosts less than a cent to transport.. To give every passenger a seat} would necessitate more trips and : the employment of more motormen and conductors. That: is why the public stands. To bring out these facts in de- tall is the first duty of the Public Service Commission, which has be- gun-well-in employing William M. Ivins as __special_counsel. Mr. Tyins “knows the ropes.” The things which the Commis- sion can do to improve transporta- tion conditions are many and obvious. It can require the running of gore street cars. Boston, on streets crowded with other traffic, runs more cars to the hour than on the Brooklyn Bridge, where there is « clear trackway and no stopping to take on or let off passengers. Instead of running its cars at such intervals that every car is} packed to the roof like a can of sardines, the B. R. T. can be compelled to run as many cars as the trackage will permit, and that number is third to a half more than it now. car ean be improved. The Subway tracks being underground, there are no trucks to hamper the operation of trains: With a proper block sys. tem, there’ can be a train loading and unloading at every local station “at the-sametime-with another train-on the block, thereby doubling th capacity of the local tracks. Twice the number of express trains ca be run during most of the hours of the day, and in the rush hours beite Yy passeng reasonable. Such a regu- _Nation could hardly be taken as “‘confiscatory” to a United States Cour Ats enforcement need not await any further’ investigation of the facts. P The three-cent fare and a universal transfer so that a passenger an go from any part of any borough to any part of any other borough for a single fare should properly await the result of a thorough investi gation into capitalization, cost of transportation and profits. To-day’s hearing begins the remedy of the wrongs which The ~ Evening World has for years denounced and exposed. Letters irom the People. A Policeman's Trials. |epe or chain attachments. Dogs and oe jae Bveniew Week pdaby carringes—these are the sige oF iceman tx the most “blamed and! tyiper New York, but the former are thanked public servant in {0 | sadly more numerous. Has the great pacdarge—eity Winer -he—deee 9 Re -BLt ott y ot New Fork no TeMedy Lor thiv fhe gets very Uttle credit. I've seen | dog evil, or is dog culture a “oustom cases where a patrolman has risked more honores in the observance chan WMfe in éatching a crook and then hadjin the breach?’ JOHN W. HALL. @ judge turn the prisoner loose, This) The “Cat” Family. port of justice takes all the vim out) To the Dittor of Toe Dvening World of many a goog policeman, Why should) To what family does the ton belong the risk his Mfe and days off when the Also the tiger? FISK ‘Judges may perhaps not give him Worrled About New York. Justice? Let the city give the Door a ey nah Sa Ta of ro eala past ae sobeurea pss sidees Persia was great and fell from tod peg nt wath % much wealth and hixury and the fall- eee. vere ‘s one aa ing off of -hardy stmplickty. So. dlc VE kad esha thar Re ROT YCRStAN |Gretce; #o did Rome; so did the East- ? MAN \ern Empire. Now, it seems to me New Qabial Feet of; Geld.) York 1s following fast In those nations’ "Fo the Diitor of The Byening World:” nteps, and #0 ts all America. Wh> cap Let readers try this Uttle problem: jaive me @ ®oal reason for believing | How much does a cubic foot of gold| We won't share thelr fate? { weign? COLUMBIA SENIOR Perilous Occupations. the Buttor of The Brening Workd: letter about “Window Washers Perils? Is very true. But there are | countless equally perilous occupations jin ich, oddly enough, few are kled_ Structural Ironworkers, steeplejacks, Hnemen, dc., all take thetr lives daily in thelr hands. Yet one seldom reads of thelr belng killed. Oftener one roads on the The “Dog Arm | "To the Mattor of The Event Why 4s the Mis fine police ‘ews to protest em, fire her cttizens, Moroement of laws to restrain or ¢ trol the vast army of doga mat | the city and constantly me hydrophobia the safety of the po | of people in peacetul, “sate” occupa from | tons deing hurt or killed Who can ac ‘a Western city and jocated on Wash: | count for this queer paradox? H. J, L. fngton Helghts, finds that curs of ya- ‘Aa Alphabet Problem, ‘Ty the Dittor of Tee Dventog World: | Now. readers, here ia @ chanee for you: Make the fewest nunrber of word: Possible from the jetters. of ‘the siphe- , using each letter of the alphabet twice and no one word more than once. B GC, Oc0ean lo, 1. 1 \ jetreeta of that fer being led around by women. Buch ‘@my they can be seen taking their morn ing conatitutionals on the sidewalks. seach’ Gog being unmussied and onty fwome of them partly im yestraint with The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars.) Jarr, lear, but they just worry one to death! I was in the Grand Central Depot not yng ago, and when I saw a whole lot of strong immigrant girls going West I ust had to restrain myself from going up and asking them if one of thetr.party vouldn’t Ike a nice place at good wages.” ver thelr language was, they couldn't have understood you,” said Mr. Jarr, ~|Bill Hu World’s Daily Magazine, Thursday, A When “Cholly” Camps Out. By Maurice Ketten. BOATING FAIRBANK COCKTAIL MILORD: RIDING FISHING tnt Came ONE oF M7 CHOLLYSCAMPIN f : COS FOENT REAL ROUGH LIFE dary ame Bwmrgerenrnroerene ugust 1, 1907. About Familiarities. DISHBVELLED piemtc party of young men came romping ento-the ep cursion bowt with their arms about their sweethearts, dragxing and pudb= ing them through the crowd. In the rear of their procession twe sweet, fresh, bright girls. were arguing with thelr beaux “Hands off!’ sald one of these: girls, drawing back. “What's the harm? coaxed ber beau. ‘If you Uke that kind of girl,” sald his companion, “go and get one They cheap and plenty. I'm not that kind.” “You're my kind, all right,” sald the young man, changing his whole man ner, “You know that’’ And the four young people found seats o Little albel: from the reat and fell into earnest ¢lecussion. Spooning in Public. Looking about over the “spoony-and fam!Mar couples, who gays & ccagep tone to the entire party, we were grateful for the pleasant’ contrast of thie —_ Uisnified little group, who showed proper, respect for themselves, for each other, nnd for the rest of the panvengers on the boat, Evidently they ware discussing the young man's question, “What's the harm?” vee And what IS the harm? Isn't affection one of the most beautiful on earth, and ought not the demonstrations of affection please every one? whole subject ts = complicated one and should be carefully thought out by, every young person Probably every one will admit, without argument, tiet ‘tow of those “‘spoony” young men, felt ‘genuine alfection for the girls they warp maxing 20 consploucus. Doubtless many of them got together afterwards eng bragged of thelr conquests, and made Jokes about the girla who were so ‘‘eaay/” In reviewing the day’s:outing few of them would be able to recall anything which had contriteted to yentine friendship. The day could have brought tap | litle inspiration and leas falth than ever in girls. = Z |The Charm of ‘First Love.’” | Every growing boy puts his first little sweetheart upon a pedestal in kis .dreama. She representa ‘to him something finer and purer than his own nature. He inakes high resolves for her sweet sake To touch the hem of her drew world seem sacrilage. To receive some little token of her regard and faith Hf ‘him to the seventh heaven. Alas! as he grows to knew her better he begins /to suspect the “frailty of women,’ and as he finds her fooliat, vain, flokle, tacking in high {deals and character, he turns cynic. Every race hes !ts proverbs ‘about the ght character of women. All posta voice the deepair of man in bis seard for the ideal of his boyhood dreams. The cockney sailor, whe has put im @ [every port, finds his sweethearts all allke, and scornfully singet : “Wot yon learn from the yellow and brown j | x WUl 'elp you a ‘eap with the whtte.” tat And Kipling, in that bitter arraignment of the soul of our sex, “The Vase pire," sums woman up as merely “A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.” Ag there is to her, he declares, can be found jn the «rave, in those material frage ments; no soul lives after the fitful, mischievous light of earth has gone out, _ When Women Were Slaves. In. theme. proverba_and songs.and_poeme.man tay soathing binme upon the woman, but they fail to tell the long story of man's conquest and oppression | and enslavement of woman, which has kept our sex in degradation. Man throug’ all hatory and with all.his power has degraded woman. To-day, thourh he mag wii have yearnings for the ideal of his bovhood dreams, he {, suffering bis | Punishment. In this turnhe ts degraded and enslaved by the kind of women [Re Bas created through all his heutel, ignorant past. » | Every true girl knows in her heart the answyr to that question. She knows she must hold high over the aymtoal heads of the men about her the brightest) purest, Mnest torch in her nature, to cheer ‘and guide herself and her frienda through the shallows and past the rocks. True affection finds ways of express: ing {teelf quite different from the ways of the coarse, familiar hoodiims on em cursion boats. The affection whioh men most crave is that which will dlecower and ae and Qhocurase the best that 12 tn them When granted such affege tion they resogn! and value @; and -te the | young man on the boat: a fo nea ieee “You're MY kind, afi right. You know thatt” : ——-+- Milk-Starved Soldiers. ‘ NHABITANTS of a well-known region of the canton of Bern, ertand;” I district famous throughout the Alps for its large breed of panies Its (cf milk, "are spoken of as “coffee-faced and flat-chested.” At the last |ury raft eighteen young mountaineers were called up, and of these all | were rejected. This result {s sald to be not uncommon in these Swiss where cattle and milk are the main sources of tncome: The peasant feeds I gett too much om the milk and grudges himself the meat HTL i lie Pat le ol Oe Day by Evening World Humorists, good servant, she left. But it’s always the way. Mrs that the last girl she had’— “Never mind Mra. Rangle’s last girl,’ interrupted Mr. By Roy L. McCardell. ba OW,” said Mra. Jarr, “‘we've got a new girl. I want N youto start tn tight from the beginning.” “Me?” replied Mr. Jarr, astonished; ‘what have I got to do with it?” “You have everything to do with {t,"" sald Mrs. Jarr. “You won't get up in the morning till the last horn blo _and that makes the breakfast Ipte and a late breakfoat sets the girl back in her work the whole day. It's @ terrible mer get up and wake the girl. Morning, and that an alarm clock will not wake her any more.” “On, she’s an tmmune to alarm clocks, js she?" said Mr. Jarr, “Not exactly,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “‘but she tells me that she get pecting to hear them go off that they keep her awake all night, | do not’ wake her any more because she won't hare one in her room “We'll have to have the alarm clock in our room, then? —Strowith wate ms; watt MreJarr, then Fitwake you, and you can wake girl, and by that time you won't want to go to sleep again and we cam have early breakfast and atart the day right.” “1 don't want an early breakfast,’ grumbled “Oh, very well,’ said Mrs. Jarr; & terrible problem.” sald Mr. nd all Y “when aware I'm Hving and have a good sleep. and now, I sup- Pome, because you think {t will be convenient for the new girl, I'm to get up before daybreak and greet the milkman!” ‘ “Nobody said a word about-the milkman,” declared Mra. “And the problem I was speaking ebout was the servant problem. Oh, Jarr. Mr, fast; but what good will that do? get up, and that will put us all back for the whole day.’ “Oh, I'll get up early, If that will satisfy you,” groaned Mr. Jarr, “Unless you could have spoken to them In German, Swedish, Italian or what-|Jarr. ‘‘Mrs. Kittingly thinks she’ | Kittingly hates English people. “I never thought of that,’ said Mra. Jarr. “And I suppose !t ts just as woll. | Lnever had a greenhorn girl yet but what, after bearing with her ignorance and stupidity for months and getting her trained ‘to be of value to me and to be a Rangle was telling me | awakened both Mr. and Mrs. Jarr, but beth pretended to be Jarr. ‘What time must I get up to-morrow morning. and who's to get me up? WIM the girl wake "That's the very point I was coming to,” said Mrs. Jarr; “you will have to Bhe tells. me that she ls a very heavy sleeper in the a0 nervous ex- arm clocks the |. you never want to help me at afl. I'll get up and wake the children and get them dreased and we! will have an early break- The breakfast table will have to walt till you "T think I've got a very good girl, and I want to start her In right," sald Mrs, good girl, although she's English, and Afra, cThat's funny,” seld Mr, Jarr; “she married an Englishman.” ‘That's why," said Mrs. Jerr, curtly. : Bo in the darkest hour before dawn the alarm alock went off in the he fant 7 Finally Mra. Jarr gave in. aesb ‘There's the alarm clock,” she sald; “we and call the girl! Mr. Jarr aid so. “Did_you. hire.me to do bousework.or.to.be.a night wetehmen é the gir from ehind her door. “I was out with eome friends te Con ened and I've just got in to get a little sleep!” ey Talend, “Now. you see!” said Mrs. Jars, when her husband cam “you've hurt her feelings and I know she’ leave!” * Peck abasheds Mr. Jarr made no reply, but, picking up the alarm clock which aae-stitt ru} ‘eet. Then the tiling Tike a fire gong, he threw it out of the window Into the str. whole household fall faat asleep and didn’t wake till tts uave? hour, New York Thro’ Funny Glasses By Irvin S. Cobb. : HEN the merry roundelay of the Bilt; ¥-~Bs-Accurs. instantly realizes that all ts not well has a taste in his mouth like a can of paint. Some pared: unknown to him {Js tuning a bass viol in hin forehead a up under the mansard of his sicull another member of the an with him. He stl jee HUSTLE TO THE y DEPOT! GOING ON’ MY VACATION) 10 MINUTES: COME ONt THINK I'M ZOING TO TAKE ALL DAY To CLIMB UP THIS: MOUNTAIN ? HURRY MY DINNER! GT TO CATCH THE 45 TRAIN FOR HOME! now's Bu SINESS? Two iaS) ENOUGH FOR ME! ZOT TO 4ET BACK TO BUSINESS! e, of Harlem. £2 &2 &2 By. Methtessel. same orchestra ts practising on the snare drum, occaslops Ally. missing a lck.. He arises. with some -diMoulty and ieee fn the mirror. A strange face which benra a shadowy fame fly resemblance to iim 14 peering at him through two sad, soft-bolled eyes that lurk behind a pair of impertectiy worked buttonholes in a flannel shirt. ‘ Something seems to tell him that he will not care fér anything solid for breakfast. He might be able to relish a E umall pinch of goldfish food, but he doesn't take ay 0 Ae compromises on a cooler of jca water. On his way downtown he Ia continually hearing brass bands that aren't there, Crossing the street he dodges a horse that nobody elae can'soo. He buys a paper “onthe car-end-turny-to the wporting page. “Then “is -uttars & low; hallow moan 7 und seeks out the patent-medioine a(vertisements. At the office he bids every one a kind good morning in the Ptute Ch two grunts and a growl. He aims a low, fervent curse at the office boy, suds denly discovers that the stenographer has a bad complexion and poor teeth, dors !f a man suffers very much when he commita eulcide by drowning and talla into his chair, elevates his feet above his head so as to take pressure off the brain and begins to diagnose his own symptoms. lo remembers that he started In on yesterday morning with a ances, ora, Preceding hunoh he lit into the appetizers pretty fervently, cola pint with the victuals because there seemed to be something ture of the provender that oalled for that expenstve sort of conolusion of the light but seasonable repast he felt thet the situation required « pony of brandy. He rode the pony until almost half past three, ‘Then the futthful antmal | ocd fellows and they took turns ordering ‘em until the barkeeper gut gen pasalge sis in his index finger punching the cash register, : ~ % All of which seemed to give him quite an appetite for dinner, Bo he bad enty cents’ worth of food and ebout four dollars’ worth of Nquid Not because he really needed anything of the port, but merely in order to peep serve the vertties he had a mint julep or #0 inntead of aalad course and took rum punch when le cane to the station on the restaurant time table where re 4 dessert usually gets aboard the dining-car, During the evening he met many pleasant people He travelled home a.street that. was trying to give an imitation of a runaway kinetesoope fim suocesding fairly well. BUM, thinking {t over, he hasn't been edia to nd out what makes hie Seal op ma‘arial to-aay, And then like # flash it comes to him. Along about ILM Mu / just before he got into two or three cabs and started for his fiat, be recalls he took @ new kind of nocktall which was recommended to him by a surgeon from Werth Werth, The cocktall had « etuffed olive in tt end he ate

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