The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1907, Page 18

ed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pu a Sy Park Row, New Yo: PULITEER, Prva 1 East 18d Boras. 5. AxC Eniered at the Port-Ollce at New York aa Second. R Canada. sseeee -601 One moi pisrseeeesNO. 16,894. KNOCKING DOWN FARES. “tions. i "} esty than in the whole of the year 1905. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Frida. November 22, , Flashlights. : hing Company, Nos. 53 to © By Maurice Ketten. No Money FoRTHE Bee heey H! — PLEN oF TRANSFERS AND STRAPS, HE surprising number of 2;792 con- ductors “were discharged by the New York City Railway Company during. the first six months of the “present. year for~“‘knocking down fares.” “ The New. York City Rail-; | * way Company,’ which. is now in: a receiver's hands, operates all the ) _~street railroads of Manhattan Island | and the Bronx, with trifling excep: |” |<, For the. year 1906, 3,924 con-| ify bao ductors were discharged for the) {same reason; in‘1905, 2,448, and in 1904, 3,017. It thus appears that in a the first half of the present year there were more discharges for dishon- HORSE SHOW) -» “According to the officials of the company, these conductors | pocketed weekly. average of $35 over their wages. ot-beiong-to-them-o perct g jected by the company's form of dishonesty is not only very prevalent, but increasing. “Why deo these conductors steal? "Doubtless in other affairs many of these men are honest. They pay vethelr butchers’ and grocers’ bills, They pay their rent. They repay “not think of picking a pdssehger’s pocket nor of stealing the personal property of other tenants in the house whére they live. 3 xe ws" Then’ why do they steal from the company? i But the main reason which must, apply in the majority of the cases s that: these men do not regard “knocking down fares’ as really dis- ‘yon. They have seen the men who controlled the street railways of New **York steal their franchises from the people of New York. They have efiead the testimony of secretaries and treasurers of the street railway ‘Yopinpanies showing that bonds were issued years ago to electrify street eWailroads on which the horse cars still run. They know that men who did not negd the money to support their wives and families; for their { personal use or pleasure, have pocketed the proceeds of millidns of dol- { lafs Of bonds and stock and have sold franchises which they had acquired = #atmominal sums to stockholders of “their comparties for millions of dol- »slars which went into their private ¢ What wonder fs it that men «. Working for $15 a week. should ac- cept the standards of honesty prac- ‘eatised by men worth millions of dol- / Mars, byésuch men of wealth, stand. tecing:and power as Thomas F, Ryan, “Anthony N. Brady, August Belmont and William C. Whitney? » 4°", This growth of dishonest @- ME The Whole community, a |” thieves are seemingly nd the simple reason is mune to prosecution and Sin; 1 aan Letters {rom the People. “Would Like to Know How He (In a day and a half, how many eggs Doen It, | To the Faltor of The Evening World: The answer f°sIX TE), while my father Answering Mr. Harold Ramage’s let- | says nine (9). My reason for saying #lx appeared In ‘The Ever uz World undes [in a day and a half, w No 11 Bishop str | 1¢ Cannot [To the Edxor of The ¥ eyent ff So, why docen't bh "0 the Hiltor of 7 WUE some Evening World: . | my face, clea r kindly advise penny young man for a walk and get down to my office, t trade < about three miles trom my home, at 8 Have five year JA. MG rp, If any one doubts: my (Up, ka T have an ol word I will back myself up on what I * fwalr until the say, JOSEPH KING. ‘ otemy I are up, Am The Eg! K Queatio nama i is column Jast i Question “if a hen! Monday, ¥ en nor in any day an egg und ahalf Way authorised by him, nt nnans Nanay nbn shaggy 1 ‘Since out of the total number of conductors who kept fares which No, 14.—THE REVOLUTION, Part Vi11.—Yorktown and ' 9 Victory! - i ‘AR {s not wholly unlike a game of chess. Here 4s the “positton” ta | the late summer of 1781: Cornwallis, having euccessfully ravaged the Carolinas and Vis inia, was strongly intrenched at Yorktown, on the coast of the latter State. }| He had little to fear from the small patriot forces still lett in the South. |Clinton held’ New York City, wile just to che north Washington's troops ‘Jand their French allles under Rocbambeau were encamped, apparently | Teady to descend’on that ofty.. The Britiah in New York were reintorced, pusting a check to the Americans’ -plan to attack them. Washington then “ jplanned a brililant counter-move. ‘Seoretly (while. still making CHnton Heve him to be on the point of attacking New York), he hurried to Vir sinfa by forced marches. with an army 12,000 strong aod eppeared before” | Yorktown on Sept. 28. Clinton, learning of his action, tried to recall Wash- ngton from Virginia by harrying Connec New London, ‘storming Fort Griswold, near Groton, and committing wholesale atrocities, Then he sent a ficet' with reinforcements for Cornwallis, But the French |Admiral De Grasse blocked the adyance of this fleet ead drove it back! Clinton, learning of this, hurried 7,000 men to Cornwallis’s relief. @ But they, arrived too late, io | Yorktown 1s on the York River. Cornwallis was strongly intrenched - |there and was further strengthened by warships in the harbor. The Ameri- can and French troops hemmed him in by land, and the French fleet at- tacked by sea. A general assault was made on Oct. 9, several British eh{ps~— + 2 betng set afire by blazing tarballs hurled into their ~~ ? ~=—s igging. Comwallis caw at last that he could not Cornwalils’s hold his own against the terrific onslaught. On the evening Oct. 16 he tried to slip away under cover ge-could have-possibty—bee tectiyes and spotters, it is evident that this } toad, stretching away tore than a mile. EWhat small sums they may have borrowed from friends. They would| Judged by all ordinary standards except this one they are law-| WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE jot suffocatéon or rot Mrs. Jarr Is Going to Keep Young as Long as She Possibly Can; She Won't Sit by the Fire and Knit Socks tor Grandchildren. _ By Roy L. McCardell. dol" exclaimed Mrs Sarr, leening| acroms tho aisle of the street car and respond- | ing to the salutation of an overdressed ani | Dut myself out for her? somewhat overgroomed blond lady, 7 “Why haven't you been to sce me?’ asked the bloni| lady, “I think it's real mean of you. call on you again till you come to see me!” A stout woman With an armful of bundles, and a tal! thin man now came down the alsle of the car and eclipse! the speakers for a moment After anh interruption Mrs. raid Mrs. Jarr.: suppoan he wanted to attract at “Well, as I said, we could have cross “I guess not,’ reolied Mrs. Jarr with some heat. "Who is she that I should |Whether love for America or hatred for England had most to do with the |French nation’s motive in alding us, Js hard to decide, Perhaps-a faér Bhe goes to a spectaliatx uantity of both. “Bhe looked pretty s00d to mv, “Oh, of course! ruld Mrs, Jarr. re to do but to take care of mysclt lke she has, | every day aod has her face steamed and massaged for three hours. ( wonder she hasn't any wrinkles and doesn't snow her age." | fGet out!" sald Mr, Jarr. “You are mush better looking and much younger looking than she fa And I wouldn't care to see you with war paint’on li th said Mr. Jarr. ‘And I'd look good too If I had nothing T'm not golng to you mustn't be angry with me, The children | haven't been well and I can't get anywhere, any children, nothigg to keep you in, and you shouldn't ex- peot me to repay calls, when really I can't get out of tha) ‘house for a minute. Let me introduce my humband, Mra. Hindle.” Mr, Jarr took off his hat and bowed to the lady acrosa the aisle, who mur- mured she was charmed to meot him. “Have you « good doctor? eaked Sone one you have confidence in. “Oh, yes. our doctor, the one we have no here Mra. Jarr Inunched into a long and eri “We have such an excellent physician, too," sald the blond lady. skftul and treats the very beat people. practice on the wost sia The.poor man te abiually belng worked to death, for to have him {s of Itself a social standing.” Durtng this interchange of remarka many interruptions and hiatusea occurred, owing to other passengers coming between as they got on and off. | The conversation took a variety of topics of mutual Interest between the ladies, and then the blond ledy_sald-ehe must get oft, ae me had some shopping She's a grandmother.’’ “In my boyhood a | ‘fearlessly. Her husband’ dogen't think any | I think modern women are sensible to keep as young look- Ing as they can. ‘For {f a woman looks old, she feels old and acts old. But tf she can’ keep herself young she feels young. the fire and knit socks for my ‘grandchiMiren, I'm going to keep young as long av-T''can.”* Maybe you're right," «ald Mr. Jarr, tmeagre lives some women led trom the day they were married, @ doy. They married 40 young, from their hustanda, and eventually trom their children.”* “It we can't xet rich we can at least keep young,” sald Mra Jarr eenti- mentally, “and that's one good thing about living in the present time” “That reminds me that everybody ‘That's the main thing, rplendid, But the other one’— Indeed, I'm not going to ait by ved explanation, I suppose ho has the most fashionable “It always seomed pathetic to.me the) And after that it was the ‘old woman’ | rs_is permeat-| m looking ten years younger than I that the biggest|" hy do women always talk across the aisio of a street cart’ asked Br. yp hair across his bald spot. No-Place-for tt In-Bu Says a Chicago Stenographer. | fireman, 4x {REFERRING TO leincke neeriy nid him. trom view. ‘The two horace hameaned with him reared OUR ORDER OF THE (5:18 — WHAT BEAUT- _ [vil three, (3) hens tay in three (3) days? «ter in regard to aiick shavine—which | being that one (1) hen will lay one eee le my father “*Letters from the Peopk 1 would be @ | says one h lay a | @leased to know whether Mr, R. takes | ayy By saones ere: in one a the 7.8 train from Hayonne to Jersey ‘ fgets g instead of only breakfast Jitndanawerktoud cWilbolkesdnuention @cccanplisl aii lie claims to in five} wy f | Dilnutes he must dress, wash,, ba GRE MUU Abbe kaneua curestat ble, 4 shave, breakfast, &¢.. at) tho depot, and | pOrCe WAHOUR Cone acomact WiLne en ees nut “need “a Kood wastinip | immovable object, I will take great GBORGE I. LANDSBERG, pleasure in stating that such a thing ei ity, N.S, | cannot occur for the yery simple reeson Yeh, There's n yright Law. | that an Irresistible force and an tin- So attain be orp varia | movable object positively do not exist. Are there any laws against copying| le! a mathematician figure out the ball Aerts of publications such as newspa: | Problem WALL STREET. + Dera, ningazines, &c., for re-publivation | The Shaving Mecord, gaa Rae i ete auth ts '¥ | To the Fdltor of The Evening World; eee agin frat? And how, about) in reply to Sis shaving record, I live # ; Y jere In the city;, arise at 7.45 A, What In (he Best Trade? 1M, take my bat ¢ mynelf, lather ne razor, eat my breakfast. dress, then take my dog eut TT largem mica mine In the world {s located at Sydenham, Ontario; etmq upper-end-of Sydenham Lake, and the mica ts transported sin bulk from the mine by, barge to the raiiroad at Sydenham, where it ‘ts ‘shipped to Ottarera/ (mt trimming for ALL WORK-No THEATERS OR LOBSTERS Far. THS KIND: i force the French lines there and make his way north, | But a storm lashed the waters so wildly as to render ths crossing {m- | possible. Cut off, hopeless of reinforcements or rélief, the British general on Oct. 19 reluctantly surrendered his army, his forts, his ebtps, sailors, {arms, provisions and ammunition to Washington. It was the crowning jtntumph of the war. } The Frenoh and American forces were drawn up on opposite aides of the Washington and Rochambeau, mounted, rode In front of their respective ranks. Bands played, and thousands of country folk gathered about the soldiers to watch the strange lspectacle and to see the final humiliation of the man who had burned and | slatr wholesale, throughout. thelr land. Through the double line of armed | men ihe British troops marched out of Yorktown, sullen, keeping no sort f +of martial order, mad with defeat. At the order, to lay down their arms oft the captured sokiiers hurted thelr muskets to the ground so llently as to break them. “ Nor was the rage and dismay confined to the surrendering men them- _iselves._Throughont England {t aroused a hurricane of anger against th Government. Lord North, the Prime Minieter, on hearing the news, groaned, “All {s lost! It’s all over!’ According to a court chronicler, North “staggered backward as.though he had received a bullet in the jbreast.” Clinton erriving with-htg reinforcements on the scene of sur lrender, two days too late, was equally. chagrined. The Yorktown victory marked the real close of ‘the war. ,Minor bos tllitles dragged on for a time, but England saw the hopelessness of the istruggle and her taxpayers demanded peace. Negotiations were accordingly {begun and, on Noy. 30, 1782, a.preliminary treaty was signed. On April 19, 1783, just eight years to the day after the battle of Lexington and Concord, formal proclamation was made that the war wes at an end: The last British troops left in the United States evacuated New York City Nov. 35 « Yor thati year. Manhattan: Island ftself had suffered comparatively few of the war ° jhorrors that had raged around it. The {sland has never yet been the ene of @ real battle. But during the Revolution its shores and those of | Brooklyn were cursed by the presence of the awful “prison ships," into which patriot prisoners were stuffed by the thousand to freeze, starve, die from disease and neglect. On days when the wind 5 blew from the east, the moans and ravings of this i © multitude of victims, rising in a mighty volume of Ship Martyrs. to the other, 3 | The Prison- { anguish, could be heard from one end of Manhatten > For the’ barbarous treatment of these bra’ x prisoners of war thefe was no excuse, no palliation: It is a blot on England's history. Yet for the frequent horrors and brutali- » side for her to come over and sit tio and for the war Itself the English people at large are not to be blamed. They as a nation had no wish nor part in oppressing the colonies, To a crazy king and his tncompetent cabinet the fault was duc. And heavily they paid. is * ‘To France, in great measure, was due the success of the:Revolution. Splendid and helpful cs was France's service to us, the crue cause for peel victory lay in the hearts of the revolutionists themselves. Men who for \\treedom's sake are—wittine-to-risk_ife, property, home, and all that makes existence pleasant, are bound soon-or late to be free. With a leader like George Washington the ultimate result of our first confilct with Englanw “Oh, well, 1am younger than she is, much younger,” said Mrs. Jarr, pleaset | W258 Certain. “She has a married daughter. | “Some of those old dames are wonders,” mused Mr: Jarr. grandmother sat by the fire knitting baby socks, and now they are out among the beaus and belles heading Young Folks’ Societies.” “I'm sure I dort blame, them for that! sald Mra, Jarr, “What thenks| | does a woman got for letting herself grow old? more of her for it. Thus'the Revolutionary war ended; and the young nation, inexpe- rienced, poor, newly freed from {ts shackles, faced the perilous future ——-+- This Fire Horse a Gourmet. By Alfred M. Downes: In His Book “Fire Fighters and Their Pets.’ HF horse Roger ja named after Roger O'Connor, the famour first base- man of the old New York Baseball Club. Early in his career Roger (the horse) developed an astonishing appetite for soft abell craba, ‘X peddler of the #hell tah uso} to call at ths quarters of Engine Com= pany No, f1 and soon after Roger arrived one of the men bought | Wolotthe-erabaHo proceeded to season them nicély with sauce, popper sod Jastt, and then sandwiched thea: between two alices. of toast. Tho fireman was \called to the rear of the floor to attend to some work, and he laid hin crate ssnemtwicn-on—the -tootberntof-the-engine—On-iix_rotura he was amazed to. find ‘that Roger bad eaten his lunch. Affer that it was discovered that Noger wound leat any Kind of meat wandwiches, He woukt drink: hot tea. nnd also devour. gniona, scallops and almost anything clse that he covid get hold of Attor daing: roomed, he would. i ably ralsé one Of tes foreteet to shake hands with Leen. thud thank Wdnrtorsthercappletion of his toilet. ‘Ata great fire on the eas! of fire. He stood pestectly quiet while the flames blized about him and the wero released by a fireman, who cut away the pole ‘All the horses suffered from burns and vcalda, + Some Swollen Fortunes. By President Schurmann, of Cornell. t men are giving away their fortunes of ten and even bum and‘ plunged until they straps, traces and lines. IR two ric! ire "ot mililona of dollara ‘or Ifbraries, mchools, coteges and ohurdhe the country. A third, who spect a life In accumulating money, ne) fortune b> his wife, ‘wt, with the ald of experts, is now using Ht te jenoereine living conditions of the poor. I know we have self-centred cl who merely hoard money, but we recognize that even without thelr 0) os {ntentiona thelr fortunes have Ddiessed and will continue ¢o biess multitudes ‘whom they tmye pald and must continue to Fay wages or profits In the vast ome Torprises of which they constitute the working capital, and of which they pd the industrial malnspring. ; ; $< Records for Reading. ~ ‘UR reading record," sald the aged Hbrarian, ‘te heid by a rich old re | “© of seventy-three years. She has read, our books show, ovor ‘) volumcs—80) volumes a year afnce 1854. er year's course from 76 to 100 vol ch 200. yolumea every “Our ayeragy aubrcriber reada in thi though we have many clients who get throug month, “They their book: informed by eur ‘ who buy read much lesa, I am petier that the averegse book-buyer doesn't read more than % or beer & year. The book-buyer who reade 10 books a year in a very rare bird. The Largest Mica Mine. teen miles from Kingston. The product is mostty amber mica, with silver amber, the highest quality mined. The mine ta one mile from the market, ‘of darkness, to cross the York River to Gloucester, t alde Roger proved that soma Hotwes are Het sirmhoam