The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1908, Page 8

j I ' i } Janeen ane neeneil The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, January 4, ‘ ent F Nee | The Story of the Operas os By Maurice Ketten. ished Daily Ex t Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to @ s E mime = By Albert Payson Terhune. 8 be Park Row, New York. - > SOSRPH FOLITEEN, Pres., 1 Bast 124 firret, Fi — = Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Ma‘l Matter, A “a Bubscription Rates to the ~ Canada iy For England and ian Evening World for the tineng and All Countrl United States. Oneiyeat’ ue | One yea: $3.50 One month. NO. 12—AUBER’S ‘‘FRA DIAVOL 0.’ fe and excitement at Matteo’s roadside inn, near Terrectna. Italy. It was the day before Haster. A company of carbineers, under brave young Capt. Lorenzo, had halted at the inn for refresnment on their 14 way to the mountains, whither they ware sent to track down the netorious rob- | ber chief, Fra Diavolo, ‘The suidiers were jubilant over their hopes of adventure, | But Lorenzo did not share their Joy. He had Just iearned that old Matteo’s daughter Zerlina, to whom he w cretly betrothed, was promised in mariage by her father to Francisco. a rich farmer. Lorenzo'n pleas were in vain. Mattee sought a weal husband for his pretty daughter. No poor goMiler | could hope wed her. So the young capiain bade his weeping sweetheart a) gad farewell and was ahout to march away at the head of his company when «| commotion on tie road outaide halted bin A plump English couple bustied in, frightened half out of their wits. They were tourists Lord and Lady Rocburg—who had been set upon and robbed) by| Fra Diavolo's men while crossing the mountains, Their Jewels had been stolen, but their money, having been erly hidden, was etill safe. Lord Rooburg| offered 10.0 francs for the return of the gems, and the carbineers atarind off on their quest Lord Rochurg and iis wife at once began to quarte| violently over a certain Marquis whe had travelied with them off and on for several days, and whose atientions to Lady Roc awakened the husband's Jealousy, In dispute the Maraute limseif arrived at tie inn. He waa Fre and hal come to find out why lis men had fatled fo seoure the 30 | One month... VOLUME 48 RENT STRIKES. ENT strikes are one of the oldest forms of strikes. There were rent strikes in Rome at the time of the early emperors, when the common people were as tightly packed in huge tenement- houses as they are on the east side to-day. There were rent strikes in England as soon as the landlord Asgitsed, anos {1 he knew the English couple | n thelr possession, system began. The Magna Charta "Through an tnjud speeci of Koeburg the rob r that the money ) § was sewed In thetr clothes, Summoning two membera of hits band—Reppo and | was one of the sequels to an enor: Glacome & Fra Diavolo told them he wo: nd the night at the inn, is mous rent strike, and, und cover of darkness, steal this gre . n Lorenzo and his When Martin Van Buren was District-Attorney of Columbia County, before he became President of the United States, there were rent strikes there. The tenants of the old pa- troons, the Van Rensselaers particularly, struck against the landlord sys- STN SAT tlia'a wading to the tarmer next tem in the agricultural districts, and the State Constitution was amended (HE 1s NOT | The tioubetistdy faiges a eH were ripe) ee Di in 1846 to abolish all feudal tenures and to make void the renting of agri- cree | nt BAG AD GL CAGES tm CHIC bt lo mationty riumph. ‘They had ful rpon ‘olo’s band, slain ids and recovered Rowbutg paid the reward to \| e tt to Zerina to keep him. He was thus ri y the girl he loved. Her farher was absent. having gone to make fal arrangements for Zertina’s wedding to the farmer next morn- 5 ! veen them and rT cultural lands for a longer period than twelve years, ' \ ale Héce Seapuraduner i ieee cele “ ea st-side tenants have no such difficulties to confront as the neeling tn prayer When @he war axieep Beppo crept allent je east-side tel : ; 7 nee, jest sie awake an ] eh rm rm of farmers of the upper Hudson Valley Pea weeraeeee aes pages aoe in their fight against the old pa- Before Could false tt acatn th | r tless sear fe Fra Diavolo, knocked for troons. The tenant farmers were held to the landlord by their stock, farm improvements and crops. The east-side tenant can move any day. Many of the east-side tenement- houses should be vacated irrespective of the rent charged. No family should live in only one room, even ff they could get that room free of any rent. No family having only two or three rooms should take ¢ noise awakened tne Engl 4 hts ground. ‘To 1 t hour to serenade 7% 1 couple Beppo and Giacomo fet had come tnto the toa duel, and they the chapel where Ma Tt was no part o Diavolos plat place number of e villagers ers, and while na'a song of had them selzed ng the wedd ader's boarders. No room which has not good ventilation sh ) e trap. Then, ne sleep in, regardless of whether the rent is $S a month or $800 a year : ; : : Many of these east-side familizs should tl nyt i ) a n : The story of “IL Provatore’ will be subliahed duesday, Removal would be for their good, and the reduction of Bie 2x0 would Elastic Lead. remainir ea 1 Vis bo cecomes 4s i mide K place for dis serve as a spiral spring é the comtnuance of thie satisfied tenants to go is out on wenn mane ems The Chorus Girl Had “Some Time’’ New Year's Eve; So Had house to a Brownsville tenement- opey McKnight. ; Ree Sy SPAS f whiakey, a Lottle of Italian vermouth—aie simpie furnishings of a simple] Dopey Meky seid next a afr r off and he had house they should go to sone lo | a one where love dwelt, And how, after you drank up the furntture of /saw a sign wile! 4 ths cents,’ and if some dne would Jend cality where they can secure a little} By Roy L. McCardell, le snare, Tom, you fied im the night. How could you, Charles, how could | hi he waa back with tears in his eves and said o . t! of t too sat wt ae a Happy w Yea ¢ i} 44 ao of land to work on. With a plot of CK ec dae pot od SL Ng booed tols ad a the party she ad@reawd vary nervous, becauee he couldn't remem- tub full of al aihothad exacnteanmee|| ‘ound on which to raise their veg- Cates Ciltest} Ch bevocelaed ts ether it was somebody he had married or not, and ttalso got on the 8 wotng to remeaber Mie wns a ia | pine i 1 picetbonsterorecdasancis enone adies present, because, as one said, “Ring out the old, ring tn get pickled Ey ene eon ing Lace gyeand etables, with a few chickens to lay somne says the best bracer is absinthe frappe,” eaid the false, ring inthe true! Get @ Hve one, shake the dopes; Indy did keep aoier and look about ver sharp in the retiring room she mighe aad eggs, with a goat to provide milk, the household expenses would be reduced and the household health would nds, hates and hopes! some jewelry dr “Puss Montgomery said that was the sweetest New Year's to Sure enough. * 1 by ladiew that was stewed elped a gol separated from us be- er New Year's Day, at the hour she ev: ; s nd Mar rT ombe shouldn't be permitted in any plunge if handsome diamond rte Gio atiha aT erimeriitiaoanae heard. and Mamma De Branacombe al Y 4 J be benefited. . tin’s, and, forgetting the years t tad flown, or was ging toget her pots voat early and crab the joyous Nem Year. be ae one elmer piped tt) off, and Dopey Mo- hig! i d two room tenements is nature’s w Saline Ald LHaANCOCTANGRRTArONGaT Tene tb: A ‘ ‘George, the wine agent, Amy’s flance, said that making cracks Hike that Knight said we « sratehiinaredver ave been lost by ihe in GET cent tin Gate ei) (hie a kills st th: it he Bolas telling what she'd done for Pian ma got ‘ck people's minds off biving. and, anyway, New Year's Eve was no time for a some poor woman of solving the tenement problem. Left pie HEU? [AS Be) LESS WUE LS everybody restive. ‘Don't you remember, Jack," mays she—|recital of Who's Who in Alimony.” ‘ si Ae “Dovey Sahni boeutifully ex ve made 9 faux paire break when ha waa untess mes ii althy and ji - a" 2 "t vou? De + mu a married’ George sald, ‘there was no uee to be spiteful abort it nat he Wanted to aut and sali nas sup) col the most unhealthy and unsanitary tene: no, you're Harry, ain't vou? Don't you remember how If you was marr! : mae ply a J when we was first married and I went out and bought|Because a lady had deen your bride and your dream of love had gone for, When t ardines wae brough! he set up a seream because they wae amet, ments are vacated by death. | for our itile fat? Bringing It hone in my|Sweeney, 11 waa no vise not to RPAAK when vou mat again aa atrangere vet |:He eald' tk wan an Outrage. Dverywiiere he went, vecanae people thought te “Other than that we had a lovely time, and I've had a headache ever since, a Patsy, he didn't get anything ut = was Gear to me—a bottle of gin, a bottle The last person to blame for high rents is the landlord. Blame first the lack of cheay and speedy transportation facilities which cuts down the supply of available land. Blame next the taxing sy which assesses east Side tene- ment-liouses three times as muct tle sardines, All his iffe ned been up [against tha’ proposition and he wasn't going and tt no more, Finally they brought hin a fin ladle dressed \ | ‘Able Woggledaum and foule ZI Bring us another quart table wita che labels tur Goorge says that a vast ne waite the tnver Who wis get up a peste that will permit of wine being put tn ice water for hours and yet keep the label t h to see the watcer i and neler Perfect Brat The Newlyweds ~ Their Baby © George McManus % d George kept Ve the bottles on ae & TOOOUO) OOD 0UK ODDO 1 mooks was w 1 Its plac says more'n o: ne has be of the covler, w \ing our way, and the [label has came off and, for all the mooks might know, it misht be Pink Sem jorevent American’ wine THE LITTLE | guess 'D BETTER as the old houses on the west side DEAA'LL NEVER woos then mae the things George says, that maker a strong nun weep when here % ya : ir osting a brand which the Trinity Corporation GET MY WATCH MiSs IT! "We had a lovely time after we got rid of Mamma de Branscombe, because owns, | you Know how she e:mburrassed uy lust Ne Blame third the wasteful, ill- adjusted municipal government and its high taxes. Blame fourth the tenants themselves, travagant government. And then, last of all, blame the landlord, who, business man, charges as high a price tor what he | WHILE HE'S INTERESTED! Year's night by © Up with tm the Lush Larry who was driv- And she kr her back to the dasiiboard and t Ing us in hls hanson: all the way up Hroadwa that if ou make t and cuss you somet: | overcharging you } “The only sladow on the rose garden occurred when some guy sitting be- hind us made @ crack thet New York was « town of hall room hoys and wine agents, who only spent their money when the ehight was turned on them. “Oh, well, don't you care, kid, them caustic critics is never the ones to | buy you a diamond bracelet | “But we sure had some time in a refined way. Why at ovr table forty- | four quarta was opened!” ag I do D free with the King classes they will giv the call ‘bg shametu! in porbltc places tf you say they are @ thief for y eae s to sell as he can get.’ Letters from the People. May 24, 1868. and stopped the rettte-hox with a Jerk— Ze the weiter of The Evening Wot while tne regular motorman stood tn. What war the exact date (month ¢| side of the clomed front doors grinning | year) when the Brookiyn Bridge It certainly ts exasperating enorgh to @pened to the pablic? L. be obliked to pay fare for am opportan At Any Goo@ Gymnastum. ity te stand in these human hogpene without endangering one'n by being Mo the Waitor of The Brening World: 3 Where oan I find what exercises pen nies te cor, Lets ours honored | Chicago Croesuses’ Pocket Money. By Dexter Forrest. \RSHALL PY D often Wax caugit without ten cents in lis pocket, but he rarely was placed in an embarrassing position by the Iack of courtesy, as everybody in Chie: know him by sight, and naturally j his credit wae good, says Dexter rest in the Chicago Tribune. | Tevi Z, Taiter and Potter Palmer had the same habit of carrying lonly small amounts with them. Joe Leiter does not carry a great deal of cur- _renay on his person, although he usunily has more with him than ihis father was ps as ; verity this condition by In the habit of carrying, and often during the life of I. % the father borrowed ig eas SR | boarding one of the Gimatson avenue THE LITTLE | from Joe when he needed a little currency for postage atamps or for tips, . any night between 6.18 and 6.80 RASCAL | WONDER | A few evenings ago I took a hand in a poker game at the home of ome of “Zp the WD4artor of The Doventag World: > other readers have had auc AS ; |Ohicago's millionatres, and when the time came to ‘cash in’? the mflMonaira, The poor insurance collector often has an experience EAST SIDE CAUGHT ME I IF HELL EVER who acted as banker, had to borrow from hta daughter the wages which were RohareTe ioe .8n, Goya greets emllatairs))| A New Record. . RE! FE to be paid the famlly laundrene next dny to pay hia share of the losnes, only to hear nothing out “I cannet pay aed GET TIRED Oo} If any one of Chtcago's millionaires should be called upon to produce from you this week” At the end of the | To the Er tr af The Evening World; week the poor collector often looks at | Prempted by the varioua letters wht? this book end finds, perhaps, he only has have recently appeared in vour paper PLANING WITH MY watcn! his pockets $2 in currency under penalty of recalving a life sentence for fafling |to do a0 he probably would be compelled to bow his head submisstvely and ac- | cept the sentence. made $5 for the whole week. gs, [1p regard to the walk from Prospect GA, Coens [esse cusie fe Coney aed siong the | i yele path, I tmdertook the ame and ier’ evn merece rye Bregng Worse: [STE DUNT tnertook the same. and | The Jap Soldier’s Strong Point. Who wrote the "Hoch Der Katser” a Veeo 3 and 2 seconds, thereby beating the re | poem? Was it Admiral Evans or Coeh-| ont mace by P, Smith and Gttting by By Eugene Francis. fant? T. D. | minutes and 8% seconds, How te thts sagac Green Motormen. reader JA. BaSIG BBIPPON DENJI smiles broadest as he places his mintature ory i | in the position where it will accomplish, through cfous handling, @e he Pititor of The venting World. To Abate Noise Nuisance. @s much and maybe more than the enemy's guns, half again es ade- Why. moonid BO ee Een To the Edttor of ‘The Pvening World; why they oontinuslly persist in brea | >” the yowle of stray care, ye keep Sng in “green motormen during the | Peole Awake are @ general an sh hours? Lam night I boarded a DOYAnce. Dogs are icensed, and dog avenue oar, crowded, dirty, | CAichers gather im stray cure ‘Then jM-lghted. and was nearly thrown from | WhY not the game with catst Let peo: | feet at least ten times Mm that many | Di¢ oense their pet cats and keep them | performance was also in-|at home, Let stray oats be killed. This | tn by some forty or Ofty other | 1s not only common sense, but practica’ | yiottme, The " man mecessity in eur wig, too-nolsy city, em the fu fite started ” ‘dre, H. ON, Por Furth; Adventures of ‘‘The Newlyweds, Their Baby,’’ See Sunday quate. While we fight with the full strength and value of the latest accoutrements of war, the Makakt figit with a completeness of infor- mation and ski)!, personal sacrifice, an¢ a smile as imperturable and unmad- able an that of his own Dal-butsu at Kamakura, writes Dugene Francis in Army and Navy Life, The Makaki soldier ts not wasteful of anything—not even of his courage, His valor 1s eplendid—and discreet. He does not “bare his breast” to ‘the enemy's shrapnel when nothing 1s to be gained by It. Tether, he gets under cover—thereby preserving his life and gervices for his Emperor. And fn just such a moment of enforced inaction you would find him intently studying the enemy's game. Just 00 1s this imperial head studying to-day the gigantic chances of a =) game with us, and,.in the scheming diplomatic way of Japan, fs playing oug {5 ‘email trumps to locate the position of the bo Af id ca ttn eal ciote slldinshsetiaby ia!