The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1908, Page 12

.ne Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, January 14, 1908. “" 1a a ae . be paren ruirrzen, rw aly os New ¥ JUANGUS SILAYY, RetoTrenn, 101 Wort 119th Stree, Class Mail Matter, 4d and the Con. arid, hing Company, Nos. 53 to @ ‘Office at New York as Second: Canada. Entered at the P iption Rates ing Worid f United States. dead and a mill- is wrecked be- yse and lack of cretely to the at- community the fact government has to be more ways than high taxes, excessive bond issues and impaired city credit. The death rate In umsanitary tenement houses fs as directly due to bad city government as are the deaths of John Fallon, of Fire Pa- trol No. 3, and Thomas Phillips and George O'Connor, of Engine Company No, 72. But the thous- ands of needless deaths in dark, unventilated rooms are hid away without the monument of a tottering twelve-story building. In an interview Fire Commissioner Lantry $s quoted as saying: “The hose was rotten beyond any use, and there was lack of pres- sure. We could not raise water to the twelfth floor without breaking the hose. The men could easily have controlled the flames and prevented their spread if they had had the proper materials to work with. The men were forced to resort to fire extinguishers, and even hand grenades, to escape themselves. Attempts to extinguish the flames were useless. They had to bum themselves out. “We need 200,000 feet of new hose, but we cannot get tt. The hose bought In 1905 and 1906, and some of that bought in 1904, has heen of poor quality, and great quantities of it burst at every big fire. “Manufacturers say that the reason is that the specifications, which were changed in 1905, when John H. O’Brien was Commissioner, make it almost impossible to manufacture hose that will stand high pressure.” What Commissioner Lantry says about the hose had been anticipated by the report of a committee of the Board of Fire Underwriters, whosaid: “At two-thirds of all the houses, more especially in important @s- tricts, the hose, especially recent purchases, is defective in quality.” The Board of Underwriters’ committee goes into the manner in which this defective hose got into.the department, and says that previous to 1905 specifications for hose ‘agreed closely with the makers’ stand- ard practice.” In 1905, according to the Board of Underwriters, concurring as to the date with Commissioner Lantry, the specifications were changed. As regards these new specifications the Underwriters’ report says that they were “not so durable as that regularly used by manufacturers,” and adds: “The result of this is that the few manufacturers who bid for the| New York business under present conditions give the three-year guaran- tee required unwillingly, althoug ey stand ready to guarantee their regular brands made under the! ications for five years.” John H. O’Brien, ferred to in Commi r interview, was appointed Fire Commissioner Jan. 1, 1906. He All Countries | nat The Thaw Case. By Maurice Ketter. | ETON Cortar OPEN WORK EDGING SHORT PLAITED WALKING SRT STOCKINGS B> GUN METAL FINISN BUMPS -wiTH BLACK Silk FIXED Bows Did You Ever Try Smiling at a Conductor Instead of Paying Your Fare? Mrs. Jarr Says It Works Finely With Women Who Never Pay Any Other Way. | “I forgot to drop my ticket in the box one day,” continued Mrs. Jarr, “and By Roy L, ‘.cCardell, the man shouted after me in the rudest manner. But on the surface cars aaid Mrs. Jarr, petulantly, ‘I do declare, one Way everything goes with a slam and a bang, and you're jostled around and hur- says in a statement “specifications for this $75,000 worth of hose were drawn by Deputy Fire Commis- sioner Hugh Bonner, a fact v answers any cri bP No matter who drew the spe- Cifications, it answers no criticism of the fact that the hose burst and that faithful firemen dv duty without hope of gr: incentive of a high sal bravely to their deaths in effort to make up for o: th many deficiencies of a bad city government. i The water supply was also short. The pressure was w Mr. O’Brien, who is now Commissiv ex of Water Supply, says that “tl high pressure fire service will be ready for testing by March 1,” In the meantime, why was not the Croton water m fire purposes? Was it for the s na (HO Ihe ade available for Letters from the ‘Wants More Hotels for Girls. Do the Mittor of The By There should be more @ri ean find board ant oiler awe been told there ary suc! Just for working gir y Placa but there was no yacancy, J don’t know why we \ get hotels built for fworking men We have trot ne A the men dozens of « hard for a girl to ce to pay twic aa on the men and we as they da Cc giris \ t|To the FAtor of The I ‘want charity, bu v : tng hand i f LYONS. Computation, A Wateh For Bridge Wo'the Editor of T™ ahi Here ts a plus > empic tan, w fame the Brides dorow ment wit @ different f similar to vomue, at the mmhich would hopper a on any @iating f wise lor be ter: etations Transfers eB RT. sell w eda tunn NIEDHAMM t Gpye you ever see such weather as we are having!” | you haven't pal¢ your fare, you can threaten to report them, while n the Bub doean't know how to dress for it. If one goes out ried so that I don’t believe enybedy ever gets a chance to ride for nothing.” tn one's figure it's sure to turn out to be piercing oold, and “Do you ever get a chance to ride for nothing?" asked Mr, Jarr. if one wears a fur coat it's sure to be like a day in June!” | ‘Yes, in the surface cars," replied Mra. Jar. “If you get in at the frent | "The weather sults me all rirht," said Mr. Jarry “and doer and the conductor doesn't see you taking your seat—he often doemn’t ask Tim going out in my figure, as you say, but I'll carry my|you for your fare; you can read a paper er look around indifferently aa if you overcoat en my arm.’ hed paid your fare, and they seldem do ask you directly. But a good way {s to "You Just put your overcoat on,” waid Mra, Jarr, “the hold your fare in your hand and if yeu are asked for {t you can hand it over ae first thing you know you'll have the grip and be laid up ou i¢ you had forgotten tt.” my hands, and I've trouble enough, as it is.” I) . + x "4 be dishonest cents?” “The weather has been bright and clear this moming,” | jq,,/0u Cont mean to tell me youre ee rect ve Tisesked) Mz) sald Mr. Jarr, “but the papers say we will have snow.” || ‘tmere’s nothing dishonest about tt tf the conductors don't ask you for 2, Rien cay Coard Gham tne cae haere iy ty: sald Mrs.!ts there? replied Mrs, Jarr. ‘That's what they are paid for, and when you i cS POE Hers aca ey Rar ora bal fore soe on are speaking of dishonesty don’t forget that conductors are discharged every 7 ing non ing ready to fall) Gay tor not rl . and if’ you do\not pay: Oma and cruan the roof of ‘Qe tunnel in. And yet you always find fault with me foram Sener cetaed ap ona a Botta Ton cormecscarabt, tie poor taking the surface cars.” fee fo ou can't take the surface cars on Fourth avenue,” said Mr. Jarr. es Senn eee orem “I can if | warm to!” said Mrs, Jarr, shortly. “T'd lik a Geb O) tae a : S napdtosss y. ever yen shortly, “T'd like to know who's to #top| 14.4 4 tare in the street cars. When the conductors ask ter for tt she eays “The fire” replied Mr. Jarr. she gives them a smile and says no! 5, and she says it seams to please them eae a tars sae ar tea i because so many people fuss with them and threaten to report them, but in ‘i ‘ean i m , Subway you can't get through without dropping a ticket {n the box." ‘A lot of people should mind their own business,’ eafd Mrs. Jarr. ‘Tf people | ‘he ie | Wer ever * 1 declared Mr. Jarr, “Do you mean to are afraid to ride in the Subway let the Sub: rt 5 1 AY olteIgneverjshoatd (tie beet [iy Ceckre ad pe rar jet the, Savirey. sop running, Yin should! ts at ail| women are like thiatt™ folks who want to ride on the surface cans be interfered with?” “Om, you needn't talk," sald Mrs, Jarr, “I've seen men fuss with the con- “More people us the Subway, that's why,” sald Mr. Jarr. “T never use ft !f I can help it," sald Mra. Jarr. “The way those men shove) ductors, declaring they had paid their fares, and maybe they hadn't either.” you {nto the cars and pack you like sardines !s disgraceful, and, anyway, I don't; “But maybe they did,” said Mr. Jarr, ike going up and down the stepa and standing in line in front of a tcket| ‘Maybe,’ said Mrs. Jarr, “but it woutd be better manners en their\part if office.” they just gave the conductor a smile, or pretended they didn’t bear him, like It’ 'women do,” Miss Lonely Sets Her Trap for a Highbrow Mr. Man yy By F. G. Long AMCuZETZD "To protect the Subway they've laid great {a Mr, Jarr, “ ve me the Subway.” he quickest way to travel.” WILL OEMONSTRATE TO You THAT THE FEMALE 1S Sird PLY AN ACCIDENT: AL ANT/THESIS~ WHAT! DONT You KNOW THAT OMAN IS A MERE FACTOTUM I THIS PHYSICAL COSMOGONY: (ret WHAT A WONDERFUL, MAN ‘You ARE! IT. MusT BE AWPULLY LONELY WORKING IN THIS > REARY OLD PLACE y— NOW WOULDN'T YOU BE MUCH HAPPIER, iF Tou HAD A NICE LITTLE WIFE Ie “WOMAN (5 MERELY A PRESUMPTION “A HYPO THETICAL =) ( WAAT You NEED 1S) Al SYMPATHETI Caf COMPANION To \ YouR STUOIES Cwite You EXCUSE ME f gold and shape {t into a ring would be | |nymphs laughed him to scorn, teasing |conductors are generally very polite. And if they do get impudent and insist, | QE EOE GET TK ESTE E © € CEECPOEOB FE The Story of the Operas & By Albert Payson Terhune. | No. 16—WAGNER’S “RHEINGOLD.” Noa rock in the River Rhine, tn the days when the world was young, was fastened a lump of | magic gold. Whosoever could win this master of the earth. But {t was de- creel that no man might seize the |treasure unless he first swore to re- nounce love. The gold was guarded by three water nymphs, dauxhters of the Rhine god. They were gay, light | Creatures whose days were spent playing | Deneath the waters about the rock and |edmining t.6 met wonderful lustre. One day while the trio were thus en- | gaged a misshapen creature crawled up toward them from the slime of the river | dost It was Alberich, the Nibe- Jtung; one of a race of gnomes that lived under the earth. He was lured by the Rhine daughters’ beauty and made violent, awkward love to them. The ALBERICH and flouting him until the gnome's courting gave place to chattering rage Seeing the gald glittering on the rock, he ried: “I forswear love forever! This gold will win me the rulership of the wortd.™ Tearing the magic treasure from its fasteningn, he plunged beneath the rivem bed with it * 9 Wotan was king of the gots. From the loftiest mountain tops he and his fellow daties governed their human worshippers. Desiring a mighty palace Wotan had summoned two giants, Fafntr and Fasolt, to build him one. The giants had demanded in payment the fair Freia, goddess of Spring and youth Aw feasting on the apples which grew in Freta's orchard kept the gods eternally young, Wotan wes loath to part with her, But Loki, the fire god, persuaded him to accept the giants’ terma, promising to help him elude payment. Now, at last the palace was cempleted and the giants came for Freia. Her sister, Fricka (Wotan’s wife), and her brothers, Donner (the gcd of Thunder), anfl Froh declared she should not be given up. Wotan was in dire perplexity. Just then Loki arrived. He had been searcing everywhere for something to offer the giants in place ef Freia; but nowhere had he found anything they would consider as precious as @ beautiful woman. Finally as he was crossing the Rhine, he heard the three nymphs mourning their lost gold. Alberich had fash> loned It into # ring, by means of which he had made himself lord of all the gnomes and had set them to collecting for him the priceless treasures of the underworld. He had won Mmitless power and by the magic of the ring must in time conquer not only the world, but the gods as well. Here at last was some thing even greater than love. And the stants, Nstening to Lokt’s story, de clared they would release Freia if Alberich'n hoard of treasure were given them in ftw stead. Wotan agreed (for already the gods, deprived of Freta’s apples, were beginning to grow old), and he and Lok! wet forth for the underground Nibelung land. * ° * ‘Alberich was causing the gnomes infinite misery. Not onty did he keap them working night and day, but he had forced his luckless brother Mime to forge for him an enchanted steel cap known as the Tarnhelm, whose wearer could, at will, either change himself into any form he chose or could render himself absolutely invisible Wearing the Tarnhelm, Alberich wes wont to creep un- seen among his gnomes and scourge them into greater activity. As Wotan and | Loki reached the Nibelung cavern Mime was howling from one of these beate jings. Alberich came {n to see what the strangers wanted. Motioning to Wotan to de allent, the crafty Loki flatteral Alberich’s vanity by praising the Nibe lung’s new found wealth and power, and so played on the enome's vanity thas Alberich boastfully consented to give an exhibition of the Tarnhelm's skill. He transtormed himself into a huge serpent. Lok! screamed tn mock terror, then suggested that {t might be a far hanter feat to turn into some small, inatenificant \oreatura Alberich fell into the cunning trap. Putting on the Tarnhelm again, he quickly changed to a tond. No sooner had he done fo than Wotan setzed him and Lok! pilled the Tarnhelm from his head. This restcred Alberich te | his rightful form, but the two gods overpowered him and bound him. Having outwitted and captured the gnome, they dragged the shrieking prisones away with them. * ¢ * Carrying their cuptive to the lofty abode of the gods, they forced him to fond for all his precious gold and jewels, Refore releasing the gnome, Wotan snatched from his finger the ring. Then he bade Loki unbind the Nibelung Rut Alberich, insane with rage at the wholesale robbery, sol- and let him go. jemnly laid a dreadful curse on the ring and on avhomsoever should possess it Misery, suspicion and death, he vowed, should be the portion of every owene ered “AN shall covet the ting,” he shouted as he vanished, “but none shall gain enjoyment from {t, The Treamure's lord shall be the Treasure's slave ‘The giants returned. They demanded as much of the wealth as shoul, heaped on the earth, equal Trea in siza The whale hoard did not quite fll ts measure. So Wotan was forced to cast the Tarnhelm on the heap. Even this did not suffice, and, reluctantly, he was forced to adi the ring, No sooner was the ring in the giants’ possession than the tim began to fight as to which of them shail’ wear it. In the strusgie Fafnir slew Fasolt, picked up the entire hoard and hurried off with #. Thus already hed Alberich's curse begun reed strife and denth. My The gods embraced the rescued Frefa and, in delighted procession, turned toward the wonder palace erscted for them by the giants, Wotan named the ‘ace ‘Valhalla’ and decreed it should henceforth be the home of the gods, Donner cast a rainbow bridge from the mountain top to Valhalla, and the Jeities croesed in gay procession, As they entered thelr new abode a sound of weeping arose from the world below. The Rhine Daughters were wailing fow | their stolen gold. ; | The story of “The Valkyrie” will be published Thursday, Notes of a Southern Journey. y = 14 Confederates have smooth chins, HE South is losing tts whiskers. Even 0! ° while the younger generation {s abolishing hair from the face, White Dame bers are also beginning to supersede colored ones. The attention of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, to Raxor-backs is respectfully called te the growing practice of running wire screens botween the foundation posts of rural houses, thus shutting Me agile porkers out in the cold—or heat—as the case may be, besides preventing them trom scratching on the floor beams. The New York drummer is a numerous person in the South. He travels fa state with a carload of vast eample cases. ‘The fine Hotel Gaston, at New Bera, hes half dozen or more aample-rooms where wares can be displayed for inspec tlon by local merchants and where the drummer holds e commercial court. Richmond carries on a city nursery for the raising of trees. Citizens are #ups oiled with saplings free of charge, The city also has a skating pond. The pond wan eften the scene of drowning accidents until 1t cocurred to some one to draw. mn to knee deep in the skating season. SET an he most important woman's clud tn the Southern v , Del, has t lPeeeecevengie singular coincidence % is also the headquarters of the powdem | industry. usually located in low spots, where the digging és water stands after the rains—a Baptist idea, perhaps, CI ary ride by train eouth from Fredericksburg brings one te a pyramid of rough stone on the edge of what was the battlefield of Chancellors- Pile. It marks the best guess as to the spot where Stonewall Jackson recelved MMs fatal wound from a stfay shot fired by a Confederate soldier. Mistletoe growa so plentifully in the branches of the sum trees around Wew Bern and the girls are #0 good looking that it suggests an {deal place to spend Christmas, Another curious parasite 1a a tree fern that grows on the elms along the street. The trunks seem clad with vine ne examination shows them to be with the delicate lacery of the ferns, Searle fare treated playfully by the Southern railroads, They merely serve as an indication ef good Intentions, The roads duck the reduced fare laws in North Carolina neatly by selling all through tickets at the old rate from New York, Washington and Richmond, and the Pullman folks forbid thelr porters and conductors taking cash to pay the train conductors at State lines. Bleepy folks pay the old rate, but the wakeful sit up and pay on the instalment plan and save about one-third. Roses are atill blooming along the Carolina coast line, The Oldest of English Proverbs. roverbs is interesting. The proverb, “There's many a stip T reba o and the Ip,” te probably the oldest of all the familiar Bngiish sayings. Its origin ts found in the following anclent Greek legend told by Lyoophron, Ancaeus, the son of the god Poseidon and King of the Leleges of Samos, took great pride in his vineyards, and treated most harshly the slaves who worked them. A prophet predicted that as a punishment foe bis cruelty he would not live to enjoy the wine pressed from his grapes. The has casting and the wine-making passed in safety, and finally Ancacus stood jeartng xP the prophecy with the first cup of wine In Ms hand. But the secr replied to the King’s mockery “Many things happen between the’ cup @nd the lp." A '¢ moment a wild boar broke into the vineyard and Ancaeus, setting the eup rried off to direct the chase, in which he was killed, +o The English Language. GLISH {a now spoken by about 125,000,000 people, A century ago t wes E spoken by 20,00,00) people only, During that period no othor leading Etro pean language has made the slightest advance, German has held ita and 1s spoken now by 80,000,000, but 1s no higher percentage of the number of people of Buropean descent than it had a hundred years ago. ‘The United States alone, tt is estimated, will contain 900,000,000 when thy twenty-first century dawns. As the learning of English is compulsory in Indlm 300,000,000 mere people are being annexed to the English speaking world, porte, The negro graveyards are tha: down untasted, hu