The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1908, Page 8

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, | Painting the Town White. By Maurice Ketten. @Pubtihed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to © t Park Row, New York. Ly | > JOSEPH PULITEER, Pree, 1 Kast 1H Servet. J, ANGUS SLAW, See-Trens., £01 Wout 112th Stren, (SS fail Matter, giand and the Con- and All Countri Entered at ihe Post-Office at New York as Second-Class @ubecription Rates to the Evening World for the United ‘States. Canada. One FOar.esseerssevee 40 | me month... VOLUME 4B..,,,,,,...0cescecceceeecesees seeeessoes NO: 16,088. PASS IT NOW. HE Legislature should not wait for the Coney Island season to begin before passing The Evening World’s Five-Cent Fare bill. To pass it now would be a pleasant reminder of summer. | Two State Senators from New York—the Hon. The McManus and John T. McCall—have seen a great light since the last session. The first thing each of them did this year was to introduce a Coney Island Five-Cent Fare bill. Quite likely the fact that The McManus’s district elected an anti- McManus Assemblyman last fall, although the year before Hughes polled less than one-third of its votes, had something to do with McManus’s change of attitude. Also the fact that a Republican Assemblyman was elected from the Twenty-sixth District may have done something to “stimulate the State Senators from that neighborhood. } While the up-State Republicans in the Legislature are spending their time discussing national politics and trying to guess who will control _ their State machine this year the members from New York and Brook- “ lyn had better get busy and pass this Five-Cent Fare bill. | Last session the Five-Cent Fare bill was defeated by New York City | votes. It is a safe prediction that after the experience at the polls in The McManus’s and other districts last fall the New York Senators whc rep- Tesent tenement districts will not vote against the Five-Cent Fare bill this year. January 25, 1908. HE CEECTCSK ETE SST ELESESEESE : The Story of the Operas & By Albert Payson Terhune. | NO. 21—VERDI’S ‘‘1RAVIATA,”’ HE salon of Violetta Valere, queen of Parisian beauties, was full of jony i guests, assembled for an after-theatre supper and dance, Baron Dauphol, a dissolute young nobleman, was paying assiduous but hopeless court to dis ‘air hostess, and Flora Bervoix, Violetta’s dearest friend, was joking the hapless Two new guests were announced. One was Gaston de Leto- tieres, a boulevardier. He had brought with him a shy, handsome youth from the country whom he introduced as Alfred Germont. In a whisper to Violetta Gaston explained that Alfred had long worshipped her from afar, and that during her recent {llness the young countryman had daily haunted her house for news of her health, : Touched by the tale of this quiet, lasting devotion, so different from the dlatant courtship of the other men she knew, Violetta made Alfred sit beside her at supper. When the others had gone to the ballroom she detained him in con- versation. Alfred told her of his love, At first she laughed at him. Then tne honesty and fervor of his appeal touched a long-slumbering chord in her world- weary heart. She was tired of the glitter and glare of Paris. She yearned for true love. In Alfred she belleved she saw the half-forgotten sweetheart of her girlish dreams. Almost shyly, this brilHant woman of the world encouraged the suit of her rustic adorer. She bade him come to see her on the following day. As he reluctantly departed she felt that her oid, gay, heartless life in Paris was ended. © ¢ © Three months had passed. Alfred and Violetta had quitted Paris and were liv- ing in a country cottage. They were sublimely happy in each other's love. As Al- fred’s means were small, Violetta, without his knowledge, sold all her jewels and other valuables to pay the expenses of the place. Only one cloud obscured their bliss. Alfred's father, who had hoped his son might inake a great match, was furlous at his choice, and wrote the young man letters full of anger and reproach, But the couple were not seriously distressed by these. Alfred felt that if only his father might meet Violetta, all parental objections would vanish One day Alfred went to Paris on business. While he was gone a stranger called to soe Violetta. It was the elder Germont. He had taken advantage of his son's temporary absence to make a personal plea to the woman who was appar- ently wrecking the youth's future. The old man told Violetta of all he had planned for his son; of how she was ruining his career, and making the entire Germont familly wretched, Seeing at a glance that she was n » sort of woman to be bought off, Germont appealed to all that was noblest and kindest im her. He implored her to desert Alfred, for (ie lad's own aa Moved by the entreaty, Violetta consented. Heartbroker farewell to Alfred and returned to her former existence in Paris. On mn, Alfred found her gone. Her letter threw him into a fury of Jealous rage that even his father’s comforting could not assuage. He thought Violetta had deserted him for another, and vowed wildly to follow her to the metropolis and de revenged, © © © Gambling ran high one night tn the rooms of Flora Rervolx. Alfred, who had ust come back to Paris, and was tr: by diss ) forget Violetta, was playing for heavy stakes, and winning large sums the arm of Baron Dauphol. Alfred, who had learn’ maintain their former country home, flung at bh brutally as he did so. The guests angrily interf a duel, and the eider Germont, arriving in the is maddened son away. ¢ * © Alfred and the Baron fought next day. The latter was wounded, and Alfred was sent abroad until the affair should blow over, Vic to whose frail health the Insult at Flora’s rooms came as a crowning blow 1 fell tim to consumption. Hearing that she was dyi jeken ol Germont told his son the whole truth concerning and gave his blessing to their union. Alfred, ed by remorse and to Violetta’s death bed The dying girl rallied she forgot her pain and grief, declaring she ether they planned ¢ uguin their gloriously happy life in the cou ay-dreams of a golden future, Violatta’s he the anguished lover knew they had been re was dead. sultor on his failure. she wrote a letter of his ret dst of the excitem’ ot, dragged The story of “Contes d’'Hoffmann” will be published Tnesday. They must pass the bill they introduced. they can get. There should be no politics in the Coney Island Five-Cent hur Winter thy watt a bel masse oonmectsariec THe Chorus Girl Says She Is to Have “The Chanct of Her Life.” Fare bill. The question is simply whether it will cost 50 cents or $1 for a man and his wife and three children to go to Coney Island and back. The lesson of the The McManus election returns should not be for-! By Roy L. McCardell, [they've floated off on an iceberg on the open Polar Sea. |e comes with the American Navy, and just arrives in time to help rescue the; don't Gagger and Snine say they |high school girls, who have wandered too far from the seminary while picking @ string of theatres f wild flowers in the botuny class, and never realize where they are till they find | The arrival of the | but them rich guys is Just as peevish when they is tou ave some Western them “Of course, I don't like to ask Old Man Moneyton to put up any money; as they ts ie EE, 4 was oo glad it siuwea.’ gaid the Chorus Girl “Me with @ mink set and no more excuse for American Nay gives a chance for patriotic hokum and makes the piece umely. | when they're asked to come across with forty thousa fact, have gotten by the people. They can compel any Senator or Assemblyman wearing {t, the way the weather was, than a = “Gagger and $ the new show 1s sure to make “The Merry Widow’ more respect for you {f you do them good and plenty if you just stand bearded lady has for @ brooch. “The snow encouraged Gagger and Shine to get out a nefw musical comedy they're just crazy to have me play in They say the part of the First School-girl was written just to suit my personaiity. Of course, there {8 only one line to speak, hut as Gagger hisself says, the whole plot depends girl on that line. “I'm to step out of the line of cap-and-gown gi say, ‘Here comes Nellie, now! How sad she seem "She seems sad because as the action shows, she has Moneyton to back the show. saw her flance kissing a girl, and she won't give him a « chance to explain that It's his sister. And he never does look like an intermission at a nickelodeon. “It would be called “The Snow Girl!’ only Gagger gives them comedian critics such a chance to say '' frost.’ So it has no name yet “Jest as I s They wouldn't have anybody el: to do what they want done by the simple process of retiring him from public life if he refuses. There are other matters than the Coney Island Five-Cent Fare bill ~* which the people of this city should require an account. One is the city’s finances, Why is the city borrowing money from J. Pierpont Morgan at 6 per cent. when railroads are able to borrow money at 5 per cent.? What has become of the $60,000,000 received from revenue bonds since last September, of the $75,000,000 re- ceived from taxes in October, No- vember and December, and of the tens of millions of dollars received from the sale of long-term bonds? Why with all this money recetved did the Board of Estimate shut down on necessary public improve- ments? Wtnt is the city’s method of bookkeeping anyhow and how do its books balance? What, if any, authority is there for the assertion that the city has not the money to build more subways? Better even than a fare operative only from the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island would be an interborough subway which would take pas- Sengers from the Bronx to Coney Island for one fare. | Within the last six months the city has taken in enough money | from taxes and bond sales to construct four subways. What has been done with all this money? he Snow and |commit sulcide if tte didn't get the chanct to pl Th HOW DID PRECIOUS By . c POODDODODODHDGHOOGODGGGOOOODHOPDSEOIOOHOIDOHHDOOG @ @ @) 0} @) 9) LO Now PAPA Pur PITTY PIcTURE OF BABY uP ON THE MANTLE) Letters from the People. Women’s Work. To the Editor of The Evening World! The idea has not yet probably sug- gested itself to some people that the majority of business women eam more than men do and ‘hold the same re- self, I think that the hattt of smoking should be discn ed during office hours ‘ations, In larg: time is not employees, which ‘s not surprising in| p, ; the least. I would like to he, opinions in regard to this matter R. B. K. | sponsible positions. And why? Simply ee \T'S UN THE WHAT HAS because their ability t@ coming to lent DINING ROOM SNOOKUMS and recognized by our business mon Taking it all in all, I think three-quar- AL CARI WHERE BABY ters of our business men prefer wonien The Pension pit. het SEE!HE PULLED EVERY— THING DOWN To GET HIS other! A ¢ B. In Right. To the Piltor of The Evening W A says “'Friscc” ts a ity from "San Francisco.” iB s DEAR PICTURE! “'Frisco” is the ort way of saying : ‘@an Francisco.’ Which is right? et AS DQ ae Smoking in Officer, Te the Fite ay ; Don’t vou me rebding habit of stenograp: Teference has beer Subway Croy must admit Puerile. at the Wink that the + as musa consider: 2 as a man tor Ase Pee Mere Altiough I am « smoker my. crush at its worst, i ' nd Shine doth d, they're crazy to have me play the part of the First School- could be on the ice cap tn front of the open p Play the part for anything. And there's deatn, and then my lines was: ‘How bitter cl a rich soctety girl that's daffy about going on the stage who told them she'd “They don't want a thing, elther, except I'm to see ff I can get Old Man Of course, Gagger and Shine say that K. & E i)] be sore If they ain't allowed to back the show, but Gagger and Shine want to be Independent of the syndicate, and they won't let st put up a cent. get a chance to explain till the last act, which Is laid at the North Pole. There the syndicate has got to do Is to see the show gets good booking, and if the: DA, COOMELGGTODIOHODDGSHGODIDOOOOOSTE DOSSCSOOOSOOOOEGSOSOTOO conservatory scene in the first act, instead of the French matd, and see Lion: Manus HIM! HES STILL LOOKING them up for cigarette money. may that “But I just was waxy for one thing, and that was T was was @ and the song had io be pi! on with special costu and Shine said that would be all right, it was > have a song; effects. Gagger Girl’ We'd be all freezing to t The numbing cold gripe ish I could but see once more me in a clasp of frigid steel! Oh, if before I p: \*My Chilly Lily!’ “That would be the music cue—'My Chilly Lily’ be thrown on me, and then the Esquimaux belles could make a quick change into tiger Mly costumes, or else all in white so's to give a ch et for the stereopticon effects of bees und butierflies hovering over the Chilly 3. There's nothing like playing your hand things 48 coming your way, and uine said I could come on in the The ruby spot light would What - I stood out for mors lines, so Gagger and el ® —that's the tenor—kissing a miniature of Nellis, his sweetheart. This was te 6 6 ) be my cue to say ‘Ah, her picture!’ and glide away. kissing your sweetheart's plo ture, and your sweetheart is informed and thinks {t's some other skirt's halfe tone, and the hero is honor bound not to explain because the plot can't be dropped til] thé second act. “And then, In the last act, when the hero comes to the North Pole on the American Navy and rescues the heroine in s-wlt» uniform, I'm to be @ cor- poral of the girl marines. Of course, as soon as the marines and the navas Neutenant lands on the fce-cap and finds everybody freezing to death. every- body must go off so the tenor can have the stage alone for his song, ‘I'd Die for the Flag and the Girl I Love!’ The comedian follows with a bit in this scene that ts a scream. He thawe himself out on a gag stove. “As I sald, I don't like to ask no fevors from nobody, and so I won't even hint to Old Man Moneyton that I can get the chanct of my life !f he'll only back the show. Hut I'll tell him about ft and cry, and say nobody cares enough for me to risk a little money to «imme a boost. “Sure, it will be a winner with all them novelties tn it! The public is tired @ bunk and punk, but you give them something good, Itke this new show of Gagger and Shine's, which is written over an old piece of ‘a that went good at the Lagoon in Cincinnat! twelve years ago under the name of ‘The King of Kankakee,’ and they'll eat It up. “Of course, Gagger and Shine has changed it; Instead of having the scence in Japan or Holland entirely so's to have kimono girls and wooden shoe-dancers, they've put in the last scene at the North Pole because they can get the props of one of Earl Reynolds's old skating acts, and a skating scene on real tce, with waltz music like ‘The Merry Widow,’ would be a novelty that would be sure fire, because them things han always gone great. “Dopey McKnight? Oh, he ain't interested. He sayn every time he tmpre~ vises any music Charley Shine jots down the alr and goes home and composes it hisself, “Anyway, Dopey says, he dreamed he found a cigarette coupon mine that ran twenty thousand green certificates to the ton, and !f he can only dream {t twice more it may come true. ‘ay, Jf Old Man Moneyton won't back the new show, do you know any- F “This ts a bit that always Koes, Gagger said Onl “Mr. Dooley” on Rich’s Hard Winter. By P. Finley Dunne. sir, befure th’ winter's over I expict to see our frinds th’ pluthy erats in a very bad way. Th’ Saint Vincent de Paul Society will sind riprisintatives to visit th’ homes on th’ Lake Shore Dhrive an’ invistl- wate thelr condition an’ recite th’ number fv childher livin’ in thim, if anny," says Mr. Dooley in a talk on “Hard Times” in the February American Magazine, “'Th' Ligislachure will appint a commission that will re- port five or six years hence: “3. D. R.—SI five years {v nage; married; large fam'ly also marriedj capable hard w millyonaire; has had ony half time at his thrado since lest yen a very sad case, ¥, 2 red banker; 5 3 twinty-three years old, Has completely lost conthrol fv both iv his rallroads, Fam'ly obliged to go to Monty Carlo fr th’ winter, Very courageous Jn th’ face lv adversity. Says {vry man shud do hie part in this movement fy naytional disaster an’ elght autymobills 1s enough durin’ & peeryod tv rethrenchmint. House In shocking condition. Elfcthric {lvator broken, Ballroom not dusted. Champagne corked. ‘This Is a very worthy case, Adyise th’ State Threasury to advance him twinty-millyon dollars as a measure ly timpry relief.’ a President for One Day. AVID RICE ATCHISON, of Kentucky, was appointed Senator from thet Svate In 1841, and was elected to the post of President pro tempore for the terms covering the period between 184 and 1849. The calendar made him ivesident for one day. When March 4, 1849, came around it was a Sunday, and shough the terms of thelr predecessors had officially expired, Zachary Taylor an¢ Millard Filmore could n8t be inaugurated until Monday, March 6 \