The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1908, Page 14

T She G53 Ward, Pubtisned Daily Except Suniay vy the Press P - hing Cempany, Nos. 8 to 63 Park Row, New Yor SOREPH VULITEER, Pree, 1 ast 114 firesi. A MAW, Bee Atveot «heen tedlehoonirmadihieas ence Entered at the Post. ew York as Second s @ubecription Rates to T! For Ff and Perera cornite, Uo: Al Countries | a and Canada Pos I oa $976 8 se NO. 16,989, the only cnd more cars. At no time has the capacity of the bridge tracks been overcrowd- ed. That is, the structural strength of the bridge and the capacity of the tracks have at all ti permitted ng of more cars than have been run. Notwithstanding the opening of the Borough Hall tunnel and the di- version of tens of thousands of peo- ple from the bridge, the bridge These two facts are proof of tack of imelligent man- @rush continues. / No matter how much platform space is provided there will contime to be a bridge crush until there are more passengers carried per hour. There is nothing mysterious about the solution of this problem. It as remained unsolved more through pigheadedness than for any other Teason. A large freight yard terminal like those of the trunk lines at Jersey City has a more difficult problem in handling traffic than the Brooklyn Bridge because a freight car will not load and unload itself. Yet this freight traffic is readily handled by a fan-shaped arrangement of the tracks so that every freight train as it comes in rums into a switch and pocket, leaving the track , Clear for the next train to tun into another switch and Pocket, and so on. The Pennsylvania ferry sfips in Jersey City illustrate the same principle of the easy and rapid handling of traffic. These ferryboats come from Brooklyn and the Cortlandt, Desbrosses and West Twenty - third street ferries. While one boat is in the slip loading and unloading another boat 4s on the way, a third boat fs in the New York slip ard a fourth boat comes into the next slip while the first boat Yoaded is going out. There fs no crowding or crushing or blocking. This is what the Poulsen Plan proposes to adapt to the Brooklyn Bridge. By having a series of slips or pockets into which the trains é enter in rapid succession ~f? the capacity of the bridge \ will then be limited only Ss by the weight of moving cars or bridge structural support. The crowd, instead of blocking the platforms and delaying the trains by their struggles, would enter the cars until one train was filled and then be switched to the next train. A system of gatesat the platform heads would allow the regulation of traffic in the same way that gates at ferry houses regulate without overcrowding the traffic there. What is the reason for the aversion of the bridge engineers to the Poulsen plan? Is !t professional jealousy or what? Mr. Poulsen worked out this plan years ago, when he was a bridge contractor. Bu that is concerned it {s nothing new, since steam rail- 7/ road and ferry companies have had substantially the 7 same idea for many years. Ma Let the Poulsen plan be tried fairty before there fs any more money squandered on trying to do im- possibilities. The ie lost is in the loading and the unloading of the trains. The crush comes on the plat- 7 form in the way the passengers are handled. Also there should be larger cars, longer trains and tide doors. The bridge crush is to be solved not so m spending more money as i brai Letters from the People — An Answer anda To the Miitor of In answer to th farmer old get tw: for $20, I figure tha his cattle as foll each, $12; fifteen #! $7.00; Two hoxs at oemts. Total, t 20. Here ts anot he $100 more and y 100 head of cattle for cows, $3 for pigs. How many o en FE. Bulwer-Lytto To the Eiitor of The Ever Who was the author tng: “The pen is e eword?” is The line occ ee Grama "'Hicheli« : “Pell Mell Th a o To the bi « afihasline What is the corr : Pall Mall? Als i ik about the man who o neu which carn e nume : was similar to drink . Wants Hints on Rookiooping. S40 AcresOne: Aqnare €5le, pusines at Dee, 10, 1907. tte to invest $90 furnish | To the F. See A ROT: the experience F 1 1) On wha e Story of the equally, We want double entry book- Operas’ begin its publication | Weeping, I have knowledge enough of paper? aao / he Evening World Da in your | A New World to Conquer. By Maurice Ketten. : | | | THIS OPENS UP A NEW TERRITORY For ME - 5.Q00,000 NEW CUSTOMERS ~ _am, SN ULITE No Matter How Wives, Like Mrs. Jarr, Try to Please Their Husbands By Buying Them Job-Lot Automobile Caps, Etc., They Never Succeed “I don't like the way you walk!” said Mrs, Jarr, ; y. “I'm eure I bought the cap with the best tntentions, and if jou you nevdn’ | keep tt, and I can get something "You can’t get much & it i want it By Roy L. McCardell, RY this on and see if it wi ft you,” said Mre. «4 I Jerr, returning from the door with a small paste- hat da it?” asked Mr. Jarr. board box. fever you mind what {t is, you try {t ont” said Mrs. “It'e eomething I bought for you. I go downtown to thing for myself, but I see something nice for you or the children, and instead of buying what I need I spend the money on you and them.” As she paid the words she broke the string around the box and brought to view a leather automobile cap. ole cap for?” asked Mr. die and leave us some money and then we could case you'd have the cap, and there !s a sale of auto: . ‘They are lined with fur ani have a poile gloves at the same strap around “It's too big for me," said Mr. Jarr, trying the cap on as he spoke ‘You know I wear a seven hat, a seven shoe ail a seven glove.” I know thet, but the man sald these caps ran 5: ittle smaller tle and sometimes a Uttle larger, and seven and a hi s ey had; talking about moving te the that was the reason they were going so cheap, as Ad lot." although, goodness knows you'll never get me to Here the man at the door who had breugst the packise comes ed to mut- igol there) ar to the country you'll be wanting to keep a cow or |ter and stamp impatiently. an automo “Oh, tf you don't want {, {f you are o: “Who ever said I wanted to keep a cow or an automobile? asked Mr. Jarr tnink of others when I should think of m v in astonishment. the man!” said Mrs. Jarr. ‘You forget the poor fellow h “Aren't you atways talking about keeping chickens?’ replied Mrs. Jarr, | h misfit Job lots that people don’t w: “Just at breakfast you were kicking because your soft-holled eggs tasted musty, Here Mra. Jarr gathered up the package, made a few feeble efforts to put and I told you I couldn't help ft, that I pafd the highest prices for eggs, and you ¢ on the box and tie the string, but without doing so handed !t over to the paid you wished we lived somewhere where you could keep chickens!" 1d him {t didn't suft, and the softly, at _me because, I going to snee: ty I hope!” “Yes, but a ohicken and an automobile is @ different thing entir r ask me to get you anything a6: slammed 3! Jarr. ; “These caps were reduced from three dollars and a helt to seventy-five cents, you to get me an antomobtle cap, aid 12 asked Mr. Jnrr. explained Mrs, Jn nd {t shows that I was thinking of you. I see lots of men an would have been glad to get such a nice cap,” said Mra, weartng automobile caps, and they have no more automobiles than we have, and you wore one people would think we intended to get an automobile, or we pretend we had one, but that was being repaired. The Stryvers have an, mobile, and it 1s always being repaired.” “Oh, all right,” said Mr. Jarr ear muffs, and I'l) weer them, too, and pretend I own « flying machine.” y. ‘You are only quarre! some money this morn’ “How much money dp you want?” asked Mr, Jarr, digging Gown, and glad to get out of the trouble by paying blackmail! “give me the cap and also get mea pair of| “I won't take a cent from you; put {t all on the burenut” #aid Mrs, Jarr, | And Mr. Jerr did s0, and apologized for hurting her feollngs. ou Flathouse Agent Triggs Can’t Lose His Tenants By F. M. Berkley St(ho T HAVE A MH, =a/0 MYSELF LL a AnD Tene in/T; “A SHOW TO AHIR T We FRONT a (E [eaecee ers. SH Shand WHOW ABOUT HOSE SHALES WE HAVEN'T HA 5 OT WATER HEAT, = SUNCE THA, SSE 6 WAN Ras WN} 6 SANTOR Ing with me because you are afraid I'M, ily Magazine, Tuesday, February 25, 1908. |@9 ap tt to * & ESSEC SCACELE EH EERE ESESB The Story of the Operas By Albert Payson Terhune. MEISTERSINGER.”’ 35—WAGNER'S “DIE R VON STOLZING % Franconian knight, came le quaint old musle-loving of } re as guest of . the rich gvidsmith, Pog- the ancient guild © song un appropriate d being bestowed upon the win- One of these contests was booked 9 occur soon after Walter's arrival. sner offered his daughter's hand as eager to win Eva, ap- fon to the guild, and a cor eckmesser, contest, {dd town clerk, also aspired to Eva's hand. When Walter came before the gutld to sing @ trial song whioh should determine his fitness for membership Beckmesser waa chosen as " cant’s song must comply with certain hard and fast musical rules laid down by guild, Por each variation from these stilted rules the singer was to receive x aged a bed inark. Seven such marks would debar the cindidate. Waker, knowing nothing of the rules, but being @ true musicien a: » sang a beautiful orig- inal lyric, Before he had finished Beckmeaser's as 80 full of “marks? that ft would hold ne more Walter retired in diss: gh Masterstngers and the maliclous delight of Beckmesse ‘Masters’? alone did not laugh. He was Hans Sachs, the famous Through all Walter's tgnorance of the rules © poet and w the young knight was worthy That evaning as Sachs sat at the do shoes Beckmesser had ordered Eva crept site for news of the son trial. When Sa unger at the kind! Saohs at once saw how the land lay, Dut kept the leaving him indignantly, ran almost into the arms of in the shadows for her. The knight bewalled the of the morrow’s contest and begged her to elope sented, and the two lovers were about to steal a ‘ window threw @ broad bar of Yet acroas their path. They dared tor fear of detection and shrank back under a tree to bide thelr newal of darkness shouk! hide their fight with Ey Beckmesser, who had come tw serenade Eva lena, seeing the town clerk draw near. leaned ou near-sighted Becknresser, mistaking the maid for F serenade, when Sachs started to hammer noisfiy on And to accompany the hammering with a Jol deeist. Sacha only hammerei and sang the louder. Backmesser, in despair, entreated leave to sing his serenade. Sachs compre- mised at last by volunteering to act as “marker” and te hammer once on the thoes for every mintake Beokmeseser should make Onca more the town clerk began. Sachs kept up a fearful tattoo the confused «inger made a b! ed Backmesser, in ¢ was a PP looking from the shop window bebe! with Magdalena and thought ft was she whom Seizing a cudgel and leaping Into the street and gave the town clerk himself a terrible drubbing. ghdors flocking to the spot. A free fleht sprang up ly dispersed by the arrival of the city © to her father’s house. A wond! tmprovised al lata In his song. elopement had stipped unseen related to Sa Next Ane « Mnastersingera, vsing it in the ha and Walter w Beckmasser stole ad just copted out it up, thinking i catching Beck- Keep it Over nd sang his wondrous dream song , His was the vtotory® gave nim Eva's bang When tt came te | Ho bad Itttie what.) 4 him suoh abefbby treate || ast consented. The peophe | hn from ber lover's bead, ded the judges broke er, glad to welcome so brilliant a son-in-lay Rut at Sachs's entreaty the cheered Sachs, and Eva, tak {t reverently on the poet-cobb g the song wre: grtazied curls. Will be Published Tharwday. A Country Schoolma’am’s Day By D. R. Orner, Ashton, IIL {railing shoestrings dash for the kitchen. ace in the common basin We sit down to a red clothed table bearing a smoky kere of potatoes, aud a platter of salt pork. The farmer and sit on one aide, the hired man amd L the school teacher, on the other. We eat in silence. E : over, I take my tin dinner pail and start across the frozen fields The Story of ‘Ta HACKETY-WHACK! goes the broumstick on the ceill er my-bedian@ fa voice calls, “Better git up if you're goin’ to I spring» out into the frosty alr, drag on my clothes tn #! Here 1 ng haste, and with lace my shoes and wash e lamp, a dish. ‘There I shake and shiver agnin until I have started a fire {n @ demon stove * that puffs In my face and smokes Hke @ volcano, The children stracsie in. School begins, I work along from little Jimmie’s primer iesson to Elvira's history, keeping a wary eye for spitballs and stopping occasionally to put more coal in Vesuvius. Noon brings @ rest, and from my tin pall comes a lunch of frozen bread homemade sausage, anda chunk of saleratus cake. School begins again and draga on ull 4. I dismive the children, aweep the floor, bring In wood and coal for morning, and start home. After a supper that matches the breakfast we gather round the stove te the “settin’ room.” The farmer and the liired man play checkers, the farmers wife crochets endless yards of “pineapple” lace, 1 try to read by the dim ight, me — se Eight o'clock! The hired man yawns and pulls off this felt boots I climb» thy sais to my arctic room, plunge into bed, and lle watching the cold stars am@ listening to the roof snap in the frost Then comes kind forgetfuin , blo out the sordidness, monotony and discontent. The little country sahootma' i fast asleep—Chicago Tribune, ‘ante 1 The Humor of Justice Harlan, By Aubrey Lanston. PE 's 2 eaint amongst men, and if he has wemkneeses, but one te ape | paront—is love for the ancient and royal game of golf. Gott tag, ! never interfered with his judicial duties, but {t has with ev. BOM) elo, even Me dinner, Yet he takes hin golf with the quiet ivr = which {s part of his philosophy of life. ‘Reoently, while pla a clergyman, Doctor Sterrett, the divine, having foozied, was gasing at the ith baneful eyes and compressed Itps, when Justice Harlan sak with @ chi i Doctor, if you don’t mind me talling you, that's the mest profane aflence I evey | istened to." Aven great virtue he certainly possesses: he does not carry the majesty of ¢np ° vench into private life. A certain dignity is natural to the man, and hi hot iry to divest himself of st; but it ls dignity mveetly tampered by charm and the radiance of a vigorous, active mind, His wit ts keen but m: H and he has a fund of anecdotes, many of them connected with his profession, » on which he occasionally draws in place of eloquence—The Bohemian, ot { Littleton’s Steamboat Joke. | ARTIN W. LITTLETON, leading counse) ia the Thaw case, hae @.; ready way with him,” suid a New York lewyer, 1 “One might at a dinner I heard him get back et en opponent ike i “M a: ‘Gentlemen,’ he sait, ‘If you knew Blank as well as I do you'd understand that when his mouth opens his brain ceases to work. He reminds me of a little steamer that used to run on the Missourl. The steamer had a seven-indly botler and @ twelve-inch whistle, The effect of this was that when the whistle | blew the steamer stopped.’ { ———— 42 A Queer Conveyance. i 1iE queerest mode of travel I saw in all Mexico was that adopted by a woman who was on her way to the doctor, seited complacently in a ehair borne upon the back of @ man, the Travel Magazine. Some Megtean women ere afraid even of the mule care, while they look upon the rapidly agian inewa:they,-wilh nat-pyt Coot upa dy | {