The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1908, Page 12

Pwvltshed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to 68 rk Row, New York JOBRPM PULITZER, Pre. 7 Rat 14 Siete J. ANGUS SITAW, See Teena, 201 West 11518 Btraak Entered at the Post-OMce at New York ns Second-Cines Mal! Matter Burecription Rates to The Bvening | For Ene and the Continent and Mord font e ited tates» i Al in e Inte ona and Canada. al Union. - One Year... : #350 | One Year 5 $9.78 One Month. 30 | One Month % VOLUME 48 . VANISHED MILLIONS. SOLITION of the interc ge of transfers between the Third avenue ind Metropolitan systems has be- Also comes the tormal an- gun. sod $50,000,- he Metropolitan and the tT components of the Merger, are bankrupt and in receiver's hands, it would be useless to attempt to sell bonds on heir credit. These bonds are, there- fore, to be saddled on the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Company, which leases the subway from the city and the el vated roads from the Manhattan Railway Company. These two lease: talized at $35,0¢ nas since been exchanged for $70,- 900,000 Inter.-Met. 414% bonds, i which it has outstanding $25,000,000 of notes and a floating indebtedness of $5,000,000. It pro- poses to pay $15,000,000 of these Notes and the $5,000,000 floating indebtedness out of these bonds, which would leave $30,000,000 unaccounted for. Before consenting to additional capitalization the Public Service Commission should first find out what has become of the $65,000,000 Tepresented by the present Interborough capitalization. Of the $35,000,000 stock, $13,600,000 was issued in exchange for stock in the old Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, the cor- Poration which built the subway. This construction company made a Profit of $8,000,000 by subletting the work under John B. McDonald's supervision. This $8,000,000 plus the $13,600,000 went into something else than equipment and power houses. If it were restored to the coni- pPany’s treasury it would pay the whole floating indebtedness and the Note issue maturing May 1. Where it went the Public Service Commission should find out. About the time of the transfer of the subway contract to this c struction company Mr. Richard Croker returned from abroad. He ous ed John C. Sheehan from the leadership of Tammany Hall, nominate. Robert A. Van Wyck for Mayor, and took charge of New York. Within a few years he went back to Ireland, where he has since maintained ar expensive country place and racing stables. Before his return to Ireland he accumulated somewhere and somehow a great fortune ich t has since been livng. “Where did he get it?” is a question often asked. It is well known that Mr. Andrew Freedman w ir. Croker in mar associated with enterprises and represented Mr. Croker therein as! agent or partner. also well known that the Sutway Construction Company had smooth sailing from the Tammany administration. Here are $21,600,000 vanished somewhere, divided somehow, and dive'ted to somebody. Who got it? If the reason for the issue of Interborough bonds is the diversion ot stock which should have been sold only for cash, it is the duty of the Pablic Service Commission to make the facts public. Here is a subwa cost $43,000,000 to construct, every cent 9 which the people of New York paid. — The equipment and power house: | could be replaced for from $10. 000,000 to $12,000,000, Where then consists the justice of $35,000 000 of stock on wh are paying 9 per cent. d fon $50,000,000 of bonds? i ved that ation t whiet any part of this capitali wen to Mr. Croker or to anyone else for political or promoting purposes, | the Public Service Cetnmission should require restitution both from the men who got it and from the men who took it away from the people of New York. Why should the public pay three cents profit out of every nickel fare? ~ Letters from the Peop Bronx Transl le. © Government pays so unate s of F-carriers nto debt. 1 en nit me of my husband's com- panions !n miser have no one r om whom they can bor: endo} hour takes the run To ¢ Here aolve fo dery back Is his A Letter-Carrier's Wife. re Length of Onr fridges. weeks lie has ma cents comes a regular Bridge and In the Worla Almanac, eaEveninie thing an the things are Richmond Hill, L * sumn # 50 up men's salaries and When a Happy Bachelor and a Happier Married Man Meet, The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, March 4, 1908. Men More Beautiful Than Women? By Maurice Ketten. 0 Pish-TusH | | | | WHY SHOULD NOT A LURURIANT GROWTH OF HAIR PROPERLY MARCELLED BE AS BEAUTIFUL IN THE FORM OF WHISKERS ON THE FACE AS ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD 2 (Mm <M. SPEER) Start In on a Mutual Pity-Fest? Why Is It That They Always he t suse,’ continued Mrs. Jarr over the wire. | t nd a Calliper to come over; she'd be just the for that By Roy L. McCardell, Jack Silver. down." | aan redo, gid inant’ excial ome othe "said Mr. Jar And having extorted a reluctant consent | and as Mr. Jarr turned to see from his wife, he s ) Silver to spend the ev greeted with a ri va The: ne had @ sore spot Mr. » could med da bachelor Jarr, ing his physical How be you ing Jack chum. “And how are th: ”" Bachelor frier con the luxuriously “T cou “Of course, 1f To nave been different Id have gotten a wife There's a woman for the fam!ly—not th ae evan er ce 14° said Mr. Jarr, warmly. "But, then, I suppos nelor, You're a man's man. you know. yh, they are all fine!’ said Mr. Jarr proudly, Ney re a man’s man, aren't you?" asked Silver. ‘I never hear you Bao nga yamucs!e) ‘Put Me Among the Girls.’ ing Lepke Wen) shen vou are married you have to give up vour men friends," aald prenmral eno coupe put 1 are not allowed to take up lady frien ts, vou know.” pe A Satis Sona said Silver, “but look at me, Nobody cares tor me. I lead rtsees alabacisilve ary or at my club, maybe give a little party now and th six millions; yes, st BaasahenniiaLical)y 1 f r said the words he filcked his cigar ashes on a costly rug and eC a e aneEaenR Mer RA cer en on the plano, two things Mr. Jarr was never permitted becsee sha Hee Renae prenalelSliveanmalahaventinansthinetonktonkthia itted that it must be a Ittle lonely, but suggested that Silver BV EnineLVOMraORe TaD Ptaiipacevancien on nner usies npany, and Siivwr admitted that when he had no party at his Dh wife iicichorhentahe kno me! t where parties ware. oned hie bride dinner together in lonely state and parted, utterly bored t met Jack $ he eatd, “Te wants me to take dinner with Sim" 'Oh, THAT fellow!" said Mra. Jarr over the ‘phone, “I thought you'd given ‘poor fellow! svi Silver, to himealf, “If Id a marred I'd a been like up THAT sf company!” Now, Mrs. Jarr knew nothing whatever against i Mr sit tn a married woman's eyes, a bachelor is a had companion for a oor devil!" said Mr Jarr, as he walked away, ‘if I hadn't morried ra husband Seeing the bachelor's care-free, irresponsible tife often makes the most have been like that!” | yubdued married man sigh for freedom. And the thought was ‘sreat comfort to them both: When Bill Thinkuvit Comes Home at Night. By PF. G. Long. jouto NT NEED) (okt ANY SPEC J ? HAT KNOT © THAT wit IND You 79 BXING + ae nn AINT IT FUNNY OMY WIFE "TD ForceT) WHAT Be Hage )° ( THINKS I HAVE To HAVE (Ive TIED THAT KNoT 4 (my Wire TOLD ME Ti ponaw [FOR You 59 Tou CAN 1) s RE NOT TO FORGET TO | ee Gi OME COFFEC a CBRING Home Some )\ Wi te XA NOT IN MY HANDKER ia ey aS Ae FOR yg CHIEF 50 Thu C = / (L wont For: “{ Get — ——l re (oH, PLEASE! PLEASE! ) MY WIFE ALWAYS | /parn THE Luck! I've BEEN TALKING ABour ‘~~ Crou cHunp! 175 ( THE KNOTS A Go0D) | ie R YO fa se 22) TSR STRING |/ 005) Dog GASTED KiaT ALL DAY- ANDO Now)]/1 promise TO BE DONT FORGET a } FiROUNO TAY LITT Tye CLEAN FORGOT WHAT THE D— y | Gooo~ dusr ret M8 USRMHERE. Yo! / -l 1B RR i pyre) nr ME WHY You 1) Ny Live! Me to MAKE Mel\ THING'S FOR! ,-> UD Sh) 1/0 ls Kop “Renee ——$_—— (THA Se ase Mp Ae Tay | i) A | was on. | powder prevented the exact position of their guns from being discovered | no less than the next valley. | grows to a height of about four ¢ ‘The yori stretched out his hand, and the wooden piece {mmelate OUR COUNTER PMaAlport Payson lorhu ) BF-SPANi oH WAK—-2art Vi.- dsl Canes and can Juan. OON after dawn on July 1, 1898 the combined assaults on E! Caney and Su hills were to beg de da ° delayed until ¢ pania At w i ‘ * and khouse crowned El ¢ ind? were de- ided by about 6 Ot United States Spaniards. Against them marche ops under Gens. Lawton, Ludiow and ( . and Col, Miles Yelock the advance n. The village was almosi encircled by the mericans and a line was thrown out to prevent any escapir ym retreating into Santiago. It ts no slur upo! 0 give full ered a brave foe. And Ww soldiers in history have © eeliantly 's of El Cane; led, they neve ne hours a: gs all on their side. The Americans wer clothing far too heavy for tropical wear and h tlt of dad food and worse climat For Northern-bred oder the merciless glare of a tsiders can fully appreciate As the Americans came on a n wept their ra These S} ann were thus Overw rtheless held the at ve splendid ac ons a hardship few den sharpshooters s powder and thicket and The Attack o treetop they picked off El Caney F i ypened the attack. By 9 ere spent in manoeuvring for betier t, wire fences had been stretched intrenchments carried C into ge—that won the Fo onth were left alive. The otaers because their cause was hope ain, and bot 5 sons ¢ w re fe risoners to show ‘cor the nine-hour victo} ‘or only a handful of El n 8 defenders rem the conquerers’ hands. The can losses were SS Meantime, Gen. Wheeler rr e “di division, and Gen. Kent, with the First Di of Infantry—8,336 men in all—had deen assailing the main body of Spaniaras, who were intrenched along the top of San Juan heights. The Spanish advance guard numbered 0. Behind them 3,500 more were {n readiness as aupport.or reserve. A blockhouse om he crest of San Juan was fired upon at S A. M. by Grimes’s battery from the opposite heights of El Pozo. This opened the ‘cht. The San Juan cannons answered the challsnge, and an artillery duel At first the advantage was with the enemy, for their smokeless ata distance. A heavy smoke cloud, on the other hand, marked the Yankee oatteries. The American {nfantry and dismounted cavalry were marched toward the narrow San Juan River an hour later and prepared to climb the hilt trom several points. The heavy sharpshooter fire delayed them, Spanish riflemen in treetops and copses again proving their effectiveness. Within » few minutes the Second United States Brigade, massing for the assault, lost Tee successive commanders, who fell dead or badly wounded. © KO Riders, under Roosevelt (Wood having been promoted the previous day to a brigade command), the negro cavalrymen and portions ~_—~—~"» ~oOf the Seventy-lirst New York and of several other The Charge up § regiments w rdered to capture the Spanish position { san Juan Hill, } at the top of “Kettle Hill” and the San Juan heights, ~~? In the face of a terrific fire they broke cover and began e advance, The charging line was thin and seemsd unequal to {ts tremendous tas, Moreover, it was swept at every 1 ceaseless fire trom the hilltop, But within fifteen minutes che summit was reached and the Spantards in~ trenched there were driven helter skelter to the blockhouse and down into Reinforcements from ‘i+ Ninth, Twenty-fourth and Thir- teenth infantry and Parker's Ga‘'ing ery then helped clear the whole ridge of foes, capture the bloci}ou.¢ and win the battle The American Inss at San Juan was 144 killed and 951 wounded. ‘The hetg! above Santiago were thus carried by storm. The city of Santiago iteelf™lay at the invaders’ mercy. The Bi:tish Consw therc af the time declared the garrison was so discouraged that “if the Americans had followed up their advantage and rushed the town thcy would have carried it.” On the morning of July 3 Gen. Shafter demanded the surrender of Same step |tiago, and a ten days’ truce followed while negotiations between himsel@ and the doomed city’s commandant were pending. Thus ended the mos® important of the land engagements of the Spanish-American war. Thad conflict's most sensational episode was to occur on the same day, The Dream Food From Greece. By Edward I. Nathan, United States Consul at Patras, Greece. sin"—a man so frenzied by the drug that he accomplishes murders use@ by the Persians, Turks and Egyptians in a manner akin to the use of um uy the Chinese. the Peloponnesus (southern Greece) in the district about Tripolitza The plant t and its branches are thickly covered with smal! leaves and studded with t! weeds, The entire plant, stalk and branches, Is out within a few inches of the roos and laid out in the mun to dry, The branches are then rubbed to meparate the reeds, and these in turn are ground tnto a fine powder, which constitutes the drug, The drug has the power of inducing sleep and producing pleasant and tan- | tastic dreams. Continued use of hashish renders its devotees wild and reckless and results in a complete wreck of thelr mental and physical constitution, For this reason the Egyptian Government has prohibited the importation of the drug and recently entered into a convention with Greece to prevent its exporte ation from there to Eaypt, where the consumers of hashish are very numerous, The drug !s practically never used in Greece, but 1s now exported to the various ports in England, Austria, Freace and Italy, and from there much, ne doubt, ultt | mately finds its way to Egypt. —- ——24e—____—_ The Marvels of Indian Magic. By Thomas Seltzer. FORMER French Chief Justice in Chandernagore, Jacollict, gives aay account of neveral curious performances that wero displayel for hig benefit by a yore! named Govinda-Swam! on the terrace of his owm house. Being by no means credulous, Jacolilot took every precaution to prevent deception. Fine sand was strewn on the ground, in ordep to make as even a surface as possible. Jacolliot was asked to seat himself at @ table upon which were a pencil and paper. The fakir carefidly laid a piece of wood upon the sand, and announced that whatever figures Jacolliot_ migh@ draw on the paper the piece of wood would transcribe precisely pon the sand copied upon the sand the most complicated and twisted figures that Jacolltot drew, Whew the Frenchman stopped writing the plece of wood also came to a standstill, The |takir stood at a distance, against a wall, while Jacolllot held the paper an@ pencil In such a way that the Indian could not possibly see what he was ine scribing.—Harper's Weekly. A Financial Yarn by Beveridge. NNATOR BEVERIDGE, curing a recent address in Boston, illustrated @ moral {dea with a story avout a financier. Let me show you," he said, “what this financter’s morality was ile tance noticed one day that he turned his head aside as a young mille matter?) the acquaintance asked You used to do a lot * the finan: ‘Don't you speak to young f business with him r shouted, ‘Hadn't he the audee ‘Indeed. 1 dor to say I swindled fim ont of $60,0007" Of, dear, no, he didn't,’ the other a@bjected. ‘He omly said $40,900," “Well, that's different, T've heen misinformed,’ said the flnancter In @ méle Nifed tone; and, turning, he bowed to the young millionaire very graciously," Pittsburg Gazette-Times, The Karite Tree Makes Butter. S the search for new plants of utility attention has been drawn to the Kartte I tree of French West Africa and the adjacent terrliory to tl istward. ‘The is not a forest tree, but rows in open spaces and in gard Its frutt tw edible. The hard shell seeds contains used by the natives aa butter, and it is suggested that this suth e valuable for other puss poses, The gum—not like rubber—into which the sap coagulates !s another thole ef possible commercial value ASHISH, that strange drug which has given our language !ts wont “sasese - It is the product of plant grown in large quantities f