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j The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, March 16, 1908. g y The Sear} World, Pudiionea Datly Bxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. Park Row, New York. POBEPH PULITZER, Pree., 1 Kart 134 Street. J. ANGUS SITAW, See.-Treas., 201 West 11¢th Cin Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mal! Matter. @udscription Rates to The Evening ‘World for the United States and Canada. All Countries In the International Postal Unton. One Yeariecsrceee One Month $3.50 30 ““ELEEMOSYNARY.” T a meeting of the Board of Mayor McClellan said “the city is not an eleemosynary institution.” It is, but it should not be. Eleemosynary is an uni elaborate word to exy idea of “poor house. ) ition it means he relief of the poor; ; pertaining to alms.” The city’s finances are in such a disgraceful siate because its money is spent without an adequate return, because its taxes are squandered, the proceeds of its bond issues wasted and its treasury emptied for alms instead of for adequate service. But this money does not go in charity to the poor. The charity of the city of New York is to the rich. The city’s charity begins with its failure to collect the taxes due from the public service corporations, which to the amount of over $30,000,000 have been accumulating now for six years. The names of the “poor’’ Corporations for whose benetit the city is an eleemosynary institution are the Metropolitan, the B. R. T., the Interborough and Consolidated Gas Companies. Another class of rich people to whom the city is eleemosynary are the great landlords such as Trinity Church Corporation, the Goelets, the Astors and the R owner of the east side or the clerk who buys a two-family house beyond the fire limits. property through their block ownership and failure to sell. They fig’ every increase of assessment in the courts. It is cheaper for them to hire lawyers than to pay taxes. For the city’s charity to them the tenants 0! other landlords pay. A third class to whom the city is eleemosynary are the political real eState speculators, who buy property cheap and then sell it at an excessive price to the city for a school house or a park. A fourth class is the street paving concerns who fail to keep Streets in repair as their contracts demand, political builders whose wor falls below spec ons accepted. The Ashokan dam contract is a $2,000,000 charity. The fifth class of the poor for whose relief the city is elec are the offi other fortnig hours a day, and then want their night hours cut down from six hours to four and one-ha Take the city officials, with their short hours, their long vacations and their many holidays, receiving 50% more salary than private clerks. Lo t the $1,400 Policemen doing telephone girls’, messengers’ and clerks’ work. If the city were not run «us an ¢eleemosyna-y institution the cost of its administration could be reduced a third. Former t Cleaning Commissioner Bonsel struck the rig principle when he said that what he wanted in his depa: more men, but more efficiency. One-third of the city’s employees could be discharged to the adva tage of the service. Then make the remainder work hard and fai and pay them well for it. Letters from the People. A Rope Problem. To the Editor of 7 World Here is an example for some of your 1t for si these boys go readers: A pole is 9 fect long. Its base neter. Its top is 1 How many feet of rope (one inch in diameter) would it tuke to cover this pole by winding sume around pole? 8.7. F, » Broadway, | | To the Faitor of Th When was the § yelled? | “Forgotte Legal Ald Society, To the Editor of The Fvenin I was in an accident in yer seems to have let Where can I app! The “Nam This in answe! Tange { wood, it seems re those whic rvidin, be exposed forgotten by Troque furore over disa 500, colds e criminal ‘The last two are 0 to 9 Who can ‘then ¢ show me another? E. J.N Cheap Lunch. e 18 no excuse. Irresponsible, yng are often given » they are t Coy pe OL CRS Semen The penalty of suc ‘What {a the matter with some one Politics is very heavy, indeed, gtarting @ Scent junchroom for boys in| STUDE the downtcwn district? I know dozens | In The World Almanac. ©f boys who «et such a small salary | 7 the EAitor of Te Evening World day ts too much for them ‘Where can I get a lst of the seven unk A oe umny of largest navies of the worldt { JIG i 53 te & For England and the Continent and Pe ay you ‘DARN Fact!) RE You ° CONTRADICTING | You DON'T ints) landers, who own property in blocks which they do/ not sell, and who pay less taxes proportionately than the tenement hous?! 1 DARE You. You LogsTer! Whe Desy el best | The Story of The Presidents. By Albert Payson Terhune. = : THe CLuB ie WE WILL ee ail Sur! NOT ALLOW THAT'S RIGHT 'S My IDEA SluLano WOMEN oR THEY aRE SOE HN RN CHILDREN DISTURBING ano you. DAY er REST" In THE CLUB ELEMENTS SECRETARY CluB Ao. I-GEORGE WASHINGTON (Part I.—From Boyhood te | the Revolution). | George Washington, 1732-1799. Sim feet two inches tatt, broad ore ‘portion. Brown hair, worn in a queue, blue eves, lofty forchead,.cquittne nose, large head. Olean-shaven face. BECAUSE an old woman changed her mind at the last moment, a four B teen-year-old Virginia boy stayed on his widowed mother’s farm fm» stead of becom{ng a midshipman tn the British navy. He thus missed rising to the rank of captain or perhaps admiral, and Hved instead te be his country’s first President. The boy was George Washington. Washington was the fifth of a Virginia planter’s nine children, His father died when George was only eleven. His two half-brothers, Lawrence end Augustine, were grown. He was the eldest of the remaining obfldrem His mother’s reliance on him for work and advice made a man of dim at an age when boys are still mere chiliren. Chances for education tm that day and place were few. But the boy or man who really wants to leagn will do so, be he in @ university or on a desert island. And Washingtoa learned. He also became an athlete and was tall and strong beyond hie years, It was in 1746, when he was fourteen, that he won the envy of every other boy in the neighborhood by receiving a midshipman’s commisston im the royal navy. His mother consented. His uniform wes bought and put on, ~ Then, as he was saying good-by, his mother suddenly decided she coal not spare him. It meant the destroying of his Hfe ambition. But he quietly took off his uniform and went back to farm work. He had leammed to obey. It was a lesson he would later teach. Five years afterward came his second “chance.” He had just decome public surveyor and had done so well that he recefved an appointment of adjutant-general of militia, with the rank of major. It was a fine oppor os » tunity for a youth of nineteen. For already sae 7 ‘¢ there were mutterings of war with Franoe, and { The Missing iy a U cuume! IKNOW You RE BONUS Se mative’ & RACKER! fs the martial career his mother had once spoiled of Two “Chances. might be now taken up with even greater hopes 1? of glory. But once more that disagreeable spectre, family duty, came between. His half-brother Lawrence was on dered to Barbados for his health. He was too ill to go elone. So George threw over the major’s commission and went with him. There a bad at- tack of small-pox threatened to end the future President's life. There, too, Lawrence died, bequeathing to George his rich estate, Mount Vernon, on the Potomac (named for the British admiral, Vernon, under whom Law SAy THAT. rence had served), and leaving the young man free to return to Virginia. Say Teat AGAIN! By this time all the colonies were buzzing with the plans of France to A Vi You seize the British possessions in America. The French were daily en- GAIN!. CHARLOTTE 7 croaching more and more on the colonists’ lands. Gov. Dinwiddie, of Vir- sinfa, wrote a formal protest to the French commander. But the latter was nearly 300 miles to the northwest. Between lay trackless wilderness hoked with ice and snow and alive with hostile Indians. Several brave men whom Dinwiddie asked to carry the message promptly refused. It too much like sure death. Washington accepted the miasion. His entures during the next two months were worthy the hero of anr me novel. Few expected him to return alive. Yet this twenty-one-year- old boy succeeded. He delivered the message, strolling as calmly {nto the ‘ench commander's headquarters as though entering a ballroom instead of the lion's jaws, and making a safe journey back through the wintry, Indian- filled forests to Virginta. In reward he was made leutenantcolonel of militia, and sent against the French. In more than one fight and skirmish he showed a skill and jaring that marked him as the country’s coming man. When an over- whelming French force attacked his command at Great Meadow, July 8, 54, he held the fee at bay for nine hours and obliged them to sue fora parley. The next year Gen. Braddock came out from England to take charge of the war against France. Braddock was a good soldfer undeg ordinary conditions, but against French foresters and their lurking Indlac, allies he was about as useful as a gatling gun against a swarm of hornets. He marched with flying colors and blare of trumpets from Virginia against the French stronghold, Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg). Weehington, who became his second !n command, tried to advise htm concerning frontier RUSSE I / and favored contractors whose higher bids av. | warfare, But Braddock would take no counsel from a twenty-threeyearold Wives, When You Want to Impart a Lesson in Household Economy, [OSS ATR CO TERI PT er ey stumbled blindly, one July day in 1755. His troops were beaten and he Let Your Husbands Go Around and Do Some of the Spring Shopping ==! we: ke, Washinsron took command and by his cooiness and | et @ knowledge of Indian methods saved the amashed Mr, Jarr got nome that night, Mrs. J said, “I see you didn't get a| A Miraculous army from wholesale massacre. He read the Aiea tan funeral service over Braddock; then wrote to iow could 17" growled Mr. Jarr. “You know as well ‘as I do that you 2 ecees: Bia) prathers hildren with me for hats and that those cheap hats for children are | By the all-powerful dispensations of provi- no good. So, after I had bought the children good hats wil my money was|dence I have been protected beyond all expectation. I had four bullets througt y coat and two horses shot under me. Yet I escaped unhurt, on. “Well, I'm, though death was levelling my companions on every side.” ae His serves being no longer needed, Washington went back to his farm either: | @t Mount Vernon, In 1759 he married Martha Custis, a beautiful young | widow, and prepared to settle down for the rest of his days as a peaceful “country gentleman.” He thought his life work over. It had not begun. | He was chosen as delegate to the Virginia House of Burgesses. His first | appearance in that body was the signal for a wild ovation. Red and em- barressed, the new member tried to stammer out his thanks. But the ker Interrupted: Sit down, Mr. Washington. Your modesty equals your valor, And by Roy L. McCardell. Jarr to her spouse .,, with disdain, “W ‘said Mr Jarr, ca: the kind," sald) 1 you! You get a sald Mrs. Jarr, with an alr of eatisfa Now you see why ft is that I never I get the ren th ngs I've no me with me, I think of everybody before I think of oa dec ew hat, e $ I've been putting aside,” said Mr. Jarr S uur word nice hats in a nice s Ise dfd you ever think of?" asked Mr. Jarr. * sald Mrs. Jar. “When your sister was married, Have Ta si ft to her, but heart ¢ t have z y selfish th , and, besides: Wersary will te) chat surpasses the power of any language I possess.” here next month, and if I give her a She may give me a nicer one Dividing his thme between farm life and political duties, Washington sov.aewwourlnow awe sent;therena spent the next fifteen years. Then the long-smouldering spark of colonial ght i to send her. scontent against England burst into the deathless flame of liberty. Wash- s for your ann 3 ton was sent to the Continental Congress. In May, 1775, when actual ‘ar broke out, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the meagre, un- led, {ll-clad American armies. After unwillingly accepting, Washington es that make?" asked Mr. Jarr. “They were from Bir-| wrote to his wife: id Mr. Jarr. “And she did send you a ersary, d 7 ad Mrs. vost her nothing, Ries y's, you sald so y elf." “Far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor to Real lnpeco tua caine sls 1 thought they wer," sald Mrs, Jarr, “but when I took them to Biftany’s|avold It, not only from unwillingness to part from you, but from a com that he saw only cor cnange they said the box was thers, but the spoons were auction-room| sciousness of {t being a trust too great for my capacity,” rome t plate.” At forty-three George Washington's real career had at last com Pena ta with Agnes “Aig was a crusher for Mr. Jarr, and he said nothing. And Mrs. Jarr con-|menced can people play a shabby trick like that? at did POOLOODANOD ug do with them?” asied Mr. Jarr, 5 at marked Tm saving them to send to mother's silver anniversary.” said Mr el] never know they are not the real thing when she sees the Bit- NIXO Y-SMITH | DEEP. DEPRESSION 5—~ | ON MAH LULU \GALS LuBL U LIL HEA mistake setting those o hate." said the a r ¥ 2 ss oe =< si 2 ~— Writes : ven 3 t 5 Cou rtshi Neg LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM { Ve By F. G. Long 3 A Hint About Husbands. : Jw 'N CARKTOWN : A S RS. HENRY HENSOLDT, of Chicago, ts looking for = SS — Fas = <= > = M her husband, a former assistant professor at Co- | OPPORTUNITY TER MAKE ; FUNCHYS | (TER PLACE DESE SQUISIT/OUS DEM SWEE RO aS rer een ee coe FLAG RANT VIOLENCE OB SPRING TIME, CHOLMONDELY You SHo'LY 1S 1 DAH INFINITY: \EMBLUMS ON \You @uz20/M deavoring to have the Chicago police find him and give him Ume to ponder the Ethics of Jail. Although ours 1s an age of specialization, as has been frequently remarked before, the person who undertakés to specialize on any one of the Christian virtues is very apt to present just such a paradox to the world, sooner or later, as that of this interesting lecturer on honesty whose wife accuses him of a colossal theft. It is the professional Ger fs Gy if VTOLA 7H fessional “good” woman who elopes with the the professional blowhard who tramples women et @ fire panic. And it is not altogether unfair to aesume that the moment a men begine |to preach a particular virtue he {8 secretly exhorting his own special weaknens, | | | | | | very We all say ten words to convince ourselves for one to infiuence others, Perhaps wer A | lf the vanished professor had said his lecture on ‘The Dthice of Honesty” over NY | just as his wife's $35,000 called most alluringly, the dowry might not have wen- eee se | ished with him, e - a) S >, = 7 = > | E YOH VIOLENCE,MISTOH. Women particularly understand that phase of human nature witch @stks UiH5 GOT MAH TEA DT OL SF is unen al Crrotteo! ) (ANE Bas rhe) NO ERE Ole ifaaat glibly of the virtues it feels the lack of. That is why man's wife eome- MON DELY 5 cy Awe see | ae SS ICENTS A BUNCH | | timen grows suspicious when he starts in to tell her he loves her after eemata AE ae) ie CON. CENT: eT PUSSON CHN | ing stlent on that Interesting tople for six months or #0. ¢MAN-S , / 0-GOC “ROUN| | Of all specialists and professors of particular qualities the profemsons® een a 5 Go ‘5 | mentalist 1s the most of a vacuum. The men who tells every toterably pretty oy ETS) DIS LHDY /| | womnn that he loves her has never had @ thrill of genuine emotion in hip iit ay CONFECTIONS : The really honest man has neither time nor inclination to lecture his fellows an J/SE A MON-| | on the ethics of honesty. The really honest lover has no talent ¢or the geutie im TRESSOR,- platitudes of sentimental honesty, We talk most about the things we Goat / | possess And {f any woman is tempted to marry a man whose sole @lscourss 1 BS I 19; | 1s of the corruption of the times and of the lack of all honest men except him- | self, she would fo well to lock up the spoons and choose instead the Gret Genes Sy | burglar that comes her way. E s Mb” S | Auto Accidents in Moonlight. =A . | N examination of serious automobile ecaldents in the last year ahowerSimt cass He (A over cr Sendreé “aypened at night, half of these whea the moon was ce ew eS amen | shining brightly, Of these probably twenty-five were Qyeught em by eg + | ticad itluions caused by the moon's deceptive tight en tetas A Se