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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, April 13, 1908. | The Day of Rest. | coonones Che Beene, | y ih —— By Maurice Ketten. he i Published Dail; hing Con 7 oxcept Sun incline fi hl 4 1% nt Aces — f | ae eae a York az Second-Cla Sol GeTuP i ee | te Post uf OMEBUDY _ * a Bubseription 0,77, diet WANTS To ; == ada | Ona uiMont i iitere esi leeeeeeoieenee Pani ; i 69.78 SEE THE FLAT, iim = oO You IKNOw ITS \- - pe egos Ri i AS TOLD } VOLUME 43....:..... Bei evccdstieuse roeieeeetes NO. 17,087. _ eNO! : ; ; By Senator Chauncey M. Depew. ABOLISHING TRANSFERS. SUAS / The Ristoric “Amen Corner" has passed with the equally historic Fifth REE transfers between EE THE y Avenue Hotel. The “Corner' wag the scene of more political moves than Avenu tropolitan s' have t FLAT any oti.cr spot in America. Here statesmen were made and unmade, epoch- making deals put through and the future of State and nation shaped, The “Amen Corner" is a thing of the past, But its story concerns and interests all New Yorkers. That story is here told by one of the “Amen” chiefa, Chauncey M. Depew. I tem is in t appointed hy Judge Laco! ceivers to di There No. 2. low the “Corner” Won Its Name T was in 1884 that the “Amen Corner” took on its new mean- ing. That was the year Platt came into power. He became Re- publican leader of New York State e in 1907 194,765,342 transfer passengers in Manhattan } tw ds as 5. If every trans- and the Bronx a many in Brookl a nickel ay Saratt \ id at the same time took up his fer passenger were to pa ‘AP an Dp { i Be ie cana (hs Fe Eiloe ANaTHER EA residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. H : e public wou : i RT There he lived for more than twenty 000,000 a year more to the traction mon. in return WHu WOULD unning tines cr any benefit transfers will not haye the effect of yenues by any such am Shop girls, usands of othe more seats, better Of course i creasing the street railroad day laborers, poor had its rooms there the year round. It was the era of the “Easy Boss.” Conkling, as I have sald, gave his or- ders and consulted with no one. But Platt consulted freely with men from all parts of the State. Though, after the consultations were ended, his de- |clsion was final, and that decision was not always in accord with his " advisers’ wishes. | Still, the fact of his asking and Mstening to the advice of others was such a contrast to Conkling’s dictaturial ways that the term “Easy Boss” Was coined. (Gis ToSEE years. The State Committee also making $1.20 a week. r Some children are employed will have to move to cor nearer their work. Other passengers will ride part of the wa the rest to avoid the transfer cha Ss . While these consultations were going on the men whom they were to affect would sit, awaiting the result, on the “Amen Corner” benches. It be- THOSE PEopLe oa “anxious seat,” and few can realize how much anxiety it has SHANE TOSEE PisticTusH! Ambitious men would sit for hours, or even for days, on those sofas 5 awaiting Platt's final word. When that word came there was no disputing ALL NEW-YoRIs lit. Wry faces might be made, but no one rebelled. 'S VISITING On the contrary, when Platt’s decision was announced every man on my FLAT the sofas would indorse it by saying: ia “AMEN!” a I have known a man to sit down on one of those sofas expecting to rise from it the future nominee for Governor of New York. Yet after the > consultation he would find Platt had slated him for Assemblyman. Others would go there expecting little and find themselves in line for high office. Thus the Amen Corner became not only the anxious seat, but the spot from which the boss's decisions were made known to the persons most concerned and later to the world at large. These “decisions” covered the question of who should be nominated _for Governor, Lieutenant-Govyernor, Attorney: HE LOOKS LIKE A ay re. On ine has advanced fiftee! . Inter.- Met. bonds have gone up in price. To the extent that two fares the traction monopoly will be able to m: bonds and stock for which the public will receive nothing. The abolition of transfers on street car lines is as if on the every passenger were charged an additional fare for tr: press to a local or from a local to an express. Transfer passengers do not take two rides, but one f If New York's street car system were laid out scientitica of Boston, a passenger at any principal central point could take a car going direct to any radial point. Free transfers do not mean that the iE street cars give a passenger two rides for the price of one, but that the: Little Emma Jarr Refuses to Be a ‘Nice Little Girl ” Any Longer; always with the knowledge that there was no appeal after once decision him to the di f. f cl 1 th , had been rendered, whether the matter were of a nomination, an ap- put him to the discomfort of changing cars and the loss 1 Q . . ’ » | pointment, a measure in the Legislature, a party platform or the choosing oneliue: Any Nice Little Girl’s Mother Can Teil What Happened After That °: Instructing of national ronvention delegates, “4 6 ent a ; ough there were many scowls and much ttered a r Out of every nick receives the Metropolitan system, b. “Phere you are, dear!” sald Mrs, Jurr, effusively kissing the little Vistor.| the hose's decrees, they never marred tne such a iat peotantlygaree went into bankmuptcy, paid 2.6 cents for ope ! | 4 ("Oh, I wish Emma was a dear, quiet Uttle thing like you itself, The statesman who wanted something that some one else i “ ‘ % * beat at s got would were gross profit. The cost on the subw. | In the next room the Mttle Jarr girl remarked: “Do you comb your dolly’® cially force a smile while aurrolndedhisithateriowat fer from an jeneral and many a lesser office. They largely influenced the making of judges for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. And when the word came the most dissatisfied man of the lot had no option but to say “Amen!” and abide by Platt's command. There, while waiting, politicians would cuss and discuss to their hearts’ content. But By Roy L.' McCardell, who were watching ; : - hair?” pes ye keenly to see whether or not he were enough of a thorou hbred t, less, since they carry more passengers in proportion to the wages’ they be OW, T’ want you to be a nice ttle girl,’ sald Mrs, “It spoils tt and tt 1s naughty,” sald the ange! child in reply. “I like to have 1° ghbred to hide u Sivoee f tte Ss 7 Jarr. “Your brother 1s over spending the day at nice stories read to me. do you know any?” But after leaving the corner such victi ve pay their employees. your aunt’s in Brooklyn, and so I've decided to let replied the little Jarr girl, quickly, “I just readed one, Want to) 10) Sot sat Oe eet Cons HET CET eee Gait This gross profit was capitalized in the tracti $513 you go to M Rangle's house for the af jon, for fi BS COA pa CLT i eft to defeated The other little girl evidently nodded that she did, and as ft was news to gant in) a Court of Appeals—namely, to “go down to the tayern and Miuirmacmiiaieseamarenitslanca contnalacony: 8 a8 Hie Court The “tavern” in this case Was the Fifth Avenue bar, non a time," began the little Jarr ai here was a ‘ittle dirl, jess he _ Avenue Hotel, being the Republican Headquarters, dele like me, an’ she had a doottful new dwess, a lovely, bootiful new dwess, and sue, gates to the National Convention and other prominent men would sit In wanted to wear it, but her n ma never would let her wear {t, and she cwied | the Amen Corner and talk over matters of import. Points of State policy and cwled and ewied, and her momma wouldn't let her wear her nice new dwess, Would be threshed out. Newspaper men for nearly mamma's going “I wanna go ‘long wif y : mamma can't take you, are real good, mamma will | “I don't want tandy, I wann down tow 000,000. Of the $62,000,000 car fares York pay a year, $25, are gross profit. The remedy for this would “But it! a box of a go wit you down town!" a quarter century, at = ave told you that you cannot go with me, and, fur-/ 204 Sie ewied and ewled till she died.” gathered there thousands of columns of news, “beats” and prophectes, nate ing the water re, I won't let you go any if you do not stop “Did she have a white coffin and was there lovely flowers, and did every-| No other spot in the United States has made so much history or been ' and bonds and annoying me body ride in jages?” asked the little visitor, eagerly. fo powerful in the making and unmaking of public men. ‘ I wanna go down town wi Nowhere else ¢ 'y been 80 thoreg |. Here “public opinion” often had its birth, on the hor jd the lttle Jarr girl, “ le girl's mamma, beca’ +E especiall ewied and cwted and cwied, have the fortunes of the party and the policy of the countr: “Di y put her in the coffin they, oughiy formed and reformed. any one ration i had to put her nice new dwess on her. So she got to wear the new dwess after Here tickets were constructed. The Amen Corner was the real capital of r took the end MAS? ail, because when she was deaded and going to heaven she had to have a nice the State. pee aR, new dwess, you know." And now that Is all past. The Amen Corner is gone forever. It could e other child forward with al! the morbidness of infancy and asked: only exist under cert ain conditions—where the Stat er and State Come ¢ 1 vit “sad the ang r dresses?” ; ‘ | mittee both had their abode. Those conditions are gone, ; nalenaaie f AAD eu e," said the Jarr child, “but not quite as nice.” | ‘The red plush sofas have bee! ri < ; wear my new dress?” ed the ttle girl. Pwetty near as nice,” said t Be ‘as @ been moved elsewhere. The folly so Se ee a aeeaeaty e re cra Cepeety TEEPE CN Mere Mfrs, Jarr, who had overheard the story, tustled in with an assumed! which took the corper's name still existe Dur ter eal wooed Pest checks to Ryan, Dolan and Widener. ea MOUM a Roan iar ; bruequeness. “Why don't you children play with your dolis?” ehe asked. “And) {ts oldtime sense, {8 gone. SRS | Of course it g dress you I wanna wear n ttle girl There is no such State power now vested im i re's ten cents to buy candy, and Emma, If you will be careful of your new! any one man wear {t over to Minnfe’s house, and some of that new pink ribbon | Platt then swayed. 1 not to The Amen Corner is extinct, add ional profits to make the watered done and the pubti It died long before the passing of the } j arlednitatern in your hal ee shore, ang Fifth Avenue Iotel. | i vt Ly he neighbor's, and _ k of so value, ion of free trar ‘ Sa 2 was annc en she dressed the Httle girl and saw her safely to the n . fixtaie zie ets Near ; Ey we pme valu u n of free tran is a necessary ste ae enelnelt ha qulet, big- never scolded her because t was a spot on the new ribbon, It was a tear) te ci n thefr elders are around. — jspot and Mrs. Jarr knew whose tear hud fallen there, WROUTOODODOQOTDHOOHOOIODIDGOINOOOsAgacos dx Letters from the People. ee ove ln AH JES LUBS DEM &/G} SAM BERNARDS: Nixola Greeley-Smith ON TOPICS OF THE Day The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones ye ~~ By F. G. Long and Beautiful Araminta Montreseor. wens Victory or D *« *« To the Editor of The Gov. Hughes* vice of race-track g tback. Some call victory. For, once more proved think th quest of ¢ MISS MONTRESSOR, AHS BRUNG You ER HAN'S Urq PRESUNT OB ER DAWG, 17 AM ER, SAM BERNARD PES cd LES GO Our FER } a A_WALK 7 DON'T G/T SKEEREO- A HES ONLY JES A LILES, y PLAYFUL AN? ¢ SKITTEN=} (oye Women Who Would Be Men. | ESS FAY, ESQ, clothing salesman, of Chicago, has just confessed that he ts really Miss Mary Phelan, who for @ year has worn men's clothes because of the higher Wages he could command in male attire. Not infrequently we read of some man similarly dis § | satisfled with his lot who has been detected tn women'@ clothes because of a taste for housework and @ cone viction that women houseworkers are better pald, as well as more In demand. Notwithstanding the years of clamor for woman's rights, and the fact that the sad estate of being a mere man undoubtedly carries some compensation, I have never been abie to understand how any being lucky enough to be a woman could ever \ herself anything : else. For being a woman, at any rate being a normal SInGLNGREETA woman, implies a certain independence of emotion that nothing but old age can ever give to a man, Women love more than men, to bg sure. At least, the charge has been brought so often that 4t's really more conventent to belleve !t, But with women } “two T t ¢ } Amatear Tiucology, To the Ba! Who discove where. and Face bec ME-LUB MAH DAWG- AS MAH Sf ae 5/ WF DEM LI'L WORDS AW SAYS GOon BYE! », (6 WAY FROM HERE 0,2 | You Foo. B/PED J iy love and propinquity are not synonymous terms, A woman chootes her victim, while man {s helplessly chosen by whoever ho sees oftenest and at least trouble |to himself, The majority of women are economically dependent to be sure.{ They are also socially more or less subservient to the susceptible sex, But od) HELIOGABULUS! HELIOGAB- y 1 | ULUS! STOF BAT/.— the first : | t | own their own souls, at any rate. I have sometimes thought that the facility one knows how | of emotion for which women most frequently condemn men ts in reallty more | subject for pity. How would we feel If we couldn't see a chorus man fn @ | musical show without being touched tn our softest emotions, or view the office \ ,/ stenographer six times without deciding that we must win his young affections \ oy JES TRAINED DAT Cee Sans BERNARD, TER IRRIGATE AN ERNoY ME! DON'T “| You COME ‘ROUN’ ME NO MO’ WIF- [oar QUININE! or dle in the attempt? Yet to these things the mere accident of sex would |make us Hable had not the gift of womanhood beon permitted us by a kind |fate, “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control" are the three essentials of 3 happiness, and these come much more eas!ly to women than to men. They hava moreover, been so long inoulcated in women that they have become Inatincts, ‘ Any woman possessing them owns her own soul, Nearly every woman does, ‘Whereas, nearly every man’s soul {s so complicated by mortgages, lens and | all the other survivals of dead romances that he can scarcely tell whether he has an equity remaining In it or not. This is only one reason why It Is hetter to be @ woman than a man, Bu any woman who thinks about it must admit that ft is reason enough. Powful hrs. The author of these G (. DE BERAULT h a itd tans anda sii