The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1908, Page 10

April 20, 1908. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday Published Daily Except Sunday by the Pross Publishing Company, Nos 63 to @ Park Row, New Yc POREPH PULITZEN, Pres., 1 Rast 124 Bere. 2, ANGUS STIAW, fee. Treas, $0) West 118th Street, Entered at the Po ‘ew York as Second-Class Mail Matter, oes crip ton Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent and orld for the United States All Countries fn the International and Canada. Postal Union. Qne Yea: #50 | One Year. wees init One Month 19.75 85, GRAFT. STEAM shovel will handle earth, money or anything else portable more q' than 100 hard work- ing men he United States Gov- has many steam shovels e Panama Canal. There hovel at work ‘ater scheme, which cost more than the Panama Canal None of the prominent engineers who studied the sources of addi- tional for New York put Esopus Creek first. Prev enting waste, utilizing the Croton watershed which the city already owns, lapping the vast volume of water lying Long Island, using the Dutchess Housaton ter, are all by general engin cheaper than go to the Catskill Through Mayor McClellan’: So far it has obligated th oton water system o Some borings, some ma condemnition commiss ernment one stea or Ten uence the Catskill plin was to a greater expenditure than the whole there is nothing to show for it except ) railroad, a steam shovel, twelve | re lawyers and a few thousand draughismen, photograp Pppraisers, ex- drawers | uch Engineer John R. Freeman rej y on the ground of inadequate supply, and the exce which he estimated to he $33,105,000, has develo hand! engine { other salar SF Sted orig- fe expense, y toa ive expen ure is \ ire of $300,CC0,G00, tetul folly, i This expe: Both the folly and of standing unlerakes rospect No hydraulic engineer T the ct eapest or the most ade v New he object of this plan is not to supply water, but to prevent the| ll construction of more subways, {on the bonds a sin ing fund will requ commissioners other employees will amount to $3,500,000 or} more. This expenditure will increase taxes a fifth| York financially so that future city administrati ins | It means an extra month’s rent, ) ling these water bonds to the Sinking fund the automatic revenue available for new subways is diverted. | Of this enormous expenditure a great Part is waste and a great part fs graft. So far the greater part has been graft. If the Esopus scheme were an honestly devised plan to get water ft would never be conducted as it is now. There would have been no} intimations to engineers “to spend as much money as possible.” There would have been no advance tips to enable the Jand option ring to acquire swamp land at $8 an acre and sell it to the city at $150 an acre. There would be no 2,000 Catskill guards, flo clubhouses maintained at tax- Payers’ cost, no string of $50 a day commissioners, counsel and experts. The job would have teen handilea as the Pennsylvania Railroad does iis contract work. The way in which the city’s § squandered is al- hible. This paper would Not believe it possible unless it had mace a personal examination and had the concurrent statements of many Of the men employed at it. | What the facts are the news columns will tell. The story is one of folly, waste and chicanery. | Letters from the People. The Cost of Living. the ‘To the EAitor of The Evening World In regard to the question about the @ position on a on the comt of living, &c,, we can hope for no p he stream, where he was improvement until the peopie wake up| held in check by a small force of the a Uttle Were wages to double to-mor-\ Bloux, the main body of the warriors Tow, I think the cost of living would having been withdrawn to coneence double next week, fust as sure as eter- | cn Cuate, saad the cite nity, it has been so from the start and! trom another puint eee tage alwayy will be. J. 8 HES : statement from Sitting Bull, who wee @arneld, July 2, 1681. Lincoln, ‘Mterviewed about qu : April 14, 1865. | Mp the Editor of The Mvening World: ‘What were the dates when Garfield end Linooin were shot? W. D.C. ro ene Editor vor! Post Reading N. J. Was it Eanes eos to the None Universally Observed. effect that "Firat we nee thocked at To the Editor of The Evening World: evil, then we endure it and final. Ie there @ natione! holiday in the *™brace {t? Also what are the exact NTadet | pete? NICK, | Words of the quoration’ EM Onster's Last Fight. siexonder Pope wrote; Vice 4 Tv the Baitor of The Bvening World | Trae we. Sainte ead ae ‘tober T have been very Mteresveed in| But i too oft, ft with her face, Col, Hody's “Tales of the Plaing,” and) “* oe ey LB ALninee ecerace Particularly so in his account of the i terribls tragedy of the Custer rnassacry, | T° te Dittor of the Evening World: Tn 18% Chief Gaul, in conducting a ieee me the date and year @ommiesion over the feki, ts pepoered.| Z petal 5 B fo have said “Had Reno fought one- at samt fourth as hart from his side a, dia Te the Mittor of the Evening World | Cuvier there would have been no mas-| Readers, what sum must I pay for « Big Horn River and took up ld Reno in ch Squaws and boys Alexander Pope. repairs I can = Instead victory.” It will be re- house so that after spending 30 ns| The Day of Rest. ie By Maurice Ketten. Say, 1M GETTING STIFE NECKED | WCHOARGLIMBGOIOVEHIAHIOS 'No. 16—W. Hl. HARRISON.—Part 11.—Winning the North- | west — ARRISON had smashed Tectmseh’s army at Tippecanoe, and the Indians Beet Seemed quieted forever Wy this punishment. ‘The settling of the i eatanee SS apnee West was looked for ward to now as an Y matter. But next year Sow By (in June, 1812) war broke out between the United Staies and Great Britain, EASTE! y) Instantly the Indians swarmed to arms again, flocking to the British stand- BoNNeT ard. And the work of subduing them had to be begun all over. Harrison Was sent to the front, first as Militia Geveral, then as Commander-in-Chiet of the armies in the Northwest “You will exercise your own di your own judgment.” So ran his officlal instructions. No American commander except Wash- |ington had ever been allowed such free scope for action, Geu. Hull had weakly surrendered Detroit, leaving the northwestern be en to the horde of British and I: \ans, who rushed down from Canada upon the um | protected country. Harriso. had the trust and devotion of his whole ter |ritory. Men joined his ranks by the thousazd. drawn only by the strength | of his reputation, He found the army in almost a s‘ate of mutiny because of bad food and incompetent leaders. Quickly straightening out these various tangles, Harrison made ready for his campaign. He had his plaa j carefully worked out. It included a suggestion that led to the placing of | Perry’s fleet on Lake Erie, and, incidentally, to that commander's great AE THEN SG | victory there. Gen Winchester, mistaking Harrison's orders, was badly L, beaten (Jan. 21, 1818), on the Ralsin River, by the British leader, Proctor. JOther American officers, disregarding Harrison's commands, met with lke 5 ;Teverses. Despite these set backs, the Commeanderin- yThe Battle of i pursued his campaign gallantly. On Sept. 10, Perry according to retion and act in all ¢ yder ¢ WAL Lake Erle. % won the Battle of Lake Erie. Harrison was now free to | attack the British in the Northwest with the knowledge that they could expect no help as formerly from their ships on the Great ‘Lakes. He had patiently bided hie time. Now he struck He marched into Canada against Proctor and Tecumesh. These leaders, with a strong army of British, Canadians and Indians, entrenched them- selves in a seemingly impregnable position, protected by a river and a wide swamp. The fight occurred on Oct. 7, 1813, and lasted but a few minutes. Harrfeon sent Col. Johnson forward in a cavalry charge that crumpled the British Mne. A second cavalry detachment charged and scattered the Indians. The Americans pressed forward. Tecumseh was killed; almost the whole British force was captured. Proctor saved himself by escaping on foot to the woods and hiding there. Upper Canada and ali the British arms, ammunition and provisions it contained were seized. The Indians were taught not only that their British friends couM not protect |them, but that Uncle Sam was an enemy who hed a way of winning his battles against them. Henceforth the Mississippi valley was open to settle- Harrison went to Washington, hafled everywhere as the nation’s hero. Itut there the incompetence and jealousy of John Armstrong, Secretary of 7, made matters so unpleasant that the conqueror of Proctor resigned commission. Timtd President Madison, though not quite daring to ose his secretary, appointed Harrison Chief Indian Oommigstoner. In is office the old fighter continued for years his splendid eervéces to the € th Republic. Later he settled on a farm at North Bend, Ohio But he was not allowed to give up public Hfe. Ohio eent him to Congres, There, sore men who had been injured by Harrison's suppression of graft emong jormy contractors tried to revenge themeelves by filing rédfouious charges of dishonesty against Bie fought the accusation 0 successfully that Congress officially announced: | “General Harrison stands above suspicion!™ | Re-elected to Congress he worked to obtain Lopes pee the benefit of old soldiers and continued to devote t the wel- fare. In 1824 he went to the United States Senate and four years later i ! | became United States Minister to Colombia. When Jt | Presidency, Harrison was one of the thousands “Ok Hie! |— ing of $18,009,000 a year. Salaries of the Cutskill guards, erzineers,| D on’t Worry About the Goulds’ Troubles--or Anybody Else’s-- wife Mr. Jarr. i H ° loffice for the benefit of his own friends. Harrison came tomb{a (at his own expense), settled once more on his Ohio oddly enough, accepted the humble office of county clerk. On this position he lavished as much care and work as he had on hie military That’s the Way to Be Happy Even Though You’ve Got No Money 21: senatorial amin a ny tne Wite party for President. But he . said Mr. Jarr, seetng he had put! Democratie opponent, Martin Van Buren, not only carried New York's vote, b T don't drink or stay out late; oh, We/ but was too tricky in other ways for the simple old soldier. Van Buren people got along half so well.”” won by 170 electoral votes to Harrison’s 78. But, four years later, when d," said Mrs. Jarr. “I'd scorn to do s: a thing;!yan Buren’s term ended under a cloud of financial depresston, and the two send you are a saint or an avgel. I want to tell you"— | came up again for election, Harrison won, receiving 234 electoral votes to : fo St away from such a tiekilsh subject. “I'll! yan Buren's 60. John Tyler was elected Vice-President. The campalen said a mannwnnnn~ 6, slogan was “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!” The facta that * said Mrs. Jarr. “Let us have an under- “Tippecarce one wing of Harrison's farmhouse was bullt like a log Reed) Tyler, ee atl cabin and that cider was the only beverage he drank, were also made use of. The contest was known as the i Oh, 1 wasn't ky Roy L. McCardell. this year?" asked Mr. Jarr. £ Omens iM Tim not ta I eee Bee bi AiG. ap yeube a t try to avoid the A giee Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign.” Harrison was overwhelmingly On, T take it all back,” sald Mr. Jarr hast Don't let's talk about tt, elected and left his farm for the White House. It was a fatal step ae eagle Titer eee . The old. war-worn man, accustomed of late to quiet and peace, found i re oarainr ents arcsted in those bows, I suppose: himself suddenly the central figure of the nation. He was unused to the r i n th ! His simple nature could not crasp the Ned “The Merry Widow’ bows, but then! lonors now showered upon him. i Ie to be merry,’'| thousand intricacies d intrigues of the capit surged about him, clamoring for fat jobs, pers: i im and me President on Mar they are “now A widow may have few married women have eve countless, Fhe adde ¢ ; 18 Mr. Jar way from this Ine of argument ways making his life a burden. He became Pre 4 1841, “T was « you why you didn't ze seid Mr. Jarr. ‘I, Thirty-one days ter he was dead—literally killed d office. imagine the vou. Here's three dollars; get a good one” seekers. As he lay dying, in delirum, he fancled he w his suc- | w you always spoke kindly to me, there'd never be | cogs starting up he exclaimed: : | ples of government. I desiro a little more ¢ for a man to drink and sand 5 Sir, I wish you to understand t i he prince! sala Mr. Jarr in alarm, “I'm glad! them carried out. I ask nothing more!” people's troubles, ? And if she did| es SH) ypy though poor. ildren Ane Ser ea Soa it would or apne Ae, | After he was © Mrs. wondered what he'd be up to next. "You have Misatng nambere of this eerios may he awint ah rn ennit atten) “There aren't many of them bear it with meekness and patience,” 0 look out for give you something you haven't asked for." |) wy sending a one-cent istniey, for ench artiole to ove rc : “Sometimes neglect and even drinking is an effect and 1 he said to herself slow! | Ctrenintion DeRREe Smee AE - S =a of marital unhappiness ——_—___42—_____ mae ry her 1 H i DOOUDIOCOOEOQOODIOODODODOSGONSISAM SE EO aes bel Japanese Smile Is Most Peculiar. QOSTOHOAHOODOIOABOOOIOSSEOS iriven to saloons blo HEARN a people who nnot wear the ex- | @ ° q a a, Is an you imagine J t A Japan nile whenever he wants, even ix. a ree, eye AS bh] “Do you mean me?" asked Mrs. Jarr, quickly. “Do you think Ta e ¢ is a law of etiquette elaborated and cultivated for) for the way you act without ae many centu thas become a silent language. They smile in the face s THE PY cya GAIN) Gea) sea ei iver’ go Baca atehavat <acenneMaarnderient (ask (hal aezie acniavan leven vediriGeyeet ON TOPICS OF THE DAY g wish you to suffer with ; | bear my sorrow, suffering and trials alone. | [Reddy the Rooter -5- Mage he was driven back across | p— The Curse of the Gou:d Millions. OW it ta the Frank Goulds that are supplying object lessons in ill-assorted matrimony to a wondering N public. On the heels of Mme. Anna Gould's de- parture fram New York coincidentally with the Prince de Sagan, whom she plans to wed, comes the announcement of the separation of Frank Gould and the wife he married when she was seventeen. The young man in an interview attriputes thie unhappy conclusion of his romance to the curse of money. Ne one has ever determined exactly what point between riches and poverty supplies the medium of happiness. Elim- inating the married couples who blame their misfortunes on the pomsession of money and those who think thetr troubles come from the lack of it, how many persons would be left? Not enough to keep the divorce mill grinding on | half-time @ week. Neither poverty nor wealth should be able to alter any real affection existing (between a man and a woman. But the estrangements thet arise from the dally worries of debt and doctor's bills ere far more exousable then the differenzes brought about by too much money. Poverty eaivae ome natures, while it nerves others to achievement. One man will be unable to write a story or make a sale of any kind simply because |ne knows the rent is due and there is no other prospect of paying !t Another will be «timulated to unusual exertions and great success by the sare fact. So, too, the possession of great wealth may bring to one @ developing nense of re- sponsibility to himself and the world. To another ft may chloroform utterly every impulse beyond that of selfish enjoyment. Frank Gould says dejectedly that hig money fe a curse. Did he ever try to make (t « blessing to others? His ‘ister Helen, wiioss vast charities have endeared her to thousands, would not say that the Gould money is @ curse, Neither would any on else, oven though he took into account the hearts that were broken, the lives that were wrecked in accumulation. [oe eee rmvan who triee to epend the fnoome of mfilions oe himesif, his emuse- pleasures of his family, will be oursed by ft. He will see the him, its walls growing, lke e mirrored room, narrower every be ts confronted on af sifes by rafiections of himectf. And no. . By George Hopf © He's Bcund to Get There » > = or Something Will Burst ke RACIOUS! WHAT WAS © \THAT. REDDY? B-R-R > |im wer. tmMustGo d[Home AT once! COVER oFF, , OH You HAL!