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wre GS GAerld, Published Daily Except Sen New AN JOSEP PULITZER, Pe 7 CASH THAT / CHECK AND. HUSTLE THe MONEY ALONG You Know ! Fork 23 For England and All Countries tn t Bubscription Rates to World for the U One Year. One Year.. Cab Sa One Month... .NO, 17,048 EVENING WORLD'S Coney Island Five-Cent Fare bill unexpect- passed the Se , and is now hands of the Governor. The rs from Greater New York, Agnew and McCarren, com: | and they suc- i if they voted ; it their constituents would be ar {as were the constituents | of Ser MeManus, Owens and yy yy t McCall last year, which resulted in 1 the speedy conversion of these representatives of tenement-house district (Gong 4 As to whether Gov. Hughes will sign the bill, there is some doubt DOWN, ; It is reported that the Public Service Commission wants the Governor | to veto the bill on the ground that it interferes with their powers and | 1 prerogatives. | ; There would have been no occasion for a Coney Island Five-Cent | Fare bill this year had the Public Service Commission compelled a reduc- | kel. It is a grave question whether shether, this double fare ons, as the Court of Appeals uld amend the law, which | | tion of the fare from a dime to an the Public Service Comm: being charged under special charter provi held, any power short of the Legslature c the Court of Appeals held to be necessary. It being thus a matter of doubt w r or not the Public Service | Commission has power, the best course to procure the five-cent Coney Island fare is for the Governor to sign the bill and for the Public Servic Commission to pass a resolution concurring therein. ( | ( on has this power; The B. R. T. would then be Commission was the proper body and the Legislature was not, or in the Legislature had not passed the bill to reverse its plea and claim that the Public Service Commission was not the proper body and the Legis. | lature was. Evening Worid ef A a 1S od Sa Friday, Apri il. aa" aoe | “Secret” Contributions. By Maurice Ketten. Concurrent a to claim that a five-cent fare is ction would leave no argument for the B. R. T. exce ‘confiscator. senger is not entitled to ride so far for one nickel. The answer to this} is that street r fs, unlike steam rai mile, but have a uniform fare. On the mileage basis a passenger ridin. or ly a 1a ! blocks should pay a penny. For a ride of a mile or two he] by Roy L. McCardell, t be t If the B. R. T. were to adjust its fares advantage of short mileag abtention to som ng else besid ‘said Mrs. Jarr, lookin “1 cartoon by Ketten, depicting the added terror to t! plex life the extravagan le in wom es do. Many p said Mr. Jarr. he er of passenge wee t », cause of continued du t c r trade ty iin: ats for women. After to bulld houses, there on railroa ing seve Kk and otherwise stimulate cc But n't any too tiny,” continued Mr. uniform fa the rest of the wome pant wing into the street cars and poking the fe same pers. The equi and five orm ta ners and would give a lady room to sit in, the feathers wouldn't poke Into t f wit is," sud Mr. Jarr, ‘You have been jabbing the opt! Jand tickling the noses o 7 “Only once,” said M vay car and I was trying to catch the conductor's f the mi ext to you?" intern {fT did.” satd Mrs. Jarr an acquaintance. He just laughed very go: This apart from the concl rgument that to enab! to voc Reser ing UG summer time will ben off ¢ t const ence to-day.” Tsu ppose, and didn't get mad? 1 Mrs. Jarr coldly he do? said Mr, Jarr, ‘There's no use in getting mad. appears to me that the newspapers might turn s headgear “ ne money ts are paid 2 “Well, if the men of New York had any man- s ere was a man sat next to me in a Broad- id 4 "onthe ground tat res Tf a Girl Jabs Her Feather Into Your Eye, ‘Be a Gentleman! iMr. darn wh diane er jn my quick enoug! ‘Ot course 1 did,’ + Sarr, said Mr. Jarr, the rest of the ation with a y a Who sald she was pretty?” asked Mr, Jarr “I suppose you ga your name and 4 yu sure you didn’t ntanee? How would y Jarr. “You come there! Look what you're doing with your o! ads, do not charge by th: Don’t Make It an Excuse to Start Up a Flirtation With Her { __ ind War ) your eye you would Are you s The Story of The Presidents By Albert Payson UGGu) une CBLDDODOOGOAGHHOHH OOOO ‘ NO. 18.—-JAMES Kk. POLK. Eleventh President (1795-18 })—Slender; large of head. nose and eare High, peaked forehead, long, straight hair. Big, light, cepset eyes. Rugged, furrowed face. HERE was vast disappointment in a Tennessee farmer's family when T the si ‘year-ol? son, James Knox Polk, returned home from the shop of a nearby merchant with whom he had been placed as office boy and under clerk. The lad declared he was sick of mercantile Mfe, that he did not share the family ambition to make a great merchant of him, and that he wanted to go to college and then become a lawyer. Sons !n those days had an old-fashioned habit of obeying their parents. So young Polk’s rebellion was a thing for neighbors to gasp and gossip over. The youngster had already been obliged to leave school because his health was bad. But his pioneer father Instead of flogging him and packing him off to the shop again, hired a te tutor, who in two years had James ready for college. He was graduated with high honors from the University North Carolina in 1818 and entered a Tennessee law office. There he met Andrew Jackson and pr under the rough spell of the old statesman and Indian Sghter. This acquaintanceship shaped Polk's whole future. It made him a Democrat, a political and per= doa lifelong defender ons. Nor did “Old inrewarded. the bar. He was ery first he sprang to the front of his profession and scored an almost unequalled legal sue cess. He plunged directly into local politics. So eloquent a public speaker he that he was nicknamed Napoleon of the Stump." Three years later he managed to secure his tion to the T | lature, and in 1825, at the age of thirty, was sent to Cor the Legislature he won no | sure by putting through a law that stopped t i d equal notoriety by being almost the only man in Ten- nessee, who pe din refusing eithe ct as second fn one, In this arity alone he failed to follow his , Andrew Jack- son's, exam) From 1825 to 1829 he was continuously re body he always supported Jac quired temporary 80. Speaker of the House of Representatives, holding the years, It was a stor: ne for him. During | there were more “appeals” from his decisions gress's history. Here, too, he won fam 3839 Polk left Congress to bee: he was elected by a bare 2,500 m yet he shared with the rest of his pa defeat of i841. Coming up, that ye utterly snowed under by to the Presidenoy. Again a second time defeated. { In 1844, at the end of . nominates owned ir sonal disciple of Jackson's of the iatter’s theortes re Old Hickery’s Disciple Hickory” leave his dev . Polk in 1820 was then twenty-five. Fr cted to Congress. In that ni than once ac- he was chosen 41 nearly five peaker before in Con- champion, In to which office he made @ good Governor, ishing national Democratic tion ¢ or, he was rried Harrison late for Governor, and was 1 at an end. President, the Whigs to succeed him. The ide which c Democe! re split up into sev each clamoring for its own man's candidacy, The s gested for office were Bure: Johnson, Jolin Tyler and rlared: can mun the fasten e day, ‘Old Kentucky. ‘st, In the Democratic convention. Polk had 0 the public eve ty earn- ulvocating the of Texas to the United States. He even prophested that if I'nele Sam did not take Texas, England might do so. ‘This attitude met with popular favor, and when the convention was at a dlock, Polk (who had nev ked on as a Presidential poss!- y) was as a last resort mentioned asa ‘compromise candidate.” He was nously chosen, Then caine a hot and exeit- mopai The Democrat: ng from their t defeat and + f he unpopu- y of qed in ecting Polk by was sald at the ster, was “too great a man to be Presid ear been me that © It we © Daniel Web- on hearing the news vould rather of his own defeat, too, that Clay made his immortal reply ye ight than President.” At once, after Polk's | and Mexico over the ¢ lor invaded Mexico. After the Army, completed the conquest. The Even Abraham Lincoln. who was then in bringing {t Also, though Polk had declared didate for a second term, he pose ping Scott from keep all the popularity for him set In between the United teclared. Zach- r-in-Chief of tterly opposed the war. attacke! Polk’s actions wo not te a cans cused of using the war for politieal pur he front as long as possible in order to f, As it turned ont, Zachary Taylor not 1 @ to strike Otlathatiandienarnt © of a feather nearly put out a gentleman's eye’— Scott acquired such popular ras the war brought forth, and was ‘And }e WAS a gentiemd foaiped Mrs. Jarr. nominated for President at the close of Polk's term Admitted,” eid Mr. Ja The lady said, ‘I beg your Polk, worn out and ill from overwork, public criticism and the cares pardon,’ and [ sald, ‘Oh, Did yor turing encounter | o¢ officd, retired, on March 9, 1849, T months later he fell victim to Ko further a cholera epidemic that was sweeping the country, and died, Homan e! Mrs. Jarr “You should oan ; ling you any right te mean mind and” ald Mr. Jarr, place any wrong oon don't do those t On, yes. Tow i Mr. I restrain m right to be, hene ‘om tell me of suct when I am out," said Mrs. Jarr, n't be jealous!” but I know I have no little tnnocent A Clrenlation Department.” truction on tt, but |; —————— Missing nambers of thie series mar he obtained on application by ding n oue-cent atamp for ench article to “The Evening We pean Reflections cli a “Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowiand, Now, don't de ta'kteg that wa e abet it,’ said Mrs. | er TONIC frie cen t ean as ‘Maybe he stuck eye in way on purpose! growled Mr. varr. And he =a Keene 4 i nae starts or awhere and nearly ale insisted on this for an hour, and then went downtown, leaving Mrs. Jarr con- eae ne port of Love tented for wives, e day. A little jealousy now and then is relished by the best of : ~~~ Ye The Courtship of Cholmonceley Jones wr B F. G. Lon Letters ra ‘the People. Love In Darktown q2nd Beautiful Araminta Montrester $y ~ y g (T war isTOH GHOLMoN DEL] ip I 2 weLt AH RECKON : oT Mee ata? 1S You A REAL BASE AH IS! AHS DE CHAMPEEN: The House Problem. | “1d nobody « ea foot out of| | (BALL PLAYER? |} } OB _DE DARKTOWN CHOCo" of Hert have. ] A PLUNKS DE BALL ON DE E | [TRADE MARK _WIF PAH LI'L WAGON SHRFT A | < 17's ER SWIPE FEE) as 2 FO! BAGS ~ WOT Ypu, languages very Mue v eak every of them with a broken : @eoent In iny wandesings abour the hou! Ma gg as LOOK Our, ( HS GOT M/STOH DONLIN \ (Bie To DEAF! NOW \Sou'des’ KEEP Yo" G0, G00 EYE ON ME, AN’ AH sHow You How AH SWATS DE HEM/SFEAR)’ WIE TREE MENON BASE)‘ AN’ NOBIDY OTe) REMEMBAH WAR You 15-A11STOH CHOLMIONDELY, NOW You JES MAKE ER @UICK SLIDE FER HOME BEFO!’ AH (HAVO le OTS Mens | BUNTS H BASE HIT ON you) n’s e is like lls head; it never bot A him until. mornin ‘Oo a man drawers; to a won man is a bor bringing {t home w means giving up out of five of the ehtte » giving up four ont of tive of her opinions, un; if he doesn't go out to his club, he has ey m and using tt on the fam It gives a girl silver threads among the gold to marry and find out afterward th has tled hy to a lite ¢ When a man has any MWusions about a woman, to see what tl e made of ed, a woman's reputation for brains {s worse than ys wants to tear them a As no reputation Kissing a girl, without first telling her you love her, !s as small and mean as lot A salesman take you for a free ride in an automobile, when you’ have no Intention of duying !t Alaet! If hushands were only ke sewing machines and we could have them. on trial . oman who pins her faith to a man won't find a safety pin strong enous) to stand the strain ndship; but orchids at $1 aplece from any kind of man meem "as men are conc t All sent * Violets mean fri business: Rear al els i Where Slang Comes From. | By F. H. Vizetelly. LTHOUGH the origin of slang {6 often uncertain it ts not so qwitt. everal of the words cited. lor instance, we trace the «git of “boycott” from the name of Charles Cunningham Boycote aw nt in charg Mask tn Treland. 3#@) the first vie refusal to deal or associate wit, fy the products of ra ban for lebose py 5 ns, “Dago" 1s a corruption of i Spanish for James, a nnion jnong the » patron saint is San Diego. ci ns fin by American s who fre- if ! c its scope so as tS include the da It is now used to designate | italtans Por os | “Dade : orto origin, wee bora ini tongonsdn ard ' aad then found y c Me POAC RER i that clase of men of which Oscar Wi ' ‘ter knowns ith j Mt said to have beer if word “dude,” which means “little lelongings Or + rupted and accepted jn colloquial lan eas a fitting design articles of apparel. Jealous of the popularity that the term acquired, som writer of songs for the music halls introduced the term ‘‘ha-di its vorue while tho song war popular, but was sung to death—The Bohemia& angen ceerneencanes isis tindisiltlelllln al | | | “ ore _ 3 A ———EeEeE————————aEeEES—“‘ eT