The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1908, Page 10

Saturday, | World, Instructing the Delegate. By Maurice Ketten. ‘ The Evening woriu waiily by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 6 Published Daily Except Sunda te Park Row, New Yo: : if SOBEPM PULITZER, ns : Stree J. ANGUS AW, fee. Tree, 201 at ee 7 Do You 7 ry Entered at the Post-Office at c Matter, WANT {4 @adecription Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent “To DO | i SAY WHAT? i ‘World for the Wane) States All CHORD) ra Guy akbar BLY Some TH ING YES { ia arian #350 | one Year... -- 9.75 FOR ME 2) } Pons, 30 One Mont (513 JOHN 9 bernie TED 2PM Siz) US D VOLUME 48. a : ~ - _— aeons LABOR AND LOAFING. CROSS from The World Building thirty-two men were at work y terday tearing down the old Staats- Zeitung Building to make more Klyn Bridge ter- @ were more room for the Brox minals. At no than twenty-five of these men work- | ing. Only part of the time were m doing twenty of t! more t anything useful. T ployees, because the tearing of the building is a private contractor's job, and it is his interest to have the work done as expeditiously and economically as possible. No doubt if he could have his employees work better and faster he would. At one corner one man with a crowbar would be slow! off bricks which another man would pick up. Then the brick y would stop awhile and the other man would stop, and when the « man desired to converse both would stop awhile. This was the in several groups. A foreman would bustle around from one group to the other w @ temporary spurt of energy following his exhortations. A superin tendent looked on rather hopelessly, as if # were useless to expe. than two-thirds of the men to work simultaneously. Somehow or other tthe idea exists among n the less work they do the better off they and their fellows are, idleness or shirking is at the expense only of their employer, and that it is his business to look out for himself. The employer does look out for himself. In every contract he takes he allows for indolence and shirking. The man who is tearing down the Staats-Zeitung Building will make a profit on his job. Every em- ployer must make a profit or go out of business. | Then who pays for idleness and shirking? | The men themselves. ese men were not city Loow ME iN THE EYE AND SAY VOTE FOR TEDDY Y HE LOVES The Chorus Girl Tells About ‘the Undertaker’s Cup Old Man Moneyton Puts Up as Prize for Auto Racers. Bot the performers all stirred up now and paying for half thelr) cruel war 1s over the managers will be letting them pay| One reason a house costs too much for the average man to own is that the building of it is ty as expensive as it fifteen 0; + twenty years ago, an. > greatest increase has been in the cost of labor. By Roy L. McCardell, By cost of labor is meant wages, because the cost of wages and labor are very differ If a $5 nx twice as much work as two S2.a day m he better paid mar The limit of waz h workmen can never exceed is the value ef what they proc 1 he raised « Thal: is the reason labor saving machinery the community. If labor saving d, they | ng, and before t | for ft all “Was you up to the automobile races? It was up in Westchester County ton Manor, place. W it was Old of the expenses, and was one of the donators of my papa Rave the Chorus Gir ter alf of mam ompume ing, but | GOT a letter fre caus s board at meal t apa says that face things, = es for professional drivers, for amateur for chauffeurs ers. He's an en-| bile road racing, y always find him} ng road races wherever they may be. When! hold up the contests until bigger bonds 1s put up, in oever to life, limb or property, Old Man Casualty th! alve for him as ‘that staunch and gon- | special k cars, for > old stew about a foremost boos m small tov sues for dama on ts there with the “At the banquets they papa hasn't worke ry pro to be ninent he enou not p writes me tha machinery were abolished ges 3 } fey onct in a while, jerous friend of the spor! Kenerous impulses Is always devoted to the would fall to next to nothing be- “Oh, well me and away ovement of the breed of the automobile!’ "Then Old Man Moneyton gives hisself a again; but he t taking oursting out laftin ver to indulge in regular meals “Old Man M ly bite In the back to keep from Cha Fa nd Mamma De board because he says he's made {t a rm because he’s an actor an't afford to get road a Row © ME CARoELe cause the fund available to pay wages would be cut down nine- » tenths. t eyton shows his hand to me. What he I!kes most in the n the shackles of such a habit. summertime, © get out with his trotters and clock thelr galt on “Cherley Face is ig in vauc le, but he says that he wants them good Westclester roads around his estate. What {s his portion? It'al to see how this fuss among ile peor paper is going to ceme ! Honk!’ and gray streaks go burning up the pike, leaving his eyes and) whiskers full of flying roadbed, while his trotters is climbing trees, and what| It all started when Rock and Fulton began to bill themselves with twenty- remain his rabber-tired speed-wagon with ball bearings 1s picked up off four sheet stands and Houdini, the Handcuff King, follows suit the pe by inquiring friends. | “Up to this time any extra hilling was divided up by the house manager vear Old Man Moneyton makes a secret campaign for peace, safety | half and the perfor It for the and here Rock and and no dust by boosting them auto macers all he can g with the and I'l! be long before ‘He gives prizes for different divisions, and, as I sald, the Undertaker's| 0 pay the whole expense of 2 y they're Cup for All Comers. Of course, ft ain't billed as the Undertaker's Cup for All se, when Houdini and Rock big bills mers, but that's what Old Man Moneyton cails tt to a few friends tn conf- mes in letters four fe to let this featuring ts a t that, but certain pa , but \ wages. Not work, but the profit of wo: Few men want wo men would rather be idle. Whe men say they want work, it is not wors they want but wages. \When it is said that so many thousand men are out of work their suffering comes not because there is not plenty of work ty do, b ecaus2 nO one of tt is paying them wag Work and ges are not without work. Neiti lower wages as a res other performers a | ‘Then this generous, enthusiastic friend of the speedy motor helps lay out ‘om the village sextons and the local bone-etters, end | appiness, and that {g that he ain't got time to paint nto the lonily Hulson. ff and the daredevil drivers, amateur and profes tal, and Old Man Mon 1 can take ont y the ninety-mile-an-hour lads, because no's | piling, or half course. He asks points t See that only one thing mars 1 Jown a precip! thelrace parties Mild 1 know sional, that a e posiively his trottere withcut y got ‘em wh wants them for awhile. T saw Harry Trimmers ut the auto races. He apologized te me be- se T woul tn't speak to htm." t ma yo 1 next train ba 5 t must be respected; Jest as T tell you, | can er. for a top-liner has. sc {nok they'll t By George Hopf phen Letisrs irom the People. Reddy the Rooter WOR LONG HID, A Wife's Grievance, Jand binssom and f The i To the Readers, w had a husbar 1 A against his w 5 r s made no end 0 ‘ E liclous schemes and |i vt he either swears for three or fou my house almost eve what Nttle things sh the next tells him she stocking or some such litt band hardly The a: To the Fill 1 | i MA = ae re apse} R KE AHO SEWED UP INA Sack!! time the women vantages, for when they try to get on the subway tra ENJOY SOUSE SEM IN DE Witt the crow! were to wear su t , i would he all sorts of r rem the wom } H * Back to Natore. s aan To the Faitor of The Evening Worlt : ‘ This is t r alana £ BrAturo’ done, her «beauticul xarment 0 When vegetation eradually assumes an) me: aay aa ata @epect clovious and maguiticeat, when say tial it is part y dangerou | the trees and plan begin to sprout to a thief. MA@L RWNN Ka ruler of Bagdad. I'm of Now York Lito ->- By O. Henry -=~ The Greatest Short Story Writer of All OOO DOGOGOGOGGHG SS —_>— JPhNins pro Jand cleared | Did vou eve ‘ A Madison Square”, oe Arabian Night... i Lamp"! by O Henry) portrait 1 the Ter er that (Copyright, 1007, by O. Henrsy 1 couldn't for @ rs gratis picture." | “What was thi Chalmers G Carson Chalmere, in his apart-| coud not resist i | ne square, Philil evening ma tesides A Lost Genius. e trouble out in gi One of the incoming parcels contained + hidden a photograph of a woman 1. I don't contained an interminable letter, over T painted) whatye whi ung, absorbed, for a (hs teeks er was from A ae woman it conta: ped poisoned sete swee ped in ed her endoes concefning t with a pecullar Is face, and the next for divorce. one case of a prominent me, While I had his In my studio an ne in to look at ere hd} me, says does he look like that? I told him {t was con- sidered a ful lk I never overcome. The rug Was not an en-| Noticed that expression about his eyes chanted one. For sixteen feet he could before.’ sald slat WUD travel along it; three thousand miles| downtown and change my bank ao the photographed wom: Chalmers tore this let sand bits and besan | expensive rug by striding back and! banker who sat forth upon It. Thus an animal from portrait on ext he jungle acts when it is caged, and a caged man acts when he 1s ed in a jungle of doubt. By and by the restless mood was r into a thou- | wear out his] 3 seers alds count.” He did drop de but the WOO bees ED Eo bank account was gone so was Mr, The Genie. ES Ge, "It wasn't long till they put me out YW A. ever entered; Phillips appeared. He n veq.{Of business, People don't want thele he invarlably appeared, lke a weil-| Secret meannesses shown up in @ nfo cine Caae ture. They can smile and t “Will you dine here, siz, or out?’ he t their own faces and i e you, but he pio- asked. esendidece “Here,” sald Chalmers, “and in half ‘re cane T couldn't get an ord for a ep? lumly to the|®Nother picture, an vad to give up. an hour.” He listened glumly to tne |e aeet ae etopapen artlet fone January bias aking an Aeolian rombone of the ty street, Wait,” he said to the disappearing while, and then for a my work for them trouble. If I dr my drawing showed up chara and expression that you c , but t ographer, but me into the same a pd genie. “As I came home across the| end the square I saw many men) Jing there in rows, There was one| (0, S20 mounted upon something, talking. Why) |) | erigin do those men stand in rowa, and why| ot! SUPT t™ are they there?” gles 2 sere & ireieyiare) Monjeloss), man Get I began to rest my wea Phillips, “The _m enaing on GO ore ch olny eee pe box tries to get lodging for oot ia pretty soon I was in -bed line the Reoples come sro and doing ora! f for hand-outs inte cos cao dei eure “Gea UDR Sas Ca ee ee ee ends ag many aa the money will pay | tT OOe rs to some lodging house, That 9/00 y they stand in rows; they wet 8M] ai aster ston tt you prefer, but that re- bed in order as they come.” quires a tear, and I'm afraid I can't “py tho thme dinner Je served.” e@l4) 1614 one up after that good dinner, ch ve one of those men jThe Test, ere. He will dine with m sWew-which"— began _ Phillips, mering for the first time during his| “No, no,” said Chalmers, earnestly, vices “you interest me very much. Did all of noose one at random," said Chal-|vour portraits reveal some unpleasant mera, “You might aee that he !s rea-|tratt. or were there some that ald net cnabty sober—and a certain amount] suffe, from the ordeal of your pecullar cf vleaniinesa will not be held against | brush 7” him. That js all." “Some? Yas," sala Pinmer, “Ohtidren @ cond many women and a A Queer Guest. nt_number of men. All people On the half hour Phillipa tad finshed |aren’t bad, you know. When they were duties as slave of the lamp. The Jal! right the pictures were all right. As walters from the restaurant below Yic|T sald, I don't explain it, but Pm telling whisked aloft the delectable dinner,|veu facts” The dining table, luld for two, glowed] On Chatmers's writing-tnble Iny the y in the glow of the pink-shaded| photograph that he had received that ie day in the foreign mail. Ten minutes ‘And now Phill! though he|later he had Plumer at work making sketch from {t in pastels, At the end dinal—or held in charge Sepeeneea tn the shivering guest | of an hour the artist rose and stretched who had been haled from the line of} weartly. mendicant lodgers, ‘It's done,” he yawned. ‘You'll ex- “My name is Plumer,” sald the hish- |) me for being so long. I got inter- and ager Ve ested in the job. Lordy! but I'm tired. tones, ‘If you're like me, you like to|No bed last nig’ know, Guess know the name of the party you're|{t'll have to be good night now, O Com- dining with.” |mander of the Faithful!" “y was going on to eay,” continued! Chaimera went as far as the door Chalmers somewhat hastily, “that mine| with him and sipped some bills inte ts Chalmers. Will you sit opposite?” =| his hand. Plumer, of the ruffled plumes, bent) “Oh, I'll take ‘em,” sala Plumer. “All his knees for Phillips to slide the chatr/ that’s included in the fall, ‘Thanks. He had an air of having! And for the very good dinner. IT shall Phillips | sleep on feathers to-night and arexm of | Bagdad, I hope it won't turn tw be am in the ere: a-ewell, | hi" $ i wv ae neert! way guest, in harsh beneath him sat at attended boards before. set out the anchovies and olives. oa’ barked Plumer; “going to bela es, is it? All right, my Jovial| most excellent Ca ; your Schehere-| Again Chalmers paced restlesal « upon zade all the way to the toothpicks. /n's rug. But his beat was as fa “from You're the first Caliph with a genuine | the table whereon lay the pasta “siitwh 1 flavor I've struck since frost.|as the room would permit. . What luck! And I was forty-thira in|thrice he tried to approach 11, b# tne, I finished counting just a@ your failed. He could see the dun and »,old Joome emissary arrived to bid me te|and brown of the colors, but there wan the feast. I had about as much chance! g wall about it built by his fears that of getting a bed to-night as I have of kept him at a distan Hie sat down being the next President. How will you and tried to calm himself, Ho sprang have the sad story of my life, Mr. Al/up and rang for Phillips. 1 nid—a chapter with each course vo ee whole edition with the cigars ant) “One of God's Own Angels,” or seethe tuation does not seem a novel | ‘“There fs a young artist In this build one to you,” said Chalmers, with a|ing," he said, “—a Mr, Retneman—do amnile | ‘ou know which fs his apartment?” m FA Top floor, front, sir," said Philips, Hard-Luck Stories. Go up and ask him to favor me with “By the chin whiskers of the prophet li ‘his presence here for a few minutes,” answered the guest, “New York's seca can at once, Chalmers ine ull of ‘oun al Raschidy as | troduced himself, ae stn rperrhennl tne held up| oMr, Relneman,” sald he, “there teva s my story with a loaded meal pointed {little pastel sketch on yonder table. I t my head twenty times. Catch any- | would be glad if you will give me your body In New York giving you 0 ‘- | opinion of Ht as to Its artistic merite thing for nothing! They spell curiosity jand as a picture. and charity with the same set of build- | The young artist advanced to the table ng dlocks. Lots of * lay Ca-|and took up the eketch, Chalmers halt m owhil pla bi to the tine of a top sirloin; but |trned away, leaning upon the back of @ ver | chair, very time one of ‘em will stand ou till they serew your autoblography | “How-do—you—find {t?" he asked vou with foot notes, appendix | siowly. Hished fragments, Oh T know | “As a drawing,” sald the artist, “© n 1 see victuals coming jcan't praise It enough, It's the work ef old Bagdad-on-the | mmaster—bold and fino and true. It I strike the asphalt three | puzzles me a little! T haven't t ready | n co! Oriental! wel no!" M Mya Ias | work near as good in yes 12 U | nhe fact, man—the subject—the orige Reet | what would you say of that?” ¥ Sue | phe face’? said F man, “is the rennet [face of one of God's own angels, May at Hh ask who Re beta atte |! My outed Chalmers, wheete ) that prompted met for so tranger to dine with me. \ssure you you will not suffer throug! any curiosity of mine. ake that sk boy, and paint the ‘An hour later the Arabian guest lay] Picture of your life from it and leave vack with @ sigh of satisfaction while | the price to me,"” ipon the astonished sly is hand and pounding ek. "She is trav s in Europe, Briss {