The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1908, Page 16

day by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 5% to @& Park Row, New York 2 ANGUS SHAW, Ree. Trea} Published Daily Except Suni JOSEP A PULITIEN, Pros Entered at the Post-om ww York as Second-Class Mail Matter, bec: Rvening ) For England and the Continent an@ | eee Stok the United States «| All Countries in the International and Canada, a Year, Pome, Union. pa ‘ear. Year... : Ss Tout: | Ons Mon = A ARREARS IT ieeine, The Evening World Daily Pra Moving Day. By Mauri .NO, 17,088, VOLUME 48 PROSPECT PARK TO THE BRONX. T 4 o'clock this morning the first regular train ran from the Bronx to the Long Island Railroad station in Brooklyn. For one fare any person can now go from within walking | distance of Prospect Park to with-| in walking distance of the line di- viding the Bronx from Yonkers. This is as it should be, only there should be more of it. For one fare a passenger should be able to go from any part of any borough in Greater New York to, any part of any other borough from Queens to Spuyten Duyvil, from Tottenville to East New York, from the City Hall anywhere. | A complete system of interborough subways is the only feasible sotution of the tenement house problem, It is the only way by which New York’s commercial supremacy can be made to benefit the citizens of New York instead of adding to land values and taxable assessments in New Jersey. Out of every thousand people in New York, 999 want new subways. | The richest city in the world, with a revenue greater than that of the United States Government at the beginning of the civil war, with an incor..c now more than four times the receipts of the State Treasury, with an assessment roll which represents one-sixteenth of the whole wealth of the United States, the righteous demand of the people for| more subways is refused by the Mayor and the Comptroller on the ground that the city has not available the money to build them. There is no lack of money, but it is squandered. There is no lack of | means, but théy are wasted. The real lack is neither of money nor re-| sources, but of an honest, capable, intelligent, public serving city gov-| ernment. | One borough president has just resigned rather than face a hearing) on charges filed with the Governor. Another borough president is now under investigation by the Commissioners of Accounts. The boroug: president of Manhattan was once removed by the Governor and is now holding his official head in his hands waiting for a judicial decision on his title. ; The Mayor will go to-morrow on an automobile excursion with Comptroller Metz and Secretary Hassett of the Water Supply Board to| arrange for the spending of a few more million dollars on the Catskill} water scheme. Twelve miles of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad are! to be removed, six stations are to be abolished, and the City of New York is to pay for six villoges, their surrounding farms and a railroad at what- ever price the condemnation commissioners, the Water Supply Board and | the Board of Estimate will tolerate. The majority of the people who work in New York would willingly change employers for 10 per cent. advance in pay. The majority of organized labor would strike and go without work or wages if throst- ened with 9 10 per cent. reduction in ray. The City of New York takes more than 10 per cent. of the earn- ings of everybody and squanders most of what it takes. The city's expenditures last year amounted {o , more than $250 for the average family, and the average family in New York earns less than $1,000 a year. But the very men who would be first to strike against a reduction in wages and the quickest to change employers for a slight advance keep on year after year voting for city WS ce Ketten. KA OVIN VAW Lan TAN MOVING: VAN (Oey Te DENVER_ <_< G& HUGHES NoT MOVING Aofes and Carry It Home for Her. oe By Roy L. McCardell. “oy SEE an advertisement in the paper that says all the glass doors, the mantelpieces and windows taken out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, that Is being torn down, will be sold very cheap, said Mrs. Jarr, as she scanned over the evening paper. By George! We better hurry there and buy a few hundred mantelpieces and glass doors before they are all sapped up!” said Mr, Jarr, with mock eagerness, “1 didn't say we needed them now," said Mrs, Jarr, are going very cheap; and you are always talk- us getting a home in the country, although, 1 don't want to move to any of those And {f we did have a house in he country I would Uke an inclosed poreh, The Dickinses have an inclosed pore! at their place in East Malaria, and veranda and matting on the floor and potted nparlor at a sanitarlum, and taken down, but even im The Dickinses have red curtains, 5 about goodness knows, lonesome suburban towns! oy 2M Camoewa they have steam pipes out on palms, and it looks just like @ DY SLOT Yeon aay in summer the glass windows and can ass inciosed porch looks beautiful, doors be sumn) although those stained green Japanese matting curtains look nice, or, If you , want to, you can have those thin Turkish hangs in nearsilk stripe on little brass rings on a rod, and if there would be anything that would reconcile me to Uving in the ceuntry it would be a nice glass inclosed porch for the winter a sit on sunny days. r, when the good lady paused for breath. i go buy a lot of misfit glass doors when you hance that some day we'd have a place !n inclose the porch?” if you got them for almost nothing? cap" ‘obody ever got where one “Gee wht mean to tell n have no pla the country “Why not the way to get rich “Tt 1s not," sald Mr. Tha rich buying things, and “Do you! especially when they didn’ buying them!” Don't they have to buy ‘Buy Your Wife an Old Glass Door From the Fifth Avenue Hotel, She’ll Be Glad, Because It’s a Bargain t need them. People get rich SELLING things, net things first before they can sell them?" asked Mrs. Jarr. “It is all done by buying things at wholesale and selling them at retail, Mr. Jenkins explai: | like wholesale.” “Now, look here," said dit all to me the other day, and getting things cheap is just) Mr. Jarr, “just for sake of argument, suppose we buy a lot of those glaas doors in the hope of having a porch to put them on | some day. Ry the time we buy them, haul them some place, pay storage on jthem, and then cut them down or add to them and fix them over to fit our porch, it would cost us more than to walt and have the job done right with frames and windows made | “I don't see how that is, 1f one got the windows for almost nohing," replied | Mrs. Jarr. things! “Of course, I “But wouldn't it be cheaper if we could get a lot of glass doors now for| $10 and hold them instead of paying over $200 to have them made to order when | we had our house, like Mrs. you.” “Then my answer is no!" sald Mr, Jarr. “It's a big mistake to buy things | they are cheap when you haven't the money to spare. I'd rather wait till I had plenty of money and pay double prices than to buy, hard up and get and leaves you broke; to spend a thousand for the | Just because things when I'm only have $5 pinches you “You'll never be a rich look at things!’ said Mrs. g when you have to ft the piazza.” was only Supposing. I don't want to buy the old Dickins did? I don't want them. I'm just asking That's why them cheap. To epend $ when you ten thousand to spare {8 a cinch." man, we'll never have a cent if that's the way you Jarr. “And, just the same, I'm going to see what they ask for those glass doors.” “Let us buy the house “House in the country, ‘to the country! But if I put it fn that closet in t clone “rl carry it myself,” in the country first," sald Mr, Jarr. indeed!" sald Mrs, Jerr. could get a nice second hand glass door we could he dining-room and {it would mal a@ lovely chine and if we moved we could take the door with us.” said Mr. Jarr, grimly. However, a @ale of school shoes attracting her attention, Mrs, Jarr forgot all about bargains in second ‘hand buflding material, s whose inefficiency, lack of I) civic intelligence and sometimes dishonesty make living in New York costly, increase rents and reduce the earnings of labor. ~ Letters from the People. 1776. New York City. ; form. 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GooD-EYa | 01" PAL: “You won't get me to go) The Story of The Presidents ! | Thirteenth President (1800-1874). Strikingly handsome. Large frame and | heat Aquiline nose, strong mouth, prominent chin. | Shrewd, kindly eyes. ILLARD FILLMORE was descended from a pirate. One of his early M ancestors, John Fillmore, was captured at sea by pirates, joined their crew, fought for nearly a year under the black flag, then, with 80: companions, killed the pirate captain and his officers, and sailed the ship into Boston harbor. | Millard Fillmore himself was the son of a pioneer backwoonsman, sad |was born in what was then the wilderness of Cayuga County, N. Y. |The Fillmores’ nearest neighbor lived four miles away. For nine months ,& year young Millard worked on his father’s farm, tramping to and from @ | wretched district school during the other three. The family library con- | tained only two volumes—the Bible and a hymn book. Until he was nine- teen Millard never had seen a map or history of his country, a copy of | Shakespeare or any other literary work. He hated farming, and at fourteen | managed to have himself apprenticed to a clothmaker. There the boy waa | bullied and nagged past endurance, His employer at last threatened ta |thrash him, Millard snatched up an axe and swore to brain the man | should the latter lay so much as a finger on him. Then he packed his Starts Life on Capital of $30. few clothes and some provisions and set off on a hundsed-mile tramp | through the snowy, trackless forests to his father's cabin. “This experience,” wrote Fillmore in later years, ‘‘made me feel for | the weak and unprotected, and to hate the insolent tyrant in every station of life.” | Finding another and kinder employer, he continued to learn the cloth | trade, but before long tired of it. At nineteen he decided he wanted to | become a lawyer. With a capital of just $30 he went | to Buffalo and began to study for the bar, eking out | a living meantime by work as office boy and school | teacher. Admitted to the bar in 1823, he began prac- i tice in Aurora, N. Y. There he won his first case, } and received in payment $4. | Buffalo, which henceforth became his home. Buffalo is the only city im | the Union except New York and Quincy, Maas, that has produced two Pree | idents—Fillmore and Cleveland. Of the five Vice-Presidents who became | President through the death of a Chief Executive while in office, three were | New Yorkers. They were Fillmore, Arthur and Roosevelt. New York haa | furnished more Vice-Presidents tuan bas any State in the Union. | In 1828 Fillmore entered politics. His political career began and ended with that of the Whig party, whose varying fortunes he always followed, se served three terms in the New York Legislature, and In 1832 went to Congress, where he remained almost continuously for ten years. An une | successful effort was made to nominate him for Vice-President on Henry | Clay's Whig ticket in 1844, and in the fall of that year he was defeated | for Governor of New York. In 1847 he was made Comptroller of his native | State, and, in 1848, was nominated by the Whigs for Vice-President, | Zachary Taylor being the Presidential nominee. Taylor and Fillmore were ‘elected. Thé former's death, in July, 1850, left Millard Fillmore President of the United States. Thus, for the second time in nine years, a Vice- | President succeeded to office through the death of the Chief Executive | In the half century before then no such case had occurred. Fillmore, in view of Taylor's recent death, would allow no inaugural festivities or elaborate ceremony. Taylor's Cabinet resigned, and Fillmore chos~ a new one, with Daniel Webster at ite head as Secretary of State, On Webster's death Edward Everett took his place. The new Presiden nad entered into office at a stormy period. North and South were fast | drawing apart over the slavery question. Slavery was the burning issue in both houses of Congress. Fillmore’s chief idea was to heal the breach and to preserve peace throughout the nation. For this reason, probably, he upheld the rights of a master to chase and recapture any slave that hed | sought fefuge in a no-slavery State. Thies led to riots. Many Northernera | declared Filimore was betraying his party (for the Whigs opposed slavery) and the North in general. In this way he lost thousands of his former supporters. Whether or not his unpopular action in regard to fugitive slaves was | justified, there were numerous features of his short administration which | brought lasting good to the land. To nim the country owes cheap | the opening of Japan's ports to foreign trade, several useful exploring ex | peditions, and the enlarging of the Capitol at Washington. He crushed fillbustering plots for seizing Cuba, and forced our country, to observe strict neutrality in the war between Austria and Hungary when Lou Kossuth’'s eloquence had keenly interested Americans in the Hum gerian patriots’ cause. At the close of Fillmore’s term as President our nation was more prosperous than ever before. Thanks to him, too, the coming etruggle between , North and South remained for the time in abeyance,~ He had served hia country well, and merits ite grate- ful remembrance. Yet his attitude in the fugitive-slave affair had lost him the support of his party. He came up for renomination in 1852, but the North was now against him, and {t quickly became evident that his political career was at an end. True, in 1856 he was nominated for President by the new “American Party,” but he was overwhelmingly de- | feate.. He spent some time in Europe after leaving office, then returned to ed his days in Buffalo, There he was prominent in all charitable and patriotic works, passing his last years in honor and comfort, and dying ut seventy-four. Having risen from dire poverty to the highest position |{n the United States, he had so conducted himself as to leave, at the last, a name almost universally beloveg. One of his biographers writes; | “It 16 doubtful if he left an enemy on earth.” hie series may be ebtalmed on application stamp tor each article vo “The Evening Werld Political Downfall. Missing numbers Talking About Theatre Nuisances. HE people who have an idea the curtain rises at 8.20 and come in then, amd” | I ‘eo cause the audience to lose all the first part of the play. | ‘The woman who stands up and leisurely divesta herself of a very smart opera coat, obscuring the stage, but giving @ good view of the wrap. ‘The man who climbs over one in order to go out and smoke. He who comes in after the curtain is up. The elderly woman who will wear her bonnet and whose gray hairs protess her from the wrath of those behind. ‘The young woman whose elaborate colffure {s worse thang, Gainsborough hat, 20 far as hiding things are concerned.—Baltimore News, The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. nen’ | i| We Ask To Be Excused. We have perfected a New Scheme for lying truthfully about OUR Circulation. Our Mr. Bunion mentioned It yesterday. and we HASTEN to acknowledge the CORN, In order to sell the Fudge we give seas adie cae | o prize-cuupon with every copy, We have fixed It with the dealer at 149th street and Third avenue |so that he shall sell the paper to the prize seekers. In thls way | we SELL TWICE as MANY papers at this point as anybody else can, and FIVE Times as many as we ever did before. | Excuse our mentioning this petty affair, but: | This Is the great center of trade from the Bronx to the big ‘stores of New York and Brooklyn. We want these stores to advertise In THE “FUDGE,” Wewantthem to advertise because we need the money, We need the money to pay our salary. Our salary COMES DUE EVERY SATURDAY, and sometimes it BOTHERS THE BOSS to pav It. We are the highest priced Reportsr on earch. We do not say this to brag, but “pour ei.courager les autres,” as Mr. Veltaire | used to say: To-morrow we will tell you MORE about our Salary. et og Ne ee Soon he moved to ¢@&*‘ le aga et a ee