The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1908, Page 18

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, So th RARITIES J entyee eterna sensei ich natannnp-eonpaenreaay ce mteaeneahty toeee Pagan teres PP ENT tees k k f | Published Daily Except Sunday by the:Press Publishing Compa | Park Row, New York "8 i (SOBEPA PULITZER, Pros, 1 Kast 124 Stree J. axGU ANY, Soe. Trens,, 201 Weet Ee eee } Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, ews Bubscription Hates to The Evening ; ‘World for the United States i ¥ aoe 28 | One Year 95 J ‘One Year 5 eo Year. One Month 30 ' One Month.. ss VOLUME 438. OV. HUGHES gives a hearing to day on the Coney nd Five-Cent Fare bill. The B. R. T. and the E Inter.-Met. are opposed to it. Every- body else is in favor of it. Hundreds of letters have been received by the Governor in favor of the five-cent fare. If you have a family, and if you sometimes take them to Coney Island, you might write to the Governor telling him how many nickels a year a Coney Island five-cent fare means to you end how you are more entitled to this money than is the B. R. T. Since this bill was fathered by The Evening World there is good reason why it should reply in advance to the B. R. T.’s argument that there is not sufficient profit in the Coney Island five-cent fare because the cars go empty one way, although they are crowded the other way. Coney Island is a little less than ten miles from the Brooklyn Bridge. A ten-cent fare is over a cent a mile and a nickel fare would be a little over a half-cent a mile. The average commutation rate on MI the steam railroads around New York is less than half a cent a mile. i Counting the ferriage separate it is considerably less. From distant i commutation points like Poughkeepsie the rate is only a quarter of a cent a 4 LT I f a mile. The commutation business is even more one way than the Coney Island business, beciuse from the latter part of the afternoon on until the latter part of the evening people are both going from and coming to Coney Island, so that the B. R. T.’s argument of running one way empty applies only to a fraction of the day. Also trolley transportation as handled by the B. R. Per passenger per mile than stem commutation. Steam have seats. More passengers are packed in and on a B. R. T. car than there are seats in a steam car. fi According to the B. R. T.’s last annual report the cost of oper the cars was $4,803,820, and the receipts from passengers were $18,443,- 983. Maintenance, power and damage suits cost more than operation. Everything included the proportion of the B. R. T.’s total expenses to } iis gross earnings is 63 per cent. j passengers, and the rest is profit. The total net income last amounting to $8,510,846, is sutficient to pay 5 per cent. dividends or 170,000,000 capitalization. The reason the B, R. T. lack of profits, but beca is over-capitalized and badly managed. To argue, > B. R. T., that the Coney Isl he based on mileage would logically require a reduction the short triy So long as passengers from the New Yo: City Hall to the Brooklyn City Hall are charged a nickel for a service thai costs a ce nd short trippers everywhere throughout thi pay a uniform fare, there is no justice in the demand for an e Trom passengers who travel commuter trolley does not pay as does passengers he average accompani reduce the fare for passe n the northern part of the Bronx tc Brooklyn f ter and sh 1 lo the Interboroug this long trip a nickel f Grand C i turt R. to nate against Coney Island possengers. = The omitted from th nt are all on one side liv the babies of New York, the health of t fort of ies are all consideration Governor, although he B. R. T. nothing cents, { i 4 Scots Letters irom the People. More About cartier ! 2 Adio The statement jack W 1 Rnatclichenersneld: noconimeant 4 ing the Boer War” is 1 whose | i ei rea i! was ont Mitones Ditkere ; was are M Souda i Yew To the Halior of x Ix “Pall M prone 1 to Grow, t To the Editor of The E ine ' 2 inches in my s ne : aie : tha ead weighing 19% pounds wit! clothes y costs less} What’s the Use of Knowing That There Are Nearly 400,000 Idle Freight Cars in the Country When You've Trouble of Your Own? That is, it costs 3.2 cents to carry | dividends is not because of | fare should} f the fare to| Ain't It Awful, Mabel? By Maurice Ketten. WiTH FREE AND INDEPENDENT CITIZENS EVERY BODy 15 EQUAL IN THE EYES oF THE MERGER HE CAN SWEAR OFF wis TAXES HE IS & KING: IN HIMSELE HIS WIFE 15 AQUEEN, AND PUTS on STRAW Hars IN APRIL BuT- He CANNOT WEAR HIS Berore a THE 1p oF JUNE — AINT IT AwFrul MABEL? HE CAN BE PRESIDENT Kole ponderous and extremely wealthy, and also I think my wife {s in a betier humor.” said Stryver I; peeeeecronaee 5, aah Chines, Coenen Then Mr. Stryver procemint to tell Mr. Jarr there rie world would be useless if any one really wished to kill “Howdy, Jarr; where're you going?” asked thie were nearly 400.0% idle freight nthe aldings | him. On the night of April 14, 1805, a ¢ formance was given at By Roy L. McCardell. cate As Jenkins, the bookkeeper, had told Mr. Jarr this| Ford's Theatre, Washington. Lincoln had an almost childish love for the b6 ND some day I'll go out Just thought I'd run downtown,” eat? Mr. Jarr. earlier in the day. and his friend Rar nad aried | theatre. He had promiset to be present that evening. The same day he A and I'll. never come ‘Come aee the new quarters of our club." sald Mr. about it while In his cups the night before, and he | had come toa Cabinet meeting looking worrled. Always more or less supers back!’ This was Mr. Stryver in a patroniaing tone. He knew Jarr coulijhad overheani the elevator poy say it to the mal. | stitioue, he had explained that he bad had a strange dream and was op inal 4 in @ verbal not afford to belong to such a ciwb and it might|man as he had left the office. Mr. Jarr got a little | pressed by a presentiment of evil. What this dream and presentiment were asked who had counted t it. sald Mr. ° atistics show this and properly emphasize the Importance of the rich man |pesvish to take the poorer one through those palatial and| ‘Statistics show stupidly dull halls. Bestles, !t would cost very ja@iwayd tell you tle-the price of a high ball or two: for Mr. Stryver| Mr. Jarr felt a strong impulse to pu was one of those men who never bought wine. be-|the nose ‘lust for luck,” but cause he id he didn't Itke ft, but he abways drank |the station near Mr. Stryver’s club that gehtle: {t when somebody else bought !t escaped unsmitian at ‘The Invitation dldn't appeal to Mr. Jarr. ‘The! At the next s rping upon the thought of spending the evening with a dullard like| to go back he rode dewntown in Stryver grated on t nervous con-| pinochle game at Gus's place. dition. “lve a very ess engagement, | In getting on an uptown traufn the guard sad but thank you just the same,” lively!" “You run your trains lively first,’ “Hows the wife?’ asked r Mine's (Mr. Jarr, but the guard only ger sore at me about something © belong to| Arriving at cate, a club In such cases. Ever been driven from home?” |great delight as the hand Or sald Mr. Jarr. lying gibly ‘Mrs. Jarr|declared he didn't want to play {s the best tempered woman fn the world I can’t |feel like {t. He also declined ad." was on the water wagon er snorted. ‘“Tetll me how you do it?) Then he walked out and hurried home. s country ts going to the the details of ¢ too harrowing sensitive E last word, how- was stil red Dull that Stryver ax Mr thor she theme as get for being comment. “If a » do right his wife as goon rake ¥ ne! Dog gon anyway? And just when I thoug)t wood!" pinochle; to drink, mm." sa yw it started, but he wondered to >} ons were disturbed by Mr. Stryver, the house and stay out till ‘tell Mr. Showemhow Does Som> Plur bing. -: { rH0s FAUCET LEAKS Plum BER ; BOSH! | J Guess Youn BETTER, {ALL IT NEEDS 1S A DON'T WASTE YOUR. 0 FoR A PLUMBER REWAWASHER: NI MONEY. (Gee Tut Fix IT IN Ay MINUTE TEMGE TNT UNDER CONTROL Now! 5 (pi Fitts May 15, 1908: | in| leaped down onto the stage shouting Virginia's State to: “SI per the train arriving at qi s Sore oe ean tion Mr. Jarr got out, determined Northern city own and see !f he coujd get ja a 0 Mr. Jarr was hailed with Opening | the door of the flat, he stepped tn and remarked sul- where for a few men boss too much! Well, they can't boss |i “Go as tar as you ; win | or a few weeks Why. whatever's the matter with you, FEdwant or a few days, and he'd “‘I ke to be bossed.* sald Mr. Jarr. ‘Let ‘em |Jarr vre getting to be such @ crank?’ said Mrs. | rt and, anyway, he didn’ way. It isn't worth fussing about |Jarr mildly. « rthermore he didn't car lover When they see you won't] Whereat he insisted they go to the theatre. an 7 cney went in high good humor. You never can il, 1 just go out _ By F. 4G. Longe 8 The Story of The Presidents 'No 27,—ABRAHAM LINCOLN,—Part (V.—Tr.umphand Death HIS is not 9 story of the Civil War, merely of Lincoln's attitude toward T it. In a former series, “The Wars of Our Country,” that tragic con~ pscribed in detail. ne President blamed for the army's failures, but for the ‘ay he met every cris: Abolitionists denounced s the moment the war broke out, not realizing \ flict was Not only was deliberate, unemotional him for not freeing th tha: his ¢ larat nut the slaves were free (whon he was not yet in position to enforce words) would be worse than useless. He had necessarily slow plan for final success, and would not risk national failure by listening to those who howled for apectacular, prem@< | ture action. Many of his generals were not competent. For their blunders | he was blamed. He bided his time until the right military leader could be | found. The country, unused to so tremendous a war, was not yet able to cope with the situation. Linec ttle by little, was turning its massive weakness into compact strength | In reward he was denounced as slow, incompetent, stupid. Disappointed. | politictans, impatient jingotsts and others sneered at him. Northern news- | papers urged “On to Richmond!" and declared Lincoln could capture the | Confederate capital {f he chase to. European newspapers made fun of his | ugly face, his lanky, gigantic form, his uncouth speech and manners, hig rude wit, his lack of refinement. He was alternately stormed at as a dunce a tyrant end a buffoon. To all this mockery, contempt and denunciation, \he pald no more outward heed than he had to the North's earller enthte | siasm. Cut to the core of his gentle heart as he was by his fellow-country men’s unjust scorn, he gave no sign of his private feelings. but pursued calmly the long, uphill road to ultimate success that he had lald out foe | himself. Carefully choosing the ‘psychological moment,” when such an act would rouse the lagging hopes of the North and strike the Confederacy most heavily, he issued on 62, the Emancipation Proclamatton, fresing all slaves. A supplementary proclamation was issued the next eoennnnneee— (inuery. ‘The North was beginning fy this tlme to Emancipation { learn how to use its mighty resources and the first { flood of Confederate victory was beginning to ebb ° { Proclamation. 4 Then, in July, 1853, came the battle of Gettysburg, when Lee, Invading Pennsylvania with the flower of the Southern armies, was sent flying back !n panic rout to Virginia. Im the same month Grant captured Vicksburg. ‘ The tide had ed and with {t the fickle fayor of the people. Men who had so r lat Lincoln now cheered him. The nation began to und eat and wise purposes that guided him Again he was their } ored leader. The army loved him, too. The sight of his ta . always clad {n black, his tall black hat and ad for wild cheering as he rode awkwardly Inspection. Men marched {nto battle shoute sed in his honor WwW coming, Father ing t Abraham, six hundred thousand strong!” Once and again campfire stories were told of how his clemency had stood between some delinquent soldier death, how, against the advice of Stanton, his grim Secretary of War, the Presijent often Interceded to save from execntion a tired picket who ha& yeen found asivep at his post, or a recruit who had run home, without leave, nt was put {nm charge of all the Unton armies early in 1864. He ess0 j var, relentlessly, in the enemy’s country. At news of each vic- t \ crowd would rush to the White House to serenade Lincoln. The tried to avoid speech ing at such times, saying: “I do not to seem to glorify ourse! t the expense of a fallen foe.” The same was renominated fi Let siunme ‘oln resitent, with Andrew Johnson for \ t The De inate’ Gen. ¢ e B. McClellan. whose ' ned by the ludicrous faflure of his cam- -incoln was reelected, recelvine 912 electoral spring Richmond fe Lincoln entered the captured nes ‘derate capital on foot (without any pomp or ceremony that could fure ther humble his bes and attended only Dy a boat crew from @ small war vessel locked about him, weeping, shouting, pray- ing, ser ny) t and garments of thelr Liberator. | Tears »wn Lincoln's thin, furrowed face at sight of the freed slaves* hysterical joy » had smashed slavery had saved the Union. the dark closing scene remained. The whole Republic » i!d with en worshipping eves of a redeemed nation we n death. A n one atiemp His life was in constant told his anxious adviser the Confederacy. He had destroyed His wondrous Ufework was done. Only siasm. Yet this man on whom the turned stood on the threshold very probable he knew It. ‘o murder him had been folled. peril from assassin He often that all the safeguards in the Attempto at ! | | Assassination. } he would not tel! During the performance that nlght an actor, John Wilkes Booth, se cretly entered the Presidential box, shot Lincoln through the ‘rain and | Public rejoicing was thus c ) the nation had never be anged In a single night to anch grief as known. All business was su. s muffled in crape. Men wept in the str The Unton was saved. But the hero-martyr who had saved it lay dead. Minsing mambers of this series may he obtained on application by sending a one-cent stamp for each article to “The Rvening World Circalation Department +e Nixola Greeley-Smith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY AOR Blighted Love at Sixty, RS. SARAH A. THOMPSON, a grandmother of sixty, i" | 1s sulng a midale-aged man of her acquaintance for $10,000, alleging breach of promise, Already incon- ate men have jaugied a! the idea that the love which springs up dn a sexagenarian heart is of a quailty to be blighted. is, In my opinion, for the older @ woman grows the more she believes, indeed the more ae has to believe. A man doesn't care whether a young and pretty womag, believes in bim or not, provided she ia graciously willing to love him. But as a woman must be to him efther an dot or a swinger of Incense, and he generally allows her age to determine which, the elderly siren naa generally to make up in falta what she lacks in fresiness, Also, we discover as We grow older and stouter that t s much more comfortable to believe In men than not. And fat with every year. er for a gay decetver to beguile a girl of sixty than @ former has ecquired the habit of being begulled. I know 5 women who do not know thoroughly the ways ama ‘0 call justly for either sympathy cr dameges in @ But I can recall several old ladies so credulously eager e proverbial meanness of tuking peantes from « blima so we wax in faith ar It Is really m: girl of sixteen, for the very few Amertean ye wiles of man-none w breach of promise si for man's wooing that t man 1s by comparison with the stealing of thelr confiding hearts an aot of fine piilanthropy Perhaps a Ired years or so ago woman had to learn gradually @ jedictous Ireumspection in ro¢ vows But to-day cynietsm and sophisti- even our youngest that a woman fing» man's constancy at thirty than she did @@ sperate villofns tn our mtdst should confine thetr decemtiong And we, the hunted, shoum, if necesmary, ps who know not whereof he speaks. eee athe | The Impossible 300-Mile Gun. By Cast. F. M, Rumbold. ARD the wet thy Weapon has been made to fire shelje it F ¢ said Capt, F. M. Rumbold, of Battery A, Louls Post-Dispatch. “I do not see hov such @ m the old (Pal thing cou vifiict with the known laws of natare, IP would Ing ) vround the difficulties presented bh: the rvature of the ear nd the ef gravity. And even if re ounted, T cannot see how the could find shis range, even 9 most accurate maps a story “The announce Inds me of siown a@ rifle that would carry six miles. to shoot @ man Is to now hia address.’ yt an old darky who was ‘Sawdy,’ said the, “all you got te @e