The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1908, Page 14

I a te a —————— ——— \ @ublished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 88 to @) Park Row, New York. FP goserit PULITZER, Pros., 1 Feet 194 Pirvet, J, ANGUS BMLAY, Boo/Trees., 801 Waet 1111 on be Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, i a Ts bvenung Fot England and tho Continent and Pesta tor the United Staten ali Countries in the International a and oatal Union. a ye Yoar + 25 | One Year . 93 ‘One Month One Month VOLUME 45 gobo uudDneOHDUaOIOUD NO, 17,074, _ COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. ; HE EVENING WORLD invites the Public Service Commission, Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Anthony N. Brady, the Board of Estimate and the pub- lic generally to inspect the working models in the arcade of the Pulitz- er Building and to permit Mr. Niels Poulson to explain to them how the carrying capacity of the Brooklyn Bridge, the subway and all the eleva- ted roads in Greater New York may be increased 60% at little expense. The plans and working models are easy to understand and convinc- ing in their demonstration. The changes are so inexpensive they would cut off profitable contracts or schemes. The Brooklyn Bridge can carry F ninety trains an hour. The reason that less than sixty trains are run is not lack of bridge capacity, but the inability to handle more trains on the bridge terminal as at presen: operated. Under the present system delay to one train blocks the bridge. ERMINAL OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE Nelo. 9k De ROT OF IN. wg PLAZA In ROCF OF AviLDIMG ev 120 17. tu Under the Poulson plan, which the diagram explains, a train, hav- ing been run into a pocket, unloads from one side and then loads from the other, thereby giving, on a headway of ninety trains to the hour, four minutes for each train to load and unload, insterd of 30 seconds as now on a sixty train per hour schedule. | Were it not that the bridge would not carry so much weight 300) frains per hour could be run by the Poulson system. “~The Poulson plan would shift the trains after leaving the suspension Structure, run part of them on the ground floor, thereby saving the climb ‘up or down steps. It would abolish the present trolley loops, substitut- ing one elevated loop and one platform to unload the trolley cars and the opposite platform to load them. This would eliminate the trolley rush of passengers struggling to get on while others are struggling to| get off. The changes would cost on the upper platform between $30,000 and| $40,000, and on the ground floor about $200,000, less than the cost of | the present useless extensions. Equally simple and of advantage to all the people who ride on the’ élevated and subways are the changes in their operation which would in- crease the express service on all the elevateds. The following diagram shows how the elevated roads can run express rains by building short switches at all local stations, so that while the local train is at the station loading and unloac it and go on to the express stops. Ing the express train can pass A simple change can be made in the subway through making the lo-| cal stations island stations, thereby enabling the running of express trains! _ on the local tracks, passing the locals while the locals are stopping at lo- ¢al stations. The inventor of these plans is Niels Poulson, who twenty years ago| was a bridge engineer himself, and who is now President of the Hecla | fron Works and a man of wealth. He is not after a contract, and he is not in poli He has spent a great deal of money and time, not because there is any personal profit in it for him but because he believes that a man who has made his money in New York should try to do some good with it here according to his intelligence. If instead of the Po: n being so simple and in vided opportunities for overcapitalization, fat contra } Kissena Parks and rotten hose graft, it would have met \ reception from both ‘pensive it pro- kan dams, ith a different uiticials and public service corporations. Letters from the People. Legal Ata Soctety, 239 Broad- To the } . SOE eTA e all right, so y Seirt Where can I «et free legal a does it begin work wrong, M Mé4 , readers? Rone M A Genealogical Mixap. In the World Almanac, TD the Eaitor ng World: To # Here 1s a qu r some of your ‘about the Feaders to puz: very man has marriage laws of Greater New York? 2 parents. 4 ¢ J M. Grandparents. Parents, and so culating back 82 ge 96 years, averaging th @ach generation, and doub! n count, I that every man wou!d| exp: Bave 2,147,483,645 ancestors. As thero! the 4 ‘Were not that many people in the world | are #2 years ago, the rule seems to de L2eY Wrong somewhere But pwheret We Deinga not ‘us Here and in Europe. To the Battor of The Evening World I do not see bow in ts supposed Another Alleged Fraudulent Picture. By Maurice Ketten. The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhane 1 No. 29-U. S. GRANT—Part I.—The Yeare of Failure. | Eighteenth President (1822-1885), short, stocky, large head, brown hatr ond | beard; swarthy, broad forehead, deepset gray eyes and bushy brows. | | HERE was a family dispute as to what name should be given the baby son of a Connecticut farmer and tanner who had emigrated to the Ohio wilderness, One relative wanted the child called “Theodore.” Fach of the family favored a different name. At last !t was decided to write all the propoeed names on slips of paper, put them into a bat and choose in their order the first two that should be drawn forth. These two were “Hiram” and “Ulysses.” So “Hiram Ulysses” the baby was christened. His father always called him “Ulysses.” Some uncrowned humoriet in the neighborhood twisted the highsounding word into “Useless.” The baby, saddled with this odd title, was to be known to fame as | Ulyeses Simpson Grant. For his troubles in the line of nomenclature were rot yet over. When he went to West Point the Congressman who ap- pointed him. made a mistake in the entry, and the new cadet was written down on the rolls as ‘“Ulyeses Simpson Grant.” His classmates pretended his Initiale, “U, 8.," stood for “Uncke Sam" or “United States,” and applied both nicknames to him. Afterward, und for greater reasons, he was to be labelled “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Ulyeses wae eldest of his parents’ aix children. Times were hard there on the frontier, and he was set to work avout the farm and tannery when he was barely seven. The only deta!] of such labor for which be showed any especial cleverness was the handling e ® of horees. He loved riding, and could, as a mere Daring Feats of child, master the most viclous of his father’s Ze ee Fs 2 es Horsemanship. colts. At eleven he won the $5 offered by eo @ travelling showman to any boy whom the circus’ trick pony could not throw. He could aleo stand on one foot on the back of a galloping horse. Even as a lad—and all his life—he was almost unnaturally silent. A simplicity of manner and & seeming dulness made him more or less the butt of his play:aates. At seventeen he went to West Point. There he showed no great promise of military greatness. He was accounted the most daring horse- man in the academy, but was graduated twenty-first in a class of thirty- nine, thus appearing to justify the complaint of an Ohio nelghbor who, on hearing of young Grant's appointment, had grumbled: “Why didn’t ther appoint a boy that'd te a credit to our district?” Grant himself wroil later of his West Point career: “A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army.” On graduation he was sent as brevet second lfeutenant of infantry to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. He had wanted to join the cavalry, but there was only one cavalry regiment in all the service at that time. The whole United States army was only §,000 strong and had more officers than it needed. Inderd, during Grant's cadetship it was seriously planned to abolish the West Point Academy. 1846, when the Mexican war broke out, Grant went to the front tn Zachary Taylor's command. There his dashing bravery became at once manifest. He is said to have fought {2 all but one of that war's important battles. He regarded by his su- ior officers as courageous but of no great martial ability. After peace declared he married Mias Julia Dent, the sister of one of his West Point classmates, and after a few tronsfers to various army posts was sent to Fort Vancouver, Oregon. Ther lived, lonely and without hope of promotion. He took to drinking heavily. For many ars thereafter the liquor habit was an enemy that stood In the way of his success. At last, by sheer force of will, he conquered ft. Tiring of the monotony of army life, Grant in 1854 resigned his cap- taincy commission and went to live on his wife's sixty-acre farm near St a As a farmer he was a failure. He worked In the flelds with his 's three negro slav and toiled early and late for a bare living. Pov- erty was his only reward. He cut trees into cordwood and peddled the wood fn a cart through the streets of St. Louis. He is described as riding into town on the top of his wood load, wearing a coarse shirt, an old felt hat, and patched trousers that were tucked into his boot tops. He was never without a ci in his mouth. The farm could not support family, so Grant trfed bill collecting, but failed at that, too. He sought the post of county engineer, but did not win it. As real estate agent and then as auctioneer he scored two more disasters. He even applied in despair for a job us teamster. Finally, in 1860, he moved his family to Galena, Ill., where he A“Failure” Who became clerk and handy man in his father’: Won Lasting Fame. $ store at a salary of $15.28 a week. Not high pation a man of thirty-eight with a wife and fours’ Ze GE ie ib eZ be TF, igs (LL Sass —> LEE) ow Bm pees) Idren to take There he stayed abougid: What Would Become ot It? Mrs. Jar GuestiOn o year, stracting sttue notice, miking no pr ite. ont jographer says he was looked on in Galena as ' 1 ot om De aoe a “+ secmed one of the world’ t interesting fail Saaral > 1 send th: s to he Commander-in-Chief of all his count By Roy L. McCardell. that country’s President. sald Mr. Jarr, qu! Then, early in i861, came the outbreak of the ec! OT any chanze?” asked offering his Mr. Jarr at the break- ices to the Government But he set to work drilling a compan; ‘oO heed wa of farm bh fas Bis dee SR Jarr. “It and soon Gov. Yates, of Mlinols, gave him wo: 1d Mrs, Jarr. So well did he accomplish this task that he reo ~ prigadier-general of volunteers. He was placed {n Missour! district, and in September, 1861, 00 view to guarding the region fiom Confederate attack and the Unton power there. Gen. Halleck took command of the of the Missour!" and placed Grant {n charge of that denar! portant section, Then came a clash. Grant w Halleck wished to follow a more conservative ied Padues core, pied Paduca five dollars.” said and a woma change. ‘To borrow from Jar. all right,’ said Mr en Mrs. Jarr action 1 him a dollar ait, e: n she needed tary genius saw a chance for attack that } % eetesy ihe eee =: , | ane = ¥ Bt is 8a r attack that Halleck had not th 2 change as she was going down towN fealize, The situation between the two suddenly grew str a or? ‘ os GUnsee/ NOWny ours money, The first great move in Grant's rise was close at ha é sure I don't know.” n $5, doy nd now {t's all gone.” pie lose at hand. Jarr. “You c d get every day asked Mra. _ arr in amazement at ered | Misaing numbers of this series may be obtained on application by sending a one-cent stamp for each article The Evening Wo-'! Circulation Department.” {t from your friend G "t have to pay It y do you say my you're ri ginmill, but he might be a good f1 sand for more than a little chinge to ta taut why do you say I wouldn't need Can sie RA s sample of female ¢ ; Isn't !t better for splurge with {t?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “And you won't give me any » Jarr. “That's plenty.” ut it's only the middle than for you to ey for carfare, luncheon asked Mr. Jarr ne continued + About Punch and Toddy. Data Concerning These Beverages. CH, or rather panch, means five. It vc (five rivers), and is much used in conjunction with other words to denote aggregations of five materals; but by the begining of the eighteenth century, says a writer in Har Weekly, word had begun to acquire its present significance, five ‘dients of |punch proper are the epirit which gives the drink its name (as c Saar tr —————_ | whlskey punch), hot water, lemon, sugar and tea. Of these the w = By F. G. Long. aU ee SN aerate more?" aske@ Mr.| from somebody ea quarter, that's replied the good lady. you'd looked closer | ollar bill,” and he | you, wou! flashed this ‘Here's your five do w give me my mon | ‘She got it, too. But she afterward told Mrs. Rangle didn't that the best man in the world will hold money out lke a on a good wife. 9 bill.” ak said Mr. Jarr. “I've it since Monday, but I uu the $10 will you give me « that's t pay it © f urs in the name Punjaud said Mrs. Jarr, quickly. ything back," sald Mr. Jarr. “Why, you say so before? certainly," sald Mrs, Jarr. “Wh and she produced a b “] wonder W “They do enough for people, wh: uld they erally been abandoned. Cobbler's punch is made from beer, while in Roman a degenerate and chilly varfation of quor. In Stock. rathec punsch, !s, or was til recently, ed from the leased The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones and Beautiful Araminta Montresscr. WwW “= Love In Darktown. | AN’ PRAY PUSS PIONTRESSOR., |(YOHS Al POW FUL, colloquially known as tod. the East, the fermented sap of the paim tree. while popularty confused with pu When distilled, CLEMME SHow YOU (How DEM B/G AFLEETS q E ASION O8 SSON, MISTO, AXERCISES~ AHSS (QHee ae FRAT IRONS? ae Rae Sieg ULIFS DE DING BELLS.| |aver Js known as arrack. Toddy is fermented by the native tribes in all parts GOIN’ To DEVIL=Sy (ee {DELY! 3 ee bay | of the globe. 4 UP MAH MUS- . Koes iS Sees z é 5 eb ALES. ‘i 9 . ° ; 6eé F | The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. | ¢ Z x ‘ Nap-leon Bonaparte, with whom we have much In com- mon, Judged men by their NOSES. A BIG NOSE meant a BIG MAN to Boney. While we have never understood why a man’s nose had to be placed In the middle of his face, we are willing to admit that It deserves a PROMINENT POSITION. We DO NOT agree with Haeckel that the chief funetion of The Nose ls to SMELL, We Incline more to Gallleo's NOTION that it was BETTER to BLOW with. The whale blows with its nose and Is the largest of mammals, ‘though without the Intelligence of MAN. We will never let OURSELVES be outblown by anybody. no! even by a whale! We should study the development of the nose. Puny pugs | should be abolisned by LAW. Then the NATION will become | truly great! N. B—The Rule DOES NOT apply to our Little “ Mayor.” He has a big nose but Is a SMALL MANJ We Ponder on Noses. (Copyrot, 1908. by the Planet Pub. Co.) { You's DE Hips I SCAREL Ect) MAN SNO 0. CA FEELIN? To! $.( FLATTEN Y0?< FACE LIKE (’5cusé ME! AN’, AH BAGS MAH PAWDON, DEY ae Done DRAP! “AH COULD‘N’ HE'P 17! CRA SPRUNG ONE 06, 0 MAH BICEPS. | aa ’