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P+ aaa . - Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, May 25, 1908. 4 Pubtshed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to GB Park Row, New York. 43 “J. ANGUS AITAW, ReeeTrona., #01 Wert 111th treet “f 'p Entered at the Post-Oflloe at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, Rates to The Kvenin Yor Pngland and the Continent and ‘ovid for the United States . All Countries in the International and Canada. Portal Union. Seaeiit scssesce ost #00 | one Year..... Sen Gee Mor teorerenersererecssseseetss «80 | One Month .NO, 17,079 THE POULSON PLANS. HOUSANDS of visitors in the past few days have viewed the Poulson Brooklyn Bridge terminal relief p as made plain by the large w: model in the arcade of the Pu Building. The Poulson plan to in- crease the capacity of the elevated roads @ subway is even more simple and its adoption would bene- fit even more people than to in- crease the capacity of the bridge terminals. The elevated roads carry more (people than the Brooklyn Bridge or the Subway. As their tracks and stations here now arranged the elevated express service is at the cost of the ! service, because the express trains cannot run on the local tracks wit! shunting the local trains off on side switches. If every elevated station had loops the local trains could stop next tithe platform and the express trains continue through a loop, stopping only at the express stations. This would enable the running of express {trains all day without interfering with the local traffic. The danger of | accident could be prevented through the use of automatic cut-offs, ‘ere capable of making an electric road absolutely safe from collision cal alternately start from the Battery or other terminal. At Station the first express train would pass the preceding local. At the next focal station it would pass the next preceding local, and so on until an express station was reached, where the express would take precedence in stopping. In the subway the same process could be applied to the local tracks by making every subway station an island, as are the express stations mow. While the local train would stop on one side of the island plat- form the express would go through on the local track on the other side,’ LAteT@— Ketten. | The Day of Rest. | By Maurice The Story of The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune C000 00000000000 0000000. NO. 31.—U, S. GRANT.—Part 111.—The Presidency. CARELBSSLY dressed, middle-aged, little man, a cigar in his mouth, A a slouch hat pulled down ower his forehead, made a tour of the South soon after the war. In many places there he was not even recognized as Gen. Grant, the conqueror. In others, he met with anything but cordiality. But he had been sent thither by President Johnson to study conditions, and his report was not tinged by the nature of his reception. To him the conquered. States wowed much of the favorable attitude adopted toward them. Gallantly he Stoo. between the South and many over-hasty Unionists’ plans for punish- ing {t. Later, he served for a brief time as Secretary of War, Johnson having tried to remove Stanton from that office. Finding the President had had no right to make such a move, Grant at once resigned. That he was still the people's {dol was proven in 1868, when he ran for President on the Republican ticket, receiving 214 electoral votes to the Democrat's, Horatio Seymour's, 80. In his letter of acceptance Grant, remembering the factional quarrele that still rent the country, ended with the four now historic words: “Let us have peace!" Now began what was, perhaps, the hardest time of Grant's life. A lover of silence, he was forced to talk. A born soldier, he was made to twist his martial mind to the unaccustomed tangles of politics. A plain man, he was obliged to run the gamut of rigid White House etiquette. He whose favorite dish was corned beef and cabbage, must learn to eat strange and more fashionable mixtures that he loathed. He was lured once into danoing at a State ball. Being asked to do so again he groaned: “I would rather storm a fort than attempt another dance!" He even fought desperately against wearing a dress sult. Through all this period the critics howled at him; misinterpreting his every action, complaining that reeked with tobacco, calling him “Smoky Caesar,” “the rude man with vulsar taste: ete, and reviling his public and private life. Stories of his ea drunkenn Ww aked rp, No other President except Lincoln has 1 exposed to such a torrent of criticism. He more than once incurred fresh ridicule by playing baseball with street boys behind the White House. Grant was without any political experience tary matters, he wil of human nature. He was thus the more read- ily deceived. He trusted his friends. His friends were not always worthy of trust. On these facts rest all his mistakes. In spite of them he was elected to a second term. Grant was accused of fraudule! ing up millions of dollars. As a times, to make his income me: Caesar.” On oo? The “ } e “Smoky § Q > In fact, outside of mill- ly accepting gifts and of secretly hoard- tter of fact, AS pressed, at His family Hfe was ideally ses happy, yet even this, too, Under his administration © PIFFLE! the capital, Washington, w en a ramshackle, ill-paved HE'S ONLY city, began to assume ‘ts present stately ¥ ther improvements set PLAYING — in. The second term, however, ended in gloom. Many of the President's stanchest supporters had turned against him. Grant was tired out. He decided on a three year tour of the world. Everywhere, in Europe and the Orient. ae was welcomed with almost royal honors. Coming home in 1880, he found himself once more so popular that his name was suggested again for President. He would take no step toward urging on his nomination, nor encouraging others to do so. Yet, in the 1880 Republican convention he received, for the first 36 ballots, a solid vote averaging 306. This was not quite sufficient to elect, and at last Garfield was chosen as a coms promise candidate. Grant's public career was at an end. He moved to New York, taking a house on East Sixty-sixth street. Three years later he fell on an icy sidewalk, injuring his hip so badly that he never afterward could k without a crutch. He was not rich. But he invested all his money in a banking firm in which one of his sons was & partner. This gave the bank greater prestige, though the ex-Prest- dent took no part In the business itself. Another partner, Ferdinand Ward, wrecked the concern. To save his son’s firm from ruin, Grant went to William H. Vanderbilt and borrowed $100,000 to keep ft going. Soon after ward, in spite of this ald, the banking house fafied. Onnmmmnnan—ana~— ® (rant’s life-long savings were swept away. He was } The Last $ old snd penniless, and moreover felt himself respon- ‘i x Fight. » sible for the borrowed $100,000. He therefore gave = 4 Hours AFTER g ~~ Mr. Vanderbilt all his medals, swords, portraits, This would almost double the express capacity of the subway and would ‘hardly diminish the local capacity, which is now more than adequate for *the local passengers. LOCAL, Exiromm Enmore “Brame GXPRE as On Tecan SRA By Roy L, McCardell. \ | “FT | fald the cunductor, re- diug the proffered red tickets with scorn. ‘It is Immaterial to me whether you take them or not,"’ said Mrs. Jarr, for \t was none ‘other than that fond wife and mother jour- eying uptown with the pride of her heart, Master Willie Jarr, aged—but that's the question. "Don't youse read the notices in e car, we don't take no more The two diagrams illustrate this plan, the one for the elevated and er G76 Casceuy asics cbs ait rae rua other for the subway. There would he no additional expense on the ceiver?” sald the conductor, "Youse will have to e ip _ 7 vit duh fare! eas except the building of loops at such local stations where they do Ci7®, Serose ae eafaill iaetienimnenj andlihe trans-| {Mot now exist. This would be hardly 10% of the expense of building a) ters were good, besides, your manner Js impertinent,” | ‘pOhind track, and a third track, if built, would accommodate express trains ““\; eae als lessons in politeness from youse,”! ning in one direction only. van’ you'll have to pay fare,| The change necessary in the subway would he to build a loop at EY, we don't take dem transfers on this car!’ ELEVATED STATION Downtown ELEVATED TRACKS, «ELEVATED Loca STATION “THE CURVED TRACK ere tors, BNE | said the conductor, see!" “Tf the lady will permit me," said a dapper in- local station about where the ticket box now stands and have passen- dividual ettting Secoeayit 2 sista, “y rab pay her i B yl nd he extends a nickel towal con-| ~, 4hBers descend by steps over the loop instead of directly from the street S27" Sn? Re ste etd now. At most of the local subway stations there is ample room for _ Mrs. Jarr regarded him with a cold glance of dis-! “4 @ain. “1 do not have persons I do not know or care; this without further excavation and by simple changes in the PASSAZEWAYS | to know interfere in my concerns!" she sald frigidly. jand stairs. ber and report you!’ “What for?" asked the conductor. “When a guy Mrs. Jarr May Be Able to Manage Her Own Husband All Right, But It’s Poor Training for a Bout With a Surly Car Conductor sere set'tc work writing hie is a gentleman and 4s actin’ lko a wentleman a SUy| is to be knocked and lose his job. I can't help it, said Mrs. Jerr, “and i¢ there were any gentlemen! being ended, his dear ones provided for, and his name cleared of unmerited lady, If it’s de rules!” Th Z00d position on, n he retired to the rear platform to be in a not to see anybody who wanted to 59/the morose woman. and where he could start the car wih a Jerk! down if any one was alighting. . In the silence of @ car stop he heard a stout lady ya her fare when she had a transfer! You're a shoulder to shoulder, vying with each other to honor the Jerr say, “Did you notice if ne ruMfant” I knew a man in the Bronx that sitting next to Mi rung that fare up? was a street car conductor and he now owns a row of flats." Then the eye of the and the tden Ubsossed him that Willfe looked to! first timo, and then said, “Why, this oar isn't go- the age that called for a fare. s way through the car and, stopping Jarr, sald, “How old is de kt | Mrs, Jarr ignored nim. “Hey, lady," he repeated, "I got a transfer for Broadway and when you| worked f front of } in “how old ts dis kid?” conductor rested on Willle “Do you refer to my little boy?" asked Mrs, Jarry. “Yes; how old is he? sald the conductor. “He fan't old enough to pay fare, if that’s what | you mean,” replied Mrs. Jarr The car tittered, and the aapper man began to tell a ve about ac haxd sa! trouble, marics ‘and ff T hod a pencil and paper Ia take your num-' straw hat almost cutting his 1 were addressed, morose-looking woman beside him a story nductor who told a woman that a boy ghe wouldn't pay fare for looked old, and the woman that was because he had seen so much soclety, the women declaring that It was a eeing she was the person to whom the re- a lady could not rido in a public conveyance without morose-looking woman peing insulted, and the men holding that they didn't the i ‘Here 1s tho money,” she addeq to the conductor,’ turned her back on the dapper man, the ede of ner know who that dame's husband was, but whoever he se off as she did so. was he wag to be pitied. trophies, ete., as part security. Mr. Vanderbilt, later, returned these to Mrs. Grant. That same year the poverty-stricken, cruelly afflicted warrior fell victim to cancer at the root of the tongue, sald to | have been caused by oversmoking. To leave his family well provided for and to pay off his debts, the dying “Personal Recollections.” He tofled at this task, so difficult for a mere soldier, with all the heroism that had carried “You gotter pay for that kid," said the conductor, him from farm to Presidency. In mortal agony, dally growing weaker, he aullenigs wrote on. The book was completed four days before his death. Within “If my husband were here he would thrash you!” eight years afterward Mrs. Grant had received $500,000 from It. His labor present*— financial stain, the worn-out man lay back and died. “There are no gentlemen in New York!" snapped Grant's death occurred July 25, 1885, about three months after his eixty- “Iam from the South, and third birthday. For two days his body lay in state in City Hall. where there gertiemen are gentlemen!" | thousands viewed it. Many New Yorkers remember the funeral and the “Leave the lady alone,” said the fat woman; “shes solemn, imposing pageant, where Union and Confederate veterans marched Sherman and Sheridan, and more than one Southern RAeTIBCET Re children. A whole nation—the nation Grant and Lincol Aye Jarr sweetly. into mourning. d n had saved—went | A hero was dead. ‘\He looks six years old,’ growled the conductor. | “Looks are deceiving,” sald Mrs. “YOU look to be HUMA Here Mra. Jarr glanced out of the window for the Missing nambers of th | by sending a one-cent stamp for said the conductor.| Circalation Department.” Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, « By Helen Rowland. T™ way to be happy with a husband {s to learn to may be obt ich article to application ning World ing up Broadway!" t's a Seventh avenue oar,” uldn't you read the signs wouldn't take that I pala my fare to rite up Broad- way,” said Mre. Jarr, “and now you take me up| Broadway or I'll sue the company!" “Why don’t youse travel in yer private car?” asked the conductor, grinning. “Let me off, you unmannerly ruMan, let me off!” sald Mrs. Jarr. ‘And the conductor, stlll grinning, stopped the car and let her off. The car thon turned into a debating ame be happy without him most of the time. From the virtues and accomplishments that @ man expects to find in one wife, you'd fancy he was marrying a harem. No matter how much men may rall at marriage, down in his heart of hearts every one of them is just a lttle envious of Solomon, Henry VIII. and the Sultan of ‘Turkey. To carry out the Poulson plan no additional franchise is needed. | —__— HTthe expense is very slight. The gain would be great. These plans are }so simple the only wonderful thing about them is that no one has ever tthought of them before and that they have not long since been adopted. 5 770 ME — LEAVE 7; pan —_—_——— —— j ISNT 17 AGouT Peon (Fi Sow YoU Letters from the People. = |—.¢ "8 Seve ( Live NEW. “Gir” va, “Woman. cases they have to support large fam- ‘Wo the Hiitor of The Evening World ilies. He ndly would th stay at In answer to “Observant” concern-| home if t wd! The girls that work Ning “Girl or Women?’ and their ages, | £0? thelr | 1 those who telieve mn {I will eay {t {6 an interesting subject for women to diecuss, Having often iheant women of thirt elves girls, {t seemed to me ulous, as at twenty I no longer con- sidered myself a girl. Being a married women who s nothing to do | set up these cannot be ask them woman of twenty-eight, 1 believe that | TOUslY Wise, why do they not wed the there are three distinct periods in the #ir!s and keep golng to business? unmarried woman's iife, namely: she GIRL. fo girl untf she ts twenty; a you woman until she ts thirty, and an "old maid’ at thirty, without a doubt LB 1, New Rochelle, N. ¥, At the Month's ©: To the Editor of The Benne A reader put this problem ployee said to his employer work for you at one cent a day {JUST KEEP MINUTE! WAAT ARE YOU Doing IRONING IT?S QUIET A For a Juntor Guard. SEOs nus peding aay for double the amount. For instance. first day on {To the Diitor af The Brening World cent, the next day two cents. next I have recently read letters suggest- “mg the forming of a “Junior National Quand,” consisting of young boys and drilling them in the regiments. This four cents.’ How muc money etrical pro May gression y has 81 Ys, so that f# a fine fies, and {f we hear would be Bist power of 2, which equals | qnoush other Dboys perhaps we $21,474,888.48, That ts what ne would ‘bave it carried out. 8. BLOAN make for the month of May Calle Men ((Narrow-Minded. JOSBPH We the Baitor of The Eventne World: The Traction Problein. In regard to men keeping thetr seats To the meitor of T tor of The Byening a p@uring Dusness hours tn the care when ©. R. asks ‘Two-thirds of 2 ts what Dusiness women are standing, I have part of 87" It is 49 of 3. ‘Two-third, to eay that men must be arowing nar | oe 9 j | equals four-thirts, Three equal Fow-minded, foolish and brainless, Girls |nine-thinia, Therefore. the ratio’ be. | 00—+0 TH @e not werk toe pleasure In many | tween the two YouRe A GENIUS! COOKING aT? $ You SEE- I JUST WASH IT IN| ) OXALIC ACID-/T TAKES THE STAINS OFF AN’ BLEACHES THE STRAW. Mr. Showemhow Cleans His Panama - WELL, I GUESS WHEN IT DRIES OUT IT WILL Look Like A NEW, ‘There never was a man big and strong enough to get out hie clean shirt and collar and fix the water for his bath. By F. G. Long Not half s0 many marriages are spoiled by cold coffee a% by cold dispositions; thero are dozens of good cooks sighing for the husbands they forgot to kiss While they were busy making batter cakes. ‘There cag be only one star in the matrimoptal comedy; and the first thing for a bride to learn 1s whether sho 1s intended for the centre of the stage or only to play understudy. Remorse is the feeling a man has when the bottle ts empty, or when be ling tired of the girl. The Tons and Tons We Carry. By Ada May Krecker. HE modern magnificent twentieth century flyer is the climax of mien nlums of change through which a common backstrap or headband has passed upward into train and track from wagon trains, mule treins, caravans, couriers, pack horses, dog trains and sleds, reindeer sedges, donkeys, llamas and other deasts of burden, down et inst to @e ‘primeval packman himself, and finally to the packwoman. Men and women wore the first beasts of burden and the earMest tranapovte tion systems. And civilize as much as ft will, the human mace has not evolved | beyond the lowly office of burden-bearers. | Although it 4s considered vulgar to carry a parcel, and a gti who buys @ \tew cents’ worth of tawdry stuff has !t coming home to her im a wagon cov- ‘ered with lacquer, nevertheless, counting all mankind, !t 1s supposed emfe ‘to may that 2,000,000 of tons are carried constantly by human (beings, and that lin but one variety of merchandise, clothes. In some cases, such as the brass (FERLEN ROWEAND, | wire of the Africans or the mall of a mediaeval knight, as much es 100 pounds \are borne by a single individual.—Chicage Tribune. Bomar ata Curing Walls of Humidi y. BBLGIAN has invented a process teydraw humidity out of building walls, | A ‘An experiment was trial in a room the hygrometrioal degree of the air of which was 1,200 cuble metres (42,877.8 cublo feet). At the time @ strong mouldy smell was found to exist. The greater part of the wall was covered with saltpeter, while the floor or pavement was almost continually wet. After testing the new system thirty days the hygrometer was found to have lowered from @& degrees to 60 degrees. The walls had become completely ary and the and semen bad disappeared. i Sanam aaa Dd AALS