The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1908, Page 18

a= Zoe fp Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail For England and che Continent and ion Rates to The Evening Ni ther ry ihe, International Snton, One Year... One Month’. .NO. NG OFF TRANSFERS. ga 1TH the consent of the Public Service Commission the train service on the elevated and the subway will be re- duced. This is on the application REDUCED Sy of the Interborough Company, ; WITH THE whose $50,000,000 bond issue re- cently received the approval of the CONSENT yj Public Service Commission, there- Pp SG by making the capitalization of the S ibe? subway lease twice the cost of build- ing th vay. This reduction of service is on the Inierborough’s officials’ plea ‘What the travel has fallen off and that there is no need for running so subw ‘ imany trains and cars. The figures of the fares do not tally with the plausible talk to the Public Service Commission. } ‘ During ithe first three months of 1908 the subway receipts increased § $450,000 over the same time last year. In January, February and March } $2,862,000 were contributed by 57,240,000 subway passengers to the i Interborough’s treasury. This is at the rate of $31,451 for each of the ‘ ninety-one days covered by the report. Considering that the operating expenses are only two cents a passen- ger there was a gross profit from the subway operation in three months of $1,717,200, or $6,868,800 a year. This prof what enables the watered Interborough stock to pay 9 per cent. dividends, besides interest on the bonds. It also fur- nishes the security to cover the cost of the Steinway tunnel, the Queens County trolley roads, the Belmont hotel and the elevated road guaran- _ tee fund, none of which is properly a subway expenditure but the pay- ment for all of which is secured by mortgaging the subway lease. \ Simultaneously comes the announcement that the Fifty-ninth street + and Twent eighth street transfers are to be cut off, that the Sixth ave- ! Nue cars are no longer to cross over Fifty-ninth street and run up the ' east side and that the electric cars on Fifty-ninth street may be entirely abandoned. a TOT “Ws It is the business of the Public Service Commission to prevent this. ' Under section 49 of the Public Serv Act the Commission has power “to require any two or more common carri ilroad corporations Whose lines, owned, operated, controlled or leased, form a continuous line of transportation, or could be made to do so by the construction and maintenance of switch connection, to establish t charges for the transportation of passengers.” The Commission ais *Sust and reasonable” fare. This applies as weil t lrough rates, fares andi es charged at a hetween the ele- vated and the Bronx trolley hattan Island. Also why dogs not the Public Service ( ice lines on M ee that the B. R. T. elevated road n the num- = ere emt ee === ber of trains and cars that the ore | dered i hedule calls tor? I would seem tt force and caynicity t vice Commissioners of this are mot the equals of Bel- mont’s and bra ind Tailroad managers It is over a year now f these commissioners took 0 Their powers under the | Te ample. And ye 2, been able in all these n should be The job is b Letters from the People. cy Ve-cent fare fling its \.. tion, and it is foreground made and na thing ean ilag.” WILLIAM No. At Charity ‘Yo the Editor Tam trying to locate a hom WAL Summer Shaytng, Prourts a ‘ Bidtreet, can give you a list of s } x homes Military Club for Boys, Wo the Baw: Evening W Heed have read that boys x 3 “start a corps of I ot Stir again ¥ wien to suxiest a scheme e benefit ‘Then apply in the usual way. “I @f such boys. Why don't thet ge: io- readera, ‘eV iXs. | dl The Evening Worid Daily Magazine, rridaay, € De Profundis. By Maurice Ketten. It’s a Good Thing When Everything Goes to Have a Husband By Roy LL. McCardell. y You . Ud never forgive myself sister and you not there. to dinner to-morrow e: to see a sister sail through t “Don't scold the young dear said was an imposition on our wey going away, an} [Sn at y when she will be back, a stitch in anyt Mttle fellow, and tt wor And Wi has him so blame it on me that I'll have to “‘Because father comes have | people like one we “I did break the fa tears, “Nething pathet O, don’t snappel Mrs. fell dow oa Mrs T swear “But if e vase, and "And, then, m't believe in getting up-, Jarr. that ever hap- cause to complain was “it's such 2 how fortunate ness nor real troubles.” er Heart’s Content entation Devartment into ike a chessy eat and nat « the wien shell be nd yet mmmenced to ome home and Jarr has gone wrong with you, why judgment and reason have fled. een k and because one « satd) Mr. Tata the answer,” said Mrs 4Q000000 000000000000000000000, The Story of The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune Twenty-third President (1833-1901). Short, stout. Light hair, mustache and long beard. Deepset, shrewd eyes. Broad forehead. T a town meeting in Cincinnati fn 1850 a stump speaker was just finish- ing a violen. attack on Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, denouncing their attitude in the famous “Compromise Measures.” As the orator (sat down a short, yellow-haired boy of seventeen leaped upon a bench and began a brilliant, forceful speech In defense of the two great statesmen. At first the sight of a mere lad venturing to address the assembly caused a iweneril laugh. But ridicule quickly gave place (o surprised admiration as the address went on At its close the youngster was greeted by a salvo of applause. Every one wanted to know the boy orator'’s name, It was learned {that he was Benjamin Harrison, student at Farmer's College. Great things | Were prophesied for his future. He lived to justify the propheey Benjamin Harrison was grandson of the William Henry Harrison who fought so well in the War of 1812 and who died sobn after his election to eney In 1841, He was also a descendant of Pocahontas. His father was a well-to-do Ohio planter. Leaving rmer’s College, young Harrison at seventeen went to Miam! University for a two-yve uurse and then took np te study of Jaw. While he was still a law student and barely twenty years old he marrfed Miss Caroline Scott, with the Presic Pm whom he had fallen in love during hls earlier Marries at 20; college days, and moved to Indianapolis. Earns First Fee. Harrison was admitted to the bar a year © 1 ater, in 1854, and eked out his scanty ans by serving as court crier at $2.50 a di the first sum of money he ever earned. He received, now and then, odd jobs in assisting some older lawyer on a brief and took unimportant cases at $5 each, It was not a very promising start, especially for a married man he young lawyer was earning a name for accuracy, fairness and cal skill. 1 by little he rose to an enviable rank in his profes- sion, In 1860 he was elected reporter of the Indlana Supreme Court. Then came the civil war. Harrison was commissioned a colonel. While there Was nothing vi ectacular in his war record, yet he was a brave, efficient officer, and was promoted to be brevet brigadier-general When peace was declared he went ba to his law practice. In 1876 he ran for Governor of Indiana. but was defeated. By this time he was one of the most noted lawyers of Middle West. In 1880 he was named for President on one or two of the thirty-six ballots that resulted In Garfield's nomination. He refused a place in Garfield's Cabinet in 1881, having just been chosen to the United States Senate, where he remained for the next six years. As Senator he fought for the Republican tariff measures, urged a better navy and aided civil service reform t the 1888 Republican convention he was nominated for the Presidency on the eighth ballot. Among other competitors for that nomination were James G. Blaine, John Sherman, William McKinley and Chauncey M. Depew. Harrison defeated Cleveland that fall oy 233 electoral votes to his rival's 168. (Cleveland, however, received the larger popular vote of the two.) ntering on his term as President in March, 1889, Harrison made James G. ne his Secretary of State. Many people thought Rlaine would be the ytive power of the administration, with the President as a mere figure- head. But the new Chief Executive quickly proved that he was “no man’s man.” He nad clear ideas of his own, and worked them out as he thought best. While he was in the White House the public debt was lowered, the navy enlarged, civil service extended, the McKinley Tariff bill and the Sher- man Silver act passed His four years as Preai- jent were solidly successful, {f not especially ren- Twice Nominated; $ sational Once Elected $ In 1882 Harrison was renominated, again run- i ning against Cleveland, but was defeated. His » al life was over. He returnea to his legal lectures at Leland Stanford University, and acting as Venezuela's cor t nundary dispute with England. He presided rumenical in New York, was a delegate to the Peace at The Hague, and was named by President McKinley as United s es member in the International Court of Arbitration. Through all these pubite duties he found time to win fame as a writer. Busy, honored, useful, | Hacrisor, lived until March 13, 1901. work, also deliv ——_— | He was an able, if not inspired, statesman; a great lawyer and a brave Wrongs With a Woman | soldier, of this series may be obtatned on application by Vorild Cire Missing nambe sending « one-cent stamp for cach article to “The Evening Refiections of a Bacheior Girl, How | By Helen Rowland, ! ~ EART-TO-HEART talks ietween platonic friends are H apt to lead to lip-to-llp silences that Plato never dreamed of. Man may be the noblest work of God—in the abstract; ut in a bathing sult--well, it takes blind love to make a girl taink he looks Ike that. A man’s surprise at the calmness with which nis wife receives Ul announcement ti he oas failed in Musiness is only led by his a mi jent at her hysteria when a dress comes home t doesn't fit. A girl always keeps a tender spot in her heart for the man she has once loved; but to a man notiring ts so cold is cooled affection. A man never selects a wife because by the time he has reu h any judgment or reason, ed the marrying fever ail most in love {@ most apt to get over It. as the man who when he Micht opinks most champagne has the worst headache next morning. ant talk to other -+2-—_______ Chicago the Home City of Freaks. kissing him, Thousands of Them Live There, The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jon and Beautiful Love In Darktown. (COME IN, (7157°H CHOLMONDELY : ) AHS REPAIRIN’ SO’MICE CREA: Araminta DAA DIR FREEADS GouLy! Bur o/s AIM WORSER. AN | MAKIN? DE WORL’)| SIALICIOUS MANILLA ICE ceenrat WAS ZW A 0 Ee: ca) yay WHo'S. ER DAGO) WIF-ER HAN? USE ME- >) UT (IA FooT DONE to have some one I can scold." we have been Hut she coulln't figure out how to blame breaking ORE professional freaks live in Chicago than im any other city of the world. > the vase on him. ‘ireus and museum freaks, side sow freaks and human prodigies of ail wees ee wrts have their homes there. Probably 9,000 ving wonders are there at times, BY F. G. Long, ! me te cies or ninety avarts, among them 2eids, Chiat Debro. and Montressor. WwW . . © | seuviliia the only known dwarf with dwarf children; Major Nichols, Se d Gantz, Chema, the Chinese Boxer, and Princess Neuma. ‘The only giant ‘9 Witte, the German. Flossie La Blanche, who Ifts elephants; James Wilson, the fat hoy; Blanche Alexander, Zoa and Jullenne, snake charmera; Fred Walters, the blue man; James Morris, of the elastic skin; the spotted Davis family, all ots of Circassian beauties, Barney Nelson, the armless wonder; Eli Bowen, who has four fect, and George Volney, who dlslocates every bono in his body, are in Chicago's blue ‘hook, So are Capt, Ringman, who passes tron bare through dis flesh, and Bill Doss, the human telescope. Dave Mushrow, the bear man, and Nicodemus, the ‘hog man, claim Chicago ‘and Alice, the dog faced girl, before ‘her death, was long a resident of It Js not generally known, perhaps, but the Wild Men of Borneo became as home, icago. Chicagoans after they retired and died there of old age. Psycho, the maid of the ‘aint an electrical oddity, 19 In the clty, and Prof. King, the “paper king,” fm passing a peaceful old age tn one of the suburbs, surrounded by marvels of paper and other works of bis gentle art. | ——_-++. | An Icicle Factory. sticks’ are manufactured at a profit. A series of poles is ar- N Austria ‘ee i I so that the water will fall slowly over each of the sertes, Of course, I caaeevater in the winter time freezes, forming large telcles, When the tcloies nave attained the proper size the employees of the “ice plant’ come around with ave, break off the great sticks of ice and haul them away to a place where they are put in sicrage, says The Pathfimter, Of course, $ ts much easter to ‘urge quantity of fea in this way than it Is to: cut Jt from some areant it away. There may, however, be a difference tn quality be- river ice. ++ handle a li and then pa tween stick ice and lake —— aS a, | Tine Sayings of John D. Rockefeller. T js largely women’s fault if they work, I believe. Of course, there‘are hi | excepiional cases, but iost wor if they determine early r enough, become the Lonie-keepers rather than the breud-earners, not imply that women are not eMinently fitted for most of s they pursue, They make good bookkecpers, stenographers, orks—well, women as a rule are conscientivus, painstaking and e the otier requirements of office and business life, but, after all, they ar \ happier, 1 dure say, as the mothers of children aud the keepers of home: