The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1908, Page 10

‘ pane mene erage aro The Evening World Daily Magazine, -o—— Tie Published Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Pub Nos, 53 to @ < Path Rew, New Yor ee 4 Bir08 ZANGLE SIAN, Ree Toaan, £6) Wort JIM Strobe Tntered at ihe Post-Ufice at New Yorn os Secord-Class Mail Matter, Bubseription Rates to The Fvening World fgr the United Staces and ¢ For England and the ¢ All Coun One Year . One Month oa eo) One Year One Monin . NO. G7 HOON VOLUME, abd WHERE THE SUBWAY. MONEY GOES. HIRTY-THRE million six hundred thousand < have been appro- priated to t Satskill water scheme by the Board of Estimate in the las few weeks. While Comptrolle; Metz was securing an injunction to prevent the expenditure of $2,850,- 000 for the construetion of the Fourth avenue subway, which the city needs, he and Mayor McClellan were wasting tens of millions of dollars for holes in the gound in the Catskills. Frightened by The Evening World's exposures of their graft, the land option ring, fearing that some taxpayer might take steps, hurriedly secured from the Board of Estimate the confirmation of the condemna- tion of 2,177 parcels of land. When these maps have been filed, in the Offices of the county clerks along the Hudson the land option graft will have been cinched. Borough President Coler, at the meeting of the Board of Estimat: where these appropriations were voted and the land option ring's maps were approved, tried in vain to find out the necessity for taking these thousands of acres of land and the items for which the tens of millions of dollars are to be expended. The appropriation read “for the uses and purposes of the Board of Water Supply.” J TILING ON 2177 PARCELS oF These commissioners can spend this money on Catskill guards, or salaries, or clubhouses, or automobiles, or contractors’ allowances, or attorneys’ fees, or holes in the ground, or what not. Without specifica- tions or contracts or publicity, all they need do is to draw a draft on the Comptroller and empty the city treasury. Neither did President Bensel, of the Board of Water Supply, submit 4he detailed maps which a resolution unanimously passed by the Board of Estimate on April 3d required. The people of New York who pay the| _ taxes for this enormous waste cannot find out accurately what this Board of Water Supply is doing. In Comptroller Metz’s injunction forbidding the starting of the tri- | borough subway on the ground of insufficient funds the Catskill water scheme is accomplishing its main purpose. The objects of this scheme are two. One is to impoverish the city, to empty the city treasury and lo Nmpair the city’s credit so that there will be no municipal construction of interborough sulways to compete with the traction merger. The other object is to enrich \eertain officials, contractors and pol- Hticians. So far some $70,000,000 ‘has been appropriated for these two Purposes. That is equivalent to the whole tax levy of Greater New York the ifirst year under Mayor Van Wyck. How many more tens of mill millionaire fellers all the time.” said Gus. “People . ‘ke to read about them miliifonaines because they lions of dollars will be expended nobody knows. The grafters are finding acn't know them, they sust hear about them.” ‘it so easy that they are enlarging the original limitations to their cupidity. ‘sere A needy-looking man edged im ind Already the cost exceeds all that Tweed stole. 6" wald . I'm always your friend.” And ae eee jhe net up a drink to the seedy man | "Phe seedy man made some remark in a low tone fs wbout birsine Letters from ‘the People Sea saa Gans there atmo busine Ihc Au “Ideal Marrtaget” | be done? Here I am handling thou. ‘To the Kuitor of The Evening World sands; can draw no ineney for months. The reported gdvice of Father vs iv ot Londoa, that husbar i slareailsrat must let thelr wives “talk,” and must before 1 at is truly ones “give them Jewelry,” and that wives duty, But when I tink of those at must never ‘Rag,’ reminds one ef ve, sick, and whoin [ love dea! Rabelais, who anid that a perfect mar- MY Neat, soul and consclence are at Mage consists of a deaf husband and « war, Truly the temptation biind wife. PHAGOCYTE, far greater than many t 1 lowe Atlantic City, No J. | ™y head at the thoughts of Heaven Legal Ald Soctety, No. 230 Broad-, \'° HU peat esac predieaine ig pad ertaty ‘To the Etttor of The Bvening World > naan | y Where can I seek help and advice In 1 would line to hea oad regard to some money that ty due me? ers. 1 am hones and ine ve to 1 am seventy-three years old and have (te end no? UNDE! no money. GEORGE 8. heraeesVamanice 3 1s, To the Editor of ening World ‘Te the Filtor of The Bvening World In what years was Cleveland elated | What tine does straw hat season for. President Oi || mally start? Is it June 15 or May 15? Roagh Voller, | De t tbe Prening World Dishowesty te Ranke. Cann ething be wont ake the potlee in change of tie trams ar | Do the Eaitor of The Bvening World Tou ask in an editorial: “Why do e Wiltamapurg i : men become dishonest after years of Sie) act more ger Neslenday honest labor?’ 1 am holding a similar open em posit to held by Teller Muir . WO yaris handling thousands, upon a small ICON Ne OUR Y “a No dad hebdiis or jextraya: [8 Acar, She, as well as a gs padoees Tote a with my ™AAy o:ners, knew «of 2 wife nnd children; lved within my DOW ft force ac (he means, but could save nothing, Various y the poit . sicknesses overtook us and then | ‘king care Cie Ware every dollar 1 eould possibly draw on @ Buinday in (hay oe my small salary went for the family's S#& tem toast care and comfort Then more aickness And more money must be had. Salary overdrawn. ‘Then @edte run up BULL more money, needed “Th @edte must pad. M 4 thee at home. sick, needing proper New York eare and assistance, Tho feeling of Harbor wade of copper or of ovune @eaperation grows wirongtr. What oan JACK M! KLSIN FoR A DAYOF Vise JOHN, Lf Tlen? ‘ “ARE THEY AFRAID oF f Monda: The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. THEY ARE ALMOST STOPPED z 52 ss ll Misys: IT WAS NOT THE AUTO JOHN IT WAS THE WHISKERS. THAT SCARED THEN \ TTT D why all the papers print #9 much about them |Gus’s s Oncnonmne Vine All Good Fellows WwW hile They Have jis, But When They Treat Their Friends The Don’t Have :t Long wait tl LT phow you somethings.” And he west d don't want 203) of them old ruins around my a drawer and brought out sone silps of paper. Hook places feasa\ Gils “Them tellers keep your good trade By Roy. L. McCardell. @ them!" he said. "I never get none ef hat money anay at-i TO MVECEOINIRE bb OW'S buniness, Gust” Dack that is owed me, and I could show you bad If that fere: et get work maybe H asked Mr. Jarr, as he Olecks I cagh, too, but so long as I have anything he'll get came into the place YOU are walcome to it” either, this country that put on the corner. When the seedy man was gone Gus said: “Well, | them on the bim. fhey are good fellera when they “Ob, {t ain't #0 bad,” safd sive him a drink, but I had to show him them havo it, but when they treat they don't have it long.! Gan cheerfully. “I'm making @ UPS, and {f you notice wnen you pald fer yours In Germany nobody treats. ybody comes tn and living and thi as much ae I didn't pit it in the cash register.” mis down and reads the papers and talks to his Annan GAA “Why not?’ asked Mr. Jarr. "1 didn't want him and every feller orders what he wants and) “Rut you wouldn't ike it tf to see any money fn it.” sala Gus, “That feller ts tuand! pave) foriite i That's) why) you don't lacs the other liquor storen were down and out and he wasn't looking for a drink © many fellere down and out In Germany.” ig making more than you were?” much; he wasted to touch me for a couple Of 1, ig a bay custom,’ sald Mr, Jarr. asked Mr. Jarr. dollars. Ss T beat him to ft and put up a holler “Sure,” said Gus. “A feller comes in for a drink Sure, net." sald Gua, About how much money waa owed me, but he'll €t in inig country and meets a bunch. He treat sveryhody feels good when & Job again, He's a good paper-hanger, that feller.” t9 nex: feller treats and so on till everybod times is bad and they know “Why didn’t you trum him then?” asked Mr. Jar. go inatead of having only one drink that he wanted some other people getting “And lose a customer” replied Gus. “When yOu ie hag maybe six tha NrasihinenaWeocahand {t In the neck, but you don’t like It whan anybody tPust them when they're out of work, they never 6 goas home stewed and so does the bunch. It's you know ts making money and yu ain't. oc back when they're, working again, ‘came bY no good way.” So?" asked Mr. Jarr elayingséwayatheyAGonitinevenionbey, vou aMiala uy “Well, why don't you tntreduce the German cus- you. So I'@ rather give him a drink op t hovee and not hang !t up; then there ain't nothing asked Mr. of business?” re darr, ied Gus. om, “And go out stap treating? “How I inst hi then bs ¥ fain, and Tenn cy Oia Ca IS Rane C3 A yay my Itcense and ren’, if everybody only buy one Wyat then a very dilapidated looking tramp came “1k? No, this is a free country! mouching !n the door.” “Rut I only bougat one, drink,” sald Mr. Jarr, “Rous! cred Gus. “Bee! Get ont! Tony!" said Gus “but here comes Mr. Rangle er friends, and I wouldn't bet wha At the last word the Italian bootblack outside ap- peared in the doorway and grabbed the tramp and yilled him o: “Why didn’t ania Mr. Jarr. thme you get hom enough, before long the cash ringing merrily, and Gus's busin as anybody else's. on etve him a drink? 1 would have, “He looked Ike he needed It.” Mr. Showemhow Cuts Down His Gas Bill - . ByF.G. Long - THIS MONTHS GAS, Bie IS SIMPLY 4 Awrus! — ~ NEVER AGA AINE Tit GOING 70) ( NEV-E, wat ARF } ATtacH A& NIN OROP la Lou ong!) ITS VERY. STRANGE) | Bur YouR MET&F SHOWS THE ey Yas eda R Owes Md Nr LSE aires 7) DON'T Brow 3 Too HAR, Sta F f You MAY AEE f BREAK A \\ pe BLooD. vessen! /S n entered upon his seemingiy hopeless fight with such spirft and that to the surprise of nearly every one he was elected. had begun ‘The: Story of a The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune No. 40-WILLIAM McKINLEY. Twenty-Afth President (1848-1901) ; head. Smooth-shaven face. Luminous eyes, shaggy brows. | high forehead, strong chin, Part 1—The Boy Soldier. medium height, stocky build, large Short nose, FTER the Irish rebellion of 1798, so runs the story, one Francis Mo A Kinley was put to death for his share in the uprising. He was the i great-great-uncle of President McKinley. One Capt. Hanna, the British officer who was in charge of the execution, was great-grandfather of Senator | Mark Hanna, President McKinley's stanchest friend. William McKinley was seventh of an Ohio iron manufacturer's nine chil- | dren. He studied in local schools and academies, making no special record for brilllancy except in the various debating societies he joined. At sixteen |he entered Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. But almost at once his health broke down and he was sent home. Then came a wave of hard times that ; left his father poor. By the time the boy recovered his health he had lost forever the chance of a college education. But he was resolved to go to col- lege in spite of family misfortunes. So he gained a positionasa district school teacher at $25 a month, meaning to save enough money in a year or two for his college course. He did everything he could Sn @ to cut down expenses, even walking several miles to A Life Ambitlo:{ and from school each day in good weather or bad. Destroyed. While he was still teaching the civil war began. Me- Orn Kinley thought the problem out and decided it was his duty to give up his plan for going to college and ‘ to enlist in the army. He went to the nearest camp and was sworn {n by Gen. John C. Fremont, Joining Company B of the Twenty-third Oh!o Volunteers. All other civil war heroes who later became Presidents entered on their military careers with more or less political or other “pull,” which at once procured them of cers’ commissions. But McKinley had no such influence. He began in the ranks and fought h!s way up through sheer, unaided bravery, His regiment almost at once was plunged into the vortex of active service and gallantiy did its part in more than one fiercely contested battle. The elghteen-year-old ‘ Ohio school teacher, for conspicuous ability, rose quickly tok rank of com- ° Ny missary sergeant. He attracted the notice of Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes and < later secured a position on his staff. At Antietam. Sept. 17, 1862, when the army was forced to go into battle without breakfast, McKinley {n his commissary work carried hot coffee and N food to his regiment, serving out the rations under a heavy fire from the enemy and performing his routine of labor as coolly as if safe incamp. For this plucky feat he was promoted to a second leutenancy. Other battles fol- lowed. In each he continued to pile up an enviable record. In an engage- ment neat Winchester he rescued a whole regiment from destruction by riding with a message across the front of the Confederate lines amid a hail storm of bullets. More than once during the ride exploding shells hid him from view in clouds of smoke and dust. None of his comrades expected to eee him return alive. He became a first Neucenant, and in July, 1864, a captain, end soon aiter N was an assistant adjutant-general. Before the close of the war he was bre- vetted a major “for gallant and meritorious services.” Every step in his fon was won at risk of life and by such other soldierly qualities as ed reward even among men where those qualities were the rule rather than the exception. So impressed was McKinley by the sympathy and help offered to woung- ed or unfortunate soldiers br the!r brother Masons that be joine? the Mx. sonic order just before leaving the army. The war was over. Men who had given to their country the best four years of thei: lives found themselves mustered out, lacking employment. money or influence. The man who had stayed at home had grown rich. The fighter was not only poor, but in many cases unfitted by his soldier routiuy to settle down int. any ordinary walk of life. MeKinley had sacrificed a college course to his duty to the nation. Now. at twenty-two, he could not spend four years more in ————~~? Study. Nor did he want to go back to school teaching. Faces Future He looked about for a congenial means of livelthood, With War Record} and finally entered a law office, going thence to the Orr Albany (N. Y.) Law School. Two years after the ~ close of the war he was admitted to the bar and opened a little office at Canton. O. But it is one thing to open an office and quite another to fill that office with clients. McKinley's start was hard, his ‘future anything but bright. The first fee he earned was $25 for acting as assistant in a case with a more prominent !awyer. Little by little other practice came his way, until In a year or so ke was patronizingly spoken of as “a rising young man.” In 1869 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for prosecuting at- torney of Stark County, O. The nomination looked !ike 1 varren honor, for the county had alw been overwhelmingly Democratic. But McKinley “ His po}! obtained on application hy o MThe Evening World Cir- | Reliccubae ‘of a "Bachelor Gir, ty Helen Kowland ATRIMONY M pay, hard work, no holidays and no chance te | “give notice” if you get tired of it. Marrying a widower is ike Inhertting an heirieom: marrying « grass Widower is like getting second-uana goods that somebody else han been anxious to get rid of. After all, a wife has her uses—even tf It's only as @ protection against otler ladies’ breach of prom'se suits. | inn sotled kimono affects @ man tke } served on an old Un pl it takee A pretty w & pate de folr | away his appetite—for love. ‘ | A man always feels deeply injured wen his wife re- ») fuses to believe the story that he has worked all the way up in the cab to make sound Interssting and perfectly plausible, in when the son who has been tied to her apron It always surprises a womal shoe strings. Ings suddenly gets tangled up in some chorus girl ‘A man's fdea of a pertectly loyal, devoted woman ts one Who will deceive | anoth ner man for his sake. In a man's opinion # kiss 1s an end that justifies any iweans, So oe No Old Bank of England Notes. HEN « Bank of England note returns to the bank the cashte fs torn off. ‘The detachment of signatures for a day often w twenty pou! nes The notes are Kepk for five years, after which Be are burned In a furnace. consumed. UUUUUUUUDUUTUU TTI TT TT eeeenenannnnnnnnneanas 1 | The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. | | qe are eT aT We note that Long PATS Little METZ has decided that Brooklyn BOROUGH must be RESERVED for the INTERBUR: ROW. If the L. P. L. M. Is not careful he will find himself in a HOLE—which Is worse than the INTERBURROW. He will find Brooklyn Betting on a HORSE of another COLER, If Brooklyn people want to be |TROGLODYTES it Is THEIR business, and NOT Hermann's. They pay the BILL! Mr, METZ ts very liberal in Buying Things for tho city which NOBODY wants, and gets CLOSE-FISTED as soon as something REAL ts Required. He fs in the same class as our “Little” Mayor, and he cannot COUNT any better than WE can OUR- SELVES. except where we SEE DOUBLE he can only see HALF! \t WE. were Mayor perhaps this would EVEN 74DIGS:UPI e 5 | | | ' Long Pat and His | Little Metz. Copyrot. 1908, By the Pianet Pud. Co.