The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1908, Page 12

Sed The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tarlo eCuaryg, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 68 Park Row, New York J. ANGUS SHAW, Bee, Trems,, £01 Weat 1121 Street, JOBEPH PULITZER, Pres, 1 East tld Street nd-Class Mail Matter. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Gubscription Rates to The Evening | For England and the ¢ nt and World for the United States All Countries in the I and Canada. Postal Unte : One Year. Hint $3.50 | One Year 8 One Month 80 One ‘Month SS, VOLUME 49. eee COMPETENCE. HE city having bungled the negotia- tions with the New York Central for the remoyal of the tracks from Eleventh avenue, the tedious work must be begun over again and an- other two years elapse before the death menace can he ended. Some- body has blundered again. It is not a new story, but in this case the blunder must be paid for in human life, The Saxe law requiring the re- moval of the tracks has been on the statute books since 1906. It is explicit in its provisions when and how the tracks were to be torn up. It had only to be strictly followed to have rid Death avenue of this abuse of long standing sixteen months ago. ‘OFFICIAL IN But there the tracks are, where they have been for half a century, and there they must remain with the roll of victims amounting to new totals, their removal delayed if not ultimately defeated by a monumental fiasco of interference with the plain provisions of the law. The irony of the boast that the steam locomotive was forever banished from the Streets of New York on July 1 is revealed by its presence in one of the city’s most congested thoroughfares, in defiance of public s nt and the law. This exhibition of incompetence differs only in degree from other displays of incapacity which make the administration of city affairs in New York a synonym for waste, extravagance and delay, The city, il- Self a corporation, suffers from a laxity of executive responsibility which would not be tolerated for a moment in a private corporation. While it wrangles over subway plans it sees a young Georgia law- yer breathe life into a moribund company and establish a modern system of tunnel rapid transit uniting Manhattan with New Jersey, While it palters and hesitates, confused by conflicting counsels, Belmont takes a moth-eaten franchise and has a new East River tunnel ready for operation even before the courts have passed on the validity of his charter. The Pennsylvania pushes four river tubes to completion while the next city subway remains unbegun. In the present instance the city, with the law on its side, sees the law practically nullified by the New York Central. Public Library, delayed for years beyond the contract time of completion; in its unrepaired streets, its wasteful department adn tically every new project undertaken, no less than in the simple routin of business, the city pres examples of governmental inefficien in deplorable contrast with the orderly and ecor corporation afairs. Letters from the People. Typewriter Shoulder. ‘To the Editor of The Even: I am a typewriter, and I, 1, who complains of pains in the shoulder, wil in the right rid e would not comes used to typewriting Ihave had the same experi Qw. A Truckman'r Grievance. T the Editor of The Evening World Having been a driver for thi mixteen years, | have alwa ble with the police. One tried to go on West End aven 1 was arrested. Can sc te'] me any good reason wh Ie only go there in the m in the afternoon? | s and carriages there in th ease Other days (the raze , enually good shape) it is a lo Chl Origin of “0. K." mre he Byening world World Almanae. In The e orig’ a We dnesday, The Gubernatorial Situation. HERBERT PARSONS 19 ON THE FENCE WITH HIS EAR To THE GROUND” By Maurice Keitten Wood RUFF (9 STANDING ON HI5 ——_\ TEM To ONE ¢ (WIN AND TEDDY SN TT (LLN INTERFER IN oT STATE POLI Tics Cafe Gus and Mr. Jarr Discuss the Fun in Sunday Fishing; Gus Gives $10 Worth of Roller Skates to Young Cripples By Roy L. McCardell. 46° you have been having S a good time, yes?” eaid Gus, the saloonkeeper, eying Mr. Jarr critically when he entered the place the other day. “If you're looking at my nose,” said Mr, Jarr amiably. “IT will give you to understand right aways that its color isn’t caused by chemicals such as you vend and purvey in this man trap. It's good, honest sunburn, that’s what {t ts.” “Been out on one of them fishing trips?” asked Gus, NL 2 gome on Sunday," eald Mr. Jarr. “You don't get me doing it,” said Gus, solemnly “I can stay my back room and be cool and com- fortable look after my Sunday trade, and the electric fans keeping files off, but I don’t go on them f iB irips.” asked Mr. Jarr, “It's great sport.” when L go sometimes with my wife ee my brother-!n-law go out with i) Pickle," sald Gus, ‘But not for I go. The Dill Pickle is just one of id catboats mit a cabin so low that a man hae to go in on his hands and knees to get at the bottled beer.” ‘Oh, {t's no fun 'n a catboat,” sald Mr. Jarr, ‘go- ing out and getting becalmed !n the hot sun.” “Them catboats what sails from Hoboken on) | Sunday aln’t got no sail," said Gus. “The first thing a Dutchman does when he buys one second hand !s to saw off the mast; then he goes to & jJunkman and buys a gasoline engine and puts that In the boat, and every Sunday all the fellers he knows co nd gets on and helps him get the engine to start. After a while the engine starts off, king a lke somebody shooting a@ revolver, two ndred fellers that can't find room & n the boat cheer the fellers that do get on, some of them hanging on mit their feets in the wa for they cheer them because they don’t expect t @ ‘em ailve any more.” "Well, ngerous the way those little power boats go out loaded to the water line with men, but I hear the Government {s going to stop said Mr, Jarr. “Th Government in Hoboken; nobody cares ¥ re,” sald Gus; ‘‘any- way, the Mes don't boats {s a storm or a steamboat going by making dig w the elght men « abody is ever drowned, except the big families home.’ “Well, our party wasn't so crowded,” sald Mr, Jarr. “We only went off for blackfish, anyway, because we were having a clambake on the shore of Pelham Bay, where those friends of mine I was telling you about have a camp." “Did you catch any fish or did you have a lot of beer and Ice on board?" asked Gus, | “Oh, we caught the fish all right,” sald Mr. Jarr, "We only had a bucket of fce water with us, Then we came back and had the clambake.” Listen to the Birds # # w& That's a lot of fun,” said Gus. “You get sun- burnt and the mosquitoes eat you up, but what do you care when you are out for = good time?” “Then in the evening,” said Mr. Jarr, “we went over Summer Home for Crippled Children and we got the kids singing, and some of the party played games with them and amused the little fellows till bedtime; it was a regular old-fashioned romo.”" "Say," sald Gus, “has them ttle crippled chil- dren got things to play with, have they got books and the funny papers?”’ “Qh, yes," sald Mr. Jarr, “the good people tha send them there for the summer and the matron and the nurses and the man and his wife that look after them see they have books and balls and toys, and they have a piano and a great big room as big as a hall to play in, Some of them can dance fine, and they can play baseball and a lot of them ‘can swim, And they are as lively as crickets, even five or six of them that can’t walk.” “And they got a great big room to play in and no carpet on it?” asked Gus, “That's what I said,” replied Mr. Jarp “Well, here,” said good-hearted Gus, going to the till, “you take this ten dollars and you buy roller skates for them little fellers that can't walk.” Not for a moment would Mr. Jarr cast a ohill on Gug's kind Intentions, ‘If they don’t want roller skates, they can have what else they want?” he asked. “gure,” sald Gus. "Get ‘em veloctpedes, and some Sunday we'll go up and take them fishing and they can bring ‘em along!” By I Bob Addams to “HOLY SMOKE! SHE'S GOT THAT ‘SALOME’ LASHED TO THE MASTI” 1900. ] — Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune vu. IS—QUEEN ELIZABELH AND ESSEX, UEEN ELIZABETH, of England, at the time this story begins, was sixty years old. She was tall, thin and ugly and had a fearful temper. Her teeth were black from tobacco and decay, and she wore @ red wig. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was barely twenty-one He was handsome, accomplished and of fine figure, besides bejng one of the best educated men of his day. He was popular and seemed to have a great future {n store. It pleased Elizabeth to fancy herself in love with him. This love affair was destined to make both of the participants miserable and to end Essex’s life at thirty-four. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, On the death of her half-sister, Mary, she became Queen of England. She sur rcunded herself with wise counsellors, and encouraged literature, explora: tion and all the arts, For this reason her relgn was England’s “golden age.” Elizabeth never married. Yet she was in the habit of falling Im love with nobles of her own court and of carrying on violent fiirtations with them, Their flattery delighted her, She believed in {t all. Such men as succeeded in making the Queen think they adored her usually rose high in power; but they found it no easy task to gratify her tremendous vanity or to avoid her furious tamper. The best and last of these nobles who won her fleeting affections was the young Earl of Essex. He was at twenty-one an accomplished soldier and courtier, That he really loved Elizabeth is very doubtful. But he was ambitious and jumped at so dazzling a chance for advancing bis own In terests. At heart he was honest and impulsive It was not as easy for him as for his predecessors to keep on good terms with the cranky old Queen and to soothe her {ll-humor with pretty Speeches. In fact, so tiresome did he find the royed flirtation that he tried to amuse himself more than once by making love to Her Majesty's maids of honor. But this was perilous pastime. For Elizabeth was as jealous as she was vain. Court life wearied young Essex. of adventure were going on all about him him take part {n any of these ex: him out of her sight. — » A Royal Flirtation. @ rrr sy ons and other sorts would not let not bear to have ence dreary at Wars, explo: But She ec ex. the palace, So in 1587, when he was twenty-two, he slipped away secretly and joined Drake's fleet that was sailing on Por! But Elizabeth sent @ message after the fleet manding uttermost peril" te come back at once. Back he came, angry and ined, In no mood to meet Elizabeth's reproaches. In this mood he 4 {a quarrel with Sir Charles Blount, on whom the Queen had also deigned to cast a favoring eye. He and Blount fought a duel, !n which Essex was wounded and dis armed, Life at court dragged on for a while longer. with the clever widow of Sir Philip Syd and mar ge was kept secret for fear of the Queen’s wrath. Nor was the fear in vain, When Elizabeth learned of the wedding was enraged beyond measure. Yet such was her fondness for Essex that she at least pretended to forgive him, and he was in a measure restored to royal favor. High honors and offices were showered upon him, Yet Elizabeth, it seems, never quite pardoned his crime of daring to prefer another woman to herself, His former power over her was gone. The end was drawing near, She no longer forbade him to embark on dangerous enterprises; but she man- ged to see that he got scant profit or glory from such expeditions, Once, when he protested against a piece of manifest injustice on her part, Ellza- beth publicly boxed his ears, qnd with a volley of profanity bade him “go to the devil.” This scene killed any lingering trace of affection between the two. For Essex was not the sort of man to endure such an insult or to kiss the hand that dealt the blow. In 1599 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and sent to quell aa uprising {n that country, He failed to carry out his mission, and on his return was deprived of his titles and put under arrest. Soon he was set free, but forbidden to come to court. He now tasted all the bitterness of a allen favorite of fortune. The wealth, high offices and power lavished ipon him by Elizabeth were snatched away. He had sacrificed hig youth, his independence, his ambitions—all for noth To a man like Essex such a fall from favor was intolerable. Misfor tune turned his brain. Instead of accepting his {lIl-luck gracefully the misguided man actually tried to stir up a revolution, He was captured | and condemned to death. On Feb. 21, 1601, the sentence was carried out. Essex was beheaded. He was only thirty-four. But for his unfortunate | affair with the Queen he might have won permanent greatness and fame. Elizabeth is said to have been distracted with grief and remorse at her former favorite’ death and to have reproached herself bitterly for her treatment of the young Earl, She survived him by only two years, Then Essex fell In love ed her. The mare eee The Fall of the Favorite. 2 Cirealation Department, Evening World, upon receipt of one-cent stamp. George Washington in Wall Street. ‘ By F. T. Hill | his official residence in New York. Of course he aliended the Inaugw ration ball, which was held on May 7, 1/8, at the City Amsemoly, g Rooms on Broadway, just around the corner of Wall, where he danceg two cotilons and perhaps a minuet, of which event Jefferson bas lets the modern press, The Executive likewise Aonored the grand affair et the French Embassy, where those who took part in tie quadrilies wete attired im gorgeous costumes symbolical of America and France, and the festivities “were at their height at ten o'clock”; but there ls very little evidence of his having Nor did he grace the dinnersfor which Wall Street was famous in the years ef its social glory, when many a distinguished company was gathered around ite hospitable boards, ‘This was partially due to the death of nis mother, wich occurred during the year, and his own ill health; but the difficulty of making letters shows that he and his wife never had an opportunity of dining alone, dn fact, he had not been long in town before the neceasity of adopting some general rules as to what invitations be yould give or accept became apparent, and familton drew @ simple plan regulating the Presidential entertainments, recep- every. eceupant of the White House to the present day, Thus the etiquette of the Executive Mansion niay fairly be sald to nave originated in Wall Street, where Hamilton and his fair lady were famed for their nospitalky.—Harpers Magazine, hai} oo By Rev. William Bustard, of Boston, NE of the greatest discoveries of the past twenty-five years has bees woman's discovery of herself. She has reached that stage where ahe | knows she is not a doll, an angel nor a slave, but a woman, and | born a nonentity; in this age to be born a girl means a bundle of | possibilities with a power to influence the world for good or evil. Many young girls have gone into commercial life, and thay have gained success through punctuality, being industrious and minding thelr own business, The woman whe society. The trouble with our American mothers nowadays |s that they try and ‘ft thetr daughter only for her soclety entrance. It {s all right to be a society, | woman, but it is better to be a woman In society, We are emphasiaing the word | society too much and the word woman too little —Leslie's Weekly, Kipling and the Grass Widow. UDYAKD KIPLING, when he dined with me," sald, with some pride, @ “R literary Chicagoan, “told me about Simla, “It seems that Simla {s up In the mountains—the hills, as they say, low country. “Well, Kipling sald that, one lovely, cool morning at Simla, he was presenteg to a grass widow. They call those ladies grass widows whose husbands agy de tained by work In the hot citles of the plains, Missing nuinbers of this se: Will be supplied upon application te 6 @ matter of fact, Wall Street suw very little of the President during 4 c-svs.ption that would do credit to the most tmaginative sensation-monger of been present at the other distinguished routs and entertainments of the day. Aistinctions was mainly responsible for his absenos, and even then one af ‘his tons, dinners, visits, &o., which, with very slight modifications, has governed W ’s Di f Herself. | oman’s Discovery of Herself. | | claiming her rights and privileges. Once to be born a girl was to be minds her own business is to be praised and respected. More girls go inte a 2 a as |in Indla—and the ladjes go there in the hot weather to cscape the heat of the ‘She was awfully protty and charming, and as they talked together am the pleasant coolness Kipling sald: “LT supposo you can’t help thinking of your poor husband grilling dows. below?’ “The lady gave him a strange look, and he learned afterward that she wag @ real widow.” | I sharks, ‘They seal up a dynamite cartridge in an empty can, and put the | cay Inside @ large piece of pork. The pork |s thmown overboard on a wire which has been connected with an electric battery. When the ghark takes the bait the engineer presses a button, which explodes the cartridge and Sate thle ——_—_____ +4 oe ________. Killing Sharks With Dynamite. HE engineers in the English navy have a very effective way of kMing et aoe \ % a y J }