The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1908, Page 20

Daily Magazine, Friday, y, November 13, 1908. Let Me In! FEET NACODOOOOOOM Fifty Americam -: OOOO OOOO OOOO UU Publiened Datly Pxcept Sunday by ‘the Prees Pufsliehing Company, Nos. 68 to 68 By Maurice Ketten. « ae ; » Dark Row, New York ale ay 4 ait laliseniti posite She niesarmionrt Soldicrs of Fortune ez kas Second-Class Mail Matter. } te S Entered at the Post-Office at New ¥ deslttion Rates to The Bvenine 1" Eneland and Babrcrninid tortne Tenited States AI Countries tn the stal Union By Albert Payson Terhune One Year . aks _—" Let) sel pthc hia: NO. NL -HENDRIK HUDSO N. } ENRY HODGSON, an English iner, hit on a scheme for making @ | Short cut from Englund to China by way of t ith Pole. Tatu oss the Pole;” ck tou strong tor ovy Company, his was in 1607. Twice he set out on his ‘short c made a “farthest North” record, found the tee-p his frag! little ship, and came home again. The Mu employers, would have no more to do with such a failure. Hodgson, out of a job, took service with the Dutch East india Compaay. Hencetorth be 1s known to history by his Dutch name, Hendrik Hudsuo. tie persuaded his new masters to give him a triai at tinding a short cut to China, through America. T nsented. To this consent New York owes its discovery. Probably neither Hudson nor the Dutch East India Com pany were moved by any nobler impulse than to bring the riches of the Orient {nto easier reach. From his decidedly unreliable friend, Capt. John Smith, Hudson had heard that there was a broad “sea” or * a little north of Virginia, Hudson resolved to Ma f Moon, manned T is customary to refrain from erecting @ Monument to a man until he is dead, or at } least out of offic This -ound rule was departed from on Wednesday by Mayor McClellan and his ; Water Supply Board dedicating to them- selves a memorial, tablet and a granite | tower, fifty feet high, on Winchell’s Hill, near the site of Ashokan Dam. Luncheon served at the restaurant of the con- tractors,.who are naturally rrateful for the award to them when the lowest bid was $2,000,000 less. The Mayor's speech accepting the dedi- long reply to The Evening hey cc S Ss SS which ran clear through from the Atlantic to the E hunt for this wondrous strait a litt'e Su-ton by a crew of sixteen, Hudson he entered Delaware Bay. 1 for Am v of Virginia, 5 This, he thought, miust be the beginning of the “strait” eading to the Pacitle Gcean, But, finding is mistake, he went further north: Ward along the coast, and on Sept. 3 46 Into lower New York Bay; cast ing anchor just inside Hook. Here, at last, he cn in, Was che “strait.” Before exploring it he: 7 men ashore. first landing place was Coney Island. | SSS 2 fel Discovery fi : of New York. 3 cation was a World’s exposure of the Catskill erooked- ight with Indians, one of his men, Joha Colman, was killed. ‘The slain sailor was burled on. Sandy Hook, at a place ta pwn as Colman's I Manhattan Island. Here he gave the triend y Ind ever tusted, and a general carouse followed. One hi hattan” had its origin from this ness and extravagance. int Next, tudson visited the first liquo they had an says the name “Man- tinking bout; as “Man-na-hata-nink” is the The Mayor says as to the land option ring: “The responsibility is in the courts and not upon this commission He adds that “ac- quiring the land by condemnation * * * is the only method provided by law.” This is a plain misstatement. The Catskill Water act contains Delaware Indian me tor “Place of general drunkenn Hudson was delighted with Manhattan Island, In his he described ft as ‘@ very sood land to fallin with anda pleasant land to se Leaving the Island behind him, he then sa up the ty river that was one day to bear his name. At @ point above Albany he found the stream was no longer navigable, that this was not really the passage to China, So specific provisions for the city to buy direct. Land owners who and became at last couy he turned back. As far as he was concern Yet the reports he carried to Ho the voyage had fal ed. nd of the richnes#§of the land, tie abun- dance of fur-bearing animals and the peacefulness nen to make expeditions which uited in the co! Island but of the whoe Hudson River region. To one thinking that the Hudson River led to China we owe th sought to avail themselves of these provisions found that the only way to get cash was to sell out to the land option ring, which bought cheap and then put in claims for ten and twenty times as much. ene The Water Supply Board could have bought direct at least as cheaply the local Indians, led other nizing of not only Manhattan nglishman’s biunder in the Du as the land option ring bought, instead of letting the land option ring make a profit estimated at $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 through ad- vance knowledge of the change of route. As to the condemnation proceedings, a majority of the commis ‘h, and the early development of the Empire s s Hudson, returning to Holland, once m persuaded his employers to let him hunt for the “strait” that supposediy connec ye Atlantic with the Pacifla In 1610 he set out in i0-ton ship, The Discovery. This time he went northward @ ised (through the long straits eading to what is now xnown as hudson’s inding It was only a bay and not the Polar Sea, he was for pressing on- F 4 ward, still farther, in his fruitiess quest. sioners were appointed on the recommendation of the Corporation But his hulf-frozen, starving crew mutinled. Hudson and his seven-year-old Counsel. The whole process of condemnation is .ontrolled by the Corporation Counsel. Where an awar tion Counsel does not cbject, the court’s approval is a mere matter of form. This was fully exposed in The Evening World last spring. Mayor McCle!lan admits that there have gone to waste over the Croton Dam 305,000 million gallons. He s the waste for the “fort son were thrust into im open boat with five sick sallors and turned adrift. Their late Will never be known, Whether Hudson tay wned, dor was murdered by savages is stil a uystery ) Mystery of ang will ey excessive, and the Corpo remain eo. He, his son and the -.e sick $ Hudson's Fate. left to fare as best ihey might 1: that De vast northern bay, while the Discovery and its mu- Uneer crew turned homeward. i So perished Hendrik Hudson; the man who was so busy seeking what did not exist that he had no eyes for the actuai discoveries he made. And with his life he patd the price of Achievement. | Columbus, discoverer of America, diec in poverty and degradation. Cabot, explorer of North America, net a ike fate—as did Capt. John Smith. Raleigh, that to have stored | years from 1868 to 1907 would have cost for reservoirs alone more than $150,000,000.” | HlelSoay in aeeanaineNsIaTeaier Ee Balbeatfalscoveree a i Beers = Who wants to store water for forty years? | Aolle on, eer een executed lke 3 ccrmmon, criminal, Z ; an i : oer iaae Of . truth, the reward of immortal fame was Death; and thi Bigetctt Rab $ = eee Ps ae : fons Z 5 : e new world was Since rainfall records have been kept there has been no occasion | baptized in the blood of ts pioneer soldiers of fortune. But from that baptism for a reserve supply of more than three years, ‘The city’s own en- sl F ney of blood was destined to rise the nigh ‘est nation the earth had ever known. ineers, Chief Engin Sears ‘onsulting FE: | gineers, Chief Engineer Sears and Consulting Engineer Burr, re. Circ ooo oe a Oe ported on March 2, 1908, to the Aqueduct Commission: Mr. Jarr Learns Something About the English Language (irealation Departmen’ stamp for each nomber, The amount wasted over the new Croton Dam since Nov. 6, 1907, if it ’ x ~ re — aaa coui have been stored and used in connection ‘with an average stream fow, From the German Saloon Man Who Writes Itaiian Posters woula have supplied the elty with water for about three years. This quan- | ® ~~~ uty alone could of itself have supplied the city for five months without | AND WHERE drawing any water ‘rom present storage. This great surplus of water, for : 5 By Roy L. McCardell. _ Which no storage provision has been made, is still flowing over the spillway ( ; US Arhesealoonskesner: Wasiporingnecntn 5 the bar in front of him that Mr. Jarr of the new Croton Dam. attention: 0,000, addi- “Lovely weathe: les will be supplied vening World, upon on application te Reflections of a Bachelor By Helen Rowland. ntly over a hand » on ad some difficulty in attracting his HVERY BARBER IN THE SHOP IS AN TTING BL THING, COMFORTING SHAVIN( THAT These engineers reported that at a cost of only $3.25 Mr. Jarr. 2 5 caer ieas “Oh, I'm feeling all rig id ND SCALP R MANIPULATION AYBID tt wasn't Heavenly Wrath but just mutual tional storage capacity could be provided in the Croton watershed for “I didn't ask how you were. L it was lovely Y THE PLAC T DOOR TO GUS'S LIQuok! M which d-ove Adam and Eve out of the weather,” v ured Mr. Jarr. , after all, The downward path used to be paved with good tnten- } tions, bu: nowadays most men avoid that slow old route 4 and take the elevator ae The saddest and funniest thing on earth 1s to hear two people promising at the altar with perfectly straight faces : 20,000 million gallons. Mayor McClellan’s own consulting engmeer, ALES. SIN LIQUORS AND CIGARS Gus again absorbed himself in the seemingly pleas Ls b UAT Ue gvod to me,” said Mi. Jarr, “but you gol most of the advertisement able task of reading the handbil! not deign notice so unimportant 4 perse "sald Mr, Jarr, ra you are ¥0 interest “Ivs somett John R. Freeman, than whom there is no higher hydraulic authority in the United $ the Croton watershed at an expense of less than one-thirtieth of the Catskill scheme. ‘The Mayor’s own Water Supply Board has submit- ted a plan to get more water from underground Long Island than the 'Catskill scheme would provide for one quarter of the cost. tes, has a plan to increase the storage capacity of a thickhead that I don't say something for myself?” asked Gus | funy is a good f >, but them foreigners ain't got no elk him out, And, besides, Tony and me used to have a fight, bu again.” on, and so ow we are I'm an Ar- to feel, think and believe for the rest of their lives exactly as they do at that minute sked Mr. Jarr. said Gus. ‘ony made all his barbers patronize my | Me inother-In-law was sick I let him use the telephone here y would call him up I'd go to the back of my store and throw an asked Mr. Jarr, with a puzzied look, About the t “Sure, my name 1s Gus,” replied the genial host, place becau I'm an Arthur what writes things. 1 writed this for Tory, Ww the barber, next door. He ain: jong out of Italy and he, empty bottle into his shop across the bottom of the air shaft into a winder {n | re 3 " eraser s DAR SMe r hee |, ain't goot mit the Junglish language ” his place. If ft w ony they wanted to talk with from his mother-in-law’ The most careful and conservative estimates show that not less than # Foliar intnierarrtie carly smiial iadimackiuadinetauticralberarellaliuroweinionelbartisiandlitiicmaslnia ni teicinatieas @anisollichiicsehionen 4800,000,000 gallons per day can be secured ‘ram tae Catskill Mountain knew there was no escape from having the “little things” th ” had “just) bottles. When a@ girl marries she exchanges the chance of pleasing @ lot of Just one. men for the ce: inty of displeasing The Mayor says: y y A woman fails in love ax gracefully and easily as she sinks into a hammock, but a man always just stumbl into it accidentally as though it were a hole in the dark, and j watersheds fo $162,000,000, including a filtration plant and the main distri- dashed off” yead to him One day I throw tn a bottle, Just as his best customer was being Jed acros:| ‘When a man marries he looks for @ woman who will be an inspiration that ‘bution aqueduw to three of the Sve boroughs. I got up all the words myself,” said Gus. “Do you listen to how it comes his shop to the hot water faucet to get a shampoo wash, and I hit him in the | ‘i! lead him on to fortune-and when he gets there he leaves her at home while ps : z out?! eye mit the bottle, and Tony comes to the winder to holler ‘Stop!’ and he gets | °° = for some fluffy little thing who will lead him where he can enjoy it His chief engineer, John R. Freeman, says on page 102 of his ‘Let her go!’ sald Mr. Jarr. hit with the next bottle, because the call on the telephone is for his wife.” Sad how moment two people have fullen in love they begin to fall out riitvadl anata And Gus read as follows That Was 2 poor way, Couldn't you have shouted over?” asked Mr. Jarr.| about other things printee rep : TONW'S ITALIA? ICAN BARBER SHOP PARLORS. NEXT DOOR ‘They couldn't hear me when that electric machine what makes ihe mas. No man can understand why a woman prefers being catled pretty te Esopus Creek * * * will supply eafely in a dry year, as I coripute TO GUS's HAG b: WHPRD GEBMAN: 18 Sha AND THE sage is buzzing,” sald Gus ng called clever; but he can easily see why he would rather have her that couldn't have written his own handbill, though,” said ave written tt in Itallan and one of those Italian printing | e translated {t."" | “poor Tony he can't read and write | Quietest City in Europe. mie fs sald to be the quietest city in urope. Ratlway engines are not 41, only about 100,000,000 gallous per day. * * * The Esopus and neigh- dorug Schoharie Creek will together y Where did May If out,” interrupted Mr, Jarr. Mr ut Histen to the words what says Mke this." And he shops co gain— Why, don't you know?" asked Gu: SPLENDID AND UP-TO-DATE SERVICE, at all, He's Sliterary rou a ld 200,000,000 gallons per day. tool WHERE vou’ The Million Dollar Kid « « «« « ByR. W. Taylor he $66,500 a day.” If the 1e innit inal ronmlliaet r Supply of sca Spee No the City of New York,” pu iy erchants’ Association, or MUST BE YES SAH! AW SHALL —— ee SIT VA, MR. MONK | | 66 ” i i fo “he Report of the Commission on Additional Water Supply for powrt TOWN AT! TEN |SUTtinuy ENDEAVAK (cir away! im IS HALF PAST if | he Fudge Idiotorial. r McClellan get his 500,000,000 ¢ lion per day figur allowed to blow their whistles within the city limits. ‘There is no Joud The Mayor says that and a man whose wagon gearing ‘5 loose and rat. “making no allowance, of bawling of huck {8 subject to a Ane. the City of Naw York,” anade to Max cpp tint som Oa eat 19 AWAKEN [ gust GETTING EIGHT, sau! /| ane: New York Water Supply by John R. Freeman,” he wil thes (TT NICELY ASLEEP: ; loa I/ Now that the ELECTION ts reports concur that the waste and leakage is 50 per cent. to 20 per man camcabcacannaill | | over and we are relieved of pay- cent. | a ide ett | To oe d Ing for the Dependent League, Mayor McCleliar rently goes on the assumption that n i\ SA : eaders. we propose to devote more at- newspaper | iin ovanaiienmeaonn \ y | emer tention to the UPLIFTING of them, now being (Copyrot. 1908, The Planet Pub, Co.) OUR READERS, Next Sunday we propose to present each pur- chaser of the SUNDAY FUDGE with a package of Chewing Gu: full of PULVERIZED CORUNDUM, which will CLEAN thelr \ ) TELTH as they CHEW, This will be both a Benefit and a Novelty to Our Readers, but it ts ONLY the beginning of what Is coming. The Sunday after, the COMIC FUDGE will be printed on a Saponaceous Compound, with which Our Readers can TAKE a BATH! If they can stand this we shall follow later with FREE NAP- (INS, and ULTIMATELY with FINGER BOWLS. {f Our Reauers| fo not take Kindly to Finger Bowls, they can use them to ments, and thi whi e dedicated te ceurre 1 higher and more indestructible monument than a fifty foot tower Letiers From the People Areca aees | JRINK FROM ‘4 a. at some 85 ’ P How Longt | If Our Readers respond we shall try to furnish an edition of * moi ¥ g ‘ | fhe Fudge that can be used for sheets and pillow cases, About where | on New Year's we shall present each reader with a clean shirt. pa rer Once a year Is little enough change. ber mother out, And } ti Watch the CHRISTMAS FUDGE for a COMPLETE WARD- iW KOBE!