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re ‘Its influence keeps these dilapidated unsanitary properties on the as-| are L253 c0100I0, | hea Daily xcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to 8) Park Row, New York . 19 YEA MY, Ste, Treun, fot root 1148 trae ME PULITZER, Brea,, Rast thd Strset 3, ANG’ tA, Entered at the Post- y at New York as Second-Class Mall Macter. | and Continent 80 | One Year Wo} One Month fVOLUME 4 Dirsecees on HERE DOES TRINI ry’s MONEY GO? 21D St. John’s Church on Varick street is to be torn the ‘I'rinity Corporation, which owns it. The esti mated to be worth $400,000. By demolishing the church and put- property is ting up lofts the Trinity Cor- poration will receive an addi- tional \income of $20,000 or $25,000 a year. Who will profit . from this) 5,000? | ~ his property cost the Trinity Corporation nothing. Little of | ffs valuable property has cost it anything, It owns more than $80,000,000. The assessed valuation on which it pays taxes is more than $10,000,000. On more than that the tenant pays the taxes, be- sides the enormously valuable properties which are tax exempt. What becomes of this enormous income and who benefits by the | great appreciation in the Trinity Corporation is notoriously the worst big landlord in} New York. It has fought the regulations of the Board of Health} up to the Court of Appeals. Its tenements on the lower west side are old dwelling houses made over without proper sanitary appli-| ances, without the protective restrictions of the new tenement law. | | holdin, thy Trinity a a half to a third the y of an east side tenement. | nity Corporation has a powerful pull. sessment roll a Evidently the ” Old St. John’s Chapel was one of the few remaining churches on the lower west side. Jt was built near the opening of the last cen- tury, before the War of 1512, when St. John’s Park was in a fashion- able neighborhood and Vestry and Laight streets were occupied by zich people. Since then the neighborhood has changed. Vashion has moved uptown. But the population has not diminished. It has five hun- dred co icants, If Trinity Corporation were to administer its great trust to encourage religion, to preach the gospel, to uplift the poor and humble, rather would lose a fashionable uptown chapel than to demolish St. John’s Chur According to Trinity's last Year Book, its total expenses for re- ligious and charitable objects, in- eluding collections and contribu- tions, were less than 0 of a million dollars. Addi quarter ig to that xs taxes and water rates and a liberal allowance for the ex- penses of business management accounts for some hialf-m dollars. What becomes of other four and one-half n Is the Trinity poor that it cannot conti Corporatior Letters From the People | | | He Neea Not Pay Pawnbroker, Wo the Pittor of The Hventr Buppose an article ts st: thief takes tt to a pawns {t, and t) loss to the police and with him and final ticle in the pawneshop, Ca EX-OFFICE BOY redeem from the pawnbroker the & stolen from him | SENT AT pawned without | broker the m« tblef on said artic A Cana MMe the Fattor of The Thanksgiy!: lunited States Bpart by Goy every year as a This custom has been . ack as 1 can ren middle-aged 1 pears Thanksg ‘ dork. An to Office Chicugoan Praines New aan Dicugoan Pra ’ me we 1 een complaining & bd a 4 harsh treat ployers a ‘ ‘ 4 5 work up. ‘ . finale neatness, # the fact ¢ k possibly their « Verne office ’ weeded re Tn my ts bey v Ah-ee-dab bed . grand opera ° down by! orm AO REN 5 Saturday; December 5, The New York Girl-- No. 8. By Maurice Ketten ‘The sooner they force saloons Keepers to sell stuf that's, fit to deink, instead of the third rail extract they charge 15 etnte.a throws for, the better, ~ Meter g, * Jin every community the ate jeght 19 regutate a man's, appetite and amusements, | ta vested in voluntescsres! oF ham Ht he doesn't thnk bt you thik, 1 ed da volunteer reformers, ‘The majority ("+ elects pul s who are pledged to erality t comes to a ques- x tion of 8 the minority “A perfectly proper move, too” re-|rules, M t V who Was getting his] “But I like to go to a vaudeville show package went " tested the laundry= formance one Sut work every other and the house thoughtless 1 s.) persisted the man ed and a as Rettig his package, “I, who ‘ormers and ¢ every hight in the week In other theatres ty there were probably Ne doing the same thing insist that leisure on evening ight to tell do on Tuesday but T can force place where not want tp be en day night to myself, AS TO POLITICS | AND FRIENDSHIP, I tell you, Montmor ‘G6 UT you can't keep me from go. ‘ od run cold to see tt | to the Democratic Club e& know what a and shaking hands with my * said the laun- itting—the audienc nd, Mek ¢ an sitting next to wife when the e never bh Ks like @ K dae é take me i re BLnEIblentiee Zo —— a st vor friend ! was or ow Sol < ff a sh f pose, sa and ha stand |THE MEN WHO PEDDLE eTHIRD) RAIL EXTRACT.” ——s — ———— — See = as And if we n't ae “that Mrs 1 N. ,» What are w 20- ve President of the W. Cc, ole of Mr. The Chorus Girl Has Signed With a New Show. It Has No Naval Lieutenant; So It May Win Out By Roy L. McCardell. | tected against 0 to ¢ i ‘Say, kid, If It gives you any pleasure hear Dopey sing that in a dump! to see the outcasts cry, you want t Ee ee eee ee eee ston: | _ “And I want to tell you one thing: you got the meanest eilitor on y | EH CIES TICE EE a *! not the corn-beef editor or the heart-throb editor: 1 it ain't the Be ene See nee Bea tor, either; it’s the short, thickset edit Mand chin. T ast him t I. shopping the last couple of days witho an advance notice ‘cause them things lhe says, ‘When's this fly-by- |” ECAR PReE ae FE night comin’ to New ” And I says, ‘It ain't comin all if it don't get a over,’ and he s: u want any 0 ° en? We're not boosting anys from one place as a souvent: nan you beat it? And IT was always nice to him, too! What do we want no 4 t « xaloonkeepers ‘wees for? Why, notices is all actors has to eat half the time, and they general! ; < fit to drink instead (disagrees with them. ; extract they charge “Oh, well, I do hope we have good dressing-rooms. ‘They're generally built o ny irow for aow the old cigar boxes, the size that only holds fifty, and ul ning water in ‘e. | i t is when somebody hurries in with a pail of tt. | “And if the production isn't ax small as ‘The Servant in the House’ or | =a Te, yu Ought to see how (hem cute little dressing-rooms is crowded. Many | LOOKOOTSAOOOOO) , a e I've had to dress in a room eigh: by ten with fourteen other girls and si Weroee lextra women. But the worst was when dat the Majestic with e ‘Top P dogs. Ever since that, kid, 1 can't find it in my heart to be kind @ mals @ | “Big productions look fine from in front, but a 8 | And it's even worse on the re OUEHt to see them grand opera-house ~~ 9 in Muscatine, Ja., or Baton Rou , Where one room jx given up to ladies o and one to gent) n of the compan NO. 6 —BOITU'S ‘‘MEFISTOFELE." ] “Ain't ft funny, t's only the little things worry us? If 1 was fall and as the embodiment bookish wisdom break a leg, 1 wouldn't mind it {f 1 was sure it would shape up allright aga yenion eilisroreell a iiisaxantitiat when it was glued together; but Just let somebody touch m der rag and 1 de hie could not, Mefise | get So nervous T just die to bounce somethir 1 t ‘Well, by-by, kid, I’m off to Baltin ore nat morning. The “The Gay Life’ is sure to be a scream—maybe of disappointment. W pr the street out. tradition of stage success—we ain't got a na songs of the violatips every leutena | natty white uniform in tt, and the scer ain't laid in Paris. nd maiden al! combined t as very old. His | “Them's handicaps, kid, and 1 dunio!"" | Mfe was tn its autumn and the could nger veach him, ts — —---—- --_-—-_—— ———- —~- —— a _ | His steps on way homeward an us monk, This Bow VDGOOOSDOGOOSSSOVOOSS) 1] man, he ing himself as Mefistofele, the spirit ie vegation n foe of ven. Ile offered, in ex- ange e tor's y i nd t sce at his Panhandle Pete’ s Strategy Goes Wrong wf By Geo. McManus ae ea oe a aT Eee NEN overea le temptation offered was too great for the gu W epted t bargain lie and Me a eaee Res: es fistofele epped upon loak and from the pid A s0OD \ ut ap ta oom." ¢ PLACE 70 EAT To PROTECT Mefisiofele inade Maust a handsome vouth again, and started him upon a ° s tn Fron of wild dissipation, The mer pirilosopher met and Jove with | Margarita, a gentio peasant girl, Margarita mother guarded Mefistofele caused Mayr inknowingly to po her i ed by ofele, left: Mare on the unholy revels of the Witches Sabe bath on the Bre Ther 1 midst of the demoniacal frolics, he saw a of Marga a lying man in prison, © °& © All aust for the m Mvived at the fearful vision and he forced Mefistofele to bear him ba The girl had been cast into prison for the murder of her m r, Faust entered her cell with the glad news that he ould set her free. Joyou he ran to meet her returned lover. But at sight of Metistof sh on ecognizinog him as Satan, ehe refused to leave the pris und ¢ diy to Faust for protection. ‘aust vainly begged her io tly with them vould have no dealings with the Evil redeemed girl s e vanished, expiring as@he |” anki NICE DOG4*E, r Ad pileasive to gnother Mefistofele led his victim. Faust tasted PLEASE LEAVE the life to the very dregs, He Was even transported to a magic Greek isle, Where abode Helen of Troy. By Satan's ald, he won Helen's love as readily «4 ax he had won sin Margarita’, © 9 # Mack at last to his Mrankfort study Paust wandered, He was weary of dive sipation, Tle saw the sin and \ folly of all he had © deemed 80 de sirable. He was tasting to the full the Dead Sea fruit of pleasure. Realising hat the life for whieh he J his soul was an empty farce, and that he ad bartered his salvation for sfaught, he turned a deaf ear to Mefistofele'e ale Mefiste sought to draw the unhappy man back to the paths of sin, Bat with a ¢ of penties Faust snatehed up the Bible and clung to (he holy book as a barrier | en himself and tem, A yoseate cloud enveloped im. In a (ransport of repentance he fell to the ground, dead; while Mefistofele, baffled a Inferno. he very mon s seeming victory, plunged down in fury ¢o the oe eee