The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1908, Page 18

1 i f | y 1 i sscept Sunday by the Press Pub Park Row, New ¥< 3. AS Pudiienea Dally © [ SOBEPM PULITZER, Prea., 1 Fast 1M Street Entered at the 1 ut New Yc jubseri { Evening . Wor 1 8 me Year 7 Or me Month. One VOLUMi ve —— aie the Board of W docs not award a contract to the er Supply | lowest bidder one of the excuses that it gives is solicitude for the workingman, and that by paying the contractor a higher price the nen will get better treat- working ment end higher wages. hid of tie On this pretense the Pearson Company for a $4,000,000 siplic. was rejected. This was also ene of he pretexts for Ashokan dam contract to the MacArthur Bros. and awarding the c 1a responsible bidder offered to do the work Winston & Co., althou for $2,500,000 | Recently the MacArthur Bros., who are the general contractors A One of the for a railroad in South Carolina, let the sub-contracts. conditions in the sub-contracts was that no contractor should pay ordinary labor more than $1.25 a day. On the Ashokan dam contract, which was to give work and good | employed of New York City, there are not 10 per cent. of the laborers New York City voters. About half are negroes from the South and two-thirds of the others are unnaturalized immigrants. These 1,600 iaborers are nominally getting 15 and 20 cents an hour. Wha. they are actually getting was told in yesterday’s Bye- ning World by Samuel A. Stodel, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World and an investigator for the Brotherhood Welfare As- wages to the u sociation. Although the Penal Code and the Labor law specitically re- quire the payment of wages in cash, these laborers are paid in bra a cheeks good at the company’s store and worth in real money about 65 cents on the dollar. Every day they are allowed to draw $1 in brass cheeks. A little sum in simple arithmetic shows whether the solicitude of ‘the Board of Water Supply was for the workingmen’s welfare or the contractors’ profits. Sixteen hundre. men at $1.25 per day equals §2,000. | at three hundred working days a year equals $600,000. ‘Two million five hundred thousand {8 more than four times $600,000. So the extra $2,500,000 of the higher MacArthur-Winston bid | ‘amounts to paying all these laborers wages for four years without) their costing the contractor a penny and giving all the results of their fabor to him as profit, besides the profit on the brass checks. No wonder George B. McClellan made haste to dedicate an {Ashokan dam monument to himself before such facts as thes» became Imown to the public, , In his dedication speech Mayor McClellan said that the Catskill peheme would supply 500,000,000 gallons a day of water to New (York City. This is four times the engineers’ estimates of the flow of opus Creek, which is a stream of water which the Ashokan dam| pill store. | Anybody who is in deubt as to which is right, The Evening orld and the engineers or Mayor McClellan, should go up to ston some day with # pair of rubber boots and wade Esopus Kk, Tome — wa | Letters From the People f In Cold Weather Passing more than once concluded to adopt a bro the Baltor of ‘The Evening World similar manner m , and thus « When 1 was young we usually had every tatement ow by Thanksgiving. Always deep 4 cast up at me froin t a by Christmas. Zero weather was an well imagine mo rarity in tt winters, Now we 1 geldom get much steady snow | t 4 Defore January, and zerc arity t v. Who can explain so reat CaacleumiManae @casons during # single ha , The Fish z In answer to the fish problem, A fis tail weighs $ pounds we No es mu n { 2 th ! nd the bod 4 I t ! nd I wish tot ‘ i 7 glied ¥ 4 Ja dhe Workd Atmanae 1 1 Another Would-He ostlent Sister World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, December 9, An Old Game With a New Head. By Mauric= Ketten ~ \ eS NK ee — ~ USSSA = So ~AYeenne HN (ene my SSSR. eS = SNS Se, } Mr. Jarr Butts In on an Executive Session of Femininity i And G.eans a Galaxy of Interesting Facts Atout Reform on tights, but he didn’t Ike the looks of the oid maid from Brooklyn. “Tee hee! Tee hee!” giggled Miss Teak. “Oh, you dreadful man! 1 must that down in my diary, I really muat! It's so delightfully shocking! Tee hee!” “Well, Ann,” Mrs. Jarr went on. “I really can't promise you. I think the hide something under a sofa pillow beside her. notoriety of being connected with these moral raiders {s decidedly un- You remember Miss Teak, the oldest of the Teak! pleasant.” who lived near us in Brooklyn?” began Mrs. Jarr. “But think of the good cause!” interrupted the maiden lady. “Think of Not the oldest, Clara—not the oldest,” murmured the | tearing down billboards that have pictures of horrid females in—er,—oh, how By Roy L. McCardell. A 8 Mr. Jarr entered the room he noticed some embarrassment on the part of the lady visitor who was present. She was vainiy endeavoring to visitor. “There were two older children than I that were) can I say it before a man? In—well—er—feshings! And think of the drama dead, you kno being degraded!" “Ob, that was before my time," sald Mrs. Jarr, sweetly./ — “I don't get to the theatre as.often as you do, to be shocked by tights,” sald “It is at school I remember seeing you first,” she con-| yrs. Jarr. tinued, You were in high schoo, don't you remember, “But, my dear, I never, never go to such exhibitions at a! protested Mins and hed beaus? I remember it so distinctly because I) ann Teak. “I have seen ome’ several times, but that !s a Biblical sub- Was such a Ittle tot Just entering the kindergarten class.” | ject, and hence permitied. With the exception of Ibsen's plays and ‘Salome,’ I The visitor looked dismayed at these disclosur but) seldom, ff ever, go to the theatre. I would die of mortification !f I saw such changed the subject by saying she really must go. “You| things, Why, actually, I have such a horror of those things that when I as- must come over to see us,” said the visitor, “You really | certained that a woman who had actually appeared in them in comic opera was must! Or I won't come to see you again—I really won't! | poarding at a sumner resort at Centre Moricl, $ last year I got up a committes And I think it's a shame that you do not Join us in| o¢ protest of Brook yn ladies that led to her being requested to leave, But such we herd Ankobee active work to repress—hem! to repres: la sty-taced minx she was! Always acting as if butter wouldn't melt Hf her “Oh, your society for the suppression of tights,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Well, my! mouth! Well, I must go!” dear, I have so much to do, with a house to ‘ook after aud children to look; Here the vistor slipped the object she had hidden under the sofa pillow be- after and a husband to look after’—— ‘hind her muft. Married ladies always remind old matds that they have a husband. | “sr really must go, and you really must Join our moral crusade.” “At the same time,’ said the visitor, rising to her full and somewhat at-| ing, she simpered at Mr. Jurr, kissed Mrs. Jarr and departed, tenuated height and putting on a skimpy pair of black silk mittens—“at the) “What vas it that o'd hen was hiding?” asked Mr. Jarr, seme time, my dear Clara, we need a committee of matrons. I could not even hree Weeks," said Mrs, Jarr. So say- sign the reports, as secretary, of our committee to Investigate burlesque shows she looks like she had been hiding three hundred years, but you mean the {f 1 did not have a married lady sitting beside me as a chaperon.” puoi fellines wieoke)) donbisoud ow said Mrs, Jarr, our society's object may be a worthy one, but 1). "Y said Mrs, Jarr, She has a paper outside cover on tt of a book do not think Ushts are wicked of themse.ves. It may be our calling attention called 1 St. Francis to Dante’ so she can read it in the cars.”’ fo them $s," fave you read it?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Oh, my dear, tf w them—they would flour! “Long did not protest—and especia'ly against the posters of | skipped it through,” replied Mri after living all these years with you! & y they wave!” sald Mr, Jarr, not that he was particularly stuck for a tiger skin rug. They are so artistic.” Jarr; “but I suppose I'm hard to shock t I wish we had a parlor big enough The Million Dollar Kid ¢% #2» 6% By R. W. Taylor wEY, BO! ILL GING Nou THis THOUSAND IF You CAN GAIN ——T_ One tap! GH Ho! cues) NLL YAW E % NAP! DEM RICH \GUYS 19 \ Easy } ew BRR-R! 1 Don't MIND Losing MY VALUABLES BUT I DO Wish THEY'D LEFT my CoaT! BR-R-R?} Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune | NO, 22.—SIR HENRY MOKGAN, T elty that {s still « byword in the southern seas. | Henry John Morgan was kidnapped in boyhood, as he hung around the \ | Bristol docks, and was carried to Barbadoes in the West Indies, where his \eaptors sold him into slavery. He found his way later to Jamaica and joinea a pirate ship that was secretly fitting out at that island, With his fellow-murderers he scoured the Spanish Main; pillaged rich merchcant /Ships, forcing their passengers and crews to walk the plank; and committed a series of other barbarous but lucrative outrages. Pirates were notori- ous spendthrifts; usually drinking and gambling away in a few days the plunder of months. But Morgan was an exception. He hoarded his blood- stained earnings and persuaded some of his shipmates to do the same. At last they were able to buy a pirate ship of their own. Morgan was chosen captain. So successiul were his voyages that soon his name was | known throughout the West Indies, His reputation QD © for cruelty and courage reached the ears of Mans- { From “Pirate” field, an old buccaneer chief, who engaged him as HIS {8 the story of a Welsh farmer's son who became in turn a slave, @ to “Buccaneer.” his vice-admiral, © Buccaneers were a step higher in the scale of ~~") decency than were common pirates. At times even the Government recognized them and availed itself of (heir services. They took their name from the “buccan” (dried beef), which formed a large share ot their | diet. They were of many nationalities—Engish leading—and were united in @ hatred of Spain, and in the object of despoiling the Spanish towns and merchan- dise of the Caribbean, As n and England were at war much of the time, the British Government in the West Indies usually Winked at the freebooter * atrocs ities. At length the buccaneers iormed a sort of mercenary navy, Willing to sed its services to the highest bidder, Jt was in this navy that Morgan became a vice-admiral, Mansfeld died in 1668, and Morgan, then only thirty-one years old, took the dead leader's piace. He devasted Spanish towns and piled up tor himself fabus lous Wealth by fire, sword and pillage. sor two years he scourged the Spaniards, | Then England and Spain signed 4 treaty of peace, which forbade any further horrors of piracy in the Caribbean, The buccaneers (thelr occupauon gone ond starvation—or honest work—staring them in ihe face) appealed to Morgan for advice. Morgan was rich and wished to settle down to a lite or juxury, but his | penniless comrades argued him out of the idea, Then it was that he hit on the master plan of his whole career. He resolved to cross the lstumus of Panama aud | continue his piratical successes in the Pacitic. On Jan, 18, 171, he began his historic march across the isthmus with 1,300 picked men. rough jungles and deadly swamps the I e army forced at every step fighting huma: oes and disease, until it came in sight of Spanish city of Panama, The golu-nungry buccaneers fell upon Us fury that swept all before it, They overcume the garrison, | ned town itself, and put to death in barbarous fashion its inhabita The riche citizens were tortured until they told where their money and valuables were hid- den, Hundreds of others Were held for ransom or carried into ca; Using the destroyed city as @ base of supplies, Siurgan and Lis seed Spanisa cowns tn every direction. Leaving F ama, they marched on Porto Bi plundered. Laden down with gold and pree: jared now to diviue their booty. Morgan cheated his compan more tful jd mace off with it, by no ades in the lurch. rich, rich with @ e city ny » which th Morgan returned to Jamaica. Enormously By th he ‘s Caribbean was buzzing with exciement over his wholes 18 n Government Was overwheimed with cc is the buccaneer’s ruthless viola o © Morgan was ordered to Lond. ms ; A Criminai's to King Charies 11, of Ss daring ; Strange Reward. crimes. Without @ trace of e went .> nH England to face his ac Le possessed one (PRR LS ASAALOASED, il GUIS VE he had reason to believe would silence all complaints against him. That argument was weaith. Charles 1. was extravagant, and, like many of his Court, was always eager for money. Hence, after a iew private conferences with the right officials, Morgan «ag not only acquitted, but was made a knight, and sent back to Jamaica as Deputy Governor of the whole island, There he married, lived in royal state on his ille | Won wealth, severely punisied such of Lis former piratical friends as came bee fore him tor trial, and, in lov, died in peace anu Ligh repute, Missing numbers of this series may cent tor each number be obtained by sending om Circulation Department, Evening Worlds : Players of the Per: No. 14.—Aunie kussell.—by Johus scve. NNIE RUSSELL, of perentilal inxenue fame, was born in Liverpool, land, Jan, vat tour years later her family movee t real, AN NO early childhood. Sie was only a youngster dup the stage ladder, earing in her luge as. child Jeanne, in “Mise r Iw © Was Viniste,”* nd tien played J erly's Juye years’ duration, br children’s stussell joined Li. inade @ weven 1 oncelya 8 company Wert indie om Le onth fg hit be wo > wer sun play usion” and * member of the Madisc is organization, duri Instructions, . sh Company, € Wis seen in “isroken 1 Elaine,” “Tho Martyr” and Swift." A serious {lincss thea renoved her from the public eye and tur tive years she was denied any partici) cy un stage afairs, Upon the teeovery of her heal 1H, Miss Russell appeared at Wallack's Theatre on Nov. 12 of that year in “The New Woman” and durin, he alo appeared in a revive’ of “Esmeralda” and two o and “Romeo's Pirss Lev Lhe season of 196.0 she was le | . Goodwin, being Margaret Ruthven ia “A Gilded bool, “Ambition,” Ada Ingot {a “David Garrick” and Kate Vernon in “In The following season she divided between the Ute role in. Sue’ w Fondacre in Mysterfous Mr, Bugle,” and the year after this s with sol Smith Russell in A Bachelor's Romance,” then played .\4 lo “The salt of the Karth” and in June, 188, she made her debut Londoa stage, appearing at the Garrick Theatre in “Sue” and # cne-wet play, “Danger field ‘5 Miss Russell made ber siellar debut t eason of 1898-19, playing the title role in "Catherine," and since that Ume she has starred in u lowing plays: 1859-100, “Miss Hobbs," 1900-01, "A Royal Family,” 1001-¥% Phe Girl and the udge;” 1 “Mice and Men;" 190-04 "Phe Youn Mrs, Varling;’ and 104-00, “Brother Jacques” and “Jinny the Carrier,” 41 all of which she was anaged by Charles ¥rohman, She then went to, London and on Nov. 28, 1905, © created the title role In Bernard Shaw's “Major Barbara,” at the Court the under the direction of H. Grauyille Barker and John i. Vedrenne, Upon her return to America, Miss Russell placed ler business affairs in the hands of Wagenhals & Kemper and in the spring of 1906 she toured the prin- pal New ingland cites in the title part in “Friend Hannah," The season of 90-07 she starred as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream,” and the year lowing did not act at all, owing to her inability to secure a sultable play, sie is now starring in “The Stronger 5 at Weber's Theatre. Miss Jtussell bas been twice married, her first husband having been Eugene \W. Presbrey, whom she married at Buffalo, N. ¥., Ney. 6, 184, divorcing him thirteen years later, On Mareh 27, 1904, at Detrott, Mich. she became the wife f Oswald Yorke, an English actor who had been her leading man for several curs, 4 position he still holds. Miss Russell has a younger brother, Thomas A. {tyssell, a Lumous interpreter of “Little Lord Fauntleroy’ in his childhood days; but since acquiring years of discretion he has been engaged in business pursuits + | Kenemteenal > ' The Day’s Good Stories ¥ | «Ores eee ee een _—— Just Like an Iceberg. ‘The Value of a Watch, A LADY on one of the ocean Iners! sald Tommy, “pa gave me & watch to carry when I started in at school this fa. who seomed very much afraid of icebergs asked the captain what) would happen in case of @ collision, The|"My!’ exclaimed Aunt Jane, “thats apta replied: ‘The iceberg would nice, isn't it?” "Yes'm ui soon move right along, madam, just as if ag 1 git in school in the mornin’s I kin nothing bad happened.” and the old look at it an’ see how many minutes | lady seemed greatly relleved.—Succemm I'm late"—Catholle Standard Timem pirate, a governor, and a knight. He left a name for barbarous crue we = f * rf 4 f ier