The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1908, Page 17

The Evening World Daily Magazine, | The New York Girl---No. 10 Bv Maurice Ketten Pedlished Day Bxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to Park Row, New York ANG SHAW, fec,-Treas., 68 Park Row, York as Second-Ciass Mai! Matter. Bodecription Rates to The Evening { For England and the Continent and orld for the United States All Countries In the Tnternational aud Canada, Postal Union. Bie sont. nth . $3.50 One Yerar.. WERT ITE AS identi NAMBaseiainii .NO. 17,287 0 | One atonth HOW SOME OF THE MONEY GOES. CCORDING to the testimony of the auditor of the Department of Docks and Ferries, New York City in 1907 lost through the operation of the Thirty-ninth Street and Staten Island ferries SERSRARERDYDT 61,026,272. The city’s docks, which are worth tens of millions of dollars, made a profit of only | $1,121,092. | Thus the loss on these two | ferries alone almost wiped out | ‘the total net income from New York’s valuable dock Before the city took it over the Staten Island Ferry did not pay. What was, of course, the reason why its owners were so desirous for the city to buy it from them. Since the city bought the ferry it has put on new ferryboats—the best ferryboats in New York Harbor. Tthas given and now gives a better service. \ How extravagantly the city runs its ferry these two pictures | how. The eighteen men are the one shift on a Staten Island ferry. oat. The nine men are one shift on one of the big two-story North River ferryboats. The municipal ferryboat has a pilot and a captain, ' two engineers, two oilers, four firemen, five deckhands, two vate | fenders and a carpenter. | | q 69.78 8S piss ii a The large North River ferryboats have a pilot and a captain, one _ engineer, one oiler, two firemen and three deckhands. The city em-| ploys twice as many men to do the same work, and it employs three} | shifts. where the privately owned ferry lines get along with two| shifts. That is, in twenty-four hours the city pays wages to fifty- D | four men where a private corporation pays smaller wages to eighteen | No sooner was the Brooklyn Bridge railroad transferred from the city to the B. R. T. than wages were reduced and many men were laid off. This resulted in a great saving to the B. R ‘ity built the bridge and pays for its mai the cost of carrying passengers over the bridge reduced a half the fare to the public remains the same, and the ser , This is wholly distinct from the question of municipal operation "The Brooklyn Ferry Company is now seeking to have the ity ‘take over its unprofitable ferries. The Thirty-ninth Street Ferry has knowaleverybody, been bought by the city. The traction monopoly is in favor of the city building more bridges for ita street cars to run over. ‘The Weity of New York might well follow the esa: f Bergen and ‘Passaic Counties in New Jersey, which are now demanding that the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey shall pay one-third of the \eost of construction and one-third the cost of mainter ‘county bidzte which it uses, nance of the new| Letters From the People| Verrible! I! alioasi? | | | | fo the Edlior of The Evening World these will be Who said “Oconomowoc” has no word | number of tis to rhyme with it? An actor from Oconomowoc Played “Ten Nights in a Bar Norwalk. After the first act Yow this ix a fact) Oconomowee couldn't talk, stand walk. Pp. $ NOBODY Interest Problex To the Editor of The kven yi f A problem was to be solved, as & H t lows: A man gave his note for § ‘ for & on which he was to pay 6 per cent. | ‘ & treat x t terest, At the end of ten months } 8 e not brat made a payment of $2" A! the & tay te ABA the following six months le ma c ft "i payment of $50, and one year ¥e eight months he pald (he rf ur 1 What was the full amou | home ¢ $2,322.50 to be the full amount 1*8 BENJAMIN BRICKMA Petty Thetis. To the Bditor of ‘The Evening World my . Somebody breaks into my desk at the @tore, in my absence, and » pencils, statione Jadies employed here lave trifes in the same wa could steal $10.00) from 1 be worth while. But 1 @ny one Who will sell s and gelf respect for a few ents w of trifies, What do readers thin not euch a petty thief oa : than @ more enterprising ovis STENOGI The List of Game Ge the Béiia: of The Evening Wore We snewer to the problem tha: Messrelt tn Africa will kill Ave . Tribute What a Oe Meany Cigere as elephants, and seven _. TIGHTWA A Yuletide Versetet Saturday, | John Henry and a Few Other Perfectiy Innocent Bystanders Find Themselves in a Car That’s Infested by a Bridal Couple }: © the brand new wife By George V. Hobart. \CH—I'm headed for home, but the hurdies are holding me back I met a whole flock of “the boys” and since most of ‘em were making a fying leap for New Yor men. believe me tt was a ewift equad of sporta thet climbed into one of Mr. Pu sleep-wagons and permitted themselves to be yanked over the rails. A bunch of brisk ones—believe me! There was Charlie Hammond, leading man with the ‘Kitty, David Torrence, nch of grins and sat in Rochester 3 sterday morning, began to scream {i man’ the Kash Girl" the melodrama ent e Stole the Muffler?” Frank Westert: Emmett Corrigan, s r Bridge Without Impairing the Tonsils investment of capital on the Brooklyn Bridge is almost nothing. ‘Mhe | Malcolm William, the handsomest leading man in the show business—} f & _, [pletely shaved; William Burress, tenance now. Yet with |that fine Monticello honey-dew, and Arthur Shaw. Shaw travels for a clothing house in Cincinnat cause he's getting so fat that every time he turns around he meets *e is worse than ever, | coming back. Then there was Nick Dalrymple and Tod Gilpin—two live ones with a@ full set of sparks flying i oes after the orders for a in the world—bar one family ving in Yonkers. , he will paddle after the pontes. r he makes a town where there's a poolroom his expense und Nick begins to worry for fear he may He won $12 in Cleveland once, and he spent $218 at a boo: getting statistics on how {t happened “Pipe the gang to quanters and ali after the train pulled out In the seat ahead of us @ somewhat demuredooking Proposition in ever since we started given her the glad glance, but she was \ company ; ., but of that | Hauntea ‘waving what penny of benefit has the public received? The B. R. 'T’s| 22 Williams exploded, and Slim began | alead of Boozey around and beam h the "Crazy Quilt Burlesque: through the provinces on “ y up closer to h and skeeze her 1e Bathrobe Kinj pariie Abbott, who se he bride with another gold-rimmed goo-goo, when o see somedings: * she snapped, and t imitation of a coal-barge in a hi ages from hiccoughi to convulsions Birdie?" chirped the bride. gets fat and beefy the dolly dame, pinching another gasoline| — eupon the brewer ut half an hour] back to make googles in & minute the brewer's brow was busy with rainbow | Somevun rags had been sampling ecetie looks at Petle and Sweetie sees that " cuckooed Mrs. Petie's pietty face is getting “and Sweetie has a dood mind to fn loose face, one of those m spoke the Proposition was Joined by a young cl been out in the smoking panatelia cigars that and crawied under 1 went down aud ou nan who helped to make Weehawkén famous had his head out t ng for an ice Wagon ‘ain pulled our and saved our lives. room working faithfu if you show opened a newspaper stopped for a few minutes. e of bride and bridegroom. and we were put that {t was an inc SON, “IVE ME DPE stover, ILL Do vAT WoRK FoR YOUSE ! Yo MANE A LITTLE at WAT DO 0i9 1 WHAT © Gey FER TRYIN" December 19, 1908. | | marked Jullet with that brave, sweet | |amile of the woman who Is trying to her chin, TOO OOO OU GUO UCD OUO OU Immortal Interviews -: Rr No. I—Romeo and Juliet Discuss Getting dn and Cet) ie foes DODOOOHNADA j necessary to break anybody's heart por y Helen Rowland. _ [hurt anybody's pride just because you “ OMEO! Romeo! Are you going | have discovered- hat it 1s necessary, to answer that door-bell—or | to—to’ AREN'T you?" “To—what?” T put in eagerly, It was the gen-| “Well, to put an end to an affair that tle volce of Ju-|has grown a little too serious,” exe Met, which pene- ed Romeo. “If you are subtie and trated the key-| about {t, thera are ways of making ed person feel actually grateful, ost as though you had paid him of r a compliment. But {t takes time, takes time. I suppose,” to Jullot, wit ¥ you the electric but- ton of her ground floor flat at No. Rue de Mor it was Jullet, her- self, In a soiled kimono and a broken filet, who opened the door an instant later and ushered me | into @ tiny two-by-four reception room, | where Romeo reclined langutdly on a | | velveteen couch and blew rings from | his cigarette, | “Please pardon appearances,” re- | make a twenty-five-dollar-a-week salary look like a seventy-five-dollar income, “But what with four children, and no servant, and Romeo smoking round the all day!"——- She waved her expressively over the littered ‘ou never talked MNke that," grum- bled Romeo, rising from the couch a) putting down his cigarette with a bored air, “before I married you.” Tullet’s nose went into the alr "No," she acquiesced w SOWADAY 1 ad Romeo, s' member your first Upped out of thi “he ejaculated, close shave, but 1 managed { But ® man only two ropped ot san screws } grad- ondence blank interested when bu the expe ‘or tt careful about !t and drops @ ai: y inch instead of cutting id a lock hair or a loose b ; Play Makes the Man. By Frank D. Watson. AN living in primitive times was in direct contact with He raised his own food, made his own clothes and built his own house. tte had & many chances of varying his occupation throughout the day, All his work was educational, He had the stimulus of seeing a plece of worle begun and ended and of enjoying the marked contrast with the life of the average factor which one admires most in @ man are deadened whe day after day and week after week before a huge 1 but a part It {8 during leisure rather than during work time that chara ail this ts tm compelled to stand hine of which he becomes is formed, The | basis of character ts the will, and at no time does this function of the mind have | so free a scope as during recreation, It iy then that all rest nt Is removed and we do as we will, ‘The excellent effect of recreation « en in chile ‘en at play, Often for the first time they learn the meaning of self-restraint, hey learn the significance of co-operation and group action in those games ree quiring team work. At play the cheat is quickly discovered and punished with ostracism by his fellows, Such object lessons tn the fundamentais of morality character is si are invaluable in the normal development of any child. After all, character is acquired from tho environment and not from the blood. Amusement is gaining recognition as a force as potent as formal Instruction.—Ch 1 the Com= mons. 0 po ~~ | #” The Day’s Good Stories ei No Chance for a Miracle, |; 277 (prin that ie you and the ge elder cong there NE day Dr, Norman McLeod, who |Fadna bin twelve baskets of fragments ( ) was @ large and healthy man, and | Globe . r one of his burly elders went to pay | -__ , 4 yisit to a certain Mrs, M. ren of | How He Won Her. ys the congregation, who lived in the | Scotch hills, She was @ frugal woman, | but determined that they should have the best in the house, So she piled the table with jellies and Jam and preserves was a fisherman and tn love. He had angled for Angelina and caught her, He had angled for fish also the livelong day and caught erery i "Jone ephippid; that 1s, @ porgy. That and ane read, and they partook On: | nisi. je went to wee Angelina's father li on the delicate question of matrimony, After the meat the elder sald to hers Was nervous and could not bring “Mrs, MecLaren, were you at the kirk pe ay to the momentous question, on Sunday?” he talked about the weather and. fake Oh, wye’ she sald, “I wes." Ing. The old! man waked. Dresent| “And what aid you think of the treat- dc +i ae ied the ment of the miracle?” (the sermon had been on the loaves and fishes). tat, ey exclaimed the happy thought it was good,” said Mra, bout. Salad tan ani bo tans en to auch 4 ‘And what i» your idea on the sub- fore & plseatorial ¢ MacLaren?” asked the min- eis tt, se a s iatias of only PTET 1a PTT Pe I PY ED red when i