The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1908, Page 8

eS RE Sot ee eee f engineer, one oiler, two firemen and three deckhands. The Eveni ng World Daily tu Pabiished Dany Mxoept Sunday py the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 6 Park Row, New York QOSMPR PULITZOR. Pree. 8 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAN, fec.-Trens., 9 Park Row | Sintered at the Post-Office at New York ax Second-Class Mail Matter. For England and the Continent and Bebeoription Rates to The Evening orld for the United States All Countries in the Tnternational and Canada, Postal Union, ince . $3.50 £0.78 80 88 rear. One Year. One Month... 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 81,026,272. 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 | ‘tthe total net income from New York’s valuable docks. | Before the city took it over the Staten Island Ferry did not pay. i That 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. It-has given and now gives a better service. \ How extravagantly the city runs its ferry these two pictures! show. The eighteen men are the one shift on a Staten Island ferry- Boat. 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 water | Oy it a N i wae Ty joc My i | The large North River ferryboats have a pilot and a captain, one| The city em-| Pploys 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-| four men where a private corporation pays smaller wages to eighteen men. | No sooner was the Brooklyn Bridge railroad transferred from| the city to the B. R. T. than wagee were reduced and many men were laid off. This resulted in a great saving to the B. R. ‘I’, but of that ‘waving what penny of benefit has the public received? ‘The B. R. 'T’s investment of capital on the Brooklyn Bridge is almost nothing. ‘The \eity built the bridge and pays for its maintenance now. Yet with the cost of carrying passengers over the bridge reduced a half the fare to the public remains the same, and the service is worse than ever, i This is wholly distinct from the question of municipal operation. "The Brooklyn Ferry Company is now seeking to have the cit ‘take over its unprofitable ferri The Thirty-ninth Street Perr been bought by the city. The traction monopoly ‘the city building more bridges for its street cars to ‘ity of New York might well follow the example of Be ‘Passaic Counties in New Jersey, which are now demanding that ihe Public Service Corporation of New Jersey shall pay one-third of the ‘wost of construction and one-third the cost of mainte: fcounty bridges which it uses. Wo 1as is in favor of The 1 and run over ance of the new} Letters From the People to rhyme with it? ‘An actor from Oconomowoc Played ‘Ten Nights in a Barroom Norwalk. After the first act (Now this is a fact) Oconomowoc n't talk, walk, oul stand nor NOBODY Interest Problem Wo the Editor of The Hvening A problem was to be as fo lows: A man € his for ¥ on which he was to pay i per vent terest. At the end of t made a payment of $20 A solved, the following six months nade ft 1 payment of $50, and in one year and! )* { eight months he paid we remuiude: I be ce 1 Just What was the full amou: 1 fing |" a $2,322.50 to be the full amnoun {Fes BENJAMIN BRICK MA Petty Thett | To the Kditor of The Evening W Somebody breaks tuto ert in my absence, and steals staiip stationer Severa f ladies employed lieve lave ele He trifles in the same wa le could ate on an » tale be worth whi tlhe Mw) eny one who will sel! « pony and self respect for a‘ or of trifles, What do reade , not such a petty thier biased ‘ ‘The of Game F - We we Baio: of The Evening Wor.s peor Te answer to the problem tha ry 7 Roosevelt in Africa will kill Ave (ee Many igor as elephants, and seven TIGHIWA The New York Girl---No. 10 By Maurice Ketten es na ee John Henry and a Few Other Perfectly Innocent Bystanders Find Themselves in a Car That’s Infested by a Bridal Couple }' © ik to his Birdie!’ said the brand new wife. “Did Booze: By George V. Hobart. EAR BUNCH-I'm headed for home, but the hurdies are holding me back AMR OP CERA Aaa cal dawn, cai caro antic ith airs D I met a whole flock of “the boys” in Rochester yesterday morning, and cove and since most of 'em were making a fiying leap for New York you can le wifey-pifey believe me tt was a swift squad of sports that climbed into one of Mr. Puil- man's sleep-wagons and permitted themselves to be yanked over the ra! A bunch of brisk ones—believe me! There was Charlie Hammond, leading man with the “Kitty, the Kash Girl company; David Torrence, first heavy with the melodrama ent Haunted Automobtie; or, Who Stole the Muffler?” Prank Westert sad with the “Crazy Quilt Burlesquers;" Emmett Corrigan, who is 1 through the provinces on “How to Play Bridge Without Impairing the T Malcolm William, the handsomest Jeading man tn the show business—w pletely shaved; William Burress, the Bathrobe King; Charlie Abbott, who sells that fine Monticello honey-dew, and Arthur Shaw. Shaw travels for a clothing house in Cincinnat!, and they call hi cause he's getting so fat that every time he turns around he me coming back. Then thene was Nick Dalrymple and Tod Gilpin—two live ones with a full set| of sparks flying. Nick goes after the orders for a Char @ pet porpoise e Hammond began to scream inwardly, with with P Ma! musn't be angry , whereupon but Sweetie is siting on Petie's ‘itth olm Williams exploded, and Slim began | | ahead of Boozey and Birdie, and would turn around and beam be-| up closer to lis Coozie and skeeze her ‘itty arm you naughty! K at the bride with another gold-yimmed go0-g00, when e somedings: dow and began to ea Burress was unde {mitation of a coal-barge in a heavy yes’ she snapped, and the foam scenery the seat hardware house !n Columbus, ne! and knows everybody in the world—bar one family lving in Yonkers. arious stages from hiccoughs to convulsions Nick has only one trouble, he will paddle after the pontes. s ‘itty weeny teeny Birdic?”” chirped the bride Whenever he makes a town where there's a poolroom his expense account| 80 happy wit his izzy-wivey!” gurgled the husband, “How's my wets fat and beefy, und Nick begins to worry for fear he may win some witly He won $12 in Cleveland once, and he spent $218 at @ boozeologist’s 1! she's such a happy-wappy ‘ite flag! giggled the dotty dame, pinching "8 on how t liappened ear, whereupon the brewer tried io hand tl de another gasoline getting stati “Pipe the gang to quarers and all rubber!”’ after the train pulled out . In the seat head of us @ somewhat demuredooking Proposition in rainbow | Somevun— rags lad been sampling the scenery ever since we started. | the window Y We had all given her the glad glance, but she was very Sweetie looks at Petle and Sweetie sees that Petie's p’etty face is getting so we passed it up. sunburned, so ft {#!"" cuckooed Mrs, Dat and Sweetle has a dood mind to the old lady caught him wita the goods face you go benind by back to make googley-googley eyes at she growled, and in a minute the brewer's brow was busy wit ne. said Slim, about half an hour| om. much Cold Storage, As Slim spoke the Proposition was Joined by a young chap with a loose face, | “iss him, too!’ who had been out in the smoking room working faithfully on one of those opened a newspaper and crawied under cover | pajama panatelia cigars that bite you on the finger if you slow the least "Go as far as you like!’ sald Slim, then he went down | The man who helped to make Weehaw ateling for an ice Wagon t then the train pulled out and saved our lives. sign of fear én famous had his head out the win- en the train stopped for a few minutes, and we were put wise to the | dow 20) Om Panhandle Pete A\ct. « « By George McManus 1 BooooDy lagoC OO! DAY'S 4 SHAME > Yo MANE A LITTLE KID LIKE OAT SON, “IVE ME DE sHover, MeL Do VAT WoRK FoR YousE ! GEE Dis is GREAY \ MmeAN STAN IN BA Boy's Msnover 2) 4 Jo HELP SOMEONE | Magazine, Saturday, December 19, WDOOOOAMO DOOD DODDS ye I 1] i e ¢@ Mamortail Interviews -:- We menor seh neni nd , , No. 9—Romeo and Juliet Discuss Getting In and Out of Love DOOD APOOQODOOOOOP y yj necessary to break anybody's heart por { §By Helen Rowland. _|hurt anybody's pride just because you We ‘ac OMEO! Romeo! Are you going | i hat it ls necessary to answer that door-bell—or | to AREN'T you?” | 7” T put in eagerly. ’ It was the gen-| , to put an end to an affatr that : tle volce of Ju-) own a little too serk " @x- Net, which pene-| plained Romeo. “If you are subtie and trated the key- | wise about it, there are ways ot making hole as I pushed | the jilted person feel actually grateful, the electric but-| almost as though you had paid him of ton of her ground | her a compliment. But It takes time, floor flat at No. 2 takes time. I suppose,” he added, Rue de Mort—and Ste sat sudden! ihepira” ft was Jullet, her- | why you 1 La) self, in a solled kimono ands a VIR ‘i ‘6 broken filet, who BoM an auickly, opened the door an instant later and ushered mo | into @ tiny two-by-four reception room, | where Romeo reclined Iangutdly on a) velveteen couch and blew rings from his cigarette, | “Please pardon appearances,” re- marked Jullet with that brave, sweet smile of the woman who Is trying to) make a twenty-five-dollar-a-week salary look like a seventy-five-dollar income. “But what w four children, and no ervant, and Romeo smoking round the her hot all day!"——- She waved hands expressively over the littered furniture. ou never talked ike that,” bled Romeo, rising from the putting down his cigarette with air, ‘before I married you." Jullet’s nose went into the alr. sced with a toss of love—ther ined Romeo, di It leaning, jo was I," rej < against the pillows now I'm—in_ trouble. j | could on e foret continued, ing neryo “to get out of love before he | rmurred pro. WADAYS: Romeo, h sudden inter “don't you a how "Tt hazarded, res member your first lo you slipped out of t It was a wild guess, was a “B; close shave, but 1 managed { Jove!” blanie $2 ored when BE 1 when otested off «girl feel as uliet, id the she ough “And s\ tot yt every essing in ee | Juliet’s Nose Went Up. idrer rt to Us that brig Children! ¢ | desperate {tion V course!" rejoined Juliet, nea’ if he is that’s th old dug. he re- !t and drops @ g' ‘ ngul SEH 5 ne|_ “What dagger?’ 1 inquired, rising to 1a lock of hi oF a loose Dutton." strovdiihingawe Ninth mb,"* retorted Ron ned 2 a K nono 1 drop a wo-|over her ‘ 4s_she or | EOE up yor the fling, he a ts ch| the duck. finish of ny dear, h we tied before we got ‘that tired 3 ng, and Ror Juliet smited other und ingly for tho, ( ° y an. ‘og ® A | 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. He had Rn many chances of varying his occupation throughout the da Al his work was educational, He had the stimulus of eing a plece of work begun and ended and of enjoying the fruits thereof—all this ts in marked contrast with the life of the average factory worke: qualities which one admires most in a man a: deadened when 1 compelled to stand day after day and week after week before a huge machine of which he becomes but a part. ‘ It is during leisure rather than during work time that character is formed The basis of charac’ 4g the will, and at no time does this function of th mind have so free @ scope as during rec tion, It is then that all restraint is removed and we do as we will. ‘The excellent effect of recreation on character Is seen in chile en at play, Often for the first time they learn the meaning of self-restraint, They 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 in the fundamentals of morality re invaluable in the normal development of any clilid, After all, character {w acquired from tho environment and not from the blood. Amusement 1s gaining recognition as @ force as potent as formal instruction,—Charities and the Come mons es A, e # Day’s Good Stories # | . The Day’s tories i eae —~6 ; “Unf thinkin’ that if you an¢ No Chance for a Miracle, |,ha7 {hyPhin' (het Cyan and the elder . a « |wadna bin twelve baskets of fragments Norman MeLeod, Who |for the disciples to gather up!'—-London NE day Dr O was a large and healthy man, and | Globe one of his burly elders went to pay | a visit to a certain Mrs. MacLaren of | 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 How He Won Her, was a fisherman and tn love. He had angled for Angelina ap@ caught her, He had angled for fish ulso the livelong day and one ephippid; that 1s, a porgy and shortbread, and they partook un- sparingly After the meal the elder sald to her: “Mrs, MacLaren, were you at the kirk on Sunday “Oh, aye.” she satd, “I was.” “And what did you think of the treat- ment of the miracle?” (the sermon had been on the loa’ and fishes). thought it was good,” said Mra, ven. ‘And what i» your idea om the sub- fect, Mrs, MacLaren?’ asked the min- iALoah,” eal thelr Restens euddenty; [night he went to see Angelina's father on the delicate question of matrimony, He Was nervous and could not bring himself to the momentous question, Retieltel attul fen eethal ca hae ( The old man asked present! What luck ly @ pound por Hied the ‘My boy! exclaimed the happy father, "I know what you haye come ‘Take her apd be huppy. No man # piseatorial George n