The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1909, Page 16

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Ww oer seme ae Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 38 to a Hark Row, New York 3 SITAW, Stc.-Treas,, & Park Row, JOSEPH PULIT s —— few York as Second-Class Mail Matter, For England and the Continent and | All Countries In ie International Po Union, + 99.75 Entered | at the Post-Office at F ‘vortption Rates The Evening World for the U States and Canada, to One Year One Mo $3.60 2! NO, 17,308, RINITY CORPORATION has at last made a public statement of how much money it takes in and what it does with it. ment reads like a life insurance report in the days before the Armstrong investigation. and graveyard plot at the head | of Wall street, worth about $35,000,000, St. Paul's and its churehyard at Broadway and) Vesey street, worth about $15,000,000, the Trinity Church Cemete ry) and its eight chapels, worth perhaps $10,000,000 more, the Trinity | Corporation says ,its remaining property was assessed in 1908 ay $13,646,300, This income-producing property cor business buildings, four blocks and hundreds of scattering lots, 127 on Hudson street alone; in round figures 1,000 downtown lots. A low estimate on this property is $20,000,000, Trinity's pull has been so great that the assessment of its lots averages less than| two-thirds the assessments of tenements on the east side owned by small property owners. The low-grade tenements which constjtute the bulk of what Trinity owns pay a much higher percentage on their value than office buildings, high-class hotels and apartment houses. That is be- cause many investors dislike low-grade tenements. If old tenements did not pay so well they would all be torn down. According to this Trinity statement the gross rentals from all its Teal estate were only $752,741, The pew rents from Trinity, St.) Paul's, St. John’s, Trinity Chapel and the six other chapels were only | $18,210, and the total receipts from ‘T'rinity Church Cemetery were but $5,829, Of this total almost a half was spent in office expenses, repairs and taxes, Trinity Cemetery is put down as having cost three times its receipts. The net return of the real estate was less than 214 per cent. of its value, What does this mean? Trinity is notoriously a bad landlord. Its record in fighting health regulation is in the court reports, Its| lack of repairs is notorious. Who can have been getting euch favorable leases, and does {rinity know the difference between the rentals which go into its dreasury and the total of the payments by the sublessees? In connection with this financial statement Trinity announces \dta defense for closing St. John’s. It says that in the neighborhood ‘et St. John’s “the population of and English descent in 1855 was 12,254; that in 1900 it was 683.” Are “the population wf American and English descent” whe only people in New York who have souls to be saved—the only people for whom this great re- Jigious trust should be adminis- tered—the only men, women and children for whom the wealthiest parish in the world should keep a church door open? Letters From the People Wants to Choose a Career, Jerobes, How did this nappen, medical wee jreadera? If the germ is so deadly, how | eaders—I am a young man, seventeen | @d our cestors thrive on him, while C. 8, E years of age, and wish to select a lite We can't? C. éecupation J have no particular Yen. Apply to Registrar, ‘ f ch experts would kindly | tp the Ealtor of The Brening W 1, refined mode of h a good Income Also what are the best or professions for and what are their average Are there some colleges where students m wh tions? And what are those conditions? nE O¢ ACR to-day ipations For full particulars write to the ar or the president of the to attend, ree! you wish The Percentage Problem, Mo the Editor of The Evening Weeta: Three Grades, A t is problem: X. Y, Z. | To the Edit foil two farms at $1.89 each; one at wi @ re less than {ts true value, one | Problem | ? Aman purchases three at 2 pe nt. more than {ts true value, gsfades of pens, spending $1 dre. What did he gatn or lose? The value |celving 100 pens. He gave $10 apiece for of one farm was $4520; the value of the ome, $5 apiece for others ts ot Was $1,512, He lost $2? on the|aplece for others. How many did he deal. G8, [buy PUZZLED Germs and Anti-Germs, Slow “L” Trains, fo the FAltor o€ The Evening World To the ering Word We hear that kissing conveys germs.| The “Ly! 1 Also that microbes are carried tn food! ought re uptown trains fund tn clothes. Also that certain food, |the hours theatres and fostramenta, &¢, must be sterilized to At prevent the spread of disease, Now, as The state- Excluding the Trinity Chureh | ts of several eA are admitted free under certain condl-} | Turn About By Mauric i i} Nixola Greeley-Smith P ROGRESSIVE MATRIMONY 1s said by the vi iting forelen critle to be the favorite diversion of modern America, Undoubtedly, whenever death or divorce permits the change, mutability 1s one of the dis- tnguishing rights of the American marriage. Every day we meet men and women of no more than middle age who have taken husbands or wives for the third! UUme, and it has been a matter of marvel to me that no| one has attempted to study the underlying causes of these matrimonial permutations and combinations, and 80 perhaps deduce the still undiscovered law by which they are governed, Why does a man whose first wife made his Iife 80 | hideous with wrangling that during her lifetime no day | left him without a futile sigh for the peace of his | bachelorhood wait only the barest interval of decency | after th the funeral before taking another mate? Why does a wite whose | | unhappiness with her husband sang in her soul a daily dirge of “Never | again!” seek a second spouse before the funeral baked meats are cold? Why, the second marriage proving equally miserable, does a third almost | Inevitably ensue? I remember reading a fatry tale along) keep merrily on. Let us consider, for | | time ago where a woman who had only | from her we may deduce the others: | three cheeses for dinner allowed one to| , + ‘ | roll downhill, and being unable to re-| The First Wife. cover it, sent the remaining two rolling @T is doubtful if any man may be after to bring it back, I Judged responsible for his cholce of a first wife, nd e€ Perhaps we do the same thing with taking Into 2 | “Here's my boy. Now Il you du Why goin’ ter hustle right off ter some * buy a thousand dollar first mortgage bond!” what Ww trust company, of course, |drugged with the deadly sweetness of | Mmitations, The Wisdom of Youth - e Ketten. with thelr marriage, They think they contract {t of thelr own free will, to be sure, but as a matter of fact Nature picks up by the nape of their necks the girl and the boy that chance leaves most often alone together and marries them whether they will or not. For r fell purpose the wine of life Is one. to thelr home a little horde of wholl negligible maxims which both very unhappy for a time. Toom curtains, for instance, even though a first passion, and her victims may |h8 comfort and their happiness go up well plead in the cold gray dawn ot 17 Smoke If he refrains, He must not after years that they were for that |@fMks for! no better reason than be- | OAL Ge POR Oa jcause her mother disapproves of {t. | ‘The first wife is nearly always a child- | like creature er simple mind appeal equally to the | lordly manhood of the youth of twenty. | |Oftener then not she has gone to high school or college with him, But she is / cle never the girl that led him {fn the class, Thvaband to his second wife. No, indeed; she {s the pretty, silly crea-| But, ture he liked to Nelp with her lessons, | her own happline: Later, when he comes to know her | Whither has fled the y febleness, her puerlilty, all her petty | her realize that he | st telligent of his kind a ‘ M dav Her simple beauty and | 04 prattle of her sewing circle friends, jdoubt, They make him, if he is sum. of his onary 6! ee might better have chosen a woman who could help him with the larger lessons be the subjects of other articles In It was this realization which By K. Bryans ry “I'm wondering what your father would say If he saw you smoking!” “Well, lady, I don't know as I care much about what he'd say. wondering what he'd DO! |" It takes the experience of a first wife | {to teach him how to love the second | Almost Invarlably his first mate brings | y make them He must not smoke up the dining- | h | And after working among the more in- he must | k Intellectual relaxation in the soclal All these things are good for him, no ntly scolded and cried over, a better meantime, what has become of ‘ilusions? ie it tow, the glory and’the dream? ————eeeoeeeeooe The Second and Third Wives will > | our hearts, At any rate, having given consideration the wisdom of the of Hite. : this serfes, and after them will them once, we keep on giving. And very young woman it no meang came to David Copperfield before the| § come Husbands Nos, 1, 2 and 3. 4 having taken a first wife or husband, |certain that she may rightfully be held {death of his child-wife Dora, and BAEK ty “a ra, me) Sere liana nance teh See ere oman parpe + ednesday, January 6, 1909. nm, | paocaoooanoconoreononeaEe Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune eee NO. 34—MEKIWETHER LEWIS, ‘a series of $10 bills issued a few years ago was the portralt of a sut- cide—the first suicide whose face ever ddorned Uncle Sam's cur- rency. He was Meriwether Lewis. Lewis was a relative, by marriage, of George Washington. Incidentally, he was a born adventurer. He was a Virginian, and from 1774 (the year of his birth) to 1783 lived in a warlike atmosphere. About his State the Amer- ican Revolution raged. Battles, sieges and military tactics formed the daily talk of the neighborhood. Yet, by the time the lad was old enough to bear arms our country was at peace. Lewis's first chance at fighting came when Shay’s rebellion broke out in 1794. He volunteered at once for active ser- vice, and so strong a hold upon his mind did martial life take that next year he entered the regular army For five years he followed a soldier's career, rising at last to the rank of captain. But there was little in our army at that time to appeal to his love of adventure. The Revolution was past; the War of 1812 was still many years away, There was talk of a war with France; but this soon simmered down. Except no fighting nor immediate pr local Indian campaigns and a few other expeditions there was ect of any, So Lewts left the service In 1801 and came private secretary to President Jefferson, Jefferson well understood the daring, flery nature of hig young sec’ at the first opportunity put ft to active employment, Our country bought from France the vast tract of land known as the Loutee lana Purchase, Most of the new territory was prace tleally an untrodden wilderness. ‘There were no definite chafts, maps, descrip- tions, &c., of a large part of it. ‘The United States knew in a general way the nature and scope of the Pure ds, but had very little exact knowledge on the subject. The natural resources that might be contained in this tract, the possibilities of its unexplored portions, the location and trend of some of ite rivers, the conformation and soll of much of the ground itself—all these were une known. Even a goodly part of United States territory outside the Purchase wae almost wholly unexplored. Jefferson realized the need of obtaining closer be A Soldier Without a War. ry, information about these pose sessions. So he privately asked Congress to authorize and pay for an expedition into the new lands. Obtaining such permission, Jefferson put Lewis in charge of the whole matter, with orders to explore the continent as far as the Pactfiog and. made Capt, William Clark, another Virginian, second in command. ‘The little party consisted of thirty-six soldiers, guides, negroes and friendly Indians. Lewis set out from Washington July 5, 188, went to Pittsburg, and equipped his followers for the long march. Pushing on to St.Louis, the explorer wintered; then salled up the Missouri River, moving ever northward, passing close to the present city of Bismarck, N. Dak. Thenee westward across the Rocky Mountains and to the head of the Columbia River. Down the Columbia they sailed to the Pacific Ocean, and made branch trips through a large part 6f Oregon | Travel was slow. Part of the 4,000 mile 4 from the | Missourt and Mississippi Rivers had been made by boat and raft, back and much on foot, Cold, hunger, Indians, the wilderness , hampered the explorers’ steps. But the party pressed on fearlessly. Lewis and his asst ants prepared {nvaluable maps and notes of each stage of the strange, daring Journey. Having penetrated as far north as Canada and as far west as the Pacific, the expedition turned homeward, Lewis reached Washington again on St. Valentine's day, of three years and a half, ‘The results of his discoveries we: 1 before Jefer= son, and made by him the subject of a special message to Congress. Clark, in reward for his services, was raised high in civic and unetion of the part on horses ley after an absence ON eee military affairs. Lewis was appointed Governor of The End of Missouri. Golng to take up his Gubernatorial duties, |} the Journey. Lewis found everything in dire confusion, He s pee to Work at once restoring order of chaos. And he succeeded. exploring trip and the troubled state of Governmental affairs In Missourl coms bined to break down his health, and perhaps his mind. On Oct. 8, 18, while stopping near Nashville, Tenn, on his way to Washington, he killed himself, | The man whose heroism had blazed the path of Progress through thousands of miles of trackless wilderness died by his own hand, at the age of thirty-fly throwing away @ future that might well have led him to even higher pinnacles of fame. Missing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending cent for each uamber to Circulation Departnient, Evening World. eo 2 M of é ” on Progressive Matrimony} 7 LS os eesti: dee By Count Leo Tolstoy. Which [fs a Matter of Many Wives and Husbands ~~——~Translated by Herman Bernstein ~~~ iy (Copyrighted by ha My Company, the New : MS to account for her first matrimontal drove him for oncsolation to the tender, | Scarred Bernstein) rattan efficient, maternal Agnes, Practically 2 | The italicized paragraphs are Count Tolstoy's orig- | Gencraly the young man and the/™Aan adopts his first wite and lets his | Inalcomments/on|the} subject |young woman have very Mttle to do| Second wife adopt him. Me Discretion MAN will shout “Fire!" in a crowded building, and in the crush of the mob tens, hundreds of people are killed. Such is the obvious harm that | may be produced by @ word, But that harm is just as | great when we do not see the people who are ruined by our word, WOUND inflicted by weapons may be Cured, but never a wound {n+ flicted by the tongue—Persian Proverb. E are all transgressors. He who does not sin in his words is a pere W fect man who is able to put a restraint upon his body, Thus do we bridle the mouths of horses in order to make them obey us, and we rule their bodies; thus also ships, however large they may be and how- ever strong the winds that drive them on, are steered by a small helm at the will of the pilot; thus also the tongue, fhough small, does a great deal A smal! fire can burn a great many things; the tongue is also a fire, ai embellisher of untruth, Are you wise and rational? Prove it in deed by’ good behavior with sensible meeknes Jacob's Mes3age." NN HEN you hear slander against people do not taste of this anger, When you hear flattery to people do not taste of this joy. When you hear people speaking of the vices of another do not share their pleasure. Listen to conversations about the virtues of people—approve, imitate and rejoice. Rejoice in tidings of noble deeds. Rejoice in the spreading |of the principle of righteousness. Rejoice in the dissemination of acts ‘of | Kindness. When you hear of the wickedness of people let it be as painful | to you as needles pricked Into your body. When you hear of noble deeds wrap yourself within them as with a wreath of flowers.—Chinese Proverbs, SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wieked is before me— Psalins, xxxi F \ ee ‘AR to be the Yestrover of the unification of men, to arouse in them by words unkind feeling amongst them. ——++ cost of married HEN counting the don't forget the alimony. | | It is so hard for a girl to hold her skirts just high enough to escape the mud and just low enough to Pscape criticism. Tt ts only in novels that men “love not wisely, but In real life most of them love too wisely—and too often—to getting too well” love well. When a man compares a girl to a queen or a saint she may feel flattered, but it isn't until he begins to compare her to a kitten or a baby that she has ‘any reason to feel perfectly sure of him There ia nothing like a wife's absence to make her husband’ 's heart grow | fonder—of any tcoman who happens to be near, A widow's grief goes as deep as the black ribbons imamate swidower's no deeper than his coat aleeve, oe But the strain of his long, dangerous | { | ¥ 14 | ee me ee a