The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1909, Page 16

Che Phbilshed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 5% to 69 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER, Pres., 63 Park R. a = = Treaa., 61 Park Row. a 8 ew York as Second- lass Mall Matter, @ubscription Rates to The Evening ) For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada, nw | 0 va Postal Union, Year, seers oe BB ine Year, . ot Mon + 20! One Month, VOLUME 49 .NO. 17,807. JUDGE LACOMBE'S INTERVIEWS. terviews in The Evening World contain valuable information. In the warfare between the Met- ropolitan and Third avenue re- favorites. tation will receive the public gratitude. If the receivers will eonductors, a speedy service and a seat for everybody they can call the Public Service Commission all the names they please without the | nickel payers resenting it. | Judge Lacombe, who appointed the receivers, says that they have #pent $8,000,000 on improving the Metropolitsn and $4,000,000 on im- proving the Third avenue, With this money they have bought new cars, repaired the tracks and tried to put the power houses in order. | ‘And they are nothing like through, because it will take as mitch more before the street railroads are in good working order, | What an enormous looting there was when it tukes more than $20,000,000 to put the tracks and equipment in good condition! It would seem that the stockholders and bondholders, who have more money, who can hire keen lawyers, and who are therefore more capable of looking afier themselves than the general public, would be | @oused to take some effective means to have restored to them the money which the promoters of the traction merger put in their pockets, + ‘This is a phase of the situation which the Public Service Com. | thissioners might investigate, As for these Commissioners, Judge La- | ¥ombe’s opinion is none too high. He says: | “The Public Service Commission seems to have overlooked entirely the fact that the receivers are a part of an honorable court, They have issued | fngulting man- cs and written letters which did not even conform with the sudiments of common courtesy,” The Public Service Commissioners should not act this way to the receivers, The people to whom they should issue “ 1 dates” are the looters of the traction systems, District Commissioners should have discovered what is the matter with the traction system of New York. Instead of going on Snark fashion— They sought it with thinibles, they sought {t with care; ‘vhey pursued {t with forks and hope; C4 They threatened its life with a railway share, ‘They charmed {t witn emiles and soap— they should have exposed the big thieves, pil. insulting man- By this time the First i en ey “Woman Is Man’s Horse.” =mrs. Gilman. By Maurice Ketten. 7) UDGE LACOMBE’S exclusive in- | ceivers and the Public Service } Commission the public have no | Whoever gives better transpor- | | | furnish new and clean cars, civil | | { DRIVING Nixola Greeley-Smith’s {than {t !s to lina up to the exaoting ree On Progressive Matrimony, Jat heart w goss!p and a tattler of fairy, ‘Those who appear to tell the hare to his warped vision merely | deeper and more cunning thanthe others. | Therefore, by the time he has acquired | a third wife he Is ready to be grateful | man with an ordinarily de- And, by the way, the first wife has always to be grateful that in his infinite condescension her lord has The Third Wite. E are all familiar with the wit- e third wife fa- ed over the first and se Sho has this tre that Boston is not a place, bUt! vantage—that b a state of mind. | The third wife re- bles this defi- ascends the precious incense s) Who got the money when Bonds were iseued twice for elec- trifying the Second avenue? ' ~ Who got the loot when the electrifying of a part of the Belt Une was charged for threo times? Who pocketed the $975,000 Profits from the sale of the Fulton éfieet line, and who unloaded part of the bonds on tho Equitable Life Assurance Society? Also, why did the Commis- sion drop its investigation wi ven Mr, Ivins got on a hot trail? _ Letters From the People Bit he Evening World id adage suggests the hours for slee right | ar for a woman, nine for a fool.” Another “sleep hours” proverb reads; “Nature requires five, custom seven, lazin and slothfuiness eleven.’ 1 readers, fo tell how much sleep per night they Pnd sufficient. Lam told I need no more) pondon's ponuiationit seas than seven hours’ sleep. I like to sleep gus iwi) wee semen pine hours, but a friend tells me too’ o¢ Greater London uy the cane moch sleep is as bad for the humaniwasgsitz baie system as too Ittle sleep. Who cans Ge ? Lama young man of twent DOUBTFUL, ower Fares, ening World { opinions. Ne RR | femini "Seven for a tan, nine is the populat gland, by the last census? A Navy Suggestion, The Brona nin Bustnens, beople To the Editor of The Evening W Tam not formatio: $0 Pour wise readers only a seeker for in- |S } question I wish to eynicism, but by des in bus! foamed 1 (and has not $30 by men In other da, is the | Tn descending t erage wom 86k, dress Bes doing } age man coi Free discussion | cago or Greater New k OB doth sides ought to Interest many . EB R. SMITH. s Sick Greater New Vork Miles; 4 Sanare Chleaga, 190 18, er, office-worker P swellas the aver-) Which has the large a, He whose first antrums |s a il for her smiles, he storm knows not | ow which fol-| who weathers n ity of the rain Persiflage From the Press. e my wife into any of these new-fangled, silm-Jane ta man with the zed the great truth f thirty-eight {Inches round the walst.— ! The woman's HIGHBROW-—It was Michelet, I believe, wv observed that “woman Young men aren't half so fresh after they ‘The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, January 8, 1909. 2 , @ lows tt, But once the live thunder has leaped about his head, he appreciates the Priceless beauty of the ensuing calm. A first wife may be an angel of loveliness and lght and still be lett alone to sit by te fire and spin, A second wife must needs have a str arm to keep the incense rising to th throne and the lamp of perpetual tn- cense trimmed and burning, But the third wife need only pose graceful on the pedestal he has erected For by the time a man ts fifty he has learned that the best thing for his own Interest and peace Is to put lovely woman on a_ pe euphemism for on If. And when years and experi bring her to the stata of tert hood she {9 usually glad eno ther to be > If you want to be grateful to a {f you want to ond} but if you want him to be grateful to you, be his third. > -—-- holce of first, sec- nds will be dig- xt three articles, ond and third hy cussed in the which will take her on her Journey to the shrine of matrimony. The Million Dollar Kid ERTAINMENT ud | ENTERTAINMENT ADDRESS ~ EIGHT DON'T YoU DARE SPEAK To mE! YOU ITA FINE JoKe!/ iK, WHAT Do 1 9 one By R. W. Taylor 1e AW! WoT'S THE USE TRYING To Do Good? J rw! PODDHDGHODOOIGHNNODHOOOIDGO. ) or her. DOODOS? Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune! 3 ’ By Albert Payson Terhune NO, 35,—-NICOLAI REZANOV. T HIS soldier of fortune was a Russian, But for the merest chance he might havo made California and other parts of the Pacific Coast a huge Russtan province, His adventures were many and exciting. Se much so that his life story forms the theme of at least one historical novel. | Nicolai Petrovitch Rezanov, one of the ten Barons of the Russian Em- | Plre, was born in 1764, He stood high in the Czar’s favor, He served as ; Court Chamberlain and Privy Councillor, swayed important financial deals, | built up his country’s navy and early won fame as a diplomat, His Grat ‘setback in life—and that which probably led him to turn his eyes toward | America In hope of winning back lost prestige—was met when he went as | Ambassador to Japan in 1803, Russia wished to establish commerce with the Island Kingdom, | Rezanov went thither, carrying superb gifts for the Mikado and Shogun, j and prepared to draw up @ treaty whose wily terms should gain rich trade | concessions for the Czar, But the Japanese would have no dealings with | the outside world. (This was long before America forced Japan's ports open.) | they kept Rezanov walting aboard his whip in Nagasaki Harbor for six montha | on one pretext and another, ‘Then, when the impatient Ambassador demanded | leave to land (having been on shipboard so long that he { i 4 tl cise, and his statt were carried \ In a Cage. months longer they were furced to stay, while the natlves voor! flocked around by the thousands to stare at the guadily clad foreigners. At last Rezanovy was allowed to see the | Shogun and to urge in person the Kussian alliance. The Shogun heard him to an end, then by way of answer, ordered him to leave Japan and to take away with him the Czar’s proffered gifts, The Shogun added this terse verdict: “Japan Wants nether Russia's presents nor her friendship!” Thus, more than a century ago, did Japan and have thelr first clash, Reaanoy had, eariler, formed the Russo-American Fur Company, with head- quarters in Sitka, Ala To AMaska, in his bitter humilia Rezanoy now went. is Japanese mission had tailed. So had a plan of his to sail around the world on @ sort of triumphal exploring tour, ‘To finance he looked for @ means of regaining the Czar's favor, He had formed the first real trust America had known, by means of an imperial franchise squeezing out smaller fur compantes 1 winning for his own corporation a monopoly of the fur and fishing product. a still greater idea. He turned his eyes southward and shifted his Y finance to con California was a Spa h- nsideration, Meanw uonored guest. He worked steadily and !n utter secrecy on hfs plan to turn the Pacific Coast nto @ vast territorial empire for Russia, with himself as its viceroy and practical peror, The man had everything at stake. Unless he could estabilsh trade relations | with Calffornla, th om y's Alaska employ: were lable to starve for lack of grain. we wreck the trust In which all his large fortune was tled up. If the trust d collapse and his Japanese failure be unredeemed by new triumphs, he w not dare return to Russia, On the tages sian alliance, The project was forwarded to Spain for le, Re. sesston, San Francisco was a dreamy old Span- ish town with a weak, J isoned little fort at the Presidio, Wise brains ale | ready fore: the early fall ot Spain's power tn North America, To San Frans | cisco sailed Rezanov w py on Wh was reported to be a friendly | visit. He quickly saw were Cie Spaniards and how easy 1 | vould be to swoop down with an armed force and take possession of the rich jvand tn the e of the Czar, He suggested to the local Governor the advan- | | ov Was treated by the simple Spaulards as aa f other hand, should he rescue the hungry Alaskans and fo) (licen) Cl bring the Czar a feasible plan for annexing California, he { Conquest, would become almost a king in Wealth and power, 5 " By hoodwinking the Spaniards he {induced them, inst their will, to give bim grain to save his starving northern colony. Then, ing to Alaska, he set afoot his ceheme for carrying Russia's power south+ Alaska along the Pactfle slope, He hurried then, early in 1°07, toward in the Czar’s consent to his plan of conquest. On the way, 5 the Siberian desert, he fell ill and dled, eatest | lad he lived a year or two longer, the wealth | aly nia might well have passed Into the hands of | Lhussia instead of those of the United States. Missing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending one cent fur euch number to Circulation Department, Evening World. | I. 106 TTS a aenstenenene “Sayings of Mrs. Solomon | Being the Confessions of the Seven { Hundredth Wife, Translated By Helen Rowland TOC CG VSIDER DIVORCE, oh, my daughter, for it ts QOQODIDS the Great Divide over which thou shalt pase into the land of peace and alimony; and a little loneliness is better than much housework, TMELENR°WLANDS I charge thee, wed no man because he is GOOD and | CLEVER and NOBLE, but rather because he hath a | good digestion and is nt afflicted with corns—nor tcith curiosit¥—nor with | enlargement of the ego—nor with acute contraction of the pocketbook, For the grounds for a divorce, even as coffee grounds, lie always at the | bottom, where nove shall see them, And great scandals from little causes | grow, | Yea, doth not many a man divorce his wife for INCOMPATIBILITY | whose ONE complaint ts the gap between her skirt and her shirtwaist, which meet not at the back? | And doth not a woman ofttimes divorce her husband for NON-SUP- | PORT whose one burning sorrow is that he smoketh a pipe and doth NOT j clean it? | Verily, verily, I say unto thee, it is nota man's GREAT FAULTS, but j his LITTLE FAILINGS which shall get upon thy nerves, And a bank rob | ber who cometh home regularly to dinner and shaveth twice a day shall | make a better husband than a Sunday-school superintendent who tweareth a | beard and picketh a flaw or a quarrel with his eyes shut. For the sorrows of matrimony cannot be stcallowed, like unto calomel, in an allopathic dose, but must be taken daily in innumerable homoeo- | pathic pellets, Nay, the price of wedlock cannot be paid cash down, for it lis as a piano bought on time, which must be paid for in wearisome instal | ments, | Yea, verily, it is HARD to live with @ husband—but it is harder to live WITHOUT one. Selah! ———_o+-—____—_ The New Peking Pawnshops. M UNICIPAL pawnshops have been opened In Peking for the relief of the resl- dents who have been heretofore the victima of extortionate private establishments, ‘The city charges are 15 per cent., while they have bees paying 50. = peered Wi hoeenenae | 3% The Day’s Good Stories f Playing Greenhorn. Legal Amenities. HY did you tell the manager of | RAL decades ago there lived \X/ that employment agency that S in Charleston, West Va., a Judge you had just come over?" sald} noted for his boorish manners, A one servant to another, "You didn't, | yery finical lawyer whom he especially u know, You have had three situa- | qisiiked was once trying a before t in Philadetphia.” him, and all the while the barrister “T_know that,” sald the girl. "I pre- | spoke the Judge sat with his feet ele- ee eee ood place “At must {vated on the railing in front of him, se agencies the managers have;thereby concealing his face, en girls on thelr consctence, The)! exasperated by this, the lawyer quere sharks in the business of course will Neece them, but the average manager {kaympathetic and. gets them. easy fay 1 ask which end of your Honor laces to start with. I'll have a snap! am to address?” Where [am going. ‘The woman thinks!” fn, a (1 I have just arrived, and that_she will| “Whichever you choose,” drawled the have to. break me in. Breaking in| Judg means that she will do half the work all, while T will Just stand around and 100K | inery ig on. It pays, sometimes, to be a green. | the! \ horn." "was the retort, “I suppose much law in one end as ia the other.”