The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1909, Page 14

——— The Even Published Dally Except Sunday by tho Press Publishing Company, Nos, & to 0 ( Park Row, New York. ark Row. ‘Storld, J, arnov, SHAW, fieo.-Trees,, 63 Park Row, Pintered at the Poe Wudeeription Rates to The Hvening ¢ World tor the United States and Canada, $3.60 0 “Office at New York Second-Class Mull Matter, and the Oontinent and the International | ton. | Vor England All Countn! One Year, One Mo: vee NO. 17,814 t ; searchers, photographers and political parasites, As The Hvening World said last spring, Jacob Mayer ts the osten- sible head of the land option ring, He is a rich, shrewd real estate ) operator, living in New York (ity, and familiar with condemnation , Proceedings and the process by which land is bought cheap and sold t } to the city dear. ; Jacob Mayer and his associates told the truth yesterday as far as ' they went. Back jn the fall of 1905 Mr. Mayer, as he testified, “had , been told by some friends” that there was a good opportunity for investment in the Catskills, This was almost two years before the | “Water Supply Board adopted its June 25, 1907, map, and fully two ‘years before the city took title to the property, south of Forty-second street. Company. ‘ When Mr. Mayer was asked whether he Invested his money «without having had assurances that the city would take over the prop- erty he replied: “You don’t think I am fit for a lunatic asylum, do you?” No one thinks so. ¢ When asked who the friends *would*acquire property he said, “Some t Who were these politicians ox tseemingly is a Brooklyn man, for the Home Trust Company is sus- fceptible to such Brooklyn influ- lences, One of them must be a high New York official, because no Brooklyn politician is power- Yul enough to control the Water Supply Board. How do the four million people of New York, who earn an average of less than $5 a day, enjoy political favorites drawing $50 a day, the land option ring with its 1,000 per cent, profit, and the high officials who are making the city pay for it? ' 1,000 PER CENT. PROFIT. ‘ sioners, the counsel, special counsel, experts, appraisers, examiners, Mr. Mayer is a rich man and had several hundred thousand dol- lars available. He arranged with a number of young lawyers and real estate agents to buy Catskill farms cheap. ; 4,000 acres, six square miles, a territory as large as Manhattan Island | Where they had to they paid cash. Where they could, they left a purchase money mortgage or they bought on option. Anyhow they got hold of the land. ; Now they have put in claims for ten times as much as they had paid. These claims are being adjudicated by the $50 a day commis- sioners. So sure are they of getting the money that they have been able to borrow with the claims as collaterat from the Home Trust FTER several hours of backing and filling, denying and forgetting, the facts about the Catskill land option ring came out before the legislative investigating commit- tee yesterday, With this testi- mony on its public records how! can the Legislature hesitate to | repeal the Catskill Water Law, to abolish the Board of Water Supply and to wipe out the $50 a day condemnation commis- They bought 8,500 or Cy By Roy I, McCardell, “a HATE to go mine public officials? One of them Island mit @ truck {t'll be all coaxed Mr, | mw Aor xe "Come on, Gus; we don't get many chances like this.” A friend in the automobile business had asked Mr, Jarr to bring an ao- quaintance and take a epin up in West- chester County to try out a new slx- cylinder machine. Fur coats and caps had been provided, and @ good time promised. “I want to go and I'm willing to pay ® fare,” said Gus, “but when you have a Iquor store you haf to keep your eye on it, you got {t worse than Oscar Hammerstein mit all his opry houses, you got to be @ diplomatter, you got to be a benker undt cash checks that ain't Apply to the Bonrd of Edncation, To the Editor of The Evening World Where can I apply for tion regarding New York's experience, and will readers tell what they think of such training for yo men? E Rutherford, N. J An to To the Editor of The Hvening Jn response to the ie about germs I wish t mlerobie and cher al ort have been alternately p: er @ince the dawn of 1 5 Some microbes ere and some arenot. L. M. YOUNG, Mf. D. Central Park, To the Eiiitor of The Fvening \s What |s the sive of from Fifth to Fig two and one-haif » than half a acres, mile w The Pep Problem, To the Bator of The F The pen problen: n * pens for $100, some at $ thers W% and 9 cents each, respective ® many of each did he buy” niass of we let X = Bumber of % pens, Z ent pens, and P = ¢) ag Word Letters From the People A Flight of Fancy W Ww for X, Y and Z, the] ex = 7 ro, or X, ¥ fitive Integers (wh this case), and the a 9 Kerrett. Rn ee sald Gus, “BY Chércht 1 visht they had them local options tn} New York, so I! were who had told him the city courd)Teaye |the)liq- ee : our business and} politicians and some lawyers,” go out on Long The Duel. By Maurice Yetten. Ro good, you got to tngult some people | ing te Mr. Jarr in despair, ‘You hear Jor they don’t think you ts a friend, you jie {got to pull some people tn and pull some! ‘No, you take all the money you can people out. Such a business!”* | get and don't give change {f you can “But Elmer is a good boy; he'M took | help {t," sald Gus, “And, above all, be after things,” said Mr. Jarr. | particular!" “Dimer? Dumkopf, what he ts cried} “Sura,” sald Elmer, “1 vill.” Gus. “All he knows {s to be a moosi-| ‘If Rafferty comes {n,” said Gua, “you jclan and play a triangle mit an orches- | don’t set no drinkin front of him but tra; but he Is my vife's brother and 1) the ten-year-old in the square bottle on got to put him to work!" | the bottom shelf.”” He'll be all right; just tell him what| Elmer nodded his head. you want done,” sald Mr. Jarr, sooth-| "And don't give Slavinsky anything ingly. but the whiskey that's marked with the “If T call him up first and knock him | Yiddish letters in the tall bottle or else onsensible mit the night stick un he'll break a winder and then charge the bar, and then tell him what I me for fixing It; don’t forget.” nt j4one before he knows what I’ z,| ‘Sure, this onel” sald Elmer, indicat- maybe he "said Gus, “But all| ottle, rig | * Gus went on, “If Schmidt, the So he called over the gawky, over-| @elicatessen man, should vant his brother-in-law, and sald: | him but my private bottle in the cabi- “Elmer, hierkommen! As soon as I) net, or else he is insulted.” j 60 out you take the cash register opan| Elmer sald he'd be sure to remember }and stuff a handkerchief in the bell 60 | Gus's private stock for Schmidt, " {t rings my vifs vont come down-| ‘And when Muller, the grocer, comes to get the mo’ for a h (in for a nip, he won't take case goods. she always does when I go out.” He wants the real old Kentucky out of itake no money trom anybody w you are out?’ vacant smile. “There {t comes now!” wad Gus, nile | part of the icebox.” x asked Elmer with a “This one?’ sald Elmer, opening the | bottom if the icebox. - “Ye waid Gus, “and when Beppler, There Is No Edison Stary AW. 8 A Violin Query. Anke Irish Vame's Ortgein, | grown, yellow-haired young German| schnapps, don’t set anything in front of; “Vould It not be besser as I don’t the dem!john what is under the bottom) YP Gus, the Saloon-Man, Sheds Light on Some Dark Secrets, And Mr. Jarr Then Learns Startling Facts on Barkeeping 3 the butcher, comes tn for his powders you 0 Up at the end of the bar behind the stuffed alligator and you get h the black square bottle of Sealskin Rye, because he'd sooner dle than drink any | other kind.” “Oh, I know that,” sald Elmer, “He me {n the nose yesterday because I give him the bar good: ‘Well, the bar goods 1s what Johnson, the plasterer always takes," said Gus, “he thfhks tt has more action In ft."’ “Yes, I know," sata Elmer, “I don't forget that." “And when old Gen, Murphy comes in see you don't offer him anything but the Dublin Castle Rye, {t's the only kind he can drink mitout gitting a heart- burns." “This bottle?” asked Elmer, picking up one with @ highly ithographed label on tt" “Sure, that's {t," replied Gus, “and Gon't forget It for Gen. Murphy or I lose his trade."* “I won't forget, boss,” said Elmer, | “but some of them bottles {s empty and some {s near empt; “That's all right,” sald Gus, “fill ‘em jall up fresh from the keg under the | bar,’* Then he and Mr. Jarr went for their auto ride, By F.G. Long Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife, Translated ; By Helen Rowland, HOODDODOGDOOODOOOODODIHDOOOOHDTOPOHOTLOOID {ng marriage, and I have made anower that {t 4a. @ SURE cure for diindnesa, Yea, t @ strong lena through which two people discover other’s flaws, even as one who findeth the oraoke painting through @ magnifying glass. Nay, accuse not a bachelor that he taketh matrimony Monty, for he hath thought SERIOUSLY thereof—and that ts why he rematneth SINGLE. And when a man bdoasteth of a SUCCESSFUL courtehp he meaneth not that he hath WON the woman, dut that he hath GOTTEN away from her safely, For every man thinketh that when two shall marry “for bet ter or for worse,” this meaneth that it {s better for the woman, Dut WORSH for the man, Lo, think not that a man regardeth thee seriously because he comp menteth thee highly; but when he repraveth thee because thou wearest am open-toork toaist or holdeth thy drese too Mgh thou mayest chuckle, for then he looketh upon thee as Me “personal property.” plok out thy bridesmaids, for unkind criticlem ts as the thunder tha | warneth thee of the approach of the stormy daye of wedlock, | A wise woman hath perfect faith in her husband's devotion, Yet one | 49 too wise to test st by introducing Mm unto widowe—even by employing | a fascinating parlor maid. For no man sticketh untoa wife as he ettcketh ‘unto an opinion or unto Ala seat in ao atreet-car, | Yea, thou hast asked me, my daughter, what ts the happtest doy of marrted life. And I shall answer easily—for tt 43 the day defore the wed ding Selah? M daughter, thow hast questioned me eoncerm Nixola Greeley-Smith Says Husband No. 2 Should Be Taken for Wear Rather Than for Ornament. Fifth Article in “Progressive Matrimony” Series, 2 x7 N choosing a second husband care {s I!ke polo, & pastime eo dangerous that ] should be taken to select him for|{t should be indulged only by our high» wear rather than ornament. Per- jest circles, where a lange casualty Ust haps in the excep-|can be dest afforded. tional casé Of &/ dforeover, while it may take the woman whose frst genius of Napoleon, the persistence of marriage Was ONC) Worington and the strategy of “Btone ot self = Interest) ways Juckson to secure a first husband Some extravagance | «) annex @ second one need only be= | of fancy, somewhat the law requires one to be any arbitrary prefere | way a widow . oriee aE ‘Pave or) Afecond husband, by the way, should nose or mustache |@)Ways be a widower, For even @ may be tolerated, | Widow's power stops short of making Rut generally #0 old bachelor into an acceptable hug speaking the {deal | band. for a second hus- band coincides with that recently expressed to me middle-aged widow, “My ideal man, declared, “is any man with a kind heart and a good Income." A woman may de torgiven for an un The romantic ave quite as much ‘ob ed emotions as the ed vegetables, But 1 one to the table, rts that when there are atilt wise selection of the firat husband, but | strings In the mess, one Is very when her second choie> proves also her /apt to send for the product the lack of judgment she would better pause next time, Now, making an old |midway in her matrimontal career, for | bachelor into a husband {ts not unlike if a chance to take a third ts granted her the opportunity would al-/ter with what pat! most certainly bring calamity along with | labors to It ness th this process of strin, 5 beans—no mate e and real one ate his habits of selfish- always some fibres of ra was a woman once who ex- thom rem Whereas the widower tat 1 th hus- Suffered a tn the factor: jplained her marriage to her ftth huss semiiet fn the factory band by saying that she was “bound to {nto an 4 one need only follow the factory formula: “Place im hot water for a few moments and the dish is then ready to serve—and, by the way, he generally geta in the hot water himself . show the Lord she could get them as fast as He coud take them.” A very dangerous ambition, surely, for marriage for the mere 8 aking @ record of th The Story e Operas. i} ° By Albert Payson Terhune. NO. 19—DONIZETTI’S “L.A FAVORITA,"” | DINAND was most promising of all the “novices” at the Monastery of F S@plago. Baltazar, the wise old Abbot, was thunderetruck when the youth suddenly refused to take the vows which should make him a monk, end Insisted on going back to the temptations and atrife of the world that lay be yond the monastery walle, Artful questioning drew from Ferdinand a confession that he had set eyes om & wondrously beautiful woman, whose identity he did not know, but who had driven from his heart all thoughts of becoming a priest. He longed to seek for this woman—to woo and wed her. In vain did Baltazar warn the lad that the cloister’s sanctity was the best shield from pertls of the outer world, Ferdinand was firm in his resolve. Falling to dissuade him, Baltasay gave the novice his blessing and allowed him to depart. ¢ * ¢ 6 The woman whom Ferdinand had seen was Leonora, petted court beauty ‘ea favorite of King Alfonso, She, too, had behold Ferdinand and had fallen in‘love with him at sight. When he left ¢he monastery she caused him to be led blind folded to the garden of her villa, The youth, wild with joy at seeing her once more, poured forth ardent love vowa and {mplored her to marry him. Leonora’s worldly heart was touched bY his appeal, and, her better impulses prevailing, she bade him leave her forevem Aq a gift at parting pressed into his hand a paper, Just then Leonora’s handmald, Inez, hurried in and whispered to her mistress that the King had come to see her. Leonora went at once to meet Alfonso, while | Ferdinand, wondering at the monarch’s visit, asked Inez to explain. The servant | laughingly refused and ran out. Opening the paper Leonora had given him, Ferdinand discovered that tt was an officer’s commission in the army. Here was a chance to win fame and to make himself worthy of the mysterious woman's love. Ferdinand set forth at once to jthe ware, ¢ ¢ | The former novice proved to be an inspired soldier, Swiftty he rose in rank tn | the command of Alfonso's armies, Then, as general, he overthrew the King’s | cnemies {n battle, and at last turned back toward the court in triumph, | Gaspar, the wily Prime Minister, had meanwhile intercepted a love letter | written by Leonora to Ferdinand. He brought the letter to the King, who con- | fronted Leonora with tt. She confessed her love for the young soldier and sought to make the King cease his own attentions toward her, While Alfonso was atill | aghast at her defiance the Abbot Baltazar was announced, | Baltazar came to warn the King that the Church's vengeance would be | launched upon him unless he should at once abandon his dissolute mode qf lifo and renounce Leonora, Alfonso, furlous, yet fearful of excommunication, pramised to give his decision on the morrow. * * ® | Ferdinand, coming to court next day from the scene of hig vtetortes, demanded Leonora’s hand as reward for his services. The King, to avert the Church's wrath against himself, consented. Leonora wrote Ferdinand a letter confessing to him her past. Inez, to whom the lotter was entrusted for @ellvery, was made prisonér by Gaspar, and could not, therefore, give tho epistle to Ferdinand. The King made the young soldier a nobleman and with all his court attended the wedding. Barely was the ceremony at an end, however, when the courtiers’ demeanor aroused the young man's suspicions, He sought out the Abbot for an explanation. Baltazar told Ferdinand of the life Leonora had led. Furtous, heart- | broken, the bridegroom denounced the King for tricking him, cast aside his new wealth and honors and went back to the monastery, * * & Leonora, dying from grief at loss of the man she loved, found her way to the | monastery. There she told Ferdinand of the letter she had-weitten end explained that she had not meant to decelve him. Ferdinand, forgiving her, now that he knew the whole truth, dectared he would throw aside the priestly vows he had just made and would return to thé{ | world as her husband. t But be was too late. Before he could carry ont his resolve Leonora fell dea@i Into the arms of the weeping, repentant bridegroom, Missing numbers of this series cent for eneh number to Yeo, thow mayest , — 1,