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o- Cie ah ones, EVENING SS EDITION an CCoryd, Published Daily Except Sund the Press P ag Company, Nos, 83 to 6 Park Row, New Y JOSHPH PULIT & Pa ANGUS SIEAW, 8 Bf ' Entered at the Post-office at Now York ns Second-Clase Mall Matter Bubscription R World for One Year.... One Month. . $9.7 85 VOLUME 49... - Nniceannrnyy supreme Ot SUBWAY PROFITS. t | NO —— CCORDING to the Inter borough's annual report 3,285,040 pas ‘rs travelled on the subway and the elevated in the year ending June 30 last. ‘This is a) hundred tripa a every man, wom- an and child in Greater New York, It means that almost a third of the popu | lation of Manhat- tan and the Bronx travelled twice every work day on, the elevated or} the subway. And} this does not in-! elude the hun- | dreds of millions who rode on the street cars. | The Interborough’s gross earnings were $24,699,505, Its total operating expenses were $10,722,694, less than half its receipts. That is, it cost but a fraction over two cents to carry a passenger, | and the net operating profit was more than 100 per cent. | This shows how enormously profitable a subway or an elevated ia, | Who says subways are not profitable? What private business is | there that pays more than 100 per cent. profit a year? Even the Stand- ard Oil, which has the highest percentage of profit of any big private | business, might exchange to advantage with the Interborough. | This is the very reason why more municipal subways have not been built, why in the six years of Mayor McClellan’s administration no new subway has been constructed. The Mayor and the Comp- troller put every obstacle in the way of the city doing again as it did) with the first subway and building itself. | There was little opposition to the municipal construction of the | first subway because the transportation magnates did not realize what | a money maker it would be and were willing to let the public make the | experiment and stand the loss. Like the unprofitable Staten Island ferry, which was unloaded on | the city; the unprofitable Thirty-ninth street ferry, for which the city | paid a big price : and operates at a loss, and the un- profitable East River ferries, which the city is now considering buying, 80 nobody of power and in- fluence objected to the city building the first subway. Now that sub- ways have been proved to be so enormously profit- able nobody ex- cept the 4,000,000 ordinary people wants the city to build any more of them. Unless the Tnter-Met. is to furnish more sub- a ways on its own terms New York So far the Board of Esti ter scheme $60,202,000 e. same board the aut! purpose. This is twice wl No water in ten years, New subway Only the Catskill water build new subways would he a good y Which is why Father Knickerbocker is being 1 nate has authorized for the ¢ 10,000,000 honds for the sar pendi Letters From the People ¢ The Hardest Language, t stopped language is t speak, I wo language st mudy of this Janguage and melody with en translat phrases are empha ta utter! f How Mueh Cont? k Te the Editor of The ‘ i r Will readers w tell should it ta “Ingrowing” me } hetsrm Weleht 200 Lbs, Shoes tte “EES To the Btitor Years a¢ was a had vaual n Pall Ma The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. The Last Laugh. REFEREES DECISION PETLTION FOR REHEARING By Maurice Ketten, February 3, 5 REHEARING! U.S, SUPREME COURT. Mr. Jarr Figures Out the Rebate on the Jarr Gas Bills, And Mrs. Jarr Can See Only One Dress and a Hatin It “Certainly “They have chil- dren and they have By Roy L. McCardell. la get something else for my $2. a and oftentimes after one has paid a deposit on a th ing else one likes b p than twice over not," replied Mrs, Jart. "I) Mr. Jarr. “It appears as if everything portable around the house went with “O H, dear," pair of gloves or something; but I do Gertrude, the fire worshipper.” said Mra. not need gloves, and, anyway, one, “She said if she ever came into her Jarr, "I feels ashamed of going back and con she'd have money to burn,” don't see what poor fessing to not being able to pay the said Mrs. Jarr musingly. ‘1 wonder If Yes, bur @ have in this di ce on the article one haa set she was speaking the truth, It seemed Jarr. strange to have a girl working In our, “Saved tt kitchen that had property." “T haven't It ng toh “Not when it was our property,” sald 89 out bet there's more money on de- Mr, Jarr. “And If she ever gets any Wir to k the stores that women have money she'll burn it all right. She I hadn't and the nine mill- as to pay back to ne burnt the ng them, she g else. ournt every slothes when she was tro! where?” noney a man up and examined the meter and took $2 off the bill so officious we would have made, | me see, 40 cents more on that bill, but you are always Interfering that way!” we saved $1.00," If you hadn't bes said M asked Mrs. Jarr ou always fuss ng wasted, bills dow And e are, we'd tof money coming to us now!” e'll have quite a@ little as it ts ” 1909. DOOD! Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune NO. 46.—BRIGHAM YOUNG. IIS soldier of fortune was no hero, It is merely because of his-eotes, nization wofk and his adventures that he finds place in the proses | series Brigham Young was born in Whittingham, Vt, in 1S0l, He came @) old Revolutionary stock. Up to the age of sixteen he had had but elevem days of schooling. Then his parents moved to Sherbourne, N. Y., whes® Young became a carpenter and house painter. It was not unt!l some yeaga later that he joined the strange band whose President and Prophet he wad” one day to become. Joseph Smith, a mystic, claimed to have been led by a vision to s spel where certain miraculous golden tablets were buried. These alleged tablet® Were known as the Book of Mormon, Smith, compiling their supposed 00 tents Into a volume, and using the book as a new Bible, preached his dow trines far and wide. His disciples were kuown as “Mormons.” Young bap’ pened to see a copy of the book at the house of a relative. Almost at once he enrolled himself as an ardent Mormon. Quickly he rose to high place in the councils of the new sect, serving as “apostle and as “missionary.” At length the East became too hot to hold the Mormons, For thelr ewe safoty as well as to find scope for free action, they emigrated westward in search of a "Promised Land.” Their first stopping place of any duration was tn Hangodls County, Ul, where Smith founded the city of Nauvoo, Dissensions arose among Uie Mormon@ and there were various clashes with outsiders, The updhot of the matter was that Joseph Smith and hia brother Hyrum were thrown | Where on June 27, 1s, | Oe The Lynching of Joseph Smith, Oa a mob st and lynched them, Brigham Young too: Smith's place as lea a band of 143 followers left Nauvoo, moving \ Land, Young fell il and had to be ca looked down on the wilderness valley of Suit Lake Te he cried, pointing to the wastes below And there the settlement was made of th plains were Irrigated until they were a second vot Mormonism took root in a permanent home, “Missionaries” brought thousands of con the world. Young easily made friends with the savages, declaring u { Indian than to fight him.” The affairs of W colony t ‘ sh Young's efforts that part of the West sox i wt syste ng also mapped out the first plan for a tra why ! i teleg- raphy throughout Utah. Were his wo t ‘ would rank high, m like the rose."” He had a genius He carried civ zation ‘Three Utah tn isd was organized as a te Young n years later the "Propliet’’ scandac fe word FS in angel had revealed to Joseph Smith that h ? sul but praiseworthy. On so Young veded to marry @ number of women c ' yale children) and encouraged his fol d = vod could not deny the claim. but his wide y never been part of the Mormon founder's > ‘ lormon, forbade it, In spite of this denial Youn © practice, It was one of the bonds by t a cod, even (4 Mahomet had earlier ma t ' promise ing his disciples a Paradise Ey cing ent {ron disc! ains. W t t ard to prove or to disprove—are tk he “Danites, or | \ ua secret soclety whose head he was), m ed ' ov” and who terrorized murmurers i r s Corer ment more than once tried to at nh Young 7 sttictais to U But most of t ‘ : eae At i th the Gover pent sent i e : Nike to burn the Mormon houses and leave he and his people m: 4 & canes In 1807 a party of He alters amped near Mountain i beriee eee F ‘ 1 thelr { The Mov. tain | Joba ; me out { Meadow Massacre. ne ot the party, exeet 1 were massacred, Young was charged wit g tl ul luck managed to eseape any iil r thas he sive ding puntshe reat nte indicted on sat i he had built t PG 1 ed the ive have be . jers in or v h t vyears jonger have Missing numbers of thin vent for each number to Cire PAIDTTOASAOHVG Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. D @ « & G Mr. Jar, burnt the food when she was cooking rhe said Mra it.” teeloneet Hel Rowland eo a ig bills! “Oh, now { remember!" sald Mrs. “Do you think there'll be $2002" asked By Helen ‘ en ate coupons are! There is Jarr. “Your speaking of Gertrude burn- Mrs, Jarr, eagerly, “I'd dearly love t Raooocoddococoodon APOC OONOOC { them to buy sor ng nice| ing things reminds me that while she have $200 ae pe ereny vere YCET} was here she wouldn't make a bed, and Mr. Jarre his eyes over the bills HE great matrimontal prov Hor Feb @ rtrude took sald that 3 me that I put those gas “| , I should say there Husband! bills and oupons under the js ; ing to us," he aid Yo matter how dead in love a man may op begin about HER! sald mattress! sald Mrs, Jarr, in a dis Merlnoennarriager ictal ripe him We yse you'll twit me So saying Mrs. Jarr disappeared and can only get one dress Divorce is the surgical operation jo al ap a dep g day about that girl, It shortly retu with a mass of gax l t : ‘ ? w ‘ nfidence, T will admit, bills fastened together with a hairpin, I thought you wanted some extra pendicitis. It is just as HU) g toa husband . 8 ed In. “How much is twenty per cent. on all cash to pay some pressing bills?’ sald or wife who gives you a pain as to cling to a painful append e's da expect Nag Mr. Jarr, | nity is merely a nearavife; but then most men are pe tly sate ' Hectic cnida vsked Mr. Jar Yes, of course,” sald Mra, Jare, “bar| AM affinity 's Ear f she to think harshly of ( : replied Mrs, if I had that much to pay those bilis, | (8fed with “something just as goo Marladntralenra t and e 1 aps she was run o Jarr, ‘but there is one t for think of all the things I Id buy wit Real love is the kind that is built on mutual admiation a ist @ ' ' s lost t and went to com it, Td take my time about the old bills; sympathy—and only comes in novels < Deny iand) oblecteu soit and: theyasene)| evar Read Cle acrteiecomealc ae It is the husband who cannot raise the rent who always raises the moe | ‘The Million Dollar Kid I st WWE GoT ABouT 20 MILLION THIS GRIP — NLL SAVE THE COUNTRY ! iy} T WISH THESE CRANKS WOULD KEEP OFF Se | objections round the house, tn order to ke p the illusion that he is really | important. | Most married men appear to think that “it is better to give than to te | when it comes to advice and criticism and orders and little thinga like that. F Wonder whether it was love or wine that caused Galileo to discover that the world went round. ——— +90 ey Cos Cob Nature Notes y much as usual, Some went to to Horseneck and a few, like A, Maye Some worked Itt Post-Office, others took ¢ x coln Fuwle and Frank Seymour, went to New York huck hereabouts Uttle. The groundhog {s called a we Cy animal covered with gray fur and lives in a hole, For many years have given it credit for knowing all about the weather at this time of the So far as we are concerned, we take no stock In It. We shall stick to Unche Brush when we want to know how tho elements are going to perform ‘The next put-off town meeting to be held by Permanent Selectman Ry Walsh has been set for Feb. 27. Many of our citizens feel that {t might Just am wel have been fixed for Feb, 29 for all the good It will do. Our leading Horseneditart who are trying to think they are as smart ax ft. Jay and Jim, will wake up degom@ long and find themselves bumped. The new plan of government, which ts warmly? welcomed by both our good and bad citizens, provides for sixteen temporary rulera instead of three. This will give us sixte rulers also, instead of the present three and their assistants, and ought not to c town more than fiw times as much for misgovernment as \t now pays, Among those who expect to promoted to the same class as Permanent Selectmen and Tow Waish and Jim and Willlam J. Smith are Assistants Charles 1. Burnes, Dr, Pf Maher Brothers (incorporated), Gus Knapp and Luke Vincent Lockwood, with some hopes for Joe Christiano and Pete Mitchell, Duke of Dumpling Pond. Charkegy A. Moore Is also mentioned, a So far the river has succeeded In keeping the tee out of tts mouth } ‘Aasistant Permanen: Selectman, Town Judge, Assembly ind former Sebeetl ‘Trustee Charles D. Burnes is candidate for appointment for Supreme Court Judgegy H People who belleve Gov, Lilley will do anything think he will get it | The joyful news comes from Washington, D. C,, that our extinguishes neighBoa, Theodore Roosevelt, will not linger !n Washington after March 4, but will returmy at once to Sagamore Hill, which ts located in Oyster Bay, across tue Long Islan@ Sound from here. Sagamore Hill was named after Mr. Roosevelt. “t tg an Indian! permane man | word which means transiated: “Heap big Injun. Hat much raliroad tron.” - n Counsel R, Jagy®