The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1909, Page 16

| ‘ f t j t eres enn Pe pdenay now The Even mt orld, (Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 68 Park Row, New York, PH PULITZER, Pres,, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Seo.-Treas., 63 Park Row, © — Entered at the Post-Office at » York as Second-Class Mail Matter, Bodseription Rate The Evening | For Engta the Continent and fs World for ti ted states All Countr the International t Postal Union. +e $3.50 | One Yo e Year... @ Month... _ VOLUME 49 80 | One Month “THE HONEST COP.” HE HONEST COP” has retired after forty-two years’ unmarred He rose from patrolman to the high- n the uniformed de- He retires now on a service on the police force. est rank partment. pension and with a general order of commendation read in every station house. This is a reeord to be proud of. | Moses W. Cortright deserves | | every kind word that has been said about him, every phrase of praise, both official and personal. His service was both to the City of New York and to the United | States. At the beginning of the civil war, in 1861, he enlisted in the New York volunteers as a private and was retired as first lieuten- ant. He rose in the police department by the same faithful perform- ance of duty, honesty and fidelity, When he became a policeman in 1867, after the civil war, there was the old Metropolitan Police De- partment. It took him seven years to become a roundsman; another | Year to become a sergeant, He was not made a captain until 1884, and | he did not become an inspector until the reform reorganization of the | police department in 1896, His appointment as Chief Inspector came | from Commissioner Bingham, It must, however, be said that this well deserved praise of Chief Inspector Cortright is not commendation of the police department. 1 To have one inspector singled out as “the honest cop” implies that | at least some of the other inspectors are not entitled to have the came phrase applied to them. If all police officials were poor there could not be the notable singling out of one of them who retires with a modest competence and his pension. If no police captains owned tencment houses, if no retired police pfficials needed a force of clerks and an office to look after their prop- erty, there would not be so much popular enthusiasm over one “honest cop.” | {Nothing sadder about the New York police force can be reason: : pbly enid than is contained in “the honest cop’s” retiring remark: . _ Would you advise young men to join the police force? No, I would not.” "If the police force does not hold ont inducements to young men of ambition and honesty, whose - - fault is it? The pay is high. The hours are not very long. The work is interesting and exciting, The one objection to service on the police force is that its Promotions and rewards do not go, as they should, to the most worthy. To prevent and to punish crime, to preserve order, to make the community a better OE et foe te OS ey) live in, are surely objects worthy of any man’s sincere and arduous efforts. Without graft and without favoritism the New York police | force show'd and could become the ambition of any young aa 6 anc t 4 Letters From the People | Women tn Bosiness. fn and learn a machinist's To the Falitor of The Evening Wor Tioreughte ae Ne Some time a reader asked + an was any place in the t an atonal or indus j could All with answer M Is r not less tha heainst wom: T Nae ar 1 chan Bu cts. Who are the best says lawyers, doctors, artists, flnancte > Men! Who are the most fashtonahy highly pala dressmakers, cooks, milll- ners? Men! Why is this, readers? ft {fs true. None can deny jt. And it jm EX-S Yhe most powerful, !¢ the least used. | Naval Hospita e superiority, 1 ask | Yea on logteal grounds? e A. 1. F. ils “The Cat Slayer. IN ‘ The man who Hehe HOFrIB|Y Rolsy back fen f eats and KIN off those you Ay felines wilt t frerit and should e Gold lade : Yearly pen Chances tn the Yavy, Pays for the Home, an Now, for the navy. gute car go | fairyland? MABRL G | vening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, F @ e M | are Aaa. ‘and please hold up your foot If you wa “Huh, papa don't know,” sald the Ittle | ‘ou are a | vixen," sald Mrs, | ®¢ #aldi "I've Interesting news for| Gertrude ts once more queen of our soy; “he don't go to echool, Ido. and|Jarr, “and you should be ashamed of | YOU." | culsine?” T hlt Job Rangle In the nose yester-| yourself. But you do not steal th: +] “What Is ft, you've taken all the| ‘Why, who told you?" asked Mrw. lay. isposition. It's just Ike your fa! | money out of my pockets?" aszed Mr.| Jarr. Mamma's Ittle man shoul cht." |he never stands up for his own!” | Jarr, | |T can smell the breakfast burning,” ead Mrs, Jarr, “it's rude and unmanly| ‘The conversation now assum aj “No, it tsn't that," sald Mrs, Jarr,|satd Mr, Jarr, "No girl we ever had to fight.” dangerous trend Mr. Jarr sat up and| ‘and, anyway, I didn’t tako ft all, But; can burn things with the crisp com- | ‘What do y I htm that for?” asked |sald: “If you'll get the children out | somebody's back, guess who It 1s?" | pleteness of Gertrude.” 1 AndGlory Be to Mars! GertrudelIs Backin the Kitchen The Current of the Drama. By Maurice Ketten. OOTY Met PUNKERINO. ety Ae, a ™ 77 __ REPERTOIRE ALLSTAR CAST HAKESPEARE HIMSELF AT 5 REDUCED | PRICES A PEARL ee eee = NECKLACE GIVEN WITH ve 8 Stn wil ol OM vARG Lee et Gn era ae , GRASS > ayy Vre \ fo, CVV AD eo eo. Dy - af’. yo ° pe Ce Come eae 2 > Pe ' Tic Little Willie Jarr Fights, Mr. and Mrs. Jarr Have a Titi, { } { { a Mr. Jarr, real boy.”” | "Oh, well, I suppose so,” sald Mrs “He's got to fight if he's a, of the room, my dear, I'll get up and) ‘Mra, K jdress, Besides, you shouldn't talk that | Mr. Jarr, w way {n front of them.” | "No, gue: 's first husband,” sald By Roy L. McCardell. n R. JARR had come tn very la! replied Mrs, Jarr Mrs. Jarr was elther asieep or| Jarr, “but I think {t's dreadful. At} “Wey, you know it is true," eald Mrs,! “Mrs. KittIngly's second husband? else pretended to be, ao In the the same time,” said Mra, Jarr, "ma-| yary, ‘my mother { fond of you, suggested Mr, Jarr. morning he was|ma's boy mustn't fight unless he has! anq ‘te ig a shame the way you treat ‘It's very strange that your mind acreeably surprised to flnd no storm, compantons.” fignals displayed! "I can Ick any boy tn my elnss at | buton the contrary | school,” sald young hopeful proudly to, and then he mustn't hurt his little} her. run on that blond woman up- “Aw, Bhe makes me tired,” sald Mr, | stair sald Mrs. Jarr sharply. Jarr, “Besides, sie will call me ‘Edgar,’ pity you didn't marry a blond {f y and my name {s Elward, She knows {t|s0 fond of them!" ae ee he cas standings ee achat Hott | makes me mad! Your mother's an olf/ “Dog gone it! What do you ask me friendly mood, _, Into the mirror on the bureau. “Johnny | woUnlemaker Gr CELA CULSIUMTCES (nA CAE) Eis Etta 8 (be) He was avwak-! Rangle chaed you home yesterday and | ‘Tat? she's all right! | sive you a civil answer, that's: ol ut ened to this fact you was CUYIN'I" For some strange reason, Mrs. Jarre are soins, sa ld Soak Ho nt day and tt {houiittisikoyil anabtontrovel hat re [UD chen sauatiet: shel murmured) some: //ROuMNEs Dut RENIN) a by heart: acnevalannarcommandedetorentitlen | thing to the effect that it wasn’t to ‘be “I'm sure, I'm the last person In the ue b “That Johnny Rangle tea big brute, expected she could make ttle ladies) world to quarrel,” wald Sirs, Jarr In a and gentlemen of the children when the| grieved tone, “You pick me up for the father acted the way he did, and dis-| least thing. I simply wanted to sur- ma, d Mrs. sare, | and H and K and Just Hke his father,” # ‘ "t play with him!" ‘and you mustn’ | Nand 7 apelir" TURRET REA au eeeraa rie tae | alaseanthe en for breakfast and) prise and please you. I was so happy, “Ask sour father,” enid Mes, Jarr,| hota my benu!” the little girl. "He oA by rapping them sharply on the| too, because after all!— d with her i and then kiss] Mr, irning to Mr, Jarr! said Jarre eniffed the alr and then “Are you going to tell tne that EI AS punched our Willie ‘TA | to do it." nt me to put your shoe on!” ng them, and then Have You Met JOHNNY QUIZ? # w w By F. G. Long ~ os UAT YOURE SLIPPIiva!) THATS A BIRDS “em EVE VIEW OF THE R NOT Now, ARCHIBALD) (® | OEAR- 1 usr | PUTTING UP PRUNES UN PlusA JARSS—— OING THE PAPER} BY NO MEANS, HONEY, IM) (Do YOU WISH TO EEE EES) CLELL ES UUST ‘SITTING BY BE WHITED ON ae MADAME? ALI) fe) ebruary 11, 1909. 1 m ‘Lincoln sae \ sot | : ; Personal Life | By / Bt vmuaoe } Albert . paar Payson of the ps }Martyr President ierhune & 3 eho sas ot Pp aeinaamaiedeelaale | Prec CHAPTE 1V,—To ihe Presideney! ‘“ UDGE DOUGLAS'S ‘trust In. Providence’ reminds me of the olds woman whose horse ran away hi She sald afterward: ‘TL calmly trusted In Provi I the ing-strap broke, And then—-I didn’t know what on earth io do!” n Lincoln in reply to a pious h of his politieat al, the red mark, —this periods ne known \. found {ts way to t Douslis yal in} quain sting that unde hot fn the makin It was a time when we etween 1854 and 1860 i fro: “Ne ; ‘i rk to Australia; wh humble station of country lawyer to that of the » most figure, Thi very ete tion, which had been smould rly a century, hh ROW pues oa flerce flame that could on » quenched by the rod of noe of brave men. Lincoln hated slavery aud aly spoke his mind on ts” for weakly dljness towa g his course. miration of al the Republican part andidate for its V) | (ita nan by | 5 . ated Lincoln, who promptly chatlenged vldgies want tin the extreme! MeClellan), was escorted by br ands and wa at to have the cam n iglas Was a a day ec D and lacked t arp wit, and agai “i'm Killing Larger Game!" 2 wren nn eht with a far deey t that were cere But Lincoln, , while the opine y win his opponent 1 popular throughout, ain working! @ stepping: oln to a party of friends, “he © expresses those opinions r be PB ty isn't yo “You are after the Sene yokout,” annour g arger game, The battle of Senator. r the Presidencey; using: « his honest opinions, r instance, he © following terse sens 1 the more conservative th from the Union, her to dissolve the Unton. YOU shall n “plack Republica nd ‘negro lover” he! at him as a | t logle which co} inst the cou 1 1 for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife!” q lowers tried in vatn to prevent his making the ensuing epeechs ed against Itself cannot stand is Government become all | cannot en manently half-slave and half-free. | one thing ra | When he was told that such radical opinions would wreck tis career he ane swered: “It T had to erase all my Ife except one poor record T would choose to save J that speech,” adding that he belleved {t would one day be recognized a8 the wisest thing he had ever sald | Beet | The New York Victory, ed for the Preside: Lincoln was nor ing of the same » went to New York, where he spoke before @ huge audience at Cooper Union, The crowd came prepared to laugh at the tke giant trom the West and to be amused by hla droil storics, Instead, | were carried to wild enthusinem on the wave of Lincoln's marvellous éloe quence, One hearer cried: ‘He's the greatest man since He com quered the fastidious Fast as he had conquered the mo | Four candidates were In the Presidential fleld In 1800, One of them was Line | con's old foe, Doug! It is strange how closely those two men's lives were |iinked, Both had been Illinois legislators In 18%4- re admitted to the baw {n 1889, on the same day. In ISt1 both courted Mary Toud, Both represented Mile nols In Congress In 185, They clashed for the Senatorship !n 1858, and were rival candidates for the Presidency tn 180). The long rivalry ended in odd fashion, When Lincoln rose to make his Inaugural speech on March 4, 1861, he could fin@ no convenient place to lay at. Dougins stepped forward from the group bee hind him and took the hat from his hand, remarking to a bystander: “Even It B can't be President, f can at least hold the Pr When the telegram came announcing that Lincoln was nominated for Presle | dent by the Republican Convention Lincoln himself was the calmest man in the room, Putting the telegram tn his pocket, he sald: | wphere's a little woman up at our house who would Ike to hear this news." But his calmness must have departed before he reached home, for he ts sald te have burst into the house shouting jubllantly to his wife: “Mary! Mary! WE'RE nominated!” The campaign was flerce. The South, knowing Lincoln’s tronciad views om the preservation of the Union and the crushing of slavery, vowed to secede shoula he be elected. In the North, too, the candidate wae reviled by many as a “polite foal huckster,”” a backwoods hooby, a demagogue, One snob exclalmed: | “What? Abe Lincoln nominated for President? A man who buys @ ten-cen@® beefsteak for breakfast and carries (t home himself!” The fact that Lincoln was a total abstalnoer, and that he offered visiting come | mittees no stronger beverage than cold water, was also ridiculed, He hed alwaya@ In Jest epoken of himself as an old man, eo he was nicknamed “Old Abe."’ | Bh ty | A Prophetic Vision. { ES a | Lincoln's gawkiness, his uncouth manners, his ugly face, hie rustic ways ang his early poverty all came in for abuse that must have cruelly wounded the gentle | heart of the man who had eo gallantly fought his way from obscurity to fam | But the plain people loved him. The thinking people felt they could trust | He was elected on Nov, 6, 1860, recelving 180 electoral votes to his nearest e | ponent’s On the night after election Lincoln threw himaelf down on a couch to He caught a glimpse of his face in an opposite mirror, The mirror refi a second, ghastly pale, face hanging just above his own, Twice he saw ‘Always superstitious, he asked Mrs, Lincoln what the omen might mean, told Noah Brooks her reply: | -"She thought {t was a sign that T was to be elected to a second term of offloey and that the paieness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not Hve through a second term." This “face” story {s absolutely true, Who can explain tt? As soon ua Lincoln was elected the Southern States began to secede, One afters) another they left the Union, Lincoln was threatened with assassination. He | obliged to go to lis inauguration at Washington secretly and by a roundal | route because of a plot to murder him on his way to the nation’s capital, | on April 12, 1981, the South fired on Fort Sumter, and the civil war began. | as Lancoin hated slavery, hia chief alm was to save the Union, He declared: “If T could gaye the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, 1 could save It by freeing all the slaves I would do tt." | For years the South had been preparing for war. The North was utterly ready for any such confiet. Durtng the first year or so the Union armies m | with many crushing defeats. Lincoin was blamed. He was denounced as a mute! | | derous tyrant and an incompetent buffoon. All Europe was defaming him. ( | The gentle, grave hero who was giving up his life to save his country wag [crate suffering the first throes of martyrdom. ,