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ee Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to 6% Park Row, New York, ULITZER, 3 Park Row, J. ANUS BILAT, ac.-Treas., 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York n Subscription Rates to The Evening } For Ya World for the United States All Countries tn the and Canada. ‘ostal Ur One Year... + + $8.50 | One Year....4. 6 One Month, 80 / One Month,....0s VOLUME 49... eonnnnnn ( | THE TENEMENT PROBLEM. T CENSUS tion of Cl 0s shows remarkable facts, Notwithstand x the new tener the inspections of tenement department, the 1 irbs and the tions to eve point around York w cheap transportation can reach, the tenement-house population is increasing and the Yenement overcrowding is increasing even more, There are more city blocks with 1,000 population than there are {neorporated cities, towns and villages of 1,000 population in all the Southern States. The most populous block is bounded by Amsterdam and West End avenues and Sixty-first and Sixty-second streets, on San Juan Hill. It has a population of 6,173. Texarkana, Biloxi, Boise, Brat: | tleboro, Bristol, Brunswick, Corry, De Soto, Frederickshurg, Fulton, Galena, Gallipolis, Hanover, Ilion, Kearney, Malone and ot dshing cities have less population than this one block tlour- In 237 blocks live 624,998 people, or more than all the people of | any other city of the United States except Chicago and PI If these blocks were put together without streets one squar e would! cover them. Even the cemetery is not so overcrowded, Next to San Juan Hill is the Little Italy neighborhood, on the) east side of Harlem, where 4,325 people are crowded in one block. | The old “lung block,” bounded by Hamilton and Catharine| streets, is not the most crowded, because the old style tenements there! have not as many stories as the newer houses. | For the population to be packed in this manner, families occupy two or three rooms and take in boarders, making overcrowding in ex cess of the tenement-house law, which limits the number of occupants according to the cubic space. his is evaded by the bx that they are visitors or-avoiding 7 the inspectors’ visits. These overcrowded blocks are increasing in population more rapidly than the genoral increase, A five years’ comparison of typi- cal blocks showed an increase of over 20 per cent. In the most crowded Little Italy block the population quintupled in five years, The San Juan crowding is inoreasing-until it looks as if the wt Z Vl People in that block slept in relays. It is hard to figure out enough floor space for them all to go to bed at the same time Instead of being solved by recent legislation, the tenement house problem is increasing. saving Orr orn en nnn nner | Old Timers, Ahoyt To the Editor of The Even: orld: | meal was 2% cents?” My solution is: A This was the warmest winter for many saving of 142-7 cents » dollar, or years, But I have heard of two sea-| each meal costa me 21 ts. Some fons a number of years age which stood! people tell me that the on each out in people's memories as the dollar's worth ts 1828 cents, Help strangest on record. In one of them| F.J.N. the winter was so warm that ladies | Steps. earrled parasols on Broadway in Janu-| To che ‘orld ary. In the other the summer was oold) Wren will t and there were heavy frosts In July. Can steep, long a any old timers recall those two Their brief account of such ar weather ought to Interest many reade: It Is a historical fact, by the way, that {n the winter of 1777-1778 the cold #0 intense as to make upper New York dj Pay freeze solid, So thick was the ca tlat the British transported fest artillery across t Island to the Batier teps, 80 tiring, on the "'L’’ sta. inced by escalators or ele 19 cAses of death by @ tea LYDIA M. ost of the House,” 7 of The Bvening World In answer to James A, Kasper, asks “What is the cost of a hous which was sold at a profit of $750, th asking price being % per cent. m n the cost and the sellir per cent, leas than th submit the following cent; aeking price=1.%; .06%5; gain per cent fn $750-—.0625==$12,000 cost, ELI B. CONINE 4,014,804 (Cenaus of 1905), To the Editor of the Evening World What was the population New York at last census? R.DR Commatation Ticket Problem. To the Editor ne Evening Wor Here 18 4 “simple” problem on I would like readers to render € vincing decision “A urant Keeper sells @ commutation ticket (which \s ney te BY eae is wiod for §%.60 worth of meals) for $3 TAT Itihacky Please navike au working the reduced rate what does the buy woman where ¢ for just ey on each dollar's worth of meals; | | HAVE INVENTED A NEW PuNeH, GET UP LETME SHow You y, N'T OISTURB US SPorRT Sure Hing WE ARE TALKING ‘Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, M etree: eevee: an halla pape eee A The Day of Rest. ALONE, IT'S OUR, DAY oF REST ZY) WS | By Maurice Ketten. 1 BET I couLo Licte JerrRics, JOHNSON AND ALL THE BUNCH COME NEAR I wWow'T HIT You WATCH MY ARM (es rn = o! pierce! A Good Tine 1M BY Yoursetves? EXCUSE ME THe CARPET SLIPPED By Roy L. McCardell. STRYVER'S mother ts In| g, ing her husband at the door, ones so humble!” Oh, you stop your nonsense:”* Mrs. Jarr, sharply. "I ver's and Mrs ed as her mother, who the St ra Nu SEND THAT POSSUM To MAY RANDALL ! Big wit! interest her to bring her puree, fore-always thought herself too also per meat, {f the original price per | for 4t, 1 suppose, and, besides, as Mra. WILL MAKR A Nee | ton, said Mrs, Jarr, meet-| and by “there” and nd crank T ever met! What's she do- ing here?” asked Mr. Jerr. "Visited by the Dowager Duchesa of the Von Stryverhelm- ers—why, ‘tls too much honor for dren.” eaid as calling on yver suggest as been in a had never she tried (o act as If] be? a slur when she said it, Her) their n been in New York be- good 7 then?” Mra. Si ting | from Bost far upstart, And Mrs | very nice to us, and why We're better than th |Stryver seld, after having lived in Hos- + place could possibly be of st to her mother.’ | about Boston, “What did you bring her over for, | asked Mr, Jarr. cater to these condescending old dames!" | she might get interested in the chil- “Has she?" asked Mr. Jarr I had to send them out, Wille to go kiss her, and he flatly re- fuaed, and little Emma paid she'd do ft for ten cents.” ‘Well, ten centa Is @ lot of money te a child,” aald Mr. Jarr, We afflicted with this visitation? What did you bring her over for?” | “Mrs, Stryver was in a state of nerves, her mother always getting h Stryver {s real money “Her mother gets on her nerves and you played Pal ed M “If you mean by ‘Patsy’ from @ good fam- fly, for, as I told you, her mother {s sel ryver isa vul-|just lke every other big tryver has been | dirtle jh "Have you been to the theatres since coming to New York?’ asked Mr. Jarz, ‘hurriedly changing the subject “No, I ain't!" said the old lady, "1) aged got out of the habit of going to them) hat I took after T was a widder, Loulsa goes out /womankini, und then some | Mr. and Mrs. Jarr Are Visited—tor Their Sins—by | the ‘Dowager Duchess of the Von Stryverheimers.”’ | I told “But why are er that way n't she » with all Jarr her mother off her hands, y Mrs. Jarr. her. “I wouldn't | fidgets and she's given them to me.” So Mr. Jarr was led in to face a very | pose you have lieard some of our ent from Boston?” “Boston nuthin’! he'e dead, and I ain't ashamed of h even If he couldn't read or write, nor of the hogs, elther!”’ “Chicago's a fine town, destined to be | the greatest olty in the world, Jari Ww » Without hi but they do: said|to them every nigh “But she won't even talk enough clothes on her, Nothing seeme to interest interest mel Suppose you try; she's got the We have some very fine churches in , New York," ventured Mr, Jar, "I sup- fi he inclination of) Oh, she isn't condescending so much: | old, very traectble and very ugly old | ministery her head tadicat-| she's simply an old crank and nothing | lady. “Preachers? Huh! I ain't got no use ‘ng the Jarre’| interests her,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “And| ‘Charmed to meet you,’ murmured|for them!” sald the old lady 1 front room, “and! ena's got lota of money, and I thought|Mr. Jarr. “So you find New York differ-|wants to do {s to bury you or she's the awfullest you!" I'm from Chicago!| “Weil,” sald Mr. Jarr, getting a little And if Louisa Stryver don't stop per-|desperate, “In which one of those pro: tending to be what she ain't and what fessional capacities would ue prefer IT ain't I'l pack up my duds and golthem to officiate?” back! We're from Chicago, and my] “I wouldn't get married again—you |husband made his money in hogs, and|can be sure of that’ sald une old la beca’ if that's ty and wigrinly, “L wih To was deac, I've lost interest In averyth! what you mean. I'm nearly nij I'in tiréd of everything! Mrs. Jarr, who was looking out of window, exclaimed, bh conscious “Here comes Mrs, Kit tn a nes | dreaw!"’ Instantly Mrs. Stry snapped the old lady, said Mr, it you think so keep it to your- sald the old lady, tartiy., “It's town, only | old mother she cried, k, 0 ralali hut Be a Put Sr, Tr fed, \ this point, Mrs. Jarr and Mrs fent talked dress, dress, excitedly for an hour, ‘To the edge of the grave It Intarests dress os AM A NAUGURAT(OUSH Possum, Boss! | The Million Dollar Kid # w a | (Now iG 0 OVER } 4 GO To May's) SHE Will, BE DELIGHTED , ' t \WITH THE P09SU SG} hoy i ° By R. W. Taylor ws ee A ‘POSSUM FOR, 95 RANDALL ! MR. MONK'S COMPLIMENTS Mi9)) RANDALL \o OUT TOA Possum DINNER AT LOOIE'5 HOUSE Toni@uf, oR! | A Historic plenty of money from a source none could learn, seit “Willol-the-Wisp.” His memory,” writ Van Damme was some- : .» thing prodigious. He used often to hint this was > mere book knowledge.”” ynee sald to Van Damme: "Iam almost convinced that I lived with Nero, that | knew Dante per- sonaily." Andrew Lang sums up the case th rd Lytton about 18%)? Was he then Major Fraser? 1s he th ‘\covite adviser of the Dalai Lana? Who knows. He {s a will-o'-the-wisp. hance of finding him in good authentic state l@ 8 Fifty | Historical Mysteries 4 By Albert Payson Terhune NO. 7-TAE “DEATULESS! COUNT OF ST, GERMAIN. N the first place, the Count of St. Germain was probably a wonderfully brilliant impostor. But his life was one long mystery, When he sud: denly appeared—seemingly from nowhere—in the French Court of Louls XV.,, in 1748, he spread a report that he was two thousand years old, Some persons actually belleve he {s still alive. Into the gay court, whose destinies were swayed by dissolute Louls XV. and Mme, de Pompadour, this handsome, brilllant stranger was somehow introduced, It was a time when ancestry counted for much and where every title of nobility was carefully investigated. Yet none knew of/St. Germain’s origin nor by what right he called himself “count.” He had no visible means of support, yet he always had plenty of money and lived in splendor. Unknown adventurers were looked on, as a rule, with suspicion, yet the French Court received St. Germain with open arms, Louls XV. made him his boon companion. Mme. de Pompadour consulted him frgely on affairs of state and of society. So powerful did he become that Dihees | and Ambassadors were among his closest friends and bitterest foes. Then came the rumor that he head always lived and would always live. That made the man’s fame secure. He was pointed out as the wonder of the (In these “Fifty Historical Mysteries” I merety quote facts and statementa of wiser authorities than I, and I do not draw upon my Imagination fog any detail. As the story of St. Germain te ao Incredible I here mention that his claim of having Ilved two thousand years ts quoted by the Bnoyclopedia Britan- jnica itself, and that further biographers of him are Andrew Lang, Bulwer-Lyttom | Horace Walpole—who writes of knowing him tn London in 1145—the celebrated savant, Grosley, the Duc de Broglte, &o.). | St. Germain spoke every known language perfectly. He had a positive | gentus for chemistry and astounded the world by discoveries he made—or pre- tended to have made—along this line. For one thing, he intimated that he had | concocted a liquor by wose use he had kept himself alive since 22 B.C. The ‘man's perfect and Intimate knowledge of all history led many people to belleve jthis wild statement. He would relate personal narratives of Nero, Dante, Francis I, and other notables of former centuries. St. Germain clatmed also to have dis- covered a potion to renew youth. According to @ story, belleved at (he time, he j allowed a forty-fve-year-old woman to drink some of this elixir and gle stralght- | way became a girl of sixteen! Another of his supposed “gifts” was the secret of jchanging baser metals into gold and of making prectous stones. His untraced | Wealth and the fact that he fatrly blazed with Jewels lent credence to this, He pratended to have a method for removing flaws from diamonds, Louls XV. had a $1,200 diamond whieh but for tts flaws would have been worth $200 St, Ger- main took the stone and returned It, two monthe later, flawiess. ‘This !s a his- tarleal fy If he merely and substituted a lawless $2,000 for oA) flawed one worth $1.20 the joke must have him $0, X | He was never proven a swindler, a gambler or a spy, though he was charged with being all three. Nor had he any landed estates. So the source of his vast Brrr Clalmed to Be immortal. Carrere!) bought wealth is still a mystery, He seemed anout fitty years old, handsome and well | preserved. One day Mme. d= Pompadour suddenly turned on him with the ques- ton: “What sort of man was King Franets 1?” (Francis I. had been dead about "E could have Germain went on to 20) years.) “A good fellow, but too Impulaive,” replied the Count given him wise advice, but he would not Haten to me [deseribe the beauty of Mary Queen of Scots, who had died in the sixteenth cen- | tury, adding, with a laugh: “I sometimes let people belleve—net ‘make’ them ber | teve-that I have lved from time immemorial.” To which Mme, de Pompadour |answered: "But old Mme de Gergy, who was wife of the Ambassador to Venice | more than fifty years ago, says she knew you in those days and that you are un- Jctianged since then.” “That {s true,” assented St | “Then you must be hundred a be >d Mme de Pompa- dour, St. Germain shrugs: houlders and returned an evasive answer. Such Jevasions fostered the belief in his {mmortality more than the most vehement ase sertions could ever have done. And he was clever enough to Know It Later St. Germain drifted from court to court. He met in Germany e ‘ma- | glclan Cagliostro, and, according to the latter's statement, initiated him into Freemasonry, Then tle wanderer hecame boon con 6 the Landgrave, to have died in Schies and Fellow of harles of Hesse, and {s r believed But Grosley, an en lety, he saw St. Germain in nM. Lord in 1869 met a man who seemed the embodiment of deathless"” Lytton vant Van Damme writes of a amystertous * Fraser." who was In the Court of Louls Napoleon tn 18S, who was of no known national of undiscovered origin and with —rr Md St. Germain really dle * ¢ * ab French prison, where Grosley thought he Did he * © * escape from saw him? * * © Was he known to | Whenever you think you have a | papers he gives you the slp Minsing nainbers of thin series may be obtained by sending one cent stamp, fur each nusuber required, tv Ciroulation Department. Evening World. OOOO0r Dodo) +4. O00 DOO. JOO Sayings of Mrs. Solomon. Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. By Helen Rowland, BHOLD, my Daughter, the Lord maketh @ man— but the WIFE maketh a HUSBAND, For Man is but the raw material on which a woman put- teth the “finishing” touches, Yea, and whatever pattern of husband thou select- est, thou shalt find him like unto a ready-made garment, which must be trimmed over and cut down, and ironed out, and built up to fit the matrimonial situation. Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many wnnecese sary pleats in his temper, and many terinkles to be smoothed out of his | disposition Lo, I charge thee, be wary in thy choice. Por, in these days, many shall call, but few shall propose; and peradventure, though thou canst not “pick out” a husband, thou canst “pick over” the samples offered thee and take the best of the lot, Yea, a wise damsel shall select that which fitteth her disposition and matcheth her tastes—even that which twill not pinch’ upon the bank account, nor stretch upon the truth, nor that which twill shrink or run in the domestic wash and fade away in the divorce court. At the second-hand counter thou shalt find many widowers, which have been remodelled by another hand. And these are easy to get; yet a@ hand- me-down may have been botched in the making, and become frayed at the edges of the temper, and shiny on the seamy-side. But a@ BACHELOR who hath passed forty is JUST A REMNANT; and there ig no good material left in him. His entiments are moth-eaten and his tender speeches shop-worn. His manners shall require much basting and his morals many patches. The gloss hath been rubbed off his illusions and the color hath gone out of his emotions. Yet a clever damsel some- times taketh one of these as a LAST HOPE and maketh him over to seem as good as new, For, as I have before said unto thee, the happiest whfe {a not the onal who getteth the best in the market, but the one who maketh the best of © what she getteth. Verily, verily, a husband t¢ a WORK OF ART which must be executed BY HAND; for there i@ no factory tohich turneth tht out to order, Selah! —_———++ LAP POOLOLE EAD, %@ The Day’s Good Stories ¥ q a The One Best Bet. | Not What They Seem. | BBY—What js this old) broken VEN things In the rural wilds owl on the mantel? E From the logical will aut loos Witey—That, dear, {8 genulne! Strawberries do not grow on rd Wedgewood straw Nor gooseberrles on a goose, Wby—Well, Til bet {t ten't all it's gh —Chicago News, ked up to be.—Harvard Lampoon,