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_ ways for Manhattan, was virtually declaring war against an asphalt Miorld. Petihed Dally Except Sunday by the bitshing Company; Nos. 68 to 63 Park Row, New York G& ANGUS SHAW, Pros. and Treas. JOSEPH PULITZER Junior, Bee's. 4 63 Park Row. 63 Park Row, in At the Post-Office at New Vork as Second-Ci ates to The Evening| For England and t = World for the United States All Covntries in the In! and Canada. 48.80 one ¥ Postal Union, #0 ne Year... :30|One Month: ose 38 seeeeeNO. 18,178, VOLUME CONEY’S CATASTROPHE. | OWN to Coney Island to see the ruins of Dream- 7 land went more sightseers than ever went to ace, it in the days of its splendor. That is the way of the human. The burning of San Francisco and the burning of Chicago brought to those cities more new settlers than any booming of pros- perity would have brought them in an equal length of time. More people go to a man’s funeral than attended his wed- | ding. And it was ever so. | But now that the calamity has come, it is to be hoped the euri-| ows public will derive from it something more than a sightseer’s holiday. It has been suggested that the burned district be purchased | by the city for use as a people’s park. That would be, perhaps, the best way of deriving a permanent profit from the disaster. But | if the area is to be again built over as a show ground it should be) subject to supervision and strict building laws. There is no longer | any sufficient reason why merely temporary and insubstantial struc- tures should be permitted there. rs The place will be a pleasure city as long as New York stands} amd should be alministered with regard for safety as well as hilarity. a NOT AS IT USED TO BE. OUR big pulp and paper making companies in this State are said to be the reasons why Sen- ator Root opposes reciprocity with Canada. So in| times past it was said that four big express com- panies were the reasons why a former Senator opposed the parcels post. ‘Thus times change, but politics do not change with them. In the @omain of the high statecraft of the Senate the thing that was is the thing that is—and there is nothing new under the skylight. But it is by no means sure that the thing that is, is the thing that shall be. The people have seen the absurdity of denying them- selves the advantages of a cheap parcels post merely to please cor- porations carrying on the express business. ‘They have also expressed their judgment concerning the folly of hampering the mutual trade of two great peoples merely to enrich trusts, The Senator that made himself known as the representative of the express companies rather than of the State of New York survived his usefulness and went down at last without honor. And the lesson bps @ moral for Senator Root. +e ; RARITIES IN POLITICS. R. HALL, of the State Comptroller’s office, in ad- dressing the conference of Mayors at Poughkeepsie, said: “A dishonest public official is a rarity.” « About the same time there came very near being a fight in the Aldermanic Chamber in this city over certain suspicions aroused by sections of the building code that are said to savor of graft. And also, near the same time, Gen. Bingham, of the Bureau of High- combination that has so arranged the law that Manhattan has to pay ton more for asphalt than Brooklyn has to pay. If it be conceded that dishonest public officials are rare, then the wonder grows at the case with which dishonest business can bamboozle honest politi It may be no public official either saw or smelled any trace of taint of dishonesty in building codes or asphalt specifications for ofeect work. Nevertheless some things have happened that should not have happened. It behooves public officials to sit up and take notice. A vigilant one is as much of a rarity as a dishonest one. Oe WORKERS IN WHITE GOODS. N effort now under way to organize the women workers in “white goods” has in it a possibility at least of achieving a genuine benefit not only | to the workers but to the community at large. It appears from the that women and girls in this industry are often overworked, un- - derpaid and forced to labor under conditions that are clearly unsanitary and unsafe. Laws have been enacted to protect the interests of this class of workers and numerous charities have been established to look after their welfare, but neither Jaw nor charity is so effective as self help. It will be an aid to both the law and the charity if the workers can be taught to learn their rights and to stand up for them. But the organization should reasonable lines and under a reasoning leadership. ‘lo precipitate a strike and an antagonism between the workers and their employers at the outset would do so much harm as to seriously compromise the possibilities of immediate good. record proceed upon Letters From the People | Anon wnnnnnnnnrennannnet ane Origin of Fo Ge Editor of The Hvening World Te Europe we usually cull the room a The Paswenger occupies aboard ship his steroome.” Noisy Plate, Haitor of The Evening World hot weather has started windows are open, We The clit! dwellers “eatin.” Over here in America I find|in New York flats lose what little You use the word “stateroom.” Can Privacy we ever had, So I'm writing you tell me why? It is surely not a/ this appeal, Violins and phonographs “room of s Yet the name must) 4d pianos and accordions and human have some meaning or origin. | volces raised in song are all very sweet SCOTCH TOURIST. |!ndeed. But—not after 11 P.M. And 1 ‘The Mississipp! passenger steamers in| ik any one's love for must 2 could be catty daye had private rooms, or c sated before that hour, To the hot, eagh of which had painted over tt tired man, the nervous woman, or the net ber but the name of a State. | #ck child who is trying to get to sleep, Passengers were not assigned to “Cabin | !* 4 oeiul rg hear auch a bare of 3" New ¥. AnD) muste late at nigh’ 9 almost as Me. 0, 10 or bus to, New York Cab-| 144 as to have to sleep in a closed fa,” *“SMassachusetts Cabin,” &c. From|room, Live and let tile custom the various private cabins |sicians. Play falr. became known a4 “Sate” rooms, & request, not as a kick, *. GET_OUT oF ) FLowers | mY \Worid Daily Magazine, The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. Beg WHAT ARE You BUTTING IN FOR ? GET OuT ! No Pests CaN GET IN .NOW— IT'S ALL FENCED IN By Roy L. McCardell. ASTER JARR M walked past 4 his erstwhile companions with his head in the air. Mrs, Jarr, who, mother - like, firmly believed ull youth, save that personified by her own off- spring, was pos- sessed of demons, algo held her glance \loof as she passed nile delinquent: Instead of oot the hat!” (For Master Jarr wore a mother- bought effect in straw sailors, sald by the cunning shop people to have been modeled after the headgear of the youthful Princes of the Blood of Eng- land.) Instead of crying aloud such con: tumeltes as this and “Mamma's baby!" these, to her ul In the Tall Timber SENATOR SEEDS SAYS | SOME FELLERS CANT SEE FUR ENOUGH OVER THER’ GLASSES TO SEE WHATS GOIN’ ON AND OTHERS IS $0 BUSY LOOKIN’ INTO THER’ GLASSES THEY CANT SEE WHAT'S COMIN’ TO ‘EM. See as Mrs. Jarr Learns the Details of a Criminal Plot to Make a Full-Sized Baseball Fan of Her Only Son. or “Monkey Dude!” as under etmitar ob~ cumstances was their wont, the abject youth of the neighborhood fawned and abased themselves as Master Johnny Passed, attired in all his Sunday best | through many Ditssful days when proud and hand in hand with his mother, fathers take them to the ball game. For Willie Jarr was going downtown “Tim glad to see you @idn’t notice to meet his father and by him to be|those dreadful boys!” eatd Mrs. Jarr, taken to the baseball game! A real|as ehe decended into the sutway with baseball game, mind you, between those | Master Willie, ‘It ts one of the draw- redoubt top liners of the National | backs of this neighborhood, the éread- game known to fame in Boyvitle as the | ful children who meke sife undearatie ‘“Chiants and the Philites.”* up this way.” ‘How did they know? Well, don't you| Meanwhile, when his envious young think Master Jarr had hinted the im-|neighbors had whintngly complained at pending glorious crisis in his fair young | home that Wille Jarr got taken to the lite a few times, more or less, during | ball games while they did not, their the past preceding days? Ie had. Ever| parents were heard to speak to the ef- since a not unwilling promise had been | feot thet it would be ® good thing if he won from his male progenitor, Master | stayed at the ball gasne, as his influence Jarr had spread the tidings with| was a detriment to the moral awaken- many a glorious embellishment. ing of all the children aroun: Johnny Rangle, Izzy Slavinsky, Gussie| Meanwhtle, Mrs. Jerr and Master Jarr Bepler and the others had a hazy idea | arrived at the downtown establishment of the glory Master Jarr was about to|where air. Jarr tolled to sustain his enter into. It was @ glamour of su-| family. pertor beings at their mighty functio: “Here comes Mrs. Jarr and Jarra in an auro of excitement and an at-| kid," whtspered Johneon, the cashier, mosphere of peanuts, earsaparilia and|to Jenkina, the bookkeeper. “It I hed jee cream cones. a kid whose ears stuck out like that Hence it was they truckled abjectly|I'd pin ‘em back." as the fortunate of earth passed them in| ‘Jarra got @ nerve asking the boss all the @upertor indifference of one fn Elysian flelde apart. ‘Those whom the Gods love do not always die young. More often they live Ol eeeewreeeerreeeerererreseeeeeeeeerernennnnnnn Can YOU Answer These Questions? Are You a New Yorker? Then What Do You Know About Your Own City? Oy Here are five more questions (which will be answered in Wednesday's Eve- ming World) 111—What average price did Wall street lots bring in the earliest re- corded sales? 112--What was the “City Wall?" 118—When was New York's first bank established? 11;—What celebrated New York church was moved, brick by brick, to Jersey City and atill stands there? i] 115—What is the total length of Brooklyn Bridge and what has been the | Bridge's total cost up to date? HE EVENING WORLD'S New York Questions not only eerve to in- crease people's interest in their home city but are also saved hy thousands of readers, who cut out queries and answers and preserve then a# @ valuable encyclopaedia of New York, | rere are the answers to last Friday's questions: | 106—New York's first publle Wbrary was founded in 179), in the Clty Hall, at Wall and Broad streets, and contained 1,642 volumes, librarian's salary was $20 a year, | “joT—Just before the Revolution a band of 180 armed men marched up Wall | street and into Trinity Ohuroh to force Trinity's rector (Rev. Charles Inglis) to It ocoupied a room The cease offering prayers for the King and royal family of England, Inglis re- | tused to obey their demand, | 108—-The tract of land known as "John Robinson's orchard" lay between Cedar street and Maiden Lane. A savage bear was killed there in 1678, 1%—New York's first City Directory was printed in 1786, AULS BROOK | 110- Manhattan's first political reformer was Gov. Petrus Stuyvesant, In answer to an appeal from iil ured citizens he was sent to New Amsterdam by the Holland States General in 17, He checked @raft and incompetence, set | loafers to work, ordered all vacant lots improved under pain of confiscation, forbade the sale of liquor and guns to the Indians and made other drastic reforms, Monaay, nnn WON'T GET IN HERE AGAIN of | for the afternoon off to take Httle Consul the Third to the ball game, | whtle we have to sweat along here all dey doing our work and his too!” replied Jenkins. ‘Well, it I knew how to toady to the boss and laugh at his stale old chestnuts like Jarr does I might be a petted gold brick too.” “His dame pute on a lot of etde,” murmured Johnson, ‘wonder if her glad rage are paid fort’ Friendly personal comment of this sort ceased, however, when Mrs. Jarr drew up to the office rafling with Master Jarr and emiled sweetly at the | cashier and the bookkeeper, both of whom «he instinctively disiked be- cause her husbami atways spoke in such flattering terms of them. But he 4i4 this only in self defense. A “knock” of the men we work or chum with ts always a boomerang. It sets wives to thinking of the laches of all men. “How well you're looking, Mrs. Jarr!”’ eushed Johneon. “And the ttle boy! My! what a bright looking little fellow! Look, Jenkins, 4! you ever eee euch & Atke Clay's!” And he gave a side to the bookkeeper as if to imply that Master Jarr’s forehead and all within was composed of the same material. Jenking came smirking forward end made a fuss over them, while the of- fice boy went for Mr. Jarr. “Here's Wille,” eaid Mrs. Jarr, when her husband appeared. ‘TI don't seo why you couldn't have stopped off for him on your way uptown, and not take up all my time bringing him down hero when I should be shopping. And, re- member, if there te any Drutality at that , ke I hear there is~break- ing collar bones and legs and piling twanty men on top of the one holding down the bail, you bring him right home!" Master Jarr was going to Say “Aw, ‘that's football!” But, young as he was, he realized the limitations of the female mind, even his mother’s. Any- way, why say anything, wasn't he going to the ball game? Hedgeville __Editor By John L. Hobble LOT of smart people have good ideas crossways in their heads. grooms {s merely findin’ the thing that you are capable of doin’ best. | -ri1F door of obscurity is darned hard to open from the inside, mistakes of his father he would be @ perfect man. KE REYNOLDS says if you are not lkhay 29, F David Craum could profit by all the | GREAT. cl OnspiP®. LJBY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. FY Copyright, 1015, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York World) No. 7—THE PLOT TO SEIZE CANADA. N army 240,000 strong, with headquarters in New York, was 6& cretly recruited to invade Canada. This daring plan was not. made during Colonial days, but as lately as 1866—barely forty- five years ago. The plot was part of the general Fenian movement which had for its chief object the freeing of Ireland and turning that country into a republic. ‘The civil war in America had just ended. In the Union armies had been thousands of Irishmen and Irish sympathizers. These men were brave, tfusted veterans; the very sort for a perilous mission. And the Fenians decided to use them for the invading of Canada. Money was raised for the secret purchase of arms (rifles and cannon were cheap, now that the war was over, and a large supply of both was at hand), and skilled agents were sent through the country to recruit an army. There was no lack of good material. Irishmen who had been forced by hunger or oppression to leave their own land were eager to strike this blow at thelr English foes. The Fentans had sub-socteties tn several large cities; New York being the central pont of the movement. They counted on non-Irish veterans of the civil war joining the conspiracy, because of England's unpopular attitude toward the United States during ¢hat war. In all, about 240,000 men Were quietly mustered tn. ‘The invaders began to arrive in small parties (to avert suspicion) at various points along the Canadian border. Of these there were no less than 3,000 veter ans under Gen. Sweeney, an ex-officer of our own army. By early May, 186, Gen. Swe had his troops stationed on the frontier from Lake Champlain to Fort Er! Vt, Malone, N. ¥., and near Buffalo, All was ready for the hurling of thousands of eoldiers acrose into Canada from mans different points. ‘They were waiting only until their weapons coult be sent to them. This transporting of weapons had to be done oy stealth, | But arms and ammunition enough to equtp 6,000 men were already on thelr way northward to the frontier. News of tho invasion had by this time reached the United States Government. By the terms of our treaty with Great Britain such a thing could not be pere mitted. ‘Ths Government swooped down upon the huge consignments of rifies, &o., and confiscated them. Thus the main army of invaders found itself weaponless and helpless. An offort was made to seize the guns and ammunition that the Government had cunfiscated, But it came to nothing. Daily hundreds of men poured into the frontier cities, eager to advance into Canada. Bronzed, stalwart men, they were; fearless, well-drilled veterans. But Jack of weapons turned them back. They could do nothing without guns. And the guns had been captured. At one stroke the Government had deprived the plan of every chance for success, Yet, Gen. O'Neill, who had been at Buffalo with one detachment of troops, managed to arm nix men. He and his followers crossed into Canade, captured Fort Erte and fought two battles, both of which the Fenians won. Then O'Neill found that the expected reinforcements were not coming 4o his ald. With ite Mttle, {Il-equipped force he could not go ahead, fighting England's whole Canadien power. He was obliged to abandon the strong position he had captured and to retreat to Amorican soll. Almost as soon as O'Net!l and his victorious but baffied men set foot in the United States they were made prisoners Tne Rald and by the crew of the gunboat Michigan. An American army te under Gen. Meade quietly stamped out the last smouldering spark of the great conspiracy, Sweeney and his staff had already been arrested and his followers dispersed. The Fenian invasion of Canada was a thing of the past. The conspiracy which had threatened to pour 940,000 armed men into the unprepared Dominion was e total failure. It had been as futile as it hed been spectacular. Tho com- monplace act of the United States Government in grabbing « few consignments of arms had atruck a deathblow to one of the most audacious plots of the century. The Day’s Good Stories }| The Nolsy Kind. ARK TWAIN in an afterdinner M Bermade once talked of na Ob. | guem you may give moe mint fulep,” muguested. The drink was well mized, he enjored it gratitude, He! pretty well, but looke! rather blank at the s4n't much care, he eaid, for gratitude of | barkeeper when the latter threw down @ abeck the solar, baleterous kind. for twenty cents, Cowny,”' be exclaimed, “when some men di | "What kind of price ie thet?” he exclaimed. ctarge 02 obligation, you can hear the report for| "That's our, price,”” aad the fi B mijer around.’ —Chicego Record-Herald. “All right," the etranger said, “I'l not get iat nee row ete lies’ Gorosk th tore sn ae a tg ae caps oo, ‘fe on lente Hard Times for the Hooslefs. | recvet, ‘paid hie ‘check’ and walked out of the HAE landion’ of « hotel tn a prohibition I ‘county in Indiana is very deaf. ‘The other day a drummer who was at the hotel walked up to the desk where the landlord was standing and asked: “Landlord, can you ell me a stamp!” ‘The landlord weighed the matter thoughtfully, ‘Then he replied: “No, wir, I'd Me to help you, but the dumed Grys is watchin’ me eo clus I bed to cut it out.” —Heturday Evening Post, po Getting the Young Man in Bad. WELL meaning Wastington Gorist was the cause of much embarrassment to « young man who wee in love with « eich and beautiful girl. 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