The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1911, Page 16

i 2 A BANISHED TERROR. Publushed Dally Rxcopt Sunday py, ine He] Qublishing Company} Nos, 68 to 69 Parl OW ir | @ aNous srw; a : Sos Pit PULITZER Junior, seory.] 63 Park Row, ed and Treas,, 63 Park Row. “ ; ¥ Aecond-Cinse Matter. Entered at tho Fost-Oftico at New York as econ: Uentlnene internat jonel ] Geteorgp ti Hotes to The, Evening | For Kngland and ¢ «+ -NO. 18,203, 50 30 ne Yoar.. ne Month. for the Untted States fountrine in oe ly ae es end Canad poate ‘nf VOLUME 51. WHAT AILS NEW YORK? OV. WILSON, speaking at Hoboken, said: “With the probable exception of New York, Jersey City has the most distreseingly inadequate form of government in the country.” Superlatives are dangerous even in the mouth of a scholar im office. Jersey City may have a very inadeqnhate system of government without having the worst in the country. Of New York, it is quite certain the eystem is not distressingly bad. In fact, it is questionable whether a better eystem of administering the affairs of so large and #0 complex a community could be devised and fitted to the present stage of civilization. Municipal evils and shortcomings in thie city are the results| of defective administration, rather than a defect in the system. Where the officials are efficient, the eystem is all right. It is regrettable that a man of Gov. Wilson’s eminence gives his eanction to the present craze for altering established systems of government. It is even more regrettable that in fault-finding he permits himself to eay the high-sounding thing rather than the exact thing. Why rail at New York for the purpose of con- demning Jersey City? 7 aS oe A CHANCE TO STAND IN. ERMAN RIDDER, Chairman of the Fourth of July Committee, reports there is etill needed up- ward of $10,000 to make tip the eum required to defray the expenses of the celebration arranged for. An appeal, therefore, runs to the public to “=a subscribe the desired amount at once. The com- mittee should have a free hand in its work and not be hampered by fears of a deficit to face when the festival is over. A matter of this kind is not a question for millfonaires nor for philanthropists. It is a question for the peoplo generally. The programme as devised promises a series of fetes in every quarter of the city, making a festival at once spectacular and patriotic in which all can ¢hare. It is right, therefore, that all classes should in a measure at least contribute eomething toward paying the cost. And as not much is expected from any one person, a good many will have a chance to stand in. ae ONTRASTED with the terror that any approach of cholera excited in America or in Hurope some fifty years ago, the comparative indifference with which the public regards the quarantined ships in the bay is a matter deserving of note and comment, Many citizens are old enough to recall a time when the arrival of a single ship with cholera cases aboard would have filled half the people in the country with panic. New York wonld have been frightened at the ship, and the interior cities would have been frightened at New York. Thousands would have made ready to leave town, hotels would be left empty by lack of summer guests, and petitions would have been sent to the churches to ect) apart a day or fasting and prayer. | That old terror has been banished from the public mind. A| feeling of confidence in the quarantine and in medical acience has | taken its place. The people go about their business undisturbed And this triumph over fear we owe to the genius and the labors of | a few tireless investigators whose names are unknown to the mass of men, to whom few monuments are erected, who were in many instances reviled while alive, and in nearly all speedily forgotten when dead. Fortunately the value of good work does not depend upon the applause of those in whose eervice it was done. pecan etme - THE GROWTH OF CATHEDRALS. | UCH discussion has naturally enough followed the announcement of the substitution of Mr, Cram in place of Mr. La Farge as consulting architect of St. John’s Cathedral. And yet we might have learned from the history of cathedral building that some such change was inevitable before the end of the work. Emerson, referring to the great architects of Christian Rome, says of them: “They builded wiser than they knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew.” ‘The saying, though poetic in form, ex- presses a literal truth. A great structure grows under the hands of those that work in it. Like a poem or a romance long meditated, it has a power of expanding and exalting the mind of him that di- rects it. The vast cathedral of St. Peter as it stands at Rome was not so designed at first. It grew from the mind of Bramante to that of Raphael and finally to that of Angelo, augmenting in dimen- sions and in grandeur with each successive step. It is not strange, then, that the concept to-day of the building cathedral at Morningside should be greater than that with which the work began. That is the law of growth that marks everything into which the human soul puts its génius and its life. It is the way in which great things get themselves greatly done, Letters From the People 39 Broadway.) son Star,’ and sent up by Elson from td is a some soclety to get out ris. H. yratory in New Jersey? that will try to help a of the clutches of lo: South Carolina, To the FAitor of The Evening World Which is the nearest State to New York where a marriage license is not required? &.M. J. No. } fall in 182 RR, ‘al abbreviated Latin The Evehing T* Fracas {s the one who won't! the 6chool of Experience! Can You Beat It? By Maurice Ketten. You BLawsten (o10T | Do You You, ( BLOOMIN: 1010T! peg yg To CLEAN MY OWN WHY DIDN'T You CLEAN MY BOOTS? A MESSENGER Tue. 1DE4-aH | From THE KING: DOES HE THINK’ ''D DISGRACE MY ANCESTORS BY CLEANING MY Own Boots 7 _ way 'TS Batly RoT, Y' KNOW’) THESE ARE HIS MAJESTY ‘S BOOTS. IT'S AGREAT HONOR — You | BLoomiNn Your MASESTY, LETME KISS THE HEM OF YouR ROBE For THe GREAT HONOR — LONG LIVE THE KING who has no time for a They’ never Abolish Flogging from) ‘Some Dirge of the Down-and-Outs! he Launches the Argosies, too! Rin ‘from a Fight! The Only Folks who are Never| Our Idea of Somebody in Need of the Fate may de 89! rnocked are the Absolutely Colorless Inexorable Um- who Brags About It! tlence that ever “Ceases to be a Virtue’ is the Purblind Kind! Pennant Puzzle. By Sam There ought to i be Some Way of Curing the “Blessing” tn Disguise of its Bashfulnese! He that Banketh in Advance on ¢he Goodies Feeleth the Boots the Worse when he Fatleth to Gather! To “Love your Enemies” (2 o Pretty Big Order—dut you CAN For get 'Hm! Adversity belleves in Allopathic Doses, bot! Happiness never was @ Homeo- Pathist! ’ Getting Fired ien't an Agreeabdle ‘Tasting Moedicine—but we've known it to be Tonicky! ‘Whenever we Meet a Man who ts Described as “Adrolt,” we Feel in the Kick to see if the Roll ds Snugly Salted! We like the Man who, when he gets a Legitimate Laugh on Somebody, Somehow Doesn't Feel like Laugh- ing! Balzac, Grubbing in a Garret, wrote Forty Books before he Got One Over— and ajways he Shook his Mane and Laugh Despair! Hedgeville Editor a ————. By John L. Hobble Ig @ man's dyin’ wish was that he wouldn't, and then didn't, how would you GQgger that it wae? R™. FROST says every man that |. thinks he has talents in his napkin should have a chance to shake it and ahow himself up. KE RPYNOLDS says that some wim- min have so much salt on thelr con- Destiny is the Great Dismantler—but Keep your Eye on the High Peak Finishing Touches is the Self-Made Man| ang 411 Help you Climb the Little pire, but we|Oneal Onel Notice that he Few Plans are so Perfect that they Bticke to the} Gclentific “Sticking Around” means| don’t need Modtfying—but it's Hard to] Some of us Suffer from too much Rules! Waiting in Front! Convince the Pighead! Elasticity of the Resolution! The only ‘Pa- ey, SS, i THE STORY OF THE ORONATION ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Graectncs) SS No. @—Coronation Feasts and “the Champion of the King.”’ f HE coronation banquet, gorgeous as it is, means lens today than ft used to, But it has always been one of the oddest, most gle turesque features of the whole celebration, After the eyes and ears had been satiated by splendor amd — rituals and mualo fm former times, the affair wound up with an equally gorgeous and far more satietying feast for the inner man. To begin his reign in popular fashion the new king also used to dis tribute food and drink—especially drink—among the poor, Several mom archs kept the city fountains running wine instead of water for twenty four hours, each fountain gushing forth @ different brand of intoxicating liquor. This meant a wholesale spree, univereat- drunkenness and a succession of fights and riots. The drunken pubdilc, as has already been told, cheered William 1. #0 doudly atter imbibing at a few of these fountains that the | King’s guard thought a rebellion had started. 80, by way of calming the Popular excitement the soldiers ean through the crowd with drawn swords end firebrands, Killing more than one thousand men, women and children and bum- ing hundreds of houses, ‘ The feast for the people has been continued off and on up to the present day. Faward, VIL, at the time of his coronation, gave a dinner to 000,000 of the poor at a cost of $150,000, The last of the famous Westminster Hall coronation banquets, that were once #0 prominent a part of the coronation festivities, was given by George IV. At that single meal the guests con. sumed 17,000 pounds of meat, 400 dishes of fish, 800 fowls and 4,000 gallons of wine. It was the first coronation feast where champagne was used. Tho coronation banquet of Edward I. was so badly cooked that even the hungry, rough-and-ready folk of that Ume could not eat it. This annoyed th King. Next day he sent for his sixty cooks, told them exactly what he thought of them, and finished the lecture by ordering the whole sixty hanged. Honry IV. and one or two other sovereigns added vaudeville specialties to their coronations by hiring acrobate to do “death defying feats” on the pin- nacle of St. Paul's Cathedrat dome for the amusement of the poputace, A martial and spectacular feature of the coronation banquet used to be the appearance of “the Champion of the King.” At a certain point of the feast, tn Westminster Hall, the doors were thrown open and # man clad in full armor rode into the hall. Halting his war horse, he shouted the following flerce chal lenge: “If there be any manner of man, of whatsoover estate, degree of .gon: ition, who will say that our sovereign lord, this day hore present, i mob the undoubted tmheritor of the crown of this realm of England © © © Zopay he lieth like a false traitor, and that I am ready the same to maintatn«while I have breath in my body. * ¢ © And therefore I cast him my gaget” He would repeat this chatlenge four times, hurling his mailed glove upoa-the ground in deflance, After which (as of course no one accepted the challenge) the Champion dismounted and knelt before the King, who gave him a draught of wine in a golden cup and then pre- flare sented him with the cup ftself, The horse and ermor wero to Batt always from the King's own stable and arsenal, and these | too became the property of the Champton. At George IV.'s coronation the Champion of the King shouted hts of@ chat lenge for the last time. This feature of the ceremonfes has lapsed stnoe then, At the coronation banquet of Charles IT,, when the Champion knelt to recetve the golden cup, he became overbalanced by his heavy armor and fell sprawiing in a clashing, noisy heap at the King’s feet, upsetting the cup and most of the table's contents and adding one more to the day's series of blunders, ' . . . . . . e ‘The coronation 1s over. Millions in money have deen lavished im following an old time custom whose chief uses ere long eince past. Andrew Carnegie declares the English people will not submit to another costly and unnecessary Ji) affatr of the sort. As a spectacle tt has probally been all that could be asked. As a means of gratifying the love of snow and of ceremonial {t has doubtless ecored @ sucsess, Its practical benefits are—? ‘THE END. The Day’s Good Stories Rough on George. 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