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a “The Evenin whe SEES catorio. Gundgy bythe lishing Company, Nos, 68 60 68 now, Nae Yer AN eon el OWEPY epee Zen tor a er Apeecaaa hor eeattante mai ihe ea oa in the invernstioasl oste! Union. . 80.75 * bie 0. 18,265. i Btates ountl so CENTRAL PARK. ENTRAL PARK, the city’s beauty spot and pride, is like the giraffe at the Zoo—a rare possession, but extremely delicate, difficult and costly to maintain. Its proper guar- dians are liable to commit errors in its care, and the outside public, especially the chil- dren, are always hanging around, trying to ruin its health by throwing junk and traeh into the cage. It is necessary to bear in mind constantly the fact that Central Park is en artificiel creation and must be coddled—not a husky natural growth that can take care of itself and thrive on neglect. The Park has a new keeper in the person of Mr. Lay, the “land- scepe architect,” who replaces Commissioner Stover. Mr. Stover la- bored under the impression that the big oasis in his charge was mcant primarily as a training camp for boy scouts. He had not as yet turned the Croton reservoirs into swimming baths, nor organized | shooting matches on the Mall-—but time would have worked wonders | under his rogime if it had been permitted to continue. Mr. Lay’s idea | seems to be that the park is for the whole community, grownups as well es children, and that trees have a right to grow there for the sake of ornament and shade, even if no ewings and trapezes be suspended from their branches. The new landscape beauty doctor has plenty of work cut out for hjm in doctoring the soil, trimming the trees and shrubbery and sprucing up the statuary. If in addition to this he can put in a day| now and then at cleaning up the stagnant ponds and meres, 60 that| the park and surrounding neighborhood will cease to be a public play- ground for mosquitoes, annalists of Manhattan may some day rise up and call him blessed. . | ————+4+ THE LAUNDRYMEN’S CONVENTION. T the annual convention of the National Leundrymen’s Association in St. Paul dele- gates from all parts of the union are dis- cussing the Yellow Peril (Chinese compe- tition), working out “educational pro- grammes,” and arranging far-seeing plans to be smoothed out in the future. There will be no washing of dirty linen in public—no frothing over of suds. On the A contrary, every Jaundryman will endeavor to keep his buttons on. Even when all is blue in the week’s r\ ww é@ iy _ wash the Association lives up to its motto: “While there’s life there’s ” soap. Chicago is proudly honored, being the choice of the Executive Committee as the national headquarters. They were influenced by the surpassing advantages offered by the Windy City for drying clothes. New York, it is intimated, feels slighted at this choice, and has asked—in vain, there is reason to fear—for the 1912 con- vention. The majority of the delegates prefer Pittsburgh. There is plenty of hot water in that city—some of the millionaires ate in it all the time. Moreover, Pittsburgh supplies the ideal atmosphere for laundry work. It is #0 sooty that the average citizen has to put on a clean shirt almost every day. ————_++- _______ ‘ VACATION THEORIES. MARVARD educator makes some startling observations upon the risks a toiler takes in taking his vacations. Employees who demand a rest, work themselves sick at play. ‘They simply cannot stand the test of two wecks off with pay. In any case, a loafing epell upsets the willing slave—ho might keep elaving juet as well, and time and money save. This plan of hustling day and night without a pause or jar, the Harvard man declares is right, although unpopular. So long as man is not a mule, such talk is self-deception. The truth is, rest should be the rule, and labor the exception. Letters From the People ing everywhere, absent minded people who ought to be on the sidewalk, ladies greeting one another in the middie of the street, people who can't ‘hear a horn unless it happens to hit them, boys and men playing ball in tho street, streets torn up every which way, oar- riages and wagons at night without lghte, women who become excited try- ing to get out of the way, people who believe that an auto oan stop within & foot, and other things too numerous to mention, Ail these a chauffeur has to look out for; besides running a half ofthe-time balky machine, As a olasr the chauffeurs are @ bright and carefi: bunch of fellows, CHAUFFEUR. What Professtont To the Editor of The Evening World: T believe that a discussion by readers ‘ How Lonst” ‘To the MAiter of The Evening World; Readers, can any of you solve this nroblem? A flagpole ts 160 feet in ength, 8 feet in diameter at base, 1 ‘neh in diameter at apex. A rope 1 tnch ia Giameter 1s attached to «@ stake 10 feet from base of flagpole and encircles fagpole from base to apex at 19-tnoh in- tervals, How long te the rope when it reaches the apex? cRrRK Wai c for Women, ‘To the Faitor of The Evening World Readers, by whose authority or orders Coos Capt. Bourke at the Brooklyn Fridge try to regulate the tramMo there, separating the ladies from the gentle- men? It seems to me, as a citizen and taxpayer, that the B. R. Ty should be compelled to run extra cars every five on the subject of the professions and minutes to accommodate the ladies; 88) vocations that are open to the young & good many of us men are standing | man of to-day would prove an tnterest- on our feet all day and are good and) ing topic, 1 myself am at this moment tired and would like a seat when going home at night. Whereas, a good many ‘of the ladies are sitting down all day. 1,8, 6 greatly worrled and puzzled over what course I ought to pursue in life, I have been told that mining engineering ts @ very interesting as well as lucrative A Plea for the Chauffeur, Position. Medicine has also been ad- ‘To the Editor of Tue Evening World: vined ( ubject for study), Many This is @ plea for the much abused chauffeur, The general public think htm tho reckless driver of @ motern jugger- naut, trying to see how many lives he can take, Look ot his site of the case, Children of all eges playing the @ireet, people fumpir.g on and off street care in motion, trafflc rules to look out for, passengers tn @ Burry to get * friends have advised me to take up teaching; whfle stfil others counsel law. But afl these advisers are ao much at variance With one another that in the ond I find myself in a mo: sorrowful predicament, and I am sure that any be @4vice by one who knows would Breatly appreciated by me woll ~ ong ¢ World Daily Magazine, ae Thursday. ‘-Welcome!. By Rolf Pielke ~ “It te a crime for very peor Coperight, 1011, The Preem Publishing Os, (The New York World), By Sophie Irene Loeb. HIDSE are the views of William G. Conklin, president of the Frank- Mn Savings Bank. This man peaks with the experience 6f that which he advo- cates. He himself Jearned the need of saving very early and has inculoated the propensity for the observation of needless waste in hfe children and grandchildren. . “It the apirit of “ wa. fe not ver; SOPHIE IRENE Sactytimneates 1 LoEB remains dorment, asleep as it were, and it te with aim- culty aroused in Jater years,” sald Mr. Conklin when I asked him as to his views on how to start a fortune, “And I would make this more emphatic,” he continued, “I would say to begin with the wee tot in hie very early, tender years. There ts where the rudiments of all later developments are laid any way. "Thue a child with impressione formed even befo! way, eight or nine years has the tendenoy that later makes or unmakes him. 8o that, to my think- ing, thie teaching of useless waste at the very beginning ts the first step toward founding a fortune “And the oft-heard expression of, “He alwaya was a ependthrift” ta the result of the lack of this eretwhile training. “THPN AS THE NEXT STEP, RIGHT ALONG THIS PROCESS OF VRLOPMENT, AT THE AGE OF NI . TEN OR PLEVEN YRARS I WOULD SUGGEST THE ACTUAL PRACTION OF HANDLING MONEY. y, THE CHILD 2 HIS RAILROAD TO HAVING TRUNKS PURGHASES OF VARIOUS QUITH ALONE, OF COURSE, MISTAKES WILL BE MADE, WILL OVER-PAY. MONBY MAY BE LOST IN THE PRO- CE HE MAY NOT BARGAIN RIGHTLY, BUT ‘THIS PRACTICAL EXPERIPNCE BEGUN BARLY WILL PEACH HIM THE VALUP OF THE DOLLAR MORE THAN ANY OF DON'DS."” y child?” I asked ell, I would say the maj least,” answered Mr, Conklin. dren are wiser than we for, It doos not take , at by others who find themaslves in stinflar | understand what they oan do with @|man | ever AMOUNT OF PREACHING OR CRIES think this can be done with “Chile 3 cenrel_se-ps: ‘ Aug HOW TO START A FORTUNE WILLIAM G. CONKLIN says: “The epirit of easing must be incalcated into the child mind.” “Children should be taught to make their own purchases, paying the money and realising the transection. people to marry.” “In their little minds they will ponder how much they oan get for that small copper they hold in their hand and weigh carefully the pro and con of it before they finally decide to hand it over, “Parents make mistake by not teaching the gelf-reliance attribute that puts backbone into the youngster to the reat worth of his subsequent develop- ment. Most parents are prone to do ny, many things for the child that he oan not only Go for himeelf, but should; and it is wrong not to have him do it. “The fear that he wil make a mis- take keeps many a child from gaining the exact practice that he needs most of all to fit him for that which will later make him fit. Mistakes in tho Denny ages are more to be chosen than mustakes in the dollars later on," “Then, do you think that @ person, if not rightly trained in this matter of saving, cannot in later years acquire thie attribute of saving a fortune?” I questioned. “Tt fa @ very rare thing,” answered ‘Mr. Conklin, “for people who have not ‘degun the eaving process early to make great gain in later years. I recall one case of & woman who had the spending habit to a fault. She never thought about to-morrow. It never occurred to her to save anything. ‘Strange to her husband was of |the same callbre, When he died, and he hed commanded @ fairly good salary, there was not enough money to pay his funeral expenses, He—!I hold the swimming record. She—Well, you certainly can ewim about: a rt a distance a aw. short distance “SAVING SHOULD BEGIN WITH THE FIRST PENNIES OF THE LITTLE TOT.” TO CONSERVE WASTE IS THE FOUNDATION OF A FORTUNE” IS HIS DOCTRINE. “A girl with the right kind of education along economic lines can save more than five men.” ‘Many fortunes that could be made are not, since the real value of a dollar is unrecognized.” ‘Phe skirmishing and trouble to doy were we to have as hot a siege as this) this was the one thing that caused t! woman to realize the great necessity of saving, for she had to go to work and not only to earn her living but to save emough to pay the accrued debts “Bhe continued the process until she had accumulated a little sum. The sense of security that developed as a result of thie late saving actually pro- duced the opposite tendency of spend- ing that had been the dominant chord in her make-up. And with fudictous in- vestments of her small sums she real- {zed finally to an unusual amount as to dollars and cents, “Now, this 1s an unusual, rare case— this beginning of saving late in life, but {t only accentuates my theory that the actual doing of the thing proves after all the olf saying that ‘experience 1s the best teacher.’ “THEN THERE 18 THE MASTER OF WASTE," WENT ON MR. CO? LIN. “WE WASTE TOO MUCH, WERE WE ABLE TO CONSERVE WASTE TO A LARGWUR DEGRBE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOUND. ING FORTUNES WOULD BE PNOR- MOUS, THIS IDEA OF WASTE ALSO SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN THE YOUNG PRIMARILY. “For instance, take even the matter of waste of water In the clty of New York. Imagine what ‘tt would mean to be forty-eight hours without the supply of water. “And yet it fs no traprobable efreum- stance to expect if say next summer He—I just received a letter from my wife. She—She must have had a lot to ten-page any | tell, He—Yee, She told me to be sure that some such trouble might not arise. | So that yerlly no greater truth may be evolved than that of ‘waste not, want not." “What suggestion would you have as age question in this process depends largely upon ¢! Young men, as a rule, do not think much of great fortunes when the one woman comes within their aura, ‘This 1s the general rule and they marry, HE WHO WOULD ACHIBYE LARGELY IN THE ATTRIBUTE OF FORTUNE MUST REALIZE THAT THOUGH HE AND SHE ARE MADE On ‘UST BUY TWO RAILROAD TICKE “As a friend of mine joleingly said to me at the time I was married, ‘Fifty cents for youl’ In other words, no longer was the ollar mine. And tht feeling permeates the entire marriage rangement. FOR EXAMPLE, A MARRIBD MAN CANNOT GRASP THE OPPORTUNI- TIES OR RISKS THAT HE WOULD SINGLE-HANDED A DBAL MAY COME ALONG WHEREBY HE SEES, TENTATIVELY OF COURSE, WHERE A LITTLE WOULD MAKE MUCH, RUT HE CANNOT TRUST THAT LIT- TLE FOR THE OVPRWHELMING PEAR OF LOSS AND CONSE: QUEN( THAT NOT ONLY HE ALONE MUST SUFFBR, BUT SHE OF THE FIRST PART. “So that a single man will say to himself, ‘I alone can be the loser and 1 can get along,’ and accordingly tak! the chance, many times his expecta- tlons are realized. t 24, Spree. By Roy L. McCardell. 66 YT seems to me as though I'm never ] able to get my nose out of doors!" crled Mrs. Jarr peevishly at the breakfast table the other morning. "You should thank sour stara that you get out in the fresh air every day, and yet you are that cranky and grouchy that you do not appreciate anything!” Mr. Jarr, who was trying to eat his matutinal or- ange with «@ spoon, @ classy Dut most unsatisfactory way to get the 004 from that refreshing fruit, paused ¢o wipe the acidulated juice that had epurted into his eye and ventured to say that the view out of the subway car window, as he sped to and from his ‘work, was exhilarating and inspiring. “At least you see something and * vejoined Mrs, Jarr, “But as for me I've been shut up in this flat ever since Jack Ailver ran away from Clara Mudridge. J, might as well be in prison, only @ prif ner hasn't to do the housework the girl neglects and take care of chiliren and try to keep cheer- @ul while « regular old crank of a hus band comes home to growl and fuss about everything!” ‘The regular olf crank of a husband | answered mildly that he was eorry if he'd growled, but he had onl; done so on the supposition that every dog must have his day. “Now please don’t try to be funny!” cried Mrs. Jarr testily. “I can stand anything but that! Oh, dear, I wish I could get downtown to do eome shop- Ping! The children need shoes, there's hardty @ dish in the house Gertrude hasn't broken, and I'm all out of every- thing!” “I don’t see why you can’t get out for anything you want,” said Mr. Jarr. “Nobods: is going to steal the children, and the work will ell be here after you are dead.” “That's a nice, encouraging way to talk to one!” said Mra. Jerr. “When I'm dead! Am I to have no rest or hol- i@ay till then, while you'll be waiting for Clara Mudridge Smith's old husband @o die so you can marry her? Oh, I know youl” i ‘If you know MBE your dope is wrong!” aid Mr. Jarr fervently. ‘Come, my dear,” he added, “just you g0 out, if you want to, and do anything you want to.” ‘Well, I just ADM, you needn't be ad- vising m replied Mrs. Jarr. “If I stay in doors another moment I'll just have houee nerves and go ail to pieces! Ghost Saves Grandson’s In- beritance. SR DR. SCOTT, well- known physician in London helf a century ago, sat reading in his house in old Broad street, when he suddenly saw & stranger sitting by hie fireside with him. It proved to be the apparition of a man aamed erset, who had been dead seven yeare, and with whom the doctor bad no ao quaintance. ‘The ghost told him that he had come to engage the doctor's help in a matter that concerned the welfare of his grand- Somerset property, but wi peing sued for {ts possension by two cousins. ‘The tesue of the sult, he explained, Aepended on the recovery of a deed con- veying the property to the grandson. ‘This deed, the ghost explained, was concealed in an old chest, then lying in among a quantity of old lumber, &o., which had been discarded. This chest lay, he said, in a certain | The Cohoes Lovers. EAR tho falls of Cohoes, where the present town of Cohoes now stands, an In- | dian girl once had her eabin, She loved and was loved by the the | all young 1c young Seneca chief, Occuna, * days+were passed as the days are spent, and bring to her the loose quartz crystals that the Indians He would find ‘Im this connection I think It ts a crime for very poor people to marry. The hardships are enormous and it |s with difficulty that they arise above certain conditions, Children are brought into the w and will share their bur- dens willy Where, on the other hand, In the single state they are only responsible for themselves.” To you think women save better than men, Mr. Conklin?" "Yes," answ Mr. Conklin, “in a way I do, That fs to say that the girl with the right education along econor Ines can save five times much as many men “But, on the hand, there are women who no revard or under standing of money; and can with ease spend as much as five men can But what 1 h to clearly em jetze,”” cont! My. Conkln, fact that the fortunes founded when the chiid tn the begin- ning {s made to realize the value of the p believed the tears of stricken Jacer; while in fine weather they would \go can the Mohawk. ‘There they wo | getful o: were ng on drift upon the curvent, for One save one another evening they Were suddenly called b to of outer events by find- ing had been caught in the curr the stream and, that thoy were whirled swiftly | roaring falls Vainly they plied the paddle; it was too late themselves. Ti sit- ting ¢€ be- toward the sot in the flying canoe, they death gan t song, one answering the othe soleran, calm tones At the last word of the youthfull »| Oocuna “A warrior and the daughter of a warrior come to join you In the feast of the blessed!" The Jarr Family Mrs, Jarre Is Going on a Shopping Richard Wallis, @ land owner in Bom- | son, Reginald Wallis, who occupied the! an upper room in the Wallis manaton | Legends of Old New York By Alice Phebe Eldridge kA i 0h A pie, Oh, No, She Isn’t, Either! Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Fortunately I've got @ woman com'!ng to sew, and Iittle Emma, such a de tie little thing, likes to sit around w any sewlng's to be done and scraps and make dolls clothe: will be out with the surely I can true the house one day to stand right over her. en out for a breath of f no matter what hy ns! Just then door bell {4 good lookt n of m . hered in, ‘This Mra said Mra, Jarr to her husband, . been kind enough to come over 1 Mrs. Ranglo and help me 1 little frocks T am making for PB 4 and to make over some old things of mine—for, goodness knows, I never get 4 new dress!” ‘Mr. Jarr bowed to the visiting dress- maker and Mrs. Jarr led the latter away. ‘I'm using the children’s room to sew In because it's on the airshaft and the sun doesn’t shine in and hurt one's eyes,” she explained to the new- comer. ‘Besides, as I simp’ HAVE ¢0 run downtown, you'll find it nicer ait- ting here, for every sound comes up the alr-ehaft and it won't eeem lonely to you." “It’s a dreadful thing to be tonety,” said Mre. Legrand. (‘Mre. Rangle was telling me, in confidence, of course, #0 you mustn’t breathe it to a soul, that she had a sister living in New Jersey where it was @o lonely thet the sister took’ carbolic acid.” “That was about three years age, wasn't it?” asked Mre. Jarr. ‘2 re- member now she was wearing black, but she told me it was just because she had the black dress.” What good ta it to go in mourning for anybody and then keep ft secret?” “Keeping secrets!” sala the sewing lady, “don't trust anybody to keep e- crete! There's that Mrs. Stryver, I've sewed for her and the things I know about that woman and her husband! Of course I could not breathe it for the world. “Of course not!’ said Mrs. Jarr, end waited. “Yea, the post-office authorities raid- 4 his Dranch office in Chicago,” went on the sewing lady. “And he's worried nearly to death thet he'll be arrested, too, Then Mrs. Stryver has had a sis- ter visiting her, @ sister muoh younger than her. Of course, in my position, I see nothing, hear nothing, say noth- ing!" “One has to do thet, that's my way too,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Yes, she's going to Nevada to get a 4ivorce from her husband {n Philadei- phia, as nice @ man as you'd want to meet, and guess who !s pa;ing the ex- Denses of it?" Mrs. Jarr moved forward to cuess But how about her going downtown? Guess if she went. Some Spook Stories! By David oA. Curtis, ; So Copyright, 1911, by The Prem Puttishing Oo. (The New York World) key that could neither be turned nor taken out. For reasons which he would not explain, the ghost said he preferred to communicate with a stranger rather than with his grandson, and he begged the doctor to go to his grandson's as- alatance. ‘When Dr. Scott promised to do eo the ghost immediately "¢isappeared, Within a few days Dr. Scott went to Somersetshire, found Reginald Wallis and, without disclosing his errand, learned from the grandson that all the ghost had told him was true and that a vigorous and uneuccessful search had been made for the deed. “But, sald Reginald Wallis, “I dreamed last night that @ stranger would come to me and assist me in the search. I do not know but thet you are the man.” As this waa what the doctor intended, he said he would certainly help « he ould, and the two resumed the search, In the room, and in the corner the ghost had described, they found an old chest, which they opened, though Reg!- nald Wallis and his servant both re- membered having ransacked !t already. ‘The deed was not among the papers tt contained, but Dr. Boott persisted till the chest was knocked to ple and ‘un a false bottom they found the deed, spread out flat. ‘The sult at law wae acttied by means Of the deed and the ghost was never corner, and had @ broken lock, with @ seen sain, Copyright, 1011, ly The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York World), falls, Oocuna, striking on the rocks be- low, was immediately killed, but t? girl fell clear of them and was carric:| by the seething current to water feyond, from whence est she her escape, Occuna, because of his strenct! virtues, was raised In the be! tribe to the regions of th f whence ho looke¢ giving them } confusion upon And w 1 dow a relates that Les local (ie was office meres, “tat and well ire es en the door, Wong to yearn pushed “What ea T do for so tole do for you mammy!” inquired Ot- "1 want you to give mu @ tte bog," wan the calin rep # Heket to the gallery, “Why mould t Give YoU @ Hoket tasked the tired actress," We earth did you ever actress re ot v* aulred Ottotengal played in ‘Attony aid Cleopatra, * Miguitied reply. 1 was fan-bearee tor ‘lias mates Davenport,"’ a hae fo ies Teng The old Begro women get her thihet fr the i ee ween : 4