The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1911, Page 16

REP 5 RP te hr =a a RII Dp ae ee Ge Riise ars She FA siorid. for th and «+ 88.50 +e 80 Ryees Qublishing Company; Noa, 68 te a SOseP a PULITZER Suntor; Beery, r Row. as Becond-Ciass Natter, neland and the Continent au Counteien, $e, International P jon, Sas Ronis har! | WOLUME 52. .cccccccecccecsecsscssscccccscsessNO. 18,306 consumer ? grocer. FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S MOVING BUDGET SHOW. Sducation, if not accompanied by u* “We are heading fast toward a $200,000,000 city budget,” ob- A BARREL OF POTATOES. CITIZEN of New York owns a) farm in Muine. Inst epring his farmer planted a field of pota- toes. It wus a season of drought, but the crop was fair. He paid his farmer $40 @ month and gave him « $25 helper, house rent, toola, horses and all the means of making a living besides, with lib- erty to help himself to the prod- toe. The other day the citizen sent for a single barrel of pota- toes. The A Boston truckman gathered To It weighed with contents 200 Query: What ——— HE CITY BUDGET EXIUBIT, which opens to-day at No, 330 Broadway for a four weeks’ run, is a spectacular dramatization of Father Knickerbocker’s annual expense account. It is the great est and most popular show in town, but it will not hurt the regular paid amusement business because it is free to every one, though children under fifteen years of age must have an invita- tions card from the Board of an adult. a farmer hauled the| Parrel three miles to the depot, taking the time of himself and horses half of a union laborer’s day of eight hours. The Grand Trunk Railway Bharged sixteen cents to transport the barrel forty-five miles. The Eaetern Steamship Company collected twenty-two cents for carrying 66.115 miles, from Portland to Boston. dn twenty-five cents for toting it to the freight depot, and the New Maven Railroad brought it 234 miles for thirty-six cents. Total bill, ninety-nine cents for transportation, not counting the farmer. Wis the New York expressman added fifty cents for local delivery. Phe barrel and burlap cost a quarter. Qounde, and contained, say, three bushels of tubers. were the potatoes worth to the farmer, and what did they cost the He escaped the toll of the commission merchant and the Te ne a te “Evening World D vrs aily Ma OS ee gazine, Monday. October 2, The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. erved an official of the United Real Estate Owners’ Associations the other day. The cost of running New York City this year is $174,- 000,000. For next year’s municipal expenses an increase is asked all along the line, with the exception of the Board of City Record and| the Law Department. budget Or 3 es 0 whole. By means of moving pictures, etereopticon lectures, dope sheets, pha, flashlights, charte and other kindergarten devices, the Such little items as $78,014,622.30 for sala- ries and wages, and $32,000,000 interest on the city debt, are likely teattract the casual notice of even the most absent-minded taxpayer. Bat in view of the opportunity given him to “get inside the budget,” it were, and to make some of the “construct he-will hardly incline to haggle over the “Bu ‘~-, In 1898, the year of consolidation, it cost the affairs of the City of New York. lation of 5,000,000 and a budget of $ inereased per capita cost can be figured out. But the Comptroller's chaste will explain all that, and if they don’t, there is the heap of gl gold bricks of various sizes, representing proportionately total amount appropriated to each department of the city gov- @iment, demonstreting their relation to one another and to the © criticisms” invited, oxhibit, $25,000." 73,084 to admin This year, with a popu- ,000,000, a rather noticeably Sal Mr. Jarr, his velope Mra, Jarr was tearing open at the brenkfast table this morn- ing. ‘Mr. Jarr didn't know whether the let- ter tn question was for Bim or not. of munictpal economy will come away laden with such solid Groples of information as: That the erea of New York City is 827 : miles, with 5,000 miles of streets and highways, 2,000 miles Sewers and 841 miles of water front; that last year $226,000,000 $74 invested in building operations; that there is a birth every four fiiimutes, a death every seven minutes, and a marriage every eleven minutes ; that there is eight billion dollars’ worth of taxable real estate hereabouts; that $30,000,000 is expended annually on educational work, $15,500,000 for police protection, and $8,250,000 for fire pro- ‘ection; while charity “touches” the city treasury annually for a pit tance of $10,000,000. Coming right down to brass tacks, in the housekeeper’s interest the Bureau of Weights and Measures shows how crooked scales and false-bottom measures augment the high cost of living, and booklets on the subject, telling “What Hvery Purchaser Should Know,” are distributed gratis. The same with gas and water meters, The Public Library shows dummy five-foot bookshelves of “Books for the Prac tical Man,” as well as for joy-reading. The Census Board, the Pub Tie ‘Service Commission and the Municipal Art Commission all have plants in operation which tend to prove that such bod ible exonse for their existence, Only one really serious omission we mn @sfly noonday demonstration by Charles Temmany Charter {8 Made.” THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOW ts taking rather @ mean a@vantuce of o child for some people to be- come parents N et of Provifence ts one chat helps UB. TI some peopte the door tows open and Opportunity withoot Dm knooking. you bave « eet check whe an antl @werdy 2 ‘T'ter ona bas te trom comes in| CO DRM ant | tor your rigtts un- ies have a plaus- note, and that is a Francis Murphy of “How a [ 7% continues the tasnion to 1 many ® obild will 1 * stocking for @ man's nane doer ss hormepowe TRE tettore att bot indicate fre of the aroma th from the devil radte M4" @ mushroom x | Out to be a toadstool, Tasos Sees eo Gertrude, the maid, knew who was boss around those diggins—for enough had been started during the time she had been a member of the Jare menage to eettle that queetion—eo, as she laid the mail at Mrs. Jarr's plate. Gertrude expected to be married her- self some day, and ahe knew that it ts a wife's right by an unwritten law to open all matl—eapecially if {t appears ing. Bome dey thie soot wife finding out something she'll be sorry to. learn! don't be curtous," ald Mra. An she scanned the letter, | while the othor letters un- of her shapely right arm. Me dirch bark. In tt an imitation?’ asked Mr | Proper thing in correspondence material ily “Dhe envelope ts ativer birch bark and the letter paper ts, too," replied Mrs. Jarr Mrs, Stryver doesn't use imita- jtlons of anything.” | “So that's the latest fad, te {tt Mr. Jarr went on. ‘It’s the latest fad, in fact it's the when one {s wealthy and one is writing from one's lodge in the Adirondacks,” said Mrs, Jarr. ‘Mra, Strywer has taken an autumn party to their place in the Wilds above Fulton Chain and she hae been kind enough to invite me to join them."" “That's nice of her,” said Mr. Jarry. “It woul@ @o you good, too. Gertrude could run the house and see the ohil- Gren got off to eohool every morning, and I'd come home early and go over thelr lessons with them in the evening. A rest in the autumn woods a week or two tm the imvigorating mountain air would @o you good!" F there is one MRLEN Frow’ Cs stars of a man's night A man's idea of a happy home is dling én perfect peace. If a woman can use flattery, food bother about winning his heart, A young girl fancies that in order less than a place where he never will marrying one, “Bright fellows at your college?” “Maybe. But I've only seen them can't) thue far through an atmosphere of can't cry on ite coat lapel, Retter de a rich man's parlor ermgment than a poor man's light-rune ? dag éomagiia . Mrs. Jarr Gets an Urgent Invitation. AASNEDAE AUER EASA SNE SENNA NNER SAE SENN PANNE PENNE SUNN SNS UP A “T wonder what birch bark paper and envelopes cost,” said Mre, Jerr, having now read the letter through and scan- ning the unique and dainty material of it. “See, Mrs, Stryver has an engraved design tn rustic wood pattern printed In silver on the note paper, !f you can call this thin and beautiful birch bark ‘paper.’ Here's what she says: “Kamp Kattakorner, Saturday. “My Dear Mrs. Jarr—Just @ brief note while the guide 1s waiting on his motor- oyole to take this down the mountain twenty miles with the mail. We arrived in this beautiful wiktemness and Kamp Kattakorner yesterday all tired out. But think the rough wild Hfe of the open, far away from the enervating tnthi- ences and conveniences of civilization, will do us all goo@ We are roughing it with @ vengeance! The electric light plant of the camp ts out of order from G@isuse and we had to use lamps last aight! Everything in the camp was Copyright, 1911, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World.) thing on earth that the average girl dreads and fears worse than a snake or a mouse it ts a widow, Love is the sun of a woman's day; it is merely the @ place where he can drop his cigar ashes ali over the carpets, vent his grouches on the cook and do his grum-| and flirtation with sufficient skill to appeal respectively to a man’s conceit, comfort and curiosity, she needn't to be fascinating she mus! eoistantly ona pedestal, but a widow knows the value of yracefully adorning a After forty a man's idea of Heaven resolves itself into nothing more nor be nagged or bored, Nothing sickens a man of Ms pet theory about the clinging vine like A career will never quile take the place of a his" Is y a9 you Practically as we left it except the moths had gotten into the Persian rugs, and some of the windows of the langer conservatory had been broken. The refrigerating plant was in perfect con- dition and we had the wine and salads chilled nicely. ‘The French chef, who objected toxcoming up here, seems more satisfied, especially eince I had a piano Placed in his apartments, and he has brought his objects d’art up with him. “*Ah, but % fe wild and beautiful in the autumn woods! We haven't been out because it is damp end chilly, but with steam heat in our mountain shack ; Hen i ' | g g g i 8 E you, or ff the automobile was in repair to meet you, which st will not be until ft ts fixed to take us back to the rail- road when we return to town, And, ay, you could not leave your chile | | 0 It's too bad you can't Join at's the way with @ lot of them,” aid Mre. Jarr, and w#he elghed and | poured the coi Hedgeville Editor By John L. Hobble R. COBR told David Craum that | the only way he could cultivate) | self-confidence ig to quit lookin’ at himaelf in the glasa, RUT FROST says that the only tay to conrince yourself that a sin dg right 42 fo commit (lot yourself, ain | Honry Dorks auya that hie wife won't argue wnlese you Jet her tuke the wrong je of the quostin, and then if you ade mie that she i9 im the right ahe Will\ine tng thad she ia mistaben, , { Coppright, 1911, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York World). No. 1—Tavern Stories That Led to a Nation's Birth. BIT of carved driftwood, @ strand of queer floating weed, a 4 #ea yarn told in « tavern by a drunken sallor—these were the beginnings of our country's discovery. From them sprang ¢l | world’s greatest nation. | ‘Those were the firet causes. And later ones were little more A red-headed sea king’s horse stumbled—and as a result « new land | found. A Spanish Queen's {logical whim and her desire to make @ - | “get-rich-quick” money—and America’s permanent discovery was made | sible. From such petty beginnings arose a world power. Sailors were ever a superstitious lot. And in the days when thet out superstition. They told of a “jumping-off place,” like the rim of plate, where the world ended. They told of lands peopled by {mposs!b! monsters. They tohi of a country, larger than all Europe, which lay | authority than for the rest of their yarns, | But some one, sutling far to westward, atter a mighty westerly # | once picked up @ stick of wood of a sort unknown to | Signe of an | caies of the same sort, had found pleces of seaweed Unknown Land. | were different from those growing in known wat |\—aee4 These bits of flotsam had como from somewhere |.hurry to seek out the answer. ‘Then, to add to the growing curiosity, the story of Leif the Lucky was ee | peated in ale-houses where seafolk gathered. from one land to another to escape the law and with the brand of murderer @ |on his brow, planned a voyage of exploration. On the way to his waiting ships | his horse stumbled. Erik took this as a bad omen and turned back, sending planned by his father, and in time blundered onto the North American coast. It was unknown land. And tt was far richer end more beautiful than the bleak north Scandina shores, so the Norsemen formed colonies there. | doned. Perhaps they were wiped out by Indians or by disease. ‘The No | of that day were ever a roving folk, more anxious to wander and to destro | others’ possessions than to form new settlements. So the Norse colonists doubt tf ever they were here at all. A skeleton in armor dug up, an old to at Newport of possible Norse origin—these, with a few unearthed weapons, ones and bits of pottery, are all that remain of the dead colony, more lasting discovery. But the stories told by Lett's eaflore and passed on from generation to generation only ewelled the scanty far less testimony, there would be dozens of expeditions search'ng for the | posed westward continent. But news travelled slowly tn those times. 4 no telegraph, no newspaper; there were few books to read and fewer peo | wildest tales could not be disproved by facts, they let imagination b beyond the Western Ocean. For this last statement they had little moa rope. And on it were rude carvings. Other seamen, eft | westward. From whither? Men asked the question, but no one seemed fo @ Leif the Lucky was a son of Erik the Red, a Norse pirate. Erik, fleeing’ is son Lett on the voyage in his place, Lelf took a different course from that | What became of these colonies no man may know. Perhaps they were America passed away, leaving @o few signs of their stay that some hi Then for centuries the new country lay desolate for store of evidence as to America’s existence. Nowadays, o News passed from mouth ¢o mouth and became | ofthat to but few. Mariners selling beyond @ certain point were ignorant | thelr whereabouts and a6 nervous es swimmers who would strike out to sea b | fear they may not have etrength to get back. oceans are charted like @ road map, and when tiful, dt took nearly « century of constant effort we can scarce wonder at the slowness of the Mi which nothing beyond vague and perhaps lying Tt wae not until the latter part of that wes to give America to @ waiting world and future history. (To Be Continued.) Best Auto Year at Hand. REDICTION that the year 1913) ing about 61,683 retail,” he eald; P would be the banuer one in the|/ 12 will show £10,000 pleasure history of the industry ‘s made by] worth about $1,100 apiece, indicating ail the manufacturers engaged in the| greatly increased number selling industry. Presiden: Bristoe of the| $1,000 or less and @ substantial gain Dnlted States Motor Company said re-| higher priced motors. The 1912 figures cently that the coming year would eee/ are exclusive of trucks made entirely motor cars built and sold than| for freight. 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