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Pebihed Datiy Excent Sunde lay by tne Press Rey ishing Company, Nos. 68 to 68 ar ‘Row, New York 6 ANGOS 8 w+ ree cod JOSEPH POLITZER Juntor, Beo'y. vered a1 the Post-Oftice at New York Hie itate: to, The, Rvening) For Bp ad th United States AIL Countefer In the, Posts One Year... Month:: Gabeerptior Rato ori sor sho a J . ve. $3.50 on : 140 | One HY did the Taxpayers’ Convention break “into laughter, | W howls of derision and hisses,” as one account puts it, when | a speaker referred to Mayor Gaynor as “one of the great- | est men ‘z the cily government?” The speaker did not accuse the Mayor of being “good natured to a fault.” Nor did he impute to His Honor a temperarnental aversion to censoriousness. He said that Mr. Gaynor was an able administrator, and he is. Laughter was the last thing such a statement called for. Back of this manifestation of disapprobation was there memory of occa- sions when the laugh was on the other side? Was there recollection of instances when the Mayor exposed the activities of “accelerators” with selfish interests in the enterprises they wanted the city to take up, or when he lectured self-constituted committecs ignorant of the very terms of the issues on which they aspired to instruct him or| force his hand? Or wae there just the natural, human, inconsistent | resentment of persons who had been demanding that the city do/ eomething—build subways, for example—and had learned that to do anything costs money, and may cause an increase in realty valuations? | Mayor Gaynor has headed wrong more than once, but he under- etands his job. Where other administrators are content to have ideas, he has intuitions. The science of government has been his study, his passion. In pretty nearly equal parts he is blend of phi-| losopher, politician and “village character” as his frequent letters are | a blend of Attic salt and Boeotian mustard. He has done the difficult | thing of making local” government interesting. A man to be taken more or less seriously, and no fit subject for the loud laugh that may | speak a mental tenement unfurnished. | a tte DRIVE OUT THE MILLS? L=: all paternalists, Dr. Wiley, Federal food expert, would be| ervel when he meant to be kind if he had his way in recon structing our cities. “Every city,” he says, “should be pro-| hibited by law from any kind of manufacturing. It should be re- | served for exchange.” Then the factories would go to the country and laborers would have their own garden plots. Such a scheme Sidney Reeve unfolds in his “Cost of Competition,” but by also wiping out exchange carries a step further: “The grass will gather, t& cultivated even, in lower Broadway, and Wall street will be as + quiet as on a Sabbath morning. Central Park will have grown to ,coalesce with the Bfttery, Manhattan become one vast public “garden.” . Dr. Wiley to the contrary notwithstanding, the city is the place « for the factory, because there it is assured of labor to operate it. It »,d8 also the place for the laborer, because there he is assured of con- “stant employment of some kind. Operatives in factory towns are too much dependent on the vicissitudes of the mills. If there is a “phut-down, they are thrown into idleness. If there is a wage reduc- tion, often they must accept it, or sacrifice their homes and move elsewhere In the city if a mill ehuts down other mills may have need of its hands, or the latter may find jobs in other lines, or on . the big public works that cities are alwavs making. The son and ‘daughter can get office positions and tide the family over its tem- » Porary dearth. To both manufacturer and employce the city may spell high ements. But it spells Opportunity. Not without reason this city re- ported in the 1905 censns 20,889 manufacturing establishments, and 464,716 wage carners, constituting with’ their families more than half the population; an annual pay-roll of $248,128,259 and a product of $1,526,523,006—a sum equal to the foreign commerce of the port, | and one-tenth the total manufacturing product of the country. SSS DOGS, OR CHILDREN, WHICH? cs SBN the last eight months seven persons have died of rabies here, 192 I mad dogs have been seized, and 2,462 persons, 1,743 of them children, have been bitten. These figures, as the Board of Health , says in a bulletin, spell “municipal disgrace.” They spell also, it | eclares, “suffering and lowered efficiency,” “worry and apprehen- »sion,” “expense and loss of time from work.” - Nf dogs commonly bit their owners, or if their owners footed the Dills for their depredations, with “smart money” added, the outrage would be more tolerable. But dogs bite the children of other people, and probably in not one case in fifty is there voluntary and adequate eompeneation therefor. No compensation could be adequate whers| hydrophobia is communicated, or where the sensibilities of a child are , remap affected by a dog’s attack, or where the haunting fear of | ydrophobia has been planted in the minds of parents. . Why should there be dogs in the city, anyway? If there must be | dogs, why are they not all licensed and muzzled or placed on a leash | -when at large? Why are not vagrant dogs despatched forthwith? Why is there no law which will put the owner of a dog squarely behind | its misdeeds and make them as perilous to his purse as it the peace of mind of other people? is to| Letters From the People Fortune Telling, ‘To the Faitor of The Evening World: ; | Ue schools to be etues ‘ed at the oxpenas Readera, do yen think it ja posatnte| Of English taxpayers, both he and the for any human being to tell yon what| “Mldren 80 educated should at least will happen in your futy y the jaws of the land and the rules 4 friends, incluting my of the #ohool, even to reciting a “Flag stories of forty e euch a pledge ta given in +5 telling them their i Tf you 4 that everything told them ca to do this, exactly as described. It may vate achool, where no such pledge ts | foolish to ask about this, but J.C. WARD. many people who, I know, are hiom, being swindled out of their money by Daas eT Ra hias auare inal eecalied fortune tcllere, Will |to the comt of carpeting a room Feaders discuss this and give facta on fect, the carp. ng M7 inches wide and | Gither pide? Or 4» 11 Just a cise of coming $2 per yard), I should ike to | Gyete work? ROW. CC. |ofter the following solution: 42%—0! The Flag Pledge Again. 6 23. Hence must buy strips. | Te Biitor of The Evening World MedG 2-3, 1s the number of! 1 would say |yards exch strip must contain, 6 a3 ¥y would as him to forswear yants « 4 yards, ¢ number of hia alleg.ance to America because of yards which he must buy x40 od making a living in sland; but If hy the cost of carpodng the @hould send his chilaren to English pub- HARRY A. M'CLUSKEY, room, Regie Sa Nuk vening World Dail INEXPLICABLE LAUGHTER. | Paused to think a minute she would ‘WOULDN'T ‘You LIRE To MARRY ME, Miss Tessie 7 I CAN NOT BE THAN 4 SISTED TO SGu = Copyright, 1011, by The Pres Publishing Om Tre’ Now Nort Woetd). CRASH of crockery in the kitchen A sent a shiver of horror Cown the opine of Mra, Jarr, A fow desult+ ory acattering smashes followed, show~ ing, by the tell-tale sounds, that Ger- trude had evidently knocked over a tray of draining, inverted dishes from the top of the stationary washtubs, and that the bulk had craghed to the flocr first and that several rolling cups and glasses had changed thetr minds about ataying eafe- ly on the edge and had followed their lovely companions that were ecattered and dead, as Mr. Thomas Mcore eald about the post season roses, Well, I'l take THIS out of her wages-she may depend on that!" thought Mrs, Jarr, ‘that's the way to atop such carelessness!” If ehe had have known she would NOT do any; such thing. Brave as all housewives ready and eager to terrify hue bands, Janitors, tradesmen, they do not, and dare not, take broken dishes out of light running domestics’ wages. Hut, armed with resoWe while her tne ignation was warm, Mra, Jarr descend. ed upon Gertrude in her realm, and as that young person was stooping down | and picking up the remnants to put in| i The Difference, Jarre | nated Such I By Maurice Ketten. at US the garbage can, she told her what she thought. “Tt wasn't my faul asserted Bat- tling Gertrude ‘Master Willle was playing in here in the sink with clothes- ma'am, and ips, ma'am, end I'm @ poor girl, but I'm @ lady, and the clothespins he left on top the tubs got under the tray and rolled the dishes to the floor, and I can't be bothered with children under et in the kitchen. And, anyway, I'll leave to-day, because W From Collector Loeb, 66 cue to declare all articles ABOU: acquired abroad by purchase or gift, elther through !gno- rance or the desire to ‘take @ chance,’ 1s the chief cause of trouble and dis- comfort for passengers entering the port of New York. If passengers would state the exact number of pieces of b gage, and would declare all articl whether dultable or free, not excepting the hundred-dollar exemption, passing the customs would be easy,” says Col- lector Loeb. “The law provides that every: person entering the United States shall make a declaration and entry of his or her personal bagwage, and that the values of articles hall be determined by cus- toms officers irrespective of the state- ments of passengers. People should know that these two requirements taken together place the passengers in the same position as any other importer of mer- chandise, and that there is no dis- courtesy in the requirement for a dec- Jaration and an iAdependent appraisal. “In order that an expeditious exam- ination may be made ali dutiadle arti- eles should be packed in one trunk, Ladies travelling alone should state that fact in thelr declarations, and the nior membor of @ family present as @ passenger may make declaration for the entire family. “When the declaration ts prepared land signed the coupon at the bottom of the form should be detached and re tained by the passenger and the form Biven to the officer of the ship desig- to receive it A declaration polled in preparation should not be destroyed, but be returned to the pur- ee! who will furnish a new blank, ail the b r have een landed upon the coupon retained by Passenger must be presonted at the inapector's denk, whereupon an Inspect “1 hear you're trying to get Into the best society “Oh no, indeed, Only Into the highest.” : or will be detatiad to ox Passengers must noon the pt doclarations, owledge in |p | thelr |i) "MO UD or Date should be offered |empted by law, You Should Kino! Copyright, 1011, by The Ke and effects of | the) tho bag-| s Life! | LOVE You, Miss WILLE STAY Brant WHERE You WOOLE Eyes MARRY 19.M8 RELLY OLED OOOO OOOEL DEL Mrs. Jarr Loses Dishes, but She Wins a Victory HENDINONONENO NM NENOION OOOO OOOO LOOT I can marry Mr. Elmer at Gus’s, and) And, to retreat with the honors of | he's saving his money to open # lquor| war, Mrs, Jarr answered the ring here store for hisself in the Bronx, or I can| seit, marry, Mr. Rattigan, the paperhanger, It was Mra. Stryver. or my gentleman friend, the fireman, “Exoum I'm al | and de & hero's bride, and I don't need} preqtn,” pumted te wand Fetlvemeipets Ng take nothing from nobody! 80/55 unused going up over one filght of | snare stairs! In fact I told Mr. Stryver that What Mrs. Jarr would have said had! we must put an electric elevator in our she gotten an opening wil never be| house, but he says, and truly, that it known, for interapersed with the last of |wouid be useless expense, that! the rhetorical torrent set forth @bove/ the street is full of cheap flats and we bs will have to move to Riverside Drive! to be among those of our own class sooner or later, But, really, I should have brought my maid, only my matd has left me. And it's no use ‘to be kind to them. The meaner ‘you t them | the more you get out of them!" Mrs, Jarr had had such small chance y anything for the past five min- utes that her vocal chords were grown rusty with disuse; but {t ran through T CUSTOMS LAW. Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), customa officers, Customs officers who accept gratuities or bribes will be dis-|her mind that she was honored by @ missed from the service, and all par-|visit from the wealthy Mrs, Stryver | tles concerned will be Hable to criminal | because that lady had some need for prosecution, Any discourtesy or in-;her, and so it proved. civility shown to passengers should be| ‘Yes, my heart is nearly broken about | reported at once. servants!” Mrs, Stryver went on. ‘'80| “Currency vor certified checks only | I Just made up my mind to call on you| will be accepted in payment of duties.|and throw myself on your mercy. I| Upon request, baggage will be retained | know, my dear, that you are so situated | on the plers for twenty-four hours to that you get along among the working enable the owner to secure currency or | clawsses more than I do. I know you certified checks, are well acquainted with most worthy “Under sections 2802 and 3802 of the people who go Into service, and I said Revised Statutes articles obtained |to myself, ‘Surely Mrs, Jarr, living in abroad and not declared are subject to|@ fiat-house as she does, MUST know selzure and the passenger {s Mable to | some neat poor people who would gladly | criminal prosecution, Articles taken take the placo of Hilda, my personal from the United States and remodelled, maid, temporarily at least! repaired or improved abroad must be| Mrs. Jarr was all sweetness and light. declared, and the cost of this remod-| “I am having the same trouble my elling, repairing or improving must be! self," she vouchsafed, “I simply: can't separately stated. ‘got @ well trained second maid, Of “Household effects, including books, |course, since Mr. Stryver became sud- pictures, fufniture, tableware, table 'denly wealthy—nothing camo of that linen, bed lInen’and other similar artis | trouble over his brokerage business with cles, unless used abroad by the owner |the authorities, I trust?—you have for a year or more, are dutlable. Goods’ maids, But you know I've ALWAYS in the plece or articles intended for! naa them, and so I know how to man- sale or for other persons are also dutla-|age them, and I know, too, what a well ble, Itramed service is, and I will have no “If under $100 in value and {f neces-| other,"* for comfort and conventence for, "Then I know, dear, as you live In a| the purposes of travel, and not for sale mat and can do your own work, you| to other persons, the following wouldn't mind letting me have your | free: Clothin Gertrude, She seems fgnorant bat ae combs, Drushes, cosmetics, willing.” Mra, Jarr heard a rustle in the hall and knew Gertrude was listening, | "Gertrude tgnorant?” cried Mra, Jarr quickly, "She la a very intolligent and refined girl, She comes of 4 splendid family, She ts in no sense a servant. Rather a friend who helps me till I can set rvants, She is engaged to be married to a young business man and has an offer from a very important shaving and manicure sets, Jewelry and Jother articles of personal adornment. Similar personal effects are free: Cam-_ eras, canos, fluhing tackle, fold, opera and marine #! joke, gune, | muatcal instruments, ols, photo- graphe, smokers’ articles, steamer rugs and shawls, toys, trunke ant val “Clothing and other personal effects taken out of the United States by the passenger, {f Increawed tn value or tm- . eens condition while abroad, are omPloyee of the city! tInble on the coat of rep ‘Other. ! And after Mrs. Stryver departed Gor- 00," trude came in and insisted that Mra. dered, howav: Jarr should take the broken dishes out to and that all of her wages. clog are dutladie unless specifically exe! It was another triumpi) for house « [Hold diplomacy at @ crucial moment, | he was wounded. PHILIP & DILLON.” 1 Copyright, 1011, by The Drea Publishing Co, (The New York World), 4 No. 4—Gen. T. F, Rodenbough at the Battle of Winchester. N Governor's Island, in New York Harbor, headquarters of the United States army, Department of the Fast, is the office of the Military Service Institution of the United States, the organization founded by Gen, Hancock and others in 18i8 to disseminate military information, Here ts published the ‘Journal’ of the institution, a monthly mille tary magazine of deep and wide authority, and to this office each day comes thy editor of th. magazine, a straight, slim, kindly mannered man, the right Sleeve of his coat empty. Officers and men salute him with grave affection, for this soldier with one arm ts Gen. Theophilus F. Rodenbough. He was born at aston, Pa., in 188, educated at Lafayette College, and wee appointed second Heutenant of the Second United States Dragoons when the civil war commenced. Part of the cavalry was then called “dragoons.” At Gettysburg he commanded this cavalry regiment. In three different battles He was breveted for lant and merttorious service” at the battles of Opequon, Todd's Tavern and Cold Harbor, and received the Congress medal for gallantry at Trevillion's Station. In March, 1868, he received the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army. He remained in active service in the regular army until 1870, when he retired. In 1904 he was given the full rank of brigadier-gencral, retired. ‘With all his talent for Iiterature, he has written nothing about himself ex-— cept the brief official reports to his superio: “No, I shall not write an autobiography, trom a pile of manuscript he was editing. “Will you not tell the story of what befell you at the battle of Wincheager?” “That is oMictally called the ‘Battle of Opequon,’ though commonly known es the battle of Winchester,” said the General, dropping his manuscript and settling back with a far away look in his eyes. “It was the first general engagement tn Gen. Sheridan's campaign against Gen. Jubal Early. It was fought on Sept, w, 1964. “I waa in command of my regiment, the Second U. 8. Cavalry, on that day, Col. Lowell commanded the brigade, which was part of Gen. Wesley Merritt's division of cavalry that formed the right of our battle line. Gen. Early, commanding the Confederate army of approximately 25,000, was An a etrong position before the town of Winchester, and Gen. Sheridan, with about ,000 men, moved to drive him out of that position, “At 2 o'clock in the morning we moved, and at 6 o'clock came to Opequon Creek, on the other side of which, at the ford, was the ‘Stonewall brigade’ of Virginians, holding an outpost of Farly’s army. We crossed and drove them back, and our whole division moved forward. ° “All day long the battle contimied, the enemy moving backward, disputing every foot of distance, a0 to speak. Gen. Averell came with his cavalry brigade ‘and joined Merritt on the right, while Gen. Wilson's cavalry formed the extreme left of Sheridan‘s line, and gradually our flanks Japped the enemy and Gen, Sheridan prepared to strike him in front and flanks. “About 1 o'clock in the afternoon Col. Lowall came to me and we surveyed @ stone wall in our immediate front behind which the enemy lay. The Colonel eaté, pointing to a clump of trees somewhat to the right, through which ran the stone wall: “ ‘Gen, Custer is about to charge the other: site of those trees. Let us also in.’ © “Now most of Lowell's brigede hed deen dismounted, and there was let mounted only one squadron of my regiment. Col. Lowell intended to make 6 bluff at che enemy, as #& were, ¢o help the real charge made by Custer. “Just then there came out of the grove in full view of our brigade @ mam with a Confederate battle flag—the Stars and Bars. He waved it turioualy at ws in defiance. That didn’t help his‘cause, for ft aroused the anger of our equadren, “We started the charge slowly; then, as we neared the clump of trees, We broke into @ gallop with drawn sabres and yelling at the top of our velem, Lowell and I riding side by side in front with severed other oMcers. eald-Gen. Rodenbough, looking up “The enemy waited until we got close and then delivered a volley poimt Giank st us and our formation was broken ep q@any gape showing where end horses fell. The bugle sounded ‘Rally’ and eur. men turned ana rate back 800 yards to the rallying place. “But I did not get back there at once, After going 90 yards, my horge stopped atock etill, rigid, as # suddenly paralysed. I epurred him, but he would Mot move. The bullets were singing about me, eo I dismounted end stood bebtad my horee, using him for cover. I he wasdleeting from or Gve wounds, “Now, as I crouched there, almost alone between the tines yards grom my comrades, I saw a cavairymen leave my inte the open toward me. He came at « gatlop, pulled up behind me, Captain, and I'll carry you tm.’ I to horee, a splendid friend that had carried me ¢wo years, and he bad before at the battle of Beverly Ford, but be wes I could do nothing for bim. I mounted rescue me and eway we flew on enemy's sharpshooters made a The horse went widly, and #& dismounted, I saw he hed been Sergt. Conrad Schmidt of Company K of my those moments as we rode upon thet horse.” “But you lost your erm in that battle. Didn't that make @ greater émprensten than the brave act of Sergt. Sohmiat?” “On,” eaid he, as if he had forgotten #, “that was later in about § o'clock, when we were making the final charge, which sent ‘whirling through Winchester,’ es Gen. Sherman afterward reported. struck by three pistol balls and later Col. Lowell put me on his horse me to a house nearby. They cut off my arm that night, But thet was fortune of wal “But, General,” eat I, wondering et his shortness tn dismissing of the lost right arm, “¢!d not the wound and ¢he amputation of your 4 great impression? Was it not @ great moment when they out off chat He replied, mildly: “Of course, @ man is not tikely ever to foget the moment when be arm. But you wanted « story, didn’t you? There is no story in the of an arm. That wes certainly @ brave deed that Sergt, Schmidt and that was a thrilling ride we two had om that Rorse, yes, indeed! t g E i ti H 4 ji Reflections OF A LOF Giyy aaclem TRowla - Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York World.) HE kind of love that can't endure a fow eheh ] tered dllustone 42 too flimsy to stand the strein of matrimony. , WLEN ROWAN It te easy to cure your marital troubles tf only gou can diagnose them; but most people make the mistake. of fancying thet they are euffering from saul-starvation, when tt ta nothing but sentimental indigestion. Telling a girl's fortune sometimes leads to misfortune, if you happen to hold her hand a Uttle too long, or too tenderly, during the palm-readiag, If men were as cautious and calculating (m business as most of them are in love, they would ail be Kings of Finance, A man always looks hack on the loveaffatr before the last as a “late unpleasantness,” because he usually remembers nothing but the unpleasant time he had getting out of it, ; Feod a man sentiment out of a teaspoon. Don't pass him the whole dish; becauso, when he gets enough of anything, from luncheon to lqve, naturally he doesn't want any more, A man doesn't demand that a woman be square; because he Prefere to marry the kind that ke can get around without knocking against the sharp corners of her principles. Buccess doesn’t consist in gettina the mildie of the stage, but tn over the footlights. getting COULDN'T GET ACQUAINTED. HE UNDERSTOOD, “They would make a splendid match.! The Owner—In my new house I want I wonder why they have never mar-/a simple breakfast room in addition to ried?" the more elaborate dining-room, “On, In winter sho Is Interested in| Ths ArchitecteI see. What you want society, and in the summer he {» in-lis an oatmeal mush room end « grilled terested in basedall.”—The Smart Set, reom.—Chicago Newa