The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1911, Page 26

November 17, 1911. Can You Beat It? By Maurice Ketten. jay by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, Park Row. 4 tered at the Post. jon Rates to ‘World for the United States jacot For England All Countries tn the International Postal Union. VOLUME 82.. IMMUNITY BATHS FOR DIRECTORS? PONSIBILITY is supposed to be the keystone of business, The whole scheme of society as it is of family and State assumes that somebody must be held to account. curious doctrine, then, which comes in the form of obiterdictum—side takk—from the Appellate Division in an up-State department in a decision granting new trials to two directors of the ‘I'rust Company of the Republic on whom it was sought to fix financial responsibility for losses incurred. Since many New York business men are direc- tore in several institutions the court says they could not safely serve if held responsible for losses in “small, everyday transactions,” and it | would be “calamitous” if the corporations were deprived of their “ad-| This language bears small relation to realities that would be notorious to any but an up-State court. given by Chauncey M. Depew when he handed a list of sixty-nine corporations in which he was « director to the head of a business directory and said, “I suppose I have forgotten fifteen or twenty, but | these are all I can remember.” The answer is repeated in the fact | (hat a year ago J. P. Morgan and seven of his partners held 185 It is reiterated in Stuyvesant Fish’s discovery five | years ago that ninety-two directors in the three great life insurance companies held 1,439 directorships. Brown holds 96 directorships; W. H. Newman, 95; F. D. Underwood, 33; J. P. Morgan, 65; W. K. Vanderbilt, 62; E. T. Stotesbury, 62, and George F. Baker, 58—and every name is a marginal gloss on| the words of the court. The director in scores of corporations spreads himself out so thin that he cannot discharge his duties. offer and no “assistance” to proffer really worth having. uses, but are these of the sort that it is the public’s interest to foster? He is a decorative figure-head, a masterpiece of window- Cressing, a notable advertisement, on occasion a decoy-duck. On the strength of his name people invest in a concern’s securities or His interlocking directorships are not only certificates of merit (unsigned, if the court has its way) but pledges of reciprocal favors and warrants of tition” among companies on whose boards he serves. It is repugnant to common sense and good business practice that one man should purport to hold down so many jobs—a species of mania akin to the genealogical habit of annexing all the gods of inythology to the parent stem of a man’s family tree. Capable ‘men this vicious custom would assume. There is no warrant for thus overloading the grand old men of Big Business. Why not give men of fewer distractions a chance? Daniel Guggen- heim, Chairman of the American Smelters Exploration Company, raid: “We believe that our stockholders want profit, and that the work of intelligent young men who ate interested in the company fits than a mere list of names, however ent answer was directorships. At the present time W. C.) He has no “advice” to entrust it with deposits. immunity from “unfair compe- are not so scarce POCEEREERORELE EES CEE OEEOD EEA OSES SS OEEEE EOE SC OOSOORE Jarr Goes to a Party And Spoils All the Fun eeeeecesesoeeeses seceeeeseseeseees ceeeoeoooeeee+ele “and the was thrusting into Mr. Jarr's pocket dignantly call a halt to such unwar- ranted proceedings of the heads of the administration. will do more to produce prot well known.” warts gly ITH various American grand circuit trotting records is brack- eted the fact that they were made with wind shields, like manner events are bracketing with the records of certain American public men the fact that they are graduates of the Chautauqua circuit. It is doubtless the fault of public opinion rather with his left hand. “You can have your | choice of eight modern Colonial cotta | for the n the Bi mortgage at the bpgerpoell 4 Company to-morrow, Mr, Jarr accepted the contract form open plumbing and open fireplaces, for one-third down and the balance on bond and mortgage. Do the Chairman of | the Board of to say, that had caused the Referendun Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), No. 21—The Last Blow. Who Won the War? TALL, lean, hard-faced man marshalled a horde of recruits, fara ers, hunters, trappers, and a few trained soldiers, behind a mi of cotton bales. Marching against this motley throng of fv thovsand patriots advanced a British army eight thousand} | strong. The fean, hard-faced man in charge of the American troops was An. drew Jackson. He was in command at New Orleans when Gen. Paken- ham landed a British force to take that city. Pakenham’s approach. There was consternation ot Jackson snatched the reins of government out of the scared local authorities’ hands and took entire control. legal right to do this, but he was a sort of man who had a way of mak-| ing his own laws and then of proving them to be right. He was successful in one or two preliminary skirmishes. Jan. 8, 1815, when the British advanced in force, he massed his men, to great extent, enemy's fire quite as effectively the British attack. behind cotton bales, which could be relied on to stop) could regular breastworks. There he await On came the redcoats tn true military formation, were veterans who had faced and overcome Napoleon's own tegions. The who awaited them knew little enough about martial science, but they knew how! to shoot. They were hunters and trappers, who could send a bullet through the head of a running sq' target. ‘el at long range, The redcoats were to them a The English had come within 200 yards of the ecotton- bale Intrenchments when the backwoodsmen opened fire le of | them. ‘The Yankee batteries opened fire at the same timo, The New Orleans. The rest was slaughter. British fought galt against these men who knew nothing of war, buc who k terribly well how to kill But no power could stand against that mere hail of sharpshooter bullets. routed. Pakenham was slain and his veteran army The British loss was about 2,600. Eight Americans wi Killed and thir- teen wounded, Almost never in all history has there been such a tremendous difference in rival armies’ casualties, The Battle of New Orleans occurred after the War of 1812 was really over, though no one tn America knew the end had come. America and England had been signed at Ghent, did not of course reach the United States until lat The War of 1812 was past. Who won it? According to some American historians, the victory was ours. historians claim it as a British triumph. A peace treaty bet News of this Tho present writer lacks (he wisdoin to offer an opinion where better mt failed to agree, but here are the facts and every reader may form conclusions: We had declared war because England refused to recognize our rights at ® searched our ships, and seized our sailors. wi In the Peace Treaty not one m made of these abuses, nor did Great Britain make any promise to redrd’ or discontinue them. No pledge whatever of future good behavior was given b England in the matter which had caused the war. n by us. We had fought to bring about better treatment for our nation an@) such pledge was sure for ourselves certain reforms. And if one is to judge merely by treaty we had failed to gain what we had fought for. The treaty provided that each of the two nations should restore to the ot! alt property and territory captured during the war. As to actual results the conflict had cos: our {ll-supplied little treas $10,000,000, We had lost nearly 30,000 men out of a popula (which, in proportion, would to-day be equal to a lo: That was practically all of nearly 90,00) men.) On dot sides thousands of merch privateers, &c. Our share of this was less than Engi Which Were | ‘put we could less well afford {t. the Victors? greater loss to us than to Great Britain. The British had lost fit Wo had lost twenty: which meant a> far six warships with 0 cannon. ships and 3 cannon, Our capital had been captured, our President had been made a fugitivesadur coasts had been pillaged, our whole seaboard blockaded. ‘nad been able to do was to try to defend our own nossession—and often ugauc- cessfully, at that, In return the best we We had "sh®#n 8 for the war’s moral effects, that Is quite another matter. all Surope that we still could and would fight. Despite the treaty's omissions, we had proved to England and to all the world that it was unsafe for any na- tion to ta.nper with our rights or to lay h ment” of our sailors by Great Britain was stopped once and for all, and its trade blockades had taught us to rely on our own tndustries for commer- cial prosperity, and to depend on ourselves in many other ways. more united us into a compact, interdependent federation. we seems to remain unanswered: ‘Who won the War of 1812?" is on our citizens, The “impress- Thus the great logs uffered was not without its compensating gains. the question atill THEIR OWN FAULT. “One-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives.”” “Well, vhy don't they read the society column ?"—Courter-Journal, the fountain pen and told the President of the Board of Aldermen he would see him later, “Allow me to present Mr, MoPhut. | the City Clerk of Bast Malaria,” said Mr. Jenking as @ stout, perepiring man with a heavy crop of black curly hatr| elbowed in between the President of the | the Mayor and City Clerk. | Board of Aldermen and Mr. Jarr. “Don't buy unimproved real estat .!eried Mr. MePhut. it in my|are buying and building. Buy a house Our company has the opportunity for you, Mr. Homeseeke: continued the City Clerk, shaking « fat forefinger at Mr. Jarr and quot! extensively from a printed circular he than of the men or the circuit that in any respect at all they are considered as less than the real thing. —————++-—______ THE TREES OF NEW YORK. HE newspapers gave more attention to the fall of an eighty- year-old fifty-foot maple tree in City Hall Park and the in-\ juries inflicted on three passersby than they might have | xiven to the collapse of a house with injury to a greater number of persons. That was because troes are scarcer than houses in this town and people are less likely to be injured by an arboreal than an architectural di Events have conspired against the life of trees in this vicinity. Wherever the subway has gone it has decimated them. 3 devastation was along that part of Broadway formerly called the Boulevard, ‘he “seventeen year locust” did some damage this year, | out the biggest calamity has been the chestnut blight, which hag all but destroyed this tree hereahout. One tree is proof against hostile conditions—the Chinese ailan- | tus, which springs up in backyards and thrives on neglect. The Carolina poplar also does well, and new trees set out in streets are Some of the noblest trees in and near the Long Island has monumental cherry trees and | enough locust trees to sprinkle the map with “Locust Valleya,” Among orchard trees pears do notably well hereabout, the Stuy- vesant pear tree lasting almost to our time. 0 and Recall in boom cities of the West. hese people want said @ tall, gaunt real estate operator, “let them buy a house that has been lived in, and where they can see the cracks in the walls and ceilings, yw one that might @ dozen different Places as @oon as the furnace was not be deceived. will not buy elsewhere! A murmur of protest from the rest of the residents of East It wae evident that their indignation was directed toward here and you was ariains| Malaria present. and not buy The Chairman of the Board of Public|crack wide open Works wes heard to say that bringini ja fountain pen and a blank form to & soctal affair, as the Alderman had done, or knocking other real estate develop- neighborhood, in the man- ner the City Clerk was doing, called for investigation, ‘The people of Best Malaria should in- “Buy where othere But before the dissensions among the East Malaria residents and Real Estate professional and amateu: ‘went further, Mrs. Jenkins came to the unfortunate Jarre. some songs from Miss | said Mrs. Jenkins, loud applause, And a who was also in je business, stationed her- self by the plano and sang to Mr. accompaniment | “The Sweet By and, L-nd of Promise,” | and other real elite of East Ma- sre remo .ng their rubber boot: the porch of the Jenkins bungalow. being accomplished, ting pertinent to social affairs in the cuburbs were oxchanged, and Mr. Jarr was soon acquainted with social precedence and the manner in which It While he spoke th rescue of th stout brunette lady, Its greatest , aay aannananee-peaaneneneapseennannnn~~aaelennennL mpesanel Memoirs of a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie Copyright, 1011, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The HILE neighbors are ¢.sential to every .ivillsed community, yes do not feel their presence to oxtraordinary and they are ALT fashionable), resi- dential communities within commuting New York City. of Kast Malaria Wooden Hedd' Land of the Leal, “Home, Sweet Home, estate chansons, | ‘When the singing had finished and ithe society of real estate dealers were in Mne for another attack, under pretense of having Mr. and Mre.| Jarr join them in a gl Jarr raised his hand for silence. was led up to M their hose and hostess. And after he bought mi had sounded the praises of real ught your ash can or your door mat, tnat the borrowing neighbor has been scouting on your trail and taken inven- tory of the stuff that came off your van. Tims B. N. is the most virulent form of He is monomaniac on the borrowing. He will borrow for the pure love of borrowing, whether | h. he needs the borrowed article or not, and he will keep your property, some- times, until you deprive him of it by handed Mr, Jarr some pamphlets 4 scribing the advantages of buying and Park, within easy walking distance o* East Malaria Gepot, the Presid.nt of the Board of ‘as introduced. ‘The Tresicent of 11@ Board of Alder- men believed in “closing,” he “You pay me a dollar said the President of the Bo: producing a real estate into the ely- often of this family. city are sweetguins. business and I have a new form of en- dowment policy that I would like to present to the consideration of all pres- ent. Kindly give me your ages on your last birthday!” And, with @ flourish, he drew out the Alderman's fountain pen. ‘With one accord the guests went out to the porch for their rubber boots and, ae Mr. Jarr was afterwan informed, never spoke to the Jenkinses again. tbush ‘“two-fam- you can Ive on the most delightful terme of aloofness] This form of borrowing is a well de- fined disease and Its very worst feature is that it will epread like a contagion, When your neighbor has borrowed your milk and your butter and your eggs and your rich relatives come thronging to the house at that inopportune moment, you yourself are forced to borrow, and, firet thing you know you are getting the habit. By the exercise of strong will power you can keep the fever down, but enicng those of weak wills the malady inipregnates their beings and becomes The census of 1900 80 apple trees in the eity, with a yield of 36,033 bushels; | - +#68 plum trees, with a yield of 254 bushels; 907 cherry trees, with | a yield of 1,399 bushels; 3,987 peach trees, with a yield of 3, bushels, and 4,647 pear trees, with a Staten Jsland and until he finally | kided his gentle spouse we believed him |to be @ high-minded gentleman and an He minded his own Hedgeville Editor By John L. Hobble | Letters From the People 1 had never given muoh thought to the | aubject of neighbors previous to my mi- | gration to Dogwood Terrace. they were gregario | titarious was a matter of utter indife: ence to me, for I felt snugly confident ‘that I could pick and choose with that which had enabled me to and quietude amid nefarious or mul- |” Rollin Jinks is the very worst speci- men on my block and *="oss I club him to death I do not see how I am going to stop him from borrowing. sulted him in private and in public, ¢ loaned him sour milk and sanded T have had him court when he claimed that the ivory- handled umbreiia he calmly helped him- self to one rainy day while Hildegarde and I were at breakfast was his own property ¢nd had been bequeathed to tam by his grandmother, return the umbrella and wes fined $5, but he kept right on bor- rowing as if nothing had happened. He and am glad readers who take an honest stand in the matter and take the part of the dumb animal, Money where his sympathy lies. | fine discretion I venture to disagree with Mrs. De # statement that on 4 monthiy ; Poor come of $200 the housewife should ve| ould not be one-quarter of the cases vie to feed « family of four on $1 per Buy @ small roast of beef aud see @ hole it will make in a dollar bill, De Rivera also seems to forget thet in her plan the family keeps a domestic servant. Surely the servant pumt eat, too, HERP 1s nothing co painful as being the victim of somebody’ Mt | was roused 1 fond belief by another of the batte yocked me ere I got very far along in my sojourn in © Young as my experience Is, I have discovered that there is an most endless variety of neighbors and rom time to time I propose to take em up in the order of their dreadful of dogs biting pwople if | Were not teased and beaten unmere!- | ARRIAGE obrings two families to- gether like a head-on collision. Parts of New York, and in t years I have had occasion to interfere where cruel children and grown folk bothered around poor dogs ( first move to put an en hould be kind Of those who are supposed to be human. Prettiest thing in the world is a oman who doesn't realize that oa gr pene rr if when you went CLERK ON 6% PER. ts a psychologic marv But more of him anon, (%o Be Continued.) OW neck dresses are not in good form, but « good for, im & low neck dregs. tion of the peo-| Gentle reader, when you move out and now and then| across the Ha ‘kensack or some other fats, you will Aad, even before you have To whe Editor of The Have read several i rorkd: ra an the dog WHAT DID SHE MEAN? 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