The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1911, Page 18

— Che TABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, it PuBfished Dally © lny the Preae Poblighing Company, Nos. 68 to 3 Dark Now York RALPU PULIT? Trestden 2 Park Te ' ‘ eastcer Park Tow I0: ! LW? t, Jr, Secretar 63 Park Row, ——— - ————e Prtere’ at Porton Fork ay fecand. fatter, Rubectiption 1 t i Nf gland and ntinent and World for 1 i s All Countries tn the International) and Cangda tal Union. me Voor aanolone Year e 99.75 one Month... 20} One Mont? sh | VOLUM:: BOOKS FOR CITY OFFICIALS. T will help some to have a rea) municipal reference library occup the shely © so-called City Libra The Board of KE my } the trustees of the N York Publie Library half way in their proj to in 1 collection in. the City Hall at an outlay of more than &15,000 ! The library « preeent condu called by the Commis So is the Board sioner of Accounts “something of a euriosit of Aldermen. Ver fomething modern and useful, the other will slough « pecularities, Certainly the City Library can be than merely as th vository of old Dutch records and department reports and as a rendezvor constituents not of their inner circk Had the proper possible for an Alderman to second house of the city legislature was abolished a f “wan, yer embellicl Nor would it, have | Mayor Low to interlard certain of his messages to the proverbs and wise saws and write them de to be the Aldermanic intelligence. Nor would Mayer tions from Fy For the sake « for district | ke been at hand it might 4 y toa Common Council n to what ricte ave emed ¢o much of a politien officials generally it would be well to have for handy reference in the City Hall a good collection of modern books on mun here and abroad. Ut would tend at | sure th prompt publication of better department report if accessible form the results of the Governor's heerin ousted Borough Presidents, of the Lexow and Mazet and the insurance and gas inquiries, it might serve well as inform. ove - DO PEOPLE REALLY CARE? FOr They only think they do. ‘Their representative JE do not care a rap about “the high ev If people really cared, the House would not pass a bill adding from $40,000,000 to & 1t would not promote the fortunes of a bill to expend & new public buildings. It would not stand ready, year pase River and Harbor bills appropriating from %10,000,000 to 880,000,000, mostly for projects foredoomed to failure, Nor would Congress nullify every well-considered programme to n navy efficient because it necessarily entails wiping ov posts and navy yards whose expenditures create a local Do the peor tion”? Not unless Congress ia mistaken. ‘The Pay: sion was previpitated by the need of more revenue, and it increased ' yearly revenues about $30,000,000. ‘The House has thie sum and as much more for pensions alone, If it passes a public building act besides, it will devote to new objecta of expenditure a sum about 1! to the entire customs revenue taken the fi \ act 152,000,000, How are you going to “u if you ke Americans may be dif ridden” brethren in Eure wipe out the difference, ——- -— 040 _ THE BRUTAL FATHER, Yomay have my forgiveness all right, but p swelling the nation’s fixed charges? ent, as they boast, fro but they are doing. the to find their own living.” ‘Phis language, fi of one of an tality of the parent whe oping couple, measures t and without his consent. He plays the part of kill-joy at the mar. | rark riage fenst by insisting that his payroll shall not without consultation What sort of forgiveness is it to gather a son-in fer-in-law into one’s arms and then require the he: family to carn a living for two when he has never the one institution is made it to higher uae Mayor, Borough President, Aldermen and. city 00,000 a year to eivil war pension charges care a rap about tariff revision or tariff “extor- nor daughter has married very young r into WT some of miscellan Hiticians and | | man when the Ww oyears age ary for Aldermen with he conceived Gaynor’s cita IT novelty | icipal matters 1 writing and it included inj son the thre Investigations, st of living « know better, 1,000,000 for after year, ¢ nake army and nt small army trade, ne tariff revi- voted to take ret year of the ntax consump: m their “tax ir bad best to they will have | ‘W/ rom the father he usual bru | be lengthened \¢ i} Jaw or daugh ad oof the new had to earn aj fiving for one? No American father comes up to his opportunities |" for his reputation as an easy mark when he declines Offapring’s romance MMomssume its rosy Lett Pannen na fo the Wilitur of Phe boone World we an at To a marriage Neense required In Cons) them from throwing Sheetiout’ ALM Jat random amon rmer in Correct material iy World ihilities rs from the Peop Chances in Virwiniat To the Bi , W Can any « what the opportunities are in \ for @ young married man, «lth the | Tet cities or on the planta her A recent & demand for Koo! Ke 1 what ' opportunity dows far r fruit rain: [oarts) . hog offer? This siould inte any | ™m Thin who, like myself * t the North JOUN pelling the ov ners of amusement places to piace signe | yous places de-|the use of t manding sw Kindly db t ® attended ponit al! ette butte in fi ricke 1 proof cans provided by them for just, nd equa Buh a purpire 1 have a ape y. | the t cart Heeman the « ' are taken | ' to ha The « , f revera 1 be muse 9 arted in this mann ' anc ' hese to flop | in the w . whould wax: weless War against care-|the city of he cow! dese anokers, Lf we canuo, stop people ARO RRR RRA AAA to finance 4 ‘e nhoMY ADE J Iwewood, No J Cart Not an exces With two men the work Seecccracosonesoe seeceesooossoess: eeeseenseneds | iui teen no tin ae gary, ils7 Mr. Jarr Plays the Role of “‘Scotfer” ae an Ye ul an toward the t Vg ee WH, by he (ihe New York World) To PREVENT BANGING oF DOOR he Mgutly cqversed the ide whines n of his scarlet roup of 4 | attentt there of the nfin hued #0 On the toes of his she Ne Ie eyed Aw he ing. ‘orialietio mind cannot grasp t raised pie in the Publishing Co. W We Brasp of the ove Greese, as left Jarr that we! wy » apenk= spiritual Work ad! sald Prof 1 he amacked bis) lps as Wore the sweetest words Mrs dare felt @ ‘ ‘ Now t H Smith th the back of the ther to display he re of the y the men Foul Play. sHectual the sort Jarre visite dosinpered as (hough to © whispered to her ands up: her 18; The Story Of Our Country By Albert Payson Terhune Covrright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). No. 34—A Duel That Changed Naval History—Part I. a JO war vessels—the strangest ever seen—engaged in mortal cotm bat off Fort Monroe, Va., one March morning in 1862. | Their duel had a double and far reaching importance, Bis iseue helped to turn the tide of the Civil War. And i& utterty and for all time changed the future of naval warfare. i 4 United States war fleet lay at anchor in Hampton Roads. Like afl | fleets since the first war hulk built by savages it consisted of ships. Into the Roade from Elizabeth River on the morning of steamed a Confederate vessel unlike any other afloat. At a glance @é, , newcomer seemed to consist of a low hull surmounted by a barn eof made of iron. She was the Merrimac, formerly a United States frigmte, which the Confederates had raised from under water and had turned tae an ironclad—the first tronclad fighting ship ever sent Into action. The Merrimac bore down upon @e Union fleet off Fort Monroe. The fiftye gun steam frigate Congress was nearest to her and opened the attack by send ing @ e@cathing broadside at this strange looking enemm But the siot and shell that would have wrought haves The Warships won Another wooden warship glanced and bounded eff Destroyed. the Merrimac's armored sides almost as harmlessly would tho missiles from @ popgun. The Merrimac poured! @ return volley into the Congress, crippling the tig! wooden vessel and driving it ashore. Next the United States war sloop Cumberland hurled herself at the @a The Merrimac, unhurt, returned the fire and drove her {ron prow through the Cumberland’s wooden side. Down rolled the shattered Cumt (Old glory stil! flying from the mast), firing one more gallant, useless broa@ai@e ag her decks plunged under water Then the Merrimac again attacked the crippled and grounded Congream setting her ablaze and making her captain surrender. The fifty-gun steams [frigate Minnesota avoided the same fate by gotilng out of range, The Mereh | Mac withdrew now for the nicht, returning at dawn next day prepared to fintsiy | the easy destruction of the whole Unton tleet | News of the one-sided confilct spread terror throughout the North, There |#eemed no limit to the damage this fronclad monster could accomplish. Woodea (ships had Seen proven defenseless against her, She could hold the Chesapeake |or any. other important waterway, She could prevent Union troops from lem@ ing anywhere from thelr transport ships could destroy the effectiveness of the Union blockade on Southern ports, She might even in safety bombard |New York or Boston or Washington, since nothing afloat could check her, At 6 A. M. on March 9, 1862, back came the Merrimac to the United States fleet at Hampton Roads to complete her fearful work of the previous day. She made a dari at th Minnesota. Put » she could open fire a new veeset er | [Btn YB By Maurice Ketten DON'T floating the American flag suddenly stormed between the Merrimac and her MENTION (T. |#eemingly doomed victim, : SOHN, ' v fe ay Wat Sab AS tesque ul a gerne th hate the Com 4 te trone A sillor from a nearby ship called her “a cheesebox om yy t.” And the deseription was good, A Mat oval deci almost flush with water was topped oy @ cylindsleal gun turret nearly nine high, From t distance th et Was the only thing visi She offered almost was so strong and @ uke no impression on 9 And her da that ordir shota would ¢ t from the smoothly rounded side In all its thousands of years the world had ) no ironclad fighting ship ping all before hen rned that the Confede te Merrimac and were d | Now, within twenty-four hours, two of tem had entered our country's ai P ) of onifitet As (hough by miracle this “oheesebox on @ A¥ J | ret’ iad come upon the scene at the: very moment i ( when her Svuthen rival was swe wl When our Government had te tés had raised the sunken frig turning her into an fronclad the terr! importance: of such an action was at once recovnized. It was a great move in the war game. \nd unless the Union could devise a countermove there was wholesale disaster ahead Therefore the Navy Department set to work at once on a second trondiad ich should checkmate the first. Ericson ed the Monitor with her flat *k and low eylindr he was built at the Brooklyn Navy wd was launched cn Jan. At Greenpoint. But she was not ablet inake t ea Voy until March, Then, under command of Téeut, Johm Worden, she was rushed South to meet the M nac, She had not even made 4 satisfactory trial trip nor been formally taken over by our Government. There » to waste in formalities. As ft was, the Monitor reached the y late he Merrimae had beaten her in the construction, n they the Minnesota, Then began aT been beheld or even Imagined in all the annals of navel She steamed betwe sea duel as had nevi In a Solemn Bout with the Occult. |*««« eccnesoccoooocoes cccesecetooooene cocececoosoeeeet that Prof. Siurk looked exactly Mr. Jarr and Mr. Rangle proceded to fluence of the spirit," said Dr. Greese Some Interesting Facts. the Demon Demonstrator,’ ; bind tightly around the eyes of the} This was libel, Prof. Slurk was simpy] Before a diamond has been dressed ing gum habit. A Hongkong firm tase d seen sew up the mouths | gentleman denlgnated. hypnotized, it passes through the hands of cleaver,| Year sold $5,000 worth of the Ament taleptic young men with! Meanwhile, Dr, Greese, accompanied While my confrere js in this state of | turner, cutter, sawyer and polisher, can manufactured article, needle man quutet nd thread at a variety perfor- |by Mra. Jarr, went out into the dining | mental isolation, save for the thaum- = z ‘ Mr. Rangle nudged her to keep | room, from which they shortly after-|terglc aMfinity between us, he will think, The investigation of cold storage ave ¥, inha pitant of ward returned Uearing a tray covered |as T think; and, though his eyes are | Muses started in England is likely to) and Trelan! consumed lust vege tame ‘Ia it going te be witch doctoring?” | with @ napkin, |closed and bis faculties dormant, ye: ast, this was the average per capita, asked Mrx Dusenbercy witn awed eag- | "Tahal ask all present to concentrate | with his cerebral optic he sees as 1 sve as erness, “Old Mrs, Rraumatein, who! thelr minds; I shall awk Prof. Sturk to land as you dc moved out from Pennsylvany to Taylor | concentrate hia mind; I will concentrate | ‘Smile not!" continued the doctor, Im-| civitization for long ages, one-fourth} among the wealthy are peculiar. Very rwnship, Indiany, was a hex, and my mind. When Prof. Slurk feals that |preasively, "Smile not at the simplicity }of the area of the Kingdom is still] trequently men of large business af | could charm cows that had the hollow jhe I< in psychic harmony with me, that | of the experiments we are now engaged | covered with forests fairs have their residence in thelr horn, My husband, a: bought a con- | mentally we gre attune, he will signify |in. In the last analysis the simplest office and warchouse buildings, These fu from her tor fifty cents, wl-| by nodding his head, Now, silence for things are often the most complex!" China is forming the American chew-! homes front on the canals, though she Wanted a dollar for it, She! the experiment. All please clasp hands| So saying, Dr. Greese removed the | -——————— could walk right tn among swarming in a cirole,” sald Dr, Greese napkin from the tray and displayed a The May Manton Fashions eat Dritate vclude all the eg® producing countries of Europe. Though Saxony has been a centre of} Housing conditions in Amsterdam bees and the queen bee would light, This took some Httle rearrangement of | small silver dinner bell, that belonged rfrht on her, Well, the Hible speaks of ‘chairs, and after this there was tense |to the Jarr menage, and a lemon, [the Witen of Endor, don't it?” |stlence, Prof, Slurk began to breathe| ‘He's going to ring In a lemon on us, will not make our experiments, | heavily, and alle turned from the | whispered Mr. Jarr. In the occult of gruesome tmport,” sald | napkin-covered tray and fastened them=| ‘“‘Ssssh!" hissed the others present, to HE bi that Is Dr. Gin vlandly, "No, my friends, | #elvea upon the subject admonish the ill-timed jester. mado of two ma- let our experiments to-night be of a| After a muccession of particularly| Dr. Greese gave Mr. Jarr a cold and I terials i¢ a fas ight and pleasing, though mystifying, {heavy breathy that could be almost |crushing look and that gentleman suo-| vortte one sehen, trend, With yout kind perminsion we jclasved ax grunts, Prof, Shurk began to | sided. Here da a mode) that Will attempt some feate of mind read- ‘twitch and shudder, Meanwhile Dr.| ‘What do IT hold in my hand?” asked | gives the effect of the beneath but i] whieh is simply made at| over a foundation lin- ing, this lining int or mental telapathy, While T am Greese made mesmerle passes with slow | Dr, Greese, in measured tones out of the room tet my freve, Prof,jand impreagive movements until the | lifted the dinner bell, which tin Slurk, be seourely plindfolded.’ |nuge bulk of the blindfokted professor | pleasingly. He looked searchingly A buze of interest arose aa Mrs, Jarr grew rigid and still, Prof. Slurk as he spoke. secured @ large sik handkerchief which “He js now completely under the in-| “A bell! came the muffled answer ings and to form the -——— — |through the hanging edges of the muf-| ure It inclutes the fling handkerchief over Prof, Slurk’s| jew sleeves, that are in eyes. kimono shape yet | "You see, a bell’ sald Dr. Greese, in| stitched to big al Ja tone of calm triumph, handing the bel! | holes, and is made in \to Mrs, Mudridge-Smith and the others. | overlapped sections \who rewarded it gravely. that allow effective use What Ix the color of this lemon?" he | of buttons or other Please Have Pity on the Poor Millionaire! OW would you Ike to be th eangfrold the man of millions must " a e “A yellow lemon,” sald Dr, Greese, in) light welght wool fab- poor, downtrodden, unhappy |give a dollar, Re NED: ANE. DERE {cine an well’an senate man with nothing in life but a) That he can better afford the dotiar | Measured t crepe de chine and the “Great Scott! Would ft hi been a few millions of dollars? than the other the dime matters not. | iii4 jemon?? asked Mr. Janr, the scot. | Hike Eugene Zimmerman of Cin-|1f he travele he is swarmed upon by | PDK I % ' The blouse consi ecnnati sald that the milllonalre was be- | pg “ o carry fer. centre and nnath » Portera who want to carry Mis grip | Rie stee, Jarr told him to keep autot | Centre and aide portions trimming, It ean be now asked, holding up that eltronous | filtmes’ foncalmont sais frult, Asonable material, for Yellow! moaned the blindfolded sub-| Houses of this kind are ag Wronged by the Keneral public, Hej win fairly aweep him off hie feet and ; rn : ays the millionaire ds nearly always lal but carry him to his car on their | for the eake of others present, and the) are cut in one piece | mystle experiments went on. ach. The linthy is unin shoulders, His sole and only method aah RAR in teclinaa: Finla | Would you. If given the opportunity, lof self-defense ta to give a tip smaller a —_ fe and ts fac indi. Jtake the millions and be a unhappy as{than doer the small. salaried clerk. Women Knights. cated Ines noun your happy poverty? summed up by Mr. Zimmerman thus: hood has constantly been conferred they are inserted in the Its a we deal like the proposition of | The vulgar crowds get tn the way of upon women, Many English ladies ree { Hning. |enorance being bilas, one’s motor ear, Uh | for the medinen sl Probably there Isn't @ man in mill-] of important personages bound on mis-|were members of such Knightly orters | Will be renieed fons who would hesttate for a moment: gions of huge import, they ogle and | ay the Garter and St, Jolin, When Mary 94.4 yards 26, 1 ards f offered @ chance to help himself to! stare, Cholmondeley, “the bold lady of Chet 44 inches wide with 144 1 few milllons providing the helping And the women!’ Tt mone or leas beats | hire,” was knighted by Eltgabeth for yards 27 for the guimpe were not too much a@ labor The the way they are attentive (co mil- | “her valiant address,” on the queen tak- and 13 & yards of all- trouble With the average millionatre t# | lonatres. ing the command at the threatened ins, over lace J8 inches wide |! that of the whole world | Tt ts, Indeed, @ hard ite, a fe to be|vasion of Bpatn, did she know that a for the facings and wn ya | We grow tired of any state too long |desplaed and avoided, In y|whole efty of Spanish women, the gallant ea” y, i continued and too monotonously ap. years of his atruggles the women of Tortosa, had been knikhted) out in sizes for , » Fancy Blouse With Kimono Sleeves set in Patters ! old crowned summits |for saving that city from the Moors?! and 40 in, bust measure No. 7234. s anything else Whereupon | from a great distance and yearned to| Mary and Elizabeth had both peecn | ris for other things !pace there. And when he arrived he| knighted at thelr coronation; but by the! Japs, denied, says the | found pavements of gold hard and uns|time Anne, the second Mary, and V une Then he begina, Ike |eympathetic. LL: Midas, he could not! to: ascended the throne it had b Mr Zimmerman, to complain about bes eat the auriferous streets, albett Crassus) quite forgotten that accordins to ™ Whom no drank them, All the bigh priced sur-| gitsh law and u A Woman who fi ot the Benate—or to such charities as they or- Ginery man gives @ dime with sume | Mr. Zimmerman or would you atick| Some of the troubles of the rich are I is not at all well known that knight-| der-slceves are used, delay the progress | ceived the accolacy, and manyt n plied. Lusury palls and eloy# about as! looked upon the yulokly Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHI BUREAU, Donald Building, Greeley Square, corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or send by mall to MAY MANTON PATTERN CO, at the above address. 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