The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1912, Page 16

sve ER aac, ‘ ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. the Press Published Daily Except Sanday. by ihe | Prose RALPH PULI Presiden J. ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Becret Roadl sich s+ an Entered at thi Office at New York as Gecond-Clana Matter. Buvecription Rates to The evening | For ‘World for the Waited States and Caneda. rd AM) Countetea in the International ty One Year... One Month One Year. One Month. Cee eeeeceeseee “TOO LATE!” — * VOLUME 52,.. AD and significant are the words with which Borough Presi- S dent Me! y's Commission for Improving Fifth Avenue introduces its report. : It is already TOO LATE, say the commissioners, to make the city's most famous street the equal in beauty and dignity of any of the splendid avenues of Paris or other great cities abroad! All that can he done now is by regulating the height of buildings, by planting trees, and by keeping out certain kinds of business to save the street from losing what impressivences it already has. TOO LATE! Is it not appalling that this great city, with the finest metropolitan site in the world, with tupendous buildings commercial and public, with ite superb library and art museum, with ite incalculable wealth, has to admit that it has left ite prize street, whose name the whole world knows, the approach to a public park unsurpassed in any city of Europe, to the mercy of greed or chance yntil—TOO LATE? ‘ Those two words should at least set every citizen of New York to thinking hard about a host of improvements for which it is NOT too late. If IS NOT TOO LATE TO HAVE DECENT PAVEME) Some of the downtown streets and most of the.cross streets be- tween Fourteenth and Fifty-ninth show stretches of pavement that y any fourth-clacs city in Germany would deem disgraceful. Directly ini front of ono of the newest and most fashionable hotels in Foriy- sixth street traffic humps over a ragged hole in the asphalt. Visit- ors to New York declare they would rather walk to theatres than be jounced and jolted through tho cross streets of the amusoment district. Why are streets only recently laid down so soon in ripples and best work, the most expert advice? Shall we admit once and for ali that WE can NEVER have etveots as emooth and clean es those vantage do we pay high prices for work that turns out faulty? | IT IS NOT TOO LATE FOR CHEAP TAXICABS. We are glad to see the commissioners lay extra stress on the utterly “INDEFENSIBLK”. PRESENT TAXICAB RATES. ‘They think these high tariffs are due in part to the fact that the taxicab tompanies now pay large prices to hotels for stand privileges. They recommend, therefore, that the city esteblish public stands where Ro such excuse could serve. As the Commission well puts it: “To cay that 81 « mile—for it amounts eudstantially to this ls @ FAIR tasicad rate for New York, while the rate for the same dletance te 16 OBNTS in London te PREPOSTHROUS, inasmuch ae in London the original ooet of dullding tastcades 2 a not much lee them here; the chauffeure are as well {f not Be Detter palé than here, while gasoline te more eapensive there than here.” IT IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD that « man of small income ‘should not be able, here in New York, to give himeelf and his wife from time to time the simple comfort of going from train to train orfrom home. to the theatre in a cheap, safe, noiseless taxicab. Hun- Greds of thousands are doing it in London, Paris and Berlin. Why not here? for IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO MAKE CROSSING THE STREET Ss The istes of safety and the low street lamps suggested by the Sommission would edd much to the comfort and convenience of ; IT I8 NOT TOO LATE TO PLANT TREES. Trees amd flowers are disappearing from the streets to find their (aly refuge in the parks and squares. What would the average resi- , Gent of New York think of « grest city where trees are everywhere; ‘where, through endless ranks of modest apartment houses—corre- sponding to our uptown and Harlem quartere—architects have con- trived that every apartment shall have ite’ window baloony, and cach balcony from May to November bloom geraniums, hietiotrope, corn flowers and nesturtiums? These are well known features of Berlin. Every spring the city government offers prizes _ for the prettiest window gardens. © It is too late to make Fifth avenue what it deserved to be. Let the fact be s sharp reminder that it is NOT TOO LATE to have smooth, well kept streets in which thousands of easy running cheap taxicabs shali offer their comfort to many who cannot now afford them. IT I8 NOT TOO LATE TO MAKE THE FINEST STREET'S ' OF THE CITY SAFE, PLEASANT AVENUES AND PROME- NADES FOR THE CITIZENS INSTEAD OF MERE TRADES- MEN’S ALLEYS OF MARBLE AND PLATE GLASS. working Afteen and sixteen hours day, Twenty @ollars paid monthly to laundry and carfare. For a man to be dependent on tips for his living is most humillating, MRS. G, P, trade, Would you tp ‘| ‘What Is the Height? ler buying and paying for | To the Editor af The Evening World: nded you your! walter because |:nterest a few Pubtedii Nos, 68 to Pall ing Company, waves and holes again? Is it possible the city does not have the | of Paris or Berlin? What reasons shall we give? For whose ad-| @ waiter is hardly enough to pay nis) Here {8 @ problem that will probably | ‘and the Continent and mm a Now eek Wond) nt Om 66. TOW lease don't scold me! You N always scold me when I come to you for advice!" ‘The apeaker, veautiful young wom- an, superbly attired,” as the novelist pwould say, wae that charming matron, Mrs, Clara Mudridge-Smith, concerning ‘whom the curiosity of the great public ta ineat! “Oh, don't soold you!” retorted Mfirw. Tarr, foy it was to thie astute matron Our fair heroine had come for counsel. “You are like ail the other silly people who ask advice, You only want one ‘sind—the kind you want!" “You mustn't aay those things!” plead- ed the young marted woman, “You know I have always asked your advice. 7 have always come to you with my oon- Adences and my perplexities as I would h Clara Mudridge-Smith, I lke !" cried Mre. Jarr, “If I am three years, or, at the utmost, four years older than you are, that is the extent of my seniority! Mother to you, indeed! Why, even before you were mareied—and to be perfecttly frank New to Him. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, with you, I was almost as greatly wor- rled about it as you were, and thought many @ time that you would have to ive up the chase and go to work in a store or something—well, even then, you Were wiser in the ways of the ‘world than even I, the other of two chiléren, was!’ And Mrs. Jare tapped her foot indig- she paused for breath, Ml say you've been like eaid Mrs, Mudridge- Smith quickly. She dit not destre to incite Mra, Jarre animosity, Mrs, Jarr kni too much about h But even to this one confidante the cautious Mrs, Muldridge- Smith elwa: maintained a pose of Innocence and naivete, “I'm such a child—oh, I don't mean in yeare—I mean by nature!” ehe added, she sew Mra. Jarr's indigna- tlon about to break forth again, “I want to ask your advice about giving H Tf you really want your husdand —and watch him get excited. Love-sickness i¢ one malady that nine , In the game of hearts, © de thovepot nover- has the iighsoet deedt ) Re wil auconed ie capturing 6 ener |. ‘tcdabpindasan Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Coppright, 1913, by The wrens Publishing On, (The Mow Tesh USBANDS are Uke canteloupes; nowadays, you have to try two or three of them, before you |one’ audceed im getting a really satisfactory one, GOWLAND Some men are born dyepeptics, some achieve dye pepsia, and some marry cooking-school graduates. question, Dearie, don't argue it with him; just kise him in the cleft of his chin and tell him not to bother his precious Uttle head about euch thinge suggest to the man that the girl te trying to marry him. It may sound paradozical, but somehow as a man grows older he te al- ways glad to remember thot he did a lot of things for which he te sorry, The Love-Route is becoming a rapid transit affair, on which every man demands unlimited transfers with stop-over privileges. A little girl's mind is always more precocious than a little boy's; but Ly the time he gets big enough to bully her, he soon manages to convince j her that she is Ite “mental inferior,” ry Domeaticity, like olives, is an acquired taste; in some cases, it takes rs for a woman to get used to a husband; and in others, it takes nine husbands for @ woman to get uscd to matrimony, Mrs. Jarr Listens to the Woes of a Very Poor Millionaire 999dDITIVSTIOTISS SESSS>OSSSOOUSUSS CESOOSNNNEESNRTS ™p vocal lessons. I have paid outjman by your freaks. Now you want hundrede of dollare and I have becn|to go to work?" taught everything but singing. I know] “Indeed I do!” exclaimed the fair how to bulla brick piles on my|young matron. ‘There is degradation | stomech by the diaphramatic method|in being a parasite. Only Jabor has of einging; I putr paper pellets tojdignity. Z am determined to be no the ceiling under another system; I longer @ burien to my husband and to can toss bean bags by the bean-bag| be compelied to ask him for money.’ method of vocal instruction; I ha’ ‘“‘Whom else would you ask for money practised the Diana, or archery, pose-|from? Whet elee 4i@ you marry him on-one-foot method—I've deen taught for, but his money?’ Mrs. Jare de- @iscouraged. Go I have thought tt afl;Hve in Hoboken because she was hap- over, and have decited that 1 wiR be Dier there than on Fifth avenus. and practical. Oh, Mra. Jarr, the dearest I can respect her. But you are only wish of my heart fe to be self-sup- |fooling yourself rying to foot me!” porting!" Pe rata to w said Mrs, Mud- “ " ith stoutly. “I care not what Fiddlesticks!” cried Mrs, Jare COD \tne work is—no matter how menial it temptuously. “When you were living; with your ¢ather and doing your own @—st least it wiN be doing my part, | housework in @ cheap flat you were anxious enough to avoid sel Now that you have e husband keop of your automobile, your charge ts at the jewelry and department stores, eh?” asked Mra, Jarr. ‘well, it ten't necessary to change “T'4 like to see you!” eniffed Mrs. Jarr, the sooffer. “But, my dear,” was the crushing re- ply, “I'M prove I can do that. One can buy @ whole double paper of pins for six cente—more than I'd use in a year!” to take an intercet in the euffrage ————— Spendthrift Wives. CHICAGO woman brought suit against her husband for failure © mupport her. It was testified that his income was $291 @ month, but even with that he declared she spent money 80 lavishly that he could not pey her bills, And (t seemed that was the situation, so the judge discharged the husband. There is not much sympathy for ® spendthrift wife, says the Ohio burden to a man who has one, It is simply beyond all excuse for a woman to spend $3,000 can be cured by suggestion. Merely ‘ March 25, 1912 | | while te revolution was in progress, and, in: 178, opened a law office. In the | same year he married Mrs. Prevost. | wae old and broken, Hie wife was dead. His only daughter, Theodosia, had is nothing ¢hat fa man as to Historic By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1932, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York World)... No. 27—AARON BURR, Foremost of American Heartbri E married his first wife at twenty-six and his second at H eight. And he had love affairs with dozens of other’ ‘between those two ages. He was Aaron Burr, greatest of America’s “might beens,” and foremost, too, of America’s heartbreakers. He was 60 that he was nicknamed “little Burr.” He had a classic face, hypuetie black eyes and a manner better fitted to the. French court than to te young and rather rude nation in which he lived. Brom boyhood he was lways the object of women’s love. Although he Was graduated érom Prfmceton when he was only aixteon (in 1772), there was dy that time more than one girl who openly adored him. It was Burr's boast that he never deliberately set out to win eay woman's heart. This may have been true, for there were plenty of women wherever he went to save him the trouble of laying siege to thelr — affections. Burr, as a lad of nineteen, joined the revolution. He was fearless, brilliant soldier and rose quickly to the rank of Major. Then his. daring and skill attracted Waal notice and procured for the young man a position on Commander-in-Chief's own ataff. But within sx apade of Burr's (generally believed to have been fair), so disgusted Washington that the Com was ever afterward Burr's enemy. Leaving the staff and securing the rant Covel, Burr was stationed with his regiment in Orange County. There ti Mrs, Theodosia Prevost, widow of a British officer. He is @aid to ha Mrs. Prevost from a party of marauding English soldiers, to have fallen in love with her at sight and to have thrown over for her sake another woman to whem he was engaged. Tring of war, or finding he could rise no higher in rank, he left the army Ho was twenty-six and she wae nearty thirty-seven, Yet, they were happy together—after a fashion. The wife did sot live long erpvugh to let the difference between their ages make her old while husband was etill middle aged. She died a few years after the marriage. there were many women eagerly ready to console her husband. ae Burr, meantime, had dent his wonderful brain to the mastery lof polities, bo beat Gen. Schuyler for the United States Senate in 1791, to the rage of son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, who henceforth became Burr's «worn Burr rose rapidly, and, in 190, was Jefferson's rival for the Presidency. vote was a tie. Congress awaried the Presidency to Jefferson, and, by the aug tom pf the time, Burr became Vice-President. i In 1904 his long quarrel with Hamilton reached a climax in a duel. Burr and Hamilton fought, with pistols, early one July morning at Weehawken Duelling Wee a favorite and usual method of settling disputes in those day’ And the fight was perfectly fair. Neither man was a good pistol ehot, and ¢ had an equal chance. Yet when Hamilton was killed Burr was forced to 0 hiding. For a storm of public indignation swept ‘him forever frbm popularity ended his political career, He next planned vast Southwestern empire an duced his friend, erhaseet, to finance the en! Blennerhasset's wi said to have been devoted to and to have helped him induce her husband to tab the plan. The Government nipped the project in the Burr was tried for treason, escaped off @ “not proven” verdict and we: Burope. There, according to one biographer: “Women of rank were incessantly enthrafied by the euavity and pote his demeanor and by the cameo-like beauty of his face.” But he nearly starved, and, as goon as he dared, came back to America. Jost at sea. His fortune wae gone and he was an outcast. Yet, his powe fascination was so strong that when he was about seventy-eight years ok conducted a “whielwind courtship that won him the heart, hand and fortun a rich widow, Mme. Jumel (whose house still stands in the northern part of , York City). He equandered much of his elderly wife's money and she soon left h Burr died—forsaken eave by one Scotch woman, who had cared for him in be: * days—in a Staten Istand hut in 1866, | The Day’s Good Stories anatic asylum.” The gl f Changed His Mind. | trac tans sretead MAS” SOUTHERN Senator was alone in hie of-| ewtnging "T fot got om | fice one morning when « middle-aged wo. | terday,” she said. Geum ia. bet haan la ag Pete oon Monell bad > oe. sor it ta ; —_— “Can you tend ene 20" ae asked, calling the ton mar, b Nigeaasie bers © “Si Se hl ee erm, “tate When Woman Votes. for hours. in fact, I've fast eecaped out Pla Blouse of Lace and Taffeta—Pattern No, 7357, Ting portions, 11-4 yards 18 invhes wide for the chemise! 4 1b 8 of banding. Vattorn ‘Nov 748¥ tn in sizes for @ 3 38, 40 and 42 inch bust mesaure, .