The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1912, Page 14

CAN YOU BLAME THEM? HE Austro-Hungarien Ambassador to the United States re-| fused point blank the other day to pay $6.50 for having ridden in an eutomobile from the Hamburg-American pier in Hoboken to the Hotel St. Regis in Fifth avenue. “It’s robbery!” the Baron is reported to have declared. “I'll not | be robbed! I'll not pay it!” | After much argument the Ambassador agreed to pay $3.75. “But not another cent!” The automobile company say they meen to have their money. As an embecsador, however, is beyond reach of most forms of annvy- ance, we dare say they will worry along with the $3.75. The auto: | mobile in question was not taxicab, it ie true. It was « public car, «NO. 18,493 ~ newever, with « schedule of fixed as ual in this city,’ ¥ Wes not posted conspicuously in the car but casually carried in the, 3 chauffeurs pocket. | Now, the present Austrian Ambassador is a wealthy man. A few dollars cab fare more or lévs mean nothing to him. He has been, 8 long time in America. He knows New York. He knows the ways and means amd the mean ways of public automobile service in this’ city. It might be argued thet he would better have quietly submitted | 4 te the customary hold-up. | ms ~.. But let us cee for an instant how the cab question in New York looks to a European. The following is a literal transcript from a printed notice whici ig posted plainly in every taxicab in Paris. ‘The same is found in London, Berlin and Vienna. Paris is merely typical. The notice is inside the car between the two front windows where it cannot escape the passenger's eye. And if that were not enough. anybody taking a taxicab at a railway station has a copy of this notice thrust into his hend. We quote exactly, merely translating metres and centimes into feet and conts at the working ratios: One metre equals 31-4 feet; ne franc equals twenty cents. | PUBLIC AUTOMOBILE—TWO SEATS. WITH TAXIMETER. DAY TARIFF. " One or two. passengers in the city proper. UP TO 2,985 FEET, OR THE FIRST 7 MINUTES 12 SEC- There being 5,280 feet in a mile, this makes the cost for the FIRS’ MILE A FRACTION UNDER 8.20, AND THE ADDED COST FOR EACH ADDITIONAL MILE LESS THAN 8.11! Furthermore: DURING W4AIT8 OR SLOW TRAVEL THE METER REGIGTERS AT THE RATS OF $.60 4N HOUR, OR AT THE FRACTIONAL RATE OF $02 FOR EVERY 2 MINUTES AND &} SEOONDS. \y | THINK OF BEING ABLE TO SHOP OR DO ERRANDS IN| A COMFORTABLE TAXI FOR $%.50 AN HOUR! | THE NEW YORK TAXI SHOWS A STARTING TARIFF) OF $.50! THINK OF BEING ABLE TO RIDE 31-2 MILES FOR THE) ‘ TAX WHICH THE NEW YORK TAXI REGISTERS BEFORE YOU MOVE 4 FOOT! THINK OF IT! Yet thousands and hundreds of thousands are doing it hourly! im cities that insist upon putting the leseer luxuries and comforts) within reach of the common people. . When ao Paris taxi goes into the suburbs the rate advances 25 per cent. but must be immediately restored to the regular tariff when the car recrosses the line of fortifications which mark the city proper. At night, from 12.30 A. M. to 6 A. M. during the summer (April 1 to Sept. 30) and from 12.30 A. M. to 7 A. M. during the winter (Oct. 1 to March 31), the tariff is one-third in excess of the day rate. Heavy luggage is carried at the rate of 8.05 per piece. All this is carefully and minutely printed for the passenger's |. protection, together with rules as to general privileges. For ex- The cheuffeur when esked to stop en route or to vary from the direct route te required to conform to the passenger's wish. He te also bound to stop and let the passenger get in or out. When the passenger gets out of the car or leaves it swatt- ing, or im the cowree of the trip orders it to go slowly, the chauffeur ts forbidden to touch the meter. The passenger te expressly cautioned to pay no charges ew cept as registered by the meter. In case of difficulty or disagreement—which is rare—an appeal te the nearest policeman ecte like s charm. ‘The mere suggestion beings the chauffeur to terms. ’ x where the New York chauffeur sniffs at s quarter. IN ANY BIG CAPITAL OF EUROPE $.25 WILL BUY ANY- BODY THE COMFORT OF AN AUTOMOBILE RIDE BETWEEN RAILWAY STATIONS. FOR $.60 ONE MAY HAVE A BUSY HOUR OF OALIA Ok SHOPPING WITH CONSEQUENT SAVING OF TIME AND STRENGTH. WHY SHOULD THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK PAY $1.00 TO RIDE A MILE IN A TAXIOAB WHEN IT OAN BE DONE IN PABIS FOR $.20. , DO WE PAY 8.25 FOR A TROLLEY RIDE? a” ee Is # any wonder that foreigners rebel at the silly expensiveness ' and incredible rewness of our cab service? The Evening Jerr. Moreover, he is pleased and grateful for a tip of five or ten cents | Wo eine Oe I WILL NEVER BE ABLE Toqer ese LMy Feetane Son" SWouen rld Daily Ma Bud STANo On THE ALL sey ~ 2 COT. SBS Nee Hoek Work ns O% 66 AN Mrs, Dusenberry a by me, iC Maw? Say, can't ehe sit by me?” whined Master Willie “No, by me! By Mw!" cried little Qiies Emma Jare, bouncing up and down ‘with the petulant impatience so notice- ‘ole in children as well as in excited @mians in the at feeding time. “Law dieses mel" exclaimed Mrs. Dusenderry, ‘Why do you young ones worrlt and fret your pore Maw in the way you do?” “I want you to sit by me, Don't sit by Willie!” repeated Mise Jarr, “Neo, by me! By MB! I eald tt Greti* erled tboy, ef you both ain't goed I won't may supper at all, and you wan't ave any of the cookies I'made. But if you're real good I'll come over some day and cook you eome tangle britches.” “What is @ tangle britchest’ asked what eome people call dough- | nuts, only they're cut different before they go into the hot grease," said Mrs, | Dusenberry. “And I'll bet you childres | never had any, nor any corn pone with Double Action. wi by the they by “Were you awakened yesterday the sound of the Baeter belle?” eae eerie the sight ef the mornin Seowe bla by P Wy eracklin'’s? was the childish query that followed, ae Mrs. Dusenberry moved Mies Jarr over on the side of pork and milk gravy, with oracklin'’s 00! “Well, we can git @ You 'LL HAVE ToGET THEM ON- Nou CAN'T GO WITHOUT SHoeS Ano YOU CAN’ Leave sy ( il if eign insects is,"" sald etrt. rots on‘the fire escape, and a lady below us had mer. DiRFERENTS Ty SFAFSASABLADABAAAAASARABSBABAASA ABAD Mrs. Jarr Is a Hospitable Soul! But, Oh Dear, How She Hates to Be! FABIBAAALABIPBRAAAAAAALABAAAAAAAAS | it on the Gre escape,"Yeald the little Jarr ‘Bgme fotks keeps cats and par- little elligator thene last eum- alligators good to eat?” ‘They are rank all them for- ‘Mrs, Dusen- verry, as rhe out some bread for the children, Indiana style (This is done by holding- the loaf against the chest een} and cutting tn ‘em. Diggie and keep ‘stepmother the of lady. thiek slices ‘stepmother dread’ I dunno, Fables of Everyday Folks one.) leclare, I've out you slices, too thick,” eatd ‘Although why they call ‘There, I Copyright, 1012, by The Free Pubtishing Oo, (The Mow York Werkd). THE CARD LADY. NCE upon @ time there was a lady ‘who acquired @ riding-hebdit, tut it lef her It became INTDRESTING. ®ecame VERY interesting. Ghe wanted to Jearn MORE about it. a STUDY. She PURSUED it. Her edu- cation went further. learn the SCLEINCE of the thing. In other words, where before it had deen but an amusement, sisted on a truly scientific game. Where at first she was just passing an idle began to LOOK FOR- Joiner ppointed t ith expectancy. Mt yA~>What mattered it !f this, that or the other household duty was left WAIT- to sleep ING until to-morrow? It became more oe om wom te It wae @ progressive game and there wae a PRIZE to carry home, Ah, thet was the thing! And how she worked and worked and worked too, It if that self-same prize in actual value amounted to leas than the cost of her bonbons a week? What mattered it if she came home tate headache @ habit. It was not & pace. For she fan the rece and aid not know HOW to be her own stop- ‘watoh, it began in the usual way. She ac- cepted an invites tion to learn to play “a social game of cards.” It wae quite AMUSING at firet —the queens and knaves and spots and things. | ttle en ft Tt was realty She wanted to whe now tn- 8 little club or two ime found her aglow off* the trophy. Of “equeiched” with her glare of DIS- UST. Her PLIDASING temper of yesterday was lost in the losing game of to-day. Unintentionally ehe began to figure out “certain hands" while she wae doing up her hair or a¢ night im her dreame. Many times she stared into space and the crevices of her brain you might have found the progess of conaideration @oing on—that if only she had played the ace BEFORE the queen, &c., &c. ‘Then things took a turn in the direc- tian of the medicine man, For che had grown very, very tired. Indesd she did not know just what was the MATTER with her. But the wise doctor knew. something that sounded like and “prostration.” She woud have to take a certain cure which meant keeping VERY QUIET for some time—no cal- culation, no conceme, no CARDS, She degan to learn that they wi bad lot—those kings and queens and knaves--if taken too OFTEN. She real- ed whe would have to shuffle them off fore she got lost in the shuffie, 5 found that in moderation you make the “and just ef & bavit, For, Se atta, pete net condition, but in the extreme the con- dition makes YOU, MORAL! A LITTLE DRINK WON'T GET YOU DRUNK. YOU'VE GOT TO /Mre, Dusenberry. < aI | | | ne | Seems to me thin elices and not much | of ‘em would be what stepmothers ‘would give.” Just then a ring canie at the door, and Mrs. Jarr jumped from the table in alarm! “Oh, dear!” she cried, “I do hope it's Robody comi to dinner! It's Ger- trude’s day out and the table ts not egt nicely, Where's my fern dish? Where's my lace centrepiece “Now, dearte, you ain't goin’ to put on style setting that brass pan full of weeds on yer table, air you?” asked old “I do dect pl \o puts en so much fuss and feathers when they eats these days ¢! ‘more like @ movin’ pic Jest plain vittels fer plain people.” “Oh, why do people come at meal ¢imet’ ores Mfrs. Jarr.~ “Why don't ‘they let one know ahead? I'l) go in and | entertain whoever it {s, and you close the door and make the children keep quiet and not rattle the dishes.” “1 do declare, if people ain’t unneigh- dorly in this town!” remonstrated ‘Mrs, Dusenbderry. “Ax ‘em to dinner, gal, ax ‘em to dinner! I wouldn't care (tf I hadn't anything but ingins an’ bread nn, ef it was a friend droppin’ 2. ~ But Mre, Jarr was speeding to the door of the flat, the caller having got- ten up the stairs by this tim “I know you are at din voice was heard to say, Gratoh, the militant suffragette, bore in ‘behind larr to the dining room. “Oh, don’t apologise, I see your husband at ‘Mrs. Gratch, paying little heed to the introduetion Wes receiving to old Mrs. Dusenbe “Yes, he's late at the office to-night,” explained Mrs. Jarr. “When women get the vote husbands at the office. ‘Who'll take care of the babi asked the old lad; ‘The contingendy of children may be remote, Children will be only viewed from @ rational and biological point of eaid Mrs. Gratch. ‘And the ate will look “The State 1s looking after a lot of | the Pore little biograph! chikiren enapped the olf lady. “If you| mean the pore house!” ¢ doorbell rang again, Jerr (for ck to the dining shabby young man; mort detinetiy—of Mr. Jai ——— PROFIT AND LOSs. “Why do you look ao do’ morning? Thought you m in W 4 Jost two thoupand | id t los lage ia + pammaie HIS is the story of one of the most spectacular and dramatic figures of Russia, and whom his own fickleness barred from that throne. crush @ horeeshoe with his hand. He was the ¢on of a mor between the King of Saxony and a German Countess. At the age he entered the army. Before ho was fourteen he had won fame as a reckicss and brilliant soldier. When he was a mere youth his great strength and his gay courage made him adgsed by women. A full list of his sweethearts would read like a page of the city directory, Only one or two of his most interesting love affairs can be touched on here. Ficklen Him a Throne. ed cleh ado®G nim. But be squandered her fortune ana her thet ahe soon was forced to divoree him. Russia, the great Duchcses Anns Ivonovus sent for hi spetied his chances by falling in love with another woman fiokleness on the part of her betrothed, the Duchess ward Anna was made Empress of Russia. But for have been crowned Car, Ae it wae, he was forced of soldiering. | directed and won the historic battle of Fentenoy not elt on his horse, and had ¢o be carried atout ‘The battle, according to @ historian, postponed the French feotive education andé rough manners. The chronicler, Lemonty, sage affair: | | he knew better than any one; and apeliing—which | that it enust be because of his love for Adrienne. So the Duchess hired « | named Bouret to poison Adrienne. Overcome by the actress's gentieness ant | beauty, the woukl<be asensnin confessed to Adrienne the vile plot and showeg | her the polsoned candies he had been told to give her. | dog. The antmal died in agony, The police were notified. The Duchess denied the story, and, through family influence, escaped punishment. fare Lara Gnd was kept there until he wae willing to ewear that Ms acouss- weeae ile dealous Poteon Plot, He waa the most brilliant, dissolute figure in the world’s moat uriiiant. de solute court. A German #9 gallantly been fighting. Quickly went In 1780 he died, having crowded into his fifty Séventures, perlis and love episodes than come to a dozen ordinary materials are very exponsive, but thelr euch @ time. The earrings may be dull centre. A necklace of onyx and. pearls may be worn et the same time, A cross usually is fastened a: the end, Some preter a locket, with @ picture of the lost one inside used in the afternoon, when one begins to go to quiet at homes and #mall en- tertainments. | 8, 1912 Historic Heartbreakers By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1012, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World), NO. 33.-MARSHAL SAXE: Glant, Warrior and Lover. in history: Maurice Saxe, Marshal of France, son cf a king, ber of a hundred thrilling love affairs, and for whose faver wome) died; the man whom love almost raised to the imperial thrun~ Saxe was giant in stature and was so strong that he could vend and Most of his adventurous life was spent in warfare, Adrienne Lecouvreur was the foremost actress of Europe. She had of ardent eultors, but rejected them all for Haxe, When be decided to bocomne @ candidate for the vacant Duchy 6 Courland, in 17%, she sold her jewels ané releed showed co ‘Then, after he bad won the Duchy of Courleod and had offered te if fortune, 2 is wife. It was @ wonderful match for a mere solder o! ti his fon; wo | ik i ff By sheer genius he rose te the rents of Marshal of (waile be the Geld Revolution tor half century, Adrienne Leceuvreur loved Saxe devotedly, and eke even improved es 4 i F al ‘@axe learned from the beautiful Adrienne Qverything except never knew at ail" ‘The Duchess de Boulllon also fell in love with Saxe. He was indiferent er sighs and vows. She could not understand why; and she decided af Bhe fed the candy to a Bouret was sent Goon afterward, Adrienne sickened and died, There was more talk 9: poleon, But nothing was proved. Gaxe does not seem to have regretted hie lost love to any great or permanent extent. France was full of beautiful women and be ‘was by this time « national hero, From one love affair to another he /turnet Who was the idol of France, At length peace was declared between France and the foes ww: His wariike oooupation gone, ti axe hed hand 1% My Lady’s Jewel Box HB 4ifference between the past and present styles of mourning costumes is that mourning materiale may now We made attractive, These afford plain Jet. it is very inexpensive. But there are ¢wo kinds cf je—the of dinary jet and the Wh.tby jet. Tie latter { cosilier and. te very muci Ughter in weight, ; For the evening, when your drem more elaborate, onyx and gun-mel bracelets in which a few diamonds pearls are set are about the most ecst- ly mourning jewelry, In bygone Gaye it was the fashion ¢e wear Geep mourning for an entire year, At the present many people consider atx months long enough. After this black and white become fashiona! ‘There ie practically no third mouraing. 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