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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. aw Bun: the Preas Publishing Company, Puatiened Dolly Exoept Sunday by le Breve Bub rn Nos, RALPH PULITZER, Presit 68 Park Row, J. ANGUS SIFAW, nirer 68 Park Row, JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 68 Park Row. Naw Vork ax Mecond-Ciaes Matter Daeasciptitn hetes” to fvening f For Fngland and the Continent and ; World for the United States ‘All Countries in the Tnternational and Caneda Postal Union. © om Distt eee veweses $8.60] One Year. ..sor-cee ,30| One Month » VOLUME 62....... vose NO, 18,536 ROWDIES IN RESERVED SEATS. ‘OW MUCH insult privilege goes with a baseball ticket? H Let the “fans” who are growling because “Ty” Cobb climbed inte the grand stand and punched a man for using fanguage the fellow would never have dared to use in the open answor that question. The man thought his seat in the audience pro- him. It is all very well to eay that the baseball player should have con- trolled himself, that he had no business to take the law into his own hands. Certain kinds of foul-mouthed aluse can be answered only ts Cobb answered it. To make the lesson a moderate one is beyond @Quman nature. If the man in the crowd used half the words that treditable witnesses say he did it was a queer sort of audience that Sidn’t kick him out of the stand. » What are the rights of public performers, anyhow? ‘Are they to be obliged to listen to any sort of low invective and filth that 0 muddy minded spectator may choose to fling at them? Hissing and Chaff, disapproval loud and plain—yes. But how about coarse abuee and vile invective? Would such things be tolerated for an instant 4 } tm any theatre? 3 And what about the rights of the other spectators? ‘Are decent ’ ‘men, women and children at a public sport to be forced to listen to the offensive gutter gibes of toughs who have no regard for their earroundings? It is a notorious fact that baseball games in this city ave ceasing to be safe or decent places for women or children because | | of the language that is shrieked across the field by excited men on- lookers. It is high time this sort of thing came to an end. It “Ty” Cobb has succeeded in drawing public attention to this frowing evil he has done a good thing for clean minded lovers of a veeat sport. The baseball magnates who are so gravely and ponder- usly upholding their own dignity and authority would do better to ‘ike the hint and enforce common decency and order among the public that go to their games. ——_-4 =. TRY “SPARROW COPS” AGAIN. T's: WAS a good idea of Mayor Gaynor’s to take a Sunday trip through the parks unannounced and all by himself, The Chief Executive of a great city going about the people’s }'aygrounds of a Sunday afternoon, seeing how the crowds amuse themselves, watching small boys play baseball and letting little girls tiow him how to sail boats, fs a far from unpleasant picture. It is to be hoped the Mayor’s keen eye noted much besides the trowds themselves—particularly in Central Park. He is reported ‘o have declared himself “delighted with the way the people wero injoying the parks.” What we are apt to forget is ‘the fact that the “enjoyment” of a New York crowd in the open air too often proves like a march of Attila and his Huns. Gress and flowers bloom no more where their teet have trod. A great park can only be maimtained by the sacrifice of some liberty and the suppression of all lawlessness. Fine lawns are not jaede in one year, nor in five. We must remember we have not the Century woven turf of English per! If we wish to develop a fine perk we must protect it in the making. Why not restore the old “sparrow cops?” The Park Board is etd unanimously to favor their revival. The regular police can never , Bees much for the Park as epecially trained guards who have the trees endl chrubs es their immodiate interest and care, and who are under hetontrol of and directly responsible to the Park Board. | + Give the beautifal old Park every chance for a banner year. feel ike. Of course, if trees had i Or legs life would be more co: oated than it 4, which 4 quite sufficient now, ECAUSE @ Port Chester 4 el Bere cretectes Seg ze diting last winter all our honest dogs have to wear muzzies, while the Outlaws do as they please f yore, A mussie te a most uncomt ‘table thing, as besides cramping a dog's bites it rubs his nose sore. ‘would hu- cased in they were going to play baseball, and even then it ts not Deing biffed by @ ba HE hens are setting better now, end the chicken outlook t im- Proved, Chickens are very tm: Portant factors in trade and commerce and need close looking after. This is ‘why we mention it if anything seems to be going wrong with them. _—_—— The Coppright, 191! (ive New | WISH we had electric lights fn ‘this house,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “That's the trouble with these Prese sad fork World), old-fashioned flats. Oh, dear, I wish we Could move into one of those fine mod- ern apartments, with hall boys and all conyentences!"* “Yes, and it would be nice to have a Mine place in the country, with a six- cylinder automobile and a motor boat NE of our Connecticut florists an- O uounces something new in posies called “The Suffragette, Flowering Coxm 4nd Koes on to @ay that the “Suffragette Cosmos will bloom from late July until frost.” This 1s something ke our suffragettes, who are nice and tame) pioom through the summer but wilter fs coming t0/1n the frost which gets here about eles. . tlon day! Large UDGE BRUSH has planted his gar- ' new wire fi TOWINg sass, THERE'S A REASON, its calt? den and has surrounded jt with a| , through which the| me te ute Shichons Peer enviously, being barred e ‘from the easy ecratchin reen | he’ aa ak 6 and the green| | me ptown, although it is eannot ride in the subway! said Mts, Jerr. “Ie it nico up there because you can't ride in the subway, Mr. Jarr. “Oh, don't pick @ Person up about Pleasant, although more agreceste enon | Over” Mttle thing!" anapped Mrs. Jarr, dridge-Dmith ves in, but nice nd Forty-fifth street, only t! old flats than way up there, I saw up at One Hi and I'd rather live h nice, because I simply or why?" asked vening World Daily Magazine, Tuesda: of being poor and havi: Tem trea to worry and twed in nicer apartmente?” “Indeed I do not!" replied Mr. Jarr. wcrape and just keep abreast or a little|“I not only do not begrudge you the behind o1 ‘3 dedts! Surely you don’t| wish, but < hopé it comes true-rat! your degrudge me my Jittle wish that welwishes. If you are not satisfied here “| understand they have almost Curate—Didn't I assure you that a| Mo May Queens in Central jcow ts only dangerous when it has lost| spring. No? They She~That'e why I was frightened, 1|themeeives to the joould not see @ calf anywheray-Bketch | ing ae mermalde.” probably try to adjust weather by poe / Love Songs of a Bachelor By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), The Bacheloraiyat. DAINTY, rose-decked table, set. for two, A A jug of ale, @ chafing-dish—and you, Beside me, cutting cheese and making toast— Well, that's not paradise, but it will do! Some for the gilded restaurants, and some Sigh for Bohemia, But who would roam, With just the right girl, and right recipe, For making love and rarebits, right at home! pty asphyxiated? One of us could regain consciousness and get up and use the Her Polly-tics. va cleaner on the rest of us and) OLLY'S talking politics; ae [ +| "It would be a grand tea,” said ar, P That's her latest caper, \darr, "Maybe if we have luck we can AU her views are sweetly culled From the evening paper. What @ lot of things she'd fiz If ahe were in politica! Polly 4¢ @ “Rooesevelt man;" Loves to talk “Sound Money,” “Referendum” and “Recall'— Mercy! It ie funny! “Trusts and things!" If ahe were in politics! Polly's bowght a Suffrage hat, Just to match her gloves. Polly wears a Roosevelt belt That she fairly “loves.” Polly makes her wardrobe miz Outely with her politica, Polly thinks that I'm depraved— Really almost wicked; That the country would be SAVEL Should I vote HDR ticket, She can give me fearful licks When she's talking politics. SHE'D foil their tricks But I know a little way Neatly to escape her, To the BARGAIN sheet I point— Polly grabs the psxer— Then from toc-time until sis, ‘ Farewell Polly's Poliy-tice! ASAAAAABAASABAAIASAPAAALBAAAAADAAAA . Mr. Jarr Hears Vacuum Is Useful ily For Breaking Into Good Society PAAAAAABBAABBIADPAPISISABAAAABAD BIAS because we haven't got electric lights We can move." "Oh, it 'sn't the electric lights. In fact, I lik. gas better,” explained Mrs. jarr. ‘Mrs, Stryver saya her electric Ught bills are terrible, but then elec- tricity 18 so nice to run @ vacuum cleaner with. “The latest fad is vacuum cleaner Parties, then?” inquired Mr. Jarr. “Well, when one has a new teed ten years, and it only cost $75. Clara Mudridge-Smith's cost more and it has pumps in it. I think that one would be better to have in our house, if had electricity, because it is always getting out of order and our ‘Willle could learn to be @ regular in- ventive genius fixing it.” vacuum cleaner would be fine for Willie, I've no doubt,” remarked Mr, darr, dryly. “And out in Chicago people's lives have been saved by vacuum cleaners when they tried to commit suicide with gas," resumed Mra, Jarr. ‘They use the vacuum cleaners to pump air into the lungs of the asphyxiated people, Suppose some time th would be turned on by mistak we were all wet @ life-saving vacuum cleaner. Just | At’ present we have all we can do to aveld vacuums by paying our bills at the butoher and grocer and baker.” | “Well, if only we had electricity in the {house I could have the vacuum cleaner {companies send up all thelr machines in |turn on trial,” replied Mra. Jarr, “Don't you remember, that's the way Clara Mudridge-@mith used to mobile rides before she ? Now she twits him be- of the machines she used to fn as @ ‘demonstration’ dead beat better than the imported cars her | and has." Well, 1 hope you will enjoy yourself at the vacuum cleaner party you are | going to,” said Mr, Jarr, as he slid for the door. | "Ob, I'm going to two, After we see! ‘Mra, Stryver'g machine at work we are| going over to see Clara Mudri | Smith's, But she cheat “Cheats?” echoed Mr. Jarr, “Yes,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “So it will though her vacuum cleaner is he has the haliboy bring and dirt frem the celiar| ‘and hide tt under the rugs, Then ¢ dust bag of her vacuum cleaner al ,has twice as much Mra, Stryver's, But # fe by just such little triumphs “Bodety seems to de out for the dust ith vecuum cleaners,” eald Me. Jerr, Qnd went his way to. work, ? Copyright, 1912, by The Hes Pubtishing Oo, (The New Tork Weeki), The problem of making financial provision for old age te yearly more pressing. Nearly every government ie grappling with it. Tt te a theme that vitally concerns every one, Miles M. Dawson, who made @ thorough investigation of the O16 Age Pension systems throughout Burope for the Bage Foundation, end who te 6 recognized authority on the eudject, has written a series of arttoles for The Evening World in which he sete forth simply and interestingly the Old Age Pension question and explains how it may most readily be solved. I. The Need for Old Age Provision in the United States. - HB amount of old age dependency in the United States iemot accurately known by anybody and few have,any conception of it. No book upon the subject had been published until a few days ago, when “Old Age Dependency in the United States,” by Lee W. Squier, was published. Mr. Squier has made an estimate of the number of dependent per« sone, atxty-five years and over, in the United States, basing his calculations upon an investigation of the number in Massachusetts made by a “Commission on OM Age Pensions, Annutties and Insurance to the Generel Court of Massa- ekusette,” in 1910, That commission found 117,000 persons in the State sixty-five years of age and over, of whom 195,788 were classed as “non-dependent,” leaving 41,218 dependent. These were taken care of as follows: By private outdoor relief. Ly United States pensions. No estimate was made of the cost of caring for those who were in corres- ttonal institutions and in insane asylums and hospitals; but, excluding these, It was estimated that $,190,408.00 was paid out in relieving about 39,000 of the Gependent old. Mr, Squier has computed the dependent populatton in the United States, at five and over, using the commission's statement as a basis, to be as By United States and milit ‘This gives « total of 1,123,172, which total is perhaps short of the mark, even though the distribution by classes is not so likely to be even approximately correct. Mr. Squter's estimate of the cost, this estimate aleo being based 1ipon the Massachusetts computations, ie $178,609,968.41 per annum, these figures being for the year 1900, The average income of the non-dependent over the age of sixty-five, as found by the Massachusetts commission, was as follows: For single males $17.83 per week, with an average expenditure of 96.26, 36.1 per cent. of the income being “erived from savings, 361 per cent. from contributions from relatives and 15.6 per cent. from pensions. For single femaies $4.50 per week income, with average expenditure of $4.28, 4 per cent. of the income being from savings, 67 per cent. from contributions @f relatives, and 94 per cent, from pensions. Married couples, average weekly income $11.70, with average weekly expendl- tare of of which income 56.3 per cent. was derived from savings, 29 per cent. from ributions of relatives and 19.6 per cent. from pensions. Families, meaning married couples with children or grandchildren, average weekly income $13.24, average expenditure $12.00 and of the Income 587 per cent. derived from savings, 12.4 per cent. from contributions of relatives and 32.3 per cent. from pensions. Ut te therefore seen both that the average income of the aged who are claseed as non-dependent fs very small and that almost or quite half of it is contributed by relatives or in the form of pensions. ‘The dependent old in Massachusetts were found to beabout thirty-two per. ons per 1,000 of the population. This is perhaps not higher than the average for the entire country and may be considerably lower. In Great Britain the average fa 173 per 1,000 of the population. ‘The United States Government te already supporting a very large proportion of the dependent old by pensions, the same being paid as military or naval pensions for the service of the person himself, or of her husband {f a widow, in the civil war or the Spanish war. The number of these pensioners was in 1%? 961,687, and no less than $153,008,08 was paid in pensions during the year. In thu fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, the number of pensioners had fallen to 921,083 but the rates of the pension had been so increased that the aggregate of the pay ments was $159,947,066.08 during the previous year. According to the report of the Commissioner of Labor, the trade unions have ‘been paying in the neighborhood of $900,000 a year for permanent disability and euperannuation benefits, which have gone toward relieving these conditions; but this amounts, of course, to a very smal part of it. ‘There are pension systems in @ number of industrial and transportation come Panties, but tho amount of relief as compared with the total number of the - indigent aged is very small. Others have placed the estimates of the number of those over the age of @izty who are wholly or partly dependent at 2,500,000 or more. Mr. Squier in his admirable book calls fention to the fact that according to the mortality tables one-half of those w! Fe living at age twenty would still be surviving at age sixty-five, and by means of his investigations he arrived at the conclusion that of those who survive no less than # per cent. will be without means of support. This means not less than 20 per cent. of the entire adult population and cere tainly indicates that we have need to consider means of making proper pre- vision for the dependent old in this country without further delay. (To Be Continued.) annnnnnnnnmannnnnnnnnnnneennnnnnnennnrnmnnn nonmannnnnmnnnnnn FS Domestic Dialogues. By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). THE ARISING. ene (unintelligily)—Do y' know ne y mate hy o? I just HATE my Mrs. G. (opening her eyes)— My sade more unpleasant in the morne goodness! It's 8 o'clock and that alarm | !n® Say, who invented sleep? never went off, Henry! Henry! Wake| Mrs. G. (in disgust)—Oh, very wellt up—wake up! It's awful late! T€ you want to lose your job, it's none Mr. G. (still in dreamland)—Quit your ot ME funeral, babs shovin'! I paid-my fare same as you, deep, resonant, voll plorees the atmos ‘hn’ Til land one on your map 1€ YOU) the'cover frog ty sieaas Ag: fiee® ee ibe ak don't can that pushin’! Mr. G. (getting up on one elbow, with Mrs. G. (more strenuously)—Henry, | one eye open)—Now, see? Just for thas | you'll be terribly late—it's 8 o'clock al-/1')) NEVER get up! ready and you know how long it takes) (He flops down in bed again and pulls the cave you to shave and everything! Seine cote het Mi Green begine “te ) Mr. G. (opening his eyes a tiny bit)—| “TP "Gielenatahy) ac . . . a. ep it Wha’ did you say? OF in'Site —lt sounds like the sighing of the soft wind through the pmes—Nothin’ like i¢ to put @ feller to—to sleep. Mre. G. (suddenly emits a joyful Mitte 'Y, Gear! erect)—What? G, (violently)—Henry, you don't o'clock, BIGHT The Mri understand—it's 8 O'CLOCK—and you'll alarm didn't go off! Mr, G (sublimely indéfferent and sleepy) — Gee? ‘Nother thing you're ped tle on me! I couldn't help it, if it didn't go off—complain to the maker, m'dear—Complain to the maker! I know abs'lutely nothin’ ‘bout ‘larm clocks! Mrs. G. (pulling open his eyelids with her thumb and finger)—Say, listen, Henry, do you want to lose your job? It you stay in bed much longer you'll Jose your job, I know you will, You're a half hour late already, Mr. G. (wrathfully)—Take your hands oft my face! You got awful sharp nails, Jus’ like @ cat—Jjus lke a tiger “Mire. G, (trying to soothe him)—Well, come then, get up and everything’ll be all right. Mr, G (yawning and stretching)—l'l get up—l'll get up! Only don't hurry me—I don't like to be hurried in the be late. equeal)—Oh, Henry! Mr. G@. (awake, site ‘What's the matter? down comto: under the blazkets)—Well, now pips! have to get @ after all, You can rest, even though you can't sleep, Mr. G. (coldly)—~Not on your Now that you've made it « potnt a1} me up we'll have breakfast, even though it 18 Sunday moraiag, se ig trot along and get busy with the flap- 4 4 ‘ Jacks! Mrs. G. (miserably, ae her slippers and kimono). per: she slips om (4 I'll nevi ent again as long as I live—nev e morning, Ain't It funny how rotten this] You can loge all the Jobe in New wert bed @t night and how grand It) as tar as I'm concerned—we can be be feels in the morning? ‘diay possessed for all I care~we— Mr, G, (blandly)—Are you sure there'g noush maple syrup for the Cakes, darling? You know how f love mapig | ayrup! di] Mrs, G.—You don't go to bed early enough—that's what the matte Henry, you look as though you're going PLBASE don't