The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1912, Page 22

nn nee et OCEANA A ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ae Published Dally Except Sunday by the Pros Publishing Company, Now 7 Except Buty bark Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZ! Presioent, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasusr, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Ir. Secretary, 63 Park Row, Prtered at the Poel-Office at Naw Torte ae Gncand.Clans Matter. @weeription Rates to The Eveningg ror Fneland and the Continent * World for the United States All Coumtrtes in the Internation: and Canada, Postal Union. 82.50) One Year. 301 O VERY DAY the Aldermen unearth new facts about taxicabs. E Every fact brings solid proof that The Evening World has been right in steadily insisting that the present exorbitant taxi tariffs are as unnecessary for fair profits as they are destructive of fair | service. Taxi graft in New York as revealed in the testimony of taxi! operators amazes even those who suspected it! Look at the facts: A TAXICAB IN THIS CITY NETS FORTY-FIVE CENT. PROFIT A YEAR TO ITS OPERATOR! HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS OOLLECT MORH THAN $862,000 A YEAR FOR TAXIOAB STAND PRIVILEGHS ON OITY OWNED HIGHWAYS! THE OITY GETS NONE OF THIS MONBY! THE PUBLIO PAYS IT IN THE PROSENT OUTRAGEOUS FARES! : Fourteen hundred ané fifty epectally Mcensed taxtoade in New York get their stand privileges by poying city Moeneses for only 692 places! The cade replace each other on stand in +, @nlese eecosesion. 4 hotel man com lease the stend in front of Ate door toe ° tems company for from $10,000 to $35,000 + year! The olty gets nothing out of such @ eal. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.gete $80,000-e year for-We tart ane privilege! Privileged tast cowpentes-using these restricted spaces aid @dusiness last year amounting to sony: $8,875,000! Independent tami owners, who pay no hotel privileges, lately | REDUCED THEIR RATES OVER ONE-THIRD, SINOE WHEN THEY HAVE MADE MORE MONEY! | One of these men told the Aldermen that (f the olty would | @dolieh private stands end assign public placee where independ- ent tazicad operators might oo “WH COULD hupuom THE | . RATES OONSIDERABLY MORE AND STILL MAKE A | Liviner Some weeks before the Aldermen began their hearings The Rve- ping World, after comparing cost of machines, maintenance and far-s in New York and European cities, ssid: Motor vehicles tn this country ore deing turned out better, cheaper, in greater quantities than ever defore. For commer- olal purposes they ore out of the high Wwoury class. Most taxi fares you pay in New York include o Mig rake off to a hotel or cafe, r The city can estadlish free pudiic taxt stands in squares ond side streets, and carefully inepect and regulite cars, metere, tariffe end Grivers Hiceneed to wee these stands. The olty can authorise oruleing tale to take passengers empwhere at the curd or in front of Rotels now weurped by Me PER to wee tamte and therefore use them oftener. BverythMag the ality can do to incresee the confidence ond frequency with which the maninthe-strect takes o tost ts Dound * to bring down rates still further by multiplying the demand and wvretirring wp competition among the tact congrantes. "Blech and every one of the facts brought out at the Atdermen’s Tearing has supported the repeated contentions of The Evening World. “OYTY REGULATION, will bring this city diminishing taxi rates and a rising stendand of ‘taxi service. HE NEW YORK TAXICAB.IS NOW A TYRANT AND A TOOL OF TYRANTS. , THE ALDERMEN CAN TRANSFORM IT INTO A COMFORT ‘AND A CONVENIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE. et ee - WHERE DOES IT BEGIN SPITE of repeated eppesie the fund for the Mississtpp! flood eufferers.does not increase es it dhoukd. The Relief Committee fn a letter addressed to the citizens of New York declares that “The absorbing drama of the Titanic diester and the contrasting lack ef epectacular effect in the Mississippi flood have efmost completely ‘Wunted the usual quick responsiveness of the American people to enffering and distress. “As e consequence of this apathy the Red Cross is facing an enor- mous work of rehabilitation with the smallest relief fund ever giver to meet an emergency of such magnitude. New York’s contribution to date is less than $25,000—only a fraction of that which has been’ eubscribed to distant China.” The Committee explains thet the euffering farmers of the district are in urgent need of seed for planting if the season is not to be a total loss. Two hundred thousard dollars, it is thought, will take care of the situation. Not another word should be needed. It is high time that all this daily booming of Titanic funds and Titanic memorials and loading of medals and purses upon honest men who have merely done thgir plain duty should stop—et least until the simple necds of people who are f at our doors are relieved. The country is dangerously near‘ laying iteelf open, not only to ridicule, but to the charge of con- temptible meanness. The man who epends hie time and his dollars glorifying the hero while his own family at home are half dressed | and half fed is a pretty poor specimen. This city cannot afford to! neglect these repeated calls for help for the flood victims. | Let charity have done with overzealous parading in the market, place-and come home where éhe belongs. | poet ath alls a cal . Riots and revolutions over the recent ELGIUM is ina bad way. elections are tearing her to pieces. And if that were not enough her latest postage stamps make the King look cross. eyed and must all be recalled! Troubles never come singly, DREW A CROWD. €QUAL TO EMERGENCIES, “I once woke up, if not to find myself! Atte Hazel—We've invited too meny famous, at least to find myself attract-|children to our tea party. ‘There ten’t ing considerable attention.” enough for them to get more’n a bite “How wes that?” enh. “I had fallen asleep on a hotel veranda Little Dot-That's too ! 1 guess ‘with my mouth wide open.”—Chicago we'll have to call it a reception.—Boston % sae fon, wat glooming in a corner with hal fiyblown Christmas aumber of an illus- name wes Harsy Philip Graves. He set this matter right when Mr, Jenkins in- tro@uced him es “Harry,” and then he did not wish ¢o intrude on sntimate fam- ily matters. “Yos, yes, T tow,” said Mr, Jenkins Dastily. “But Maude’s ati right, Ofeude's the uearest litte woman in the world.” ‘Mr, Graves gave @ bollow 1 “She's got you trained ali right,” he said. “But you can speak frankly to me. You can speak frankly here, The saloon will endure ae long as matri- mony. It's the only eafe refuge. They San't come to saloons—Yhe women, I mean. That'y why they bust ‘em with axes.” Here Mr. Greves struidered. ‘The stranger, a fat but lugubrious per- trated weekly in his nervous grasp. His added that he'd take fizs. “Don't you God gin Gases depressing?” asked Mr. Jarr. Not that he cared, but to make con- tion, “Everything ts depressing, Graves. “It's all right, Harey,” sata Mr. Jen- kins airily, “my friend Jarr will take care of you. And Maude eaye she ex- pects you out at the house before you Bo back to Syracuse,” “She'll be dreaéfully disappointed tf I don't come, won't she?’ asked Mr. Graves, ‘The @ Gister for you! But 1 warned you.” : Mr. Jarr stepped discreetly back, He said Mr, Srl try being married to one. Literary Rewards. bee in tte heart, “a petty success” any day. long and dreary, fiving.” “He does. He writes to me eve! week for it.” kins. have relatives visi ‘Mr. Jarr wondered why lege tasks were always his, and he als> wondered why he should «et in wrong in his own home by staying out la! lose & dismal man from Syracuse. you. Copyright, 1012, by ‘The Prem Pubttshing Oo, (The New York World), Gi 4a an infinite capacity for giving pain. If you don't believe it| ing the sights?” she asked of Mr, A woman's argument affects a man as water does a cat: he merely —————————— << | waits for it to dry up and then goes cheerfully on his own sweet way. Jod had every reason to be patient and cheerful. He never had to hook hie wife's frock up the back, nor tried to use a safety razor, The man who is afraid to marry for fear of making a mistake is the sort of pessimist who would refuse to smell a rose for fear of Mmding @| guy, “1 don't want to Surden you with Oh, well, marriage MAY de a failure and single Ufe o eucoess, but you | lite before hi can't persuade @ normal girl that “a glorious failure” 4@ not better than but it's the average man's hopeless combination of a little of all of them |*ypnotized and that wears the average wife to a frazzle and makes married life seem so The hnote m the marriage te which rud a man the wrong way are “Your son tells me he writes for a| the “shale nots.” He docan't bother much about the “ought note.” Many a woman has deen a failure because she kept Opportunity wait ing at the door whtle she powdered her nose ond curled her hair, and speaking to the Mr, Jar. "puch that. to/ Jenkins hastily. tt." Was gone said Mr, Jarr. @inner?” eordially, Grave visitor, ‘Oh, dear tare!’ said Of witer" “Bh Mr. Grave my troubles, but you man who, I ter; Twi marry again! was over! “I'm trom Syrac gone an hou ors and stay dead.” two, And he gulped down his drink an “Are you in town on bustness?”" “T'm here on my wedding t: home in Syracuse now,” said "Madam," he edded dole- before ; @ man that knew bet- n that wee well out of It—for widower—and what do T do but) | girl in the theatre, But ‘her beauty, her quick wit and her vast store of |impudence quickly brought her to the stage itself. At fifteen she was an | actress. | the cleverest Nght actress of her day. Incidentally, she had begun her | career as @ heartbreaker. ; Lacy, one of the foremost actors in England, fell in love with Nell. | Charles Hart, leading man at the Drury Lane, quickly won her from him. Nest | ghe transferred her fickle affections to Charles Backvfile, Lord Buckhurst, He @peedily found she was not coment to be meckly grateful for tie lordly tmterest in her. WOON NOLO G NOISES OOOO E Jarr Takes Home a Weird Bit Of Human Flotsam and Jetsam RAMANA AAA AURA AANA ABM RRA NAA ARN MAMMA AMR i hatert’ remarked Mr, Jerr, Mr. laugh. “Have en- Graves gave another hollow] other on me and then I must ¢: “Do you think you'll be able to ret “ana T hed my whole life before me,” | that iron dog to the train alone?’ asked he sald. ‘Ha! ha!" ish. “He's all right,’ whispered Mr. Jen-| He had « dim hope that ff he helped “You take him out and shake| Mr, fiim, Till do as much for you when you|iron statuary he had bought for h! lawn the melancholy brother-indaw ight €0 out to East Malaria with Jen- and the metal art abject. /h, I can manage it all right,” eal ‘But I'll have to to the Guburban Decorative Art and ‘You won't mind if I feave you now, |Seed Store before it closes. They de- “You're @ misogyaist? A womaa| will yout’ added Mr, Jenkins aloui|liver the iron dog to the train all right, ‘but I'll have to be there to look after kins to the train with the cast- “Come up to my house to dinner,” He remembered that his funds were scanty and that visitors seldom treat. “Wouldn't you prefer a nice home “Z don't care,” eald the @ismal man. “I don't care where I go, #0 long as tt isn't my own home or the tome of any Mrs. Jarr was somewhat surprised when her husband came home with 4 guest, but as the supper in preparation chanced to be better than the usual menu at home she greeted the visitor “I suppose you are interested tn see- “No, ma'am, Tm not," repited the That's you a 14 before, had all tie ‘but Ido say Iwas oved into tt. fore T realized whither T was drifting And be- We went to Wash. ington on our wedding trip, T called to stay out and get a sunburned nose playing tennis, or to give some other |them to celebrate my marriage. T wa girl a chance at the only eligible man in the place, while you keep yourself deautiful‘to dance with him in the evening. and my bride had hys- terics and telephoned the police that I ‘was missing. Learning this, I fled to ‘New York, ani I eee by the papers, under a Gyracuse date tne, that J am wasted little time in showing him that she belonged to @ Aifferent clase and that ehe had about as much meckness and flattery in her nature as a wasp. Once in anger the King sald to her: “You forget I am Charles the Second.” “As tar as Iam concerned,” she corrected, “you are Charles the Third, The other two were Charle to. supposed to ‘be muriered and my boty hMiden, What {s worrying me now is whether ft fe better to go back to Syra- ouse and stay married or to live in Now 7 the domestic circle maintained for reserv: v, 1912 Womenlleartbrealers: OF Tlistors® | No. 7.—NELL GWYNNE, had been yawning prodigiously over the etupfd play. But now he joined ‘hearlily in the laughter. Tle did not take his eyes from the little actress. | And at the close of the play he sent orders for her to come to the box. The |wirl was Nell Gwynne. The swarthy man was Charies II. King of Engiand. was in this way that a royal romance began. carded him. It was about this time that Nell met King Charles, Women were tn the But Ne | habit of fawning for a word or @ look from the “Merry Moneroh.” “Send your silly business of being a Ki The public at lange dered the country, meddled in politics and diverted Charles from his “business of being @ King.” But the populace loved Nell Gwynne. And they had good cause For most of the few decent actiona !n Charles's worthless life were prompted by her. Chelsea Hospital for Old Soldiers. She helped to pay the cost of this hospital and ehe gave the ground on which it was erected. to delight the Kins. to ignore her. She tore hypocritical oconventionalities to #0 heavily as to cause scandal even in that era of high play. the card table sho lost more than $25,000, Sho never learned to write, as that seemed to her a uscless accomplishment, In tact, alwaya been—a brilliant, illiterate, Charles Tl. lay dying in 16% he turned to hts courtiers and witmstcally entreated: “Don't let poor Nelly starve!" ‘The request was well founded. For on the King’s death “poor Nelly” found herself on the verge of starvation. stripped her of all her jewels and other valuables and had her outlawed for debt. She was even in danger of imprisonment. King James 11, Charles's brother and success, came to her relief, paying her debts and pensioning her. two years later, her last action in life being one of charity. For ehe bequeathed & eum of money for the purpose of “letting poor debtors out of prison on Christ- mas Day.” The Day’s Good Stories se HOMAS ow, Proclamation was 4 very good piece of | of others, ‘Not foog ago I attended tho funeral of a{ His wife a milionaire financler—one of those real ‘high : fw, bse 0) financier’ whose low methods Lawson loves to Uncl tum the Hxtt oo, “"T arrived at the funerst @ ffttte tate, I took incle Joe Surrendered. t heside Tammon and whispered How far bee the service gone!” "Lawson, nodding toward the puljit, whispered back: Journal et ie his mateh, “He bad had lunch 4 ust " open for the defense." *—Roston | Waahington conducted rinciscus for eigaratt ter finishing Lis lanch be put clgar dets os NE Neoth and tguck & match, | Before he coat , ai waits Small Change. snatched the weed out of his mown, He tr pane tem and showed agus of wishing undivided at- tention, “Every other civilize! nation,” he declaimed, ‘bas the decimal autem, ‘while’ England atheres | py), came 1 walt antl I get out,"* sumenrtar 4 to the alsunl and cumbrons table af pods, igh co ' shiings nd pence.” Rap-rap.ray Leese ae. angirietn ne ram were for So atvorbed in his own conversat!on The Schoolboy. farthing?" Teap-ap. jogue to the top-hatted parent le ‘Tho. lawyer glared arvund somewhat im ; patiently ‘udge G—,"" Mr. Carnegie called ont, ‘why do the British coptinue thelr coinage ut’ taru To enable Camogie,” SEY tefl in Nebraska, ‘lergpman who in the pulpit was expgumier alae el Coprigit, 1919, by The Pree Prbtisiing Os, (Eke Mow York World), the Orange Seller Who Ruled King. GIRL almost as small as a child strutted onto the Drury Lane stage one day in 1669 almost hidden under @ hat the exact sise of a cartwheel, There was a roar of daughter from the audience at the quaint sight, A swarthy, thickset man clad in black velvet satin the royal box, He Nell was born in the London slums in 1660. She began life as an orange At sixteen she was the idol of the theatre-going public and was And when he ought to impress her with hie tigh rank she coolty dim Hart and Chatles Sackville.” ‘hen the muddled affairs of his kingdom worrled Charles he . She gave it ina few curt words. favorites packing,’ sald she, “and attend for a while to the ated the King's favorites. For these favorites plun- For instance, she nagged and wheedled him into building the great tately English court Nelly whizzed lke a bombshell, bringing her irl manners with her. She swore in a way to horrify the courtiers and She made hideous faces at the stately dames who affected eds. She gambled At one sitting at throughout her years at court 00d. joyfully remained what ehe had earted child of the slums. When Her creditors swooped down upon her, Nell died A Sample Quip. LAWSON'S Thanksgiving Of & stranger tn town, offered the following, #0 worled sa to prove unwittingly the | es Carrol 1s once mare among us for « belet He ‘says and cove exactly as he thinks without regart to the opinions oF bellets Oretorical writing,” eakl a Boston bank- | yi weon is always full of quljn, NOLE JOB CANNON i proud of C U that he smokes pretty, much all’ the time * in about any place be happens t» trea clergyman 1 | eays the Popular Magazine, But one day I 4 one epionay, “T smoke tn Waldort . rgedy and ta Peat Now, Terk,” be “don’t nelahbor Op the eibject of the British coinage aye | Hite ‘T the recent dinner given bi Andrew Can Cs bar {ntelligent looking boy there," gnld the Scouch to practise henerolonce, returned the lavvyer, Success tir,’* blushed Brown, ‘his modesty,"* whispered the let me eee what you bare ie, tgutats ae bieraptinad a.) the echoolmagter jeted, forcibly appropriated the paper, And re of speech and action. | there in neat imitation of See aa aN ee eat "Ra Tin ane ae volt ouly paper) “Please excuse my son James from xb: ‘harem, which never felled to notice! Ho is wanted at bome,"e~Si-Bite, bu <> Free for the Nonce. save Lippt of rights and wrongs,