The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1912, Page 12

! BPSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. — cep’ Nos. 58 to| shed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, > 0y ad 63 Park ow, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 6% Park Row. J. ANOS WHAW Treasurer, 62 Park Row, JOBBPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. neocon | | tered Office at New York av Gecond-Class Matter. = 40 | Subscription hates to The Evening | For Pneland and the Continent and | World for the United States and Canada. — All Countries In the International Postal Union. " One $ Year.. b vod One Month. One Month. VOLUME 53.......046 ‘Year. . NO. 18,606 ; THE POWERS! EW YORK is dumfounded! | “Rosenthal has lived Yong enough. You've got the money. I’ve got the power. I can handle any job that | we pull off.” Thus Becker, New York Police Lieutenant, according to Rose's story, urged three gamblers and gang contractors to do wilful murder! “Note well: These men believed Becker had the power he boasted. ‘They were convinced he could actually “give the police the wrong steer.” Nor were these men babes or fools in such matters. Becker's “Havyeu’'t I made good before?” had had experience. Moreover they believed that Becker's power to protect murderers went hand in hand with bigger powers “higher up” which could readily t be invoked to save them. Experience again, | Lay bare all the rotten, shameful secrets of this power! ‘That ia | No easy job, but if ever | f i ! t ' was solid argument to them. They | what the people of this city must demand. it is to be done now is the time. Who will give us the whole truth? Shall we get it from police officials caught between terror of what those below may reveal and what those higher up mayeinflict ? Shall we get it from a surly, perturbed Mayor irritably deter- mined that he and one of his pet departments shall be let alone? =| Shail we get it from a Police Commissioner who is “too worn ont to anything,” and who, as his friend the Mayor says, has bes. deceived and will be decaived again? The New York Police Force and its Powerful Friends will never i clean house themselves. Experts, from outside, must dg the work. [lire keen, disinter- ested detectives to find out and tell the citizens of New York what is the matter with the city’s police. Who are the “Powers”? Don’t let the patient diagnose tlfe case again! , oe? pin tes rR weer nv ree vane ve iY “CAN’T STAND MONTCLAIR!” f HAT’S the matter with these model towns? A woman with | j a fond husband, two charming children and every comfort , i; van boy finds one of the most beau- tiful towns in New Jersey impossible to live in! She flatly declares that, family or no family, she can’t stand it and is going to clear out. % it possible that patiern villages, checkerboard streets, rows of Noah’s Ark trees, art-square lawns and perfection of hydrants and electric lights are too much for some temperaments? Can they causs wiven ec to cleave to their husbands and forget that they are d Daily Magazine, Wednesday, he Dunce Cap Ae fonStsiytae| 3 By Robert Minor | | i eee Sor ee going insane or kicking'over the traces! It looks as if we were making life too perfect for some folks. i We heor of more and more people like the young man Disracli told of, who took to drinking bad wine just because he was so bored with good. ENLIST POLICEMEN HY NOT enlist policemen? Under tho civil service plan the force hha continually | shown up with bruises and black eyes. "Why not adopt the military idea and enlist the policeman for a term: 4 After each term let the man with a g enlistment. Aft + five or six terms of sery Copyright, 1912, oy The Prew t The New York Wart). i record » eligible for re- | ; Here's a new kink in the matrimonial problem. Husband musi | ihe@ ( make sure that wife can live in an ideal town in an ideal way without ising Go. on around to the garage ive let him be retired with ny new machine,” i Miryver, gemially, as apRne tt. he ean the subway with Mr, Make the police force in review every three or every five Farr the evening, “3 1 7 . Wish vol 7 fr vr Ja “but years. Serutinize individual records and fitness. : Mi ime po ae a My a ue Give the policeman something of the soldier's standard and the i hres er te wife walting? y'know.” 3 7 Ho the wealthy neighbor waved ii eusier's ane hand in pasting salute and the best hus- Harlem hurried home. i A oe out?” he asked, when Ger- IGHTEFN-HOUR FLIERS to Chicago are out of favor, rude, the Nat running domeatio: ¢ New Yorlk Central will fall in, the Pennsylvania is ready to fe hie veat downtown with Mrs, announce a slower schedule “to insure greater safety for the tray. [Suith’) wild Gertrude (Gertrude ab ahd clling public.” The companies find the strain on the engineer of a! taecsah ane ae ee ee lightning limited combined with the financial strain of refundi .:|°"!! islet nite peGadeeneT may EAN money to passengers for a late arrival is proving too hard. Tho | Me Jucr ae Public Service Commission, after looking into recent mishaps to fast |, Sut Gertrude’ appeared sceptical on nt, trains, advises the railroads to slow down, Yew York could do nicely with a thirty-six hour (rain to Chic nothin’ all we and an cighteen-hour schedule coming back. Mr. Jarry k It would be les festy to inter SAR RED eemrereree in assent and watted and wa SURGEON says he can inject something into the nose that wil yt" , banish stage fright and make it eaay for any one to appear before an audience, Help! ey eee ND that hay fever will be much less severe than usual this season, (Guess why, += EXIT Fosdick the Ferret! | | | | | SIE Se Zene's Paradox. of 10 yards, and so on fi ever. To the Editor of The Evening World Achilles would get nearer and new WIN some mathematical reader please | tie tortaine, ut never oven wee what he can do w' this paradox, | readers, where's the fallac: voiginated, it 1s raid, by Zeno? ies | one? could run ten times as fast as a tor] opygy gy, toise, It was asrerted that if the To the Ke tatse had 1,00 yards handicap it could| Will nome expertenced reader tell us| pever be overtaken by Achilles. Wor, briefly something about Civil Service | when Aohilles had gone tho 1,00 yards, | positions 4 girl may obtain; the quall- the tortoise would be still 100 yards|fcations required, and the salaries When Achilies ‘ered that |paid? This will interest many gf your ‘tortoles Jead ‘readers, 1 think, a. W, Thus rity ke It, Now if there 4 RAYMOND TT. Girls, ior of The Evening World, | firm will ai stubbornness?” mun. MiBs § the other fellow has it.” TO MER: rem EREat Nee Ae supper,” walt ti Mrs, Jarr ity He nodded his head | 1 ond “What's the difference between a “It all depends on whether you or EE EE FE IE EE 8 8 EE OE EOE 8 88 8 8 Oh 8 bly Mr. Jarr Learns How to Have Fun. But o£ Course He Can’t Have It. Orr rrr rr et tere ke ee ee ee RY “I wonder if she's going to tele-)Jarr joined him in the neighboring gar- phone?" he asked Gertrude, after half|axe. ‘I find the best way ts to leav: an hour's watt, | the office every day, say at about 3.9 But Gertrude didn't know, |P. M. and walk uptown for a mile or “Well, you'd better give the children|two and then have a Hght supper a supper of some sort and sore milk," |about five, go out for a spin for a sald Mr. Jarr finally. “Dog gone :t!| couple of hours and maybe take dinner 1f I'm & minute late then there's an aw- | at Stamford or Montclalr at some good ful row, but she doesn't cure how she!roadhouse. Or, if 1 come back to town only the means to take in a show every evening and dine in gilded elegance on Broadway at midnight, mitigated againat his following Mr. Stryver's very excellent arrangement, “Here's the car!” said Mr. Stryver, eading the way up to a polished black machine as big and of the shape of a torpeda bort hing Sixty-six. comes or goes!" and take in a summer show or root] Electrically lighted and controlled. Au- Just then the telephone rang garden, to dine afterwards at about} tomatic tire pump, nelf-starter, dynam was only Mr. Stryver from the midnight at one of the big Broadway} generator and the new 1%3 model. wanting to know if Mr, Jarr wos restaurants, That's what you should] Peach, eh?" through his dinner and wanted to go do. Tt gets a man out of the rut!” Mr. Jarr sald tt looked like a jim oyt for w spin in the new next year's} Mr, Jarr said It was a good tdea and] dandy to him. model alx cylinder car e'd arrange to get ovt of the rut, too,! “The only trouble is that one hes to Mr. Jarr dammed on ties tr and was) some of these days, Just at presen] practically give away bis this-year's on his way ina Jiffy | (though he didn’t say {t), the mere fact} car when he gets a next “You should have your dinve or, [that his office hours were from nine Inj grumbled Mr. Strever, dow that the summer dayy ave getting |the morning until five in the afternoon.} “And another thing Is, what distine- shorter,” said Mr. Strvver, when Mr,!and that he hadn't an automobile, nor} tion does tt give a man to have a car « | When every shoe clerk and plumber and | inetion that thoy j ventured Mr. ‘aven't one Ike tat | serv. “Yes, but it's like the re made cloth- ing, They Imitate the leading tailors jmtyles mo closely that, renily, it dis- courages one!" said Mr. Stryver, ‘The get in front of your good | wir ight candle-power aut-| and If you pass them and pus ars—made by aaricultural ma-| works In South Bend and sold | [on Instalments—into the ditch, you’ ;Hued for damages, And if anybody gets Killed the anarehintic yellow newspapers make a dirty fuse about It Ita very discouraging, ‘Mecouraging ten't the word for it!” replied Mr. Stryver heatedly, “What's | this country coming to? Why, you meet a man and he has every air of; having a Nttle money to put Into some | £001 proposition that a man in my busines may be promoting, and after In the comedy of matrimony a wife must be adie to play chorus, scene | you've dined and wined him ad Mb, ¥ shifter, property ie in private and can be ready Cae pale a haverinalis Aving ge | Pola AN tagaina’ dad ih bi fs me iv [nished room with hts soul and body lassume the role of leading lady, with brilliancy and eotat, in pudlie at att Aeterna tage Stun epr ire moment's notice ring he's wearing. neh people ld be arresied for taking up people pretenaes! If things ker I'm going to Furope to said Mr. | BT ATONIC friendship is champagne served in a ginger ale bottle, iP A man weena for his lost lor ‘40 that he can sec the next one coming. with his fingers spread wide apart ond hired applause she time on fal up Mike this liver” Mr. Jarr shook his head and sald {t waa true-things ware coming to pretty pass. “It's this Soclallem and the yellow A man's “remorse,” cars, aypears to be things he shouldn't have done and did, but for th have done and didn't, in after not for the foolish foolich things he might A true “gentleman” is ove who is always chivalrous toward the “weaker vessel” even when it is filled with inconsistency--cheays tender toward | hewspapers that's creating all this eus- the “clinging vine” even when its clinging has begun to choke him, picion and unrest! Why, promoting i+ Fi As dead as the hoopakirt business! On. well, we'll forget it! take out the new bo Ry the time a man's wife has trimmed the raw edges off his eyniviam, {taken tucks in his morals, polished up his manners, ironed the wrinkles out jof Mis disposition and to put embroidery on his lastes he wouldn't recognise the ghost of his youthful self if he were to meet it on the street Never “stoop to conquer” « man or a cat: just sit stil! and pretend not to notice them, and sooner or later they'll come around, stand on their |" hind feet, roll over and purr for petting. q | Family opposition is just korosene ppured on the flame of a man’s love, ao HIS FOND HOPE, Little Wiliam, son of an antomobile enthusiast, lost a tooth’ ts a fall from jhis sled, His mother told him that she would ve to take him to the dentist imme- tely to have it replaced, ‘Oh, ‘ho, mother,” sald Willte . tH) sprit Maybe Dr. Guy will have a new mode! ready for us by mat time.”-—Harper’s een pone a ant or tne AR renee haan Nae et ree July 31, 1912 She wa | c The May | wide with J ~ Womentile AreoPad Ors OF AVSON TERHURE. Copright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World No. 30--RACHEL; The Homely Genius Who Won Hearts. JEVERAL ragged children entered a cheap Paris eating house tS) one cold day in 1831, and procooded to sing for their dinners. Their voices were shrill and bad. But the queer antics and loud voice of one of them caught the attention of Achille Ri- court, a theatrical man who was dining there. The child whom Ricourt picked out for a second glance was thin, ugly, dwarfish, She was dark, insignificant of face and form, but blessed with eyes that glowed with an almost unearthly light. of money. 8 ind in Amertea, harvest of 000 season rewards in the American season at The Heartbreaker her in New York. Tew Americans im achel could not act le of her first speech, halted in furious surprise, er, as the audience fole 4 ; had brought.) Ricourt called her over to him and asked her name. She sald she was Elizabeth Rachel Felix, daughter of a wandering peddier, and that her singing and dancing, at various towns or fairs along the road helped draw notice to the wares in her father's pack. Her elfin ugliness and gutter wit amused Ricourt. He interested Choron, a music teacher, in her. And Choron tried to teach her to sing. He soon found she would never be a singer, but that she had the rough makings of an actress. So he turned her over to Sant-Aulaire, an elocutionist. And by sheer ability the girl won a scholarship in the Conservatory. By this time sho was fifteen, And she began to be known as “Rachel.” Incidentally, her appearance won her the nickname of “The Starved Monke: still ugly and Insignificant-looking; pallid, angular and thin. But her voice, which had been as harsh and discordant as a peas cock’s, Was now trained to a pitch of melody and of Magnetic power nev excelled. Homely as Rachel was, she had a strange fascination for men. Even at fittean she began to capture hearts; winning men from more: beautiful women; as In later years she was to win the public from far more beautiful actre: Pant Dufourts the author, was so deeply interested in her, that when she was sixteen he wrote a little play for her and arranied for {19 public production. It was a fatlure Then she met Saumom, foremost dramati: teacher of his day. Sansom loved her. And, urged on by love and by belief in her nius, he taveht her to t The resuit was that by the time she was seventeen she appeared In a star pole at the famous Theatre Francais and took all Paris hy storm. Never before had any actress shone so dazzingly !n tragic classic roles “She docs not act~she suffers!” wrote one c. On the stage her flery magia power made audiences forget her ugiiness, And it swept them irresistibly lou with her. Rachel had admirers by the dozen, And concerning most of her love offairs the least sald the better. But she had only one genuine and all-consuming lave tn her own heart. And that was the lov: je drove the ahrewdest possible bargains with her managers. She squeezed every ivr of value from every dollar, So avaricious was she that she would scheme thlessly to save or gain a cent as a thousand dollars. In ¢ ney she was driven onward by her father, her brother and her ed her to act who she was lll. They were forever urging her to harder Like vultures on roass they fell upon her earnings Alfred de Muswet. the poet, fell in love with her, But his Wish soul sickened at her avarice. And he wrote of her “Her god is not glory, but gold!" Rachel's brother heard about the enormous earnings of Jenny And in 188 he made his sister coz with the hope of re Yankee dollars, She had just finished an $8 in Europe and she expected far richer United States. She opened Tripler Hall, in New York. But the tour was not a miccess * understood French; and in English. (On the opaning night, as she was in the mid a whirring, ruatling noise filled the theatre. Rache It was the sound of @ thousand book leaves turning jowed the lines of the play in the printed “translati On the train from New York to Boston, Rachel caught a heavy cold. She went on acting. She would not risk the loss of money by resting. The cold dee veloped Into consumption, She hurried back to Europe for treatment. But the disease had advanced too far to be shaken off. In 1858 she died. ely Ee ae buriea pee her family sought to earn their final étvl- i picly auctl very « jateareite dndeccetnes y auctioning every article she had owned—trom leve A POCKET & VCLOF EDA 246—What use does the ozygen in the air serve? 247—Why does paint keep iron from ruating? 248—Why is water a fluid? (—How is plate glass made? 250-—Why will not stale mile but? without curdling? 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