The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1912, Page 10

The Even ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. he Press Publishing Company, Now, 68 to Peatiened Dally Except Sunday vy the Frese Purl RALPH PULITZER, President, 6% Park Row, J. ANGUS ee Treasurer, ¢2 Park Row. JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Becond-Claes Matter. OX, the Post-Office at hy Rtg HR ‘and the Continent ntries in the International a Postal Union. ors One Month. a0 NO. 18,625 NEW YORK FINDING ITSELF. VERY year New York shows fresh and encouraging signe of a edlf-respect befitting « city of its wealth and importance. ‘T: report of Borough President McAneny’s engineers who have directed the removal of etrect encroachments marks a step ahead. With the work now nearly finished, the city has quietly reclaimed from irregular and private uses some 425,000 equare feet of land— enough to make a strip ten feet wide and eight miles long. Every inch of this has been intelligently applied to making wider streots and broader sidewalks, and to transforming hit-or-miss successions of shop fronts, steps, basements and areaways into smooth and sigitly borders of busy thoroughfares. Fifth avenue, Forty-second street, Thirty-fourth street and Broadway are only the more noticeable of many streets that have been improved by the touch of the municipal chisel. After pointing out that all this work, costing $4,000,000 or 85,000,000, has been done at the expense of the owners of encroaching property, without @ cent of cost to the city save for widening the roadway, President McAneny adds: > Property owners and shopkeepers admit, now that @ large part of the work ia done, that houses and store fronte rent more readily and to better advantage without stoops, railings, gellar entrances, 4¢., obstructing the passage to and from the stores, There ts hardly @ casc, even where the interested parties od- fected in the deginning, that they have not since admitted that there ia great improvement. In the last few weeks the work of reasphalting streets long left in a state of exasperating chaos has been pushed rapidly to com- pletion. If the Borough Presidems has found an honest asphalt that will stand all tests, and if his good intentions result in paving the carthly paths we are now treading, we shall owe him much. It was enid of the Emperor Augustus that he found Rome e city of brick and left it a city of marble. All New York asks is some one who can take a city of pot-holes and leave it a city of pavements. We are slowly but surely learning the lesson of all first-class cities: That self-care and adornment are not aesthetics but good bui ness. The best assets a city can have are such beauties of site, streets, parks and buildings, sych delight and comfort of smooth pavements, subways, cheap cabs, &c., that customers are glad to come and sorry to e puch public assets are to be salted down only by eternal vigi- lance and by broad, far-sighted planning for the future of the city asa whole. Somebody must be forever wresting them from the clutches of private interest and privilege. New York is now getting ready for a stern tussle with graft.| — May the city come out of it with a new resolve to lift its public service its public convenience and ite public honor beyond the selfish grasp of private greed. SCAR HAMMERSTEIN now plans a chain of forty 0 >ra houses of uniform stage dimensions, making it possible for forty citi of the United States to enjoy opera every year with the best of scenic equipment. The great opera peddler is swinging ’round to where his wares are weloomest—among the folks at home. He HE Duke of Orleans is eaid to be coming to America to see Col. Roosevelt, after which he will look around for a building spot. Hoping for a coup d’etat, perhaps. — ON, the talking dog, rides in New York taxicabs on a salary of M only $1,000 per week, and still eaves something! pleas esa satel neat EW YORK is saved! Unless with the honors even the two armies conclude to share the loot between ’em, ey aS ? WHY “demote” police inspectors? Why not “retromote?” be stuft young man. even if you don't see it first. that, you gotta be up In the aoctal ald Letters From the People Man's Work at “Boy's Pay.” lodge, $1 for payment on tur: Fo the Kditor of ‘The Krening World: That makes a balance of ae In @ recent iesue of your paper a/ can @ woman feed a family of young man of twenty-three asks if $0! $4.15 and still save money? Her husban @ mack is enough to marry on. Most | rinks she can save money and still get Gecidedly eo, and I would advise him er food, Now, readers, if you a @ way in which I oan de it I M4 he has found the right girl to #0] wos giadiy take your eau, ahead and make her happy. There ‘es wes Ay a mo doubt of their getting along on that amount and saving money. But where are ali those $5 positions? My own ex- Perience follows: I am forty-five, 9 Fears a bookkeeper, @ with one con: ern, unemployed for two months, Have ‘Tuesday, ‘To the Béthor of The Brentng World; quite up to date,” he re surveying the young m fashions Blavinsky. ing + World Daily Magazipe, Suspended! jaca. N. York World). R, JARIR was greatly interested in the recital of the sprightly theatrical adventures of young Slavinsky, at! name “Sidney javin, the Dublin Dancl “You of the younger 2, by The I’reas Publishing Ce. Copretght, 1912, by “In the show business, you've got to there with the up-to-the-minute for fair," replied the dapper “You gotta beat ‘em to It, Beside: I'm a White Rat, & Moose’—— “Bort of human animal act,” inter- an Elk, an posed Mr. Jarr, ‘Well, I'm the Big Time boy, if I do say it myself," replied young Mr. jee, how you hate yourself!” eald Mr. Jarr. “Well, if you don't kid yourself along, who willt” asked the astute young cit- faen of the world, ‘T guess I'm better off doing a refined specialty than going around putting in coal"—~ OR Tra illhyg ook at my father, He works i he has a big family and a small income, And the older he gets and the less work he can do the less money he makes, You'll grudge a poor old hobo a few jitneys to put in n of coal and Billy Watson will do a p specialty for $00 a week, Tho more useless & 's work 1s the more money he “And that's why you've picked out a Parasite profession?” asked Mr. . “It Isn't the snap you think it i plied the young man. “You gotta get new stuff all the time. You gotta change your act. You gotta know what the public wants and you gotta get it over. Just now the drag is for the comedian who kids his audience and Dieself. That calle for your being nat- ural and there with the quick-fire, ready- answer stuff. You gotta be very nat- ural, and that takes a lot of rehearsing. ; Dia you see me coming along juggling me cane and me hat and cigarette?” Mr. Jarr aid he had. “Well, I do that on the street so I can get it pat for a new act in which I do an ordinary young feller coming out of @ cigar store and walking up the street.” ‘Do ordinary young fellows walking up the street bounce bamboo canes Mfteen feet in the alr, juggle straw hats and a lighted co! “In vaudeville or at a a1 yes, And it gets ov. reply. “I've got to |talty and break tn eo had several offers, but find the major- ity of business men seem to want @ good man at « boy's ealary. No offer made me over $0 per week. My % years’ reference is A No, 1, and my fecord absolutely clean. Lc. @ She Won't Work. ‘Po the Kéitor of The Evening World: I am @ poor mother. I have @ daughter who has graduated from pub. Ue achool. Will wise readers give me! some advicy as. to whas to do? She will not go to work in @ factory, She ‘When you were my ag: you were riking very hard in a shop. | And what did you get out of itt" Who an advise me? Mrs. D. B, Uncomfortable Boat feats, To the Waiter of The Preniag World: | Why i it, readers, that eo many boats have such poor Take many of these pleasure | boats that go up the Hudson or to; Coney Island, Rockaway, &c, What Poor comfort you have! You #it perhaps all day on these so-called chairs. Way | eouldn't these be replaced by somethin, more comfortable? Let me hear wha’ Congright, 1912, hy The Press Publishing Oo, The Now York World.) ( Jes’ prove A Guy FROM UP Town — HE Now We Gor to THE OTHER CENTS OvT OF OWN of Stageland’s P9899 9SI9SS99 90S $9999999999999908s. 159990000000008 Broadway production, becaifke I'm a id young Mr, Slav-|dead card with the big time booking| they didn’t get hit with anything when ever since I crabbed the whole bill out in Peoria." “Oh, you crabbed the whole bill, ald you”? “Surest thing you know. The White Rats ts fighting the big time booking and I got me orders out in Peoria to erab the bill and put the whole show on the bum, because what with animal acts and the moving pictures tt got #0 @ human variety actor can't make akes, hat with the way you have to split with all the agents, the sub-agents, the booking men and what you got to sllp{ the stagehands, tho electrician, the trap| drummer, to give you a crash with| your falls; the spot light boy, the prop- erty man—every mitt !s out—It's got #0 that after you've slipped something to| everybody you're in debt on pay day.| So I crabbed the whole bill in Peorta, and I put every <atmal act in it on the fritz.” “Oh, you did? How?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Well, there was ‘Hoganhetmer's! Day in Dogville.' You know, the act} where the dogs are out on the ‘stage. going through without the hand dog cops, the dog serenaders dog souse and the dog marria “Yes, I know. I've seen clover and highly trained th Very} dogs jure," sald young Mr. Slavinsky. ‘If they ever drop dow t the handler and his m from the wings wit on their fore-! Monday; August 18; 1919" | Be By M. de Zayas POLICE HEADQUARTERS PObeseseseseoeees seneseseoeseenese eoanoeseneooesoeS Mr. Jarr Hears Some Dark Secrets Entrancing Life. out the shot and the dogs found out they dropped down, so they made a bum of the show and they had to ring down on them, “Then when ‘Ritterwood's University Primates, the Marvelous Monkey: went on I sat in the wings cracking Peanuts on the smeak and that was the end of that act. But it was my {de of busting up the ‘Educated Elephant act that was the real bear cat!” Here young Mr. Slavinsky chuckled to himself. “I let loose a mouse and the Eph Thompsons took it on the run over the footlights and through the audience. ‘They've put a new front on the theatre, but they've never got the amusement loving public in that town to patron! & show with an animal act in ft since. “White Rats excepted," suggested Mr. Jarr, “Oh, to be sure. And I'm blacklisted, but I should worry?” replied young Mr. Slavinsky, and he tipped his trick hat and walked away practicing a new dance step. EE WHY THEY WENT. As the Sunday-school teacher entered her classroom she saw leaving in great haste @ little girl and her still smaller brother. “Why, Mary, you aren't going away?" she exclaimed in surprise, “Pleathe, Mith Anne, we'v: got to go,” WomenMearthreaken 5 OP Talisborsvhusenrbarion renee Copyright, 1012, ty The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 37—MME. JUMEL, a Belle of Old New York. FRENCHWOMAN named Capet died at sea, between France and and the West Inds, in 1769, just after the birth of her baby daughter. The child, who was to make history and to break hearts, was adopted by a Mrs. Thompson of Newport, R. L, who brought her up as her own, and named her Eliza Bowen. Eliza at fifteen was perhaps the most beautiful girl in all Rhode Island, She possessed not only exquisite beauty, but an unusual mind. Her tal- ents were manifold, her charm was irresistible, and her tohavior hardly {a keeping with her pious upbringing. There was nothing actually vicious or wrong about her, But he? French blood and her craving for admiration led her into innocent impr dences that sadly shocked the good-Newport folk. The climax of these es< capades was reached when, at! sewmteen, she ran away with Col. Foe Croix, a retired British army officer. ; } The eloping couple were married and they came to New York to If In the metropolis Elisa at once took the lead tn all social matters. Her beauty and wit made hor the belle of the growing city and brought her scores of ad- mirere, among whom were some of the foremost men of America. Her wire advice to statesmen who cume to her for counsel 1s waid to have influenced many an sm- portant political meve. One of her devotees was young Aaron Burr, Another wae Aloxander Hamilton. who was in « few years to die at Burr's hand. Again, a6 in Rhode Island, Eliza's countless imprudences caused much soan- dal, Stories of her fiirtations, her extravagances, her ec- centric words and actions were on every one’s lips. Col. Croix died. After @ not too long period of gay widowhood, Elisa won the heart of an enormously rica French wine merchant, Stephen Jumel, who was living in New York. She married him in 181, to the chagrin and heartbreak of a score of less favored suitors. . Seoking wider fields of conquest and gayety, Mme. Jumel persuaded her hus- band to take her to Paria to live. There she retaned as an uncrowned queeh of the fashionable world. Lafayette was dazzled by her and he acted as her sponeor in French society. In @ very few years of Parisian life she squandered moet of her husband's huge fortune. Then she did a plucky and clever thing. She oame back to New York and through ‘her own genius as @ business woman regained in a ahart time nearly all her husband's wasted wealth, The Jumels tn 1810 bought the great 160-acre tate and house on the Harlem River that had once belonged to Roger Morris (Mary Philipse’s husband), and there they set out to entertain n a gorgeous that amazed the staid New Yorkers. Joseph Bonaparte, Prince de Joinville, Talleyrand and Prince Louis Napoleon (afterward Napoleon III. of France) were among Mme. Jumel's guests. So were the most celebrated Americans of the day. including Fitz-Greene Halleck, who wrote his immortal poem, “Marco Bozaaris,” at her home. As the brilliant mistress of the mansion had once ruled local soclety and hearts before her departure for Paris, so she now ruled them again. A Whirlwind Courtship. it was that Aaron Burr, who had made love to her in the early days, renewed his quit. Burr was eeventy-elght yeara old, and was broken in fortune and reputation, but was still one of the most attractive men in America. He conducted hfe court- ship of the elderly widow in whirlwind fashion. One day he drove up to the door of the Jumel mansion, accompanied by a clergyman, and curtly announced to Mme. Jumel that he had come to marry her. Atmost defore she could realize what was happening the ceremony was performed. Burr at once proceeded to throw away in epeculation as much of his new money as he could get hold of. She resented this by turning him out of the house and refusing to @ce him again. That was the end of Mme. Jumel's heart experiences. She lived on, in semi- eclusion, in her great house, Cyt; in July, 1865, in her ninety-seventh year, Her husband in 1880 was killed by a fall from his car- riage, and though Mme Jumel was now sixty-one years 014, she did not lack for applicants to succeed him. ‘Then Copyright 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo (The New York Wort). VEN common sense, a sense of honor, and a sense of humor—ond @ man would make an ideal husband, even 4f he were lacking in all the other five, Why te tt that the yirst time a bridegroom for the arrival of the dimer hour, he had told her Me love was dead? expresses the elightest onstety: the bride feels as ineutted as though ‘80 often it's those very things adout a woman which “intostcate” @ man before marriage that “drive Mm to arin” afterword, Success te like Hghtning; you oan only tel when you Rave made a hit by the crash that follows—and it ten't always the crash of applause either, There are two kinds of love; the tender, early dlooming variety, which fades as quickly as spring flowers; and the hardy, autumnal variety, which seldom blooms until the late thirties, but which even the frosts of old age do not seem to wither. From some of the lettere we receive it appears that the last way in which a man ever thinks of trying to find out whether or not a girt loves him ts to ask her. Oancer may be a fatal malady, but dyspepsia ts a lot more painful, be cause not only ite victim suffers but everybody cround him as well, The eweetest part of a Wise te just before taking; the sweetest part of an engagement, just before the proposal, and the sweetest part of married life, just before the wedding. Ourlostty and uncertainty are the bellows whoh keep the flame of love bright and glowing in @ man's heart, i y PAY FIFTY my a os By REqIS TERS A vottar | Hedgeville Editor Sullivan a —— By John L. Hobble Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), RS. FORT that every mother should kiss her boys ofte enough to find out when they begin smoking cigarettes. HIPN Roy Harsh testified in the trial last week the lawyer ace | W cused him“of+so many things that he didn't know whether he was tie | witness or the criminal. UD Fork says that when he at- tended the convention last we. | but the people acted the same plece | both nights. O he went to the theatre tw! ROUBLES and dollars seem to be about in the same class. Tae People who have none of them /