The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1912, Page 12

—— ’ ~- ESTABLISHED BY JOSPPH PULITZER. blished Dally Except Sunday b:; by Publishing C . Nos, 63 Pul 4 ly Excep| pay by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 ¢0 RALPH P ident, 63 Park Row. purer, 63 Park Row JOSHRH PULITZER,’ Jr, Secretary, ark Row. Entered at the weuottige at New York s aa ue he Evening) For England ai Subscription R: to the ‘World for Matter, Continent and One Month VOLUME 33.. WHOSE PRIVILEGE? There is no reason why you cannot have lower taxicab rates in New York City than you now have, and with considerable profit to the companies. The rates are too high for the convenience of the people and 1 do not see why your taxicab com- panies do not realize this. They would get consid- erably more traffic if the rates were not 60 pro- hibitive to the people generally. Taxicabs should be a comfort and a convenience @nd not a luxury. I venture to say twice as many people use taxicabs in London asin New York in proportion to the population. —Davidson Dalziel, Pioneer Taxicab Capitalist. Strong support for this newspaper’s condemnation of the shameful taxicab extortion practiced upon the people of New York was furnished an Evening World correspondent in London by }.r. Davidson Dalziel, capitalist, Member of Parliament, and the great- est living authority on taxicab development in Europe and America. ‘ After dwelling upon the low taxi rates on which the London taxicab companies not only exist but make money, First mile. . 16 cents Each additional quarter mile....... 4 cents Mr. Dalziel declares that even granting the greater wear and tear from our poorer pavements, and the elightly greater cost of building taxicabs in the United States, a rate of thirty cents for the first mile and five cents for each additional quarter mile would be far from crippling to our companies. He adds: 1 also predict that if you were to lower your rates your general public would learn to use the taxicab, especially among business people, more often than the subways or the , electric cars, to the resulting good of all concerned, ot The Evening World has said again and again: The tazicad has ceased to be a lurury and has become @n object of common use and convenience. It needa to be put within reach of as many people as possible. The tari is now @ metropolitan commonplace to be regarded and regulated as a Public convenience and comfort for everybody, not as a lurury for the few. Any one who saya that the general public of a great cit; Uke New York cannot be counted on to use tarie because th vari appgals in the long run only to those who have money, merely stows his ignorance of what is going on at this moment in every capital in Europe—twhere the average citizen is far 1@re carcful of his outlay than the New Yorker. Nowhere do the tazt companies show more short-sightedness and ignorance than in their policy of keeping the tazicad a luzury. A reat taxicad corporation working with the city government to devise a carefully regulated system of cheap, Popular tazis, public stands and reaponsible service may count with certainty upon a rich return, Those will ride who never rode before, And those who rode before will ride the more. Tn explaining why London taxicabs are so mugh more comfort- able and fitted with so many more conveniences than New York taxis, Mr. Dalziel says: No dilapidated cabs are allowed to operate. The entire taxicab situation in London ts a matter of public convenience and as such is treated by the Government. AND THERE LIPS THE DIFFERENCE! In New York the entire taxicab situation is a matter not of public convenience but of private graft and privie lege between Hotels that collect thousands of dollars from taxicab companies in return for street privileges which belong to the people. Taxicab companies that use their monopoly of the streets to rob the public with outrageous fares, Aldermen who for reasons of their own wink at thie state of things and let it go on. Obviously the responsibility rests squarely upon the Aldermen. Vhe Evening World has asked, again asks and will continue ask ; What interest have the Aldermen in allowing the New York taxicab to remain a licensed instrument of graft and extortion—an object of mistrust and execration—a disgrace and humiliation to the city? What Aldermanic privilege makes it undesirable that in New York the taxicab situation should be, as it is in London, | ‘a matter of public convenience, and as such treated by the city government”’? Letters From the People| Matrimony and Stupidity, | woman vo quickly and surely as the ‘Yo the Editor of The Evening World “handsome man" devoid of brains, I vead recently @ letter in which the] What great grudge can the writer | weiter suggests matrimony as a remedy | the letter have ai for w man “handsome but devoid oflaex that sho Phvsmooyyly EN One pans | thinking qualities.” The man 4s ad-/nensible “antidote for the shorteoms mittedly unable to retain a position be- ings of an incompetent? Does she not} cause uf the absence of gray matter!know that tn the great waters of hue from his cranium. The writer states| man attributes no inlet ie so shallow ae he might marry @ wealthy woman who) that of mere and unamplified hand-| will be able and probably willing to) someness? Matrimony was never de support him af necessary; or @ poor signed a# a toy for brainless men an woman who will work for him, This! foolish women, H. BERNARD, | Kttitude f% unfair. Who {s justified in pba asking a woman to toll for such al... ncn aemelire’s aed Person of mere tinsel? 1 wonder why | "tryin to bag tile writer would folst such a desplea-| locomotives having ble specimen of humanity on any|red snok woman. Because plenty are ready to} there WF Aah take him? If so, womankind ts in ne DOF the D., of @ warning to beware; not advice to| ing yeni tha: ee tha Nerd de a party to such @ scandalous unio: |1 saw of this engine wae in the bite Cur equity courts are already over-| xan of 188, when the engine tried to burdened. Many are the petitions sent | Plough tts way tirough a drift of snow out in an attempt to have undone auch |2% Folled down an embankment, Any of infamy, perpetrated at the one who lived in or about Newton or Branchville, N, J, at ser, Neo man becomes s bore to 3 verify this tacks, to be an engine on th that Bus- & W. by th hat had a red | that (me can . SRS RU ‘The Bveniag World Daily — Papers Say By Foiin L. Hobble Copyright, 1912, Tip Pi (Rha New Work Works The. oé blishing Ca, 8. to make paper money smaller.” Congared with @ the price of beef, a dol- lar Dill is only half as large now as t ahould be. . “Boy in New Jersey loses both legs,” If it had happened in New York some policeman would be accused of toking them, A despatch from Philadelphia to New York asks which of Peter Stuyvesant's legs was cut of. It aeems that the news of this dreadful accident to our ex-Governor has just reached Philadelphia, We hope some day to hear of a man being arrested without a “frame- up” cmd of @ politician having some- not a “lie.” Congress will spend ten million} dollars’ Dduild Ave million dollars’ worth of battleships, “Kansas men convicted of selling liquor.” Here in New York, for vio- lating the liquor law, a man is severe: ly repriie:nded and sometime. threatened with arrest, Why all this excitement about the police scandal? Should we expect policemen to be any more honest than the business man? “New York men drink than Chicago men,” is almost the only sin that New York men commit, #0 naturally some of them would carry it a little too far, more beer “Magazine of poetry to be estab lished in Chivago.” New York edtt- ors will be pleased to learn that poets are encouraged to send their work | to Chivago, Out in Missouri when they chonce to elect @ District-Attorney who docs worth of time discussing), whether the people can afford to, to get rid of me by mental suggestion? Drinking beer, Washday «+ % + 21a Copyrtant, 1912, a by The Press Publishing Oo * Wee (The New York World.) Fat 3 Copsright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), — Magazine, * By Maurice Ketten eae Tuesday, By Alma Woodward POSSIBILITIES. self to measure out fheie: Gaite’s 0 your days, Henry, You Characters: Mr, Smith, Mra, Smith and| “tom that Ethel (Mrs, Smith's sister). (Mr, Smith dashes to the RS, 8, (ooking over the head-| *iff drink and desm-y the subway! Mra. 8. don't Joke about things Mr, &, (pompously)—It in the subway Looking up th is coming doesn't make tt sooner; so what's the u risk of going near the ing to jam yourself through a steel door closing ts certainly that ts thing to do. Mrs, 8. (mildly)—Don't you ever do It, Henry Mr. S. (indignantly —Of course not! 1 flatter myself that I possess a pretty level head, Mrs. 8. but they're killed Just ti Wthel (wallowing in deed! Mnes)—Another man Killed in Dear, dear! Ethel (cheerfully)—Only one? (solemnly) — Ethel, it's thelr own fault! (meditating)—Sometimes pec ple get killed unexpectedly, though. 1) mean they don't do anything eareless, You never know when you go thin, ie out to business in the morning whether BF sald to Ais discredit that (8) yoy come home allvet shoulders and he fa Mr And how soon 4 va b oking: chorage, my dear? like that! people are killed sed her first husl again !8 a foolish It's the natural thing to di Mrs, 8. (ruminating)—Ye Mr. 8, (with trapped fre Why certainly! Of COUP patural thing to do! he same. (A pause.) Mr. & (enthusiastically) look at the gloom)—Yes, in- other std don't you, my dear? Domestic Dialogues. id she w exploded Why shouldn't a woman ma no ry 8, Pose it's the natural thing to do. he length are but buffet, pours out a 1 squaring his clothing, concealed satire)—j my demise Mrs, 8. (shuddering)—Oh, Henry! track to see if the train Ethel (calmly)—Well, of course, come any| theory that a woman shoul remain a se of taking the| Widow all the rest of er life just be- edge? And try- use in a hysterical moment T sup- Don't of the pleture, You go downtown shopping quite often, would round" for future an- ldn't in! have aj Mrs, 8. (vaguely)—Henry, did you ever os. take those life Insurance papers of yours; Mr, §, (insidlously progressing)—And out of the desk? the traffic is very, T might say, Mr, 8. (waking up)—Say, what ts this?) " IPHLY heavy, in the shopping dis- ‘ane-up? Do you think you're going] tricts! And son (not often to be | sure, but SOME’ 28) elevators Mrs, (shocked)-Oh Henry, dear,| hotels and shops ings don't those things—you know that/habit of dropping at Inauspiclous He only asks that she his duty they make him Governor, understands “Bride Diary of an actress thought never entered my mind! But, of | ments, and: course, just as Ethel says: You never, Ethel—He you're can tell, and it's always best to— nervous! Mr, 8, (rately)-Now, look here! You! Mr. 8, (with & make me nervous talking like that! I've] I'm not so worse to look | been drinking too much coffee, anyway—| now. And the 8 EVEN | and I'm just as shaky asT can be! And|malning a— I don't want to be reminded of-— (At this ju we Mrs, yenforce them, | photo.” Monday: Mus sarygmapplause. making Smith throws hers “Woman sues advertiser who uses Perhaps an actress who has been annoyed by crowds cowing to teriously disappears, Tuesday; Pout; her theatre and indulging in une husband," play supected, Wednesday; Found, nec Josie ante persistency)—And | upon even theory of a man re '| | have, Ethel (philosophically) — 1 always| weeping, into her sister's arms) thought you we more sensible than Mr, 8. (approaching hia sobbing spouse) tha Henry What's the use of trying} —But T think the most sath tory solu. to evade the inevitable? Of course it] ton would be to continue as y May not come within a week, or a/ been, both alive, both kicking, and both month, or a year, But come it must,|content with what we've drawn sooner or later, 10 Why cause the second try might: prove a) Mr. 8. Gumplag up exeited|y)—Stop it!| blank! ‘What do you say, dear? | Stop it, Is: Why, I'm only a young ™ nsferring her limp self toy man-I'm good for thirty years more} her band’s shoulder)—Oh, Henry at least, 1 dear, promise me you'll always Mrs, 8, (gravely) Don't vi ofl In the subway! Brides alwevs understand — their, Will appear in vaudeville Thursday: | husbands; it is the women of long Press agent gets raise in salary. expericnce who do not, -_— —— | “Law will be passed to stop kiss- | “Girls in factory stike to stop ing.” The best wau to keep people swearing of bosses.” Man is too from kissing is to let them get mar: courteous to impose upon woman the ried, responsibilities of making the ldws.| —_— t i The Liberal E 2 PLUNKE 1 is mind, ue could not do justice August 27; ¢ lis address he received from a Jady a note containing this statement “What you need is t¥o things—first, a wife, J, lessons in olocut ett sent thin te have received” your letter saying that 1 need two things—first a lesions in elo Popular Magazi mn, ‘showe ate ouly pea Going Further Back. ad needed aid, My dear air,” replied prove by ¢ Adaw,""—Lippineott's M widdenly become very rich New York and began to with a Invish hand, advertising, 90 he He de- if 1 pay you enough my family back to Adam,” the & ro willing to put up the money ution tast your family existed before logiat, “if aie Foiled Again. - “| F you were aske! to get ready to start next ‘Thursday on a lot you could do so!” who was widower, journey asked her rich employer, 1 should exp do you think much would depend upon the kind of he replied © journey that n the journey? No, 1 don't t sou to Ko Then 1 don't believe I could get ready,’ she ir said, tu mist begun. ng to her typewriter acd making fou in the first line of the letter ale had Chicago Record-Herald, —_—_ oe Had Been Decorated. is gratified, ‘Ther Was waiting, ans ‘ said the child white lozenge, ‘Ob, what Yow. oa i ™ striped wiv pink once, ere, e is a candy And she gave Hilary McMasters @ Hisped the litte girl. Young's Magazine. "T's easy to be generous when your own demand invaded the drawingroom where ber sister a nice white lozenge!’ said the | is wou ‘ond beginning wat was per ns BHO aed Terms in Evolution. f last 9 ing white daisies or something with the proper repective, ty aqua mM the ight, tion followed,” at one romance all right, even if it tarted She was pluck He saw her, and mut- and in a ad her a dune be marahallet up sat Say, coickeu, let's get mate Lace; short engagement, eit!” eps wedded bliss did st long, either, Mong with orher imdigniti Vin her divorce tition she ways he called her a gow her freedom yeste: claring he's glad ben,"-—5t, Louie Bepublia, ‘Tormight he's ie Tid of fue old ‘ 1912 Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World). On the Road—From ‘Old Broadway!” (With the Usual Apologies to R. K.) IP me somewhere west of Denver, where the winds of Heaven ditnw, Si the mountains rise to meet them in the glory of their enow— Where there's gold in every hillside, and there's gold in every heart, And you gaze on God's own painting—and forget the thing called “Art!” On the road to San Jose, Where the year ia always May, Can't gou hear the West acalling, from La Paz to Humboldt Bay? On the road to San Jose, Where the skies are fair alway, And the stars that shine at midnight put to shame an castern day! Tam sick of brick and mortar and I'm looking for the plains, And the muggy New York climate dries the blood within my veins: And the New York Johnnies bore me—self complacant., For they talk of love forever—but what do they unde Languid air and listless hand— Lord! What do they understand? There's a rarer, squarer fellow of a cleaner, greener brand, On the road to San Jose, &e. Ship me sone where west of Denver, where God carried out His Plan— Where the soul has room to blossom, and a man can be a man! Let me stand upon the sands and watch the ships that slowly go Toward the sun that sinks in splendor into far-of Tokio. Oh, it's there I want to go— Where the soul has room to grow— Where the roses bloom the whole. year round and never sce the snow. On the road to San Jose, &c. | Yes, I'd leave it all behind me—all the glitter of Broad:cay— Just to take the first train running from New York to ‘Frisco Bay! For I'm learning here in Gotham what the poet truly tells, |"If you've heard the West a-calling you can think of nothing else Oh, you think of nothing else | But the orange blossom smelis, | And the sunshine and pati ¢ttos and the dreamy convent bella, | On the road to San Jose, &e, This is all just idle dreaming; for I've never been, you know, To this land of “golden glory” for which I am pining so! | But I'm sick of flats and motor cars and rush and noise and work, | And I'm sick of hearing silly songs of “Litthe Old NEW YORK!” Oh, New York is good enough, | With its bustle, blare and blug— | But there ARE“some OTHER places (though, of course, at this yout | scoft!) And I long to go to-day, Anywhere—to San Jose, | Down to Dizie, up to Greenland—ANYWHERE from “Old Broad- way!” en corn reason has ay and roasting eurs are rably plenty, It looxed » as if there wouldn't OLITICAL animation is still sus- P pended in our midst except for Bil Peck, our lone Bull Mooser, © way Willlam takes on about tho Colonel is something terrible, the neig- bors say. one i up. Nobody roasts ears any more, pre ferring to boil them in a pot, Our cestors learned to roast corn from the Ni rains have suddenly swelled the Indians by putting the ears, husk at TT ourdens of the apple trees, Dur- |, under the hot as! il sufficiently | ing the heat the trees threw of This was days of fire-| their surplus fruit to conserve molsture, and hardwood juel, when ther?) and now there is pleaty. The remaining were not only hot ashes but live coa!s) apples are growing big. Nature alwayw upon which much could be done that) compensates, which is more than min is now impossible, like popping corn, | often does, especially when he has bo:- making hoe cake and roasting sucking vowed $5 or a0, pigs properly. Modern improvements ; may be more convenient, but they are! OBERT H. DEERY of Park Row not so. meritorious oftentimes.” An ear R and Flatbush made us a pleasant of corn, roasted in the ashes, after they call Sunday evening with his are dusted off and the scorched husk! progeny, motoring over from Shippan peeled, with plenty of butter and sa't! Point, where he 1s catching blackfish and real pepper, is something to and cultivating his appetite. As near member @ long while gastronomically, |as we can figure it he has expanded — his diameter about four inches. Come 14% annual plenic of the Greenwich | again, Bob! T ‘armers’ Club will be held up at! . the lake on Wednesday, Aug. 28. iT" seems as if we never saw so many This I$ a great occasion, and 18 ats | yellow jackets around as this sea- tended by many people who are not|& son; also wasps are plentiful. The farmers and hope to get @ bite of the! yellow jacket 1s an independent memoer lunch, wich contains such custard piv|of the bee tribe which does not lay 19 and angel cake as are not to be found] honey to be robbed of it by man. Ho elsewhere, President Shadrach Close ex-| builds a nest of wood pulp and is just pects a record attendanee, Many of our| as independent as the Paper Trus:, farmers still have Bible names, the tims | which owes its start in life to him. One not having come yet to label agricul-| yellow Jacket can get up more speed in tural children after pet kinds of auto-|@ Jazy hired man than any human de- mobiles or breakfast food, though some | Vice. If man had as much potentiality take Col. Roosevelt's cognomen, Near-| in proportion to his size as a yellow ly all of our farmers are Democrats, | Jacket he could lick a battleship, Jim and R. Jay usually come to the — picnic, getting in because they wera ] the mo-account Belectmen don't hurry up, the growing pile of rubbish around thetr sign by the pond saying it mustn't be dumped there will com- pletely hide it. blacksmiths before they were lawyers | and politiclans and serving a useful purpose by shoeing horses, setting tir ete. ik oh : What the Chinese Think of Love. 2 do not belteve tn love, for love] do not helleve in love, for we are net W \» not the greatest thing in the] sickly, sentimental creatures, but con world, It is not even a thing] philosophical, tatalistic bein q We ar- range our matrimonial affairs through hard reasoning and not through the tender passion. ‘TO us marriage 1s @ serious business of the head and not a light affair of the heart, In these matrimonial transac- nor substance. Love is the antithesis of reason; for man sees with reagon and only feels with love, and it 4s the most viole form of brainstorm, says the Chine Annual, Love 1s a symptom of a dis- ordered brain, as @ nightmary is a syMP-/ tions we apply the most rigid, ke tom of a disordered stomach, It 18 calculating business principles, and thet deadly contagious disease, for {t turns |ts why we are so successful in the mar. the strongest head and makes the wisest |rluge enterprine, at we have never lees man a fool, Indeed there 18 no fool like | buncoed by Cupid at the game of love fan old fool who {a affected with amori-! We never pay 4 $ ti, When @ man has contracted thi enig” stupta, eae vat sae Aliae ot love disease and Is under its influence he |aigturver of peace,” the renter (ut acta In the most idiotic manner and) nourts, the destroyer Pee ake f performs all sorts of antics, all of Whteh | promoter of affinity stock pl jas he entirely renounces and repudiates | Wy cannot tolerate hie -preveneg when he is free from its hypnotic spell. [Ehina, as China is not a land of ae in Perhaps there is no greater difference |Consequently the cool, quiet if lorers, existing between the Chinese and (he our midsummer nights are not disturber Ameriéan pecple than that hatween or spolled by hot air from the woolm their ideas of Joy In fact, we Chinese and coolpg of sentimenta} creatures, the ae