The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1912, Page 16

a sete a Ee) od ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. hed Daily Except Sund Published ly Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 ¢o ‘ Row, New York, RALPH BT eee rosident, 3 re J. ANGUS SAA W, Row, . Par iW, JOSHPH PULITZON, Ire Bectelary, 6 Park "Row, Ent he Post-Office ai scription’ Rate to. the FIND THE REAL “OBSTACLES.” “Abolish the private hack stands of hotels and various places and convert them all into public stands.” T° suggestion from Mayor a first step in ridding the city of outrageous taxicab extor- tion and confusion is one this newspaper heartily indorses and will continue to fight for in the future as it has fought for it in the past. As the Mayor says: Just as long as the entrances are not blockaded I think this city may designate these hotels and present private stands as public hack stands as much as any other parts of the streets. Ag it is now there are not enough public stands with the service needed, and they are so badly regulated that the service cannot be given its fullest efficiency. The people of this city ere convinced that taxicab fares and irregularities now prevailing in New York are « scandal. hk system must be overhauled and reconstructed on safe, sensible lines. The evils are glaringly obvious. First steps toward improvement are simple and clearly indicated. What the publio now asks is WHO BLOCKS THE WAY? In expressing his wish that the Aldermen might tackle tho tax- ieab question the Mayor hints at “obstacles.” What are these “obstacles”? WHO aro they? Tt is now November. Since the beginning of the year the Alder. men have professed to be considering how to remedy dangerous irregularities and excessive charges in the taxicab eystem. Can they find only “obstacles” ? What “obstacles” stand in the way of rigid regulation of the eafety, comfort and convenience of public taxicabs? What “obstacles” prevent the exclusion of criminals and incompetent drivers from the chauffeur’s seat of a licensed taxicab? Wheat “obstacles” rise in the path of any one who tries to abolish the yearly $362,000 graft the taxicab com- for street privileges that really belong panies pay to hotels to the city? What “obstacles” bar the way to any reduction of | the extortionate taxicab fares which drag that $362,000 every year straight from the pockets of the public? What “obstacles” make it impossible to require fair and accurate meters instead of the tricky contrivances now in wae that at best charge ninety cents for e nominal eighty-cent mile? What “obstacles” exclude the cheaper taxicabs from ecoesstble stands where people can use them? What “obstacles” keep taxicabs in New York beyond the reach of people with email incomes who use them freely elaewhere? New York vening, For ni Gaynor to The Evening World as The 1AM So GLAD Tey CARRIED Four States HERE'S What “obstacles” surround our taxicab service to pre- serve it in sloth and backwardness—a hotel-ridden system of monopoly, graft and extortion? People are beginning to ask about these “obstacles.” They want to know how far extends the power of the taxicab’ companie- and the hotel graft upon which they base their business to raise in high places “obstacles” to any measures that will disturb the present comfortable division of the money wrung from the public in pre- posterous cab charges. CAN AN ALDERMAN BE AN “OBSTACLE”? CAN A WHISPER FROM A HOTEL MAN OR A TAXICAB MAGNATE MAKE HIM ONE? The Aldermen have had ample time to report on the condition of the public cab service. For months their Policy has been one of |take some fare around and then ts end delay. Patience is exhausted. Tho people | asks to be taken to a hotel or cafe and ef New York demand to know where their Aldermen stand on the evasion, shilly-shally, question of improving a public service that is now a shame and a Wisgrace Why the Ship Is “She.” To the FAtitor of The Word: ‘eplying to query as to why a ship és called “she” we must go back to tho origi of gender for inanimate things. ‘Tie Latins had what has come to be Known as @ natural gender, ‘Thus: They belLeved anything massive, toworing, powerful (gigantic in any way) was masculine. To them mountains were the bones of giamte, end were masculine, while Mttle hills were feminine, Fierce ‘winds, as the euroclydon and simoom, ‘were magouline; gentle sephyre were feminine. Broad, deep rivere were mas- cullne (ae Father Tiber), while brook- lete were feminine. The alty (urbs), be- caure it wae deemed the mother of its Progeny, was feminine. The sun, de cause of its fierce Nght and heat, was snasouline, While ie paler attendant, the was feminine. Anything diminu- tive, pretty, woft, gentle (avis, @ bird, for instance), was feminine; hence, ship (nevis), because of Ke graceful, wiiding motion, was feminine, and the sender is preserved in English. W. C, BARNES. ‘That Drive to Califoral To the Editor of The Evening World; A reader asks advive about driving a dng horse from Alvany to California, my advice: It ts utterly impos- sible, I think, for you to drive a young horse that distance and expect it to be in good condition, The vest you can Ket out of u young horse for @ week or #0 ls fifty miles a day, And continuous driving day after day of fifty miles will 40M any horse tn less than seventy days. (the length of time it would take at Atty miles day to trave! the 8,600 miles). As for stopping at night at some farm @F ranch house in Oklahoma, Texas Letters From the People SHOW US THE REAL “OBSTACLES.” Panhandle, New Mexico and Arizona they are few and far between, in some places 500 miles qpart. And It would be Receasary for you to pack your grub and the horse's feed, and when that young Fastern horse reaches 4 mountain ele- vation of from 3,000 to 6,000 feet it wil! Probably be ‘curtains for the horse” and he wil not make twenty miles day. By the time you reach Los Ang fea you would have a lost horee, & «#, FITZGPRALD. What Is o Father's Duty? ‘To the Exliter of The Ereniag World: 1 hae ard much in regard to the duty of fathers and the care of children that is to say, the way children should bo trained, But, wise readers, whet is a father’s duty towant his children? 18 tt just to support them, and should all the other responsiblity faM on the mother? ‘The father I speak of is very quick tempered and does not wait to reason things out, And the child is of much the same disposition, But the child being #0 much younger, I feel there ought to be more excuse for him than for his father. I myself try very hard with both parties, In fact, I am worn out trying to make the best of things all around. Who can advise me? ‘hie child I speak of is very smart, and the way the father acts is not at all wise, and fs not gotug to help the boy, Children do not forg This child needs a great deal of en- couragement, As for myself, I try to sive him afl I oan, ac. R Chester A. Ar To the Editor of The Evening Worl Who was the last President before Cleveland was Prevident in his fret term? GBORGE 8, CHAUFFEUR'S wife writs to The A Evening World as follows: “T hardly think the public reals tzes the hardship @ chauffeur en- dures, for his is one of the most thankless postions in the city. Every- body imagines he must necessarily be a robber, a mure derer or some other dangerous character; he is neither. But they fre honest and up- right and among the most law abid- ing citizens, “How many times does a chanffeur either refused his pay or else the paity leaves by a side exit unknown to the chauffeur, and the poor chauffour hos this same fare taken off his pay, which is little enough. The taxi rider has en- Joyed @ ride at the expense of this chat- feur's family. ‘Chauffeurs ask nothng from the pub- Mo but fair play and pay for honest labor.” Tt ts to protect just such women as this and her driver husband that the present efforts of The Evening World, 'n the plea for proper taxicab legisia- tion for all concerned, has been directed, Seemingly the writer of this letter has andured some of the hardships attend- Ing this business and h mplaint ts well taken, Also no doubt her husband ts an honest driver, That “everybody imagines that he — SPOONS, RNIE, Forts, NAPICIN = HAVE | EVERYTHING WILL You HAVE A S Mowe? IF You WANT ANYTHING: ELSE Blow Your TR (LUBE 14 THE KITCHEN, The Day of Rest #4 «ei: Your PaPer.! UMPET, When Passengers Don’t Pay } the majority suffering for the minority. The New York public has been victim- lzed #0 often by the practices of unscru- pulous drivers that the fecling ts natu- rally one of continuous caution. If, according to the lady's contention, ul! chauffeurs asked nothing from the bie but fair play and pay for bonest labor, then the present contention would be unnecessary and there would net be so many complaints against chauffeurs But ag It 's, the present law has been So lax and the enforcement of even this law so futile that many people ASSUME ishonesty among drivers—very, verys UST NIGHT AND YouR Coate THE MOST MANLY Copyright, 1912, by The Press ubliahing Co, (The New York Bresing World.) often UNJUSTLY. If the Evening World's recommenda- tion for law-abiding relation between driver and passenger were to be made HERE'S Your BReanfasr wi ‘— SIT UP i EAT WHILE ITS HOT SOHN, LET ME CONGRATULATE You! Your WIFE WAS A PEACH OF a TRUMPETER, WHE SUFFRAGETTO MARCHER IN IT. By Sophie Irene Loeb AND Bu OOERE THEY Age SO Tired! entrance unknown to the chauffeur,” But if there were some inspectars ON HAND or if a policeman could be ap- Pealed to on the spot, as in other cities, active, there would be little or no op-| both drivers and passengers would feel for chauffeurs ‘ta be ai honest; an equal distribution of PAT- RONAGE would result and such con- ditions as the foregoing letter tmplies would be a rarity, It is true, the wife states, that “many times does a chauffeur take some fare around and then {s refused h pay or else the party asks to be taken to a hotel or cafe and leaves by a side portunity must necessarily be a robber, @ mur- derer or some other dangerous charac- ter” t# merely due to another ¢: of A Sporting Offer. “What do you think of the Turk- Ish war?” “The Bulgars beat the Turks. The Itallans beat the Turks. Now it's up to the Bulgars and the It, out for the championship.” No. 12—Patti’s Narrow Escape From Failure. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publinlan LTHOUGH Adelina Patt! spent her childhood days in this cotntry and made her debut at Tripler Hall in this olty in 18@ she was not hailed as La Diva. Several years later, as a matured operatic star, she created a furor abroad, American music lovers were kept | formed of her triumphs, but all effor on the part of 1 new queen of song hither were fruitless, | despite the fact that as early as 1816) Patt! was offered $1,000 a night. } But Adelina, with that shrewdness! which has characterized her extraor-| dinary carcer, was insistent that her first tour of the land of dollars should be under her own management. And this dectaion on her part oame very near | resulting tn a colossal flasco, i Patt! would not even engage an Amer- tean entrepreneur to direct her tour, So| certain was she that the pubitc here! were lying awake nights to hear her sing that sie merely wrote to a friend— 4 Mr. Paul Jutenet, a French actor who could hardly speak a word of English and who was wholly unconversant with iness procedu: To him Patth left all the details Scarcely any publicity preceded the diva's advent here. And Juignet, on Patt! nand, plaved the price of seats at $10 each for her first concerts, which were given at Steinway Hall, In Kast Fourteenth street, Just thirty-five years 1969 » excitement which should have pre-| 1 and which always prevailed on tis tours in later years was en- va! deadheads" for a Patt oone | cert was Indeed @ strange one, | The second concert showed no finan- cial improvement, though the press with ‘The opening concert | lars, 1 a halter house, | ven the small audience consisted ally of invited guests, The spec- {Memories of Players Of Other Days by hoovert Grau Co, (The New York Evening World.) Patt stormed and threatened to re- turn to Europe. But wiser counsels pre- vatled, and, while she would not out the price for seats, rather than confess « failure she accepted an offer from Henry E. Abbey of $4,000 a night for sixty oon- certs, Abbey cut the price of seats from $10 to $5. The effect was magical, Steinway Hell finance) triumphs, The diva took home with her nearly a quarter of a milion dollars and Abbey made about half as much more. This vital period tn Patti's career rings to my mind an anecdote worthy of recital h When Patti's own man- agoment was accounted a failure there was a rush of impresartos and near impresarios who sought to capture the queen of song, Among these was the old- time minstrel magnate, J. H. Haverly, who had been persuaded by Mra. Hav- erly to try to secure the great singer and thus raise himself to the dignity of being an impresario, Haverly obtained an interview with Patt, who was then stopping at the Everett House, On reaching the hotel he sent in his card and was gractously recetved. ; “Madame,” sald ‘Haverly, “I eam de sirous of engaging you for a tour.” “Very well,” answered Patt, “For concerts or for al “For concert responded the show- man. “How many?” queried Adelina. “Sixty!” was the answer, “Two hundred and forty thousand dol- Mr. Haverty," sald Pattt; “and alf the amount deposited at Roth- schild's on signing the contract Haverly was always regarded as a man or about him nervously and then repited: one accord eulogized the diva to the skies, And It {8 sald that only on this i Diva, nvapeme 8 " anes paenieeoe Te anmes o Cea a in this country." | "Well," quickly observed Patt, ‘why for yout sone “Why, madame, that ts almost five! than the pressure on the liquid in ¢ times as much as-we pay our President! bottle. Thus, the pressing of the lever nse of SECURITY ang safety. And cheating of passengers would have Uttle chance to go undetected. Further, such a chauffeur as referred to would be able to secure more fares as an INDIVIDUAL driver, if there was not 80 much discrimination in favor of companies as to hotel and private Stands, With these abolished the inde- pendemt driver would have EQUAL CHANCE with the company driver. Therefore, the answer to the chaut- feur’e wife wouki resolve itself to the point that the present law makes regu- lation of these things practically im- possible. 6 However, we are looking forward to adjustment by the Board of Aldermen, which has the matter under conten- lation. Y A Pocket Encyclopedia Rs Node ates H8—Why does diotting paper ad \Was sold out at every concent and the sord ink better than does writing pa- sarios to bring the |enttre tour was one series af artistic and per? 407—Under what circumstances would the Leaning Tower of Pisa faut 468—Why does a person carrying a heavy pat! of water in one hand throw out the opposite arm? 469-—-Why does @ steamboat con- tinwe to move ofter the screw has stopped? 470—What is sheet lightning? HESH questions will be answered Wednesday. Here are replies to Friday'et 41—(Why ie copper used for lightning rods?t)—Copper is an exce!lent conductor, and It {s not easily fused nor melted, nor harmed by weather, 2—(What ts Iime's value as a fertili- sert)—It helps to decompose. the eoil's vegetable matter, It also corrects any acidity in the earth and thug tends to destroy weeds, #3—(Why ts @ block-and-fall used for Ufting heavy loads?)—The weight ts dis- tributed equally on the cords that hold it. Thus @ @0-pound weight, sustained by six cords on the block-and-fall, will need only @ force of 100 pounds to lft it. 461—CWhy does carbonated water spout from the syphon bottle when the lever {s not easily ruffled, but now he looked | pressed?)—The pressure of the outside air upon the opening of the bottle is le forces out the water. 45—(What is meant by “amorphous” lane to try tour was Patti at her best—the real La! do you not engage the President to sing! substances?)—Substances that will not [orvetaize—sugn as chalk, glue, &a | Massachusetts. Motto—“With the Sword She Seeks Quict Peace Under Liberty.” Mberty they could not get. So they or in astern New Jersey. that same contrary wind New York and New Jersey were settled by Dutchmen instead of by the English. In seventeenth century England. were; @ sect of people that hated the Government's oppressions and who demanded a religious BY pLBEB Ly SOFDHUNE ECAUSE the wind blew the wrong way the Pilgrim Fathers settled Massachusetts instead of forming their colony on Manhattan Island And because of decided to emigraté to America. In 1620 about one hundred of these emigrants boarded the Mayftower and > sail forthe New World. They planned to form their colony eomewhere ; the south of the Hudson River, presumably near Manhattan Island. Bui @ gle blew them far out of their course, And in December, 1620, they landed at Plymouth. There they proceeded to lay the foundation of the most remark- able colony in all America. A little later a second band of Puritans came out from England and took wpe grant of land on Massachusetts Bay, From this location the nickname “Bay 8 a High Hills") and the name atuck. nit iT the region “Massgohusetts’ (‘The Place of | Saat ina name atuck, Afterward the various Yocal colonies were Vermont. 1 husetts included all Maine, New Hampshire and prsvranliactte hal ‘The Puritans had fled from England to escape religious persecution. And A Sect That De- manded What It Could Not Give. acarcely were they settled In Massa- chusetts when they began to persecute, banish and put to, death every one who did not agree with them on their own religious matters, They were surly, harsh men who frowned, on all the Innocent gayeties of life, talked throvgh their, noses, prayed and foucht with equal zeal, and did) not know when they were, beaten, They fought the rocky, hostite wilderness; they fought starvation and, pestilence; they fought swarms of murderous Indians. They fought and con- quered obstacies that would have weakened any other community. oe ‘The backbone vf the human body Is not a very beautiful or graceful thing. But {t ts vitally necessary. And these Purita: They were perhaps no more pleasant to live But they were as needful to the New Wort chew. were the backbone of America. ith than quinine is pleasant to life as quinine is needful to health in a fever swamp. The qualities that made them disagreeable were the qualities that were one day to save The French and Indian war taught and liberate America, u these men of iron the art of fighting. ‘Their early training and traditions had taveht them to hate oppression. 80 when England began loading down Massachusetts American Iberty, the firebrand that set the Colonies with unjust taxes that first sprang to arms. Massachusetts was the cradle of it wee a world ablaze. There, at Concord and Lexington, was struck the first blow for freedom. There, at Bunker Hill, Eng- land's power in America received its firet crushing setback. its existence with The Cradle of Amer:can Liberty. ‘The grin intolerant olf Puritan spirit was justifying &@ vengeance. Again, the first murmurs of the approaching civil war came from Maésachusetts. slavery) party first sprang into flerce life. 160,00 Massachusetts men and more than $2,000,000 of ‘There the Abolition (anti- And neanty Massachusetts money were given to the Unton cause. Even a it was first {n resenting oppression and in giving life and wealth for freedom, so Massachusetts from earliest days was foremost in commerce, Ut- erature, populous of the over the world, tatesmanship and every branch of progress. The richest and the most lew England States, its commercial power has been felt ali In Industries, in intellect, in love of liberty it hes ever occupied a position ati its own. The tron Puritans had laid a foundation whereon a wondrous edifice was raised. Easy to Squelch. RS, SUSAN WISLER, the new Mayor of Dayton, Wyo., was equelehing #y anti. ouffregette argument, says the Washingtom Btar, “But, indeed," she ended, “‘these suffrage arguments are eeqy to squelch, They are all on & par, They have about as much real truth io them as the argument of the old fellow who, to prove man’s superiority, said: “ ‘Man's baldness ts another proof, Man goce dald decause his brain is allus workin’, Whereas woman—nhe don’t never go bald."” ‘He took out @ plug of tchacco, waved it ecornfully im the alr, bit off @ large chew, and ald: “*Also, gente, by follerin’ up the same live of argument, we see that the reason why woman can't raise whiskers fe because ber jaw is allus workin’! shesccacieiaceschaiaanie Wife Worth Paving. ERR BLUMENTHAL, © director of the H Leasing Theatre in Berlin, once had great misgivings regarting the succes of his Rew plece, “Zum Weimen Rouse.” “If Thad only twenty marks for every thousand {t will bring you I should be quite content," sald ‘bis wife, ~ “AN right, you shall hare them,” replied Herr Binmenthal. “Zam Weissen Rose” (“White Home Inn”) met with an immediate succem, Every aight the Frau Director went to the cashier and levied her twenty marks per thousand, Pattern 7661—Child’s Coat 1, 2 and 4 Years. The Day’s Good Stories Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON 1 BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second atreet, Hew te Odtain $ New York, or sent by mail on receipt of tea stampe for each ,attern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your address pleinty and always Patsorns. } aise wanted. Ag@ two cente for letter postage if in @ hurry, On one occasion, after the piece ted tem runnipg some months, bed weather cowed © falling off in the receipts below the thousand marie, and consequently Frau Blumenthal wae mot entitiel to ‘bor twenty marke, “How much have you takeat” ¢be esbed the enshiter, “Only nine hundred and minety-coven marta,” the reply, “Well, give me a seat at three marks, then,” sad Frau Blumenthal, laying down the ala. “Now you have @ thousand marks, give me my twenty,"* She got them!—Tit-Bits, oe Highland Strategy. ANDY M'DOUGAL was o braw led of tuetve, One day he feil off the roof end broke, bis leg. His parents carried him ben th’ boose and stretohit tim ou the bed, where he graned and grat while the doctor was sent for, Wher the doctor came Sandy © want him to toneh hie lee for fear ft would burt, But the. doctor explained that it mau be done, “Whilk leg ie i, Sandy, lad?” eplered the “This ane,” whined Sandy, The doctor seized the ankle, pit bie fut in Sandy's oxter, and gied the leg etc a jerk that the lad was nigh pu'ed in twa, He asked the auld feytinr, . ft mich!" anawered: the Jed grinning, ‘I wasna sic a file as to gle him ma sate leg.""—Cleveland Plain Dealer, ar PPV HE coat that is finished with em- broldery is al- that, way or made with plain collar and eur bound or treated 1! any stmflar maone:) In the tlustration, th| material is whit} hroadeloth, but ‘S| model ts as well suid to velvet. Dark 12 or black vel a charm- ing effect. B is pre snenitee some- thing adapted to hare usege Is wanted, ore of the roagh Onishel cloths, such as chir / chilla aad — bouels would be tretty, ‘ria coat is siople, with’ front and back pors ‘ons only, The pook¢ ets are in: ‘and ‘finished laps, ness. There |s « sep. arate shield that can e@ used or required, babble For the 2-year the coat wi reaaitt 3 yards of ia ter! 2 yards $6, or { ‘ards 44 inches wide. The'pattern 7461 is cut In sizes for chile dren of 1, 2 and 4 years, ‘ASHION treet (oppo- conte in coin o¢