The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1912, Page 16

The Evening World Daily Magazine, ESTABLISHPD BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. » ARE SOMN TERT 1 CHIFFON AND THE President, 63 or Sic AND THE LOOPS ARE RALPH PULATZ1 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Pa JOSNPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Entered at the Pogt-Offic Bubscription Rates to The t Now York as Second-Class Matter, Bor England and the Continent and | All Countries in the International Postal Union, LOCATION WILL You PLEASE HOOKS FASTEN MY ‘World for the United Stato end Canada, + $2.50] One Year... « 80] One Month... + $9.75 + B5 . 18,715 One Year. One Month. VOLUME 53...00000++ NEED AN ALDERMAN BE AN OBSTACLE? T™ movement to free New York from taxicab graft and extor- tion, to give the city a cab service that shall be a cheap, popu- lar comfort and convenience, is ready to march forward. Who blocks the way? 1 would abolish the private hack stands of hotels and various nlaces and convert them ali into public stands, Just as long as | the entrances are not blockadg& 1 think this city may desigmte | these hotels and present priv: stands as public hack stands as much as any other parts of the streets. As it !s 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. * * * ‘This matter has certainly been agitated a long time and 1 would like to see the present Board of Aldermen considering this question recommeid some efficient service, ‘ —Mayor Gaynor to The Evening Worid. Hotel and private taxicab stands pay each year for special IMMENSE BEAUTIFUL JOHN DEAR. GORGEOUS -SUPERB J Fasten THis ONE Now HAVE | BEEN DREAMING >. DION'T 1 SJusT FASTEN Your Gown ? MISSISSIPPI (No Motto) Copyright, 1012, .y The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Wedd). D SPANIARD, bent on as wildly foolish @ quest as is the seeker of the rain- bow-foot, plodded through the track- less wastes of Missiesipp! in 1841, With him marched a sullen Iittle band of ex~ | plorers who were heartily sick of the journey. The leader—Fernando de Soto—kept them g0- ing by sheer force of will power and by promis- ing to lead them to a treasure land, Cortes had seized golden Mexico, Pisarra (De Soto's old commander) had magtered rich Peru. And now De Soto, lured by lying legends, was seeking @ like Bl- dorado. Instead, he found a mighty river, called by tho natives “Mes-a- |See-bi,” or Father of the Waters, a name later corrupted to “MississlppL” | De Soto had fought, tolled and starved for gold. No gold could be found, | And his followers would go no further. Broken-hearted at his faflure, and ignorant of the value of hie,real @la- | covery, De Soto died and was buried in the Mississippi's yellow water, An@ \for many @ year no other white man's foot trod Mississippi's eotl. Then, in 1582, came La Salle, claiming the whole Mississiopt region ia | France's name, and calling ¢t “Louistana” in honor of France's King. Iberville ie his colonists followed, trying to plant permanent settlements tn the wil | derness, But the colony was of painfully siow growth. It did not appeal to the taste of immigrants. | Newcomers preferred to go to New Orleans, whore there grt ees secteeeeeeees ss $362,000 Were something of the French gaiety and crowds that | The enmsyivania iG Cente: s recelve as rev- sii | |} When Growth {they had known across the eens. And New Orleans drew enue from the cab companies. : , 13 Waxed Slow, $2@y Many of the older settlers, too. So Mississippi did tb Cates Late borne as not gain rapidly in population. And this state of affairs cabs—approximately ...c.seseereseereee 38,000 | ‘continued until the Revolution. When Florida was ceded to Spain tn 170 all of Misstesipp! south of Vicks- burg went with it and came under Spanish rule, remaining «0 for @ tong time, the free telecal was established. It included all of Alabama and continued to include tt until 1817, In that year Ala! wi Misslesippt became a State. is meee When the civil war was at hand Mississippt promptly seceded. And for years it was the arena for bloody battles and historic ieses. Corinth, Vicks. burg and other places tm the war-ridden State achieved world fame because of the conflicts waged for their possession. Here Grant won his spun and showed himself the one man capable of crushing the Confederacy. Total paid for exchusive rights......sses--seeeree ". $500,000 At $500,000 @ year, cab companies operating about 1,400 cabs pay for these privileges. per day, $1,569, or almost $1 a day for each cab. ‘rom Ex- issioner of Accounts Fosdick’s Reports. It 1s tmpossible to control this Situation, as 1 have at my sposal only twenty-five inspectors for the whole License Bureau. bee, AS It certainly would make a big difference if | had fifty inspectors for the cab situation alone. —Chief Wallace of the Department of Licenses, To my that $1 a mile—for it amounts substantially to this— a fair taxicab rate for New York, while the rate for the same \s preposterous» inasmuch as the origina? cost of buil ing taxicabs is not much less than here, the chauffeurs are as well if not better paid than here, ; while gasoline is more expensive there than he. ission for Im- | ‘The war over, Mississippi underwent usual tortures suffered by the | other seceding Sti From 1870 to 187% the “carpet bagge Negroes and the more worthless element of local white men were largely , atau ara of in control. There was a negro Lieutenant-Governor, and | <a fon wieruie, negroes filled other high offices, to the enger of former HER On SPs bey egal Goat acaay baeattee and etubbornness coin- Ho NS | Ripa aneeaten etites je already stricken State, Taxes ‘were, THISONE DEAR ONLY THREE More AFTER THIS O, PiFFLE | LETS Go Madt nds RAE STOP Tactcince AND HOLD YouR, This matter has been before the public for over three years and practically nothing done. Now, if ¢his present Aldermanic Committee does not recommend sulficlent rules for a strict and efficient service for the protection of the public in the matter of rates and regulations, the public will look elsewhere for relief. Besides lax daws, | have thmes without number paid different prices for the same distances, as have many other citizens. Mf strictly enforced rules were active, the taxicab would be recognized as a common carrier, Just as street cars and subways;for Slowly but steadily Missiestpp rose from the era of turmoll end | rebuilding ruined prosperity and at laat taking tts proper plac: y march of progress, na ee ee iMemories of Players * ols as common carriers they come for license. Yet in New York, seem- No. 15— Of Othe Day auth treated h. 5 oe have Lng! Maren . shuation fnokesee are ranted to ! CLIT UAE & ae Mo * s individuals and companies, and yet rules and regulations are so lax, mpty 'y Robert Grau efficacy any otel proprietor is brought th > seins ot saying my, abe operate for bis vl 3 Pie te Dumpty. ina ras Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening Weel). . has come before the pul #0 poignantly now, HE most popular style of enter-| In fact, the same audiences and oe ecnmtions are so bad, that it Poke time for the is- tainment in Naw York forty|plauded him in Tucngey brea i trates to take a hand and help ¢! this chaotic condition, years ago were the “trick” |would go rtd ae aie | Ghiet of the Buremu (of Licemes) should have all the assi Dante han been mid Houle, Fox's carefully p2e-g rer amazing vogue of | charact they cam Giistrele Dante! F. Murphy, of the Pity-fourth the “allont drama” ¢hrough the moving |reeaing roan after che plat wes at Street & 825 fine upon an un- é cture invention {8 bringing about @ re-|ished and etve ‘9 Somnus cleat with an uninspected -———— way to the mest profound vival of this nearly lost art. But the/grief, Often actors who vi _ ——— = — _ e — istted Fox te - taximeter, | PAPA P RPP PAP PPL PPL PPL PPP PPP PDL PPL DPR PPP DD DODD DODDS DPD APR nnnnnnnnrnnnnnrennroconroccorononnta | “ea! trick pantomime, such as the public! his dressing room at such times would‘ 1 belleve in abolishing hack stands entirely and mi Th S 2 H. b d & 92 Coens 10i we ? oss wont 4p cere over, was @ vastly dif-/find him weeping and ineonsolable, believe " = so 4 mince Oot Sa eng mos to es companies, eee That e Stingy Fiusband 3 j.xektiths.,| 22 By Sophie Irene Loeb § tommy: sowie tom te “sumurone’ and|"ror gure am order enon tat we el . PPP PPP PPP P PPP PAP PPPA PLLA PAP PAPAL PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP a PPP OPED PP PPP PLP PAPA PAPA PAPA ‘The home of pantomime in New York | sreyce Demitted to attend his Ghakes- certainly can be lower than st present with the abolishing of an ped private ack stands must be evidem to any one Who has PROPER While grandmother, whose principle; the house ts not supposed to know any-|was at the Olympic Theatre, between pearian performances, for the reason, Wie MARY AUSTIN, who ts pre- share of the “oneness” in ‘the In the ordinance I recommend all rates are paring a book on the marriage | the household shan belong to Mary, and |duty it was to leave all “money mat-| thing about {t. “Money matters” matter| Houston and Prince streets, on Broad-| nce bevebsqgedlls liga sad my to be queation, places etinginess asone| how much HE may spend for lunches | ters to grandfather, even left to him| much indeed. way. Here “Humpty Dumpty” had « oe eee area patie pile oon = —Aderman rtlandt ‘Nicoll, President of the Rules of the prime rea-| and cigars) we are living in the here|the choosing of her new cashmere of| With the high cost of living and the/run of 060 nights, with George L. Fox,| were the main influence in Fox's — and Committee, sons for divorce.) and now and there's many a little|the momentous occasion when he went}Tush of the everyday, with the demands|the Grimaldi of t x's caret y t day, as the clown. |ena it th e hands of to town, when dimes and nickles were|that life has made as to HER new were quite as spec. Was their desire to see Fox under stingy husband. It 1s for the better |occasionally found in @ cup on top of |needs, she must be on the qui vive to y of the @reat epeo- [sii gr tpenpelcoaatisseh the audiencas~ three-quarters to mend his “ecroogy |the kitchen cupboard for somy unusuai|not only to make ends meet but realize|tactes at Niblo's Ganton; but the one|formances the “Hamlet” pare ways" and to realise his better-half's | need—TO-DAY things are different, some PLEASURE In the process. compelling and irresistible attraction i NEEDS. ‘The needs are changed. The man of| Mrs. Neighbor can now call wp on the| was Fox himself. ‘Tho effect of thie controversy on Fox telephone and say, “Come over to tea,"| When it is considered that New York|”*!,%° marked that when, upon the, She says: “I would consider it @ far stronger cause for divorce if my husbandmade me ask bim for woman suffering have heard to be certainly as we tssue licenses for public service laws for public protection along with them. But it lic pays more for these con- of all abolish the pri —Aldermen Joti gh tan ithe or ? NaI OA LAA PALL PLLOLILLLLOOOD he must oy Pied gy gpl lente had @ population of lesa than a million, lapel his managers, & ye ier Kuen in J. Meagher, e e one may form as idea as to the popu- Due ba 4 untrue, You would the rear ani she must look to her AP-|° olf unction was gone. Fox's grimaces PE ag Dy hey ap a nd OO aalied ant "1 What Is Your Dentist Bill ? }|t:cse e.cs.n3, vaya cononcave veare wo curacy [evan lot tolr cuching, ea veil they e Plains, “thet the Formerly, while the stingy husband might; for the greatest clown that ever 1 believe that all private back Lom be shollshed imme- fact would aow be And Is the Work Worth the Money? might have been piling up for a FU- | Sudiences. oF and sm Hecate sted lived was mentally affected. The pu @ately, and peices a ‘de compel! De ANE Cece ‘established that the | TURE need, the wife did not feel the never-ending scene display, © litc's refusal to accept him save in pun' C9 actting aside of a sformation scenes" with which HARDSHIP attending his stinginess as‘ e tomime finally drove him ti comes assured that the driver is under strict suner- eum HAT do you pay your dentist?) Let him get low and when he can th intomimes used to close—weil, oe benelly ot oe Kew York City Government, which should have perpen oes pode bid He {8 not on the free iiat. feca him got them, [2088 the ro of today with her itte ls almost nothing ike them to-day, [ere perfect contro! of the situstion. “Yet there are many te In fact, he hee a way of doing just as good work as Many @ can thinks nk 4 thus-| George L. Fox was a true artist, His Poor Fox! He gave more pleasure to a 1d and n who marry without eeeming to realise getting rich far faster than/ the man who does brownstone dentistry; |, Many O mun “Onis Bee Seis the (Versatility was extraordinary; but, |0!d and young in his day than any aobor that the economic 4 you do, Dentista themselves) some one has to do it; we owe some- wife ts an important fener te tho tej sey there are more men in the pro-| thing to the public: they have given us happiness of enany marriages. fession now than ever before, and that| laws to protect us. ‘he male they all seem to make a iiving. “1 know of @ dentist who charges ax marry conte ene, unk Datore| And lots of them get a silt-edged tiv-| or elght dollars an hour; he started In would advocate commissions Josed |in@. Ewpectally those who hammer 18} at two. I asked him what his patients jof married people and having more {cents worth of gold into « hollow tooth.| did who couldn't pay his fees. He sald of taxicabs York City. } boing looked ‘upon 68 62 oceunione juxury, the taxical be as da y_ necessity. ! 1 intend to vote or ttm abolishment of the private hack stand ss-c0e of the first eteps \n the reduclon of rates, Gemuel Marks, How about the other Aldermen? H If the rates were substantially lowered % would entirely revo- New if of 'greatly to bis regret, the public would |f Ms period of activity. Many compe~ levee roe iice tates eects, aad eoert him only ae the dear old clown, | tent critics Pelleved he was Just as good Maca. Taauedita Nniwitc en anne) part. |And it mattered not whether it was|!? ey atic and tragic roles. But Fox ner, but DEPENDENT under such eon-| “Humpty Dumpty” or “Hickory Dickory | OOM Not reconcile himself to the empty ditions. Dock" or ‘Jack and Jil,” the antica of |4¢8*8 when he attempted sertous Fox would send the avdienc . | 8 against the tremendous crowds heat- The man of the backbone and, in oe iis rected ap @ Cee: would soon Here, from high city officials, is plain common-sense about taxi. | 7omes than men. eats, coupled with determination to make the gervics a credit instend |eble to rush off and marry on « tew eda disgrace. Some of the Aldermen have already declared themselves on tho | Stirminess has been one of the most aide-of civic pride and progress. It is now up to the others. Need,an Alderman be an obstacle? street, Chicago, is a magazine devoted to the publication | terpretation. 66 Prien edited by Harriet Monroe, at No. 543 Cass of verse and to encourage poote, It has been endowed |**ecte? that the man provide, But for two years by liberal-minded Chicagoans. it wishes its body to enjoy! Thus again is manifested | ‘* as NARROW as he ts himself, the’ truth of the theory that surroundings stimulate imagination. The mind desiring to escape fom gloom and squalor “aces” the things | the “marriage question” and can turn It ts @ terrtble thing that young girls and boys should be hours notice."" Much wisdom is that, Mrs. Austin. poignant factors in the fight for happl- mess aince the world began. ‘Wile women reformers ane talking edout the “self-development” thi: “economio independence of woman" and all the rest of the propaganda, the fact Femains that the stingy husband és prace tically @ product of INDIVIDUALITY, ‘The law in the case is wide in tte tne That te of course, it ts many @ man’s idea of that proviaion {8 certain, that until the e alt through with books cn taking twenty minutes for the job, and charging from 5 to $10 for doing it. Also the artint who takes a day or leas €o construct @ pair of pinkish horse- shoes #ith grayish porcelain slabs in them and charges from $100 to $900 for the ‘double set.” Summer hotelkeepers must charge high because the season ts short, But the dentiat's yearly season is twelve monthe long 4f he chooses to make it 80, Wherefore the lofty charges? The Dental Digest reports a speech by a Rochester dentist, Dr. Belcher, which touches rather cleverly on the matter of bills, He says: “Dentistry {s an unexpected calamity. Many people appreciate dentistry, but have nothing to pay with, “It t# all right ¢o get high fees, but where is the poor man going who hes thelr attention toward the amaking of leenge laws (that will say what four or five children? Some people will not accept charity, The young ) ought to be encouraged to do dentistry. he simply told them if they couldn't pay his fees to go to some one else. Now, he did just as good work for two dollars as he does now, but TI feel that the fellow who first came to me and who can't pay high fees, {8 entitled to some consideration. Some of them are not able to pay auch @ dig fee; you must charge them whet they can afford to pay or not send in any bill at ell.” ae Odd Facts. ‘The French Government has placed an increased tax upon signboards in the hope of decreasing their number. Near Dorchester, England, the re- mains of a Roman theatre capable of holding thirteen thousand persons. Naples ts demolishing old dwellings in the lower part of the city, where the people live crowded together, and is substituting modern buildings. truth, the man's man, is he who does | stacles. not put his wife to the humiliating NE- CESSITY of asking him for that fifty cents, It sMould be a humiliation to him as to his RESPONSIBILITY as «| 1 {Macbeth (which he did many times), the public would not accept him as a trage-|Dumpty,” but without Fox & carried dian, husband. Therefore until the Heense laws are! inade in accordance with the economic business condition necessary, even in} the present-day Harlem flat every wife! and husband MAY SO ARRANGE the family exchequer that self-respect at least, may not be lost—and love with it, many times. ¢ While there may be the woman wio {gs go extravagant that the husband must draw a line somewhere, yet wher- ever any line js drawn, in any case, it may be so adjusted that a wife realize! she is an everlasting partner by RIGHT) and not @ continuous petitioner by ne-| cessity. IF YOU ARE A STINGY HUSBAND COME OUT OF IT AND BE 1A GOOD- FELLOW! | honestly was breaking the pantomimist’s heart—for Fox had great ambitions and tains be determined by a barometer? in sizo to the Colossus of Rhodes? And yet this appreciation bestowed so Neverthe. | ®vailed. Hamlet or was truly a great actor, 8, when he would open scant appeal. A POCKET C%® | VYCLOPEDIA,|, Copyright, 1012, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The 481—How can the height of moun-, tween York Evening World), presumptive?” 482—What modern statue is second 488—What is the difference he-| there is no peacef” “heir apparent” and When Fox died he took pantomime to his grave with him, None of the to proviie @ successor of equal gentus forts Henry E. Abbey spent a fortune in an effort to revive the glories of “Humpty “heir 484—Where did Patrick Henry get Ma famous line: “Peace, peace, when * } 485—Whas is an electroscope? Butchers’ Odd Names. BUTOHPR who had some spare A Ume made a study of the telephone directory for ers whose names aro out of the ordinary or fit the busin: Sam Frankfurter has a #hop at 2 Bast Beventh street, and A. Weiner ta at 1443 Avenue A. John Now is on Third} ‘nue and Frank Then on Amsterdam HESE questions will be enswered ‘Wednesday. Here are repites to - Friday's: 46 (Why does churning butter oon- vert It into cream?) Cream ts the fat of milk contained in tiny globular cases of albumen, Churoing breaks this film ot albumen and sets free the butter, 47 (What causes the Ni fogs?) The warm air above the Gulf Stream ts condensed by the colder air near Newfoundland and forms masses of vapor, 478 (Why could & man jump etx times |e high on the moon es on the earth?) ‘The pull of gravity on the moon 1, bout one-sixth as atrong as on ti; buteh- avenue, saya the New York Butcher's Advocate, If they formed a partne: ship, Now & Then would sound famil- far, Wing Sang ts in the poultry business and A, Fox ts a game dealer. Louis Rich ts on Third avenue and John Richer ts in The Bronx. Emil Half is on Amsterdam avenue. George Idler hustiew in a market on Webster avenue. John Grab te taking things easy in his shop in Second avenue. Max Warm 4g trying to keep cool in his shop in 4 “i Mast Houston etreet. Max Lent of ae street never keeps it. Joseph " “ of Went Fiftieth atrest should be Me ite with the ladies. For the how about Julius Goodby of Ave | 4% (Why do mist and fog often van {wh at sunrise?) The gun's heat ohanges the condensed particles into invisible vapor,