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The report of the committee’s counsel sug- gests that we have more to hope from this investigation than doubts as to its eincerity and purpose led us to believe. Mr. Buckner is at some paine to assure us that politics had nothing to do with creating the committee and will have no hand in etopping or shaping ite work. He hopes to have that work completed in time to recommend legis- lation to the next Legislature. But it is Mr. Buckner’s plain etate- ment of what the committee has eo far found out that will bring home to the average man the need for a real grapple with the evil forces in the Police Department: » We have shown that among the members of the force were per- Jurers, ex-convicts, men who were habitually disorderly when they were civiltans, gang leaders, burglars, wife-beaters and wife-deserters, men guilty of felonious assault, and one man who had cut the throat of a fifteen-year-old boy. We have also shown that men of bad character who were dismissed from the force because of misconduct were reinstated and promoted; that other men were dismissed for trivial faults, and that the law was repeatedly violated. ‘Among many epecific cases described in detail Mr. Buckner returns to the “frame-up” methods employed by the police in the burglary of the Shapiro feather store, in the course of which tho place was badly damaged by dynamite, $1,500 of goods mysteriously disappeared in the hands of the detectives who ran the job, and the proprietor was forced to pay $175 before he could get back any of his own property. “A remarkable story,” as the counsel say’ to be told about men who were paid for protecting the lives and property of the people.” From facts the committee will proceed to causee—going into the various branches of the eervice in an investigation expected to con- | tinue for the next three months. “We are going ahead as rapidly as we can,” declares Mr. Buckner, “and we ere not doing an un- necessary thing.” So far the publio—not without reason—has regerded the Ourran investigation with « certain coolness, satisfied to await results. That * the committee has not been idle ie clear. Nobody can fafl to be im- pressed by this latest cummary of its findings of fact. From now on its work deserves careful attention and ecrutiny—for the good both of the investigation and of the public it ehould ultimately benefit. . New York hes pledged itself to reform {ts police. No reaction or wandering of interest, no insidious perversion or ecattering of tho issue should allow that purpose to flinch or falter. po WHAT SAY THE SUFFRAGETTES? LONDON newspaper recently dug up for tho discussion of its A women readers the old dilemma: In case of danger, if she must choose, which ought s woman to save—hueband or father? ‘The majority of the replies favored the husband. To the argu- ments ef the minority thet the woman has‘ known her father longer, that che owes him far more—even her very existence, that widowhood Js not undearabie, etc., eto, the other side returned with overwhelm- ing force that the wife's legal duty ie to her husband, that whatever may be true of the pest the husband stands for the future, and she ‘ewes to him end expects from him the really significant pert of hor Ife in society. Then when the Bfble says “A man ehall leave his father and mother and cleave to hie wife,” does it not imply thet she tee shall do es mndh? : At first glance tt looks es ff the old gentlemen rust make up thie mind to go down quietly and admit that the future hee stronger clatms than the past. But how about the “new woman” who pro- claims her supreme rigttt to “ive her own life’? Is she going te throw the life preserver to her irusband if ehe can show her inde- pendence and self-sufficienoy by cesting it precisely in some other direction? Father will do well to keep afloat and see what happens. (here is still hope for him. Es Lait O King of Spain, 1 em a man who has gtven you more prov- Inces than your ancestors left you citlest HERNANDO CORTES, Conqueror of Mexico, Died Deo. 2, 1547. Letters From the People Is One-Third Ei ‘To the Baitor of The Hvening W: ‘Wil readers kindly answer this ques- tion, and give me expert advice? I make $1% per month. Do you think that one- third of what 1s left after paying all bills 1s enough for my wife? We cannot a ‘To the Editor of Tue Evening World: Your recent editorial on the reserva- tion of the Equiteble alte for @ public park hit the nail on the head, It cer- tainly would be a magnificent act of patriotism if some darge-minded philan- thropist were to purchase this property and present tt to the city as @ public park, But has New York no civic pride? Have we no live, pubtte-spinit- ed city officials with the necessary Kumption to take hold of a proposition of this kind and do something which would reflect honor and credit on the ing readers what this matter, pay on wants, by “Letter Carrier’ that New York Present administration end ee oo should follow the example of some lasting monument to New York's reall cine, cities and allow the post-ofice | Breatness in being able to do a big thing in @ big way? The city needs a park on the old Equitable site, It ts more necessary than a park at the Battery or in the Bronx, or in fact anywhere in Greater New York. We can undoubtedly have that park if our city officials will do thelr duty, Yours very truly, ESTATE. employees a full day off on holidays nition of faithful service, St “Letter Carrier,” out delay. N, ‘To the Editor of The ‘What country Christopher Columbus? how hed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Co: 1» Now, 63 r 3 Park 1 Sa apenas db acl ibaa v, York Matter, Evening) For England and the Continent and seeeeeeeees O85 +e 86 ‘The Curran investigation into the conduct of the | Police Department may not be as exciting as the trial of Becker and | agree on money matters, #o I am ask- thelr idea ts upon I do not seo why I #hould ait of what ts left, as my wife | aa I heartily indorse the views expressed The public should demand this in recog- to} His request is most | reasonable and should be granted with- | World: ‘as the birthplace of The Evening World Daily Ma | The Day of Rest G SURE AS Bue JOHN Witt SLEEP ALL DAY. HE WON'T BoTHER US .come on I'LL HAVE To Wortx HERE tS AT 1AM BOING Ww CURIOUS AND ALL WE HAVE ToDo ieiraten BAAS Loo SO Nuch BETTER a ms, a, years, Taine BAVING the good-hearted neigh- dor, olf Mrs, Dusenberry, in charge of the fiat, Mra. Jarre ar- Fayed herself to go down to Mrs, Blam- mer’e Employment Agency again on the en quest of the gokien girl. “Do you think I should put on my very beat and wear my jewelry?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “or should I go dressed quietly?” “Dearte, I'm sure I don't know!" re- plied old Mra, Dusenberry. “As ét ain't Gunday you'd better put on something plain. It's no use to wear out your best clothes by putting them on every day.” “But if you don't wear your best @othes all you can theyll go out of style, and then what good are they to you?’ asked Mra. Jarr. “Of course,"’ she went on, “when one goes to an agency to get a servant girl the firat impression ts everything. Gome girls will not take a place unless the mistress looke stylish, “They hope to get presents of her hats and wraps when the mistress is tired of them. Ot ins prefer to wed woman, as that betokens the woman will give her @ hand with the work, and it also shows, as one girl told me, that it ls a substantial home where there is @ good tadle.” “I'm qure it'e all beyond me, dearie,” said the off lady, “When I was Iivin’ Not Her Fault. “She le a born musician,” Hy oad SEE SToHN 18 Just THE SA\ BuT LUCKILY HE Witt SLEEP Atl DAY~IT'S HIS DAYoF REST - HE WON'T BOTHER US/ ((}) pil on aire to nobody. Neighbors’ gazine, Monday, December 2, 1912 ee RTT TE TR TS IT'S NOBODY To BOTHER You — IT'S A SECRET_ (Go BAcKK ToRED ann OLEEP Shomer sets OF PLAIN BRASS . ONE For Bitt's X-MAS AND ONE FoR ‘You To GIVE ToHN DON'T Look ! Go Bacts To Steer! ITS A SECRET aeesecccccccosone seccecesooccosoee cssoseeeesoeseses Mrs. Jarr Sadly Renews the Search Goop! ILUSNooze ALL Day WON'T THEy & SURPRISED. Then I REIR STOCKINGS | O, PIFFLE I WHAT'S Hat! A Bolter Factory 9 ' For Someone Who Wants a Nice Home SPVSSITSIIFISSOSS FSIIITIFSIISIISSS 99SISIIIITITIIITIY What's the 28—New Jersey. Motto: ‘Liberty and Prosperity.”’ courtier Teceived “The Garden State. in the latter colony. In Northern New The State of Hundre record is unequalled, After the Revolution came quick growing prosperity Paterson and Jerse; an odd trony of fai Jersey man.) mountain resorts ha: to those of New York. “Then | suppose it would’t be fair te blame her,’ @ foregoing and fn countless RYTON He STUNITIE BY prBER Ty SOP DHUNE Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). SCAUSE a clever English courtier had against Oliver Cromwell, ica received the name of “New Jersey.” fended was the Isle of Jersey. When the fugt-| tive prince became King Charles II. of Eng-) land, Cartaret and another courtier, Berkeley, by the way, was not England's to give), and, in honor of the British island, called it New Jersey. The richness of its soil later gave it the nickname of New Jersey was part of the Dutch New Netherlands, with New Am- sterdam (New York City) as its headquarters. Dutch from New York and seized New Jersey as well. turies continued to hold sway, thetr communities with almost feudal power, and until | 4 very few years ago ma: speak Dutch as readily as English, \ New York and Philadelphia were America’s two great cities, and each drew on New Jersey for population and for provisions (even as now New Jersey és to # large extent populated by people who work tn those two cities); #0 that Benjamin Franklin said of the colony's relation to New York in the north end Philadelphia tn the south: “New Jersey is itke a cider barrel—tapped at doth ends.” There were Iniien massacres too. Indeed, the first ated there. The taxes and other oppressions of England fell heavily on New Jersey, and it joined eagerly in the struggle for independence, At Greenville, on the Delaware River, in 1779, the “Boston Tea Party’ was re-enacted, when forty men disguised as Indians made @ bonfire of a cargo of Engiish tea. (No other State in all the Union bought Iberty at so high @ price, for New Jersey was the storm centre of the Revolution. ektrmishes were fought on Jersey soll—including the flerce confilots of Trenton, Princeton and Monmouth. Roth armfes swept the gallant State like a scourge. Towns were sacked and burned, farms destroyed, non-combatants pillaged and imprisoned, New Jersey was paying a fearful toll for its patriotism, were #tain, their homes wrecked, their rice flelds scoured to support Washing- ton's starving troops, For heroism and suffering, New Jersey's revolutionary Through Alexander Hamtiton's achievements the cities of City, and other thriving places, sprang into life (and, by , Hamilton was shot dead, in 184, by Aaron Burr, @ New And@ now the nearness to New York and Phifadelphta that had once drained New Jersey's resources served to increase tts industries and {ts population, | A “Doubl railroad charter, by the way, ever gxnted in the United | Populatio States was issued in 1815 for New Jersey. For the defense of the Union in the civil war, New Jersey contributed nearly 99,000 men and $3,000,000, Since 1885 the State's rowth and {ts increase in wealth and tmportance have been phenomenal. During the past twenty-five years the population has more than doubled. The lead in manu- factures has steadily advanced. The varied beauty of New Jersey's seaside and drawn visitors from all over America scarcely second the good luck to entertain a fugitive prince at an island fortress, and be- cause he defended that same island province in Amer- The was Carteret, and the island he de- a large elice of American land (which, Then the English routed thi But the Dutch still dwelt Jersey especially, the Hollanders for cen- The “Patroons” ruled North Jersey farmers could | ndian Reservation” was About one hundred battles and Its sons recovery and the dawn of a great and Commerce throve apace. The first in Taylor Township, Indiany, nobody put | came to work at neighbors’ houses and use of putting on airs?” gais| married neighbors’ sons. “That's what I say,” replied Mrs, Jarr, giving another glance at herself in the mirror. “Well, I'll run along. I hope to be back soon with a good girl, and T'll treat her with every constderation. But, oh, dear, I wish Gertrude would come back! With all her faults, we understood each other! So goodby! And thank you for being #0 goog as to run in and help me.” So with the house looked after, and Mr. Jarr at his office and the children at echool, Mre. Jarr hastened down to Mra. Blammer’s Agency for the morn- ing review of disengaged cuisine opera- tives. “T got a pretty good girl for you, I think," said Mrs, Blammer when Mrs. Jarr arrived at the office. “Is it the girl from the country,” asked the Harlem matron anxiously. “No, dot von ain't come yet," said the proprietress. “She can't get money for carfare.” “Well,” said Mrs. Jarr, “if this one you have for me docsn't suit, I'll ad- Vance the country girl's carfare. Oh, to think of getting a willing, helpful, un- Spoiled country girl! One new to the ways of a great city! How I'd watch her. I'd never let her out except with the children to go to the moving plo- tures. ‘That would be new and delight- ful to her and keep her contented.” Mrs. Blammer had been running an employment agency for domestic help for so many years that she had neither illusions nor hopes for herself, her cli+ or her patrons. Mebbe #0, vot?" ehe sald phicgmat- feally, and waddied off to the waiting room to bring in the jewel who awaited there. “This is the lady, this ts Chula,” she eaid, and then ehe sat down at her desk and took the position of an innocent by- etander, “It ain't @ country place?” began the Jawel, @ short, thicket woman of thirty, “No, ite on the upper west elde,” r plied Mre, Jarr. Just as Brooklyn peo- Plo always sign hotel registers as ha’ ing trom New York," so Har- lemites claim the upper west side— unless they live on the upper east eide— then they say “the Tremont Section.” “Apartment house? I won't go to no Private ‘house, too much running up- stairs!" Mrs, Jarr nodded “Sundays and Thursdays out?" “Oh, of course." “No washing or troning?" “No, Ihave a laundress coming in two days a week." “No ecrubbing, or house: company umess I'm tipped. “That will be all right too, children?” “Pwo.” “That settles it! 1 won't go to'no Place where there are brats!” And she arose to walk away. ning? No other ways, New Jersey has more than In Justified ite sobriquet of ‘the Grest Little, gtate.” “Wait a moment,” said Mrs. Jarr, quietly but firmly, ‘Don't be rr: I need a girl very badly. I'm o ° Place would suit you except for tho ohiKiren. Please come home with me and we'll kill them!” i SMITH. | Second Problem: ‘‘WHY DID THEY MARRY?” Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (‘The New York Evening World), RACTICALLY everybody in the church realized that there were two flancees at Smailie’s funeral. Perhaps only the two young figures, in conspicuous mourning were unaware of the complication. But non us who had known Smallie was paftioulariy shocked by this plu of chief mourners, I think the men all felt that any chap cut off dently in his prime, as Smallie had been, was liable to leave loose threads uncompleted fabric of life. As for the women, those who knew little Miss Er | were fully convinced that the other fiancee, the quiet, drooping blonde girl | Philadelphia, had been really chosen; while the rest, contemplating the rosy lence of the little New York girl, felt correspondingly certain that there the woman Jim Smallie had really loved and would have married. Certainly of the two, Miss Evans was decidedly more in the picture, for ghe was of the type that creates spontaneously Its own calcium, and her effect;at the funeral was perfect in its mingling of resurgent courage and bilghted blogm. Dramatically, pictorially, the slight blonde girl was nowhere at all. ' Yet it's five years now since Smallie died, and she js still mourning him. By Fate's unfailing sense of humor I had been elected consoler of little | Miss Evans. The choice was humorous, because of all the men am’ women who | had known her and Smaliie, I was least fitted to undertake the task—perhaps be- cause T least of all understood or appreciated her. I have always been as much afraid of acenes as other women are of big black beetles or caterpillars. But Evans had a fine womanly taste for the dramatic, an unfailing instinot ‘for the | spectacular, She was in fact fine and womanly in every way. The e | knew all said #0. They liked her very much—too much, if I was to take alt (hey said to her with the biind faith with which she accepted it. And none liked | more than the keen, clever, brilliant old wachelor, Lawrence Burke; forty years her senlor, chronologically and mentally some five centuries ahead of ‘her, rere } The “Chief Consoler’s” Task. H Barrer | JT was Burke who elected me chief consoler when the news came in the very midst of Alice Mannine’s tea, that while riding in Centra] Park Smalile had ‘een thrown from his horse and kill | Five minutes earlier I had seen Burke join a group of men gathered about ‘Miss Evans and, with @ quiet word, take her away from them and out of the room. Then from the rear of the Manning flat came a wild, dreadful shrisk. Then sobs, sobs, sobs. Then Lawrence, his face white, his hands trembling, bis \ hat and overcoat in his hands, reappeared and came toward me. | “Sam Smalife has been killed by @ fall from his hort he said. “I've just | | | broken the news to little Miss Evans. She needs a woman with her. Please go | and do the best you can till I come back with @ cab. She's in Alice's room.” ‘A woman, of course, would hat gotten her away from the tea and told her afterward, But that's not the sort of thing men know how to do. | So I walked back to Alice's room and found little Miss Evans leaning against the poppied wall paper, her strong young frame shaking with con- vulsive sobs. The coat of the new brown tailor suit she wore that day for the first time had been flung to the floor with such violence that one sleeve had begun to rip at the armhole. Her pretty chestnut hair had broken from its neat pompadour and was falling over the red satin tle that splashed the white front of her crepe shirtwaist. The time was not one for cant phrases and because there was nothing | for me to say I went forward and put my hand on her shoulder. She flung it off. \ “Go away! Go away!” ghe cried. “Go away and let me die!” 1 I wanted to go away more than anything else iy the world. It seemed the only decent thing to do, But I was quite sure Lawrence Burke would not think so and I felt that subconsciously little Miss Evans wanted me to stay, Just so that she might keep on telling me to go away. So I stayed patting her head or her hand occasionally, speechless before the terrific blow which had fallen upon this good, pretty, commonplace little girl, } The Splash of Red Satin. HE had loved Smallle dramatically, spectacularly, before So far as the other men were concerned she had burnt all her bridges as honestly and as matter of factly as she had resigned the secretaryship by which ehe rained her living. And It had meant sp much for her to marry him, financially, soclally—everyway that counted to her. Yet before her real, !f highty dramatic grief, I stood spiritually tonguetied, emotionally dumb. Suddenly she flung her head up and with uncertain fingers began to pluck at the splash of red satin crumpled upon her white blouse. An@ as she did so she spoke her firat articulate words—half to me half to hersel “T must take 1t off! I must take it off!” she exclaimed brokenly, Just to think that to-day of all days this should happen and I should be wear- ing a red tle!” Tt was precisely at this moment that Lawrence Burke reappeared in @e and, tiptoeing forward, laid in my hands a «mall paper parcel: “It's a black necktie for Millie,” he explained apologetically, “I haf a hard time finding one in this neighborhood, but I knew she'd feel better If She had on something black. The cab 1s waiting whenever she is ready.’ As I took the little black tle I realized that Lawrence had found what I had groped for in vain: the right, the supreme note of consolation. For Miss Evans ceased sobbing almost instantly. Three times a drown- ing smile rose in her drenched blue eyes, then swam finally and triumphantly to the surface and rested on Lawrence Burke. “You are so good to me,” she said pathetically. 3 She reached for the black tle and adjusting It about her neck, tled It |in a neat bow. Then sho folded carefully the flaring bit of red satin she had torn from her throat and placed it in her handbag which lay on Alice Mi ning’s dresser. It was as though even in that first passionate frenzy of her grief she realized that there were still red satin days ahead of her, She pinned on her hat and, tgnoring me, placed @ helpless, confiding arm in Lawrence Burke's. “Take me home," she said. good to me,” she repeated. And together they went out, leaving me wondering why Life should grin 0 cynically in the face of Tragedy. T was, of course, easy for me to graap Ittle Miss Evans's point of view, That ] she should find solace in the outward symbol and token of grief was nat- ural enough. That Death should have for her no deeper meaning that the donning of crepe was as Inevitable as that she should think of marriage only in terms of white satin, She was the sort that lives by rites and formulas and by whom rites and formulas survive. But Lawrence Burke, the brilliant, the sardonte, that he had divined her need of immediate mourning? How had he guessed the narrow spirit's clamor for the visible sign of its desolation? Only through some strange unexpected affinity of nature with this little common- Place girl. In that instant the phosphorescent finger of fate began to trace for me on the dark curtain of the future a cordial invitation to @ weddin, Ten months later it reached me through the more ordinary channi the post office, when Lawrence Burke and Mille Evans were married. Why did they marry? Romantic aolution:—Because they loved each other. Popular solution:—Because, despite her bereavement, she yearned for Wromasts. natural devtiny of wifehood and motherhood. ‘ w solution:—Because woman is phystologically unfi economic atrugele and still marries for a home whenever ehe can, piles: Heavy villain solution:—Because Burke, to Smallte's other flancee. avin ber aesiion, RDA me Other solutions:—Reoause her heart was in the to she could do nothing better with her life than to nin Tantei (incidentally she does); or because @ little strip of black silk, the betes of mourning for Smale, that Lawrence had divined she wanted, revealed to them the essential kinship of thelr epirits, the eternal place nature for another. 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