The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1913, Page 12

: The ESTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sun: by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park, Row. j J. ANG reasurar, 6% ow, JOSEPH PL Jr., Becretary, 6 Park Row, it New York an Becond.c' For England and All Countries Pos! to ning 4 World for the United Btates and Canada. WHERE THE AUTO NEEDS MORE SHOW. JOUR independent taxicab chauffeurs summoned to Havin | F Court on the charge of soliciting fares on public streets which the taxical companies have come to look upon as their private | Property were discharged last Saturday by Magistrate Murphy. The Magistrate declared that the public already suffers enough from taxicab companies who pay exorbitant sums to the various hotels and restaurants for the privilege of monopolizing their cab business. The city courts do well to help New York take stock of its tax- Scab situation. How many months of another year will pass before the Aldermen see fit to provide relief from the monopoly, extortion nd dangerous laxity of the present cab system? The irony of it! This month we are asked to listen to the boasts of the automobile trade in this country as it pointes to ite wonderful wares and its fabu- lous increase of business. In twenty years, we are told, the manufacture of automobiles in ‘America has risen from nothing to become the fifth great industry of the country, with an output valued at $300,000,000. Never have ‘American cars heen better. Never have they been cheaper. Never have pleasure, comfort, efficiency in transportation, trucking and freight handling been more widely and economically served by motor vehicles. There are over a million licensed automobiles in the United Btates. High quality, low-priced American cars are now proclaimed perfect. Prosperity and big crops are to make 1913 a banner year for the motor car business. A great automobile show is now flaunt- ing before the people of this city the cheapness and efficiency of the ‘American automobile and boasting ite euocess in coping with the Buropean product. What has the American automobile done for the greater public compared with the immense popular benefits conferred by the com- mon, everyday uses to which the European car is put? As the automobile becomes chearer and more widely availablo one of ite first services to people in general is in the shape of cheap, convenient cab transportation. The European automobile performs that service daily and hourly for hundreds of thousands in every capital. ; Why should not the vaunted progress, improvement and cheap- ening of the American autemobile mean added comfort and conven- fence*for the larger American public, in big cities at least, who cannot have cars of their own? Automobiles are cheaper than ever. Are taxicab fares lower? Are taxicabs numerous, cheap, available, safe? Can we boast of the use we make of the automobile when we still pay ninety cents to ride twenty blocks in a licensed taxicab of doubtful safety,, while people in London ride the same distance for sixteen cents, and are served by over ten thousand taxicabs of model comfort and trust- worthiness? There are two causes for the shameful taxicab conditions in New York: (1) Ignorance, short-sightedness, indolence and neglect on the part of the Aldermen, whom it seems to require years to convinco that the city is entitled to a well-regulated, cheap, efficient cab ser- vice and the ordinances that will secure it. (2) The deliberate, selfish, narrow-minded policy of the existing taxicab companies to keep the taxicab out of reach of all save a few; to give hotels and restaurants a big rake-off in return for exclusive privileges; and to pay that rake-off by exorbitant fares taken from the pockets of the public. These taxicab companies have not sense enough to see the profit that lies in popularising the taxicab. No Progress need be expected from them. Members of the Independent Taxicab Owners’ Association now @perate taxicabs at rates much lower than those of the company owned cabs. But these independent operators are constantly ham- péred by conditions such as that which dragged an independent chauffeur before Magistrate Murphy for having solicited a fare in the neighborhood of a fashionable Fifth avenue restaurant. The independent taxicab owner has declared over and over again that, with fair and equa! rights, he can operate profitably on | the lower scale of fares and even reduce them further, We are told that we have the best and cheapest motor vehicles | on earth. We have a city whose streets and the uses and privileges thereof belong to the people. are supposed to watch over the interests of the citizens who have given them authority for that purpose, Is there any reason, then, why the city which expecta to become this year in population the greatest of all cities should continue to have the most abominable cab service of any metropolis on earth? poe a The new iron bars and burglar alarms on Police Headquarters Mowbray Pilkington. improvisation of his own, he announced, turne entitled ‘The Ghoul's Riga- oon,’ In the low notes he was alded greatly by the enores of the hasheesh poet on Evening World Daily Magazine, | | The Day of Rest (T'S Perrectu DISTRACTING , | AGREE WITH You « SHE SAYS. Us tee 7 = orgies in Mildred Pilkingt studio bega! @azaphone solo by Mr. and Mrs. Cli eyes were fixed lady Bohemian who was smoking | meerechaum pipe, and for the life of her she could not Gissociate hereelf from the idea that the hideous moans of the eaxaphone were emanating We have a Board of Aldermen who | ™eerchaum pipe, while the smoke that Grifted up from this lady's pa: was really being emitted fi Mildred Mowbray Pilkington’s eaxa- phone. It might have been the ha poet had eaten, or it may hay vrei a Beall Weatee It was @ litle in ecatacies. ‘Monday, January 13 Copprigha, 1913, ‘The Press Publishing Oo. iow Yout Evening World) Ld (The BY By “THEY MUST HAVE A BUNCH OF ELEPHANTS AS Ne AROUND HE ROOM UP THERE SToP Tar INFERNAL RACKET You Peace BLasters! i 1D FROM PERFECTLY. S FoR le CAUSE, ~ cone RIQUT IN AND WALIK WITH US Wwe ARE TRAINING. WE HI WASHINGTON Ct rk kabel el tak akelal of akak al ‘and a rugged, leathery face, who had come in during the gaxaphone solo, black bag, opened the hand- «i #nd inapiradon, After the “Ghoul's Rigadoor’ |@one a fat woman with a | wae| nose | bearing @ SHOD oe STATES Motto: “So Ever Mowbray to Tyrants.” in with a Mildred ra Mud- But upon tl from the rohed lips from = Mr, ras CON. YUNE SHIP sailing eastward chanced to A meet a ship sailing westward. It B ships met thus, off the Virginia coast. Yet had they passed in the night or had day later, the whole history and map of Amer- fea might perhaps have been changed. the discouraged remnant of the Virginia col- ony that had given up as @ bad job the plan abandoned colony, It was only after long and heated argument with the newcomers that the departing settlers consented to put back to land. Here, too, was the first marriage performed in any Engilsh colony here, when, in ; 160%, Anne Burros married John Leyden. A party of 105 English pioneers nthe ost Part, down-at-heel gallante—fellows who had left thelr eountry for their country’s 00d, and were better fitted to lounge in waterfront tayerns then to hated and who forced them to work at farming and hut building instead of hunt- ing for gold, they would quickly have abandoned thelr project. On, Coorg. 181% Pal vesing Weeds was by the merest accident the the one sailed a little sooner or the other a For the outgoing vessel was bearing away of settling the New World, and the other craft bore reinforcements for the In Virginia wae the firet permanent American colony settled by Fnglishmen. h the at Jamestown tn 1607, and bullt @ rude village there. These men were, for the carve out the destinies of a new land, But for Capt, John Smith, whom they As tt wai soon as Smith had put the colony firmly on its feet and left it he could see that Mra. Stryver and Suggest contents of unsuspected value. {atre. Mudridge-8mith, being amons t shift for it promptly went to pieces. Smith left five hundred settlers in ————— - —-.--—--- sd ~ Virginia. In alx months only sixty remained. These were ————.-——— | people they did not understand and 5 einforsements came. The hearing and seeing things intensely A load starting for Hnglend when the ¥ 3 to thee betiaved’ it Siviploa colony took a fresh start, and this time it prospered. foreign: te ameney Wee Art, of Wives. A ehipload of women was sent across from England, |= - Ses ease And these women were sold to the settlers as wives. Then | . jeame a hundred convicts (the first ever sent from England to any of her co meut of sucreas Do other renders The Engineer's Woes. | onies). Other convicts were ‘out from time to time, and these added to t agree with me ae haat: engincers ait for hours fast-growing population, In 1619 a Dutch ship landed the first cargo of negro At the throttle in a cramped posl- slaves Paprege tn Phrases, = | tion, the mind taxed to the full Tobacco was king in Virginia, It formed the ohtef industry and export, and n Soe Beh ening World | Mmit, the Lody ata terrible strain, The made the colony rich. Indian wars cut down many hundreds of the settlers, but proposition that I had considered it to] | Wat Is the meaning of each of the| percentage of deaths from kidney dis- could not permanently check the rapid growth, ‘be while attending schoo! Afier| following Latin phrases: (1) Pax vo-| order te very high among locomotive Virginia was among the very first of the thirteen colonies to resent England's @raduation from an elementary school} bi#cum, and (2) Verbum eat sapienti?| engineers and it le asserted that this oppression, Patrick Henry's “Liberty or Death” epeech, delivered in Richmond, I entered the business world tn high CB {fs due th @ large measure to the con- set the whole country ablaze, George Washington, a Virginian, was chosen to qpirite. I succeeded in obtaining a po-| {!) “Peace be with you,” dition, but after several months 1) Word to the wise ts euffictent.” (ay val learned that the position did not offer The Diteh Prob ang opportunities, tamed. 1 Ob- | To ‘he buior of The Bree : talmed another position, with the same! ficrewtth te my solution of the “diton | Feoult. I obtained a third position and | Problem:" Let x #» number of vards frankly told my employer that I of Ward digging; then —-x = num. @apied the position on the condition | ber of yards of soft digwing; pay per | that he favor me with advancement, | Y4'd for hard dissing -= Wx; pay per | Provided, of courte, that he conald-| yard for 't digging = 86-100—x hy qed me worthy, I was not in quest of feria of propiem *) d digging pays) Unued Jar of the engine. to ameliorating these conditio Ventor has contrived a portable back rest made of canvas, which ts attached while the upper end ts to the seat, secured to cotl springs, which ed to the ceiling of th relleve the engineer o} make him more efficient, money, nor di4 I consider hours. 1 have % cents per yard i than the soft Vee POR Deen inihis employ for eighteen months, | Hence: tox -~ 60 o> 2; oF, dex Wis Aue I 414 my utmost to give satisfaction, | ~ -10-x = tui. QO. But he had daceived me as to tae pros: | SOM parte : 109 - liaeaee old me yx My = . Peete and eighteen months’ time was| 4.2, nam sae, Oath. | 5, = 01.108; pay Per yard {or soft digging @ G61) = 20%; Aifference = .210, which is correct | Go {a four decimal places, @, T. QUIN. |'** > ae 9 ee gemma With a view Parte lead the patriot armies, and his State was the ecene of many of the Revolution’s feree conMects, For years after the Revolution Virginia wee perhaps the most influential State in the Union, and it held tightly the reins of political power. It was the mother of inlghty men, Seven of {ts sons became President—Washington, Jefter- son, Madison, Monroe, Harrieon, Ty id Taylor—more than any other State has furnished to the White House. When the civil war dawned, Virginia as a whole aid not want to secede, In fact the State Convention passed the secession ordinance by a vote of only 88 to 5. Yet Virginia euffered inore from the war than did almost ali the rem of the ns an ine are hook South put together. The State was the Confederac: 1 battleground, and for four years was the amphitheatre of battle and raid. More than 150,000 ———ween=™ inen are sald to © been slain on Virginia soll alone Battleground J guring the clvii war. Richmond, capital of the Conted- of the War. eracy, was the goal of the Union armies—a goal reached only after neariy forty-eight months of vain effort. The close of the war found Virginia crippled, Lelpless, exhausted. With spien- did courage and resource its people set to work restoring their lost prosperity and atrength. And within a few decades the once pre-eminent State was once more © vital and mighty Sores in the march of ational progress, , ee ae Maurice Ketten Mrs. Jarr Has a Very Narrow Escape in the Realms of Art. HAHA HSSHAHHHI HS BS SHB gs wt CALM YoursetF TJOHN — 1 AN GoING To INVESTIGATE ARE THEY Giving ME ? —" tral hal of al al af akahkakalakal t Lekekohakalalekakehaltl bag without more ado and taking out | false beards, spectacles and wigs, pro- ceeded to give ‘Plastic Phrases of Great Men, Past and Present.” When she put on a gray mustache and @ beld wig and borrowed the pipe from the smoklug lady and Mr. Pilk- {ington struck up “The Wacht am Rhein” on the studio plan murmured tn unison ‘‘Biemarck!" the leather faced lady had! donned all her wigs and other tm-| Plements of torture to the beholders and everybody guessed correctly which phase of great men past and present she impersonated, thanks to Mr. Pilk- {ngton'’s musical charades, Mre. Pilk- | ington aroge. Drawing aside @ curtain, and dis- closing thereby an ollstove, some un-| washed dishes and Mr. Pilkington's street or citts clothes, Mra, Pilking- ton produced a tin tub in which @ curtous apperatue of gears and levers; was placed. “My demonstration with domestic up- | lift—for to-night 1s Domestic Night in our studio—is of @ wonderful invention | to emancipate our sex" (Mr. Pilkington applauded loudly) “from the drudgery of the blanchiseerte,"" said Mrs, Pilking: | ton, Knowing this was a foreign word and \therefore to be treated with respect, Mra, Stryver and . Mudridge-Smith murmured a polite “Hear! Hear!” Re- membering French lessons of other idays, Mrs, Jarr guessed that the ap- Paratus was a washing machine. “The principle {s vacuum," Mra Pilkington went on. “One can read Rogsett! or Maeterlinck, or pore over ithe absorbing creations of Beardsley, or even compose & sonnet wh! | the habill “One,” steadily Studioland, “may even cleanse the gar- | ments of the household while in evening Gress. In fact, I know a militonal wife who did the family washing’—the |plain, common purpose of the thing | was out—"while at @ costume party at |her mansion, | “The vacuum washer was placed, with the family In | & Dresden shepherd did sixteen shee: nineteen tal pillow ca Jana four pairs of lace curtain: “How delightful!” cried Bohemians, “I'll tal “Too bad I have so little money with | me," murmurel Mrs, Stryver. just what I want.” Fortunately, Mr, ‘book of blank chec \ridge-Smith also secured one of “It is Pilkington had a and Mra, Mud- the \ atelier washing machines. Mrs, Jarr stood rr she hadn't a Dresden shepherdess cost “LT somehow feel we have been | plotte * paid Mra. J uptown in Mrs. M “How can you talk that way abou: those dear, artistic souls?’ cried the other ladles. But Mr, Jerr agreed with Mrs, Jarr's wermise when he wes (eld adout it. e a they drove The High Cost of Living * 4nd How to Reduce It. By Madison C. Peters. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), 1.—America, a Nation of Cities. NB hundred and twelve years ago 3 per cent. of our population Hved in cities and towns. Thirty years ago 8 per cent, to-day, & ger cent. From 189 to 180 our city population increased 61 per cent, the rural population only 14 per cent. During this period Chicago doubled in population, while 7% townships in Ilinols lost in population, From 18% to 199 our city population increased 34 per cent., our rural popuime tion only 11 per cent, Ten per cent. of our population lives in New York, Phila delphia and Chicago, Twenty-five per cent. of our population lives in cities of 100,000 or more. In twenty years New York City increased over 2,000,000 in population, Dusting ten years of the same period there was a falling off of 60,900 acres in cultivated lands in New York State, During the last decade, while our population increased 21 per cent., our farm land increased a little over 6 per cent. wer : a tay 'S The Warning of France. The production of food sould Increase as rapidly as our population. while during the last decade our population Increased 2% per cent., the acreage devoted to the production of cereals Increased only 7.3 per cent. while the pro- duction of cereals increased but 1.7 per cent. In 19 New York City will nave & population of 19,000,000 and the United States 300,000,000, 75 per cent. of whem will live in the cities, ‘Then « revolution! The high cost of living, the ory for bread brought on the French Revolution, ns it did the American Revolution, The King of France lost his head through lilegal taxes. History tells us that no nation ever lived on when tho people abandoned the country and crowded the cities, History 1s philosophy teaching by exempts. * Let America be warned by lessons of history. We are to-day repeating all @e mistakes of history. Becatise America is ailve to-day we have no reasom or believing that America will live forever, f To lower the cost of living our agriculture must grow as rapidly as merce and manufacturing. In 1911 our agricultural products were worth $9,000,000,000, while our manufattured products were worth more $20,000,000,000 and our internal commerce was estimated at $25,000,000,00, We 2,000,000 squi miles of territory—1,903,000,000 a of laid. We have 878 acres of land within our farms—478,000,000 acres of improved farm land; Sem than half of our total ares uninhabited and unproductive. New York's Fallow Land. Within one hundred miles of New York City there are more than ten mitllonb of people—the grea‘est market in the world, Yet everywhere the bulk of the jJand ts unoccupied and unimproved. Land within one hundred and seventy miles of New York can be bought for $ to $10 an acre. There ie land idle within fifty miles of New York City which by ecientifig agriculture would feed all of our people. The idle Jands on Staten and Lon Island and the vacant lots within the limits of New York City could, by intensive trucking and specialising with up-to-date methods, feed our city population so far as eggs, poultry, vegetables and fruits are concerned. ‘On ground ten feet by ten the schoolboys in Philadeiphia have cultivated vacant lots and sold off stuff for $5.60—$2,000 the acre. That beats preaching! is improved, while three-fourths of our area i oe was at his best however in adaptation rather than in original play construc fifty tion, Yet he scored more thau guccesses as an author. Of Other Days. ICI- BOUCI- By Robert Grau. CAULT. Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), wright Was greater than for though 1¢ was quite willing to have his acting, the career of Dion the courts grant @ fair ehare of his Bouctcault may be best sum- profits to go to those authors who, he med up in the famous insisted, provided him with little more lack, who aaid of him Boucicault was at his Dest after be “Bouctcault’s career up to now Is like; had passed the threescore mark in my favorite book: Pick it up where you|lfe. Moreover, et this period he ected will, you find @ plum." Dion Boucicault | COMtnuously, having tremendous eue- from his own pen. On the stage he | looked about thirty—even when he had | Passed his seventieth year. This he ex- Plained as being due to spending ae muea }¥oung and beautiful women. TY Were Geibtaonit {The soclety of men,” he once satd, na-Pogue," “Old Heads and | '¥lelds nothing constructive, while thelr discussions wear on the vitality. It ts Bouctcault was as a rule very re-|outheat os ; 7 luctant to act at all—and the greatest | Juv ont, with whom ere te ae success of his career was the result 4 Lester Wallack’s insistence that he him. pre riguedb let Mila Siveya ceramentte Shaughraun” when that play was pro-|° poucicault's first wife “e A was Agnes duced at Wallack's Theatre (then 8t! Robertson, 4 slerling actress, who bore Thirteenth street and Broadway) thirty | s4m several children, all of whom have years ago. acheived prominence on the stage. 180 nights to the largest receip:s in the|1)ion jr. Near the end of his life history of that theatre. That this|ond marriage went far to prove thé notable achievement was due to the in-/ truth of Boucicault’s preference for the. dividual performance of Boucicault !8| gociety of beautiful femininity, Louies Uttle vogue save when the actor-author | younger than the great author-actor was cast for the role, In which he was!when the two were wedded. She was unepproachable. indeed beautiful; moreover, an excellent ‘The copyright laws of Bouctcault’s actress. LTHOUGH his fame asapiay- mune from payment of pression of his colleague Lester Wal-!than the titles of the original plays. |cess in the repertoire of Irish comedies as possible of his tine in the society of te ren Wee j different with women, particularly the self assume the role of Con in “The| sunny aided, and never pessimistie’” “The Shavghraun" had a run of over | ‘these were Aubrey, Dot, Nina end proved from the fact that the play had! ‘Thorndyke wes — thirtyefi day were euch that Boucicault was tm-' Dion Bouctoault died in 1990, HE woman in fearch of « pras- tical apron that {8 becoming et the same time will be eure {0 welcome this ona 't really covers the Gown, it tokes pretty lines and tt te easy to adjust, while it is “imple, and van 4 Quickly made, @o th {t comprteas all the es. 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