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come | Sve Gee caiorio. 4 nt Den deuape Senay a BY JOSEPH PULITZER. j tah the Pr 1 \ Publi ly Except mf pad ee: Ree fe iehing Company, Nos. 63 to RALPH PULI dent, 68 Row. soubek PERSIA Frstasteass bark how, auvecet ner yas fie‘ Hvening) For inela Mine the, y ‘Werld for the United States Count end Caneda VOLUME 53.. seeesNO, 18,783 5 FIRES DECREASE ; FIREBUGS DISAPPEAR. TT" REPORT of the Fire Commissioner shows an interesting decrease in the number of fires since Jan. 1 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. In Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond there were but 484, against 804; in Brooklyn and Queens there were 346, against 487. The decrease is the more | striking because for many years past there had been fairly steady annual increase. The Commissioner concludes that the decrense in due to dis- closures made by his marshals, to the arson exhibit and to the pub- | licity given them by the press. This would carry with it ihe convic- ‘ tion that a very large pertentage of the fires of recent years have been of incendiary origin; for if that were not so, it would be strange that the number should so surprisingly diminish as soon as the light | was turned on. Confirmatory evidence comes from the District-Attorney’s office im the information that a good many persons suspected of having had dealings with the firebugs have disappeared. If these things have not the relations of cause and effect, the coincidence is wonderful. | At any rate they throw such light on the subject that it is no longer | #0 interesting to know what the insurance companies think about it| or say about it, as it would be to know what they are going to do| The Evening World Daily Magazine. Thursday, January 23, 1913. —_ ~ r > acrwee ' New Subway Contract («#iths.) By Maurice Ketten By Mrs. Gen. Pickett bob th DBODHHDOOOS: YOK 7.—JEFFERSON DAVIS. N way from Boston I stopped over in O ‘New York once when the ex-President of our Confederacy ani Mrs. Davis were there on business connected with bis book, and ‘T went to ove them “Mr. Davis,” I ‘ed, “had 2 come trom @e Gouth I should be Jen with loving messages from your people, But even im abolition Boston held In high esteem as one sincere, honest and earnest.” "the sald, ‘though we disagreed om many issues, I belleve I held the re- | -wect of my fellow Senators from Massachusetts.” “But you were not a secessionist in the beginning, Mr. Davis, wre you?” “No, neither in the begin: ding,” he smiled, “But to me the @overeignty of the Union, An@ f I sorrowfully resigned the position in which my State ‘had placed mo and in which I could no longer represent hor, and accepted the work to which she called me. ‘l Was on my way to Montgomery when I received, much to my regret, the message that T had been elected provisional President of the Confederate States of America, I regretted it then and have regretted it ever since. ;For I was a soldier at heart, and, though I was Secretary of War under President Pierce and left that office for a seat in the Senate, I was not a politician and had no desire for aivic office. It was my hope and ambition to command the Confederate Army and lead {t in defense of the right of my home, my people, my beloved South. “But Mrs, Davis saw in tt the hand of God, especially as sho did not Iike | Howell Cobb of Georgia, who wanted the Presidency of the Confederacy. But he could not have deen elected because he had antagonized the South by supporting Clay's compromise measure of 188." | Knowing the gentle nature of Mr. Davis and his great desire in the beginning to prevent the war, there came to my thought a subject which lad been muoh Giecussed by the Southern people. And I sald: “There was a consultation of the officers of Pickett’s Division in our tent ow the Bermuda Hundred lines just after the conference et Fortress Monroc”-— ‘“And they, perhaps, considered me to blame for the failure to secure peace,” PAY AS You HANG ON FoR DEPRECIATION a { You SIT po Dove.e FARE) ON STRAPS.ETC FOR BREATHING: SUBWAY AIR. about it. i isp WOMAN AND HER WORKING DAY. ROM DENVER comes a despatch saying “Colorado women are F evading the law forbidding them to work more than eight hours a day by buying stock in the concerns that employ them.” This probably means that the wages paid are so low that only by long hours of labor can the worker earn a sum sufficient for & livelihood. From the striking working girls in this city we are getting a good deal of illuminating information on such subjects. One girl, for example, has told how she earns from $6 to $7 a week making kimonos et four cents each. The process is simple. She makes an average of thirty of them s day, working from 8 A. M. te9 P.M. Another girl, a Jewess, wishes Sundsy declared a work- ing day, because being required to keep Saturday sacred she can work bat five days a week and so earns only $3.50. All of which goes to show that the limitation of the hours of l&or for woman has complicated her industrial problem instead of solving it. There is nothing local in the issue. The conditions of life in Colorado are about es different from those on the east side in New York as can well exist within the limits of civilization. But the results are virtually the same. Meantime it is worth noting one Ttalian girl says she wouldn’t mind the long hours or the steady toil if only the managers would permit her to sing. It would seem that might be granted to anybody that can sing. a Oey A COMMISSION ON STANDARD WATER. JHE FEDERAL Public Health Service having concluded that it cannot rightly enforce the regulations against impure drinking water em interstate railway trains and steamboats i i i ve Washington bureaucracy. What and left undene by bureau officials in deciding what is the country with distrust and left it & eenfusion. There ere probably not more than two men in ten that oan recall what either case. It is clearly, there- leave the aqueous issue to a set of men to eample water with tastes formed @t the Plerian epring instead of the muddy pools o. politics. fo te be noted, however, that not a single New York uni- {a represented on the commission, although we have more i fi : i : , A PLAIN DUTY TOWARD THE MEAT DUTY. EARINGS have begun before the Ways and Means Committee of the House on the question of duties on imported meat and cattle. Cattle men are already protesting that an aboli- lobby st the Capitol to make counter protests. Fortunately they need none. No pledge of the Democratic candidates in the last elec- y tion was plainer or more emphatic than that of relieving the market “ basket of the people from the burden of unjust tariff taxation. A tax upon food is about the worst of all taxes, In this land of vast wealth there is absolutely no need of such a tax. The present duties 7 are, therefore, as unnecessary as they are unjust. They yield the Gov- ernment little or nothing. The Beef Trust is almost the sole bene- ficiary, for the cattle men get for their stock just about what the trust concedes. This particular feature of tariff reform, therefore, should not occupy the Ways and Means Committee for any great length of time. The shortest cut by which they can cut the duty out is the one to take. Motormon’s Safeguards. Diying the brakes. I believe that th To the Kaitor of The Evening World: equipment of the New York City In reply to Mr, C. Sterns's query in| -oads is the best and one of thi reference to @ motorman becoming eud- | in the world, a denly helpless while running one of our L trains, 1 weeld eny that trains in 1. Nev. 34, 1890, 2, Yes, our great ity (elevated and subway) | Te the Editor of The Brening World: are equipped with an automatic coa-| (1) In what year was the Pulitser im ease of any accident | Building frat opened? (2) Was it not @uch as the one mentioned automatt-/ the tallest building in New York when cally files back to “off position, 'it was built? ANDREW M., Bast Orange, N. J. ton of the duties will ruin their industries, Workingmen have no|t ser he interrupted sadly, the tone that sorrow had brought to him Ungering like a minor atrain in the music of this voice. “They censured me for not accepting an | offer to overthrow the Southern Government, not realizing my helplessness. It | was eaid that Mr. Lincoln submitted to his Cabinet a message which he had pre- red for Congress and which provided for the payment to the South of four hune millions of dollars for her slaves to end the war, but the Cabinet disapproved and that was the end of it. “But had they approved and the offer been made It could have avafled noth- ing #0 far as my action was concerned. Under the Constitution of the Confed- eracy I had no power to treat with the United States Government in any way | except the one stated to my Commissioners, We were fighting for the sovereignty ‘of the States, not for @ centralized power vested in one man or one little group | of men. However I may have Jonged for peace and for the couifort of iny peopls, I had no more power to act in accordance with that desire without authority from the States than had the humblest soldier in our army.” ‘The worn, feeble old man, broken by the welght of the sorrows witch tad fallen upon him, brought to me in his sad face and pathetic voice the memory of the suffering he had borne for the errors. T asked, “is this story true? That when you were being taken to prison one of your eoldiers, at the risk of his life, was running along by the side of your carriage to serve and do you honor as long a time as he could, and one of the Federal guard called out tauntingly, ‘Well, Reb, you see we've got your President at last!’ ‘Yes,’ replied the ragged, heart-broken, outraged Con- federate, ‘and the devil's got yours!’ and that you leaned out of the carriage and aid reprovingly, ‘’Sh, my man, ‘sh! If his President had lived yours would not now be where he !s.’" Mr, Davis looked steadily before him with a far away, reminiscent expression his if recall! ecene from Ferree rr EE EM EMME EEE Rem ee | cnotes life, And, lifting Me beautifil aly r. Jarr Finds That Work Is KARAM company of his own suffering soldiers ’ . No Man’s Favorite Amusement. | ince te be rte: FRERRERRRERERR ERE Er These were not precisely my words, é AHIAAM AHHH AR ARM YS | ny trend. As well as T can remember 2 anyth! bein: .|!nsky from the interior of the shop. |quit work and pi .| now I wad, ‘Peace, my good man, peace. “If his President were alive your Preste deeded ane 8 mit an ex | Afra, Rafferty telephones if you ain't | necticut snd take ie sea to ons | dent would not be whore he ts to-day, nor would hls Deioved Southland ve ta erpeny, writing you letters that you pili quit business ts like asking him es poniten Meee it wil now surely be without the guidance of that {carlesa, wolng to it on 5 a a thirty daye unless you close the old ao: | Od “Well, ! 0 was just complaining to m rae that he was tired of working at the m right on the chob!’ cried Mr. “Ww, Slavinsky. Blass-put- ” i i tng chat foat way stout our May |iAna hiriely eather wo seme |Sge itn bustean” sald at dur.’ Domestic Dialogues against one Window giase and his working Kit B®! “why, he's as fond of putting in glass --— By Atma Woodward -——. the most optimistic | trudged quickly away, as gone than young dt was diamond setting. For good- ‘Oeggrg Pres Publishing Oo, us ever and anon,” ventured Mr. Jarr.| He had no soo: eake , ‘ ‘the ‘New Yan tresses World), “Oh, don't talk ike that big word | Mr. Sidney Slavinsky appeared. He was) ;,, here's the coupon. Now beat Guarani 7 ‘ 7 — feller Dinkston, snorted Mr. Slavinsky, | known to many frequenters of the mov- Conrright, 1018, uy The ‘ves Puplian tag Co. (Toe New York Eveuing World.) 66 how are you feeling, “for it ything Uke that a ing picture shows as ‘Sidney Slavin,| , od to the admir- CLEANSING WATERS! ea? ow don't you wet Slavineky?" asked M Whet it te te that a man the Badlands Bronco Buster!” He was Iszy, who hung| Time, ¢ Shed, Mas T came home ¢ veoM, R. B, (triumphantly)—See? Didn't | dress LEISUREL Se the the same kind of work all the time, day | faultlessly arrayed. One hand, however, Tin going to start he ‘Your 1 get home early? I'll have time | an elin ser ‘appeared in the doorway of the latter day. Me, T could quit {t right | hung in a silken sling. ae Masia, cata Heda med) to dress LEISURELY for the|my clothe, aret ite nas kk Me? I feet pretty good,” eaid Mr. | 07. Olasing le a bum business.” POD ain acinnte, “T want Mant (RAVO been very good and very steady, | CBCT% for once. Usually T have to bustle| they're meunt to fasten to! Slavineky, “and mommer she is well "Popper!" called young Master Slav-! young Mr. Slavinsky. “I want ‘That makes him very happy. A hope |0° that I wilt my collar before wo start.! Mrs. B. (peevishly)—I Just od to and little Issy is well and my boy — —— ——— | you haven't won up your job, Pers Povniant Tl take @ cold plunge and/let you know It was getting on Rey what te an actor by the movies, he hope you won't go back to the tdling| ett Mr. B.—Well, by the time you get the {9 well, Only he has a cold mit com- life of @ cabaret singer and plane|, Wille (Proudly, from hts room)—Papa, | excavations in’ your neck puttled up, £1 Pl T bad a bath! be the trimmed kid! 14 th re Mr. B, (fondly)—Did you, son? (Mr, B, walks back into the bathroom and Bh ag ten . je emzens teh A e “Bad-| Wille (smugly)—Eh-huh, An’ I took| surreye the tub. which, to all intents and pure eth malained i 7 f e gave Mr.| your shaving atick, an’ I smeared it all| Pet: 1,88 full as tt ever was.) Jarr a taste of his quality by rolling a ; Mr, B. (soliloquizing)—i pulled that el atte with one han!, as he does ‘n rou've been | PVE! (raising his volce in protest? Moving pieture, to unbounded ap-|told ‘not te touch What's the matter with this blamed on, any of pana’s things, T'm Just holding out for my | Wilt on ri thing? The water won't : n off! je, and papa doesn't Uke it~But ‘ See 8, Yat tho next release of|ne'll forgive you this time, x Mrs B Carmiy)—Wille ave vou bees ¥ Scalp Genuine Western Filme | Willie (encouraged)—An’ I rained your| ect!ns Your celluloid ducks with ry y ‘That's too bad,” remarked Mr, Jare. ny ‘a shown and I am seen on the screen.| nice talcum powder all over me, papa, |P%M* asain? i tarde.” “Yes, I know,” sald Mr, Slavinsky, over me, an’ it made bubb! Mr. B. (mildly reproving)— mamma, hone last thine. “Just when Sidney was setting to ‘The exhibitors will hear somepin from |an’ 1 smell grand! Willie (plaintively 5 Mr. B, (thunderously)—Whoa WAS the work steadily and be @ oredit to my following! And that somepin will! Mr. B, (winking at Mrs, B.)—Wen, |? ain't feeded ‘ now ante to idle around again. : 7 ry go right to Staten Ialand, where the|pap'll have to come in and kiss the ‘ said Mr, Slavinsky reflective op ye Gory Scalp Br of Gerwin: ‘ern |highly perfumed young man. (to Mrs, ty. I too woul like to be cra tabetha Beat Pictures is made. They can't put {t|B,) I guess I'll let my bath run now and loater Why, in Lancaster, Pa, and g : }@ out 10,000 of my post % |. Mr, B, (dtsturbed)—Weil, it's no use Dethroomward, Mrs, B, continues Ooprright, 1918, by The Frese Publishing Os, (The New York Evening World.) ot B. trom” bathroom) — Willi trying to find out WHAT did it, It's day ¢ “whi . ae le! done, that's all, Gimme something ¢ yi wanes tas 0x, and even If ts ‘“ AI is 40 RARE 08 6 doy in June?” Why, dearie, a marryind| pyr he men eroady “intevestee” tn Wie Pei fix it with-gimnwe a hatin, 1 don't art giase in green, red and yellow | man, just turned thirty, with @ good inoome and oll his hatr Gnd | stories of life on the ria. tiring | Mr, sat ARLE Kahl gh , KBOW why Deople use hatpins to fix don't take no interest in it, and I wish dusions. tales of adventure on the wild frontiers, |have I told you that I'd p bathtubs. They just Jab microscopis I'd punish you tf holes in the stuff and wedge it in tighter T was a bummer sitting in the eunsfine SLs bad men and rugged pioneers, of| you didn't let the water run out of the down North or the South er anywhere— death shots, of honest hearts, of de , 9 No woman te satisfied with Rersels nowadays uniess she looks Gt | voted, daring girls of the golden Went. $y after sea've fe a art ave ent ME B, brlogy a hatoto, lemon saueezer and least tan oti pears Whe could tell such stories of vivid/ittie boy to do! Now if papa tells you; Mr. B. (irately)-What the—what tn least own interest, stories of real life in the great | about letting the water run out again, —— i ‘Weat as could one of most fam Y | Mra, B, ly) Th ry Ww There are more ways of killing @ man's love than by strangling 4 to| Western rangers that ‘ous | Willie, he's going to punish you, Hear? (sweetly)—These ary what Mrs, B.—Hurry up, Henry it's getting &7t stopped up. death, but that’s the usual one, lococed mustang or a b lavin, king on. That thing begins at 7.45, you kno Mr. B, (sternly)—What dia you @e/" moving pliure cowboys?’ Mr. B, (coming out into the hall to| With the lemon squeeser? Mrs, B, (briefly)—Hammered the tee Ls The Hedgeville Editor. By Fohn L, Hobble. have to let the thing go, or--—— Copyright, 1913, by The Wrees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), (The The tenant downstaire com. On het bell rings, 138 PAFAUN says she 1s not piece of money her husband has plaing that water is leaking throug’ 7 y v . given EDIATELY. Alas, women wouldn't object to man's reviving the fashion of wearing M growing old and hasn't been for jher. | Mr. B, (viclously)—See? No: sideboards—she wouldn't even object to his wearing a ring in the nose—tf ten years, _— HAVD to fix it. You'd better sturt dt wasn't that he 4s the only thing she has to kiss, ae RS. PARKS gave a breakfust off, Martha, the Blakes'll be wait I you know a girl who is a good party last Tuesday and served for us in the lobby, save my ticket at —but anyway gimme a hatpin. Naturally. Willie (muffled)—Yes, papa. Bridget and I fixed it wit: last time it No man regards himself as safe from women. He enjoys the excitement and danger of dodging and skimming through a love affair, without deing grased, too much ever to be willing to settle down to perfect safety. minutes)—Twhy ath, Henry? Say, tie way £ feol now, I'd nake an ocean tier Stoker look like an iced irink! But 1’ No matter how many married men have tried to flirt with her, a girl will etep cheerfully up to the altar in the firm belief that she has found the one perfect human being in trousers who never will look af another woman, cook, marry her; and she will hire! Buaranteed ej \ the box office for me. I'll f some one to do the cooking. mae ently, TH De AOE Pee R, PLANK saya he had alinost| Mrs. B. (a few minutes later)—Gosd- recovered from his summer ya-|0¥ dear. I won't come in and kiss yau. cation when the recent holidays | 4,1! the next half hour, Ne It d@ woman's whole mission in Mfe to make a home out of a house, a husband out of a man and a fairy tale out of everyday matrimony. — R8 PERRIN KELLY says that since New Year's her husband has been taking treatment for |get in, When women begin to regard marriage as a partnership and not as a | japon, All tn. Vislons Venante rise before him, He stops to medita graft, men may begin to look forward to it as a privilege and not asa prison, |a loss of bad habits, 7 y “le It really lucky to have @ black) 4 vocation instead of a visitation. : — bie: only. meal neat Ae tienes from tae distance! | eat follow you? : Laan 1 RS. DERKS says she has been M aided on crane Ing x bath Now, It all depends on whether you're married sixteen years and can husband, id he is largely un- cfr. B. (absolutely vlow!ng Upl—eet a ela] Pe ee ST | @ man of a mouse,” _ . Kaba care of © women's vanity and her love will take coral Mael Gamember the Gates Cn Overy contin _ fi