The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1913, Page 18

’ | | | > ee es coon thereafter as possible. SSTARIZENED BI JOSEPH PULITZER sles Fer Wostant cud the Continém and ree ; att No ereeag' Hs! ternational VOLUME 88... ccccccccsccccssccssecssssseseees NO. 18,808 MISSIONARIES TO THE RICH. POILADELPIIA preacher wishes « vice commission to tn- vestigate the wanton waye of the rich. He also wishes a church mission and an uplift settlement in each fashionable hotel. He declares a conviction there are sinners to be saved in hove places as well as in the slums, and is eager to have the work This is evidence that Philedelphia t awakening, but not yet ewake. The ways of the rich have been under investigation since ever there were any. In all ages moralists have found among them hoice specimens of every kind of fearful example, from Ahab that @oveted his neighbor's vineyard to Dives that refused a “hand out” to Lazarus. The eatirists of Rome rivalled the prophets of Jerusalem fm exposing and denouncing their greede and their corruptions. Juvenal was as searching and almost ae personal as was Nathan when he told the King: “Thou art the man.” And modern preachers, satir ists, reformers, novelists, muck-rakers and lampooners are as bury on the trails and tracks of the rich as ever were those of any land | old. It would be useless to turn more light of publicity on the vices ef the rich, for, alas, too many of them love it and seek ft; and, more- ever, too many people follow their example to make such a venture advantageous to the public welfare. Let the missionaries go, then, @s ever among the heathen and the poor, leaving the rich sinner to the cocktail and the lobster. They also teach a repentance. | A MOSAIC OF STREET WORK. W SECOND AVENUE there have been laid between Houston and Twenty-third streets no less than twenty-two different kinds of paving materia]. The mosaic was not designed as a work of art, to add to the beauty of that picturesque part of the @ity. Beauty and art indeed have no place in the echeme at all. The ultimate object is utility; the immediate purpose, experiment. New York has made eo many experiments with pavements and paving material and paving contractors in the pest twenty-two years ft will be noted as a matter of surprise that there remain at this timo eo many untried varieties to make up the new experimental station. These include asphalt from Trinided and asphalt from Sicily, pine Blocks from Carolina, hardwood from Austrelia, granite from Massa- Ghusetts and sandstone from our own State. Each material has been treated in diverse ways. Important additions to the eum of strect paving knowledge ere expected te be derived from the tests, and we are told that experts of other cities are waiting eegerly every new item as it develope. It is pleasant te learn thet in this wey our street experiments are beneficial to our neighbors. Thet appeare about the only atility of them. Second avenue is not the only thoroughfare that hes been thus employed. If the different styles of paving and the different atyles of laying had been marked in different colors, the streets of New York would be mosate to make the world gasp. tr THE BARBER SHOP OF THE FUTURE. UGGESTIONS of a possible reformed barber shop to arise out S of a ctrike against existing conditions are not to be passed over idly merely because they appear improbable. How shall the barber shop stand pat if everything eclee demands a new deal and threatens to upset the table? The reformed shop is not to content iteelf with abolishing the | Np Re pti t That would be no more, no less,| this tea. And then, maniike, you leave business concerns thie facility to 40 and ting risk nothing, and eeem very busy while you than a return to the ways of the fathers. It would be reactionary. ‘The onward movement will carry the shop of the future to a point of honesty where the beld headed man will not have to pay as much es the fellow with football hair; the graceful youth with a dainty growth of light mustaches will not be required to hand out as much a- the wire haired man whose beard takes the edge off a razor at every stroke. The new barber shop. in fact, aims to be not merely re- formed—it aspires to be converted. The new principle is to be that of payment by time instead of by the job. He that occupies the chair half an hour will have to pay just twice as much as he that leaves after fifteen minutes. Practicc in the plan will teach the barber to take pains and not hurry. New Yorkers will begin to acquire repose. The barber shop will be a school of manners. The manicure girl will have an influence that} will not pass in an hour. In short, out of a converted barber shop | but the sales department referred the ‘may come a converted people. tir TO STRAIGHTEN HARLEM CANAL. {LLS PREPARED by the Board of Trade and Transportation B to bring about # necded improvement in the Harlem canal have been presented in Congress by Senator O'Gorman and |~ ifthe Legislature by Senator Griffin and by Assemblyman Hammer. Jo-operation between the State and the National Government is | necessary, because, while the work on the canal itself is to be done by the one, the right of way must be provided at the cost of the other. The purposed work is that of shortening the course of the canal by making @ cut across the sharp bend at the Johnson iron works In ite present condition the canal will not permit passage to the huge barges that will come down the Hudson when the barge canal from the lakes is open. These will carry from 2,000 to 2,500 tons of freight each. Unless « convenient way is opened for them through the Harlem canal it will be necessary to carry them down the already overcrowded pert of the Hudson, and round the Battery to get them >» to their destination. The barge cana) will be completed in 1915, The Harlem canal should be made ready for the traffic by that time Under the plans provided in the bills referred to the State will give the desired new right to the National Government in exchange for the land now covered by water. The value of the one will approx- imately balance thet of the other. The cost to the State will, there- uahe bBvenin | you can't get out of it, and now I have) Refi | celebration World Dail ARE GOING TO SEE THe FIRST EVERY! SAYS THE FIRST ACT IS THE s. about & he sald he had endorsed the voucher and the matter had passed out of his hands’— “Would there be this much trouble @ man that works directly opposite Copyright, 1919) by The Prom Publishing Oo. (The New Yoru Evening World), Airing him or raising his pay. “Any one of a dozen heads of depart- ments can notify you that your “Oh, I suppose everything Will be OM) are no to1 my shoulders again!” aald Mrs, Jart,! one of th plaintively. “Now, you want to give bility of doing anything else. In everything to me!” “Me give a teat’ replied Mr, Jarr. “Not much!" “Why, it was your suggestion, and gone and invited all our friends, You know you said we should have a little; we you have gotten @ Taine of salary"— “But I haven't got st yet,” replied Mr. Jarr, “the grand old game of ‘pavelng the buck’ is being played down at the office’ — ht It was SURF you ‘ Jarr in alarm, * get it. I've dought a lot of extra things and made arcangements for my tea, or receD- tlon"-—~ “Search me! sald Mr. Jarr, ‘It inn't my fault I'm not getting the money, matter to the executive department, and the executive department sent the voucher back because it didn’t care to take the reaponalbility. “And the bona was not atthe office, and {4 there was a rule that of this kind must ‘be eo boant of directors, And when the boss came in and I asked him) The Difference. | are having the hardest time of it, scandals. “What's the difference between @ | denn, be cmall; the bonetita lang, iid \ miltiner anu a modistet” “About 9140 In the BIMA y se ho will take the respons Magazine, Tuesda . Jarr’s Raise of Pay Is Still nea Coming to Him—Some Day, Maybe edddad dana ddadddadddcebiddadddaddadh dead asadaaaaad Morr ity? it Coppright, 1018, by The Prem Hublishing On, (Bho How Tock Evening World), HE making of @ husband out of 6 mere man te not © sinecure; it's |nothing else to do but stve receptions anewered, “Five” “You are mistaken,” eaié Lincota, “for calling « ta « lea Staying out of a flirtation may be the wiser course, but getting out of one is a great deal more interesting and exciting to most men. Alas! all the single women seem to be trying to get married, and the married women trying to get single nowadaye; ond it's dificult to say which Btrange how time fies when @ mon is trying to wise @ girl and Row it hobbies along when he feels that ehe te expecting him to propose to her! A flirtation is like a maze: a man goes into it just for curiostty, and then keeps going ‘round and ‘round, trying to find some way out, without either jumping the fences or calling for help. The trouble with the people who aeem to haiv everything they want in this life is that they always have 80 many other things that they DON’T want, including dyspepsia, embonpoint, divorces, nerves, subpoenas end A man's (dea of Being strong-minged ts to find out what side of on argu | ment hie wife 48 on and then take the other side, just én order to keep tt|SO.ct modes, ‘The fund provides « !yrom sagging and preserve the unities. The “love-letter” of the average Bachelor should have a place of honer| Dian. lla. ang two trom each (0 the Duress of dom ond Crete, ere about ft, is knows as ‘rare execu-| ments with big firms get two thousand | place and they are all sicker than your man” tive “That's Pog Mikael goo pret fl enter Ee Me Mivaelb dell ansad tions departments with ve say @ year te the conce: Seen woteis ar cerammauian ‘ua |W lasting cléner Gitte ca tees tone [crest et ttnoote etorion I owt think that te @ correct phrase. I don't anything or permit anybody | and that jo anything, Hence they never| ‘Well, it's a dreadful disappointment make any mistakes. They never are im- to] plicated in any action that will be to have cost the firm legal ff they discharge a men whose| ‘T'll get ft all right,” eed Mr. Jarr, ry of a ss Taras ea tte “yet ran em Sos S's nse | Snes aoe Tas aren manana ne ceararh oe eta in veered Some of the Best Lincoln Stories ‘as! (From “Lincota’s Own Gterten,” by Anthony Gresa) ground yeu “The fellow anewered, ‘About six acres.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ‘don’t you think this is an almighty emal! crep, of fight to gather from such a big plece ef ground? i “The jury laughed, the Court and District-Attorney and complainant al $eined tn, and the case was laughed out of court.” YOUNG lawyer once asked Mr, Lincoln tf the county seat of Logag County wae named after him, “Well, * was named after I was,” he Gravely replied ENCOLN ence commented on Dougias's position with regard to the em tension of alavery inte the Territories as follows: “The Judge holds that a thing may be lawfully driven away from @ place where it has @ lawful right to be” Another epigram, this in speaking of Douglas's joint debates: “Explanations explanatory ef things explained.” President ence related an tncient that had occurred at Decatur whe the Ditnoie Republicans named him as their choice for the Presidency, An olf Democrat from “Egypt.” as Southern Iilincie was called, ap Proached Mr. Lincoln and sald, “Bo you're Abe Lincoln?” “Yes, that e my same.” “They say you're a self made man.” “Well, yes; what there is of me ts self made” “Well, all I've got to say,” observed the man, efter a careful survey of the Republican candidate, “is that it was a d——d bad job!” doorkeeper to the House. Thig man had no right to ask Lincoln for anything. It was necessary to repulse him. But Lincoln repulsed hiss gently and whimetcally, without hurting His feelings, in this way: “Bo you want to be doorkeeper of the House, en?’ “Tes, Mr. President.” ‘Well, have you ever been a doorkeeper? Have you ever had any experience of doorkeeping?” “Well, no—no actual experience, gir.” “Any theoretical experience? Any instructions in the duties and ethies ef doorkeeping 2” “Umph—ne.” “Have you ever attended lectures on doorkeeping?” “No, att.” “Have you read any text om the subject?” “No.” “Have you conversed with any one whe hes read euch a book?” “No, oir; I'm afraid not, sir.” “Well, then, my friend, don't you eee that you haven't a single qualificatiod eeeccewecocn;ceoones fer this important post?” sald Lincoln tm a reproachful tone. “Tes, I do,” aaid the applicant, and be teok leave humbly, almost gratefully. Ter was an ignorant man who once applied to Lincoln for the post ef DELEGATION once waited upon Mr. Lincoln to ask the appointment ef A @ gentleman as Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands. Besides his fitness for the place they urged hie bad health. The “Gentlemen, I am sorry to say that there are eight other applicants for that year increases in their salaries and _—_—— fe etd that Lincoln very seldom tmvented @ tory. Once he sald: “You make the stories mine by telling them. I'm only a retat! dealer.” of salary when you were told you'd tingutehed lawyer of Tennessee. Quarles, he sald, was trying a cate, to me that you didn’t get that increase O ottmch his argument, Lincoln told a story ef James Quarles, a dis- eet i” and after producing bie evidence rested, whereupon the defense produced a ers and statements and requisition: " “Why didn't you get that fellow to ewar en your side?” TIRE ands S88 OOS meee. SPNe “1 aiarrt know anything about him,” replied Quaries. Torking tn accord, the firm will have] -T might have told you about him.” sald the friend, “for he would swar ~ you jest aa hard as he'd ewar for the other side. That's his businers, aaa it maa tatore the Talos and | Judme, that feller takes in ewartn’ for a Iivin’.” after ft, This te what ts called ‘co-ord!- 5 nate efficiency’ and ‘business system.’ - te related by Gen. James Grant Wilson: ‘They used to call tt ‘red tape.’ And “Among eeveral good things, the President told of a Southern Tilinoia among those who would do SOME- preacher who, in the course of bis sermon, asserted that the Saviour THING, but are prevented, it ts known | was the only perfect man who had ever appeared in this world, aleo that there as ‘passing the buck.’ ” was no record in the Bible or eleewhere of any perfect weman having lived on “Go I am not to have my tea after | tne earth. Wherci'77n there arose in the rear of the church @ persecuted looking allt asked Mrs, Jarr. “And I'd asked | sereonage who, tiv parsou .....5 stopped epeaking, said, ‘I know « perfect Ct aneg! fa why you ¢hould calt | 7Omee ‘and .\o hear’ of her every Gay for the last six years.’ ‘Who was i > fale fonts : ” it off.” eal Mr. Jarr. “When fe ft? @he? asked the minisi. y husband's Sret wife,’ replied the afflictéd female.’ What Gay?” hadn't set any date,” replied Mrs, BRAHAM LINCOLN once received a letter asking for a “sentiment” and Jarr, “but T'll write to everybody and hie autograph. He replied: “Dear Madam: When you ask a stranger any tt was to have been next Wednes- for that which 1s of interest only to yourself always inclose a stamp. LRAT) | day dut T nave postponed ft mdefinite- “ABRAHAM LINCOLN.” ane vy \ erst Ad wn break us. tea was ready, he argued that he could not enforce it, and, to illustrate, “You'é think, to hear you talk, J had rite. gr say. ft: WET. De Bat & NCE when « deputation visited him and urged emancipation before he esked them: “How many legs will a cheep have tf you cell the tall e leg?” They and dinners and teas and parties night one of the Mghest plastic arts known te clvtisation. - Cher night ond day after Gayt” eried | don't make it oo” And that exhibited the fallacy of their position more than Mra, Jerr. “But no wonder! Ae I said, twenty evilegtems. The hardest part of proposing is not telling a girl that you love her, but | it's all say ay for 70 ee You — having to teil her WHY, at leas forever afterward. ony e bother of it. BOUT a fortnight before the comventton in 18€4 Col. McCture, to relieve . 088 Sete 4 worry!” replied Mr, Jar. | A Tineoin's ansiety, showed him that a mafority of the delegates were 4” / . for him. s retorted Mrs, Jarr, ‘‘However, you can see about the invitations and vou |) 4041 can write the envelopes. And you can/ Ml | was two-thirds for the other fellow. bso Mer, Disks 8m 7S: Pioueeees 30 “The convention came on; he was unanimously renominated. A short tine to recite ena ‘play the piano, and yon | after the convention I returned to Washington. When I ealled to aee the Presi« can go hire camp chatre—I hate to go Gent and was shown in once a twinkle in hie eye, and es I approached to wndertakere—end you can — him waid, ‘Colonel, * you remember Poe pd told me, when here before, “eanned” himeetf down- | that everybody about Congress seemed against me?’ I replied that I CF lela 414. He said that the situation reminded him of Irighmen who came te America and started out through the country on te secure work. They | came to some woods, and as they passed along heard a strange noise, own. dd Fact | They dia not know what it was. So they hunted about, but could find nothing. (6) acts | Finally, one aid to the other, ‘Pat! Pat! Let's go this thing {6 nothing (Pvom ‘The World Almane:.) § | but a damned nolse:’ Tineoin said thet the opposition te him was nosing, During the year 1912 22,763 newspapers but @ no! were published in the United States. | McClnte,’ he replied, ‘what you say seems unanswerable, but forget that I wae nominated for President in @ convention that t —_——_——-- HEN he heard that a general who was eupporting MoClelan hed beep ‘The first police matrons and most of releved of his command the President countermanded the order, aw. the industrial homes for girls, as well ing, “Supporting Gen. MoClellan for the Presidency ie mo vioclaitws ‘as the refuges for erring Women, were | 4» , my regulations, and as @ question of taste in choosing between him am sooured serous ae oterta ot the Na- | moe-—well, I'm the longest, but he's better-looking.” ‘ tlonal Women's Christie! \ One hundred students beneftt annually the fund of @ part of the fortune dent,” she eald, very theatrically, jet give @ esionel’s comiiission Str, T demand {t, not 8 4 A WOMAN once appreached the President rather tmperiousty. “Mr. Pres!- three-year scholarship at Oxford Unt- versity. The recipients are chosen as [her a * from each of the fellows: Three to nine rc aq ae is ial eden State gant tanstiony tm the Unites Sugre. Gee Ghe.coueey, st te Gime tp give comebady eice a=ence {