The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 5

-—ay on ‘, : Snepeeo THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1018. 8) | seek to friends | —2@ “IT Am Just a Poor Boy « From the Country” multiplied these Sensitive to the very core of his soul, avoiding the limelight, this is the whimsical answer that O. Henry—America’s greatest short story writer —often made when friends or admirers, getting enthusiastic over his work, attempted to lionize him. ; “Oh, Pshaw! Leave Me Alone, Iam , Just a Poor Boy from the Country’’ He preferred the shadows of the street corners, where, without fear of interruption, he could gaze upon the hurrying streams of human life as they passed before him. He preferred the background where with a vision rarely given even to genius he could gaze deep into the hearts of men, and picture for you life as he saw it—its greed, generosity, ferocity, kind- liness, want, devotion, its laughter and its mockery, its feverish activity and its stark despair—all the complex interplay of human emotions which go to | bond ON SUBWAY MEANS si." © capital | bond lesue will ” VEN MORE DELAY —— J. Aspinwall Hodge Said to] retusea'ts | ing for tn x - t . te) Represent Two Minority Inter- | S#mt te cas lai ie borough Stockholders. | JAPANESE CABINET CHANGES. | Ambassador to Washington Eitm- AGAINST BOND ISSUE. } h Mr. Shea hut Mr. Shen {nated From the Lint. Feb. %.—Several changes | _ = have be made by Count Gombel Yam- + | amoto in the constitution of the Japan- | They Are Messrs, Ayer and|ese cabinet, the offlotal tint of which | i ‘ {4 now as follows: Premier and Min- ‘Wilson, Whose Holdings Are | ister of Agricutture, Count Gombe : Y Minister of Foreign Affairs, | + Not in Windsor Trust Pool, | Bar ki Makina; Mintater of the | Interlor, Kel Hara; Minister of Justice, | i | Matsuda; Minister of F.-! |nance, Baron Korokiyo Takahash!; cltY | \unister of Education, Gijin Okuda; din subway struce | Minister of Communications, Sakunas- | oMcers of the Interborough| hin Motodo; Minteter of Marin Ad. | @nd Brooklyn Rapid Transit looked with | miral Baron Minoru Saito; Ministe f | J. Aspinall Hodge, a lawyer | War. Lleut.Gen. Baron Yanuteuna 1 atreet, to-day following | ‘The name of Viscount Oharda, Japan- ; intention of prevention | esq “Agttessader at, Washington, haa] © — eames make up our lives of today. ch, through the Federal! been eliminated from the list. ‘WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS courts, from aigniag subway contracts, even after they are approved by the} ~ Pudiic Service Commission and the Board of Matimate. According to Chairman McCall of the ervice Commission, Mr. Hodge Frederick Ayer, a Boston manufac » dohn ©. Wilson, a capitalist of Washington, D. C., and a group of other Interboro stockholders who are not in the stook pool held by the Windsor Trust Company, Mr. Me- Cali sald any court action by Mr. Hodge along the lines he hes outlined andoubtedly would cause delay in the final settlement of the subway problem. 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