The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1913, Page 10

T ESTABULEHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dafly Except Suptey by dontrt hs "i iE Post-Office at New York Subscription ‘Rates ‘to et | ae 80 Row, New York. President, 62 Park Row. Park Row, @ Park Row, An Second <1 land and the Continent All Countries in the International ‘World for the United States a and Caneda, tal Unior One Year. 0; One Month. stearate nate RA ce eee ESE = VOLUME 58......ccccsccsscseecseseeesseessees NO, 18,819 | | A UNION SQUARE FLOWER MARKET. LANS projected by tho Central Mercantile Association for the | improvement of their section of the city include one for making use of Union Square as an open-air flower market. This, if rightly carried out and developed, would be of benefit not} to that section only but to the whole body of people that pase | The conversion of the epace to such uscs would increase ite value as # park. It would add to the beauty of through the square. the city. It might aleo add to ite manners and morals by eubetituting flower lovers for tramps. As an illustration of the amount of retail traffic in that part of the city, it was stated at @ meeting of the association that by actual count 235,000 pereons had entered a Sixth avenue store on a singlo day during the past holidey sesson. With @ land of flowers all round us, with @ sunny climate and such hosts of workers swarming in the district, a show of blossoms for the multitude would be among the things of beauty thet could be counted a jey for all Oe SOME PASSING LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. EFORE the Aldermanic Investigating Committee testimony was B given that the burgler risk in the city has become eo much greater than formerly that insurance companies have raised: the rates. Insurance of teams and horees has become so hazardous that come companies charge $100 per $1,000 for such insurance, while others have quit the riske. This makes a bad showing for the potice and e good showing of care and prudence on the part of the insurance companies. But before Justice Goff in the trial of Robin J. Rabin on « charge of arson in the second degree, testimony was given that fire insurance can be obtained in this city without the insurance company having any knowledge of the person that takes out the policy. On which basis the police make a good showing and the insurance men look like a lot of reckless speculators. ; In arranging any panorema of the lights and shadows of this city it makes a big difference who is throwing the light and what subject he is trying to show up. — WILL SWEENEY CONFESS? MONG the thonsands to whom the question of the probablo confession of Inspector Sweeney comes as a part of the news and the street talk of the day there are many men of many minds. Some deem #% e matter ef high import to our civio welfare; some are eager to have ft solved as a stern interrogatory of justice; to most, perhaps, # ts but a query of the day; but to others it fe a seurching, wearying, heart-breaking eelf-inquisttion. In widely different parte of the city thet eense of inquisition is fat. In some resorts of vice and of crime and in some homes of carefully guarded respeotebiiity the feeling 4s shared as a joint secret, a wretched bond binding the den and the home, the outcast and the prominent citizen, in a common danger of diegrace and ruin. Strange reveletfons have followed each new lifting of the lids of mystery in this case. From the gamblers to the gunmen, to the police captain, to the inspectors, to the politicians. Should Sweeney Mf another Hd, into whet pit will the light fall? Is it to be a mere hole in the ground or an abyes? Who is asking with keenest terror: “Wl Sweeney confess?” i ooo TRUST TRAINING OF BRIDES. big packing houses of Chicago have arranged in the @istrict a echool where girls are to be taught WWW ee te peting tun at Ong hare many troubles, | the ners to ecrubbing floors. The workers of that favored district will thus be provided by their employers not only with wages and a pension systems but with well-trained wives as well. classes, the price of foods, fe gretttying to find them taking an interest meal is eanitary unless el, oil and harvester trusts auspices. Banking institu- be counted ont, as one of them at Jeast gone on recon! as opposing marriage for its young men who 3 receive ‘less than $100 a month. But there are enough big interests | ’ left to educate brides for the multitude. And who knows but the stockyards of Ohicago may be remembered in future more for tho marriage breweries than the eleughter houses! Letters From the People New Muste end O16. Te the Either of The Bruning Went : Tam @ peaceable oitisen and I do not like controversies, But when a reader writes in disparagement of the great works of Puccini and Richard @trause simply because he enjoys the singing of the olf Fngtich ballads, it ts time for some one to rise in defense of the pres emt day masters, I now reluctantly \ake up the cudgels myself. I have heard the dest ballad singers and en- joyed them. But that fact has no bear- ing on the merits of such marvels of | Moral euasion on « few bad boys that “The Girl of the Golden West,” do 4 eoser “Lover of the Old Heart Music" admits] toom Gnd ‘oannot be ater pe hee an old fogy. I'm not, air, I @p-|tehed. This sounds comical and bo! preciate and enjoy all music worthy the name whether it be “The Lost Chord” or “The Pagliace! Prologue." No one @hould seek to Ddelittle new music be- he likes the old, The ‘Bed” Boy's Regulation, To the Editor of The Bruning Wortd: By ail means replace the rod in the aghools. Give the teachers so: Means for making lively and red Rleeded boys Guiet, respectful and lese defiant. The rod was good enough in my day, and the men who were edu- cated in echoole where the birch rod was in evidence compare pretty faver- ably with the gunmen and etreet car rowdies of to-day. 1 took my children out of the public achools and sent them to @ parochial @chool because they were losing respect for their mother and father. I found that many Public school teachers had very little contro} over their pupila and received Very little respect from @ome of them. Teachers must consume imuch time in to De, re but 1 think that @ little chastisement now and@ then, when neede er yet did mitted to learns to 014 paren! fy hie good teachers soon espect and defy his good and eventually the law is Mable to receive the eame treatment at DOUBLE-TAX PARENT. | his hands, the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to any boy any harm. A boy who ts per- | & T NEVER Looty AT THE MODEL - (T DISTRACTS Copyright, 1018, by The THE SCARS. Clarence Smith Told His Mother: WAS standin’ on the eteps not doin’ Mothin’ to nobody, an’ Willle Jones he come out uv the house an’ he ees: “Ain't it quiet ‘round here?” an’ T aes “Yee,” an’ he sed, “Gee, 1 gotta make sume excitement!” an’ then he give me a oh an’ I fell Gown the @tepa An’ that here I got the cut over my eye, ma. An’ then I wusn’t yellin’ mach when “Yer @ sport, a, ‘round the corner an’ when tho man fixed the eoda Willig he oved it in front uy me an' he ees, kid, sop up the suds,” an’ there wuz strawberries, ma, floatin’ on it an’ L went to it. An’ the bubbles got in’ tickled fie then Wil | WOULD UKE A PORTRAIT INOIL | oF MYSELF To GIVE To NY HUSBAND = Thrice Told Tales Pree Publish ing Co, (The New York LAM WAITING FOR AN INSPIRATION: Evening World). stunt yet, but he'd do one then—en’ he copped @ banana frum Louls. That's all I know ‘bout his bet’ chewed up! Mrs. Jones Told Mr. Jones: WOULDN'T interfere et all i Z ‘were you, Fred. The chil ular whiner, an’ goodness knows he comes by it honestly, His mother’s fought with every tenant in thie house and the onty person who'll speak to her over the dumbwatter now is the Janitress. And his father spends all his time hanging around the lunchroom et the corner picking up the scandal of the neighborhood, 1 admire the courage of ovr Willie—he Spartan courage, No, don't inter- Fred, Let Willle deat him up all he wants to; {t's really a charity to the child to let some one whip all the mean traits of his father and mother out of ‘him, I'm eure when he gets older he'll @ppreciate what Willie’s done for him. Our Willie hae euch @ noble, onafraid “Ain't yuh got no manne fired me off'n the stool, '@ tile floor in the ice cream s'loon, ma, an’ all the time he wus drinkin’ he kep’ his foot on my neck an' #aid I wus @ dyin’ gladiator! ‘That's the feason my neck's so dusty, ma, Then, when he finished drinkin’ he he put his arm Ike TI wuz hie cous- Ai ety?’ An‘, he s'clety. You goin' to know nothin’ about tt, but y ‘nitiated all ‘cept one thing.” An’ 1 sez, “What one thing?’ An’, he sez, be @ reol member, yuh gotta be able to swipe a banana frum Dag nd at the corner an' give it to the president—I'm the president." An’ I ain't never beon a member uv nothin’, ma, so I did it, An’ the Dago caught in’ that's how T ot the rest uv the cutet Willie Jones Told His Mother: O' geo! He's bin equealin’ again! Me'o @ regular Guaste, that kid he squeaks! I didn't do nothin’ to tim ‘8, If yuh only run a pin tn him at all, Anyhow, it's his own fault if he gota hurt. He's always trailin’ on behind, I'll tell yuh how tt wuz, ma, I come out uv the house an’ sees this kid standin’ on the steps takin’ up the whole place; so I go to move him gentle to one side an’ what does he do bur tumble. He's awful loose on his feet, ma. I eeen him trip over @ shadow on the street onct. An’ then yuh know I felt sorry in my |heart to think he wus hurted through me, 80 T ask him right away to go round the corner an’ help me drink my jsoda, An’ then what does he do but go in wadin'! Why, gee! ma, he's got Ja suction pump beat to a butter! Bo 1 lifted bim off'n the soda ne'e I could get a whack at it myself, an’ he an’ does the fall act again, 1 jcouldn’t help it 4¢ he fell under my fest, could I, ma? T gotta put my feet SOME place. ‘Then, when we went out I felt sorry for the poor boob an’ I sed T'd elect Atm a member uv our atunt \e'ctety An’ he eed he didn't do « soul! Say ean Dodge the Day of Reckoning! A lot of us would Take to Cover if Consclence 414 not Force us tnto the Opent The Big Ones are these who Reso- lutely Refuse t Adide by the Al- leged “Verdicts of Destiny!” A Switch in Tene eaves Many a Re- A Boost travels by Ox-Team, a Knock by Aeroplane! Only the Grcat Arithmettotan knows Memories o Of WILLIAM J. SCANLAN f Players 4 Other Days. By Robert Grau. . Coprright, 1918, by The i'rese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), waa the late Tony Pastor (peace to his ashes) who Preaned the opinion that the malady which had cut short the careers of a @roup of stax favortes ited from @ preponderance of seni t which characterized their Portrayals and disappointment due to an ungratified ambition to have the public @ocept them in eerlous roles, whereas it was tholr artistry e@ com- ediana and the laugh making powers that gave to them such fame and for- tune as was theira, George L. Fox went to hia grave from the madhouse because the thousands who flocked to eee his “Humpty d to take him eertoumy And {t was auite the same with Harry Kernell, whp with hie brother John, was wont to cause audiences to! \hota ‘thelr sides and shriek with laugh- tor, Yet I have ween the tears come to Marry'e eyen when he would try to express eentiment or pathos and the audience would howl. Until one night poor Harry ‘burst into tears before his Audience, Even then the people howled and thought Alm funnier than ever, but that night wan the last appearance of the broken-hearted comedian on any But the most pathetic and untimely ending of @ glorious stage career was that of Wilfam J. (*'Billy") Soantan. In all the annals of tho etage one may not find the recital of greater achleve- ment of @ sort then that which unfolds meteoric rise of this Irish comedian. lo was the first to enthrall audiences With plaintive gongs end lullabies for which the plays and characters he as- sumed were merely a frame. To have heard “Billy Gcanlen sing “Peek-a-Boo” wae indeed « privilege Vor more than a decade thie touching lullaby, rendered as only Billy Scanlan could sing and act it, served as the compelling medium that packed theatres to the doors. ‘There wae more than one tragedy tn Mtoe, Toward the end of his when he could no longer over his audiences as of yore, Bcanlan’s loyal following would not desert him. He attracted the eame overwholming crowds to the last, and When he became mentallly @ wreck end Was forced co withdraw from stage ac- tivity ahomether end enter an esytum for the manne the public wag still loyal. Tt refused to accept @ successor, even though Scanian'a manager adrofily to eubstitute a player who ankly tried to emulate hie iitustrious Dreecemeor, But when that successor endeavered to perpetuate the vogue of ‘Peek-a- loo" the loyal Scanlan folowing would not have him, After Scanian's death the plays he had made famous and the songs and lullabies that no other performer was Permitted to alng were cast aside. And the efforts to sustain their potency by changing the titles and resorting to other trickery failed wholly to appeal to the publte, (The Ena) ICAN SEE Your Sout! KEEP QUIET oR Go HOME | DON'T Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), e ¥ the Right Kind of Figuring we |how Many a Man has deen Saved by |@ Timely Clasp of the Hand and Pat ion the Bach/ ee) HELLO! WE ME THE BuG House ‘What we call our “Nerv ally are Caused by our Swerv: Gome Day it will be Understood that the Straight and Narrow doesn't Neces- sarily Mean the Bigoted aod Unkind Path! Our Idea of Pathetic Futiity ty the Vitality Expended by some Writers in \Cussing Out the Editor when they Get @ Story Back from a Magazine! When we Run we're Done! _— ‘The Real Fetlowe out on the Firing Line don’t give Much Thought to that “Waat Might Have Been” Stuff! ‘It's Hard for the “Dash-It-Off” Lit’ Folks to Understand why Buffon, the q@reat French Naturatist, rewrote a Book ‘no less than Fitteen Times! Assemble your Facts, Muster your Forces, and Keep your Brain Cool— and watch Adversity make a Detour around you! — ‘Maybe you've Noticed that the Fellow who “Has a Bone to Pick with You” Tells Everybody Else About tt and Lets it Go at That! Build America} Albert Payson Terhune § By Loprngst, 1vis, oF The Wress Publishing Us, (fhe New ore Evening World), No. 12—-MARTHA WASHINGTON, “‘Firet Lady of the Land.” MILITIA colonel, twenty-seven years old, and already famous as a | fearless and brilliant soldier, rode toward Williamsburg, Va. one | day in 1758, with despatches for the Governor. As was the cus- | tom of that period, in @ district where hotels were few and ree |taurants unknown, he stopped for noonday dinner at the plantation of a jfriend, Major Chamberlayne. ‘The young Colonel, George Washington, had little time to epare, as his despatches called for haste. His horse was ordered from the stables as soon as dinner was over. ~But the horee was allowed to remain in front of | the door all afternoon, And Washington did not leave his host's house unttl {late the next morning. This one neglect of duty recorded in all Washing. ‘ ton's career was due to a woman—a fellow guest at the Chamberlayne hone. pretty widow, a year younger one of the richest women in America. urg@ he returned to her. With- than himeelf, and, incidental! As soon as he could get away from Willia! | in @ few weeks they were engaged, and in 1769 they were married. Martha was the daughter of Col. John Dandridge of Virginia. At seventeen she had married David Parke Custis, a rich planter, The couple had several children. When Martha was twenty- A Warriors I ave Custis died of consumption. He left her (partly outs Courtship. | rignt and partly in trust) an enormous area of rich lands and about $260,000 in cash—a huge fortune in those days, Out of the countless suitors lured by her beauty and charm or by her fortune ahe chose George Washington. é It was by no means the first love affair of the g.cat liberator. friende wrote of Washington: “He had ever an eye for a fi a times before he met Mra, | Custis, (It wae rather @ way of our early Presidents to marry women who had | been married before, ae in the case of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Jackson.) | For the mext seventeen years Mrs, Washington ruled as a social queen of | the district around her husband's Mount Vernon estate. She loved finery in | dress and was at the head of the local “aristocracy.” Then came the Revolu- ‘tion, Washington was chosen an Commander-in-Chtef of the patriot armies, Hin wife might have remained at home in undimintehed comfort and luxury. | Instead sho turned her back on the life of esse which ehe had always known shared her husband's rough camp life. She cast aside her rich wardrobe | and wore only cheap homespun dresses. She ate the ineagre camp fare and worked day and night in the camp hospitats. 4 From the first she had encouraged her warrior-husband {n resisting Eng lant’s oppressions, and was ever at his side in tHe Revolution’s dark days to cheer and help him, At this time, tt ts-recorded, her one evening dress was | woven of the ravelings of worn-out silk atockings and the frayed damask cov- erings of two old chairs. To a friend she wrote: | ““My heart {9 in the Cause, George is right. He ts abways right. Gof has | promived to protect the right.” | Scarce were she and Washington settled tn their old home after the war when her husband was called back to public life as first Prosident of the United States. The seat of government was then in New York, and the President's mansion was at No, 3 Franklin Square. Thero “Lady Washington," as she was called (her husband called her found herself expected in a simple, democratic way and at the game time to keep up many of the formalities of @ European court. It was a hard task, And she fulfMied it splendidly. The “levees” were as stifty formal as court functions in England or France, and were pretty dreary affairs, The domestic life of the Washington, family she arranged in euch a fashion as to offend none of the plain people. An English guest describes a break- | fast to which he and others were invited at the Pres | dent's house tn 1784 as consisting of sliced ham, dried toast, bread, butter, tea and coffee, At the Presidential receptions Lady Washington was to say aloud as 10 o'clock drew near: “The General alwaye retires precisely at 10.” After Washington's death a portrait of his wife was found suspended from his neck, where it had hung for more than forty years. She survived him by only @ short time, dying in 1802 in her seventieth year, Before her death she destroyed all the letters but one that he hed written her leet they fall into the hands of strangers. Martha's vast influence over Ber husband's career was oddly expressed by one outspoken Virginian, who sala to Washington Curing the last years of his life: 3 Custer “Where would you have been {f you hadn't married the widew A Handful of Interesting Facts (Prom The World Almanac.) It 48 considered disrespectful to hoist, persons, The number injured was §0. the American flag before aunrise or allow {t to remain up after sunset, The laws of the United States re quire that white potatoes shall beve @ minimum weight of 60 lbs. per bushe} and eweet potatoes 55 Ibs. The strongest velocity of the wind ever reported in the United States blew at St. Paul, Minn, at the rate of 103 miles an hour, A hurricane blowing at the rate of ‘@ hundred miles an hour travels at the rate of 8,800 feet in @ minute. Steam flows into atmospheré at the Tate of 650 feet per second. A man ofx feet tall should weigh 170 pounds between the ages of twenty- five and twenty-nine. Water oils at 212 degrees Fahrene hett. In 1899, the year in which the latest obtainable, lightning caused in the United States of 563 ESTS and pep- lume are amo the smart he spri V éleeves and @ piece CS peplum. ‘The Joine en) ted iby means can be of darts or it can be gathered at its upper edge. it ie not case th extends waist line, is cut at the lower edge One of the Encouraging Gigns of the ‘Times ts that the Jamboree Cure” for the Blues ts Becoming More and More ‘Unpopulart Too Much of that “Tt the Worst comes to the Worst” Speculation te Leaving the Door Open! ——_——_ Death of Ossified Man. | Friday, Feb. Alpheus Gipatrick, nies Gil. | patrick, of heart failure, the greatest | curtosity ot Re ome, mown the country | over as the “osnified man.” He was a Mttle past Afty years of age and for years had been unable to feed or care for himse}f in any way, ‘The! hardening of the muscles began in early childhood. Hts parents were in limited clroumetances, Dut all that medical skil! | could do was done for him, yet noth- ing could atay the disease called tn, ‘these daye lone scrofula.” For a number of years he has been exhibited at the fairs. At one timo was at “Austin and Stone's Museum; also! yarda 36 or 2 yards 44 1 he has crossed the water and been ex. | ‘he Soll 4 oufts, hibited in European cities, Ho was a/ ‘bright, active doy, and notwithstanding | ie great affilotion hts mental facuitics eeomed unimpaired. He {e survived by three Drothers and one sister, with whom he made his home the last few years of his tife.—(South ‘Hiram Correspondence of The Norway (Me), Advertioer), ’ % to 42 Bust. 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