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@iorld. EETARLISHDD BY JOSPPH PULITZER. PwMished Daily Except Sunday by the Frene Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZIN, President, 62 Park Row, r ————— Hora se Mestad Bath Row | [eeees Sens, ueoTsen Se” HE nes oRnrraee Entered “Office at New York or Se las. Matter OF THE STORE : Swdecription | to The Evening For Bngland and tie Continent an@ i World for tie United States — | AN Countries in the International | By Mrs. Gen. Pickett and « \ Postal Union, | Copmrens,1 , o 0' One Year...» $0.78) a nabs 4 130 One Mont! seve 86 oeowse oe VOLUME 53... cece cece ee ceeeeeeeeeeceeeeeer ess NO, 18,824 RECORDS FROM A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. CCORDING to testimony given in the inquiry into the man- A agement of the State Architect's office during the last ad- ministration we should be grateful that enor of the State Capitol is left to make it worth while repairing and enough prestige is left in the department to make it worth wirile maintaining. The record of padded payrolls, fa ployees is so plain it is wonde expense accounts and incompetent em- rful the looters took the trouble to keep any accounts at all. Still it is worth while to have official data for HOM tn Sone aaa fete Bandai ah] aca ALi a en that ‘ked twenty houra a day for twenty-seven con- — | Gen. Anderson, i . the eight men that worke y houra a ¢ My : oe Vv WE ONLY, KEEP The |, NOT HERE SIR, | “Well,” replied Gen, Buckner, “it's mood enmich for both Stites and there’ secutive days, since it seems only two of them can be found. REEN RED AND Biue HERE BuT You'it FIND IT | @tory enough in {t for us RG, Genre TeCHGPTIE TO NoINT Leutee areants UR This sort of work was done under the administration of a busi- | [DOUBLE “THE GREEN IS IN THe flag that floats over them. W “Chat toast, good at ail times,” sata Gen. Anderson is most appropriae 1 Can You Beat It? @ ===: @ By Maurice Ketten BASEMENT reat Meni of the Civil War' 25--GEN, ROBERT ANDERSON, Hero of Fort Sumter. king min wae the spending ye whe was HD any ton Robert An Simon Buckver, who wer Kenty te were fron: the Mue Gras itor af the seductive bev erage which filled tho parting glasses. "No," sald one of the three Virginfans present J can set up with any degree of mecess tof ine | Bta #. and the fact that the Daughter s “drinks laiming in cold blood ” the Inventor of the n “the only claim Kentuaia ce foo the Mother o pin the preseno jon thia sadly historic and hopefully prophetic day—-to « | two most tragto da © the anniversary of thi eo of all the days of all the years since the beginning—thi | Gethaema: Ifxton of our sed Saviour, an & aseass! Ieee Blessed jour, and the aseassination a | Dhere was a moment of solemn silence and then my Soldier smoke softly: | “It te Good Friday, for tt holds in ite heart ali the good that envelops tht | world and that will keep our souls in tie bal sunsiine when the world ha jay. We know, too, that whon a great soul hae spent a lttle time with led back home it leaves with us {ts love and its strength to help uw | always.” A sad memory seemed to hol! Gen time; and then he sald: “On April 14 1835, was ctvor Sumter which on that day four y Thad} your Beauregard. My telegrams to Washington to M | event had been approved, and when the su went down In a blaze of glory. In a few hou half-mast for many days to come. T have never recovered from that Geth«e Four ne Thad never prayed—can never 1 ugAin—that the upon, T loved St and loved my State and my country federate flag floating o ‘i Anderson sil tnd thoughtful for ¢ the honor of hoist ame flag over Pow n in surrender t eporting eack lear old flag more it was raised to float w ‘S$ before I prayed S Wouk! not be free Thad watched the Con. ness man who ranks high as a manufacturer, a financier and an em. | 10TH CURTAIN DEPARTHENT/T’ ployer of labor. It would have been too much to expect large atatea- | _ dE manship from such a man, but he is an expert in his line and surely | “fi, (7 anows how to read accounts and can understand what he reads, | ~<a The instance is hut another illustration of the indifference with | XA which big business regards the homely virtues of honesty and econ: | H A omy in public affairs, He that holds his own money in tightest grip | iY and watches his expense account with keenest intelligence gets blind | LL! BE asa bat where the government is concerned. So the record of the | y Inte administration begins to read like that of a prodigal in need of | @ guardian | l Ser eT | TAXATION OF COUNTRY CATS. i: OS ATS kept as household pets or rat catchers outside incorpo: | ( rated cities will be taxed St annually and will have to be) , the two other forte GREEN WE -HAVE ONL REEN DENIM GREEN Thad watched day by day the Confederates, my brothers, erecting their batter adorned with collars if a bill now before the Astembly becomes | | DOUBLE WIDTH ( |THE SINGLE WIDTH | (DOUBLE WIDTH DENIM Nay BEAT TE ( | f2z.curttsteuction suet within the range of our guna Tkinew the frat ot MUSE a law, Any owner of a cat will be fined $10 or sent to jail for ten | HERE .THe DOUBL DOUBLE _{/BuT we Age Sr dha nr rran, arons county was wemling tn the Salanag days if he attempts to evade the law, and any eat caught without a! WIDTH 1s IN THE WI OUT to procure suppites. I knaw that If we were to make an attack on the forte the : sy | TAPESTRIES FOR THIS of North would not sanction tt And the Confederates had ¢ ed that any at vollar will be killed S d | tempt i" y collar will be ki ry GENTLEMAN ) ¢ Oo | tempt on our part to get food would bring thelr fre wpon us—a thing only a little All of this rage against cats is due to a belief that they kill more | obbeteihe? YY FA | less horribie to me than the firing of the first shot MYS T would rather my whole garrison should have starved than have fired that Knew would bring on war. President Lincoln, |f poss than his predecessor aid assured Ue Governor of | wished was to feed his starving man, “Then came the demand from Beauregard (iat 1 should ine ° the fort, which I agreed to do tn three days unless inatructions to the cones were recolved. The sane day two of Reaurogard’s staff, Capt. Lee aud Capt Chesnut, walted upon me with the notification that, by the author! om | manding General, they would open fire if a ededay ‘upon me in one hour. I think their action was taken for the purpose of forcing the secession of Virginia. I replied with all my guns and surrendered when eup- plies were exhausted.’ nd the next day,” said Gen. Heth, ‘Mr. Lincoln ordered out 75,000 troops and called an extraordinary session of birds than rats. It is charged they are exterminating the songbirds | of our sylvan glades, and the farmhand has no longer the sweet ex- euse of stopping work for lalf an hour to listen to a robin sing or @ woodihrush pipe his Iny. | Some two summers ago we had a short but sharp crusade in this | city against the town cat. It was not alleged that she kille birds. On the contriry had she shown any eagerness for sparrow food there would have been voices in her praise, It was charged sho spread fleas and disease, haunted garbage cans and bit the men that handle them. None of these offenses are alleged against rural pussy. It would seem feasible, then, for city folks and their country cousins to swap cats, A bird killing cat would be beneficial in the city, while & garbage eating cat might improve a barnyard. > THE WAITING AND THE DYING. B THE number of the people eager to see Dr. Friedmann, by ‘at shot which { hore averse to way rolina that all he = foutty Alatel) | Congress; and Virginia was ours.” “Fiven then,’ eald my Soldier, ‘Mr. Lincoln would have avoided war and restored the Union peaceably !f it had been possible.”” And the North would never tm this wide world have waged war against the South but for that first ehot of your Beauregard,” repited Gen. An- derson. Though @ soldier of experience tn In- AEE AE EE AE AE AE AE EE EE EEE EEE EE EE OEE Mr. Jarr Hears at Second Hand the Woful Confessions of a Hikerette LEK KCK ELL KK CLE KEKE KEK EK E KEKE LEE EEE) ware and in Mexico, Gen. Robert kettes, but Mrs, Gratch took it as per- “‘Hfuh!"* snorted Mr, Jerr. ‘‘Looke to! Anderson neyer recovered trom his ser- sonal, and as she tumed to smack) me as though they were indicative of a| vice at Fort Sumter and was glad to be him in the face for being rude to @ lady|ewell time at the Inaug.” relleved from the command of the Ken- a whole troop of cavalry galloped right! No, you can’t go in there!” said Mre,| tucky troops to which he had been assigned upon his prometion. over her poor feet, and before she! tare, ag the alleged head of the houee- | -—— ts could shove them off, and before she} noid headed for the front room, “Mrs. could recover from the pain it caused.|Grarch ts sitting in there wasting tor they charged right back again Gertuude to bring in her chops and tea “And all that will sustain her ts lamb! ang toast and salad, But she's afraid chops?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Lamb chops! sn. can't touch a thing.” you can afford for her and not for me?” P a their willingness to accept any test of his treatment, and hy | the fact that among the throng are men on the very verge of death, we may learn how widesjjread is the so-called “white plague” of tuberculosis, and how dread is the hold it has upon ite victims. With all the eloquence of their zeal and with all the weight of the facts and figures they have repeated time and again by preaching and by printing, the advocates of the crusade against the plague have not so impressed ‘the public as has this living demonstration before us. ‘3 ehe paying for theso?” No,” was the reply, ‘but then she's company, and you should see her poor feet.” “I don't want to seo her poor feet.” troop of cavalry went Mrs, Jarr went on. didn't they halt and ma- noeuvre? They'd have plenty of roam— on HER feet,” growled Mr. Jarr. “And ner feelings are hurt too,” con- Domestic Dialogues — By Atma Woodward ~~ Co, am “IN eat * for her then.” grumbled In the face of such eagerness and such need the medical pro-| Swen Top, Frese Tassos CO | cued Mrs. Jar, not heeding these re.| ‘“Well, !f you could see her poor fat jMr. Jarr. "I'll go in and see tf she| Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York iivening World eesi shoul: on tii i i dart, with ®28) marks anent Mrs. Gratch’e¥ample ter-] sald Mrs, Jerr, “you wouldn't be so aka coldly to those a oF at 0. (The 3 k Hveni orld) fession should not stand long upon unessontial pointe betore oom “A appreciative sniff, as the door Iiivat facilities, “One loafer shouted to| heartless about your old lamb chops. CARTS oh eat ee oye | Modern Conveniences. hata (ses ing th nye :t9 the ing to some means of submitting the new treatment to efficient tert. Opened to receive him theljer Go back to your husbands!" Of| Her foet, ae the says, wiM prove Ner| utes Graton is sitting oo ue feo: Thy White dintagoom, Sie belle som shee Wel: ani Me ‘ it i « yiom for the Caus . ! . M. 5 rofessions to be conservative, and it is |>ther evening, ‘ourse, he meant this for all the suffra- marty a hot mustard bath. And, anyway, she Mr. White, tiying to be titthe, as beftte a| the worl f thir lates , I¢ és the nature of learned pi » MEL etait th auved Siem TATE: = [St nara Andie o x 4 batts 2 workings of thir latest household right they should be so. It is the custom of science to accept noth-| sne didn't quite like that ‘“Monarch- {22 | convenience, the table clectile stove, in the ous de. pan on the top ll fry you ing on faith nor on hope, and it is wise to hold fast to that custom. | OfahTrurver” aie oy meotiing!” ign my bem, Sey om te eee. 5 golden eggs, While th But neither learning nor science should wait on mere doubt or scepti- | sata Mr. Jarr, t what I wanted. md proceeds to arrange hfs coitfore with a cooking the heat will be thrown down, so underneath L will toast rolls, and when they are finished { will slip the breskfast plates undet “Phen I'm sorry you won't got them,’ replied Mra. Jarr somewhat coldly, “Your dinner won't be ready for an ake are human lives. ———————E ; ' RW, (vivactously)—Well, it’s a aia 7 lowers going to fight Dewutiful, sparkling morning, Asked Mr. Jarr; but his mind wae more fan't it? got the parlor table and some writing ’ |matorial, and whdllo waiting for her johops she's drawing up a campaign ‘against Brute Fore. | “How are Mrs. Gratch and her fol- , Bruto Force?" for a moment to warm them hour yet, And we've got picked-up cod- the lamb chops. | Mire. W. — (eopulchrally)—I never 3 1 ° Q fivh, 0 there!" ‘ | Mrs, W. (from the Idtchen)-The cof. 4 Abit a in| thought tii Va 8 ree" | oe yin ‘g THE ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION. SS ere ty ie MO IO ons doin tt | St enh GTR Tee oe ah at Sent eee with the toreh, with the| satistled with things. ‘ Nee rp | P ? ait ngland, look Ike coffee Tani agi UT of the formation of an Actors’ Equity Association to pro- | ohops! said Mr. Jarr plaintivelyr 8 q : PAE evaceat uate rues tenet asetaings|| “are wy cite QlbRnaty. youl onl ariall i iJ ih sone hae Tr dpa i sven i i i taal 6 of life's sore e of life's ; 5 ack!, sh . W i ook Vke tea , any : tect the interests of actors in their dealings with theatrical | ,Mer one ot ircowecie to have one's @ a Mrs. Sarr the coving from that lunchroom dowis jter ror you wien it ain't so strong. Well, you be eareful what you say of) stairs, can't you? ldo! Mrs. Gatch will never forgive the| Mrs. W. (ready to have any gri i it the Cause received tn Washing: | ance)—Yes. I think they've got a gall Insulted by hoodlums, her feet|to charge asixty-fve dollars a month chased across by a troop of United | for this five-room apartment and then managers there may come some day a professional influence, mouth set for lamb chops, to scent the i i ; rn « f iT lain chops on the strong enough to bring the stage buck to the position it held in the [terns beat Beier epagtesers old days when it was controlled by actors, not by speculators; when cwildly) Oh, an’ he by and they're selvos instead uv fry ok. ma! Pa's careles: t plate, possibly with little frilled before one's Gr ‘ don't you smell somethin’? : ape ete on them, 7 : the management of it waa an art, not a trade. eipepiured mental gase, to have lambf ‘ Staies cavalry—but, ax a final insult and | go and have @ lunchroom under it, Be a (MAEmIRE wlidie ait tone ‘he Association believes it to be the business of the manager chops just within one's grasp, Bo to , a ite wail) injury for Preatdent Wilson to affront] Mr, W. (in disgust)—I wouldn't eat| Now, see? Criticising me that way e Association jevet P ag chop \ Covyright, 1918, hy The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening Worl! use openly in his inaugural ad-|the stuff from one of those Cheap Jona | y., le o and let th MAN who could not be argued, lectured or reasoned into Heaven you made me go and let the toast burnt to pick a play that will succeed; that if it fails the fault is his, and places !f I were starving! You scrape the ble speak—and then to be told you don't) | met em—ihat there's pleked-up de | he should bear the loss instead of shifting it, as at present, upon | fo. dlaner, 01 well, all this world is can be flattered straight into purgatory. cee eautrs 1 Mr, Jerr, “I inti ve BAY, Bes the Greene pant acer and Til heat the plates. ie oe the players, ‘he establishment of such a rule would bring the)” rne tamb chops are for Mrs, Gratch. A pirt sometimes fancies that afl her friends are trying to steal her, “Oh, Sue ioe att ie mn and dias Dreaktaat, J Sunt soon laren ea pu ek ant tle Re ie inet ng players into consultation in the ehoice of plays. The effects would f\t* Ae ta eaieaeaiien "explained ance from her When ihe ore ersiy cideavoring 40 fathom Now om earth Liter, site ceetoh enidy, and Somarked | oirennd to the cellkintersen Rue SUE Dave LEMEA’ Bons. biases wens likely reach much further than the simple one of securing the actor ars. dare "We can't afford lanib she ever came to fall in love with such a nameless calamity, wah emphaah suemon sf) Sone we ay iratenew hat oI care Hare: eo} 409K 18.A MANIA eos a fair salary for his work, whether done on the stage or in rehearsal. | Sova” _ : ae and @ abr, Aid bi SaFY| Thane Gacewenorie cae tine c9| Rae thane) Thales: A man spends his boyhood struggling against an education, Ms YOUR eevce so struggling against matrimony and his middle age struggling against embon- point; but sooner or later he succumbs to all of them, dearie. med to say, Mis. Grateh sa: And you forward-looking Women are t in this. 1 ask for MIAN! And "There is, in fact, a chance for a revolution. | nse the Httle electric stove [ brougit t home last week, It's Just’ for an occ Mrs. sion of this kind—to make things eas! “No Excess Speed. \ much ratet siys those words turned her | grng tt on, Josste. ite 1 ina i ne to stone!” Mrs, W. (sullenly)—Oh, I don't know wretht “a t The Day's Good Stories Onto heh girl carrafors o college education. <b tones an aicial 1ot Of| Mana nee avout her peer tontt! attri, Neate” ‘ i ‘alte thet y | money to make a man overlook a serious defect like that. samen atl | tr, W. (angelically)-Now you just Vv. (sp ‘ )—~That’s t t| m rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrresy [bring It on and I'll do the rest, I'it | twiee T'v py band in the same " ver ere mark e , ce 0 i guarantee to have a delicious tte | plave! : All in the Sound. ie eois. tome, as delat at bore ;marks At twenty a woman toaits for her ship to come in with Prince Charming oO d d Facts | guarenten 3° Date side of attaen aitae{ Mrw. Ws (collapring)-Oh, denet 7 fais ® beavier treat, her tom ached from the! lat the helm; at forty she is glad to grasp at a life-preserver. y ? blue ANY tales might be told 1 the} stampings Like unto thowe of a Naamyth hatnmer, | ; eae ae oey ene a Bish sounds of hastily spuken wo! unac up in despair, | es oly Se | Me. WY Mr. W. (hI rds off sharpty) cusomed ears, The oly inie one we] “I am oo tired,” she whimpered, "Do let's} When a girl refuses to Kise a man he is never disconcerted; he ts merely arith Mr. W. (#ayly wi. rin down to lunehreara dave eves heasd of ach ine mae of Me Ganon” | , Sain dae Maude Adama's real name ts Maude} Willte (stuging eer Gane to and Inn intee a Last week 37, Charlo De Marrack, the well] But the m astonished that she could be a0 blind to her own feelings, Aimee Aanctaia. baal nasi 18 Maude | NUNES BRING TERRI MAE. FIBOr Oe and a quave Mt Otten) sone ae a ame oem ees ee eee m8 Mm ee | eid \ = : |" Mrs. W, | Gitioking her head in the! the dumbwa: (Apolo cotically) Yeu cereals Ale ia) A | 0 OE come ioe ee 1 | Nobody is browght up in the fear of the Lord nowadays, Girts are _* sea EY oe \ mled Aoor)—Witile, I'll puntsh you If you get {ean’t deny that there Wty lrooms ARM ce me Wy. at Ales are chissed multi-millionalre ie yt dha due lab Lue Oe we te, aid | ‘brought up in the fear of nothing on carth but Mrs. Grundy; and boys in *'\** are cena iY | fresh a conventen swered che lady, “Where te] BY Tit Bite, the fear of nothing on earth but jail, There ure seventeen entenee OR, and Wain Dealer ea en — | United Btates for the exclusive educa, ; h P Week for ——— Plenty of Time. | ‘ster otk Boldlion's creates fame waa aonleved neither esa Kiva nor ada 910 Cas rizes a PCH minister walking through @| Bright Sayings of Children a8 a wise man, but asa successful husband. | Panama Canal will save 7,76 Not the Same Thing. A’ eireet im the village one misty veen New York and San Fran- The Bvening World will give $10 weesly im cash pricvs tor Bright Say- APPY lovers were the), boil devoted to when he fell into @ deep he ; ee Fr ir » tg dancing, both pariikelw of the joe of BO Jadder by wich be could mabe thle esnape The things of thie world are pretiy evenly divided in the long run: = | villege Cinderella, She wae Renetiful, graceful, vkilful daucer; he far lone of lis tootates and little and he began to ehow for help. A passing laborer litand hie cries, and looking down, saked who he was, ‘The ainister told him, whereupon the laborer remarked tonenen, | 9 fret prise of $5 and Ave $1 prises awarded for ouch George Bernard Sno ublin ircland, |] Savings se seem to the MAitor the cleverest of those submitted. page, keep to 100 words or lese (pref. VENTING Champagne and the headache, love and pores!) and indigestion, succe: ind the wrong mal: art and loneliness, wealth “How much longer the days are these are the combinations that Fate usually deals out to us. The steamship Mauretania and her “Weel, weel, ye needne Mek up #e @ eee “Oh, | don’t know. | haven't no- ¥ saint snip tho. Lasitania each burne You'll no be weeded afore Rawbath, ant f@ tle y of them exceeding the good 11a tone lin @ full day's 1 Wedoendsy uight,'’~Ladiee’ Home J jold twenty-fourshour Hit,” Moat people marry for cacitement, and then dvorce foy a reat. jeune j ‘ G . 7 at *