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ibaa ny Sve GES aiorio. ; ESTABIASHDD BY JOSPPH PULITZER. i 2 Published Oatly Bxoept su; day, by the Prose Publishing Company, Nor. 68 £0 bees ATS President, 62, Part, Row, JosnPH AN dre Mocrerary, Oh Park itow, Matter xork as Continent and YF, cond<Clasr ‘or England and the play peaceably and without breaking laws if they are given the . Director Berrows’s report is « strong argument for more | _ playgrounds to keep the children out of the streets. bb i In the older, congested districts recrcation grounds of the pres- : type are the natural eolution. But what about the newer seo- ? What about the Bronz end Brooklyn, for exemple, where mach of the city’s growth takes the form of huge blocks? "These blocks are « thousand feet long and two hundred and fifty thet wide. ‘The houses take up enly a margin around the edges, lear- idig a greet waste, unkempt, unused eres in the interior. Why not make these forlorn, desolate, backyard epaces into playgrounds? Why not, with the help of gress, trees, fountains, swings, games, the centre of every block a epot of health and delight for the + of forty families? 4 4| Why should the city epend milBions only to secure a few isolated recrestion areas when & might heve « fine playground im the waste spmee of every block? x ‘y, One thing is certain. New York cannot spend too much thought omtife health and happiness of its children. Nothing pays a city higher returns. Town-bred children who have had perks and play- grounds to stretch their legs in grow up with an instinctive loyalty and affection for the city that has provided them with happy mem- as. The most beautiful city in the world to-day owes much of thus, even at this distance. stventeen INCH CAR S STE’ “VERY VERY LL SHow VERY ARE READY INTERESTING | E THE OBJECTIONS, Po Al To WE SEVENTEEN Most INTeRESTING!, The Evening World Daily Magazine. Tuesday - April 22, 19138 Saiaeet=*CviL WAR BY MRS.GEN. PICKETT. Copyright, 1913, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). salon. panei ion INCH CAR STEP No, 40—GEN. WINFIBLD SCOTT HANCOC, One TYear..oe 8.80 One Tear... woes 90.76) Soldi i Presidential Ca’ idate. Batlle lhl alelni inl oon afar OF close fy war, B tobi heal rg wen a i called at VOLUME 88... cesceecsseeeesteseeseteessessNO. 18,872 | S stained In alimors, my, Stier called at he Rawle THE CITY AND ITS CHILDREN Sard. ‘pon receiving the sip of paper on wpush my Sen . pon ie of . | neod! ‘greet HE recreation census now being taken for the first time in| temory ‘of ha la carats taka precedence et | over 6 Oro’ officers ‘peop! were | New York only corroborates what everybody knows: The | HIGH CAR STEP | G ove be on office Wsinese, ‘és . a great majority of obildren like wholesome play. Thoy INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE Gian, Hansoul dota Gin tk Ob Gite tad EES BY». umes. “I have had enough of « soldiers iffe, I chal-@ullé Nttle home on Turkey Island, in place of the olf mansion that was burned, and devote the rest of my tife to faitity. But for those dear ties I might wish that I had gone down with our ériend Armistead.” dear old Armistead!’ eaid Gen, Hancock eadty. ported, “and have returned full of ancient history. I feel as if I ought to wear & powdered wig with a queue, We wished that you dadies had gone with un” Pott, where the settlers were alain, and on to Pace’s Pains, where the Christian Indian, Chanco, revealed the plan for the wholesale massacre of the English, and passed Wyanoke and Brandon of historic memory. We stayed half an hour at Westover, weat o¥er the old house and listened to the Inende of the Byrds. We went to the olf grave of beautiful Eveiyn Byrd, whose restless apirit comes back to the olf garden and roams from rosebush to rosebush gathering dlossoms. “Then we eatled away to Jordon’s Point, where once lived the wealthy and deautiful Cicely Jonfon, who created such @ disturbance with her numerous admirers that Virginia passed the famous law prohibiting, under penalty, a prom- fee of marriage to more than man at a time, We stood by the Fairy Weill, and Pickett and I sang ‘The Old Oaken Bucket’ as weet it down. telle us that If we have never by word or deed done injury to any one we may look into the well and silently make a wish, and the echo of the wish will be returned to ue fn . I dear that Pickett and 1 have not been guiltless, for no echo came to us. We went on to Shirley and dined fn the room in which the | bearted of your Robert E. Lee, Anne Carter, used to assist her mother in presid- tng.” brick of which {t wag butit had all been brought over from England. I remember The legend , tliat passionate civic pride and devotion for which hor adult citizens HE CAN You " ” y “ne the most te- ap noted to the pcr gardens and playgrounds and spaces IMMENSELY INVESTIGATING Conn TTEE Bear IT | toric of them al, Turkey Talend; called frst bythe Drath explorers tn se . “ nt and." |, his Cor iman, Will e* ef brightners and freedom which she provides for hor children. INTERESTING | 5 raueekoe doiphy named te Cerkey tase, Tent know tev the 160d Weis GLARE ae Turk land, 1 impud: ferer changed | impertinent pe trere ven merecny O ryerecs “To AN EIGHTEEN INCH | |Yankese did in calling it Turkey Bend. ‘ust ecross the river at Bermuda Sun-” 2 2s New York could edopt no better watdhwond for fs future Cc ip | red lived Gentleman Henry Ieham end Dame Katherine and their daughter:+ growth: = Mary, @ noted songstress and cithem player who won many hearts an@ was j > finally herself won by William Randolph. From them are descended Thomas 4 . + Jefferson, Chief Justice Marshall and other great men.” . i a Bold Juttes, our Sheriff, says he'd eoon fix the London euf- “When I came home with Pickett trom West Point,” said Gen, Hancock, “his Ag ~* fragettes @ he tad ‘em in his balliwick. Only the bravest speak father told me ghey were nearly eight years in building the house and that the a —-+—-——__—_ _ = THROW OUT THE DEAD WOOD. v HE recommendation of the Curran Committee’s police in- : vestigator, that patrolmen be appointed for five years and Tetained only if in that time they show superiority and the will to edvance, must strike any sensible man as on the right track. .,..'The trouble with the police service at present is that it offers "| not careers but jobs. Promotion and demotion are too often de- | tesmined by anything but the day to day conduct and conscientious | over the porticoss on three sides of the house, which was surmounted by an | aerial tower seen for miles away—a great help to navigators of the James, who called it the ‘Birdeong Guide.’ I hope some day the country will be patriotic furnituro imported from England, and keep it in memory of ‘ts historic associa- jtons. It was a shame that tt should be burned, standing so fai out of the ne lof battle as it did.” “Little Mact stopped here,” said my Soldier, “before going to Harrison's Landing, after the seven days’ battles, and wrote a love letter to me and left ft with o!4 Sims.” When Gen. Hanoook once asked for an investigation of @ charge that his arrival at Petersburg was unduly de- layed, Gen. Grant replied: the wonderful cape jasmine and mmuitifiora and other roses and vines that grew! |@nough to duplicate the old home, with its pictures by Sully and ite antique “” i et Se ee 4 III p AAA PPADOOPDODDODOODOODDOD DODDS 7% work of the men concerned. Heroic actions on special occasions i The Secret of Youth ee pe Pree Batlaning Os, i fe Fp = are not the sole indication of fitness and capacity. AAMARAD TARMAC OOOO ERTEOD Gees ia ;” Joining the police force ought not to mean a listless job where sl vaaed yc aailyed ighiaea dy cal fies an eee Lg Bleed irl We after all, they realize the great ¢ fome lucky ebance may give a man a shove. It ought to mean a oesherpadl gy iarhraghtbt- dir} | ° By Sophie Irene Loeb H wheat to that chaff. And Dr. Olafeld NEED of some one to love, the clasp of might have a few people to drown if @ loving hand and the communion of|he could carry out the idea that there head, band and beart that ONLY love! are people who have never been in love brings. and never want to be. In a word, ell lee tm compariaon te} For, strange to say, there are some only chaff, and love te to Mfe as the, folk that come thie description. The Man on the Road “The reputation of the Second Corps an4 Ite commander {s 20 high with the public and {n the army that an investi- gation could not add to it, ft cannot be tarnished.” Gen. Hancock was the only Prest- fontial candidate who passed through the campaign with no shadow of a4- verre criticism to mar Yhe brilance of his personal or public reputation. A re- porter who called upon Gen. Sherman fn quest of such criticism received the reply: es promising which liste steadily and tl TEE NG hed ral ieee pes eaten erage are " career in which a man enliste steadily earnestly to further eaye: ‘It spends fe in 4! work his way to the top. At present, says the investigator, “there pony diss fogeteend nae wane pa hema tag ht ) _is little to indicate the manner and character of the daily perform- enough. Fall in| "®ppy. e —anco of police duty. Since the consolidation of the city 77 per cent. , ofthe patrolmen in the ranks have failed to gain aey promotion.” 2 New York’s police forco could easily be one of the closest, ised the great BENEFITS and need of Jove in the pursuit of happiness. They go on the theory that ‘What I don’t know won't burt me” and do not : i 7. “Tt you will elt Gown and write the best thing that can be pat into tanguage |. pipadest, ig ven yd % Lah Boren ut gd — bi aS i am Sra thes wees Hep Bais ell adie patany about ‘Gon, Hancock as en officer ande gentleman T will ¢isn it without healta: service, with every man in line for promotion, @ pushing cro Copucicht, 2018, ty Tho Prem Pubtich Delp me” tion. “ of fresh, ambitious youngsters ready to close up the ranks from 4 “FOOD-DANOE" ON THE BRIE, As Potacigg neal t i seresiy ge Wigs t "dl ‘or \@ wor! ht Bee: Why ott . road,” Sagan Hull, tha Cot- Proved “Tt you want to have a friend ” ton man, “and the firm one In Uke manner, % you want to have the benefits of love MANIFEST it your- self, And, in all truth, there ts ne one inoapabie of falling in love. s T to the greatest stimulam toward werving and getting the supreme joy of feeling that you are indispensable to @OME one. There ls no greater giow. Tt ls wrong to shut {t out; and if you overloek trifling things that might hin- Ger the continuous pleasure of loving you have the secret of happiness and youth indeed. LOVD IS THY LOAF OF LIFW AND BACH OF US NEPDS A SLICE. a LITTLE BROTHER SPEAKS, The Danish Government is going to let Iceland drink up its >> Present stock of liquor, but then .the unhappy isle must sign the pledge and go dry forevermore. No wonder they are clamoring * for immigrants! -Cos Cob Nature Notes a we mentioned, the other day, Mbenezer John Hill's weeps over the OTF 3 ever oot bold of Binks TD Geet him that hie mother wouldn't eecegnise beim." Py “He'e been slentering me, He eaye that 1 beat” out of $5 in @ poker game,” 1 H H GES atti a. person who has ns and never wants to ¢rowned. This is my convict! ‘Dr. Oldfield is a philosopher. Dresent-day philosopher. But in this one opinion of love he re-eohoes the profound opinion of all the phfosephers through the Robert Lo fa wo in one sentence; “Bo long as We love, we serve; #0 Jong as we are loved by ethers I would almost say we are indispensadie; and j gs s pe f j it [ j . income tax which he will have to pay, a constituent who has been over to Norwalk says he has seen a “For 5: Veohaps Demoeri g g 5 5 a fy 233 ” algn on Ebenezer John's house, ia to be driven from home by all the things that happen because the rein, We hope thin te not #9, for except bis being a Republican | i g° i Hbeneser Jolin is an ornament to his sex. no man is useless while he has « Florence, who was an antent ad jus Scott ts out again after having a time with the doctor. Everybody ie | friend.” mirer of her own vooa! qualities, had Al ft glad Gus is out and hopes he will keep on improving. He still has desirable; And there you have the keynote of eon selected to sing @ solo at a ehurch rot boats to jet. For men have tried entertainment. thas on Brnest Thompson Setén has moved up back and we are not as close to ne | *Y’ ind found ft unevalling. ‘The following moming at the breaio ar. | act an thelr ture as we were before he left, but will do our best to keep up with the pro- jew piengure every day 14 buy a glass of water. fmet table she remarked to her younger ae the knew wwe were in Jersey City.” on . ‘brother: “Well, I mever thought my voice would ceaston even if he is out of it, nature, only that {t incroases our Joh to have him up back instead of Mr. Mellen has been arrested and ta to have the cruel and unu meatt of being tried for mi care ran off the track at Westport with fatal results to passeng mn restaurant, a couple of cruilers. “I got into the sleeper and found my- eet alone. Along about supper time, as we got well up into Ohio the train love's glow, having ateeled their hearts! stopped at e function and a apecial train for one reason or another. | was hooked on in back of my sleeper. We do not mean by this that #. T. has given up| iH Bepe i e “And that let you out,” suggested the ft ar ‘| i £ ef i a who were travelling when it happened. A good many more people have been killed in our power house by things falling on thom or by falling down on things from ‘wp high or by the clectricity getting loose than in the above wreck, but nobody has been arrested, they being common workmen and it happening in Greenwich, where Mr. Mellen need never be afraid of arrest 80 long ae Messrs, Wrong and | ‘Wright are town counse! 10. ‘Why do the dandelions bloom when other thingw are fria? The reason, ohild, is very clear: I i | Romantic Rosalind - ONCE MORE AT THY FEET, OH OH,CLAUDE ! MY “WITH FEARLESS COURAGE JO |. a}. T+ AND O£S5T p OW CLAUDE AH- DEA O£STRUCT PACE A FEARFUL | on a log are free from excitement, and this mtad seldom get int oup. OSALI PERF FATE -YAAS CLAUDE: ‘They say Gov, Baldwin has appointed J. J. Walsh of Norwalk Common 7 ae ms SOME BRAVE, UNFLINCHINGLY TO Pleas Judge in place of Jim, but that he is a different kind of a Walsh, 1| op DASH-AH- WITH Neither Tim nor Jay went to Hartford last week to stand by Judge Burnes || OCORCHING IRON NERVE- in his fight to stay where he 1s on tho beneh, although he acquired most of hw || MEART! THE VERY troubles doing things for them. Some of the boys think this real mean; also INTO * thet they were scared . FACE OF { Letters From the People | ‘The Lad Preblem. ‘To hp Editor of The Evening World: x 1T xm. T17 + I g@ibmit the following solution of lad- PATRICK J. MONAHON, | “How Many Feet" To the BAitor of The Brentng World: Will readers try to solve this? If a body falls 90,000 feet, oo it fall the lest y seconds before it strikes the ground? Please give al! figures briefly end explain i m plain arithmetic, A ; . Bux | fs