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ve The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, She Se aaiorio. PSTABLIGHED BY JOSHPI PULITEER, ‘iia We nm by the Pr iblishing Company, Nos, 53 to Pantone Daily scent BHRMRE AY Aan," Far PTGS BHTAW Treapurer JOMSPN PULITEBR, Je Bocret New York as Second-Class Matter, For Bneian’ and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Untor aft Pate Row. bee Wy, ary, 61 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office @ Subscription Rates to The Evening World for the United Staten 4 Canada. One Year.. One Month VOLUME 53...eeeceeeecseees THE NERVE OF ALDERMAN GRIMM. OBODY need be under any illusion as to who is holding up N taxicab reform in this city. The present disgraceful system of private stands, hotel graft, ill-conditioned cabs and extor- tionate'fares continues because one Alderman stupidly and stubbornly holds out against the facts and against the plain interest of the public. Taxicab company lawyers and hotel men who cling to their graft | have driven into the head of this man, who is Chairman of the Alder- | manic Committee on Taxicabs, the idea that private stands and exor- | bitant rates must be preserved at all costs. The brain of Alderman | Grimm is filled to bursting with this one notion. No consideration of public good can squeeze in. | Instead of passing an ordinance which would throw the streets of the city open to the competition of cheap, rapidly multiplying taxicabs under careful city regulation, Alderman Grimm would let the hoteis | and' taxicab companies continue to monopolize the best part of the eervice with a limited number of cabs at rates too high for any save | millionaires. | The ordinance which the Mayor’s Taxicab Commission has rec- ommended to the Aldermen would permit two persons to ride two tiles in a taxicah for $1.00. | Alderman Grimm would have them pay $1.40. | Worse than his impudent advocacy of higher rates, however, is his brasen indorsement of private stands. Nor this is the crux of} taxicab reform in New York. | ‘The Evening World has repeatedly shown that hotels and restan- | rante now unlawfully rent to the big taxicab companies street privi- | leges which really belong to the city. In return for these privileges | the hotel men collect $500,000 annually from the taxicab companies. The taxicab companies collect the $500,000 from the pockets: of the public. at Until the city has abolished these private stands, until it hae ea- | tablished public stands in the principal squares and streets, until ai! | licensed taxicabs are given equal privileges and held rigidly to the | same standards, until the taxicab service is thrown open to the whole-| some influence of fair competition, we shall never have in New Yors ; the cheap, convenient service enjoyed by other civilized capitals. | A taxicab ordinance embodying these reforms so long urged by The Evening World is now in the hands of the Aldermen. Only the | shameless obstinacy of one Alderman from an out of the way corner of Brooklyn keeps that ordinance buried and denies this great city its fair chance to develop a cheap, safe cab service. | After fifteen months of dawdling on the part of his Taxicab | Committee, Alderman Grimm hasn’t the nerve to disappoint a few | taxicab magnates and hotel men. Has he the nerve to disappoint and exasperate the whole waiting public? ; | District-Attorney Whitman !s a good woodman. He is cutting clean to the heart of the rotten timber in the Police Department. Thanks to him, we shall yet point with pride to the sound wood ————_-4-_—_ — WHEN SCHOOLBOYS STRIKE. A iene New York schoolboys “struck” against the regu: | lations of the Stuyvesant High School, rushed the schoolj * lunchroom, sihashed dishes and tipped over the furniture. ‘Then they climbed on tables and sang “Where’s the Chicken Axe?” as @ protest against “staid old songs” like Hymn No. 266 which form part of the regular morning exercises. It has been thought best to keep the children off the streets of the neighborhood during the luncheon hour. The boys do not see the need of this. Therefore they “strike” and “demonstrate” and smash things, The same day two hundred school children whose ages ranged from eight to twelve broke up a grammar school at Cambridge, Mass, Uy “striking” for less study and more play. Not only dhl they refuse is attend school, but a procession of one hundred marched to another school house and ‘held up other children peaceably going to their lessons. The police were finally called upon to quell the noise and disorder. This sort of thing is not funny. It is sad and disgraceful, and should be nipped in the bud, ‘I'he.striky as a necessary and legiti- has nothing whatever to do with the unmature and exuberant im pulses of excited or mischievous children. >No boy who has tio! learned to obey authority before he begins to criticise it is likely to grow into a useful citizen, These schoolboy strikes are signs of dan- gerous laxity and lack of control—probably more at home than at school. From precisely such youthful material are developed our car rowdies and gangsters. : Letters fromthe People| The Excavation Problem. ' ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World | Hore is an answer to that excavation problem: A ditch is Tits feet lons, 4 feet wide at the top, 10 feet wide at the pottom and 15 feet deep at one end, and % fect wide at the top, 10 feet wide at the bottom and 8 feet deep At the other end. It Is required to find how many cubic yards arc taken out. | Just pack the @irt in the form of a priemoid and we have 200 feet the area ef one section, 176 feet he area of the otmer adction and 90 feet the area of the middle section, 30+116+90—1.416 feet; 14M +4-"12 6-15, or one-sixth of the distamve between extreme sections; BAM 12 6-12-7082 feat; 17,8824+27--651 5-9 euble yards. Which gives us the anewer—@l 6-9 cuble yards, | A0HN DUFFY, tate weapon is quite dangerous enough in the hands of adults, Hee Romantic WILT THOU BE MINE? ©) ‘To the Waiter of The Evening World: 1 wish that some reader could confer s nda of ragor victiiny Ile Can You Beat It? @ ' zetetsc,, @ By Maurice Ketten ING FoR LEVEL HELPP THE 5S 21 TRAIN FOR OLD ROCHELLE ? UPPER LEVEL <_ Lona CENTRAL STATION “TE 5.25 Train FOR OLD ROCHELLE 7 Take THE 5.3 .28 JUST_GONE SiR, “sowied the bows, int “And now, before can recover from we are to endure the recent de more: agitation, Mr, Jarr looked still graver. “And there is the income tax,” said the boas, rifting “Looky that wa: . “Looks that way? It is that way,” said the boss, And there are the Em- ployer's Liability Laws. What's the world coming to?" Cousriaht, Yt, Blue Uee9s Kubitaning Co, bs = “True enough, sir,” assented Mr. Jarr. (the New York sveuing aeceeseeseseseseee: eeeseeooososoooee Mr. Jarr Wanders, Growling, in a World of Universal Grouch. SSCRSTCVISTSSHSSS GOTT HS OSV TGS HSS T SES EHVdGHSOOVEVED vision, My motto, Mr. Jarr, Is to let well enough alone!” Mr. Jarr feigned deep. interest. “And therefore, Mr. Jarr,” said the boss, “I am afraid, if times do not get better, and business pick up, we shall have to have an all-around reduction of salaries here.” . “But why not let well enough alone In this case?” asked Mr, Jarr, “H'm, T not speaking of it in that . replied the boss, shortly, remarked Mr. R meeting Mr. Jarr at the lunch counte! “Well, I'm glad the her + su! 66 OOD morning, Mr. Smith!” sald] «And now we are to have tariff re- Mr. Jarr, briskly. eee a fi ‘Th glance upon } “Are you W me a good morn- ing, or do you nt good morn- ing?” asked the bow “Both, sir” replied Mr, Jarr. "Well, T hope you mean it's @ good morning for me, but I'm sorry to say tt fen't!" growled the head of the firm, ‘Mr. Jarr, did you ever reulize the re- sponsibitities, the burdens, a business man labors under these days.” Mr. Jurr thought of his own respon- sibilities und burdens, and the slight funds he had to finance them, so he boss turned a sour Midnight ‘and everything's ry 3 quiet, Presaging a ible riot, O’er the fence |s making a bee-line. The poet toils hard o'er the “page, With a countenance veraphic; And manfully doth he engage In a muscular bout with the sapphic. ‘The supphiv’s soft, slbilant ewing Doth preclude all the trouble of rhym- “Very true, sir!" “Mr, Jarr,"” went on the boss, “do you reallze ts wolng to the dows?” r. Jarr put on @ serious face and arked that Indeed he did know It. ‘The working classes are not con- “They have noth- and yet, sir, they the country ing. If you want to reach fame ‘tis the thing, Altho’ somewhat tardy the climbing. dent! said tte Hie felt ‘neath his belt and then dweit ing to worry are not conten’ Mr. Jarr said {t wax too bad, “You may well say ‘It is too bad!" 188 carving, Tho! svelte, Starving Done While You Wait. By Eugene Gcary. Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publish be (The | The | Tho velvety step of the feline, | On the fact-!t your way you are your figure becomes somewhat | fork Evening World), is naught like a system of starving. And. musing, he lald down his pen, What a difficult job ‘twas to draw dust | From these editors who were not fhen— Just automatons stuffed up with saw- | dust? He gased on the mountain of stuff Rejected by editors’ slick tricks, Took a reef in his belt for a biuft, And exclaimed with a flourish ‘Victrix.” “Arm Then began an impressionist strain— ‘Twas an echoing, navy-biue moon song, Undisturbed by the raucous retrain, And the silver success of the coon song. Rosalind LIST, CLAUDE, CANST Pour FORTH THY SOUL N- THUS IN RHYTHMIC meee LW COUNT ME THINE' AH COME SPRING GENTLE |-OF THE BIRDIES IN THE SKIES STEN AT ME AS I1SING| EVERY BODY SWATTING i] Youg' retorted Mr. Jarr, glumly. “But 1 think we are going to have war with Japan.” “By George, that's so,” cald Mr. Rangle. “And the Giants are on tho toboggan, I'm afraid, and 93 for the Yankees"— The contemplation of tho parious sit- uation tn both leagues, so far as the home teams were concerned, su sad- dened Mr Rangle's sunny nature that when he stopped in at Gus's on nis) homeward way he was the personifica- tion of gloom. “By gollles, it's good to sec the nice weather,” began Gus cheerfully. ( will cut your Ice bills, eh?" tem?" remarked Gus, a frown suc- ceeding his smile, “Do you know how Tuch the {ce has gone up already yet? By Chimmenetty, if expenses keeps go- ing up and recelpts falling off, you'll see me advertising this stand under the head of ‘Business Opportunities.’ You know—'Corner liquor store; good trado; splendid location. A big money-maker for the right man’ mn why sell out?” asked Rangle. ecause the way you talk,” said Gus. ‘And you are right, too, Only I got a fight mit my Lena ana wouldn't give her the satisfaction I'd quit right now.’ Mr. Dinkston drifted in at this junc- ture singing merrily, “Hello, Rangle! Hello, Gus!" he cried blithely, ‘I just saw Ed Jarr going home looking ready to cry. Did you hear about my wife throwing me out. Ain't I lucky? ‘ “Because,” explained Mr, Dinkston © @©@ @ jfaxvttth| @ @ @ By Ferd G. Long May 8, PRETTY BLOSSOMS ON THE TREESES SCENT THE AIR, ES MORE STRONGERIN 1913 Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publish Co, (The New York Evening World) LAB, for the change in the fashion! Poor Cupid is pi For what we once Ta'now dudbed “emotional jut to the blush! called a “grande passion” slush.” average man. When your husband tells you th member that he means {t as a compli Some women can be fooled all of some of the time, but the same toma: the same way—more than half of the ti #0 fascinating that he can't even enjo: @ solid-gold wedding ring in exchange “youthifi/er, Accept no substitute, for Lover's motto: If at first she won' Buffrage, Socialism and eugenics may all be burning questions, duet “What'll you have?” stilt continues to be the moat absorbing one to the at you “have no brat iment. Dearie, re the time and all women can be fooled in can't be fooled by the same man in, lime, When a tcoman marries it is often a sign that she prefers half a mows attention and ail of his income to all of his attention and nonc of his income, The dullest fate on earth for a man is to be married to a woman twho te iy Nirting with other women, No matter how much a bachelor girl mey boast of her “independence,” somehow she never can resist snapping up the bargain when she is offered for a nickel-plated latch key. Real love—the kind that Mother used to believe in—is the only genuine there is nothing “just as good.” "t believe, lie, He again! ® As to a Man’s Wealth By Sophie \C* loves and blesses, and by which he is lovea and blessed.” Morgan, the fin- ancier, he of whom ft is oald that he held the welfare of the nation in the hollow of his hand, is dead, But Mor- wan, the whose last will was lately made Public, will live, For though the methods of an un- usual genlus for making millions may pass with him, the ouition of these millions was made with the forethought and mag- nanimity of the man, and not the finan- cler. So that indeed his wealth may be reckoned in the “number of things” he loved and blessed. | When a man particularly stipulates \that every obligation, every promise of his, be fulfilled to the point of having been “made by me verbally ov other- wise, even thowsh not in such form that the holder could compel payment thereof by my estate’—that man least wants to accomplish all he contracted to do. Still further, no ser- vant, no employee was forgotten, not jeven the man who attended the fur- nace. He had indeed made hie wealth to be man) How It May Be Used to Make Mankind Happier Irene Loeb 1913, by The Ureas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), cording to these deeds. Aleo fe shall have a very valuable collection of art objects “for the instruction pleasure of the American people.” fhe boon this will bring we do not mow! realize, For some $30,000,000 worth of art treas- ures, which represents the best work- manehfp that the world has produced 1n its various forms, will be so set- tled that the pleasure 1nd oducations! value to his country will be far reaoh- ing. All of which has its HUMAN el ment that Is laudable to say the least. ized this human side of the man when I saw him on his last ard the Adriatic, His interest in the CHTLDREN at play, his pleas ant grectin: of frie his love for ple Uttle dog, his non-forgetting apirit of those who had done him service and his efforts ‘> give LITTLE TROUBLB to those about him—all, all proclaimed the words of Carlyle, In the summing up, though he reck- Joned his wealth .n the figures of many | millions, this attitude in the number ef jthings he blessed—many of which are | unknown, after all—proclaimed the mag- | nitude of wealth of him as a MAN, | For in these days of mad money- |making when the man higher up has |reached his pinnacle he har ofttimes | forgotten the man LOWER DOWN who |no dot has ¢ warm ‘Tin the wise man of wealth who has rg to give who roally gives tt | somet and well, The Uplift. NOTED Englioh pariiamantarian tossed back but we im the wrong direction “A tourist was travelling In your Far Weat, 8 ho inapected an Indian encampment ho sald to his cowboy guide ‘And ero these Indians “"Retcher hfe,’ tho combo & freak chew of tol lgreming, All 1 eine men now,’ Explained. |« ERK was one young chaplain thoughtfully, { regeni my opening praser with the i deevest attention, He showed @ degree of t's fine weather for sleeping | nervous impatience that vas almast painful, and d I'm threatened with tu-{ wien | concluded—1 made the petition a litte louger on bis account, = CHEESES- anh \ { Wg q gy he Day’s Good Storie gs were relieved by @ Hing, 1 looked for bis fone, A young may witi an obtuse nose—do you kno ."* replied the doortender, “He copy of your stuff for one of th* * had to get over in time “or Cleveland Piain Dealer, ——>—__—_ \ The Tangle. “Do they hare winter in suming, ia No reglonat”* ron," do they have summer in winter te the | eppawr- | 1, Goorzor'* r troples!" “Exactly,"* they have spring to the fall any piace?” dy," ‘Or fall in the spring?” “It keep this thing up muci ll get something wore than 1 duck v-u under the pi oS Her Predicament. { Qanan nensnarpz erating) Femi ain. | concen of the stage to ® group of fri ‘Mash notes," you call them, past” she sald, laughing, “Well, T Yory funny mash note once in « small or Far West, fn sro adorable,’ my mash note fas, “ded preferred to send you ovehidy; Balt Jae ‘horse town 1 am reduce” ty “ id}, of which 1 am forwarding « twopotind bag? | Wl you take snpper with me tonight? If you consent blow your nose ow the; stage, 1 will understand,” Mme, Bernhardt laughed again, nd “And the wornt of it was,” ahe sald, “I tad © bad cold at the time and was afraid to blow my nose all the erening,”—Landoa Opisioa, poses WER nl “Fant ain't no name fer it, 1 open all night t ‘commodete them | money early in th’ eroain’, 1 e'pose; offices open at 3 o'clock im th’ moz up them ee ere in @ hurry fer