The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1913, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY JOSMPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Su pening Company, Nos. 63 40 p rk Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. etary, 63 Park Row. ‘Entered at the Port-Office at New York ap Becon4-Class M: ¢ For England and the Co in, wee jernational TU tion Rates to T World for tho United States $8.80] One Tear. One Menthe never SO WORUME 08....0.ccssssecsevesseessers THE END OF TAXI TYRANNY. HE EVENING WORLD has won its fight to break tho grip of taxciab monopoly in this city. Cheaper taxicabs for New York are assured. | Face to face with ugly facts, after fifteen months of dawdling and obstruction, the Aldermanic Committee appointed to draw up-a reform taxiesb ordinance will now double-quick to get in line with aroused public feeling. With » haste that eavors of panic, Chairman Grimm and certain of his easy-going fellow committeemen have changed their tone. A few weeks since these gentlemen declared “we will maintain private hack stands at all costs because of the business interosts in- volved.” Now they declare themselves ready to report an ordinance abslishing private stands, lowering fares, regulating licenses—all the main reforms long urged by this newspaper, and embodied in an ordl- mance which the Mayor submitted to the Aldermen. The Grand Jury investigation is an awakening light in the dark mases of the taxicab situation. city officials have been enjoying free rides ad libitum in the cabs of the Yellow Taxicab Company, which monopolizes most of the hotel and restaurant cab business of the city. ‘The Assistunt Treasurer of this company testified that the unpaid taxicab accounts of public offi- dais in Manhattan have amounted to from $20 to $170 per month for each official who holds one of the yellow “passes.” ‘Iho Chief of the Bureau of Licenses occasionally runs his taxicab bill up to $250 a month. The total amounts to $25,000 a year for city officials. City officials are not expected to pay—in money. Hotel men and others who have privileges to grant awell the free riding account of the Yellow Taxicab Company to $200,000 per year. . Now does the public understand out of whose pockets extortion- ate taxicab fares really come, and why? This ie the company that has plaintively protested that it could This is the company that professed to be eager to reduce fares at the earliest practicable moment. This is the company that would have its cara the only safe and reliable ones. This is the company that has been prolific in ingenious reasons why New York can never have a taxicab service for the people. The city is stirred with shame and anger to learn that its public servants have been willing tools and agents to further taxicab graft a The evidence is galvanic. Taxi PARADES not reduce fares and live. No hasty ecuttling to make amends, no eulky acceptance of the + situation, no bargained-for immunity should protect any city official, Alderman or other, who is found to have betrayed the interests of the public for the favors of « taxicab company. Let punishment fall ammerily where it is deserved. One thing, however, is sure. The power of taxicab monopc'y is} ——._. amashed. Never again will taxicab oompar‘es in this city be allowed to fatten on special privileges, official favors and extortionate fares. Before the summer is over people in New York will be riding in taxicabs at fifty cents for the first mile. Before another year com- petition will have lowered the rates etill further. Taxicab monopoly and taxicab privilege are done for. But the movement for an increasingly better, cheaper and more popular taxi- cab service must still go on. Only honest, watchful regulation, in- spection and experiment will develop the system into what it should be. This newspaper will continue to fight as it has fought to make ' the taxicab more and more a cheap convenience for the people—safe, easily available, within the reach of everybody. ——— ‘There's many 2 Sipp ‘twixt the cup and the lip, according to our astute and sagacious super-Mayor. pleats 5: WHERE ARE THE LAMBS, ALAS? TOCK EXCHANGE members wear long faces these days, The coy reluctance of the lambs to stroll into the shearing shed is having its effect. Monday of this week, when the public |snn ought to have been toting in its accumulated savings of the week-end, the total trading for the whole duy was only 164,000 chares. At the rate of $25 per 100 shares, which is the brokers’ liftings, thet makes $41,000—a tidy enough sum in itself to make without earning. Divided among the eleven hundred members of the Ex- change, however, it is only a lean $37 each. Thirty-seven dollars to fi inaintain country places, pay for expensive town offices and contribute % percentage toward keeping the white lights buraing! + How can a R, JARR was eomewhat surprised, although it cannot be recorded that he was pleased et all, 0 note from the atreet, his Uncle Henry— uncle by marriage—sitting at his ease in the front room of the fat with bis feet on the window alll. “What can we do? sniffed Mre. Jarr, mot Mr. Jerr at the door. will be here before very long and if we want to send the children to the farm for Uncle Henry and Aunt Hetty to look afte! place elee—maybe to Panama or Can- ada, whichever ts the cooler—we'll have to be nice to him!" ‘Mr. Jarr snuffed the air with a dis- leased expression, ‘Yes, I know, arr went on, noting the anuMng, I wish you'd go out end buy @eome of those Chinese joss sticks to burn, Uncle Henry has a lot of samples with him of atuff to make the crops grow, although T can't ace what would grow from that etuff except onions, Le while we go some 1 is a sad story. Perhaps if the Stock Exchange had not re- sisted so strenuously the efforts of the community to make it a half- way respectable place where honest folk could trust themselves. ‘ts members might not now be groaning in ite halls and splashing tears on ite marble floors. I made him put upon the roof, and it will be all right soon if we burn the joss sticks and {f nobody complains to Board of Health, Why can't wenlthy relatives? I mean wi ($e ‘When the Jap sees what a bother his pride or honor or what- ever he calls It can be to a great nation like OURS, why In thunder doesn't he Just stop feeling it? Personally Conducted. rom the Peop’e AEM RR oe nen en dive should occur thrown out by his own. In reply to a letter from a reader ack of accident the an accident In Boston lax body and that of her pars jthe water fully two seco acroplane and mor I bew to state that ‘epends altogether on the type of \. plane he ts using and the position of Also on the to-ation If the latter be placed gehind the aviate it im the neck” in fe generally the case with biplane h 4 than 200 feet fr Mad they boen | ais seat therein. night have succeeded in bringing their machines to an even keel without ADRIAN VON MUPPLING. the case of mon ty motor placed at the , Mery front of the machine, he stands being hit by the motor; but, hand, he sits in an open Rothing abeve him, se ground {« all level) leave when an auto Is turving the corner at @ high rate of specd—the outside pair or the inside pair? “What sort of life st" “None at all, Hie wife does the BGK. \ teading.” The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, May 14, 1913 ate 2 Oe call Uves that will live like human beings? Uncle Henry has lote of money, but he ~ |enight as well be a poor relation for all be ever apends’— “There, there!" interposed Mr. Jarr. “Cheer up! Uncle Henry’e stay will be brief. This ts the busy esason en the farm, you know.” “That's the reason why I'm not 0 Uncle Henry always visits ‘busy geason? That is eo he can find fault with us city people for our lasy waya, at the same time all the bara Commuters’ Conduct. matically view wit! quancy, @iven at the Country Club, wenger. |he won't dlaclowe your !dentity, hicleat aan Denniless. OOOOEEREAOOEEEE EE EEEROEEAEOES ER EE SOESESOSESEEEL OED Mr. Jarr’s Rural Uncle Henry Tries To Beat the Moving Picture Game, cusoor sm oer CEOEOELELES OEE SE AEEEEEEEEESESE SES SECEEEEEEEESEESEH oes work at home is being done by the hired man and Aunt Hetty!’ “urely you wouldn't accuse that ‘Mr. Jarr had a cigar and passed it “T'll det chis is an expensive five-cent cigar,” eaid Uncle Henry, regarding it You city folks air wasteful! If you had to work hard earnin’ your bread by the eweat of your farmer of duplicity and guile?” a “T'@ accuse him of anything. Onty, nt to keep on good terms with him so we can send the children to the farm this summer,” explained Mrs. Jarr, “But you'd better go in and e@peak to him, ile's go ver But if Uncle Henry was quspicious be gave no sign of it. “Hello, Eat’ he cried heartlly, “Got Moving pictures twice to-day!" cried en “Real Dressy.” “Unel NM Amoctated Charity worker making a vist ncle Henry and me wee to the| The Probable Ghost. tee peor mountain woman in a. Southern ys SPIRITUALIST, scoompanted by another town observed that her th ttle Willie Jarr, “and we are going | ‘man who shared the same beltef, was| wore apectacim, “It's a pity the twice thie evening to the Bijou Dream.” | walking in @ country gravevard one night| trouble with their e fan’t it? “Why to the same place? asked Off. | wien one of the men declared be saw @ “shad. aympetietically to the mother, “The same pictures will be on | owy form.” view, wont they?” ms, ' ‘Uncle Henry gave Mr, Jarr @ stg-| asked the other, “Then why on earth do you disfigure them with Guidebook to Gallantry. By Alma Weodward. Coprright, 1918, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), @esire to stuff your handkerchief into your collar, Also suppress your inciina- tion to munier, without intent to rob, the boy who's putting ice in the water “Give the Doy five cents to ge out of | ender thure lies s man who had three the room, Ed," he eaid. om But Mrs. Jarr came in at this potnt | Su avved Wife’ If any show does walk Dera. | dremy."”—Hnger's Dazar, and Uncle Henry’e explanation wes “Aunt Hetty ts feeling much better, egan Mra, Jarr. come on to tend whe hadn't been @ure to have your watch eyste- B she "ate you're in the midst of an inter- man who's been trying his rndest to see you for three weeks you'll have to call up “Central” for the |correct time. ‘Then convey the impres- ion that “Central's” information has tapulting from your chair, giving the office boy the high aign to alam your desk down, grabbing your three pounds of coffee an@ your package of radish seeds and beating it! ‘Thie'll give the man # pleasant idea of your business methods and bestow upon his day @ satisfactory and gratity- ing finish, as well ee @ dash of pi- to some business well enough to look efter things while yt asked Uncle Henry. jast time you came you said she was quite {tl tn bed,” remarked Mr. ‘Without doubt you'M goon run across the wife of the man you intend to use n alibi during the coming summer. ‘a been shopping. You must be pleasant, but not TOO pleasant. Be- cause, Womanitke, ehe'M surmise that *f you're inclined to Mirtatiousness with her you'll impart, or at least encourage, the tendency in her Clarence, And that ‘wouldn't help the chances of those ‘‘de- layed-in-town"-roof-garden nights a bit! Bo you remark courteously: “Bo you've been shopping? Oh, you Can't forego the shops, even when you have all the beauties of the country about you.” Then she'll say, archly: “Well, we have to have ctothes, you explained the | \ ‘But Hetty had | fi young, evuncular relative. the neuralgia and used to groan and complain go that {t fairly broke my heart to hear her. My feelin: I Jest can't stand to hear that woman complain and ge on, @o I come too “But now she's epry again, end it) would do you good to hear her einging at her work. It's only idle women that's rk, and they'll about wantin’ it! The worren Ring the elevator dell several times. Then, before you ring it several times more, call down upon the superintendent of the bullding, the starter and the elevator boy ail the anathemds of the ancient Egyptians. They are venom- ous, yet if overheard can be taken for @ part in amateur thentricals te be ‘That's a fair start. Next, take all her parcels and put them in the rack over- head; try to open the window that is nailed down, or might as well be, and offer to buy her some candy, She'll {¢ she gite the appoin Once IN the elevator, let every ono icnow you hope to Ket @ train, This fs easily accomplished by etamping jabout @ bit and clicking your tongue ‘against the roof of your mouth, in Violent dizapproval, every time the ele-| Vator boy stops to take on @ new pas- say: “Oh, no, thank you; it'll spoil my @inner, really!" So that lets you out, In about ten minutes she'll comment favorably upon the fact that YOU don't play auction bridge or atud poker on @he'N tell you that HER husband lives in the emoker and eats When the car comes to a halt on the; ground floor Imttate a bouncer at the apex of & flying wedge and Sust PLOUGH! Moat likely you'll never come down In the elevator with those samo people again. And if you do a quarter'll fix the elevator boy so that they show four times | ey maid, A gal comes down to/ and then @ train goes by. After it's past, she's in the water and) her clothes {s on the ‘bank. Ed, some Gay that trat oll So don't put her wise to the fact that you're tremb¥ng in your boots for fear the camt bunch are going to send a courler to page you, making the sacrifice of your young lite |in your attempt to cofn a hit with the wife of a future alfpt, And DON'T @et riled when, éfter be- or that you're On tho way to the station get on easy speaking torre with motonmen, truck drivers and chauffoure by mak-|ing delightfully amusing and clroum- spect all the way out, you atep from the train to encounter your wife, who catechiaes coldly: “HOW DOFS IT HAPPEN THAT Arrive at the station resembling a! MRS. BROWN CAMP OUT ON THE ‘Burner ‘Sunset @4ME TRAIN WITH TOU, BET’ ENCOURAGEMENT. . “Do you think,” inquired the Rev. BURBAU, Dcmeid Buliding, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo t “that ny revival ser- vices are having any practical effect?" acknowledged Deacon ‘the last sugar I bought of ITANT—Write your adéress pteinly and eiware @mith was only two ounces| § Putters. } stae qented. Adé twe conte der ister pentage tf im o herey. ing them use thelr emergency brakes to keep you from getting mized up with the inner workings of their vo- Mr, Snodgrass, fa Venice.” Quel tne| The Stories of By Conrright, 1913, by The Prem Publidhing Oo, (The New York Drening Worl), 22.-THE MAGIC SKIN. By Honore de Balzac. APHAEL DE VALENTINE, orphaned eon of an impoverished Freneh marquis, grew tired of the poverty and hopelessness of his 1ife, HA)- chanced upon a smal! sum of money and he calmly decided to wag it in drinking himself to death, But hid strength lasted longs than his cash, And after a prolonged debauch he was still allve but | | Ho started toward the Seine with vague idea. of drowning hima@t On the way he strolled into @ shop where antiques were sold. The sh | keeper, a weird, hideous old man, fell into talk with Raphael and 1 |of the suictde plan. The old fellow, on hearing the story, turned to the [Wall and took down a ptece of wild donkey's skin, about the sizo of a fox'p. This he presented to Rephael. 4 It wae—so an Arabio inscription on its surface declared—a “Monde | Sia,” with the following strange powers: Every wish of its ownor | Would be at once granted. But, at the granting of each wish, the Skin ‘would become @ little smaller. And, when the skin had shrunk to nothing- fees, ite possessor must die, i ™ Rephae) eagerty eccepted the Skin—and ite territte ~~ conditions. It meant merely that his contemplated suicide A pe would be postponed, and that in the mean time every joy |] With Fate, | luxury of life should be his, His first wish—to test the at H powers, which he half doubted—was for a gorgeous banquet. Even as he left the antiquary's shop he ran into a group of @riends whe invited Mm to Next he wished for a hu fortune. The following morning word came | After each wieh he measured the Skin, and alw: igh tn the eidst of his good fortune he saw a, - | To keep trom making the Skin shrink too rapidly Raphnel hired « man.to Ge dis wishing for him. In other words, to order his food, suggest hiaexerciacs,| emusements and every feature of the day's routine, so that Raphael would have |nothing for which to wish. Nevertheless, sinc ishing is @ fixed habit, . |@kin continued to grow smaller, and Ra: health began to break down’ | Dally he grew thinner and weaker, his constant worry atill further bestenthe the progress of his malady. 4 He dared at express even the most trivial wish lest it out still pe Ne | hia Gwindling epam of life. Yet, despite his caution, he found himeelf unegn- |ectously forming wishes. For instance, a former college professor whom he blips in boyhood, asked ‘Raphael's help in getting a job. Raphael thought it “I can't help you. But I heartily wish you may win the position.” ed ‘The @kin at once shrank. The professor got his coveted job, But at the “"*' ecat of @ alice of Raphael's life, - At the opera one night Raphael chanced to meet a former eweetheart, ° | Pauline Gaudin, whom in early daye he had been too poor to marry. At this ~~ | reunion the young people fell in love with each other once more. And shortly © * # afterward they were married. Fora time they were very happy. But the clowd’ | goon resettled over Raphael. The Skin was now barely half a foot square. Raphael was provoked into e duel. His wish that he might kill his oppo- ent was granted. But at a visible loss to the Magle Skin's size. Consumption | was ravaging the young man's body, Again he tried to live without wishes. | But 1t was too late. ‘The Skin was now a mere fragment. ‘There was space en !{te surface for but one more wish. Death wae very near, In Gesgsir Raphel told Pauline the whole horrible story of the enchant- ment. Frantio at what she had just heard, the luckiess woman tried to kill herself jest she outlive the husband The Last she adored. ay Wish, Raphael @iscovered her mad intention just in time @o save her from eelf-destruction. Thinking ehe was dying, fe 4 cried in agony: | “Oh, Pauline, I want to die with you!” \ He had voiced his last wish, The Skin vanished. Raphael fel! dead at | hie wife'a feet. | “Simple tuberculosis” was the verdict of the family doctor. “All thet telk of @ “Magic Gkin’ was just @ sick man's hallucination.” Im Proportion, (rset? "Se oN Sted that she offered to give @ dollar to the member of har clam who succeeded in get In Ample Time. 100—the perfect mark—for conduct the fint | 46] WANT to be sure not to mis the ently ead of train!” @ bit ensiously said the drummer, acconting to the Kansas City Btae, “No danger o' that, podner!"' reassurtogiy ree . | piled the landlom! of the tare at Molkviite, At,” “We'll rowe you out plenty early enough tm the momin’ oo's you can be at the depot promptly af” train time and eet around tn the cold for two y—let's seo— | hours and twenty minuter, of wich o matter,’ weet cea ts cea 4 ea tia’ for the train ject te 2 waitia’ to come, Brow, like @ farmer does, you wouldn't | "SZ mars fer contest wea ae snad Pale pth be wasting your money on selfish 1UZU-| pesiez, ries like five-cent cigaral" ‘ ‘There ain't sothin’ the matter with theli ‘Have you say idea whos ghost t wast” ad "No, 1 can't tel you," be replied, “but over glamest” asked the visitor in wonderment, The woman bridied, “Why, 1 thinks they looks lovely vay ss nt onnt “i i HERE fs no, y ! I quality in amy, = = garment that makes @& tronget appeal to the masou- line = mind, th comfott. «hat the all-important. Je sy feature With an OD. .g arange of nominating Jane f th any collar, pack can bo. fin i te pare : with an applied. the free-Dorn privilege and dirthright y strength n of men hanging around the Post-Office i In this case striped” and diacussin’ lickin’ Japan and other \ } percale is finished national affairs,” WW , ' “Bay,” whispered Mr. Jarr, as Mra. Y the Jarr tossed her head and walked out, . a taking Master Willie ‘with her. Uncle Henry, why do you want to ace q those same moving pictures for?” | Uncle Henry looked cautiously around y with collar and oufte of white Linen, 1 sigs b nye from 4 to years of age, sie Gimbel Bros.), commer Gixth avenue and Thirty-second stresh 2. New York, or sem by mail on reosipt of ten cents in coin op stamps for each pattern orderet,