The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1913, Page 22

= a as = She RE carcr. ESTABLISHED BY soon PULITZER, dent, 6% PR ARNGUR f SHAW. Feasurer igen OSRPH PULITZER, Irie Secret Park how. Noe Fork Entered at the Post-Office at New Yor! Postal Union, 50] One Year.. 80] One Month. THE TAXICAB ORDINANCE. embodies every essential reform urged by thie newspaper. done its own committee. The new rates arc: For two passengers: First half mile........+++ + 80 cents ; Fach succeeding quarter m + 10 cents r For three or four passengers: First half mile.....0...+++s00+++ 40 cents Fach succeeding one-sixth mile.... 10 cents the big companies is a sufficient measure of victory won. HH knowledge of taxicab conditions here and in Europe. a on rt] of the bored.” 5 iu aboer, Poona a incompetence! One building was put up at a dion to see if we could do anything with it.” tiree dollars a week in any enterprise I was interested in.” “' mint bed tn the White House garden, MOONLIT NIGHT- Romane MAID WIN HER HEART Tu SERENADE. eye Dally bite rte Yan site ene rane F Fublishing Company, Nos. 68 to Matter, Bubs-ription Rates to The Evening; Jor Fi Continent and World for the United States All Countries in the International HE VICTORY of The Evening Wrold in its long fight to"lower taxicab rates and abolish private stand privileges is only con- firmed by yesterday’s action of the Board of Aldermen. Tho final taxicab ordinance, which the Aldermen, thanks to the drastic effect of public opinion, passed with only one dissenting voice, atill Private stands are abolished. Strict city regulation of cabs, metres and drivers is provided. In lowering fares the Board has ont- - That under the new ordinance New Yorkers may ride the first ‘mile for fifty certs, instead of the eighty or ninety now charged by Other features of the ney law, to be analyzed Inter, follow closely the changes which this newspaper has demanded. Miss Sophie Irene Loeb, of The Evening World staff, has been a foremost and tireless figiter in the campsign for better taxicab service. Sent abrond last year by this newspaper to study the taxicab systems of London and Paris, Miss Loeb was later made a member of Mayor Gaynor's Taxicab Commission which framed the ordinance that is now, with minor changes, to become the Jaw. Miss Loeb has thus been to bring to bear upon the taxicab eituation in New York her New York has taxicab ordinance. It has a fair chance to develop @ model taxicab service. The city has still much to learn, however, about making its taxicabs comfortable, convenient and safe. ‘The Evening World hes won its main point. But it will not relax 3 A ite efforts uxtil the taxicab is a cheap, safe, attractive and creditable bo featare of our city life. Pas "" wrote Mr. Artemus Ward, upon a celebrated occasion, fp fs temperence tell 'em Mr. Ward sined the pledge 15 he was born, but on the contery if they take their tods, ‘em Mr. Ward ts as jenial a feller as you ever met—the Iife and soshal THE TAXPAYER DO THE WORRYING. 1 rs A WONDER we are not bankrupt, thanks to the wastefulness 5 @r@ muddle-headed imBecility of our own government. George ath W. Perkins, who is bountifully on record as the friend of gov- + 2 ~~ -geament ‘when it begine with a hig @ and bears the Perkine 0. K., has Bet been :telling the Honest Ballot Association with how little common Ay cence and economy public business is managed. When Mr. Porkins j was a member of the Palisades Park Commission he had special oppor- i e * tunities for observing the “frightful waste” with which the simplest *” For example, the State sct itself the plain task of building a et Bear Mountain, two miles south of West Point. It went blindly and cheerfully ahead until it had epent $200,000. Then ‘it eaddenly decided the site wasn't suitable and gave it up.. Two hun- dred thousand dollars of taxpeyers’ money frittered away through “Two years ago,” says Mr. Perkins, “the State obtained land for ‘rifle range near Nyack nen ys half a million dollars on that. of $100,000, another for the offi- cers at a cost of $50,000, and another for $20,000. Then some men “were taken up there ‘for rifle practice, and it was found that the rt ballets over into Nyack! The range was abandoned, the money Toot, ‘the property turned over to the Palisades Park Commis- ‘This is not s comic opere ecenario. It is a plain, unvarnished jnetance of the way in which supposedly competent State officials and their engineers muddle away the people’s money. “The men who laid out those range grounds,” declared Mr. Perkins, “wouldn't get . Of course they wouldn’t. It is only the State that can afford pay fancy wages to provide sly graft and lasy incompetence with tai i a cine ocean gle bi hane: toppled who experfinemts away half « million dollars or e0 semapatete, 10 spertnate snie ai! ¢ inn tlie or w Tt fs only the government that can emile at extravagance, waste and + incompetence among its executives and employecs. Why? Because, however many millions it all costs, the taxpayer fy there to pay, a i ‘We suppose the W. C. T. U. will now demand that they mow the 66 AT you ‘think you could get off . {with your approval upon this occ making "T doubt It,” sald Mr, Jai suppose! And all he does is to sit on that old office of yours and all I see be- | book. And as for that Johnson, the ing done tn the way of work is the rat- ‘tlag of typewriters and passing of pa- ad. And then you can get angry and Pers to be signed, and pinning other pa- The Hed eville Editor fling out of the house simply because pera to these papers, and that awful you do not want to come home early | ¢} man Jenkins, who looks like fish, ana DB L. Hebble. this afternoon.” who has a wife that always has a new Grese every time I pee her”— Copyright. 1918, by ‘The Pres Puss: tng Oo, (The New York Kreaicg World) Jar retorted. “But Gress.” ‘Bu arr. “Not Jerr, nee yon ly Mrs. Jarr Declares Her Husband ‘Copsright, 1913, year,” ventured Mr. Jarre, ‘That's oftener than I want to see her,” replied Mre. Jarr, “and that has! of darkness. to lay two eggs nothing to do with what I have been|°” i ‘ am trying to explain to you, and that is, if MOTHER never believes she is Go- . FLANK says there are lots; Mra, Jenkins only saw me once every A M* two years I'@ be wearing the samo sees you once @ year,” suggested Mr, “I saw her the other day in thel after marriage by remaining alive. ' er rietboc ( / // ‘a (UD SADR Nee DocTOR k re) cS a: g U AFAAAAARAAAAAAARABAAAAAAAABAAAAAAA AS Kr wu Is Leading a Life of Lazy Labor On ee errr er rr KK eK eK ere KKK KK KEKE KS ing,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “The idea of . cashier, I hate the way he smirks at . ‘ me and says, ‘Ah, good morning, Mrs.| having two grown women to do work tinware department of a department |Jarr. Down to fan eye on us? No. /in an office where there is no cooking, store and dodged right behind a whole| !t would be a good thing for you all !f) and the laundry goes out, one might stack of ashcans and they fell over you really had some work to do.” @ay. And yet the weman dusting didn't with the awfulest crash. do @ lot of work, all right, all|hal¢ do, it and the woman sweeping time I was in the pal it,” repMed Mr. Jarr. never lifted a rug at the edges, and rtment and she didn't see me. Shi T Slane saw anything dond I'd call} you know if you don't turn back the all the rest of those suburban wo-| work down there except tne Saturday | edges of a rug when you are sweeping ‘Wants you to carry her pack-| you asked me to stop in and we'd g0| or cleaning hardwood floors’— nd then expects you to take her|down to Coney Island together, al-| “I'm sorry we don't work to your to a matinee. And all they ever do| though you know I hate to go to Coney | satisfaction,” said Mr. Jarr, “even with Island or any other place of that sort/ our dusting and sweeping. Of course on Saturdays or holidays.” you must not mention this out in the “what work was being done that trade, because our dustings lead the market and our sweeping is the despair of our competitors. Serubbings, 1 am sorry to say, are dull this season, but We hope they'll pick up, and if so we are prepared to quote for immediate de- livery" — “What nonsense are you talking?” cried Mra, Jarr, “I presume you are trying to make fun of me so I'll feel ‘The Pree Publishing Oe. (The New York Evening World), to-morrow afternoon?’ ask sion?” asked Mr. Jarr. ‘Mra, Jarr as her husband wa For he took It to heart that his wife his matutinal getaway. should consider him an idler and a lotus eater during business hours down- a high stool or stand at a high desk | town. ‘ “Why, that woman who was dusting and the other woman who was sweep- and write dawn a lot of figures in “Oh, really, you are mistaken,” Mr. “Honest, you are!" you only see her about once a M* PAFAUN eays that she has D*‘«» CHAUM says he wishes the| «7 am not,” replied Mrs, Jarr tear- never been in favor of having the daye would hurry and grow|emny, ‘put I might have known you garmtie of love called on atoount longer so his hen will have time|aian't want to come home early by ee evasive manner you answered me. vet tt was something veny import- ing enough for her children, but of perfectly good men, but ‘they | ™ a father always thinks he is doing teo much. ing good to feemecives, —_— RS, 8 says that the lover M who swears he would dle for you Is just the man to annoy you ever mind now!" whimpered Mra. if you see her once a year sho O”* FroRK mye that the great Jarr, “But we-Clara Mudridge-Smith trouble with this world is that and I—wanted to go to « tango tee and tf I noe her first,” returned Mrs, son for some other woman, dand saya he’s too buny."’ {unteatistive,| By Ferd GC. Long every mother tries to spoll her wanted you to take us because her hus- g The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, May’ “28, ioe the Water Wagon |... By Maurice Ketten} T he Stories of Weekly, Weekly. net py OE ian Internal Evidence. : Too Slow for Him. u tne ah reg par one te Reeve GERMAN farmer was in svacch of @ hore, pledge et the bottom of thete examioation | A “T've got ust the bore for you,"y ae spend too much of thelr time be- hatte Ut TH get away serty end [iT com: ry fi r ; ‘There, to protect the good name of a woman who had been placed his care by her absent husband, he quarreled with a ‘town, Chateau-Renaud, who was also a renowned duellist. accepted, although he with sword or with pistol, his opponent being an expert in the use of to the scene of duel the young Corsican remarked with perfest through the sktrte of his antagonist’ the sixth rib, and came out near the left hip. The Corsican whirled about in air and fell dead, the duel. Chateau-Renaud crashed to the ground with a bullet through’ his braig. . papers: sopping.” Relther given nor received aid during this exams) TT "German threw his hande ekrward, fellow burriedly entered the classroom and eald, | elit miles trom town, “Profemor, 1 forgot to put the pledge on ray paper,” “1 Dave just finished looking over your paper, and I feel sure you neither gave nor received Masiac on the Wastbeana Be ae Oe ones for breakfast every moming, She sent them to town by messenger, at the same | went to the blackboard and wrote the , 1913 ¥ Famous Nov By Albert Payson Terhw prright, 1913, ing Oo, (The*New Ye ,No. 28 THE CORSICAN BROTHERS; by ‘Alerandre Derm |e and Louis del Franchi were twins. Not only were they @- actly alike in face and form, but their minds were allied that, even when far separated, each could tell 6y his sensations whether the other were happy, miserable, ip Drospering. Louis left thetr Corsican home and went to Paris to etedy Saw Chateau-Renaud challenged Louis to mortal combat. Louis as a man of peace and had no experiences ‘When one of his seconds came to dei Franchi’s room to escort “I ehall die at 9.10 this morning.” - Louls went on to tell how, the preceding night, his tng-des@ father mee appeared to him and had warned him of the exact hour of approaching death, ‘With all the mystic fatalism of his Corsican ancestry the young mam cepted the vision as @ true prophecy. And with the courage bred'of tors he was prepared to face his doom. ; ‘The duelling ground—a secluded spot in the Paris suburbe—was reacip@ Pistols were the weapons selected, and Loule eteed Gms Moved an the distance was paced off by his esconds, He had already written a letter to his mother, he was dying of fever. He had done this tn order his family might not follow the old Corsican swearing a vendetta (blood feud) against Chat ‘The word was given. The combatants fired. Louls's shot passed harmiedily coat. Chateau-Renaud's bullet pierced the right side o§ Louis's body, just Selow His second drew out a watch. The howr was precisely 9.10, At that very moment, hundreds of miles away, Louis's twin brother, Zacien, chanced to be riding among the Corsican snountains. He suddenly fell from his horse as though ehot. His servants, picking him up and searching for a possible wound, found a reddish bruise on his right side, below the sixth rib, and another just above the right hip, ‘That night Louis appeared to his brother in a vision and told the tal of | At dawn Lucien started for Paris. No word other than the ghostly visitant's had time to reach Corsica. Yet on arriving at Paris the surviving twin repeated to his dead brother’s seconds [every detail of the duel just as the spirit had related the story to him, Luclen’s first move was to challenge Chauteau-Renaud. The latter, though shaken by a strange foreboding, accepted the challenge. . He and Lacten met on the very spot where Louis and: | Chateau-Renaud had fought, and they used the same pistols. As they faced each other Lucten was smiling in fi Joy. Chateau-Renaud was deathly pale. At the firat “i, turned away and broke into a passion of tears, he sobbed convulsively, “my poor brother: Presence of Mind. poultry had Sink he Beye Ehni, x4 6CVZES, tir," 22/4 the oldtime manager. ert Y Sine’ a terethle monient, ‘The theatre |PO%, but, explained the servant, be -bed Gere» lemly loft the basement door open and aa the te on fire and over a tnousend Pom6| crickoug had escaped, A fowl hunt was ‘tome. {altting tMere im front, I was afraid of @ panies) aistely organized, ‘init suddenly fhe inapiration came, 1 sent Mim Herawney out upon the stage to recite ‘Curfew Pepa zene eeyclheyeanad saating twa Silo Shall Not Ring To-Night,’ “A nice time I had with the pouty, 1 “Yes,” anid the excited lstener, ; ‘Reiss waning tod, Gap-acsea ee ‘Tbe’ howe was empty in Suet three rainates | Pir, Uwree how inating and only fee by the watch!” said the manacer.—i#arper's | ied his wife, “for I bought only alx.""~Berpir'e the liveyman, “He's So. game. od, “1 hereby certify on my honor that I hare| Sound as @ dollar and goes tem without “Not for me," be ‘not for me: T live Soon after handing in Me paper @ youns mit dot hore I haf to valk back two miles,’ ge aos ie aaa “Altogether woneceasnry," replied the teecber,| A Simple Correction. 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