The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1913, Page 14

# RR dh yt P 4 President, 62 Park, 4 soe? Park how. SSeS ee Canada, Pestal Union tevesseseas 68.80]One Year. Nisecstsscacsaseseee 2010N0 MORth. vscoscoee WOLUME 53........... dagh Visti ites aettcurht «-NO, 18,926 THE TAXICAB BUREAU. ; N ENLARGED Taxicab Bureau, such as the Mayor asks for, to , carry out the provisions of the new taxicab ordinance, which : goes into effect Aug. 1, will be one of the most essential G@empents in New York’s new era of taxicab service which The Evening Weeld has fought so long to secure. Lower rates and fair competi- then mean a big increase in business. Expert supervision of the part @f the Bureau of Licenses is needed to keep the standard of cabs and gervice op the upward track. Under the now system of public stands and lower rates, taxicab are sure to make their bid for public patronage with new ‘Myles of cabs. I: will be the duty of the Taxicab Bureau to hold all ‘mew cabs strictly tn certain standards of size, safety, convenience and @emfort. In many such respects New York taxicabs are now far be- ‘Med. For example: No new taxicdb should be licensed that is not @epable of turning completely around without backing in a street ‘Metesuring twenty-five feet between curbs. This is absolutely required of all London taxicabs. How many taxicabs in New York could do + #? The saving of time and confusion if all cabs were of such a would obviously be immense. Windows should be required ‘te be in proper order—which they never are now in New York taxis and neither doors nor windows should rattle. In London taxicabs may be refused 4 license for failure in any one of these requirements. Axvther minor detail, small but contributing enormously to | eemfort: The present method of communicating with the chauffeur through window or door is highly awkward and dangerous. A small, @iding shutter in the glass behind the driver’s head would be simple Gud convenient. To devise and insist upon such improvements should “be an important function of the new bureau. Eepecially significant just now, moreover, is the Jarger question ‘af proper license ani strict supervision to keep licensed taxicabs out @¢ the hands of criminals. Only two days ago Secretary of State ‘May declared that “unless some radical change is brought about in the enforcement of the motor vehicle law the criminal use of the auto fe Hable to prove calamitous.” That public taxicabs in this city __ Hhould 00 often he found closely allied with crime is scandalous. The ‘Taxicab Bureau must be furnished every means with which to tighten ‘Mts grip apd incrosse its vigilance. It should be left no excuse for "at doing its full duty. 5 — ————___ HOW TO SEE EVIL. ‘i HABAS’S “feptember Morn” is now causing riote in Atlanta, Ga. When the picture was first displayed in a show window such a crowd gathered that the police had to be called out, tock an hour to clear the streets. When the Chief of Police ‘@ttered the picture removed from the window the proprietor of the | Shop refused. Pounding the Recorder's decision, policemen are kept . the neightorhood to keep the crowds moving. Ia there much doubt that all this can be directly traced to the ‘ahealthy mental state of one Anthony Comstock, who cannot view pleture of a harmless little maid standing in a lake amid the res of an sutumm dawn without feelings unworthy of a rational After his silly fase over the picture in New York, A day or two of curiosity. Now reproductions of are exhibited in scores of shop windows and nobody is or demoralized. But other cities that read the news are on many people in this country would have seen anything indecent, “September Morn” if our muddy-minded Anthony had not set the Polling by shouting to his fellow townsmen that he had discov- red it? We wonder if it is a source of gratification and pride to My. Comstock to consider that during his generation no man here Shouts bas done more to teach the eye of innocence to wink and leer. * SS SAVE THE TREES. B, FULLERTON, who looks after Nature’s interests on Long Island, is sending out alarm bulletins about the doings of the tent caterpillar who is getting in his deadly work in numbers thie year. The web-worm, as he is often called, earliest and hungriest of the spring destroyers. He has a on either side with a line of orange-brown spots down of his back, and he builds weblike, funnel-shaped lodgings forks of tree branches, whence he sallies forth in millions up the countryside. The best way to discourage him is to fight him early in the game with fire. A piece of rag soaked in Kerosene and tied to the end of a pole will burn out the nests with but trifling damage to the foliage. Once he is allowed to flourish and ome it is troublesome, expensive and well-nigh hopeless to con- 4 with him. When he is fairly at work on the leaves arsenate of a © lead at the rate of one pound to fifteen gallons of water applied with » @ hose is about the only thing that worries him. This is homely information, but it is the sort everybody with ‘a thome and a garden ought to keep on hand. For if everybody who @wns trves would devote a half day to burning’ out the caterpillar at once, there would be a thousand times less danger from the mext year. In the last decade we have seen the elm, the most ord stately of trees, utterly vanquished and almost wiped by lugs. It ie time to organize and put up a stiff defense for is left. Whether we value it for fruit or shade, or the pleasure it: the eye, few inaniscztc things leave a bigger gap in life 2 Fai oo jgger gap The Evening World Daily Ma The Day of Rest 4 22:2. BA By Maurice Ketten | |The g RET oF THE Rr dp Au. DOWN HILu . JOHN mates that they af go to an Ttalian table d’hote where the cooking was excelient. ‘ “Oh, come now!" expostulated Jen- kine, the bookkeeper, ‘None of that sixty-cente-with-wine thing, old man! T'm ashamed of you! With 82% in your Docket, and after insulting Johnson, the y telling him he tapped the “But I didn’t say anything of the kind!" explained Mr, Jarr, “You fel- lows seem to think the $5 advance is ‘found money,’ I'M have to let tt be taken out of my salary next week, And when Johnson eald I was lucky, I only sald he could take out « little oash any time. And so he can, so tong as he equares it”— “Oh, very nawsty!" interposed Drigsie, ‘the English head clerk. word! Here come: . There's @ fellow who hold for a nice dinner for us"—— first,” suggested Driggle, who was a shark at that game. ef Still Better? Le tters From the People | ‘While You Cas.” ah), ef Te Breniag World: ere at han’ when | 7". danger (0 ox breathing steadily and rather thue lay in tide you over the ot. July. and you will ad to your well being. it ie money in bank to you, readers. Be igoee! atop wheo sf te yi Se pe gasine. 1 NEVER SAw THE WATER SO Low LET'S Pu THe ail Envoy Fi "Monday: Jon DON'T_SCARE FISH. ST 1 You Don'r SHING FIASSAAAAAAAAAAARABAAAAABAAADABAAS Mr. Jarr Enacts the Role of Miserly Spendthrift 16, 1913 Stories of By Albert Payson Terhune Copyeiga, 2918 ty Cho Fre Petting On Gite How Fut Brae Wale, No. 81.—TRE PATHFINDER, by J. Fenimere i i iit lil iit z fi e gE ¢ i kept sf! promptly and guides alike succumbed to her ch Oficers ardent admirers was Lieut. Davy Muir, a S eamaaaaaaaad Wilderness Lovere. with a record of five consecutive wives and with . : i atrong desire to make Mabel the sixth. + > But old Sergt, Dunham, her father, hed other Plans for her, He wanted her to marry the Pathfinder} and even, by use of parental authority, Gistant post on the St. Lawrence, among @o Famous Novelsi re 7, Thousand Islands. Mabel went with him. So did Jasrer, Mulr, the Pathfinder, / and @ emall body of troops. Jasper was under suspicion even before he jeft, Fort Oswego, and during the trip he was the object of a close watch. For seme spy. party established at their island block house when 2h almost the entire garrison, set forth to relieve am further down the river. An Indian woman whom from a spy, and were about to attack the island. =) the corporal left in charge. But before he the island's few defenders were slain. | red to defend it single handed, wer For, though the savages Cape to molest her. The message for Mabel from her father, tok ta! one or two comrades he made his way inte thd Pt Next day the French and their Indian allies approached the block house with a flag of truce, ‘Vith them was Lieut. Muir, whom they had captured, and who begged the pitifully weak garrison to surrender. The Pathfinder refused. . Soon afterward Sergeant Dunham, with part of his expedition, returned, They were surprised and ambushed by the savages, and Dunham was killed, The. return of the expedition’s main body drove off the enemy and the siege was raised, The Ireuch leader, accompanied by Mulz,. ap, proached again under a flag of truce; and Mulr openip G@enounced Jaspsr as & apy. be « An Indian ‘whom the Scotchman hed wronged shouted, that this charge was a ile and struck Muir dead. « ‘The French officer then coolly informed the garrison that Mutr had long sega im the pay of France, and had arranged to betray the island to the French em,/ condition that Mabe! should not be harmed. ‘ ‘The Pathfinder joined the hands of Jesper and Mabel, telling them there was mo further obstacle ¢o their union. Then he went out into the wilderness again, Joveless and alone. The Fate of a Tratter. The Man on the Road Dy HT. Battin, Copgright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing THE “PRIDE OF LITTLE ROOK." a1 66 PGOTIATING the ticket home N is not always an easy task when the job caves in a (The New York Bvening Woeld), running it and my job was to stir up ex- {e stranded in » distant city, citement and help tabulate HAAAAAAABAAABAAAABABAAALAAAAABAAAAAS we'll kill time before the dinner All the rest promptly tured ¢own| Which occasioned some little coldness “And we'll have a go at Diliiards! thie sugwestion. ‘The weather was too fine to play auc- tion pinochle indoors, Jenkins thought. Drigwie suggested it Mr. Jerr wanted violent exercise, why not play oh Finatly, to mollity Mr. Jarr and give square deal to all, it was agreed tha! after some billiards, Kelly poot and wiing, they might have hand or two at Mr. Jarr’s game—t¢ they had time, Mr. Jerr lost some 9% to Drigste at Diffiards, and the same eum to Mr. Jen- kins at Kelly pool, and a dollar more than this emount to Johneon at bowling. ‘Bowling would be the thing,” Johnson, who came up to the group at this juncture. “A frame or two before dinner will get us in fitte fettle.” Johnaon was @ high score bowler, than whom there was none better in his section of the Bronx. “What's the matter with playing auc- tion pinochte?" asked Mr. Jarr. For he was Gus's prize pupil a wild hope possessed him that he might win the price of the dinner he had een Jockeyed into standing for. Copyright, 1018, by Tho Pree Pubtching Co, (The New York Breniag World). EARKEN, my Doughter, for the bell hath sounded for the Matrt- H monial RECESS, when wives take up their trunke and depart, and husbands gird up their emotions, ond fortify their hearts, for the immer vacation, ba I charge thee, as thou cherishest thine own happinces, Beloyed, and remove his hobble ond his bridle, Let down the bars, and leave him to seek hts own diversions, whether UNTETHER thy they de dlondes, high dalle or baseball; Mkewtse to prepare hie own dreak-| mutual respect of s lose business in- Jasta, count hig own collars and clean his own safety rasor. For a husband that muat be kept forever tethered to a hitching post is not worth the price of the rope wherewith he ts tied, Gather up ‘thy lingerie frocks and thy parasols, and deck thyself in purple and fine linen and picture hate for thy departure. Yet go not forth, I pray thee, with weeping and watling and gnashing of teeth, and the extracting of PROMISES; but with fond farewells, ond * lamiles of confidence, and tender worde of SYMPATHY, saying: “Poor Thing! How sad that thou must WORK 60 hard ond cans’t not follow me! For I know JUST how thou wilt mise me!” Thus will he be disarmed, and his weapons broken against Mm; and that which he hath looked upon as @ release shall straightway seem an ajftiction, And, behold, he shall begin to “pity” himeclf! Lo! during cleven months of “close communion” a husband's devotion and hia repartge become frassled, and Me enthusiaem frayed at the edges. His temper weareth thin and his fervor abdateth, But a little Total Abstinence from domesticity shall make him to long for thee as he longeth for an old pipe when he hath “given up” emoking. | And a few breakfasts of cocktails and warmed-over coffee shalt make him to yearn for thee as one yearneth for land after @ fortnight at sea, Verily, verily, @ change of diet and @ change of air, they are an 00- casiona} usury, But @ change of COMPANIONSHIP te on ennus! NEOBA- ary, > for a while between the Bronx champion and Driggie and For, strange to say, these two men lagt named and Johnson had al- ways come out even in the other kind if games they had not won. ly, Mr. Jarr, with eome $10 gone from his $2, isted on auction pinochle. But the oth than five cents a hundred, they being firmty set against gambling, they said. A emall etake on games like pool, billiards or bowling, just to hold the interest, wasn't gambling, you know—— So Mr. Jarr was only @ cents to the good in his game when the rest, clatm- ing they could stand the pangs of hunger no ionger, importuned him to make good on his treat to dinner. “and since you've stung us at your Pinochle," added Jenkins in @ burst of friendly frankness, ‘I want to tell you I'm not going to let you get us any cheap feed!" “He wouldn't think of such « thing, oid top!" chimed in the Engiish head clerk. “Bless me! He owes it to John- fon to do the elegant. My werd! John- son took his aspersione deucediy good of {* counselled Jenkins. ‘“Jarr is @ said it, He didn’t mean it, Johneon, old boy. Why, I know Jarr has the highest regard for your in- “Yes, buck up, old top! Jarr knows n't cricket to aay euch « titing.” ‘Mr, Jere had to repeat again and ‘again that he meant no offense, Finally, Johnson recovered his equanimity and, extending his hand to Mr, Jarr, said: Indghip of ten years, the it timacy be all ended by @ chance re- mark? I know tt WAS ao chance tomark!" “By Jove! After a manly deciaration ke that it would be an ineult not to open a magnum of champagne and charge the glasses ‘round!” erted Drig- se. In hip enthusiasm, Jenkins vowed be wouldn't think of anything else, And with a sinking heart Mr, Jerr saw his dear office associates begin to eat and drink the sult of clothes that he had had §%6 in\real money to buy, just @ few short houre before, —_—— Crown Goes a-Begging. R’=" of Greece have had no easy time ence that country threw off the yoke of the Sultan, ninety years ago. At the outset Greece tried a president—Capodistria—who was goon assassinated. Then Otho of Ba- varia was chosen king, but, after @ stormy time, was forced to abdicate After that the crown went begging for ae" mar of Deron. both wee sie, hare bad ed the feather salesman. “One time I was ‘released’ in &. Louis, Mo, I secured a position with a touring opera troupe. Not that I could wut the party that played the king in ‘Aida’ was rather corpulent and I was engeged to help carry the throne on the stage with the fat king balanced up joft, In other words, I was a Nubian lave. “We got as far as Little Rock, Ark., Defore the show went broke, Of Little Rock I need apy little ae a place to begin to make th ard climb. Darky labor wag cheap & whole dollar looked =m! iT to every one in that town. futu “The enly job I could find was third permit for her to stay. &@ good job shortly after VERYTHING thet gives @ tender effect Pattern No, 7007—Sem-Princess Dress for Misses and @mall Women, 16 and 18 Yeare, rel: