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2) forty, of No. 15 Wyckoff street, Brook. FOUR TAX FIRMS rE Da | MGAN DEFY CITY “gn ENFORCE LAW Retum Nene, Hack Plates and Rate Cards and Flout Bureau Officials. U ‘USE OLD RATE METERS. Immune Until Injunction Suits , Are Settled, Leading Con- 3 cerns Ignore Ordinance. Bmmune behind the injunctions grant- @ By Presiding Justice Ingraham of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, four of the leading taxicab companies Operating cars in the hotel district have returned to the Bureau of Licens: fate cards, Plates, and old stands. Acting Chief of Taxicab Inspectors Thomas F. Walsh, in the absence of Deputy Chief John Drennon of the Bue Feau of Licenses, sald to-day that « elicate lega! question was involved, ft was dimficuit to see under whose a thority the companics were working since the Mayor had revoked the old @pecial hack stand and special taxicab Neenses on July 31 last. TWO COMPANIES FAIL TO AP- PLY FOR LICENSES. The Yellow Taxicab Company and the ‘Universal Taximeter Company failed to take out licenses under the new ordi- ince, but went into court and ¢ for and obtained injunctions re @raining the city authorities {rom in- terfering with ther business. The four @empanies who surrendered thelr u- censes after getting injunctions are the Haverty, controfling stands at the Belmont nd Murray Hill Hotel; the and Auto Company, at Bus- Qnd other restaurants: the Maeon-Seamon Company, at the Pasa, Rits-Cariton, McAlpin, Manhattan and) Savoy, having in ull about sixty stands, Qnd the Motor Taximeter and Taxwabd Company, whose princ;pal business ie @one at the Hotel Astor. Chief Walsh said that these companies ad not only returned the plates and cards issued by the bureau, but had Changed their taxtmeters or clocks back to the old style rates in force before the Rew ordinance went into effect on Aug. 1. "There is nothing that we can do in the present circumstances until the courts have passed on the injunction @ults.” said Mr, Walsh. “We are re- strained from interfering with the com- panies, wut, of cou I do not thiak the writ bare ur from arresting drivers Whom we fad soliciting or picking up fares anay from tneir stands." | THE VELLOW COMPANY DEFIED LAW FROM 8TART. “The Yellow Taxicab Company never teok out a license under the new law, This company controls the standa at the Waldorf, Churchill's, the Netherlands and other big centres, The Universal Taximeter Company eued out an injunc- ten and never applied for @ license and is now doing business at the Knicker- becker Hotel “These injunctions make us heipless, ee far us enforcing the new ordinance affects the companies who have obtained have taken down and signs, but we will ron posts and signs which have been approved by tho Municipal Art Commission. “Theae compant rate cards, ha that returned the 8 and lamp numbera wo as to he old #0 and 60 cent rate, amd are going ahead, independent of er office. We can't bar them from the etands, Until the courts decide the iesue the public patronising these com- panies will not get the benefit of the lower rates proviled by the new ordi- nance. “It i@ safe to say that this taxicab Iicense question will not be settled be- fore the first of next year. Under the terme of the injunction the concer: @entroiling hotel stands ar. baclute mastera of them and no free lance ~ jolicit business, There is no bar, er, to @ machine G@riving up in peal to a call.” ——j]>+—_—_ KILLED SAVING 30 SECONDS, Pumped in Fron of Train to Reach Work im Time. Im trying to eave thirty seconds in time on his way to work James Kano, Syn, died this morning. Kane, employed at the Bush Termi- mal, reached a railroad crossing in the terminal yards at Forty-second street ‘et 7.20 o'clock, He was then due at the Ume clock. A seven-car freight train was ap- proaching. Kane dashed in front of it, Roping to clear it. He was struck and killed instantly. Railroad men com- puted that it would not have taken more than half a minute for the train to have passed. —_——_—_. “THE END OF THE WORLD.” Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, has just written ®@ most amazing story, which deals with the destruction of a universe, ‘This new story, entitled “The Puison Belt,” from the pen of this famed author, will begin in Sorerray junday World Illustrated Magas: aod Story Section, and be sonbinns fn five lengthy, illustrated {i Hs ments. Order from news re advauce, The Sunday World is ie returnable, hence each newsdealer’s he while he prefers to owe no one @ dollar, your desire to see her happy.” vol 1 do not want to stop h not want to lose her, for shi to me. your life out on account of one you worship?” WHY O@ IMaRRY mY WIE UU WED YOUR HUSBAND | YO HE MARRY Coperight, 1018, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York World). Where There Is Love There Is No Reason, Is the Contention of a Married Soba va Wate scwo mares TOGRTHER <= Sug few MY WAY, My Cupid Described as a Demon _ Pitchforking Men and Women To- gether, Despite Incon- gruity of Mind and Morals—Eugenics Said to Be the Only Solution for the Human Race— Women as Choosers. By Nixola Gree! “No reason ts possible for loving ley-Smith. @ woman, because love and reason Gre naturally antagontatic. If marriages could be left to reason alone, all men and women would remain celibates. 4 reagonadle love is as impossible choosers. spite incongruities of mind and morals, supplies us with a new image and Perhaps on the whole a truer one tha @ roguish cherub, This reader who thinks of Cupid as a demon believes that “eugenics 1s the only solution for the race and that Its future will be con- trolled by scientific reason.” MAN THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT NEEDS ANY MORALS. A great many earnest and intelligent Persons share this view. Man, so far, fan used his reason to develop every | animal but himself. The super-horse and the super-dog are accomplished fac The superman ts atill an unat- tained ideal, 1 think tt was Mark Twain who observed that man is the! only animal that has any morals and the only anima! that needs any. ‘But it ie precisely man’ 01 that complicate his physical de- Velopment. It is what he calls his sense of right and wrong that con- stitutes the Z in his problem. ‘The comparatively simple formu- las of animal breeding cannot be applied to him, because is his psyohology, his conscience, or what- ever he chooses to call it, you have an unknown quartity for which there is no equation. If he keeps on at hin present rate, of course there i little doubt that he will eliminate this difculty eventually, the slow years of evolution he will shed his conscience as he has elready shed his tall, and then the only harrier to scientific mating will have been re- moved. But In the mean time he will/ probably continue to allow hia mar-! riages to be arranged by the “little demon who rules the world.” SAD STORY OF A MAN WHOSE WIFE 18 EXTRAVAGANT. A frequent and a sad stofy Is told in the letter of another man who, af- ter sixteen years of marrii ways and his wife hav ways because of t! bility. jeeks Amusement always, “Would you let all go just to gratify he aske, uld you go your separate way. Yet im it worth while to wee Perhaps there are other husbands who have solved the problem @tated in this letter and who could Advise this unhappy man. Personally 3 should think he put to his wife the question LOVE AND REASON wie ner MIX, HE SAYS, Dear Madam: The only persone Cupid as a demon, pitchforking men and women together, de Ge silent thunder or hot ice. 4 man who wants a good housekeeper or a nuree, or some one to quarrel with, Or a widower who wants a mother (1) for his children, can give a rea- on that is adequate, but what have these things to do with love which compele economically, physically, mentally and morally unfit couples to surrender their lives to the role of the demon that really rules the worlar” So a masculine reader of The Eve- ning World has undertaken to demon- strate that marriage has neither why nor wherefore; that no man knows why he chose or was chosen. Inci- dentally, he subscribes to the theory that men ARE chosen rather than 0 the conventional picture of him as Rot worth considering. One may wlve a good reason for buying a horse or a woman, but no reason ie Possible for loving a woman, becaus reason and love are naturally an- tagoniatic. If marriages could be left to reason alone all men and women would remain cellbates, The emotions and the reason are two distinct elements of our being, neither of which can account for the other, A reasonable love is as im- Possible as silent thunder or hot ice, ho wants a good house- or @ nurse, or sume one to with, or a widower who wants# a mother (?) for his children, can give a reason that Is adequate, but what have these things to do with love, which compels econom- ically, physically, mentally and mor- ally unfit couples to surrender their lives to the control of the demon that really rules the world? As to the idea that woman is ne a n Be would be pu age persuaded, after @ while, that he had made the wrong choice. When we consider that only ten men in a hundred succeed in busi- requiring reagon—can we wonder that marriage, #0 largely due to th@ emotions ‘give no better a ? ittative 18 due to woman, and she |» Guided by her ¢Mtuition, could blind chance produce a worse result? Eu- genice is the only solution for the race, When a ma: 14 (a! 8 be the perfect marriage that will endure. The mid- summer madness, love, will give way to something higher and better. The future of the race will be con- wolled by scientific reason, J. 8. CASE OF FAMILY JAR BEING THE FAMILY PURSE. Dear Madam: Why did I marry my wife? This When I look back on aixteen years that have passed causes mo to question myself. Firat, we were schoolmates to- wether, anil as the years passed we seemed to draw nearer to one a T rl other, She knew my ways, my ary, my disposition; in fact, all one could know of one who had The stork caught Helen Mo- for years been near to her. What ¢, wife of James McGuire, of No, more natural than when 1 asked | King street, about 3 o'clock this her consent it was given. For sey- | morning as she was on her way to eral years we lived happily, our | Maternity Hospital, Eighiceath street home life wan perfect. She as well }and Second avenue, It was a lively wt Te hae Ae as chiane from the time she ‘eft her hone, | fond of children, wanted none, 1 | accompanied by her hushand, wid whon was not drawing a large salary, |they were at Tenth atveet and Third yet perhaps more than the average, THE EVEWING WORLD, avérage width of twent. the inhabits of protest and finally @ dispute with thi Canadian Government as to how far hi the island » game preserve. YOU These things worried @ thought there iny day. I talked it over kindly, told her how things were, went into every detail, said that when all dills were paid it would be time enough to take way tried bh me, but ie thirty- ht and I thirty-six, and it would seem near the parting of our ways. T have a ateady position, do not drink or gamble, spend my time at and we have a fine home, would sacrifice all for amusement. Would you let all go Just to gratify your desire to see her happy, or would you go your @eparate ways? I admit that I am hasty in my temper, but have no extravagant tastes—just want to be able to look any one tn the face without owing @ dollar. Is it worth while to worry your life out on account of one you worship? If I could only see some solution I would be happy. I do not want to stop her credit, do not want to lose her, for she is ao dear to me. I do not want to appear to lay all blame to her, for with this one exception she Is my ideal. I want her only, never having believed that it was right to any other in my thoughts. What would you do? JL. a, ——__—— HENRI MENIER, RICH CHOCOLATE MAN, DEAD Head of Firm That Bears His Name Noted as Arctic Yachtsman— Owned Big Canadian Island. PARIS, Sept. @—Henri Menier, the ead of the chocolate firm, died here at 0 o'clock this morning. He had been \ for some time. M. Menler was the head of the famous chocolate manufacturing firm of Parts, and was known as the Arctic yachteman decause of his many trips to the far north, He was born in Paris on July , 1858, Through his purchase of the Canadian land of Anticosti at the mouth of ¢! it, Lawrence Itiver, M. Menier wan often denounced as an island despot. ‘he Island Is 130 miles long, with an ven miles, ‘= and creeks, land was cov- nd has about fifty ri ‘he greater part of the ered with a thick timber growth when M. Menier became the owner seventeen ears the Pi 40, 40, and it was considered that arixian got @ great bargain at 4 franca ($16,000), The attempt of M. Menier to govern te brought forth a storm ht to govern extended. Over half 8 fenced off for private iin STORK WINS IN RACE. avenue the olrd overtook them, but could not afford to buy her Dr. Schoff, of Believue Llospital, Waa everything she wanted. She devel- | summoned, but when he got there he oped extravagant tastes, wanted to | found Mrs, McGulre at a bootblack be away from home or going some- stand with @ ten-pound girl They ba Bills began ow OSE. LAIM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, Fourth Article of a Series. a i yt te | 19187 TROOPS AID 2.500 MADE HOMELESS BY HOT SPRINGS FIRE | Seren People Gared Por For in Camp) marnea After Fifty Blocks Are Ruined With $12,000,000 Loss. HOT @PRINGS, Ark. Sept. 6—Ai- though dased by the extent of the dam- je Wrought by last night's Gre, whicn swept more than fifty city blocks here ‘with an estimated loss of $17,000,000, the People of Hot Springs to-day took Arst ateps toward rehabilitation, Mayor Mc- Clendon accepted Gov. Ha later in the day, cided whether the city will call upon other cities for help. It fa eatimated that about 2,600 per- sone were made homeless by the fire when {t will be de- The majority of these are being tempo- rarily camped in the vicinity of the Oaklawn race track and State fair grounds. Grand avenue, leading from the burned area to the fair grounds, resents @ strange sight this afternoon. Hundreds of families with what iitle they saved from the ruins were ered along the working thelr way to the The milida will ald these people and guard the devastated district, ‘The city will be without electric tights for aixty days. Business generally ie et @ standstli! to-day. pallens TYRONE POWER IN BOAT FIRE, fing Craft—He Sefers ALBANY, Sept. 6—A_ thirty-foot launch, Edith T1., owned by Tyrone | Power, the New York actor, took fire) while at anchor three mites south of Mechanicavilie, near Dock 1, on the Champlain Canal early to-day and was destroyed. The loss ts about $3,000. On the craft were Mr. Power and hin wi: brother and All wore sleeping the time the @ was discovered jumped into the canal in thelr night clothing. Mr. Power was burned and injured, but not seriously. The occupants lost thelr money, clothing and other effects. BEER DEBTS BEING CANCELLED FOR WIDOW'S AID Financier Killed in Auto Had Been Close Pressed in Wall Mrs. N. whore hus! the Long Island Ral full proce husband hi him were Had the done this anything |i Though re: Mr, ly by the hanging to Wall (4 lation by been meet! current ex! who had refused to such loans tng them “ would like! much for of Mr. Lali 1000, and of ‘to $25,000 Bince Laimbeer hi challenger pressed ar Herreshot part in (he lection of tra sir hi lehurtes building was puazied footer. would sta ways an ansoclate of men of w having @ warm affection for Mr. beer and a high regard for hia ability ting off hin protests by ray'ny of which the market price ly now §0,- the acciient, after a dinner given to Mr. Laimbeer by W. K. Vanderbilt, from the result of her own injuries, but has been pronounced certain of recovery. LIPTON’S BUILDER PUZZLED. | len N, Sept. (Sir Thon cabled from America to-day that’ \the new Herreshot Street Slump. jathalie Achenck Latmbeer, band was killed at her side at Beach crossing of the Long Hroad Aug. 3, Is to enjoy the eds of such fortune us her ad left at his death, Mis Wall street friends have united In cancelling jhin labilities as far as thelr loans to concerned, friends of Mr, Laimbeer not there would not have been in the estate for the widow, !f indeed it had not been found bankrupt. garded axa rich man and h, Laimbeer, along with many other membera of the Stock E heen pretty thoroughly drained financial hange, had Protracted Wall street sag of the last few yearw, Like many others who have been oh waiting for what they re elu.n of business reet and @ removal of apecu- outsiders, Mr. Latmbeer bad ing his personal ard offiie Penses with she sid of others more capita than he or Whose customers had not deserted them who were al! alike in time take notes or receipts for as they forced on him, call- ‘friendship credits and put- that they ly be asking him to do as them. A meeting of these friends was he! recently and it waa found to he the common feeling should hay that Mra, Laimbeer @ the benefit of the proceeds mbeer'a stock exchange neat, such other assets, amounting as could be got together, which occurred ant Mrs Jr, Mew ax been In & serious condition Why American Is 70-Foot: Chal- Lipton, r the America’s Cup, ex- interest in the eat news Nat was hullding @ yacht to take ination races for the se. a defender in next Immediately informed iolsut of Gosport, now amrock IV, who said ne dover the announcetient chat boat was to be a He declared suc dono chance against his Herresholt's designs com: | waste aevateas The craft en route from Mr. Pow- er's summer home in Canada to New York City. The couse of the fire is not known, ee GUNBOAT TO SAN DOMINGO. Des Moines Sent to Republic ‘Where Rebels Are Again Active, ‘WASHINOTON, Sept. 6.—New repo: of @ revolution in San Denuage ha hare sent the gunboat Des Moines churning across the Caribbean from the Venesu- elan Coast to Puerta Plata, The State Department has unofficial information that Puerta Plata, Samana, Sanches and Seaua, all sea ports, have ¢been cloned, ostensibly to prevent the revolutionin; from getting ma! of , ——__—_—_—. MISSES WAGNER AND FISH WIN IN TENNIS DOUBLES, Spirited and at times slashing matches In the doubles enlivened the progress of the lawn tennis tournament on the courta of the New Rochelle Tennia Club Marie Fanny Fish, made amenda for her defection of skill on the previous day by winning in the doubles in sensational fashion, Miss Wagner and Misa Fish faced Mra. Fred- jok Schmitz and Mra, Charles F. P ter in the final roun ating then wotleas at 6-2, 7-6. Leonard Beekinan, the Pawling echool captain, paired with Allan Tobey, the former Princeton star, won a place in the final round of the men's doubles, layed under the most discour- aging circumata: as most of the time that they held the court against Alfred H. Hammett and J. H. @tein- kamp the rain poured down in a way that did pot contribute anything to the brilliancy of the contest. The wet and nodden ball required a lot of hitting and it was only after three long sets, scored at 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, that Beekman and Tobey came through, In the deciding of the women's sin- ales Clare Cansell had iittle to do and eanlly defeated Mise Helen Bern- hard at 6-1, 6-1, blown to pleces to-day by an At @ fireworks factory at Aubervilliers, & northern bof Paris. Fragments ef thelr bodie were blown a distan: of 6 feet and nome stones from the ory Walle Wounded several section ve $4,431,450, nt of the actual condi- tlon of the Clearing House banks and trust companies for the ] days) shows that they hold reserve in exces of legal requ Thin te @ decrease of $457, last week, | | >_---- SHIPPING NEWS. SIM ANAC Fol Tu Day sun fice OS) Sun net a7 Mun see. o 40) a a few ane. THe Tiina 1 w = if fea "144 | BRYAN ON STUMP IN MAINE. fe _ in Congres INcoM MSHLPS: BANGOR, Me., Sept. ponte in, Turks Island. | State Hryan arrived het et scat, Oa BY AME aug | I th as A is foo ho, tealy pe oo ‘ables | Floral Park took the more injured girl ing her or themselves was refu: of Wittam 1, Pattangall, nvaue candidate for Cong at next Mondiy's spectal election. Mr. Hryan's itinerary included three of the five counties in the district. The prin-| fast this afternoon and Waterville to. | plsht, with brief addresses at #ix other TINY PICTURE OF GIRL MAIN CLUE TO SUICIDE —, i uh and ake a ais Note pod rage nad a dane. t Bo ig Leg e Les oe foreeend ands ra re ot Neck. aie eine with @ light ribbon; a wedding cing “Vv. M. Hi." and a shirt marked P. C.," with @ mote signed with the game initials, were the oaly clues the Police could find te the ntity of @ young man who shot himself in the kinderberg, the ohildren’s play house near the Sixty-ifth etreet cross-road through Central Park, early to-day. Policeman Hennessy heard the shot and found the young man dead. On the bench beside him was the note writ- en on @ soiled plece of paper torn from the page of a memorandum book. “Thie cowardly act, for which I and No one else am responsible,” it ran, “fe all my fault. There ie pleasure in life, but not when your Aealth ts gone. “EP. Cc” “P. §.—Do not try to find out nothing about me It will be of unwise Can be buried anywhere. Wish pictures and Ning be left with me; also necktie pin la very dear to ma” All identifying marke except the laundry initials on the shirt had been cut away, The man was of medium stature, aight and epparentiy about twenty-five yeare old. He was dressed Deatly in clothes of cheap quality. THREE HURT WHEN AUTO TURNS TURTLE IN PARK Schehl Tums Suddenly to Avold Another Car and His Own Machine Is Upset. George Schehi, @ leather goods maau- turer, living at No. 128 Clarkson street, Brooklyn, and two companions, William Barthman and Harrison Rice were injured early to-day when the automobile in which they were riding turned turtle in Prospect Park. Schehl was turning out to svold an- other machine on the east drive when the accident happened. His companions, suffering from bruises, crawied trom under the overturned car and found Schehl insensible and badly cut about the face and head, lo was taken to the Beney Hospital. His injuries arb not serious, HURT IN AUTO WRECK, GIRL HIDES HER IDENTITY] <*= Gives Two Names When Taken to Hospital—Companions Refuse Names. A young woman calling herself Gadie Anderson of New York City and also Sadie Norris, daughter of Geor Nor- of Jamaica, is in the Nassau Hos- pital, at Mineola, euffering from severe Injuries received ‘n an automobile smashup at Jericho in the early hours this morning, After aranging for her care in the hospital, her companions, two young men and @ young woman, drove away, though the second young woman's leg was badly scraped and van passing the Jericho Hotel hts out and at @ high rate of speed when a@ tire buret. The ma- chine overturned, By the time ©. J. Haffner, propriewr of the hotel, ran up, one of the young men had removed the |Mcense number, Dr. Fenesterer of to the hompitai, All information regard- by The surgeons believe her companions, she wil! recov wleht FATHER OBDUR OBDURTE | WAGNER BOY HELD. ANDSENT TOCELL Deserved thors The Than He Go: From Policeman, He Says, Despite Mother’s Plea. Edwara Wagner, the 22-year-old eon of William ¥F. Wagner, vice-presiden Of Jessop Steel Company, with offices at No. $1 John street, who tast night | tried Ny Mek @ policeman, just out of & hos; i Monday to Get o lawyer, and his ball was fixed at | 00. The young man’s father refused to ‘} Supply the ball, and he was cent te o , cat. Wagner went to his home at Ne, a | Weat One Hundred and Ninth etree | last night, after being away four weeks. According to hie father, he was 4 abusive Taking him out for a | the father handed him over to | man Immen at Broadway and West | Hundred and Eleventh street. | near the West One Hundred | Twenty-ntth Street Police Stat | young man knocked the po! | and slammed his father | post. The policeman k ti H rill ih charge to disorderly conduct. refused to interfere, He deserved ail that he got man, PATROLMAN AND WOMAN CHECK INCENDIARY FIRI: Put Out Flames in Kerosene-Soake:' Hallway and Save Five-Story Tenement House. Patrolman Croughan of the Fit:. atreet station and Elisabeth Jansen Janitress, probably eaved the fve-sto:: tenement house at No 6% Kast Six: street from being destroyed by fir. early to-day. The policeman heard ¢). ee oe of fre and hurried to he. a. ‘Phe wainscoting and floor of ti hall had been saturated with kerosen cee ignited, ‘The oMficer and th plingeagased fn extinguishing th Re alarm was turned in. wes fesdledbreas Was made by Assist ant Fire Marshal Cassidy, who said th. ‘Work wae that of an incendiary. Waiet Tessie pellets who lives or arth floor of the bullding, was s° pedlentin that she prematurely gav+ dirth te a child. he was sent t Bellevue Hospital. VISITING FIRE CHIEFS SPEND LAST DAY IN FUN Week's Convention Closes To-Night With Banquet and Post-Pran- dial Speeches, Delegates to the Fire Chiety’ conven- tion, which comes to @ close Gept was after @ week in morning. AR tirely for am: beggoss the at the Motel At ton Gent, Thomas Fa. wi (eft town, but enough remain to ail large Banquet hall. Have a Magic Charm a | If home-life seems dull and dreary And of things pis) have you weary Get a household pet and see How contented you will be, 1A barking dog or purring cat, A Rite parrot or white rat Will drive dull care away; So order one to-day, ipal ios were scheduled for Bel- laces. The secretary sae to leave for Weablagten ease WemprraW merous. World “Dogs, &c,” Ads. Show the Bargains and World “ Wanted” Ads. Find Them. ah Me