The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1913, Page 26

, : Out!” the English beat back their foes with terrifie F erat an pet green pen They byl keep ‘em, but | denmnnnnnronrrnn® slitughter. For hours William fought dogsedly on, toe ey m. at ei ly excuse have experienced bankers for A Battle ing men by the thousand and making no impression at Rot passing the articles up when the greenness ts too pronounced? and a Trick. all on the close-packed ranks of his foes. The Engiieh Trade customs vary. A rotten squash can be returned to the 8 nares axemen hewed to pleces the Norman knights that crashed -{ndefinitely for fair and equitable telephone rates? * World, ESTARLISNED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, @etlished Daily Except Sunday by the Presn Publishing Company, Nom 68 @y 63 Park Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, Prenident, 42 Park Row, J. ANGUS KHAW ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULT R, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Omce at New York an Second-Claas Matter, @whecription Rates to fhe Mvenng|For England and the Continemt an@ All Countries in the International tal Union, i Onn Year $9.78 One Month. 86 a WOLUME 54... .cccccececcccceceecsceeeceseess NO. 19,085 A FIVE-CENT PHONE FOR ALL NEW YORK. HE EVENING WORLD'S campaign for cheaper and uniform T telephone rates throughout New York City has already gath- ered an army of supporters and allies. 80 thoroughly is public opinion aronsed that the Public Service Commission has announced a hearing for next Monday to which dozens of civic organizations are preparing to send representatives. But let New Yorkers see their case clearly and admit Bo evasion. _ Officials of the New York Telephone Company to gain time have @uggested that the Interstate Commerce Commission be allowed to womplete an investigation of telephone property and rates. The Interstate Commerce Commission has already on its hands the gigantic task of valuing the railroads of the United States. That task is no short one. Commissioner Prouty eaid yesterday that in any ease the Commission cannot touch the telephone lines for several years. Is New York to be satisfied meanwhile with promises, and to wait World for the United States ‘and Canada, One Year... One Month... oso Why drag in the Interstate Commerce Commis:g nt Can our own Public Service Commiasion refuse to undertake this matter of vital interest to the citizens of New York? Are New York- ers asking for anything that is not in the plain jurisdiction of their own Commission? The public is now enlightened to a point where it will no longer be content with sops and promises. It has learned what telephone companies in other cities can do, and do profitably, for their patrons. Tt knows that its telephone business is the biggest in the country. — New York has made up its mind to have a uniform five-cent rate for telephone calls throughout the length and breadth of the Greater City. Its patronage has long since justified the claim. Tt now registers its demand with every right to expect prompt and definite results. a ‘We can well understand the indignation of the bankers at the remarks of Mr Yoakum of the busted Frisco System to the effect that he kept himself and his railroad as close to the banking in- terests as possible. | Grocer. But a rotten security must stick on in the hands of the per- petually “innocent” investor. To think of anybody classing bankers with such) ———.42 THE PLIGHT OF COL. GOETHALS. WW’ WONDER if any man on earth is in such a fix as Col. Goethals. Now that he is on the point of completing one of the greatest and most glorious tasks in the history of the world his proud and agmiring country is at its wit’s end to find some- thing big enough for him to do next! The builder of the Panama Canal, “the best equipped man in ‘America,” can, of course, have the job of managing the City of Dayton or possibly running the police force of New York, or even gov- erning the Canal Zone. But the Colonel’s friends and admirers will echo the esteemed Tribuno: “These offices are all worthy of big men, but how pitifully inadequate they seem as fields for the exercise of this man’s genius.” The situation is extraordinary. There is only one way out, It : : Therefore I say {t's a good thing.” f e natin ° Y Y aright. 0 “Sure it's @ good thing,” said Gus. A Es js up to the nation to undertake some new colossal wonder worthy of | Me (Gseran Romney, Gnalish: Forscalt eehaeh Eze) : Hostess, seing mmething Ge is bor ieee tet tere ete } i i ; ’ - | “The only way out of It for you,” he eed her what she would like mexte Col. Goethals, Otherwise this unhappy man will have nothing to do 667M Uke Meo Slavinsky,” said Mr. added, turning to Mr. Jarr, ‘Is to pay | ny iy jive to have yon begin to ask me bdut sit himself down like Alexander after he had conquered the world | Jarr, "IT don't see w net, ae the | $ and join the Uptown Business Men's ‘was the polite reply, —Lippinaott’s, Uptown Business Men's Associa —" awe ' eB NRCC LAN PRR LLAE CB EN TS IRR RR SN eee telitig ss, | vi + Copyright, 1913, by The Pres Pubiiss ing Co. (The New York Rreaing Wort), 15.—A Shipwreck That Led to the Conquest of Bngland. i BIG, yellow-haired man was shipwrecked off the Norman const in 1064, He was on what might now be called a yachting cruise His fragile little ship ran on the Norman rocks. And es an im- direct result England was, two years lat plunged in a war that made it, for the time, a mere province of Normandy. The yellow-haired man was Harold, son of an old Saxon politicias, Farl Godwin. Godwin had run England pretty much to suit himself. At his death Harold took the reins of power into his own hands, although the nominal King was weak old Edward the Confessor, whose subjects were rough, unruly Saxons, ever quarrelling among themselves. Across the channel, in Normandy, a hawk-faced, ufiscrupulous a4- venturer—descendant of a line of pirates—was watching England as a cat watches a mouse. He was William, Duke of Normandy, son of “Robert the Devil.” William was a distant relative of childless old Edward and regarded himself—or claimed to regard himself—as the rightful heir to the English throne. By the law of nations, tn those days, anything or anybody cast up on jae shores of a country became at once the property of that country's ruler. Thue Harold, shipwrecked on the Norman coast, was brought at once as @ prisoner to William. S, William might legally have held him for ransom, or might even have sold him Into slavery. He was too shrewd to do either. Instead, he treated Harota &@ guest of honor, merely asking him, as @ favor, to H indorse William's claim to the English crown ta the A Broken event of Edward's death. Promis Harold knew better than to refuse. For William had fanny A Guick and thorough way of di disobeyed him: and Harold had no desire to dte. wave the required pledge—and was permitted to go back In ty to Englané. Soon afterward King Edward the Confessor died, having at the last bees cafoled into appointing Harold as his successor to the throne. Harold did net trouble himself about the pledge he had given the Norman duke, but at eges had himself crowned King of England. William sent to remind him ef the promise. Harold paid no heed to the reminder. i Meantime, Willlam had been stirring h and earth—or, rather, te Chureh and his own subjects—to help him mi good his claim on England. And he used Haro! broken promise as the chief argument in favor of the undertaking. It was @ day whon solemn pledges carried heavy weight. Hage old's broken pledge proved to be William's atrongest—and hia only really effee- tive—argument fn rallying his unwilling barons to the invasion of England aa6 in securing Papal sanction for the expedition. Harold, shipwrecked and at William's mercy, had given a promise, Harolé, secure among his own people, had repudiated the promise, And William tm vaded England. Meantime, Harold was having troubles of his own. One of his brethers, Tostig. had quarretled with him and had stirred up the King of Norway agatnet htm. The Norwegians invaded England at one point just before the Normans invaded it at another. Harold hurried north against the Norwegian army and emashed it to atoms, killing both Tostig and the King of Norway. Then he turned and, marching at full speed, met the invading Normans near Hastings two days later, On a steep hillside facing toward the sea and with @ forest behind %, that October morning in 1066, Harold massed his Saxon host, directly in Willisave Path. William, with 60,000 men at his back, charged up from the plain below and sought to dislodge the defenders from their strong position. Y All day the battle raged. All day the steel-clad Norman warriors themselves against the human wall that girt the hillside, Yelling buried “Out! against their line, lopping off head woodsman dismembers a tree. Fifteen thousand Norm: of the invading army—lay dead on the field before the batt) At last one wing of William's army fled tn terror. irectiy opposite them, gave chase. In the open ground below the hill the pursuers were easily cut to pleces by the armored knights of Normandy, This gave @® Rost by OOOREEEOEREEESEED LESEEEOEOEESES EEE SE EESEESOE SESE ESS Now Mr. Jarr Has Lost Five Dollars! And It Was All His Own Fault, Too STESSSTISSSSITISS FITIVS IV SIVISSsseSsTTETesEVTTIFTET and Gus looks on th® and he says Mr. Jarr owes him thir- ‘Yes, he owes me & dol-! teen sixty-tive and only wants to pay ‘Then Muller comes in| five dollars on account this week be- —-——| Cause the gas and telephone bill has come in. “Schmidt, the delicatessen dealer, he finds out Jarr owes us and so he won't give Jarr any more credit on butter and ges, and so Jarr hae to mo off a couple of blocks and stick tradesmen what don't belong to the association. ‘William a desperate last hope. Drawing back his troops, he pretended te re treat. The English, disregarding Harold's command to remain on the de- fensive, rushed down the hill in a confusion of pursutt, In the plain they were easily vanquished, Then a chance arrow slew Harold; and the battle was over. The backbone of Saxon power was crushed. A few lesser fights followed and then the war was ended. William had seized England and, as William the Conqueror, he was crowne! King. ole {The Day’s Good Stories Polite Bertha. ITTLE Bertha was invited out to dinner with her fuher and mother, Before she wen! ft was firmly impressed upon her that th: mnat not apeak unlem spoken to, All Wor amoothly for a while, but when some tine olarse and no notice was taken of ber, she Tegan to 6 for @ meat bill, Well, ;Gus about it, ain't I a member of the Uptown Busi- slate and say ness Men's Association? Well, I tell lar eighty, too. A Matter of Tenses. HE Southern darkey's lore of putting off tim ext spring of later what chould be ese on the apot ts as well krwn ae it to vexatious, One day Major Jackson, a contractor in & Georgia quarry, told Zeb, the general utility man, to g» to the blacksmith shop across the raed Great Masterpieces of Art “1S“TADY HAMILTON AS A BACCHANTE, by Romney. Owned by Tankerville Chamberlyne, Esq. London, Asaociation.”* and sigh for new ones. tlon le to me." “But {f I do I can't q | Pre —_—__>___ . Ve. pay anything | i ————EEE “If you will excuse me, being & on account to Muller or Bepler,” sald Prepared for Travel. |” Among the Missing. ; . stranger in your midst, as it were,” Mr. Jarr. A ge Pp ~ Whether you say “Napoleona” or “Napoleana” or “Napoleonana,” spoke up Dr, Gumm, the dental new- And he yawned. It was a fatal move. rite ew ee ts wee | tener aan ea ine en ff you mean odds and ends “touchin’ on and appertainin’ to” Napoleon, comer to the neighborhood, “I should Dr, Gumm hed him by the arm, footed woman working im the field: “Madam, can tieular * we get you. say that such organization would “You have a cavity in the second | oY i me how much farther it is to Johnson's} “Bhe shook things 1» pretty bed out at my C : Jmean much to local business advance: tower bicuspid!” Comers?” Piece,” cold cue, etvobing bh whites amt. ment, ‘Take my case: Tain a gradunte Mr. Jarr saw the advisability of \ ithe women teanel on her how and ponderettatively, “Dy the wor, Hi," he added, ‘thas WHAT PER CENT GRAFT IN THI ae La caaet waa Arai keeping his mouth shut; but it was finally, “I can't My|new barn o' sourn get burg anyt"* bs . S ASPHALT? [feats Por four sou too late now. The efficient young den- thou. “Waal, Grawied the otber, “I dua! 7 olin Doe inquiry is giving taxpayers an insight into the way | roads are made in the Empire State, “ It appears one of the first principles of good Toadmaking fs to frame specifications that will admit the asphalt of only one company and then systematically to complain to State officials if any thor asphalt is used, Experts testify that the presence of sulphur has nothing to do with good asphalt. But Barber asphalt being the only asphalt that contains more than two per cent. of sulphur, a convenient clause in the requirements demanding that amount gives the Barber Company the whole field and enables it to pay the MeGuires half a cent rake- off on every gallon of asphalt sold to the State or to State con- tractors. Good roads are adinitted to he a test of civilization, by that standard Now York stands low in the scale, But what kind of roads are likely to result from materials selected by graft, mixed with graft and laid on a foundation of graft? ——_-+-—_____. Measured Who was the grafter, we wonder, who trimmed the contracts for the Appian Way? Letters From the People The Watch Problem. Multiplied by itself (in per o ProMt (in dollars) will equal “Mise tt {# obvious that it fs some number under the selling price (47.25). And for the s}sake of experiment suppose we take many per cent. profit as the watch cost} $10.00x40 per cent, which the following prob! in The Evening World eppeared wold a watch for 847.2 and made Painless Perkins locating for tor in. the ' * Tam now What better then Dut Dr, Gumm affected not to hear the sibilant whisper. “Sure, it's a good thing, the butcher, “Look at E sald Bepler Jarr here. Hits on Sharp Wits. A Frenchman recently hanged himself on a tree he had plan for this pur: ago. In times of lel © there i nothing like preparing for suicide, eee Miladi says the hand that rocks the cradie !# the same that searches the trousers pock eee Any dove of peace ‘hat saw Huorta’s picture would know that Mexico is no place to bulld a nest, ee edison says “no man knows one Beventh-millionth of one per cent. about anything,” but he waited until Roose velt went to South America before he said it—Commercial Appeal (Memphis), eee Though mot ranking with the chrysan- themum, the red headed cabbage has ed charina of its owa.—Chicago eee Maybe poople would have more faith in the Weather Bureau if it wore long white Whiskers and smoked @ corncob Jim's been tist with the Van Dyke whiskers had lata’ found {t yet.""—Youth’s Companion, a probe out of his pocket tn a flash and, grasping Mr. Jarr by the lower jaw, he Jabbed the probe into the tooth that was minding !ts own business. And the next instant a thrill of pain shot through Mr. | Jarr’a whole being, but centring in the) cavity in the second lower dicuspid. if “There, now,” eald Dr, Gumm affably, | “you wee the tooth was sensitive when J touched the Gental jelly.’ “Come, aid Dr. Gumm, taking Mr. | Jarr by the arm, ‘We must attend to that fellow at once. My little office ts just around the corner in the front room of the flat across the hall room from where my friend Mr. Dinkston has at made from net ur any similar mate- rial, which gives a fect. opened his sign language studio, And he led Mr. Jarr out. “By gollles! That fellow don't need no association!” cried Mr, Slavinsky, gasing in admiration after the affably | urgent Dr. Gumm. * comes right In| this place and he ain't sit in his chair yet or bought @ drink or offered to even, but he hears Fa Jarr has a five-d bill, and—psst!—he gives him a tooth: | ache and yanks him away to yank the| tooth and get the money!” | “Bummer, it's your fault!" cried Gus, | turning angrily to Mr. Michael Angelo Dinkston. “You brought that feller with the sharp whiskers here. Now I got a toothache, too!" “I beg your pardon,” replied Mr. Dink- ston suavely. But if you had studied the sign lan you would have com prehended the symbolic gestures [ made when I came in with Dr. Gumm, juarter length imply Anished attached cults. In the picture bro- ' caded charmeuse is made with a lace v and frill, For the medium it} 44 Inches wide, wi 1 yard 2 inch wide for the vest and neck frill, Pattern Ne, 8085 ‘Toe Wreee Eyvl Wy Life in aay then # 6 of twenty-one i 4 ' Omri, New York Evesins World She married sir Willam Hamilton,| “I @idn’t hear them.” growied Gus, $b St Jn Biss fem British Ambassador to Jes, and with| While the rest eat silent, Why, I en- % to # inches buat Colclough Wilson, 34 to 40 bust. measure. By Randolph Colelough Wilton. || ver extraordinary fascination and high | tered the room with an alr that plainly ai pie, HES re , ; i said, ‘Look out for men who wear whis- Gollars. What did tt cost?” Of course profit. Added to cost (Bl) this wal nay | + a a features and Kraceful form of] position wnidly became known as the)! Oy the plano or who belong to Tal, at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON PABHION ithmetic 1s largely @ matter of com-| 8%, which ts Incorrect A tke | Anybody who can get up in the morn. Lady Hamilton on canvas he} most beautiful woman in ail Europe. | kere OF Pity ate tae oa would | BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 Weet Thirty-second street (oppo yh gense and one ts privileged MG per cent, and We get $122 pean) ns With w fooling of exhilaration has | wieided an Inspired brush, for he was| Her many romances reached @ cline eee ee tning dite Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second etrest, fi i jc herefore | thro ys her, ‘The ree a \ ° - comple 3 . es the tatent of experimenting: | cont, $35, and profit & per cent, cays 8S Inte to-day in the forty-five paintings of forsaking both the heartbroken Romney | Ne oF was a military muy? ‘asked Mul stampe for each geitere ordered, the following solution ie of- | dqllars, $12.25 equalling $7.25, the geil-| ‘Thirty-button boots are coming from | tne dazzling and radiant Lady Hamilton and her own husband, When Lord Nel-|ler, te grocer, wofully. | “That five IMPORTANT— your address plainty $06 etwere , Soret: The problem sifts down to this'ing price of the watch. Paria. They are for girls, not for fat |t"" son died, in 1805, he bequeathed Lagy| dollars E@ Sher dims is gone to fill his time wanted, Add two cents for ktter postage Mf in « hurry, qmesten: Waet number Gm dollars) WALTER & WEBER. | mem—Toledo Blade Wemilian mast af mis nassessians. alles tooth.” . } ! w ne - - NI Ee ee ey - fous . ore — waited by hy