The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1913, Page 12

SHED AY JOSEVIT PULITZER, Publienet vay & 61 Park Row, York. RALPH PULIOZER, President, 62 Park Mow, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, #5 ‘OSEPH PULITZER, J VOLUME NO. 19,017 WHAT ARE STOCKHOLDERS ABOUT? CCH attention is focased on the voluntary withdrawal of the Ainerican Telephone and Telegraph Company from ite con ern Limon, When twenty-nine per cent. of W ome hat the Tevepy me Company veld oni koa mystery arises Why was a corporation which controlled only $20,000,000 out of $160,000,000 of Western Union stock ever permitted to take posseasion of the latter company and make it a subordinate factor to the tele- phone business? . It would certainly seem that stockholders owning $71,000,000 of property in a 100,000,000 company ought to be virile enough to provide a management. We are always hearing about the rule of the majority. But in most scandals of corporation mismanagement the facte show that the powers that ruled and did the mitchief actually owned but a small part of the property over which they held away When Roswell P. Flower piayed havoc with the B. R. T. and the International Paper Company he personally owned only a petty hand- ful of the stock of these corporations. The late J. P. Morgan’s hold- aterm Loon ste ings of Stee] stock were comparatively insignificant. It would be in+ teresting to know how small a part of the New Haven Railroad was ever actually Morgan property. What were Western Union stockholdere about when they sub- missively bore the dictation of another company that held only this small minority of Western Union shares? Why were telephone interests allowed to take command, discharge experienced officers and establish a nondescript service which used the telephone freely at terminal points to the damage of secrecy, which ought to be a prime factor in any telegraph system? The control of the Western Union by the American Telephone Company brought no benefits cither of convenience or economy. Its existence was anything but a credit to the energy and intelligence of Western Union stockholders. [eatonewnsnromny cerita Of course the protticst girl at Wellesley is from New York but whether the prettiest girl in New York ix or ever will be at Wellesley 1s another quention. +e. ---——- A DELIBERATE CHOICE. T’: New York Telephone Company so far refuses to meet in any way the demand of the people of New York for fair and reasonable telephone rates. At the hearing before the up-State Public Service Commission yesterday the company flatly declined even to comply with the Com- miasion’s request thet it disclose its capital investment and operating profits in the Greater City. ‘This is the company which Inst year drew more than $16,000,000 in profits out of the enormons patronage of New York telephone users. This is the company which in one year derived 95 per cent.! of its net earnings for tulephoue operation covering this State and| the northern half of New Jersey from New York City. This is the company which nevertheloss imposes upon New York- ers the highest telephone tariff in force in any city in the country, while Chicago with far lese business enjoys rates 25 por cent. cheaper. The New York Telephone Company has had its chance to prove itself a public service corporation by voluntarily giving the public a fair dea If it prefers to sacrifice the eateem aud good will of its patrons it does so deliberately. If it continues to defy the Cominission it will remain for the courts and the Legislature to free New York City from the grip of insolent and obstinate extortion. ¢— Everybody can have champague for Christmas—Bryan Brand. Pineapple julce with bubbles, a “A NEW CHARTER.” RK. M’ANENY wants a new city charter “to give us up-to-date M laws and provide administrative features that will enable the carrying out of the reforms and the beat ideals of the constructive programme,” We wish eumebody would write New York a chatter not to exceed three sheets of foolsvap, a charter ihat the average citizen could get acquainted with and talk about as if it belonged to him. Any charter designed mainly to keep professional politicians and otfice grabbers from playing fast and loose every four years or #0 with the city’s business is bound to be a dismal affair of discouraging length and complication We have jusi shown that when we yet good men and policies at work on the job of running New York we are sensible enough and strong enough to keep them there for another four years. | If we had a broad and simple charter that everybody could see absolutely required first-rate civic experts in office to make it worth anything, maybe we should he keener to find the right men and more resolute to hang on to thom - 240 Now that a young woman has broken her leg while dancing tae tango. there may come a lull in the present craze But don't count on it, jiness and br-therly Jove are concerned: fellowship, generosity, gentleness, con-|to de ao for fifty-two. Geautiful, But why limit it to one day old earth. Think tt ever, everrbody. @ one wook? Why not ist the same whole year of goal will. @irit endure al) year? pet have ll a ll st \ fae by the Press Publishing Company, Now. 58 te | If tt {@ pomettle to be at peace and to general spirit of @ood | fee! good wil for one week it is possible Ané thie wil @deration and goed wil. This ts very | bring the millennium very giese to the A jow about t'" The Day Before the HURRY This PACKAGE , PLEASE, IT MuST BE INTHE PHILIPPRES ‘To MORROW SuRE SY 1 COULDNT Do MY XMAS SHOPPING . TWAJT Tice | RECEWE )( Nop ToP POKING 1AM GIVING Sey HUSBAND Y Sep You) i ny PResehrs Tre wars Ti ; { YOUR NOSE ro yet igor cast) Tk Watt Stace Scar OPEN 4 y =~ MONEY i: $$$) It { __ To SEND ACKAGES SY PARAS. ( ns) 3 he) | Vit BET Tiere IT'S THE SPIRIT, 15 A LOT OF JUN MY DEAR . IM MOST OF THOLE Not THe Girt | Boxes See ————— i | “Yen.” replied the shopper, “and at the real Jewelry counter, not the near- Jewelry counter!" Maybe he's having hix gold elgarette ease made over into a vanity box for me!" continued the elder sister, “Re- |member how 1 told him what a cute vanity box {t would make, expec! there af nO Monogram on it! Hereupon an animated discussion took place aa to whether, when a young man Mer Me reese Witnaes C8 | dinplayed a gold cigarette it were not @ merry makienly thing to do to there Is nothing | snatch it and exclaim: “Oh, Just what T wanted for a vanity box. A gold claarette cane is too ef- ht, 1913, Cora Ree “A ‘Mre. Jerr, aa ehe hurriedly kicked several package under the'eota vg with her heels and apread her ekirte to|emimate for @ man to haves’ bark - malbave Geikcstarey, samiiiea cite a " jadya Cackleberry admitte is aa Prete eithe nae! Cider waisten | ereat mistake form young girl not to Giadye, looked up with a gaze that|#P@D anything sho con—such ax a acart meant “Whet do you mean—Christmas| PIN or 8 ring. If you et a ring you at baiue” ohian slater Gusdve entered y you put It on your finger with ‘Quese whont I saw right at the|® Wish—the wish being that whoever Jewelry counter!" ehe cried. ‘Herbert | ¥oU took it ¢rom won't make a acene— ‘ynnefoyle. In another minute he| would have seen me!” ‘‘Poung Herbert Tynnefoyle!” cried { Gr eat Trane, “At the Jewelry counter? + "Hits From Sharp Wits, And now aome one will write a play lenowmg juat how they use the poison | needle and the trash will be put on the | stage and the public asked €2 4 seat to it oe e Parle sayw women will wear thirty button boots, Ami women cant at008 | | t8 do it. Macon ‘Telegraph | eee | Wiaconsin women are gett.ng on to the Jadvantages of the law paused by the \ {eat Leginiature, Another one has had Ther husband convicted of awsault and | battery and farmed out to her. His/ Waxen will be turned over to the wife, | who will sev that he works Milwaukee Sentinel. | | eee If “Mona Isr” had not been stolen half the world would never have knows {anything about her.-dMemphis Commer- tol Appeal, eee | North Caroiina cialing to have a peas | nut trust, In politics or agriculture? | eee | | | | Missouri hea a wild man who keeps | bees In his hat. Still he isn't the only wild man of that kind Missoun has, ‘opeka State Journal, ee Cony 1919, by The Prem Nie ‘New York Bxening By Randolph Colclough Wilson. A VINCI, when he received the astery, eb the end wall of the dining-hall, ood wile the monks ate and grumbled because he took so long (1496 to 1495) he painted the great picture that was destined te Polishing Co, World) Forward the “oharge’ Brigade! | Is there a man dismayed? | No, though the victims know | | They're to be plundered, ‘Thoire not to make reply ‘Theirs not to reason why, ‘Thetra dut to dig and buy Into the Valley of Debt , Rides the unnumbered. Philadelphia Inquirer. EARLY, IHAD Too MANY ) Tea DANCES To ATTEND | 20—THE LAST SUPPER;” By Da Vinei. At the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Say at Anal By Maurice Ketten ca Last it, 1019, ty The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York bivening Woe) | ? La ! Box FRon THOPE 1 CAN GET Y | Bireays e PACE 4 To THAT Win Dow Te N CENT PRESENT IN ~) BeFore Kaas IT'S THE BLUFF THAT COUNTS a —_1N Tat WORLD ae | ¢ O So TaxT rd \ HURRY UP THERE: IWANT To SENDMY / PACKAGES BEFORE LHATE ) To Uc / Stans | Ares (TooK aT iii (THAT Woman — ~ | SHE NusT BE , 55 MOVING | | — eS BY PARCEL SS IN Post 4 ey Shi ~/ 2+ Y & | i adh AN * Of Certain Christmas Gifts WOOO VINDSSORTED BI=IINISS=IS+SINNIOSIN800 0000 | ENE! DY nctors and sporting men. | but the boys these days get all their jewelry In the five-and-ten-cent stores as a general thing’— that's why I never touch a piece of Jewelry a boy has,” Interrupted Miss Irene Cackleberry, as Mrs, Jarr sat open mouthed at these recitals of eirlish artleesness, “Well,” said Miss Gladys Cackleberry, glad now I did take Her- pyle's cignrette case, 1 think he was over from Philadelphia pick: Ing me out a gold vanity box, That's why I didn’t speak to hig. But do you think 1 should have? Some other girl might get my present from him if ehe meets him firat—and I was right there, } might have spoken to him and said ‘Hello, Herbert, dear, I caght you get- ting my Christmas present!’ Qh, why didn't T hint to him? ‘This reflection seomed to andden the young lady so that a tear came to he bright blue eyes, “Don't hold me, Mrs. Jarr: “L was Just saying to Irene how! the eldest Miss Cackleberry. Christmas in one's home {s the only two-faced thing! Place to celebrate the joyous day," re- changing the tople, the word “hint” reminded her. In our home!" said Miss Gladys verry. “Mamma and that drend- ful stepfather of ours fight every holi- day and every Sunda; “Why one those da: Tare, “He isn't home the other @ the reply. So that’s why wore so happy to accept tion to spend Christmas in New York, because’ — She got no further, for Mr. Jarr en- tered with his Christmas bundles and remarked: , girls, 1 met young Ty: from your town and told him y stopping with us a day or #0, and he suki to tell Irene to please send back his gold cigarette case, he's promised tt to his sister as vanity box. Masterpieces of Art. (Leonardo da Vinci, Ital! 1482-1519.) > hecome the most widely known In the world, All peoples and countries where the Biblo has gone know this familiar Mustration—the tragic svene where Chriat Je eaying to the awe-strack Ap One among you shall betray m to-day it Is almost a complete wreck, ruin of pathetic grandeur. Painted un: fortunately In ofle Ini proper method for wi painting, It is one of the can be ecen and appreciated better in the ‘lofty conception of Leonardo remain. fh PARADE RAEEDAOREAODORFSEOHERSESESS FEADEAAASHSES OSES. Mrs. Jarr Learns the Secret reproductions than in the original, for dof frenco, the and *) situated in a very damp spot, it scemed while Judas the traitor, the third to the! destined for decay at the very start. right of the Saviour, clutches the bag of | Peeled and faded now, the faces gone,| cologne bottle. The girl who attends] pleased with a pretty lac money, and in his terror uprets a dish. | restored so many times that dittle of the! dances \may be pleased with a corsage| or ‘Séyings \ a Amalie The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 23, 1913 i Copyright, 1919, ty The Pree Puiuishing Co, (The New York Brening World), REPARE thine ears to hear Yol P laughter, For, out of London. cometh “Lo, I have found the LOVE CU ¥ the love fever and Seaden the drug Injected {nto thine a germ.” in the heart of any man But, as for me, I should not sepa: | but rather should I lock them TOGETHER, 80 that they could not escape one from the other, And in two DAYS would they be “Let us out! Let us out! ! flagons. or @ Woman, wanteth NO MORE! Bu kiss to a cigarette, shall never cease to yearn for it. Behold, when my Beloved Jooketh too sweetly upon a damsel, then do I invite her to spend a week with me, Morning, noon and night do I luncheon and at dinner do I thrust | leave them alone together. Yea, 1 STUFFED HBR DOWN | erying: ' “Wilt thou NEVER get rid of thi: not the new gown which I have don whole evening in my company without noticing it, then do I urge him te go. upon a@ journey, saying: “For the sake of thy HEALTH, | And lo, when he returneth, after him . in TWO MONTHS can { But, [say unto thee, what idle babbling is this? For in two months the lovegerm hath peradventure destroyed itself | “Lo, by graduated ABSENCHS from the loved one,” saith the prophet, | “shalt thou be cured of love's intoxication.” Feed us with forgetfulness and stay us with For we are sick of one another!” For he that hath had ENOUGH of anything, whether it be wine or food And lo, ‘ere the damsel departeth, he cometh unto me in anguleh, ly, O my Daughter, and thy lips for a Prophet, crying: RE! Behold, with a SERUM can I hrobbing of the heart. Yea, with the destroy the love- rate the patient from his inamorata; crying: it he that is dented anything, from @ sing her praises. At breakfast, at her upon him; and in the evening I HIS THROAT! {s woman! For she getteth upon my {nerves and the sight of her is an abomination in mine eres.” . Yet, when my Beloved beginneth to yawn in my presence and seeth ned for him; when he can sit for a my lord, yea, for the sake of thy BUSINBSS, I beseech thee, go West—or South—or North!" many weeks, then do I look GOOD to For J, that was a steady diet, have becoune “a change” and a variety. Verily, verily, kisses are the coal Is on the fire of love; but what fire | cannot be extinguished by piling on too much coal? } Go to! pin their faith unto @ serum. Let not the bachelors rejoice in their immunity, nor damseis For love-curses may come and patent medicines may go, for the love | | fever abideth forever, And in ail the world, there be but three things which shal! cure tt. The first of these is Matrimony, ; And the second is Time. But the greatest is PROXIMITY! Seiah. Anecdotes of the Old-Time Actors By Edw. Le Roy Rice Cooreigit, 1013, uy The Prem Publishing Go, (Tie New York Bi His Name. | CAOME years ago at the corner of S Jefferson and Woodgattd avenues, in Detroit, was located Gilman Cafe, a well-known resort, much Bro! was while the excavating for al | that a laborer unearthed a human skull, and forthwith took it to the cafe, where it was duty laundered and pi back of the bar, where, @ short time after, | Jack Jardine, the head bartender, had ern portion ef some depart@ human; name and pedigree unknown, And what were Jardine's first words? Exactly what yours mine and all students of Shakespeare's would be “Alas! poor Yorick; I knew him well!" In fact, several of the saloon's patrons made the same remark, all of which was duly taken in by Billy Patterson, under bartender; stranger came in and made inquiry to whom the bonehead might be, Pat- terson said: “Ho's a friend of Jack's, I think his name is York.” Mettler aa the Mikado. his first gilnpse of the extreme north-|% anv n | strels. that when *| t! ening World), ™ or even was adapted to, he made tie hit Sof the piece. The next day Mettier costed his manager in the box office and with an apologetic cough eald: “Can I speak to you a momen Carncross?" And the manager in his well-known Mr biz dry goods store was in progress) SUStere manner replied: “Not one cent one cent more,"" Mr. Mettler disavowed any intent on of asking for a “ratse."' ‘ “Not ONE cent more. Had you walt+ day, had you not ask | might have given you an increase. B not now. NOT ONE CENT MORE.’ And that ENDED it. William Henry Rice' gain. OME years ago (in 199 to be exact? | S T was travelling with my father, ' the late Willam Henry Rice. The attraction was Rice's World's Falr M On thie particular eccasion we , failed to attract. You know it eome- ! Imes happens that way. : We were playing Lebanon, Pa. It wap about 630 P. M., and the crowd was all in, So was "Dad." 1 was on the door {With him, and knew just how he felt, | and was careful to let hi all the, | conversation that wan absolutely meee essary. more, Mettler. Not vogue, it was Durlesqued at Carncrons's Min- jstrete In (Philadelphia, “Jack” Rafael was cast for the title |role, Mr. was not | COMI years ago, when “The Mikado" ' S had considerable Rafael, however, destined to play the part, owing to a {mudden Indiaposition that overcame him. | Lew Mettler, famous for his imper- |sonations and as @ dird and animal \imitator, was assigned to the role. And, | notwithstanding the fact that it was’ unlike anything he had ever attempted, Christmas gifte this year,” remarked @ business woman the other day. If aho uses care and @acretion in hei selections there {s mo reason wyy she jvannot make all her prospective recipl- \ents happy. for there are innumerable a @ DOLLAR is my limit for articles that can be purchased at $1. For inetance, the man who smokes might appreciate a tobacco jar or a cigar out- ter, A collar button box or one of thom leather scarf pin cases would please the neat man, Then there is the book rack or book ends that are #o handy for the desk or \brary table or an eraser set conaist- ing of two rubbers and a fine hair fre practical gifts and there are walk- ing vttoks, card cases and motor trip books in Jarge assortments to select trom, ‘The housewife might like a silver can- diestick, a pretty candle shade, a fem | dish or a cut-giass piece. The woman living in a furnished room might derive Pleasure fram @ pretty picture, a bou- dolr clock, @ bonnet brush, a hair re ceiver, @ sliver deposit flower holder or ne Ww masterpieces that | original is left, only the great plan and@ bouquet of violets, pinks or gardenias, a | glad to receive a pretty vandeau, rhinestone © etring of pearl brush. Pajamas or Terry bath slippers| That was how affairs stood when #, small boy accosted my father with: ’ ‘Mister, how much to see the show?” | ‘Dad" warmed up at once. “How much you got’ “TWO CENTS!" ‘Then father cut lowe. Bo did the beye | Thad to etay, beads or a fan with painted mticks, and there are pretty gindles in crepe de Chine in the puste! colorings that go so nicee ty with the white dance frock, And there are handbags, rome of ¢ | orea motre silk with smail mirrors gum pended inside, coin purses, bodkin sete? boxes of heautiful atationery, engages [ment or address hooks, perpetual |dars, rhinestone braid pins, adjusta | bracelets and strings of the amber beads that are now so popular, In the jdlack jot, that ie dally gaining favors [ihe are barrettes, bracelets and n The school girl might apprecia skating cap, a pair of warm glo pretty belt, @ nice collar or one of those handsome neckplecea, ‘For the boys there are baseball pari ames, footballs, a parlor bowling alley? school bags, Indian and cowboy suite’ and stamp atbums. ‘The girl w. brought home a lot of kodak pictu from last summer's. vacation will glad to get a photo album to paste in, A ecrap album may be desired » some boy or girl. Grandfather might be ma: happy b? ®@ reading glass and grandm: ight be pron. Many a girl tlecas or nightérene