The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1914, Page 8

ESTABLISHED BY JO! iM PULITZER, Padlished Datiy Except Sunday by the Pi Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to { Park Row, York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, a J, ANGUS RHAW, T: re Park Row. Y: J 63 Park Row, w York cond | For England and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Uniom » World for the United States and Canada. veesbeeury's 2.60 One Year. VOLUM seve eNO. 19,128 ). ARE THEY DOING THE RIGHT THING?, T IS all very well for J. P. Morgan and his partners to make! i rar ' : Py n | | their bow to “public sentiment” in resigning from the diree-; ii torates of great corporations and combinations of capital which | | 4, they have dominated. : But after all are they doing the thing that the best public senti- ment would ask of them? A corporation like the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- wead, for example, which has scraped the rocks as a result of the " reckless financial steering of its directors: Wouldn't it be more to the credit of Mr. Morgan and his asso- ciates if they stuck to the ship until they had pumped out the water, ealked the seams and brought it back 10 something approaching the @ound and seaworthy condition in which they found it ¥ Why shouldn't very rich men feel a pride in using some of their tillions to repair damage done to property for whose safety trusting Stockholders made them responsible? Is it enough, when the harm is done and the suffering has begun, a to take their hats and walk out—out of deference to “public sen- timent”? ‘ sg How does publicsentiment feel about it? 4 ‘The woman suffrage leaders have pickedi1914 as a nice : year to send into history with a braid new constitutional , - - amendment pinned to it. ——-—_-+->-____ % - DISAPPOINTING? p*« who expect a new city administration to come in on horse: f back with bands playing and bannere flying, amid loud proola- mation of honors and rewards, will view Mayor Mitchel with disappointment. ‘ ¥ Here is a Mayor who makes appointments with no more fuss than @ business man trying to organize & competent office staff. If he issioner the first day he merely says: “All iil worry along a few weeks until I can put my hand on a ““s-good one.” And the same applies to a Corporation Counsel ahd a Health Commissioner. . New Yorkers have seen plenty of administrations march in with * a full quote of political talent and an impressive fanfare of political , talk. But after all, when it is first and last a question of getting \ ‘the city’s business into the hands of men who know their jobs botter than anybody elee, why should there be undue haste or flourish about proclaiming them? The right men are apt to be the ones who care least to be heralded. —_<4-—_____ With its customary solicitude for the comfort of newspaper editors the Russian Ministry has just pudlished a long list of topies concerning which nobody will be expected to print any- thing during the present year. —_——-¢2—_-___ NEVER OUT OF SEASON. enthusiasm of the true baseball fan is perennial. It hiber- is nates, but it takes its winter sleep with an eye and an ear ha ever open to'catch ‘the news. “Baseball, like the Constitution, follows the flag. The impact of the willow against the horsehide sphere is heard around the world. There are score boards in London, Paris, Berlin, Guam, Hongkong ‘and Tokio, and rooters in every known tongue.” Well, why shouldn’t there be baseball somewhere all the year Lage be id shouldn’t we some day play ball with the tropics and it That's what John K. Toner, now Governor of - ident of the National Baseball League, before he was cither, wants to know. bell, set forth in his own crisp phrases in The Sunday World Magazine 3 fer to-morrow, look forward to an international “World’s Series” big | @Rough to stir the imagination of every fan in the country, Pennsylvania, Pres- and past master of the game His views of the future of base- __ oH “Speak not ill of the year, till it is gone.” Water, Weeds and Wild Li OB Biba Bireuing World: i# Ta a recent tenue you say editorially it 4s interesting to hear the Pres- © Gent of the American Game Protective Propagation Association telling & ‘sportsman’s paradise, but express a preference for the plans fof the conservationists to utilise the tailed or Virginia deer, which almost like the proverbial rable ant which have increased handeomety in this and neighboring New England Btates under wise protective laws, It ts entimated that this @pecies of deer contains on an average #10 in meat value, It seems inevitable, in view of the great advance in the cost Of meat in recent years, that the ques. Uon Of providing refuges dn which deer may breed in large numbers must be Given serious consideration in this country, I should ‘like also to mention the Partridge or ruffed grouse, the bird of ati others that appeals to the real eporteman, and the wood duck, most beautiful of ite kind, that will be given at least a fighting chance for survival by the conservation policy that you @Avocate, @. A. QUARUMS, Car Vie! 4 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Thank you for the recent editorial about automobile recklessness, I have had two little kinamen (boys) killed out+ right by chauffeurs in New York str crossings. Those deaths killed the aunt hp grandmother of the boys and com- pi iy This 49 the record of d my immediate family. 5 ; og x2 ga a § but Lez Hi is H water power to util- '@ watersheds covered jer to have trees one Tt to evident that & condition of inter- +f ;! 3¢ HE HH if | ot impossible without the re- Hi as ap admirable and indivisible Drotective wert that birds per- and t ft escaped death by throwing my arm sround @ lamppost, thus Pim TH Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, 66 RE'S somebody altting in Mr. Silver's racing car,” sald Miss looked down from the Jarre's front w.n- dow to the street below the eventful night of the party. Dr. Gilbert Gumm, the affable dentist Anyway, she had both hands clinched til her pretty pink nalls were punching - her pretty oink palms to the point of perforation, Gladys Cackleberry, the elder sister, was holding Jack Sliver, the dashing young wealthy bachelor friend of the Jarra, by both coat lapels, ‘The reat of the assembled guests, expecially the women, whispered that the girl from Philadelphia (the sister that squinted, not the one that had such dashing millionaire! Mr. Rangle had this information whis- Hits Huerta, “cream of hie army againat Villa. Whipped?—Columbia State, That boy of eighteen who wants to marry the mother of eighteen children administers a theory that there Is no fool like an old fool.—Toleao Blade, One thing we wanted for Christmas: Our neighbor's phonograph,—Milwaukee Bentinel. ‘Hudson Maxim urgen the people to Stop patronizing John Barleycorn and spend his §2,000,000,000 annual tribute for battleships, rom the world who would want to ight?—Boston Transcript. The Indianapolis News says there are no nickel mines in this country, about the mov! “Well, inaurrectos,"" quires. The Evening World Daily Maga oe it Sy pered into his car as he lingered by the bow! of spiked claret punch. Whereupon John W, Rangle was heard to declare: “There ain't no such animal as a mit- Uonaire! If there be doesn’t haunt this neck of the woo Would I be here if I had a dollar and a halt? asked Mr, Tangle, “No!” All these byplay's occurred on the outer edge of the party in the back parlor of larr flat, and at the windows and at the wall, for Mr. Pinkginger wap the Argentine Tang ‘The Jarr flat was one ©” those old fashioned, spacious ones, With all the furniture out and the plano flat against the wall four couples could almost dance. With the piano on the mantle- piece, were that possible, four couples could have danced. Herbert Tynnefoyle, from Philadel- (The New York Wrening World), Irene Cackleberry Swearing Off < 22h. zine, Saturday, January 3, sright. 1914, ress Publiahi By —— SHEE Maurice Ketten FAAAAAAAARASBAAAABAAABAAAA AIBA SAHAA Mr. Jarr Escapes at Midnight From His Happy Harlem Home BEE AE BF OF OF AF ae OF AF OF OF OF AF OF FOF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF while that young man was present. Mr, Pinkfinger might learn to his chagrin that others could play the piano. “Ia that Jack Silvers chauffeur down there?” asked Dr. Gumm of Mr. Jarr. jarr gave a careless look down on ough to iinply he could at a glance every chau millionaire friend tind, “No, that Isn't Raoul nor Dick," sald Mr, “1 don't think Jack Silver ever takes a driver with’ his high power racer, That's his Jay valet, Sukial- toshl. Faithful fellow, you know, one of the ‘Summer-eye.’ “What kind of an eye is that?” asked Dr, Gilbert Gumm, “You know, the noble Japanese that run around aticking swords in their stomachs if the honorable silk worms are off their feed," explained Mr. Jarr. Phia, looked #o much like the pictures of the neighborhood, followed the in-| of the dainty young men whose por- dicative gase of the maiden; for dainty | traits advertise haberdashery in the Irene Cackleberry knew it was rude to/street cars that all present said Mr. point. Pinkfinger wouldn't put on any airs { ‘The reason being that bad complexion) had captured the From Sharp Wits. Wo are told, has sent the jow to the old but with rum eliminated eee 1914, by The r je NeW York Bven By Rando!ph Colclough Wilson, HE best of the celebrated serles. af T historical we which Metssonier Painted from Napoleon's career is the one which hangs to-day in the Met- Fepolitan Museum ja New York, Up,to x Copyright, «Bh Publishing Co, World), How —Columbla State, 8 . how would “Tut, tut, tut, the do? — Philadelphia In- FR ‘I think Japanese things are just too sweet for anything!" gushed Miss Irene Cackleberry. ‘I saw a black silk kimono opera cape with embroidered wild ros wish SOIMB ONE would buy tt and aurprise me with it! I¢ was only eighty- nine"— had a Japanese client the other said Dr. Gumm (painless dentists call them “patien’ The min- T made an exami ‘Haven't you ear trouble ‘Wouldn't it be great fun to go take & ride in Mr. Silver's big car?” inter- rupted Irene Cackleverry, seeing the dentist wasn't interested in buying her an $% kimono as @ belated Christmas sift. “Sure, go take It f aid Mr. Jarr, generously. knows how to run it.” e@ on dows with us and see us off," euggested Dr. Gumm, who wanted to borrow @ few dollara for prospective expenses. So while the dance was on and Har- lem's midwinter social gayety was at {ts height, as the eoclety columns @ay, Mr. Jarr and Dr. Gumm and the in pink and white! Oh, I] youngest Miss Cackleberry stole out. Great Masterpieces of Art. 22—-FRIEDLAND, 1807, by Meissonier. At Metropolitan (Jean Loule Eimest Meimonier, French, 1815-1891.) LAMO — i807 the ¢ bad painted very amall pictures, tiny | things, with every detail wonderfully Museum of Art, New York. © Melssonier planned this one he) sold it to the late A. T. Stewart for $60,000, At Friedland, in June, 1807, Napoleon accurate wnd exact, So care(ul Was he, defeated the Prussians and the Rus- over @ button even, or the crease of a|sians, a famous victory in the high tide boot, that when he began Friedland, a/of his success. Melssonier says of hia| of Gaynor, have been considered for his Jarge canvas, elght feet by five, other| picture: | artists predicted his failure, Instead of|battle, 1 wanted to paint Napoleon at tailing be produced bis wastenplece, and| fhe seaith of bis story.” did not intend to paint ajo! Copyright, 1914, ty The Prem Prbtishing Oo, (The Sew Yah Breaing Wet, . She Chate on the Seven Stages of a Flirtation. G6 ENT tt 044,” Segan the RM, toying dainty with her astipasia, “how I everything runs to sevens—just like the man from St. Ives! hess are seven days in the week, and er.en ages of man, and seven Goummes fg table d’hote dinner, and atages .f—of » fiirtation"—— The Mere Man dropped hin fork deliberately and regarded her with oulé ‘Tr “ he complainea bitterly, “for you to make me tring gum here; but to compare anything #0 cheap as a red-wine table é’hote te Love" = didn't,” retorted the Rib hastily, with @ pout of her scarlet Mpgd “LOVE ts a banquet of the gods! And there are only three stages of it: first, in which the man loves and the woman {fs doubtful; the eccond, in whteh the woman loves and the man becomen doubtful; and the third, in which Seth of them grow doubtful whether they ever HAVE loved of not, A sirtation ts something entirely different.’ said*the Mere Man eagerly, “that's ALWAYS doubtful—and @> ng and pleasant, and just sufficiently satisfying met to leave you with a ache or @ heartache.” “And sufficiently unsatisfying to leave you with a taste for ‘more,’” @a- ished the Mere Man chgerfully. ’ $ Love's Table dtHote Menu. } ca 0 ARP RRR RAR APPR PRD PD DPD RPP PPP PDP L PPP PLP PLP L AS 66 A ND it always begins with the antipasta,” mused the Rib thoughtfully, stabbing an innocent anchovy. “With—the what?” “With @ little of flavoring—a new situation, a unique meeting, a charm: ingly exciting incident—the relish of novelty, which piques the—eh—interést Because, of course, a man finds only that woman igteresting who seema .te- tally different from all those who have gone before—empecially from thé woman JUST before.” “I gee,” gaid the Me which ts Man dryly. “And next, I suppose, comes the entrer, up of the-goda-know-what, Just as « einning—bdefore you have analysed her.” jer hands delightedly, “and then eomes the to corral and keeps slipping away froin ve caught onto his little ways"—— ‘And learned to twist him round your finger,” added the Mere Man eyni- cally, as he watched the Rib deftly twirl the white spirals ‘round her for with unerring neatness and dexterity. ‘The Rib nodded sweetly. “And then comes the ‘roast,’” she added with « sigh, “when we begin to. be really in earnest and one or the other gets serious.” “And one or the other gets one brown’! repeated the Mere Man, “And THAT," added the Rib, ‘is followed by the salad, with vinegar gis red pepper ‘dressing;’ the first quarrel, salved with the olive oll of forgive: ~ ne: : . = washed aod with the weak vin ominaire of sentiment,’ erled the Rib in mock horror; “you've forgotten tbs “The sweet?” “The making-up,” explained the Rib, reproachfully; “the first Biss. That's & very important item, Mr, Cutting.” “Bo it is,” agreed the Mere Man promptly. waiter!” “Let'a hurry it alonz. Hero. { jefore the First Kise—and After. { a 66 H, dear!" moaned the Rib, “WHY does a man always want to ‘hufry O everything along’ from @ dinner to a filrtation? Why dose he want to plunge in and out of @ love-affair, Juut as though it were a cet bath or a revolving door? the vin ordinatre of sentiment slowly, betwe @ courses, just as a woman does, instead of emptying. th‘ bottle before she has finished her first glass? All the best part of a romancs. Mr, Cutting, comes BEFORE the first kiss, The kiss is just the dessert.” — “And after it,” hed the Mere Man seminiscently, as he Ut @ olga, “comes the black coffee.” ’ “I beg your pardon?” “The black coffee of remorse,” repeated the Mere Man, “which is bitte? and usually cold—and ‘settles’ everything!” “Exce;t the bill,” murmured the Rét ruefully. she added. agreed the Mere Man, tucking her into her fur comt. “The oaly thing sad about it {a that, although every flirtation, like every table d’hot. BEGINS differently, they are all alike in the END.” p| “But that,” the Rib reminded bim, consolingly, “never seems to spall one'é relish for th ext one,’ does ith’ =The Week’s Wash By Martin Green 4 Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HEAT do you think of Mayor that politics will be played in Ble Mitchel's appointments?" asked the head publisher. “Very good ap- potntments right ** repled the jaundry man. “You can always say ‘that about the ap- pointments of «@ conscientious “But it is ALWAYS worth 66. 6677 "HUSH white clave | police have put out appear to have a ential friends among @oaiety reformers generally,” remarked ‘head polisher. “My experience has teen,” oa laundry man, “that when you find ge ple booceting a game there ts something in it for the boosters. costa a whole lot of money to films together. The men who enting them to the pubtto Prominent in theatrical or Gnancial cles, But while they were coop dn the money ¢hey got ft. “Who put up the money im Place? Have the managers Phony films distributed any of fite to persons whose names Pear as connected with their tion? True answers to these may or may not diaciose, i | & f 28: i 3 Gutien of the va- rious departments. “The Meyor hes shown in his eelec- tions that he appreciates friendship. He haa given the best job in the adminis- tration—that of City Chamberlain—to his friend Henry Bruere, It is a nounced that Mr. Bruere intends to q@ake the City Chamberlain's office an active force in the City Govemment. Of course the charter has placed re- strictions on the powers and activities of the Clty Chamberlain, Hitherto the ‘bimeest Job the holder of that office has found at hand was the production of a bond. ‘Both branches of the Republican or- ganization have been reeognized’by Mr. Mitchel in his appointm He hea placed that seasoned veteran of th public payrolls, Mr. Kracke of Brook- important job. He has considered. Unless the Bull I feel sore—and they are never satisfied— Mr, Mitchel can be sald to have done this best to satiafy all the elements that re most active in his behalf during the campaign and prior to bis nomi- nation. “But, tf Mr, Mitchel had gone about rewarding thowe who were the most potent factora in placing him in the if i i 8s $33 eu s sf $3 Same Old Prophecies. ; $ ’ EPR al ly SBE," eald the head “that dusiness men all over country see @ bright outlosis gag @sk you," replied the iaundry if you cam recall a New, Year 18 that Gi4 not mark the in the newspapers of these bright i look prophecies?’ ‘ ———_—____.. ODD FACT® es omnibus service in 1013 caved passengers, Berlin's in Brooklyn. 7,000,000 the man who did the most for him, ‘Mayor Mitchel should have given Mo- Cooey the office of City Chamberlain and three or four commissionerships besides. Tammany leaders Tom Foley and Thomes F. MoAvoy shouldn't be overlooked in this connection. An Gnally, why shouldn't Charles F. Mur- phy, who acquiesced tn the turndown Japan's 1918 rice crop is mated at 969,923,975 Oushela, mova” Tt takes three seconds for a wage to cross the ocean. “3 Austria's Government-owned are valued at €1,isenn = “Sawaee eSSRSS LY SET ge omaha, job in the Department of Docks? ‘Well, the young Mayor hes taken 0b thas 10 908 of wont, Ho wl tnd os