The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1914, Page 20

FSTABLISHED BY JOSMPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except day by the Press ening Company, Nos, $8 to 63 Park Row, 8 RALPH PULITZOR, President, J ANGUS Su ice at New York an feconé-Ciass Matter. o The Evening) For England and the Continént and All Countries in the International Postal Union. Gubseription ‘World for th One Year... One Monta, VOLUME 53.......00005 One Tear... One Month. «NO, 19,287 SUCH CARELESSNESS IS CRIME. T° loss of eight lives in an East Side tenement house fire is} the latest of the periodic sacrifices which prove New York the most reckless metropolis in the civilized world toward the peril of fire. The circumstances of the Eesex street fire wore as usual: Rub- bish under the stairway or the ground floor—like kindling wood at the bottom of a chimney—a ramshackle tinder-box structure, toy tire-escapes. No amount of erhortetion and exemple makes people stop cram- ming inflammable rubbish into basement lockers under etairs. And this is only one among many forms of recklessness. Carelessness caused over 6,000 avoidable fires in New York last year, according to the Fire Commissioner's figures. Only nineteen could be laid to the elemente—the hand of Providence. Despite all our half-way efforts at prevention, the absolute waste from fire in this country remains almost the same from year to year. Per capita losses here are still from five to six times as high as in leading European nations. Why? For one reason, because in the cities of Europe a fire is regarded as a crime until it is proved unavoidable. Here it is the other way round. “ Laws and regulations will accomplish little 60 long as we continue to treat the great majority of minor fires as accidental. Carelessness on the part of tenants, janitors and property owners, resulting in a thousand incipient blazes in crowded districts, is as criminal as the cacalessness of a factory owner which costs a hundred lives. Make every fire a crime. That is the only way to cut down the present waste of nroperty and life. ————EoE——— Hey, Colonel! Forget the Spannerds and look what your Progressive boys are up to. Here’s Amos pitching George out of the boat! a STAY THE SLAUGHTER. HE Safety First Society starts its educational campaign with I a epecial notice in the newspapers warning motorists to be considerate of life and limb in the streets of the city. Go slow around corners and when spproaching crossings. Go slow where traffic is dense and where children are playing in the streets. Stop behind street cars taking on or discharg- ing passengers. Uve tire chains on wet or slippery pavements. “Better be safe than sorry,” it admonishes every one who sits behind a steering wheel. The Society deserves all possible aid from the public. Slaughter in the streets of New York has reached a point where it is no longer to be endured. Last week an inexperienced girl, driving a car for the first time, seriously injured four people. A chauffeur ran down and killed a woman lest Sunday. His employers afterward admitted having “no- ticed for some time that his sight and hea: were failing.” ‘These are only samples of the scandalous and criminal license with which vehicles as destructive as locomotives are driven by incom- petent hands through the crowded streets of New York, Any one who witnesses an auto accident should send the number of the automobiles involve). together with his own address and tele- phone number, to the Safety First Society at No. 501 Fifth avenue. It is time to down the motor menace. The way to do it is promptly to fix full respenaibility for all machines—not on numbers bet on persons. “+ % Mrs. Pankhurst Eecapes Under the Noses of the Police.— Headline, ‘We guess 8. Holmes was dead right about Scotland Yard. 4 ——_—__—_ FERRY FARES TO FORT LEE. HE move for a three-vent fere on the Fort Lee Ferry, in which T and beautiful Bergen County across the river, gained a sub- stantial victory yesterday, when the Sinking Fund Commission by a unanimous vote adopted a resolution favoring e modification of the lease between the Fort Lee Ferry Company and the Dock Department of New York to permit the lower rate. ‘ Alderman Curran, who introduced the resolution, reports that the Mayor and President McAneny of the Board of Aldermen are both convinced of the benetts the three-cent fare wil) bring to uptown Manhattan Both sides of the river are now awake to advantages which, this newspaper has sepeatedly pointed out, are bound to follow cheaper ferriage. . The Bergen Board cf Freeholders has an additional reason proniptly to record its order for the three-cent rate, that there may te the least nossible delay in putting it in gorce. Dock Commissioner Smith should lose no time in studying the terminal lease and planning way for this city to do its part. Letters From the People Washing Ubrarian of Congress, tom, D Stray Dome, ‘To We Eatitnr of The Eveuing World: To the Ha ori Vw heviitag World 1am following with interest the To whom can | apply fop a sopys | rang work you are SOIRE S08 (he t oneig .\ehfidren, regarding — parl play- Fight and to. witurmadun @bout copys) Sooke ac butt wich te piotest rights’ B.H. | against ‘dogs running loose in the streets wud parks. Why ts it per- mitted in a@ city like this?) We are always talking about aé¢cidents from @utos, Wagons and cars, but nobody oma to care about the deaths that ovcur through stray dogs. If people want to have dogs, make them use chains or leashes, @o that little chil. dren and grownups that are afraid of dogs will be protected. I live near one of the fincat parks, but have often had to take my child and go home because of astray dogs. I am sure that there are plenty of people that think as I do, HLEK ader familiar with the work of u letter cusvier kindly answer the following: ‘he average number of individual trips made daily and the total number of working hours per day; whether there is overtime work; what new men are required to do; whether thoy may take vacations, and would it be advisable to turn to letter varrying for @ living? This may to- terest many. La ++ $0.78 85 | | ' | Pha K? ib tae’ ER ul Si Sh Po Lie epee: IM ITS Snapshots # «ts. of By Maurice Ketten EF ORE. GOING THROUGH a HOUSE [re eS BEING” ;) NF ESSIONS, + RERTH wre | Coprright, 1914, by ‘The Prem Publishing Oo, (Tho Now York Brening World), Y DAUGHTER, hear now the Confession of a Wife de Lara, which is Mrs. Solomon. Behold, in an evil hour, thy Father, Solomon, came upes ta, I Laniteiimenesll f] REPEAL OF TOLLS ae ————— | sayin; | “How now, Woman! I have heard it whispered in the market pinew,) t that thou hast a BRAIN! Wherefore am I much wroth; for I wed thee belleving thee a True Woman, and a Regular Giri. U “Therefore answer me, art thou guilty? For in my household tere shall be no FREAKS!” \ And, thereupon, I fell upon my knees and raised my hands to heaven, crying: 1 LOVE THE SPANIARDS | “Moreover, have I ever been CONTENT with the color of my hair? @ “Nay, have I not always lied concerning mine age, and have I ever had |@ shoe that was not ‘too large’? “And, whatsoever thou givest me, do I not <iweys yearn for something -’ MORE? r “Verily, verily, by those signs, have I not proved myself a True Woman and a Pattern Wife?” } But Solomon shook his head and answered me saying: | “Yea, Little ’One, in all these things art thou Perfectly Feminine; yet lever these are not sufficient.” 1 Then I grovelled before him and tore my locks, crying: “Oh, Wisest of Men, hast thou not beheld me misdeal a hand at cards, uring them out as though they were tea-cakes? ast thou not observed that I invariably choose a button-hook, tm Preference to a cork-screw, wherewith to open a bottle? “And the things that I cannot do with a hairpin, WHAT are they? “When thou invitest me forth to the Tango Tea, and the house of ‘ merriment, ie there a time when I have not said: ‘Lo, I have nothing to ry: “THE MEXICAN NAVY i = SS lane 2 ———— ‘And, when I have ordered s me@! in the restaurant, do I not always ye my mind, recall the waiter, and order something else? | “In the days of our courtship, did 1 not ask thee ninety-and-nine times, | Why dost thou love me? “And in the days since our honeymoon, have I not demanded of the | nine-thousand-and-nine times, ‘Dost thou STILL love me” r “Wherefore, then, am I not in all things a Perfect Lady?” But Solomon was still unsatisfed, and would not be moved Then I arose in despair, and turned away, saying:' “My Lord, more proof than this I cannot offer thee! “Yet, ONE last boon do I request of thee. “If thou proposest to put me to death, I entreat thee, see to it that my HAIR be properly curled for the funeral!” | Whereupon, my Beloved clasped me in his arms, crying: “Now, by Allah the Wonderful, do I know thee for a WOMANLY WOMAN, and the REAL THING!” And joiced mightily; for I knew thct in his heart he believed me a sweet &nd cunning Doodlewit, which is a man’s IDEAL WIFE! Selah. “Hear me, oh my Lord and Master! For, in what have I failed thes 4 “Lo, hast thou not observed that I always alight from a street car j Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond. | BACKWARD? “and WHEN have I indorsed a check at the right end? Copyright, 1014, by The Uree Publishing Co, (The New York kvening World), | CHAPTER XLII. “In all my days, have I once seen the POINT of a joke, until thea hast explained it to me, crying, ‘Nobody-home, nobody homel'? bevy you as complete a house as Be } HAD not told Jack of the| C2" for that amount. Whue in doing Str aight From |* The Shoulder|j SO Wags the World To Become Dollars Bits of Common Sense Philosophy With a “Punch.” By Sophie Irene Loeb Success Talks to Young Men, The Evening World has joined with the residents of Harlem | ti {t yourself, not ha: an idea of Coveriany 1p14 Pe ins Hpbiigine On. By Clarence L. Cullen, Goong, 1016. y, The Pres Publishing Co, dresses I had bought from|the cost of materials or labor, you ' — eka Slew Yok ener See Srenek ee): Madame Loraine, nor of | Would be inciined to spend much more Copyright, 114, by ‘The Vrew Hublisbing Go, (The New York Evening World), : i n if you had had an experienced The “Batting Average.” by - HE secretary of a”savings bank xDe N ‘OU can't expect a ball ‘ayer to swat the horsehide for a home run every time he comes to the bat. On the other hand, he isn’t even worth a job in the bushes if he fans every time for three strikes. The chap who earns and holds his Place in fast company ts the quick- eyed lad who bits the ball a little of- tener than “sometimes"”—who hits it often enough #o that his “batting av- erage” is a thing of joy forever to bis manager and teammates. Sometimes he lines out a homer, and eometimes he strikes out, But gandwiched in between these hap- penings is a good, live string of one, two and ‘spree beenee| Rite, Baoumh of them so stick work plays "Ge m4 eon in usiness game, you man who to bat m e rd fe mind thot bis batting average ts something to keep boosting ali the ime. Fate te a mighty uncertain pitcher. It may toss a slow, easy ball right where you can smash into it for spectacular success, or heart of the plate with ing, eworving teaser th on in vain. But each ball delivered ts an op- portunity. And it's up to you to meet them on the nose !f you All you can do is to keep trying, keep ing- ing at them—and keep hitting them often enough so that you keep the tally climbing ever upward. Just go out after the increasing average, Hits From Shap Wits. The heroes of peace are the men who bave to wear stiff collars and coats U hot days while their wives are cool and lant in the low-necked, short-sleeved dresses so ular this time of year.—Macon legrapd, |, . You can always tell how quiet a married man is around the house by the loud tone of voice he employs joaton ‘Transcript, 3 There are some bugs in this world Ani ‘ow tired of making other Commercial Abpea), ‘This 1s the time of your when the thrifty housewife studies the almanac to see If some one has prescribed any new remedy for auts.—Der Moines Capital. pial This is a funny world, Many who haven't automobiles worry and starve until they get one, and many of those who have them worry und st rs tll they can dispose of them.—Mucon Telegraph. + 6 euetsintiins in weltn cost cent e ulations in w! ey fo those in which they lose. ee Many man who down and blames his luck Is merely too lasy to etand for prosperity.—Deseret News, O human being can know any other human being “like a book.” All alike, the best and the worst, wear some sort of a mask, Mach of us has a huge store of mental reservation. Each of us has a vast spiritual “holdout” even on those nearest to us. We are incredibly detached one from the other; we all walk the world alone and die alone. And if, as some- times happens, we hardly know ourselves, then cer- , tainly nobody else can know us “like a book." Men wonder at the incivility and rudeness with | which women treat each other in public places, The average woman would marvel, for instance, at the per- ' fect courtesy with which men treat each other at getting-up time in the morning in the wash-up com- partment of a sleeping car. If men were to treat one another as women do in public places the world would soon be a shambles, There are more agreea! experiences than to have a fat, sterterously- breathing man who has been partaking impartially of whiskey and onions read your newspaper over your shoulder in @ eubway car, The man who “hesitates” isn't “lost.” Ow the contrary, he gives himeclf @ chance to pick the right vourse. There ought to be a Society for the Bup- pression of Foo! Mazime. A young married woman considers it a sheer miracie that her husband, during the years of his manhood before he married her, ever got enough to eat, or the right things to eat; that he ever knew enough to buy his own socks; that he had enough sense to change his strictly personal garments with the changing of seasons, and 80 on. (Note.--And she ends by convinc- ing him that he never did any of these things correctly before he married her.) It ‘pleases women to consider their men-folks “great big overgrown boys.” And the men don’t mind being #o considered. But they're not— they—are—not! IA will be figured out some day why the notice that the ineurance money 4s due always comes just at the time when a fellow is least able to pay it and haa to do the hardest acurrying to get 4t. A Knightly Wooer. By Eugene Geary. Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “Ow M'CUE, ye're a divil! | “Ye won't give me p'ace for a mo- ‘Why don't ye stay out on ment— yer bate? Yer helmet and club's on the flure, Yo come here wid manners so civil | Have ye ivir found out just what ‘no’ An‘ County ::oscommon consate, meant? A polisman should be on duty, Fifty times have I showed ye the Huntin’ burglars an’ murdherers, ure} too." “Sure I come to the Althar av Beauty, That's the thruth,” says O'Leary If ye only could know what thi meant - ia plane To « har-rd wur-r-kin’ oS \- Sal gur-ri! Boo. McCue— An’ wast beings ye at all to this base- “To tie suse av the Temple av “I'm In love,” says O'Leary McCue; “Don't condemn me to lifel le Bays the gallant O'Leary McCue, enti nO Sane ment! = the knightly O'Leary “O'Leary McCue, ye're a copper, ad pita McCue. Ao’ wurrk in the daylight an’ dark. "Arras, there now, l'ave off wid yer Can ye tell me if flirtin’s improper Stop babblin' away like @ brook! Wid nurse girls across in the park?| 1 be goin’ upstairs an’ tell missue"— ‘They put on their daintiest dhresses “Wha Ne her to find a new cool In daily parade for yer view; ayyelh't e pose to get ra of 79, Larry, An’ they all say ye are han'som.” I'll—oob, I dunno what to “Why bless us, o After all, since ye me to "t fault,” says O'Leary marry"— Caer) ve ‘‘Ko're me jewel!” says O'Leary “Yor me beauty'’s among me dis-|«,n’ they say there's no luck if we thresses,’ tarry, Gaye the modest O'Leary MoCue. MNorab, dearl” says O'Leary MeCue, * . * es . be a > writes to The Evening World that the school saving system le developing thrifty youngs- ters, so that the ts on de- posit $58,000 be- longing to 32,000 scholars, to see the youngsters count out their profits on their sale of papers and hand it In to our school I want to impress upon your teller. readers that it is the duty of bankers and teachers to encoura, thrift among the children.’ I once interviewed fifteen of the most prominent bank Presidents in the metropolis on “Mow to Start a For- tune.” And, as one man, they all ad- vised the parent to create in the child the epirit of saving and save them- selves in later years. Following are gome of their views gleaned after long experience: "To save judiciously and with eatis- faction, ope must have a system. The spirit of saving must be in- culcated in the child mind. Children must be taught to make their own purchases, paying the money and realizing the transaction, habits of A principal of $50 in seventeen years ie will 100 per cent. (that is, double itself), at 4 per cent. interest. The scheme of saving is to keep from spending now, in order to spend ter. Most big fortunes in this country have been the result of money made with little to start. It is easier to spend after you have suved than to save after you have spent. He who Is fortunate enough to care properly for those nearest to him has more than fortune Itself, ‘The fellow who continually cries: “The world owes me a living!” must realize at least that he Is the col- lector. Every one should put aside a cer- tain amount for saving, just as pays his rent, his grocer, his butcher, Every man who has money saved after all his bills are paid is @ capi- tallest. The many fortunes that result in misfortunes were ‘caused by the “get- rich-quick” investments, You must get to the bottom of things before you can reach the top, Many fortunes that could be are not, since t nrecogn| ‘The slow, steady savers are the founders of the big fortunes, A man actually becomes a citizen when he acquires a spirit of saving, Small accumulations form the root of the big fortunes, Foreignora are founding fortunes for the future by their application in this matter of saving. 4 man after years of age real value of a dol- be | architect, al other purchases 1 had made. ¢ “There was no need to trouble him about them," I said togmyself. But all the time I was sure that he would not be so apt to find fault, to think me extravagant, if he saw them first when I was wearing them, especially if be happened to like them. The manner in which he had accepted the wold-colored dress had shown me a way. Another thing: I would do as he had said; I wouldn't cross any streams until I came to them, and I would, if pvssible, reach them by @ roundabout road when It became necessary to cross. Saturday Jack came home imme- diately the market closed, and after @ bite of luncheon with me, and a romp with the children, he put on his golfing togs, and was ready when Mr. Somers called for him. About four o'clock Nell Grant came in, She hadn't nN over-in some time, and I was awfully glad to see ber. mM so glad you have a girl, Sue,” laughing heartily as I told her of Norah's queer Soe “I think Norah 1 be all right 1! I can have the patience to teach her,” I replied, “but at present she doesn’t seem to want to do anything but play with the children and say ‘Yis’ when I speak to her, “Well, so long as she is good to the x rad We Ld Nell re- ‘that Is of more importance thing else.” Then, chang- subject, “Sue, Rumsey heard was thinking of buying a at Highland Terra: are just crazy to own have been saving for o1 we were married, m |, and wi red if lots down there were expensive. It is Just a nice distance out.” 0, anywhere from $1,500 to §5,- 000," quoting Jack. “Wouldn't it be lovely if Rumsey would build there too? Jack js trying to get Clifton to buy a lot.” “Rumsey has consulted an archi- tect und we cun build @ good house for three thousand, maybe twenty-five hundred, He will draw the plans for us if we decide to build.” Nell epoke with considerable excitement, “You were foolish to consult an Jack is drawing our en himeelf and so saving the archi ‘s fees.” ‘I never thought there was any economy in doing those things," Nell answered. “An architect knows just how much you have to spend and ————————. should have some money accumn- Made] lated, for the chances after that are not so much In bis favor, ‘The map who needs but a dollar a day and saves a thousand dollars has @ thousand days in which be may rest. The young men of to-day with grit ttle money to start with. ‘An American citizen has better op- portunities for accumulation than has one of any other country. Gavings an they are congucted person make the plans in the first place." Nell asked me the way to get to the Terrace, and guid that she and Rumsey would yo out some day very soon and look things over. Then she told me « surprising bit of news, “Did you know that Gertie war speculating?” she asked. “Why, no!” “Well, she sion to go to town, where women buy and se jatocks, and he saw Gertte sitting there watching the blackboard. He didn't speak, as whe didn't see him, and he thought perhaps she wouldn't like him to know it,” Nell volunteered, “I hope she will make money, but Jack says those shops—'bucket shops’ he calls them—rob women.” “So Rumsey says! Well Gertie was always a little inclined to take chan I wonder where she got the money to margin her stock. I don't think Clifton would let her have tt. He ts ultra conservative, you know,” she finished thoughtfully. I also had been wondering, while Nell was talking, where Gertie got the money. But I made some sort of a parlg, and Nell soon left. “Have I time for a tub before din- ner?” Jack anked as he came tn, “Oh, yes! Dinner won't be ready for half an hour,” I replied, “We had a fine ride out to the links, Bue, that car of Somers’ ts certainly some car! But when we began to play I found I was stale, not in form. So after had played a - some with some:rather nice chaps ‘we met we went over to the road house and sat awhile, and then played @ twosome before we started,” Jack explained in reply to my questions. “What did you talk about? the house?” I asked, knowing that it had become a hobby with Ja “No—-. Somers stopped beating around the bush, Sue, and told me int blank that he knew well that Figo information from Senator Cris- mn, Cosgrove and Haywood, Bald that was tho reason he brought hia account to Flam & Co. He offered to carry stock for me up to a thousand shares if T would let him in on the tips they gave me.” Jack? tock.” “What did you say to him, A thousand shares is a lot of “I had to get out of it so fretfully, “so 1 told him thi never told me anything much, when they did I had to give my word not to tell.” “What did he say then?" “Told me to think it over.” “A thousand shares is a lot,” 1 said again as we were getting ready for bed. (To Be Continued.) to-day are a boon. To be satisfied at first with a small, secured interest from a savings bank Me sue first asset for further accumule- tion, A little money left to accumulate of itself has been the nucleus of many fortunes, | A fund in a bank te a better ref lance in sickness or old age than an good-will of friends, ~~ A email deposit assumes in a few years’ time real magnitude that te ‘Rot oftes reckoned with, $ ——