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’ - WW, ~ Che orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Publishes Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to k Row, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS 8H Treasurer, 6% Park Row, - JOsHPH PULITZER,’ Ir. Secretary, 6 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Matter. G@@ecrption Kates to The Isvening| For Engin’ end the Continent and 3 +=, World for the United States ~ in the International - } and Ca: nada, . Tear....... $2.60] One Year.. One Month... .3010ne Month B. R. T.—P. S. C. A HEARTLESS COMBINATION, ITIZENS of Brooklyn praise The Evening World for ite crusade against the barbarous brutality with which the B, B. T.) handles its patrons. Jamming passengers into abbreviated trains made up of back-| mumber cars provided only with narrow end exits, trying to run/ express service on a eingle track by letting local trains wait—are only — some of the worst of the practices which have made this corporation notorious. The Public Service Commission by its indifference to their euf- ferings and petitions has brought upon iteelf the distrust end con- “" ¢ of all Brooklyn residents who are perforce victims of the . RB. T. { Chairman Leo K. Mayer of the Brooklyn Civic Committee has t described in a letter to this newspaper how the Public Service Com- ; ‘mission treats communications from the public concerning abuses it was created to remedy. Last December Mr. Mayer filed & complaint with the Commiasion relative to the twenty-six-year-old, patched up wooden cars which the B. R. T. rents from the Long Island Railroad \. Company at a cost of a do!lar a day per car. The Commission acknowledged the receipt of the complaint. But from that day to this numerous inquiries by mail and in pereorrhave failed to elicit any information save that somewhere in the Commis- sion’s archives is an “executive or secret report” which the complain- ant is not permitted to examine and which in fact “would not in- terest him.” This notwithstanding that the law which created the Public Service Commission expreasly provides that “all proceedings of each Commission and all documents end Tecorde in its possession shall be public records.” Is it any wonder that Brooklyn shrugs its shoulders and writes: Public “Service (!)” Commission? Seven years ago this summer the people of this State establistied the Public Service Commissions. A month later Frank W. Stevens, firet Chairman of the up-State Commission, declared in » public speech : pe “T have no hesitation in saying that the ulttmate success : or failure of the Public Service Commissions-law depends eb oa most exclusively upon the public. g “The public will-altimately have what-{t wants. If4t has eet up machinery which does not produce the results it desires machinery will eurely be relegated to the junk heap and ‘ae ‘new installatien made.” HAC A NERN DISPOSITION ‘The Evening World Daily Magazine; Wednesday! June 24!:1914" E : menevon cians seatmnd The Love Stories Of Great Americans A : | By Atbert Payson Terhune ~~ Gawrtaht, 1014, ty ‘The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Wort), No. 11—EDGAR ALLAN POE AND HIS “CHILD-WIFB.” 6 ER eyes outshone those of any houri, and her features would 1 defy the genius of a Canova to imitate. * © ° He was graceful and with dark, curling hair and magnificent eyeo— the kind of man whom men calumniate and envy and women adore,” writes a chronicler of two generations ago, She was Virginia Clemm, a child fated to grief and final tragedy. He was Edgar Allan Poe, soul of immortal fire caged in a too-weak body. Their love story is one of the most pathetic in the long annals of hearts. Poo was the son of strolling actors, who died when he was a baby, He ‘was adopted by @ wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, who did sot at all understand the genius-ridden boy. Poe went to the University of Virginia, but was forced to leave. Then he went to West Point, and was expelled. After which the Allans practically kicked him out of their home and his other relatives snubbed the lonely youth unmercifully. All but one of them. That one was Mrs. Maria Clemm, his father’s widowed sistet. She her outcast nephew with open arms to her Baltimore home. Tt was all the first real kindness Poe had ever known. Mrs. Clemm had one daughter—Virginia. The little girl was not over. Clever, but (writes a friend of hers) “she retained to the last all the shy Sweetness and simplicity of a child.” In fact, she WAS & child when Poe first met her. was twenty-seven; Py Soe Yet almost at once—and all unconsciously, they fell in love with each other. Girls matured more early three-quarters of a century ago than now. Here is Poe's account of whet followed the discovery of their mutual love: ~ “We spoke no words during the rest of that sweet day. And our )words, even on the morrow, were tremulous and few.” Poe had long since begun his losing fight for literary success; and soon after his engagement to Virginia he was called to Richmond to take the assistant editorship of a magazine there. He left Baltimore to embark on his new duties. But in a month or two Mrs. Clemm wrote to him that Virginia was “pining away because of his absence.” He hurried back to Baltimore. There, on Sept. 22, 1885, he and Virginia were secretly married; |and Poe returned to Richmond to earn enough money to support his thir- teen-year-old wife. eleven years of poverty and heartbreak. Poe was one of the most transcendent poetical geniuses the world has known. He was also one of the most brilliant story writers and critics. | But he had not the trick of cringing to people who could be of use to him, or even of being moderately civil to them. Though personally he was gentle and lovable, yet his criticisms sometimes burned like vitriol. The writers whom he criticised and the editors whom he affronted grew quickly to hate him. At times he was practically “blacklisted” in nearly every editorial office in America, Also Poe had not the head to stand liquor. One glass of light wine was enough to make him hopelessly drunk. His fascination for all women was another count against him. And word went forth that he was a drunkard and a libertine. (This narrow, asinine prejudice against him was still so strong as recently as 1900 that heswas denied a niche in the Hall of Fame, although several men whose names the public scarcely knew were unan- imously chosen to that more or(less immortal group: For ten years Poe ‘was barred out, to the wondering derision of the whole modern literasy world.) | From place to place drifted Poe and Virginia, always miserably poor, often on the verge of starvation. To the end they were devoted lovers, Virginia could not in the least appreciate her husband's genius. But she loved to sit close to him when he wrote, and to keep his pens in order and fold and address his manuscripts. It was all she could do to help him in his work. Nor was she jealous of the many women who made fools of | themselves over him. To complete their hardships, Virginia's health failed, Bhe became a consumptive. After many wretched wanderings the couple settled in a hovel-like Soon Virginia and her mother followed him thither, and in May, 1886, ‘ Poe and Virginia were married again—this time publicly, Then began _ ieee. Every day the B. R. T. is permitted to continue its present ecan- cottage at Fordham—which was then a country village and not a part of ‘} > @alous and inhuman treatment of passengers piles up further crashing |New York City. At the Fordham cottage Virginia grew weaker and weaker. | Her frantic husband sought work in order to make her last days easy, ‘ . : T*« street cleaning methods in New York are incredibly out indictment of e Commission created eolely to serve the public. + ——___ Scouting for Playgrounds —Headline, The Evening World has found a new summer eport in 6 reat public service. —_—_-+-___. IS CLEANLINESS TOO COSTLY? of date is the upshot of the Street Cleaning Commissioner's first semi-annual report, which went to the Mayor yesterday. Not only are we far behind Germany and other European coun- triee—Berlin is now the cleanest capital in the world—but, if we are te believe Commissioner Fetherston, “practically no betterments in the city’s street cleaning equipment have been introduced in the department since Col. Waring left office in 1897.” As if to lend point to the Commissioner's criticisms, residents in the Broax held a mass meeting yesterday to protest against the city’s antidy practice of dumping garbage and refuse in the yard adjoining ular dump. Open garbage cans, open carts and clumsy dumping methods are primitive survivals of which New York ought by this time to be ashamed. The city has money enough to secure the best type of © garbage cart and an up-to-date sanitary plant for handling refuse. Ip Berlin the city systematically burns its garbage, converts it into ae LAINBs Copyright, 1914, ty The Prem Publishing Oo, (The Mew York Zrening World), It 19 easy enough to be pleasant When you're leading the clubman’s life; But the man worth while is the man who can smile, And trot along home to his wife! At this time of year a bachelor’s life is just one dear girl after another! Most men seem to fancy that feminism is merely s passing fad, which Stable A of the D. S.C., on One Hundred and Eighty-eighth etreet, to| has taken the place of raffia work, bridge whist, neurasthenia and “The Me there uncovered until acmebody finds time to haul it to the reg- | Duchess,” and will soon be forgotten for “something just as good.” Crystal Palace. HE first public assemblage in Crystal Palace, London's fam- ous show place, was held sixty years ago, when the great building Old Age an OMEBODY is sure to inquire: “If S exercise is so good for people, why do so many professional athletes die young?” In the first ASKS SALASLAKAAAAALASASBAAAAAAGAAAAAA This Time of Year a Bachelor’s Life ' Is Just One Dear Girl After Another. HSKBSKLABLSSAASLASALAALAA AAAS A AAAS The shortest thing on earth next to a chorus girl's skirts appears to be her marriage. An old maid, a spinster and @ bachelor girl differ simply in that the first regrets, the second doesn't care, and the third still hopes. ‘When a man dogen’t know how to take a woman's moods and whims he shouldn't agree to take them for life. It is better to dwell alone in a hall bedroom at the housetop than in the suite de luxe of a summer hotel with a flirtatious husband. o Now that the beauty specialists have discovered a “permanent curi” and an “indelible rouge” it remains only for the summer girl to discover some way to get a little permanent masculine attention and a little indel- ible love, One girl's loss is another girl's “flame.” d Athletics than the average man who takes no exercise, but is temperate in his habits. ‘There is John L, Sullivan, who used to entertain an ambition to keep al Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers But nearly every door was closed against him. Winter set in—a bitter winter. Virginia could no longer sit up, but the death chill from her hands and feet and in trying to make her she would get well. There was no money to buy fuel, food or And the Poes were not only too proud to accept charity but neighbors know in what dire poverty they were living. On Jan. 8, 1847, Virginia died. And with his chilad-wife died ‘was youthful and buoyant in Poe’s own heart. Read “Annabel Lee,” @ poem inspired by Virginia's death, if you PRO Poverty’s wrote: i Tregesy. } “ loved her ae man never loved before. I loved her more and more dearly during the years of How could she die—and of consumption? But it is a path I to follow. I would wish that all whom I love might perish of disease. © © © I see no one among the living as beautiful as how he mourned her. To a friend, soon afterward, he illness, until I became insane—with intervals of horrible sanity. © © © Ute wiferr [The May Manton Fashions bead, ing made without op- ening at either front or back. This one is designed both for small women and for te was formally opened by Queen Vic-| Place, they don't, asa rule, if they | {he distilleries in the reed ene HATEVER tenentialiy.- yourneut es j ‘ ‘ z toria, ‘The palace was constructed | take anything like proper care of/7 fos on animated sponge. A the temp- in effect. The front _ fertilizer and turns it to profitable account on the land for miles|o¢ the materials used in housing the| themselves. In the second place, it| week ‘of such a life as he lived would tation, no and back portions Again: Americans who visit Paris during the eummer note with | approval the lavish streams of water from the hydrants which finsh great exhibition of 1851, The edifice, which was dedicated to the late Queen, has never been profitable, and je easily possible to exercise too much 28 welj as too little, and the profeasional athlete's desire to excel have put the average man down for the final count, but John L. survived {t, and now, at fifty-six, he is hale and hearty and a temperance lec- young man should attempt to strike up an acquaint. are cut separately and joined over the shoulders. This clos- ing can be made by t buttons ; on several occasions it has been; 24 to gain glory and cash often) turer. Mike Donovan, who is near- ance with a young means of bot the streets during hot weather at all hours of the day. Why does| threatened with destruction, but a| leads Bim to excess. In the third fae ie Sores rorpcand-tee Sark, tady 42 Weems bo ng eaten pro- New York only wash itse!f intermittently ? movement recently set on foot | Place, the professional athieteishailed | (> J Nig spryeed —_—-+-____ The esteemed Herald insists that the leopard cannot change his spots. promises to save the historic pleasure resort to the English nation. The building occupies sixteen acres, with 100,000 square feet of exhibition as a hero, and if he will permit it he will be led by hia admirers into all varioties of dissipation. Take the professional boxers as an for over sixteen years and has been a boxing instructor ever since. There are several living ex-boxers who are past seventy. Jem Maci and seve: boxers opening, or the can be stitched gether and the neck edge of the blouse supplied with @ cas- We ri grounds, and is surrounded by a park . The ri ladiator, lived to be eigtty or more, while the morning on the ing and ribbon by he.can readily Ve think he can, When tired of one spot of 200 acres. Ten thousand tons of | than. ee ‘other athlete, -sasociares | list of septuagenarians of ring history aubway, or that means of which It readily remove himself to another, fron and 500 tons of glass were used | with a class of men addicted to the| Includes Barney Aaron, the old light- they take the same car ing home can drawn up #0 —————++-—____ in its construction. Great football | consumption of booze in large quan-| weight champion; Dooney Harris, | they A baby was born on the battleship Utah. Does Secretary and cricket contests are held within its walls before 100,000 spectators. titles, and few are able to resist the temptation to drink to excess, In at night, is not sufficient justification Rill Clark, John Pyburn, John Mor. | fi MiEDt te et eee of the most im- rissey, Ed Price, Joe Coburn, Tom Ql- that the blouse can be slipped over the portant conventional laws and speak- bead. She model ee . Many industrial, commercial and ar- ite of this general failing, however, |!ver, Bill Tovee, Tom Hyer, Pat ot sort charming one Daniels's famous order bar nursing bottles? tistic gxbibitions Baye Rese, staged in|and in spite of the fact that’ most Rally, Rage! hwy etn am oteeiet me wit cortatal at Iy be ‘annoyed a ‘iis’ oad blouse Crystal Palace, and it has also been| boxers often have to undergo sieges | Dunn, and a host others. . "t the scene of many notable publio| of training to take off flesh which has been nearly thirty years |S54 possibly frightened. If she isn that is in demand at ‘herings, athletic events and music tivals, are nothing short of cruel, moet pro- fessional boxers probably live longer the right sort the young man does himself no good by making her ac- quaintance, An introduction by some one who it since the professional aix-day walk- ing game began to decline, yet a great hi pion pedestrians of those days still in the land of seasons. For the ki both is th ly proper way ored, soft material, i tho living and able to walk faster and|knows both is the only such as crepe poe mai nr tents, Anata. ing of the mining sections but of Hits From Sharp Wits farther tha the ranioniy ot vounes for & young man and Noman whe hing ‘coxton vote, vening Wo Junea stran, andkerchie: In answer to “Charles's” letter, tet | ae a mG. at advantages of) honesty, and it's the poorest evidence #ters, although those relics of an) are he inen me tell of an experience I had in the } ty ie ma fay. I gave up my seat to IT notic an article vi who never even looked my way | policemen working Ape ieee Uae Or thanked me. As soon as she was|Now, I know personally several seated comfortably I, hanging on a| policemen and know of many police- 4n front of her, leaned her way| men living on Staten Islan and waid, “Beg pa ) What did you| working in the region of One Hun- ” Bhe said, said nothing.”|dredth street and other uptown ‘Oh, pardon me, | neighborhoods, to say nothing of id ‘thank you.’ She | many working in the Old Slip, Church ‘assed, and while It street, Beach street, Oak street, Eliz- I think it was a per-|abeth street, Macdougal atreet, Clin- ebuke for some thank. | ton street and Charle et stations, dd. Now, If all these me mnot be put on Btaten Island wouldn't it be just 8 well for all concerned if mn I exclaimed, ‘thought you it highly em! vot rud in Alnska, Fo the Rdiror of The Krening World the British Columbian man, spending tt you do not anything else nings at home is that a chance to spend w Orleans States, ee All men are ‘born free and equal, but the majority of them marry later on.—Philadelphia Inquirer, eee Many a man puts up @ bold front when he {s suffering trom @ weak back.—Macon Telegraph. eee A man can slways speak fluently on the faults of his neighbor, but the virtues are a@ silent issue—Macon Telegraph. Islanders in the uptown stations whose letter appeared recently, or|were put on duty in the downtown by other reader, advise a resource- | stations instead of men li in up- to the!town New York? think. readers think? Tact is made up in equal parts of @ilence, deafness and blindness. Poverty tan alwabs eritence of when it ia. eee The world’s work is done by men who never listen when some one says that a thing cannot be done,—Albany Journal. eee Tips make trouble, but no tips make more trouble,—Nasbville Banner, It looks as if a good many of our champion American sportsmen would hold @ reunion in London some time next summer.—Boaton Tranecript. ° The eternal fitness of things seems to be a compound of an immense num- ber of mistits. eee Even those who live on flattery fed Sino eee Hews tal between News: acquainted, A Tactless Young Man. “W. A.” writes: ‘The other night @ young lady to whom I have been paying attention asked me up to her house, While I was there her father antique sport are mostly pa: and several past seventy. It has been declared that few men who have won athletic glory in Amer- fean colleges have lived past middle age. This may be true. One reasoi is that American college athletes hab: itually overwork in t to win athletic honors ant on their hearts and put too heavy a strain on them. Another reason, 8 and probably | te principal ant, i that most. college men plun; into business or professional life and be- | forgive me until I apologize to come so engrossed in it that they |! do not think T was in the wrong, goon neglect to exercise, The fact | Ut will you please tell me what to that a man has been an athlete in his| 4, as I love this girl very much?" youth can't be expected to him| ‘There was nothing morally wicked from the penalties of wrong living in|@bout what you did, but it was de- later years, The boy who exercises |Cidedly tactiess. 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