The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1914, Page 16

ven The E CRAM sor. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. New York as y aecond.Ciaas Matter. Evening| For England and t' in the International ital Union. red at the Poy Ottice The “Budseripiion Kat $3.80] One Year.. .3010ne Mont! A STATE SCANDAL. OW many more tens of millions of dollars are to be 3 H i p barge canal. Has State or city benefited by eo much as a dollar? On the contrary, Erie Canal traffic has been so hindered and, 4 hampered that east-bound tonnage to this city has fallen off more than | hundred thousand tons. The year before the improvement was "begun total traffic on the canal amounted to 6,457,000 tons. Last: it had fallen to 2,602,000 tons. While. work on New York's waterway has dragged along with | § Seatdalous slowness, the Panama Canal has been completed. As Sec- * etary Gardner, of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, | a “ipelni out in a letter to The Evening World: 3 ‘The Panama Canal is opened for traffic. Cargoes of heavy eer ener aes u and bulky materials can be brought around from Pacific Coast ie. os ports to New York at much less than ra{iroad freight rates. : and If we had the Erie Canal completed these shipments could be Xa * forwarded, with but a single transfer at New York, to Chicago i} f and other cities on the Great Lakes at rates below present overland charges. It is of vital importance that this new Panama Canal traffic be established through the port of New York. If by our own unpreparedness it is diverted into other ports like Balti- more, Norfolk, New Orleans and Galveston, it will tend to fix itself in those routes. We can never regain it, and our loss ‘will be very great. The Zrie Canal Job is not even half completed. New York is losing, losing—millions im trade, millions in interest on the $100,000,000 already spent. The Canal Board is composed of the Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary ‘of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney-General, State Engineer and Superintendent of Public Works, Are these public servants satisfied with progress? ————————— A GREAT DISFIGUREMENT. With deep regret New Yorkers watch the tearing up of the Central Park Plaza. The building of the Fifty-ninth street subway means that the Sherman statue must move to a new foundation north of Bixtieth street. Planking, derricks and loading platforms will spoil one of the sightliest corners of the city for no one knows how long. It seems unfortunate that the excavation openings could not have been kept inside the walls of Central Park at the Fifty-ninth street corner, where they could be concealed by neat, high fences, leaving only tunnel work under the Plaza itself. The Plasa is in many respects the finest, most {mpressive open space in Manhattan. The park, the fine buildings, the Fifth avenue vistas north and south, combine to make it a metropolitan centre of exceptional charm. Have the subway contractors done all that can be expected of them to minimize the havoc they mean to make of it? eee ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. UBLIC DEMAND for lower telephone rates in Greater New P York becomes day by day more insistent. The Evening World’s long campaign which resulted in the pending inquiry oe of the up-State Public Service Commission has aroused telephone mesers throughout the city to join in the fight for their rights. bes If the New York Telephone Company drags the Public Service 4}, Dommission into more blind alleys of evasion and delay, then sub- ‘p ScTibers here mean to appeal to the Legislature. ot * Already the line of action urged by this newspaper, requiring every ) degislative candidate from New York City to state clearly his attitude ; toward cheaper telephone rates, has boen widely adopted. Eleven vic and taxpayers’ associations in Brooklyn and Queens have drafted a @ letter to be sent to all Assembly and Senate candidates in the two prougls. The letter will ask the candidate for a “definite expres- ion” as to how he stands “toward securing from the Legislature a | ereduction in rates charged for telephone service and equipment in ae New York, so that the rates charged in New York City will pare favorably with those charged in other cities in this country.” Ten associations of citizens and rea) estate owners in Manhattan: , and the Bronx have addressed similar letters to their legislative can- Gidates. if the New York Telephone Company has been waiting for con- g @lusive evidence that the public is serious in demanding that the pres- eat excessive telephone tolls be revised, it need wait no longer. It 3 may be able to hoodwink the Public Service Commission a while Aonger. But telephone ueers in this city will not rest until they have secured a new basis of just charges. Whether through the Public Service Commission or through the i Legislature: A five-cent phone for all New York must come, dap WR Own wane? ‘af i 3 i © */ i Im The World Almanac. To the Editor of The Evening Word: Bh Bes Ge Bitar of Te Rrening Word About a week ago I saw a lntiae - from a reader remarking t ‘est Point Academy? Ley: 4 @ence of the neutrality attr w fn a certain movie theatre and saying | 7 the Editor of The Evening he feared » rict there some night. On what day of the week aa on, Wor the benefit of our readers would 10, 1900, fall? . 8 ow “way I went to this theatre last night, | ® apd the proclamation signed by “Woodrow Wilson was shown on the gereen. I wualifications, &o., ‘TD the Editor of The Evening W: hd For the benefit of tho: - pronunciation of the word Przem as the natives ‘triple, Hy final “1” is pronounced like the ted, and the mothers of | “le” st “double.” It is a very p: geld well pray for him, as sons for them by ing World Daily Ma Ly Perens Company, Nos, 63 te he Continent and the Erie Canal before taxpayers demand to know why the widen: | ing and deepening of this important waterway fs never finished— | Ten years and $100,000,000 have been spent on improving this, | He did not ask Mr. Jarr to “take care Where can I find directions and about rering whi know, allow me to give The correct tty and when one gets by hearin it it sounds jut aa as a a most ordering, the nati nuth it glides fen auc ivst ves mo just as smoothly as chmalts® aga Octo obes f 13: 1914 You Never Can Tell «xt#htys, By THAVE To WORK AT MY OFFICE To NIGHT Wifey FispLesTick! ANOTHER EXCUSE Bao ANGOING | | | ltaave Tone AT MY areics To NIGHT WIFEY DEAR ISN'T (T You Trust Rt MT Too HARD, al DEAR. IMPLiciTLY | PeRSontrran OF TRUTH ! fa The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Deprright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World). FHAAAAASALABBAAAS FAAABSAAAAAAA BAAS bimself, in a most delicate manner. ‘The band pla,ed its most ragsedy ragtime for the profusely generous young man—evidently this was not his first visit—the colored comedian tipped the waiter, the colored orches- tra, and, if Mr. Jarr was not mis- taken, he sent a generous remem- brance to the chef, the while he banded something to the manager for T Cheese Hill Inn a warm welcome was accorded the party in the great gray torpedo boat, which fired a salute as it came along- side. That tire burst with ter- rific detonation, and Cecil Dedring- ham turned the vehicle over to the auto men connected with the road house. Though late in the season, many other motorists and their friends had gathered at Cheese Hill Inn to pay twice as much for food and drink as they would be charged at any other place of the kind, hence Cheese Hill Inn could justly claim it “catered only to an exclusive and select clientele.” Only the exclusive! 9 who remains modest, not when and select could pay the prices. he ts rT blamed, After they bad dined and wined, Fy ration sy ee BEES Mr. Jarr felt the psychological mo- ment bad come. Many persons are} To young women: If you wish to confused as to just what is meant| become acquainted with your be- by the phrase “the psychological mo-|trothed travel with him for a few ment.” Not eo Mr. Jarr. He knew! daye—especially if he is accompanied the psychological moment was when! by his own family—and take your the waiter brought the check. But| mother along. Cecil Dedringham never fiinched. Wit, Wisdom «<4 Philosophy Gems of Thought By Great Authors “WHOLESOME TRUTHS.” HE truest love is the most timid; the faleest is the boldest. By Jean Paul Richter. pesaet ig not their intelligence or irtue, but thelr comeliness or i A man may safely say to Pd wife: “You are stupider than I.” just let him say once: “You ire jomelier than I." Association with men of the world marr the heart; communion with nature expands it. Satan is @ scarecrow set up by the clergy in “he spiritual vineyard. 5 T Bo easily are we impressed by num- bers that even a dozen wheelbarrows in succession seem imposing. Of all human qualities modesty is most easily stifled by fumes of in- cense or of sulphur; anc praise is often more hurtful in censure. Reform: © constantly forgetting that the hour hand cannot fail to make progress if only the minute hand keeps moving. of if He met the check with a countercheck, at least @ pocket check, and not only that but he drew con- siderably over the bill and received it back in change and generously Hits From Sharp Wits. Bome persons take advice so that they may bave some one to blame if their undertakings fail. ee It 1s the misfortune of the bachelor that h no one to tell him frankly of bis faults—but the husband has this happiness, The Indians mistook the clothes of the first European they saw for the body. We mistake them for the soul It te of Mttle avail that fortune us rich if our desires make ur A man ought never to be more de- liberately attentive to his wife than after making @ present, in order to Nghten the 86 Of obligation, Marriages are se unha: because The base, drum, makes the most! men canhot make up Reale’ calatan te noise in a band, but it wouldn't be) substitute love force and argu- missed if it were out.—Albany Jour-| ments, and because they wish to at- nal, | tain their purpose by might and right. It 1s not alwaya the b plays the part of king, stage or in real lif ctor that er on the The head, like the stomach, is most easily infected with poison when It ts mpty. ‘The whole constitution of the Eng- Mah is like that ‘factured cloth which may not have a fair gloss but Love increases in strength with If ignorance were bliss most of us years and diminishes in its outward ‘would be so hould choke. hat ie manifestation, ts capable of standing bad weather, man who drinks from the cu; Men of imagination more easily] The timid f of sonee Nas ne siphon on the side.” | make up with « ladylove when she {s| cowardl: absent than when she is present. Omaha World-Herald, geous after it is over. . rary Jealousy constitutes the sole differ- ence between love and friendship. Friendship has therefore one pleasure and love one pain the more. Between no two things are the re- semblance and the antipathy stronger than between critic and author, un- less it be between wolf and dog. Many a bright college graduate has wished he knew as much as hi thought he knew when he entered the freshman year.--Milwaukee Sentinel, | c 48 The alarm clock often does for a man what hic conscience can't do.— Toledo Blade, | One should never hope to live com- Ip fond of reading re- ‘fortably with a wife with whom one \bas quarreiled as a bride. | . The boss a &@ small job does the If you are unable to refute an ar. ment you fin it with the way iy which it is put. Female virtue ts ts the slowing cross merly, in ordeals, women Tus bear Strom the font to the altar in order to be imnocent, yous give people the kind of aay, want they will hold it goes“wrong.—Al- a ele ty betes ace mere epadten: ii than wi are Censuring © third “id ‘be vanity of women is hurt by dle» itz” | advice cea Aye Maurice Ketten mpi. acing piston 4 1a ace jn ny 8. ae ANH ASA. FS SS SS SS Mr. Jarr’s Faith in His Fellow Man Is Completely Restored. | HSS SE EE | |sang to Mr. Dedringham and his Party, and when Mrs. Clara Mud- ridge-Smith wanted to dance the! Argintinetto, when others present de- | sired the simpler fox trot, why Ar-| gintinetto it was. Young Mr. Dedringham was as courteous as he was considerate. He explained to the solicitous manager of the Cheese Hill Inn that he had only recently discovered this beautiful and| finely conducted resort. And when the manager murmured, “And we hope we will continue to be favored with your patronage,” the boy mill-| jonatre laughed and said, “Well, not) as much as I would like. I've got to retrench, you know. Why, this war and the closing of the stock market has cut my income half a million a year. Why, when one of my chauf- feurs disappeared with one of my cars last week I felt rather relieved than otherwise, Nine cars are too many for an unmarried man.” And when he sald “unmarried man” he loo! significantly at both the Miss Cackle- berries, and the fair Gladys cried, “I'm just going to kiss you, so there!” And she kissed him on the brow, and Mrs, Mudridge-Smith thought she shouldn't, and Mrs, Jarz said it was just girlish artlessness, But still Mr, Jarr felt it in his bones that these things were myths, unreal, Such things také place in moving pictures, in popular magazine stories, on the stage. But in rea} life, never! But as young Mr, Dedringham pressed a gold case of flac cigars upon Mr, Jarr, and begged him to keep both cigars and vostiy diamond studded case as a souvenir of a pleas- ant evening, Mr. Jarr grew dazed. Every solid belief of his life wi shattered. There WERE rea! mill- ionaires, they DID spend their money | generously and lavishly on the just | and unjust, “Oh, I say, old top!” said the young! millionaire, “don't forget you have a summons to go to court for me! [ dare not go. It would mean jail. You ern be a first offender, and if it is more than this-— ard he pressed fifty dollars into Mr. Jarr's hands. “Well, just leave Mr. Jarr at the! night court, then,” suggested Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, “and, Cecil, vou can | go back for him in the car after you take us home,” But when Mr. court with Cecil snapped the bra on him, “For | etealing Mr, Vandergilt’s car and} ee bad checks!" explained the Jarr stepped summons they | into | detective. bis faith in his iyiey man had hie ad¥or of “American Fash-|0f gowns made in thelr own work- fons for American Women” recognize | Fons and a ye a kedepe 4 the | o great movement in motion, ani the European situation as their | | pendent on Jan Mr, Jarr laughed aloud, | |, Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HE words of the Cynic: I Alas, my Daughter! for every mania there iss season an@ time for every fad under the sua— A time to flirt and a time to be serfous, A time to marry and a time to STOP marrying. A time to “tip” and a time to “kick.” A time to kiss and a time to scrap. A time to trust a husband—and a time to WATCH him. And, likew: @ time to do thy Fall Shopping! Lo! what profit hath a woman of all the men whereon she wasteth her emiles, and of all the clothes whereon she wasteth her substance? For one man calleth and another ceaseth to call; one style goeth an@ another cometh before morning. Tight skirts have passed away and full skirts shall follow them; hips have disappeared and corsets are no more; figures and hair have been cast aside, and we know not when FACES shall go out of fashion! Lo! upon Tuesday I purchased a Redingote—and upon Wednesday I “twenty-two minutes late” and as obsolete as a topical song from Inset year's opera. In September I adorned myself in PLAITS—and in October I was as passe as last year's joke. I searched the highways for the latest hat; but ere I had pinned {t om 1 was out-of-date. Tn the spring I found a soul-mate who thought me !deal; but by autumn he had found another “Ideal.” 1 said, “Verily, verily, I am truly 1 ved!" myself forgotten for a strawberry soubrette. I bought me a new complexion; and ere it had come from the shop, lo! they were no longer WRARING complexions. 1 said, “I will learn the Maxixe and the Hesitation;" and behold, when I had made my feet behave they were dancing only the FOX TROT, and once more I was a wall-flower. I said, “I will buy me a pair of long carrings and become a siren and @ vampire!” And lo! the SQUAB hath come along—and I am In the back row! Verily, verily, WHERE are the Bulgarian fashions, the Mexican Sita tion, Mary Garden, Mrs. Pankhurst and the fish-hook girl? Fer the “sensations” of yesterday are forgotten to-day; end the fads of to-day shall be the “jokes” of to-morrow. And there {is nothing staler than last year’s song, last season's fashions, last summer's girl, yesterday's dinner and last night’s kiss! Sel nd upen the morrow I found Now New York Is “Fashion Centre.” AS that beautiful gown re- ally designed and made tn New York?" was a query stinct. Patrons are delighted with the result, and who knows where it may lead to? Y The fashionable women of td overheard in’ a prominent shop*the} York City are now planning a other day, and when assured such} ion exhibit will display Hand: some costumes designed and made in‘ New York. They hope to arouse the American spirit and create a demand for American fashions. Some of our leading shops are featuring displ was the case the speaker continued: “Why, one wouldn't think it! It looks every bit as smart as an im- ported creation. ultimate result will depend upon success attained by the Americas couturiers during this season of pro- bation. New York City strongest ally and are putting forth every effort to gain the confidence of | American fashionable dressers. Whether lasting success will crown their efforts remains to be seen. Just now, however, our designers are having things pretty much thelr own way, and with the great possi- bilities at hand there is every proa- pect that American fashions will re~ In the meantime jis the acknowledged fashion centre That Paris recognizes this is appare ent in the fact that prom! t French designers are now see! and securing employment with our leading dressmakers. There seems to be war In the very air, for even in fashions there le the ceive the deserved recognition and| warlike attitude, There is, for ine patronage of American women, At] stance, the coal situation, The long this crisis the New York modiste !s| effects are sleging against the shorter displaying the usual American spirit. She is making the best of the early imported models on hand, and with no Paris ideas available ts develop- ing the innate creative fassion in- lengths for supremacy, and it still re- mains to be seen which will conquer, In the Interim women are appear- ing in the coat which best suits thelr fancy. Chapters from a Woman’s Life By Daie Drummond Copyright, 1914, by The Hess Vublishing Co, (The New York Evealag World), CHAPTER XCill, ing constantly, start often waking with @ I pretended to be asleep, but ACK telephoned from the) T should have surcly been deaf had I | station Monday morning not "sensed "something “serious was ” vas better | troubling him. n the morn he J eat ne tne ve eige, (looked worn and tired, as though he and that she had been de-}peaeg to go back to bed instead of to lighted to see him. ithe office. When I spoke of it and “Were there any messages?” he of his restlessness in the night be seemed much perturbed. “Did I talk in my sleep, Sue?" “Yes, you muttered all night long.” “What did 1 say?” anaiously I thought R “Oh, nothing that T ‘could mal out, It was all rambling and dis- connected,” A look of relief came over bis face as he said jestingly: “It's a good thing I've nothing to hide, isn't it?" I thughed, “indeed it ist 1 should soon know if you were carrye ing on an affair with any one.” “An affair? Oh, yes. 1 didn't know what you meant at first. Just as though I would have any te o have an ‘affair’ when I have kissing me. ‘Do you really feel like that yet?” T asked, It had been some time elnee he had made so lover-like a speeob to me. Why, asked, his voice sounding anxious. “Not a thing! 1 stayed In all the time you were gone for nothing.” “I'm sorry, but I guess it didn't hurt you,” he laughed. I was pleased to hear him laugh, as his plainly shown anxiety anent @ message puzzled me. From whom had he expected a call? And what was the nature of it that he should be so relieved not to receive it? He gave me some kind messages from his mother to me and the chil- dren, then telling me he would be at home for dinner, rang off, When he unpacked his bag that night he handed me a sealed letter. “Mother sent this to you. You see she requests you not to open it while she lives.” Then, seeing my surprise, “L expect it may refer to father. Bhe is too sensitive to talk about it and perhaps thinks you should know the particulars, That is only a guess, however. She may want you to have some of her personal property when she dies, A littie Jewelry and @ few clothes will be all she will have to Poor wom: “Why do you say ‘poor woman? "| turing the letter over and wishing 1 knew the contents, “I have never told you much about our family affairs. 1t wasn't a pleas- ant subject. But when I was small we were very well off. In fact until after I entered college we had every- thing we wanted. Then after fyher died mother w duced to being de- It must have been “L certainly do, dear, other women I see can't hold a Zante to you for looks, cleverness or peze- “ You have them all skinned a hted at his praise, I was about to reply when the telephone rang, ‘There's your message now, haps!” £ exclaimed. Jack did not answer, but grew pare fectly ashen as he went to the phos closing the door. 1 couldn't hear, bi could not help but notion the looks relief on his face when he called me, “What was it?” “Oh, only one of the boys over at the club! ‘There's a man’s game on to-night and they want me over,” “Shall you go “Yes, 1 think I have a hunch 1 shall win to-night, The Lord knows L need to! “AN rh mnt and ‘good luck,” I called after hir he closed the door, T found the magazine, pute other things he had taken cures ‘they belonged, and then put th etter froin his mother in my prival in the desk, If I had known ‘wnat wax in it, [| MIGHT have saved. sh thiol changing (he sub- (Talking of his father always ed Jack.» “Who did you ex- pee telephone that you Kept me in all for nothing? it must have been very important “It would have been had it ma- terialized.” “So you aren't going to tell me?" I Bed. answered shorily. “And that you don’t know,” trick he had when UF la SY CAS SEL Shae, NARS Rae rh tea So cate that happened afterward—I for as T look back I stupidly dumb where eee 1d, So, nowing, I might have N