The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 8

A HUGE GRAB. AXPAYERS in this State have already seen $70,000,000 of their money disappear in dawdling, intermittent attempts to get on ™ with the Erie Canal improvement. / Now they are presented with additional bills amounting to $000,000 by railroads, owncts of water-power rights, farmers and ws who see a fine chance to raid the State treasury for al- bd damages to their property. Figures compiled for The Evening Gemonstrate the amazing fact that, with claims now presented s expected, the State will be asked to foot « damage bill as fas the entire estimated cost of enlarging the canal system! After all, can we wonder at it? Work on this groat undertaking the people of New York voted $101,000,000 in 1903 has on with delay and wasto, continually held up and complicated wranglings and changes of policy. Is it surprising that fate greed has seen its advantage in the confusion and marked the project for fat pickings? © -HGov. Whitman is wise he will call for a prompt auditing of the i of waterways improvement in this State. ‘Taxpayers have Bight to know how the work they have paid for now stands, They Sweetest against being mulcted of millions more to settle fancy dam- a oo {raprovements to furnish work for the un- ptroller, who declares the city cafnot feel that after secing millions of their into the pockets of cunning contractors, they are @ chance on what extravagance there may be from the needy. A CHANGE IN MR. M'CALL. GATHER that some of the light Chairman McCall of tho P. 8. C. prescribed for the subway has filtered into his own soul. in days ago Mr. McCall went on record as saying: Wooden cars will be permitted in the subway until the | Public Service Commission has made a thorough investigation. We will act when we get ready. No amount of popular hys- "teria can ccare us or force us. Steel care cost money and take ‘time to build. If the Interborough's earnings wore ten times than they are they would not affect our judgment. the same Mr. McCall wrote to the President of the jh over his own signature: ‘The Commission is of the vpinion that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company should replace com cars now operating in the subway at the ecartiest possible moment, and, ‘qceerdingly request the forwarding immediately to the Com- ‘mleston the earliest practicable dates, and not later than May 1, 1918, upon which you can secure delivery of cars or car bodies 1 fer he purpose of effecting euch substitution, { ‘Grim fects prove powerful allies of the public clamor which professed to scorn. ‘ ———_.4-2______ ‘Will Use Movies to Show Crowding on B. R. T. Lines.— gi 6 Another public service corporation that sees in human fag caly nickel-producing cattle. ee - THE TIME TO BUILD. Pp RICES for building materials are away down. They are lower than they are likely to be again for a decade.” Members of tho New York Building Material Ex- j@, who represent intereats that handle each yoar $150,000,000 of builders’ supplies in this city, reported at their annual dinner that the building impulse which has been shy for seven past is beginning to take notice of the above facts. ” Bulléers who have projects under way have been inquiring fer prices for great quantities of materials, and in a tone that Seems to imply an impending boom in the business. ) Ancrease of building activity is the first and surest sign of return- « ce. It means that manufacturers are ready to enlarge tr ontput, that private owners are again confidently investing their Building material is cheap, labor is both cheap and plentiful. we are reminded that 1915's slogan of prosperity is ‘Expend, Expand, Expect. Most everything is now clear concerning the murder of Barnet Raf except who killed him. Hits From Sharp Wits not expect many favors.—Macon eae After a man is broke he begins to entertain a few serious thoughts of economy.—Commercial Appeal, * 8 ° has little to No smart man ever tries to con- vince a fool that Baad fool i foolish, . There are people who act as if they thought they it to be patted Back: for a se thelr fo: Blade. will keep tha th luty.—"To- ledo ¥ . ° . hopping if not warm.— e 28 6 gite still and earns her corn, few men who can 8 A self-made man is always natis- fled with bis architect.—ioston Tran- acript. ; ee ? man who is with bim- mam with » bad memory should eis se 6 Ita usually the cha; care what Philed iphia Inquirer. JUST ONE PIECE HUBBY DEAR . Don'T BE So HUBBY PEAR . The Jarr Family By Roy L. ITAND on your tiptoea and eee if Mr. Jarr is in that place, with that man Rangle,” whispered Mrs. Jarr, as she and Gertrude Passed Gus's popular cafe on the o-r- ner, Not even to Gertrude, her light running domestic, and in her con- fidence in many things, would Mrs. Jarr imply that Mr. Jarr—even when ahe was angriest at him—would go into such places unless coerced and dragged into them against his will by such characters, lust to all moral sense, as that man Rangle. Strange to aay, Mrs. Rangle held a like opin- fon of the meretricious effects of Mr, Jarra action and example upon Mr. Rangle. Gertrude could have gone in Gus's place by the family entrance, and, after knocking ut the little window for growlera, could have inquired of Elmer, Gus'’a aasiatant chemist. But when with Mra, Jarr Gertrude pro- feased a ladylike ignorance of side doors and growler windows. 8o she stood on tiptoe to look in the win- dow cad reported that neither Mr, Jerr nor Mr, Rangle was inside Gusta place. “L thought as much!" enapped Mrs. Jarr, “That man Rangle has taken him to that ball!’ Ob, I remembered the place it Is being held and wrote it down!" But Mr, Ri jo was at home with sciatica, while Mre, Rangle was “heaping coals of fire” in ghe shape of hot onion poultices, Yet Mr. Jarr was at the ball and in company of | One of even more careless ways of | life than the greatly misjudged Ran- ‘gle. He was with Michael Angelo Dinkston, Harlem's leading poet. And ;einge the days of the firet troube- j Viders, tavern huuteie ed inie hour keopera and in oth Teapects are CK upon a time there was tters From the People eed or merely “Wooden Cart” Many Words travellers in the subway cannot dis: ¢ Ft car Lote nweamnenscaet anasate |dours, posts are notoriously poor pro- | ° Fables of Everyday Folks | McCardell not improving company for staid married men. The Wee HE HAVE On Evi ! i ON MY IKNEES JUST ONE . IN Ew HABIT GE Ne BACK MY OLD FAAABAAAASAABASAADAARPALAASABARAAS AA Mr. Jarr Breaks Into Society By a 50-Cent Hat Che ck Route PHL KOE TT The ball of the Human Uniques was being held in the Harlem Bon ‘Ton Assembly Rooms. This was & large edifice devoted to dancing, with k’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1018, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), “6 ITH all the investigations that are under way, they about that subway accident,” marked the head polisher, “They can investigate until the English sparrows sing like canary birds,” said the laundry man, “and they won't learn any more than the accident estabiivned all by itself, The suine being that when the power is shut off in the aubway the men ip re charge of the trains don’t know what has nappened, except that they have Ro juice to move the cars, “Phere has been # lot sald about! the action of the conductors and guards who kept the car doors closed and refused to permit the passengers to get out and walk. Under the cir- cumatances, the conductors and guards acted properly. ‘They had reagon to expect that the might be switched on again at minute, It was no part of their usiness to turn thousands of pas- ngern loose to dispute the right of way with trains, “Apparently the operating heads of the Interborough didn't know just what had happened, elth: ‘The fret blow-off happened jereadouts; a th rH 1° ret waa automatically the third rail. The ®Ourn-out in the eplicing chamber was not discovered until more than an hour later, when it blew off the steel doo! “The firet thing the r. subway needs ts & system of telephone communication by which news of an accident can be flashed the length of the system. A telephone line along each wall, with dingbats every fifty feet or #0 to which conductor might attach a port- cadooey, would do the trick. The hone could be connected with some official who has authority to give rders. “Of course, thid would require some initiative—a quality the Interhoroygh ta That corporation hae been a it _went easily. This woman lived through t! known soolety routine. breakfast in bed and her maids to at- tend her, and her dinner parties and Selese. Baring & that and the well Soa BP Bhe had her the forced to make every improvement it has inaugurated. rhe think up @ safety system, the Interborough will buy it speedily enough.” eo How to Live on $6 Per. $ Da neaanaaaanamanaaanaanaatll 66] LEARNED,” said the head pol- Isher, “from a witness before the State Factory Commission {the other day that employers expect jtheir employees to be as efficient in living as they are in working—said ef- ficiency consisting in living on $6 a “The gentleman who stated that there is efficiency in living as well as in working spoke the truth, with spe- cial reference to this city,” said the laundry man. “There are hundreds of thousands of men in New York who are rearing and educating large fam- ies on from $12 to $18 a week. “It is done by a combination of self- denial and efficiency on the part of husband and wife. The children are kept healthy and fat, the insurance is paid promptly and in a considerable percentage of instances surplus money is put in the savings bank or in real estate. We hear a lot of clamor about the clerk who starves on $6 a week, and nothing at all about the house- neiter whe brings up a family on $1 a week.” \66 Bes ‘that Billy Sunday, the gym- mastic evangelist, refers to this city as ‘rotting, stinking, corroding, oreee. hell-ridden, devil-beridden New York.'” “Gee!” said the laundry man, “I hope he doesn’t come here and see the white apata and white topped shoos the girls are wearing, then he might ‘us @ real roast. pe|the blasing portals of the Harlem ONE errererrer rrr rrr r se hat checking and bar privileges, Any association might hold a dance there for a song ¢o long as the proprietors of the place retained the wardrobe and bar privileges, These privileges consisted of taking the hats from the gentlemen who attended and! |chareing 60 cemts for so doing. The bar privilege consisted in vending \beera with so much foam that they looked Itke chi¥lotte rusnes, Mr. Jarr and Mr. Dinkston entered Bon Ton Assembly Rooms, but first Mr. Dinkston cautioned Mr. Jarr to conceal his hat under his coat. “Mine isn't worth 60 cents,” he con- fessed. “And do you mean to tell me that after I paid a dollar apiece for the) tlekets I shall have to pay fifty cents) for checking my hat?” Mr. Dinkston nodded. Mr. Jarr tucked his soft hat under his coat and followed after his more socially sophisticated friend. At the frat landing two beetie- browed young men in evening dress but wearing tan shoes and large crimson and tinsel badges stopped them. “Frisk the other simp, Rocco!” cried one, who held up Mr. Jarr. “Bure dey got their kelleys under their bennies!” “But dis gink ain't got a gat on) him, Has de odder got a smoke wag-| on on him? asked the second beeti browed doorman. | “Naw!” was the disgusted reply.) “Let 'em 60, Dey belong to the freak/ bail upstairs!” And then Mr. Jarr noticed some weird looking human beings go past him and ascend to an upper ball- room, He thought et first it was a) masquerade ball above. But whe: he entered the ballroom Fatima, the} obese lady, threw her arme around| him with a glad cry and introduced him to Madam Rosa, the Bearded Lady, and to George, the Turtle Boy. It was indeed a ball of Huma: Uniques! vide funds for the hobble skirts in Africa,” or to “study psychology of the laboring man,” or to “conduct researches in working girls’ boudoire,” a check was made out and the woman felt “How cbari- am L" Snow it came to pase that & Dg war . See ere So ladeg sth Satcnaes t By Sophie Irene Loeb > Bhe n to be careful about what she did with her money. Other mines kept closii and pretty soop she had ¢@ live o1 wrowed cash un- Sayings of ; Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyetget, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Ov, (The New Yore Srantag World), ‘ Y DAUGHTER, who is eo fascinating as a meek and clinging: Dameel? Lo! her Humility covereth her as a garment, and the that-will- ff glorifieth her countenance. = She acketh » man's “opinions”; she seeketh his JUDGMENT. She looketh UP to him, saying: “Oh, DO tell me ALL about it!” And, behold, she is justified. For, it is given unto a woman to know but one or two things; but MAN knoweth many things; and there is nothing under the sun of which! he cannot tell thee how it SHOULD be done. F Verily, verily, he can “explain” unto thee the Rockefeller system for making millions, even while thou mendest his last year's overcoat, makest over thy last season's hat, and wonderest wherewith the rent shall be paid and how thou shalt get a new dinner-gown, Yea, he can elaborately describe unto thee his mighty scheme for UNIVERSAL PEACE, even though his right-hand neighbor doth not speak Unto him and his left-hand neighbor crosseth the street when they pass. Behold, how ekilfully he explaineth the methods of the Secret Service unto thee, and how plainly he comprehendeth all the workings of Sherlock Holmes; yet, peradventure, it is THOU who must find the morning paper” on which he is sitting, and the razor, which he hath left upon the window- still, and his collar button, and his shoehorn, and his combs and his brushes, and all the things wherewith he adorneth himself in the morning, ‘etitty. may go forth a thing of beauty and a shining light tn the com- munity, Yea, observe how he understandeth the secrets of wireless telegraphy, and the mechanism of aeroplanes and automobiles, which ere all as black- magic unto thy simple little mind. Yet a Pullman car window shall mock him, and a fractious lock shall cause him hours of struggle and dismay; whereas THOU couldet have opened it in five minutes, with a broken Yea, how wise are his judgments! For, behold, how he urgeth upon thee the value of “exercise,” with the carpet-sweeper and the yacuum cleaner; yet how cheerfully he payeth the hireling to run the lawn-mower and weed the flower beds, when the vernal season cometh. Yea, how he mocketh at thy passion for silly matinees, and thine interest in Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Campbell, and Genee and Barrymore/ yet mark his Indignation when thou refusest to accompany him unto an “Intellectual Show,” euch as the “Gladiator Girls” or the “Parisian Peaches!” Lo! how he revileth thee, when thou addest four pages of Dostecript unto one page of letter. Yet, when HE hath finished writing a letter, mark how calmly he goeth out and spendeth five dollars that he may TELDPHONE, at long distance, that which he hath “forgotten” to write, Oh, verily, verily, my Daughter, how wonderful is the Masculine | couree, but think how much harder til good times should come again. patarelly, there had to be a check on ving. ‘she, beard of she prazalens Gates “worthy fhe abe asked to « Intellect; how sane are its jadgments, and how perfect its REASONING! ' Yea, how blessed is the woman who can lean thereon! adie her ways shall be made plain, and all her life “cut out” for her!' Y SUNGLE TALES FOR CHILDREN—sy FARMER smiTH I8STER FLEA was sitting on bis foot on his shadow. the end of Jimmy Monkey’s| “Ouch!” came a voice, tail one afternoon, wondering| Jimmy jumped at this, for he what he could do to tease Jimmy, when the furry fellow happened to look down and see his shadow. “I wonder if my shadow can talk?” asked Jimmy of himself. He looked again and he heard a voice say. “Obba Dubbety.” “Goodness!” exclaimed Jimmy to bimeelf. “That must be shadow language. I wonder what my shad- ow's name réally is.” “Lallaputchetata.” “Just then Jimmy got up and put t time,” the “Obba Dubbety.” guilt, “Obba” Dubbety you." immy, as he chasi: Flea, who bad i] “Tm go dizzy. I wish I hadn't tried to tease Jimmy. He may not shadow language, but he knows my voice.” Chapters from a Woman’s Life | By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1015, by ‘The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Brenang Word), CHAPTER OXXIX. selves drift apart again,’ HIS talking pf Jack's family |!ated, “even if we do ni of each other as we evoked many bitter recol-| a5. when we lived lections, the one really borhood. We must make | bright spot being my re-|fort to come together membrance of Annette. Led % an “Perhaps when she js older she may | gip), gible gossipe—but it 1 see things differently and make al-|boye—as we always call: lowances for both you and Jack,” Benes. ws va have a Nell reminded. mething, so that “Perhaps. I certainly hope ao,” 1/7 Givecty.® eet towether reg returned, “I should like to be friends|mean to Jack on coming with her again. Jack was so fond of pepo Luteotst to know and her. And since his mother’s death n® was really Ber Adige only rama be has, BeoBg,Haat, thay_had that is at all congenial.” timacy? It would surel; ‘Have you seen Mr. Cosgrove?” | strength and courage to Gertie questioned. agreeable things that w 'No, but Mr. Flam sees him often, 'happen when he once again and petition for’ place in the world. I had n Jack's pardoi helping Mr. | m; Flam tn his efforts to secure it, He rd Ke he ee pagers bd always liked Jack, #0 Mr. Flam has Deriences when he was free it told me, and would do anything he could for him, | Senator Crispin also in the nature of things, unavoidable, | has signed and is using his influence,” | tive. So the attitude I told them. , of these friends pithat is’ net” Gertie, enthused. | Tag, be the more welcome by cone ‘ith such ni ning petition at and using their influence in Jack's | ,Gertie fae is at owe favor I should think it would be granted, Then think what it will |%0 strenuously I feared we had tired / mean for Jack to have the friend-|Nell, who wae far from strong, Py mate Nell Grant was g00d,’ di ship of these men wh She rtie volunteered, apropos se =i i it will 382 aT ED iz sates ght Y embarrassed. otapped I fintebea Kana re need along agreed. women I ever knew,” I , a As I bade Gerti woodby at the 9 do wish 1 lo wi you could mi |come over here and live, Bue: but hen he comes out.” the sentence for her. “Yes, when he comes out,” she re- peated, “It will be hard for him, of it. would be if no one believed in him or had faith that he would be and do all right! Why, we all love Suppose you would dislike it for many | him, and will feel like helping him reasons. every minute until he gets his con- ‘It would not be wise, i would be sure to make things: fidence bac ‘That will be the difficult part for | £74 ack each mornin ine him,” Nell said thoughtfully, ‘to re-| game men he used to mest ong gain confidence in himself, in his; many of whom would not ability to prove to others ¢! now.” My voice trembled. to be strong and true » [Lave planned a ttle apartment shall be so glad to see him,” |in t ronx, away from those : Gertie spoke softly, as though talking knew us, where Jack will not be j to some one who was ill. “Clifton, stantly reminded of what hag So. was talking of it only last night. ned.” ry Our little circle will be complete “Tt may be better so, but I'm sorry,” @ replied. - tt (To Be Continued.) giving mon forming ‘worth-while Tilsons ed that any one who has Bhe looked after those who needed /| to give can ot @ duty by We eit Carhtat rlal| SEL ee oo cae ot an surat et consclenoa-ealng™ ald to sctety for 4 i rw and we must never let our. hers she went to work, ‘ay |