The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1915, Page 14

- © ba ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. fais blished Daily Except nae by ghe From Fuditening Company, Nos, 63 to President, 6% Row. some RE Peters OTe how, ter. " efor England oath Erne and All Countries at Postal Union, ———_—_— SAFEGUARD THE LOAF. . HE phenomenal rise in the price of wheat calls for immediate, careful study. Already loaves of bread are growing smaller. Bakers and dealers promptly hand the extra cost of flour on te the consumer. Nor do they wait until prices have actually risen. Whey shorten the loaf in advance. ‘ 1f it is true that 80 per cent. of the country’s whest is now in the hands of speculators who can manipulate prices to line their pockets, then the evil effect of fictitious market values on the cost of living has Beyer been more apparent. If, on the other hand, we are sending 89 much wheat abroad that we force up the price of what is needed for home tse, then Congress should take action to protect the nation from the consequences of its own lavishness. The Evenin _ Probably both speculation and excessive exportation are sending up wheat prices. Both should be curbed. A resolution has already “keen introduced in Congress demanding an inquiry as to,our export bya Remember the conspiracy to boost food prices last fall on the plea of its in Europe. Let us have no war-price on flour to take bread the mouths of millions that « few manipulators may pile UB rrofite. , —-+-——__—_—_—_ _ THIS HOUSE IN ORDER OWARD ELLIOTT, head of the New Haven system, and ex- President Taft are agreed that, while the railroads brought upon themselves regulation needed to call them to their senses, the public ought now to help “their earnest efforts to put their houses in order” by granting them all sorts of favors, : Maybe. But take the case of the particular road which Mr. Elliott has pledged himself to put back into shape for ite etockholders. Two hundred and four million dollars of the assets of this road were diverted into channels which, as the Interstate Commerce Commission declared, “had nothing to do with railroading.” The only report shareholders had as to what became of their property was that millions “vanished.” Have all the financiers of the Mérgan-Rockefeller-Baker group that handled these millions also dis- 9 appeared ? > + Mr. Elliott’s duty to his stockholders is not altogether of tho future. The New Haven house can never be in order without restitution. . ~ eae caerm ce trees * A POSSIBLE TO NEW YORK. ‘# NATIONAL employment bureay conducted by the Department y of Labor gets into action this week throughout thetvountry. 4 With the help'of the Post Office and the Department of Agriculture details of the plan have been carefully mapped out. Vari- ous sections have been divided into zones and notices displayed in the post offices will explain to those seeking work how they may get in touch with the labor agent of their zone, The latter will inform them where they can find work of br Ne they sock at the nearest point World Daily Magazine, Monday. January 11; 1915 The Day of Rest avez, Fifty Dates You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Cepgeight, 1018, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York ‘Wert, | No. 14.—OCT. 8, 1871.—The Chicago PATRICK O'LEARY was the wife of a milkman who lived at 137 De Koven Street, Chicago. On Oct. 8, 1871, she gave a little party that began early in the afternoon and did not break up until long after nightfall. 4 Not until the last guest had gone did Mrs, O'Leary rémember that sho had nat yet milked her husband's cows. She could not find a lanterg; a0 she carried a kerosene lamp out to the cow-barn to filumiinate her. Jabors. A cross cow kicked over the liguted lamp. In a minute, the barn was | ablaze. / A drought had scourged Ilinots for months. The grass was deadr Al! wood was dry as tinder. Chicago at that time had but 834,000 population and {it was confined to an area of eighteen square miles, Thousands of the houses were of wood. Few of the others were fir@proof. The north sid: and much of the west side were almost wholly wooden, even tothe sidewalks. and the drought had parched this wood. Four blocks (between Adams, Vau Bureri and Clinton Streets and the South Branch) had been fireswept on Oct. 7. But the biagé had been put out. And the danger of a wider-spread conflagretion seemed past. Then, the next night, Mrs. O'Leary's cow broke into history by upsetting the Jamp that sect fire to the filmsy barn on De Koven Street. A westerly hurricane was blowing, also there was delay about turning In an alarm. Bofore the first engine could arrive, the firs had spread be- yond all human control. The wind carried sparks and biasing brands for incredible distances. A solid wall of fire moved unchecked and uncheckagje across the city. Up to the Chicago River swirled the fire; and the blazing fragments eet alight the dry wooden houses on the river's far side. The Court House stood in the path of the blaze. In the cellar of the building were one hundred and fifty prisoners. These were set free barely in time to save them from grilling. They looted@everal houses and shops near the flaming Court House; then, scattered to join other bands of malefactors who were adding theft to the horror of fire. All the Court House archives—records, title-deeds and other documents—were burned. . The Post Office and Sub-Treasury went next; more than two milion dollars in cash and securities being destroyed with the latter building. The Chicagoans battled like heroes against the foe that no human power cowl | conquer, Houses were blown up, in order to leave the fire nothing to de- vour. But the flames passed over the spaces thus cleared, and took. up their work of destruction again on the opposite side, At last the water works were burned, and the entire water supply was thus cut off. There seemed no obstacle now to the city’s utter annihilation. For no less than twenty-five hours the fire continued unabated. When it died Yown, an area of more than three square miles of city was in ruins. Two hundred and seventy-five people lay dead; and ninety-eight id five hundred more were houseless paupers. Seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty buildings were burned to the bas forty-six in- surance companies were bankrupt; $190,000,000 wort: was wiped out. The broken lamp had of our country’s most hideous disasters. The Chicagoans were not nunibéd by the shock. ‘Without waiting to draw breath they set to work re- building their atricken city; making it safer, stronger, mére beautiful. Tho, following oft-told anecdote best shows the “Chicago spitit” in that crisia: A man was eeen, orf Oct. 10, handling some bricks in the ruins of his home. A passerby asked what he was doing. He answered: K “I'm Sguring out how soon these bricks will be cold enough for me to begin bullding with them.” e ‘caconnasiepanesnaneumeesoonpenanstnanstontinenesiessnanmnsnsremeifeinnameniimastites JUNGLE TALES FOR CHILDREN—81 FARMER SMITH NS Jive MONKEY was sitting on the] big bubble and out came these words: bank one after: “1 said I was doing nothing at all. ada one afternoon when he) 1 Oey “prick the bubbles, you By Maurice Ketten ” The Fire's Course. Sister Susie's SEWING SHIRTS For SOLDIERS LET'S CHEER UP MY UNCLE JOHN HE DOESN'T KNOW HE IS ALIVE} P) Louver Boys ! of property The Price of an * "4 started one ———— . spied a big fish. He had never! nist stick them at the left end and KAS) seen such a large one before and when| not at the right.” b it came near he said; “Ien't that funny?” exciatmod i Jimmy. He thought he would try “Excuse me, Mister Fish, but what are you here?” ©} Two or bubbles came to the top of the water, but Jimmy could hear nothing, so again he asked: “What are you doing Here?” More bubbles came to the top of the water and Jimmy thought they might be filled with words and ao he pulled @ blade OF Graes: and stuck it in one a of the bubbles. Instantly therecame/ “Can’t you understand? I said | poking one of the bubbles in the middle. He did so afid out came these words:—-"—and you yours,” All at once Jimmy baw the Fish blowing a big bubble and when ir came to the top of the water, Jimmy was careful to stick 2 at the left end and the: DDOOQHDOHIHOSS Jarr The Jarr ‘Family By Roy L. McCardell out came @ lad “Bang!” and to. them. out the following words: “All at noth-|was attending to ty own business : - Copgright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World), cast @ languishing glance upon lieve it, But what it was he well be- | ing’ ri oth . _ The plan interests this city because it promises to counteract in pia] Michael Angelo Dinkston. Meved, exoopt that he was not thetat- |" “What does that mean?” Jimmy|eausc I Wwasy ggiting muerys “Lani RITZ, the shipping clerk, grinder is a college man with ee, tooed was asking himself when he saw| out!” } ~ beaibaad, @ome degree the rush of the unemployed to New *York. The man forward to greet Mr. Jarr and| diploma to prove It, even if he dose) “Are you in the profession?” she man who married the albino lady | Tiers ‘were more bubbles coming up; ! “i guess I'd Wlber go home,” ania who has lost his job in a smaller city sjfnds his last dollar on il. Michael Angelo Dinkston (poet, |dope. And he may get over with his|asked. “I knowed a tattooed man|under auch romantic circumstances | und ‘he poked one of them. It was & Jimmy, as he scaMipersd wes Oren: philosopher and heavy weight cham-|bailyho, even if the @nake Kater is|What had all the American battle in Dubuque, Mr. Jarr could not} - : ; pes ans road ticket to New York. Warning upon warning has no effect upon | pion of the English language), a8] in a jitney pit'—you know, a five-cent | shipe and the flags of all nations on | guess. For just at this moment an Wien, He arrives with only the price of a meal or two and is straight- way added to the burden of the unemployed that weighs upon us. If Federal or other aid can get him a job near home, New ‘Youk will find its 50 per cent. easier, or NOT WORTH NOTICING? 'OBOKEN detectives brought back from St. Louis last week the much-wedded swindler, von Wagner, who, the police say, has © married at least twenty women in the last three years, eight of whom are now in Hoboken anxious to prosecute him. From the savings of these trusting women he is said to have realized an income of from $400 to $1,400 a month. His operations seem to have been carried on by means of letters which went through@he United States mail. Yot Federal officials and the Post Office authorities turned their backs on the case. The Moboken police have done all the work in rounding up the fugitive. Using the mails as a means to defraud ie a crime which Federal Officers are maintained to prosecute. Is marriage ewindler who uses the mails to cheat working women out of their all of no interest to the Government? ‘ Hits From Sharp Wits to swear off on New Year's.—Toledo ? i eo 8 If you want people to speak well you do not speak too much ae Poe elf, unless you are able to say some- aoe. worth listening to.—Milwaukee nel. ri ° . While it is more blessed to give than to receive, the receiver gener- ally responds to the sound of the gong with much more alacrity than the giver does.—Houston Post. . 4 Sallivan taw Again. { 4 Beiter of The Brentag World: 3 Gullivan Law makes it a felony fer en honest bousshnider to have a od to-day if the house- | “Blackha: Ha y to protect his/for Keepin Gi ; hy having a re- cording. to he out with the knowledge that the Prospective victim does not keep a gun around the house; but he himself has his with him, which gives him the advantage over the poor victim welected for easy pickings. Recently T noted an article with the heading tim Arrest ) Was thr - him squirming, efjened by thugs and was yy pre- tet ti refined blow-off, Alas! it seems that the most devoted husband is not the one whose is Bean ‘Brummefi eco tic nhs |paree $0, defend ble pose . Hele ar | eaters let, ie. Be saye: ‘Boake caverg| Wife treats him like a Caar, but the one whove wife treate him Just like an |friend whether she's ever 1) > geatncespodiara tet atescaa yok excitable little Irishman came burst- ing into the group and challenged Mr, Dingston to fight. With a graceful sweep of her arm Fatima bowled the little man over. “Don't mind the pore little gin! said, “He boards at my brother's and he's that jealous of me, Will you dance?” him what had your eyes. “He married Mile. Cerise, the albino lady, in Dubuque as an added free attraction at the Loyal Order of Moose Street Fair, I seen in the paper they has double jointed twins that they hopes to stunt and have a akotth writ for the family as ‘The Freak Foys’ and hopes to get booked in the big time. And if they don't,” she concluded, “they kin always join out with a Ten-in-One, can’t they? ‘With natural advantages like that even the movies can't crab them as attraction, kin they?” these two gentlemen surrendered the tickets that admitted them to the Grand Benefit of the Human Uniques given ih Aroma Hall in the famous Hariem Assembly rooms. On the floor. below, known in the ad. vertisements as “Halcyon Hall,” but more colloquially as “The Shooting Gallery,” the annual civic ! .11 and re- ception of the Gentlemen's Sons of Hell's Kitchen was holden forth. Frits the shipping clerk's weather Feddened visage was now empurpled in the pursuit of pleasure. He looked lke a turkey cock and strutted lke ‘one in his enjoyment of the success of the affair to which his efforts as @ ticket seller had contributed eo much. He was, by reason of the or- der of the blue ribbon on his breast, “President and General Manager of the Committee of Arrangements.” Besides, was he not the brother of Fatima, the Obese Odalieque, four seasons with Sig, Sautelie’s World of Wonders and Street Carnival? And whe was belle of the bail! “Did them roughnecks down be- low aetick you up?” inquired Frits anxiously. “Let ‘em start something with us, that’s all, We got a bunch of razor backs with this outfit that will boot ‘em off the lot if they start anything. And we ain't counting Wombat, the Iron Headed Man, and @ bunch of privilege men who could put lightning bugs on the end of corncob pipes and chase them coke: eniffing gunmen into the river, Let ‘em start something, that's all! “Oh, Ferdinand, my dear;@o be re- fined!!" exclaimed his sister Fatima. “Why, ‘Doc’ Diamond Jack, who's wot four Essence of Dogwood Indian Medicine Shows on the road, ts with us to-night. Doc’ Diamond Jack is king of the Pitchmen, and he won't be pleased at them shoots of yours, Doc’ Diamond Jack is a swell pitch- man, and anything like rough stuff he don't stander, “Why,” she now confided in a whisper to Mr, Jane, “Diamond Jack's show—‘by his classical allusions to its being @ rare pathological demon- stration, an exhibit for the educated and a show for the sensitive and re- ned, But,’ Doc Diamond Jack says me, ‘I don’t mind snake eaters in business way, and when I ain't pitching my pipes and my jatn is over, T may even shill for a anake pit when the door talker closes his spiel and commences to grind in the simpa—but associate with anake eaters socially, that I will not do.’ And as Fatima, the fair and fat, concluded her recital of Dr. Diamond Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Oopreight, 1018. MAN will forgiv: making a fool of herself over any man in the world, and even for marrying any men in the world—except himself! Distance doesn't really lend enchantment; it merely puts off the trag- edy of disenchantment a little longer. If a man doesn't take the trouble to tell a woman the truth about all her little shortcomings he can't possibly love her—and if he does, she can't possibly love him. Nothing piques a man’s vanity so much as for ® woman to refrain from showing any curiosity about where he spent, the evening, when he has his mind all made vp to equelch her if she does. The May_Manton Fashions | O skirt of the ‘season is prettier than this one, The plaits flare be- comingly, are iiow to Make a | together an easenti. ally youthful one i: effect. The plaite Portion fe cut im four Pieces and joined t- the yoke and the cloe- ing is made at the lef of ‘the front. Many‘ matérials are appro- Driate. Here cheviot Ix fintabed with stitehe:; ogee, but all the oult: ing and all the me- terials adapted to the separate ekirts ary available for the pat- torn, linen, pique an: the like being just eu well adapted to the model Sor Us YaPtte Wetane In a Street Car. IRST—When you get on the plat- form never bave your fare in your hand. Dig for it in the heterogeneous contents of your bag— the while blocking all those behind you. When you discover that you have nothing smaller than a five-dol- lar bill pull it out defiantly, extract- ing and dropping at the same instant your latehkey, your powder rag and your handkerchief. This will enable geveral male passengers to bump their heads on the iron bars as they scramble to recover them for you. (As you will discern, a little incident of this sort will make you popular even before you've entered the car will be needed @12 yds. of material 37 in, wide, 4 yds. 36, 81.3 yds. 44, or 23-8 yds, Before marriage love lives on @ women's feith and « man’s hope; |ALL etter marriage it merely eubsists on their mutual charity. The great problem in mathematics which mystifies the modern man ow his wife manages to grow two years younger in the same time thet he is growing one year older, hata crooked their aching feet and by crumpling up their newspapers, Supplement this with exclamations of, “Oh, I BEG your, pardon!” and “SQ awkward of me!” IMPORTANT—Write your address always apectty mse wanted. (Asd two conta for letter postage if tae tereye No, Clarice, the divorce court is NOT « battlefield, but a matrimonial Drage knucks is solid gold set with|clearing-house, and the “proceedings” are not a time for mutual recrimina- \—Plant yourself in out at next corner, @ [demand one. wWhei ie juctor diamonds, and bas all his fraternal] tions, but for mutual congratulations. tired libae eck @ individual ‘aod Four Wren oF em tie gnet be mareure “euh's oughise ant ter it emblemsengraved on them, To get , begin to speak gudtbiy to your friend. | Contestants, ‘Then, instead of nitting moll 40 take Sowe ie Frid g llop in the dining room with Habit {8 such an awful thing that sometimes a wife would miss her |nowapaper on the “Art of Chivalry— | down on the very edge and pushing | that you can report him to the ‘ne hem gold knucke t# to be pald 4/ nushand’s before-breakfast grouch, in case he forgot it, almost as much as|/A,Decade Porras yee erg monte | trom Pty ay rd i 4 ~ Aix--To leave An extra-pleasant expression—just aa you friend get observe foudiy th ° eo thet the people eetieg each aide o} nly bulged out inte look down upon city’s changed so and that a the | decent class used w travel on t qos one Se lid and ap your | Five—Just about now ts how | psychological moment for you to re-|line a few years nao, you want @ transfer. | could -hardiy belleve it aera tengo mpliment. ‘I had to promise him that posi- ively there wouldn't be no snake ry he would miss his beforedinner cocktail, tl to-day is a hodcarrier; that gallan went out with goloshes. 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