The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1915, Page 16

f Fe Evenin SPPASLASHED BY JOONPH PULITEER. ¢ Ww LATE t,, 68 Rew, AY E 55...... seseeceeceesNO, 19,610 INHERITANCE TAX PLUMS. O BE designated special counsel for the State in the settlement of « big estate is one of the fattest jobs that fall to o lawyer’ hereabouts from the hand of patronage. Under the present inheritance taxes, $104,000 was paid out of the Treasury during the single month of December last to six attor- estates in question were some of the largest of collecti in this city. Th het have recently come up for settlement, and the $104,000 repre- only « part of the sum to be finally listed on the State Comp- joller’s books under the heading “disbursements to attorneys.” ‘The State Comptroller dispenses such favors. The public treas- foots the bills. The taxpayer is there to replenish the treasury. In hie special message to the Legisiature yesterday, urging re- tom of the Tax Commission, Gov. Whitman recommended for the present the jer continue to have control over nce taxes, but that ultimately they be taken over by the pro. State Tax * Hes thts partionlar flow of patronage grown so wide and deep it the boldest administration would healtate to dam it too enntealy?/ ++ ‘We wonder how many hotel luacheons and dinners at a ‘week's wages per plate it has taken so fer to discuss anem- Gleyment and hunger in thie city. ee ee DANGEROUS OVERZEAL. JAOTS 0 far established chow ecant justification for the fracas at Roosevelt, N. J., when @ posse of fifty deputy sheriffe fired “upon a crowd of etriking employees of a chemical company, dxteen and bedly wounding six. ‘The etrikere, by permission, had cont a committee through « supposed to contain newly arrived etrike breakers. When the ittee reappeared, the strikers cheered. the, posse, nearby, ran amuck and without warning sent volley after volley ta into the crowd. S Oversea! of thin half-cock sort is exactly what turne an orderly into a violent, revengeful attack upon property and life. It how much harm revolvers end Sheriff's bedges can do without pl heads and steady judgment behind, ++ ‘Yesterday was the bestest day yet om the Stock Exchange can't curd a real lamb by sntpping Mis dividends. Sy Sy 5 THE CITY CAN WELL AFFORD IT. © PROVIDE nourishing luncheons at cost for hungry school if Sbildren, according to the plan long urged by The Evening World, the elty is asked to appropriate $26,600. A resolution ulling for the necessary isvue of revenue bonds was introduced in Board of Aldermen yesterday by Alderman Henry H. Oarran, of the Committees on Finance. The money will be enough o equi Seat meen <Aditien te the Seety which ain,strendy ef, You fe another distinct victory for The Evening World. It prom- benefit to thousands more youngsters in the schools who suffer meals o lack of any meals at all at home. Without charity it cam put nourishing middey food within the reach [many e pinched and half-ctarved child. Can the city find a better for the money? _ oto passing of Olé “Friar Tuck” Froth- fame, He wee a perennial joy—h eang the “Friar” etx thousand thnee—tn one of the beat light @pera companies this or any country ever produced. —— —— = THE SAME OLD DEATH TRAP. HE one hundred and ninety-nine lives lost last yoar in thie State by accidents at grade crossings represent an increase of more than 60 per cent. over the record of the year before. The do not include those who were killed while trespassing on peed property. J ' » Only thirty-three of the one hundred and ninety-nine met death crossing the trecks in automobiles, although one reilroad com.| reports that no less than ninety-five automobiles were driven lly through crossing gates, It is unfair to hold the automobile for the increase in grade crossing fatalities. Out of 13% seriously injured, 66 per cent. were pedestrians, With highwey traffic increasing in all its forms the grade cross- becomes more than ever a death trap, a barbarous survival, Our get efforts to abolish it fail to keep pace with its deadlines. ' Hite From Sharp Wits. at a joke sing I bet of the trouble in the werld is and bumaa beings. i pA mae have ot PS ut & women ay pocketbook.-Macon Telegraph. 4 304 06 One of fhe neoda 0 fo tp partis: 2 afi jong > yak a _ lew. ° . A man with an unlimited of nerve is often who has real ue . d @ hat to At his head, . wants to "t know. become « mere pest, | et BRM Ay how to \= Fe Ame ry | ota Beat to iift the briek.—! to ft ber meede of the time ts a ‘egainst “hot air.”"—Dese-| dren, And to-morrow ts It It te very easy for the peasimist to orld Daily Maga NEIND ROSH My fl ra 1S lege, ow PER By Roy L. R. JARR was on probation. By ao skillful tactical mov: ment he had taken advan tage of Mrs, Jarr’s highly nervous condition—that was her explanation—and had placed her on the defensive by making the first movement in the campaign with a frontal attack in which he declared he never had any intention of going to the Grand Ball for the Benofit of the Human Uniques, “You drove me from my peaceful home!” he declared. “You drove me out by your unjust and suspicious demeanor, You compelled me to malntain my self-respect, I went to Qus’s, yes! But was I to atay in @us's cafe? No! It is loathe, It may appeal Rangle and bis tl has higher ideal ‘This was fring Mr. Jarr’n 42-centi- meter gun, Any attack on John W. Rangle had ita effect on Mre. Jarr. She listened and lost the advantage of being the injured party. ‘IL saw John W. Rangie come into Gus's cafe, and 1 said ‘This is too much! Mr. Jarr went on, lying fearsomely, “Dinkston—you may not like the man, but under his poetic exterior he i# senaitive and refined— went aloug then 1 felt in my pookets to eee if I had mailed the letter you bad given me to put in the post that moraing—for you have been crue! and unjust to me, but | was)true to your memory!" ‘This, though vague and cryptic If analysed, wan grand stand play", as Mr. Jarre afterward explained to Rangle. “And then,” eald Mr. Jarr sinking his voice to a dramatic whisper, “like lying at my heart, I found | no longer cares for m home, children were all sormbling villain, Mrs. Jarr-was whimpering, too. “Oh, Edward, you didn’t forget the chil- Emma's | birthday, and our Willi hool re- | port this month gives bim A and B |for everything except deportment, rithmetio and geography. You didn’t | forget the children? Don't say you forgot the children!" “We, Sor s Uriel sostant. 3. soomet eee he (6 ete ager The Jarr Family Capyvight, 110, by The tres Hubtishing On, (The New York Urening World), actually pumped up a tear—the dis- McCardell of kale to doll her up—I mean, I said ‘Lat her grace the mansion of a mil- Monaire, worthy of her—it such there be—but I, Edward Jarr, no longer : | loved, pitied an dem! id by Clara Jarr, jewel of wom |, Edward Jarr, will go the pace that kills! Let my misspent life end in utter ignominy!’ Bo 1 went to the ball of the Human Uniques! All this sounded eo grandly—for it made her bave a real good, sensible jarr, although ebe would not have sald eo, was giad M Jarr bad been driven to such desper. @ resolutions by the maddening epell of her displeasur: “But,” abe faltered, “I'll never forgive that Dink- ston for taking you there!” Mr, Jarr was safe inside the haven of ber forgiveness. He was a good pal. He fetched in the vagabond him even while be admired it. “But what use respectability, what use job with Jabes Smith & Co., whole- anie woolens?’ In that dread hour a job, a home—existence—was nothing to Edward Jarr. Here Mr. Jarr choked, while Mrs. Jarr sobbed upon his shoulder, oryin: Oh, my darling, don't @ thin! such dreadful things!" said Mr. Jarr, in a tremu- lous tone (that, were this domes drama ever produced, might save the speaking stage from the blight of the ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘I will throw 1 She cares no more for Let b of a ducal coronet, let her marry a swell gink with a bunch poe! “Dinketon?” he cried. “Why, the Reflections of | a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, ty The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), LIRTATION {s just the foam on the gbdblet of love—and usually, the more foam, the less love. ' In her | ae heart, a woman always measures her own fascination by the fascinafns of the particular man whom she happens to fascinate. A man's proposal of marriage used to be offered up as a humble peti- tion; but nowadays he merely bestows it on you, Hke a beautiful bene- diction. There are,just two kinds of women: the kind a man goes to see three times in one week, whefl he wants to be amused, and the kind he coes to see one time in three weeks when he.wants to be soothed and comforted— the kind that entertains him, and the kind that RE-tains him, Nowadays, a girl's greatest problem ts how to keep her chaperon from flirting too conspicuously. When a man begins to see the necessity for assuring a woman that he loves her, it is a sign that he is no longer sure that he does. No age, no wisdom and no experience will ever teach a man that a kiss will not serve as a “reason,” @ bunch of violets as an explanation, and & new hat as an apology, with any wife. \ Outside of stepping backward Into a coal-hole, nothing so astonishes and frightens a bachelor as to hear himself telling « girl that he loves her. sfas: Wedne o ages day. ASLAAAPAASIAISABAISSBAAASIABIB AAS A Mr. Jarr Sues for Forgiveness And for Once Is Not Non-Suited errr rrr KKK eee Ke KEK KEK KK Ew Eee Door fellow came with me, begging me to do nothing rash, were as angelic as a seraph and could and would yet forgive!” “Well, I always he wasn't #0/ J Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy. ere: THE TRAINING OF GIRLS. By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. GAVE you some general thoughts on the education of your children in my test letter, but fearing you ebould think 1 neglected your request by answering It with too much conciseness, I am resolved to add that which may be useful to you in @ concern with which you seem #0 nearly affected. People commonly educate their children as they build their houses— according to some plan THEY think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purpo: for which they are designed, GC Almost all girls of quality are edu- cated as if they were to be great ladies, which is as little to be expect- ed as an immoderate heat of t! in the north of Scotland, You ach youra to confine thelr desires to probabilities, to be as useful as is possible to themselves and to think privacy the happiest do not doubt you’ the instruction n m to a virtuous life, but ‘tie a} fatal mistake to do this without proper restriction, Vices are often hid under the name of virtues, and the practice of them followed by the worst of conse- quences. Sincerity, friendahip, piety, Gisinterestedness and generosity are all great virtues, but pursued with out discretion become criminal, For example, I have seen ladies indulge their own il! humor by being very and impertinent, and think they | deserved approbati ing “1| love to speak truth. your | own reflections will furnish you with hut too may examples of the ill et- fects of the rest of the sentiments 1 have mentioned when too warmly embraced. They are generally rec- ommended to young people without limits or distinction | T cannot help saying that I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your ohildren, I do not! mean that you should abate any part of your care or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would Dave you early prepare yourself for disappointments which are heavy in proportion to their being surprises, Iam afraid I have bored you with my i jons. I do not give them an ae ‘ae srt ing you|* Fifty Dates: 1% You Should Remember§ By Albert Payson Terhune Coppright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). No. 18.—SEPT. 15, 1666.—The Manhattan Massacre. with war canoes. For hours Dutch scouts who were post high ground above the tiny settlement of New Ameterdavm . i been scanning the blue stretch of water to northward, and the first canoe’s nose came into sight around the Jersey lowlands the all was epread to the town. Forget your present idea of New York and imagine a little hamlet fifteen crooked short streets and alleys, nostling at the very point of hattan Island; a hamlet whose northernmost boundary was at Wall There were a few mansions of yellow and black brick, but there were hovels, Even these fifteen streets were none too thickly settled. town’s chief thoroughfare was the Pere! Straat (Pearl Street), which rem down to the Breuckelyn Ferry; and whose largest building was the fall, with gallows and stocks and plilory In front of it. There was always danger from Indians, from b from wolves, i catamounts. (A prowling bear was killed In Cedar Street many after this). To guard the settlement a twelve-foot wooden stoc! ¥ been run actoss the whole width of the island from the North to nk It marked the northernmost boundary of New Amsterdam and wi wns nnnnnannnrenn “the city wall.” It followed Wall Strect’s present course. hated abdad Moot North of the wall was pasture innd where the jad 16 Streets.$ Hutch settlers’ flocks and herds grazed by day, being Ponmmmmroroorrrn®? driven back for safety through the stockade at re 4 North of the wall, too, ran the brook where the Dutch dens did § family washing. The path alongside this brook was called “Maiden Lane.” Still farther north, separated from New Amsterdam by miles of forest and mendow, were the scattered villages later known as Greenwich, gee Yorkville and Harlem. At the southernmost point of the island te on which was mounted a battery of guns, (Hence “the Batter: ‘ legged old Petrus Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor of New fumstecsers immer of 1655 stripped the town of nearly all its available Sgnt- Ing men—about 700—to raid the Swedes in Delaware. Thus, New , dam was left almost defenseless. And it was at this critical time that's cranky farmer named Henryk Van Dyck brought on the Manhattan Map- Dyck had @ farm on what is now Broadway, just south of Reeter An Indian squaw sneaked through the fence of his orchard hong @ peach from one of his trees. Van Dyck snatched up @ gua ai ahbt her dead. - ‘The news of this outrage spread to all the Indian tribes along the lower Hu . Word came to the settlement that the savages were mame- © ing for a raid, to avenge the squaw's murder. And New Amsterdam speedily put in a state of defense. Down the river swopt the fleet of canoes, And 2,000 Indians landed near the foot of Cortlandt Street and vanced on the city. When they found the gates shut and the wall with armed mon they got into their canoes again and paddled down bay. The Dutch throught the peril was past and they relaxed their vigt- » | lance. The Indinns went to Staten Island. That night, under cover of dary. nens, they croaeed to the Battery, landed unseen, and charged up § way. The first man to fall before their onslaught was Henryk Van Dyek. Then they turned their attention to the rest of the city. They burned and murdered for hours, unchecked. Then the handful of sol Gann left in New Amsterdam drove them back to A Death Blow { canoes. The Indians crossed again to Statén Islaad,>"? lala waste the settlements there, and, on their wagou! a homeward, stopped to destroy the New Jersey villages. ft ken and Pavoni re's toll of dead was 100 Dutch 150 were ca! risoners, while more than 300 were and homeless. igh a death-blow to so small and weak a community, It paved the way for England's easy conquest of the island a few yoars later. How to Make a Hit! ie . By Alma Woodward it ene Copyright, 1915, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). “ At a Public Telephone. | ieee: ¢o bot, dice your IRST—Plan your attack before) Clear your ‘thro, “Ail” these you come within fifty feet of the of black char- switchboard presided over by hi. > sual you'll never get the perfect peach who pushes the!” 's when, finally, you've been as- plugs, And when your plan 1s once| signed to ‘a booth, only to discover made do not hesitate. Plunge right] that head-on is @ man who ts trying, Into the bloodthirsty mob around the| ‘Prevent a friend in, fan Franeisce board, and while they wilt their col- lars and their vocabularies in aimiens ent and give numbers that they'll never get, you be wise and struggle to the front ranks. 2. Once under the watchful eye and within hearing of the black char. Payoh penniless back lurks a lawyer who is endeavors ing to make his client rejoice at verdict of $2.67 he sued for $50,000—don't kick t tween and us guage. Just gaze aweetly at the bit, of framed sunshit “The voice with Instead of gel bank you called for you ai nected with a dairy, then a blacking establishment and fi the Hronx Zoo, don’t take it out oa! ook and say ghastly futile matic, though pianis- Your soft spoken draw her attention to you at last and she'll murmur “Number, please?’ Not that she didn't get you the first time—and the second, too. 3. If’ you succeed in having your number taken there will be a chorus of “Well, I like that!” “After I've been standing here half a day, too: &c., from those who have prior claim: Act oblivious, unless some one is creting a brick; and Stand, poised lightly on one foot, ready to beat it to the booth which Psyche may doslg- nate. 4. As the upgrenttal minites pass, do not take th watch that grandpa you, out of your pocket fifty The May Manton Fashions 7 persistency gent! “So sorry. {t, Central. Must heve been my fault— 1 wanted 0410—yes,"" ‘ 7. And when you creep from vapor-bathed cranny to pay for period of torture, and Psyche Janguid lamp at the time clook a T gues” I gotta separate you m four charges on that call!"—instead of exercising your Angoras, just ssica Ji prev and put your guimpe plain with the military collar at the front. is blouse is ple, meaning sboulder gulmpe 2% yarde #7, 1% yards 36, 1 ren Pattern Ne. 9868 Pattern No. 8552—Over Blouse With Guimpe, 34 to '% Sut in sizes from 42 Bust, 34 to 42-inch bust measure, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTO! BUREAU, Donald Bullding, 100 West Thirty. belleving. that ee ™) atehed we with wi fur- 2 but wre wd site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Mew York, or sent by mail om receipt for each pattern eréered. e / f \ ] } i * a