The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1915, Page 14

ED: A MUNICIPAL BACKBONE. OR humiliating compromises of epecial franchise taxeo—com- promises which have enabled powerful public utilities corpor- - to withhold millions of dollars that should have gone city treasury—New York mey thank its own Corporation > AS much an $90,000,000 has been lost to the city in a period of ) ye out-of-court “settlements” with companies like Transit, the New York Central, and Brooklyn 1 Tax Commissioner Schwab puts the cost of mu- cowardice at that figure and adde Lat'me emphasize once and for all, the State Tax Board has whatever to make any kind of compromise tn apecial fansesements where certiorati proceedings have been State Board is on record against any Corporation Counsel or the Attorney General in cettioments without having previously been ) The fect is that hitherto in the settlement of franchise taxcs Counsel, Mayor and Comptroller have given in to the than bestir themeslves to fight for the city’s _ Municipal extravagance finds levying new taxes on real estate the property of the average citizen far easier than collecting ‘taxes from powerful corporations and from millionaires. oa Dai #Y ‘orld’ ‘dl Back The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ly Magazine. AAAAAAAABAAAABADPBAAAAAAAAAABDAAAR ASA Mr. Jarr Sets a Wily Spring T. Then Proceeds to Step Into It. erererrrerrrrrrrrr rrr rrr rr rere j Fifty Dates’ "4 You Should Remembeg By Albert Payson Terhune *~| |__ No. 97.—SEPT. 27, 1835.—The First Rellroad LL England and af the world was stirred by. the mews: Sept. 27, 1826, a railroad train drawn by one of t! things called locomotives had traveled twenty milea “ | at some stretches of the journey it had reached @, | ies than miles an hour, while four mfles am hour wee est rate, even ub steep grades. The whole affair was sande of people refused to believe this was true, x ‘The locomotive-idea was nothing new. But, as with the telephone, the public had seen no practical future for it. alli 3 had been in use, off and on, for two hundred years—long before. fam covery of steam’s propelling power. j * ot my Q ‘There were railways in the English coal pits as early as 1603. Fhey, *, were lines of flat wooden rails, over which the coal carts were drawa ty Borees or mules. The weight of the carts wore away the wood, 00 thin plates were laid on top Of the rails. Watt, as early as 1759, had hit on a idea for an engine that should move along a track and draw weight behind it, He modeled and patented the invention, ‘When ing with it. A Frenchman, Cugnot by name, later, patented a “high pressure eteam Were wr other inventors followed euit. But their looked on as mere toys. Richard Trevithick, in 1802, built a steam carriage and used it for ing loads over a railway. He was the first practical locomotive man/" drew ten tons of tron at the rate of five miles an hour. » But ti the motive project was allowed to lapse, until George Stephemmen) aay English machinist, revived it. “ ‘Stephenson did not learn to read until he was eighteen, but from baby hood he had dabbled in machinery. He was a born mechanical asked the owners of a coal pit where he worked to let him build an to take the place of the horse-drawn carts on their railway. They and he bullt his first locomotive, naming it “My Lord.” It could tons at four mileg an hour. “My Lord” cost about as much for moved at about the same pace as the horses employed et the Some British eapitalists had just laid @ railroad from Stockton ington, intending to use horses on the locomotive a trial. On Sept. 27, 182! of the eame year: ~ “A train of carriages was attached to a locomotive-engine of the most improved construction, and built by Mr. George Stephenson, in the order: (1) Locomotive engine with the engineer and his aesistants;. ( ‘Tender, with coals and water; next, six wagons loaded with coals then an elegant covered coach, with the committee and other pro: railway; then twenty wagons fitted up on the occasion for fers; and last of all, six wagons loaded with coals; making al! In of thirty-eight carriages. <7 “Such wan the pressure and crowd, that both loaded and: empey ear? Wi riages were instantly filled with passengers (nearly six hundred in ali at 0 some parts the epeed was frequently twelve miles an hour, ané in ene for a short distance, fifteen miles.” ’ ‘The train covered the last twelve miles, the London cluding stops, at the rate of four miles an hour.” fully ten thousand tons of coal j At Four Miles 3 Per Hour. be transported by railroad, thi mittee was this: * bs “Mr, Stephenson, if a cow should walk out on the track tn front ef:your™ locomotive, would not that be a very awkward Siroumetance’? bag “Very awkward indeed,” was Stephenson's grave reply, “for the cew,” Wit. Wisdom and Philosophy « MAXIMS FROM THE PAMPHLETS—Voltatre. ENVY the beasts ‘two thinge—)and everybody will of you [ —_ be kd ‘would not ap belay their ignorance of evil to come The human race would if it were as commen srseaie tate . rap; and thetr ignorance of what Js to cious things ag it is to believe them. said about them, A sure means of not yielding to the desire to kill yourself is always to have good thing we'was along with him,|temperance—Man puts an enemy !n/ something to do. ‘Goprright, 1018, Ww The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World). Brother Smunk. pe JUST LUCK! : , DING to the esteemed Evening Post, Iuterborough offi- eiale and members of the Public Service Commission are agreed that the recent series of accidents on subway and elo- ‘can only bo explained as a run of “railroad luck.” In rail- fing ene slip-up always means two more to follow. ‘There is noth- @ de but keep count'and be thankful when Number 3 ir over. \Taterbevough managers must beve stopped counting early if they anything for this euperstition. The public hes found iteelf of We wonder whether, if Genovel Manager Hedley were to break a ee Chairmen MoCall of the Public Service Commission inai- ‘walked under o ladder, there would be any use in abolishing ‘cate, renewing worn-out insulation, providing smoke vente aud iba’ exits, keeping ear Goore open, removing inflammable rubbish oven devicing signals to prevent collisions. If Inck is dead against jp puilic, why waste good money on. precautions? ‘Hits From Sharp Wits. t Rite below the beit.-—M 7 oot, Sats a start, ths | Commmerotal appeal.” Weed + e e . ee A tt puree and a thick tongue | saad Somstady down Tarely go together. Tt te better for A ys bend he prould Many ¢ remain undone be- ‘who could start the that .he may incur the of some. . Regrets for errors velop Toreaiyut™Aibeny J Nerve and ability work in the came wots there Safad za oa wt fperin never de- jou. the nearest accurate on. the subject? ih Gon en ‘ aus 1 others, I think. aa . Federal Peicens. Serle saa |™* F alight of Uncle Henry and old|on toward the railroad depot and to| A Jared Smunk, Gus bristied up} load them on the cars and thus get, and assumed an air of sullen) rid of them. belligerency, . But Uncle Henry and Mr. Smink “fee what the gentlemen will have, | insisted on stopping in to ese moving Gus," remarked Mr, Jarr with affected| pictures between times. So it was) that when they all got to the depot Gus, beginning to wipe scheme; for he was talking loudly of "Got any Modford and molasses?”|how beautiful Washington City was asked Uncie Henry, {n spring, even in very early spring. “L want a oberry flip,” sald Mr./And as for the country where Uncie! Smunk. Henry lived, Mr. Jarr declared he “I ain't got no eggs,” growled Gus] could hear the birds twittering there ow a cafe in Washington that| from where he stood. gives a fried ayster to every ous-| “The birds ar¥Pnging, the grass ie) tomer,” remarked Mr. Smunk. “So if/ springing, the yellow crocug caste its thia ia an up-to-date cafe, gimme a/gokien medals against the vernal’ fried oyster!" breast of Mother Barth!" Mr, Jarr “And I'll take rook and rye if you|@eclared rapturously. And then ain't got Medford and molasses,” said| burst forth in song, with jig step ac- Unele Henry. companimen' “Did you bring in these two old] “Hark! Har! tightwade for a drink or to get meals- cuk! fat-all-houra?” asked Gua of Mr. Jarr,|1 eee the buttereupe butt!” “Or take bitters and tansy,” re-| “We'd better take him home,” re- marked Uncle Henry. marked Uncle Henry sadly. “It's a “Ana you kin make mine a milk punch,” added Mr, Smunk, “This in @ retail Mquor store,” anaried Gua, “and it ain't no lunch- room, If you ol@ fellers want some- thing to eat go to an owl lunch yd ‘ But it was no part of Mr. J: plan to have any animosities mar the “Don't be ae Gps, and give my any! they want—if you ha ." he suggested. what do they think thie {s—a pure food show t” asked Gus, “If they want echnapps, let ‘em ask for schnapps; if they want beer, let ‘em ask for beer. If they want soft drinks, I got ‘om in confusion.” Gus meant profusion, but his prospective customers necmed to T hear the cuckoos| worse?” some men’s duttonhole. understand. “Bome of them eo-called temper-| eestion. ance drinks hae three per cent. alco- hol in them,” eaid Uncle Heary dubi- ously. “Well, I ain't no short-order cook,” | s:oo1, sald Gua sullenly, “I don't like any of you old fellers, either,” he added with frowning frankness. domestic, Better be a faulty man’s Hope of Heaven than « perfect man's “per them esything that he! sonal devil.” Better be a rich man's parler ornement. than a) poor & dowdy man's 368 Reh acto He might ‘a’ done/ hie mouth to steal away his brains!’" [See esprit.” “Tt'a livin’ thie fast life in a big city that does it,” was ol@ Mr. Smunk's opinion. “Toe much dissipation!” “It affecks the brain,” sald Uncle Henry sagely. “The idear of anybody wanting to go to the country at this down to Hay Corners and stop awhile om my farm. That's why I'm agin in- Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Ongeright, 1918, by The Pram Puitidhing Ov, (The New Yor Brening Wertd), Y DAUGHTER, wouldst thou marry “for BETTER,” rather than “for Then, verily, verily, I charge thee, thou hadst— Better be the apple of e homely man’s eye than the orchid in a hand Better be a atrong man's “rib’ than a weak man's “backbone.” Better be an optimists cook than the guardian of a pessimists dt- Better be a woman-hater’s joliter tham @ woman-tamer’s jafler. Better de a busy man's sedative than e lazy man’s stinjulast. Better be the height of a meek man's inspiration than an egoiat's foot- Better be @ good man's “cross” than a roue’s “angel.” Better be © young man’s slave than an old man's nurse. Better be a business man's plaything than am artist's light-runoing ® Ben Sremme® man’s kitchen | didn’t know. Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward Corvette, ts Yok resize Went ONEST, the ig-rance of some people! I don’t know where they keep theirselves at ail. Goodness, even a solid cement dome can absorb SOME knowldge from the newspapers. But I've come te the conclusion that most people buy ‘em te start the fre with, in the morning, or else eave ‘em to pack china in, when they move, Yow | ain't one to go using a vacuum exhaust on a subject te get all the learning there is in it out of| it, but 1 must eay I got a glimmer of moat t] Why, gee! I wasn't even the company asked me who was the! Bow! | Maybe ‘you think thats easy, now you 's eh? All right. Now quick! Who Ta Vico t? Even if you know, eed your friends don't. Not his anyhow. : And I'm not polishing my anvil none, either, when I say that the that some people in this com- i nee ats Opinion rules the world and wise men rule opinion. Does not experience prove that in- fluence over men’s minds is gained only by offering them the difficult, nay the impossible, to perform or believe? Offer only things that are reasonable and all the world will answer, “We knew as much as that.” Bi join things that are hard, impracti: $ paint the Diety as ever armed with thunder; make blood run before altars, and you will win the multitude’s ear The more " aan you know the less eure We are 1 oe in this world enty te é@e The May Manton Fashions % = a Pattern No. 8870—Girl’s Shirred Dress. 10 to 14 Veare, wide, 4 yards $6, or 2 1-2 yards 44, to make as shown tn 238-8 7 or 36,1 1-3