The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1915, Page 22

RET om LED BY FORE Pr rreee Peeee Pumeming © vos “4 Competr ee OO & a os ro “ar Dettee © on the Toternes me et THE K ONE YEAR tie pee BIGGEST TAX DODGERS. marly €162,000000 1, pelle whility corporations eotnaily end gar The works ont ale then 630 per empite which, accord ing j service Commeron, 617.48 wae f to figures compile! | ean fare, 86.98 / ‘ 6.70 for gar Beery year these corporations enjoy bigner revenues throne privileges the y greute them Does the city profit from the iv erease in the value of their [ranchies? On the contrary ‘These corporations manage to have thei: tare ly reduced. !')m 1910 to 1916 areensad valuations in thie progress: lags fixed by the State Tax Bourd decreased by nearly 650,000,000, te thts fair to the ereat body of minor taxpayers, property owners, holders of real estate, who ave expected to shoulder each year bigger wardens instead of smeiier! The Eveving World has gathered and printed the tux rates in other large cities of the country In Philadelphis the rate amounts, with the e@hool tax, to #140 om each $100 of assessed valuation. In Ohicago, where assessmeuts are on one-third valuation, the rate i» equivaleut to $1.77 at ful valustion. Pittsburgh hes a rate of $1.98, Atlasta aod Kansas City have « 61.25 rate assessed on 60 and 40 per cent, realty valuations, New York City, in the Borongh of Manhattan, holds the record estate assessed at full valuation. How long will capital and wusiness he attracted to a aniclpality whose policy is to deal gently with big corperations that fight off taxes, = piling fresh loads of taxation wpon taxpayers less likely to resist Corporation Counsel, Mayor and Comptroller have repeatedly been charged with cowardice in approving compromises settling spe-| ~ 9 ceed assessinents without even consulting the State ‘I It fs high State and City found means to collect full taxes from pebitc utility co les. ‘The public lconses and protects those corporations. It piles up thelr profits. There {s no reason why it should also pay their taxes. The President came right over to be congratulated. good wishes like New York's, and they both have the best. a ONE EVERY 96 MINUTES. No for high taxes, with « rate of $1.87 on each $100 levied upon rea) ge er ee en The Evening World Daily | Dodged! | ! | tid New Haven Railroad has just issued a bulletin entitled “A Deadly Poril.” It deserves wide reading. Posted in and about stations and trainyards, this bulletin calls attention to the fact that last year in the United States 5,471 persons were killed while walking on railroad tracks. This was at a rate of fifteen a day, or one every ninety-six minutes. Here is a peril for which the only remedy is prevention in the form of individual caution and common-sense. No one can save a igan from the danger of walking on a railroad track so eff the man himself. If he neglecis prevention, nobody else can supply A cure. Loss of life from this cause—last year’s total is greater than the popaiation of many a town—is mainly due to willingness to “take a chance.” The temptation to get to the shop in quicker time in the thorning, to'gain 4 minute or two at the noon hour, or to save a walk of half a block by a short cut over the tracks is too strong for thousands every day. “It people can ever be made to see the disproportion between what they gain and what they risk in walking on railroad tracks, casnalty lists for this class of accident will he among the shortest. —---——_<+4¢2—_—__—__, We hope for some folks’ sake there's a good, strong net uader Bethlehem Stee! ————_<4—2—_____. ‘NO NICHE FOR PAUL JONES! ANY Americans are sorry to see John Paul Jones shut out of the Hall of Fame of New York University because he happened to be born in Scotland. In his youth he was more at home on a ship's deck than anywhere Ise, All the notable things he tater did were done for this country, So much so that ten years ago i was thought eminently fitting for the United States to send over American warships to France to bring back ~ tls body and honor it with burial at Annapolis. We wager that where nine American schoolboys can tell the story of the Bonhomme Richard and what happened to the Serapis, oaly one knows that Joseph Henry was a distinguished native of this State who taught us to use electro-magnels, fog signals and weather re ports, After all, what makes fame? Henry no doubt deserves his plave among the nine new immor- tals. He was one of our first great scientists. But Paul Jones was our first great naval hero, a most engaging figure in our history, and many youngsters now and hereafter wil! have little use for an Ameri- ean Hall of Fame that could not strain a point to admit him, Hits From Sharp Wits. o xy! will spend half the morning, Many a woman marries a man the mirror dolling to come up-| thinking that he is an angel in dis- town. And then she will get furious guise, only to find out later that the ‘eause the dod-ratted, bl inguise is permanent.—Macon News, vaen look at her.—C 2 When von meet 4 pereon with whom If you want to lose you can’t reason let him have the last | assuming that yo! word at on gin to about your troubles to Pe every one you mect.—Pittsburgh Sun.| Somb men believe they are entirely ° ° ° self-made because they have forgot- ten all the help that they received.— Albany Journal, A wise man worries over a lot of jhings that a fool never thinks of. Letters From the People Are You in the “Optience.” he the Editar of The Bvening World: As to the requested petition for a) to substitute for “audience” and Joptience, By dissecting the you'll get the following result “to see,” “ence,” “those who;” fore those who see, pictures must 4 BH know a wonderfully loyal, husband - screening — woman who, although everybody knows him for an incurable crab, re- fers to him as an “idiosyncrasist,” Some men are-afraid to be just commonly decent for fear somebody will attribute an “odor of sanctity” to them, We've never been able to get on real chummy terms with a # ) boy who really liked to go to school. We've heard of, although we've never ween, the last rose of summer. But if there is any special demand | for a Hymn of Late for the flat fly that sticks around until October, we hereby volunt for the job of writ- ing it. Our Idea of the Abyss of Anguish is taking a just-arrived Englishman to a ball game on a humid day and, after perspiring four pounds in en- deavoring to explain the game to him, to have him ask: “But where are the bloomin’ wickets, y' knaw?" There Never Will Be: A pretty woman who turns the first (hing to the editorial page of the newspaper. Next to-attending a World's Serie the gruesomest thing is to be pinned to a stanchion and told all about it by some fellow who did, Enigmas of Hxistence: Confetti, Weeps at weddings by persons wholly unacquainted with elther victim, Another kind of Innocuous Liar ts the person who pretends that he knows and can sing the words of “The Star Spangled Banner.” you are perfectly Ethelbert, L " at the races y hich the layers male their mirthful escape with all of the depressed simps’ kale Recently we folks dancing th step,” at a soash: bering, a# we pla when folks used to c young people looked to us as were Jugs holding on to ¢ ius oatoff and s Walking around the place, ww a passel of young th if they h other Signs that you Hain't so Young as You Was—When you tnwist, in the teeth of all meteorological records, that not only has the climate of thts country changed completely since you were a young feller, but that it has gone to wrack and ruin, Enigmas of Exist home, for just the ures" “Buy your- nt of it, in bottles, ‘Time Echoes of the Eons: “But WHY do you love me? And when did you FIRST BEGIN to love me?” be and not hears readers think of my sug: What do correctly describe moving pic- ? spectators, I susgest the use of 183 J. «. butratstes * ‘ We still adhere to the conviction that the city-bred man who can get So Wags the World By Clarence L. Cullen Coprright, 1015, by the Pros Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) om fw ane a Oy eS Oe — — Magazine, Friday. October 6. The Stories Of Stories Plots of immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune A OR 80 ee Pras Petite on Ton oe Nee Hmaming Wait) THE POST-BOX NEST, by Rene Basin. ———— — p i 4 i 4 an afternoon's amusement by attend- ing a county fair could get an equal amount of entertainment by staying home and playing with a five-cont tay balloon, By the time some fellows find out thet night's fun consist wholly in ing dru e ready for the plumed wagon to back up, We never had to consult any guide book or time table in order to duck meeting the person described to us in advance as “a masterly woman.” We folt sure that by this time some new musical comedy would have a ditty called “They're All Try- ing to Bunk the Balky Balkans,” but if It has popped we've missed It, "S funny how many Ittle detni- tions one word can have. It all depends upon the guy who's us- ing it at the moment. And for weird effects recommend me to E. Percival Bitter, the high mogul who ts shaping my destinies at the present time-—my director. Tuesday night when I was leaving the studio, at six-thirty, he bars the way and says: “Don't go home yet, Mollie, We'ro going to try an experiment to-night and if It's @ success it'll be great—for the company. You know we've al- ways produced moonlights by dyeing daylight films green, The effect has Why Your Clothes Are Not Becoming By Andre Dupont Coveriaht, 1 by the Pres Publishivg Co. (The New York kv ng World) A Suitable Blouse for Winter. buys the best she e: looks out for bargains and T! NEW HIGH NECK BLOVSE. the thin or even rather slender woman with a long neck. HE blouse is a very Important part of the costume, and the average woman does not give half enough care to its selection, pends a good deal of anxious thought on her suits and frocks and n afford, but when it comes to blouses, she She ex- Purchases them with very little con- sideration as to their suitability, Now, it is certain that every suit and even every separate skirt needs the addition of a blouse to make it wearable, and when {t comes to the at question of becomingness, it is ly more needful to have the bodice of suitable cut and color than the skirt, because the bodice affects t appearance of the face. This fall it should be very easy for any woman with taste to select a be coming blouse; for there {s a great variety of styles adapted to nearly every sort of figure. The very newest model is of course of the high neck and long sleeve type. We have worn comfortable low collars and pointed necks for so long that it will be a Mt: te hard at first for the majority of women to adopt this new style, But there {8 something very smart and trim about the mode; and for cold weather it 18 a very appropriate finish for the tailor sult, But only the right type of woman should wear ft. It 1s not foy ber who ts short and fat with almost no neck. Such a woman can still wear her becoming blouse cut with a pointed neck tn the front and finished with a neat or- gandile or lace collar, It 1s ideal for It covers up her bones, and the flaring turnover collar with which the etock {# usually fin- ished frames her face and softens the rounded, outlines and makes them appear more A very smart and pretty example of such a blouse !s shown in the iMustration, with the new chenille buttons, shaped yoke that runs to @ point at the sleeves, It is of white embroidered voile fastened straight up the front Over the shoulders it te fitted by a novel This is of plain material, as is also the high stock and the cuffs, Other smart blouses are made in variations of this style, of net, shadow chiffon, and most faithful to the new variations of the attractive combinations of plain and plaid silks, ‘© is no doubt at all about It, (his new bloure ts» exceedingly smart and y when worn by the right woman. ‘pointed neck” model, But all other women should remain meses 6 mt 8 = Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) not always satisfied me. I'm going to see if 1 can’t get a real moonlight soone, Won't it be great if I do?” “Oh—immense!" 1 snap back sar- castic, “Ll suppose the blamed moon! don’t rise until one G. M.!" | “Not at all,” ho rejoins, all oily and| kind, “it's high in’ the ‘heavens by | 10, And then after that 1 have a} surprise for you,” ‘Say,” 1 answer right quick, “you will have your little joke, won't you? Heretofore your pleasant surpri have usually put me in the emer- gency ward. What's the idea of this one?” P “To-morrow morning at 6.10 we take the train for Buffalo, Just you and [| and the camera man, We're going to do the big scene from reel | three of ‘Dot the Daredevil’ at Niag- ara Falls, You'll have practically a day of rest—at any rate, it'll be @ light day, because I have nine hours each way At first reading the pleasant sur- prise didn't seem as citrous as usual, so I assented gladly. 1 had never seen Niagara Falls, And as I knew it was a place where people went on honeymoons I thought I'd better take advantage of the opportunity and not wait for the copyrighted way of wetting there, But what I'm trying to get at is this little jester’s idea of “a Meht day,’ Retiring from the moonlight experi- ment at 12.30, 1 rose again at 6 A, M, All the way to the station I had acute visions of a cheery dinner, tced canta. loupe, chicken Livers and scrambled eens, &e, E. Percival Bitter greets me with a couple of bars of milk chocolate and some cooking apples, remarking that as it is an out-of-the-way train it doesn't even carry a buffet. He also said that we'd have to hop off at Syracuse and snatch a lunch from the counter in a four-minute etop, ‘That pegan to help a lot, Then right after we got out of the tunnel he takes reel three from his inside pocket and explains that the! Scene wo are going to do calls for Dot going over the Falls in a small boat. He says they've arranged for two | boats and that in @ trunk in the bagwage car is a dummy figure. I go so far in one boat and then # couple of Canadian guides stop me with boat hooks—the dummy fiotshes it and they plece the ffm, Now I'm no coward, but for nine | & hours on that train I was playini with calm Little thoughts #8 to Just what would happen if those Canadian ginks didn't aim right with the hoots We got to the Falls at 430 and took the scene without fatalities, Af- ter it was all over I began to be troubled with renewed appetite, os- pecially as I had heard that Buffalo was infested with good eats. E. Per- cival breaks into my dreams with: “We gotta beat it, Mollie, if wo're going to make that 6.03. It gets us to New York at 2.40 A. M. It's a fast train, T'll lift a couple of Swiss cheese | sandwiches ag We scoot through the station” At 3 A. M. he leaves mo at my door | ee NO. 62, TH Abbe of @ Philemon bed grove olf ble country perieh, Owoe be had been embitiour for bet passed bim by. And be foreed vemement Hut edrencemen® mer t w be conlest wap dving ol! the guud he migh( in (be ema!) sphere of usetuluess te which the Miehop bed assigned him Mis hie? companions tn the bie garden “1 know they steal my fruit.” be used to say wot change the natures of birds 1 should aleo beve to be angry ot mot of ag weal, Bot! them for not reformin Parishioners” rere and garden about bis cottage ware birds The Aloe hed the heart of a obtid Ould not alow Chem to be molested, we matior though thelr thefte ruine® He loved the birds, and be Hecause they were ante to 40 ae they pleased tm the Abbee Gil the birds in the region fooked thither, tren One pair of dering tomtite sotually went eo far se to choose the at the Abbe'e mate as « wite for thee nm the Abbe'e housekeeper found 4 nem te post-box ehe was furtous to disturb the nesting couple arrived com important than the @afe hat Te make certain the mother bird should not be « tomrit tamtty he even sent worl to (hree priesta who were his only correspondenta, asm them not to write bi pint hie reasons later | wenkes to hatch and that three weeks cont be expected to leave the nest. Day by day the summor wore on ber cams in the letter bom, Abbe's softhnartednene Meantime, at ¢ conference was In seaston which many priesta longed to obtain. | maids | | would be we | 8t Philemon.” His to offer the honor Bishop's palace, many mth An Important par mrestion war afontad inanimousiy, ‘They butlt (Rew neste in Ait Hut the Abbe 1 it or him, anyway, and AA uring the next #ix weeks and saying he wousd firured that the tomttt ees would take thres ore must pase before the baby Bande Day by day the tomtit breofed ever Day by duy the old housekeeper fumed over the away, an soolestagtiont nN Wee vacant; @ parth The Bishop, addressing the Counc, “T have in mind a candidate tn every way witiable for thie post, one of our ot st priewts, the Abee And the Bishop wrote that | day to the Abbe, asking for an Immediate reply, as other candidates were eager for the coveted parish. The letter was dropped by the postman tate the box at the Abbe's gate. Nearty a month later the Abhe watched the Inet of the baby tomettts take fiikht from the nest. ‘Then he opened the Ann post lot. There, amid the wreckage of the nest, } A Chance i Iny the letter és "The Rishop has heen walting for my reptv |$__ Thrown Away. > tor weoka!” he groaned ne he read the ortwwapled | letter to his how “And you've missed your one ch The Abbe looked acrons t He looked at them tenderly, by had cost him dear. Then, turning “If the birds try to | prevent them. Sometimes it ts nee n at the alan with for promotion!” she taunted him, roup of new-fledeed tomtite. omething thet satd must we arrange to mnventent | Prophylaxis. VERYWHERRM to-day tn generat reading we ara meeting this big word, and, while it has « rather profound sound, it simply means the art of preventing disease by observing the necessary rules. As the slogan was the gathering cry of a Highland tn Scotiand, #0 prophylaxis is to-day the war cry tn the practice of medicine, In China this idea is old, and there a doctor is engaged and paid by the year to keep the family well. As sc as a member of such a family be- comes ill the doctor's pay stops. In another generation's time doctors everywhere may, to a great extent, be employed in that way, for prevent- {ve treatment rather than to cure dis- eae, Tt Is an acknowledged fact that the majority of ailments from which chil- dren suffer and die it is within the of man, in @ great measure, to clan How This Contractor Turned Defeat Into Victory. ‘6 LL this happened a good many years ago,” said a multi - millionaire contrac- tor, “when the idea of pumping silt- laden water through pipes was bard- ly known, "Ta been established about fifteen years and had accumulated a com- fortable fortune, Then came a mis- take which nearly proved my finan- cial rutn, I secured a big contract from the Government for dredging one of our harbors, Competition was close and, es my plant wae idle at the time, 1 figured right down to rock bottom, After I began opera- tions I experienced unfavorable conditions both in the way of bad weather and labor troubles, [ found that I was losing money hand over fist. Mud which I'd agreed to mov at fourteen cents per cubic yard wa costing me eighteen cen It was a big contract involving several million dollars, I soon saw that before I’4 finished the job I'd be hopelessly bankrupt. “L hate to recall the day that I awoke to @ full realization of my pre- dicament. I was like a man who had asped a iive electric wire, I couldn't relinquish my contract, To continue with ft meant certain fail- 'OMEN~—spinstera at that—used W to be Jurors tn special cases. In 1701, for instance, according to court records, William Parsley, @ butcher of Much jon, England, and his spouse appeared in court at Dun- mow, and, having convinoed @ fury of five “old maids” that they had not quarrelied within the space of three years and were in the enjoyment of a perfect state of connubtal and chirps out: | “Now you get @ good night's sleep, You don't have to be at the| shop until 6 this morning. We're! going to try thet rising sun scene, you know." | I had had my “light day.” were rewarded with @ fiitch or “gam. mon” of bacon. The Dunmow custom, thus revive) had !ta beginning in the middie a; when the monks of Dunmow Priory offered to bestow a flitch of bacon upon any couple who, afier « twelve- felicity, | causes: uh and the vention of infec! The former only dome throveh on of the mi and then of the & fundamental prin- nies of infant hy and feeding, is & department whiew has, np now, received altogether too small eral public in the ar place in medical education. There has always seemed to be a sort of curtain dropped between the medical profession and the laity, The latter problem must come through direct lewislation—the purpose of which shall be more rigid quarantine and more thorourh disinfection; improved housing and general sanitation tn all ite departments, Our crusade againet tuberculosis and the fly wero splen- did steps along this very line, Our wonderful Departinent of Health tw |aretted their marria continually telling us that publie health is purchasable, and that, withe in natural limits, any community caw determine its own death rate, Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Copyright, 4918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York byening World) ure. Apparently there was no @e- cape. Week after week I watched my dump scows carrying the harboe mud out Into the ocean, And evory scow load meant that I was just thet much poorer, Never did a man face @ more hopeless situation. “Finally I sold my big country place. That meant that the evil day was delayed for a while. “One day I picked up an engineers ing magazine telling about @ successes fully executed plan whereby mud - from a harbor bed had’ been pumped through pipes to some nearby flats, with the result that hundreds of acres of worthless land were oon- verted into valuable dock and fae~ romptly consulted a firm of local engineers and we made an tn- spection of the hurbor in which wos operating, We found that tt was ideally adapted to this plan, & could pump the mud which I wae la- boriously transporting to the ocean to adjacent flate and by the profit on the lend values far more than recoup my lonsee on the original contract. “Very quietly [ secured my optte: I bought the seemingly ‘worthiesd Jond for a rong. ‘Then I invaded th Mnancial centre and obtained backing, A company was organized; the stocle and bond isvue floated, and for my aureta and services I received 9£,000,00@ in securities. “The plan worked successtully, & beran making money fast. The ides proved to be an unqualified succems, Which only oes to show that a maa may be downed most any time, but ae he's never out until he admits a teetanateedied When Woien Jere Jurors, month of matrimony, e and made oath at Dunmow sore y had never had a quarrel, never re an \t over again if they had the sce tunity, “So far ae the recerde show, only three fil.ches of bacon were awarded by the Dunmow monks, Ats ter the suppression of religious estabe Hshments the offer way ‘withdrawn, Dut in 1701 {t was revived, and Wille tam Parsloy and hia wife proved to the satisfaction of the spineter i nek fet Fine \ the prise, Since ere have beon many notabl monion at Dunmow, when couples ene loying the highest degree of monial felicity have been acclatme by multitudes not ble Hymen, a a mer | 4 ‘