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The Evening World Dai ine, Wednesday EN ge mennnnnnnnnnrnrancn 7 wandeneeneen| % SPT TE ae - @he efelita win. |Horse-Laugh awwthe, By J. H. Cassel!} The Stories Domunnea Daily Biewpt Popany ty hy Pewee Pion Company. Nos, 63 to it SF eign frre meen urmermuen tepere en es Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune RALPH 4 President, 63 Park Row. ‘J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Par! JORPH PULITZER, JIr., Secretary, 6 -OffI0 Now York as Second-Clase Matter. Gubscription pete Fog otto tant Mor Pneland and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the Tnternational , , be. and Canada. Postal Union, Park Row. Year. . s+ 63.60" One Year. ad Monto $0: One Month. Coperight, 1918, be The Pew Podiohune Co. Fhe New York Leonie W VOLUME 56 No. 98 -A WAYSIDE COMEDY, by Rudyard Kipling. f 56... Sea ee ET AIS: ASHIMA {s a God-forsaken little Government station amid the ! } Dosehri hills of India, nearly two hundred miles from the near MILLIONS FOR A CITY MAP. | BAW cat actiicinent. Five English people are quartorea there, ‘Thuy } U can't get away. You shall hear how life has become hell for ESPITE all the housecleaning and expense paring there ste ise oF em, still plenty of corners of the city payroll where the light is At first ti wore but three English stationed at Kashima. They were dim and the waste unchecked. Boulte and ae beeity wife--(Boulie way a Government engineer) Ae Dh i Fi t < ‘apt. K 1 if oD sh arp, Me Soule did not love her stodgily The Evening World has uncovered another of the obscure pockets Capt. Kurrell of the British army Boulte did od matter-of-fact husband. And she did love K 1 into which taxpayers’ money perennially disappears. Vor eighteen | “Botilte knew nothing of the somewhat violent flirtation» flirtation “YT f Years the city has been making a mop of itself—with the assistance, into which Emma Boulte threw all her heart, and which merely amused needless to say, of paid battalions of engineers, draughtsmen, transit-| | Kurrell, : men, rodmen, axemen, levellers, laborers and nobody |tnows how many Then Major and Mrs. Vansuythen were sout to Kashima. The Major : “office clerks.” It hae already spent $6,000,000 ‘on the job, Map| was a bluff, Jolly old chap, His wife was a woman of rare beauty and charm. And she was good. Also she and her absolutely devoted to cach other. mekers’ salaries for the present year will total nearly $600,000. Over) and over again portions of the work have had to be recominenced and! ‘ig husband happened to be . Their arrival swelled the English population of Kashima by 40 pay * dome over because earlier methods employed broke down or because) cent. raining it foes shes rerione i five : ba) oviptinit ti rvs ie Borough Presidents were anxious to give the plan new twists. Spares pleasnnter for their pres To-day, after eighteen years and $6,000,000 have heen spent on it H Tea Partion H cs erie i wholg. w there is every indication ¢hat the map of the City of New York will | YAS eet for teu Kurrell would Bi Yemain a muddle for another eighteen years and cost another and there would be singing. ‘Tiis daily ss repros $6,000,000 unless some simple, practical, permanent plan is adopted to complete it. Complicated and ever-changing spend half a million dollars a year through another generation merely ae the city is, it surely need not topography. to get an adequate grasp of its own atenaciencemendpiateennemnemeematan THE PROBLEM FOR GREECE. ERLIN is no doubt eager to make plain to all the world thot B British and French troops are already surrounding Athene.| demanding the abdication of King Constantine and prepar ng to establish a new Government under allied auspices with former | Premier Venizelos at its head. | The Cologne Gazette makes what it can of the King’s “control of higher officers of the Greek army” and “his popularity among the) Greek people.” The German press naturally secs the possibilities in! the spectacle of allied armies eweeping over the neutral soil of Greece, | only goctal life, the room where his wife Was arranel her sharply if she were really fond of hated her husbind n who hag been wnfallir eho toid him she detested him and that Boulte Hstened patiently to her t So things went on for @ few montl waiked into na bowl and asked not fond of him, She has wronged and wnery frankness, him L 1 out of the house, Presently Emma remembered an errand at went across to attend to ft. She entered the bungalow just in time to overhear her husband beg Mrs, Vansuythen to clopn with him, He explained to the amazed woman that his own wife loathed him and that she loved Kurrell “It can't be!" contradicted Mrs, Vansuythen, “Capt. Kurrell told me he had never taken the least interest in your wife, Mr. Boulte, He swore to ime he had not!” the V nsuythen bungulow and Emma Roulte sprang forw ¢ broke into a torrent of hyster eproaches and fainted. H After which there were lurid seenes between Boulte and Kurreli, between Kurrell and Emma, between Emma and Mrs. Vansuythen, And os an upshot of this series of encounters Mrs, Vansuythen called Kurrel! a brute and refused to speak to him again. Kurrell told Emma he loved Mra, Vansuythen and blamed in former sweetheart for Mrs. Vansuythen's dislike of hum. Mrs, Boulte blamed Mrs, Vansuythen for innocently winning from her the love of both Kurrell 1 from her hiding place, A Quadruple Quarrel. eee: and Boulte, Said Boulte to Kurrett: “I don't think I should get any satisfaction from killing you, and I'm pretty #ure you'd get nono from Killing me, You'ro a bine! , but when jyou'ro with me | can feel certain you're not with Mrs. Vansuythen or mak- ing Emma miserable.” Now, of all this tangle Major Vansuythen suspected nothing, boon tacitiy agreed he should not be told, And to kcep him from finding out anything the four others had to go right on meeting at tea every after. noon as usual and to behave as though nothing were amiss, ; an Major enjoys these little datly tea parties immensely, The pleasure i. 8, dethroning the King and setting new rulers over the reluctant and resisting Greeks. A peralle) tor Belgium has long been sought by ; German apologists. i! Jt is not yet clear precisely what is happening in Greece. That the allies are bringing heavy pressure to bear on Athens there is little | reason to doubt. But whether they are enforcing their demands with, troops is not so certain. | In any cnse there arises the question whether King Constantine -. has pgid’or ever contemplated paying what the Greek nation may not ‘idhaturally regard as its debts to Great Britain and her allies. If not and if the Greek people prefer to pay their obligations even if they have to set aside their King, the parallel with Belgium is going to prove difficult to establish. ——— + VALORIZING GASOLINE? METI WR DIG OO ee ten ce wetcen ered oe It had The Woman Who Dared — By Dale Drummond i} Coppright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Drening World) CHAPTER XLIV, ine the child, and nothing will make | . : me quite so happy as to have | USHERED the lawyer intol pg (iit* | y you Gaaualla’ Ssem Gna. wee him a name.” Then, I couldn't jhelp it, I was so sorry for Huskall. T about to leave them alone | leaned over and kissed him. The first Lucile, the Waitress — By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World), The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — * OOSTS h . f line bear hard N "i ‘ Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Prming World), when he stopped me Ki : 1 had given him fér months, STS in the price of gasoline bear harder on New York tha] ¢¢ HY is (t, 1 wonder," said) about some other man being an idiot RRESTED for sneezing without|could not motion to the complaining!” “pieass stay, Katherine, I want You] tookine ne ane in widens aeaminered, “4 on any other city in the country. The Evening World’s in- an the waitress, 25 tascaghe armen rune cau a Heense or a handkerchief,| officer to wait. \to hear what I have to say to Mr.|Jment. je-eyed astonish. the newspaper man un- 2 quiry shows that New Yorkers are charged 30 cents a gallon for gasoline that can be had in St. Louis and Chicago for 21 cents and in Kaneas City for 20 cents. If there is any price-raising going on New York usually gets the Mr. Jarr was haled to the po- Nico court as criminal a looking sneerer as had ever been pinched. As he was led along no glance was turned upon him in pity. I'm in love with the gir here, Now 1 feel like self because of being broken-hearted.’ “L arin at him, ‘Well, please don't do it here, 1 says, \'The man who owns this place wouldn't want you you saw in "Give mo a sneeze card, ‘This BUY | DyeKerson. hanging my~- Was caught sneezing!’ said the com-| «pe. done all kinds of things in plaining officer. The complaint clerk] 1. ji¢6, Dickerson, as you know, I Wars Sosa .,|may have been ail kinds of a fool,” T haven't any sneere cards left” | with @ touch of his old cynicism. “Yes, T found t ote Clara folded his napicin, “that so many men he note Clara wrote Will pick out a waitress to tell their love troubles to?" “I don't know,” he replied. “Every day two or three tell me S year pocket when cleaning out the closes knew you were finished with 1 added lamely, nd you still—want to adopt the boy?” he asked incredulously, *” , i i : hanging around here.’ “He looks ike a fellow who sneered he replied, “I have cough cards and |". Hae tasite: hg: tatat fobs es, Haskall. And now that you Worst of it. But why these jumps in the cost of gasoline? The bul-| how Jennio wouldn't speak to ‘em or} Ho tella me i'm weak-minded and) i, our hallway last Wednesday,” sald| anti-expectoration cards but no anesse tn thing of, my career, Tain alpen, iat T have Pere at as apie letin of the United States Geological Survey sets down the petroleum|%o¥ Maxie sent back the ring em) ance of his heart be-|@ fat man to @ friend as Mr, Jarr| cards.” pauper, and 1 um going to adopt a) compact” I tried to spewk lente output for 1915 at record figures—257,400,000 barrels were marketed, | * {Sw love exchange, Honestly, | ing anything more than dented, 0 Dhta | w A sombre-looking individual with boy and leave him a pauper's in-| heavy horn spectacles ctme over and heritance.” “4 “Mr, Burroughs wants to seo you, led past. | \w the distress on his face These hardened sneeezers ought to : I hear more talk from the love-sore | ak of this again, From n than you can imagine. love thing is “1 don't kr wiul, ain't it, kn I'm not in love, Some 24,000,000 went into field storage. The pipe line companies re- on he is Jae! 4 ug! , piled tha nbwacager Mian. be sent up for Ife,” remarked the|asked Mr. Jarr if he was an ex-| Nira, Clark told mo as the door closed | aig’ migen S MFTOMBHS, your are estimated to have had on hand at the end of the year about 195,-| "Ths morning a fellow site right) Tl iute to have people telling mo| other. convict, Mr. Jarr aad he was not. | after the old lawyer 1s sve somed| an ntenk you, Wathorine.” Haskal) 000,000 barrels, or approximately 50,000,000 barrels more than they Where you're at and toys with the|an about their heart affairs," Lucile | ‘phe Magistrate's Court was crowdca| ‘I'm sorry T can't help you then,"| “Sit down, Katherine, ’ answered, then turned his face from poison card while J'm standing here | w Men are just as bad as t on, thing to tell A confession to ou. : i for the afternoon session. ‘The clerka}*aid the man with the horn spec- ." ips twisted wryly. T| die, pur not before I had scen tears had at the close of 1914. waiting for his plans, Finally he/ Women about being fickle. | Suppose, | ae cUnaes ware go busy weith pon| (eles. UE Ain: euenk tor the Bocleiy| came gen 1k WEA nce eaay) TOP Wet Aoi ie proven but a1aias eee How then can scarcity account for the present high prices? Aro| ave: “My dear, I'm in trouble, .}a guy when he Was hungry and went|and ink and cards of different colors| for Coddling Criminals, I could have) "I have been pretty much of a rotter,) he did improve, Mr. “biekerson lost the oil interests “valorizing” oil as the coffee magnates used to val- 1 plait ada aie wi et omar ant ta that the procedure looked like @ game Bee esr aaa pened an an es mind now, Haskall, Wait acne. and con Out aan ete orize coffee—by locking up huge quantities of the product so that tle] “'Mine's real trouble,’ he continuca, | YON do So. toe sroubles a Liat thes man who had ar-| this cherge, provided you Wrere-an ox Te toekne golly Y aeuld have spared | setane feet iark wan ‘deltenid consumer may not benefit by its plentifulness? “1 seo it'a a girl so TL eay: ‘Well,| op ene own, eh?” The Be seed mpeDs Ma ar} convict.” Rin a ‘80 expresncd heract jehted ays : F why don’t you go to her and tell her|" “Oh, a few. But I never mention | "ested Mr, Jarr im, Sorcga “Could you send a message f “No time like the present,” he p little lamb ts Ko young he will Or is it that, whatever the cost of crude oil, the oil companics— you're wrong?’ tem to anybody. How about the | sate up to the complaint clerk's desk.| 1), ."piendo” asked Mr Cesk or me! quoted. “I have never been a very never know anything about it,” she ay. I d ? - as you 10 a tear he ae éeattered but flourishing progeny of the dissolved Oil Trust—are| ‘But I ain't wrong, he shoots | eat stat itd? Will you Daye a) That Shean: 8 Cath Eee e "I can't dovanything for you if won leper Thanet Ghee been honor- | cheeka, “If omy nie pepe fale eee crowding the small consumer hard in order that each of the broo]| back ‘She tells me 1 fut out “1 would you care for some of the New ie name of Jayphin, was ao busy |87¢ Only & respectable citizen. My | able rt Se Nother nee xniahe. doe," I . ; miay grow as big as mother? mace et get ngs eae Fai poe ph iste oe aiist| making out cards of various colora,| ciety does not permit of my doing | yt pirtClara Mullen—worked in| sure she does Wadi ES. e ih A : | “AWell, what do you bother with| dress of a good stomach ay h ink of various colors that ho|®"¥thing except for ox-convicts, Are|my office. The boy Jack ix my son."| "She was so anxious about h As chief sufferer New York joins the rest of the country in ask-| women for? 1 ask. ‘Why don't you| Kees with both items a ae 8 you sure you are not an ex-convict? |e hesitated then, “Now do youj edu hia future,” she ye ing the Government to look into the present exorbitant and arbitrary | Set 8" automobile or the lives to cmeeueeee You look Ike one. If you are an ex.| Want to adopt him?” he asked. “ Rurrougha’ will look owt take up your spare time?’ | “He gives me a hard look, ‘You're | at alike,’ he saye and that's the last 1 hear of his treubles. “A while later a little thin fellow orders two turned ovef and then says ‘Supposing you was in love ow M for all that." "If not, 1 sill,” I returned, think- ing that HMaskall might not lve to do amything further for the boy, (To Ba Concluded.) an a es cost of gasoline. “Yes, Huskall, now more than ever,’ T answered. nd—Haskall, | have known it for some time, Known tt jand forgiven you any wrong you may have done me, You know my love convict T can have you released at! once and furnished with a new sult of clothes, pocket money and theatre tickets. There are some moral and Improving films that you should see, showing what prison reform is doing| Mythology a la Mode—By Alma Woodward. Reflections of A Bachelor Girl Hits From Sharp Wits Lois of them will come all the way | down from a tin roof to tell you how | a to dig u post-hole.-Philadelpnia | The things that we need the least! usually the things we struggle the | to got.—Philadelphia Tele. | to me: for humanity i iat i hd bt, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Br@wing World) egraph. ag ae | wa toe ee ent! Tew) Cena! By Helen Rowlan d ‘That's a very kind looking woman Paeuaion and Galatea (a dish she dearly eee bud They say that timo thes, but it de-| ‘Troubles always become magnified | @n Gasier one, } \ : standing over there talking to that |», grain, King of Crpna, care! an ine} dered and uyed smelling salta pends on whether you are the creditor) through talking about them.—Albany |" ‘listen!’ he saya. ‘It ain't looks Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World) girl,” sald Mr. Jarr. “Perhaps at. dirinely lovely maiden, He bane Then she got a real engagemont, or the debtor. Journal, that yin Womei sign park cane VERY man professes to admire a “reserved” woman, but somehow he | will have a message sent for me.” ntatuated With Sinlon for a state, irewined ita tae pars called for a love one with | tl decide to woo o 1 re : ‘i " . fs into @ liv a) vine { Pyge emn-like: ‘Mister, your gold could always treats that kind as though he thought she were being reserved : a hae ened Soman comme over, |e a teremation ag Pollan gue mtn eet ees jnever buy me.’ And there he sets for some other man to marry ray 58 ack from Mr. Jarr in ALATBA GORDON, in pigtal loves, was a handsome brute! Dollars and Sense ' ; By H. J. Barrett | pee oe ae cont meal, Hee the horror when she learned he had heon ( ! and pink percale, had come| lis black ehamel halt was. divia men, particular! ry rn ced y 7 | ie) hin orour eat 1 ne ait- y ev r * # a 101 e wer wi young men, drift ainsaaaly, toward conbinntion te eee) any woont He wante to angue, Ike all It may be unlucky to get married on the 13th, but nobody ever felt that Ee apie a raiead at from Consolation Corners! perroct.thirt ut, eer vent from one part of the coun-|10, Pose as an oracle upon Cre. au | little snen do way about getting divorced 8 ttred | Gonn., to New York City, two years] was a heavenly resting place, ect i #& 4,’ he says, ‘It’s brains: eyes and spoke in a low fatt, But try to another acting under the im- A man may work sixteen houra| _" "My dear gir, he says fired a 7 1 ! success there. Cantleld rambles out ; the oll fields und Jater . 7 Galatea knew that to mak F — before, She came for two reasons. make a hit in 4 day for thirty years; save 50 per| that makes women love men, ne = ' tone to the complaining officer: "1 oe _|the part she must be adamant t pression that one section offers better |ocnt. of his car 4, Invest it eel “"] guppose you Bot to keep dodg- The average man marries a little doodlewtt of a woman, just because} |) o you a trafic cop?” asked the | First, because she had talent.” Se0-| ardor—repre Finally the ue opportunities (han another,” re- conservatively nanaged business ing into wee all the time lo] 4¢ thrills him to have something human around the house on which he can eomanlaiay slark | ond, because Pa could pay her fare. manager fou ; nd awaken some fine morning to | Void ‘em,’ 1 answer & z ae ; years in the Smith-Jones| “Miss Gordon,” he remarked, “yo marked a prominent business man] ‘ind ‘hia entire stake’ awepe wey | Oh, forget It!" he says. ‘Suppose | 100k down with patronizing supertority, The officer said he was, After two 3 he emerged a fin-| #0 through that scone eye et Al Fecontly. “Success always les just| through’ the competition er a wee | you wuld you loved me and yet you ane “What right had you to arrest a| Dramatic School, she emerged & MMV juss gutton over the grip and sey over the next hilltop. invention, the dishonesty of a treas- | went out with other 1 0 all the time! Marriage to a man is merely the point at which he stops trying to foOl) nan for sneezing, then?” asked the| shed exponent of the “repressed,” in} wore ald of catching it, Melt! ‘Act “McAdoo wanders into New York|urer, or an unforeseen shift What would [ think? Swen ifs - on : ‘or life, ; 4 “ cting. Galatea had witnessed per-|like a human being. Here, Miss ¥) the Hudson River Marshall eld} & lazy, unambitious clerk. inherit a| mad, “if I was in love with you pezing Sq’ reat. | bo" Pigs este OP throw the scene with Mr, Potter” drifts into Chicago and makes his| few hundred dollars as a windfall, | there'd be just one man I'd go out The morwnest man on carth is the one who will let an incensed woman | eq him.” | She and the other natives voted them| Now, Venus Vivian Rene Hoe aad pee there, (x a if Yost Spe, MER in none shares of | with, nt, he aa. GE Coles | eo right on chattering and Just sit there with his mind full of deep, dark,| “The guy was disturbing traffic by| bum, unless the heroine broke up a} to Ko through cones with Mr, Potter as Moan taken bie | would condean on ei eet yoru ee Course | hateful thoughts which he refuses to tell her. sneezing,” explained the officer, | perfectly inlaid parlor set before she] this long while, bur obody ‘ever ue Selfridge boards | himself a millionaire v yeurg | Noe comes from me, ‘I mean the A man who looked like @ college| fainted, in Act I. and tho here killed | sii’ gid to that acane!. In compen & stoner for London und scores a| time. | The latter care aot d pT waa If « man’s Srst love and his last love could compare notes each of them} professor from Boston came behind) the villain by maine him cat leopatra was [an “Leonalden ee Pectors used to say about go diamond mine, generally EUS ould vow that the other Was lying, so completely have all the little noar-| the clerk, “You have made out the/ “isu: “the Smith-Jones Dramatic! fai And it Gal. tea’s ¥ ds where you find it, Ono made the for- Bring them eggs!’ lie says. And/foves in between metamorphosed his sentimental nature and changed his| blue cards for Ordinance Violations) school Inocked all that out of! Venus's writhings hud nothing of may find it on the pavements of "k clerk who| that ends his portion of the porfor- de toward Wane with red ink,” he said to the clerk, | Galatea, They told her melodrama) repression in them, she gathered Th, - Broadway; another in the hennequin| bought without the slightest. knowl- | mance. attitude towar omen “Don't you know they should be made| Was a thing of the past. That on the | smith-Joner Pramatic School | had ions of Yucatan, Most men|edge of the factors involved, | “Tt seamed to be love day here to- | — out with green ink on red cards? We| 8ta6e of to-day you Pua Sunkest, | obtained money under fulse pp never find it for the simple reason “One thing is certuin, howevef, even | day. The next broken-hearted one A motion picture “novelty” advertised 4s a play in which a man suffers “ fic yin keenli not state; that biting the lower lip! tenses, Galatea threw Venus to one that, despite the ‘Success’ books to the | under the present chaotic conditions; |J struck says to me: ‘Lady, have you| an attack of mental aberration and completely forgets thet he is married, | °°? have no efficiency ‘eoping the} and fluttering the left eyebrow must | side and acted naturally contrary. there isn't enough success|the man who works hard and saves | cen a blonde girl in here with a lop. |S? *t = OD ne ORDPLOHEY new card index system unless direc- ie tions are followed. convey “Pity THe is strangling my Pom and I can do nailgbt to save his money has « far bettor chance of | sided, cheap-looking guy this morn- | But-where Is there any novelty in that? bad around, "Bravo! Immense!" applauded the io one can formulate any rules 4 hi he | The judge can't |} manager - fn scoring @ success than the lagy, ims | ing’ oon with any. coor cases to-day | “2 / eh proves that in the ratio og SSB a euccanae Inky enum ie | meade toes ren tee money that Or, depide to pester im a bit.) It tx s0 onsy for @ woman to get ermpathy from a husband—anybedy's| hecause the blue ink for the white| repression iuen thut when, thos had. inv killers raprusvion bose Acme (ME OE tube thes every ccpiian ct alee? oP eopy, A heard her say something husband bus Lex om, ‘aaa ___ tinmnttninsmn | Pisas Oftouan cards har eiven ants? et ber knows quantiin, bal nck 4 or . 3