The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 14

| he CG World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Pedliehed Daily Except sunday vy the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to ’ er tech. Park Row, New Yor’ RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasure Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Matter. _Bubsoription Rates to The Bvening|For Engiend and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union a seceossecans $3.60/One Year. os. +80/One Month. sees NO. 19,896 THE PILLAGERS. EVELATIONS in the subway inquiry now in progress justly shock the community which has to pay the bills. Disclosures of immense sums handed over to lawyers and bankers for ser-| vices of vaguest character in ‘connection with the dual subway con- tracts outrage popular confidence and lead to a line of reflection: “Is there such a thing in the City of New York as public patriot.| jem? Is there such a thing as civic loyalty? | Where ie the man or group of men who can be trusted to carry a Qrest public work honestly and properly to its completion? In the construction and operation of new subways the city, not @. P. Morgan & Oo., is the capitalist behind the vast enterprise. The} people furnish the money, supply the patronage, guarantee the ulti- Mate payment. What possible situation could be more free from com- plications? How could any agreement require leas intermeddling| pad precaution ? iYet the testimony shows that millions have been taken for ser ‘Micee which, eo far as the public can seo, need never have been per Sermed ; $8,500,000 the Interborough has paid, since the subway nego- Mations began, for legal advice of a “special and extraordinary” na- fare, Why eo much law for a straightforward deal with the city? The firm of J. P. Morgan & Oo. and its associates got flat half talltion merely for being “ready” to furnish construction funds. The ame firm and ite customers have further benefited to the extent of mearty $2,000,000 a year from an arrangement whereby it pays only, 91-8 per cent. on Interborough cash which it holds, but enjoys, or eecures to ite customers, 5 per cent. interest from Interborough bonds which it cells. Does it pretend to call this huge rake-off by any other name? Pillage, not patriotiem or public spirit, governed these eminent financiers and lawyers who contrived together to pick millions from the public purse. | The business of eettling the subway contracts was in the hands of an elected board of responsible officials. The routes were laid out by Public Service Commissioners appointed under the purest auspices by Gov. Hughes. No excuse of any sort or description can be found to explain the conduct of the men involved in these amazing diversions of subway funds. The part played by the Morgan house seems to have been ite old role in the Shipbuilding Trust, the American Mercantile Marine oom- bination and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad finance. It would appear that in the career of thie banking house its subway policy was not an incident but habit. Where and to whom is this beleaguered town to turn to find the honesty, economy end integrity thet ought to preside over ite affaire? When the city hes a greet undertaking in view, one would think there would be men of execttive ab{iity, men of legal eminence, men of financial power ready and proud to step forward and offer their services to the public at the lowest terms they could afford. Where ere they? ‘A few cracked retios of past ages «tored in an art nmseum make Derdly fair return to the city for burdens laid upon it in the form “et explottation—distoyal, fierce, ineatiable—at the hands of finan- Gere who graep at public business for the plunder thers is in it. —— 1 af} cre@t to the New York police for running down the ‘ua who shot Bernard Baff, the poultry dealer. The man who pata 9800 for the murder {e also tn the net. It took nearly fir- teem monthe, but ft 1s weloome proof that murder mystertes in ‘thie 4enrn can still be cleared up by hard work. ————$+ ‘The Gsappeerance of the books and papers of the late An- @yew Freedman te about the best proof the Thompson commit- of the tmportance of what's tn them. Theyre ‘Lave documents rarely perish unread. ——— ‘FRey've begun to sound the alarm over women’s dress in ‘Verginia. Never so much to worry about that the ladies can't Mon Cd - eM a “Tt” cnocroseed in that Lusitania last word Hits From Sharp Wits. , 6 of your friends would prob- is in danger of betng held up.—Toledo Py RR you !f you didn’t borrow ) Blade. cer from them occasionally. oc ol lp RC Tig Re ‘woman who gives a oat of miorol , & ina corre. of attention to the little things in life | spondent submits this; ts the one who stays at home and teeke after ber own oh{ldren.—Macon i News. Columbia State. eee . ee A Tennessee man used a lighted] A great many people blush for their match to look for a mouse behind a} country who would never think of powder can, He ai1an’t find it. fighting for {Deseret News, oo. . You may have notiosd thet a man ja not likely to be in the pink of con- Now it has come to this: Ifa man has no visible means of support he may be arrested and locked up; and} dition when his snout {#—Columbia if be has visible means of support he! State. pi a eis Rta El teh cD shakes Letters From the People. A Chauffeur's Grievance, mumber of cabs that have to cruise ‘To the Edttor of The Bening World a pad ont fares. At certa! yf I read with a great deal of intere: ty and BronTay, TR Biress an articlo by Miss Loeb on Yellowland Fifth Avenue, Fortrercees Cabs, As @ public hackman I thank | Street and Broadway, &o.) they have you for the fight you fought on behalf | became an actual menace to life and of the public and for us hackmen for limb Any traffic officer will corrob- the piesent ordinance, but if the ben- orate this, Why have the number of ab 4 eftts from the ordinance are to be real | fore) areas Mulowed at the different and permanent to both the public and hotel stands been decreased? Cabs the hackmen you will have to con- surely would be better off on hack. tinue the fight. Chaos scems to reign, |St@"d8 than continually circling Laws or rules—I don't know which around hotels endangering life and | blocking t ve r, | they are, they change #o frequently ng treme, Beven and eight are continually violated, Many pub- dollars is about the average fare a chauffeur collect lc hackstands have their cliques and e cilecte theae dave And Will not allow a stranger on their with gasoline and tires taking Jumps | atand, which practically brings back |°Very few days it'# getting harder to the old conditions that existed before make a living. the present ordinance, What has the} Apply to Your Cong Present administration done to rem- | To the Editor of The Mrening Wortd e@y this evil? Mr. Drennan points to the great number of taxis licensed in| | Should ttke to obtain some infor- the past two years. I think the con-| ™ation in regan to the examinations, gestion on Broadway and Fifth Ave- lime & Gue, & great deal, to the large whom shoumIlepply? & W, R, The Evening World X Daily Ma gazin e. Subway + Crush INTER BOROUGH PROFITS —— By Roy L. Ooprright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Prening World,) HE hours crept on apace, Mrs. Jarr’s gown, solemnly promised by the dressmaker to be deliv- ered at 4 P. M. sharp, arrived prompt- ly per messenger with bill at 6.20. Mra. Jarr, who had been on the point of nervous collapse since 8 in the afternon, yet ail the while in the hands of her ministering hand- maidens, Gertrude, the Jarr’s light running domestic, and Margaret, the itinerant hairdresser of the neighbor- hood, received the gown with loud ‘walls. It had not been draped as she had expressly ordered. She was of half a mind not to wear it this night at Madam Bingveli’s recital at the Hotel St. Croesus, she declared as she ‘was being helped into it. Meanwhile Mr. Jarr walked the hall, still barred out from his good lady's) boudoir where his evening attire was. He knew by the ecent of burning hair that Mre. Jarr’s colffure was now bo- ing attended to. He and the children were given a “picked up" meal that contained neither teste nor nutriment, while Mrs. Jarr was served with tea in her boudeir—it being brought in while the door was unlocked and locked again as though she were a Prisoner of state, Finally, even @ lady who ts going to attend a swell socal function fin- fehes her toilet, and at 7 P. M. or thereabouts Mr. Jarr was admitted to Mrs, Jarr’s apartment and ourtly commanded to Burry and dress and Rot dawdle, Mrs. Jarr being in her new gown and in white kid slippers, the journey to the scene of the recital had to bo made !n a taxicab. It had to be made tn two portages, for Mr. Jarr had a! ‘business engagement to atop off first at the Hotel St. Vitus to meet friend, Jack Silver, on an tmportant Dusiness matter, Although the successful consumma tion of the business matter tn pros- | pect would mean a splendid pecun ary return, Mrs, Jarr did not fail to berate her spouse all the way In the taxicab. Yet when she arrived at the Hotel St. Vitus and seated herself in @ gold and volvet chair tn the Vanity Lane corridor of the ornate hostelry, she felt complacently elated to realize that for once she was properly gowned for such surroundingy, She also greeted Mr. Silver, he Weing bachelor, w ery and many pleasantries “You wicked fellow!” she erted, |tapping Mr. Silver with her fan “Your ‘horrid old business engagement with Mr. Jarr has made Mrs. Mud ridge-Smith angry at me. We are to go to Mme. Singveli’s recital at the &c., for admission to West Point. To | Hotel St. Croesus and I had promised Clara-—your old eweetheart, you know, The Jarr Family Everyda —— By Sophie Copyright, 1918, by The P The Dependent Husband McCardell — —to go with her in her town car, which was to call at our house for me. At the last minute I had to tele- Phone her that Mr. Jarr had to stop off here for a business engagement and that I would go with him. I did hot dare tell her (he engagement was with you, for although she le now an; old man's darling, any mention of you and she gives way to tears— Jack, poor Clara thinks of what might | In the common course of events this have been, you wicked boy!" man took a wife—took her away from Mr. Silver evidently also thought of | = = = what might have been, for he shud- “put. dered and then gave a sigh of relief. Then he and Mr. Jarr stepped aside to discuss the proposed scheme of} robbing some keen business persons man who had many friends, ‘This man inherited consid- erable, money and he lived on this money, That ts one Treason why he had so many friends, He never knew how to earn a dollar because he had never needed to do It. He was a good spender and lived well, | the proposed legal robbery, a tons" passed calling loudly “Mrs, Carr!” It occurred to Mr. Jarr that his g00d lady's name was being taken in of their acquaintance, within the law.| vai, ana eo {t proved, Mra, Jarr As Mrs, Jarr watched the women|was' wanted at the telephone, but who passed where she sat, and a8/hejng interested in two blond ladies, Mr. Jarr and Mr, Silver discussed! gorgeously attired, she sent Mr, Jarr. Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy By Famous Authors ON THE ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS, By Sir Arthur Helpa, may blind ourselves to it if have we like, but the hatreds and| Whom we live such thing al st hat there about strange behind disgusts tha ” |'There is no place, however hind friendship, relationship, service] real politeness is of more a and proximity of all kinds, make one| where we mostly think tt would be of the darkest spots upon earth, The | SUperfluous, various relations of life which bring Hels = red ve know,|,,2%. travelling alon people together cannot, as we ARIE aawe aie Sars be perfectly fulfilled except in a state} Gheerful jooking rooms with ‘nt |where there will perhaps be no oc-| (lazing in them, and we conclude in- |caston for any of them, | ly how ‘happy me Inmates |" If people would live together in| geen heater peace {t were well not to interfore | ; . n unreasonably with others, not to ridi- | « cule their tastes, not a habit of saying to those with are he- at night, as u glimpse into known here are two “reat classe requestion their’ re happine |dulge in perpetual comn ple who have some | proceeding and to delight latter are ime \having other purposes tha | 0 § Another rule 1 c hey n-conduet wren Jothers is to a wil the heats and a wsities jects of dispu y hap-| around them. To have peace pens when people live much together cor a family or any social eirele jthat they come to have certain set members of ft must beware of topics around which, from frequent | passing on hasty and uncharitad disputes, there is such a growth of | speeches, They must be very goc angry words, mortified vanity and| people to avoid doing this, for. let the like that the oMginal subject of} human nature difference becomes @ standing subject | likes sometime for quarre| and there ts a tendency in| rel | all minor disputes to drift down to it. If you would be loved as a com ‘panion avoid ‘unnecessary criticism | what it will it to look on at a quar- amt that not nature, they go out upon those with whom you live. or admit ‘One of moat provoking forms « thelr own cir hat they do eriticism ve alluded to is that not make a had use of the knowledge which may called criticism over | which they have gained of each other tha shoulder, Had I been con-| by their intimacy, Nothing 43 more | sulted Had you listened to me"! common than and did tt not “But you always will” and such short | mostly proceed nN mero careless- |scraps of sentences may remind us| ness tt would be superlatively ungen. [of many dissertations which we have|erous. You seldom need wait for the suffered and inflicted and of which | written fe of a man to hear about we cannot call to mind any soothing | his weaknesses or what are supposed effect to be su you know his intimate Another rule is not to let familiarity | friends or meet him in company with swallow up all courtesy, y of ua’ them, + By J. H. Cassel y Fables Irene Loeb ing Co, (The New York Evening V and the Meal-Ticket Wife. UBONIC PLAGUE is one of the! NOE upon a time there was a a good Job. She was a woman who| B oldest enemies of mankind, and) indications of its possible presence. Iways earned her own livelihood Strange to say, such opposites often do marry, The woman thought that at las would be able to “ease up” on the |strain of making her own bread and butter, and life loomed up beautiful |to her. ‘The man continued to enter- tain his friends and spend his money against the wishes of this frugal wife. He did not make any effort to pre- serve his little fortune, He figured it would last him as long as he wanted {t and he did nothing to make it safe and sound, } Also, in the natural course of Jevents, along came a big fire and | burned up most of the property from which his income was derived. ‘There she surance, as he had not looked after tt, and he found himself very busy trying to scrape together the taxes on his unproductive property. Afterward, in order to live, he had to sell some of it at a sacrifice and, to make a long fable short, pretty soon fone was nothing left. Things looked Since the man had never done any work he did net know how to begin, So he began borrowing from friends. There is always a limit to borrow: from friends. The limit soon came. He had gone the rounds until he he met thes“cold shoulder.” Then hi wife saw she had to do something, she went back to work, Although erly she could earn only enough herself, she now, of course, had to divide 1 The man, however, had been accus- tomed to living well and he demanded more than she could give, Thus she was living at a great sacrifice to he self, He always appealed to her with his lily white hands that had never | labored and preyed on her sympathies | by harping on the time when he did have money and was willing to share | with her—the same old story. For a long time the woman toiled for the two of them, Her friends re+ moustrated with her for doing it; yet would get But he didn’t, h every day she hoped he | somethir do. Fin one who woulk him She withdrew her support 1 step nd left him in the face, the man got “busy.’* He found a job. It was @ menial one, but he learned to make a dollar and how to save something for the rainy day, He had to keep at tt in order to keep the wolf from the door. With this continued work came am bition, With ambition came activity At last he made good and he was in a fair way to recruiting his fortune ‘Then ho understood he had the right to win back his wife, Sho came back to him, They both learned this moral | was little protection in the way of in-| 1 come to the front for | Ho tried to find her and did, He bes her to come back, but she| at firm. your ability to care for yourself,” was her answer Fir when starvation stared {Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland | Covrright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) N’ doubt even Satan would tell you that he went to Hades | | “tor a woman.” Tn Leap Year it takes all a bachelor’s preparedness to dodge the senti- mental Zeppelins and keep ovt of matrimony. A lover is a man who is willing to pose as your slave to-day In order that he may be your sultan to-morrow. Most husbands have a charge account with their wives in which they are credited with a lot more bad things than they ever did and @ lot more good ones than they ever dreamed of, doing. A true poet is a man who can see more with his eyes closed than he move in the silence of solitude than in all the ‘ean with them open, hear (music of the Mefropolitan Matrimony {s a surgical operation by w hich one has one’s vanity re- moved without an anaesthetic : \ | Uneasy Hes the head that {s trying to think up ways of making @ ving | without working for It. | _ It Is @ psychological tact that we get just what we are looking for tn { this world, That's why the egotist gets all the flattery and the modest man | gets nothing but self respect | After a woman has been lubricating a man's: vanity with ofl ané ‘honey for three hundred and sixty-five days of the year be needs a little tem on the three hundred and sixty-sixth to stimulate him. | | The flower of a man’s love is apt to fade lke a morning glory the | moment the sun of a woman's smile becomes warm and glowing. / peramental paprika | Novelties for the Housekeeper HE overhead clothes dr san The bottles are guaranteed for five innovation greatly aypreciated| ¥® and ee a LIN 1a by the housewife who does not/ f ing yrs Ft re to take chances on pneumonia by t can be carried in the pocket or |the sudden change from the washtub, muff for warming the Ly , io to the A whe day |/8tser than a purse and sell a ‘0 the open alr, and when wash day] (ik, Kan. S burse and sell at 6s warmer in the automobile, baby car- bed is $: turns out a stormy day she finds this clothes dryer a great conven Tt Sbnidlite 60 y housekeeper will be glad » know she can secure a shower at- t for the bath tub tha a mir indoor wooden ra ee sily adjusted to suspend from | ¢, Ing. It is lowered by 11 ature brooklet ove or. This shower Is to splash over the ab and it entirely elim- of a hood or curtain— y nulsance at best. means of @ pull- | hung over the wooden bars a tug at| the pull-rope will raise the wash) qr above the head of the tallest person. | throws out four streams that | It 1s also @ handy clothes-horse or Strike the body horizontally, thue ef- |towel ‘rack. It is. ai on hand foriing an exhilarating needle apray and never in the way. ‘The rack is| and obviating the danger of wet hair, said to be equal of clothes-| The shower, which sells at $4.85, t@ sh of five| readily adjusted to the bathtub and {is a boon to the business man o¢ who must take the morning rapidly | wor bag. | bat m= Wi loth—a verit- heat. All that is n is to im-| able cold weather comfort, It is sim- | merse the bottle in h vater for| ply a soft cloth ol treated, | ten minutes, It will hold the proper! and all that is ne: s to rub fixed temperatute fo hours thoroughly with the cloth, and one can rest co feeling presto! the window is ntcely assured there will be a ned and p hed. | Things You Should Know. Bubonic Plague. ng nusual number of dead bubon.o ted is one of the first ugue i it used to be called the black! Now, while there are known to be death on account of the black spots Kinds the black and that came on the body during the|*! disease, 4t is now supposed that many of of # house Do”, Bubonic Nn seaport to: in carg the great ph of history were of| « | yubonic vs y, and thousands | |the bubonic variety, a Wl brenemectiern: we « ks out |dted during each great epidemte, | We know that the ancients Sven in comparatively recent times mn plagu nd suffered | 20,000 died of it in Bombay, India ages, and the As is now well known, the disease is a rat disease, and as soon as the mode of transmission became known it was stud ind is now controlled | Bubonte plague {is transmitted bs }the rat flea—the rat being the first Jhost, as sctentists say, | ‘The attack is an acute caused by a special germ the bite of a flea, in |saine way as both malaria and yellow rare transmitted by mosquitoes, This special kind of flea seems to prefer the ft Jalthough in Californt jof flea 1s found on ground Bubonie plague is fatal | themselves, and when a rat di fleas at once attach themselves /to some other living animal, appar- ently preferring elther cats or dogs to human beings. held by the sacred animal ie tion from rats ate where cats were es with a rage and compl fever, he infection, | iven by | nely malignany and recov rare, mortality aching 80 ¢ chances of in four-fifths, and © of recovery. » London in 1666 de~ ands Infected rats, and thus relieved and of the bus bonic plague, which had been yary In fact, the find- frequent thera since 1350, i | The Master Canal Builder. |PPTHERE is a canal builder who der the surface of the water, Then he ould give points to Goethals burrows upward, sometimes many Oons yards, ending the tunnel in a room and de Lesseps combined, Who) taught him his art? Instinct. Maybe you've seen him playing in a stream or pond, diving, swimming and circling about like children at a game of tag, You would hardly think hat you were watching one of the test canal builde If by an: home bu stream or 1 above the water line, where he cam sleep without fear of hunter or trapper, ‘Trappers are his worst enemies, for the muskrat's fur has a commercial value, It is @ reddish brown and used as a substitute for beaver animal is about fifteen inch and his tail, which he uses as @ rud. world.) der in swimming, 18 about ten tneh his| tong foal We cats nd if he's | rs of the wed in nd you'll see how grasses, roots and acor: near a garden or tryek tarned the title, His name is t patch he will qnake a raid on. th rat, also called mushquash, and he's] farmer's turnips and parsnips, says at home throughout the United] the Buffalo News, He's also a cane | States, except in the South nibal, If one member of the muskrat When a muskrat builds his home| colony is injured his mates will eet | ne makes a door along the banks un- upon him and eat him, By Samuel Smiles (By Perentaston of Harper & Brouvers,) | if are few persone ‘ontrive to save a few In twenty Saved weekly would No, 13—How to Save Money. | er is not necessary to show t | | economy 1s useful. Nobody deni that thrift may be practiced, We to two hundred and forty see numerous examples of it. Wha ‘ ng in te 0 yearn more brea ady done all othe " erest, to for hun many men have already d i "!twenty pounds, ‘Some may are ane men may do, Nor Is thrift a painful’ they ‘cannot save nearly so mee virtue, On the contrary, it enables us Walt Begin with two shillings, ong oid ch contempt and many Shilling or even sixpence, Indignition, It requires us 19 deny |heginning,” “Sixpence °A¢mea % ourselves, but not t9 ¢ u from posited “in the? anvings Tanke ae lany proper enjoymen It provides Amount to forty “mene ba it many honest pleasures of which! years, and. sev unde th twenty thriftlessness and extravagance de-' years. in thirty abit of econ '$ self that pees ——) prive us. Tqt mo man say that he cannot be formed,