The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1916, Page 12

loro. PLT een ening Compenr, Neo +5 . Vore PULATE GR) sertent 6) Pan Now * . Treasere ©) h hee CA) ie aa Mew Tork ae Beont- lees Me For Pagiand ons (he ' j AN Commintes + tevermoetn Peeve * O16 Ore Year ” SU. woven HEN Hyg ¥ W YORK A PORT. me lest through ineffi e things begin 4 happen. Bell interes a © reformer t a _ public ioteres: Bence, a1 iest, there is realination part of Big Busiv as something must be done to improve terminal facilities aod tra 4 tiem met), the Port of New York J It is well worth noting that this» n awaken rred @ bank where raiiroede are foanced, and wot transportation head Ser masters. Bip Van Winkler seem stil! to be running, or, more correctly ing railroad traf 5 _ im the world in and around the greatest and finest p: as Too many dollars have been lost in recent freight blockades t r please High Finance. Therefore, the combination of wealth PP under the roof of the National City Bank, in Wall Street, by feed the American International Terminals Company to study, Sad make money out of port terminals, perticularly the Port of 7 New York ie This company’s first announcement is an ind nt of as DP quated methods and insufficient facilities of railr Fe No successful attempt has been made to bring abe o 7. * operation in the use of facilities and thereby secure gr 1 ~ elfielency Any makeshift *as resor) to which would furnish re Nearly every ratiroad ecutive and engineer is so op Pressed by his daily grind to keep bis road in operation th be bas mo time to study (the facilities and methods of his peighbors. The thought of co-operation with them has never occurred to bh javestigation into delivery of freight shows that delays oc » A curred generally at terminals had In bandreds of thousands of cases the railroad’s loss tp ane? complicated movements, loss of earnings of cars standing ig under load is ten times the gross revenue received from the rs - sbipper. +® ry te Everywhere there seems to be a woefu! lack of necessary ” ‘ facilities for the prompt movement of freight through large im. a ports and inlend centres of transportation. . a S New York has suffered grievously in commerce during the past wear from freight blockades and embargoes of inefficient railroad © management. But if Wall Street is to do the spanking and reforming | the experience may be worth the loss. 2 City government in New York has been more progressive, as a | © rule, in port improvement than the railroads, but do not flatter Father ; ™ Knickerbocker or his junior municipal managers too much just yet. A ber in the channe) hampers access to the new piers whieh the city is building at Forty-fifth Street, North River. ‘The shoal water off the piers will admit vessels of only twenty- two feet draft, while the piers are being built for vessels of thirty-five feet draft and upward There is enough work to be done in New York harbor without spending all our time finding fault. Real results are to be achieved only by all working together in an allied combination, And in this arrangement corporation g 4 S Big f | ef Papecity and financial usury might well play a fair and square ga © giving as well as receiving. . aa If we are going to get anywhere in this port business, if New York d, pri monopoly ‘@ ie to maintain and increase its supremacy, if we are to become the © centre of world wealth and world commerce, it can be only through partnership on the level between private interests and public welfare. e. Together the millions of capital and the millions of people can © do wonders, reaping profits for both, Cheating each other, both are bound to Jose. Ley your cards on the table, gentlemen. COME BACK, GEORGE. EW YORK a nine-day town? The time limit to oblivion that The Evening World gave to Senator George Thompson and his investigating committee ex- © pired yesterday. One minute past the hour the Public Service Com- mission called on the City Treasury for $22,000,000 more to complete _@ the new subways, over and above all previous estimates Now rise up again from the nine-day tomb those frisky ghosts ~~ of subway finance; Commitments and obligations, prior determina- tions, bonuses to Shonts, feos to corporation lawyers, third tracking eontracts and yellow dog funds, Come Back, George. ——— oe When the German submarine Deutschland offers to carry passengers, will Jef Mclemore of Texas reintroduce in Con gress his resolution warning American citizens to keep off Miners of belligerent countrie: ti oo If Gov, Whit) calls an extra session of the Legislature a direct State tax certainly will be pec ry. ——3¢2 Very well done, Mr. Mayor Mitchel, in cleaning up the oily Qs The Evening World advised. Don't wait so long next time, ete It ts to be hoped that the heroic patriots who enlist in Col, Roosevelt's volunteer army will not be left leaderiess on the Rio Grande, like the deluded Progressives at the Chicago Armageddon. the People. Men Who Fall, To the Editor of The Kvening Wo T have been noticing with great in terest your pictures entitied “Men Who Fail” and hope that you wil Letters from A Call tor ¥ 8) We the Editor of The Brening World | *° No truer picture could you have | ghown of the inipoiency of the allies than to-day’s cartoon, illustrating the _* combined efforts of France, Russia. “dl Belgiuuwn and Italy to lift i the German helmet off the earth, and succeeding—not much! Why then, I pictures le mind of a advice cannot, ‘They point out great truth that a man cannot suc impr Mtinue long thin good Work, ‘These| And ther 7 sion on the yan which friendly the Deutschland Unter Alles! «t PO nee = nnn ne te me i} The Business Sphinx By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 194, by The Pree Publishing ¢ New York Rrening Work) vo, ND now comes the latest achievement for woman A woman has been appointed as the confidential secretary to the Supreme Court, At last a daughter of Kve is to be trusted in this very important posi- ton. And there is more to come, Men are beginning to realize that the old bellef that woman couldn't keep a secrpt has outgrown its fallacy, With aeveral millions of the fair sex in the office, shop and factory, and thousands of them i 1 activities In which confidence is a prime necemanity, It no longer be maintained that woman has the trait of tellin In truth, as a general thing sh veritable Sphinx, as far as disclo: ing the dealings that go on all about | her, A prominent business man who has | patented processes in manufacturing hin wares the interemting sti ment the other day that wherever possible he employs wom “Several Umes some of my tm. portant formulas have been appro- priated by men employees, who sold them to my competitors or otherwise used them for gain, “1 would discharge them and get others in their places who did same thing, the Was bis significant comment And when all's said and © thts la one of the greatest assets in the realm of business. An employer with put up with ignorance und inet. ficiency to retain an employee he can tr tt ard many a man say of a She te wow, but sho tw Mi steoady and reliable and is always I | sure to mind ber own business” you have the w» and substance of continuous success the Jability to be mindful of your work, | | but to forget it in the in vat who puts the pa r t bin coed by beating his work; ina! q f ec t ask, continue the slaughter? Why| work will Scat him uaa, ad Rt t an ad p44 another yeur of bloody warfare} It is through hiowledge of In other words, if you can't be loyal, | te no purpose? Wry not agitate peace weakae # that men become stron Bet out sas fa ie? Will nome influential newepa- and your seri of drawings To take a man's coin and play foot. H powerful indicator of these =) ball with his confidence is being res sound the clarion call, “Let there | nesses to the young man who has not | lated to Judas, | yet got a'firm grip on bis helm ELMAB —_— eTROM. JOHN » NUSSBAUM, Yea, Mary, the successful Husiness motto & MUM'S THE WORD, Vy the sun; and no Novelty in love, nor in women, nor in all the allurements of Babylon. cabaret is like unto another, one kiss is like unto another, and one head- ache in like unto another, forever, me to distraction, are too blase to be fi Glynn and the fashion page. ing. more insidious than champagne, supper with breach-of-promise sults. “Those who yearn to cure my headaches—and those who help me to ac-| sprang yesterday about the lion was! quire them At: | Attachment Holds Golf Bag Upright wees ss ear rime mtn meron vomevenn te ere Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Cooyrigit, 1016, by Toe Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HE wail of « bachelor of Babylon, who suffereth from the dulness of Diversion and the monotony of Variety and hath not a THRILL left. “Verily, verily eryeth the Bachelor, “there is nothing NEW under) “One day is like unto another, one roof garden is like unto another, one! “All life Is ag the plot of a photo-pli Be the same to-day, yesterday and “And of women there are only TWO varieties: “Those who would lead me to destruction—and those who would drive th “Thore who are too unsophisticated to be interesting—and those who] j inating. “Those who frighten me to death--and those who bore me to death, “Those wha read Shaw and Schopenhauer—and those who read Elinor “Those who talk ‘styles’ and baby talk—and those who talk suffrage anasfamiaiae the bookkeeper, looking over bis “ ij TOP kas. | 1a88e8 ‘Those whom I dare not kiss-and those whom I dare not STOP kiss: | “Well! Well!" came from) Miss “Those who say ‘DON'T’—and those who say ‘Coie hither!" “Those who are more insipid than pink custard—and those who are. pi ' do “Those Who wear false halr—and those who wear short hair, “Those whom 1 take IN to dinner—and those whom 1| take out to “Those who try to allure me-—and those who try to ‘reform’ me, “Those who threaten me with matrimony—and those who threaten me | M “Those who ask ‘WHY dost thou love me? Hut t have yet to fod | ora ant ab dost thou no LONGER love me? ab uel Ai on omnes who #o betrayed the trust “Those who insist upon chaper¢ms—and those who insist upon tetew| ee, we get you-We understand, peceaniion ete ay a keener | sotes, “Oh, let's change the subject," said alty in business by the very walcty “Those who make me happy—and those who make me miserable. Spooner, “We ousdt to be ‘better - be ends, phous © ic | C] Of Une innate sense of trusttulnens.” “And THIS ts my tragedy! 1 know that among them all ‘there | eee itn lace the British are quisetitans “shat sey abd, VM* Tawelleth one, and that I shall marry; but I know not WHICH one making a drive along the banks of da bout her . ‘ra firm, a dye ¢ . which had: sold rherefore, do 1 tremble mightily. iy moe af Bucs Gees, cat” Put SOE 8 large eum Of money, The 6, 1am as ane that crorseth a street amid speeding automobiles. came from Bobbie, lknewh but (hat vorne Gone ute “For, behold! while Lam dodging one T shall be run to earth by an) “Shut u little idiot, yout" | known, but that young woman tight. or, behold! snapped Mis: m. Thén s! urnet Cant prove eameman eres! '$0u | otber ix to Spooner, she sald. “By to he boss smiled when he heard it “Yea, verily, verily there 1s NO help for me! way, [wonder if England will rec “That is why she is here so long,” Selah that great Gen, Pershing we've been ti (Ry Permian of Popular Mechanics) tt CONVENIENT support) which | can be easily attached to any golf bag is now being used by y re who employ a caddy as well f howe who do ng e device is inconspicuous and opens and closes | u sists of AN exX- | are hinged tw »| folded up k aN play tensible 4 metal legs that nor against the rod through the o| € of springs. The support is qu) Attached to @ bag by Means of plates fastened to the top and bottom of the | in « receptacle, A striking plate which ; projects slightly below the lower end i of the container serves to open up , the legs when the player reste the attachment saves stogping over for bag on the ground, So opened, they | one'y sticks and keeps them out sre in a position to keep the clubs and) the dirt or moisture. [t can be quick their bolder from falling over, The! detached, Seitenende The Office f Copyright, 1918, by (The New ¥ ees candy-maker wants to marry an Eng- lish heiress. you. “where do you get that stuff? don’t you cut out the old jokes | Primm, private secret solemnly. “Some of the jokes that tly | | around here ave flerce,” |the oldest, silliest cnes, and those who ask way | ine lion joke was t -—L. | hearing so much By J. 1. Cassel ner | ’ Force By Bide Dudley. The Pree @ ishing Co, ork Evening World) said Popple, the shipping clerk, ag he tossed his new paper aside, “that a Providence That'y ambition for “I'd bet he'd be sweet to her,” sald jobbie, the office boy, slyly. “Say, kid,” came from Popple, Why “Oh, walt now!" sald Miss Tillie, he blond stenographer. “I think that © was simply perfection. Jonfection, you mean,” said Pop- Pop," Bobbie sang out, where do you get tat stuff?" At the candy store,” said Spoonoe, ry to the boss, ts office force Is becoming terri- Honestly, I'm going to get desk | m somewhere else if you folks on’t be sensible “Miss Primu ly right,” said Bobbie | 1 le, “Listen to b iss Primm, wili you?" snappet Its Bobbie who tells ‘rhat one he “Well,” said Bobbie, “I will admit} » but any joke out” “Such ignorance!’ muttered Bobbie Miss Primm turned on him like , gress. What ao you mean by nat?” she demanded. “Pershing 8 in Mexico.” 1 “He is not. 1 guess I ought now What I'm talking about, sin knows his best friend.” ought to get a new cousin." to My putt tut! now!" said Spooner, Let's be pleasant Speaking of rshing, 1 think” h-h-hi" said the blonde, “Here ymes Mr, Snooks."” | ‘The boss entered and took a stand | » the middle of the floor, "1 just ave Bill Perkins a laugh,” he said Bill said bis uncle Was taken sick rom drinking ginger ale, "They didn’t | now What aile ald Bu T old him it look #s though nger aled him. at?” | think it's deli Robbie. | jlad you vid) the es a8 De disappeared in oT private | officials Stories of Stories Vlas of bemortal Picton Mamerpieces By Albert Payson Terhune ee ON te we tre Pomme Tu hee top trem Cnet THE THKER STRANGERS, By Thomas Hardy. HASOFUL aheph ond tore tok & eethered to the moordde but Phepher Prone tere vetelw ~ery ee Merch wight i 1880) Three strane od \ the light ene ynth, and ehrinking from the @fld storm outelde, self tovited, the pert One of theme @ ly (reseed man, added muck to the jolly of the vening by bie trw ertul came voter The talk ren te yojeot of ah execution thal war to coeur Ot Castervrider Jello mile of eo away at dawn A starving artionn bad won cought 6 He bad been tried, « sontonced. jn Begiend to tb sheep etesiing #as punirheule b ny ane (he sheph esreran ® just penalty for wo territle « orime As the the Mee Birans man in cinder @rayee ome wricome «He sat down in the chimney wan aod they hobmobbed together tke had several drinks Ae the Haver warmed Big that be @ee (he county henamas was on bis way to gail to hang the sheep stealer, { This announcement sen ri of deeust (rege | The Third | the crowd of merrymakers ow away from the Stranger eray--all ptt oll dressed man, eennaaaanpegnaatid to like his new ail the better because of the mnie At this mon Third Btren@er arrived) He was in ch and bie fice was pule and hae y stepped in throush the doorway, as if te » join the p t then bis eyes fell on the man tn nd he began to tr an with a ebill, Before the man ia could get a good look at him, the Third Stranger bounded hut, into the storm, and away at top © later the boom of a jon announced that a ‘asterbridge Jail, He 4 seen the hangman, the Whole company dashed off into the in pursuit of bi They caught up with him several miles away. He mode no resistance him back to the hut, There they At sight of the prisoner the chief off that this war the man they suught, and went on to dew who had escaped, adding that it Was the criminal who had been to die fi stealing, By the description (he shepherds at once reeog- niged the roughly 4 i man who had sung so well, He was nowhere to be seen, nor w afterward recaptured. The Third Str asked why he had shown such fear at sight ef the hangman, repli ndemned man is my brother, T left home this afternoon to bridge Jail to bid him farewell. 1 was benighted, 1 stopped / re to rest and ask the way, When I opened the found several jail and they dragwed waiting tramp to Oe a door | saw my ther in this chimney corner, and The Stranger's j jammed close to him was the executioner who had come to take his life. My brother looked a glance of Joy at me My life depends on it! hurried away.” The tale was told far and near on the moors, Ard it made men's hearts warm toward the two unhappy brothers, If the fugitive were seen pherd—and perhaps helped with food or clothing next day during his flight—no report of it was made to the police, ——_.9 Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world,—Ruskin. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 116, by The Pres Publishing Co, RS, STRYVER was giving a lawn | her, M party at her country home, Mr. and Mrs, Jarr were among ! those present. Near food in the shape of shadow sandwiches and counterfeit chicken | salad had been distributed. Nearby | stood a magnificent cut glass punch bow! with cut glass punch cups and a solid silver ladle, ‘The outfit repre- sented a cost of several hundred dol- lars. It contained a claret panch that must have cost Mra. Stryver 40 cents, for though on entertaining she was bent she had a frugal mind. Mrs. Stryver was now circling round, @ very bony young lady in an ex- treme decollete gown had just fae ished reciting and everybody was ap- plauding just enough to be courteous and to show an appreciation, but not enough to encourage the bony party to commit an encore. “Why doesn't the skinny person recite something that appeals?” asked Mr, Jarr, “g-s-s-h!" said Mrs. Jarr in a tragic whisper, “If you are angry at me for insisting that you accompany me for one afternoon among cultured people, please refrain, for this once at least, from referring to things you do not understand.” Mrs Stryver by this time had suc- ceeded in coaxing a dumpy young thing of forty to face the plano that ger pushed out on the piazza, |M*. Pinkfnger. The young thing had to be coaxed,, “If you ever dd," mumbled Mr, dvclaring she had left her music at|J@" And then he muttered, “Well, home, and realiy she wag always so|!t Wouldn't be homicide! nervous to play before such a criti- cal audience, But Mrs, Stryver, with gentle force, | took the music the young thing was holding in her hand and placed it on the music rack. ‘The cultured assemblage, which had been beseeching the young thing to play, with tears in eyes and voices, turned their backs the moment the first note was struck and began to gabble in strident tones, “Can we duck off anywhere?" asked Mr. Jarr, turning to what ap- peared to be a male being beside The First Inva HE first great invasion of Russia was that of the Huns, a race of fierce and warlike Asiatics who And I knew he meant: ‘Don't reveal what 1 was so terror stricken [ turned and a > (The New York Evening World.) “Can we beat it to the back porch and smoke?” “Beg pardon, I do not smoke." wi the answer, “Oh,” said Mrs. Jarr, noticing Mr, Jarr was speaking to the seeming male, but not hearing what he sald, “my husband, Mr. Pinkfinger “Charmed,” muttered Mr, Ser with a lisp, “L was just telling your husband that I didn’t smoke. | Such @ feminine vice these days, don't you know!” “Ah, reall will be boys, said Mr. Jarr, “Girls you know, and vice versa, But do you think if we blind- folded the main squeeze—that ts, pushed Stryver on the outskirts of this buneh—he could dish us up 4 man's drink, some good plain or cooking whiskey “Beg pardon,” replied Mr, Pink- finger, “but I do not drink whiskey; tea ts all I take. I do hope they will serve tea.” “Do you go to many of these snares?” asked Mr. Jarr, looking him over suspiciously, “Al fresco musicales, do mean?” asked Mr. Pinkfinger. “Oh, ble: you, yes, I'm asked every. where. Remarkable gathering of brains here, what?" “Yes, what? Is what the answer? \replied Mr. Jarr. “Really, I don't follow you, The pianist stopping with a crash of the keys, everybody took it asa signal to depart ere she could be tempted to play again. “There's the sort of a party you Jair, should have married,” said Mr, pointing to Mr. Pinkfinger, as h to follow his wife for wraps, drink, don't smoke, things!" “Marry that?” replied Mrs. o woman marries that sort." But Mr. Jarr stoutly maintained that this was the kind they clamored for, even if they never got mad enough at them to marry them. ——_—— loves sion of Russia. In 1613 the present royal famil KRomanoffs, gained the throni 1700 the Swedes invaded Russi hE after several victories t swept over Easterh Europe in the]routed. The Jast Breat nee ol fourth century, In the thirteenth | Russia prior to the present onslaught of the Austrians and that of Napoleon. The French Em-« peror tfarched victoriously through Russia to Moscow, but on Sept. fe, the city was 1812, just 103 years ago, burned by Russian convicts under orders from the Russian Governom and Napoleon found himself in the eart of Russia without su with winter com, Bi die trous retreat froi c¢ atury the Golden Horde of Tartars: captured Russia, and from 1238 to 14 the country was under the yoke of the Mongols, In 1395 Tamerlane in- vaded Russia, but retired, In 1462 the Slavs again gained the ascend. ancy and Ivan III the Great founded the present monarchy and introduced firearms an@ cannon into Russia, In] most of his army wa 79 there was another great invasion | marked the beginnir of Tariars, but they were driven out.' ts power) enmne Germans was 6 on. His disase —_———_ “Oh, no,” rep mea: ginger ale 6 Hear the little fool!” snapped 1iss Primm. ‘Then she went @iit, slamming the door, ~~ ie office, After a moment of silence Miss Primm turned to the boy: “So, you little four-flusher, think thas joke’s delicious, eh?’ ash you she