The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1916, Page 12

va + Garted it. The people of New York are in no mood to sympathize it Fore how Pare Rew ory Pare how BW YORK bes hed enough of strikes, Therefore to the leaders of the striking street car employers of Yonkers and West @hester County who threaten to invede the Metropolis, The World gives thie advice: KEEP OUT. With eottloment near of the long-standing labor difficulties in making trade, everybody is well pleased. It is not so @oneern to the public what are the details of the arrangement or Gide wins the greater number of pointe os that « eerious menace @ommercial peace and business prosperity is eliminated Best of all is the method used of direct negotiation between prin ‘tyes of the two sides without outside assistance. Pressure of public . forcing them together into mutually satisfactory com ‘ Wow York wente o iittic tranqelliity just pow in business. We have been going through enough troubles in the pest two rare, end we ove otill otruggling with « lot of great big problems im- posed en ws from without. | ©. The Burepean war necessitated readjustments on « large scale hich are just now beginning to get into working order. Mexican border troubles and the calling out of thousands of our best workers for militia service added another orimp to disturbed conditions of | , in many lines. There is pending, also, the most serious menace of all in the threatened strike of railway employees in all States east of the Missis-| re River. For trunk line roads to be tied up would mean disaster New York City, more than to any other community in the country. We do not want it to happen. © If euch an industrial wer shonld be brought on, public condemna- then would fall, as it hes done in the European war, on the side that © * . With causes animated by mere desire for gain. 4 ‘There must be a perfectly clear and plainly demonstrated » CAUBE OF BIGHT behind any aggressor in the industrial s/ weeld these days, if the all powerful backing of public opinion fe to be expected by either side. ~ Yonkers hes a street car strike that epreads out along its suburban pes. Leaders of the strikers have been organising men on Bronx ‘Tineo and intimate that they will call on all traction workers down to the Battery to strike in order to help them. » The Evening World hopes that the men have common sense @hough to put a stop to such loose talk as this, The surest way to @ienate sympathy of the public is to foster strikes in other communi- not concerned in the case. All of us have troubles enough to md with at home without going out of our way to interfere in er people's affairs, Suburban communities have erected quarantine barriers against w York's epidemic of infantile paralysis, In return New York) an put up barriers against strike epidemics from the outside. | Ny Our workers are wel) occupied adjusting their own wages and king hours, Most of them are dealing direct with their employers through mutual concessions endeavoring to get the benefits of iving business passed around to more people. ‘We are attending to our own affairs, Keep out, Yonkers, THE LAST OF MURRAY HILL. N EVERY growing city the struggle of favured residential sections to keep out the slowly creeping tide of business is a never ending contest, a never solved problem. In the end, it is almost itable that business wins, but sometimes after so long delay that the contested ground has lost its value to both sides. The battle Ground has shifted meentime to other regions, Murray Hill along Madison, Park and Lexington Avenues, be- tween Thirty-fifth and Fortieth Streets, has long been held as a resi-} Wential oasis principally by the power of the Morgan family, At the| @orner of Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street the elder @lorgan @etablished his home in an old-fashioned brick house many years} go when Murray Hill represented the peak of social exclusiveness, Tivalled only by lower Fifth Avenue and Washington Square North, He organized his neighbors into a home guard and fortified them behind restrictive clauses against business buildings contained in olden| fime deeds. As long as less powerful individuals were the only enemy, | they could be fought off. But in recent years sappers and miners! ve been at work al] around the edges of the Hill and trade trenches | al been creeping up the slopes, nearer to the Morgan citadel, % Now well may the defenders ery treason, for openly allied with hese business assailants appears the Astor Estate, which owns prop @rty on the Hill along Madison Avenue, It is not the American Wranch of the family that dares defy the house of Morgan, but Baron : i Jack to me,” he sighed. “For days ‘or of Hever Castle, ho who expatriated himself to live in England live felt aa if I'd lost you. 2 bad no is property in New York is managed under the name of the Astor] business to speak to you as 1 did y abuut Dawson, although 1 Fatate, while tho American branch operates under the name of Vin ie Wan ail tae taullr deme 1 inter fent Astor, ; | rupted, "Lam ro ashamed ‘of anyseit Se cs now, But for a little whtle i'm afraid se It is sentimentally sad to see old landmarks go, but the march! ! almost believed that to plane Mra. | "Winthrop you were going to. testify progress is sometimes as devastating as the march of barbarian in-| against your. tes he. You y . canal Ae - ny weemed so SUre, AL frst, « & sanity, Yadere, Nor can any man correctly predict its results, The downs | Myre mie At yeh Ok Ris sanity: fown ‘regions that were favored residential quarters before the Civil War are covered, some by magnificent business buildings and some by fumbledown tenements, Murray Hill, now coveted by business as Bxclusive in its line as present residences are in social scale, is just as ikely to lose its quality a few years hence. © The contest between Astor and Morgan for the future character a few blocks of mid-town New York adds unusual interest to this gonstant evolution of the Metropolis, If only the elder J. P, M. live, what a fight there would be, Questions and Answers. NO. 1413 VY8E AVENUE.—) to the best of your knowledge and be- ginal percentage agreement holds. |lief you were born in the United States A WORLD READER-For natural. | You can vote, pers apply United States! U, 8, FORMINE—To become an Post Cee allding. Take! Amorican citizen if your parenta were o ma PAs? | not turalise! either marry an American man or tako out naturaliza- tion papers through U, 8. L, PRESCOTT —If you swear that The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesday, July #6; 1916 iy! q Just a Wife (Her Diary) See Aaa aaeananaaeL Edited by Janet Trevor orm Rew York trenton Ward CHAPTER XLIV, EPT. 19—Whoen Ned came home last night, Just before dinner, he let himeelf in ever go softly. But I heard him and ip @ moment I was in the hall. He turned at the sound of my Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ACHELORS’ hearts are like dairy lunch chinaware—much battered and chipped and worse for wear, but practically non-breakable. This ts the time of year when a man offers you a pound of vanity, an. ounce of sentiment and a handful of impertinence—and calls it “love.” One reason why a man’s love for his horse or bis d > lasts so much step, with a face so white and with | longer than bis love for a woman is probably because he can love them pits under his eyes so deep and dark | whenever he happens to be in the mood and forget them when he docen't. that for a second @ fear clutched my heart. Then | just said, “Ned, dar- Ignorance may be biiss, but most girls would gladly exchange it for ling!" and his arms were around me, | the thrill of the first real heartache. my head was on his shoulder, When I was allowed to disengage myself I said cheerfully, “Now we're not going to talk about anything till Most men look upon marriage as a sort of coatroom, where they can check a woman and leave her until the fun is over and they are ready to after dinner. 11 will be ready in ten |80 home. minutes.” We had the folliest dinner, even though Ned was tired, I had ordered roast duckling, fruit salad and an ice which is his spectal favorite, And I | wore my prettiest house gown, a lav- ender-and-white affair that matched tho sweetness in the centre of the tabie, Somehow I felt as t¢ 1 were wel- coming Ned home from a long jour- ney Instead of a brief absence of two cays, It was wonderful to smile and tulk in the old familiar way, Instead preserving a stiff silence and avoiding each other's glances. After dinner we went into the liv 1 made Ned take the big and I sat on the arm of it with his arm around me “Oh, Mollie, I'm gtad yor ing 1oom, ohatr ‘ve come | | 1 once told power of } Ned, “Fie, you were a jealous t something yeux,” xm ver sup jealous of nothing except your honor, dear," 1 told him alinely. ‘Phen I described the lawyer's visit, ¢ he had cited the two other physicians who believed Dawson to be insane," "Yes, we're all agreed,” 4 re- marked a trifle heavily me, Mollie,” he then demand drawing my head around so that he could look straight into my eyes, “if Lever should do something of which you didn’t ap- hrove, you wouldn't throw me ovary, would you?" For a fears rus me, liberate 1 banished — then “Don't suggest such a thing, dearest,” 1 begged him. “1 love you so muc ‘When a man tells another something that Isn't so, it's “a lie;" but when he tells it to a woman, it’s merely “expediency.” If the average man could remain as cool and unmoved !n the face of like immortalizing him, tions, and if she isn’t it is apt to put an end to his attentions. So what can &@ poor girl do? A wife {8 the bread and meat of life; but alas, {t takes so many relishes, nd side dishes to satisfy a man's sentimental hunger and give the t piquancy, HE outline of the bones in the hand may be seen by holding it before a strong Heht and T looking through a lens made of a plece cut from the tip of @ feather, says @ contributor to Popular Me- chanies The sketch shows such a Jens, which is mounted in a small plees of cardboard that may be car- ried in the pocket, and which affords diversion Wherever exhjbited The device 1s made as follows; Pro- cure a soft white feather from a fowl and cut off the Up as indivated in 'he upper sketch, Cut a piece of card. | the hand or other object to be ex- board about two inches wide and] jmined about fifteen inches from the six inches long. Fold tt to form a / ions and place the latter close to the | folder three inehes long and cut aleye. Looking through the — hole hole one-quarter inch tn peter |toward an electric or other strong | through both ts of It. Glue the |light, it will be observed that tho | tip of the feather between the folder | bones of the hapd, for example, may ‘at the hole, taking care that the; be seen clearly, They will be out- Nhres He fat and that no rib ts linet with a band of varicolored light. ed. Glue the dges of the f and the device is r A frosted globe is better than one ady for use. which exposes a Mlament. Pet When we have one fact found us, we are very apt to supply the next out of our own imagination, HOLME in a day or two, and then we'll for- wet the whole th Dawson will be L believe you to b well looked after, so don't bother I thought hoe sighed a little, but! your preity head any more, By probably I was mistaken, for helihe way, did I tell you that smiled almost at once and drew mo] Winthrop sails for Europe this day close to him in a great hug. week? “My girl” he murmured fondly. | winter,” you would hurt me hor ever were not the Ne in my love, ribly if that I should always be yours wh ever you did te But because there je} I've @o much respect and pride and faith| days. “My own girl, It's a rotten time] 1 am been giving you the last few That inquiry will take placelI have heard for @ long time, &@ woman's smiles as he does in the face of her tears, one would feel just, If a woman ts easily kissed {t {s apt to put an end to @ man’s inten- | Mrs, | She says she'll be abroad all NOT jealous—but I can't help thinking that ts the best news der fake names figure on co | y De: | | Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. The One Best Method of Distribution. HEN I was younger,” sald &@ business man, “I hoped some day to have acquired a sufficiently broad grasp of distrib- uting methods to be able to analyze & product’s possibilities and render an infallible verdict as to the one best channel for its course to the consumer. But now I know that this Js an tmpossible ideal, “There are too many possible chan- nels; one may prove successful for} ne man and another for a competitor marketing identically the same ar-/| ticle. “Many and diverse are the courses which may be pursued, Among them! are: a, manufacturer to jobber to} aealer to consumer; b, manufacturer | to dealer to consumer; ¢, manufac- ‘turer to consumer via the mail; 4, manufacturer to consumer through | smen, or, rather, agents, and #0 om “phen there are, of course, mana-| | facturers whose product Is never sold | tu the consumer but given as prem- tums by newspapers and other prem- lum users. “Now if called upon to market a toa or coffee, what polley would you) pursue? You'd seok distribution; through groc: hotels and restau- rants, wouldn't you? Suppose som one suggested that a corps of agents could successfully market 1t from | house to house, You'd say it couldn't bo done, ‘The unit consumption per| jfumily Is no enough to warrant so; Jcostly a method, A canvasser could Trot earn his day's pay'—that would | ur verdict, wnd that is exactly how the great- est distributors of teas and coffees in 66 | bo lithe country operate, They give a handsome percolator as a premium, | om call: | Phoreafter a solicitor calls for weekly orders. This method is cconomically utterly unsound, It converibes the la- | Hor of hundreds of solicitors for a non-productive which the community dl 1, And It has seored 8. What's! the answer? y that you ¢ ‘s predict what method of dis- pivore t is caleulated to insure the success(ul marketing of @ product. “\Vould any sane man have pre- dicted that a bulky article Ike a mat | \tresa could) have been — marketed through the mail? In the first place, it's an article Which Is bought but a few times in a lifetime, This me that but a very small proportié | the advertisement's lin the market at the time it. And furthermore the shi pense on a single mattress is heavy. Did the mail order plan ceed? Ask the Ostermoor Company, “Scores of similar instances could be cited. In the case of many ar- tt there is no one best method of disiribution, A choice is offered, Some concerns adopt many, and un- ring the entire range of possibijities,” Stories of Stories Vlits of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Corre 8 te The Prem Puting Ge Tee Ree Cot Brenig Por) TUE APVAIK AT COULTER'S NOTCH. By Ambrose Bieres, ME Confederate Army was in retreat © batiery of check the pursuing Federals waull the Confederste rear-guaré euuld get sateiy away. Up come the Fedora! vanguard, consisting of 0 email @ force \o engage (he retreeting enemy or to charging the twelve guu battery thet ahieiced Te the emasement of bis otafl, the Federal Coulter, an artillery officer, to move « Hon Im @ mountain Botch overlooking fre on the twelve-gun betters. Upon tae Confederate battery and wpon the defenders of The battery replied, centring tte fire on the affair at Coulter’e Noteh (ae the conflict was later Two Federal etaft officers etood commenting on their General’a madness in ordering such an attack and em the gallant Coulter's strange reluctance to ovey, f i which the General then commanded wi of Coulter's home for weeks. The General ter's family, There was trouble--something abowt Coulter's wife, She is @ | ated ¢ and @ highbred lady, There was @ complaint to Army Mead. Quarters.” The two oMeers stared at each other. Now they understood why the Wadictive General had given Coulter eo perflous @ job to-day. Coulter's gun by thie time had wro: it fearful havoc in the enemy's battery and on the plantation house. Ils own gun crew had been well- Bigh wiped out by the Confederates’ return fre. But Cou) stained, black with grime and smeared with biood—fought Presently the Southern battery retired, as ite task of Protecting the retreating Confederate rear-guard was achieved. And@ the Union eepe moved down from the Notch to the abandoned plantation. The once beautiful house had been hammered from oellar to roof-tree y oaee unerring artillery fire, Three of the Confederate guns hud bees Isabled. A Colonel! took up his temporary headquarters in the battered plantation house, firat making a tour of the building, In the cellar he came upon three horrible figure: On the debrie-strewn floor iny a woman and @ baby, both dead and terribly mangled, They had doubt- lean Ged to the cellar for safety when the bombardment BAN, Above them crouched a powder-biackened man who clasped the two The Man in the C-ilar, dead bodies in his arms, weeping uncontrollably, At sight of the Federal intruders the man ataggered to his feet, inte on you doing here?” asked the Colonel, is house belongs to me, sir,” replied the man. “Thi and child, I am Capt. Coulter.” sca uns raed Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, bd? tn rising every ; time we fall—GOLDSMITH. ent : 7 The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell. . 7 Coprright, 1016, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New Yous Evesing World.) RS. JARR hed been downtown who pride themeetves on their angelia M with Clara Mudridge-Smith, | dispositions the more I see that it is ' but she was home some three| nothing but a serene selfishness that minutes ahead of Mr. Jarr, who had |actuates them.” been inspecting Mr. Stryver’s new/ “Well, it’s better than worrying, ne automobile, She remarked that she| matter what's the reason,” remarked didn't see why Mr. Jarr came home| Mr, Jarr. at all if this was the way be did) “Oh, that's easy enough for you to come home, say, when you have had @ good wife Furthermore, she wanted to know | who waits on you hand and foot, and how Mr. Jarr expected her to keep nice children who are no worry to Gertrude there was no regular-| you, and an easy Position with no ity about the meals? As it was, Mrs.) annoyance—at least you don’t show Jarr remigded him, ehe kept only one! it, ao I suppose there are no annoy- servant, ances connect: Mr. Jarr contented himself with /i¢ you haat to be a otros ons oases grumbling because bis canteloupe was! or the President of the United States, green. Mra. Jarr expressed surprise} with everybody nagging at you and at this, In the time supper had been; anding fault with you and criticising kept waiting for him, ehe eald, surely you for things you could not help— the canteloupe could have ripened. then you woulda’t be so easy going.” “Gertrude sald you flounced out of “Well, I don't know about thet.” the house in a rage and went off Jo¥-| sasa nar, Jerr, “I guess I've got ae ridding in that man Btryver's auto-| many worries connected with the mobile Just because you found I had! earning of my daily bleed as aaye | own,” roplied Mr, Jarr, lat home, atuck my nose out of the door for five minutes for a breath of fresh air, when Clara Mudridge-Smith came to give me a little spin in her car. I suppose you bave been fying up and down the town. And it to me that man Stryver would have taken you to dinner since he's #0 fond of you.” “Stryver bustel his new machine before we got a chance to get in,” replied Mr,, Jarr, “Well, I'm sure if he saw how you enjoyed his bad luck he wouldn't be anxious to ask you to go out In his wutomobdile, again,” said Mra, Jarr, “Talk of women! I do believe men are twice more envious of each other than women ara!” “Oh, well, I have troubles of my _ "You have troubles?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “Nothing seesns to worry you, Everybody says to me, ‘Look at Mr, Jarr! We never saw a man with such 4 oeautiful disposition, such an even temper! Huh! They should sec you And even if you were as good tempered as you pretend to be,| I don’t see anything to brag about it! | The more blearn to know these people ICKPOCKETS can be foiled by “and shoes, P It isn’t necessary to feed fies by hand. No tenants would complain if the A giraffe is about twelve feet tall A disoult gets no wetter when submerged to a depth of 56,245 feet than it docs when only three feet under the surface, Travellers in the Sahara Desert fire plugs. j dozen new cara Al Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) body else has. But I'm paid for those troubles, It's only the worries thrust upon me, that I am not com- Densated for, that disturb me, f notice that these positions to which #0 much responsibility is attached are the ones that people seek most eag- erly. Of course the President hab his troubles and so has everybody, from soda clerks to the ticket sellers in the subway, Bui those are the worttes in the day’n work. They are paid tor'those worrles, If all jobs, big and iittle, went along without trials aad tribulations anybody could fill them,” “Oh, that's easy enough for you to say. ‘But does poor Mr. Btryver get paid for his car being smashed? How would you take it if it were youp automobile disabled before you had a chance to ride in It?” “It would make me mad as thun- der,” sald Mr, Jarr, “I wouldn't be able to pay for the repairs, But Stryver has enough money to get a in that wa; y paid for his troubles too.” y But Mra, Jare suid it was her opine fon that nothing worried Mr. Jarr, because he had such a scifish dispoc sition, Painting decoy vockets on your Rat roof leaked hot and cold water. Jrom Ma bunions to his earache, Gre never annoyed by bumping inte ‘ ] | It is impossible to whMaper across bad, the Pactfic Ocean, as the acoustics are ph r