The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1916, Page 16

BOTAPLAGHED BY JOsOrn PULATeR A on | AM Ceumirien tn the International Peete Ueten somes O80 One Tear . oe One Meats DU, BONE CROWDED AT THE START. United States has more merchant vessels under con struction than any other country im the world,” te @ report issued yesterday by the Departmer Mores ot Washington. “American foreign tra | records,” President Far ef the United States S: u was telling the National Trade Council at « meeting in this city the same day, “Al the end of the confilot the United States will have the grestest gold acoumulation ever possessed by @ single Betion, The United Biates will be both the largest customer end the most formidabic competitor of Burope.” Formidable, provided the British Board of ‘Trade is not per- mitteed to persist too long in ite systematic endeavors to seare Ameri- 4m Commerce and American ships out of every corner of the seas to @hich o British cruiser can penetrate The ships are building. Opportunity tr opening wide. But the trade of thie nation, if it is to compete with that of others now and Ister, must be respected. ‘To be respected it must assert ite rights ‘The earlier it begins the stronger aud moro rapid will be ite growth. Forty-eight hundred packages of cargo shipped from New York to of Com will Ur pa Corporat ee eee ee Mapils on the steamers Kafue and Aymerio and seized by the British ‘Wathorities at Hongkong were yesterday released. It was time. But watil high-handed injustice of this sort can be prevented instead of Femedied the outlook for a free and confident American commerce with customers in every port is not encouraging. —_— —-+ -—____. PICAYUNE FINANCE. PRVHERE would certainly seem to be better ways for the City of New York to make a few thousand dollars than by taking ‘ it out of the pockets of Fort Lee ferry patrons. Last spring, after a long fight made by The Evening World and the Rastern Bergen County Improvement Association to reduce the five-cont ferry fare on this much-travelled route, a compromise was pesched by which the ferry company agreed to sell fifty-trip tickets te three-and-a-half-cent rate. But since the city, by reason of its , Ownership of dock facilities, shares in the revenues of the ferry the Teduced rates cannot go into effect without the municipal consent. bry the city refuses to give unloss convinced that its percentages i) net suffer. ; Though the gross receipts of the ferry increased nearly 10 per mh. lest year, and though the city’s share rose from $20,598.81 in the Stat year 1914-1915 to $26,672.10 for the year ending July 1, 1916, { pevertheless the Sinking Fund Commission is loath to give up a *) penny of further gain. i Does the city figure so closely in other directions that it can PY Gonsistently hold up for the sake of a few extra dollars a benefit ‘which means many times the amount to the business interests of Har- Stem and to thousands of New Yorkers who constantly use this ferry? £44 sounds like pretty small, short-sighted reckoning for the City of iNew York. eroted ——$—-+ -—__—__. done gn bara baat DEFINE JAIL. HIRTY-FIVE CASES of jail breaking in this State since last March, with twenty-two of the escaped convicts still at large, is a record which appears to have convinced the State Prison , nt that something is wrong. Supt. Carter has instructed all wardens that unless prisoners are closely guarded it may become necessary to curtail some of the and liberties accorded under the Mutual Welfare and honor | | feos ween — Jy, : eT bis does not mean that the Mutual Welfare League has not done ‘eerie not still doing admirable work among prisoners. Nor need any- hedy jump to the conclusion that the official warning from the ‘ Department at Albany is meant to annoy or persecute Warden “Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing. What it does mean, we hope, “Md that a little hard common sense is to come into play to stiffen the ¢ Backbone of prison reform. 4 Whether the numerous recent escapes from Sing Sing have had & have ha Saything to do with his action or not, we note that Warden Osborne “hes put the armed guards back on the outer wall of that prison. His /* flan, he says, is “to protect the walls around the prison fully and , permit the Mutual Welfare League members to look after the inside.” : The idea sounds safe and sensible. To the public it has seemed for a long time that a humane and helpful attitude can be preserved * toward prisoners without carrying it so often to the point, as we whave said before, of practically letting them out of jail to sce if they will come back. * Bante t Letters From the People Dixie.” depict the peculiarities and idloayn- crasieg of the colored race. Had there been no colored race, we would be to-day without a single form of native amusement. In later years Mr, Emmett composed “Dixie.” Tt was as popular in Eng- land In 1861 as it is to-day through- the United States. “Dixie” is nog sectional. It was written by @ North ern man and adopted by the south during the Rebellion. We all love “Dixie” because tt I8 “Dixie.” From time to time various purista and pro- made 0 Se Eg eemeoe CBT | fensional aesthetes have attempted to hou-creative, imitation lov- » but have never critica?” * order and I don't know my creative efforts enti- ak with authority or not, nly work ever published and Daniel Decatur .”" Was one founders of minstrelsy. And I preparing “The True Story T have read with interest the arti- fm your issue of Sept. 15 on “Dixie in Danger,” the straight-from- om ulder editorial in the issue of at. 16, and the letter from W. H.| Mannon on “Protaning Dixie.” | Mr, Hannon inquires “if it isn't} yt time some one whose creative entities him to speak with au-| , arise and protest against the -“ 2etPS The proposed change fathered by the Musteal Department of the Board Tducation \s most novel, Just what the future words of “Dixie” may be, we may, of course, only hagard a guess. like this $tn’or" be in the land of cotton; s there are not forgotton: now ie tO which task I have given years of my life, “Dixie” and minstrelsy are of American origin and inception. time is counted we're a very young and a most cosmopolitan one. | ly all our arnusements, such ler, gaze yonder, gase yonder; wt tifa) Bouthiand. Intitude wiere I first saw lgbt, 9re yonder, rom 4. Then 1 dom ‘Glory bs fe to he in the Bouthiand, Hor vaudeville and will take location re in Southland, 501 ma, opera, farce, inses, are boarened As ie Brees Ovaten by tne, Meee ene Compent Nea 68 te " gcoording In all probability something | ! i The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, Se “Cutting Class” CLASS INSH Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Science in Manufacturing. 66 JT ecoms very strange,” remarked @ manufacturer, “that @ vigor- ous, enterprising nation like ours, which is so competent in many directions should be so weak in others, We are the world's inventors; within certain limits, we have great ability for organization; scientific manage- ment was born and developed in the United States; advertising has found its highest expression with us; judged from many angles, we are world lead- ere. But, on tho other hand, we are lamentably weak in many departments. “The application of scientific re- search to manufacturing, for instance there Is a fleld in which we are go fai jbehind the times as to be the laugh- ing stock of other nations, It is but recently that the industrial chemist has been recognised among us as an indispensable factor in successful manufacturing. “Enter an American factory, You will find huge machines of the latest design; veritable Frankenstein mon- sters which seem uncanny tin their Intelligence; mechanically the plant equipment is the last word ia efficiency, You'll find accounting methods of the most approved type; cost systems which eliminate all guesswork; 4 sales department which {s scientifically administered; an ad- vertising department which is utiliz- ing the latest discoveries of the psy- chologists, and amid this inspiring atmosphere of efficiency and enter- prise you will find thousands of dot- lars’ worth of the product flung Into the scrap heap because of ignorance of chemistry, physics or metallurgy. “One day I was inspecting a glass factory. 1 observed a gang of work men bailing out a tank full of glass, “*'What's wrong here?’ 1 inquired. “Oh, that's a batch that's spoiled,’ tant superintendent. eye peroxide was ult that the lass "1 olor. 1° : came Our cuted as an oxidizing ‘nt to prevent the iron in the sand, age! lime or soda from discoloring the glass. But if too much is used, you get the result we see. The manganese, aa it comes to us, is of variable purity Consequently we are cever certain of the quantity to use.’ “ ‘But couldn't you have each ship- ment analyzed for the purpose of ad- justing the quantity to the oxidizing value?’ 1 inquired. “Why, yes, that might be done,’ conceded my guide. ‘But that means having one of those impractical scien- tific follows pottering about here, and I'm not sure that it would be of any real, practical value,’ “Thus it continued the manu- facturer, thumb methods still apply in much of Amorican industry Germany is far ahewl of us in this ard. Time will remedy thin condi- I expect to seo a much closer lance between acienee and manu- CHAPTER LXIX. CTOBER 26.—I went to Mrs. Denford's party last night. Ned | came home just in time to Gress, after an all-day absence. I was waiting in the living room, and I went out into the hall to meet him. “Don't you like my new gown?” I asked rather timidly. “Very pretty, I'm sure,” he replied in indifferent tones, with scarcely @ glance at it. “But for Heaven's sake telephone for @ taxi! We'll be late, an it Is.” There was reproach in his voice, as if I were somehow to blame. I knew that !t would be no use to re- mind him that I was ready and had been ready for an hour—that he was the tardy one. So I aimply said, “Your evening things are all laid out for you, dear,” and went to the tele- phone, As it was, we arrived at the theatre before the lifting of the curtain. Mrs. Denford had the lower right-hand box. With ber were her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe, whom I had invited to our dinner party at the Trois Arts, and Mrs. Denford's younger brother, Mr. Thorndyke. My hostess wore a wonderful gown of rose-colored brocade, trimmed with silver embroidery, But it was cut in so extreme a fashion that I felt em- barrassed sitting beside her. There were no sleeves and practically no back to the frock, and in front the corsage was exceedingly low, I sup- pose I am old-fashioned, but I can’t help feeling that it 1» immodest to wear such a dress in public plavas, However, | told myself it was none of my business, and turned my atten. Just a Wife—Her Diary Edited by Janet Trevor. Coprright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New York Brening World). ———— > ouRADAY LAW “HUGHES SCHOOL or criTicisn | . Nest the mate w } ited | Vessel. | | There had been no storm, There were no signe of struggle or mutiny, Stories of Stories Plota of Immortal Fiction Masterp.ccee. By Albert Payson Terhune ee en ee THE MYSTERY OF THE OCKAN STAR, by W. Clark T wes os Aug #8, 1877, thet the steamebip Guide plunged miles of the thick fog end out inte & oui eweted of cen t the contre of (hie open space the Guide's ceptals cow 0 | Oil salle eet. A sewond giance showed the pussio’d wee very wroug with (he bark. Not « figure was te be ber decks Bhe was darting from side to side ot the caprice |reese-gust, Somewhere aboard ber s bell was solemnly tolling ] The Guide's captain sent his first mate end o bust © | taterveaing two miles of water to investigate | The mate snd two or three men boarded (he bark—-ber same was the Osean Bter—end shouted. No reply came wo their ball The decks were below, his stricken men / following him with visible relue everything was in order, The ¢ where on board was there a eign of human Iife, The mate and the men looked at one another ip ‘Tile sort of thing waa beyond any human calculation, superstitious terror, The Ocean ten days, Yet there was deserted for less than he ‘The mate returned to the Guide with his am. report, The steamship's captain lees interested in the mystery than in the chance of earning salvage money by gotting the bark safely to port. So he pul a working crew aboard the Ocean Star log was found tt had been written in for the past ry reason to think the Ocean Star had beem : Next day the newly named bark sailed into view of a rowboat, Init were four seamen, nearly dead from thirst. They were rescued and carried aboard (ecmeamannainails They were survivors of the Ocean Star, and their TR Weedoe” report cleared up the mystery, i Viena, i From the outaet the voyage had been one long seriee hed been killed by dropping from the shrouds, Men had ied from a fever epidemic, At length only six had remained alive. One of these had fallen into the eea. Four more had jumped into a boat and rowed The fog had surrounded the four. They had lost their way and had floated, helpless, ever sin ‘The ftth man had evidently tumbled overboard or had committed suicide by drowning just before the bout crew from the the Ocean Star, There, when they could speak, they told their story of calamities, Men had fallen overboard. back for him, leaving the fifth to hold the bark in atays while they were gone. Guide had arrived upon the acene. ee By Roy L. McCardell Capvright, 1916, ty The Pres Publishing Oo. (The New Yorn Evening World), e HE Jarre on their automobile tour in Gue’s “Flivver”’ meandered on thelr way. Mrs. Jarr knew the car had been } How Our Cities Were Named By Eleanor Clapp. Providence. ROVIDENCE was founded as & It was a cleverly written attack place of refuge from the New| upon marriage, an ingenious defense | England conscience, Although of the woman who loves outside the|the Puritans came to Massachusetts | law. The wife—iike every wife in the|t escape persecution and be free to modern triangle play—was a hi worship God in the way they thou; drum bore; the “other woman" right, they did not do thie through any belief in religious toleration for all, but simply because they were con- vinced that theirs was the only true mame of the theatre, and eo much had been happening to me in the last week that I hadn't thought to look Up the name of the play. ' ry beautiful, intelligent, passionate, ab- solutely conscienceless creature. The first act was devoted to an out- {ine of the central situation and anj faith Introduction of the characters. In| 80 when Roger Williams, « Salem the second act the love affair between | Pastor, was bold enough to disagree the husband and the giren progreased , With them he speedily got himself ealvably frank age, the man and | Stig punishable by fine or impris- Saran SasHhree their relation with|onment, The services were long each other. the sermons lasted two hours and: I could stand it no longer. I looked | Some even more; worse yet, the con- toward Neds Mik lant oka faeea| Grepntion onthe Gur Sven uetaiee 278 é comfort snooze, = in her chalr, und they were talking|cmelal with a long rod was employed together in low, tense tones. I rose|each smaniat . So, prod every head hed husband that so much as nodded, set teu ee Ay. BEAPASD) C8. Se: Now Roger Williams disapproved of Pi ; * P all this and said that nothing was ‘My head aches,” Ieaid. “Will youlever gained by compelling people to take me home?” iff to shureh Aesiee th (ed ye With an expression of annoyance |@lso declare: aw ou! ave |no concern with religious belief, but) that amounted to indignation he stood |shoula Be used solely for the Preven: up, and we made our farewells. In| tion of crime. Another way in which the taxicab he turned on me. | he gave offense was vy preachin, “Mollie, you're @ confounded fool!” it strenuously yea ienieg ot of “ membership @ stepping stone he exclaimed. “I know what your) omce, Finally he talked #0 boldly headache means, but what's the use|aguinst the established Iaws that in of being such a prude! You've prac-| the winter of 1836 the leaders of the tically insulted the most exclusive|colony decided to send him 0 hostess in New York, one whose|2naland, eo he could trouble them friendship, as I've told you, may be the making of me, Yes, you can no more, Williams heard of this through a home if you want to, but you'll go alone. I've stood all I'm going to stand for awhile.” friend, and though it was a bitterly cold January day and the snow was deep upon the ground he fled from his home at night and found refuge in the forest. The Indians took pity tion to the stage. Suddenly I realized that we were wit- nessing New York's newest success of scandal. In her invitation Mrs, Denford bad mentioned simply the 1 am no herald to inquire of men’ of their virtues.—SIDNEY, ® N efficient cutlery polisher, as A here shown, !s easily made from a small board and a piece of carpet, says a contributer to Popu- lar Mechanics, To a board about 6 inches wide, 8 or 10 inches in length and an inch in thickness, with both long edges quarter rounded, 1s tacked & piece of carpet to entirely cover tho board on one side and extend over the rounded edges. Over this carpeted board is placed another piece of carpet the same size as the board, but tacked fast only on one end, ‘The nap surfaces of the two Cutlery Polisher Made From Carpet. Before 1 could answer he stopped the taxi, paid the man and repeated on him and gave him food and shel- ter and he itvea among bem for nearly four months. In the spring cr then, walked senidly: f his parishioners joined him wn the st Ihave not seen him |® fo" ° Y Gown Mam wondering if 1 ever want | 00d ne made & litte sattioment at to see him again, aa cicen, colony had net : ni ‘8 pedigrees; it suficeth me tf I know part wf the country was his jurisdiction. So Will- obliged to leave and in June, ith four companions, he crossed Narragansett Bay in an In- dian canoe landed in what is now Providence. He gave it this name, he afterward declared, in remem- brance “of God's providence to him in. bis distress.” By his stay among id a0 endeared himself to the Indiana that chief of the Narragan- setts, him a large tract of land. But Williams refused to make any profit for himself from this and gave part of bis land to ore, eettler who eo to him. He said he wished to of refuge for “persons distress for cen- actence.” Many who were persecuted in other communities came to him, and ‘deed #0 various were the sects represented that it used to be sald them Sprinkie a little cut bath-brick be- hired from Gus, the proprietor of the corner cafe, in their home neighbor- hood. She had been prejudiced against it from the association of its owner- ship, but she did not know it was a “Flivver.” She had once heard her friend Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Smith express her contempt of “Flivvers.” This lady bad called upon Mrs. Jarr upon one occasion somewhat ex- cited and had told Mre. Jarr that her chauffeur in turning the corner in the Mudridge-Smith twelve-cylinder tour- ing car had smashed another auto- mobile that was standing unoccupied by the curb, She had hardly finished her recital when her chauffeur appeared with an indignant fat man, the owner of the smashed car. The fat man was an- grily declaring his car was a total wreck and demanding damages in full. “Here is 60 cents,” Mra, Mudridge- Smith had haughtily declared. “Your car was only « ‘Flivver’; take this money and buy a new one!” Mrs. Jarr remembered how the fat man had choked and spluttered and bad indignantly refused the half dol- lar ang gone away swearing he would sue not only for damages but for criminal libel. For, he had 1) ed indignantly, bis car was not @ ‘Fliv- ver.” “How long shall jay at Uncle Henry's farm?” asked Mr. Jarr, rous- ing his good wife from her train of thought on the subject of Flivvers and the harrowing suspicion that was arising in her mind that Gus's car might be one, Mr. Jarr repeated his question to arouse her. “How long CAN we atay?" asked Mrs. Jarr in return. “At the rate we are travelling your vacation will be over by the time we arrive.” ‘That's your fault," eald Mr. Jarr, “You won't travel after dark. We bave to put up at hotels in the town ome to at nightfall.” “I am jolted so, I have to stop and rest,” remarked Mra, Jarr. “I feel even now as though I bad breakbone fever.” “But the children are enjoy’ tt" said Mr. Jarr, “and we prided the country. Besides, it's a cheaper way to travel than by train.” “T don't know about that,” eald Mrs. Jarr. “To-night is the third night have had to put up at hotels, an@ ‘re not balf way yet. We could have gone to Uncle Henry's by train in one day.” “But you won't let me run ” grumbled Mr. Jarr. “Why, pa Dilists bave crossed the continent im Jess than a week. I heard of a maa that went around the world in am automobile, like Jules Verne’s bere, in eighty daye—not counting the ocean voyages.” “This car couldn't go around the world in eighty years,” said Mra. Jarr, with some decision. For something told her the car in question was se apeed demon. “You're just prejudiced because it isn't as bie a car as the one your friend Clara Mudridge-8mith has,” re- plied Mr. Jarr, “This one has how much horse power—lan't that wi Reet ‘nat they call itt” “It's aixty horse power,” said Mr. Jarr, lying fearsomely, Master Willie Jarr started to laugh, but diverted sus. picion by crying, “Oh, aee the funny cow trying to Jump the fence over there!” Fortunately for Mr. Jarr the cow in Question was in evidence. “Make it xo fast,” cried Mra. Jarr, “Iam afralé of cows.” Mr. Jarr turned on full speed, and cs it was down hill, and as the cow did not succeed in getting over the fence, they were soon safe from bovine purcult, At nightfall they reached a email town and were soon quartered for the nigbt in the local Waldort-as- toria, the beds of which were only more comfortable than Gus's motor car in that they did not move and jolt their occupanta, Seizing an opportunity, while Mr, Jarr was arranging quarters for the automobile at @ nearby garage, Mra, Jarr led Master Willie out of reac! of the curious ears of bis little ala- ter, looked him in the eyes and said, “Willie, answer me truthfully! What kind of a‘car is it we are riding in?" Willie knew better than to t whole truth, “Aw,” he said on me fully, “it's @ Tin Lissie!" ‘acts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1016, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Y eandpapering the edges of a postage stamp you will find that is will travel further, Among the ostrich's pecultar tratte tg ite hadit of uttering plaintive cries whenever it thinks how much sand there te in the world. After the third Monday following the second Thursday in each month rubber will be found to stretch much easter than pewter. It 48 considered poor form among the elite of the Woofle Archipelago to point with the third finger of the left hand, ‘ By mieimg calf'a foot jelly with conorete it ta possidle to prevent thet annoying euivering whenever it 19 served on a nervous table, Setentiste have unearthed the epoch-mabing fact that no roof leaks in clear weather. Bird cag le ween the layers, moisten knife or should ft the canary very loosely and allow him plenty of that any one who had lost his re. surely find it again teas room to breathe, Many @ canary hae been hindered by dird cages whick alll \tacturing during the 1 ext Keneration, Ive time we were waking Upp of URE 8 im the ilust pieces of carpet should face each fork and rub in and out, as shown ther, Ura thows — — {a pave deen toe Haat Gorose {he chest or too narrow quer the shoulders, ob,