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EDITORIAL PAGE SZ She EGeyijity World. ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. hed Daily Except funday by the Press Publishing Company.’ Nos. 53 to ty Park Row, LATZER, President, 63 Park Row, Park Row 63 Park Row. RALPH Pt J. ANGUS JOSEPH PUI Entered at the Post-Office at New York am Second Class Matter, Budseription Rates to The Evening| For England and the Continent ai All Countries in the International Postal Union Sree a L) World for the United State canada, and One Year. One Month... VOLUME 7 3 « $2.59 One Year + .30,One Month. 5 OPEN THE NEW SUBWAYS. URING the last few weeks the overcrowding of the subway has become most serious. Never has the jam during rush hours been more insufferable. caught in closing doors or narrowly escaped being ground to death! between trains and pl To see the close-wedged, struggling masses that pack the plat forms of the Grand Central subway station between 5.30 and 6.50 every week-day evening is to marvel that no sudden push or panic has yet thrown scores of persons under the wheels of some incoming train The city etands in desperate need of its new subways—every sec- tion, every mile—as soon as the most strenuous ¢ them ready for use. To-day the Board of Estimate and Apportionment is expected to pass a resolution asking the Public Service Commission to investigate Never have eo many people been rms, ris can make the constantly increasing subway congestion and see what can be done. The best thing that can be done needs no discussion: Full spec: aliead with work on the new subways. Less talk about why con- struction is behindhand and more assurance that every contractor is, from now on, to be kept at high pressure until his job is com-| pleted. Joseph Pulitzer used to say he could find a hundred men! to tell him why a thing couldn't be done. What he wanted was one} man to tell him how it could be don The Public Service Commission has kept up a copious flow of reasona why it should not be held accountable for delay in opening the new subways. What the public would like to hear from the Com- mission now is that the new lines CAN be opened and WILL be| opened as fast as continuous labor under conscientious supervision can get them ready. a WHY GO BACK? EVER, since the old days when he made half a million dollars a year selling cabstand privileges, has the hotel man in this city got over the idea that the taxicab is one of his special affinities and ought to be so recognized. He has just sent another delegation to the Mayor to try to per- suiade him that public taxicabs, operated under city license, using pub- lie hack stands at public places, giving their patrons the protection of the Police and the Department of Licenses, are inadequate, and that the hotels should be allowed to take a step backward in the diree. t.on of the old private taxicab service, private hotel stands and pri- vate graft. It won’t do. The city’s present taxicab ordinance, for which ‘the Evening World fought its winning fight, is based on the princi- yes of free streets, open competition and uniform regulation. Again and again the courts have confirmed these principles and upheld them Under the ordinance the taxicab service in New York has devel made itself increasingly popular and profitable until now one company is operating at a twenty-cent rate the best-appointed tax cabs the city has vet seen, New York’s taxi das thus progressed only since it was eed from the monopoly, extortion and graft fostered by the hotel private stand system. Why turn back? } service } fi AT ALL LEVELS. FFICTATL investigations demanded by The Evening World after its exposure of plots to boc t the price of coal have already | gone deep enough to cuuse a decided change of spirit in the | cal coal market, Despite the cold weather, retail pri of coal | tronghout the city have not ge from 87.75 to M975 a ton, | \bnormal as these figures are, there are plenty of signs that tl activity of Federal investigators has discouraged speculators who A) their plans for coal at $12 per ton or higher. Meanwhile inspectors of the Bureau of Weights and Measures | have rounded up forty-two coal | } above ulers charged with making short Here followe deliveries during the past two wi f the way the price boosting « Most of the forty-two dealers who sell in small quantities to the poor, is an excellent instance he down all way the line, smal! cel] wre peddlers or ur Let the big dealer in food, fuel or any other common ne cessity exact a heavier profit from the consumer and how quickly the smaller fry in all kinds of business conclude the moment is ripe, eithor by adding a penny or two to prices or by tinkering with scales and measures, to exploit the humbler public for their own advantage. This kind of robbery, petty as it is, extends far and wide until it forms one of the most formidable factors in price-raising b hears heaviest on tho cause it who Just now the tinct of exploi “ Letters From the People Fifth Avenue Too Crowded, ‘To the Dititor of The Evening Worlt Being one of those New Yorkers whose business necessitates travelling on one of the busiest streets in this city between the hours of 12 and VM, namely Fifth Avenue, allow | side has been gradyally drifting into | the same condition,’ Football tacties is the most practicable and success. [ful method used tn prying one's way through these crowds. “on e nt about th to call attention to the deplorable iviou t moans for. condition on this once beautiful thor i Is argues it cannot oughfare, ense: "Iam obliv ° if 1 remember correctly a law went ning “Lam forgetful," ‘ into effect some years ako, especially, 1As tean, B says it should directed against the occupants of the} doin this sense “LT was ob nearby loft buildings. This law spe- to everything around im cifically stated that but one side the avenue was to be opened to prom. enaders, namely the west side, leav ‘ lease explain the meaning and the correct way to use it, E.R. N. B.—-Oblivion means muen more #| than mere forgetfulness, “lL was ob- ore, that| livious to everything around me" there waa to be no loitering on the| would be corr if the person so ~ rners. {deseribed was unconscious or Ko lost For a time this law was adhered to, thought @ had no under with an occasional prod from the po- | ling of what took place nearby lice, but as things stand to @ Strang 1 fous.” we , had looking south from Thirty-tourth| form and ' sible, as a Street, Fifth Avenue seems to be the! person in iviou would gathering place for the business worid| pass out of e moment that he of this city. It is pity enough that! undertook to make comment upon it ene pige of this gvenue {miould be; Oblivion also has a broader meaning 0 closed to usy man, We would say that a nation, a states- hut tor’ the last ‘Weeks the other man, passed into oblivion NOR RO Nee 5A OE TE Alcohol to Replace G H wy Preae Py) York Evening World.) By J. THE CURSE OF DRINK GETTING sas mes ON A GALLON | A LEAK IN THE TANK Prospect of adventure and conflict. He of warlike honors and of y devoting his life ton ue Three weeks iat 1 ook part in the battie of Copene hagen, one of history's bloodies Franklin was in the thick of it. he horror and ¢ age of w " brought hideously close to the lad, who had hit © thousht only of y. And he profited by the lesson While he acquitted himse valian in und other battles, yet he began to look for a career that did not t upon the slaughter of his fellow men, And presently his chance came. He was assigned to a midshipman berth | yn the Government vessel Investigator, which had fi been ordered to jAustralia on an exploring trip, A party of Government scientists were to make maps and survey of the Australian coast \ Franklin was detached to help in this work. For the first time he tasted the Joys of an explorer. For the first time, too, he had a glimpse of thed. ! mysterious world of science. His imag tion Was aroused as it had never | Fifty Boys and Girls ~ Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co. (Th NO. 15.—SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: The Boy Explorer. GROUP of English boys were chatting in a corner of a schook yard, planning what they should do to make themselves famous, One devlared he was going to dier; another a Prime Minister, and so on At last the New York Evening World), wo a great » smallest lad in the group Was asked to naine bis life ame bition. He was a spindling, dreamy-eyed child of nine—John Franklin, youngest son of a Lincolnshire family of twelve children. With no best tation at all, he made answer “When | grow up I'm going to build a ladder that I can climb to heavew on.” He was not in the least ‘shamed by the yells of his words. Already, he had made up his mind to be great, although be had not yet worked out the ways and means, His father, from the first, wanted to make a clergyman of him. Joh, . was willing enough until, at the age of ten, he happened to spend a day ' at the seashore. The magic of the sea got into his brain. He went home and announced that he was going to be a sailor | ad of a clergyman. His father tried to argue this idea out of him, but with no effect. Next he tried threats, and even wh The lad remained firm. Sg his fathor packed him off to boarding school, to drive out sea-yearnings with overs doses of Latin, laughter that greeted For two years John remained at school, But never once did he falter in his resolve to be a suilor, At last his father tried to cure him of the fancy by s Vim as cabin boy on a long merchant erutse, inane aaaeanaeatl wher work ould be hard, and the food would b A Boy's One } ball; andthe: disc! vaca ea iM : Ambition, 5 But the four -old boy eume back from thig “ ordeal a hundred times more determined than before. to follow the sea for a livelihood. secured for him a berth as “first phemus, England was His 183 voluntee: gave up the struggle andl aboard the warship Poly ut war just then and John's imagination was fired by been by mere warfare, Henceforth, at heart Was an explorer, He proved useful, too, when one detachinent of scientists was obliged to consult with some French savants, None of these scientists chanced to speale : » French, Neither did F in, for that matter, So he Fhe za Zen tor | conversed w (eh the | earned Frenchmen in Latin, aettag Exploring. On t way back to Englan was ship- e wrecked and lived for weeks on a coral reef. Thus he le d how to endure e outa living from among desolate rocks—a knowledge On the way home, squadron, And soon ga ttle that m ‘ « snnionadi e ne ear ish Government had offered $2 . ald w and $25,000 1 y would con i gree of t e, These offers st John Franklin on the veyagew that t him immortality--and deat roubles. to Strangers . By Sophie Irene Loeb |! her eldest girl aidn't get mar-) manner that this woman talked to) Creal, 1910 Wy The Pome ty ron : “ rled because she (the mother) could] me, and as a result of information | ¢ gy kw tie automobile at the ComaTie, 1016, by ‘he Pema Pubiahing Co | not take care of the home as she once! given the whole family was brought | aah hk Cees tae ' ppg ae Wee) | lid and somebody had to do ft, Be-| into court and put to no end of | pid D H other day I was on a rallroad | aug expe va ri ety—throug! ageing sue! one? sides, expenses were so high it really |unxlety—through the wagging tongue! ay jolones te ee cette. train and a woman eat in the z i s It belongs to the wholesale gentle vequired some person with a “clear n to kKeap up with things nowa- of one of its members, | = man Who is so infatuated with Mrs. All this ts folly, Nobody wants to! kittingly upstairs,” replied Mra, Jarr. hear your troubles—leastwise a stran- |" wnoiesouled, did you say?” asked | ger, Each person has his own, and| yy. yarp ; telling them to those who ure not in-| > , seat beside me. When the con- ductor came around the wom- an fumbled in her this woman ran : ; : ; ? | “And they hardly drive a horse |Join them there this evening, purse for her Se tate Rteeinee teete terested can do little or no good and |... ))04 ae ak ae Tau Shot ora eaid arnt dace inten: | Now). Ciatetal nicoict them ereREn tekats ede ooilld | ifeatra, tnsluding the story about the | AY tune distress, Anotber: 384 | souled in very nfce, but those people Kittingly told me that when she went ati Jars, "det out y arena sult and Taoked: abutsthe ‘black sheep,” who had got into aia about you pty ef Not loan (tC would give you everything they (there last night shore st oe y quae ae ee dan have my ApOn ANAT: ancag| our neue. Wes coming Delors Wena two. Women Were ROANlDIOM In| DRYe never have anything to:@iye:you | AULOMODILRG AOE ea eee ote a eae tea eee aunate the dk ker to see If the tick. | (Ourts any day, a restaurant, At the next table eat |For practical (purposes, a gentleman | Was extremely difficult to § yO nent-sny: Daw: dveke 10;aay facet ct wan on the} Several thnes I attempted to read | several persons Who everheard 6 Jin the wholesale business is better, |! j Fareed engenes he . an eh ane my paper so us to ward off the thingy |1Ning that waa, sald. which affected | 110 doesn't give you everything, but| “Thank goodness, if we haven't any | happy Are darn, Has sheigald [aig Finally, shot! thought she should not tell toa | nee ot eee conveyed ‘to these {He shares part with you," RORY WEL GORE ARE AO.zillyss Qteemie| WEA AL fons tis, Moras! Shaw tes Chad agalal in | Strangers but to no purpose, | friends and there was much trouble| “What sort of wholesale business | Ourselves up like Popiniaye:ané ae aay « i ist hes bane jes will her purse and | “ould talk, I could not help refiest- [ae & result. | Several of those eon lis he in? Automobiles?” asked Mr.| tending wo do it for the aako of think to aco us silting ther in « box ‘ found the ticket in a small side pock- | 8 that thts baneful habit was some- | horn if See ar math te pnit possible, i 4 ae ee Nalomtens ae Mrs, | complacantly. “Rangle told me ae mi et of the lining. Then sho explained | Vat !m the nature of @ disease, Tongues were made to talk, but it] “7 don't inquire into peopte's af. | | cue) teen he & . | tickets for to-night. “And he’s such to mo how she always put the ticket | 1 kROW of one case where & person] is the wise one that knows when to| fairs,” sald Mrs, Jarr coldly. “All GD Re on rele Stig aca enen ae ieee there. Tale ale hd nat ne eit | chattered with a stranger in thel keep still know ig that Mrs. Kittingly sald ho| a 18 teatro ? ‘ See aR Be Het Coa jwas in the wholesale business, and place, Her “poor head" had been e's tnfatuated with her and Is going MneLaor thai ano raha There , . , | y tube her to the'Horse Show yap sheila ahah Ney print about the Horse Show every headaches, and her troubles dated | dart, "A vot of cheep Gudee asd 6} H Sue Wve He rier ues ee ypointment he had back several years before that. Her Article No. 1 knew a lot of Ife, and if he had been | jot of extravagant women trying to asked by Cortez of the @M=| ade and end nd to stop the exe productive instead of destructive he | jutdress each other! ‘Clothes Show’ yeople had warned out it a Nase hettatia co talareae ene Jak | ET us talk about you and your| might have been aa magnificent 4|1 should call at!" he Tikieh beoaine meray nen tae| job. It may help you to get on| success as, for example, James J “LUs very nice to have fine clothes,’ faster, Hil was. sald Mrs. Jarr, retrospectively; “one surgical ald was called upon success an inte! 5 ce 5 ’! vas ta- | feels si d r ‘ Vv an af-| Montezum: the t! Her grandmother had had the Suc ia an interlocking thing. I knew Mr. Hill when he was a sta feels so satisfied and at peace with | four centuries ago. i Receiving an oe sane na “ip sovere| Gaui ie ea en You can't got on in your Job unless! tion agent In St. Paul, Even then ne | uit the world.” firmative reply, Cortez said, with) WP Tiled over a mighty empire ‘ falter 4 ay ee He "| Sot help others to get op tn theirs, | dreams, Ho saw a vast,| “And so sore at other women who | grim humor: Having hens thera er mnturien ? em duina tan ep rai pend ve on of r 2 ¢ y gowr replied Mr Let him send it to me 4 r 1 much gold, Cortex decided. to y : nm manufacturer; the manufac- ble ’ 1 and my compar vat 4 u i We laid the Y nthe yoer the jobber 1 ¢ 1 th 1 ' w ye of those society vint, a dive » heart wh ad Fes ory 4 | —- etailer; the retailer, on ome) increasing the prosperity of who tiv good looking, | cured By gold.'t Tisuad hike ce ih ee mm. A 7 nunity, ‘The success of each depends, of his fellowmen, A few years et claved Mes, Jarr. “Of course,| The Spaniard spoke truth ia J powsible: took the part of sey | To-Day’s Anniversary.) 1.13 prosperity of all. he made that cream come true, It [tine feathers make fine birds, but] for his heart was hardened and cor- | Native tribes against the tax eolles laa thle marke both avice and cam. | WANE MAVIGADID (HOE TAD “KommlbE Lao lichen von ene: theaiin coal 1th suey faded Whe the lint fon acid) As eas sir friendship undo magus eine | HE fret Englishman to visit the! ing The community needs the re-}™MUch for others he should get some |iook altogether different from their | ttago, in Cuba, he had@mployed large leaving a ent Paydotc hee Far East and write an account| caijor and must help bim in order to| for himself, pictures printed In the society col-|numbers of Indians in getting gold | Cruz, plunged into the interior at of hie travels tn the English| keen nim on his job. Th ‘i He did, He got all he wanted, and | uenns,” for him. "How many of whom died in| head of a few hundred men 1 was Min’ ton M a. . | keop him is Jo! he retailer Pees 0s ren = op /extracting this gold for him God will On landing in Mexic Corte language was Bir John Mandeville, | ieods the jobber and must help him| More; yet it wa. not one-tenth of I've been to the Horse Bhow once | Nive Kot a better account than 1 | tho natives hentre co, Cortes foun whone adventurous career came to an| io make @ profit. And #0 on back to|OR® ber cent. of the wealth ho cre-|or twice, tut I wouldn't go again i¢| RAYS ,Kept & better acc horses and the toar op ae steht of O44 yours ago to-day, !i.8 ¢armer, who needs the man that|#ted for others. Billions of it re-!1 were paid for It," sald Mr. Jarr, “1| Hernando Cortez, the conquerc » much for the ae hag > Sir Jonn's account of |< ‘ man WNat sulted from his vision of | ett 4 } Mexico, was beyond doubt the m hope he effect “wat his journey into unknown lands | "208s he sheey to the Pacific ist and @ i anevansa STAGE einurkabl of the many remarki! ne on other tribes, butt sounds very much Ike on Mur If you Imagine ucan get on [tine to China ml Pom evcntrtee tenures abe Of Tuscala, an independ +h n. for parently. ac jby thinking only how much you, He helped « » and nothing | Beousht out from sbsaurity: gent province bitte at feud with | chausen, to: apparently accepted a L could be more certain th that thi HER LOVE-POTION. youth, he was many tines at the Montezuma had to fight four bate © sober truth all the legends and |°#" grab off for yourself, you ought) would help him YOUNG woman who thought | hoint of death during his childt | tes before subdued the nat ae | wonders which were poured into his | t© 60 and live alone on some unchart- | James ¥. was more than a HILL. At nineteen he left Spain and went to| He then marched an etree p © his : losing her husband's to a seventh daughter tor she was affection went daughter of a seventh island until you can see what | He was a MOUNTAIN We can't all be mountains; but to be only an anthill is better than be- credulous ears, ed Seemingly he was roady to believe} gwoneral prosperity means to you anything, and the Chinese and Tar.| Tt U8 aay tt again: You can't get|ing a bole in the ground, SNR ers Meri Era tars must have had a lot of fim, OM! Your job unless you help others} With the finst principle well fixed r : ona ead in our minds, we can proceed to the | tld her spoofing” the traveller from haayla , discussion of details with clearer un-| “Get a raw piece of beef, cut fat, West. For two centur sir ‘That te baale principle of all derstanding out an inel thiek an onion John's deat 4 work wa zoq , SUECeS. 1 will tell you In a day or two how) in two, and rub the t on both A ; ; A ee A as 1 by noe in my en wit! Put on pepper and Man Guthoriiy an all question : a mld 4 ue prin 8 Wi billy to a position | salt, and toast it on each side ove riental geog ys be ts John | ples ind the ve sam rosp bility and commen-|a red coal fire, Di onfined himself to truth, the Kast | matterS@t detail surate salary by paiting into prac: | lumpy of butts h ranged a lo! ce hi inde Napol us the most magnificent | Uce the principle that parsley, and get has changed a lot since he wandered Apolean was the moat magniticent | 409 th® Priagiple nae weir eee and set hint to Sa hee over It, and he would never know the old place now, 1 failure of his time, because a wrong JOB UNLESS YOU HELP OTHE! ELRS. and loved her ever after,—Tit- hear prevents right vision, "4 TO GET ON IN TH : ns | hus! Bits, Wh: soe) yway? § Ql she consists of a lot of overdressed we you want us? How thoughtfu, ncople who snub those who woull|of you! Why niyt At 8 shar like to know them and are snubbed | then eds Yes, without by those they'd like to know.” ful “It's all a lot of bosh!” | She returned to Mr. Jarr, beaming, Mr. Jarr, “What do they care for! “What do you think?" she said, horses? Why, they even don't know/"The Stryvers have a box at the how to ride a horse.” ! Horse Show and want you and me wu, bassadors sent to him by Montezuma, | pedition, but Cortez disregarded ore the ruler of the powerful Mexican | ders and salled on, | In March of 1519 Empire, when the Spanish adventurer) sores of Mexico, he la landed on the shores of Mexico nearly | called Tabasco, nded on the » in the province There he heard qfe* with 6,000 natives and ce of Spaniards, and was received with great pomp by Montezuma, Cortes id this hospitality by treachere taking the Emperor eaptt 4nd extorting from him a vast store ‘ of sold. Luter, while Cortes: war Absent, the natives revolted, but id @ é reat battle was fought whiel \; y Cortes San Domingo. He was then well ed ueated, of graceful address, amin manners and great skill in) mil In Domingo and later Cubs he developed that coolnes wif-command which st. mped of men, and by his abil ity aroused the enmity of his superior Micers and twice narrowly aped hanging. It was in thirty-three j command of | and he exercises, tn te » of Mexico, the eapit the fate Spani explorers auerors, He died in ville, Spain, alone an he monarch to whos had added mighty 18, whe he exped from Placed in nto Mexico, Santiago with jten ships, 650 Spaniards, about 300 Indians, a few negroes, a dozen | norees, ten brass guns and some w nid nquel wred ; In the of most of and con. 1547, near Se- id neglected hg e dominions he empire, ~ | ‘ w ot