The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1916, Page 16

See ey Pees be 2 ah piace ae ¢ | . MSTARLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Dally Except eungey oY the Me PULITZE: Sandeat, ry ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 , soserit PULITZBR, Jr., SPH FUMES EETY Bey GCCrecery, OF EA OM es i Park Show. Fntored at the Post-Ofice at New York ae Fecond-Clans Mattern, Budbseription Rates to The Evening|For England and tho Continent ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International Postal Uniom One Year. .s.m sees }0|One BMonth...—,+ ~ One Year... One Month... .. 5... —— es, VOLUME 87.....0.0 000 BROOKLYN’S TRANSIT TANGLE. lyn’s knotty transit problem was put forward at a public hear T* broadest, eanost plan yet offered for the solution of Brook- ing yesterday by the Public Service Commission of the First District. So far, the clash between a transit corporation looking out for its own interests and various civic movements chiefly concerned to save the sightliness of Brooklyn by keeping “L’’ structures from en- eroaching further on its etreets, has produced only confusion. vory- thing has been contested and argued to a halt. Worked out by Public Service Commissioner Travis H. Whitney and Leroy T. Harkness, Chief of Rapid Transit, the latest plan is a compromise which aims to give the railway corporation a equare deal end at the same time consider the convenience of Brooklyn, the beauty ef Brooklyn and the future development of Brooklyn. Briefly the compromise includes: (1) The removal of the “T.” tracks from Fulton Strect west of Cumberland Street, with compensa tion in the shape of a Livingston-Clinton Street subway. (2) A’ sub- way extension from the Fourth Avenue Subway at Fulton Street and Ashland Place to connect with the Fulton Street elevated at a point near Cumberland Street. (3) A crosstown rapid transit line, part subway, part elevated, from Queensborough Bridge to Coney Island. The crosstown line is a particularly desirable and progressive fea- ture of the plan. A north and south line from “Long Island Sound to tho Atlantic Ocean,” would unite divided sections of Brooklyn, bring closer the important manufacturing centre of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint districts, and-draw together large areas of business and population by saving what is now’ an endless trolley-car journey. The plan clearly recognizes that no perpetual franchise can be granted the railway corporation for a Livingston Street subway or wny other line. Tere again a compromise is proposed. It is in- dispensable that the title to existing as well as contemplated transit lines shall sooner or later become vested in the city “under fair and equitable terms.” An additional one per cent. upon a fair valuation of existing lines, to be added to the allowance made the railway com- pany by the city for existing earnings, is therefore suggested to amor- tize the cost of the lines, “With the title to the existing railroads in the city, broader plana can readily be carried out from time to time.” A most imporant consideraion, when it is remembered that only by disinterested fora- sight and planning for the entire city can there be any hope of elimi- nating elevated lines, co-ordinating subways and saving the time now wasted in endless conflict and litigation. Fourteen million dollars is the estimated total cost of the Living. sion Street subway, the Ashland Place connection and the crosstown line. Part of this cost can be met by funds available or divertible for the purpose. Eight qillion dollars of it could be raised by a one per cent. assessment on land values in the Borough of Brooklyn, pay-| able in instalments, Needless to any, the actual benefite to realty would far exceed the assessments. Here is a plan, careful, constructive, which aims to give Brooklyr the transit facilities it needs most with the greatest possible directness and speed, all the time considering the requirements of the future as well as the practical difficulties of the present. Here is a plan which strives to strike a sensible mean between what city beautifiers would Mike t0 accomplish and what present conditions permit. If civio organizations and public spirited individuals interested in the development of Brooklyn are really anxious to end the transit eadlock in that borough, they will get behind this programme and hhard-and all together to put it through. SEE eo ENTIRELY PRACTICABLE. %41 M. de Voltaire, recovering from a severe illness, wrete thus ‘to Frederick the Great, in the midst of the war with Austria: “I put only one foot upon the border of the Styx, but 1 was Very sorry, Sire, at the number of poor wretches I saw passing over, Some arrived from Scharding, others from Prague or from Igla “Wil you not coase—you and the Kings, your colleagues. to ravage this earth which you have, 80 mitch desire to render happy?” To which the King replied: “You ask me how long Messieurs my brother Kings have given themselves the word to devastate the earth. My reply is that I know nothing about it; only it is the fashion at present to make war, and there ts reason to believe it will last a long time.” “The Abbe do Saint Pierre ° ° ° @ beautiful work upon @ mode you has sent me restoring peace to Europe and ‘Seviisnine Compahy, Now. 68 to Evening World ‘ | [What It’s s Coming To cneththe, Daily Magazine |The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell | 110. y ‘Phe Lrwe Publishing Co, wy Cornish, ‘ork Inveniing Workd,) eé on you think wo all ought to go out together and have a good time as wo used to?” asked Mr, Jarr. “whom do you mean by ‘we all? You and your own particular cro- nies?” inquired Mrs, Jarr, “Surely you don’t mean me to be Included?" “That's the impression I was en- deavoring to convey,” replied Mr, Jarr, “Don't you rethember how you and I and Mr, and Mrs, Rangle used to go out of an evening together, have dinner and go to the theatre?” “It's so long ago, and really my memory isn't ao good for incidents in the far past,” replied Mrs, J “but, lot me think; yes, I faintly re- member some such oceastons.” “Now, don't try to be sarcastic,” said Mr, Jarr, “We were together a couple of times last winter.” “I don’t see what you want to drag other people along for,” responded Mrs, Jarr, “Besides, that man Ran- glo will be in that awful Gus's place don't,” said Mr, Jarr, take me anywhere.” “Want go or don't you?” manded Mr. Jarr, to I suppose I'll have to go. plied Mrs, Jarr, Before Mr. sion to Mrs, Rangle, telaphon “You get mad if I don't offer to take you some place and you make cracks like this If I do.” “I don't like the expressions you use,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “and yet you must not be surprised if it is s0 strange to me to hear you offer to de- “As your mind is made up about It Do you really want those Rangles along?" re- Jarr could answer, Mrs. Jarr was at the telephone and in her sweetest tones proposing the excur- “Oh, they'll go, you may be sure!” sald Mrs. Jarr, coming bac from the “But don't you be a Bofty to-night. You let that man Rangle pay his share." “A friend sent me four theatre tic! ets," answered Mr. Jarr, “and Rang and I can divide the dinner.” “Let's sce the tickets,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, “Hum, ‘they are not to- gether, Well, I'm just as well pleased The Rangles will get in a quarrel and | attract attention, T! always do. Which are the best seats?" “These in F are nearer the stag said Mr, Jarr, “The others are in 9, which is back further.” Well, take good care not to give those Rangles the best ones," Mrs. Jarr instructed hi “They are so selfish that I would*just like to show them they can't impose on me." The Kangles and the Jarrs Joined | forces and went merrily downtown | on the corner, instead of being with his poor, neglected wife.” | “Rangle won't be tn Gus's,” | Mr, Jarr, “L would ike to believe it!” re- plied his good lady, “How that poor Mrs, Rangle puts up with that man T can't see And here Mrs, Jarr gave a sigh as testimony to the woos of Mrs, Rangle. 5 “Never you mind! Shall we see if | up @ Ittle party to go out together, or not?" asked Mr. Jarr, said we cain got of preserving it forever. The thing is very practicable, Noth Meg hcee tose ey pa clipaded ing {8 wanting to make it succeed except the consent of Europe verte eae y sige Mi you Seah and some other bagatellos of that kind WERE coast “Wall ite inialn tek Which is about the case to-day seen it has already palled upon you —you want to go out!" iiittiitiad cnteieiamna “I don’t want you to go out if you Take a Staten Island ferry boat some evening and see Li erty in a new light, It's worth while T, ‘ ii ne _ | To-Day’s Anniversary | Hits From '§ hs arp Wi its LEXANDER DUMAS died at Some girls are born to the 1 ould disjos canary and keep PATA HAE SMOEPS: SERERY «Oi and others acquire beauty so) parlorcn dd ilwautes years ago to-day, Dumas was Blade. the creator of a Mow type of fletion, . 8 6 oe and he has had a host of imitators Automobiles are being used hould eat a lot in order to| and followers, but he remain ioe great extent in war now, but y A tew | On bab naing the hardly be said that they clothes would hy (oe wcknowledged master of that school placed the horse in the 8 (Ga.) Enquire: of romance-writing which 1s charac of the service,—Colun . 8 terized by vigorous action and the State. A who me ep his) glamor of life and adventure among Ares pron ni freelys—| the courts and battlefields of Europe, Those who shift the blame to oth rm ae easive Kenerations have been pt to have a shifty: Aw gor ; held under the spell of bis genius, News Tae r romance, there are few, if Str John Rushworth Jellicoe, who ‘iene any flonenenty on Monday morn- has juet been made First Sea’ Lord te, tool unconcorned when the tells) Cigaks are golng up. No more tho| was born Duc. 6, 1859, the aon of sleep—Mernphis Commerc A Fea | ee ereauartor’ (buy. But thank | Capt, J, H, Jellicoe, It is highly prob- ppenl. | gocdneas the “three-for-nickel” weeda| able that Sit Jone Will Cron ee tenn ‘With oss a Present Onan, people samo old rank.-Milwaukee News, are at the same old price and of the of Lords, Copsriaht, 1910, by | SCENE: On the way to «garage moral (Pop and Ma, bu sralaiig Arona a ng that looks 8 Gen of motor rags "Ma suet Prlouay hike @ flask) A (energetically) looking for the that people don't come in your lap. You're what I'd call few troubl » enough agony selling, your ¢ used car two years ago without offer-| formed; Pop bids them walt wht ing to orm the same sad service] he goes up and brings the scow down for a frlend? from the second floor.) Pop (in his own defense)—Well,| Man (pleasantly)——1 do hope this what are you going to do when a fel- | car will prove to be the one I'm look- low “asks you and you know ho's} ing for, hard up and—— Ma (with cardiac depression) —I'm Ma (with scorn)—Hard up! you sell it Piesheussnacapliar ahve mote: that what John Gray did to you? out and buy Pop (objecting weakly) do it to me; anyway he was always slippery; Jack Porkins i849 honest as the When he sys he's hard up, he's hard olng to buy This fellow I've up you t Te another car at all. got to go out In it torday with us a pretty slick guy though; sure 1 ¢ Ma (he that? When Pop (briefly)-i've all, But I made up se about it and color for his benefit Ma (searehingly)- seen the no good? Pop (slinply)—Did you ever see car that you were another fellow any good? worse than the one the is trying to sell you, all those newfangled adjust it too; I'll bet they're ax tang a bunch of spaghettl, 1 isn't ney other | the fireworks! Pop’s Mutual Motor Alma Woodward __ hi You're always! and put pdness, didn't you And 1 it for him—it Isn't | din't he did it to himself, and but I'm not so n slip anything over on him, | Is it as bad 4 ‘as all) brakes)—I4 1 pages full| susp iustrated ‘em in full] -If you've never| car how do you know It's trying to sell for I's usually low This thing's got nts on ed up as can seo the war to take A seat in the House | whore I got off when I try to display ° wy York Evening World) Ma (suddenly)—Isn’'t that your ead standing in front of the ga- fr! rage? op (nervously)—He may be my friend now, but he won't be when we return with our jlu-jitsu jitney, Goxh, I have a hunch that that bus ig suffering from complication, of diseases due to middie age. But here @] goes! (Pop and Ma reach the garage troductions and greetings sure it will be Pop (appearing on the scene)—It's Hop In, folks, 1| running like a breeze! (The demonstration is on. Captious Pop displays an overfondness for level streets paved with asphalt. The pros- pect clamora for ruts, hills, sand, mud and other tourist's trials.) Ma (trying to cover the first hill with ehatter)~-Only ‘Turner could have painted this day in tts true color- ing! Man (with delight) vutifully, doesn’t It? Pop (anticipating: trouble "s take a ch is It takes a hill with the nee and have hu 4 descent, No Dtake her—I'm lous of second-hand brakes, (The brakes work wonderfully, Later, on a slimy road, she doesn't show the suspicion of a skid, and when they strike a deeply rutted road the car travels straight as a die—not the | fraction of an inch deviation.) Man (when they are homeward & real shoot- Man (shortly) bound)—Well, Mr, Mitt, I don't know how I can ever thank you for having led me into this bargain, and now—— Pop (interrupting, feverishly)—Ha, ha! Good one on you, old top. Little Joke of mine, Wanted your opinion. Going to buy this bus myself! Ma (aghast)—Why, Milton! together, Mrs, Jarr and Mr, Jarr in to restaurant they should go to, and Mr. and Mrs. Rangle quarrelling an argument with each other what over half a dozen different things. “I'm so cold," said Mrs, Rangle turning to Mrs, Jarr, “I drank a glass water before coming out, I I must have some of tee want some soup. good hot soup to warm me.” So when they reached the restau- After finishing she sald that she felt better rant Mrs. Rangle had soup, and couldn't eat another single thing, And she didn't until the dessert, when she took a plate of ice cream and departed for the theatre with chat- jor, if you wish to get one free, sub- tering teeth. Atthe theatre door Mr. Jarr handed the two seats in O to Mr. Rangle and | they parted under toe direction o Gifferent ushers, ‘The seats in F were nearer side aisle behind a post, O were on the centre aisle, with a clear, full view. It ‘spoiled Mrs, Jarr’s evening, #0, she spoiled Mr. Jarr's with | re-| proaches, As ‘for the Rangles, they fought in whispers all through tho play because Mr. Rangle claimed that his wife shivered so it distracted hi attention from the drama, which was| P about a married couple fondly united | P at last after a foolish misunderstand, Ing that had blighted their lives for years the} stage, but, alas! they were on a far | The seats in| What Every Woman Does By Helen Rowland 4 Coprright, 1016, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Breaing World) ‘OULDN’T it be perfectly glorious 5 W If some kind angel with a human heart Should flutter down to earth and whisper in each woman's ear: “rll tell you what to buy HIM for Christmas! Listen!” And you wouldn't spend days and days trying to pry it out of Him, And night® and nights lying awake, wondering about it. You wouldn't lessly, Through miles and mil wandering, wild-eyed and efm- of “Gentlemen's Furuish- wenn 8 Staring at things, and fingering things, and picking up things, Until they put the store detective to following you! You wouldn't start out looking for modest brown camel's hair smok- ing-coats, And finish by almost buying @ delirium-:remens silk thing that woul@ mako him hate you forever, silk mufflors and scarfs and hostery, In the mad, mad desire to give Him something with the “personal touch,” And then suddenly back away, with a cold shiver down your spine, For fear he might consider it TOO personal, and too “touching!” You wouldn't spend twenty minutes looking at imported “sticks,” . » And then vaguely recolloct that “Duffer” was his name for any man who carries @ cane, And rush madly away, and blindly buy him a moerscham pipe, And tako it back and exchange It for a chafing-dish, Or a smoking sot, or a pair of sleove-links, or a cellarette! And take THAT back and exchange it Yor a samovar, or a cocktall- shaker, Or a purple velvot bath-robe, or @ tea-caddy! And tako THAT back—— And got your money, and go right up to the third-floor with it, And buy YOURSELF A real laco boudotr-cap, with pink satin roses on it, And a pair of embroidered mules! And lot it go at that! But, since thore {s no kind angel with a human heart To flutter down from heaven, and reveal the workings of the mas culine mind; And since every man says, thing!" When you ask him about It, . And then acts and feels like an Early Martyr, if he is forgotten om * Christmas morning, The only way out of It all, dearies, Is to marry him! And then, when Christmas comes, You can simply give him a kiss, and a kind word, and some hot waffles, And a par of portierres, or a boudoir lamp for your dressing-table, And he will be perfectly happy-—— Until the bill comes int! ~ Ellabelle Mae Doolittle: By Bide Dudley ‘ a pyright, 2016, ‘The Now York Evening World), LISHA Q, FE TLE, editor okt hls phase of her talent nicely. Here the Dethi Bazoo, announced in Thursday's issue of his paper that he had arranged with Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted poetess, to publish a volume of her rhymes under the title of Wonderful Poems of . | a Girl Wonder.” “Delhi,” wrote Editor Pertle in his announcement, proud of Ellabelle Mne Doolittle, She writes poems such as Lord Byron never could have writ- ten. Sho is a genius of the first water] Miss Doolittle includes in the book @ —yea, a whole lake of the first water rh yme about Delhi. Editor Pertle mand we are honored to. ¢bink that] con® Copecmy Stiegtion ic same one, | ° and suggests that every loyal citizen |she has permitted us to be her pub-| obtain a copy of the book and learm Press Publishing Co. RY For me, alas tor'e chil As a compliment to her home 4 lisher, The books will sell for 25 centa,| the poem by heart in order to recite it when called on for speeches, in other cities, The rhyme ts called “All | scribe to the Bazoo and we will throw Our Own Delhi.” It foltows one in, Now ts the time to subscribe. Miss Doolittle has written a fitting f | introduction in rhyme to her work, It | follows: 1 hop hiy Little book of verse "We dhoot praise with: deudly alsa, You are the flowor of the State, ‘And nobody can deny it; 11d tke ‘to “hear some poor’ boot - part the anal ty it we tay colored Lane ‘Sa aluit Guiect baniog a Hest, In the volume Miss Doolittle has run Th {| the gantlet of her emotions. s|are poems that will make you ems that Will make you laugh ar that will make you marve | At word painting she shows herself to be a wonderful thing. Vor instance, “To a Meadow Lark" will_put forth titor Pertle complimented Doolittle on the Delhi rhy blushed and held up one hi It is for our Delhi," was every word she sald, All were ple TELESCOPE weighing fitty-five tons and having an observation tube thirty-one feet long ro- cently has been installed at the Goy observatory, It is the greatest instrument of its kind in the world, ernment astronomical Victoria, Canada, and astronomers expect to make tm. portant new discoveries by Its aid. The giant telescope ts of the re- flecting type and has a mirror | place of a lens for con is 12 inches thick at the edges, weigh ing two and a quarter tona, All of the parts of the telescope ar cloctrically operated, and the installa tion of the instrument provided a del feate engincering problem, This latest achievement In the ad vancement of astronomy calls to mind that the origin of the telescope Is a lost chapter in history, Vitello, a Polish sctentist who flour. ished about 1275, speaks of the magni bility of objects when viewed through A segment of a sphere of glass, while Roger Bacon In his Opus Majus tolls of experiinents made with lenses in such @ way that objects seen through them would seem to be magnified, which leaves little doubt that mpec- tacles were actually in use in those days, Still other authorities, notably Petey Borellles in bis work “De Vero Tel- i ‘acting lght rays and revealing distant planets, This mirror measures 73 inches and always the first to receive informa. tlon of any development in sclentifi research, no sooner heard from & a man savant of the new magnify- ne Instrument, than }to Improve upon it. hoot toma The telescopes constru - lileo consisted of one content Feet sings and one concave ey: which were placed at the Jot a metal tube, the first of these magnifying the height an objects three times. Later ane duced @ telescope which mi eight times, and about five years ther along produced a telescope with the power of magnifying objects “bout thirty times larger ‘than they appear to the unassiated eye, But it was not until 1674 that Dr. Hooke perfected the first reflecting telescope in which the spectrum was perforated so that objects could he viewed by looking directly at them. So through the year of 1777 the tal- escope in the hands of successive as- tronomers and opticians contained many changes and improvements un. til in 1783 William Herschel began the construction of a spectrum ip charester and forty feet in » the observer bel laced seat near the other nd ct the tube ) escopli Inventori,” award credit to Zachariah Jans or Jansen and Han. Lappre: opticians and spectacle makers livin, at Middleburg, Holland, It | the tube told how about the year 1610. thees| ayatem of eo chases th the two enterprising scientists having In-| ercope, completed in 1789, oblate ie vonted the telescope presented one to Prince Matfrico of Nassau, Porta | Galileo, who by reason of bis even world-wide led 6500 times, and o d after tt was fini a te We 4 cove! Horschel eminence, ‘was Sotcre: n° "xth satellite of the planet e n| then And then you would KNOW! >» ings,” » ¥ You wouldn't keep a tired clerk three-quarters of an hour pulling out ” Or a pair of book-cnds, or o bust of Dante, or a set of O. Henry, fy a “Oh, bless your soul, I don’t wane, P