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axe _ unpopular, * pide to the City Hall. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily xcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to » New York. RALPHL PULITZE: President, 63 Park Row. ) J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. at New York as Second-Ciass Matter, Evening |For Ineland and the Continent and Countels n the International $6.00; One Year, .60/One Month. VOLUME 58........sccccreccccccescccecseesess NO, 20,405 THE TIGER’S NEW STRIPE. AMMANY’S declaration for government ownorship of public Y utilities as the issue of this year’s Mayoralty campaign is sinister or amusing, according to the way you look at it. To regard such a conversion seriously as an evidence of sincerity or faith ds ecarcely possible. Corporations loom large in the serious picture, and the comedy feel presents a close up of William R. Hearst in the dual political role of “For and Against Tammany.” There is no longer big money for financiers and speculators in operating atreet railways, gas and electric companies as business prop- ositions. The real rake-off used to be in franchise grabbing, manipu- lating securities and giving the public rotten service. That game is getting pretty well played out. It would be difficult Yo repeat Ryan’s feat of running bankrupt Metropolitan Street Rail- fay up to $262 a share or Roswell P. Flower’s pyramiding of B. R. T. to scandalously inflated figures. Government control over security issues and Public Service Commission regulation of rates have gummed the cards for the combination of politics and business in utility cor- porations, Plucking the public in the old way is euch risky business and the pickings are 6o small that a new Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford game is necessary. Here we have it nicely done up in a pro bono publico package and tagged with government ownership label. ‘What richer deal could be put through than selling to the elty government public service corporations,topheary with bo: and water-logged with stock? In former days these securities were unloaded on that part of the public that ventured into Wall Street. Now nothing would be more profitable than t selling the old original looted hulk to the whole public, * But to make the scheme really profitable it is necessary to have some friendly administration in the City Hall, demanding government ownership of utilities immediately for the public welfare, and, because an emergency exists, ready to accept inflated appraisals and pay war prices, : The city already owns the subway systems, so they cannot be included in Tammany’s programme. There remain of private owned transit lines the surface and elevated companies. The surface lines are shattered wrecks, victims of loot and mismanagement. The ele- vateds are still fairly profitable, but rapidly becoming obsolete and ny Their principal value lies in franchises, mostly granted in the days of Tammany rule, running back to the time of Boss Tweed and reaching climax in Jake Sharp’s brazen bribing through the Broad- way franchise. New York may be a nine day town, as Big Tim Sullivan was wont ‘to say, but there are still citizens with memories and knowledge of municipal history who can smile at this latest declaration of Mammany: “We oppose the further granting of franchises for public utilities, The prodigality with which these public assets in the past have been given or bartered away for inadequate con- sideration explains the penury of New York City.” No one will dispute this indictment, nor is there much doubt in Bhe public mind who should be indicted. Even the subway contracts, which at their worst are infinitely better than any of the surface and gdevated franchises, were negotiated under Tammany administrations. ! ‘And now we come to the lighter side of the picture, where we can sit back and enjoy ourselves with that form of harmless diversion own as hot weather politics. | Government ownership of public utilities is not new with Tam- in 1917. It long has been the favorite “flivver” for William Hearst in both political and journalistic excursions. The puzzle fo-day is whether Tammany is trying to steal this issue from Mr. learst or is cranking up the flivver for him to give the Tiger a joy In the Mayoralty campaign of 1905 George B. McClellan was Wemmany’s candidate for re-election. William M. Ivins ran on the fegular Republican ticket. Mr, Hearst entered tho lists as candidate of the Municipal Ownership League. According to the official count he lost the election to McClellan by only 8,478 votes, and the cry of fraud still rumbles occasionally. Tammany and Murphy and all the district leaders denounced Bearst and government ownership in 1905. One year later Grady did| the “dirtiest day’s work of my life” at the Buffalo convention, nomi- nating Hearst for Governor on the Democratic-Tammany ticket. Only one year was required to accept the candidate, but it has taken twelve years for the Tiger to acquire the stripe of municipal ownership. Doubtless there’s a reason. _—_-+-—___ “The most democratic girl in America” was the {ntroduction of Miss Margaret Wilson to the people of New York as she presided over ‘The Evening World's Americanization Forum. While President Wilson Is fight- ing to make the whole world safe for democracy, Miss Wilson ts striving for the sume object among the masses of the metropolis, Fortunate father to have such a daughter; happy daughter to have go great a father! ————<¢=_____. Along the boulevards of Paris, around the Place de la Concorde and up the Avenue Champs Elysee, the pathway of kings and conquerors, American soldiers will march to-morrow. ‘Their reception unquestionably will be a triumph. Now the Fourth of July will have a new and a real meaning to the Old World, The Declaration of Indepeudence that a hand- ful of men made in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, has become the Magna Charta of democracy and liberty for all the world —s ussia's Reply _Fvening World Daily - Ylaga Zine eee isting om, hy (The New York Evening World.) R Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Coorridht. 1917. by the Frees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), LATONIO friendship: That in which most true love affairs begin, and in which most happy marriages end. The gods must love summer flirtations—they die @o young. You never know how simple and easy a thing housekeeping is until you hear some man outlining a perfectly lovely solution of the food and servant prob- lems—of which all the harrowing, working details are left to his wife, of course, To be @ really successful wife a woman must be able to think in clear, logical, philosophical terms while she chatters baby talk. A man may have heart enough to love more than one woman at @ time, but unless he is a fatalist he should have brains enough not to try. Once in a while you meet a girl who knows just exactly whom she wants to marry, but you'd never guess it from the way in which all her friends insist on giving her free advice on the subject. A man never can understand why a woman will deck herself out like an electric display and then act offended if he turns around to stare at her, Dear Me! No nice girl wants a man to stare at her; she only wants him to WANT to, There will be a lot more sweetness and light in matrimony when & man learns how to drive home a polnt in an argument without hitting his wife's vanity, A woman yearns to be {dealized, but a man wants a wife who will take him “as is"—in short, who will accept him as a “mere man” and let bim go right on being “mere.” [ To-Day'’s Anniversary only reminder of war oken hulks still bear ts a ns sticking into the alr, hich still defles the elements aboard the Viscaya, It was during the Battle of Santiago that Capt, Philip of the Texas, mindful that a gallant foo wa death, sald to his saflo’ WO battered masses of rusty fron rising out of the sea off the Cuban coast, near the vil- lage of Juan Gonzales, are memorials of the victory of the American fleet under command of Admiral Bampson The first steel ship of the new merchant marine has been laid down @t Oakland, Cal. Despite the boastings of the East there seems to be more Practical patriotism on the Pacific Coast, where greed for private plunder has not held up Government plans and national welfare as on the Atlantic Coast Thank foriune you can't conserve a further than the truth, br ina , Times the freight.—<« Aid Wes aa ; 4 A grout thinker may be a thought-| ‘The grocer raises the ) , Ne prices because fess cort of person.—Columbia (8. C.)|the wholesaler d the wholesaler Biate. because the pri ox, the pro- . 9. ducer because. 1 account of the %t is sald that @ Ue will go much| war,—Milwaukee News, lon July 3, 1898. The ruins off the A boys. The poor devils Cuban coast are the remains of Ad-|are dying. miral Cervera’s flagship Viscaya and a the cruiser Almirante Oquendo. FIFTY-ONE-MILE TUNNEL LAT- After crossing the ocean the Span- EST WONDER, ish warships, consisting of four, FEW months ago France dupli-| cruisers and several torpedo boats, cated her remarkable en- sineering feats along the breast- Works of Verdun with an equally great achievement through the peace- eought refuge tn the harbor of San- tiago, The imminent capture of that city by the American forces under |Gen, Shafter compelled Adiniral Cor- | ful bills of Rove, A tunnel seventy- jVera to attempt to escape with his | two feat wide, fifty-two feet high and ships, an attempt which was de-|four and one-half miles long—larger feated. |(han any other in the world—was Viseaya and the A eicompleted, says Popular Science Oquendo were sunk af being Monthly, ‘This spacious tunnel, the shattered by shells e ct of result of twelve years’ planning and raising them has been brought up) labor, is part of @ great canal ays- several times, It was found, how-| tem which will, in the near futur ever, t the condition of the vessels | connect the network of the canals of was h that salvaging them would| France with the Mediterranean Bea. be useless. So for nineteen years the The system wil i |weas have been allowed to batter long, ? nee BOY Sa: Bue Copyright, 1017, by Ta (The New York Bening World.) 66AJO, children!” Mr. Jarr heard N his good lady say in hei best motherly tones, “you CANNOT have fire crackers, but can have something just as goo! “Graham orackers, soda crackers, nut crackers?” suggested Mr, Jarr softly. “Fire crackers are dangerous, they are against the law’-—— But Mrs. Jarr got no further, for the children commenced to weep and wall. “By George! I think half the world wants to murder the other half, and the other half wants to take the joy of living out of the other half,” sald Mr. Jarr, do a few firecrackers do? Why, when I was a boy"— | “Now don't encourage the children, please! said Mrs, Jarr, “It is against the law, and that is suf- ficient.” “It isn't auMcient, or rather it Is more than sufficient,” objected Mr Jarr, “Here they ars ¢ ‘ng to . law that a man can’t have a glass ot beer’ “And a very good thing,” sald Mrs pass Jarr, “It should have been done long ago. Many families will be better oft." “I can't see It," sald Mr. Jarr, whose | tendencies were extremely Mberal “The whole world was getting more temperate, not by law but by coma |wense and education, There has b very little bard drinking of recent years, It is not condoned in busine or woclety any more, And they can} pass all the laws they want to, but n they never passed a law yet that pre- | |vented a weakling obtaining stimu }lants when he wanted them, ‘They | will make thelr own @, they will} drink patent medicines, they will | drink ossences, they will even recover | the wood alcoho] out of varnish and drink it. I know, I have lived in| prohibition places.” | » grain used can go into bread | jand flour and will be cheaper,” said | Mrs, Jarr. | | “Nothing will be cheaper,” said Mr. | Jarr. “Beer, to instance, is made or matt, hops and rice. What will be come of the people who raise and di in barley, hops and rice—tt who make and sell and handle mait from barley’ “They can work at some said Mrs, Jur. 8 tobacco, too, Thousands of acres of rs, thing else, nd are tobacco cu Ire that given over to might be used to raise grain and vege- tables." “But it's land that may not be suited for anything else but tobacco,’ 1 i Mr, Jarr, "dt everybody! “What harm | of the U. S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune Coornaht. 1917, by the I'ress Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World). NO. 21—ESEK HOPKINS; Our Country's First Admiral. la HH was our country’s first “Admiral,” at a time when the rank of Admiral did not officially exist. : He was Esek Hopkins, a crochety, heroic old Rhode Islander, And he was nearly sixty before ever he entered the navy, He stayed there just long enough to win renown by his prowess and to get into all sorts of trouble with everybody. F He came of a Puritan family, from Scituate, R. Iy and he spent the first half of his life alternately as @ eailor and as a local politician. When the Revolue tion began in 1776 Hopkins was fifty-seven years old, He was by this time a power in his own little colony, 60 Rhode Island duly commissioned him a Brigadier. General of Volunteers. But before he was fairly settled in his new life as @ soldier, Congress appointed him “Commandemim Chief of the United States Navy,” with the courtesy title of Admiral. Our whole navy just then was made up of eight com verted merchant ships. of the entire U. 8, Navy (a squadron of four ships and threo sloops) he set forth on a cruise in south- ern waters. Of his eighteen officers, eight were his fellow Rhode Islanders, Paul Jones, by the way, went along as lieutenant aboard Hopkins’s flagship, the Alfred, Captains Whipple and Biddle commanded two of the fleet's ix other vessels, It was our navy's first cruise, Down upon the Bahama Islands swooped Hopkine's little flotilla, The old Admiral was not out for glory or for exercise. He knew our country’s dire need of arms and ammunition and provisions. These he resolved to get, and not merely to win a name for spectacular exploits. ‘Therefore he sailed for New Providence, in the Bahamas, where there were forts which upply bases for the Britii These forts he captured in a rush, after which he loaded his own fleet with the stores he seized. Among other valuables, the loot from the New Providence forts consisted of eighty cannon, an abundance of powder and shot, many hua- dred pounds of food and a goodly stock of clothing, &c, Such a haul was worth more to our ill-equipped infant nation than the mere renown to be gained by a dozen sea victories, Back north sailed Hopkins with his captured supplies. Off Block Island he sighted two British warships—the schooner Hawke and the “bomb-brig” Bolton, Between them these two craft carried thirty-four big guns, Both were laden with stores and munitions, After hot fight, which Paul Jones very vividly describes in one of his letters, Hopkins forced the British warships to surrender, One would imagine that Hopkins had done enough in one cruise to deserve his country’s gratitude. But a single failure will undo @ year f Sicceog Fira f of success. Scarcely had Hopkins received the offi- Bee In January, 1776, Hopkins hoisted his flag as The U.S. Navy's Admiral of this makeshift fleet. With seven-eighths First Cruis Success First, cial thanks of Congress when with three of his little j Then Failure. vessels he encountered ‘the twenty-nine gun British panmnnnnnnnnnnn® man-of-war Glasgow. The Glasgow was outfought and badly beaten, But somehow she made her escape. ‘At once the public's praise of Hopkins's crulse shifted to howls of blame for his supposed carelessness in letting the Glasgow get away. Hopkins fiercely resented such censure, Congress took a hand in rebuking him, and there was Sll-feeling all around. Hopkins continued to do valiant service in the navy, but he was under more or less of a cloud. Presently he was summoned before a Congress Committee to face charges of negligence. John Adams (later President of the United States) defended the gallant old fellow, and Hopkins was acquitted, But the charges rankled. One misunderstanding followed another. Hopkins had no intention of submitting to injustice, His defiance stirred up new strife. He was summoned again in 1777 to appear before Congress, He refused to obey, and Congress dismissed him from the navy. Hopkins heard in advance that he was to be dismissed, So he used up the last of his authority in degrading from rank @ group of officers whom he found working against him and in behalf of his#-Congressional enemies, ‘The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell n it will not help matte 1 am satisfied,” said Mrs, “I do not drink beer or smoke Everybody will be better off if men stop using those things, too. And if they won't stop unless there is 1 law against making beer and rais- ing tobacco, let us have such @ law. It will do the country good.” “Lt will, will it?” said Mr, Jarr, “We Will be taxed more on everything we at and drink that ts moral, and all we wear that is moral—I suppose clothes dre moral—but I have seen some dresses—but never mind,” “ never mind,” retorted Mrs. Perhaps When we have pro- Jarr, tobacco. Jarr hibition, brewers’ wives and daugh- ers and tobacco millionalres’ wives ind daughters won't have all the fine thes they have the pe now, wives and daug ‘ple will have the:n “I'm not worrying half as much as m everybody else 1s worrying,” replied Mr. “And a lot and perhaps ers of other Jarre, of | How Business Efficiency [fee hides Barrett worrying ple who make bottles and glassware are worrying, people who make labels and bottle caps are worrying, people who make wagons and barrels and boxes and automobile trucks are ple AL 4 \Smali Dealer Learns From Big worrying, people who furnish a thou- sand thing: to the beer trade are worrying—tarmers are worrying who use the spent grain for cattle food, and you mark what I tell you, It won't stop the hard drinker from etting intoxicants.” sell it will worry them a lot,” said Mrs, Jarr. “Anyway, this is & free country, and if We want to have prohibition we will have it, So It is with fireworks, you can do with- out beer and the children can do without fireworks.” “Never mind, children,” sald Mr. Jarr, feelingly. “We will have @ glorious Fourth of July, anyway. + Apa will make you some home-made firecrackers out of baking powder Store Methods, 66] ts a mistake for the emall dealer to assume that the radl- cal improvements inaugurated by the great department stores and: factories during the past few years are applicable only to large organisa- tion id the proprietor of a small but highly profitable retail store, “By studying the modern methods evolved by skilled specialists and ap- plying thei to his own little business, he can 6reatly increase his profits, “For example: Employment man- agers select promising timber from applicants for jobs by a series of searching tests designed to disclose the candidates’ mental equipment. Merely because a man’s payroll oon- and macaroni—near firecrackers!" But Mrs. Jarr declared she wouldn't permit it. to Dry Fruits and Vegetables in the Home Kitchen. sists of but half a dozen names, it does not follow that he can afford to be less critical and ecientific in his selective methods, The second of a series of artte from Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, who has been making a thorough investigation of methods of drying fruits and will be published on the HOME Evening World three days each week. vegetables. Subsequent articles PAGE of The Apparatus for Drying Fruits and Vegetables. by the Preas Putlisbine Co, Conrright 1917 Sophie Irene Leob. yin, f frults and vegetables in the sun {8 a simple process tf they have been prepared proper- | ly form such dry- ing consists in spreading the freshly prepared slices or pleces on sheets of paper, or, if there is dan- wer of the prod- ucts sticking, rei reac on old wiz indocag Ee rs muslin held down with ston , ys are chosen Hirleht, hot, sunny da for t work, and @ ¢ watch is ke no rain or dew wets the luc. t nd other Insects are aby mosquito bar is thrown over yduct. Once or twice @ are etirred or turned hand, and the thin ones taken out, Sun + h to recommend tt, { venditure of 5 unger of the Peust, however, gathers on the prode uct, and, unless it 18 protected care- fully, fies and especially certain. ins sects which habitually attack dried fruits will lay their eggs upon ft, W&eso cous later will hatch out, and which rises during the cooking hour, 1 In its simplest | “Again, 4 slow turnover in a small store is exactly as serious a drawback to success as in @ large one. Cautious buying, plus competent stock keeping, |plus a good volume-speedy turnover. The principles which yield this result are exactly the sume in the small as ih ne large store. But there's a vast ‘erence in the degree of ° |erted by the two types biticla “SU further, a scientitio syste: payment is quite as important ‘inte case of the small dealer with | @ halt. dozen clerks as in the case of the great department store. But in the ‘3 based upon information secured (The New York Evening World) | the worms or larvae will riddle the | dried fruits or vegetables, rendering them unfit for the table. ptyults and vegetables when dried in the sun generally are spread on|&Te large trays of uniform sige, so con- {former Instance one seldom sees ups structed that they can be stacked one |t0-date plans applied, while in the on top of the other and protected | /@ttr the subject is carefully studied, from rain by means of a cover made| A bonus system acta equally effecs of ollcloth, canvas or roofing paper. | UV¢lY Upon @ sinall as upon @ large A very cheap tray can be made of | 8TOUP: strips of lumber three-fourths of an| 4, h hen, too. the small dealers win. Inch thick and two inches wide, which | 408 are to him quite as vital @ form the sides and ends, and lath | DelP as the Fitth Avenue frontage of which 1s nailed on to form the bot- | th? big store is to its proprietor, But pos how much more thought and gil atte, Space one-eighth inch wide should | 4*, Tule, exerted in the latter case be left between the laths for ventila- | odern efficiency methods have ton, and the trays can be raised off) Wrought revolutionary changes in the the ground by placing them on poles |COMduct of the large stores and of thi Oran lreecelael tis |great chalns, And all thie informa’ As laths are four feet long, these | tion Is easily accessible for any lath trays are most economical of | sufficiently enterprising to seek #t. material when made four feet in| The averaxe mall dealer, howewer leneth |thinks it all impracticable theorising’ Better, but more expensive trays| Which 18 one reason why retailing te, can be inade by substituting galvan-|*% ® Whole, a parasitic Industry, ‘Phat {zed wire screen, one-eighth or one- |!8 to Say, More money Is lost annual: quarter inch mesh, for the laths, in| in retailing than 1# made,” ” which case the moat economical ize oe would depend upon t d e | Wire screen obtainable, “7 Of te | HOW TO INCREASE A cheap and very satisfactory drier for use over the kitchen stove can be! made by any handy boy or carpenter | from a small amount of small mesh| galvanized wire netting and a number of laths or strips of wood about one. A LANTERN’ LIGHT, An's RAILROAD brakeman who had an unusually bright light in his lantern explained that ft was due to the care given the half inch thick and two Inches wide, |S#ys Popular Mechanics, He cut » This form oF any of the lighter |small notch at the ventre of the makes of driers cun be suspended of the wick, ciusing the flame te hag from ‘the ceiling over the kitchen |# f 4 outline at its top. bd range or over the oll, gasoline or gas| _T gave relatively ve, and it will utilize the hot airithan the flame from @. wis ibt square across,