The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1917, Page 10

LETTE CAB EXTORTION AT NEW YORK TERMINALS. 1 mort Sow Torkers and visitors te Mew Tork contings te be made the victims of cab graft at ratireed and ferry terminals! Thie city now has @ temieab ordinance under which thousands of inepe ted and licensed tanieabs serve the public at fixed maximum rates. Protection for passengers te secured by municipal Pegulation and » vision. Bo greatly the business of providing public taxicab service thrived and increased during the past four years under this ordinance that taicab operators are now found juntarily reducing rates below the legal maximum, sure of additional patronage that will add) to profits. The old private stand abuse, whereby hotels attempted to restrict the use of public streets in front of their properties to favored taxicab companies, the latter dividing with the hotel men profite gained by charging the public exorbitant rates, le now « thing of the past. Yet, under the private property plea, the big railroads are still permitted to hustle persons arriving at their terminals in this city into meterless cabs, the rates for which, determined by “zones,” are paid in advance to a starter. These cabs are not taxicabs operated on rate schedules restricted by the taxicab ordinance. They are run, by companies who maintain a private service through the favor of the railroad corporations The result, from the public's point of view, is the most shameless extortion. For example: Two persons arriving at the Pennsylvania Station enter a cab of the only sort permitted by this railroad to take passen- gers from its terminal premises. The starter demands $1.10 (!) for a trip from the Pennsylvania Station to the corner of Fourth Avenue and Twentieth Street. If the travellers are strangers in the city they may hand over the $1.10. If they have had enough experience in getting about New York to know better, they promptly descend from the cab, mount to the street, and there, just outside the station, take a regularly licensed taxicab bearing a meter which, when they arrive at Fourth Avenue, and Twentieth Street, registers just 60 cents. At the two great railroad terminals of the city, the Pennsylvania | and the Grand Central—to aay nothing of ferries—the incoming public is required cither to take meterless cabs and pay the fares the e@tarters ask or leave the railroad premises and find taxicabs as best | it may in the streets. | It would be interesting to know how many people requiring cabs each hour at the Grand Central and the Pennsylvania either turn| with indignation from the demands of the starter or ignore him at| the outset from past experience and take their way to the outer! sidewalk to find taxis. Is a railroad station where tens of thousands of persons arrive in Phe city daily private property in a sense that permits the railroad delib- erately to exclude the public from the benefits of city Hcenged taxicabs at Jogal rates in order that it may share the profits a privileged cab company makes out of exorbitant charges! It is time,this question had a thorough overhauling in the inter- est of a city now convinced that good taxi service, cheap taxi service | and safe taxi service under municipal regulation is no dream but an | Goldbeaters World’s Best | | Workmen | — - H ow I He l p ed M y Husb an d 4 She Served Meals to AST year my husband had a long sickness ihat used up nearly all the money we pos- Summer Cottagers. three miles away and very expensive so I decided to try and make a living for myself ‘and family by selling din- |sauce, and coffee. ,1 set four tables, two in the living room and two on had to set them twice over and had the piazza, but so many came that * B coemnae BETRRDAY. oe moved! And HE come home. carly “Te beip! Ande Ae “Great scot AA Cone “1 wae NOT @ “Well “It's botier tha 8 eLick, and the shades And I said “1 don't know, Dear.” 9 And managed to open And started the electric And he had had his dinner, and He sank down into the morris “IT couldn't But, I think And at Verdun And anyw That 1s just the way If Germany wins He'll say “Me undt Gott" did it! credit, at all, then.) But, if Germany loses Or something like that, ‘They always have an ALIBI! The dears! ‘The Jar _By Roy L ‘“ HAT’S that you got?” asked W Jenkins, the bookkeeper, noting Mr. Jarr had re- celved In bis mall an offctal looking envelope. “It's um—er, a speech made in Con- gress by the Hon, John Tilson of Con- necticut, a friend of mine,” replied Mr, tation being caused by vor to find what was in the envelope before he answered. The ** Kaiser’ Helen Rowland ee Pome Pecan Oe And. after be bed broken two of ue bivebie cupe ” Abd gotten the electric fee ov! of commusion led ink on my fe And caught bi fingers under ‘ And dropped the bu done & lot of other iefied where we were? aye kicking about What did you pick out # place future punishment “Bay! How the deuce DID you come t tte re be und cover of Deote beiptus binge hy on es in! you be eet good enough tor MI ke THIS for, and the pelot iont dry yet, om@ wont work, aud I found a fly iw the pick it ov ew And, when we had gotten all the furniture piaceu Nl the windows, nb going, somehow, And lit a cigar, and poured himself something cold to drink And said, with a long sigh of contentment "Goe! I'm glad we're out of that hole! © lived there a day longer! Say, this is a peach of a place, isn't {t? Dandy service! ‘Vl! tell you, 1 knew what I was doing, when I PICKED IT OUTI® “Dandy air! Dandy view! And 1 sald “Yes, Dear. You showed wonderfu ee Ab well! I kvow the feminists will call me a “slacker!” there {se ENOUGH fighting in Flanders Without MY adding to the confuston. So, let Him go right on with bis little domestic Imperialism! What do I care for “personal glory!” the Kalser will get out of it! He'll say the English “forced” him into it, Or the socialists “forced” him out of it, Copyright, 1017, by the Prem Publishieg Oo, “in the Hlouse ee a cold bath chalr, Dandy space! Judgment!” a ea (Or maybe he won't give “Gott” aay r Famil@ McCardell (The New York Evening World), Mr. Jarr affected not to hear these calumnies as he glanced through the pamphlet. “This is Congressman Tilson's cele- brated speech on the Senior Servi Corps,” he remarked plactdly, i#h to finply the subject was ene that would only appeal to his supe- rior mind Fritz of the sp d fot a glance at the title * A . h, “Re rks 01 accomplished fact, contributing to everyday comfort and convenience. OLDBEATING as an industry 18) ,. hard work to make the food hold emarks on the Bénior ed, but fortunately for us we ners to these summer people, Food as ancient and honorable as it st itz, the shipping clerk, was passing | Service Corps.” He sniffed disdain- It is time the railroads were expected to work FOR Instead of to tmbeinating and wondertal,| LA Yet Acne time a50) bile eee | Rigby bat ty Golng ine SookIbe 4 cor two T was obliged to|troush the main office, and he fully. “I shouldn't think remarks AGAINST the further broadening and cheapenin i and land were comparatively cheap, | mysels and buying supplies care! nh @ week or two paused, as he expressed it, “To get| made over a corpse would give apy- i . pealag of that service, ea mrecteed 18 nirneat aeeeuy thea little four room bungalow at the|I gaw a small profit in it at the sea-Jonlarge our piazza until It would) ay earful body w thrill this weather’? bet axel seashore that had a big piazza, Tho place was within commuting | shore, where people are fond of fis! and clams, and both of these were hold five tables. 1 got a young girl disdainfully, jown from the city to help me and “What's this Congressman Tillotson goldworkers of ancient Greece and) “I wouldn't go to the still more ancient E France Sending Idle Americans Home.—Headline. | It shouldn't be hard to have some jobs to meet them when they land here. | +: TO COMPLETE “SEND-OFF DAY.” MMEDIATE, enthusiastic response has followed The Evening World’s suggestion that Send-Off Day—planned through the efforts of this newspaper as a tribute to the soldiers of New York State when they leave for camp in the South—be rounded off with patriotic poultry and ve, table feasts, It will be no fault of the poultry dealers and the restaurant and hotel men of this city if the boys fail to go away with a memory of turkey, chicken, jelly, potatoes, fruit and so on, that will remain to cheer them until they come back. Dealers and caterers are gener- ously prepared to furnish bounteous banquet supplies without so much as a whisper about the bill. Citizens generally can enter into the spirit of the occasion by observing Send-Off Day as one of the meatless days recommended by the Federal Food Authorities. Try to entertain a soldier before he departs on the first step of his journey to the front. Give him a fine, patriotic dinner of the best home-cooked poultry and green things he is likely to get for a long time. It will be only one more way to make Send-Off Day, for those who go and for those who must’stay behind, a never-to-be-forgotten date in the city’s histor The modern General cannonades until he Jars a whole continent and brings on torrential rains, Then he becomes peevish because the torrential rains interfere with his further cannonading. Hits From Sharp Wits If appearances go for anything a) be as well off as they are. man with a wrinkled brow should phia Inquirer. know a wrinkle or two.—Deseret ie ee News. We can't all pick a harp; ot to play Philadel- AeA | You can't keep a dog in the house| \y with some men: but with that kind | of men you don't need a dog.—Bing- bamton Pres: Anybody can afford a hobby if he makes 1, work for him.—Toledo blade, ‘The scarcity of beaux at the river sauave i of suggest to the girla the “adv'sability of conserving the present supply. In other words, don't rock the canoe. Pitteburgo Gasetio-Timee, | Age rarely brings ue wisdom; about do 4 |the beat it o to teach us wery devil were given bis due|which particular brand of folly is eee Tie poor dove ot peace certainly would like to know “where she is at.” Baltimore American, . 8 8 | having been ypt Incredible aa it may seem, there are} well authenticated instances of gold} beaten down to more} than the three hundred thousandth part of an inch in thickness or thin- ness. Ordinary printing paper is some- thing more than 1,000 times thicker than the gold leaf that can be made in England to-day, For commercial purposes the leaf must, of course, have just a little more substance about it than that, but it is a striking and impressive fact that only about| five grains welght of gold is required | to make up the books that are in or- | dinary use to-day by gilders, each of the twenty-five leaves In that book being usually three and one-quarter inches square. To give a more homely illustration, the goldbeater could take a “button” of gold of the samo size and weight as & sovereign—roughly, one-quarter of an ounce—and make about twenty- five of those books of gold leaf out of it, or about 12,000 times its own size! ‘phe first process is to beat the gol in a “ehoder,” which consists of plec of specially prepared skin, with wh the inetal i# Interleaved, ‘Though the hammer used is fourteen pounds tn weight, the elasticity of the skin| causes 'a rebound which considerably es the exertion of lifting. The “shodes” during the beating | process looks rather like a pack of] cards, only @ little larg the | “eutch” into which the plec 1d already thinned out to several tines thelr original size, has much the same appearance. At this stage, howe much finer skins are used-—so fine} that the 700 or so of which the} “eutch" is co d makes a thick. | neas of less t inch. After some houra more of beating, the gold leaf is again cut, and pul between yet another book, or pack of skins known as a “mould,” The “mould” ‘is beaten on for about four hours with hammers of varying woights and sizes, according to. thi stage of the beating Goldbeating 1s a most faselnating craft to watch, and it is especially interesting when tho workman ar rives at the last stage--the transfer ring of the incredibly thin rich, yellow metal from the “mould” to the books bought by the gilders is done with a very fine pair of | or pincers, made of the lightest ly laid on a and then | delicately cut to the size of the book, with a simple-looking instrument wood with sharpened sides, known as a “wagon.” The edges of gold leaf | left over are, of course, most care fully preserved by the workman. of |preciation lies in the fact that they by his side since the war broke out. | | One might say that this was natural. but it Js not at all so he the actual power whieh his utle and rank indicate, could proclaim: Ja “Jehad" or holy war, such as the Sultan of Turkey tried unsuccessfully t0 proclaim, that would add millions of Mohammedam = foes to the enemies of the Allies, In the distance of the city, as Henry had| been obliged to go back and forth) to his work every day during the summer, To save rent we gave uP our flat in the city and went down to the beach early in the spring, and we had not been there long before I thought of a plan to make some money. The place had become very popu- lar and houses were all around and also a good distance up and down the beach. Many of these cot- tages were not conveniently arranged for cooking and I had often heard people complain because there was no restaurant or any place to get meals except the hotel, which was i|How One Man| Might Get Us (in lwo Ware: | HAT Uncle Sam's rule in the Philippines has been benefictal no | one will deny, least of all the natives who have made such progress under his tutelage. Proof of their ap- have been loyal to him and have stood | Vew people an acknowled, know that a man who 19 rd subject of the United States has the power—theoretical'y— of declaring a war which would in- yolve this country as well as Great Britain in a great Asiatic struggle, yet such is the case, The Sultan of Jolo, who owes allegience to Uncle Sam, If had tables of precedence at Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems, the Moham- medan ruler who ranks next to the Sultan of Turkey as the greatest power among the followers of the Prophet is this same Sultan of Jolo. The cou- quest of the Moros of the Philippines by Uncle Sam naturally curtailed to power of the “thrice honored” ruleg, | who, except in the spiritual affairs comparatively cheap, Vegetables and fruit were also quite reasonable, as I made arrangements with a farmer a few miles inland to deliver them to me twice a week. I notified all the nearby cottagers and put up a typwritten notice at the Post Office giving the menu for the opening night, his consisted of clam chowder, baked blue fish or cold meat loaf, potatoes, sliced toma- toes, cucumbers and lettuce salad, lov cream or bread pudding with foam ByoH. Business Efficiency ny two boys of twelve and fourteen valted on the table. I was also able to pick up quite a little money serv- ing ice cream and cake on hot after- noons. My husband {s well now, but 1am doing the same thing this year, for I started too good a business to let it drop. It ‘s bard work, but I have all day to prepare for dinner and I am making between fifteen and dollars a week above ex- which is clear profit, for the board besides this. ‘ | | pens family get their Barrett To-Morrow’s Executives. ee HE great trouble with the choo] of experience,” Henry Ford once re- marked, “is that the course 1s so long that the graduates are generally too old to go to work.” It was the gen- eral manager of a great wholesale house speaking. “That's a point I seek to impress upon the young men employed here. Too many of them do the tasks set for them faithfully and earnestly, but seem to utterly lack ahy real grasp of the business, As soon as the) walk out of the door they dismiss their Jobs from their minds and never think of them until the next morning. “Now, I want to bring forward a squad of winners here. 1 want every youngster in the place to make good. Not merely because we, ourselves, will need executives in the future, but for their own sakes. I urge our employees to profit by the other man’s experience. In other words, to read and study business literature outside thelr working hours, Between the correspondence schools, the various night courses given by local institu- tions and the vast volume of books and business magazines, there is little excuse for a man's not gaining much of newledee via short cut routes nowadays. A man who follows this policy should, by the age of thirty, be bet- ter equipped than the ‘school of ex- And it's the i here are @ lot of imps who wouldn't least barmful to us.—Chicago News, ‘Tit-Bita, his native land, has less power than policeman on his beat. | perience’ man at fifty. man who preserves (be student's at- titude toward business who will hold | tne big jobs in the future, “My son is taking @ course in busl- ness at one of the great universi- ties, Assuming that he possesses | good common sense and ordinary dil- lence, this training should be worth ten years of commercial life, He'll have that much start on the man who lacks that advantage. But the omis- h of such a course {8 not a fatal handicap. Knowledge gained by ex- | tra effort generally sticks, The young fellow who gains his educa jon in business through evening, jstudy may nose my boy out at the \ ape it somehow, somewhere, this} additional knowledge, this power of! | profiting by the other man's hard | knocks, must be acquired, Other- |wise some one possessing the extra equipment will be sitting In a pri-| | vate office, ‘in @ position,’ while the! cha who was merely content to do \\ust enough to hold his job will be Jdoing just that—‘holding ‘& Job," -Day’ | HROUGHOUT the Christian | | world there will be observ- | ances to-day of the festival of | the Transfiguration, one of the twelve licreat feasts of the church, It was instituted by Pope Calixtus 3d, in the fifteenth century, and commemo- jrates que viet of Jc }mountain apart," whe . John and James witnessed the Trani figuration, when “His face was a tered and shone as the and Hi garments became as white ag snow," Nowhere 1s the Transfi/ruration more fittingly observed “an on |w sending you his speeches for?" asked the bookkeeper, : “Tilson, T o-n," sald Mr. Jarr, spelling the name. “I told you he a personal friend of mine.” “Some pal!” remarked the shipping clerk scornfully. “Why, the jobble didn't even think enough of you to put on @ postage stamp, and what he sent you looks to me like one of them ‘Have-you-a-sick-friend? Let-me-send- lim - one - of - iny-little-books,’ stuff, which has grateful letters in it from rubes in Wisconsin who cured them- selves from fits by taking six bottles.” “It's CongreSsman ‘Tilson's printed speech,” said Mr. Jarr, “and as for there being no stamp on the envelope, Congressmen do not have to pay postage—they just frank their letters. Iimagine every ignoramus in the world except you knows that.” But Fritz, the shipping clerk, was & real American, just as good as any- body and much better; he was not at all abashed. “{ don't want any Congressman to write to me if he don’t think enough of me to put a 2-cent stamp on his letter, like a regular guy,” retorted Fritz, “Besides, 1 can't see where this Congressman should deserve any medal for having any giant's intel- lects, as the saying 1s, For why should he send you his printed speech? He's from Connecticut, and you couldn't vote for him if you nted to,” “Maybe Jarr runs up there in a filyver on Election Day and votes in the name of some dead Nutmegger,” Mount Hermon and Mount ‘Tabor, where a few of the faithful gather annually in the hope of seeing their Lord, and often go away firm in the belief that such a vision has been Vouchsafed to them, ‘Tradition at- tributes to both Hermon and Tabor, in Syria, the glory of having been the mountain chosen by Jesus for point, Western scholarship iis | , the n ern Jebel esh Philippl, to and His desciples den. cended, ts at its base, while Tabor is fifty miles away, funeral of my best enemy this weather, Listening to hot air at a |crowded funeral and passing with | friends and relatives to the right, with the thermometer’—— “It does not concern any funeral oration, if that's what you mean, you gnat-brained knocke sald Mr, Jarr, “The word is ¢-0-r-p-s, pro- nounced ‘core,’ meaning a body—— “Ain't that what 1 said?” tnter- rupted Fritz, Meaning a body tinued Mr. Jarr, "While you and Jenkins have been displaying your malice, envy and ignorance, f have been perusing the masterly speech of my friend—my friend, you under. stand, Congressman Tilson, of Con. necticat, and it concerns the Senior service Corps, ‘ Senior Bervice Corps was originated and organised by Walter Camp, the famous foot. ball player and writer on athletics, Walter Camp is now a very success- ful business man in New Haven and of men," con- the Senior Service Corps 1 of patriotic men, all over forty-five, who have enrolled themselves into an organization to make themselves physically fit"—— “I knew it was something about | fits,” interjected the shipping clerk. | ‘fo make themselves physically fit in case their services were needed in this war," Mr. Jarr went on. “And easman ‘Tilson w the States Government to encour- age the mo nt “I gotcha, 1 Fritz, “it's am op. der of old boy scouts, eh?" “A gleam of intelligence has pene- trated that mass of material suitable for bone collar buttons that you think is your head, Fritz,” said Mr, Jaurr loftily, I hat's just what it te, Some of the most prominent men in the country have joined the Senior Service Corps, among them ex- ° dent Tate" , fd "Say, what's become of B A speaking of ex-Presidents?" geked the shipplig clerk, “The disappear- ance of Charlie Ross ain't nothing to the way that guy Bryan has pulled the hole in a him. | hope he comes back again, My father has got So used to voting tor him that the old man will miss him next election, ike, he did last, and get peevish aga. Hl, read this spe. sald Mr, Jarr, “you and 8 both will be nefited, It has health rules in It regarde pp ‘al tra torcy-dve training for men “Over forty-five!" individuals alluded Pilly both ane “Why, If I was that ol shipping clerk testily, reading dope like that Pa ‘Bilver Threads Amongst the