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SRS | — TES er Es SS Wehiana ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Bund thi Publieb: Noa. 63 Dally Except rp Ay i P7 re ing Company, Nos. 63 tr LPH PULITZE! resident, 62 le mabe OS SHAN Tronuurer. 68 Pury how.” PULITZER, Jr., Secrotary, 63 Park Row. TS a Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Class Matter, Sateen Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Pon oe $6.00 1 Union. One Year. seve .60/One Month, OF THE ASSOCIATED PRG, * aa mitied to the we Pie aoe Aeayetcnes eek ITS te VOLUME 58......0..0cccccseeeeeeseessceeeeessNO, 20,521 STUDIES IN MURPHYISM. 1. WN 1008 the Pennsylvania Railroad asked the right to tunnel across the city and build a great terminal station in Manhattan. The sane year Charles F. Murphy became boss of Tammany Hall. He had the organization thoroughly in hand. He was ready to make a city government and run it. Two years later he did both, when his friend McClellan became Mayor. When the Pennsylvania Railroad made ite application the Board of Aldermen still had jurisdiction over railroad franchises, Murphy controlled the Board of Aldermen. The Pennsylvania tunnel and terminal project promised great benefits to the city as well as to the railroad. The people of New York strongly favored it. Mayor Low urged it. Nevertheless, although the franchise, carefully worked out by im thie paper and also nem the Rapid Transit Commission, was ready early in 1902, Murphy’s! Board of Aldermen proceeded to dilly-dally with the proposition, holding it over and putting it off on one pretext or another, while the public wondered. At length, under the Tammany pressure of “Little Tim” Sulli- van, John T. McCall and Alderman James E. Gaffney, the Aldermen definitely turned down the proposition by a vote of 56 to 10. ‘Tho i Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners prepared another form of ; franchise, and in September sent it back to the Aldermen, The same yi old fight began again and lasted three months, making ten months in f all that the franchise had been blocked. t Suddenly, on the afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1902, the fran- | | chise was taken up and put through the Board like magic—and by means of Tammany votes. The public wondered stil] more. ‘Then all at once wonderment ceased. ‘ For it became known that the $5,000,000 contract for the terminal excavations had been given to the Murphy firm—‘“Brother Jack’s” firm, the New York Contracting and Trucking Company. It also became known that the Murphy firm’s bid was at least $400,000 higher than that of at least one other bidder. This famous politico-business concern was the biggest thing af its kind New York had ever seen. Organized by Murphy’s brother Teck, one of Murphy’s successors as a saloonkeeper, Richard Couch, and James E. Gaffney, truckman, it soon outgrew its first Yuerative business of Je ng dumps from the Dock Department and Aeveloped a manifold, rich and immensely profitable handling of all sorts of public contracts. Charlie was close by on the political side to see the firm got the choicest pickings. And Charlie’s power could be counted on. Besides the $5,000,000 contract from tho Pennsylvania, there was a $6,000,000 New Haven Railroad contract, a contract for grading Belmont Park and another for preparing the site of the Lighting ‘Trast’s $15,000,000 plant at Astoria, L. I.—all at about this eame period, There were easy millions for the members of this eminent con- tracting company. Fifteen shares of the company stock could be accounted for. The other eighty-five were “myateriously owned.” When people asked Murphy about the Pennsylvania franchise old-up and the terminal contract for “Brother Jack’s” firm they | got no satisfaction. Why should they? With Murphy it was simply and solely a turn of business. Why talk about it? : And there it is. From first to last Murphy has been in politica, as Tammany has been in politics, for business reasons and | ness ends. What the Murphy firm got out of the Pennsylvania Railroac provement and how is of little consequence in itself, But it is of the gravest consequence to the welfare of this city as indicating the essential, unchanging spirit of the Murphy atti- neat pusi- 1 im- % tude, which looks upon municipal government and municipal office as nothing more than the means of controlli ig patronage and lining pockets, holding together thereby an organization which exists for the co-operative satisfaction of greed. Why should the good citizens of New York, asks Lord Bryce, “rivet on their necks the yoke of a club which is almost as much a basiness concern as one of their own dry goods stores?” _ Freping World Daily Magazine Brought down to date, that means: u Why should they let Murphy instal a Hylan in the City Hall? , The Murphy-Pennsylvania episode is a bit of history. Shall it repeat itself in kind? 2 What is happening on the Isonzo front should cause ive Allles to ask themselves if It might not have been wiser to wl Italy all the coal, 6tee] and munitions she wanted, Particularly at Washington the question should arise whether there Las been adequate grasp either of Italy's needs or of Italy's importance in the genera) scheme, Letters From the People Please limit communications to 130 words. Painting the Capitol White. ‘We tee Batter of The Lrening Word When vietting in Washington a few age I noticed that the Capitol is jaa what I consider desecrated by @pplication of a coat of white I inquired of several persons the reason for this expense, but unable to glean any information. wan't seem to be any Montana, Wyoming and study the habits of ma: find that wm with the average family. Of course, thi municipal | [i A Blow for Liberty! -sttks, By J. H. Cassel Americans % = \ B Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune vancing Confederates. on Sept. 6, 1862, der “Stonewall” Jackson, from the main body and sent them to capture Harper's Ferry, and he sent written notice of this secret manoeuvre to all his corps commanders, Gen, A. P. Hill of the Confederate Army lost his copy of the notice, The paper was picked up and sent to Gen, McClellan. Thus the Union leader learned that the Confederate force was temporarily split in two, and he had a chance to profit by the knowledge—even though he made slow use ‘of the chance. \ He sent a force to relleve the ttle Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, ® Proved Costly. eee after a plucky resistance, had surrendered to Jackson, delayed so often on his march that Lee had time to intrench himself strongly on Antietam Creek. Clellan lingered for another twenty-four hours before attacking, and this gave Jackson a chance to rush 10,000 reinforcements to Lee's aid. You have seen an archer bend a bow just before launching his arrow? Well, a bent bow string, the Potomac River, behind him, forming the bow itself. On the afternoon of Sept. 16 a Union corps crossed the creek. On the | morning of the 17th the general advance was made, Two bodies of Union troops were sent to “roll up” the wings of Lee's army, while MoClellan { himself directed a third force to the attack of the Confederate centre. wa: OR i A Victory Left Incomplete, | Qn Gen. Burnside commanded the Unton detachment sent to roll up the Confederates’ other wing. was still later in obeying them. Most of the defenders at this potnt had been sent to support the opposite wing. Burnside @ hot fight. ‘When he had defeated them he began to “roll up” the right wing of the Southern army. by another Confederate corps, newly arrived from the victory at Harper's Ferry. hes Night ended the battle. MoClellan refused to renew it on the following i day. nnnnnnnnnnnnn i Dolays That Gen, Hooker's corps began the day's confilct by a furious assault on the Confederate wing that was commanded by Jackson. ensued, both sides losing heavily. So at last he was driven back, leaving 25 per cent. of his men dead or | wounded on the field. A second Union charge forced this Confederate wing to retire, but Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 31—THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. T has been called “tho bloodiest single day's fighting of | the Civil War’—this battle which raged along An- tietam Creek, in Maryland, on Sept. 17, 1862, ‘The war had dragged along for nearly eighteen months, the South acting always on the defensive and fighting only within its own territory. Then, in the © early autumn of 1862, Gen. Lee decided to invade the — North, crossing the Potomac into Maryland and thence — into the very heart of the Union. $ He chose Maryland as the starting point of the invasion, because the Marylanders had been loud in their sympathy with the South, and Lee believed they would rise as one man to his ald (which they did not), The Union General, McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potom: hastened to head off the ad- Leo crossed the Potomac with his invading army He privately separated a large detachment of troops, un- and with the rest of his army he moved forward to ® mect and defeat Gen. Lee before the two bodies of Confederates could be reunited, Then one blunder followed after another. ‘The detachment sent to Harper's Ferry took a wrong road and did not arrive until the little garrison, McClellan also was Having arrived within striking distance, Mc- Lee's army at Antietam was drawn up for battle tn the form of euch That the Union plan of battle, But more blunders and delays bu: A fearful struggle Hooker was not properly supported. again the Unton troops were not supported and were obliged to halt their advance when Confederate rein- forcements came up. After a long and fluctuating fight the Confederate wing fell back. Lee's centre was weakened, but McClellan would’ not strike the blow that might have orushed it, His orders were Inte in reaching him and he But those who remained gave Before he could do this he was attacked at the rear The invasion was checked, but Lee was allowed to retreat safely across the Potomac Into Virginia. plo can drift apart who have been so close to each other. I have tried t friendly, but she has assumed 4 By Sophie Irene Loeb | HE other day while walking with | lay of compensation, never fails. | he ancient adage, “As ye sow ai uso shall ye reap,” still holds good to- quarrelied over @ person who meant nothing to either one of them, One word brought on another until any one was not going to as we pass by I would ma bustness to speak to them a speak to me The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1817, by the Pros Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “e a friend we approached 4| hardened spirit, which it seems im-|day. When you assume such spiett | two wheatless days a week,” stylishly gowned woman t0| possible to break.” of enmity that you refuse to recorniz said the head polisher, “the whom my com-!/ When, oh, when, will people realize some one with whom you have dif- shortage of meat panion nodded in! how foolish the whole thing ts? 1 fered—the hatefulness of that ve and wheat should recognition. The| have nover seen a person no Erows into your make-up and almost soon disappear other woman did) such a “hardenod spirit’ as this who | unconsciously becomes a part of you. and the price of not return the} did not have It broken So that tn some other future dealing those foundations greeting, but! When, oh, when, will we understand !t assert itself even when you don't of our nattonal stared that we have but a little while to| Want tt to do so, My conception of chow should be 1 felt a shudder | stay, and that an unbreakable will, | “some people” ts materially re- go through my | insisting on bearing mal I believe that some people add to duced, Is it not 7 friend | anybody In the world any good our joys, while others to our sorrows. | 80?” sr Saba ‘* What's the| always acts like a rubber ball when There are those who make or ms “You're right," Seon menaionde matter?’ 1 asked, | it is sent out: it comes back with al- every moment and so y agreed the laun- “That woman was one of my best | most equal force. hours, the days, months, years and WARTIN GREER dry man; “the| friends once and now sho boars me| Whatever the differences of opinion | in the end—our lifetime. ‘To love those | ghortage should be ent down and the| such ill will that she will not speak | that bring about these estrangements, that love us Is natural, ‘To bear With | prices should descend accordingly, but to me, and it just hurts a bit," she| no one should hold such spite as to| those that hurt us i# human. To for-| you'd be quite safe in betting your added sadly. avold speaking to some one whom | give our enemies is the cultivation of|;ight eye against a season theket to And [ knew tt must have hurt} they have known. It ts just common dig spirit; Dut to create a SENSE OF |¢n4 Aquarium that the reduction tn very much, for she seemed downeast , decency. TOLERA N¢ h that no man ean| price of meat and bread will have atter the meoting, by as if they havo never been ae-| that borders on Infinity ing to the proletariat as a campaign Thon she told me the story. Tt was|quainted they are getting outside the a very simple, everyday affair, They | pale of pmon decency, If I felt —— speech delivered in English at the corner of Orchard and Hester Streets. ITH two meatless days and| It wasn't necessary for Food Admin- Jetrator Williams to decree meaticss days in New York. here for a long time. “Commissioner ascertain, if he does not know, that many of the salaried employees of the ison Company, of which he Is an cient and valued execuzive, been hitting the butcher snop at ir- regular intervals for a considerable period, probably salarte no novelty In New York East of Third Avenue and west of Ninth, “The Commissioner says that Her- bert last per cent, Hotel Manhatts flour, Jazbo, halls heated, overlooking the elevated road, going to get discarded bread? If he went to the Hotel Manhattan after {t, or to the Ritz or the Wal- dorf, about the best he could expect would be a violent collision with the sidewalk. discarded bread for a basis for bread at home, because when "the John Henry Jazbo family gets through with a loaf of broad there lentes crumb remaining big enough to en- gage the serious attention of a spar- row. “The Food Administration properly Seeks to cut down the consumption of meat and bread among people who can afford to eat meat and bread at the prevalent prices. “The idea is that if those who can afford to eat more eat leas there will & be more for those who are eating less because they can’t afford to eat more, But, following tho theory to its con- clusion, we find that If those who are now eating less because they can't af- ford to eat more are to be enabled to eat more because they can afford to everybody will eat more and there Won't be as much for anybody to eat as there is now. Do you get me? “All of which, as a measure of ef~ clency, is something like a railroad conductor putting on a pair of roller skates before starting through hie train to take up tickets, ‘The people thought that the object of the Food Administration Bill was to guarantee the distribution of the necessaries of 4 life at reasonablo pricos, “Now comes Mr. Hoover and saya the law gives him no control over re- We've had ‘em Williams could have and the Edison Company pays better than average at that, Meatless days are Hoover served on his own table Monday a bread made up of 80 discarded brpad from the and 20 per cent new where 1s John Henry {ving in five rooms, But clerk, And his wife couldn't use | The Jarr Family _By Roy L. McCardell | tail prices. Well, it's his law, If the Food Administrator has no authority to administer either he or the Gov- ernment is the possessor of a large, | Nebraska, | On this trip I had an opportunity to} Dutch farmer, who for 4 the sed AY people, and | i railroads and hotels | @re endeavoring to conserve food to " #ome extent, the same is not the case | true nature was Fecogtlzod, and | moto hese States are far re- oved from the Atlantic sea i pov and therefore the thought of wat is | $2,800, ‘This valuable discovery goon A mountain was v ade out of a n T wade pay: to Tayed at wen Mil, A coolness came up botween | cauxe that other pers 2 to] Comrreht, 1817, by the Prow Pubiibing Oo, | them and ended the friendship of | sink below the level of human court- Liha ne Wend, years esy that is no reason why I should TY ¢ at are you going to | ‘And in the words of my friend, “It | do likewise, 1 will do my part, even night” Mra, Jarr is all well e.ough to disagr to though the other fails, I will have "You promised to tako me have her pass me by tn tho str s|no regrets, for Lam not the keeper and the children to the moving pic- ‘ie she never knew mo Is just ca fg of my enemy's con: e | ture 3. Ela cap. af Sars Ita Iittle too far, And every time | ‘rhe momentary glow of telumph) ot utut T had forgotten the meet hor and got that frigid glance) might come aver the person who u al uncer Ae tind forgotten that nf Dette 2 Seeded Fee ae een deena new: | olectioncering for bin at his opcn Tittle: wae: wor she pays usurious interes Ne “it seems Incredible to me that poo- | The law of bidances, as well ag the | ME TAIN SON NN fo into poll- ties and maybe 5 pickets “To-Day "s sides, you HE first diamond discovered tn | pation mines were opened in the 1o-| tying and then the newspapers would Griqualand, South Africa, was | cality ee «| i: Anniversary known as print dreadful things about what you found by the children of A which has aluce received the name of | iq years ago, and print your letter Kimberly In 1872 the world was) to prove it. What you puttin ay a plaything, The stone was | startled by the discovery of the Stew-| gat towel In your hat for?” \iater sent to Cape Town, where ite art diamond of 288% carats. The| «yyell, last election they got to dally output of the consolidated | gyrowing bricks at the open atr was subsequently forwarted to Paris, mines at Kimberly Just prior to tho| speakers," sald Mr. Jarr. “And not whore it was exhibited and sold for) outbreak of the war was valued at | naving @ trench helmet I thought 1d 000, | put some padding in my hat.” mnt or logicd! reason for paint- | not present before the minds of the | led to other researche: amonds weeny ee }” Mr, Jarr found Mr. Rafferty and his our Capitol, which, ae a marb| Pree Oe Sart) degreo that it is) were unearthed in various places in COOL LOGIC, | committeemen walting for him at 4 much more beautiful than @ Baatern States, 1 am con- y , t mo a g chin* 4 60 0 corner, For tt reas Saaniad & Starting white. that the people of the North. | Griqualand West, with the result 66 ATHDR, giunmo a good Nekin'| Gua's place a8 Seo ipod Rs It ts At the present time, when “Buy a Lib- just as patriotic as we are,| that forty-six yeara @go to-day, Oct. | and make me cry," was tho! gejdom that @ political rendexy a erty Bond” ie heard on all sides, the mental attitude may be ao |e. , the country of the Griquaa, a astonishing request Mttle| ay @ churcl @upense seems to be absurd. for partly by distance rung from Dutch aot. | Jimmy made one day sill there be ay ‘AM. Iam grateful that ‘The Evening | mixed Face sprUN Nu "| AWhat makes you want euch an ab. | “Wil Dan Oe iy World has urged people to conserve | tiers and native AOD, WES BB+! surd thin inquired father, | spea te Mow the Weet Feels, food, and I bh that you will con-| nexed by Great Britain, | "You'll hit me end I'll holler with | Jarr nervousiy. Bo the Baitor of Toe Breatng Word tinue to impress upon your readers ting was at fr Jat my mi and tother will wipe| No, F don't think there Diamond hunting first con. p Noy ) 1K have just returned from a trip the absolute necessity for economy tthe Veal my face with her apron and give me roubl wald that Pe : é 8,000 covering the States of not only in food but in all the neces. “ned to the banks of the Vaal River, | i ’henny and Uli buy candy,” came the | SRY OU Haters. five, Cel § Nenh Dakota, saries of tite, DG. W. but in the year of the British ovou- | logical rejoinder erary Digest. q header, Timothy erty, “You see é ‘ 1 ' — Hogarty, thy opponent, is holding & ratly of his own at the other end of the district. There'll! be nebody at ur meoting but our own people—un- oss Hogarty'’s meeting breaks up eariier,” “But I don't see any use to hold a rally Just for our own people,” sald Mr. Jarr, “What we want to do is to convert the enemy.” " rather not try to convert the I prefer to hold my friends,” Peerless Loader, “If we hold a meeting our people enemy. i th vid the tidn’'t might go to Mogarty'’s, and he haa| some big contracts and them as could hope to get a political job, In se Hogarty defeated me, might feel just as sure of getting work from n in his contracts, win or lose, aa rom me on my contracts, But they'd hoping they'd get political Jobs ‘ig pay and little work. On @ con- inact everybody has to work, for that's business, But In offlos hold- nobody has to work, for that's littes,”” “But I don't see how your hench- men could expect to get polittoal Joba for deserting you,” remarked Jarr, “There'd only be jobs for se who had always been faithful » Hogarty.” That shows how little you know \bout politic,” sald Rafferty, the People's Chol “Don't you know that in polities more 4s done » pla- shiny gold brick.” cate an enemy than to reward a friend? For why? The friends we have anyhow, but the enemies can only be won over by giving them something,” Preliminaries being now arranged, when Rafferty’s political lMeutenant, Tony, the bootblack, arrived with a handful of collars and neckties to put on @ bunch of Rafferty's aup- porters as camouflage to make them resemble prominent citizens, all ad- Journed to the scene of the meeting. a flag-covered truck with four Slaz- ing torches at the corners. Mr. Rafferty began his argument for better citizenship and idealism in clvil life by denouncing his oppo- nent, Hogarty, as a grafter and @ crook who had ‘sold himself body and soul to the Interests.’ “You were mighty thick with him at the Friends cf Ireland banquet last winter!" cried a voice, “As a private citizen, I regard Ter- ence Hogarty as a gentleman I am proud to know," replied the candi- date, “but as an officeholder with the destinies of our falr city in his grasp, I view him with loathing and disgust” A brass band was heard approach- ‘s Hogarty and bis gang of gorillas whispered Mr. Rafferty, “Put up more fiegs around us, and they won't dare throw a brick, It would be an insult to the . The watchword this election Is mou- flagel'” ERE you surprised at the refusal of Mr. Hiliquit, the Soclalist candidate for Mayor, to buy Liberty bonds?” asked the head polisher, | “Not a@ bit,” replied the laundry man, “Mr. Hillquit is a shrewd poli- ucian, When he announced that he would not buy Liberty Bonds, ale though he is @ very wealthy man, he calculated on the political effect of his announ nent, It was a deliber- ato appeal to the anti-war element, “There i no middie stand in this crisis, A citizen of the United States ! is elther for the war or against tt, and ff he is against the war he is for Germany. If Herman Lauden- schlager, recently from Germany, stands out on @ street corner and ad. vises people against subscribing to — bonds for war purposes, some paid or volunteer patriot will quickly take him into custody and probably bounce a rock off his dome for measure. But Mr. Hillqutt, ition * lawyer, financier and candidate, ap: peara to have @ license to practise disloyalty in this town. If he {a eal- culating that the Federal authorities are letting him alone because they are afraid he might set up the that he !s a martyr, sald authorities should make thelr position clear without delay.” 66] SEE," sald the head polisher, “that Speaker Champ Clark of the House of Representatives says New York bankers are trying to kill the Liberty Loan.” “Mr. Clark," explained the laundry man, “talks through his hat every ‘ year just previous to election. He wes due," SeeSSree yg Ve =