The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1917, Page 8

t | ' een: * , ie rate mere —_—-— Rerantasnry wt secret PULsTzen Pustihed Daly Karey Pander ) t + Pubeahing Compe hae + s her Vor’. RAL PCLT EN Prettiest Mkts tind d a eH PULarzEY wy ores sah oh teva saver os vile oe. VOLUME 5s 0, dott THE HALIFAX DISASTER. there rri NW Ned ¢ erwal carrying New York's firet aid t at lwdly d port But the surgical stores, food and clothing, inclading thousands of blankets, «9 nds that went by the Red Cross train Fepresent only the initial part wliat this city stands ready to com tribute to the meets of the Halifax sufferers New York Atlantic While the eat Teast the assurance thut but was, on the contrary, duc only to conditions and risks which in- evitably attend the conduct of wa New York will do well to ponder the disaster What if an explosion so terrible had occurred in thie harbor? What if the causes were less clear? With the presence of ao many thousands of only half-watehed enemy aliens a familiar fact, could anything have averted panic horne of terror and mistrust? Would regret for laxity undo the consequences? For Federal authority even as for New York, what has happened at Halifax is a grave reminder: This is become also a great war port was in no eense produced by the enemy, with far more to fear from the presence of epies and secret enemies than Hal Guard it well, —————-_-+-+—____——. Before the Senate started to vote on the resolution de- ‘laring war on Austria, Senator La Follette left the chamber, Has the Senator begun to gvt an inkling that there are forces considerably bigger than the peace pressure under his hat? + SUBWAY RELIEF BY CHRISTMAS? VERCROWDED cars on subway, elevated and surface line warns Health Commissioner Emerson, are providing cond tions highly favorable to a spread of the pneumonia epidemic in this city, Strong argument, if more were needed, for speeding the comple- tion of the new subway lines which jammed and suffocated aubway travellers in Manhattan hope will bring them some relief : A few weeks ago the Public Service Commission announced that Loth the Lexington Avenue and the Seventh Avenue trunk subways) | | | | | | | i | | could be in operation before the end of January, General Manager | Hedley of the Interborough dissents and says that it will probably be impossible to run trains before April, Nevertheless the Public Service Commission insists that it will be possible to have five-car trains running in the Le Xipgton Avenue sub way north of Forty-second Street before Christmas. Let the Commissioners stick to their point and prove it open in Munliattan a new subway or any part of a new uly vay, th taking some of the erush and discomfort out of the old one, a most appropriate Christmas token from thi mission of this district to the community th expensive services, . To ” would be Public Serviee Com ——_—_-» “Don't He or’ steal and you'll get the White used to ray to his son, “Old Good Eye" will stand by another ringside. “But thousands who mies din testify that his I!fe is proof he didn't have to borrow thu sel for the boy. po FISH PIRATES. Wk food profiteer has sumers think they should luy; boost How . turned to fish—fish dea! promptly began until they now take from 100 to 400 per cent. profit on moat of the fish they handle, was revealed yesterday by The Evening World's fur- ther investigation of retail food prices in this city. Profiteering in the case of fish is ably assisted by w ers who force fishermen to throw part of tl) ocean rather than permit nature’ sea food to find their way to the consumer at prices kept down to levels determined by supply and demand, If the city goes into the fish 1 iness, Markets plans, the public can be given a « natural action of prices when normally aly regulated in the interest of greed, Letters From the Pe Please Umit communi ations to 140 words What the Small Boy say. To the Baliter of The Evening Work! les Note what eon he price whe 1 housekec Ww omneat too « holesale deal- as the Commissioner of triking object losson in the indant supply ceases to be ople {4verage dally cost ¢, | a ¢ or th toon or nace © care and T have just read the letter in yo Hs Means $36.50 a year, Paper about toe terrible dog, Multiplying thin by 5,000,000, the eas yeminds me that the other day ax 1) {8ted umber of dogs in the United was walking along I chanced to meet | §142,500,000 spent a eutmeus Aum of & small boy, laughing heartily, 1/—0% per cent. of which aren does arked him why he was laughing. Ie) Useless but AEG ante ee turned, pointiny. his finger down th the healdi of the community street, and said: “Oh, missus, 1 just) In my opinion the only good d T 4 gaw an editor with a great big edi-|!* 4 dead one, for thon ts 'skin oak Yorlal chasing @ poor little hungry |e Made Into warm gloves. pup down that way, but the little pup t away from bim allright.” And 1 J.T. M, A Gow ved fo thought to myself, there te still an! qo imeriie ta re fOr Rover, Old-fashioned boy ‘loft who loves a) In te ones World og. HW." yh eaard to the letter In your pas Says It Conte Big Sum to Feed Dons. Lae fo cay aun het eee To the Kaitor vf ‘The venting World are T acted BER Cona‘dering all the good qualities mane lety never once did a come that have been attributed to the dug plaint re ne of a dow having at- from time immemorial I feel that it) tacked a@ child. Thy m is @ great wrong to feed dogs in these ike @ dow and has not ayn of enforced economy ‘ ‘aking into consid as some- ation the two ‘whorrent to the extremes, viz.; the pampered canine small as to make pet of the millionaire, which hy A dog which a pervant to look after him, and knows his man, honeless cur that fluds its food in is always tho the etreets, I name 10 cents os a fair lover of children JUSTICE. i } eon | pointinents, | writes {not write. | four years.) | | | ous that tu put up their prices) hae | “tu | Coprmant HEN, ob, realize WAT. by the Prem Pabiisthing Co, when Nothing So Dead As a Dead Love By Sophie Irene Loeb wl 0 dead as a dead love to hope hold on and try to atte ie evider ny pt» Ing that he might | explain—-we have made numerous ap- and a meeting each Um 0 mo every iit eatch back into the! keeps telling mo that there is some- "s bounteous supplies of excellent. thing be wants to tell me that he ean- (i have not seen him in To-day he Js vem pros 1 and to! women that there is nothing that bring back or kin- niwewW rpark that iy wlready aches la futile, to ney the least? 1 erey, bavi two wy in part as follower: began to write to him, hop ung wom ne that Limight thin ue woul! yet he weeks, anu perous and his business brings him tn vontact with beautiful women, which their temptations, “Ia he now twenty-nin thirty. Bach ye: writing as a friend? {requires a strong mind to overcom lam yoars old and he ts he senda n » favor Ite photographs of himself with sentt. ments Written on them that no man would do were true @t heart. with ‘As he his brain uniess ments, cach time having a good ar ry net wanting without Just cause t “ue you o nVict he has failed to keep appoint- on him suppose he ia in the clutches of some desixn- ing woman, such as 1 Rear are hold | not want leases himself? and industrious business 9 my thin ney of” ce of mind Would it be coming? ng to che er Dear woman, whe 4 Mulsanee and a menace! ing men tn their power, that to know of until he re tam ah ith s seems to have wealth, compan. fons, a fine position, but no h or althy min, bad manners for mo a hot Ww my f, nt to do any , aa t done anything to be ashamed dito go to his office when in this eity Jon business Without frst announein Ie hay 1 would say, don't do anything \of | which ashamed all your seeking & at While women |ove ways, I trust t to pri aid the “holiest siples that it ts that they nw w r you will he ind that ts t auek you need in big | Kone ways A prer ga (The New York Evening Word) du the pursuing ye nna. 4 yourself if Th is s mun dislike Ling that a woman is sevking flutior something that mak: te Though tt may him at the tie, he dues not forgive It as a Bt eral thing, and in tint cases the wan loses vather than gains by he the initiative that is primarily the naan’ If jove de still alive will come lack. f OY et ¥ in in " you rally the NeW fle gamut of to the real need r own sas to their fundamental %, Why waste more years e age when youth Is alive in yo velns on a seemingly hop vorm attachment? The trouble with wut they believe told of written whom they care an (hat after all it was a’ mediocre, friendly attitude on his part, All the time the woman has wade excuses for him when he should have made good Most of the time, too, ho knows Pw the woman cares and purposely voids hurting her altogether, And in her blin tuation she s not 1 doen not realize suffering from an unre- most women is very word that 1s by the man for 1 tind, too late, tuited lov er sy to yourself: "ET am re TRY MoFld 19 full of men. » Cre did not make only one j mould and then throw it Awan He aule many more, with equal atigac ns, 2 will look abou ee By living on this | this lone and tonely love 1 whut out others, and themes wo et ik,to draw ‘any others to- | ward ugh of worrying and | wes My soul awny in something t may not be worth whieee ea i while after I "Eth me piss | th sf must have me he must soek verefore T will turn over a new sode rath Applied for A wae being exams turaitzation court. ne of the United iy teary” It Ba By \ die, who would mine." — 4 ~The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell opsraht TAI bet the rit bell," “T sald s. Jarr. “Gertrude him inoney he would lave starved mal |TePreNent to him. something cold anil F for the day; you go] So it will be ali the sime a hundreds ! 18 Nea fe Bard and. evocatit Ti man wh sue ee it is weno (oarh from now. Burt wish 1 could Artion of & West-|tempt for them. Ho compels. thea to at me." replied Me. Jarr. "Tne stand playing an accordion and nay W eeunae LiKE and roll over and skid back- Jast time [ cnswered the bell I got] people put money tn a tin cup for ern professor the and jump through hoops and served a subpoena LE Lad been dody-| me until f was rieh and owned prop poor mathema | ba the same trained {ng two months, It's your turn.” — lerty, And yet, of course, I'd neve clans are Hkely tol dos va, sir, claim that the more The bell rang again do such # thiag no matior how poo by ood Hare.” Brae ee” BbOUe iathemation the Aim i % u 4 - | Munre buin out of the g* | “L don't want to anyb i way." “Not being pAr) mult } not dreasod,” sald Mrs. Jarre, ur, Jarr thought te best to. mith: ticularly enamored! + oysors are an amusing they'll go Still, tt om: brea anes Beeventea be re is in . eomatics | bu Ae an of them Kot up here | something v Important.” Por here! taking her station on a street corner satd ned st 1 th : ‘Toad Prowler ant curiosity Kot the better of her, with @ tip cup and an accordion 1 taundry man, dif he had his way “Opportunity knocks but re. | thus invoking Utvute from (he cari ot the sane would ow anybody to buy toarked Mr, Jarr, “But pests k | table, . o¢ huneh, Theres; POUNL of meat who had not previ- ; a 1 Of course,” Mrs, Jar went on, ; jy \OUSly purchased three quarts of milk rinsing, utter wait appen ue, f don't when the professor Indirectly | And a professor in the New ¥ Ate Ware wontite the doar ard Ay k £ would be reduced to that, For |calty me a profleent Har, t must 1 Boned of Health, advising. sltisons r heard her declaring id) wot! HES CARS C0 Ane Oe OE SEN UNE the mat w 1. He says that} how to avold pneumonia, solemnly at any lead pencils or sh of vucations ure open tol ® Wt a batting average of | Miins them agi Inet lirne crowds and she went on, “Coming ringing pe . . t study which Is |lowed to vote, too. , jble's ells to sell lead pencila that, Another lead ring wt the door in-| nified qvuth that iwo| jaren't sharpened and shoe atrings| + % your jand tw tke four, prone to stick i) ou get the Postmaster, Jthat are tc ort for anyone to use! atring man bitck. age wild Mr.| to mathematical facts in all his state- General's annual blast * except a man, Besides, even if th : by Rabe He Hes mother oe aBEy tn nts, , Against unions of postal em-— | shoe strings were long enough for the * “It may be that exportness in! ? 8 nena the head polisher, styles of shoes Indies are wearing! “niger from Mai Mathematics t to make @ man} ary min, Tha average eats oe tnow, they are not white or brown.| Lagrande with my new dress," | truthful outside his mathematical ac- master | You ought to be arrested. | buy from | look well, you,” She came back to Mr. Jarr and de- manded five cents. “I never buy from those peddlers,” she explained \"It only encourages them to come ain, But I ab give them five loents, ‘They look so poor and miser- lable and I don’t belleve they ever do Jaell any of cheap pencils and |shoe strings they carry; so If people ‘didn’t give them a Ittle change when called, they'd starve to death, ngs." yielded up the nickel, and Mrs, Jarr took it out to the peddler Jand oeked him It was married nd had any children and If he found hand to got along and was his 1 never eddlers, Wait, I'll get five cents for | they | Mr he it 'heaith bad and why didn't he see a doctor or go away for his health, | In return she recetved the harrow- * |ing dotalis of so much Ilineas, povert jand misery that she returned to Mr. |Jarr and demanded a quarter for the | poor man what he told me wbout his dying wite faghes or no fire to warm them," jehe romarked, when she returned. “Ot course, they may be impostors. 1 WAT, by the Hrose Mubliahing Co, But you don't! t, the door sv you (The New York Evening World.) hadn't gives | Stl te charltabic peupte | Mrs, Jarr. “That's who LT thought it! and I wanted you to go Id give the was befor IFFERENYT lands have different | ways of speaking English, One! It would break your heart to hear! yyugag! Jupon pupils of f and poor litte children having no! School at Kuala Lumpur, Mi | know @ blind man who uséd to play | an w lion in the shopping tis. {riot and everybody used to give Lim | money and when he died it was found be owned a lot of property of the most peculiar has been brought to Meht by the World Outlook | which blames th mut Methodtat 10 3 ia trom a are a few sentences 1 examination: He ra When the form of n verb is chang, it ia called congregation Tho prime meridian is ctiled the, pr » line, in the keynote in the | « jterranean, ‘The finest Wheat that ever sropped | statis Up 4a front and sits down be- in grows in Russia, | selves, unnoticed, at the rear of 4 \* fto the British | Boum himself was muskets giver English as She ls Spo Americans ay wm Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Cony Pat ONT WF the owe fn he Mew Tors Reewing Wer NO, 18-—THE DATTLE OF BENNINGTON, HIM fe another y of a faht between Americans and Germania during the Hevatution Not only at Trenton and at Fort Waehing at Hennington aa well, Sour Yanken boye face a German for The litle town of Henwington, at tie foot of Ver y the New Vn mont» «teep mountains, wae chosen f land militia, io 1777, as storehouse for military sop bes plies Tho place was fall ef foad, clothes and aa manition yy a Burgoyne, the Brith eneral, was operating to the f northward. Hoo army was ehort of food and powder, He heard of the stores gathered at Bennington, aod » he rent his German rubordinate, Lieut, Col, Baum, af the head of an expedition to capture the town, Naum, with a thousand of Ene I} German mercenary troops and a detachment Indians and a few mila) redcoats, accordingly marched LKdinat Bennington, He expected an easy victory. Some iar had told Rim that all Vermout would flock rly to the Hettiwh etandard as soon as that In a way, the Har told ont did “fuck to the British standard sho raised ami mountain ra na thelr the truth. ‘The Green Mountain boys of Ver ptandara"=-mucl as a swarm of hornets might Bock to the man who had Just kicked their neat ; Old Col, Stark was the lender of the toval patriot militia, stare had Then, sulky because Con- flicers over his head, be on Mountains and had con- tented himaelf with drilling recrult# whom he mus- tered from Vermont and New Hampshire and from 0 ge the I . at word of Haum's appre talneer east some reinforcements sent hir ‘n, Lincoln, and prepared to hold Bennington against the German invad He did not walt for the enemy to attack, but marched out ti d the town to meet them, * Nter elie six miles, he found himself face to face with Baum’s force. Stark's 1 were tired from their hurried advance, Moreover, rain was falling in torrent Halting, Stark prepared (o wait for better weather t Bunker Hill and at T xress had promoted QEEPATSPOL ELITR had gone back to thy Stark and His bs Mountaineers. vet fought aplendidiy ected 800 of these moun- before engaging the enemy. All day and all night the rain sluiced down, % At dusk, the Rey. Mr. Allen, the "Fighting Parson” of Pittsfleld, came to the Amerlean leader, complaining: “Our Berkshire ave been called out too often to no purpose, If you don’t let them fight now they'll never turn out again.” “As soon as the Lord shall send us sunshine,” retorted Stark, “if I don’t give you fighting enough, I'll never axk you to come out again.” He kept his word, Next day the sun came out hot. And Stark gave the! order to attack. His men had no bayonets or cannon, Many of them had’no uniforms. The attack Was not spectacular, Indeed, for several hours after dawn little groups of Americans detached themselves every few mimutes from Stark's columns and strolled off into the woods. They did not come back. Raum, watching through fleld glasses, thought them deserters, Ve kept on thinking so until five hundred of them had massed them” his own army, Then Stark gave the word to ‘il upon their foes. Baum's In- caving the Germans to fight charge, From front and rear the militla dian allies scattered in filicht at the first volley the double line of Yankees as best they could. For several hours the Germans held thetr ground. At last, hemmed in from front and rear, they could stand the terrific militia assaults no longer. Thay followed the example of their Indian bi “ emer" & and tried to take safety in Might Stark's Victory Stark had no notion of letting them get away'so Brings Reward. © eusily. A wall of grim militiamen beat back the rrr ® sugitives, A few of them broke through and escaped But the bulk of Raum’s Germans were captured and He had lost 207 men, killed and wounded, and 700 mp killed. more wero made prisdners, The American loss was fourteen killed and forty-t wounded, . ¢ Ws on was saved, Among Stark's spotin of victory were 1,0004 nd four cannon, By way of reward, Stark himself was taken back } regular army with the rank of Brigadier-General. The Week's Wash By Martin Green 1017, by the Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World.) mathematician”; The man doesn't know mutch 4 polisher, | #bout Agures is afrald of them, They into the Continen: 4 burn ked the sneral Jumping into a Job he know nothing about and often jumping out nefore he las a chance to learn an ubout F tvities, but I'd certainly Hike to be & knockdown to anything ap- #8 is ended becaus pension system and the If they quit. “TH nome result of : ; ult of as: employves to remain in sere ce is quite plain. ‘The more of them ther: the slower and more irre. sponsible to the work of the organs inat Howe Vos + Postmaster erals come and go. mater ke, f spinster ts bore, » husband, ee SRPROAIEBY! 8 there is no y Would starve The masculine place was take: sto d pate ® ken by storm and t was thin and pale, ‘it ta known as the keyhole & place whe “e sald the head polish diminish, there re Momceo, position nips. taurant me 1 sixty years, | of the porti ne Wan ne sovereign t h ever ruled | ind m A frog la 4 bug with four legs, ting down th, iw directed aga price of the portio: It adime, In have any|proaching the mendacity of strictly Ly i diho nigh tae eg aemnt ‘ono onal Ghildren naver give me|inathematical compilations made up| imation supplied him by burmaretors beh re bt! ‘ “| by experts employed by public utility | Whe have obtained their positions “Hero's a dime, you tip the mes |€orperations, for instance, When it] tBfough politi al Pull. ‘That Judg- ronges,” remarked’ Mr, Jarre, And/comes down to making figures tell | 2 hae Ea ae employees commit soon his good lady returned with| the exact opposite of the truth the| 4 crime against the Government when beaming face and a largo square/eXpert corporation — mathematician | Mey form themselves into a unton, | parcel. . jfie give Ananiay nine laps AMEN ANiong aie ecetter the fact thats , | "{ told you tt was lucky to help|lap track and beat him across the) Mons are recogni s industrial poor people,” she remarked. “Tam nov | {ish line by fourteen Jumps. {actors whieh inust be reckoned with ‘ tit . but [ know I wouldn't} “It ts only the unprofc t math shes of huinan endeavor, gotten my di as promised, MAticlan who stands unreservediy by aan pee until the posta? em. if I hadn't ai {hut poor man athe rule that two and two make four. | Poveem. In the {ace of oppression and nickel—no, twenty-flva cents jHe has to. Phe fact stares him in| fetty tyranny, began to form unions She opened the box and then com-|the face and he can't get around Ita pity, Obtained increases tn menced to sniftie. "It'y the dress) lug the mathematical wizard—the | yep en Carriers to-day are, koods and findings of my dross Euy’ who knows the game from sim | wuiTine the degre intelligence and note — from adam La-| ple addition to the place wh. x FAN ny iineas required of them, . ying sie'# fone as a fore. |Tepresents an unknown quantity and |? ve ghoorest paid and worst lady manufacturer and can't] can be manipulated to represent any- Thibemen nthe United make dress, Oh, rT know! thing from a deticit to a balance in| ot ‘housands of broken down that penctl and shoestring man was) (ho bank—he inakes two and. two| Dit men who have spent all thelr liven an Impostor! What's the use of being) total three or five ag it sults the Dostal service are compelled to kind-hearted to anybody!" lobject In view a working long after thelr use.