The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 8

$I. ee be A SURE GRIP AND A GOOD EXAMPLE. VEY in ethatitoting omnipotence for impotence by seouming the dipection of tha entieonhe, Vedoral Afeiaia oom naverthalen inclined to admit that the Government hes itealt been to « certain degree reaponsibla for freight bieckades in permitting toa many ovlers Coe priotieg shipments. Tile may be taken a @ healthy indication that affection relied le ta be fartheoming. Now that the Government hae fall control of the ralioede it te bownd to recogmlen ite raepanmlility for the freast possible movement of freight traffic, Conacioweness of that reaponettility ought to etim wate a new interest in discovering and gqatting rid of departmental methods which keep Government freight shipments too long on the ralle and prodace the cart of congestion the Government \tealf la moet annious to get rid of Approximately 100,000 loaded care lying idle in the New York sone—the siteation aa reported two days ago—ia a state of things for which the Government ought to have deserved no share of blame, ‘That it cannot escape, howaver, » considerable portion of the reaponal-| liest that New | dameter and placed six feet lower down, despite every indication that | these changes are directly against the convenience of the public which | Tonks up to see the time. | Architecture—in the finest phases of it the world has ever seen— has recognized that a fundamental element of beauty and satisfying quality in its lines and forms lies in their obvious adaptation 1 utility, in serving some practical human need or purpose. Would it be impossible to put a little of this architectural spirit ‘imto a clock cupola for New York’s City Hall? +4 > ANOTHER B. R. T. DISCOVERY? HE blow-out of a fuse on an elevated train, followed by fire and a serious panic among passengers exposed to the danger of being either burned or crushed, may or may not be unavoidable. P But surely there is no reason why injured passengers and others made hysterical by the shock of such an occurrence should be refused the first opportunity to get off the train, and instead carried straight ‘on, past usual stops, for a fifteen minute run, The accident yesterday morning on the B. R. T. line that crosses the Williamsburg Bridge serious enough in its immediate effects, Passengers’ clothing caught fire. Several were burned on face and hands. More became hysterical from the shock and stampede which followed the first explosion from the controller box. Yet the guards refused to stop the train, refured—after a police- man had pulled the emergency brake—to open the gates, and forced ; all these injured and unstrung passengers to stay aboard and pass station after station until it reached Essex Street. Has the B, R. T. added to its'well known achievements in the furtherance of public peril and discomfort by discovering new rules calculated to increase panic and make bad accidents worse? | ‘ ——s] Letters From the Peopl Please mit communications to 150 words, Porkless Beans, | Passengers wished to leave the train Bo Ge KAitor of The Brening World St Essex Street they would have to) I saw in your paper that beans can-|climb over the os, endangering not be ovoked without pork, accord- _ chee Some men climbed from ing to the women of Boston. But | yown un the platform oF eet ed | they are mistaken, Every housewife/give them credit for doing #0, for | grta a piece of suet with her meat| that seems the only way to get home, from the butcher and should have|{f I was not of the opposite sex [| Arippings left from thie suet. When | *9uld do likewise | The Ridgewood Metropolitan Line #he cooks her beans put a tablespoon- | doen not stop at Kasex Street. Bome- | ful of drippings to a quart of beans. | {ime there is room enough to take a I do % myself and wish other house- | few ngere from that station. | to try it. 1 got suet by the| TB? Rockaway trains come in on the pound paying 15 cents a pound, and fry it out. It is cheaper than pork. local track and they are also #0 crowded that it ts impossible to board them. Last night I noticed that one Hope you will print this #o others of gee Piven stopped in the wrong | place, wengers to wn mee 4 and try to oe nerk | elienb over the tron bare mating of « ie eo'nigh. . * | the different stopping places of traing oy ‘Trring to G the B. A. 7,|0n the station in order to get to the Wo the Editor of The Breving World: » which they also had to climb “On Dec. % the trains furnished by |OV8r: People were climbing out of B. RT. at the Essex Btrest ata. | S22 ante, trains, Couldn't some ously in this attempt? Why can’t order be kept? The night of Deo. 26 I waited at Btreet station fully an hour F traing would come im on one| before I could get on a train, Every 2 And each car would be crowded | night the travelling ls getting worse yf utmost capacity, allowing no and it is about time this matter was passengers to board them. The taken in ha jot even be bt STENOGRAPHER. jens. The Cypress Hills bility for the freight tie-up around New York harbor has become more and more plain to Investigators. | ' At last, however, the Government haa a free hand with the rail- roads, On that wide all meana of obviating freight blockades are now at ite disposal, It will surely not permit ite own departments to set & bed exanrple by needlessly holding up freight traffic. THE RUIN ATOP THE CITY HALL. ‘Hl supposedly plenty of brains to plan and assuredly plenty ' of money to pay for its restoration, the ruined cupola of Now York's City Hall has nevertheless remained untouched tines the fire on May 10 last which burned ont its insides the day ; before the city’s reception to the British War Mission. 1 Now we aro told that July 1, 1918, is about the e Yorkers may expect to see a new cupola, Nine months before the biggest, wealthiest community in the country can even start tho comparatively simple job of repairing un- ightly ravages made by fire at the top of the building which is at once the home of its municipal government and its finest example of public architecture! More than a year for a work of restoration that ought to have been accomplished in four months! ‘And after all the wrangling over plans and the fighting that had, to be done to retain the clock, the latter is to be a foot smaller in Wehat My Parents _.Wanted Me to Be No. 9.—A. BARTON HEPBURN (President Chase National Bank) Copyrigir, 1917, by The Prefs Publishing Co, (The New York Wresing World.) The Examples of Three Successful Uncles Inspired Him to Seek a College Education, Which a Friend's Loan Made Possible. WAS the youngest of four sons. When the Civil War broke out I was too young to go, being only fifteen years old at the time, but my three elder brothers enlisted, and each came out with @ com- mission, I conceived the idea of going to college, but my | father was op-| posed to giving | me a college ed- | ucation, because he thought it would unfit me for the work of @ farmer, His farm was at Colton, N. Y., and | when his three other fons went off to the war he naturally wanted hia youngest boy to stay at homo, carry on the work of the farm with him and, in short, become a farmer. Probably he would not have ob- | jected to my going to college if he| had not needed me so much off the farm, | For my three uncles were men who | had made their mark, one of them being the founder of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, another a successful railroad contractor and the third hav- ing won distinction ay @ literary orator. With the example set by my uncles and by my three brothers fighting for the Union, I wan keen to got away from the farm. No boy hadeever gone from Colton, A friend of ours who believed in higher education thought he would like to change this record by helping me have my wish, He »: he would lend me $1,000 to see me through my college course if I consented to take ingurance and join the Masons, I accepted his conditions, and for my alma matét chose Middlebury College, situated tn the town where my father was born, In order to add to my slender cap. {tal I taught district school between terms and also clerked in the Colton store, The store wae the clearing house for all wares produced and consumed in Colton, and I learned to handle and Judge everything raised by the far. to colleg |New York | mers and also acquired a knowleage of the supplies used by the lumber | camps up the mountains, ‘This experionce was of value to me when, later, I took an interest in lumber, After I was graduated with an A. B, degree from college I went as in- structor of mathematics to the St. Lawrence Academy and then became principal of Ogdensburg Educational Institute in order to save money with | h which to gay my debts. And, this| being accomplished, l began the study of law. When I had been admitted to the bar I returned’ to Colton for @ rent. Hut everybody in Colton seemed to need legal advice more than L did a rest, so I decided to remain there and practise law, Among my clients were several companies owning great tracts of land, and so I became actively con- nected with -the lumber industry, Later I was engaged by the State of to look after over-due taxes. ‘This led to banking, and 60 intensely interested in banking did I come that I readily gave up my AW practice and came to New York when the position of United Btates bank examiner offered me, Postage Stamps 75 Years Old OMETHING like 21,000 kinda of postage stamps are in use throughout the world, ‘Three- quarters of @ century ago postage stampa were unknown, in the modern, ous story or their origin, which in- Voutigutors believe to be true, From the earliest times Govern ments maintained a postal system, and frequently there were competing ‘wanizations similar to the express ompanies of to-day, And in many | cases the postage was collected on delivery. About seventy-five years| ago Bir Rowland Hill was travelling in a northern English county and] stopped for the night at a wayside| inn, During his stay the local post- | man brought a letter to one of the serving maida, Sir Rowland chanced | to be standing by and saw the girl return it to the postman, saying that! whe could not shillin, The knight made Inquiry and learned | that the letter was from her brother. | So he pald the foe and gave ber the letter, This incident convinced him that the post needed reorganization and he set out to devise a system by which postal fees would be collected in advance. From this grew’ the Postage stamp. Following tte use. tn England other countri quickly | adopted the plan which t* now) universal. The Jar By Roy L. Coprright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, WE Jarr family had experienced several “near famines” tn the matter of sugar. They had also vicariously undergone several slight but exasperating experiences |t with the coal shortage. They lived in a steam heated flat, and the land- | lord had ordered the janitor to keep the furnace pn half rations, As to the ler, the grocer, had warned Mrs. Jarr, general purchasing agent of the family, and Gertrude, the Hght- running domestic and assistant pur- chasing agent, that he could only let them have half a pound—and then only if they purchased a mess of other groceries with it, But the day came at last when thero was no sugar in the Jarr family's sugar bowl, and Mr. Jarr’s coffee was pallid with the aweet variety of condensed milk substitute for sugar. asked Mr. asa Sarr. “What nonsense!” “You wouldn't think it nonsense if you tried to get it In this neighbor- hood,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “Mr, Muller says he doesn't know when he'll have any more “We'll have to use ‘long sweeten- Ing’ then?” remarked Mr. Jarr, See- ing an inquiring expression on Mrs, Jarr’s countenance, he explained “When I was a boy and visited down on Uncle Henry's farm when sugar was as dear, even if not as scarce as now, Aunt Hetty used to ask me if I wanted ‘long sweetening’ or ‘short sweetening’ in my coffoe, If [ said ‘long sweetening’ she would dip her finger in the molasses and then stir my coffee with it. ‘short sweetening’ she'd small lump of sugar’ won't believe suoh a thing dear old Aunt Hetty!” Mrs. Jarr in- terrupted heatedly, “Now, af it were your stingy and bad mannered Uncle Henry (it was Mrs, Jarr’s Uncle Henry, by the way, not Mr Jarr’a), 1 could well believe it, But wo will have no ‘long sweetening’ tn this house, if you mean molasses, 1'1) have sugar for my tea or coffee, and if 1 don’t get it I'l complain to Mr, Hoover.” yerybod| bite off a t ‘9 complatning to worry, I'll get some sugar downtown, Vil bet 1 could get @ ton of it if 7 had the money to pay for it," You might try Lanahan's, down. town; that's where our family dealt for years and years,” Mrs. Jarr sug- gested, “Mention my name—not im married name, but my maiden name No, mention mother’s name," “A name by any other rose would ugar, several times Mul- | w! If I aaid| r Family McCardell (The New York Brening World.) taste as sweet as sugar,” murmured Mr. Jarr, “If 1 mention your moth- ps | “My mother always pays her bills, and so you needn't try to be smart,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “But do as I tell you. is a very famous place the religious institutions buy groceries,” | lon?’ rted, “Where can I get sugar?” he asked Johnson, the cashier, when he got to |the office. Johnson was a bachelor jand knew everything. “S-s-sh!" whispered Johnson, “Not [so loud! I've been stalling off every- {body from the boss to Frits, the |*hipping clerk, on this sugar thing. |Pay me that five dollars you owe me and I'll put you wise as to how jyou can get some!” Jarr pald the five dollars, and Johnson took bim over behind |the office safeyand whispered: “You ko Up to 27th Street and see Sam Young. Tell Sam Young you are \ftriend of mine and are looking tor corn meal, Remember, don't use the |word ‘sugar;’ tell Sam Young you | Want cornmeal.” | “But who in the Sam Hill is Sam { “and asked Mr. Jarr, and he de- | Young?" demanded Mr. Jarr, | why should I ask for cornmeal when jt want sugar?” “Do you want to get us ail in a jam |with the U. 8, Food Commission? Have a file of soldiers come here un- der command of Capt. Tynnefoyle and jahoot us against the office sate?” }asked Johnson. | “Well, no, not exactly," replied Mr. Jarr, “But who is Sam Young?" “Hush! Not so loud, Sam Young owns big theatres uptown and he's one of the leading raincoat manufac- turers in the United States,” ex- plained Jghnson, still in a yolce so low that ft was evident the cautious cashier wh feared Marshal McCarthy; exposed the Iniqulties of New helle, or detectaphones might be about. “All rlght, I’ drop tn and see this friend of the sugariess, Sam Young, i due.| Hoover,” said Mr. Jarr, “But don't)on my way home,” sald Mr. Jarr, | “On your way home?" sneered John- son, “You get the rest of the day off, If you want sugar your work ts cut out for you, And mind what I say: don't talk too much with your mouth, Ask for cornmeal." So because he was determined to Ket his bit of suear, Mr, Jarr took tho rest of the day and bimself off, Further details later, “Do I look like a religious institu. | Americans ® m m Under F | By Albert Payson Terhune ~ Orne 9 Pn Pomme P mnannng on Pn tee tare tomy WU Na, ~The Battle of Port 1 hae fomm cated “Ue mont ot y é Uetew force onder Gon near (a Port Ropatiie, i the hope AM before Me ariny + oWld combine forse, fat the mate Woty A the Onten ual a (het period of the war, wae toe He rangers, commanded by (en. Carell, hewever—teng arriving. (howamnand Infantry and aout one hanived and fifty covnleymen aad Pisces Of BAIA aetiliery—came in Uren wih the Confederates ot Part HO98!, GAA Waated Rot ana minata hetore attacking. Thenah Jastann o: detending Vort Hapanita with « toree far than Carrotts, wet © nity five hundred Union troops charged fate the #Nings, otentant at the theont of the atronane fom, The Rory \onpulae of their rush ennt the Confederates fiving. The of the Mouthern army quartered in the { ry ‘Groot Ghenee” treet riven cat patinet! and fled serous epanned the Mhanandeah, : Toll threw away « golden [0000 ta OU te lee blowing ap the tridge—the Jackson from continuing reinforcing Kweit omiid have hele of the stream until the main Union Miapone of him y wurning ither 4 nie march tlon—he could enatiy have ie could have cut him off from i him penned againat the wrong bane ¥ whould have time to come up and Hut Carroll let stip tie eremt chance, tnatend of destroying the Fed a Where he waa for more ot the Union force to strengthen hie ey Naturally the Confederates had time, thus, to recover from the sare ok and to hurl themeetves upon the gallant Union advance men fou: with © dash and « feroclty that wellnigh atoned thetr iack of numbers. But the ogde against them wore too great, Bit bit under pressure of muperior welmht they: were pushed haokward they not only lont Port Republic but were obliged to retreat two miles further, There Gen, Tyler, with two thousand Union re. aforcaments, joined Gar. jroil. Meanwhile Jackson had been reinforced by a division of Ewell's men | Wight thousand strong, the Confederates advanced upon the Yankees, who could muster Jesa than 3,600 men to meet them. And another hot battle ensued. The Union Me detoated th | Confederates and sent ther runoing for shelter PWC CNT NF into a nearby patch of woodland, ‘Before ‘Tyler CEs be Bit and Carroll could take advantage of this momen- Did ite Bit” 2 tary victory they wero attacked on the right flank | by several now Confede: A Louiniana brigade captured a Union ery. An Ohio regiment made & daring obarge and recaptured it. For hours the unequal fight raged —a battle marked by sensational charges and counter-charges and in@le vidual heroism. At last, borne down by superior numbers, the little Union erny retreated, with a loss of 450 men, The Confederates pursued, but Carroll's: | tny cavalry force beat back the pursult to such an extent that the bulk of the Union force escaped safely and in order, On June 9 the retreating troops reached their main body tn safety, the brilliant little episode was at an end. | ‘Your New Year Resolutions By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World.) { URING tho week thousands of/on ail sides. If you have not seen H children were entertained at ig Maaeateat you have not k | . the the Strand Theatre and Lite you had | Manbattai burdens that you have ner ace, ted? 1 wish every|Then remember that you are here grown-up in this ja, Brotected civte reas. city could all that this im: have been there. i there" tn the trei fare ts being 1 1 wish every soul |@nd blood of your that is sorrowful in any time in the history of the world wi * could have felt) by « Me ae ee replace the frown. that giow of giad- | those dark ages when tan had to ness that perme-|%@ @ mourner to show his in time of distress, bade ’ #8 ated the whole |! 1m | day he who giv | Seenimmemeer atmosphere, I|alded moat welcome “those, | wish every one! trial and trouble lying aro joome everywhere that you ean pick up any time that you want without carrying it about every place you gO. Never was the smile moré neces- sary, agd what creates the smil beliet whose heart In heavy could have listened to the laughter and gloe and Joyousness of that youthful throng, coming from every kind of home | As I sat back and watched their jhappy faces, and reflected on thes momentous hours of childhood, these smile that is real? I in the world, in humanity, bry ume When St ts bel is now. Ae rutely’ SiAkee Oe care-free days, I said this {s worth|. Never ts the bellef in the goodness | promoting — the children's days, | Wise nk MOFe to be osired months and years that go all too soon. Tt is something to ponder about in this wartime, Something for serious consideration, There is something to be said about the note of cheer sounded in the Mayor -elect's Yuletide movsage, which, summed up, is “Turn the grouch into a grin and the gloom into gladness.” I believe ever: with. And this New Year is the best| out some good. Teman,oe Bat 14 time to wettle 1t with yourself. Have) practise the pattence that perserane you @ soldier at the front and have|1 would so live as to cultivate the you much misgiving? Well, If you|capacity for a great love for one, jhave, will your sighs and apprehen-| deserve the blessing of a few fri |slon help him one single bit? No; it) and yet to keep in touch with will hurt, pulse bent of humanity, So that, tn | Has your business been affected by | the course of time, should my jthe war, ‘and do you see disaster | prave untrue and my friends looming up tn the middle distance?| me, | know that the milk of Well, then meet tt—meet tt at least| kindnoss still flows. The law jhalf way. Find something else to fill| unce ts ever present, Thus if T |the place, for tt is only The | lieve in humanity, humanity will war cannot continue forev lieve in me. And in that Besides, there 1s much t even be born again, of Other Lands ‘The Germans are eating potate all right, and if it isn’ you are looking at It from angle.” In a word, the olution tn the tivate world, ees important res- comin, eal thle Deliet In tie scot oe Me te the welfare and. World. To promo appiness of little children and them free from care. At least et a | the war zone extend in their direction, I know of no better resolution than ” my old creed of humanity; s i if ¥ be belief I may Strange Breads | ECENT despatches from Germany have referred to bread made of| bread, also a familiar mat | J other days, “When tho ground iy beechnuts and acorns, This) po, | toes are mixed w serves to recall that in the earilest| bread is not Mitemtane or wheat the r |days both of these were put to the! The Ltallans are addi au , 0 scant war | game usage. Acorns are still made Into | rations | ih chestnut bread. |pread by certain Indian tribes, and in aie of Italy and Spain are larger than those of Ame! and chestnut bread 1s @ familar artlote oF diet in both lands. We algo heap of banana flour, which In used to | Colonial mes acorn meal was com- mon among the natives. It Is suid; ‘that after being, boiled several times |tho acorns lose their bitter taste, be- degree in South America. Ny |coming sweet and wholesome. jattempts have been made to ints. Almost overything that grows has|!t into this countyy, and it te | been called upon to make bread for| being manutvctured commerctahy. 2 it |man. In remote ages the Exyptians We May bellove those who profess Jot the Nie Valley prepared bread | know, banana flour is both vrata fe | from the seed of lotus flowers. These 84 palatable flowers grew abundantly in the mudj ‘The Mexicans an of the river bottom, and when tho! «tind peay and Deane tain ne eal annual overflow receded there was|Which Is then mado into little came @ harvest of lotun flowers, just as we/and friod. All kinds of cereale "eee harvest wheat to-day Jeaten as bread the world over, millet Early records of the North European | being one of the moat populag Aut tie peoples, particularly in Scandinavta,| East. Should the war continue fo show that the poor subsisted partly number of years it ia just poosiobe on bread made of nothing more sub-| that the American people be etantial than ground moss, But this|compelled to make the ac uaial A ouch slight nutritive value that|of other breadatufty than’ the it waa almost worthless as a food, which they are accustomed, * § ‘ et * f ia