The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1918, Page 14

Emo ANN Cala! WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918 New Yorkers Dig Deep I. | \ Vee yh (2, To Help Pay Cost of War; | Philadelphia Pore the Burden During Revolution, and a Philadelphia Kanker Found Most of Money lo Fight Civil) It Takes a Particularly Agile Ouija Board to Do It Intelligently, but There Is * Wer But This City is Now Contributing at Least One-| 7 Third of the Country's Added Expens One “Queery”’ It Will Never Answer in Full, Though the Peat Is Accom- : ‘ es ee plished Here No Occult Board Could Ever Do It. amuel M. Williams BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright, i915 Lvening World: wie WHS, by the Press ishing Yok Wveniug Word) by she wouldn't have any sucks to mion4, She Is dependent on huody SW FOMh vin w Ite can si 16 pluce of fi © Ouija board, whl sy hocks to tend, And vest buttons to sew on, sundry to wast, shoes N tribu a te in Ali oly 4 all occult hier unray te plnociile to be polished, linen to be patched, trousers to be creased, fires to be sh dpi be t loms, siinpiitica serum aed ogee tnto | w 8 to be mantour floors to be massage brenkf iat, Hon, to tesucs 1 were almost equal to fyture, CAN ANAWEr momt queertos, kind the Questiony loa und supper to be cooked, and a nililion othor things, the rer Civil Wa } % The man who matriculates tn the Questionnaire Club cert | but, she's dependent on hubberino, Atter pei 4 in round number | herita nt d Moulum c Hons, {a husband didn't have a wife dependent on n, he wouldn't $3,090,090,000, This w. | nave wants to kno yokes an ant so narrow t body to find Kis neckties, hammer wtuds Into his fall total of variou ug, the four j » the What becomes of the wool that a moth cats, why th ess shirt, button hig collar, mend his gloves and harness him up confilct, and ec e time, Dur ir doesn't Helleve in Banta Claus, how much income you derived r his lodge dinners, And on the morning after, if « husband didn't the Federal Res New York ha b from sellin: straw hata to the Eastin + do you spend that ruse | have a wife dependent on him he wouldn't have anybody to smcar 000 of the L | h the bors promived you but fo ve you, is @ zebra black | cracked ice on hiy incandescent ekull, bandage a wet towel around s enormous sum directly subzcrived, the banks of | th white sttipca ‘or white wi ch ws, why does a squirrel bother his dome and feed him on tablespoons full of orange juice, Its gront have been temporarily faancing the Government wit ne ) put food away for the winter when he cua go down to | to haven wite dopendent on you, pendl d iesie Just what proportion of the mut Villas t bie food freah every day, ond a thousand oth 10) And If Gus Husband didn't have Minalo Wife abso-gosh-darned- of maiiiion td on throe ind six uomthy paper wie taken tona th y tke a Ouija bowrd saucwk for an eight-hour day, lutely dependent on him he wouldn't bave any flnancter around to make not thade public, but {t ly enally two-thirds of the-cure | ayeorios that the Queery Honrd ants the barttone voters of one measly dollar do nding. | Now York are funny, But one queery tar ynif as funoy as the answer, ‘The first of war taxes has beon levied but not yet collected. During | The Queery Department alma an oar at the candidate for the tle with the grocer ov the telephone, bend a frying pan ov witho n'y ear, make ome y eggs in ‘em and sweep up © work of five, spar with the instalment buys, bat- the coal his the next «lx months New Yorkers will have to hand in their contribu: | com» tux ond wants to know {f he anybody dependent on him ta cigar ashes off the floor, And if Friend Husband didn’t have Friend tions under rates heavier than ever before known in this country, In addition to a few bartenders and | 1 eberks, Wife positively dependent on ldn't have a domestic sleuth no ious war of the United States wan eo large a pro} on ofthe | And what does the candidate for income tax t 8 answer? | wround to find his pipe, warm , collect hia smoking Jacket Durden Inid In the form of direct taxes as now. An eat nade 8a wife dependent on him, | and tron out the wrin in the ¢ chalr, It's fine stuff to have that New York State and stropolitan area will yleld more than ya Jependent oa hin a wife dependent on you, one-third of the total w “ 4 ” « dependent on him, And this That's only one or two thir ut a wife ta dopendent on a hus- In the Revolutfonary War Now York dfd not ple ery Inrge in tho extont to which 1 nt on her hubl Tfit were not for | band for, The full Ist looks like » Seavs-Roebuck catalog Building the Great Ships for the United States Govern —— ST Ont oF crus a Sn SHIPYARD SIH = WHICH Tee = ONET ES INTERIOR & STANDARDIZED VEEL. She my Form TRANS ye ‘ey biden: Det SFINLSMING:' PROPELLER GLADES- enn financial pa muse the of as in possession of the British during struggles the contre of war finance: hiadelphia | most of 1 Government, however, did its part rather than New York, Robert Morris, Philadelp ' as the | js t ed a bankrupt Continental Congress, but the Gen, Washington and straining bank credit to assist t ruagling . Sipaxst eeaur Aianaulen and the ves w ate G At expended $2,196,570 in | golontes: | Ate ; ft nts pave been consid- nden whi 4 & considerable debt for the | James Girard, another Philadelphia banker, was the leading fise possible to ec }- agent of t er in Jay Co: the War of 1812. Durlug the Civil War r of the same efty, achleved fan) y and re The dered great help to the Government by his activity in selile to-day. wonds. cent, of miner total amount, {nc outer Govern | H 3 the origt in this country of spectacular campatgns to gell cents, fr : ment toward the war, was ju € Revelu bonds by advertletng, meetings and personal golleitation, HM nleved » the ecouus Mhroe-t a tion, ‘The Mextean War 1 Federal great success with tue fivetwenty loan, which was not closed on @ Deak rear inupintec gre bond Issue. There js no record of the amount york, | certain day tut stood open for sales more than two yea | ee Seite aud uromlds for the securities were quickly a mn | In this latest war New York {g the unrivalled finance centre, Ite | ‘Phe age of the Wa has been eae | "Pg int sulphate anil) carbon Civil War th tat riated | bankers have taken away from Pliladelplfa te front rank post of ding authority, 1rOk |e Or ame PREY TR asstating the F a ing | honor, both in contributten ney and service, The Liberty Loaa Bot the United States esides traces of various ot But it was in ¢ ow rer Committes of Metyor stints neither {n wealth, me nor Bless eulyras , including gold sum was contributed. State Comptroller t the effort to 9 ing inparalleled ¢ \ tho count |2eare bp aon as ter ty not yet a total te and Jocal Government expenditures for th rt $ | Was in mithte titts now tn bf ied AML the water | Urated solutto: that i onta the Civil War were alm © hated by the West q tas lene 4 ail the salt tt will hold ous ds bought and Joan in providing the fir 9 : when Uiat polut ts olls, Large amounts of th two principal bond issues will drop to the bottom, is enormous enough, now tho earth. |“ | Wild Rabbit Meat for Wartime Menus Rey Ans train ah athe oe yprox! ment’s New Merchant Marine n to make saa water At salts Alee In: hed the Just When the Future Seemed Darkest, Thomas Cochran alate how | 6 estimates, to cover the wh« sent rer wary : ted States a mile and a half deep allotment records were not ke; asr A noerva estt AKTIME o average f began was the work | Ree rectt aa tavnlt prtbon mato can be made of Now York's share in that war debt, and t i W ‘ pork {a Kan-| when dress T ‘ x neral salts wero e ; Fe eee wana alte made randy one-third, or $1,000,000,000 to develop a rather ex-| proxit 1 may from the he over which | P istain life, AU wator 1a stilt 1 In the present world struggle the credit side of New Yor ig \traordina business ket-| quired to Ml ¢ > fur ts} and depusitod in the » former i aly hoated vapor) @hows the following contributions to the Govern of wild rabbit 9 endl disposed of ut» nt, It} 3 year the ai @ streama |put aa the axes pase it will eons Liberty loan iptions. * $2,727 t Ay use f. f high-| ro walt nd form oceans and rivers. ong | : Nari goe so! th A ge |after the earth has become dead and War taxes (estimated)..... 5 i + froxeu bunnies nak f men's All waste amount of salt | parren a new world, @ hundred timas| State Government expensos.. 9,000.6 pcan is, saya b fF Mechanica, }producta are c fortiliner 6 rivers of the world is!) cater in bulk, will support plant | 1A recent contract ca for 480,000] ‘The indy la the country of © the sclentists and com- und animal life, perhaps startingly Total New Yor}, first year $5,745,000,0 pounds of jackraboli moa, sbele crop-desiroying pest, pared Witd the total quantity im (be different trom those we know, . _WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, \1918 ‘Winning Out Before Fort oe 6 Jr. Took a Resolution That Drove the Clouds Away —~ Now He ls a Member of J. P. Morgan & Co. By James C. Young the Press Publishing Co. (The York Evening World, OWN in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co, there ts a young man D iting Uehind a big desk in the far corner. He fs Thomas Cochran jr, twelfth partner in the house of Morgan, and a prominent figure among tue younger group of New York bankers, Not loug ago he was President of the Liberty National Bank, And only @ few years before t time be was @ junior clerk. Tho three stepping scones have been linked together and each upward step made posslole by persistent energy and the happy ulty of getting results, Mr, Cochran did not start at the lowest rung. He began weil up the ladder, having @ father of judependent means who sent him to preparatory echool and the Yale. So ho was in a fair way to an assured future when fate began to play him tricks, The elder Cochran met business reverses a and the son found himself facing a few realities that ho had never met before, That was in his junior year. The Only Way Out of Trouble. H bh went Lack to St. Paul, his home, and helped straighten the tangle of his father's affairs, The assets were considerable, but the Mabilides even ntore numerous. ‘There seemed no way to span the gap between. There was a way, Young Cochran assumed the debt. Then he returned to Yale, bent on working through the university. This he accomplished and took up the real business of life with a handicap that would certainly have made most men pause. There was no able opportunity that promised much, For a time he taught school, a task which did not help greatly, He looked about for another and er openatng. This led him to test fortune from a very different angle, He entered the hardware business in St, Paul. And as he went along he paid small instalments n the debt, But the hardware 1918. y OC Haas LW ye: businoes was not a gr So Mr. Cochran tri Once more his progress ghtest progress to show for hls 1113 brought him to the year 1 York City, Jb il seeking the opportunity d. ‘Things vegan to improye, He became an officer of a real estuto concern, The position was the ans of extending his busine experionce. About tht th He P, Davison was en d with plans for a new trust company, He was a ve usy man and looked about for e@ one to help bim. His choleefell upon two young men, One of 1 was Thomas Cochran Jr. He toe old od to establish the Astor Trust Company, becoming Vi t institution. He Climbs Another Notch. M Kt. COCHRAN conunued y 4 He had ¢ t Astor Trust for seven yoars. ome to the forty mark, holding a respon one of tho city's progressive banking estabiishmen © post in , being directly sible for much of its success, All of the old debt was paid, the future beckoned on, In 1914 the I Natlonal Bank's directors ast urond for a man to t over the p dency. Once more Thomas Cochran Jr, was picked for the task In hand. He accepted, left the Astor Trust and set Limself to m » the Liberty nal, It soon dectine u matter of common know! that the institution was pro sing fn a notable way. E mW institutions have with relation to world ey since war be ‘at gi u eh an import position s us that held by the rgan firm ost four years ago, iret 48 the agent of the Allies and more recently as @ supporter of the United States Govern: ment, it has exercised a strong influence upon the course of the confilet. Mr. Cochran entered the firm at a time when it apparently is just eatering upon the period of its greatest growth ‘Those who have watched his advancement believe that he will be fully abreast of its progress and ready for whatever may come, aa