The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1918, Page 22

L, Etening Soria, The PSTARMISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, TPubEshed Daily Except Sunt ! i “ Faye hing Company, Nos, 53 tc Park Now. 63 Park Row 63 Park How. A DOUBLE INDICTMENT. M Jiylan’s finding in the case of the Malbone Strect ‘4 tun A t : Sitting asa te, the Mayor he the Pre Ment and Vice President of 'T., the Secretary of the former, the President of the New ad Company (a B on of York Consolidated Railr s thern Divi PR. T. subsidiary) } the BR. 1. ca degree, uiong wit! 7 The theory that men | Jimit their responsibility to the manipulation of its finances thus gete a severe jolt. It may even come to be recogniz and the Superintendent of the Sc and all chargeable with manslaughter in the second the motorman of the wrecked train. who control a street railway system can D grees faults in operation that have caused the needless sacrifice of " Binety Vives on the ground that he is “not a practical rdilroad man.” But besides this fixing of personal responsibility upon high of rigls of the B. R. T.. a very special and additional interest attaches to fete Mayor's reading of the duties and responsibilities of the Public | Service Commission. 4 Investigation of the Malbone Street disaster, declares the Mayor, has brought out “the apparent failure and culpable neglect of th: Public Service Commissioners to perform their duty to investiguie and inquire into the operating methods of this company, to inspect its construction and equipment and to see that it was safe for the | operation of trains.” Not only does the Public Service Commission Law expressly pro vide that the Public Service Commission shall examine railroads under its jurisdiction “and keep informed as to their general condition, and the manner in which their lines and property are managed, conducted “and operated with respect to the adequacy, security and accommo = dation afforded by their service,” but a contract of March 9, 1913, |) “made and entered into between the city by the Public Service Com- Mission and the New York Municipal Railroad Company, of which Col. Williams was President, and which contract was thereafter assigned to the New York Consolidated Railroad Company,” includes the following: sh ‘The Commission contemplates and the lessee hereby ap- proves the most thorough and minute inspection by the Com- mission and the engineer and by their representatives or 6ub- ordinates of all work and materials entering Into the equipment and reconstructing, extending and equipping of the existing railroads. As against this clearly implied duty of the Public Service Com- mission actively to inspect and inform itself of the conditions of rail- evidence brought out in the investigation of the Malbone Street wreck fy going to show: That the Commission failed to properly inspect the con- struction or reconstruction work at Malbone Street; to see that i it was safe for operation before trains were allowed to pass along and over this reconstructed track, and that it permitted, without protest, radical changes from the original plan and ' specifications in the character of the rails laid at this point, . having allowed, according to the testimony of Menden, the en- gineer, The outside rail to be changed from an elevation of five inches to two inches, thereby causing the cars of the train run- ning at a fast rate of speed around this curve to lurch or sway over and strike the concrete plier or supporting wali, resulting in the death of over ninety persons and injuring approximately two hundred others, Also: Ths Public Service Commissionu failed to compel the in. stallation of proper signals or speed regulation devices which would have checked the speed of the train running over a cer- tain rate of speed. In view of these circumstances the Mayor calls upon District lAttorney Lewis to make a careful investigation to determine whether members of the Public Service Commission of this district can he eharged with criminal neglect of their duty as public officers, The negligent, defiant, evasive policy of B. R. 'T. management has Been notorious and of long standing. Likewise the supine attitude of the Public Service Commission where the B. R. T. has been concerned. Now is the time to welcome action from any quarter that wil! Tead to @ thorough overhauling of both in the interest of the public that has suffered most from both. Letters From “Give Unorganized Labor a Vote Wo Me PALL0F of The Bvening World: Your editorial “Give Unorganized Labor a Voice” is timely and to the point. Your paper is certainly to be con- the People of service, paid a salary which in pur year two years ago. In short, ov gratulated by this vast army of work-| everything, While your action in this respect is appre- | , ing people, and you may be sure that wager of every en the Inbs P clerical fe It may be interesting to hear the] Y ignored, Wiews of some others who are in this} 2Y instances category, ROBERT H. FARRELL Richmond Hill, L. 1 rer, beer ciated by many of that cl: 8 are com for want of proper f for ourselves and our families are ir Dee. describable. 10, 1918. MGive Unorganized Labor a Votce.”| 1n the face of all these undeniab! Tee ces eracig facts, we are importuned to buy Lil On behalf of my many co-workers! TY Bonds, @v your editoric! on unorganized la-|when it refuses to accept the bor, which appeared in your issue of | rest t and threatens to vilif The Evening World of the You certainly struck the eyes of their new em §th instant, | them in the ere. right key-} wor Mote regarding the deplorable condi ed as quite impossible for the) President of a street railway corporation to sidestep all blame for) road operation on lines under its supervision the Mayor instances wage, we are still, after several years chasing value ts only equal to $500 a salary has been practically cut in half on account of the abnormal cost of othor Our mental and, in our bodily sufferings od and clothing EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, Decembér 12, 1918 Wi How Great Wars . Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) No. 11—THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR HRED great peninsulas jut out into the seas that wash the south shores of Europe. If the easternmost of the three had been engulfed by an earthquake a thousand years ago the world would have been spared some of its bloodiest wa: including, perhaps, the present one; for that easternmost jut of land is the Balkan Peninsula, hotbed of revolt, intrigue, violence and sedition and discontent. Says one historian of this pesinsula “The shadow of the Sultan’s scimitar has ever | darkened it, The man is yet to be born who under- | Stands, in all its ramifications, the complicated social and political snarl in which the whole area is entangled.” Bulgaria and Herzegovina (both of them Turkish provinces at that time) started one of their periodical revolts in May, 1876. Turkish troops put down the insurrection with a cruelty that made no less than alx European nations protest. The Sultan paid no heed to the protests. Russa still smarted from her defeat in the Crimoa, twenty years earlier. This looked like a good chance for revenge on the Turk and for absorbing a slice of the latter's possessions, So on the pretext of punishing the cruelties inflicted on Bulgarian Christians, Russia, early 19 | 1877, declared war on Turkey. In June of that year a large Russian army was sent across the Dannbe and on July 13 the Russians crossed the Balkan range, advancing against | Adrianople, They were driven back, but recrossed the Balkans the nett December and routed a strong Turkish force at Shipka Pass. Osman Pasha, the Turks’ best General, meantime was defending Plevna against a far larger body of Russians, who besieged it for twenty weeks before it fell. After the fall of Pievna the rest of Russia's task was comparatively | easy. The Czar's victorious troops presently were sweeping on, unchecked, toward Constantinople, ‘Then, in the very moment of anticipated triumph, Russia's advance was halted at the very gates of Constantinople by command of the other | European nations, The “balance of power,” they claimed, would be menaced if the Rus- sian army were allowed to enter the Turkish capital. Peace negotiations followed, and in January of 1879 the Treaty of Con- stantinople was signed (following the preliminary | pmmnnnrrnnenrd “Treaty of Stefano). By the terms of this treaty Russia Gets Roumanian Bessarabia and part of Armenia were i $164,100,000. i ceded to Russia by Turkey. Bulgaria became a | “home rule” principality. Serbia and Montenegro | and Roumania were made free countries, while | Bosnia and Herzegovina came under Austrian dominion, | Thus was Turkey shorn of most of her Balkan possessions, Thus, too, did Russla erase, in part, the shameful memory of the Crimean War, But the Russian triumph was embittered by the refusal of the Powers, | to let the Czar’s troops enter Constantinople, ‘The territory annexed was less than Russia had hoped for, too, as was the indemnity ($161,100,000) | which she wrung from her beaten foe. So ended the war—the Powers having once more intervened in the | alek of time to rescue Turkey from her ancient foe and to curb Russia's gnawing ambition for conqest. Not for another thirty-five years were Turkey and Russia to be arrayed against each other in conflict—and then they were destined to clash in a | world war which well-righ destroyed both of them. Do You See Our Beautiful World? The Jarr Famil ly By Sophie Irene Loeb Its Inspiration May Be Just What You Need. Copyright, 1918, by Tye Pres Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World.) HE other day @ friend from the |for lack of interest to look for them! West camo here to visit, We | Isn't it time to turn over “Giving Us a Very American Character” The Frees Publinhing fork Evening World.) xy HEARST 2 WEws PAPERS RONT PAGE » a hi erred g Turkey Puts Down Insur, ection, o—! | | | Oem By Roy L. McCardelle purse into the wrist bag, hung it un- der the skirt again, locked the closet again and hid the key where she wouldn't remember it the next time she wanted it, and then fished deftly into the top of her stocking, keeping has changed a viewpoint times with- | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) vut number, It is good beyond meas-| My, Jarr Plays “Now You See It and Now You Don’t” ire to make it a habit to take no- | 66QRAY, dearie, could you let me | S have a couple of dollars?” | JUce of the beautiful world as well as of the day it is?” Mr. Jarr pleaded asked Mr. Jarr plaintively, plaintively, “I need two dollars—not |a whole lot of money, but just two the workaday ore, You don't reauize | !t yourself, but the spirit of it or n- new jeaf? wero riding on @ northbound| For four miserable years no one |*Piration enters into your being and | for It wag mid-week |dollars—or I wouldn't ask for it.” |her buck turned all the while—for it surface car, A8|with any heart could enjoy anything. |Five# you renewed hope, renewed| “Good gracious! You know I am Mrs, Jarr signed and ier Te- |isn't weil to let 4 husband know how we) paneed the |The beatiitill aide of life wal largely | islon: | trying to save for Christmas things! |marked she supposed she would Nave’ much money Is in hand, #0 t6 speak. various intersec-|lost in the bombs of battlefield and| Mothers should begin with little | What do you want that much money |to lt him have it or there would be| 4+ the conclusion of all these finan- Mane oe teal te cats oe Rerteal |children to point out these natural | for?" Mrs, Jarr inquired. ue sak with him,-but she ete cial preliminary ceremonies sho . ‘ i “We I t|how she was going to pay her Papas ji streets she said, if . _ | beauties, Well, if I must itemize it, I wan f handed Mr, Jarr a crumpled one eaNe: we tie be ee ees Neem al Even in the congested areas in the|to buy a fur-lined overcoat, a run-/or have a cent for Christmas when | qo, yin), pica Most mockery as compared to the] ais evening. children may te| about automobile, have my yacht put|he took all the money away from hor an ? ed what beau: |business of winning the war, Butliauent to took for the new up in winter quarters, get a diamond |and wouldn't even tell her what he Gee whis: ad eer are. Phere titul views you |now is a good time for every human! (QUE 10 look fae the, moh, ‘ wanted with it souldn't have hean Any more stay e get of tho sky |being to get something of the artistic | 2° on ‘ae :. A t ws lebiahay love ariel DIN" om ve to be| Then took place that mysterious and delay in getting the money out toward the lelement of existence, | eaaee park and to guard them Now, please don't Rid ty and wonderful performance that al-|0f @ national bank! And only @ dol- river? as old riends, funny!" interrupted Mrs. arr. 1 ” , a good part of reconstruction, | y vaya ensues. when a ‘ jar, too Wnawetinies vas you pane |ynit 1,2 food part of reconstruction,| “yey, it iy u beautiful world, even |“What do you want a whole lot of| Wava ensues when a married man of|!@r | the east and west atn ax8 |this absorbing into your muke-UP|in a great congested city like this. |money this time in the week for?” |teas than moderate means tries to get/ “It's enough for you, and J was Wie Gast ans week siesta the: tall lace of the finer instincts to Which| way, inen, iet It “waste Ha swoot- | “What ditterence does it make|®, tte cash out of the wilely ex-|Keoning that dollar to buy Thrifty buildings make a regular frame, as jail humans are heir, After all, it is], yas tems fet It “ws ts sweet | na erence does it make) Chequer, Stamps!" Mrs, Jarr declared. Just in pictures, You get a fine bit of|a very large sky, and no one has a[™™ OD THO Gesert alr” what time of the week or wha First, Mrs, Jarr opened one of the|gnen Gertrude, the Jarr’s faithful sett ; pane, on it, It belongs to the ; ‘ bureau drawers and looked under the] family retainer, came in and whis- “And in the west at sunset these |poor man as well as the rich. B yj 1 ] R fl t paper that covered the bottom, Then ‘ as well 3 h E pered to Mrs, Jarr. ent a west st monet sans oor masa wat eae | | iomeiow Ciel Peectiong ee ee i I pointed this out to several |mission fee is to look. Perhaps you of the larger bureeu drawers. and Pe ela ins a B . 4 Jarr, “I don't like those little balls friends while visiting here," she | will think it is a waste of time, this B y Helen Rowland searched at the back and underneath |), up will one give ‘es taat said, “but no one had noticed it |searching for pretty scenes, It is not, Copyright, 1918, by The Vress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) some neatly folded wearing apparel dollar go he can take out ninetcon erybody seems so busy, yet If the records of everyday + : , in this drawer, without wrinkling or : - . 2 y " 7 ents? I haven't any change.” they will look at a@ little etching of |could but be disclosed you would " Starving Broadway! disturbing anything. ‘Then she shook |“ " | ett ise, eeate hack just Venice or Romo, which has no more | realize how big a part it has played 66 OME dine with me, my Love,” quoth he, both the ornamental vases on the] oie voice of a street peddler was than a bit of sky and earth, and|in the accomplishment and adjust- “At a cafe, a la carte!” mantel, but the sounds that resulted Hae i the land will say, ‘Oh, how wonderful!’ |ment of things, ried she, “How sweet! But, first, let's eat evidently gave no response of what | beard in the & ; t they never see the beauties | I know people who have had great Some FOOD before we start!” she was looking for, NEVE @ rama WIth Bota sOen ER of their own city, surrounded as it ts |troubles. They have taken a walk in ts “You're foolish hiding your money sl ony bad eae bia ate by majestic harbors, as scenically |the park. ‘They have looked up at Some husbands are just like Congress. As far as they are concerned, | around like that,” ventured Mr, Jars, ia ep eats ae oe ie picturesque as anything in the world. |the sky or the trees, or a bit of wa mhaiavec 1a: tawinnet “If any of those apartment house|th® window. “Give Gertrude the “You New Yorkers usually go out-|ter, Sometimes in the very serious thieves got in those would be the first|™oney for a peck, Ob, I'll let you side your own city to see lovely scenes when they are at very doors No the T mes was ever nore dreamlike ne have it again of their suffering they have idly paused to gaze, and out of the very air a bright thought came, very often places they'd look. Mrs, Jarr only gave him a scornful glance and resumed her search. She If there were only one man and two women in all the world, the man would marry one of them because she was “SO different” from the other, and then flirt your Mr. Jarr sighed and passed over the on ey, and rushed out, Master Wil- view mo! or artistic than your }a golution to the difficulties. looked under the long hand-painted| le Jarr held him up at the door. ‘d ferries coming through in the fog. | A girl once told me she was about with the other for the same reason. pincushion on her bureau—the work|Ho, pop! Give me and Emma 10 “Or iv it that in your great metrop- |to take her Hfe at the river she ye : of the fair hands of her deur friend|cents apiece for the movies—it's an is you are so busy making millions | paused a moment by a small boat, Funny how things change! Nowadays We &@F€/Gjgra Mudridge-Smith—and then |educational film, won't cha? It's called and rushing for subway trains that | The lapping of the incoming waves on ashamed to admit most of the things that people used | among all the nondescript junk in the| ‘Save the Pennies.’ é you do not care to ‘commune with | the boat caused her to listen to the to brag about—for instance, that we are perfectly |old silk-covered bonbon box she used| «No," said Mr, Jarr shortly. “Ask yature in her visible forms’? soothing, musical sound, "Gn 7 happily married; that we take a bath on Saturday /to hold a vast collection of buttons! your mamma!" But knowing the te "| “I wonder If you all realize how) She began to reason that there} “SM Se” jient: that we don’t fox-trot or play cards and that/and darning implements tility of this, Master Jarr burst forth jmueh you lose at the end of the might still be something in life in|we “spend money like a prince!” Suddenly she stopped her search| inte a prolonged 1, and Mr, Jarr of course —<_— store for her, and thus saved herself, — my] A waik in the air and the sunlight, of us|away from a cramped room, where ely things just ]the imagination has been narrowed, and snapped out: “You're getting me| “came through, as nervous t! WN find it if ee you'll only leave me alone!” SUPERFLUOUS 1 ce nd's really but reflect How do lose the | uid not analy si on many Somehow a man never can understand why his wife and everybody ae 8 © else should always elect to disagree with him on the same day when his INQUIRY. If this is not conducive to causing Then she looked under the edge of the carpet by the radiator, and then between the mattress and box spring of the bed, where sne found what she was searching for—a key. breakfast does, Lots of Salmon This Year of The gir) who sits at home and waits for Fate to send her a husband HE total eateh Kamchatka | thought to be the unusually large ar- will find that the deliveries are awfully slow these busy days, salmon for this season ds esti- |fival of red salmon, to which the fish- 7" With this key she unlocked her mated at 400,000 boxes, includ. | @rmen have devoted most of their at- Every man prides himself on his “horse sense,” but a horse has just |closet, and from behind a hanging tention, 300,000 boxes of red salmon, 50,000| jingiand and France are restricting |sense enough to permit himself to be led around by the nose by some |skirt found a handbag from which serious trouble, please tell me what] boxes of other mon and 40,000|the price of salmon, and no red sal-|\ittle two-by-four whom he could walk all over with one foot, she took @ small, flat purse with a tfon in which thousands of clerical] is? Remember, the worm will turn |» Ivers, but the takes In| Mon can be imported into England at ynap fastener, Having opened this Workers, unorganized, find themselves | some time | Ka he Kurile Islands are eel 4 A eweethcart is a man's-Saturday afternoon—a wife his Sunday [she pawed through some small coins fet the present time, We in the Navy] 1 Write this wholly in the interest | v he quantity of red sal and some long-expired street cap y anised, yet, notwith.| °°, ‘ne clase referred to In your ad- | equal to the sloeintiaed transfers, headache tablets and ‘a ‘ard are organized, yet, notwith-| i irabie editorial : inet ea muah tation of saimon direct ptanding that fact, and that we are twenuous efforts to get @ living NAVY YARD CLERK, Manhattan, N, ¥,, Deo, 10, 1918, small folding button hook. These she had a!) emptied into her hand, She now replaced them, put back the and a certain firm in England ts said less, trout being only one-fifth of the [te have been prohibited from import. usual quantity, The reason for thisis ing Canadian and American salmon, Suggestion for a Christmas present for the Kaiser: cally American—say an Oklahoma lavalliere Something typ!- 66YN the big hotel I stopped at, up to Kay See," related Jay Haw- hee, of Petunia, “there was @ placard on the door, right where you'd see it the last thing before |leaving your room, and it said: ‘Stop! Have you anything left?" “I've seen that sign lots of times when I was in the city,” returned Burt Blurt, “But you've got it wrong, It says: ‘Stop! Have you left anything?’ ” “Him! I guess that's it, after all. If they thought a feller had anything left they'd take it away from him without asking.”—Kansas City Star, Pa “