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See ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH oLreame. the wa hy " sept Benger D7 the Tre Fe ing Company, Nos, | Hf PULIT! President, 63 Park Row, | , 63 Park Row. blot PULATERR, Jr Becretary, 63 Park Tow. | ihe « MEMMER OF arts LUME 59. AVE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. 4 GAIN, as so many times before, New York’ hears that Madison! Squere Garden is to go—the project this time being for a twenty-story building on the site, to house various religious! tions. j as so many times before, New Yorkers will protest they the famous structure 6o long indispensable to the city's , 80 long intimately bound up in the eity's memories. sim, &6 60 many times before, there will be deep and wide y at the idea of turning wreckers loose on Stanford White’s| tif) realization of « great amusement arena; where orchestras divas have delighted millions; where New York has heard ts, political leaders and oratots make memorable speeches | movements and campaigns; where Roosevelt, Henry George, | m Jennings Bryan, Bourke Cockran, Tom Johnson and scores pa have spoken to vast gatherings on issues that are part of tion’s past; where music and oratory have shared the honors, day heel-dnd-toe walkers, bicycle racers and boxers; where | York Horse Show in its bright and palmy days was one of brilliant annual events in this or any country; where auto-’ shows, fairs, pageants, poultry exhibits, dog shows, athletic’ , aviation shows and circuses have followed one another in_ thrilling succession under the spacious, democratic roof of, biggest gathering place. (¢ is true that, again and again, Madison Square Garden has been! ’ , auctioned, sold, threatened with destruction—only, to ‘a few years longer in each.case, thanks to speculative hopes, | ot the public spirited attitude of those who have at one time! controlled it. | Bat ‘some day New Yorkers will wake up to find Madison ek from its fine old walls. i ; day is bound to come unless New York realizes and ges soon that the only way to save the Garden is to save it. nd regrots won't do the job. : : \ his is the richest community in thé Western’ Hemisphere. Botween popular subscription and municipal initiative backed | funds it ought to be possible to preserve to the | fle of NUW''York a structure which they need so much (the | nothing to take the place of Madison Square Garden) and | which they profess to care so much——when the assessed valua- @f that structure is only $2,850,000. ni) building is not only of great use to New York. It is }a cherished, beautiful and worthy ornament to New York. | To let it be torn down would be a deplorable manifestation | How deep does all the sentiment go? | start a definite movement to buy Madison Square | m for the city and pay for it out of the pockets of the city | ee feprblication UW ye Ry EF Ry Rca .NO, 21,086 — ¥ san a ri ce mi s) oeo"* THE SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. © Criticism of the present telephone service in this city Z reply from F. H. Bothell, First Vico President of the | New York Telephone Company, in which most of the blame \ " tly passed back to the war, { ig becomes more and more clear: Reconstruction, | is eminently @ period during which greatly increased | Prices of common commodities or greatly lowered standards | wervice may be maintained almost indefinitely by | prolongation of the usefulness of war as a blanket | singular thing is that neither the war nor recon- is iegarded as furnishing the consumer with the argument against paying constantly more for. com- @r service of which he gets constantly less or for any less promptly. ‘What if a telephone subscriber were to explain that Lib bonds, war taxes, war contributions and war prices forced Bim t let part of his telephone bill run a couple of months? ae he escape having his @lephone service “diseon- Somehow “war's necessiti as Mr, Bethell calls them, | De invoked only on the one side. | —_——_—~+. ‘The Third Avenue elevated line is to lose its vermiform ‘appendix which runs along 42d Street to the Grand Central ‘Biation, a ‘Public iN oe a v. Smith has signed the bill which permits the Commission to order the necessary operation. _. Manbattan long since outgrew any real need of the @levated spur which darkens 424 Street. The neighborhood of ‘Grand Central Terminal has grown to be one of the greatest -4n4 most multifariously linked transit centres in this or any “Sther city, But the multifariousness is 90 per cent. under- ‘The surface in this section—with the now Park viaduct to help—should enter upon a new era of open Letters from the People THE “DRY” LOBBY, TOO. )of the resolytion, to probe the of The yew pe: , preg Ral alt be’ . toa It a solemn BI ran tanny |Moatie, on the completion crite e tion investigation, to forthwi sfatentigation of thel. complete. ‘unprejudicea, Fee cieee t 7 lobbying made » by Sepator George F. ate and formal inquiry into the scan- dalous and persistent lobbying a tivities of the Anti-Saloon League, no- ere UCM 2-€ lM: | EDIT : Thursday, Spilled (® ASSOCIATED PRESS, | Milk! — ORIAL PAGE May 15, 191) The Plant That Will Not Die| By Sophie Copyright, 1919, by we Press Pubiishing Co, |Rocks of Disaster That After All Are Nothing Irene Loeb (The New Yoru Bvening World) More Than the Stepping Stones to Success. T Christmas time a friend sent me afew roota of a plant—I believe it came from China or Japan. She told me to put them in water and they would grow into beautiful green leaves and that they would always be the| same, She had had one for yours It was just as she said, These roots are in a vase of water and they bear the most beautiful green leaves all the time. The \ ater is changed once a week. On occasions we forgot to change the water, but it does not matter, Sometimes the vase 1s placed 'n a dark corner where little or no lpht comes, It has been moved about and nothing seems to harm it. It sends forth beautiful green leaves {ast the samo, and it grows ih epite of anything that ts done to it wifich might seem to retard its wel being, Often I have looked at this little plant and it has reminded me of pev- ple that [ know, They jusi refuse to | be beaten, ‘They grow in spite of everything. |Sometimes the more difficulties you \put in the way the more they seem to thrive, They do not know failure because they will not recognize fail- ure, | 1 know of a little man, He ts des |tormed, He has been in various hospitals and sanitarlums and yet his spirit cannot be broken and he grows better all the time. He makes beautiful etchings that erybody loves to buy and he ts successful at his trade, Every little while some doctor sug- gosta an operation and he goes through it and comes out—to go oa with his etching, You just can't beat him down, His work continues despite his aches md pains and deformities, | bunchbuck, take yp the burden of making a liv- ing. But they went right on. Nothing could stop the growth and success of this family, To-day they are prosperous and happy. They look back at their trials and tribu- lations with smiles. Instead of calling them rocks of disaster» they term them stepping stones to success. I remember Marshall Wilder, whose little, deforme: body went about the world making everybody laugh, And he did make merry with Kings and queens in varl- ous countries of the world. He married, and two beautiful chil- father. One of the things he used to say was “The Lord handed me a lemon and I made lemonade out of it.” On the other hand, there are those who just collapse at the first sign of trouble. Unlike the plant that I speak about, they can't bear to de moved or discomforted. They just won't take things as they come, There is much to be learned from my little plant. If it could speak it would say, “Nothing can beat me, I will grow in spite of everything, 1 will not die. If life is a game of the survival of the fittest, 1 will survive." At is certainly a good creed for the everyday human to follow. Sidelights on the Famous, OHN RANDOLPH once described Delaware a: State having four counties at low tide and three at high tide.” Before Rene Fonck, the famous French airman, left Paris last month for America he was given a lunch- eon at which Ambassador Sharp, a bit surprised to learn that Capt. Fonck, after receiving & great wel. come in the United States, was re- turning to France by airplane.” man on his staff, during both this session and Jast year’s session of the Senate, far iMegality, impropriety re Od lobby that has done more to tm- Ne Set, A ye In tert, the; I know a family in Pennsylvania who first had Johnstown flood came, everything. They They suffered | build up @ home again, . ios | Several times they moved and de-| Ol! " , ) 198 | hele Wh 2 pe gp An ne toery reverses when the Daniel Webs! in 4 he pleaded once. was born Federalist, I have liv Democratic town. dren now enjoy the memories of their | who presided, said, “i would not be The late Lord Kitehener—"ic of K." —was a bachelor, ahd It has been sad | spree n that he declined to have a married | Ti8h't tke living in taken il] one day a town of decided Democratic leanings, begged his friends to take lost | him home great damage by fire after hard work to a a Federalist, and I can’t die in a iv Wendell Holmes'a idea of Jeroen, Now York's nes The Jarr Family: By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) As Surburban Visitors Mr. Jarr and Friends Are As Welcome As the Frosts in May! OU haven't been out to my Little] some day next week I'll blow Mr. aad place in the gountry for a long| Mrs. Jarr and Jenkins gnd his, wife time,” said JeM@kins, the book-|to a little theatre party, and Jarr keeper, genialiy. and his wife can get up something in “No. Not @nce last summer,” re-|return, and we'll have a good socla- plied Mr. Jarr. | ble time—that's what I belleve in!” “Well, East Malaria is beautiful al!} “Sure:” ‘sald Jenkins and Jarr, tn the ee eee cctins and |One breath. And they shook bands I think it's a shame that the fellows) 0 it jin this office are not more chummy.| ‘We could have done this long ago,” | Not that we are not congenial,” addod |tremarked Mr. Jarr, gleefully, when \Jenkins. “We are all good fellows! the trio started for the train. here together and get along famously.| We stop and have somthing?” |I think that’s one trouble. If we wero} “We haven't time,” said Jenkins; Jall on the grouch at each other, if| "we'll miss the 5.19 and there isn’ an. lever man had a knife out for the|other express till 6.30." jother fellow, we'd be giving beefsteak “Nix on the drink thing, anyway,” said the moral Johnson. “We are going out to see a charming lady, Mrs. Jenkins, She's a good fellow, of course, but it isn’t the right thing to come in a bunch redolent of rum. Besides, old King Alcohol is a dead one. Let us try to get used to living without him, we'll have to do it soon, atlyhow!”" “By the way,” asked Mr, Jarr sud- denly, “you telephoned you were bringing company, didn't you?” ‘parties and gittle office dinners, and \if there was anybody we especially hated from the ground up we'd get |sentimentally soused over him as the} |great guest of honor, present li!ra) jwith a costly and ornate loving cup and weep tears of love and fellowship as we sang “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!’ breaking down dismally at the ‘So Say We All of U “I think you're about right, said Johnson, the cashier. “We don’t get together that way because we are all) “No, I wanted to give her a little good friends and don't have to put| surprise,” replied Jenkins, “She'll on any false pretenses with each/like that. My wife is one of those other,” kind of women that don’t care what trouble J cause hér, or whom I bring home or when—so long as I do bring them home. What makes her sore is when I stay away and don’t send word.” Mr. Jarr winced, He had forgotten the telegram. “There's another train,” said the gallant Johnson, “I'm not going to give extra trouble and work to a lady, a charming, pleasant tempered lady, unless I take her a box of candy ahd a bunch of roses.” “We can have a drink, too,® said Mr, Jarr feebly, He felt the need of @ bracer. “Nothing doing!” said the virtuous Johnson, ‘Member what I said about boozy breaths!” “Besides,” said Jenkins, “we've got plenty of stuff home, My wife likes to see the boys have a gvod time in her house.” ‘They got the flowers and candy, ab- stained from alcoholic stimulants ang caught the 641, The 5.41 promptly ditched itself six miles from 7 Malaria and came limping in at 11. “It's all the more reason we should get together a little more outside the office,” said Jenkins. “Now, you fel- lows who live in town could come out to my little place in East Malaria, and my wife and I could come to town oftener, and we could have lit- Ue dinners and theatre parties—Dutch treat you know—and, have a govd time socially together.” “This season of the year makes a fellow think of those things,” said Johnson, “and, after all, we might as well have some fun while we ure alive.” “I see no reason why you shouldn't come out, too, Johnson,” said Jenkins, warmly. “We got plenty of room flat im the city, We got lots of roo “Sure,” replied Mr. Jarr, now on- thused, “John's a bachelor, he hasn't got t ask anybody’s permision, and Tl send my wife a telegram; if I call her on the phone to tell h ject or wouldn't believe m “We'll make these the first of little ow veunlons,” — said “Shall; Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Covmicht, 1919, by the Press Pubishing Co, (The New York Bveniag World). ‘ “First Love’? Number HE beauty of “first love” is that it ts all incense—and so little com mon sense. T | Sometimes it is dificult for a modern bachelor to recollect just who } was the first girl that ever proposed to him. * ‘ff _ ? A man plays fis role in his first love affair like * an amateur actor, with fire and enthusiasm, but with | out poise or method; later he becomes so technical that 4 he can make his pretty speeches backward without #. single thrill, First love iq like spring flowers, the sweetest,” tenderest and most beautiful—and alas, the most perish- able! ¥ A man's first love is the only woman who ever [occupies his whole heart; after that he begins dividing up that sentimental » | dwelling into little compartments like a New York landlord, and filling it + with several tenants at once. A Among a man's sweethearts the first {s never the last—and the last ean | always be eure that she isn’t the frst. An engagement fs merely a little rehearsal for matrimony—and marry- © * } jing your first love is staging the great drama of life without any re } hearsals. * A man never forgets his first love—nor forgives her if she marries’ » him. ecnoepplte : Time and distance DO lend enchantment! A man always treasures |the memory of his first love affair as he would a beautiful and precious | antique—but the memory of the one just before the last holds no more |atiraction for him than—well, than mid-Victorian furniture. Ah me! It ; tn. first love could only last—or the last could only be like the first! How They Made Good § By Albert Payson Terhune No. Copfriebt, 1919; by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 34—PETER COOPER, Who Made Good By Helping His Fellow-Men. E was Peter Cooper, son of a Revolutionary soldier. His father trted his hand at many trades and kept young Peter at work with him-on all of them. First, a8 a mere child, Peter toiled as a hatter’s helper for his soldier father. Then, still in his father’s employ, he worked in the latter's brewery and them iu a brickyard, and later switched back to batmaking, All this left the boy scant time for study. He had a craving for education, spent sych scraps of leisure as he could get in trying to make up for his loat chances. From one business to another he drifted, battling valiantly with illluck. And at last, in 1828, he founded the Canton iron Works, which started him fairly along the road to success. ’ From bis own designs, in 1830, he built the first railroad locomotive ever constructed in America. With the profits of these enterprises he came | back to New York and launched one set of iron works after another. Then, joining forces with Cyrus Field, he financed the Atlantic cable and helped steer that supposedly impossible venture to a triumphant suc- ee » 0¢8s. While the cable was still a mere costly ex- With Ill-Luck. § jooked-on the enterprise as iditie. bonis ortetraemeeaicte> ¢ Then began the career which won for him his | true claim to immortality—the career in which he had resolved to make | good by being of solid use to his fellow-men, “He is most*widely known,” writes his biographer, “in connection with his Interest in industrial education. Hiv own experience early impressed him with the necessity for affording proper means for the instruction of | the working classes. Trade schools at that time were few andi inefficient. Many a f\ne natural mechanic was lost to the world for lackeof right op- portunity to cultivate hig talents. To Peter Cooper innumerable men were one day to owe their start in industrial life.” ‘hus was Coaper Union born. Mr. Cooper bought the land between Sevénth and Eighth Streets and between ghird and Fourth Avenues—at that time quite far uptown—and erected thereon the building which was to be known to fame as “Cooper Union.” The cornerstone of this temple to industrial education was laid in 1854. Five years later the ouilding itself was opened. Mr, Cooper turned it over to trustees,#who should administer {t as follows: “To the instruction and improvement of tho inhabitants of the United’ 4, 'States in Practical Science and Art.” I ges Courses were i reper laid out for “instruction in branches of knowledge. i to Millions. women eam their daily bread: “in hygiene, in social and the various arts,” To present day Americans Cooper Union |, institution and as part of their daily lives, it appeared as a godsend to millions of people whose Diighted through the IAck of just such a fps of Nahoatent pedis: The building with its improvements cost $750,000—an enormous sum in those days. And its upkgep represented the interest on a far larger amount. The rush of pupils Who clamored to take advantage of its golde opportunities gave instant proof of the venture's popularity and of the dire need tn which New York had stood of fust such an institution, After his Own hard boyhood and busy youth Cooper had not. bee: satisfied with great personal success. "If he had been so satisfied hie to-day would be halt forgotten. Instead, he made use of that suceres i, | providing ways for'others to succeed. And in that manner he not onty made good but won the deathleas gratitude of mankind. beers i $ Political sotence and in is accepted as a historic But when first it was opened Cos Cob Correspondence hear in a round-abou\ way W that our next door town@man, Homer 8, Cummings of Stam- ford, has been made Chairman of what is called the Nationa) Demo- cratic Committee, an organization kept for the purpose of seeing that Democrats are elected to office. It this is true we hope he wil) fix it next time so that the Democratic Town Committee over in Horseneck will not indorse Jim Walsh for the Republican Legislature when nobody is ooking. United States paying for everything and unable to get even glory out of it because of the censorship, i Early chickens are reported to be hatching out poorly, only about 50-50, and some not so good as that. Our School house superintendent, William Duff, paid 80 cents aplece for two get- tings of eggs and then only hatched out four. This fs discouraging. Some of last year’s incubator pullets have not even commenced laying, which may be due to having an oll stove in- stead of @ hen for a mother, Man is all the time trying to beat nature at its own game and getting the worst of it, ‘ Our neighbor, Duncan Edwards, over on tho other side of the goif rounds, has bought some hives of bees and is preparing to join those who toll not and neither do they spin, but expect plenty of sweetness on their buckwheat cakes in season, Gus Scott thinks them Germans have got about all that ts coming to them. Others think ‘different, but some of these are Republicans, , Lish Kelly, who !s an Irishman from Ken- tucky, doesn't believe Dublin has been given a fair show in the nego- tiations. Judge Brush has a good opinion of Woodrow Wilson, but thinks Burleson ought to go. The boarders at the Holly House have different opinions, though some are the same, Some say tho League of Nations will not last; others say it will, while a third element doesm't see that there is any league, only the It 1s @ pleasant sight to see our ar- tists and literary people like Elmer ¢ MacRae and Irving Bacheller out mornings climbing trees to look for caterpillars, or hoeing green stuff in the garden to make it grow better, thus setting an encouraging example, it always being so to bave persons of ‘ 4 \ Mrs, Jenkins appeared at the win- dow. “Take your “drunken friends back, and you go with them!" was t in, however, , si SP IR wang.