The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1919, Page 18

a eS VOLUME 60.00.00... ,scrgseesesceeesceeseeesNO, 21191 A FIVE-CENT-FARE SPECIALIST. IBoosters!. © MORE hopefal light has pierced the transit cloud which hangs over this city than the news, first printed exclusively in The Evening World yesterday, that Thomas E. Mitten, Presi- dent of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and former Presi- ~ dant of the Chicago City Railways Company, has been invited to come _ here and reorganize at least one and possibly more of New York's Whether Mr. Mitten accepts the invitation or not, immense good may ‘be accomplished in drawing the attention of New York to what has been done for the street railways of Philadelphia by a policy which ‘sounds strange enough to a public into whose eats traction officials have dinried nothing but arguments for higher fares. “We want more rides at & cents, not n Less rides at higher fares.” How does that strike New Yorkers as an official slogan coming _ be found them. And he sticks firmly to it in the face of all the higher > fare agitation now heard in other cities. ? Ms Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company hus prospered on the principle of “building wages up and keeping fares down.” It found e that if it first looked after its employees and then concentrated its efforts on providing the public with increasingly attractive service at 4 five-cent fare the dividends were bound to come—as they did after the first five years. ; The company, added $1,750,000 to its annual payroll in August, 71918, and met the increased cost with carefully studied economies. «Pt has ‘added approximately $2,250,000 to its annual payroll in August, y 1919, and, its President states, “will overcome the cost by withdraw- _ ing all duplicated or unnecessary car service and removing all wasted © effort from the car schedules.” pi ~ Economies, under the Mitten theory, consist in burning a thou- hand tons of coal less per week by burning it scientifically, or in employing a thousand men less by studying where they can be spared without impairing service. t - There is no evidence that. euch economies as practised in Phila- -delphia traction management ieave' room for the paying of 20 per _ gent, dividends on the watered stock of ancient and obsolete sub- _ ¥idiaries, or exorbitant rentals and fixed charges inherited from past Yniemahagement. Nor do they appear to permit the payment of $750,000 bills for legal talent, of $50,000 bonuses in addition to high galaries, or an occasional $1,500,000 for “commitments and obliga- tions”-—items which New Yorkers will remember were found to play \ no small part,in Interborongh. finance. oe * ‘Recording to the Mitten theory, such sums can be more profit- ably expended in “making’ the service so attractive that walking will * Im Bostgn they raised fares by suocéssive ttages from five to ten Ee, cemta, only to find that each boost lost the companies a larger number of profitable short-haul passengers, thus making the financial situ- _ tion progressively worse instead of better. ‘ Im Philadelphia the idea is: “High fares make riders walk. Low ares make walkers ride. More fares make low fares.” ‘On @ low fare fn of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company greater than the $30,000,000 of the com- “ys - , Asst year this Philadelphia. transit corporation found it good " business to carry 767,758,406 passengers for a five-cent fare. What about the business opportunity offered to traciion com- panies in the City,of New York, where, by Mr. Shonts’s own estimate, : the dual éubway system alone will carry when completed “3,000,000,- _* 000 passengers a year, or three times as many as all of-the steam . railroads combined carried in the year ended June 30, 1916”? | « A great five-cent-fare specialist with a fresh point of view ‘might - perform & few bold operations on New York traction finance that would give it a new and wonderful lease of life, Mr, Mitten looks like the man. Se Following the refusal of the Hoboken rators to strike on the ground that perl arwiyety Legon is not the way to help reduce the cost of living’ Fesolution adopted by the Midvale Steel employees workman who demands a greater Proportionatee return for his on oe his fusca workmen in other lines tting is as wu of profiteering as a’ grocer who o! Prices for the necessities of ute.” oh a ne Highest praise and widest publicity should be accorded every such sign of American sanity, hard sense ap instinct a tor fair play. ae er wages comes the that “any Newest Notes of Science For disinfecting or porfuming the ‘air in-vooms &a attachment for elec- dire fans has been invented in which to make it from native vegetable fats meluding beechmast and horse chest- nuts, deweend from a tank into a 2 2.2 3 that Ju waved by tho fan's|. 1” & vanky bow tor women, invented — by a New Yorker, the powder (s car+ es site ie | fled. ander a perforated plate so that "PH The ‘manufacture of soap from! only a timited ainount 1s obtained Pr Fables of Every-Day Folks , Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publisting Co. (The New York Evening World), NGB upon a time there was @| with the wives of these men, young man and a young wo- man, ‘They, had’ married young and had very little with which to start. But they loved each other dearly ‘and «re- solved to work to- gether (through thick and thin until “death do them part.” ‘They were al- ways regarded as ‘ Thetr tastes were alike and they op- Joyed the same things, therefore they got on very well together and worked to each other's interests. They had no children, and so they had to be all in all to each other, which they were. When he was earn- ing a small salary they chose the simplest of pleasures and got much tun out of everything, They would discuss a movie they had seen for several days. ‘Their inexpensive vacation, taken in the summer together, was a source of reflection during all the winter months. In a word, in their growing process, when they bad) very little and necessarily had to be drawn che together, they seemed the happiest couple in the world. Now it came to pass that the young man was given an opportunity as the junior member of his firm—a chanee for<which he had long hoped, And as he had ambition and was happy, things came his way and he suc- coeded. The wife had things and they growing success, As time went along the husband continued to progress in his business until he became an equal partner, And now he™had to come in con- tact with new people, people in the same status of affluence as’ himself And quite naturally his wife mingled more of material both enjoyed their REAL APPRECIATION, CITY man who had made good, financially and specially, was showing his country friend over hie newly built house, It was furnished Most luxuriously, and a8 yne room af- ter another was visited the farmer's wilénce increased. ‘Tho city man, thinking his old country friend was too full ‘for utterance, asked when the last room, with its furnishings, was inspected: Josiah, what do you think of it al! “I've been th Henry,” replied #ewer fats has been begun in Stock-) when « powder puf is pressed by 4 company that also will try | against it, f + i we hall the farmer, “what ‘an ail-fred job you'd have if you had ter move,"—st tion is*from the authority you cite,” And naturally, she followed the old addge: ‘When in Rome, do as.the Romans do." * She joined this little club and that little organization; this philanthrople movement and that subscription party, until she found hersel? very busy indeed. At the same time he was: very busy with his very big business. f She had her own automobile, ang her husband had his, And there were servants and workers and more. .things to look after, So it happened in the common course of such lives the couple saw very little of each other except at dinner in the even- And then it often occurred that even for the evening meal he When Prosperity Parts Pe ople would telephone he would remain| at the club “to go over some matters with Jones”, or she would telephone to him, “Did he mind if she dined at the home of One of the women of her set.” Of course he didn’t mind, It was in $he air and a part of the success habit, Separate visits to separate friends became frequent. He learned to play certain games of which she knew nothing.. She continued to join activities which were not particularly to his Interests, It also occurred that occasionally they did not agree om some activity in. which each .was interested and a quarrel would ‘ensue, One quarrel brought on ‘another ‘until half ‘thie timte they were aot on speaking terms, ft ‘Then came the parting of the ways. The Jarr Family. 1 Svoraht, 190, by Te Prony Publishing Co, (The Ney York Brening Wort). It Is' Hard to Husband One’s Resources When One’s f Resources Are Husbands. “ec O you know,” remarked Mrs. D Jorr in a confidential whis- per, “I do beYeve Mrs. Kittiggly is thinking about marrying again! You know her mi@id left last week and Mrs, Kittingly has been getting her meals ip restaurants, and | she told me she's getting awful tired | of it; evem ig she never, Mas to pay | for her dinner, because she has sev- eral gentlemen friends who are do- Ing splendidly ing Wall ‘Street, and they have been taking her out to dinner,” “What's the little blonde lady's kick about dining out if the eheck is paid for by her gentlemen friends en- riched by the present boom in Wail Street? ‘The food must be rich and the surroundings pleasant for the little blonde lady. Why should she worry about the high cost of living?” “dn, dear,” #tld Mrs, Jarr, “some- times Mts, Kittingly puzzles me, She comes home at ell hours in a taxicab, But who am I that I should criti- cise? She tells mo with tears in her eyes that her’ life has been blighted and the whole’ world misunderstands her, I know she is’ talged about, hut I do believe she is more sinned against than sinning, as Shakespeare says, “I don't remember that the quota- remarked Mr. Jarr, “But be that as it may, I have noticed that all families have a friend or @ relative whose moral pulehritude they arc compelled to attest, Ours seems to be the little } Stryvers haye a rich unclewwho has made his money in crue! quackery, whom they say is a fhaligned man. John Rangle has ah aunt that’s a sfoplifter, and he declares {t is an obsession and the aunt ts more to be pitied than censured—especially when she gave some of the more valuable things she stole to’ his wife, and they | had to go to court." “Well, you can't say that Mrs. Kittingly is’ anything like those peo- ple!" interjected Mrs. Jarr indig- nantly, Mr, Jarr was going to repeat that every family had its pet moral sus- pect, and Mrs, Kittingly. was theirs, but tact held him silent, and Mrs, Jarr went on: “Yes, Mrs, Kittingly says she will either marry again or else go into moving pictures as an actress, be- cause, you know, she does take a beautiful photograph. And, anyway, she says that there is no place in the world for a lone woman depending solely upon her alimony and her con: sclentiousness—that no matter what the world may say, she-knows in her heart that,her conduct is beyond re- proach,” “That's too bad," murmured Mr. Jarr, but he only meant the censure of the world was tao bad, “Why, ‘yes," continued Mrs, Jarr, “Mrs, Kittingly told "me, with tears in her eyes, that her alimony is wholly inadequate, because clothes and everything are getting more ex- pensive all the time, and while she | VOL By Maphin- Intec Phe They awoke one morning to find that they had grown very much apart and the well-known “you go your way and I'll. go eulted. Now the sorry thing about this whole matter was that these two peo- ple truly. loved each other, but too many material things, with all the cares that they entail, had really separated them. After they had been apart for a considerable period and bad time to get a good perspective on themselves they saw the truth of their trouble. I-do ngt know if they ever came to- gether again, but I know each taught this moral to young people whe came thelr way: “DON'T LET THE INTEREST IN MONEYBAGS DIVIDE THE INTERBST IN MARRI- mine” proposition re- By Roy -L. McCardell D she must elther alarry again or go to work." ‘s “But I thought she had been mar- ried several’ times to flends in human formand got alimony from sevsral of them 2% venttrea Mr. Jarr. “Now, that's’ Just how peopl aggerate!” declared Mrs, Jarr. been married only to two brutes that she gets alimony from; she told me sovherself, “And one of them deceived her gtossly by, the Way he dressed, and he was only # salesman on com- mission and had no fegular income, she told me, afd’ the Judge only sen- tencéd him to pay her $5 a week, Now he 1s @ collector for an fnstal- ment furniture “house, and it's a small world after all.” “What do you. mean it's a small world after all?” queried Mr, Jarr, “Why,” explained Mr, Jarr, 8 the colléctor for the very: instalment house Mrs. Kittingly pays $5 a week to on someyof her furniture. So when he calls for his money shg just tells him, ‘Pay it with my money!’ So, as Mrs, Kittingly says, she absoluteiy never gets a cent from him,” “But she gets the $5." “And I do pity her," continued Mra, Jarr, ‘for Mrs, Kittingly told me that she might just as well be married, really, a8 to put up with the way that man uses Improper nouns when she makes him pay for the instal- ments with her alimony.” “Improper nouns!"~ repeated Mr, Sarr, “Yes,” eaid Mrs, Jarr. “swearing. Mrs, Kittingly says the way by swears would make people believe he was still her husband instead ‘of only Louis Globe-Democrat, blonde lady, Mrs. Kittingly, The hates to give up ber independence, @ busiaess caller,” i veneer Ne “)@ lunatic‘ on the Smith: . abolition of s! earn an education. Next he hecame newspaper of hits own. It. failed and he went back. to working away by writing. dogs. | The in New ters” are’ still standin; In the South ery flourished pendence from the tyrannous Turks, slavery which existed in his own co’ ignored or elso Iqughed at. kept on. He ‘preach against slavery. But for the His flery.eloquence, his merciless and to set them to talking. A Ball But he real work had now begun. could address the reading public, $ 6 ohimia term. in } Jailed for But ag soon as vk away again at He I barnes slavery paper, the most talked about maa of hi More and more ‘people every day fanatic. ‘Starting glone and unajded, his unpopular, William { Lloyd Garrison did he desist from his tireltss efforts out of existence, He had made good. “«-——The-Wide -Awakes 66] 7S & wonder to me,” said Doc, | the Paradise philosopher, to the bunch one morning as the 7.56 A. M. sped toward what he calls “Slave Station, No. 1," “how the fire insurance agents make a living in Paradise, when you consider the work of the Wide Awake Hook & Ladder Company and the Pioneer Hose Company, No. 1, and‘when we have a veteran like Chief Snow to Harbor Master, with a real fireman's helmet—the onty one jn Paradise— and Jim Moose and te two crack Sergeants of tho Sheriff's Reserve and Old Time Charlie High—it's ridiculous! Gus, alone, could put out an ordinary fire with his helmet and an eye-dropper. “Why,” he continued, “a fire hasn't got any more elance in that burg than a Manhatten cocktail has in the Paradise Yacht Club, or the proverb- ial snowball would have in the Sen- ate Committee on Foreign Relations, or a Jelly fish would have with a toad at Palm Beach when Mayor Hylan was at Saratoga, make a living in that village; that is, not if he worked by the piece. “If a sinner shoyld come to Paradise time if he could take the Wide Awakes and the Pioneers with him.” ‘The occasign of this eulogistic out- burst was the discussion of a fire) that had occurred near the, Heights | in which the Wide “Awakes and the Pioneers had again proved th the title of “champeens.” Fortunately, Chief Snow was eit- ting out !n front of Ed’s garage, next door to the fire house, giving a per- fect Ulustration of the force of habit, when some one rushed up apd started the si-reen pn an 8. O. B. “ | “Where's the fire, son?” asked the Chief. How They By Albert Payson Terhune , + Copyright. 1019. ty The Prese Publishing Go, .The New York Evening World). 79—William Lloyd Garrison, Who Made Good by Helping to, Abolish Slavery. E was @ bald-headed, bespectacled man, lean and gaunt, People sneered at him as @ orank. They sa.d he was was Garrison—William Lioyd Garrison. 80 had been abandoned there. This had but because it was no longer profitable. Jersey and elsewhere the old buildings once used as At first he met with no encouragement at all. to start an Abolition newspaper and to make Garrison {ts editor. His abuse of slavery won graduat converts to his cause ft ured everywhere. lead ‘em and vamps like Gus, the/ ‘A professional pyromaniac couldn't | and.die he'd be safe for all future, eir right | WAS jill saa & Madé Goo subject of human ifberty. , His name Writes Ainsite “The greatest teform that has set taken place, or probably aver will take place, in this country was the ery; the entire breaking up of the right of white people to buy or sell or own human beings, And the chief leader in this mighty movement was - William Lioyd Garrison of Massachusetts.” He began work in a cobbler’s shop, trying in his scant leisure time to & prinfer on a little newspaper pub~ lished, in his home town. And gradually he won some local repute by the writing of articles 6n various subjects of timély interest. He started @ hii if journeyman printer, stil fo sain a reputation and'a liveltboed At that time slavery was considered almost as bey food @ custofh as was the owning of horses an: cay practice hadynot paid at the not been done on moral (On a@ pumber of Coloni: ve ) unchecked. Almost nobody bo to continue forever.. Much of the planters’ And now his seal human Mberty fed him to open a campaign of literature &nd oratory against the human antry. His appeals were either was resolved to make good. And he . interested some clergymen in his beliefs and persuaded them to most part he could get no help. logic began at last to interest people timorean named Lundy was induced The Garrison had a medium through which he also won prison on a charge of criminal Ifhel. he was released he began to hammer slavery, more vehemently than ever, He started a new anti- the . Liberator. He made day. were converted to his way of think~ ing. Bnt he-came in for an avalanche of abuse, too. Not only in the South, but in the North as well and in Europe, he was denounced as a dani Once a mob,of Bostonians stoned him.and dragged him through the streets, threatening to lynch him. But Garrison kept on. He kept on until he had aroused the whole country to a fever of excitement; until he had taught millions,of people hate siavery and.to vow that It should forever be abolished, x life in danger and his cause bitterly awoke the public conscience, Nor, until the Civil War had wiped slavery, Win Fresh Laurels. , jealied the Assistant Foreman, * “No, wait a minute; steady, boys? Let me investigate first.” , Then turning to a new, member who was puffing a éigarette he ex« claimed: “Remember what I have always told you—'No Smoking!’ It's dan« serous.” Clarence, the mechanic, took the door off its hinges and threw it out on the lawn, By this timesthe neig’ bors had gathered and all hands be« gan carrying the furniture outside to safety, against Mrs. “Fatty’s” pre~ test. Gus, who had followed the Chief te |the upper story, his helmet gleaming Navarre’s in battle, rushed down and shouted: “It's in the flue; gigame a hap@ ex« tingUisher or a oceaple bottres of seltzer: Grabbing an éxtingulaner ke disap~ peared upstairs enly return in & few moments te saw* “The-Chief says n't take out any more furnitwre; everything’s all right.” | Charlie High, who. had been directs ing thegremovel of the furniture, row luctantly called his men off. In an- lother moment the Chief camé down and announced that the fre was ont. “‘Fatty’s’ better half did not seem to be a bit pleased with the result, “This is golng to be an awful dis« appointment to my husband when he comes home,” she said to Charlie, “Don't worry,” he sald; “we'll get everything put back before he geta home; he'll hardly know there's been a fire here. “It isn't that," she said; “he'll be | disappolnted because the place didn’t burn down; ho didn’t like this house, anyway, and he was so anxious to get’ some new furniture; you know, we were heavily insured,” “Yes, I know,” replied Charlfe with “Right up on the edge of the Heights; up at ‘Fatty's’ house.” “I'm glad it ain't the hay and fecd store," remarked the Chief, ‘ | ‘The hay and feed store fire was the only one that had ever got away from the Wide Awakes, and then they \had a perfect: alibi—a visiting fre company had let it burn down before the Wide Awakes got there, { The Wide Awakes were five min- utes late before they “rolled,” .1¢ to the fact that Gus couldn't find his helmet, which some children had been using in playing “war’—the boy with the helmet playing the part .of von Hindenburg and being afraid’ to put it back ‘where it, belonged because it had #o many dents in it, When tho Wide Awakes, closely followed by the Ploneerd, arrived at “Patty's house clouds of smoke were rolling from the chimney and sweeping through the roof. “Fatty’| had not arrived from the city, but! his better half was present and ap- @ grin; “that's why I'm Mot disap. pointed—I'm the agent of the com. pany you're insured fh,” é was born Famous Women| ———eonorn OOO E at Warwick, England, May 21, LIZABETH GURNEY 7 1780. At the age of twenty she married. Both she and her husband were Quakers, She soon began to minister to the poor and sick in the slums of London. She secured rooms for a girl's school near her home, and fathered seventy from the streets within’a short time, She also estab- lished a soup kitchen. In Newgate Prison shg found ono of the worst penal institutions in existence—flthy and overcrowded, Her work in chang- ing the condition of this prison sbrought her honor without stint, and she became the moat! famous woman in England. By the Queen she was summoned to the Court of England: the Prince and ew parently not the least excited. “Shall we ged the axes, Chief?” Princess Royal called at her home, to Jearn of her work, Oct, 13, 8845, Soe died om 1a nant bg in’the smoke like that of Henry og’ ¢ TheGayLifeofaComriuter } Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise * By. Rube Towner Coprrisht, 1919;"by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World)