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VOLUME 48 NO 16908
PASS IT NOW
HE Iegislature should not wait for
the Coney Island season to begin
before passing The Evening Worlds
FiveCent Fare bill To pass it now
would be a pleasant reminder of
summer
Two State Senators from New
Yorkthe Hon The Manus and
John T McCallhave seen a great
light since the last session The
first thing each of them did this
year was to introduce a Coney
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Island FiveCent Fare bill j
Quite likely the fact that The McManuss district elected an anti
McManus Assemblyman last fall although the year before Hughes polled
less than onethird of its votes had something to do with McManuss
change of attitude Also the fact that a Republican Assemblyman was
elected from the Twentysixth District may have done something to
stimulate the State Senators from that neighborhood
While the upState Republicans in the Legislature are spending their
time discussing national politics and trying to guess who will control
their State machine this year the members from New York and Brook
lyn had better get busy and pass this FiveCent Fare bill
Last session the FiveCent Fare bill was defeated by New York City
rotes It is a safe prediction that after the experience at the polls in The
McManuss and other districts last fall the New York Senators who rep
resent tenement districts will not vote against the FiveGent Fare bill
this year
But the mere introduction of a bill will not fool their constituents
They must pass the bill they introduced
The members from Greater New York are twofifths of the Legis j
lature Whatever they want as a local measure on nonpolitical lines i
they can get There should be no politics in the Coney Island FiveCent
t Fare bill The question is simply whether it will cost 50 cents or 1 for
a man and his wife and three children to go to Coney Island and back
The lesson of the The McManus election returns should not be for
gotten by the people They can compel any Senator or Assemblyman
to do what they want done by the simple process of retiring him from
public life if he refuses
There are other matters than the Coney Island FiveCent Fare bill
r which the people of this city should require an account One is the
citys finances
Why is the city borrowing money from J Pierpont Morgan at 61
per cent when railroads are able to borrow money at 5 per cent What
has become of the 60000000 received from revenue bonds since last
September of the 75000000 received
ceived from taxes in October No
vember and December and of the
tens of millions of dollars received
from the sale of longterm bonds
Why with all this money received
did the Board of Estimate shut
down on necessary public improve
ments
What is the citys method of
bookkeeping anyhow and how do
its books balance
What if any authority is there
for the assertion that the city has not the money to build more subways
Better even than a fare operative only from the Brooklyn Bridge to I
Coney Island would be an interborough subway which would take pas I
sengers from the Bronx to Coney Island for one fare
Within the last six months the city has taken in enough money
from taxes and bond sales to construct four subways
What has been done with all this money
Letters from the People
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Women Work
To the Editor of The Dvwilcc Worlfll
Th Idea has not yet probably BUR
tat d itself to some people that the
majority of business wom m ejirn moro
than men do and hold the sasn re
sponsible positions And why Simply
beats their ability la coming to llyht
and recognized by our business mon
Taking It all In all I think three
ters of our business men prefer women
employees which Is not surprising In
the least I would like to h w other
opinions In regard to this matter
U U K
n h HIiciit
To the Bdltor of The Ev nlnB World
i rtays Friecc la a dlfftrent city
from San Franclico B fays
Frisco Is the short way of saying
San Francisco Which Is right I
A D Q
Sniokliiff In mien
I
1e the Kilto ol T c n nlni W rll
Dont you men readers think n1 ar
n Mnc it In a little strongly about the
habit of smoklns In olllces where lady
Itenol cmphers ore employed Som i
reference has been made to the nard
working man and the wife who en
Joys hult In hubbys absence I
mut admit that this lusam nt le
puerile at the most For my pm I
drink that the fair nex are tntlUtd to
as muwt corj ld txuon as a man It no
Ri A1U ouch I am a smalcar my
t
self I think that the haJWt of smoking I
uhould b < discontinued during ofllrr
hours In largo corporations anti es
peclollr In insurance companies smok
ing at any time Is not countenanced
aril I fail to see why It MiouM he s
I In other ofllcos I trust this airy b
of value In netting the minds of our
unreasonable masculine friend In e
j
I more friendly mood toward their lady
contemporaries B A CAKOLAN
I Tli Iennlon Illll
I To the Editor of The livening World I
A correspondent write In retard to
the bill to lie introduced
bcfor Con
gress to do away with branch pnnslun i
ollkes He tats that autliorlllt think
this would tavo flitr > yearly and
I hit this is n trivial amount compart
with the Inconvenience It would cause
the pAUslontrs I believe that tnir
I wit Inrdlv be any Inonvfiilenrc at aI
The auiliorllles will provide for n lalo
nutnber of clerks 10 handle th mail
and In this way s end checks out is
early rs possible In ten years IJJIl
will grow Into W ior < 0 OFIMIA1
Milmny rroniln
To the Editor of The ronln W rid
The crincling and losllng at th
FoariPt > ntli street S r > way < tanon v
fVfninc rash hours s cats tn uie to tw
irnwnz s < airv
wont and rOKe
IUIfI uon aninanncriv car difficult of
KSHIIJ ff slh rp < < s trains H
Seventy sivund stret > Ibliy bcoonu
more of a tussle Tit is dis rivvru1
and is aliiKvi worthy of tlw e I
crush at its worat ilrs Ut I
I Painting the Town White
I By Maurice Ketten
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The Chorus Girl Says She Is to Have The Chanct of Her Life
By Roy Le McCardell
BI J was Ba S11 It anuttou said the Chorus Girl
HG Me with a mink set and no more excuse for
wearing It the way the weather was than a
bearded lady has for a brooch
The snow encouraged Gagger and Shine to get out a
nt musical comedy theyre Just crazy to have me play In
They say the part of the First Schoolgirl was written Just
to suit my personality Of course there is only one line
to speak but as Gagger hlsself says the whole plot depends
on that line
Im to step out of the line of capandgown girls and
say Here comes Nellie now How sad she seems
She seems fod because as the npfJrm ehnwa he m
J saw her fiance kissing a girl and she wont give him a
gY 11I chance to explain that Its his sister And he never does
ret a chance to explain UU the last act which Is laid at the North Pole There
Ydf
The Newly weds tl Their Baby George McManus fay
CJ MiYYIYaYYYYYa YYfXY i
NOW PAPA
PUT PITTY
PICTURE OF
BABY UP
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j1y t iI DININ4 ROOM
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Be comes with the American Navy and Just arrives In time to help rescue Ufa
I high school girls who have wandered too far from the seminar while plcklnK
lilt wild flowers in the botany claM and never realize where they are till they find
they ve floated off on an Iceberg on the open Polar Sea The arrival of the
J American Navy give a chance for patriotic hokum and makes the piece timely
Gnsijer and Shine says the neVI show Is ure to make The Merry Widow
look like an Intermission at a nickelodeon
I It would be called The Snow Girl only Gftwrer and Shine both say that
gives them comedian critics such a chance to say The Snow Girl was a
frost So It has no name yet
Jest as I said theyre crazy to have me play the part of the First School
girl They wouldnt have anybody else play the part for anything And theresa
la rich society girl thats daffy about going on the stage who told them shod
commit suicide If she didnt Ret the ohanct to play It
I They dont want a thing either except Im to see If I can get Old Man
Moneyton to back the show Of course Ganger and Shine say that K B E
will be sore if they aint allowed to back the show but Ganger and Shine want
to be Independent of the syndicate and they WOnt let it put up a cent What
the syndicate Baas cot to do is to see the show sets good booking and It they
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I The Story of the Operas I
I By Albert Payson Terhune g
I AO VKRDIS IRA VIA TAT
HE salon of Vtoletta Valere queen of Parisian beauties was full of Tony
T guests assembled for nn aftertheatre supper and dance Baron Dauphol a
dissolute young nobleman was paying assiduous but hopeless court to his
air hostess and Flora Bervolx Vlolettna dearest friend was Joking the hapless
suitor on his failure Two new guests were announced One was Gaston de Leto
rleres a boulevardler He had brought with him a shy handsome youth from the
country whom he Introduced as Alfred Germont In a whisper to Vloletta Gaston
I explained that Alfred had long worshipped her from afnr and that during her
recent Illness the young countryman had dully haunted her house for news of
I hr health
I Touched by the tale of this quiet lasting devotion so different from the
blatant courtship of the other men she knew Vlolptta made Alfred sit beside her
at supper Whein the others had gone to the ballroom she detained him In con
versation Alfred told her of his love At first she laughed at him Then tne
honesty and fervor of his appeal touched a long slumbering chord In her world
weary heart She was tired of the glitter and glare of Paris She yearned for
true love In Alfred she believed she saw the halfforgotten sweetheart of her
girlish dreams Almost shyly this brilliant woman of the world encouraged the
suit of her rustic adorer She bade him come to see her on the following day
As he reluctantly deported she felt that hir old gay heartless life In Paris was
ended
Three months had passed Alfred and Vloletta had quitted Paris and were liv
ing In a country cottage They were sublimely happy In each others love As Al
freds means were small Vloletta without his knowledge sold all her Jewels and
other valuables to pay the expenses of the place Only one cloud obscured their
bliss Alfreds father who had hoped his son might make a great match was
furious at his choice and wrote the young man letters full of anger and reproach
But the couple were not seriously distressed by these Alfred felt that If only
his father might meet Vloletta all parental objections would vanish
One day Alfred wont to Parts on business While he was gone a stranger
called to see Vloletta It was the elder Germont lie had taken advantage of his
sons temporary absence to make a personal > pea to the woman who was appar
ently wrecking the youth future The old man told Vloletta 01 all he had
planned for hid son of how she was ruining his career nnd making the entire
Germont family wretched Seeing at a glance that she wan not the tort of
woman to be bought off Germont appealed to all that wad noblest and kindest In
her Ho Implored her to desert Alfred for lie lads orn sake
H Moved by the entreaty Violetta consent Heartbroken ehe wrote a letter of
farewell to Alfred and returned to hrr former existence In Paris On his return
Alfred found her gone Her letter throw him Into a fury of jeaiui rope that
even his fathers comforting could not assuage He thought Vloletta had deserted
him for another and vowed wildly to follow her to the metropolis and M
revenged
Gambling ran high one night In the rooms of Flora Ilervolx Alfred who had
Just come back to Paris nnd wa trying by dlsajvitlon to forget Vlnletta was
playing for heavy stakes and winning large sums Suddenly Vloltttn entered on
the arm of Baron Dauphol Alfred who had learned or her financial sacrifices to
maintain their former country home flung at her feet his winnings Insulting her
brutally as he did so The guests angrily Interfered Dauphol challenged Alfred to
o duel and the elder Germont arriving In the midst of the excltenr pi dragged
tits maddened son away
Alfred and the Baron fought next day The latter was wounded nnd Alfred
was sent abroad until the affair hould blow over Vloletta to whose frail health
the Insult at Flora rooms came ns a crowning blow broke down utterly and fell
victim to consumption Hearing that she was dying the consciencestricken oM
Germont told his son the whole truth concerning her desertion and gave his
Messing to their union Alfred overwhelmed by remorse ImM ned back to Paris
and to Vlolettas death bed The dying girl rallied at sight of him In his arms
she forgot her pain and grief declaring she would now quickly recover
Together they planned to leave Paris behind them forever and to brstn over
Kgain their gloriously happy life In the country In the mils of their rupturou
Jaydreams of a golden future VIolMtas head fell back upon Afrets hr i st nna
the anguished lover knew they had been reunited only to part for nil time Sin
was dead
The for of Conlm dHofTmnnn will bi lhlhhcI Tncmlnj
I dont Gagger and Shine sty they have some Western capitalists that will ud
a string of theatres for them
I Of course I dont like to ask Old Man RIoneyton to put up tiny money
but them rich guys Is Just as peevish when they Is touched for Ito us they li
when theyre asked to como across with forty thousand In tact they have
I more respect for you If you do them good and plenty than if you Just stand
i them up for cigarette money
But I Just was waxy for one thing and that was I was to have a song
and the sons had to be pu on with special costumes and light effects Gaggur
and ShIne said that would be all right It was easy enough to do The scene
could be on the ice cap In front of the open polar sea Wed be nil freezing to
death and then my lines was How bitter chill It Is The numbing cold grip t
j me In a clasp of frigid steel Oh If before I perish I could but see once more
I My Chilly Lily
That would be the music cueMy Chilly Illy The ruby spot light would
I be thrown on me and then the Esquimaux belles could make n quick Chang
Into tiger lily costumes or else all In white sos to give a chanct for the
> stereopticon effects of bees and butt rllfe hovering over the Chilly Lille i
1 Theres nothing like playing your hand when things II coming your way and
I I stood out for more lines so Gagger and Shine said I could come on in the
conservatory cen In the first act Instead of the French maid and see Lionel
thats the tenor kj slng a mlnlaturo of Nellte his sweetheart This was to
be my cue to say Ah her picture and glide away
This la a bit that always goes GagRer cad kissing your sweethearts plo
ture and your sweetheart Is Informed and thlnkn Its some other skirts half
i tone and the hero Is honor bound not to explain because the plot cant be
dropped till the second act
And then In the last act when the hero comes to the North Pole on the
American Navy and rescues the heroine In rnviilt uniform Im to t e a cor
poral of the girl marines Of course as soon as the marines and the naval
lieutenant lands on the Icecap and finds everybody freezing to death every
body must go off so the tenor can have the sage alone for his song Id Die for
the Flag and the Girl I Love
The comnOlan follows with a hit In this scene that Is a scream He thaws
himself out on a gas stove
As I said I dont like to ask no favors from nobody and 10 I wont yen
hint to Old Man Monoylon that I can get the chanct of my life If hell only
back tho show Hut Ill tell him about It and cry and say nobody care enough
for me to risk a little money to gimme a boost
Sure It will be a winner with all them novelties In It The public II tired f
hunk and punk but you give them something good like this new show of
Gngsnr and Shines which Is written over nn old piece of theirs that went good
at the Lagoon In Cincinnati twelve years ago under the name of The King of
Kankakee and theyll eat It up
Of course Gagger and Shine has changed It Instead of harm the scene
In Japan or Holland entirely sos to have kimono girls and wooden shoedancer
thoyvo put In the last scene at the North Pole because they can get the prop
of one of Earl ReynoMss old skating acts and a skating scene on real lit
with waltz music like The Merry Widow would be a novelty that would be
sure fire because them things has always gone great
Dopey McKnlght Oh he aint Interested He says every time he Impro
vises any music Charley Shine Jots down the air and goes home and compose
It hlsself
Anyway Dopey says he dreamed he fmtnd a cigarette coupon mine that
ran twenty thousand green certificates to the ton and If he can only dream
It twice more It may come true
Say If Old Man Moneyton wont back the new show do you know any
body
ti Mr Dooley on Richs Hard Winter
By P Finley Dunne
KS sir befurc th winters over I etplct to see our frinds th pluthr
crats In n very bad way Th Saint Vincent de Paul Society will clad
fjPS riprlslntatlvps to visit th homes on th Lake Shore Dhrlve an Invlsti
Kato their condition an recite th number Iv chlldh Hvln1 In thlm If
anny Bays Mr Dooley In a talk on Hard Times In the February
American Magazine Th Llglslachure will applnt a commission that will re
port llvo or fix years hence
J D Hlxtyflvo yearn Iv age married largo famly also married
capable hard workln mlllyonalre has had ony half time at his thrado since hut
year a very sad case
X Y A Irellrcd hanker twlntythree years old Has completely lost
conthrol Iv both Iv his railroads Fimly obliged to go to Monty Carlo fr th
winter Very oouraKontu In th face Iv adversity Says Ivry man hud do his
part In this movement Iv naytlonnl disaster an eight autymobllls Is enough durln1
u pefirj0 Iv rethrenchmlnt House In shocking condition Ellcthrlc Illvatoj
broken Hallroom not dusted Champagne corked This Is a very worthy cue
Advise th State Thrcasury to advance him twlntymlllyon dollars as a meaiur
Iv tlmpry relief
President for One Day
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AVID RICE ATCHISON of Kentucky waR appointed Sena Air from alai
D Sate In 1541 and was elected to the post of President pro tempore for the
terms covering the period between IS4J and 1S4D The calendar made him
1iesldent for one day When March 4 1849 came around It was a Sunday ana
though the terms of their predecessors had officially expired Zachary Taylor and
illllard FUlmore could nUt b Inaugural until Monday March 6