The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-11
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VIII GO out of the subway building
business, If the recommendation
made in the annual report of the
| public service commission, to be
sent to the legislature on Monday,
are carried out. Private ownership
of new underground tubes and the
,ltruction of them by private cap
ital is regarded by the commission
els as the only means by which the
rapid transit problem now confront
| Ing the metropolis may be satisfac-
torily settled. Those philanthropic
r sens who are opposed to munich
pal ownership will find great com
fort in the decision OF the commits
sion, since it implies the failure 1f
the municipal ownership idea.
| The Lovers Lac.
! The bread line" we have with
us always, but the lovers line Is
something new IN Gotham. 1t is to
lie seen at city hall, where every day
scores of young couples gather il,
line. awaiting their turn at the m lr
riage license window Under The
new law which became effective the
first of the year, all applicants for
| connubial bliss are required to ap-
| pear before the marriage license
clerk and bare their whole past lives
before being given the magic piece
of paper which will enable clergy
man magistrate or alderman to
marry them.
| Doubtless the law was intended
as an aid to morality, but in its APP
plication it has been quite the re-
verse. The present arrangements for
the issuing of marriage licenses
make it appear that the city officials
consider matrimony a huge. joke.
Many couples are required to stand
in line for hours and to serve as the
butt of coarse jokes and vulgar
filings from the city hall hangers-on
and loafers before being given a
chance at the license window.
Getting Rich Quick.
One of the most interesting dis
coveries of scientific investigation is
embraced in the truism that a suck
er is born every minute. 1t was this
biological fact that led c. R. Fagley,
a Sixth avenue green grocer, to add
a side line to his business, out OF
which he made a small fortune. Now
the postal inspectors have got next
to the game however, and have is
sued fraud order against Fagley
who operated under the name OF
the National Turf Information bur
, eau. \
Fagley's scheme was not original
, No plan for separating credulous
ones from their cash ever is, Inc
green grocer represented that he
was in a position to obtain inside IN
formation on certain horse races
and that he would send the infor-
nation absolutely free to anyone
who would agree to divide with him
the profits of wager.
This. on the face of it, looked
. flair enough. and hundreds OF suck
ers all over the country bit at the
halt presented so alluringly by tag-
, lev in his advertisements
, But Fagley had a string to MS
, philanthropic offer. He was bounc
, to win. although many of his cllents
must lose. He furnished the names
of different horses to different per
, sons. so that. no matter which horse
won. certain portion of his chents
. were bound to divide their winnings
, with him. If ten horses were entered
, in a race. and he had sent "informa
o ton" to 500 clients, fifty of then
would win bets and give half OF thel
nrofits to their "benefactor. lt wa
a ridiculously easy way OF playlhi
the marks. and If the postofflce IN
9 spectors had not interfered with TN
game, Fagley would doubtless nav
become millionaire in shor
time.
Henceforth, all who write to IN
philanthropic institution known
@ the National Turf Information pu
reau will have their communicated
n returned marked fraudulent %
this sign they may know that
: green grocer named Fagley WI
h hereafter be forced to depend upol
4 the profits from the sale OF gree
) groceries for a living. And all DC
II cause he used proper forethough'
, and. by the aid of his clients, play
ed all the horses entered IN rae
to win, instead of backing only on