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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
DRIVER ENvIoUs OF HIS COM.
PANIONS.

On toward that last stop at Blocker
street ratified the truce and Tony.
Cas,inS a weather eye a,o't. he cnv'cj
his less. responsible and more comfort
able subordinates.
Speed laws are made for aItom ob!les
and not for trucks. so Tony, with the
aid OF his knotted whip. opened the
throttle and let his equine engines race
Men who noticed a w!sp OF smoke curl
Ing from the load Of paper ami tai.ing
out behind the wagon cupped their
hands and shouted warning to Tony.
But his eyes were directed resolutaly
toward Blocker street.
When Ragon Y Mornando's truck
passed the quarters OF the high press
ure company near Spring street 1t was
a chariot of fame. Everyone was
aware OF lt-except Tony and his buried
assistants. who were listening to the
patter OF the rain above them and grin
ming Mt Tony's discomfort. A fireman
was on watch at the door of the fire.
house and he shouted to Tony. The
warning was unheeded.
The fireman ran TO his chief and re-
ported and High Pressure Company No
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23

"You are great one to Keep n
date. 7 todifed for you until $50.
Why don't you Keep pour engage
mentsf
FLORENCE"
Intended as a practical joke and
scribbled on the back Of a postal card
the reverse OF which showed a young
the chiding message just missed break
ing up the home OF Malcolm p. Shackle-
ford, an automobile salesman. Of No.
$50 Sprinsdale avenue. East Orange.
Young Mrs. Shackleford received the
postal card from the postman, read Its
message and studied the tender atti-
tude Of the young woman sitting upon
the young mans knee. Then she burst
into tears and took her baby over to
her fathers home. Her father advised
her not to Judge too hastily and to 20
home and await developments.
For day or so thereafter the Shackle-
ford cottage was permeated with Ice.
The young man asked questions and
tender persuasion. At last he got an
ehSNeT anu tHe lnCTltTludtlnk pODt4l
card was flung at him.
Now. II was Malceom's turn to DO in
dignant. lie not only disclalmed all
knowledge Of Florence AMI her date but
took the card to Chief of Police O'Neill.
The card was placed under a micro
scope and It was seen that an old ad-
dress. No. l2s North Park street. East
Orange, had been erased. Detectives
went to North Park street and learned
from Mrs. Mary f. Evart. a middle
aged widow. that she had written the
card as a Joke. She did not know
| Shackleford, but some of her friends
did and had suggested that II would be
lots Of fun 10 rouse the young wife's
jealousy.
Mrs. Evart was arraigned before
Recorder Mott In East Orange to-day
and severely lectured.
This Is the sort OF thing" said NE
Recorder. that often brings on suicide
and murder"
Mrs. Evart was discharged, but the
postal card and a report OF the near.
| tragedy In the Shackleford household
was sent to United States Commissioned
s. Howell Jones In Newark. Whether oil
not he will begin proceedings under the
postal laws has not been stated.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
IN HOTEL WAS SLAIN.
Julia N. Curran the Victim OF
Stranger, Says Coroners
Physician.

Julian NJ. Curran, the woman found
nude and covered with bruises In a
bed In a hotel at No. 1891 broadway
last night. was murdered. according
to the report OF Dr. otto schultz
Coroners' physician. at the conclusion
OF the AUTOPSY this afternoon.
The physician said that the woman
had been strangled to death.
John Kinnears, the womsn's brother.
in-law. said she was thrifty years old
and reached this country from ireland
on July :. last. She was employed near
Park avenue and Fifty-eighth street
but slept at the Kinnears home every
body In the hotel
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
FLAMES NEAR COFFIN.


Two dozen friends OF the late John
Peck OF No. 1876 First avenue were
assembled to-day IN the apartment that
had been his home. 1t was only an
hour before the funeral was to begin.
Some were endeavoring to console the
widow, Mrs. Annie Peck. Some were
taking a last look at the features OF
Mr.. Peck as he lay In his casket.
The casket was near window and
several candles burned close by. The
window was open and a sudden gust
sent the curtains waving out into the
room. The infammable curtain mate
rial came in contact with the flames OF
the candles and was ignited.
The curtains cracked as they burned
and n glare filled the room. until an
instant before stepped In shadow.
Fire cried the mourners as they
ran in confusion down the stairs. The
Peck homo Is on the third floor. Police
men Kelly and Speaker went IN and
carried the casket into another apart
ment. The firemen soon had the flames
extingu!shed and the funeral was held
at the hour set.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
THIS FUGITIVE De LUKE
BluKS PASSAlC POLICE.
They Send Him First Glass Ticket
From Cuba and He Walks
Ashore and Away, Here.

When Or. ]. Nelson Elliot, for three
years health oficer o; Passaic. an
nounced July 10 that he was going to
Newark to a meeting Of the Mosquito
determination League, Passaic folk
hoped he'd learn how TO kill all the
pests In their bail!wick.
DIR. Elliot did not return and suspicious
busyhodies began looking Into his a.
counts and found, 1t was alleged. a
SHORTAGE OF S1,o4. The Passaic police
sent all over the world circulars asking
for his arrest. One OF these reached the
police OF Havana, cuba, who arrested
DIR. Elliot and notified the PassaIc pJ-
lice tina, they were holding him, pending
extradition.
To the American Consul In Havana
DR.. Elliot said he would waive extra
dition. The Passsio police sent a first
class ticket and asked the Havans
police to put him on the Ward line
steamer Monterey. which sailed last
Tuesday,
The tourist agency from which the
ticket was bought told the Passaic
authorities that the Monterey would
dock at Q p. NJ. to-day at Wall street
Manhattan. At $50 Police Chief Will
lam Hendry and Detective B. f.
Turner appeared at the foot OF Wall
street to take their new Schepp style
of prisoner.
There they were told the Monterey
would dock at the Ward Line pier, No,
II, brooklyn. The officers hurried thers
to fnd that the steamer had locked M
| teen minutes before. and that Elliot
who was not a prisoner. had walked
ashore and disappeared, The New Yorh
police have been asked to look for him
The Passaic police are out the price nj
a f.st-class steamship ticket and theiI
| trusting faith in human nature,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23

Temporary .lImony OF So a week and
counsel fee Of $50 were awarded to-day
TO Mrs. Harry Pollok. when the case
came up before Justice Aspinaii Mrs
Pollok asked allmony at $40 a week
In cutting the amount. the Court made
a memorandum to the effect that
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
-. w IA. Wilson pictur. Pr.,..t

ne w ld's Wilson Picture Pratssd
PeH I US to congratulate The
World upon the splendid work which
Il II doing for the Democratic ticket
II 10 Q source of great encourage
mont to the rank and file Of the De-
mocracy Of this section Of Nassau
County.
ymay say that the Wilson pictures
win DO found In nearly every window
In Rockville Centre-every Pequot Ia
to the best OF his ability.
With assurances OF our esteem for
Ths World. yours, very truly,
THOMAS ]. DUNN,
Council Scribe. ,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
HAo A CAPITAL OF OVER TWO
MILLIONS.


= The New York Central Realty Com
Ybsny up to che time OF its insolvency
in March had oftices in the Marbrtdge
Building. The Federal Government in
their indictment alleges that they adver-
tsed IN prominent magazines through
out the country that hey had q capital
Of over two million dollars. and that
they had . capital Of over two million
dollars. and that they Issued bonds to
the amount Of ea76.0oO. which were Sc
cured BY mortgages. The fraud, II II
alleged. was committed by the company
through it, mjsrspr esenting tho value
a the mortgages securing the outstand-
.ng bonds The Government declares
that me real worth Of the property in
The mortgages which 10 supposed to ne.
sure the tssusd bonds amounts to only
oaA0oo.
Ths eonpsny say tho Post Office
0Dehorittss stated In their advertise
Osnts that they issued three kinds
ef bonds: One q gold copon bond, is
sasd for $1,000 $500 or 800 to ma
esro In ten years With 8 percent. in
fsrest payable semi-annuAlly. with the
prsvalAgs Of surrender at any time
~ IT, face value: an acoumulstive
bond payable In ten yearly Install
nsuts. with per cent. compaund in
forest and athtrd single payment bond
dieoountsd ct per cent
IN the advertisement Of the company
these bonds were said to be secured by
mortgages on real estate. representing
9 per cent. Of the price which was
actually paid for the property and oil
which amount Is per cent. was paid In
cash. The company also adver lised
Mat It had n worth OF assets for every
q liability. and Is In value to NEE,
every u Of bond Indebtedness. and ths,
the bond issue Of the New York Central
Realty Company represented only !,
per cent. Of its resources.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
ENGINES BLOCK WAY OF PoR
TABLE FIRE.

In answer to an alarm that had been
TUNED In by "A citizen. a half dozen
pieces Of apparatus dashed into Lafay-
ette street In front OF Tony's chariot
and blocked the way. Reluctantly he
slowed down at Houston street As he
did so the flames, no longer blown
backward by the rush OF air. licked at
his coat tails. He Jumped to the street
with a howl Of pain.
His hrst thought was for his horses.
When he had cut them free from the
burning truck ne turned to direct the
rescue OF his three assistants. Deputy
Fire chief King was Just coming up In
his automobile when tine paper volcano
began to vomit human lava. One by
one the paper collectors came forth.
scorched and scared.
BY that time thousands OF persons
had crowded around the truck and three
more fire engines. two hooks and lad
ders. two water towers, an insurance
patrol and a tender were on hand.
Between the rain and streams from I
couple Of hose the flames were speedily
drenched and Tony went on with hi
| charred chariot. lie said ne would tacl
a "No Smoking" sign to the driver
seat tomorrow.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
Celtic skips Queenstown.

QUEENSTOWN. Ireland. Aug. 23.-
The white Star liner Celtic, from New
York. was unable on account OF fog to
call here to-day. She proceeded directly
to Liverpool.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23

should she be successful In her seton
for absolute divorce. she may have the
amount increased beyond the temporary
limit. Pollok has been mixed up In the
Rosenthal case through Jack Rose, who
took refuge with him for two days after
the murder.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
u. S. District-Attorney Says
Money Involved in Case
IA Amounts to S5Oo,OOO
SAY 800 HAD INVESTED.
Government Calls New York
Central Realty Co.'S Bond
Business to Account.

. Through the arraignment to-day OF
Claude J. Van Slyke, a wealthy real
estate man. with Offices at Forty-third
street and Madison avenue. before
United States Commissioner GAchrist
o. an indictment brought by the Fed
ersi Grand Jury on July %. charging
! him with using the mails TO defravd, II
was learned that other real estate men
had been indicted with him on the same
charge. One OF them Is James A. Rob-
inson of No. ITO Broadway. who handled
the advertising for the New York Gen.
trail Realty Company. Van Slyke and
Robinson are the only men who have so
far been arrested.
Robinson was arrested to-day At hi
ofsoe by Post ONCE Inspectors Pollet
and Kenyon. Van Slyke received wort
Of the indictment, brought against him
and appeared before Commissioner Oil
christ. Up to late hour to-day he hat
not been formally arraigned. Van Siyk'
was held In 5000 ball for further sx
amination
Inspector II. A Barber. who conductev
the investigation. and United states As
sistant District-Attorney C. II. Griffitha
who brought the case before the Gram
Jury, said to-day that over 800 people II
ell parts of the world had been de
frauded Of sums OF money that amour
to 800. 900.
HAD A CAPITAL OF OVER TWO
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23

DOVER, Del. Aug. 1.-The state
Committee OF the Progressive party me-
yesterday and .c!ded to place a separat,
state ticket " the field. The State Con
vention will held In Dover on Sept
II. the dV following the Democratic
STATE COM alton.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
F|REMEN CHASE
PORTABLE BLAZE
FOR MANY BLOCKS
Everybody Around Knew
Paper Truck Was Afire,
Except the Driver.
Needed NO WARNING.
Didn't Stop Until Engines,
Coming From Other Direc-
tons, Headed Him Of.
Needed NO WARNING.

High Pressure Company No. 20 dashed
up Lafayette street to-day in pursuit of
a portable fire that moved northward at
terrific pace until surrounded at
Houston street by . Gordon Of fre en-
gines.
The fugitive flames were aoetted By
Tony Molina. who Is a driver for Ragon
4 Mornando. Of No. 45 Water street.
Rason & Mornando deal In paper
secondhand paper OF any degree OF dir
tiness and slovenliness-and Tony Is
their chief collector. His truck was al
most filled to capacity and he and his
three assistants were heading for their
last stop when the rain began to fall.
Tony whipped up the horses and
turned up his coat collar. His three
assistants burrowed their way to dry
place at the bottom OF the load. One
OF them was smoking cigarette. lie
was OF an economical turn OF mind and
the cigarette was s.ill possessed OF
pleasant possibilities. so he carried II
with him to the base OF the paper
mountain
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
Wife GOT POSTAL
P|CTUR|NG GIRL
ONAMAN'SLAP
What Was Intended as a Joke
Came Near Breaking Up
a Home.

"You are great one TO Keep n
date. ! touifed for you until $50.
Why don't you keep pour engage
mertsf
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23

- made q record. They were DOT OF
the house and in fun pursuit IN seven-
teen seconds. And they had sent in
still alarm. too.
The toting OF the siren on the high
pressure truck attracted factory work
ers and office employees for blocks in
advance along Tony's course. but Tony
continued undisturbed. The flames now
were rising high behind him and bits Of
burning paper were being whipped away
by the breeze Of his flight. yet he
thought only of the ran and that nice.
dry place In Blocker street.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-23
ANNOUNCED OFFICERS DREW
NO SALARIES.

Their advertisements further stated
that the officers OF the company drew
no salaries. and that all the profits of
the company were Invested In additional
property one phase OF the case A. that
they deposited with a trust company ali
the mortgages that secured their out
standing bonds. The trust company.
however, II Is asserted, was not respon-
sible As trustee for the mortgages fur
ther than the face value on each mort
gage. The amount OF each mortga ye
might on its face value represent sew
eral thousand dollars worth OF prom
erty. It IL declared. when In reality its
actual value might only be Ave. Mr..
Grifiths said to-day that the trust COM
pany was In no manner responsible
In the transactions OF the realty com
pany. They had nothing to do with the
realty company business, except to ac,
IS depository for their mortgages.
The Government says that the rea
estate company made a point OF adver.
Ts,is1ng In magazines that would reacl
aficers and enlisted men OF the navy
= setting forth in their advertisement how
zach member of the service might Ia,
up % much n she investment OF A's
caiHfS Ia these bonds and when n,
retired would receive all OF the Az
cumulated money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-18
says UNCLE CAV

I knew a boy once whose parents
killed his enthusiasm. 1t would have
been more merciful had they killed his
body.
He never amounted to anything. He
never had a chance. He is the only
boy 1 ever knew who didn't have
chance. And I've known one or two
who were born blind and yet success
full But this boy didn't-the natural
courage and enthusiasm of the child
were sneered and laughed and whipped
out of him. And he went through his
brief life as a timid, shrinking, cring-
ing, hesitating creature whom every
body brushed aside and nobody paid
any attention to. 1t was all because
two well-meaning parents who were too
pitiably small for fatherhood and
motherhood committed in their blind
ness a worse crime than murder.
The earth has produced no enduring
thing that had not behind it somebody's
enthusiasm. No beautiful thing has ever
come into being that was not conceived
in the joyful anticipation of achieve
ment. No good thing ever has or ever
the bloom of enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is energy plus. 1t is the
fertilizing principle that begets action
from energy. It is the stay of the hand
that fails for WEAKNESS: the strength of
the heart that otherwise would quail in
the presence of danger. The vivifying
electrifying, life-giving emotion that
raises talent to the nth power and
makes genius invincible Without it life
is barren round of uninspiring drudg-
cry, existence is mercy. He who kills
enthusiasm murders a man and leaves
a hollow shell in mans likeness to in
cumber the earth.
Unhappily, too many of us choose
this manner of committing suicide
Copyright, 1912, by w. E. Willians)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-18
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

hchever way the wind doth blow
60 come h heart is glad to have it so;
80 blow it east blow it west
The wind that blows. that wind is best >,
YES, said my neighbor, 1--WE been
Just as blue as can be all day ANYTHING
the matter? Oh, no. It's just the wealth
er I'm always blue when it rains like
this for two or three days in Succession
II be all right when the sun comes out.
out just now I'm so depressed 1 don't
Know IN what to do: That's the way with
all our FAMILY. My sister fidgets herself
almost sick if we have two or three han
Gays, and my mother was just so. we
are all very sensitive to weather."
My neighbor concluded this speech with
an ar OF self-approval as unmistaka bic
as it was inexplicable.
What possible cause for pride is there
TO De found in the fact that one is upset
by such trifle as little rain?
AND yet know many people who are
similarly depressed and thrown off their
polse by the accident of bad weather l
think they are both unfortunate and fool
ish. Don't you?
Unfortunate. because bad weather must
come; some days must be dark and
dreary," and it is too bad to add that
cause for depression to the innumerable
legitimate causes that crowd the ordinary
life. Foolish, because such a tendency
can be controlled.
Comes a second rainy, drizzly day right
on the heels of the first rainy drizz;y
day, q do not think many people mind
one rainy day. If it comes after a period
or sunshine, it may even have a restful
charm. 1t is the second successive bad
day that brings the blues) and you say
mournfully: "Oh, dear, 1 am sorry it is
raining. Rainy weather always makes
me so blue" and straightway you justify
your expectations of yourself by feeling
blue.
Just as people who expect to be sea-
sick and who go down into stuffy cabins
and make all the odious preparations
usually are seasick
But suppose you did not allow yourself
to think anything about the matter be-
yond the cheerful thought that it is like
ly to clear soon, and that anyhow the
rain is doing the crops and the flowers
much good. Suppose you brought up all
the cheerful things you had in your mind
treasury; said something unusually pleas
ant to some one; hummed a little song
about your work and amused yourself by
trying to see how well and how swiftly
you could do that work; and then, when
your tasks were done, suppose you read
some especially absorbing book or made
a call some particularly interesting
person. even went out for a splendid
invigorating walk right in the rain, do
you think you could be blue very long?
Try it some time. Who knows but that
the very next rainy day you will be able
to greet and dispel the gloom with our
optimist poets philosophy:
1T amt no use to grumble and complain
It's Just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and
sends rain
Why rains my choice"
james Whitcomb Riley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-18

trunk to you by express, but you let
me alone for a few days."
ITS girls case then? 2"
IT'S going to be case of marriage
youngster. Il don't even know her
last name, but I'm going back to find
out"
He landed in Moose Trail late that
night, and routed out the sleepy ticket
agent. Before he let him go, he had
the name of the girl and where she
lived Also, he had found his trunk
standing carelessly in one corner OF
had been told she had discovered the
mistake. and left it there to be claim
ed. He ordered it sent on to Bidford'
and went out into the moonlit Night
grinning happily.
Two miles over the hill road, the
fellow at the station had said, and the
second house upon the mountain SIDE
above the dam. He walked it quickly,
the cool, keen air bracing his nerves
When he came in sight of the house,
the whole humor of the chase swept
over him. He could not waken her, a
total stranger, and say he loved her,
and had followed her there in the
middle of the night.
So it happened that when Tommy
Tyndall came along at sunrise, he
found a stranger leaning comfortably
on the bars smiling at him. He had
business with Miss Tyndall he said,
about her trunk.
Old Ben Tyndalrs eyes glistened.
Pretty careless to cart stuff like that
around, amt ?"
st wouldn't take fifty thousand for
Lola sand, wistfully. It's very very
precious to me-
Just keepsakes.'' explained her
father. Girls are sentimental" But
Lindsay's glance caught and held
hers this time, and he saw the color
rise slowly in her cheeks.
IT think yo- lost the real treasure
trunk, Miss Lola he said, slowly.
I'm mighty glad 1 found it, but I
was coming back to Moose Trail any
way"
Tommy leaned across the table conf
dentially.
Sis said she thought you would.
She told me about you on the way
home, and said she hoped she'd see
you again some time"
Toni" flashed Lola, "Don'tp'
Lindsay's eyes g,eamed with happi-
ness, and also pure boyish fun.
We'll. I'm here" he said, meaning
ly, and I'm going to stay
The old man had risen and left the
room. Tommy went also, presently,
and the two We're alone. He waited.
but she did not speak. DO you
mind?' he asked, finally.
Mind what?''
My staying here"
What have I got to say about it?"
Everything-yo know that"
She hesitated, trying not to look
at him, and when her answer came
he had to bend his head to hear it.
1t was very demure, very impersonaI
and yet it told him what he wanted
to know.
I'm glad you found your trunk
mere at Moose Trail.''
So am I-bless it," he laughed.
ana Lola was silent.-(Copyright 1872
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