The Washington herald., 1912-06-09
D JAnrEs 3. MoRRoW.

DelA II uA1 CudAs put onc elcAaoE Aes
athwart the other and CALAMITY said:
Fire away; am ready
saw q juvenile looking man of one
and forty-a lean and smallish man, with
q large. talking mouth. a colorless face
and eyes. at once kindly, inquiring, and
keen-sighted- Il am a follower Of the
light Of Tom Johnson" he told me, when
the storm OF his words became the thick
est. So had known. and therefore had
journeyed to Cleveland.
Great experiments are slowly being
worked cut in this municipality. Some
call them socianBtic experiments Fares
on the street railroads have been reduced
to 3 pennies The people have voted the
money-going up to the polls and putting
In their ballots-to establish their own
system OF electric illumination. Every
public utility, many a bold visionist
says, WIN ultimately be possessed by
the city.
The political heirs Of Tom L. John
son are administering his policies. Thus
Cleveland. q driving, roaring, steaming,
and smoking locality, sixth with respect
10 population within the country, may or
may not reyolutionize local governments
throughout America. Mayor Baker then
win be watched with something more
and better than mere curiosity. Nor Is
he an artful politician straining by hook
IS Johns Hopkins alumnus, a gentleman,
good manager and, as he hopes, a
philosopher who Is attempting to apply
the rules OF reason and justice to mod
ern economic requirements.
one Hundred MIIIIOnaIres.
It can be SAID. using a handy express
sion, that Cleveland has become a semi
socialistic experiment station. Europeans
have come in multitudes to work along
its docks and In its hundreds upon hun
dreds OF manufacturing establishments
labor is masterful and commanding
Capital is eager, adventurous and
mighty. The city booms with life, and
pilots twenty miles from shore turn
their wheels by its smudge. Prosper
ity gives its joyful testimony in banks
overdowing with the savings OF its in
habitants, in skyscrapers. not parti-
toned into ohices. but filled from base
ments to roofs with stocks OF merchan-
disc and in the dull and constant roar
OF its forges and heavy machinery.
At the time John Newell was presi-
dent Of the Lake Shore Railway-salary
$1,000 snuually-only two millionaires
were livingsi in Cleveland. More than one
hundred are living here at this moment.
Riches immense riches. are perceptible
around the parks and lining miles of
streets at the East End; in the churches,
cathedrals and public buildings and in
the nine country clubs-One, the most
luxurious I'm the United States-where
wealth seeks amusement and tranquil
lity. Lake Shore shares. since John
Newelrs sober day. have advanced from
$50 to 500 apiece. His pay then princely
and talked about, has become almost
Insignificant
Poor boys from neIghborfng villages
Myron T. Herrick. the new Ambassador
to France, was one Of them-have grown
and are yet growing, opulent IN busi-
ness, law and medicine. Dan Hanna,
son Of Marcus AlonZo, is reputed to be
a greater money-maker than was his
famous and acquisitive father. His pro-
portion OF the net receipts OF his coal
and iron firm last year Is said to have
been SsO0,OOc. For a long time a gentle
man and his wife, and modest persons,
spent 81, 10000 annually. mostly in be-
half OF religion and education, adding
the remainder Of their Joint income and
profits to their capital accumulations-
the remainder, be II remembered. Cleve-
land. indeed. is a rich city. with a popu-
lation OF $1,000 and 1000 more men,
women and children inhabiting the edges
Of its boundary. And such is the com
cess, that has become Mayor Bakers
economic workshop.
Strangers Pay Five Cents.
A stranger. climbing on a street car
and giving the conductor a dime, viii
receive two nickels, one OF which he
must place in the fare box. II he Is up,
to snuff and means to ride again, he
will buy a strip Of 1--WE tickets for Is
cents or have his pennies ready. Coins
smaller than nickels are unknown to the
conductor when he changes a passen-
gers money. The stranger. however.
would not be within his equities were he
to complain that he had been juggled out
Of his discount
The permanent resident, on the other
hand, has honestly and patiently earned
the reduction. He was compelled to
listen and suffer for many years while
politicians and capitalists called one an
other extortioners and demagogues and
kept the whole town stirred up and the
courts obstructed with motions, appeals,
and iniunctions. Finally the wrangling
became an unbearable public nuisance,
and the late Robert W. Tayler, Judge of
the United States District Court, was
asked to think out q plan Of settlement.
He had recently settled IN Cleveland, and
Besides, he was q learned. courageous,
and sensible man. A capitalist, so far as
he could see, had no more natural rights
than had teamster or clerk. II was
his plan that brought peace and rest to
the city.
There's my savings bank" Mark
Hanna used TO say almost pathetically,
pointing below TO the street railroad that
passed the building in which were his coal,
ore, and ship Offices. He thought more of
the railroad, it seemed, than he did of
any Of his other possessions. He loved
# and fought for It up TO the hour Of
his death. Then one day Robert e. Nc
Kisson, a Republican, was Unexpectedly
elected Mayor OF the city. He was young,
obscure, inexperienced, and rash. Mr..
Hanna treated him with contempt be-
cause he believed him to be incompetent
and a political accident. McKisson re-
taliated by attacking Hanna's street
of defeating him for the United States
Cleveland. 1t grew to be nationally no
torious. The motives Of the men en-
gagged In II, as has been shown, were alb
sOlutely personal and sordid.
But Tom L. Came Back.
In the meantime Tom L. johnson had
moved to New York. It was supposed
he purposed to remain there Suddenly
he returned and ran for Mayor himself
on the issue that three-cent fare on
Cleveland street railroads was enough, /
81 the capitalization were reduced to the
actual value OF the property. the worth
Of the franchise not to be included. He
had made fortune in the street railroad