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The New York herald., 1922-02-23

miles In length, is not a good short
haul territory, for the park on one side
Is traffic desert.
The surface tracks on Columbus ave-
nue. are of great Importance and capable
OF increased usefulness. The avenue Is
lined with stores and places Of business
and has a heavy population on both
sides. Its location under the elevated
railroad Is not an unnecessary duplica-
tion of facilities. The situation on
Third avenue proves this. The third
tracking of the Third avenue elevated
and the opening OF the Lexington ave-
nue. subway would. it was thought. re-
duce the usefulness OF the Third avenue
surface lines. The contrary has proved
to be the case. The surface cars have
developed an immense short haul busi-
ness. The same would be true on Co.
lumbus avenue.
Furthermore, the maximum of useful
ness of surface lines for short haul
business and other relief to the over
burdened rapid transit lines would be
secured IL during rush hours through
vehicular traffic were unified to avenues
without tracks. thus allowing an in
crease in the running time of street
cars. COPELAND TowNsrNn
New YORK, February 22.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Hopeful Signs in Ireland.

The action of the Sim Fein con-
vention is a victory for COLLINS and
GRIFFITH and the Provisional Gov
ernment of the Irish Free State.
While the agreement postpones the
election, it also provides that the
Provisional Government shall be un-
disturbed for three months. If this
means three months of political calm
in Southern Ireland it means period
in which the heads of the new State
can go forward with the preliminary
work of government unhindered by
the opposition.
Another feature of the agreement
is that the Constitution of the Free
State is to be submitted to the peo-
pie at the election at which the
treaty with England is offered for
approval. This, we think, will help
the Free State cause. The South
will have an opportunity to pass on
a complete plan rather than frame
work. What was particularly hope
full in the convention was the fact
that the delegates, all ardent Sim
Fein men, insisted on unity. They
practically commanded the leaders to
come to an understanding which
would prevent an immediate split,
The New York herald., 1922-02-23

Texans gave a full measure of credit
for success in their struggle against
the Mexicans.
Two things in American life
tended to increase the popularity of
the revolver: the demand for the
weapon by gold seekers going to Cal
ifornia and Australia and the Mex
lean war. In 1S47 General TAYLOR,
hearing of the revolver from officers
who had served in the Seminole cam
paign, sent to Colonel CoLT-that was
the military title he was henceforth
to bear-for a supply of the new
firearms to be used by his forces in
Mexico. That the revolver had be-
come a treasure which no owner was
willing to part with at that time
became evident.
For five years not revolver had
been made. The market had been
drained of the Paterson factory
products by departing gold seekers
and Texans, Colonel Colt having
sold the last one he had to a prairie
ranger. He advertised widely for
one of his revolvers to serve as a
model, but he was unable to discover
any person who would either lend or
sell him one. This may possibly have
been fortunate for him, since he set
about making a new model in which
he incorporated many improvements
suggested by the experience Of army
officers. The first thousand made af-
ter this model were manufactured in
an armory hired at Whitneyville,
near New Haven, Connecticut.
In a visit to London fifteen years
after securing his patents Colonel
CoLT discovered among some ancient
weapons in the Tower firearm with
a rotary chamber. In order to free
himself from the imputation of copy
ing this weapon he made several ad-
dresses before engineering societies
demonstrating the principle upon
which his revolver was constructed.
The fact that 1t became practical
weapon through the invention of a
copper cap for the ignition Of powder
seems to have completely justified
Colonel CoLT's claim to an original
invention.
AS Is the case with all other
weapons the revolver has undergone
many changes and improvements.
After its tragic eighty. seven years,
in which it has been cursed as de-
stroyer and blessed as savior, it
still bears in its essential features the
earmarks of the first model.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Brooklyn Cats.
They Destroy Birds and Chipmunks
and Neglect Rats.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: My OBJ
servation of cats confirms the worst
that has been said of them as destruc-
tive creatures. I live near Evergreens
Cemetery. where have. seen cats kill
robins. fiickers and song sparrows. The
young Of all low nesting birds are de-
stroyed by cats and often the mother
bird shares their fate.
Last summer l liberated six chip
munks in the cemetery. They were tame
and delighted children and grownups.
one evening i saw a cat get one OF
them and run off, and the others disap-
peared in few days
People who raise chickens know that
II cat once kills chick and gets a
taste of the blood none OF the others
is safe AS for killing rats cats are
useless. There are swarms of rats
around the lake in Prospect Park. Cats
are around there day and night. and
while they never 1T rat they kill
large numbers of birds.
Birds by eating weed seeds help the
farmer and help US. They also destroy
countless numbers of insects. II the
birds are to survive the cats must go.
BROOKLYN, February 90. c. HART.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Puss the Farmers Friend.
Tribute to the Cat From One Who
Was Brought I'm on Farm.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Some
years ago an eminent manufacturer Of
farm supplies got out a catalogue; the
tail piece of one OF the chapters was a
picture of n pair of human hands hold
ing n kitten and underneath was the
legend "The Farmers Best Friend" 1t
is Of interest in view of the present dis
cussion as to the Punishment of Pussy.
was born and brought up on
farm and lived there till my eighteenth
year and l never saw more than one
bird eaten by a cat; It was a nesting
that had fallen out a little ahead of
time. But l do not anticipate that 1t
will stop the food of reform in the
least; when did a reformer ever hear.
care for or listen to mere commonplace
fact?
The proposed law to regulate cats in
New Jersey will probably take its place
in the history of national gayeties be-
side the Oklahoma bed sheet law. the
creation-or proposed creation-of the
statutory crime of hypocrisy in this
State and a few thousand others.
BROOKLYN, February 22. ID. G.
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Senator Calder in Transit.

Senator CALDER is by way of emerg.
Ing from the befogged bonus area.
He has reached the point where he
begins to see. Realities are taking
on definite shape.
There is always hope for a man
when he is moving in the right direc-
ton. There is hope for CALDER. He
has been making an intensive exam
ination of himself within the las; few
days to find out just where he does
stand on the bonus. He has dis
covered that he is not for a cash
bonus for the well men until the sick
and wounded men have been taken
care of.
This is something, but it suggests
that CALDER even now is willing to
mulct the people out of five billions
OF dollars for the bonus II he
can convince himself that sick and
wounded men are being taken care of.
Five thousand millions of dollars
more gouged out of the people for
this bonus job doesn't matter so long
as it helps in elections.
Again CALDER seems not to register
on the finer side of the question, the
principle involved in the payment of
a bonus to young men for doing that
which is their duty to their country.
Clearly, however, Senator CALDER is
in transit, and at the rate of progress
he has made since THE New YORK
HERALD began taking an interest in
him, bonus befuddled as he then was,
he has Travelled far and travelled
fast
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Open 1t for Two WAY Traffic.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The
street cars as they now run through CO.
lumbus avenue are little more than an
annoyance. Hating at Sixty-ffth
street they get nowhere. On the other
hand, Central Park West, which Is the
most direct thoroughfare connecting the
lower West Side with Harlem. is closed
to northbound traffic. This avenue.
which should be a principal artery OF
the city. is used less than any other
avenue.
AS Mr.. Morgan points out in his let
ter, the way has been provided for the
Improvement of Central Park West.
The encroachments which have been
erected by property owners on the west
side of the street should come down
the sidewalk should be narrowed by at
least twelve feet The cars south bound
should run along the west side of th.
avenue, which then being restored To
two way traffic would afford relief to
the entire public living west OF Central
Park. 7 y Donsrv
New York, February 22.
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Prayer for the Dead.

From the arkansas Gd=ette.
o Comrade, You who camp tonight be-
yond the outer Ranges,
Do you remember times that were and
old days that are gone
When we rode the trails together
through the crystal autumn
weather
To the cllnk of spur and curb chain
and the creak OF saddle leather
From the far faint line OF foothills
through the deserts counter
changes
In the splendor of the starlit nights.
the glory of the dawn
1t Ia my prayer for you who rest beyond
the sunsets blazing
That you have found n pleasant land
of silence after strife,
Where the south wind sways the
grasses in the cool sweet watered
places
And the scent OF sagebrush breathes
across the viewless outer spaces
Where the drifting clouds pass down the
sky like phantom riders hazing
Gods herded stars to background by
the living Stream Of Life:
c. 7. DAVIS.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
EVENTS TO-DAY.

West End Post. American Legion, dinner
dance and entertainment. 133 West Seventy
fourth street, p. NJ.
New York Council for the Limitation OF
Armament, discussion of the Washington
conference. Y. w G. A. auditorium, GOO Lex
ington avenue. BIS p. M.
Prof. Edgar Dawson Of Hunter College
will lecture before the League of Women
Voters, Hotel Pennsylvania, s:15 p. NJ.
Bronx Board of Trade. meeting. Third
P. NJ.
Board OF Education. meeting. Park avenue
and Fifty-ninth street. p. NJ.
Montrose strasbuJger. Assistant District
Attorney, will speak on abraham Lincoln
before the osceola Club. 1896 Park avenue,
sracSeys Queen rHsto Victoria Brocyn fnst
tute of Arts and Sciences. L. u.
Parent-Teacher Association Of the Ethical
Culture school, conference, 80 Central Park
West, ii A. M.
Joint meeting of the four transportation
osotherhoSds me to protest 'fninst the repeal
East 125th street. $3.50 p. NJ.
Municipal Public Speaking Club. dinner.
room 14l7 Municipal Building. 1880 p. NJ.
Joint Society OF the Free Industrial School
for Crippled Children and the Lulu Thorley
Home, dance, Waldorf-Astoria, 8 80 p. NJ.
307th Infantry Post. American Legion. en-
tertainment and ball, Waidorf-Astoria. s:15
+. NJ.
DR.. Thomas Darlington. former Health
Commissioner, will speak at rally of the
Bowery Wynnthowaws. Bowery Mission, 90
Bowery. p. u.
American Institute OF Mining and Metalur-
gical Engineers, meeting, Engineering So
cleties Building, 20 West Tihrty-ninth street.
all day excursion; committee meeting. p. NJ.
Merchandise exhibit. Seventy frat Regiment
Armory, afternoon and evening.
National Association of Paint Jobbers,
meeting, Hotel Commodore. 10 a. M. and
+. NJ
National Association of Engine and Boat
Manufacturers, Engineers Club. 1880 +. NJ.
Wholesale Stationers Association, meeting,
Hotel McAlpin. 10 A. M. and $3.50 p. M;
luncheon, $3.50 p. NJ.
Dinner to Peter A. Shell. Hotel Astor, Z
p. NJ.
Urban Society OF Ohio, dinner and dance,
International Paper Company employees,
dance and supper. Waldorf-Astoria, p. N.
lie Cercle dc Lafayette. reception. Waldorf
Astoria, 8 p. NJ.
Joseph C. Lincoln, lecture, Cape Cod
Folks. League for Political Education, Town
Hall, Tia West Forty-third street. IL A. NJ.
"gandhi and tho Present Situation In
India" will be the subject OF public meet
ing at the Community Church, Thirty-fourth
street and Park avenue. u. M
Library Committee OF the College of tta
City of New York. dinner. Hotel Astor. 7:,>
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MARSHALL IN "OTELLO."
American Tenor of Chicago Com
pany Heard.

Verdrs "Otello" had its one perform
ance at the Manhattan last evening.
The Chicago Opera Company has long
list of tenors and one of them is a stall
wart American called Charles Marshall.
He had not made an appearance In the
course of the current season till last
night. He and "Otello" are In the habit
of appearing simultaneously. In fact
it seems that they rarely appear sepa-
rately in Chicago. Mr.. Marshall special
ICES in the role of the Moor of Venice
as set to music by Verdi. This tenor
is large and robust and his rudeness to
the tender and innocent DesdemonG Is
quite as convincing as that of Leo
Slezak used to be. No tenor can be a
success as Otello unless he makes all
the ladies in the audience speak Of him
as that big brute"
OF course there also Is the music and
this gives Mr. Marshall more trouble
than the stalwartness. The music takes
lot of singing, ranging, as 1t does,
all the way from lyric to explanatory
anu cNcii tcibpcSluouo. WI. 4hoioHd
was happiest when tempestuous. He
was generally unhappy when he tried to
be lyric. The tenor was not alone in
his unhappiness for Mr.. Rimini was the
Idgo Now Idgo Is always unhappy,
but he can never be unhappier than
when he is Mr.. Rimini because this
barytone is depressing whether he sings
lyrically or tempestuously. He was un-
usually sad last evening
Miss Rosa Raisa was the Desderond.
The part is not suited to her voice or
style. She made a very creditable at
tempt at the role, but she is essentially
a dramatic singer and a heroic figure.
while Desdemond Is certainly neither of
these. With the conditions thus far
set forth satisfactory performance of
"Otello" was out of the question. The
chorus sang with immense vigor and
the orchestra performed likewise. The
secondary roles in the opera were toler-
ably done and the scenery was that
which has done service for some time.
Pietro Cimini conducted.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Those Bad Old Days.
Crime and Disorder in the New York
of Sixty Years Ago.

To THE New YORK HERALD: AS to the
virtues of New York to-day and sixty
years ago 1t is absurd to imply that
there were then no bandits, no danger,
that man could travel in any part of
New York at any time without danger OF
being molested.
From the civil war and until about
forty years ago a considerable part of
Greenwich Village south of West Third
street from Thompson street to Car
mine street was inhabited by an un-
fortunate class of colored people whose
restitution prompted a great many of
them to engage In criminal pursuits
The eastern and western waterfronts
and the streets for several blocks back
of each. namely, South, Front. Water,
West, Washington and Greenwich
streets, were occupied to a great extent
by disreputable boarding houses where
sailors were victimized flagrantly and
from which they were often shanghaied.
This was in the sos and SOS.
Until the early '70s and for a long
period of years preceding that time the
Chelsea district was the scene of almost
incessant rioting which necessitated the
calling out of militia on more than one
occasion to suppress the disorders.
In the sos and SOS part of the West
Side in the Fifties, Forties and Thirties
from Ninth avenue to the Hudson River
was earning the name which 1t still
bears, though less deservingly in recent
years. of Helis Kitchen.
Then there was the notorious Five
Points slum, which occupied the site of
the present Columbus Park. Mulberry to
Bayard street, and which was oblter-
ated to make way for the park about
1885. It's maze Of narrow streets and
jumbled rottlng tenements afforded a
haven for many Of the most desperate
characters of the city. II was worth
the life of n strangez TO walk through
the neighborhood II the inhabitants
thought that he carried anything worth
taking. It was deemed necessary for
policemen to travel in pairs for their
own safety when they were patrolling
this locality.
I dare say that an open truck carrying
bags Of registered mail would not have
ventured with impunity into any of the
above mentioned parts Of the city IL the
inhabitants of these localities were
aware of its contents.
In view of the foregoing facts Of the
degree to which unrestrained lawless-
ness existed in such widely distributed
and extensive parts of New York from
forty to seventy years ago the good
old days" of sixty years ago can hardly
compare favorably with the present days,
when despite greatly increased pop
lation and a police force which has not
been increased in proportion to the pop
ulation there Is no part Of New York
given over to unrestrained crime.
The annals Of any generation in the
past reveal the presence in that particu-
lar generation of those persons who were
always decrying what was then the pres
ent time and everything associated with
the present, as is done to-day, and eulo-
gizing the past and all that belonged to
1t for their better qualities and unsur-
passable virtues; but the sociological
side of history reveals nothing to sub
stantiate their attitude. l.. w.
BLooMINGBURG, February %.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Transporting the Canary.
From The Nouchc,ter f,,,or,,i

From the Manchester Guardian.
Canary breeding is such n common
hobby among the Lancashire and York
shire Industrial classes that tho recent
revival OF the trading facilities with other
countries Is Of much Importance. Before the
war immense consisnments OF canaries were
sent regularly TO America and many parts
OF the British Empire. Specially prepared
cages were used for the safe transport OF
the little sonssters. Breeders have learned
that the canary can be hardened to an ex-
tent which could scarcely have been believed
some years ago. comparatively cold at
mosphere, free from drafts, has a beneficial
effect upon the health Of the average canary
and IL suits the birds which are Intended FOR
export much better than a warm room. The
plurnage IL enhanced In its texture, which IN
turn Improves the Figure" when judicious
feeding Is given.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Central Park West.
Reasons for Diverting Street Cars
10 Columbus Avenue.

To THE NEW York HERALD: In his
letter in regard to Central Park West
P. r. Morgan presents an argument for
a plan which, II carried forward, would
only increase the present congested
traffic Conditions, add TO the discomfort
Of the travelling public, increase the
danger on Central Park West and act
as a deterrent alike TO the development
Of Central Park and to the adequate
recognition OF Central Park West as
one OF the great dignihed avenues of
the city
Located on one side OF Central Park
West tho street car tracks have con-
stantly been a dangerous traffic prob
lem. So serious was the situation that
in 1917 the Legislature enacted the OF
finger law empowering the city authori-
ties to require the company TO relocate
its tracks IL the Public Service Com
mission found. after hearing, that the
situation was dangerous. On the over
whelming testimony presented by the
city the commission determined the
tracks were such a source of danger.
The plan then considered was TO locate
the tracks nearer the center of the ave-
nue. with the westerly curb moved In and
the sidewalks widened In the direction
of the buildings.
Opposition of property owners 10 this
expense to them and war conditions
halted further action under the Ottlnger
law. Traffic dangers with north and
south lines of street cars and two
way vehicular traffic we're so great, how
ever, that the Police Department limited
the avenue to southbound vehicular
traffic but with very little decrease in
danger to pedestrians attempting to
reach the street cars, located as they are
on the east side of the thoroughfare.
To provide the maximum of service
and minimum of danger 10 the public the
tracks should be entirely removed from
Central Park West and Eighth avenue
service diverted Mt Fifty-ninth street
up Broadway to Sixty-flfth street, thence
up Columbus avenue and through Tooth
street back to Eighth avenue. entirely
over existing tracks, which. especially
the lines on Columbus avenue. are not
at present performing maximum service,
stopping as they do at Sixty-fifth street
Central Park West two and half
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Porridge Passes.

Recent statistics indicate that Scotland Is
turning from oatmeal TO wheat.
Oh. Land o. Cakes Oh, Land O. Cakes !
Frae Kirkcudbright to Kyle of Tongue.
Whaur Nevis in wild thunder shakes
And Robbie Burns loved, LAUGHED and
sung,
Strange gods be these wherewith ye toy:
Strange to the Bruce and bauld Rob Roy I!
Losh! What would Nicol Jarvie say!
And Oldbuck, at the rumor daft,
Would drown his sorrow in the Tay;
The Ettrick Shepherd scorn his craft.
Alacl1 that r. L. S. is gone;
Though Barrie lives to carry on.
The bagpipes wall a passing dirge
That erst with life and fire skirled.
The wild waves OF the Mnch submerge
A blighted, broken. blasted world.
And wac the wasted waters Groom
That wash Argyle and bonnie Doom
The waters strong pressed frae the corn
And turned to whuskey by the peat
No longer warm the wham at morn
But taste ae chill though taken neat
To Dande Dinmont tits all one
With Tyre and Sidon. spider spun.
Now Covenanter, Jacobite,
And Hieland kern and Lowland laird
Forswear we all the ancient rite
Whereby your fathers focht and Jared
Gone, parritch and the juice of kye
Come. wheaton manchet-cream forbye!
Parritch, her STAFF, come veal, come
woe
Parritch, the essence of the oat--
Parritch, the cursed statistics show,
Succumbs to wheat by Scotland's vote |!
The sun is set. the light has fed
All, Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled!
MAURICE MoRA.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Clemenceau and Cold Water.

That M. CLEMENcEAU at the age of
so should show beneficial results
from the strenuous course of cold
water bathing and exercise he is
undergoing indicates that the French
statesman possesses a vitality that
would bring joy to many a man a
score Of years his junior
Cold water has long been a sover-
eign remedy for nervousness In some
cases. 1t is favorite prescription
with certain physicians who have
their patients take plunge in the
sea daily except during the extreme
cold weather of midwinter. Practi-
cally every seaside resort has at
least one citizen who boasts of his
ability to brave the shock of the cold
est water.
One Of the type was to be seen for
years on the beach at Coney Island,
where with half dozen dogs for
company he swan about in the break
ers daily in winter while the onlook-
ers shivered. Warm outer garments
donned for drive of half a mile
helped to protect him from the dan
ger Of catching cold afterward. A
system of massage like that favored
by M. CLEMENCEAU was regarded as
one of the factors which prolonged
the life of this Brooklynite till we'll
past 80, although he had suffered a
stroke of paralysis at 60.
The men and women known as the
Snowbirds who have for years as
sembled on Coney Island beaches in
winter IN bathing suits and sweat
ers for exercise, with a short plunge
in the ocean as n wind up. boast of
their immunity from colds. Their ex-
perience adds weight to the theory
that the matter of clothing is
largely one of usage as regards pro-
lection from cold. The hardy Scot
in his kits and with hare knees is
as comfortable as any other man.
while everybody knows the answer
of the Indian who proclaimed him
self "all face" when asked II he
never felt the rigors of winter.
The bodily health and mental ac-
tivity of the Tiger of France may be
due in great measure to his habits
of life. Nature, however, must have
provided the foundation for such a
period of usefulness to his country
in a constitution vigorous beyond
the ordinary.
The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Pain.

Gray garbed and wan he came and
knocked
Seeking for shelter here,
In haste the portal unlocked
More in surprise than fear.
1 feared him soon; in sorrow sore
begged him TO depart.
His hands but frightened more and more
About my aching heart
Until at last, becoming used
To my companion grim.
His teaching ! no more refused,
But smiled one day on him.
lie tuned-the room was filed with
light;
Upon his vsage fair
I silent gazed, grown clear my sight,
For Love was written there.
ELISABETH ScoLLARp.