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All rights of tcpuhllcatlon of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. rhlUdclphla, t edneidij 1 rliruaxr t. 1'50 THE MAYOR'S RIGHT TO KNOW MAYOR MOORE'S recommendation for the repeal of the numerous street-opening and land-condemnation ordinances rushed through Councils at the tail end of the Vare administration reveals due concern for the importance of this subject. The Housing Commission recently sug gested a scientific study of the whole question of the development of new dis tricts in the municipality. There are streets which should be opened, sewers which should be laid and sections defi nitely in need of the extension of public utilities. On the other hand, there are projects which if executed would be pri marily beneficial to speculators and land profiteers. Such conditions prevail in every city. Haphazard extension is unlikely to serve the general interest. Mr. Mooie evidently realizes this. There may be ment, there may be "snakes" in some of the street-opening plansso hurriedly passed in the twilight of Vare rule. What is immediately neces sary Is a careful scrutiny of these oidi riances. Time is needful also, and for this the Mayor quite rightly asks. THE THEFT OF THUNDER QENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON has characterized as "astounding" the lenient view taken by Viscount Grey of the suggestion that the United States should have voting pnvileges in the coun cil of the League of Nations equal to those of the Butish empiie. Amazement is often the portion of the fantastic-minded who have been despoiled of thunder. Truth has a habit of making off with it and truth is a constant sur prise to many folk. No wonder Mr. Johnson is startled ?is lie beholds his elaborate anti-Bntish nightmares dissolve into complete diplo matic compliance. Is there a politician alive who can call the clans and arm them to fight a lamb ? A TIP TO AN ARCHDUKE rpHE allied diplomats seem to be te- membering the day when Heibert "Hoover put the fear of the Hapsburgs into their hearts. It was a good job and performed in the nick of tune, for the tendency of the statesmen had been to welcome anything, even the Archduke Joseph in Hungary, as an offset to Bela Kun. Happily, now that the irrepressible Joseph is aspiring to the Hungarian throne again, the Pans "council of am bassadors" whatever that may be does not propose to be caught vacillating. The formal statement just issued is explicit Xn its consideration of "such restoration of a dynasty, which to its subjects lepre Bented a system of repression and domi nation" as "not consistent with either the principles for which this war has been fought or with the lesults of the libera tion of subject peoples which have been achieved." This is sound and igorous statesman ship in a field in which not a few glaring mistakes have been made. The Austrian problem seems likely to plague Europe for some time Senous doubts have been raised concerning some of the rulings re garding Hungary, but the return of the Hapsburgs in either of the two nations would be an affront to civilization. It was the Hapsburg system which imme diately provoked the wai. In following Mr. Hoover's original in structions the diplomatists, a prey to so many blunders, here evince determination nd discernment. MR. DANIELS'S REBUTTAL IN HIS "come-back" on the Sims case Secretary Daniels unquestionably touched a popular chord by his champion ship of enlisted men, his sniffs at "shore admirals" and his support of 'medal awards for unsuccessful naval heroes. The public is always sympathetic with the anquished if they have placd their part with courage. Witness the glamour attaching to the loss of the Cumberland, in the most exciting days of Hampton Roads, and the affection in which the name of Custer is held. As for the en listed man, he is familiarly regarded as an antidote for official snobbery. And as for swivel-chair sea dogs well, they have had a miserable time since "Pina fore." The equity in all these current views js not so readily analyzed. When one comes to think it over, it is evident that it was always in Mr. Daniels's power to supply Admiral Sims with a bridge instead of a desk. The valor of enlisted men is no legitimate reflection on the regular navy and perhaps some medals do occasionally get to the undeserving. The fact is that the beeretdry of the navy has not really answered the Sims charges nor did the "shore admiral," aside from the disclosure of the perni ciously idiotic observation on the British, reveal a wholly indefensible naval record. It is now not so much a naval "scandal" as a clash of lively personalities with which tho public is regaled. 'The secretary's rebuttal was on the .,;?!, v. irfidfli -!f'myfi&r-nx'nKel-rr' -r$fKfa$yf, . ""''11F' EVENING wholo quite as vigorous, although a little better tempered, than tho gambit of his opponent. The points were well made, even if Mr. Daniels did neglect to re mind the Senate investigators and the public that tho Bunker Hill monument itself was u tribute to valor which failed. DISSENSION OVER JOBS NOT THE WAY TO HELP MOORE But Friction Over Patronage Is One of the Incidents of the Administration's Adjustment to Its Proper i Functions pURRENT news reports Indicate that the time has come when tho political leaders who united to bring nbout tho election of Mayor Moore and a Council in sympathy with his put poses should go off into a room by themselves and se riously consider whether they wish to wreck the new administration on the rock of spoils. They can wreck it if they think that a few offices filled at their dictation are of greater importance than harmonious co operation in the work of giving the city a better government than it has had in the past. The onlyivital question in the distribu tion of patronage is whether the men ap pointed to office are in sympathy with the administration. So far as the success of the expei iment now under way is con cerned, it does not matter much to tho public gcneiolly whether the appointees are suggested by Thomas Cunningham, of the Republican Alliance, oriGeoigo Coles, of the Town Meeting party, or whether Sheriff Lamberton or Council man Roper picks the new appointees from the Tvv enty-second ward or whether Rob ot t Carson or John F. Sloan is the leader of the Foity-sixth waid. It may matter a great deal to tho political fortunes of the men named. But it was not to increase the political power of any group of men for their own ad vantage that the old machine was turned out of the City Hall. The old regime was rejected for tho reason that its ideals and its philosophy were wrong. The city had been man aged on the theory thai the primary pur pose of government is to provide offices for deserving politicians who should seive the men who ran the political ma chine as an adjunct to their private busi ness enteiprises. If it is not a crime against the law it is an offense against demociacy and the finer instincts of every honorable man and woman. The hope was entertained that w ith a new deal there would come new ideals and a new philosophy, and that attention would bo concentrated on the ends for which government exists and that there would be a whole-hearted and sincere co operation toward accomplishing those ends. Much 1ms been done that justifies the expectations of those who voted for the new Mayor and his associates. Theie is evidence of a new spirit at work in the City Hall. It is for this veiy reason that the signs of friction aie disturbing and disconceiting. It is impossible for a new Mayor to satisfy every one in the distribution of patronage, and it is particularly difficult in this city, where customs and processes of thought have been intrenched for veais and to some extent color the think ing even of those who would abandon them. The law of inertia governs thought as it governs material things, and when thought has been going in a given direc tion for a generation it will continue in that direction until it is deflected by a powerful external force. We shall know definitely in a year or two whether the external force exerted at the November election was strong enough to head the political thinking of this city in a new dnection and toward a loftier goal. But the force of inertia is still operating to pull it back into the old grooves. We believe that the Mayor will fight this tendency with all the power at his command. Upon his success in fighting it depends the success of his administra tion. No one knows this better than he. And we assume that the squabbling over patronage that is now going on among the leaders of the Republican Alliance and the Town Meeting party and other independent groups is intensely displeas ing to him. There was bound to be friction in ad justing the machinery of the new admin istration. And the old organization was bound to do its utmost to fill the bearings with sand. Some of the new leaders were out of sympathy with the old organiza tion not because thej objected to its methods, but because they had not been able to get from it what they wanted. Their reform ideals were diluted with self-seeking. If they cannot get what they want they will turn on the men in power now just as they turned on tho men in power in the past. They have to be reckoned with by the Mayor and pla cated or disregarded as seems best under tho circumstances in each case. There is a prospect, however, for a haimonious outcome. Tho disagreement over the distribution of tho patronage of the Council may be removed by an amicable adjustment within a few days. An open break was avoided yesterday afternoon when tho appointments were postponed. The desirability of preserving harmony among the eleven administra tion councilmen is so evident that no one was willing to run the risk of an open break, especially as one or more of tho eleven councilmen was talking of rebel lion in the morning. The exercise of a little enlightened common sense ought to smooth out tho difficulties. For example, it is preposter ous to expect the chairman of the finance committee to permit outsiders to name the clerk to his committee. And, indeed, the Council itself should control all its own patronage. Tho councilmen have been elected to perform certain functions and among them is the function of organ izing and employing such assistants as they need. If they are not competent to belect their own clerks they are not com petent to act as city legislators. The at tempt to force upon them clerks selected by some one else very properly arouses their resentment. If they have not tho nerve to stand up against patronage dic tation from vvard leaders they will not have the independence to exercise their own judgment in formulating other poli cies. The Mayor lias had enough legislative experience to understand the state of ' ."W-Csi PUBLIC mind of tho councilmen who nro insisting on their rights to manago tho affairs of the Council. And if he is true to tho les sons of his own experience ho will read the riot act to those who arc making trouble by meddling. ' All the friends of tho now regime are hoping that the present ructions uro meiely incidental to the settling-down process following the upheaval which oc cuircd when Mayor Moore took office less than u month ago. When the now or ganization "finds itself," to use the lan guage of the engineer, it is likely to run more smoothly. NO PAY FOR DIRTY STREETS QEVERE January weather, which, ac- cording to the contractors, hampered stieet cleaning, has not retarded their demands for payment. Director Winston has been unable to discern the logip of this situation and reassuringly adheres to tho old-fashioned contention that it is quito superfluous to buy something which doesn't exist. As tho sum of tidy thor oughfaies is only about half of what it should be, half payment is the ruling. This is the sensible method of enforc ing contracts. The city is not engaged in supporting street-cleaning concerns. It is engaged, among other activities, in keeping the public thoroughfares in a decent condition through delegated agents. If these fail to perform their tasks, either because of negligence or the vagaries of the climate, claims for pay ment cannot be validated. Mr. Winston has nlieady refused to subtract from the city funds $115,000 for stieets that aro still dirty. In addition fines for offenses of sheer negligence will be imposed. Perhaps the contractois will begin to loam that an elementary prin ciple of business is at last in force. Bills will bo honoied only for jobs completed. If this system is consistently followed by the Department of .Public Works slovenly streets should soon cease to shame the town. THE WOMAN AND THE JOB A DISPATCH from San Francisco tell- ing of a death that revealed the sex of a woman who for years had mas queraded as a man contains the signifi cant assertion that she had worn men's clothing "to enable her to earn her living unmolested." The icason is not a valid one today, but it is interesting as revealing a con dition existing a couple of geneiations ago. Today women are engaged in all the professions and many of, the trades. The woman in business is a familiar figure. To win success she does not have to don trousers. But it was not always so. Prejudice once on a time confined women to certain ill-paid lines of endeavor. If in her emancipation woman, has lost something as well as gained something the fact need occasion no surpiise. Because a woman has greater oppoitunitios moie is ex pected of her. In winning her rights she is in danger of losing some of her privi leges. But, at least, there is cause for gratulation in the knowledge that she may, when occasion demands, earn a good living without being reduced to the sub terfuge of the "quaint old razor man" of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unusual interest Big Supreme Court Case attaches to the suit brought by Pennsylvania and Ohio to prevent West Vir ginia from enforcing n state law restricting the nmount of natural gas that can be trans ported out of the latter state. If the amount is restricted it will work hardship on big manufacturing plants in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. If the amount remains unrestrict ed West Virginia feels she has little chance of building up her own plants in Wheeling, Moundsville and elsewhere in a spaiacly pop ulated country especially rich in natural re sources. There is much to be said on both sides and the proceedings have national im portance The suggestion of the Ihlder the Builder Philadelphia Housing As- relation that building companies be formed to supply the present demand for houses is one that ought to bear fruit. People who have been so generous with their money in m many successive drives ought to and probably would subscribe whole-heartedly to a scheme that would as sure good leturns for the investment while benefiting thousands of individual citizens and the community nt large. Secretary Ihldcr's suggestion is distinctly constructive. The death is an Or "Sniffed In, nounced at Palm Snuffed Out" Beach of Dick, a tom cat, as the result of injuries received in an encounter with a skunk, and his owner, John It, Bradley, nsks his friends to oblige him with an appro priate inscription for his tombstone. We might suggest, "He Was a Good Scout, Hut He Fought Out of His Class," "You stand before me," Dream Victories said Admiral vou Trotba to Admiral von Router, "as the last of our German high seas fled, once so accustomed to 'victory." The gentleman must surely have referred to the German junkets on which the officers jocund! drank to "Der Tag!" It is given out in Paris Want Not that bmull waists are Waist Knot coming in again. An other attempt to skimp material while boosting price. But leccntly enfranchised women will probably resent this attempt to make them pull themselves to gether in this way A Dayton (O ) doctor Try 1 his on says a nightcap will do Your Domo more to prevent colds than uny kind of med icine. He suggests that it be made of wool and tied under the chiu. Tho kind that wtib felt and worn under the belt is no longer fashionable. If a farmer gets n Hard Problem in dollar for a basket of Itelatlve Values potatoes and a retailer gets ?3 for tho mmo basket, what would the consumer do to tho middleman if he had a club as well as a just cause? Lord Grey's declaration thut Great Brit ain docs not object to the United States having an equal vote iu the Leagun of Na tions is probably simply realization o tho fact, lost sight of in the Senate, that tho amount of a vote is comparatively insignifi cant where unanimit is necessary to artion. Councilmeu Burch and Horn announced their intention of voting as Conscience dic tates. Who is this guy Conscience? New in politics, iMi't lio? A drastic penalty is a bharp spur to a careless contractor. 6 tfl fyf ., -"ff-H -tEDGEE-PHIIi"ADEL1?HIA4, WEDNESDAY, SPEAKING SOFTLY Gentle Voice Apparently a Big Asset In Political Life Newspaper men and the Law By GIJOHGE NOX MiCAIN Tn. GEORGE C. STOUT dropped a --' casual remark, or riithcr it was a re minder, that brought conspicuously to mind some characteristics of one of tho biggest and best-Ilked leaders that Philadelphia Re publicans have known iu a generation. "In jour mention of successful politicians who were the possessors of a ipiiet manner and subdued voice, ou unintentionally, I think, omitted ono who stood pre-eminent lu that respect, Israel W. Durham," he said. I might have also Included the name of Senator Edwin A. Vare. Even when ad dressing political gatherings he rarely raises his voico above a conversational tone. Tho late Senator McNichol hnd n most unusual voice. It is best described by the word "cheerful," and it was his tone in greeting or conversation, quito as much as his facial expression, that earned for him tho sobri quet of "Smiling Jim." Republican State Chairman William E. Crow should also be added to"thc list. His is what might be called the conlidentlaUvoicc. In ordinary conversation he convejs tho im pression of imparting n privileged communi cation. Senator Cro, like all of the Republican state chairmen in four decades, crimes from the country. The fact is. a tribute to tho resourcefulness, acumen and shrew duets of couiury-Dreu anu traineu politicians. B. P. Gilkeson was n lino sample of the tjpe. Up until 101S, when Crow- delivered an overwhelming majority for Governor Sproul, Gilkeson held the high-water record in a state majority. B. I GILKESON, like Senator Crow, was of the Bucks count bar at the time Presi dent Harrison appointed him second comp troller of the treasury. lie was a veteran of the Civil War, a member of Company I, Seventeenth Regi ment, Pcnusjlvania Militia. He was far sighted, cool and calculating in political af fairs. It was his war experience, I fancy, that once led him to remark to me : "A political campaign, in my judgment, is like a battle. You can t afford to let the enemy get the slightqst inkling of what is going on in your lines. Say nothing and saw wood, has alwajs been my watchword," It was this policy of reticence and studied coolness that earned for him the nickname of "FroHty Gilkeson." It was undeserved, so far as his private pcrsonalitj was con cerncd, A mote companionable mid genial man could not be found than the gentleman from Butks when he was in the companj of friends. The nickname was bestowed, 1 think, Tjccausc of his quick penetration and his impatience with the class of hangcis-on kjiovvn ns bores and whincrs. One of the characteristic stories told of Gilkeson in this connection concerned an up state meddler and fault-finder. "Mr. Chairman, this fellow Jones, candi date for the Senate from our district, is a iuui. iiu luuis iuu mucu uuu ne mis no melius, lie a going 10 uurc xne congres sional ticket, and 1 wish ou would send somebodj to toll him so," said the kicker v "Certainly, certainly; good idea," lcplied Gilkeson. Tor a moment he assumed an attitude, odd and unusual, that was characteristic of him when in deep thought. He turned his cjes toward the ceiling, with his aims pressed against his sides, and with both index fingers pointed straight ahead like a Geisha dancing girl. "Good idea," he mused. "You go and tell him what you think of him and then come and let me know the result." That was the last of the kicker. THE late Attorney General Hcnij W. Palmer, of Pennsylvania, was one of the few men in public life a quarter of a cen tury ago who had the courage of his convic tions in the face of what amounted virtually to political ostracism. He was an ardent advocate of local option. After his retirement as attorney general in lbS3 under Governor Hojt he made local option a part of his political creed. Tho dire'effects of its adoption held no ter rors for him. His views of the future of this country under the restricted sale of in toxicants beema now like a far riy in the wilderness. He was the prophet of the pres ent dispensation. Here is what I once heard him sny at a mass-meeting up in the coal legions: "Do not despair of the republic Our mil lions are only a fraction of the number that can be supported in peace and comfort on our soil. We have nearly one-half of the arable land of the earth. We have a fertile soil, a healthful climate and a free govern ment, in which liberty, fiaternitj and equality are household words. This great I republic win go on prospenng and to pros per because the people will send the false prophets and false teachers into resurrection -less oblivion." ROBERT J. BRANNAN looms up occa sionally among the throngs in the vicinity of Broad and Chestnut, largely because his law office is ncarbv. It is more than twenty j curs now since Mr. Brnnnan gavo up his career in journalism to take iff) the practice of law. Newspaper work was for him but a btepping stone to the law. City Solicitor Smvth is another legal lumi nary whose pencil years ago contributed to the ephemeral pages of tho news sheet In deed, the roster of Philadelphia attornejs who were once reporters or spaco writers contains many names both familiar and prominent. In nt leas-t three instances 1 recall the numes of men widely known in journalistic circles who entered the law, built up a lucrative practice and then, find ing the lure of the editorial desk irresistible, returned to the ranks of journalism I recall an instance in the cuse of a certain professional man who, on a visit to New York, was the witness of a peculiar accident. With its attendant jtt ridiculous features it held the germ of a corking good half-column newspaper storj He rushed off to his hotel, seized pencil and paper and had three pages of copy writ ten when suddenly it occurred to him, ns lie afterward expressed it, "What in thunder am I going to do with this after I have it written?" He might have bold it to n New York newspaper, but ho had deserted journalism and the idea of commercializing lit-, talent did not appeal to him. It is beginning to dawn on thn munici pality that it would be better uud cheaper to have good streets thun to pay damages for injuries received because of bad streets. A dollur-a-ycar woman in Philadelphia may prove as efficient ab a dollar-a-jear man in Washington. Persistence of soft weather will cause tbo sap to flow In treo trunks unci poetical highbrows. It may bo tald for Director Furbusu that he not only knows what should be done but how to go about it. ' t In some respects the Vnn arc getthi cousldcrablj more thun thej cuntrui ted fur." rhiludclphlu may yet be Spotless Town, FEBRUARY TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA By ROY HELTON Sleet on Grays Ferry Road WAS a bitter cold aftcrnoc-n, tho streets F were like class, but in the brotherhood of a common peril nearly everybody dared 'to smile. Teamsters and motormen and demure joung ladies all passed with the glint of laughter iu their cjes. Your calm, sunshiny dny is n notorious minister to self-satisfaction and, by the samo token, a great bar to social freedom of the country-town sort that is so much wanting in these big-city streets. A sudden shower of rain will do wonders to make people think well of one another under a chance awning, and in a heavy snowfall the man is hardly human who cau pass other folk b without a gleam of fel lowship in tho common memory of snow balls and sleighing patties; but slippery streets afford a universal social flu. The very fact that tho net moment you may be spiawling on all fours or sitting on jour hat makes it impossible not to think feelingly of jour fellow sprawlcis. The more perni cious parts of dignity are lightly laidnside, as among strangers who thaw out in the jostlings of a hajcart, and the most iu ci edible people will answer your cheerful mutterings with breezy calls and smiles, and often will clasp jou suddenly by the arm and bring jou down with them in an in glorious clutter of loose hats and hysterical laughter. s acrobatic way toward the Grays Ferry bridge, following, I suppose, much tho same path that Tom Jefferson took in his famous democratic horseback ride into Philadelphia. At the coiner of Woodland avenue and Forty seventh street is the old Dai by road freight station of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There in most unpromising surroundings one may see what I believe is that great corporation's only tribute to tho power of lyric form as an aid in transpoilation. Flanked by a tall yellow ojgcn tank, half a dozen nonde script trunks and a pile of motor tires, like great yellow teething rings, is stenciled on a lnrge gray boaul a curious poetic exhorta tion beginning: Save a shipment every daj. Save a riaim in the old-fashioned wa , concluding with other grave admonitions fiom home anonjmous bard of the freight shed. Wo predict a bright futuro for that young man, but one shudders to think what consequences may attend his use in the serv ice" of the railroad what dithj rambles down the columns of tho time tables, what new btrango measures from the dusky lips" of the train cullers. AS I crept cautiously up the hill to the bridge approaches a grocery wagon camo champing down. The driver janked nt his reins to turn into u f-treet by n little negro church whose windows are' providentlv Blacked up with a pile of palmlcaf fans. At that point on the hill, perhaps in contempt of tho palmleaf fans, the ice took on n hur- faco of abominable tmootbucss, and though the wagon and horse came lound nt the reins, thej tamo round with all the verve of a razlo-dale, (barging past tho palmleaf funs in it whiil of yellow and brown, tho agouled hoise, with distended nostrils and biuccd legs, speeding tidownjs downhill like a smokiug stove. "Donno where l's bound," yelled the dark-skinned driver. us he slid by me, "but I ain't a skecrtd of sleddln'." He wus hold ing the horse's head up with both hands, but on his fuee wus a bioad grin of bojisli delight. Luckily tin re was a bit of rough snow below him ond the outfit brought up on it with u gieut lusplng of wheels. Then the reeking horse, nftei a moment of wild bnorting, proceeded, ho to speak, under his own steuni. GRAYS FERRY BRIDGE, as everybody knows, is not architecturally u remark able structure, even us Seliuilkill bridges go, but it fipnns what was once the most lovely port of the river On this particular after noon, undir tliPkilull gra bkv the distant banks to the noitliw ird rosi in n .glopp of gleaming snow , up ninoug the tall gray tomb stones to the broad wings of the old Colonial lfl20 (DOME ROUND TO IT AT LAST house of Woodlands. The frame of a fur-off gas tank on Chestnut street hung in dim tracerv above the housetops, and to the south the yellow-lanterned dome of St. Fran cis church peered up above a clump of hazy trees. mllESE winter mists along the Schuylkill -1- can do wonders in showing one things, for as I turned to cross over the railroad tiacks, where a dozen engines stood waiting in bovine meditation, with great clouds of steam growing from their funnels, I noticed with a peculiar emphasis a little Bquat monu ment, an obelisk on n block of stone, that rose on a slice of hill iu the very heart of the railroad tracks. It was not an unfamiliar sight, but in the emphasis of n winter's haze it was not to be evaded. I wondered idly for alazy minute or two what battle or scene of historic moment had come to commemoration in this rather ungrateful spot; and ngain, what freak of railroad sentiment had spared that plot of ground from tracks or sidings. To reach the obelisk icquired a long detour back toward the tall trees of Bertram's Gar dens and then a scramble up tho icy slopes of the little hill, where the winter wind struck into one's vitals with a mercjless blast. After a liberal muttering of certain imprecations not unknown to tho wizards of old, -I succeeded in making my way to the very point of this wedge of waste ground. All around me lay a web of tracks, with now and then a train charging by in a hoot of steam. Behind me the triangle of raised earth stretched back in its liberal icing of snow like a stupendous slice of lemon pie. I was prepared, after all my, trouble, to find at least the commemorntion'of a major battle, but it was no such thing: 27ie Ncwlhk Viaduct Commenced July fourth J831 Completed December twenty-fifth 1838 from Philadelphia to Wilmington And on another side of the blackened stone : Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Jlailroad Vanned J838 By a Union of the Several Charters Oblamed fiom Pchna., Maryland, and Delaware TIELL, it was not a major battle, in a V sense, and then again it was, this first great railway merger, forming the first ring in the interminable web of interstate trans portation by steam. I could understand now why this unseemly old ice-glazed monumt-nt hud been spared from the desecration of its children. The clouds of btcam lose round me from the herd of bovine engines, and I beard the hootings and jaugliiigs and the clash of coupling can. and the rumble of a long freight train over the old btccl bridge Around me tbo battle was still raging. I will confess that I was satisfied. As I turned to go I noticed at my feet another set of broad foot-tracks. I followed iiivm. -ini-.v mm come up the .hill, had tramped about the monument, had paused und tiamped around it again. There was a new snatch on tho ice-covered snow. Then the tracks had turned buck down the hill und I followed thorn; but my guide was u more wary walker than I, for without warn ing my feet lost their purchuse and I slid into the railway cutting. I am still wonder ing what boit of u fellow this was, who took tho trouble to corao up hero fhrougli the snow and then reud und pondered so loiie ut the foqt of the old black obelisk. T TOOK mj bruised way down Forty-ninth x btreet, which runs hastily down into the river, just ut the point where u little boat jurd btrews Its broken hulls along the. shore Thcro amid tho little pumpkin-beed hulls of decayed motorbouts I stood and watched the river. It drifted sullenly along, ugly and black, with a few broken cubks und bits of drift wood as its only uavj. but bpjond It Hicru rose tull, hu.v stacks and hugo clouds of drifting hteum FiuUicr up tho Miari- be jond tho boatyurd lay a beached dlsniustcd Echoouer flaunting the breezy uuuio Hello on her oil-stained bow, and close at hand a more sprightly craft, the J. Paul Jones, stood stiffly up in a frame of scautlings. At this point in my contemplations my feet betrayed me qnce more and I sprawled down in im mincnt peril of a sidelong launching into the liver. The mazes of old tackle on the icy bank were my salvation, and I picked myself up and brushed off my clothes with muttered prajers to the gods of shiftless men. Close by on my right I heard a strange sound. 1 looked up. The J. Paul Jones was swaying painfully on her bed of scantling, and up through her dusty windows I beheld tho ap parition of an old man's face, unshaven and red with cold, that looked down at me with a comic pucker on his lips while his sboul ders shook with paroxysms of noiseless laughter. A COUPLE of track hands were digging out ' a frozen switch ns I ventured back across the railroad tracks for a short cut to the bridge. , "Yes," agreed one, "it's hard work and pore paid, but after all a feller's got to keep plugging away at something, and thls'U have to do for mine. Course they ain't no profit in it, now victuals is so high, and tne out in tho open air all day. I could eat a half a side of bacon any time after 3 o'clock but Lord, man, they ain't no hogs no more.' I sat down by his fire a while to thaw out my fingers, and then, skiing across another set of slippery tracks, I climbed up to the deck of the bridge and turned home toward the city. The women who have volunteered as street-cleaning inspectors prove that civic pride rises above dollars and cents. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is the new secretary of agriculture' 2. Where is Anatolia? 3. What is a crwth? 4. What suburb of an American city did Congress onco seek to mako the American capital? f. Who was Thomas Cromwell? 6. Who discovered the Virgin Islands, now in United States possession? 7. What was tho nationality of jfnton Rubinstein, the celebrated pianist? , 8. What was the classical goddess of flowers? 0. What is tho origin o the word artillery? 10. Who said, "Now is the winter of out discontent mndo glorious summer?" Answers to Yesterday's Quli 1. Admiral von Router gavo the order to scuttle tho German interned fleet at Scapa Flow. 2. In classical mythology Ixlofr was ths king of the Lapithae, bound to a Xf volving wheel of fire in the infernal legionb for his prebumption in trylnS to imitate the thunder of heaven. 3. Gauze is said to take its natnpi from the city of Gaza, in Palestine. I, The constellation of Gemini or theTwim contuins the stars Castor and Pollux. fi. Tho Hanseatic League was a medievsl confederation of cities of northern Germany and adjacent countries, called the Hanbo towns, with affiliated cities in all parts of Europe, for tbo promotion of commerce by tea and for its protection against pirates, rob bers and hostile governments. C. Thomus Hardy, tho noted English nov elist, began life as an architect. 7. Spring begins this ycar on Murcli 20, at 4.50 P. M. 8, Tho beven wonders of tho undent world were the pyramids of Egypt, the Pharos or Lighthouse of Alexandria, the hanglug gardens of Babylon, tha temple of Diana at Ephesus, the btatue of Zeus by Phidlus, the Mauso leum of Artemisia and the Colossus of Rhodes. II. Carp lire snid to live from one lwndred to ono hundred und fifty jears. 10. Tho Virgin Islutids were officially added to the domain of the United States i 1017. 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