The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1895, Page 4

ft a names not given have pledged half & million for the erection of college buildings on the new grounds on Morn- ingaide Heights, Next! WHAT AILS THE RAYOR! The condition of the streets of New York City to-day is a disgrace to the clty government. Snow which fell ten days ago in « not unusual quantity Nes yet upon the streets, transformed into reeking filth, The sidewalks are covered with damp, cold slop, the cross- ings are deep with filthy slush and the {pavements are covered with the same | vile stuff, where it has not been shov- elled into great steaming, rotting heaps. Vapors Jaden with disease and death Peblished by the Press Publishing Company, 69 to 63 FARK ROW, New York. TWESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1895. QOBSORIPTIONS 10 THE EVENING WORLD i a + No. 12,194 a : , Mnteret at. the Post-Ofice at New York a1 s hover over every thoroughfare; the CARE ans ea _..|s#treet cure and other public conve: gar BRANCH OFFICRS ances, filled with the damp odors, are WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Jonction of Broad.| incubating chambers for disease. The way and Sixth ave. at 324 corridors of public butldings are fer- zing ground for noxious germs, and) even private residences cannot be kept free from the foul taint, In the tene- ment districts the conditions are horri- ul WORLD HARLAM OFFICE—125th at. and Madi- + yye0n ave, “BROOKLYN—309 Washington ot. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—inquirer Office, 1109 Mar- | ket ot. 4 DAILY SINT FROM WDOUVGALL. | WHATS THIS Being Brainiess. ‘Te the Beiter: {8 something of which inte hours and excesst: Ggarette amoking have utterly deprived th youth of this great town, trieta in the debating clud ts the leading institu. thing to belong to It. tty of the country over the city, as @ re thin, te unquestioned, @iatricts Gtatenmen, from the city we While from the rural Us {9 our legislative assembii Three Deba To the Edivor The importance of encouraging our young mea to become mentera of Iterary and debating In many Ignorance of the existence of these explanation of thelr apparent Apathy regarding them. ‘The Evening World can do good rervice by helping along the literary HAYSEED, jnetetios, Soctetion in not to be overestimated Instances WASHINGTON—702 14th at. In the school-houses the children sit all day with wet feet breathing the foul street alr warmed over. Already an epidemie of the grip has begun.. There were seven deaths direct- ly from it last week, and St gave able assistance in 124 fatal cases of pneu- monia. And this with the trouble just vocleties of the city, There are The Goldey, Which mects every Friday night at 34 Union aquare, east; the Lincoln Literary Soctety, which meets every Saturday evening at court-room, corner Twenty-third street and Second avenut and the Cooper Union Debating Society, which meeta at Cooper Union every Saturday evening The meotings of these socteties are public Thoir members are mostly young men, thot “I Got His Dinner, if I Dida't Get Hie Vor cannot but feel contempt and disgust begun! This week's record will be a startling one, Responsibility for this state of affairs, for these deaths, rests upon the city government, and directly upon Mayor rong. For a week now he has gone back and forth through these foul streets, He has seen the Oity Hall sur- rounded by heavs of reeking Average Circulation Per Week Day, 482,638. Average Per Week Day in 1893, 423,748, A Gain in One Year of 58,890. Average Per Week Day in 1891, 330,168 4 ‘AGate tn Three Years of 152,470. Average Circulation Per Sunday “gisseiee 323,471. own house covered with dise is a nasty canal, that on West street thousands of tuns of fermenting filth lies within a hundred yards of the river into which {t ought to have been city a similar state of affairs exiat He also knows whether he has done anything to abate the nuisance and pro- tect the public health. Apparently he has not. 0, There is money enough 0 have pald for it. ‘There are, probably, also red-tape rea- sons why men and horses and carts and money have not been employed, in 189, but the people did not elect Mr. Strong 910,087. Mayor for him to hunt red-tape reasons for not doing his duty. The way to A Gain Over 1893 of 13,573, clean the streets Is to clean them, and AGain Over Three Yeare Age of || | not to spend a week looking for reasons 126,481, why they are not cleaned. An emer- wency lke this demands action, not in- veutigation. If it were cholera down the bay would Mayor Strong alt in his office a week trying to find out why somebody did not keep it out? And yet New York had better have an epidemle of cholera than of the grip. Does the Mayor think that a Power of Removal bill 1s necessary to remove the snow from the streets? 234,520. A Gain in Three Years of Humber of Advertisements Printed t tl t « Perhaps Supt. Frick will squeeze into the Union League Club through a biow- bole. Supt. Byrnes falls to confirm the Fumor that he is packing up in readiness (Pe pack. out. WHOLESALE TAX DODGING. The appraiser appolnted to appraise the value of the late Jay Gould's per- sonal estate at the time of his death, in order that the probate duty might be fixed, has just concluded his labors, ‘The amount‘of personal property is found to have been just upon elghty- one milifon dollars, It Is not stated how much of this enormous wealth was subject to taxa- ‘Worosis hes adopted rules to limit tak. ‘The coming woman ts already far @head of the United States Senate, ‘The Citizens’ Relief Fund has given $5,000 to the striking and starving cloak- tion. But the bulk of tt has been un- makers. This is charity well bestowed. | taxed. Jay Gould's real estate is eat!. . mated to have been worth about Why doesn’t Inspector Williams go to Japan and reorganize his corner lots there? He can't reorganize anything here. at. Mayor Schlieren is quite right in sun- Pecting that there are points on which the bridge management could be im- Proved. two million dollars, These figures afford some idea of the large amount of money honestly due from the Gould estate for taxation, out of which the Government has been de frauded for y Yet here are the Gould heirs evading the payment of a tax on ten milion dollars personal es- tute in this city and by a trick of the law claiming a residence in New Jersey, where they are taxed @ mere pittanc: Ars. - Mr. Ingalls {s again in the Senatorial Face in Kansas. What doth it profit a Be eee thouah be beviridescent ana | RON people are. found to have: di eisctn count rauded the revenues tn the paat, on duth by false Invoices, or in’ other Ww York, has just Bot acquainted with Mayor Strong, of Cohoes, The two of them ought to be able io stand off Tom Piatt. ways, they are held responsible and pro: edings for recovery are instituted against them. Qught such gross tax lodging as is manifest In this case to. be allowed to pags unnoticed and without aveounting? Doubtless the rumor is false that @fforts are to be made to indict the @a for setting on a Gerry Society oft- @er in the discharge of his duty, COME OVER, WALES. There {8 to be a race for the America's Cup this year after all. ‘The English |yachtsmen have backed out from their ‘Jay Gould's estate is valued ‘at $80,000, 00. How much iarger would it haye|UMtenable position on the subject of the een had he not been busy in his later} eed of gift, and have agreed that the Years making a fortune for Supt. Byrnes’ | Hoyal Yacht Squadron shall receipt for t Cup as red if it should be car- ried off by the The race will nglish challenger, e one of the most ex- The State Rallroad Commission has even so quickly discovered the first of the trolley roads in Brooklyn, r S hated probably one of the closest Wy, ‘to violate all rules of the road estab- Hie: e ts ever sailed, Every lished by law. fort will be made to improve on th ss rath eer! atet Valkyrie, and there is no doubt ‘The car-fender has just saved another | “W*! S!th the experience the English bave Mfe, this time in Jersey City; but the| M3! the new Valkyrie will be the best trolley can give the fender cards and |" ' Over Atlantic from the site. Our yachtsmen and our @pades and beat it badly at the Grabbing game, ullders will be put to thelr metile to possession of the coveted trophy, Inspector Williams shows tess orlet-| oe \nor atvlicg tee ene peeved Mallty in his plans for police reorgant- MIAN ED Gnithasothar-sitalune te gation and Excise law revision than he ae AMoah Che eee @isplayed in his story of Japanese real novices ant was at. ever} estate investments , he really proved heracif sie to Britannia. th Irif hane 4s the Ena crack British | Reed expiaine the frateraizing of Cley maith fand and Hil us a new ex Of the old proverb, “Misery 1c pany.” War himself a: one time. es con The ex-Spesker knew how th provin bape " At all events we are sure of a good | 1 it will be of expecial inter There is a considerable © of | ext will Coubtless be a gr found sense in Fire Chief Bonnera sug cr (o witness the series, Wi Gestion that when the city lt Prince of Wales visit. u fire hydrants they » ‘ { swell the number? He would be modern, now-ireezing pater nd would be sure of a ait After he is burdened with the trouble- | Port some crown it will not be easy for him ee ) ot Wor Bow that “the whol @bou. the Japanese outre Arthur, it is demonstrated Bave boen expected, thar fama the whole story, and the fn the first piace Another stage charmer in an unblush fing role. ‘This one ix waiting for a 1 to wet a divorce from his wite mw The rig A DISTRESSING EXHIBITION. people may tne world they cannot | Respect for the com- | manity i one of the | r wealthy ww they iy are under to thetr tel wmbe can marry hin, and Ble makes 1 sa _ Sflort to mask her purpose, eliher. Loi ‘ cun think It becoming femaperasics of this kind are cominon, Lut | fur the members uf a family 10 give ¢ re midom so brasenly advertised ue ln per partion und rec yiious and enter | this case |inio the whirl of suciety tite with its | j enjoy me aud frivolities while the w.. Members of the Vanderbilt fam a a ad body of their nearest reiative Hes % chapel in the same city under aarge of a ecxton. The yoorwst resident of New York je added $55,000 to the family gifts «fier the medical schools connected with " College. Two gentlemen whose 9 Jig MOR OVRE A! Tego aR game 8 arbage.|their countries thought Ho has seen the street in front of his|/the magnificent sacrifices they made. ing fith. He knows that Nassau street|the rest went to their tombs without a dumped. He knows that all over the| that shone for them on the the people stood. died the hero death at Port Arthur in a| Your generous friends resolved to mi Chiang and Chen are a new brand of hero, and they refuse to stay dead. The @ scratch on them or a wrinkle in their new and gorgeous uniforms, heroes must be a serious problem for factor read about their splendid new reput: over. teen policemen to her 60,000 population. He Grive violent criminals and dangerous vagrants out of town. Municipal Council of Maidenhead has many men of middie age continue their Interest fm iMterary matte ARTHUR BARNES. for such @ brutal evidence of the ab- sence of proper feeling. New York, Dec. 31, 1894. sean tae ye NO GORE ON THEIR GLORY. YESTERDAY'S FLORAL TRIBUTE. aie It {o @ great, a glorious, a noble thing SuEtCAtID 40 GOWF, to die for one's country. Many have Oh, erent Inquisitor, well hast thou eared tate (taro have never heard how much | 7%, OC torat ofterings from each fond adore! of them for In th ful people have discerned Pantata’s floorer' ‘Tie well that one who justly rose so high Bhould have a seat of ronee— cheer of congratulation assalling their | postes are fitting gift for one whose eye ears or rousing the blood around their| gach witness poses. hearts, They died on the hero-heights ‘When the police believed themestves secure— Without ever seeing the glory lights | "er ‘trom beirayal by thelr wicked eroniea— Plains where | yy made them feel, by process slow and sure, The Lex-ow tallonis, Of | And when transported by a gift ansought ‘They | Up to the Bench you took your honored way, your the Horatil, Winkelreld and But with Gens. Chiang and Chen, he Chinese Army, it is different. Average Per Sunday in 1893, way that fairy thrilled Li Hung Court, 266,062. ‘There 1s no excuse for failure. There|/Chang’s graphic ink-brush and filled | A Botany Bay. A Gain in One Year of 57,409. are men enough and carts enough and|sundry official laundry-book pages with TEES ea Ee AYitadh Bee Suadig ie ts horses enough to have had the snow re-|palpitating patriotic characters. But| New Yorkers Are the Most Good- Natured People in the World. ‘wo brave warriors have just turned up In Shanghal or somewhere else without How they are going to continue to be he pair. Anyhow they have time, un- M1 the Emperor claims their thought- which he probably will, to fons, and to think the hero busin Sacramento has discovered that there is worse than bad luck in having thir- citizens have had to form a vigi- of the real old type to jance committ From London com the news that the passed resolutions of condolence over the death of Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. Mr. Antor appears to be a mourner not without sympathy save in his own family, ——__ FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY. began in fog, Or they wouldn't be satisfed with one stamp window on the busiest side of the Post-Ottice. Jan, 1, 1898.—The 4 matured 2 ey im sunshine and ts eading im an attempt at WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. rain ae | elt down to my diary. cal nine ie Three Happy Thoughts in Rhyme, ad ea td ha odo dving Ry Mbag Three Others in Prose. day \s an interview with Inspector Williams as to the reorganization of the police forse and the changes neceasary to make certain laws offective. eee Ae to the excise laws the Inspector would abolish ser and shutters; lice bullding Instead of a man and, in case of viola tlon of the law. make the piace Ineligible for a nse for three years; establish a reasonable When the sieieh bella go a-ringing nthe street ‘When the prancing seeds are swinging, Where the anow ts soft ant clingine— ‘There's the time of year that's bringing Bliss complete he And the girima ayiph you found her, Mi Walting there— Sunday opening provision. Aw to disorderly When the thaw has made a grounder houses, Willlama would license them, not by Oh your eratb ands homacyourabendae law, but by “common consent."” This poliey, he Bis's, goed three: basdredspounder holda, would bring all the birda of soiled pluma, together In one district, where they could then be held under police espionage and proper straint, You could swear, —Washingtoa Star, Green Grocers, Mex, MeDride—John, why grocers called green. Rro Ms Moltride—To distinguish them from cash ‘The worst of all this, {t seema to me, 18 that while some of It is sensible, all of tt is plauaivie dear, are some Of course, it Is asmumed that certain forms of | cccore, darilix?— Vonue, vice we shall have always with us, and that — since we cannot suppress them, the only thing No Hope for I to do tn to keep the participants where they can be watched. I do not think my people are quite ready to take thia stand, even on the aay-ao of 40 accompllahed a reformer as Inapector Williams, oe full of woe “My Mfe,"* aaid the poet, A regular ning-song sigh When I write > parm on ‘beautiful snow! At melts ‘fore the ink gets dry."” Detroft Free Press, Williams favors the Platt dea of @ II-Partisan Police Commission. Reading hia careful Indors ment of the Hoss, through his remarks on police reorganization, 1 could not escape the question which arose constantly {n my mind, whether the fortunate Investor In Japanese real estate had not had hie recent dreams of @ higher Utle than that of Inapector. Leas Than Three Days Aplece. Judge Dutly—You are sentenced to the island for thirty days for being drunk and disorderly Have you anything to may? Prisoner—Well, yes. 1 have got a wife and nine children, Couldn't we all go to the tala together and serve out the Ume in a fow Texas Sittings, No, . 1 don't believe even Platt Supt. Wittiame! would dare to that extent. Perish the thought! The Very I will write no more to-night, What's the latest thing out?" eo Aaked @ goasipy she. DY NE +) think,’ was the answer, “My husband must be Detrott Free Press, YORK EDITORS, The Grand Jury has an exceptional chance to xorve the cause of good government, and It is Spolling View. be hoped that it will mot finch from ite task. | phe girl folded her arma across her heaving Let no mistaken eense of obligation of false | soa wense of honor towards notorious police offenders| “Get thee behind Satan," she commanded. swerve it an inch from the straight path of duty. The prinve of evil hesitated, moaned and com The Advertiser he faltered, ‘and those sleeves Judge Ingraham neither exaggerated nor under ab leaas’ Wtbeos rated the importance of the os gsion which led : —— =————— to the Impaneliing of an Eatraonitnary Grand MPIRE STATE BITS, Jury im the charge which he adireasod yeaterday : What Body: | The sreatiog of ths Grand Jury | 4 nsw plank ‘has’ been placed over (he ervek a indeed, B Beceveary Sequel to the work of thel a: pon Ewen, Two persons oan mew’ cross at Lexow Committee —The Times A Saugerties market man's “No Trust sign From (he siatomenis) which are 4 lodger chained and padiceked, with @ notice tuily se who Were p a kaa? Abi Toat the ag ie pana |] Suxar Grove borough hus forty-hree widows ang Nite «betting on Pi scath ici " “a Salamanca (s agitating the municipal ownership "V+ 1 Jamestown proposes to burn ite garbage. One wa of racing —T re ahead of N York. Herald. > 1 has a new $70,000 hotel Datayie's las hk nidewalk has «: Cer yy DOM | Rvery knife turond manufao, = # well Sue | ory in M na io handled over isd ¢ sin the Ater each man’s name in Or unty's A Good Example Set, sow directory fw @ letter indicating whether the ] ndividval is married or oe! It in to be hoped that the New York Renadticans | |!!! INN pay clone Attention io-cov, wares A extown woman, in the absence of her endations of economy, ‘The Democrate have ler |! Beenehari: mareled'' 9 Pega: he Mnances of the State th exceitent condition. | aY% iad come to have the kno: and the Repub cannot afford to do worse Ti Lavile Poets Dinnatan Bollvar'a strrei are lighted free of expense aoe hy ® company which furnishes the illuminant Consus Taking and Completing, yment for she privilege of doing business It ip eo record that the eleventh ceasus wil pe| i She serboration, — = ___ Governme: Banke, With the collection and disbursement of 1 money Meeded for Federal purposes, thi of the Government stiould begi the bankers do the bankiug.~Pi ompieied by March 4, 1865, Ave yeare after it was begun, and just about in time to prepare for the twelfth. Wouldn't {t be a good ides to wake the Next Consus less elaborated —Cincinnatl Times Bar, fe New York Young MemeAcpased of ‘The young men of New York City @e met de- bate becaune to debate requires brains, and that ton of the village or town, and it te the correct ‘The intellectual superior It of come wome of our wisest and best t nothing but bar- room heelera and gin-mill proprieiors to represent In the country dis CHANG YIN-1IOON. ‘This is the picture of China's newly appointed peace envoy to Japan. He was Chinese Minixter to the United | States, Spain and Peru within the period from 1886 to 1890. Americans who met him during hie official life in this | country remember him as jovial, good- natured, and highly intellectual. He will need to he all this at Tokio. ———— THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint There a: Tales of City Life. One night Inst week I aaw standing outside the Imperial Hotel, tn the storm, a lite, thin man, who looked anything but prosperous. It {en't Recensary to mention hie name, but the last time 1 saw him was in his own faro game in Denver. Ho was sitting on @ stool bucking the game and trying to break his own and his partner's bank, and there was a bright red spot on either cheek. Before he sat down he was worth $250,000, When he arose he owed for the cigar, he was emoking. ee) x I met another Westerner the day before on Broadway, His linen was fine and hie diamonds were big and white, He started in business under tha shadows of the Rockies selling prize-packages, and {t 1 bla boast that he has had « hundred dit- ferent revolvers against hie head. ‘They get the fun and I get the money," he was wont to say. Now he 18 spending $18,000 a year, simply be- cause at one Ume he was clever with his tongue and fingers, and had enough nerve to turn a threat to ill into w Joke, | ‘Tree ee A friend of mine told me the other day that de was victim of superstition, ‘How? I asked him. “Well,” he said, "you soe, we moved last week An evening move, #0 to speak. About 12 mid- night I thought I would Ike a lunch, especially aa I had worked pretty hard In getting things to rights, Bo I cooked myself a gilt-edged omelet. When I was ready to eat it I couldn't nd the salt. ‘Where Is the salt?’ I asked of my wife ‘I @idn't bring any,’ he maid, ‘for grandma told me that it was unlucky to take salt with you when you moved.’ I waa'nt mad, but, say, did OU ever eat onge without mitt” Slowly the work of lighting bridge cars with electricity goes on. On the Brooklyn end of the Dg aerial nighway regular trolley poles are being erected, and pamengers who do not know their real hee are wondering if trolley is to succeed cables 2 & motive power . 1 on a downtown and erosstown car the other day, When I arrived at my destination 1 waa cold end miserable. My feet were wet from the slimy mud that covered the floor of the car, and, though warmiy clothed, the cold, damp atmosphere that pervaded the Vehicle penetrated to my bones. It is questionable ‘t the deadly trolley in Brooklyn te directly spouaible for aa many deathe as are indirectly caused by New York's back number street-cars, The trolley may run over unwary pedestrians, but their pamengers are quickly carried about town {o warm, well-lighted cars. THE GLRANER. —— THAT PANCAKE SKELETON, Advi to the Man Whose Wife Wil! Not Make Flapjacks. To the Editor: 1 saw tn “The Evening World” « complaint by “An Unhappy Husband," whose wife will not bake him pancakes for breakfast, and 1 would say to him, if T had @ husband, and he was kind to me, 1 would bake him Old Homestead flap- jacks every morning, I am not afraid to gay what I think a long as be is already marriod To his wite { would say, if I was her I would fot let pancakes make my husband unhappy. You had better give him some, BELLE, Fast Orange, N. J. Try Another Phrase on Her. To the Faitor: My advise to “Unhappy Husband," of Pree- port, In 1, 19 to ask his wife kindly if ahe would “try pancakes for him, then perhaps ahe would, but as to ‘cook’ pancakes, I never heard of such @ thing. CLARA ARMATAGE, Hoboken, N. J, at a Restaurant. Get The To the Rattor: 1 would advise that man to get hie pancakep At & rostaurant every morning and deduct the coat from her monthly allowance, and she would soon bake his pancakes for him. 8. H.C, Brookiya, Mother-in-Law to Blame, To the Editor: In reply to “Unhappy Husband, Freeport:"" 1 would state that under such clreumstances 1 would give my mother-in-law @ plece of my mind ve home, MOON AND RAYNER, Bayshore, 1. SETTING IT RIGHT, Sittings) The clock of progress was going too fast to suit Japan, 80 he pushes the hands back sixty years, = Bib Te "MOW OLD ARE your: “How olf a1 TL aked, wh She answer Sweet anile you, my pretty maid?” he was seven. quick, while round her played aa bright as heaven, “How old are you? When she was My question still was not in To answer she was keen. “How 014 are yout" once more I ask, ‘Alas! ‘twas once too often, It was e vain end uselens task ‘Hor anger to soften, Atlante Jourpal. plained for Inquirers. ‘Te the Editor: In introducing @ young le4y to a young gen- Heman what Ia the proper form? Should elderly Deople have the preference in Introduction B. J. B., Brookiya. 1, Introduce the gentleman to the indy, not the Indy to the gentleman. There are several forms of introduction; one of the most common in “Miss (or Mrs.)— May I (or let me) introduce my friend, Mr—?" 2. Yen; alwa: vee To the Raitor: The writer took two young taAles (niater and cousin) to an entertaifment. When entering the 14 car We could not find three seats for us, took the first seat she saw vacant Cousin took also @ neat @ Tittle further, and myself, not finding a vacant seat near eitner of thom, and not knowing whether to stand by sister or cousin, I took advantage of a vacant seat at the other end of the car. Please let mo kuow whether I acted right or wrong, F XK. IGNORANT. In the case of such near relatives as your sister and cousin, you were right (if they did not object) to take the vacant seat. Asa rule, however, if you cannot find @ seat near the lady with whom you are you should stand beside her. eee To the Editor: ‘When @ gentleman after dancing with @ lady thanks her, what should sho say? A few even- ings ago I went to @ dance. A gentleman un- known to me asked for my programme to take some dances, Was It right for me to give It to him, or should T have refused? YR () A set form of reply in such a case savors of the dancing-school. A word of acknowledgment {s sufficient. (2) If you were not acquainted with him you should have refuse eo To the Editor: Should the gentleman precede the Indy on en- tering & public dining-room? Should he precede her going up and coming down stairs? Is It nec- essary for me to acknowledge the receipt of a wedding Invitation, and if no, to whom should 1 address it? A CONSTANT READER. Q) The lady should precede him. (2) He should go upstairs ahead of her, but she should precede him in coming down. (3) Yes; by all means, Send acknowl- edgments to the person who issued the invitation, . . To the Editor: Please publish the diferent wedding anniver- saries. We are specially interested in settling a Question es to what thirty years represents. THIRTY YEARS. According to Webster the fifth anni- versary 1s called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding: the twenty-fifth, the sil- ver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding, and the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. The seventy-fifth anniversary is also celebrated as the diamond wed- ding. The thirtieth anniversary is not ordinarily rated in the list of wedding celebrations, To the Editor: Please let us know which ts correct: Two Step walte or Two-Step polka? ©, M. and 8, K. Simply say *fwo Step." ‘To the Editor: Would it be proper for a young lady having viaiting carda to have “Miss before her name with her address on the card, or would ‘Mins’ have to be left off when the address is on the card. PON. The word “Miss” should always stand before your name on a visiting card. Put the addresr on the lower right-hand corner of the card. oe _ “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-BOOK. Sights of New York--XL.--The New The Rules of Best Behavior Bz- Dress for a Yo This dress, for a young girl, | woollen serge. Skirt mounted in small |plaits, grouped at the walst behind, flat in front, is trimmed with two long brackets buttoned at bottom and fram- | —— = ing the front. Close jacket with puck- ered basque plaits; the fronts are open in a straight line over their length over & simulated waistcoat of black velvet. Very puffy sleeve joined to a close fore- sleeve of velvet trimmed with facings. Independent Women, In this eduntry 300,000 women are earn- ing independent incomes. In the profes: sions are 2,600 doctors, 275 preachers and an increasing number of lawyers. Some six thousand women have charge of post-office: against the grain, and when it has deem thoroughly lifted and reversed, so t@ speak, dip the flannel into common flowr and rub lightly any spots that look dart Jor dirty. Shake the fur well and rub with a clean, dry flannel until the flow Is all removed Sable, chinchilla, and squirrel an@ monkey skin may be very nicely cleaned with hot bran. Get a small quantity of bran meal and heat it in the oven until it is quite warm. Rub stiffly into the fur and leave for a few minutes before shaking to free it from the bran. Mink may be cleaned and freshened with warm cornmeal, and, like the other short-haired urs, may be done without removing the lining. But the longe haired furs are best ripped apart an@ freed from stuffing and lning. The Fancy Waist. A charming bodice which would look well with almost any skirt is of white grepe de Chine, trimmed with gorgeous Vandyke points in gold, The square, low. cut neck 1s outlined by a trimming of gold spangles and white Pearls, From this trimming the Vandyke points are arranged over the corsage, showing @ slight puffing of crepe de Chine between each point, The sleeve ts an airy butters fly of the white crepe, stiffened until it assumes huge proportions and caught im the centre with a cluster of yellow roses, This bodice 1s also effective if jet Vane dyke points are used with any delicately tinted chiffon or crepe. it may be worn to the theatre by covering the neck with |@ yoke of black net and wearing long black gloves which meet the short sleeves. Swell Neckwenr Simply Gorgeous, Tourists returning from London say that aever in all thelr travels have they feen anything that quite equalled the brilliancy of the neckwear of the contemporaneous London swell. ‘There Vegetable Ronat. Three cups of flour, one cup of oll. | Fry in a frying pan till a nice brown, then add two cups of water and one cup of chopped vegetables. Mix well to- gether and roll up in a lump. Make a dressing as you would for a flesh roa Spread out the meat and inclose the dressing. Put in the oven and bake to @ nice brown, basting with a gravy made of oll and browned flour and water, Flowers Around the Neck. | Flower collars are among the pretty! things for wearing with waists of chiffon, They are merely a band of ribbon covered with small blossoms and fastened under a large bow at the back, | One of smal: English hedge roses covers a pink satin band nearly three Inches wide, while another has pink rosebuds| not half blown, and a third, of violet| satin, is covered with Parma violets finished by a huge bow of ribbon of the same color. How to Ctean Fars, Ermine and sealskin are best cleaned with soft flannel. Rub the fur delicately LETTERS, (Tht cohen t open to everybody who has @ Criminal Courts, Pedimenta crown the wings of the new Crim- inal Court building, in Centre atr Impedl. ments to crime are supposed to mark Ite Interior, The bullding came to Mil a long-felt want, The courts which now occupy It had outgrown their old accommodations tong before the now struc- ture was opened to receive them, an event which occurred late In the year Just past. The Crim- inal Courts stand next to the Tombs, They are connected with that venerable establishment by A passageway above Franklin street. The pasaag fe known as the Bridge of Sighe Ite strength proved not commensurate with Its size, at the atert, for an officer and prisoner broke through floor on one of the first trips, The atyle of architecture of the building 1s the German- Romanesque. This has nothing to do with the myla of Justice ealt out on the tnalde, The Oyer and Terminer Courts and Courts of General and Spectal Sessions are chiefly accommodated in the edifice, but somo of the Police Magistrates of the Better New York may also get sitting room there, CAN STR ee, ONG RESIST THIS? (Air: "Oh, Promise Me."*) Oh, promise me that shortly { will ‘The Job for which I mope around and fret; ‘That I may once again my pull renew With all the Bowery boys who helped you through Down in ‘de Second," where the anow lies deep, {# nervous, and can hardly sleep, iF reward they'll never see— ‘oh, promise me. Oh, promise me that when the flowers bloom, Then I (accompanied by my little broom) Upon the corners will #0 proudly stand ‘The happiest man in all this happy land, Cleaning the dust from off the thoroughfare, While all around admiring throngs will stare— No other job could half so pleasant be— ‘Oh, promise me; oh, promise me, ‘Oh, promise me—oh, do not way me nay! I'm growing thi Around my eye I'm really grayer than I was last year, Please do not leave me out—don't turn me down— I only want a chance to clean the town; Give me that Job, and I will let you be, I promise thee; I promise thee. P. SI nved it, Tm tn bankruptoy Remember what I did, and promise me, —. EDITORIAL MEDLEY, D passing day; 40 now appear; OLLIE, Financtal Reform, {nancial reform t* an imperative ne: ie an immediate necessity, and (ue gcople will fernly condemn the leaders of any patty who ter fure to aovept tt a an issue above ail partiean ine terest. Philadel yi tt Since Mr. Croker has commenced to talk, every- body Is able to u what a wise statesm: he kept qu hington Post. Wilson Schmelisie, one of the sporty boys, broke the record on Dev. 26, when he purchased @ straw het and lett for Kmaus, Pa—Macade Corr, Keston (Pe.) Argus, complaint to mabe, @ grievance to ventilate, :mforma- ten to gine, @ oubfex of general tniereat to discus OF © pubdlie eervies to achnowietga, end who can ad the (des ‘nt lees thom 100 werd Lo’. letters eamned be printed, } The Va! To the Editor. Mr. De Medic! says truly we ai approximate results when “pl.!* as calculated by me external polygon ‘Pi depending on @ use the value of ns of the internal and The approximations, however, have been calculated so closely that it differs very little from the truth. Archimedes, two thou- sand years ago, discovered the ratio 10 be nearly 7 to 2% Another Fatio is 118 to 355. This last to, being turned Into a decimal, agrees with truth to the sixth fignre, inclusive, M, de Lanquy, tn the Memoire de l'Acad. (719), by Means of the tangent of an arch of 30 degre carried the ratio #0 far as to ascertain that if the diameter be 1, the clrumference will be B.Ldrsozesassotaszasenzn 2097404459230781 4082862009986: SOEGITOVSSAAS plus, or 417. 1 would be very mucn pleased to see M. de Medicl's me: of calculating the "pl vaiue, Is it pudlisi LP. B. 9821480 The Lowly Must He Sheltered. the Editor. BO" tenement landlords by blaming inconsiderate tenants, but the very poor are not allowed to sleep in the streets, They must have shetter. Long continued, one might say hereditary, existence on the verge of destitution entails hopelessness, from which arises contempt for decent and orderly life. The limit of thelr Fesponsibility to the community 1s very low; the ect of the community to prevent overcrowd- !ng very groat, Overcrowding begeta degradation by & process readily perceived. Let land mo- Ropoly cease, and even the lowent will find their lives brightened by the certainty of employment, This will quicken self-respect and raise their moral status, Tenement landlords are in business for money, The mistreatment of thelr property by tenants ia deplorable, but only to be ex- pected. The blame is due to private ownership of land, Make this tmpossible. How? By adopt- ing the single tax, = CHARLES MULLER, 969 Pacific street, Brovklya, If You Are Going to Cul To the Editor After haying been In the city of Havana, Cudi all last Winter, I would advise all those making the Up mot to have anything to do with the hotels, interpreters or guides, for they are a sot of scamps, and they will fearfully rob you. it you should want an Interpreter, ask Mr. Lawton, in Havana, who ts a big banker, and he will be sure to give you an honest gen I atopped at one of the largest hotels In A. ARMSTRONG, Brooklyn, What Makes Men Balat To the Eéitor Please expiain the main cause of & man’s head becoming bald. One friend argues that it is caused by the growth of the beard on the taco taking away the strength necessary t» grow the halr on the head. The other friend contenis that continual wearing of the hat is the main Which ts right? CONSTANT READER, A Hopeloss and Sad Case. To the Editor: In there @ N. cure for the @ink habit by the means of hynotiam or mesmerism, if 80 who prac tives It? And where and how may the treatment be applied for? The case in point is that of a young married woman having an uncontrollable appetite for Mquor or stimulants, and a refined womanly woman ordinarily, who would stop it if she could, She will refrain sometimes for « few months from their use only to break out again, She is refined naturally, and bitterly regrets each indiscretion, but cannot tus herself, I have heard that ia France there Is @ cure avcepied ‘as legal and proper, Everything else hes been tried im this cage, and aso last resort 1 ask is a color craze there of unrestrained virulence. Scarlet and vivid blue ties predominate, and as the waistcoats are still cut rather low, there is a blaze of color beneath the chin of every man in London who aspires to anything ap Proaching swelldom, Dahy'n Eyer, It was a surprise to me to learn that very few vhildren were born blind, but that it was usually brought about by carelssness and ignorance, Children’ eyes are exposed to the bright light all too soon. Everybody has got to see the baby, und it is usually held up in the glare of a sunny window or « light And admired at length. Me: have time and again beer the death of eye= sight, and also neglected inflamma. tions. I was surprised to find how many simple things had resulted {j loss of sight. : . Lemon Ie Dissolve a large tablespoontul of gelae tine in half a pint of water, pore oves 't a quart of boiling water, add @ strained juice of six lemons, = cupful nd a half of sugar, and freeze, -_ Your aasistanc: and advice in this matter, kindly soul may’ be saved. trom dagrataties Don't talk of wiil power, please! This case ie beyond the gold cure, which, aa I understand tt, Fests upon will power after the cure is supposed Possibly desperate remedy. Will some one asslet & distracted hushand. The party i under thirty. years of age, and more than willing to submig to treatment, PW. The Single Tax Principle. To the Faitor. H. V. Small wants single-taxers to pres principle, Why doesn’t he réad “The Evening World?” The singie-tax principle has clearly set forth in numerous te! umn during the last few months, (a again, in brief “The land belongs to all the people."* “What a man makes belones to himaelf.’* Ho makes the absurdiy unreasonable demand that sin to “preach method" Why, Il V. S., are you not aware that the oaly eltizens Who uphold prines; But her taxers cease %, while disdaining methods, comprise that class cared for by the State In the various resorts for the mentally dige ordered? At the risk of offending your susceptde bilities, I venture to restate our method: “Tax privilege."” “Untax Indu: ‘Thia sums up th Single tax, If H, to nationalize lan), It he haa none, and simple, Taw and the prophete of thi 8. disapproves of our plag v |, let him suggest a better one. his opposition is hypocrisy, pure 8. M'STINGER, To Keep F-ost trom Windows. To the Editor: In answer to “H, call hii J BR" 1 would Uke to tention to the following that I cut out of & paper. Although I have not tried it myself T dink It worth trying: “A very thin cost of Slycerine applied to both sides of the glass will Prevent any moisture forming thereon and will stay until It collects ao much dust that it cannot bo seen through, For this reason It should be put on very thin, Surveyors can ure it on thelr tn- struments in foggy weather, and there ie me fim to obstruct the sight. In fact, It can be used anywhere to prevent molsture from forming om @ surface, JM La, Paterson, N. J Here's a Model Husband, Girls, To the Editor: T would advise the unhappy husband whose wife Won't cook pancakes for him nor allow any ene siso to cook them to give her a good thrashing once & week at least until she consents to de what you tell her. Don't be foolish and give her all your wages, You are the man that works for {t. Don't let her jump un you and boss you, ber cause the more you 9 for woman the more she wants, If I hed a wife like that I'd throw her off Brooklyn Bridge, Beat advice I can give you. Ww. P Brains and Sain “, DoThey Mateht Last Summer, when the exposure of certatm Sambilng operations in Saratoga wis mate, the Proprietor of one of the establishments was quoted 49 saying in effect: “We don't waut persons whe cannot afford to play to come here. ‘They ree ceive only smail salaries—have no sense. The act of thelr goiting small salaries proves cone lusively that they have no brains.” Tell me, readers of “'Tho Evening World.” i» this « popes Jar sentiment in New York? It sounds to me Mike sophistry, but—what think you? POST GRADUATE, The Way the + To the Editor In reply to “\Comus's"" inquiry as to what @ige posal waa made of a letter addressed: Wood, John, Mass, Let me say that the letter would reach Jokm Underwood, Andover, Mass, May I ask byrne he did not fret hear of that play upon a" from one ‘'Joe,"" @ professor in one of our England schools? , Letter Wen snow merece Neder e e