The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1895, Page 4

$$$ 5, Puattaties by the Prem Pubtisning Company, |) 8 te @ PARK ROW, New York. |) WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 13,1895. x (Batered at the Post-Ofice at New York os . eercmd-clas matter, —————— > BRANCH OFFICES: WORLD UPTOWN OFFICF—Junction of Broad- wey ond Sixth ave. at 334 at. WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—125th st. and Madl- on ave, BROOKLYN—200 Washington st. PHILADELPHIA PA.—Press Building, 702 Chest- ¥ net a (WASHINOTON—702 14th ot ™ THE WORLD'S GREATEST CIRCULATION MONTH aha AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895, 001,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over’ Half a Million Per Day. Bverything goes with this Congress, ‘and the Congress itself will go soon. Comment upon its action is scarcely ‘worth while, but really it ought to have @pared the country such an object lesson fn legislative idiocy as the appropriation of haif @ million dollars for a cable to Hewail at a time when the Treasury ix BS near bankruptcy. ‘A cable tc Hawall would be a fine thing for Claus Spreckels to send his sugar orders over, and would doubtless help other speculators and traders who have or will soon have interests in the Sandwich Islands, It would also en- able “The Evening World" to print the 4 news of Hawaiian revolutions seven i days earlier than at present. R All these things would bo desirable a and beneficial for the country, but none -_ of them come within the proper scope of Congressional power. “The Evening World” will pay its share towards a Hawallan cable; let Mr, Sprecke's and the specu‘ators and trader: do likewise. It will be a great convenience, but jt 1s not @ public ne- cosaity. The supposed “little pickings” secured by ex-Boss Croker and his partner, Meyer, in obtaining control of the judi- clal sales of real estate in the city must in fact have been a much bigger affair than supposed, judging from the strong effort made to prevent the return of Buch sales to the Real Estate Exchange. A nuraber of Republican members had been “induced” to dodge the vote, while @ deluge of special lobbyists poured into the Assembly chamber to work for its defeat. The bill, nowever, went through the Houze yesterday, despite all these efforts, by @ vote of 74 to 18. The hope- eas condition of Tammany has not been made es apparent during the session as it was by the vote on this bill. In the course of the debate Mr. Ains- worth referred to the presence of friends of Mr. Croker, members of the last Leg- islature, who had been present on the floor making earnest personal appeals to members not to snatch from the ex-boss this last mouthful of the spoils. He had himeelf, Mr. Ainsworth declared, been 40 approached. But the bill went through without mercy, and now goes to the Senate. It is said that a desperate attempt will be made to stop it in that body. But while there are many Senatorial Barkises who might be willing, it is not probable that the effort will succeed, one naam oleate em 1 | VULTURES OF FINANCE. Tt may be all right, Prudence may mystery of its financial policy and en- tering into a secret treaty with a syndi- the issue of its bonds, encouraging would be needed, Which it wes become known. making money to a sense of public duty peril and difficulty, it is very well know geedingly well paid for their work. HUBSCRIPTIONS 10 THE EVENING WORLD justify the Government in making a cate of wealthy financiers concerning But it is not to find the Secretary of the Treasury explaining to the Con- sressional Finance Committee that this secrecy is necessary because the syndi- ate purchasing the bonds fears that “the bankers would corner the gold of the world ugainst them at the time it if the methods by to be obtained should People are not foolish enough to believe that bankers are such disinterested and | Unselfisi pnilanthropists as to be ready ‘@t all times to sacrifice the chance of Indeed, while @ great deal of nonsense has been written about the nobie patri- etiam of the banks in coming to the fescue of the Government in umes of that these nation-savers have been ex-| In- ft ta not surprising that all the business interests of the ration suffer, But the banks have been the recipients of too many and too great favors from the nation to incline the people to pa- tlently hear the Secretary of the Treas- ury announce to Congress that a secret treaty between the bond eyndicate and the Government is necessary because it is feared that the banks might “corner the gold of the world” if they knew exactly how it was to be obtained to satisfy Government necessities and eave the nation from repudiation and dis- Brace. A FIREMAR'S FATE. Our gallant firemen are in peril in their work from other sources than the flames they are called upon to com- bat. When the engines and unwieldy hook and ladder trucks and tenders are tearing madly along the streets on an alarm, many people look on terrified and are astonished that accidents are not frequent as the men cling to their machines. Yesterday a sad accident of the kind dreaded by so many spectators oc- curred at Nineteenth street and Second avenue to Engine No. 5 as it was answering a fire call, As the engine went tearing madly along from its house on Fourteenth etreet, there was a sudden wrench golum, over the railroad track, a sharp jerk, and the hind wheel came off and rolled nway. ‘The engineer, Peter McKeon, instead of jumping, tried to shut off the steam, when the tender, close behind, ran Into the engine, striking the poor fellow squarely in the back, crushing near- ly every bone in his body, and holding him there until the horses were backed, when he fell into the road under their feet. He survived only a few minutes. If he had jumped, inatead of seeking to shut off the steam, he might have been saved. He loaves a widow and four children, and it Is to be hoped they will be provided for. A GONG LINCOLN WOULD HAVE LIKED. Music has been classed as the lowest of the arts, but we should rejoice all the same that there Is so much of It in our natures. What difference does it make if the melody that ooses out of a ing on Riv his Bi him. Pen us takes the shape of “On the Bowery,” y Peari Is a Bowery Giri," or “An- nie Rooney"? It's all music, homely and un ical, perhaps, but it lifts up the heart and sets the blood tingling in a way that “Parsifal* or “Aldi wouldn't be ashamed of. The music that expresses edulllence and don't-care-a-cussativeness may be hol pollo! and all that, but grand old Abe Lincoln would not have blushed If he were caught beating time to it— magnificently simple old Abe, who didn't know the color of Jultus Caesar's hair and wasn’t worrted about ft either. It was not 80 eminently improper, there- fore, that Delmonico's banquet hall, where the Republican Club honored Lincoln's memory last night, should have been kept ringing with the praises: of Pearl the Bowery girl. But we would have given forty cents If the wives of some of the giddy old codgers could have dropped in when the singers were throwing thelr souls M of Th but will ble Mi into the line: ‘She's just the girl for me.” The French line management has acted promptly In recognition of Capt. Baudelon's bravery and seamanship. A gold medal was voted to the captain yesterday in Paris, But that token Is nothing to the testimonial to the gallant skipper that glows in the heart of every safely landed passenger and every friend of a passenger right here in New York. Whatever may be sald about Wall street in some of its phases, it undoubt- edly acts at times as a useful and ac- curate indicator of the state of the nation’s industrial and commercial health. So there is much encourag ment to be drawn from the report that “the street” s just now In buoyant an- ticipation of a marked business revival. ‘The prize ninny 1s located tn Norwich, Conn, He undertook to move a cottage across the frozen surface of a lake, and seft it in the middle of the tce over night. He woke up yesterday morning and found that his cottage was reating on the bottom of the lake. He wasn't in the cottage, so he lives to have better sense next time, Joy over La Gascogne's safe arrival has temporarily obscured the fact that many safling vessels and pllot-boats are long overdue, and that their chances in 4 battle with the elements are minute in comparison to those of the ocean Mner. It is to be hoped that the French steamship has get a good safety ex- ample, New York has been able to send some more garbage to sea at last. No other blizzard season should catch the city in Such Straits over the disposition of its refuse. It l@ one of the many duties of our reform administration to bring us up to date In the han ling of the girbage. ‘There {s a greater Washington. The President has approved the act making Georgetown @ part of the Capitol City What the country would like to see at Washington is a greater Congress—one t enough to meet the present mony tary emergency. ‘The Temperance people's petition, with da; It's nice to from foreign shores, but it ought to be coming for something better for us than to buy our bonds. The Gascogne shudder ts ov "There are v alba es 0 Abs Nee DAILY S°NT FROM M'DOUGALL, His views on a fast railroad train. the Sunday eide door might be equally as interesting, With his mind on the probability that Brookfi Department, Platt must wish that the Mayor would hard, ‘The lessons of the late “spell of weather” regarding New York's need of a North River bridge and of new East id is to get the Public Works not ignore factions so er bridges, should not be lost. Petersburg, Va., has had seven enow- storms {uside of a week, What a great field that would be for Col, Waring and shovel and broom cohorts, 1 Cook, the outlaw, 1s coming to Now York and bringing his knitting with . He will remain in itentlary for fifty years, the Albany have gold coming back Kinley has done better than most New York's reform measures, He passed both Houses at Albany yester- day. he valentine which Mayor Strong will send Tom Platt is a comic one, and we don't think Platt will enjoy it. Some gold is coming back to us—a little over $10,000,000 waa announced yesteniay— how long will it stay here? What be the next cause of great public suspense? —_—___—__ Jentines which it 1s more wed to give than to receive. ir, Brookfield is homme qui rit to- » Mr. Platt, FATHER KNICKERBOCKEW’S DIARY Fev. La her tend remomber aa long aa t thair weary trip across the sea. {a the hero of the hour, 12, 1896.—All the talk has been about Gancogne to-day, The big ship came up to dock thin morning, and the welcome ex. jed to her passengers was one that they will y do the experiences of Capt. Raudeton Long may he live and Command! He's the sort of @ ship's captain that ocean travellers cannot spare, oe Hut if the general talk was all about La Gas coxne there Wax a good deal of special conversa- Hom at the City Hall about the coming dintribu How of municipal offices. Mayor 8 was fairly swamped with visitors this morning. The that 4.000.000 signatures, is on ite way to Washington. It asks for the suppres- sion of liquor and opium traffic. Many @ Joke will be cracked gressional cafe, wer it in the Con- Staten Island has had a number of town elections, but Jon't hear any- |thing about colonizing. 1 Staten [Island boats are not comfortable enough for a colonizer who hus any regard for his health, we Platt was absent from the Lincoln @inner of the Republican Club last night. He naturally would feel a bit out of it when politics of the Lincoln | sort was under consideration. ‘The public demand for a full know!- edge of all the inside and outside of the bond syndicate arrangement becomes more and more pressing. No secret dick- ering over the nation’s credit! ‘This is Croker’s day to mourn. The Assembly has passed the bill taking the monopoly of the sale of New York real estate out of his hands, and his favorite colt Dobbins has gone lame. A Fapid-transit valentine would have been a great boon to New York. A Bradford, Pa., minister ses no mo: harm in driving fast horses than tn rid. the other. Both have served Ave yeare continu ously Mr, Foley may become a great man in the councils of Tammany after aw the can never be President of these great and glori ous United States, because he was born In Que. des. file bist (oak place tirty-three years ago, newapapers made p members of th tures of the curtous crowd Doateged his office, as they did of the throngs at the French pier, Dear mo! What a lot of patriots there are whose only idea of working for reform seems to bo that the labor must be carried on from the stand) of an office bs eee It aroused ait my Knickordocker wrath and dis ust to read of how that hungry horde broke for the Mayor when he was at last ready (o receive them, It became a rave such as a pack of wolves might have marted upon. at the city’s Executive first. It wan Vat terson who Won and who seatel himaelf breathless and panting by the Mayor's sd o 8 Hut ‘Jake did not stay long. He gat the second of two mournful morning experiences. Yesterday he did not get to Cie Hall soon enough and the Mayor could not se him, That was what the newspapers call getting ‘the marble Neart” To-day he got a blow almont on the point of his politival Jaw. Me heard from. the Mayor's own tipm, so the report goes, that Brook: field, dexpined of Platt, ts to become a corner: stone of the new administration; that the man turned down in the Republican County Commit ve ie to turn up as Commissioner of Public Works . . Door Patterson! Angry Platt! Hut if it in to be Hrooktield L hope he will prove such a Com: Missioner as to Justify the Mayor's cholee, To Appoint him Wil be to carry out, with a yen- geance, Stee jaration that he would Ignore factions. Aw to the other appointments, there in stil the old word, Wait GREAT MEN OF OLR OWN TIME, e¢ ‘great and good friend’ of the Re » Without a single sentence more, “but the eforessid courtesy will oontinue to do Oharies Ho Parkhurst at Albany In Mrs. J And cut short my eplatie. business at the old stand." Oh, nos It will con Thee WAR TAREEE cautlabanr a kke tea ik Unue te block business,—toulaville Courler-Jour- A But then thle tn the happy date a a . The dovtor ‘bas ia him ¢ When loving birds select a mate, . Re = ay pamplon w mill ts worth entiating, He isa And salseiee a Riad, One for Mr. George. | Democrat and the capable leader of that party's! 4, would be cruelty, | know, Henry George saya ‘poverty ia curable.” His mail army in th House. 11 Is not the] go tet your prepiy verere go own career proves that men have stepped prepare: Tammany: 18 seh. ormanlaailon. Mi Without « linWreplying. \ from poverty to afvence with leks personal effort 0 much by compelling the adoption of And so, believing what you sent than Be Reawrtloraellpyiiig Tims, orm fade, as by preventing Boss Platt from in Iniended as a compliment. An Office as = Handica, \ficting bis If the Police bills of Dr. Parkhurst 1 thank you for your token, Adie Stevensom may not be a statesman of and le aswoolates are Introduced in the Jawer| AM! beg to offer tn return cath aellbrs: bat Ke will bs ramamrboeed ther Lari House, however, they will t rongly supported Advice | suet, you: will! Bet spurns P. Morton himeelf made no great progress while by the Demorr Js one of the two older le sure it lo Bindly spouse. Apesker THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1895, Maiby ie enusell te NELLI£ BLY SAYS: 1 went to Abbey's Theatre the other night, and though thie 18 not a criticiam of Mr. Tree or his plays, take my advice and don't be deceived by clover advertising into wasting your money simply to be bored. ‘he Evening World's” Living Pictures. jallery of Tn his play, “The Bunch of Violate," which should ‘be called “Expectation,” because you expect up anti! the final curtain drope that they are going to 49 something, a number of workmen and thelr loader are represented as coming to nell their votes for 4 amall sum of money and @ cold coilation. AM1 afterwards these game men who 46/1 them- ooivie wo choaply a morally outraged at bear- Ing that the candidate had in hia early youth be- trayeg a girl that they refune to vote for him, and thereby he ‘ones the election. ‘That's not tru Ife, you know, but Mr, Tres doesn't mind «i little things, Tt was these same workmen that amused me They ware supposed to represent workingmen and were made up to look exactly like Rowery bums, creatures that never worke!, who find thelr food tn ash cans, their drink In beer-keg drippings, tel tobacco in the gutters. These stake work men had red noses, Diackened eye, and siaggered and shouted and blustered. And the audience seemed to think them the real article, . I recalled my recent experience with real work- men, [ remembered how courteously they acted, how clean they wer, now neatly dressed, and I amiled at the ridiculoun atage article, eee That In one of the many things that exist to the Wworkingman's disadvantage—the public's idea of the workingman, People have seen and FREDERICK VILLIERS. ‘This is @ picture of a London war cor- respondent who Is not afraid to tell the truth about the wanton ma Chinese at Port Arthur. the workingman in hin working clothes, They only know him so. And I do may, a man In made by hin coat, ‘The public doen not recognize « Here, a Hint There and True workman at lelsure, and that in why he only presenta one pleture to the public mind ‘Tales of City Life. - M “Like @ ship from fairyland,"" saya the poetic Keven 1, with all my varted experiences, am| weiter describing the appearance of an ice-clad sometimes surprised, or instance, {was aur- Yeusel reaching port in these days, It is well that his view in from the shore. The axpect from the crosstrees and at the wheel of the vessel when the ‘gilstesing armor’ In in process of formation inspires other thoughts than ‘poetic Well- appearing men could be streetcar men, 1] fancter, Gathering in the bunt of @ topeall could select some of then who would not appear | stiffened with ice an inch thick would knock all prised when I went to see the Brooklyn strikers, 1 only knew them an they appeared while work- ing. 1 could scarcely bring myself to reallee that the quiet manneved, intelligent looking, and DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES Brady Defends Beaton Seriously IM--Living Pictures Waning. m A. Brady “takes exception” to smiies about the ex- traoriinary similarity of the bomb scenes in his “Fatal Card” and Brady's “Humanity.” The paragraph on the sub- Ject was published in Monday's “Even- ing World," and that very evening in Philadelphia Brady was fuming about it. ‘This is what Brady says on the gub- Ject: “In the first place, the originality of the explosion scene in ‘The Fatal Card” was questioned in England by many authors, when it was first pro- duced there, it being proved that the same scene had heen done in about half a dosen other plays produced long before “The Fatal Card.’ Secondly, you are right when you say that ‘Humanity’ was taken from a play called ‘For Eng- and,’ which achieved great success in the provinces of England. I saw ‘For England’ in Manchester ast Summer, and I immediately recognize! the pos: Uiltiew of the plece. Mr, Grismer had already ‘written a play called ‘Secret Service,’ which contained the bomb scene and tho dul on homeback, pre- cisely as they are done at the Four- teenth Street ‘Theatre, and which, I be- Heve, are the principal sensational fea- tures of ‘Humanity.’ I brought the manuscript of ‘For England’ to, this country, ‘suggested the blending, of the principal effects of both plays, and the outcome of the work was “Humanity, the success of which is ae much due to Mr. Grismer as to Mr. Vane. Third in ‘the production of ‘Michael Strogot at the Boston Theatre some years ago, precisely the same effect of the explosion was one of the features, You wil; remem ber that in the third act of ‘Stro @ bomb is thrown through a window, lighted, and Michael, in order to sa his’ mother from destruction, the missile through a window, and in this Boston production that T'refer to the, house was shattered, as in ‘Human- iy.’ If cared to I could cite you any number of other scenes where the same at @ dinadvantage with some bankers, ministers | the poetry out of the thing, according to my In- and physicians 1 know. And I could select other | formant, who has been there, ‘There {8 @ good bankers, ministers and physicians who would not} deal of Horace Skimpole about a poet, anyway, look unlike the momt uncouth of atreet-car men. [and mighty ltle in the makeup of the mariner. a Perhaps It 1s ax well for, both, of them. How timid a knowledge of our own weakness or disability will make us, An acquaintance of mine, who Is hobbling about with the ald of a stout cane, owing to a recently sprained ankle, {nm sight to observe as he limps and squeezes along on the outskirts of the crowd at the Bridge entrance, fearful lest the slightest jost- As Robert Louls Stevenson so cleverly proves in his last book, “An Amateur idged entirely by men and the ‘Think of Stey- hin culture, his magnificent brain t education, not bel to make one belleve him anything but an ignorant, Emigrant thelr clothes ition in which we find them. enson, with unlettered emigrant, merely because he wanted! jing may wrench the healing sinews afresh. He tho experience of travelling second-class! once played football and was a wrestler and gen- > © eral athlete, and his habitual manner of tack- Men are as they are born, refined or coarse by| ling the throng t# vigorous und reminiscent of nature. Surroundings have much to do with| hie athletic days * ¢ the ‘proprietor, look black Juet try tt and ave, The price of exes on the Dill of fare never varies, although the cost to him tree and a halt cents a plece. He has to pay 5) woulda © wrong-doing comen | th Dlggest price Just now for them, and gets in from Idle laters, Ponte crag at tein comes ryturn only the anme rate that he got when enKs Tagged clothes represent the reai workman, and| Were cheap: oe don't think, as a correspondent accuses me, that] ‘There was a peculiar scene in Chancellor Me- because I write the truth about workmen T am| Gill's court-room, over In Jersey, ahe other day. 4 striker, any more than writing the (ruth about |It was the day when the Drayton divorce case 4 millionaire would make me a millional was expected to come up, und there were ax ¢ Fig many reporters as other people present. When T write the truth because I love tt, and be-|@ lawyer who was known to be engaged on the cause there is no living creature whose anger I| case arose and addressed the Court every re- fear or whose praise I cou ELLIE BLY. porter flashed out his pad of note paper and poised his pencil. The lawyer spoke. ‘‘In the A Friend of Oppressed Labor. matter cf the Btate of Alabama,” he began, and To Mim Nellie Bly: ‘& Gimguated lot of newspaper men pocketed their An extract from one of your communications | pencite, The Drayton case wan postponed. to The World has attracted my ate Paki are tention, and I send you with thin « little pam- phiet of mine discussing the conditions you de- scribe, and the resulta of our folly, and advocat- ing a re which would in a very short time restore the plundered masses to a coniition of Prosperity and content. Doubting if the article Will Interest you sufficiently to induce you to read it all, I have marked four places to which I would Hke to call your attention—one is an ex- pollahed manners, but [ have necn millionaires who are vulgar cads, and workmen wlio are gen- tlemen, Order eggs in any these days and see e ee Because a man strikes, don't believe him en outlaw, And if wrong in done, don't lay tt all on the atriker, If you meet them, an I have, Few people know what a splendid char Montefiore Home is, 1 was surprised when Lucten Bonheur, President of the Montefiore 8o- clety, told me about the great amount of un. Prejudiced good It does. Homeless and moneyless Imourables of ail creeds and nationalities are wel- comed to its shelter and every Kindness and at- tention are givn to their declining days, It i pity that the Home has accommodations now for only 250 patients, These are the Mr. alntalned at a coat tract from “The World"—on pages 16, | °F Te ei ies oak wee 2% and 24, The petition (page 27) and itt |” Sees al toe camta: 9 HeavI6e Ue tonnes UH, BAN PMS | ia hares matuwads'oe Oisaae Congress, second session) ure sleeping ina Me GMA NHR, pigeonhole of the Ways and Meant Committee OLEAN If you recelve the pamphlet aud look over the| “EVENING WORLD” GUIDEBOOK, marked passagen, ax yor teem disposed to stand t $ 4p for the oppresned laborer rather than for hit| Clube of New York«-NNIX<-The brutal master, @ brief note in reply will Yours, respectfully, PERCY DANIELS, Author of “Problems of Taxation."* Kansas National Guant, Division Girard, Kan., Feb. 7 Headquarters, The Way Mr. Mead Seen It, To Mise Nellie Bly: 1 read your piece in the World In favor of strikon @ atrykers & am very much surprised that @ person an intelligent ax you seem to be could be in league with strykes or men who have no regard to principal or good government I also read your account of the Carnegie strike & you also then was in league with the strikers, & could of written ax well without Kolng there because your mind ran in that direction; now any of these men could have left at thelr will & done better If they could, But no. They munt have a riot & do all the damage to persons & property they could even to murder & you take there part now. T must aay the partaker is as bad as the thief, & if you can take the side of rioters and murderers, 1 must aay 1 have lost all confidence tm your principal SOLOMON 8, MEAD), Port Chester, N.Y. WORLDLINGS, It was one of the handsomest elub-housee In New York that the Catholle Club formally. opened at 120 Weet Fifty-ninth street on an eve ing in February, 1892. The Ciub was formerly the Xavier Union, organized early im the 70's, It took te present name in 1887, whem it had Growing tea plants look very much like box wood borders 1a an old-fashioned garden. Mme. Irene Some, ilving in Smyrna, ani of Greek birch, hen celebrated er 11m birthday, [Eh Ite 1S Preweot, name nae : row! en quariera in Weat Gov. Upham, of Wisconsin, 1s eaid to have been | twenty-seventh street. More than two hundred ropbed of @ diamond at Bis Grst oMctal recep-| Catholic congregations are represented in the tion, A Hebrew Bible tm the Vatican weighs a2 pounds, and ts the largest Bible in the world. It tall manuscript, A new set of postage stamps has been temot by the Chinese Cus Poat-OMse to orate (he sixtieth birthday of the Empress Dowager. {i — = Club, and tm its 11 of past and present officers and members appear the names of scores of men who have shone as bright lights in the social and political history of New York, As for the Dullding shown In the picture, jt contain a cream. and gold assembly hall, a library of over 20,000 volumes, a cafe, bowling alle he and the yer apartments and appurtenances of a firwt . clase metropolitan club. The Club membership ; (x nearly up to the 1,000 limit mark A VALENTINES ADVICE, fae —o che ” = BY OTHER EDITORS, You ask me in tender tine ——— To take you for my valentine, Why Not, Indeeat And to eatoree your plea If & non-partiean movement for beiter city You sends plotwre of @ beert government was a gust thing in Democratic Ros Pierced by & wicked-looking de ton and New York, why not Cast, I presume, by me. 4eiphia?—Philadelphia Times Republican Phila Now, if you really think 14 At any person, friend or foe, So blodthirsty a missile, Td say good-by—not au revoir— Seuato Courtesy Ag ‘The Court x-Journal has been taking @ fail 01 of Senatorial courtesy * ays uu " Washington P effect” has been used, perhaps not as effectively as in Humanity,’ but still containing the same ideas. I do not think that it would be any great task for me to prove that the authors of "The Watal Card’ have pirated somebody else's ideas. However, tis very easy to prove what I piracy of original dramatic situations ts punishable in this country, and the au- thors of ‘The Fatal Card’ have their rocess in law. The truth of the matter that the explosion scene in "The Fatal Card’ is simply an improvement on something that had been done before, and I of sim, remem! took the iiberty in ‘Humanity’ ly improving on it. Also, please F that “Humanity,” as it is be: was properly copyrighted, an Win America’ before ‘The At tle Christopher" company, is serlously il with pneumonta, and Miss Lila Blow 1s playing her part. Little Mies Bouton alone in New York, as her sister Madeline is on the road. ‘Manager Rice in very much distressed), about her. Bessle Bonehill, who is now singing Helen Bertram's’ part at the Garden, new to the burlesque business, t for such roles in London. She teils rather a funny ex- perience she had with Lillian Russell he has already favored the out-o! towners with it. ‘Some years a saya Miss Bonehill, “before Miss Rus- fell became famous, sie was engaged to support me in ‘Black-Eyed Susan’ in London, I was the William, and was thoroughly familiar with the’ role, as I had played it before. Miss Russell had never played Susan, and she wanted to appropriate everything, as usual. I in- trofuced a sailor's hornpipe, and sug- gested that she and I dance it together in the secord act. She objected, and wanted the hornpipe cut out. e a singer, and J am a dancer, Bm tered myself that I drew more money at the box-office than she did. I positively refused to submit to such dictation. I knew that she objected to the horn- pipe because she couldn't dance. So she threw up the part, and said’ that she didn't care to appear with # music hall dancer. As she got her education In the music halls, I thought that very funny. Tory Pastor roared with laugh- ter when I told him of It, and informed me that it was he who gave Lillian Russell her stage name." Miss Bi hill emphasizes the fact that Lillian Ruesell was not then the divinity she Is now held up to te. eo 8 The livitg picturas are on the wane. Manager Proctor hae telegraphed from Europe to stop all living pictures at his vaudeville hou ‘Those at the Gar- den are no longer enthusiastically re- ceived. ‘The magnificent tableaux at Koster & Hini's are still admired, but the is dying, even though Oscar Ham- ein declared that it was here .o A new melodrama by Charles Brad) and Will R. Wilson, to be produced bj a syndicate, deals with the attempted wrecking of a Denver bank and the suc- cessful efforts of a woman to save the institution's credit. One of the principal scenes of the play shows an excited mob at the doors of the crippled bank, threat- ening the lives of Its officers, and the timely arrival of a load of gold from California, ‘Three acts of the melodrama are laid in Denver, and one in the moun- tains on the line’ of the Union Pacific Ralroad, ane Oscar Wilde's farce, "The Importance of Being Earnest,” was done in London last night, It deals with the tribula- tlone of a non-voracious person, who attributed his trips away from home to visits to a fictitious nephew, called Ernest. As Oscar ts at tlmen farcical when he thinks he ts serious, it 1s quite probable that this time he may he seri- ous when he thinks he is farcical, eee The, Kendals’ new play, “A Loader of Men," Is reported to be far from a suc- cess, After the opening performance in Horton Saturday night, Mr. Ken arch wife stepped before the curtain and asked the audience, "Do you like the play? Tell me if I may cable over & success to {ts young author?” The audience applauded, but Mr. Kendal’s rch wife was not satisfied, She wanted & genuine answer to her question, She got more applause and some “Yeses.” Report says that the piece is unsatis- factory. Tt deals with the case of the iate Parne:l and Mrs, O'Shea, whose identities are thinly veiled. Its original title, "A Political Woman," was changed because the author thought. that the public was weary of “woman” titles, oe 6 Clyde Fitch, the playwright, has writ- ten a dainty little dialogue in the shape f two letters in “The Chap Book" of Feb. 1. The first letter ix written “by a handsome, attractive man of the world, born in Richmond, Va., in 1859, but from. childhood a resident of New York,” the second by “a New York woman’ born newhere about 184, charming, lovely and married—but unhappy.” Mr. William Pruette, tone, with the Whitney Opera Compan: and who Is stopping at the Metropole, has beconiy the father of a fine boy. Mother aad child are doing well. —— WAS WITH GRA kind regards to Bugene 4) — the Goo Goo sald; win Fi rant’ ‘Say no mores Said the soldier, of thy head. door." “Ewan with Grent’’— the Goo Goo said aid the soldier, ‘Hully geet 1 do not wish to noc ill-bred, Nut you're too young, you ses."* “1 was with Grant'’——the Goo Goo erted; Suld the soldier, “My olf tongue 14 cut out ere T sald you ied, But you are very young!” OL wan with Grant''—the Goo Goo sald; Vice-Presitent. Bt. Louis Post-D!apat re more auch missives you subscribe, Take pattern by ihe feathered tribe, Much prudence indicating, ‘Who butld @ mest ail snug and To keep thelr loved ones sat Before they think of mati CONSTANCE M. LEVIEN, Supt. Byrnes. Sept. Byres never found fault with Tammany Wall until after the tiger was ousted from power, Mayor dtroma will make a serious mistake if he sitows poltce reform te loam heavily om ByTore.— Wasbingtos Pom arm rom harm Said the soldier, “Tell me true, D'ye mean the hero who ts dead, duel in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, be tween Mlle. Theodore, a chanteuse, an@ another singer. One of the most recemé episodes of this character took place et Cannes in August, 1888. The two girls who fought were of good family, and ‘their quarrel arose over a man to whom both were very greatly attached. They fought with pistols and both were eet ‘ously wounded, one dying from the effects of the pistol wound in her chest, Applications of Hot Water. Headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. 4 towel folded, dipped in hot water, wrung out rapidly and applied to the mtomach acts like magic in cases of colic. ‘There ta nothing that so promptly eute short congestion of the lungs, sore threat or rheumatism as hot water when ap plied promptly and thoroughly. A towel folded several times, an@ dipped in hot water and quickly wrung out and applied over the toothache er neuralgia will generally afford prompt relief, A strip of flannel or napkin folded lengthwise and dipped in hot water and wrung out and then applied around the neck of # child that has the croup will sometimes bring relief in ten minutes, Hot water taken freely half an heur before bedtime is helpful in constipar tion. ‘This rather smart Parisian gown ts of matze silk, perforee, with sleeves and a scarf in soft silk of the same shad ‘The sleeven are trimmed with coques of maize silk ribbon, the sash being of red velvet. % ‘Try Potatoes This Way To-Morrow. Peel the potatoes and drop in cold water. Let them stand three or four hours if old, but if not take them out at once, wipe dry and put on to stew. When well done, pour @ sauce over them, The directions for the sauce are as follows: Two tablespoonfuls of flour, a Nttle salt, two teacupfuls of milk, stirred in gradually until smooth. Put this in a little saucepan placed in @ pan of hot water, Stir constantly, and when it begins to boll add four ounces of butter, This sauce must be smooth and thoroughly mixed. Season with a little black pepper, if you Hke it, or a few sprigs of parsley. Here Is a Pretty Pincushiom. A very pretty pincushion is thus eom- cocted: Cover a small square box with silk, sewing a ii! bow to each com ner. Fill so full of curled hair that i bulges above the top. Cover this with linen and then with a crape handker chief. Let the four corners hang over the four sides of the box. Tack the crape down over the top into a number of puffs, and wherever it is tacked stiek @ pin. Use both black and white, aad use a number, Philarthropic Miss Cooper. Miss Julie Cooper, a niece of Peter Cooper, is one of the family on whom the great philanthropist’s: mantle has fallen, though the public knows but lit- tle of her wide charities. She is a handsome woman of the world who eon- ceals as far as possible her constant good works. She supports a kindergar ten entirely at a cost of $3900 a month, and that is only one item in a long list To Remove Creases from Skirts. One is pretty sure to get the skirte gowns wrink!ed in travelling, no matter how carefully they may be packed. If this happens have them hung out on the colthesline, stretched out to their extremest width. Every crease will be taken out as entirely as if they hed been troned No Uniformity im Bric-a-Brac. It used to be an invariable rule in the arranging of a mantelpiece that the clock should stand exactly in the mid- dle. We have changed all that in the more modern anxiety to avoid any ap- pearance of setness or stiffness, Nowa- days the clock is put to one side, al- though one may be pardoned for think- ing that It iooke out of place there. Bric-a-brac seems badly balanced unless the largest or heaviest plece—and the clock is generally that-is set in the midst of the rest. ‘Women Who Fought Duels. In the letters of Mme. Dunoyer men- tion is made of a young lady of Bian- caire who fought a young lady of rank with swords after a chalenge had been given and accepted. The meeting took place in a garden, and it ts further stated that the combatants would have kiled each other had they not been separated, A love affair gave rise to a Women Engross Tennessee's Lasva, Miss Maud Tansi! is engrossing clerk of the Tennessee Senate, and Miss Carrie Jennings of the House of Rep- resentatives. — evolution, ‘There never was @ missing link tm the sense {¢ has been proposed, that 1s, a full- ized developed man with some features of the brute, The discovery of the pigmies in Africa, Polynesia and Italian pigmies, or nanocephales, coupled with the recent archaeological diseer- erties of Koellman, now show that our existing races of man bad ® precursor in @ sub-speclos of the pigmy race. And it is clearly pointed out by these discoveries that the missing Hale will have to be looked for in a diminutive being which had {ta own starting point on the evo= lutionary scale. Man has no need to borrow from the monkey, and divine providence is compatible ‘with evolution, ROLLY, Pleasantville, N. Yo LETTERS [hie column fe open to evergboty whe has 6 complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, in ‘ormation to give, @ eubject of generat diacuss or a public service to acknowledge, and wh can yul the idea tnto less than 100 word Lon ders cannot be printed, — 50 Per Cent. Rent. Hou 1 Pay To thi Accoraing to the Soctal Reform Club tenement property in New York City pays as bigh as 10 per cent. I can point out several which pay ® great deal more. A friend of mine in the Ninth Ward pays $650 2 year rent for a brick and frame house—a liberal valuation of the same would not be over $1,500, He pays almost 60 per cent rent on this value, leavicg out of consideration the ground on which the house stands. Some may say the landlord 1s entitled to a percentage om the value of the land. He has already got it in this particular cave through the increased value of his land, which haa tripled in twenty years. Now, 1 claim and challenge successful contradiction that the single-tax theory applied in this case would lower the rent, and the greatest part of the money paid in rent would go to the city for local To the Editor: ‘The presont muddle over the curren) Promises to end by an open deal between the Politicians and the bankers (it always is a secret eal between them), {:lustrates very forcibly the enervating r of paternailam. If it had mot deen conceded tn pact ages that coining money was & royal prerogative we should now have as efficent & system of currency evolved by bi Quiraments, as we have of other com checks, drafts, notes, bills of exchange and the Improvements, &c., Instead of the hands of | rest, For, remember. that what 1s wanted ls a private individuals or corporations, R. J. Ws | eyatem of ‘exchange checks,"” as currency has been happily called. Were we not forbidden by Public Ser To the Editor: It the troliey-car companii comply with the ‘Ten Hour law, why are not the departments of our city government compelled to keep to the ight-Hour lew, which says that all employees of ail municipalities of this State, ex- innumerable legal restrictions from trying experts ments, even now business men could contrive @ it system. Hiven the old State stricted on all sides; their Insecurity was caused by thelr restrictions, Most of all the legale tender laws are productive of Insecurity by giving & fictitious value to currency that people would tept farm hands and domestic laborers, shall|not receive If it were offered upon ite merite hot work more than elght hours a day, In one|alone, Do away with legal-tender laws, abolish of the departments some of them work more. jall taxes and prohibitions that prevent people from offering or accepting anything they choose tm exchange for their goods or services, and the currency question will solve itnelf, and in the tne terest of the people, too, mot of the bankers and politicians, H. V. GMALEa In the Department of Public Charities and Cor- rection attendants work sixteen hours a da; firemen the mame. Engineers and other mechanics work twelve, Keepers aze on duty thirty out of every forty hours, OF THEM. Does the Heartles To the Editor: Aus dally reader I object to the taking wp of valuable space in this column by lovesiek feels who seem to take such comfort in putting thelr woos in print. Tam not an old maid or nea tt, Dut 1t does make me sick to read such trad op “I love a certain young man dearly." “How eam 1 get him?’ Can I do this or that to wim bis affection?” @e., @e. Oh, what @ lack of modesty and self-respect to put affaite of the heart im a Oe Pablic Grin? To the Editor: Cannot something be done to compel the Ei ted Railroad Company to heat its cara to some degree of warmth? To compel people to get in at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth stre and ride dowatowm in an ice-box is certainly hametul. ‘The pubile 1s entitled to some con- sideration. Last Saturday morning there w: not @ particle of steam in the early morning trains. One engine with a train of @fty cars tached, with a few pounds of steam over night, |print! Why don't all auch lovesivk mortals tall would make the care comfortable to ride in in| the object of their affection of thelr iove amd the morning. 1 do not suppose these few lines | thus strike while the tron 1s hot, instead of pabe will compei the Company t heat the cara, but| lishing thelr woes for a heartless public to grim they may, perhaps, put & suggestion into thé] at? I am gure every person with & grain of hoad of some om R. CONKLI common-sense will think as 1 do about thie mate entcheater, N. ¥, [th If people must write letters let them put : some sensible suggestion In them for the Desel of others an@ not write trashy questions abem® affairs of the heart. MARY C. EAT A Street-Cleaning Side-Show. To the Baltor: ‘This evoning (Feb. 7), as I was om the way home I noticed several carts that were carrying snow to dump in the East River, and the men were throwing (he snow Into the atrest am they went along, This seemed so atrange that I thought ik vuabt (0 be looked after, ax there must be some advantage (o the men io thos getting rid of their loads before gotting to the river, R.A. An Exciting Ri m the “L,"* To the Editor: While riding om the Sixth avenue train the other evening on my way home (to One Hunéred fth street, the car beng very crowded, I arose and gave up my neat to quite an elderly lady, who was rather insulted, saying ahe was perfectly young and able enough to remain standing. While begging her to take the seat a man with red Bair and flat fest took it and emile@, There was nothing left for me but ramp the strap. which I held until we rounded the curve at One Hundred and Teith street, when suddenly the strap broke and I kaded im the arms of am old maid, who cried that I was ‘too fresh for anything." This made everybody tat Iaugh but myself. Junt at that time we had reached One Hundred and Sixteenth strest, when I got out and walked, thinking §% all Now, girls, what do you think of that? To the Editor: ‘The Evening World" reprinted from the Cen- tury Magazine one of those ever current com- parisons between the baby and the monkey, Man has not as much to do with the monkey as he has with the horse, While the science of the petrified remains of plants has without any oubt established evolution on the strictest acten- Ufc basia, t hax also shown that it has not been on one consecutive Mme, but that different spectes Or only ex-Mayor Hugh?’ “was with Grant'——the Goo Goo said, ‘And his words came out in jerks, "Teas at Mayor Strong's with Col. Fred, Who missed the Public Works." EXNIXO8, NA dT have been eyolved at the same time from difter- cy ent points, from lower to higher forme, and = Rave passed away to make room for the evolu: . om of other epscies. In the light of bla, it ts e Wm. not to be wondered ‘The Rvening World” has’ no case to whieh to im vain looking apply the Bi you 40 kindly sent. The cashier To Solve the Currency Problem, |{