The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1895, Page 4

areal Prec cne ere ears ord Peblished by the Press Publishing Company, 68 to @ PARK ROW, New York. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1895. EUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE EVEMING WORLD (includ ing postage): Matored at the Post-Office at New York as Second-class matter SS ‘WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Juaction of Broad. way and Girth ave. at 324 st. WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—106th ot. and Mati. oon ave. BROOKLYN—200 Washington ot. PMILADMLPHIA, PA.—Preas Building, 102 Chest- THE WORLD'S GREATEST to improve the public honesty, fvealthy felons who have stolen millions swaggering about hotels and spending their money freely, while poor thieves, driven to robbery perhaps by starvation, are inmates of prison cells, DEATH FROM STARVATION. Tt seems imporsible that a woman and her child should die of starvation fn a New York lodging-houre, Yet that fs the etory tod of Rertha Genn and her two-year-old little one, who lived fin. a Jodging-house in Thirty-fourth street, and are eald absolutely to have starved to death. The story of the woman is of the old fort. Unhappy love, betrayal, devotion and death are its features, ‘The actors fn it come from British Columbia, and are English by birth. It is a sad tale. Rut the wonder ts that such an event as the slow starvation of a woman and her child could have occurred in this clty without discovery being made and rellef being administered. It shows how much unseen and unknown misery ex- ints in the city, and what opportunities for the exercise of charity there are if people would only search them out. Bertha Genn's story is an incentive to work which all our charities, public and private, ought to heed. The suffer. ing that needs hunting out ie the suffer- ing most deserving of rellef. LET U8 JELL AND YELL! Here is news that will make New Yorkers loosen the zygmaticus from its moorings and laugh until the atmon- CIRCULATION MONTH “+ AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895 001,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half a Million Per Day. It te & conspicuously placarded regu- Yetion in half the business offices of New York and an unwritten law in the ether half that “Beggars, pedilers and Canvassers are not allowed.” It is one of the rules of the City Hall. A regular beggar, a shoestring peddier OF @ book canvasser would never get be- yond the first of the several doors that ‘fe intended to guard the Mayor from fmtrusion. And yet beggars for office, neddiers and dealers in the spoils of pollt‘cs, canvassers and solicitors for office-seckers are allowed to pass through fm @ continuous stream, besetting the Mayor from morning till night, ting his time, spoiling his temper, ruining Ris health and depriving the city of the @onstant and patient fervice which Proper conduct of the Mayor's office Gemants. ‘This sort of business has lasted for two months now, and it ts time it was Stopped short. The horde of place-hunt- @rs who hang around the City Hall are @ public nuisance and ought to be abated Public opinion will amply justify the Mayor in shutting his door for the Present to all private citizens, except those who come by his own appolut ment, and even to public officials, ex- cept on errands directly connected with city affairs, PULPIT SENSATIONALISM. The Rev. Madison C. Peters may be perfectly sound in his view of the prac- tice of marrying off American helresses to impoverished foreign noblemen. It shows @ passion for the flummery of titles not creditable to the solid, sturdy people of the greatest republican gov- ernment the world has ever known. But the reverend gentleman would have done well to keep his views to himself or to express them in private conversation. Certainly a ranting, vio- lent denunciation of such marriages from the pulpit does not seem necessary tm the cause of religion, or likely to pro- @uce anything but discord and dis- gension in a congregation. People have their own views about such marriages. They may agree with the preacher that such a union is not Mkkely to lead to future happiness, and may condemn the vulgar pomp and show with which it ts sometimes cele- brated as quite as un-American as the marriage itself. But they may not care to have it made the subject of a Sunday @iscourse and to find the gospel of truth and love replaced by the gospel of sensationalism. ‘The fact is that pulpits are being made & great deal too senrational, What with politics, reform, factional fights and titled marriages, congregations nowa- Gays are more likely to leave their ehurches with the feeling that they have been to a political meeting or a prige-fight than with the calm con- eclousness that they have been listening to the doctrines of charity, peace and goodwill towards man. HOWGATE’S ACQUITTAL ‘The trial of Capt. Henry W. Howgate, formerly of the Signal-Service Bureau, for embezzlement and forgery ended last week at Washington, and yesterday the jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty,” after having been out for three days. It has never been the desire of the Government, for some reason or other, to convict the accused. He haa been al- lowed to go at large for years, and when he was at last arrested by a superser- viceable officer who recognized him Mving and doing business in this city the prosecution became a farce. Docu- ments alleged to be certain to have Proved the prisoner's guilt had dicap- peared from the Government files and whole pages were found to have beet torn from official books. ‘What secret influence was Howgate to protect him Is not ki Dut it is supposed that he posses: much knowledge concerning the opera- tone of high Government officers in a gimiler direction to make his conviction expedient. ‘The acquittal of Howgate udds another to the many instances where alleged @rimes of magnitude have been suffered phere over Manhattan Island {s thickly flecked with buttons. The Chicago Her- ald says New York ts nurturing a pro- found peagreen jealousy of the Windy City because the latter has a new Poat- Office, because the Indian warehouse— whatever that {s—will not be tran: ferred to New York, and because Chicago journalism refuses to learn any- thing from the journalism of the na- ton's metropolis. We have heard of Chicago, of course, and so have some other New Yorkers, but we are willing to wager a ker of gold dol- lars againat a cornbeef sandwich that out of the nearly 2,000,000 Intelligent, well-behaved and knowledge-worship- ping people on Manhattan Island to-day, not over seventeen of them know that Chicago has a new Post-Office, and six teen of these don't care. A Springfield (N. J.) farmer placed sev- eral beer bottles filled with water in an even to heat, that he might apply them to his rheumatic limbs, ‘The bottles ex ploded, of course, and the farmer fled tn Dis bare feet over the ice and snow to a point several hundrea yards distant from his house. When the oven fusillade was over he returned home, and to his astonishment found that the rheun tism had teen scared out of him, ‘The Springfield man’s sueceas, though, 1s not likely to popularize thie acrose-lots cure for rheumatism, particularly in fey weather. ‘This promises to be a busy week at Al- bany. There are certain matters com- ing up, however, which can be so h died as to save much time for other things. The Gerry Whipping Post bill should be allowed to occupy the Senate's attention just long enough to be killed, and the proposed attempt to revive the Idiotic ‘Theatre. Mat bill ehould get no encouragement at all in the Assembly, Now. Mr. Mayor, It Is a new week. Begin it with a new rule. Keep that office-seeking mob away from you, out of your light and out of your breathing space, New York is glad tos ou back at your desk. It wants to have you able to stay there. It regards your good health and comfort as among Its own especial interests. This Is a selfis regard, but a wise one. Mr. John A, Thompson 1s right {n assuming that his "Jag" of twenty yenra’ duration ts a record. breaker. Rip Van Winkle merely took twenty years to sleep his off, It was not a continuous exuberation. probably It is not a gratifying thing for a dem- cratic community when such am as filled a Harlem street on Saturday afternoon gathers and atruggles merely to see a Count who te going to marry a millionaires, A Vienna professor has found a cure for insanity. If he would only send some of {t over here and it succeeded with men who had a manta for public office Mayor Strong would be ever so grateful. A preacher at Beaver Falls, Pa., was ML yesterday, and his wife went into the pulpit and read his sermon. She did so | well that the husband when he gets well may find it dificult to hold his job. The Rev. Tom Dixon ceases to he original and gets himself in the right in remarking that “if the clubs can open their bars on Sunday, they have got to open the saloons, also.”” Oklahoma wants to walk into the Union with {ts trousers in its boots and 8 brace of six-shooters in {ts belt. Isn't ft a little too Buffalo Billish just yet to become a State? Platt 1s reported to be ill. Nobody wishes him any physical affliction, All New York, however, would be glad to have him get sick of being a Ridiculous Boss. A man who will under-count New York's population in the Interests of his party is not exactly a good man to re main on New York's Py Board, It would not be a cheap peace, from New York's polnt of view, which would come at cost of retaining Kerwin and Murray on the Police Hoard. Yesterday's cablegrams reported Rose. bery as having the «rip. Par ntary reports a few days earlier had given the impression that he was losing it ‘'Trotting-horse 4s for th n of 1wo ths 1895, and old Those Hob: thing Ingersoll, when they finally vost for th to Nave one Mr. Croker is nobody n ning home. ‘Th w to ask him wher? he got to go unpunished, whi! fam increase public reppect for the laws, smaller offenses - have been vigorously prosecuted. It does| * ‘ongress le behind Ves, bueiness, behind in duty, behind tn behind Lie | bright pros. | T | two hours. FATHER K about but the weather. to cut off some of his too great pa A DAILY HINT FROM W'DOUGALL. \y Scene That Illustrates the Irony of Cold Fact. times, behind the Truste—behind tn everything. Adjournment will stand as the only thing tn which it has been up to dute and up to its obligations. Howgate's jury stayed out seventy- But, then, Howgate was out twelve years, All London has a pocket handkerchief tn {ts hand. Influenza is rampant over ther Now Jersey ts doing its share bravely towards the saving of the Palisades. Are you giving the Elmira Reforme- tory matter a thought, Gov. Morton? ‘The Ridiculous Boss seems to be near- ly laughed down. Even Croker did not become a Ridicu- lous Boss. “February {8 on ita last lap and on the run. —-—___— |CKERBOCKBR’S DIARY. ‘There ie little for me to write Mayor Strong's rhew. matinm kept him at home not only Friar. but] yeaterday, He gaya he will be at his offer again on Montay. Then there may be more fun Feb. 24, 1888, something else, in the altuation, The papers are beginning to call on the Mayor | nthe | about his desk | ad that is undoubtedly responsible to a degree for his present physical condition Ant 1 must ayy 1 think the papers are right Tho Mayor has been too kind to that gang He fomes it not only to himself but to the great pub oMce-soeking horde that crow Me whose Interests he represents, and for whose | and do honest work, to shut | towards doing right work he whould husband his energies, off all unnecessary intrusion upon hie office time Ho wan not elected to tire himself out in listen: | ing to place-hunters’ tales of ambition or of Conficting stories cireulate as ta the remuit of | but he waa n Gov, Morton's peacemaking mission to the elt and the Mayor. What T don't lke to hear ts the | tnaintent report that, Platt, the two Police Commlsnioners. Kerwin and Murray, generally looked upon as the product of the last “feal”* betwoen the Republican Bows and late city administration, may be allowed to retain thelr places. If we must have a Hi-Part- san Police Boat, {t seems to me that we shoult Minagreanhle traditions and as toi Tt might at lease be a But whether Kerwin and Murray oF whatever eise happens, or do uel n't happen, 1 iC continues to be true that Mr. Platt has fe koen anxiety for an open Ment. He is sometimes a pr OF OUR OWN TIME, 1¢ Most persiatent, as well ax consistent of Hows Platt in he State Asaembly the man to whom the clear-cut featu long, He is the leader of the anti-Platt or reform Wing of the Republicans. That Platt and (he other machine leaders entertain the most cordial sort of hatred for him is a tribute to his genlus for mak Ing trouble for bosses His name is Frank D. Pavey and he has a law offlce in Nassau street, a c of blocks from the Pulitzer Nuliding, rine in politics Ia due to the ref He is mpion of th the Good Government every other reform organization tn He ts 4 studious, hantw ot eri Mr. Pavey's md upheaval las Commitier of and almost thi hap, wich a political w man in the p ts about thirty-two although not reck- town, and as he ts ambitious will probably bea truly great f thin State some day. He years of age and {9 genial A PARAN FROM UP THE RIVER, sumably by t BLE” Kitson urn at Sing Sing, continues to have his. trou sera carefully creased. —Daily Paper It Isn't Very often that 1 lean to sentiment It isn't very often that I care to spend a cent Mt tent very tT apend my evenings out That I'm a most contented man is beyond the slightest doubt nie during hiss 1 do not wear a nevktie, of a collar, My sucks are @uarse and thick a or a cut 4 my make-up's rather But thore’s one thing 1 don’t forget—1 ne'er kind of neglect To put the fines! pants ease upon my striped 14 nd 1 ne be al 1 have no he fF of Sig Sing Is not broken. by But me swagger set wear creases In FAW — = : WORLDLINGS, 2h contain free lbrarion an Mirage, Mt tw male stenographers courte in that State, During the a ao NELLIN BLY SAYS: Of what gon are our penitentiariaa? It te time for us to consider thie question—-the very areat quention of the punkshment of lawbreakers, ee Lmay have a very wreng idea as to the object of penal inetitutions, but, as I understand it, they are for the puntahment of wrong-doere—e Punishment that ie intended to teach them to do Fight thereafter. If my theory In wrong and law. breakers are not Impriecned to teach them to do Fight, then we ehould either abolbeh penitentiarion [or give every IAw-breaker @ life sentence, Rt aw the ayatem exinte to-day, we are e1 criminals, not abolishing them. | example ting see Some fix montha ago a young man about twen: ot age ome He was Weak looking fellow Miew Bly, to reform. ty five yea ame to poor, pale, T have heen a thief want ai) my tite, and now 1 ud you help. Twenty Ave yeara olf, ond the ereater part of hin life had been spent in serving out sen fences, He never had much chance in Life, born In the alums, of Ignorant parents AR a child he played about the atreete wlth boys who: took @ pride In anatching fruit from standa Of and on he went to achool, but that depended en tirely upon rumors of a Christma tree, oF treat, anf then his attendance was for a week oF #9 before the event. and ended directly with eet “ a Bvening Werte tah Ae Gallery of Living Let me give an] / M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT. According to the artist, who in this cane is also the subject, this ts a pic- ture of the notable French artist whose name is given above. He is now on a It, Of course, his parente did not care whether he went or not eee When he wan fourteen, a friend stole a bolt of cloth, and he obligingly sold (t for him. ‘That sent him to Elmira. There he tormed a large cfrele of acquaintances, every one wrong-doers, who Impresset upon hie youthful mind that he was forever damned by hin imprisonment, and that It was a brave and admirable thing to be @ clever criminal. was discharged a thousand times worns erim- fnal than he was when sentenced. Several com- Panions were released at the same time. They came to New York and immediately set to work an fat thieves and they were anon caught, con- vioted and sentences again. From that time he ran through the list. From deing @ flat thie? he becaine a bunco-ateerer, In other words, while in jail he made the acquaint- ance of a green-gonda man ant after thelr re- lease he waa the pilot who met the confiding farmer at the station and took him to meet the Sreen-goods man, | Now, at the age of twenty five he in free again comes directly to mo. “I want to do * he says, and I ask him why. Had some food teaching in those places of punishment made an {mpresston upon his sinful soul? Teaching? What teaching? Ho had received none except from hla wicked companions, and that was not tended to tmprove him morally. No; he wan simply tired of always atealing and hiding. He wanted to be like the people who did not have to hide. Ry ow, thik hay who had apent halt hin daye in nal Institutions wanted to do right, and I asked him what he could do, so that | might help him Procure work. Arrested ant imprisoned time after time aince his fourteenth year, the institu: tlons had doubtless taken care to mew that this Young criminal would be taught a trade #0 that he might be enabled upon hin release to procure That is the Brat great step But the boy knew nothing” Me could searcely write his name and could not read the writing of another. Me had broken stones, he had scrubbed corridara and once he hat shaved men fan expert at this and could not visit to this country, Formerly a his- torical painter, he has of late years devoted most of his attention to por- trait painting. a THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Here, a Hint There ‘Tales of City Life. There 1a & well-known young actress in town who fairly worships pets of any kind, and when & friend who had been to South America brought her as @ present a young monkey she was the happiest young woman in New York. Her hap- pinese lasted just three days, When she came home on the evening of the third day she found the monkey had broken loose and had been having the highest kind of fun in the apartment. After he had broken loose he had started in by sinking his teeth in the arm of the servant when she had trled to catch him. Then he had climbed upon the mantel and with one fell sweep had knocked down about $600 worth of bric-a-brac; he had (orn up about thirty fine photographs, and altogether he had damaged the apartment and its contents to the extent of several hundreds of dol- lara, In telling the story to m friend the next day the actrens ald: “I did not dream that such an Innocent Httle beast could do so much dam- age.” Gow: es 8 Senator Lexow alwaya appears, as a reformer should, in scrupulously meat attire, without « speck of dust on any spot from head to foot. But T have noticed that his silk bat nearly appears in places to have been brushed the wrong way. Others evidently observed the name pecullarity, for in a the other day 1 heard A minor statesman had aut. fered from being used axa channel for the Nyack politician's oratory. 1 am inclined to belleve, however, that hata do not suffer any visible ef- fecta from being taiked through Although others may not think ao, ex-Senator Platt in evidently considered a great man by two offre boys who carry messages to him from callers at 49 Broadway. They know all the Prominent Republican politicann of the State by name, und can discuss the political situation more Intelligently than some members of the Leginiature. One of the dutler of these boys ts cut hair, Twenty-five years old and the greater part of his life spent In penitentiaries, and all & partial concesion to | the training he had was given by the criminals, his unfortunate companions, What chance anything else, no trade? there for that thief ever to be with his history against him and There ts foot for thought In ane thief's his- tory. ‘There ts this fact not to he overlooked We are not abolishing criminals; we are breeding them, and our penitentiarics are the mother nests NELLIE BLY. ee THE NEW WOMAN'S DANG What's the matter with the morals Of the women of the lant? *Tin aw quoation that they've brought up, But which men can't understand All the fair have flocked togerher Down in Washington, D. 0, To reprenent the women From tho Rockies to the sea ‘They have cackled and have arsuol For upward of aw And en teal morat Is what they say they seek They propose te form a Cabiver A Senate and a House These petticosted talkers Who are frightened at a ny They Intend to build a templ Dede Tn whiten Their teach Uh ters of wea mind What's the matter with the That they emulate bare 1: Do they to soak in whiskey? Dy they care to rush the darlings wink Would they patronize the einmili? Would they puff the cigarette? Would they hang about the race tracks Are they incllued to b Fie, fe! upon such 7 They are nisters, mottien They should know Wat on thelr purity Wo men would stake our Let them: And go back darn thelr husbands’ » to their resides, On the legislative 1 a 2 EDITORS. It Is becoming quite the fa Platt, There too. Chicago She Shoul: should ail in nated "s Post. to snub fenee to auch a farhic ave Done. the ea party tn orn man, have atopted the Demo rats 1846 and nom ne Kot W St, Louis Port-Dispateh, | Que Whea a man a othe ke sort of thing’ ee! kind font opts a salaried oMce knowing ed to Nt tt Ie tt he haa u wledse ne the square in that Buffalo Times. $ any: wm f pauperiatn t Settled. that 1 ut is it really true rink?” asks mont don't do A Nathe Thins and mans ange. Ipler of conduct tina dedicate ah An to the Wht {New Y ho reason ple ot meelves by Mr st-Express to tell all callers that Senator Platt ts very busy, ‘Thon, if afterwarda the caller {x denied admittance, he will not feel an If he were in- sulted, and if granted an audience he will con- sider It a great favor, The boys understand the role perfectiy, and I am Inclined to believe that Mr. Platt would dave less trouble as a bows it he could substitute corpa of such bright little chaps an these for some of his present members of the Legislature © Tt was In @ Park Row beanery the other day that I met that peculiarly constituted individual, most amusing to every one, but moat sincerely to be pitied—the fellow who thinks aloud, He sat At & table directly opporite me, and devoured oyater ples with impressive zest. He had made sundry remarks to nobody in particular about things in genoral, and suddenly looking straight at me and seeing me not he broke out again thus “Well, my wife sald I'd have to get home to- night or ‘Then xomebody laughed and broke the spell and be did not finish the sen. tence. I confess to some curiosity as to the Areadtul alternative that lay bebind that “or.” Andrew Freedman, the latest accession to the ranks of baseball magnates, possesses that rare quality, personal magnetiam. He is a well put- up man and would be called handsome, He ts 4 charming atory-teller, and I have been enter- tained for many an hour listening to bis de: wiiption of things that bad befalien him in his traveln The xaine story ix never repeated. Mr. Freedinan dresses in the latest fashion, and en < life hugely, albeit he attends to bust- thoroughly, He ts to meet other haseball magnates next week, and I am quite confient that he will so charm them as to secure the Julolest dates for bis Glanta, Joya t ness Heginning with a Rhyme ¢ Seanon of Thawing Pipe: talk about your Summ and leafy trees; Talk about your songbirds and your softiy el ing breeze; Your June-time may be charming, but it ten't worth a straw Reside the glorious season when the pipes begin Washington Star. On, time, with bloom Something New. t you manage to get up something new to eople here It, We'll advertise that Trilby will not be among the living pictures.""—Chicago Inter Ocean. Once More That Hat, © that some power the gift would give them To see their hats as others see them, Who ait behind them at the play And wee but half for what they pay, Detroit Tribune. No Cause for Worriment, Excited Passenger—Captain, will you weather the storin? Captain—It's doubtful: bu you—every member of tht oster Post-Express, don't tet that bother w can swim!—Roch An Interesting Romance. When folka who are advanced In years Fall {nto love, that fact presages That Wkely very soon appeara A Romance of the Middle Ages Brooklyn Lite, Hie Waiting Daya Over, Highee—Golng to be married next month, eh? Why, you told me only last week that you would have to wait a year, at least, before you could save enough money Rodbins—1 know it; but T have been teaching her father to play poker since then —Brook! Lite 9 IPIRE STATE BITS, ‘The Salvation Army gathered Sfty-elght recrutts at Albion, One member of Medina® firs organized tn 1892, ts attll Living Mr, and Mra. Jacob S$ Quderkuk, of Cohocton, golden wedding, Friday, March 1, A West Barre, Orleans hickens on cooked beans died, the beans freesing in their crops Klisha Hong's seventy-third birthday was cele Fire Department, farmer fod his f them Mat nin, Theatre Hat vill, which failed to dead a The gentlemen act ta the mat Leing chie@y married mcu.—Bosion Herald 1 votes enough 6 aid all Timidity killed it Jature were neared t may oa brated at Kirkville by a gathering of fort desrendanta, including one grest-grand:hild, Supervisor F.C. Hibbard. of Wethorsneld, has been eo walled in by snowdrifie as (0 be obliged to enter and i his residence through @ window, DRAMATIONEWS ANDS Noreross Dees Not Mourm Over the Beaedet Compeny's Fatlare-- Tree Pleased with New York. ‘There ts one gentleman here who smiles sardonically at the stranding of poor little, dimpled, saucy Louise Beau- det and her company in Chicago, The gentleman in question wears an -told- you-so" expression and Is known as I foreross, jr. He was the original librettiat of “The Pragoon's Daughter,” the opera that Misa Beaudet produced after the unfortunate “Jacinta.” He has @ grievance against Manager Whitney, and is going to bring suit against him. Said Mr, Norchoss yesterday: “I have been very shamefully treated. When ‘Jacinta’ failed in Boston, which tt did very deliberately, for they played to less than $7 a night, Whitney came to me and asked if I could finish the opera T was writing with Herman Perlet in a week. It was a surprise to me, but I agreed to do the work. |. It wae an adaptation of ‘La Belle Poule,’ which was played in Paris twenty years ago. I wrote new lyrics and a good deal of new dialogues, and I cut out all the Frenchiness, which might not have been acepted here, The opera wan produced. Some changes were found necessary— changes of detail, that is all. To my amazement, Mr. Whitney took the opera to Cheever Goodwin, who made some alterations, but restored a deal oj the original dialogue, and when the pi was done in Chicago, I was out of It completely ignored, my name left out of the programme. I could not believe that Cheever Goodwin would be consclously guilty of such unprofessional conduct, and [ wrote to him, offering to show him the originality of ‘my work. He never Teplled ‘to the letter or took any notice of it at all, Tam an old hand at comic cpera business, but I have never had such an experience as this. I have the satisfaction of knowing that Goodwin's work failed very quickly, but I intend to get more satinfaction through the courts. It is the only thing to do. oe. {When Beerbohm Tree comes back to New York he will decide upon his plans for next season, Before settling whether he will return to America or not, Tree Wants to see how the land lies in the other “principal cities.” If ho shouid return to America next year he will come for the entire season, Tree 1s ver: Pleased at the result of his New Yor engagement. His business was good. He did not make a furore, Wut he eatan- Ushed himself pleasantly’ In metropolitan vor. eee Dan Frohman hag dixcovered a new nook, In the seclusion of which he can read ‘plays, It ix Fortress Monroe. ‘Tho manager aays that It is delightfully quiet the Charles Frohman goes no urther away than Lakewood, Mr, Froh- man received a let from an ambitious entleman the other day, couched as fol- ows: “Dear sir: I quite appreciate the hecessity of going abroad to get good plays. But I have a five-act drama that Would Just myit you. I shall forward it to you, and If you like it you shall have first go at a six-act| melodrama upon which Tam working. 8 6 Somebody, in England wants to do “Fanny.” ‘That was the gigantle fizzle that Johnstone Bennett, produced at the Standard Theatre for three consecutive nights. The somebody in England cabled to Charles Frohman, who bought the Play: for terme, Mr. ironman will im to do what he likes with ft. “Fa ny" was the work of George R. Sim and Mr. Sims is trying to live !t down, eee “For goodness sake sa: ing to ride a craze," sa yesterday, “ and that my version of “Trilby’ depends entirely upon the book. If the play isn't a good one, the craze will hurt rather than help ‘it. I have tried to make a play that will go by it- self, I'm not enthustastic about it. I'm never enthusiastic about any play until I see its effect upon the public. Hy; notism 1s a very diMeult subject to de with, and it i¢ impossible to say how the People will like It." ‘The dramatized “Trilby’’ is to be produced “on. the ely” somewhere between here and Boston March & or March 9. B that we aretry- Paul M. Potter “Why did I get out of the Koster & Bial affair?” sald Oscar Hammerstein yesterday, ““ Well, a sort of Gilbert and Sullivan compiication presented {tself to me. m building a new concert hall, and my partnership with | Koster & Bial would have interfered with my plans at my new house. 1 should have of hurting business at Kos- sit I had engaged very good 1 should have been my own ri- val. I should have robbed Peter to pay Paul. Se And Mr. Hammerstein smiled his world-famad smile and dis- missed the question. . . The suave voung man who is here representing John Hare, of London. was very mue’ In evidence at Abbey's Thea- tre’ yesterday, He seems to feel very much “encouraged,” but nobody kno Why. Managers smile at the idea of Hare coming over here. Hare is a nice old man and very popular in London, where his money was made. But he is not particularly eminent even there. His head has probably been turned by the | glowing accounts of American generos- ity that reach the other side. He might share the same fate as poor old Toole, who was very unhappy over here. ee people, Miss Boecker, the only female survivor of the Elbe disaster, has indignantly re- fused an offer from’a South of England music hall proprietor to appear for five minutes nightly on his stage. The re- muneration promised was $50 per week. Huber would do better than that. Some: has also tried to engage her for a rical company on the other side. By which it will be seen that “enter- prise” {9 not absolutely restricted to this country, and that amusements in England are’ invariably not managed In that exalted style of which we hear so much, is Think, oh! think, what might have been! If—much virtue in an if—the new play produced by the Kendals had been 4 success, they had made up their mind to return here next season for a fare- well farewell-tour. ‘A Leader of Men” failed, and they won't come back. Isn't it sad? In London the play, where it produced at the same time as here, was equally unenthusiastically received. iG WORLD” GCIDE-B00K. Clubs of New York--XNXVIIL--The Ladies’ Rerkeley Athletic, The Ladies members, Berkeley Athletic Club, young snd vigorous, in 1890 and its object ture, the en Hike its organized 4s avowed in the con- the promotion of physical cul- uragement of athletic sports and the Increase of means of recreation for women, The club-house is at 28 West Forty-fourth street Of course, there is a @ne, big gymnasium there with all the modern appliances for developing } exhibiting muscular power; and the displays { strength and agility there given by members of the gentler sex are, it is credibly reported. auch 48 would open the eyes of many a male a Unfortunately for the meu, they are not permiited to attend th: Club en- tertainments, "Sound minds in sound bodies" are the rule among the fair and enthusiast [Borterertton, however, ‘The Hallet Skirt. The fussy frilled petticoat, known as the ballet skirt, is now worn by fash- fonable women under evening and dance gowns, but nearly reaching the ground, First, there is a close-fitting yoke of muslin, which js cut in four Parts, and reaches well below the aver- age corset, and very much below the short corset worn for skirt dancing. ‘Onto this yoke in set, in full gathers or flat plaits, a wide skirt of the muslin, edged with a frill of lace put on slightly full. This skirt reaches from the yoke at the B line, another skirt is simulated by @ deep frill, also edged lace, and put on so that the bottom edge is half an inch above the edge of the under lace, thus giving an extra full and ample ef- fect. When worn, so wide is this skirt that it gives the appearance of a multi- tude of lace peticoats, and the dancer usually catches the centre with a safety- pin, or a few stitches. about ten or twelve inches below the yoke, and prac- tically converts {t into a divided skirt. ‘These ballet skirts are also made for ordinary wear in dark silk. Sponge Cake Roll. This cake is very easy to make, and there is no such thing as ‘failure’ in making It, if the directions are carefully observed, The eggs are not beaten sep- arately, and the quicker the cake 1s put together the better It will be. Two tea- cupfuls of coffee A sugar, two heaping teacupfuls of sifted flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder; into this | break six eggs, beat all well together, bake in a quick oven to a light brown. When done turn out on a moulding- board and spread quickly with jelly and roll carefully. Wrap each roll in a clean napkin; can be used for the table imme- diately. Shoe Superstition: ‘When you buy @ pair of new shoes never put them on a ehelf higher than your head, unless you want to bring bad luck; and if you blacken them before you have had both shoes on you may meet with an accident, or even have a sudden death. This is an olf Irish su- perstition. The Scotch girls believe that if they drop their shoes before they are worn trouble will ensue, while a French lady losing her heel is sure of some dis- _ ———_. appointment in love, and a mother in the same prédicament feels that she will soon lose one of her chile dren. You must not put your right shoe on your left foot or your left on your right, nor must you put your left shoe n before the right unless you want S35 lluck, ‘This superstition dates back te one of the Emperors of Rome, who, it is recortled, put on his left shoe fire | one morning and came near being assas. sinated during the day. Gatin antique and several grades of Liberty silks are in great use for crush collars and belts, Bluet blue, cerise and magenta pink are the three colors now most favored an accessories both by modistes and milliners, Pretty checked velvets now rival the sheperd's check silk used for fancy waists and dress trimmings. Bralding remains a very fashionable trimming. It is too effective to be given up. The work is this season very often done upon strips of colored velvet or heavy satin, which are then applied im + various ways on gowns of seif-colored cloth, Wom 's Newspaper History. ‘The role of women in newspaper his: tory is intensely interesting. The first daily paper was founded in 17@2—by a man, think you? Rather it was Elisa- beth Mallet, of London, who establishell the Daily Courant. American women have not taken a back seat in journaliom either. The firat paper in Rhode Island was edited by a member of the gentle sex. Tho Declaration of Independence was first published in a woman's paper, the Colonial Virginia Gazette. When Boston was besieged by the English the only paper that did not suspend publt- cation was an enterprising paper edited by a woman. | A Skirt for Safety Ride | The necessity for a aafety riding skirt has brought various kinds to light, but the latest one invented is practically @ |large apron in the saddle, and a com- \plete walking skirt when It is buttoned \together, It does away with the dis figuring bulge at the knee, and the wearer can walk and ride with equal comfort. Carrots and Caulifiower. Carrota should be cooked forty-five oF fifty minutes; cauliflower only thirty | minutes; with peas and asparagus much depends upon the state of freshness an tenterness when picked, and the time | varies from twenty to thirty-five mins, |utes; indeed, peas sometiines require’ | fifty minutes’ cookin: Baking Potatoes. Baketl potatoes take about forty-five minutes for cooking. A great deal de- pends upon the oven. If it be necessary to keep a baked potato warm break It open, wrap it in @ towel and put it in & warm place. LETTERS, [7a column te open to evergboty whe has & complaint te make, @ grievance to ventilate, te formation to give, a subject of general interest (0 diacuas or a public service to acknowledge, and whe can put the idea into less than 100 words, Long leters cannot be printed, | the Proposed New Bi- vorce Law. To the Editor: ‘Twelve years ago, and after being married three months only, my wife deserted me, 1 ain told has admitted many times that I treated her well and lovingly, but she preferred to 11 apart from me and did not love me as she thought. Do you not think that under such cir- cumstances, and as an act of justice and huma: ity to me, euch galling bonds should be severed? No doubt, many are in the same position. You have done eo much for the people in securing the enactment of just laws that you would still turther endear yourself to those in my unenviable position by helping us tc ottain our freedom. ANOTHER ONE OF THE SUFFERING, Brooklya, N. Y. Police Raids o! To the Editor: Having read im the papers of several hoteli having been raided recently, among them ti old and well-known Bull's Head, I venture to ask what is the specific charge against these houses? Admitting the fact that any person hav- tng the price can stop et any hotel in the city, why should small hotels be raided while the more pretentious establishments uptown enjoy perfect immuntty? Is it unlawful to conduct @ hotel, and have the proprietors of the more elegant establishments a pull? I have always thought that hotel-keeping was a perfectly legitimate business, and I was very much astonished to learn of thetr being raided. COUNTRYMAN. Mighty Narrow View of Inventions, To the Miltor: Machinery the steam engine are mot of any good to the workingman. A correspondent says thelr tendency {8 to transform the working- man from a slave into @ gentleman. May their tendency be what it 1s, but at the same time gentlemen becoming tramps on account of the steam engine and machinery, for every new machine takes away work from man in need of the work, The machines are purposely made to save work. And who gets the profit? The few who own the machine, It ts true that the ma- chines are time-saving appliances, but what good Is that for the working people? MORRIS SESKIND, Single-Taxers Never Lose a Cha: To the Editor: I have never yet seen @ query of anything that could be construed as a query, single tax, go unchallenged in this letter colui while sociallsm, protection and many other well known ‘isms’ have been frequently attacked without eliciting single response, It in cer: tainly puzzling. Can it be that thei taxera have @ sound argument. with @ subject to talk upom, and that there other ‘isis’ are full of holes? If not, why do mot those readers who think that protection protects, and those who believe that paternatiom Ja a thing, bring forth their reasons’ “DIX A Friend of the Babies, Bless ‘En To the Editor: {dently your corresponient. "Mary ( ta not alone in the advocacy of a tax upon the fuperfuous babies. It ts most surprising that 4 woman, @ word synonymous almost with the cred term of mother, should be among the advo- cates of such an idea dangerous and some as it la The reasons offered are most illogical, to say the least. Our friends, the enemies of the baby, would tax or inflict some other penalty upon those in humble circummances who are the parents of more than a specified number of chil. dren. ‘Truly t fools these mortals be." as if the bables are directly or indirectly the **per- petuators of poverty." God never sent a being into this world who could not, if things were as they should be, make or earn @ livelihood, = ‘Theretore, why not look deeper for the caur™ ard sources of destitution equalor? §=Wil! not seek the right cure for evils Inficted upom Dumantty tn thie world of (at present) legallr protected monopoly and Christian (?) Trinity Church corporations? Let nature work is owm wise with the babies, and let their guardie ans learn thet: ‘What the leaves are to the forest, With light andair for food, Botore their sweet ai Jer Sulcee Have beon hardened into wood. ‘These to the worid are children, Through them It feels the glow Of @ brighter and sunnier climate, Than reaches the trunks below,"* 2am artmemt Horses. Street-De; To the Editor: Perhaps if alt tl commending Col. good folke who are sew ‘Waring so warmly for bie Slacrity 1n cleaning our streets of the late heavy snowfall know of the suffering which the poor horses used in its removal are called upom to endure, the cry for clean streets would proba- bly be drowned in the how! of indignation which would be sure to follow such @ revelation. Hav ing occasion to pase the corner of Franklin an@ Hudson streets, I was hailed by an old friend, who told me he was employed as a driver of one of the carta. On making inquiries of the wretched pearance of the poor beasts, he told me the whole story. He sald the horse and cart and ht self were extras, and hired by contractors to the extra work for Col. Waring, He sald horses had to work eighteen hours a day on Average, and some of them worked as much twenty-four consecutive hours, The most he dle thing of all, he said, wan that most of ¢ orses never got @ folitary oat to eat from the! time they left the stable till they returned, | While talking { saw many drivers kicking an@ beating the poor, exhausted brutes. I remarked how cruel they were, and he told me that was nothing to what he saw every night. Many of the horses which are owned by these contractors: are broken down carriage horses, and were never used to such cruel treatment and hard work. ANIMALS’ FRIEND. Oh, What a Philosopher! To the Bilitor: Some ‘philosopher’ wonders ‘what becomes of all the men who are superseded by women? Ie im as perplexing @ query as what becomes of all tie pins?’ That philosopher must be as blied a6 & puppy. He 18 not a workingman—at aay rate, ot & mechanic. Every mechanic knows that labor-saving machinery has thrown hu Grets of thousands into the streets, where th Join the army of the unemployed im all our gr citlea and the desperate characters of the hi way. I have heard of the fellow who couldn't now the forest on account of the great tree ode structing his view. This philosopher equals hi In wagacity. Who would not be a philosopher! NOT SUCH AN ONE, Our Unpaid Brooklyn Hero the Esitor 1 am a National Guardsman, -T think tt te Awful shame for the State ot New York to keep, us In walting #0 long for our checks for services In Brooklyn. Heaven only knows how many fame flew are in weed of thls money and how many Nae Vonal Guardsmen have lost their places through kolng to Hrooklyn to perform duty, Now all ney May in how quickly We all assembled and how, well we performed our duty, but I don't mee thet Chis Will help us any. What they should do te 9 Ket US Our check# as soon am they can, and show us how quickly they can perform thelr part. 1 wax out of work for pine months, and finally got work about {wo weeks before we were ordered out, and the consequence was I lost my and probably (here are hundreds of others who also lost thelr Joba und are very badly need 4.0 Counts To the Eatior If @ French Count tn valued at $2,000,000 (an@ I believe that in republican France titles axe “t & discount), how much ts 4 genuine Kagliah Count (where title counted worth? 4 SEEKER AFTER KNOWLEDGE, Jersey Clty,