The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1895, Page 4

‘ to do anything for the protection of the : from this meat conspiracy every Btate will do its best to kill it, and to throw every possible embarrassment in its way. At least, the people ought not to eub- mit to robbery without resistance, igh THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895. | HRSCAPTIONS 10 THE EVENING WORLD (tnctuding postage): MONTH. ‘by the Press Publishing Company, & & @ PARK ROW, New York, NOT ON YOUR LIFE! It seems incredible that a movement can be on foot, as alleged, among “busl- ness men" to change the name of New York's most famous, most character istic and most popular thoroughfare, “the Bowery.” Some time ago some fancy store keepers, grown too fine for their busl- ness and sighing for an aristocratic abiding-place, combined to induce the change of the time-honored name of Chatham street to Park Row. Chatham street was a relic of old New York. In ne time of our great-grandfathers hatham street used to be relied on to fit out our swell young men. There were no Pooles nor Bells in the atreet, to be sure, and the suits were not al- vays new either in make or atyle. But Chatham street was a famous mart, and many large fortunes and big cor- porations took their rise within its lim- its. But Chatham street went and Park Row was established. Now it is proposed to change the name of the Bowery, As well blow up the Battery, As well pull down Trinity Church. As well abolish Wall street. ateord ot We Post-Ofice at New York as jntend-claes matter. OOO ‘Way ond Sixth ave at $24 ot. “WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—i0m% @. and Mati- om ave, | | BROOKLYN—200 Wastingten ot > PMILADBLPHIA, PA.—Preas Bullting, 102 Chest- ‘ DVERTISEMENTS in the Evening Edition of THE WORLD are taken upon the epecific guarantee that the As well blot out all the historical asso- clations of the Sub-Treasury. New York could do better without all these than without the Bowery. That famous thoroughfare has @ character of its own. Its boys are Bowery boys—ite girls Bowery girls, Nowhere else in the city ever wae there @ locality with euch distinct personality as the Bowery. Nowhere else will there ever be, if the city should reach up to Houghkeeps and extend over all the territory south of New York. Do away with the Bowery, indeed? Torbid it, Sikesey! Forbid it, Mosel Forbid it, Lige! Forbid it, Steve Brodie! Forbid it, the old Bowery Theatre! Above all, forbid it, Johnny Mathews, honored Mayor of the Bowery, whose title has been undisputed despite the changes that have taken place in the Clty Hall, and who 1s the most inde- pendent and honest Mayor of whom any portion of New York has boasted for years, average bona fide paid cir- culation ef THE EVENING WORLD is considerably larger than that of all the other Evening papers in New York COMBINED, to wit: the Evening Post, the Even- ing Sun, the Evening News, the Evening Telegram, the Commercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. ——s) ‘WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT ITI ‘We print to-day, in tabulated form, the bloody record of the Brooklyn trol- fay. Bince July 1, 1892. one hundred and @even persons have met violent deaths While peaceably walking or riding in the public highways of one of the Greatest cities in the country. resulted from vio- by the agents of Mr. Oliver Curtis Perry has once more leaped into fame and newspaper spread heads. Mr. Perry t the enterprising young gentleman who “held up” an express messenger on the New York Central, near Lyons, about three years ago, and then stole a locomotive on which to make his escape. Being sub- sequently caught and eventually landed in Auburn Prison, he succeeded after a time in convincing the doctors that he was Insane. His transfer to Matteawan Asylum followed. Last night Mr. Perry abruptly quitted his comfortable quar- tera at the Institution up the river, and was kind enough to let several fellow- prisoners join him in hia breakaway. There are people who have always held that there was a great deal of method about Mr. Perry's madness. orders have been given deliber- with full knowledge that the of them would result in vio- of the law, and consequent dan- ‘the public. men refused to obey these oniers ‘oF failed to violate the law with prompt- they were dis. charged. When the whole body of men struck against further compliance with uch orders, they were replaced by new ‘and unskilled men, drawn from all parts of the country, unfamiliar with the work @F With the streets in which it was to be performed. Under these men four times as many murders have been committed by the trolley cars in three months this Year as in the same three months last year. ‘The corporation officers who have thus wantonly and persistently com- polled their agents to these fatal viola- ‘ons of the law are the irresponsible heads of a speculative corporation that fhas seized upon the original corpora- tions to whom the so much abused public franchises were granted. They have watered the stock and manipulat- @d the property of the corporations ‘until they are brought to the verge of bankruptcy. They are apparently seek- ing to wreck the corporations that they may reap personal profits from the Tuin of the stockholders’ interests. ‘The laws these men cause to be vio- Jated are liberal and just laws imposing Mo restrictions not necessary for the public safety. They are tho same laws The cartoon which ‘The Evening World” reproduces from Harper's Weekly to-day {s one of the best plc- torial comments yet presented on the New York political situation, The Tam- many ex-Boas and the Republican Rid- {culous Boss are represented as fas- tened side by side in the pillory of pop- ular contempt. The pictorial expression 13 strong, exact, and should be effective upon the minds of any but confirmed Plattomantacs of @ hopeless and desper- ate type. If doctors will write prescriptions in Latin they should at least write in a plain hand. But {s there any good rea- son why the names of drugs, any more than those of groceries and dry goods, should be written in a dead language? They are continuing to hit the Income Tax law, even when it ts part way down. But they still do not touch the income tax principle. It ts only the law that ts faulty, When a prescription calls for castor ofl why shouldn't a doctor write “castor oil?" Then “Ol Pini" would never get mixed up with “Ol, Ricini,"" the purpose of obtaining an illicit and temporary profit, and is against the ) Amterest not alone of the public. but of the stockholders, Tammany has a rather violent fam- ily Jar on hand. Will Mr, Croker have to neglect his racehorses and come over to see about things? ‘The laws against the trolley companies are not enforced, partly because Brook- lyn officials connive at the violations partly because the laws themselves ‘With the guilty officials, from Gown, public opinion Is al- work. As to the laws them- Now we begin to hear about the cup- defender’s plating. She has to be sure of the plate, you know, if she wants to keep the Cup. ‘To-morrow will be Good Friday. It would be @ better Friday if it might dawn on @ purified Police Court bench in New York. If Speaker Fish is making ® canvass for the next Republican gubernatorial nomination it fe @ canvass more que than convincin; Even if it should be demonstrated that the Divvers were once the De Vores, the present Divver will not be accepted as a ft man for Police Justice in New York. the law whenever possi- to luck and their pull consequences. Harsh vail Legislature 1s undone Citisen can be killed by « without some of- corporation going to as a trolley car Brooklyn street without an which shall make it phys for it to exceed a cer- Brooklyn's long-suffering people have decided to own their own streets. It will be well for the trolleyites to take notice. Speaker Peel's successor slipped in by & barrow margin. The Government barely escaped a Gully of defeat, Beach articles of the fret necessity in @very-day life. The coal combine is of character, So, above most others, Hoeber has resigned—as Pension Ex- aminer. He has given up the office in which he never did any harm, “Act to protect trade and com- against unlawful restraints and Monopolies” ts intended to meet just @uca evils. Its provisions are plain and @ietinct. Every person engaged in euch @ conspiracy is pronounced guilty of a ~Miisdemeanor and subject to a fine and it for the offense, the worst features of a bad law mitigated by the manner in it ig administered, so the best of @ good law may be lost edministration rests with those heart in enforcing it at all. the statutes against monop- and conspiracies amount cipal officer upon whom thelr enforcement is opolies, @ man whose has been in the school of cor- greed and rapacity, and whose has been made in the service of ts against the public good. have, however, some power Worry the cruel, unneces- ‘The Beef Trust is driving the small utchers out of business, There is law enough to drive the Trust out. For “bi-partisanship,” as applied in the Platt-Tammany-Lexcw police bills, read “bi-bossism. Col. Waring seems to have conquered the trucks. That's @ good job in street cleaning, too. i H 8 Nt Did the trolley magnates hear those 6,000 Brooklynites in mass-meeting last when the night? iH Spain has abcut concluded that the Cuban revolt is bigger than {t looked, No change of name for the old Bow- t Anxious eyes still look for that new Police Board, Mr. Mayor. “Receptive” candidates multiply in politics. Mr. Carlisle is announced as A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL. Those who saw Elita Proctor Otis a couple of seasons ago in the “The Crust of Society” will recall her particularly brilliant sketch of an effervescent so- clety woman, frivolous, chattering and consistent. Mise Otis pleased us then by the freshness of her work, which had not run into the stagey groove. Those who Imagined a@ future for her at that time will do well to go to the American Theatre this week and see Miss Otis play Nancy Sikes in “Oliver Twila Misa Otis selected this part, I presume, because it has always been popular with actresses who make a specialty of char- ac roles, It affords opportunities for 1, Meddler Gerry Robs Up on of the Question. é a the latest one of them. But it fs @ Senatorehip from Kentucy upon which his willing eye is said to be bent. China has little enough excuse for de- laying peace in the East. At last the St. Paul floats and the Minneapolis laugh ie over. To-day the police complete their count. Are you in it? “Platt ald for Tammany.” It ts al- ‘ways on call. ‘There is plenty of law to roast the Beet Trust. April's cold shoulder ts towards us, ee PATHER KNIC KERBOCK:! Ss DIARY Agrit 10, 1895.—Mayor Btrong has made an ap- pointment at lawt. But it is not one of the ap- potntments for which I had hoped. He named « Bew Bohool Commissioner to-day. Of course, I am glad to hall every advance in the School Board, but it f et another Hoard that my eye— and the eye of every earnest reformer in New York, I delieve—is directed jum now. Time files, and time {a under the present circumatanci more than money to Platt. Why, oh! why doesn't that Mayor come down with the final blow at the remaining Plaat-Tammany portion of the Police Board? . It te etmply impossible to believe that tm all 18 time {t has been impossible to find good men for the Commissioners. ‘Jimmie’ O'Brien, 10 be sure, hae ‘decline: place on the Hoard, but that simpiy saved the Mayor from the results of the serlous mistake of having offered such « position to such aman. Mr. Edward Mitchell has ‘leo refused an opportunity to become a Commis. tloner, but hs reasons apparently do not strike him as being worth making public, they can hardly be worth while. . ‘An afternoon paper today advanced the theory that the Mayor had 0 degraded Pollce Commis- stonerships by offering one to O'Brien that selt- Teapecting business men hesitated to take them. ‘The theory otrikes me as absurd. If it ie really Justified by any known facts, the ing’ men who hesitate must Aialoyal and stupid. Offices of real dignity can- Rot im themselves be affected because an ap pointing power makes an error of judgment im Picking out @ man to fill one of them, - ee No, 1 am convinced that the Mayor is not bothered for men, but te actually waiting on the Legislature, It is like waiting for an enemy to capture @ citadel, before moving to score « re- pulse, esta ee AFTER THE LAZY noy. al People Think They Could Make a Man of Him, To the Editor: I want to my to Mra 1. that fewer blows end more praise and encouragement will work wonders with her boy, and if she hae not utterly Tulned him may eave the State of New York one criminal to supmat, Our primase are failed to-day with men and women who were driveo there from Christian homes by the repeated Dlows and cowardly accusations of wome Chris tian father and mother, for when one ts brucal the other te also, and what show has the child then? Let us pray that being an invalid, Mra L, may soon take her temper to heaven and sive her boy @ chance to become a man. At fourteen all sorts of dire, dark and damning dooms were prophesied by my pious father, but at forty 1 am @ fairly respectable citizen, my greatest crime being that 1 live in Brooklyn, but am hoping fer enneration soon. A. R, Brooklyn, 1 atwaya read ‘The Evening World,” but what 1# the use of waying that; everybaty does, ‘T) business, however, 1 noticed « letter tn the paper from Mre 1, If ehe is ill and cannot care for her boy or bring him up as she would Uke, I will ask her te eend him to me. My dear mother brought me up O, K., thank God, and I think she could make something of « man of Mra L.'s gon. He would have a good home, could go te echool, and, in fact, be treat. (be would have to mind of be punished; mother dose mot believe im whipping) as her own.—H. B. T. I think I can find employment for a boy of the age of fourteem, and if Mra L, will com- municate with me, care of "The Evening World, I shall be giad to hear from her.—Pdwant b, Jenkins, It the lady that has lasy boy will communt- cate with me I will take the boy if given ab- lute charge over him.—Mra A. 8, It Edward beat bis boys L. to do with hers, be raised a lot of 1 all feel Bo led slaves, deprived of 1 of honor and self-respect. Mrs. Le ts 8 who doosn't Know enough to take care else se would not be nick. A boy of nould be in a place where he could eas instead of scrubbing fading EMPIRE STATE BITS, Dunkirk bas bad one birth qach day this Binghamton has eighth year a “Live to Litt Up" te the motto of the Ciyde High School clase of '8. A butterfly hatched (a @ Haskinville Measures Bix and ® Quarter Inches acrom the wings The open street car has appeared A 40g wold at auction at Acor County, drought two cents Joremigh Canter and Jeremiah M County ploneers, died within seven hours ther, the other day, aged ninety-five and ai respectively y business men of Ithaca will appear in Diack faces at am amateur minsire! entertainment Just completed ite twenty- Ulster hel Prospects are bright for @ big appie ciop in| for Northwestera New York, month Wayne County farmers report a scarcity of Dired men | Maple sugar is eight cents @ pound im Chau- taugua Coun! a Kingston. | ina patios end humor id for the invention of original “business.” Miss Otis has evidently spont a great deal of careful thought upon Nancy, and her perform- &nce is a most creditable one, although 1 will not be as foolish as others of Miss admirers—I admit 1 am one of nd tell her that she is great. As & matter of fact, she is not. Her con- ception of the role of Nancy is better than hor interpretation of it. The bust- ness she Introduces, her make-up and poses, are truly admirable, but Miss Otis in her effort to be natural—to be over- weeningly natural—over-elaborates her acting, and—as extremes meet—she ends up in dire theatricalism, There is always this temptation to resist. It must be de lghtful for a woman of Miss Otis's in- tellectuality to add this little bit, to think up that, to tack on a fetching no- tion that has perhaps occurred to her at dinner, or on a street car, or while shop- ping. But the danger of over-elabora- tion Is great. It 1s possible to be too natural on the stage—to be so studiously realistic that the odor of the footlights that has been whiffed away returns strong and pungent. There were moments last night, how- ever, when Miss Otis was so completely excellent that she filled you with admira- tion, As she sat at the table rolling up her red hair in curl papers, and ‘ewig- ging boos" (I belleve that's the right expression) from a gin bottle on the tabie, whe might have been a slummy Duse She seemed to forget herself, her audience and Forty-second street. But there were other times when you saw her daubing on the color, and building up laboriously @ ponderous picture. It was then that you knew she was making & terrific struggle for effect, and the iusion was lost. Some of her realism: too, might have been omitted. The use of her apron as @ handkerchief was prob- ably not untruthful, but {t was quite unnecessary, 80 were her spitty epi- sodes after the gin drinking. Nancy probably did a good deal worse than this, but judicious eelection Ie @ good thing on the stage, If I did not believe so thoroughly 11 this very clever actress, I should simply say she gave a most creditable performance, and let It go at that, but in my opinion Miss Elita Proctor Otis is destined for great things, and she deserves criticism. She has a personality that {s a fortune in itself, and she is very evidently a brainy woman, That she is fitted for stellar honors is undeniable. She is cut out for @ star, and she will be a most successful one, As for “Oliver Twist'—well, I had never seen Dickens's novel on the stage before, and I confess that I enjoyed it, though I thought I shouldn’t, Some of the up-to-date American slang intro- duced was @ trifle discouraging, but the Picture was simply marvellous when you consider the fact that this exceeding Londonness was done on an American stage. What English actors could give such a picture of American life? I call it wonderfu Dickens himself would have been satisfied with it; and what a refreshing change, this character play, from the cheap and tawdry melodramas in vogue to-day—with their bombs and their quarry episodes, and their limited mall trains, and their machine-made equivalents for dramatic work! How delightful were all these clever people after the trained horses, and the trick dogs and all the other feverish acces- sories of the perpetual struggle for nov- elty, The Sikes of Charles Barron was ex- ceedingly good, though it was also a trifle over-elaborated, while the Artful Dodger of William Cowper was a splen- did piece of work. Managers should go and see it, for It 1s something that they cannot afford to miss, Albert Lang gave & very clever sketch of the Justice, and H. G. Carleton's make-up as Fagin was worthy of Beerbohm Tree, I couldn't appreciate Mr. Mestayer as Brumble, the Beadle, Mestayer always rubs me up the wrong way. He is a most irritating gentleman. Miss Katherine Dooling was rather feeble as Oliver Twist, but the others were all “in the picture.” Mr, Deltwyn, in two parts, showed the art of make-up very forcibly. Take {t all in all, this company ‘s a remarkably capable one—something quite out of the ordinary, ‘The scenery was what might be called “takey,” but people forgot this in the olever acting they saw. 1 wish Miss Otis luck, and am perfectly convinced that she will find it. ALAN DALE, —— GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIMB, The wiry little biack-b rises from his seat oa the Speaker of the Assembly tleman that arms admill fashion every time te sald ut Lis town—which te Levi | 5. Chapman—" Chapman, the Reformer." He te the guthor of the scheme to Lexow | Syracuse nd is the most intensely inter- | tchen | ested man in the lower house, Mr, Chapman 1 rator, but he Is pers! and his lunge are tn Grat rate condition. When set he ts the most interesting map in ure, The other entertaining tacts pman are that his father te atlil he Chapman junior practises ree! Economy The Sireet-Cieaning Contrac ous air yesterday. They ha rainy day—saving up en accumulating mud.—Philadelphia Ledger, ght of the! the age of eighty-five and that | GIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTS. This is @ picture of the shrewd British diplomat whom Senator Morgan credits with gett'rg the best of the United States in recent negotiations over the sealeries question. ee THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint There and True Tales of City Life. T boarded a Broadway car the othet afternoon and took @ seat beside @ well-dressed, ‘prosperous- Jooking man, about forty yoare old, whom I bad Rever seen before 1 bad hartiy seated myself when he turned to me and aaid: “They've made & deuce of a muidie of the income tax, down there im Washington, haven't they?’ As I am mot as much interested ip the tax a8 the Goulds Vanéerbilts and some other Ni York citizens, 1 simply replied: ‘Yee, in a way thet I thought Would make i evident that I did not desire to disouss the eubject. This did not satisty my Reighbor, however, and he at ence launched into @ Giscussion of the new law and pointed out ‘what he thought were its inconsistencies, He spoke loud enough to be heard by every one in the car and hip earnestness made all laugh. When I left the car he was still talking, and the last ing I 1 heard was: “Well, 1 am my property te chiefly real estate. . . Yesterday morning, a strong wind blew spray from the City Hall fountain across the nearby aidewalk, and it was amus! to see the dodging of passersby to avold a drenching, or to watch the looky of blank astonishment upon the faces of the more absent-minded persons, who did not Boties the work of ihe wind until they got into am unexpected shower. o ee ‘Peasing through an uptown street the other iy T eas @ group of children surrounding some ob- Ject which lay near the sidewalk. As I drew n T Glecovered that the object was the dead body of @ cat. The children were taking turns in throwing stones at the boty, beating it with sticks and dumping upon it with both feet and all welght. Shouts of laughter ac- companied the performances. There were both boys and girls in the crowd, and I was pained to notice that the embryo women took a rather more prom|- Bent part in the sport than the little men. All the cbidre -dressed and appeared to be comfortably kept. It was surely a brutalizing amusement that they had found. I trust that it was more through thoughtiessmess than in @ spirit of imal cruelty that they found enjoy- ment ta ‘Mave you read “Trilby?” 1 heard on ask of another in an Elevated Rallway. replied the other man, ‘‘I have not read ‘Trilby.’ Furthermore, I was in Chicago at the time of the World's Fair, but 1 414 not go to the im an Francisco aud did not a winter Fair, this man looked just lke any other maa, oe 8 ‘The collection of cigarette pictures | Ing fad among the fair sex. I have ly, several albums containing photographs of stage celebrities, pasted in artisti- groups, The ploture is first carefully ‘peeled’? from its card- board backing and then Inserted in the book in its allotted place, Not @ little ingenuity is dis played tm arranging the photographs. Big broth- era, sweethearts and male frieuds generally are ‘called upon to contribute and the vice of smoking te mot 90 decried es formerly, In consequenci THE GLEANBR. —_— > AN INQUIRY. Tell me, ye winged winds, that round my path- ray twine, Cam ye not say why Hoeber won't resign? Some good and solid reason, some cause beyond ® doubt ‘Why from his false position this man will not eet out? ‘Tell me, thou mighty deep, whose billows round play— Kaow'st thou seme reason why he won't go tar away, ‘When weary men won't have before their eyes Tris Coroner who for rs takes the prise? ‘The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow, Btopp'd for @ while, and sighed in answer— Ne." ‘And thou, serenest moon, that, with such lovely face Dest look upon the earth, asicep tm night's om- brace, ‘Tell mo, in all thy rowed where'er thy soft beams adine, ‘Hast seen eo At 6 man as Hoeober te resign? Behind @ cloud the moon withdrew im wea, Ande vole, sweet, but sad, responded—'We” ‘Tell me, my secret eowl—Od, tell mo, im these days Is there pe resting-place from Emil Hosber's waye? Is there no happy spot where mortals may be diess'4, ‘Where grief may fad 0 balm—trom Hoeber be at rest? Waith, Hope an@ Love, with thelr eves looked fm mine, ‘Waved their wings and whtspered—‘‘Yeo—it ‘e'll resiga."” NAD —— > ____ BY OTHER EDITORS, Chicago's One Advantage. t advantage the a It votes overwhelmingly tor ‘a change of Administration and a change of luck it only has to walt aix days to get tt, mot from four months to @ year,—Chicago Mail, Plain Words Are Best. No Legisiature that ever sat in Albany has given eo much offense to the decent people of the State Legislature of 1895,—Utica Observe on. Mr, Harrison 1s one of the sbrowdest men that ever bore with patience the ons of thi * and if be bad not made so many enem: jong his fellow-partisans whtle in office, {1 | Nould be almost safe to give odds on his carrying off the plum.—Binghamton Leader, mmany's Trust in Platt, Mt { announced that the new Board of Tam- many Hall aacheme to be elected next week will be under the control of Mr. Croker. Apparently, | Tammany is looking hopefully te the work of Boss Platt.—Boston Herald. Thirty Years At Appomattox. ‘The whole country can be proud of such men as Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The whole country can pay tribute to Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. The the countrymen of all. Their dazzling achievements are the Nation's property.—Wash- ington Post. ive of more rooms, The canal-boat trip eof the canals pounced the most enfoyad! outing. An of ten, tneluding 1 kind of o Summer has come Rearest to the house-boat pian Anything ever in vogue in thle section’ of the | YeMf, and this, be it observed, ts not country, and a two of three weeks’ trip through | Sleeveless, as formerly, and the revers Grain boat has been pro- | differ in style, shape and trimming, In- Here is a jacket that will be worn this itead of the sleeveless souave—for this, ipedition of this kind for a party | after all, is the best known title—the cost of some carpenter | vest is sleeveless, and the zouave leaves ‘work on the boat and the service of & first-clas | only the waistband uncovered. The vest chef, with attendant details, costs the excursioa- | may thus be practically the eame as for fata $400 @ trip, ‘ A trp with @ canal-boat wite i ty no means to be despised. One of the most estimable of these navigators ute up in Coenties allp, his good wite tela me ahe has lived in her canal-boat home for twenty-one years. The quarters are very snug and very tldy, and the atmosphere of the place denotes the thrifty housewife. The nar- tow bunk beds are resplendent 1m lace pill ‘shams, and the kitchen range shines until tt would do service as a mirror. This housekeeper's one prolonged voyage between the beauliful shores of thet Erie Canal, and there her voice as she commiserates the fate of her sister, who lives im a Harlem flat. She drew a @iamal picture of thet fat-house in Harlem that contrasted strangely with the joy she claims to experienced om arriving at Coenties slip visit with her sister on land. Her sentiments augur well for the growth tn popu- larity that may be in etore for the house-boat. Apropos ot the canal-bost woman, I learn that focial caste existe among the floating population of the canal, the same as among the four hundred ‘and lees pretentious urban circles. The canal-boat women are @ very exclusive sat, quite to the manner born, while the river-boat woman te made ot common clay and in no way entitled to the Fecogaition of her patrician neighbor, according to the oficial decree of Mra Canal-Bost Grundy. A flour-covered battalion of amall boys moved along the Western Boulevard, near Ninety-second street, yesterday afternoon, that would proved an inspiration to any artist. A little chap of five years had been commissioned to purchase & paper bag of four at the corner grocery, and as he was on bis way home he dropped the parc and hi ja summoned a flock of sympathtsli and dimtnutive friends, who rallied to the rescu: Ther only three pounds of flour in the bag to begin with, and perhaps never since flour was {invented has so emall an amount covered such an area. Every chap scooped up what he could in his little grimy bands, and during the opera- tion the fv old looked on hopefully, Flour never looked so white before, and he had no {dea there was so much flour in the world; for although there were six friends, they couldn't begin to lift it all with their twelve small black paws. The baby brain grasped the hopeless truth, and with renewed walle he directed his erring and flour-tipped toes homeward. Spectators gathered all along the line as this millers brigade moved up the street. The loud cries testified to the boy's distress, and were re- sponded to by the mother, who grasped the ait- uation at once When ghe laughed everybody laughed, and then everybody threw away four and everybody brushed everybody and the Aprit wind blew the rest of it away. ‘The sun came out, and that was all. PRUDENCE SHAW, oo MIDWEEK JOKES. Bes! swith a Jingling Verse o1 the Modern Hello Girl. Tnvalldate the patents, and readjust the rates, Until tn every house you find @ ‘phone; But ‘that number,"” you can bet, ‘Will be Just as hard to get, For the belle girl can always hold her own. —Pitteburg Chronicle-Telegraph. An Outrage. Conductor—You'll have to pey fare for chat | OMP!aint to make, a grievance to ventilate, in- child, air; over siz. @ aleeveless coat, but it is as well to the back up nearly to the bust- line with the material, although the fouave should not be loose enough to turn up or stand out from the figure. ‘The pointed rever ts cut in one with the coat, and pressed back, but the big col- lar is put on separately, and runs down to a slight point in the centre. Both collar and front must be kept firm by an interlining of canvas, and the under- arm seams will set better if boned. ‘Whom to Serve First. Etiquette forbids one guest waiting for another to be served, so he must not stand upon the order of his eating, but eat at once, and, if perchance he use his ice cream fork in disposing of the salad, sooner or later confusion is his, This difficulty tg obviated by sery- ing the hostess first. While it does not smack of true politeness for the hostess to eat while guests are waiting to be served, it paves the way for the un- initiated in the intricactes of table be- longings and their usage. This con- ventionality is usually waived to do honor to the guest of istinction for whom the dinner is given, Plums im the Cak. English plum cake is made in this way: Beat a pound of butter to a cream, then add one pound of brown, moist sugar. The molasses in the sugar will color the cake partly. Beat the sugar and butter together till they are light; now add the yolks of eight eggs, @ wine-glassful of sherry and one of brandy, half a pound of finely-chopped raisins, half a pound of sultanas, one pound of currants, half a pound of cherries, half @ pound of mixed peel chopped. Thoroughly mix the frult, then add one and a half pounds of flour, which has been dried and has had a pinch of salt and a@ teaspoonful of Sround spice mixed with it, and the whites of the eggs that have been whip- Ped until in a stiff froth; stir the mize ture lightly when adding the flour an@ whites of eggs. This cake will take two hours to bake properly, “Seven-Cushion Divans.” Seven is said to be the conventional number of cushions for an artistic di- van, But they must vary much a@ possible in shape, size and coloring, Pil lows & yard square, with a deep ruffie, seem to be in general use, and eo are very fat ones, whose four corners are pushed in and covered with rosettes. A sort of round bolster at each end of @ couch gives a good effect, particularly when covered with black satin, which Provides @ sympathetic background for ®ayer cushions. The ends are finished with rosettes, and often a white satin ribbon ts passed around the middle and tied in a large bow. Corset-Making in Paris. There are in Paris alone 88 wholesale manufacturers, and 490 corset-makerg working mainly to order, employing all told 11,000 hands. This does not include the large dry-goods houses producing their own corsets and not represented in the society. The annual sales of cor- sets in Paris amount to more than 8,- 000,000 corsets at prices varying from 18 to 30 francs per dozen, and from % te 260 francs per pair made to order, A Church's Pancake per. A pancake supper is an invention of & country church as a means of raising money. All sorts of griddle-cakes are sold and eaten, with no other refresh- ment afforded. There is maple syrup, good butter, shaved maple sugar, cane syrup and other adjuncts to the meal Proper, but nothing else gave buck- wheat, cornmeal, bread, rice and wheat cakes in bewildering confusion. Bamboo Furniture. Bamboo 1s now wrought into all sorts of furniture, chairs, cupboards, brack- ets and flower stands being made of it, with a wonderful variety of tables, One of the latter is constructed with an eye to @ man’s “den,” and would make & very fit present for his wife, sister or Sweetheart to give him. It has all sorts of appliances for the furthering of his smoking, playing ecards and to hold his books, &c. Sauce Hollandaise, Cream four tablespoonfuls of butters add the yolks of two eggs, one at a time, beat until mixed; then add the Juice of one-half of a lemon, ene-halg of @ teaspoonful of salt and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of white pepper, Mix well, and, when ready to serve, put over hot water, stirring all the while i and cook until it thickens, Serve at| once, LETTERS [7%s column is open to everybody has a formation to give, a subject of general interest to Pamenger (Indignantiy)—Well, that’s the frat | ‘éus or @ public service (0 acknowledge, and who time I've jer been asked to pay fare for that baby, and he's ridden with me on street care | ‘#iers cannot be printed.) for nine years and more.—Texas Sittings His Barning Lov. “love you with love that burna,”* He eried. Then sald Maria: “Ia tt @ love that will get up ‘Bach morn and light rey jetrolt Free Prema Explained. can put the idea into less than 100 words, Long Likes Amertea Beca ae Living, It Gives Him To the ait ‘The individual “John Jan,” who has replied to “An American's’ letter, has given the very stale and only reply he can find, As an Englishman I can fully indorse ‘An American's’ letter, yet I may say I am xot one to find fault with this Gchoolmaster (entering bore’ dormttory)—what | Country. I ke it, inasmuch as I get my living are you doing out bed this time of miabt, Murphy? Murphy—On, rr, 1 got out of bed to tuck | Pith “I have no fad,"* the tramp remarked, His voice was low “I'm doing nothing all ¢ And nothing ts my fad. —Detrolt Pree Prem, Had to Say Something. Jack (presumptuously in love with hie employ- daughter)—Ie Mr. Cassimere int Servant—Yea, sir. Jack Pott (horribly disappointed)—Well, glad to hear it’ He might catch cold outside— Deastly weather. Good night.—Texas Sittings. —-— “EVENING WORLD" SKETCH-BOOK, | °P* Hundred and Twent: She Gets to the Front. ‘It is @ bargain counter scene. The woman who fa the principal gue Ie & person who koows & bargain when she sees It She is Gnder the Jom that she sees one as the artist dr enire to get to the front Her method of getting there has been fully described tm various volumes dealing with the tactics of football. Naturally there are unpleasant conse- quences to some of the other people about the That, however, 1s mone of her business, to the front, Eunice Conrad died at Glenville, W. ¥ the remarkable age of 120 years hilt proposes to try the experiment of State management of raliways, at appointed to test the engineers and brake- men on the Canadian Paciflo linca. Next year will witness the fourteenth century of the conversion of France to Christianity. The 4s to be celebrated at Rheims. Preparations are already in active progress at Moscow for the twelfth International Medical Congress, which is to take place im that city in am, | here, and I'am content to remain and say naught to offend the ears of the peuple I come in contact 1 would advise “An American,” if he be elishman, to keep still awhile, for the citi- ns of this glorious country are doing what they ean to Improve themselves, Do we not read in “The Eveniug World’ of the same date as “John Jan's" letter that ‘Americans are tmitating their ancestors om the other aide of the sea in almost everything that {9 of « social nature?’ From this will son follow more decency and politeness, and the streets ard care will be more tolerable for Englishmen ty travel and ride vpon. FIEL PERO DESHDIADO, A Free Show * Station. Tm | To the Editor: By thelr skylarking and carrying on the em- ployees of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad at ninth street and Third make themselves @ most intolerable nu!- sance during rush hours of the morning. They are a Gisgrace, and at least three out of four look every bit the tough, This occurs princtpally mong the guards who wait on this station for thetr trains. They wrestle and spar, regardless of the crowded condition of the station, and by thelr language make the station @ place unft for @ lady. Also, an official on this station every morning makes himself « nulsance by the ridicu- lous manner in which he off the destination of the different trains, He would greatly oblige reds of suburbanites {f he would desist from using fancy words in future when calling the trains, and also if he would refrain from leering, winking and making fam{llar remarks to 4 young women who are obliged to pass in close proximity to him, a. K, A Die To the Editor, To my friend, who signed himself ‘'Truckman," and who seems to be suffering from an overdose of dictionaryiam: I have read with an amount ot pleasure, not unmixed with the natural e! thusiasm consequent on, of, as one might pose, resulting from, and yet not merely Dut instructive aa well, that being, so to speak, by one of the gods of our thorougifares (the Truckman), tn his great indignation towards Col. faring 1B removing the trucks from the streets at night, although It is not yet, it would b and therefore I must say this which I have othe wise failed to find fittingly expressed, de. the fact that much as it Is, yet there ts not ry-Swallower Answered. rd to equal it, wherefore I write you thin in sy pathy my above friend. I think if he will follow the principles here down be will ultimately meet with fuccess in bis crusade fainst Col Waring’s unjuat action Oue who has & pusning business himselt—a hand-cart, J. F, MACK, Energy from Ar, To the Editor: J have invented @ machine for producing energy from air which will revolutionize the steam p of the world, thereby saving millions of dollars annually in the expense of coal, and all I re- quire to demonstrate this to the world is a part- her with @ few hundred dollars capital to pro- cure patente. I have made sufficient experiments to guarantee no possible chance of @ failure or anger of explosion, 1 can produce 10,000 tons of Air prossure with one engine of five horse po My method of compressing air is eutirely tiger. | wer ent from any other invention for thas and this {s also used in a different form to aay.@' other mechanism at present im use, AB of five horse power will yield sufficient energy qj! move the largest ocean vessel at @ fifty miles an hour. Air ships can to lift thousands of toms weight above the and travel in any direction with enormous speed. Any ordinary mind must be able to perceive that as it requires such little foree to create so much energy, @ self-operating machine is a possibility. I can produce reliable witnesses to prove that T have made this an accomplished fact, and tur- thermore I claim to be able to build such @ machine powerful enough to operate all the ma- chinery in this city. THOMAS P. FINLAY, ‘The Marriage Lottery. To the Edltor: To any observant student of human 19 very evident that if happiness and cont then fully . of marriages in the large cities of the world are failures. It would be a hard ques how many of the Individuals com- tracting these marriages would have found life @ failure in any event, but it was with a view of obtaining some sort of an answer to this ques tion that ten friends lately concluded to make inquiries each of ten married and ten unmarried ladies, oF @ total of 100 of each, The ladies were ll between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, Seventy-three of the married ladies admitted tl ‘often wished they had never ventured, whil ainety-one of the single ladies ae fervently hoped to marry soon, and the sooner the better. Discontent and a feeling of hampered freedom Seem to permeate all classes, We have a Vi derbilt and an Astor at the top, and thousends of lke cases all the way down to the couple whe are too poor to hire a divorce lawyer and 00 live apart by mutual agreement. Is it a wom- | der that some people ask ‘Is marriage a fail- ure?" of “Why young men do act propose ALEXIS, Lassos for Mounted Policemen, To the Editor: Having read a description of the aifeulty with which Central Park policeman stopped a runaway horse last Sunday I suggest that members of the mounted squad be required to carry lassos an@ learn to use them skilfully. A Texas cowboy astride ® broncho could have captured that horse easily and quickly and without risking bis life, do the policemen wh: to @ runaway to capture That Tireless Feline. To the Editor: I lay awake at midnight, As the clock was striking two! ‘The cats on the back fence were howili And now I'm minus a shoe. How often, oh, how often, In the nights that have gone by, 1 lay awake, with a bad headache, And heard those mollies ery, J. W. NAGLB, Sweep 'Em from Under the Wheels. To the Edit T have thought often about the unfortunate t see their children brought home Let me spesk my idea, Have « large brush, to go from sido to side of the trolley car, just covering the wheels, ‘ Move it constructed with a spring or large bute ton on the floor by the motorman’s feet, sv that, in case he cannot stop the brake in time, he cam step on the button and drop the brush and sweep the falling object off. Better have « little dirt than broken limbs. Mrs, L. W. What Lodge To the Editor I have @ ring lett by my husband, who te tow years dead. The ring has the letters as fole lows, 8. PL Rm 0. on the outelde, It toe Diain ring with black enamel over it, where the lett w throu Can you tell me What lodge he might have belonged to, ap the ring 1s one usually worm by members of ledges? These Letters?