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

Pwbltehed by the Press Puttishing Company, @ we @ PARK ROW, New Yorn Batered at the Post-Ofice at Mew York as econd-class matter, DVERTISEMENTS in the Evening Edition of THE WORLD are taken upon the specific guarantee that the average bona fide paid cir- culation of THE EVENING WORLD is considerably larger than that of all the other Evening papers in New York COMBINED, to wit: "We respectfully call Mayor Strone’s G@ttemtion to the fact tha: police patrol jwagons are now available for service Below the Hariem River. It ts, there- ‘fore. possible for the Mayor to accom- “plish a bit of reform work that he has @eemed unable heretofore to undertake. With such beautiful new wagons to eart them off in there should be no further difficulty in removing certain Wlements that are proving very detri- @ental to the reorganization of the De- ‘partment. There's Commissioners Murray and (Kerwin for a start, and Inspectors Wili- That would Byrnes would have to go along, too, But as driver, we suppose. Many would Qrefer to see him sitting on a back seat swith the rest, but that’s another story. Bat Byrnes drive, if you must, Mr. Mayor, but do get the wagon loaded up @uick, and start it on its journey. ‘The streets are lined with people wait- fing to wee tt go by. BOW FOR THE EASTER PARADE! There are, of course, many things to fejoice about at Easter. Tho season is Spiritually one of uplifting and thanks- giving and joy. The churches will no Goubt be all well attended, and the Americans—on the whole a religiously inelined, church-going, Sabbath-respe: ang people, even when not fanatical- ‘will no doubt properly perform all their spiritual obiigations on Easter Sunday. But, after all, what real delight, what fntense enjoyment of to-morrow will equal that derived from the new Easter suit and the darling Easter bonnet. How Prayers will go up to-day for a bright sunshine and clear balmy alr to-morrow, and how gay Fifth avenue and all the principal promenades will be with their crowds of elegantly attired handsome ‘women and well-dressed men, provided tae prayer is heard. Well, cleanliness is next to godliness, @nd the pride of dressing becomingly @ad hansdsomely is a feeling worthy of commendation and not of censure. A Aasteful Spring sult 1s a pleasure to the eye, and why should not women be glad to give us all the pleasure in their power. Let a0 snarling and cynical remarks be heard to-morrow about Easter extrava- ance, and about show and display and pride of dress, and all that. Let the women be as showy and brilliant as they please. They do it for our satisfac- tion and gratification, and God bless ‘them for it et us hope for a fine day for the grand parade, in which no city of the world—not Paria itself—can excel New Zork. ARE FIREBUGS AT WORK! ‘Nine fires in two days in one neighbor- hood, with one hundred families, num- bering five hundred persons, compelled to fly for their lives, are enough to oc- casion a reign of terror and to spread a fecling of alarm through the entire com- munity. Last night two new fires were added to the number already accumulated. O: was in the large apartment-house the corner of Columbus avenue Ninety-second street. Although the hour was early the flames spread so rapidly that escape was cut off and a number of women and children were rescued by gallant and willing hands by means of ladders and fire-escaj It is believed by the people the Meighborhoed that the fires were all @tarted by incendiaries for the purposes of robbery. This seems, indeed, to by the only reasonable solution of the mys- tery. It is scarcely possible th: many fires in one locality should be the Tegult of accident. ‘The police ought to leave no efforts untried to trace out the criminals if in eendiaries are really at work. At the @ame time, the residents ought to or- ganize for their own protection and if Meceasary keep additional wate the premises to look out for fi at Would seein to be a perilous business to Sttempt incendiarism with the people so generally on the watch, and with the Police aroused to the necessity of extra and extreme vigilance, |BEBUKING BROCKWAYISM, Frank L. Wallace, a young lad who ‘Was sent to tne Elmira Reformatory in 3892 for stealing a watch, and was sub: Sequently transferred to Auburn, was Feleased from the latter prison yesterday on 8 pardon from Gov, Morton. case is @ peculiar one, and figured of the Brockway atroct- Wallace was a lad whe of ? had borne & cheracter anf had worked in a B ‘hetel. When sent to Elmira he declined to tell the correct name of his mother, asserting that he was anxious to keep from her the knowl- edge of hia disgrace. The name he w known by in Buffalo and convicted un- der waa an assumed one. He did not lie about it, however, as he might have done, but toldethe truth and declined to give hig mother’s real name. For this terrible offense he was marked by Brockway as an ‘“insubordinate,” and the Superintendent proceeded to break his spirit by beatings and by extended solitary confinements in a dark cell, chained to an iron bar on the floor like awild beast, At last he was transferred to Auburn. Gov. Flower appealed to for a pardon in vain, although the Judge who sentenced Wallace, the jury that tried him, the public prosecutor and all parties concerned favored the clemency. of course, Brockway opposed it. In granting a pardon Gov. Morton raps Broekway over the knuckles by saying that Wallace's refusal to expose his mother's name was not without excus and “certainly did not call for unusual severity.” Even yet the State is not wholly free from the disgrace of Hrock- wayism. THE “CAN'T REMEMBER" IN CRIME. Counsel for Actor Gentry, who shot and Kilied Actress Madge Yorke, in Phila- deiphia, on Feb. 17, says that his client will plead insanity as the excuse for his crime. He insists that Gentry does not remember anything that happened from several days before the killing un- til he was landed in’ Moyamensing Prison. Without having any desire to prejudice the unfortunate histrion's chances of escaping the gallows, we wish to remark that the “can't remem- ber” dodge will not be accepted by any sane jury as evidence of insanity. When the Lexow investigation was «o- ing on several witnesses of the ‘can't remember” stripe exploited on the stand, but nobody ever dreamed of calling them insane. On the contrary, they were regarded as very cute and cun- ning, and thelr friends went around blowing about the cleverness with which they “did up" the wily crons- examiner, “Can't remember’ {s first cousin to “won't tell,” and both cover a multitude of unpunished Iniquities There isn't any reason, though, why a an't remember’ murderer should es- pe punishment. It Is declared that the life of A. T. Howe, the business man who was picked up unconscious in East Twenty-second street last Tuesday, might have been saved but for the lack of attention on the part of the ambulance surgeon who first reached him It was another case of the fatal “drunk” diagnosis, accord- ing to what seems to be trustworthy testimony. How much longer the hospital authorities going to endure such shameful, almost criminal, shiftlessness on the part of their recognized agents? Thirty-four years ago to-morrow Fort Sumter fell, Thirty years ago to-mor- row, the ruins of the old fort were again under the Stars and Stripes. Thirty years ago to-morrow night, Lincoin fell, fatally wounded by the bullet of Booth, What history has been made since then! ‘There should be no delay about hunt- ing down the person or persons that have caused those went-slde apartment- house fires’ New York City cannot af- ford to let crime of thin kind flourish, whatever the indifference with which It views other forma of criminality. The greedy “Huckleberry” road al- ready has a grab-hook out for the fine new Macomb's Dam Bridge. All new York's pleasure drivers, and all who. can, without envy, watch the drivers for pleasure, are Interested in prevent- Ing this grab, “Look to your fire-escapes,"” comes the order from the Building Department to the owners and lessees of the structures, needing such apparatus. The new Su- perintendent means business. Let him and] keep on meaning tt, Gov. Morton wants a caucus at Al- bany, according to the morning's re- ports, and Insists again on the passage of the City Magistrates bill. Keep on pushing, Governor. New York is with you, with all its heart and soul, ‘The police census shows up the Ten- derloin district as a full-fledged city within a city. It has a population of all shades and occupations crowding right close upon the 60,000 mark. If it ia true that April always borrows two weeks from March, then the two Weeks are up to-day, and we will be Justified tn looking for something like first-class Spring weather to-morrow. President Cleveland ts the right kind of citizen, He will pay his Income tax and let the courts settle all questions concerning its constitutionallty, etc, Mayor Strong believes the City Magis- trates bill will pass. Do Divver, Grady and the rest believe it? Is their Deti- ance Fund to be raised in vain? “Meat packers deny a combine.” Of course they do. Nobody expected them |to plead guilty. Nevertheless, there is work for Olney, 1f he will do it. Cape May ¢ gators, sont k has a set of real alli- A great opportunity is bere pr {for trying the reptilean cure for al inebriaey it Chang was not very success- F ‘hina, but as war for Ch ola tor seems to be a J ful in co a peace 1 he hmen on peach e census of the Tenderloin ts ly. It never has talen the » Ko through the Tender- } loin, | ~ | Ty new patrol wagon helps to bring w York's police facilities up to the point they » uld have reached long ago. | Mayor Strong says he believes “in the honesty of the Legislature,” ‘The Mayor Sometimes says more than his praye Grip has killed 2,00 persons since Jan. 1, This is worse even than the Brooklyn trolley’s red record Goy. Morton may be friendly to Platt, but he dovsn't seem to be friendly to | Plattocracy A little more expedition applied to the Greater New York bill will not be misplaced. On the “L" road “Let your light so THE A DAILY HINT FROM MW DOUGALL. Fitch's Easter Offer! form Mayor. to the Re- becomes “Let your lamps #0 Mayor Strong's falth in the Legis- lature ought to touch the legislative heart. A better Police Board will lead far towards a better police force, upon the Set the police heel firmly Columbus avenue firebugs, Next week the Glants stop playing ball for fun April weeps that @foeber will not re- sign. a asl Fair skies for the Haster bonnets, PATHER KD UKERBOCKELS DIARY April 12, 1895.—Good Friday is passing away. Naturally, it has not been an eventful day for my city, ag It has been generally observed as an occa. io for the cessation of public business, I ha only gossip and my own speculations to write about to-day. eo ee Excopt ae regards Mayor Strong. He has come out to-day with statements made in the course of an interview, in which he anewers, aa though I had put them directly to him, many of the ques- tions that I have been setting down in my diary. It appears that ve really 1s waiting upon that Logisiature. He will continue to move slowly and will persiat in his determination not to make any effort to Interfere with the law-making process, Saye he; “They can pass whatever legislation they please up there, but I have falth in thin Legialature, and am satisfied that It will do the Hight thing in th t e 8 8 Such faith Is beautiful. I wish T could ahare It with the Mayor. But I still do not seo why tt should be all unaccompanied by works, To name @ whole new Police Board for the city would not be Interfering with the Legislature, while tt would be @ most gratitying procedure in the eyes of the vast majority of good cltizene whose vote wave Mr, Strong his high ofc Gossip of the day has tt that there Is to be a clean aweep in the Dock Department, consequent upon recent revelations of how private coffers had recelved funds that should have gone to the pub: Me treasury. It im time that such a aweep took place. The Department has so long been bur ened and clogged with barnacles and political refuse that it has seemed almost a hopelem job to attempt ite clearing out, The new Commissioners, however, have displayed not only good Intention but plenty of nerve, In much @ combination of UFpose and courage, there 18 always hope. peintabe inl Raatahe IT WAS NOT LIEUT, DIAZ, LEGACION MEXICANA, WASHINGTON, D. ¢., April ti, 1895. To the Editor: My attention has gram from this vity mt been called to # ted the 9h inat., publ the same day, in which it w 4 that Lieut Porfirio Diaz, an atts tion at Washington. had a personal en ¢ streets of thin city with some English gentle: en, In Justice to Lieut. Ding I have to inform you that sald telegram is a complete fabrication tm 90 far as Lieut. Diaz ts personally concerned, Ho was an attache of this Legution from March, 1892, to September, 1493, when he left for his home, and he has since been in the City of Mex feo, and therefore he could not be In the encoun- tor reported. 1 will thank you personal favor to me and In fustice to Lieut. Diag, to publish this state: ment In your paper. Tam, air, very truly yours, M. ROMERO, THE RECORDER'S SOLILOQUY, It must not be;—Lexow, thou reas Else why my erstwhile hope, my My longing after a much faitor f But now romes secret dread and inward horror Of falling Into naught. Why shrinks my soul AC your inte niggantly appropriation? Tie high ambition that does stir within me; "Twas you yourself who spoke of my hereafter, And intimated a Chief Juaticeship at least Chief Juntice! darling thought! an, 1 desire, thou pleasing, A came might I boss! unbounded patronage of all the Courtat But shadows, clouds and darkuess have come o'er me. Here will I hold:—If there's a power above you (And that there ts olf Tom Platt cries aloud Through all his works), he must dellicht In Hosses; And that which he delight» In 1 witt be But—when tor how? ing. I'm weary of conjectures, Will —my—b If ao, I'm aatinNind: for fourteen years lg pay and patronage are both (But still 1 wish you would Increase my fee For what I did for your Committee, Clarence) Secure in my great power, then smile Wing and defy his thrus I fade away, the sun himself row dim with age, and nature sink tn years Hut my ambition aball go ever on Uniessen'd ‘mid the war of elements, this Court ts riled by Cowe ‘The wreck of matter and the crush of worlls NAS — GREAT MEN 01 OUR OWN TIME, ‘WORLD: SATURDAY THE SIMON PURE TRILBY, ‘Translated from the French of 1820 Ce ‘as New Novel-+ The wer in Evolution. Victor Hugo oace wrote to am Ameri transiator: “You have not translated, you hav interpreted me, thioking my exact thoughts."* Tt was @ very meat compliment, and one which Misa Minoa Careline Smith has earned by her translation of Charles Nodier's ‘Triiby, The Fairy of Argyle”? Nearly @ century ago Nodler travelled in Scollaud, and when he returned to France wrote a classic worthy to rank with “Telemaque.* It ta @ Scoteb fairy wtory of the amaiiest of King Oberon's mubjecta, a sprite who loved @ boatwoman of Loch Fyne. In the French the story ts one of the aweetest and mont Kind, and Miss Smith, in her Rngilsh version, it anything, Improver upon the original, so much love and study and romantic fecling has she put inwy the work. Nodler wa one of the strongest fxuren in the French Tomantie movement of 1830, and has been the source of Inspiration of many of the later French Pomantic writers, He died 10 184, without have ing any of his work translated Into Engtinh. Mr, Bradford Torrey, of Boston, 1s cretited with having introtuced him to English readers by procuring the tranaslation of ‘*Tdlby."* Ewe ® Serihe founded a very pretty play on the story, which may also bear translation, and tt Je more than probable Du Maurier obtained the name for his heroine from it. & Co, Boston.) romantic oe “The Mystery of Cloomber'’ will not enbance Conan Doyle's literary reputation. It ts, of courne, readable, but it is unworthy of the author, The atory, im brief, is this: Lieut. Heather- stone, on service in India, killed a holy hermit who had stupidly got himself mixed with some other parsons whom the Lieutenant wished to Kill, ‘The hermit was so holy that Mr. Doyle has had to Invent for bim the new title of ‘arch-adept,"* which, In the author's conoey tlon, possibly means something. Killing bim was #0 wicked an action that Ite penalty death, the “‘arch-adepts' chelas to be the ex- ecutioners. ‘They kindly mention that fact to the Lieutenant, and from time to time remind him of it by causing an “astral bell” to ring near him. Eventually that becomes monotonous and makes him after forty years of It, when eral, with @ family, be seeme to Gnd it @ re- lef when they come to Eagland—arriving by means of a quite unnecessary shipwreck—to exe- cute the sentence, Hypnotised by them, be foes to & seemingly Impossible bottomiess hole in the middle of » mudmarsh and plunges tn ally taking with him a gullty corporal. ja practically all Mr. Doyle has, without ‘That Bie usual akill, expanded Into over sixty thous~ words in the tolling. It ts based on an absurdity, No ‘“‘adepte in occultiem, uddhist or others, would assume the responsibility of @ revengeful killing. They would leave justice to Karmic law. Even the mere nodding ac- quaintance with occultism demonstrated in the “Addendum should have brought to the at thor that much knowledge. Alas! he in quite right in saying: "In dealing with occult lawa we must allow for our own complete Ignurance of the subject.” How otherwise could have confounded the ‘‘astral body,"" common to all forma, with the ‘Mayavi-rupa,"* that tIlu- sory aggregation of atoms formed by the will of the adept? The work is slovenly. To make a chela speak of an adept as ‘the chosen of Buddha’ i out of character; to fix the date of Manu, the great law-giver, and him Menu, as it wan careless; and so {ilustrations might Mr. Doyle should let occultiam fare, be multiptt alone until be has, learned something about it, ‘That evolution necessarily Implios progress te popular misconception, Natural eclection may de- troy all life wave that of sage brush in the desert, of lichens In the arctic rone equally with its production of men at the other end of the wale, The survival of the fitest t# not nec~ ennarily the survival of the beat, In the evolution tety, In the principle ited to men, 3 We the faculty of choles, “the ability to ree dit the appetites through which nature lifted a head of her pretatory system, and upon which she counta for our uitimate decay."* ‘The fonial of thia faculty of cholce by the scientific and religious world generally, constitutes a wertous Gonger at the present time which Mr, K¢mund Kelly combats in his “Evolution and Effort which (# Intended as an “exposition of thelr rela tion to religion and politics” The danger Hes, Mr. Kelly thinks, In the tendency of both religion aud sclence to paralyze the effort through which alone man can successfully resi the forces In nature which continually teat to drag bim do The book i original, clear in atyle, and delight: ful reading for all who take an interest in quem other than what they shall eat and what (D. Appietan & Co.) tle they shall drink, Noah Brooks # a very versatile author, and those who know him by hie recent stories for boya may not recall that between 1850 and 1880, he was one of the clearest and rounest of our poltt- teal writers, ‘That he has written a handy manual, aining the general principles of the Constitu« tlon, the organization of each departme: distribution the readers of ‘The Boy Emigrant Fairport Nine." ‘How the Kepubite ts Gi {a an admirable plece of work, plain, cise, direct; 4 book that any person who can read can understand. ‘There are minor points in the book upon which persona may differ in opinion with him—party questions and party constructions, His definition of seigniorage, for example, is In- Accurate, but near enough. To him the Govern- ment ts aN ernment, tt le not the federal Union of the Conmitution and of our fa- thers, It te a Nation, mot a Union (Cha Scribner's Sone) Harry Hagel and 3 L, Lowia, two men, have written a number of rvalis of the South Dakota divore colony, which are publ'ahed under the title of ‘The Divorce Mill."" ‘They are excecdingly romantic, even sensational Dut they make Interesting reading, and give the public @ description of the pecullar type of Ife existing In the Quean City which many will doubt the correctness of. The took has an object, to show the misery that has been Mrought upon families by Dakota divorces, but that object bas not been made any more prominent than it de (ataagyt Pybiahing Company.) wapaper ° shetohos nerves to be. The Bishop of Rhode Island wil! be wighty-thre years old on tha 4th of Juty, and this year wilt celebrate ite Mifty-firat anniversary of his con secration as a Bshop, Mis lone Ife embraces almoat the history of the country during the een tury, and the volume of his tl published this Week by Thomas Whittaker, will have wide reading. Dr, Clark has always: been noted as A good story teller, ant his book is full of bright amd clever memories nurches and Castles of Motiaeval Peanve,* von to a very. val which able work by Craneion Larned. more than @ é record of a traveller's impressions of the nts of France. It te raster @ very able study of wenoral effect upon the sights ‘ @ they hold tn the The bok fi * page photographs and chateaus, (Scribite Mary G. Bonesteel hus written a very intereats Ing shory for e anes of (move a“ Ariny Dove and Iren at am In iudings fare nate Bh + bright and clever. and be enjoyed by the childrea, Gobm Murphy @ | The ai in of being the best dressed man | In the Assembly was conferred early in ine yelou upon a New Yorker, of course—Wiltiaim | Halpin—who represents Fred Gibbs's ol district, the Thirteenth. But Halpin ls even more useful than he 4s ornan for be is young and briak, as all well trained and prosperous New Yorkers of thirty are apt to duced several important bills, of whieh aus thorized the city to raise $5,000,000 to imp ihe public sctool aystem, F creates 1B park in that overcrowded section of he west side iu the vicinity of Twenty-third | street, which he represents. Me Is a Republican, and mapulactures railway supplies when aot law-making. be. Me has intro: 4 AT RAS a lily, @ violet, R pansy.» py and a kisn sigh. earewel, & love of 4 lonely hour, These are thy gifts for a little grave At Buster-tide! Falantine and « migno A hyacinth and a helto"rope, agh the heart's regret East hoy These aro gifts for a little gre At Easter-tise’ Buske M. Best, in The Independent, Rvening World's Gallery of Living Pleteres WILLIAM A. SUTHERLAND. ‘This is the picture of the Lexow law- yer who Is to get $7,500 for work he did not do, — —— {HE GLEANER'S BUDGET. jesstp Here, a Hint There and Tree ‘Tales of City Life. Old-fashioned “rubbern’* at whist are rapidly wing way to the “duplicate game, which ex- perte claim t@ not oniy more scientific and pro- motive of more careful play, but (ncreaasa the tn- terest in the game. At any rate duplicate whist Das been all thr go during the past scasa at eocta] card parties and 99 much interest has been stimulated, I am told, that teachers of the eeleatific game have been more than in de- mand, especially among the ladies who are be coming devoted to the principles of Cavendish end the modern authorities” ‘Visttors to Blackwell's Island, nowadays, find the trip one that Involves no little risk to limb, if not to life. The primitive little dock at the foot of Kast Fitty-secand street, whence the hospital launch tarts, can only be reachel from the towering bluff abo e by a winding route down sev- hte of rickety Wooden stairwaya The tmervels between flights are bortered with dan- Gerows pitiails overlooking 2 mass of Jagged rocks below. A slip or 1 false step might mean o beoken neck. Numerous parties of charitably in- clined persons, Including many |adies, visit the Island every day, and the more timid Invariably shudder and hang back when the precipitous de- ‘scent opens betore them. It sometimes takes considerable persuasion on the part of the dock employees to induce visitors to run the gauntlet of the rocky pass | fy According to a Boston paper, Annie Louise Cary Raymond, the once-famous opera singer, has be- come a devote of the bicycle, and Is frequently seen upon her wheel in the parks and suburban Grives at the Hub, She !s fond of open-alr ex- ercise, and regards cycling as one of the most effective means of securing @ proper amount of It with @ corresponding degree of enjoyment, She Gresses with modest good taste, when she appears upon her wheel, but draws the line at bloomers ‘A young man, envelope! in @ long mackintosh, the skirts of which swept the asphalt pavement, ettpping an umbrella and a cane in one hand @ hat-bor tm the other, while a pair of folls, @ fishing rod and several other mysterious implements dangied from his back, was speeding up Madison avenue on a bicycle the other gren- Ing in a riazling rain, People on the aide walk stared at the strange spectacle and won- dered what {t meant. It wasn't herd to 1 plain, however, for the young man was simly as- sisting the truckman im moving his household effects ta a new boarding-house, and was fol- lowing up the bulky baggage with the lighter ‘equipment. No one can say that the wheel Is not assuming an tmportant and useful place as a feature of domestic economy. It bas already to @ conslderaible extent superseded the baby car- riage, and is sid to be mach mote popular among the toddlers than, the old-siyle vehicle. Why |e it that the average physician invart- ably writes his prescriptions {n the most villain- ously legible hand of which he Is capable? Is Mt done deliberately, and to prevent the Inquial- (ve layman from getting at the mysteries and fecrets of the profession? Even doctors whose inary chirography °s of the copy-book order, when It comes to writing 4 prescription, will per- petrate « scrawl that resembles a combination of Chinese shorthand and hen tracks. How any drug- Elat's apprentice, or even an expert plil-mixer, can decipher it in a mystery. Hog Latin, too, No wouter babies are killed with doses of tur: pontine, given for castor-oll, xo long as such a custom prevails among the medical profession. 1¢ 1s hard to see how the unfortunate drug clerks ean be held responsible. THE GLEANER. a THE WOMAN WITH A P. ST. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, opened a new course fn domentic science om the first of April. Mise F. A. Conro, of Boston, a graduage of the Schoot of Technology, and an associate of Mise Richards, whos name in grounded on the heights of do- mertic setence, ls at the head of the department. and enjoya the privilege of working out the new idea, which is her own. eee When cookery elevated to a science and Allied (> the chemical analysia of food, and « Iaboratory was built a8 an ante-room to ¢ kitchen, then it was that domestic aclence for @ time rented on its oars, satisfied with the achieves ment. But more to coma, The adulteration of food and the Ignorance of the buyer have af- forded a keynote for a very harmonious Intel- Ngence on the new subject, and purchasing as Well as cookery has been lifted to the dignity of & science. Miss Conro's lectures are very practical, Imaxmuch as they have to deal im finan- cial values No woman can buy meat unless she knows meat; so when the teacher tmparta knowl- edge of meat she cuts up a quarter of a beet oF of mutton, lamb or pork in the class. She hi diew a knite and and swings a cleaver with the skill of a butcher, and the students learn to know a rib or a joint at sight. They learn the names and location of choice cuts and the comparative values of them both from a finan- cial and dietetic standpoint. e ee Marketing partics are organized at Pratt's In- stitute, the same as botanizing parties in tho study of botany, and surveying parties to work out the principles of trigonometry. The market ing parties inspect and criticise the merchandise of the butchers in the large markets, and that Autocrat of the family dinner table already sniffs wartare. In the future be may have some other Intelligence to meet save that which recognizes only correct weight and the wholesomeness of what he chooses to send. eo ee ‘The object of this new course at Pratt Inst!- tute Is to prepare women to become stewantenses of hotels and restaurants, a well aa of all sorts of (nstitutiona, philamthropic, industrial and ele mosynary. Marketing for private families in a feature now in vogue, and figures as a training school for women who are preparing themselves for greater responsibilities. ‘The purchase of vegetables and staple groceries, horbe, spices and fruits 1s an Important matter, and a knowledge of when, where and how and under what elrcumstances they are grown or manufactured {a accessory to this branch. The future of domestic science may no more be di cerned than the future of electricity. The home must match the new woman. oe ‘Miss Janet Lewis, Secretary of the! Woman's ‘Apartment Howse Association, is pained to notice & mis-siatement by the press regarding the exciu- siveness of the Adamiess Eden that is soon to adorn New York in the way of a habitation for single womer “It ie not true," said Miss Lewis, ‘that mo man can dine in the apartment Rouse restaurant. The latter will be open to the public, ‘and solicits public patronage. Of course, we Presume that mo man will coma unless accom- panied by a woman, but we make oo wuch rule, As usarly as I can comprehend, this apartment Rowe t& to be in no respect Ike thh Margaret Loutes Home, nor yet in any way resemble the Working Girls’ Hotel. Only such rules will hold es are unwritten in connection with any Gret-cl apartment house. Women tenants will come and go when (hey please and entertain whom they please when they please, the same credentials for good character holding as would hold good or be required in any first-class apartment house in New York City. ‘This metropolitan domestic Utopia will be rum om the broad basis of Liberty for all. ” PRUDENCE SHAW. ———_—— MORE JOKES IN APRIL. Leading Off with a Tender Refer- ence to the Bonfires of Spring. Mine eyes ure flercely smarting as I look across the land; My nostriis, (uo, are filled with pungent odors by wind fanned; The alr is filled with smoke and cinders from the burning brand, And still more stuffs piled on, A hundred fires, are gleaming through the widely strewching pall, And when I kick the fire Sends thus respond unto my call; “We're burning up the brush heaps and the leaves that fell last Fall, For Spring 1s marching ou.” Pitsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Where the Profit Lay. Customsr—So you sell these watches for $5 each, It must cost that to make them. Jeweller—tt dove, ‘The woman with a past! How tong will this rage last? Mrs. Tanqueray and Ehbsmith and that tlh Please give us something new, Something pleasauter to view ‘Than that eternal lady in black silk! ‘The mina of eweet Afteen (Pace Gilbert!) must have seen Much more than you or I had ever known ‘At auch a tander age, For it never was the ri Tn those good times to welcome such « tone! In there not some dramatist Who can grind out better grist, And lift wx out of this Immoral range, And just for once allure Tho public witt a pure, Bweet damsel with a future, for a chang LA TOUCHE HANCOCK, — MUSICAL JOTTINGS, ‘The New York Musical Society, with Frank J. Dossert am director, will give ita first concert at Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, May 4, nder distinguished patronage'—whatever that may mean. Dvorak’s latest composition, “Amert- can Flag,” will be presented with a chorus of 200 volees, The soloiste will be Mary Loutee Clary, Ben Davies, George W. Ferguron and Maude Powell. The Italian opera thelr delightful Su tay popular concerts at the Metropolitan Opera-House April 21 under the direction of A tal, se concerts have been tmme saful in Now York, and Messra, Abbey 1 and Gray have found im them a very neat little gold mine, New York has veldom had a series of more admirably appointed Sunday entertainments Nile Ly Arviile Iw to sing at the Bijou The- Atre to-morrow night, when an eycollent prow gramme will be offered. Other vocalists will b Marle Dressler, Mint Adele Ritchie, the pai soprano; James Thornion and the Empire Comedy Quartet. In ton there will be a number of well-known people who do not rely upon thelr singing voices for success In “Die Molstersinger the Metro) which will be produced tan Opera-House, Monday, a: Jean de Reszke will appear as Walter, Edouard de Rosthe as Hana Sachs M. Plancon aa P. Mme. Emma Eames as Eva, Mr. Lloyd D'Aublgny as David, Sig. Carboue as Beckmesser and Mlie. Bawermeister as Maddalena Mins Estelle Clay mn'n comle opera, “*The Vik- tng." is oo be sung at Pelmer's Theatre May 2 fot the Actors’ Fund. In the caet will be WT. Carleton, Edwin Steving Gilbert Clayton, Bert Maverly, William Mandeville, William Ris! Bertha Rtvcl, Clara Lipmann and others. The Viking’ will provably go later to the Herald Square. There is a future awaiting ¢ ager who will foyer where wor bonnets between ihe fe theatrical m provide a hat museum oe Inspect each other's @ Haven Palladium, and Pre: ‘Whatever fauit may at times be found with the freedom of the press, the occasional recklessness of the pulpit is considerably more deserving of censure. —Vortiand Argus Customer—Then how do you make any money? Jeweller—Repairing ‘em.—New York Weekly. Tapping Time. Now doth the boy steal forth to tap The maple trees with Joy; Meanwhile the farmer, flail in hand, Steals up and taps the boy. Boston Courier. Not = Mean Mi Jinks—I despise a man who is mean with his wife. Do you give yours am allowance or what she can wheedle out of you? Filking—Both.—Tit-Bits, Multam in Parvo. “One swallow doce not make a Summer," ‘A long-forgotien poet sings, But I have seen @ small grasshopper Make half a dozen springs, —University Courier, “EVENING WOKLD” SKETCH-BOOK, She Never Gets = Seat. SE Gets VER ADIVST 4 There are other women who do not al seats on a street car, aye met "is woman never gets a at, She does not try to rearon why. If she di might also try new and more successful ta: ties But, mo, She takes it for granted, from the start, that men are surly, ah and altogether unchivalrous creat Of their own will they Will do notiving that consideration for her sex 4: mands, So she resorts to a sort of hypnotic sug gestion of their own invention, The artist has caught her in the Her victim has been se- lected. The would-be mesmeric influe at work. It will work in vain, It She never gets that seat, a A Prediction om Platt. A new Capitol ring with Thomas C, Piatt as its guiding spirit will work the Capitol fur all it in worth in the interest of Republican politicians and political jodbery. Mark the prediesion. —Syre- une Courier, This charming blouse is in China silk, of that dull biscuit tint, with blurred floral designs, in peachy mauve, which was 30 favored by our grandmothers. It looks quite olf-fashioned to some, but it is now exceedingly fashionable, and de- lightfully chic when combined with v oe Q vet and lace, and just the thing to wear with a black skirt. This model is also suitable for cambrics and washing ma- terials, and the plain, dark portions can be of colored linen in a contrasting shade. Rained Loaf Cake. At night mix one pint of milk, scald- ed and cooled, one tabtespoonful of salt, half a cupful of yeast, five or six cup- fuls of flour or enough to make a soft dough. In the morning prepare one cupful of butter, creamed; add two cup- fuls of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of mixed spices—cinaamon, nutmeg and allspice—and four eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. Add this mix- ture to the beaten dough, and beat well. Add two cupfuls of stoned and chopped raisins, or one cupful of raisins, one cupful of currants and half a cupful of sliced citron, flouting the fruit. Let rise In a bowl till light. Stir It down, and pour Into two deep cake tins, mak- ing them two-thirds full. Let it stand fn a warm place fifteen or twenty min- utes; then bake one hour or longer, in @ moderate oven. Some Easter Suggestions. For the church parade on Easter Sun- day may be recommended one of the new crepons checked in three colors navy blue, green and ecru. A round belted waist goes well with such a frock and soft drooping checked silk sleeves. The same material may be made up with trimmings of black insertion laid over bands of cream ribbon. The sleeve caps and the bodice-front may be of cream-colored silk or cloth, and a good hat is of green straw with fleur-de-lis and black plumes. ‘A third variation would be to make with plain skirt and lapped seams, Have @ white-cloth bodice-front end @ short coat closely fitted to the figure, with revers, pockets and cuffs of heavy fallle, Py An Invitation to Dinner. In his private capacity the Hindoo ts frequently very hospitably inclined. Tre fact that his caste prejudices preclude him from eating with Europeans does not always prevent him offering an ine vitation to dinner—his idea of English hospitality. This consists in his driving his guests to a hotel and paying for dinner, while he awaits its consumption in another part of the house. It takes some little time to get used to this mode of procedure, but after awhile one sees the propriety of accepting the kindness in the spirit which prompts tt. Romanoff Padding. Make a chestnut cream, having the chestnuts soaked in sugar. After this is frozen incorporate half the same quan- tity of whipped cream. Have a two-quart pudding mould packed tn salted ice, coat the interior with orange ice cream and fill the centre in separate layers; first the chestnut ice cream, then lady fingers, soaked in kummel, and walnuts out lengthwise in four; have the top layer ice cream; cover the mould, Freeze one | hour and @ half; turn it out on @ nap- kin, Serve a separate sauce of vanilla ice cream flavored with kirsch, beating it well with whipped cream. Rechanffe of F' Take cold boiled fish of any kind, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a cup of bread crtimbs, two eggs beaten slightly, two tablespoonfuls of milk, a teaspoonful of anchovy paste, pepper and cayenne, Put the fish, cut fine, into the chafing pan with butter, and when well melted Jada the bread crumbs, milk, eggs, ane chovy paste, pepper and cayenne. SUP constantly and let simmer for five mige utes, What a Clever Girl Had On, The clever girl had black jet to cover the seams of her green skirt in front, and, indeed, as the fashion is, all the way around, She had a black silk yoke to her bodice, with black jet to edge jit, and three black jet bands down the | front and behind. She had a green straw Jnat with black feathers, and if she didn’t sell all her manuscripts she quite deserved to do so. Venti Blouse vests for handsome dresses, and close-fitting vests for tailor-made gowns, are made of black moire silk, shot or spotted with a color, and opel work. Embroidered silk over a cone trasting cotor 1s also used for close fitting vests. Lunch Crackers, Split common crackers, butter them slightly on each side, dust salt over them, and brown in a hot oven, They, are delicious with coffee and cheese, LETTERS [This column is open to everybody w'o has a complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, im formativm to give, a subject of general intercit discuss or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the iden into less than 100 words, Long letters cannot be printed, } Concerning Rebecca for Fream's Re- To the Editor: Having heard ant read of Rebecca Fream’s work on the east side as a reformer, I think it is poor policy. What are poor people to do, particularly the orthodox Hebrews, who keep Saturday as thelr Sabbath. It was and is tue custom among them for close on to 6,000 years, Shall thoy close .two days every week? It is {mpossible. They try to sell their goods in an honest way, and do no one any harm. If you 4o not wish to buy you are not compelled to. Why Mias Fream should single them out and hound them in auch a manner, T cannot ander- stand. Can she find nothing better to do regard- ing reformation? There is certainly enough vice and immorality going on to which sbe can pay her attention, Why not turn her attention to improve the tenement district, so the houses hall be built and kept im better condition. A NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMAN, The Only Letter of Mr. Kui 's That We Mave on Hand. To the Edltor: Why Is It that you never print the letters that I write you for the letter column? I have written two lately, and they have not been printed, The last ono was written three weeks ago. If they were like wome of the love letters you print I wouldn't care, but they are not trash, but good, sensible letters I would lke to seo my letters in print. By publishing my st letter of three weeks ago you will greatly ¥. H. KNAPP, Greenwich, Conn. P. S.—I hope the reason is not because the parsons I write about have @ pull with ‘The szvening World."* vWK, A Glimpse of Life in Tenth Avenue. To the Editor: Speaking of dirty houses, if the Board of Health would come into a certatu house near the corner of Tenth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, it would be walking into the dirtiest house on earth. They do nothing but fight all day and night. The housekeeper does nothing at all to stop thom from fighting, and it the agents of the Society for Prevention of Crueity to Animals would also come around to this house they will please be kind enough and take all the cate and kittens there are in the cellar, A TENANT. Should She Ever Doff Her Engag: ment Ring? To the Editor: When a young lady 1 engaged to be married and receives a pretty engagement ring, 1s she supposed to wear it from the time he pute it on her finger unit] he changes {t for a marriage ring? Can she take it off her finger to do diny work, of is she supposed to keep {t on until married, Some say she must not take it off, or else she will break the engagement. Others aay she cam take it off and put t on again without any trouble petween the lady ami genteman. THE ENGAGEMENT, Brooklyn, N. ¥. A New Declaratto To the Editor: Declaration of Independence (dedicated to Man- hattan * Road Company): = When tn the course of human events, {t becomes Recessary to reduce expenses, then a cent respect requires us to close our shops on halt time and starve our workmen to death. We hold these Les to be self-evident: All men are created equal, and.zhen the Manhatten ‘Li Company loves fifteen passengers a day. then 5,000 employees must suffer. Such hes been the pationt suffrances of us, the Company, and such was the suffrance of R. Gage, of Laidlaw and Sage fame. ‘Bo prove this, let facts be submitted to © candid of Independence. = world. If we, the Company, must bear the terrte ble expenses of $12 per year, th —<——$— Committee, “The Evening World” will please note that the npany has closed {ts shop at Ninety-elghth street and Third avenue and also at One Hunéred and Forty-fifth street and Eighth avenue, met caring how its workmen exist, and we, the em ployees, hope to have a wrong righted, as we claim that the workmen should receive the credit dee them for making the coffers swell on the Manhate tan “L."” STARVATION. « Carefulnes: To the Editor: “The Evening World’? of April 9 informs me that the Board of Health has closed up Grammar School No, 33, iu West Thirty-fifth street, on ao count of the janitor’ children a from measios, Now, why doesn't that Department take the same precaution tn other cases of contagious of infectious disease? I have been informed that three persons (two children and an adult) were re moved ftom the house 19 Morton mreet by the Health Department on Saturday last, and that all three were suffering from some contagious dis- ‘ease, and that a dozen or more children clamored about the ambulance while these stricken ones were belng placed therein, and a man, presumably the father of the children, after be had carried one of them downstairs in his arms, thought that 1t would be @ good {dea to go into the janitar’s apartments and have @ friendly chat, and be promptly did #0, Your paper also Informs me that three canes of amall-pox Deen discovered at the same address, and, strange to say, they are om adult and two children, Were these the same per- tons my informant saw being removed? Why are the children of this house allowed to attend the different achools in the vicinity unmolested? GANITARY. Only in Spots. , Using the Streets for Storage. To the Editor: ‘As a Fighter of public wrongs I appeal to yeu to know who gives permission (and for what eom- sideration) to the second-hand box dealers to we the aldewalk and gutters and @ portion of the street for the storage of boxes Vestry street, between Washington and West atreete? It te ‘@ public erying nuisance, for from early morning t night the sidewalk is almost impase je and right this wrong, thereby conferring a lasting favor on pedestrians who wae tile street, of which 14M ONR, Our Flas To the Editor: ‘As an American and scholar of one ef our pubtte schools, and knowing the great interest you take in both, I would lke to make the following come plaint: How is it that our public school situated in West Forty-fourth street, near Tenth avena, of which Iam @ member, 414 not display our fag, which was presented to us by one of the @. A. Ry posts, on Feb. 23, on the centennial celebration of our public school system, but could unfurl tt te the breeze on March 17 last? J. D. SLOCUM the Public Scheets, ‘The Girls Have Gone Back om Base: Wall. To the Editor: Can you explain to me the actions of the young Indies of the present time, I have asked Sve or ix (o accompany sne to the Yale-New You@ fame, and all bave refused; aloo, I have asked them to attend to-day's game, and they have also refused. Now, it is an outrage that emp National game should become eo unpopular, and have that English—you know—sport outpotat it, and it amuses me te ipposed manhood looks ing at # football game wi their poetic hair, FRANK LYNN, New Brighton, & & Expertences. Sena in ¥. ‘To the waltor: . I would like to know if any of the ora ot “The Bvening World’ have perience with or beliove im the - SEAT, ¥ f | | | >