The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1895, Page 4

Aer menatistoeet bag: hr the Prese Publishing Company, ~ PE @ @ PARK ROW, New York. “WEDMESDAY, APRIL 17, 1695. SaaMCAPToN To Tau ETERNG Wonta No. 12,203 Gipfored at the Post-Omce at New York as ter. UPTOWN OFFICE—Junotion of Broad- aed Sixth ave at a24 ot MORLEM OFFICE—125tn ot. and Madl- a ave. BROOKLYN—209 Washington ot. PMILADELPHIA. PA.~Prese Bullding, 102 Chest- a 702 14th at DVERTISEMENTS in the Evening Edition of THE WORLD are taken upon the , apecifie 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 wi the Evening Post, the Even- ing Sun, the Evening News, the Evening Telegram, the Commercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. J =— NOW FOR RAPID TRANSIT. At least once a year for the past five years every newspaper in this city has Published this headline. It has become & jibe and scoff among some newspape! men. At different times every year people have believed that the final work, the actual work of pick and shovel, for building the road that ix to take us from the Battery to Harlem in fifteen minutes, was a question of “now.” Every time they have been wrong. Every time a new reason for @eiay has been found, but now, in this the present now, it seems as though at last the promise broken so often was to Be Rept. Gov. Morton's signature alone is lacking, though it will not be fof long, to the bill that gives the Cot jon all power. t for the attacks of the Ele- vated roads and the newspaper sup: by them and Wall street speca- Opposition has passed away. WOteb of the people last November ehéuld put armies of workmen in the ‘Streets this Spring. Let the work begin It ts time, at nee, Now for rapid transit. A SLOW PROCES. The work of collecting as dumb and stupid a lot of jurors as porsible for the McLaughlin trial is progressing, or try- ing to progress, in the Court of Oyer and ‘Terminer. In two days one juryman hae been placed in the box. The prose- dation has still sixteen peremptory chal- lenges left to exercise, und the defense ede fifteen. It seems as if all these would be exhausted before the Jury-box ts filled. Tt t@ easier to point out the unsatis faetery character of our present laws affecting the selection of trial Juries than to suggest a practical remedy. But it is @ertain that the statute as It stands te net only calculated to exclude all (gtelligence from the jury-box, but | URely in a trial that excites unusual intérest to operate injuriously to tie Cause of even-handed justiee, Afte the peremptory challenges on both sides are exhausted unreliable jurors are likely to gain admission to the box, @ha this is more likely to favor crime than to promote justice, There Is no reason why a latelligence who reads the news nd forma an opinion on what he reads shottld not make an entirely impartial @nd capable juror. Indeed, no man can be-ft to sit in & jury box who does not fead the hewspapers or who fails to Fecelve any Impression by what he feads. An intelligent-and honest man Is Guided by What Is brought before him as evidence on @ trial to the exclusion of everything else, and the appearance and action of a witness often give a Wery different coloring to his testimony rom that it bears on its mere reading. {t often happens in the selection of a fury that half a dozen juries might be foriied’ trom the rejected jurors better capable of rendering a strictly honest Gnd intelligent verdict than the twelve Meh eventually selected. If It could be believed that the delay in filling the jury box in such a trial as the present would result in the cr triumph of justice, whether for against the accused, the time consum: in the work would, not be begrnd As it is, it Is very tiresome, and a little fidiculous. A MEMORABLE BANQUE . A novel dinner party sa: down at the Grand Central tables yesterday two enjoy the good things that were spread before them. The guests numbered just upon two hundred, and the vcvasion Novel as it was interesting. ‘Mr, James Stokes, one of New Yord's malllionaires, has been building a new home on Park avenue. He is very well @entented with the work that has been done for him, and has been favorably impressed by the evident willingness Qnd intelligence of all the mechanics and laborers employed on the building. So yesterday he made his good feeling manifest by inviting to a dinner every man who had done work on his house Bishop Potter, R. Fulton Cutting James W. Pryor, R. C. Morse, of tic Young Men's Christian Association, and others were present. Bishop Potter made © pléasant address, in which he pre- dieted from this memorable banquet the dawn of a new relationship between the ist and the artisan, Important events have sometimes fol- fowed unusual banquets. The great Bel- shessar feast. with a thumping check Was as Gen. Mitchell, then landiord of Congress Hall, in Albany, where the Prince ar hie suite were stopping, .was on the Governor's staff. Thurlow Weed per- suaded the Governor that the Prince would be offended at sitting down to dinner with @ tavern-keeper, and #0 Gen. Mitchell, who was Commissar: Getieral on the staff, was asked to stay away from the feast. The vandal came neat breaking up the staff and the banquet. Chauncey M. Depew gave a dinner at the Union League Club to his Bowéry po- Utical friends after the last election, andthe result won for the great after- dinner orator, in addition to his many other honors, the title of a “peach. But the Stokes dinner last night was different from all of these. It was a merited compliment to the artiaans and laborers whose. faithful services ha been retideréd to théfr host, “aid had mado him anxious to prove his appre- clation of their intelligence and devo- tion. There was only one feature of the ban- quet open to criticism, an dthat was, in- deed, laughingly alluded to by Bixhop Potter." The only GeVerage Wis ginger ale. TRIUMPHART BOSSE:?. The two bosses are in luck at Albany. Mr. Platt's Bi-Partisan Police bill has pasred the Senate by 17 yeas to 11 nays. In England, at the opening of the New- market meeting, Mr. Croker’s horse Hau de Gallio won the Crawfurd Plate, and he and his friends won $100,000, Mr, Piatt’s triumph ta a signal one, be- cause we had heard so much from Albany about Platt's decline and fall and the revolt of Republican Senators and the utter hopelessness of mustering more than fifteen affirmative votes for bi-partisaniam. Hows Croker’s victory is also one not to be lightly considered. Newmarket is the hotbed of English racing. The very bert stock goes there, The events are always well contested, and for the Craw- furd Plate the stablea of Prince Solty- Koff, Baron de Rothschild, the Duke of Hamilton, Sir J, Miller, and other dis- tinguished turfmen were represented. ‘The feature of the event was the rid- ing of Wille Simms, the colored Ameri- can Jockey, whose first race on the Eng- Ush turf has made him the lion of the stables, ON THE RAMPAGE. It In to be regretted that the reformers are so reformatory that each one Is dissatlss with what the other does, Dr. Parkhurst, whose services have been so highly appreciated by the peo- je of New York, and to whom Is due the credit of having been the pioneer In the work of police exposure, does not appear to be pleased with any of his old associates, none of whom seems to keep pace with his flery zeal. ‘The good Doctor ls now pitching into Mayor Strong. He admits the correct- ness of a Boston story telling that he had criticised somewhat severely the action, or rather the Inaction, of the Mayor in police matters. He “mildly suggested,” he says, ‘that Mayor Btrong had disappointed a gteat many of those who had hoped for great reforms ‘from Gis administration.” ‘The Doctor cannot mako out how # ls that “four months have gone by and we still have the same Board,” and he suggests that the Mayor In a little too ready to abandon opposition to a bi-partisan police for what he can get from Albany. + At the very outset of Inspector Mo- Laughlin's trial the prospect held forth that even if he ts convicted his lawyers have a strong opportunity for an appeal, based on the Judge's tuling. It is not too late yet to remedy the matter, Why not have the trial per- fectly legal and avoid future complica- tons and expense to the elty? As between the Lexow Bi-Parttsan DIM and nothing, the Better New York would choose to get nothing. A, Police Licard of Mayor doubtless be truste rong's choosing could to bridge over the on Legislatures and the next wmakers ht reasonably to learn wisdom from the 4 of this one, It must have made those members of our “finest” who told Train Robber Perry the names of the streets and ex- plained to him how ho could get to Jersey feel like clubbing out their own brains when they learned that the $2,250 prize fugitive who was right under their noses wus captured by a common Wee-~ hawken sleuth, It really looks as though the "L" road's smoking car-lamp would soon be a thing of the past, Mr. Hold's bill, compelling the road to light its cars by gas or electricity, passed the Assembly yesterday. Uncle Russell Sage will have a sorry day when he finds he must do more than make promises, There is @ great opportunity for another letter from the White House. It should treat of the Reef Trust, the Tobacco Trust, the Coal Trust, the Sugar ‘Trust, and ali other Trusts, Also of the Anti- plainly Olney. rust law. And it should be addressed to Attorney-Gen. Now the tea leaves begin to turn. Mayor Strong’s ebony tea-mixer has left him, and the business man’s chuice walks around his office at teatime snif- fing for the accustomed aroma of the Oriental plant and tenderly crooning “Oh, where is the good old Dan]? WIL the new Bl-Partisan Police bill enable Commissioners and police cap: tains and inspectors to buy real esta sn or elsewhere us easily as rtisan scheme did. ‘There was is a good deal of "buy" in san police business Gen, Martinez Campos has) Cuba and will proceed tw quell the r: bellion. If he hasn't a martial cloak to wrap around him during his que t he can put on @ Havana wrapper. act There are few things In farce-comedy er than Senator Lexow in his at- mpt at debate or at rejoinder, But in e-comedy the funny men are Mef-makers, too. The manner of Robber Perry's retak- takes away much of the glamour m his previous career, Perhaps he was only @ bold, bad man by accident, anyway. It is not to be forgotten that the State Senate veted, yesterday, 17 to 11, against feft im each plate by the guesis, was the precursor of the defeat of James G. Blaine for the Presidency. Years before Bhunkey's Feast, given by ex- jargap to the Prince of Wales i Duke of Newcastle, was the signal of @ sort of social revolution. the practically unanimous will of New York city. And this {s Republican home rule! As if the blow from Albany were not hard enough, the Mayor found the Re- publicai’ Board of Aldermen also turned A Design for Col, Waring's THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APR! A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL, ® Whi Street-Cleaning Uniform. there, as “The World” fore the Mayor. had shi future bonds. Byes of the State Senate again own . ‘There be- It can't be dodged by diverting all the talk to the subject of “FORTURE.” Go and “enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.” If your nerves are jarred, and your syatem at all fatigued, go to the Lyceum Theatre and see “Fors tune,” a “play” (m'yen!) In three act by Fred Horner, adapted from a “piay’ fn five acts by Belot and Villetard. (Notice that Horner in making the adaptation dropped two act Tan't there somebody who could adapt it all over again and drop the other three?) Fortune” will rock you to sleep, mother, dear. A gentle lethargy will Steal o'er you long before the first act fe over, and you will fee quite vexed ‘when it Is time to go home and disturb your little snooze, It is not every play that han the sedative effect of a bro- mide, and this has been a rather fevered season. Therefore this adapta- tion by Horner—I wonder if he In any felation to little Jack Horner who sat In @ corner—is quite welcome. Mr. Frohman withdrew “An Ideal Hue- band" from the Lyceum because of the Infamy of its author. {1 do hope that Fred Horner won't interrupt the run of “Fortune” by doing anything in the least wicked, because I am perfectly convinced that the play will run until the patrons of the Lyceum have grown tired of going to sleep. It is a chatty little affair that might have been con- donsed into one act if little Jack Horner hadn't felt It incumbent upon him to pad out thr “What dreadful things wills are, are they not?" Constance asks in the first i. Seen “lact. And I quite agree with her. Wills Soe eee ee ene adye en [are dreadful things, Constance, for har " i Ver, Grady, Koen | real, live plays designed to keep one MH AR held ioe gb awake. “Fortune” 1s all will—the will Japan got all tt wanted from China Now LI Hung Chang will have a great mets time squaring himself when back home. Senntor Stapleton had the opportunity But he lacked etime yesterday, 1oilow loud % of a li the wil brave vote, Byrnes that clty. Detective Clifford convinced Train Robber Perry that some things besides Ughtning can strike in Jersey. Vhy did Croker rechristen Bau de Gallle? Owed to woul be more suitable, It remains to be proven tha among the things which, when they go must come down, Ol tn up to 8 up, . It tt with the sunset gun. What a pity that Senator Lexow did not develop an early interest in North Pole researches! Mayor Strong hasn't 1 confidence any longer, for two? against “ Burope Japan." And to think that the Mayor must en- dure it all with none to brew his tea. Plattocracy for New York and plenty climbs: higher poor folks will have to zo to bed with » clalm has yet been made by Supt. he had train-robber Perry under surveillance while he was tn this his horse ‘Tammany t oll . Parkhurst's Congratulations ‘Then Eurppe ought to be ashamed of iteelf. of 1t seems to be the Albany idea, When will tho men who don't re the papers berl. 1: ts bertberi bad, In the Senate, to-day? Board, Mr, Mayor? To-morrow the League's “Pla: the reorganization bill that, a jaw ag it stands, oe And this is the blow that we get at the upper hous and a half ago, oo. But as to the Mayor end eT the Mal wisdom of the me: his opinion and position many-Lexow police legislation @ mind of friend or enemy. night, {tke writing unpleasant things hemitation up to date day's work at Albany Minneapolis Times, ood Enon i Ne person for the Tammany nas ented In the statement that Still good enough for the organization, ho doubt on that score —Prov The The fact te against him, yesterday, on the matter bf recent juggling with the ctty’s finan cial statements. But the ju, duction by the son, Hing yuthor's father.—Boston Jourval, stop trying for jury- A new paralytic disease Is called beri- Whore ts Mayor Strong's sweet faith Now will you give us that new Police yy ball FATHER KNICKERDOCKER’S DIARY haw pagaed the worst of the Lexow police bills— that meant to perpetuate the bi-parti«an system of deals and dickers—and has so tinkered with uid it become a It will defeat its own ends, Jan tre of a Legislature which wo no Bladly welcomed Into being short three montha waiting: This ought to Imagine that the beautiful faith in at Albany, he expressed the other day, han received @ shock wh regarding Platt-Tam- 4 remain 1 do not feet, about Tam thinking that he must be bitterly hurt and disappointed over thi ish, the cholce of some highiy hieftainshin that Instead of hurting now {1 Is mad that Kip- Jungle Book 1s to be illustrated by we much of an eccentric uncle who must have been a raving maniac. He has a num- ber of greedy, money grubbing rela- tivem who are all waiting for his (211,000. It is left .n trust for them, and they ara to ballot among themselves, the relative getting the most votes to Inherit the fortune. In case any bribery or corruption is discovered, the money will go to the young lovers. You are quite willing to swear that it will go to the young lovers. As a matter of fact, it does go to the young lovers, Constince, who is Inclined to be naughty, though — married, ob- tains the largest number of votes by trickery, But she will not accept the £241,009, She turns suddenly good— I timed her when I woke up with @ start, and found that her reformation was effected in one minute and forty- three seconds. She listened by the portleres to the conversation of the young lovers—naughty ladies always lis- ten at portieres—and it touched her. “I will not accept the money,” she ex- claimed, proudly. ‘I do not want it. Tt shall: go to them." So she relin- uinhed the £241,000 an readily ar though It had been $1.63, and her husband blew her up for It, too, He was quite put out. He was a very rich fellow, but, unlike most stage people, he belleved that the sum of £241,000 was not to be sneezed at. The hero and heroine were not a bit glad to get the money, They loved each other ao much, the cherubs! What did they care for £241,000? ‘They really seemed quite annoyed at getting ‘s At, The play dragged itself to an early end. Mr. Hotner was evidently in a hurry to finish it. He made no effort at polishing or fine writing. Once or twice he inserted an epigram that was scream- ingly silly, but his polley was to lull his audience into oblivion, and epigrams are rather agitating. The Lyceum company had not thoroughly mastered thelr lines. 1 hope that they won't put themselves to any undue trouble. Kelcey played the part of a doctor who tried to set every- thing right. Herbert tm getting to be quite a big boy now, and Mr. Frohman no longer casts him for lovers. He te far too heavy to frivol, so he always makes up with a clot of flour on cach side of his head, to signify white hair and respectability, Miss Irving was de- lightfully harmless, and a little less Raspy than usual. Mra. Whiffen, who is always clever, was not completely swamped by her part, and W. J. Le =e Moyne tried manfully not to be a nul- April, 14. '95 Possibly 1 #hali find out, now. | sance, I can't say that he succeeded, what Mayor Sore Hy penn ra oid for beta) As for Miss Rhoda Cameron—well, she not write, to-night, that nothing has transpired |iowered above her surroundings. The jay. The State Senate has been in motion, It x young lover part was assigned to Wal- ter Hale, who @eemed uneasy. He should sit in front one night and see the play. ‘That would teach him how to compose himself. ALAN DAL SIGNS OF THE TIME Time are gettin’ better, Better timos are comin’; Robins are achurtling back Boos are all a-hummin’! ‘om, Jack; ‘The trees are startin’ in to bud, The south wints are blowin’; teh from which {t will not readily rocover. If he] AR where the ground it ain't all mud would listen to me, now, he would not lose Pee Ge Bea ‘agree! another day before putting @ finishing toucd to] April showers are fallin’ down— the Police Boant—filing ft with new Commi Couldn't be much wetter; sioner of such character that no doubt as to] mut it aln't no use to frown, ‘Times are ge'tin’ better! in to- his Things is ripenin’ for a Soon we'll be tn clover! Hard times? ‘ii mound mighty strange ‘Fore three montha are over! Better times are comin’ Jack coe Th an interview at Boston, tance of Sone ase lh _gcamuie' which I printed here to-lay macehunes| “CAR Mise Ors achusTIR. Basle, breaks out against the Mayor, going so far as Hah tlmed ae: arpaiy't Hi BeBy to practically accuse New York City's Buecutive F OUR own of practising breact of faith with in ig || ORM AT REE OR OUR OWN THER, secure lexintative favors. The Sta nates action should convince the reverend reformer that i War too hasty in hia talk. The Mayor hi ween slow, but not falthions, Unless (am great ly mistaken in him, hoe will have something to say when that Lesow bill comes down, aa tt t, assuming that the Assembly will also pass it, for bis approval or ve [DITOR Ob, for Jeffersons at any, The confience of Jefferson in the poople and 4 conviction that, for better or worse, they would rule, were his marked characterist ‘This gentioman is @ Smith. He writes it E. his fall name, He is Jone of the three Smiths im tbe Assembly at Al- a {eet sat inated |Seay. and te the most notable one of the ee the bw chants, thle popular | Hecdinty tram Wether Aititere caine Hie of thousands; and there 18 bardly one young | Mat MAY see | fore " young | Wer "QT. Sate hes pedarsy. cat up nie mind * place where “they aay | Book says that he enna | visit be makes to New York—st. lowie Pa onal teat youre Fathers jure. — —— = The fathers are coming to the front. The older String Up Me. Fish. Howells has just tasued bis took with an intre.| MT Flak 19 now an ardent Platt man and his methods are the customary Platt methods Me | ngineering one of those precious "deals" The people meanwdile are taking aolet.—Bullaly Com- Mvening World's Galléry of Léving Pleteres. CAPT. HANK HAFPF. ‘This ts @ picture of the salt who ts ‘expected to oall the new cup defender to victory. He is a right good captain and will have a right gcod crew. bo THE GLEANER’S BUDGET. Here, a Hint here Tales of City Life. Three Brooklyn men tell me ther have sworn off fishing for the season. The resolution is due to an experience on Jamaica Bay, beginning last Sunday. They caught a good meas of flounders. but on the return home the catboat they oceapled captized and the trio of fishermen had to cling to the upturned keel un:ll midnight, when they dritted agalnet the Government breakwater, There they remained until rescued at 5 o'clock Monday morning. Then they remained in bed a couple ot daya fighting off pneumonia, A aight tn wet slothing, on a breakwater, with wi ishing over It and a thirty-mile an hone wind ts not canduclve to pleasure, consequently ther have decided that fishing on Jamaica Day is not what It (8 cracked up to be. ee 8 Vantty, In ite current five, has revived the tubject of erecting an arch at the Fifth avenue ‘entrance to the Central Park. lumbtan celebration,”” it sxyn, denigns of a young architect a4 Tene was erected acrona Fifth avenue at Fifty-clghth atreet, temporarily Which was most stately and beautiful. Why does fot some wealthy lover of hix native city per- petuate in enduring form this beautiful monu- ment? It is apparently out of the question for us to expect our municipal authorities to give us more artistic than ‘Specdwaya’ for fast trotting horses, and all our public monuments are the fesult of private enterprise. This is not ax it should be, for the corporations of all towns Abroad beautify their dwelling places trom time with stately memorials.” New York in a . but It has much to learn yet about being & thoroughly beautiful city oe ‘There te mach talk these days about the dle Agreeableness of being obliged to ‘kiss the book,” im taking an oath in court and elsewhere. Penn- aylvanin's Governor bas jnst signed a bill intended to relieve oath-takers of this necessity. The re- Pugnance to the act arises, of course, from the worn and dirty condition of the Bible which ts usually handed to the affrmant. ‘I never yet have kissed one of the books," said a man with whem 1 discussing the subject. ‘1 have taken oath before election hoards a great many times, and I have always grasped the book Armiy ‘and Imprinted a chaste salute upon the back ef my own hand. . Owners of domestic pete are always ansiously Inquiring about the length of life which uney may expect for their little favorites, Households brightened by the presence of feathered songaters Will be Interested to learn that © canary which has just died In Washington had obtained the re- rhable age of sixteen years. Hm was bora in Nebraska in 1879. THE GLEANER. ——_—- STRONG'S TALE OF WOR. Mayor Strong had-e man his te Listen to a tale of woe! ‘Tho follow had little else to do; Listen to a tale of woe! And when His Honor wan feeling blue, And he and Job with their work were throug, ‘Then Dan't began the tea to brew— To brew—to brew! Listen to a tale of woe! to brew; cuore: Hard triale for them two! For Hin Honor and Job Hedger, too For Dan'l resigned, and away de He flew—he flew! Listen to a tale of woe! When office-seekers (a motley crow), Listen to a tale of woe! Insisted upon an interviow, Linten to a tale of woe! Ten Strong would get in a fearful stew, And call on Dan'l the tea to brew; Mited Oolong, and English breakfs He'd brew—he'd brew! to @ tale of woe! t, too, List cuorus; Hard trials, ac. But now with his work Dan-i-el’s through Listen to my tale of woe! Never more Hix Honor's tea he'll brew; Listen to a tale of woe! Reformer's plans ate all askew ince Dan'l's sipped, for they don't know Can mix Strong's tea in proportions true— 80 truc—boo, boo! Listen to a tale of woe! cHorts Nard trials for them two- . For His Honor and Job Hedg: Drank only one cup, while Strong took two— Took two—took two! ‘Liaten to a tale of woe! MAS ——— TALKS WITH THE LAWYER. Purchasers of Goods on Inatalments Put Question I buy a machine for $550 and give my notes te pay $20 per month. I am paying something every month, but am six months behind, I still ewe $160. Can they take the machine from me? ‘They hold a chattel mortgage. HLTH, They can foreclose the mortgage and appiy the proceeds to payment of amount stil! due. ‘ . 1 borrow $110 from a iva company, and they ive me $107.50, end charge me #33 for tndorsing and guaranteeing my note 1 give them a chattel mort on omy x. tures for $145. When the notes become due pay thom part of the money, Can they foreclose and take my fixtures and sell them, or can I compel them to give me time, or what redress Dave I? Doss aot this come under the usury lawt B. When they bring sult to foreclose, set up the faats you have stated, as matter of defense, or else sue them to restrain Interference with your property after first tendering amount really due, with legal interest. . On Oct. 10, 1692, 1 purchased two lote from an Improvement Company on the instalment plan, On Feb. 19, 1604, I made the last payment and received a receipt In full from the agent, with the promise {inet © deed would at once be given. It was not , although repeated a have been | made for same, There are other parties in the the money. How can I get my deed of my money back? B. It would appear from your statement that the Company ts a fraudulent con- cern. Bring suit to recover back your money. If the amount is not over $250 and you: want # speedy result with Iittle expense, bring your action in a District Court 1%, 1085, BETWeer ts woMEn. y ‘The most ambitious political project which my tot hdd proeuined to consider thus fir 1 how hopelessiy out of reach. TAO was In the sur- eation of & woman to Mil the poxition of a Com- mitsioner of Onaritien, 1 cannot think, Bow- vor, that we will make as good municipal offers aa we have cherch workers and foroiga mission enthusiasts and charity organisers, We ate too Interesting, and when we quarrel—angels ani ministers of grace defend us!—then what valus- history make! Long atter the great White Clty hat sunk into oblivion the stories of the Board of Lady Managers of the World’ Fair will Ivo tf the aNnAte of history and be trotted out to testify to feminine weakness. White Wwe were content to make slippers for the min- {eters and custard for the dick and ear multe for the heathen, ond a0 tong at we were wationed to limit our emeeutive ability to the church faire Rone Silk Crepon, is made of old rose silk trimmings of shot rose This gown with erepon, dnd our Mnanctal management to made-over gowns and oyster ippere, feminine intelligence tipped exactly the fight notch, but as we it Ambitlone we develop traits that are more broadly buitan thas exclusively femt- ane. ‘The foregoing platitudes lead up to the implied possibility that the Woman's Department of the Atianta Bxpoaition may run against a onag be- fore the Bxposition becomes history. A resigna. tion on the New York Board hae already been handed in and accepted, but there haw been no ripple upon the surface beyond the even circten that an occurrence tke @ pebble towed into a atream might cause. eee At a meoting of chairmen of the various com- mittees, held yesterday morning at the residence ; of Misa Powell, 29 West Thirty-cighth street, the charming and capable representative from At-|an@ hellotrope chine ribbon, and a yoke lants, Mra, Edward Moran, Chairman of the Com-| of o'd lace, mittee on Art, expressed regret that the women artinte should not be content to exhibit in the Woman's fuilding. ‘‘However,"* sald she, “I cannot blame them, for there Is no sex in and if we are treated an we were in Chicago, where the Judges who awarded the prizes refurwd to come into the Woman's Bullding at all, we cannot get justice outalde the main exhibit. To Keep Flowers Fresh, Girls to whom flowers are a luxury, and not a daily surfeit, have a dozen in- genious ways of keeping them fresh. There Is none better than plunging the stumps, up to the blossom, in a basin eee of cold water and leaving them over ‘qf true statements had been made in the papers |.night. Another almost as good ia to about our fusses, accounts of which filled ao much |leave the flowers and the containing of the current news space In the press at that {dish in the open air over night. A car- time,’ ventured Mra, John 8, Wise, ‘the public | nation with its stem thrust Into a potato would have understood that we were simply fight-|keeps fresh for several days, while the ing for our own ca for a principle and for} fleeting charm of the morning glory may the recognition that was cont ‘Then, too, we disagreed in rather | more gen- teel, refine! manner than the reports credited ul with." Apropos of this statement, It seems proper to mention that my not yet blossom be plucked over night and per- mitted to open in the shade, Fancy Dress Bal thrown Ink-bottles, mor cuspidore, sor fougnt] Novelty duel, nor sinpped nor disfigured each other, nor| A social novelty is being arranged in Indulged im other undignified procedures, such as| Dublin. Lord Wolseley has issued invi- the masculine prototype—for instance, even the| tations for a fancy drees ball. The la- chivalrous Southern gentleman—has sought as an| dies must be dressed to resemblé some outlet to his emotions. painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gains- eal borough or Romney, and be able to quote In the woman's domain at the Southern Fair} the particular picture she is copying. theré is to be a theatre which will produce com- | Gentlemen must wear eighteenth cen- tinuously short, one-act plays, the work of | tury costumes, court dress, hunt dress, aspiring feminine plagrignte. Mra. A. M. Palmer} oreeches and stockings or full uniform. Lenaealn tba: yd ° Lord Houghton has promised to attend, ‘The um shone very brightly on her black}a@nd there ts some flutter of interest matin ekirt eeaterday afternoon was sailing over the ball among the smart folks in ext End avenue, There was a lot of Jet) Dublin. gown, too, and the glimmer and flash of hareneqesmeed {t all im the @unshine attracted the attention Peas and Asparagus. of two Iittle girle—etreet waife—who were gath-/ It is @ pity that it is @ fashion to serve ering scraps of wood or scraps of anything in| such vegetables as peas and asparague their babket. Dropp!t thelr burden, they stole/in a sauce, They have so delicate a silently up behind her, She saw their shadows, flavor that only a little salt and good and turned quickly and indignantly to demand | sitter should be added to them. This is what they wanted. “Nothing, planse, lady: I lerye, alen, of turnips. Caulifiswer, onions ly wanted to touch it.’ It thetic. 1 Ginklace buda't heard 4 bes and carrots, however, need a sauce, PRUDENCE SILAW. WALF A DOZEN JOKES. Hairdressing. Just at present the hair is parted and brushed aside, but rumor has it that An@ the Leader fe a Jingle om the| parted hair is not to be the fashion Way-Up Price of Beet. much longer. To women no longer He onecered at veartanans young, a parting 1 a rule, almost too severe, particularly if the halr Be brushed xmoothly back from the tem> Another rumor is to the effect that the old-fashioned “waterfall” is to be revived. Like crinoline, this fashion will be fought againet by the majority of its until there Is no possible hope left. Cranberry Jelly. Put the berries on to boll with a@ Uttle water as will cover them. This is really the secret of success—use as little water as possible. When the berries are Boft mash them through a atevé, and for each cup of the juice, which will be very, thick, allow a cup of granulated sugar. Put them on the stove again and let cook for three minutes. Then put in moulds which have been rinsed out with very cold water. If you make more than you will use at one time it is better to uee several small moulds than one large one. For a company dinner the indl- vidual mow:ds are very pretty, A pinch of powdered sugar and an- other of cornstarch, beate in With the yolks of eggs, will keep an omelet from collapsing. Beat the whites stiff and 1 then cut them into the yolks, A good tonic for hair is salt water, | Put a teaspoonful of salt ino half pint of water and rub 4 little on the @calp every day with a small soft cloth. The effect at the end of a month will please you. It pays well to do mending befote the article goes into the wash, since the Process to which it is there subjected materially enlarges the holes, and it t@ 4, better and more agreeable to wear if thé washing follows the mending, Maffe of Straw. Straw muffs are usually sold to match @ tiny bonnet or dainty togue. If one forgets that they are not designed to be useful, but merely for effect, then they may be considered a great success. One of the most effective straw muffs seen this Spring is round in shape and made of coarse straw, burnt orange in color. At each end are double frills of black lace and caught through the centre of the muff are long-stemmed ox-eyed dal. sies. The satin lining matches the straw in color. Be Lent Noisy. A gown for church should be ab lovely in its way as one choores to make it, but that way should be tatlor-made, with a handsome street het and tan gloves, Any rustling or jingling, bad form at any time, is a positive nuisa: at church. Where people once Bepensee | for rustling lining ilk, that which {6 softest and least noisy is now in & by people who know. Maple Gandy. Boll two pounds ef maple sugar in a pint or léss of warm water until, when dropped into cold water, i¢ hardens. Add three tablespsonfuls ef cidar vinegar and pour into tin pans te cool. This makes a healthy candy fue children. Ho now perceives theip arguments ‘Are logical and atrgte. In days gone by; ‘twas wrong. = = LETTERS In confidence I'll tefl you why — He altered his batet: (hte bolum te epen lo everybody wo has a He couldn't stretch’ hie salary complaint t@ make, a grievance to ventilale, in formation to give, a subject of general interest to diséuse or a public service to acknonledge, end who an pit the idea into teas than 100 words, Long letter cannot be printed, ) Up ta the priceiot beet. —Kansas City Journal, Pleasant Recollections, Merchaot—What! Are you here againt only yesterday that I Ricke! you downsta! ‘Tramp—What @ memory you have got! forgotten all about it.—Texas @iftings. Spare the Birds. Don't Kill the birds, the pretty birds, ‘That sing about yout door; It's doubtful if they're quite the thing On boanets any more. ‘ —Detrott Fribuae, } Taking John Henry to Task. To the Editor: I greatly fear that your correspondent, Mr. ‘ohn Henry,"” whose prose adorns (7) so often your valuable paper, 1s suffering from an acute ‘mania of cacocthes scribendt; in plain English, a rage for scribbling. Why, nothing Is safe from is pen, Politics, Industry, science, &., &c., all Ia good to him. His wife (if he has one) may say of him what Dean Switt's wife said of her husband: for it is well known ¢ Dean could write finely on @ broomstick.’ ‘The only difference between J. H. and the Dean ‘Ing a fuss all day, ma'am, is that J. H. does not write finely, but he writes Mrs, Olive Branzh—What about? @ great deal more. Last Saturday, being pos- Nurse--It's becauwe they caa't have a birth-| sessed with @ wish of doing something for Cuba's ey apiece, like the Dawson children next door.—| freedom, he published @ fery denunciation of ANS Bite Spain; therefore the cause of the Cuban Insur- gents is Won, a Dios, Mariscal Martines Cam- pes, Don Juan Earle will banish you from Cuba as quick an St. Patrick banished the serpents from Ireland, EX-GUARD 821, T have Diacontent of the Twi Nurse—Sure, ma'am, the twins bave been miak- Look Out. Ride & cork-horse to Ranbury Gross To see a young lady In bloomers, of cours Who rings with abandon the bell on her wheel, And makes poor pedentrians ¢old shivers feel. —Detroit Tribune, Oh, Woman! Gue—it you don't give it to me at once, Iti] Who says the Thind avenue cable conductors are las you. modelé of politeness, @c.? Whoever thinks so has Madge—And if T do give it to you will you| bad no experience like mine. In the fret place, Vet me alone? I had to run after the car, and then, when ring- Qus—Certainiy. img up my fare, tho conductor jammed my bat Well, over my face with his elbow. Do you think he apologized? Not muot, He simply grinned at « companion on the rear platform, no doubt think- tng be had done“his share for one day towards Keeping up the reputation of this uniformed gang of toughs Fot @ gentlemanly and courteous cot ductor, give me the Broadway conductor. He 1 the personification of intelligence and manners, ‘and last, but not least, always looks neat and Chesterfields on Broadway Car Plat- form: To the Réttor: you can't have it—Tenas gitt- ee “EVENING WORLD” SKETCH-BOOK. Randaome, DICK CASINO, Stuffing the Mail-Boxes Te the Editor Advertising must pay well in this city, but why do people overdo it? They send peddiers to stuff up the mall bokes with thelr trash and thus I think people should not go 0 far as to take the little valuable apace (the mall box) which is only intended for the United States mall, and much needed. How can this be stopped? KK. K. The Trucks and the Brick: To the Editor: Between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets on Eleventh avenue the bricks are piled to the centre of the street ten fect high. Now, 4f Col. Waring will only remove the bricks and leave the trucks alone the truckmen will be very much pleased. The trucks are owned by poor men, the bricks by rich. OH. J. ‘Tired of Reform Already, To the Editor: ps 4 little annoying to the nervous} In your able interview with our reform Mayor But If he can't dodge roller skaters| the troay Is apparent of the whole thing. Like aud tricyclists, what business has he om @ny| many others, I voted for reform; but asking for sidewalks of New York where roller-skating ani pread I got a atone. Six months out of work, my tricyeling go on? There are * good many such aide- | tax raised 90 per ont. and charged 12 per cent. walks. Aa likely as not there ought mot to be| mierest on afrearage. The ‘Friday report 1s any, Mf the olty ordinances were to be rigidly ea-| just and timely. CARPENTER, Brooklyn. forced. But cBildrea must play, or there'll be Ro ehildrs 4 the playgrounds bill isn't a law "G yet. It takes @ citizen who has forgotten that he ‘Why 1200 'W Was ever @ child to object to little things like} To the Editor: roller-skates and tley. on a sidewalk of the Your correspondent Tuesday's “Evening present New York. If New adn't grown | World’ has about the right idea as to leap years, jot Be a Leap Year. fo 0 fast ax to forgot Ite children the little ones| but 1 do not think he has altogether the right would bave better play-places than the walks, | grip on the subject. The time of the earth's ——_—. =——___ revolution around the sua is 365 days, 6 hours, @ minutes and 49.536 seconds, which equals 2965.24224 days, Now, as we cannot use fractions of @ day ip the calender, we fall behind time that inaugurated im Chicage.—Paiiedelpbia Reo-| each year by the amount of the fraction .24234| Please eall at this oMce for letters ef a day; to make up ibis low of Lime we add ' sem. ~ A = yeh yearly error of .24224 equals .06894, which being less than a day, it to evident thet we added too much, by the @ day asd 96806 Bf a diy, which 19 .08104, and fare that much ahead of time every leap year. There are, however, in every 100 years, tirentys five leap years, eo if we multiply the leap yeas error of .03104 by 25 we have the frastion .174, the amount we are shéad of time at the of each 100 years, This being nearly @ day, full day is taken off in years ending wi 00, that t9, Im the even 100 years; bat in off that day we have taken off too mach by difference between 1 and .176, which 18.2% | now four times that fraction 1s nearly equal te j 1 (.896), and the 100 year period occurs four times | in each 400 years, and as we are behind tim that amount, we must add a day every 400th year, making years ending with 00 again leap years if divisible by 400. I am not aware that the calculation has been carried any further, ag there {9 plenty of time before the figures will be needed, aNGINERR. 3 Fe i jot All Jumiuses., To the BAitor: Allow me to say @ few words to those individe 15 who are go fond of Writing letters to them- solves purporting to snswer the questions of am uncertain party who signs himself “'P, V."" Pare’ mit me to suggest to the counsellors that it would be to thelr advantage for them to study Kngliee grammar, and to punctuate property, and to lear how to compose @ letter before giving it to the public to read, if they Galy kaow how ridiouslous ther appear to the péople whe do keow something they would cease thelr Gletastéful advice and eympathy. They probably need that eympathy more than the heartsick individual, of whom they write, CORRIGENDA, | Those Trolley Belle! To the Raitor . ‘Those trolley bella! those trolley della, How many 4 tale their musio tells! ‘The number of soule they've sent to heaves, ‘The papers say are 107! ‘The mototenéh's children etay at hemes ’ ‘They know It le not safe to ream. Down in the tomb Marie doth dwell, Ghe did not hear the trolley bell. ‘That juggerndut with clanging bell ‘Must surely have been planned im hades ‘Thowe trolley bells! these trolley bella! How many a tale thelr music tele! E. HENNING, Breokive, Call It Cooper Avenue, To the Editor: ‘This talk of changing the mame of thd Bowery “ {a nonsense, but if the new reformers will do i in spite of all that can be sald, let it be ealled Cooper avenue, remembering the old saying, “Call no man good until he is dead. Peter Cooper was good man and gave the people a nice park, and @ part of the building is free to learn many things im, and very few have done as much ag ” he. Cooper avenue, if the change must come, Moo Prayers te Say om Entering a Chare To the Baitor: Im answer to “D. R., Brodklyn,"* wie dose’ know how to pray, this is what I sy when 1 enter @ bublding dedicated to God: “Heavenly Father, 1 thank thoe for the privilege of again entering thy house, and let the words of my ‘mouth and the meditation of my heart be siwaye acceptable im thy sight, O Lord, my strength ang my redeemer’’ (Pealm xix, 14-15), MB. “Let the words of my mouth and the medites tion of my heart be always acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer’* (Pealm aix., 14-16). AN OLD MOTHER, + * Brookiya, MT, Thomas P. Finlay. whieh oualg