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CHILDREN’S COURT Juvenile Unfortunates and Delinquents Should Be Kept from Contaminating Sur- roundings. Commissioner Keller and Magistrates Favor Evening World Plan, and Building !s Avail- able. “Children’s Court,” ‘The plan for a ases whall where nothing but children’ be tried, meets with general favor The Evening World has made inquiry among the City Magistrates, Commissioners and others whose official duties give them an perience qualifying them to “vole” on the proposition, and there is no dissent- ing voice ‘That innocent, or, at the worst, only mischievous, little children must _necess profligates sartly mingle with paupers and ¢ tually criminal classes who form the daily grist in the City Mag trates’ courts has jong been deplored by thinking men and women ‘As the courts are enild guilty of nothing more heir than that of belng born to poverty for whom the city must provide a hom must reach that home through « May istrate’s court filled with a rabble of drunks and dlsorderiies and their friends, or by way of the Out Door Poor Bureau of the Departinent of Charities, where the lame, the halt, the bind, the mentally, physically and morally wrecks ed paupers of ail ages assemble dally Calldren charged with minor offenses, litle Incorrigibles and even fai! Into the hands of the humane #- cletios because their natural protectors abuse or neglect them, must all join in that awful paiice court “line prisoners” under the present system ‘The purpose of the Children's Court is to save unfortunate children from the disgrace, the loathsome surroundings and contammnating influences of chronic paupers, the dissolute and the viclous An court-house omstituted now, & a8 wutlding of the Department of Charities, ‘Third avenue and Eleventh stree This butlding is owned by the city year. ene reception: root for the outdoor poor, # by 6 feet in dimension, on the street line, woud make a fine court: room, und It 1s already fitted and fur nished lke the conventional police court-room, 4 Commissioner John W. Keller 1s transferring the Children's Bureau of thd she Charity Department to this bu ng from the “Public Charities” pler, sot of Bast Twenty-sixth street, for ne express purpose of securing the velpless, hagtess little creatures seeking | 4 ‘abdie comes in institutions from the ri if pauperiem that in des the offices yy in the week. { Gupt. Blair every 7,000 Par Too Poor. Assistant Bupt, Frederick EB. Bauer, will have charge of the new Children’s tureau, which will occupy the rooms ormerly the offices of the Department + Charities. Mr. Bauer will have « matt of three clerks and fourteen men and woren, whose duty will be to investigate every application for admission for child to one of the public Institutions. In the year Juet closed there were such applications in behalf of 7,451 chil- dren, about three thousand of whom were admitted to public Institutions 4# wards of the city, about two hundsed and fifty others were admitted on con- dftion that their parents or parent bear a part of the expense of their main- tenance, and about four thougand ap- plications were denied on the reports of the Investigators. Another clasx of children are com- nitted to the city institutfons by the magistrates from the police courts. ‘These cases and those of juven' delinquents, arising all on Manhattan and the Bronx, would make a sufficient business for one magistrate lgned to it the children's court exclusive. n those who | j of | Miready awalts) the Children's Court in the abandoned | It has! NEEDED. LEROY B. CRANE. COMMISSIONER KELLER. World for takin § up th * gad oner of 1 for any effort ft {1 om thankful in project in which 1 keep the chi criminals an omenitted (9 ju! FhIn, be Ineorriaght to assume that th With child of par ¥ “Correction. nthe en down at all times: dren mingling among determined to re- short that m: veatigators cannot urs, about, and chic dren are committed practically without Proper tnvestl children's court in the old bulld! would bring these tw) branche tine wether under one re : {ZAM children (ihould wo to this en's court, thus saving them fromm mingling with the ordinary crowd of Follee Court prisoners. It need not cost the city a dollar, All that Is needed ts an amendment to the charter creating hile an eighth city magistrates court to. be confined to consideration of chil- dren's cases, and assigning one of the present Magistrates to sit in the new ny month * vaca Magistrate Hobert ( now sit- tng in the West Side strongly hil. advocates the establi has canvassed dren's court. aad he Among his fellow magtrirat M Li Leroy, B. ane says “Dam very careful myseif, and inva: riably postpone the consideration of every care involving the custody, core of correction of a child until the regu- lar grist of prisons is ground and the court room emptied: of the habitual police court class, 1 wncelve of great benefits from the tion of these | court atmosphere think It would be burden to the Board of Magistrates if ¢ of the twelve members hed to take os tum tn the children’s court, in addition to his present duties. “In the Harlem Court we are able to keep the children quite apart from the rest of the crowd, but at Morrisania there Is but the one room, and at Essex Market the only avatiable place for the children in waiting Is the hardly more than closet that opens from one side of sty court room. It might be an thing to open @ can plete separa- frem th: arta inay 49 not Keller reece Sek ‘I am very grateful to The Evening Rice Uses His “Pe Mallet to Advertice His Shew—Geodwin Gets a Quarter. ‘There are mutterings of war in the chorus of “Little Hed Riding Hood” which Edward Etfervescent Rice ts giv- ing a preliminary canter through Massa- chusetts. One of the features of the musical comedy ts a “Pony” ballet com- posed of girie no! one of whom is more stock In trade ‘or fun, and the idea of covering it with a shagey growth of hair and then appearing as an adver- tinsement “Before and after” ts very re- pellant to b nature his many friends Cor their approval and encouragement in his artistic efforts, de- clines absolutely to serve as the battle- ground for rival hair restorers. Gilmore Getting Well. Paul Gilmore is rapidly recovering from the bullet wound revelved tn Phoe- nix, Arizona, a few days aco during the formance of “Don Caesar” A care- [eee rmplover loaded some of the 'mi- rs guns with real bullets and in a Fistitade Milmore received one of the pel- than sixteen. At least that's what Rice says. The sweet sixteen have been pro- vided with red capes and hoods which they are required 10 wear on the streets. Naturally they create a deai of attention and the management reaps a fine ad- vertising benefit out of them as they Promenade the thoroughfares of ine various towns and citles. The girls de- lets tn his right leg just below the knee. Hé has been taken to Denver for treat- ment and it is expected that he will be able to act again In a few weeks. All-Night Sale. For the firs tt the history of theatres the box office at tae Columbia in Brooklyn war kept open all night Inst night for the sale of tickets for Henry al 74 children’s | sensitive and shrinking | ¢ Mr. Bigelow, while thankful to | ‘ THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENIN Ml Market. TRADING QUITE HBAYY. Tobacco a Feature of the Early Market—The Quotations. Prices of the leading railway shares showed slight declines at the opening stock market to-day in sympathy with the heaviness of the London mar- ket After a rally there was a renewed Weakness and some big deel Al ‘eged news that Ladysmith had sur rendered was used in the afternoon lomediately after the opening (he wiwice market hardened, following the favorable advances of American Tobacco and Conseli The f heavy buying rose an 2 102 df last night Consolidated Gas 1, and Jumped + pointe turt Brooklyn Re was off 34 but gutped the lose later and advanced 1 polit and a half, to Metropollian was up 2 points, Manhat- (an 34. Pennaylvar Panhan Reading i#t pt, Southern Pacttic, Ten: heater Coal & Iron and Wheeling & Lake Erie 24 pf. made sharp advances The trading was active and extr i heavy The Industrial division was feverisn and gome stocks fluctuated In a sensa Wan marked up & kiyn Transit, Sugar, Metro t Rallwa: of the Jumped tre s al stocks Tobacco continued Its to 10 and the Continental Tobacco moved iagishly, fractionab being wited out and point loskes reel ered in some of the int The eatire ist fan half hour on reall Bleel st Consolld after the first The Iron and tall: ‘ afte 4 r epectaities from 1 0 412} Pressure against the figh-priced alles ceased and there oads were steadily soid and | ua! downward course. ng from | to 12 in jocks The whole market sympathy The bond market ‘Was irremiar, but the undertone was ry good New York Central advanced strongly to 191-2, and there were recoveries reaching near a point elsewhere. The continued he Baltimore & Ohio preferred forced It below 76 and stocks mney ‘en er. did not bene- @ Vigorous attack A and ran 1p t0 8/10. the specialties. The depres. son on foreign markets was asel * the motive for the sellit; cena The market hardened allgytly and ' Ged again to the lowest under ribbling of stocks withon! effort to support the mar- The selling movement spent its force nthe late deatinga and prices recov a MigbUly on a very desultory und. ie closing showed no anima. a, bul the slight recovery was not | tmaintained and the tone was easy, Not losses reache! between ! and 3 polnts in ma 6 total ales ¢ shares, and of bonds §2.0 eet Am Linwed pt Am Malt. pt An. Emel Het Ata Smelt & Het pt Am, At Am Anaconds Mining ‘Aan Arbor pf Ach Tp a3 Fe iy aN us ™~ 1a ere r “| | Sathern $4 a) foulhern 24 pt uN Del & Hor. Vel pt ay consol Ges ” we Tohares s Ld] my ip 14 ty Des Moines Duloth, © 8 & At! Ny rr 8 Brie Lit pt | a ae murred a little ut first, but accepted the feo, perormanee alt I the ; but some an a few re- ferent and sian ets make pid be tant to the wows. Mean- Trip Rarepe Cancelled. while Rice amiles complacently ai 19 the depression in Lonjon o: 3 urmure fare. others of the war Weber & Fields have HI Dhedever he hears the rebellious Fumore. abandoned their contemplated trip io the te su |! + ‘theted to the Sweertag wana. [son sata ty plane i ae * my In Cowboy. and the lear, 8 | arranged for the appearance of the work iba ee ae Teddy Norte, | Oman): fy Stu fr 9 era of reform about ¢ ranch, | A ‘Prince Belle om the Mage. i = End anypody who uses | Ming Dajwy Kimball, of Ba: as Gulted to drop a quarter tn the box. Yes- | ho har he central Weare a tie wy me \ igh hcenhig MP le Aad @ amateur dramaitec circies of hat city, ie oH who, nager Harry Mann, of has become * student of the Btanhope- ike mS * declares is well) Wheatcroft Dramatic Bchool. She will| xa. ss Known in society. The letter read | ay an i part in "At the 3 8 8 Dear Mr Gastwin: ear The Covey and ive| Hearth” t et play Harvey we Be Se oes Raed to wun ive sel cane. |of the tho which wilt ance | Kertbere Porter of. ie et et ——= |the Madison Square tre Jai “oun r Mann has the original letter id sn he hides the signature when —— 1 o j Bis « ‘oe on 1a pares) 3 3s3) WELT. ‘Dh. Patchen Takes Issu2 with Dr. Seaver, and Says Our Young Women Are Better Rounded than Those of Declines Follow the Early | Rally in the | . [Reding Se | disappointment 1 " ulation, Prices rai f tall riven ing bi ma | ferred, Deny k ferred and Wabash preferred decreases WHEAT HELD FIRM: | market consequently opened a little easy at 14 cent. decline. but promptiy recov- ered and remained rather firm. whest @%4. July, 73. Mev corn, 3h man. Dr. G. WH. Patchen, medical director of A physical culture institute, at a7 Madi | fon avenue, does not agree with all that Beaver. of Yale, says about the relative physical merits of the East ern and Weatern types of young woman: |. hood. Dr, Seaver based his statements upon the measurements of 1.00) gir! students of Wellesley and Oberlin Colleges and the University of Nebraska The result of excellences may be! summed up as follows EASTERN O1RL Taller WRATERN GIRL, Rigger “08 Greater jung capacity. Bigger 1a (he forearm, ' Lemge Better, | I think the Eastern girl's lungs are hetter developed than those of the West- ern girl,” says Dr. Patchen, “and that her chest is larger, although the bust is arger in the Western girl “ET have measured at least 1,000 girls and women all but the head and feet, and am able to give results which cor- respond in the main with those of Dr. Beaver SEP ER See 0 eee ey West or South. The Bast are bett Veloped than the Westgpn atrls ar arer (he ideal form of woman Now, Southern gitle are physically much leas developed than elther Hast / yo or Western girls, but thelr j=! tis much better, Their faces i ” than those of their felther Kast or Went | may sum up the perfections of the three types as follows: } The Eastern girl has the hanidsomest | figure The Southern girl has the handromest fa “The Western girl has the handsomest bust Culture Has Improved Them. “There has heen a great change in the physical condition of women in the Inet ten years. Girls of from glxieen to twenty are much better developed now than they were (hen “This is due to the greater attention paid to physical culture in schools, cole leges and other \astitutions “The measurements Ihave taken are, 1 believe, representative. for, although we get roseny itive 1 Prof, HW r. instructor at the Inalitwe for Medical and Hy@testc Gymnastics, Fifty-ninth street and/ Madison avenue, and who was for many years an tnstructor io gymnasiums in| Switrer show that to the influence which Teutonic extrac- tion fas had in moulding the Western | irl faye of gymna JANUARY 3, 1900, ALL STOCKS EASTERN GIRLS ARE By NEAREST VENUS FORM. Lis My thre a Dr. orrest Our Girls Pigvon-Teed, experience has taught me Swine girl ts mor ful than the American girl, either to have ever undergone a course c emercige. “The development of both is about the same with the exception of the feet. Swivs girs have much smaller feet. “American sirts that t plaeon-toed “Amerioun Warn quicker when they come here first they are usu- ty physically run down, they are ree red to health and visor by the time after a proper course 0 come quite os graceful. "Whea perfectly dev ing 1 believe the form of the American woman fs as absolutely perfect as na- ture ever comes.” eh with them and their measurements at the last show the rep: | rmal figure of the section Mf the country they hail from.” aye mits ” LRT ON WILD WITHECZEM One of Pittsburg’s Most Estimable Business Men Certifies to the Wonderful Efficacy of Cuticura. sufferer for eight years from that most distressing of a]! disessea, tried some of the best physicians in the country, but they did me Iittic good. The palma of my hands were cove ered, and would become inflamed; little white 7 blisters ot fires would appear, then they would peel olf, leaving a red, smooth surface whick would burn like fire, and itch; well, there is no name for it. On the insid» of the upper part of both my limbs, great red blotches, not unlike hives, would appear, cnd a® soon as T became warm, the burning and itching would begin, Nightafter night I would lic awake all nightand und almost go wild. [ got a box of gaCurievka Olntinent, a bottle of CuTicuRa 4 RESOLVENT, and gave them a thorough trial, * and after afew applications | noticed the red. nes 4 Inflammation disappear, before [had '” aaign of Keema left. Lean trathfully assert | Iw: Eczema, as used one box there was not that 92.00 worth of Curicuna Rementes cured me, » 7 J.D. 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CASCARETS will do without grip or gripe and drive the cold right ont of Just as soon as you ‘*feel like taking cold" take a CARET—there is NOTHING 50 Goop. his measuremence Seaver's conjecture as A sweet bit of candy medicine, purely vegetable, absolute ly harmless, never grip nor gripe. A sale of over 5,000,000 year—| Sie Se--proves their it merit. Be ARETS, the’ srly original, genuiae he grace: assuming sure yi Candy Best for the Bowels for the moat part are brighter and than Swiss giris, and training be- oped by train- “|The Bowery Savings SAND te ROWRMT. New York, Dee. ty 2000, o) dividend 9 thesrate 68 PFUR] ‘ Resding tet i Contra Wis Central pf LONDON STOCKS FIRM. | American Inenes Were imected by | « War Sewe-Speculation Quiet. The London security markets firmer, with home rails showing specia! strength on a mote cheerful sentiment regarding latest Transvaal news American securities were steady, but reactionary, owing tu the feeling of over the war new ling off rom 1-4 9 York clos w York Centra! Western showed ere wes & notable t lower tha: ity fate, ines. Anaconda wae off Baltimore & Vhio ant Pennsylvania lost 1 point each Laulevilie and [iinols Central were off Paul, Boutt ern Railway pre- ed, Atchison pre- 1-2 each CABLES WERE HIGHER, Liverpool cables showed onty a frac fonal advance on wheat to-day. Th: York opening prices were: M B35, arch Irina "ag opening prices were: May ; duly, Wok. May corn, sti | cloning prices: al York March, Tid tid, bid. corn, 9 ¥8, ». |. May ‘The Chicago closing prices were: Mav January, @ 1+ firmary 3 CHL'S EE BOYS TARGET Victim's Brother Says Young Butt Aimed | Deliberately. | With an alr rife given to him by his sehoo! teucher, little Johnnt » fourteen years old, shot ree jen years old, in the eve The oTRAN Was destroyel and had to be taken at the Manhattan Kye In where t hild les in a seri ut to-day nus Johnnte Butt was held in $2,000 nthe Yorkville He bonds ‘ourt young Butt leve careful aim ai George which t* a heavy grain of +! straight to its mark. and young Dolges | | to the roof screaming, with the ball | ms! lodged in hie eye, Young Butt, Fran cramisation = omnia to them and takin 4 He vobhedhamnag iso! ja them ant (aking » gold ring from 4'4|"Teeth Without Plates, 5,00) we ca oan Temuaey hay 10. asked him to tell tls mother tha: he|A WRITTEN GUAMANTER pou 20 YEARS) (1.01 6 icons bina ne | ohanle cl de tu He ways) * ; (hat he fired at the target and accident. |NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS /CITLZENS’# SAVINGS ally dit young Dolges. } 336 Sixth Avenue. at RY, LAM AMAR ————— | teppoaite oF Neil The Tromaen sre ordered (at (aerent 9b NO RXTRA CHARGE FoR 17. i] Formerly H Weet 28 & { THREE ASD ONE-HALF Gla) ag ’ be pated to dep oe U Advertionmens tor THE WOKLD wii te re Brooklyn A ony Americas District Bee 7 of Postal Triegraph Oe In New Yore is accused | Omen vets. eemmenger ESTABLISHED 1845. Lai, roy S BROOKLYN, satin shoulders and sleeves. From Blue and Gray Chinchill 50 Men's Ulsters.... ‘ From Blue and Black Frieze, $0 Men's Black Cheviot Sack Suits AT OUR TWO BROOKLYN STORES ONLY. Broadway, Corner Bedford Avenue, and | Fulton Street, Corner Flatbush Avenue, N SATURDAY EVENINGS, a. ce oo 100 Men's Black Clay Diagonal Seck or Frock Suits, . $90.00; were $15 | ce"* 400 Men's All-Wool Fancy Cheviot Sack Suits...... TREMENDOUS. , PRICE-CUTTING |. ON MEN’S CLOTHING. 500 Men's All Wool Blue and Black Kersey Overcoats. . $10.00: were $16) The above have handsome plaid linings and guaranteed 400 Men's All-Wool Blue and Black Kersey Overcoats. . $7.50; were $12. fs» $25 Men's Lls‘ers. ; P 450 Men's All-Wool Fancy Cheviot and Cassimere Sack Suils, $7.50; were $12 and $10 ABB tnt = smenoeeneanreen ———— - AND ONE-HALF F = Doiges | tite! the New York Datil Parlor loco deckared and Jursolieted S WRIGHT So Stuyveract ase whieh shall have oven depoatted a Johnnie Hutt tives ot 29 Kast Fifty- | feookise NY ‘ Ads oo ihe Ate, day At January meaty fifth street. George Dowges lives two | C C Yor Painless Extracting | so «01 be parable om or afler Monday, doors away, at 24 On Christmas | when teeth are ordered. | 4, 19 Johnnie got the rite, and he set ap a FULI Monty deposited on br hetere Janmary 10, tad to the roo: where he went datly a si) Grew \oterest trom Jeneary 1 ” o practive He went up there late yea: | $5 00 JOUX D MECHSE terday afternoon, SET HEXRY A SCHENCK, Cometreiie oo Saios soon afterwart ap: . k Savi Institutfon: ared on the roof of 24 with his We quarantee a fit cr no pay. Dry Dock Savings I enon other Franciscu, neiseo says that | Gold Fillings... vane ai) AND BOWERY, NEW YORE $1.09 50 d the gun and took Silver Fill ngs, The leaden ball, [Gold Crown... flew | ‘ rex (Our Prices a fl ‘The Trusyers have deciered a dil Ld cr $5.00 omths ending December 3tety: « pesca | 8 ereto wader the byrlawe, Ot Are the LOWEST |‘. 100 Salt per eam pee 7 oncom on al, aume mot careediog Three, Thee it sand Dollars, pamplllaen aed atier January th, perter Newark—'*""' ' Measenge! Bee By @ yeu bare Lectures. BOARD OF EDUCATION. | OPENING FREE LEGTURE SEASON 1900. THURSDAY EVENING, ATS BMS Help Wanted—Male, Waste | agner @ wut b e aet out visio Nea “ bie ty thy Assembly Mall of th) | EDUCATI 3 | Carney tint t-adwey and JeMerson #t cy man Chron AS —_—_—_——_—_ ‘en | Lawyere an cmigiien eee eure expense = Lawyer: = pWoRCES WINSUN, 99 Nemsaw st, For Saie. Laie hiner roe owen ‘GREDIT FUKNITURE,$80Won TH OF #1 DOWN AND 3l WEEKLY, PRICES THE LOWEST._ | LEWIN’'S, WEST 14TH ST. - $32.00; were $16 267 WEST 128TH ST. EweLe y Weale + «$7.50; were $10, 8 . $10.00; were $15 cue scaiats Oe aires reich Patents. Fi (> Rigar Tae @ Ge. ia Brad OOKLYN, [Het tis Ls “ 3 Nil bli A A cnhetbue