The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1902, Page 10

| company, No. 63 to P. ce at New York as Second-C Published by the Press Entered at the Post-O! VOLUME 42 THE SELF-IMPORTANT AND USELESS CORONER. In the good old the Crown an official of autho ot hienutt been taken away from him, but of that which remains byal days the C d conseque unduly conscious. In the case o! Kranz this magnified into a a { self-im e which f tolerable in its arr nd which on Monday diit so. wh between Goldenkranz and Distriet-Attorney Jerome. collision of authe It 1s not to excuse Mr. Jerome's impulsive exh! ' of disgust 9 methods to say that his provo- the Coroner's antiquated and Dogberry-!ik cation was great, as he stood by witnessed the farcical proceedings to protest against them. The best {9 to restrict his judicial authority to a cognizance of minor cases leaving se to which a Coroner can now be put those of public moment, like the tunnel wreck and the subway explosion to officers of the law better capacifated to deal with them A NEW FORM OF LUNACY. John S. Wise has discovered a fe of lunacy, which he “guperstrenuousness,” @ coroner’s jury box {n open court.” and gives the sufferer ": which manifests such nptoms as to his own relation to facts.” In the campaign last fal! they called it ‘“nicot gests the story of Grant's reported drunkenness and Lincoln's wish that he had some-of Grant's brand of whiskey to send to his other generals Poisoning.” It sug FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY. Contractor McDonald's admission that “!t was nothing unusual for ¢ 400 pounds of dynamite to be delivered at one point.’ as was done on the day of Monday*s disastrous explosion, {* an official verification of the in- | vestigations of World reporters. It fully substantiates thetr discoveries | of law-breaking on the part of most subway contractors in storing in | filmsy powder-houses an amount of dynamite greatly in excess of the daily supply permitted by their contracts with the city In the six-foot shed at Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue World | reporters found fully 300 pounds of the explosive, and hanging on the wall | near it an ol] lamp ready, at the freak of fate, to perform the fatal office ot Epps's candle. In an adjoining shed, sep: by only a thin board partition, was a red-hot stove. As in the Central's tunnel to-day, the conditions there are favorable for a repetition of the previous dieester; contractor and railway manager appear to be alike in different to. lesson of experience What is there to be said about this by Supt. Murray’s inspectors? ‘They visit these shanties officially every day. and on the day of the ex- plosion, in Mr. Murray's words, “all of the 200 places were inspected ex- cept that one where the explosion took place.” It generally happens so. ated from the powder shanty COURT-ROOM CLINICS. The court-room in the Patrick trial yesterday became a clinic with Dr. Hamilton Williams, the Coroner's phystctan, as demonstrator. In pathological interest his testimony maintained the best judicial traditions The public gained much enlightening tnformation about the relation of renal diseases to lobar pneumonia and the “inhalation of gaseous irri tants” like chloroform, along with an illuminating dissertation on lung congestion, “affrontive, passive, constrictive, constructive, obstructive” and 80 on. In the words of one observer, “It was a pathological fleld day.” Those who read the datly reports of court testtmony in New York gain 2 wide, {f superficial, knowledge of medical practice in the course of @ few years. In the science of poisons they must now be well informed to an extent a Borgia might have envied. The Patrick trial is a review, ax it were, of the toxological information acquired in the Carlyle Harris and Molineux cases. HOW HIGH MAY A LADY LIFT HER SKIRTS ¢ The arrest of two Indies {n Buffalo for lifting their sk s too high to conform with a public officer's notio: propricties raises a question of the etiquette of clot The ladies werr feminine expedient t ning World has set out to solve k a pool of muddy water Except for the chance pre ' t . viously Puritanie an cestry, their act of nat ‘ i not have gained them @ publicity which i: did not deserve. but whict warran by the role they ha ft 1 into of 1 a toa C Phe opinions ont ' eW 1 veaterday Thurston, Mrs. Starr, Mrs \ terest because of a ¢ opinion must be held to be thar it {the sex’s pret vezed questions of thts } of mere man, whose knowledge of sil matters leaves something to be de sired. ised THE SAVING SENSE OF NUMOR. Mr. Simeon Ford. on ’ : pallor he used often to con subway blastn Mr. Ford, “and sa a they were the eont any damier different to the worr this bie iy ties might estimat wom 1 iota given to ear and nerve spe ' \ DISTINGUISHED INN ALID The most distinguished med patie + Whitney's $50.000 Nasturtium wh onihe ae Newmarket : ‘ ! De mech 9 1 i thoroughbred hy ne ry ‘ «doctor in attendance isa to pp gervices his little bill will be sueh as to make AsAohas : titioner © ) The increas es in racir ety ; ms great benefit to the veterinarian An between Nast 4h hafariie Dobbin, Just as between Pinky Panky loo and a yellow dog, the range of for medical attendance is wide, ON THE SE LS RE RR TAE WORLD: WED! JEROME THE REASON The Boy—No; 1 told him dere wasn THE ONE SAFE PLACE. 4 New Yorke THE ® IS\WieNr SPOT.— THE LAWBREAKER’S NIGHTMARE. SSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, If By T. E. Powers. BURGLAR's LOT ALBREY her or for Is NO LONGER A HAPPY HER CHOICE. HOVEIOALLT, CHAT ABOUT NOTAILES. "UMMINS, ALBERT B.—Wa Aus Govern lowa 1 REV HENRY Th a) Ps I PDVEAM. TAA W w wag Neb VNE ¥ STER-GENERA n frequer F ers i 1 Is Be k Ja ! Wan PEPTUS. SENAT s «ete! ear x n Ww . of orde SPUR the t 8 KA murvey rand exper TREVOR A A Has. he * Va r “BLACK EAGLES to De Graffenreid. it INC Washington the ONE. to The Black ire two “Black One t« De Ora ter firat and gave belonged to him Mother, ¢ Tha norked as Motte yt have you pain OrKie worth ik roll Brie found it dull wo ewing in the ar bee eeoeee FEFO9S9TGSH09O2900% $$ ——————————— JOHN DREW IN WASHINGTON. Sketched by Kate Carew. t that Mr fe a crom OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF RABES, | tke and he d preciate it \ Press Hobby, that another boy ir right cheek,” asked po) teacher, what would e other cheek to strike. aald the teacher Bobby. “and if h 1 paralyze bim.”—Ex mill alone. Why shou! . o? There me out and have he steut No. 1 think you must any pineapple. ft might gly (after & pausey—Mother, it's 1 him how] A COMEDY OF RECOGNITION 8 Near the Washington Monumen A RACE WAR, sturs! and yet SNIPPINGS OF HUMOR. vrticles againet the @ off r her to re wot tin | sn eight Micky; he thinks he « worst of it —Indtenapolis | tire cH Pug—They aay t the | on the square Spoarty—Oh, yes, it must have beea, | because I heard the referee tolling the and) men to take their corners.”"—Philadel- n real | phia Recort tze-fight wasn't Pities the Horses, kA The Kvening World ~ souen al the crue 10 l ty * Featinent of hommes, the unneeat 4 the ry when the falrhfal ereatu es are doing roo driven 1 thete ve mt, and check rein Jown ia a.space of bees | which etrtine the neck and draws up the head. andred yards, and I want to sumeost woman who te a remedy, of at least a partial remety. Lat oa earted can sit in a car seh of the caretakers f the aperr trae ty horses which are suffering a8 . seen empty a can es on the ep they take Tow could cut the hovers me Tt aee tt Cannes hing io this matter? qi METAL A Staten Istand Plaint. 5 World to write about Sistem 1, and ast the dense fine eles ark and {ne women dare shoe nf our men omens through the that enshroud *his +4 in front of thelr houses, In thet aid get rid ot acme of the 4 alo helo ‘man's v nk every one loves and ad ‘ | js raining ng World the bresking of a fookiageelie A. be that kind of thing, in ome chy days or numbers, © tee stition, and auperatition js the A y DERKMAN LITTLE NUTTERCUP. ‘Then or Nowt A Cow vlem. To the MAltor of & World Ty the EGltor of The Evening World A nays the Mahters when John 1. fullivan ant] A cow is tied to the corner of w bain 23 feet Jem Ma feet better than |aquare with a chain fighter ¢ present in their prime, ibe han that’ com to Le, the 1h were pot Whick is correct? 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