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DOUBLE | ®) PAGE. VOLUME 42 O. 14,8 = EIGHT-HOUR LABOR FOR FIREME other cl i) ty s¢ t z 1 ite supe ul view of te ply as br men old fire- ne m ox tion of qualities of ! ql ‘ , marines b ) Lewspay 1 1 larly meritorious ©: But it does r t mee wh ‘ . gome amazement now ns! tion the firem receives in re n for 1 v ef t so strikingly exhi that he is freque: twenty-one hour rare day off for his ow \ tery or other corporat no other trade or « ws ¢ npl mi : lar bond-servant hours of jabo To remedy this injustice F homas ne bas secured a mandamus on Commissioner 5 quiring him to show labor should not apply popular support of ing World especially the State eight-hour law fo emen. wee him success in it A Contrast in Hecepti Henry shows the hearty ar es American ch , 7 H that tion of the Boer Envoys ve " ark gelf-contro! in t i f . * | SENSIBL RLFOR™. The programme of init mail outlined in The World this morning oa it the strongest assurances fective and practical re form. If the Police Commission¢ ney, the Parkhurst Society Excise are sincere and eart B concerted and harmonic against dive-keeping under police protection, it is easily in their power to put an end to a most ¢ and a most potent source of corruption » The reform will be operative in two directions It wi) clear the police of a reproach which does injustice fo the honest majority of the force and it will clear the wity of the large number of div which have found shelter under the name of the Raines law The programme is In the line of common-sense, eape | elally Commissioner Partridge’s idea of @ttacking the er!! where it is most flagrant The Other Side.—The comic artists wh: senting the strong-mninded woman as Will please take note of the case of 3 who ts only ana New York wom. telephoned to the Fire Department H dangerous fire was rajfdly mak and draperies and threatening the safety of her 1 action again the Distriet-Attor nd the Department o vir purpose to Join in vigorous action fous abuse veginning by} A FRIEND TO THE SOUTH. The splendid reception given to Booker Washington at Carnegie Hall last night suffi ly 8 the estl- mation in which this evangeltst of fs held by the enlightened sentiment of New York | This sentiment should not be misun ut the South, as it undoubtedly is by a ce Southern fellow-citize It me preciation of the services of Mr in elevat-| ing and improving the condition of his r and in do ing this he shows himself to be a friend not only of the negro but of the white well. The condition of the negro 1 n element of our just ap enefuctor pulation as of much! S34=- | Graver import to all the States than it is to any Booker Washington with we ware helping those of our fellow-cltizen t th @Beat strenuously resent th ocha which @Beh men as President Roosevelt and Hishop P nd President Eliot are glad to exte to him | x $2,001,000 to WHY GUDEN WILL NOT Go. The discovery that the Governor has no power t Move Sheriff Guden to eave the Sheriff. b It places the iatt 1 Rg n of ing solemnly tried 2 case over w e had renin tion. It {s unfortunate, however. that the yw not made before hea oat spared Sheriff Gu th "i 7 unfitness, and !t wou from any possible 4 1 @iction was invoked for the ; yae 0} ‘ nf Official in the intere: Moeleting the « consune SUPERIOR GLUCOSE BEER. Senator Maltby ‘ ai ene Albany to pre fl rrese that it is “pure” when ¢ » ed in its prey aration. 4 4 « ' Peared to oppose the ‘ 1 Bumerous authorities that 1, harmful addition to the beverage oves Its health-giv This being 80, the brewers who use it t be re wded 18 even greater b fi one who don't ,as the consumption of malt !iquors ts greatly on the cs the next generation, being better nourished by id excel the present in physical stamina and the fluid extract in which it < Ghe Funny Side of Life. XZ JOKES OF OUROWN} 3 EWERYBODY IS WRONG BUT JEROME. w CHEAPER ro MOVE. : HETWEEN THE ACTS i ‘ & Engitsh 4 AL Morn 2 ss ‘ ke a lam c will ae a ior oon . . EXPENSIVE SPORT. wouldn't be A GooD START, rman Hridges shook his fist a \ fellow: Mderman the other day } someBopies. }| ALEXANDER, REV DR. GEOR York City, ha mitted ! ns's poems to mem AVERILLE, A A of Salem, Mass. be- | queathed hla famous collection of tch music to Essex Institute ROWN. CoA owas the youngest sol nish wr vels and plays HOPKINS, REV ms College OL EA of Castle Point ards of Martha ieorge | WomAN’s Worbp. | LETTERS Defends Brooklyn Gtrts WESTERN ¢ German Much Spoken. snawer to “C. D, Moxon's” letter saying German is leas spoken than fo: merly, petbaps that gentleman has “You ARE WRONG =, p= 8001s wekaret. sl rephane ® L You AREA Bastioee S VEG } C SheE RAH ‘You Owe ME For OWE DINNER, 809 PLEASE! , « {te tim arkling ov His Wildeat Byer tla not take kindly tik and there's nothin ‘ stions ven perser not meet with t Inevitably, Irrevecably, tumultuously and wrong. ‘There are $ — hattan's snow-capped footstool that Jerome agrees with ‘ ance, he time ago walting for a few grains of salt from that direction He ts down on the newspa y and fumy little pedestal, He tinds fautt with Hishop Potter a EY. the ex fact. the only thing In town that ts not wrong to Distrtet-Attorne rome's mind is the New York Central Ratiroad TE POWERS A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT, AGREEABLE, snization. He has i He is not a mem the Republica chowder one eye smoker) Par you mind FROM THE PEOPLE ON Ary grammar. the r are tha run acrons will a infersinine”? ints aves . German Empress . er that is ge nays | a ' ve no. opportur ne tren ts only | posed n in| oe or “wing thelr ‘ Me elng an Engileh: | ro hos FAIR SEX, uth F elke " ney ow a A Plooded f th ’ be e knows they . tenlug the here {Wo are H Li iS me Ao mUaKer nes the In 1 ton to the Kingsten ria ‘ Ay How “ as the ard oof t been wo t ’ a World Health « " formed * place me oor he would ne know where th Wis so flooded during the freshet that a oever ti etoa i water flowed through the fence on A HARPS SoA any avenue and the people hud to ¢ Alrendy. Mot Shot for Chesterfield. through tt. It in no cvening Work Do the Baty se Rvaninie wera pital in such a. Athy } ns for more trolley cars have! If your “Chesterfleld| BuasousnreN eviate the crush. This ent, who scores Brooklyn siris’ manners | Fisable Man. plan for relieving the crush at the bridge| in tie trolley, will kindly look down tha | To the Eaitor of The Evening World entrance at 6 P. M. is entirely out of| line of persons who occupy both rows| I am a colored West Indian, 1 read the question, for the simplg reagon that of seats in crowded Brooklyn trolleys |the name of the late Gir Conrad Reeves, NOTHIN you decided Honner. The Man from Rhode Island (modest yieaud, str! W y angers. d away Ha News BORROWED JOKES PARENTAL OMISSION. Hacon—That young man |s a bor: !t seems fu t take tt out 6 he was younger —Yonkers St mm. What does he = have?—Minnea VILLE VERDICT, n ed the Millville Jui seen that our best in- * 4 tentions sometimes strike a logical snag UMMLER. What a confirmed pesalm Glad We're Alive. A Song of Manhattan. Words of thanks we should be giving that we're fortunately living In a town like good old Gotham; not tn cities less necure Elsewhere there are revolutions, climates bad for stitutions, And people's lives are anything but @ sweet sine- cur But in peacefil olf Manhattan life is smooth as (Parmer's) Satin And there's nothing to annoy us but an ‘‘L' roa@ crush or tw Or a casual bias! to bar us From pursuing our accustomed walks till tunnel work is through to Jar Us, or some torn-up atreets + DDHDS-9-86-99-9-6-91-94-99-0004: Then, wit vut the faintest warning. we awake some morning, ‘To find a blizzard blizeing through our town for all It's worth Or a freshet that is sweeping houses keeping Till we have to send down divers, to discover Mother Barth a verdl into Ocean's : Bridge vide in a crush delightful, heavenward ¢ journeys dynamitef ols Gales, freezes. thaws a ns on which the un- “ple dertukers fatter é parrot tal - eer ‘ “o| © Words must fall us when we're vx our delirious ral he resol the vt In life is cast in peaceful little old « : A. P. TERHUNE. « le « le 4-09-9:0-5.8.0-8.3-8 Fee ieee ot Ode | ae ‘BILLY BROADWAY | ON ENFORCING THE EXCISE LAW “These sounds abou reing the Emote remarked Bill: dway, “rem. of the ancien King who went dow: on the beach and go rude to the tide. Th: best he got was 4 team of cold feet. Tt bet a deg icens: against a handful o snow that the Wail ing Wldeat tn th: 9g District-Attorney’s of fice will get cold fee before he wades ver: far into the Railay) KE WAD. . necupation?” asked } Jaw hen door, after + ‘Nobody has re we $ ported to me that Nev Yes, ma’am. fed Tuffold s York ts standing x tim a hur + tte hind legs and hol \ or 3 lering for Sunda; ‘ elamps on the gt ma‘am’ Agnes H n'Mans a short r Weat Nyack vay a little lat on ts man of her company Boyd has pen of W Penobeco Hijo ing woof that stage minus the with Mrs. Langtry, F nding heavies at wos elucated at Oxford strife, ife— hate, ts kin, With words forever A realm no at apeaks— ehtet J rat negro knight siv great m the highest es 1 Sir ce of Barbadoes, FOOTLIGHTS. =f |i: who has been starring | in the echoes « * this season, is taking] “When a man has an nan with Mrs during man at the Theatre, stands ace high with popular ty an Englivhman, the son of y shipbuilder, and went on the aternal blessing, His | first appearance in this | played the Lyceum. Many of hia old admirers are now regu-| places are closed, drink copiously of kn lar patrons of the American. Mr. Elliot] have their bank-ro! JANE TWO WORLDS. A world of ceaseless With vast extremes of death and Passions that throb with love or And dark complexities ‘This ts the world of Men A mighty world where Thought o1 ord ever seeks, Peopled with allence ‘This la the world of Books. Willlam H, Hayne tn the Critte a negro who enjoyea| in the f m of all classes | mills. With the aldo aT a strong glass one dis MR, BROADWAY. tinguished citizen eas en standing on his hind legs and waving his uppe ns and hollering without the ald of a megapho: Hes singing a solo and thinks it's @ chorus because he's drowty pwn voice. ppetite for a ball he’s going te gw hat has held good ever since Noal 1 this} got his fan ) thirst I ever heard of was requ ir The-| lated by a calendar A tnirst works seven days in the week r actress] Sometimes tt in at its lusttest on Sunday. home in ball, Ta! indefatigable worker Her hus The way they've got it framed up now a man with « Albert A. Andrews, is the leading | sunday thirst w ave to take {t to a hotel, cegieter it ant get a room for it. The ossified sandwich ts going to > pushed the rear. If the thirsty citizen don't want o register his thirst he can take a bottle of Joy jufee hom with him on Saturday night and accumulate a Sabdath bran nigan that a» ouldn’t carry “That's the way to run this village, b'gosh the was nta and Chautauqua am of the residents use wate pt bathing pur and they turn 'em awa: perance lectute the town. “1 enough for those villages ts good eno Digosh! is Manhattan farmers ough iv Ko to church tn the morning and go b n the evening to see the Empin durn ust all right coming fron former who gets a Ja Irink is a mocker, ane off. But they're no ey re too busy finding ow » in One to do on rand Stat smong Jamaica ginge 18 to pros her presen nvernat man who was by Wouldn't tt jos This ts the way I dupe It clamp on the gin mille and Mf the upstate reformers will come down some Sunday t get a close view of the tl stampede for th nearest place where the man in a white Jacket hits the cast register, and they li find a padlock on the door, They'l finally land in some Joint that'* open because all the decen out drops ant stripped When they get back home RDON, | theyll make a new Jaw fining every New Yorker taat don't spend at Inast a doilar for sangaree water every Sunday At which time life will be all rag-time” right here at home from + smokes Turkish cian ett MW put the Sunda; Jayhoure y 1 be thirsty. Som vuntrs was wo years he TELEPHONE AND TRAVEL, It fe an odd fact. but true {some steam railroads have ompiained of the harm done to thetr best class of passenger traffic by the long-distance telephone, while hotels in western itfes have also attributed a reduction of patronage to the same cause Travel between St. Lauls and Chicago, for exe ample, ts raid to have been appreciably cut down by the telephone. Such a result would seem diMcult to trace tan- sibly, although one meets people daily who, to avold weary trips, have governed themselves on the Injunetion: “Dom toll and of Fate— travel, telephone” But the telegraph and the mail have iif there is any validity to the ate 4 electric travel of the future may. fons. —Re ssoming also been deterrents leged reason, the high-m; restore the former co tew of Reviews. \ = ' A FAR-REACHING LIGHT, A blinding beam of electric Nght, thirteen inches wide, ta a new warning to ships off the dangerous shoals of Cape Hatteras. Diamond Shoal lghtship, No. 71, has been fitted first of ttm kind that yet to be vinthle fi regular bea ehlef 6 miles, twe miles further than the Mhts of the lightships can be seen, The in the effectiveness of the new light is found that, the Hghtship never being at rest, the beam the| of Nght will sway in a varying angie and always be dis- 8 being th onrad was a me munity of his native land, He pos.| Unguishable, If expectations are not disappointed Sandy m of the ed the singular gift of gaining the whites without} With simile Hook, Fire Island and Nantucket 8 ectrical apparatus.—Succ In will be equipped se forfeiting that of his own race. CHARLES ¢ ' Albert W FLATT AT THE POINT OF A PIN. envy. We have long accepted that our pennica and other coine rm carriers, but it 1 @ surprise to be told that those ‘orld were Kindly inform me Prince Henry's full | trif_ing bits of metal that we use mo freely and scatter eo name, Hohen-| widely, the common pins, are quite big enough to carry the mame besides the last zollern. Erin Fores: To the Raithe of The Evening World: open wound. rather than the actual pin, it might pen R, B, | deadliest of germs, Yet, why not? We know that a pin “| seratch occasionally produces virulent blood poisoning, and, though it has been assumed that the trouble came fro} ‘Will you please tell me the meaning | under this new ruling proceed from a poisonous germ earried FP. H.C, | by the pin iteelt,