The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1902, Page 8

: r t : DOUBLE PAGE. ~~? Published vy the Press bu Park Row. New York w York as Second: “WHY DON'T THED RESION & Tn an interview wh t the firemen who have Courts for a less arduous and eva Croker asks: “If they don't ike why don't they resign” Unfortunately, good jobs are for the asking {n a city where the supply ts x! the demand and where shiploads and trainioa h betrays great contempt @pplicants pour tn every week. And after using up many of the best years of their lives the department owes) gomething more to the firemen In its service th. Jess intimation that if they don't like it they t f2ciency !s not in question, and ts not {nsubordina ton for an efficient man to ask for what is his due a heart The Chief cites with approval the statement of the Board of Fire Underwriters that firemen “have as rea-| # Skilled | Bo. Mechanics who are putting in as Jong a day for as smal! swages as firemen are certainly a small minority in a @ommunity where competent workmen are treated by their employers with a consideration in respect to hours gomable hours of labor as skilled mechanics. amd wages which the city denies its firemen @afety at Sea—The arrival of all her passengers safe and Bave been expected. The mode ell w teamer {a storm proof |. aafer than they would bein the streets of New ¥ ry WHO WAS THE “DUMMY"< {| Whoris the man who was used as a “dummy” to im- weonrste McAuliffe in Magistrate Mayo’s court and| 7 @awwer the charge of disorderly conduct brought against fe hapless victim of police revenge—the dangerous ‘and hated witness locked up in the West Forty-seventh treet station over night and found a clubbed and bat- @ered wreck in the morning’? This “dummy's” answers to a few direct questions would outweigh in importance fall the evidence so industriously secured by detectives to @eepen the mystery of the murder . Inspector Harley's secret investigations have pro- @uced a fat budget of typewritten testimony of police- men and other interested parties as to what they do mot know about the murder. The Inspector has left no Mne of inquiry untried which would show police ignor- ance of the crime. He has exhibited great vigilance and | industry in following every clue that would divert sus- picion from the point to which the published facts tn the case lead tt No dog ever chased a rabbit around a stump with greater eagerness. The one line of invest! gation that would lead to awkward disclosures he leaves unopened. This je to find the man who personated McAuliffe. On his testimony would hang the Innocence or guilt of the police. Is that why the Inspector so carefully refrains from pursuing his investigation along this line? tt Ie Up to Bostom.—In his recent famous address tn thie city, President Eliot. of Harvard, spoke slightingly of the New York seesion of the National Civic Federation as having failed to make any contribution to the solution of the questions at issue. New York will now | n and = See how Boston solves the problem of the freight-handiers’ © strike ‘ “THE THIRD DEOREE.” “In spite of indignant denials from the District-At- ‘8 office the testimony of County Detective Riordan | Clearly establishes the charge that Florence Burns while) a mer under arrest and in custody of the authorities | h subjected to the illegal treatment known as the! pope 1e0 X111—has an annual tn-| + Im other words, she was denied the advice of counsel | and subjected to an examination by her captors, the ob-|* Meet of which was to {nduce ber to incriminate herself. | Walsehood and trickery were freely resorted to in the @ffort to extort admissions which might aid in convicting | ber. And yet it hardly needs the recent evidence of the Motineux case and the Kennedy case to show how strictly the law guards and protects the rights of the accused in murder cases. With the difficulties of legal conviction thus emphasized it is hard to understand how a county detective can hope to secur to the illegal “third degre 4 conviction by resortin Whe Turkish Idea. The vad treatment of tie toipinte the Celtic by the Su t eto suspicion that some come over with » brigands. THE NEW ATHLETICS. The Brooklyn “1. road will probably poift with pri ‘to the case of {ts regular patron, Mr Adam escaped unburt after a f. a platt forty feet below. m to the street Mr, Scherry owes his life chiefly to the Intervention Of a friendly snowbank, but al athletic prowess acquired in the holds the record for Tying two chicke But while the bridge conditions riy €s @ means of muscular and bridge is also used by many people Valids and women, who can have : emulating the achieve f Mr Scherr t athe hard on these people distinction and to be erush, with no prospect « if then. in a bag tente OLR TIMID VISITORS. “Westerday evening a broken the aubwa 4 dan explosion, sending a ‘the alr, setting fire to bringing the fi ly because this happen fuests of the hotel w F valuebles and rush to the office ‘Were matters of real impo: ker now fears death in faire becoming so _THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1902. l= WAIN BIGINKe., et Life. Bob FAFA PEED PPEEPOEG00500-0-8 65.005 005.08 x Ghe Funny Side o Wore so in JORESOF OLROWS/S, SUBURB'S DRY-SUNDAY RAPIDTOODLEIZING,|S0RROWED Joxts. any, No BS to] SPE AREY S90 WS Far acin ways to be had) To (ene) ALAND C467 ov —t Ca) 7s A LOGICIAN ‘Im your credit 0 Etrure at Horta with only what was to +-3344-9-66 04 ARUN OF LUCK hes RAPIBTODDLPUM. NAVE A BAUSH wine TERRY GOVERN AND ‘HIS Han STEPPER and even when she ie disabled ner passengers are much | P “A Chicago eolentist has a acheme for @ using the odors of the stockyarm! for lighting purposes’ TOO EASY. “Done your father have to pay road track and makes men of all traine that pase A REBUKE Simmers (to the cook you I wont OER Ree ERE You can leave tf y to. and the sooner the better The Cook Lady (with great dignity) Pye Seago Tribune. Pe ee oe m+ SOMEBODIES. GONG GEE—« Chinaman educates te writing @ book on electricity tm hie native language Fie tt a dry Sunday for Sammy Suburb? Not much, Mary days in the w Sammy knows where the beer flows seven champagne flows itke rain through a Parkville roof every day on the calendar vikh-stepping Rapldtoodieum from the stable yesterday nk-distance space-eradicating stem! and in the ¢winkling of a pe me Sunday into the moist delights of a regular Rainsey hough for Yours Truly, and myself and the Raptdtoodieum waded right through it without an SAMMY SUBURB, per TE. POWERS. pridied and saddled tt tering spurs tnto eyeball had jumped from. nd a spot on Coney ‘ Inyentor of water shoes, has Just completed a the surface of the Danube Inland that was wet cylinders, 18 feet tong A FINISHED ARTIST. ENCOURAGING. “Darwin of Germany DR-Meclarea tlon Is not contagious AK, NEGUS lomperor of Abys OMAN’S WoRLD. be a beautiful heiress and talk at me BRIGHT ENOUGH. H HOW PROF. WIENERWURST [ADE A HIT, + ——i rs rs again, and 1 + herry, who WHERE WE DIFFE “1 thought I'4 fx ‘em wid mine cate to help me ould, Oh, ho! day are wera ad me for my blay- THE LAST OUTING. 1 understand poor old Tankley 1s done for. Some of his cronies told me last week they didn't expect he'd ever be out again.” He was on the street yesterday for about an hour.’ You don't say?" Yes. It took him that long to go from the house to the cemetery Vhiladeiphia Press CYNICAL. A cynical bachelor listened to some women who were d§scuasing female ® suffrage and was asked by one of them for his vtews on the question. He re piled thus with great deliberation “eo once heard of a woman who was asked | how she had voted at the recent elec tion. ‘In my plum-colorel gown, was‘? the answer.’ Then the cynical bache- lor bowed and escaped.—Chicago Chron tole. BAD PRECEDENT. Brown--I don't like to read tales which show how geniuses were once unruly children. Jones—Why not? Brown—They merely encourage lazy parents to believe that their: unruly hildren wilt all turn out geniuses Detroit Free Pr NOT UNUSUAL. Mra. Worry—My husband went to the drug stage for quinine three hours ago and has not returned Mrs, Neverworry—Nothing unusual about that. I read in a paper to-day of a man who left home fifteen years ago to match some ribbon for ni and he has not wife me back.—Indianapolls News A DONATION. We have an eminently practical hureh congregation up our way. When he present pastor had been with them five years they held a donation surprise party at his houss, and what do you suppose they gave him?" Give it up A piece of plate.” ) a set of teeth attached.” — Plain Dealer JEALOUSY. What do you think of that man's speeches?’ aid one statesman Well.’ answered the other, “his aon- clus one are not very novel But I must ih Washington Star. FOOTLIGHTS. Academy two years ago and made strong hit Aistinction of bel Filta Proctor Ot!s le going & pearing, of course, tn the dual roles Lady Isabel and Mme. Vane el cele chi ing of many friends in cons jan Toy. F little actress. Dudiey ia | usually el —— SHE’S KEEPING LENT. Her gorgeous gowns ere put aside, No jewele rich or rere Now fill her heart with foolish pride Or sparkle tn her hair. She does not gayly dance about Nor for rich prizes play— ‘Tis Lent, and she's not going out, Her gauds are put away, Ah, let us list her with the blest; ‘The Lord hae kindly sent A babe to sleep upon her breast— And so she’s keeping Lent. —Chicago Record-Herald. TTERS ) It is astonishing how easily some people are alarmed lve expresmed hia work until ig the request » loud talking and us employer's Inte im to turn over eet of fame thirty feet of) lived to the stterly regardle: t And) ¢ dust tu front of a hotel w leaf and reform 1OUIS A. KERPEN, Py Ancestors. To the Editor of The Evening W When I read of the wonderful discov- eries that have been made in the way of microbes, and learn of thelr deadly tring, never sleeping, ever watchful for new our forefathers their ved In Ditesful tg- If he tajnorance of this formidable foe. They “CHARLES BOWERS »0 foolish as to snatch up|, tor of The Evening World I find (hat a “Duane Street Merchant na what he | calls nothing fellow ise act as {f they thought ut {ves and | the postal clerk is far 1 believe with him that age office boy ts such, ut to Ket some necessary article and one who Ko! $90 was consilered a {needed in the office he does not return gained a god view of all that ts to de seen In the olty. timid hotel guests were probably strangers. ny form. But these frequent and #0 annoying as to| 8nd foollsh DE should be done to keep strangers Or at least away,from the tunnel route, ‘Sntshed. 1 can recotlect were getting them deceitful Phere ta not a man living, with them in the above, dut tt is not always wise to ac- knowledge 1t; eo if some women should 1eak me what X.¢hink about the ideas 6 as $6) per annum clerks, Of aii Federal positions requir- ing intelligent men for their fulfillment | told to do or fintsh a thing by @ certain that ef the postal-clerk pays lesa, I/time he eometimes does mot complete] | RE FROM THE PEOPLE ON VARIOUS TOPICS. ur hours follow-) breathed, was made up of so many of He Is self-willed, given| theme deadly creatures. They often of 100. We of ‘the ma | sclentite age often die at sixty. There |are larger problems for ur to solve. Let us not weary over these little things, | G. J. SAUNTERS. > The High-Priced Cab. To the Editor of The Evening World: rate. But how many cabmen fail 2955-08 OP OO eee eet e Pod? ¢-95-64 Rete some marvetiously orginal + Annie Irtwh is about to leave Amelia Birgham's company and will create a part in “Life,” Anson Pond’s new play Miss Irish appeared in the revival of Mr. Pond's “Her Atonement’ at the ES. Abeles has arrived at the proud loaned.” and will appear tn one of the principal parts in “Phe Diplomat.” through the courtesy of Miss Bingham, who farms him out to Mr Jacob Litt. Meanwhile Mr Abeles is endeavoring not to look too haughty arring again. She is to make a spring tour in that weepy play, “East Lynne.” ap- Chauncey Olcott's summer address in future will be wings. Mr Meott haw Just ‘ Ane house at this resort, and is looking forward to the end of the season when he will proceed to settle down under his own vine and fig tree with commendable sind considering the £ heey is very domestic Minnle Ashley, after many trials and much suffering,.has returned to health and the stage, aod great is the rejoic- uence thereof. Miss Ashley has only Just re overed from a dangerous ilineas, At one time she was threatened with total sindness, But now she is her old, bright, merry, vivacious little self back in her old part of " @he ie an un- JANE GORDON. The law places cab fares at a certain overcharge passengers? The crush on cars might often be lessened if only we could have means of enforcing honesty bob o8.8. ee CITY HALL ETIQUETTE. As Viewed by O’Brien. Quoth Policeman O'Brien: “It's hard work now tryin’ To kape up to th’ attiket of City Hall Park, What wid His Honor shut off in one corner An’ Mister Rives makin’ us toe up to the mark."* s Quoth Policeman O'Brien: ‘’There's no use of cryin’ But Mr. Rives certain will drive us all daft. What with insistin’ on putting the Mister on— Til tell you this ettiket game is no graft." Quoeth Policeman OBrien; “You may think I'm lyin’ But I'm n’ it straight and takin’ no chance, To run eliyvators the men must wear gaiters An’ have golden stripes on the sides of their pants,"* Quoth Policeman O'Brien: “There's no use denyin’ We're puttin’ more lugs on than we did under Bob, Wid Low, Rives and Princes we're losin’ our sinses, An’ ottiket's needed to hold on to the Job.” WILLIAM JOHNSTON. $4-654-6-82422542546.0008 $92492969099000000 THE M'INTYRE FLAT. The Instalment Man Arrives, HE periodical arrival of the Instalment in front of the fat-house occu; ree house occupled by the Molnt; ras adout as momentous aa Prince Henry'e arrival at the average apartment would be For the worst the Prince could do atay to tea: whereas the Instalment Man’ ° t Man's presence een ie some erstwhile Ili-furnished flat was to eiseeeen o fe the rose (for $1.35 weekly), or to be o ty), be cruelly sho: etl for glories, Tho Instalment Men loved to ail at cet Of ener it was a very high-grade, creme de la creme sort fn Dlace, where the most cruelly despolled tenant would never dream of being so il!-bred as to drop a flat.iron on the B a4 et the departing Instaiment Men as they bore away un pald-for goods, or of pouring a kettle of boil of boiling water ot Der window on the horses’ backs just 4s the men oa Ing the aforesaid unpatd-to: cleo ua pald-for article of furniture into the No, these were refined fats Seven rooma and a jandlord stairs, But to return to the Instalment Man. Bach time his van Grove up to the front door ten sets of tenants hegan to cult. vate the rubber industry. for it was an Event. Some new erure nas to be added to the house or same tenant placed bile emiden Ladies’ Knocking List for not paying thelr So ft was that when the compan by four strong horses. stopped a are You could scoop up the ree men got out. Sixty eves were o “They aren't carrying anything in. They must. carry away somebmniy's furmcure’ Prey ee araniges eoing There they are a tthe Singing Teacher's! No. they've done up to the flat where the Cross-Eved Twins live! Now they-ve Feached the Kleptomantac Lady's Noor. I always knew thet some day that woman—No, no! They didn't stop! They're outside the clergyman's flat now! Well, well! And cities No, they've there s Bu Yive passed there. I's the MeIntyres they've gone And so it was) The Trio « the @fth floor and had bee hing!” sighed C3 3 4 would be to refuse to The advertisement said se Hot and cold janitors. Modern “s enormousest van, drawn the door one bright March. citement tn pails. f Instalment Men had reached admitted to the McIntyre ff uhetie Fourth Flodrite. * 0 young, and so pretty, too! I suppose she pa a for those white fox furs of hers and that ecru dress that ab cabin’ Pay the furniture instalments. y ig BeFVe “em right!" sneered the clerayman's hou ceper. ‘T only hope it’s the plano that's pinched, soreaen stop playing over our heads Sunday evenings.* And thus, charitably or bitterly, as Heaven had endowed thelr natures, did the tenants whisper for one hour and forty-eight minutes. And at the end of that time the In stalment Men all three tramped downstairs, empty handed, Again sixty eyes were giued on the wagon, as two of the trio solemnly opened it and the third ¢ house's double front doors Then, to the accompaniment of one long gasp f; throats, the Instalment Men reappeared tan toes. eae ing heavily, and all three started on a return journe McIntyre flat Among them they bore a doll’s tin wash basin. An thetr leader again apologized to Mrs. McIntyre for having forgotten, the week before, to send the basin with the reat of the doll-house set. the clergyman on the fourth floor (who had @ neat turn at classical allusion) returned te Dis half-finished sermon with a muttered remark about @ Mountain and a Mouse. A. P. TERHUNE, Looking over the fields of ende or in the United States in the complexities of sof in civillzation, the chances good an seem admirably counter-balanc Sentinel. With chances of 99 not become President of the Uni chances of 888 to 1 that he will not go insane; 600 to 1 that he will not be feeble minded; 1,517 to 1 that he will not be deat and dumb; 1,2 to 1 that he will not be blind; 64 to L that he will not be criminally or socially delinquent, and 864 to 1 that he will not be an Inmate of a public alnshouse On the first great proposition of making both ends meet, the American baby lays it over the Engiish baby in his chance of getting through life without any water Dilsters on his palms. In every 1,000 people in the British Isles there are 48 bread-winners. Next to these come the French, with 4% bread-winne: then the Germans, with 426; the Austrians with 425, the Russians with 410 and the Americans with only 347. To grow to any of these estates the baby’s chances of Itfe must be considered. Under one year old he {s four times ms Ukely to die as he (s after he passes his first annivere sary; at two years he is not half as likely to die as at one year; at three years he has one and three-fourths chances over his condition at two years; at four he has one and one third over his chances at three years, and at five the dver nge chances of death are his, and the hope may be held out for at least forty years of life. it for the average child says the Indianapolis to 1 that the boy will 8 * there are also THE EYE AND HAND CLUB. Perhaps the most unique organization in Omaha {ts the Bye and Hand Club, which meets every two weeks at No, 308 South Eighteenth atreet, says the World-Herald, of that city, The membership of the club is composed entirely of deaf and dumb people, the total membership now betng eighteen, im addition to #ix honorary members. The Bye and Hand Cis® le the outgrowth of a desire on the part of several mutes promote the welfare of all deaf people, intellectually am@ soctally. Since the organization of the club several lectures ana readings have been given by the prominent workers ameng mutes. Whenever a lecture is given before the olub all the work Is done in the silent language, yet the art of with the fingers has become so habitual to the speakers thet they can make thelr hearers understand as rapidly as if words flowed from the mouth, THE GREAT SALT LAKE, It is said that the human body cannot sink in Great Satt Lake; certain {t is that even the inexperienced swimmer finds no difficulty in floating upon its waters. This mintae ture ocean Is plcturesquely sttuated among peake of the Wasatch range; {s ninety miles long by forty miles wide, and 1m dotted by innumerable grassy Islands, Boats for service on these briny waters have to be constructed espe- claily for that purpose, as a craft that would sink to tts water line on the ocean’ would ride so high as to be top- heavy and unsafe on Great Salt Lake The most gara- Goxical ¢act relating to this body of water is that {§ ie@ eeu aimost @ mile above see level—Nour-Track Newq ~ ab ERs*_V UIE ste | |