The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1902, Page 8

> Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ ‘Wark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMlce ‘fat New York as Seoond-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 42. ——$_—__—_ THE STRENUOUS LIFE. ‘The record of yesterday's happenings in and a! ‘New York shows that sojourners in and visitors to the ‘metropolis cannot complain of lack of excitement. Two collisions in the harbor during the fog, one of them at- tended by loss of life, a fatal accident due to over- ¢rowding on an elevated road race train, a number of New York people injured in New Jersey in an attempt to ‘escape from an impending collision between two trains ‘on the Jersey Central, make up a record of events deeply interesting to the newspaper reader, but disagreeable to those who are compelled against their will to take part in them. Every one of these accidents was due to negligence or incompetence and might have been avoided. One of the harbor collisions involves a personal Mability for manslaughter. The elevated road accident was clearly due to the inadequate train and platform service for the crowds who use the road. On the Jersey Central no| precaution seems to have been omitted to insure a wholesale slaughter of passengers. One of the trains at the crossing was “running wild;” it was unable to stop, though steam had been shut off at the statlon a mile and a half away; the brakes on the accommodation train are not intended to work except in fine weather. And last- ly, it appears that Jersey Central trains instead of slow- ing down at crossings keep up full speed—doubtiess so fas to get past the danger spot. Life in and around New York need never lack ex- citement. ny Brobdignag and Lillpat—Thus doth it appear that the Uttle finger of Croker is larger than the whole body of the sachenjs of Tammany. ee THE NEW REPUBLIC. Beginning with this 20th of May, 1902, “Cuba Libra,” which for fifty years has been an aspiration, becomes A fact and the event is a notable one In world-history. It is the first instance in history in which a strong, nation has borne the cost and loss of a war for the sake of conferring freedom on an oppressed and subject people. The gift of freedom which we make to Cuba to-day 1s the most generous of all gifts, and, above all, it Is made without even the suspicion of a selfish motive. Suocess and prosperity to the new republic! It 1s one of the world’s beauty spots. Favored as It is by nature, in the hands of its own people and with our strong hand ready to help at need, there is no other future before St ‘put one of success and prosperity. -NO. 14,882. World’s Lead.—Acting on the suggestion of The the State Department yesterday ad- of further subscriptions to Mar- The World's report of the situation The World of Saturday vised the suspension tinique relief funds. ‘was correct. REMOVAL IS CONFESSION, After stoutly insisting that there was no such thing as a Beef Trust, three members of the trust doing busi- | ness in New York, Swift & Co., Armour & Co, and @ H.; Hammond & Co., yesterday removed their books and | office fixtures to Jersey City to place them out of the| jurisdiction of the State of New York. Schwarzschild & | Bulzberger are to remove their books to-day, and It 1s reported that the offices of Cudahy & Co. and Nelson | Morris & Co. are also to he removed out of the State. Removal is confession. The Beef Trust is on the run, "The Coroner Again.—The Coroner's jury In the Ford case has returned a verdict declaring that Malcolm W. Ford was “in a state of temporary Insanity” when there was / not a vestige of testimony to support this verdict and abundant testimony to the contrary could have been had! if needed. THEY PRESS THE BUTTON. Now it is a Kodak Trust, with a capital of $35,000,000, @ which there is presumably no greater percentage of water than in other trust stocks. Tbe manufacturers provide the shares and the public will do the rest, and doubtless “look pleasant” while going down In its pockets. It is an extraordinary development in mercan- tile tmportance of what was put on the market as a toy, Dut has become an article of utility which it would be hard for the world to do without. It Is a matter of general belief that several manu- facturers of photographic supplies “missed It" by refus- ing @ snapshot camera when it was first offered them by the inventors some fifteen years ago. This was certainly true of two New York firms. What a man's reflections must be as he sees a rival profiting by a tactical business mistake depends, of course, on his temperament. The kodek has made such reflections plentiful, and it Is to be hoped profitable. Ne Bacape.—It appears that st is not in the power of Con- greas to provent the acceptance of the statue of the old tyrant Frederick the Great which his despotic descend- ant, Kaiser Wilhelm, has presented to the nation. The statue is 2 magnificent work of art, and it will be ap- propriately placed in front of the War College—the one {natitution of this country which the grim old fighter would contemplate with approval. A “FLY COP'S” GREAT FEAT. Readers of The World will recall the fact that two ‘weeks or so ago a maid disappeared from the house of Mrs. Porter F. Chambers, in West Fifty-seventh street with valuable jewels belonging to her mistress, When the girl applied dor employment her pretty face made the examination of references so unnecessary a formality that it was dispensed with and she was engaged on the spot, This girl was Hisa Wilson, and since her disap- which occurred two hours after her engage- ment, the Central Office men have been straining their find her, Sanday Detective-Sergeant Leonard under arrest for another offense, but it did not C to his guileless mind that she was the much- nought Elea and she wes let go in Jefferson Market Court It wes not till later in the day when a jealous Jover “peached” upon hor that the police discovered they Dird. Bisa is now in jail, where her selfistr Ne The Jealous lover as an instrument of justice would t an interesting theme for editorial remark, but a rogerd the great astuteness displayed in this Capt. Titus and his “fly cops" as of more imme- ] st. Has Sherlock Holmes in his contribu- ‘to detective bureau literature revealed anything g At in slouthing brilliance and dash? Nothing recall of his fiction excels in dramatic fea- lite performance by the captain, When he 4 he, | poe | BEDELL, @ round $9066O44669406660OO0 SS OF OOHHHOEOS BLOOD EDODOLOPHLY ©OO0OO00O410OOOCH0E HOE 6560064 o $ 3 JOKES OF OUROWN $ A FUTURE MODEL. & “T soo it isn't fashionable, any longer, Bto have a high polish on your shoes.” “When it becomes stylish to have @ few patches on them, too, I shall lead the fashion." UNCUT LBAVES. “I'm so fond of that book you wrote, + I regard each page of it as a personal 5 friend.” From {ts appearance I surmise you too polite to cut your friemis,"” are BETWEEN ‘TWO MICROBES. Said the winsome little maiden: “if the kiss 1s microbe-laden, nen this Kkissing’s unhygiente, no doubt. considering circumstances, there's But, @T prefer to take my chances, Than to catch the ‘Old Maid Microbe,’ as I might, without. A SURE THING. “He proposed to a deaf mute." “What for?’ ‘He wanted to be sure of proposing to some one who couldn't say ‘No,’ " BORROWED JOKEs. WIT IN OTHERS. “T suppose those newly rich friends of yours will entertain in society next sea- © son, é bs | Ghe Funny Side of Life. THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVEMNG, a pn nn nce 2 ROCKAWAY JUST LIKE WANTAGE, DEVERY DICTATY a Telecham From” 9999099000000 230 ®|How must he construct a fence or | ur THAT ON THE WIRE — BILL DEVERY ROCKAWAY BEACH Seno HS To DEVERY ip NoT A Saab ouTor yees’ RH wnars THAT! piD.t HeaR'some ° Ne TRLEGRAPHING. apple trees around his mansion, around | Se tay Suppose a certain landlord had eight these eight houses of his tenants, | around these ten pear trees, He wants to have the whole of the pear trees to himself and allot to each of his tenants | one of his apple trees in their place. | hedge to accomplish it? The answer will be printed to-morrow. SS GIRLS IN THE PULPIT, At the First United Brethren Church, Indianapolis, the pastor was called out/ of town and the meeting was turned| over to the young ladies. Three of them preached sermons, which not only pleased themselves, but the people who heard them. They were distinctly origi- nal. Miss Lou Rubush took for her sub- Ject ‘The Attitude of the Young Lady ‘Toward Intemperance."" Here is what she sald about a woman remaining an old maid: “You would better be a typical old maid, with blue goggles and corkscrew ; iOoDp!TY CORNER. THE GRASPING LANDLORD.|HE HAS “THE DROP” ON YOU. ie ie iis lrBTAN answered Miss Cayenne; “they won't entertain. Washington Star. ‘They will amuse. COMPOSITE SUCCESS, Sidney—Rodney, you live by your wits, don't you? Rodney—Well, other people's Free Press, partly and partly by lack of wits,—Detroit FRUGAL. “Roast beef, corned beef*— Beef?” snorted the economical guest, “Beef? 1 can't afford luxuries. Bring me some strawberry shortcake!""—Chl- cago Tribune OTHER WAY AROUND, “What do you think of my idea of making Christians of the inese?"* “Well,” answered the eminent Cels- tlal, “Judging from what I hear of New York and Philadelphia politics I must say I am inclined to hope ‘for more or “less heathenism amopg Americans.”— Washington Star, O2OOO%H O0OOH# ————— SOMEBODIES. } MRS, JULIA—who was a friend of Commodore Decatur, ha just celebrated her one hundred and first birthday at Bayonne, N. J. BRADFORD, D. P.—seventh in line from John Bradford, the first Govy- ernor of Massachusetts, lives in South Dakota, where ho has just celebrated his ninety-first birthday. DRAPER, A, §.—-President of the Uni- veralty of Ilnois, who was injured recently in a nallroad accident, has re- ceived a year’s vacation with full pay. MORGAN, J. P.—has been elected a member of a numismatic society, His marvellous proficiency In wholesale coin collecting should win him instant election as the society's president OVERTUN, LORD—has for thirty-two years conducted a Bible class number- ing 448 members at Dunbarton, . land PARRY, D, M.—President of the > onal Association of Manufacturers, rises at 5.80 each morning and ts at his desk at 645. The “rush bour” crowds on cars probably do not bother bien. RIDDLE, A. G.—tho author, who has just died at Washington, was, while in Congress, the first man to advocate the arming of the slaves and:the abol- {ton of slavery in the District of Co- lunbie. WHITH, GRAHAM—has been offered by King Edward the post of Master of the King’s Motor Cara’ in the royal household. ———— rs > THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE, Dead in the buttlo—dead on the feld; More the hie iife oan a soldier yield? Dead for his country, drums; Slowly the sad procession comes. ‘The heart may ache, but the heart must @well With pride for the soldier who fought so well, His blood has burnished his saber bright; To his memory, honor; to him, good night, —Bizabeth Herman, tn Lippincott. Muffie the Oo | side, with no company but a cat and a curls, sipping tea by a comfortable fire- poll parrot, then tole a wife and mother with a drunken brute for a hearth-rug and crying, starving children at knee. It isn't such a terrible disgrace This wild and woolly Westerner has ‘the drop” on you. No matter how you may try to dodge him his eyes and gut are always on you. Cut the picture out and paste it on card= board. Then by moving it around you will see that no mat- ter what your position with reference to it the gun is always almed straight at you. 90600 Pouice HEADQUARTERS AM CITY to be an old maid, for an old maid {s not such a monstrosity as she used to be. You see they are common, quite com- mon, these days. You would not run to the window to see one go by in this day and age."’ ———— ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS, The Chemiker Zeitung describes some experiments in the making of artificial diamonds. Carbon was heated in an at- mosphere of inert gas in an iron flask! raised to a high temperature oy the| electric arc, Bits the size of a pea were obtained having the hardness and crys- talline form of a diamond. The crys- tals have a gray tint that makes them worthless for jewelry, but their use In drills seems to be promising. A French chemist has made minute dla- AN ITALIAN BANDIT’S “KIT.” will we do to Churchill? Offered me a pipe to-day, but refused. ANOTHER KITCHEN CABINET. g Svengali Cross (telegraphing tohis baby at Rockaway Beach)—Everything running smoothly. Made a cup of tea for the Colonel this morning. All out of knockout drops, but made a few passes over his eye- brow; he alept until noon. We will send him to Bergen Beach to-day accompanied by a brass band, won't know he {s coming. Think Jerome is all right. io they What more monds by heating pure carbon under pressure. —————>_—. PALM AS PASSPORT. The lines of no two human hands are exactly alike. When @ traveller in China desiree a passport the palm of the hand ts covered with fine oll paint and an impression is taken on thin, damp When Musolino, the Italian brigand who has a record o@) having killed over twenty-five men and who is now on trial: in an Itallan Court, was arrested he had in his possession! the weapons here pictured—a long razor-blade clasp-knife, | ‘a Colt's revolver, @ horse pistol and a big stiletto. Italy spent} paper. This paper, officially signed, is $500,000 to capture Musolino and once offered $40,000 for hisi yet. Hobbs—Oh, no. I'm still holding ° > GPPOCOOOLE . P. S.—How is the new wagon? WITH EFFORT. SELF-FLATTERY. A SIMPLE PROBLEM. Captain—I see you're not seasick Old Genbekt your tether Works for a ving, what do you sell 3 papers for? : my own. Boy—Huh, dat's easy. Gells ‘em ¢ ® > > HIS OPPORTUNITY, for a cent apiece. TRUST-RIDDEN, Muttonly—Well, there's one advan- tage to be found in these help-your- self restaurants—you always have un intelligent person to walt on you PURE NERVE. Here! that Offcer (at Where're you horse? Stranger—Sh, officer. Don't say a word, He's @ hoss that I'm tired of supportin’ an’ I wuz Jest goin’ to leave bim in somebody else's barn, night)-Here! going = with 3 Her ¥ather—Wow, asleep again, Algernon (rising haatily)—1—er— think I win bid you good e “Will you trust me for that steak?" “koh, nol I have too much trust on my hands now already.” my foot'a TIMELY How Many Houret To the Editor of The Mvening World; In olden Umes people said in regard to the hours for sleep, Seven hours for @ man, eight for a woman, nine for @ | fool." Another old proverb used to say, | 4 “Nature requires five hours’ sleep, cus-) Ir tom requires seven." What, In readers’ | a opinion, i» the exact amount of wl ed by a grown person? peated by 8. pe MRPLUXED, Who Knyies This Mant ‘To the Bator of The Breniag World a x amt she beet a p the postition to which his talents have long ) favor the public with a volume of ful ‘Pelation of this episode would do ‘The wentioman I am engaged to cares nothing for the amusements that terest me, He likes to tay at home evenings reading aloud. I loathe that, Son 1 wank te be always om the go, He accompanies mo to theatres, parties, re- coptions, calls, &o., but hates to go really amusea me to see how reluctantly and wearily he does ao. ~ ty so funny to watch him trying to keep engaged girls, Mon are easy, If you only |e the WAilor of ‘The ky altogether too much time end money LETTERS FRO? THE PEOPLE. and abtraotive, It 1s a big mistake. It)eat between breakfast and supper, But won't be long before they will bave!eat something, Don't fast all day trouble keeping people out. Eyen now| G. ALEN, JR, I notice @ sign outside the new Tombs Bad Me prison reading: "No Admittance Ex-| iro ine xaitor of The Kvening World AY pene gr Pe at {t Jerome! 1 have had experience in commission aid that J, VINCENT M'CLAIN. | houses where they keep hundreds of Necds Three Mei \fowls, More or leas die nearly every T the KAllor of The Brening World night, Some cheap restaurant keepers 1 do not agree with she genius who|buy them for five cents each, I have thinks two meals a day ure epough, I|eut into chicken placed before me at have personally known of dangerous ai-|suob restaurant and found them taint- Kestive disorders resulting from the lack |@4 and unfittoeat. Now, any of these of Jail. jot three meals a day. The digestive or- | chickens that die trom disease or stare ag World |gans and the whole constitulon should | vation la unfit to eat and polsonous, Mew York City oMcials aro spending |not be without work and stimulus from |Can no law be passed (and enforced) | Reaantnes Bane per time, It i wrong. | which wil do away entirely with auch Joven one sandwieh at poon le enough to |hosremt ‘ «y qt On the few vyenings we stay home and he reads loud to me I et back at him by yawn ng oF humming all the time, to lis vant nnoyance, though he says nothing. It la temper, I write this as a hint to} now how tO manage them. BELLE D. B. his passport. head. GETTING INTO SOCIETY. * Bessie, from Wayback, Attends a Musical Tea in New York. Dearest Mamma—Would you ever think it? I have ac- tually been to a musical tea given by the celebrated Sig. JtaMano at his studio, near Carnegie Hall. I don't see why anybody saya it's hard to get Into New York society. Aunt Melinda went around to his studio a week ago to see about my taking vocal lessons, and lo and behold! she got an Invitation for both of us to come to the tea, Hasy, wasn't {t? All the people were dead swell, and they didn’t make the slightest attempt to conceal it. Sig. Italano made the tea himself on a gas stove behind a Chinese screen, and he also played th? plano. His varia- tlons were lovely, but 1 couldn't quite catch the tune. He wears his hair very black and curly and has beautiful Liquid eyes. There was a lot of bowls on a table near the screen with little cakes and crackers and sandwiches in them, and when you wanted to eat anything you went up and got it, and an old lady gave you tea in a china cup, I overheard a young man saying {t was the first Raines law musicale he had ever attended, The big thing on the musical programme was Mile. La Cranque, the famous soprano, Her real name, I found out, is Lizzle McIntyre, and she used to live In Cheyenne. She has been in Europe to be trained, and Grau is crazy to get) her, She sald so herself. She welghs 180 pounds and she| wore a red dress imported trom Paris and cut low in the| neck. Bhe sat in a chair in the furthest corner of the room, and whenever anybody spoke to her she said that she was wor- ried to death for fear a draft would atrike her and she would catch cold. She made Sig. Italiano get a shaw! to put over her shoulders and then she said the room was too hot.) ‘They shut off the steam entirely for her, and pretty soon she began to shiver and asked for a glass of wine to warm her up. For an lvur se kept most of the men in the room) busy waiting on her, and finally it came her turn to sing, Sig, Italiano walked gracefully over and offered his arm to take her to the piano, but she shook her head and wouldn't get up. He argued and pleaded, but it was no use, At last she got mad and spoke right out so that everybody oul, hear. simply won't sing," she sald, pity, too, for I'm in splendid voice. That woman over there | with the yellow walst hes given me the didoes, I never ing a note “with that shade of yellow in the room.” “and I can't. And it's a} * shouted Big. Italiano, real artistic temperament! Sublime!" I'm not sure what !t all meant, but she didn't sing. Of course Aunt Melinda felt kind of bad about wearing tho yellow walst, but how could she know that Mile, Le Cranque had fits? Your loving daughter, BHESSIW, per Fred Nye. GAVE MEDICINE TO A TREE, A curious example of superstition was made public the other day in the law courts of Berlin. A tree growing oppo- site the gateway of a farmer was noticed to be withering ‘away. It was found that @ deep hole bad been bored in it, probably by aome person who wished to kill it. As the tr somewhat incommoded the entrance to the farmer's bouse he was charged with the deed and fined, ie, howe: ap pealed and mucceedgd jn proving that the hole had beep bored by some superstitious person who belleved that if illness at- “The ANSWER TO LOVE'S PUZZLE. This 1s the answer to Love's Pusait, which was published yesterday; Fire draw the heart A alofig the string through the loop B, until it reaches the back of the centre hole, then pull thet loop through the hole, and pass the heart, through the two loops that willl then be formad; then draw the etri wack through the hole a» before, the heart may easily be passed to companion, ————_ THE BIGGEST RAFT EVER. Last week the largest lumber that ever drifted down the Mi finished its voyage of 700 miles at Sty Lous. ‘Phe raft contained 14,000,000 feet off Jumber—11,000,000 feet in the raft proper and 3,000,000 carried on top, known a@ top loading, This raft was 1,715 feet, om one-third of a mile long, and 27 feet wide, It had a depth of three feet. 18 was made up of 82 sections, known aw eribs, each 16x82 feet, spliced together with planks. It was 62 cribs long and 16 cribs wide, If (ils lumber had been freighted down by train it would have filled 1,40 cars, making 28 trains of 6 cars each, or one train ten miles long, with 400 feet to spare. In the river, water-soaked, the raft and its top loade ing welghed about 66,000,000 pounds, of 28,000 tons. The lumber {8 worth $210,000. There were 23 men in the rafting expedition- boat crews, raftamen and oMfcers, ee PARAFFIN FOR LAUNDRY. Paraffin is a great saver of time and trouble in the laundry, On the day be fore washing soak the clothes in the ordinary way, well soaping the most solled places, Next morning add to the water In the copper, when'it bolls, @ quarter of a pound of out-up sosp and two tablespoonfuls of paraffin, Put the clothes in and boll an hour. When taken out they will be found quite white. ‘They must be thoroughly rinsed and dried in the open air or a smell Of paraffin will be perceptible. The method ectally 004 for clothes which have seeras yele low from lying ‘by, Some people use # mixture of equal parts of clear ike water, parafin and turpentine, shaken together Ul] creamy, instead of paraffin alone, with excellent results. Soft tacks @ household it can be driven away by “burying” it in ‘A healthy tree A hole t bored in the tree and all kinds of medicines are buried in the hole, which ts then carefully stopped up, amid the singing of weird incantations This could have been done by any auperatitious person in the neighborhood, the farmer pointed out, The Judge acquitted re water should always be used if possible —_—_—_—_—_EE HARDY TREES, ‘The birch grows further north 4 any other tree. Next comes the : ond then e e