The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1902, Page 6

- sf ! ? 4 Za q wing Company, No k Entered at the P AWS BS, at New York as Seeond-Class Mal! Matter oe (OLUM IP 42.. NO. 14,900. A NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER. | SADNERDIEAOLGDION TIDE TRDDTIDII-49OEIOSOHDHO 44 490400046 $490$O5:000600000496099000600 J © No matter wiat s Low's person! preference sand : . ; pimelinations may be he cannot continue to he B Memand for 9 chanes in the office of Pollen Commits: | e anny Z e Oo 1 e. loner. The demand comes alike from the press and the] public ane from the or ng renrosenting the re-] form movement y yved Nis leap in - sight intc he Jained the . @efent of Tammany by saying “w whole press} ‘of the city against 1s." Mayor lan, who I the whole] + Depress of the city with him on entering office. « Pmow claim a single defender for police failaye, and | those papers which were forme sat zealous In his oh \ “silpport are now the ceverest Censors of his Police Com= | + mare | ; h Mirsioner. Tho City Club, the embodiment and repre- Shay sa ‘BONERON'S By gentative of reform, has taten the unm ual step of AP! S aawned " eat ; j © Epointing a cominittee of remonstrancy to urge the Mayor |g “No, it has to much sand ie % ; y 1% die q ¢ : } ito bis duty. : pat Z \ i Tt fa no longer a question whether Commissionar) { ,, 3 (BR Partridge shoule remain or not. His victor unfitness h , ; 3 | Had too ample a demonstration. Avy long as he ts Com- : ' i missioner jt is honeless to expect tl change in the) 2 i © department which the Mayor distinctly promised in his) [| U pay mn € ~ eampaiin speeches » only question to who Is!) " Bo be his successor. # What is wanted is 2 man who will do for the Police “Department what Waring did for the Street Ment or what Wood has done in Cuba Mot numerous. Lut they are to be found Will Mayor Low straightway put the Pollee Depart- Ment in charge of some such man? | c A LOSS TO LITERATURE, \ Mark Twain, who delights in doing the unexpected, has saddened an otherwise mirthful occasion in St Louis by making a brief speech at the christening of aj ‘steamboat named after him and saying at the end,| “Plense announce in the papers that I have retired for=| § “eyer from the public platform. > Tt would “eclipse the gayety of nations” if the an- _ Bouncement were to be belioved and to be taken ser- | “ously. Thore ie only one, Mark Twain, and bis felicitous spoken utterances are invariably gems of thought not Hess veluobin than his writings. There are no paste} diamonds in his jewels of wit as there are sald to be} ip the reealla of King Edward. and his apt romarks are} treasured as pearls of great price. The country would © be much poorer without them. | Fortunately, Mark ‘Twain does not always intend that! shis stetements shali be taken ser he enjoys the American eltizen ght to change his tind whenever be thinks it needs a change. and moreover THE NEW DANG President Roosevelt's recent remarks about modern. life being too “ea were not intended to apply to New York, where life is merely a datly survival of a daily * Increasing list of dangers. The latest addition to the list js the blown-out fuse on the road motor cars, The Hlown-out fuse has been bad enough on the surface cars, | ~ but on’ these it has ns yet killed no passengers. Tho ground is near, and there is no heavily charged third} rail to electrocute the escaping victims. On the elevated | tracks it is different, and apart from the danger of the +, third rail the consequences of a panic in a crowded) rain are serious. ER. steer ane ey i aT t 3 «The need of electric equipment on the “L” road is _ Resendered more urgent by the coal situation, Before it is led the million or so of passengers who are com-! © .pelled to use the road would like to know whether the! _ blown-out fure represents an original defect {n Installa- | ) tion or the result of wear and tear in daily use. If it is} jenthe latter, the new danger is likely to be a frequent one. ots» Bi ene. A GAMBLING “SURE THING.” ‘The fact that when “Vat" Masterson was arrested with ~@ fellow-group of sports yesterday his trusty weapon of twenty-eight notches was not even drawn from his hip pocket is interesting, but the fake faro layout found in the poseession of the party is more 60, This was a mas- terpiece of its kind Wires and buttons anu electrical | currents had been arranged with such ingenuity that | the dealer was given a private view of every card to be ) Played and was enabled to hold or expose ft at will. Byen the “man with a system” is forced to admit that > the only sure thing in this game was the certainty that the customer's roll would find its way into the dealer's hands, ‘With the revelations of a “square” gambler’s meth- ods what may we not expect of the lesser sporting fra- ternity? There may be a few straight games left in the ‘en- Hs derioin, but competition of this sort must reduce the profits of the “honest” gambler. Modern monopolistic i "methods are everywhere; the customer gets it in the 1 i | UP TO DAT vps of wat Tite dr Litte g Make the Sold throu MIND. the h Re en's room, Wait a min © Rents my who th wi Ohty State THING, rt on thing the in off asto enter tn art goo portrait of ) Tribune. Job he gave me vere anything ack an * somenody Pm nat me, now. —Philadelp! PP-9G-Dd-dOw SOMEBODIES. i ASQUITH, HERBERT —saye nearly ey me of been the a nin his ¢ (Buffalo BH @ 160-acre ranch In Wyoming old friend, Capt BOWDS, T. H.—of Baltintore, has re celved from the Bri War OMec silver medal in re ition of his. ser ery Ca r has Charles Christy. cause of his great and auccesstul y tures in raising for the market an In ed variety of chestnuts. WALLACE, automobile and is learning to make work. What @ pity he wrote “Ben: Hur" before he knew ernugh to intro: duce an up-to-date auto race! Chart ots are old-fasbloned. —_ meck wherever he goes. Pretty soon when he wantg to ES) try his luck his only recourse will be to flirt with the | goddess of chance in Wall Street. ‘The game may pe! Hslower there und the odds greatly against him, but at BJeast the swindle is not 60 burefaced, “LITTLE SUNBEAM.” Into each life some rain must fall grow dork and drear aud doomed to mourn But behind the clouds the sun is still shining; a ray of gold breaks through, and when It « y with a Ppondency! Hence loathed mel of darkest mid- ight born! Then the days man 4p nes, BW fe, was so with Arthur Hanson. Into his life at the Rent of deepest despondency came Mrs. Carnes—bis fe Sunbeam,” ‘as he called her because of her ning Influence--his gem of purest ray serene women. This little bd the gloom from the sunbeam had formerly ban- home of Manson's partner, M, Carnes, and the Jatter sues for $25,000 ag a faluation on her services as illuminator and blue pilgpelier of a once happy household about Natuge dificult to understand ts that fo bountiful in making the supply exceed the ‘A everything whe provides tor man's happiness Meficiamt in facilities for distribution. There the wea just as good as any caught by the thousands of unattached ladies quite Carnes to play the role of sun- ‘aun wrangle for her affections : ladly dlapel the de- sympathies go out to all parties to the sult, | alth can bring the palace wing: princess went repeating jf One wish, day after day i) ee Kvod ng me his love, I y that w | rf | Nace of tears, jf The matden to Loved im Hut tie nid fairies She gaged up at the pa And, aaghing, watt rte How i SF dd ottey | Nee a ate Iiser thie ago Necord proaence of the »& doen not signify the are ported, Generally there ts a choc ‘mark used. J hope this will answer h quest GG. J | To Cheek Microb To the Rditor of The evening World times brought on by | suggest the following: "The public are] hood tor earneatly requested got to tall or other. jeumpdon ts re | Wie Indulgence Wf such vulgar babite ag Mr > his has bought an | pe a el, TWO WOMEN, The princess in the palace Had a -TIPIELY follos In the cash! the amounts rules be ite Germa, at least many of thom, could, in my opinion, be lestened sf the majors | ing at the \aeatres.” Is there no way ity of people would just #top to think | tp compel the auaience to keep eflant that the dreadful disease known as con: | during an interesting play? Let me|tos that otherwise A LONG WA wat) after your dinner Rut, sis, payday ke foar lays aw TOOK IM LUPE vLLy. I told you, John, to bang the horse's ~ Why haven't you done tt © very first swat I gave him he got 1 wae afeard to go near him 9-96 eee AMikK MIADS ox sooo SCHOOLMASTER OEVERY. KODpITY CORNER. PLP poh A MUTE, PATHETIC PLEA OF THE BOER WAR. Ths ilustratio: from the London f ) of the pathetic situ- ations of the recent Boer war. Often the armonal trains pa- trolling the block- houses turned thelr searchlights on re- quests like this “Papers, please, displayed across them, In letters made of white ston These words elo. quently gescribe the Iéneliness of Tommy Atkins In the long hours on the veldt. TRANSFORMATION PUZZLE. Procure a pleve of thin wood, cardboard or writing paper. Cut it Into perfect square of three inches or more. After that divide tt Into fifteen parts and with them form the ae- be companying diagrams. See if you can do it. If you can’t, jook tn Monday's Evening World for the solution of fhie puzzle. A FREAK BUILDING, Freak buildings have beer prominent features of most recent national and !n, ternational expo! The one Were we 6 “4 MYSTIFYING FIGURES. “You can't bring up policemen on bonbons and pink fea Or you'll have the bummest force a man of Sense would want to see, If you're looking for some tips on what a high-grade chief should be Just send the bunch to Rockaway to go to school to me.” mat “GOOD DESCRIPTION. BEGINNING EARLY. ~Fo— rN} hyeiney—Say, Patrick, vat is a Mother—Oh, my! Johnny, do yous Tramp—Madam, T was not always ever expect to make a Ilying by® Hok=T dunno. ax lam playing? 3 Heiney—Ach! A smile ts a tau Mada know ft. Yesterd ou Johnny—Yes, mamma. I am going I mitoud nel: o to be a musteian, ae af and dumb a vices In the Boer wa $ i; ental clergyman, threw his cloak over | © A puddle for the Duchess of York to] ‘?. walk on during the latter's recent | astern (our, Sir Waiter Raletgh, who | Invented this trick, forgot to nt an |g iL ATOR-1s planning rs shooting trip to hiv Georgia game pre- | 2 2 serves. when Congress adjourns. 3 FORT HAROTACK 2 REID, WHITELAW—will wear, it ts} 2 3 sald, a $2,000 suit at the Coronation, | @ 2 Jeffersonian simplicity seems to be 3 among th 80 2 SOBER, C. K—-of Lewisburg, Pa., 3 known as the “Chestnut King 4 { Tommy wanted to be a Thia ts the glorious goaPhe arrived at i PD ae eed oe eee bagee 2 OF ODDS C444-G5 06 > OOee ' PEOPLE. ETTERS FROM THI Whe Leduer Query. ) theatres and other) wise to disturb others during the per-; boys from being | such horrible nul t The Bveniog World * Hyven the signs en the| formance.” A few of these not! hung Siheew? Several of ur are about to cor to “rather,” would say At! ferry-bonty and street care roferring (lin varioun parte of the theatre might) Piainto Police Headquarters and to ry to enter the follow of the Wmishment for this mistomeanor|do a tie for that part ef the public) Mrs, HARRIET V, N, ron the eawh book ‘ore the) are nov it any wonder we] (hat enjoys silence sometimes | To Baye the Park, MINI# Bre posted in the ledgers and have xo mich tliness while habita gugh | C, MANKOWSKI | To the WAitor of The Brening Word Virecracker The expert opinion that ‘Pwo feet Editor of The Bvening Worlds [of new, frosh, flourishing #oll must be ke your wert alde correspondent, | spread over every part of the park” to live near Elgbtleth street and Amater-| preserve the vitality of natural growth dam avenue, 1 wish to indovee all he| seems to me jike adopting tha plan of (or # about the firecracker nul-|@ roof gardén for the treatment of bominabie. I am nervous | Cenwat rel Arufols exp and easily startled, The frequency of pera Pt 4 ‘he torpedo and Srecracker explosions | curs, _ ‘ Keone my nerves on edge and 1 am leave pronuice plesaant nelghbore ra} soll i these'are indulged Int I say let (he y enforced to pur a stop Kk) to those proctloey which are detrimental #) 10 health ana wteciygts WILLIAM H., Bogota, N. J Nolay Audien: Kditor of The Kvevin ih to way & word en. i¢ raing alk pelloreak ge thas eas! } {over the river at several shown, one of the most striking and ap- propriate of these structures, was built for the exposition at Riga, on the Baltic, jast year, The building, which is four stores high, 1s made to imitate a gigan- tle steam valve, and contained the ex- hibits of a firm of pullders of steam fiers and central steam-heating sys- tem. ——___ TWO BRAIN TWISTERS, THE JEALOUS HUSBANDS. Three jealous husbands, A, B and C, with thelr wives, being ready to pass by night over a river, find at tho water, side a boat which can carry but two at a time, and for want of a waterman they are compelled to row themselves times. The question 1s now those six persons shall pass, two at a time, so that none of the three wives may be found in the com- pany of one or two men, unlese her husband {s present? . THE FALSE SCALES. A cheese being put into one of the scales of a false balance was found to welgh 16 pounds, and when put Into the other only 9 pounds. What is the true weight? FUN IN SCHOOL BOOKS. To the Editor of The Evening World We both are school boys and have among our text books a grammer e: Utled “Buehler's Practical Exercises {i English." These sentences are*to be corrected by us and !f read in their original form sound very funny. CHARLES TREBER, Procure six blank cards, and having ruled them the same ERNEST SASSO, as the following diagrams, write in the figures neatly and b No. 910 Progpect avenue, Bronx. | legibly. The Sentences It 1s required to tell the number thought by any person, Lost—a Scotch terrier by a gentleman | the numbers being contained In the cards, and such numbers 1 4 with his ears cut close. not to exceed 60, How 1s this done? Request the person to give you the cards containing the Canteens were issued to the soldiers | number, and then add the right-hand upper corner figures with short necks. together, which will give the correct answer. For example: eee Suppose 10 is the number thought of, the cards with 2 and 8 We all went to the seashore for a] in the corners will be given, which makes the answer 1, Uttle fresh air from the city. and so on with the others, eae The three young men set out and finally arrived at the college dressed in girls’ clothes, eee BABIES FED THROUGH NOSE, Erected to the memory of John Smith, aceldentally shot as a mari of affection by his brother. ————__ THE CHINESE PEACH Congressman Landis, of Indiana, was A guest the other night at a dinner given dy Dr, Hili, Assistant Secretary of State, among the other guests being Minteter Wu, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Patent Commissioner Allen, ys the Washington Post, During the course of the dinner Secre- tary Wileon began displaying his knowl- edge of things agrioultural. “The peach,” he took occasion to remark, “originally came from China," “Indeed, remarked Minister Wu, ted knew that," interrupted soon as they met Mr. compliment until his sides shook. He knows what It 1s to be a “peach po IRISH NEGROES, The Irieh language is spoken in the Bahamas among the mixed descendants of the Hibernian patriots banished long ago by Cromwell to the West Indies, One can occasionally hear negro patlors fn the East End of London, who cannot speak @ word of English, talking Irieh to the old Irish apple women who gather astound the docks, —- TO KEEP FEET DRY. Seed ‘ Many of the prematurely born Infante in the couveuse@ or Incubators of the Paris “Hnfante-Assistew’ are unable to wuckle and even to swallow, They are fed in the curious manner illustrated by the photograph, Hyery two hours the nuree takes the ehild from the incubhtor and, sitting down before the stove, lays the infant on her lap, bende tts head and into ite nostrils @ two of d ued cow's