The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1902, Page 6

aes VOLUME 42. —_—— THE CONSPICUOUS OFFENDER. Commissioner Lederle should proceed against the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company and compel it to abate its smoke nuisance. He should do this not because of the past management of the road, its refusal to furnish sufficient trains and consequent overcrowding of passengers, but for per- tinent, just and valid reasons. All other emoke producers at least discharge their soot-laden volumes aloft into the upper air, where it is dispersed and partly absorbed, but the belching chim- neys of the “L” road are near the surface, in the narrow streets, under the noses and Jungs of residents and work- ers. Their soot clouds are a nuisance not merely to the hundreds of thousands of passengers on the trains, but to other hundreds of thousands at the windows above, and still again to the Hundreds of thousands of shop- keepers and shoppers on the etrests below. No other emoke producer in New York does so much damage and injury to so many people as this one fran- chise corporation, and its further infiiction of loss and annoyance should not be tolerated. After its case has been disposed of a few of the next conspicuous offenders ~tnoloding the coal railroad ferries—should be taken in hand. The eftuation, which is rapidly growing worse, is already tntolerable. The Oammawered Question—Pelice Capt. Footy ts the Intent addition tothe long and Illustrious line of officials twhe -ere unable to answer The World's standing ques- tient “Where did you got itt” partment. case of “accident.” "Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 89 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Mfatter. .NO, 14,909. REVIEWINO REFORM. Te-an-intervtew tn The World this morning Comp- Ieoller Grout points-out and enumeretes the teating re- forma, great end emall, accomplished in municipal mat- ters by the new administration. "The tietés iong and creditadie. It tnctudes reform fn the awarding of franchises, in ¢he awarding of contracts, especially the paving contracts; in the adjustment of sal- artes ani duties, in the purchase of suppites, the meth- ots of payment and the personel relations between of- ficials and the public. It is not out of place to adihby way of comment that the public has full confidence in th» integrity and good intentions of the new administration. The difference in character between it and its predecessor is vast and vital and is making itself felt every day. The one conspicuous reform, to which the edminis- tration was pledged and which the public had a right to expect would be the first, is the reform of the Police De- It would be idle to pretend that in this de- partment the net results achieved thus far are satisfac- But— The Right Uses ef Wealth—Mn John W. Gates hus never posed as a philanthropist, but his plan of a Rural Home for Boys is as attractive as It Mr. Gates was once @ boy himself. LAW ON LONO ISLAND, At Good Ground, L. L, two young married men, con- spicuous for their attentions to a girl of seventeen, take the girl away from home for a night’s carouse. The girl does not return home, and four days later her dead body and that of one of her companions are found floating in the water of the bay; the second young man has dis- eppeared. With all these circumstarices pointing to a double murder the Long Jeland Coroner shows that he is of the same class as his fellow-officials in Greater New York. He refuses to call a jury, he refuses to examine the bodies, he neglects to look for the missing man, declares that the reporters may find him and decides that it is a He allows the bodies to be buried at the convenience of the respective families. It subsequently appears that there had been a serious quarrel between the two men, ending in a fight in which the drowned man had come off the winner, The State of New York cannot allow so suspicious a tragedy to go uninvestigated, nor can it allow the dere- liction of duty of the Coronor to pass unnoticed. IN DARKEST ILLINOIS, The persecution of the colored people of Saline County, Ilinois, by their white neighbors cannot hope to escape, and it should not escape, public reprobation. @ time when the advocates of peace and order in Con- gress and out, North and South, Democrat and Republi- can alike, are striving to remove the reproach of Jynch law from the record of the country this exceptional, though not unprecedented, outrage comes to encourage and justify the lynchers and to furnish their defenders swith a new and potent argument. Lynching in the Southern States is always the lawless punishment for crime, and usually for the most odious form of crime, but in the Republican County of Saline, in the Northorn State of Illinois, negroes have been driven out, their property has been destroyed, their schools broken up, their churches wrecked and all the rights of manhood denied them, not because they were criminals or dangerous, but for the very opposite reason that they Were religious, educated, decent and law-abiding. Their sole offense was the establishment of a normal schoo) and industrial institute which attracted other negroes to the county, MRS. KURTZ’S OBESITY CURE. The painful experience of Mrs. J. Kurtz, of Boston, in attempting to get rid of superfluous adipose should serve! 84 @ warning to the obese who aspire to be other than @s nature made them, Mrs. Kurtz js very, very fat, fon is such as would make her a belle of acknowledged pre-eminence in Oriental lands; in Boston they prefer the pale, intellectual kind, and the unhappy lady sought by fasting to «»nform her physique to the proper slen | derness. For twenty-one days she went without food. “Her too, too solid flesh melted away almost visibly, and delight was great, even greater than the attendant Thinking her purpose accompisaed Teast in part, Mrs. Kurtz began to eat again, and A week of her former diet she is fatter than before. was done is undone, and her return to adiposity is d by the sad reflection that her enforced ab- ‘was worse than for naught. A three weeks’ denial of the pleasures of the palate and of hunger. JOKES OF OUR OWN A QUESTION OF FEET. Chicago girls declare their feet are smaller than New Yorkers. If we believe this, and believe our comic paper talkers, ‘We'd dest enlarge old Gotham’ to accommodate our walk atrects AN EXPENSIVE TRIP. “It costs @ lot to fo to the country In the summer?” “You bet tt does, My Suburban trip Saturday cost me just $3,621." MURKY. “When winter comes I suppose oun; churches will be burning poft coal, too.’ “Holy emoke!"’ fe commendable. Her rotundity of per- “Porn fat, some acquire fatness; byt none APPROPRIATE. “T'd like to embroider some sentimen- tal motto on this pocketbook I'm mak- ing Cor Mr. Ven Broke." “What's the matter with ‘You'll Find, No Change in Me?’"” NOT 50 HOLY. “They call the new Captain of the Oak etrest tation the ‘Holy Terror.’ ” ‘Well, most of the bunch they've had in that orecinct heretofore were terrors of the other sort.’ BORROWED JoKEs. OSTENTATION. “Yes,” said the woman with sharp eyea, “thowe people who moved in next door are {nclined to make an ostenta-| tlous display of their wealth.” “In what way?" “They go into the corner grocery and order beefsteak in a loud tone of woice.’ Washington Star, A BARGAIN, “Where tn the world did she ever get thet uxly, lttle, lobsided husband of hers?” “That's ene of her finds.” “One of her finds?” “Why, yea. Didn't you know ehe = a bargain fiend?'—Cleveland Pilain- Dealer. A BRAVE FIGHT. “What possible comfort ean you take,” egked hie wife, “in sitting on the oler and fishing all day for half‘a Gowen little ring perch?” ‘\l have the comfort of knowing,” ere Br Govier cage a lopeiasoe “thet Tem it agains! Teustl E Shicaso Tribune, aerenreerree| SOMEBODIES. | ALFONSO XIII.—of Spain disapproves ve bull-fights, and prefers horse rac- Ing. COL®, HENRY—of Denver, tried re- cently to turn his $100,000 estate into cash and give it to the poor, but his wife, who owned half of it, prevented his doing so. DE CSETD, PETWR—of Hungary, sald to be the largest tobacco grower in the world, is in New York. DOWIN, J. A—head of the Dowielte wants to raise enough money to buy Jerusalem and to take his people there to awalt the second coming of the Messiah. EMPRESS OF GERMANY—nas for a bodyguard twenty of the tallest men in the Impertal Guard. GARDINDR, JOHN—of Norwalk, 0. fg the oldest active banker in that State and one of the oldest in the country, He {8 eighty-six and has spent sixty-four years in the banking business. LOUBET, PRESIDENT—of France, gave $20,000 for local charity during hia Russtan visit. STONE, MISS ELLEN—has won a new niche ip the Temple of Fame. Her adventures with the bad, bold brigandy now form the theme of a melodrama. If the play runs as successful as did her captors it will be a money-maker. ZOLA, PMILE—ts tn Jerusalem, collect ing material for a new book. ——— Mga see, ELSIE’S APPETITE. When down to luncheon Elsle sits With Harold, Guy or Perey, She orders all the choicest bits, Without one sign of merey. She fancies grouso or, haply, quail When each ts out of season, Forgetting quite that these entail Expense beyond all reason. But when she's been to do the shops Her appetite ts du ¢ Remus—Yo' say Mistah Johnain, For, lunching then a she stops % Billy Osirioh swallowed the ¢ am industrious? F At coffee and a Palanm clock for Oreakfast and now 8 | v ‘ i : and ne Sain—Yeas, suh, Why. spent Miss Hippo--This | c 8 Arthur Craw nart Set, fi ¢ } don't know whether or not Tam 3 two whole daya tryin’ to get his waite ni BRAnibatgini ts ia ay on two f uld be a could only J) & iste tor w wife a fob. Bet enough at one tiene “"No—~trom 2 Aruggist.” GRAVE OVERSIGHT. NEW YORK, PITTSBURG AND CHICAGO. ‘We're the merry Plack-Face Trio and we dance in jubilee—oh! Yes, the Soft Coal Smoky Mokes are cutting loose and patting Juba, And our make-up for this patter beats old Primrose and Dockstader, For the smoke's made us the blackest bunch of coons this side of Cuba, get thelr from their their father; he's @ | Ghe Fanny Side of Li THE SMOKY-MOKE TRIO, THAT WAS ALL. Stranger to Cop—Did you see a pedestrian pass here? Cop—No; I saw a man and he was walking. VERY INDUSTRIOUS, eo HE COULD REST. She—It somebody left us what is the first thing you would dots He—There'd be rm further need in such a case of doing anything or an body UNSATISFIED, TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Invillng Accidents, Sativic Advice, To the Editor of The Evening World In the case of Henry 8. Wade, who complains he Is waked at 6 A, M, by a At except at a price all too great for the howling baby next door, let me prescribe the following remedy: Get up at 4 in ‘the morning, converse loudly (even if to Itt wall), get some of The Evening World ing 8 os" Interested ton Beach youd, ws nfant, and Jhos taken off its station uge velow | cough toudly at. nig Ought to Franklin ave No bars are ulet the people across the alrshaft, any more when trains thorough (re A ‘area, ‘Mhere js no waning Mag for] A Maughty Express Company. drivers of vehicles, Isnt there some lie cavaring tale Nothing will] 7# Se Balto of The vening World be done, of course, until a big accident | Phe Rext me T have any expreasing occurs at one of these crossings ana{%? 49 trom w York to Brookiyn I ee AN EN (APBUSH.. [S88 hire a handoart man. Two days ago several boxes of mine were turned over to n expreas company that does business in the sister cities and they haye not reached me yet gives no satisfaction, \t 1s doing me a fayor to carry my goods a: all—at 80 conta a hundred, tov, ind you. This express company, by The company eeming! to think the way, carries its freight in a B. R, 4 box-car, Whore did the B. &. 7. eve wet a franchise to carry frejeh freight cars in the streets of Lvooklyn? JOUN D, G The Irish Flag. To the Editor of The Nvening World In answer to the query as to whether blue was ever the colar of the trish flag, 1 with to say that in ail the best works on Irish history which I have perused there has been no mention of any naticnal flag other than the present one of green, Which was first used leas than one hundred years ago, In ancient times the chins of Erin had thetr own stand- ards or banners, which served them as flags, And land wae always the head of one of the DPO9LO9494.056 | tor Chauncey M. Depew. A BRAIN TWISTER. THE CHRISTIANS AND TURKS. Fifteen Christians and fifteen Turks being at sea in the same vessel, a dread- ful storm came on W! obliged them to throw all their merchandise over- doard: this, however, not beige suf- ficient to lighten the ehin, the captain informed them that th no pos- sibility of its being saved unless half} the passengers were thrown overboard | also, Having therefore caused them all to arrange themselves 1 a row. bY counting from nine to nine, and throw- Ing every ninth person ‘nto the sea, beginning again at the first of the row) when it had been counted tw the end. It was found that after fifteen persons had been thrown overboard the fifteen Chris- tlans remained. How did the captain arrange those thirty persons so as to save the Christiane ——$ $< ORIGINAL KIDS. Here are some answers to questions in examination papers, says the Chicago Daily News: What religion had the Britons? A strange and terrible one called religion of the dudes. What caused the death of Cleopatra? It was >| because she bit a wasp. What can you tell of Johnson? He survived Shake- speare in some respects. What }s the spinal column? Bones running all over the body. It 4s considered dangerous. ul for Name a domestic animal ust clothing and describe Its hab! Ox. have any habits, decause it Doesn't lives in a stable. of the gastric juice? stomach. What Is the function To digest the ————— THE FIRST DOCTOR. The title of “doctor” was Invented in the twelfth century ard conferred for the first time upon Inerlus, of the Uni- >| versity of Bologna, states the Meta- physiclal Magazine. The firet “doctor + of medicine? was Gullelmo Gordenlo, who received the honor the co! ege of Aostl, alyo in Italy, in 1220, on th samovar, re helmet THIS IS A NEW STYLE OF PORTRAIT-MAKING. Cut out these strips of black and join them together so that they will form a silnouette of Sens WONDERFUL SILVER WORK. This remarkable piece of repou: sented by the Czar of R occasion of the esenting a ty: e work in silver was prow ident Loubet of France to St. Petersburg. Ih 1 Russtan warrior with @ a to atte And the B T was in the smoking car. eat knew each other > “I bought a in 1896, You know ehrinking when it !* washed. t trousers were washed they came out of inches too long. My wife dof each leg and he: The next time the trou rs we dish towels was gleaned from them make a long story short, those trousers length and as good as new; ylelded thirty-seven pairs of dish towels “That reminds me," sald No. 2, “of a my farm at Pompton, N. J. one day my little boy, in a spirit of mi her drunk, He soaked a lot of bread in to her. Now, you can believe ft or not, eges for a week after that contained so a first-rate eggnog. egg she lays now ts worth the price of stead of 17 cents a’ dozen “Yer, animals are clever,” chimed in got a bird dog, Bose is his name, and my pretty, soon Fritz pulled in a big three-po >| as if it had been a bird, When the fish wi » half-pound quail in him. course’ — “Excuse me," broke in No. 4, before I get out I want to t made a certain Scripture text very clea formerly been a puzzle, The text js: I never knew what it meant till 1 heard “this men could stand One, Two and Three in stretches but In st: @he lays e one of the finest hens ever seen In Passale fishing the other day and took Bose along tn the boat. snould that wise dog do but begin ‘pointing’ ank you gentlemen. I see that Ananias was to stand Fourth, 90 that you THE PREWARICATORS. eee encfit One Min Gained from Their Sozi.ty, ‘Three of the men in the double The fourth man was a stranger crash trou Instead of he first time those the Inundry twelve patr of cut off the extra twelve faches ed them Into a pair of dish ent to the warh, of e they stretchéd again, and another pair of twelve-inch Well, gentlemen, to are still the proper x years they have and"——~ hen we have up at very day and shes County. Well, ef, tried to get whiskey and fed It ax you like, but the much whiskey that { all you had to do was to break one of them in order to have 1 sold her to the local saloon man for $150 and he feeds her regularly on whiskey now, and each 4 lh-vent drink In- No. 3, “Why, I've boy Fritz went out Well, ound bass, and what that fish, just ‘as cleaned we found ‘The bird must have fallen in the water and the bass swallowed him, Boss's scent was 50 keen he smelled the gaine bird clear inside the fish, and of is my station; but You have r to me which had ‘Ananias, stand forth!’ talk, Now three the ranks of famous A. P. TERHUNE. you mi the monaroh of all. Ire |i great families, the banner of his clan Wax used as the national standard or flag. For muny centuries the chiet of the clan O'Netil was elected King of Ire land, and thelr ban was the nation’s | py standard, Phis waa aluo the cage tn land, and explains the absence of a Rootch Nag, The peuart wan the test rul- ing clan in Scotland, and their banner served as the Seotehh emblem JAMS C, M'GUIRE Scores Pugnacious Girl, To the Editor of The Kyening World: I vhink “Sweet Bighteen,” who hit a man because he spoke to her, has a viclous disposition, and I attribute the attentions of the youig man to bi experience, A young woman can alwa: tind & more ladylike awy than resort T think she represents Carrie in the b COLDHEART JIM, Mars. BEWARE OF TOO MUCH BATHING Warm ut, bew! Good day, pring mI too frequent bathing in these moving terms ing Is barmful, part of the epidermis, and occasions provably too rapid a proliferation of the cells of the malpighian layer,”’ FIRE HELMETS ARE ALL RIGHT, Proof was given at a fire in Liverpool recently of the value of the newly invented smoke helmets, of smoke were #0 dense that the firemen were beaten back, but, donning the smoke helmets, into which alr 1s pumped ae in u diving equipment, they descended into the emok, bearing the hose in one han othe, and soon succeeded in putting out the Hames, gentlemen! days make bathing peculiarly seductive, he London Lancet expresses the danger of “Too much bath- as it tenda to maceration of the superficial The volumes electric Mambeaux tn the these peculiar masks In their religious tes. made by intersecting nes slashing the oe DEVIL DSNCER’S HEAD The devil dancers of Ceylon wees aa A FAMOUS N. 4 This signature of Napoleon—an W paper—Was tr od at Erf paper wan at Erfurt on Ost. af ay his. lorie Ei ttle whicl oT My turn Napol, and Nap, and then sine ¢ ple =~ PRAYED BEFORE DECIDING, ‘The other day, when a jury in a mui, dey telal in the Loulsyille courts had retired to thelr room, the foreman easdt! “Gentleman, this is a serious case we hayre to decide, A man's Ufe may be fovteited by our decision, How Christiana ane among ue?” Nine men{ raised thelr hands, “Will one of you} pray?” asked the foreman. One of the oldest Jurors said he would do his best, All knelt, and a most earnest and im- pressive prayer was offered. Balloting was then begun, Several Juror vere ta favor of a life sentence and others for rms as short as elght years The! \dury dnally agreed on Stee FR