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Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to a Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMmce f at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, NO, 14,083. VOLUME 43. THE “LITTLE CONEY ISLAND” RAID, In the day's when the Boulevard was a favorite route for bicyclists a number of “wheelmen’s retreats" were | lred and Tenth street. LOOHDHODOY EOS O6OO4OOHODFEOLHOTH OE GOhe Funny Side of Life. established on or near One Hund + They flourished, and in their wake came dance halls and |} lees desirable resorts that have continued there to the} ; geandal of the neighborhood and the reproach of the) Police Department, This broad and naturally beautiful | ‘ ital | JOKES OF OUR OWN street in the heart of an ai Lic residence section and unter the very caves of Columbia College is now a} > A GENERAL RAISE. vnigar “midway” on whlch there are plagite spots worse | Wer she Sang ehe used to raise than many tolerated in the Bowery in that thorough- THE BACK YARD WACATIONERS. DREAMS. A physician men- tions the case of a man who could be made to dream of any subject by whispering about ft Into his ear 10) fare's worst days hearers used to raise an awful farc's worst days : ae ‘This is the ‘Little Coney Island” in which Inspector) © Above the roof she raised herself at Kane has just distinguished himself by his raid on the | Inst Aint pa a thes ij 0 joner | Amd raises echoes on root gardens while he slept, and dive-keepers. It Is the street which the Commissioner ae Ad dabei that persons who talk in their sleep will frequently an- swer questions If spoken to softly. of Police inspected from an open carriage last spring and in which ho saw no evil; vice was not sitting at the | window at the time. Inspector Kane has gone within |: doors and found what he was in search of. His raid | en cau? sreepve: patrol does much to compensate for the half-hearted and inef-| ana my husband uaed to be a sea cap- fective attempts previously made to put an end to the} % tas. disgraceful conditions there. WELL QUALIFIED. Judge—Do you understand the nature DR. MESMER, Dr. Mesmer, who made the first ex- periments in mes- merism, 1s buried at Meersburg, on Lake Constance, where a new tomb- stone was placed over his grave re- | eently by a num- | ber of professional mesmerists. TOM MOORE. ‘Thomas Moore Ploftenwrotea | short poem almost ©/impromptu. He P | consumed over two 8 years in reading For two weeks a thief managed to raid Farmer Jenkins's watermelon lot, and | and preparing ma. | the result was not exactly satisfactory to that worthy gentleman, On the last terfal for “Lalla | day he cleaned up his oid shotgun and went fishing for the culprit. It was of no Rookh,” and two | avail, only the tattered remnants of previous feasts greeted him. Five big melons years wore Inwrit- [might have told the story of a certain husky thief, however, if Farmer Jenkins ing that Inimitable [had only known, Cut out the watermelons and fit them together so as to form poem. the thief. BOWERY GIRL AT CONEY. Owen Kildare Describes How He Took The) Party to the Beach for a Good Time. A POSER. “Be autet! Silence is golden.” “Then how does money talk? Hot Weather Beveranes.—The human system needs an extra quantity of fluid in hot weather. Water that Is cool but not iced js best, weak, warm tea excellent, and the carbonic waters good in moderation. Sweetened with | { soda fountain syrup they are not recommended. Iced tea | « and coffee are distinctly bad. Weak lemonade ts grateful to a parched throat and a heated stomach, if not too cold Moderation's the thing in all beverages in the hot sea- son SOME GOOD ABOUT HIM. “Do you see any good In McSharper?” “Indeed I do. I had to say ‘That's good!’ to him at least a dozen times in our Jast poker gam SE > DESTRUCTIVE. “Did your auto ever do any damage?” Well, rather! It smashed my bank account as flat as a pancake.” BORROWED JOKES. DIAPHONOUS. THE GIANTS’ NEW MANAGER. A man who began to play ball in vacant lots for amusement at nineteen and now, at twenty-nine, Is put in full control of the Giants with a salary of $10,000 a]. year may be said to have made a success of life, and a good many persons who swear by ‘The Great God Suc- 64en" will take off thelr hats to “Muggay” McGraw, And |, She! put away my last years bath: ing sult In camphor, but dt evaporated. other persons also who admire the qualities that have | yre—cThe bathing sult?—Philadelphia helped him up to his prasent position of eminence in the | @ Press. : national game. ® Strategy, alertness, aggressiveness, self-confldence— the last not least—are among these qualities, It 1s a Na- poleonic outfit which might have brought even greater | ain't.” rewards in a broader field, but has served its purpose | 4 ‘Tommy—Why not? well in accomplishing what it has for him. The Napole- |? TeacherHecause it aln't proper, that's onic under size te his also. He 18 a little above five feet | 9 YY Philadelphia Pre! ‘six, and his weight of one hundred and fifty-flve pounds|% one THAN HE COULD STAND. fadicates physical staying powers for that height. g “After you have taken this medicine,” But it would be a more than Napoleonic task to pull | @ said the physician, ‘give yourself a hot the Giants wholly out of the slough of despond jn} Water bath and go to bed at once.” which they are engulfed. It will be enough if McGraw |@, Gosh. doc!’ exclaimed the shaggy: ee a g hatred patient, ‘an't you make it a does so another year. His purpose of “making the | % mustard plaster or somethin’ like that? Giants a winning combination" will answer for the|@I always kitch cold when I take a —Chicago Tribune. CORRECTING HIM, Teacher—Say “they aren't" or “they are not.” You must never say “they ——— STYLE IN EARRINGS. List he Party said to me the other day: ‘It's summer! Now, I always Mk to hear a bright remark, and especially | when it comes In such mellow tones from such red, rosy Ia. | © | But “wiseness’ told me for what was coming. “You know, T don't cay.” or plenics and such things, I'd be with you some place, but there's lots o’ places FANNED BY COOL BREEZES fresent. pe, bas ( HOME MADE) where you can't go tn the winter.” Deaths by Vrowning.—It is to be noticed that many of HER VIEW OF IT. ~N =a T only wish you could have heard how she said that the deaths by drowning are those of expert swimmers. ny must think I'm a@ fool," he ex- SS Bi © SOUT ONG re een ee ee camer q eaway’ Their welf-confidence lures them far from shore, and | ¢ claimed >| Walwnel is it Ae ng to be? < ae Zaina 5 Bee prey when cramps selze them thoy are beyond the reaoh of | “You flatter yourself,” she repited.— £| or what?” 1 queried, to which she mueated a nice ttle immediate ald, When Harry Woodie was drowned in the | Chicago Record-Herald. MARKETING UNDER COVER j-onr: and off we went | “How much money heve you got?" she asked, when on e always said about OF NIGHT East River yesterday those who saw him struggling ar, thereby confirming wh: thought he was “fooling,” and laughed as he sank for i & the level head of o Bow girl the last time, : . & | chenevalcne iN aneltly, jast tim: é Some there are must summer in the sizzling old metrop. rs Of course, 1 ar not going to stale my answer, for you rg Recause their purse won't stand for ocean breeze or mountain top. s. | might be shocked at my nerve for taking the girl I love best / 7 : DISBROW'S SELF-REVELATION. { someBopies. |: Still in October these will flash upon the public gaze Ibe pleasure report on that. capital: ,l " i = ® . * . 1 her, and she determined to act as manager 0! Digbrow's fit of temper in the court-room just before puGRo, JUDGE—ot New York, a sala] ® With tales how Newport and the yacht eked out their summer days. ee ee at EDU IE ESTES ' ~ festivitles by getting tin-typed. | At Coney we started th the conclusion of his preliminary hearing was a light-| to be the richest judge tn America, |} ing-like revelation of his inner self. It will not go on| hs wealth being estimated at several | Kafser Wilhelmland, an island in tho Pacific, (Only two buttons, So sorry I can't let you have one.) JUST FOOZLING. GOOD CROPS. QUITE IN KEEPING the record as evidence against him, but tt did more to, Millions. Thoigh only forty-seven, he) < | No beach without a path for mine, and to the bathing pa- has been on the bench for sixteen | 3 —$——_— prejudice his case than much incriminating testimony.| years {2 + | viion next for us CHAIR AND CRADLE INO Off his guard for 2 moment, the mask slipped from his | ]7ALPIN, REV. J. H—a Herkimer (N.! Alena Se aha dol ba tints ene IR AND CRADLE INONE, 3 features and showed “a face purple with passion, eyes| Y.) priest, 1s alwo President of the lo- | + Eland—aye, there was some rubbering! A shining with fury, flats clinched and lips compressed into| Ca! Board of Trade : + | Jealous? Me? Not much i @ narrow line.” HILL, DAVID B.—has, it is said, en-| > 1 know she is mine. She told me so, : Bowery girls do not Me, and that's all there is to it. trely band 1} This ts a Kind of passion that makes the unfortunate| (lt, *handoned the committal as ‘possessor of it forgetful of fractured arm or broken rib| his public address or other physical hindrance while the blind rage an{-| KING OF ITALY—has just given $20,000 mates him. It might nerve a very weak man toa blow| to the town of Palermo, to be divided hard enough to break an oar over a victim's head. The| “mons local charities prosecution fell short of its confident expectations of | KOMATSU, PRINCE the Japanese del- establishing the fact of murder and locating the guilt; | chalet the Coronation, will visit this Dut there ts no doubt that a desired result was accom-| ROTHSCHILD, BARON HINRY—is a Plished in holding the suspected man for the action of| clever physician and can also build the Grand Jury. More light is wanted in this mys-| A¥tos. In case he goes broke he can} ¢ teriour case. make a fair living at both trades, cur-| ing those whom his autos mangle. invy was there, but only on the part of the rubberers, “Beauty and the Beast! “Where did she get that?” These were some of the comments, but neither The Party nor I had time to answer, for I picked her up and—into the waves. “To the dance hall after that? think you; but we didn't. Not that we are above taking a twist, but there's a time for all things, and this was'a tlme for other things. We stood on the beach and I began to spout prose poetry about her auburn tresses, midnight-star eyes, pink-shell ears, &o,, until she sald: "Me feet's getting cold." Oh, how I longed for certain other things, but The Party SP ieananaiaie acne th silane Ded Wiggins—Old Farmer Milkweed, J Ati estionnaninnlins Wont ei alanling army tracy auc een ee where I spent my vacation this year, he gave me the stony glare." dragged me off to ice-cream candy, peanuts, and soda- E make for a Central American republic! ‘The quickness | ee ° He—Aren’t you tired golfin has seven of the finest daughters I “Maybo because you looked so .| water, and I was praying that no sarcastic friend might.pass e. with which he mobilizes himself and the carnage tht —————emm «|. She—Yes, Let's alt down and talk | yugeins rocky.’ hlong to see me do this etiil-lfe picture, which no artist) Aqeloe Nadeau, of Fitchburg, Mass., marks his course show that he would be invaluable in | THE BATH ADouL Ane erate Kawillioe car vetcert (1c eeeu meee 2 eMpbpee hele could ever paint, has patented a cradle which can be con- the service of dictator or president i RO running a peach farm, BARGAIN DAY. Me and ice-cream candy! verted into a rocking chair. An examl- ——— =k | ( raepene pees ne dancine || Bec uTinlin ‘At last we hopped on a car and The Party delivered herself | nation of the picture will show how the THE PRESIDENT’S BOY BEA reene e898) the dansingihl| |: : BOYHOOD DAYS. of the moral of the story. cradle can be altered to form the chair, ss 5. waters : “Now, didn't we have a good time? And wasn't that better | The centre panel of the front drops back The stght of a President of the United States and his ||. reczes murmur @ fond salute, \2 than going off with your push and getting tanked up? Be-| into the bottom of the cradle, with the frees bors leaving Lome: unin hand fora oomiaxailh cee ala ‘sides, it didn’t cost much, and, I guess you'd better let me| two shorter panels on elther side folded target-shooting is one interesting to see and probab Witte nastacaen dn hei ra | (ks put the rest o' that money in the bank. You know, the soon-|over it. Then the rear panels fold and probably ‘anders down in her bathing-sul | er wo get the money together the sooner can we—— ‘ayound behind the back, leaving the ends je free to fall outward. The “Goon we'll be married," I whistled. of the ¢ unique. It is not easy to fancy a President «f the earlier) days of the Republic, a Washington or an Adams,| making himself a boon companion of his boys in their|] Sees » yh, go} ends of the bed are then lifted to form the arms on either elde of the seat, and the panels are locked in place by hooks Fan near, and the waiting ‘The Party blushed, dug me in the ribs and sak on!” She squinted around to see if anybody had tumbled. coming and seems to speak, sports, The relation of sire to s i ms to answer her glad emotion : po son Was much: more i} Halls the flush in her lushin, They had not, eo she snuggled @ little closer and— or bolts, = formal in those days of exaggerated personal dignit * FOUNTAIN. a jeni cheek * “Here, wake up! Brooklyn Bridge, all out! E ‘ Slaw xrepanm, | THE FOUNTAIN PUZZLE. There was a restraint in such relations which 4s wholly t relaxed in the caso of Mr. Roosevelt. Fan Pisa ped, and the waters | re ; APOIO The change is vastly for the better, und we should|| Sending heralds their queen to SPOSPAOHOPOLOEIESSO®: say that the President's children are lucky in their greet, 3 fi I) Be!” tether. MY icucine os rinarershal break Jn lshan ; CUPID’S MISSION. — AS ——$—__—- 4 hy | ti NEW YORK BY GASLIGHT Settle areay te hare eM : i “PAmLaemelign. en see esate, JSNNR ART Ae AIA fam : Loving chappy passes by, lonesome fate does he de- ‘This is the way water 1» drawn from P # to D from F to B and from G to © Sundeams fade on the leaden waters, without having the lines cross each Breezes sigh and are sadly mute, oe t by chance as breakers roll, go together for a A young Philadelphian of good family came to New| PORDRDOHS York the other day in search of amusement. He . Was|] Fan, tho fairest of Neptune's da ag ns Old Man—Young man, when I was M stylishly dressed and handsome and plentifully supplied ters . tena eeis ana Yau HUB there { your age 1 was the smartest boy He-She made me feel pretty cheap ‘ stroll, other. 4 with funds, With these credentials h Raa Wanders back in her bathing-sutt ty nt in the school before she accepted me, 2 cupid whoote one of hie darts, plercing both these % a % naake iy f _ AP LOURA AL CORY to ee rortiaay, ; Prof Stringem—Certainly, there 1s} iid—Ah, at's nothing, I'm de She—Probably you became #o cheap loving hearts, ¢ OLD-TIME FISTS. e the acquaintance of a young woman who was will- olliday, in LAppincott's, ut $10,000 in ft for a clever render toughest, ara Caulantt mane ihe tarwaial $ Cupid with shy glance x PALOMPEDIOS HHS rOPLOEDISLOL HL OOOHS ing for the pleasure of his soclety and a certain cagh consideration to become his guide, philosopher and feet iy. un return lp fn Coney Ia te TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. swallowed a number of strychnine pills, and before the Grumpy bachelor at the club votes this Ile a 39050 > withered shrub, Nothing worth the waste of time; nothing in the > poet's rhyme. 4 Goes out fishing on the lake, sunshine through tho > Awaits the next romance, ; 2 ' 5 Y Apply to Leal ; . hospltal surgeon's stomach primp had restored her to|n, og, peel te haga satan and live tn the town where we are. slaves in a free country? 1 must not {would make him perspire too freely, and Sonscioueneas there were prowprsts that the nice young yO Pater ot Toe Ereioe worl) || Are they not our townfolike and ours| say too much, aa T am self-supporting | then the oftce boy ix Hight there: he can cloud does break, gman would figure in a scandal, But the police were good| to know how 1 can change my name| , QUERIST. | and only a MILLINER, |earry It just aa well aa not, ‘This auto- | Sees his fate iting there; Cupid couples this old | i ir. ‘4 to him and his name ts not made public | forever, as J don't ike the pane I neve ae alan by ani How Satire About the Office Hoy. [msi Gag eligi mart oes arar 3 Pp Gasialin nati alan Nowadays pusiilste wear boxing sleves mf vhe: © police oar “ve I was never nrrosted, and there 1s no| ™ tor of The Evening World hk of ge + : ‘co Jessen the fa of blows. : Laat night when the police raidod a Bayard street re-| Saenee againel me BL 1 Dave been reading BP. C.'9 letter | 7%pite Milter of The Bvening World of hts having such a thought! He never Fills his busy bow to lessen the force of blow ‘ In the : 1p The office boy.” Wihat ta that? What | oy days of the Olyinple games they wore thongs of leather called cestus to tow nt to arrive at his pomt one minute | 4 #ort they found besides the inmates there a handsome ling of his long hours of work, from does it mean? Why, it Is ome kind! atter § in the morning and never 1.30 A. M, to 5,30 P, M., and two nights a Cupid knows of every trick; Cupid has a manner A Dinpute, crease thelr force, and fashionably gowned woman, a lady to all ap shi ) " DEAT | ro we BAitor of The Evening World | of ot h i slick She wi Ay Flt mys | week, 8. P. C., conmd rr of an automatic machine, with no fefl- think of leaving before its elght or t 6 ————_——— gnces, She was properly “chaperoned,” for her husband; fecently at a basevall game two girl ak sail’ Gone ents sOuTent “tng whatever, and it is entirely out of | hours’ thme is nh But ihe bose mt Dh Bome he couples wreathed with a smile~some thelr ” was with her and a guide of the kind familiar with the| «red the fleld where we were playlog| of town and we will show vou work ang Pisce fOr the boss to notice him, except |e good game of ball, and it would rad lives to reconcile, ALWAYS IN ADVANCE, wth an out-of-town team. One of the when he is needed to carry @ case of his constitution to stay in the oltce Old and bent with feeble age—young and ready for (From the Bullalo News.) Dehind-the-scenes attractions of the metropolis. She was| jong hours. In certain stores we work | fellows exclaimed: "Phe only pretty y : 9 ary , i ‘ G slumming,” and her tearful protests vi Seles P from $8 A. M. to 9.10 P. M., or Io \books up from the basement, or some- after 3 o'clock, Why can't theac men life's stage, The New York Byening World ts new sonly p @ MOVEd tho) girin we have ween down here to-day'|there ia a customer or any clone ap oe (thing of that Kind; or perhaps the poor | Who, like to bose se muen pul themeclves | ® Cupid welcomes one and all, every ready at thelr call, sending out in a nice Mttle package in the boy's place once in a while and Cupid never sleeps, volcanic dust from Mount Pelee, ‘The jer-hearted police captain to conceal her identity. re thove two and thi : ¢ thowe two ey belong to ourlcomifig In. On Baturdaye we on old boss has broken down in health and ents of this sort are not without their risk of| tow!" Almost in a chorus we claimed|s A, M. to 11,90 P.M. and 12 has decided thet be peeds @ few weeks | that inay i aa Ever vigil keeps. World is a firm bellever that while the ELLA N. BLOCK. voloanic eruption of Mount Pelee jarred it the consideration shown by the Hee them as own townfolks, Now, readers, | That is all day and half the night, with: | Vacation, Why, it would be simply ab- to work the hardest and yet is y Police) 0 whose town do they belong? ‘They |out any compensation for same, and no|surd for him to think of aa thet gallate Veet of Gay bas in Ane oles eanknan World jars aay advaamement the sow s feduee the danger to» minimum, work in the town the fellows came from aupper hours Wouldn't you ‘cali, uslweavy Aresa-suts gage to the ferry. It LHe ae TTC BUT.” |peeooeeoooOeotoereoeeooheo? rooeeeoees | x vreviou Years,