The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1902, Page 8

conspiracy of the Coal Trust barons. by the Press Publishing Company, Nv. 53 to a | Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NO. 14,045. THE HARD COAL CONSPIRACY. ‘The story of the swindle in hard coal prices since the 4 Deginning of the strike—now told in full for the first the In this issue of The Pvening World—will be read "with amarement and indignation by the victime of the It is not pleasant Yeading, but it is the plain, bare truth, and it disposes | @ffectively' of the rubbish and nonsense that has been! ? E) published about the losses of the coal roads and the in- © jury to innocent stockholders by the strike. It shows ‘that instead of losing these roads have made money out BAB 149OOOOOO0 aR. will heal alt WITH ANOTHE Though Time, in truth. wound! “of every day that the strike has lasted, that they pro-! © ya (ow @ae e Ne tanta they want them. | pose to continue making their added profits by cutting off the coal supply until Sept. 1, when the new schedule goes into effect, and after that they will have both the) 4 Public and the miners—as they have them now—just | It Is @ story of conspiracy, fraud and swindle which ought to be punishable by law. It supports the conten- © tion of The-Evening World yesterday that it is not the ostriking the public and striking hard. the side .for itself. THE WAOES OF SIN. miners who are striking, but the operators. They are Devery and Carroll—They seem to think that Devery Is ‘@ catepaw for Carroll in the Ninth District. It {s rather ‘a large, plump, robust paw that may do a little work on 4 Are we to say in the case of Putnam Bradlee Strong, } Yate captain of the United States Army, that evil com- | munieations have corrupted good manners? How other- - wise is his sudden and complete moral collapse to be ac- counted for? Given a young man possessing an honor- able name by inheritance and a promising one of his ‘own!’ meking, a favorite in society and an officer in a © military service punctilious in its code of honor, it is a shocking transformation that shows us this youth a © year later morally bankrupt—a fugitive from justice and | Intimate assocta- from the wrath of a woman scorned. ton with a companion of loose life can do much to lower | & @ man’s moral tone, but it rarely wrecks him, certainly | not in go brief a time so completely es Strong has been © wrecked. To a man of his rearing and earlier ideals {t must be worse than death to be charged with theft by | the female.companion of his amours. But lot us not cast all the stones at the woman. ®trong’s quick degeneracy and decline must have been F expedited by a serious moral weakness of his own, The " {mpnise that led him without hesitation to abandon a ) ereditable army careor for the open companionship of a ' runaway wife showed that the deterioration was there “within if not previously manifested outwardly. The F revelation of the plundered safe-depostt box is only the “patura] sequel of the downward step taken then. | Oounting OChickens.—The Chancellor of the British Ex- ‘Chequer is sald to be counting on a handsome addition to the income of the Empire from the death duties on the ‘the Exchequer. 63 LOOKING AHEAD. daly 21, 1902, should be a memorable day in the his- a of New York. It is made so by the opening of the Mackay estate. But Mr. Mackay was a prudent and houghtful man, and it ty said that while lving he made ‘gach disposal of his property that he is now probably Jaughing over the Joke he has got on the Chancellor of “bids for the Hast River tunnel and especially by the un- e and surprising proposition of the subway con- tractors to add the Broadway extension connecting dl- Teotly with the proposed Pennsylvania tunnel and sta- | tion, the plans for which are now being held up by the Railfoad Committee of the Board of Aldermen. 6 IER | for the reason that it makes some provision for the fu- | ture needs of New York. For it is remarkable and not | at all creditable that in this great and enterprising city ) the facilities of transportation have invariably lagged far ' Dehind the demand for them. From time immemorial - New Yorkers who had to get from one part of the town to another have been packed more closely than cattle in ® cattle car. To-day the crowding of the surface and elevated cars during the rush hours and the bridge crush fre disgraceful and inhuman. With the new tunnel extension of the rapid transit BC / way tunnel to relieve the traffic south of Forty-second » street, with the Pennsylvania tunnels to Long Island and| ) New Jersey and the completion of the Williamsburg | bridge traffic will be measurably relieved, but it would | ‘be a mistake to suppose that the relief will be perma-| * ment. The stronger probability is that by the time the ‘Rew improvements are completed they will immediately | _ be taxed to their full capacity to meet the requirements ) of the traMc that will be found waiting for them, “Only @ Regular.’'—Five regiments of Spanish war volun teers, who escaped with no killed or wounded, have filed pension claims to the number of 2,907. Five regiments of regulars, who loet 93 men and had 47] wounded, have filed claims for 764 pensions, The “only a regular’ idea peems to hold good in time of peace as well as in war “HE WAS GOOD TO THE POOR,” Some of the young people who go jauntily from the (‘west side into the east to reform the conditions there | and regenerate the sufferers from those conditions should have been present at the funeral of Pat" Smith yester- day. The Church of St. Catherine of Stena was crowded “with mourners and the long string of carriages was such | p as has rarely been seen at a funeral there. Who was | “Pat” Smith? “Pat was a saloon-keeper, and the popu- ar epitaph, not yet carved on his tomb, says that “he| ) was mood to the poor.” He never sent a beggar away | his saloon unfed and he never “turned down" a "Wheee are rude and rather fundamental virtues, but eount for a good deal on the cust side. Even the investigator finds that they go far to explain of Tammany leaders there, such as Smith was, ir vast and varied constituencies, Smith's charity| Rever asked questions or called for credentials.|, pase a ime com, [TARGA ioe, Dever flashed # roll or showered dimes in the} wisn to con Lea sir s niprer| ee San ae Sh on Around ~ahpd Auliffe, atill fresh in| ed the whistlv, but the boy never slde-| mother’s son of you, #0 get your money ready, but don't eet, in Devery’s theatrical manner, but he offered sub-| who ‘complains of lang. heure uf wu. | Fe MRHNG. (0n8 A FN CHE Rmemnany' fh ortes your apinien, | atenned. ut continued to laugh at the | crowd.”—Chicago News fAntlal relief at al times. That was only one of the shat she i not worse off than are you doing?” oF| police force In ing whole worte, Visit | front wheelp and to Ray ane oheuneur: , pms, but the chief, why they called him great and | others t you anything to do? London, Dublin, Paria and other Con-| The auto was almost on him, when the} SONS OF GENIUSES. ed Out to bis funor! and will remember him a i at the lanaeat importing ho nance hone — vad ne nul cities and see the difference 4n aba eur 1 short with @ Jar to The ealitunnan mealan orate Graben Ba rer s tnust arrive at ihe office at hid A aM, | 20Me that one la Hable to be acc BRASS ADSL AIS Gea or wh iin Ninusiaa cee tae atta in the question of ¢he tranpmaibeln of eeniua | by treasure of $7,000,000, the whereabouts of which | (oko? % cants for each offe They | alae ewan be msn rarey APE NP To the Etitor of Phe Evening Wor | walk: His) he sen ihed, who would | Are generelly dull dogt, Peet ee en vhost * Tay. to ths aavanturerys hey pushy (eno; | Ria SuPponed to get through at # o'clock, ree, Io tt nett PL have aiwaye looked’ with horror on| MY? Deen to blame? : fianie that urn» self out in the generation wherein It 18 kin- Fonly to vindicate the truth of Stevenson's unequalled |p, Mf, During the Seryereennproy Aw to the Poll the manaoe to ite caused by. the gute STRUT Y: OOM A): ——w anes wraasure Island. mae Gnbre Mitel weaeTaed sis angele teete mere Bas 148 SDannad say: S186: Bil) LAR The ‘Widows, Mike , a a! ‘orl vening Was of oxington lo the Ediior of er vi 3 ‘tm Mevraldry.—In the light of recent develop Ae hie me ager & short Cane arias and honor are due to yi near Titty We reve ela ae i y doen ttalge mat- LINCOLN’S HAT BOX, avice ‘of the Hope faraily, The word ie] same, Tau, can Pladnly eee by ihe) the publicity you have shown as to the | avenue came an auto; fast, but not Mle] kot; but 1 would not marry a man who| Samuel Hinkle, of Springfield, Il, owns the old leather hat foes Glace le ot,” has o aligitiy’ wurcaatic sound | wock is ao hes hand | Inaiialan is our Police Department | lowelly #0, As it came near a newsboy| would wear a panama ha’ acy es is = rect. Adeny Umes ne | the unexplained murders! leaped out in front of it dancing anal PANAMAPHOBIAG, | casion of his fret inauguration as President, ea, Milwaukee physicians. His fellow doo- his seventy-fifth birthday. PALMER, FRANCIS A.—of New York, $500,000 a unfversity at Muncte, Ind PPFFER, EX-SPNATOR—whore voice "Whe presenting of this proposition is a notable event| has stopped echoes in the Senate, is writing re- dealing with capital and labor, There wystem completed in two years, with the lower Broad-| gHaw, s: }In case your wound is of the heart, © You ought to use court plaster NATURALLY. S ocrve written a poen. on the death of my pet dog.” 2 "In doggerel, 1 suppose.” A SOFT A! “1 wonder where the money 1s com- ing from for that new dress of yours my dear.” “From the mint, I hope. I'd be sorry | Sto think you were a counterfelter.” FLOATING POPULATION. “Staten Islanders spend a lot of time @on the ferry.” @ “Yes, they might be called our float- " population.”” A HOME PRODUCT. “IT hear New York has mosquitoes Q this summer." : “How nice. Now we'll have no fi ther need of going to the country. $ BORROWED JOKES. WHAT SITE MIST. ® Captain—We ran into a dense fog last ® night. ® Mins Tooriste—How strange! Why. @the shock never woke me up!—Ohin State Journal g THE EXCEPTION. 3 “Two heads are always better than one.” “T don't agree with you. One is a little © more than I want ‘the morning after.’ —Cincinnat! Commercial-Tribune. z AN IDEAL. A tall giraffe I fain would de, And then when food got dear, I'4 eat the branches off the tree, And never feel a fear. —Washington Star. LITPRARY NOTE. “Have you bought my new book yet?” “Yes; and it’s the prettiest thing on bm cemre table!’—Atlanta Constitu- tion. ©0OO9-999009094000000050000 SOMEBODIES. } COOMBS, FRANK L.—is the only man in Congress born on the Pacific coast. MARKS, DR. SOLON—ts the dean of P2GP ODOC? tors recently gave him @ banquet on has offered to found and endow with awakening wholesale views of certain periods of American history and ts engaged on a work is more labor than capital In most books of the sort JHWARTZ-MBLLIER Austrian Field Marshal, years old, has be nty- and a general for over half) He was commanding | armies when Gen, Miles was playing marbles, and was over fifty when President Roosovelt was born CRETARA—18 said to haye| made over $§00,000 in the Texas oll boom, BARON—the Is ninety-five — SUNRISE, Into my dreams there came a bird call clear Within a June wood I had pitched my tent. And [ arose and thence adoring went To watch the beauty of the day- spring near I stood upon a cliff that gray and sheer Rose out of shadow; tints divinely blent, Made faery color of the firmament, Outspreading far tn many a cloud- locked nere. 1 saw the faco of 8 fair God's angel of the morning who un bars The gaten of Day, while all the train of stars With dimming tapers vanish; and the ali Held dewdrop sparkles, golden-slt very gleams. Flashing thelr welcome to the sun's first beams Ingram Crockett in the June Cri- terion ce, passing Ghe Funny Side of Life. TEDDY WILL REST AFTER HIS VACATION. AS TO SIGHT. at first sight sight would haye been to them If German: ¢ war with this country, I'N enlist tn *the navy {make a name am 1DO844.5-0O8HOOOOO ; 4 UNCLAIMED. The $30,000 in bills which figured Nn the bribery cases attending the election of Senator Clark by the Montana Legs Islature still re- mains a part of the archives of that State, The man to whom it was given as a bribe never claim- ed it; naturally the briber or jbribers have not REAL RESr asked that It be eturned, and - v, 7 fi; bere is no chan- ve [att wetcome l pant tout SS G Wout wis? State can appro- priate it as part of the public funds. RUSSIA. No Russian of- ficer may marry until he fs twenty- three. In Russia fac- tories are usually near forests, wood ing still the chief fuel. Ninety per cent, of the 128,000,000 people of the Rus- sian Empire are farmers. Viadivostock pos- sesses the only crematorium that has been erected in. the whole Rus- j stan Empire. SWNNVH JY BIG AUTO, The largest au- tomobile in the world is being |econstructed for a | Parisian doctor. In it, accompanied by two medical stu- jdents, he Intends [to make a trip |around the world. (Tt will have two sleeping apart- Iments, a large \work - room and ‘tour big tanks for storing oll. SAFE TRAINS. All the new trains on the Cen- tral London Rail- way are to be of fireproof construc- tion, steel and as- bestos being large- ly used. Other pre- cautions for the safety of passen- Jeers are being taken VESTA. Vesta 12 the only one of the smaller planets which can be seen with the naked eye, Its di- ameter ts only 90 niles and Its whole surface but one- ninth that of Eu [sauinio ia) Our Teddy's day at Oyster Bay's so lively and so menu-ous With dining friends and wrestling kids and having fun that’s strenuous— 'Twould tire a Turk to do the work, and tire another Turk again, So Ted must wait to have his rest till he gets back to work again, FINANCE AND PLEASURE rope. ‘| A VORTEX, - The rotation of a Jones 1 hear Hrown is cultivating? | waterspout at the his garden religiousiy this year. surface of the sea Smith—Well, | parsed him while he |has been e timate | was working upon it the other day? [ar gs4 miles an resulted from a In the whole world there are from 100 to 120 Roman Catholic societies whose members are de- voted exclusively to missionary work. Eighty of these bodies are French, ODp!TY CORNER. Two Misstonarien in the Canadinn Fa Dres« of the Rabbit Skin ‘'ribe. THE PROTEAN FRENCH MISSIONARY How the Missionaries Travel in the Arctic egion. In contributions of money France shows a similar pre- ponderance. Most of the Catholle missions of are sup- ported by the Soclety for the Propagation of the Falth, which, by the wa origin, is of French vd ut Lyons in In 1898 this organtza- tlon expended in mis- sionary work 6,700,000 fra of which than four millions were collected in France. Wherever the ex- plorer has penetrated, in ull inhabited re- gions from the Equa- tor to the poles, he ts speedily followed by. the missionary, who teaches not only Christanity and the elements of evhics, but | also French, arithme- j de nd — cleanliness. ‘i dt was the Trappist monks that made Al- giers habitable by white men. Often local prejudices and the exigencles of climate compel these intrepid —misstonaries to assume very un- monastic and pietur- esque garb, as the ac- companying illustra tions show. North ta A Parochial Tour In South Africa, What a boon the gift of second ul and from his Janguage [ think you're » | nour, or nearly lx FORE 2 | mites a minute HOT WEATHER JOB. WAKE UP! ‘1A LONG-FELT WANT ever goes to milkman comes. onfident I shouid haps are a thing of the pi men, such DaOe ODI GOOEG HADDAD TIMELY A Hard Job. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. the day one of the firm nomes upst “Thank you, slr {(the Latimer horror), beginning with the, yelling tauntingly, The chauffeur sound- And How the Street Fakir Supplied It. “Now, gentiemen,” began the faker, turning to the crowd after arranging his paraphernalia, “T wish to call your at tention to a Iittle article | am introducing, which Is without tion the greatest invention of the twentieth century "To all outward appearances it is an ordinary keyhole plate for front doors, but its merit lies in a secret process of manu- facture whereby it 1s so thorughly magnetized that it will at- tract an‘ordinary steel key from a distance of three feet “Probably there isn't a gentlemai, within the sound of my voice but What has experienced more or less difficulty In dis- covering the whereabouts of the keyhule in the front door of hid domicile after having been detained at his office till the “But with this litte invention in your possession, gentle- Afier it 1s once ‘or myself, y el | was in a crowded car to- "Did you hear about firmly attached to the door all you have to do in onder to con- have such @ great ca- { day and ail the ladies were seated who died in a sleeping car?” nect with the keyhole ts to line up anywhere within three } pacity for downing those German Impossible! Where? “NO, What was, the trouble, Ine @ | %@& of the door knob, take out your key and hang on to It, An open car on the “L.” somnlu + IPS) and the little life-saver will do the rest, “The regular price of these wonder-workers fs $1 each, but »2POOO® | order to introduce them quickly and at the same time win the everlasting gratitude of my fellow man I am offering them for one day’ only at the ridiculous price of % cente—and the gentleman over there takes the first one, Another goes right down here; another there. Now, gentlemen, please don't get excited ‘Bear in mind that I have enough to supply eich and every THE BUTTERFLIES. ‘Two butterfies out out of tissue pape fly about as if alive, set In motion by @ fan, Th ght on the fan, play in the air, descend on a flower—in short, iml- tate real buttertifes-to perfeotion, AM |that is needed to make such butterties is colored Usee paper and a pair of /sclasors. Fold the paper and cut the shapes of «he butterfiles as shown In the elrolo of our {Instration, Fasten. the butterflies to a long hair with the help of a diminutive plece of wax. The this hair to another which ts fastened to your heid, itkewise with wax (as stown In ilustration), Throw the buty terflles in the air with the left hand {and move your fan underneath them to k them In the air, It is amusing to boa carried by Abraham Lincoln to Washington on the oc-|have # bunch pA artitielal flowers on aghy anly which th whieh the ‘butterfies oan having been ,