The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1902, Page 6

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. ® to 6S Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Cinss Mall Matter. VOLUME 438 “NO. 14,962, TWO UNCONSIDERED FACTORS, ‘The situation on the Manhattan “L" road looks dan- gerous. If the management should adhere to its decla- ration that there is nothing to discuss and refuse hold a conference with the engineers a strike fs ineyi- table. Should they consent to a conference and fail to reach an agreement a strike is almost equally inevitable. | ‘rhere are features of the situation dangerously like those | which preceded the coal strike, One feature of resem- | Mance is that in the discussion of the question at issue | no attention whatever is paid either to the comfort of the public or to the business loss entailed by an inter-| + ruption of the coal supply or of elevated traffic. The Elevated road is a public necessity. It is essen- tial not merely to the individual convenience of the} passengers but to the transaction of the ordinary busi- ness of the community. An uninterrupted se: the Elevated road is nearly as necessary as an uninter- rupted supply of water or gas. The pecuniary damage inflicted by a cessation of Ele- vated road service is equally serious, The loss to the public in dollars and cents is wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the interests involved. It is greater in proportion tc the size of the city, and the experienc of St. Louis and of Cleveland in their traction strikes shows how deep and lasting an injury to the prosperity of the community may result from a comparatively trifling question of hours or of wages. These are the really important features of the situa- tion. They should serve as a restraining influence upon both parties to the controversy. Not only are they dis- regarded, but they are deliberately counted on by each side as the most potent means of bringing the other side to terms. THE NEW TRUST METHOD. If it 1s true that the assault on Attorney-General Knox reported in The World this morning had Its origin in a discussion in an Atlantic City hotel over the trusts the incident is full of encouragement for the public. Two of the gentlemen who found congenial occupation in punching the head of the Attorney-General are con- spicuously {dentified with trusts and the one who is credited with having given the knockout blow is the leading spirit in the proposed shipping subsidy grab. If these two gentlemen could be moved by the pres- ence of the Attorney-General to ignore alike decorum and fair play and to attempt to obstruct the anti-trust proceedings of the Administration ri et’armis it indi- cates that they must be considerably stirred up by those proceedings and it should have the effect of infusing ad- ditional vigor into tho anti-trust campaign. When the next round is fought the public will hope to see the Attorney-General administer several knock- out blows to the truste and to those who organize and contro] them. i TRACY HERO WORSHIP, The souvenir seeker was early on the spot after Tracy was found dead, and gathered a rich harvest of memeutoes, Locks of hair, shreds of trousers, cart- ridges, his bloody handkerchief, his buckskin bag and other relics were setzed upon by the lucky hero-wor- shippers. It would have pleased the dead man to see © these evidences of interest in him. He died not knowing half how great a hero he was, for newspapers were not readily accessible to him in his later days, All the Wild Bills and Deadwood Dicks of contempo- rary history must give place to Tracy, and the next generation will put him above Jesse James on the highes: pedestal and pinnacle of Wild West fame. The stories still fresh of his adventures and those yet to be told will group themselves into a folk-lore, out of which will eventually come a Tracy cycle of romantic legend, and perhaps an epos. And then some day a sollege professor wilt show the desperado’s connection with the sun myth and find in him a reincarnation of an old Greek popular hero, and libraries will make room for a shelffu) of hooks about him. The escaped convict with his rifle and cartridge box | has won a greater glory within a few weeks than most | generals win on a dozeu battlefields, if A PRACTICAL POLICE TEST. The success or fallure of the police to find the mur-| derer of William HH. Thorpe will furnish a practical test | of the eMcicncy of the detective staff. Thorpe was | killed by a violent blow from the fist of a companion | with whom he had a discussion while riding in an Am- | sterdam avenue car at 6 o'clock last Tuesday morning. | The murderer immediately left the car, boarded a car going in the opposite direction and has thus far re- | mained unknown, Thorpe's life, habits and associations are well known As manager of the club-house of the Road Drivers’ As- | | sociation his position was a prominent one and his re- lations were almost exclusively with well-known people easy of identification. In spite of the quickness with which the deed was done a fairly good description of the murderer hes been given out; the police have several clues—which may, of course, turn out to be false and misleading, But up to this morning the murderer re- mained unknown, What do the detectives do all day, anyhow? A MATTER OF EIGHT HUSBANDS. If the allegation made by Thomas Elliot is true his wife, Helen, who is suing him for separation on the ground of abandonment, is the matrimonial marvel of the moment. She is charged with having had elght hus- bands. Thomas says that he was No. 2 on the list. That was thirty-one years ago. Then she went a-roving, a female Ulysses, visiting many cities in her travels and seolng many men and liking #ix #o well that she per- mitted them to lead her to the altar. Then she re- turned to her early tru ®, Thomas, last spring, but found him cold and reluc Wight husbands! A continuous hymeneal procession, | A “grand sweet song” of many strains and in various Keys How many times has the lady swept down th aisle to the Wagner Bridal Chorus? How many tin to Mendelssohn's Wedding March and the Voice ‘TY Breathed O'er Eden, and which dos she think sweetest? Vhat a connoisseur she must have become in husbands! she preferred blonds for life partnership (limited) brunettes, tall men or short, thin or fat, and which does she really think ghe likes best? Has she been though married so often, or has she found men], Webers, gay decelbers, and sighed for girlhood | JOKES OF OUROWN THE WAY th blazing len with execration 9 town and start up weeks’ vacation. in had Just been exp! Is how down to the key “Ive very sald one of them nterest of nity if you could make it flnd the keyhol S Grieved at this display of materialism, ® poor Richard the offender a free copy of his almanac with the remarks on temperance underiined. D4 A NEW EXCUSE. ® “You say one passenger will be the « ‘ner in case there's an ‘L' strike. 0 1s he?" The man who's worn out all the Dregular excuses for getting to the office @half an hour late.” WINE OF THE COUNTRY. “Young Van Blow!t has pawned all his valuables, and now he's so poor he can drink only one wine with his dinner.” “And that one is hock, I suppose." BORROWED JOKEs. AND OUT. Hewitt—Pvery ume Gruet comes to me I'm out wett—But he says he found you at Shome the other evening. > Hewltt—Weil, | was out, just the same 21 played poker with him.—Philadelphia ov! DCAL FAD, sald the New Yorker, ve a new fad. It is to 3 “Down Kast ‘the Indice Pearry a cane “But her ved the Kansan, "they have the sume old faa of raising P —Baltimore American, RY IN BOSTON, OF COURSE. “What do you excl to be when you ge, my Mttle man?’ asked sir." was the bright 4iuston He! Willie—Say, lame m Who Is he? the corner.—Detroit Pree Press. o® 48D-OOS | { someBopies. | AL ngland, Is SXANDRA, QUE an expert dressmaker. As a girl she was obliged to do much of her own sewing BORCHGREVI explorery Js trying to terest the ¢ negie Institution at Washington In a proposed expeditl math Pole | IBORG, MRS—an St, Louis} . headed a band of ladies re-} the task of sweeping Plows: | ant street in that ‘This they: did] as # lesson to th t Commission ers. ‘The latter, however, may prefer to regard it merely as a precedent. | MRS. LEY—of Bng-! nd, Is the first woman to navigate an ship, She sailed one successfully uround a London polo ground the other | day and was warmly congratulated oy Conam Doyle and other famous men who witnexsed the feat PAYLOK, FITZHUGH —the you of Chic is sald to be cons structin an airship which Js plann to exce! that of Santos-Dumont. 7 Windy City should prove a good place for suck Be ge And t Don't jeer at the Or tweak the Th Don't stick pins in the Ka 1 giggle at the Goos: | Don't throw bricks at the Cockatoo, Or tread upon the Moose. | Don't flog the Hippopotamus; Don't pull the pent’s ears; Don't er the Rhinoceros, | Or chase t Ucleers. Don't tickle Drom Or whip the & To anima Whatever olte you do Pittsburg at a dispute follows t $20 euch Where Dy Me Get | To the WAitor of The Bening W Will some kind reader ple inform mv the “hand: man" fron , obdtalnes s nerve toi as 1 would jike to try it, He saya he ta annoyed by girls’ comments on his ood half hour's conversation with thig fickle Helen be sure to interest, looks, It would be a good idea to ap- Ghe Funny Side of Life. DOES THE COLLAR MAKE THE MAN? Ing to nade the lightning dubtously, “but wouldn't it be more to in reproducing speech 4s about the ILL GREAT MEN Wiekh LARGE seventy years will elapse before Kinds suspected of spreading disease, Mr. Roosevelt's neck is growing, as his collar's size is showing, new. Most of these | f And with joy he sees it bourgeon toward the Grover Cleveland class. For the neck hypertrophated means ambition satiated, And he'll sport a Cleveland neckband ere a few more moons shall pass. WAS IT A HINT? A REPRIEVE: a nickel for He runs the lemonade stand on {dlotie jokes on Panama hats. She—So am I. ceed In being half so idiotic as the hats themselves, can't blime us for of them suc- wanting to get 1 got a Mttle rej n marrying that girl at once. FOR MEMORY. AN INTERVIEW, of getting married until beet Cttiman—Say, of agricuituriat, | @hapa you can give me the lif viion I want, What is a forget-me- President Roosevelt—You sa; family 19 connected with the Little Annie sister got Kissed by Capt, FROM THE PEOPLE. itil the dog show erft's a piece tles around your » in town on an Rooney—Yesslr, | TIMELY LETTERS ‘nasium two night# in @) m9 before he becomes a real bachelor. I am thirty, but do not consider myself TRUTHFUL REND, The Dridue Cables. To the Editor of The Evening World ddea to leazon the unneces: sary welght on the Brooklyn Bridge. |am occasionally riding on the Brooklyn move that is made is talked) bridge and’ see the cables of the ral road lying on it unused, Why not hav them removed? i Suggests Four Nam: To the Editor of The Evening Worl To the person wanting a name for a fs still a bachelor, finding | boy beginning with “J,” and for a girl T wish to #ay that] beginning with “1 1 am real sorry for him considering | boy “Justin” or of twen-| girl ‘Irma’ ox "Liene. frat p A Widow's Plain { The Brening World Jers please giv widow who bas no neur rela. ayold being talked about? 13 a widow has no rights at all, YONKERS GIRL, rs H, |T0 the M4itor of The & A lady and a gentieman out walking aa iacar nos tre What are we widows to do? LONESOME, Her Sympathy, To the EAltor of The Evening World ites that at the age of gentleman is it proper for him raise his hat or not? 4 Chance for Eloquence, To the Kdltor of The Will some of no one he can love. ur readers please try to conyince @ father that the studie point « party of girls to kidnap the dear, |his son (who is beginning his second year| himself @ bachelor at th eweet thing, put him'in @ glass case amd lat City College) will not be harmed by|ty-wa I think he has @ few years to 1 would suggest for ‘Jense,"" and for the Bind a piece of stout writing paper over one end of a spool. pin and pass the two ends of a horsehair through them. Tle the loose ends in a knot so that, when drawn up the knot will be against the inner part of the writing paper inside of the spool. a notch tn a smoothly rounded stick. the instrument will produce a slip knot of the looped end of the horsehair and fit it over Rub some rosin on the notch. By whirling this arrangement rapidly sound that {s an exact imitation of a locust. TELEPHONE, _A BABOON SWITCHIIAN. ‘The amplitude of . vibration of the (= diaphragm of the telephone receiver one twenty mill- fonth of an inch. POMPEII. At the present ratlo of progress Pompeii is entirely uncovered. It is thought that as much of treasure remains as has been exhumed, SKEETERS. A work by E. W. Theodold on the 2 mosquitoes of the ABABOCOY THAT WO) world, prepared to RAILWAY SIGMALS + + + ald medical men in identifying the describes 300 spe. | D®bv0n, and so wcll did he accomplish t cles, 135 being species are found | uty. When the last train goes at nig! in and around | & trolley ca on the rails and sits upon towns or are pests known to travel- | runs on three legs until the trolley gets lers and traders. Boer brandy and tobacco, and never associates with the ot cabin while the baboon, chained up outsle ded by certain signs made by Wylde, and he is unerring in nis performance @f lost both his legs, fixes the monkey pulls it homeward, grips its chain and He is very fond, of it while The baboon never starts the trolley pulling with its ccllar, South aftica boasts a baboon that does the work of a signala Station in the Boer country, Wylde, the official signalm he trai who has Wylde, into a good swing, THE UIRGINIA GENTLEMAN IN NEW YORK. And the Envy He Aroused in at Least One Gothamite’s Heart. He was a Virginia gentleman, Only he didn't know It. He would have told you he was a F'ginia gen'I'm'n He was bullt on the’ rail-fence pattern and had a horse- Panama and a pretty little wife, They grow pretty women in F'ginia. They boarded the Madison avenue car in front of the Pulitzer Butiding. Thelr uptown ride was @ Triumphal Pro- cession. ‘The car was pretty full, but from his great height the Virginian saw vacant places for two in the centre of one seat, He lifted his wife aboard, carelessly brushed aside the crossed lega of two men who sat'near the end of the scat, gave the shoulder’ to a fat man on the step, and then, as he and his wife sat down, he remarked "Cert'nly, Don't mention it!” to the trio of scowling men whom he had pushed aside. “Driver,” he observed to the motorman, during the first pause, “how long since you subs'tuted ‘Iectricity fo’ mules on this line? Though t' be shuah, ‘lectricity’s some fastah'n mules, yet if you get to the wrong end of eitha, they's ek’lly dung’ ous. “The scen'ry hyahabouts," he went on, as the car passed the Criminal Court-House, “reminds me a good deal of one of our roads in Fauquler County, F'ginia.”” i He took no pains to modulate his rich voice, nor did he! seem to care that fifty passengers were listening to him. — | “Right smart of trade, in this lane," he commented as the | car swung into the Bowery, "pretty neah as much as you'd find in a Richmond street. Co'se not on one of the busy days, but as much as o'd'nabily, “Must ‘a been lots of custom for the local Vigilance Com- mittee gately, c'nductah,” he continued a Ittle later, with a) wave of the hand toward the miles of subway. “If this ts the town graveyahd it's doin’ a land-office business, I reckon."” The inspector, full of tmportance, Jumped aboard and, with his yellow slips, began to record fares. “Telegram for me, boy?” queried the F'ginian, reaching up his hand leisurely and annexing the yellow paper. “They'd shoot men foh less, back in God's country,” he went on as the Inspector angrily snatched away the slip, ‘but I spaih you, suh, because you don't seem to have been taught man- | nahs and maybe you know no bettah," i The oar rolled on. A few blocks further the F’ginian | jumped to his feet. This 1s ouah co'neh!” he said. "Conductah, stop, please,’ Phe conductor, wishing to avenge the insult to the in- spector, pretended not’to hear, and the car spun on. ‘The F'ginian calmly reached for the strap and rang up eight fares In rapid succession, The car stopped with a jolt. ‘The F’ginian ltted his wife to the sidewalk. “Here!” yelled the conductor, advancing belligerently, Who's goin' to pay them elght fares?" “Stranger,” replied the F’ginian politely, ‘as I'm nelthah a prophet noah a mind readah ,I cahn't say. Good day, gen'I'm'n," “If I had that man's nerve and independence,” sighed a man on @ rear seat, as the car ptarted on, "I'd be Morgan's partner next week, and President in‘ 1904 es WOMAN 131 YEARS OLD. A peasant woman at Salcine-des-Sus, Roumanta, has Ju dled at the age of one hundred and thirty-one years, the fig- ures belng fully substantlafed by documents in the possession of her family. For the past ten years she had lived entirely on milk, being toothless THE PARENT ROCK, Granite Js ths lcweat rock in the earth's crust—it ts the bed rock of the world and shows no evidence of animal or vege- table life; it 1s the parent rock from which all the rocks have bon elther directly or Indirectly derived, 1 INDIAN GUITAR. ‘The Indian vina 1s @ bar of hollow bamboo, to which are fastened two empty gourds, It is strung with elght wires, pis ok Shsh ars gvevided wih mavaale teem The archer fish—or toxotes jaculator 18 a native of the shallow Java .and the surrounding is not more than six or eight inches long, but it can fire a Nquid bullet in of a drop of wa the sha; {ts beak to a di feet, Its quarry is settled on a leaf or water, The well-alme full on the back, and the su ace, where {8 waiting to snap it up. a POMPEIAN WINE SHOP. anys To discourage drinking among the masses in Pompel! the wine shops were furnished with two-legged shown in this reproduction of a Pom- pellan painting. ——S—_——_ A CLEVER CARD TRICK, Before the performance of this trick arrange the deck of carde in such @& way that one part of them contains ail the red cards, while the other consists ot the black ones. ‘Then place one part on top ofthe other. Have somebody draw a card and look at It, but re- memijer out of 7 whlch! part of the deck (the red or the black) the card was taken, Have the card put back into the deck, but if the card’ was from the part con- taining the red cards hold out the part consisting of bluck versa, By looking the oard {8 easily found, as it will be the only one among the cards of dit- ferent color. Place the card on top of the dock, ont side extending as shown in figure, and drop the deck on the table, The pressure of air will the card face up, while the rest of the deck will fail with thelr backs up, a CUNIEFORM WAITING, f fi Stee WH a Here is shown the name of Dariue ae Tebiseled in a Persian inscription, Punch two small holes In (t with @ a nat Uitenhage is the trainer of the s that he ts able to sit in his Je, pulls all the levers and points. a ' THE ARCHER Fi of four or five beetle or gnat, bringing it tumb!