The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1902, Page 8

thed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofiice Svat New York as Gecond-Class Mall Matter. sereesseeeeeee NO. 15,001. THE BATTLE IN THE NINTH. is ig the day of battle in the Assembly districts. Creasy, writing of the world’s decisive politi- ts, will single out the engagement in the for especial notice. '4i11 the sun is low to-night on this local Linden tnow the rcsult, so flerce is the fray. Devery, from his burst of confidence in The World, x it of victory and “resting on his laurels.” He shes Napoleonic notions of a star of destiny shining mbly dpon him. But ho has fortified his faith in e h works the like of which was never seen in ical contest of the kind. | spectacular district campaign has before been ted, or one in which the usual artifices of cam- ment were diversified by so many vaude- a We must credit Devery with the parent- ‘the “souvenirs for voters” idea, an idea capable mit development. It has already been improved Chicago, where a distribution of sili dresses for wives rather exceeds the Devery limit. A silk r sm y win a vote where a ton of coal in a widow's only half persuades. Tho souvenir is to a purchas- § but reluctant voter what a progresaive euchre prize 6% a equeamish gambler. It is pretty certain to prove elingly popular In politics, This ts not to say, ver, that it will ever take precedence in popularity cash in the Ninth. ) THE FISH TRAOEDY. ) Yihe murderous assault on Banker Nicholas Fish vhe was drinking in a saloon in the company of ro n will give society a shock of a kind it has Since Broker Hatch leaped to his death from ‘window of a West Twentieth street dwelling. gational tragedies have features in common. even more than the other, now almost for- who in seeking unworthy associates count upon helter Ing secrecy of a great city to vell their lives from publicity. Scanda) will out, as well ch as for gossip. te apart trom considerations of morality, persons such chances are in constant jeopardy of discov- exposure. They will congratulate themselves So they will persist in their course. A warning it should be of especial application, THE VISITINO FIREMEN, fn annual convention. There are none likely to seive a warmer exhibition of hospitality. For the and file of the service any words of laudation for or devotion to duty are as unnecessary as for or sailors, with whom they compare in person- . Such praise is equally unnecessary for their chiefs, lenced in the ‘ace of danger inseparable from fire- and in that difficult phase of executive ability, ccessful management of a conflagration. Many a and naval reputation has been established by of head work and courage shown in battle in superior to those displayed fire chiefs in the line of duty. are among these visiting chiefs some whose hark back to olfl hand-engine days. Chief d to man the brakes, half a century ago. John 8. ell’has vidid recollections of the great fire in Bos- nee when these good fellows get together. The ‘they talk shop the more interesting they are. - THE NIOHTHAWK’S CHANCE. 1 Justice Steckler’s denial of a restaurant keeper's ht to the exclusive privilege of maintaining cab or @ stands in front of his place of business ts a ler that the streets belong to the public, though Yorker has frequent occasion to doubt it. ‘The decision is the nighthawk cabby's magna charta ma the Indications are that he is preparing to make the’ most of it. It puts him on an equal footing with 1, the “regular,” against whom he has long cher- hed ill will, and there are prospects of war. Some eepers, fearing the pirate raids of rakish craft on elegant equipages of the liverymen to whom they fave sold privileges, are asking police assistance. Per- the public may profit from the war through a cut FINGER-BOWL FLORICULTURE, the swan sings sweetest as he dies, so the expiring at Newport is producing its greatest triumphs in of society arts, the giving of a dinner. The pres- ‘of the Grand Duke Boris has been the occasion for borate display of hospitality of this kind which d its culmination in the social dinner parties given lay and Monday by Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs. 4, D uke sits is the head of the table, even though an ot -regurding precedence has not been lost. many guests, only thirty-six as against fifty-two. enw OAK STREET STATION 5 points a moral for those of good standing so-| @ of the Fish assault that thelr time has not} With leaden purse and gladly beating }and that the bolt which strikes others will miss| "ert this tragedy convoys is usually lost on those to| He's made enough in three brief months Of the strangers within our gates this week there ara} mous enough to write an autoblog- ly none so welcome as the fire chiefs now meeting | raphy." ot Hartford, can rotall the time when he first], n the early reventies.. There are good stories iq) fuyvesant Fish. At cach the noble Russian eat in tho meat of honor and it {s presumed was served first. Where lish Duchess be present, and the lesson taught Jast| To the Raitor of The Evening World from the accounts we should judge that Mrs. Goelet’s WN (9) o {0} © @) ® , and when the revelation comes and brings} @the move {a planned for the sake of being ‘on the spot” or whether Inspector Cross’ h on a proud name it is an occasion for sorrow POTDOODODOOSGHHGHOGGOGGOOSOO (©) [roxes OF OUR own.| PROFIT AND LOSS. farmer drives the boarders to the train, to start ‘The hectic gold-brick Industry again. TWO AUTOS. “In former days men longed to be fa- H id tend they merely long to be rich enbugh to have an automobile,’ UP-TO-DATE YOUTH. Stern Father—Johnny, you've been very naughy. I must spank you. Johnny—Say, pa, can't you do it con- structively, ike in the navy manoeu- vres? SAME THING, said I looked at least fifty ToOcr “Oh, no, Sho merely sald you didn't look as old as you were.” = BORROWED JOKES. PLAIN ENOUGH. Polk—I understand Mr. Basseau fs a splendid singer. I never heard him sing myself, ( Jolk—But you know him to speak to, Polk—Yes, but how did you know that?] © Jolk—You couldn't have gotten your 8 {information about his singing otherwise. —Philadelphia Press, - of coal. O} NEW THEORY. Mr. Cain, of Coffeyville, has applied for a divorce on the representation that his wife beats him, It is a new theory that the mark of Cain was put there by his wife.—Kansas City Star. A SISTER'S LOT. Goraldine—I'll be a sister to you Gerald—That will be nice, Geraldine—What do you mean? Gerald—My sister loves me, but she doesn't expect mo to take her any- where.—Brooklyn Life, A THIRD, He—Don't you think two can live as cheaply as one? She—Yes; but how about the cook?— Detroit Free Press. NEEDLESS WASTE. Knippe—They say that if you could extract the pure carbon from a plece of coal you would have a perfect dlamced. Tucque—Yes, but who wants to spoil 4 plece of coal just for that?—Syracuse Herald, THE PUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. DAY REACHES POLICE HEADQUARTERS. WHEN MOVING ULE | Q Pte \ | RE DUG H ROUND ENOUGH SAID. QUICK ACTION. Sagar (at 2 A. M.)—Hullo, Mister is that you? So glad! thought 'twas my wife. HARD LUCK. OIAMoNOS-- JEWELRY Easy Elkins—What's hurtin’ feelin's, pard? ‘Thompson—Well, lady gimme dis dollar an’ de shock brung on palpitation o’ de heart an’ I gotter see a doctor, an’ he'll charge me de plunk fur dopin’ THE*TROUBLE BROTHERS. Brown—So that’s your former em- ployer, is 1t? He must be a big gun. (who has been Clerk—Wo've burned up the last of 3 the diamonds in the stove, Proprictor—Then put on a small } the more rechorche affair except in one particular. old plate oxtehone Mrs, Fish’s, its royal hall mark| Way is it that our i..g itc superiority of goldsmithing. There were |M¢se does not follow up each Up th was simpler, and therein perhaps more elegant. hg was in perfect taste and nothing marred tha; ress about twenty o: any of the occasion. The housekeeper refrained |“ her fatal plunge in the elovator shaft till It | joare with a small offender in cach @ finishing touch of elegance on Mre. Fish's | "0S whe has just eaten a mi Were used in the finger-bowls.” So ts inform us while saying nothing about weibowls and leaving us the inferenco s Mium leaf adorned them: 2 it is a trifle, even 4 seem that the Can a Catholic become President of | ‘Thus the really best time t the United States, if elected? C, and B,|1s while exerciaing out in the Comcneninn rartsidve: |such as when riding a bicy To the Kditor of The Evening World elreulating briskly seemed Mr, Part- | jwiven when tt Is in regard to a large '}pool-room? When there ts the least | Public Love-Making. \hint that there is a crap game In prog |r the Faitor of The Evening World seven a |dreadful den of crime, and each reap-| cars and parks, hand, looking as proud as a cannipal fonary. | through a park. H. A. Ce | couples flirting. I notice that the most popular time | tem. Yen. dered are sumshine and a vigorous cir- cwlation of healthy blood in the scalp. {s a very common sight to see pedes- trians try to cross the streets, sometimes escaping being hit by heads and cable cars, some of those who are in such a hurry dodge in and out among trucks; and when on the qther side of the they would stop and look at something and then gd on. them met with wheel struck her and knocked her down, throwing me over the handle-bars. ” getting up the lady began to scold me| Was on my uncle's farm down in Brown County," says the for not ringing my bell and sald I was| Chicago Inter Ocean. and threatened to have me I have noticed Jor at work, &c., as then the biood is| s | and there is no fear of catching cold asked her and she sald no. n aceldent they would not consider thelr own foolishness in not while without running hurt, but would sure- ly blame the drivers and motormen, should think that these get-there-quick | persons ought to have enough wits to keep away from possible danger. 1 WILLIAM H, A Cyclint’s Woon, he Evening World: As I was riding on my bloycle on Uni- veralty place a lady, and a young girl (probably her daughter) stepped from the aldewalk to the guttep in front of I rang my bell and, almeat in any way and feel sorry that the a walting a ltt thirty blocks | [wish young men and women Would! any risks in bein sent to that | cease from love-making In public boats, It f@ thorough usting to travel of an evening In a ar or take a gall in a boat or go You see nothing but I should think Mats om man and woman couid 0 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: making observers sick of looking at STELLA C, 8. for men to leave off hats is while riding Carcless Pedestrians, jin the open cars, If all that wag desired | to the Kaltor of The Evening World; was to give the hair a thorough alring| go many people aro carelcas in Cross. that ja 2 good time. But two other jan-/|ing the streets that I wonder they are| stopped to let them pags. But the girl portant factors un must be remem-|not injured in some way or other. It| stepped back tn fro: m front: little nervous. some dust in a sudden gust of wind at the time and could hardly see, thrown over the handle-bars my nose was slightly cut, my hande bruised, my | throughout the neighborhood.’ right foot wrenched at the ankle and Kindly publish the rsons I refer to will think badly of me, as 1 avert the accident. In being | a plentiful s that from the snowballs, m tor of | To the Raitor ot my trousers torn. To the Taltnr of The @reatog World: What is the running yards? Ma: ; This {s Artist Powers's idea of the scene that will ensue when Partridge succeeds in tearing Police Headquarters from its Mulberry street soll and transplanting {t uptown. Experts cannot decide whether hypnotic eye, gleaming from the Bronx kopjes, is drawing Partridge northward. SO NICE. ~ Mrs. Ne we d— What are those purple things? Dealer — E gg plants, ma'am, Mrs, Newed—Oh, how lovely! I'll take two and set them out In our back yard. Do they bear fresh eggs all the year round? RECENT. Tom—By George, old man, that's a stunning girl who just bowed to you. Who 1s she? Jack—My sist Tom—Your ter! Since when? Jack—Since last night. GLYPHICS. On a carved stone found in lyphics which are stated to be the work of the Sa- baean race, who are regarded ag the builders of the ancient ruins of Rhodesia, The stone ts now in the museum at Buluwayo. Southern Arabia ppear hlero- OLD, A fragment of » calendar, tho ear- Hest piece of Gut- tenberg’s printing that can be proved, has been discov ered at Wiesbaden. The astronomical calculations show that it was Intend- ed for the first four months of the year 148. EAGLES. Although the golden eagle has disappeared from Wales, white- tailed eagles are still to be found in North Wales and Shropshire. DDDODOHOHODODHDIHODOOSOGODDGIOS) ALEXANDRA, QUEEN—of England, HEDIN, SVEN—the explorer, will not 8 | A FEW REFIARKS. H ‘The man who shudders when he spitie salt on the table will send his letter by special messenger sooner than affix the new 13-cent stamp on It. 10} ‘ ©) @ . (| ‘The Governor of Pennsylvanta's fre- @| quent recent revolutions between thie | clty and his own Btate mark him for @ @ @ @ @ ® rolling Stone, Sing a song of Newport! Little Willie K. Doesn't think he's treated fair. Sayw that he won't play: —*s Says when others’ autos scorch Wille gets the blame, Isn't going back again, Isn't it a shame! Henry Watterson has placed Devery morals ahead of those of the “40Q"" There's a chowder and an outing await- Ing Henry any time he chooses to coms. to New York. . By “planting” a judicious number of accident policies, Pollceman O/NellR could soon wear diamonds to breakfast, ‘~was Roosevelt Day at Oyster Bay, And Nassau saw the President From eyery town for miles around; From kid to oldest resident. They made the trip to give the grip And make his fingers ache; So each might say with glee that they Gave Teddy R. “the shake." Now that 1,000 Zoological Garden snakes have escaped, look wholesale signing of pledg Bronx; while the less bibuluys contin- gent of puma-veteraas revel in the ‘calm joys or reptile hunting. Plebelan straw and Panama That blossomed forth last May, SOMEBODIES. Sought avaavetuse Innocuoma. x For elght months yesterday. has a large and varied askortment of] Devery ‘doesn't want to move” in the ‘names from which to choose. She| 400. He doesn't even care to touch om as christened Alexandra Carollne| nor appertain to it. Marle Charlotte Loulsa Julla, And she has carried all ‘those names for| Two men accused of robbing a poor fitty-elght years. box have been captured after a strug~ gie. A whole lot of men who have put coal and beef above the reach of the poor are still at large, and not even @ “stage struggle’ has been visible to the naked eye. The Isthmian rebels’ plan to grab t- be able to put the account of all his recent African explorations into book form In less than two years. NAGIYANPE-—the full-blooded sloux Indian who has just been elected ; leader of the Carlisle (Pa.) Municipal | {iruup ay one New Yorkin, ceatwhin Band, ts the first Indian ever put in| memorable canal scandal and Ramapo charge of a municipal organization | geal so far into the shade that even a whose members were all white men. | searchlight could not discover them, ROUSMANIERE, REV. E. 8.—who will probably be the next rector of| If he keeps on refusing dinner invita~ St. John’s, Washington, was born| tions at this rate, what an edge Boris Oct. 27, 1858, the same day and year] will have on his appetite by the time be as President Roosevelt. sights Rus oDp!'TY cORNER.. THE DISAPPEARING COIN. ‘The performer takes a large coin, marks it before the eyes of the audlenes,; and asks somebody to hold the coin and handkerchief over a glass filled with) water (Fig. 1). Stepping back a few paces he asks the person holding glass and coM to let the coin drop into the glass, ‘Then he removes the handkerchief and— the coin cannol be found in the glass. The performer claims that the cotn must be in somebody's pocket, éc., and stepping up to some one pulls it out of ite hiding place and shows it to the audience. To perform this trick provide yoursel¢ with a round plece of glass (Figs. 4 and 3A) and a piece of thin rubber band, on one end of which a hook made of a pin 1s fastened, while on the other one @, small plece of wax 1s etuck. a Ho SNOWBALLS BROUGHT WATER. | CAN YOU 00 THIS? “Speaking of drinking water,” sald one of a group of men On | waiting for the shower to p “We lived on top of a clay hill and had a well very deep, In the excitement I forgot to| sixty feet, I reckon; but it never had any water in it until ten ask if the girl was hurt, but the lady | years ago, A heavy snow fell that winter and‘he filled the I want to] well with snowballs. He rolled up balls until they were large eay that Iam glad she was not Injured] enough to go into the well cleverly, and then dumped them In until {t was packed to the top. They were packed #0 cident occurred. Owing to the fact that| closely that they did not melt until late the following sum- |~ {t was the first time I rode on a|mer, but when they did they produced a supply of water I bloyele in that neighborhood I felt a] never saw surpassed for purity, softness or coolness, It was I was almost blinded by | delicious, “Strange to say, this well, always dry before, has produced 1,000 VOLCANOES. over, “the best I ever drank ie water, while not as good 9. Il excellent and c rated Le on your back, straighten your feet, pull them back over the head, keeping | them straight, push them forward and Since the disasters in Martinique and St, Vincent somebody | UP {nto tho alr, allghting on the feet, has taken the trouble to count up the world's volcanoes, The eel still classed as active. FREAK PRICES, .- rr, -