The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1902, Page 10

THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1903, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to a Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice # @t New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 43...... : COAL AT EXTORTIONATE PRICES. “pe stri mote proba sity. coal-yards be replaced. This means that coal will be hard to obtain in abund- ance and the dealers evidence a disposition to continue to make the most of the scarcity and to multiply profits’ ‘ out of the public distress by charging prohibitive prices.| ¢ What they are to get at wholesile trom the operators) « for $4.85 a ton, delivered at tae docks In New York, they expect {o sell for $15. A profit of 200 per cent. wrung from a public neces- sity in time of need {s extortion. It 1s a well-observed axiom of trade that where the demand is greater than the supply prices may be legitimately raised. of food necessary to their proper nourishment No monopolistic screwing up of prices has ever ap- proached in extortion this project of the dealers to profit at the expense of the unfortunate. r Mascngni’s Farewell.—Mascagni's farewell speech at the Metropolitan was simply: “I thank you, good-by."’ And there was an Intermezzo in It at that A CAREFUL MAN. A countryman making his first visit to the metropolis arrives with certain preconceived notions of life in a large*city. the Stevens House, seems to have come to town with the ¢ is over, but cheap coal is not even a re-) Thursday of this week will see most of the miners back at work. But not for a week to come); will thé normal output be reached, and not for weeks,| perhaps months, to follow will the depieted stock in city But in the) ‘ present stress to make coal artificially dear is literally | ¢ to rob; and in the case of the poor it means deprivation] ¢ Mr. Jacques, of Woodstock, Vt., a guest at} 2 WATOHING THE CARS BUMP THE PEOOLE The FLAT settled conviction that the chief occupation of a atranger| .. in New York should be to guard against assassination. So when a double knock on his door roused him from reverie he bolted for the window, unwound the coll of fire rope and slid down to the street and to safety. In explanation he said he “didn’t mean to be murdered in his room, not by a long chalk.” Are we to laugh at his caution? Mr. Jacques, as a Walter Brooks, found dead in a West street hotel room with a bullet in his head; he knew that the young com- mission man’s murderer has not been convicted. He had read also of a Long Island visitor whose head was chopped off in a Tenderloin resort with hotel attachment “much frequented by strangers. He remembered the Kennedy case, a hotel-room crime. He recalled the ‘Young murder. And on tho very day he arrived in town he read flaring headlines about a double murder in a downtown law office. So let us not think with too much levity of Mr. Aacques's rope-ladder exit. Tony Pastor used to sing of ‘@ careful man who Is in the asylum now, but our careful visitor from Vermont has met with no such untoward fate. His head is on his shoulders and he 1s on the high [segs bound for Texas. A Chiét of Police Againt—It is now purposed to revive the old plan of having a chief rule the police. The name does not elgnify much provided the ruling hend {s there. WHERE WERE THE POLICE ¢ } the east side crossed the Bowery and invaded the old Five ‘Points neighborhood armed with sections of lead pipe fnd other weapons and proceeded to give battle to a” rival gang who were awaiting their coming. The fight; raged for half an hour unhindered by police interference. ‘The Evening World took occasion then to ask where tho, police were and it would like to ask now where they wwere early Sunday morning while the row was in prog- jess at Second avenue and Twenty-third street. At that time two parties of home-returning dancers, forty in all, joined issue in a street fight within a block) The neighborhood resounded with | the din of the fray, spectators came to the number of a) of the police station. hundred and before it was over two men had been stabbed and a score of the combatants Injured. No police, appeared on the scene and there was no interference. It might be well for Capt. Piper to put this precinct station-house on the list of places to be visited in future! nocturnal rambles. SUNDAY BASEBAL In the New Jersey Court of Chancery Vice-Chancellor) Pitney will be asked to-day to grant an injunction against the playing of baseball or football in Bergen) The injunction will be asked for as a} step in th progress of the crusade against Sunday sports| Point on Sunday. Anstituted by a Borgen Point pastor several weeks ago and taken up by other Protestant clergymen and res!- dents. The Judge's action will be watched with interest. It is very nearly !mpossible to be wholly consistent {n our public treatment of Sunday sports. We are none of us whoily consistent in our individual and personal attitude toward them; the man who bikes on the Sabbath fre- quently thinks his golf-playing neighbor ungodly and} the Sunday tennis player Satan's own. Apparently with ‘baseball the noise made {s a most important element. THE ROW ON THE LINKS, On the golf links at Montclair yesterday occurred an| incident likely to be of momentous consequences to the game, A New York lawyer, disputing with another player as to the whereabouts of a lost ball, suddenly raised his golf club and brought it down on his op- ponent’s head with such force as to fell him to the ground unconscious. @iMculty. His skull is supposed to be fractured. A strange scene for an assault. itself, the little rift within the lute, the cloud no bigger! than a man’s nand which portends dire results to the royal and ancient game, the gentleman's game par ex- /@pilence. On the links {t has been as at Agincourt or ' Fontenoy, or as on the fleld of honor, “Gentlemen of the, i The golf club has nurtured a Bayard-| flower of chivalry, a Chesterfieldian courtesy In sport on with which the etiquette of other games ned an inchoate striving tqward the first prin- ‘d, fire first.” assumed the role of the % 9 reader of newspapers, was familiar with the story of , Fe OVECHESDO9ELOOOHO94 GOOF * Some ten days or so ago a gang of young men from’ nowadays is surely of chiffon « The injured man wrs revived with} Jon And the assault! Broad at the should or tlehu effect, they hay ends reac DOG FANCIERS. Hogan—"An' ts he a blooded dog, 4 Mike?” “Blooded? 8000090900524 9O00-6005600 005006 60O060O9OOOOOFO9O HOF U4 Ghe Modern Flat Makes Wives Fat. Artist Powers Shows How and Why. L POL WARTS, (an Ovesity CRACKER, Teh’ say he wuz. W'y, when he wuz a pup th’ doc had tg teed him to kape um from beln’ Team nanowy EAT MY Come aus ELEVATOR “SNE WEEE WALKS all she had to do in a day, there was no time to accumulate fat or read obesity cures, new and the old styles of wives are admirably pictured by Mr. Powers. NOT THE REAL THING. unpopular? . Misa Stymle—"Why, used to be a racehorse owner and he a mixes slang turf ®terms with his bOO6-044 you see, NOT EXACTLY. he Mr. great deal of thought and advice to your cases, don't you, doc? Pooter—I_ s'pose pole you give a (a You Loot PALE DEAR WHAT CAN BE THE ITER 2 Ce SVE GOR SHOPPING The flat wife has no chance for exercise; no stairs to cllmb; no coal to tote up two or three flights; nothing to do or to worry about. Every convenlence is provided; every comfort is at hand Her exist- ¢ ence is simply Sybaritic. All she has to do {s to sit around and eat and put on flesh and wonder why every time she climbs on the groceryman’s scales its platform sags and the wheels’under it wobble. In the good old days of real hustling housekeeping when there were no dumbwaiters, no telephones, no elevators, nor any of that sort of thing, and a woman found the twer.ty-four hours too few to do and the housewife was considerably more svelte and sylph-like, besides being more healthy than she {is to-day, The SHE WAS ON. ‘Sndky Sam—Yes. lady is Echo rock. You just The daintiest thing a woman we rose p how she adorns her 1 rful com binations of silk and feathers, of 1 and velvet, of chiffon and fur are the latest boas in which the woman of fash- whl array herself this ing to the gown. Many of the most beautiful boas have muffs to match Murty: toa | hich | A set of this kind, r dainty was tig World iotographed for ‘The Even- “k and whi and give an in- ny sheer and dainty effect. huge muff {a of the marabou feathers with plaitings of Liberty silk. Another dainty boa and muff set is by courtesy of Saks & Com: | leaves rea: SET OF MARADOY FEATHER together with thesof “gray accordion platted chiffon and bons pictured in this ar-| silk leaves. The long of chiffon covered with 1 to the bottom of the gown evening wear a novel effect Is ng exquisite creatlon of tnarabou} produced by combinins white taffeta, Lai silk and chiffon, The|chiffon and inlet squares of black stole is are of accerdion| Chantilly. This boa has the lace inlet white chiffon, The feathers are|in squares on the back and on the stole ends, Fresh and dainty !s a boa of white dotted net ornamented with narrow green velvet baby ribbon in a scroll de- sign, WITH LIBERTY SILI A pink boa of silk and chiffon Is trimmed with odd pleces of brown fur and has a muff of pink rose petals. Chrysanthomum boas in black and white and in a speckled gray effect, known as guinea fowl, are’ among the leading novelties, Some of these flower boas are not shaped at ail. They are simply long straight pleces widening into deep ends. This style Is very effective when wora by @ hretty woman, but the more con- ventional cape boa is more universally becoming, BAKED BEANS INTOXICATE. Among of Southern Sicily and Sardinia has been noticed by Italy, malady wheh peasants a curlous physielans, +18 caused by eating bess, One of the most remarkable effects of the malady is a species of intoxication resembling that produced by alcoholic drink, In some cases peraons predisposed tq the }known Is THE COSTLIEST BOOK. ubly the most expensive book that whigh the Ameer of Afghanistan has presented to the Shah of Persia, It 1s q manusoript copy of the Koran, the binding of which is worth $150,000, ‘This binding Is of solid gold, two and three-quarter inches thick; the carvings, which are the work P has mashie or mid-|malady are seized with the symptoms |0f an Afghan goldsmith, are tricrusted in} 0f Jntoxtoation df they pass a feld Plant le in flower, the re ae au, with precious stones—167 pearls, 122 ‘rubies and 109 diamonds of the purest Haat ; » POLAR MOTORS. Rosides aeropraphy for maintaining unbroken communication with Europe, further detalls of M. Bernie's forthcom- bg Polar expedition ahow that he con- tempiates utilizing automobilism, Of. Bernler, ke Dr, Nansen, expects to 14 the Pole surrounded by an ice belt of about 145 miles in extent. Por travers- ing. thi 8 te Re norstrpower motor ars. 9 ‘clal const pporting EGGS AS CURRENCY. In some parts of Peru—for example, In the province of Jauja—hens' eggs are circulated as small coing, forty to fifty being counted for a dollar. In the mur- ket-places and in’ the shops the Indians make moat of their purchases with this brittle kind of money. One will give two or three eggs fcr brandy, another the bluff’ll answer right back. V4 Ly LLM) @ BOLISHHGLOGOO —eeee P9990 9OO08359-SD 00909909: MIGHT NOT WANT HIM. DODISDHOHOSOISHHHOES His Ho ul, what are yeu walting for? ‘I sald thirty days at hard labor, Duffy the Dook—‘tYessir, but 1 can't deceive yer honor, sir. af feel thar there holler and Mrs. Easterne—Ah! Now I know It me dooty ter say dat I didn't git é the meaning of that Western phrase no recommend from me last place, calling a bluff.’ sir. ‘The Right Rey. John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop f the ‘Peoria (il) diocese, who has just been ap- ainted by President Roosevelt as a meniber of the Anthracite Strike Commission, is he or of the following ‘poem: The Mellow, Hazy Lays. ‘ © glorious autumn woods, whose myriad hues Uplight the face of earth with richer glow Than may be seen when spring's eweet flowers blow, And wear the jewelled crown of pearly dewa! How tender, pure the thoughts whioh you Infuse Into the soul, bringing the long ago, With al! its memortes of Joy and woa, Until the vision the whole hea as! hat! J 8 soon the meow, hazy days The frost shall erlep your many-tinted leaves. © And howling blasts with ail thelr glory fy, > And you shall stand Ike one whom death boreaves, © Outstretched trembling hands to the dark sky, Which gives no sign howevér much he 5 GPLDDOIDH SS > THE MEERSCHAUM INDUSTRY. The meerscharn :3a be mined by any person at Sart-son, Eepetdse, Gheikli and Menlou, {n Turkey, on paymant o* five pias to the Administration of Mines—the cost of a permit. The mines of Sari-sou are situnted at a distance of about seventeen miles to the east of Eskichehir. The pit at Sari- sou was opened twenty years ago, but to-day there are 8,000 mines opened, of which, however, only 2,000 are worked, the remainder having been abandoned. Some 4,000 miners work these mines, and every Friday a market is held at which they dispose of the blocks of meerschaum they have ex- tracted during the week. For the accommodation of the work- men some 1,000 huts have beer erected. At Sepetdje, about elghteen miles to the northeast of Es- Kichehir, there are some 20,0 pity in a space of six miles, of which only 15 are worked, all the others being exhausted. It {9 eaid that these mines were opened 1,000 years ago, which is not Incredible, as It {s well known that magnesia was formerly used for many purposes other than the ¢abrica- tlon of ptpes; moreover, Fuller's earth used to bo worked on @ vast scale by the ancients, The meerscium mines are worked by some 500 miners, who live in the surrounding villages. At Ghelkll, In the neighborhood of Sepetdje, there are 8,000 pits, of whioh oniy 1% are worked, giving employ- mont to 400 miners, ‘The only place where the Admintstration of Mines author- ized meerschaum to be extracted is Menlou, and here there are only twenty pits actually worked by 100 workmen, The working of these meerschaum deposits called the Esktohehir, mines which formenly were actively worked, is reduced to 1,770 pits, giving employment to 6,000 miners, the greater portion of whom are Kurds and Persians, JAPANESE STREETS. In Jupan houses aro not numbered according to their s quence, but according to the order of their erection, says the Pittsburg Gazette. That 1s to say, No. 73 may adjoir No, 1, with No, 102 on the opposite side. No. 2 is probably a mile down the street. The city of Tokio is made up of 1,330 streets, in which are 318,320 houses, These houses are divided up into fifteen wards. If a street passes through thore than one ward the houses are numbered according to the wards in which they are; that ts, a street passing through alx wards will pos. six number ones. It would be like hunting for a necdlo ta Toko, nfs haystack for a stranger to try to find [A FEW REMARKS Now let's add ‘Anthracite Day” to the Met of holidays. ‘The millionaire who is to become chorus man is the first of his kind to make the chorus an asset instead of an expense. Recoris for museum purposes. But if the recent researches are right, it cam't even be called a historical museum. talkin’ thought you wanted to hear ‘em an’ den gits mad ef you 'pears to be injoyin’ : de story.”"—Washington Star. piling worthy of the Molineux case. seri ends Country. ‘Ndgety?’ have our cinch bankruptcy his day.” ‘boat's see {t's only the ‘Half Moon? Dick would have taken the whole one."* : | the dentist, taoth. heap grittier than that. a little woman. | ‘Kraal,’ ‘Modderspruit’ and ‘roolnek.’ | Likewise before we found the means + | To ‘civilize’ the Philippines, | Our tongues were guiltless of the sorrow Of say!ng ‘boloman’ and ‘Moro,’ Or ‘Macabeebee,’ or those odd Old map-spots ‘Guam’ and Bacodod.’ And now ‘Caracas,’ ‘Haytlen’ And ‘Castro’ jar the he!pless pen. | If people thus annex much more talk ‘Twill form a new speech, known ap minin; land to mana, the latest Pole-chaser to spat with his Impresario. * of money to some people! mi! Wagg—You'd oh 7 Phi Jadelphi “Ouir new cook left yesterday.” “Why, I thought she’d promised to stay all winter?” “Bhe did; but the kerosene she poured on the fire suddenly broke her contract.” ° Now they want to use the old Hall of | j Miss Passee—No, ‘There's no man itw ing that I'll marry. Miss Caustique—Never mind, you, poer dear! No one will think of blaming you, | “Some folks," said Uncle Eben, ‘keeps "bout deir troubles like dey ‘They say the longest days inell the year | Come in the month or two that follow May-day. But, oh, the longest days that workers ' te Are the long, hungry ones, before each pay-day. The oft-deferred Young hearing is up an assortment of delays A Brooklyn man declares his wife Put needles in his soup, (Presumably to lift his Mfe Out of the. family group.) The fact he lived to be a man Proves, past all fear of fake, Her soup was not bullt on the plan That ‘mother used to make." “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. The same appiles to coal.” ; May—Oh, I hate these magasine Ealth—Wwhy? . May-—You can never tell how s story until it {is finished.—Town and, First Chauffeur—Why didn't you pag’. the fine instead of being run In? Second Chauffeur—My money hadeus out. “What's an. elegant synonym for ~“ “'Strenuous.’ mld “here's no ‘such word “But you must remember they diin't laws in The new Meat Trust gamblere are playing for algh steaks. Henrik Hudson had just sailed up the river when the Indians took counsel. exclaimed old brave, “tho not from Wantage. Don't you “No, Their apprehensions calmed, the simple children of nature trekked gayly for thelr scalping knives, “You bear It like a little man,” sald te atter he had pulled the exclaimed Tommy, ‘T'm @ “Huh!” a T bear tt like For Tommy was an observant boy.— Chicago Tribune. Prof. Lorenz, the famous Viennese sur= > |geon, finds it easy to pull American legs. “Bach war there fs," began the Joke- smith merry, “Don't do a thing to our vocabulary: |For Instance, ere the Boer campalgr Began, we'd never sprained che brat With words like ‘outspan,’ ‘kop' and ‘trek,’ ‘war-talk.' “I was awfully scared by the thunder- storm." ° “It was a rain of terror, eh?" “I see they are trying to Osh a lot of coal out of the Merrimac River where a coal barge was sunk ten years ago.” “By gum! that's the kind o’ that pays nowaday lain Dealer. Mra, A. M. Palmer has quit the Pre- lacet '—Cleves fessional Woman's League for @ woe manly squabble about the Worman's Ix« bition. “Oh, woman, woman!" Arctic explorers nowadays are as hard prima donna. Baldwin ts Coal at $7 a ton! ‘Why, thats a ton “Was !t a touching story?" “He tried to make it ao, but I was * broke."" Wigg—It 1 had my way I should exter, @ all the Pullman car porters. how them no quarter, or | SOMEBODIES. BHARATT, PREMANDAND—has come _ to New York to spyead a knowledge of the Valshnava religion. If this” cult Is as simple as its title and the name of Its missionary he, should: indeed have an easy task, 3 GLAISHER, JAMES—the famous mete- orologist who, nearly half a century, ago made one of the most Blige balloon ascensions on record, is now ninety-three. wee LORENZ, PROF. ADOLF—the speciale tat who has just operated on Armaure daughter, says he has found’ more hip disease in Chicago thin Im ang, other city. pipe 6TAGG, MISS AIMEE-—of Paterson, N. J., wore at her wedding Inst week an antique brooch which seventeen of the family had worn, hse WOOD, PROF.—ot Agriculture,