The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1902, Page 10

) Coll the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office “at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. LUME 43.. sueNO, 15,043, TEN MONTHS AFTER. h months have passed since the New York Central 1 disaster and the man who was held responsible for engineer, Wisker, is still untried. nslaughter found against him has not yet been dis- | of and the curious situation is presented of an iu- d and presumably guilty man urging the courts to im. Wisker’s counsel said yesterday: “This case Is out his life. He dreams about the fearful catas- He worries about it." And rather than longer the suspense he asks the courts either to send to prison or to remove the burden of alleged guilt Weighs so heavily upon him. "This 1s the way the disaster has affected the individ I held responsible for it. It does not appear that the ny 8 worrying about the matter. Having found Scapegoat, the episode is closed as far as its responsi- ity is concerned. After almost a year it permits the conditions to prevail that invited the January dis- On a damp, dark day with the fog beating In and t and smoke held in suspension in the heavy at- hosphere of the tunnel engineers continue to “feel their ay” as of old past obscured signal lights. As evidence f what it has done toward acquiescing in the recom- wendations of improvement made by the Railroad Com- Bsion in response to popular protest the Central can only tentative engineering plans, the minutes of itless negotiations with the Board of Aldermen and published interviews dwelling on the enormous cost of Promised improvements and the great problems in- in their execution. It isn't much of a showing. THE POLICE CHANGES. With the police officials who have recently retired and slated for retirement before Jan. 1 out of the De- mt Commissioner Partridge will have at the end first year of office a purified force. one from which of the disgrace of Deveryism has been removed. before, so far as can be recalled, have so many of ther officials left the service within a like length @, And most of them have left it for its good. force will then, it may be supposed, be ready for @ Commissioner’ s hand to mould to his will—to it what by the personnel of its rank and file it is mble of becoming, the best force procurable in the of American cities. Surely by the first of the year the Commissioner will have his long-desired, waited opportunity of proving his competence for FREET-CLEANING IMPROVEMENTS. missioner Woodbury, in his quarterly Mayor Low yesterday, gives full credit to Capt. the department met in its efforts to stop dumping at ‘The indictment , report] « now Deputy Commissioner of Police, for the suc-| « (Jermnacene \ Pa \ | ei is co Y penong sas tees, ye Bs \ fon e000" (11 Barer wo) To TARE MY SEAT ) fete Nel tt d 78000 (Penian ( That wie Cov \ Yeu 5000 pe Betas S IN EUCHREVILLE, ea Ing the bathing season. Coney Island is to-day as im as the most aristocratic beach on the Long Island and the change is little less than extraordinary. 4s a pleasure to praise the Commissioner's own ly admirable economy in the utilization of ashes and er refuse matter to effect the addition of several acres land to Riker's Island. By the first of January the Commissioner hopes to show an increase of eixty-three acres, worth $10,000 an acre, He recommen:!s i | bs purchase by the city of the scows used in the trans- r of ashes, whereby he thinks an important q pmay be mace. : treet-Cieaning Commissioner who creates wealth u to refuse matter is one to whom it would appear to give freer br scone for further efforts in that line. MISS MARLOWE'’S ILLNESS. “x news of Miss Marlowe's breakdown will be re- ved with general sympathy and with memories of the similar regrettable collapse of Miss Arthur. The stage fs @ hard taskmuster for the actress. Only a woman of ptional physique, a Bernhardt, may remain vigorous the stress of simulated emotion Jong continued, “This extraordinary woman, playing before a notable fence in Berlin last night, thirty-three years after Stage celebrities to a realization of their physical nd nervous limitations. She rises guperior to the emo- wear and tear of dramatic roles to whose intensity less endowed with endurance succumb wai WILLIAM TELL FATALITIES. ‘The fatal shooting in a William Tell act at Cold Harbor, L, I., brings out a letter from Miss Annie which is of interest. Miss Oakley used to be dingly expert at this trick of marksmanship, once f9 popular. She says: “I have done the same thing ny times, luckily without accident, but that was when was a schoolgirl and did not know better. Hiuce found out that no matter how true the aim a bad ridge may cause an accident.” he foolhardy feat has frequently had a fatal issue, tably when Frank Frayne killed Miss Von Behren in Gincinnatl. The original Tell saved out an arrow “to tyrant, had I killed my son.” There is no of the imitation Tells who kill turning their rifles on o elves, HE COMETH NOT. jana at the moated grange waiting for the lover) !"# me not was a less lonesome figure, we fancy, than mderloin charmers disconsolate at the non-appear- the Siamese Crown Prince. ‘‘She said, ‘I am , a-weary, he cometh not,’ she said.” How dif- from Boris, the Russian Graud Duke! = Within Tength of time that gallant wooer had thrice d out of the Waldorf, eluding his suite, to find his iy Nehind the scenes and learn more of the life with h be had made his first acquaintance in Chicago. itt mo such desire to learn American ways moves | Vajiravudh. r mpagne have been relegated to the more p. Covering the shapely feet for which they we: jeooled off into a frigidity that would chill him) at this Jate hour, jot when he will. Anexplicable conduct on Vajiravudh's part. and prinéely rank and to spend one's tim stics, learning facts, acquiring useful in. pei jean products, the chorus girl. Goal ut $9 a ton means nearly iW per cent. | Gealérs, The Evening World's inquiry yes- ‘that six large dealers were asking thix “ends new pertinence to the World's plan jlike scissors. A men in the handling of this great ‘last appearance there, defies the rules which hold] T have long} The slippers from which he was to The warmth of welcome that was to haye been He who will not when be To} = And to leave unstudied that most interest- ' This was| iY, and we must regard Boris as better str He bow lute correctness.” 1 see. A right bow IOdEO HS with CPE SAI0 OLAR: such abso- 7 twar OS THINK Wis) You Mone Tare \100 000 : —_f~ pouiars 7 (tain Vo tine To PROPOSE in Ls BOAT WAY Aree ea LITTLE iY L wits. SUE Yeu HIS VACATION. Singleton—I say, Wederly, aid take a yaeation this summer? Wederly—Well, 1 guess. so. stayed In the country six wes wif an vides Sea OF BI monn se isa —— x One Must Be Careful What One Sager to the Girls. A Timely Warning in Artist Powers’s Picture. Cis se) OrFeR’ “paniing Fieve —_—_—— PROOF POSITIVE, F0O9-89004 3 $09 08000O00OO aA 3 wren ] Sve You 2.0 0,000 me DOLLARS J ° ¢ The broken-h eart market has heen Hvely for several weeks. Maidens and widows with fractured pericardiums have been assessing their troubles at from $20,000 tos + $100,000 and trying to collect the same through the courts from bewildered Romeos who never knew what expensive bunches of femininity they were fooling with. © The above picture shows, how Romeo jeopards his bank account every time he goes courting, and it suggests the idea that if he wishes to steer clear of breech of prom ise suits he will throw away his fountain pen and muzzle his flow of language before he goes to call upon a female friend. “T see Reginald has changed his mind 4 and decided to prosecute the owner of MilesThey. any. that ‘alli ‘erent the automobile that ran over him." you geniuses are more or less insane. “Yes, indeed. At first he thought it Giles—That's right. 1 once knew as the racing machine of a Newport My one of them who actually paid his millionaire, but now he finds it only be- ae longed to a common ‘broker. DOCIHDOGOOS ' Mme. Judice, who Is connected with one of the leading dress- | | making establishments of this city, has been secured by The Evening World, and will con- duct this department, in which home dressmakers will be given helpful advice. Questions relat ing to dressmaking will be an- swered by Mme. Judice. ' N the gowns, winte excellence. in full revers, majority of fashionable coats millinery for fur $s the trimming par This is arranged tn coats high rolling collars and applied to skirts as and fashionab| is frequently he most popular ie the ermine. Entire garments, sre expense must be ¢ es and cloaks, but asidered alm- ply revers or small portions may be cut m the fur and applied in the most adyuntageous manner possible. Noth- is more effective than a Kown of royal blue or black velvet, embellished with ermine skirt and revers, elther cut solidly from the fur er com- posed of incrastations or into lace, Almost t variety Iss of felt Is covered a BEAUTIFUL TRIMMINGS, The most easily made Its own wearer, fascinating idea ia an crochet lace ‘with spate ut in round, diamond or £ and sewed around edxe of felt sof ch fanciful al to th \1 If bought tn the shopa it would reach a fabulous price, but is within th: moderate purses, same idea ta good when rsian Jamb or sealskin on desirable when the nc Jtou ned with braid oi tassels, ne id makes > edging to the fur aiaks "these cords and tass: one of the most fashionable featur the winter HOW TO CUT Fl In cut the fur a knife showid be used and on the wrong side (the pelt), and a design eel should be cut in Paper and marked off with chalk, A Knife does not cut the face of the fur y fur to selected po altion In the or cloth and tac | along the edge of cuffs, or in bands and edgings, enter beautiful trimming ean bel and al Irish] , ntti | y foll at sharp points as illustrated, one ath ends tr braids are applied by hemming eit, holding the halr book with a ple cardboard, 'T prevente the thread from becoming on- ta Towith the fur. In sewing pieces of fur toxether to form revers, collars, &c., the edges are simply overcast and no seam, but care be taken in matching perfe The for outet Ka only the finest ski but if the IIning Is of lighter or under portion used for that part | Seal ds stil a costly fur ba Uttle lower iy the but all furs are more oxy last year, COLLARETTES AND BOAS. The collarettes and sables are prim shape, drooping over th long tabs In front, sometimes reac to the bottom of the skirt, ‘These are the same fur the of the body ts and Persian | price scale, sive than around the edge, and if braid is us [follow the outline and twist into a tre- called perelines (or stolls if without capes), a% they combine the advanta that the halr tends toward one| revers, in droop sleeves, of lace com- tion: otherwise dt will have @| binations. atcha late Muffs aro larger than ever and in great variety—"granny” or barrel mutts SQUIRREL AND SEAL. pillow or fat muffs, Some with and of the squirrel makes 80) some without tails. So mth and espectally handsome garment and cane |furcoleth, tur and lace ated so oa. to not be Improved on for loose cloak of | yey! yen, ae atomoblie ty oks of the ani- | yas of Russian | ¢ ‘Talla and fancy ay be added to them | constructed of mink, stone marten, blue fox and seal, Fre juently two or three furs are combin in a variety of shapes, LACE AND FUR, In evening wear Ince 1s effective and Appeals to the average woman because | of its novelty, Even many of the fur ‘a coats of Persian lamb and seal ha | A SUGGESTION. The following idea, which is not orig. Inal with me, 1 think js a good one: Stretch a strong wire or have an ors dinary curtain p under the edge of a high closet shelf to hang coat stretch- ers on, Stretchers are easily made from sections of barre) hoops or can be bought lin any store carrying such things for | nts each and easily wound with IMUSIC NO TEST OF A WIFE, Mme. Judice Helps Home Dressmakers. | e Oe So Says Mascagni. ASCAGNI'S opinion of his own wife, expressed in an Int jew for the Philadelphia North American, re- futes the famous German professor's theory as to a woman's character being easy to determine from her musical tastes According to this professor a man could get a line on his future wife's nature by observing what mugic she preferred. If she admired Reethoven she Js artistic, but unpractical. If Liszt appeals to her she Is ambitious, If Mozart Is her fuvorite she is prudish. Gounod's feminine admirera are romantic and tender- hearted. Mascagni’s music appeals to the religious and pa- trlotle woman, Strauss’s music appeais to the frivolous, ‘Timid women preter Massenet, and well-balanced ntelll- ences love Saint Saens. Of Offenbach, cunning, So much for the by Love of Wagner denotes egotism. Flotow appeals to the vulgar. rman’s theories, Mascagni upsets them his remarks concerning iis own wife, ly wife,” he say js not a musician, There are no musicians in my family. But she understands the duties that go to make a good wife, It is foolishness to imagine a woman's nature can be fathomed by noting the music she most admires “A woman may have the qualities fitting her to be a good wife and yet not be a musician. My recreation, away from my music, ts to spend the hours with my wife and family, Only the good wife bullds a home, That is the central spot for her husband, She can such a wife, you see, and know nothing of music, “There must be some other test of excellence than the pro- fessor's theory.” VERY POLITE TO HIMSELF. A despatch to the Chricago Chronicle from Marseilles, France, says; M. Curet, the President of the Marseilles Tri- bunal and Chairman of the Municipality, is a great stickler for otiquette. Recently he had, as president, to obtain per- mission from the Chairman of the Muntelpallty for some: trifling formality, so he wrote to himself politely asking his| own permission and duly replied to himself amfably granting to himself the permission requested. EXTRA LIGHT. According to a note in the Blectrical Review a gas engine, when coupled to a dynamo, produces three times as much light in Incandescent lamps and about eleven times as much in are lamps as the same amount of gas would wroduce if burned directly at gas Jets, { (8 SOMEBODIES. @ | CONLEN, J. H.—holds five railroad positions, and is con- nected with three railway lines, He lives at Dalhart, Tex. COMBES, M.—Prime Minister of Frafce, is just 6 feet 3 inohes jn height, He has served in his time the careers of schoolmaster, physician, statesman and philosopher. can't object. il kK Few Remarks. Mostiy on the Dull thuds go with @ dull campaign. Then out spoke the Prince of Slam: For gush I am not wor:h a slam; But, by the great dragon, ‘There's one thing I brag on: Vm stuck on our friend Uncle Sam.” Gllgon—Do you own the house you live Wilson—No. We keep two servant girls.—Somerville Journal. A week from to-day the politician will | stop talking In order to hear Vox Populi ® |do its annual bet settling. Prof. Lorenz's course of treatment here will be a form of “leg-pulling’’ to which even the grumplest New Yorker Realistic Music—Any new features at the palialcele? es, M risque sang ‘Old Ke: with a pistol obligato.” ‘om: aatsaancits ‘Journal. ‘The example of William Tell is becom- ing as fatal as that of Bandit Tracy. Artilleryman—It costs the Government $ | $500 every time we fire this gun. Visitor—No wonder folks say that human life grows valuabler every year! “Truth la stranger than fiction." “To mést of us, yes; but still it's not so bad when you come to get on speak- ing terms with it.”"—Chicago Post. ‘That polities and yachting are alike Recent events in this old State are showing, For wiseacres agree that in each case ‘The “canvase” shows which way the wind Is blowing, When two such death-dealers as the auto and the trolley met something was bound to happen. Mr. Beach—Hore is letter from Charles. Mrs. Beach (reading)—My dearest, darlingest mother—great heavens! the) young scoundrel needs more money.— Tit-Bits. is a If “the State of Peansylvania hos sunk,” her coal has risen in proportion. Topics of the Day. you? I'd like to see the man who would dare do that to me! The Young Thing—You forget, dear, the days of foolhardy heroism are dead, Watkyns—Hicks has discharged that ones boy of his dollar's worth ‘of cigars the other es and the boy came back with two fifty centers,—Somerville Journal. % “Yea, I'm my own worst enemy.” “Well, I wouldn't let such a measly, insignificant foe bother me, if I were you." s Hobson asks for a bigger navy. Does the Kissing Hero think Such an armament would give him More Merrimacs to sink? rdiicke But T can't go away to-mon y rWieks— Talucky day, eh? Hicks—Yes. The day before payday— Somerville Journal. a With the coal strike settled, the tunnet nuisance Jaid aside for the winter, Dev- ery shelved and a non-pyrotechnie campaign, poor old Gotham's bump of excitement is in danger of becoming atrophied from ennui. If all the aeronauts of France Visit St. Louis town, il have to stretch a net to cate ‘Them as they straggle down. In the fatal William Tell act at Coff Spring Harbor the apple fared better than the man who wore It. But for the cold summer we have had an tce-cream man would hardly object to a mere trifle like $100,000 breash of promise damages. “When Mr. Funniman proposed to me he put his proposal in the form of a joke,” “Sort of court-Jester, eh?” F “The days are eorine: shorter,"* re marked Simple “They have my, ‘sympathy, remarked the Wise Guy; I have the best of Tow 80?" “I can't be-any shorter than I am Miss Passee—So he actually kissed | now."’—Cincinnat! Commercial ‘Tribune, AR 20TH CENTURY JULIET. Shakespeare’s Heroine Reincarnated in Little Florence Merritt, a TwelverYear-Old New York Schoolgirl, “You know you love a person when you can’t give him up. J tried—oh 80 often—to give up Allie, but it was no use. | love him too much."—Twelve-Year-Old Florence Smith. No.-105 Schermerhorn street, Brook- lyn, Florence Merritt, the twelyo- year-old “schoolgirl, whose sweetheart, Alfred Philip Walsh, lies immured in Raymond Street Jail on a charge of abducting oh e x, made this tragic statement to an Evening World, re- porter: Tt is a tradition of the stage that no woman has ever been able to express the flre and passion I the rooms of the Gerry Soclety, at fourteen - year - ol Juliet until she had yeached a ripe ma- turity of thirty years, FLORENCE MERRITT, Ever since “Romeo and Jullet" first made fs appearance on the stage persons have occasionally criticised the im- mortal dramatist for putting the ex- pressions and sentences of the most ardent passion in a heroine in years @ child, Whether twelve-year-old Florence Merritt could play Jullet is a problem Impossible to determme, but she looks and acts the part of a love-consumed maiden to the life. The little girl is tall for her years. And her figure, in its short one-piece frock of black and white muslin, is dis- tinctly promising. Indeed her hips might well be tne envy of a much older girl. Florence's eyes are gray and rather small. When she talked to the reporter there were dark circles under them, as though the child had been crying re- cently. Her features are small. Her nose dis- tinctly arched. She shows her teeth a great deal when she smiles, and they are not particularly good ones. “The teacher took your pictures away {rom me to-day," she wrote to the youthful sailor in whose keeping she has placed her young affections. ‘She saw me kiss it. When she took it she laughed, and I screamed and kicked her foot.” “Js It wrong to tell lies when you are in love and don't dare to tell because folks laugh or scold you for being too young? I wish I could tell some one. If 1 ever do I guess it will be gramma, I don't believe she was old when she was married, I love you every minute.” These are specimens of the love let- ters Florence wrote dally to her sailor boy. And, candid as they are in their expressions of affection, the child is even more outspoken in conversation about her boy lover, whom she met in a book-bindery where she was employed for a few weeks. “People think I don't know what love In," she sald, ‘They have the idea that lL only lke Allie better than other doy: ‘The little girl shook her head tragically as though she despaired of being fully derstood. “Why the first morning I saw him at the book-bindery where we DOWAGER DUCHBPSS OF ABERCORN-4s the “Grand Old Woman” of England's peerage. She is over ninety and nas of cloth hese are handy for 8 waists and coats and iy have too many, ‘This will keep all garments in good shape and when hung on the wire or pole they may be pushed to one side or the other \to reach the hooks behind. a son of sixty-four, RUSSELL, LORD CHARLES—had a phenomenal memory for faces, recognizing with ease after twenty years’ absence men he had seen but once in his fe. WILHELMINA, QUEEN—of Holland has one of ie: most artistic and valuable crowns in the world, were both employed I knew I joved him, He was so dark and had such beautiful curls parted in the middle. There aro lots of other boys in the book-bindery, but none like him, He was so kind and polite. I had to take my books to him when I got through with them. He always thanked me. ‘Then T put them down and when he came fn in the morm ing he would raise his hat to me. “Did he ever kiss you?" asked the reporter abruptly, Little Miss Merritt lowered the gray? eyes with the wealth of tragic weariness in them. “Yes, sighed, “We were walking through City Park) one night. I had not gone there with’ she said briefly. And then she Allle but with some girls I got to know ! on the street. He spoke to me there and told me T should keep out of the’ park, saw my father coming up the strect. “‘T must say good-night now,’ T sata, holding out my hand, “As we stood, Allle grabbed hold of me around the waist. Then he kissed fe." She lifted a frall, childish hand to her Iittle cheek. “It was right there,"* she said slowly, then added faintly un- der her breath, "I can feel it now.” And there was a strange narrowing of the childish lids of the small gray eyes as she spoke, “You must not do that,’ T sald, and he asked my pardon right off. “He sald men sometimes did those things just to see what sort a girl was. I forgave him and he promised not to do it again, Rut he Ald It every time he said good-night to me after that." For the first time the strange little girl smiled. “You are going to put all that in the paper, aren't you. I am not sure I will lke that. I like to sit here and talk to you about It, I have read what wi in the papers this morning about m From her stockings Florence drew several clippings from morning news- papers and a card which a report given her at the Court House, “Will you give me the one you have in your hand,” she asked, The reporter handed her the dlipping she had asked for. But Mr. Wilkin, the kindly Superintend- ent of the Soctety, who was in the room, turned quicke lye ‘She {s not al- lowed to have thcae things," he said. “Take themt Take them all!" ex- claimed the child, ALFRED PHILIP !4ying chem on the WALSH. reporter's knee ap though she accepted this deprivation as part of her martyre dom in the cause of love. “IT want to go away from here,” he added quickly. “Would you promise to give xp your sweetheart to get away?’ “No indeed! Haven't I told you that I can't give Alle up? Do you suppose I like all this tues. Do you think I don't know I will be pointed at always ag the girl that was he papers? If I could do any thing that would let me es- cape from ‘it all I But I love would, ante, I loved him always.” oes he love you?" “He says s0,"" Did never say the same thing to other girls “Oh, no. He never cared for any other girl but me, Why, lots of the girls in the book-bindery were crasy about him. They used to say ‘Oh, uae he a pretty boy’ vand ‘Oh what beautiful curls!’ Some of them would say it out loud so he could hear, But he never paid any attention io them. Allie b came a sailor because I wanted him to, ae always does everything I ask ‘When I get out of here he will marry me. The only thing that comforte me now 1s Hlaping A happy we: are going to be, wah Then he walked with me to my,.) door and we stood there talking till ¥-