The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1902, Page 8

d by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to © | “Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Om at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. NO. 15,063, | i THE HORSE SHOW. A November with no Horse Show, once the dire ey of the pessimist, would be a drear month for community. Happily the dread contingency is ed and this season sees the annual event in Madi-| Square Garden an established institution with the) Dromise of permanency. prices recalling the flush times of its early prime and ‘with a continued high average of entries it will cer- ‘The preliminary activity among tailors, modistes and | milliners indicates in part how great a blow the loss of _ the Horse Show would be to retail trade. How many hats and frock coats and elaborate gowns would be left) _ €nordered, how many hotel rooms unfilled, lobsters un- ‘Bo Horse Show! How many walters minus tips and ‘®eamstreases minus the midnight stitching that pays the 9 By ‘frooms left without a job if this annual distributer of | the needful were to be done away with! Appreciated. It may turn the balance from failuro tu| ‘Success for a struggling florist in a Jersey village or buy | s ling clothes for a stable boy's baby on Long Island. ~ Et is a beneficent institution as these things show. But _ ita greatest claim on our attention is that it gives us a mear view of High Society, that select part of the body “Politic to which we look for good form and good clothes, which we aspire to emulate and imitate and which we have so few opporturities for studying at close range. Of all its reasons for existence this must be accounted the first and greatest. So taking one consideration with another let us, in “Mr. Whitney's words, “pay our devotions to the noble @nimal that has done so much for all of us,” % RAILROAD WAGES RAISED. ‘The increase of the wages of railroad employees bids fair to become general all along the line. The New York, | New Haven and Hartford, anticipating the Pennsylvania m ® small scale, began nearly two years ago, in the ‘words of its president, “to make such increases in the Pay of employees from time to time as to keep pace with the increased cost of living.” The “Big Four” hag been advancing wages for some time past by an average of 10 Percent. The New York Central and West Shore have ike advance to 15,000 trainmon. The Reading 4m the pay of ail the road's 18,000 employees. The Union ) Pacific has recently raisod the wages of switchmen. The Grand Trunk has met its engineers’ demand, And with- _ in the next few weeks a general advance of 10 per cent. 4g likely in the wages of all trainmen in the territory be- tween Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburg and the Ohio River. 87% cents a day for engineers, 21 for firemen and 81 for eonductors, a substantial addition which in many cases will mean comfort where there was the pinch of pressing » (@oonomy. . THE POOR'S COAL SUPPLY, _ Two of the cleverest lawyers in Pennsylvania, Wayne ‘MacVeagh and David Willcox, put Prestdent Mitchel on | ie Se him with questions, ie} _ “Do you know,” asked Mr. Willcox, “that a 20 per | Gent. increase of miners’ wages would amount to $12,000,~ 000 increase in the yearly cost of production?” “Yes, Snswered the witness, “about 12 or 18 cents a to: And Mr. MacVeagh, taking him in hand, sald: “If the _ will increase the price of coal, and thus you will be breaking the backs of the very Poor, who can hanlly ) buy coal now.” “Why not pay this increase out of your » exorbitant freight rates?” answered the witness, * The operators’ solicitude for the very poor is such L) $7.60 2 ton for coal that costs less than $3.50 at the |mines. The $4 difference represents a good many addi- ons of ‘12 or 13 cents.” And there has as yet been no Anerease of wages over last year's scale to justify any Aigher price than the $6 or $6.25 charged then, SCIENTIFIC FIRE-FIGHTING, Fire Chief Croker's test of the standpipes In the new “Flatiron” building yesterday was an Interesting and “Amportant demonstration of how a skyscraper may be “equipped to extinguish fire within or repel its invasion “from without. At one time two engines attached to the ‘pipes were propelling uine powerful streams from the “windows of the nine upper floors, the highest more than three hundred feet above the street, | Such an equipment would have saved the tower of East River bridge. It would have enabled the tall | Life building, at Warren strect, to defend ttsel! | » Sgainst the raging blaze in the Rogers-Peet store, at its b base, and also to help extinguish that fire, Standpipes | of simtlar design were added to the fire-fighting appa- | - ratus of the Pulitzer Building some years ago, : WIDE OPEN AGAI _ It appears from this morning's World that the gam- industry in the Tenderloin, lately crushed by Mr. es myrmidons beyond expectation of revival, is m doing business at the old stand. It is the way of game there. You may smash the barred door in And the tables up, But the game goes on unhindered @ same. Or, in the words of the other poct. You you may shatter, the door if you will, But ik of the ivory’s audible still. of the city’s best known gambling-hous-s in o-| Tenderloin precinct were raided a month ago, Hy paraphernalia, roulette wheels, faro layouts, confiscated and removed. It was the mi Performance of the kind {n municipal h story, je-hammer and battering-ram accesso:{-s add rg dramatic feature to the rald And now with der of things. restored, {f some inquisitive | ‘what good came of it, we can itemize these | of business among manufacturers ot | faro layouts, baize tables, chips, cards, | to supply an unexpected demand; the work | in repairing smashed doors and for glaz- broken glass; the orders for structural by other gambling-house Proprietors ity their resorts more securely. Add to n Advantage of the practice given Mr, 1 and in and the smashing may ve the noise, The effect of tho With its boxes sold at) ‘ _ @aten, wines undrunk, carriages uncalled for if we had \¢ rent, how many milliners’ apprentices laid off and | The Horse Show stimulates trade in ways not always | qwill probably announce this week a 10 per cent. increase 3 An increase of 10 per cent. will mean an average of | % Tack before the Coal Strike Commission Saturday anq | miners are granted a 20 per cent. increase the companies | { that dealers in New York are now permitted to chargo | it t| DOOOSOOGOOO 90000 rs OE MVSICAL ) a — Nn CUT HIM. Fred—She refused to listen to my but I stood around In hopes that som: thing would turn up. Tom—Dtd any thing turn up? Fred—Yes, her nose. DOOoe TIME WHEN H/s TRovGLE BEGINS JS Cong AN NOTHING £omin in THE WORLD: MONDAY EVE OT ey arora NG, NOVEMBER 17, 1902. PAT AM pe DE SILVER our THE Rarely beautiful, say the neighbors, was the free concert given them by the burglars who burgled the Stark residence at No. 2112 Valentine ayenue, in the Bronx, one evening last week. With plano and cornet the burglars charmed 3. everybody on the block, letting their souls melt into the melodies, as it were, and causing a nelghborly pang or two of jealousy, because the piano sounded so Paderewsk!-played and the cornet tones gave the impression that the only Levy was blowing his silver bugle for the Starks’ guests. Those Bronx cracksmen have WOMAN'S WISDOM, So y : < “oO HE MAKES AG°°D AFTER FRIENDLY COMMENT. Green—I understand your friend Jaggs- by frequently looks upon the wine when e Tomdix—They say that rich young widow is going to marry her coal dealer, What do you think of that? As sacred Hojax—Sensldle woman. to keep her money In t She proposes family, Brown—Well, - 7 ’ DPLODEOUEDOCDDDEDDDDEDDYAPDODOGDUG DDH GODG-DFF- GOO O4-D0 1 DDDDODDIGI-446000O05905O0O696-6006050502000G60-000908 Up-to-Date Burglary Has Social Grimmings. Its New Frills Pictured by Artist Powers, (Sta Ce \\ sgoweo DOWN s Xe ——-, es “Give US > Spray RUBENSTEINS 5) { THE RUSTYS — e ms InTERMEZ— MELOOY IN F, Mt Give us - SOME RAG set a warm social pace and a high artistic standard for their brethern of the jimmy to follow. No burglary entirely worthy of the name should be pulled off in the future without a pink-tea obligato or a ping-pong klatsch, or some divert- ing thing of that sort, on the side, Mr, Powers here makes a few timely pic- torial suggestions to gentlemen who wish to keep on elevating the burglar art, any one or all of which would help to popularize their now askance business. to tell the truth, his habits are a IKtle moist. BD2S2FDPSDODHIS99OOOO9SH HE DONE DE JoB Goon! AN WIO THESE flew REMARKS J DRINKS OF HEALTA oF AQICRY OE LEOGE H3DHF-9-39-999H999-590G9S-9 OS-D:9- 9-5 +POP0DO® MORE GOOD NEWS. Mr, Eazee—Why, only yesterday I gave you a quarter on this very pot. Grafting Gus—Yessir, an' I so much admired de graceful way you handed It ter me dat I've deolded tu become a regular customer o' yours, sir, PLOOOPIGH HVE GOVSOOPHGHOSOHOGOHOOHOSOHHGOD SODOOODOE OOS en | Mme. Judice Helps Home Dressmakers. | | 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. Dear Mme, Judiee HAVE nearly ten yards of fine pale | cream lace, with both ved and I want to use it as an event dress, Taleo have a pale blue silk dres: pink flowers and gree all over it 1 would like to as well, but fear there will not be enough unless I combine it with thing else. Could T use the ailk and lace together with some other kind of materia} to help out? If 90, what wt! {to use and what color? wat al swell gown and not a comgiwr le, 1 am twenty-six years old, tall nd slim, but my neck ts nut bony and Iocan wear ¢ and almost ans lght color Is becoming to Please sive me some new Suggestion with « drawn design, If I can use my old sili 1 can afford expensive new material MAwiE B, SMITH Your cream Jace and old silk will do splendidly for this design combined with blue chiffon of same shade as the body of the silk, and green velvet of the predominating shade of the leaf or spray. Be careful to select It in a soft tone that will blend nicely with all your colors, When the gown 1s com- pleted It has a sort of princess look, as the lace in the skirt and waist meet at the waist line back and front and seem to be all in one plece from shoulder to of theakirt. The joining is cleverly concealed by narrowing In the lace at the walst by two fancy | back and one in front—and the edge of the walat finished by a narrow velvet belt or band. A vest front of the chif- |fon with the shirrings to the top—like ketch of back—between several tucks, buckles—one Is narrowed In plaits to the waist, con- tinuing in the skirt In a sunburst ac- tucks at the hem. vet where it Joini the silk, lay cordion-plaited panel with three deep Bordering the val- your cream lace, tapering In with velvet and Beyond th the chiffon side, allow your velvet to br ween in a graduated fold widening oon- ulderably lace, on ting your allk you must consid ler a pattern that will use it to good advan- tage, and avoid piecing as muc'! Possible. But a plain blouse and Kind of skirt will make up this hoe any way admirably from a five gore to the old style but reliable circular. SILK AND LACE. Dear Mme, Judice l an amateur dressmaker black flounced lace fc ike it made over cream white tlie): nette, twenty-flve years old. of butter. ut rafiles red lace, very dainty. If you think whit under the black why not |the light tints, It is extremely ‘and gives an artist much but a knife plaiting of bi the scalloped edge of your lace will make a pretty finish about th THE CLOSE-FITTING SKIRT, the plaited models brought out. and your suggestions in 1. I have enough | ishtseers, but few guessed that this person was the gentle- a sult, and would Man looking from the window opposite the church as they china | Came out. How n the bottom of the skirt fancy 4 Uke It stylish and siill sensible enough to wear for a lo Brooklyn, N. ¥, use novel skirt foot. it is the close-fitting skirt with the voluminous flare around the feet which MOODY, SHCRETARY—1s on a tour of inspection to deter- 1s stil! prime favorite in spite of all The 1 am medium height and a bru-| Do you Drummonds In centurles onward from the Conquest, this early hink It will make up stylish with the white ning and not look too old for| confiscated by Hanoverian kings, who resented the adherence me? To trim it I have five rose epmys | of the Pert! family to the Stuarts, they using them? [ want this dress ‘his ancestral seat {n Scot!and—Berridale Farm. The Earls or evening wear, but being the only of Caithness in olden days used to lve at Berridale, tn Caith. | ink tf they, I can afford to get would ness, but this estate now has passed into the capacious store sions. D. V. 8. j finds himself without a single acre of land In Scotland, too old for you} , | chameleon, or changeable taffeta silk, in, ‘glint to the black CZAR OF RUSSIA—1s about to visit Constantinople, As his lace. Your rose sprays of butter-colored lace wiil be very pretty laid on a yoke! of pure white tucked chiffon In a set| design, Plain ruffies are not worn as GARDNER, LOUIS—a Milwaukee athlete, who stopped a as the circular flounced effect, | k net under PEERS WITHOUT ESTATES. The death of the recent Earl of Perth at an untmposing | house by the side of Kew Green recalls that there are to-day noble earls and other lights of the British peerage who can- not lay clalm to any rent-roll or ownership of wide acres. Here he had lived for many years, humble and unknown to the man tn the street. How many of the thousands who trooped past his house into Kew Gardens every holiday ever thought for a minute that the solitary, elderly man stand- ing watching them at that little gate was no other than the famous representative of that great race of Scotch earls who had stuck manfully and dravely to the cause of the Stuarts and lost their all in land and money by 80 doing? In the church close by there was a name-plate on a pew marked “Earl of Perth," which often attracted the attention of Wide lands and noble ostates had been the herltage of the “recently dead—never held any of them. They had all been The Earl of Caithness now lives in the far West, where he has built himself a wood house, which he has named after of the Duke of Portland, and the present Earl of Catthness { SOMEBODIES. 2 country was actively engaged in Turkey-carving a f years ago he may have cause to doubt the warmth of his welcome, runaway team belonging to J. P. Morgan, has just und gone a surgical operation tn London at Mr. Morgan's ex- pense. HEDENGER, J, B.—a seaman on the Indiana, is the first recipient of the Santiago Campaign Medal iasued by the Navy Department. however, what had been a horror bi EVENING= KH Few Remarks. Mostly on the When Roosevelt hunts bears, there's trouble bruin’. Gates might do well to take a three months’ primer course of ‘Wall Street Lessons" from Professor Harriman. Murlel—That Joke ts about fifty years old, Ethel—Really? Is {t one of yours? Mr, Mitchell says that minera Are more prone to accident Than are folks whose ocoupation Fojlows any other bent. From which remark {t's evident that very worthy man Knows little of the life of the New York peaestrian, Here's hoping the London Arctic Club in {ts proposed “Dash the Pole” won't be “left at the Post “I wonder what day of the week is lucky for marriage?" “Well, there are only seven unlucky ones. The rest are safe enough.” The poor fellow's color blind." “Yeo; he actually thinks he has blue blood.” It fs sald to have cost corruptionists the offer of a $10,000 bribe to learn that & college-bred boy has no “price.” ‘Chief Croker says the parlor match must And now, henceforth, the prince of fire-ehakers Wil share with chronic bachelors the scorn Of all the mighty arm of match mak- ers. Prof. Loeb says he can temporarily restore dead cats to life. If he wants to be @ real beneflactor let him roverse the process on New York's back-fence serenaders. There’ parate Hall of Fame awaiting the genius who can ac- complish that. She was the village scold, Of language fierce and rude. The ne'er-do-weel who wed her ‘Has quickly become SHREWED. “What sort of pr take for breakfast?” “I prefer a small dose of prepared rye Just before breakfast." red wheat do you President Butler, of Columbia, fears Topics of the Day. colleges may become clubs for righ men's sons. A few of his own collegians clubbed to some effect during the cam- palgn, “Why do they call the policeman’s patrol district his ‘beat?’ "* “If you saw the amount of free pea- nuts, frult and drink he annexes as he goes along you wouldn't need to ask.” A quarter-million women are married yearly in London, Yet lawyers peraist in belleving America the mecca of the, divorce case. “Formerly meats were cured by be- ing salted down, but people have since discovered that everything is best cured by smoking.” “Including the tobacco habit?’ There was a young ¢ellow In Utah, Who proposed as a rich woman's suteh, When she said ‘You won't sult,”* With rage he was muit. In fact no deaf mute could be mutah. There are a few new west side “L"* trains whose lights are so strong as to enable the sardine-formation of pas- sengers to see clear across the oar on the darkest night, While reforms Ike this are being lavished on the public every few decades, who can be s0 cap- tious as to kick at merely having te stand up from Battery Place to One Hundred and Fifty-ftth street. No wonder the “Musical Burglar” parts with his booty for a song! “That speculator friend of yours has no m honesty than a ‘second-story mai “Oh, yes, he has. In every deal he always gets in on the ground floor.” They sald he was a rising man, But learned with sad surprise That since he left the water-cart He's bartered “ri for “ryes,"* The man who hunts sparrows with am airgun from the roof of his New York flat may not be as noble a spectacle as the-huntsman who ranges the Adiron- dack woods for deer; but he stands @ long sight better chance of not being Killed by mistake for his quarry by some other sportsman, Doctors’ bills have long afforded ba- mantty with amusement, but the recent case of “‘marked" doctor's bills is no” Joke—for the markee, A ROMANCE OF THE DAY’S NEWS EORGE CLARK had not:a talent for matrimony, but he did not find out the deficiency until it was too late. In fact, he had been married sev- eral years before the conviction of his shortcomings {n that direction came to him. And then it was forced upon him by his wife. Mrs. Clark, before her marriage, was one of the most beautiful young girls in Boston soclety and the romance of their short courtship had been the love idy! of the year, It was one of those delightfully un- fventful love affairs HMpunctuated by pleasant little epi- }podes like well or- Hit came to the full stop of marriage. | Most modern ro- Hmances end with an the form of an elopement or other tartling happening. in rare in- with oa question mark. But the Clark episode was so elmple and beautiful that it might have occurred a century ago. Mrs. Clark was a broad-minded wo- man and for a girl married at an ex- ceedingly early age showed unusual tol- MRS. GEORGE CLARK her husband revealed in the fret year of thelr marriage. She never learned to be Indiff however, to the many evenings away from home, Nor did she learn not to lsten for his step in the small agined {t was unsteady, ren were born to her, she realized that she was further from the radiant hap- piness she had anticipated than when, in her girlish day dreams, she had known the shadow Instead of the sub- stance, and she could not help looking in the faces of the young married women of her acquaintance and wonder- too, had known similar dis- intment. “Imnere came a time, however, when she could no longer shut her eyes to her husband's failings, when, indeed, she reproached herself with the Idea that {t was perhaps owing to her hav- ing shut them out so pevaistently that there was now 60 much to The horror of the first time he had spoken to her with thickened utterance, had met her frankly Inquiring eyes with a strange, filmy gaze that did not know, she never forgot, After a whil came a matter of course. For it was orly at increasingly rare intervals thet she met the alert, Intellectual face which had won her girlirh heart, Yet when, after having thought the subject cver carefully and tearfully, and mine whether or not Charleston harbor is sufficiently guarded to resist attack. after haying urged and pleaded with her husband in vain, she told him that for the sake of her little children she could tendency has been toward more fulness | NAORJI, DADABHAI—is not the name of a pre-digested|not remain bis wife the man was about the hips, pubis women will not ion is thout a 80 the test. Frese denlgnce bare every dis health food, but of the fret Hast Indian to enter the English House of Commons. He was also the frat Hindoo professor of mathematics in an Bast Indian college. stunned. ‘Helen Clarke bro: ught sult for as her reason LOVE-CURE BEAT GOLD-CURE. The Wife Forgave and Made Up With Estranged band Who Was Struggling to Redeem Himself. | erance for the masculine failing which; hours and wonder if she merely tm: | ‘As the years passed and several obild-! ituse trial the court granted her request an gave her the custody of her children, She had expected to find tn her release from her long and painful bondage peace, though not happiness. But she was a deeply religious woman, and often when she told herself that she was perfectly at ease and that the edu- ~ cation of her children should now alone fill her mind, her thoughts would revert to the man she had once loved and ahe would sigh softly to herself at some recollection of thelr youth, Clark in the mean time was stunned by the sudden wreck of this life's hap- piness, He was at bottom, however, « strong man and he di not waste time blaming his wife. In fact he realized ¢ that she could not have acted other wise. There was but one thing to be thought of. He must win back the love he had lost. The theory of reformation was easy. but there followed long weeks of strug- gle, of humillating failure, before he achteved a fairly temperate ilfe. ‘There are will muscles as well as phy- sical ones that grow weakened by long * disuse, and often the man found himself + in his old haunts, surrounded by @ crowd of careless, happy-go-lucky friends trying to kill the thought of his weakness by the freest indulgence of it and cursing his folly as he did so. But no matter how freely he sought , the oblivion that came with drink, the sense of his lop. was & part of the most wpathetic eta- por, And when he found out that be no did not drink. Mre, Clark heard - of the reform. And she did not tell her- elt that tt wes not permanent, for she remembered tha@ GROROB CLARK. hor husband hed never even promfsed amendment im the days of their married life. One evening as she eat im the draw ing-t20m of her new home she heant . the sharp jangline of the old-fashioned. , doorbell, and though Jt hed sounded many times vhat day, she thrilled with the etase of some impending joy. The next moment her husband stood , he said, “you must know— you have heard—that I am not the same ‘™man you put away from you! Give me’ one chance to prove how auch I love vou H The woman's pulses quickened at the strange, new tone. She could not tell how much of the thrill was love, how much @ mere trick of memory. But when his hand closed over hers and the old sense of happy weakness, ~ which she had not unown since the. days of thelr early married life, came. to her she knew. Nand she was’ happy He Ra ie meno man us, after le, a ‘a yen which years of woaltneas tea Tt ren aod last week B ‘ For a whole year a ,