The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1902, Page 12

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 6 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMco at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. MOLUME 438..........0000e0e0e ee NO. 18,088. ——— AN OLD NEW YORK NEWSBOY. Henry Lewis Gassert, the first New York newsboy to ery “Extra!” is dead at the age of seventy-five, leaving | & fortune made in tobacco. It 1s sixty years since Gassert came down to Park! Row from his east-side home to sell papers. That was when news was two days in reaching us by carrier from ‘Washington, and the dally journals had only just dis- carded their hand-presses for a new cylinder machine, about which the sceptics felt grave doubts. The first telegraph line, from Washington to Wilmington, Del., ‘was yet to be strung, and the mail train was an un- dreamed of possibility. The Hoe press was a quarter of @ century in the future and the Iinotype almost twice as remote. No tree had yet been felled for pulp to sup- ply a paper-mill. All the money then invested in New| York newspapers did not equal the amount The World | now pays yearly for telegraph tolls. Gassert’s momories must have been exceedingly in- teresting. He lived to hear his first cry of “Extra!” echoed by a hundred thousand youthful throats, He saw Dan Bryant selling papers where the Pulitzer Building now stands, and ho lived to read of old-time Rewsboys elected Congressmen, like Sullivan, or Goy- ernors, like Brady, of Alaska, and Burke, of North Da- kota, or Mayors, like McGuire, of Syracuse, and Gray, of Minneapolis. This First Newsboy maintained a personal interest in those who came after him, and it was in a Park Row bulletin-board crush that he received the {njuries that . ultimately caused his death. He saw the Newsboys’ Lodging-House erected, into whose bank Fred Fox, “the money king” of his class, put $1,000, all acquired from Selling papers near the Cortlandt street ferry. He had heard of Mose Jacobs, King of the Newsboys," a Des Moines lad who accumulated $62,000 In his trade, Per- haps he knew “Limpy” Jim, the one-legged lad who so long sold papers in City Hall Park. And it is certain that he knew some of the town’s newegirls and newswomen, the brave spirits who pluckily stick to their posts in storm and wind; some like Mary Welter, at the East Twenty-third street ferry, supporting a mother and a blind father; others like Ellen Corcoran, amassing from sales at the Bridge en- trance and before the Pulitzer Building a substantial fortune, even as fortunes go in New York, and repre- sented in part by an investment of $45,000 in tenement- hotses in 1900. Did he go to the funeral of Rosie Cor- coran, “Rosie the Newsgirl,"” one of the most remarka- ble funerals Cherry Hill ever saw? Did he know the Horn sisters, who long ‘had the stand at the northeast {JOKES OF THE DAY} “Thinking of getting married, eh? Why, you can't even support yourself, let alone a wife!’ “Well, I can pretty near do it, and she can help, of course.”” “The 8. P. C. A. ought to appoint a commission to stop the horses’ tails."" “1 n'pose Ite president would be Dock Commissioner?" Mr. Newliwed—1I tell you, dear, T simply can't afford to get you a new gown Mrs, Newllwed (sobbing)—I__ think you're just hateful, and you're the man who used to call me your “angel” and promise me every— Mr. Newllwet—But {t's your if I don't consider you an angel a more, An angel wouldn't worry abc clothes the way you do,—Philadelph! Press fault y “This in a lawless community.” “You bet. One-half of it breaks the law and the other half gets broke by the law when they try to recover dam- ages.” He likes all sorts of water Ice. ‘The only kind he hates, no doubt, Are the Bt. Swithin frappees that ‘The weather clerk's now handing out. “Does the French word ‘modiste’ mean ‘modest?’ " “Not so far as prices anyhow." re concerned, “What makes you ao sore on your em ployer? When he raised your pay #o that you could marry you eaid he was your best friend,’ “I did, eh? Weil, my worst enemy.” now I see he was “My boy Sammy," said the nelahbor. “worrles me almost to death with his somnambulism.” uu ought to take Jt away from sald Mrs. Lapasling. “Ho'll kill it some day.""—Chicago him, himself with ‘Tribune. Barkeep—What will you have for a chaser, sir? ynio—I guess I'll take it out of the e bottle as the drink Itself. It'd be hard to find any nearer approach to corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street? There was much in Gassert’s memories that would have made most interesting reading if put in a book. FASHION’S WHIMS. And to conclude, there is nothing, in my opinion, that Pashion either doth not or cannot; and with reason doth Pin- darus, as I have heard say, call her the Queen and Empress f all the world.—Montatgne. Dear Lord, bless us and help us to be stytish.—Little girl's prayer recorded by Marion E. Haines, Yesterday it was the girl in chiffon; to-day it is the “ribbon wirl” with streamers and bows of colored silk. ‘What her whim will be to-morrow no man knoweth nor ever could know. Perhaps somebody in Paris knows, perhaps a duchess or a favorite actress there. But for the present the knowledge is: velled from the public. ‘When Eugenie was Empress it was easier to prognosti- cate, What does not a year bring forth in changes in fem- imine styles? A glance back for a couple of generations, gay to the time when Victoria ascended the throne, re- vealé astonishing changes in woman's costume. It shows, for example, In hats, the big and beautiful Gainsvorough, the Joshua Rey- nolds with sweeping plumes; the “platter” of the early fifties; the hat with the vell dropped as a curtain be- fore and Its successor the hat with the curtain behind; the white hat of the (Horse Show. In sleeves, the leg of mutton; the “pillows tied at the shoul- der; the straight tight siceve; the sleeve with a kan- Baroo pouch at the wri Je okirts, the flimsy nrusiin of ihe early Victorian era, with white petticoats; the crinoline of the early fifties with| PRINCE FREDERICK LEOPOLD-ot| @ Germany has shown his eympathy with| © Yed petticoats, Eugenio's invention this, destined to 4 hold its own for the unexampled period of nearly fif- teen years; followed then by the other extreme, the water. ‘The bill collector is, no doubt, Most popular of men. Each place he calls (if folks aren't out) ‘They bid him “call again.” Tommy—Pop, gas ie measured by the foot, tan't itt” ‘Tommy's Pop—Yes, my son, and paid by the mile.—Philadelphia Record. i } SOMEBODIES, ANDREWS, CHANCELLOR B. B.—of the University of Nebraska, is one of the few men who ever refused a ralso of pay. His salary 49 $5,000. An offer} was made to ralso it to $6,000. He re- fused, saying the untversity needed to practise economy, BRADBURY, V. E.—Mayor of Gallipolis, ©., {m one of the youngest Mayors in the country. He ts only twenty-four. DE MONTESQUIEN, COMTE — the French litterateur, who !s about to visit New York, will bring over a dog wearing an {vory collar studded with turquolses, The Count looks Itke the pictures of D'Artagnan. KING OF SPAIN—has Just been made Colonel of a German infantry regi- ment. Whether or not this branch of the service was offered in deference to his tender years ts not known. the Boer cause by recently dresaing his servants in Boer uniforms and slouch hats. ey docking of| ¢ DOPDDO2OS: i eh i Pas THE WuskLDs TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 19Ux. YO DR OBA AN oy E UNDER. a ve ly $344644. Ae DOG.” sé T. The Poor Fellow as Artist Powers Sees Him. “In every legal contest between hushand and wife he is the under dog. If she have an estate and he none he is a pensioner on her bounty, and it's only ex gratia he may enter the back door of her mansion. The gray mare is the better horse.’’—Decision of Judge Voney, ot Kentucky. ‘ Cope tiee SERVES WM RGA MAN WAS THE UnOER po FROM THE BEGINING ¢ CTARRIED ! “O! SHADES OF BROOKLYY WHILE COURTING HE MS HER SLAVE IT SHovrd HAVE GIVEN HINN 10 NEARS AT HARD LA BoA! {plied the Man Higher Up. “If Kennedy and »}slon that you've got to pay money to see Man Higher |The SEE those poor bicycle riders are back in the six-day grind again,” from h! ment t remarked the cigar store man. would “Surest thing you know,” said the Man “The Higher Up. “You couldn’t keep them out with | in gett an Injunction. Go down there to the Garden and you'll find the same old bunch, suffering from everything, from housemafd’s knee to bunions on the eardrum, plugging around the track. They are suffering for Pat Powers and Jim Kennedy and their daily pay last year, and the year before, and they'll be there next year, making Fox's martyrs look like lotus caters. “I was at the Garden last night when the race started. The place was stuffed like a sausage. It all goes to show that New York will pay for anything it likes, and it likes to see men suffer,” “It’s a brutal thing,” said the cigar store man. “That depends on how you look at it,” re- where about t more b: end of ever wi Powers hadn't scorched the people with the impression that there was a hungry under- taker at the wire waiting for every rider's finish they wouldn't have anybody in the Garden but themselves and the men who keep the score. New Yorkers wouldn't pay more than five cents to see a conductor on a stroet car at work in the rush hours, but there's more brutality in that than there is in a six-day bicycle race, “Not that I'm saying that I'd want to go down there and ride a bicycle for six days at astretch. Neither would I want to shovel a few tons of coal every day into the boiler of 4 locomotive, or keep a sewing-machine going in a sweatshop. “It's a funny thing about this brutality chorus, a d showmen with designs on the bankrolls of New Yorkers know it, They know that if they can push out the impres- “It's Aman whethe: get an to shed somebody hurt himself you'll hock your shoes to be there. If I'd advertise that some de- » | spondent individual was going to jump from “Not the roof of the Flatiron Building into Fifth tarians with a view of divorcing himself Higher avenue, In THE DIVORCE COvRT HE GETS ITIN THE NECK EVERY 71ME o< Oe 0180090) x “pull back’ with Grecian bend and tight Hnes that re- vealed the form divine in all Its sindosittes, e Langtry | RERNHARDT, SARAH—Is, according to Tdea, & Rerlin newspaper, of German and not | An waists, the Garibaldi blouse, an adaptation of the patrict's| French nationality. ‘The actress is too red shirt end forerunner of the shirt waist of the pres-| ardent a French patriot, however, to ent; the Eugenie walst with sloping shoulders; the! poast of the fact bouftant effect of year before last: the shield shape of | cHiRIETIAN, KING—of Denmark, be ; : ina his dally work at 8 every morn- In stockings, the white of forty years ago; the solid-colored bie dente Wil tacts Ge mal lack and red wicceeding; the striped; the mono-| wont pe docked if he's late to the grammed; the openwork, responsible for ministerial! mune ie also refuses to allow a a denunciation and, In Newark, for the jilting of a bride! Valet to drean him at the altar. ©) Ya hair dressing, the giraffe offects of the thirties; the rin;:- lets of the forties; the chignon of the fifties; the) ANTS HAD USE FOR SHOES. A traveller in Rhodesta says that on tucked-in curls of Eugente's edict; the ‘‘rat;"' the bang, ‘i awakening one morning he was aaton- Fesvompedou ighed t the brick fi f his ai + ed to on the brick floor o And, in instancing these have we enumerated even a reoenertral a anhla heal one-tenth of the changes? & cone-shaped object, with two holes at the top, says the Commercial Trib- « o ® os: oOo _ WOMEN’S OCCUPATIONS. Some years » go Ellen Bower, a girl of eighteen, liv- ing at Wilburton, Pa., a mining town, was written up as the pioneer of women maill-carriers. The record of her / adventures included an encounter with highwaymen » and the rescue of her precious mall-bag from a carriage aecident on the edge of a precipice. It appears now, from a Washington despatch, that there are twenty- four. other women mail-carriers on rural routes, and the /Postmaster-General is reported as surprised that so “many women are engaged in this occupation. But in what line of work are they not to be found? 1840 there were hardly more than eight occupations n to women in the United States: ekeepin; Typesetting, 5 Working In cotton fac: ‘ork, torles, laundries, The etage. ins. there are hardly as many into which they have une. A closer examination showed him that the two holes had just the size and shape of the inside of his boots, which he had left on the Moor the night be- fore, ‘The cone was the work of white| % ants, the material being the leather of the boots, which they had actually chewed up, leaving nothing but the nails, the eyelets and a part of the heels. te WHEN IN DISGRACE, When in disgrace with fontune and men's eyes, 1 all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf Heaven with my dootless cries, And look upon myaslf, and curse my fate, Wishing me Ike to one more rich in hope, RBeatured (ike him, Uke him with fetend possessed, He HAS Na PROPERTY" RIGHT mn 999292990F90000000-00000-5000000000 60694300. 2 $ oe ( nis spntered. They are pilots, blacksmiths, bootblacks, |] Desiring this man's art, and that ~ as hh ths, roofers, watchmakers, SDA Ba sea pes Pow! ~ @ bea “. Des are With what I most enjoy contented ‘ahwens $ ma least; g 2 ] n bartenders, 2 auctioneers, Yet in these thoughts myself POCLAED EOEDIOSLD NID OLIHG: SLOSSOSOHODNHOS NOD HHHOPOHOD PLELOOODOODD oY Say ie ‘self almost tay H detectives, 1,000 college professors, geo, (ee DISTRUSTFUL FATHER, <.a HER LUCK, wear, and I just know that if Jonathan pa 4,500 actresses, Ae: Shel ‘Herbert has a lovely disposition,””| “After all,” sald Mrs, Gallelgh, ‘it | ad been awake he'd never get through * e 90 homes and clubs in 49 cities for thelr rake ee Chas tare at, break “oe . id Ethel, {sn't #0 bad to have a husband who] Quoting {t to me,""—Chicago Record- a ‘ rea day Yes," answered Ethel's father “Her-|sle@ps7 in church. Mine dreamed al! | Herald, with a regular patronage of 5,000, And alone they number a full quarter of a to read that their wages show a con- arlsing ‘om sullen earth, sings hymne at heaven's gate; Wor ‘thy sweet sve remembered | jDert’s disposition ts too lovely. 1 shouldn't like to trust your future to his hands. He ts the sort of person who . In England the average of D d with men’s is as 9 to 21. half, for bookkeepers, up to 90 such wealth brings ‘That then I scorn to change my state with kings, — Shakespeare. ra si eek ‘wil be imposed on without resenting If I have known him to go toa ball gato and not fant to fight the umpire when fave an unjust decision ‘memcpy Crommmenccccmnmnny | home team," —W throtgh the sermon last Sunday, and I can't help feeling glad every time 1 think about it,” . who ever !" her friend exclaimed. ou see, our miniater preached a hor- rid, impertinent sermon against women paying 90 muoh for the clothes they heard of ar such a ———_—_— NO DANGER “Say, Mandy, hadn't you better take in them towels you hey out thar hangin’ on th’ clo Une? Some tramp'll come along an’ steal them.” “Bhucks! Who ever heard o' a tramp @tealla’ towele?”—Baltimore News. | OVER 100,000 KILLED IN 1902. ‘The year 1902 is likely to go down in history as an “annus mirabilis,” by which term the years of special disaster have been known through the ages. When about finished, 1902 already has to its record an appalling loss of life No fewer than 100.00 human beings have fallen victims. Less than half of these deaths occurred at Martinique, through Peleo's frightful eruption, The remainder were oc- castoned by other catastrophes—the earthquakes In Guate- mala, the floods in China, and the mining disasters in the United States and Canada. Close students of history predict more terrible calamities to follow, basing their predictions chiefly on the common belief that ‘misfortunes never come singly,” says Landon Anawers. ‘ In another dreadful year, that of 1666, in England, there is no apparent reason why one disaster followed another. That was the year following the occurrence of the Black Plague, which had swept over London, completing its devastation by leaving 100,000 dead. Then came the great fire that ate out the central portion of London. Spain suffered from a great drought that dried up the springs and shrivellod the crops. At the game time the fertile fields of Germany and the Rhine} Valley were lald waste by Moods. Italy was shaken with earthquakes, The year 1765 wae made an “annus mirabilis by che Li bon earthquake. An area greater in ox‘ent than the whole continent of Europe was violently shaken, and the loss of life was estimated variously at from 109,00 to 150,000. Besides the cosmic phenomena for which the year was so noted, there wore atmospheric disturoances of unusual magnitu ta, storms, ) droughts, &c. A HEALTHFUL FAD. In many households in the suburbs of most large Amerl- can cities the woman of the house supplies her own table with the fruits of her poultry yard. In not a few cases a good profit ls made by selling the surplus product to neigh- bors. It is one of the healthtest fads or occupations that a [syomen can take up. The work entafled te full of a delight- full variety that should charm the true feminine heart. More- over, it 1s a very inéxpensive fad to start. A few dollars love every stranger and they hate to hear of him getting a handout that will cause him physical pain, “They keep the prize-fighting game popular because they think it is brutal. because a man bleeds at the nose when he is hit on the nose that a public outrage has deen committed. through their heads that a prize-fighter te son there is, endurance contest, tending bar, waiting in a restaurant or play~ ing poker. the Garden, look at the glassy lamps and the pasty maps of the riders and holler ‘brutality’ so loud that Powers and Kennedy have to Up. | HIS ATTENTION NOW GIVEN TO SIX-DAY BIKERS. / is life 2nd making a spot on the pave- © show where he lit, Madison Square / be a vacant lot the next morning, ablest assistants that showmen have ing out this brutality hunch are the simple-minded people who believe everything they see in the papers, They never go any- and they never see anything, but they They think They can't get st ‘he healthiest and hardest to hurt pes * They can't see that there is rutality in the rush at the Manhattam the bridge every night than there as in all the prize-fights ever fought under Marquis of Queensberry rales, so they, have stopped prize-fighting in New York. the same way with the six-day races, who has been josing eleep and work- ing hard for a few days is bound to get glassy in the lamps and pasty in the visage, r he has been riding a bicycle in an running @ locomotive, The humanitarian persons go ¢o extra police guard to keep people away from the box-office. I've known people -' .° enough tears to ball a ham in over the sufferings of the poor eix-day ridere— who suffer to the music of Signor Bayne’s band—and these same peaple work their sem . vants seventeen hours a day and fire them every twenty-third of December go they won’® ; mk have to give them Christmas presents.” 4 “Do you think they'll ever stop football? © asked the cigar store man. : as long as the sons of the humanf- want to play it,” responded the Man =| Up. ; HOME FUN FOR WINTER EVENINGS. UPSIDE DOWN. PICTURES IN THE EYE, Tt is a mystery, that we seo things might site w, when the pioture that ds formed to the eye, by which ‘we see them, és ap~ ing experiment cam be tried with a vine iting card and @ common pin, Take ’ the card and pune ture it with a pim Hold the card abdeut three inches away from your eye and with the other hand bring the pin be~ ‘tween card an@ * eye; the picture ef the: pin before the card will disappear, and will appear up~ side down through ‘the opening made in the can, as shown In the corner of our {llustration, Of course, we have to hold the card against the light of the window . ony against the Might of a lamp, / WORDS ON WOMEN. | | A plain woman takes pride in hes friends, a beautiful woman In her enew mies, says the Smart set. v A woman will often say no when ee © means yes, but never yes when she means no. ‘Tae normal woman {s capable of one love and fifty affairs. A woman's charity sometimes begine e@way from home. and then remaide — there. : A young girl is the nearest approacts to an angel that we have—acd the most oxasperating. It has never vet been decided whether @ woman !s happler when happy ee when miserable, When @ woman ts thoroughly tired she finds nothing so refreshing aa @ nice long talk. \ —$—— PRAYER NEVER CEASES. There is one spot in the United States ‘where the voice of prayer is never still, says the Methodist Magazine, For mere (, ‘than twenty months the “turret of prayer” that surrounds the Temple og Truth near Lisvon Falls, Me., has never { for an instant beew-without the sound of a human voice Jn supplication, It is the Intention of the people who attend to, this remarkable form of worship that .. prayer jn the turret shall never cease (so long as the bullding shall stand, Those who take part In the servise come |pose the Holy Ghost and Us Society ‘Phe society afMfiitates with no denomie nation and tries to conform strictly to. Ithe teachings of the Bible. farting without a penny, It has in @ few years ” spent on erecting & coop and a wire fence in which to keep achieved such success that it has built the fowls Is all the equipment needed. Then with a few hens four buildings, the Temple of Truth and a rooster and a sotting of eggs the poultry yard 18 among them, which form a rectangle ready to start work, ~~ “7 \pable of seating 20,000 people. +5