The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 8

han. ow by the Press Pubiishing Company, No. 03 to 9 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce | at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. OLUME 43. NO. 18,096 SIX MINUTES TO JERSEY. Tt appears likely that before our hopes of “fifteen putes to Harlem” are realized we shall be offered the native of ‘six minutes to New Jersey.” That ts the promise held out by the managers of the trolley tunnel | under the North River. |. There have been worse alternatives for wage-earners, Easy access to New Jersey will make possible an ex- change of the cramped conditions of flat-house tenancy for the elbow room and tho individuality of existence that render life worth living. Only In the country can of small means find comfortable quarters repre- Ing an adequate return for the rent paid. It Is a » trite saying, but in a city that put up only ninety-nine | private residences last year it is a saying deserving the emphasis of repetition here. The accession to New Jersey of residents of moderate means during the past ten years has been a development of remarkable proportions. The rapid-transit tunnel facilities that will enable humble dwellers to follow in their wake cannot be overestimated as regards their pearing on the robuster health and the social improve- ment of those who make use of the opportunity afforded | tO get rid of tenement life. YOUNG MEN'S ACHIEVEMENTS. Hope ore at te “Success that comes when a young man fs still {n/in the United States, every twenty-four hours, but f you mean tn South Amert-| 4 ca, they have ‘em oftener."\4Philadel-| { phia Record, }JOKES OF THE DAY} |: “He says he dreads the abolition of the ‘tipping’ system." “Is he a walter or only a gambler?” “They say Dreadnaught, Hon tamer, has rheumatism." i His flat wasn't properly warm- ed and he couldn't get up courage to tackle the janitor for more heat. the great “You asked her father for her hand?” “And he refused you?’ “No, he didn’t, THe sald T could have both of ‘em. veland Plain Dealer Ch “Is there much difference between an ordinary sporting man and a race-track tout? Dh, yes. The one only plays the} % races, whlle the other works them.” at “The man who plays the villa! your theatre is getting terribly fat “Dhat'a so. He's getting too heavy for a ‘heavy’ man,” “How often does the earth have a} « revolution?’ asked the teacher. ‘What a the twenties or thirties is due more to luck than ca- : 4” gays OC. T. Yerkes, a man competent to give an opinion on success. Yet here we have the Penn- ’s mew general manager, a man of thirty-six, love unanuear® an example in refutation of this sweeping assertion.| «7 was only married on Tuosday. him among railroad men who have worked up| don't know, what the others are.” the ranks may be cited W. H. Baldwin, jr., Prest- of the Long Island Railroad at thirty-seven and Manager of the Southern Railway at thirty- » and Howard Elliott, General Manager of the Bur- ‘a Missouri lines at thirty-eight—each, like Atter- ‘college graduate. “My poor man, here 1s a nickel. Now Bxceptions to rules are sufficiently easy to find, but|don’t speng it on beer or cheap whis- there is abundant evidence in all professions of well-| ey.” success attained by young men of ability under » In contemporary New York life there is George W. Young, at thirty the youngest president of a New uealy (oral herman I suppose you 4 ‘k trust company; Clyde Fitch, now thirty-seven and Anite St; Unole, sores % haven't \ jeelebrated as a playwright ten years ago; Cornel!us| got ao tar as that, but 1 keep an ex- ' }Venderbilt, twenty-nine, now on a sick-bed, possibly a|pense account—Boston Transcript. @eathbed, ranking well as an inventor at twenty-six;| , ‘and Clarence Mackay, twenty-seven, bearing the burden sn SEInE, Beate to "enap: of a very heavy fortune. J. P. Morgan's son,.now| “A ‘soft snap,’ eh?” _ thirty-five, has for several yéars been the responsible “head of the London branch of his father’s great bank- ing business, 7 Success comes often to the man of action when ho |, “is young. Napoleon was famous at thirty, Alexander Wead at thirty-three. Pitt was Premier and the first], .-.......-,, seltizen of England at twenty-five. John Randolph was i SOMEBODIES, i » Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the CRAIG, W. A.—custodian of Washing- House at twenty-nine. J. C. Breckinridge was nomi- ton Monument, reporte thet 2,200,829 = uated for Vice-President at thirty-two. McClellan was| people have thus far visited the top _ ‘amous in his thirties. Cecil Rhodes was Premier of} of the monument. ) Bape Colony at thirty-seven. Marcon! is twenty-seven. | DHCATUR, BTEPHDN, JR.—erandson B Mascagni had written the “Cavalleria Rusticana” at} ¢f Commodore Decatur, has ju passed twenty- emy. It is, indeed, idle to attempt to gauge capacity in men| s5uNm, 6IR FRANCIS—ie London's _ by xeneral rules. Great men are what Darwin called| rapid-fire divorce Judge. He 1s oon- “spontaneous variations.” There is no satisfactory} ‘iderably over six feet tall, and the only prominent English Judge who : ot recognizing their approach or prophesying| ‘years’ beard, Ho often gets through where they will appear. twenty divorce cases in a single dey. THE CHAMPION SPELLER. ted acerrant are dat drs The death of Mrs. Hannah Bloomingdale, the cham-| debut as a einger more than forty speller of New Jersey, has occurred at the untimely| ears ago. of forty-two. Mra. Bloomingdale's greatest triumphs Loe i ase tan pes Ler! orthography were achieved in the spelling contests} reached his firat sermon at the age of ‘between Bridgeton and Millville. It is related that in ‘beam “What are the unlucky days on- which 1 When a rising young man from Ky. Was called by his friends “monstrous ly, Gald his pa: “Tt ain't so! For I'd have you to know He's only plain tarnation ply." ‘Not I, ma'am! I'll go fer.a magnum of champagne to drink yer health in.” in my it "Way down in Venesuela They cali for intervention, And Uncle 6am provides them ‘With a Bowen of contention. OH, FOR ATURDAY | FCEMBER 0, 1909. THE GOOD Artist Powers’s Remedy for Overcrowded Cars. Local traction managers don't seem to be able to handle the New Ysrk holiday crowds. of good healthy rapldtocdleums to their rolling stock they will reduce the Jam on their cars and add to the health and happiness of their patrons, Santcs Dumont or Eddy the Kiteman would be a good man to superintend the rupidtoodleum branch of the service, APID LD R 224-9908 TOODLEUM! oe BOSE YD THE MAN HIGHER OP. A DISCOURSE ON CROWDED CARS. If they will take Mr. Powers's hint and add a flock 3 : “ay see the people are kicking about crowded oars,” observed the Cigar Store Man, “You must have second sight,” sald the Man Higher Up. “The people in this town don’t kick out loud except when they are kicking to each other. This holler you hear about the wooden sardine cans on wheels they run on the ‘L’ and the trolley lines is a newspaper holler, If the people back up the newspapers there will be something doing, but the only way you can get New Yorkers to do anything for themselves in the way of oe getting what they pay for is by hypnotic suggestion. “There 1s something about the atmosphere of New York that makes the public a bunch of latter-day Joba. Take a man who comes to this town from the West o1 the South, and for the first couple of months he is going around with court-plaster on his face and nice biug awnings over his eyes from fights with street-car com ductors, ‘L’ guards and other public servants, After he gets his visage changed two or three times, loses hall his teeth and has his chest used for a ballroom floor hé ‘becomes a real New Yorker and thinks it is a joke tq be uncomfortable—unless he happens to get a protesting package aboard and forget his training. U ‘ “A friend of mine came here a few years ago from Carson City, Nev., where the people never saw a streef car. You could put a street car in a store there and charge admission. This man was a large person with” a voice like a ticket speculator and a temper that hung by a thread. al “On his first day here he put a few mountains on the map of a Third Avenue ‘L’ guard who had punched him in the ribs to make him move up, whereupon all th¢ other passengers turned in and helped the guard maké him look lke a silhouette. He spent all his time in the hospital wondering at the ingratitude of the other pas» j sengers, and when he came out he made up his mind he would get even. “His next experience was on a Broadway car, where he heard a conductor hand a few lines of Bowery com versation out to a woman who had kicked against the conductor grabbing hold of her arm. My friend from Carson put the conductor's chin under his right ean made a trap-door of his forehead and then threw him bodily from the car. Four passengers held him until the motorman got a policeman and had him pinched When he asked the woman who had been insulted ta go to the station-house and give testimony tending ts show provocation for his gallant assault she told him he was no gentleman. “He told his story in the police court the next morm ing and the Magistrate banted his bankroll $10 worth That took him out of the primary grade. In six montht he was taking a post-graduate course in ‘How to Bu Stepped On and Like It,’ and now he’s one of the suckert that sings ‘In the Good Old Summer Time’ while freez ing to death on a stalled ‘L’ train. “His experience is the experience of all the people who come to New York from the outside. At first they feel like a prize-fighter after he’s won his first fight After they get it passed up to them for a while’ they feel like a prize-fighter that has lost his tenth fight iu succession, When they get to that stage there’s mt more kick left in them than there is in an oyster, “It’s the same way in restaurants, in theat: ; | where people go in this town. The best they get is the & worst of it, and they shake the hand that knocks them_ down. I'm willing to bet that the street cars will be just as crowded a year from now as they are to-day.” “What do you think is the remedy?” asked the Clgas Store Man. POTOHODOOOGI-0OOHEFHEGOHOOOH9Gi ° HAS SS = x WA PPPDPEG9990029909-999-0999HH:59O 98 099099H90900H © ‘ ‘ FSD 3999090099408 O99 eighteen, standing on the cross. ‘the first match she won the cup for Bridgeton by spell-| of a saw pit. bol down all the Millville contestants and then captured men in making improvements on his Great Neck, L. I., estate. He ordered that a barrel of beer be daily put at thelr disposal. A petition ts in clreu- jation in the neighborhood to induce Vanderbilt to cease giving the men beer, VANDERBILT, W. K.—employs 100 prise by outspelling all her Bridgeton com- Spellingds more of g marculine accomplishment than }, but Just as the really great cooks are men 60 famous epellers are women. Dr. Dggleston recog- nized this fact. You recall how in “The Hoosier School- master” “the Meanses girl Hannah" spelled down the a wohoolmaster? The master had floored the local champion on “theodolite” and then came his tussle with _Banneh. ‘ The squire was pursied. He bad given out all the hard | gj rords)in the book. He again pulled the top of his head for- # qwemd. Then he wiped his spectacies and put them on. Then the depth of his pooket he fished up a Ust of words Into use in those daye—words not in the spelling ——__ THE USES OF AMMONIA, Ammonia ts of such great value in household matters that no housekeeper should fail to keep a supply always at hand. For tnstance, a few drops put into the bath water will make {t most invigorating. Its uses in cleaning and removing grease are manifold. When & freshly-ofled sewing machine has left yellow atains on the fabric sewn, these can be removed by rubbing them over with @ little Liquid ammonia, and then washing in the ordinary way. Again, a teaspoonful of ammonia in a cupful of water will clean gold or silver Jewelry, and a few drops on the underside of a @amond will clean {t immediately and increase its brilllancy, When acld has been spilled on cloth, and has taken out the color, ammonia should be applied to the epot. after which a little chioro- form rubbed on will, tn almost all cases, reatore the color. eae ee es ae PRINTING IN TURKEY, il stu ers right. Mr. Webster's Wlementary is now aback number at spell- “fing bees. The new orthography comprises some addi- ions made by the men of science, the doctor, the special- fet in all Lines which make Mrs. Bloomingdale's feat one “worthy of Inudation. How many new words must be tredited to°Hdison alone? When thus a modern spelling bee opens with the leader's exhortation to ; Gtand up, ye spellers, now and epell— Spell plenaldstoscope and quell; not ing on the street. Windows must be covered with close-meshed wire netting, 8o that no papers can be handed through,| + A statement must be made a year In the: serves a large palm. BY A MISSPENT LIFE. (Copyrigit, 1902, admitted as much. vith your million. by Dally Btory Pub, Co.) no denying that the was wholesome to the Van Radbourne herself He was tall and milly Dullt, with huge, square vhould- and a face that was broadly honest HERE was young man view. (Mrs. and invariably clean. Mrs. Ven Radbourne and Miss Edith Van Radbourne were seated wicker rocking chairs on the lawn, dis- cussing once more a now thoroughly familiar subject. in two I have obeyed you eo far, ineinma, and, of course shall continue to do so,’ declared Miss Edith. can’t understand why you should detest “But I am sure I . Fordham so."" “My child,"" returned the parent coldly, with a alight elevation of the brows, “you speak atrangely. does not jgnores them.” “Mr. Fordham seems to be a gentle~ man," persisted the daughter, “By inatinct, possibly; unfortunately, In our world one ‘detest’ one's inferiors; one by birth. His manners are fair, though I do got like his habit of refer- All printing establishments In Turkey, tring to his own. pov: ; 5 poverty, Why, he ac- Spell thaumaturgical and quean; according to a new law just passed,|tualiy seems to doast of {t—Just as Spell kinematograph and iten, &., may have only one door, and that open-|though poverty were not a crime. And, n, to dare to want to marry Preposterous He has never told me that he wished you. to marry me,” blushed Miss Edith Advance of the amount of ink required,| “He has told me a0," snapped her Owen McCarton, a man who kept his word for thirty wee will be suppited by the State. A! mother spectmen of everything printed Is to be| phat . ” Sissi 9s He was seventy years old, rich 6nd) 8/a'potice tnapsctoron’maln ofa fie —[neribnatailoace Air tet icne ee eluse. During the Grant and Greeley campaign Mc- ——— Ject of their conversation coming strid- ton vowed that if the Republican candidate was LL LM, |e UP the sloping green from the lake eted he would never leave his home except at night, HER CHARMS. | He was Soe ealy attired in light flan- nel trousers, broad-soled shoes and a ind he never did, even when fire drove out the other) [Her graceful, seaming arms are tet of quiet pattern and correct cut i So, though he lived in Oceanic for forty years, eatare)) z In one hand he carried his coat; in the EPisow him besides his family. No drape across her bosom lies; other a fine string of fieh. She shows a splendid mass of hair Arnanged to dazzle manly cyes. an amount of rugged ofstinacy and fixed pur- Tho young lady felt that this youth- )went to waste in McCarton! At another time and might have been a Horatius at the bridge or a mg a revolting House of Representatives. Or have stood up with Cantor and the other Against the Persian invader from Pennsyl-! ith his resolution never to cross a forbidden thi Her costly robes are made to show ff] ;. The splendors of her form, her grace; Bhe does not seek to hide the glow Of beauty that adorns her ¢ Fo 28, She passes thus whore men may see, But if he has a soul ehe keeps ‘The poor thing hidden careful:y | the swish of gaugy draperies and the doserved taking down a peg. are you going to do with your fish, Mr. & youth’ who confessed to working for rty dollars a week and yet had dared love her end now dared to ignore her, “What rdbam 2" she Inqulred quizztcally, “eat them all youreel(?" At this crucial point there was heard patting of infinitesimal patent leathers over the grass, Fordham turned und yas, 8 Cromwell's spirit ran to seed in MeCar- Where Terets undisturbed It sleeps, | gave utterance to a low ery of aston- a , tat ick when eh i 8. E. ser in Chicago Record: §| ishmont. Aim fantastic. tri e-mixed|) serald. A diminutive fi Te lt ame blue oF: ia outline and sur THE PASSING OF A PAS SION--3y Harold R. Vynne. A Romance of a Yachting Season. mounted by a laughing face and a crown of the most beautiful brown hair in the world, advanced. The possessor of all these treasures fairly gaxpea with pleasure. “Oh, Jack!* was all she could say. “When did you come? ham, releasing the lady's hands, “Two hours ago," replied the vision, her eyea still dancing; ‘mamma saw you from the porch. She and papa are up there. Remember, you have not seen them, or me, for nearly four years. Will you come now?" “Yes,"" answered the young man, read- fly, “but first Jet me introduce you to my friends." The opportunity was lost. While his back had been turned. Miss Bdith, at a sign from her mother, had risen, and the two ladies were now pacing away together over the grass, “Jack,” demanded the vision in blue, saucily, “do you love that gt “Julla,"" was the gloomy reply, “I do, but tt will never do me any good.” “And to think,” sighed Julia, with eyes glinting mischtef, ‘that you were once so absurd as to vow you loved me!" o 8 When Miss Edith Van Radbourne floated into the hotel ballroom towants nine o'clock that evening It must be confessed that, with all her languld uml patrician affectation of superior- fty, she looked surpassingly lovely. Miss Van Radbourno took her seat be- her mother with complacency and eyed her surroundings with an air of high-bred condescersion. It was while the young lady was carefully scrutinizing hor card that she underwent a sensation at once pocullar and violent, It was mainly one of astonishment. Across the top of the filmsy bit of pasteboard sho spied the familiar figure of Mr. John Fontham, The young man, whose stalwart figure looked extremely well in Its irreproachable evening dress. was waltzing very gracefully with the Iindnutive new arrival, Miss Van Radbourne had already discovered, no matter how, that she was Mra, Julla Brightly, the fabulously rich and ex- tremely youthful widow about whom half Kaneas City was in a ferment. Next day Jack had spent the afternoon lazy enough on tho lawn with Mrs. Julla Brightiy and her parents, both of ide om thought well of him, for com- panions. A good view could be had of “The remedy,” replied the Man Higher Up, “is fos everybody to ride in cabs. A NEGLECTED AIIERICAN EPIC. And the Alamo! There is a trumpet call in the word; emg only the look of It on the printed page !s a flash of fire, saya” an article by the late Frank Norris in the World's Work But the very histories slight the deed, and to many an Ament can, born under the same flag that the Mexican rifies shot % ribbons on that splendid day, the word is meaningless, Thermopylae was less glorious, and in comparison with siege the investment of Troy was mere wanton riot. At tht very least the Texans !n that battered adobe church fought for the honor of their flag and the greater glory of thely country, not for loot or the possession of the person of ax adultress, Young men are taught to consider the Iliad, witt its butcheries, Its glorification of inordinate eelfishness and vanity, as a classic. Achilles, murderer, egotist, ruffilan and Mar, ig a hero, But the name of Bowie, the name of the max who gave his life to his flag at the Alamo, is perpetuated only: in the designation of a knife. Crockett is the hero only of “funny story" about a sagactous coon; while Travis, the boy commander, who did what Gordon, with an empire back of him, failed to do, Isquietly and definitely ignored. He die@ds defense of an ideal, an eplo hero, « legendary figure, form: able, sad. He died facing down injustice, dishonesty crtme; died “in his boots; and the same world thet hey Glorified Achilles and forgotten Travis finds none so peal te do him reverence, THE COMB WAS SAFE, the yachts, and the shade of the giant elms was grateful. Toward 5 o'clock, when the racing was over, and the official launch, a very gay craft, all bunting and smart toilets and mahogany rails, with brass and nickel trimmings, came puffing in, ittle Mrs. Julia ran Mke a fawn over the grass down to the dock to watch tho landing. She was followed at a more sedate pace by her elders, John Ford- ham included. ‘Then it was that Miss Edith Van Red- bourne performed perhaps the only u graceful act of her entire life, Clad In a very becoming and doubtless costly gown of blue tulle, she was standing close to the Inunch’s rati as it veered gracefully toward the dock. ‘The engineer's sudden stoppage of the power jerked her for- ward, and the dainty figure and heiress to the Van Radbourne millions went headforemost overboard. Now, a8 the water was at most not more than five feet deep, the peril was hot one of drowning, but of crushing, palpable, John Fordham took his medi- eine calmly, as became him. “You owe me nothing, Mrs. Van Radbourne,” he sald, rising, hat in hand, ‘If I have been of service, I am very gt As the parent of the rescued one walked away, some of the faces about her Were very expressive, little Mrs. Julia's, Possibly, the most of all. Ot GH sal oS ‘At perhaps 9 o'clock that night, Miss Edith Van Radbourne delivered her ul- timatum. “Mother, she sald decisively, ‘your behavior was absolutely brutal, How could you insult him so, when I |-I-love him? I will go and tell him oo" The parent's face became grave. With all her pride of race and swiftly earned riches, she dearly loved her daughter. ‘Perhaps, dear,’ she mur- mured, for she could never endure the sight of Edith in tears, “I have been wrong. Do you really wish to marry Mr. Fordham?" ~y-y-yes,"’ came the tremulous con- 2 ‘i It will] ‘Women certainly bave queer places in which to hide for the launch was coming head on, with| fession. “Af he doss not hate me. nothing to check {t. The athletle flan- ai thine Tgaiae Nee nether, things,” eald the married man, according to the tl gently, “that I had better go with you and find Mr. Fordham. een 6 From a very dark corner of the plazza there came. thy gleam vf a pair ere ‘Dulously white trousers. Also the di Unet sound of a “Wil you love ck Record. "I took my wife down to Atlantic City over ‘ast Sunday, and when we ed our hotel and unpacked thi bag we couldn't find any comb. My wife had done the paclo ing and ghe asgured me that she had brought a comb, haw ing thought of it at the last moment, but to save her Mite she couldn't recollect where she had put it. We turned everything inside out, but could find no trace of the enisaing nel-eulted figure of Mr, John Fordham was consequently overboard in about one-tenth of a second. Grasping the sasping young woman very much as a dear might, with arms about her neck, he jammed his feet against the dock and emack, me forever and ever, then, as t launch came on, he met the ‘ed & sweet small voice. attack of ied white bows fairly] ,,¢ Wil.” came the anewer. and then| comb, You know that means a lot to a woman, and she and squarely with his broad shoulders, \clcles ‘that mas. | ‘204 and fretted about going down into the dining-coom without having a whack at her hair, Gtill, there was noth: Ing else to do, and we managed to exist without the comi. until bedtime. Then ft turned up; and where do you think It was found? Tucked down inside my wife's stocking! Yeu needn't laugh; I asaure you it's a fact. She had forgotten s until the bag was packed and locked and then had pid down her stocking and had forgotten its hiding place. HAND KISSING AGAIN. the most elegant way of greeting or taking leave of « lady, saye the Ladies’ Pictorial, It is certainly more graceful and more impressive than handshading, There was an Instant of suspense, aome caterwauling among the women and then &n uproarious cheer from the men, The human fender had done its work well and the course of the launch deflected the number of feet requisite for safety, Everybody was laughing presently, though all knew that tn the absence of that act of gallantry Miss Edith Van Radbourne, with all her millions, would assuredly have been crushed to death. Naturally little else was talked of for the rest of the day, After dinner, while Fordham was sitting on the ulas: modestly enough, smoking his pipe, w! Uttle Mrs. Julia, you may be sure not so very far away, Mre, Van Radbourne sailed up to him with her right hand uutstretched, “Mr. Fordham,” she sald, in the full ‘women. ‘rom the point where Mrs. Van Rad- bourne and her daughter stood, it look gs if the gold head was glued to the shoulder om which it rested. "I always knew," he averred, as she and her faughter—the latter ‘was pale, but and. tearless—regained “thal there was ng about that young man.” And so ended one romance of the yachting season, Sidicaseeccemmmmmeel FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. ‘The success of the free employment bureau {n Ulinols seems to carry en- couragement for those who think that such establishments should be provided in every State, During the last year a total of 27,779 men and 14,134 women ap- piled for help, and work was found for nearly 24,000 men and 13,000 women. For the three years the of have been in existence in Chicago and Peorta 90,000 cut of 110,000 applicants have been pro- vided with employment. Of applicants and coarss ‘Nowadays it calla for no grace of bearing to shake hails successfully, One sées men doing It dally with barely glance at the lady who gives them thie privilege. But no ene can kisa hands in such a coldly perfunctory fashion, therefore I think that women in London society would come a revival of the practice for the sake of the £ it would lend the modern youth, ae: ee me to thank you, bourne can do anything to advance your fortunes I hope you will let us know,’ ‘The affront of the suggestion was