The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1902, Page 8

( S CL SY fark Row, Now York. Entered at tho Post-OMce . #t New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. ‘by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 6 t ME 43. ssesseeeesNO. 16,100. THE INVASION OF MARCONI. fon? Are the wizards too intently engaged on inventions useful to commerce and the arts? ' As ft 4s, we have a pale youth from Italy carrying eff the international honors of invention by the develop- nt of an idea that an American inventor of the Piden age, Prof. Morse, gave the world its first inkling Pof. In that golden age we gave Europo the telegraph, the ocean cable, the cotton-gin, the sew!ng-machine, the phone, the steamboat. Next the electric ght and electric motor, unt!l it seemed that we had estab- ed a Monrde doctrine of electrical invention, So that now for a foreigner to olitdo us In our own Iihe of 7 ement is like the invasion of territory which we a @ come to regard as particularly our own since ‘Branklin flew his kite. George Francis Train suggested to an Englishman, the ‘perforated chair-seat, the perforated postage-stamp, the dle with a peculiar eye, have mado fortunes for their manufacturers. But it is the Marcon!s who live on with » the Galileos. | IN CROWDED NEW YORK. ‘(ven when the subway 1s completed it “will relleve New York's transportation problem by perhaps two © Gays,” according to the prediction of Chief Engineer William B. Parsons. Speaking further to an Evening World reporter about the great congestion of street-car ‘gnd elevated traffic, Mr. Parsons said: D @fothing approaching the condition In New York City at the | Mime Ran ever existed anywhere elve. ‘The whole thing Is simply (Rew York crowds are growing and will continue to grow faster thi F ean bulld new roads for their transportation. It seems only the other day that “Jake” Sharp was ‘bribing his Broadway franchise through the Board of ‘Aldermen, and only a little later that the horses draw- > ing his jingling orango cars were replaced by tho cable ‘which was soon to give way to the underground trolley. “thi.* evolution and development of surface traction In | New York, At present the Metropolitan Traction Com- “pany 4s carrying 605,000,000 passengers a year, In the | busy hours of the afternoon {t sends 1,970 cars past the ) dntersection of Thirty-fourth street and Sixth avenue. {What the conditions will be twenty years hence 1s mazing to conjecture. What will happen when the > Pennsylvania turns over its hundreds of trainlonds of “passengers to be cared for by tho city lines? Much of the responsibility for the larger crowds is ds estimated that in the eighteen years from 1580 to 1898 | @n addition of 13,231 rentable rooms was made in the © contracted district tounded by Beaver street, Battery | place, Trinity place and Pine strect. With an average of three persons to a room this means 40,000 new pas- ' @engers to be transported by street car or “L” road or the les. One skyscraper, the Broadway Exchange Building, is supposed to have 3,000 tenants. To trans- > port them seated would require nearly sixty “L" cara! 3 (Pr with standing room and strap privileges only, about twenty-five cars. | _Byery new office bullding in the financial and whole- ) Bale districts represents the need of from two to five ) extra “L” trains of five cars each, or half again as many Surface cars. Considering the number of office struc- | tures put up below Canal street within recent years, the “wonder is that the crush is not worse. At the noon Hhhour the stream of humanity surging through N: nd other narrow neighboring streets is suggestive of torrent in a canyon. OLD MEN'S DARLINGS. | for the Wellesley graduate, aged twenty-two, who ithe elderly bridegrcom, apart from sentimental con- ee Dr. Zile’s figures for Europe indicated that among “men past seventy the death-rate is fort fe, Dr. Schwartz, instancing the fact that of fitt eentenarians examined by him not one was a bachelr spinster, showed that of men who live to be ninety 8 contribute to his length of yi Wily an amiable wife would add a year whe “might cut one off. i8 @ norma: act for a men to marry a woman dy of course wholly abnormal. In New York City )year the number of couples m: ere was a disparity of twenty ars or more y exceeded forty years. btless the controlling impulse with women who im greatly older thi themselves is money; an| of some sixteen cases reported in The! as much. Yet there have been impor-| exceptions, Sentiment was the motive! ‘Kriebel, sixteen, of Allentown, Pa., to marry Sixty, though by doing so she became her » Agnes May, twenty, who married Seventy, of Dowling Green, 0., was! b first: love, and for that reason ro- L toward Lim. Nelile White, twenty- , h Pomeroy, ‘elghty- | a Marcont’s feats of invention there is only the praise, untempered by national jealousy; yet the may be pardoned, Where was our home talent ‘while, our Edisons and Teslas? What has become brilliant promises of past years? Where is the that was to sink a thousand battle-ships at sea by the pressing of n button on land? What ever became the project for extracting gold and iron direct from je ore by electricity? Or the tropical scheme for st!mu- fruits to mushroom growth under electrical per- mas Eve," ‘There was a Chicago soprano Who said to her faithful young man: “What? ho queried, “a new grand rope."" and a sinecure?" tonians get the other.” I'a give you if ave were rich.” pers vy while burglars bound and gagged nis “It fs the little inventions that are often most profita-| Pele: the copper-toed shoe, the rubber pencil top which| as ho sneaked toward the door, “ld imagino he thought they were capable of doing the Job unafded.”—Philadelphia Record, Hig friends all thought that he was But he went broke, so all the crowd Call him a@ “four-fush" now. the programme of events?” dame."* watched my husband play {t once, and he sald “Th times en hour." “TActually ahout twenty years have been consumed in|: ALVARADO, PEDRO-the Mexican « gent to the Legislature from Macon © to be laid at the doors of the downtown skyscrapers. It] County, Mo. ia the first Republican HELUEM, PAUL—The Parislan a OSCAR, THORP, $45,000. mon table in such a manner that half of tt tho ruler 1t will in nine cases out of ten break in hnlf, and yet the sheet of Phas married the octogenarfan Marquis of Donegall | paper on the table will neither be ratsed “here is the excuse, admittedly valid by even captious| pS imemhbers of her sex, that she has married a title. For) Siderations, there is the incentive of longevity: the sta-| ; | tistics prove that old men live longer if married than : five per thou- ‘pand for the married, as against seventy-one for the | ratio 1s nine married to three single. Among in- dual examples of matrimonial longevity that of} Nicholas Lann, of Goshen, N. Y., may be cited. | ¢: doctor-preacher-author married thirteen wives and| to be ninety-nine. To what extent did each of his Presunta- 2 a Xantippe cnormous diameter and of singularly found ro st than himeelf. Statistics collected in Germany ‘that of 1,000 bridegrooms only elghty-nine chose | older than themselves. A difference of sixty dainty pissel | volunta months and th: ried In whose} | a8 ‘mong these there were very few In whom the “All right. Now give me a compan- fon eketch representing a Christmas| @ Adam." “Oh! What DO you suppose Sante put in my hose?" plano?” “I hear Van Soaque 1s going to Eu- “On a tank steamer, I suppose.” “What's the difference between a cinch “New Yorkers get the one and Bos- “T've been thinking of a lot of presents “Presents of mind, eh?" \ “Here's a dreadful ease in the pa- 3," remarked Mrs. Henpeck, “What 4 ypu think of a man who stood fo without offering any ass.s- m,"" responded Henpeck reflectively, flush, . And hastened to kow tow; “What makes you think Jim Jeffries ake a good coal-operator?” he so bitterly opposes the fe mine m of “What 19 the most pogular clause tn “Santa Claus, just at present.” “Poker 4s a yery wicked game, ma- “Oh, you must be mistaken. I ‘s good!’ at least fifty 2 SOMEBODIES, } Jtalist, lias offered bis whole for- » (sald to amount to $40,000,000) to 9 th ational debt of the Re public of Mexico, He nald that, as his money was earned through Govern- ment concessions, the Governmont was entitled to it, His offer has been de- ined, EMENTS, DR. E. B.—who has been din that county in thirty-five , MRS. L.—ts the oltent ive ing woman artist. Shoe ts over ninety; and, {n the past seventy years, has painted more than 1,200 portraits. known as the Du Maurler of France, | @ Jn avout to visit this country, , KING OF SWEDEN—says he | ¢ has written verse etnce boyhood. : VTON—Is designing a ment to be erected In San Franelsco to commemorate Dewey's Manila victor —————___—. AIR PRESSURE, If you desire to obtain a vivid idea of force of atmospherle pressure try following simple experiment: ce an ordinary wooden ruler on a yond the edge of the table, over the table and the portion ruler thereon lay a smooth sheet Ts {£ you atrike the exposed part of in the slightest from tts psl- e simple reason ts because the spheric pressure exerted on the y is more than sufMelent to counter- of the biow which ts © experiments ke earn a great deal of scl- $$ ———- FAST OF A BIG SNAKE, 3 One #, occasionally, of fasting | —— a) Sieg gw THE ING. BEBDDLDDLOD 99OO0OOO99-0500O6600000000590960060690056059000000 "sons oF 7H 92°! (MR. HOTFOOT COMMUTER CAN'T GET TO THE OFFICE ON TIME! Pictured by Artist Kahles. G84400O44-04|9404-49H994-989490O0064O000846 A Rainy Day Exploit PON MY WoRD, 1T Must HAVE RAINED A TRIFLE )/ OVERNIGHT! THE, S| ROAD ‘Looks A WEE BIT DA’ AGOQOD RAIN STORM IN THE RUBBER BOOTS, ACKINTOSH AND UMBRELL OUGHT TO CET TO.THE N SSIES SS WF VTTSSS SS SSS WY S EXE! iS is SS $ AH,NOW WE'RE GETTING ALONG Swimmonecy! Gracious! 17'S GETTING PRETTY Tig ABOUT CATCH THERE'S NOTH: IF HE DONTGET IN ON TIME To- EMPLOYEES ARE MORROW TLL REQUESTED TO RE~ PORT PROMPTLY AT SAM. AFINE OF HIS PER MINUTE SAAS HERE] MORROW O SEIZED THE SHOW. “They can never ‘stop any one from going to Paradise,” sald the “| hear that many fair eyes were riveted on Harry Beer's vest at the horse show.” Just think of a vest with eyes riveted on it. Husband—I think I’ll run up to $ Boston for a couple of days for a change. Wife—Will you tse me with i “This paper says the average college man has a great deal on his shoulders,” g “Him. The writer must have > been examining some of thos > know about that,’ drawled Amber Pete. “Our Sheriff stopped little Eva from going to Husband—Of course not. Paradiso when he attached the id | was going for a change, smith shop.” 9DDOOOD2OFOH0OH0HO89H $99606:6-:9:04190060056-0.060 6008 but It ts not often that the rep- F essed by Dribune. the fullest ov. 17, 189, Tt was a long, of brilliant coloring, n. Its keeper oon was a teetotaler of the character. — Geese, ry imaginable but In yain, It , after a two years, nine oka, = — ‘Twas not the dance for which 1 wove to-night The roses in my hair; Not for the eyes that envied, or that praised, I gioried to be fair. Not for the mirth I Mngered—vut the hour When mirth was done, and when, ‘The faint farewells behind us, you and I Should take the path again, “Pwas for this pausing on the patn- || 1, way, here Amid the fir boughs’ moan; mhe oe upon our foreheads, you ‘Got'é ax ' Soa ‘Eivng Gian in 3 f ering Sauny Gem in Munsey, ALPHABET BUILDING GATIE. ADLOBFS HIDKL MNOFERSTUVWHYZ G& 12345678910 An Evening World artist has taught his baby the alphabet in an interesting way. Four strips of colored cardboard, each 4 1-2 inches by 3-4 inch, two small nemicircles of the same and one large semicircle, a8 shown In tho diagram, were employed. The child played with these as it would with building blocks, r by combining the cardboard strips. With these stripe it is possible to make every letter in the alphabet. smaasagn alah cau OR Msads tected kcal A WORK OF ART. IGanep.ipk Manciecon: ieuaee: shiaen 198 Offer to bet with somebody that he will not be able to hold a strip of paper about slx inches long with his fingers a3 soon as you light the upper end of You offer him thi he will nold it betwee: index finger; you hold a end & few eeconda and our friend will twelve ‘aches long and bend {t in the Curl both sides by pulling them through your thumb and @ knife held in the hand in such they stand out {lke two clock springs Lay the strips to- er, holding the two erds between thumb and Index dnger, and to making each 1 the thumb and ODD SUICIDES. Tt in calculated THE MAN HIGHER OP. NEW VYORK’S ARCTIC FLATS, av73 SER that some tenants of cold-storage flats have made a stand in the Police Court and beat a dis possess to death,” remarked the cigar-store man. “Tt was due,” sald The Man Higher Up, “but I don’t think anybody but an opera singer would have had the pulse to stand pat at that. When Mr. Carleton comes on the stage he ought to get an extra hand every night this winter. ‘ihe way the landlords of eteam-heated, hot-water flats have dealt the coal strike to themselves is a scandal and a shame. To hear them talk you'd think that coal was a thousand dollars a ton, and none of it closer to New York than San Antonio, If there is anything on earth calculated to make a man etand up on his hind legs and utter wild cries of rage it is to put his hand on the steam radiator of his flat on a cold morning and lave it stick there—frozen on. “I don’t know whether the flat-house landlords in this town haye got a trust or a union or not, but they cer tainly got together on the coal strike thing, That they. couldn’t get coal was their rave, and they carried it to a fever. I have been looking at the newspapers every morning for accounts of the whole tenantry of a flat~ house going around to the home of the owner with an ®| ice wagon, locking him inside and giving him a nice, slow ride to Albany. “The average flat renter has got all tif aggressive combativeness of a sheep. He goes into a house, looks »| over a flat and likes it. The steam radiators are there, the hot and cold water faucets are there, and the land- lord is there. He promiscs to put new paper on all the rooms, fresco the ceilings, change the gas fixtures, put weather strips on the windows, renovate the plumbing, install a new icebox and pollsh all the floors. The ten- ant takes his word for it, moves out of the old place, and when he gets into the new he finds that the landlord hasn't made good on a single stipulation. “It doesn't do any good to roar. He knows that by experience, He just takes his hand as it is dealt to him, looks it over and antes away a large section of his salary, the first of every month. “I know a certain flat-house in this town that was full of tenants when the cold weather butted in. It was @ steam-heated flat with hot water, only there wasn’t any steam or any ‘hot water. After the first night that was reminiscent of an attempt to discover the North Pole a committee of tenants went down in the cellar to inter view the janitor. “They found him sitting in front of a nice hot fire it his basement apartments, smoking a pipe and drinking mixed ale out ofacan. He was a mild janitor that night because he knew he had the best of It, He admitted that there was no hot water and no steam, “Wot kin 1 do?’ he asked. ‘ain't gotnocoal? £__ “The committee examined the coal bins, There any more coal in them than there is perfume in an oniom Then the committee went around to the landlord's housq but he couldn’t be seen, “The tenants tried to heat their flats with gas stoves until two days before rent day, when a truck as big ag a freight car backed up in front of the house and erupted coal into the basement for about half an hour. At same time the sun came out, the temperature went and people got to sitting on benches in the parks, t “About two hours after the coal was put in the rads ators began to grumble like base drums and the wateg ran so ‘hot that it steamed. This continued until the ado ond of the month. People were drying up and blowing away in their own flats. When the landlord came around - he explained that he couldn't get any coal earlier, buf that he had contracted for fifty tons for immediate dee livery. The tenants pald and the next day the steam ‘pipes were cold, there was not hot water and the janitog said that the furnace was burned out and it would takd six days to fix it. “This kept up all through the month end all the ten; ants left only to go to places where the conditions were the same or worse, and new ones came in to take theiy places. “Why doesn't the landlords give heat and watert™ asked the cigar-store man. “Because it costs money,” replied The Man Higher Up Avail MILLIONS IN TYPEWRITER S. The report on the typewriter industry just issued by thd United States Census Bureau affords the best evailabli conspectus of its progress, says the St. Louts Post-Dispatoh, The decade 189-190 has witnessed a remarkable increase inf the capital employed in the industry and in the value of the product, but it cannot be sald that the present financial poy sition of the industry, as disclosed by the census figures, hag $3$OO0060000009 | Improved. On the contrary, there ts a striking evidence that therg has been a Mberal watering of capital, accompamled by 4 great Increase in the cost of management and in misosk taneous expenses. Whereas the capital amounted to $1,421,789 In 1890 and $8,400,481 in 1900, the value of the products turned out $3,690,120 In 1890, while in 1900 it was $6,992,089. In short, percentage of tncrease of capital has been 490.8 per while the growth in the value of products has been a cent. During the same time the growth in the cost of materials used has been 121.6 per cent., and the number of salaried officials, clerks, &c., has increased 411 per cent, and ¢fig amount of their salaries by 203 per cent., while the increaaq {n general expenses has been nearly 600 per cent. ‘The aven age number of wage earners has Increased by 166 per cent and their total wages by 154 per cent. Considerably more than one-third of the total productiog in 1900 was exported, the exports having risen steadily from $1,453,000 in 1897 to $2,698,000 In 1900, of which Englasid $1,093,000, Germany $466,000 and France and Russia ¥170,000 to $180,000 aplece. AN EPIDEMIC OF PRODIGALITY, It seems to cost a great deal to live nowadays, Most pay ‘gons notice 4t, especially persons who are hard put to # td find the money to pay thelr bills, says the Philadelphia Im quirer, The statisticlans report that commodities in general use cost on an average about 10 per cent. more than they did last year. The rise in the price of meat contributes @ good deal to this advance, though breadstufts have been high, too, Articles of luxury, Ike good clothes and country, houses, have grown dearer % proportion than most articles > of necessity, because the hige influx of money that the country has sustained has @ brisk market for luxurtes, Renta aro higher, houses cost more, servants get higher po bad than| wages, board ts higher at revort hotels. The living exp fan yore such auatn bth Sodene grr non ae Severs . Le © be ? ~ ; me