The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1903, Page 5

\ WHAT WONT TAKE. Monty: Jerome really sends criminals to prison and drops his pyrotechnical axe. they scorn real mo. [E EVENING WORLD'S second-sight reporter went into a trance to-day after a breakfast of corned beef hash, buck- wheat cakes, raw oysters and pie. While in this condition he was transported to Jan. 1, 1904, and with true reportorial in- stinct he put down what he saw, as follows: Jerome Drops Cigarettes and Raids. District-Attorney Jerome has ceased raiding gambling-houses and has broken the cigarette habit. Only yesterday he convicted twenty thieves and got them @emtenced for terms aggregating 800 years. He has determined to rekhece tho Tombs populaition of murderors and the business of his office is carried on ox- peditiously. One of the ornaments of his private offiae tthe axe used in the gambling-house raids of a year ago, which are etill dragging along in the courts, Greene Stops Captains from Taking Money. Gen, Greene has revolutionized the Police Department. No policeman will take money now. Several of the captains have sold blocks of houses and given the money to the city. A movement {s on foot in the various station houses to have the police force attend church in relays every Sunday. Evening and morning prayers are suid at all station houses. Of the 8,000 members of the force moro than 7,000 have taken the pledge. Every murder mystery in the past four months has been solved by the detectives, who no longer etand around the Broadway hotels waiting for somebody to tell them where there ie a graft. All the saloons qlose at midnight and remain closed all day Sunday. Swinging Seats in the Subway. August Belmont and John McDonald, since taking hold of the subway and “L! coads, have made travelling a luxury. Swinging seats with foot-stools are provided for all passengers. There is a buffet on every car and sandwichés are served free to passengers. Cars are mun @o grequently that there (6 nd necessity for standing up. Express trains on the Ninth avenue " run from Cortlandt street to One Hundred and Sixteenth street in fifteen minutes. So perfected are the systems that breakdowns on either the “L" or the subwey are impossible, A public mass-meeting has been called for the purpose of expressing the thanks of the community to Messrs. Belmont and MeDonald. Morgan Gives Coal Away. J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller have bought up the United States, Mr, Oforgan 1s giv! away coal at sixteen docks along the North and East Rivers. Mr, Rockefeller 1 ling oll for the price of the barrel, Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Rockefeller have s0 much money that they have concluded to give away everything thy control. There Is some talk of running Mr. Morgan for President and Mr, Rockefeller for Vice-President because they are so good. Roosevelt Stops Ffforts to Get Nomination. President Roosevelt has decided that he will not try ¢or a renomination. He says that if the people want him they will have him. Instructions have been eent to all the Roosevelt workers in the different States and Territories to cease their efforts, President Roosevelt has decided to stand on his record. Hetty Green Gives $10,000,000 to the Poor. Hetty Green has bought a pair of diamond earrings and has engaged a whole floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, She announces that during the year 190 she will give away $10,000,000 40 the poor, She has bought seven automobiles, three carriages and twelve horses and negotiations are In progress for the purohase, in her name, of twelve lots in Fifth avenue, Just below Fifty-ninth street, where she {ntends to build a mansion. Free Museum in Canfield’s Gambling- House. Richard Canfield has presented his house at No. 6 Bast Forty-fourth street to the city for use as a free museum. He has gathered all of his art treasures in the bullding will be open to the public every day from 9 o'clock A, M. to 10 o'clock Mr, Bucklin, who was Mr. Canfield’s manager in the old days, has been engaged as superintendent of the museum. He will lecture every halt hour. “Honest John’s’’ Course in Theology. “Honest John” Kelly is taking a course In theology at Andover Institute and expects to start a church in Long Acre Square about the Fourth of July, His salary is guaranteed by Lou Betts, Leo Mayer and Sol Lichtenstein, Mr, Mayer has removed his office to the Bible House Building, opposite Cooper Union, where ho will be pleased to receive callers who need money at any time, Lewisohn Learns Mute Alphabet. Jesse Lewisohn, the banker, has not spoken a word for eight months, District- Attorney Jerome's efforts to make him taik have thus far proved futile. Mr. Lewisohn has learned the deaf and dumb alphabet and will be the star guest at the annual ball of the Order of Surds at Lyric Hall. Pietro Mascagni, the oole- Drated I 8 composer, who has been working In @ restaurant in Beaver street @ince the close of his American tour, will play the bass violin at the ball, Devery Is Parkhurst’s Man for Governor. William 8. Devery has announced his candidacy for the office of Governor. He entertained Charles ¥, Murphy, the former leade> of Tammany Hall, at dinner last night at Jabour’s reateurant in Washington street. Among the guests .were R, Fulton Cutting, Dr. Parkhurst, Mayor Low and the Rey. Dr. Silver, Job Hedges was toastmaster, Dr, Parkhurst Created great enthusiasm by his witty speech on the subject, ‘What's the Use of Living When You Are Dead?’ Here Isa Great Job for Cross. Inspector Cross, of the Police Department, has been engaged as Professor of Hypnotism at Columbia Uniyersity. He is to get a salary of $40,000 @ year, this tducement being necessary in order to make him leave Mulberry street. It ts @apected that the Department of Hypnotism in Columbia will have 6,000 pupils before Christmas. Atid Depew Publishes His Jokes. Benator Chauncey Depew Is engaged upon the work of his life—a tragedy in, twelve acts and eighty-two scenes. It is a recital of the events of his career as! @ humorist, The work will be printed by Richard K, Fox and will be sold only by subscription, The Y. M. C. A, will have cha of the distribution of the book, Mansfield Has an Air-Tight Theatre. Righam! Manefiekt keops ‘open house” in his own patented, air-tight, draught. See and distributes as souvenirs his autographed opinion that he is the jest actor the world has ever seen or will ever see. To prove tit tho @f his Canr-iihw qualities are base libels he lets every member of his army ef three thousand supers slap bim on vhe back and wish him a “Happy New Year |" Reunion of Lillian Russell's Husbands, Lillian Russell holds a reunion of her former husbands, and they, too, show Policemen become so good that Have A RAILROAD Every traveller in “L" and street cara has a whole section to himsel) and a porter to wait on him. bling railroads, wi to Wall street. high-ciass house.) At the trial of the daughters they bewitch the jury into returning @ verdict of acquittal, and in the end they respectively marry the presiding judge, the district-attorney and a near-sighted court stenographer. THe latter and the youngest of the davghters—who eats caramels and carries her powder puff to court—furnish the comedy element, Carrie Nation Spars with Sullivan. Carrie Nation and John L. Sullivan appear at Daly's In @ sumptuous revival of “Laoretia Borgia.’ In the drugging scene Carrie advertises a new brand of wine, and when the ooffins are disclosed to view Mr. Sullivan dramatically swears: that he'll never drink another drop. Frohman Frozen to a Roof. Charles Frohman, who has a habit of witnessing performances of his plays from all sorts of out-of-the-way places, climbs to the roof of a theatre and watohes through the akylight the first production of "The Boy with the Cross-Byed Feet.” A heavy rain which has been falling turns to sleet and Mr. Frohman is frozen to the roof. He remains & helpless prisoner until the end of the second act, when he !s jarred loose by the tremendous applause following the speech of the heroine, tha! she will love and follow the Boy through life, no matter whore his feet may take him. Belasco’s Pickle Play. David Belasco and Kiaw & Erlanger unite In a marvelously beautiful produc- tion called “The Fifty-seven Varieties," a pickle play, in which every hue of cucumber fs reproduced with striking fidelity. The audience sees the pickles grow defore their eyes. When tho pickles huve assumed enormous size they burst open and liberate many happy mortals. ‘This is meant to symbolize that e person who has been in a pickle all this life may look forward to a bright and caresfree hereafter. Double Trick of Patrick and Nethersole. that they are willing to let by-gonex be has-beens, drink a toast to the future Mr, Russell and wish her many happy returns of the day, Clyde Hitch Dramatizes a Cellar. ‘The firat performance ts given of a Clyde Fitch play, in which three haughty @aughters lock thelr poor but honest parents in @ cellar to bide them from threo ou, who have silk hats and rocial standing. mer the anval * leave and cellar door is opened the discovery is made that popper and iv have Se sepia ote sie Le oreo gees Uttle play of domestlo life entitled "Two Wives to One Husband.” ‘The crucial ‘and touching moment 1s when the husband compels his wives to shake dice to see which ‘will have to go out and support herself as a manicurist in a barber shop. Annie Yeamans as Little Lord Fauntleroy. Annie Yeamans makes her first appearance in boy's clothes as Little Lord Fauntleroy in a revival of the Mrs. Hodgson Burnett the Gerry Society. Thomas Q. Seabrooké plays ‘Angel,’ large piece of angel-cake and a “golng-up" expression, May Irwin goes on tour with Mme, Yale, giving a lecture and a lving ex- ample on “What Coon Songs Will Do to the Figure.” Jersey Lily Sends Back ‘'Cross- Ways.”’ Mrs, Langtry sends ‘The Cross-Ways” to King Bdward and Queen Alexandra as a New Year's gift, with the grateful sentiment:’ “I'm so glad you liked it. Nobody else does. Bloomingly yours, “THE WILTING LILY.” Irving and Terry in Vaudeville. ,Robert Grau secures Henry Irving and Ellen Terry for a twenty-woeks’ tour in vaudeville in the merry skit, ‘Deaths that Shakespeare Has Made Us Die.” Settlement of High-Ball Feud. 5 Weber & Fields and the Rogers Brothers meet ina Broadway arsenal and Settle thelr long-standing (feud by firing high-balls into each other until both sides are dead to the world. James O'Netl counts up what he has saved in the last thirty years and ex- ultingly proclaims, ‘The world is mine!" Nat C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott present “A Marital Mix-Up" in the oul- minating scene of which they throw things @t one another and accidentally kill the janitor of the flat, ‘This fatal episode causes the audience to break into wild cheers and insures the success of the play wherever flats and janitors abound, Hi. Sothern ponds out Now Year's cards sesuring friends that tholigh “Iris has been turned out of her stage flat 466 consecutive nights, Virginia Harned ts sure of a home for life with him, and that both he and Mrs, Sothern would be glad to have them call any time they happened to have car fare. Mrs, Fiske wishes the Aotors' Church Alllance @ Happy New Year and sends the theatrical syndicate a beautiful boquet of forget-me-nots, The Prince of Siam calls on Mabelle Gilman in London and accepts her ex- planation that she let her press agent steal his love letters because she needed the advertising. A bad case af wold feet causes Eleanor Robson to close her tour in “Audrey."' Tea Served Between Acts in Macbeth, B, 8. ‘Willard and Stuart Robson appear as oo-stars at the Casino in “Macbeth.” Mr, Robson as Macbeth, and Mr. Willard as Lady Macbeth. Tos (e served between acts, and at the close the audience takes its departure, assuring thelr entertainers they had enjoyed @ lovely evening. Meude Adams and Artie Hall, under the manegement of Ted Marks, om a week's engagement before a packed house in Harlem in @ grand scente revival of “The Two Gtsters," ‘Mrs. Osborn entertains Blanche Ring at @ dinner, @ feature of which fricasseed regrets, Mes Ring, out of gratitude, offers 40 sing “The Belle Avenue A,” but Mrs, Osborn begs her to forget it. Gates Buys a Forty-Dollar House. John W. Gates has moved to Nyavk, where he has bought en humble cottage on the outskirts of a brick-yard, paying $40 down and $ @ month, He wil!! engage in the business of raising pigeons and white rats, being a man who elways looks for quick returns, Mr. Gates says that a rapid ife may be all right, but for his the pleasures of the country. He has decided to out down his expenditures to $685 a year, and it is Impossible to persuade him to make a bet on any proposition whatsoever, Congressman ‘Dry Dollar’ Sullivan has formed a partnership with Counsellor Abe Levy and they will operate a lemonade stand at the corner of the Bowery and Houston street. It will be the only place in town where tt will be possible to get real lemonafe, Counsellor Levy has Joined the Knights of Mather Mathew and, in conmection with Mr, Gullivan, hopes to have the war he has declared upon the Demon Rum carried into Hldridge street if necessary. Former Assistant District-Attorney Osborne has opened an office arross the street from Besex Market Court and will devote all his attention hereafter to the defense of push-cart men. Associated with Mr. Osborne ts former Assistant Distriot-Attorney Daniel O'Relily. Mr, O'Retlly has ratsed a set of whiskers, He ie the outside man of the firm, Magistrate Mott in a Happy Mood, Magistrate Mott gave a party to the poor ohiidren of his nelghborhood last night, The genial Magistrate was in b ~plest mood, of his little guests was presented with @ bow af candy and @ revolve Muele was furnished by Bousa’s band, At #40 close of the enteriainu: i hildren gathered in the street and gave three cheers for tho!r host, the kindest-hearted man in New York. President Vreeland, of the Metropolitan Traction Company, haa taken meagures to stop the crowding on the sireet cars of his lines, He has announced his tne tention of riding on the cars himself, When Mr. Vreeland gets on @ car t can be no crowding. He will be the only crowd. This simple way of solving problem was thought out by Mr, Vreeland, with the able assistance of his ensist- ents, Orrin Root and Harry Mecdons, Weedbary. Zicoke -sanadhars tashanereebesla toed is ot J. P. Morgan, grown weary of gob- Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Olga Nethersole become joint stars in an idylilo * lwo must seek othe! Ayes Rockefeller, disgusted with wealth, hands out bunches of greenbacks without to universities or ll give the Nati few away him. Heroafter he 1s going to clean tho streets all by himself. He say's that he finds this the most economical manner of making good that he can figure out. Commissioner Woodbury began at the Battery this morning. He expects to have ‘the town as clean ax a Dutch kitchen clear up to the Harlem River by 12 o'clock to-night, when he will knock off for lunch. ‘Wall street !s greatly excited over the actions of a new millionaire, Willlam P. McLoughlin. He comes to his offices, occupying the whole of the Broad Exchange Bullding, every morning in a gold cab, drawn by six horses. Mr. MoLaughiin refuses to apend anything but $2 bills, Little Is known of him. It fa reported that he came originally from Ireland, although the fact that he carries nothing but yellow bills would make this statement appear to be Ibelous. George and John Considine and Patrick Roche have jo!ncd issues and will thereafter conduct the Metropole and Rossmore Hotels under one management. ‘The bars will be closed, It is the Intention of the Messrs. Considine and Roche to conduct their hostlery as a working girls’ hotel. Any young woman with a job will be welcome as a boarder. They have bought all of Dennett's signs, which are being placed in the old Metropole rathekeiler. Mr. Roche ts learning to play the organ and will accompany all the meals with sacred musle. Keene, Young Again, Joins Navy. James R. Keene has been admitted as a midshipman into the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He passed the physical examination at the head of his class, and when it came to figures he put the professors Into @ trance. It {s the Intention of Mr. Keene to become an Admiral in about twenty years, by which time he hopes to own the Navy. Congressman Jacob-Ruppert has sold his brewery and joined the Salvation Roosevelt guns for delegates to Mark catches i..em as they fall. Richard Mansfield becomes able at last and sups with hit abused supers, jonal Convention and nele Army. He has given all his money to Thomas Dineen, who was formerly. for the Liquor Deniers’ Association. As trustee, Mr. Dineen has been |to spend the money in the Improvement of Phijadelphia, Mr. Ruppert 4 | the town. 3 ‘Mr. Abe Gruber has published @ volume of poems at his own expense to Europe for a trip. Soon after he left his happy Harlem home an dignant purchasers of the book appeared and wrecked the house, Tt is @) that Mr. Gruber will remain abroad for at least threo years. All the pol |reserves in Harlem are guarding the hole in the ground where his home 1s feared that the buyers of the poems may, In thelr maddened rage, try off the hole and thus leave the gifted author nothing to build on when he @ back, except his reputation. Platt Yields to Divver. Thomas Collier Platt, our able and dis! leadership of the State machine to the Hon. Patrick Divver. This is the tion of a jong series of attempts on the part Senator Platt to give ship away. He offered It to Gov. Odell, held corned it, and finally he of the leadersnip. Mr, “Chuck” Connor has started a morning new'spaper, He sald have started an afternoon newspaper but he didn't ‘have the money. says that ho will circulate his paper if he thas to carry {t himself. gaged an editors the whole staff of the Chicago University, and has the expectancy that his paper will be the freakiest in New York. iPUTDUT, ALAS! ON NEW YEAR'S MORN Sad Story of Philip Cowen, Cruelly Served with a Dis- possess Warrant by a Flinty- Hearted Sheriff. GROCERIES PURSUED BY AN EVIL FATE. Hobs) ek A POUND Commencing to-day, and during this sale, we A fe ease Gra fate! Thou pied offer the Finest Creamery Butter at this remarkably tainly pursueth me with a vengeance!" It was not @ madman who thus spoke, but an angry man, Philip Cowen by name and Gupervisor of the City Record by Utle, But three monthn ago, three short months, he a happy man, Then a shadow crossed his path—the shadow of Matt” Ryan, the contractor, ke of the atraw-golored whiskers who invaded City Hall and began the work of tearing it inside out. These ne- farlous operations began in the cosy quarters of the City Record office and amid clouds of mortar, dust and myriads of falling bricks Supervisor Cowen was forced to fee with his corps of dlerks. It was the beginning of troubles which cruel fate had in store for him. CHAPTER 1. 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