The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1903, Page 8

by the Preen Publi¢hing Company, No, 68 to ‘ fi Park Row, New York. Entered at the Port-Office at New York as Seoond-Class Mall Matter. Pa oy ‘William ©. Schermerhorn. or the immediate vicinity. _ was the road. which he died on New Year’s Day. street. ‘thirteen States. Fesults, as quoted trom Wortd headlines: ey Roosevelt at Forty-three Youngest Preaident. ~ Venderdiie. Jr., Gaves Poxhall Keene's Lite. Den A8—re. Bonine Not Quilty. || But falling on the 18th 4s doubly year has one, some years two, but three is @ rarity. Am examination of The World's news columns of the following the Fridays that fell on the 18th of ‘month fn 1901, 1900, 1899 and 1898 gives-the follow- 18,110. ; AN OLD NEW YORKER. © Mo have lived eighty-two years is an achievement; to spent them all in New York Is to have had experi- ‘ences which other octogenarians may well envy the lafe _ What a municipal expansion, the greatest the world fhas ever known, was compassed {n Schermerhorn's life | By his native city. When ho was a schoolboy the city - proper reached only to Prince street. Columbia College, for which tutors were preparing him, was !n the block led by Barclay, Murray and Church streets and by lege place, which perpetuated its name. , His family just moved “uptown” from the Bowling Green dis- nd the homes of his playmates, the Cruger, De and Van Cortlandt boys, were near his in Park As a college boy his favorite place of resort was the ‘ity Hotel at Cedar street and Broadway, the combined " Waldort and Delmonico of the day. Here the Bachelor Ball, $10 a ticket, the swell social function of the year, given. Sometimes he joined a sleighing party up to -house at Twenty-third street and Broadway, the frame original of the Fitth Avenue Hotel, located a few hundred feet from the site of the house was to be one of the town’s celebrated mansions When he FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH. \ The superetitious, having discovered that the year “9908 is divisible by 18 and that it contains three BYi- falling on the 18th of the month, ere asking if it is NINETY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. In running 112 miles in 110 minutes between Mont- nd Logansport, Ind., the west-bound Con- Témited went a mile in 38 seconds, which is at Tate of rly 95 miles an hour. It is a record speed the theatre it was at the old Park in Park Row. s family had a box there and there he saw Charles Fanny Kemble, Kean in “Hamlet” and Charlotte Grace Churoh, which ‘he attended, was in of the characters in Daudet’s “The Immortal” is ‘aged Academician who breaks in on every tale of times with “I saw that, too.” Here in real life was man who could echo the boast. And what he had seen ‘was the visible development of the city from a town to | World metropolis, the greatest sight in the history of i Plymouth. The battle of Saratoga and the surrender Yorktown oocourred on Fridey, and on Friday thé forces seized Bunker Hill. Moreover, the nation ‘These were the most important news items of the in question in which the element of luck or Seemed to enter largely. It 1s obvious that the was a lucky_one for Mr. Rockefeller, for the fac- girl, for the waiter, and, in the war news, for the | Ration. ‘The importance of the other happenings as re- _gerds their bearing on the superstition depends on the lons gi th for the Wabash road, but it has frequently been dis- a The World Almanac indicate: in short runs on other railroads, as these figures Date and Ratlroad. Distance. "M8 per hour ¥. 1890, Philadelphia and Reading. 2.20 98.4 1692, New Joreey Central, 0.37 91.8 1808, New York Ovntzal. 0.86 102.8 f. 1893, Wew York Central 0.99 113.6 1805, Peunsyivanta 3.00 102 1899, Burlington 1.0 108 1901, Plant i 2.80 120 ‘The best performance y of sustained speed » 33 ites, a rate of 80 miles an hour ié been due to collision or derailment, 570,000,000 passengers in safety, of the modern locomotive. ri ‘bunds that of the Lehigh Valley's Black Diamond Express April, 1897, in a run from Alpine, N. Y., to Geneva otion, N. ¥Y. The distance of 43.96 miles was covered _ To the average traveller so high a rate of speed {n- hoes apprehensions of disaster. Asa matter of fact a paratively emall percentage of railway fatalities Of the 249 killed in 1900 only 88 owe their deaths to causes. In that year the ratiroads carried more # speed of 120 miles an hour a locomotive driving 6% feet in diameter makes 10 revolutions a sec-| ‘It ie almost beyond the power of the mind to real- rapidity of moyement involved in this, and the iat it fx possible bears testimony to the mechanical further railway speed can be developed is] boilers and roadbed. The boller seems) ) have attained ite limit of capacity for the) ee at its disposal. The rails have reached 40 pounds per yard and a length of @imensions of the old 35-pound i which was roiled in lengths of 16) ie obliged to carry a locomotive times the weight of homens {JOKES OF THE DAY “That new millionaire ts your cousin, fan't he?’ “He was till ho made his fortune. Now he's a decidedly distant relative. “IT love to hear the wintry wind whistling through the keyhole, don’t you?" “Not much. I prefer whistling that's wholly on the key.” “Young Skynneflynt has become a mis- stonary and has gone out to save the hoathen."* “I'm not surprised, ‘That feltow al- ways had a saving disposition." Beryi—Why does Ethel always wear that silly smiling expresston on her face whenever she promenades the beach? Sybl—She suspects that every person on the beach has a camera concealed to take a snapshot of her in bathing cos- tume and have {t published in the Papers.—Baltimore Herald. 9OC009S bOS609O+ wenn) yun wingd He had dalifed eo tong o'er the flagon, That ‘he ¢elf off the car with a jag on. “Exowse me," he sald, As he it on his head, “I thought ‘twas the old water-wagon.” no Artist—Making: mush money now? No Aotor—Oh yes. Nearly fifty per cent. of my edivertised salary. ‘Pa, T'd Ice to go to the olty end wee | % ‘the oakewalk.” “Nou'll stay right where you be, | $ Lavaca an’ keep on watchin’ the corn | 4 First New Year's Resciutton—What's SEEING THE FLATIRON ‘TusT. SEE WHAT A what can you see im plain littl to] | RAPPY FAMILY.WEARE, . me OBSERVE HOW PLEASED, He—Oh, I Gomft know, dear; but you ‘THE GENTLEMAN JN THE iy heave very good judgment— CHECKED SUIT 1S TO lSOMEBopIes. BENTLIOY, ROV. A. B—plecopal reo- ‘tor at Douglaston, L. I., has started @ dramatt company in connection with his churdh for the purpose of Producing clean, interesting plays, ‘Valley, Tarrytown, and now ‘owns 8,000 acres there. He may, ft is eaid. turn this tract into a private park. S STHYN, EX-PRESIDHNT—of the Oranga Free State, will rocetve, it is said, & prominent @outh African office under the British Government, —— A QUESTION OF RHETORIC, A Frenchman recently propounded through the columne of the Liverpool Dally Post a problem which may not ‘be without interest for Americans. At any rate, tt involves @ principle of rhe- torlo which ought net to be disregard- ed. “Tam in Liverpool since a month," writes the French gentleman, “and I saw many thin @ which I stupefy; ‘but of these this most amaze mo: On your tramcars one writes, Paseen- Bers are requested not to board or leave the car while in motion.’ ‘Board’ comprehend not. My friend say it border, to go on ship; there- fore one me demanded not to go on car and not go off whilat in motion, “How can that be? I see thousand Passengers since four weeks, go on and ko off @ car, but they all go whilst in motion. Shall one explicate how pas- sengers whilst not in motion have power to «0 on and off a cart’ ——————_$_— $2999 99H999-O9-9-9095-06-36-9900O90000O4l ' Swith that vile stuft? Kid—That ain't no vile @got In his saloon. “CAPT. O’REILLY EXPLORES THE TENDERLOIN. “T have to get acauainted with the Tenderloin first, said Capt. O’Reilly to a World reporter,“ before I can tell what I’m going to do, with it’ The Evening World artist here exhibits the Captain in the hands of a waraman who js showing him some of the much maligned innocent {ttle Joy-spots of the White Light District. SCE THE RURAL LOOKING Old Lady—See here, my young man, what are you going to do $0 ther best thet Flannigan’s — = O2DO-990OO0O10-0OOH9G-0H9O4® 94000000006! HE MAN HIGHER UP. [enema | Artist Kahles Pictures “The Terror’s” First Adventures. How the Happy New Year Has Begin. starting?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “It’s a gory start,” replied The Man Highed ‘THIS 1S THE HAYMARKET Ww * Up. “I figure out that the year 1903 is going to be @ Rains Nbc ecnat el rnd hoodoo year. It has got all the marks and crimpy + TE WHILE THe SUN SHINES TTT < Suen ®|1¢ you stop to essay it. I saw a fellow dope it out in som4 (a bial ‘ paper the other day, and here is how he figured it. “Drop the two middle figures and you have the glaif i old ‘18’ Add all the figures together and again you have ‘13.’ It ought fo be a good year for memberq of Thirteen clubs to keep cases on. For mine, I ap I'd rather have a yoar without the hoodoo brand in it so deep. » “Look at the way it started. Everybody got horaq and blew into them and then blew themselves fos other horns, unti] the combination of horns that you >|get over a bar and horns that you blow into madq New York appear to be a gigantic bug ward. Every body was daffy with happiness. “New Year's comes in bright and clear. It’s a fim aan 3 r day. The hoodoo appears to be smothered. But the WHENEVER YOU / 7 Lf / \ S| fact is that the ‘18s’ are only spitting on their hand SEE AN IRON BARRED 5 Gi tf | ®1to get a good grip, and before ‘the year Is forty-eight pecs LIKE THIS, DONT) | S72 5 l hours old what were we up against? fe weer tugs A | y ‘Murders, sudden deaths, suicides, accidents and tu 4 Fre ENG ACQUAINTED WITH, 0, Q|eanity. Here's a fellow with his spokes twisted whd oS LOIN. ®|thinks he is the Commissioner of Police, end goed around to headquarters loaded with artillery to kill Gen. Greene with. I’ve heard of queer turns batty, people take in my time. Generally they imagine theg| are George Washington or Queen Victoria or Nepoleom or the Cvar of Russia. I never heard of one thinking he was Police Commissioner of New York. If that isn't a weird glitter on the brain you can search me. “It is q bad sign that right on the beginning of t year 1908 a new species of insanity should deve’, The next thing some cracked person will be thi he is Mayor Low, end then they will have to off the limit. “Here's a young fellow dies in a hotel of heart ease, with a young woman with him. If he hed > | while out riding in the park there wouldn't have anything sald abovt {t, but the 1903 hoodoo dra him to that hotel. “A hard-working, intelligent thief starts out by and early in the New Year to make a stake. He}! “Hs do you like the way the New Year & SHOWING HIM THE HAYMARKET 5 stuff well is THISIS A BILIAR: into the Holland House, has got the ; ROOM THE GENTLEMAN up, and {s all ready to walk down the stairs and outhow ON THE POOL TABLE the street, when the guy he was robbing woke 4S NOW CHALKING and hollered so loud that the police woke up. It @ hoodoo beginning for the thief. “Two little boys fight a mock duel with pistols one kills the other; a boy over in Brooklyn is cl ing a pistol and it explodes and puts a bullet in ind head; a Brooklyn woman has a disagreement with bs husband and takes carbolic acid; a man hears the this daughter hes ‘committed sufcide md drops 4 himself. Look at the first papers printed in the Dea) Year and you'll find that they are records of paren: suicide ‘and disaster. It’s @ gory start, and those t\7 "186" are going to make {t a gorler finish. 1 “we've been too prosperous and too happy. Now are due for = jolt. We haven't had a year the fi the of which added together made 18 since 1840." r “what happened in 1840?” asked the Cigar Store, “Henry Watterson was born,” answered The Higher Up, “and here he is, coming in with the 1908 end trying to hoodoo the Four Hundred.” j BECOMING FAMILIARIZED wT “THE GAME OF "Poo, ONLY AN AMATEUR. ABSENTWINDED. é OUR GREATEST WARSHIPS, Tt ts the opinion of competent judges that in the newly Ge signed ehips the Louisiana and the Conneoticut the Unite States will have two of the greatest warships ever built, the Chicago News, Together with the British shlpe thal Edward VII., the Commonwealth and the Dominlon—theg| will comprise the five largest warships in the work. Tas Oregon and its sister ships hed batteries of four 18-inch eight 8-indh @uns, but the Connecticut and the Louisiana mount @ battery which is so heavy as to place these vessels practically in a class by themselves. Hach carries four If inch, elght 84nch, twelve 7-tnch and twenty 8-tnch ‘The next most powerfully armed vessel is probably the ward VII. Bhe also carries four 12-inch, but instead of eight 84inch she is armed with four %S4inoh guns. This, 1 Fleid O'Grain—Hey, Weary,®| course, is a much more powerful weapon than the 8-Ini & how did yez get done up like dat-% | gun, but the raplaity of fire from the elght 8-Inch, that ts Professor—Great Caesar! If | hey? say, will be so muoh greater thst there will Dat ain't nuthin’, knew that It was—ouch—snowing ty Walkers—1 ast a loldy?| more likelihood of getting in an effective blow. me big brudder so hard—ouch—I would have fer a ple an’ she soaked me on de % | broadside battery of twelve 7-noh guns, however, stayed In the house. ie kia Old Lady—See hore! What did you want to hit that little boy for? Kid—Huh Yer outer soak ‘im. stuff. THE X-RAY IN JAPAN. 6 PODHLOHOHOO- ©0690 An order from the Jupanese Govern- ment for a number of X-ray machines has been received by @ firm tn Phila- delphia, A representative of the (Mi- kado recently purchased an X-ray ma- chine in this country, which, he ex- plained, was to be used in the Govern- ment mints in Japan for the detection of dishonest employees, who practised IN THE teeth “All night, Jim," he replied, a Stsetoh very far and very wide They cuit him rich, yet here he stands JH olad and bent and hollow-eyed The people call-him rioh; te gold Is piled in many a yellow heap, express company, too. Here, a lifton this trunk, will yer? With its brillant eye blagh Dhey call him rich; he guys and sells, But no fond fingers stroke his cheek. the «rick of swallowing gold’ coins and | (Coprrtent, 1902, by Dally Story Publishing Co.) | light that glimmered in a window of & “Vn re-]mer of the signal-—her signal, re ©, until it disappeared around the "Ned's goln' to be maried to-morrer,"| He wished the company would give| show,” he replied calmly. he observed, “Old Joun Perkin's daugh-| him a local office, He wouldn't care] It came almost instantly—e deafening ter, down at Snyder's station, But hie te all alone end old, her? Mighty purty gai, an’ @ good gal,|then—with Nell, He had been in the|peered through the dense cloud of vapor And when he dies no one will weep, || 1% Ain't no better gal anywhar than | service of the company for ten years,| and aaw the stars shining through the s They call him ptch, but where nef | No Perkins. And Ned Slayton is de-/and he felt that he was entitled to an|shattered door, Pat sarvin' of @ good woman, if ever @ man|office. But he had never asked for one,| Presently he saw the form of @ man fee feller—moughty nice feller,|Had he been too backward? Would|crawling through the door, The face me ‘oars ere bare, the walls are * more'n he ever got from th¢| they give him one, he wondered, If he] was covered with a Diack mask, There plea ; Rive me way through the darkness, the night ex- Phey call him rich; he does not know §| préas dashed onward through the night, } Baldwin locomotive|{ ne nappincss of standing where || And Ned Glayien in the express car| packages. in LINE OF DUTY, ® E. W. COOLEY. A Brave Express Messenger's Fight for bife. : his hand upon the revoly. his hip. | the right, #o thet it covered thet portion carrying them away. The machine was ONGRATULATIONS, old boy, house that stood on a low hill far back| He glanced at’ the repeating shotgun|ot the darkness whence the shots had ¥ used oy examine ne as they left 6 Don't forget to bring a cigar the|from the track. Then the engine} hung on the wall. And he thought of | come. th, ee, is an old tradition thet the so-called treasure dome the mint datly, and it revealed the pres- next time you come up,” sald the| whistled and he saw the light gleam | Nell and of to-morrow! ‘Then his ripe er bday 4 Jami ¢l Kebir morque in Damascus contained a ence of coins that had been consigned | station agent at Readsyiile, shaking the|more brightly through the window, as The car mes an 1h Se neta : for safe keeping in the guilty ones'|Poush, brown hand of the good-natured |though ome one held the lamp against ‘Dreath. Five ene ott a HM i stomachs. ‘The test was so satisfac t In the express car, the pane, Then he saw it move s‘owly ‘through it i a ae ee i tory that the Mikado hap ordered sey. | Th® messenger blusbed to the roots of |biok and forth as the train thundered |locked door, his hand toying with the | savo eed a 2d ys aalie erat machines, and with thelr ald hopes |'¥s hair and indulged In a broad grin| through the town. handle of this revolver, Then a rap| dropping @ magazine, @ dome, which had, remained closed and to prevent ¢uture chefte, that showed a wide expanse of pearly] A happy smile ilkimined the messen- | sounded on the door ‘centuries, experts Raving assured dim wer's face as his eyes drank In the gllin- Yhat do you want?’ he demanded. ; Yocuments in the eollection affecting the ‘Open the door,” & muffled voice te- jon, The masusoripts dlscovered % the dome were member you."* watched it until @ strip of timber cut ve " (pene ember yo che¢ i Constantinople, where it’ wes found POVERTY. The train pulled out and the agent|of the ylew; then he clos ot by @ blamed sight!" he rep oe ey ll pay Wiper fang ; ‘The people call him rich; his tands watched # with a cominincent look infand returned to his work, “Then we'll blow you to pleces, . send a oh * he said to himself; the muffled voice. : Slayton laughed. “Go on with the Know|where it was. He could be at home|report that almost blinded him. He only had a “pull.” If he-— was a sudden, loud report, » flash of ‘Two sbort blasts of the whistle aoun@-|fire, a little cloud of smoké drifting ed. and the train jerked and tremblea|upward, Then @ man's groans of agony and came to so sudden @ stop that he}broke the silence of the aight, and the was thrown violently against @ pile of |sound aa of @ heavy body falling drifted through the door. path. Bigantic! {sweet winds across the meadows || worked over his waytills, got out the pling the meas nahn varant sows ime {Shoah oho gen en ot Neh | Me ad 5 dnl: Abd Samathe verdant bitiows there. 1] thought of the Bright eyes.of Nell Ren