The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1903, Page 12

et \dy the Press Publishing Company, No, 53 to 6) Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Cinss Mall Matter. pebsdectivcosvs NO. 18,128. STILL NO RELIEF. _ The coal congestion at the New Jersey terminals con- Hhttes unchanged except for the worse. Tho arrival of @1 fs still in excess of its reshipment by lighters to York, Tn the yards of the Central Rafilroad of New Jersey, Port, Port Reading, Bayonne and Communipaw—thero ‘Were 3,615 loaded cars and with evory day that passes addition of 300 cars 1s made, Some have remained yards unmoved for more than a week. z the Lackawanna yards at Hoboken and Secaucus Bnd Perth Amboy there were seventeen miles of Joaded the city across the river there are famine ithracite, and not much of it to be had at . While within ten miles of New York there u 200,000 tons of coal ready for unboading, it fs an exceptional day on which the tows bring more price” which President Baer promised {s doubly J It is as scarce and fully as dear as at the be- ginning of the cold season, Among all the contradictory explanations made by the Operators and other parties concerned the state- + ment by a prominent dealer stands out in relicf as ‘throwing light on one source of the coal scarcity in the sity: “Small dealers are afraid to buy $10 coal for fear of oss by 2 spell of mild weather. If the independent oper- _ @tore were to reduce prices so that a general retatl price _ of $7.50 a ton could be established ten tons would be rs bil Reig SS ee ae ee dL iy niliay friends, os ~ ought from them where one ton is bought now.” But the independent dealers find it to their interest > hold up the prico in the hope of one still higher. Mr. er says that ‘‘moral suasion” has no effect on them. cannot he break their extortionate prices by ship- ping Reading coal direct'to the city? Is the President] ‘of the Coal Trust powerless to perform that service for | the community with whose distress he sympathizes so/|% _ keenly—in theory. In all New York yesterday not a ton of coal but fndependent coal was to be had. THE PROFESSOR OF ATHLETICS. The report that a popular instructor in athletics ‘whose pupils are bankers and men of wealth is earning $6,000 @ month ts not incredible. It only seems so by ‘eontrast with the scant living made by professors of physical culture a generation ago. | The la ybird In those days we) © looked upon the “professor” with some doubt; tow we! 4 fee the colleges paying him the salary of a Greek or He arrives In town, Latin. professor and“we no longer wonder. We accept his advice with all the authority attaching to a doctor’ and are not surprised when he earns the income of a @elebrated specialist. thing to wonder at is that he fs pafd these large | ® is simply for teaching .mankind common sense. He teaches us that of all the causes of health in man g @rugs sre least, And wa knew that, or should have known it. Does any one'still believe that liver pills Strengthen the Hyver? . He teaches that the main cause of a muscle's _ strength is its constant and proper use, and we all know _ that. He instructs us on the benefits of pure afr and plain food and plenty of sleep and perspiration and rational exercise not overdone to the point where drafts are made on the vitality, and the evils of the sedentary Ife and of tobacco in excess, and incidentally mentions the occa- sional advantage of a very small quantity of alcohol. ‘All this we know and much more which he tells us. And as the least important part of his instruction, ut one giving it individuality and bringing renown to him as the discoverer of a “new system of athletic train-! * {mg,” he furnishes information about certain methods of flexing the muscles of the arm or stretching those of ’ the leg or back so as to produce the best results. Excellent they are and no disparagement of them {fs Intended. But the success of every method of physleal |‘ culture rests on well-established principles known to the genéral public. Any consistent reader of The Evening ‘Worli’s home page is well acquainted with them. Com- mon sense in hygiene comes high. LOST IN NEW YORK. Gaid he would rather be first In a little Iberian village than to be‘aecond in Rome.—Longiellow, But the American millionaire differs with Caesar. Haying made his pile in a country town he hastens to ythe metropolis to spend !t. He finds there most of the things he goes in search of—the best in art and music Bud literature, the best cooks and tailors and haber- @ashers and the stock market. "But in exchange for these advantages he loses others ‘Bot without their value. When Balzac's great man from - the provinces went to Paris, you remember how he @hrunk to small proportions? A similar diminution of ‘size and loss of identity is the penalty paid by many a ountry millionairo who comes to New York. Read the Mist in Phe World Almenne of the city’s 650 millionaires d gee how many are known to you by newspaper re- port! These reflections are prompted by the discovery that wo have a hitherto unknown multi-millionaire in James ‘M. Baird, who is assessed onthe new tax list for $2,- ,000 of personal property. This is an asseasment as jg as Rockefeller's and one that provokes a natural Puriosity about the rich man thus distinguished, Mr/ Baird, it appears, is a Philadelphian who has ‘Niving with notable lack of ostentation at an upper West side hotel, ‘He is perhaps not so interesting to us as John M. * whose gift of $4,000,000 last July for a convales- E home revealed his identity asa yery rich man, We ered that Mr, Burke, then just turned eighty, had lived in New York unknown except to a few fa- Mr, Hewitt knew him, and some of the of bis friend Samuel J. Tilden remembered but apart from them only the fow persons admitted plain brownstone house in West Forty-seventh @ a handfw of Nantucket summer visitors knew great wealth. Many other fabulously rich men are housed in i rows of “brownstone fronts?” The passer- A their well-kept appearance, wonders who lives yd. where the movey comes from to maintain money may have come from Western rail- Burke, or from locomotive works, as with wells or @ corner in nails. An im- it it is epent at this great distributing which the millionaire must feel is that are a PODLOTP PVE RVG OHGHTOHGHOOOM™ Be igs we eg ees from the We Park Sparrow. The Old Conductor. A Few Observations on His Fair Passengers. HE Old Conductor was disposed to T be communicative. “There goes the sixth woman in ar many blocks getting off the oar back- ward, “There are two things women can’t, or won't, learn. One ts how to throw a atone at a hen, and another ts to cet off a car the right way. There are no hens to chuck dornicks at in this town, buy getting off the street-cars wrong com- Pensates ‘en for that, “It t car 1s moving the leaat bit they get a jolt, and then they abuse you. They generally accuse you of being A'shonest, say you tried to knock them down, and hint you are more succ ful with the company's money ‘If @ man ever gets a Jod on @ aur ti car and he's single he stays that way. He wees enough of women at thelr worst to scare him off the matri- montal Gring Mne for the rest of his days, "Of course, help himself. if he's married he can't But he even loses his good opinion of his-owi-wife “Ever since that ‘Florodon’ was played In thie town, the women who wear them big hats has driven street- car conductors daffy. You stick your head Jn the door and cal! a street. Every woman with @ Florodora hat will turn around and give a ‘Tell Mo Pretty aMid- en’ nod, Then the conductor stops the war and says ‘Your street, lady!’ to the first hat shaker, and she gives him @ cold snap ature and says ‘sir!’ “A woman who wouldn't tell a le for a thousand dollars will do it for five cents when It comes to ea question of fare “Bay she gets on at Thirt street, going uptown, she gi transfer, When she gets to Fitty It ‘I can't give you a transfer on street she'll ask you for another you say @ transfer,’ sho'l ‘but I gave you a fare, sir. he'll stick It out, too. ‘And threaten to report you and say she knows Mr, Vreeland. If you do give her @ transfer she may be a spotter, Af you don’t #he may report you and you get a black mark, even if you don't get fred or laid off. “And look at the women with chil- lo } to recognition as the waters of a dren, Women don't count the years be- tween twenty-five and forty for them- wolves, And thely ghildren stay at Ove til they're fifteen, much. “Dt you say, ‘But, Madam, thet little girl looks over five," she'N pay: ‘She's big for her age, I'm her mother and I ought to know!* “Why, the other day a woman got on with @ long-faced lad who needod a shave. And she refused to pay a fare for him. “And when I sald he looked fifteen, at least, her reply wae: ‘Ach, Ikey looks old ‘because ‘he has had so much 1 you what, some day the men up and demand thelr rights, ‘¢ the trusts that are ruining this country, it's the women folks, ‘They've bad’ their own way so much thoy think they own the earth."” And the Old Conductor went tn te give a grim-faced woman from Harlem forty- five cents in change in pennies . that ride the cars JOKES OF OUR own,| “Did you make any money out of your political career?” “Yes, a good deal more than I ever made in it," “Were his theories against local option very long?” “No; chey only seemed long because they were so narrow.” "She ts a perfect fright, she ts so plain! Your show wil! suffer and won't run one night.” “Oh,” said the manager, “I can't com- plain, Every one's apt to euffer from stage- fright."" “1 don't Uke to call this man @ poker- sharp in # many words, What shall I say about him?" “You might say he has a fair working knowledge of the game.” ‘My poor man, are you in jail for tak- ing too much interest !n other peoples business?” “No, sir, Bor taking too’ much in- terest in my own business, I'm bere for usury," “My «on sas trained to commercial knowledge from his very eradie,”” ‘S suppose his mother used to sing ‘Buy Lew, Baby!’ to him," obo st He signs to meet the City Hall lei the Best Takes On Z Jokes of the Day. TOO CAREFUL, “One can't be too careful in this world,” oud the man who regards him- self as remarkably wise. “Yes, we can," answere¢ Mrs, Corn- tossel, “It Josh hadn't of been stoppin’ every ten or fifteen minutes to count his money while we was in town that fol brick mgn wouldn't of seen how muoh he had.""—Washington Star, PROPER CLASSIFICATION. Mra, Otdwed—Did you ever meet my late husband? Mrs, Newbride-Your late husband! Why, you don't mean to eay he 4s dead? Mra, Oldwed—Oh, no; he'e very much alive, thank you, But, of course, you don't know his habits ae well as I do.— Ohtcago News, BLESSED RELIEF, “O, no, there are ho weddings in Heay- en. You know the Biblo says there is no ‘giving in marviage’ there."* “That merely means that there ts no giving of presents. ‘Ihat's what makes it Heaven,"—Philadelphia Press, NOT THE REAL THING. Uncle (trotting Harry on bis knee)— Do you like this, my boy? Harry--Pretty well; but I rode on a real donkey the other day at the z00,-- Harvard Lampoon. THE WISER COURSE, “IT hope you never talk back when naughty boys call you bad names?” “No, ma'am, I'm a Httle tongue tiled. I always hit ‘em with @ rock.”"—Cleve- land Plain Dealer, APPROPRIATE, She-What an extraordinary picture! —and why on earth do you call it Home?" He-—Can't imagine, uniess it is because there Is no place like it.—-Iustrated Bits, —_— CATERPILLARS’ SIGHT. A caterpiliar cannot see more than centimeter ahead; that is to say, les than two-fifths of mn inch, The hatre ‘on the body are sald to bé of as much ite eyes in letting it know what ja @olng op around, rh, Wh Velie tulle She He knocks out the Sparrow. $4OO45000$-44OO00O9000406059OO050OF 60060606 a YOU CAN’T LOSE CHEERFUL CHARLIE. One Unsuccessful Attempt to Do So Is Told in Several Kicks. Winter Evenin é Fun. Games and Tricks That Everybody Can Enjoy. NEW PROBLEMS ON THE MAP OF OUR COUNTRY. This {s an outline map of the United States. In Jt Territories count the samo a3 States~Alaska, of course, €x- cluded. A good evening's fun and in- struction may be had with this map, solving the following questions: 1-Find @ point where four States meet. %-Which State touches the «reatest number of other States? %-Which State extends the furthest north and south? 4—-What 15 the smallest chain of States reaching from Canada to Mex- ico? 5—What is the emalkest chain of States reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific? 6—Which State is nearest a square in form? 1—-How many 6tates only by straight Mnes? &-What two States are the furthest apart from each other? ‘—Draw @ straight line across the map so that it will out through the greatest number of States. 10Which State runs the furthest north? are Wounded BUTTON GAMES. A common game consists in throwing buttons. A Hne is drawn and a hole made about twelve foot off, The play- ers tows their buttons, amd whoever comes nearest the hole has the first . (He endeavors to drive the buttons t into the hole, striking them with the extended thumb by & mover ment of the whole hand, which ts kept flat and stiff. When he misses, the next takes his turn, and so on, Whoever drives the adversary’s button into the hole wins it. ther game for two players is called “epans."” ‘The buttons are cast against the w. aio ha * button a4 4 span 1 ady pe te*and ‘win fk by a , Oe ber THE PLACARD GAME, “Who am I?” That is the question each player of the placard game wants to have answered. Sihe knows that on her back she bears a paper inscribed with the name of some woman writer, musica! or Giramatic author, painter or soulptor, and that she must find out as quickly as poasible her hidden iden- tity, She is allowed ta go from one per- gon to another that will eolve the mys- tery, but to those questions only ‘Yes'’ or “No may be answered. Directly she has discovered she le Migs HMen Terry or Mrs, Humphry Werd, or whomaoever else's name she has got on her back, she her pacers, cl SOOOS5O9OOOOOM} But the Sparrow comes back at trim with a bean-shooter. $ “” there had been » Marcon!-qwireless «cmachine-eal the St. Louis we would have known what was the matter with her « dong time ago” wentured the Cigar-Gtore Man. “This wireless telegraphy (s « erewt thing” egrestl the Men Higher Up. “When I look forwerd te what the finish of it is likely to be I have to shut ay eyen It looks tike a cinch to me thet you and 1 will live te see the day when the district messenger boy will ba @s obsolete as the horse-car, when the short-distance telephone wilt be ifke a deuce in a pinochle deck, $| when—but you'll ave to take the limit from possibility when you come to figure om the wireless telegreyh. “If they can tranamit dots and dashes without qwiner there is no reason to believe that they can/t transmit words, If they can generate enough electricity in a power house to throw words across the Atlantic Ocean there is no reason why @ man choulin't be able to gen- erate enough electricity in bimeelf to throw worls-from the Battcry to Harlem, if necessary. “Byery man and women has more or less electricity stored away. Up to this time we haven't been able to ®| find how to get it out. Some wise inventor will figure out a way one of these days, and when that dey comes about the only use they will have for postege stamps will be to paper houses with them, “Take me for fnstanco. Some inventor has frame® ‘up @ scheme whereby I can tell just what voltage I have in my body, Another machine enables me to fix that voltage to any point J desire and to tune myself up like they tune up the wireless telegraph instruments. Sup- posing you and I have @ business deal on. “I am over in Brooklyn—no, I balk there—say I am down in Wall street and'you are up in Herald -Square, I want to communicate with you. I simply key myself up to the right voltage, fix my tuning apparatus, and send you @ call with a little instrument I carry, in my vest pocket, ' “That call goes searching around town and finally hits you up im Herald Square, You look et an indicatos you carry, about the size of a watch, and by con sulting a little dfrectory of people whose voltage and tunes you know you find that I am calling you. Then you twist a couple of levers, pull a pocket telephone owt of your inside coat pocket and talk into tt. “Down in Wall street I have rigged up my @pparatus, end in a minute we are chewing the rag. When we get through talking we put our little dingbats in ous Dockets and go on our way. i “Amybody 1 want to reach me has got my voltage and tune recorded. Whenever he wants to call me he can eet the machine and get busy, No matter where I am J must answer, and by private signs I find out who is talk, ing to me. What? “Of course, it’s foolish. I know parts of the country where there ere people who think you're daffy if you tel] them there is such a thing as @ trolley car; they have no conception of a telephone, I remember. thy time when Cole's circus showed an electric light plami in the rural distrets, and the electric ight was a bigga hit than the show. Fifty years ago the people didny icnow as much about electricity as we know to-dey aboul what becomes of us after we die, . “The development of wireless telegraphy may away with the printing of newspapers. Let it be nounced that at certain hours everybody willing to heay the news ehall get the voltage up and attune th to a certain key. Then the editor goes on that key gives the whole town the news, Where will the come from? When that day comes there won't be any use for money.” i “The only disadvantage I can see,” remarked ¢hy Cigar-Store ‘Man, ‘is that every wife will be able todeaey cases on her husband by calling him up.” “Not on your life,” exclaimed the Men Higher Up “unless a husband {s fat-headed enough to tell bis wise what hip voltage and tune 1s,” TAKES NO FOOD BUT MILK, Vour quarts of milk dally, or thereabouts, for twenty yearn has been the eole diet of Thomas F. Laubach, of Hazleton, Pa. Two decades ago Mr, Lauhach, being then years old, was in bad health, and his physicians gave up tis case, Then he decided to doctor himself an4 hae dome so ever since, confining bis diet to milk. Now he ds ene of the healthiest and soundest men in tOWM, i, meeprtrs .