The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1903, Page 10

HCCI. dy the Press Publishing Company, No, 53 to & te Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice 9@t New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. IME, BS... ecccceeseereeseee NO. 18,126. GOV. ODELL, HYPNOTIST. Odell rubs the lamp of his fancy and alluring of municipal wealth to be derived from his taxa- dazzle our sight. Like the hypnotist, he @ few passes with his pencil before our eyes and ire lulled into a happy trance, convinced that his mt tax system is to enrich the city beyond the on of the most confident. lucky city is to come in for “a total benefit of 00,” which is to be thus secured: From the of a direct State tax, $4,500,000; by new reve- from the mortgage tax, $3,785,000; by revenues from Séinking fund, $5,000,000. Is not this a most plausible i gratifying financial prospectus? In dwelling upon ‘vast potential wealth by taxation, why need we if traction companies benefit by it to the extent of Em petty $200,000, as the Governor admits they will? If is are coming to us need we begrudge the traction mpanies a few thousands? ‘It is an alluring picture. But looking on the seamy Ge of it through Comptroller Grout’s eyes we see that: Result. would be immediately to wipe out $20,000,000 ing capacity; to knock out five millions in revenue he city and to leave us to recover what we could by Ing tangible property, such as pipes, ducts, wire ‘Falls of these corporations. And ‘What have mortgage-tax revenues and sinking- disbursements and the general question of State ity taxation to do with the direct and immediate of our own city tax on the city real estate rep- in the franchises held by the traction companies the city’s gift and by which they have grown rich? what has the question of their rentals and 1I- fees to do with the subject of general taxation? Payments, at best a wholly inadequate return for city’s past bounty and prodigal generosity to the rporations, have nothing to do with the taxation of eompanies’ franchises as real estate under the Ford - They represent in effect the payment of an instal- fent of the purchase price—the annual license fee for Ge privilege of doing business, The tax levied on them "by the provisions of the Ford law is simply the tax every Peal estate owner pays the city and from which the fos indulged corporations have so long been exempt. et is the tax we want. We are familiar with its ions; we know how it works. It serves the pur- designed very satisfactorily, and 1s much to We pre- d over Gov. Odell’s tentative gross-earnings tax, an nial, uucertain and most unstable source of city THEATRE-GOING IN NEW YORK. ' ‘The Majestic Theatre, which opens to-morrow, is ‘ely one of several new play-houses projected for tho inment of New York amusement seekers. By ext fall we shall have also the new Lyceum, the Drury “Aane, the New Amsterdam, the Lyric, the Liberty, the and a new Sire theatre. ,fOne gets an idea of the vast property interests in jusement purveying by examining the tax assessors’ of the theatres, A few of them, selected at ran- $1,400,000 760,000 775,000 260,000 440,000 Targe investments in a lottery where the blanks _ Giean a speedy bankruptcy for the manager and the capi- fal prizes a fortune. A lottery? There was “Shenan- ;@oah,” pronounced unsuccessful by Boston managers and _— ‘'Rfijected by A. M. Palmer, but earning Charles Frohman $100,000 in a season. There was the $100 paid for the HE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1900. THE LOVE LETTERS BY ROY M'CARDELL, NO. 1. Smithville, Ind, to Mies Laura Slocum, Cranberry Street, Brook. lyn. Dre laura: { take my pen in hand to tell you that I am wel and hope except pa has got a law sult on against the ‘idmores because, lizzie Diggle, who |s living out at the Skidm scalded one of pap'’a hogs becaws cum up on thare porch. Lem Beesley ts q@oing to marry widder Johnson and we are going to mull band them. thare is to be a carn h ing ohewsday night at yore Uncle Jim's, ! gess you don't see Any sloh lively thea whare you air. dont you go mashing any of them city tellers, {Wrench farce from which “Too Much Johnson” was cre- ‘@ted. There was “The Masqueraders,” on which $40,000 fas spent before the curtain rose—$18,500 for dresses alone. Thero was “The Sporting Duchess,” with $32,000 (Spent on the setting for a single scene. j) Im recalling suoh successes one thinks first of the @rohmane, the Ohio boys who came to New York ready for anything that might turn up and found employment @S Tewspaper office boys. It was from a newspaper | gffice that Augustin Daly came and Bronson Howard. "(A source of wonder is the large amount of ready ‘Woney needed for a manager’s current expenses. The wtream of cash flowing into the box-offices of the Klaw , Wrlanger theatres, or Hayman’s, or Litt’s, must be @ to match the great outgo in salaries alone. Charles — is reputed to have more than five hundred and actresses on his pay-roll, their salaries ag- ing an enormous total. It may interest the thea- to reflect as he buys two orchestra seats that #4, in a pro rata distribution, would not provide a fent aplece for this large artistic colony. } ‘When he indulges in further reflection upon the vast @ommunity of tailors and dressmakers, landlords, shoe- 4 , Brocers, butchers and tradesmen generally who b. partly dependent on the box-office receipts of a manager, he gains an idea how serious a thing t apparently frivolous matter of amusement-seeking dg dn New York. - ( THE AUTOMOBILE EXHIBIT, * The third annual exhibition of automobiles enables ‘Ws to judge by only a brief stretch of the memory how great the progress bas been in the invention and manu- ‘facture of horseless machines. There ere visible im- ‘provements in shape over the cumbersome vehicles of , the first exhibition, there is a diminution of noise and ¥ ® gain of speed and strength without the sacrifice and BT fm fact, with some additions of gracefulness, The gain ‘fm these particulars which a year ago was largely a 3 sharacteristic of the gasoline machines, scems extended m to the electric, . American inventive talent appears to have directed } efforts mainly to the improvement of foreign models T than the designing of original novelties, ‘The h mechanic has taken a good thing and made along American lines, seeking to combing. with lightness and to replace ugiiness of con- or cumbersomeness with beauty. The auto te of to-Gey by comparison with that of a few years Bt ‘the butterfly to the grub. 3 Botable that many of the houses famous for the of bicycles have profitably turned their | to the maxing of this new form of vehicle, #0 have given employment to their old ® possibility of this is one of the most le yt. : iat tev gene. my love for you wil never fale as long as our old cat has a tale. with love frum your frend REUBBN DUZPNBERRY. NO. IIT, From Laura Slocam to Renben Duzenberry. Cranberry street Brooklyn, Jan. — received. Oh, how I long to be back in Smithville; but Aunt Mary won't hear of my going home, She Is golng to give a party for me, and {8 having @ lot of new dresses made for me, ‘There 1s @ nice girl who ilves next door, who Is a typewriter In New York, I have become acquainted with her and she is going to take me to a matinee, which {8 a theatre in the day tin do hope It will be “Uncle ‘Tom's or "Lady Audley's Secret.” Don't you remember the Climax All Stat Stock Company that played in the Town 1 for a week for 10, 20 ond 20 cents, went away owing the American Ilotel| for thelr board? ‘The girl that lives next door says It's awful nice to be a typewriter, and saya | she will get me a position if 1 learn, Aunt Mary gaya I can. Won't that be lovely? Iam dying to go and see the wax works and the statue of IAberty. And I want to go see that young lady > who was a summer boarder two years ago at the American House, who sold $ everybody a copy of “Gems of Poetry 4 Thousand Hints for Health and Beauty.” She lived in New York, she told me, and her name wea Jones. ‘Lhe first chance I get I will go over to New York and ask where she lives at the post-office or at some of the stores, Iam beginning to like it here, although it ls very different from home, Nobody has any flower gardens, and the backyards ain't hale as big as A barn floor, The cats keep you awake howling on the fences, and the itttle boys shoot at them with the smallest guns you ever saw. I am going to church with Aunt Mary. Everybody goea to church In Brooklyn, but they play cards in thelr houses, which ts considered sinful at home. Everybody fs real soctable in Brooklyn, too. But Aunt Mary says it is different in New York. Ain't that funny? There is @ boarding-house across the| ‘ way, and a lot of young men board] there who are terrible cheeky. They were throwing kisves at me this morn- Ing, but I never pretended to see them, One of them wrote in big letters on a sheet of paper and held it to the window, “It you love me, make g00-g00 ey: 1 asked Aunt Mary what !t meant, and she only laughed Tam going to buy you @ set of cellu- Jold collars and cuffs, ike those Harry PBREDEDADED AOE 44.O4444O049O4H > THE SQUIRES PET CLUB NEEDS BRACING UP Artist Powers Shows How Interest in It May Be Revived, OF LAURA.| From Mr. Meuben Dasenberry, | | Ar me Chub mH DEMOCRATIC CLUB you ar the same. these is no news| 4 VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT To NIGHT-AN ALL STAR Se SHOW Kock A BouT POSES ORM R REUB: Your loving letter] @ WAS A SHINE ComPARED RIGHT THE SWAY: Pr PLETILSESLOS OE $$806ee The good old Democratic's growing shaky and erratio, And from Wantage comes the order, “Jack it up as best you can.” Watson brought from Indianapolis that] { smelled so nice of camphor, and @ pair of cuff buttons that will rattle just a loud as his. ‘The young men across the Way tle thelr own necktles, just like a girl, They are way behind the times, |; even if they are city fellows. I shall wet you a nice red necktle, better than thone they haye at Beasley's store for] 4 @ quarter, Aunt Mary won't let me wear my| ‘ lovely yellow dress trimmed with green that mother made for me before I left home, She sald the colors were a little too| « pronounced for Brooklyn, I came near crying, for everybody in Smithville that | suw 1t wald that it was lovely. And the hired girl here, who Js from Sweden and can't talk much English—I couldn't un-| 4 derstand what she sald, but she thinks it is lovely. I could tell that from her face when she saw it Good-by, dear Reub, Write soon| « again, Your loving LAURA, Exe SS SRK ES x: ee Four of the Best Jokes of the Day. es of the versatility that k: Por and mechanic alike int A] : ot dloycle trade HI6 FLOWER BEDS, Ciuman—Your garden's rather small, lon't it? ’ Bubbubs—Yo-es, rather. Citiman—You won't ce able to plant many flowers, will yout Subbubs—O! 1 don't know; maybe I can put them in folding bedy.—Philadelphia Press, MODEST BEGINNING “Young man," sald the pompous indi- vidual, “I did not always have this car- riage. When I first started tn Iife I had to walk.’ "You were lucky," chuckled the youth. en I fret started In iife Vy chicago News,” i® ¥ coukin's TOO LATE FOR USE, “I see that a bilzzard wrecked a Weat- ern State House just after the legisia- tors had adjourned for che day” ‘I. wonder what delayed {t?"’—Cleye, land Plain De, PRE-EMPTED. Girl-Who was thot distinguished took. tae per that Was BNDOUNCES just tT didn't quite ye the ti So, with milkmaids vaudevilllan and in dress suits by the million, They'll be having it geared up as high as when it first began. FAIRLY WELL OFF. THAT WAS ALL. Chimmle—W'y did ‘yous: yer engageme: wit’ her, me boy? Ikie—Her tastes wuz too ex. stravygant fer er pore man like M'y, dat goll'd tink nuttin’ ‘Po’ lickin’ up t’ree cents worth er Mrs, Passerby—Poor man, are you prepared for a hard winter? Tanky Thompson—! made a 1 got a couple " rum an’ half a case o! plug terbacker already. Jimmie—Mister, would yer do me sister a favor? She wants ter borrow yer handkercherf. PODLDO POLE DODD GOS DG IDGE-DOOD6-99OLO00980 996000000000 D404 $ $ eS DLLDODDLOE OHH HOG EBHOGOH: $99 6-999-005960099-060000G 605 059959560609-8990 969900098 $966-9050-06. sn3 G00 e 9S HO-OS- $9639696599O0O if you think your daughter will never make a musl- clan why are you going to send@ her to Boston to study? Spinx—Weill, | can't hear her there. Fill @ basin with water, and after the, became perfectly still float « dozen burned matches in a circle, all pointing towand the centre of the basin, ‘Touch the water at the contre with a ‘The matches at once move and form a larger circle close to the edge of the basin. soap and dip @ lump of sugar {n the water at the centre of the basin. Matches immediately cluster about the sifgar This simple and amusing experiment ‘ustrates two sclentine the first plece, every Kau! Ways ae if tte surfac tightly stretched elastic centre, all around, just drawing water out’ of ¢ @ little pump. Take out the wit the expla trees? d acts in m | Huriier amd yet have something in it? Chinese \dols what ts calind "surfac stronger tension of the pure water out-) “Capiliarity’ i» the real name given ‘. to such actions, but that long name Again, 1¢ you dip s corner of @ lump of doesn't explain them a bit. Wi #8 you know |know ¢hat they o¢cur—that water and orger Mauide in small tubes and pull, 1# different in different Mquide, It ig stronger in pure water, for example, than in soapy water, Consequentiy, sugar in water, the wate: when you dip the soap in the warer the ‘ al contre t very well, rises. rai Sugar without coming from somewhere and #o we have a current of water sot- s from the edge of the bowl to the if we were centre with ‘The floating matches, of course, mov the currents, and there you have jon of mystery number two. ———————_—— CONUNDRUMS, 1, Which f# the most ancient of the 2. When may a man's pocket be empty 3 Why are corn and potatoes lke 4. What ‘bus has found room for the teat number of people? w 5. When are volunteers not votunteera? 6, What words contain all the vowela imply |in thelr proper order? WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FAKING. % 4 pees was a painful eting those women in the Cat Club up at Hartford handed out to the Mayor and the S. P. ©. A.,” remarked The Cigar-Store Man, “It goes to prove,” replied The Man Higher Up, “that: a when wise men say that women have no sense of humor | they are like a policeman up against Sanscrit. They are spieling in a game that is over their heads. It also foes to prove that when a woman wants to fake she can make the achievements of the late P. T. Barnum look like coarse performances. “Far be it from me to say that the Stamford women discovered that they were up against it and framed up the order for the candy mice for their cat show as @° graceful getaway. Some people may think that they — really did intend to turn their kittens into the ring for ! the purpose of slaying a given number of mice in a given number of minutes, or deeds to that effect. For me, I am of the belief that they had no idea of putting up a public reduction of the mice population, and that, as they say, they were misunderstood from the drop of _ the flag. “Look at the advertising they got out of it! Tody, Hamilton, the press agent of the big circus, looks like sandwich man when compared with those women show- men of Stamford. Even Press Agent Maitee Miller, whe wrote the mash-note personal to Aubrey Boucicault, hay- ing disguised himself as a wihsome maiden with a warm heart, must sit in the family circle when he comes to line himself up with the Cat Show promoters of Stam- ford. " “On the other hand, we have numerous instances of women who have gone into the show business and made fh their bank rolls look like the remains of a planked shad, Mrs. Osborn started the Play House and made it en. aseets crematory. The Professional Woman's League " , ran a show at Madison Square Garden and you coulé fhold the net profits tm your closed eye. They might 4 take a lesson from the women of Stamford who are run- ning a woman's show in a woman’s way. The trouble with Mrs. Osborn and the Professional Woman's League was that they tried to run their shows in the way men would have run them. : “A man gets his money by main force; a woman gets hers by strategy. When it comes to going after anything, from money to advantage, the woman has got a straight flush and the last bet es against a man's three aces— when she depends upon the qualities of mind that nature has passed up to her. “When a boy comes to the age of discretion you cam spot him in anything he does, because it takes him many, many years to learn the art of hiding what he feels. With a girlit is different. She is equipped with a deceit factory behind her alabaster brow that fs bound by no union rules, It works while she sleeps, and when she ts awake it works double time. After she grows up to the stage when she accumulates attractiveness, the deceit factory has a force on that presses the machinery to capacity. “When she concludes that she wants to get married « she picks out the man she wants, and she lands him not by tho strong-arm method but by the exercise of hen arts as a fakir. After she gets him she may find out) that she has not gathered a prize; in that case she takes,’ all the pleasure in the world in making bjm wish he was in a hearse about half the time, and the rest of the time she exerts herself in the way of filling him with pride x because he has made euch en excellent match. If she , doesn’t Mke him and he {is a good provider, she wilh want tc keep him; and the way she can make him think he ig the real thing when ho {is nothing more than @ 7 standing rent receipt is seldom exposed. * “Women's ways are like the North Pole—beyondl dig” covery. If all women would pattern by the Stamford « Cat Club directors when they get into business affairs they would find that a man—all men, in fact—is eg soft a mark in business as he is in love,” ON rn, f {EXPLORATION BY’ MACHINERK i iy IE é ‘The construction of a balloon to cross the desert of Guhara, an {dea which ts to be executed under the direction of the French War Department, is intended primarily to determing the practicability of crossing the desert in a balloon in eafety. © and secondarily, to secure as much information as posable about the route traversed, says the Denver News. The bale loon under construction for the’ Sahara trip ts to carry ne? human passengers; but in order to test the habitability of thers region traversed there will be sfx pigeons placed in « cage? In the car, An extensive aqulpment of sclentific apparatus, will be carried, and if the experiment ts brought to a gugs cessful conclusion the result will be the addition of some interesting items to our stock of sctentific data, and an impetus may be given to future attempts on « still cane ambitious scale. ince the balloon 1s to be without human passengers, tt 4s? necessary that it be automatically controlled, and it te ‘me 4 this respect that much ingenuity has been shown in the de sign, Ag it le expected that the journey may 1ast four or dvw 2 4 days, provision cust be made for the regulation of the datiagt Ds to provide for the gradual loss of gas. This has been domes | by the use of water ballast, there being a tank ; 700 litres of water, suspended below the car, in which the pigeons and instruments are placed. In the bottom of water tank fe a valve arranged with « spring which acts lift it open, and connected by means of a wire twelve in length with a ball of twenty kilograms weight, weight of the ball 1s sufficient to overcome the force of spring, and hence the valve will be kept closed ao ‘as the ball hangs freely in the air, Whenever the from loss of gas, dewends within twelve metres of ground, the ball will touch and the valve being tion of the water ballast will escape and ine reduction, load will cause the balloon to rise and proceed on Its qvagy , ” { qaeeeerrennnennnnenenl i WOMAN IN BUSINESS, ¢ According to Government statistlos, there was tn 1870 only” one woman architect in this country; now there are 66, ‘3 and sculptors have grown from 412 to 16,000, Iterary ang solentific writers fiom 100 to 3,161, preachers from @7 to 1, dentists from 34 to 417, engineers from 67 to 21, Jo from % to 472, lawyers from 6 to 471, musicians from 6,798 47,88, doctors from 627 to 6,88, avcountante from none to O71, copyiate and secretaries from 6,016 to 92,80, and » enphere ot yplels Suns. 59 4, i » There ts mo longer trange woman operator or re #! i but mining, violet we. 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