The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1903, Page 12

ee DC HEY CUO 1, d by the Prees Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMce vat New York as Seeond-Clasbl Mail. Matter. 15,180. LUME 48 iN THE STREET-CAR CRUSH. Before the State Railroad Commission yesterday il Manager Root, of the Interurban Ratlroad Com- 7, said that “physical limitaticas beyond the control me company" prevent it from giving the public a satisfactory service during rush hours. “We have all that is possible to divert traffic,” he sald, ‘‘but) fs not prssible to relieve the congestion.” Mr. Roct held out no hope of a better service. The only nce to be drawn from his testimony {s that condi- will exSw worse and worse. And bearing in mind prediction of Chief Engineer Parsuns that ‘the sub- will relieve the congestion for perhaps two day outlock is far from reassuritig, Apparently what ow reg.id as the indecent discomfort of surface ‘transit is a condition to which we shall soon be forced i ook back with regret becauso of conditions even less ible. But the public is not prepared to accept unquestioned. ‘Bible to divert,trafic,” | ‘Why has not a more intelligent effort been made to “@evelop the Seyer*h avenue line from Twenty-thint up through tmsterdam avenue? The process now are at long intervals with half empty cars that run ily to Forty-third street. This promised to be a favor- » ite route for shoppers returning home. They ava{l them- Be of/it now as much as they can. If they could an assurance of something better than standing- any reason why the cqmplement of cars here id not be doubled and this route north and south y ? ) proved? It is idle to say that physical limitations prey to run some cf them down Seventh avenue frum jbecond street ifstead of east through that street ‘would be a notewo-thy addition to the existing carrying ‘acilities, Tho ostablishment of a transfer system from hér lines to this would attract passengers from the rn and the Sixth avenue routes. Why cannot the jam at the Thirty-fourth street janc- hh avenue and the Sixth avenue cars up Broadway? Pivert Broadway traffic trom Fourteenth atreet? yt ts obvious that not all has been done that can be ‘dow tg relieve the daily increasing congestion. It is ‘@quully obvious that some relief must speedily be had, as desired by the traction company. It {s not ttreets. ° val MATRIMONIAL BUREAUS. ‘interesting of recent matrimonial swindles. Furlong is! Believed to have been concerned in the scheme by which many persons were induced tegand $1 in the hope of be- suitors for the han@4 ». “lady obliged to marry @ 5,000 marriageable males. Could gullibility go further? Perhaps not, but it has almost as far in other cases of similar deception. ' eifering artful lures to induce susceptible suitors to part 525,000 4 $40,000, lof letters conflacated. ‘Whertd «Bester Matri-) Many hetresers "| Membership feo of #5 monial Co. stock. and agreement @ pay $60 on marriage. 7 ‘And numerous others. The fake matrimontal bureau » ls variation of the get-rich-quick business syndicate, promising, 15 it does, a number of capital prizes in return "for = smal! fee and the possession of a satisfactory al- _ “iwance for good looks. It thus offers as great a temp- tation to the vanity as to the oupidity of the victim and i doubly alluring to him, The very large number of @lients on the book of the Chicago Matrimonial Trust, as Revealed at the time of the exposure, indicated the wide prevalence of this matrimonial credulity. A yearly busi- mess of $100,000 in one limited field sufficiently shows the profit in this form of swindle, LOVE-LETTER LITERATURE. The grandson of the man whom Robert C. Winthrop Fegarced as the “prince of Harvard orators" 1s credited! With the authorship of the) following letter, alleged to “have been written to his wife in the days of his now out- Worn fondness for her: weet baby, be ® choerful wite and remember nose loves you and Bare in & bug and kises—lois of (bem, for nose own baby from nose who loves you. | _ In the current literature of love letters as published tn the, daily press from time to time is there any to be! Ay. d expression of affection? Heredity in this case transmitted the grandfather's talent unimpatred, but: ely changed from the art of oratory to the epistolary larity of the love letter, Perhaps if he had not to be a banker the author might have shone in " ure as an Ovid. / ‘Phe writer of a love letter is wont to unveil bis soul ¥ to the object of his affections and to put om paper ex- 2 0 of endearment intended for her eye alone, why we like them so. “What comés from the to the heart,” said Coleridge, and that 1s the ‘they are so persuasive and, as reading matter poral public, so interesting, BL is why the Jove letters of a staid business ‘Us more than the more pretentious produc- or the professione! litterateur. Is theré ) Vaunted Browning letters to compare in with the immortal “Baby Bunting” if. Root’s statemeit thut he has “done all that is pos-| Te Miss Le the rush hours {s to alternate packed through |America's Foremom Young Romantic To Mr. Reuben D ‘Vent its extension. "'o increase the number of these cays tof hs own company to get all! « lon be leusened ‘by continuing the Broadway cars UD| week. He says you ere an angel and |) ‘Why is no use made of the University pjace line to} *!m. Ever your friend, ‘even by the adoption of herofc measures. But the city/a new suit of clothes, the latest city es not ey prepared to rulo trucks and team® off the| style called “lion tamer’s check. yet ready to make an wnconifitional. surrender of $t8 lin the pants, but Mr. Cohenhelmer says 4 Ddargained him down ¢rom eighteen ‘The arrcst of W. D. Furlong reveals one of the most) nut 4 was too wmart fer him. settle an estate legajly~ and of receiving the dowry|®™ sving on the stage. a ” ment was a mistake, dut I ghall keep “$20,000 to be settled without restriction” on the €0-|110'i0¢ you gave me for the tender qeepted husband on the day of the marriage. It was an|memories thet cluster eround it, it be- yalluring bait, swallowed, as the dete:tives' search showed,|ing e cluster ring. I am engaged to ‘ 'faghtonable theatre in Red Bank, N. J., _) 4n examination of The World files of recent dete|/next Monday night. Kindly keep this many instances of marriage bureaus prospering by|@ secret, as my aunt has en unaccount- able prejudice against the theatrical profession, owing to an unpleasant ex- a ‘THE WORLD: FRIDAY i i ee Pen 5 eae és ie Sy THE LOVE LETTERS OF LAURA. BY ROY M’CARDELL. NO. X1IT. Cland Barnes Torm: ax Stock Co., Brookiyn. EAR FRIEND—Your lovely letter received. I would like to go on the stage very much. I used to Fecite “Curfew Shall Not Ring To- Night!” phd “Over the Hills to the Poorhouse’ at entertainments home, and everybody said I was splendid. How much will {t take to back tho show “Every Inch a Gentleman?" Write as’ before, Sincerely, LAURA 8. cue NO, XIV. &., Care of Nellie ‘ Johnson, Cranberry Street, Brooklyn. Dear Lady—How much heave you got? Answer quick, CLAUD BARNES TORMDR, FSS SE FO IS TIGTSOS ROTTS SHISTIIISIIGSIOINS oo Actor, Climax Stock Co. NO. Xv. berry, Smith. > ville, Ind, ‘ EAR REUB—We will be 004] ‘ friends. I hope you and Cora A# Bmith will be happy. She hasn't a] @ nice figure and isn't very pretty, but she js a nice girl. In one of your letters | 7 you wrote that you thought of com! te New York to buy genuine counte felt money. I have bean In correspon- | % dence with America's Foremost Young | @ Romantic Actor and he only needs $500 to start out at the head ‘the money in the United States with his new play, “Evefy Inch a Gentte- man." He says the Theatrical Syndi- cate fs afraid he will put them out of business, and disoriminate against him. He says if you will invest your money in Theatricals, he will make you treas- urer of the company and you can han- dle your own ney. He guarantees you can make thousand dollars a don't buy any gold bricks until you see LAURA. NO. XVI. To Miss Laura Slocum, Brooklyn. BAR FRIOND—! am coming rite away. don't let anybody git this chance to git ritoh but me. | got "and t look Ike lone tn th that's all the style with'nobby dressers. dollars to seven. and he cried terrible over the money he lost on the dicker, REUBEN DUZENBERRY. NO, XVII. To Mr. Frank Williame, Brooklyn. Deer Gir--I write to tel you thet I Our engage- play ® part in Mr. Bamnes Tormer’s erling American drama, ‘Every Inch Gentleman,” which opens in the most hie talk is of tidies. LENGTH UNKNOWN, ‘But you really are getting seedy,” persisted Mre. Naggit, ‘‘Jugt look at your hair, How long 1s it alnce you've had It cut?’ “I don't know," he snapped. “T haven't measured !t.""—Philadelphia Press, NEEDED REGULATING, Elmer (aged five)—Mamma, my stom~- ach says it's time for dinner. Mamma—Well, dear, go and see what the clock says, Eimer (a moment later)—The clock says my stomach is ten minutes fast.— Chicago News, STRONG TEMPTATION, Judge—Did the defendant, to your knowledge, ever invite another to com- mit perjury? Witness-—-Yes; I once heard him ask a woman her age.—Boaton Globe, "It has taken the conceit out of me to] Zls his wife handsome? assessed ofa valuation of $9,000,000." "Why so?’ owned it every time I pa'd my Dill] éo6eees@0 there."—Cleveland Plain Dealer, nee LOST CONCEIT. © Bigge—| hear Smith is married. find that the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is} 4 Diggs—I! don't care to express an opinion on the subject; but It Zit wae a love match then | am “Because 1 always felt as though 1/2 convinced that love is blind. O9-D9$-4-2-9O@ THE HEN-MINDED >HDDOSO$OOOS 09000606060 © S MAN HAS BEEN DISCOVERED. ARTIST POWERS’S IDEA OF WHAT ONE IS LIKE. ) Lwin NEVER SPEAK To HIM AGAIN HIS EXPERJENCE, ! Kate Masterson, the writer, has discovered, {solated a uew variety of the genus homo, which she calls the “Hen-Minded Man." She says he only exists at women's cluhs, afternoon receptions, five o'clock functions and musicales, Hi® food is tea and tattle, and |* Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Ferenzac is the first to formulate “If a man should insult you, never speak to him again!” are here set forth: the pink tea you are at, oackle she Is the person you aro laying | tm comrane. | 10 24m mene... tears wire tae Ber Se SH ie . 4 0 be actora, but who x WEY, natrimonta) crus.| Retond German adr] Membersio tee o¢ %, | Svadently Impostare, who boarded at her Tulos to guide the hen-minded men. They are as follows: : orta O8, A large number of 6079" | house last summer. With fond re- Other rules for- h a Chicago Matrimonial) Eligible and beautiful; Fee of % sad 2 per |grets, LAURA SLOCUM. for hen-minded men A ‘Agency. Lesa aerate tthe dowry in the ——— Q Whon any social leader attends 0 world's @aods.levent of marriage. ’ louder than ever that | Me Culcage Matrimonial! Eligible ladies with) Fee of $5 to $50. Found Six of the Best gin epitantiahe mey know, ‘Trust, embraning sev- |fortunce. ‘tare made 800,000 a se ; ‘eral branch agencies. dear. Jokes of the Day. $ Don't eat Iady-fingers. It is cannibalistic, Pacific Coast Information| Select !let of 72 eligible) Bégil stopped by P. 0. $ ye Fg |. tes ornate Alweoorhie tol mewesa ) FRIENDLY CRITICISM. She—Do you belleve that play- ing golf makes one thin? He—No, but it is apt to make one short—financially speaking. POGGIO HHH Ve * WHAT HE NERDS 752. * — (RINUBSer A BREF STEAK x OW We SHOULD | NEVER, Neen ‘pint CORET STRINGS AF FA 5 octets INS MOE : WEIS ACRUEL HARO DESPOT! walking, * . ' Never indulge in,the brutal game of chess. Do nat play the plano to excess. 4 anything.” It fs correct form to he serious. may have a valet of his own, cigarettes, No not let your wife dictate to you. Rude, brutal men are hen- pecked, but at home the hen-minded man js cock of the walk. HAD TOUCHED THE LIMIT. ‘ Short—I figured up the other ® OOO9000OS0OOOO7* 0 & o PS $ Never wear walking gloves while riding or riding gloves while 3 Never wear a high hat on a straw ride or a straw hat on a high ride. Don't carry one glove “just for a kid,” nor say it 1s “too suede fore Never say to a discouraged friend, “Be a man, old fellow He Don’t depend on others. Be self-reliant and Hght your own THE SEQUEL. THE GERMANS WAITED FOR DEWEY TO LEAVE ezwees,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “The Germans,” replied The Man Higher Up, . “walted until Dewey got home from those parts and then they cut loose. If Dewey had remained in the Caribbean Sea the German warships would have remained out of sight of land, discernible only to the sense of smell}. Hver.smell a German warship when it is standing still or is moving slowly? It fs the concentrated essence of all / the delicatessen shops in New York made into a goulash, “You'll take notice that while Dewey was down there with the United States fleet hiking around and showing the boys how to do destructive stunts there was nothing doing along the coast of Venezuela. But as soon as Dewey landed in the United States the German gunboat Panther proceeded to get busy, . “The Panther steamed up to a dinky litle fort-and - started in to paraiyze it. At the first shot the Venezue- lans in the fort, who had been taking their afternoon nap, woke up, lit cigarettes and began jo talk to each other. Along came a few more shots, and the Venezue- lans got wise to the fact that the warship wasn't firing > |for exercise. ’ z “If there is anything that will make a Venezuelan mad it is to have an enepy be in earnest with him: As long as war is a kidding game the Venezuelan is a harmé less fighte. They carry ‘on revolutions down there at times and don't shed enough blood on both sides to stain a handkerchief. But get a Venezuelan riled and 4 he is a bad man. He’ don’t care whgther he kills any+ body or not. 1a “Evidently those Venezuelans in the fort were more or less isritated, because they began to shoot at the Pan- ther, It looks to me as though there must have been @ j »|few Americans behind the guns. The reports say that J) the Venezuelan shots began to bounce off the Panther from the time that they began to pop. Instead of stand- ing the gaff, the Panther put out to sea and°the Vene- zuelans held a flesta in the fort. “Phat the Panther should have been driven back be ®|yond the mines by a bunch of back-number Venezuelan | guns made the German officers sore. If you lick am American, he waits until he gets well and then he goes back af you. ‘If you put a crimp in a German, he out and gathers a crowd. That's what the comman of the Panther did, He went out and got e couple of other warships to help ‘him, and then he went In and made second-hand builders’ material owt of the fort, at San Carlos. “One of the German ships was so big that she couldn't get inside the harbor, so she remained outside, out of reach of the Venezuelan guns, and fired shots, all over the landscape. Lots of Venezuelans who were dozing the / efternoon away in the shade of their banana trees were awakened by being hit with a shot that had the effect of. a carload of cement. German shells lit all along coast, and if they have undertakers in that section of Venezuela they are all busy to-day. i $3] “iverybody wants to know why they did it, Germany, 3 says that she didn’t order her commanders to shoot up ch, ‘ any Venezuelan forts, but warships don't generally go im .d_smash up things’ unless the men running them bang”, orders trom headquarters. From the looks of the \ Germany {s so daffy for a fight with somebody she cam lick that she wants to pull it off before the referee gots into the ring. é ’ | “Prince Henry of Germany tried to get gay the came ay over in the Bay of Manila, aided and abetted by one Diedrich. But Dewey was there and ‘he sent ‘word to the German warship that if any monkey business was tempted there would be a long period of mourning et . There was nothing doing.” ee De you think if Dewey hed been down around ‘Vene- zuela he would have stopped the bombardment?” asked igar-Store Man net Dewey had been there,” responded The } Higher Up, “he wouldn't have had to stop it, beca wouldn't have happened.” THINGS, ARE SELDOM WHAT THEY SEEM, ‘The shades of night were falling fast. ‘As through an uptown street there passed ‘A youth, and at a house, at last, ' oT SEE the Germans have been shooting up the Véne $ 20999999909 09000G: BODO @ He stopped. ‘He rang the bet! he'd rung before, ‘The door was opened, as of yore, By maiden beautiful—aye, more— | Bhades Gropped. A qestight Mickered, from within, Upon a curtain, wan and thin, ‘ / ‘And soon there was an awful din 1 Inetde. ps ) day that | owed my friends nearly i) \ Two figures fitted, to and fro, e) 7,000. % ‘Ah! Here they come! ‘No! ‘There they gol Long—What are you going to do Stay! What wae that? Was it a blow? it about it? "Twas wide. a. Short—That's what puzzies me. about kissing? 4 onf the street— ay | can't think of any one else who, The Bachelor — Yes, matri- A stow had antieaes fat feet, h will lend me mo: monial. IMAGINE THIS. Ide—So you belong to an @ May—Yes, indeed. Why, we have per- suaded some of the South Water street when CONUNDRUMS. teamaters to say "Oh, fudge their teams tangle up,—Chica HIS INCENTIVE, behind her little fellow, Tommy, Now tell me what] door mat? One etep further deep underlying principle prompted you tw forgive those wicked boys who called you ugly names? Tommy—They was all bigger than me. ~Town and Country, a HER MAIDEN AIM, your maiden name?’ I| |she couldn't pick up, what Water Mgbtens the world? Ink when there is not a bit in his Qo nose? Tulip. A,iarron fair one day: “What was your maiden name?” Bhe blushed; “LP hardiy Nke to say,” in her hand. 7 maiden name. G Arbuckle pen? Whew the heart secks i Again | asked he eat Ar behind, her fan sald: “ut if course, my maiden! | lights on jis head, Wile hg) eh Rev. Goodman—You are @ very noble! What relation is a door scraper to a What ts that which, though black, en- Why ts @ horse the most curious ¢eed~ er in the world? Bocause he eats best oul, What flower !s always under your A washerwoman dropped something was it? Why is a woman deformed whl e mend- ing a stocking? Because she has a foor Why te & cat unlike a match? Because the cat lghis on its feet, and the match News. Why \|s a fashionable lady like « steam engine? Because she has a train Each player 4s furnished with @ sheet {thought of ohe that he may represent of paper and a pencil, and when all are |by one or more pictures, he makes his seated the judge tells them the object |drawing and submitp it to the judge. A of the game, which is Co make the name | time limit should be fixed within wich of @ olty Into @ rebus; ar, rether, 10/the drawing mumt be fAnished; But this ty by @ rebUs. |ghould not be too short. for good work | many names of remark ginning with that Je represent the name of A rebus, you know, Is & sort of; pur tn which things Why is an elephant an unwelcome | ‘¥res t Bach player ls eg atk with al, NY MME Me) pe KH Rebus Game with Pictures. A GITY OF INDIANA, represented by ‘to thf of names mt 2 sas es y s d comparing with this as a comprehensive yet con:| ne Riatp sy SSRRMpNLAD “AAA WIN TER E VENING AMUSEMENT IN THE HOME. the other people. group. Then the ’ A CITY OF HUNGARY. 5 of seas ah sennot be Gong 19 (eH . nN amines have : aa ty arradged re THE GAME OF CLUMPS, Divide the boys and girls into two groups, ‘One person from each group’ must go out of the room. These two then agree on a word to\be guessed by Then they return to room, and each goes to the other one's grow and is cross-examined by them. ‘Ths group that firat guesses the word takes one player trom the o' fore, the losing side having to give up one player each Um — THE GAME OF NAMES, Sit around the library table, choose a letter of thé alphabet and give three minutes far eseh person to set down as ‘Who'd just meandered ‘long Ms beat, Was there. “What's this?’ he asked, aloud and gruff, ir Through many «@ layer of the “old stuff," “It ie @ prixe-fight, sure enough! Beware!" { ‘The fight, within, was growing fast— ‘ i t o furious it could pot last— And soon it woyld be o'er and past, " ‘That's wot. Just then there wes an awful crash— Something was broken all to smash— Could it have been the window sash? ay x Whp not? But walt! From out the doorway came ‘The youth end maid now ‘known to fame; » His looks told that he'd won the game, ‘ Sh! Hush! ” “You only got eighteen!" sald she, “And I'm pineteen to-day!’ Said he: “Il make it ninety;mine, b'gee!" “On, It, was the copper man, thus spats Ashe a encak did straightway t And the crowd, likewise, made @ break, |.” _ Outright, The ‘The youth and maiden, after this, bilse, a, @ushi" Hat erles out,