The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 8

NS <A by the Preas Publishing Company, No, 6% to 6 ‘Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omoe at New York as Seoond-Class Mall Matter. UME 43. a 18,131 THE EIGHTY-SIXTH STREET LINE. "The renewed effort of the Metropolitan Street Rail- " Company to secure sanction for the extension of. Central Park crosstown road through Eighty-sixth treet: will be followed with very great interest by the " No. _ This {ts the only line of transit connecting the west with the east between Fifty-ninth street and One dred and Sixteenth street and Its purpose is to a extent defeated by the necessity of terminating it it Bighth avenue, otherwise Central Park West. From Amsterdam avenue a car drawn by a single horse, an mtiquated relic, carries passengers to Riverside Drive, ‘Dut between Amsterdam avenuo and Central Park West is no means of communication, the property own- having for years successfully fought the grant of a franchise to the road through these two blocks. What the company now aims to do is to obtain right of way * for the connecting link by the incorporation at Albany ) of the “West Wighty-sixth Street Railway Company.” / The project is approved by the Merchants’ Association, Which has embodied in its “eighteen suggestions” this ‘Plan for an unbroken line from river to river. ~ On the two blocks in question are some of the hand- ‘somest residences on the west side and the property in- terests affected aro very great. The contention is made that the street is a parkway, but while technically so it 1s not utilized as such by pleasure vehicles, Private car- “Yolved is the invasion of residential privacy and the de- ferioration of property sure to follow the introduction ‘an electrical line. Such deterioration is certain to ensue, and its extent ‘and importance is to be weighed agninst the equally ‘certain benefits 1o be derived by the public. Few vil- ages are forced to put up with a service as inadequate as that now given by this crosstown line. Its small, ill- smelling, ill-lighted, unneated cars are a byword of re- proach. To replace them with through electric cars ac- cessible from Columbus and Amsterdam avenues will mean a largely increased patronage. In return for right ‘of Way the company could afford to salve the hurt that ‘property will feel with a handsome bonus. In default of such permission, why not a line of mod- - ern stages to replace the cars? Why not a similar ling _ through Ninety-sixth street, where also there is a vin- - duct across the park? Though the west side has grown "enormously in population within fifteen years, doubling and trebling, and though the added demands of traffic north and south have been met, no provision has been Male for crosstown travel. Tacilities for that are as provincial and as parochial as in the days when goats perched where now there are million-dollar mansions. THE FIREMEN’S PLEA. ‘What the firemen ask in the way of relief from long hours seems only simple justice, The case of the fire- "man who had not been home in four weeks because his days off found him on duty at fires is probably exce’- tional. But it is a matter of frequent occurrence that a fireman loses one in three of his days off, and the loss of oply one means an enforced absence from home of three weeks. To be on call throughout the twenty-four hours at the engine-house and to be constantly Mable to forty- eight hours of continuous fire-duty, as at the Houston ‘street leather factory fire, is harder work than should ‘be exacted of any city employee. To take away ‘his day ‘off in addition {s a grave injustice, It is treatment which tho employee of a business house would properly regard as tyrannical. ‘The firemen’s plea for recognition as under the pro- visions of the Eight-Hour law is about to come before the Court of Appeals for a final verdict. The objection to the adoption of the two-platoon system, by which a fireman would be assured regular hours off duty, {s its ‘cost. It would mean a large increase of the fire force "the Appellate Justices of the Supreme Court in affirming Justice Gaynor's adverse decision thought it would necessitate the doubling of it and was thus against pub- Uc policy, It was also alleged against the measure that the firemen would be entitled to an immense amount of ack pay to cover extra days of work. This appears now not to be apprehended. Public sympathy has been with the firemen In their attempt to lighten their long hours of Iabor. Their ad- mirable efficiency has been won against the handicap of @ fire-house slavery that has led fire chiefs from else- where to call them “the hardest worked firemen of any javgo city in the world.” WORK AND LEISURE. A Meine motorman, having come into a tortune of © $60,000, announces that he will continue to work for the | company that now employs him. His money at 5 por ©. cent. would give him leisure and an income six times as great as his wages, but work {s bis chofee. The Presi- sh = dent of Harvard, who eaid in Boston the other day that a a8 man should work as hard and as long as his health per- "mits, will be interested in this Maine motorman, John ©. Tripp. But the possession of wealth puts obligations on Tripp. He must try to do more than to earn his week's wages. He must aspire to rise until, lke Motorman Root, who was running a car seven years ago, he be- /- @omes geveral manager of his company. He must cul- ‘tivate his mind as much as he can, studying books and men and politics, making himself every year a more "useful member of society. He must dress as well as his ) purse permits, and educate his children, if he has them, ‘and give his fellow motormen a helping hand and be Bood to the poor. His fortune will make life more com- plex for him, loading him with new responsibilities. He will find enough to do to keop him busy If he does not to shirk his obligations, » Anda word about President Eliot's precept regarding "hard work. It is the salvation of man that he is obliged 9 labor, He is happier than he would be under en- m1 idleness and more useful to society and to him- And to work a little harder than you have to— te the secret of success, ut all work and no play, that tires the body along the mind and exhausts, Relaxation in its place ts beneficial, The Harvard President gets it when to a Boston symphony concert or makes an ier Speech, He got it as a youth rowing a boat Undergraduates on the Charles River, that leisure or were to spend it mew in hard unremitted we do not suppose he would man than he is, any more than we can man or a miner working hours overs more serviceable to his employer or for the next day's work. ‘There {8 much ¥, and much to be said about } pecures for the toler @ proper Be, pees THE LOVE LETTERS OF LAURA. BY ROY M'CARDELL. wo, Xtt1, Johnny Stagedohr, New York, From Miss Laura Slocum, — Theatre, New York. BAR SIR—I thank you for the beautiful flowers you send me every right. I appreciate the fact To Mt. that Tam the only woman that you ever | 4 loved. But I cannot be yours, as 1 am wedded to my art. Do not smile at this because I am only a chorus girl. I have played leading roi with Mr, Claud Barnes Tormer in “Every Inch a Gen- tleman" all through tho West, until at Watertank, 1a, our show closed be cause the benighted backwoods peop! could not appreciate @ aterling play. I am understudy to tne git who says, “Ah, here is Lady Giddy now!” And some day something may happen ber and I will get my chance at a speaking part on Broadway. I have never had n love affair, and in time I might learn to reciprocate your affection; until then you may gontinue to send me flowers. Yery sincerely, LAURA SLOCUM. No. XIV. To Mr. Ienben Durenberry, Smith- ville, Ind. Dis BIR—I am sorry you feel eo angry about losing your money in our recent theatrical venture, But what !s $500 compared with the check of the closing of “Every Inch A Gentle- man,” in whieh Mr, Barnes Tormer starred and I was featured? I am sorry that Mr. Barnes Tormer pawnel your clothes and watch and left you in such a plight, as hostage for our board bills mobile! I recelved the diamond ring, careful and circumspect, especially when If he] bank at the Grand Hotel in Watertanx. I can realize that you should have felt hurt at his conduct in singing: “Back, Baok, Back to the Woods!" through the key-hole at you, just previous to his absconding with your valuables, These disappointments should improve and sweeten your character. In a recent letter from a friend in} 4 Smithville, however, I am informed that you created a scene in church, shortly after your disastrous venture in back- ing Mr, Barnes Tormer, The sacred edifice wae the last place you should Dave given way to your violent temper, simply because you were asked to lead the singing of: “J Want To Be An Angell” Poor Mr. Burnes Tormer ts tn jail for fatjure to pay alimony to four of his wives. The other three have forgiven him and you should, too. You do not understand the ertistio temperament. Your place ts on the farm. Or if you ever decide to enter the dramatic profession again answer the advertisements in the Clipper thet read: MANTO—For Ind, Med. Co, good mugger with Joos to Rube the Btresta; boosers and sQasers eave your stamps; you will met lest « minute; regards to Tobe Lawton; Wunay Mo- ease write. not angry with you. You tell me you are to marry Cora Smith. Avc- cept my condolences. Yours with pro- found pity. LAURA. No, XV. To Mr. Stockton Bonds, Wall street. PAR MR. BONDS—You are too kind to @ poor little country girl. How oan J thank you for pre: senting me with such « beautiful auto- but you will appreciate my feelings when I tell you that I only wear tt In the presence of e chaperon. And yet I cannot delleve that you ere trifling with my young and unsophisticated heart. 1 will be pleased to go to dinner with you after the shaw. But must ask you to permit my aunt, from Brooklyn, to eccompany us. A young girl muat be she has emberked upon a theatrical career, Till to-night, adieu, LAURA SLOCUM, NOTE. As Miss Glocum is now safely behind the footlights the public must look ¢o her proms agent for the future details of her love affairs and her girlish con- fidences as set forth in her correspond- Six of the Best Jokes of the Day. IMPROVED ON NATURE, ‘The Lady—How, oh! how oan you be always drinking? ‘The Wrptch—-Well, lady, I am blessed by nature wit’ @ fine capacity, and den stiddy practice has done a lot tur me, no doubt, lady.—Chicago Dally News. DIPLOMACY, “See here, conductor!” cried the trate young woman, “I told you to stop at Tumbledown atreet."’ “r—bew pardon, miss," said the tact- ful conductor, “but 1 thought you must ‘a’ made a mistake. Stylish-lookin’ young ladies like you most gener'ly gite off at th hionable streots.""-—Phila- delphia Pi PLEASANT TREATMENT. “Tt 1 had ‘ankylostoma,’ Weary, I'd treat it after de homoeopatic fashion,” “Wot's ‘ankylostoma,’ LAmpy? "Dat's de new name for laainess,”" “And why should you treat It in de homoeopatle fashion?” “Because in de homoeopatic school like cures Mke,"—Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ONE OF THE SUFFERERS, Woman of the House~What! You one of the Venezuelan sufferers? You don't (alk Ike a Ruffon V a furrine 4 But I've had several spelis of deepondency over them troubles down thar, ma‘am,—Chi- cago Tribune OFFICIAL INFORMATION, Btranger—Can you direot me to the nk? I'm not Village Urchin—Well, you can't expect a fellow to be a bank director for othe {ng.—Chicago N WOMEN'S CLEVERNESS. Folks “clothed in brief authority," Hapeah'ly if they're winumin, ‘Will len'then out its brevity pilin’ on the lt Press, eee WITH HER ALL om 092099065500 4 PPOOTD $8-4OO84000060H. $ THE MERRY MAC TWINS. $ * Myst! Yes Inoeeny! Artist Powers Depicts Them Having Fun with Cousin George. HOME FUN FOR WINTER EVENINGS, {ZX X56 7X 40 CINES 11] O56 A8 3 Our figures are ealleg Arabte, not be cause they originated tn Arabla—they came to Aratia from Hiedostan—but be-; cause they were intreduced tuto Gpain by the conquering Moora, and theses found their way into the rest of Buropa, Nothing absolutely certain ia known as to their origin, and there hap been a| great deal of controversy resulting over’ It, one of the two following theories probably being the correct one: As excellent geometriciang, the Moors composed the written number out of geometrical figures: 1 has oup angle, 2 has two, 3 has three, &c.; 0, a circle, has none, Again, it is argued that the figures were composed of rigif lines used to in- caty the number to be noted. There ts ‘one Ine in 1, three in 3, eight in 8, do, The Greeks and Romans bad systems totally different from oura, which made long calculations almost impossible; therefore it seems Ikely that the mathematicians of old had knowledge of what are now called Arablo figures, ee HIDDEN EATABLES, 1, He is the merriest I\ttle chap I ever knew. 2. That ts o8 artistic a keepsake as I ever saw. 4 ‘The name of our new coachman ts Benjamin Buttona, 4, If 1 were you I would put that nice muff in a hatbox, 4, Do not be ao upset over a trifie, 6. The stewardess was very obliging, 1. Maye you seen Jonathan Dump lin- 6ering around the post-office? ‘he answer to No, 1 3 “pir,” which bogine with the “'p" of “chap.” The others are found in the same way. ——————— A RIDDLE, 1 am @ gacred symbol, And I’ omething you might be, And I'm something y. ‘would do In traversing the sea, Lam attached to many things, A cut, @ plece, » bow, | And what I am or ougat to be You surely now must know, Prominent New Yorkers. BY C. DE FORNARO. C.deForvano. Bais idk 38 tule THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE. ‘The history of the motor car reads like @ weird legend. More than a century ago automobilism wae born in France, with the steam car of Cugnot. The vehicle was as crude es one would ex- Dect from @ construction an entire cén- tury ahead of its mechanical realization, Gtill, the machine would run, and run well. In the first half of the nineteenth century Cugnot's idea reappeared in the experiments of automobile passenger conveyances, The names of W. H. James, Goldam!th Gurney Hancock, J. Scott Russell and Trevithiok are fa- millarly connected with this period in auto busipess. In 18% the automobile came to stay. De Dion, Bouton, Daim- ler and Gerpollet being the pioneers this edged beau of Fort Leramie,es the girls over the mat dance. ‘‘No use making eyes at Ned Willard; he's engaged and has been Here's his ever since last winter in Washington, sister's letter,” Tt was & mean thing, e@ contemptible thing for the belle to say at this time and in this presence), and she knew it. Ever since Willard's return from three months’ leave the first of March, malsing play—tf not eyes—at him and without success. There had come a merry ttle party, down from old Fort Fetterman, up the Platte, just for the week, There had been dances and dinners, skating on the flats and riding over the bluffs, and pretty Nell Multland (daughter of the old chaplain at Fetterman) sprained her pretty ankle on the ice just as the party was about to return, and all because Ned Willard and the belle had oe waltzed into her at a oritical turn, she sew his fi bring her books, words ringing, nail the He, daya later at Laramie. could not cure. tween Soo 4 THE =}EVEN THE LARAMIE LIE. BY GEN. CHARLES KING. (Capyetgnt, 190% by Dally @tory Pur, Co.) tt {8 engeged to Kate Crofton,” wala the welgning Delle concerning the ecknowl- Big Ned was overwhelmed with distress as he picked her up, and the belle with dismay when Nell Maitland spent days thi after on the sofa in the Colonel's sunshiny parlor, and day after day the best looking “sub” at the post came to Inquire after her—to call, to chat, to “He's engaged to Kate Crofton and has been ever since his visit to Washington,” were now the ringing, mercilessly ringing én (Nell’s bewildered ears, When she heard tt Willard was away on an Apache campaign and could not Gray-haired old Maitland was a godly man, but they say he swore @ big oath when he looked into Nell's white, wan, yet bravely smiling face a few Maitland got # leave, and spent the summer and his savings in taking Nell and her mother to the seashore, Something had gone amiss with the little mald that local doctors ‘And there they were, late in June, when the news came of the hot fight on the Deje Agic be- Crook’e column and the overwhelming hordes of red warriors led by Crasy Horse, | Guy Henry, despenately wounded;" “Lieut. ©. P. Willard, shet through the body; probably mortal.” Never until that night had Maitland mentioned that young officer's name, even to his wife. Now, should he or her mother break the news—and how? The question wae wettiog for them, CAPT. O’REILLY’S TEA-TIME IN THE TENDERLOIN 66°77 HE Tenderloin must be a pretty dull place after @ o'clock in the morning these times,” sald The Cigar Store Man. “To a man who never looks under the lid,” repiied ) The Man Higher Up, “the Tenderloin after 1 o'clock im a the morning looks Ike Metucnen, N. J., from the wine © dows of the midnight express. But for those who knowr how to get behind tho scenes there is good and plenty, ‘ doing. A wise guy can etart in at midnight in the Ten- derloin with a head as clear as the lens of a micro- scope and wind up in the morning with a stew and @ 4 cargo of experience that would swamp a night-hawk cab, “There are eeveral thousand people in the Tenderloin every night whose beds would drop to pieces in surprime: if they retired before daylight. These people have got: to go somewhere, If ithey can’t go to places that are: open—legally open, understand—they will go to places; that are open illegally. You couldn't get this into tha! | conk of Capt. Miles O'Reilly with a hydraulic drill, ‘“Yll approve all night licenses for social affairs that | are attended by respectable people,” says Capt. O'Reilly, ‘People who are not respectable must go home at &! # o'clock. They are no good if they stay out after that, hour. I don’t believe in drinking myself. Tea and coffee are good enough for me, and they ought to be gam enough for anybody.’ bit “Capt. O'Reilly is supposed to be a man of judgment. Every man of judgment knows that you can’t change the habits of people who are satisfied with tho way they. are going by hitting them with a club. Bunch a man‘si habits and they are like his face. You can’t lose either. “Tf the restaurants in the Tenderloin are closed at 1 J o'clock in the morning for any length of time the result. will be the opening of a lot of dives run with a soft pedal. No police captain that ever lived can close these: dives unless there is open competition with them in a legal way. Men and women won't go into holes that smell like sewers, where the knockout drops are passed from hand to oand and where degradation flourishes ile. @ fire in a paint factory if there are clean places for: them to go to. “They are talking now about issuing all-night) Moenses on probation to certain places for five days. Capt. O'Reilly, who cannot see why anybody should want to drink anything but coffee and tea, is to be the judge of whether these places are up to his ideas of re~ spectability. He'll be a good judge—for Tammany in the next election.” Ld “I suppose the precinct is eo clean that Capt. OReilly hes nothing else to fo, "suggested The Cigar Store Man, “Bvidently,” replied The Man Higher Up, “Capt, O'Reilly is the same kind of a supposer.” by PERIL IN HANDSHAKING. i M. (ireoch, of Chicago, in Popular Mechanfon, with germe enough to infect a thousand people. use their handkerchiefs with the same results, and when have an epilemic of the grip it ts spread by the ‘grip ail germ diseases may be disseminated in this manner, ‘They were visiting olf friends who had a oot, tage at Bea Girt, and were scated in the pavilion of @ great hotel. A portly gentleman tame hurry | ing to the group at the adjoining table. ‘Here's bad news, Kate!” said the big mam, briefly. ght! your” An hour later, as Mrs, Maitland knelt to kiss her little maid good-night—no doctor had beem negded—a pair of white arms twined about the! “Young Willard’s badly shot in an You expected his sister to-morrow, diane! she bad mother’s neck, and then came.a whisper: ‘Bay ® Uttle prayer for him, Mummte, and for us all—for belleving."” / Wo weren't at Russoll that year when the, Maitlands came back from the seaboard, bab’ ily said, “but stil} in the ning,” and his mother | oi and wlster both were there keeping ‘house for him in the Major's quarters, the whole garrizon being aileld. In fact he was down at the depot in * ane when thelr train came tn, stumping hope and eagerness; and Grace, his sister, wateh» oh {ug him narrowly and putting together this, tha and the other thing that she had heard, read i story even before he caught sight of Nell Matte land on the Putiman platform, ‘The belle of Larme time, but thers had been plenty left to gradually tell the Willarda of her words, “Only an April fool!’ was the lady's explanation, when finally called to account. “The wish was father to the, thought with Grace WMlard, and che dia | ‘ Perhaps that had teen the plan In Grace Wile Inrd's amb heart, but she reckoned without ‘her brother—or Kate, She saw the inevitable two days after the “Illy maid's” return, when for tt firat ume the doctor let Willard mount his horse, the slender, sweet-faced, blue-eyed girl—w away together up the wind-swept bluffs of Crow! Creo unt] all but the flagstaff at Russell was! tidden from sight, and then, with quivering pe and brimming eyes, after ono of those silencem stretched forth an cager hand: “Nell, Nell; I've teen waiting all these montiae for you to come back to tell you what wae trembling on my tips that last night at Lerenin. when our orders came." i‘ ke ay “Col. Willard was, “somewhat bunged up," na he cheen about with a Wig cane, his fine face aglow with mle tind unaccountably gone to Denver about this best to make tt a match, even if she failed. and ance more the two-the big eoldierly fellows, that say 80 much, he suddenly turned and And then like a man he told her, and, ‘Utde oman, she repited,