The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1903, Page 12

, JANUARY 28, 1903, @Pdiishea by the Press Publishing Company, Park Row, New York. Entered at the at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. VOLUME 438....... THE JERSEY RAILWAY DISASTER. The appalling accident on the Jersey Central has @mny features in common with the New York Central's “tunnel disaster of a year ago. Bach was a rear-end col-) Gsion, each was due to an engineer running past danger | stgnals and in each the death-wreaking locomotive was in charge of a substitute engineer. Except for the tun-| « me) the parallel is well nigh complete, The New Jersey disaster, like the other, was due to! ; human fallibility. The danger signals were properly set; their own mute evidenco corroborates the testimony of the tower men as to that. The green warning light) In th lock,” the red danger signal, the Roselle gate- man’s red lantern and the twin rear platform red lights) of the ill-fated local were &ll disregarded as the massive) engine went crushing ahead on its mission of death. iWhere were the engineer's eyes? Why was there no | warning cry from the fireman, as on Wisker's ci There was the rain-saturated atmosphere to dim the vision, but no smoke and steam to blind it totally as in Wisker’s case, With all the mechanical appliances for safety working with absolute accuracy, the man on whose care and judgment precious lives rested was found want- ing. His statement that he saw the green and the red light, but “expected them to turn white any moment,” if| not the utterance of delirium, is the excuse of crimi recklessness. The public will demand an immediate explanation from the official who passed on the fitness of Engineer Davia to take charge of the Royal Blue line's locomo-| THE FREAKS’ tive. It is inconceivable that the control of the road's crack train should have been intrusted to an incompe- BOARDING HOUSE. |s ND 3 P. M. and take us driving. to go with us, LOU AND LENA—Sure. eee: OOO) tent man. But the evidence that he was unworthy of his post is strong, and the responsibility must rest on the one who assigned him to his work, A WIDOW'S INVESTMENTS. By Roy L. McCardell. ‘When a widow begins to emerge from full mourning | 4(] WISH they'd Introduce that thres- and turns her attention to the important but avoided | platoon syst»m at the museum,” aaid the Fat Lady, “the hi consideration of the investment of her fortune she finds) . 1. terriniy jong." may, © hours many advisers ready to assist her. “If we'd organize a Freaks’ Union," There is the man with the undeveloped Arizona gold| ait the ne * bth the Decent. Chest, “we could enforce a ten-hour errange- mine, a splendid property needing only the employment) 1° ©)! EO anteitie anabueinecniees of a little money to make it productive. ums out of business." ‘There is the other man, perhaps, like the first, an old) “Huh,” sald the Circassian Beauty, friend of the family, with a promising investment {n ldap ee fable ogee ae ‘West Virginia oll lands, A sure thing, just adjacent to} ni and waa jelocted tralia ideles some of the most valuable gushers jn the State and cer-| gato. “We presented an ultimatum to tor rich. Koh) & Bfiddieton for a ten-hour day, ieeniee make the, Tent tyes 1 i th with income| #!! ‘¥ork overtime to be paid for extra. ‘The man with suburban lots; the man my But before wo could strike there was bonds, payment so fat deferred but soon to be begun; a lockout. They put on a pie-eating the man with stocks that are cheap at double their mar- cont peas sankey. pewsney San ee y | ants and got up a beauty show and a ket value. There is no lack of counsellors for the widow. Teatipiwcodtanw line ieontest: enawhad he ‘The sharks are all ready for thelr prey. with the manager of the Educated Hog She is a woman with a clear head and a firm purpose not coming out and worn slaae workers that had been with an Indian Medicine who resists their importunities and betakes la toy ie PEC SpEC aE ieeomUner thea) Ware the more conservative counsel of her family lawyer or NaN inthe Gown why! welnhad (6 some business friend of unquestioned probity or, best) give tn. of all, some trust company. But with the speculative) “I remember that time," sald Zdp, instinct he What-le-It. ‘The Human Curt- strong in her, as in all women, she tod tre-| oot re suiant picket the place because quently listens to the persuasive voice of the promoter! 14: would have cheapened them in the and eventually finds herself penniless. eyes of the public, letting it see rare Husbands realize the dangers that beset a widow! pathological cases free." | ‘We are lucky to be lyin geeking to invest her money advantageously. They Mile Gietetalaee MOeuntiodaTwaides realize the economy that will be necessary where the) \ijie has almost killed the museum fortune is small if it is invested with the safety that at-| business. tends a low rate of interest. | "well, earner the owe Bar. sneves In these circumstances should they put restrictions on | Works on Sunday,” sa ‘at Lady. \ ve “That's because he's a hardshell Bap- the disposal of their estates by their widows? The| i1.: ang the managers respect his re- Evening World yesterday submitted this question to two! jigious convictions,” sald the Boy with Supreme Court Justices, men who have gained national! the Deceptive Chest y “Stull, we méght have won the fight in repute for acumen and wisdom in their decisions from} cincinnati iT RIE aIaIAy Gui aR cwaeK the bench, Both admitted that the question was most’ 4, two jJonger,” sald the Circassian pugzling, but was one that was likely to be greatly in-| Princess, “but the Burmese Twins, or | « fluenced by conditions, | Double Boy, broke away from the union | bee: v1 h ne Justice Henry Gildersleeve said: because he wanted to boss the job in stead of the Limbless Wonder. The ‘That ix an intricate question which in auscepttDle of various tnterpre- | Double Boy claimed that two heads | tations. Undoubtedly the safest method for a man to adost shd withed were better than one. The only freak | ( absolutely provide for the future of his widow and obildren Is to direct| that held out was the Forty-Day Past- | be anitled and invested in some one of the many trust com-| or He was used to going without | yery tafe and sound tn- food. ” sald panies. generous. annuities ma For the man of moderate income I snould suse: i. 04 of providing for hin wife and family mough of hia income to pay for life tn) could be turned into a life annuity for his widi governed by circumstances, but the only sure method sneme provide some kort of w trust me to think of t.* sald the Fat Lady, “it was the Forty-Day Faster | who recommended this boarding-house | + to me." i “Et you intend that remark as a slur.’ said the retired Glant who conducted the establishment, give | & you to understand that I set as good | ® table as 1 can considering what's, ¢ paid me and the high prices of every- thing." The place suits me.” sald the Living | Skeleton, "I never heard anybody come plain about it except the Ossified Man, Insuraace A man might lay | minich at Of course, Justice Greenbaum shook his head when the reporter asked him the best means of protecting the widow, turning good interes! Se Bend eh A vee that » the income id his only kick was that his folding peaking new of the man with maderate {i Ih tem very aim oe ae we Ore a question to decide ofthen eo weny conditions which UO4) heard him and he'd have to sleep standing on his head all night,’ Wly Aitterentiy to chin matter ee os Wat's become of the Onsified Man™ asked the Fat Lady, not anxious for{ AN ACTOR'S CONQUESTS, an altercation with the Jandiady and The railroad president's niece who eloped with an willing to changa the subjeot in eonse- actor says from the depths of her repentance Don't Suenre marry an actor or Imagine yourself in love with him, spelen iia mina gen wat oan ne Hemember that the glamour of the footlights blinds a } : He Cann him up to the Grand Cen girl's eyes until she can see a gentioman in a beast." @ shawl strap and the buckle gave way arrying A) Depos tn sesseseeee NO. 18,188, | « $.$-0.06d004000500006O04O000008 THE LITTLE BIG-HAT SISTER A—Wise Willie said he'd meet us at FOXY FREDDIE—I'll manage that; you surely preter ‘TH E,. Saal — ff VN i wee . D8DOHO4SO4O04 OOO6 S WITNESS a HOOD 444 DOE®® FOXY FREDDIE—Yes, Miss Toughly, meet Wise Willie over yonder at 2.45 this afternoon and engage him in conversation. When I appear with two girls say to Willie in a loud voice: “How dare you ask me for a kiss.” Here is $5. fl I SSSSSSSSSSSSSSASSSSS i ig H(i No. 4.—‘'Poor little dog! There goes my trousers.” » nd There are scamps on the stage as well as off, but une, HPYE Mim out of the business, for the| doubtedly Mrs, Willard is wrong in generalizing 80 thera ine least Me Inaned oe teraced sweepingly. Considering the feminine adulation offered “What's the matter with the Snake him and ths opportunities for heart-breafing thrust upon PAter’’ whispered the Circassian Prin him, the popular actor seems to exercise a commendable heent uacdramithe: able leakleg, felf-restraint. Was there not a matinee favorite who used to introduce his wife as lis “only matinee girl?” sick Beaew-ht' yr “he found a ed the Living Skeleton, ji tile putter To he sure he has since been divorced and married anew, but « = - »| be was not a masher. A case is known positively: of an! r T actor destroying a waste-laskei full of letters that were THE: DEAREST QIRT. one week's receipts from impressionable women When allt cing feet are ectll, But the abstract proposition that “the glamour of the footlights blinds a girl's eyes” is true and she is indeed | \hen she hae waltzes aer happy # foolish girl who permits her momentary feeling of With Wil (passion for a hero of romantic drama to lead her judg- | red, - Ment astray to the point of writing him a love-letter | Tinea of the whist and jollity | 2) ein St. Paul recently, according to a press despatch, a Her lovely eyes wolgaed down with The rose's bh! 5 #hed and sped. and Jack and if@ burned in the grate in her husband's presence a | sleep, dle of letters she had written a quarter of a cent | Then, at the last, she ago to Harry Montague, who divided matinee laur | And she is all my own—to keep! wich Charles Thorne in Mew York. Montague was car | \! Of such epistles, but he made the mistake of preso 1 And ber gloves and Me her wrap. || emes to me, . After his death some were stolen from his | * *4¥ our sod nighin left and keeping and came into the hands of blyek- | from whom the letters burned in the St. Paul! with difficulty recovered, | as 8 narrow escape from a compromised) mut the Wae ex: eel Asa Nine eres » . by ig D. for right; Now I'm the to-be-envied chap! | Ab, now, indeed, ( ts good nigatt Of lovers’ Joy let wooers prate; What could 4 man 4 mare In life, Than this best, dearest gift of fate- To ha eetheart for a wite? ~Madejine Bridges in Bmart Set. Smined san FOUP Of the Best || things in this world that, are porn | | but not probable | je one of them has funn: ~Fi Soy: 246% FOXY FREDDIB—Yep I've often seen him do it. WISBD WILLIE (to himselt)—I seo ft all, my rival. As soon as their backs are turned I'll give her $10 to baste Freddie over the head with my cane. Aint ‘ill $0009 WIS Wow DARE You ASK ME FOR A Kiss, SIR UL 99 8004 vicar Didn't niean to step on you.” + = 929090000000 DEFEAT O i + 4008 LLIE’S LOU AND LENA—Poor Willie! can't go to ride at all now. Poor Freddie! We O92$9$950O099O0000000OP JHE -MINTYRE FLAT. They Combat the Coal Trust with an f Oil Stove. ave Te Motntyrea contracted the oll-stove habit, botli se economy and to foll the Coal Trust. They explained to each other that an oll-stove was,” A ) economical, ‘et TNH “How much {s your coal to-day?” McIntyre had asked his iui anthracite dealer that morning. Msg) “Fourteen dollars and a half for chestnut, $14.29 for eas. il il $12.99 for pea," replied the dealer, ‘and besides I haven't got any.” McIntyre was turning away disconsolate, when one of his brilllant fdeas occurred to him. r “A ton of coal,”” he mused, “at $14.50 would Inst us twa | weeks. A nice, ornamental, chastely decorated oll-ntove will {i} give just as much heat, be a decoration to the flat and tha | initial cost will only ibe $20. In a month we'll save about $3.75. _ The next month $2 and son on until""— : “Until you can live on your savings and give up wort,” — chimed in Mrs. McIntyre. And the stove was bought. It was a sweetly beautiful creation, festooned with bas- reliefs of ladies whom breakfast foods and sanitary wool | ciothing would have built up marvellously. Also it had lote ef levers. These last puzzled Mrs, McIntyre, but her husband | [ cheerfully explained thelr uses. ‘ ‘Bear down on this capstan bar," he sald, pointing to ond lever, “and {t will bring the stove around easily on the star board tack and send it around the end for @ good forty yards. In case of heavy blasts this second lever will reef the spinnaker and bring the foretopgallant mains'l down @@ mn, or if"— ty think, dear,” interrupted Mrs, McIntyre, with dignity, “T'd remember it all better if you'll let me puzzle it out get myself." ‘Then began am era never to be forgotten in the annals ef the McIntyre Plat. The stove was odorless, But, as Mole tyre explained to threatening neltghbors, the dealer had negt _ lected to deliver the odorless part when he sent homed | rest of the stove, “And, after all," he added, soothingly, “one soarcely nottessiciial the odor." “Unless one happens to be living on the same blocks,’ amended Mrs. McIntyre. Whatever else the stove Aid ft certainly repald find it > ment. If they poured one pint of oll into it they could ot vp at least three abd a half gallons inside of ‘ten mint am | from various estuaries along different sections pf the @ There was oll in the carpet, the hangings, the walls, the beda” i tit $5.50-n-month piano, The kleptomantac on the floor belogt ceased to steal; finding it more profitable to catch all the kerosene that leaked through the ceiling in a big bathtub and selling {t at nineteen cents @ gallon, thus underbidding the ' Trust by one and a quarter cents. She advertised her saled on “Li platform posters, bearing the legend: / “Down through the celling Grips my wealth, “'Oll La the food that @ave me health.” Strangers would meet McIntyre on the etreet, take omq— sniff and then, addressing him as Mr, Rockefeller, try to im terest him in get-rich-quick inventions, 4 The ofl-stove in short did everything—except produce heat, |} It spent so much time giving out oll {t had no time to heaf the Flat. ‘The cook took to sleeping in her raglan to keey warm, ‘ Molntyre at last eet his mind to work to leam the causs of the deficiency, The stove-bullder was called in. After studying the stove's mechanism he asked “Has it ever occurred to you to light it?" ‘ |, The MoIntyres looked at each athér in gull ‘horrified silence. Then McIntyre rose and grabbed mars x “Don't do anything desperate, dear,” urged his wife: “Tam going," he said, sternly, ‘to encourage the truste fe their merry task of grinding down the poor, T am gping $4 ‘buy a $14.60 ton of coal. Even if I have to pay $10 for it D> DHSCF99999-040909009 099909900 aoe And from the flat below came the sound of a flerce a a The kleptomaniac was trying to drive the wolf from th door. APS * } BACTERIOLOGY Vs. MEDICINE. }% : bt Too much must not be expected from is only an ald to diagnosis, though an invaluable aid, % still are a few practitioners, rapidly diminishing dn mi 1 who minimize the information to be obtaned from, * Jokes of the Day. a CURE FOR INDIGESTION | TO MAKE AN AEOLIAN HARP, This instrument an inke for jmost any ingen dinner, doctor? Yer Yonkers Statesma THE AMERICAN IDEA, e 1 can be made by ale boy. It consists of ligest flor @ jong, nar box of yery thin wood, nix inches deep, with a} rele in the middle of the upper side | an inch and a half in diameter, in which | iiled small holes. In this rings, of very n, ton or more are atrotohed r the bridges | she continued, |@t aed end, Uke the bridges of a fiddle, nd screwed up or relaxed with screw in The strings whould all de tuned to the same note and the Jnstrument placed in fine gut 1 suppose stands for ‘bartender.’ a Press APT TO WABBLE, Mrs. Jaggnoy-Yes, you can go to the \nome current of afr se torvight, but you must nromise jpass over its strings with freedom. A > come right stra'ght home after you! window, the width of which & al to ave there the length of the harp, with th Jaggsdy—My dear, there are some|ralsed io give the TAS tndig Roun RIS, | proper situation, When the air blows) On Chicago Newa THE PITY OF IT! Every man, @t least onoe in his } a try ent degrees of force it will excite differ. |arrang® these oot Gegrees of mound; sometimes the|order From 1 to 4 ioat rineg bialh Leet Ds eee oe it plnke te the * HOME FUN FOR WINTER EVENINGS. || iiiis"entotinte'tiare 28sec sam aml THE OLD “15” PUZZLE. ‘ake fitteen equal size square bity of sh juat cardboard And number them 1, & r admission, is q|Scatter them in « square iike thi space is left vacant, res in fates: ee ese how| Why 1s @ chicken just hatched like | upon the sirings of the aarp with differ: |man& of our boys and gir! peadets can|@ cow's tall? Never seen before, » consecutive the | Way should not « cross the! « selentife procedure, regarding it ag likely to be ¢ or fanciful, says the Lancet: ‘They are wrong in thelr att) value on the knowledge to be obtained by the-use of @motenioy logical methods. ‘ql These ardent bacteriologists are prone .to forget that them | GUESSING THE NUMBER, aro essential differences between @ man Privy ba. t ‘Tell some one to think of any number | they do not allow sufficiently for the gaps in our ' he likes, but not to toll you what it 1s.! of vital processes. Too great, stress can hardly be tak upos Tell him then to double it. When he the fact that in order to seoue the greatest amount.of Value has done that, let him add an even | trom bacteriology an assistant to clinical medicine the number to it, which you must give him | ointofan and the bactertologist must work together. By this After doing thig, he must halve the}. See ais abrcs io Magnana whole; then from what in left take| M@” o"¥ pat encals be lesmened, away the number he first thought of When this is completed, if he has count- ed correctly, you will be able to give him the exact remainder, which will simply be the half of the even number you told him to add to his own. {DON'T CALL HER HIPPOPOTAMUS German theatrical critics have been given to post » [that knighthood js stlll In flower over there and are expected to recognize the fact. A Berlin eritle CHICKEN CONUNORUMS. wrote of the performance of an actreas in outa Why is the first chicken of a brood! played her part “with the grace of a tipp hal a like the malnmast of a ship? Be-| course, he spoke figuratively, but the lady ca naw iT cause it's @ little forward of the main] objected to his metaphur, and therefore she v hateh, ‘ of character. When the case came he 7 ed by the Court, who gave it ae is opinion that | hippopotamus" was selevisted to lower hier In t il lon of the public; also, “theatrical epitida'ou A arte to preserve the tone and taste. u ng. $ Be Ps, 0 offend a ee ee pee: