The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1903, Page 12

Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mati Matter. VOLUME ASB.........c00eeeeesee0+/NO, 15,187. TWO MEN IN THE CAB. ’ Am additional man in the cab would have averted 7 the Wostfield train wreck. | He might have ridden there for months over hun- ), Meds of thousands of miles and appeared to be a ‘Wholly useless employes, But in the end he would “fave justified his own existence and that of all his fel- by one act. His hand could have reached the wrottle at the first glimpse of the red light and pre- Wented the tragedy for which the inattention of En- ‘@ineer Davis was responsible. Merely on a commercial basis, as a cash investment, fie would have been more than worth his price to the ‘Foad. At the rate of verdict secured by the heirs of the victims of the New York Contral tunnel disaster the -two passengers killed at Westfield will cost ‘Will cost as much more. Half of this sum would have paid the wages of enough engineers’ assistants to pro- Wide one for every mogul engine in the road's service. _ But apart from considerations of expediency for the Wallroad an extra man is needed in the cab for the ‘alety of the travelling public. Since the adoption of | this type of engine on Eastern ronds there have been ‘by apoplexy or overcome by vertigo or other form of filness or accident and the train escaping disaster only menacing an engineer, whose duties make him a poor Ansurance risk. ‘4m the cab. A legislative bill embodying that provision 4s being prepared by Senator Robert S. Hudspeth and ® bas strong public backing. “Obviously,” says tho ‘Benator, “it 1s criminal to intrust hundreds of lives to ne man who may be taken Ill, go insane, or be stricken "With blindness, or who may drop dead at any moment.” And that is the argument in tshell, TRUST METHODS. ‘When the price of kerosene was raised, at the time _ the coal shortage was worst, it might have been " ‘tholight that there was a shortage of oll also. \ But ‘by the closing of the big Greenpoint plant of the Standard O11 Company we discover now that no such ‘jeommercial emergency was responsible for the increase ‘Pensive plant is that ‘it ts not needed in the business,” Consequently, there must have been overproduction ieving that the millions added to the company’s In- ie by the increase of price were extorted from the in time of distress. another equally instruetive in the atandonment of Greenpoint works. By this act of economy the ‘pany’s service for twenty-five years, and they find them- » selves out of employment without a moment's notice. for their welfare is interesting. In support of his view. THE PASSENGER'S CHANCES. ~ ‘gf the Westfield disaster. They are mindful also of the Similar rear-end collision in the Park avenue tunnel last rear and that on the Hackensack Meadows on the Lack- Wanna some ten years ago. (Was occasioned ty the mitigating circumstance of blind- optes the rarity of this form of railroad disaster, ~ Apa matter of fact, of the 8,455 persons killed on ‘282 were passengers and of these only 55 lozt their jives in collisions, oe That is to say, only one railroad passenger in 2,153,- 469 lost his life in 1901 and only one in 10,500,000 lost mall premium, year that passes but as estimated in periods of 4% 2,153,469, in 1891 it was ono in 1,811,642. Heavier rails, ) with the higher standard of efficiency in management passenger. Yet on how slender a foundation this immunity from send of him adds nearly 50 per cent. to a year's deaths collision! SEWING MACHINES IN PERSIA, and Assyrian grain flelds, even in the field th gleaned, and the American sewing machine d Persia. Minister Griscom Bays It is “about thing one sees on entering a village” in the York idea influencing the price of wheat in TT €8$2006004060000040OOO0O0000400004-004 DPP-D-9-96-9SO0004-% “Gumerous instances of the man at the throttle stricken | %% providential interposition. It is a danger constantly ‘ ‘Through the efforts of The Evening World a move-| ‘ment has been begun in New Jersey to compel railroads! “employing the mogul type of engine to keep two men! PDDLIOHEDODDDEDHOS 890960005200} $-06-060000H90 |6$0600060966 ® GENE CARR, THE CREATOR OF LADY BOUNTIFUL, DRAWS EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE WORLD. LADY BOUNTIFUL GIVES A WONDERFUL NEW IMPETUS TO YOUTHFUL STUDY. an 1406046. > 6 HERE'S a \ : PENNY Keep UP THe GOOD worn ©9O900O0O0OOOH 00909900000 THE |LOVE LETTERS OF FoOe his way U-THE BACHELOR TAX COURT 'A BUSINESS WOMAN. The Love Lotters of a Business Man tn yesterday's Eyening World had so nar- rowing an effect on at least one reader that he brought in a packet of frayed, tobacco-acented epistles tled up with something that may have been a lock of halr or may have been a rubber band Impulses had become | # They represented, he sald, the To a garrulous sug- that he must have tobacco heart, he explained that the faint In- definable odor of Flor de Factor! which clung to the letters had not been there when he recetved them, The letters are | ‘ | brillant, yet womanly; business-wom- @f price, The reason given for shutting down the ex-| whore better ler than underproduction, and we are justified in| story of his heart. _ Im that we get ono idea of trust methods and we} Jabez Haskins, Esa. Yours to our Miss Jenkins received and contents duly the matter mentioned In your postscript 1 would say that I am not in the habit of receiving attentions trom mere busl- nor does the moth-| of our Miss Jenkins permit her | > daughter to receive calls from men. | ‘2 Regretting that our reply must seem unsatisfactory, believe us. CHEATEM, HOLDUP & CO., Dear Bir: ‘eompany throws out of work fully 1,000 men and gives! ‘Many of the dismissed employees have been in the com-| ness acquaintan: _ Their employer acts quite within his rights in so| dismissing them, and no criticism ts to be made of his! eourse. Yet the question of his moral responsibility) ‘There was a large employer of labor who sald that) “@ pay envelope at the end of the month is better than) i number of sermons,” and there {s much to be al-| P. S—My mother 1s never at home Tuesday evenings from 8 to 11. IL, Dear Mr. Haskins: While we do the utmost in our power, { G very old. PAULA EDWARDDS. by strict attention to business and un- Gy falling courtesy and attention to merit the goodwill of our customers, we do| « not consider it essential to the success | } or Interests of the negotiations that our Miss Jenkins should call you ‘Jatpez" | « Instead of “Mr. Haskins.” 1 would also remind you that any concessions T made to that effect last Tuesday evening oc- | curred after business hours, and not in] ‘ i, Ths latter accident occurred before the Lackawanna|the presence of witnesses. The Ban a : | tract, therefore, seems to us inval ‘was equipped with block signals, The one in the tunnel) ROP PaTt inal hat ionvitenn henlasreatenen. spend this evening at a friend's house, ing smoke and steam. The importance given them indi-| we beg to remaln, cordially ever, OCHBATEM, HOLTAUP & CO., Per Mary Jenkins, Jabez is such an ugly “Claude?” + Reports come from New Jersey of rear cars half de-| @erted by timid passengers In expectation of a repetition! American rallroads in 1901, an enormous total, only! name, Why’ no! Javer Haskins, Esq. Dear Sir: 2th inst. would rep! This is so sudden I hardly know what) ¢ f van bia life in a collision. It 1s on these exceedingly remote to say. On consideration and having PARE NYT @hanées’Of-death on tho rail that the accident insurance | consulted our firm, laccept yo ous and very promagag @MMpAany figures in offering a policy for a large sum at| Sere Your Keneroan wo i favor of the wo have decided to] BACHELORS offer in the same spirit In which it Is When we have looked through Railway travel ie gradually growing safer—not with our appoiniments for the coming year, ’ will take pleasure in acceding to your request 10 name the day ten years. Thus, where the death rate in 1901 was one! jo more at present from Your Only Own HOLDUP & CO, @tronger bridges, the abolition of oil lights and stoves! } Yeu, sweetheart, BX is the size, | , »@nd the adoption of improved safety appliances along! Anything over two karats will eull me ever and ever so well, and meet with we each contributed their share to this better care of} oUF disUngulished approval. | Jabez Haskins, Esq. : We are pained and sur- from our Miss Jenkins ‘death rests Is shown in the fact that a single engineer| ? y averting his gaze for one minute from the track! American harvesting machine is now seen in| OHBATPM, HOLDUP & CO. Per Your Hearbroken Little Girl, ' Mel dt hurt so very, very much, }OUt of sight when an Inventive « , Esq. ‘ry Insulting letter of the fobuchadneszar and @ Yankee notion im-|% foudition of Oriental wormanhvod, These i Warbario West wipe out much of the debt ved. ood that our Miss Jen-|a single barrel were to live with yo! at nen Lolent ii the ate with violent language ths! we are forced to ac-| Outlas eat tbat the entire in-| To navigate this oraft required no “ot the sewing machine into Persia the harem. A Morocco cede £0 your edu 3 monarch is Docaise of the bicycle; but the on of Moors HE OLD JOKES’ HOME. Weary First Applicant for Relief { Appears at Its Doors. T WHICH WOULD PROBABLY BE ESTABLISHED infirm jokes, where they may retire from the world an& be allowed to rest after hard work before the public for many years meets with universal approval. TRUSTEES PROPOSED. ‘The following trustees for the Old Jokes’ Home have beens proposed: Mark Twain, John enariok Bangs, Tom Masson, These gentlemen will be asked to serve as trustees and to pass upon the claims of old and overworked Jokes for admis sion to the Old Jakes’ Home. The prize of $ offered for the most deserving case of ol@ and toll-worn joke is arousing w:despread interest, and every mail our attention is drawn to many worthy old-Jolkea, that should be given a good long rest, } THE FIRST APPLICANT. { Prof. Josh M, A. Long: | Dear Sir: A good old joke that should be retired from pub- lic fe 1s “out for the dust.” This feeble old fellow is eom- pelled to work in the comic papers, somettmes as @ Soy with a whisk-broom and sometimes as the driver of a cart. The last time I saw the old fellow he was clad In a {Street Department uniform. Do not tell me that ‘White! Wings they never grow weary." They do wnen “out for thé \ eg proposition to found and endow a home for egea an@) noted. Concerning dust.” Yours truly, THOMAS Q. SHABROOKB, QUESTIONS. Prof. Josh M. A. Long: Dear Gir: Will German«American jokes be admitted? Yours truly, WEBER & 5 ° WOW REALLY, a Prof, Josh M. A. Long: 4 Per Jenkins. AN. AGL BODIED = BAA Dear Sir: Will there be a Conundrum Ward én your O18 Ones Pro 4 i SS Jokes' Home? If s0, will you please make room for Why} ‘AND TAGGED" OR> Did the Old Hen Cross the Road?" and ‘When Is a Dow Not @ Door?" They are still working, and they are very, A KICKER. Prof. Josh M. A. Long: Dear Sir: Your plan to start an Old Jokes’ Home is @ grand !dea, But why play favorites? Senator Depew is @ wealthy man, Let him pension his faithful old jokes, They) have worked for him; why should they be a public change? They have given him a reputation; let him provide them @ home, GEORGE W. DAK, . WANTS TO KNOW. Prof, Josh M. A. Long: Deay Sir; Your Old Jokes' Home ts to be commended, , I was glad to eee that Lew Dockstader’s consclence was touched, Could not a soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty: to Humor be founded also and vaudevillians and writers of comie operas arrested for overworking their faithful old jokes? Very truly, MPW. , WEW.YORK BACHELOR WHO WILL Gu axemPr RUBBER BANDS VS. STRING. The elastic band !s gradually superseding etring, ‘The usa of the handy rubber article has been growing steadily for the past few years, and this season's sale is expected to dreals all records, gays the Philadelphia Press. ‘The price has beem lowered, on account of increased facility of production, andl now, for fastening small packages, the bands eave money as well as time, ‘A local dealer said yesterday: “We expect to eell at least twice as many bands this -yehm as we did last year, From this store alone o tons of them, » I have figures that will startle you, Take No, 8 band, the one used by druggists and jewellers for amall packages, "We sold fully 8,000 pounds of those last year. There are 9,000 | of them to the pound, therefore we sent out £7,000,000 of this! size last seagon. Suppose they were opened out and tled tee gether, Allowing half an inch for tying, we would have Sw 000,000,000 inches, or more than 409 miles of rubber, for the bands are an inch and a half long when opened out, + “A. band will stretch five times its length easily, so that oum string could be made to cover 2,045 miles, Or, in other words, you could stretch the line along a perfectly straight railroaili response to your And so] § Per Molly, a COLLECTED (S'TO.GOTO HEE OR BHAN ASYLUMS = LUCKY’ ORPHANS! There'll be sorrow and distressedness, in the ranks of single blessedness, When bachelors receive the order: “Money or a wife!” See ea ee erate: fan AIBN And when maidens must be thought to be much older than they ought to be, track and starting at one end ride for a day and @ hadt af ing har Hane ae y due to #0 old Unless they'd pay a tax or find some man to share their life. sixty miles an hour before you would reach the other. Double so far forgot the courtesy du PPA that estimate for 1902, and remember, those @gures are fon and valued @ customer as to pursue you > PPLPDIDDIDODILEDIOIODODID® O0ODOPIESIDODDOODOOPOODOO DS DIDODORODOLOLOOODEOLOO® | TIE rr nt it for one store inthe chy then reclame from the house, the father with an axe — be able to get an idea of the elastio rings used in PI r Hardware Department cat&e HOW EARLY SLEDS WERE MADE . th t J k f th RABBITS AS FOOD. and vicinity.” rj Hek-polling water, ‘Trust-| From history wo learn that the boys} ix of g Bes oKe5 oO @ Day. The English rabbit has meat a3 white t mishap will not rob us}in the tin George Il. ¢ on ; ihady ; as chicken, without @ touch of game- jof your valued association, believe eds made of a small board, with beef DIDN'T KNOW THE GENT. Y replied the girl at the telephone | joss the American rabbit has brown ‘ou know Mr. Fresco—Mr. Albert | exchange T AnEMned Mpa; Mumtan, | ‘That's all, Ring off."—Chicago Trib- said her husband, “Why? une. ones as runners, but th © dropp DIAMONDS THAT EXPLODE. ww been known that diamonds, especially the elasw rose diamonds," are Nicely to explode if subjected only to what would seem a very ordinary degree of teat, says Answers, It is now Lelieved that the explosions are the cemult of the rapid expansion of certain volatile Hquids im a , ities near the centre of these precious stones. in downtown luncheon places, After the |*!osed tr oav they weren't opened first avew the rapbite begin to arrive) & Sreat poco penn pee rt pie ir ote ® ¢ ¥ in the city markets with their sicins on, | Worn 4% 4 ASKED AND ANSWERED. just as they are shot or trapped, ‘They | dition; that 4s, the liquid drop from which the stone ts belog Halitor—Do 1 have to eat «whole egg) AS rt to know that it is bad?—Montreal Star, je Dostor—Are you @ure you never tas yet deposited all of dts “ 7 My unclel tittle #kill, the revolutions and con- buried any one alive? CP did atabiacaaweni daa pip yr ney eldbrgp nent marey tomar na ee 4) volutions performed by the rider while NO BACKING OUT Now, ‘The Undertaker—Well, none of Ireexe them. carbon. occasionally a) . your) The finest rabbits come from Indlana When this is the case ‘ iT with the naked eye, nm & strong « ‘sittin’ the hang of the dered old] It was ® resolute voice that spoke| patients, at Jeast.-Chicago News. and et ut pumbers are will give the drop the te / fo meat that Is decidedly gamy, more like the English hare. The scarcity of meat and the neces- sity of something savory and substantial Vhat was the verdict that the Cor- | for the low-priced table d'hote has made oner’s jury returned?" the American rabbit very much better “WilCul neglect of duty on the part of | known than he was two or three years ago, You may even find him in a stew bullt one out of @ Darrel stave, Ms invention was extensively copied, WESTERN JUSTICE. m a garden party and she save they're going | Phe barrel staves were called ‘jump-|to dine Al Fresco.’ Philadelphia Dress, | evs” and “skippers,” and were made of | ‘@ of moderate width, MERELY SAMPLED, | to which was nailed a twelve-tnch ny. . seatpost about amidships, A plece of @n understanding! barrel head constituted the seat, says We thought you Would-Be Contributor—You did not! the deceased. He went out unarmed, read all my Filclo that you rejected. 1| knowing the other fellow was in town.” wf the pages together and |_Onicago Record-Herald, thing’ being akin ‘to the antics of q| through the telephone, tendertoot on a bucking bronco, a} ‘Col, Bigmun,” waid*the owner of the LF-DEGEPTION, ai ‘fuld in a carpe bers 33 i alee, more stable and docile jumper wan) Volee, "You know you proposed marriage| BFlage-When wo he would | o4 4 is paid Jat eet oes made by fastening two or three wtayen | to me last evening?” , | Wee Se be Rotter moan Fm otity | B ‘