The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1903, Page 8

4 7 THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANCARY 31, 1903. Park Row, New York. Entered at the Pos!-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mal] Matter. oe VOLUME 43 : A MONTH OF GREENE. es ‘At the conclusion of his automobile tour of east-side ee precincts Sunday Police Commissioner Greene sald: % * XE think there haa been a marked improvement in the de- partment since 1 took hold. I am so informed by the « ‘ tainy and the sergeants, and from what I have seen 1 think they aro correct. | This agrees with general observation. There is a prevalent belief that the city is better patro)led and the! external indications of violation of the law are certainly | fewer. It is not merely the decrease of Sunday excise arrests, the abolition of saloon screens, the regulation of resorts like the Haymarket and the embargu, tempo- rary at least, on gambling. In addition to these tangible evidences of improvement there is the testimony of the} increased alertness of the force and its recognition of the fact that the man in command is both competent to earry out his projected reformation of the department and in earnest about it. In most station-houses there is @ noteworthy absence of any disposition to make light of the Commissioner's work, and in its place a very | —— a definite appreciation of the Commissioner's strength of HE OLD |B See eobe Ensen Cette etedesseteesters: % $6O940480090000004 purpose. G é This is a highly satisfactory showing for a briet JOKES Month in office. Among the causes contributing to it ROME. May be mentioned: The Commissioner's resolute beginning of reforms at ddaa Mak cp the top by the transfer of inspectors and captains and | Noah Raby, Age: y) Makes aries his expressed purpose of holding them personally re- for a Contemporary. @ponsible for their districts and precincts. Prof, Josh M. A. Long. - | EAR SIR: Old jokes as well as old His plan of preferring immediate suppression of con. D Perla HOUTA TLS provIgea oth fas spicuous abuses where they show themselves rather than asylum In their old age. Crazy to wait until a more comprehensive plan can be made | jokes should be sent to an insane asy- ready for general application. lum, and poor jokes to the poor house. t ‘ ‘The most deserving old Joke I know of His relegation to the future as oF minor importance } uae ip atibiwetking fone living te ioue of consideration of the department's deportment—the | my grandfather told mo of when I was cleanliness of a patrolman’s gloves, his attitude when on|a boy. This joke works on newspapers exclusively. I do not ithink (t has ever see rip comrectnons) of iis malute, éc. been on the stage, ft ds about @ girl It is to these causes that the good results in question named ‘Pearl. Pearl generally 1s em- are mainly due, and it is to them that the Commissioner | ployed as a waitress, She js asked her _, @lready owes a dominance of the department not at-|name by somo fresh customers and when “tain j ehe tells 1t she ie asked if she is the tained by his predecessor after a longer period in com- Panel Without) price iGne /answers| No) seseeee NO, 16,188. CPELDYG-GIDDDDDIDIGDYISI-IDDPGDSLOSGHIAOLFIDOOSDIGOOD £994-4-5-098F2GO9 GO O9O9GO- OFF-HAND FUN IN A STOR mand. she 1s the pearl that is cast before One inference to be drawn from what the Commis-|ewine. This joke ts older man am, sioner has done is that he is not going to attempt the] Yours truly, NOAH Lad egediim impossible. Without any authority to speak for him we Pearce om: are permitted to surmise that he is not going to attempt pitts Gir: Your “Wolk: fs one of the ‘the absolute suppression of crime in New York. In the} purest philanthropy, I heartily indorse ‘ease of the Tenderloin, for example, when Capt. O'Reilly |!t- There should also be ‘ Daperim ere has finished cleaning it up under Gen. Greene's direction, py dines aah Grayling agai it will still lack much of attaining a puritanic standard malnteiped. When you meet with an of righteousness. But it !s equally certain: infirm old joke on the street, oall for That it will contain no resorts in which a visitor’s| {ne ambulance NWSBY de von geste i e' * head might be cut off; Prof. DOGDEN OREMUB. ___ That much of the victousness of dance halls like the Another Case. _ Saymarket will be removed by their enforced closing im! prot. Josh M. A. Long. _ the hours when they do most harm; Dear Sir; “In Onion The Is That disreputable drinking places will be rendered | Strength” ts « good old joke that needs : & rest. It 19 still working in veude- less noxious by refusing them the all-night license under ville. Very truly, ie which most of their evil work has been done; JAMES RICHMOND GLENROT. \ That police attention will be directed more to the Let Raia 5 D lon of disreputable resorts than those of semi- APACHE A MAN-TRACKER, bility. “ \Ae a trailer the Colorado Apache thas mo equal. He possesses the goute in- h 4s perhaps far from being all that might be de-| siinst or the ‘ound combined eith an ‘but its accomplishment will mean much ina city | accurate sense of vision, says Outing. ‘the absolute regulation of a man’s appetites by| A turned leaf, fleck of gravel cast @ Utopian dream. Its accomplishment will mean fare she upeomnnt SP Bahaapig eta “the ‘effecting of more beneficial results by a policy of en- They ask few if any pantioularp of the ‘Mghtened moderation than has ever been effected by the| man they are to follow. They will, as alternation of spasmodic strenuousness wit! - | hey progress on hie track, gather up, ‘exttvity, Dieupine In-| sor tuesslves ons by one Wide [tens if 43 to his personality, which are neany 3 always verified tn the end. » EVENING WORLD'S PLAN INDORSED, | Whe following @ trait over the iron- capped rocks and stony earroyas of A: _ Commenting on the Jersey Central train wreck, the|zona, his face 1s @ picture of intense Herald says; A concentration; not @ syllable escapes MUST ititis gheet |e \ertentnat’ to] cum 0’ train ae. et a mile ajhim; his pace varies from no visible with only one man tm the cab, and not even the @reman in touch | Cause. At times he almost runs, ‘Then, © With him. Suppose the engine driver is taken 111 or drops dead at the} With @ rapid glance behind, he glides Booltlet Wren when ho wems in normal health are the lives of hundredal along slowly and nwith eyes glued to the Persons to be risked on the condition of this one man's liver or of hie| round, possibly for hours, Here and \e@lght oF bie nodding for a moment? there may be a few soratches of eand; ‘The Evening Post says: Dut dry sand leaves after the footstep ‘The game collision might have taken place for reasons beyon’ Engineer|OMly an indentation, closing after the » Davis's control. A momentary vertigo, not to apeak of more serious Pressure, @o that, to the inexperienced Rew, at the critical moment would have brought on the accident asjeye, it might have been a horse or a warely as his inattention actually did. the engineer Ww: his} mule that made ft, and not @ man, feab, separated from his fireman by « space of tea feet, a ee FLAMINGO AT HOME. lder sort allow the frenan ‘There {a no member of our native avi- Powerful “‘camel-back'’ engine separate the (wo men, aad in case the| fauna @o picturesque as the flamingo, nance be Cieabled, Jeave the engine without control. The law which| Yet this bird ts rapidly nearing extt © Requires & second man in the pllot-howse of every ferry-boat should, in] Con in the United States. The earl: @il our States, be extended (o the case of the railroads. «: men/plorers and settlers in the Sourhern @hould ride tn every locomotive cab. Another set of eyes mothers | States found the flamingo almost wor- pated uring the fatal minute would probably have prevented Engineer shipped by the aborigines. Ite beautiful Davis's blunder and the consequent loss at Ite, plumage wes {te destruction, however, e and now It te | found in Cuba and 5 sles the Bah, SORROWS OF A SIDEBOARD. ‘The factiaal alte rom the beeuty The Caesarean clay that might stop a hole to keep] % '# Plumag¢ and ite droll ways, Is the wind away could hardly, at least from a W. ©. T. U. py pets en ee Srmlinelos Point of view, be put to baser uses than the old Hayes | the long-legged herons and the broad- sideboard which 16 now the main article of furniture in| led, web-footed geese and duclo Steins and schooners now rest in mocking array} throughout, exnepting the canta where once only the carafe and the mineral water| Which are black, siphon reposed, and bibulous countenances are reflected 2 in the polished mahogany that mirrored only the fea- |? nares tures of enforced sobriety. What a change from the LOVE'S MIRACLE, White House days when, in the words of the lamented] | ‘Tis not the touch of hands, ‘tis not | Kivarts, “water flowed like champagne.” tne Hehe This sideboard was a very remarkable specimen of|| ine from eyes that tenderly do| cabinet work, It was @ present to Mrs. Hayes from| “ | | On the beloved fave, ‘tle not the young women of Cincinnati in token of their approval! praise of her course in banishing wine from the White House| | % *Poken words or sung, that may table, And as a mark of love the donors personally in-| arlene Reveal th serted the fine strips of inlay in the heavy mahogany. It Maia “1 ost a large sum and when sold to the saloon-keeper did Of love's fair flower and tender not being its value as old wood. ‘The purchaser has aya) since refused ten times the price he paid for it, baer paves Crultion mane te “sopnd} If the sideboard could voice its’ own feelings in the! | More subtly sought and moods more| Piatler we might hear it expressing satisfaction at fts|| — "eegnulte. 4 / Sstate—not at its new surroundings, but at the) |-pe rather in the hours when fer nee of the siphon and the return to its capa-! apart om of the blue-label and three-star brandy) | !Yom tho dear sight of her whose very thought was designed to hold, Hallows the soul, the hours with at "Mey regret the decanters of Madeira which memories fraught @ lot Of its luckier predecessors to hold when| | With yearnings filled, when the eye- Had Buchanan and Webster and Calhoun were) lide sian spirit's worship; these Unbidden (ears; love's miracle then i oF accept hospitality. wrought rr Touches with fire the altar of the Lanty had his detectives enter heart c William Morton Payne in Atlantic Manthiy. 639800005 HE * enogestyt ks Ne He—Will you be my wife? She—Ask pop. He—Can I have your daughter? Pop—No, you cannot! See? 00% + = a5 lw = ne) ) > =) > Zz O iw 2) aa | = Fa = iw lw] < on " G YER TROLLey TWISTED! TREATMENT FOR THe LITTLE HOT AIR MAN STOP THAT CAR (MMEDIATELY, S/R, OR I'LL SEE MR. VREELAND - AND HAVE You FIED! 9990001 SDB 999532444458 FH9EGHTSSE 79 OCC ==. —£S == EME CITTCE MAN WITH . §BIG 1DBAS S WOW MHCHAEL -ZWONT Y bay, phd tod Worol!! ovT Of Ir ee zt 4 eC, THE LITTLE MAN 1 OF IMPORTANCE UT ANY PADDIN, ME SWOULOERS'-r'm 2 Pal Og OAD -SHoUL OaRe 2: 20002 ATHE LITTURMAN OF GREAT AUTHORITY BUN iON. 7axe usr en eorissee ‘oor, TYPES ; aman Ace” ( THAT. A In language dictatorial and importance Senatorial The Little Man is boss, as.all big men must realize. For ‘he owns each car and sidewalk and each narrow path or wide walk, And the only chap he cannot awe is one of his own size, COODODOSE DOS AEBODG 2 (Copyright, 1901. by Datly Story PubMahing Co.) 66] Would be such fun if we could ever'—— We will have a week of fun.” foourse Dorothea is indifferent! @he's}‘‘and if you wore not in it I'd die!” 1t was a week later and they were not going to throw herself at any man's| Miss Trelawny was still with Cava- waiting in the parlor for yi head, certainly not at an engaged man.|nagh when the Vincents entered the had been the member of t not #0 indifferent, Ieaw him look-| house through the Ilbrary, There it party to arrive: ing at her as though he would devour] was cool and the lights were dim. From why.’ She glanced] ner, ‘There was a murmur of talk her. And to think that two lives should| the room beyond the sound of the muslo aye she is going to] laughter—the deeper tones of men. be spoiled by this horrid creature.” She]and of dancing feet came. ats (0 see me if it] “I am so disappointed!” it was @|threw out her small hands tragically. | Miles Trelawny came towards them, plaintive little whisper in Vincent’s| Vincent hed placed his hands over his] Cavanagh following, ever smpathetic ear a few moments “We don't care if people do know," Yho ls it’ Mr, Vincent asked with @ martyr-like alr, “It ls Dorothy ‘Tre at the letter, he near h Vincent began, “1—oh, hang it all! Uve hud a letter too, When | later he sald, “It's Doro-| sho said. ‘The engagement will be an- 1 wrote | told him what fun we wero] “But, my dear, what would you bave| thea and Cavanagh, nounced next week.” ~ having and how cool ft was, and that 1| had them do?" ‘They came down the long portico] Vincent gasped. knew he munt be sweltering, But 1| “I would have had her just Wutter an| lowly; they were utterly unconecious| “And we want people to know, any- didn't know he w " eyelash, or color, or get embarragsed— | of th ximity of the Vincents, wey,” Cavanagh explained, “If Doro- “Who tm it t was Mrs, Vincent's] any th! o show she knew her hero} ~To-morrow i thea hadn't wanted i kept quiet until turn to affect a martyr-like air. had com . has been an eternity!"’| the announe we would have had "Henry Cavanagh.” Vincent took the Iktle faure mto his | “Yes,"* the girl's soft volce cooed, then] the jolilest week! ‘That's what we “Oh.” she sald, “l'm so excited! Dor-|4"™mF, Rut he smiled broadly into the | vehemently, uldn't stand t another} Manned; but when we found the crowd othea Trelawny and Henry Cavanagh | {Tevdly darknese—husbands are human, she would not let me even look at her. Were born for each other! All Dero. | 2° know 1 and—anything—~without| Why, she telegraphed that IT mustn't thea's women friends want her to} 1” # the gay week that ¢ollowel It] you, my darling.” Cavanagh laughed|evon know her! He laughed, “Won't marry, and I know three of them” seemed that Cavanagh waa@ttentlve to | happily and drew the girl's unresisting| you congratulate va?” ran them off on her flagers glibly— every woman in the house but Miss} form into his arms, He kissed her; they} Vincent grasped Cavanagh’a hand have invited them for the express pur- | Trelawny. then turned and walked back into the) beastly, and, husbands but mortal, pose of getting them engage Bhe}| The Vincents’ charming viapee was | houve. ‘ou know, shot @ little side-long glance laughed gleefully, "But they never 4 Oushions,| There was wbeolute silence on the] at his wife to witness her discomfort. ame together-—never eveh mi chairs and magusin Plasza after their departure. Discomfort? Mrs. Vincent stood drawn What If they should not fancy each| aud her ‘on the night Vincent felt something Qot and wet] to her al rv height, amiling, and hold other?” put the question hesitat-| fore the breaking up of the ho: vty, }on bis hand, "Not tears?” he asked|ing hereelfwellin hand. Her voice ingly. Ho wae unwilling to dampen her| Vincent found Ms wife, in giecpay. weet as clear and cool as crysi ardor, worrying over those think thet Dorettee would act! as watd ‘They were born for each other!’ en- You wouldn't have | like that! Qfre, Vincent sobbed. ‘'I'm) ‘You've surprised Mr, Vinoent, and all this moment,” she sprang to her feet,|of making her owa ; ; ; , "I'm going to write to some others, to0,| puch = great, tel- avked for ) 1 rh and thaw che tour af thy un pia as i Ys —— ae Pes pest thusiastically. “They are waiting,| run off here alone in the dark under the house party will pe astonished, But, Neither of them will ever marry—they| other conditions. - you set, your indifference was a trifle haven't, you ste—unill they wed each| “She is an artful, beld, designing| house party was not to be too Uttie 109 overstudied other, I am golng to write to Dorothea] oreature! 1 guess she's a teacher Ured|other day, and he \ 2 r ‘held out ber: ae 9OES9LS9999008 €966666000004 | Y OF A DELSARTE PROPOSAL. ‘3 : “> UP Oy XA A HARD FINISH W FOR CAPTAIN U GANNON. 66 C APT. GANNON made a kind of voleane of himself when b was convicted of overlook ing the WebstetHotel yesterday,” remarked the Cigar-Store Man. \ “It was a public eruption: said the Man Higher un “Every man accused of @ crue is a walking volcano, but most of them are equippd with dampers. Capt Gannon blew his damper out a'ong time ago and when he heard the foreman of the juy say he was guilty he began to spout lava, stones, grav\, asphalt, concrete other building material in the ‘ay of profanity com struction until the frescoes melte\on the wall. There was @ reason for it at that. “Gannon is getting along in year. He went into the Police Department and being a wise-uy he put himsaY in the way of securing coupons for \¢ front row. He | wore out shoes as a patrolman, he Wre out his popur larity as a roundsman, he wore out the sat of his ers as a sergeant and finally he took a fgh at the phis pects one day and found out that he Watheaded jon route to be a captain, “In those days it was sald to cost 8 m@iwho wanted to be a captain the small sum of $20,000. ¥ course, ¢ policoman can earn $20,000 in a few Years. His salary alone ranges from $1,200 to $2,000 a year fro the time he begins to belabor a beat with his brogans } had the $20,000 about him, He knows wheth\ he put it up or not. i “One of those old-time prophets might be ablito tell just now whether or not it will ever be fou out whether he produced and who got the money. 1 isa cinch that, if Gannon knows, he has been Promisa, gi] kinds of a big ear to whisper St into by this tine, 4 “Gannon might have gone out and nailed tie money to the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge; he boeies ‘ave put it on a raft and floated it on the reservoir at ent; Park. Whatever he did it will be found, if hind, account is examined, that about the time he got tthe q captain he went a large sum shy In his assets. Of this might have been caused by a celebration of his hg, cess, ' We “Soon after Gannon got in, the present District-Attod — ney, who was then a Justice of the Court of Special Gem ~ | sions, ‘began to lay pipes for the job he holds to-day He spotted Gannon and went after,him. He managed ta put a frame around him in the back room of the Web. ster Hotel and ever since that day it has been a case ef ‘all going out and nothing coming in’ for Gannon. The © raid that got Gannon was planned by Jerome. “He hes been fighting proceedings in the courts, staw | ing off the end, trying to read the backs of the cards end - otherwise looking for a chance to cash in. The fomy District-Attorney let his indictment lay until there was © mould on it. He knew what he was doing, all right, all right. When Gannon forced his hand he took him inte court and got a conviction for neglect of duty. “In the mean time they had yanked Gannon up ta Headquarters on the same charge and hurled him #fom the force, The charges against him before the Commis« sioner were kept in cold storage until the District-Attors ney got ready to spring them, He got slid out of Police Department one day and the next day a jury the kibosh on him. If that isn’t enough to make e man explode a whole lot I'll guarantee to become a com- muter on @ railroad where you can’t see the signals fox the steam. “Gannon’s wind-up is that he fs to the bad what 4t i cost him to be a captain—if it cost him anything—and 3 all he has made since besides. Unless he has been um- ” usually provident he is about broke. It is a hand finish for a long life, and If it caused him to explode [ ace where there is much of a holler coming.” By { THE DOG AND THE SHARK, ¥ While the elder Dumas once was making @ yoy yin | Mediterranean he had on board @ precocious litt cal Milord. One day, when Dumas had enticed a top of the water, firet by throwing it a chicken vi cutlet, his attempt to shoot the monster intartore with by Milord, ‘Hardly had the second‘cutlet tou 16 water," writes a member of the party, “than we. sound of a heavy body falling into the sea. It who had flung himself overboard to dispute the the shark. ‘Tht shark, motionless, seemed to fh tween the cutlet and Milord; during this time the sprang to the oars and beat the water with them tq at The shark dived down several fect; vie! m or eo under Milord—who, not trowbll ni self in the least about him, continued to swim » toward his outlet, which he never lost sight of—the sha) eppeared behind him, ¢oming almost to the surface ton he dashed, turning ai eas