The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1903, Page 12

a Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 8 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Pont-Omce at New York as Second-Class Mal! Matter. VOLUME 43. _ TRUCKS AND SURFACE CARS, ay It is apparent that the city will soon be called upon | # grant the surface traction compantes power to enforce | Wight of way where it is impeded or obstructed by "trucks and teams. The Metropolitan Company has asked - for this privilege, and the State Railroad Commission in its report on surface traction in New York favors grant- ing it. The Metropolitan’s demands, as drafted for the > Aldermen's consideration, provide, among other required Tegulations, for ‘The ruling off from the tracks of all vehicles not actually the street; and The Infliction of a penalty where the driver of a vehicle ahead of a car neglects to give instant meea to the motor- Man's gong by leaving the tracks forthwith. This would endow the Metropolitan with an unusual authority over the city's streets and in effect give its NO. 16,188. SFLEIESSOTLELS O9999E 9959050909088 9O99SOHISFISF-HF996-9-090-9099-2-06 Motormen police powers. It would be an unprecedented Hyp extension of a street-car company's franchise and even ! MMM M# Justified in the extraordinary circumstances of the congested traffic its application is to be viewed with ap- prehension. To cope properly with this increasing congestion of > the streets is a problem soon to necessitate new municl« > pal methods. It is not alone Provision for the railway company’s patrons that is demanded, though their in- _ Grease, stated by ex-Senator Ford to be threo times that of the normal increase of the population, is destined to become a very formidable menace to the public comfort) €nd health. Provision must soon be made for the pedes- trian himself, exposed as he is not only to the discom- fort of the larger crowds, but also to the perils of the multiplied trafic. The automobile adds only one of these new Derils. _ ‘They have increased with the multiplication of vehicles Of all kinds. And where a decade ago there were only a few danger points, as at certain Broadway crossings, there are now a score of places of intersection of street- ear, vehicle and pedestrian traffic where the man on foot 2 4s exposed to imminent danger. At Thirty-fourth street $ and Sixth avenue, at Fifty-ninth street and Madison, at| THE. OLO 3 Fifth avenue and Twenty-third the confusion of traffic fs most hazardous. At Broadway and Fulton street the Jam exceeds anything in crowded London. Since the con- yeoltdation of the greater city we have added, according gto Mayor Low, a population as large as Baltimore's, And if we are to narrow the sidewalks of Broadway And other streets to benefit the raflroads, as also js pro- JOKES’ HOME, “a Great Excitement in Vaudeville! posed, it will mean that pedestrians will be forced into| E@™® at EN eRpRESt “the streets, as in Nassau and other thoroughfares now.| °°™' Attensnt to R Inmate from As it is, the sidewalks are too contracted for the rush- “hour crowd. At the abnormal rate of increase another J @eneration will need overhead passageways. The present f * wodianad them if it 1s to be restricted in its sidewalk sf at the behest of the traction companies. Our Institution! Claim William Hawkey, Oflcer of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Humor, Had No Right to Cap- ture Honest, Mard-Working Gag They Put in the Business and Send It to Old Jokes’ Home. Last week William Hawkey. officer 8, P. C. H., brought the following gag, gagged, to the Old Jokes’ Home, stat- ing In the commitment papers that It !was old and overworked: Thus the Captain ruled that billiards was under the First End Man—Can you make a sentence using (ban contemplated by the law, and so he closed George {h (we ronle narrative’ and | puntos “Blosson's place and Maurice Daly's. But bowling went jing means “running alowly."’) “9M all day without interference in the rooms above Daly's,| Second End Man—No; it \s Imporsibie. Fine difference being that the bowlers were memters of a re ee Private club, while the billlard-rooms were open to the! pint Fad Men wie public, way the othor day 1 It is to be hoped that O'Reilly's awakening will not! ar ie - <@recipitate a new discussion of the tweedle-dum and| ¥ » | tweedle-dee of Sunday law legislation as it concerns _y Minor infractions of the code. The city wants vice sup- | i Pressed in the Tenderloin, TENDERLOIN MORALITY. In Capt. O'Reilly's Sunday activity in the suppression Of disorder in the Tenderloin a fine and intelligent dis- }erimination was shown in the interpretation of an old - "blue law. The law under which the raid was made deals * og “gaming and playing and fishing” on the Sabbath ¢ alking up Broad. dog trickling eet with a tin can tled to his nar- day we received @ scathing let- | < ter protest from the undersigned, waich «we quote in part. Wo only reeret that space does not and it realizes that a begin- permit us to reproduce the cunning vor- ¥ - traits of Messrs, Edwards and Ronney | Mining must be made. But ax between the Immoral and (SRC araareRC. Thain ietiantnena aries Ing influences of billiard halls and of the vile are printed in Kaster-oxe purole, Two re which the precinct is infested the Captain's Dictures ehow Mr. Edwards and Mr. by dressers both a ‘zea! will serve its best uses in seeking to root out the | Money a# Babby dressers ee prdens, while the harmless places of resort may be left for _ attention later. they appear in their refined white- AN OLD SHIP'S END, feced specialty. The lettor-head asks| 4 An interesting act of cremation is to be performed to-' you to “See the tennis boys from ™orrow in the burning of the old packet ship William Benne eee parts car unfortunately x he letter, ' “oH. McCauley, a battered hulk that has long lain in the awards and Ronney, per J, 8 Ronney, i pfballows of Bayonne, A nine-year-old girl, the owner's Lave written on botn sides of the 7: if daughter, will apply the torch. Once thelr pictures are framed in big st , @8 a delicate tribute to them- selves, and once they are shown as] 4 paper, 1s as follows: ‘A wood deal of sentiment will go up in smoke with Edwards and Honucy Want Their apthe burning of this old boat. When she was built in Joke Back, © Baltimore seventy years ago the American flag was flut-) "The joke marked of with pen an the ‘tering from the masts of Yankee ships around the world, ese ted bela nape by Me Haart round the Horn, in the East Indies, in the “roaring jleman (2) who stole it will call on me or where the trade winds blew, it was a familiar ‘n addition to telling him in very plain Wapiring sight. The clipper ship carrying Old Giory Ianguewe what 1 think of in meniedn 4 then and for years to come our most characteristic $"1!| Show him where 1 oF ae oe ort, It mado the American merchant marine cele- js); tt, ma ‘on every sea, “4U 4s Just through such men as this Now we have the steam packet, which is a great gain, allan Hat te ae or Derr or rane. z _ praing are jos nen & man origin * But the flag ts not usually there, and the boats on which Tee ee ae nen ae eee _ ft used to fly are rotting at New England wharves or ters at the profession respect his prop: But to base uses as coal barges, which was the Willfam erty Ul some would-be newspaper re- POH, McCauley's ignoble fate. Boston's India trade 1s no POrler (for no real roporter would stoop | ) cs {P #0 low) hears it qt some theatre, puby More, and on tho few remaining whalers of Province- Mahes it and 4 becomes common prop: town the gid salts of celebrity are replaced by a black- erty. ‘skinned crew of foreign birth, 1 am, indeed, sorry to have to call » It is a season of the sere and yellow leat for the old oa “g your attention to this, but 1 do {t feel jinw that the justice of my remarks wil |be thoroughly appreciated by you and eoraercevers ARRAN VENING = GREATEST, FING DER = ME DIVORC _ HUSBAND), EXTRA! DER FLDOD HUDOLEVLGOODDD 0604900O00015165410F0000540O6500900-40000O80400069 @ SBPDIEDDIO9OOOO9OO-H604S1H HO99H90-000090090090000OE EXTRA” SCARE IN BROOKLYN.---BY GENE CARR. How the “Race Suicide’ News Was Welcomed Across the Bridge. WHAT THE BOLD BURGLAR OF THE FUTURE MAY EXPECT. So many burglars recently have been shot, captured or otherwise foiled by women that a feminine police force is suggested. 5 OVER-DUE AL/MONYy P™ PPODODODIDIDD IDS GOSL DOLD 9 D9D4O1O194O90490OO90999000 €6666000006006-000008 PRES- ROOSEVELT SAYS OAT WE OUGT TER HAVE ORE CHILOREN LX s IN THE “FLATIRON’ WIND. wot st Some Observations in ““Rabberings we % & as a Habit by the Big Policemane, Ww HAT'S your opinion of rubbernecks, any’ asked White Wings. “Well,” said the Big Policeman at the ner, “my opinion of rubbernecks 1s one thing, and what think of the rubber habit another, “The rubberneck is made, not born, and that deing sag seems natural to suppose that something exists that makd him rubber, You can't acquire the red-eye habit wi Ketting the booze, Of course, {t's up to a man character not to booze or not to rubber, There's the ai ference, “I daresay, as a police officer, I should agree with trate Mayo, that the man who rubbers commits an offens and I do. But I can’t help saying that on this =| corner there's a mighty lot of things that provoke a to contort his neck. I haven't been on this post all thed years without acquiring the elastic habit my. larly since this freak of gravitation caused the winds ¢ frolic around the dainty ankles that ornament Madisd Square. b “The women themaclves, however, ere a bit to biam this ‘growing evil,’ as the newspapers call {t. Ever Magistrate Mayo handed out that line of rubber talk been an increase in the female floatipg population at Way and Fifth avenue, with a corresponding growth im tl rubberneck bunch. “If you stood on the crossing for more than five mfruty you couldn't help seeing the cause of it all. It seeme to some women, since they heard of the rubbering, make a of doing a dally promenade for the benefit and delight of elastic crowd on the corner. They sail along with thelr and aft canvas reefed so tight and snug that they might well be riding under bare poles—as the saying és at sea. “Of course, the bunch at the corner rubber, end I blame them. Father O'Flynn himself would have to month's penance after a walk across the square at luni time. Rubbering is a bad habit, but I say it's no use ing a man different baands of ‘red-eye’ and expecting him. refuse a drink afterward.” “Then you think Magistrate Mayo should have tated straight at the women?” : "Well, as a police officer, I'm not thinking against a 8vr BEFORE Yo THERE'S SOMETHING I Tay GOING. AWAY, To SAY 70 You! FROM HERE! Ode POON PIQON-LIGHT MELO-DRANMA ON THE ROOM, CENTRAL OFFICE SLEUTHS WATCHING A"SusP/CIoUS voinr” OS® 9909-096. © Sours; TAL GT P Magistrate, But I'll say this much: I'll bet my sgainst his gavel that Judge Mayo did a little rub himself when he was a young fellow down dn ‘ole Vinginny." THE ENGAGEMENT’S COST, What to Give the Girl You Low By Helen Oldfield. HE first impulse of love the world over ts to 60 som | thing for love, to render some service to the and love tokens date from the days of primeval But even In love tokens, ag dn all else, fitness t= the ke} of grace and beauty, says Helen Oldfield in the Onised Tribune, When lads go a-courting the trend ts usually toward e travagapce. Most men, especially young men, lke to dash and are not always careful that the requisite meaa therefor are available. Youths with small salaries think stylish to be careless of money, especially in the women, to put change in their pockets without pate to eend huge bouquets of long-stemmed roses or Illes of valley in January, to keep thetr girl friends supplied with pensive Fonbons; in short, to vie with the gilded youth have thousands where they can count one dollar, or. pel haps five. By and by, probavly, there !» @ defalcation, hitherto honored name {8 dragged in the mire of di and @ crushed convict enters the State's prison, On the other hand, every mai stipend | right to some Joy In life; ‘all work and no pley med %\. a dull boy," and, by the mysterious arithmetic ‘y only to lovers, that joy is doubled when he shares ia Jil, It 1s much more enjoyable to go to the theatre or cert with @ nice girl or two now and then than fr alone, and the man must be poor indeed who cannot the cecasional gift of flowers In season, of @ box af candy, new Gook or a current magazine, thoughtfully chosen D WHERE'S THAT. BO9S9999999L0990699090095005956-090060050950-94900909 6506 [that you will not detract from the high ‘standard of youx paper by employing common thieves after you have been In. formed of their waye of procuring ma- terial. Very sincerely, “EDWARDS & RONNEY, ‘ta ust Beventy-sixth Street, “Per J, 8. MUNNEY." Wo can feel for Messrs. Edwards and STREET IMPEDIMENTS. Qne of the recommendations of the State Board of sil Commissioners for better service on the street ral) lines of New York provides for “the probibition p local or State legislation of the occupation of Broad- Way south of Fifty-ninth street with building material,” Phis is impertant as being the first attempt to regulate leg lon what has grown to be an exasperating | Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. QDICK LUNCH, “That's a wonderful Ine,” rald the wl . {phiosopher, "He that runs may read. of the public patience. The duty of calling offend- Honney in this matter ye ; ; ig to account lies within the province of n the other hand, while Mr, i qate vo Pe ERED EO Ana LED Sine q “as? | Park Department and the Department of Public © been o Little o 4 eae No." replied the man who is busy by wi neglect the suggested legisiation is eum He warde ANd | setting sigh. “I've no cme to waste over "y. wt harsh. If taey such things. What | want ia to nd has been worst upon the line of the gub- wlll present evidence pro the gag of some place where he who runs may eat."~Chicago Record-Herald. THEY DID AND DIDN'T, R.! Spartacus always shave in my room, vin My landlady is careful about always Pan fas keeping me ia hot water, it kindly’? Smartacus—So's mine. That's the rea- Dtrelongs son I stay away from my room as much *avest uur as possibie—Paltimore Americen, . ib WHY HE TURNED, Philanthropic Visitor (at county jal:)— ‘My friend, how came’ you here? ‘Well, 1 gt no atraitened in the Houlevard and elsewhere beams and of structural steel have lain piled high for ceding the time of thetr use, On Forty-sec- tions have heen worse. Tool chests, licks, scaffolding and other implements in con- re been located without regard for either the i it the opportunity afforded has not heen properly prial is @ they are berett ja sound and hoarty we will release it from tse Old Jokes’ Home and restore it to them, bat Ue contenuol ol bane throws no Heit upon the main questi: Mt pon, ‘kuey Galm this jone Worked exclusively for thea, long’ Ang have iney tre We are sorry such aco whould ecour, And we must r sriends and officers of the §, lo be more conservative. ac jokes teobh if in doupt as to its and never take a the no matter how enn | HOME FUN FOR WINTER BVENINGS. | ee A GOOD PUZZLE, Draw three straight lines square in such & way that be seven separate me INE Do Aaa a G wit reference to some special article for the woman whom My likes and admires, He will find out and remember her day, taking care to choose the remembrance #0 that the shall be both graceful and fitting. It 4s thus that the man tact and feeling pays his footing in society, and with & one the money value of his gifts 19 the least consi: part of them. Something ts exacted of every man. “None of us lvetty, Himself.” sath the apostle. To make a gift worth while kindly thought must be all the worthy If It costs some self-sacrifice, Bill, no man who 0 poor of pocket aa not to be able to pay proper tolls the highway of life has any right to ask @ woman to with him thereupon, For Instance, he thas no right to ‘one to accompany him to the theatre if, in case of an gency, he hag not the price of a carriage at hand, When there is an engagement of marriage, that lends other phase to the situation of affairs, The man who pects to marry a woman has a right to make that sharer of his worldly goods to some extent even before endows her with them at the marriage altar. But {et use discretion and show tact tn the manner tn whieh so, If the worldly goods be few, let tender gentle care supplement thelr pauctty; it tulm not so overload her with benefits ‘There is no p or | ps CONUNDRUMS, Which are the lightest men, Scotch- i men, Irishmen or Englishmen? English- \ men. In Scotland there are men of Ayr (air), in Ireland men of Cork, but in England there are ightermen, Who Is the man who carries every- thing before him? The walter. Why are corn and potatoes like hi- nese idols? Because they have cars which oan't hear, e: which cannot see, Which Is the merriest sauce? wauce. Wien is @ lamp not a lamp? When it! A MATCH PUZZLE, © Take ten matches. Number them 1, 2, 4, dc, Set them down in @ row in ihe feyerse order they are numbered, We shall pow move three matches, une match at a time, from the right end to boy not a oy? When he 18! ihe iett—1 coming next to 10, 2 next to 1, 3 next to %, Now, & boy who knows What color is @ newspaper when youl this pussle can turn head away and are through with It? Red, clove his eyes if you wish, and you may Why Is a dirty rig hke @ bed boy?! move ay many matches as you please, both need tmoarnen ti al ge