The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 14

Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMfice at New York as Second-Class Mal) Matter. THE GRADE CROSSING AGAIN. Hbuted. conditions combine to invite it. palty. ae impossible. ated trackway through Newark and the Oranges. way. elevation until too late. Until the new management took hold it was ten years ago. ily at the very last. an elevated trackway. too great for immediate accomplishment. It delayed, THE VANDERBILT SUBPOENA. More than passing interest is likely to be taken minal Branch of the Supreme Court in obedience subpoena. Ordinary legal proceedings. tually to assume a reality not its own. times needs a judicial interpretation. 4m court as if he were plain Mr. Jones. certainty about that. dictment. _Fepressed. Over @ commoner. gound principle of the law. THE CHEERFUL PASSENGER, has thrown in high relief the consoling cheerfulness ‘passenger and his disposition to make the best @dverse circumstances. Barts “Phe Good Old Summer Time.” greater equanimity than formerly? Whatever the cause, the improvement is there. ie patient and long-suffering. "Symptoms of revolt. THE HUNGRY PARK SQUIRREL. | tf snow. The tender-hearted keepers are reported the byngry little animals, vy ik visitors even up to midwinter, and he is Pure be restrained. he practice of g Pubject of m bill at Albany. 11 4 ness, Jeay ——$— WOLUME 48.........c000000006NO. 18,158. It is to the survival of the grade crossing that the titul deaths of the Newark schoolgirls must be at- ‘The Lackawanna’s Morris and Essex line {s as well ‘ ied by gatemen probably as is any road running rough populous suburbs. But even the most careful - n cannot avert an accident of this kind when Given a fast train ning down hill on slippery rails and a trolley car skidding along also on slippery rails across the tracks | > ith the brakes powerless to hold the wheels, and the; Moment of disaster has arrived. The trolley car crashes its way through the frail! barrier of the gates directly | front of the locomotive and ten young lives pay the _ There is probably no other railroad of consequence in he country that has been run so entirely in the interests its stockholders and with so little regard for the of its passengers and of the public dwelling along Ine as the Morris and Wssex division of the Lacka- ent in the betterments that form a regular annual of large expense on other railroads as to excite de- It adopted the block signal system only after @ costly rear-end collision on the Hackensack mead- It began the elevation of its tracks It has run fast and frequent ins oyer the numerous grade crossings of the Oranges d preferred the occasional jury verdict for a pedes- cut down to the payment of a fixed interest charge The wonder has been that ere have not been more horrors like that at the Clifton ‘The new management may have the just excuse that burden of improvements left it to inaugurate has inly a pity that its track elevation has been so long e failure of Reginald C. Vanderbilt to appear In the Mr. Vanderbilt is a young man of very great wealth, living in an environment where the possessor of riches ‘comes naturally to regard their possession as tangible evidence of power carrying with it immunity from It is a delusion which grows upon the flattery that feeds it and comes even- There seem to be some doubts as to whether the young millionaire was properly served with the legal pa- per; the etiquette of the subpoena is subtle and some- But, assuming that it was served in due legal form, it is quite as neces- _@ary for Mr. Vanderbilt to obey its summons and appear There is no un- In default of his presence Mr, Je- ome hints at a body attachment and a Grand Jury in- ‘The cold snap as it has affected local transportation The unheated car chills him, the blown-out fuse de- lays bim, the broken-down truck blocks his car for half fan hour, but he does not luse his temper more than, extreme eases, to fume inwardly, Asa rule he Jollies bis yneighbor and perhaps helps the crowd out when {t ig it the ozone of the icy air that tones up his nerves or is it that his digestion has improved so that he en- dures discomfort and drafte on his good-nature with a It is only when he is forced to see empty cars go by marked “No Passengers” Or obliged to “change to the car ahead” that he shows We are called upon to pity the sorrows of the poor k equirrels loft without a food supply by the deep fall i have purebased various bushels of peanuts to distribute and over-tame, He has not lost his instinct of food and bas an abundance cached for use under , He is not going to die of starvation, and any B preparing to be shed over his hard lot may profit- y the joss of thelr receipts in the company's Teguise the ied by the Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to 6? _ @ The penalty not of some one's immediate carelessness, | ‘ ut of the Lackawanna’s traditional policy of parsimony which the road so long delayed the improvements that would have made this meeting of train and trolley The Lackawanna officials point with ide to the preparations they are making for an ele- Un- ortunately for the little victims these improvements, un tardily in response to public pressure, are only Unfortunately, also, for the road, whose séries of disputes with the city authorities regard- division of expense postponed the beginning of the 80 to This is the proper course, in which the Dis- ta’ trict-Attorney is sure of popular support. Any disposi- Cohen, you may pay the Court $0 aml tion to make a martyr of the rich young man should be Kee the piece. t In the eyes of the English law a nobleman of whom Yard? the authorities have taken cognizance has no privileges Here, where we have only the aris- focracy of wealth, we are not always mindful of that of of in He to bly it would benefit their digestion to undergo a{ UC! Was in tt for a few days, with spring almost in sight. The Squirrel is probably the best fed of all New Yorkers, ie has gorged himself to repletion on nuts offered him fat PODPIPTDIS ISSO DIG IOI 9G Oe Ps 4 Just our oF course? ¢ BULLY, COME UP ‘THE 3 HOUSE FOR DINNER $ You've: 3 GOT A FINE 3 fee's with FAMILY JIM, $ » (You, . ® é $060O50-000O00900:06000500 © THE OLD JOKES’ HOME. |: By Roy L. McCardell. ESTERDAY wns our busy day. Y Despite the icy weather, the ambu- lance bell clanged merrily, and the | ‘ old Jokes were trundled in, bundled in, | & rammed 11, slammed in, Jammed in, and crammed in! Some came c, 0. d., some| % f. 0. b, and all of them, whether fetched or carried, dragged, tagged or bagsed, came in p. d. a. Exhomed in the Subway. Prot. Joe M. A, Long Here are w fow old fellows that were dug up by workmen on the subway: When you full in water, what do you] @ get? Wet. What {8 black, white and re(a)d all over? Newspaper, When {is a man not a man? When he fs a shaving. What fs smaller than an ant's moutn?| ¢ What goes in it. To hold uo his pants, L, B., 1684 Second avenue, More Antiquities. Prof. Josh M. A. Long: What is the difference between a pill and a hill? One ie hard to get up and the other is |‘ hard to get down. A boy went Into the butcher's the other day and bought five cents’ worth of dog | ‘ meat, ‘The butcher sald: “Do you want to eat | « it here or mall I wrap tt up?” § Max Ghutz and Isaac Cohen were in a fight the other day. During the quarre!, which lasted for about an hour, Isaac | ‘ bit @ part of Max's ear off. Both were to fall. The Judge said: "Mr, How many shirts can you get but of a It all depends whose yard you go in, An ice wagon weighs, fully loaded, | ‘ 1,500 pounds. The man In front weighs | { 145 pounds. What does the man in the ack welgh? 4 Ice. W. H., 8, P, C.‘H. Just for a Kid, Prof, Josh M.A. Long What Is the difference between a bar- ber and a mother? One has razors other has shavers to raise. to shave and the TW Mr, Gottneger’s Candidates, Prof. Josh M. A. Long: “Wihat is the difference between Chris- tian Scfence and a thin girl?” “One is a humbug and the other is a bum hug.” “What is the biggest conundrum in the world’ “I don't know. What is the biggest?” “Lite."" “That's right. Life ts the biggest conundrum. You have to give it up.” “Yes, But I won't give it up.” “No? Why?" “Because L'il die first.”" NAT GOTTSEGER, No. 61 Avenue D. Picked im the Street. Prof, Josh M. A. Leng A lady walking along a certain street loses her pocketbook. A gentleman be- $OOBO00D50O006-0006G566-144065, THE WORLD) FRIDAY EVE: wD Fa $4-9460000060464. SHY EoS6 $4 $490-6006$06-90046 G, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. . ee —_—, ~ VEIN IN Cy PPDDDOODIODHDSDEGDHHHHOP-DOOOODY 6O9-H90995-504O0OO0646.HO958406.0O000400504905000000 “WHY COLLEGE MEN DON’T MARRY.”---BY GENE CARR. Lome -THE GOLD BRICK.” SORRY, BUT YOUR MARGINS ARE I COULDN'T LOSE! WIPED OUT, 2.1/9 Za 0994-6000 09-9-206, YES, THERES NOTHING LIKE | MARRIED LIFE BILLY BUT YOU GURRANTEED, ANOTHER FIVE THOUSAND GONE PLAYING THE RACES. ANYWAY 1/7 PROVIDED FOR IN MY OLD AGE, LADEN DORE THE LAST STAGE. OVER THE HILLS TO THE POOR HOUSE. + 9$$860000000006000006000000. NOT 1F 1KNOW shy he “THERE'S NOTHING LIKE MARRIED $ LIFE. BA i * oOo a) Oo PREDIGESTED WORDS. :|In the Breakfast Food Language. N enriching the vocabulary of the common language by such mellifiuous terms as grabachunka, takabita, swipae boxa, &c., there 1s no doubt that the health food manu. facturers of Battle Creck have greatly simplified the prob lems of everyday lite by doing away with many unnecessary, words. This will perhaps be fore apparent in a few years, >| but the tendency is unmistakable even now. In those daye people will not be annoyed by the necessity of making seleo- tions from different styles and makes of the same article, says the Now Idea. They will condense their wants into a single euphonious word and the dealer will have merely to hand tlie package down from the shelves, for there will be some well-advertised article bearing exactly this name whether the purchaser has ever heard of it or not—and being well advertised, !t will of course be the dest of tte kind. For example: : A man comes into a drugstore, visibly distressed. The drugzist anxiously inquires, “‘Ielpaheada?” as ho reaches for that article. The customer replies, “No. Gottacoffa,” end @®|in a few minutes departs with the required lfe-saver. A: few minutes later the same man is seen {n @ hat store Laying down $8 he speaks the one word, “Needaroofa,” ts fitted and resumes ihis journey to the office, stopping in fom @ moment at a thirst emparlumn, where the bartender mixes a wetmynecka to his great satisfaction. He looks over his morning mall hurrjedly, then dictates his brief replies inte the new rytalina machine, which a few moments later shoots the letters back to his desk with a squeaky ‘“stgna~ quicka."* >|| Tis wife meanwhile has been busy with the marcontphone ordering her supplies for dinner and such words es steakine, lofabreda, Getternbutter, digestasnbbage, coffee, pleceapya go wiitzzing through the atmosphere, and when the lord and master eeturns for his noonday refres! ment his wife invites him to takaseata. Noticing the pee) of the room he comments thereon to which his wife replies, “Fireouta, coalagona.” He hastily calls up the coal dealer, who informs him “Strykstilona—and as here he reverts Mngufatic habits acquired under similar circumstancse 1x8, wo must refuse to follow him further. But this proy phetfe sketch will at least sugsest what we may wend i no greatly distant data. WOMAN AND THE [IAN SHE LOVES How She May Make or Mar His Life, $ By Helen Oldfield. f > INCE the day when Adam made the excuse to Joh § NS ‘The woman whom thou gavest me, she peice 4 and I did eat,” woman's influence over man has been @ potent factor in the pubic and private history of the world, | “Cherchez la femme" is the, Gallic maxim; “A plague upon S| Petticoats,” says the old English dramatist, ‘ Ps What @ volume might be written of the unknown wives of 2 | Sreat men! Women who have persistently sacrificed theme selves, merging every hope and ambition in the etrenuoud effort to further their husbands’ careers. content to give up all else, until, when they are left behind in the race of life, the fine new friends and parvenu relatives of the self-made man ‘Deride his homely wite, \ And pity him for being tied to such a clod for life.” Such women as these stand silently and heroically, holéw ing the foot of 'the ladder, straining every nerve to keep steady that the husband may climb higher and highen Theirs 1s faith of the sort which moves mountains and which aocomplishes what it expects by the force of its e Hef, says Helen Oldfield in the Chicago Tribune, But let no fond and foolish young creature imagine ¢tha§ her lover {s as wax in her hands. He may yield before mas tlage to her lightest whim, yet be as adamant thereafter, Indeed, the wife 1s far more likely to adopt the husband's opinions and to walk in his ways than the husband is to fol. low the lead of his wife unless she is clever enough to Se guile him ¢herein without his suspecting i. ‘Marriage makes or mars a man,” but there are men whom the influ ence and entreaties of the best Wisest woman who evey lived would be powerless to move except in the channels af thelr own choosing, All of us, for example, can recall ine stances where women have married drunkards, trusting t= their ability to reform them, and seen hope, faith and cour age dle the death under the fiery breath of appetite. There are not many more pitiable sights than that of e womam striving with all her strength of body and mind to hold up ‘the dead weight of a worthless husband. In such case, ‘if her love and patience bo infinite, leaning, moreover, upom the help which {s higher than they, she may reap in due eeaq son if she faint not. But those who “faint not” are tew. None the less, it behooves all women to be careful tha ' what measure of Influence they may exert over che men whe love them is for good. "A man goes much faster to hell FOOBBOOOS5-4H00H9999O30H4049-0O94: 64096-0050-004 hind her picks it up, The lady after walking a fow steps further misses ner pocketbook. Looking behind her she sees this young gentleman with It, She calls a policeman and has him arrested. In court the Judge asks the lady how She says “Five cents He then asks the young man how muca was in tae pocketbook, The young Man says “BIX cents “Discharged,” says the Judge; “you are innocent (in a : EDWARD CLARK, 189 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn. and electite Of Feguiring a deposit of % trom co Prot Job M.A. Lope What Kind of monkeys grow on vinos? Don't know; tell me. “Gray Apes." of course, married well but has had ever rince, tme I go on @ ferry-boat it me cross. Parents well to do? @ hard to do, Byer) makes Are yor No, they'r I know @ man who went out in 11 rowboat and pulled up @ river, z t's nol gi 1 know a man tree Some of the Best Smith—-Old Skinner daughter a check for four figures if she married accoriing to his wishes, $11.U.—Chieago News. since you said you be! r anybody fret le | Jokes of the Day. PAPA MADE GOOD. promised Ni Jones~And did she get 1? Smith-Sure. ‘Whe cheok called for NATURAL SEQUENCE, Husband (irritably)—It fan't a year our mar ven, and yet order me around as if I warn't was made in Wife (calmly)—Order 1s ‘Montreal Star, Heaven's ENIGMA—A WORD, Tam composed of eleven terms. | My fourth is in apple, | orange. Un, cleanse, VIEWED WITH ALARM. Housekeepers, viewing with alarm the rise in the price of coal, may find some comfort in the fact that there is ® big drop im the price of ragium way. It 9 conte Orie 9 pound | sane Rah Fig, 1 looks as though the hand had|a glance at watea der. My tenth is in-neck, but not In head, My eleventh is in wet, but not In dry, ae at hyd be on ima M S05 Ae. (hs) eae See OR WINTER EVENINGS. | | HOME FUN F THE TRICK OF THE SUSPENDED KNIFE, My first 1s in rag, but not 4n cloth. My second is in arc, but not in bow, My third fs in ace, but not in deuce, but not in My Afth is in hind, but not tn stag, My sixth is in orb, but not in eye. My seventh ts in harp, but not in vio- My clghth ts dn bathe, but not in My ninth ip in roam, but not in wan- t that ts very] bing tt. If Saas teal ec er when s woman helps him on the road," says the oriental proverb. Nelther can any one tell how great may be the Influence of an apparently litule ching. ‘Trifles make up the sum of human life," and ¢ are scales so delicate that they cannot be used near an open window; @ breath of als will turn them. It Is much to @ man, however base he may ve, to be able ty believe thoroughly in some good woman; theréfore, let all women take heed that by no thoughtless ect nor hasty they blight the saving faith whic ts even as @ grain mustard seed, WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY, ‘The Mquor from oysters, being salt and water simply, teal no nutritive vatue. J ‘The end of cholera infantum watts upon the growth of akg simple practloe of sterilising baby's milk and bottle. To prevent pitting from small-pox it ts only nm protect the patient {vom tho blue and yiolet rays of which can be donv by allowing no Mght to enter the ah save through red glass. In the absence of these irritating rage of light--to which sunburn is due-the deep disfiguring pustules do not form, A red nose, as it often occurs a6 @ local condition dn women can be removed, mye. * ya fo digrag by @ a soaked in benwlne ani ‘upon nose : the cloth he allow i ra a to gh oie a