The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1903, Page 12

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to 0 Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMco at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. TVOLUME 48........ccsseeeeee NO. 18,168. : THE GAS SWINDLE. ‘The mazes of evidence of extortion brought by Even- © fag World correspondents against the Gas Trust is so Walky that even to summarize tt would be to encroach on otitorial space. In some instances, however, the over- has Deen so outrageous as to warrant special of it. For example: W. M. Porter, No. 949 Amsterdam avenue. His bill Fob. 7, 1902, was $2.70, and his bill of Feb. 6, 1903, $5.30, | D. Solomon, No. 656 Third avenue. 1902, was $1.50; that of Jan. 3, 1903, $6.80. “gufterer.” His February bills for the .past three | « were: 1901, $6.50; 1902, $9.50; 1908, $14.80, This) ; “qwas for “the same house, the same burnets, without al-| { _tteration.” ‘Marcus Braun, No, 58 Seventh street. | February, 1903, $16. Mr. Braun occupies a small dwell-| ‘fmg and uses the same number of burners as in former Is there not something radically wrong with such suspiciously suggestive of fraud? In- of 100 per cent. in one month and 300 within a if are hot to be explained away as chance or coinci- And if Secretary Carter, who has “received no from customers who believe they have been will consult The Evening World’s news he will find there an immense amount of His bill of Dec. | \¢ His bi for) « “Dovember, 1902, was $8; for January, 1903, $17.90; for) lo \¢ porative evidence of this arbitrary tmcrease oo THE OLD 2 which the circumstances compel us to attribute extortion, _ Attention has already been called tn this column to ‘Phe fast meter as a factor in the overcharge. State In- @pector Alexander now says that one meter in four is 1h i, but wrong always in the company's interest— ig to say, fast. The presence of a fast meter may plain some items of the overcharge; the poor quality ‘@f gas explains others. But what can account for tho |) @oubling and trebling of charges, not merely in logalities ‘Dut Al) over the city? Is there a human agency to be held responsible? Py THE TENEMENT ATTACKS. © + Gov. Odell’s assurance that he will “defend the ex- ‘eome from Albany. “Complaint ts made, “that this is a drastic law. be and it is intended to be.” This statement fully voices public sentiment, which Fes the law as a most important bulwark against a and degradation. That it reflects the sentiment ef the tenement-house tenant has been made manifest y the protests of the Janjtors’ Society against the pro- ‘oped amendments, and the adoption of resolutions of “eimilor tenor by the Council of Jewish Women, the ‘Mhomas Davidson Society and by the People’s Institute “Meeting, at which 1,900 persons were present. ' They know by personal experience how great the im- ni nt is of the new style of tenement over what, 4 the ‘words of Henry Moskowitz, was “an uncongenial, | @irty, airless, unlit, unsanitary, fetid home,” and they | Bre unanimous for the retention of the law which has ‘@ffected this great change for the better. ‘Yet by an amazing anomaly the greater the opposition to any modification of the existing law the bolder the assaults on it, ‘Thus in place of the abandoned Marshall bill and the “Remporarily neglected Wagner measure, objectionable as ‘ ‘were, we now haye the Matthews and Everett bills pmbodying provisions that would abolish the main safe- secured ‘by the existing De Forest law. The Mat- ‘Dill not only exempts a house of six families or ‘Bn from classification as a tenement, but removes the ‘Pestrictions on cellar lodgings. The Everett bill restores the narrow airshaft and Faises the number of families constituting a tenement from three to eight. + Their adoption would mean the restoration to Brook fic Iyn of the foulest of the disease-inviting features which _ the De Forest law removed, It is these conditions that the greed which is assail- “ing the law seeks to perpetuate. Happily, the bills are likely to prevail against the Publicity which has laid p@stheir iniquitous features. says the Tf it is not it FOOD THEORIES. ‘A dietetic theorist in Chicago who dispensed with ‘Dreakfast as unnecessary and sought to live on uncooked } food, with raw wheat as a main article of diet, Is dead. Phe victim of this irregular regimen was a writer. She | possessed a literary mind, but she seems to have lacked common seuse. Common sense as applied to diet is this: Do unto our stomach as you would have it do unto you, If reteset it will return good in kind. If slighted and neg or if made a vehicle for experrmental notions » it will revolt, and the mutiny is always a serious one. If this misguided Chicago girl had stuck to beefsteak she would be alive to-day. But she treated her digestion as df it were that of a ruminant animal and she paid the {fatal penalty. " A Polonius, turning bis advice from clothes, might “pay: “Costly thy food as thy purse can bear,” and the 5 if followed, would be a boon, not as encouraging extravagance of diet, but as recommending good qual- Bbove all things, ~ TO WIDEN FIFTY-NINTH STREET Pe project to widen Fifty-ninth street will involve operations in demolition at enormous expense. ty engineer who puts the cost at $8,000,000 is prob- extravagant in his estimate. To take slices off and big department stores is expensive as well ie in city development, foresight torty"years ago--but who thouxit B. Sweeny was passing on Central Park that a tide of travel would flow along the park greater than anything then known on Bweeny foresaw the eventual need of a Park sysiem, but he doubtless never ft the region where soldiers were camping with million-dollar hotels, spate that future needs would demand where now there ts only a trans- wat at Riguty-sizth streot, JOKES’ HOME. Jame Joke with Wooden Creates Scene at Old Jokes) Home. Lee Claims to Be Young and Stronm nnd Able to Work, but Hi | Record In Produced. ATH last evening Officer Jerry Sulll- van, of the 8. P. C. HL, arrested an old joke at Pastor's Theatre. ‘This old fellow lmped on the stage with @ wooden leg and claimed to be lame because there was a knot hole in the thmber member, OMcer Sullivan immediately finshed his badge and took the old fellow into custody, When brought to the Old Jokes’ Home the offender stamped his lame wooden leg with the knot hole in it and clatmed that it was @ case of mistaken Identity, the ofcer mixing him up with the wooden-leg Joke that is used as a potato stamper. OMcer Gullivan, however, produced the lame old Joke's record, proving that this old fellow had worked with the Christie Minstrels in 17, since when he has worked continuously in vaudeville. Despite his protests he was placed in the violent ward. Appointments, ‘The following have been appointed special officers of the Soctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor: George W. Day, in vaudeville; Louts Harrison, in mustoal comedy; Simeon Ford, at banquets and social affairs; Jerry Bulll- van, at large. Rules for Inmates, Prot. Jom M. A. Long: ‘The following rules and regulations for the Old Jokes’ Home are respect- fully submitted: 1. Board, 60 cents a square foot, 2. Breakfast at 5, dinner at 6, supper at 7. 3. Inmates requested not to the dumb-waiter. 4 Inmates wishing to rise the morning can have either ing flour or yeast for supper. 5, Inmates wishing to do a little driv- ing will find nails and hammer handy, 6 The hotel is handy to the morgue and all cemeteries. Hearses to hire, 3 cents @ day, 7. 1f the room is too warm open the window and sce the fire-escape. 8. If you would like to see some good jumping life the mattress and see the blg @pring, or you can raise a window and see a horse fly 9 If you wish to practice baseball you will find a pitcher handy. 10. Beparate tables for lunatics, ber-necks and mother-In-laws 11. As there is no clock In the room you can hear the bed tek, 12. If you are troubled with the night- mare you will find a rope on the bed- speak to early in self-rals- rub- post. 13. No lady will chew tobacco in a | fre hotel. 14 There will be a dog fight and a murder for the entertainment of the inmates every Saturday night. | 16. 1f you should find a part of a dog collar in your sausage, please re- turn it to the superintendent 16. An old Joke now residing in Green- wood says he would ke to stop with us again, Very truly yours, OLLY MARTIN, No. 307 West One Hundred and Fit- eth e#treet OMclally Detained, Jor M. A. Lour |} Kindly let old Dr. Lemonosky examjne these old worn out Jokes before they are ced in the Old Jokes’ Home: Where does a)i the snuff go to? No one nose When Isa bonnet not a bonnet? When it becomes a pretty woman, Why 1s @ Yoom full of married ladies Like an empty © } Because there ts not iy it Why is @ good husband ike dough? ¢ a woman needs him. M., Wi Orenard street PC. H,, Eighth District, From South Norwalk, Prof. Josh M4. Long Two Irishmen travelling along the Na tlonal road, in Pennaylvania, came to one of the stones set up along tae road, After reading the inscription said one to his companion: "Pat, thrald loightiy over the sod, He ts a old one~200 y and bis name ix Miles from Cumber- land," Why do hens lay in the day time? a single person | | $999-0559040O5408-6-0050O64O46O-6OG06-4644466-0F99F00O4 6900-064 A HE'S THRESPASSIN’ = ON PRIVATE GROUNDS: THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1905. WE WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE PIER BY A DELEGATION FROM THE FOR THE IN A BOX SOUBRETTES UNION= ‘w) —ZA4 “FLATIRON" PPORDOSPOOOOOD: Wl al —== WINDS 7 AT THE syow, <j Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. NO NIGHT WORK FOR HIM, Railroad Surveyor—We are going to run a railroad through your barn. Farmer's Wife-AN right. { don't mind; but you remember that I will have no trains after 9 o'clock at night, 1 have no intention of getting up after that to open the door for the trains to wo through.—-Die Jugend, A GAME OF DRAW. “But why did you hit him?’ the Justice. “Your Houor,’* “h Ww on ine, asked replied the witness, “Well, perhaps you were justified,’ admitted the Justice. “But what did he draw—a knife or a gun? “Worse than either, Your Honor, He drew on mo at sight for $160,""—Chicago Post, RAPID TRANSIT, “Do you live far from the centre of the elty? ‘Oh, noj Journey.’ "By trol "Heavens! No, 1 mean when 1 Press, only about half an hour's That takes an hour walk."'—Philadelphia NOT SUCH BAD LUCK, Mrs, Disk—Did you and Joe have good sport? #Dick—Well, we didn't get any game; Because at night tme they are ail roqulert. but we didn’> sess cach other Detroit Free Press a nn ay EEN EN BPD OBEDDOROOOPADEDLDILDGREPODDDD 4406999990 H19990O0 | THE “ TRANSFER” PHANTOM CONTINUES TO PURSUE POOR CLARENCE THE COP. GET OFF’N THIS |Roao! DON'T YE2 G'LIEVE IN SIGNS? BACK UP! IM THE KING OF BELGIUH!! AUSTAKEN FOR A cor7g-oN” @ 3S35O9099H0O40F 0940000460000 & WONDER WHAT AM | AWAKE, 1 ALS THAT Cop? OR iS THI A A I THINK I'VE GOT | HORRIBLE NIGHT~ by MARE??? |HOwW TO KEEP A MAN’S LOVE ' When the First Glamour Has Passed. By Harriet Hubbard Ayer. G YOUNG wife asks {f there Is any recipe for holding @ man's love after you have won him. She says: “My Musband appears to have just one objoct In life, which 1s to get away from me and my soolety >| as often as he can. He {s not cross. He {s not mean about money. I don't think he fs interested in any other woman, + @ | but I seem to bore him. I certainly did not expect such! treatment as a wife from the man who was so desperately — in love with me before marriage.” Ot course you didn't. I am sorry for the wife who only sees her husband et meals and who has no share in his friendships or diversions, But candor compels me to say that when there 1s no se0- ond woman in the case the fault originally is usually to be laid at the door o fthe wife. The sooner a woman reAlizes that the best man in the world {s relatively a selfish creature the sooner she will be able to adjust herself to the standards and limitations that govern the particular male to whom she has given her heart. i ‘The girl who wins a man's love too often thinks the neces- sity for being charming ends with the wane of the honey- moon, ‘The truth fs that it is after her marriage the woman who would be queen of her husband’s heart must exert her every" attraction. 4 To attract a man by your beauty and girlish loveliness ta only what every other maiden has done before you. Suoh ts the power of youth and beauty over the brains and senses of mankind. To hold a husband's love his wife must make him feel that he 1s the most interesting companion, the most delightful friend, the most attractive man in every way the world contains for her, A woman must take an interest in her husband's pursuite, his business, his diversions. ¥ It won't do for her to think of her own pursuits, or ever to monopolize all the conversation. A husband may be the most courteous of Msteners, A great many wives give their husbands Ittle opportunity to offen an observation. No man wants to be a mere figurehead in family affairs, After the novelty of the new relationship wears away ani @ man settles down to the certain monotony of married life, unless the wary wife keeps a keen watch and exerts her every charm, the first dis!lusionment occurs, It 46 hart to repair the rift within the lute—hant to chase away ‘the little cloud in the blue of the matriménial sky. After winning @ man's love I think most women are te, blame {f they lose It. You must not judge your husband's actions trom e wom en's standards. Men are allowed all sorts of I!berties and great individual), * freedom from boyhood. They are not bound by the home pircle, aw girls are. A youth of seventeen ‘begins to lead an independent ex- Istence. After a day of work he has been taught to belleve he hiss a right to be diverted, He expects to seek his own pleasure. ' If he remains @ bachelor seven or eight years he has ac- quired the fixed habit of all these years of independence an@ Treedom, and it is the Inevitable consequence that he be comes more or less selfish during the process. . The woman who attempts to establish a new omer of things after marriage, eo far as her husband's character goes in this respect, usually fails disastrously, The women placed as you are who looks the situation clearly in the face should eet herself diligently towamd mending @ condition that 1s by no means hopeless. Above all things don't present an unhappy face to your husband when he does favor you with his society. Don't be exacting. Don't complain, Don't appear abused, Don't confide your disappointment to any one, Men are obstinate, and if you call the family in and demand more at- tention you are fairly certain to get leas. Interest yourself in matters that concern your husband, ‘The average man {s wax in the hands of a clever woman. Be a clever woman, You can win your ‘husband back if »|you will study carefully wherein you have fafled to make your home and your society more desirable than any other, GOOGOOOO oN DODD % 4 1 HOE EIOOHS-HIGI449HHOHHO9HOOX oe PIBIDLLHHTHOHHSD OOS > > NAVAL WAR. A mimic naval battle may be fought with two ping for the lronclads, Make them float in a glass of water by drop- Ping thom tn carefully so that the wp- ides are not moistened. Soon the two Vessels will attack each other. The battle often ends in the sinking of oth. oe - A DOT PUZZLE, Separate these nine spots by three circles drawn en: lively inside the larger one, so that each epot ta left in & space to Itself, complotely out off from wll the others. If you can #olve the problom in less than five minyses you may congratulate yourself on being smarter than most people, * CONUNDRUMS, ‘What has only one foot? A stocking, If @ barrel weighs ten pounds what can you fill it with to make seven pounds? Holes, llow do bees dispose of their honey? They cell tt, Why Is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree? Because it 1s furthest from the bark, What |s that which you cannot hold for ton minutes, although it is as light 4s a feather? Your breath. Why are persons born blind unfit to be carpenters? Because they never saw. Why 4s "A" like 18 o'clock. Because it is the middle of day. What kind of hens lay the longest? Dead ones. Why t# @ young lady like a hinge? Because she 1s something to ® door, Why are wheat and potatoes ke Chinese idols? Because they have ears which cannot hear, eyes which cannot see When may a man'e pocket be empty and yet have something in it? When it has a hole in it, Why is & lead pencil like @ perverse child? It never does right (write) of itself, Of what profession is A player. What makes a pair of boots? every child? Two boots. When the French patio, ke Jeadyt” Whee Gis arms? MKS & by putting Welght the object will tumble over. bag under —————_—_ BILLY'S SAVINGS BANK, Billy resolved at the beginning of the year to e bis pennies, saya the Palladeipala Noith American, and thie 1s the plan he fol- lowed: The firet week he dropped one penny each day into the bank; the week three pennies a day, &c. One can teat the strength of bis lungs : any Blow gently and eteadily and xt week two pennies @ day; the third a et acer How| a8 & command, are waiting to see if the present Gurry will and take measures accordingly, Don't forget one very tm- Portant point, which I, myself, never reallzed until I undere too to do a man‘a work: Home to a tired man after a long day's wearing, often sordid work should be a «eal haven of rest, It should be a place of peace, where a weary man may fedl on every side that he 1s welcome—that his pleasure and comfort are of the highest importance; that ho fs, in fact, the well beloved re turned to those to whom his presence brings happiness, —_—_—_—_—~O~COCO~r “THE ROYAL COMMAND,” In an invitation to a White House party, given over « tel- ephone, a “command” in Washington soclety? asks the Chi- cago Inter-Ovean, Mins Alice Roosevelt's democratic method has started this * question spinning all over the capital. An impromptu giris* gathering is the cause of {t all, Learning, the other day, that the President and his wife were going to a theatre that eve- ning, Miss Roosevelt decided to entertain a few of her old echool friends, Ghe called them up by telephahe. Among those who were asked in this manner was Carolym Postlethwaite, the daughter of Mra, WilHam Postlethwaite, Mrs, Postlethwaite took the message and accepted in hes daughter's name, notwithstanding the fact that her dauehe ter was to be hostess at a dinner that evening in honor of her debut into soclety, During the afternoon Miss Roosevelt in some way heard of the dinner and went to the Postleth- waite residence and told Miss Postlethwaite that she would not think of intereference in the dinner and the two gtria agreed among themeelves that Miss Postlethwaite should romain with her guests, The mother took a different view of the situation and maintained that {t would be an unpardonable breach of et- iquette should her daughter disobey “a summons from the White House,” Mra, Posticthwaite presided at her daugh+ ter’s dinner and the young woman went to the White House, ‘Now Washington society people who are loath to regard an invitation from the White House, no matter how informal, much money had he ty the last day of| result in 8 reorganisation of the etiquette governing White , House tavitations, .