The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 12

Some Oe ergy agate iene smal I ; ~ THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1903. “bllihed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to 6 |, Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. _ VOLUME 4s. . GAS RELIEF LEGISLATION. | Baeter Fitzgerald's Albany bill to reduce the price of | fe to 75 cents per thousand feet is a measure to be ==) commended on general principles; gas at 80 cents has ) been found remunerative at Toronto, and would be here, s Where the Consolidated Company's earnings have in- i LADY BOUNTIFUL RELIEVES POVERTY AND PROMOTES WARFARE.--BY GENE CARR. 1 P< “} WHAT 16 71 Saas TRoveLe : ( x «NO. 18,166. Mg proportionately with the decrease of price. It s| 9 aycean> | the large sales and small profits idea over again, seen $ AR ¢ 5 in successful operation. But with gas at $1 9 | costing consumers more than at $1.25, the old rate, what | % is to assure us that gas at 75 cents will not produce bills $ | attaining an even greater altitude of extortion than| ¢ ~ those now rendered? 3 OATS DER 1 ; A better remedy for the consumers’ present discontent $ ELLER wor Wz 4s to be found in a legislative investigation of existing | > CAvGHINN aT abuses and an inquiry into their causes. It is not be- $ Me! ‘Meved that “fast” meters and an inferior quality of gas | 3 ; Bi are entirely responsible for increases of bills from 100 8 Aes HAR “ 0 300 per cent. There is some other main contributing g FUN OF ME eause which an inquiry by a legislative committee might | ¢ CAUSE ! AINT - @isclose. This plan is advanced by Senator Bernard Mar- 4 GOT NO SHOES tin as the “best method of remedying the Intolerable - gituition,” and there is much to be sald in favor of it. | 3 Such an investigation would be especially beneficial | - ff in addition it should result in new and more drastic] gislation for gas companies. As matters stand, the} % itutes enacted to protect the people against exactions | ‘accomplish a contrary purpose. Their loosely drawn : j provisions permit the very extortions they are presumed 8 { to prevent. 3 By consequence the position of State Inspector of 3 _ Meters is practically a sinecure in so far as It relates to| _ the remedy of abuses and the correction of overcharges | 2 through rebates. ¢ ‘The Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Elec- | » tricity can do little to improve the quality of the gas| % Decause the law forbids laboratory tests oftener than | 046644. 88O$-9OOO6 8000008 “Once a week and three consecutive violations must be Shown before the company may be fined—in the large| | ME: OLD um of $100. The Commissioner is further handicapped > ‘by the refusal of the Board of Estimate to equip him JOKES “financially for his duties. HOME, ‘Thus, in effect, the State while favoring the gas cor- By Roy L. McCardell. > porations by loose legislation favors them further by power to the officials created to enforce the laws them. A Word to Our Friends. WHAT IS A BABY¢ **A Feather trom the Wing of Love | Dropped Into the Lap of "4 Motherhood.” By the winter set in, prompted by the alternation of imtre | oi4 7.4 worn-out “Jokes Into custody and dust, flying ashes and dirt on and near the line Of |uniess the jokes waive objections. But © the Subway. It is especially pertinent now, at a time | members of tive Society for the Preven- ‘ tion of Cruelty to Humor can use moral _when aso result of the recent snowstorm there is hardly isaadigalatiateteheatre/analot inl paces crossing away from the main avenues which is not Where poverty reigns, there they are showered down with a total disregard of all economic laws. One mouth ds starved that another be fed, and every fresh arrival only adds to the misery of those that are already there, Cupid knows no law. The cherub makes no calculations. We were all babies once. Poor, helpless, teethless, guck- BABY Is a little stranger. He has opened his eyes on : the great wide world, and the announcement is mede ENDING the arrival of a new sup: _ It fs in new legislation that will adequately safeguard TOL A EGG tease nical Ke the morning paper. ‘Then we lose sight of him. *! { ‘the public against encroachment by these public utilities are promised us by March 5, tho] 3 He ‘has made his bow, and retires. But what a stir he makes i that the gas consumers’ best hope of relief Iles. TERE. GRORGNCiol amarkene Celene cand : tn his own ttle world, When he arrives the father 4s rele- | ——__—_—_——- day to eupply the thousands ordered, gated to the back part of the house or the garret as a super- 3 ’ ‘friends and those Interested In the Out-| 2 annuated plece of furniture, and becomes for once the pereon MAJOR WOODBURY’S STREETS. dso ldulles Departskent ee) the lal 's least considered in his household. But the question arises, “It Nagle were still our Street-Cleaning Commissioner | soxes Home need not cease their efforts| © im p \ “Are bables what they are répresented to be?” They have \ id we fee) satisfied with the condition of the stree s/ | for humor humanely handled, $ tt 4 peer ne theme of poets, the foundation of philosophy and | rtinent on many occasions since | ‘Without badge and proper credentials i ) he pivots on which crowns have turned. Yet Malthus would * ‘The query has been pertinent o1 ny To one ds, of courae, empowered to take| ® eel have us belleve that they are not an unmixed blessing, 3 AN! HOW REJUVENATING! THERES NOTHING LIKE & QUIET MORNING WALK" COUNTR 9O06 where old Jokes are worked, filthy with slime. A nine-inch fall of snow excuses much, but the streets as they are eleven days later are not " creditable to the city’s reputation for cleanliness. _ The presence at this Ite date of melting snow in many downtown streets is accounted for by the Com- missioner’s explanation that on nearly 100 miles of ‘Btreet surface he has “distributed the snow so as to facilitate its melting at a uniform rate.” Just how much Jess a menace to the health a two-inch “layer of melting snow Is than one of nine inches is a topic for interesting debate. he fact 1s that if there had not been a continuance of low temperature through the week following the fall of snow the streets would have ‘become rivers of germ- Jaden liquidity. That we missed such a condition is our good fortune. ‘But if it is to be the Commissioner's policy after future storms to leave a certain proportion of the snow in ‘the streets to melt there, why not concentrate the » attack of the cleaners on the crossings, and thus afford " the pedestrian opportunity of getting about without wet | feet and polled clothes? Er FIREPROOF ARCHITECTURE. The fireproof structure of steel and stone rises im- ively story above story, arousing the admiration of : op baedina at the thoroughness of modern building methods and the satisfaction of the tenant at the security te be afforded him. And along comes the fire and wipes @ut the interior as quickly and as thoroughly as if the og aganal were of wood. The building stands, but \ fireproof tiled ceiling falls on the firemen, the plate- windows shiver into fragments, the steel 1s warped © @nd ruined and the stone baked till it pulverizes. In the ) great fire in Boston this fondness of flame for brown- " Bione was first observed. Is it possible to build with gbsolute security against tréss-like construction be regarded as fireproof when year? _ Apparently a part of the ingenuity that is applied to } fireproof methods of building may more profit- be directed to the perfection of the interior stand- ¢ tubing and the shower apparatus, by which a large jume of water may be immediately forced from the H aa he blaze directly attacked, The frequent inadequacy of extension of this admirable system to the furthest a lopment possible. ICE AND TYPHOID, bill at Albany in which more than usual ‘interest will be taken expressly forbids the cut- @f ice in the Hudson within a certain distance of rd and Coxsackie and makes it unlawful to cut ® domestic use within 3,000 fect of any village, “OF city of more than 10,000 inhabitants on the b River, It ts a measure introduced by Senator * \yetclan. pe.that not s0 much of it is used it is as impor health that the ice supplied it should be fe the water. Ice in which there ie the @mong them, A little of the careful. " turned ay) Via fre while preserving the few architectural graces that | ‘0 with the modern skyscraper? Can even a massive | / a8 armory makes one of the most spectacular blazes of | Smireet to the upper floors of a burning skyscraper and | /and ladder to reach the seat of the fire demands | of nowage is 2 menace, It may harbor dly vitality is proof against freezing, the the raw oyster so buspiciously to river ico. It might also be jountain lake toe, in which the germs | the summer visitor has suspected the Let theatre parties practise the fol lowing rhymed reproof, the college cry, ag it were, of the Old Jokes’ Home ‘Then when an old and weary joke 1s dragged out by the oruel camedian they can rise and shout in unison: “Crack! crack! Make a funny orack! ‘That one to the Old Jokes’ ome, ‘Back! back! back!" By the time the audience has risen to {ts feet and yelled this halt a dozen times even the most hardened offender will ‘hesitate to work another old joke that evening. Late Arrivals, Prof, Josh M.A. Long What is a muff? Something that hoids a lady's hand and don't squeeze tt. How do bees dispose of thelr honey? They call it. What 1s the best way to catch a squir rel? Go up @ tree and make a nose like a nut. “Only One Girl In This World for Me." LEO GUMPERT. Prof, Josh Mf. A. Long Wiat's a good way of making a coat and vest last? By having the trousers inade first OHWARLES A, DANFORTH. Weehawken Helghts, N, J. Prof, Jouh M. A. Long “There goes the champion ghtweight of Harlem,” “Is that so? He doesn't look lke a fighter.” “H1e fan't; he is a coal dealer.” GEORGE L. FRIEND, 217 Avenue A. Prof, Josh M, A. Long If all the Presidents of the United States were in line how far would they reach? From Washington to Cleveland, What notes compose the most favorite tunes, and how many tunes do they compos Bank notes, and they make for-tunes. Why are wooden ships (as compared with jronclads) of the female sex? Because they are the weaker vessels. Why was Robinson Crusoe not alone on his desert island? Because tacre was @ heavy swell on the beach. Why isa dog's tall a curiosity? Because It was never seen before. SCHOENLEBER, jale st Brooklyn Newly Appointed Officers $1, C,H. James’ C. McCormack, No, 145 West Sixteenth street; Wallace 8, Jacobs E. Rickman, No. 1287 Hodford avenne, Brooklyn; Emanuel P. Vegu, Brooklyn; Lou U., Roseville, N. J.; Sophie Young, No, 488 Myrtle avenue: ‘Kind Hoart- ed"; M. W, Graham, No, 458 West Moe ty-fourth street; George A. Bartels; Ger tle D. Strauss, No. $80 Madison » Brooklyn; Samuel Meyer, No, 1 Mon gomery street; F ek, No. Grand street, Brooklyn; B No, 15 West One Hundred and Hlgnt- centh street; Gustave Steiner, No, 221 East Highty-ninth street; John Schmidt, No. 63 Bouth street; A Chester Amma man; P. O'Bulliy: City; Charles Roth, No. 247 East seventh street ighty~ Lats, No. 89 Chrystie treet; ‘J, W.," dred and Sixteenth street; Bam Golde wits, No. $81 Madison street; Jane Doig, 0, WS Vortywsventh treet, Brooklyn, What wes Adam's favorite song?| 2 DINGLE BIRDS NAN i col E — Al Border Lochinvar, by C. R. Greenley. The Wild Western Wooing and Winning of an Eastern Girl. r, and she was changes In the little © by Dally Story Pate Hing him of the) inclined to deny him that last ride that but—she wanted so mich to see a quaint old mission gar- den he had promised to show her. Ta}l, @lender, flashing under the silver t out from the long, low adobe of the hacleada and the blaze of the August sun caught new fire from the Shining bilt that gleamed tn his sca;let One lean, brown hand sheltered his eyes as he swept house and corral with an anxious glance. ing of the moment when the sea-gray eyes of Gladys Deane would rest upon He called for her at the post and the ride to the old mission began, Jose was very quiet as they rode out Once or twice he glanced gwauntieted hand that held the and felt of @ certain Ite box in the folds of his serape, on Almetas; but little ared Jose for the lives of many pontes weighed in the balance, ‘The padre came out to meet them. A te xray man with a gray habit, with the emile of God's peace on the thin old face so ike carven yellow ivory. Madys fell a victim to that amile at while the great golden bees the treliised roses and the pomegranates held out fire-fingers from the green gloom ot »tnding alleys, ‘The padre led them to the chapel,oaken white and bare; Christ above the altar, the shadowed silence; but when he came from the sacristy, and this little acolyte with the upeurling Wreaths of mystic blue, the bare walla grew wide and high into groined arches, tay padre Was @ mitred droned among Aluho, for miles of wind-swept metas Jose's ranch When the old Jose had or: his life wleata, at the Padre's urging, to send his son, the half-grown astripling moved a lever, » working (hrough the glowness of had brought back in the course of five yeurs a boy, with the bitterness of a nis soul, strangely at varlance with his surroundings. had endured his appreat'» the new life patientiy, learning, and tt# atmosphere, as Buersed, unfitted bim for the old aquolid plenty, the savage freedom of Almetas Jarred upon the nevis awak ened consclousness. of blank days and hopeless nights, when the boy had ceased to battle with his want of the unattainadle. Then things settled the young Jose reigned years of unending sameness, two forces forever at war within him, and the call of the unknown ever half-heard in his daughter in short skirts and long plaits, reen with him, unwitting- C poond @ lode-star in y found him at the post. the first visit, at her request, he wore caballero costume, wife grew anxtous, Jone, for all his honeat eyes, Of a pos- and the little Jose was think- oe wae Priest of the Moly Bee, besides, there wits 1 Hammond, a solid entity; but she failed to remember a certain proverb auent mice and men. There came a night when they were alone on the flower-wreathed veranda, and Jose forgot his fear of h love and longing with oe and kneeling at the Latin words that she Solemn words, for life and death, Sixth avenue; Thomas Burke, No, M7 padre had blessed There was a time from the post, ring and Jose awake to ttn meant low ery, hesitated a: padre's hands were outspread in bs poured forth ai @ passion that No, 419 Kast One Hundred and Nineteenth street; Joon Curran, No, 905 Monttor street, Jersey of Spanish and broken English, but Gladys undersiood. As her themselves and through five the door of the sight of a gleaming solitaire upon her Her eyes followed him, and the quick color went to the roots of her halr as Jose straightened still under his bronse. met and fell through a miserable allence nd then @he told him of John Edward J, Fisher, No. 544 Kast One Hundred and Fortleth street; Herman Two weeks past he had visited the acceptance of Col, Once there, Grant, who hed @ certain sympathy for the lonely led, half dragged Jose to his quarters in “Officere’ Row.” ‘There be met « girl. No. 49 Weat Thirty-fifth street; Mel- ville .H Bettman, No, 836 East One Hun- Grant's tnyitation 3 It was very quiet in the mission gai den, eave for the shrilling of the paro- 4, green and gray, wont , ih, his star of the the Meow, "oud treat Ea hetm, No. M1 Madiaon street; Josephine [re Woodeliff, N. J.: Lewis Boro- heart seething within hii ptood, more by fer than sho had meant| to tell, @he felt a Uttle hure whould dake 1 ing, cooing, dimpled little creatures. There 18 consolation in th» thought that William Shakespeare was once one of those 2s well as we; that kings and emperors had once the same babylsh appetites. What helpless, senseless creatures bables sometimes make the wisest of men. Edward Irving once set London ringing with his eloquence as a preacher, and states- men and princes flocked to tis church in Hatton Garden. Yet Carlyle, the old cynic, who was Irving's college chum, and who knew not the touch of a baby’s ‘hand, eneers) at Irving babbling up and down the sands at Brighton with his first baby in his arms, Even a clvic dignitary who, In his pMclal position, sits behind a pile of law books looking solemn as the #phinx, will talk nonsense by the hour and behave Hke an excaped lunatic in the presence of dis first- forn, Lom Chancellors can be made as cooing doves, and kings step down from thelr thrones in the presence of these little strangers. They are the autocrats of the world, Moat of us have been through that stage when we looked upon bables with the utmost contempt. ‘The schoolboy will have * none of him, and 1s not afrald to pronounce his daby brother an unmitigated nuisance, To bables is given the pocret power of making bachelors bhush. There is another side to the picture. Thomas a Kempis tells us "The human Infant 1s @ picture of such deformity, * weakness, nakedness and helpless distress as is not to be found among the low-born animals of the world.” Now Thomas a Kempis was a monk, and the atmosphere of tiie cloister must have had a bad effect on his imagtnation. Burns had the samo feeling, but he has clothed it in much better language: i! Sweet floweret, pledge o' metkte love, And ward o' mony a prayer, What heart 0’ stone wad thou na move Sae helpless, sweet and fair! To go to the root of the whole matter. What ts a baby? The question was once asked in the columns of @ popular weekly paper, and a prize was given for the best answer. Aa was to be expected, the young lady who took the prise gave a very poetic one, Sho sald: “A baby is a featherérom the wing of love dropped into the lap of motherhood," Now that definition of what Mr. George Augustus Gala called a! “poor Ittle gasping lump of damp dough with a chronto stomach ache," could only be given from the sentimental heart of a woman, It was given by one of Burns's country- women. If bables are blessings why 1s It that the poor man who has a double blessing bestowed on him ts the object of so much pity? THE WONDERFUL HAIRPIN. en By Dr. Torrance Rugh. 1B more extensive the feld of usefulness of a surgical | {nstrument the greater its value to the profession and to the general practitioner in particular, and an inetru- ment that enables one to deal successfully with a great number of regular or emergency conditions shout be most widely and intimately known. The hairptn is an Inatrument of this sort. Strangely enough, though the utility of the hairpin ges been recognized by surgeons for many years, ite uses bave been almost entirely traditional, being handed trom prepep- tor to pupil and from teacher to student and in such manner preserved In the great volume of unwritten, but practical surgery, the knowledge of which has always been a part of the equipment of the successful surgeon, gays Dr. Rugh in & monograph entitled ‘The Burgical Uses of the tas 1 article, né lends {tse very many ‘This @mall article, hé says, If to purposes. In @ household one has but to ask for @ hairpin and he supphed with 4, Its chief polnts of usefulness are: Its almost Univerwed prewence, ite ease of atertieacion, rts convenlense of sige, its adaptability to any devined shape by bending or twisting and ita cheapness, Bome of the surgical umes to which a bent hatrpin may be t are i As a nasal speculum, to hold the nostrils open so thet & good view of the interlor of the nose may be obtained, 2. Aw @ retractor of wounds, to keep the lips of a cut apart v fre | and stationary. ed . Jove drew er foger, hie exes vats into ith their la d young red mout io 3. As an aneuryemal needle, to draw a Hgature, or Joop, around the blood vessel in a surgical operation, 4. Ae @ tracheotomy tube, to keep clear the opening tn the throat through which, in dreadful cases of diphtheria, the mt has to breathe, the] 6 As drainage tube, to hold @ wound open, 6 As an approximator, to 001d Cogether-evetgunepene wound