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

by the Press Publishing Company, No, 83 to © Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omice at New York as Seoond-Class Mail Matter. - VOLUME 4s. «NO. 18,188. THE GAS FIGHT. ‘The movement begun by The Evening World to put to Gas Trust extortion gains additional impetus entrance of the Merchants’ Association into the of this conservative body of successful Tends ‘weight and stability to any cause, im requesting Commissioner Monroe to ‘Yhem ‘with data rogarding the lighting mo- nificant. It indicates an interest that augurs a vigor- ous antagonism against the monopoly’s long-cdntinued Oppression. The arguments advanced in behalf of the lighting companies against any interference with existing con- ditions seem oddly unconvincing and inadequate. ‘There: is, first, the excuse of President Brady, of the New York Edison Company, that the city’s electric lighting bill.is “such a little one"—“representing an- nuelly less than 8\per cent. of a total of about $21,000,- 000." But a bill of $630,000 is not exactly a bagatelle even for a great municipality; a saving of, say, $300,000 on it is worth while. There is the further cons{derd- tion that with its own electric plant the city could in- stall both arc and incandescent lights for street and hos- pital illumination and effect a very considerable saving on the aggregate annual bill of $3,300,000. A secohdary argument is based on figures submitted at the Reform Club meeting by J. B. Cahoon, electrical ‘engineer, to prove that the expense of operating a mu- nicipal plent 1s 10 per cent. greater than under private Management. To offset this loss there would, of course, bethe gain represented by the company’s ordinary; Profit. Bxactly what this is in electricity 1s not known; fn gas itis from 60 to 75 per cent. excellent incidental result of The Evening World's ‘agitation is the thorough’ ventilation the Ul- “mann Dill: is-receiving in committee at Albany. This {s the bill granting the Bronx Gas Company the right to lay mins’ in Manhattan contingent upon an agree- ment to supply consumers with gas at 75 cents per thousand feet. _ The cheapened price is a desirable thing; the pro- posal to grant the franchise without compensation to the city for the use of its streets is quite a different matter, Thé day of such free gifts to corporations in return for a plausible profession of public. benefit is over. There is enough profit in gas at 75 cents to re- quire the payment of a good price for a charter, THE WOMEN INSPECTORS. The case agninst the women inspectors of immigra- tion appears to be carried; there is now no reasonable Moubt that at the end of their ninety days’ probation their services will be dispensed with. Fears were felt originally that the women would prove incompetent physically. The public in its mind’s eye ‘saw them clambering up insecure ladders to slippery decks at great personal risk. These and other material obstacles they overcame. “It appears that they have been found lacking because they ask too many rude questions. Their assignment “Was a most delicate one—to discover and defeat any “plan to import women for immoral purposes. They do not seem to have relied sufficiently on their feminine in- tuition. When a suspicion assailed them they voiced 1, in questions 60 objectionable as to arouse a feeling of resentment. So they are to go, and men—supposedly less tactful in _ Such missions—are to be reassigned to this duty. It is an oad lesson in sex temperament. MR. ‘ROOT’S WAY. ‘The Evening World has had complimentary things to say in previous issues about the traits that have won _ @iecess for Oren Root, jr., general manager for the ‘Metropolitan’ Street Railway Company. To enter the _ Poad's service as a motorman and to rise within eight . Years to be tts chief executive officer was a great achleve- “ment and one requiring the possession of a strong per- sonality. Tt 18 difficult to compress a recipe for success in a “sentence, but Mr. Root comes near effecting this pithy “@ondonsation when he says: “I was never a ‘time’ man; T stayed at work as long as there was anything to do." ‘This meant leaving the office as late as midnight. It meant also, in Mr. Root’s words, “dropping college as- ®ociates and. forming no new friendships.” It required Bs, Many sacrifices of the things that please young men. 7a Mr, Root's story of his wonderful rise will interest all bv youthful readers, How many of them will profit by it? ‘The lesson of it is that a brilliant brain or a particularly @eute mind ig not the only thing. “Determination, per- sistency and courage” count for very much. They furnish ‘the forcing process by which a smal! talent may be ex- panded into the greatness that means success. MR. FARRELL’S IGNORANCE, _ When, last year, the painter and the paperhanger, nd also the Venetian iron worker skilled in construct- fag grilled doors, were called into requisition to refur- ‘pish an old mansion in West Thirty-third street, very suspicions were aroused that the place was to otha gambling-house which was to eclipse all other tem- ot chance in town, It was said that Canfield's d be to this new green-cloth palace as a squatter’s to a chateau, The Evening World alone doubted the report, It out that the beautiful bronze door from an monastery, the choice clnquecento furniture, the and tho rare objects of art and virtu were collection of a connoisseur of taste, @ to adurn his mansion, why this ill-bred curios- these impertinent insinuatious about faro lay- r wheels? Dm our eonfidence justified by Mr. Farrell's con- o of the existence of roulette wheels 2 W ak sina soise rect but in oil Now If he| 9SS0SS99000 THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING. OP Ea by ©0004-40-040-4-04-405006506-064605590O45O90906050.299HD0-6H 6 OOODODDEOREOOOHOEEOONOOOH THE GRIN THAT’S THERE TO STAY--THE CHEERFUL IDIOT’S MISHAP. THE OLD JOKES’ HOME, — By Roy L. McCardell. JERRY SULLIVAN, A Vigtlant and Efficient Officer of the 8, P. C. H. URSUANT to our promise, we print another picture from our gallery of good ami great men who are work. The above is a itfelike likeness of OMeer Jerry Sullivan, the vigilant and eMfclent terror to taskmasters of good old gags, Officer Sullivan is the 8. P. C. H.'s vaudeville inspector, He has the busy Blue Ambulance backed up to the ‘continuous’ houses contin- ually, Appended Is his report for yes- terday: OMcer Sullivan's Report. Prot. Josh M. A. Long, Superinteodent Old Jokes’ Home: I paid a visit to Ketth's to-day and heard two old veterans still looking for favors, The first was worked by "Tom" Nawn, ot “Tom Nawn & Co.: “Twas out luck burying this morn- ing." “You were—this time of the yeart” “Yes; 1 went to a nigger funeral.” The second olf fellow was worked,by the black-face comedian of the Quaker City Quartet: “Lam in the real estate business now. I own one acres of land.” “One acre, you mean?” “Yes; one acres. I raise produce on both sides of the land.” “Impossible! How do you do it?" “1 stand {t up on its edge,” “Yes, But what holds it up?" “The same thing that holds you up— wind.” And again Straight—You have about hash for the present. Tell me what vou kno bout butter. Comedian—You ought to know butter. butter that has seen butter days butter; butter that needs a shave every week butter; butter that is good to use as axle grease butter; good old oleomar- garine butter, and butter. 1 told my girl, my Pe 1 would have n but her butter. She glories in her hair, but I don’t want any of her glory in the butter, Butter that could stand before John L, for four rounds butter, A Billy goat chased her up an alley for tae sole purpose to but her. Another one Comedian—We have a cow at our home that don't give any milk. Straight—That's funny Comedian—Yes, we have to take It away from her Comedian—What ts Make a cow give butte raight1 don't best way? Comedian: told me enough e best way to milk? Know; what 1s the Hit her on the forehead with a lemon and let it sour on her stomach: Straight—Buy the way, what but ther milk? OFFICER the beer, I mean by else can @ cow give JERRY SULLIVAN, BPCH Want» Them Locked Lp, Prot, Josh M.A. 4 Lack these up Why is the letter K lke a pigtail? Lecause tt is the end of pork Why is a bookkeeper like He hys to scratch for a livin, Ww CLAYTON, Old Bridge, Brought In from the Br Prof, Jor M.A. Long “leaw a big ra when 1 went fo out.” "Did you shoot him? “No; he was out of my range.” in my my ook stove and aver he ran foremoet in the Old Jokes’ Home rescue | \ Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. A RECORD BREAKER. Tom—There ara microbes on money. Dick—Wel, my wife can beat the world as a microbe killer,—Detroit Free Press. REMEMBERED IN TIME, Carroll-—Oh, by the way, M Weat- cott, there was something I wanted to say to you. Now what was it? Pthel—Can't you think? Wait Carr a minute! Oh, yes, 1] remember now. Will you marry me? 8. amento Journal, HELPING HIM ALONG, “Then there is such a thing as heart failure, ik there, doctor?” sald the hand-| some young widow | madam,” hysictan, bashful of the pr “Its a perfectly unnecessary disease, fen't It, doctor On this hint ‘he bune AN AMUSING COMPLIMENT, spake.—Chicago Tri MARCH 20,: 1903. EVENIN SSOSOS ELH OOHOHOO99H90O © Morir ae n' CDOOOTEGOMOBBOOOOS inser full, of pa small dress hat 4 small est dress with, to th ribo pink the s! lande Miss De Wolfe's first Cynthia dress ts a matinee of yellow Itberty gauze, with of wh richly embroidered and worn over a plaiied muslin ehirt, The skirt of this In act second tthe ball dress is of many shades of mauve muslin, from the deep- mauve mother-of-pearl spangies The first gown in ‘the third act is a ragged and worn tea gown, a relic of former finery. of the famous portrait of Le Gulmard. ‘The skirts are of the palest pink liberty eatin ruched with roses made of chiffon PERCY PERIC CLESS ORDEAL. A Big Brother Effectively ‘Tries Him Out.” Percy Pericles Thimbleton did not enter Sellem, Seliem, Markdownem & Co.'s emporium with his usual sprightly step. His big blue “kalseem lamps,"’ as Maggie Mulligan called them, did not shine with their wonted lustre; the roses in his damask cheeks were gone, and his daintily chiselled features were pitifully drawn. As he put on his neatly emproidered Httle working jumper he turned to his counter-mate and said with a woful pucker of his bow- enaped lips: “Margaret, I am lachrymose.” Miss Mulligan gathered up a lump of gum from under the counter, started her chew works in action and sald eympa- thetically: “Gee, I had a cousin who had that wonce, am’ th’ ‘horspital doctors had to out 'im atl up—but, say, it was'e beautiful wake.'” Percy shuddeed, drew a long elgh, and then began slowly and sudly: “Margaret, I am afraid that your sensibilities have been blunted by coarse associations. I am crushed. My heart is shattered. I have loved and lost. Oh, how I loved! Oh, how I lost! All the poetry In my soul has been bruised under a crur] blow, You never saw Angelina Squirk, Mae- garet. You never saw Angelina Squirk’s brute of @ big brother. “To see Angelina, for me, was to love. She ts like @ fragile littie shell. Her hair ds all gold, her eyes big and brown, her eyebrows black and her ips like scarlet threadds,’’ “Whew!” interposed Miss Mulligan, ‘‘an' cosmetics so high.” Unheeding, Perey cambled on: ‘Yes, she was wonderful, and I bowed down and worshipped hi I bought her some queer little flowers and toki her the subtle poetry of them, and her big brown eyes seemed to melt, and I was filled with rapture, Last night I went down on my knees before her and poured out my love in Nquid streams of adoration. But she cut me off and said: “Rise, Percy. I woutd have you be brave if you would win my love. My brother Robert has said unkind things of your valor. Go meet him in the gym- nasium in the attic and disprove his cowardly assertions!’ “My blood was on fire, and I jumped up. I actually Stamped one of my feet and sald almost fiercely: “I wil!” Then I strode up to the atUc and knocked on the door boldly, Robert (ugh! he is a great big, coarse, brutal fellow) opened the door and sald: ‘Hello, Perce! Ready for a little go? Here, take this twelve-ounce pair; you are lighter than I, go I will keep the six-ounce mitts!’ What vulgar language he used. But my blood was all fery with love for Angelina, and I took off my coat and put on those great, big, puffy gloves." Here the scion of the Thimbletons drew his slendet hand across his forehead and, continuing, dropped voice to a whisper: “I was in @ sort of a dream when they carried me out. But there were some glimmering aparks of ove still glow- ing in my breast, amd as they carried me past the parlor I iistened breathlessly for some soft word of eympathy from Angelina, Oh, cruel thought! What do you think I heard from her own fodr lips? “‘And you put ft ail over him in the first round? Good for you, Bob. I always thought he was a lobeter.’" Maggie wus actually touched by this pathetlo story, and her freckles sparitied in her reddening cheeks as she sald; “Say, Perce, I'll put th’ gang wise to that brolser, an’ when that elster o' his goes ter find him ehe'l have ter use one o' them magnificent g'asses yer look at bugs with.” BARTON CURRIE. CONSTANCY IN LOVE. It May » ‘ DODOSGISO: ODTOQODOSGES tious of white blond lace. The jong coat 48 worn over a petticoat lest yellow looped with wreaths of white roses. The next costume ts mite silk, with a Louls XVI. coat {is a short walking length, and the Is of old Alencon lace strewn with pink knots, to the palest violet, The is richly embroidered with shaded intermixed long hanging branches of ‘wisteria, Miss De Wolfe changes @ dancing dress, an absolute copy m. The tunic crosses the dress nally and i# of the deepest rose richly embroidered in silver. From leeves hang wreaths of roses gar- 1d with silver, Sometimes Be Carried Too Far. Who ca in five raw this five-p siralght strokes? ringed star) inj w H Jo) 7 It takes eight straight strokes to draw this six-pointed without taking the pencil of or going back over a line, Try tt 10 DOLL SET FOR $1: Make the bed of a box; sticks at each corner to forn f and connect t sticks. Co e canopy with Adelaide sat gazing very intently at fing in her aunt's front nd su ¥ exctaimed auntie! /1 wish I had copper-toed eoth ike yours! Little Chronicle. PUTTING IT MILDLY, “He's awful skinny, ain't he? “Well, he won't r have ter take a Wlack’s word for it dat he needs 4 #iine.”’—Philadelphia Presa. REAPED A8 HE'D SOWED, Her runaway son had come home, re- pentant and hungry Morgan—Have you another cigar like the one you gave me yesterday? here's one, not usually admirable, but in Mr, 0 innocence of mind Thanks. i'm trying to break my boy of smoking, PAUL Hi FRANKEL, No, 616 Rast One ay i end ‘Dhirty-eighth etreet. | wild “la this the best you can do, mother?’ he said, looking ruefully at the dish of cracked wheat she had placed before hig *Thaa’s, goad sncugh, Willian, replied, “for that's done nothing ng fer the ee years oe ow sho For a chair use the for the sofa. Take off one seat, Remove the Md and make like the sofa inside, Make the dressing table o| box Remove the lid’ and it for shelves If little cleats wnaide m sgt’ ea,‘ cy dash mi with alk, 50, nail ¥ ma frame he tops over land box with silk and add ruMes to the} \aame where you think they will look Ibeat | The sofa is made of a prune box. Remove the and one aide, Use the akc the seat, sawing off enough to let the seat elip In easly, Pad the In-| side of t and cover with silk size box asjsuddeniy changes his trade and tales ndifor the end and f a square will serve are tacked bi: is made from @ box simi! eal ey ot} sticks | GAME OF TRADES. ad In the game of trades each one chooses a trade, which he or she exercises in the following manner: ‘he shoemaker mends shoes, he washerwoman washes clothes, | ‘The spinner turns her wheel, &c. One of the players acts as a king or a queen and begins the game by working at hdés or her own trade. In the mean time all the others must make the move- If the king 8 | ments appropriate to theirs. up that of one of the company, all the remain inactive except the s until the latter Is pleased to adopt other; then that player in-bis turn takes the king's trade, and ol the rest remain ns to hl pana] Swans uni ati idle unul the king returi nen! A ib MY srt“ i fox, a goose and a peck of corn. Com- one of his possessions at a time, and he could not leave the fox and goose to- gether, for the fox would eat the goose, together, corn, them all across keg. He wanted to divide It so as to get one-half gallon keg. How did he divide dt to get one-half? of four miles an hour; then the train second man in nine seconds. ahead will the train be when the first Asia? Becavse it gives us Turke; tor? When bettered. four pens, put an unequal number in each pen, Five sheep in three pens and fourth pen, By Helen Oldfield. ONSTANCY in love is a virtue much lauded of ro mancers in general and of poets in particular. Yet, Uke, other virtues, indeed, more than most, {t may be carried to excece—when the love is not reciprocated con- stancy is foolish, and when the beloved és bound to another, Instead of a virtue it becomes a vice. Even when neither pride nor duty forbids one to worship at the old shrine, when death has broken the tle, the laws of the land sanction @ second love, and the hearts of men incline thereto. We all know second marriages which are indubitably happy, and, while one woman ‘would rather be Marlbor+ ouga’s widow than the wife of a king,” a dozen others be Neve that they prove thetr devotion to the first husband by thelr inability to lve alone after his deeth. It ts a mercifu providence for humanity that wounds of the heart, for the most part, heal even more readily than those of the body When the hurt haa been deep and the pain severe, the ecar may last for a lifetime, but life endures, nay, may be quite: and richer, perhaps, then cefore; there are times when bloo letting 1s beneficial, says Helen Oldfield im the Chicage Tribune. There are few people comparatively who marry their first loves, nor is this fact always a misfortune, Tastes and feel- ings change as one grows older. What one liked yesterday palls upon ‘the appetite to-day, George Eliot, naturally, disbeleved dn first love. she asks, i} i BRAIN TWISTERS, A man started on a journey with a gs to a river, he was puasied how he as to get across, as he could take but ‘e could not leave the goose and corn for the goose would eat the How did he arrange it so he got fely? A man had eight gallons of wine in a He had only a three-gal- n keg, a five-gallon keg and a seven- A train $8 yards long passed a man in seconds who was walking at the rate A 2% minutes and passes a How far uns on for “Wahy," ‘should a man's first love be his best? Does the an catches up with the second man? artist or the musiclan produce his masterpiece et the be- ginning of bis career?” ‘The mad devotion'of a college boy for a_worman in the thirties is as unlike to the steady flame of his manhood as the flare of 4 straw heap is to the warmth of an enthra- ——— CONUNDRUM What is the best string to lead a lady ith? A atring of pearis. Why does Christmas dinner represent gite fire, white the infacuation of a girl or seventeen is rarety felt for the sort of man whom a women of twenty-five would choose for her husband, The love of the man may lack the undisciplined ferver of that of the boy, but it will go deeper and last longer, I should be regulated, not cooled, by experience, He who has graduated In the school of susceptibility. wib be skilled in all the arts and graces which serve to char a woman. He will also be better eb? to gauge her wort’ correctly, and thus he may make a wiser choice than th youth who ts led away by ira imprersions. If he has been careful to allow his better nature to expand during his experience in lovemaking, instead of degeueratin into @ filet, the real passion of his manhood ought to be th crown of his happin And even Went 0, FAR 50:8 the coveted prise, he angry to live his tite o eared, the . Why are confectiol 80 much sought Because they serve kisses. What tradesmen are always on strike tone cutters, When are forts like griddle cakes? If a farmer has fifteen sheep and ha big pen all around semis Afteen in the Br or key prevails at Thankagiving? i nes gs