The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1903, Page 14

1 tbite by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to © |) Park Row, Now York. Entered at the Post-Omos ©) at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. steeteeeteseeeseess NO. 18,193. “L" STRIKE PROSPECTS. dent Pepper, of the Manhattan Elevated Rail- employees, is confident of an ‘amicable settlement” the points at issue with the road; Manager Skitt a strike “absolutely improbable.” is agreeable optimism which the community mild be glad to share, knowing as it does that a ike would be a oublic calamity. But it cannot help Ing that the cloud on the horizon Js rather larger * @ man’s hand. A canvass of the men has shown “that the majority are in favor of striking if thelr de- ay gs are not acceded to. And the position of the new | Management, which will be called on next Wednesday is eal with this legacy of disagreement, has not been public. But apparently the breach is not so wide a ft may not be readily healed by tactful mediation by the exhibition on elther side of a spirit of con- be ya Tt does not appear that the men desire to strike ex- ‘opt as a Inst resort. And there is reason for believ- ‘that the Belmont policy will be one of conciliation. the circumstances we may indulge a confident ex-| ay Pectation of an agreement satisfactory to all concerned. x Tt is certain that a little diplomacy now will avert Gisastrous consequences. We do not need the it of the coal strike to point the moral for us 4 Sm evil results of a policy of obstinacy from which “the populace fs sure to be the worst sufferer. Tf the public !s put to the irksome and expensive “Mheonventence that would necessarily follow an “L" tte- > &p It will not discriminate in its resentment. It will ot particularize, but will inevitably, if unjustly, hold ‘Doth parties to the strike responsible for its discomfort @nd delay. THE BISSERT CONFESSION. The painful Bissert story is a page from ancient Bistory—a new leaf from the most infamous of munici- | pal records. Its novelty lies in the statistical details a “M furnishes of the rate of taxation levied on vice in the “red light” region, and in the light thrown on the @ouble system of assesement, by which, in addition to ‘@atistying the demands of the precinct captain, dive- were called on for tribiie to the ceutral an- ity et “Headquarters.” “The public has known in a general way of the ex- @atence of “Headquarters” houses as distinguished from those on the captain’s list. The particulars promised “fm the Bissert revelations are likely to prove a most ~ fmportant addition to our stock of information regard- ng the farming-out of the foul taxes on crime, i Bissert’s confession comes at a time when the city K 4@ beginning to ask what progress has been made to- ~~ ward putting an end to blackmall—to what extent as the administration redeemed its pledges of reform, one main reason of its success at tho polls. t he-vile system of crime taxation was not the @rowth of a year, nor js a year sufficient for its extine- tion. The reminder from Bissert of what it once was ‘Falses the hope that the eradication, if not complete, “Baas been proportionate to the promises made. MR. FARRELL'S NEW CASTLE. The news of the improved defensive devices made Wee of in Mr. Frank Farrell's fortified castle in West Worty-fifth street prompts a query as to whether Mr. Serome is modernizing his implements and weapons of @ttack and assault (o correspond. _ The castellation of Tenderloin mansions and club- fooms has now reached a high state of development. Mr. Burbridge’s, until now the most striking example of this form of architecture, boasted an impregnable Bronze door. Mr. Farrell’s has armored doors, grated windows, portholes and an iron gate serving in lieu of @ portcullis. Steel bars grill off the rear windows \ ggtinst intrusion, and presumably there 18 a stout fron-| Banded postern as at Mr. Burbridge's. Tt is obvious that axe and sledge and fire ladder are @bsolete for the successful investment of such a strong- ‘Bold. Is history to repeat itself in the consequent im- vas the culverin made way for the howitzer, dismantled : Jong ‘ago by the Krupp gun, so also shall we see sube » ptitutes invented for the impotent axe. ' Gertainly some such development is urgently de- Mmanded to equalize the conditions for raider and raided ta the Tenderloin. TYPICAL NEW YORK GIRL. What is the New York type of girl? Is’t tall bru- "metic or shapely blonde? Is't stateliness that wins the prize? Or oval face, madonna eyes? Is't she whose deeper beauty lies in general charm that rule defies? 7 “The Prince of Pilsen” managers, seeking an answer ry this question, have been overwhelmed with an em- Parrasement of opinions as convincing as they are con- Miecting. It is a question difficult of satisfactory answer. ‘Where the candidates are so numeybus not even a Paris eould make a just award, All Continental types find their perfection here. Where are no prettier Andalusian girls or Limerick or dark-eyed Viennese blondes or Venetian bru- in the lands to which their beauty is native than ‘But when a characteristic and typltal example is ought of the feminine beauty which the fusion of ities here might be expected to produce the d judgment hesitates. Perhaps it is clothes and " and carriage and manner rather than facial sica) features that reveal the typical New York THE PUSH-CART PEDDLER. 11,000 families in New York look for their to the earning# of push-carts, the far-reaching of the project to rid the streets of them merchants and thelr portable shops have limits is not Hkely to add to his popularity. But ft Is: @« clear that the increase of street congestion calls for some radical remedial moasure of the kind proposed. The push-cart is not a romantic object, yet there are points of view of {ft not uninteresting. It is a kinder- garten of commerce, as it were, in which newly arrived seekers after tho blessings of freedom take thelr first lessons in American business methods. There are cases on record of immigrants beginning @ push-cart career the day of their arrival from Ellis Island. They seem all to become speedily self-supporting, and the better brains among them rise higher. As there are familiar examples of Italian bootblacks acquiring fast horses and other tangible evidences of financial prosperity, so there are instances alleged of hokey-pokey cartmen develop- Ing into caterers of prominence. Certainly many of the little basement shops on the| 7 east side have been the outgrowth of a modest push-cart trade. Among business houses that have crossed Broad- way from the east side for a larger field is there any that had its humble source !n this peramibulatory mer- chandising? In the absence of definite information we may Infer so. THE OkD JOKES’ HOPE xed HS HHS aes 884 DEIDHPIDED $$$O0GH09900905.3: ae oo2 This Is Fame! Ev. day we recelve hundreds of letters from all parts Os of the world, even, as this {s, from far-off Brook! simply addreseed to Prof. Josh M. A. Long, the Jokes’ Home, ‘They reach us without delay, for we are now as familiar and as indispensable an institution as the Post- OMce Department itself, We receive from five to e!x hun- dred letters a day from persons desirous of becoming mem- | bers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor, and, as vigilant and efficient officers, to be empowered to enter theatres and take all old jokes found working there into custody. Send a two-cent stamp to Prof. Josh M. A. Long and re-| ceive one of the handsome badges of the 8. P. C. H. And do not fail to be in Madison Square next Monday night at BS o'clock to see the busy blue ambulance, Joe-Miller, the; only horse with a hyphen, the famous old chestnut, and | OMcer Jerry Sullivan. The busy blue ambulance will be driven slowly to the Old Jokes’ Home, and all who follow it WILL BE TAKEN IN!! Be on hand! Be in time! Meanwhile send for your badge. Per Busy Blue Ambulance. Hore are some per busy blue ambulance: Customer—I want to get a dog collar; something hand- some and showy. Dealer—-Will this one do? Customer—No; I'd like something more expensive than that. You see, it's my wife's dog, and I'd lke to get some| one to steal it. A handsome relative-- Mother o' pearl Men who are always drawing the Une—Surveyors. Appropriate accompaniment for a sheet of water—A spring dl, Customer—I am sure I've seen you somewhere! forget a pretiy fece. Wattress—I don't remember you; and fregh customer, T never I never forget a A young Irishman once went to a kind-hearted old aquire for a recommendation, An elaborate one was written and read to him. He took It with thanks, but did not go. “What's the matter with (t?" roared the mulre. “Oh, noth- ing, sorr,"’ waid the lad quickly. “Well, then, why don’t yo. or" “Bure, sorr, I thought on the stringth of @ recommind Nike that you'd be wanting to hire me?" “The average amount of sickness {1 a man's life ts nine | 4 days out of the year.” sald a traveller to hs nelghdor on board an ocean steamer, "I can't nee how you make that out.” satd the other, mournfully. “By the fastest eteamers it takes alx days to. go over and elx days to come back.” Chins that require no shaving—Urchins Sympathetic Spectator—In he tmtntly wounded, do you think, offlcer? Pollorman—Two ay the wounds ts fatal, sor, but the third] % is not, an’ If we can lave him to rest quite for a while f| think he will come round all right. OFFICER W. J. D., 8. P. C,H. A Prisoner Again, Prot. Jouh M.A. Long: Kindly find room for this one: Judge~Then you plead guilty of robbing the house by day light? Prisoner—Why, no, sir, it was by de skylght. LIONEL O'SMITH. ES OROHEAHOD THE WwoOR Letters, Queries, He Can Vote, To the Editor of The Evening World: A says a man being twenty-one years of age the day before election day ix entitled to vote the day following his birthday, B says he ts not. Which ts right? A. and B, Accent on the Le," To the Editor of The Evening World What {8 the proper pronunciation of the first family, anybody else and thinking they only ones on the floor, flats to them. bi “Nettio's’’ Disponition, the word “Mausoleum? Is the accent mee Editor of The Bveniag World: on the "so" or “le''? ANXIOUS, have read opinion: el Monday. positions of persons named ‘Kate, To the Editor of The Evening World On what day of the week did April 4, 1870, fall? A.W. M, Im Southern Stberia, To the BAltor of The Evening World: To the Baltor of The Evening World: that a man docs no Answers. | should be bullt for such as these, parents would teach thelr children bet- ter manners landlords would rent thelr LARA of the usual dis- “Henry,” &c. Will readers please their opinions of girls named Nettle . EDDIE. One Reason for ‘Race Suicide.” They slam one door after another when they come home et 12 o'clock at night, having no regard for are the Iron buildings It jot care In what part of Russia ts Irkutsk? HARRY LITYIN. “Most Unjust Measure,’ To the BAltor of The Bveving World One of the wickedest and most un- Just measures ever meditated in the minds of the Iawmakers of a free people is that which pro- poses to tax bachelors and maids of 4 certain age, Can married lawmakers calmly meditate punishment for thelr less favored brothors and selstere? Surely they ane not i earnest, Un- ninety-nine out of overy hun- 0 1° slances, and any measure elrsum- 40 punish them for thelr misfortunes would be brutal in the extreme, Ww , B. ROBINSON. Notey Obildre ‘To the Editor of The Bvening Werld: I lived in @ flat some months ago where a family of three children and thelr parenta lived above me. They woud roller-skate through the rooms that they impede traffic very endeavor to banish them thoroughfares into restricted # ti ‘and jump the rope from morning till! eign late wt might, Finally we had to move.| wee chikiewn, these being older than This 1» the reason: The average young man of to-day earns 60 little that he has a hani time to sup port himself withoue taking a wife to support, too, ‘The miseries of the young man ara ali due to his employer, who has the crake “to get rich quick,” and thus ts compelled to out the salaries of his workers. And, to my mind, as long as this system of * " exlal long will there be thin system of email families and fewer marriages. JOHN OF THE Crry. Steamship Dimensions, To the HAitor of The Rvening World: What are Ghe jength adn breadth of the Oceanlo, Celtic and Cedrio? F, R, VAUGHN, Oceante, 704 feet tong, 68 feet broad; Geltle and Cedric, 700 feet long, % toot Fou Fhenomencn, ‘Te the Milter of The Mventag World: It was 80 foggy in New York cne day recently that I could hamtly ace half a block distant. On the ferry it was even more foggy. In Brocklyn there was no of fog, the elements being perfectly clea, Can any reader suggest reasons Now I am living next to @ fagiiy with| Ray Mem, York, Was i as at ei ae “THE EVENING w WORLD'S w HO “THE SCR THE STREET CAR PESTS * WHO TAKE YOu +n FROM 4EAD TO Foor, Pe ee SOME OF THE SPRINGTIME'S PET PES 4 EM OuT? CNT fit en our ! ees THE BASEBALL FAN t “A ‘s ne ine eat E APPIE SISTERS ONCE M ! TS, Cane Ht — WHO TELLS F+HFIBATTER WHAT To ‘oo. vernug ; 4 Es o ne ed ORE COME TO GRIEF. ae THE BALKY HORSE THAT sTOPS TRAFFIC. ana) ST OF 27 Fhe — CHANGING #5 AT THE “L” STATION, $.30 AN, THE S/IDE-wALK TOY VENOER THE Guy WHO TALKS MaA-~ ss With the merry Springtime vernal, blossoms forth the Pests infernal, The Baseball Fan, the Fakir and the Tipster heave in view. But the weirdest Pest and horridest will bloom when days are torridest, Fill a wide mouthed bottle half full of water. B:lck in the bottom of the cork & long wire over which a emailer per- forated cork ts elipped and cork the bottle aa shown in the right hand pict- ure ‘The trick de to get the emall cork off the wire without unoorking the bot- tle. A person not in the seoret will turn and shake the bottle in all worts of ways and then declare thet the thing gannot be done, But it may be done easily by hotding the bottle upright and rotating tt rapid- ly tn A small cirole umtt) centrifuga! Toree causes the surface of the water to assume the form of Cunnel. floaking cork sinks with the water, and and when jt has eipped off the wire With the prehistoric query: ‘Is {t hot enough for YOU?" PLDDOLODODHGOHDHODD GHW HOHHY GHOTOOOS: 74008 ° canto, nAN ) (es ART WHEN YOURE TURNING ‘ OUT A CVT IN 20 MINUTES, slight inclination of the bottle wiil worke i foat up on one aide, CONUNDRUMS, ‘Why did the coal souttle? Because the chimney flue. Why did the dry goods box? Because it saw the bargain counter, Why is @ dollar greenback better tran a new silver dollar? Because when you fold it you double it and when you open ft you find It in-creases, Why 1s @ hen crossing the road like a conspiracy? It is a fowt (foul) pro- ceeding, Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ON THE MOVE, “Is he etl superintendent of that powder mill?’ “Oh, no; he’s travelling now.'’ “Is that eo?” “Yes. At any rate, he hasn't come down since the explosion last week,."'— Philadelphia Press. UNSATISFACTORY. A girl on economy bent ‘Wished to give a luncheon in Lent. So dried apples and water Ghe served, but M taught her @well affairs of( bring discontent, EXPLAINED, “Say, what's this ‘race-suloide’ that's #0 much talked about? hu “Aw, that's wat them poor duffers docs that one their last dollar on dead-eu: wat gite left at the “Phuladelpnin ‘Preas LOVE AND LUCRE. Noll—Yes, tt wae e bove match, Betle~It must be @ pleasant thing to be rich enough to marry for wye—Phil- elpbia Record, tt clasaical unite The on top of ii Mlustration. ae closely Lt iy powail bie to raise by MYSTERIOUS TUMBLERS. Take two tumblers of the same size. Be careful that they fit closely when one Is placed on top of the other. Light & plece of wax candle and place It witain the tumbler on the tab! plece of rather thick paper saturated with water. Then place upon it the other tumbler, as in the ‘The tumblers will then be found to adhere closely. ‘The canfle will be extinguished, but while burning it dilated the air contained in the lower tumbler and the air has, there- become rarefied, The exterior pressure of the atmosphere will Gx the umblers together as the the under. Place 5 999990009799 90 999905900006 I§ BEAUTY ON THE WANE? A Glance at Old World Standards By Lady Jeune. | OOKING at the plotures and mi one often wonders whother bea’ tion rf opinion. Beauty 1s regarded now from a much more practical’ point of view, and there are many who declare that the beauty af to-Gay does not bear comparison with that of the past, and | that while the standard of good looks, from the !mprovement. in dress, deportment, and other adjuncts, may be more gen- eal, the Individual oases of astounding and glorious beauty are more rare. There {s no donbt, however, that while those who remem- i ber bygone generations have the fame experience as our | sclves, and only know of a lmited period, {t is to piotures | that we must look to form an oninion as to waether the standard of beauty in the world to-day Is less or more then three hundred yoars ago. The pi of the women of those days do not Impre with a high standard of what we consider beauty, Taey ail more or less of a maniy type, and do not convey any idea of the delicacy and refine ment we assoolate with real feminine beauty. We hear of the beauties of the beginning of the last cen tury and of the early Victorian era, but they fall to impress us with any sense of the dignity and beauty of their prede- cessors. There Is a mawkishness, a sentimentality, a breads and-butter atmosphere pervading all the plctures that are In existence. and one emerges with a sigh of relief into the Tenatssance of to-day, where, if the beauty of women falls short, there Is certainly a return to the picturesquencss and dignity of the past. A woman must always be more difficult to paint than a man, for beauty is so dependent on expres sion, while color, charm and many nameless attributes which contribute to the perfection of the ensemble, as well as the. surroundings of Ilfe and the fashions of the day, cannot fail’ elther to improve or detract from the artist's powor of make ing ® beautiful picture. atures of a bygone age, uty {sa fact or a ques u What the great masters owe to the fashions of that day {t 1s tmpossible to exaggerate, for, though he beauty of the women they painted was of a high standand, it was en- hanced by tho prevailing fashion of the time, and to it we. ~ owe, in a great measure, our conception of the beauty of the’ women of the eighteenth century. The women of our day have not detertorated or lost the charm of thelr grandmoth- ers or even earlier generations, but there 1s not the same beauty in the early Victorian era, and it {s, wo believe, be- causs the fashion was ugly, grotesque and unbecoming to the highest degree. The long waists, the crinolines, the poke bonnets and beflounced skirts would have rulned the beauty, of a Venus, whilo the ringlets, the bandeaux and chignons utterly destroyed the beauty and’ shape of every head and. the hair which coverel {t. Tie old saving, “beauty un- adorned,” !s surely out of date; for, though that which Is 89 superlative as to defy criticism Is independent of any of the adventitious adjuncts of dress, there 1s an average of good looks which is not in so unassailable a position, ang the beauty of @ period 1s enhanced or spoiled by the fashion of the day, of which the women of the early Victorian ere are an example. “COOL-CHEEK” STORIES. Three True Anecdotes of Gotham Nerve. ERE are a trio ag tee “oool-cheel” stories: 4 A grocer wio lives near Central Park West thinks he has the best “‘cool-check” story m the * world, It certainly has the merit of belng true: Just a few mornings ago, between 2 and 3 o'clock, he was roused from his bed by the telephone bell. ‘Hullo!" said he. “Hullo! replied a gruff yotoe. “Say, olf man, tt's really awfully good of you. I've got enough cash to last me a weels In the Waldorf-Astoria, enough canned goods to feed Zleg- ler's North Pole expedition, not to mention numerous boxes of cigars and cake. 1 hope you won't mind my talking away a couple of bottles of brandy. It is rather a cold night, you know. Anyhow, I'm very much obliged to you for your Gospitality.” Tho groceryman jammed the receiver on the book and bolted through the door, But when he got to his grocery store on Columbus avenue he found the burglar had had very good reason to be grate. ful. In fact, the lat of things for which he was “VERY much obliged" was not by any means complete, "A drooping Ily," as Dillon calls the Tenderloin masher, Inst evening placed a cigarette between his lips and drew @ wax vesta from his pocket. Hoe hadn't a’ match-box; the Pavement was wot, and he hated to do anything #0 vulgar as scratch It on his nether tnteguments. He stood at the corner of Thirty-#ixth etreet and Broadway and hafled the f first car, The conductor brought the big vehtole to e stand- 7 still, The Drooping IAly of the Tenderloin walked up te the car, scratched the match on the side and took off his hat to the conductor with « polite sweep. ‘Much obliged!" eaki he, and watloed off, “Hully chee!" squealed the conductor, “Et dat ain't de mit!" . It you think you can stand dnother, it will be brief: : The Jonses gave a dinner. Mrs, Brown was there, dressed in gorgeous silks, Jones was carrying the duck, His knife sipped and the duck flew (with much gravy) into Mrs, Brown's gorgeous ilk lap, “Madam,” eaid Brown gravely, ‘may I trouble you for that duck?’ STEPHEN CHALMERS, THE KAISER’S CLOTHEs. It has been ascertained that Kaiser Wilhelm, while spend- Ing 925,000 per year for uniforms, limits his budget for plain clothes to $1,24, says the Baltimore Herald, This includes sporting togs, white @annel guits for lawn tennie and white pants and blue cloth Jackets for yachting. The Kalser man: ages to weer bie evening dress sults six timos and never » takes more than three or four of them to England. Mngland and, Sweden are the only countries where he habitually wears clvilian dress, All his clothes, except for evening, are light color, which latter dosan't suit fm at