The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1903, Page 10

NO. 18,169. ae THE STOCK GAMBLE. es sympathy with Mr. Morgan at his discovery Mist Sir, Gates wos 2 “dangerous man,” one not anfe We intrust with the great ratiroad interests represented (by the Loniavilie and Nashville road, will now be tem- 86 @ result of the disclosure by Mr. Gates that in the Northern Securities Company was logally eus- | “it was Mr. Morgan’s intention to organize a Securities Company, to which he was to sell his et 170.” 2 this plan had been consummated, Mr. Morgan, by ‘Ghe-sale of his 300,000 shares, purchased from Mr. Gates, have cleared nearly $8,000,000 while protecting public from the “dangerous man” from the West. and bottle had been long since the most belated petit souper served, the deserted, the Steel King came on the even, over and umler, red and black, thirty- “house” rakes off ite percentage of sure profit. Lambs in search of a “sure thing” are not admitted is the price we must pay for it. Not all these ‘were due to the drapping of elevator oars: for Gime tn open door or an act of thoughtlessness was re- “ comagel But the annual dist of killed and injured from i elevator cars is so Inrge as to indicate that abso- ‘@traction has not yet been attained. ) Tt fa noticeable that many of the accidents from falling €e6 occur in bufidings making use of the most modern » equipment, as those of Friday last in the Union Club and the Metropolitan Life Building. How meny apartment- house clevator cars of cheaper quality fall during a win- ter and escape the publicity of the press because no one | ‘Kitied it would be idle to estimate. That such accl- ents ooour with alarming frequency fe not to be dented. . DEAD UNKNOWN IN THE STREET. “(It fe presumed that every feminine pocketbook con- Bite & card of identification, put there in most cases _ With e fervent prayer thet in the event of accident It Wil secure the owner from removal to the hospital The @act that the absence of her puree has delayed if not Prevented the discovery of the identity of the richly ‘woman run down end kfiled by a cab in front of ‘Waldorf potnts to the neod for women of an easily and unerasable mark of identification on clothing. It fe a precaution called for by the dictates of simple in a city of the size and capacity of New Te ee ee en ne fedlings pert of relatives and friemis. Ite omission on of this unfortunate has necessitated for her @reated public exposure of the Morgue. wi (OMEN IN JOURNALISM. Possible, with more than a Iicelthood of euccess. Thi man's. of proved compettnoe, ny, While here it is a rope of sand, TIMES AND DOLLARS, w THE »# EVENING »# WORLD'S # HOME .» MAGAZINE #& ‘The interesting thing about the Chicago project to geteiblich a newspaper to be controfied, edited and pud- by women is that the invasion of journalism by the sex has become #0 general as to make this venture ranks of preesmen end stereotypers have not yet opened to women, but in all other departments of making they are now represented in num- editors, editorial writers, reporters, business cashiers, auditors, circulators, they now pos- in the last generation, except for a few Jonny Kate Fields and Elizabeth Cady Stantons, was ‘Tt ts now feasible to fill all thd responsible posts in lly newwpsper office of any but the first class with emancipation of the sex has gone far in making posstble to recru!t « full staff from women news- it workers. No other nation cam point to anything Y with this in feminine progress, The re- traditions which the German Kaiser sum-|*le to get on board at Christopher d in his recommended restriction of women [0 h, children and kitchen are too powerful on the to be broken by the most persistent propa- Rh of women leaders, ‘The restriction remains in- i figures about the decline of the pur+ ‘of dollar are furnished by the Messachu- Btatistics of Labor, As compared with lar now will provide 40 per cent, leas tems mutton, 89 per cont. less mestic nee, enap, coal, bedding, &c. In staple articles of] $449O0OO8050O0005260600000 4 4 BUY FLOWERS AND PAY WELL Won) food and dress as well as in luxuries tho advance seems) © to be genoral all along the line. Meantime the Custom-House reports show that the nation is importing more than $2,000,000 worth of dia- monds every inonth and jewels amd articles of adorn- ment beyond previous records. 80 much money was never before spent at home or abroad by New Yorkers. These are flush times tn restaurants, betting rings, gam- biing-houses. Tailors, milliners dressmakers, hatters, haberdashors are reaping a harvest. The volume of the clroulating medium in the department-store district vas; never so great, If things cost more there is more money with which to buy them. Some of it may come from the railway emptoyees’ raised wages. rio THE SCRAPPIE SISTERS Popular Free Leotures—The development of the free teo- ture idea fs shown in the proposed innovation af lectures on Gunday, espeoialty for east site audiences. ‘The tree lecture hae had @ wonderful extension of populertty since a email beginning some thirteen years or #o ago. In: one month en audience of fully 150,000 listens to the vanious teotures under thts plan im Greater New York. Y THE “PERFECT FORM” CLUB It Held Just One Meeting, but That Was Enough RS, PVANGHLINE M'GWAN, President of the organized Woman's Perfect Form Development opened the first meeting with a wry faco and her address on the subject: “Shapes and Shapes!” “Ladies, we have come together in a great cause, We leagued together here in this great City of Nw York for Purpose of aiding our leas favored sisters.” Mira, paused, looked conscious and smoothed down her while from every corner of the room came atiible sniffs, “We have enrollei among our number,” continued President serenely, “what I consider as splendid—yes, 4d examples to work with, examples from which wa select all the obvious defects and perfections’\—satisfied % | phasis—“with which to work In our great purpose of helj : to perfect the female form divine.” < Te-Might Is the Might! To-Night Ie the Night! Oh, Won't You Come and Raid with Ust Keep it Quiet, so the Offenders May Not Be Tipped Of! To-Night We Raid Dvery Musical Comedy on Broadway! BH have been repeatediy asked why and for what reason are the badge wearing members of the Gootety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor to rendezvous to-night at 8 o’clook at the Flatiron Butiding. B-s-sh! Do not let any one overhear us! You will be there, the busy blue ambulance will be there, vigtlant and efficient OMoer Jerry Sullivan will be there, Prof. Josh M. A. Long ‘will be there, Old Dr. Lemonosky will be thera For we fmtend to ratd every musical comedy on Broadway. Please Keep tt quiet. The scores of old and worn-out jokes that are worked night after night have appealed to us. And to-night, when the busy blue ambulance clangs up to the theatre door drawn by JoeMiller, the good old arestnut, the only horse with a hyphen, the old jokes will cry joyously: “Ha, some succor comes at Inst!’ Don't you ‘want to be @ succorer? IF , BE THERE. When you Teach the theatre YOU BY TAKDN IN. @VERY- BODY WILL BH TAKEN IN. Those participating in the rafa must furnish thetr own red fire. The 8. P. C. H. will furnish brass bands, fish- horns and gongs. We must move quietly in the matter. Bend @ two-cent stamp for a 6. P. C, H. bettge and be in the procession! To-night is the night! Don't tel anybody! Be at the Flatiron Buflding et ®P. 2f.! Brought in Yesterday by the Busy Biwe Ambulance. Prot, Josh Wf, A. Cong: Pat—Phat’s the difference between the North and Bouth Pole? ~ s; SUOGRY= YOURE 4 VAGRANT S.., ‘you HAVE NO HOME I! ‘TRAMP YouR HONOR, MY “LEGAL Rea 4S 10 ROR NO, THEREFORE Z Arp NOY c1MBLEe TO IMPRISONMENT IN NEW"vorK J" By this time the atmosphere was tense and every auditd sat with compressed lips and craggy brow. “Tats only by way of introduction,” went on Mrs, MeCwat with a graceful wave of her hand. “The subject of my addred to-iay is ‘Shapes and Shapes.’ I will divide my 4 © | under four heads: The Fifth Avenue Shape, tlie Breaded * {| Shape, the Highth Avenue Shape and the Harlem Shape will begin with the Firth Avenue Shape.” Bringing a pair of lorgnettes into play: “I am sorry ¢ say, ahem, with possibly one or two exceptions, thet are none dn our number I could present in Mlustration of first head of my subject. However, I will endeavor to mal my meaning as clear as possible #f you will watch me clossl and listen attentively. “The Fifth Avenue Shape ts the beautiful in nature up to its perfection by subtle devices such as we are all miller with.” “Speak for yourself,” rose a chorus of subdued whisperm, “I call ét the Fifth Avenue Shape,” ractted on the ent, ‘tfor few of those who have !t not care to submit the orftiolsm of or comparison with thowe who have ft, by ef pearing on that avenue.” A short pause was cause? by a snapping of stays eat] sertes of gasps “Now es for the Rros@wsy Shape, and I cannot bef confess that there are a number of excellent examples us, there is very little difference ¢romt the Fifth Shape. The difference is, however, in the dileposition of In the Broadway Shape whatever peauty there é. of the figure is lost by the too obvious attempt and bring ft out tn relief. This spotls, almost Geformity, the general effect. I am gla to discovered this early in life and was aie to ty the discovery.” ‘Am the speaker Ieane( over for a glass of water there a flutter and rustle all over tM room anf many wraps. on ominously. But stffl serene she went on: the Eighth Avenue Shape—and, yes, I am foresa ¢ it 1a represented in force et thts meeting—is one j Mile—Begorra, I dunno, but I think ‘tis all the differ- ence in the world. OSWALD (COHEN. By Ambulance from Irving Place. Fret, Josh Mf. A. Long: . “Oh, say! I've just picked up a ‘dead’ mate for your chestnut horee, and I'll send it around next Wednesday, April 1, It is a horse dhestnut.” “A poor butcher dropped sixty feet into a cauldron ot seething, boing water, and marvellous to relate, he ea- caped unhurt. They were piz’s feet.” “Thin continual tirette against mothers-tn-tnw {9 afl wrong,” sald the good deacon. ‘Now, my mother-in-law has not apoken a cross wort to me in thirty years, Yes, sir, thirty years. “Ta ahet deat anf @amb?" asked a bystander, “No; she is dead,” sadly mused the good deacon. “The cashier of « bank was very absent minded. He wished to change the safe combination. Bo he wrote the | ‘before the President could explain, however, amét «reat rusting and crinkling and a flutter of exclamations which the wort! “cat was prominent there was a gener exodus ¢rom the room. BARTON CURRIE. THE RAPID-TRANSIT MASHER. And How One Girl Manages to Squelch Him. G "aarn years 0 end nts vt n cn oe BO new combination down on a piece of paper so he wouldn't forget tt and locked the plece of paper in the enfe, woukin't lose ft." ie I have some more “oid jokes,” but I am afraii to “spring” them om ¢o you, They might give “that tired festing.” yg eighteen years old, and with eyes a size too lange for face. She eat demurely beside an oker women the “L.”* Across the aisle sat a monument of manty beauty: He very wonderful clothes, an ingrowing watstooat, @ hat months ahead of che fashion and a pair of pallid gloves, ‘He was looking tenderly, alluringly, at the fiuffy bi 4 CUINT, No. ® Irving place. A® O14 as Lots Office. Prot. Jo Bh A, Cougs Mrs. A—Do you take any stock in that BYbie story eb; Lot's wife looking beck and turning into a pillar of mnt Mrs. B.—Oh, I don't know. One rainy day last wook I met two men on the street créesing, them they turned to rubber, Once Racing wes “The Sport of Kings,” but now ft (M1! compares ‘With the sport of Dodging Taxes, played by Gotham millionaires, They sidestep to another State or coin excuses lame, and just as I passed While a apicy dash of Perjury lends essence to the game. MIS8 K. SMITH, Now, there are two courses open to etre in euch etances. One fs to blush, cast Gown her eyes and look mildly frightened. The other 1s to give the stony glare every glean says “Sir-rri” ‘The girl 4!4 neither, She met his tender smile with frank, disinterested look. ‘Ten her eyes wandered over i Letters, Queries, Answers. First Cousins Once Removed. | name ‘To the Diltor of The Krentng World: Tecan ere yee "A" and “G" are brothers and have each a son, “R” and ““H” (who we all know, @re first cousins). “R" and respectively heve gong, “L"' and “K. Now, what relationship ts ‘{R" to ‘1K” end “H” @ “LY Are they second cousins or the they first cousins once removed? R AND By No Universal National Holiday, Re the Biltor of The Wortd: A exys July 4 ts @ national bolitey; B says there ts mo untverwal nathonal holl- day, Which te cight? CHARL@S LIVITT. Son is Eltgible to Presidency, ‘Te the @ihur of The Mrening Werld: Tg s couple born in the United Btates shoul& travel temporarily in a foreign country and should have @ son born to them there, can he become President of the United States? WILLIAM D. Hera to Board “17! Ones, To the Editor of The Mventug World: After New Yorkers have had a f more years of rides on the Ninth av nue express trains perhaps we will be “AUCTION” ‘The game called “Auction” ty very sim- Teeemble each other in many respects, and ere entirely separate, so far as thetr heatis and government are oon- cerned. In behalf of the Assyrian Na- tional Council of Amertoa. Chairman, Hanne Basmayi; Secretary, Avejin Dan- Hanna Basmaji; Beoretary, Avgin Dan- abed, Newark, N. J. Yew, To the Mitor of The Brening Wortd: ! eto,, on them and mark the prices, One person ts auctioneer and holds up a card so the other ones cannot see %. They Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. A SUBTERFUGE. ‘Why ts that Congressman so opposed to beautifying the city of Washingtont “Well, he'e constantly posing as a sem vant of the people, and he's afraid his | constituents will get an idea that U w@ervants’ quarters are too luxurious, Washington Ster, RARE CHICAGO HUMOR, Wiret New Yorher—What's everybody running al.ng the street for? Beoond New Yorker—Fellow down at the meat market has just got @ bor of aft of thy seaaon, jaw. Yer i Gotne vs the Tanto ‘Trvbune, ANOTHER VIEW. Gpendere—I tell you, {t's pretty hard for @ man with « large faanily ¢o live Mis Children Ave Citizens. ‘Te the Métor of The Kveatng World: + Tf @ foreigner masty im this oountry, street In the evening rush hours with- out fosing gome buttons from our coats. CONUNDRUMS. ‘Why is a man astray Ifke one governed underground railroad? Apply to Superiutendent of Inter- borough Compan; Syrian V: past 187 He is just going to strike one. When id George Washington fret