The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1903, Page 12

the Press Publishing Company, No, 6% to | 5) at New York as Second-Class Mali ‘Matter. seteeeceereseeses NO, 18,197. RESPONSIBILITY OF DIRECTORS. “ene directors of the North Jersey Street Railway anving been indicted for the Clifton avenue disaster re- |) sulting in the killing and maiming of echool-children, one of the road's Executive Board, Dr, Leslie D. Ward, advances this line of reasoning to excuse his complicity: ) ) Until the disaster occurred I was not aware of the con- )) ditions existing at the Cilfton avenue crossing. It was not My personal business or the personal business of the other a& penalty. The umbrella’s escape from a definitive judgment is responsible for the uncertainty of owner | by _ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omice involved, The THE & EVENING & WORLD'S & govern in the infilction of punishment. “Tt is a sin to! ten! a pin,” and the theft of a railroad carries with It hip and confusion of meum and tuum In which it fs terncy of the loor.—Tho Rev, Dr. Donald Sage Mackay deplores the Illiteracy of the abject poor, “who of necessity must think of the needs of the body and there- fore can think of nothing ¢lse.” But at least it can be sald that they are far better informed than those of a corresponding place in the social scale in the last gen- eration, It is diffeult for them to escape knowledge; It besets them wherever they go-in the street and the street-car, at the park band concert, on the recreation pier, in the department store. Their environment neces- sitates thelr learning something, however indisposed or inapt for it their minds may be. The educational pros- esses go on all about the citizen of a great city and teach him whether he wants to be taught or not. F8SHOSSOOS- S000508S000508 , members of the committee to find out. We get the best men ‘We can to run the Unes, and we have a eight to expect that these men will do thelr duty. _ That is to say, the directors pass the responsibility ‘on to the president, the president to the general mana- ger, the general manager to the superintendent, and ‘trom him it goes down by various gradations through minor officials until, as in the Clifton avenue case, it ‘Peaches the motorman. It was thus that it reached the “Jersey Central engineer. Davis, and the New York Cen- ) tral engineer, Wisker. if It is a plausible theory. But by its logical extension have the direct responsibility dissipated between the motorman, who could not control his car; the em- ‘ployee who had made the control of the car impossible _ Dy neglecting to sand the slippery tracks, and the of- Re employees had nothing to do with the policy of economy which maintained the danger conditions at the cross- ‘tng. Nor did they originate or continue the low stand- "ara of operating efficiency which contributed to the ac- ‘cident. It does not exculpate a director to say that he “was not aware of the conditions.” Ignorance does it excuse responsibility, as the jury clearly saw and AN OLD CHOP-HOUSE. ~ Many @ man crossed Pnnis’s threshold with trepidation to @merge u State Senator or Judge or Mayor. house era has gone along with its contemporary brick tt i Hngel’s, the Studio and the ‘glory; but there be those who doubt it. _ Ali save one of the surviving chop-houses ha uc- SUNDAY BASEBALL, Fae near One Hundred and Thirty-first street and vent avenue was interrupted by the arrest of the _ Manager of one of the nines and the dispersal of the Players. When the case came up in Harlem Court "yesterday the Magistrate took the briefs of counsel and reserved decision. 7 ‘The arrest was made on complaint of the Sabbath Day Observance Society, which desires to make a test oll Prosecution to secure an interpretation of the law. “It is well to have this perpetually recurrent question Settled now authoritatively at the beginning of the ball cason. Either Sunday baseball is permissible by law or it is not. If it is not, let us have the decision and ms to get through the summer with fewer exhibitions of the hypocrisy which invokes the law to stop this form of Sunday sport while countenancing. other forms seem- ingly fully as objectionable. LAST OF A CLIPPER SHIP. The demolition of the old clipper ship Macauley oc- eurs at the very height of the busiest season in the his- tory of the immigration office, The coincidence is worth note because the Macauley had the enviable record of 70,000 new citizens brought safely across the ocean in her long career, As many now come in a month in the great ocean liners as this eelebrated old Black Ball boat carried in forty years ‘of active service. But we fancy that there are few back with feelings of affection as to the Macauley. fhe trip to the land of the free was a more mo- Mentoue undertaking in the days when the Macauley was new than now. It was, where possible, a family party affair; emigrants from the same village arranged to cross in the same vessel, and the journey, consuming @ fortnight in a swift clipper, or perhaps a month in a packet, was diversified by births, marriages and deaths @p route, We should have some data of extraordinary Interest if we could get the collected records of this large city of new-comers, numerous enough to colonize " @ young nation, How many (remember that they were H “mostly from Ireland!) became Governors and Judges snd Mayors and Aldermen? @t the passing of the old ship? ae we may theft?) of another man’s umbrella was fol- ya? wed hy the discharge of the culprit on the return of ae ab sted ‘article. The offense was aggravated by tes #® perpetration during a rain storm. | No hint is given of a determination on the part of Wier party to the case to carry it higher, but it clearly @ Court of Appeals decision. Restitution does ‘the rights involved. If the appropriation and} “Mmbrella was wrong, @ penalty should have| od; if it was not @ misdemeanor within the the man who is made to appear the cul- Direct responsibility is thus lost, But these humbler} on, Fudge! ‘correctly determined in their verdict, | The passing of Ennis's chop-house in Fourteenth] the good old chestnut, the, only horse with a hyphen Di 4 } yphen, street brings reminiscences of the back room in which Brit tsenee blue ambulance into Madison Square, In | John Kelly and afterward Richard Croker sat in un-| pris ,Daion Of the raid Prof. Josh M. A. Long had had the official state dispensing Tummany's vast patronage.| the offenders against whom we were proceeding had bribed ‘This cast a damper over the proceedings. ‘The next con- The chop-house survives 1n New York, but the chop-|tretemps occurred when the ambulance drew up in front of! © “and brownstone. The palace hotel and the pretentious| %* bad exe joke. The old joke recognized the officer, and Festaurant have replaced the modestly exclusive grill] omoer rooms where a chop or steak eaten in masculine privacy | sucker, am 1?" he exclaimed, “Woll, then, rescue yourself!"’ “had tts charms for the palate not less renowned than| And rs miniked out feclapapily. Word of the raid preceded “ us, and at all the other musical comedies the old Jokes were Astor Gallery banquets. Steaks may be cooked with BS ecocianledthy: Guasrertal en it perfection now as in the days when Browne's and} of our promise about the raid, however, EVDRYBODY WAS hbox” were in their] TAKEN IN! 8. P. C. H. badges, Everybody who sends a two-cent stamp i ‘gumbed to the feminine invasion. The robuster femi-| be an officer of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to appetite of the present generation, with all its|umor. You can raid on your own account, you will be) authorized to arreat an old joke anywhere. Send for a badge lection for lobster, finds a grilled loin chop with malt) ana be saulsfed, ee, Prot. Josh M, A, Long: A game of amateur baseball in progress Sunday on| day. dish (radish), a@bide by it. It it is, a judicial ruling now will enable} hat? Because nelther ar OCS Oh, Fury? THE RAID WAS TIPPED OFF! Some Minton ofithe Old Gag Graft Paint Ambulance an Invialble Blue! And No! See It! An Old Joke Also Unwittingly Offended OMicer Sulliva: nd the Raid Was a Fiszle, but Better Luck Next Time. N anticipation of our rald on the muatcal comedies on Broadway that overwork old jokes, a vast crowd as- sembled last night at & o'clock in front of the Flatiron Building. Promptly at 8 o'clock, Officer Sullivan, driving Joe-Miller, POODGS-S 0008040004 blue ambulance repainted. Some miscreant in the employ of the decorators into painting the 8. P. C. H ambulance an INVISIBLE BLUE. In consequence nobody could see it the Bijou Theatre, where Officer Sullivan entered to rescue at sight of him exclaimed: ‘Ha! Some auccor comes at last!" Sullivan misunderstood the expression. I'm a 80OOSO oo We were able to keep one part But there will be no disappointment about the handsome 5.363.000 to Prof. Josh M. A. Long will receive one. Send for one and: “ A Bunch by Blue Ambulance. Please dope these and put in a packed cell: Why 1s A like 12 o'clock Because {t is in the middle of When is a man's noge not a nose? When { ths a little red- A thief stole a lot of harness and never left a trace. George—If a man is born in America, takes a tri +h many and then to Ireland, and dies In’ France: what ta tap Billy—An American, I suppose. George—No; @ corpse, John—I eee you have been eating oranges this morsing. Mamie—How do you know? John—I see the skin all over your face, Why {8 kissing young lady on a telephone lke a straw felt. Albert—I was shooting at our clock yesterday. Joe—What for? Albert—Tried to kill time. G. O'NBILL, H. C. STPFFENS, J. STRHLE. Letters, Queries, Anstwers. Cousins and Cities, makes the patro To the Editor of The Brening World: nia eet Freda May a man marry his fire cousin? |!" subversive of the Americen spirit, Is Chicago larger than Parts? A. L. | Neither the proprietor, the customer nor In New York a man may marry his |the waiter oan carr: 'y Dimeelf with that first cousin, Dut in many States it 18] free and independent «pirit which ty prop: Mlegal. The population of Chivago t#lerly called ‘the “American apirit,’” 1,698,675; of Paria, 2,660,559, which 1s the f Su & free people, ‘To the @iltor of The Evening World Says Husband Was a Brute. Whi : at at day of the week waa tect To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 recently read of a man who told his In It Really an Oment wife she was homely and ghe took her To the Baltor of The Rvening World own life in consequence. Such a hus- While attending to my household du-|band fs a brute, After she had worked tes I accidentally broke a small hand |@nd slaved for him for seventeen years mirror, and hearing this was a pecullar|&Md possibly made herself common and omen of ‘seven years of bad luck,” I] wrinkled, looking after his family and would Mike readers' advice. MAD) caring for him, he had the cheek to pe taunt her with homeliness. ‘There are ‘To the Editor ot The Evening World: quite @ few such aien and they should Was the battle of San Juan Hil re- be suppressed. Mr. A. D. R, produced in Buffalo Bill's Wild West “Gold Peony” Hoax, show or not? Mrs, V. B. Sits Kdttor of The Bvening World: 5 <indly inform me the date of the No Gold and No Premium, Malika tale attain ecalae ware pennies which the public were asking Is there any gold in certain 1892 centa? | su'ty, Some People say that a bar of Also 1s there any premium on them? | #24 fell Into the copper while it was HERBERT B, DECKER, being transformed into pennies. M. 8. wil ‘The pennies to which you refer ‘e Would Be a Conductor. To the Editor of The Evening World Pleae let me know through your|is no premium on 193 pennies. paper where to inquire for the position A Friend of Chi) of conductor on the “L'' road, C. R. | To the Biitor of The Bvening World Apply to superintendent of Inter-} A correspondent signing the name borough Company, “Harman says that children a Disapproves of Tipping. nolsy and slam doors at 12 P. M., ‘To the Wiitor of The Evening World that ‘ron buildings should be built for The last paragraph y such children, &c, 1 will tipping reads us follow: it 18 too bad people who dislike children gether, the man who tips liberally is not | re nol some. ie of an & providing luxuries, but necessities for the |around, having a separate. house for metropolitan waiter.” Now, there ts one | habitation. GHORGE JOHNSTON. other thing that the ‘tpper’ does, He The Trail Skirt, enables the employer, whose profite are | to the Kalior of The Brening World; already large, to increase those profits, How often I have disgustedly wit- The employers hire thelr walters ut (he |neseed women sweeping the sidewalks jowest “market rate,’ charge their cus-]and street crossings with thelr unneces- lory of a free country for 8. gold, however, was @ hoax and there | to beer for de the stigma of arrest is! excepting only to] nay prices welch sive big profits, and | sarily long skirts; often drenched com- compel—yes, by force of custom, they ly in pools id, compel~their patrons to help pay the Bair” Gt bry ih ian walters who' serve. Theptas to 9 buiaanen, one unmitigated ov, helps to lower the market rate" of weitere’ wages; it Le ea those of 1902, The story of the bar of Re the Sue eying tnrmuae. Che. etiam, If she wilt uip the skyward tp, £ THE GRIN THAT'S THERE TO STAY—ang feeas trast BEHIND THE SCENES. A Group of Famous Press Agent Exploits, By Roy L. McCardell. F ail the men connected with a public amusement entere prise there 1s ttle doubt that the press agent, next to the backer, is the most important. ¥ Tf you can get any person or portion of a show talked about, the effect on the attendance 1s marked. . Almost all the odd adventures of actresses have been coups carefully planned by press agents, and there are afl- venturers, men who lve (sometimes poorly, {t must be oon- fessed) by their wits, who hawk around publicity echemes to the various managers. Then the idea is explained, and if the manager thinks it will cause discussion and affect his box-office receipts favor ably he pays for the idea, all the way from ten dollars to @ hundred. ‘The newspapers are seldom fooled in the matter. But euch 1s the demand for interesting matter about stage people that if the story ts odd and interesting the papers sometimes print It. Be Ne Leao- @| Acase of this kind was the famous Anna Held milk baths, Cael g XN | A milkman was secured who entered sult against Anna Held = - for vast quantities of milk she had allegedly purchased to bathe in to preserve her beauty. Papers all over the country took up the story, Anne Held was famous. The milkman was never heard from after the story first got into print, but the milk bath tale still goes the rounds of the press and Anna Held is a star. We all remember the excitement caused by t> finding of @ deserted baby on Blele De Wolfe's doorstep. ‘This same baby was offered Amelia Bingham. Tn this case - ! it was to be left in Miss Bingham's cab, Miss Bingham thought it “undignified” and turned the scheme down. Mrs. Pat Campbell had the help of two olever preas agents. One was a smart Englishman with the odd name of Toxen Worm; the other was Walter Kingsly, known as “the boy press agent.” Mr. Worm told the reporter that Mra. Campbell's dog’s name was Pinky Panky Poo and that Mrs. Campbell had gone into hysterics when It was taken away from her on shipboard and put in the care of the ship's butcher, as ts the rule. He kept the papers full of accounts | ot Pinky Panky Poo from that on, and when the papera | would print no more about the dog he got up a harrowing | tale of its being brought to death's door by poison, | Mr. Kingsly invented the story of Mrs, Campbell winning, : $6,000 at bridge whist, which every paper printed in detail, | Mrs. Campbell had never played the game. Kingsly is the young man who received a large sum of money by bringing newspaper fame to certain Pittsburg mi!Monatres, one of his stories being the famous million-dollar syndicate to bet om the Shamrock in the late cup races. According to the press agont, Miss Maud Lilian Beret, of the ‘‘Buitan of Sulu’? company, swallowed a small watch in her sleep in a small town in Indiana. The story was. tele- graphed all over the country as “A Strange Watch Cage.” So eager are the Harlem boarding-houses for strange stories about actors and actresses that even a small-part soubrette gets her name in the papers in connection with CAPITAL AND LABOR ARE STILL AT IT, MS CLUSKYS many welrd happenings. 2 ee ay KA uf eae, No story 1s too wild or improbable for the press agent, 4 SALOON ‘TA THE CROOKS the manager will stand for the story. ‘ KREPER Such is theatrical fame! THE “EXCLUSIVE” TELEPHONE, ) A LITTLE-KNOWN PHASE OF NEW YORE’S “HELLO” SYSTEM. ; OU hear the phrase, ‘private telephones,” and fall te Y comprehend the full meaning of the term. A private { talephone does not mean that some one hes a special connection aside from their business ‘phone. A private tele- \ phone consists of a telephone the number of which is only. } -) known to the man or woman who has it and te those whom aN THEN THERE'S THAT PROCESSION TO ALBANY, hho desires to talk over it to him. ‘These are never in the tele- { There are wondrous sights and jocular to greet the Gotham ocular, phone directories. And should you know that some one has With specialties enough to overwork each optic organ. @ ‘phone not publicly listed, and desire to speak with him Such as acraps ‘twixt work and capital, Grout and the Sturgis chap, et al, > | over it, calling the information desk at the Central With a “bet a million” gag from Gates and a merger trick by Morgan. will do you no good. You will be informed that the con $0006 6 © ® > ®O4 OPDOODOM > q OOOO neotton you desire 1s a private wire and cannot be given, But if you have the number of the private ‘phone, presto! the connection is made for you in a jiffy, c Among those who have a private teleptione are J. P. Morgen, E, H, Harriman, Corneltus Vanderbilt, Helen Gould and other notables who, were they accessible by telephone, would be bothered by scores of persons they did not t to hear from. There are seven thousand private, 5 . | private telephones in New York. An extra high rentat ie Hollow a large cork and insert a straw | charged for them. And for a man or woman who: ihes about 5 inches long through the bottom. | private telephone to give you the number of it is a Another piece of straw is fixed to the | of confidence and esteem you should be proud of, It means other end with the help of sealing wax, | you are a business equal or social famiMar, after boring a small hole in the centre of the cork to of sirww with the fret UO." Atter cton, | THE LATEST “GRAFT” PROBLEM. ing the two ends of the piece of straw pelle a eeeoan ee " holes dored them Witty dollars nose. 7 fashion, Doalte side, Ito which email pieces. of | Wil mY #8 w wankn supine er fr ending. overeat oiwaw ere fastened with sealing wax Bnaye hy of grafting gi-mills, & (BB), says the Pittaburg Diapatch, And We Grenches of the rasp, ‘Three pleves of thread fastened to the Bs Dn the ary Yetene Stn: rim of the oork at equa! distances con- Sop wrMilihe of she nome! nect with @ button suspended by a thread running through its centre (see filustration). The water wheel is now ready, and if you let @ email stream of water run into the cork the water will Tun through the straw and set the ap- Paratus into quick motion, If it appears too hard to join the pleces of straw with sealing wax lttle corks can be used, as shown in the centre figure of our tius- tration. Should straw be too fragile metal tubes can be substituted, The end A CURIOUS WATER WHEEL. We've heant of grafting “‘on the side,” And the grafting on of skin, 4 And of all who make the grafting art “ ‘Their speolalty in sin. ‘i But here is quite a novel stunt. ‘Who has a nose to sell? * For fifty plunks who'll amputate The blessed senso of smell? Who knows a girl who has @ nose ‘That savors of the “pug?” of the cork is cut and bent (es shown in C of centre illustration) and euspend- Both noses j x 4 from @ thin wire, around which the ad ist a : whole wheel turns, Inetead of two, four CHALAEERE, side tubes can be used, and by bending the ends carefully the job of joining A WILD GOOSE FARM. tubes can be a) + ‘What is eaid tp be the only wild goose farm in ge Fy located at Chincoteague, mays the Richmond ‘Times: is @ never ceasing object of interest to the vieltor and profit to the owner. There are now between hundred geese in the flock. ‘The progenitors : emarkable flock were two which were ‘winged’ tn shpat) used as decoys. The annual te are about 400 to 600 fowl. Most of thas there are some Japanese duclos, few Improve two tips and draw the chips, = the into it f the small tubes, then ingle sul i, ex! the iaiio ea, tnntacure: rain, of re thei under the wheel. ONE OF THE GANG. A FITTING SENTENCE, ONE GIRL'S WisDOM, Btranger—Are you the superintendent 7” inquired the] George-ilss Wilkine—EMith—I love of the X. ¥, and Z. Ratlroadt Justice. you, Will you make me the Oficial-Yes, What can I do for your! ‘Pete Suaith,” responded the vagrant./man on earth by sharing my bumble Gtranger—I would like @ pass for my-| “What oocoupation?’ continued the | lot? Court. BAith—No, George; 1 dislike the only grant passes toem-| “Oh, nothing much at prewent; just /of camping. ont. But if you'll b Toy giict i