The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1903, Page 10

Rein! ae, PubInbes ny ihe Press Pablishing Company, No. 5 to © Park Row, New York. Entered at the Pos!-Ofce ---NO. 18,212. | STOCK EXCHANGE VALUES, ‘When the Stock Exchange gong sounded on Monday the market value of the securities dealt in there was $50,000,000 Jens than at the beginning of the day's business. United States Steel stocks were worth $20,000,000 less, New York Central Ratlroad stocks had _ shrunk to the extent of $4,000,000 and Pennsylavania ® like amount, Baltimore and Ohio $5,000,000, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul $2,000,000. “St. Paul” stocks showed a six months’ decline of 40 points, or nearly $25,000,000. ‘and of the raflroads which had suffered declines was _ Post as great at the going down of the Easter Monday @un as at the rising up thereof. The blast furnaces were Just as heavy a business, the output of steel ingots (Was as large and the structural steel product was not ‘diminished. The great Pennsylvania road was carrying }@8 large consignments of freight as before, and its day’: Business, like that of the New York Central, was greater | \@han for the same day the year before. The St. Paul - \woad, extending through a region of great crops and of ‘wast and variod industries, was as stable a railway cor- ‘poration as last week or last September. Yet the breath which blows now hot, now cold, on jwalues had blown cold on this particular day, and the . }@tocks had shrivelled and shrunk like flowers in the frost. Wall street was uneasy, and its uneasiness was '|@ommunicated in an electric wave to Chicago and St -} Louis and San Francisco. Values were momentarily un- Settled everywhere in the United States, and a certain feeling of unrest was felt in London and Amsterdam. A Western judge had pronounced judgment in a railroad Securities suit, Wall street had trembled and the whole ‘Bdancial world grew grave. _ A fearful and a wonderful thing is “the market.” A jgumor raises prices and a report lowers them. Quota- ‘Gions fall at @ look of worry on a financter’s face or rise ‘with his smile, and the speoulator fears for his margin. ‘The philosophic investor, with his stock locked up ina |gate-deposit vault, would laugh at the feeling of inse- Surity it he were not aware how real are the far-reaching ‘@ffeots of Wall street's unreal apprehension, WOODBURY’S AUTOMOBILE DASH. ee Major Wr dbury’s wild career in an automobile | through tlie streets of Harlem and the Bronx, inviting | @rTest for speed-law violation, was something unique in inspection methods. Commissioner Roosevelt was our @riginal Manhattan Haroun Al-Raschid; Partridge and Piper and Commissioner Greene, in a way, have fol- _ towed his precedent; but it has remained for Woodbury te invest this sort of sleuthing with an clement of _ movelty, The Commissioner expresses surprise that in his five hours’ racing he was arrested only twice. By breaking the rules restricting automobile speed he tried hard \ ‘Undoubtediy. But regarding his “surprise” at this alleged neglect of duty, does the Commissioner recall ‘how often the arrested automobilist’s plea that he was “only jogging along” has carried weight with the Court? | Does he remember the Centre Street Court room eptsode \ot the young millionaire acknowledging his offense and *\Jeuntily flipping a ten-dollar gold piece to the clerk to “\pay his fine? Does he remember a single case in Man- ‘Whattan where a chauffeur charged with causing a pedes- ‘@rlan’s death has suffered any but the mildest penalty? If @ judge occasionally dealt severely with auto- ‘mobile speed violations, if a grand jury here as in New i J and on Long Island were once in a while to return j@n indictment for a death due to a reckless cheuffeur's , the Commissioner might find a greater : ‘@lertness on the part of the bicycle equad in seeking to ) ®epress speed violations. ot ie ? MAGAZINE AND SUNDAY PAPER. ! ‘Pimes, change, and literary standards with them. Tt 1s only a generation ago that Bonner'’s Ledger was @he of the best-known periodicals in the world; cer- tainly in the United States it was as much a house- \hold word as any magazine has ever been. In its col- jamns were the names greatest !n literature. It sold in ‘jwillages and hamlets, and was literally a fireside com- /panion. _ Men now great figures in the world of finance re- “stmember the thrill of its fiction, It brought a golden tu of revenue to its owner and a lasting fame, A ef: horses the turf had produced, gave many a farm- (sel from which a subscription dollar had come, a per- al) interest in Dexter and Maud S. ties, the Ledger is in financial straits. The new at the helm were unskilled in piloting, Pos- their craft was too old and out-of-date, as hope- ly outclassed in a modern race for pre-eminence b periodicals as an old line-of-battle ship against ‘the Iowa or the Texas. What Bonner might have done with the Ledger had “he lived 1s a matter of conjecture. It is a herculean yor to revive the popularity of an old fayorite—witness Pe Godey’s Ladies’ Book, once the arbiter of feminine ele- The great trouble is, for the weekly, the com- jon of the Sunday paper, itsclf a magazine, fllus- SSinposition goes greater talent than the old-school ing procurable by the less prosperous periodical. right man. ha ES seat Bored | there were wo bidders. low ap $9 each. watt abi muMctent tolmy eweetheart, who is a ‘Now, the earning capacity of the Steel Corporation] ¢ this stream, diverted to the purchase of the Bonner being dead, and his sons engaged in other journal and comic weekly combined. Into its ly could command, both editorial and contributory, } art resources far exceeding in extent and variety the resuit of a tacit recognition of the fact, the) was transformed into a monthly, but with no of muccess, It had outlived !ts usefulness. It 1s| Vet extraordinary that it survived as long as it did, yet, {f the ledger had had at its head a new) jo, editor with the older Bonner’s attainments! centage on his examination for position the new times and the changed conditions, is| of patrolman? HARRY. | Hore is a simpie litte pugele which te 09400000006 THE OLD JOKES’ enter any theatre and drag the over ‘worked old jokes across the footlights and outside where Officer Jerry Sullivan stands qwith'Joe-Miller, the good old chestnut, the only horse with a hyphen, hitched to the busy blue embulance, ready and willing to take that weak and worn old witticlsm to the Ol Jokes Have you? Are you? If not, send a two-cent stamp to Prof. Josh M. A. Long at once, for the eupply ie running low. And after these are gone you cannot be taken in. He Has His Badge. Prof. Jouh M. A. Long! I received one of your bedges this morning, and allow me to atate that it 4# one of the slickest things out. Where did you get them? I delleve when @ JOKH sees one of them it will say to his side partner, “Say, BIN, I would not join that circle! ¢ of a badge, because I tell you ft 1s not on the square.” Here are the first ol jokes captured with my badge: “A friend of mine who worked in the gun factory got fired for belng loaded the other day.” “I gee by the dafly papers that the| newly organized coffin trust !s doomed to a failure, for the stockholders will rely run the thing to the ground.” "Did you hear about the safe ex- ‘on in one of the natlonal banks?" vhy, nol Any hurt? 0, perifeotly sa “A farmer got on a Coney Island car the other day; he gave the conductor a dollar bil as his fare and then set to reading his newspaper. After a while he asked the conductor for his change. The conductor looked surprised and asked if he read the sign on the front of the car. The farmer said no. “Well,” aid the conductor, ‘you better read it before you go any further. The farm- ¢r wot up and this is what he read: "This car goes to Coney Island with- out change.’ JOHN J, 6CHMIDT, No. 63 South street, N. ¥. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, |é ~ reenememertn: “a are NG . WORLD'S: SUPPOSE THE CAPITALISTS SHOULD STRIKE! BOSSES MAY STRIKE ON “GRANDMOTHERS ILLNESS” EXCUSES ON BALL .GAME JOHN GATES MAY’ STRIKE ON WALL ST AND GO BACK TO CHICAGO. HEIRESSE'S MAY STRIKE ON THE HIGH PRICES OF CLOTHES AND BONNETS, If Gates, the Morgan chap et al. (who lead the fleld of Capital) ad Should follow the example Labor sets and go on strike, Awful strike plans would come surging from these master hands at merging, And the weirdest bunch of “lockouts” that e'er came down the pike! $$ 8$SECG9G6L999909OO06090OO6 The Cheerful Idiot —Breaks the Mirror. OOOO o@ A GOTHAM PANTOMIME. One Adventure of Flannagan, the Night-Hawk, F LANNAGAN Is a cruiser cabman, one of the many wan- dering jehus who infest the hotel and theatrical dis- triots after nightfall and with uplifted hand and per suasive “Cab, sir!’ lure the belated fare from his orderly course toward a regular cab stand. : Flannagan does not like Sunday night; for when the the- etres are closed it {s with difficulty that he is able to make the $3 necessary to pay his cab rent and an additional pit- tance which keeps body and soul together. The night of Easter Sunday had been particularly dunt. ‘), Eight o'clock Monday morning found him in Madison Square bedraggled from the early morning downpour and disheartened by the slow counting of the meagre little Toll of bills in his hat. 2 ae As Flannagan halted on the corner of Madison avenue and | Twenty-sixth street a tall girl in black came out of @ small brick house on the south side of the street and started =} toward the Square. Flannagan looked at her for a moment and decided that there was not the least chance of her: wanting @ oab, Nevertheless, as she came toward him, he continued to watch her. When she reached the corner she ‘was joined by a tall young fellow, well dressed in heayy, rather loosely fitting clothes, The man had seemed to spring up trom the sidewalk and the girl was evidently surprised to see him. She did not seem glad, but glanced huretediy up and down the street, and then at the row of houses, a— though afraid some one might witness the meeting. _ Suddenly the man, .who had been talking earnestly, stopped. Then the man spoke again, and Flannagan wondered how he could be 80 much interested in what he was saying. He had been watching: impatiently for the young man's eye, and @t the wecond pause he caught it. oy “Cab, sir?” he sald, lifting his whip. His tone md thef ~ faintness of many disappointments. To his surprise the young man noted, and he drove up to the curb. The gn drew away and actually started a few steps in the from whigh she had come. y ( Vn J.PMORGAN MAY DECIDE TO SIRIKE ON BANK DIRECTORS AND STOCK HOLDERS, J. D.ROCKEFELLER MAY STRIKE ON HIS ‘The young man’s face flushed and bis breath came heavily, When the girl had gone half a yard she stopped and-looked i back. The man did not say anything, but he opened the \ cab door and she came toward him once more. Flannagan breathed a deep sigh of relief when they were actually, ime side. Were they out-of-town people? How much could he — charge them? Should he take them by a rounabout route? It they knew New York they would surely not tale a cab / to drive such a little way. a ‘Then suddenly he had an inspiration. The young men |, had eeemed very happy when he gave the address, Perhaps the fare would not be in proportion to the distance covero Rt but to the service of being on hand when he was Wanted. It was a good thought and Flannagan knew tt. Without both- ering any more about whether or not the couple knew the city pe took the @hortest cut to the address the young mah had given him—the Little Church Around the Corner, MARK HANNA MAY STRIKE ON ROLITICS AND TAKE HIS BARREL WITH MACEDONIAN FEUDS. HIM. A recent writer on the Macedonian situation gives thin/) Picture of the feuds existing there: “The struggle for ra 1 @upremacy between Slav and Hellene, a atruggie as old as ceo 3 | the hills, ts here identified with and embittered by the re- Ugious strife which rages between the followers of the Bul- Garlan exarch and those of the Greek patriarch—the schis- matic and the orthodox parties. This animosity pervades qi J_HILL MAY and polwons all the relations of life, private no tees than WJ. public. A.Greek will on no account epeak to or shake hands with @ Bulgar. Nor will a Bulgar patronize. shop kept by _ GO ON STRIKE a Greek. ‘The antipathy between the two nationalities amounts almost to physical repugnan AND REFUSE: feeling of enmity that either of them the Turk, who has ground them both to the dust during five TO BUILD centuries of the most unmitigated oppression imaginable,” ANY MORE a A te ON THE EVEWING WORLD PEDESTAL, TO. Mec to say that there should %e but one fund In the family. Following this rule I have gotten along very nicely for the past fifteen yeare. GEORGE F. p, The Peanut Again, To the Editor of The Evening World A says that @ peanut & a@ fruit and BrOWS on B tree. D3 says it Ls a yegeta- ble and grows in the ground, Which ts right? A and B. It 43 classed as a nut and grows une derground, |To the Eau Ina y eran soldier entitled to any or ts he allowed any per-! A Long Absence. wy t ft would have failed? The opportunity is! -A wale of Spanish “ol mas- ‘To the the WAltor of The Svenlag World: I read @ letter signed by “Engines: referring to the hard-worked tugboat ‘ve beep watting for three years to gee 7 [monastic aris | HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. “T" PUZZLE. CONUNDRUMS, Elizabeth, Liz, Betsey and Bess went over the mountain to seek a bird's nest. ‘They found @ bird's nest with five esse in it; they each took one and left four? BOWL-MARBLE PUZZLE, What is It that goes round and round apd never once stops? The earth. Why ts a man who has parted from his bed like one obliged to keep it? He Is On what day of the year do women talk On the shortest day, When dogs @ man's hair resemble When it #tands on end. What f# it that gcours once in a minute, twice in a moment, guaranteed to mystify nineteen persons) once in a hundred years? The letter First of all out a letter T % out of @ pleoe of #tout paper or thin cardboard, Then cut into four pleces as out of twenty. Why ia chloroform Uke Mendelssohn? Because it ie the greatest of modern in | Geay Rumhere, ihe Our men. He has my sympathy, ‘They must] *hown have very litte time to nee their friends.| enim over Some of the Best Jokes of the Day- NO LUCK THERE. MocQueery—It was Rory O'More, Wasn't it, who wald, “There's luck in odd pumbers?’ Lusbforth—I give it up, but wouldn't have sald so if he had seen the reception I got the other morning when I came home at 8—Philedeiphia A LITERARY TINT. “Judging by her portrait, you'd con- Get @ ttle bowl of glass or china-| clude she was « person of advanced lit- ware, about three inches dn diameter by attainments, wouldn't youT’ two inches in depth. Make » ‘“‘spoon" by ‘ea; but 1 happen to know thet she atioking a plece of wire three or four|{en't as wed read as ghe is painted.”— length in the end of « wooden | Cleveland Plain Dealer. handie, and slightly turning up and fiat- KE ONE, poeple up VERY LIKE Now, with a marble in the bowl, you