The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1903, Page 12

RODAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1903, b 3 ¢ 4 rg by the Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to 0) & Park Row, New York. Kntered at tho Post-OMce @ "at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. 4 WOLUME 48.................0.5.NO. 18,219 STREET TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS. Capt. Piper's vacation trip to London to study street conditions having proved fruitful of suggestions 4 lable for use in New York, Major Ebsicin has been | ¢ ‘Metailed to spend his vacation in Berlin Investigating | & ‘excise Problems. It may not flatter our self-esteem | that we are obliged to study monarchical examples to Tearn how to govern a free city, but the gain so far has; Justified the course of action. The adoption of London police methods has already Tesulted in a much improved handling of traffic at con- Gested street crossings; and it does not admit of argu- Ment that we have yet much to learn about the regu-; Aation of liquor selling in a way to please the public) © ‘by the avoidance of hypocrisy while observing the spirit & _ 0f the law. So when Major Ebstein returns in June| 3 u may look for changes. The foreign-trip Idea is evi- | © @ence of an enlightened policy of police management « THE w EVENING 2 WORLD'S w HOME w MAGAZINE . WAS JUST GOING our HeRe is ©. ON AGCoU. for which the Commissioner {s deserving of great credit. Meantime, without recourse to European precedent, . _ the police have adopted very satisfactory measures | _ femove obstructions from the pavements of streets lead- ) tng to the North River ferries. In Barclay street there had been for years a cone tinuous line of fruit, peanut and bootblack stands reach- ing from West street to West Broadway. .Their pres- "| ‘ence further narrowed the narrow pavement until there / Was scant room for pedestrians at any time and none in > tthe rush hours. These squatters have now been forced ‘back within the stoop line and the improvement is Marked. The added footway is a great gain, But it will be interesting to observe what {s done - to end the obstruction of pavements by commission- ‘Bouse wares, barrels, boxes and crates and the hurdle- ; ‘ike skids in Murray, Warren, Chambers and adjoining streets. I “Graft” is presumably gone from these regions and @ “pull” js supposed to avail no longer. But larger | Business interests are involved here. Are the Tyrian fruit stand and the Trojan commission house to be _ treated without discrimination? < bi > “IF THE NEWSPAPERS HADN'T”. “If it hadn't been for the newspapers,” says Al dams, jr., “my father would never have been in any trouble.” His father is the “Policy King," the “per- " Bistent lawbreaker of a mean and sordid kind,” as Jus- _ tice Scott calls him, convicted and about to be sent to Ging Sing in part punishment for a most despicable form of swindling. 3 If it hadn't been for the newspapers! Without them | Tweed would not have been convicted, or Buddensiek, _ o Mme. Restell, or Jake Sharp, or Carlyle Harris, or ©) | Dr. Buchenan, or a whole line of lawbreakers in whose Pursuit or capture The World played a most prominent pre It it hed not been for the impertinent curlosity of | Si the newspapers how many a franchise grab and rall- Foad steal would have remained unexposed and unde- feated! The lobbyist, the briber, the get-rich-quick ®windler, the boodle Alderman, the swindler of high or Tow degree, criminals of all classes and kinds, have ly curses for the newspaper. Its fatal offense is that it of all sources or vehicles of information best| 1 fepresents that ‘‘publicity which is the safeguard of government, the greatest moral factor and force in the universe.” a The Boy Holesen and His Badge. on his blouse. without it. cesstul in “Give me my badge," Bolesen, and they can't beat me! the chestnut's ear: Jokes’ Homi in, Read his letter: Prof. Josh M. A. Long: since graph you will notice I am proud of my ascribe solely THE OLD JOKES’ HOME. A WINNER EVERY TIME. celebrated Jockey Robert Bolesen, who W* Present to-day a picture of the ‘a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor. *| The picture shows Jockey Bolesen ‘oudly wearing his S. P. C. H. badge He never rides a race He has been uniformly suc- the colprs of the Joiner stables, and he Is the favorite jockey of dney Paget, the millionaire turfman. says Jockey “and put me on a chestnut ‘You to the Old and the chestnut romps the rest nowhere, every time!” have been a member of the 8, P. C. H. its organization, By my photo- @ge, My success on chestnut horses I to the badge. When a I whisper in! @ $O6O4046590906-9-6O9506-0O50HF 0900-5 950O60HO0-55 5-039 9H 66060590005906000 80000006: DOOE 9994S’ HOHEHO9SH0G9H COLLECTOR OF BILLS, ALMOST COLLECTS. He Witt BE Se PLLIGHTED wry Burt ATS A |orrict OOOO > . 3 2 THE METROPOLITAN “BARREL MYSTERY,’ > U\) ARE. 6 ED : ¥ b Gh wtNE ris) 3 — op j Tie, é Se HITT Terres, x ye59, yw ! VY Got EM Go D aaa THAT LOOKS ,) KE VREELANDS, INE ITALIAN, am a, / WAIT TALL & CROSS$~EXAMINE. ) THIS BARREL! Ne enn) 3/THE MAN FROM THE WEST. HOUGHT there'd been an earthquake,” sald the the street all the way. 3 He Finds that New Yorkers Don’t Kuow New Governor from Saint Lewis. “Walked over Forty= blamed volcano. Tel! me it's a subway, sort of tunnel. tM. — York. 6 I second street, looking for Broadway. Big hole in Miles of hole in tho streets, everything all torn up, pave= what they say. Never did see New York it wasn’t all torn up. Nothing is ever finished here except the East Sido ang Greenwich Village. “Ever been in Greenwich, or Gren-itch? No, being a New. Yorker, of course you haven't. Just lke folk out in Saint live all their lives in the west end, never saw Bohe- rondelet or the Water Tower; think East Saint Lewis soul,’ he said, ‘how interesting. Why the North River is as} full of life and color as the Mersey!’ Do you know, that! fellow was born here and had only been abroad one sume mer! ; “Out in Saint Lewis just same way. Men are born, grow up and dic there without more than a passing glance at the! Glorious Missiasippi, the Father of Waters, that rolls its gigantic flood—stop me before I get going, for this is one there, Sylvester, thin wisp of a man with big eyes. He goes down to the river and looks at it with his big eyes, moons round the levee and about the wharfboats, watches the waters in all {ts lights, in all its seasons. “Then he brings down a box of paint and sets his easel up on the levee and makes pictures, wonderful pictures, full’ of color, as ricn as a Venetian sunset done by Turner. Shows his pictures, and people who never saw the river say ‘How, lovely,’ and buy the pictures, but never go to see the river, | which 1s loveller than Sylvester's pictures. “Missisalpp! doesn’t look like the Mersey, doesn't look like any other river, unless it's the Missouri. It's just the Mississippl, full of tts own beauty and sufficient unto itself, “When you New Yorkers go out to see tho World's Fatr you'll rave over the old river. To escupe g:owding Saint Lewisans will have to come east then and see all the wonders ful things you miss because you belong here. Do you know whet @ wonderful thing it 1s to us to be able to see Madison, Square tower from the Pulitzer Building, to get a view over. three mules of the city's busiest part, a view clear as crystaly to have clean hands all the time, to never be ashamed at | noon of the nen you put on in the morning? i “My boy, anthracite 1s Ike bourbon—worth all it costa”) hi HA Py ROUGH IT, At Broadway the crater of the whole! ments siding into the tunnel. Be finished tn October. That's PHILB, OSBORNE yard and Belleville a brewery. Ever been up in the ol, id DISGUISED 4S dome) of the Pulitzer Building or in the torch of Liberty { SG CiSED Statue, or seen the little kids dance at night to the musie: ro SISs of an organ in Forsyth street? 1 don't pause for a reply, MOUNTAIN EERE for, knowing you to be a New Yorker, I know you haven't. | Now, if you'd cone from the West you'd have been on every. $ | nigh placo ard in every queer place in the city. Took a ® | friend down along the West Side the other day, ‘Bless my © | subject on which I can be eloquent. Got a pafiiter boy out’ ‘ ! The evolution of the newspaper from small begin- ee) mings to world-wide power is in no other feature so Strikingly marked as in {ts public service performed by the exposure of crime. It is a veritable tribune of the people, championing their rights more effectively than ‘ny form of governmental authority, municipal or State, vil or criminal, chestnut horse sees the badge he thinks he Is headed for the Old Jokes’ Home and there's nothing to it but cashing tn, If you will enter Joe-Miller in the Bub- urban and give me the mount he will win in a walk. ROBERT BOISEN, 8. P. C. H. ea COMMON SToCK=> HOLDER: Sclentific Américan. ven if you are not a jockey, no mat- ter what your walk in life, send a two- cent stamp to Prof. Josh M. A, Long and secure one of the handsome badges of the castor ofl, or even tallow, to about 20 degrees Fahrenhelt, then add, cut in small pieces, vulcanized or raw India rub- ber, about one-fifth of the weight of the oll, gradually atin DIVORCE FOR THE HASTILY WED. Is not Bishop Satterlee entirely right in calling di- WATERPROOF SHOE DRESSING. I have for the last five years used successfully e water- proof dressing far leather boots and shoes composed of oil, ‘and India rubber, keeping out moisture and uninjurious to’ the leather applied, leaving same soft and pliable, says the 5 To prepare ame, heat in an iron vessel elther fish offy’ | Worce “the greatest evil of our age?” What a commen- | * fary on the lightness with which marriage ties are as- sumed and broken is to be found in the fact that there are now 51,000 divorced people in the United States! w . The free and easy view of matrimony which regards _ ft a5 a contract to be entered into jauntily and thought- a4 | lessly and to be repudiated at the whim of either party © to it {s doing much to rob it of its eanetity. The % Tathskeller wedding projected in the bibylous small hours and made an accomplished fact by the aid of an oblig- img parson around the corner; the matrimonial-bureau | ty, Minion brought about by advertisements; the chorus- Birl-college-boy match; these are but examples of the " Prevalent haste in assuming the gravest of social obli- 7) ations in a moment of passion at the sight of a pretty "face, Their inevitable end the divorce court docket too surely indicates. A query received recently by The Evening World as to whether a divorce could be had because a husband's breath was bad gives an idea of the insecure basis on Which many marriages are founded. A fit of pique, the development of a personal peculiarity, a slight incom- “patibility of temper, and straightway there 1s recourse 0 the divorce court with perhaps the perjured testimony @ detective to support the case, or, where the purse rds, a residence in Rhode Island or the Dakotas, is ~ It is in the lax divorce laws of many States that one Worst menaces of the integrity of the family ts to | be found. There was never a time when a uniform y divorce law was so urgently demanded, There fae never before eo fit an opportunity for the Catholic ne “the Episcopal Churches, which hold marriage in- lubly sacred, to war on the marital fiippancy which jonsible for eo many ruined homes, PROCESSIONS, 10,000 carpenters marched up Fifth ave- 1 May 2 6,000 policemen will march up Broad- x : June 4 22,000 children, ihe Sunday-school of forty Brooklyn churches, will parade through |“ nerve an excellent purpoce. In the } of their stalwart manliness there is Organizations the world over to b the: Parade, Thero is nothing else- y Nene Pro, Josh M. A. Gong: terrogution? in the Ark? out one and Isid it on the pile, be if you don't pay that one, for it's ase ry P, C. H. before it 1s too late, Captured in New Jersey. lf you give a kiss and take a kiss, hat doss it make. A rebus, Why {s a man sailing up the Tigr! like one putting his father in a sack? Berause he is going to Bag-dad, Why !s a wall-eye like a note of in- Because it is @ queer-eyo, Whore did Noah strike the first nail On the head, Why is @ pig with a ourled tail Uke he ghost in Hamlet? Because he had a tale to unfold, What word ts le that which, when a tter is taken from it, makes you eick? Music, What {s the difference between a fog and a shooting etar? One is mist on earth while the other is missed from heaven. Why ‘8 a drunkard like a tanner? Be- cause he soaks his hide, W. NEWCOMB, Tenafly, N, J. en His Badge, Prof, Jowh M. A. Long: Horein you will find my report of what I have done aince I recelyed my badge and appointment as a special po- liceman for your Old Jokes’ Home: APPROPRIATE. “I'm all in the dark about how these bills are to be paid,” said Mr. Hardup to ia wife, “Well, Henry,” anid she, as she pulled yOu will 1 a nice lad,” remarked the minister to a boy who was chopping wood; “does your mother give you any- thing for chopping firewood?’ * replied the boy with @ meaning but I git something If I don't do Boy (to teacher)—-Did you hear about Uhat baby who was fed on eclephant’s milk and gained Lwenty pounds in one Teacher (ndignantlyi—No, you Httle al, 1 did not. Tell m rat € Be you A whose it was joy—Why it Was the elephant’ DAVID HARRIS ge oR” 163 Hast Ninety-second street. Needs Warmth, Prof, Jou M. A. Long: Please find & warm cot ip your good home for this poor old fellow; ‘Bo you went to see one of those old New England playat Was jt realistic” og dn ring the same with a wooden spatula until the rubber is com- pletely dissolved in the ofl; lastly, add to give it color p ema]! amount of printer's ink. Pour into a suitable vessel: and let oool. One or two applications of this are sufficient to thoroughly, waterproof a pair of boots or shoes for a season. Boots or’ ghoes thus dressed will take common shoe blacking with the’ greatest facility. ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL, The latest “Barrel Mystery” in Gotham’s hectic histo: Is centred ‘round the hogshead labelled “Metropol-i-tan.” And they’re Dering: Hirol the hide of it to find out what’s inside of it, i While the Public, with anxiety, such operations scan. DOOLGOGOOHHHOGHHOELHOHHHHHOHHHO HHO GD HOOHH HOODOO HOO HOD LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Same Old Presidemoy Query. ‘To the Biter of The Myeoing World: A claims that no Catholics can be Presidents of the United States. B bets they can If elected. Can a Catholic m: ried in the Catholic faith get a divarce? A.C, P, A Catholic Is eligible to the Presiden- ey. The Catholic Church does not rec- GAME OF CONSEQUENCES. Any number may engage in it, The players are seated around a table and each takes @ book to serve as a writ- ing desk. The players ere then sup- piled with pencils and long alips of All firet write down one or two adjec- tives descriptive of a man, fold down thelr papers 20 as to hide what is writ- ten, and pass it to thelr neighbor, The next or second order is, “Write a gen- ‘To the Editor of The Byeaing World Will readers prove their mathematical genius by working out this problem: Divide $2,000 in such @ manner between two brothers, aged sixteen and nine- teen years respectively, so that when they each arrive at twenty-one years of age they wit] have equa! amounts; money belng worth @ per cent. simple interest. @BA Avother Omen-Han To the Kalter of The Bvening World: ‘Will some student of superstitions let me know whether @ lily brings bad To tell & dolled egy from . raw enap & rubber band over each of lengthwise and hook the band on a ticle trop wire. Take an egg in hand, twist them round to the same of @ place; No. 7, "A date or period of &, gentle- 1 what man aaid;” No. 9, "What was lady'e reply?” No. 10, “What wei conse quences Ho. at, "What world The alps are from one to another and afte ‘end are Toad, a SENTIMENTS, Place two rows of chairs facing each| been ther, The boys ull sit in ene row and the girls tn the other, ‘Take « plate (a cheap one, in case of luck to its owners or not? I was pre-| accidents); piace & napkin-ring in the sented with @ lily by a woman, who] centre and (oss the plate in the air #0 eal byspane would Ae}, stew her] that it will make « Le revolution keep it in the house, It 4 buds cing ane Apply te the Supreme Court. (World: