The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1903, Page 11

HOTA ES IY STD LTE serene fr PERRET Rete NTP” PRES TANASE N ERT STME * ecards have lured him to palm-rooms and gold and white Published by the "Pu Park Row, New York. intered at the &t Now York as Second-Class Mall Matter. = VOLUME 48.0000... cceseeeeeeee es NO. 16,282. DETECTION THAT DETECTS. McClusky methods of detective work continue to demonstrate their superiority by their tangible results, The unravelling of the Mafia mystery, an exceedingly quick and creditabie performance; the prompt apprehen- sion of the suspect in the McMahon assault case; the ar- Test of “Joe” Killoran within three weeks after his re- Sppearance in his old haunts, confident that eight years of abeence had blurred the memory of his crime and escape—this is an enviable ten days’ record of accom- Dliished facts in the detection of crime and the capture of criminals. Inspector bestowed praise where {t 1s generously due. But the catalogue of M’Clusky's achievements is not comprised in these few citations of efficiency. There was the whispered word from him that closed Tenderloin gambling-houses that had withstood the assaults of axe { and battering ram, There was the expulsion of the crooks from Broadway, an exodus remarkable in the annals of the Police Department. tution of a new and stricter dead-line around Wall street. As .e Evening World pointed out long ago, Mc- Clusky methods are largely Byrnes methods. But !s it too much to say that the pupil, by present Indications, bids fair to improve on the master? Certainly he 1s giv- ing the city an administration of the Detective Bureau which in competence and capacity !t has not attained since the master’s retirement—which a century of Tituses could not attain. One of the recognized and essential proofs of great- ness in a chief executive {s his ability to select capable subordinates. The community {s prepared to indorse the| statement that In the selection of McClusky Commis- sioner Greene has demonstrated his fitness in this par- ticular. ITALIAN RESTAURANTS. With Moretti and Morello both out of business, this} Month sees the passing of two culinary landmarks of the older New York. The gastronome will not mourn as he might have mourned a few years ago. New menu restaurants where the spaghetti (the truth must be told) is just as good, the au gratin dishes are just as savory and the music is better than in the Italian table d’hote places that were so long a unique and popular feature of metropolitan cuisine, At the time when Moretti and Morello were in thelr prime, French and Italian cooking was distinctively the vogue with both the well-to-do and the economical diner- out. To the latter a score or more of Inexpensive tables @hote ministered; they appenred in the wake of the more ambitious restaurants, and by reason of good cook- ing and a foreign “atmosphere” they waxed prosp-rous. ‘There were traditions of Delmonico making the rounds of modest Hotels de Paris or Jardins d'Ete in side streets downtown, where the tip was but a nickel and the din- ner 30 cents, or perhaps 50, in search of a new soup or some novelty to please a palate gone stale on terrapin and canvas-back. To the less fastidious table d’hote rounder the dis- covery of a new basement pension in Macdougal street, or an al fresco rear-garden restaurant with raviol! or other Neapolitan delicacy, the joy was such as the watcher of the skies feels when a new planet swima within his ken. _ Both Moretti and Morello had a distinguished patron- ‘age, the former poimting with pride to Patti, Jenny Lind and the Prince of Wales as frequenters of his dining- room. But each had outlived his prestige. They were in competition with new and formidable rivals, and with their limited facilities they were helplessly out- classed. The same movement that began the advance of the great hotels above Madison Square put an end to their pre-eminénge.. They were engulfed in the same vortex as the chop-houses. A PEOPLE'S PALACE. The project of the People's Institute to erect a great people’s palace, an east-side Madison Square Garden with provisions for music and the drama on a large scale, a capacious rendezvous for recreation, a great auditorium for public meetings, with roof garden and elub-room facilities—It {s a most ambitious and at the same time a most enlightened venture In philanthropy. Is there any more remunerative form of almsgiving than this? It seeks to inspire the submerged man to better things by giving him a proprietary Interest In @ small way in club life, associating him with his fellow- men in a way to etimulate ambition and providing him with an environment that will promote higher social fdeals, It je settlement work of a superior kind, sup- plementing the mere ordinary form of philanthropy which {s dlrected*toward improving moral and mental conditions by means of bath-houses and gymnasiums and libraries. It renders the poor familiar with some of the pleas- ures that make life worth living for the rich. How welcome this kind of missionary work is on the east side an idea eam be had from the large attendance at the roof garden Of the Educational Alliance, which was visited by 400,000 persons within eleven weeks. The benefit derived by these visitors could be immeasurably {nereased and extended by the larger facilities of @ peo- ple's palace as projected. It is altogether one of the most praiveworthy humanitarian undertakings ever planned, and incidentally {1 offers benevolent millton- @ires a rare opportumity to carn the genuine gratitude of a most deserving part of the community, ADVANTAGES OF KNOCKING. “Throw the hammers into the lake; stop knocking,” f@ the rebuke hurled by Hobart C. Chatfleld-Taylor “eainst those who criticise Chicago, ‘The advine is bad; criticism makes for progress, and the absence of it permits the continuance of the imper- fections and shortcomings which handicap and hold back. If there had been no fault-finding should we not be ploughing with férked sticks and harvesting with ‘gickles like the old Eigyptians? should we have displaced the stage coach with the locomotive, or the sailing ves- ‘pel with the ocean Hier? If man were not given to ‘Anocking would he Wave halt the rights that are now reward is protests against wrongs? If the object against which castigation there is a result- higher standard; if undeserved its own ends, The critic has mportant than that of the one Let us continue to knock, Publishing Company, No. & to @ Post-Office The Broadway crowds that cheered the | ; There was the inati-| ‘ | dent. | of losing any of them by bringing them | | > e BILL, THE BILL COLLECTOR, FAILS TO COLLECT. ~* TOLD ABOUT | | NEW YORKERS HERE fe one, at least, of Prest- T dent Nicholas Murray Butler's Co- jumbla boys who does not siare in the almost universal fondness for that dignitary. This is the reason: A friend x the young mlumbian had been “That boy hae lots of braine BODOO9O-4-0063O03HDOD > “He ought to have,” replied the Preal- “1 notice he never runs the risk) to collexe with tin.’ | + 8 Chauncey Depew s face has become! associated a the pubile mind with) the trim white side whiskers that nave! so long framed Ht. These whiskers have evidently taken a hold on the pubites| imagination as well as of its mind, for on the rare occasions when they are shaved off no one notes (he fact. Even} men who have talked with the Senator | for an hour at such times fail to detect the ubeence of the time-honored ao- cessories, . oie Lawyer “Abe Levy tells this on a young Ught of the bar whose parents are wealthy and whose casea are fow: "You've a1 heard the Eaglish story of the man who hung around the court- room alter he had been cleared on the charge of stealing trousers and, when his lawyer wanted to know why he didn't go on about his business, sald: ‘Hasy, mam; walt tll the other fellers are gone; I've got the pants on now.’ Well, my story is something like that, but It's different and it's true, The young lawyer was mightily tlekled when he got a case, and when he got @ fee he blew it In in celebration. Going home the night after he had celebrated, he was stopped and relieved of his watch, a big, handsome timepiece his father had given him. The next day a court attendant steered him against a tough who was charged with beating a man and was ilkely to be sent away for {t, as the victim was in very bad shape. The tough engaged the young lawyer, and they talked over the 4 fense. As he was golng, the lawyer re- membered his fee and asked the tough what means he had. ‘The police have got my bundle,’ he said, and gave the lawyer an order for his effects, When the package was opened there was the lawyer's watch and a diamond pen- dant that had been snatched from his sister's neck nearly a year before. What? No, the tough didn’t go to the pen; the young lawyer didn’t think it was ethical to squeal." oe W. C. De Mille, the young playwright, who recently married a daughter of the late Henry George, has so finely devel- oped an athletic figure that Henry George, jr, asked him some time ago to pose as “Satan” for a group that clever amateur sculptor was modelling. “Fire away," laughed De Mille, drop- ping into the pose. “I suppose your dea in choosing me was to make sin as unattractive as posaibie.”” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. In 1878 in 1889, To the Extitor of The Evening “World In what years did Faster Sunday fait on the 2ist day of April since the year 1873? L. SIMES. Yen, in New York Sta To the EAttor of The Bening World: Ia 1t lawful for cousins to marry? x XS, Praise for ‘Harry.’ To the Edltor of The Evening World: Having read a lepter of denunciation of the usual disposition of those young men named “Harry” I feel it would be unjust If I do not come to their ald. I have ulways found young men by that name frank, honest, Interesting and courteous. I have found them of true disposition, always manly and hon- orabie. I hope that more readers who have met young men by the name of Harry will give their opinion, AMO. Batiric Slap at Landlords. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World I have read of the families who are refused rooms in tenements and flats on account of having children. Yet land- lords gladly accept as tenants a family of two—husband and wife--with two or three dogs. I should advise all who are looking for rooms in tenements und flats, where these owners are loca- ted, to put muzgles on their children an Ay AS A Ww Sy ie te Ms ‘ (Vt { atl i ‘ ila 0900Od i) | (ure an aA H TN Cull is Through these balmy days bucolic wafts an atmosphere carbolic, There is camphor in the hangings, there are soapsuds on the stair, And one’s wife has oft looked neater than in role of carpet-beater; POHH9O49H0GHOHO-O4 oe 4 And we breathe in tea leaves, dust and tacks with every ounce of air. AA 8 a Fall. HOME-MADE FOUNTAIN. through the oork nearly to the bottom is set on molest blotting paper. A large glass jar is warmed over a Jamp and in- verted over the bottle, with its edges ke ther appear as much as e Miike a dose Then, perhaps, they Iam a@fraid thet an ‘children in will holding the world up to its very | preasure of the air in the bottle forces pressed firmly on the wet paper. As the air in the jar cools and contracts the \ | out the water in a jet which eill strike the top of even @ tall jar, if it has been warmed CONUNDRUMS. When may & man’s pocket sai to be empty and yet have something in It? When it has a hole in it. What wont ts it which haa but five letters, yet when two are taken away it leaves one? Stone, What {s a man like who ts In the mid- die of the river and can't swim? Like to he drowned, What extraordinary kind of meat is to be bought In the Isle of Wight? Mutton from Cowes. When fs a blow from a lady welcome? When the strikes you agreeably. What letter ‘n the Dutoh alphabet will name an English lady of title? A Dutch 8. Why was the whale that #wallowed Jonah ‘ke a milkman who has retired on an independency? He took a great profit (prophet) out of the water. ‘Why can't @ fisherman be generous? Because his busines makes him (sell fish) selfish, A frog, duck and lamb wanted to go to @ dollar circus, but had no money; how dit they get in? The frog gave hta green back, the duck his dill and the A bottle three-quarters full of water| lamb his fore quarters. with a ginss tube or a straw running | What is the first thing a gardener seta in his garden? His foot. How mary sticks go to the buikling of ® crow's nest? None; they're all car- ried. Hew can you shoot 120 hares at once? Shoot at a wig. What wi R THE YOUNG FOLKS. | | HOME FUN FO | head down, What you see js the shadow sa Blac Ao 2UhRdnt OH lout | 2g INVERTED PIN TRICK, Look toward a window througn a pin- hole in a card held four inches !n front of one oye, the other eye being closed. Retween the eye and the card hold a pin, head up. You see it inyerted, or of the pin thrown on the retina by the Nght from the pinhole. This shadow, in | erect, or head up, and {t therefore ap- pears Inverted, or head down, becat it 1s In the same position as an ordin: image; formed by the lens of the of a pin held head down, for all quo! as r | uate. Wage—Hvh! I bet you can't tell him Reqord, : Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. THE TRUTH MERELY. ‘See here," sald Mrs. Starvem, after the new boarder’s first meal, “when - agreed to give you reduced rates you told me you were a light eater.” “So I am, ma'am," he replied. ‘I'm the Human Balamander at the museum. You'd oughter see me swallow burning torches.""—Philadelphia Press. AN INDICATION. “Sis is engaged to that foiler that calle every night," announced the boy. “How do you know?" they, asked, “*Cause she doesn't powder her face any more when he's coming,” answered the observing youngeter.—Chicago Post. MISUNDERSTOOD, McQuerry—You're not #0 attentive to Miss Roxley as I thought you would be. Hunter—No, You see—er- told me she didn’t go in for social pleasures since her father had failed. MoQueery—Poor old man! He ts failing dreadfully. Quite a phystcal wreck. Hunter—Geo whizz! In that what she meant?—Philadeiphia Public Ledger. A CALIFORNIA REFUTATICN, Visitor—They say Californians are great Mara, Resident—That's an unmitigated slan- der, No Californian ever told a lie, Comfort. CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH, Wigg—I can always tell a college grad- DODD VDD’ $0OOO00000004 PERCY PERICLES AND THE GIRL. They Discuss the National Game, from Opposit: Standpoints. PRCY PWRICLES THIMBLETON was really quit flushed and his voice almost trembled with excitemen| as ‘he turned to his counter mate, Maggie Mulligan and lsped: “What do you thing, Margaret, I went to « tell gam yesterday!" ‘ Maggle gave an encouraging mort and made a few fyin ctreles with her chewing gum. “Yes, reully," continued Percy, patting down the pans) im his buttonhole, “and it was awfully exciting. Why, 4 you know at one time they actually called the umpire cud) names, and some rough men shook their (sts at him." “Aw-g'wan-yer-don't-mean-it!" intervened Maggie. “I honestly and truly do,” returned Percy, dreathleasty “for J saw it with my own eyes.” Miss Mulligan stuck the gum to the edge of the counts and turning to the fair-halred ‘Thimbleton, began: “Saw a game menelf, Sunday, Perce” “Not on Sunday, Margaret?” “Thatewatersad, an’ say, it was a peach. The Canareli Crossroads was playing Dutch Kalla. In th’ fourth innin it was eleven ter eleven. Dutch KiMs wes at ther Flatnosed Schmidt had just died at fret.” “Horrors! Was it heart disease, Margaret?’ “Naw, they nailed him to ther tag.” “Arwtult"" “When Bumface Schnieder came up they passed him alonj to the morgue on a high one. @lippery Hamburger broky his neck trying to reach Mutligan's curves an’ ther Canarek Crossroeda come tn. Bi atveser: McGinnis emashed one out for g come up and walloped out ther Canarsie bunch was dead sure it was sloped in. But Biddy Flower, the umpire, Maggie reclaimed her gum, and after “Ther doctons think he may live, horepital eight months. But say, Perce, shine fer excitement compared to ther one Sunday ‘fore The Canar''— but Percy had swooned. WHY KENTUCKIANS ARE ALL COLONELS, A colonel from Kentucky met @ colonel fram New York, One took Bourdon, the other took rye, (Pussle: —— —— “Berved tn the “Oh, you were too young. Served in the National Guard, or waa it on the Governor's staff?” “No." “Why, bless me! How then did you acquire the titt: of colonel {¢ you have never served?” x “Colonel, sah, out In Kaintucky ts «@ ¢ithe given to white male persons who have added to thelr birthright title of gen- tleman the distinotion of neveh having taken advantage of modun conditions which do not purmit us to call e scoundell out to ask imputinent questions, suh.'’ Children! Our Pedestal to-day Helds John D. Rock-e-feller, Whose famous “cent-a-gallon” rise Has sent the oll price to the skies. He now observes with giad surprise ‘That, when he golfs, his -taldnese @lep