The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1903, Page 14

FRIDAY EVENING, PDSD | Publishes vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 69 $ “Park Row, New York. Untered at the Pont-OMoe 64 at New York us Second-Clans Mai) Matter. 4 Ho BS VOLUME 48... ..seseeeeereeees NO, 18,286. yo eat THE ‘* CODE” ABOVE THE LAW. © We get further enlightenment on the workings of lithe Cherry Hill “code” in the boast of McMahon's slayer | * that he has “cot to kill two more” before his vindictive = hatreds are satisfled. After that it will not matter how | » Soon he falls into the clntches of the law, but these two} & ‘particular enmities must first be ended with death, the 7 gere wiped out in blood. In accordance with the “code” there will probably be no offer by McMahon's pals, certainly not by Shea's, to + furnish the police with information likely to lead to con- * yiction. The “honor” that prompts the murder forbids | * ‘any aid <o the “cops,” the natural enemies of both parties | 3 to the affray. It is the feud principle, as well recognized $ on Cherry Hill as in the mountains of Kentucky, that) ® when a man is called on by circumstances to “do” his { man he Is not to be thwarted by police interference, and if “done” himself he must not “‘squeal;” in squealing lle: all that 1s contemptible and cowardly, and the “squealer” remains an object of reproach while life laste. If Shea is permitted to make good his threats it will be to the eternal disgrace of the police of the precinct It is sufficiently disgraceful that the young ruffians out of ‘whose gang companionship so many assaults and crimes | © g » of violence have grown should be allowed the freedom of| «9, they've got Killoran,” mused ex- the streets. Sheriff Tom Dunn. “I remember the row over his escape from Ludlow Street _ be charged with complicity in the crime because of the Jail, in 189%. It was very funny. Did tolerance that permits it. Thc two months’ record of you ever hear of Jesse James's escape from the Palmyra Jail? The officers affrays and encounters in the Cherry Hill district since areatedll Mamaiion li bulpicion wots kotee Ming and put him in ja!l while they In case of another murder the police may themselves March 1 shows that to all intents and purposes a hand- TOLD ABOUT BOODD4VARPD ORD DDDDDIDOD9D DOOD URDODODDIADIDIAVYDDID EOO9DEY PROF. VON SIDESTEPPE AN ELEPHANT | DO DECLARE, ME FOR ATALL TREE ! > NEW YORKERS. AA VIRD YAO DOD ful of young roughs have made their “code” superior to the law. It is humiliating that it should be 80, ' THE POLICE ‘' SHAKE-UP.” {hvestigated. The jailer was a preacher who had no regular charge and kept himself alive by feeding prisoners. James know the officers were not aware of his identity and he wanted to get away quick. He talked a good deal . Commissioner Greene's “shake-ups” have usually) with the preacher and found that his been “for the good of the service" to an extent not al-! jatler wag a Baptist. James sald he had been raised a Baptist but he had | doubted the nec when he grew old enough to be bap- ‘ways implied in the formula, The importance of the dis- tmissal of Inspector Cross was largely discounted by the | sity of immersion and publicity of the circumstances leading up to it. Equally tizeaq he had been eprinkled into the important in many particulars is the suspension of Capts. ‘Hardy and Maude, in Brooklyn, because of the charges made by the Rev. Cortland Myers. The charges were at first treated with some contempt, ‘and even now Major Ebstein {s repor*ed as being “sur- prised and grieved that Capt. Maude should have come under suspicion.” Nevertheless, the assertion was very emphatically made by the clergyman that while knowing | pool-rooms were doing business in their precincts they fli not close them and {t was proper that weight should de attached to it. In present conditions {t is desirable @hat a police captain's reputation should be above sus- * ‘picion. ‘There will therefore be commendation for the Com- missioner’s course of action. It is not necessary to g> far back in police history to discover how generally pul- pit charges of lawbreaking are based on adequate evi- dence. W A MATRIMONIAL MERGER ? ‘With the ratio of divorces to marrlages increasing so @reatly among the smart set, with the former ten-year ime limit of matrimonial contracts proving to be too Jong for general observance, do not the conditions call for @ merger? Is there not an opportunity for Mr.¢Morgan to do for marriage bonds what he has done for other se- | eurities? Not to go into ancient history, there is the Hunnewell _ failure; there is the dissolution of the two Kemp partner- ships, lithited: there are broken “gentlemen's agree- ments” without number. A Newport season sees many @uch bankruptcies. Are they to be permitted to continue to the scandal of soclety? Is there to be no check put on the “predatory competition” of the eligible bachelors? ‘Why not “capitalize the waste” of affection which now hodist Church. That aroused the preacher, who labored with James all one hot afternoon to convince him that ‘the must be tmmersed if he would be saved. Toward evening James gave in and the preacher took him down to a oreek to immerse hie. It was a ehal- low. creek with a nice pebble bottom. ‘They waded in to the deepest pool and Preacher, put his head under water. When he had half drowned the good man James waded across the stream and got in the timber, ‘I'm sure l'm #aved now,’ he said. The preacher had to save himself and he wished he'd been drowned when he found out who fooled him." eo ee Laurance D'Orsay, had admitted that the “Harl of Pawtucket" is a good play and that Augustus Thomas is a capable dramatist. Then he told the assembled Lambs a story. "Gus told it to me, so & must be true,” he said. "Gus wrote @ sketch called ‘Editha’s Bur- lar’ that took so well he expanded It Into a full-feathered play called ‘The Burglar, He went out of town with the company. They played one-night stands, They struck some small town over in Pennsylvania and one of the men got sick. Gus played his part (that of the gentleman whose house was robbed). After the show he met the local manager. ‘You've written a good piay Mr, Thomas,’ he said, ‘but I'd just like to give you @ hint about the actors. Lean over here and I'll whisper.’ Gus leaned over and the manager sald tm- pressively: ‘I don't know which of the) gentlemen around tho table played the part and I wouldn't like to hurt any- body's feelings, but I'a Up the burglar | ¢ to kill the man whose house he robs.’ Gus slapped the manager on the back, James, getting a strangle hold on the) OR. PARKHURST, GRAND SACHEM OF TANMANY Hart CAPT. KIDD, NOTED REGULATOR OP COMMERCE DOP $OLOOGOSIGLOFHODOOPHOHOHOHED $OHGOHOS-00-0009-090906-9 00909-9900 O-00-06004 H'GH SEAB. / seéks recourse in the courts? \+You're all right, old friend,’ he sald, ' 2 | ‘The process is simple: The staid and tried partnership ‘I'll have it done to-morrow night.’ | ) that has weathered tho specified ten years of domestic, What 4 pity he didn’t keep his word!” | union could properly figure in the merger as bonds, still | . aye made a great discovery,” said | > quotable at par; marriages that have lasted two years a man at the Lotos Club last night. ? could be represented by preferred stock; knots only re- ‘For years Oscar Hammerstein's hat has been a byword on upper Broadway, I've studied out the situation with kernels of rice still discernible in the bride's gar- ana I've decided his hats are no differ- ments—would they not serve as common stock? ent from any one's else. It's the man’s general appearance and the shape of his head that make his hat look unique, ) course, we might see the preferred stock selling down to whatever shape of hat he wore, it |, 80 and the common at 11, but has a similar depreolation would look much the same,” cently tied with the trousseau not yet out of style and \))) The plan is a plausible one, promising success. Of j imvalidated the success of the Ship Trust merger, Mr. ' Morgan's own handiwork? LE TTERS, A TREAT FOR EUROPE. Mr.. John W. Gates, sailing on the Oceanic, sald to the owepotters at the pfer: “I have no plans. There is a big {eutomobile waiting for me on the other side, and when *T reach there I mean to get !n ‘t, toss up a feather to “\n ar nance et aa net wonlal | H OM 6B Fu N FO R TRE YO U NG FO which way the wind blows and then tour.” Ifa man and laay wao h ah mek on - nore ee ‘one or two social occasions should meet The same old toss-up, the Gates gambling Instinct | ee a eee ence would It he even in pleasure seeking. The wind which bloweth proper for the man to converse with where it listeth will determine by Its course on a May and escort the lady, both h game destination? G. LONG. Fourteen Years Ago. To the Pity of The Evening World lid the New York Baseball morning in Liverpool whether the American millionatro's red devil wagon is to rush him around the rugged rocks of _ Wales or through the quiet streets of midland cathedral| when towns, or up to the banks of bonnie Doon and the hearts Club last win the pennant? , that are in the hielands awaiting him. It seems cruel | » that the fruition or disappointment of so many expecta- | in i988. tions shoul4 depend so entirely on a chance current of| Can a Chinaman become a citizen of | A and chateaux or old masters at fabulous prices| ine United States? What does the wont )standing before kings in private audience. Its palate|‘ossified” mean? A. F. ‘be a trifle surfeited with them, but it has Gates In| A Chinaman cannot become a citizen. | . For Gates himself there may be an as|“O*sifed" means “turned to bone. ‘alo i the Appian way in the wake of dead em-| A claims that there are seven times Bs di Hike meed thrill of pleasure when he drives his air. To the Editor of The em betting princely sums at Monte Carlo and buying |7?,{"* Balter of The Evening World cara, Is it ten4years or longer since|*s.many women as there are men in was gambling in a mild way in| '!# world; B claims that the ratio is ea encobitnw, ‘*y 1B} much more nearly equal. Which s|etring. «ak the ball to drop to the bot- right? * Ll, K. tom, slacken QUESTIONS{ ANSWERS. the Olver Tw > Yet we fancy that when Gates reaches the Continent| 18 Uren auch a ser elle jm favoring breeze will waft him toward Italy. Was It not! \nere he was born and when? W. K Naw ‘youlcare! ready in Italy a short six months ago that another money king) “Oliver Twist’ was not a real person-| trick, Place 0 Se went careering in his private locomotive over the many | 9@* but was the hero of a novel of that | wader your ‘i is tat lead to Rome? Is Schwab's memory to remain | "> >¥ bai en petra del Phere as the most prodigal of Americans while Gates is ar taaieahcower Leattep oucatlia’s lve to dispute it? yinat day of the we 1d Aug, 1, | 89 of it, ‘Burope has much to see in Gates, It is sufficiently | 157 fall? THOMAS HARNEDT. i Wiailiar with American money magnates. It has heard! Citisenship iQuerzy BhOWnCheral MORGAN, POOREST PRESIDENT COLUMBIA COLLEGE iJ | ©. F. Wingate declares that Mstory has ibolled Capt. Kidd, the pirate. concerning Gothamiten of to-day; When the later-age historian, in some country hyper-borean, Writes the annals of the famous men of ancient Gotham Town, They'll be so unreci In the Puddle of may entert: ion their memories to drown. ~~ » THE w EVENING # WORLD'S w HOME # MAGAZINE w MAN IN AMERICA. ble you'll agree 'twere more advisable For the purpose of en ball, two inches o1 will be required; will sult the purpose ad ball must be bored with a not straight from end to end, but so as to form @ gort of angle in the middie, PERPLEXED, | but the points The New Yorks last won the pennant | and nds should by opposite each other Through the hole thus formed pass @ plece of thin cord or string, and at oh of this te a large t to allow elther of the ends ¢o 8 through the hole in the ball, nd t the ball up Jt the top of the string, and then let when it will of course y down the string Repeat this several times in order to. THE BALL AT WORK. down the string qu ell them that ye to become quite obedi Again ralse the ball to the top of the tring, and allow {t to run down quite freely, ag befpre, until it reaches the centre, then ‘tighten will cause the latter to be, as It were, gripped by the angle in the centre of the ball, which will thereby de pre- vented from falling further down the will obey you. and ask {t to go down the string slow- ly; this is easily do: siting moderately ight, SSePine e | tne whale, company. It, Invite any of the company to select a particular spot on the string at which 1 must remain stationary, this ing accomplished by Ughtening the| See how quickly you can write, in fig- has /ures, eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven. After you have learned to e-|do it msk some one else to try. Of tenlng) course, the way it should look thet, ‘ore when the ached the desired spot. bas The trick ean be as,often as as it gives no clue to Fa slackening gone. iy. the string, and the ball they can be made on earth, as the first come: through another door. and goes on in his own asapologer,, blindfold ther g! ‘AL this they. blinatold. hin Raise t | ther globe. his they blindfold him se the ball again, | ha he endéavors to locate the eloplng coupe, who come in and mingle with sent to the “Mil rien to) [ike ESCAPES THE JUNGIE COME ON FELLOWS HERE 1S SOMETHIN' TO EAT, I'L PULL THE TREE DOWN AND You GRAB HIM. CROKER, THE ENINENT THEOLOGIAN, Here are a few of the ideas the historian of the futore Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ONE COIN MISSING, Wigwag—Did you get much queer money ehoved off on you in Paris? Newrlch—Yes; I guess I got about everything going except one o’ them quarters. — Philadewphix: ASTROLOGER GAME. The Astrologer, either a boy or girl, ie dressed in cap and gown, ts seated alone in the centre of the parlor, with a chart of the heavens spread out be- fore him. A party of either «wo or | four come in and excitedly ask him to direct them to the marriage license of- fice. He contemplates them with a starry gaze and slowly remarks that “marriages are made in heaven.” They wildly implore him to tell them where MORE IMPORTANT OMISSION. Bookkeeper—I had to confess to the boss to-day that I had forgotten to post my books tor February, anxiously at the door. Apparently for- I'll bet he jumped all getful of thelr presence, he remarks, as though to himeelf, and with his finger on the chart, “Work of this kind fre- jauently sequires the co-operation of many men." At this juncture an ex- | cited party rushes in from the hall, Just make thelr Bookkeeper—No; as soon as I told him the said: “Gee whiz! That reminds me. I forgot to post the letters my gave me yesterday.” about me.—Philadelphia Press, POOR AUTOMOBILIST. “Doesn't it give you a terrible feeling when you run over a man?" they asked Sp he forgot al! | The Astrajoger is besieged with tions which he apparently doesn't 5 i Ns Ty thought thus sollloquizing: "Take an ov repiiea ene me a pretty Times-Democrat. ~ ‘INFORMATION WANTED. Dihah—My gemman fren’ done ax me fo' to go wif him to \de matinay ae nex’ time I has # day off, n e falls he is * to meditate, —— A WRITING PUZZLE. BLE. DHOTE. JHE ELEPHANT APOGEE OOS GOTOGOOOCEGEGO IG 00OG OOOH HOD ! ‘BOTHGATESBREAKS THE LAW | As Knight for Dame>I Distressed He Proves | o Swift and Wise. space that would contain him and permit him to do his work. The crowd was hot and sullen, He was miling, I was mashed into his left shoulder by a movement of the crowd as we rounded the Murray street curve. “Hello,” he sald genially. “Golng up to Hahiem?* “Yes,” I said. “Get on to the feller with a bum lamp and black mur tache against the door,” “got on.” “Tell you about it later," sald Bothsates. Many stations were passed before passengers began Pe membering that they had homes, Bothgates was kept very dusy with the shifting crowd until Fifty-ninth’ street was @ | passed, and after Sixty-sixth s:reet, the ‘bum lamp" having departed, he sald: Bote tat the “L" guard, was squeezed into the last | “I give \him that.” zi “Yon don't mean you hit him? The discoloration fs recent, | and he didn't look vindictive, Indeed, he didn't look at you ‘ at all.” ‘Ail right, I smashed him. He don't know who dia it. He's proud of that mustache; thinks he's a beauty. Gat I used to chin a good dea! before I was married come aboard. ‘Bothgates,’ she says, ‘that ugly man Js trying to mash me.’ 4 She says it just as she's going by and he's following. Bang goes the gate and catches him on the shin. ‘Beg pardon,’ I says, but I don't open that gate and he has to get on the 2 | other side. Then when he wants to cross back of me to get 4 | into the car with the gal I'm in the way. Off we go, and I ~ | have to shut the car door. He fumes around at my back é and then gives !t up and goes into the other oar. I'm right ® | here in the centre between the cars all the triy down, and @ | he hasn't the nerve to get by me, so he sits quiet, and every $ once in a while that gal gives mo a smile, a sort of ‘Thank 3 > > ® } you, Bothgates,’ smile, and I know she's wise. At her station she steps out the other door and the masher goes with me to the Battery. “I don't lke him too much, and I figure quite eome om how {t would feel to hand him one good one. He has his eye on a skirt in the car where the gal was and thinks she's still there, until he rushes out at the Battery and dumps a big woman with a fat boy in her . They’e a big crowd waiting to get on, and my friend With the mus- tache Is so hasty he gets bumped right and left. The dig woman makes a gtab at him and swings him back on the car platform, and I Jets go my right and lands just where you saw it. ‘Stop that!’ I yells, and f grab him and hold him. ‘No fighting here, sir!’ I says, and then I gives aim a shove along and the crowd comes aboard. q “The big woman beckons me into the car when we're * started back. ‘You're a handy man,’ eays, "but I didn’ see you do It.'"* o THE KAISER GETS AN ALP. i ‘The German Emperor has come into possession of another windfall, says the London Mail. A German merchant named wv sede etd of Dresden, who for many years has been es- tabl. at Berne, recently died, and, having no heirs, be- queathed a considerable fortune and a quantity of land to the Emperor. | 999-999-OO90Gd9HO $490O00000-0 ‘The Katser becomes the proprietor of the Iffigen Alp, which is situated between the Welsshorn and Wildhorn, the Nissen Horn and the beautiful waterfall of Ifigen, situated in the $. | Canton of Berne. To give an {dea of the extent of the prop ®| erty which His Majesty inherits it !s sald that it takes five >| hours’ ham’ walking to cross it. Many chalets are dotted over the land, which 1s rich In pasture and in woods. The Emperor of Austria ts also a Swiss proprietor, having lately come into the possession of the historicill castle of the Hapsburgs in the canton of Thurgovle. | Of THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL, 000? * w $ O99O9099-00-0000-000000O% wife Tr TASS ict USI Children! Upon our Pedestal See Postmaster Van Cott, The man-who sells, on application, Pink stamps; anf raises consternation . With talc of fraud tnvestigation;