The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1903, Page 10

MONDAY EVENING, ° MAY 11, 1903, “Publishes vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to 6 Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Malt Matter. (MOLUME A48.........c0cceeeceee1e NO. 18,288. THE LITTERED STREETS. 1 becomes May 11, and Decoration Day looms in sight, yet the rubbish remains in the streets dong the Ume of the subway as obstructively as when, more than a >’ month ago, Chief Hngincer Parsons promised {ts speedy 3 rémoval. In Park Row the pitfalls show no diminution. e Perils for the unwary pedestrians continue. The nul- @ gance of three years of impeded and torn-up streets re-) ? mains unabated. With the final completion of the] ¢ subway made a remote contingency because of the strike, ° fs'a patient and long-suffering public to be put to further imtonyenience and discomfort? The plea of Street and Park Commissioners {s that they lack power to enforce the cleaning up of the rubbish. That “urbane promiser,”’ Mr. Parsons, procrastinates, ‘The city is apparently at the mercy of the Rapid Transit Commission: Cannot some city official assume an au- thority if he hath it not and make a show of force to im- prove matters? It is recalled that Commissioner Wilcox ordered the removal of derricks and stone-crushers and debris from Bryant Park, and when his orders were not carried out by the contractors, alded by a force of police hhe personally executed them. If that act was no transgression of authority or breach of the law cannot it be advantageously imitated else- where, say, as a beginning, in City Hall Park? PROFIT IN CITY REFUSE. Major Woodbury continues and extends his admirable |, ‘Dring a return to the city where hitherto it has been an expense. His early and successful experiments of using .Yefuse formerly dumped into the sea for filling in land “have been noted, By a new process of burning such . refuse, he secures by-products of value as fertilizers and of use in the manufacture of potash. Also, out of the vegetable street rubbish, the depart- ment now extracts an oll which, sent abroad, finds its ‘way back here in the form of perfumery. The old shoes ‘collected, the unburned coal found in the ash dumps, dis- earded tin cans and other rejected matter all are put to use to furnish profit where formerly there was both “waste and also the expense incurred by getting rid of it ‘at sea. At his present rate of progress another term of office ™ay soe the Street-Cleaning Commissioner demon- ‘etrating the possibility of dispensing with an appropria- of the converted garbage. Chemistry has performed 680) q looked for. AN EXPERT’S SERVICES. New York cends Deputy Commissioner Piper to Lon-|! don to learn street-traffic methods, and London invites, Mr. Vreeland to assist the recently appointed Royal Com- mission on Traffic with advice and recommendations on} means for “improving and increasing the facilities of! Yoodmotion and regulating vehicular traffic in London ‘streets.” A fair exchange of ideas, out of which some ’ good may come to London, as already to New York. But will Mr. Vreeland ask for credentials from New York before undertaking the mission? Will he prepare @ report on the high rate of rpeed of his trolley cars up}! Broadway and through Fourth and Sixth avenues? Will he furnish the London committee with photographs show- {mg how the congestion of traffic at the Thirty-fourth mtreet crossing is cared for and relieved, and will he ac- “company the pictures with a written account of the | masterly manner in which cars and trucks and teams are handled and disposed of at this point? “Mr. Vreeland has informed the public on divers and | @mmdry occasions that he is retained in an advisory ca- * pacify by many foreign street-railway corporations, and oredentials are, of course, not called for from him, But ~ @8 a guarantee of good faith and as an earnest and ex- ample of what he can do, will he not furnish a few speci- fications, as above? t t ri iT A BLIND BOY PADEREWSKI. ‘Word comes from the east side of a blind boy whose Bei) Precocity in music is the wonder of the day. Sightless) {, from childhood, he has become, while yet in his teens, a: “finished musician, a youthful Paderewsk!. Those who! all him so expect him to attain world-wide eminence. 4 Let us hope that he will not be coddled into med!-| | oority. The budding genius is too frequently spoiled by the agulation of admiring relatives. Beethoven said of Rossini that he “would have made a good musician if he| naa been well flogged when a boy.” It was a harsh judg- / ment on a composer whose work is more popularly fa- miliar than his critic's. But is not the criticism true? . It is work, work, work that enadles the infantile genius ‘to redeem in maturity the promises of childhood. Sem- brich, waiting for hours for admission to the gallery of| the crowded opera-house and straining to catch every! note from Patti's throat—she, tov, was a musical prodigy, | jut the voice which charmed New York was the product| of years of hard and assiduous labor. | $ 2 is in little Louis Firman’s favor that, in addition to| - _ Deing blind, he is poor. He ts not handicapped by wealth Nor likely to he spoiled by the indulgence that wealth| + Provides. It is in such humble conditions that the world| » has come to look for its geniuses. The Italian shepherd! oy making mud pies becomes the great artist, the Detroit ‘train-boy the tamous Jnventor, the Fourth avenue cob-| “bler’s son our owr greatest sculptor. It is one of nature's tricks to handicap her favorites! (with the loss of a sense whereby the other senses are larpened, or by a grinding poverty to be overcome in ac- firing came. Let us expect, then, young Firman has ywn a capital prize. t Officially Recognixed.—A very interesting and im- drtant state paper is the decree of the Secretary of the fasury sanctioning tips as ‘expenses essential to the dinary comfort of travellers" and permitting Govern- | clerks and employees to reckon them in expense ac- 5 a8 legitimate tema of expenditure, “Reasonable | to porters and expresamen" and “reasonable allow- @ for baths and for laundry work" are specified, and inference is a fair one that walter and chambermald tare—The den in the Western mansion of | Ae te ho set of furniture composed | ‘The horns wpport M inte yates ft b of dead mos- reciining form FITTOSIGSHEGTS CPS 99009-0599 9O86-9-09-56-6-4-5-06-690-9906-09909069-99F-H9 9949 TOLD ABOUT S fasts. Any one who knows Hanna is welcome to his breaktast, and corned- beef hash is the centre of the fea: party to the S*. Louts World's Pair dedi- cation talis sne she saw only one ting that Interested her,” said Senator S1.n Foley, “#nd that ‘North aid South Carolina golng 1 saloon.” never been popular with women,” si Eugene is capable of meeting the average player on equal terms, In pool luck Is a great element, especially in French pool. With men it ts every year growing more pop- tion for the department and conducting it on the proceeds) Vi", Many wongers that others still greater are hopefully) Women are missing a great game by not spring or summer,” said Dr. C. M. sorts of malarial troubl other ills, of air and scene makes them immun and away from home they do not take ordinary precautions against disease.” fj eee of whipping five men in a saloon to re- cover a stolen dog. ‘Might happen all right, man who has made a repu' ring goes against a big husky fellow out- side the member the story of the baggage-smash- er who smashed Sullivan? There was a got his job through a pull. He couldn't whip a high school boy, but he put up a big man from the coal fields to fight a local man was called. He dotged the miner all around the neighborhood, but §nally fairs—which he hinges. Go something. He couldn't dodge any more. So he gratbed the door, swung jt high in air and smashed it over the dopy miner's head. woke up. demon, ‘coms hart ¢! carry the miner to r 1 never thought NEW YORKERS. AID Justice Hunter the other day: “T saw a new dish on the Hoffman Dill, It was called ‘Hanna.’ What in 1t?' I asked the waiter. He eaid it te econdmies of street-cleaning administration by the util{- sored bests bee ieade eam bese - 7 janna makes it for e jane o In- _fation of the rubbish waste of the streets, making it Wika to bls’ Monday moerking’ wreaks . “A lady who wont with Gov. Odell'a as the Goverao’s of “I have often wondered why pool has B, Howell, of Bradstreet’. “Billiards 1s, possibly, too diMcult, and here ls no pleasure in playing until one It da less strenuous than bowling mnis or golf, calls for the aame ualities—nerve and sense of direction. eglecting pool.” oe “The harvest time of the doctors is lowes last evening. “Fall Is our busy eason. ‘hen the people who have been oafing in strange places return with all typhoid and Moat people think a change They were talking of Kid McCoy’e feat said “Honest” John Kelly, “but Regular thing Is when a jon in the t isn't usual. ing the pug gets licked. Re- ttle policeman out in Indlanapolls who bluff. Some orts brought favorite. Miner got drunk and destroyed wo or three barrooms. The little police- ‘an into him as he came through a sa- loon door—one of these light lattice af- wrenched from its It was up to the little fellow to In a second the miner He fought that door, like « tit got him down in the gut- the little pol! elipped the alongs’ on and used hey had to er ‘ecovered they showed him the man who licked him. it broke his heart and he again.” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, Maurice Barrymore, To the BAltor of The Evening World Who wag Mra. Leslie Camer's leading man when first starred in “The Heart of Maryland?" CESS A Quartet of Queries, To the PAitor of The Brentng World On what day of the week did Aug. 10, 1883, fall? Can a Catholic become Preal- dent of the United States, if elected? | Can a Chinaman become a citizen of | the United States? Can a Japanese become a citizen of the United States? GEORGE SCHRAMM. Aug. 10, 1883 fell on Friday. A Cath- olic Is eligtble to the Presidency, creed or denomination being no bar, A China- man cannot become a citizen. A Japa- nese may become a citizen, Wants to Stop Growing. To the Editor of The Evening World; Iam a boy, & feet 11 Inches tall, and only fifteen years old. I get ‘pains Around the heart and cheat often. | What would be best to make me stop growing? A GROWING Boy, Do not try to stop growing by taking! any drugs or course of treatment. | Sleep ten hours out of the twenty-four | in a well-ventilated room, retiring by 9 P. M. at latest. Keep out of doors as much as possible and take plenty of mild exercise, Hat heartily of plain, | nourishing Hquor, unue yi ‘The chances are that they are not dan- gerous. Me Wan Onee Sentenced. MR. HOTFOOT COMMUTER FAILS TO CHANGE HIS LUCK. HURRAY! 1 CAUGHT HER! 1} WOULDN'T 'A BEEN LATE FOR ANYTHING THis MORNIN —— NEVER MIND) r Go's AFRAID i= Z A M64 FINRG BT TH Monier a. OBITERERK, Now the “Hold-up” escapade is gaining ground with Gotham ladies, And “Mere Man” stands by in terror as his worldly goods they “pinch.” Have YER GOT ANY aS GREEN TRADIN’ STA/YPS?, Ra" ZANE CANT Ph Cunt 2g : WILL THE «GOTHAM WOMEN’S HOLD-UP CLUB” COME NEXT? And some new Association soon may hand out information in Which A Hold- 500000 On “Ten Ways I [HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. | THE INSENSIBLE COIN. | | | Tiss Roll a strip of carboard about 3 on 4 inches in length into a ring, hotding it in shape with a pin ‘then dalance it upon the mouth of a bottle, and upon its upper side place a coin immediately above the Qottle’s neck. When the! Whole is so arranged, try to remove the ring 90 that the coin will fall into the bottle. You will obtain thin result oy giving a lively stroke of your finger Upon the interior of the ring, as indi- cated in the cut. while th its inertia movement. To the Editor of The Byening World | dle trot Sip into. the neck of Rava Tes in mv 1e " . + you strike the; shepherd | has paws, the sheep has hoofs. yard and worn by the feet? CONUNDRUMS, Why does a duck put its head under Water? For divers reasons. Why do hens always eggs in the daytime? At night they are roosters. What {s worse than raining cats and dogs? Hailing omnibuses. How many feet have forty sheep, a and his dog? Two, the dog What is more watery than a woman | with a waterfall on her head, a cataract inh | sort jer eyé, a ripple in her laugh, a {ck"" In her back and a spring in her heel? A man with a notion In his head. What {s that which is bought by the A carpet. When {s a young man green? When he ta spruce. What is the hardest key to turn? A | donkey. The more you take away the larger it grows, what ts It? A hole. What Is the best thing to do in a hurry, Nothing. When is a man ike frozen rain? When he Is hale (hail). at precious stone 1s like the en- trance to a fleld, Agate. Whut trees are the same after belng burned as before? Ashes When may a chair be said to dislike you? When it can't bear you, How much would it take to paint a town red? Enough vermilion, Why would a pelican make a good 7. Because he knows how to his bul, prove isthe letter 8 Uxely to ngerous In arguments, It turns words into swort a: oi Whaat Batata Why THE WALKING CORK. Thrust two knives into a cork at op- posite sides, ‘Then into the ‘base of the two pins deeply enough 80 will not bend under the weight which they will have to support, | Place the whole dpon a flat ruler slight- ly Inclineg and give it a ight rocking motion. ‘The weight of the apparatus will now fall upon the pin (A), while the whole turns upon. that The | knife placed on the side B nd to it pin. will tei tion, but, the movement of oscillation continuing, the pin B wall in. It support the entire welght and ¢! A will take its position at t Rane A, indicated in. the illus ‘he walking cork . will... conti march along the arlene’, mat {lustration 't ft pa ncted by the earth and that, O2OLODD® €- = SSS Ss restore the apparatus to Its first posl-| no THE # EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE w » a eZ Be tee SSS SSS SSS SS = » | Might,’ I says pS CHOlb, FOR “Laoy Fore, ome of the Best Jokes of the Day. HUMILIATING. Some members of the Automobile Club Were discussing the latest police out- rage. “It {8 a confounded shame,” said the one most interested. “I never in my fe was more humiliated then when that ignorant policeman went on the stand and swore that I wasgoing twen- ty miles an hour, “How fast wei Harry?" another “Not an inch less than fifty miles an hour.""—Brooklyn Bagle. KNEW ALL ABOUT IT. Teacher—What is the meaning of “parvenu?” p ) Johnny—An_ upstart. ‘Teacher—Give a sentence in which the word ts used: Johnny—When a man alts down on a bent pin he gives a violent parvenu.— Chicago Tribune. ‘ VETOED. “I hear your engagement to old Gold- man's daughter Is announced.” “No, it was announced.”’ “Well, that’s the same thing, isn't it?” “It was announced; it Is now de- n interviewing phim Public Led- MODERN MUSIC, “Let me write the \épngs of a nation you really going, ra ” r nl DO 0000000000000 = yy WIE. 2 HOW BOTHGATES FELL IN LOVE.! He Makes a Few Observations on Flirting and Idleness. BS in fove,” sald Bothgates, shrugging a shoulder, toward another “L’ guard who was hurrying away! to his post between the rear cars. “Held the traim half a minute watching his girl going down the platform, and when I yelled at him was so flustered he didn't know! how to give the tell. Been trying to square himself. Waste: talk. I never equeal. He's @ good, clean feller, and the gal's as nics as they are. got {t just as bad as he did. Mine was a little rede head. She lived on Eight’ avenay, near 125. Not one of those kind that have a piller to lean on out of the window, | Used to see her once in a while sewing near the window: Must a been a year before I shook my hand at her. She smiled, but that was all. When I was off I loafed aroun where slie lived, and one night I went to a dance in 18. She come in with her brothcr. I hear him call her May, and I move up. ‘Good evening, Miss May,’ I sald. ‘Dance? She looked me over. ‘Well, I like your nerve,’ she sald, Do you know she's told me lots of times that she did like it. £ must a had it with me that night. for I just took her hand and ‘fore she knew it we was swinging down the hall. “Would you belleve it, that little red-head of mine te _ down harder on mashes than any woman I ever see. She'd [(— | blush hereelf to death if she knew I told how I mashed her.. | “ ‘Bothgates,’ she says, ‘if I ever ketch you flirting I'm" make you think you'd jumped the track at 100th.’ ‘AM ‘catch me ‘with the goods ‘fore you start any+ thing.’ “Honest, I’m no better than the regular run, but I never see anything in flagging gals. Never saw any one but the red-head who's worth flagging. Lots of them trip aboard’ with their stilts on, their hats down in their eyes and all twisted up in their sidrts, and if there ain't a good-looking man in the car they fill in the trip piking the guard. They don't mean nothing; they're just idle, and the signs in the cars ain't changed often enough to interest ‘em. “Me? Oh, I don’t telegraph nothing back. I'm too busy thinking about the time and how soon I can eat. Before I was marrie@—well, what's the use? I wouldn't like to get my redhead started. My nerve ain't what it used to be.” Se ee A QUESTION OF HAIR, We might try to deny it, but it isa fact, that every man te proud of his hair. Note the bald-beaded man, how he deals in reminiscences of the time when he, too, was proudly thatched, says ‘‘Auburn 26,150" in the Star of Hope. Yes. we are all proud of our hair, And then it has a physic: value, has this crop of hair of ours—a value that only bald- headed men, doctors and convicts can appreciate. In the old days, when I first came to prison, in the days \..cn @ ‘man's hair was cropped close to the ekull and tho latter ‘sand-papered,”” I could always count on ‘having @ cold in the head twenty-six weeks out of the year. I do not know how It affected other men, but I do know that every time my head was sand-papered a great feeling of shame surged over me and with it @ desire to do harm to somebody. I knew that I looked ttke a Giboon ape after the operation had been performed, and as I couldn't see any read reason for the mutilation I surmised that it was done to de- grade me. As I had been sent to prison for degrading mye self I couldn't ses the reason for the degrading process be- ing kept up after I landed here. I wanted to start anew, and I have, but I never could see the necessity of my starting baldheaded. Howsomever, that is of the past, the unhappy, past, and I for one thank Mr. Collins for this one materiaf ‘way in which he has helped us feel that even though i prison wo are atill men. ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL: He smashed traditions into bits *And threw old-timers into fits