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SNe RRR " INIT RIE ET RES CY ATI TE TR ET ET TIT PTT ET A AT V ~E WEDNESDAY EVENING, coves gg THE wt EVENING . WORLD'S » HOME 2 MAGAZINE ow “Such is guy Ife in @ great city! Give me a medium sized town where a City Councilman’s daughter gets soclaltyt 6 | ostracized for putting on her brother's suit of clothes an@ © | going up into the opera-house gallery with a derby hat, with her hair pulled up inside it, pulled down over her eyes to see ® | & durlesque show. @| “That's why I went on the stage, if you want to know thé truth of it. For three weeks afterward there was a picture of me—drawn beautiful—only {t didn't look Ise me, in the i Polloe Gazette, and a whole lot of people who knew me in their elders’ recipes for success is that too frequent-| for you.” odie ly when they look for inside secrets they are provided] When Howard Gould went to Co- ‘with copybook mottoes with which they have long been|lumtta it was naturally supposed by familar, The inner processes of success are not divulged. |!s classmates that he would make . m splurge in the way of riotous spendin, Let us apply Mr. Griswold's precepts to two bank! () 110° incely allowance. There were clerks now prominent In the public eye, the one because! gang of tondies enough to help him he has been elected President of the Chemical National]}in this expenditure To every one's to succeed the late President George G, Williams, and{surprise, however, the young muitt- the other because the trustees of the Bowery Savings ves Affected ue simplest pos tty: y * ger-|* attire, habits and tastes. As one Institution have just rowarded his fifty-one years’ Ber! oe the pro! AT ARIOUAT theetion: S * BODO D9000994OOO0604 a OD GHUGOOOOFOOOOO 4 DODD 00590088 0O299GOD 992999 DOGG 299029929 ODDDOODODGDOD 29D 9: d | . CUorid. ARDENT ARCHIE AGAIN PROVES THAT HIS LOVE IS A FIXED QUANTITY, Published by tho Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 63 Park Row, New York. Entored at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Ma{i Matter. 4 / o VOLUME 438.. NO. 16,240. 3 AN INSTRUCTIVE CORPORATION TRICK. | 3 Twit He | wWasnir 3) One of the items in the Metropolitan Street Railway's 4 a DAsHrOL tmawer to the city’s suit to recover car license fees to| > E : ‘the amount of $50,000 is of more than passing interest. ‘This {s the allogation that in the case of the Third avenue road “no fees are required since the charter of the com-| % te pany called for the payment of a fee of $15 a year for ¢ ears operated by on horse and $26 a year for those drawn | by two horses; and since the company {s not operating 3 horse cars and has not operated them for ten years it Is § ' not called upon to pay a fec!" The argument is ingenious, werthy, as a technical evasion of charter provisions, of the high grade of legal os talent which etreet railway corporations find {t profitable to employ. It excites a layman's admiration. & Yer regarding the equity rather than the |. # aspect $ of the Third Avenue’s obligation to the city, is not its| Plea of evasion of a kind with that of the bunco man or| ® the green goods swindler? The Third avenue line still g uses the franchise the city granted {t, a grant worth mil-| 344.4.9646460¢¢06000000000000 Mons by the prevent reckoning of street franchises. Its a ” large earnings, which made several miifonatres In mes! TOLD) ABOUT LITTLE OLD NEW YORK” VS. LITTLE YOUNG NEW YORK. OVERHEARD ON BROADWAY » past and are still in spite of bad management a potential » . source of even greater wealth, are wholly the fruits of NEW YORKERS 1g Yava qot to the city’s re And seine at presen nore the pet 2 1g '9-0-Clock. Pauline the Pessimist Finds No Joy im Livingy when a street rajlway's business was of far less magni- ee | ; vin tude has the rate of compensation Veen an adequate re-| ¢¢ 3 Coney Island or Broadway. f turn for this bounty. Yet now it 1s proposed to evade It} under thelr eyes, but the: b 4 “NX / “ihe has saddened my young life?” sald Pauling A ee hey are @ the Pessimist. “Why, C 5 entirely by what Is on its face a trick of the most palpable tn jeast persistent in pushing for re- @ g foe Rest Ee ORY Coney, eee ar aay aan eae Ree rien necpieainytne) countess Ba 3, | know of except the Morgue. : It is very likely that this plea will be sustained by the ®%/d big Tim Sullivan. “I frequently ® > “You know me and Mazie Montressor, who used to soue Court. If so, it will serve both to recall the lax methods junk when T see anything that should | @ @ | brette to my ingeuue In the stock in Saginaw last season, of franchine granting in the past and to emphasize the} wy); sey A (ers CE Gas 3 @ | didn't speak, but I met her at Coney Island and realized P 1 notify them, but the good resolution | % @ | there was no use hating anybody and Ufe wes full of sad- fneed of the presont public vigilance which scrutinizes/|{s seldom acted upon. We are so averse; © ®| ness and aching hearts, We went right up to with grave suspicion every gift toa munivipal utility cor- be Mieco @ matter which Is every- $ and hugged without a word, At Coney Island, Mires seers peeadton, y's business our business. $ g spacer irate ond) the cheap crowds haw-hawing the slap- aE Grace George knows an elderly woman ¢ and the nolse, you realize that life ts too |. SECRETS OF SUCCESS. who in an affectation of youth haa dyed | & had trouble. $ ts eben es Wereens re eae Wrewere ise ost y, ‘her hair a vivid golden. “Do ‘ — with the é e old game of handing a cold cheek . 8. M. Griswold, President of the New York State Bank= {Ji y\ 0" “oy Rusia tena nee menie Excise. hating worse than ever was forgotten. ere’ Association, recently gave bank clerks these precepts | Golden-HHaired One. 3 4 I was. surprised that Trixy Fortescue, Mazie's chum, ' for becoming presidents: h, yes." replied Miss George sweet-| o ne wernt with her, But Mazile told me in confidence that- Always be neat and orderly about your work in the bank, | (1, Knew het when her hair was still) @ [ren oe | 3 Rand 6 Denice) had given her another: biack/eye\end| tas /theby Always be prompt. eee ~ [20% FLOO crear #2 Make few engagemenis, and always keep them. Ex-Borough President Cooran was re- MUM & | arate nieve Wie eet hee ee cee Bevcheerfw; don't complain of every little trifle. fleoting deeply on some intricate prob- g llama Stasierehot ann leae autigcatlGeaee ss ie ‘Try to Inspire people with confidence. lem, A stranger stopped at his side and| 4 4 said, “I want to go to 123 Washington @| she sald she had been blue for a few days and wanted to ‘These qualities are admirable in others besides bank) oo vine." s % 2] nave a good cry, and sho knoxp it she couldn't get a @erks. But the disheartening thing(to the aspiring young) 411 right," eald Afr. Coogan; “I'll wait $ $ case of weeps at Concy Island her case was desperate. oa Altoona, and who had always cut thelr own hair up to that, went to Tony's Elite Tonsorial Parlor just to see it. I couldn't stand the notoricty and 1 ran away and went*om es vice as clerk by giving him a gold watch. In his ad-| “Without being stingy, that young man the stage. But when we pluyed me home town with the dress when presenting the watch to the old clerk Mr./set# @ perfeot example of economy." Yoong Vandevbjoct of 2ST Years a eis Afwthe News Yorker Keugne @ | Idea Gee Stock, ten, twent and thirt, we had crowded wits ou tn (cr prent nan’! e ee Nave enece 2 | houses for a wock to sce meas Phoebe, the maid, in “Lady W. H. Parsons said: “You have proved zou pene Secretary William Leavy, of the Fire Tamm ens area EN @ | Audley’s Secret," and as the vivandiere in “A Celebrated erable, faithful and conscientious employee. You have} nepartment, says: ‘The epesd of New. @ | Case." And cven the paper tha! was opposed to my papa been trusted and not found unworthy, Yours is a record York machines has been greatly in- @ | politically spoke of me as ‘One of Altoona’s fairest daugh= @t which you may justly be proud.” Sentiments which Mr. Griswold will indorse, as echo- fg his own, and which we all indorse. But has not Mr, Porter, the Chemical's new President, and only a few years ago a clerk in the Fifth Avenue Bank—has not he also been “honorable, faithful and consctentious?” But did those traits make him President? Were they not crofsed by ¢he asphalting of streets. In spite of the growth of the city, which has made speed more dangerous, re- Sponses to fire alarms are made quicker in New Yorfe than in any other city in the world. Formerly, when the streets were paved with unevon stones, this was not possible, and many West- ern citles had faster departments than tera now displaying her undoubted histrionic talents et our beautiful opera-house.’ ‘But there's nothing in a theatrical career. ‘Thirty weeks of one-night stands around the water-tank circult and six weeks hanging around the dramatic agenctes in the good old summer time. I wish I jad stayed at home, where the only. social relaxation Is going down to the depot to see the trains come in, or getting engaged to commerciai travellers, who borrow a ring from you to get the size to send you a more . simply the foundations on which his business success was| ours. Much more than haif the battle | ie with @ fire Iles tn prompt response, and ine bett the streot h lcker the It in the mistake of employees Ike the Bowery clerk] fra can be wot under control and of moralists like Pres dent Griswold that they lay ee too much stress on qualifications which are to commer-| "Did you ever notica the difference ¢lal advancement what the 4 BC is to literature. They| Ween a batter's pose for a picture rs _ a and his pose for a pitcher?’ asked are essential, but they are not all. Mr. Porter got on by| «Muggsy: w. "It would look fine learning the duties of the man ahead of him and prepar- to swing club away ing himself to fill his place {f it became vacant. While his shoulder and you imagine h knocking the ball a mile; but when he was a clerk he cauinped himself to be a teller; when]... doing business he deesn't dare do int 2 he became a teller he learned how to discharge the.dutlos! (4. if he did he'd strike the empty alr | of assistant cashier; iu that place he was ready to be-| fter the ball was in the catcher's mitt, come cashier, and when a vice-president was wanted he| tre holan the hat in fron of or.a litte was competent to fill the position. The faithfulness and! in advance of his right shoulger ana] ¢ i, ft ‘ 4 eonscientiousness were there all the while, but It was not{kives force to his blow. if he lands on] ¢ At the coming anniversary ’twill be plain to the most cursory by reliance on them alone that he became the Chemical’s| ‘"® Pal win the Bing Of his boar {e Observer that few things hay: changed in ancient Gotham Town. q Brorident. —_ : For the av’rage local venture is the same as in the centuries DIVINATION AND OTHER DELUSIONS. QUESTIONS. When folks used schnapps instead of rye their miseries to drown. A Newark Justice has dismissed the case against an O 90900000O400O000 $090600O0000004 “astrologer” who had been arrested on the complaint of ANSWERS. Mrs. Elizabeth Holstermann, whe alleged that the as- ¥ trologer had induced her to invest $1,000 in a turf con- py pai 21 Miles, Air Line 20 Miles. | Hi O Mi GB FU NS FOR TH BL YO UNG FOLKS. expensive one from the next town and don't. re “I'll bo homesick: now for a week, And yet I know #I . } | went back ona visit I'd get sore because the only place to go to Js an ice-cream parlor with ollcloth on the floor that gives you toothache to think aljout tt. “I suppose my stage Ways would make scandal, for the only thing they have to talk about now, my married sister} writes me, is that Stella Johnson, whose father keeps the! big feed store, is back from boarding-school, and {t is sus pected that she is teaching some of her closest friends te smoke cigarettes, “Broadway 1s tiresome, and sitting around a furnished room trying to Ax over a mid-winter overskirt so i will lookt! | natural hitched onto a summer shirt-waist, is enough te t Rapid Transit of ass years ago. The night watch of then and now, “ Ta Hoavlem wn deys” Tomequ ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL LETTERS, Some of the Best cern. The ustrologer “read it in the stars” that the In-/\7, ¢he gattor of The Evening World Vegimen,..would vroye profital their reader were in error and th ", Tho Judge ruled that all the defendant did was to em- Re setrology, which, in the Cour ealinat lon, was a Ufandtalen In Correct, lence” and consequently not proper grounds of gullt In|, exe Esiior of The Evening World the seer. A. says "I caught seven handsful.’* The Judge's decision does not, of course, make as-;8 says “I caught seven handfuls. Jokes of the Day. “CAP AND PACKAGE PARTY.” Quite a pleasant evening’s diversion may de obtained by the cap and pack- HIS INTEREST. age party. Both children and older| Gertrute—You say you've only been People can be delightfully entertained | there two weeks and have an interest in in this way. Let each girl make a/ the business? cute little “folly” cap of tissue paper.| Vansant—Yes; I was two hours late A great deal of taste and ingenuity | this mornng, and the boss told me I'd Hither the stars or| What ts the distance by ratinoad, also er et SIE ES [Kien chakec rinies CHa ey WHAT FOUR NAMES ARE HERE?‘ York City Hall and Summit, N. J.? COLDFAX. trology any «reater or Jess a humbug than it was and hag| Which ts right? Bs A. can be dispiayed in the selection of| better take some interest oe busi- been and ever will be. Nor would his decision change nee colors, An especially pretty one could | ness in the future.—Magazine of Humor, To tho Editor of The Evening World cae i the status of palmistry or cheirography or fortune-telling| ts any gold put in pennies? E. 1 Be cops: of white and (pale) green pes GOOD MEDIUM WANTED, Rer, fancifuly gotten up, with fringed)! «yow thet we've struck dry land dorler, or pale rose and green, or white ” paid whet shall and yellow, for instance, colors te cor- | ofan oe, f mice respond with the hair, and most every | i airl will know that. ‘Then ¢or her escort | Sst |& newspaper ce culenel’ (for It will be well to have an equal panies Secs mabteaoate number of boys and girls) a peaked cap |% having heidi : teeth her eee menagerie if we don't advertise it?’ — Now for the “package” part. ‘Bach |Phtadelphia Ledger. one is requested to bring an original IN THE STILLY NIGHT. package, well wrapped up in white] “what is it?" the druggist sleeptly In- paper.” These packages are taken by| quired from the bedrcom window. the hostess and placed in @ nice big ba: “This is the drug store, ain't it?” eaid Later in the avening, after some prelim-| the man who had cung the bell. {nary games, the bag {s passed and each| ‘yes, What do you want?’ one, in order to have a grab, must be ‘Want to look in your city directory cham out. prepared with a well-cnown saying oF] minute an’ shee where I live.”—Phiia- quaint quotation, repeated instantly or] geiphia Public Ledger. EIGHT SECRETS OF SUCCESS, | but ne was @ patient man and thought] they forfeit their turn. The grabs aro JUST IN TIME. A certain fellow who answered adver-| 2¢ would yet succeed. jalmost all of unique order, trifles that) eb waa’ Eon a a Eas Next advertisement he answered| are ugpful and can be amust fements In cheap story pavers has] Next | advertisement he answered) ars, Pe aN Ce atorera ways a rural exchange, ‘‘as it blew him, ad some Interesting experiences. He 3 “f 5 vet| young men and women, ‘head and shoulders, through the roof learned that by sending $1 to a Yankee} an months." He was toid to convert) Geexed in thelr sure-tovbe becoming land showed us where the weak apo’, he could get a cure for drunkenness,| b's money Into bills, fold them and he Regt carry ANAC gps ees CaP8 las in the shingling.”—Atlante Const!- tution. or of any of the various kinds of “divination” In which The seventh Was on Duty There, oredulous women are led to put confidence while parting| To the tor of The ning World with the dollars on which a multitude of pseudo seersand| * S48 that the Seventh Regiment was on duty at tho Brooklyn car etrike “gages” and wizards and all that fraternity prosper and of 18%, B says {t was not. Who is right? wax fat. <P BR But it is a matter of real regret that a judicial sanc- Changes at Coney Island, tion should be given to this cort of credulity. Tae woman | T the BAltor of The Ever who finds out from the palmist that a broken line in her!,,1 Visited Coney Island yesterday for the first time in three years and could and means sudden death at a certain age and “crosses | hardly believe my eyes when I saw the mAicate ilness, and some other of nature's cuticular|many changes. I noticed particularly | Processes in the palm point to insanity or other equally |that the Jeather-lunged and coarse-lan-| 5 TS Ing future—such a woman takes to heart the de-|SUased “barker’ had largely disap-| Four names—two of boys and two jpeared, and In his place could be found |tures, Stud: prophesy and indulges morbid fears which are in|young men neat in appearance and zi Hh nothing but a quack’s fancies. using ° r using the best of grammar. I listened number of otherwise sane and sensible members fully twenty minutes to a young man ty who attach an exaggerated importance to tho|on one of the side streets who endeay- pes and forecasts and “fortunes” told the: y ore ; 5 ent by|ored to convince a crowd of people that ge false prophets of superstition is, unfortunately, le-| the show inside was no fake, fraud or ) It is a pity that it should be so and a regrettable | humou (to use his words), and who in- it any Judge should in any way contrjbute to the|vited them in, with the understanding ‘vogue of these fancies. that If vhey Were satisiied tney could] And he did. It was to "Take the pledge, WOUld see his money doubled, ie : pay five cents on the way out, and aoth-|and keep tt." Next he sent for twelve useful house- | 'S: —————_—— they were not. I took the Ifberty oo | hold articles, and he got a package of eof Trifles —A button with yachting in- Ee Ree ne | ee eee ne se Camnibe aucreae,| needles, HOW CAN THEY CRos8?7 4 blight the bilthest."* ROY L, WCARDDLA, # \ @\upon it is relied upon as a clue to clear |™ wel Gs He was slow to learn, so he sent $1] Three Spanish merchants, with their {dynamite mystery, ‘A button in the hands He found out—"Just take hold ‘out “how to get rich.” "“Work| bags of gold, wish to crogs a river with ‘The form of John C, Sheehan. £ | v a ibexy temporarily hard it qwill be recalled, disclosed the | provements. ice te core ena imal, Mice the devil and never spend @ cent,” | meir valets. Only two men can get in| “7, Mk anise bacon £ cent Although an old-liné Democrat h Norcross, It to the lttle Thursday and Thursday, BAR | YOUNG. Be Winet: $0. EOE 2 a ut ia rot wrote to find ut | the bon at a time; one must always pointing He's joining hands with Tommy Plate eye: and sent thirty-four one-cent stamps to return there, As the valets To the Editor of The Bvening Wor! & Chicago frm for information as to ead penchl, rink. Rypding Ny ‘g0l4, one precy oa Loar Bae a ean aa Next fall to Bnock the Tiger flat NO PROFIT IN IT. It was the morning efter and he ChiMren! See on our Pedestal SMB 7a sal ms an what day March | how to make an Impreaion. When the| |e Ps 3 ga with: must er a left with wo valete, nor | a "iste ‘ie (Which deast shows signs of standing April 10, 1863, down ed i . (three valets, How 2 At leapt for the time 3 Pag ee a hI. dough" It maa. ste ‘ovat tion z hats seta mit 1 Se