The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1903, Page 8

Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. VOLUME 48........ccccceseese0e0NO. 18,243. THE COTTON GAMBLERS. Mp. Sully having achieved the distinction of making ootton dearer than at any other time within fifteen years, having added to his profits, “squeezed the shorts” and gained a fame as a market manipulator that will reach the ears of the remotest Georgia plantation hand, is ‘about to eal] for Kurope, leaving others to carry on his work of inflating prices. It is a proud triumph, one to excite the envy of other speculators, whose corners have ‘eollapsed before whey could ‘‘get out.” | So much for the romance of this big gambling game.| Bout in the plain prose of the President of the Southern) Cotton Spinnors’ Association the distinguished gambler has “fixed a false price for cotton that threatens manu- facturesys with ruin.” The manufacturer, forced to pay more for material, must either make the dealer pay more for the product or fall; and the dealer must pass the _ extra price on to the consumer or cut down his own profit. > ‘The inference is easy as to: how the alternative will be decided. The consumer will pay the extra price in this ease as he has ‘been paying it to the Beef Trust for dearer | meat ahd to the Oil Trust for dearer of]. It is greatly to| the glory of Sully as one of the greatest market manipu- Intors of the time, but it diminishes the incomes of small _ households by just so much. i Of all forms of gambling is there any more objection- able than that in which the game {s to corner a necessity and make the public pay a higher price for it? otf THE SMOKER, “Ready letter-writers who seek to alate abuses through the correspondence columns of newspapers are unusually prolific at present in denunciations of the smoking habit. Qme complains of returning home after a day in the city _ pallid and nauseated by the smokg involuntarily inhaled from pipe and cigar on the streets and in the cars, An- other protests against the practice which drugs the alr he must breathe in offices and restaurants, A third} thinks smokers “should be penned off by themselves _ where they could do no harm to any one else.” Is it for- _ gotten that the attempt of the Broadway surface-car line _ t© pen smokers off in open cars was defeated by the in- | reads of the non-smoker? _ »There is no doubt that the consumption of tobacco in ~ the United States has vastly increased of recent years; | dm pounds # amounted in 1900 to 868,000,000 an enormous » ‘bulk. It is equally true that every year sees the smoker @ranted greater licenso; the high-class restaurant fur- mishes him with facilities once procurable only at the q@hote of foreign proprietorship. He is a privileged a sae in white-and-gold dining-rooms. The lace » ‘Gurtains of thousands of city drawing-rooms are redolent ‘with his fumes. Many of the barriers that restrained him ten years ago are totally broken down. Sensitive nostrils may revolt, but what 1s to be done @bout it? If this were Omaha the objectors might get an {injunction duly inhibiting the smoker from puffing In __ the presence of the pedestrien or the passenjaire. But in | S city which consumes rather more than {ts pro rata of _| tem pounds of tobacco per inhabitant annually, it !s _ probable that we shall be obliged to continue to put up a “with the evil, while occasionally relieving our feelings by att Vigorous denunciation. CITY EXHIBITS AT ST. LOUIS. ‘An interesting novelty of the St. Louls World's Fatr ‘will be the “large-city exhibit.” Twenty of the chief cities of the lend have been invited to make an individual dis- - pley apart from that of the States in which they are situ- ated, _. There are possibilities in such an exhibit not only un- Fealized but only remotely suggested. New York and ‘Chicago together have now a population as large as that of the entire nation at the time of the Louisiana Pur- @hase, which this world's fair is to commemorate. In nothing in the nation’s progress so strikingly typified as in their development into imperial municipalities. To join with them Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit, San Francisco and the others of the twenty would ‘be to furnish the material for a “world’s fair of Ameri- can cities” of unique distinction. New York alone, If adequately represented, could provide objects of supreme and comprehensive interest. A characteristic exhibit of all quarters, from Fifth avenue to Avenue A, from China- town to Washington street, would duplicate most of the features that make a world's fair striking, while adding others of distinctive peculiarity. And what a midway the metropolis could equip! | 5 | THE AGED BACHELORS’ CHARMS. In pointing out the advantages of a matrimonial “i merger to promote and preserve domestic peace, The Evening World called attention to the good resuits likely to ensue from the abolition of ‘‘predatory competition’ e ‘by bachelors. "An example of the harmful effects of competition of © this kind is furnished by the suit of Edwin H. Tucker to » recover $75,000 damages from Eugene R. Dudley for alienating the affections of the complainant's wife, Mary Adelaide Tucker. Mr. Dudley {s a rich bachelor nearly sixty years old, and Mrs. Tucker is twenty-five. It is Specifically alleged in the summons that the defendant oe @id “wickedly, wilfully and maliciously allenate” the poung wife's affections by means of ‘expensive presents, ) Money, gifts, promises and seductive and deceitful acts aid. wiles.” | The verbiage of the law rarely contains so apt a de- meription and designation of a villain’s practices as is| a Major Pendennis of | ive and deceitful acts wiles" by which the garrison of the feminine heart Is pailed and invaded? What chance has a humdrum do- hic partner in the race agaiust such rivalry? To the 4 of many conquests a new one is soon added and ‘a firmly rooted affection that is proof against the ®eductions of the mature masher. When one is he should be made an example of. the p fought by the Health Department and tribute to the virtues of vaccina’lo itelt is only two years sinee the timid d apprehension for an epidemic of the entire quiescence is most gratifying, mw THE ef TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. PRHAPS not one New Yorker in twenty who knows John D Rockefeller by sight, knows that, not many years ago, the oil magnate sported a crop of glossy, luxuriant side- whiskers, Said an old-time Gothamite who once knew him well: “T never could understand why Rooke- feller parted with thosa Aeolian Dun- drearies that framed nis face. In the old days they were the pride of Ss heart. It must have heen a frightful wrench for him to part with them." “I was over here in Hester street the other night," sad “Little Tim Bulll- van, “A man had a big plece of oll- cloth on the pavement. He was measur- ing 60 he could cut {t to At a room. I stepped on it; so did @ dozen others He got mad and cussed us all. ‘Why don't you take it t your room and moasure it?" I asked. ‘How can I,’ he eald. ‘There is my wife sewing on one side, Sarah {is sewing on the other, Jack is in the middle studying; there {a @ table dn one corner, a bed in an- other, the goose 1s tied in another and the baby sleeps in another, How can I take it In the room?’ We guarded the Pavement and kept people off till he measured his ollcloth."’ “That reminds me of a Judge out in Minnesota,” sald “Manny” Friend to a party of lawyers who were discussing a case. ‘They have a law out there Prohtbiting divorced persons marrying within eix months after the decree is entered. The Judge held thet the law was unconstitutional, and when a friend who had just been divorced want- ed to marry right away the Judge urged him to go ahead. ‘If you are convict- ed,’ he said, ‘I, as court comminstoner, will tssue a writ of habeas corpus, and when the matter comes on for hearing I'll declare the law invalid and dis- charge you.’ His friend took the risk. He was prosecuted and convicted, ‘The Judge issued the writ, as he promised, and then died. Tho poor victim hud to serve his sentence.” Ethel Barrymore, who has just aalled, has been going in largely for collarless frocks, according to the New Yorker, only Ethel's, Instead of being merely collariess, are cut down several inches lower and ehow quite an expanse of th “Fortunately the expanse is a pretty one, a full, soft, white expanse, and Is very pleasing to the eye, On the Street the other day the young actress had q collarless jacket and a shirtwalst cut in the above-mentioned style, and a saucer hat surmounting her bonny brown hair, She walked with the genuine Bar- rymore bend, and the youth with her was all attention, The full light of day shows no defects in the Barrymore com- plexion, and no make-up is used in everyday life. Miss Barrymore seems quite over her recent nervous trouble, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Date and Museum Queries, To the Editer of The Evening W Whnt day did Jan. 30, 1886, fall on? Do they charge admission to the Met- ropalitan Museum of Art? W. J.T. Jan. 30, 1886, fell on Saturday ™ ts charged at ul ropolitan Museum of Att on Monday and Friday. sion 1902 Pennies, The Evening World pennies worth any more than , and If so, could you kindly tell me where same can be ex- changed? JG. No Premium on Are itor of 1902 Robert Burns; W. Cc, W To the Editor of The Evening World Who was the author of “Auld Lang Ryne?” Who is the owner of the race horse Gunfire? F, K itney, Wednesday. To the Editor of The Evening World On what day of the week did Dee. 13, 1976, fail? JOM. J. For Afternoon Wedding. To the Balto: of Tue Bvening What is the proper dress for a bride- groom at an afternoon weeding%s WILLIAM MURRAY, Frock coat, trous: leather shoes, gray gloves, w coat Apply to Supreme Court, To the Editor of The Evening World ‘To whom should I apply to have my name_changed legal DAVID 8 Ne, They Are Different Men, To the Editor of ‘The Evening Wo: Is Daniel J. Sully, who has been spec- latihg in cotton, the same Daniel J Sully, the actor, who starred in "The Perish Priest? G Ww. c EVENING » WORLD'S w DOWN WITH TH MEAT TRUST! ONLY TRYAHUNKA BREAKFAST Foon !! onTErT MLOR HATS—NO)||) (ey SA: HAT: ORE PICTURE HATS BY CAOER~ COURT. Ce Keo WEAR THE FLAT covet! i ee IT '5 HEREBY ORDERED THAT MRS. RIP-EMN-UP KEEPHER TILL NEXT May. amt) DX — v4—3 YE (( MILLINER . , stayin’ of INJUNCTIONS, On THE HOT Gan !YER CIGAR STORE GOVERN MOTHERS-/N-LAW 8Y INJUNCTION THE RIVAL SUITORS OF be — ad MISS GOT-THE-G00DS, (RORRIGN NOBLEMEN) BLOCK ONE AWOTHER'S LITTLE GAME WITH THE INTUNCTIONs SIURPHY GETS AN INTUNCTION PREVENTING DEVERY FROM RUNNING FOR MAYOR ~ A District Court Judge has issued an injunction restraining a woman from talking. The “Injunction” (once a rarity) may so gain in popularity That the Foolkiller will find New York no longer needs his functions. And this is what the sages may remark in future ages: “I care not who makes nations’ Laws if 1 make their Injunctions!” PPPPHLDOOHLOGDOHODH IS FHLVSOOHOOHHGHUHNGIOD OHS SSVG F8OO2OOSHOOS AA Man of Mark. < By Wiatheay Hope. (THIS STORY BEGAN MONDAY AND ENDS TO-DAY.) (By permission of George Munro's Sons.) ing my duty in briefly recording the | took refuge. The bank relleved him in| est little place where I spent four such facts in my possession concerning the response to his urgent petitions, and eventful years. Perhaps I love it be- other persons who have figured in this | they've sent us out a young Puritan, to! cause my romance was played there, record and the country where Its scene) whom it would be quite in vain to apply as I should love any p!ace where I had was lald | for a timely Metle loan. seen the Signorina. For I am not cured Before I lay down my pen I must give! “1 hoped to have asked you some day I don’t go about moaning—I enjoy life. to rejoin us here, As matters stand, I/ But, in splte of my affection for the sident 0 ot the bank's funds. Col “Opporition. and The tnger whom Martin, the the. Pre Bim $300,000) r, leader of the some account of these matters, and I | June roses for me. cannot do so better than by inserting a letter which I had the honor to receive! |trom His Excellency some two years after 1 last saw him. 1 had obeyed his wish in communt- cating my address to him, but up to this time had recetved only a short but friendly note, acquainting me with the! fact of his marriage to the Signorina and expressing good wishes for my @el- fare in my new sphere of action, The matters to which the President refers to some extent pudlie property| tho Signorina and The latter goes to foats the Colonel and regains power Marcin slopes with the her ankle as they are about to board a@ yacht, In the ensuing delay the Presitent overtakes | 800n afterward, byt certain other terms them. of the arrangement are now given to The Prestdent forces Martin to renounce - Sipnorina and to leave Aureataland, "* @*) the world for the first time. | __ | The letter ran as follows: CHAPTER VI ‘My Dear Martin: As an old inhad- A Diplomatic Arrangement, itant of Aureataland, you will be tnter- ES faxep lam co vd, this story | ested In the news I have to tell you. 1 has now reached an end. With| also take pleasure in hoping that, Jn my departure from Aureataland | spite of bygone differences, your friend- I re-entered the world of humdrum Ife, |!¥ feelings toward myself will make and since that memorable night in 18%4| You glad to hear nows of my fortunes. nothing haa befallen me worthy of a, “You are no doubt acquainted gener- | Polite reader's attention. T have ally with the course of events here, dured the drudgery incident to earning since you left us, As regards private! a living, I have enjoyed the reiuxations friends, 1 have not, {ndeed, much to tell every wise man makes for himsel you, Jones, I euppose you know, left I should be inpa us about a year ago. The poor old egotism if I su myself | fellow never recovered trom his fright that I or the most in presented in the was the on | subject on that night of the bank robbery, to say nothing of the cord he caught in going pages, and J feel 1 shall merely be do-| your draughty coal-cellar, where he| tion of the sunny, cheerful, lazy, dishon- | Yonkers Statesman, am more likely to come and find you; for, when released, Christina amd 1 are going to bend our steps to the Stat and we hope to come sopn. There's a Utte diMcuith outstanding about the terms on which the Golden House and my other property are to pass to the new government; this I hope to com- promise by alvating half my claim in private, and giving {t all up in public. Also, I have had to bargain for the recognition of Johnny Carr's rights to thp Colonel's goods. When all this is settled there will be nothing to keep me, and I shall leave here without much reluctance. The first man 1 shall come and see is you, and we'll have some frolics together, {f my old carcass ids out, But the truth Js, my boy, I'm not the man 1 was. I've put too much steam on all my life and I must pull up now or the boiler will burst. “Christina sends her love. She is as anxious to see you as Iam. But you must wait till I am dead to make love to her. Ever your sincere friend, “MARCUS W, WHITTINGHAM.” As I write I hear that the arrange- ment {is to be carried out. So ends Aureataland's brief history as a nation; so ends the story of her national debt, more happily than 1 ever thought {t would. I contess to a tender recollec- +) And she? | President, hardly a day passes that 1 | don't curse that accursed tree-root. What does she feel? I don’t know. I don't think I ever did jknow, But I have had a note from her, jand this is what she says: | “Fancy seeing old Jack again—poor, forsaken Jack! Marcus is very kind (but very fll, poor fellow); but I shall lke to eee you, Jack. Do you remember what I was like? I’m still rathor pretty. |'This ts in confidence, Jack. Marcus thinks you'll run away from us, now we are coming to town" (that's where T live), “But I don’t think you will “Please meet me at the depot, Jack, 12.15 train. Marcus ls coming by a later one, so I shall be desolate sf you don’t |come. And bring that white rose with |you, Unless you produce it | won't speak to you. CHRISTINA," | Well: with another man’s wife this |ia rather embarrassing. But a business jman ‘can't leave the place where his business is because a foolish girl Insists on coming there, And as I am here I may as well be efvil t her. And oh, well! ast have the thing, I may as well ti it-with me, It can't do any | harm. | THE PND. ———__— QUESTION OF JUDGMENT. Bill—Do you think betting is wrong? Jill—Weil, the way I bet generally is. A Fair Genius Discovers They Are Not Me: Automata, ees is a decidedly pretty little woman who goes te an uptown ‘L’ station late each afternoon to meet her husband as he comes home from work. Some= times he is late and her wait on the platform is long. Now you or I in such circumstances would wn, get bored, flirt with the pretty girls who get off at that station, calculate what our chances would Ue for slipping across to the next block for a drink and getting back on time, or. if we were more sedately inclined, we'd dig out a book or paper and te “Now, this pretty girl does none of these things. She sits and watches the trains. Not only the gateways whence her husband may emerge, but the trains themselves, “She and her husband are old friends of mine, so I took the liberty of stopping the other evening to ask what vast Interest so cosmopolitan a Gothamite coull find in staring at the cars to the exclusion of everything else, No yokel from Pompton, N. J., could have taken keener note of the electric trains than did this little woman's big brown eyes, “And this is the explanation she gave me: “People have been discovering “character in faces hands, clothes, ways of walking, and in other such traits, for centuries,’ ele sald, ‘but I think I'm the first person to discover character in “L trains. Please don't jaugh. I'm not trying to qualify for the Old Jokes’ Perhaps, though, I should have safd “character in train motor men. : “Here comes a train now. See, it rushes at full speed to the station and then comes to a halt so suddenly that half the passengers tumble into each other's laps. Now it starts again with a Jar that can't do Its machinery any especial good. The train ahead of that slowed up too soon and had to crawl Into the station, almost stopping, and then make ing two or three little bursts of energy, like men hauling @ plano upstairs. “Watch the train that's coming now. See, it's front car went clear beyond the platform and it had to back up to let passengers off. Now here comes a model train. I recognize {ts numtier. It #s slackening speed at precisely the right pont and to exactly the right degree. No one is Jarred, there are no sharp tugs on the machinery and every car will stop at precisely the allotted piace. “No two trains come into a station in just the same way. There's as much individuality of character about them as there {s about people. Do you wonder I'm interested im watching them, now that I've made the discovery? See that express Incomotive tearing by. ‘The engineer fs leaning far out, Byt he {sn't looking ahead along the track. He's looking for a face in that fourth-story @imdo Now he sees {t. I wouldn't give much for the chantes any track worker that got on the wrong track just oe Home. ae of him. The next express has a careful engineer who lool stralght ahead. If there's an accident it'll be no fault his, And then— Oh, there's Jack now. See, he's got a big bunch of| After all, there are better rewards for waiting than the joy of studying the habits of the elusive “L" train” ‘ODD WAGE-EARNING. A clever young woman adds to her income by planning menus for her friends, She makes up a week's list for each house, and Is able to change them about so as to make one serve for several families, ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL, LOCALLY ILLUSTRIOUS ERNeT J. LB, President an@ Commissioner of the Department ef-fleattt. See, Children, on our Pedestal, The man who guards your health! ‘The man who, some time since, awoke To the sad fact that there's no joke In breathing pints of soft-coal smoke. So now the saét‘coal habit's broke (Like some Consumers’ wealth), 4 §