The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1903, Page 10

- "} MONDAY EVENING, | * MAY 18, 1903, Wadlisnea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 63! if Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMice + at New York us Second-Class Mali Matter. | SOLUME 48....... sesseseeeeeesNO. 18,248 TWO TRUST LESSONS. Four years ago the Asphalt Company of America was Bncorporated under the indulgent laws of New Jersey. Mhereupon its securities were offered to the public in ample amounte—bonds to the extent of $26,000,000 and ptock approaching $30,000,000. These were large figures, Dut was jt not a large enterprise with infinite possibili- Wes of profit in the thousands of miles of city streets to be paved with its product? A year later the National Asphalt Company, a companion organization, was Baunched, also in New Jersey, with stock and bonds to the @mount of $25,000,000. These compani+s constituted the Asphalt Trust; their profits in sight wore entirely suflicient to pay large divi- ‘jMends. But now, to facilitate the “reorganization” that fs to redeem the ‘Trust and extract it from the mire of MGinancial difficulties, its assets and control have been sold mt auction by the court's order for the insignificant sum, @s trust ‘igures go, of $6,096,000! Tn the year of the incorporation of the Aephalt Com- pany of America and in the same State the American "Bicycle Company wag created. This Trust's capital was fixed at $35,000,900 in three grades of securities. Its com- ponent companies numbered fifty-six, being thus ab-— porbed at an average valuation of more than half a mill- fon doilars—a rather optimistic estimate, but in this case alzo the large figures were excused ‘by the flourishing ture of the industry and by the capitalization of “goo. twill” at a premium. Now this “good will,” along with Plants, patterns and all, has been sold for a sum that is @ominal by comparison with its original high valuation ®h paper. Is it to he supposed that the public is indifferent ‘to the educational vaiue of these frequent revelations of the trust processes of incorporation, inflation and collapse? Ms it to be wondered at that even the most credulous in-| westor is growing suspicious of socurities the constituent parts of which are so plainly proved to be largely wind and water? There {s still money in asphalt, as there probably is tn Dicycles, in 9 business not overcapltalized and conducted on eccnomival principles. Col. Pope, the purchaser of the Ricycle Trust remnants, once made $1,000,000 a year from their manufacture and expects to realize hand- ®omely on his new investment. This is all very well for him, but what of the stockholders who bought shares | three years ago at boom prices on the strength of great | expectations? They have had a dear experience. WONDERS OF INVENTION, | On the foreign cable page of the Sunday World three tales of invention were told as accomplished facts which @ few years ago would have been regarded as extraordi-| ‘mary or feats of the fancy. A london despatch described a mechanical bird bal- | oon with wings, the device of T, Hugh Bastin, of Brix-| ston: It has wings, beak and tail and is expected to fly | ~~" @t a epeed of 150 miles an hour. A news report from Rome described a cainera capable of taking photographs of scenes 200 miles distant. Another London special eablegram told in detqil of the bullding of a motor-car (which fs designed to go 100 miles in an hour! | As a day’s doings in the world of invention is there anything surpassing this? Of the bird-balloon we may be sceptical, as we were scoptical a decade ago of the ; Gutomobile and only a year ago of the wireless telegraph. What another year may bring forth we may not even wonjecture; even a Jules Verne imagination is powerless to keep progress with the prosaic achievement of the workbench and the laboratory. ‘The St. Louis Exposi- on, from ell indications, is destined to show a collec- tion of mechanical wonders breaking all world’s fair records, DANGER IN DRUGS. In his paper on “The Strenuous Life,” read before the American Therapeutic Society, Dr, 0. T. Osborne, citing ‘the causes ihat conduce to nervous breakdown among Americans, laid stress, as one of the worst, on “the con- stantly and recklessly increasiig consumption of coal-| war products for the relief of pain, whether for the) omnipresent headache or for simple neuralgia.’ | Tt would be well if this rebuke of heedless drug taking or trifling ‘lls could be printed in large letters and hung on the walis of half the households of America, The coal-tar products referred to are particularly of the phe- macetine and antikamnia kind, drugs that dispel pain by down of the blood-circulating machine, the beart. They! reduce the temporary high pressure which is causing the pain, but they do co violently and with danger. It is the habit of the thoughtless to make use of these pow- erful drugs on the slightest provocation and without medical advice, 1t is a very rash habit, one responsible doth for sudden deaths and for many a premature physi-| cal collapse, Dr. Osborne tells these who are ailing to go to bed, and it is good advice. To adopt it will be far cheaper in the end thau the !oss of the day’s wages involved, | "RAW PORK, JR.” Mr, Carnegie has enriched the language with a phrase by his designation of a certain type of newly-made young millionaire as “Raw Pork, jr.” It is an apt char: @cterization, most Illuminating in revealing the traits of character which we have come to associate with the scion of the stock-yards Croesus. But is it “Raw Pork, jr." who, as Mr. Carnegie inti- * mates. is respcnsible for the absurdities and eccentrici- ties that make society at times both ridiculous and rep- {© rehensible? Was it “Raw Pork, jr.” who gave the mon- Mey ‘inner? Was it he who picked up the dropped Hanskerchief with his teeth and trotted on all fours, > Werulng, to restor: it to its fair owner? Was it “Raw! Pork, j who ran for refuge from a husband's revolver Big out, of a Newport home? Is it he that !s co-respondent pa the divorce courts of smart society? “Unhappliy for the noblesse oblige of our imitative icy it 1s ordinarily not the new members but the who are most given to extravagance and excess and de “Raw Pork, jr.,” is not with- defpcts, but he is too new, too fresh trom nee 42099440020 404-4444427 0% ® @ Vut Get Mi MR. HOTEOO UNK ON \ THE BOGS FOR pock- ING ME FOR BEING TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. : ILL CARLETON, the also a publisher He has »y who numbers am: the brushing of Mr. ¢ Recently Carleton appeared at his office in a new coat, He hung it up, but later it chanced to fall to the dusty floor Tae office boy picked the garment uo. without brushing It an@ helped Mr Carleton put iton, Catehing a glimpse of his own disreputadle appearance tn amirror, the poet thunde “Boy! What do you mean by this? T come tn here looklig like a publisher and you'd sead me out looking like an author.” ¢ “There in New Yo! {t is satd strange animals used to, ke sausage,” sald Arthur 'Harring may be a joke, but Ipsaw ona ale d'hote bill of fare the ether night ronsomme de chat noir.’ Now. I'm no. but I don't Ike that kind poet, ts an omce his duties s clothes where r “That ie superstitious, of « Bt Dave Warfleld is credited with won- dertul know of the Ghetto and it Inhablunts, Bven persons familia with Bowery life for a generation say ne has been a close student, He up says | on the east side, but 1 have been ov never studied chai there. Ie 1 funny us peo; think ¢ n, The rea iypes are not funny at all | I know very ut the Ghetto and inttle \; | Charile White, the fan = tng man and refere has a bald h that shines like the orb of day It az its advanta, * he said yesterd I'm almost the only man in N 1 who can go to a barber shop and we: | shaved without running up against the remark: “Shampoo to-day, sir? You need It pretty bad." Commissioner Shields {s gifted with a pair of sid except color, are the exa made famous by 1 “Trilby.” me ume azo smooth-faced man started to en: rs private room in the he was al tt was Shield Such mista a dignitied r the when stoppal by ana minus the noted whiskers mon for the next Commissioner, of the nulsan ors. Su the until wearying hirsute insignia of Identification to grow again, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Won Pennant Last in 1889, To the Editor bt The Evening World Whea did the New Yorks last win the pennant? Og. B, In Living. | World | nal Joseph Jef- “Original” Joe Jetter To the A says le!" B says that he is dead} and hi n is playing In his place, which ts right? ALFRED L. D. | Monda: To the Editor of The Evening World What day of the week did Christmas fall on in the year 1893? ROBERT ROGS G. Tuesday. the Editor of The Evening World On what day of the week did Sept. 21, To J By Asking Her. , To the Eliter of The Evening World How can a young man find out if his lady friend loves him? B. M, The Side of the Spoon, 5 World th 18 right, to use To the Fal In Head Walter's Duties, The Lvening World What are some of the duties of a head walt ALM. V. assign tables to guests, to see that they 4 erly and tly and to exe @ supervision over the other walters Apply to War Department, To the Editor of The Evening World I have a brother who ts a soldier in! the atta B, nfantry, last ™ sing for the Philip ve not heard from and ag ive and still playing in “Rip | « COMMUTER b wy as: Lo rnis 18 VIOLATING THE BAILEY LAW, aur 17 NS Any eA! Though the Bai VR OODDDOO-440O00- 04004 BREAKS ALL RE Wa pall 3 (must oo pT Ren w (eer sa G — SA i Cwsnven 1F THAT LAW MENTIONS BRICK WALLS ND BLoW-ups ! LF ley Law's restrictions are supposed to ward off frictions And the element of danger that encompasses the auto; Yet a way to cause a stopper to the blow-up and the “cropper” Is something neither Bailey nor the Governor has thought 0’. All pupils of with th asinorum nuse of a right y two sides." » geometry rom 'The square of the Here are familt ar Hupo known 18 equal to the on the hypothe! You have in r One square square of 1 hyi is equal other to ngle tria: square of is a simple way th * en | the sides of the three squares; and the| hesitates about w n the two atdes of the triangle will RING-STRINGING. You pass a double ribbon through a number of rings furnished by the com- pany, and you give the ends to be held by two of the spectators immediately | after; and without damaging the rib- |bon, or passing the rings off the ends, | you disengage the rings from the rib- bon and restore them to thelr owners A century ago Ozanum printed in his mathematical recreations the manner of performing this trick. It 1s known to all juggiens by the name of my Grandfather's Necklace, because in- |stend of stringing rings they made | use of beads, You must proceed as follows to perform this trick well: Be- gin by doubling a ribbon in such a manner that both enés meet; do the same by another; afterward tle the two ribbong together in the middle will | with a thread of the same coto being prepared beforehand, you give one of the spectators the two ends of -the second; by this.means thelr eyes are deceived, as each thinks he holds the extremities of the different ribbons, arge square ere ise AD, establish {ta truth The two e jhe always wrote me regularly I'm atrald | “nace « xquare upon m plecr of card-| And ‘the ‘Int tains 25/DUt be careful they @o not pull hard something has happened to Kindly | poard or stout paper and divide 4t Into estab. 80 as to break the thread, for in that let me Know how I can UO OFS eaal, amalier ‘equates <Dhis, dbue, case the ritvons would separate and \ipueretor’? I» Correct. Either |Cut it out along the lines indicated tn wn EU REATEC | the rings dall'¢o the ground. | Toevold ts + Blther | ine dilustration by the neavy marking, RESOLUTION. janlsveccident” abd) terminate -y oul ice “Rgoved” or Proven,” successtudy you must beg ‘the holders 5 and remove from the centre a square! “You must give him credit for being | of the rivbons to approach each ovher, the Piltor of The Evening World which you will add to the square D./a man with the courage of his convic- , asking each of them for the ends the “We will send youl Then construct the figure consisting of | ons." Pele And ther van Aca en en or Winona Se . them the end they before held; by this i. gtinge ware tents) Bleoee, eben, yor wl Baya) ara Separate ‘rbvons—thens thes thread. Ip Died le riangle CD, form fl ; vernon ts rent, | st Orme Py | Le he buya.a hat one year he never | Sukhi Groken, the tings taken off, and e ‘ouring 4s the meat) uni OOOO & CORDS BY ARRIV |Some of the Best | Jokes of the Day. A LONG FELT WANT. “I see there are counterfelt pennies tn |clreulation,” sald Nervitt. “I wonder any one would would take the trouble to make a counterfelt penny." “Yes,” replied Churchman, “but wouldn't it be great if one could only make a penny that would look «and sound like a stlver dollar when you drop tt in the collection plate?”—Phila- delphla Press, ONE MAY WISH. | Johany—Grandma, I wish you'd give | me some cake. Mother—Johnny! Didn't I tell you not to ask your gradma for cake? Johnny—I didn't ask for anything. I'm just wishin'.—Catholic Standard. BEYOND ANXIETY, First College Boy—Hooray! My people have ali turned Christian Scientists. Second College Boy—Why such joy? First College Boy—Well, hitherto the only thing that has kept me from having |a beautiful tlme has been the thought that it would worry them.—Harper'’s Bazar. THE CHANCES OF LIFE. "Give me another chance, “Miss Pinkle!” fervently implored the young 4 j man, “I think you ought to take half # dozen |. of them, Mr. Primrose,” pretty girl in the booth. fund, pouted the ‘Ite for the ING ON TIME and to (er three checks before @ sald the left escort. he sald. Her smilo.& p he very faintest touch~iut oe ” CENTRAL” AND HER BEAUX. She Was Very Busy, Their Lines Got Crossed but She Plugged Them Straight. HE was petite and pretty. That Is to say she was @ S small package of concentrated sweetness and light, In other words, she was one of those little women who can just wear anything and look nice in it. To be more explicit, she was tall enough to walk under a man's arm if he could be induced to raise it higher than her trim, pere fectly modelled shoulders, ber eyes were big and blue, her hair just red enough to tempt sunlight and not so gold that envivus persons could be certain it owed anything to the contents of a bottle. A man walked on ccthor side of her, and this was wasteful and ridiculous excess from the standpoint of lovely girls who would have been grateful for one, and from the stand- polnt of men who thought their manly beauty better sulted her style of feminine loveliness “I caught the elght-three,” she said, “and when we rang off In New York I jooked at my watch and found I was one eleven late. I pit on storage and got to my board at nine forty-seven. Checked.”” i “Wasn't Did that they ferrible. fine you?" said her, es corks. “Line's busy,” she sald to her left escort, right: “Please repeat.” “T eaid, Did they fine you?" “Oh, no; dt's a system of checks, fine.”’ “Then how many checks before a fire?” asked her left escort, surllly. “You want long distance," she said sweetly. She said #. very sweetly, in that level, never-get-ruffled voice we all know so well, that peculiar voice which goes over the wire lke music over mooniit water. “Goin to No, 30 Brewster, eleventh?" she asked -ber right escort. certainly shall if you'll go with me.” Right. Line clear. Ready at eight.” “But I thought you were going with me?" sald the ¥ ) . a little plaintiveness modifying his sulks. “Line's busy,” she sald. smiling, “That's a hot case of throw, “Hang up your reoelver, pleas gone, there was a faint touch— anger in her volce. Her left escort blushed. He was young and could blush, He was almost young enough to cry. “I beg your pardon," he said. She smiled aguin. “What number did you want?" she asked. ‘As many two-steps as you'll give me and all the waltzes,” her left escort said eagerly, “Oh, here,” the right escort put in, “I'm to have a little of your time, ain't 12" “Line's busy," she said to the right escort, and then to the left: “You can't have all the stations on the board. Call up three, five “and eight." “And twelye,” he begged. “No. x The Brooklyn train was rendy and the “line being open™ they entered the car. MORNING MILK IN VENEZUELA, >* JY) If you ve in Venezuela you need be afraid that yous morning milk comes straight from the pump, The milkman brings the cow round ta your ‘house an& milks it at your door. The calf is brought around, too, be- cause the cow vill yield better when it Is by. If the calf dies the milkman makes a wooden calf, over which he stretches the skin and brings that along in place of the genuine infant. This {s supposed to decelve the mother and make her yield milk as well as before. ; (Tammany has decided?in the event of winning appoint 2 Corporation jee! Thomas Cully Bull Oh, children! T. C. Sullivan Adorns our Ped-es-tal! i L Whose gift of silver-tongued oration. At gabdlest jubilation. ’ it him euch