The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1903, Page 12

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1903. fublished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New York. Entored at the Post-OMoe at New York us Second-Class Mali Matter. VDLUME 438, LIGHT UP NEW YORK. fas there ever a more beautiful night efiect prepared )the hand of man than the f{llumination of the Pan- ‘ican Fair at Buffalo? .NO. 18,247. yalght to go miles to see. ‘Crowning impression of Buffalo, It can be surpassed in “splendor by the lighting up of New York next Tuesda: hight, as projected by The World in honor of the city’ 250th birthday. eral i}lumination of the metropolis we were given some inkling at the time of the Dewey river parade on a Sep- tember night four years ago. It was a beautiful river Pageant, but the passenger on ferry-boat or excursion steamer saw a finer sight when he looked toward the Ydnd. All along the sity line he saw the glow of myriads of lights in the top windows of tall office buildings, and the sight was indescribably effective. This was a hap-hazard illumination undertaken indi- _ Yidually and carried out without concert. If the whole elty lights up next Tuesday night by design there will be Such a radiance as will exceed anything the world has eyer known. A million lights from the Battery to the Bronx blending in one harmonious glow will shame the gun. “It will afford a uniqne memorial of an event of “tire Interest. THE ACCIDENTS OF FORTUNE. Those who love to speculate about the influence on destiny of the little things In life, the accidents of for- tune, are afforded two unusually interesting cases in point by the death of Bishop Starkey, of the Newark Episcopal Diocese, and the death of Benjamin F. Jones, of Pictsburg, the “‘fat-frying" Chairman of the Republi- can National Commiitee during the Blaine campaign. Mr, Jones, some thirty years ago, was a partner and Sookkeeper in a Pittsburg firm that conducted a small forging shop; a few thousand dollars comprised the firm’s entire capital. An employee one day in a moment of carelessness while directing the course of a white-hot ingot of iron through the rollers allowed his cold steel tongs to be drawn along with the half- molten metal. The result was a pair of ruined tongs, , but the discovery of a process by which a superior grade Of steel could be produced. The workman's accident be- came the basis of the fortune of $50,000,000 of which Mr. Jones died possessed. Now, it was largely Mr, Jones's money that gave him the political influence of which the Republican chair- mansbip was the reward; and if Mr. Blaine had had a more discerning manager would the fatal “Belshazzar feast” have been permitted? If the careless workman had not lost his dongs would Mr. Cleveland have beén elected in 18847 + Concerning Bishop Starkey it may be sald that all New Jersey revered him; but how many New Yorkers knew of him? When he was a candidate for the Nowark bishopric Henry O. Potter was also a candidate and the convention’s second choice. After the second ballot Mr. Potter withdrew his name. If he had stuck tt out end secured the prize would New York to-day know any- thing about him? WOMAN TO THE RESCUE. In New Rochelle a vigilance committee of women _ bdesdeged two burglers in a house and held them there unti] the police arrived, one woman more Amazonian than the rest standing guard at the door with a club. Tm Mayhattan women observing a truckman maltreat- ing bis bores gathered about him, forced him to desist nd restrained him until he could be put under arrest. ‘The trackman in question was a burly citizen weighing 200 pounds, Im Brooklyn women armed with brooms and rolling pina prevented from cutting down the mag- miftcent shade trees of n street and secured the in- Gefinite postponement of the deed. Near Centreville, N. J., Maud Carruthers, a girl eev- enteen years old, rescued three children from an en- raged bull. Incidents of the day's news, given scant press no- tice, but illustrative of the various activities of the ad- vanced sex. The emergency arising, is not a woman there ready to meet it nowadays—everywhere, in town and city alike? Whether champion or crusader she is / @ilways to be counted on to appear on the scene when ® wanted. Is there a village in the land that could not pro- ‘duce its Joan of Arc if the occasion arose to call for her fervices? HOT-NIGHT HILARITY. Oft in tke stilly night when elumber's chains have bound us—but the poet was not referring to Manhattan in warm weather, The chains that bind the slumberer these nighis are ropes of sand which break at the baby's midnight coo up the airshaft, the rattle of poker chips in the flat above or the siren notes that float in from a MiHlodious larynx across the street, Tt is these outside melodies, indeed, borne inward oft from flats afar, that pound violently on sensitive ear drums in the early evening, and if protracted banish sleep utterly. ‘The heterogenous concert proceeds apace at all hours, All night have the nelghbors heard the flute, violin, bassoon, And the strumming of the piano, the whistling door-boy over the way, the laughter of the late-returning theatre-goers—Alas! for the fiat-bedroom- pent New Yorker seeking to woo slumber on a hot night! A little consideration for one's neighbors would help mightily to soothe ruffled tempers, Cannot the plano case be closed at 19 and the melodious voice be stilled a He and the Jovud Isugh suppressed under bedroom ©) \findows after midnight? Doubtless we are all readier to let the other fellow win the reform than to set the example ourselves. nlightening Europe.—The Piper-Ebstein example of take gigs Vaontion trip abroad to learn how the great cities Hurope are governed 1s followed by Alderman Har- ghteger, who is to represent the City aFthers at the Municipal Government Conference. Mr. Har- The pressing of a few but- eed as the twilight faded and forthwith out of the deepening gloom arose a magnificent city of light, a ‘fairyland of festooned lamps, glowing and radiant, a {> The memory of that splendid spectacle remains the Of the gorgeous possibilities in a gen-| + soon after, and a Iittle green baize bought for the dining | e SOOSHM™ TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. HUROH, the Gotham artist, 1s ored- C ited with the folowing epigram: A parthoumarly lazy fellow-artis® re- cently asked his opinion of a very tad picture the lasy nian had just painted. "De good, if I'm any fudge of a work of art," boasted the painter. “My friend,” replied Charch, sadly, "you have about as much {dea of a work of art aa you have of the art of work."’ “Have you ever stopped to think," remarked “Abe” Levy, the other day, “how many points in common existed between Chester A. Arthur and Prest- dent Roosevelt? Both were New York gentlemen of means, wtth war records. Each was elected Vice-President to an Ohio ex-Congressman with a war rec- ord. Each attained the Presidency through the death, at @ fanatic's hand, of the President." “In small communities a store that one must mount two or three steps to énter would always be vacant if the landlord did not cut the rent 4 per cent. be- low that of atores on the pavement level in the same locality; and cellara are un- rentable," sald Jahn 1, Jordan, ‘in New York a few steps up don't affect thie renting of a store and there ts such a demand for basements by restaurants that their rent i frequently as high as for first floor store rooms." eo 8 John D. Quackenbos, the hypnotiss was formerly professor of English at Columbia. In those daya was ‘af- fectionately designated as “Quack” by every student of the oid untverstty Ao alumnus was recently asked tf he had seen Quackenbos of late “No,” replied the alumnus. ‘And I'm atraid to. I'd be dead sure to call him ‘Quack,’ and, as he's a doctor now, he might take {t as personal.” Gen. Fred Grant, commanding the De- partment of Texas, must sigh for a tour of duty that would bring him home/to New York, but he wouldn't be the son PROF. VON SYD 19 THE WATER [000 ’ ORMOCRAT sc m sawoy Woon WHAT THe wKahsas cory P.ae SYOULL GIVE ua, OSH ©0604 of his father if he asked tis old opponent, Roosevelt, to favor him with a transfer. ‘They were once members of the New York Board of Police Commissioners and opposed each other on every question of polley or administration. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Hendricks, Not Thurman. To the Biter of The Evening World | Cleveland was nominated for President Allen G, Thurman was the Democratic | candidate for Vice-President. @G, M. | says that Hendricks was Demooratic | candidate for Vice-President when Cleve- | jand was first nominated. a. 8. Hendricks was candidate 1884. Thurman in 1888, A Imck Query. To the Edttor of The Evening Wor I would like to have readers express opinions on this question; I am en- gaged to my widowed brother-in-law, and the engagement ring given me was my sister's engagement ring. Is this bad luck for me? D. M ¥. M. ©, A. Gymnasiums Are Good( To the Editor of The Rvening World Please recommend me to a good sym- nasium JAMES COLEMAN, Sixty Years O14. ro the EOitor of The Rreaing World: A man was born March 27, 1643. What is his Age on March 27, 1987 A. O, R. AJs Hand Wins, To the Editor of The Evening World: A. has three kings and two eights and B. has three nines and two acea tn @ poker game. A. olatms he wins and B, claims that his hand Js Algher and that he wins, ae he had two aces against two eights. A. clafms that kings being | higher, he wins, is G. A. HILL, j*S$omebody’s Etse” Is Preferable, | To the Editor of The vening World Which expression is more correct: “Somebody's elee child" or "somebody else's child” AR. in The Unincky Summeér Cat. To the Editor of The Bvening World I wish to add a word to the humane protest made on behalf of cats by, a “True Lover of Animats" tn your paper. The fact of turning out a poor animal used to home comforts to starve in the streets during Its owner's summer ab- sence from town, to be chased, stoned and otherwise {ll-treatee by boys, by whom cats are considered legitimate prey, speaks for itself as being an act of unmitigated cruelty, The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ja ever ready to respond to an appeal, and would, with jess suffering than’ the feger goes to learn, but we fancy he will etay to In the bright iexicon of the New York Alderman Sro things profitable to know of which European are thonght tobe ignorant. We ahall took eger to enlighten “prick of a bare bodkin,” give poor kitty her quietus, and thus epare her all the G. 8. says that the first time Grover | ® § ® © com. braska. @ $26046409000004 $e doo ‘ HOUDIN’S “MAGIC BALL” TRICK. simple, and any boy can have a small ABour 76 es ‘The illus- THE w# EVENING »# WORLD'S # HOME . eae FATHONS! : GIVING uP ALL LONGING FOR Foop. 29 ORMOCRATS ano THe AICH AMBRICAN PAPA GIVES vet The question has been raised by R. L. Metcalf: ‘What must Bryan men give upt” The query might be expanded to reach beyond Metcalf asks consideration for a course of abnegation , To thoughts of “giving up” forsooth, the public mind he’d turn. And the folks we must “give up” to will rejoice if we live up to That doctrine, since it means that they’ll have long green rolls to bi urn, pangAQaaaeno ace dBAas UM Sac ine a8 piecgerazodhd ESTEPPE AGAIN ESCAPES THE JUNGLE TABLE D’HOTE. 0004 | , Magic ball that wants one tration shows how the bali js prepared. There is a hole straight through the centre of It, but there is aiso one that curves off from the straight hole at a Utue distance from each end. A little practice will enable anybody to run the cord off Into the curved hole instead of the stratght one without gly- enormous ball, through which was run a cqrd in sfch a way that the ball moved freely up or down the cord, more rapidly when the cord’ w: misery to which her thoughtless, not to ony Deartiens, owner consigns her, : VRIBND TO ANIMALS. taut, No wonder that the trick mys-|Shamrock III. and Rela tifled evenybody,, ‘ Here, ‘t9d, 1@ a” ‘The explanation, however, ts quite] spire them. Can Jenough—tightening the cord makes it | bear harde on the curved side of the Moudin, the famous magician, used to| hole, and this @icreases the friction end perform @ feat that astonished his|thereforé tends to stop the downward audiences, more, perhaps, by its sim-| motion of the ball, pilolty than anything else. He had an ————— A TRIANGULAR POEM. Here is q triangular course over which} What is the merriest kind of sauce? ce will sail. | Caper eauce. jing away the secret to the most ob- = <= = Ant spectator, Fasten a needle, the point in the air, The princip.c .¢ the thing ts efmple|to the bottom of a basin with a bit ot sealing wax. Arrange an eeg-shell, a third of which has been cut off, In the following manner: Plerce the upper end with two little holes, into which insert two straws, each terminating In a right angle and held,in place by sealing wax, Around the open end of the egg glue three or four pieces of money in order to keep it in balance. Then ‘set ‘the| ® o Biel ¢ a THEY CANN} Looseus, APHORISMS OF AN ARTLESS ACTOR. | A Few Crystallized Figments of Rialto Wisdom. AKE no thought of the morrow, for fashions change in/ I. a night, It takes more than one wash dress to make a sum- mer hit. A crowd moyes as fast as the highest heels in it will per- mit their owner to walk. It is more blessed to keep the price of a 6100 Paname in the pocket than to ecite the envy of the populace. Openwork stockings and Oxford ties with 76-cent laces are’ the fruit of a typewriter's increase of salary. Sweet are the uses’ of adversity if your bride knows how to make cake that won't eink. Remember the milliner when you get your salary and she will forget the $12 you paid for that $50 hat. Fine feathers are not needed on a bird of a hat, if you @elieve what the Audubon Society preaches. When ou tle your tionnet under your chin you'll think it Just as fetching as you now regard your overhang hat. ‘Handsome is she who has the handsomest gowns. A clean heart and @ lofty spirit go well with a naturally good complexion. A red gown one chorus girl attracts both bulls and bears. ° Out of a Harlem fiat; into a mosquito-haunted, bathless summer hotel. e Beware of rams’ horns and alge look with disfacor on horses’ necks. \ The foolish virgin expendeth her wealth on an automobile coat; the wise virgin weddeth the’ man who oan afford the machine. LAUNDRY LITERATURE. Eclo:'s of the Washee-Washee Strike. ORE serious than the shirt-waist makers’ strike or the Subway troubles is the laundry strike in Chicago, for the latter produced these paragraphs in the Chicago ‘Tribune: A shirt {n the hand 1s worth two in the wash. Fortune tempers the wind to the stormed Chinaman. A laundry check fs as good as a dollar to a walking delegate. Cheap collars bought; Cheap collars sold; Cheap collars on the neck, Five days old. \ ‘The wortd hands a man a good many cuffs—but the world doesn't run a laundry. ‘The whirt-waist girl has gone—to some town that! has no laundry strike. Don't have too many frons tn your laundry, Now we have no linen Wherewith we may “dike.” Silent ts the mangle— Lizzle’s joined the strike. It takes.nine tatlors and a Chinese laundry running over- ume to make @ man. The spotted shirt bosom falls alike upon the just and the unjust. ‘A Cake of Soap, some Washtubs ‘neath the Bough, My Linen Bag, a Water Plug, and Thou Beside me, with the Irons on the Fire— Ah, Wilderness were Paradise Enow! ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL. Flip | Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ARRANGING AN ARMISTICE. “Mr. Markley,” stammered the girl's lover, “Edith—er—that is, your daughter told me you wanted to see me.” “Yes, oo she told me," replied the girl's father.—Philadelphia Press, SHE LIKES’TO LOOK UP, She—Does your triond Miss Phickel have high Ideals? Hey-I should say eo!. Her present one! 1x feet four.—Kansas City Journal. THE INSPIRED IDIOT. ‘Strange, isn’t it," remarked the In- spired Idiot, “that some people spread scandal wholesale by retafling it every- wheré.""—Bullimore Herald. THEN THE WAITER QUAILED. Waiter—Yes, sh; Yo ordered quail on toast’an’ a bottle ob wine, an’ gar dey: fomer—H'm! ‘Then bring me a "Hea a : AV Nise WOCALLY {LLUSTRIOUS 7 ri Waiter—Glass fo’ de wine, suh? Yo' got one. Customer—Bring me a quall—a magnifying glas: Reoord. - ONLY A MOTHER KNOWS, “I have heard a good deal about peo- ple, who borrow trauble, but I think my wife will want ® tot of beating in that lass for the}: Philadelphis < . |. P. Bremm, the new ‘Cotton Kivg,"* trom Now Orleasih, was has , taken, possession of the market.) - 3 + Next, Children, from our Pedestal The Cotton King looks down, Before perfdrming the trick he allowed! £ % shell thus prepared upon the point of the audience to examine tne ball anc PSS | the needle, Fist the basin with water see that there was really a hole stratgh! é 4% j®nd with a straw blow the air beneath through the centre ef it. Then he } A A the egg-shell; this’ alr rises, 18 con- sertal the cord and brought the end ot a % |densed above. and in escaping by the {t out of the hole on the other side of jy RS 4, little paper tubes gives a rotary move: the ball. | e nent to the whole apparatus. This is When he held the cord by one end é % the same pheromenon as that produced the ball fell quickly down; but when he by water pressure. ‘omght the lower end of the cocd with ra ¢ bitenisbot Mir Aue his other hand the ball's motlon was % CONUNDRUMS. arrested and it fell very slowly. ~ . * Why ¢o ttle. birdies in thelr nest Now, this was apparently unnatural,| © Ww hy agree? Because tt would be dangerous for the ball should have’ fallen even| REUANCE WILLGOaMUNGRoUNO UKE THIS% to fall out. ta-] What wonld @ man have to be to ba malities j