The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1903, Page 10

at New York as Second-Class Mali Mfatter. WOLUME 438....000000 eesseeseesesee NOs 18,261. ICE TRUST METHODS. {& local object-lesson in trust processes is presented | Ice-Company to crush the retail ice dealers of the east wide. * hese small tradesmen number nearly 700. They sell “foo in five-cent quantities and less to the poor and sup- ply about 10,000 customers. Until a month ago they jWere able to buy ice from the trust at $1.50 a ton, or at ‘the rate_of 734 cents a hundred. ‘They sold it at 1734 eents a hundred, an advance of more than 100 per cent., out not excessive in view of losses by melting and ‘mecessary charges for handling and distribution. With @conomy they were able to realize a living profit. But the trust some weeks ago as “a preliminary to the regular summer increase,” as The Evening World @aid at the time, raised the price to §2 a ton. A week ‘tater it went up to $2.50, and now it has been arbitrarily ‘fixed at $3. This means that the small dealer must pay 18 cents a hundred for ice which he {s still obliged to @ell at 1734 cents, the trust's retail price, or lose his eustom. Hoe is thus crowded to the wall and forced out " of Vusiness. . "This is an example of trust greed of the most repre- hhenstble kind. Its malicious animus is revealed in the boast Of a member of the Ice Trust to Chairman Julius ‘Upéter in these words: “We are going to force you inde- dealers out of business. We are going to crush “@ypry'one of you. And then we are going to put up the ‘ peice of ice in Greater New York to $6 a ton.” MT iie public is quite ready to credit the boast; its very eles lends it veracity, Such tactics are not a Wr Geparture in trust procedure; they have been tried And we do not recall that anybody has been put sail therefor or suppose it likely that any one will ‘that fate in this case. Keiacs , SUNPROFESSIONALISM AT THE BAR, With regard to.The Evening World's imputation of Reglect on the part of the Bar Association in failing to | ‘maintain a higher standard of professional conduct _ @mong the great host of New York lawyers, 16,000 of ‘them in all, a “Member of the Bar” writes to say: “It {s the courts, rather than the Bar Assoclai!c:, that are at -fault. They are not sufficiently jealous of their dignity. They fail to exercise an adequate scrutiny and watch- fulness of the motives and methods of attorneys who @ppear before them tn cases of dubious merit, nor do » they rebuke with sufficient emphasis the frequent evi- @ences of unprofessional conduct. They are too apt to withhold censure where it 1s very palpably: due.” Is not this allegation a true bill? Is {t fot perfectly well known that “disbarment is all too imfrequent and that this penalty {s visited on the offender only in the most flagrant instances of abuse?” All judges are called upon to try cases in which it is entirely obvious that the prosecution is instigated by un- ‘worthy motives; often a use of the technicalities of the law to defeat justice or to accomplish an end that strong- Ty suggests blackmail is only too manifest. Is it not mfithin the bench’s functions to rebuke the unscrupulous lawyer so engaged with an emphasis that will discourage the practice while making an example of the offender? evTwo attorneys notorious as the counsel for ‘‘get-rich- quick” enterprises have recently been in the public eye in @ way to lend point to these recommendations. One, George Edward Mills, the former counsel of Dr. Richard GC. Flower, has been sent to Sing Sing for attempted fc, for our profitable study in the efforts of the American | “> Poe 2o8 FORCE TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. — Bronson Howard, dramatist, ts Pasadena, Cal, where he expects to re- main two or three years. “I have daffied the doctors,” he says. ‘Thoy cannot tell what is the matter with me. Three years ago they said I needed rest and for three yenrs I wandered over Europe and pt. Here I am better than I have been since any health be- came {mpaired."* see Mr, Gus Thomas is making tracke between the corn rows once more.—Willlamaburg (1ll.) Journal-Tribune. ‘The above note from a Middle West Paper, does not refer to the gentleman from New Rochelle who ds responsible stories wihich have become familiar to members of the Lambs’ Club. oe Clyde Fitch wrote a drama of the Saviour's Mfe and death which New York may never see, but out in Ca fornia the students of Santa Clara Col- lege, fis alma mater, have given a week-long series of presentations of the drama to great and reverent audiences. Reginald De Koven and Hobart field Taylor's lay, ‘The Idle Born, Was also given its first presentation by atudents, ‘The actors who played it last week wero ull students of the Chicago Musical College. Oo Chauncey M. Depew was talking, somewhat bitterly, about the clams of men who never see the point of a Joke. “John B. Gough,” he said, “used to tel about one of these men, a milllon- aire whom he knew in Boston. “Gough was lecturing In Boston, and in the course of his remarks he sald there were two poots,*one old and the other young, who spent an evening to- gether. The younger poet suggested that they two collaborate upon a volume of verse, but the other answered haughtily: “Would you tutoh a horse and an ass together?’ “My dear friend,’ the younger poet retorted, ‘why should you call yourself an asa?’ “After hia lecture was over Gough Went home with his Boston ¢riend, The Grand larceny and bribery. In a case like that of Mills, by no means a unique one, fs it necessary for a lawyer to commit a penitentiary offense before he is repudiated by Bench and Bar? AUTOMOBILING INCIDENTS. ~The running down and serious injury of the blind @Msician, John Baker, by an automobile’ whose driver ‘immediately scorched away without staying to ask ques- tloris’ was characteristic of the accomplished chauffeur. Itdwnot provided in automobiling ethics that a chauffeur haying inflicted damages shall pause to apologize, much Jess to render assistance. If his tires survive the impact ‘wnpunctured and his running gear remains intact his Proper Procedure is to get away as speedily as possible. jAnother incident of a day's doings by automobiles ms the impromptu race on the Merrick road Monday afternoon by four Brooklyn society women, who ran their machines to Amityville at a hazardously fast gait at Nei of $50. ie ladies were highly commended for their skill aw ehatffeurs. But in the evening, returning after dinner in the dark, also at a dangerously high rate of speed. Mrs. Holly, deceived by the clectric Nght, had the misfortune o,mistake a substance for a shadow and an accident The substance was a curbstone and the fair ur was thrown out. ow, it is fortunate that the said fair chauffeur es- with her life, and she is to be cuigratulated. But Mt Js little less than criminal that a racing automobile should be driven along a public road at night at a high of speed. The safety of riders and drivers is thus lessly disregarded and the avoidance of violent ac- t made a matter of the merest chance. ” DR. LORIMER’S SALARY. Dr. Lorimer’s former Boston congregation is reported have offered him $20,000 a year and a luxurious par- pe to return to his old charge. This is double the ‘Piven the celebrated divine when he was called to n Avenue Church three years ago, © average Baptist salary {s less than $1,000 a ‘Lorlmer’s ability as a preacher 1s thus rated at ‘i power. The personal equation is as element in the pulpit as on the stage, but ie it mate inference that the work which Dr, Lorimer expected to accomplish in the Boston fold will lat of twenty ordained workers tn fields less fruit- lally? Will he be able to show twenty conver- Sone? (Will his voice carry the Word to twenty by of $20,000 is well nigh unprecedented in the ig not large for the im medicine or a lawyer With et as two poets that he had told. ‘Well,’ said Gough, a Httle contused- ly, ‘I suppose the point of that story les in the deftness with which the young man made ihe old man call himself an ass.’ “ ‘But,’ said Gough's friend, poet didn't mean he was the ass, meant that he was the hor: “Gough at thi id Bay nO more. “What, indeed," Mr. Depew ended, ‘can one say ¢o those people who find it impossible to see the point of a joke?” oe Mias Isadore Gilbert Mudge, of Brooi- lyn, has Just been appointed librarian of Bryn Mawr College, Milas ‘Mudge took the degree of Ph. B. at Cornell Unt- versity in 1897 and that of B. lL. 8. from the New York State Ldbrary School in 1900, She has since been reference Ubrarlan and assistant professor of Ii brary economy at the University of All! nols, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. ‘the old He Why a Ship Is Called “She.” To thé Editor of The Evening World: Replying to a query as to why @ stip fs refered to as "she" permit me to state that the gender comes from the old Lat- ins. The people of the time preceding the Caesars gave what might be termed a “natural gender to many inanimate objects, For instance: Anything which sugwested =marsiveness or strength or great volume or force was ‘naturally’ Masculine; per contra, diminutive ob- Jects, or anything mild, soothing or beautiful, were ‘naturally’? feminine, Dhe sun (Sol) because of tte powers and Ught was masculine; the moon (Luna), its paler attendant, was feminine. A city (urbs), supposed to be the mother of {ts progeny, was feminine (similarly “terra, the earth, and “natur ture), Hence a shap (navis), because of its notseless gliding motion, seeming as if clothed in female apparel, was (“*nat- urally") feminine, and has remained s> to thie day. Your correspondent might be énterested in knowing that “nave” (of @ cathedral) comes from the same root (navis), since the church was often likened to a ship; hence, the ‘mother chureh," Ww. Cc. B. June 17, 1775. To the Editor of The Bvening World: In what year did the battle of Bunker Hil occur? 1 HC, Yes. ‘To the MMitwr of The Evening World: Did President Roosevelt ever run for Mayor of New York City? J.B. M. Yea, To the Editor o* The Evening World: Is & man who is not a Protestant Christian eligible as Président of the United States, if in) other respects eli- gible? DB in* for "Dhe Earl of Pawtucket,” that indi-] © vidual being now in London telling the] ‘ latter asked him gravely if he wouldn't | ‘ explain the polnt of the story about the $ aa EMPIRE " 2S? 6400 3.2. Z EEF ZA ——— —=—=s— Ya STAGE wear THe" YALE CHAFFEUR™ MIGHT ~ IHOPE NO f TAKES ore hed ‘S WHEN'S THE’ REST OF THE CIRCUS COMING YF YY yy; [weronyg STAGE boo ——— H2NP ST Five > eis FIVE DOLLAR, ee $ Vea? Too G00D an inMITAT OF THE REAL CAaBY. 2° AIT GEN..GRANTS TOMA, Mont successes Come sooner or later to New York. With a high and classic yearning Gotham damsels will be burning To drive in cabs whose reins are held by youths from “dear old Yale.” And, though charges be extortionate, the joys will be proportionate In having a real college man obe: THIS MIGHT HELP, \\ wouLo 4 ur haughty hail. BETTER TAKE IN You sHouro}!| NU WHAT MAY HAPPEN IF THE YALE CABBY COMES TO GOTHAM. A, THE"yaLe CABBIES” C0ULN GENERALLY BE FOUND . a7 THe Agove ONOPOLIZE THE SOUBRETTES” _ PATRONAGE. LES spe AND Wel, RAMBLE AND WEL RAMBLE! Cer dtp students have taken the places of New Haven cabmen., With the exception of a row-and an extortionate charge, the experiment seems a success, form it you with a dime Le, part, holding the cover, dime through ft 18 there. in left. tavo, three."' duce dime. THE VANISHING DIME. Here {3 a trick which ts easily per formed and quite deceptive. other dime and a emall drawer-box, one in which the box part pulls out Ike @ desk drawer. At the beginning of the trick this box should be on the performer's table, open, with the slide pulled part way out, and the back of this slide or box ‘The slide is thus apparently empty. Bring forward the handkerchief, ing it to show that it is empty. borrow a dime and pretend to wrap it in the handkerchief, up the corner containing dime and palm borrowed dime. You may let the audience feel ‘Then gut handkerchief on in some place where all can watch it and sce that it bring forward the box. parently empty, Now pull up coat sleeves, show both sides of hands to prove them empty, and take up handkerchief in cight hand, box Hold at arms’ length and count “one, dime will be heard to fall in it. out handkerchiet to show has vanished; To per- will need a handkerchief sewed in one corner, an- a dime against the top of shak- Now but really push your own the the cloth, to make sure table or not changed, Show thi: and put wand inside form the letter ‘T."" Cut out the black sections and put them together again in such a way as to At ahree close ox and Shake that dime then’ open box and pro- verb, ANAGRAM ENIGMA, With the leiters of the sentence “Shati we make toys?" spay ¢r“ynon ‘pro- |/of-metal 8. A familar term for those Lying | te a ety. « Otherwise, WORD SQUARE, 2. Formerly. Some of the Best NEEDED A MAIN BRACE, ‘Composor—That sailors’ awful. What was the matter? Stage Manager—Tho tho right pitch.—Tit-Bits. A CONFESSION OF CRIME. SHArPe WHEN COmPmLeErEo. Uke one like that? them this year. Barcastio ‘Customer—Indeed! clever of you, I’m su: poou, ‘ BIRDS OF A FEATHER. do you love more, papa or me? ‘Harold—Papa! you loved me more. G stick together.—Chicago Journal. THE SMART SET. Mickie—Say, wot's dis smart eet hear so much about? — on a tack?—Cornell Widow. METHOD IN IT. you advise him to eet about it? The Colonel—I should advise him to select a littie one. Manders—What for? - The Colonel—Because when it is. tion “of a‘cholee of evils it ds choose the riiabn 42 2. A sharp-pointed piece “MAGAZINE: > $0900000¢ Jokes of the Day. chorus was tars coukin't get Salesman (recommending blue necktie with large pink spots)—But wouldn’t you m selling @ lot of very ‘Harvard Lam~- Young Mother—Now, Harold; whom Young Mother—But yesterday-you.aaid Harold—Yes, but I've thought it over since and decided that we men. must Chimmle—Ah, g’wan! Did y’ never sit Manders—Supposing a fellow was go- ing to choose a wife, Colonel, how would cata y ILLUMINATED Ye wit ME BY MRS. BOTHGATES’S DREAM. She Goes Flat-Hunting and Is Dazzled by the Splendor. H, but red-head !s a anarchist. You ought to hess her spiel last night. If she means half she sags I'd be afraid to leave her alone in the fiat for feat 'd be making bombs. Bothgates laughed jovially. He was waiting for his trick at the One Hundred end Fifty-fifth street “L’* station ané conversation was his sole employment, “Red-head, she's been reading the ads tn the paper ef flats for rent. ‘You see, we just moved to get another room and we get it for the old rent and it's right in the same olf building, but you know when a woman's mind gets set on buying a bit of cloth to make a flumiddidle on @ skirt sbq had when she was married she reads over all the ads from stockings to hardware and then goes down to ‘shop,’ and rush hours ain't a mark to what she goes through in the stores. Jest ike that she has to read all the flat ads and then go wearing herself out looking at them. “‘Bothgates, would you believe it," she says—my red-heat y'know. ‘Would you believe it they's flats with no Ught ir the bedrooms and no way to air them and the bathrooms Just blg enough for the tub and your two feet outside and no light and not even a gas get, but you get your light through a bit of glass In the door-from the hall? Why t's just terrible!’ And I don’t know what sort of torture eta don't say is good enough for the landiords that make that kind. “Other morning who walks on my car like the wife of the president of the road but this same enemy of landlords, this red-head anarchist wife of mine, We pretend we don't know each other and she goes In and sits down solemn as S¢ she lived on pickles and alum, but by-n-by she gets full of laugh and she beckons me in. ‘Bothgates,’ she says, ‘I seen ™ dream of a flat.’ ‘What's that a sign of? I says. She gave 1) a push and went on. ‘It's up near Morningside in a new house. The door {s cathedral glass, with an irgn grill oved it’ ‘How conventent for the steak,’ I butts in, but she don't take no notice. “There's a big reception room,’ she sayy ‘with a telephone in {t and a boy in a all-buttoned-over unly form lets you in and there ain't no letter boxes or delle ty the entry. And the steps is heavy carpet and broad, and each flat has a private hall and all the floors is hariwood and every room 1s papered nice and they’s plenty of light and the bath is a big, porcelain tub and the roome all tiled. It'a fine, I tell you,’ she says. I don't know half the fine points she tells me about the kitchen and the china closet and the boofay and the elevator and the roof garien, but you make sure it was a Waldorf of a flat. ‘Did you tall them you'd take it, May? I says solemn. ‘You go ‘long she says, ‘It's a hundred a month.’ ‘Well,’ I says, etill solemn, ‘it what the papers says about the tips janitors get and button hall boys get 1s true I guess there wouldn't de more than six a month out of my pay to square the Jandlord and the butohel id the rest of them; so I gucse you'd better not take {t.' ‘Be still, you goose,’ she saya ‘but, oh, how nice it would be to live there; I don't know how I can @o back to our dinky flat!’ ‘Well, May,’ I saya, ‘Tl be around in my auto about 6 and you'd Getter have Gladys serve dinner then. I'll have to shake you now, as t have an engagement with some capitalists at the next stan tlon.* “Bay, but It took two days to get the shine off that fad out of my red-head’s eyes and she don't take on mughi about being poor.” a ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL, / 4 $6 99-59994999599-9O9-9909-99909000-0009009.000000O999000 Soe OEDOSE OH 43 Coe 999290 9-9999900O8O OS G40 06 doe OO 2999O0O9-99O6900O4 r GHerman Ridder; who threatens that Low wrt: Sore rne: Tecate etl] unlesa’ German is taught tn the-echools.) j See, Children, on our Pedestal, e i" The wohigeboren Ridder, ‘ ‘Who, in a fatherlandic glow, Saye that the young must German know. If Low sys the idea “don't go” best to v ee