The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1903, Page 14

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 63 Park Row, New York. Entored ut the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. VOLUME 43. sovceseeNO. 18,289. OPERA-BOX DECORATION. There is likely to be widespread regret that the Original intention of decorating the opera-boxes at the Metropolitan with the coats of arms of their occupants ‘Was not carried out. The adoption of a rich color scheme fm red as a background for the better setting off of the dainty costumes framed, as in gold, in the boxes will be appreciated. The effectiveness of such a background was long ago recognized by art galleries and auction rooms. But it is unfortunate that we are to be denied the coats of arms. Unfortunate becauso the spectacle of the aristocracy of wealth enthroned in all its heraldic pomp would be etimulating to the populace in the orchestra chairs. Whet an incentive to tho study of biography to eee be- fore one the pictured symbols of Croesus’s wealth—hides and pelts rampant, locomotives couchant, oj] cans gules, trolley cars azure! A boon has been refused the public and an opportunity for the propagation of knowledge neglected by this ad- verse decision against coats of arms. MEDICAL UNPROFESSIONALISM. Tho amazing charge is brought by the District-Attor- ney’s office that sixty New York physicians have made it @ practice to sell to the poor at dear rates the anti-toxin which they procure free from the city. Proof is sald to have been obtained that 300 phials of the specific were) = disposed of to patients at prices much above their -value, | #9! gome doctors charging $5 for a phial not worth more i ta from a drug-store valuation than $3. The Commissioners} of Accounts characterize this fraud on the poor as 6! “Gespicable,” and the epithet fits the case. G{ ‘This discreditzble form of gain would be most ob- wre Jectionable if pursued in individual instances. When +! pursued by so large a number of physicians {t points to| no ® standard of professional conduct that is regrettably up low, The Evening World had occasion recently to ask If the Bar Association was doing its whole duty In rebuk- ing unworthy members of the bar for unprofessional con- duct and in endeavoring to maintain a desirably high = standard of legal practice. The query would seem to apply with added emphasis ©)5 te the County Medical Society. In view of these dis- © elosures has it not a function to perform in conjunction ae; with the prosecutions which the District-Attorney 1s «| preparing to institute? © eee ‘th’ BLACKWELL'S ISLAND IMPROVEMENTS. Testimony Is borne almost daily to the excellent work of the Commissioner of Charities in bettering the former harsh conditions of life in the almshouses and other pub- af? Me institutions of Blackwell's Island. Now it {s by the i publicity given the Mayor's visit of Inspection, now by a * eity club report, now by the trip of delegates from the inn ‘Women’s Municipal League that word comes of the eS ghanges effected. The testimony !s all of like tenor; +8° the improvements are notable for their extent and for » the humanity that has prompted them. pes Tho Mayor was especially attracted to the Innovation too! {2 the Home for the Aged and Infirm, where in the din- “4 ‘ng-room the inmates now ait face to face at their meals ~~ instead, as before, back to back iike convicts. They Dave been given knives and forks where formerly they bad only spoons, and they eat off real crockery table- ook ware. Their fare has been increased and improved In ~ quality; it {s now both bountiful and palatable. | in Bs This improvement of the fare was the subject of par- ~ ticular notice by the Municipal League delegates. It de- 4 veloped that under former administrations the meals of “*< these unfortunates were composed largely of bread and , coffee. The visitors learned to theiy amazement that this scant fare was neither varied nor increased for con- >, Bumptives; the tuberculosus patients received the same © allowanco of food as those of sound physique. By contrast with this parsimonious provision Com- missioner Folks is credited with spending a large part of an additional appropriation mainly for food. It is an} enlightened policy and one meriting general approval.| GENTLEMEN S 3 \@ ° 4 \@ 2 £050 0095609 GO 0006900640608 TOLD ABOOT NEW YORKERS. ACK CRAWFORD, Jr., of New York, who showed his sporting blood by leaping into the Brokaw tank at Princeton, fully dressed, to win a $20 wager, will be welcome in the Harry Lehr set, Walking in a fountain only spolls shoes and trousers. Craw- ford ruined a suit which presumably cost more than $29, but his reputation as a man who will not take a dare 1s thoroughly established, . Levi P, Morton, who has been abroad half a year, sighed with satisfaction as he left the steamer yesterday. He was eager to be back at Ellersite and his cows, His dairy has been for years the great passion of his iife; it has given him more pleasure than politics or at- tendant honora, . Dr. W. Seward Webb, who ts {ll tn Paris, was an automobolist before the day of the automobile. When he en- tered the official family of the New York Central he devoted himself en- thusiastically to studying railroading. A locomotwe waa reconstructed under his orders with a large observation cab in front. It was very conveniently and even juxurlously fitted. In this cab he made long journeys over the road, jandiing the throttle when it ple: him or leaving the driving to an engi- neer, Sometimes he ran as @ special having right of way, speeding the ma- chine, but more frequently he followed the (ast trains, sidetracking at statfons he wished to Inspect. Always fond of coaching he was for a loug period more devoted to this novel locomotive than to any pleasure his wealth made pos- sible. There were copies of his type, but it did not become widely popular. oe e William J. Hammer, of New York, de- livered an address on radium and other radio-active substances, before the Phila- delphia Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the Drexel In- stitute, which he supplemented with ex- hibits of the new element of different de- grees of purty from a radio activity of 4 to 7,00. The latter, he said, 1s radium tn the purest form yet imported Into this | country. Prepared in a dark room and kept continuously in the dark, tt has never ceased radic activity or lost welght. cuicsinae A rumor gathers strength tn New York that the young Duchess of Mari- horouxh will return to her native land this summer and will never return to ngland, Her husband is sald to be Ured of conjugai fetters, and among his ry ‘There seem to have lingered in these institutions some - of the abhorrent methods of the poorhouse of earlier days, when a pauper's lot was sorry in the extreme, To) have replaced the old hardship and degradation of poy-| erty with the comforts that come from humanitarian} " consideration is to have accomplished a commendable ” geform. THE EXIGENCIES OF TRADE. A new phrase of expressiveness and utility has been contributed to the vocabulary of commerce by Robert M. “© Olyphant, ex-President of the Delaware and Hudson = Railway Company. Explaining to the Interstate Com- merce Commission why the operators had raised the — price of coal from a figure at which, for ten years, his f company had made a substantial profit, Mr. Olyphant ** said: (“We decided we could get the higher price and the exigencies of the trade justified the demand.” " The phrase was needed to designate a practice which 2 te-not new, but for which a term that was at the same time an excuse was lacking. When the Beef Trust raised prices last year; when Rockefeller advanced the price of oil at the beginning of winter while the scarcity of coal was most serious; when the Ice Trust exacts its Hi; annual tribute of dearer ice, it is to “the exigencies of 4 | the trade” that the imposition must be ascribed and by 4) the same token excused. % The trusts have been greatly favored by Mr. Olyphant tm the invention of this phrase. THE COLLEGE-BOY CRUSADER. This season is seeing the college boy in a new role— ° thet of crusader. In crucial times before he has donned ‘the blue, as iu 1800, or the yellow of a khaki uniform, as in 1898. Memorial halls perpetuate the story of his patriotism. © But new his activity finds an outlet in championing ivic and industrial causes. In New Haven he drives a _ hack to break a cabmen’s strike or hauls freight in a ~ ‘Wagon to defeat a teamsters’ strike. At present in Man- hattan he has enlisted tn the trolley transfer rebellion. “One Columbia student has led the way and his class- ‘Mates aro said to be resolved to follow his example. _ Perhaps it would be better if he stuck to his books let the world wag as it will, settling its own prob- “Bit at least the college boy engaged in these pt endeavor disproves in a measure the old belief he affected an indifference to what was going on academic surroundings. It indicates an ener- fm the activities of the larger world and much future good. Within a year or two il the freedom he wishes to combat error And if the times are as much out nks them a little present restraint of p him with a Mty of pur- helptul er on, 2SbE oy Py a ae 3 > intimates makes, {t {# sald, no secret of the fact. Sometimes there are whis pers of an alleged occasion when his fatherin-law, William K., Vanderbilt, took him by the throat in a clubroom and was about to “mop the floor with him" when friends separated thom, eee Mra, Douglas Robinson, of New York, A sister of President Roosevelt, has of- fered financtal assistance to William Vickens, the Yale negro student, who won the Ten Eyck prize for ormtory. Pickens was a guest at the ladtes’ night banquet and entertainment last week of the Citizens’ Trade Association of Cam- bridge, Mass. He recited his Yale essay, told several stories in negro dialect and generally made an excellent impression. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. “Lighted” Iv Better than (Lit. To the Baitor of The Rvening World Which one of the following expressions Is correct: “The house ts all lighted up or “The house te all Ut up?” ON. BB. U. S. Dintrict Court, P.-O. Ballding. To the Editor of The Evening World Where can I get out my naturaliza- tion papers? J. BYRNS. A Group of City Offciats. To the Editor of The Evening World What are the names of the following oMcera of New York City: Corpora- tion Counsel, Commisstoner of Water, Commissioner of Correotion, Commis- moner of Publie Charitles, Commis- sionor of Manhattan Parks and Street Cleaning Commiastoner? LF. George L. Rives, Ro G. Monroe, W. Hynes, Homer Folks, W. R. cox, J. M. Woodbury. v. Will- It Seats 12,000. To the Editor of The Evening World: What Is the seating capacity of Madi- son Square Garden? L. w, @ Hours, 57 Minutes, 1 Second, TH the KAitor of The Prening World How much difference !9 there in timo} between St, Petersburg, Rusela, and America? E.R. Nov, 2, 1890, To the Editor of The Evening Word: On what day of the month did election 98090OF $0096:06-504 e He DO0eSN'T LIKE THE PARKHURST TyPé of FIGHTER~ oO€ 29999 99O09-9-9O 94-606 004+ The “Best Chief” DICGHEE648GO0OO6 400000 POR POUL w# THE # EVENING . WO MR. CHESTY GIVES AN hl WE KIN ie THE /$16 sy FIGHTER BoRes Hq. By the modes that they’ve aor RLD'S FIGHT ? tS 2H JD TED OF DAY To FISH EAT PE Ware 5F CROWD I) 13 THs THE KIND declares that he “loves a fighter,’’ but this does not include ALL fighters, Though never caught at slighting men just ‘cause they’re stalwart fighting men, “There are a few” stanch fighters who have made the “Best Chief” sore; Murphy, Moss and many another have caused him endless bother adopted when probi ing for his gore. 9990-000090OOOOO. o2 OME LECTUR THERES AN ART ABOUT FISHING LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, GENTLE! 1 KNEW WHERE THE DEEPEST Poo! WERE, | KNEW THE BEST TIM I KNEW — Of FIGHTER p piel Se ye fk DYD D9ED O89082-40O0D0009D0O44F-40080099004000640O0O90900H091O 0006000000000 FISHING. E ON MEN, LS ESE. NOR IS HE INFATUATED WITH THE JEROME BRAND $ $ $ OOODOS9 OOO MAGAZINE ws + ~ x | oy BOTHGATES ON “SASSY” MEN. He Preaches a Strenuous Gospel for the Settle» ment of Masculine Disputes. “A assengers seated near the door of an “L" car. and were “saying things” to each other. Occasionally their yolces became loud, but only for @n in- stant. They had evidently been warned by Bothgates, and that his capability exceeded thelr combined force was 80 evident that they were not will.ng to enter into a contest with him. “Been chewing it Jest that way from Hahlem. Mind me of lot of sassy gals—'Y ou-did-1-didn't-you-dld-too’ sort otf scrape ping. Twice T open the gates and tell them to get off and go somewhere and have it ou; like gentlemen. If they keep nag- ging that away much longer 1/1] forget my job and bump heads “A sassy man {s worse'n a drunk woman. I ketch my Fred giving that kind of talk to a lad and getting it back. The lad’a a trifle bigger and a trifle older'n Fred. I corners the \dds and then I says: ‘Wahat's this row about? They's scared, but Fred tells me his story and the other boy tells his, and they get over their scare and call names, and I seo that they aint ready for arbitration, ‘Now, look here,’ I says to Fred, ‘you call a lot o' names that ain't allowed, and you,’ to the other boy, ‘you say a lot that means fight. Now,') you both apologize and shake hands or fight. Wohich'll tt be? Both said fight, and I made them go at it. Fred got licked good and plenty, but he stuck to {t a good while. I pull the big boy off and I say: ‘How you feel about shaking hands? They was pretty s@cepish about !t, but they shake all right and both seid they was wrong, and I take Fred home and washes him off. His ma was scared, but I says: ‘Now, May, you ain't {n this: I'm the manager here. Just let us alone and we're all right.’ She's mighty sensible, Is my little red- head, and she ducks, “Next day I see Fred and that boy playing together thick. ern thieves. They split, fought !t out and buried the hatchet. They's good friends yet, but # I hadn't made them fight they'd be hating the block the other feller lives on. Why, I missed a fight with a feller when I was a boy and I can't see him now but I get ugly, and what it was all about I’ve n forgot. It's just the eame with men. When they get so they say the fighting words give them room and hold their coats, They'll work off their mad right and proper and shake ‘hands Ike gentlemen. But !f they chew and chew and nag and nag and spit fighting words and don't mix, look out for pisen and knives and backcapping and underhand nasty messing. “Think them fellers'l] let the scrap drop when they quit this car? Not! They'll hang on the other feller's trail Hke a Mafia until one or both !s down, all broke and out. If they was real men they'd find the place where they could rffix with just thelr plain fists and have {t out in five minutes, and {f they scrapped afterward {t would be about who'd pay for the drinks and the dinner.” SLEPT OUT JAIL SENTENCE, Carrying the theory of hypnotism to its logical conclusion, <i @ man convicted of some slight infringement of law went to jail the other day and put himself to sleep ‘for the whole period of his incarceration, When his term was up he woke from the trance and ssed out of the ja!l door, happy and much refreshed by his long slumber. The man who thus practically used his knowledge of the W) if occult is Dr. Lillinksjold, a well-known resident of Butte, Mont., the town made famous by the writings of Miss Mary McLane. ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL W, listen to them guys," sald Bothgates, indicating ch of a thumb and a ‘hunch of a shoulder HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. ]/9°% ° the Best INTERNATIONAL CHESS, Reading by king's move in chess, of the earth, ————>—__— INK BLOTS. There is an old game revived for the amusement of grown people and ohil- dren alike that Is very amusing. Each person places drops of ink on a sheet of paper ahd then folds the paper with the drops Inside: the ink spreads and forms pictures, or, at least, imag- tnative persons find plotures in the blots, ‘The guests are asked to guess what figure the persone who placed the drops of ink intended the blot to make, ocour in the year in which Garfield was elected Presidens® . ----—- La guesses using each square @s many times as needed, find sixteen or more countries | and prizes are given to the persons) stomach? making the largest number of correct] What is Tempest. CONUNDRUMS. What bird {sa peddler like? A hawk. Why Is a tight boot lke an oak tre Because tt prosluces a corn (acorn). How do you swallow a door Bult It. Why ts a watchman Itke a mill horse? Because he goes his rounds. Why ts a thump lke @ hat? Because it 1s felt. Where should a starving man be sent? To Hungary, wi ig the eun like a man of fashion? Because tt turns night tnto day. If a farmer ratses 365 tushels of wheat in dry weather, what will he raise in Wet weather? An umbrella, When {sa door not a door? When it's an egress (a negress) When 1s a note not a note? When it's due (dew), When is wine an eatable? a@ litle tag. When ts a lover ike a tailor? he presses his sult Why are FE and I the happicet «@ vowels? Because they are dn happiness, while all the rest are in purgatory. Why do girls kiss each other and men not? Because gins have nothing better to kiss and men have. Why {s @ kiss like a sermon? Be- use It requires two heads and an ap- ication, What indow in your house fs like the pia Venus? Skylight. What {5 man's opinion of bloomers? ‘They are divided. How do you keep food on an empty Bott it down. the .superlative of temper? When it When | AN AMUSING TOY. The toy shown in the accompanying ploture ought to be halled with delight by child , since am animal plays the most important role in It; indeed, with-| out the animal it would be an uninter-} ting and Ifeless affair. Th toy is egg-shaped, and in the) upper part is an animal, which can be jcovered if destred. ‘The animal is betd in position by a spring, and another spring comes Into play When the cover \is to be removed. It Is evident, there- fore, that the toy in its normal condi- tion looks like an ordinary egg, and that the chilt who receives it as a gift does! hot realize what a treasure {t has ob- tained until the cover slowly disappears | fad the cunning little animal shows Jokes of the Day. HARD ON THE UNDERTAKER. “You seem to be enjoying unusually ,* sald the friend of the “The last time I waa here you were up against @ severe attack of dyspepsia." “That's right," replied the Jovial head of the household. “I tbuncoed the un- dertaker out of a job, all right, all right.” “How did you manage !t?” friendly interrogatory. “I got hold of my wife's cookbook and made a bonfire of it."—Chicago News. THE HOUSE OF REFUGE. Citizen—Say, can't you give my son a job In the City Hall? Mayor—What can he ao? Citizen—Do! Why, If he could do any- thing 1'4 employ bim mysolf,—Chicago Dally News. ON THE FENCE. “I hear you're engaged to a certain young woman." “Wrong! I was engaged to a young woman, but she's 0 uncertain that I never know half the tlme whether I'm still engaged or not.”—Philadelphia Pubile Ledger. CAUTION, “Don't you think you'd better efeak to papa to-night, George?’ the girl sug- gested. was the just come in, hasn't he?’ asked He’ Georne, “You. - “well, 1 time to (John ©. Havemeyer, the eugar magnate, who has fast propounded @ gories of questions for labor men to answer) Oh, Children! On our Redestal Is John ©. Havemeyer, The man who seeks, with great aplomb, To talk the voice of Labor dumb And put {ts speakers “on the bum” In their attempts to sidestep from His queriea’-raptd fire, Soriane uv