The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1903, Page 12

’ © Sri rasacciiaiee Tagan oR [ FRIDAY evENtNa, JUNE 19, 1903. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mai; Matter. VOU_UME 438. «NO. 16,277. AMMON’3 CONVICTION. “The mght of Col. Robert A. Ammon in a Tombe cell mwalting sentence for receiving from a “get-rich-quick” syndicate money which he knew to be etolen, is a goodly eight to see. It signifies the just rebuke of a most fia- grant case of unprofessionalism at the bar and furnishes @f earnest of rebukes to come where the nnprofessional conduct if less manifest than Ammon’s and kept tech- Bically within the limits of statutory safety is no less deserving of censure. How far {s the counsel of a “get-rich-quick” swindler fustified by legal ethics in prompting and protecting him in bis confidence game with the public? The Evening World has asked the question before, and the occasion seems appropriate for its repetition now thet the courts have found Flower’s counsel guilty Of iNegal practices and sustained the charges against Ammon. What is to be done with other lawyers now @occepting fees for advising the promoters of financial schemes they know to be “shady” or worse? In taking such fees with a knowledge of their source are they not BLLF-04999-0449-490684-00-080G © constructively receiving stolen property? The average “get-rich-quick” swindler would not Progress far in his career of confidencing the investing public if he went about it unaided by legal counsel, MURDER LANOMARKS, Following the demolition of the Five Points houses of murder mysteries comes toe proposed razing of the Nathan house in Twenty-third street, scene of the great- est of all local murder mysteries. Was it Washington Nathan who battered the helpless old man to death with the cruel iron “dog?” The city and the nation had their suspicions, which detectives and courts were never able to confirm. There are those who regret to see a landmark go, even & gory one, and lament the architectural sacrifices made necessary by mercantile progress. A few years ago they bad the Bond street house where Dr. Harvey Burdell ‘was done to death by complicity of the widow Cunning- ham; the Nathan house, and the Broadway Hotel, on tho Grand staircase of which Jim Fiek was shot by Stokes, Of these criminal landmarks soon only the hotel will Survive, But the antiquarian hunter of houses of murder, es- pecially those where the crime baffled detective in- geninty, will still have plenty to see when he takes his ‘walks abroad. He may stroll, for example, through lower West street @nd look up at the windows of the hotel room where Walter Brooks was shot. He may see in East Eleventh @treet the spot where the market woman in the carly morning found Maduena’s body stuffed into a barrel. In Bleecker street he may see where Mrs, Voepel was mur- dered, and in West Forty-seventh street view the sceno of Mcauliffe's taking off, and in West Forty-fourth brutally made away with, Near the western outlet of the Eighty-cixth street transverse road through Central Park he may discern the spot where the little neweboy was etrangled. If he crosses over to Hancock street, in Brooklyn, he may peer into the bedroom of the Latimer house, perhaps even get a glimpse of that capactous ‘wardrobe in which the assassin hid. Certainly the crime-hunting antiquarian will not lack Objective points. If he wishes to lengthen his list per- - haps Inspector McClusky will help him out. They are familiar enough at detective headquarters with the @cenes and circumstances of murder cases, at least, how- @ver much in the dark they may be about the perpe-| trators. THE BOWERY CATASTROPHE. Tt is largely attributable to luck that the girls en- Pulfed if2 the collapsing debris of the Bowery box fac- tory escaped the fate of the unfortunates who went down to death in the Park place disaster. These accidents Were of directly parallel kind—the frail timbers of an old building not designed originally for heavy manufac- turing proving in each case incapable of supporting the weight of machines and material, What the heavy lithographic stones and presses were to the Park place building the box machines and tons of paper were to the Bowery structure, This inability of weakness to sustain weight having been again demonstrated, we shall have the usual public inquiry concerning the inspection which did not inspect to the point of assuring safety, In course of time we ghall learn what particular member of the Bullding De- partment staff was blamable. It being mathematically demonstrable just, how much the collapsed floors were capable of holding, why was it permitted the manufac- turers to overload them? And, incidentally, how many other old buildings are there in the city where labor is engaged at' work under like dangerous conditions? Whether the result of ‘graft’ or incompetency, such buildings exist in numbers entirely too large, LORENZ'S LITTLE ONES. It 1s to be doubted if any foreigner has been able to extract from his tour of “the States’ even a small part of the true gratification Dr. Lorenz may justifiably feel at the success of this bloodless surgery cures. He smashes the plaster casts that have bound little legs for a year, @nd etraightway what wes once distortion breaks forth < into symmetry. The hip that was crooked has grown Straight; the club foot emerges from its rolls of flabby flesh into usefulness. The transformation of the bud “fitito the flower or the grub into the butterfly must give Place as a marvel of nature's handiwork to the triumph of the healing art effected under the skilful hands of the expert surgeon. A man arose in a medical convention recently and timated that there was considerable humbug about the doctor’s work. If that is the case we may wish, wished of Grant's whiskey, that there was low Xork.—The “noisy New Yorker’ exists, as before ‘Mr. Ponsonby” reminded us of him. the noise that has driven Russell Sage to ® quieter quarter. We knew it by the family in the millionaire sed- the noise of an elevator in the rm the opinion we hardly need for whom “elevated trains, ho have dined” make table; and the din jthe son of J, Walter Spalding, of N 3 | i » ~ iTOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. OL. GEORGE F. ELLIOTT, who has been arpointed to be Com- mandant of the Marine Corps with rank of Brigadier-General, was ap- pointed to the corpa from New York in 1870. He has spent fourteen of his thirty-two yearn’ service at sea. He will not assume his new duties until Major-Gen. Heywood retires Oot. 3. eee President Roosevelt has lost a friend, Major John B. Harlow. They met while Roosevelt was Civil-Service Commis- sioper and Major Harlow was Post- master at 6t. Louls, From tho Civa- Bervice Commissioner's standpoint the St. Louls office was the best in the country, and from other standpoints Major Harlow was one of the oldest | ‘ and most progressive employees of the Postal Department. Roosevelt resigned to become Police Commissioner in New York and recommended Harlow to Cleveland as his successor and the ap- Pointment wus made. When Roosevelt Decame President Harlow was atiil Civil-Service Commissioner, but in such poor health he could do no work. He resigned and Roosevelt personally m- terested himself in placing Harlow in a berth where physical labor was not required, but where his still active brain was needed. Major Harlow died on Tuesday. In the Postal Department undreds of his !deas are still in uso amd much of the sucoses of the Civil- Bervice Commission is due to the tact- >, Street descend into the cellar where the little girl was, ful use of his experience in carrying out the provisions of the law. eee Albert Spalding, fourteen years old, York City, obtained a diploma as pri fessor of the violin at the Bologna Con- servatory of Music. He is the youngest person upon whom such @ degree has been conferred. . Young Spalding took the examinations in Bologna on May 16 last. A jury of six professors heard him play and his success was marked. He had never studied in the Conservatory of Music in Bologna, having been taught wy Prof. Chitt and Prof. Bultrago in Florence, Thirty pointe were necessary to pass, but the young musician won 43 out of a possibile 00. Now that Prof. Thompson, of the Agricultural Department at Washing- ton, has figured out that every family in New York City consumes an average of four eggs a day, some persons are wondering where all the eggs come from. The farmers in Long Island, Now Jersey and elsewhere !n the vicin- ity of the city say they cannot raise enough eggs for their customers at home, much less eend them tn appre- clable quantities to the New York mar- ket. It 18 understood vhat New York gets most of its eggs from Ohio and Pennsylvania, 0 that perhaps the cost of transportation accounts for their uniformly high price. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. To Prestdent Vreelan ‘To the Biltor of The Drening World: The papers say the eub-officials of the Interurban Street Railroad Company plan @ dinner and @ loving cup for Pres- ident H. H. Vreeland. The people of the city would also Iike to present a doou- ment in the shape of a request that more oars be put on so as to abate the “standing up" also tranfera to be given out at all crosstown lines. Now the writer will make a request for the poor employees, It Is to $e hoped that he will imme- lately iseue an order thet all con- ductors, motormen and other. employees who have been in the company's service for one year or more shall be given one week's vacation @ year with pay, This is @ very simple, easy matter; extra men ean run the oars untd the regular men return, Let 80 many men off each week, I have spoken on this matter befgre and shall continue to speak until these poor men get thie well-earned vacation, JOHN HENRY, Tuesday, Friday, To the Eéttor of The Dvening World: On what days of the week did Jan 21, 1840, and May 21, 1890, fall? 1. 6. M. Two “Book” Queries. To the MAltor of The Erenin, feria 1, In which of Digkens's works do wo find Betsey Prig and Galrey Gamp? 2. What author created the character of Jennie Deans? A. E. W. Sairey Gamp and Betsoy Prig are characters in Dickens's “Martin Chuz- slewit.” Jennie Deans is the heroine of Scott's ‘Heart of Midjothian,.”* Monday. To the Matitor of The Bvening World: On what day did Nov. 28, 1887, tall? A MR. CHESTY GIVES AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON DANGE nutsance in open cars; | < ihc NE eh a eM a mn G w WORLD'S # HOME .s MAGAZINE LDP PVODEI® BH AVEDE ORO YPIAYOVLEVADOOYPDVORDOOOOOVO DOV VAVYOVDEEY LVGOVOY OLEOCV92DDOOD8HO2O0OO00O604000504 Oil 1 MAKES ME sHuo. HOW WATCH we Pes MUST BE FoR ON ALL SIDES, TH YAWNING GULFS TEMPTATION, TH NPUTFALL ney yer THANKK i Capea GOODNESS! 1 DIDNT KNOW THE OSCULATING BELLES, Boston Belles!—of Whose Kissative Propensitiea This Little Idyl Tells. (When the Liberty Bell was exhibited at Bunker HIN! Sfoaument, Boston, women fought to get close enough to the historie relle to prem® thelr lips to ite metal aides.) M~ the hurry and the scurry of the Belles—~Bosten Yes, HERe's THE > Money! POR HEAVENS AKB TAKE THE SHIP ToO-eAY! T Tec. ver, 8055 YER OONT y Belles! Bee the jostling crowd of beauty as it swells, husties, yells! They're on hand in finest fettle In a strife to kiss the metal, ‘With an erst-unkissed delight. None are missing; all are kissing—All the Belles, Belley Belles. Hear the mighty sound of kissing as it wells! Were you so hard up for kisses, Boston Delles—teara-o@ Belles? Is that ONE joy culture misses, Boston Belles—Browntug / Bolles? | Has no modern Athenfan— j t THE YOUNG FHING WHO WANTS TO CULTIVATE HER VOICE 1M BUROPE. Has no masculine baked-veanian— i Taught you kisstatory joys? Won't he greet you thus and teach you? Kissless Belles, Belles, Belles? Ah! No wonder that the Boston Belle rebels. WHY, CERTAINLY I'LL suescriBe! nobel When the Grand Old Bell you kissed then, Boston Belles Did you deem whet joy you'd missed, then, Blue-foot Belles? Of what spelis it compels? Try to think the metel yellow ‘Was the lips of some live fellow? And you'd won a kiss at last? Won the dlisses found in kisses—Dager Belles—Hubvillé Belles? Gotham girls could tell you dell-kisses are sells, For in little old Manhattan Girls are not so keen on Latin But they're onto every joy that in the kissing business dwells, dwells, dwells! ‘They could give you cards and beat you, Boston Bellesf TANKS, BOSS, youRe DEAD easr! 4 HOW THE TOPER WAS TREATED. f y “At my house at Marengo,” said Congreseman Rumple, of Towa, in the Chicago Journal, “I once had to have a dificult‘ Job of plastering done, and the only plasterer capable of the work was so confirmed a drunkard as to be quite untrust- He did my work for me, though, quickly and well. nt for him, and he agreed to take the job, provided | that as long as {t was in progress T would give him all the gin and water he could drink, ‘ “'T agree to your condition, sir,’ I sald, ‘but you must let | me mix your drinks for you.’ “Oh, you can mix them, sir,’ the plasterer replied, and be peeled off his coat and got to work. “Boon he was calling for his gin and water. I gave him @ tablespoonful of the gin in a pint of water. He downed the weak mixture, smiled knowingly, and called for more, He saw whet my game was, and thought dy drinking enough water he could manage to beat me and get enough gin. “But In his second drink I put e pint and a half of water, ‘That was too much for him; he did not take ft. “I see that I must hurry through this job,’ he said, ana he finished {t, by working like a demon, in less than a day. ‘In two years this is the first plece of work I've got one,’ he told me afterward, ‘without sandwiching in e drunty or two.’ i ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL : I'LL TAKEA ? 7 20 YEAR ENDOWMENT! YER HONOR, C I've Gor a4 (4000 THING FER To-oay!- Ef fl “ “fi rs i $ H : 3 as A ® wite ne 3 a Suy 4 GOLD BRICK WEXT? z TOUCHED BY THE RACING ToUuT- Te nce MAN GATS ong” é $ A youthful book agent has persuaded Mayor Low to subscribe. It fs the first time the Mayor haw been “caught,” and other canvass- 4 ers are taking heart. “ ; 53 Through the serried ranks of agents creeps the raucous whisper: “Say, gents! > The Mayor’s become an easy mark. Don't let him ‘get away!” iY y Ps And his courage well may fail him as their hungry hordes assail him, ms hs With a view to separate him from his modest yearly pay. (SS 4 $LDOSFHIOHIG4HHDOOHHOS : eee LPHDHH HEHEHOLOHHOHOO0 9099000000 boom} «ho Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. DRIVEN TO DRINK, “What ales the porter?’ “His young daughter wines all the time and he is going home to liquor.""—~Prince- ton Tiger. MOTTO OF THE COLLECTOR. (Never put off until to-morrow what ean be dunned to-day.—Hervard Lam- Poon, THE IMPERTINENT QUERY. “You think he went ter beaven?”’ “No doubt dat he went dar—de mulo Kicked him sky-high. De only question fe—did he get in?'-Atlanta Conetitu- tion. HIS WORST MISFORTUNE, ‘There are many varieties to thia play, but the best ere shown in this figu cosnt'” she eaid, stooping over where twenty-two matches are used. Now ask your spectators to take away SIX | end victim who had just been dragged and leave four squares. If they do it, ask them to take still one more match| cut from under her automobile; ‘ave and make five squares of the remaining number. After that ask them to take! you a wifot"’ away still three other matches and leave three squares. They may powsibly £0| No," he groaned; ‘this ie the worst that far, but when they are asked to take these three squares and turn them | ing me."'—| thet ever to fato four they will find themesives nonplussed, ‘ rain arose ire CULL HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. | THE “TWENTY-TWO MATCHES” TRICK, CONUNDRUMS, Why are your nose and ohin always at variance? Because word: ‘e contin- ually passing between them. ' Why are etars the best astronomers? Because they have studied (studded) the heavens aince the creation, What trees flourtsh best upon the hearth? Ashes. ‘Why need a echoolmaster. whose schol- ars are leaving him never fear losing tham aH? Because he hes always a puptl in his eye. Why should a little man never marry a bouncing widow? Because he would be called “the widow's mite." What fs the longest word in the dlc- ttonary? uubber, because you can stretch It. Why is the port of Plymouth like a very wonderful phenomenon in acous- ties? ~Beoause it includes @ part of the wea called the pound, and that ts the only sound that you oan nec. Why are bakers very self-denying Ee kerala! et ter PER ' FA (Simeon Ford, wit and hotel-keepen) See, Children, on our Pedestal, The jest-constructor, Ford! ce ‘When fhe hands out his high-grade chaff, The cooks and waiters on his staff First double up, then break dn ‘half;