The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1903, Page 8

MRDNEDGAY EVRKING, , file) tas ae 2 > _ SUNEE 24, 1003, by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to @ Park Row, New York. @ntered at the Post-Office OLUME AB..........cceeeeeeeeeee NO. 18,282, “BOOTBLACKS AND COLLEGE HONORS. _ The record of the Chicago bootblack who was gradu- from Columbia is equalled if not surpassed by the Universtty as the honor man of his class and win- " of the Gaston medal for oratory. Rich is of Jewish Birth, his parents arriving in Providence as immigrants from Austria in 1891. While he was preparing for Brown ‘he carried a newspaper route in the morning and in the % sold papers on the streets. * AS parallel exhibits with these, Yale shows a negro, & ‘Williamson Cranford, who has won the Townsend wt for the best law-school oration, and a Chinaman, Ohung Hui Wang, whose scholarship ‘has earned him a @amaia cum laude degree, the highest the college gives. A Syrian and a Japanese are among the New Haven univer ‘a other prize winners. At Georgetown the student of the year, an intellectual prodigy, is a Filipino. Perhaps we should marvel most that a student of 3 fornie of learning at which we scoff as at the flying of @memy, should after a two years’ acquaintance with Western civilization carry off college honors for which ‘our “smartest” youth have been contending. But in thinking of the bootblack and the poor news- ‘Boy, and the negro thefe is enough occasion for jubila- [tom at the educational system which has made these tsfumphs for the lowly possible. The lad from the @lums enters into competition with the youth from the ‘mension on equal terms in lists where the rules permit | M0 partialfty and “wins out.” Columbia and Yale and Beown and Harvard, with her last year’s class-day ora- ; the negro, Brace, remembered—the best colleges in, land open their doors to the poor doy, help him on, and honor his efforts of self-advancement and ‘ him with impartial favor. ‘1 It is & proud thing to think of. FIRST GIRL STENOGRAPHER. ___ At the very moment when the authorities of Ruskin ‘College are advising women who would be happy wives to’ give Up stenography and typewriting comes news of the death, at the age of elghty, of the first American ) stenographer, Mre. Eliza B. Burnz. The “z” in ‘Mrs. Burns's name replaced an “s," discarded by the ‘@wner to prove her consistent devotion to the principles _ ef phonetic spelling. Tt is not quite a half-century ago that Peter Cooper gave Mrs. Burnz a small room in Cooper Union rent freo, “Where she could teach her sex a new means of livell- Beod. Into what an oak has the little acorn planted ‘there now grown! Has any one else of the many cham- ‘Pions of woman's cause singly done more for her ad- ‘Yancement mentally and in lines of business progress than this pioneer teacher of stenography? A copper cent piece contributed by every girl stenographer in the 4an4 would rear & monument to Mrs. Burns of ingpiring tiny = a0W Many women are there thus earning their living? large is the annual crop of girls graduated from u Colleges with certificates of proficiency in ste- mography? The exact data are wanting, but in 1899 #t was estimated that there were altogether in the nation about 53,000 women sterographers. The figures show on their 4 face the error of understatement. It is not too much to = gay that New York alone has more than 52,000. “Within a few years the new skyscrapers erected: be- ow Fulton street have added more than 40,000 offices to ‘those siready in use. Init an exaggerated belief that in ~* Balt of these a girl stenographer {s at work? Undoubt- edly in the city’s skyscrapers alone of recent construc- ‘ton there is a larger contingent of girl stenographers than was credited to the entire nation in the estimate of 1899. _, Will they spare a passing thought of remembrance of regret for thelr pioneer leader? et MISTAKEN IDENTITY. - A queer instance of mistaken fdentity, interesting for thie lesson it conveys, has developed out of a theft of ofl Paintings from an uptown studio building. The wife of Qn artist who had suffered loss and the housekeeper both identified as the thiot a man whose innocence was com- established by the capture and confession of the yeal culprit. The case is important as following so soon upon Magistrate Crane's reflections on the uncertainty of Sdentification by women. If corroborative evidence were mended it fe bere furnished. _ Somewhat akin to this feminine failing 1s the dispo- @itton of many women when a jewel is lost to throw un- teasonedle suspicion on the servante of the household. An unwarranted assumption of guilt on the part of maid or cook is pressed by the mistress to a point of injustice @ndurable only because the servant's character and her Sending with future employers depend upon her sub- “falssion. Circumstantial evidence in euch cases of sus- Piclon is subjected to a very great abuse. ~ In few other ways is woman's inhumanity to woman 60 dieagreeably shown as in her treatment of a servant under the ban of her distrust. HOUSE-WRECKING EXTRAORDINARY. The axemen who lately made quick work of the forests of telegraph poles along the line of the Penn- | S¥ivante road have now begun the demolition of the ‘bulidings ‘on the site of the projected terminal in West ‘Thirtisth and Thirty-third streets. Four hundred bulld- nga are to be razed, an enterprine unique in New York | development, and of {ts kind probably unparatleled in mitude, ae Tt ig as it 2 small city were to he wiped out. Churches, Warehouses, dwellings, junkshops, butldings of ts and characters are doomed to destruction. The recalling the relation of a part of this region Tenderloin as of a dirty hem to a soiled skirt, may There Is certainly none of the doomed bulld- whoee going tears will be shed because of any h of architectural charm. It has not been a p attract the eye for its beauty any more than liness or godliness. Roary, 19. d to have won $329,600 on a single race, 4 ready cash required to make ‘one afternoon was sufficient to trans- ie , Maurice Rich, who will be graduated from ‘ paper dragons or the beating of drums to frighten the | ,, Large Roll.—A Chicago bookmaker, James ee ae WORLD'S we THE » EVENIN | THE JERSEY BOYS WILL WAVE TO UE HEROIC MBASURES To GET THEIR GIRLS To MARRY THEM NOW. o TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS, HARLES M. SCHWAB hie guests Thursday City the entire graduating ciass of Industrial School, which has endowed, He engaged accommo- dations for the young folks at the Sea side Hotel. They will remain a week and all of their expenses will bo borne by Mr. Schwab in fulfillment of a prom- | ‘ Ine made to them at the beginning of the school year, contingent on a high grade of scholarship oe will have . Senator Depew attended tn Philadel- phia the recent celebration ef the AWth anniversary of the birth of John Wosley. Mr. Depew said: ‘“Phere's an anecdote of Wesley—I don't know whether it's authentic or not—that I very much admire, The great man once entered into an argument with a hot-tempered individual who, getting worsted in his logic, fell back on vitu- peration, saying finally: ‘I don't believe, Mr. Wesley, that ther greater foot than you on earth.’ “ ‘Stop, sir,’ Wesley in his stately way returned. ‘Stop, sir. You forget your- welt.’ "" SIOGHOEOS OSSOOS $ o James Brooks Dill, “the Father of Trusts," as he is called, because of his legal work in the organization of great combinations, was the principal speaker at the Unlyeraity of Michigan oom- menoement. paid a splendid tribute to the business woman, “that distinctive Product of recent year: whose every advance ‘ig the prodigious stride of a giantess,” 2805989806 Now Yorkers of prominence have been | ? in great demand recently as honored Guests, and special orators at college commencements. Whitelaw Rett, s Newton Dwight Hillis and Edward M. Shepard have probably led tho Lat, Seats John D, Barry, who wrote “A Daugh- ter of Thespis,"" says in that he had no etage train! tage training is as often anadvantage to an actor or one who writes of acting and actors. He says ho has seen amateurs who were wholly without stage training whose acting sur- passed the best of the professionals, eee In an article on the “Good and Evil Forces in the Crowded City’ Dr. Lyman Abbott makes this comment on the newspapers of New York: ‘(Here are the great newspapers. I do not think I quite agree with Jefferson when he said that he would rather have a country without government than without news. papers. But I am quite certain that wo @ could get along with Congress for u year | > better than we could get along without newspapers for a year. Wonderful en- torprises they are, reaching their hands out into all the world and gathering all the news from all the world, and serving it to us with our breakfast coffee. They are great educators. They teach us wnat we are, how much our civilization {s, how much of solid mahogany and how much of very thin veneer.” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Cinders from Brig’ Beach Train ‘ton Beach | Bince the races began it has prac- tloatly abandoned its evening rush-hour schedule. The 560 train left the other tight of 6.25. It sends out express trains in the wake of local East New York trains. Of &0 people who fill one of Its trains not ten women ever got seats. Women cut no foe with Flatbushers. OAK CREST BILL, A Pusilistic Query. ‘To the Béitor of The Bveaing World: A says that when MoGovern and Bernstein fought twenty-five rounds MoGovern wes already champion of the deather-weight class. B says that it was before he was champion. H. 8. M. K. In 189 McGovern beat Bemstein in twenty-five rounds. OfoGovern won the feather-walgnt championship from Dixon tn Jamvary, 1900, and in November of the same year knocked out Bernstein in seven rounds, Saturday, To the Editor of Tho siveniug Worl: On what day of the week did July 12, 461, fall? fs iCal In Any Good Arithmetic, To the Wiltor of The Evening World In what book can I best study dis- count and interest? HENRY 8 No. 239 Broad- TO on and the Th cat nea mon At end Lewal Ald Soctety, way. ‘To the Bator of The Evening World I understand that there are places in New York where free legal advice can "To the Editor of The Evening World: Which 1s the color for @ baby boy, pink or blue? Mre. T. Hell Gate Blasts, ay 4 large bank. ‘The sensitive and gources of profit {s indicated ty the bookmaker| Sock was blasted? ble had won the rac: To the BAltor of--The Evening World: What were the dates when Hell Gate Ww. 8. Hallett's Reet was blasted Sept. 24, Flood Rock was blown up Oct. 10, Since a Caltfornia milHonatre named Bushell left a halt Everybody knows that an ordinary cork, being considerably longer than it fs broad, fa forced to float, when put in ‘water, upon ite long side. How can we make {t float upon its head? Place one of seven corks on end other six, all upon end; take the seven corks compactly in one hand and plunge them under weter, so as to moisten them completely. water. The water that has penetrated gether, because thelr united width ts Greater than their lengta. ‘This effect of cap!iia ingly demonstrates is strength." ban, @ ball in his hand guarding, sings out, other boys change holes, As they do so, tries to throw It into one b before any boy gets his stick into it be obtained, Will you kindly tell melir te succeeds, the boy who Is slow Algernon (replying)—P. 8. How do you © . low in where? B.C. | changing, and ‘finds the ball in the hole know I chew tobacco, and how do you Blue for Noy, Pink for Girl. before his stkek, Is out. He then has to know I use fine cut? take the ball himself. These $004-00094OO80OO2%2024 CO4OU0 GO4DAVEDOOEDADDAOADIVVDOVIDIEDOROOPPADOOORDED JME New JERSEY GIRL Now FEELS ABIT CHESTY, ONTO JERSEY FOR RUSHELLS HALF MILLION, THE REIGN OF RAIN THIS SUMMER. |. THE sunMMER RESORTS Are o GEFORT, CANOBING S THe FAVORITE PASTING THIS SEASON. iN THE COUNTRY pad HOTRL DINING ROOM, —S SHE CANT WEAR THE = wer Nawe'so nay. ——VITBRELLA AT CONEY 75LAND MAN REAPS Tse a s 7) HARVEST LIFE AT THE SEA-SHORE Gondolas glide through Flatbush roads; canoes and rubber boots Are now en regle ev’rywhere, and so are bumbershoots. The vastness of the wetness makes J. Pluvius jerk a smile, But it dampens things and bua’ness from the Bronx to Coney Isle. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. FLOAT CORKS VERTICALLY, the table; surround it with the GUEGSING GAME. “We've invented a new guessing game.” “sWhat te it?’ “Why, we get out tm the park, throw away the elmanac and try to guess the Remove your hand let them take thelr position in the corks will cause them to cling to- hesion anvus- in union there IN SOME UNCERTAINTY. “How a4 you come-out on the racest” “I don’t knonw yet." “You know which horee won, don't you?” “Of course, Pightter bet.” “What thas he to do with it?’ “1 lent him $50 yester@ay. Df he bet on the right horse I'll get my money back. {f he didn't I'll never see it again,” YOUTHFUL SHERLOCK HOLMES. Benny (writing to eller brother)—P. &, You have learned to chew tobacco since you started to college. You use fine out, It isn't a nice habit. You ought to quit it. ry Co} hat “1 em A SCOTCH GAME OF CAT. 18 18 a Scotch game ike “one old Six shallow holes are dug, rather T together than the bases In base- and arranged so as to form a dla- a, Tn the contre stands a boy with each hole is a boy with @ stick, one of which he rests In the hole he is When the toy with the dall “Cat in the hole,” all the the boy with «he bait of the t roles: Benny (in rejoinder)—) the stamp off one of your GETTING TOO COMMON. Mr. Highmore—Dootor, id ft true that @ Mfissourt cow died of appendicitis the other day? | Physiclan—Yes; uthe ntioaved tact, ee In studying the properties of the reficction of light there are numberless PTICAL ILLUSION. Interesting experimenss to be performed. A few are herewith presented: Wake a cork an cut it into the form of a disk of about the thickness of an . In its centre stick the point of a pin, This done, take a glass about three- quarters full of water and place the cork upon the surface of the liquid with the pin below. Now !f you will look at the cork from above you will not*aee the pin, but if you will alter your pesition and diminish the sense of the visual ray by placing the eye on @ paraliel with the table on which the glasg résts you will percelv [p nin above, ° that seems to be a PVALROLD2®OL®EDIDE DDO ODGD2DOOOOODDEDIDOD 49 LOOOOOEOOOED THEYAE CHEAP ATA MILLION not on cards.” Chinnerton. ¥° think be was guying me?’ cussed. Croker, has been named with other Tammany Doers | dy Gt 6 6 © BOTHGATES TAbKS OF MOTTOES Some Philosophy and a Narrative by the Old “b” Guard, 66] SAYS to Willie: ‘Keep up your end, son, and if you | can't keep it up drop out. The feller that hangs on when he cau't keep up his end belongs with the mag that Dutts In and he don't belong a tall.’ '* . Bothgates had been telling me a story in whtch his prom teing son was the principal charact ‘There had deen many (nterruptions, for the “lL” train was crowded and then were an wnusual number of demands for mformation fron the rubicund, jolly, philosophical olf guard. As he delivered the above set forth statement of his advice to Willle as 4mportant-looking gentleman clapped him on the back. “Good for you, sl. Sage, sensible advice. I'm going have that printed on a card and hang it tn my office.” b, “I wonder @f that'll do any good to a feller that nesta six or eight around the place still. your neighbor’ and ‘Bo good and you'll be happy’ and eo on, and they’s one that says ‘A soft answer turns away wrath.’ Well, sir, I remember the dey that one come buck from the frame shop. I use to be a little sporty and I one too many that day, but I was all eight. I could care of myself. It just got my nerves wrong, and when May raked me for drinking I was looking right at thin there motto, but I told her to go warm herself, only I didn't say it just that way. She got so mad she said I'd never talk that way to her again, and gee! but I got it, and she packed up her doll mgs and was going to her brother's, ‘but I wouldn't let her out. By that time I was sober as thoug® there wasn't no beer or whiskey on earth. “Well, we scrapped half the night, and meen Se the next morning I was that worn out I wasn't work. I sat down in the parlor after breakfast, and there tight in front of me was that there motto. I atan't take 1 in then, but when I'm on the road and tne traffic's ght says to myself: ‘If I'd just read that motto I wouldn't said, that to May.’ “You see y’ got to have the mottoes tnside your he they're going to do any good. If yf find a plece in the ond, Gea} about how to cure corns and put {t dn your vest poo! y'll forget ell about ft when your corns begin to hurt. iy | | | us # you put what the plece says in your head just Ile doctor does you're all right.” “You must be, Mr. Bothgates, {ng man. “Sure,” eid Bothgates, leman. “I've read about you, phy. “I'l put your several bits of 4 Bothgates when the tmportant "He must tink Tere, obtoner ¢rom ‘* gala the tmportant-loc’ iu ‘amd the Cooked inqutringly at thé. I eaid, “and I like your piiloso~ r advice in my head and “He's a funny duck,” looking man was gone. \ i { } BASEBALL MAXIMS. die tits,” ‘A good batter ts not known by his bat, (hut ‘by Tt ie no time to pull grass when you ere cunning “homa.” A “fan” may give an umptre counsel; but what's the use@ ‘Three-bager, thou art a jewel. Let all the ends thou atmst et be the bleachers. ‘The path of baseball leads but to the pennant—sometimen ‘Where there's a hit there's a base. Qiuch fussing, much fines, Bumbling makes a good payer pitied and epoor- A man never appreciates the distance ¢o Gret<until It pith some thousand yelling ‘“‘rooters" urging-him_on, 4 ‘The wrath of umpirests the wrath of devits. Fouls waste energy. 5 Tt is a oilly, batter that-is-cauzht twice with -the ‘enr' curve, 4 Trea, ‘ ‘ ~ LOCALLY iLLUSTRIOUS|| (Peter B. Meyer, real estate fartner of Richard) Commissioners in Jeromo’a inqutry into dock leases) Perched wpon the Pedestal Is Meyer, Peter F., Partuer of the Wantage squire— A “Johnny Doe" from way up higher— Jerome's now got bim under fire _ Apa may bemire Peter 7,