The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1903, Page 10

_ THURSDAY EVENING, JULY $80, 1903. am | Aiorld — ‘ | Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMoe at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. WOLUME 44......... THE STREET DISGRACE. The holes !n the asphalt pavement are, as the Grand) Qury correctly calls them, a menace to traffic and a breeding place for disease and therefore dangerous to) ++/-NO. 16,300. to repair them are “dilatory in the discharge of their| obligations.” This is common and familiar knowledge. | The odd and novel thing ia that a Grand Jury has seen) fit to attend to the duties of minor municipal officials. What are the local boards of improvement for, what fre the functions of Commissioner Livingston and of Borough President Cantor if not to remedy the very de- fects of which the Grand Jury has taken cognizance? A Grand Jury 1s charged with many powers; it might @ven hand in a presentment regarding the manners of street-car passengers. But Mr. Cantor's point seems well taken that the question of city streets ‘does not Ile with- fm the province” of this Grand Jury. There is no accu- | gation of criminality, none even of incompetence. The community merely suspects a great lack of vigor on the part of the proper officials in bringing the derelict as- phalt companies to terms and inducing them to perform that part of their contract relating to the making of re- pairs of the worn-out street surface. Nevertheless, even the self-complacency of the Bor- ough President must be disturbed by this extraneous re- Duke of street conditions that would shame a village and of an official dilatoriness that has been little less _ ‘than ecandalous. . THE SEASON'S PLAYS. ; ‘Those forty-nine new plays in the trunks of the home- eoming theatrical manager give us an idea of the extent to which dramatic ventures have expanded. The mana- ger’s twenty theatres may amaze us, his staff of lieu- tenants, his retinue of employees, his galaxy of costly stars. Merely to estimate in the rough his vast pre- Mminary expenditures before the box-office receipts begin fs to stagger the imagination. Here, indeed, is a busi- mess demanding an executive ability of the grade which ‘We are too apt to associate solely with steel trusts and reat mercantile or manufacturing mergers. Yet it is these forty-nine rolls of manuscript, in which the success or failure of the season lies, that must excite our greatest interest. Here may rest the play that ran a thousand nights and filled a dozen theatres while making an actress famous on two continents. A bit of bad typewriting in a smeared and not over-clean paper cover. Or is it that MS. in angular, feminine hand with a bow of orange ribbon around it? These are the tickets for the grad drawing and the prizes and blanks are both there. Possibly a “Floro- dora” with nearly a thousand nights to {ts credit, or a “Charley's Aunt” with a five years' run. The quality of talent necessary for the sure recognition of a good _ play in manuscript form {s of the rarest. Experlence, good taste and divination go to compose it—and the _ greatest of these is divination, Mr, Frohman’s superior divination the play-golng public well knows, and it looks forward at this time of year with customary Impatience} to the beginn'ng of his new season. CROQUET. ; “The President in the afternoon played croquet.” It wos time well spent on one of the most attractive forms pf outdoor recreation and one not deserving the popular filsesteem in which it is held. Croquet a feminine sport? Perhaps the Presidential example will serve to do away with the erroneous impression. Croquet has its votarles no les ) Rowned, thun tennis, With a natio if less re- association, a na- selec’ tional ‘champion who won his honors last year over a previous _ field of contestants larger than any in the history of the game, and with devotees In throughcut the nation the sport cannot be said to be declining. On the contrary, a visit to No nh, Conn., during, the two weeks of the championship contest in August would surprise the sceptic. The forty-six entries and the fell parquet of interested spectators would enlighten _, himastohiserror. An afternoon visit to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, would reveal a dozen games in active opera-} tion. Central Park with regret is it said, would show] not a one. Croquet under ihe modern rules {5 a prolonged game} fnvolving some degree of the science of billiards ani| giving the player an amount of physical exercise not! ) eredible by the scornful golfer who has not tried it. It| _ furnishes profitable occupation for eyes and arms and {n- ; eldentally provides a gentle and grateful use to legs and trunk and shoulder: It is a beneficent ontdoor sport. A moralist might recommend it for the discipline it ex- | ercises over the temper. f THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Bo great is the growth of automobile manufacture "that it may soon exceed in number and in equipment the bicycle factories in the United States at the time of| the wheel's greatest vogue. According to President Day, | of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufac- turers, 150 concerns have been incorporated to make gasoline vehicles; sume have expired in the first throes of business competition, but probably 100 survive. One-! Quarter of these, actually twenty-six, manufacture 90 per pent. of the entire output of gasoline machines, Some of the largest factories are converted bicycle plants. As it can be said of the automobile with more confidence than of the wheel that it is “here to stay the outlook for the industry is most promising. Certain Most exacting manufacturer, As the automobile advances yearly In speed 80 algo It fmproves in appearance. There is a semblance of grace @ven to a ponderous touring car which was well-nigh ‘ recently as a year ago. The new models show better lines and they offer a comfort not always ‘by a horse-drawn road vehicle, Celluloid Collar—Another tale of a burning celiulola & Ting of scorching flame around th Seearer's beck. Regardless of its dangers, ty the cellulold an economy even for the poorest? The slight out Fequired for linen collars and laundry work 1s more Worth the exire expense for the added thilness about and the celluloid collar should go after it it Innpire—A summer girl leaps into a rowboat, Wwigorously through a heavy sea for a mile occupants of a catboat upset by a squall. ij about to recover a body for which there Ia a feward drops his prize on hearing the and res- the public health, and the companies holding contracts} pimeck. The old makeshift “dickey” shirt bosom is! An|? TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. 1 P, GOIN fs one York's richest: women but 1s never seen in soclety, for which #he expresses vast cont Mrs. Goin owns an immense de: valuable real estate. Adjoining home, In Fifth avenue, in that of Perry Belmont, who dullt an exten: some time ago, thereby cutting off M joln's ligat and air, The latter there- pon quietly purchased a lot around the orner, on which she built a high stone fence. Mrs, Belmont's extension hina n much darkened tn consequence, but Mrs. Gotn declares ner fence will remain untl Mrs, Belmont's extension shall have been taken down, This Isa bitter pill to the Belmonts, and so taey have aban ned work on ther renovated house nd are lying in the Waldorf when tn town. Anyway, Mrs. Goin has the sat- istaction of seeing the house half fin- {shed and with no one at work on the premises. oe “The New York woman stmply can’t be feazed," said Abe Lavy yesterday She has a calm. cool nerve that puts that of ‘mere man’ to shame. For {n stance: A theatre party, well dressed and well behaved, boarded an uptown Amsterdam avenue car late last even- Ing, One of the ladies, clad in a beaut!- ful light gown and a blue picture hat, had a wealth of black hair, culminating in one of those fashionable ‘little curls right In the middle of her forehead. Aa she sat down the oar lurched. The central curl fell from her forehead into her lap. ‘The passengers gasped. Some turned away in order not to seem to notice her confusion, Was she feazed? Not a bit. She calmly picked up the luckless curl, remarking, ‘I'm glad it didn't tumble Into the subway,’ and carefuly replaced it In her halr. see ‘Theodore Kremer, the rapid-fire Goth- am dramatist, who wrote the Hiddle play tn elglt hours and then beat his own recont by dramatizing the Servian tragedy in seven hours and twenty min- lites, Is reported to have marriel a German actrass ta Berlin, Sornstat less than a dozon gross of his plays will head weatward before Septemver, pliy Ing such cltles as Whatcheer, Upper Sandusky and Greensburg. Prof. George N. Olcott, of Columbia, has several times been asked what the Inilal “N" In his name stood for, He usually evades these repiies, but he con- fossed a short time ago to an old Columbian classmate that the 1 initlal stood Hterally for “Nothing. was a whim of his In undergraduate days to endow himself with an tnitlal, or, as he expresses it, “to part his name in the middie." And the letter “N” was chosen, eee Ex-Sheriff "Tom" Dunn has long since won a reputation as a wit. In consequence, a number of alleged witt\- clams are tacked to his name that were never perpetrated by him. “Dunn.” sald a friend to him, the other day, “what 1s the cleverest thing you ever said?" “1 don't know, put if was probably else. sighed the ex-Sheriff, sald by ome cne oe ver C. C. Bradnerd tells of a weird Dreak he witnessed In London last year, Over a shopdoor a man had placed the motto: “Mens Conscla Recti? (a mind scious of right). The next day a rival tradesman across the street, not to be outdone, flashed the following sim: ‘Men'a and Women's Conscla Rect.” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. An Odd Q ¢ venting World: Can a become President of the United 80 T claim that if Cardinal ig is Amertean born and Is elected he can also become President of if he receives votes To the nited States, enough at a Presidential election. SAM MACK. Is no law forbidding the election of Cardinal Globons to elther oMee, «Pop headquarters In Rome ani wsident cannot leave hin during his term of office, th man could not simul taneously occupy both positions, To the Paltor of The Evening World Does a man have to 9e a Card! fore he can be a Pope? TR A “Doctor Pnzsle,"’ To the Editor of The Evening World Here {s a hard nut for mathematical bee readers to crack. A doctor made an agreement with a lodge to examine forty men during the next one hundred ays He specified no date on which each one should call, He only said he would not examine more than one man a day. The president of the lodge tn structed the men to arrange ween thoinselves as to which day would sult hone dest to see the doctor. Resu ch man p da out his day, The doc- tor is to receive a fee of $ for each man he examines, He 1s also to pay a fine of Sty the lodge should one of these men cal! aad he js not in his office. (When- ever this Is the case the man does not l again.) Problem—As St is not neces- ly the margin of profit is large enough to satisfy the! sary nor advisable for the doctor to be least number of fir |President of the United States? A. P. | The Smoke Nulsance ino} seatw,”? pimperiiied girls and rows to their relief. 1 contribute incidents of this kind the re: |reported for this most egregious breach {of travelling etiquette? VOUR DISGUSTED WOMEN, h en violation of the rule “Smokers Cannot the conductors be vw THE » EVENING »# WORLD'S » HOME . OF DOL GET Two WEEKS VACATION Cane FOUR NIGHTS, -C_ ev7 2 a Co PHENOMENON, | > Askitt—Why do you consider * Blankerton the most remarkable man of the age? » Knowitt—Because he originated ta get-rich-quick scheme that ac- tually made all the investors rich DID IT EVER HAPP NEW SUMMER CROP | COOKS, ALL GUARANTEED TO BE THE REAL GOODS. 9 1. To go to an employment office to hire a cook for your Flatbush 2. And after she has bean working three hours and has dinner almost ready to have her na{l you for four nights a week out, two weeks’ vacation with pay, a pension after three months’ service, the 8. And, after you have acceded to all her demands, to have her enough to your home where she can “get some recreation?” EN TO YOU?— ® CODOOECELESLAMEDISRIIONELOL OM ae ae I THINK THAT ~ DL GOOD hOOKING } ( ONE ON THE awn Wwiet Do} Ree home and (o engage a “gem"—— (LANDA seurF % PLAYIN’ PIANO rank a 2 PENSION ; ae 8380930999 No av ™ AUTOMOBILE ) AND USE OF THE PARLOR? Oe > use of the parlor, a self-p!aying piano and an automobile—— STAY, OH STAY, HERES A MORTGAGE On “eS eee FOOD? 000% OS Oe OOOD leave because there Is not a picnic park and dancing pavilion near DID IT EV MAKING WILLIE USEFUL. NONE LEFT. SLAVE TO FASHION, rar T Mrs. Bostonbake—! wish little Visitor—! suppose the unsophis- Willie were strong enough to play ticated is predominant in this 2 baseball with you. region? Friend—Why, Mrs. De Style, | 2 Tommy McTuff—Oh, he'll do, Farmer—Wa'al, no; not now. $ thought your dog was white! I've heard tell there used to be some of ‘em about, but the city hunters killed 'em off. mum. We kin use his cap fur de home plate an’ he kin carry wa- ter fur de kids. Mrs. De Style—He was white, but | had to have him dyed tog match my new dress, o OOOSOHOHOS$OOH99OOO19HOOH MESSENGER GAME. There must be a clerk of the Hurry Office, who sits in front ata table. Be- hind him are the servants of the estab- Mshment, Telephone, Telegram, Cable, Special Delivery, Marconi and Messen- ger Boy, A customer comes to the table. “IT want to send @ message to the King.’ ‘The clerk asks: “Is it far to go?" The Customer—A mile or two away. Who can reach {t quickest? The Clerk—We shall see? bell, and all the servants stand dn a row.) Then he ask: “Who ¢an reach the King? The Servants—We can. (He rings a ome and phen off and away with you," he " cails, and the race 1s on, ‘Those who in his office one hundred consecutive | arp jeft behind pay forfeits or days when ho only expects oF Kl€ | redeem themselves until another Nialtor on each of forty da ow is he tomer comes along. ‘Those who reach |to arrange it so as to escape with the goal the greatest number of times are x? Tt must be Un- | qnowed to join in the hunt for a medal, derstood that on sixty days the doctor land he who finds It ts unantmously Will not be home, F.M. | olected the trustiest messenger. No, rr To the [editor of The Evening Word THE WATCHMAN GAME. In there a clause In the Constitution : prohibiting a Catholic from becoming | Have a @heet or soreen, 20 placed phat shadows may be cast upon it, Fac- ing 1t have one of the players aitting in such a position that he can see only the fad a Gaoneee eae World love of | Mere’ Not anything that is golng on heaven, do let us women who ean only |Oehind him. ‘This player ts called “the ride for our pleasuring in the omnipres- | *8ton® Now, behind the watch- ent electric cars know what part of the | MAP and at such a distance that there car Ia really relegated to amokers, at {i® pace for a person to walk between went they sit all over the cars and the watchman and the light, place a |puft great clouds of vile cigarette smoke |°ANUe or bad brands of elgars Into our faces odject of the game Is for the watchman to guess from the shadows cast who Is passing behind him. ‘The players, going one by one, may disgulse themselves by Umping, bowing a ss Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ANOTHER CALL. Rubring—Anything wrong at your house? I saw the doctor going in to- CAN YOU MAKE THIS FIGURE 2? day. Everard Upp—Yes, and he'll have to come again. + 9 |, RuPringe Test oo. wnat was the mat- wi ter? oe K hee Everard Upp-tI didn't have mA ~~ COmMETE for his last year's bill.—Philadel, Leda s BUNCHING HIS BATHS, “Blifters 1s very fond of bathing, ten't he?" “Yes, In the summer time. I'd appre- ciate him a great deal better if he'd divide his fondness among the cooler months, too,''—Cleveland Plain Dealer. POOR BOY! “Your new brother is the eleventh child In the family, is he not?" asked the caller. “Yes, ma‘am," sald the little girl. “Have you named him yet?" “I think we're going to name him Jerusalem, That's what papa called hinh when he was born.""—Chicago Trib- une. THOSE TELL-TALE EYES. Mrs Jagg—My husband's eyes in the morning are an open volume to me, Mrs, Swagg—How do you mean? Mrs, Jagg-—-They are red.—Comfort. HIS SUGGESTION. said the eminent investigator, “we are probing the question deeply, and I think we are on the point of find- ing something. “In that case,” said the practical poll- ticlan somewhat nervously, “would it not be well to remove the probe and in- port {t somewherg else?'—Brooklyn Life, Cut out these sections and put them together again in such a way as to make a figure 2,,similar to that in the upper right-hand corner of the flustration, tho head, or wearing a hat, but gen- pecullarity. Ior every one he guesses erally the watchman, If he Is discern-| correcty a forfelt must be paid by the ing, may detect the ayer by some| once discovered sg MAGAZINE a THE UNMARRIED AUNT. She Was a Place of Her Own tn Each Home, She is a dear o the No, » 4 feet Sho is always willing to do what is asked of her and # haw a most acute sense of discovering when she is in danger of becoming At such thir of making from the part in her amooth, gionsy ha & common-sense bouts she wears on her has a wonderful and awe-inspiring (rio® y with herself in a manner that is little short of the doings of spirits If any one has to be left out of the pleasure party ft ts always “auntie dear.” She always becomes very dear when we are about to make a request of her, And rhe gives up all {dea of golng on the Jaunt and does tin such a pleasant and whole-souled way that she almost gives us the impression that being left at home was exactly what she was pining for, but did not see how to bring about the proposition, says Susan Simple in the Chicago Journal, If there in any mending to be done or small task to be Gnished at the last moment, auntie is the one to come forth and volunteer her services, being a close second in that re spect to grandma. Aside from her useful propensitios auntie Is every bit as good as a story ook to the younger element of the house- hold and entertains them by the hour with the most wonder+ ful tale She also has a supply of stories for the girls who are just; beginning to take an interest ip the maids and men ef romance. course auntie has had wumerous “affairs” and! ot “chances,” all of which she has deemed it advisable to pass | by for some reason that she reveals to no one. And at no time {fs auntie so delightful as when she ts re counting her conquests in the days gone by. UNIQUE SAFE-BREAKING An extraordinary account is given of how a safe was opened by a robber. who had at his disposal no instrument of any kind, but operated merely with his finger nail. The person who accomplished the feat revealed his intention of robbing the fron safe in a hotel to another young man, whe happened to be the cousin of the hotel proprietar—a fact he was unacquainted with. As a matter of course, the proposed scheme to rob was re- vealed to the owner of the hotel, and a little before mid- night, when it was to be put into execution, a couple of detectives were admitted to the premises and concealéd be hind the office counter. A short time afterward the robber entered the office gently, without elther tools or explosives wherewith to open the mas- sive fron receptacle, the combination of which it was evident he did not know. He had, however, resorted to an ingenious pian of his own. He had pared the nail of his index finger on the right hand until the blood vessels were exposed. Then, by placing the sensitive wound on the combination lock, he could distinguleh the movements of the tumblers as they fell. For more than an hour did he work, and at last there came a sharp click, and he swung back the doors of the safe. He was in the act of filling his pockets with the valuable Papers {it contained, when a damper owas thrown upon his activity by the sudden grasp of the detectives, under whose escort he was taken to prison. Thus was interrupted what was probably one of the most ingenious robberies ever ree corded in the annals of crime, FOOD FOR INFANTS. Avold seasoned dishes and aatt meats, pastry, uncooke@ vegetables, unripe food, wine and rich cake. Insist on thorough chewing; a child who eats too fast este too much. Vary the food from day to day, but avoid variety at omg meal, Lake care that the child's food ts well cooked. i Wine, beer and confections should never be given. Gtve no fooa between meals; the stomach requires rest, like any other organ of the body. Remember tuat overfeeding and the use pf improper foot kill more children than any disease of the body, says Mothew hood. {Gve no laudanum: no teas. Remember that summer complaints come chiefly from overfeeding and the use of improper food, ut never treat teething. Do not bring a child under three years of age to yout table to eat. PLAYS’ WISDOM. “The law of change is the only law that never changes: according to theology the devil found heaven a littld tedious.""—"The ‘Tree of Knowledge.” “We cannot play the Jockey with Time. of wine and men."—"Beau Austin.’” “My dear lady, marriage—two persons walking sobertg through Mfe under one umbrella, cheerfully accepting th drippings of Providence down the backs of their necks—that is an elevating spectacte!""—"The Weaker Sex." ‘ “People who are well and comfortable and happy, alway¢ do their duty—without knowing !t."—"The Greatest of ‘These."* “As a matter of fact, the sound of English makes me at home, and J dislike feeling at home when I am abroad lt 1s not precisely what one goes to the expense for.” “Widowers’ Houses.”” “The anticipation of time leaves no time for antletpationt —'The Forelock of Time.” ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL. Age is the test ‘(Foxhall Keene, against whose Westbury property two firms have @ie®* Mons, The action was due, it fe said, to a rumor that he would bah fuancially tripled by the fatlure of T. J. Taylan & Co.) Children! Upon our Pedestal, Pray gare at Foxhall Keene: P Two firms got so afraid lest he . Might be snarled up financialee With T. J. Taylor’s compance, They've cinched upen ‘hie propertee A largecaized, nice, fat Hen, rar