The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1903, Page 8

|| Publishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to 6 RIE werk Rov, New York. Entered at the Post-o0ie e ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. —— MOLUME 44......006 esserseseeeees NO. 15,354. THE NEWARK TROLLEY VERDICT. ‘The prosectition of the Newark trotley directors in- dicted for manslaughter having failed we must perforce rest content with the moral effect of the trial. ‘That in itself is not small. It has been an impres- Bive sight to see the directing officers of a public ser- vice corporation called to account in @ court-room for lives sacrificed to what were said to be economies of management. It was a sight almost, If not quite, unexampled in New Jersey, and not one to. be contemplated with complacency by directors elsewhere. Here, indeed, is a new point of view to take of dividends secured to stockholders by retrenchment which reaches the danger line. The very force of public opinion which songht to carry account- @bility for the slaughter of the school children directly ‘up to the men allegedly responsible by their economies of operating expenses for the conditions which made the accident possible is a factor with which directors will hereafter have to reckon more frequently. ‘The day of the scapegoat in cab or on front plat- form is apparently gone. The people of New Jersey have established a most valuable precedent. They have Yaised their eyes from the humble employee immedi- {ately concerned in the accident to the men at the top; f@nd thelr gaze is hard to bear. ~~" THE EDSON INQUEST. Coroner Jackson, who is to hold the Edson inquest, 1s reported as saying that he is in possession of letters bearing on the tragedy and pointing to a “love affair, involved and deep, apparently extending through many years.” Tho letters revealing this life romance, the Qoroner says, will be produced at the inquest. { Why? What good end will their publication serve? "There is no necessity for establishing a motive; the niurderer is dead along with his victim, and whether he was a defaulter and also an unfaithful husband, and whether or not he was mentally unbalanced {s not the Coroner’s concern. Sufficient for his purpose {s-the fact of the crime and the evidence of the criminal’s escape Of justice by suicide. What Edson's social antecedents ‘were, who his companions were, what his life history ‘was and the extent of his attentions to the unfortunate and presumably blameless victim of his violence has othing to do with the case. » & coroner 1s too apt to extend his quest to the @erutiny of things without his province. Scandalmon- 4s not one of his functions, and he best discharges Be dation who seeks sedulously to prevent his inquiries fom assuming the aspect of inquisit!veness. \ A DUCHESS'S DOWRY. yoThe sources of great wealth aro always interesting. lew York once held in some respect the glue factory out which Peter Cooper's millions came; the traveller to- the Wall street ferry need diverge but a few steps his course to see its site. There is an old snuff in the Bronx recalling early Lorillard days. The were brewers, the Roosevelts sugar refiners, je Schermerhorns ship chandlers. If we possessed the ent Vanderbilt ferry-boat what a relic of the early marine it would be! ) But our present interest Mes in the old Hanover juare hardware store, where the foundation of the jet fortune was laid. A large gold key was the firm’s . In course of time Goelet sold out to his partner, irtenius, who kept the key. It was a symbol of scant jue; has there ever been a Curtenius millionaire? } Goelet more wisely put his money into real estate, ‘The city at that time was not settled above Prince street / te aia land values were not high. Foreclosed mortgag ‘on ~m lands in what was then a remote rural region, but .« now thickly populated with costly homes, founded Many a fortune. © Yet the romance of early values in city real estate is fis nothing to the fairy story of the fortunes of this gen- eration. It is during the last half century that the al- Most fabulous appreciation !n prices has taken place. Of the many millions of dowry which the new Duchess of Roxburghe will carry across the ocean the greater part is the increment of the young bride's own lifetime. And a wonderful aggregation it is of hotels and thea- tres, skyscrapers and palaces. The dollars that passed into the till of the Hanover Square store have multiplied beyond measure. nr A CERTIFICATE FOR CONEY. ‘The Hudson, we know, is as picturesque a river as ‘he Rhine. The Rockies have charms and the Yosemite bas wonders not surpassed in Europe. Has Switzerland ®, more beautiful lake than Lake George or the whole ‘World any waterfall comparable with Niagara? We are prepared to accept with equanimity all unbiassed tributes to the glories of our continent. But we are sincerely glad to have Mrs. Depew's cer- Uficate of superiority for Coney Island. “There is nothing in all Europe to equal it,” says this experienced traveller. “There is only one Coney Island.” Most persons had supposed as much, but the corroboration is gratifying. At Coney every prospect pleases. Hore {s a limitless vista of delights for the eye, concord of sweet sounds for the ear, the frankfurter and the wurzburger at their best for the appetite. Old ocean nowhere embraces nymph or nalad fairer than those who at Coney commit themselves to his capacious arms, The Jungles of Africa hhaye no lions so fierce or monkeys so intelligent, nor India with her 10,000 snakes a python to compare. What f@re the cafes chantant at Paris to a Coney concert hall? What x the ensemble of any entertainment the globe esvund to a day on Coney's sands?, It fs unique and worth the price, though that price ‘sometimes seems steep, We Ufe-Savinug Service.—The shipwrecks along the Jer- Rey cosat during the last storm prompt a correspondent 7) to ask: “Is it creditable to the nation that the life-saving ( mervice on our storm-beaten coasts should be devold of an iple <quipment of steam tugs, as fit as can be made to with tho sea in its utmost fury?” Some of the ¥ spent jn mimic warfare and in the repair of ves- intering reefs in this expensive game might be ore lasting use in furnishing an excellent coast- h better facilities. Uncle Sam has no braver or tent men in his employ than those who main- Jungleeping watch{ulness for the mariner in ‘dis- ut their Gauibmant 1g antiquated for the era of oa a a, THE . EVENING #& WORLD'S .¢ HOM TOLD ABOUT | NEW YORKERS. which characterized the early days, of Charles M, Schwab, {n marked oon- trast to his present prodigality, Schwa was never a very poor boy, He drove a was only during his vacations and was more for amusement than anything else. One day when he was gettivz only $4) a week he asked a prosperous citizen| for advice in regard to investing his money. | “Why.” exclaimed tte friend, in as- tonishment, “you haven't any money, have you?’ “I've $100," replied Schwab. “But how did you save it?” came the | Inquiry. “You only got $3.0 at the gro- | cerv and are getting only now." “How could 1 spend it?” questioned young Schwab, seriously. ‘I buy a few books and put {n so much every Sunday at church. What could 1 do with the rest?" oe Senator Patrick H. hatred of the woman reformer. One of | about his vote on a special bill concern- her sex. She haunted his office and one} day picked up a weighty brown object on his dek. out of her hand and fell 10 floor. 4 Senator McCarren al . “is a tea biscult baked by si spoko it slip heavily to women reformers who want to geta bill through on aome kind of scientific cook- Ing. It's the finest paper-weight 1 ever eee Todd, of the Atlantic Yacht Ciub, and Col. Duncan Ferguson Dempster Nell, Captain of Shamrock 1., were “doing” Coney Island together the British Colo- nel dropped a penny In the slot to listen to a phonograph. ‘That thing is almost human," re- marked Commodore Todd appreciatively an the reproduction of a well-known s0- prano shrilled an aria from “Faust.” “Almost,” replied Col. Neill with the bluntnesa which characterizes many of his remarks. ‘I'm glad it's not entirely human, If it were think what {t must suffer with that awful shriek in its in- terior." eee John D. Rockefeller has an extremely versatile relative in the person of Web) Rockefeller Miller, a dining-car con- ductor on the Burlington Railroad, who has just written a book. Mr. Rockefel-| { ler’e relative has been with the railroad for twenty years, first as an office boy, then aa a clerk, then as a conductor. It waa not until he was put in charge of the dining-car that he became am- Ditious of literary laurels. Previously he had studied pottery and dabbled in invention, having patented a lounging cualr. His book just issued by @ Chi- cago firm i a thrilling story of a haunted house and bears the title, “Such ‘Things Dreams Are Made Of.” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Here's a Topic for Dincuasion. To the Editor of The Evening World: During a friendly discussion with some Deople T had occasion to meet recently the question arose as to what direction one would be travelling in wero ho to start for China from New York via San Francisco. I maintain that he would be golng west to Gan Francisco, but east after leaving port, Of course the argu- ment hinges on the direction after leav- ing San Francisco. Can The Evening World readers settle this question? JAMES K. MANSFIELD. Ireland Mas a Flag, but It Ip Not a National FL To the Baitor of The Evening World A says that the Irish flag ts a na- tional flag, while B says the English fing is the national flag of Ireland; which is right? H.W. The Boys and the Oranges. To the BAltor of The Evening World: Questton.—Two boys have sixty oranges, thirty each, which one boy sells at two for one cent, the other boy three for one cent. How ts one cent lost if one of the boys buys back the oranges at five fr two ceuts? Answer.— each orange until B's supply hausetd—i, 0, first buying a cent's worth from one and then one cent’s worth from the other. He has fitty oranges, which cost 20 cents; but must Duy the remaining ten from A at two for one cent, or 1-2 cent each. He pays 1-2 cent each for ten oranges; 1-2 2-6=1-10—Increase of cost of last ten oranges, or the increase on ten oranges Is one cent, When the entire lot is bought it le bought at rate of 25 cent each. 3.96.0, West Fifteenth street, New York, ‘Three Les: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Was the yacht race on Aug. 2, a one-leg or a three-leg race? BE, K, WHEELER. A Tip to Tip-Getters, To the Bitor of The Eveaing World: ‘The eentieman recently from Europe, Instead of copying the practice to pool tips, should, aa all other reputable men in business, give no cause of complaint for wages paid, and boldly put up this sign: Waiters are “pald full wag accepted by any of them will be fol- 1903, lowed by Instant dismissal’—and let him carry it out. M. HF, ———_— SONG. 8 In a room a single rose Makes fragrant every part, So doth the vhought of thee, dear Love, With sweetness fill my heart, And as the songbird thrills the alr With melody divine, So dost thou in my soul create Glad music, sweetheart mine, Fer, as the earvin without sts flowers And birds were dull and dear, So were my heart a barren place Dwelt ‘thou not §n ii | AST week a visitor from er | ° | told a new anecdote of the thrift stage for bis father at Loretto, but that) % McCarren has a| { the gulld worried him some time ago! ‘ “What's this?” she asked, and as she | The other evening when Commodore E €LEO0HOGOLOG-HOHF9OHOOO9O16F00O0O65OO0OOOOESOOROLGD FOC SOEDIGOO HOOD * JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER’S NEW DYSPEPSIA CURE. wine you HAVE, PONTIE P “~™ WHATS THAT STRANGE NOISE I HEAR ?- SOUNDS LITE A CRASH IN H1$ NEW CADDIE. TS aE SAWS WS COUPONS wow // att! HA a sis VIN : “nti to, LG MLD 17 ANCE - ONLY Wy) Hii} Wy DIFFER on TIME Hy Yi TP g y Cur fie, anyway! TH Vie GUS 0 3 ; ORDERS BREAKFAST ENOUGH FOR BOUR 14N, AFTER SAWING A CORD OF wood, a (Baws weep 15 INVIGORATING; TRIES 47 OW WS OFFICE CLERKS At his villa tn the Pocantico Hills John D. Rockefeller besides playing golf saws wood for his digestion, Away with pills! Away with ills! Dyspepsia’s out of question! Pocantic’s hills and rippling rills won't stand for indigestion. There Johnnie D, through club and tee, and eke with buck and saw, 6ir, Has grown to be, stomachic'ly, a man of mighty jaw, sir. NOTHING ROMANTIC ABOUT THE KING OF FINANCE. \ BY COMPLEXION NEVERTHE MORGAN Witt VCuARGE THare> VP AGAINST WOUs Quack tit ORGAN 1S A FING LADIES MAN- NIX, To Day WINDINESS, NEEDS THE wind = FOR wig SHIPS \ ee GoD HELPS THOSE \\ ‘ WHO MELPL 1 MLD Hie CHASE THOSE GIRLS OUT OF THAT, WEEE SSS MORGANS. PRIVATE LANDING = During the storm last Saterday J. Plerpont Morgan spled three p Sewe of his employees to cail them ond thelr escort to the dock at once, wh GPE PEOOPES SOLO GD DOD PPE DOOD OY OOO BE FHPGODGPOOT GIIPO VFS PIOUGY TOV a ED aur NOT INTOXICATING ee ROE ZO) a MA © SOSH ‘4 $ PS $O0SOSSOOEHO OOO” a Baas HIDES F-9GHHHHTSOHID ZINE HEROES AND HEROINES ~ IN HUMBLE LIFE. By E. B. Sherman. ARLYLE in his essay on heroes seems to regard power andits exercise as the chief requisites of heroism and to {gnore or minimize motives and moral qualities. Among his heroes the most consp!ouous are Odin, Mahomet, Dante, Shakespeare, Luther, Knox, Johnson, Rosseau, Burns, Cromwell, Napoleon and others who by war, literature or or- atory have largely affected the course of history and the destinies of mer and nations. But Carlyle also says: “The hero Is one who lives in the Inward sphere of things, In the true divine and eternal, witch exists always, unseen by most, under the temporary and trivial, His heart ts a plece 7 of the everlasting heart of nature herself.” Emerson uses the words hero, herole and herofem in @ broader and more philosophical sense th le, Happily, he was free from the prejudice, the Intensity and narrowness { of the great Englishman. He says: “Ilerolsm speaks the truth; it 1s Just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scorntul of petty calculations; it feels and never reasons, and therefore 1s always righ! It Is easy to see that Emerson recognized heroism as de- abe pending in no manner upon the condition, mitations or ac- | sidents of human existence, but rather as a gr: } whose infinite vibrations reinforce and turn into sweetest i music the sound of every prayer, uttered or unuttered, the ( generous emotions and aspirations of every soul secking @ : better life. H It is this higher conception of the real essence of heroism. which Chauncey Depew had in mind wien he said: ‘The world in all ages has worshipped its heroes, but the standard of herotsm has always been improving. We reckon heroism to-day not so much on account of the thing done as for the motive behind the act.” Were we to test the doughty deeds of many whose brows have been crowned with the laurel wreaths of fame; who have been recognized as the world’s xreat heross, by this higher standard, wherein the motive as well as the deed Ia a factor, what a shrivelling of heroos, what a shrinkage cf herole deeds would result! Cherishing a feeling of profound reverence and admiration for the great heroes, who through the agea have wrought i grandly for humanity and achieved enduring renown; whose iq Inspired utterances and shining deeds have been graven upon 7 Smperishable tablets, and who hav bequeathed to us and all . 7 coming generations the estimable legacy of thelr iilustrous ong example, I must yet confess a doubt whether the most mag- Lt nificent exemplars of heroism have not been found in the ie humbler walks of Ilfe, among those who, in their simplicity Js of soul and modest grandeur of character, never dreamed a that in all the essentials of true manhood and glorious womanhood they held high rank in heaven's untitled aris | tocracy, # ¥ How many herole souls, obscure and unknown, whe. ny names have perished from remem were wrought \ fashioned in nature's divinest mouki, an ‘ liver sublime by gractous deeds of bveneflcence and © 5 abnegation! . 4 As the most delicate and fragrant flowers are often to nestling modestly among the dead lo: or peeping tim forth from some shady bower, so th t resplendent tues blossom and diffuse their sweet aroma in the low and roughest paths trodden by bruised and bleeding fee The rose may seem to add pride to peerless beauty; lily to minimize Its delicncy by a tacit demand for adni tion; but the shy arbutus ylelds its unriyalled fragrance to the earnest wooer who seeks ft with loving care {n hidden nook where {t was planted by ‘fairy hands and ; fumed by the breath of dainty dryads. God has vouchsafed to the world no ctiolcer blessing f" t the unconscious heroes and heroines who give to earth greatest charm and without whose presence heaven w suffer irreparable loss.—Chicago Tribune, GUM-CHEWING AND LUNACY. \ Who would have thought that doctors would aes the practice of gum-chewing? Yet here is the news fron St. Paul, says the Evening Wisconsin, that the Minnesote. Stato Board of Control includes chewing gum in the list at} supplies for insane asylums, as its use Is often found to have an excellent effect upon patients, soothing them dur ing ylolont spells, and enabling them to concentrate thetr minas upon various forms of work, Doubtless it -1s the! Muscular, not the secretory, activity that’ produces t beneficial result. The secretory activity may deplete the’ salivary glands, and thus prove prejudicial to digestion, In-| ” sane people are nervous, and almost every one inclined to nervousness has discovered that there are forms of fidgeting which enable him to relieve the tension upon his nerves and help him to concentrate his attention. Many a iawyer and many an orator would be at a loss in speaking if he could not twiddle his watch chain or twirl, his eyeglasses. Many a travelling man and many a pol Uclan would lose his reputation for ease of manner in cor veraation !f deprived of the cigar which he gracefully puff y in the intervals of his talk. And the fan! What mistres of eoquetry would be willing to surrender her fan? But while gum chewing may relieve the fidgets in ¢t case of those who do the chewing, the sight of it Is like to give the Midgets to other people obliged to look on, THE FOOD VALUE OF RICE. It is cheering for the householder to know, in these do! when the grocer and the butcher show no mercy, that the is otill one cheap edible which the experts class as a neay perfect food, says the Ohio State Journal. That's rice, a/ the world 1s indebted to the Rev. H. 8. Clubb, of the Phij delphia Vegetarian Society, for turning public attentior/ it. Rev. Mr, Clubb, working in conjunction with the # cultural Department, at Washington, discovers the. Jepanese army outfooted the armies of Russia, Er. Germany, France and America in the advance on : The Japanese soldier can double quick for fourteer without stopping and do it again next day. He if . shot straight through the body and ‘hardly know an, | | ' ‘nit him. ‘Cause why? "Cause he eats rice. Go tf an has an unconquerable ambition to outfoot the armies « world, to double quick for fourteen hours without a bi’ or to be shot through the body without knowing touched, all he has to do is to save his money end liv rice, But one cloud overcasts the horizon of hope. We, pect that even now some greedy band of capitalists 1s < te ganizing @ rice trust, 3 “THE WEIGHT OF ICE. In order that consumers may determine whetnur or not they are receiving the correct weight of foe @ very good method to employ, next to weighing the ice iteelf, 1s to measure it very carefully with reference to its length, breadth and thlokness and then compute the weight by the following method: We know in the first place that one eudle foot of water weighs 62.5 pounds, under ordinary con- ditions, and that the welght of any volume of ice is just ninety-two one-hundredths as much as the weight of the same volume of water, Therefore, one cublo foot of’ tco weighs ninety-two one-hundredths as much as the same volume of water. ‘This equals .92 times 62., or 67.5 pounds, (Hence to determine the weight of the ico take the product of the three dimensions, divide by 1,728 (since there are 1,728 cubic inches tn a cubic foot) and multiply by 67.5, The result will be the welght of ice In pounds, . $6,000,000 FOR BEING “SASSY.” Claus Spreckels, the eugar king, has just made a Ban Francisco capitalist pay $6,000,000 for being “sassy. The capitalist is President of a gas and electric company, Smo) from the company’s plant annoyed Mr. Spreckels, and he went to the President and asked him to abate the nuisance, ‘The President was extremely curt to Mr, Spreckels, To avenge himself for the affront put upon him Spreckels es- tablished a rival gas and electric plant at @ cost of $4,000,000 and began cutting ratea, Prices were brought down to one quarter what they were when the old company had the monopoly. At length the man who had been “‘sarsy'* went to Mr, Spreckels and begged for quarter. Spreckels's terms were to be bought out at the price of $3,000,000, which were agreed to.—Portland Oregonian. HAY FEVER ANTITOXIN, ‘The statement of Prof. Dunbar that he has isolated the germs causing hay fever and produced an antitoxin for it from the horse should be given credence. Dr. Dunbar is an American who, after having worked in bachteriology abroad, wan given place in the Government Institute of Hy- , burs, Of which he ss now the head, eee