The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1903, Page 12

EPTEMBER 18, 1903. | Published by tho Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Secouc-Cluss Mail Matter. -NO. 15,36 NOLUME 44. CHERRY HILL CHIVALRY. After a gang affray in Roosevelt street last Novem- ber the police came upon a man named Rice lying help-| less from three bullet wounds. ‘Who shot you?” they asked. “That's ty business,” said the wounded man “Me an’ the gang will get him all right.” Last March the police found a man named Murray lying on the pavement in Cherry street with two bullets in him. He was asked who had shot him. “That's my business,” he said. “Leave that to me.” Yesterday Mike Donovan, who had been shot In Tues- day night's affray in Delancey street, died in Bellevue without revealing the name of his murderer, “I know who did it, but you won't get it out of me,” he said. The murdered Donovan did not belong to a gang; on the contrary, he was a respectable young man. But the same false pride about “squealing” swayed him, the pride which is the ‘Bowery code,” “Cherry Hill chivalry.” The young tough’s “honor" rooted in dishonor stands and keeps him true to a code of manliness that would be sublime if it were not made farcical by tie kind of life of which it is the flower. A queer flower growing up, from the rankest of weeds. | The “chivalry” of assassination and murder! “Do” your man the moment you get a chance; stick a knife 4m hie ribs, waylay him, shoot him in the back, pay back the old grudge with what weapon you will. And if you fail and his turn comes and the knife intended for him gives you a death wound, don't “peach” to the police; don't, “squeal!” Die like a man without a word to soll your “honor.” But what a pitiful “chivalry” {t 1s in the case of most gang members! A chivalry of cowardice and of idleness, of thievery, of drunkenness, of assaults on the weak, A general violation of the moral law and, with all the prating about “honor,” none for women. The degrada- tion of a noble word. Donovan's death without a sign to direct suspicion to his murderer leaves another east side tough free to roam about red-handed. It leaves also a fine oppor- tunity for the Captain of the Eldridge street station to make a name for himself. TENDERLOIN CAPTAINS. Within two years the Tenderloin has seen s!x police gaptains come and go. Sheehan, Dillon, O'Reilly, O'Con- mor, they entered upon their new duties with a zeal promising good results. They took the public into their confidence with their boaste—it seems only. yesterday, and it was actually only last March, that O'Connor was saying that he “knew where the Thirtleth street station was and where the Haymarket was and he wasn't going @bout it with a brass band.” Now he follows his prede- eessors to a post of less conspicuous responsibility, but the Haymarket is stil! going on. The new Captain begins his work with an encourag- ing reticence. ‘I am here to enforce the laws," he say It is Napoleonic in brevity, but covering in comprehen- siveness the whole scope of his duties. To the external view the Tenderloin is now by no means so near the “wide open” state as last year. Vice at least is not so flaunting. What gambling there {s goes on discreetly under cover. There are evidences of ® partial “cleaning up” of what can never be cleaned thoroughly. Some good work, at least, has been ac- complished by Capt. Burfeind’s predecessors and less Jeft him to do than would have been cut out for him if _ he had been appointed in the closing days of the Part- ridge Commissionership. TROLLEY DEVELOPMENT. Tt ts within the realm of probability that a through trolley line from New York to Boston will be in opera- tion within two years. The road has been so long in prospect that a definite date set for its completion ex- elites no undue interest. Yet certainly the promise of sleeping cars for the road is a novelty in trolley de- velopment. We are given an idea, also, of the extent to which ‘the electric line is invading the steam road's territory. ‘The interurban road with its solider ballast, heavier rails and more substantial equipment has passed the experimental stage. It is only five years ago that the + Toledo line, a pioneer venture, was established, and on Jan. 1, 1899, the road from Detroit to Pontiac, Mich., twenty-five miles in length, was opened. On this two daily trains of three cars each were run. There are now; several interurban systems 10 miles in length. Per- haps the best known is the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Une, a high-speed road capable of competing with steam lines. } } \ VAUDEVILLE MATRIMONY, A Brooklyn wedding ceremony which gave promise of remaining long notable in the annals of spectacular matrimony because of the unique nature of some of its features has perforce been made conventional and dis- appointing. The Bishop of the diocese interfered stop a display which, in his view. would be diacreditanie to the church in which it was to take place. At thie very modern wedding it was designed to re | place the time-honored matrimonial music with a! newer-fangled prograinme. We sure whether | the “Voice that breathed o'er Eden” war to be out out,| but the Lohengrin bridal chorus was to give to] “Dixie” played on the chimes. Over the chancel rail} an “ZL” and an “R" in clectric light, the initiate of bride and bridegroom, were to blaze out, and as the couple ‘were proncunced man and wife the “R” wr in glow, dimming the “LL” into instenificance. to be a display very creditable to the ele who wae to have charge of the switehb Bishop's ban spoiled it all. The honors of vaudeville matrimony are thus left (with the brides who took their life partners for better | fay “abd worse in the lion's cage or up in a balloon. And in} Beret te better sc. The chiich ts no place for the freak mar- | b tinge cetemony. to are not way It 1 expert but the was terest and Life Insurance.-In citing the case of tho ){Plutual Lites centenarian policy holder as shows B@lthough by commercial calculation his premium 1 Gould have been more advantageously invested stment Inu policy was wiser because more prudent, Evening World said; “Asa matter of fact. four years me put in.a savings Wank sixty years ago and left at compound interest would amount to more ihe entire sum owing by the compmny to Booth. Was meant was that they would excced the face vel the a THE s to deepen}: = that| e4Oo4 & & & oes THE NOSE AND GRINDSTONE CLUB. Conducted by UNCLE PEANUTBRITTLE (ROY L. MCARDELL). NTEREST {s aroused among men, op+ position has developed among wom- en, the Nose and Grindstone Club goes marching on! Mf Peanutbritt! I accept your challenge in the matter of getting off a car correctly, throwing stone at a hen and speaking kindly of | the absent. I can do, and do do, all these things though I am a woman, In return I challenge you to find a man who can mind his own business, avold stepping on his wife's dress while com- Ing in or going out of church or theatre, and not swearing when he has a poor| breakfast after spending the price of ten good ones on barroom acquaintances, I will offer a prize in the shape of a new walking skirt, a package of hatr- pins and an erect”form corset to any man or men who can fulfil the above re- quirements MA GRADLEY, Uncle Peaenutbrittle: I have had three husbands and 1 tamed t n all. I ttamed them per- feotly and if you were to go to them and ask them to say a word against me or my methods in taming they could not say a word against me, Two of them are in Greenwood and the other {s in Mount Hope. You may form clubs til your hair turns gray, but you will find wiat woman's the boss. I meed not add “and don't you forget it!" for you won't be permitted to. HARLEM WIDOW. Uncle Peanutbrit Your great challenge has dum- founded the world of women. Your grand organization, the Nose and Grind- tone Club, has awed the nex. My! wife has been kind to me for three whole days, was preparing to brace’ me for a seal- kin sacque, But last night I saw her reading your department in ‘Die Evening World. Her back was to me, and while I could not see her face I knew sna was weeping. For her shoulders shook convulsively and the seund of hysterical) laughter sounded through the room. To my mind she 1s afraid of the Pink ton women the Nose and Club “hires to protect the victime of husband beaters, I asked her what she would do if I. brought a woman home said: "I wouldn't do a thing to he So vou soe vou have one tyrant bluffed Let the good work go on. Pp. W A Question, Unele Peanutbrittle: oe While at Atlantic Clty this summe: T heard the cry of ‘(Woman's Drown- ing! arise. Immediately five or six meek looking men began to shout “Hooray-" Do you think thie was ex- oltement or were they members of the Nose and Grindstone Cluo? A PERSECUTED MAN. Printed by Permission of G. W. Dillingham. PRECEDING CHAPTERS SYNOPSI® OF who is engaged to ts suspecte? of having Mm t Theodore § Mulley a eine his. coust ee a rt anviet nani rant of thi al avery. Visite Miruhéon. 1 Gaker and finde he has walked into # tran CHAPTER V. The Purautt, OR an Instant, a fraction of a second, Mirandon hesitated; then he ross nd bowed with a trace of mock-] The others seemed to als>, Wat that Oates # vrer, nears The scheme: laugied loudly, spare] ly, demoaiacally Afrer al’ wa ' master? Dd any man, ¢it] ere pipD’ that he was un vb packet oefore time to be eompr | The voter jrang loud a the other polson to Halleat! Oakes was now staggering toward the} the District-Attorney “Its a drug--Hke Taok to Martin! “ef his policy. Actually they would amount to Whereas rom his policy of $2.00, on which he has 92,289, his heira will receive $5,820, front sireet door, following the tleoing PA ADEOROROPOGOM At firat I thought she] ¢ Grindstone pow | Derate plight of the lovers—in the way jor sack with the agility of a swept a and into his pocket and swarg his arm in the wir, throwing some hing Ike m9 KE against the floor. Oakes was tinon him and so was|\ Halen, but ha fought for an tnstant | |Thon the tall form of Oakes fell herd H to the floor aad Hallen staggered wivile Martin ina voice of dis |trese called | “Polson! the windows! murderer, but the criminal made hie ex: / bis cape in Une excitement of the moment] don is too powerful. Oakos is going to] Jane, seiaing her lover and dra, BOUDEOE DYED LOD DPRRIDE DEDDOVE® VE-DED EB SEODHID IDO OOOO POPE DODD OHOE IED OHODEO® e ad wt You BIG RUFFIAN , IF IT WERE Nat FOR THE PRESENCE OF THESE LADIES | wouLD. IMMEDIATELY CHASTISE YoU HULLY cHee! WHAT. LU-LUs GOIRLS. AH THERE ! Mme LITTLE ToOOTSies. ——! Ok POPPER,” You JUST CAME ALONG IN TIME Say \ Give US A Loon AT YOUSE AFORE |. MAKE A SMEAR CASE ‘OUT OF BETTER COME ALON MR. PEEWEE: | HAVE BE SAFER! ——_— N You ALONE. APOLOGIZE AT Youse. LLDDHO OHLOES- __A Detective Story. He was seen to seine his horse and the! death—single-handed.”” next instant he was dashing toward ine} Theodore and Jane, rejoicing in their pike. Beforo he reached {t, how-)new-found joy, were strolling througn ever, Quintus Oakes had reeled to his) the woods near the highway, when the animal, walch was standing outside| sound of distant shouting fell upon thelr guarded by one of his men, ana, israing| ears. one or two quick, stera commands Yo] Jane and Theodore looked at the ad- those about, who as yet scarce compre-| vancing fAgures in the distance and Jis- hended the cause of the excitement, war] tened to the faint, increasing sounds of oft In pursuit venicles and the tapping of horses’ Roger Malley was at the post-office) hoofs. Then. glancing at one another in corner awuiting developments. amazement, Jane spoke excitedly: "See. “Oakes—Oakes—Jane and Theodore are | Theodore, the one in front on the black out in the highway somewhere,” hel horse in shooting. What can It mean?” erled. “It's a running fight, Jane; they're Auintus Oakes caught the words| going to pass just below us. clearly and roalized instantly the des-| “Yes—but look at the crowds; look at the wagons, see the second man; see his horse. Why—I know It; It nelongs to Oakes” desperate a criminal whose passions who would hesitate at! Mr. | nothing “It's the murderer, Jane,” cried Theo- }] Checking his horse momentarily. Qakes|dore. “They expected co arrest him to- j turned in his saddle and his clear voiow|day. He is making his escape. Why rang back down the street jdid t rome out here wi arms? 1 Capture him, dewd or alive" cannot be of service he is shoot T harp words moved men to quick, | ing again’ While speaking t Theo- Mien! action, and the pext that R dore struggled to free himself from the were figures in teams and afoot | grasp of the girl, who was instinctively passing him and striving to be the frat) ie to drag him to cover. Then they after Onkes saw the large bedy ef Mirandon, both Making a desperate jump. Roger wa they recognized him now, turn once ways, but the ride a defant, unhesitating, too quick to be pulled into © wagon by the men within, | M8aln, They saw him take careful aim, Tar ahead 9 small. dark object—a | 24 owing the sharp report, the man and a horse—moved rapidly, * Aden by Oakes lurched, plunged in its watke a cloud of dust heavily on his stde and chest. ier was beyond ald from thoes behind. half pinned undernea Further beyond. out of sight some \P and then, taking where, were Jane Malley ‘Theodore nm, discharged hs revolver Stone; and between them and che lone| twice In rapld enaion horseman, but invialble to those in the| The dark, giant horse of Miranda other horseman of a aif. | quivered slowed up, and pitched side- | ..+.-By Charles’ Ross Jackson. Daasio; rimiagl. caught, With a movement of surprising Hallen peered ahead. “Hurry; Oakes is ‘lity he jumped and alighting on his o ancing us," he cried, turning | fect, wheeled again, Aacharget his flercely at Roger, he shouted ina frenzy | "capon, and then dashed into the path hin side,” ‘He's coming tery me there! Get me there! this orled Miran: up. path,” ‘HOME © i Ne (al ty at Paul ans i y Ih in ' i i iM iia 2 UT mt (ip ih i i | | ) Nov NEED A GooD LESSON IN POLITENESS. FURTHERMORE IF A HURRY SNEAK TO CHICAGO, AN’ GROW Some, AFORE Youse GETS HURTED-: DIS 1S WoT You GETS FER BUTTIN’ y Ine | i ‘ he Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. His Rescue of Two Fair Companions From a Googoo-Eye Maker, but Nobody Rescues Him. :-Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. How One of Her Little Minutes Burned a Good Steak Into Cinders and Spoiled Hubby’s Worked Up Appetite, i \ aie | i Ath ; I “rm {i i \ 2 tt i i qt | | OH MR. PEEWee BE CALM t Some ONE WILL SURELY GET HURT, U him foretbly to one aide. The two walted within the dense oak shurb by the side of the path. Scarce knowing what else to do, Theodore stooped and seized a stone at his feet—it was nature's offer- {ug as a weapon—the only one available, the only one with which to meet the on- rushing criminal. Jane whispered a warning. “Be care- ful, Theodore; the last shot hit Mr. Oakes. Isaw hie left arm drop queerly Don't move."* In a ‘moment came the heavy tread of) the murderer, who was rushing with} lie whirlwind strength up the incline. was breathing hani and his face was Abdroast of the lovers he thea tense and pale. hesitated, dashed paused, turned at sought cover, Oblivious to :he presence) nly found himself, ot the two, he &c face to face with then. f tutte: hoarse roar of surprss, whieh c ty weflanct «he cdl) aim or pull te rm of Taco was about his hest aud she yon has dead. y alone was never a match brute strength. Mirandon, by effort, partly avoided a the for mighty blow, venge brought the butt end of his r volver crashing heavily on to the un- protested head of Theodore. Stone's knees quivered, then slowly he pitchea forward into thé arms of Jane; ana Mirandon, changing his mind, darted a few steps back and fled up the path to the deep woods beyond. With a cry of anguish Jane Malley a ange] and then with’ a laugh of re-| wa} | gia arose and her clear voice carries far lowered the failing body and tried to stanch the blood that was coming in heavy streams. Seelng the futility ot her efforte, she quickly turned up her dress and, ripping her petticoat, made from its upper portion a compress, and pressing it ytrongly but tenderly aga{nat tho wound, euccéeded in partly stanch- ing the hemorrhage,. She shouted aloua Copyrighted, 1903, By G. W. Dillingham,Co. to him ineher terror, and then, woman- like, began to weep Kently, as ehe ten- derly patted the bloody head in her lap. ‘With a bound and a crash and a cry of baffled rage, Quintus Oakes: appeared at her side. A voice like the voice of a bull roared out near them. . “Where did he go, Oakes, which way Looking around,| the two recognized the giant Hallen, with Troop and Roger. “Up the hill,’ was the answer. Oakes, leaving Roger kneeling by the side of Theodore, darted on ahead of Hallen in the direction indicated. He turned at the top and pointing along the path questioned sharply, “‘Where does !t go?” Roger turned to his sister for answer. She, alone of them all. knew these woods by heart. ’ “To the beach at Billion Sea. He ts trying to reach an old boat there; he Ing to row across; it’s the only " erled Jane, 5 Then she dropped to her knoes, an¢ *! seeing the moviitg eyelids of her lover, realized that life was returning. Selaing Roger by the hand, sho fairly shouted: “Stay here with him, brother-~ stay. I must go. They do not know the y.” and Kissing the face of Theodore ahead to Oakes who was dashing. into he woods. a (To be Concluded.) —~—_—rsanrrnenen eee Next Week’s Story LORRAINE By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. A Story of Love and War. ‘Begins in The Evening World Monday, Sept. 41, and ends Saturday, Sept, 26. 4 J wy i rou Senne Dp > 3 HOR TENSE cl > 9; Se STEN —— + oF ict The Old Men’s Homes Will Soon Be Full. SEE the ratlroads are refusing to keep in their em-" ploy men ver thirty-five years old,” remarked thy Cigar Store Man, “They are following the lead of the B. R. Ta” said The Man Higher Up. ‘The managers of that. alleged railroad are recruiting their hired hands from the orphan asylums and the headquarters of the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. If they keep on a few months longer any B. R. ‘Tt. employee found carry- ing a razor will be liable to arrest on suspicion, because hw certainly won't be going to shave with it. “Nevertheless, this seems to be the day of the young maa, ‘The younger she is the more of a day it 1s. The foolisher he {s the more théy fall to him. ‘The old men’s homes are build- ing additions and the number of middle-aged men who are committing suicide because they can't find work is enough to make a man ask If there is any use in lving at all, “One reason the railroad managers give for firing the men over thirty-five is that if they reach that age without hav- ing Mer: promoted they are of about as much use as @ buried soda card. But every employee of a railroad can't be promoted. There has to be a gang of men at work for the main guy. A “It 1s peculiar how ‘they ptomote men on a fallroad, ‘They take a youthJn and work him along until he {s gete ting sbout $0 a month. He happens to strike a place where he is good and the superintendent is figuring on boosting him up the ladder, when the’super gets shifted and a new man takes his place. { “This new super ‘hgs some young geezer of his own that ‘he wants to boost and the first one is left. After a while they forget all about him uniess he happens accidentally to do some thrilling stunt, and a railroad clerk gets mighty little chance to do anything but work I!ke @ house afire and draw salary on pay day. . “By the time this man I'm talking about gets to be thirty: five, he is in a rut and there the allroad managers tell np Ne. But he has been all his life in the railroad business and | to fire him would be just the same as putting him selling! overcoats on the Isthmus of Panama. It's a 50 to 1 shot! that he's got a family, and to support Mis family the best he can do is to enlist in some intellectual occupation lle dige ging cellars or carrying the hod. S “As our old friend and uncompromising enemy to race sui- cide, Grover Cleveland, used to say, we are confronted by a! condition, not a theory. It’s the surest thing you know that! the time has come when the alleged old man fs hanging onto! his job by his eyehrows. He may be able to go out and do his hundred yarde in eleven, #urn handsprings and swim across the Narrows, but there's a young man waiting fox his job and he knows it. “They are simplifying business methods these days and there's the root of the whole évil. When the man who ta forty or over now started in he had to have brains and exer cise them some to hold his job. In these days the average clerk is little more than a machine—aud he will work cheap All he wants is a chance to walk up to the cashier's oftice once a week and take a fall ont of the bankroll.” Vhat seems to be the remedy?" asked The Cigar Store! Man. “There don't seem to be any remedy,” answered The Mam Higher Up, ‘The middle-aged vermiform appendix of society hasn't even a chance to.drink himself to death, as witness the man tn Hoboken, one hundred ahd three years old, whé hasn't taken a drop of pater since he was a child.” A Human Picture-Book. A remarkable case of tattooing came to ight in Prot. He bra's lecture room in a hospital in Vienna thirty years ago. ‘The man was the subfect of a lecture, and one of the specta- tors at first mistook him for a bronze statue. He was tat tooed from head to foot, and not a quarter of a square inch of his entire person was intact. The skin presented an ap- pearance resembling the tracery of an exceedingly rich cash- mere shawl. The coloring was done with indigo principally, with enough red inserted here and there to give it effect. His name was George Constantine, a Greek by birth, whe with a band of robbers entered Chinese Tartary to commit depredations, The gang was captured, and this man, with others, was ordered by the ruler to be branded in this man- ner. On the palms of his hands letters were tattooed, which explained that he was ‘the greatest rascal and thief in the world,’ It took three months to tattoo him, the indigo being pricked into the skin, The designs represented elephanta, lions, tigers and birds, with letters worked in between, A, couple of dragons ornamented his forehead, He said his body swelled up very much at the time and ever since has been sensitive to changes In the weather, Automobiles and Potatoes. Rapid progress is being made with the preliminary plang for the production of aleoho} on a large scale in Ireland fot motor purposes, to which the department of agriculture ta Irelond is now turaing its attention, Harly next year it # hoped that what is practically a new Industry—the making ot alcohol from potatoes on a large scate—will be in full ag in Treland, With one exception all the retroleum consumed in this untry if & foreign product and the supply is Umited. Alcohok, on the other hand, is much cheaper, can be produced in un-! Mmited quantity from the patato and will drive @ car just fas fast, If the mechanism be slightly modified. It la probe ble that an “international alcohol competition’ will te held in Ireland next year, each car to use alcohol of its owr try’s manufacture. Wheat in Kansas. Barton County te the banner wheat county in Kansas. It has wresied that honor from Sumner, Barton produced 4,905 bushels wheat this year. Sumner raised only 780 bushels. Rush County even bear Sumner, growing 879,040 bushels, Iourteen Kansas counties raised more than 2,000,000. bushels of wheat each, and thirty-five coun- ties more than 4,000,000 bushels each,