The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1903, Page 10

MONDAY EVEN G, SEPTEMBER 21, 1903, w THE « EVENING » WORLD'S . ag HOME . MAGAZINE & — Che Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce @t New York as Second-Cluss Mai! Matter. VOLUME 44 -NQ. 15,371. AGANGS AND NIGHT-STICKS. @nd it is good that it is. The spectacle of a detail of from the Paul Kelly Asscciation’s rooms and clubbing the rougbs singly in turn as they came down was a novel gight to see, and just what its justification way from a strict legal point of view may not be clear. But that such treatment of young toughs is salutary {fs not to be denied. @uuch strained in the case of the east side gangs. Want- ing a definite charge on which to take them to the sta- tion-houxe the police have dealt tenderly with them to a @egree that has encouraged the defiance of authority out of which the numerous recent street encounters and Q@ssassinations have sprung. Every gang member has the making of a murderer in him, and the public safety be discouraged. That the night-stick can effect. And is there not to be a better surveillance of the @ang member just released from prizon? Such would seem to be the moral of the Breen shooting. An ex-con- vict is then notoriously resolved upon avenging his “wrong” and {s in his most dangerous mood. THE MUTINOUS PASSENGER. A “next train” revolt in Brooklyn Friday night at the Eastern Parkway station was participated in by ninety passengers. They refiwed to leave their train for another mot yet due and it was run into the yard. According to Metropolitan precedent the despatcher should then have Bre Dut out the lights and called for the police; he more wisely referred the question to his superiors, who re- (S Jeased the train and ordered it sent on to the terminal, he passengers reached their destination an hour late. A twelvomonth has seen a large number of similar miutinies, no: possible a few years ago, There Is no dis- order about them; the man who makes needless trouble om car or train has no part in them, They are protests of respectable people against what they conceive to be thelr wrongs at the hands of public utility corporations ‘which they have themselves created. The fight is one for principle. ‘These revolts are signs of the times in which it {s pre- sumed the officials of street car lines must be deeply con- @ernesi, because they indicate a changing attitude of the people toward public-service corporations. The passen- oer has lost so much of his old-time meekness that the question is How far will it go? How soon will there be ‘The night-stick is out in the Eldridge street precinct, | % policemen standing in double row on the stairs leading | The quality of merey has been too) ¢ demands that the opportunities of felonious development | 5 { Good evan: | omar 4 om youn SCORE FoR A FEW DANCES (WOULD GiKE To SHOW my LATEST INNOVATION IM THE WALTZ STEP , wun ¢ INTEND INTRODUCING LTHIS” SEASON iG THe Se THE NOSE AND GRINDSTONE CbUB. Conducted by UNCLE PEANUTBRITTLE (ROT L. M*CARDELL). @n‘irresistible insurrection by the travelling public to @ecure its full rights in the way of transit facilities? These lesser revolts may be the first skirmishes in quel a revolution. RAILROAD PRESIDENTS. A There used to be a belief that any man of executive a @bility would make a good railroad president; after the 4 War of the Rebellion generals from both the Federal vand the Confederate armies were especially in demand for such positions. ‘The new and more sagacious idea is that a man who has come up from the ranks 1s better fitted to discharge the responsible duties of these high posts. The officia} slated for the New York, New Haven and Hartford's Presidency, C. S. Mellen, now President of the Northern Pacific, is a man answering these modern requirements. He has risen from a clerkship on the old Fitchburg Railway. The Lackawanna’s President, W. H. Trues- ale, began his career as an auditor's clerk. The Lake Bhore’s President was a station agent. The Presidents of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the Boston and Maine were clerks. Any number of general mana- Bers have begun as brakemen; the Baltimore and Ohio's, the Chicago and Alton's, the “Big Four's." Others have begun as rodmen, like Elliott, of the Burlington lines, and Whitman, of the Chicago and Northwestern. A railroad president {s something more than a cap- @ain of industry; his realm is a limited monarchy which he rules subject to the will of the particular Wall street magnate who owns his road. In the case of the New Haven, otherwise “the Consolidated,” system, the reaim 4s an extensive one, a railway monopoly of the first rank. Its 2,000 and odd miles of track represent the ‘amalgamation into one harmonious whole of ambitious little roads that were the pride of local New England. The Old Colony line was swallowed up, in course of time the Boston and Providence, the New York and ‘New England and many others, It gives an idea of the fast recent development of railway consolidation to re- all that as lately as 1872 a passenger going from here to Boston travelled over three independent lines. ‘The President of this vast modern system {is respon- sible for the payment of dividends on $54,000,000 of capital stock. He accounts for receipts of $40,000,000. He is charged with the safe transportation of 53,000,000 of passengers and 15,000,000 tons of freight. His will ts law to thousands of employees, a great army of industry. . He is a king in a way, with power not possessed by gome monarchs on thrones. Yet sometimes a black- hulled yacht lays to in the Sound, a launch puts out from @ nearby pier and the monarch comes aboard to receive ders from the magnate. It is master and man again. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. 4 great ocean steamship line forbids a funeral pro-| Cension to assemble at its pler because of the apprehended ‘effect on intending passengers of the public knowledge that there is a desd man on board. A popular Broadway playbouse postpones its opening night for a week so ‘that }t may begin the season auspiciously on ‘Thursday, "| the proprietor's iucky day. This in New York in the i ‘Nineteenth Century! ‘But worst of current developments in credulity, made 7 of comment here because of their appearance in ‘news columns, is the faith put in clairvoyants and tune tellers by women who count on the ability of such Beare” to tell which way the stock market is going. The Hing World's interesting story of commissions given h-quick swindlers to these gentry to recommend stocks to gullible investors seeking advice re- xtont to which rellance is put in the predic- false prophets. ag ole is particularly helpless. She Is Wwing-room confidence man no less! Promoter. But what 1s to be Jeads her to think that the | reas TWO CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. le has always been Uncle Peanutbrit- tlo's Idea that men to be thorough- lv independent should be self-sup- porting. A man stultifies by a weak and timorous policy of al- lowing his wife to support him and then | to taunt him about ft. port yourself than to be browbeaten by & woman who takes In washing and boarders and always twits you about It. Every husband should have some light and «genteel occupation whereby he can make vin money and on which he can depend for suppo! Many husbands Better to sup- turned to money have been starved into looning at home, open a singing school for canarles of gentle disposition, teach the newly rich the art of spending money graciously, but. better than all take advantage of.the opportunities of the Nose and Grindstone Club's Mar- ried Man's Exchance. Bring portale articles to the Exchange, but keep the fact secret from vour wife—women are so envious, Here™are some bargains: FOR EXCHANGE—Will exchange a Ince thaw! and a bulldog for yacht; yacht must be tn good condition: will take cash. Ad- dress X, FOR EXCHA Ufe for one town: wife tn Versationallat. N. & G. Club, FOR EXCHANGE—A lot of women's clothes, including hats, &c., for cash; articles can be sent at fat: prospective micshaver must act quickly before my wife ret from country: also must agree to come teols to break in trunks and closet; bring burglar mask to leave behind, WISE WILEY, N. & Q. Club. FOR EXCHANGE—A perfectly tame Ene- lsh sparow/{n cage; will take Jersey cow, fountain pen and motor Dleycle tn exchange; quick. X. N -— Wl! exchange my lot tn man, sinking would Ike to Le pulled out of water off Coney Island; no trifters need apply, VOR EXCHANGE—A set of false teeth, a falvo front, @ false promise and a fal heart for one ratirond ticket to Sioux Fally, 8. D., with privilege of six months’ stop- over. Address DISILLUSIONED, care N. & G. Club. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, * ANSWERS. No Indigenous To the FAltor of The Are there any snakes in Ireland (that is, native of that country)? If there are no snakes there will some Irish reader kindly attempt to explain the aclentific ssigned for their absence? TR. “Tramp” Vs, “Bum,” To the Editor of The Evening World: Hav.ng had a dispute w.th some of my friends regarding the difference between a tramp and a bum and as this question hasn't been decided we resolved to leave it to your readers, M. R. Dates and Pronunciation. To the Editor of The Evening World. On what day did Oct. 15, 1879, fall? Also Bept. 16, 1876? How would you pro- nounce “ennul?’ ' what language is Itt " BO. Wednesday, Saturday. Eanut a French word and ts pronounced on-u-eo, It In a Mooted Point, To the EAltor of Tha By. World: It ts proper to say * 80 1p?" MW. drunk has never been definitely settled. ‘The former is the more generall: cepted term, By enn When were the last ind the dingy cur- ue ne Dext week's races.for the Ameriva's Cuy poeoee a 1903? A Sees ty BPVLDVEDODOODDEGEOELD4E HVS OHHPEIGDEOOD ‘The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. himself | without an accomplishment that may be| § submission by brutal wives. Learn bal-| ¢ ‘The question whether soup ts eaten or aya there was no ele OOODDLDOWOOS PLEPEDODODIVIED PVVOOOVHOOL SOEDTICT DOLCE S38 ETE HLOHHEOG9EOO HF 0OTOOOEO Dat ea He Beasts of His Skill ag a Dancer, but His Untamed Feet Show Him to Be kike McFadden When kearning to Waltz. 1 Am NOW SHOWING You. ! THe PERFECTAE watz sre GEADY S ALLOW PLEASURE DANCE wired Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. It | PODPOE PHOCOSES-OHE MAKE A RUN FORIT HORTENSE - | MAKE A RUN — €EPPEOETSVDIIHGHISI04DOO9O9S GO SOODIDSOY ISPED UP THE A E STAIRS So Quick. GESPCGLOOS ee: ee Seeesesaeeeees 903% PREDOPSGHOHII HOGG HF LHOEHIEGGHGOEHHHOG HV EL HVEHHISOHOODS $ — ; = LIGHT BED CLOTHING. | Don't sleep under too bed PETROLEUM AND COAL. The question ofthe comparative econ- Jothes,”* cautions a phystotan. “Ft Is they are tired or woak from illness tor lomy of netpoleum and. coal ax fuel ts Myalente to have too much covering, a4 | shauld they be exposed to a strong Hah va iy ‘In Now Orleans, San eens In te Impurities of the hody./at any thne. The Nalit should alt: i Ja, to do with Mttle bed clothing, and Foul 99, Ma wert or Sneeh rom Aa 4a Bob eleey Ratha TIRED EYES. many The eyes should never oo used) whe: hoe st s wt RA Glance Intoa Mirror and What It Did tor Mr. Waitaminnit's Train-Catching Passion rs 4 ¢ Now Foe THAT! ‘ EXPRESS les COME. $ HORTENSE_ \THE EXPRESS \S COMING ~ BPLGOLOOH SE SSG THOT DE GLOTHE DOHT4OEOOOOG OOF OOOO THE KAISER'S SUBJECTS, The iutast statistical estimates for the cA A asi WAGON Cutting a Figure In Swell Society. 6 ‘T SEE they scratched a guest at a society function up in Bar Harbor and uncovered a waiter,” re} marked the Cigar Store Man. “It wasn't the first performance of that kind,” said the Man Higher Up. “Every once in a while a waiter with gall and a French accent gets introduced into soctety. They all make a front, too, until some man or woman who has seen them slinging hash or wearing livery gets hep. “A good wise servant who has played engagements in millionaires’ houses has no difficulty in doing the proper stunts if he gets in under cover. Most of them are cleverer than the Willie boys with the pazaz who cruise around the swell functions, The average steady attendan: at cotilions and receptions is about as inter- esting in conversation as a man with ay fever. Being born with money and a social drag, the soctety, youth never learns anything. He goes to college, but he don’t try to accumulate the blue chips in learning. When he gets out he has a life of loafing ahead of him. “He don't know anybody but men in bis own set, he never sees anything, and he can't talk about anything but what he sees. To hear three or four of them get together in a highball session and use language would make you think they were persons taking a vacation from a foolish house. Ifa society man gets injected with enough ambition dope to make him go to work he drops the society thing. “That {s the reason why a smooth waiter or butler with an education absorbed by contact with the world can make a hit in society. He {s different. He can tat. two or three languages in a way that shows that he didn’t learn thkm from a correspondence school, and he takes an interest in what is going on. He is wine enough ‘to pay attention to the women, and this makes him as solid as a man fn a cross seat on an “L” train. The way society men treat their women reminds me of the way , Indians treat their squaws, “The men servants in the houses of the rich and socially prominent are in a class by theanselves. Most joe them are solid In their jobs for life. They have a | way of knowing things and hearing things and remem- | bering things that puts the people Mey are working for in a trance. If you should happen to fall across a bunch of them trading experiences and scandal in a saloon you would be likely to wonder if they werent rehearsing ‘Boccaccio’ up to date. “Another thing that makes it easy for a waiter or butler to make good in society after he has sneaked in under the canvas is the gullelessness of the society women, What they don't know about the world in » | Seneral couldn’t be written down. From girlhood they , | train with the same limited set, and although their >| natural intuition helps them they are away shy when it comes to self-protection from strangers. Of couree, there are oxceptions, bul these exceptions are gener- ally so far ahead of the genera] run in wisdom that the others are afraid of them. “Once upon a time I was a guest at an execution in Sing Sing. After the condemned man had been officially roasted in the electric chair the warden kindly invited us in to breakfast. Most of the guests declined, but I was hungry. The table.was attended to by a former butler in a swell New York house who was spending a vacafion in the college of stripes for swtping the family, Jewels. “There was no more the appearance of a convict about him than there is about a man who never saw the Inside of a jail. He was bose of the whole work. If he has beon released I'll gamble that he's working for some swell family, and if he ever gets a chance to butt inte society through the scenery entrance he'll be the dram major in the band until somebody who has seen him before remembers his mug.” “It must take a lot of nerve," suggested the Cigar Store Man. “A man don’t have to carry a deckload of nerve to take a chance on a sure ede » answered the Higher Up. oo. PPDDHICOHODHIGIG IGG O9:9906 GHOM $299 $06OO006 A Chance Greeting. Jerome: “What sayeth Seth to a highball And a Turkish cigarette In yonder grill of the Merry Still, Where no killjoy comes to fret?” basen BOLSD GOTHS-3604 055695959 H0050090GO6 Tow: “Forsooth, Willie T., the same It shall be, - For set trlents as we are not many; . al f 4 J { t Fal