The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1903, Page 12

- | TUBODAY BVENINO, Y~ e ished by the Press Publishing Company, No. Park Row, New York. Entered at the @t New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, —— #i VOLUME 44. -NO. 18,372. —<—— FATHER GRANT'S “SPIRITUAL POLICE "| It appears that in the region round about the Church of the Paulist Fathers, at Columbus avenue and Sixtleth stptreet, there are disorderly houses, “massage parlors,” ) __ serving the uses of immorality in the guise of a respect- **@ble business, and other haunts of vice, including a) eepuloon where a young girl, sent for beer, was drugged | Stand abused. Soliciting on the streets is of common “"ccurrence. ‘ These facts are learned from Father Grant, a Paulist “svpriest, who has begun a crusade against vice there. The “public has known in a general way that this neighbor- “hood was a “new Tenderloin,” but of detailed informa- «tion it has had nothing. Why is the knowledge gained ‘mow from a priest and not from the police? Has the captain of the West Sixty-elghth street police station been in ignorance of the conditions which have led the to‘assume the burden of reforming them? We can fly understand that the police had no knowledge of THE w EVENING #“WORLD'S «HOME THE NOSE AND GRINDSTONE CbUB. Conducted by UNCLE PEANUTBRITTLE (ROY L. MCARDELDL). outrage on the young girl, but for the rest, what a pan of the cloth can seo a precinct detective can see as “well. ")%) Father Grant has organized a number of his parish- “Mionere into a “spiritual police force” for a campaign “against vice, and the regular police are adding their efforts, Here, again, we have evidence of the “volunteer “government” which is so large a factor in the mainte- Rance of law and order in New York. Evil conditions gtome ‘nto existence and are tolerated. They grow worse "and are winked at. At length they become so offensive that some civic body or some resolute individual begins @ movement to secure their abatement. any brass, any nice dry bones, eny old gum shoes? Then why not exchange them for something useful at the Nose and Grind- stone Club's Married Men's Exchange? Married men who are denied sufficient spending money out of their salaries have found a way. It is the way of the Nose and Grindstone Club's Exchange. The Road to Wealth Is as Plain as the Path to the Pawnbrokers! We knew a married man who had sold a gift clock and peach-blow vase, together with a few other articles he found around the house, and with the H's: you got any rags, amy copper, The Pavlist Fathers have been admirably active in | their antagonism cf vice in their paris, and the extension of their excellent work by Father Grant is to be com- mended. The only regret is that supine police tolerance _immakes it necessary. NO POWER TO STOP GAMBLING. “*There always was and always will be gambline in the ‘endericin. No policeman on earth oan stop it.""—Police Cap- in John W. O'Connor, late in charge of the West Thirtieth t station. Various persons have suspected as wuch, but this of- ficial statement by a police captain whose “record of ielas and arrests in the Tenderloin is equai to the record » @f any man ever in command of the station” prompts yeertain queries, 4 $9 Is this the final lesson of two years of unusually pparnest police activity in the Tenderloin, of battering- qFam assaulis, of midnight ralds “tipped oft” in time to permit of ezcape, of the $100,000 worth of gambling para- ‘<phernalin smashed or burned? Is the department im- Potent to suppress gambling or, if temporarily sup- pressed, to prevent its resumption? > Are the portcullis-protected houser with barred win- Taows reully the impregnable castles to which they have Lumorously been likened? If £0, it is a lesson dearly learned. Although since ‘{ the first days of Partridge the department has concen- ‘trated its energies on the Tenderloin a new police cap- Frain, replacing a long line of predecessors, three days after taking charge finds evidence of the existence of} ‘ix large gombling-houses, a dozen pool-rooms and sev- _Menty-four disorderly houses! ced Here is what would appear at first view to be ample corroboration of O'Connor's statement. But before ac- eoraics full credence to his doubts it will be well to give Burfeind a chance. ose NOT GOING TO THE DOGS. ro | ‘said: “The tendency of the present times is toward Gncreasing rapidly umong the women of New York."| ‘© offset alarmist talk about increase of intemperance | and ‘mmorality. five church members in good standing who are gullty of “every crime except murder and piracy,” and a cocktail at a woman's plate in a restaurant may cause grave fore- i er accept the veteran playwright’s view. Hor most Z le the moral standard is higher; for those not “moved by moral consideration there is enforced modera-| because excess “does not pay.” 1 Various causes are contributing to our moral im-j wement. Aimong them the Rev. Mr, Goodchild in’ ‘his Sunday sermon noted that en the newspapers in spthese days have turned preache! Really, is there any ‘Sther moral agency more powerful for good than the newspaper? Is tie pulpit? Newspaper sermons, preached datly from thousands of Hews columns, reach the millions to whom chureh in- terlors are unfamiliar, Their text is the wages of sin, "> Mor which there are new illustrations datly—the “double ~ “fife ending in a double tragedy, the defaulting treas- Purer, the young girl in the witness box for murder, the ‘young roue poisoning his tiresome bride, In the mirror ) held up to nature by the newspaper are sights that tarry their moral more strongly than the pulpit orator can convey it. ** “Tt is not too much to assert that the “tendency to- (ward moseration in all things” observed by Mr. Howard ‘js largely of newspaper creation. ee HEALTH FOOD EXHIBITS ‘What ought to prove to be a populur novelty in res- 2 ‘faurant methods comes from Boston, where in a newly tablished “health, cafe’ each waitress 1s designed to fe a8 a human testimonial, an animate exhibit of the ishing qualities of the food furnished there, To ure the necessary plumpness of physique the young are bountifuily fed on the best viands that the nt supplies. When finally they acquire a suf- tly agreeable embonpoint they are allowed to wait ) Customers as “‘living exponents’ of the superior of the food served, is Qn idea of merit. When further developed the of the young women's plumpness might d by appropriate labels, Thus, the stately bear a label reading: ‘Beans was the )me so.” The sunny blonde might wear In Salt Lake Sunday Bronson Howara, the dramatist, | ¥* foderation in ai! things and there are no grounds for], the widely circulated report that the habit of drink 1a) hs | his sane and unsensational statement should do much | 5; Dr. Buckley may know his “twenty-|{ ‘Dodings about feminine dissipation. But the public will] %: proceeds he bought a nice dinner for a deserving young girl wno supports her- self by golng out to do theatrical work, The philanthropist who bought the meal alluded to It as “a picked-up din- ner!”* Why? Because he was a joker as well as a patron of the Nose and Grindstone Club's Exchange. Have you anything to sell or ex- change? If so, make the fact known. Ww re attac K the tyrant sex from their weak side—Bargains! Women crowd our Exchange Rooms in their hot haste for argains,” often buying things brought from thelr own homes by energetic husbands. It is such a joke! But never tell your wife about it, Women have such a feeble sense of humor. What have you to offer? Send in your descriptions of what you have to » to Uncle Peanutbrittle. © jo: what Double, WANTED-—An opportunity too {naurance polley for $10. rt py iny wife. Adire and G, Club Exeha: FOR ExcHy A hoop kirt, da es tact tw 1801, of alue AS an Antal, auperbly ‘ventilated: will t dianond necklace, but n genuine, as hoopskirt ts A by Belle, rticle N, and . Address Hal change. a FOR EXCHANGE have been | keep! mf itoe in Harlom for six yeurs pas 6801 tr a wife that ih ewhi and have worn; will exchange. fc Addrons’ Pretty Papa, and G shange, ae PERSONAL—Will all persons who saw Drutal Woman assault middle-aged man fn company with ning lady please keep aduress of bi nag indy secret At tyr, N. and G, oF ‘Apply at once, ANGE—A cuckoo clock that 1s ir carpet, nursing Lotte and | pins for Cook's tour Hometnt ad and heart fetter part 5 CHAN KO FOR EXCHA . Japanese paper t ntudy entitled and 4 home-made methods t ure y discovered ‘at last; ark; anything for a aulet accompany ttle #lung- Ad- ; full directions ; Nand painted for dainty persona. Hypnotist OPPO! ance hai irl who has fortune in business irindstone Club. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. New Fork Manners, To the Editor of The Evening Worf: T've read the comments +2out the bad manners of New Yorkers by the Phila- delphlans. Such erities must see that a New Yorker 1s too busy to stop and answer any fool question a Philadelphia man might put to him. Of course, in Philadelphia If you should stop a man on the street and ask him how long it would take to roll a peanut around the “square,” he would have plenty of time to stop and expound all of his theortes on the question and be glad to have an excuse to stop and rest. If you should stop a New York man and ask him the same thing it Is Hkely that your eyes would be discolored {f nothing worse. Let the Phillies sleep, but we are busy GEO. A. 7. White Tle Is Worn at Formal Func- tio ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: roper to wear a black bow with ing dress? full e proper? H. Z. H. It Is an Island, To the Editor of The Evening World: A says “Coney Island” is an island, B says it isn't, Yhich 's corres? LOUIS D, Population 82,583 Square Miles. 42,450,540. To the Editor of The Bventng World: What is the area of Ireland and its Population? JAMES FURLONG, No, 239 Brondway. To the Editor of The Evening World: What is the address of the Legal Aid Soclety of New York? PCH Inquisitive Neighbors. ‘To the Emer of The Breaing World: Some of the women in our nelghbor- hood can tell you how much you pay 8 ‘brown the wheat’ that. made me|for clothes, food, eto. They can tell Get im at night and Or Is a white bow! } rs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. <1 * os vt & w She Doesn't’ Seem fo Know that Time and a Bursting Pips Are Nof Much op the Wait. . a Police Night Stick Is En Kegle Again SEE that Commissioner Greene has advised his cops to use their mightsticks on the east side - gangs,” observed the Cigar Store Man “It was wasted advice,” said the Man Higher Up. “I never knew a time when a cop wouldn't use his nightstick on anything from a gang to a garbage can. Now that the Commissioner has authorized his men to slam anybody they suspect of being tough with their nightsticks there is going to be a big boom in the sticking plaster industry. “Nevertheless, I have known of cops who hed their nighteticks taken away from them and used on them. 4 cop who has been fanned by his own nightstick in the hands of a citizen is as meek and retiring es ap oyster in a Bowery stew for a long time. All at onca he sees come guy making tracks like music manu- script on his boozy way along the street. It is night and there 1s nobody around. When the doctors ex« amine the victim in the hospital they come to thé conclusion that he has fallen off the Flatiron Building. “The trouble about authorizing the use of the night- stick in breaking up gangs is that it is left to the ossified discretion of the cop to determine who is a. member of a gang. When it comes to making a choice| the cop is likely to put his ‘bet on the wrong card. If the suspected person is large and husky and looks like he could give the cop a Yale lock around the neck the cop would swear that he !s a member of the Y. M. C. A. on his way home from a prayerfest. But if the eus- pected one looks as though he would be easy the cop” expectorates on the palm of his right hand and pro= ceeds to get busy. There fs many a guy runmi around with bats in his belfry because he has been batted on the head with a nightstick in the hands of a chesty guardian of the peace who didn’t like her color of his necktie. 4 “A cop with a nightstick is Mke a small boy in vicinity of a pile of rocks and a street lamp. You can bet the money you have been saving for the instal- ment man that the boy is going to pass one of th dornicks up to the lamp. He can’t resist the chance. | Neither can a cop resist the chance to use his night- stick if there is an opening for a play. “Of course cops have to have protection. In some: parts of the town they would be justified in dragging @ gatling gun around with them. But there is no in allowing @ cop to use his nightstick in a peaceable! ie PIPE — ITS LEAKING AGAINS=— $6 SD2S999SOECHO99O9OSF $8-99690 39-0: oS S IF Fase) CouLp=/y on crowd gathered from curiosity at a fire or an accident. y WRENC The next time you happen to be in such a crowd keep{ f ‘ro v your lamps on the cop in charge and watch him soalc his niehtstick against the corporosity of the first per- son who don’t do what he wants done as quickly as he thinks it ought to-be done.” “A cop can do lots of things with a nightstick,” ventured the Gizar Store Man. “Truest thing you know,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “Maybe Commissioner Greene thinks that after the cops ave cleaned out the east side gangs witl their nightsticks they can close the Tenderioin gambling houses with them.” Some Royal Flirts. Princess Amelie broke several hearts when she marrie% the King of Portugal. One young officer, when the engage- inont was announced, wrote to the Princess and informed! her that on the day of her marriage he would shoot himself; and, sure enough, he kept his word. Another young gallant actually had the temerity to en-) Geavor to persunde the Princess to elope with him before her, marriage, and Ina letter to her, that is still in the possession. of the King of Portugal, to whom the Princess gave ft some| years after her marriage, offered to provide ‘a peaceful home| and a lovely earthly paradise for his princess in Mnghand."* ‘When the tsarina was Princess of Hesse a German paper eaid of her that, though of royal blood, she was not above carrying on a filrtation, Truth must compel the admission that the Princess was/ distinctly of a mischlevous disposition, ané somewhet en-| couraged the attentions of men whose position in life de- barred any of them from ever becoming her husband. One man who ought to have known better—for be was @ most distinguished advocate—fell hopelessly in love with the Princess of Hesse. He gave up his practice at the bar be- cause he thought he would have a better chance of winning the Princess he loved by doing so. When his engagement to the tsar was announced this poor young man lost hid reason and died a few years later. | | The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man % 2 #) # & He Boasts of His Mighty Prowess as a Hunter, but Doesn’t Show Up Well in a Test. : “0 th lode WY ff 7 df \ (fray ES SS HA! AGAIN ARE WE IN THE PRIMEVAL FOREST- To SEEK AND To SLAY. THE SM@LL OF THE PINES, DOES \T NoT AROUSE IN US, THE PRIMITIVE INSTINCT OF LAYING Low, THE DENIZENS OF THE FOREST. REMEMBER How OUR ADIRONDACK HOLD UPS Peewee. THATS DEACON wal wat HAVE We HERES HAYRICK’S Cow, A mMooset TRU A FIT SUBJECT FOR THE HUNTERS SKILL. STAND BACK BOYS = (Saw HIM FIRST. WITH ME, To SEE IS TO wir. tna That Tricky Brain-Celf. The anatomy of the nervous system, and consequently, Its physiology, was regarded in the past as yery simple. Cayal showed that the specific brain cell is an independend unit provided with multiple processes, not through one nerve alone, but several, This independent brain unit or ceil is called a nevron. A simple illustration of how the neuron acts is furnished by our not infrequent hunt for a name or jdea which we know we possess, We feel that the name Ja there, but we cannot recall it. We get various names near it, beginning even with the same letter or the same vowel pound, yet only after minutes or even hours does it actuahy cccur to us, What fs supposed to happen is that the particu. lar cell of intellection which we are using throws out Its Process among the cells of memory for names, and though this process is brought in connection with cells containing similar names, {t ts only after a more or less prolonged search that Jt hits on the right one, It is as {f the telephone operator in the central office felt around blindly for the con- nection wanted, and only after putting the plug into various holes eventually struck the proper one. HIST! wuat ts THATS HEAR= SOME STRANGE ANIMAL 1S APPROACHING - How UNCONSCIOUS Ir SEEMS OF \F PEEWEE woud sroP SHOOTIN’ OFF HIS MoUTH AN’ SCARIN' THE GAME, WE MIGHT SHOOT SOMETHING, Besr SHOT You've MADE To DAY- Peewee! The ** Weeping Willow” Song. Some people have heard of the ballad containing the words “I'll hang my harp on a weeping willow tree,” but perhaps it is not generally known that the author wag a young man who fell desperately in love with Queen Victoria, at that time a girl of seventeen, This young lover was heir to a baronetcy; but baronets cannot approach royalty in the guise of a suitor, though it took some time before the ro- imanti¢ young man could be brought to understand this fact. | When at last he did so he sat down in despair and wrote the now well-khown allad, which was at that time pub- Bet in a London paper, and then he emigrated to Aus- tralia, RUN FOR YOUR ¢ FE Peewee® HE'S AFTER YOU. Chance Greetings.--]], Devery— Hello, Sport, old pal! Put it there! My glad hand for you every time; ‘The grip of your mitt near gives me a fit, An’ me bells are all ringin’ a chime. Murphy (the Silent)-. -Bbake, Bill, REMARKABLE. “Did you see anything remarkable while you were away?" “Yes,” answered the sardonic citizen, HIS CHOICE, “What kind of breakfast food do you prefer?” asked the landlady of the new boarder, NAUTICAL JANE. “What time did that young man Fred's “Plannel cakes and pure maple syru Ps