The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1903, Page 10

FRIDAY EVENING, 7 SEPTEMBER 25, 1903. ene © Beaters Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to 8 Fark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMoce at New York as 3econd-Cluss Mall Matter. —_— — MOLUME 44......... ceceeeeeeeeees NO. 18,375. ———. FUSION FRANCHISE BARGAINS. In the Citizens’ Union's bill of particulars of bene- fits conferred on the ety by the Fusion administration | there are many ‘tems which wil) make good campaign Qrguments for playsrounds; ho: of the death rate to the lowest figure in the history of | w parks and the reduction pitals for consumptives; the city; the Increase of dock rentals and of water reve- nues; the adie school accommodation and the exten-| sion of asphalt paving; street-cleaning economies-the mere recital of the reforms accomplished will carry ponviction of the redemption in large part at least of ore-election promises. But most important of those items to the general Public is that regarding the city’s grant of railway franchises during Mayor Low's term of office. From| the Pennsylvania and the New York Central and from! the Bronx trolley line, for a right of way covering eev-| enty-five miles of track, the city will be reimbursed to the extent of $250,000, an amount equalling 60 per cent, | of its entire revenue from the 1,000 miles of surface road built under previous grants. The poiut of view of street utility franchises has changed from the time when the Third avenue surface Ime could secure {ts valuabe charter {in return for an annual rental of $20 a car, an amount somewhat less than a car's dally earnings at present. With the growth of-a fuller appreciation of the enormous value of the rights formerly bartered away the price at which they @re now disposed of has risen to a figure more nearly fepresenting adequate compensation. CHEAPER OPERA TICKETS The public will be grateful to Manager Conried for his decision to popularize the prices for seats in the upper parts of the Opera-House when “Parsifal" ts per- formed. This does not mean that the seats will be cheap; but for those to whom the orchestra chairs at! $10 each would be prohibitive there will be the balcony and family circle at prices only a little im excesa of theatre rates. The benevolence of the concession 1s hinted at in the statement that the presentation of the Opera will necessitate an expenditure of $80,000 before: the curtain js rung up. This means an artistic variation of the onyx and silk plush luxury which makes so many ings more elaborately expensive than they need to be to be thoroughly good. The public, while grateful, will wait to see just how Jarge a share of the cheaper tickets it will be able to Purchase without recourse to the ticket speculator. As the Rullman case has not yet come to trial we are still unenlightened as to the arrangement with the box- office by which a speculator may, as by his own allega- ton, lose $2,000 a year out of his profite without miss- ng it. Buch profits point to the sale of thousands upon thousands of tickets at a higher than the box-office rate end emphasize the extent to which the theatregoer de- sirous of good seats is forced to depend upon the specu- lator for what the box-office cannot furnish him. The hotel guest may not mind the extra dollar paid for two meats; it is an accommodation he considers worth the price. The habitual city playgoer, however, regards {t as @n imposition. He hopes that the cheap opera tickets in Question may reach the purchaser without the inter- @ention of the speculator. THE MODERN COLLEGE BOY We had on Wednesday the case of the schoolboy , Power automobile. Yesterday the despatches told in- structively of the trip of the son of the general manager of a transcontinental road from his home in San Fran- cisco to Yale College, where he is a student, The youns man made the journey in a private car. Two chefs, two porters and several personal servants looked out for his comfort. The train despatchers of three great railroad systems, and various locomotive éngineers, towermen, signalmen and flagmen as well guarded his progress, keeping an unusually anxious eye on the “boss's son.” He travelled over the 3,000 miles of} road as luxuriously as might a prince of the blood and fm semi-royal state. At the New Haven college he will Becupy one of the apartments the erection of which Precipitated a discussion about the increase of luxury at college. He Is a type of the college boy of which the last generation knew nothing. Yet the moment this pampered youth enters the college grounds his importance leaves him. His pri- vate car will secure him no privileges there. It will not make him more popular than the boy who ts doing out- side work to pay his way, nor will {t attract the welcome slap on the back which as often signaltzes the choice of | @ poor boy as a rich for membership in the exclusive clit, ‘The colleges are still democracies in which wealth | and “pull” count for less than im any other section of | ‘American society. ‘ CONEY’S JUBILEE. | Coney Island has a Mardi Gras celebration to-night =a fat Tuesday on a Friday nearly five months ahead | of schedule time. But if the event does not fit the) Coney chronology it is always Shrove Tuesda Wednesday arrives only to the departed visitor, One is glad to note that In the proceasion to-night | most of the characteristic Coney industries will be ade-| Muately represented. ““Iwenty bands, scores of gor-| _ Beously decorated floats. animals, acrobats, clowns and prettes In costume" will be in line, and we suppose | the frankfurter men, the tintype artists, represen- eg of the shooting galleries and baseball-throwing | lors and all the fakirs, They make the resort great! s are entitled to share in its jubilee, | om “Unele Abe" Stillwell it 1s learned that Coney! Deen ‘accessible to the public only since 1872, when | ‘Aret railroad was built, and its great popularity as) > E dates back but a little more than twenty years, last generation do without it? ‘To lack | a and trolley cars was bad enough, but to have rtienlar feature in which the vaunted} defAcient by comparison with the hastening to school, 200 miles away, in his 16 horme.|tl,® noterlety and disgrace of arrest cbureh calendar the excuse may be given that in the! ‘* | shoulder: jee Whe walk thusly! It loks ridiculous) + Confessions eesOlese | 2 A Male Flirt.! & i} | Edited by | ROY 1. McCARDELL. F | Pha editor of these "Conte * destres it to be thoroughly u has no connection “masher a them for genuine ood that fh these memoirs o! having pre} Catching a Tartar. district ® @O2O999000G9096 F555 RS DEES aEd 2 Mittle wives from Rrookiyn who do not ov- fect to strike up an acquaintance with | A good-looking, well-tressed man who | will take them to luncheon Dear hunters have a saying that the woman who drinks cocktails will Mirt Amassher In the shopping districts makes it @ point to go into the first-class ree taurants that abound 1p the region of the big atores and look over the place tor good-look!: women 4rinking cock- taila, There are always some doing that, The masher then gore outside and walts for the iady of the cocktail, Nine times out of ten she will not avert her eyes when he gives her « glance signif- cant of ti to become acquainted | I have made the acquaintance of « dozen women in this manner. 1 became very chummy with them all, but some- how never had the pleasure of meeting their husbands. ‘They all had such lovely husbands, ‘They told me so them- selves, But Harlem and Brooklyn are so far away. I caught a tarrtar once In the shop- ping district. She was such a almple, sovitul looking maid, But sie smiled, when I smiled at her. After 1 got tho! return smile I stepped up to the maid and said “Where are you going?’ “Oh, Just taking @ walk." Thin in one way two-thirds of street | fiirtations begin. Then the man asks i the lady will go somewhere and have luncheon. § My simple, soulful maid did not want anything to eat, As for the suggestion of a “little something to drink," she re- colled in horror, She was euch a pretty and demure little thing. She sald she was from Kingston, N, Y., viaiting an aunt fn Union Hill, N. J., and had just come to the city to eee the stores. Who was I? That day T felt tacettous wag! I simpered Ike @ regular cut-up| & and said "Me? Oh, I'm Doxte the Dip. | ¢ ed pickpockets | York, You want to be coreful.” | d away a moment and did not seem to appreciate the humor of the situation, Seeing she was somewhat | difdent, 1 anid: “Now. as you won't have anything to eat or nomething real to drink, would you care for some soda water?” She said she guessed sho'd like @ lit- tle vanilla ice-cream soda. We went Into @ crowded confectionery store, and she had her loe-cream soda. I nthe jam of crowding women we were thrust ¢u- gether several times. $ I pald for the soda and we came out of the place. At the entrance she grab. bed me by the wrist and exclaimd in a tense voice “Where's my pocketbook?” Across the street regarding us intently I notleed a thick wet young man, who I now remembered, stood near us down by the elevated station when I made the merry remark that I was Doxie the Dip, the dest known pickpocket, &c. "Give me my pocketbook!" : People looked at us curfously, but | ¢ made no attempt to Interfere, Possibly | { they thought she was my wife. I saw I was “stung’ am the saying ia, I realized Oh, euch » and I groaned: ‘How much wae in your pocketbook ?"* “Eleven dollarst’ she snapped. Fortunately I had the change of aly twenty-dollar bill with me, as she knew. I passed over @ ten-dollar dill and a one and she burried away, the thick-set | > young man following her on the othe: side “I beg your pardon," sald a vote my elbow, as 1 stood gazing after vanishing matd; “here's a pocketbook the young lady with you dropped in the store.’ © 1 took ft and opened |t mechanteally. | It contained half a pack of cigai & ladies’ complimentary ticket to a “mask and clvic ball of the Lady Nico- tines,” a street car transfer, a latch key, four pawn Uekets that hag “run out” and twenty-four cents in hickels and pennies! LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, 47,102,000, th t The Evening World What ts the population of the Auatro-/ Hungarian ire? WILLIAM B. Mt. Morr Park Youngsters, To the Editor of The Evening World 12 Better spoll reform with an invisible | © R, or exercise a little in the suppression | the shouting, howling, whistling | nesters who make Mount Mor- ris Park such a pandemonium nearl g every night that residents cannot hear | 4 elves talk Instead of the park t to the locality, it has A unbearable nulsance. Ia this the class of scholars our publi schools turn out? DISGUSTED REFORMER. Priday, To the Filitor of The Rvening World: On what day of the week did Aug. 13, 1869, fall J. B. Yen « Won in Sixth Roand, To the Editor of Tha Eyeing World Did Gus Rudlin and Bob Fitzsimmons ever Aeht? If so, who won? C, B,C. Nov. 4, To the Editor of The Evening World On what date did Blection Day, 1884, fall on? B.C, ‘The New Walk,’? of The Evening World The new walk, have you got tt? Why ts It that so many people walk with! 4 ems and hands thrust back- ward and hold the body stimt from head to walst, Is it swell? Cut tt out | f ‘0 the ai ak “4 RL we | Pee ‘Mrs. Waitaminnit Cad rd PRESENT My MR PEQwea MAN BALES on FEATHER BED. | DOWN MISS SiXPoOT, ALLOW ME TO (77 AFRAID) JAM COME HORTENSE| GROSS QUICK ~ — ES — (Come Dear! \_ WHILE THE) Do You Wis The Great Little Man Tells Miss Sixfoot of His Love and Gets a Surprise from Brother Willie. SSS On, MiS3 SiXFOOT, MERE WORDS CANNOT CONVEY @up}} TO YOU, THE DEEP FEELINGS tor MEASURE THIS MEETING BRINGS -\<~ TO Me, (9) [oF iy ieee cE a Se SHINEDTESESOONDE 00960009900000-00000009000000000800 ¢ NOTHING COMING-' L ASS STR nce) SV mapame_ 2 = 88O4HO90O40O950O8O29959499OO2 FOIOOO2O9ODVEDIDIOEE® 080090000000 --the Woman Who Is Always Late. tt wt Her Deliberation in Crossing 4 Street Prepares Mr, Waifaminnit for the Hospital. = Waly JAMES q te) (1s Blasts ea allahy S JOST ONB, AY 93 SIKFOOT, LIGHT OF MY EYES oh Athay VEAaNS FoR You: BEND Down THey FAIREST ONE AND LET ME IMPRINT AKISS ON THY FAIR BROW, uirree WHY MR. PRE WEE NeuMRE NOT GOING ALREADY ARE You. ? 7 © |] McClellan (George B.): Policemen May Have To Hire Valets. «J SEE that the police are forbidden to wear patches on their pants,” said the Cigar Store Man. “Yes,” answered the Man Higher Up, “the cops are stung again. What docs Commissioner Greene expect the cops to do when their trousers get on the plotz—throw them away? A good heavy pair of police pantaloons hag lasted many a cop for y with judi- cous carpenter work on the rear elevation and leather bindings around the bottom of the legs. the Indigna- tion on the force {s good and plenty mucb “The time has gone by, it appears, when a cop can patrol his beat looking like a housepalnter on the way , home from work with his toil rags on. The next thing expected 1s an order that will make every cop open his blouse before he goes on post and prove that he !s wear ing a shirt. You know, a shirt js an incumbrance to a cop on a warm day. He puts his blouse on over his ¢ undershirt, pins a celluloid collar to the co)!ar of the blouse and admires his genteel reflection in every show window he happens to strike. “Another order is that the cop shall always have @ fresh shine on his brogans. So many cops are unable to see their feet, to say nothing of stooping over end caressing them with a blacking brush, that the order ts nothing less than cruelty. The Bootblacks’ Protsctive Association is filled with dismay, because the members fear that the police force will come to the conclusion that shines are the same as peanuts. ‘ “And then the Commish rubs it in by ordering that ‘ his cops shell keep their visages clear of whiskers. It haa been intimated to them that the proper thing is a shave every day. The sight of a face on a policeman that can’t be distinguished from a doormat fills the Commish with anguish. [t seems that he has been up against such visions lately. It hasn’t been a hard matter up to date to dig up a cop who could write his name on a sheet of plate-glass with his chin. “Right here {s where the barbers come in with @ beef against the administration. A cop who pays for @ shave ts considered as knocking at the front door of the funny house. It waen't so irksome when the rule .& was to shave about twice a week. The cop would drop in when business was dull with his favorite barber, get the bristles planed off his map, and on Sunday he would look the other way {f the doors of the shop were not closed at 1 o'clock. If the cops have to shave every day you will hear of some barbers separating themselves from their own lives. “But it 1s on the clothes matter that the cops are J sore. They only get about $1,400 a year—a mere pit- tance, as Bill Devery would say. Most of them could earn more in the learned professions, to hear them tell it. How is a man with $1,400 a year going to afford to buy clothes every time his uniform wears out? Somt| people may say that a oop don’t have to pay anything for street-car rides, booze, tobacco and other necesst- ties that the average citizen is stuok for, but they forget the fact that every cop has to buy his own revolver.” “The policeman’s lot {g not a happy one,” quoted the Cigar Store Man. “No,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “and it's slathered all over with gloom now when every cop contemplates the necessity of paying wages to a valet.” Strength of Egg Shells. A member of the staff of the Smithsonian Institution hag been experimenting on the resistance of egg shells. Right ordinary hens’ eggs were found only to give way under @ pressure, npplled all around, of between 400 and 675 pounds on the square inch of surface. When the stresses were ‘applied internally on twelve eggs, they yielded at pressures of thirty- two to sixty-five pounds per square inch. The pressure re- quired merely to crush the eggs was between forty and sev- O & LLY VPLS LOGOG LE LOY PDODLDOTOSIS IO GOO IHD HE YH HOODY enty-flve pounds per square inch, The average thickness of the shells was thirteen-thousandths of an inch. The World’s Creeds, Herr Zeller, head of the Bureau of International Statistics at Stuttgart, has published an interesting table of the relig- fons of the world, He places the aggregate number of human beings on the earth's surface at 1,644,616,00, of whom only about one-third, or 634,940,000, profess any forms of Chris- tlanity, The adherents of Confucius number 300,000,000, of Brahma 173,290,00) and of Buddha 121,000,000. The number of Jews |) the world ts given as 10,860,000, Musical Fish. Lake Batticaloa, Ceylon, has the probably unique distine tion of being the home of mustcal fish. The sounds emitted by these are eaid to be as sweet and melodious as thost which would be produced by a series of Aeollan harpe. Crossing the Jake in a boat one can plainly distinguish the pleasing sounds. If an oar {x dipped in the water the melody bece wider and more distinct. PIDISDHIDTLVOODD 24OOHHHOHOH-9HO-90H99.59-H90H99O0 0 DOSS HOS GY! An Imperial Censor, hy The German Empress has expressed the desire that for the future all pleces intended for representation at the court theatre shall be submitted to her first, so that nothing may be played of doubtful morality or likely to shock the audi- ence, Her Mojesty reserves the right of vetoire any play she may choose. or Furthest North. Up in the frozen northland, almost within the Arctic Circle, Mr, W. T. Lopp fs looking after his publication, the Eskimo Bulletin, probably a unique paper. The place ts Cape Prince of Wales and the Bulletin is issued but once every twelve months. Indeed, under the head of the paper is the concett “The Only Yearly in the World.” Chamois Nearly Extinct. It 1s estimated ‘that there are now only 1,500 chamols in ¢he Swiss Alps, owing to indiscriminate killing of these antmalt at all seasons of the year, The Swiss Government has nov taken action with a view to prevent this breed of animal becoming extinct in the Alps. ( Chance Greetings.— McLaughlin (Hugh): Why, Georgie, my son, as I live! An’ 'tis splendid ye look, honest true. With you on our ticket it's right through the wicket, ‘Til of Fusion there's not left a Fu. Oh! Sage of the Auction Parlor! 5 Your words are comforting balr. As you say, 7's a cinch—not a squeeze or a pinch, For the pee-pul I surely will charm,