The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1903, Page 14

+ ©OOSOGO0O1004 The Importance o Cd Cad ittle Man. Miss Sixfoot. ee Te ‘Paibltshea No Bt @ and Makes = igh renee torte a oe Mares a Drive That Ends the Game ‘sr ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. "Bae. tHe Ties ‘ stow suse ram oe — “VOLUME 44.....0005 esersseeeeeesNO. 18,888. — MR. SCHWAB’S STEEL MILL. CAN PAAKE Yy THAT WILE OPEN YOUR EYES. . The receiver of the United States Shipbuilding Com-; = SH LINKS. ROME AS HIS MOST pany, with a curtosity which all trust magnates must Feprobate as impertinent, has been inquiring into the | ‘ ‘terms on which the company acquired the Bethlehem Steel Works from Mr. Charles M. Schwab; he alleges that the valuation of $30,000,000 put on the property ‘Was “excessive and fraudulent.” It will be recalled that the sale was arranged by J. P. Morgan & Co., whose fee ‘Was $5,000,000 in common and preferred stock, a modest commission. It would seem that in this allegation of fraud there tes a grave menace to the very foundation of trust flota- tion, and that in attacking Mr. Schwab the recelver is making an insidious attack on the entire fraternity of promoters. If the right of a member of a trust to dispose of his | “ Qonstituent company to the organization at e valuation gil out of proportion tu its real worth is to be abridged, will not an especial privilege of High Finance be abro- gated? Is the antiquated paper mill no longer to go {nto the new concern at the value of a modern plant Multiplied by three to represent the three grades of @ecurities to be issued to cover it? Is not the Iimer which had the ocean record twenty years ago to figure in the merger on a basis of valuation sufficient to build it anew? [f the promoter Is to have his genius for imaginative valuations hampered by considerations of ordinary commercial honesty the bottom must fall out of many a promising enterprise. ‘What a lesson is furnished the credulous investor by the shrickage of values in the eeereetin Trust's pe- curities! The bonds now 14; the stocks, preferred and Sommon, at $1 a share! The $20,000,000 of securities jasued to cover the Bethlehem Steel Works purchase now Reduced to a morket value of $1,600,000 and Mr. Mor- Ban's $5,000,000 commission shrunk to $50,000! If the stockholders had put their money In the first “get rich quick” swindling venture thet offered would they be worse off than they are as the result of investing in this thoroughly “legitimate” enterprise, the rer'arity of whicp was certificated by Wall street? RUSSELL SAGE’S FIVE MEALS. At a time when theories of diet were never more fumerous or more directly contradictory the practical @aily bill of fare which keeps Russell Sage hearty and halo at eizghty-seven desorves attention. Mr. Sage eats five menis a day, almost as many as they give a consumptive in Dr. Lederle's tuberculosis | hospital, and of somewhat similar neture. He begins the day with a substantial breakfart and ends {t with an} ample dinner. But between times, and therein lies the Main merit of his dietary, instead of the heavy luncheon which brings torpor to the keenest intellect, the rugged | old financier takes three light lunches of bread and Wilk or ernekerx and milk or milk and a sandwich, but| @iways milk. These lesser meals he consumes at 11 and Land 4. | ‘That te, during his busy working day Mr. Sage while providing his system with a full allowance of nutriment, imposes no tax on the disestion sufficient to divert the mulin flow of n!ood from the brain to the stomach. By the lightness of the meals he escapes mental torpidity, and by their frequency he avoids any feeling of faintness | @rising from an empty stomech. Mr. Sage ts not a specialist in dietetics, as Prof. Wiley and Prof. Atwood and Prof. Chittenden are and as thou- sands have been that have gone before, untimely, but Mic practical mcnu possesses common-sense features .@wbich greatly recommend It. THE PEDESTRIAN’S RIGHTS. } Capt. P!per’s police regulation of street traffic at con- sted crossings and his further innovation of putting the contro! of Fifth avenue vehicles in the hands of a detail of mounted police have won general popular ap- proval. It !s now ruggested by a correspondent that the foreign rule of reserving the sidewalks strictly for pedes- trians be enforced and that “all persons carrying planks, gtep-ladders, shovels, pick-axes and such implements ‘be made to walk in the paved portions of the streets.’ At present on some af Mr. Livingstone's city thorough- “fares they would find difficulty in avoiding sprained Ankles and other injuries from the all-too-numerous trenches and holes and the depressions tn the asphalt. ‘There might also arise questions regarding a discrimi- ation in favor of the pedestrian bearing a brass horn era big bass drum. , But it Is certain that the grocer'’s boy, the butcher's “boy and the youth from the laundry, with their push- earts, seriously inconvenience the pedestrian. The foot passenger, Indeed. shares his sidewalk rights with many who put their rights in jeopardy by the abuse of them. “ From downtown, where the skids are and the dis- regaried stoop lines. to distant Harlem, with its side- “walk delivery carts, there is everywhere a disposition to *eroach op the space nominally allotted to the pedestrian, | OPEN FIREPLACES. The bachelor apartment of modern equipment offers ats tenant many attractions—porcelain tubs, a retriger- | “ating plant, hot-water heating, a squash court. It has kemained for this year's architecture to supply “open | [Breplaces.” "The lucky bachelor is thus provided with a luxury which is denied the happy benedict. There has been an that the open fireplace was extinct in city ~The Chorus Girl and The Boy Broiler. She Tells How She Went Out with Willie Raw Raw. (From Roy 1. MeCardell’s successful book, “Conversations of a Chorus Girl."’ pub- Mahed by Street & Smith.) GOTO more Wille Raw Raw for me! N I pass ‘em up from th's on. They never was my rave, anyway Amy do Braneccebe always has ‘em on} & her staff. But out out the bod veal for mine. “Of course, me and Amy de Brans- combe don't speak no more, and for that reason I wouldn't give her the gavel for no reason. But she's sizzy in the head about students, has her te spiked with the college p'n of the last team what's won at football and gives them medical students of Columbia her photographs to stick up in thelr rooms “You'd die to hear her telling about her brother in coliege! Don't you breatne !t to a soul, but the college her brother fs in is the Elmira Reformatory, and he'd a gone up to Warble Tw'ce on the Hudson only her mother swore he wasn't twenty-one. 1, as [was saying, it was all Amy de Uranscome's fault. She introduces @ me to one of them boy broilers, an’ he seen me on the line Jast night and flags me. “We go over to a restaurant, and the first crack he made was love's old sweet’ song, ‘I drink beer becauss 1 ike i best, and, then, anyway, this opening wine {x s0 ostentatious.” bs “Now, when they put that cylinder on I holler for the hyperdermic. 12 “The only play in Ine with it ts them! % tiresome married men who squeeze your) @ hand and sigh and aay, ‘Ah, the troub fn my wife doesn’t understand me!’ Bu the trouble Is that their wives under-| stand them too well. > “Well, the prize scholar was just gly-| In’ {t to me what chumr he was with| « Reggy Vanderbilt—there's almost as many of Regay Vanderbilt's chums strayed away from their nurses at night! on Broadway an there's roaches in a) ‘ rathskeller—when who should peek-n-| boo In but my friend! \« “And there I was caught with the! ‘ goods on! And the goods off the 10| { cent counter at tat! j "“T gave him « high sign, but he} passed me up and went over to where Loule Zinshelmer and Able Woge'e- | ¢ baum was sitting with two fairies from the Chie, Chaste and Cleaning chorus from a Roof. to whether he'd have car fare home if he bought again, ‘ “1 tried to laff as T hummed a bar from ‘Nancy Brown’ and stabbed @ toothpick at the olive in my dry Mar tint, but It was ‘Ring Down the Curtain, 1 Can't Bing To-Night,’ with me “If my friend had only been mad about it T wouldn't have had the heart- break #0 bad, But he was iasghing snd showing them a diamond ring snd »iv- ing as how he'd bougat it fur a ia friend, but as she ha‘l sons teaching the primary class that ist hitn out “That was a sting for me. ant the low, muffled sound ‘hint {lowed them words wasn't a blast ia vhs subway, as they all thought. “It was the breaking of a young girl's hear: “Do vou wonder, then, that, 80 far as Cam concerned, the spirit of the college fraternity {9a ticket bought on the side- waik. "Do you wonder that ‘To the discard with Biss, Boom, An!’ is my yell? “But maybe he w around t night when he Kets my note #4 was my young cousin from Youkors with me, and that lls conduct was cruel and unmaniy, Taat will square it won't it? Oh, please sa on : —— 2 HADN'T THOUGHT, “Ruggles, we've agreed to leave it tof you, I say no diver without apparatus ever remained under water longer than | © four minutes, and Thumoskull atl S len't 80." | “Well, you lose. gone down under water and not come up at j »bomes. Gas logs have furnisized a most inadequate sub- | bune. “atitute, If the old fashion of a hearthstone is becoming! mew. the boun to domestic life will be very great. open fireplace would militate against many city in-! It would reduce club attendance, diminish audiences and keep billiard-room frequenters at ‘Tt ie not extravagant to say that it would kecp } divorce case out of the courts, ‘Married man, however, who neede it most, is not we It; It is to remain for the present a bachelor's No wild bird That som say Its metody could not compere With music of another day. er sang £0 sweet ho u.etensd would not a , if COMPARISONS | And when a future summer glows ‘And present joys are far away, We'll love the song and miss the rose ‘That all unheeded pass to-day, So when grave sages bid the throng. Beware of modern joys. I vow I'll heed him not, but bless the song That comes to cheer me here and now. Washington Star, “And there T sat with a dead one. e who was doing mental mathematics as) w | Pd ttle Tommy Tattles. He Earns a Penny from Pa and Ma Promptly Investigates. ¢ we LooKouT, I tere you! ee No Man Will Marry. wt an er) ~ Ne She Is an Athletic Person and Her Bunches of Muscle Just Crave Exercise, ‘UP WITH youR MINE MUST GE ATHLETIC AND UP TO} GET THAT CIGARETTE ‘out OF YouR TEETH, COUNTER ANO G- MERRILY “aire WHACK + = rod FIVE DOLLARS. MERCY -ME. — (MOTHER SAYS | SHE'D LIKE TO HAVE THE Five. DOLLARS You ROUGHT HOME) TONIGHT ee = DID EAI BUT RETURNED! YES MA THE DocToR) BEFORE HE 4E DUKES GEFORE ME You witl. RETURN? HERE SA PENNY TomMMy TELL MOTHER, HE DOCTOR. BORROWED TH FIVE. FOR CAR | out referring to his original copy, §0OS0900300080202592 999056 Qualifications of an Elector, bé SEE that you have to tell whether you are mar ried or not before they will let you vote in this campaign,” observed the Cigar Store Man. “It depends on the courts,” said the Man Higher Up. “The Superintendent of Elections seems to havo turned the deal over to intellectual giants like Maher, who imagine that because they are hired to spet floaters they can put the kibosh on anybody they cee, “We have cot a Bureau of Elections and all sorts of safeguards about elections in addition to the office of the State Superintendent of Elections. We are a com- munity of close to 4,000,000 people, considerable of which Is composed of persons in their right minds. A majority of us come from communities in which the right of suf- frage is dearer to a man than his symmetry of visage. From the time we went to school we have been taught that the right to vote depended entirely upon the length of residence in a community. I have been unable to dig out of the Constitution of the United States anything that makes a married man more eligible to cast his vote than a single man. “If they allow a bunch of burlies to Invade around and ask honest citizens questions about their domestic relations or the color of their hair when they were kide and things Ilke that in the disguise of people trying to frame up honest elections, they may as well go the limit, From the way !t looks now, at the next Presidential slection we'll stack up against a guy at the polling place who will spring interrogations on us like thir: “Was your mother a lady?’ “What kind of brealfast food do you eat?’ ““‘Are you a married man, and, if not, why not?’ “Do you wear socks summer and winter?’ ““Have you ever lost an umbrella?’ “Are you addicted to the habit of shaving yourself “*How often have you been arrested?’ “Do you belleve that there are mountains on the moon?’ “Who discovered Yorkville?’ “‘How far is it from the corner of Houston street and Broadway to Police Headquarters?’ ““Do you like garlic on your salad dressing?’ ““What is the best way to catch a squirrel?’ NY: is Goy. Odell the greatest man in the world?! Lee you got $2 for your vote who would you cut it ug 2: “Any one of these questions is Ikelz to be hurled at you when you go up with your hat in your hand to dele- , {Bate somebndy to do stunts in the governing line. It 4 has got to a stage wherc voting on election day is telling Fa the Sey, of your life.” “The ballot box has (i pec bteae got to be protected,”-admonished “It sure bas,” responded Yhe Man Higher Up. “But when a man goes ta v > | @ vote he Is not takin; é, | insurance policy.” Pees PODHPHDGHHYS HF TH HHHG 2900080 OS® 30500 > FSOOH > The Clam’s Characteristics. Many of us who have seen clams know that ¢) of this attachment. As they I!e on the ground they are far from close-mouthed. In fact, they are seldom to be seem with the shell ¢losed. From one end projects the ‘neck,'* which may be three times as long as the shel when fully extended, This fact, in case the “neck is stretched out, makes one wonder how such length can be contracted into so small a apace and how much remains in the shell atter the “neck” ha» been elongated. This {s the astonishing char acteristic of the soft-sheiled clam, and the one. which makes him unrecognizable to so many people. One of the clams, ® | for Instance, is three inches long. His ‘neck"’ when extended is possibly eight or nine inches long and as large around as a man’s middle finger. | ee $ Humor Brought Wealth, Mr, Gilbert's librettos were suggested in all ‘sort “The Mikado,” one of his most popular, for Aa Tan © | Into his mind one day as he examined a Japanese sword that | hung on the wall in his study. He wrote most of his plays, ® | ald them away for a fortnight, and then rewrote them with- He then compared the two, taking the best of sach. Sometimes this process was repeated a number of times. His work has left him an mde pendent fortune, , POOOO A Giant “Auto,” \ Another “largest nutomodile in tue world” ts a harvester \n Southern California. The machine is @ feet long and 90 thet w! Tre motive power ts furnished by oll. Eight men aig required to run it. As the machine starts off the grain be,\ns falling In sacks on the opposite side from were it & cut and the straw dros Into a cart behind. y Scientific Fruit Breeding. frequently produced in the lab@