The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1903, Page 12

Pudlished by the Press Publishing Company, Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New Yark as Second-Class Mall Matter. LOST IN NEW YORK ‘The leader of Zion's hosts stood on the speaker's plat- form in Madison Square Garden Sunday and saw his audience melt a In scores and hundreds, in troops and platoons the crowd sauntered indifferently out of range of the voice that Is heard seriousiy in Chicago and Istened to with awe in small’ communities elsewhere. Dowic's mortifying experience was not unique; a can- fidate for the Presidency, flushed with Western ors torical triumphs, underwent it one hot summer's night. ‘The Garden {s a vast auditorium in which many a pro vineial reputation has been swallowed up. Lost in New York! The local magnate, the man who as made a million in steel or “financed” a traction company successfully or won a case at the bar which has given him celebrity in his city and State comes to the metropolis to expand further only to sink pis self-im- portance insobzcurity; to become a unit in a great ag- gregation of units, a molecule in the general metro- politan mass. Tt is a fate that overtakes the politically great of the nation’s capit: Do you recall anything that “Tom” Reed dic after he came here? Ex-Speaker and ex-Sec- ftetary Crrlisle has just moved; do you know where his did residence was or where his new one With whet great financial institution {is ex-Secretary Gage connected? The city is cruel in {ts disdain. An ex-President five weeks out of office rides downtown bangivg to a otrap in an elevated car and the man next him, a newspaper writer, alone of all in the car knows him by sight or cares for him. Dewte is realizing how the New York seen fn per- spective differs from the vast municipality in which hia “host” and himself are Jost. It is doubtless a painful awakening for a “prophet” who has posed for so long In the limelight. When he is buck in Zion he may reflect that Baby- Jon, while it has always shown a partiality for Bar- Tums, has never cared for the religious showman. A MGody of earnestness and sincerity it would stay to hear, but not the false prophet of a commercialized religion. THE STREET PERIL Tt apnears that since Jan, 1 last, that is to say, in lees than ten mouths, 280 persons have been killed or is? 1 QOSRSDODSE HOE vw & No. IV.--Little Tragedies Strik ingly Told in Four Words. Weather Wise and Other Lies. The Forty-niner Relates the Sad Experience of a Local Weather Prophet. “ t' git more G * said the Oldest Inhabl- tant as hobbled into City Hall Park this morning “Roomaties bai asked the Forty who was already seated on the Niner, a leetle bit. 1 kin allers ¢ell when {U's goin’ t' rain jes’ by th’ feelin’ a3 gs. Goin’ t' have rain sure be ymorry mor “Cur-ee-us thing, th’ way weather af atles,"" said the Forty-niner, “I remember a feller onct thet lived jn my town out West, an’ he was th’ great est feller fer tellin’ how th’ weather was goin’ vo be I ever see, /BIll Hodgkins was his name, but folks ailers called fatally injured by surface cars vehicles in the @irectn of New York. An average) of nearly thirty a Month, nearly one a day! Within that time also 145 Persons have been crippled for life by accidents of this kind and 810 sent to the hospital as seriously Injured. It is a convincing and shocking showing of the perils to which the pedestrian is exposed. A death rate so high from small-pox er malignant disease would alarm the city. An equa! number of injuries on the football fields of the entire nation for the fall season would In- Spire legislative action tu suppress gridiron brutality. "In the city this infliction of death in the streets goes on unchecked, almost unrebuked, Deputy Commissioner Piper, who has done more to Tegulate street traMfc advantageously than any prede- cessor in office, estimates that “probably one-halt che accidents in the streets, except at the very vasy cross. ings, are dccasioned by the improper way in which cart- Men approach the curb to load or unload,” and he sug- gests further rules for thelr control But he lays his finger on one very prolific source of accident in calling attention to the criminal carelessness of the reckless driver who “darts around a corner with a *Yip!’ ‘Yip!’ forcing every one te jump for life.” Of- fenders of this class are frequently “cub” drivers not in full control of their horses and regardless of everything but their own right of way. “In London,” says Capt. Piper. “what helps more than anything else !s the fact that each driver makes every other driver live up to the rules of the road. Perhaps truckmen and cartmen may te educated to exercfhe this restraining influence. Their doctlity at crossings where the elgnal system {s in successful opera- tion speaks well for the project. STAGE AUTHORSHIP. “This is the heyday of the American stage,” says the ‘Veteran manager, A. M. Palmer. The visible evidences of it are numerous hereabouts, not only in the handeome new theatre opened last night, following the two dedicated last week and preceding ‘the several promised openings which strikes and other @elays of construction have retarded. Not only in the Imcrease of luxury and gorgeousness within doors but in the great expansion of box-office receipts, the higher scale of prices—what would a gallery god of Booth’s day have thought of a family circle admission fee of $1?— the larger profits of star and author and the better sal- @ries all down the line. The rich elaboration of stage settings and the devel- opment of artistic detail in the winge is in itself re- markable ‘‘The throne of Denmark was a chair when Burbage pleyed.” Now even the comtc-opera monarch's throne is gilded to surpass refined gold. The suthor, Mr. Palmer thinks, is “the Czar of the theatrical worid tc-day. The gentleman who sits quietly alone and invents the plays is the man who really con- trols the situstion. Me even dictates the cast more or less. The men who create create for special players, usually having in mind the actors who are to imper- eonate the leading characters.” Is that why their work is so ephemeral and perish- able? Is there a play now on the stage, the work of an American author, which any one cares to read as a work of literature? Maeterlinck's “Monna Vanna" comes feross the water and excites as eager interest In book form as on the boars. The reader sees in the lines the Stage scenes, made dramatic in their interest without the actor's art while charming with their letrary skill, ig there anything of Mr. Fitch's prolific output, of him ‘Bud: Weather Bill.’ His wife kept voarders, and ol’ Bill never did much ut hubble ‘round the Post-Office an’ general store of th’ tow? an’ talle ‘bout th’ weather, Folks uster swear by ‘Im, too. ‘He uster carry a cane ‘ith him an’ tt was marked at different p'ints up an’ down. Some o' th’ marka stood fer hot weather, some o' them fer cold, some fer rain an’ so on. When anybody'd ask him what th' weather was goin’ be nex’ day Bill'd put th’ cane longside his leg an’ ¢h’ mark on th’ cane nearest which th’ pain in his;leg was would Indi- cate th’ comin weather, I never knowed him t' make @ mistake But onct, an’ thet wasn't rightly his fault. jown at th’ store one day an’ ‘» boy Tommy, a Hitle red headed devil, got a hold o' GUll's cat an’ stuck a needle clear through it ‘Then he put tt back ‘longside o' Bill an’ got his dad t' ask Bill ‘bout th’ weath-| 2 er. Bill put th’ cane ‘longside his leg, an o course th’ needie stuck him an’ he ‘|The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. OSCULATION CONSTERNATION He Is Waylaid and Robbed of $3 He Was Saving for Miss Sixfoot's Christmas Presents 3 - — é (ESC UANS Sava #150) FAORGA No | PEEWEE DEAR, \ —— | 3 aa Ves STAX HERE JUST; é i 8 INNO DANGER ee ets, ‘ HULLY Geet] & —L=—_ wane RVING! \ WANT TO Go + WIRE TOE ES 4 5 He eceaD STA INSIDE For { | DE LONG | ¢ The Rich Who Do Not | SOMETHING, GREEN. pee EN cans ey HERE Y’ARE| | Boss. ALL LITTLE a MY TOOTSIE ( KNOW, THAT \N MY BACK $ POCKET 1S THE MONEY THAT ny cr Pay Their Bills. ' SEE that some of the tradespeople up in New port have been compelled to swear out attachi ments against millionaires for their bills,“ said the Cigar Store Man. “Sometimes a New York tradesman gete' the subserviency jarred out of himself and does the same thing,” replied the Man Higher Up, ‘“‘but it isn’t often. One of the cinches that come with wealth in the shape of trading stamps is the license to run up bills and fore ' get them. “The average man or woman of wealth {s the sort of person who would enjoy playing chess for the drinks, ' They hang onto their cash like a man in a poker game, all but in, hangs onto his white checks. If there is a! chance to dodge coughing up they draw a long breath’ and pass it up. te “There is many a man doing a big business with the millionaire class who is hustled to buy shoes for his children, His books look like vitagraph illustrations of the song ‘All Going Out and Nothing Coming In.’ Trades! men fall over each other to open accounts with the rich! and when the accounts are opened they generally stay) open. You've heard the old gag abour how hard it {8.te pay for a dead horse. Fverything is a dead horse witht the poople who have money and let bills run. “A millidnatre who owns an apartment house or bust. ness house has an agent with a radium eye. He can sem the day the rent is cue a week off, and he is around 4r collect for his principal with alarming regularity. If ti tenant doesn't pay up the first thing ne knows he reading 2 dispossess notice. | “ (aa $6 WILL BUY TH TRINKET FOR FDDS-35999O8S-9-5-9 9.00: PD GHOGDHD $90-09-90O9600OO: woTs DE MATTER PEEWEER ?. we'RE JEST LOOKIN’ FER A MATCH TO LIGHT A 4, CIG } 8 Sav DEAR LITTLE f j felt th pain there most. It was right in th’ heat o' August an’ Bill felt kinder puzzled, but he sald th’ mark indicated a snowstorm, an’ he was willin’ t' stake his r@putation on his roomatics, Bill al- most died of broken heart when th’ snow didn't come nex’ day an’ he didn't git over it fer two weeks till some one told him ‘bout th’ needle." "I'd a tanned thet youngsters Jacket if I'd been him," sald the Pldest In- habditant. ‘Roomatics ain't nothin’ t’ fool with." LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. An Epistolary Query, To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been keeping company with a gentleman for three yeara or more and we have just decided to call,each other by our first names. Now, I am wonder- ine what ta the correct way to begia a letter to him, as heretofore It has s' pty been “Dear Mr, Jones.” Begin “Dear John," or whatever his frat name may be. If you call him by his first name in conversation there 8 0 reason why you should continue the more formal “Mr, Jones" in writing. “Ah-eeda” Is Correct, To the Editor of The Evening World: A gays that “Alda” (the name of one of Verd!'s operas) is pronounced “Ada.” B says it is pronounced ‘“Ah-eeda." Which ts right? Mrs, W. Yes, To the Editor of The Evening World: Did Sarah Bernhardt ever pay Metrovo!lian Opera-House? Washington D. ©. Is Capital, To the Editor of The Evening World: A says Now York City is the capital of the United States, B says Washing- ton, D. C., te the capital. Which right? 4. B. Husband and Wife. To the Editor of The Evening World: fm the 8. ¢. vaudeville a man and wife? A. BE. H, There Is No Edison Star. To the Editor of The Evening World: J, M. says that) Edison sends out a star. J. B. says i can't be done. Does he’ J. M. and J. B, Bears Are still Found in New York State, To the Editor of The Evening World: A claims that bears exist and live in the woods of Northern New York. B says there are none in New York State ‘Thomas's or Belasco’s that answers even the rudimentary Feguirements of dramatic literature? : the Rev. ‘Porter in his Newport sermon Sunday, e intem- Perance, impurity, dishonesty, gambling, bribery, per- “Bury and divorce.” ‘The minister was preaching in one of the summer capital's most fashionable ohtrohes. But Were an artillery company. His summer fied and thelr interests in life and in the par- cations of fnmorality alleged The demona in question if still in active 9-09 CPPET |. Tees or in the Eastern States, Which ts right? ua. Born in Glasgow of Irish Parents, To the Editor of The Evening World: Of whet nationality is Sir Thomes to Are James and Bonnie Thornton, the| : “But, while the rich landlord employs a‘skilled bust- ness man and coin digger to do his collecting, he lets his bills run up until the mere suggestion of them gives himy a@pain. The grccery man, the meat man, the wine nfan and all the rest of the men whose wagons back up to hig kitchen entry send the stuff around and the best they, get is hope that some day they may see the color of his money. , “When a tradesman goes after what {!s coming te him and happens to get to the presence of the man wi owes {t the great American habit vf kowtowing to| wealth grips him and tho vigorous play he has fram up piddles away like a hokey pokey in a newsboy’s ha! We in this country throw the hammer at foreigners wha take off thelr hats to their kings and princes, and we wouldn't take off our hats to any king or prince, but i we happen to run up against a man who could write his check for a million dollars we'd brueh the dust off his coat {f we had a whiskbroom with us, “It is seldom that a poor man can sidestep a Dill fom anything he gets. He produces weekly or the man be owes gives him the brutal chase. But the rich man cam run up his bill until it spreads all over the place, anit then if the creditor asks for the money the rich mam can skip around the corner and open an account with, another sucker in trade. The poor people are the people who keep the shops and stores going. Even the riehi .*! who pay their bills 4o it at intervals approximating thei | i > { ; 4 ROB! MR. PEEWEE IS ALL RIGHT—LONG LIFE TO HIMI To the Bditor of The Evening World: Mr. Peewee. the great little man, “is all right” and is selling Evening Worlds. I enjoy most the scare head- lines. Enclosed are a few that possibly you can use and so postpone by just so much the evil day that comes to all humorists in a particular vein, when they have to stop and switch off on another track. Wishing a long run for our little friend, yours truly, Cc. H. BURR 115 Convent avenue, New York. arrival of leap year." ' ° yee’ “I suppose it is because the rich have such contempt for money that they can’t realize how anybody else should need it,” explained the Cigar Store Man. “Not on your bills payable,” said the Man Higher Up. “Tt is because they have such they owe. | ; RAVINGS FOR TWO. THE BRIGHT SIDE. , contempt for the peo; 909929O® A New Word. Carroll wrote 'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callag!"’ He chortled in his joy, 4 he doubtless anticipated no perpetulty for his queer v any more than for the equally queer and almost as ingeni adjective frabjous. But chortle tickled the fancy of hia read! ers. It suggested the gurgle of senile exultatlon. like Shakespeare's duke, to “fill a place." Hen¢ currency enough to get into one fe dictionary, it may establish it siggie have done, When Lewi: oe Equality. F I hadn't been needed I should not be here. There {s work for me somewhere, I know. No matter how humble, {t fills me with cheer ‘To think the world needed me ao, Needed me to do work that another might scorn, Humble things, @leagreeable, and emai, Or dirty, or painful; yet if I was born or the labor I'll answer the call. T would rather paint pictures, or carve them from stone, I would like to be famous @nd grand. T would tike to write songs that an angel might own, Or to scatter rich gtfte with each hand. 50496008 Ida—There goes Mre. Dash. They say men have raved over her complexio: May—Yes; her husband raved over It when he found it was false, heve gone through many, many reverses? Chesterfield Joe—Yes, tady. | ‘wuz once er dancing master and taught de two-step. ; Judge—! thought I gave yous two days to get out of town. Fuzzie Freddie—Don't be hard 1 couldn't help It. jomobile busted on me. dress I'm disgueted! rp! Think how mad Ida Is to have one like yours and that will make you happy. on Me aut Lipton? JOHN and GEORGH. No, Champion Only of America, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Whe John 1. Sullivan ever champion of the world? JOHN Ww. oO. Straight Flush Beats Four Aces, Po the, of ‘The Bvening Worki ‘heat four aceet uM : But the great may plant gardens, while I destroy woods, { ef ef Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. se Je|"32 vleuur, le {mun oc pln . WHY SHE WORRIED. INSIDE KNOWLEDGE, THE WORST OFFENSE. © CALLEDTHE TURN. peri ig bed Dale id saath Ahir wthabr abe Giogleton—Your wife looks worried,| riend—Don't be nonsensical! Why do| ‘She uses slang!" said the cultured) Mr. Misit (svegely)—Before I mar gets mY old man, What's the trouble? you insist that ,you're going to die?| young woman in a tone of déep disap-| ried you was there any doddering idiot we hadn't : ‘Wederly—Oh, she was worrled e@bout| The doctor says you'll recover and he gore on you? .