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w THE « EVENING 1 @OCSOOH 991 O04 P Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Offlce at New Yark as Second-Cluss Mai) Matter. NOW, NO HITTIN’HARD SSE ee vaaraneets sees aeeteseeeeeee NO, 18,401, TARE. OFF YouR {fp COAT,S01 WONT HAVE] CARY To RISE, “L" STRIKE PROSPECTS. NO ADVANTAGE «| Witt MAKE LITTLE WiLLIE % —— EA: % A tie-up of the “L” lines would be in the nature of a OW NO WILLIE Bee SEAT onlamity, and the growth of a spirit of angry and MY BoY= ILL JUST > bstinate resentment among the men as the outcome of Ua Sah ako Ww ‘thelr negotiations with the Interborough managers can- A GENERAL i9¢ but be viewed with grave disquiet. - PRINCIPALS! The occurrence of a strike which would force the F ° BOXING | moratize transit to an extent that would work very _ Serious harm to business. The mere possibility of such ® contingency is to be regarded with apprehension. ‘The happy solution of the questions at issue between the road and its men last April was so marked a victory for common sense that to break off negotiations now by ‘the issue of ultimatums on either side would be a rever- ‘sion to obsolete arguments of force, It would bea distinct _ Step backward the taking of which would undo much of | the good that has been gained by the better methods of | @mpromise and arbitration. . Tm the event of a strike the city will be apt not to parties to the disagreement. Its discomfort will ILED | Rot incline it to distinguish between the offending party ‘and the offended. 4 TA AT FA g It will tec) that it has been put to serlous incon- Yentence by the failure to exercise proper and well-recog-| And Why the Vacation Was Not mized means to avert this threatened calamity. All It Promised. T was MolIntyre's vacation time. He THE RAILWAY REDUCTIONS. [wae seea'and "wantey a reat rent ‘The prospective discharge by the Pennsylvania road So he and M: & ¥ McIntyre resolved to | At tote-a-tete outing and to of trainmen and other employees to the number of 7,000 |maxe ike wae Sclcaren lnvienaraa et ) {man ac: of retrenchment of so great moment as natu-!thelr grandparents. > ¥ally to provoke inquiry as to its cause. The Erie road| ‘Tt will be Ike olf times,” prophested y 'MoIntyre. ‘You ana T can loaf around " fecently decided to dispense with the services of Bo | aaa eee Mea lobe ‘men. The Vanderbilt lines have begun reductions which |; ing the responaibility of having 2 3 aT} LA BEN when completed will have brought about the discharge jjook after the kids. It'll be a care-free, a ‘of Between 2,000 ani 3,000 shop employees and round- jolly trip.” Bone laborers, Simiiar reductions of force contem-|_ Tt pegeeahead Senko proba a pecans lated on the Southern Pacific and on other Western and! new clothes for the trip. Second, Mre. Southwestern roads imply a general movement of econo-! McIntyre hae the misfortune to look Py oe tiroughout the railway world. young, ‘They reached their festination, which Tt ts observable that the roads thus economizing IN pore iso, Guatnt! tidal WARS of) Bakes Wages have been passing through an almost unexam-jthe-poard'rs Inn, on Mt. Chargextra, period of prosperity. The Erle’s net earnings for At the atation the porter helped them Into the ‘bus ahead of every one else, over 190( showed an increase of $6,060,229. The ahaa Otte uy o whistling agl qd tun York Central's increase was $3,745,550, the Penne ee ae vn ene ten te both. | aylvanta’s for 1902 over 1900, $7,171,637. The expansion The boliboy at the hotel hummed the ‘business which has earned these large additions of same air as he brought them tco ater, 4 i At the table, while every one smile! ; Parenyes: point to the need of more rather | nevolentiy. Noone veaganed in peaen tower talk. Rice croquettes were passed and a THE STOCKHOLDER'’S RISK. vague grin swept over the wel room, ; The waiter, under his breath, crooned a x ‘The pablo, Bas: recently been well enlightened as Lo kent Sach canes ameralily, aereobed - the risk the investor runs in buying the securities of} y corter and bellboy. ‘over-capitalized stock companies, which within a ehort| “stust be the late time (in the Shipbullding Trust case before the expira-|commented MoIntyre. tion of a year), will be quoted at ruinously low rates, |e*rd It before, though. “Dear, in there anything the matter | The corresponding risk run by the stockholder in & wien my hair or my clothes?” queried werged concern In surrendering his stock in exchange | Mrs. McIntyre in a whisper. Every one the new securities is indicated by the developments | sems to be looking at us. ¢ ‘The dining-room orchestra broke forth International Mercantile Marine merger, the SDD Into aaGkIG Lendl, alielbaneaiia ledttaw, rine. popular song.” seem to have arose from twenty points of the hall. By the trust was formed {t acquired control of the an odd coincidence it was the alr that Att Transport Company, a “‘cattle-ship” line we!! eeeried' so suddenly popular, known ocean travellers for its moderate rates for PeA Feat oe GatistactOy accommodations. It now appears that stock | bie and atrotied out. on the in this ling then held at $285 a share, but that to-|piazza. ‘Wait! ‘There's a boy who has, day the secu 4 8 ten given in exchange for it are quoted at Just begun singing It at sight of us. 13 Tess than $75! Let's see if we can't catch the words. > Sadly off key tho boy's voice soared ‘The seller of original stock must, !t seems, be on his | heavenwand: re | $ guard as vigilantly os the buyer of the new issue {f he|‘’They were on their honeymoon $ to avoid the kind of transaction which in high finance | “M4 they had no chanco to spoon. But"-—— ‘The McIntyres stared at each other! May be designated by some euphemistic term in the pro-| aghast. ‘Then they laughed. Moter’s vocabulary, but which in humble business life is, But before two days had passed they ie bund: found It was no laughing matter. Stray plata bunches of white roses tied with white ; . satin ribbon found thelr way mysterl- : WOMEN AND THE LAw. Jously to thelr plates, Their progress to x ‘The number of women lawyers, though every year 4nd from their seats In the dining-room | « tperease, 1s still so small ‘was attended by orchestral selections “ fees their i hatte Bt eh sapped be relatively froin onakerin’ landustenteleiri( ck ‘I will have Just as many young /Msignificant. How large their practice has grown to be contralto at the Friday night concert ‘Must remain a matter of vague speculation. No doubt'sang "The Votce that Breathed O'er | @hearts, “as I want to. I do not-see why even their own sex, with feminine partiality, prefer to Een," and ninety chins rested on ninety $ {ntrust jegal businoss to men as having larger expe- ;PhwATS to see how the McIntyren took | ¢104O8800-0.06.6.0. it. One deaf old lady acquired the habit Hence if not capacity. jof meeting them In a crowd and saying W th Wi One of the features of the opening of the Woman's !n a fog-horn voice: ea er se Law Class of the New York University was the reading! "MY dears, this ts the happiest time of a letter from Miss Helen Gould, a graduate, in which Seas hae out mabe vps and Other Lies. rane the value of a legal educatton for women. |They stood it for three horrible days. e value is undoubted. A little Jearning may be a Then they despatched the following dangerous thing, but unquestionably a little law ts bet. peventy-eent telegram to Mrs. Mele. | /#¢ Forty-niner Recalls a Spell ter for the feminine mind than none at all, It is likely ten the cntiaren to ve at oC Het Weathers hat to be of particular value to the business woman and {h sayihay aD Proved Profitable. of th _ there is no reason why she should not regard a smat- Pat By anteoas. “ EATHER'S changing again, I tering of {t acquired along with stenogra: rs see," said the Sparrow Cop as at Raia eaitiatla Srmimerciat eee or Rook APT. the Oldest Inhabitant and the owes al nae ¢ main prin- Forty-Niner took their accustomed diples of business law are not difficult of acquirement LETTERS, places on the end bénch. and the intellectual grasp which the ordinary college “Yes, it's gittin’ kinder wart in," girl showe in the higher academic studies has proved how QUESTIONS, an GNARe Nt a onthe Gruen guess 1 at capable the feminine brain is of masturing mental tasks A NSWERS made ‘bout ez quick a change es there is < which man once in his ignorance thought too difficult +Jon record onet wien 1 wan whalin’ on the Mary Jane out o° Bedford. We struck a whale up in th’ Artic sea one day when It was so cold thet yer breath - tor her. Byven a slight legal training would give the woman ee aby Passing Examinatlo 5 fi F ‘0 the Editor ning World: 5 thus advantaged Sa bstiee standing In her profession or] Gan a recruit. en ering the United | {fo%® an’ fell in chunks at yer fest. trade, @ firmer self-reliance and a more practical point|States Army as a common soldier rise} Ste@4 0’ soundin’, es most whales do, ef viow from which to form her judgments of business |‘? the rank of genoral without attend. | {ie one struck off toward th’ south lke financial questions, Ing Weat Point?) JAMES H. BURNG. {chaln lightnin’, "Twas all we could do t’ Xt might alone prove worth its while in givin Yea, we, [iceeP. th’ boat stiddied, an’ th’ whale A g her|¥es. At Madison Ave. and 43a st.|- ; sounder understanding of investments, To the Editor of The Evening World, | Wet #0 fast thet th’ prow thru a wave it Ta there a Women's Excharce iy Now {MOTH a hundred feet high on each A SICK MAN’S worRK York? If so, where? na.” [aide Wel, sir) tn dust two daze thet . Mitace 4 whale towed us clear from th’ Artic sea "Pho ruling passion strong in death had an {llustra- me eoreihe: macs Soresct cere: t' th’ equator, an’ I ‘spect we'd be goin’ in the aged inventor, Gordon McKay, who in his last petted kek t only he struck a spot where the sun In speaking to two or more pe! ies . at ant feeble and tortured with disease, constructed a| which Fe re eraeite ne ths alge mae Ballin) sh You" or "ye" cit] gh: Ral pools 3 y ¢ ture elevator of improved design. The man who| (ther, a sentence “When you | “wagner wan puny wart Natnen e there . al- ity was devising improvements for locomotives Direct}; M. and A. |iowed the Forty-niner, “but 1 seed A few years inter originating the machine which| ro ine Biter of Im seen ene some weather onct on the San Juan ted a tax from every one wo wore factory shoes,| When does morning mares R, Bro Nunta: thet we iNareirt tian thet: ith | ss aiphtyttous It was so dern warm up o' th’ San Juan p with invention at eighty-four! Saturday. that th’ gold, which was plentiful there, has nevor teen a bar to achlevoment, Watt| T° the Fditor of The Bvening World: all melted an‘ run down tthe side o' th’ his steam engine in the intervals of attacks oe eye day did the &th of May, | mountain, We seed it a-comin', an’ my that were ao violent as to :capacitate an : JOHN McC. | partner an” me ig trenches adin' * # He Putson the Gloves with Miss Sixfnot’s Undersi gern Se eae THE AOLIDAY [ZA GIRLIS ENTITLED TO ALL THE BEAUX SHE CAN GET. # — Ai Chicago Girl Says So and It May Make Beau-Accommodating Fiats and Dwellings Necessary. CUPID APARTMENTS ‘any NIGNT iw THA ween: four ‘steady,’ and then one or two more who come to see me ‘occasionally.’ |and I never have any trouble.” WORLD'S .g HOME i MAGAZINE 9OSOSS$S9OSOOF DODODDOOS DE DEOOHSODODESODDDCOLOL ISS The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. «© < < z2d Brother and Meets with an Uppercut He Didn’t Know Was There. NOW WILLIE, THIS mR, PeeWee. Blow HERE, |S THE 1S DE COUNTER ‘SeRalGnt> AWAY, ; ‘ \TABBING SPINAL (ia eed TOT, THAT 1 Put JERFERIES TWISTER, THAT | .}USES FOR mow Many MeigHTs 010 7H@ ELEVATOR evar WwoRNEO worice: Que, LEAVE ALL7——>——> PRESENTS 99DDDODHDHIOIOHOOH HOY: HANG THEM IN THE CLOS8T WHILE WAITING THAIR TURNE. CHANGE on = SALLERS PRESS ROR ACH BERY. men come to see me,” said a Chicago | “How do you manage to take care of so many young men?” she was asked. “I ‘maiden whose brother tried to put a stop to the mult’plication of her sweet-| have them come on certain nights, and when any one else wants to call. tell he should have cojected when | only had |them whether they can or not, and they all seem to do Just as 1 want them to the Best Jokes of the Day. THE LATEST STYLE. Jenkins—Have you a typewriter at your office? Jinks—Yes Indeed! Jenkins—What style? Jinks—Oh, the very latest. You should see the new fall gown she's wearing these da: Philadelphia Led, NORE FUN IN IT. Although « soft answer may turn away wrath, there are times when one derives more satisfaction from calling a man @ Har.—Philadelphia Reoord, A CORRECTION. “Ah wus mos’ runned ober by a aut-mobilly. De conductor didn't blow his hohn. “Don' say conductor, my chile, De conductor is on de trolley car. Cain't you lgarn to say chiffonler?”—Kansas City Journal. NUCLEUS FOR A SHOW. Manager—I'm going to start a comedy company on the road in a couple of weeks, Crittick—What’s the ? a a z Cy = $ = 3UG BOTHERS. Lady—"ut you promised if | @gave you the beefateak you would @do some work. Dusty—Well, didn’t | do some chewed such a Tommy—Say, Johnny, what's a mathematica impossibility? Johnny—I guess it must bi um that the teacher can't do. Willie—When the amount of insurance excesds the value of the property f] yet, but 1 heard a good joke to-day that destroyed, we can use jn it.—Pailadelphia Press, TAKE EASIER COURSE, Elmer—Let's play menagerie, Minnie. Minnie—All right, Flow's it played? Elmer—I'll pretend I'm a monkey and you feed me your cuke, art “Dat's what I says,” rejoined Mr. Erasmus Pinkley, “I nebber could se de use of tryin’ to bulld flyin’ machine: when you kin raise chickens.”—\Waab- Teacher—How many parts of speech are there, Freddy? Freddy—There ain't no parts in our house, ‘cause when ma gets started ner speech is the whole thing =, Mry ian. Wolfe planned the capture of Quebec Hee SUnIs hole ERE By. oun sabia) n)iilet 4 ; fo the Editor of The Evening Worl¢: yh if inter thi The ‘the grip of an ailment that would goon have; Should a white vest be worn while in tea "boat topraure: ane menace to bis life which the French bullet an- mourning for a parent five months dead? gold got cool ‘nough t’ handle we found fckly man in all times hes accomplished JOHN A. [thet cleaned up jest $296,617.53 'Ith- Yen, at Da of Vital Statt } Hn el eoda haba sof ‘To the Editor of The Kvening World: condemned Do all marriages have to be recorded, |, 1h® Sparrow Cop took off his and where they recorded it they are | and wisg) oases ae Pertormed ig)this olty? ‘AM. | guessed be’ ington Star. ‘UP TO D..TE TERMS. ” I'm talking.” Mamma," protested Bobby, “then I'll have to salt till you are City Aunt—Yes, I loved door Fido so much that when he died I had him || so : deal of it ¢elirum. tremens,’ Rovord-Herald, : oe Teacher—When does the element of fire confer a benefit on mankind? Manager—Oh, I ‘haven't written that And, oh! It carried me afar. ature," sald the traveller who was admiring the view, “is allus superior to OSESOCODE Hard Times Cannot lay off 7,000 men,” observed the Cigar Store Man, “It’s a sign of the good times,” said The Man Higher Up. “The times are so good that the railruad people can’t see any reason why men should work. You'll see a lot of other big concerns laying off men pretty soon. The country has overplayed itself. A & | big steel plant out West shut down a couple of days ago because the railroads have been cancelling orders for rails. When the railroad managers begin to play their hands close to their chests it {s time for the small people in the Industrial games to cash in. “We've beon hearing a whole lot about good times for the last year or two and times have been good—for Some people, but you won't find many men who have to work for a living whose bank accounts are any more cor- { Dulent. There was a time when we considered that bad. jtimes were due to the crops guing shy, but that theory :has been exploded. Maybe they are due to/spots on the (sun or a shift in the time-table of the constellations, About all we know of them fs that they come around ¥ {with more or less regularity and stick until the people |get t!-ed of thom. “Good times make everybody reckless. When a por man sees big winners blowing themselves he trails along with his litrle pile and keeps himself just as close to a { shoestring as he would be i: he wasn’t dding half so well, Money gets {nto circulation in volumes and the natural money-getters get bury. “These natural money-getters own banks and trust : ‘companies, and in the course of time they accumulate all the change, loore and otherwise. The first thing we know we are np against a scarcity of dough, and a scarc- of dough frames up a realization that there is going ta be scmething doing in the deficit line. “Wise guys are smetling hard times right now. Alt those people you see coming to New York from the West and blowing themselves like intoxicated mariners are laying out the cush like they were making it in private | mints.r ‘They are going back more or less broke, and it J. is cased out taat when they start after the bundle next s year it wil! look something like a Missouri roll, which is 9 dollar bill wrapped around a corn cob. “When hard timos do come this town {s going to get: | a smash in the solar-plexus that will be felt from Coney | Island to the Yonkers linc. Rents were never so high, provisions were never so high and people were never letting go of their pazaz with such easy, boisterous cheerfulness, Some of these days the natural law of supply and demand will put on the air-brakes and the era of universal touch will set In. . “The country and the world at large need just so much outlay for repairs and bullding up every so often. While this outlay is being made money is easy and times are good, But after a while the repairs and bullding up are completed and there is no more use for outlay, It pe- gins to look as though we were close to the finish of the job for this period.” “Well,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “if the hard times come we can console ourselves with the assurance that good times will follow.” “gure,” answered The Man Higher Up. “The trouble is that consolation {fe not legal tender.” | Be Sidestepped. ' | ia | SEE that the Pennsylvania Railroad {s going to’ | ' Pointed Paragraphs, Some men are too busy to grow old, ‘A man {s apt to feel put out when he fs taken in, If a lar owns a dog there is no earthly hope for him, ‘A girl likes to lsten to soft nothings when they mean something. Never meddle with a hornet or - man who is minding his own business, Every cloud may have a silver lining, but every overcoat pe a silk lining, on is approaching when the plano cover will have: to do a stunt 'as a quilt.—Chicago News. Love. HITCHED my “wagon to a star,’ Up beyond all earthly ground It carried me around and ‘round. From north to south, from east to west I saw the highest and the best.: Above, below, afar and near, O'er continent and hemisphere, And high and low and round about e We tri ed, winding in and out. I weighed each blessing and each ourse That agitates the universe, Her treasures, riches, Jewels fair, T\welghed impartially and fair. “Why is It doctor,” she asked, "that Mer follies, wisdom and her joys, so many men are having nervous pvos- Her music, art and other toys tration nowadays? [t didn’t used to be E-measured well, They simply prove 7 é ‘Wheat fees the universe to move, stuffed and put {n this glass case where I could a¢e him. “No. The doctors, in thelr ooarse, ‘The sf it power below, above, Country Nephew (aged five)~And when you die, auntie, te Uncle Geo: ‘unassuming Ways, used to. «all a good “1s Just old-fashioned, simple Love. ‘ folng to have you st '—Chinago CORA M.-W, GREENLDAI,