The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1903, Page 14

mom oy THE » EVENING w WORLD'S .# HOME " Publishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to © Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMoce ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. WNOLUME 44.0.0... wesoeseeeesee-NO. 15,410. 2 THE SUBWAY’S COST IN LIVES, ‘The rapid transit tunnel, though still far from com- ‘Weems an exorbitant price to pay, even for an engineering x. Ing of such magnitude. a Prise? The occurrence of an accident entailing such loss , | & feeling of distrust of the tunnel not to be overcome {i + ¥et during the period of time in which these deaths ‘Rook place fully 4,000 other New Yorkers lost their lives partment registers 10,000 ambulance calls in a year the ence of sudden and violent death is terrifying. But if sentimental consideratioas about the lives to be ierificed were to influence the projectors of great struc- ‘Maral enterprises, all progress in this line would of neces- ‘tity cease. We should have neither the Brooklyn nor the _ ‘Wast River bridge, nor other great works of public use- m Has any skyscraper been built without the ex- of death’s tithe? One wonders how large the list ‘ofdead will be in the Pennsylvania's new tunnel. © Phe engineering and architectural triumphs which are "Subways, tunnels, cathedrals, Waldorf-Astoria hotels, are ‘won without a tribute of killed and wounded which THE MAKING OF A COLLEGE | SFyhat constitutes a college as colleges now are is not | alone its buildings and professors. “Phe athletic ground has become of prime importance the campus. There is Harvard with its “Soldiers’ surpassing, it is believed, anything of the kind ‘the world—a field on which there is in course of con- ion a stadium after old Greek models which will quarter of a million dollars! Spectators will sit ffm steel and stono amphitheatre to view, In as much state as the Romans their imperial games, the contests 3 lL and football teams. it ‘is fall is seeing the evolution of Columbia Into a | fiiteblown college with a football team that ranks her | altiong the great universities. Amherst after her Har Yard victory downed by a score of 12 to 0, Pennsylvania the next week worstod hy 18 toG! This was man’s work, 7 Decitedty, it is net only the Whitneys and the Louns- | who muke a college, it is the Morleys and San-| < yand Heffelfingers. They teach without text-books, heir courses of !nstruction redound to Alms Mater's gl and bring it a bigger entering class the next year. Th is the coach's commencement season, when his pupiis pass their examinations. A touchdown 1s their gis, a 100-yard run their “honorable mention” and the ron their graduating platform. It 1s only the truth ‘to say that the exercises exceed in interest for the general Wiiblic the formal college commencements in June, #.° MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS. ‘Yt appears that Ibsen wanted to be a drug clerk, but pronounced incompetent. Keats turned from drugs “to poetry. The curious may speculate as to whether Ib- sem had he once gone behind the prescription counter ‘wohtd have emerged into literature. Many great men have confessedly had their life occu- lon influenced by a seeming trifle of chance—by one vailway superintendent, as he aspired to be and as he q edie within one vote of being, Plymouth pulpit might mever have been known across the Bridge. But would % ‘the great energy and intellect thus employed have given | ‘the world a railway king of an earlier era? ‘What would have been the fate of John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell if they had become American citizens ge they expected and desired to become? They had gone on, ship together to sail for what is now Rhode Island when an order in council forbade further de- partures to. the new country. Had they come King Charles would in all probability have saved his head. But would the colonies have developed in Cromwell a “bigger man than Washington,” a colonial Colossus? . The youth who sets out to accomplish a fixed ambi- tion in life discovers that destiny orders these things bet- ter than his puny powers can hope to do, Garfield, who epired to rise to be a canal-boat captain, found it so. i) But does not a serious contemplation of this might of Wittle things to influence a career lend countenance to prevalent belief in superstition as contributing to ‘Shange destiny? THE AMERICAN GIRL AGAIN. ‘esterday we had the State AssemtJy of Mothers in yention declaring tho American girl an invalid. ,” it was asked, ‘is the real, splendid, healthy jow. from the same critical source comes the charge } young women to-day affect atrocious attitudes,” for which “Charles Dana Gibson and other artists whose P spbélaity is the American girl,” are held responsible. The | Bibipon pose, it is asserted, “is brimful of self-conscious- ess and angvlarity the ill effects of which it will take ‘Athobsands of gymnasts and physical instructors to undo.” to desire more of them, 8 1 Hot for that of their own. thriving manufacture of antique! fY! or. ‘@ princely pedigree has been dlacov- & Certificates of high lineage wert one. having. the price, and the seasor fer ‘Mange. A prettily lettered. p: ; might’ be worth| to-day is ipletion, has cost the lives of forty-one human beings. It} _” If at tne time of the signing of the contracts the great | ‘Mitihiber of deaths fated to occur could have been tore- | feeen, would public sentiment have sanctioned the enter- _ Of life after the beginning of train operation would create | Hecident in some form. In a city in which the Police | « o 208 1S ate victories of pence no less renowned than war, bridges, | « when expressed in the aggregate startles the unthinking. 3 A university honors, justifying university|° a ofthe little things which Amiel called “the causes of) gteat things.” If Henry Ward Beecher had been elected | #142 tho matronly point of view unbiased? It seems to ‘Ae young man, and the elder also, that these very af- ms which excite displeasure in motherly eyes lend led charm to young womanhood. They give a style ‘p distinction, a tone the absence of which we should |' and rather than regretting our Gibsons perhaps we gourge, when the masculine eye sizes up the Gibson it detects limitations which make the mothers’ tm of the Gibson girl understandable. But the anight say, and the cxcuse would be satisfactory, Vereated these types for the approbation of the 490955999 SBEFDEDGHDOGIIDD damboree. aeengereereet A Welsh Rabbit Party and the Villainy of ‘The Man Who Butted In.’’ IIERE was a jamboree at the Meln- i tyre Flat the other night for the reason that The Missus was one year nearer second childhood, There was about a dozen people there, but this story concerns only one guest, dhe Man Who Buttea In It was after every one had “spoke his little plece that the company boarded ey ear which took them to the end of the elongated McIntyre Plat Arrived at the dining-room a Welsh Rabbit was proposed. The eyes of The Man Who Butted In gleamed with sat- isfaction. He offered to make the rab- bit, Sald he was an expert. Experts rare, Motion carried and so ordered. While rabbi was being prepared by the Man Who Butter In the Man Who Wasn't Invited opened the beer. Everybody thought at that juncture that he was ay fine fellow, especially when he refilled his own stein and tm- provised an appropriate chorus to the well-known air of “Dooley's First Five O'Clock Ten." Is it one atein? Or two ateina? Partake of the rabl 0 Wales. Sure, Fanny, the rt: 8$900O* Run out and get several patls The whole entertainment. knocks Dooley First Five O'Clock Tea: For a high-toned Birthday Upheaval ts Mo- lutyre's Jamboree! In the mean time novody was noticing the peculiar method employed by the an Who Butted In in the preparation h rabbit. In the most furtive, co- rt manner he was emptying the con- of vest pocket vials and pill boxes into the blubbering Welsh. Then followed a heavenly seance of er-trimmed rabbit fringed with song. Man Who Butted In (lovely rabbit nade!) kindly assisted the Man Who n't Invited to the street car, and the Man Wh Wasn't Invited slept peact iy ther unl 3 A. M., when e with a shrick, At orecisely the » hour Mr. and Mra. McIntyre, the Vans, the Jamaicans and all the guests were shrieking Ikewise, All ex- cept the Man Who Butted In In the morning the telephones hummed, Bach guere had a weird tale to-tell of having been pursued through space at 3 A. M. by a million poly: headed monsters, all with hairy bodies, rabbit ears and a human face not un- like that of House (the Man Who But- ted In). The mystery was partly explained by| @ a card which each guest received that) ® evening. The card read as follows: 2 C. M. House, M.D. (Old Dr Houne), bexa| 4 to announce to the resldents of this section that he will practise from now on at his new office, No, 818 Went enth street, and |< ly noltelts your patronage. Spectal- mach troubles indigestion. | ———_ Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. 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DEDHIH2HHH.99HH0OHOD DHOGO4 © Public Men and Their Cigarettes. ton of a church in Brooklyn tried to give William Travers Jerome the run ‘because William Travers ignited a cigarette in the || SEB,” said the Cigar Stere Man, “that the sex- lobby of the edifice.” “Didn't Jerome do the right thing?” asked the Man Higher Up. “Didn't he act like a perfect gentleman? He had a license to take hold of the sexton’s whiskers, wabble thom with his right hand and ejaculate ‘B-a- -a!’ He could have filled those whiskers with > |smoke and then hollered ‘Fire!’ in a highly humorous manner. But, what did he do? He threw the cigarette on the floor and put the fire out with his foot. Then he went in and made a hot speech. “Of course the Tammgny splelers will take hold of ‘this incident and use it as campaign goods. They will quote it to show that Jerome gets his argument; from his lungs, and that they are painted oy whatever nico- tine there is in cigarettes, But Jerome will go on smoking cigarettes and making speeches and standing for being called a lar and calling other people lars and making goo+ with audiences that like to be amused. “Jerome is not the only man in public life who ,|smokes cigarettes. Of course you are opposed to the cigarette habit, because your profit on a package is so small that you couldn't feel it if you put it in your eye. Shameful as !t is, however, the cigarette habit is growing, “Neither Mayor Low nor George McClellan smokes cigarettes, but Corporation Counsel Rives does. There) are very fgw men before the public who won't take a chance at a cigarette at a banquet. Go up to the Waldorf-Astoria any night when the cut is shifted from the shadow of Trinity Church to Thirty-fourth street and you will see a lot of high financial lights making smokehouses out of their bellows, “Opponents of the habit may quote this as an argu- ment, against cigarettes. There is certainly ground for belief that the inhaling of cigarette smoke results ih eclipse of the brain when the revelations about high finance in Wall street that have been uncovered of late are considered. ‘But neither Nixon nor Dresser smokes cigarettes, while Max Pam—who made them look like a man ordering a half portion in Rector’a— occasionally takes a fall out of a paper cigar. “John Delany, Mr. McClellan’s campaign manager, is not a cigarette fiend, but don’t you ever drop dead if you see him with a cigarette in his mouth, They say that he writes Mr. McClellan's speeches. You would be surprised to know ‘how many lawyers go against the cigarette gama, I have seen Joseph Choate smoke 8 olgarette, but it was at a banquet. If my recollection isn’t full of nails, I have seen Chauncey Depew with ;|@ cigarette In his face and apparently enjoying it. Our never saw a Tammany leader with a cigar fastened to his visage. You never saw a policemar smoke a cigarette, unless he was a plain-clotnes man trying to disguise himself. Truckmen and ‘longshoremen don't smoke cigarettes. Every young man in the Elmira Reformatory has cigarette stains on his fingers when he is admitted.” “Do you think that cigarette smoking Duts a crimp in the intellect?” inquired the Cigar Store Man, “Well,” answered the Man Higher Up, “I've known people to hit the pipe for years and it didn't seem to put their mentality on the plotz any; but, of co don't know what they had to at pa greatest authors and actors smoke sey but you An Apology. CAN'T be strictly truthful | Tt I'm forever bound. To make everybody welcome Who comes a-lofin’ ‘round. ‘To pretend I'm glad to see ‘em, When ‘tis all a monstrous 5 Now, who'll be punished for ? Vm not to blame, am I? You shouldn't blame a sinner Who abominates his sin. ‘When peeple come to dinner I'm obliged to ask ‘em In, And pretend I'm giad to see ‘em When I certainly am not. But Udo not fear the future,