The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1903, Page 10

er NOVEMBER 8, 1903. fublished by the Freee Publishing Company, No, 53 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OfMflce at New York as Second-Cinss Mail Matter. .-NO. 18,414. WOLUME 44.. —__ A BENEFICENT FIRE. ‘After the Coney Island fire in the spring of 1899 hopes tere entertained that the desolate area of destroyed aunts of vice might be converted into a park. But the burned sites were speedily built upon again, ‘structures outwardly more respectable replacing those consumed, and the brilliant project faded into forgetful- Mess except for the opening in July a year ago of the present seaside park made by the reclamation of waste Tand Between Ocean Parkway and the Concourse. The Hh costing $25,000! it is a park serving certain good uses and affording a breathing spot. But not the result con- templated. No flowering pleasure ground, spacious and nd wholesome resort for the multitude where squalid Vice had had its habitat. Now by the fire of Sunday, which wiped out fourteen Balle, the city is afforded another favorable opportunity ‘of cheaply acquiring this area for park lands and of finally realizing a great public benefit project which The Evening World was the first newspaper to advocate. It fs an opportunity that should not be permitted to pas» by unlitilized. Coney Island is a metropolitan ptoperty the great {m- Portance of which was not appreciated until private own- ership had made it financially profitable by the Bowery business ventures which at the same time made it no- torious. It is admirably situated to be the greater city’s ‘main pleasure resort. It is almost divinely placed to Serve as a vast open-air sanitarium for the ailing chi'- ren of the poor. Yet the city has taken no measures to further these natural advantages, while it has permitted the fakir and the dance-hall keeper to pre-empt for private uses what should be the people’s. England would have made a Bournemouth of it, Belgium an Ostend. New York has tolerated its perversion from the purposes for which na- ture designed it. There is now afforded a unique opportunity for the + partial redemption of the island and its devotion to the People’s uses, Fire has done the work of purification, ‘There should follow the purchase of the burned area for Park purposes. LITERATURE OF HIGH FINANCE. _ he report of the receiver of the Shipbuilding Trust 48 deserving of attention as an important contribution to the’ literature of high finance. As the result of a two years’ education in stock com- ‘pany flotation the public has become familiar with the phfaseology of trust formation. It has learned about “going companies” which do not go; “profits in sight” ‘which vanish before dividend day; “economies of admin- istration” which appear to be extravagances, and in gen- eral it has acquired the A BC of “vonuses,” “expenses of promotion,” &c. But it has remained for Receiver Smith t> provide a ‘vocabulary of fit terms for use after a flotation scheme ‘has collapsed. In his report he makes reference to “artistic swin- @ling,” “wholesale plunder,” directors’ meeting minutes “apparently wilfully falsified,” ‘'statements undeniably faise,” “statements clearly erroneous,” “statements false aud misleading,” “figures deliberately disregarded,” ‘‘un- awful acts.” ' These are the allegations of a receiver, not of a Miller “get-rich-quick” swindle, but of legitimate incorporation, They form a serviceable vocabulary for characterizing things when the geamy side of stock inflation is revealed, % differs materially from the florid terms of flotation _ which have made the stock company prospectus so allur-+ ng a bit of literature. FROM DOWIE TO DOGS. net result of the magnificent planning a 12 1-2-acre park | « ‘Deautiful with boulevard and parkway features, a sweet! « blocks of Bowery cafes and concert rooms and dance! Ps So" eae can LOTTI OE TRY 3 rs Who Bilis on Hearts. By Nixola Greeley - Smith. LI, women envy her. And surely she 14 to be envied—the woman who by fore of beauty or wit or charm— snd the greatest of these !s charm— makes of life a triumphal march over hearts that beat faster at her coming. Yet, though to all women sho {s an object of envious admiration, luckily for her few of them know her when she appears, For there ts no wider differ ence in the world than that which exists between the woman whom all men would unite in pronouncing charming if they were asked for a yote on the sub- ct and the shoddy imitation that other ymen accept in her stead, To men there is nothing more unin- teresting than the girl who may be! classified as the woman's {dea of a man's ideal, When a ‘8 wife or mother or sister tells him of some un- seen Dulclena who 1s penfectly beautl- ful and whom all men fall in love with he is apt to shrug his shoulders with a sceplicism born of long experience, and when he meets her, to apply to her self. assertive loveliness tha deadliest of m culine substantives the word “stick. She 1s usually blond, inevitably rosy and of a figure whose very obvious per- fection leaves nothing to be desired and Is therefore, perhaps, the less desirable. For all women admire blondness in other women, though down in their hearts lurks a relieving suspicion that 1} blond Women are fast, a feminine generalization fact that till a few years ago practically all by election than by nature. An amusement hall in its time provides many various forms of entertainment, The Madison, Square Garden, which but yesterday opened its doors to Dowie, resounds to-day to the loud barking of dogs. 4 ‘The curious eyes that went to see the “prophet” will return to gaze at Great Danes and dachshunds, as later on they will study automobiles, sight the free offerings | of @ food show, look upon the Adirondack guide on what! seems a fair counterfeit of his native heath, and contem-} plate society in jewelled elegance in the Horse Show boxes. The fleeting show at the Garden is not so much to man’s delusion given as to his serious profit, It is a | continuous panoramic performance which is an education] 4 Uteelf. The exhibition this year by the Ladies’ Kennel As- , @oclation promises to break all records in interest as ‘well as in entries, which will number 1,700. The aris- tocracy of tho canine world will be on view—spaniels no ‘ “Yarger than a mian's hand and of a value all out of pro- * portion to size; curly poodles on waich a wealth of fem- © Gnine affection has been lavished; lapdogs, bulldogs, ter- » tlers and mastiffs. Dog fancying among women has developed and flour- fished apace. The visible evidence is there at the Garden. And’beyond the Kennel Association itself are the private ' Kennels the nation over which it represents. The femi- Hine interest and energy devoted to them could have been put to much less profitable use. UNGRATEFUL WOMAN A British critic finds that American civilization is » @oomed because of the American girl. She is pronounced “dangerous, anarchical, abnormal, destructive.” She is sald to make a beast of burden of her husband >) He “unnaturally devotes his days to money making” so that she may as unnaturally devote her days to pleasure, + contradicts the prevalent notion that the American n chases the fleeting dollar because he likes the sport; it it Is his nature so to do, jut what an uggrateful creature woman must be bt to be by this showing. She was once the beast jen. Now that man has taken the load on himself, the foundations of society. It has eeded an p elear, long-distance vision to detect the . ‘The American view, being too close, has been gee it. The American man has doubtless been by physical charms and Braces and a seductive iilahs of his household haye been fooling him ie, it appears. They have done it very cleverly, *| have destgned her. is not content with her liberty, but is seeking to| She is of the Kind that boasts of her juests, idea of the self-imposed role of The Girl Who Walks on Hearts {8 such that one | would gnly fancy doing it with hob- mail boots—something which the mascu- line heare worth having would not toler- ate for a moment. She likes to be called| “ on b but on the whole she arts would does than to be able actually to do it. And she does not Intrefere with the girl whom all men find charming in any way, though she Wears her laurels. For The Girl Who Walks on Hearts knows that laurels are not becoming to her and that the conspicuous wearing of them would Interfere with her game. en think her ‘a sweet Ittle thing’ or a “catty Ittle thing” aa she happens to deem them worthy or unworthy of conciliation, But she would infinitely rather they did not consider her at all For that, too, game—generally game—which Includes the win more hearts than she knows wha with, a quite wins theso hearts legitimately, and {f she likes, she walks on th But she does it so atrily, so daintly arts |utte taster umphan oss This € Who Walks on Hearts may be blonde or brunette, small or large, plump or slender as nature happens to Some men may cal! her Ddeautiful, others charming, men must call her different—and mear: it, are quickened to beat a mpaniment to her tri a HIS TROUBLE. ‘Have any asked the doctor, Glagnose the case. replied Mr, when I have tc hicago-Record-I Henpeck, y In the house. d. based probably on the| ‘ all fast women were blond, more often | “ real or imaginary; and her | ‘ haughty. Indeed, she would rather have | { her pride commented upon than her faultiess nose or her meaningless, wide eyes, She knows that she does not walk | rather have other women think that she | { ‘This girl is content to have other wom. | « may Adnterfere with hor unconscious hat the but all buzzing in your ears?*| who was trying to/ “not ex: | "| © “Bobby,” so she called him Robert. Tie vust tirr THE LITTLE DARLING UP So 2O0960-090000000S008054554 | 1 12 Ernie—Edna made a goose of herself in London, Ida—In what way? Ernie—Why, she thought It too »familiar to call the policeman CARE FUL- CAREFUL Room uP FRONT}. et Noursie | L 09 AR, YO EB REMAIN HERE, WHILE | Go OVER AND Woh auras HeRed Frozen Fred—Boss, can't yer give a man a few hundred dollars to git a night's lodgin'? Explorer—A few hundred dol- tare? Frozen Fred—VYes; yer know de nights are six months long up here. make a bed put of? LOO 9OOHOOOS G'G’ B'BUT w'wourD' N'N NEE — T'THOSE > B’BAD, MEN GET Sandy—Say, pard, can’t yet git me a couple of religious papers to | always like leep under cleaa sheet: OO9OOOOO0.00. o® 6 $10 Will Be Paid by The Evening World on Acceptance for the Happlest Name for This Little Coon Suggested by Any Reade: T HIM}! tN MAKE. FELLOW SAMIZENS: p Mee PEEWEE, IN, 2 $ WHY PEEWEE DEAR WHAT HAVE : YOU BEEN DOING “ge THE .» EVENING .»# WORLD'S 2 HOME # MAGAZINE . 49000090509 9O0000F-060096900OO0090O0O © ‘THE NEW bITThE COON. fig Goes to the Dog Show and Sees the Bowwows. Address Suggestions to ‘Little Coon, Evening World, New York City.”* OH- DEAR DEAR PAPA! He TRIED Ua Cs ‘|:The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. #2 at je Goes to the Polls to Exercise His Divine Right as a Citizen, but Other Citizens Are There Who Are Looking for Exercise, > 3 oa 000% DDD GOO00OGHOOOO490000OOOH WITH YOURSELF, jaya: ladiee used to flirt with fans. 9 Ethel—With fans? Gracious, were there no men cround? < 6409004 =a HER IMPRESSION. "Does your daughter play inquired the young glasses. “I think she does," Cumrox affaly. man with answered M. fers bridge whist.""-Washington Star, Mozart?" 4) Ine “But I think she pre- A BOSTON ADAM, d you mean this even- into the room Hurtie—No fault of mine; you want to alk to your daughter. It was all her | | rault. Why should ehe come into the r just as I was in the act of wink- ine?-—-Boston Transcript hen my daughter came |in the country are beginning to realize THE ONLY BLOOM. Citlman—Weil, I suppose you people! the summer's over. jout your way now, Gubbubs—Except the idfot next door who has bought a phonograph.—Phila- delphia Press, Nothing blooming eh? “Are you quite eure?” “Very sure.”* Piain-Dealer, 402 LATE NOW. “And if 1 had sald ‘no,’ vou have taken that for an answer?" “Certainly not, my love." dear, woulll ‘Then I wish I'd said it.""—Cloveland NOT IN HIS CLASS. “Would you die for mo? she asked, dreamilly, “O, Ray!" he retorted in a matter-of- fact way, "kf you haven't any more ambition than to be looking for dead ones, you're not the girl for me,'-~ Chicago Post, allt Sas ala a a i >9SOOOH04 19 3H99H9HSOHOO | “Open Season”’ for the Suburbanite. ( INE WEATHER,” remarked the Cigar Sterw Man. “A customer of mine from Pomptan, N. J., came into the store this morning wear- ' ing a home-grown chrysanthemum in the buttonhole of his coat.” “Yes,” said the Man Higher Up, “this is the open season for the suburbanite, This is the season In which he {s allowed to spread himself on the beauties of owning your own home remote from the conveniences and turmoil of New York. He comes to town now with a chrysanthemum in his buttonhole and a clean shave on his face. In a few months he will be drifting in with Icicles on his whiskers and mud on his rubber boots, “Pleasure comes in bunches at the present time to the Person occupying Wildwood Terrace, Chestnut Hill, on the Hackensack. The windows in the cars are open, and as he walks up from the station the air is blue with the smoke and odor of burning leaves. The village football team is practising strong-arm stunts on the common and the merry hoots of the players mingle with the moo of Mr. Bolen’s cow as it {s belng driven by Mr. Bolen from the pasture with a load of milk on beard. The laughter of children is intersperse! with the sound of ‘breaking glass as the merry little ones heave dornicks through the viila windows. “All summer long he has been devoured by mosquitoes and smothered in dust. The mosquitoes have flown the \ coop and the dust is missing. The suburbanite carries his light overcoat on his arm _and after dinner sits out on the front porch and figures on buying the next lot. ! “The first cold wave is not far off and it is due to put a crimp in the calm contentment of the suburban resident. Do you know why swburbanites wear whiskers? They say it !s for the protection of their | throats {n the winter time. As a matter of fact it is because they can't get any hot water to shave with in the morning in time to catch their train. It is easter to be encumbered with a beard than to mow the follage off the visage when the ‘time-table gives a man about three minutes to complete the job. “The suburbanite works into the country by easy stages. At first he goes to live in Brooklyn or the Bronx. His rent is cheaper than it has been in Man- ‘hattan, When a man begins to have his rent reduced he gets a disease, tho chief symptom of which is to avoid paying any rent at all. As this disease Incrsases in virulence he moves to the country and blows hiri- self for a commutation ticket. “In the calm, balmy November days he engages ty the assassination of his own chickens and feeds himiely riotously. Two months later he fs inserting sausages into his face for dinner and considering himself a lucky man. He stands for the ferry crush, the station crush, * and the train crush, and after he gets home at night has to tinker with the furnace. If he wants to go ort, there is nowhere,to go but to the station to see t\¥ 8.55 express pass through on the way to New York.” “But this customer of mine raises his own chrym~ anthemums,” expostulated the Cigar Store Man, “Td rather raige rubber plants all the year round ip @ flat,” answered the Man Higher Up... Italian Women Here. In thirty years 1,891,07% Itallans have come to this coun- try. This immigration has @ very pecullar character. Umut | 1890 the percentage of women was less than 16, but tt’ \ has increased to 9, ‘This Indicates that the immigration has | @ marked tendency to become permanent, Thirty per cent. or more of Itallan adults who have been in this country more than ten years Went back at least once to Itaiy, and 80 per cent. of these came to this country again, bringing their famiiles with them, During the time in which thy family is not here the man sends some menay wesk!y ta italy, Equator Not Round. A startling fact which has recently been demonstrated Js that the Equator is not a perfect circle. If you could drop ‘a plumb line from Ireland through to New Zealand it would : be somewhat longer than another which cut the earth right angles to It, ‘The difference has not yet been ascer+ tained with absolute accuracy,