The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1903, Page 10

“larger creased But “profits stopped The reduced tactics, outset? of the The “VOLUME 44......... has risen only one-third. MONDAY EVENING, A te [ “HI ‘ NOVEMBER 9, 1903. et 3 > Published by the Press Publishing Company. No. 83 to (3 Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office York Claas Mall Matter. +-NO. 15,420. THE CITY’S MORALS. Magistrate Flammer's tribute to the improved moral- ity of the metropolis makes agreeable reading. New 9 York is not the modern Gomorrah many persons who ? persist in preconceived notions think it. ¢ As the lesson of thirty years’ experience in a munict. pal court the Magistrate finds that there are fewer crim-) -fmal offenses of the brutalizing order—fewer félonious ‘assaults, murders, hold-ups, less burglary. Where in his first year on the bench there were 81,821 cases before the police courts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Rich- mond and the Bronx there were last year 105,431 cases. In that time, though the population of Manhattan and Richmond has doubled, that of Brooklyn nearly trebled ‘and Queens increased nearly fotrfold, the crime average It is an encouraging showing. Now criminal talent tends more to a refined order of Offenses. Forgeries have increased in ratio, and swin- Gling, crime of a gentlemanly order. criminal is better educated or because he has learned | that the rewards of polite villainy are greater? Tate, life and limb are securer. What the Magistrate has to say about drunkenness amon? women ts not so encouraging. It 1s a fact off ~~ Seneral observation that men less often drink to excess than formerly. Their reform has been due to what may How to Tell tbe called commercial morality. countenance lapses occasioned by drink. business houses have strict rules on this point which enforce a moderation if not an abstinence from MUquor more effective in its workings than the entire Propaganda of professional temperance exhortation. But, the Magistrate, are degenerating. “To-day,” he says, “the woman drunk is a familiar spectacle both In the Tags of poverty and the finery of wealth. Our. police courts are overrun with them. Year by year the-humber “tncreases, and the average of well-dressed women among the offenders grows steadily.” _ Thirty years ago the woman drunkard was socially ‘ostracized. It does not follow that because she has in- while men are improving, women, according to in numbers and is better dressed and is outwardly more refined she is now within the social pale. On the . contrary, it may be said that the city has at present a far larger class of unrecognized women from whom the mumbers of habitual drinkers are recruited, it is certain that society tolerates a Ifberality pf indulgence in liquor by women which often verges to the excess which leads to drunkenness, It overlooks a fondness for drink which once would have compromised ® woman. A deplorable laxity exists in this particular,| other self-made things, 1s fond of talk-| Yhe consequences of which cannot but be deterlorating to| ing about (tself and telling everybody Womanhood, IN THE THIRD STAGE. ' Many of the industrial corporations whose, securities] ure the hanpy victim of their charms, have suffered by the market depression are now entering @ Upon the third period of stock-company progress, . First comes the era of extravagance in which top- Wotch prices are paid for subsidiary companies, valua- “tlons wholly out of proportion to their worth placed on Obsolete plants, and prodigal bonuses paid to promoters. Everything goes, optimism rules, an “error” of $500,000 in the company’s accounts is overlooked as of minor con- _Bequence. ¥ Then follows the “stagnant securities” period in which the stock reaches a low level of market quotations, in sight” fall of materialization and public confiy fence is lost before the inner revelations, Next the period of “economies of administration,” retrenchment and “readjustment of salaries." Leaks are and an expenditure of $1,000 curtailed where at! the beginning $100,000 was authorized without hesitation. American Steel and Wire Company is now to undergo retrenchment. This is one of the large con- stituent companies of the Stee] Trust. At the time of the merger it was a substantial corporation paying regu- lar dividends of 7 per cent. a year. Its general offices are te be moved to Chicago for purposes of consolidation and 60 per cent. of the office employees either discharged or in salary, whereby a yearly saving of $800,000 will be effected. This is presumably part of the ‘general scheme of retrenchment in expenses being worked out by the United States Steel Corporation,” which is to “include | express what he has become to you? the salaries of officers small and large.” Doubtless this prudent economy is sound business but why are they not oftener exercised at the FEMININE HONESTY. A day's news that reveals the head nurse of a woman's hospital in the role of safe robber and shows a college girl raising one-dollar bills to tens and passing them, | cases following closely upon the recent embezzlement of $37,000 by a woman occupying a position of trust in a local manufacturing company, may inspire some doubts as to the substantiality of feminine honesty. Is the enlargement of woman's sphere loosening her firm hold on the principles of rectitude? Is the entrance sex into commercial occupations lowering her , Standards? Are business associations breaking down her moral safeguards? few cases in point that may be noted will not establish the contention of the doubters, Yet the occa- sional shortage in the accounts of girl cashiers and the rare instance of appropriation of an employer's funds by ® woman employee excite an attention a the more gen- eral because of their infrequency. They recetve a scrutiny ‘undeserved in yiew of their relative low ratio to the great mumber of women now in commercial life. One development of the business woman that may be considered in connection with her high average of trust- ‘worthiness is’her ability to keep business secrets. It is the testimony of her employers that important matters wonfided to her are less apt to leak out than when the *enfidant is a man. Her reticence stands forth by con- with masculine Joquacity. AN OUTWORN FASHION. J, C." writes to The Evening World to protest the wearing of mourning bands on the sleeve as fm insincere sorrow, Point seems well taken. Such bands were origi- a muark Of mourning and served # desir- P ‘adoption by civilian societies was Beneral popular juse by persons in ordinate to the exhibition of a incongruous on the Is it because the At any 1 eee wea | When You Have ©OO0O0OOO002D 6006 POODGOSOD NOW IF SHE HAS YUST GoT HER APPETITE WITH HER SHE CANT SE ME~ BILLY. | POOR 338 6-90-00-06-590080006 O899 00S, 090064 200000 A Grand Passion. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 7 RB you in love? f\ If you have asked yourself that question a great many times re- cently you need not de apprehensive of a dawning grand passion, no matter what the answer you gave ¢o it. For the greatest loves are of unoon- scious growth, What to a wo- man a charming friendship flowers in a day into the craziest, most unreason- ing of Inffatuations that may fast a fetime, But before that day comes she js not Ikely to analyze her feelings and as @ result of that analysia ask herself Uf she 1s indeed In love. ‘There are, to be sure, women who do this, and by the procesx develop a strag- gling, self-made passion. which, like all ‘how ft grew. ‘These women are, in a way, singularly unselfinh, For in the great desire to dis- cuss themselves, and in @ lesser meas- thev divulee his confitences, share his Kisses In a way with every casual Ac- quaintanoe willing to Msten for halt an hour, Rut theirs are not the grent loves of the world, which grow graduatly, Af- Jently making of the line which divides friendship from love a skipping rope. of which they are now on one side, now the other, For even in the dawn of a great love the lovers do not love each other all the time. And there ts always less dif- ference between the honeymoon period | and the subsequent dally association of married persons who love aach other than tetween those whose affection must be constantly proving itself, not to each other only but to themselves, But the growth of a great love ts ax uneonsstous as it Is gradual, Yesterday you thought of no man In| canitals, Among the number of your admirers no name wrote ftself tn ttalles, Thore were Tom and Dick and Harry— nieg Tom. mood old Dick, charmine, Harry—on4 there was a new paragraph in your tife, And then it happened. What hapoened? Von fell in love. Who ts Tom? Was there ever such a person as Dick?» But Harry! Friend. lover, got—why are there no words to 81M, realy, notwithstanding the won-| derful feeting, vou don't think you are| in love as orfinary earls count nying. Ordinary girls love and want to have @ big wedding and go and live in a fiat. You are very fond of Harry, of! course, But you don't want '@ marry him—at least, not for a tong ticie, The only thing that seams qbsolutely necessary at first ts to have him always near, no you can d'scues what he thought when he first met you and how he felt when you wouldn't go to the ball game with him, and he met vou there afterward with Tom, and where he got that brulse on hia left temple. Oh—h! Something ought to be done to those awful railroad compantes, You will never ride on that road again as long as you live. And perhaps you want to kiss the brulee, * Porhaps vot do it. What does that prove anyway? Any child knows kissing ta good for bruises. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ITS ONE ADVANTAGE, “There's one redeeming feature about seasickness,”” observed the man who had Just crossed the pond, “Come out with the explanation,” sald the party who was anxtous to got wise. “It makes a fellow forget all his other troubles," replied the amateur traveller, —Philadelphia Inquirer, NO OCULIST, “He: “They say love ts blind.” “Yes, and I suppose that's why so many wives try to keep their husbands from taking an ‘eye-opener.’ ""—Philadel- phia Bulletin, SAFE OLD “ANN” QUERY. why did you ‘strike thie Lt a MN ti inl wt EVENING # WORLD'S HOME » MAGAZINE # Ay y i Billy Bouiens Takes Polly Pugdoodle to a Ligh tisha ‘ That LET ME SEE--- Tin TARE! [KEEP On Im As HUNGRY “{AS A DOG The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man, # wt ‘e xe Ne He Assists Miss Sixfoot Through th Bridge Crush, and the Result tor Him Is Crushing § NOW TOOTSIE DEAR, JUST TRUST IN YOUR LOOK ‘OUT FOR THAT CAR PEEWEE. | HAVE A HAPPY FACULTY OF GETTING TOOTSIE! '™ NOT. THROUGH CRUSHES THAT WOULD KILL AN ORDINARY LEAVING you YET. M rr Another Clerk Goes Wrong | a in Wall Street. 66 J SBE that another broker's clerk has been, ered I for losing his employer’s money in speculation,” said the Cigar Store Man, “He didn’t lose it in speculation,” corrected the Man Higher Up. “He lost it against.a sure-thing game. He was on the inside, too. Ho knew that @ sucker butting into Wall street has got about as much ~- show as a man with a shotgun on the White House grounds, but he bought a stack and sat in. It is like a professional short-card man out of a job. He goes and playe bank. “Whenever a Wall street clerk is caught annexing the | ‘cush’ there is a whole lot of stir about it That * more of them are not caught with the goods is eithér a boost for the honesty of the Wall street clerks or else & tribute to the wisdom of their bosses in not letting the clerks get a chance to handle the mazuma. It is probably ® stand-off. Brokers don’t trust anybody unless they have to, é 4 “Study the layout and you will come to the conclusfba that a Wall street clerk who steals is pretty close to + SORRY 1 HAD TO LEAVE acting a natural part. Not thet he was born sishco | ERE S OUR OLDE, L VOU TOOTSIE DEAR= or that his education was shy in planting the seeds of WISND FEEWEEs 5 = Bot | SAW A WOMAN aquareness in his mind, but because the force of example; ; IN THAT AWFUL TAM, 1s about the burliest master of conduct that ever took af “YTHAT NGEDED - fall out of/a man. Y HELP, “The clerk gets a salary about sufficient to enable him ‘ beatae to make a front, and it dredges a small bank roll dowm RESCUE HER. to'the fungus growth to make a frdnt in this town. By the time the Wall street clerk has paid ‘his house rehé “WHY PEEWSE? and food obligations and made good for keeping himsel€ | WHERE HAVE jee ‘his family decorated with clothes he is about ready, You BEEN ? to do the stunt of writing his name on his last dollar ; errr” [on end spénding it foolishly. : “All day long he works in an atmosphere of money, He hears talk of millions and sees the coin and the 5‘ green floating by him ‘like you have seen the water) ‘|flowing over the brink of Niagara Falls. The boss| comes to work in an automobile, wears a gig lamp in| his necktie that would light a public hall, and when the| clerk goes to the theatre and sits in the balcony he sees) ‘the old man reposing in a box and giving high signs ta; the queenliest damsel in the sextet. | “It 1s characteristic of men who work for salaries s { = con themselves into the belief that they know more the boss, and this don’t apply exclusively to Wall The clerk who gets ambitious says to himself: ; “*Why, this dub that makes his living by the sweat} of my brow would be driving a street car if his father, © hadn't left him the privilege of signing checks on a) bank. If I had the pazaz he can put his lunch hooks on| T’d make John D. Rockefeller look like a small boy sell-; ing old iron to get the price of a circus ticket. For me a little glue on the fingers when the stuff passesin! revie' t “The first thing he knows he's up to his neck andj doing deep. breathing. Then the old man gets wise and) it’s the clerk tq the booby-hatch, while the guys wha) start. industrial combinations on a foundation of soft! + soap give the public the laugh.” “T-caught my clerk buying a ticket in an Irish lottery; b the other day,” said the Cigar Store Man, 4 “Don't you worry about him,” advised the Man High » Up: “That was a voluntary donation.” < { 2284 Pointed Paragraphs. | Marzlages may be made in heaven, but a lot of them en@ | } tn the uther place. : When a dude turns a woman's head ft is usually in the! { . | other direction. Too many people only know by hearsay that it Is more blessed to give than to receive, ¥ Count 100 before speaking if you are angry, and it the ’ other fellow t# the bigger count 10,00, - ‘Aman thinks he is practising economy when he denioa ot Rye Owleolnna ye ikenianets! Amiself something he can't raise the money to buy. Ct Before marriage a man {s willing to admit that he ts une: bs worthy of hin wife, but after marriage he acts as though Re. pad sacrificed himself.—Chieago News. The Rhinoceros—Why am i so unpopular, | wonder? The Pelican—Why do you call 3 Dog—Give me a menu. The Monkey—Probably because yourself literary man? qdtorater Sorry, but William ou turn up ycur ni Th Goat ate the last one for lunch. body “ LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. << | Refers to the River “Rye,” Not t om *¢ Shibboleth.” : jo the River “Rye,” Not te that has elapsed. 12+x—18, Ann's age| morning before breakfast with dumbbells jar}. The average age of my en's great-| _,, “ Grain, Dow; \M%—x—18, Mary's age then. of tho abow weights alone sufficient | grandmothers ts seventy years. It would], “Shiwwoletl’ i Peta bs tree ma Aa soedeen Pa hoes To the Wiitor of The’ Evening World: HUGH J. MULLALLY. | to bulld up the musoles of be interesting to hear further testimony | though tt may ¥ politicians know the Does the song called “Coming Through Rapid Transit Wit, part of the body? A. A, [OD the subject from your read history of {t, Curlously enough, this Hebrew. word readily the Rye” refer to a river named Rye or | ro the Editor of The Evening World: ‘There is no gain in using heavy dumb- * means “an. ear yf corn joe well asa “river,” but its lg- to the rye fel H.G. | ‘The following conversation was over-! bells. You will get better results from As ‘to, High-Heslet Sheen, nificance forsmoderns arises from the fact that 1t was ém- © Solution, heard by tho writer the other day:!ono-pounders. ‘The amount of exercise |To the Taitor of ‘The Evening’ World: | ployed. aa a test to distinguish the Eohraimites from the. , Do the Editor of The Evening Worl Lady on Thirty-fourth atreet car—| YoU mention should be suMotent, if you! The present style of shoe with the high |’ Gileadites, the former being unable to pronounce the “sh'* I know another and simpler solitlon| Conductor, 40 you stop at the Wal- your whole mind and energy to {t | heel does not in the leagt conduce either |, sound, ; "i ¢ Flush [to health gr happiness. Surely no wo- _-—— 3 San tiset | OU eeeel” Si aaermen | to the eee Ficessdneen abit Cg rs To the Editor of The Evening World man wlio aia persist in wearing high- rie { Fe Do four aces beat a straight flush? joea ean hope to remaleyn good t Odd Bird Habits, fea the antes Pats mies wont co : ; oe is or simp, Sh ‘The \fact that, day birds yecome nocturnal at m i Leg i} “|. More “Grent-Gra: ethers”: .|18 purely nol t Vitey = an cenit” th To the Editor of The Evening World: ts A mane fev ren ne other, conskion tA. the. ag \