The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1903, Page 14

hea by the Preas Publishing Company, No. £3 to (© |» Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice it New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. .NO. 15, S22. ‘Estimate and Apportionment on Friday of the project to tare to the ground the disease-infested tenements which compose “Lung Block,” in Catharine street, and con- This is a project long advocated by The Evening ‘World. Its immediate advantage will ve the extermina- tion of what is admittedly the worst breeding place for tuberculosis have been reported from these tenements. ts further-reachiug benefits will be the perpetual sub- stitution of sunlight and fresh air for the tainted atmos- Phere of disease, an improvement contributing greatly to the reduction of the heavy death rate of the neighbor- On the Health Department's shaded map of city lity this region is now indicated by the blackest of ink. " ‘The agitation for this betterment has had the support the Tenement-House Commission, the Charity Organi- lon Society, settlement workers and the Board of Health. Its success will add another ttem to the ad- @inistration’s admirable record of reforms undertaken in interest of the public health. ° . ° . ° ° enn he | But more than that, the disclosures made of disease- iting conditions in these foul tenements call for re- of wider extent and for a more general popular war ‘eo tuberculosis. The doctors and the city authorities _ have done their work well. But the-revelations seem to | @bnvict the landlord of a partial complicity in the dis- semination of lung disease and point to a responsibility nm his part which he should no longer be permitted to Tae, Ms ‘Thus, from a single one of these tenements, locally cai aaa Pot,” 26 cases of consumption were re- “ported to the department within nine years, And one house has a record of five deaths from within seven years! ‘Was it merely by chance that this room became a chagber? Was it ever disinfected? Was it ever on the walls on the,layer upon layer of germ- old paper? | Inspectors have found rooms in east side rookeries Where there were nine layers of wall paper pasted one ‘upon the other, the original dating from the erection of the house half a century ago. Of the city’s 200,000 un- 5 ter inside rooms (Dr. Knopf’s estimate) how many been sfmilarly treated? j there no responsibility for the proprietor who per- these dissase-inviting conditions? ° . . ° ° ee ¢ awful mortality trom consumption makes its re- ‘@uction a matter of the greatest moment, one justifying the Investiture of health officials with drastic powers, A Great chock to the spread of tuberculosis would be of- fected if the officials could be authorized to order the Complete sanitary disinfection of every apartment or "oom in which a consumptive dies, ‘The infected tenants of squalid quarters change as nantted one to make way for another, but the of infection live on. They can and shoul be ex- even at the cost of indicting negligent land- * REMEDIES FOR STREET DANGERS. J In the report of the Merchants’ Association on city surface car traffic there is a recommendation that the “plough” Mfe-guard attached to Liverpool street cars be ‘adopted here, | It is in effect a modified form of the locomotive cow- more merciful and more effective than the ordinary + The claim is made that by this device “every shiid, man and woman who has been struck down by Bare equipped with the Liverpool plough life-guard has been pushed off the track practically uninjured.” Buch a record excuses any degree of ugliness. With a fender handsome {s as handsome does. “A-plan for the prevention of accidents at street cross- Ings suggested by The Evening World a year ago as syventnally to become necessary is even now receiving jthe serfous consieration of the Municipal Art Commis- ‘Bion. This is the erection of a permanent footbridge at § Wangerous street intersections. The present proposal is such a means of crossing-transit at Forty-second and Fifth avenue and instal escalators moving in directions for the further advantage of foot We are here anticipating the future and making an reality of what Mr. H. G. Wells and other yets have outlined for centuries yet unborn. An- decade may give us second-story streets. ‘3. GOLF ACcIDENTs. Is Bult'to-be ranked as a dangerous game worthy of fm: with football for serious accidents? On at Lake Hopatcong Miss Alice Wright was er missed the ball and the swinging club struck Miss Wright on the side of the head with powerful im- pact, inflicting a deep cut. Thereupon Miss Potter her- self fafnted and rolled down an embankment, spraining her ankle. A record of similar accidents would show many which have resulted seriously for women. On the Norfolk Downg links Miss Ida Clark was struck by A. C. Gardner fwhile the was in the act of driving. The plow knocked Miss Clark senseless and fractured her ekull, At Deal oe Charles Eldridge was struck by an fron in of her husband, the club cutting open her id dislocating her jaw. accidents point more to carelessness than to Brviness., The circle described by the swinging golf & greater diameter than the spectator standing Player's side is apt to realize. The force of the head :n motion is very great and the wonder is blow so infiicted is not invariably fatal. = Whatever their cause, they happen in numbers to surprise. Is this gentlemen's game of leis- | xpad form to require a hospital adjunct? If to of the kind enumerated here there is added tho of caddies mupoked merece and players stunned golf balls, the demand for a ready-relief kit i felubsbates is indicated. re via ira—The birth of a daughter ¢o Mr, and Rockefeller, jr., recalls the fact that this at wedith tp far removed from race sulcide. Futhera who founded the family, John D, and Bas four children, John D., jr., haa his first 3 ister, Mrs, Harold MteCormick, has had A public hearing will be had before the Board of! ; Wert the site with that of the adjoining block into a park. | § Ponsumption in the city, Within nine years 265 cases} ¢ ‘catcher. But though looking formidable it appears to | Joy SAY~ THIS 1S vusr AS EASY As \T FEELS- ‘SOMETHING SENTIMENTAL WILL JUST ABOUT sovsessosenooorooooons sees $ How to Be Happy Though In hove. By Nixola Greeley » Smith, ‘OU may not want to be happy. would infinitely prefer to be miser- able, If this be one of them, the deep indigo of your mood will not be light- ened by Any words that could be ad- dreased to you. Persons who have never boen in love, but hope to be, know that they aspire to a state of ineffable happiness, Others ‘who have been in love and hope never to be again are positive that tt {s a con- dition blending idiocy and despair. But those who love in the present tense lenow that neither of these things is so that in the ordinary course of love— true or false, an the case may be—mis- ery and happiness are ao exquisitely analysis could determine which in quan- tity exceeds the other. ‘Whethee Jovers jenjoy| are fovea happy laughter or ite unhappy sighs depgnd® Gargely on the pax of the lover. Bor men—practital everyday ‘There are times, indeed, when you blended that nothing short of chemtoal| 4 creatures that they are—seem to prefer the lighter side of the tender passion, while there are a great many women who really derive more comfort from an off love's funeral than from a new love's birth. They wouki rather weep over one man's perfidy than emile ten-. Gerly at emother’s devotion, and if one may be pardoned an expression which eavors though not inaptly ef the under- taker, thelr tears weem to be the em- daiming fuid of their love. Love ts dead, Ds he not a beautiful digging it up now and then to see how It is getting on. It would be useless to tell women of this kind how to be happy though In love, for they don't want to be. But for any woman who prefers con- tent to misery, laughter to tears, be it said that the cause of all unhappy love affairs ts jealousy, and the cause of jeal- ousy a lack of self-esteem. Very concetted persone are rarely jeal- ous, A woman whose serene self-satis- faction 1s well known to all her acquaint- her husband's admiration of other wom- en, after the unit and each one adds to its value."* of course, another phase to the argu- matically oonaidered she herself might be a decimal. For her husband had certainly met and admired many women before she crossed his path, Yet however specious the argument, it served @ better purpose than if it had bean more sound. Self-esteem, conceit, whatever {t may be called, In a coat of mail which the attacks a concelted woman, she will be made more unhappy than if #he had not been previously so secure, if her heart ‘had been torn in the In val by Jealous doubts and fears, Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. WHY HE FASTED, “Why don't you eat your ple, Uncle es, I like it all wight, but that ‘oman you've got helpin’ here took my knife awa Record-Herald, HIS EXCUSE, Sunday-school Teacher—Wiille, what can you tell me of Daniel in the lion's den? Willle—Nothin', De cop soaked me wid his clud Jes’ as I was tryin’ to crawl under de tent.—Philgdelphia Telegraph, * OTHER WAY AROUND. ‘The trouble with the Democrat, remarked the embryonte politictan, “ that they never seem aible to get to- g “Way should { bother about them, | { any way? They. are just so many zeros | @ Looking before and after there was, |; ment, but she would have been deeply | ‘ pained at the suggestion that mathe-| < But she will have been happier than | ‘ gether, “When you are more experienced," re- torted the eeasoned canypargner, “and are alive, Mrs, E. Patmeleo year old, who Is ¢he only 4 Oll milionatre, | have bean to a fow conventiona, you start the usual jocinnath named an td {The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. Se ot He Tries Ais Hand at Parlor Magic and Makes an Elegant Mess of It. ances sald not long ago, in discussing | @ kept her from being jealous, and eo] < wreen-eyed monster attempts in vain to] @ penetrate, To be eure, if jealousy once | « SSAY- BILLY I counp JUST, EAT A MAT-, Inge IDOL! Canine Detective—! started out. Ft HF HF SH Wuy To BE SU e% PEEWEE DEAR,CANT YOU NOTHING EASIER ! GET. SUGGEST SOMETHING ME A HAT AND. a FEW ANE CAN DO BY WAY OF EGGS SOMEBODY, AND Vowiee DEMONSTRATE To You, H ERRMANN'S WOND carat EGG DISAPPEARING SO AFTER TAKING THE THREE EGGS AND WRAPPING THEM IN THE HANDKERCHIEF THUSLY, f WE, WITH A_DEXTEROUS TWIST OF THE WRIST, ASK - WHERE ARE eae THE EGGS? MR. PEEWEE. MY HAT IS NO HOLD ON cae “CHAFING DISH! BRUIN—These living pictures remind me of myself. STORK—How do you make te find some clue to my lost } that out? »brother, and blest if | haven't BRUIN—They’re mostly clad In » stumbled on the missing link. bare-skin. To the Editor of The Bvening World: What 1s tho seating capacity son Square Garden? The More Energette Horse. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wor A team are pulling @ load, ittle ahead of the other, ly pulling the his side, A says the horse In front 1s} doing the most work rear horse 1s dolng the Which ta right? £. On level ground or going uphill the| horse in advanoe 18. pulling more than his share of the load. bil the rear horse is working harder, 4 since he puts moro strength Into hold- ing tack the vehicle, The horse that ai-|lags on the level and uphill is almost Invariably ahead of his mate in de- seending a hill, le | French, Meana “Please Reply.” | | the Hdltor of The Evening World: ing wad tan- of horses of cual ve tell me ti nf the clause, * alt?” One horse wihiflecree forward. 0) CUNRAD. Pisaye thas the Aitor of The Evening World. me one wrote asking “Why. is t when a person thiows a ball in <ne hile travelling In a rapidly moving ost work. HT, alr car the ball comes along with the In going down- of back to where % ® OOOOH SOIHHHHOHHHIHOHHHHHOHHOHOHOD 66.6 PPOOSHOOOOSOOO OOS LETTERS, QUBRIBGS AND ANSWERS. direction, ball eapondes sujhaving a momentum in the direction the car is going when It leaves the thrower's handy tends to continue in N, AH! HERE WE ARE, Both EGGS AND HAT. NOW LADIES AND HERE'S WHERE PEEWEE DOES THE DISAPPEARING) THE BEAR—Yes, skate. THE BIRD—Well, your enthusl- asm will be da pened in a mo- - ment, love to Pe eB ot: HERE'S MY HAT | MR. PEEW.EE, } The Crowd ‘of j Women at the’ 74 SEE that the women whe wanted to get a peek at, ] the principals in the Duke of Roxburghe-Goelet wedding yesterday almost ran over the police,” said the Cigar Store Man. “New York {s a great town for free shows,” replied the Man Higher Up. “The well-dressed mob of women that tried to rough-house the wedding yesterday has Be been duplicated many a time. If Miss Goelet had mar- ried a plain American citizen there would have been & , «crowd, but it would have been smaller and the police . ‘ould have handled it without any pushing. It wasn’t so much the desire on the part of the women to see Miss Goelet as it was to see a real live Duke. “Human nature is human nature the world over. Our ancestors were all taking off their hats to royalty at! some period, however far back it may have been. The yen to take a flash at 2 man or a woman who holds a powerful position by strength of birth has nof faded; from our blood, and it is going to take a good many doses of republicanism to melt it out. ‘ “The nerve of a man who advances the claim that he holds the government of a people in the hollow of his mitt"by right of ancestry don't make much of a dent in my sense of the fitness of things, nor in yours. But . creates a lot of curiosity in the minds of persons wi have nothing to do but frame up stories to tell their progeny or their friends about what they know of kings and dukes and earls. There wasn’t a woman in that crowd yesterday who wasn’t propelled by a desire to see) the Duke of Roxburghe 90 that she could tell eome Coch ¢ woman about ft and enjoy a good gloat. “There is a difference between the men and the women} of New York in their choice of attractions when it comes: down to going against inconvenience for the sake of see-| ing a celebrity. The American man In New York will! run the risk of losing his shirt to see @ millionaire dol gy some sort of a spectacular stunt, but he wouldn’t walk across City Hall Park to see forty-two dukes and earls| blacked up and performing in a minstrel troupe. Thet women don’t care anything about a man who has accu- of mulated millions, but they will stand off with their eyes popping out like peeled onions at the spectacle of @ nobleman with pimplea on his face riding, down Fifth avenue In the company of an American girl. if “Among the feminine population of New York there was more fnterest in the approaching Roxburghe-Goelet wedding than there was in the election. Descriptions of the gowns of the bride were repeated until thé women became letter-perfect in telling about them. The! men, felt the same way; but they didn’t #how it, because, they , aa | ‘were afraid if they did they would be considered “ise It will be a long time before women of Ameri be interested in a nobleman who comes over ver here and and ¢ cops out an heiress.” } ; “Why is that?” asked the Cigar Store Man’). » “Because,” said the Man Higher Up, “there fin't a woman in New York who knows about this wedding who don’t honestly believe that if the Duke had s: Miss Goelet would still be single.” bee a ae 700 Skins to One Coat.) If it takes 700 moleskins to make a motor coat how long ' will the supply of moles hoki out? Perplexed furriers are | asking <hemselves this question without much hope of a sat- isfactory answer. Moleskin are the most pronounced vogue in London this autumn. Gables and coatly ermines no longer | command tho groatest popularity, The modest moles, whose | akin hag heretofore been thought good enovgh only for gamekeepers’ coats and sometimes for the waisteoats of country squires, has been suddenly elevated to first place fm the affections of the motoring public. Smart aoclety women. are having large motor coats built of moleskins, as well as wraps of other kinds, FBELHILGDHHGOHSO9GHHHE-GOGHO-09990999999HHHHHOHGHHIHGHOOYHD GO Passing of Horse-Cars. As to the horse-car line, Mr. Steuart remarked before the * annual meeting of the Street Railway Accountants that had been elactroouted in almost every olty, While thers were sixty-seven companies using animal power and 36) miles of track operate] by sush power, there were only fitty-thres THE OWL—So you're writing the story of your life? THE CAT—Yes; In nine vol- umes. i sdosennoeooesoeqooonesonessnoesesreeoooreooreses® ! hk | i be laws of motion tell us that a dody tain direction tends to exctints The person who ball has a4 momentum In t. in whieh the car is going, wich ale ; because the thrower holds the ball In his hand, The ball that dire: No Untversal National Holiday. To the Editor of The Evening World: F. H, says there is no such @ thing as a national holiday, R, ‘M. says there is. person and falls Into bis bands instead | [t wae. agreed Agat by this term, “na-}young man was thrown from?’ Sel He ye! "We meant a day celebrat- ding? © | To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: t | companies which used animal power exclusively, and thett single track amounted to 158 miles, belng an average.of about three miles for each company. Odd Water Levels. vin : It is caloulated that In ene Bay of Bengal the water Hew At a level exceeding thgt of the Indian Ocean by fully 800 feet and that of tho Pacific Ocean along, the coast of South America may be heaped up as much as 2,000 feet higher than the waters in the opposite Atlantic. These water penile: degend upon the attraction of great mountain masses, the Bay of Beng upon the Himalayas and the South upon the American Andes. 4 ed by the entire nation, Kindly decide. A. B, It In Pronounced “Sho-far,” What ts the correct, pronunciation of “chauffeur?” A. R. Son In Citizen; Needs No Papers, | ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Tf a man carne to this country and had a son born here before the father was a citizen, would the-son have ¢o take out papers before he (the son) could vote? J.D. Me Should Wear « Dress Suit. ‘To the Mditor of The Bvening World: What ts. the co! it comtume for aj SF € weer at an rere wed- DA, “«Nerve” of the Army, - ane Oercere, Corps yeerey to be Bipot) wt a of ‘Telegraphy. telephony, ing te pas It ts also by law ‘with pear al ‘evga bay 9 ‘iw!