The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1903, Page 17

ere ShPcaonin Puvttymea by the Press Padlishing Company, No. 83 to 62 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. —_— — VOLUME 44.0... ..c0seceeseeeesees NO. 16,428. — ee H STEEL STOCK AT 10. | Perhhps the most interesting phase yet exhibited of the decline in industrial stocks is the development of a #ituation where the market value of a controlling inter- st in the gigantic United States Steel Corporation is legs than $40,000,000. | That. {s to say, on Tuesday ready cash to that amount, ively. small as corporation figures go, representing, leed, but little more than one-third of the concern's jet ‘earnings for its firet year of business, would have sufficient at the day’s quotations to acquire control the billion-dollar company, its ten constituent com- panies and twenty-six subordinate properties. Pf the national steel-making industry could have been red. In the annals of commerce there have been| « developments so dramatically interesting. The situ- Provided a fitting climax to the greatest known Norfis or Fiederle has conceived a more striking jouement of a decline in values. It is & queer change in the kaleidoscope of finance Carnegie’s phrase, the pauper of 1903. None is so ler to do him reverence. Yet the mills that produced last year's wealth have deteriorated. The basis of the great company’s is apparently as firm as before. If its expecta- of profits is less it would seom not to be so much 4s to warrant the shrinkage which ha occurred. If beginnings of the stockholders’ panic are traced to revelations of the Shipbuilding Trust scandal the joters of that dubious enterprise are given much to for beyond their direct accountability. In shaking the confidence of the nearly 100,000 Steel kholders they have disseminated a feeling of distrust industrial i.vestment to nearly every village and in the land and occasioned a more general and disturbance of stock values than even a Black iy could effect. WOMANLY SELF-RESPECT ay ‘Has it occurred to any of the women who made a mob ‘of themselves in tho endeavor to satisfy an idle curtosity @bout the Goelet-Roxburghe nuptials that she should be thorotighly ashamed of herself? "The reportorial record of the scenes outside St. ee ‘s Church during the ceremony and within the ©) Gacred edifice after the bridal party had left is @m amaz- - ee ‘tng chronicle of feminine indecency of behavior, Women dn silks tore at each other's gowns “in a mad effort to get somewhere and see something.” They crawled through a coal hole into the basement of the church, car- Tied the vestry door by storm, swartned into the church, broke down the chancel rail and tore rare orchids from ‘he altar. Hysterical with excitement, they forgot their delicacy and womanly self-respect. They screamed and Dushed and threw the place into an uproar. And all for what? To get a glimpse of a bridal couple ‘with whom they h-d no acquaintance, to obtain a sou- venir of a private social event to which they were not invited and their presence at which constituted a gross _ breach of good behavior for which there was no excuse, The Goelet wedding invasion was exceptional only in the extent to which the indecent exhibition was carried. Unhappily, the “well-dressed woman” of the type of which it was composed is far too much in évidence, She | 48 seen too frequently in public on missions of idle curi- osity bent, which bring reproach on the sex and make mere man blush to think that she can stoop to such loss of self-respect. LAST OF THE ‘* WHEEZERS.” Municipal musical standards have been elevated with- fn a year by the banishment from the streets of the asthmatic hand organs, commonly known as “wheezers.” Since the establishment of the mendicancy department ~ of the Charity Organization Society in June, 1902, 200 of “these decrepit organs have been “retired” from active “service and gathered in by the department. These antique music-boxes are regarded by the Charity Society as among its most interesting trophies. Certainly their contemplation should inspire melancholy reflections in the observer. In proportion to the quality of the music which they rendered their earning capacity ap- | * pears to have exceeded that of German opera. The sight of. @ bent and enfeebled old woman grinding out a dolorous tune on a dark night with a rift of snow at her feet was a great coin-producer from the pockets of the ' By such an investment full dominance of 7 per cent.| st ee of trade. No novelist of commercial themes,| ¢ a year has brought forth. The king of 1902 is, in| < $O0000000000O HES A PERFEC’ GENLMAN — I wisn some MOAH LADIES would Come ERLONG NOW PPDDOD ©0092 -9-0990OO64 eevee The Man You Will Never. By the matter Is ought to be murdered. There ts nothing the matter! come downstairs. 80 you could remember, You recall every thing that followed, however, each scoraful sentence that he uttered, each recriminating phrase with which you replied. Somo of those phrases ‘were really clever as you re- member them. They ought to be in a book. And yet—and yet—clever as they were, you would a little rather they had been only In @ book. Not that he did not deserve them, of course. For he did, and all the other and better ones yon have thought of since, Why can't you keep your mind on the dreadful th’ngs he sald inatead of letting it wander foolishly to the first time he ever kissed you? Why must you feel again—now of all times— the wonder, awe, delicious fear of that first moment? Why laugh—bitterly— of the silly things you both said then? How strong he was, how sweet, how gentle, laughing Just when your emo- seeing and never taking the one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and yet caressingly serous just when you wanted him to be. How happy he was! How happy you were! Do you remem- ber the sparkle of his eyes, the myriad sparkles that rose and blended with one champagne glass? Something rose in your own eyes, too. But you were not sure whether they were sparkles or tears, As you stood looking out tn the dusk together the long street burst in?o flame. What seemed a regiment of twinkling Lighta speared the embattled dark. Nearby they were separate, dls- Unct jets, but In the distance they con- verged into one luminous point, Ike the Ughts in your life, your thought, You knew that one was a mere ilu- sympathetic. Here, at least, was a genuine case of de- readin destitution. No sham about this endurance of the bitter cold by the cheerless old mendicant. The coin ) came. out with an internal glow at the thought of the good déed done. /\ But it develops that the squalid creature was usually “4m good circumstances, sometimes with a bank account. 'The\ pedigree of several of the old women revealed the posselision of comfortable homes and influential relatives. } eruelly do the society's facts conflict with the senti- ment of fiction, ‘> CITY WIVES FOR KANSANS. At the time of the attempt of Kansas immigration agents to induce New York saleswomen and factory girls toleaye the metropolis for domestic service in the prairie State The Evening World pointed out the futility of sug jan inducement to entice a girl from the electric /lghts of Broadway to a kerosene lamp in a farmhouse St appears that the bait is now made more attractive by the offer of husbands for the fair city emigrees. That is an inducement of a different sort, and the Kansas em- “ployiaent’ agent has since had his mail heavily burdened ~ with) Jétters from New York girls who wish to know , sort of life partners they can find in the farm lands. | feels that if he were inclined to turn his office into a onial bureau he could keep busy supplying hus- ‘for women who want to get out of stores and shops ‘spend a quiet life on a Kansas farm. "yeh 1s the power of love to change the appearance Wf Ge Wandscape. A prairie home plus a husband is a if proposition. ole e'youhg women are now afforded an opportunity ig not to be despised. ing and pianos and telephones in pnd slweye jal, yt eacparees heled sags the possibility that er? Why should it prove a will-o'- wisp of the senses that you may never grasp? It je all over. You will never forgive him though he should plead for hours on his knees. ‘That is why you get up and open your writing desk and: write ten notes and tear up nine. And why later you put on the blue dress that you wore that first after- noon and do your hair over three times in the way that he ilkes It beat. And why when the doorbell rings and the man you will never forgive stands before you—-but no, ft would not be fair to say what you do then. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. OTHER WAY AROUND. Soph—Do you think kleptomania is catching? Fresh—No, It's taking.—Yale Record. NO MONOTONY, Wederly-My wife is a woman who always speaks her mind, Singleton—Her conversation must be rather monotonous, Wederly—Not at all. She's constantly changing her mind.—Chicago News. TACTLESS GIRL! pretty good girl now. FATAL SIGN. : The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man 2% wt * He Applies Ais Gigantic Brain to Solving the Famous Problem of Sister Ann’s Age. HOW YOU HOW WILL REPRESENT ir Forgive are Nixola Greeley-Smith, Your eyes are red. DU have quarrelied wih him. Your head aches. And the people who ask you what POG-F 9-93-O0- It is very strange that you can't go up to your own room, where it is quiet and the Hinds can be lowered to keep out that frightful glaring sun, without every member of the family trooping up to ask If you are ti] and why you don't You forget how the quarrel started. It was s.tmething he sald. But what was it? If your head were not buzzing ~~ $S4E9OO 22D Fe tolerantly—tenderly—at the recollection | $ ton might become too strained, always another as they do in the middle of a] “ sion of the exe; that though one walked] § and walked for miles the street lights grew no nearer together, But the oth- 30S 2 The Ape—Does that uniform mean you belong to some patriotic Da Monk—Yes, I'm at present Italian organ- LITTLE DIXlE---The Coon Bab HOW OLD THEREFORE, ANN MUST BE 48+ X, WHICH IS 48X) THUS MAKING ANN’S AGE AS +8 YEARS. ANSWER INDISPUTABLE AND a? eS wee : ds mg? a Little > AT ALL-LADY- JES You OC(uPA- SITUASHION- PRESERVED OF ALL SIMPLE 1S ANN? }iQUESTIONS, THAT, 1S THE LIMIT. HOw OLD 1S ANN? WHY A CHILD COULD ANSWER seul? ITS YEZ LITTLE SPA! DiD YEZ SAYO! WAS 48 YEARS OLD? TAKE THOT! Aocks awhile ago and ate them up. Black Goat—Do you know ex- actly what they were? Whit. C-at—Well, | guess they u THE BABY BEAR—! must re- fuse to be merged. THE BOA CONSTRICTOR— ‘Then | must deprive you even of bear existence, Tiger Bunco Steerer—Yes, thonkey of you. never have any more de: of your stripe. P| >99OO8$060OO000G04 At Any Seed Store, To the Editor of The Evening World: Some time ago I read that mushrooms can be raised from spores, Is that a] though I did my work as well as the rest|is ax follow and where can the spores be| of the boys. Mrs. Stokes—You seem to have a Mra, Styles—Oh, yes; Margaret does very nicely in most things, but she and grow up with the country under the best| hasn't a particle of tact. The idea of _ Phere are no Populists jn Congress at pres-| her hanging all the old duds on wash- ) Kansas farmer's political chances are not|!né day in conspicuous parts of the But even with the prospect of living|¥4r4 and hanging nice things in hidden Ps wife cutoff. thriving quarter section | Corners.--Boston Transcript. Where Does the Blame Reatt To the Editor of The Evening World: I am seventeen years old, honest, strong and willing to work. As I am out of work: now my patents say I must get’ out and keep myself, although I have nothing except what I wear, I have al-|in the ways tried ¢o do-my beat, but my em- loyers do not seem to be pleased with ‘The honeymoon is over when the ‘bride begins to eat ontons.—Philadelphla anything I do and they dischtrge without the least notice, ceived any kind of decent wages, tion aud official nogicct, Last Sunday eo ered ta vist tng | none. since Schofield has boon or will be West Point ook the boat] Ni the general exp After waiting for from tes for a train (I an\a M. A. R. readers tell me where the fault lies in| busy woman) at the several downtown stations in the shopping districts that I happen to get on at on bound trip, I have in the ht my way into the alread: over-filled oar to seek an unoscu statue of Liberty. leaving the Batter landing at 4.3, I have no bad habits. van | five to ten mi all this, and what is the remedy? DISHEARTENED BOY, Sixth Avenae Trains, To the Editor of The Evening World: Who can explain why there are not more cars run on the Sixth avenue “L" intervals between hours? Having occasion to travel ob those cars ssc i @ week during nge who seemed to have charge to the statue informed us it was late to enter and refused positively unlock the gate. boat had not started on tim >) ly He informed ua the and the A “Liberty” Complaint. ‘To the Editor of The, Y wish to oll attention to am\lmposl- 9 2." °/ : sac Ge Ai i (i tunt in Qarz9eat Politeness.3- $ The Critics, the Managers and the Public, | SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that some of the managers are making a roar about the way the critics have been passing it out ta their plays.” “The managers are always making a roar,” sald the Man Higher Up. “A critic can’t satisfy a manager, and it is hard to get a play and company that will satisfy a critic. Nine out of ten criticisms that haven't got a horseshoe nailed to the outside of the glove thag hands them out say ‘The plece {s all right, but’/—— “The reason there are dramatic eritics is because people like to read what the dramatic critics say. Newe« paper readers don’t go out and bet on the dope of the dramatic critics, though. They look at an account of e first night of a show as they do at an account of & murder, and lots of times the accounts are similar. “Managers complain that critics don’t know anye thing about stagecraft, and that’s no lie. ‘The managers think that critics ought to be retired actors, but the only actors who ever went into dramatic criticism have been there with the hammer every time. The trouble with the critics is that most of them don't pretend to try to learn anything by reading about the art of write ing plays or acting. Few of them read anything ‘but their own stuff and the stuff the rest of the bunch writes. “The critic that don't know the o. p. side from @ make-up box will sit down and throw the harpoon inte a stage setting that has cost a mianager $5,000, and express surprise when the manager emits loud cries of agony. Qn the other hand, a manager will stack up & production and charge $2 a seat for it that would be roasted in Kalamazoo, and then he wonders why the New York critics unanimously put the kibosh on it, Tt don’t take ze, dramatic critic to discover that a plece is on the fromage. ,The dear old public gets next im a hurry. “Sometimes tho critics knock a show that sticks out and makes a winning. ‘llorodora’ made the critics of New, York look like @ gang of sign painters in the Metropolitan Musoum of Art. On the opening night every critic in town with one exception threw the boots into it, Nevertheless the show ran so long that ‘the house ushers quit because they got tired of hearing the, sextet ' “Nearly every critic in New York 3s a graduate from the reportorial ranks, They get their start by being assigned to go up Broadway ana gather in the stories of the press agonts. After a while they. get Re, crack at a minor performance, and if they show that they have ability in the way of straining ridicule or sarcasm through a typewriter they are in a fair way to be doomed to go to a show every night Guring the season for the rest of their lives. What Sherman said about war is applicable to the life of a dramatic critic in such a season as has just been started. To have to sit through all the punk that has been placed on the New York stage since summer would make anybody but a case-hardened critic go around inquiring as to the relative effects of carbolic acid and {lluminating gas,’* “If the critics don’t like the plays, why don’t they - write-a few themselves?” asked the Cigar Store Man. | “The critics have answered that question,” replied the Man Higher Up. “Look ye, Horatio, and give ear, v'chee. To hear the critics tell it a critic who could make Shakespeare resemble a man drawing plans for a brick chicken-house might offer a masterpiece to every manager in the business and have it turned down,” WOMEN’S STRANGE JOBS, In England and Wales alone, we are told, there are 44,000 women bootmakers, 3,220 ropemakers, 4,370 saddle-makers; sad to aay, there are $7,707 barmaids; 3,850 butchers, But it is a hogeful sign that 5,140 women earn their living by gar dening. There are 3,000 cycle-makers, 117,640 tailors, who are women; there are 279 undertakers, 12 shepherds, and almost © every trade has at least one woman representative in ty even the dock laborers and road workers, 3 CIVILIAN GENERALS, In the long line of men who have been and who will be af the head of the army until the retirement of Wood, in 194, 0959000904 DOOLODD ©0000004-0906-0004 her Mile, Young, Corbin, Chaffee, MacArthur nor Weed is a graduate of the famous Military Academy, All except ‘Wood came over from the clvi) war. “MOUNTAIN” PAPER WEIGHT, : The German Emperor uses as a paper weight on mented %¢ Lo the Emperor, ¢ —————nerenpm rrr > # oa Preah Tat ae writing desk the summit of one of the highest mountains ratee aunt |in Africa, Dr. Buebner, an African traveller of eome. farmay’ EIS Selocks. the same official ‘Meing a | broke the plece of rock from jthe highest point of MoNm pessenger on, eu . Kilima-Njaro, whioh ts on German-African ground, and pre