The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1903, Page 8

SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1903. 5 4 ay teres World — The Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to ¢3| Park Row, Now York. at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44..... 6065 eeeeeseereceee NO. —___ A NEW CROSSTOWN LINE. The Metropolitan Traction Company is reported to) have in contemplation a new crosstown Iine to serve the! east and west sides in the Central Park section. { ‘There has long existed a line from the East River through Eighty-sixth street. and the park viaduct, the| installation of electricity on which last summer wrought & welcome improvement. Large and commodious cars run on a faster schedule have replaced the obsolete and {l-smelling street cars. But the company having been defeated in its fight for) right of way through Eighty-sixth street from Central Park West to Amsterdam avenue, the terminus of the Une remains as formerly at the park entrance, and from) Fifty-niath street to One Hundred and Sixteenth there/ is no traction means of transit between the park and the North River. The lack of street-car facilities in- Yolves a serious deprivation to residents of the west side. In the circumstances a project for a new line through the Ninety-reventh street viaduct may gain some public @upport, But it can be granted only in return for full compensation for the benefits conferred and full In- @emnity for any damage inflicted. Perhaps a line of electric stages would arouse least opposition. 2 RESTAURANT DEVELOPMENT. The fact that the main route of the subway divides mto two lines at One Hundred and Fourth street, one eontinuing north across the Harlem and the other di- verging toward the Bronx, has stimulated real estate speculation on upper Broadway in holdings that would form good sites for restaurants and rathskellers. It is expected that the region adjacent to this important sta- tion will develop into an eating and amusement centre. ‘The prospective demand for lobster and Welsh rabbit is bringing about a very appreciable increase of land ‘Yalues. On such sensitive considerations do prices per front foot depend. The northward extension of restaurant centres has formed one of the most interesting features of municipal expansion within a decade, What was there in the Long ‘Acre Square neighborhood ten years ago to attract an after-theatre supper party? Now that region provides 16,431. Entered at the Post-Office 1 Its Att right- GOT A BARREL OF SUGAR IN ITS WIND-PIPE, MAYBE $ ¢ $ 2B RDRIOM The Girl Who Has Never By Nixola Greeley-Smith, OU know her, the girl who hes never been Ieased, for she is far more numerous than the other girl, the one who teally can't remember how often. She ts also more interesting to talk to, for, wearing an air of demure ut Intelligent innocence, she lets you tell her all about {t instead of wanting en embarrassment of gustutory riches and the embar- faasment is to be further increased by the opening of the New Astor and the Knickerbocker, hotels offering palatial dining accommodations. In the Grand Circle neighborhood there was one unpretentious ohop-house where now every want of the palate is provided for. Im the region north to the city line there was only Claremont. Not a desirable chop-house existed and a obliged to have recourse to a bakery. The decade has ahefs, and witnessed the growth of a modest chop-house the establishment of notable places to dine in the Sev- enty-ffth street belt and northward along Columbus @venue and Broadway. The institution of another oat- fing centre in the One Hundred and Fourth street en- wironment will mark the culmination of this restaurant @rogress. ‘The popular vogue of the after-theatre supper is ree- fponsible for much of this restaurant expansion. It Weems but last year that the midnight table d’hote to @ttract theatre parties was a novelty of uncertain future. ts euccess is shown by its reproduction in a score of hotels and restaurants. ‘The allegation has been made that New Yorkers eat more than the people of any other city and much could ‘be alleged in support of the statement. KEEPING A HUSBAND AT HOWE. ‘The art of keeping a husband home of nights, as set forth by Evening World correspondents, seems almost wholly comprised in a wife's continuance after marriage of the charms that made her attractive in courtship. “When the knot {s tied don’t throw your courting aside.” ‘This is the prescription of “A Happy Wife,” who drops into verse with the ease of a Silas Wegg and condenses {nto a brief couplet the whole sum and substance of post-matrimonial compatibility, “This happy matron speaks as the result of thirteen years of married life. It 1s fair to presume that tn @chieving the admirable record of keeping her husband at home evenings for that long period she did not in- Wuige in dowdy dressing sacques for breakfast, or answer ‘with a cross word the growls that sometimes will escape masculine lips before the soup comes, ‘When the children arrived she probably continued to recall that the husband was still a member of the fam- fly. She retained some of the girlishness, coquettish- mess ‘which had won him, remembered the optical effect of a new tle or a fresh shirt waist. kept up the old com- radeship, “did” her hair as carefully as of old and tn @eueral preserved her former attractiveness while inc!- dentally contributing a little thought to his slippers and his creature comforts. The remedy for remissness {n the husband fs entirely simple. The trouble les in the application of it, which involves some sacrifices of a wife's own comfort and sometimes of her pride. MATRIMONY AND TRADE ‘A pathetic aftermath of a postponed wedding in Bridgeport is tho return of the bridal presents to those who gave them, The presents ranged in variety from Spoons to a bedrvom set and their cubtc dimensions were Such that they filled a van. In their aggregate they Gurnish evidence of the large figure purchases of this @rder cut in a retail merchant's valume of trade. ‘These presents were for a wedding not distinguished fo the social prominence of the bride or the wealth of _ the guests over others occurring the nation over. But Mhen Croesus's daughter weds the commercial im- ) ortance of the gifts ts considerable. Miss Goelet's mar- ©) Blage stimulated trade in Paris. London and New York, >. @onoerning the silversmith of the Rue de la Paix not than the Fifth avenue jeweller. Ip gold and sliver and diamonds, new clothes and hate flowers and food and music—from the bridegroom's down to the details of expenditure necessitated by cerity, to tell you, as the other girl does. All ths, of course, when your acquaintance has progressed beyond the stage when you talk only of clothes—dn other words, before you well, we'll ray Mb to each other, ‘For a woman is never less beantifu!| “ than when she ts perfectly frank to an- other women, when, after making her pioneer fiat-hunter detained over luncheon time was|PTomtise that whe will never, nover tell | and after saying that she knows she !9 ® Koose for talking, for no one who ‘geen the importation there of a dozen competent publlo} tenown tt could possibly think ns welll of her, she reveals that—inst summer Rear Sixty-sixth street into prosperous proportions and|°" the hotel plasra a mn actually) Kisned—oh. gootiness, gracious, not not her Une—her hand. ‘What was i Whe?" asks the other girl. or #he has, you know, never been kissed. ‘Of course one reads about such things tn sfity novels, but do you think any really nfce girl ever lets —oh, when dhe can't help it, that's dif- ferent.” When the confidences are over and each has ostensibly told the story of her life, they begin to speculate as t what really happened. And sometimes the speculations wo a long way. Julia knows that Dthel has not told her anything, but she can’t help won- dering how much Pthel knows, And Ethel realizes that Julia has not said much but—how much could Julla ay if she wanted to? What a nice. cosy confidential chat they had. And yet "Mid 1 tell her anything she could possibly repeat? thinks Dthel. And Julla: “‘T wonder if —but no, I didn’t say a thing!" Women as a rule tell all they don't know until they have learned enough to Kkhow wothing, when they become silent. Retween the time of the frark sin- which conceals nothing, because there is nothing to conceal, and the demure silence of the ovenwise comes the period of confldences—the confidences wheh reveal very Uttle, but which serve about the same purpose that the pay- Ment of $10 consclence money does to a man who has sworn off five or ten thousand in taxes. Why does thy irl who has never been Kissed tell you 80? If you are a woman terause 1 {9 a good way started on an Interesting subject, ana f you are a man, because she knows that you will get up and hut the parlor door. Some of the Best she does tt THE WAY OF IT. “Of course we've avandoned that aly jon't know. seem to take Vhat’s that?" “Merely that {t {sn't wrong King does It."—Chicago Post. “IT'S AN ILL WIND’"—— it the road this morning,” said the first oom- muter. so nervous she's afraid to travel back to town,."’—Philadelphia Ledger. DADDY STUMPED, Willie—-Daddy, why can a man faster than a boy? Dad—Beoause he's digger Willie—Is that it? Then why don’t the hind wheels of a wagon run faster than the front ones? run guests in addition to their presents, an outlay was for which diverted a great deal of money into trado channeis. d get some approximate total of the money purposes in the marrying months in yil- ; the country through, the importance customer could be seen, Dg mueet as But dad gave it up.—Cincinnat! Com- mercial Tribune. “GETTING ON.” O14 Gent—Well. Tommy, how are you getting on at school? “First rate. some of the other boys, though I can Stand on my head; but I ‘have to put m: again: I want 1 80 ft "Punch, st the wall. ithout the wall at all,’ ¥ Been Kissed.| begin systematioally to—| { of getting! Jokes of the Day. | surd idea that the King can do no ‘ In title-worshtp- | “That was a terrible wreck on our! $ “Yea."" replied the other; ‘good thing] ‘ I ain't doing so well as DONT NEED A PLUMBER ON THIS JOB~ JusT Let ME Pur MY THINK TANK ON IT FoR Two miniTs! DERN FLUE MUST HAVE AV BRICK IN 1T = 1T WONT DRAW WORTH Gh SIX GENTS | Gor I PIN | LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,ZHE OBJECT OF THIS MEETING |S TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE PooR AND BENIGHTED HOTTENTOTS. THANKSGIVING (S APPROACHING, THEN LET_US SHOW OUR THANKFULNESS BY OPENING OUR PURSES aT Zeut US HEAR THE VIEWS ZO F < ») ee 1 od LHEARTILY} ENDORSE } ou { Ng 7 {FOR OWE, SHALL CONTRIBUTE BESIDES THIS } GOLD PIECE, SEVERAL CASES OF BLANKETS, Six i PAIRS OF TOP-BOOTS, AND A-BOX OF MONOCLES. —_ "WHO FOLLOWS ME IN HELPING ALONG y THIS GREAT WORK. NOBODY CAN SAY PEEWEE NEVER HELD.OUT A HELPING HAND. Sen ———— | 9099090 06009000050069600G96000O009SHd $064000601000000006% om WHAT A GREAT THOUGHT PUSHER You ARE! Youve PLATO FADED To A BiLious K! ‘AN: uPr i P% Wig 2 Poy ° : \ Y\\ \ N WHY f AWS MR.PEEWE WHY THIS 2 BUTTONS Gritty George—Sleep well last night, pard? that." 4 Dusty Dennis—No; | had on a “Wines Spaper undershirt. Vtg, $00 ra ous) cock Gritty George—What of dat? leave to-day, Dut that wrede matetme| Dusty Dennie—It was a comic “How was that?" ® paper an’ | was tickled. “Spinning.” x Os No. tor of The Evening World and white colors? man came up to me with a5 gallon keg nd a 3 gallon kek and ted 4 gallons f lauor, How did I measure It to give him what he wanted, having only the three kegs to measure with? It ts aim- ple to few, but puzzling to many: A.C. R. Hoth Men Should Bow. To the Editor of The Evening World: A says that when To the E Are }) To the Editor of The Evening B says that the fetter the word “ape,” the animal. {s not silent. Wihtch ts right? Band kK rid: 4s allent In K says it A Keg Pro! To the Editor of The Evening World: Let readers figure this out: T had o [Sew containing & gallons of Mquorn A “Who was th ging you last 90900909000 THERE! You so! Irs Just As SIMPLICATY SIMPLE I Toup The Importance of Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man. cA eH tt OS He Poses as a Philanthropist af a Charifable Gathering, but Fails to Make Good.: D){ FELLOW CITIZENS, THE OPPORTUNITY HAS ARRIVED WHEN WE CAN’ SHOW THE TRUE “CHRISTIAN SPIRIT, BY GIVING OF JUR SUBSTANCE, TO THIS GREAT CAUSE, WHICH HAS: BEEN SO ABLY PRESENTED BEFORE US BY THE SPEAKER: E jat young man hug- night?” asked the girl in the new fall hat. “Oh, he is a book agent,” re- sponded her chum, “Looked to me more like a wt EVENING WORLD'S # HOME # M DRAW Your) BREATH + ma] ITSELF! HEAR! HEARS DID'NT CATCH WHAT SAID, BUT ITS LL RIGHT: Teacher—Where Is your brother: this morning, Tommy? Tommy—He fell In a barrel of elder and hurt himself. Teacher—How could cider hurt im? Tommy—It was hard cider, must bow and cy "Po the Editor 6 Tam a wo some people ca salary is only not both, ARRY W. junchroom cheap join 3a week. are some very prominent business men who eat a light 1 two gentiemen|clerks who recel! friends pass two lady friends and only| none of them ever thinks to tip ch there, also office a good salary, but poor ¥|marry in New York City? © pat AP Which isysure, do not need it as badly ay some y A WAITRESS. of us girls. ing World: 0 have @ license J, 4, 06S8O0000OO4: ee Ue VOOVOD IGG OSHS Billy Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle---The “bast Straw” Causes a Tragedy. Aletrtotu! HAND, POLLY, OR YOULL BREAK THAT CHAIR} _ Concerning the Gentle B. R. T. Methods. | SEE,” remarked the Cigar Store Manj “that tho B. R. T. has succeeded in Killing a couple of employees and injuring a lot of passengers.” “The same influence that furnishes protec- tion to a bug that jumps out of the fourth-story win- dow of a foolish house and escapes with a broken ankle and a bruised nose is all that has stalled off a slaughter on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit ‘L’ system for the past year,” said the Man Higher Up. “From the way the road is run, the managing orders might as (well be ritten by Harry B, Smith in collaboration with Theo- dore Kramer. “It is a combination of comic opera and tragedy and melodrama, the Brooklyn Rotten Transit system. You are probably wise to the fact that the alleged management ‘s putting up the accident at Thirtieth street, in Brooklyn, to the poor devil of a motorman who lost his life. There is a long chance that the stall will be got away with; but if the Brooklyn authori- ties get busy enough to induce perspiration they can assay the real blame out of the muck of coppered tes- tlmony that will show up at the inquest. A “The Union Depot, at Thirty-sixth street, where the junction of the Bay Ridge and Bath Beach trains is located, is run like a shooting gallery. I know the tracks down there like a book, and you will find that poor Cahill, who was running the train that ran into the dead string of cars, thought they were on another track. If they dig into the way the switches are worked between Thirty-sixth street and Thirtieth street they will exhume some valuable information about the rall- road stars who handle trains there. “The mould in the cheese is simply this: The Brook- lyn Rotten Transit management is trying to run an » | electric overhead road with men who have been trained in handling trolley cars on the surface, It takes as »|much wisdom in handling efectric trains at high speed and carrying big traffic as {t does in handling trains on steam roads running far apart and on a regular. schedule. 3 “The steam railroad mun {s trained from a kid. Tho! men in the mechanical department get their start mas- | »|saging locomotives in a roundhouse or checking cars | in a crowded yard. They work their way up. Before; they are put in a place of responsibility they have the | system framed up eo that they can repeat the rules of | >| operation in their sleep. “You never soe a man handling traffic on a steam { ;|rcad wandering around smoking cigarettes and carry- } ing a copy of the Iatest magazine in his pocket. You! can see that at any time at any important junction point of the Brooklyn Rotten Transit. The gang that | | holds smoking concerts in a discarded street car on the! ‘L' structure at Thirty-sixth street, in Brooklyn, | >| couldn't handle a parade of push carts for the general! manager of a real railroad. “Ju&t 90 long as the Brooklyn Rotten Transit puts the | road into the hands of young men whose chief recom. mendation is that they can keep a pretty set of books or do well in amateur theatricals there will be accl- dents like that of Thursday night. It is not necegsary that a raflroad man shall wear attached cuffs and have ! his trousers creased.” i “It’s a wonder they wouldn't get some real railroad men to look after their trains,” eald the Cigar Store! Man. XO 0% rd-d re SODDOO> Higher Up, “is not a railroad. If they could take the water out of the stock and put it tn the right of way it would be @ system of canals.” Temperance Postal Cards. ‘There are temperance cranks in France as well as in.other parts of the world, @ fact whioh 1s shown by M. Cap Mfartin, of Paris, who has had half a aillion picture postal cards printed illustrating the evils of drunkenness. ‘They have such titles as “The Drunkard's Doom,” “Death in the Bot~ tle” and ‘he Drink Fiend,” and the author suggested they might bie posted to confirmed drunkards, Two or three #lan- der actions havo already been started by people who have received the cards, and one recipient 1s being proceed against for violently assaulting a send REJECTED 2,865 WOMEN. In this era of. new records It may not be amiss to alt attention to “Squire” Samuel W. Hammers, a merohant of Highland Township, Gettysburg, Pa., whose claim to fame to LOOK OUT KOR The Girl in Red: a a record maker 19 based on tho fact that he has rejected | 2,865 proposals of marriage. Hammers is fifty years old. Some time tised) for’ a wife, who should be “small of good-looking possessing some means, ff offers, but. not on ‘proposed to €yy ago he adver- | size, neat and | In response‘ “The Brooklyn Rotten Transit,” answered the Man |, AGAZINE