The evening world. Newspaper, November 30, 1903, Page 12

IVEMBER 30, 1903, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 52 to 6 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice _ at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44 Pree reereeee ss NO. 15,440, Qo senhiatadallal 4 SUCCESS OR FAILURE. © %be Evening World has commented on the dinner| ‘ » which Millionaire Beaton is to give his old friends and ) fellow citizens of the Ohio town he left as’a poor boy) { | to come to New York to amass a fortune, It is a unique testimonial of the abiding affection the city millionaire preserves for his old home. [were poor country boys in whom that dinner will resentment of the fate that has denied them the Beaton has won! ) ament ambitions, energy, pluck, patience, talent. fame with unpublished manuscripts on which their ts were get, as did the hero of Mr. Howells's “Hazard New Fortunes.” They camo with plays which crowded t ‘were to applaud; with inventions which were to them rich beyond the dreams of avarice; with s @avings which a business venture in the larger ‘Warket was to multiply into millions. They came with | the courage of youth, they toiled and economized, they p the unleavened bread of disappointment and despair, “@nd in the end suffered defeat, They failed, the many, vi the few won success "What made the difference? Was the fault jn those who failed or in a lack of opportunity which made suc- eps unattainable? ‘The census enumerator who takes note of all otner ‘conditions of population cannot give accurate figures as the size of the domestic immigration into the | Metropolis. He cannot take note of the thousands and | tensiof thousands who come to the city jn this hazard of fortunes, nor of the percentage of success, nor of contrasting futures of those who come. Do you r in “Sister Carrie” how the ‘Western girl came to The city to attain almost immediate fame as a.comic- ‘Opera prima donna, while the lover who came with her {was soon to be in the Morgue? “The cases aro perhaps not parallel, yet of the thou- ‘gands of boys who reached the metropolis in the year ; Beaton came, how many, with equa talent and in- r, have achieved anything like his success? wy A HOUSE’S TENANTS, + Ome of the highly respectable red-prick houses on Washington Square—houses long the habitat of ty and still retaining traces of old grandeur, houses led by Theodore Winthrop in “Cecil Dreeme” for architectural mediocrity which Henry James found Sry pleasing—one of these old-time mansions is to be ‘home of Mayor-elect McClellan during his term of It 1s the particular house which was Bishop Pot- residence. ; _ An interesting change of atmsphere ‘will come with the new tenant. In the rooms where questions of church ly were determined, where matters of ritual were d, the qualifications of candidates for city offices ll be passed upon. A slate will replace the calendar. at is, in theory, at least. It may happen that the word will be said in the somewhat dingy “brown- bne front” at No. 305 East Seventeenth street. Rogers used to say that in his later years taking a around London in the haunts of his youth and fly manhood jwas like passing through a cemetery. ‘every hand were the ghostly reminders of friends 0 had passed away. The houses were there, but the -‘apirits that animated them had fled. ( Tt does not necessitate a long residence in New York | prompt similar sentiments of mournful recollection. ‘Here is the house where Jones and his attractive young wife began housckeeping. You recall the first Welsh bbit you there, a somewhat tough and stringy one, “Mad rememb@ tat tho divorce court has since parted ‘he was beginning to realize the ease of prosperity. In this house lived the Robinsons, who have faded from sWiew. Here, where an office building towers high, was the doarding-house where you lived when looking for Your first job. Of the dozen who sat at table with you ‘Not five remain, » . The history of a New York dwelling-house with its © ehanges of tenants from decade to decade could not fail Be ) interest if the materials were available. In the hun- ©) Greds of houses that are going down before the wreck- @r's axe on what Is to be the site of the mammoth Penn- © sylvania depot—four city blocks, 200 or more houses— "> how much domestic fact, surpassing fiction in interest, 1s ‘buried in oblivion for ever! , is) FOOTBALL PROFITS. “Our fathers did chores,” says Prof. M. L. Perrin dis- eussing before the Massachusetts Teachers’ Association decline of habjts of frugality, “and our sons put the energy into football.” Perhaps we must feel con- it If the quality of energy has not deteriorated. That is the main thing. But of the extent to which this energy is made pro- when applied to football we are given an inkling the annual athletic report for Harvard University. expenditures for athletics during the year were 8.61, and the receipts, which were chiefly-from the 1 games, were $96,090.20. Nearly $100,000 for one eollege! If the receipts at Yale, Princeton and the larger athletic colleges are added the amount will aggregate * millions, A grand total of all the gate receipts at tho f hundreds of college games the country over would show returns considerable by comparison with the volume of ‘Mnsiness transacted by a large stock company or trust. growth of this tinancial side of football has called mew duties on the part of the undergraduates who the teams. A new course of instruction ts added regular curriculum. A youth who has the handling Of these large sums of money receives a business which muy help him more in after life than all ra and trigonometry he 1s called on to “pass,” have changed since the hat went around among for contributions to support the eleven and d the crew. It is a change which shows itself in the $250,000 steel and stone stadium d replaces the old circus seats on Jarvis Properties from which a trans- be effected.and an old’ dreain of street developments ee of similar prop- But how many there are in the great city who also} { pire foelings of sadness and despondency—bitter feel-| « “They came to the city with hopes equally high, with | They | > them, There Is where Smith lived, dead last year just! When Cupid Turns Into Santa Claus. By Granddaughter of Horace Greeley. HEN Cupid turns into Santa Cla W as he is soon to do, and disca his traditional quiver for the well- filled sack which the presiding genius of Christmastide must bear an expect- ant sigh goes up from the feminine bnif of humanity. And none of the mil- Hon maidens now wondering what Tom or Dick or Harry is going to give for Christmas pauses to think that the change from a igbtly slung quiver to the heavier old-man's bumien may make the lttle love-god groan and falter un- der the load. Year after year the giving of Christ- mas presents has furnished a greater opportunity for the purse-proud prodi- gality which distinguishes the Ameri- can rich and has imposed a heavier tax on the less wealthy public which in this, as in everything else, seems to think that it must follow, even though from afar, the pace set by the million- aires. ven Cupid's realm has deen invaded by the spirit of reckless giving end the poor young man in love no longer thinks of what he can afford to give tne object of his affections, but of what is the least that whe expects. Our grandmothers who were, let us admit it, in some respecte wiser than we realized the unwisdom of laying too heavy a burden on the love-god's baby shoulders until he should voluntarily thrust his head into the yoke hymeneal. They decreed that from a man to whom she was not engaged a gkt might with propriety accept just three things— flowers, candy or books, And every good—for other girls, For herself she cannot see why she may not accept a such awfully g9qod frienda—or a friend- ebip ring from Thomas—have they not known each other since they were so high? Or even a boa and muff from Albert—does he not work in a fur shop ami get the things at wholesale prices? Of course she is not Uke that horrid Brown girl, who gets engaged to a different man regularly every November and whose dressing tale is laden with gold and silver trophies of the brict betrothal. And if she were like that Jones person across the way, who takes anything she can get from any- body, she might be Uterally covered with Jewels. Can't you see the difference? No? You think that flowers, which, Heaven Isnows, are expensive enough at the Christmas season, are the only offering —that even the permissible candy and books aro less euitadlp gifts io bunien Cupid's shoulders than the buds and blossoms with which he may be prop- erly adorned, And you fear that Jewelry te in shocking taste and that furs are quite, quite Impossible, Well you are a preachy old grandmother, anyhow, Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. DIPLOMACY. Rangs—Henderson tells me you invart- ably give in to your wifo In argument with her, Bings—That's all right; that’s diplo- maoy, you know, It Is the only way 1 marge to have the Jast word,—Woston Transcript, GAS. Parmer Skidmore (reading signs in a clty hotel room)—"Gas burned all night charged extra.” “Don't blow out the gas.” you one Way or the other.—Cleveland Leader, AFRAID. “I am pure, however,” said the rich old man, “that none of my relatives wish me to dle."* “What makes you eure?" “Because I have only four, and they are all lawyers.""—Omaha News. CRAZY HIMSELF, “Yes, if 1 do say It," sald the conceitea fellow, "she's crazy for me." “How unnecessary,” remarked Miss Sharpe; ‘you don't require any assist- ance in that drection.""—Phtladelphia Press. MIGHT GET OVER IT, Proudman—Did you ever hear my lt- tle girl recite? I believe she'll be an elocutionist when she grows up Hardman—Or it may not Be ws'bad as os She may outgrow it.—Philedel- Tiu Jes STEP IN FOR A-MINUTE AN’ TAKE A LITTLE PLUNGE IN DOG- BiscurT PREFERRED! WAIT HERE TIL I come Out “oH THE MONEY: PROD OH”UILIYPLOOTVY OCC Nixola Greeley-Smith, | ¢ young woman knows that the rule holds | “ simple stick pin from John—they are] ‘ These fellers is bound to catch| 4 53 cd STOP BY THE FIRE MY LITTLE MAN, AND | WILL BRING YOU SOME HOT MILK, H 9000009040420 if, Wie Doctor— Your husband needs rest, madam. He ought to go way for a few weeks, Mrs. Gabblee—But I'm afrald he won't do it, doctor. 3 Doctor—Well—er—then suppose you go away for a few weeks. * ba) MR. P’PEEWEE. LUET MME IN, I'M cod me } YOu'RE NOT THE #” EVENING WORLD'S o The Important Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. : The Cold Spell Contracts His Inches and Miss Sixfoot Fails fo Recognize Him. G'qo0b EVENING i MIMISS T'T’TOOT SIE .Je~ NOURE A MIDGET. COME IN ANYHOW, AY, amnacey) AND Ger WARM!) T THIS COLD WEATHER MUST HAVE AFFECTED POOR TooTSIES M'MEMORY, SH USUAL RESULT. on the last race? Jones—Didn’t win anything. Smit you Why, | thoug! a sure thing? but I 4 An Apple Problem, To the Editor of The Evening World: A dealer sells one-half his stock of apples and one-half an apple more; ¢ht he sells one-half the remainder and one. ‘naif an apple more, and again solls one- hal of what he has left and one-half an apple mors, which disposes of his en- tire stock. How many apples had he at the start, readers? W. W. H. A Word for the Motorman. To tho Editor of The Evening Worl In almost every case when somebody da.run over and killed by a car the mob which soon accumulates wants to | the accident haps nine out f ten did not see how 3 for 1 cen appened, ‘They did not was the motorman’s as soon @s they see that humag blood bas been spilled they | know whether Jault orsnot, bul are bent on punishing th the future do you not t be wise for the pépple hasty with Peo tan 2 fore they try to take \the own hands let them ‘dlame. More Apples to Jones—Oh, it was sure enough, the wrong way. DPPELLHHHOGHF HHI HHHHHHHSOS$HHOTOS int you said © offender, In hink dt would not to be so At least be- law Into their out wifo ta to JOHN 6. D. SMe rae ets ete 00008 Paw! THIS 15 A HALF FROZEN LITTLE WAIF, WHICH 1 FOUND AT THE FRONT DooR- COME OVER BY THE FIRE MY LITTLE Boy, AND GET THAWED OUT, eS ee S'SHE DONT EVEN'N 4 RECOGNIZE ME YET? @) WHY \T 1S PEEWEE AFTER ALL? Sone Tootsie DEAR! ITs ME ALL RIGHT ——_-—-—~ ‘Tenderfoot- suppose Pete is a dead shot? Bad Bob—Yer s' ter. He was lynched hoss stealin’. wonder why It is that minstrel shows are always so prominent in autumn Whealton—Becaus the chestnut season. autumn is @ B0OOOOGHHHHVGHHOOHOD LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. nother sells them 2 for 1 quite fine and. put it in the water, and sure to eat , Most turtles eat during the months Tio sther it equals % cents. Now, if they|from February until October, _ During 0 Into partnership and each has 9! the winter they must be placed in water apples, selling them 6 for 2 cents, they ¢requently, as they only drink and aleep I have two turtles. sell their apples, Kindly explain where One I ‘have had two years and the o-her cr. No License Required in New York. Pas cent. Thinty apples, at 3 for 1 cemt, 10 if hungry the turtle. will 1 cents; 30 apples, at 2 for 1 cent, 15 cemts, | it. will only have 2% cents together, if they in cold weather, only a short time, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: legal etope to take to be amerieg. In_ New, femmes HOME “# MAGAZINi: ee & of Pizen jose right, mis- 2 a’ night fers Kindly advise me of the necessary an fo i ‘ Billy Has a Disastrous Experience in Wall Street Has Odell Got Platt hy Se Down and Out?’ '! SDE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Platt an@ | / Odell have been trying to take a fall out-of each other.” H “The way it looks to me,” corrected the Man’ | Higher Up, “the fall has been ‘taken, but it is hard to figure out which one is down. Senator Platt is the Fits ¢ simmons of politics. Just when they think they have him going and that his seconds are about to throw upr® the sponge he gives himself ‘a hypodermic injection of). knowledge of the State machine and lands a swipe on his” opponent that sounds like a bale of hay, falling down -am, elevator shaft. eine “But Odell knows the game, too. Platt trained Ode} and it may turn out a case of a teacher getting wise,¢o’ more than the professor ever had a dream about, Ale! though Odell was elected last year by a plurality so | small that you couldn’t feel it if you stepped on it, he. showed he was pretty strong up-State in communities)’ where the inhabitants are about five miles apart and Demorrats are scarcer than elephants in Iceland. “Where Odell comes in strong is in the mountafm counties up north, where they don’t know that Horace’ * Greeley is dead. The leaders up there have just as much influence in getting the State Committee together as the city leaders have, and a lot of them know more about practical politics in a minute than the majority of the local leaders could absorb in a week. “Odell also has the backing of PresNent Roos#?elt,. and that backing is as good as a baseball bat in a fight»: is with a crowd of Chinamen. The President ought to Be thankful to Platt. because if it wasn't for the Senator he’ wouldn't be President, It was Platt who forced the nom-* \ ination for the Vice-Presidency upon Roosevelt with tijhy 4 idea of putting Roosevelt in cold storage, and 4 where he'd be to-day if President McKtnley wasn’t assas- > sinated, 4 “Naturally you'd think that the President woul be willing to give the Senator the glad hand, even if he dia” | get into the White House by accident, but Roosevelt isn’t , built that way. He figures that if Platt tried to throw him down once he will take a chance at the throw-dowi thing again if he gets next to an opening. And President Roosevelt yearns for a renomination like a man down tf 4 VPP OIHLGSY 9 99GFHSGSG9H 3/66 a ah his last stack of whites yearns to complete a full ‘house |» on a two-card draw. “He wants to be elected by the people and he can't get’ a chance unless he gets the nomination. He ought to get, ?|the nomination. A man who has the pulse a year before; the nominating convention to send a telegram to a State.) conventioh and ask for an indorsement {s entitled to anys’! thing he sees and wants. If he had the front to make a! try for indorsement in Ohio, why shouldn't he do it in his own State, New York, and why shouldn't he pick A i > ‘Odell, the Governor, to swing the deal for ‘him? probably remembers that day in Philadelphia when > |gritted his teeth and said he wouldn’t take the nomina- [ > {tion for the Vice-Presidency, and Platt, he just emiled, © and Roosevelt took the nomination.” : “Where does Hanna como in on all this?” asked the; Cigar Store Man. “Hanna.” replied the Man Higher Up, “hasn't beem cast for a part in the prologue, He is rehearsing for the | big show.” u , _ f The Hypnotic Voice. Gordon Cumming was perhaps the first to discover the-ef.., { fect of the human voice ypon wild animals, On one occasion! < he brad a Honess in full retreat before him. He called loudly, to her, whereupon she squatted like a huge dog and permit | ,ted him to approach. In a simalar venture he ohpoked the ‘change of a iloncas by yelling at her and continued to do 8a, | while she remained perplexedly sniffing the ground and ale | 4 lowed him to escape. = | her A Plaster Whale. © Curator Lucas, of the National Museum, who ‘went te 4 Newfoundland w couple of months ago to obtain a plaster cast of a whale, has succeeded in his task. The cast ds to be the largest In the world and when completed it shipped to the musenm, Later it will be duplicated replica sent to the St. Louls Exposition, z3 1s seventy~ning: feat long. United States Street Cars, ‘The authorized capitalization of street car lines fn United States in 1902 amounted to $2,870,629,316, while gross earnings from operatjon were $247,583,09, and the income, after deducting all expenses, doth operating | fixed charges, was $90, . Three Hardest Blows: . ‘The stroke of . ions’ paw ta the third atrongest . orld, The ie the blow