The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1903, Page 14

Published by the Press Pubishing Company, No, & to @ Park Row, New York. Entéred at the Post-Office Sy at New YO" as Second-Ciass Mall Mattor. 0) an dee depen eeematinnt ea VOLUME 44.0.0... ccseeceeseeeesNO. 18,456, ONS sot BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT. » The man of action, like President Roosevelt, for in- Gtance, 1s inclined to despise the man of thought. i1¢ ‘Wants everybody to be doing things jncessantly—he con- siders it a waste of time ‘> stop to think whether ome is doing the right thing or the wrong one. There 4% a useful lesson for people of this kind in the pain- fully interesting book “The ‘tenement House Prob- Weni,” just prepared by Tenement House Commissioner De Forest and Mr. Lawrence Veiller. A quarter of a century ago the condition of the w York tenements was very bad. Good people felt ‘Mat Something ought to be done about it. So they ‘Up an architectural competition and offered a prize @f $500 for the best plan for a model tenement on a ‘twenty-five foot lot. Over two hundred plans were sub- Mhitted by one hundred and ninety architects in the Upited States, Canada and Great Britain. They were @onsidered by an admirable committee, consisting of ‘Mr. R. 8. Hatfield, an architect; Professor Charles F. Chandler, President of the Board of Health; Rev. John |, Rev. Henry C. Potter and Mr. Robert Hoe. ‘Theat committee awarded the prize to the design of notorious “double-decker, dumb-bell tenement,” is described by Mr. Veiller as to-day “the curse | Our city’—which is now considered “one of the rat types of tenement houses ever constructed,” which increased tenfold -the evils that threatened the! in 1879, which has produced “a system of tene-/ houses unknown to any other city,” and which | responsible for the vile air shaft—‘a product eolely | New York, and one which makes our housing egnditions the worst in the world.” * This was the result of “doing things” without being @ure that they were the right things to do. The sup- Pression of the “reformed tenements” of 1879 by the Jaw was rightly considered by the reformers of ‘as their greatest triumph. | a ‘We must act for better conditions of living here, we must think at the same time, and think wisely, at our industry will be worse than indolence. Let us Cd ahead, but first let us be sure that we are right. s CONGRESS VS, THE TRUSTS. ‘There has just been submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States a question of extreme Interest to the people of this repubjic; the question, namely, “Whether it is possible for Congress to pass a law which Righ-priced legal talent cannot upset. The Sherman Trust law was passed in obedience to an {rresisti- i public sentiment. Under its terms the Northern _ Securities Company ie an illegal combination. But tne nancial Titans who formed this combination were able te employ the most ingenious lawyers in the market, » firat to show them how to evade the statute, and second to cunvince the courts that this evasion had been suc- ccastul. Mr. Bunn, counsel for the Northern Pacific, has raised the point that the control of the ownership of property . {= entirely a matter for the States, and that all Con- gress can do is to regulate the use of euch property with regard to interstate commerce. That is an exceedingly interesting point, with far-reaching implications. If it @hould be sustained py the Supreme Court any effective national antl-trust law would be impossible without a constitutional amendment. i "=, NOTORIOUS BELLEVUE. "Many patients bave died in Bellevue Hospital in sus- é circumstances, but {t fs not often that that de- institution becomes entangled with a victim eapable of making so much trouble as the late Adolphus fucker, former member of the British Parliament. According to the account of one of the inmates Drucker twas robbed, drugged and beaten to death. Others deny this story and say they saw no {ll treatment. The truth is “Miely to come out for once, for the companies that tind _ tieinsclves bound to pay a million or two of insurance "money to the dead man’s heirs will have the will and the means to probe it to the bottom. But, whatever may ‘be;pthe facts in thie particular affair, there is an at- mosphere of brutality and scandal about Bellevue, under y all administrations, that breeds such stories and die- » * poses the public to believe them. It is a shameful situa- ~ tom for a public “hospital,” whose very name implies ' gentleness and tender care for the suffering. OSE SSO9-9-9- iy THE SAME OLD HOLD-UP. ‘The Railroad Committee of the Board of Aldermen Fe yesterday and decided to prolong the strangle hold “the Port Chester Railway franchise, which has -1- ) ready been held up for nearly a year, The members wanted to consult their “consciences” before taking action. There is some doubt whether those consctences _) are to be found in the Wigwam on Fourteenth street of tn the office of the New Haven Railroad. What is certain is that the people of the Bronx and the suburbs along the Sound are subjected to dally loss and hardship by the conduct of these treacherous Public servants. Mr. Murphy has the reputation of Being @ good disciplinerian. A word from him would probably break the log-jam in the Board of Aldermen, and if he falls to speak that wort! he will have to oear ‘ Senator Bailey condenms the Cuban infringement of the prerogatives of ‘he House. Mr. Williams, the Demosratic leader in the *< House, 18 not worrying over that point, and he succeeded = im lining up the Democrats in the popular branch, with- obvt any Important exception, in favor of the Democratic © A principle of tariff reform. The Democrats in the Senate Reed @ ittle of that sensible leadership, er Bactilus—If Dr. Mailory, of the School, has really discovered the germ et wcarlet fever he has rendered an {nestimatie service to SP fumanity and at the same time lifted a heavy reproach from ‘the medical profession. A disease so virulently tegious as scarlet fever must have @ very active ‘and the failure to find that causo has been a dis- Fedit to bacteriological ecience. But is it not very im- ‘@ THE » EVENING # WORLD'S w HOME SASSY SUVE- oOo-8 SF PESF5F9OE-9-09906O4 696-06-606909606-000-6 00-0:0-0 ? When 60 ; Takes to 17, 19 to 49. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Granddaughter of Horace Greely. es & P89O-O9OO “The young men coma the young men m0, Hach pretty and white and neat. She's older than their mothers, but ‘They grovel at her feet.” ND poor litle meveriteen wonders A why and finds scant comfort {n the adulation of the sprightly elderly gentlemen Who cluster about her. That {n, accordiig to Rudyard Kipling. As a matter of fact it 1s more ‘often the lady of forty-nine who does the wondering, for though male nineteen Undoubtedly does take to her, who cares about male nineteen? And, on the other hand, who does not care for the finished man of the world ranging from thirty-five to sixty, who fe very seldom an admirer of over-ripe charms, but prefers rather the interest- ing promise of immaturity? A very young man ikes an elderly woman because he ta more comfortable with her, because she knows how to put| him at his ease, But when be gets to be thirty-five the woman who merely/ makes him comfortable ls no longer his Meal—there are too many of her. He has learned to be at ease with young ones, and very frequently {« takes a woman who can make iim uncomforta- ble to rouse him from the approaching lethargy of middle age and make en {m- pression. ‘This woman is not apt to be seven- teen, but eave in rare instances she is far nearer to seventeen than to forty- nine. Byron at thirty-six, when asked what he thought of the charms of the woman of forty, replied wittily that he would rather have two of twenty. And any man of the same age wha told tho truth about the matter would echo the| e@entiment. There is a charm, a freshness, a vivac- ity about a young girl which no woman Past forty can hope to rival any more! 2 than she expect to wear am evening @ gown without a concillating bunch of | 4 tulle ora Jewelled dog collar around her | throat. ‘To be sure, the woman of forty knows | more, And to the unsophisticated youth | & her experience may be an attraction But the man of the world does not wis! to be taught anything, while on th other hand the role of teacher to young and pretty girl appeals to him, immensely. a 4 Even the youths of nineteen, who now cluster about the older women, need not give the maid of sweet and twenty a pang. The Farty-niner 1s merely edu- cating them for her. For, it. le only the youth of exceptional footiahness, who establahes himself permanently at her shrine The wise one, though be may pause, does not tarry, but having acquired the fare and the polse necemary to charm the young girl and the wisdom to ap- freniate her, at last lays his homage at cher feet, gome of the Best Jokes of the Day. FOOLISH QUESTION! Prosecuting Attorney—Was the pris- oner in the habit of singing when he| was alone? t McGuire (witness)—Shure, an’ 1) @ say, O! was niver with him when| 4 was alone.—Chicago Journal. WHERE HE’LL LAND, Tae Bookkeeper—That new messenger spends all his time reading such books as “Boy Bandits.” The Proprietor—K can see his finish, The Bookkeeper—Where? 286S925809208009906998 2980089000088 069666 55 990E9900595S 559000006 + @ecording to the new code of medical ethics, to Dr, Matiory’s name in connection with his dls- Is not that advertising? Should we not speak of Dr..A.? iv His Strength——Poor Edward Everett Hale wenten position of chaplain of the needs ing Soar te Hale) has worked loos easier. = ead ‘The Proprietor-—On Wall Cleveland Plain Dealer. HEREDITARY TRAITS, Customer—What sort of a chicken do you call this? Waiter—That, Plymouth Rock, “Ah! I'm glad it has some ‘historic ‘interest. I thought it was just’ an ordi- atreet.— bu’, in, 1 believe, “Oh! Samanthy hol’ your breath! This is scarin’ me to death! iThe Important Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man, rd # MAGAZINE 2 By the Creator of & & & She Visits the Waldorf-Astoria. | FORD2OOD “Sunny Jim.” Let’s sit down—them chairs is free. Look—that man wns this ms :e. @DOCPLLDLDLDIDODOS KBHDRADSHH9OHHHHOHHH9OGGO 90-4 1060000090004 OOD OO DOOEOOOOOESOE OOF tt of: * ad s o>; as YES, AS A CITIZEN HAVING THE PUBLIC WELFARE AT HEART, AS ¢ .———— EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE,) /— (FEEL IT 2. pi Con THEY ALL HAVE TH USES. BuT YOU MUST/NT iy) o He Fhines Hz vught to Be Waqinated, but on Sscond Thought Thinks Not, WHAT 2 S\) ALITTLE EiR ; ARE *y) ALL THOSE/( PAIN. ITS 2 ALL FOR S YOUR Good. Ke HORRIBLE LOOKING INSTRUMENTS FOR? No Flat for | the Man Who Has Nine Children, 6é I SES," sald the Cigar Store man, “that an hon- est citizen complains that he can’t get a tlat because he has nine children.” “He don't want a flat,” replied the Man Higher Up. ‘He: ought to hire a hal!. A bunch of nine ° children in New York is not a family, It is a mags meeting. Aftcr a man accumulates more than five he is a hopeless case, He has got the habit, and there ie no telling where he will stop. Out in the country or in @ smaller town this thing of padding the census with ~ legitimate pads {s all to the good, but in New York 8 soon as a man begins to grow offspring the land- lords give birth to a grouch against him. \ “Of course you have to play this kids-in-a-flat thing , two ways. The fond father and the doting mother look at the play straight and the landlord puts a copper \ on it, You can always tell as soon as you enter a flate house whether it shelters littie boys and girls or not. “If the wall paper in the halls looks like some- body had been prospecting on it with a pick and shovel you can make up your mind that there are a few mamma's pets stowed away upstairs. If the front door is kicked in, if the banisters on the stairs are broken, if there are windows out in the cozridors, if the front steps look as though somebody had been sorting ‘coal on them, you can bet your liver pad against a spotted veil that there are parents in the house who are buying little shoes. “One slight child with flaxen hair and the map of & cherub can do more damage in a flat-house in an hour than four husky men moving a square plano can do in @ week. An able-bodied, rosy-cheeked boy, full of country sausage and pancakes, can go further toward putting a flat-house on the bum while passing down- stairs on his way to school in the’ morning than a run- away automobile could. “The landlords know this. ‘i’hey can stand for a few ard soak the damage done by the juveniles onto the tenants in the shape of extra rent; but if you stack nine children in one family against the average land- _ lord he will ask you if you consider converting his flat-house into a hole in the ground. “It 1s a cruel condition and a boost for race suicide, but the condition is there, and unless society gives a license to encumber children with handcuffs and balls and chains it is going to become harder and’ harder. BOESE9O3-4-99-9099H8 H6-990419909-090F 94-999 H9909: NOW MY SON, TAKE OFF YOUR COAT —_" AND WE WILL OPERAT. ON YOUR ARM FIRST, 5 —"SHALL 1 GIT DE STRAIT-JACKET IN CASE HE GitS VIOLENT 2 Onn to get them into flats, Against the. experjence and lly’ Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle. & ee Grouchiness of landlords is pitted the foolish love of x A é i < parents for their children.. No mother or father can es se Billy Goes to Ask Polly's Pa for Polly's Paw, but Can't F.nd His Tongue,3| ever ve brought to believe that thelr darlings could de = > d destructive. How can a mother think that her sweet Witt THOU You BETTER = BRACE UP HE'S CRAZY! baby committed an act of vandalism that looks as SH! HE'S A Poppin! Be MINE, POLLY DEAR? ha ASK DA though it was done by a ‘longshoreman armed with an axe? ‘4 “Nevertheless we keep on having children. There are. So many of them that we can't build schools fast enough, and the places where they can be kept are growing scarcer every day. It will take a bigger genius’ than we have among the population now to square the thing up.” “They ought to build big roomy flat-houses exclusively. for people who have large families of children," suggested the Cigar Store Man. “Great head!” agreed the Man Higher Up. “If there was euch a flat-house built the chances are that nobody frould live in it, and ff it shoujd be tilled with famiites within & week it would have the battle of Gettysburg looking like a ping-pong tournament.” . id ‘ RE SNe eT eo News for Old Maids, “gpineter"’ {8 the term that the law applies to the womest who is unmarried. ‘The onigin of the word Gates back to the days when spinning was not done by machinery, but by hand, At that time every girl learned to spin, as @ matter of course, the same'as she now learns to spell. She of hours every day, and wi THAT You RIN_IpioT!