The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 6

by the Premy Publishing Company; No. 63 to @ Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office ‘at New. Yorke 4s Second-Class Mail Matter. > BINDING NEW YORK TOGETHER. On New Year’s Day, 1898, Manhattan and Brooklyn - legally parts of one city, but physically they still separate. Only the slender bond of a single dge held ‘them together. To-day that bond is dou- | With the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge Greater’ New York becomes less a name and more aj ¢, ‘reality, The Hast River is shrinking, and it will con- tue to shrink. A tunnel is boring under it, another il Boon be begun, and two’ more great bridges are om S hardly more of a barrier in New York than the is in London or the Seine in Paris. the boroughs makes it possible to plan a transit ‘which shall relieve the frightful congestion at Memhattan end of the old bridge. The jam at) le terminal, at that. Bridge cars, trolley cars and) trains all dump their loads in one little spot. cars keep moving around loops, the bridge ana trains are delayed by the necessity of running their termini and then backing out. "To reduco crowding and delays to their lowest terms traMc must be kept moving in continuous circula- ton. Every stopping point should be a way station (and none a terminal. Then the passengers would be ‘distributed all along the route and there would te no des anywhere. ‘It is {n thie direction that all the local transporta- on experts are working. ‘The opening of the Will- isburg Bridge wili give the first opportunity to carry uit the idea. It will enable the old bridge terminal to “@bolished, allowing the cars that come westward oné bridge to circle home on the other, and Vice e ‘The tunnels and the additional bridges will per- it the system to be extended still further. Severa] ingenious plans for this service have been d out, notably by Bridge Commissioner Linden- and Chief Engineer Parsons, of the Rapid-Transit ion, and it is a discredit to the ‘city that none } them has been adopted and put in the way of exe- , tution. All\the arrangements for approaches and trafile ‘Ponnections ought to have been made so*long In advance é t the new oridge could have begun Its work of .re- ‘Het as soon as its builders had laid down their tools. Gass is, it will have to stand for some time as a monu- itto' official bungling—and certainly not a monu- paen that willattract admiration for its beauty. «But ‘this is only an annoyance of the moment. For \ ons after it is forgotten the great bridge will atinue to serve the convenience of New Yorkers. ‘a developing civic sense of beauty its oll-well der- will be replaced hy graceful towers, and the Will- b Bridge will become, like its stately predeces- one of the things that give us the right to feel that are citizens of no mean city. With The World’s Complimenta—The Eveniog World greets the new Williamsburg Bridge to-day with a special four-page supplement, which will be seen by a good many More people than the city’s $30,000 worth of flreworks *Phose who mies the pyrotechnics may have the satisfac- * tion of reflecting that they can enjoy thetr World supple ment considerably longer. * THE HOME OF DEMOCRACY. ratic National Conventions There are more tie voters in New York than jn all of them ined. Even in the disastrous election of 1900, the Eastern Democracy was a wreck, New York east twice as many votes for Bryan as Chicago, in ich he wax nominated the first time, and fifteen #8 a8 many as Kansas City, in which he was nomi- ited the second time. A More Democratic votes were cast in this city last than in Texas and Georgia, the banner Democratic of the Union, combinéd. ‘To bring the convention here would be to renation- the Democracy. It would be the ‘proof that the Democratic leaders no longer considered any part of j Union the “‘enemy’s country,” but that they were 2 d to appeal to the common sense and the patri- of American citizens wherever they might be Sabie Claus Neods a Gun.—it there ever was a crime, and )) @ particularly mean one, it was that of that Philadelphia dicate which burned 4,000 Christmas trees to keep up the price of the rest of Its stock. Are there no poor ohil- “Gren in Patladelphia, who are not usually in the Christ- “ins tree market, but who could have been made happy by “those thirty car-loads of wantonly wasted delight? HE RIGHT USE OF NASSAU STREET. A city, after all, exists for the people in it. Trucks [automobiles are run for human convenience. When is a question, therefore, Yetween the convenience People and that of mechanfcal contrivances, the Should have the right of way. ‘Nassau street there is no room in the crowded There are plenty of other streets or trucking—there {s no other so plainly indi- site of a charming arcade, free from mud, under, way. Five years hence the East River will! « ‘Phe completion of even one new connection be- point is due to the fact that it is a terminal, and ale Sy ‘course, that spot is congested. Moreover, while the| ¢ ‘h Tn the past thirty-six years five cities have had eight F BOO ee Butterfly Becomes 2 a Grub.!: By 4 Nixola Greeley - Smith (Granddaughter of Horace Greeley.)| ‘ has never been satisfactorily counted for, that marriage, which seems to sharpen a woman's wits, al-| @ most inevitably stupefies a man’s § Else why the well-known wariness And guile of the widow and the equally Patent qullibility of the widower? Why 18 a woman's power of attack strengthened by a plunge into matri- mony and a man's power of resistance lessened by a similar stop? > Why does the most unsophisticated maiden emerge in widow's weeds and wiles from two or three years of marriage and the most fastidious bach- elor, when once he has made his en- trance and his exit from connubial bliss, succumb at the drop of the least lovel: eyélaah or the pout of a falntly seduc- tive mouth? ( ‘The fascination of widows is proverb! The ease with which widowers » cumb to it {8 scarcely less so, Why, even a New York bachelor who will not rise save to the most brilliant and carefully manoeuvred fly, when once the sea of matrimony has en- gulfed him can be baited with a garden worm, A widow marries the first man she lays her eyes on—If he suits her. A widower is married by the first woman who sights him whether she sults him or not. 10 easy that even an inexperi- ung girl can marry him if she Generally she doesn't want while “the bondage bouxht with a rine seems to make a woman dore attrac: | Uve, it almost invariably lessens a man's valu considered. There may be so. ng romanti 0 atiouc a married woman. Hut | f ab married man there De. emer ac-| bachelor as colning | for, lole MOOnLEE “bubble rides through Westchester, without in Jury to his romantic aspe Bui unde e the apur of matrimonia ces an begins to think shoes, to dre dressmakers’ bills, to. scheme sand tit | and suffer from week that a more or less may capture and ¢ iw ndedauate #4. nd the buteher and th Whither ds fled the visi eSSILY | \ leam ? Where is it now, the glory ‘and th dream?" When a man marries, a butterfly be comes a grub; when a woman marries, a butterfly remains a butterfly, with the possibilities of wider flights and mor gayly colored wings. | When they are widowed, the butterft fits hither and thither until it finds another satisfactory resting-place, but the grub, not having wings, waits pa- Uently for the first thing that oomes along—and grubs for it. The Important T {s a peculiar fact, and one which} 4 “Sakes alive!” said Sassy Sue, 4 Walking down Fifth Avenue. rd CHILDREN SEEM. WHY SHOULD'NYT THEY? THIS OOSOH 600000006: © SASSY SUE - Br the Creator of “Sunny Jim” - s €:) ISNT THIS GREAT ay TOOTSIE. HOW HAPPY THE CLEAR BRACING AIR ACT ASA TONIC, AND MAKES EVEN US FEE —~——— 2 YOUNG AGAIN. |” {dont GQ SO FAST PEEWEE. CANT SEE HOW OOO9OO “What a slew of folks | meet Buggy-ridin’ on this street! 2) WHAT DOES THAT REPRESENT PEEWEE? y THE PERIOD AT THE OF YOUR, Cw “ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Hilda Gilchrist, a stenographer, is engaged to Jack Bruce, clerk. Her late uncle, Whose sole heiress she 1s, was reputed rich Hyde Clayton, Hit employer, is anxious to marry her in or to find some clue to this uncle's estate. Clayton's henchman, era nor, offers to help hit a finding the fortune Hild@ dit v' strong box of her uncle's an apparently blank sheet’ of paper, On this paper words and figures are treated in sympathetic ink. A cryptogram is thus formed which, by an easy method they transiate. It contains di- rections to the whereaouts. of the fortune, | Hild and Bruce, by means of the erypto- gram, find the strong box containing the for- tune, In the box ts also a note directing them to dig at the corner of a hut near Fordh HIM buried the fi Thi the woods that evening, shadowed by Clay- ton and Raynor. A man-eating tiger escapes from the Bronx Zoo, @ mile or two south of thelr destination. OHAPTER XII. A Nocturnal Treasure Hunt. EANTIME the trio of treasure seek- ers drove on toward the woods, happy unaware of the Horror that lurked among the dark under- growth ahead of them and of the scarce- fal, and dedicated to the useful art of 5 a AR RIageRNR Competition.—The Metropolitan will be @ \Wader for the. next tunnel contrast, Let ly lesser danger that followed close be- hind them. “Let us get out here,” said their host, alighting and tying the horse to a tree, “This is as near as the trap can ap- @roech your uncle's hut. It is only a fow yards .urtber on," * Bruce lifted Hilda to the ground, Ughted e lantern and began gathering ‘up the dimsing implements, The A minute's walk brought them to Mttle clearing, in the centre of which stood a tiny one-story house, “This should be the place," said Bruce, throwing off coat and waistcoat and rolling up his sleeves. For some time no sound broke the silence of the woods except the cle ing and thud of earsh and the heavy breathing of the tollers, Deeper grew the excavation and high- er the heap of soft earth piled up to either aide, ‘At last Beuce’s apade, driven through the ground, struck something hard, with a force that sent a jar through the digger's whole boudy, Hilda sprang 10 her feet at his cry of Joy and ran forward, “We've struck it at last!" panted the lawyer. “Look! It was the corner of a box that your spade struck!" By the flickering ght they could see the sharp angle of a rather large tron box jutting through the surrounding earth. The spade had struck through the rust and the brown mould that in- crusted the receptacie, and a glint of freshly scratched metal showed where the edge had cut deep into the iron. A few moments more of frantic dig- ging and the entire box was unearthed. “Where's the pick?’ «cried Jack, his voice shaking with excitement, ‘The fron is rusted. One good blow will : minasd tt open." Mr. Peewee, ‘the Great Little Man. He Goes Skating in Central Park and Cuts One Figure Too Much—A Sorry One.? END SA eo bt YES TOOTSIE, IN MY YOUNGER DAYS; |} USED TO BE QUITE AN ADEPT AT FANCY SKATING. | WILL SHOW YOU HOW CLEVERLY, BOS OO9999960060G9H HEAR DE WAR SHIPS SHooTin’? | 3 @ OFF CANNONS | @ POTD? $900 O0-O00O6 | Girl ~ in « Blue. Answers to the Cipher Puzzle In the eighth chapter of this $500 prize story will be received up to noon Monday. The next story in this prize romance series will be “The Girl In $500 in priz Green,” to begin Monday, Jan. 4 Lend a hand, won't ys He snatched up tne pick and leaped into the shallow excavation again. ‘The others held the lanterns close to the box, while, with two sharp blows from the pick point; Jack broke the hinges, Kneeling beside the receptacle Bruce, with a mighty effort, wrenched off the ua, A simultaneous cry of amazed delight buret from all three. There, gleaming redly in the lantern glare, jay row after row of gold pleces, not piled in confusion, but neatly pactced to. econofize space, the milled edges ng like the surface of a new file. ‘or three-fourths of the area of the Ghest the gold extended. There a partl- tion separated it from the further end of the box, And {t was on this re- maining quarter of the chest that the watohers’ eyes were riveted, Glittering, giving back the tantem's Gleams from ten thousand points of Light, blazing Uke a rainbow afire, were heaps upon heaps of gems—the Marho tarally Jewels, collected by a century of urs, emeralds and pearls; red, white, green, dlue, yellow and flame-colored centres, “Oh, it must be a dream!” murmured Hilda, breaking at last the silence of administration with a sigh of wondering delight, They're''— A voar, deep-voiced and terrible, burst Uke a thunder-clap through the hush of the forest, echolng down aisles, denizens of trees and bush. “Good heaven! gasped the lawyer. It was like nothing that any of the trio had ever before heard, vet hered- ‘tary fear, bequeathed through a hapse of countless centuries from cave-dweil- ing their cheeks and checked the beating of their hearta. A ‘The horse they had kept tied some dis- tance away was snorting and plunging with ‘terror, ; : “It can't be true! It can't. ran chest. stealthily. toward The light of the reverberating and re- the silent woodland waking to life all the sleeping gle of delight\he gazed Jewels. feverishly, “Chest's too Wheat was that?" off, But I can get ail those idiots get back." ancestors, drove the blood from new sound awoke their faculttes, quiet him he'll break loose and leave us to walk home, to say nothing of emashing himself and the trap to pieces. J He set off at a run as he spoke. Bruce \ | picked up one of the lanterns, and with Hide on his arm, followed quickly in the direction whence came the sound of the frightened horse's struggle for freedom. Scarcely had they gone fifty feet when from behind a tree elipped a man. tern illumined the shifty eyes and sharp features of Ezra Raynor. "No time to waste!" he muttered, some of the gold and then away before He spoke half aloud, words, his eyes shining “with delirious Joy, ‘his ean, claw-like fingers buried themselves lovingly in the heap of gems. Chuckling, muttering, shivering, he be- gan shoving handfuls of the treasure into his pockets, @ gtin of. elmost im- decile glee wrinkling his wallow facer 0000000000008 DE YOETIVIGHI-GSH99H9FHHF 999HF-99OHHS 09009-9-900G0000G000O “Land o’ Goshen! now | sce! Some big fun’ral this must be.” ood ‘ MINNY MAUD HANFF. $0€600006O006060000508 Why New York Should Have the Convention. 6 SBE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that they I are trying to steer the Democratic National Convention to this city.” “It isn’t a steer," corrected the Man Higher Up; “it Is a plece of philanthropy. The men who are boosting the movement have a license to organize un- der the name of the Society for the Prevention of Cru- elty to Delegates. If New York gets the convention once the people who come here to attend it will never want to go anywhere else. “The delegates and others who attend an interior national convention get stung as soon as they get off the trains, and after that the sting is continuous. The only concerns that don’t double the rates are the street- car lines. The hotels import clerks from Florida re- fort lodging-houses to press bills, the restaurants make Plans to pay expenses for a year in six days and the saloon-keepers, that have been selling booze to natives at 10 cents straight for three years and fifty-one weeks, have the bartender’s jackets washed and ironed and elevate the price of the bridge paint to two for a quarter. “Chicago is the only town in the West that can ac- commodate a convention crowd without making the ma- jority of the visitors sleep in the suburbs. The only disadvantages Chicago has are that her hotels, with few exceptions, are the kind that make a specialty of cater- ing to drummers who want sample-rooms; if a frost don’t show up during the convention it rains; the wind blows from the southwest all the time the convention 18 on, bringing the stockyards to the heart of the city; the coal soot is so thick in the air that a stranger, after be- ing out an hour, could get admitted to Booker T. Wash- ington's school on sight, and the only amusement a visitor can have Is to go out and be held up. “All that can keep the convention from New York 1s New York herself. You know what a generous giver-up the average New York business man is: To ask-him for a contribution of $100 is like making a threat to burn down his store. Of course, New York don’t need the convention, but I've been to the national gatherings o} both parties, and I am here to announce that as free and unlimited spenders the Democrats have got tke Elks, the Eagles, the G. A, R. and all the rest of the delegates ‘who convene skinned forty ways.” “Y've heard that the Westerners are afraid of Tam- many men,” sald the Cigar Store Man. “That may be,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but you can bet your shirt that the Westerners have never been timid about taking their money.” a S500 ; IN PRIZES. | him, stood Hyde Clayton, bend. “You @han't bint) it!" ehrieked Ezra, the Hght of insanity gleaming in his red-rimmed eyes. “It's mine! It's all mine! Mine!” ‘His knife flashed out. Chattering and - mouthii like an angry 7 be over, the agreasure cr Bored yellow. teeth howing in @ ‘nae of demoniac hate, a) revolver i , Bruce Very calmly, very slowly, Hyde Cae He ton raised his revolver. full the treasure | aimed; ‘nd, ‘smiling. ‘rea fall Inte one 5 ‘ted fi ft remaining lan- | GAT peavy 6 bullet Ga tts work, With a Esra fell dead into the With a gur- le. on the biasing oe an inptants He must’ stuft into. his Bee many of the jewels as he could then be off. ert tadtey Meat, step he stopped as ‘the dat! “toward the.faint | ~ h whose heavy to carry the jewels and Mouthing his 6 CY