The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1903, Page 12

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office * at New York as Second-Ciass Mat! Matter. VOLUME 44.. NO. 16,462. adel EAST AND WEST. ‘The support New York is receiving in the Democratic National Committee as the meeting place of the next National Convention !s not sectional. The far West and the extreme South contribute to it. But Mr. Dahiman, I will favor some city further west.” f Even if the actual attendants at the convention were [ the only persons tn be considered, this would be an | Mllogical position to take. Of the seven Democratic con- | ventions held within the past thirty years not one has } t ee met among the eastern half of the population of the United States, although that half of the population fur- first Democratic President since the war. Is there any Feason why a certain number of Americans living west ~ Democracy, and an equal number living east of that line should have none? But there is a still more important point to consider. _ Twenty thousand people, at the outside, can see a na- © tional convention with their own eyes. Eighty millions ‘will hear of it through the newspapers. And every newspaper, West as well as East, can have a better ' report of a convention in-New York than of one In any Western city. When it is midnight at New York It is eleven at Chicago, ten at Denver and nine at San Fran- ¢isco. The night seesions of a New York convention could De fully und comfortably reported in the early editions of the Western morning papers, and the day sessions could - be weil covered by the evening papers. A convention held in the West would crowd even the Western papers for time, and its full proceedings could not get into the early editions of the Eastern papers at all. Every news- ‘paper in the country, or in the world for that matter, fould handle a convention in New York better than one tn Chicago. "New York would have equal advantages for the mill- fons of people who haunt the bulletin boards while a Ponvention is in sessiun, The news of a nomination r made in New York at midnight would be flashed on the pereens in Chicago in time to be read by the crowds on their way home from the theatres. A midnight nomina- Gon in Chicago would find most of the people even of that city in bed, and the announcement would not Teach New York until after 1 o'clock in the morning. ».The convenience of eighty million people ought to pount for more than that of the few thousand who will Actually visit the convention hall, But as a matter of fact there is no conflict even there. New York 1s central Sain ona any other Western city, and two-thirds of the popula- tion of the United States live within a twenty-four hours’ Tun of Madison Square Garden, pan THE BLACK SIDE OF CHRISTMAS. That Cleveland mephanic who killed his wife, his three children and himself in a fit of despondency sup- posed to have been caused by the gloomy outlook for *) the family Christmas reminds us that this happy season ‘ has a very dark side. Just in proportion as joy per- _Yades the family to which Santa Claus is a generous friend does misery haunt the one in which the eager questions of the children must be met with hopeless ‘evasions. There is no more pitiful sight than a child fingering an empty stocking on Christmas morning, and no forin of wretchedness more cutting than that of the father vr mother who must look forward to such an twakening. Many a poor family would be able to bear ite, troubles through the year with fortitude if it wero got for the thought of Christmas. All the more reason why those more fortunate should give their “good will to’men” a practical form. u aring Dangers.—The new Lackawanna improve- i ments in Newark and the Oranges will abolish the fatal Brads crossings excapt for a mace of ten blocks. Grad- ; ually this country ts becoming habitable, and a person who succeuds in living until It is finished will have a good chance of Hying still longer * BIG SHIPS AND LITTLE DOCks. The question of Jengthening the docks in the North River to 1,000 feet is not settled by Secretary Root's refusal to permit the extension. The matter {s too im- Portant to rest with a single decision. Room must be found somewhere in this harbor for the greatest ships to be, built anywhere. Certainly the steamship lines will maf be permitted to take their business elsewhere, as some of their agents are threatening. There is some talk of building docks at an angle, so that 1,0-foot piers can be kept within the 800-fvot line, but this plan would involve £0 much waste of shore snace that it is hardly Ukely to be adopted. But the ships will be accommo- somehow, for a port that can take care only of #egond-class vessels is a second-class port, ac D York will never consent to be anything but first class, } i nator Platt nas pen sloned an express horse that has passed his usefulness Now will not President Roosevelt and Gov, Odell take the Rint and establish a pension system for superannuated | ypuiltical warhorres? THE MILD MINNESOTA WOLF, ig8 in the Kaiser's game preserves, nished a majority of the electoral votes that elected the| { of an imaginary line should have all the favors of the ; to’ quite as many people travelling by rail as Chicago or|™ voly: ¥, is 4 . id “What sort of wolves do they breed in Minnesota? Sarnedays Parent of these ferocious beasts chased a drummer andj On what day did March 24, Gyiver the other day. and when the horses were be-| on? Also Dec. 14 of the same year? exhausted the driver handed out refreshments wants pursuers from his lunch basket. The wolyes|_ Third Finger of Lett Hand, « BOS, o ESI use remseye BE A PAPER HANGER WUNST! HF-HTS-2O99.9-5.9.8.90-0 Essentials ' for a Happy Marriage. By Helen Oldfield. so for genuine, permanent jove, the vexed question, Is marriage a fall- ure? might be definitely settled once and tor all in the negative. For genuine, permanent love between man ard woman {s the one bit of Eden which was left to the race when the gates of paradise closed behind our first parents, shutting them out forever; the one flower, says tradition, flung to Eve by a pitying ange! who saw and was moved .by her bitter tears. Given that, and come what may, nel- ther man nor woman can be miserable so long as they have each other. Unfortunately such marriages are the exception rather than the rule. People who find and marry their aMnities are not many, and those few are blessed among men and women. Genuine, per- manent love, which merges Itself In another's {dentity, #o that the two thereafter form a perfect and harmonious whole, and each fiber in the being of cach sets to the other, so that there can be no contest of will, no difference of colnton, 1s a8 rare as radium, rarer, per- haps, since there is no way of securing it to order, says Helen Oldfield in the Chicago Tribune. In the vast majority of marriages there is more or less readjustment ecessary, the transition from the ro- mantic love of courtship to the sober, everyday affection of conjugal life. Next to the married people who are lovers, they are happiest who are thor- oughly good friends. ‘The greater in- cludes the less, so that genuine lovers are always fciends. Just as friendship often ripons into love, so also, while passionate love rarely cools off into friendship, the true husband or wife is always the other's truest and best friend. ‘True friendship makes a quietly happy marriage, because friends make cach other's interests thelr own. Where ¢riendship and love unite, each strengthening and sustaining the other, | there is the ideal marriage as the Cre- ' ator instituted it when he made the frat woman ua a helpmeet for the ‘first man, not the modern partnership where the husband provides the income and the wife spends LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. [’ all! men and women who marry did The Genial Janitoc, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: The Janitor's face now wears no frown, It beams and smiles just now; He doesn't cat the tenants down, Nor nanker for a row. I would that it were ajways so— It's not to be, I fear; His condescending manners show ‘That Christmas Day is near. Cc. BE. FARR, Suggests an Estra Holiday. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: A> waiouuas talis on Friday the business done on Saturday, Dec. 26, will be very slight. May 1 suggest to em- ployers to close their stores on and give us employees a da after our Christmas rush?) REDWIK. Composed by Gounod, a Frenchman ‘To the Editor of The Ly World A says that “Faust is a German opera, says that “Faust” ts a Freach opera, Which is right? L. P.M. Moxing Js an Ar To the Editor of 3 ; A’ says pugilism is an art. “B suys 1t ig a profession, Kindly decide. Db. M. Columbus. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: , Who discovered America? A says Columbus and B says Americus Ves: pucel B. W. 't of The Evening | ro the Bait ‘To the Editor of The Evening World to squabtle over each instalment of the lunch, On which hand and finger ts an en- “the time the basket was empty the travellers| gagement ring worn? JOHN 8. “Mise Brown” Is Correct, nothing less than a baby will check a pack | t. Aitor of The Evening World und it takes a considerable family, served one to allow the parents a fair chance to escape. it ean be halted by crumbs from a lunch do fo; Minnesota, but their most appropriate u Charlotte Brown. claims ingss would geem to be as companions without. the christian name is single, but having an older ried, ‘should read as | follow peal Kindly decide, Billy Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle. 7 LA I YouRE JUST {Irs A EASY Youve Gor A TRusry! Buty TO HELP ME rbot) THESE WREATHS Peewee, the Great Little Man. His Blu't Is Called and He Involuntarily Butts Into the Whife Light ot Fame. \ TOOTSIE, IF IT WERE NOT FO s—, LEAVING YOU ALONE, WOULD BE THE FIRST MAN TO Z[( TumMP OFF THIS NEW BRIDGE, Com THUS WINNING OB-3-3-93-9% vere $ oe S/ (SAY THE woRD, oo aro Not wo! Dont LEAVE ME 2004 PE O8 OSS <* 20S es. WAIT A | MINUTE BILLY, Youre OVERDOIN’ ee Fe ot Unsleuth-Like 4 Detective Proceedings} 66 SE" sa the Cigar Store Man, “that our friend McCafferty, the sleuth, did a hurry- up job in copping the Svensk able seaman who made a complete, if inartistic, dissect- ing Job of a/Cherry Hill charmer,” “It's too bad about McCafferty,” said the Man Higher Up. “I understand he Is to be ruled off. It was cheesy enough in him to go out and pinch the murderer within forty-eight hours after the crime was committed, but he a done a than that. He has kicked in the slats Soneaonv) I of every detective theory that was ever put into cold Sa storage. He has put his profession on the felts They = tell me that when, he went into the Central Office ta ike report last night the other gumshoe men couldn't se¢ 11 CCANT i him at all. ) “What did McCafferty do? What didn’t he do? Ho balled up the whole mystery, that’s what he did. He didn’t spring a single theory; he didn’t keep the public in suspense; ‘he didn’t pinch a lot of suspects and give them the third degree. He simply had an {dea about Yes A MR. PEEWEE.! WAS HE PUSHED OR where the murderer could ‘be found, followed up the PUSHED OFF = NO SIR -JRIXD HE FALL? aa, | idea and sloughed the guy. Any newspaper reporter JUMPED OFF ALL Game (Ce ew could have done the same thing. McCafferty didn’t even MY OWNSELF. try to stall off the reporters. “In the first place, the murderer left behind a piece of paper with the name of a ship written on {t. What McCafferty should have done was figure out that the name was not the-name of a ship at all, but the name of a horse. He should have framed up a theory that the woman had a bank roll and that she was killed by a man who knew it and wanted a stake to play the races with. This would have given him a chance to go to New Orleans and look for the murderer. “Atter carving up the woman the carver shed his. bloody garments and shoes, put on a new sweater and @ new pair of kicks and left the paper they had been wrapped in lying on the floor of the room. The paper showed ‘that he bought the new stuff in Bridgeport. 04 90900992 06-500-060-5-6-46- 00$00000O050:005005000O 220 ww oe ae 220% EbbIE M’GEE. She Takes the Marriage Question Into Her Own Hands and—— READING B24 GRQDOOBATVEDY CHAMES, ME Love) ME KINK, me Per, LET ME PusH you Te A ALTAR,IM Ficutin’ 10 Coox| YouR meats ! “This was McCafferty’s clue to go to the pawnshops and look for the bloody clothes and the old pair af shoes, One of the first things a detective does when he is put on any case from arson to dog-stealing is to search the pawnshops. I don’t remember another mur- der mystery in the course of the ainravelling of which the pawnshops of the town were not frisked to a fare- you-well. “But McCafferty didn't go near a pawnshop. He looked in the shipping register and found out that a ship of the same name as that written on the paper the murderer jeft behind had put into Bridgeport. Instead of hiring a tug and going out to sea to hunt for the footprints of the ship he went to Bridgeport, and there she was. f ' “Then he violated another tradition of the detective business. He didn’t shadow the captain of the ship. Instead he went aboard, told who he was and asked if there had been a sailor on board who looked like the BRiDE-croor | ®|man who killed the woman. The captain said there had been and that he lived at a certain boarding-house in New York. McCafferty telephoned to McClusky and McClusky sent a man around to the boarding-house, and there they nailed the murderer. It was disgusting,’ ut he got the murderer,” protested the Cigar Store CHAMES, ID0L OF ME HEART, SAY mitted the Man Higher Up, “but ‘his work was coarse.” Flood Creates a Nation. Owing to a disagreement Vetween Austria and Seryia the folk who have taken up their residence on a certalm little island in the Danube pay no taxes and acknowledge alle: giance to nobody. | The Island, which has been very appropriately called Nobody's Island, was formed many years ago by the accy+ mulation of mud and sand carried down by the great river during a flood, Since then Austria and Servim have been quarrelling about its possession. At low water the Island is almost connected with the Servian shore by a narrow tongue of sand, while at Mab water it lies nearer the Austrian island of Osstrovaer, id: | 1888 fali | PPODIGOSOEDOOOOGOHE HOGG OOT HY OG SOS POoKOoed PPOHODHTD O8GGOO* Consequently no one can decide to whom it really belongsy and, as the island is not worth enough to make it, advisable for the Servian or the Austrian Government to fight over {ts possession, the inhabitants are left entirely to themselvet —Stray Stories. X A Burlal Fad, James Reilly, one of New York's little known millionaires, has a curious fad—that of providing for the decent burial of NATURE'S BREAK. “Nature has made some queer mis- takes,” remarked the wise old owl. NAS, for instane she snowd have swallow's plumage. NOT “BRACIN visiting yon the street one cgld morn- his is good bracing weather, inquired his mate. pang te “No,” replied Markley, ey too cold uch | mall, spe rf dead. He is in constant communication with a nume WOMAN'S WAY. ber of undertakers, who keep him posted regarding euch “Wait a second,” she said, as she A evo stad cases a5 he wishes to look after. Another rich New Yorker, | kepped into the store, e “Certainly,” he ied, and when he had been uptown, ed through At Ganwel Martin, spends a good deal of time and money in helping important victims of the police forcg. He ts always - camping on some officer's trail, and many a victim of police Samuel Martin for timely, nt WO hours on ‘change ‘ag well taken lunchoon at the club, ‘he returned tyranny hes had reason ¢ othank and found her from the ‘Chrysan ase Sasser at nah ae Sy ‘sen nt