The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1903, Page 10

3 <0 Che ‘Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 68] { _ * proposed improvement of City Hall Park by the removal © Cweowespay evenina, - ¥ _ DECEMBER 30, 1903. s We few York. ered at the Post-Office York as Second-Class Mail Matter. Park Row, at Ne’ — VOLUME 44........0 ceeeeseeeeseesNO. 18,470. NEW YORK ON TRIAL. ** To-day the public spirit of New York is put to the test. Mr. Fornes, President of the Board of Aldermen, | j bas called upon the citizens to meet at the City Hall this) ‘ } afternoon to take measures for bringing the Democratic) ‘ | National Convention to this city. meeting will show how much energy is available in the) metropolis for a public object: As far as the amount of money to be raised 1s) concerned, that hardly deserves a thought. There * $62,000 still to be subscribed to make up the guaranty fund of $70,000. If that were civided into four parts, to be given respectively by the railroads, the theatres, tae hotels and the merchants, the contribution required from « each interest would be too trifling to need a second re- ~ quest. Pan 5 It would be an insult to New York to intimate tha ’ there could be any trouble in raising a fund amounting to less than two cents per head of our population. It is _ mot money but work, that {s in doubt. Do we take * enough interest in public affairs to put ourselves to a li tle trouble for a common benefit? take their eyes off their tills long enough to give the city a lift? President Fornes, in his call for to-day’s meeting . Has deprived them of any excuse for inaction. He dis “ claims any partisan purpose in bringing the convention x here, and puts the matter on broad public grounds. “It 7 is a movement,” he says, “to bring 500,000 representative Americans to our city. Such a gatherlng cannot but be of lasting benefit to New York. It will lend an impetus to our commerciat reiations with every part of the United States and will bring the people of the East and the peo- ple of thé West into closer social relations.” The meeting is to be open to “all men who are inter- _ ested in the welfare of New York,” and Mr. vornes ex- " presses the hope “that every class of professional and) business men will be represented.” ‘The question now is not whether we are golng to have the convention—New York is great enough to get along » Without that if necessary—but whether our business 4 men can be prodded into showing the ehterprise ‘nat those of any smaller place would be glad to show wita- * out urging. «| A PLAZA OF PALACES. cu. Mr, Ahearn, the Borough President-clect, tells ‘Tho| » Bvening World that he is enthusiastically in favor of the! | of all the old buildings except the City Hall and the con- » struction of a splendid line of municipal palaces on the @ north side of Chambers street. This is'a most desirable * plan, but of course all its merit depends upon the way it is carried out. The city is now paying office rent equiva- ? lent. to the interest on about $10,000,000. It could afford, | therefore, to spend that much at once on munic yal build- © ings allowing nothing for the certain future growth of 4 its business. That amount, rightly laid out, would make City Hall Park a vision of splendor, but thik of the + effect of $10,000,000 worth of Horgan & Slattery! Two rr, three superb plans for the development of this region have been offered to the public, and the new administra- tion will have no excuse for going astray. The Farmer Still on Top.—At Inst year's crop rate the farms of the United States could pay off the national t debt in four months. The corn crop alone is worth twenty years’ dividends of the Standard Oil ‘Trurt LITERATURE IN THE COTTON MARKET, Mr, Daniel J. Sully, the great Cotton Bull, proposes to collect a fund of $250,000 for the purpose of eaucating tur * public up to the point of meekly and even cheerfully ac- * cepting the increased cost of cotton goods involved in a © rise of 50 per cent. in the price of the raw material. It Is an attractive scheme, and no doubt there are many pro- moters of “educational publicity" who would be glad to help Mr. Sully spend his quarter of a million and as much more as he could raise. But suppose the consumers were all convinced that cotton was dog cher~ ~* 14 cents and the Southern plant- ers, hungry for more of such a good thing, should come _ along next year with a 13,000, su-bale crop where would = the Sully literary bureau get off? Literature has its uses, but it is Just as well not to count. upon !t to repeal the law of supply and demand. ‘The Portchester Garrote.—The old Board of Aldermen & has allowed the Portchester Railroad to lapse without a Offering the outraged residents of the Bronx the poor 2 consolation of a reason or an excuse. We shall see now whether a recommendation of a Tammany Board of Ts- timate and Apportionment will be treated in the same i fashion by the new board. eacail eddie. t ie een IS CHILD-SLAVERY NECESSARY ? Mr. Winton C. Garrison, Chief of the New Jersey State Bureau of Labor and Statistics, makes an extraor-| 5 dinary defense of the system of child labor. He do- plores the “atmosphere of sentimentalism” in which “fact and reason are Hable to be lost sight of,” and holds that the extent of the evil, “if there is one,” {s “grossly magnified.” He thinks child slavery is ‘nec- essary, unavoidable and unobjectionaly while schoo! advantages are desirable, “the first great natural law and obligation of life is to keep alive.” and until that problem has been solved “these people sim- ply cannot spare a thought or an effort far anything else.” + Is it possible that a man can become Chief of the Labor Bureau of New Jersey without ever baving ) formed an acquaintance with the economic law that} ‘the work of women and children tends to depress wages an extent that makes the aggregate income of a Decause, inner where the family is supported by one And is New Jersey in such a state of industrint The results of that) Will our mercharts| «, jon ‘that a generation must grow up without! When R-e-m-o-r-s:€ Comes fo a , Pretty Woman. es i By | Nixola Greeley-Smith. | Estonia knows M-O-R-S-E spella needed no Frank towe!l-wrapped head and tilted toe piteh- er to tell New Yorkers what “the cold gray dawn of the morning after'*—too many . dry Martnis or ather- wis ith tt But there ts another kind of R- M-O-R-8-E, not of the fey towel, but ot the warm, damp handkerchief, that comes to women, particularly those who are young and very pretty and indis- creet, as only very young and very pretty women dare to be, It {s the keen mental anguish, the veritatie agony of repentance that comes to n coquette who tas gone to bed at 1 o'clock In the morning, thritled and stimulated by the admiration &ho has recelved at the danee or dinner party | she has Just Jeft, and who in the en-| suing wakefulnc | nerves, recalla ments that she vhought find anly that they were tmpertinen and her own much appreciated wit | clams, to discover that after all they wore very cheap and she would a great deal ratier opt have sald them | There is no enthustasm born of atcohol | eo potent in ita eff what R-! to a man, It Moulan, with | m atte gilen of spirit lowing a porte where one has— with every man in the room. “Oh, way did T make that idiotte speech | to that awful Jones man?" aeks the feminine sufferer from R-E-M-0-R-S-E | of her midnight pillow | “Why did I let hat sity Browne thing | hold my hana?" iat a beast that Johnson was to) miggle when I made that perfectly dread-| ful break “WILT never be old enough, I wonder, ot to reallze ‘those frightful speeches | until they have come out and it ts too ato admired. And there ts no morning: | reaction that én humAity and an- | mpares with that fol- | harmless evening 1, yeo—flirted a little | dhe looked as ff ‘he thought 1 new what I was saying and did it on irpose. He ts probumy telling it at his ub now. Who waa tt wald he was such an awful gossip? But [don't care what they say or what they think about me. “Only whut will Jack say ohen It gets to him. Of course tt will get to him, for T remember he told mo he went to schoo! with Johnson. Iam sure he will be angry and make a scene, “And if he does—no I won't give him time to a word pack iis ring without any and—oh dear, Iam so miserable. ways knew ft would come to this.” rare sobs and tears and tremulous clutchings of a moist pillow, What about? Probably some frivo- that the much-maligned has already forgotten, or some nentary ballroom contact born of the sympathy that well peuted = waltz music sometimes croites between two utterly alien souls. But the cause—ay the victim herself ucknowledges when #! and sunlight restore her to a normal r d-didn't matter, It was Sust a case of feminine {-O-R-S-1 xplanation- Lat WE TWO. the clouds and deeary tho used to have long ag; Mand bleak and gray nd J, ou our homeward at all for the blind meed in a woollen wrap— a muff and ther face IM Just hand diem |‘ fk of me, mayhap, under my. heavy I'm dreaming of her, for I love her Oniy we two, yet Couldn't For 1 And a happter pair vand over lind or sea, so sweat, cause have I for a singh care, of advancement because it cannot “spare a effort” for education or anything else For Volly-ahe told me so~ioves mat —Jerome P. Freeman in | Baltimore News, 29O409249440O04-1464900544 SASSY SUE - By the Creat gia as the cold-water | intoxication hat comes of belng too| % Said Sue, “I'm scared of mistletoe, No man has ever kissed me—No!”’ $9999 000OO0066060000000 0000 w THE » EVENING »# WORDS » HOME w 2-4, ©0-0000030-006066-4 DPD $44-9998O4O0O90OOE 000064 or of “ Sunny Jim” 3° Susan Is Ready! You May Fire!: She was seized and kissed—she caught her breath, Then clutched the kisser like grim death. The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. w wow 5 a And then Vamoose! He Plays a Game ot Hockey and Distinguishes Himself in the Usual Way THE — HA' GET TOGETHER YOUR'RE DEAD SLOW! COUNTERPLAY TO THE CENTRE BAN) ——— RE Boys ! — “aaa EVE HING ope @ OG) is WATCH ee WEE" ou ELLOWS DONT KNOW How TO MAKE A U Git oF ey | ce! NG. CHASE ) “7 HIM AWE LITTLE OINMXIE, a i! Wors DE USE 08 REAOIN' PAPERS WHEN You KIN READ OLE BILL SHAKy ESPEARES Now Jes YOU Gir] OUT 98 HERE AN} Srop INSUTINS \} J w Cal > eo x pa a rs 3 5 e a) a eS < 3 o o ° ° er 2 = ry e = 3 J c = e 3 > 3 “< ) iJ 3 3 ° g 3 F) 5 Now WooDEN | DAT JIGGER Yo: DEYS CITTEN TOO MANY ‘| STUJENTS IN DIS CAH! siseureetctentee othe bai I aS} CUT LOOSE FR THE BUNCH THERE, LEFY FIELD? DRIBBLE THE Puck! FS OVER TO THE CoveER' 5 POINTS THATS Your.! OPPOATONITY Me a om a MAC: she yelled “You gals go ’w wh S place is mine all day! Minny Maud Hanff. Lack of Money Is the Cause y of All Evil, : SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that a Yale Professor says the greatest curse of this country, is the terrible greed for gold.” . “He's up against the wrong steer,” asserted the Man Higher Up. “Phe greatest curse of this country: is the shyness of the gold supply. Lack of money 1s the curse of the poor. The rich have no curses except what they buy and pay for. “When the engines of thought of our great philéso- phers get to work they never miss a stroke in grinding » out verbal bubbles about the debasing effect of wealth. We are told every day that the pursuit of riches is cause ing the body politic to have sore feet. Professors with ’ | biltboard foreheads, fat salaries and house rent free write and yammer about the blessings of being content with little. “Show me a man who isn’t out hustling after wealth) and I'll show you a bum. I don’t care whether he's @ |common ordinary hobo, thankful for a handout, or aman with good clothes who is too lazy to work. The man wha | don’t seek to better his condition by his own efforts im a bum. “If we didn’t have a greed for gold where would we be? On the blink: We are born with a yearning for comfort. To secure comfort in any degree whateves you must ‘have money. To get money you have to get out and dig for it. Some men consider comfort to be @ warm place to sleep in amd enough to eat. Others want amusement thrown in, The more a man gets the more his Ideas of comfort grow. “The greed for gold is as natural as an appetite ¢ori food. You never hear a poor man making a holler abou® the chase for the mazuma putting a crimp in the countryy The people who never get thoroughly warm in Wintew nor thoroughly cool in Summer; who never have twot square feeds in succession; who try their best to get along and keep slipping back all the time, don’t thin’ that a man ought to be sent to jail for having a banki account—unless he has one so big that no single bank) can ‘hold it. ' “The greed for wealth {3 not the curse of this coun~ try. The crookedness of the wealthy is the real curse, If the cofiege professors would pay more attention tal crooks in ‘business and in lawmaking and spend les@ time in giving advice to the poor who have advice ta burn they would make more of a hit.” “It docen’t seem right for some men to have so mucit money while others have none at all,” complained the Cigar Store Man. ' “Of course it don't,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “If everything seemed right there wouldn't be any use of dying.” Looking for Lepers. ‘The Hawaiian Government employs agents who travel. over the islands looking for indications of leprosy in A Son| Banishment is so dreaded that frequently the family, of a leper will keep him secreted for a year or two before discovery 1s made. A person who is supposed to have the disease {s sent to the receiving station in Honolulu, where he is examined by five medical experts. If a “leper be the @ | verdict, mone; position, influence, race or color cannof | change the de which sends this patient to Molokal. places. 3 Prince Cupid. Prince Jonah Kuhio Walantaaole, the delegate to Congresa trom Hawaii, ts Known in official circles as Minister Kuhl | but ds usually referred to by his nickname, Prince Cupl acquired while at school in San Francisco, Like a Dime Novel. St. Louls, Col, ran away from his hom, his parents could find no trace of him, * he other day his father received a check for $4,000 from * | the young man, companied by the information that he goodly sum left and would return to his old home ant engage in business. 4 Clinton ©, Grim: | several years ago The Cycle Corps: b Each man in the Russian cyclist corps carries a certain amount of luggage on his bieycle, consisting of a coppem drinking cup and cooking vessel, a small canteen and the! same amount of g’{jmunition’ as an ordinary Infantryman, $| rhe cavalry leather or skin sacks, which, Inflated, serve as meaty? “ th man arid horse when crows!