The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 10

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 63 _ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office - _ at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. “VOLUME 44.. .NO. 18,471. ‘i THE LESSON OF CHICAGO. {T coup j Just die | |SITTIN'AY Yves pouy|A\- T.coutp | Isit uP AH THERE | Potrr!— | I Just DROP. =r PED IN TO SIT Yi SITTIN’ AN! ;There 's no mystery about the horror at Chicago, THEIOUD yen f (hy ALL NioHt ld 7 jane | me once and its lesson for other communities 1s written in let- Our Nh} You // = ters of flame. Locked exits and the failure of an as- _ Destos curtain to work doubtless aggravated the calam- ‘ty, but they were incidental conditions which every Manager elsewhere will say could not possibly be re-| peated in his theatre. The bottom cause of the disaster) —the thing that might bring on a similar catastrophe anywhere else—was the presence of masses of inflam-| « -mable material on the stage. The Iroquois was called “fireproof,” and the arch!- tect and owners express thelr amazement that such an accident should have happened in it. So 1s a brick fur- mace fireproof, but that would be small consolation to a Person shut inside of it on a pile of burning kindling. The thing that ought to be branded into the mind of| % every theatrical designer is that the chief object of fire- Proofing a theatre is not to protect the bullding, but to | @ave the people in it. An audience would be safer in a | wooden building with non-combustible fittings than in |?©%0000000069000000000009 "om Greproof building with inflammable fittings. 7 é A stage Mica’ its light wooden and ails drops Can a Woman Love Two Men ; poaked in of] Is as dangerous as a powder magazine. It * Gm easy to subject every bit of scenery used in a theatre © to @ fireproofing process that would sake any such ca- at Once?| i Jamity as that at Chicago impossible even if stage hands | / @hould be careless and asbestos curtains should stick. | How many managers in Now York have taken that By | { precaution? Nixola Greeley-Smith.| Se ee ee apap RSARgEREN nes ' ‘The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man wt & He Goes to a Masquerade Ball and Poses as the Giant Goliath. ad Cd Bad Cd Cad * Cad act fTOOTSIE DEAR $ : “D LETS PRIM : fate ENADE A..OUND! A Bit BEFORE DANCING, ANDS- GIVE THE ( PEOPLE AS =) s's’s'H¢ DONT C 7 ME “TOOTSIE — 7S0 LOUD. PEOPLE} —_——_—~_~ Q HOL’ ON DAR § SANDOW!t DATS ) MY MASCOT? ~~~ —) ao) cE ( ans Better Plays, Not Cut Rates, for Theatres. AN a woman love two mew at or STARTED AT LAST. ¢ ‘This question, asked and ans’ At last New York is preparing to do some solid work ae all good falth tb Se prising members of the I | for the Democratic National Convention. At the clti-|several years ano, to the um zens’ meeting yesterday an organization was effected ive husbands and fathers who Executive Committee, | ext day's newspapers that ext day's newspapers thi a movement on foot to reduce the price of the | ss] SEE,” said “the Cigar Store Man, “that there's! the members of the Democratic National Com- i by the appointment of an «discussing it had come to| pO At wome: no ‘ * ) headed ty Mr. John D. Crimming, with Mr, J, Edwara| {it fonelusion that women not only | pepvweers We the) Broadway) theses oe coe, Simmons as treasurer. The Merchants’ Association has| this week by a similar problem present: | Unless te smaniagers) puLauD) 000) sbone } : Sil in UAURIMI WIT PAE Cee PY eal |replied the Man Higher Up, “they can't get the people vi offered to put its admirable clerical staff at the cece e 1 iB into their houses if they admit them on trading stamps | of the committee. Mr. Crimmins has reported substan- | Valion, engaged to a young! ? | or cigarette coupons. New York has got beyond the 4 tial progress In raising the guarantee fund, and alto=| tne Ramnijetn ' eee ern te stage where kicks are due for a difference of half a f wether the outlook {s promising. And while torn by ithe confileting fe dollar in the cost of enjoyment, but New York has i Ings which the situation inspires, pre never passed and never will get to the etage where it i} How much educational work there {s to be done pee the query to a sympathetic so: will stand to put up two plunks for a shite perform-%:~ 4 eloty. matre ance. ¥ Lia And yet t And ye inittee may be realized from the fact that even @ well-|oniy one answer is possible y what- VY a nina | ver & man's capacity for dual a ton] informed New York paper has admitted that the choice! Via rom the days of Adam and Bve| 2 ef this city would involve long railroad journeys for|1 j question Isionelto witch “The people will hang onto the orchestra rail by, - thelr eyebrows to see first-class performers.in a firsts \class play, but they would rather stay at home and |play pinochle than cough up thelr hard-earned scads to the manager of a theatre to have thelr intelligence 4 | fen | insulted. Good plays get the money. Good plays for Broadway are scarcer than dollar bills in a Salvation _... plece that would stand them up to the walls the man- — Lilith to the lates divorce In tsh- his record for plurat the delegates. Of course, that Idea comes from looking|j "irc ins i 3 been pre ’ “oat the map, without stopping to reflect that Nevada, |same—a woman, If she loves at { F 80 hohe yale « dso } With & greater arca than New York, Pennsylvania, |* gag conccmentiy once be : Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, sends only are many @ , (het ere elt a ¢ Zia i : bined, sends: only) © sand mothers though | # | HULLO BUB, “Brudite critics get up and roast the managers for } six delegates to the convent ion, while those States send | they he, y have never loved In thelr! SP owwieh GOLIATH IL. this, and to some extent the managers are to blame. It | 292 ‘The truth Is that the majority of the delegates yor oat dertoe ae Hah nee > ARE \ DESCENDED would seem that if anybody ought to be able to tell a at the first hint ef an inctpient to : ! ean reach New York more easily than any other place.| ever in their velns than at the me YOUSE-) FROM A Je { This is a fact that must be thoroughly impressed upon | °#s!ly Mliagnosed symptoms of eholers SAMSON ) RACE pager, ousht, to be the! man, iit, the manager, never’ leas q or thé black death, ‘These women fee OR OF knows. The best of them get stung. They spend thou- ¢ } If they are good to the committee. for thelr jusbands DE." TERRIBLE) GIANT — sd “ ee uv sit through in a box. b “You seldom hear of failures in the Popular-price | p. ouses. The combination theatres hang out the 8. R. 0.) igns every night. The prices are cheap, but 50 cente{~ |for an orchestra seat Is as much to an east-side play- 5 bestowed up- y less worthy same tit ly to commandments or Matrimony OUndfolded.— Another tnnocent girl's life has een blighted by a marriage with a blgamous scoundrel We ‘augh at the formailties that precede a European | masculine wedding, but at least they have the advantage that the| without 4 | cordon of lawyers and notaries is very unlikely to be run] statute books, | | sands producing pieces that their béll-posters wouldn't | i by a man who has a wife on the next block, And thers are other women of cha-| \ Sa Ree meleon character who cannot alone | goer as $2 is to the Broadway patron, Nearly every, { THE RAID ON THE CHILDREN. Fe ee ee rare itaeaa teat play put on In the cheap places makes good, paeetl ; y hae eat raartie the playwrights who cater to the people give the people ‘That a city with a budget of over $100,000,000 a year, |{iat he inspires them with somethin | | COA haga a ala edad ' CALM than fri hip. Whom uman nature and lay on their colors with a whitewash’. y ther they Selah, : f .oman rward is en-| Hy a matter its playgrounds, recreation centres and vacation schools t can write stuff for the stage that gets out to the coupon MRE ers 000,000, in, ror'eetivoia, shoutdiiave to close Rue \ tor lack of a couple of hundred thousand dollars “Real wits on the stage can amuse; real humorist Pre= tunity. and, the y usually regard posterous on its face, Between the Board of Estimate |themsclves as van aac in | holders; but what counts is the old-time propositioe:: and the Board of Education the rights of children and [uy Su arilesices of the lenin ie of virtue getting its own reward. ‘The $2 audience Iikee! to see a play in which there is plenty of real humam parents alike are being wantonly sacrificed feeling wort to When a woman really loves troller Grout insists that there is plenty of room for} ier mon, sn ue nt ting spect mens Uhat by erul study far Nish Interesting side Hits on the chars Warn) tastes of the beloved, whieh her always has it Ee ? |interest—characters that act ke real people. Millions jalres and paupers have their love affairs, thelr ‘heart- aches, their ups and downs, and all for the same rea~ sons. Broadway audiences like their representations » | gilded to some extent and toned down a whole lot, byt, H one man rf economy in the school budget without cutting off these i necessary facilities, and in the face of things that seems other dk and | ‘reasonable. We know there is waste in eve i . by corners, do not exist they will pay their money to see the villain get the a | department, and there is good ground for believing that; 4 moutiventertaliine, malin the saheanrend NCC Leo eoeaL ETC) there is some in the Board of Education, Are there no ane hay tle 1 hen toe aly oy ie Peon Sa 4 a o interest her for a moment un . Y unnecessary clerks and no high-salaried superflulties to!sne discovers that the clothes he wears EREaea cue toinelpienta ofl slay wastes ventiren PP serve as subjects for economy without beginning on the | \f2 Just Me thoge ‘foam hal on (hak dy the Cigar Store Man. 4 things of most vital necessity? It looks as if the Board jor that his necktie ix very dike that hor “There are too many playwrights,” said the Man q ; = rEltter Guaeela by, te ]Pid pln thtiug m promised he would Higher Up.. “Most of them ought to be working for the’, of Education were trying to protect Its budget by pute linyow away ne handsomest- matinee Street-Cleaning Department.” | ting the things most cherished by the public In the line [hero faila to get w second glance from “ | e ess he happens to suggest simili Memorles wut CZAR’S MAGIC RIN _ of fire, like an army shielding itself behind women and /™pmorles wud ase whole thoughts so on {ts Intluence the moxt selfish and most} The Czar of Russia Is sald to be very superstitious and But wherever the blame for this unhallowed > children. cut may lle, some way must be found to prevent the Sea O Nay tec wonn Pil es b ee Ge EE ca simply because she says to hers which he belleves is embedded a @lece of the true cross. It was originally one of the treasures of the Vatican and up if it threatened outrage. know you would. « was presented {v an ancestor of the Czar tor diplomatic | nether, tter what her p Miduentional Publicity” Needed ck ry cat oAbres Ne Hee SVR ane ea ere tne value which its owner eets upon, the Ting in the cotton market for that literary urea of Mr.]all tt ds all now, with {ts embedded relic Is shown by the following fact: Sully. If it waits much longer the thing mir neoded | Some yeurs ago he was travelling from St, Petersburg f Si be an ambulance. \f to Moscow when he suddenly discovered that he had for- | > |eotten the ring, ‘The train was stopped Immediately and THE COMING THOUSAND-FOOTER. Pho thousand-foot ship is coming fast. Hardly have We become accustomed to the idea of the 730-foot Bal- ‘tic when we are told that the White r line has Yordered a new steamer 755 feet long. More than three- sauerters of the distance to the thousa foot limit has already been traversed, and we have only 245 feet more gO. i Sixty-five years ago the world was star pearance of the Great Western, the f Fexeeed 200 fect in length. Seven years later the at Britain reached 300 feet. ying ont the abnor- Great Eastern, 680 feet long, turned out in 1858, first 400-foot ship was the Oceante, in N71, In Wthe Servia touched the Aii-foot mark, The Cam: Ha and Lucania reached 600 feet in 1593, and the eanie 760 in 1849. Now we are going up to have averaged an increase of 100 feet every twelye years, and of late the rate of growth faster. ed by the steamer By the time we get those thousand-! ke that Secretary Root has vetoed for New! € some thougand-foot ships to mt Let me but love my love without dis Bulse, Nor w new, Nor watt to speak tll [can hear a a mask of fashion old or Nor play a part to shine In others’ Nor how ny knees to what my heart t lam, to that let me be And Yor me worship where my love And so th und wo! iven x sinful souls that come vo love, and understand my ABSURD. you sure.’ ask And parton It, for love, because —Henry Van Dyke in the Outlook, “Tt was a pretty old turkey that our cunfessed, u siry, “that you lov And ist me find in thee, my love, Reriatori Borah eceihanuinay Weireniled my deat. we this matter U want! “you're not going to be sentimental at you to draw the line strictly at el y , » are your’ —C) you to draw t fis the| your tme of life, you?" Chicago, 2 a epectal messenger sent back ti an express for it, nor © ¢ EASILY EXPLAINED. The teacher called the bright boy up to her desk. ‘Now, Homer,” she sald, “oan you tell the class why Paul Re- vere was 0 successful in bis ride?” ‘Because he didn’t start in an auto, responded the onght boy.—, AS OLD AS ANN. ye us.” ht to respect the aged,” aged is tou ow old was it?" wh, 1 think, to be oalled | mobile,’ ti Biv; would the Czar allow the train to move until, eight hours afterward, the messenger returned with the ring. Pointed Paragraphs, ‘A hair in the head {s worth two In the brush, Only the rich can afford to eat things out @f season. ‘A woman's silence Is more significant than a man's words. ‘According to the popular idea a philanthropist Is an easy mark, ‘the Kiasable girl {8 the one who pretends she doesn't want te be kissed. instead of trying to convince a woman the wise man pro« ceeds to coax her, ‘A man always looks well when he ts looking for another man who owes him money. f It's a smart woman who can make her own clothes so that her neighbors will not suspect It, Even if the woman of to-day did look like the portraits in fushion magazines she wouldn't be happy.—Chicago News, A Polyglot Army. ‘The Czar of Russia commands the greatest armed force in the world. His army consists of 1,555 battalions of “in” fantry, 1,253 squadrons of cavalry and 3,778 cannon. | Ey nationality overland from Europe to China fs Toprevecited le shia AER