The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1904, Page 6

ra PRIDAY Bvanine, | JANUARY 1, 1904. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to 63| Vark Row, New York. Mntered at the Post-Office ut New York ds Heogna-Class Mall Matter. nS [| NOLUME 44....cccsessssrsseeeNO, 18,472, | OUR NEW YEAR'S DEPOSIT, | ‘To-day we open a new account in the bank of time. | | Where are 366 days, or 8,784 hours, or 527,040 min- ' utes, for us to draw checks upon at our pleasure. Of this deposit nearly half is mortgaged in advance tor sleeping and eating. For most of us, half of the re- mainder must be devoted to e&trning a living. At most, | we may expect to have 150,000 minutes at our free disposal. ‘ | “burn it up” in twenty, fifty and hundred dollar rolls, he would be called a spendthrift. Yet he would be more precious time last year and will do again this year. And there is no possibility of spending the in- terest on time and saving the principal. Well or ill, it is always our capital that we are laying out, and every hour we spend leaves us that much less in the bank. A good deal can be done with a capital of 150,000 minutes. If we gave 50,000 of them to amusenient, which would certainly be considered a liberal propor- tion if we were dealing with money, we should have 100,000 left for serious use. In that time we could comfortably read 50,000 pages of good literature, or Say 100 volumes. There are some persons in smart society who have never read that many good books in their Lives, In half of 100,000 minutes one could get a fair work- ing acquaintance with a modern language. In the other half he could gain a real knowledge of some Subject of interest—some science or art, or some phase of international politics, or the history of some coun- try, preferably his own. And this would be a new pleasure, for most people have never felt the joy of really knowing anything outside of their daily business —they are simply on casual bowing terms with the great facts of life. F There are other things, still better, to be done witn 3 of our deposit of time. Most of us are usually ' ih too much of a hurry to help others. We mean well —we amiably hope that the poor devil with his hard- luck story will land on his feet somehow—but we have to catch a train or be late for dinner, _ | lar to toss $30 to a well-to-do acquaintance and say » ) that we had nothing to spare for a man in desperate need? Yet that is just what we do when we give If a man had $150,000 in the bank, and he should | doing only what most of us did with our infinitely | é But if the | ser | question were one of money would it not seem pecul- | ; thirty of our precious minutes to a prosy gossip and have none left for a case of real distress, Our ideals may be high or low. An aim that would be natural in one might be artificial and priggish in another. The course of reading that one found a de- light another would tind a bore. But why can we not all agree upon this working New Year's resolution: “1 will not waste time?” What we will do with the time is another matter. That is where the individual taste and training come in, We may not care to use it for anything but amuse- Tent, \just as the man with $150,000 may spend it all on yachts and automobiles. But at least let us have our end, whatever it may be, clearly in view, and turn eur minutes toward its attainment—not scatter them heedlessly along the street like a boy leaking pennies from a hole in his pocket. BY is SHALL IT BE REPEATED? The cauvds of the Chicago tragedy are now perfectly Clear, and it ought to be easy to apportion the respon- sibility and see what assurance we can have against another such disaster somewhere else—in New York, for instance. L An electric light tmproperly placed or tmproperly | managed, or both, set fire to some draperies. We do not \ mow that lights ere not in similar positions in every \theatre in New York, and nobody can guarantee the competence of every stage hand. 2. Some chemical extinguishers proved worthless. Bo they may anywhere. 8. The asbestes curtain failed to work. The New York managers say that such a fallure would be tm- possible here, but the Installation of this curtain in| Ohicago was designed by a skilled architect in the Hght}| of the best experience, and presumably 1t embodied the latest improvements. We should not feel confident tn} gaying that the mechanical arrangements in a New! York theatre ten years old were necessarily better than those in a costly Chicago theatre a month old. | 4. Some of the iron exit doors were fastened e«hut— Tocked, rusty or frozen. It does not seem at all probable that such « thing could happen in New York, but we ‘nMever know the limits of human negligence until they have been tested. 6. We come back, then, to what The Evening World n of tinder upon the stage. Without that the de- tivo light and the shoddy extinguishers and the stuck nand the locked exits would not have caused a| ter In Chicago; with it there may be a similar itrophe any day in New York. As long as theatres allowed to use scenery as inflammable as gun- d all their pretensions to fireproof construction mockery, The architect of the Iroquois appreciates ‘At Inst, and mow. declares that he will never allow " Piaarenece why there should be a single in- ein @ theatre except the clothes of the Everything else can be made elther fireproof go that it will do nothing more than m tion, And it is only when 4 yesterday as the prime cause of all—the accumu- | } “bit of wood to be used in a theatre of i RRR T Te RE ION TTT PF w THE » EVENIN oe POMS SIOEES o 3 é ey ° & $29994494 6000 Now Girls, book Before You beap Year.) By Nixola Greeley-Smith. year, the blessed period of ume the maiden, no longer coy, may take the dilatory euttor by the hand and em- boldened by the custom of ages softly whiaper in his ear: “Be mine! Custom says mer fo, Tt maken no comment as to the wis- dom or unwisdom of such a course, I is here, the long looked for le Yet tt {s doubtful # a woman, oven | 4 thougn she attempted to make use of the questionadle privilege at proposhig to a man, would profit by It, for aman who ft he really wants to marry a girl waits for her to ask lim, or who not wanting her aocepts her leap year proposal from | sheer inability to decline it gracefully, | { is not worth having. dt woukl really be interesting to n are given to exasp m the subject of the fatal onisode of thelr liven n toa still more mislead- Many a woman haa been proposed to on @ Broadway trolley or a Hoboken ferryboat who in describing the ine makes any metamorphoses dreamed or told by Ovid seem Iie an ultra-conser- vative ‘newspaper account of a meeting ot women's clubs, by ohamging the trol- ley Into a conservatory just off the bal room, or the ferry into a wooded grov and the man's stammered, commonpla. offer of marriage into an un) ecluration that even a Walt the alght before to make Yet if @ man only would talk instead of saying that he “can’t remember” or it st happened” or he “really only wished he knew," it would be discovered that the average woman needs no leap year to make known her eetiments, or that ehe is such @ poor mathematician thet every year in the calendar seems to her to be divisible by four. | that, nowadays. celted person's horror of being refused, and having made it mariifeet that their the girl to give some sign that they are likewise acceptable, What the sign ts depends largely on the man and the girl, But a woman who is in love with a man and cannot bring Ulm to the marrying potnt—which is often a very moderate temperature, even though {t 16 not recognized in the Fahrenheit or Centigrade systems, with- out a direct proposal—is w failure. Whom the ave! man snarrica ta wholly @ matter of accident. There is a tide in the love affairs of men whioh taleen at the flood Idads on to matrimony. And it ls the woman who recognizes this fags and who happens to be upper- most in his thoughts at the moment the mood matrimonial hits him that he mar- res. It ts easy enough to be this woman, who is not always the one he loves or has loved best, if you want to be. But in leap year or out of it proposing to him Is unwise Decause ugnecessary, nme RETURN OF THE ASS. | Van Quise—1 heard you had concluded to live In England altogether, Chumppe? awftah me visit in Lunnon, I find that we're evah so much maw English in Amewica.—New Orleans Times-Demo- crat, oo THE NEW YEAR. Ring, bells, from every lofty height! An Infant fair 1s born to-nigtt Ring far and wide, ring full and ear, ‘De welcome in the glad New Year “The King is dead; long live the King!" ‘They said of old, and ao we sing, The Old Yerr’s gone to his repose, "Phere let him rest beneath the snows, New day, new !!fe, whose noble deed Will all our sinful years succeed, A life of action, at and sirong, done of wrong. I is enforced Ring, Joyous bella! Violet Fuller in the Philadelphia 1y that she may dol cident to her few dozen dearest friends | « hero would have had to lle awake hait | § She doesn't propose in so many words | ‘ perhaps. But then very few men do; 7 For they have the con-| @ Mntentions are serious, calmly watt for | « 0063334 < als- | 4 sn) Chumppson Chumppe—Aw, that was— aw—me Intention, don't-ye-know? But| 2 “This New Year | resolve,” said Sue, “To cure all city folks that’s blue! “Cirle, ‘(athe Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. 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The Throwing of Greene’s Last Bouquet. 66 SED," said the Cigar Store Man, “that Com- missioner Greene threw a fine large bouquet at Inspector McClusky the last thing before he did his getaway from Mulberry street.” “He didn’t keep the force dodging bouqnets while he was the main squeeze,” replied the Man Higher Up. “For) the last year nearly every man in uniform has been g0- ing around with his arm sheltering his visage like a kid, passing @ bonilre. He saved his bouquet until it was hts cue to get cold feet, and when he threw it the flowers were wilted. “Did you notice that he gave McClusky and his bulls the credit for finding out who put that humble countfy- man of Christopher Colwmbus among the deceased and stowed his corpse away in a barrel which they threw out of a wagon over on the east side? The Commis-) sioner says to McClusky: ‘In the so-called barrel mar- der your energy and skill in apprehending the murder- ers have justly obtafned for you the approval and com- mendation of citizens of New York.’ “That shows what close tab the Commissioner kept on the work of the Detective Tureau. When thet barrel’ mystery came to light the Central Office was in a hole 80 deep that you couldn't ‘hear the sleuths breathe. ‘They were up against it so hard that they were can- vassing the cooper shops in Williamsburg to see if they could find out who made the barrel. “Just when it looked as though the barrel crime war going to bo another green trunk mystery United Stater Secret Service agents butted in and solved the whole gescheft. They didn't hog it either. They went to Mo- Clusky, ‘put him hep to where he could get the slayers and then stepped back to the rear row. With the mur- derers thrown at them McClusky’s men did a grand. stand finish, but if {t hadn’t been that the Seoret Ser- vice men were working on a case that ptt them wise to the murder the Central Office would be up egainst the barrel mystery yet. “And you couldn't Blame them much at that. Unless there is a equealer it Is practically impossible to land a \murderer in the Itallan colony. Those people are getting wiser every day they stay here, and ‘pulling tn- formation abuut a crime ont of them is like trying to get Wall street to say kind words about Roosevelt. “As for solving the Ripper mystery, it wa like read- ing an electric sign. There were half a dozen news- paper reporters in Bridgeport half an hour after De- tectivo McCafferty got the clue, and ‘he had a start of twelve hours or more on them.” “It was mice of the Commissioner to hand out com. pliments on the oceasion of his finish, anyhow,” asserted the Cigar Storo Man. “Why?” asked the Man Higher Up. “Why should a ‘public servant be patted on the back for Going what. thr taxpayers pay him to do?” : i The Tamest Birds. 2 Naturalists commissioned by the Untted States Govern- ment have discovered on the distant island ef Laysan, in the Pacific, some new birds and y novel facts In regard to known species. The visiting ists wore perhaps the @rst human beings whom the mays of birds that crowd this tiny apeck of land had ever seen, In consequence, birds rep= resenting species which in other lands wing hurriedly away at the sight of man came up to the naturalists, looked eurle ously into their faces, perched on thelr writing tables, wond Geringly inspected the tripods and other accessories of the caméras and permitted themsctves to be stroked, The fact that these birds are ordinarily regarded as the wildest spe- cles made a profound impression on the visiting eclentiste, The New Year. AREWELL, farewell, o14 Father The! ‘Thy work's well done in ev'ry olime, ‘Thou hast thy faults; but this great earth Ie better now than at thy birth, ‘Upon thy Couch, with shattered health, and white, amid thy wealth, ‘Thou Heat, walting patiently, Until, to tate thy charge from thes, ‘The New Year comes—the young New Year! Oh, welcome, welcome! He ts here! ‘Tis he, the merry, noble youth Of right and honesty and truth. See, in his small rose-tinted hands Are resolutions—counterman 1s— For he has watched the Old Yeat’s lite, And seeks to profit by the strife, God grant that he may keep them all ‘Whatever to bim may befall! » = f ‘| aS | -——- of