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& by the Press Publishing Parke Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at Mew York as Becond-Class Mail Matter. «NO. 18,478. ABOLISH THE KINDLING. ‘There seems to be no.end to the secondary cauecs of ‘the masencre at Chicago. A careless arrangement of s@onmections, a cheap and flimsy “asbestos” ourtain, im- gense enough to detach, locked exit doors, stupid ush- “ers and an insane floor plan, under which the aisles led against a blank wall, ail helped to turn a trivial acci~ dent into a slaughter. * But all these things, as The Dvening World has said from the very beginning, are only incidental. They, Gmust not be allowed to divert attention from the under ‘Iying eause—the thing that threatens every theatrical @adience in America. That cause is the deliberate invi- tation to disaster through the accumulation of fuel on ‘the stage. Let a fire once gain heatway, and the chances are 10 to 1 thet {t will find a weak poimt somewhere in the arrangements for fighting it. There may not be as many weak points as at the Iroquois, where nothing that “Could aggravate a calamity seems to have been omitted, ‘But one will be enough. The only safety lies in pre- ‘Venting the fire from etarting. Admost every great theatrical disaster of the past century tins been due to tnflammable scenery. The @espatches from Chicago might have served, with changes in names and dates, to descrite the Richmond Theatre fire of nearly a hundred years ago. There was RO asbestos curtain then to give a treacherous promise of security, but the murderous soenery and the oare- Tessly handled stage light were ready to turn the Ohbristmas festivities of 1811 into mourning, just as they were at Chicago in. 1908. Tf managers will not learn the obvioys lesson of these repeated horrors they must be made to learn it. Against their dogged resintance they have Leen forced step by step to make thelr buildings fireproof, to pro- ‘vide exits that are at least supposed to be available for ee, to equip their stages with ourtains that look Ike asbestos and to install various devices for fighting fire. The one step that remains to be talcen—and it fs a far + easier and less costly one than many thet have already heen enforced—is to prevent the beginning of trouble ‘by ‘ireproofing all the scenery and stage fittings, in which ninety-nine one-hundredths of all theatrical fires start. ‘ The Iroquois Theatre building {s practically unin- jured, but 600 people are dead. The managers have ac- complished their object—their property is safe. it ts the buuiness of the law to force them to pay as much attention to the protection of human life. freparing Conflagrations.—If a servant laid @ fire ine stove with half the thoroughness with which theatrical manngers pile up kindling on thelr stages, there never ‘would be a failure to start a blaze at the first trial, 67,000 UNNECESSARY DEATHS. ‘That the death date in New York has decreased with- fm the past year js cause for congratulation, but do we realize that even yet elghty-two out of every eighty- three deaths in this city are unnecessary? That ia what the returns just published show. . ‘There were 67,923 deaths in New York last year, Of unavoidable. Nearly one-third of the whole number— 21,781 in all—were of children under five years old. All those represent lives prematurely cut off by bad oondi- tions. There were 8,001 deaths from phthisis and 6,396 from pneumonia—nearly 15,000 from two diseases of the Tungs that ought to be preventable {f not curable. Bronchitis and ‘broncho-pneumonia, two other male- dies of a similar class, carried off 1,836 and 8,296 per song respectively. There were no less than 4,071 deaths from violence, of which 801 were suicides amd 135 homi- cides. ! When medical science and human nature are both perfected old age will be the only cause of death, and even there the present limits will be greatly extended. Meanwhile the tables show us what a tremendous mar- gin we have for improvement. . Be Rapid Transit at Lant—The opening of the subway yos- terday with a train of three handcars may have lacked some of the pride of pomp, but most people would rather go to Harlem comfortably on a handear than wedged In o rush-hour elevated jam. MENELIK'S LIONS. The gift of two lions from the Emperor Menelik to President Roosevelt is worth stretching the Constitu- tion # little. Of course, the President is forbidden to. accept “any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state,” , but he is also forbidden to do a good many other things which Mr. Roosevelt has cheerfully done. And think how useful a pair of real Hons would be about the | White House! ‘The President would have no need to 80 West in a fruitless hunt for the trivial mountain variety. He could get manly exercise by wrestling with his pets at home. And when he wanted to combine sport with e wenulne public service he could turn them looge in the Post-Office Department, beginning with the bifice of the Postmaster-General. @ Platt came back, for he OF INTEREST TO PASSENGERS. Hereafter the Metropolitan surface cars will stop at properly hung, an interfering wire which nobody had) “these 813 were froin old age, which may be considered| *' LPT PLT THE » EVENING » WORLDS # HOME » MAGAZINE , ISAS SY SUE-By the Creator of “Sunny Jim” 3» She Has Had Too Much New Year's Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Press Publishing Company (The New York World). - CA YouR LEFT - FOOT (S. LAZY a eee oi RIGHT Foor CRAZY! BUT a ONT BE UNAISY~ 78Y BROM9 DIDSISIEIODESHHIOOOS: DESEO DOES DS COESHL SES PSHGHOII GODOT GOSS “No wonder city folks Is queer “*Them joys that New Year’s day supplies “Why Pol! you’re twins to-day, I swan! If they got heads like I got here! Has made me batty round the eyes. Dod Gast this house! the floor’s clean gone!” 5 booeee 2 MINNY MAUD HANFF. The Young :The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man ww 2% w& Man Who $e - Little Miss Sawed-Off Tries fo Capture Ats Afiections, but He Remains True to Miss Sikfoot, I a F h role 4 Design Copyrighted. 1903, by the Press Publishing Company (The New York World). s “Fresh. AHA! SHE TURNS HER ADMIRING “PEEWE CAZE UPON MY RADIANT AND Ca US RN a By ANGELIC RHYSIOGNOMY! 7 TELL QUITE SO IMPULSIVE!) BE MINE- BE MINE- ’ You MANLY BEAUTY AND GRACE ARE POWERFUL MAGNETS TO ATTRACT FAIR WOMANS OPTICS ILL JUST GIVE HER A SMILE OF APPRECIATION. Nixola Greeley-Smith. VUIBRY discogsolate young man has | written to ‘The Evening World aatk- of “freshness.” he inquires, hy am I fresh? When I agk the gira to tell me they eay I know perfeotly well wMat they mean. And {f I persist in the question they | add, “Well, you're fresh now.’ What em I to do?" It fe @ latitude to remark that people who ask Cor advice are seldom prepared to take what 1s coming to them, But tf the young man really wants to know the best thing that can happen to tm the will tuke tho shortest out to the Want River and disappear. For the man who {e fresh, with a full consciousness of ‘hie iniquity, may ocoasionaily be tolerated, the degree of toleration depending largely on mich ap- parently unconnected qualities aa the vresdth of his shoulders or the color and expression of his eyes, but he who in fresh without lonowing !t has com- mitted the unpamionabdle sin, However, this ls not giving the anx- fous young victim of his own freshness | ‘ the definition he asks forewihich, after all, moat difficult 4 not senpoasthle (hing to do, For whut constitutes freah- ness in one man's conduct may pass alto, gether unnotice, or {f noticed, may qleaso in the attitude of another. so mitdh depending on the degree at triend- ship or admiration the young woman feels for him. One man may tell her that she has the most beautiful eyes in the world, and if he refors to it casually as if Indeed it were something soarcely worth men- much to be taken for altogether pleased and | « makes up her mind that ahe has at last | ‘ come upon a man of fine taste and in- finite dixcrimination, Another man pays similar tribute to thelr midnight splendor, but does it with such an exasperating atr of discovery as though Indeed he were tho Christo- pher Columbus of their charm as to make his assumption of @ lack of pre- vious appreciation seem far more em- phatie than his admiration. As a result one of these Je thought charming by the youn; woman he wishes to while the unfortunate blunderer THINK OF THE {AND WE SRALL_CO RIDICULOUS FIGURE} | THROUGH LIFE TO- YOUR DWARFED ( |GETHER NESTLING STATURE WOULD. |SNUG IN. THE ARMS MAKE BESIDE A\jOF LOVE LIKE TWO PEEWEES HUGE LEVIATHIAN invAipopl The New Mayor Takes Hold and Nothing Happens. “] DIDN'T see any sulphurous smoke obscuring the sky when they took the Hd off yesterday,” re- marked the Cigar Store Man. “No,” sald the Man Higher Up, “the fact that Dr, Parkhurst had prophesied that hell was due the first of the year didn’t seem to agitate the people to such an extent that they shook their clothes off. New York seemed to take the fulfilment of Dr. Parkhurst's Deophecy like the bad man who thought he had died in a hospital. When he woke up 8 trained nurse was hold- ing his head on her arm and another was chafing his hands. “If this is hell,’ he said, ‘give me an annual pass,’ “It is a fireproof cinch that young Mr. McClellan is not golng to please everybody during his term as Mayor, The affairs of the city will run along all right. Im- provements will be made and there will be backward steps and side steps, which will be natural. The problem |! that is staring the Mayor in the face is whether he can steer things along so as to keep the Governmmont ma- chine in the middle of the road. “There are three elements in New York. The ele- ment that makes the most noise is that with aspirations toward the ideal. This element is composed of men and. women who are constitutionally good. Nature built) them along cold storage warehouse lines, and any | frivolous emotion that penetrates them 1s immediately | chilled. They are so framed up mentally that they ean- | not make allowances for persons addicted to enjoying | themselves on broad lines. HWverything that does not’ parallel thetr ideas of right ds a sin. “another element és that composed of men and-wom-- em who ere constitutionally bad. This element is more: 8 POSS299H99-94490-03909-9000- IT Looks LiKe Two Deuces! UNHAND ME,WOMANI '- CEASE YOUR PERSISTENCY! YoU ARE_ INCHES TOO “SHORT TO CONFORM { TO MY HICH IDEALS OF HUMAN PROPORTIONS! o> 800-HOO-HOo! SHE STOLE MY LITTLE PEEWEE ! uMmPy DOODLE! OODELUM - T_HAVE ITCHED FOR THIS “The third element is composed-of the hundreds of thousands of plain, everyday, hardworking citisens who mind thelr own business, work hard, pay their debts and 4 to be New Yorkers. ner ballets 23 Of all “fresh’’ persons on earth man who asks a woman ff he may the xias her is the very worst. Which does not mean that the man who kites her without asiing !s any better, but merely that the question, {rom ‘its oold-blooded deliberation, {5 often a greater Impertinence than’ the logs premeditated uct would be, Equally {fesh is the man who asks a girl {f ahe has ever been kiased, and tf #0, how often; if she has evet been in love, if ves not even in her most independ- noménis fee) the desire to be leved and shielded from the cold world. mMon sens ment the source of civic power comes | cut ‘and does business. This is all the Mayor has to keap in mind.” iB it “Tt ought to be easy enough for a Mayor to keep on; tho main line to popularity and satisfaction,” seid the jt Men. ciara answered the Man Higher Up, “but there ara so many men trying to throw the switches on him.” 28 100—For Headlines for Mr. Peewee’s LO-DIGDLOPHLOSDDEHHHHHHHIOOD®HHHOHSHHOOS. PLOHGHHOOHH « A Sherlock Holmes Romance of Love and Mystery>:—The Sign of the Four. and a lot of yams, co- by a trader which was going from Bing- ‘1 h, anid he; “T really ¢0 an olf wharf which was never guand- {1 made a sort of a sail. For ten days through the window, I saw him lying in man speak of the apeed of Smith's ferred! Sonera ttiatarsy ‘7 el, an 4 to plek me up, I | wo were beating about, trusting to luck, | his bed, with tis sons on each side of | taunch, the Aurora, so I thought she Aas hurtin "ave! vonveny’ several | and on the eleventh we were picked up | him would de @ handy craft for our escape. to be disatisfed with ‘my | gourds of wat “At last, however, came news we had J asked. npore to Jiddah with a cargo of Maley fot at all. I think he ts one of the —_—_—_ coanuts and sweet potatoes, The treasure hee | By A. Conan Doyle. | waited for so long. most charming young ladies I ever *818 OF PRECEDING CHAPTMRS, “He was stanch and true, was ttle pilerims. They were a rum crowd, and been found. It was up at the lop of the our ship.” ti a and might have. been most SBetul ts Mary Morstan, whose father, ‘Tonga. No man ever hada more fatth- | 7m and I soon managed to settle | house, in Mr. Bartholomew Sholto's aha veryain Loyang ners eee ant tence eee ae cee 3 ma ful mate, At the night mamed he had down among them. They hed one very | chemical liboratory. I came at once Gherlock Holmes. “A Otting windup ws/@. Gocided genius bat way: wenees his boat at tho wharf, As it chanced, | S904 quality—they let you alone end | ari hud a look at the place, but I could | to an extremely case. There ‘Dian from ell the other papers the former. had however, there was one of the convict | S#ked no questions, not see how, with my wooden leg, I | 1s nothing at af new to me in the latter her father. But dove is an Hurtholoniew: who bel averaee it guard dawn there, a vile Pathan who “Well. tf I were to tell you all the | was to make my way up to {t, Ilearned, | pact of your narrative, exept that you ‘ing, and whatever ts, enol fered. Sherlock. Ftolmee Te put on Nad never missed a ohance of insulting ativentures that my little chum end 1 however, aoutatrap door tn the roof, Drought your own rope. That I did not rooms to het tee cold reason BR ee ei Me ueen unger: | and tnjuring me T had always vowed | went through, you would not thank me, and also about Mr. Sholto's supper hour. | know. By the way, I had hoped that nee. baettbery Ste 1 myself shail fred savage from the an islands, vengeance, and now I had my chance, | for I would have you here until the sun It acemed to me that I could manage | Tonge had lost ail hie darts; yet he | never 5 deat Dies cay Jotemsent.e seat Stadt ia kiiisa @nd Small is captured, | It Was ae 4f fate had placed him in ms | Wi Shining. Here and there we dete | the thing easily through Tonga. I | managed to shoot one st us in the 1 remarked. “ybt have done nail confeswes that he threw the treasure ‘that I might my debt before | about the world, something always turn- brought him out with me with a } boat,’ ork in this business, into the river when capture seemed fmminunt Lap d Neots er pear peepee a) and “ them eit, ir| exoept th erent on whe | Tleft the island. He stoat en the bank | img upto keep un a, AN the | rope wound rouud his waist. Me coud "Ho tad tost 5 He oes on to. tell frat wo! treasbre Dy ling Its" Hindeo guardian, aud cw hie was sentenced {0 prison for life for | x escape he told Morstan | areabonita of t™ treasure, Blol- | time, however, I mever fost sight of my purpose, I would dreezn of Sholto at night. A tundred times I bave icilied ttm in my sleep, At last, however, some three or four years ago, we found on | with his back to me, and his carvine f on his shoulder. I looked aout for a stone to beat out ble brains with, but none could I see, Then @ queer thought came into my head and showed mo climb like a cat, and he soon made his way through the roof, but, as ill-mok would have it, Bartholomew Sholto was atill in the room, to his cost, Tonga thought he had gone something very ct ey hé Near side of every crossing. The language that will itil the public becomes acoustomed to the change "WH perceptibly moderate the winter temperature, but the end the new system will probably prove rather ‘convenient ‘than the old. In many cases the cars ped at the near side already by the flow of the cross etreets, and if they can do their ind unloading at tlc same time considerable jooms to be worse than the old is that uve to walk the length of the car in a etween the rear platform and allowed to enter end leave 4 it i 8 i the tervios of the {ite Andaman islander (Copyrighted, ‘1898, by Geo. Munro's Sona.) (Printed by Permiasion of Geo. Munro's Sons.) CHAPTHR VI. Escape and Revenge. OT HIS native was the hideous ersea- ture we kitied to-night, 1 sup- pose?” said Holmes, "Yes," repted Small, ‘“Tonga—for that was his name—wes a fine boat- man, and owned « big, roomy canoe of his own. When I found that he was de- Voted to me and would do anything to xorve me, I saw my chance of escape. i dnlied it over with him Ge wan to beicg his beat reuad on a cortain nigat where I could tay my hand on a wea- pon. { sat down in the darkness and unstrapped my wooden leg, With threo long hops I was on him. He put his carbine to his shoulder, but I struck tum full ond knocked the whole front of his skull in, You can see the split in the wood now where I hit hin, We both went down together, for I could not keep my balance, but when I igot up I found him still lying qulet enough. I made (or the boat, and tn an hour we were well out at soa. Tongu had brought all his earthly possessions with him, bis arms and his gods. Among other things, he had @ long bamboo spear and some Andaman cooonaut inatung, wick wiliai | | | | | eelves in Pngland. I hed no great dit- foutty in finding where Sholte ved, and I eet to work to discover whether ho had realize’ the treasure or if he still had it. I mae frients with some one who cout helo me—I name no names, for I don't want ‘to get any one else in a hole-antt I soon found that he still had the jowels, ‘Then I tried to get at many ways: but he wua pretty aly, and had always two prize-fghtors, Desides his sons and his khit-mutgar, on guard over bim, “One day, however, 1 got word that he wes dying, I hurried a once to the gardan, ma} that te should elip ont my clutihes Me cumt, end looking clever In killing him, for when I came up by the rope I found him strutting about ns proud as a peacock. Very much surprised was he when I made at him with the rope's end and cursed him for a little bloodthirsty imp. I took the treasure box and let it down, and then sid down myself, having first left the sign of the four upon the table to show that the Jewels had come back at last to those who had most right to them. ‘Tonga then pulled up the rope, close’ the window and made off the way that he had come, “I don’t lotow that I. have tee to toll you, I -bad.heand a Tinst a wife ie of tt, Jones mets tho 4 “i one whlch was in hts bhow-pipe at the fepaic ins tor, you? “At, ot coures,” eat Botan, “T tnd Pat ee m period ot (The Bnd) if ot Jones as they left the room. “I'll take particular oare that you don’t club me with your wooden ieg, whatever you may have done to the gentleman ut the Andaman Isles." “Well, and there is the end of our lttie drama,” I remarked after we had New Prize Storyae THE GURL IN GRE -2&$5Q0 in Prizes . Begine in Monday's EVENING