The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1904, Page 10

. SPUBSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1904. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 63 Park New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. aie a VOLUME 44.......06 weceeceererees NO. 15,477. _ Netaatae Gaatar le RSA SRST aD A MAXIM AND AN AMENDMENT. Mayor McClellan’s first message to the Board of Aldermen is avowedly made up of generalities to be de- veloped later. By the time’the Mayor is ready for this _the doctrine he lays down in these very disquieting words: “New York must be made healthy and clean and safe before it is ‘made beautiful.” There is plainly set forth the fallacy that {6 chiefly " ) Pesponsible for the reign of ugliness in American cities. "Mr. McClellan considers beauty as something apart from utility. Apparently he would have useful things made ugly to start with, like the Williamsburg Bridge, and then “decorated” when there happened to be money @nough on hand that was not needed for anything else, if that time ever came. A beautiful city can never be built {n that way. Beauty must be treated as an inseparable part of utility. There must he no question of “before” or “after’— the useful thing must be beautiful In fteelf. This does “Wot necessarily involve any serious additional expense— & merely requires a little forethought and good artistic Advice. i © Qt course New York “must be made healthy and »* flean and safe;” but why can it not be made beautiful at the same time? A small park js an afd to health and cleanliness and safety, but need it be hideous? | Sannot school-houses, and recreation piers, and public paths, and arcades please the eye instead of. assaulting ? And it we make all our public !mprovements hide- pus to start with, how in the name of all the graces are we ever going to make the city beautiful afterward? We already have blunders enough of this kind to struggle with. It was a civic crime to allow thp ele- vated railroads to disfigure four avenues and five parks {n Manhattan and the Bronx when their structures tould just as well have boon made attractive. The Man- * battan valley viaduct of the rapld-transit road fs an example of the atrocities that are perpetrated when the idea of utility is kept apart from that of beauty. {On reflerticn will not Mayor McClellan accept this 5 ‘Mitte amendment to hig doctrine of municipal improve- ment: . ’ > “New York must be made at once healthy, clean, BE WARNED IN TIME. Fire Commissioner Huyes reports that twelve thea- tres In New York—-+leven on Broadway and one on the Bowery—are fire-traps in which the Jroquois horror ‘might be repeated at any time. He adds that many ‘other theatres in the city are dangerous, although tech- jpically within the law. If anything were needed to spur the Aldermen into ’ ing the ordinance designed to insure the safety of pudiences this report ought to supply it. Chicago, striking out in blind rage after her homes have been ~ ;tunged into mourning, {8 closing all the theatres and Mher places of public entertainment with{n her borders. We have had our warning in time. All we need to do Is to take our precautions in advance. Pass the ordl- mance prepared by The World, providing for fire- proofed scenery and asbestos curtains lowered between the acts, and we shall never suffer what Chicago is wffering now. ae NEW YORK'’S INVITATION. New York is now officially on record as an appli- sant for the Democratic National Convention. At Its Be? * first meeting yesterday the new Board of Aldermen Fae formally Invited the convention to come ‘here, and Be ‘rged the Mayor to do everything ‘In his power to a that end. ‘i ‘The Citizens’ Committee, headed by Mr. Crimmins, fs actively working. It has just one week to finish rats- ing its guaranty fund and to present all the arguments that are to be offered in our behalf. The time is short, But the strength of New York's position ought to. count for something. When political advantages, convenience of access, superiority of hotel accommoda- tions and variety of resources for entertainment are a all on one side, a mere statement of the case ought to settle the question. Gryan Still on Guar to go on u gold basis. But Mr. Bryan s still left, lke Ney on the retreat from Moscow, and to the question, “Where Is the rear guard?" he responds, proudly, “Sire, Tam the reat guard.” LET THEM OFF, PLEASE. A passenger on a Flatbush avenue car, in Brooklyn, fell senseless yesterday from the cold and would have tered to him in the hospital to which he was taken. The conductor at first refused -to stop the car to allow _ the unconscious man to be removed, saying that ho ‘would be docked if he failed to reach the bridge on Zorce on the part of the other passeng: fuller treatment let us hope he will have reconsidered 4 —And now even Mexico ts preparing |. frozen to death but for the heroic treatment adminis- time, but he finally yielded to a display of superior i With the difidence befitting any offer of advice to _ gentlemen who ought to be the best Judges of their “own business, we venture to suggest to the Brooklyn Bir ciarranstt Company that it would find, it to its| * of persons freezing, or frozen, to death in its In this way {t could make room for more fares, @ there would be an absence of that unpleasant com- which the presence of a stiffening body in a strect ds always Mable to start among unthinking pas- at War-—If China joins Japan in fighting Russia,| To the Faltor of The Evening World: @ third and a half of the human race will be at]. As an Englishman, I can say that the @ ove Should Not Be All On One Side. | By Helen Oldfigid. EUIPROCITY should form the key- one of most rélations in life, and love, of the right sort, is no ex- ception to the rule. For, after all, love 1s merely the dvep-felt and lasting need of one man for one woman, and of one woman for one man; the genuine need which makes the two interdependent, the one upon the other, each supplying what each lacks, and finding Joy in #0 doing; the need which likens the two to the poles of an electric battery, which, brought together, generate the force which moves the world. And to fulfill its God-given purpose the love must be mutual; there must be give and take, spontaneous and free as air and sun- light, each of the two feeling for and with the other, nelther demanding trib; ute nor exacting aught, but contrib- uting alike of all that they have and are to the common go004. There ts no possible doubt that lov the perfect love which cnateth out self- and refining. It purifies the soul, strengthens the character, gives 9 higher motive and a better aim to every action of life, however commonplace tt may be, and makes both men and women strong, trustworthy and cour- ageous, so that {t may well be sald that the power to love truly is the noblest gift with which the human being can be endowed; and the more unselfish and lesg exacting that love is the more nearly it approaches to the Christian {deal which describes God as love ani | « declares it more blessed to give than to recelve, We all of us know some man or woman, the willing slave of another dearer than self, submitting gladly to any and every caprice of the beloved; and, in most cases, we know also that the slave is happter than the tyrant who rules bls or her life. Such self- sacrificing sogls count it a joy to do or to suffer anything, however hard, for the mke of the beloved, and feed uncomplainingly upon crusts in order that they may provide cake for their dope ones, t ls the woman of a different fibre who delaghts In placing her pretty heel Upon the neck of her slave, who treads carelessly upon the velvet cloak laid down to keep her dryshod, neither reck- ing nor caring that her devotee has no other wrap. She conaklers such homage as her due, and takes all she can get, velteving tat those who give It are well rewanied by-a smile and a kind word now and then. Moreover, the idea that a Woman may fitly take gl that aman can give her; that to take proper car: of his womgnkind should be his first object In Ife, ix old, and lingeringly lives In suite of the efforts of the new woman to extirpate it. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. “Show-far.". “Day-cole-tay.” To the Editor of The Evening World Kindly give the correct pronunciation of the following words: “Chauffeur” and “decotlete.”” MOP J. How Mpch Did He Wint To the Kditor of The Evening World A eells a horse to B for 9. A buy the horse back for $80 and resells it for $100. Readers, what does he win by the Whole transaction? AL, “Lighted” In Better Than “Lit. To the Editor of The Eventne World: Which is better: “I Lt the gas," or “1 lighted the?gas?” OBSERVANT, Friday, ‘To the Editor of (hy Ayening World: On what.dey of the weel did Oct. » 1863, fall? ALG. RL s Old Infirm He Should ry It. Evening World: i travelling with his ighter of elgiteen years should he y er sult case out of gentlemanly cvartesy, or should she cary tt to show ful respect? A.B, Paterson, N. J, In the Fourteenth Round, To the Editor of The Evening “World: A the thirteenth round by Fitzsimmons. ed will furnish a shelter and the » times ia the year and on all daya in the year. ANONYMOUS, ‘Two Years, To the Edltor‘of The Evening World: How long is a widow to wear the long vel? FB, Englishman's Idea of Un. t wa -3f England and France should be dragged in, fully] English ‘woman's beauty ts today un- Of the population of the globe would be in-| surpassed, while that of the American hat might be called, without exaggeration, a a) ee Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. % He Asks Miss Sixfoot to Help Him Choose a New Hat, but Their Tastes Differ Design Copyrighted. 190?, by The Evening World. The Important How DISTINGUISHED So JAUNTY AND cHic! Yet DISTINGUISHE 2 49F8Sd9 2 seeking and greed, {s In itself ennobling | Now LOOK AT YOURSELF i 2900O0020006006 oe 8100 for Headlines for Mr. Peewee’s “E Winners Named Every Day, Beginning Monday, Jan. 11. Headline Used. 100 Headlines, $100. The Jolly New Yorker--Abroad and at.Home. RINT THAT A BEAUT ? HERE'S ANOTHER! PPVDOP_ $OOSIG94HGHOH44-0HHG996- oe IV& GOT ANOTHER PANDY JOKE TO TELL you CaS SAY! T WONT you AGAIN TO 3 Corbett was knocked out In| 4 B says in the fourteenth round. Which | @ is dN. No Place Where Women May Rest. To the Editor of The Evening Woild: On & recent holiday I could find no place open in the afternoon where a re- spectable woman could sit tn comfort | ‘ and rest. The Y. W. C, A, Is such @ place, but {t 1s closed on holidays and| 4 on part of the Sabbath (the whole of the| Sabbath in warm weather). 1 hope the time will soon comg when some one} § a sures of a home where wo-| « men will Le Seartlly weloomed at all OD9OO5O999HO-9OE3H5 9609950555 99H90O9GH2H $9O009009O9OO90009406-09-409O96.36 woman ig attractive to ita own country. mep, but not to the world at large. LA i The New Yorker . . Is to Blame fer the Bridge Jam. SPH,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that one of the ss hurdles the Mayor took in his message was the jam at the Brooklyn Bridge entrance.” “He had to take the hurdle or get stepped on,” replied the Man Higher Up. “Probably you noticed that he safd the conditions are scandalous, and it's no falsehood. But he’ll find st a hard job to get rid of the jam, because the fault lies mainly in the people who make up the crowd. “Living in Brooklyn and crossing the bridge in the rush hours makes a hog of a man. He gets a crease in his brain that makes him imagine there is only one car going to where he lives, and that he {s entitled / to tho best seat on that car. As soon as he turns off! ® : Park Row for the bridge he begins to look for some- body to smash. “Until the people of New York can be taught to wait and take things easy the crowding and jamming every- where is going to stay with us. There are jams just as bad os those at the bridge entrance on a dozen ‘L’ platforms every night and morning because one thou- sand people always want to get into a train that will hold only five hundred, or two hundred people Insist upon squeezing themselves into a car that will hold only forty. “Let a train pul! in, jammed to the doors, and the gang on the platform won't even wait for those inside to get out. If there is a train just behind practically empty the crowd won't wait for it. New Yorkers bring discomfort on themselves and’then holler about it. “Do the passengers in a crowded car who have to stand sift down the aisle and make room? Not on your life. They stand at the doors like a lot of eheep in a pen. Have you ever seen the people who belong on the top floors of a skyscraper slide to the rear of the elevator when they get on at the ground floor?’ Nay, nay. They all stand close to the door, and stand to be pushed and jammed and squeezed by those going In and out. Women are the worst offenders in this re- spect. The average woman when she gets into an ele- vator takes one step and’ plants herself.” t “Everybody in New York is in a hurry,” explained the Cigar Store Man. “No,” sald the Man Higher Up; “everybody jn New York looks like he is in a hurry.” Look at the Moon, A clear moon indicates frost. A dull-looking moon means rain. A single halo around the moon Indicates a storm. If the moon looks high, cold weather may be expected. If the moon looks low down, warm weather !s promiséd. If the moon changes with the wind in the east, then we shall have bad weat! If the moon be bright and clear when three days old, fine weather {s promised. When the moon fs visfble In the daytime, then we may, look forward to cool days. * ‘ When the points of the crescent of the new moon are very clearly visible, frost may be looked for. If the new moon appears with its points upward, then the month will be dry; but should the points be downward, @ good deal of rain must be expected during the three weeks, Leather Railway Ties. . "Raflway ties have been made fiom ateel, fron, ginss, stone, and of grass and sawdust composition,” says the American Inventor. ‘The newest invention for that purpose 1s @ cross-tie of leather. The scrap leather from shoe shops is taken into a disintegrator, ground very fine, subjected tu a refining process and moulded. ‘The tension of the moulding machine can be so regulated that ties hard enough to take! a spike or tigs through which a spike cannot be driven can be turned. The three great essentials in a cross-tie are ap- parently found in this leather sleeper, for it is guaranteed to hold a spike, the fish-plate will not splinter tn it, and it will not rot. It 1s expected to stand service for thirty-five years. Sample ties put down twenty-eight months ago in the West Springfeld freight yard of the Boston and Albany road do not show the least wear, : Owns His Death Warrant. Capt. W. G. Watkins, of Clinton, Mo., has in his posses- sion his own death warrant, issued and signed by United States oMoers during the civil war, Capt. Watkins was sen-| tenced to be shot for recruiting Confederate soldiers inside Union lnes, He escaped from-Gratiot Prison in St, Louis where he was confined awaiting the death penalty, and was never recaptured. Recently Capt. Watkins secured the war rant for his own death. He prizes the war relic highly, Girls Kept in Cages. It-ts sala that the people of New Britain have a pecullar custom of confining their girls in cages until they. reach marriageable age. Thi cages are built of wood cut from the palm tree, and are inside the rude houses, Outside each house ts a fence of wickerwork made of reeds. The girls are caged at the age of two or three, and are never allowed to go ont of the house, Yet they seem strong and healthy, * ‘A Heap of Diamonds, ‘the largest pile of diamonds ever brought together was collected at the De Boers mine in South Africa in July, 1900, ‘The directors wanted to know the auantity of diamonds necessary to fill a certain measure, Diamonds of all. kinds / were put in just as mined, and it was thus ascertained that a cuble metre of diamonds welghs 11,976,000 carats and has | an approximate value of about $78,000,000. Up to the pres- / ent time the Kimberly mines have" produced more than 400,000,000 worth of uncut diamonds. ¢ The Forbidden ‘Lana. ; Monasteries of the lamas in Thibet are always perched on | the top or steep sides of a hill. They are built in stages con- mastifty., bord va ite psc te high as @ donkey and gre #o flerce that it goes hard w! stranger who'attempts nected by arena. Mea areas | 4