The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1904, Page 16

mt a THE EVENING # WORLD! 'S_#& HOME Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to ss! Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Offico at New Yorx 2s‘Second-Ciass Mall Matter. ————___ VOLUME 44.. NO. 16,480. SAFETY AT LAST. ‘themselves wpon having safety In sight. The reform per- Aistently urged by The Evening World from the day of the Iroquols disaster is to be enforced. Building Super- Antendent Thompcon has notified every manager in the work must ‘be made fireproof of treatment with a non-| combustible preparation. This is the one fundamental precaution that outweixha! all others. It is extremely important, of course, to have mary conditions a spark falling upon a drapery would treated would not be affected at all by a epark or even a’ Ughted match, and !f it were held in a gasoline flamo it! ‘would merely glow and crumble. > Our laws already require scenery and stage fittings to ‘Be fireproofed, but the rule has been systematically | taken for granted that such atrocious, such wantonly perverse, abuse of the other safety arrangements in the- _Atres a3 has been exposed in the Iroquois investigation in an be no cudden conflagration In a New York theatre, and with plenty of wide, clear exits a slow flre cannot be very dangerous to life. A MISUNDERSTANDING DISPELLED. Mr. Murphy _telieves that the Democratic Convention should be held in New York “for some commercial profit and for social intercourse between the East and the West.” He believes that “the convention will bring tre- dous benefit to the people of New York City and fe.” that “New York {s entitled to this convention,” and that “politics should not be considered in bidding for it.” When he said all this to Mr. Crimmins that gen- tleman curiously understood him to say that he did not want the conv _ that the singuiar misunderstanding hes been cleared up ~ and we know what Mr. Murpay really means, there ts ‘ah nothing more in the way of a united puil for the benefit ey ey of New York. Warewell to Kyehara.—The appointment of Mr. Nichola ns Chief Engineer of the Bridge Department means that the experiment of eyobar cables will have to be tried some- Where else than over the East River _ THE USUAL BROOKLYN WRECK. Another “unavoidable accident” on the Brooklyn Ele- vated, with the usual fatal results. “It must have been the weather,” say the Brooklyn Rapld Transit officials, The weather Is traditionally a safe subject of converra- tion. The motorman of the train that caused the smash throws a little more light on the subject. “If there wers any signals,” he says, “I did not see them, for the same reason that I did not seo the train ahead of me. Every- thing was chscured by steam that was coming up from van exhaust pipe under the tracks, and by smoke and steam from the engines in the yard." Apparently, then, the rule on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system is, “If you don't know you are wrong, “go ahead.” It is the same rule that caused the wreck in "the Park ayenue tunnel. There are certain places at by steam or smoke, just take the chances of their being, white instead of red and go on. If there is anything on the track, you will find it out when you get there. ‘The motorman is in the most exposed situation on the rain. It is less than two months since one was killed in iis box on a Brooklyn elevated train In circumsbances ust like yesterday's. It is not to be supposed that men would deliberately throw away their lives for fun. If ‘they take desperate chances with signals it must be be- cause that is what the rystem under which they hold thelr jobs trains them to do. Vlehve Takes the Hesponal! ¥-—Minister Von Plehye has made him@if personally responsible to the Czar for the safety of the Jews at Kishineft and elsewhere, His able message to The World implied as much. WISE RUSSIANS. “Tickets for thirty marines to Seoul, one way, fease,” said the representative of the Czar to the Japanese railroad agent at Chemulpo. “Sorry our train schedule is upset by the cold “> wave,” replie? the brown man at the ticket window; Mbut the walking {s good.” +. The Russians have taken the hint and marched to Seoul, eaving several good rubles which may come in handy later. There is no commuter within fifty miles of New York who does not sympathize with them and long to follow their example. Walking is often quicker than travelling by train, anyway, in these days, and a lot pleasanter. THE GOVERNOR FOR HOME RULE. Gov. Ofell seldom says anything that will not bear ‘or more interpretations. Stijl, his declaration fn of home rule is pretty explicit. “That,” he ob- “which the people of a locality demand within Ahelr doundaries should be accorded without inte: derenee by@ther sections of the State, provided. huw- ‘bbver, that the tion does not interfere with the rights of any or all of people.” Of course there aréwome people in Canandaigua who tied ey were not allowed to say how tho citizeas of New hould pend their Sundays; but if that had been Go’ or's idea it would ‘iy have been worth the question of home role ar all. As pet Reine is 1®.eession there fe not much room for ter-General Payne would ¢all “hot air,” oe ia at hand for the operation technically known Parke—And now we have the park on Randall's Island within a few years. tSjande in East River and the adjacent water, o's Islan’ to the Sound, are all turned into grounds we shall have takan the longest. Gevelopment of our park system since the a ‘The theatre-goers of-New York may congratulate | proper exits, curtains, sprinklers, skylights and all other! devices that may be,useful in case of fire. But it is stilt! move tmportant not to have any fire at all. Under ordi-; set a whole stage in an instant blaze. A fabric chemloally; 7 | _ ignored. Hereafter it will be enforced. And it may be Ohicago will never be tolerated in New York: If the} “anthorities persistently enforce their present orders there | ~ ntion here and would oppose it. Now| mplexion, une ugly women are in an which signals ought to be visible, but if they are hidden) “jrould hold that their rights were intertered with it} 9000002900605-6:00400005002000000004 PO-9$95100600001-08 0664 393 80 $ Men Marry Ugly Women? By |Nixola Greeley-Smith. | We do men marry ugly women? For thes do, ,One reason, of course, is that, notwithsianding the disguise of preity clothos and the bevieAis of exercise and diet to the Inmenes mafor!ty Another reason is that very few men Are agreed as to what constitutes oeLuty jin women. \And waile Jones, whose tastes run to pudgy blondes, may won dev what Brown ever saw fn that eicinny little dark wife of his, Brown ts 4 lost In etmiinr amazement at his neigh- dur's seleotion An « rule, men are tmprensonists of beauty, Given a woman of rather generous Proportions, dispiaved rather generour- ly in a tight-fitting btue and white or a black and white foulard gown, with good teeth, a good complexion and an undulating walk, and you have a man’s | beauty, * His mother or sister may notice that 3 hey eyes are small and shallow. her! & nose shapeless and that her mouth} ® looks ns if tt had been made with a can- | | opener, for women have a Metssonier taste in beauty and advocate perfe tion of detail, But he is blissfully unaware Jof there facts, so long as she Is well [dressed and well put together. | Regularity of feature, or indem sym- metrical proportions counts for very little with the average man, $ If he were to express what kind of a. & woman he likes best, nine times out of © ten he would describe a good, hearty, | 3 wholesome girl in a white shirtwalst. That ts, of course, unless his aMiations © are of the chorus. And evan then an & occasional longing for the white ahirt-| waist kind assails him. l¢ | French and American men know {style in a woman and admire it. In Anthony Hope's latest novel of © “Double Harness” a society woman says to an ugly gi who was bemoaning her | lack of matrimonial chances: | “You must zo In for rmartness, not prettiness, I really believe it pays bet- ter nowadays." But notwithstanding | “ Mr. Hope's discriminating eye and pen | the ordinary Englishman knows nothing | of style, a Providential deprivation surely designed to reconcile him to the| i Englishwoman. Rut in New York, what the English coll “smartness’’ undoubtedly does oO further than prettmess, And there are A great many ugly women who have the tnnate quality of style and an equar number of pretty women who lack it utterly. Of course, many men marry ugly women without this receeming trait- hopelessly plain persons who make no attempt to atone for physical shorteom- Ings by excellence of grooming ana attire, But why they do tt ts a problem which thev deserve to have to solve for them- sel Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. EXCITEMENT LACKING, ’“Fiver/ it the airship were a muccesi do yor think it would become popular with people who could afford 11?’ “I don't know,” answered the wild au- Jtomobilist. "There wouldn't be much chance of running down cans w ap alrehip.+Washington Sta NEVER RUNS SMOOTH, “They say it's love that makes the world go round.” “Ten't it?" “Wel, so far as my observation goes, love would make the world go zigzag and Sumpety-bump If it had anything to | « do with its course."—Chicago Post. A STEP FORWARD. | Mr. Deadhead—Do you mind if T call} « you Cora instead of Miss Cora? Mins Cora—No, indeed! I'm gettiilg Mreadtully tired of beimg called “Miss * anyhow.—Comic Cuts, DODDS 7-459: SU BvUNCO \S —— (o) Cae AG C ee (( wr Si “yt lia as (ee = ; Irs Simpy Our- : ~t AMBULATING RAGEOUS THE WAY —— (CE CHESTS THIS DETESTABLE ARE A_ DIS- BRT. SYSTEM GRACE -B-RRR, IGNORES THE Com- Tie TEACH Fort OF iTS Parpons— nese RR IVE WAITED HER ELISHA INTHE COLD Apour THAT WE AN HOUR AND STILL NO TRAIN! T PrRorestT: B-R-R-R-R LD SWa SWAP/ FREEZES Aman wag Tr snr is ves You Im 7 ns | Tut TRUN Youse) TALKING TO- Fauir PEE OFF DE CAR!) Iyou ougnr To BE ASHAMED To DE SNowy WASTES _ FER Youse- You wee RoosTER, BEINGS TO FREEZE — ALIVE Like THIS 8100 for Headlines for Mr. Peewee’s “Evening Fuige.” Winners Named Daily, Beginning Monday, Jan. 11. nnn & bittle Tragedies Strikingly Told in Four Words. & P0400: ote DPS SOOLDO4E- 90-0066 6-9969 40003008 34 $F-DE2O8ODOFDOOSDT DS 444d dD6HI9dDOC OF SASSY SUE--By the Creeley oF AG ernnig? Jim’ se JD She Won't Be Buncoed. Design Cooyrighted, 1903, by The Press Publishing Cemoany (The New York World). FOLKS TER “HUM BE CLAD TER HEGR son! OLED G Vi2LaIN oo | 2 One evening Susan chanced to meet “My friend, you are a stranger here?” r And yelled “I’m up tocity tricks! 1s A portly bishop on on the street. He asked. She swung upon his ear An’ I ain’t buyin’ no gold uot ds 2 34949060864 a EE 8 104.006 ‘The Important Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man 2 o “ wa He Hrs a Cold Day's Expsiienre wih the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. eo — The Ethics of Gambling on Horse Races, there are 300 pool-rooms open and that the Park- hurst Society is owt for the stuff.” “There is nothing in either statement to put” ‘New York into a state of coma, Up. “There will be pool-rooms as long as races are run, “] SHB,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Jerome saya. " replied the Man Higher ‘and when the societies for the elimination of vice are not | looking for subscriptions all of the main squeezes are sick in-bed. All through the administration of Mayor. Low there were pool-roome running all over town. Every” once in a while one of them was raided, but the censug |of Warden Johnson's college of compuleory instructia® in the manual arts at Ossining was not materially in-- creased as a result. “For the first time since Peter De Lacey started to put ‘the race tracks on the bum the pool-room+keepers seem. to have framed up a common-sense defense. They have ® ‘een soaked from soda to hock on law points, and now they are trying to create a sentiment in their favor by © keeping before the public the idea that betting on the_ & | > races at the track is gambling just as much as betting on the races In a pool-room. 2%) “It I had my way there would be no pool-rooms and 2 |racing would be 90 expensive that only suckers who could ® afford to lose would be able to get to the tracks. But so long as there are pale-pink asses disguised as men who ‘> think that they can take a winning chance with dough ® o o o o 3 : ® 3 3 : ® ® 3 ® & ; ® ® eben 2999000999992 time. °° | “Why? York.” atone door, In Westminster Abbey the Pyx Chapel, which has'hithertd, been joulously guarded from the public gaze, is shortly to be, lighted by electricity and thrown open for general inspection, Here was formerly the royal strong-room, where the reenla und the King's money were kept. From this treasu: 1308, while. Edward I. was warring in Scotland, was stolen $500,000, which was to pay the expenses of the campaign: The | A famous Gaelic curse put upon the family of Dalrymplé'! at the time of the massacre of Glencoe, In the eighteenth: ventury, is recailed by the death of the Barl of Stair, head’ of the Dalrymple family. The first earl of the lne took part tm the massacre, and Jean MacDonald, the sole survivor of ‘largo .amily that perlabed through the earl’s cruelty, de “1a bitter curse upon him, wishing that no succeedin; should have children, A sting comment on thig’ lotion Is that the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh” that should go to their families pool-rooms will flourish, | “Do you know the rea) influence behind the opposition jto the pool-rooma? It isn’t the vice-suppressing socie- itles and the profeesional raiders—it is the combination of men that owns the metropolitan race tracks, These }men would like to see every pool-room closed all the Because pool-rocms kill tusiness’ at the jtracks, If the men who are fiends on the races can play in town they won't go to the tracks. If they don't go to the tracks the associations lose their $2 cough-ups at the > | gates, and yarrant onw hundred or more bookmakers drawing in every day and paying enough to the associations to cover ‘(he running expenses. “The racing associations stand for gambling In their betting rings, pay the expenses of the tracks with what they draw déwn from gamblers and put up a big fund to. try to keep the pool-rooms closed so that people will have to go to the race tracks an! pay for the privilege of losing money.” “Some of our best people bet on the races ‘at tind | track,” said the Cigar Store Man, “Some of our wealthiest people,” corrected the Man Higher Up. there isn’t business enough in the ring to “Money gives an unlimited license in Now. A Secret Chamber. with seven locks, had formerly a. covering ot} human skins, and tradition says that they were those of the daring cobbers of Plantagenct times. The Pyx, which cone tained the standard pteces of gold and silver used at the. “trlal of the Pyx,’ first ordered in the reign of Henry IL, hus been transferred to the mint, ahd the regalia have been. kept at London Tower since Charles I1.'s reign. The only, ovsect of intereat now to be seen in the chapel, except few! ancient chests, {s an old stone altar, A Gaelic Curse. and eighth earle of Stair all died without stance prodably unique iy the annals. of +t furauy of the fret earl beckine entirely extinct in 28, the wuceession passed to the descendants of his next prot! Sir James try ple, from whom came the povr fuay &£ 4 . f |