The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1904, Page 12

BAG g Wy aN pa aa MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1904, Che @ublished by the Press Publishing Compnny, No. 03 to Yark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NOLUME 44....... «NO. 16,488. READY FOR THE VERDICT. £ The committee bearing New York's invitation to the Bnough has been said of the reasons why New York the National Committee the reasons why the convention should want to come to New York. It ought to be particularly easy to do that to a body sitting in Washington. Committee are now within a five-hour run of New York— they would have a hard ride of twenty-four hours to get | 4 q to Chicago, Congress is.likely to be in session when the convention meets. Senators and Representatives could come to New York, if necessary, and get back the same day. The average distance to be traversed by each delegate ‘would be less to New York than to any Western city. ‘The cost and time of travel would be less. And there ‘would be something to see here that would make the trip worth while, even if there were no convention. than on the convenience of the delegates, no other city ‘What other is the centre of eighty doubtfy! electoral ‘ votes which the Democracy must have, to win? ALL TOGETHER. earnest in their desire to safeguard thelr audiences. their conference with Mayor McClellan on Saturday they all cordially agreed to carry out‘any requirements im- posed by the authorities. The lesson of Chicago, where svery theatre has had to close, has not bi lost. It is always better to effect a reform by common consent, if Possible, than by fighting. And the harmonious action of the authorities and the managers here promises to pro- tect the public not only in this city, but everywhere, for the scenery fireproofed to meet New York's requirements will carry an element of safety into the playhouses of other towns when it goes on the road. Where Unions Are Superiiuous.—It {s not likely that the proposed Servant Girls’ Union at Orange will amount to any more than previous enterprises of the snme sort. ‘The union is the weapon of the weak, It protects from oppression those who would be unable singly to protect themselves. Bank presidents do not form unions, nor cailroad managers, nor political bosses, The free and Independent cook who can dictate her own terms to her employers and take her choice among a dozen cringing applicants for her favor ‘m not going to tle herself up to any organization that would fetter her sovereign caprice, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HONESTY, District-Attorney Jerome pald a deserved compliment to the New York police ina talk at Chicago. Mr. Jerome has fought our police system as hard as anybody, but he fully appreciates the physical courage of our men, end frankly recognizes the fact that for handling rough crim- ‘nals and preserving public order they have no superiors in the world. But the District-Attorney indulges tn a singular freak a wvhen he tells Chicago that the way to reform its police ’ force is to turn it over to a private detective agency, to be run under contract. Does Mr. Jerome really believe that private detective agencies are models of purity, and that “private management would not permit of laxity,” “allow compromising with gambling ‘joints'" or “let a police- man fall asleep in 1 saloon?” If he does, he ought to 3 read an article on corruption in private business by the} i ie president of a manufacturing corporation in the January Be ‘World To-Day. N “I have sold goods for over a quarter century,” says this witness. “There are railroads and large companies to which I cannot sell because I will not ‘buy the pur >t chasing agents. * * * I have seen purchasing»agents on salaries of $2,000 and $3,000 grow very rich, This! corruption extends down to the smallest details of buying) and selling, where the buyer ts not buying for his own use, but for some one else, Thus, the milk dealers in ‘New York complain that it is impossible to serve the people in flats without bribing the janitor. * * * And it runs all the way up the gamut to what Judge Grosscup calis the ‘incorporated dishonesty’ of the Shipbuilding ‘Trust, engineered by a Schwab and a Morgan.” For years this manufacturer has been selling goods extensively to the United States Government. ‘We have never given bribes,” he says, ‘‘never been asked for them, BY “never even had a hint of it." He has been told by a suc-} eration are due to the effect she « cessful bidder for supplies for the New York City schools ; that he “absolutely could not get any favors at a higher A. price or on inferior goods.” And his conclusion js that public business is more honestly managed than private: ‘business on the same scale, because the private business is done in the dark, while Government operations must be carried on in the light of publicity. Remember the Maine.—A rumor runs that a United States ‘warship will be sent to Cartagena “as an evidence of friendship" for Colombia, Better not. It was as an evi- @ence of friendship for Spain that the Maine was sent to Havana. NOT THE LAST WORD. The defense in the case of Senator Dietrich, of Rebraska, charged with bribery, raised the point that is Mr, Dietrich had not been sworn in when the alleged offense occurred he was not legally a Senator. The Court accepted this view, and ordered the jury to bring dn a verdict of acquittal. A defendant whose only de- * sire was to keep out of jail might be glad to escape on Buch a technicality, but a statesman with a reputation _ to sustain must feel a little uncomfortable when he is And if Mr, trich is willing to remain in that attitude there t be something more to be said by President Roose- »who has made appointments on his recommenda- by tho United States Senate, whose own reputation wt stake, and by the people of Nebraska, who are by the character of the men they honor. a ef War.—Colombia, ts mobilizing a force of fitty Mes and 180 officers; “Including the most famou: “the republic,” and she ts determined to driv, 4f it takes an army of brigadier. eas Democratic National Convention will be in Washington| ; this evening, and to-morrow its work will be done.| { wants the convention; it remains only to Impress upon | « The members of the National | ‘ If the decision should turn more on political strategy sould be mentioned in the same breath with New York. | % © The New York theatrical managers seem to be in In| ~ in this town? Complete Angler; OR, BY Nixola Greeley-Smith. OT hve use your fr hook—I mean the through his mouth and out at his Put your vou loved him." lover of the angle: manner of baiting if she w 80 inclined, might with equal aptness render an account of her methods of capture, Of course, the application is not to the particular fish that she wishes to make her own. Neither she nor Walton could put the hook the arming wire, through the fish's mouth and out his gills for the very good reason that the fish, being a Mvely and elusive creature, will not stand for it. Only @ slow-goin”, helpless frog can be thus maltreated. But once the frog is on the wire the fiah bites. Now, the complete angier of old times angled with plain ordinary four-legged garden frogs. But his modern and feminine proto- type baits her nook and often catches her fish with a two-legged vartety— with “the frog that would a-woolng go"'—in other words, the man who wants to marry her, as distinguished from the man she winta to marry. Eveny woenan, no matter how fine her that when @ man actually wants to marry her—which does not mean the ‘me that her fine ant ‘and delicate ca- Jjolevy have sandvagged {nto the passive willingness that leads many estimable clUzens to the aluuwr—he can treat him practically as she pleawes. And, furthermore, she does tt. As a result, when, following Mr, Wal- ton's recipe for baiting, she puts her hook through his mouth and out at hie gills, otc., he regards the rathor painful proceeding as, on the whole, a pleasing attention. For does she not, according to the very letter of the complete angler’s udvice, “in so doing use him as though she loved him?” , To be sure, her gentleness and con; knows they will have on the other man But, then, how does the poor frog know that until, having served his pur- pose of baiting, he is cast aside and it is two late? ——____ HEARTLESSNESS. ‘They quarrelied one day, ‘twas a tride, No doubt, that induced them to pert, ‘That oaused her to DM him to stifie ‘The tove that had dloomed in his heart. ‘She saw him turn slowly ant sadly To leave her, ahe heard his good- high. He did not reture, for come reason, To humble bimseif at her fest; Another axtived in dus eeason, Fate having decreed they should m He told her the lovely ol story, And she, aa hie bride, reached the height Of what to a woman ts gtory— ‘Then quietly passed out of sight, ‘The other man gained a high station, And, having enthroned himself Posnersing the worl!’s admiration, Won the heart of « girl who was , Where fow saw and tow knew her, ‘Was one who went nursing an ache Because he had not returned to her. Or at least had not failed ‘for her nake. ~—S. EB. Kiser tn Chicago Record- Herald, OO 8OOOGROR 4 The Important Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man 2 o& How toCatch aHusband |? wills, and in #0 doing use him as though | So Izank Walton—dear old bachélor | ‘ « And thus the modern husband-hunter, | ¢ abstract pense of justice may be, knows | 4 w THE « EVENING »# WORLDS “You'll call me up? You willl!” cried Sue. Til call you downt You want my numter? Why? 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Jerome’s Talk NOw SEE HERE, e IF You DON'T: on Dealing PRovioe THEL_ KINO OF WEATAER] = WE wanr, youtt) .) 1PQe Lose ‘Your Jos! ly TomorRow I TAKE MY Toorsi€) BYE-BYE -AND WE MuSY. HAVE] gaa with Crooks, . ’ IWIN D VAGE P. 7 u] wwe WU SHE,” Attorney Jerome is indulging in gory language out in Chicago.” “Every. New Yorker feels Uke committing murder the minute he hits Chicago,” explained the Man “ sald the Cigar Store Man, “that District Higher Up. “Ifa man has any rough-house instincts they get a strangle hold on ‘him as soon as ho gets inside | the Windy City limits, and the city limits are a long way)! from the City Hall. By the time he gets’ to the Stochf Yards he !s a second edition of Mr. Hyde. “If Jerome had mwaited a couple of days he would have become Chigago-broken, but it seems that he began tq tall as soon as he got off the train. He told the people of | Chicago that the only way to put down crime was to give the police a license to break the criminals into smaljh pieces. ‘Bring them in in fragments,’ sald the Districte | Attorney, blowing a cloud of cigarette smoke into the atr, and the Chicago reporters who jwere lstening to him | shivered. ths “Of course Chicago was shocked at the proposal that ‘their criminals should be carted to the ¢tation-houses {1 sections. Ohicago 1s proud of its criminals. The town had a chill contemplating the day when Jerome's advice might be taken and the newspapers would have items lke this: “Dicky the Dip was arrested last night on the Clarl Street Bridge by a detachment of policemen armed with axes, saws, knives and clubs, His right leg is at the Central Station, his left eat 1s locked up in the Chicago avenue station, a plece of one of his arms, including the elbow, is in the custody of the Chief of Police, and detec- | tives are searching for the rest of him, which, it is feared, ‘+ » | escaped into the river.’ “No wonder the Mayor of Chicago made a holler and a asked the District-Attorney why he didn’t put his own town wise to his way of putting the kibosh on crime, 4 Jerome said that when a thief was brought in in New York he fount that it did him good to hand him a few | ‘ye while arresting bim and he was in favor of it. “Tt is a pretty shine official who will advise policemen toslug. If prisoners fight, policemen nvust fight back, but it has come to @ stage when cops think they have a Heense to beat in any face they don’t fancy. Tihe discre- tion of the ordinary cop !s badly shrunken, and ning times out of ten the people he thinks he ought to beat ug are inoffensive.” » “Travel is @ great think,” cemarked the Cigar Store Man. t “Yes,” replied the Man Higher'Up. “Jerome hat to go , to Chicago to learn that the best way to make an arrést is to disable the prisoner. If he went to Sam Francisco he wouki probably advocate sending all prisoners direct to the Morgue.” Weeping at a Wedding. A Chinese marriage 1s a solemn ceremony—no talk, no / levity, and much crying. ‘The solemnity of @ funeral pre- vails, After the exchange of presents the bride is dressed with much care in a red gown—brocade or silk, if she ean get it; her eyelashes are painted a deep black, and she | wears a heavy red vell attached to a scarlet from which imitation pearls hang over the f mx feast 1 spread upon a table, to which the blushing bride is led by five of her friends. They are seated at the table, but | no one eats. Deep silence prevails, when finally the ‘ | sarts crying, the maids follow, and the bride joins in th @ | chorus. ‘Then all the bridesmaids leave the table, and the % | disconsolate mother takes a seat beside the chair of | where the brido sits. ‘The bridegroom now enters weed moan’ ® | of his men friends. The men pick’ up the throne on | the bride sits, and, preceded by the bridegroom, procession and walk around the room or Into an PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 each—No. 1, 8. Y. JOHNSON, No. 246 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, New York: Bug’s-Bye Views of a Few Funny Things. home. The guests then throw rice at the happy couple-« ctstom we hhve borrowed from them. lo Wonderful Blind Girl, Miss Helen Keller, the bind deaf mute, has just heem elected Vice-President of the sonfor class at Redolifte © | lege, the woman's department of Harvard. Ste is eee | our full courses, two in English and two thus far passed all her examinations wit as if she had all her faculties and 1s, a0co povaely in scholarship than tay, stan nonean in Spaaeat-acaamae } ‘The Bookworm—Yes, Johnnie Boston, | take my hat off to you, ‘ “How am | golng to comb my hair with thie?” “1 can't see how people lose so “My! How the wind whistles?”