The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1904, Page 12

THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1904, 2 ished by the Press Publishing Comp Park Row. New York. tntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NG. 18,498. HANDS OFF THE PARKS! Benator Dowling, on behalf of the McClellan adminis- Fation, has introduced a bill authorizing the Mayor to Wect school buildings in the public parks. Much more respectable object than the construction of a ipeedway or a fish market in a park, both of which enter- prises have been sanctioned by former Tammany admin- istrations, but there is only one safe rule for the people's Pleasure grounds, and that is: ‘Don't encroach on them for sny purpose whatever.” It has been hard enough to get our parks, and we are still far short of the number we need. Open space can be spared. It has been a continual fight to save what we have from the insidious advances of World's Fairs, race tracks, peddlers’ booths and rail- toads. If we could sacrifice the parks to anything it would be to tho schools, but cven these must look some- Where else. The locked-out children must be cared for In some ‘way, but why in the parks? In the 12,000 acres of Man ‘hattan Island are there no other available sites for tem. porary school-houses? The Evening World has suggested that suitable quarters may be rented. If it should be -— } ecessary to put up some temporary buildings, why could ft not be done on leased ground? There is plenty of jand which the owners are not yet ready to improve and | trom which they would be glad to draw an income. Let ‘he start with these two propositicns: ‘We must have sufficient school accommodations, We must not d'sturb the parks. Then tet us think up plans that will satisfy both wnditions, . SOWING AND REAPING. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." ‘Bo the Chicago theatrical men are learning as they face Yuin under a threatened ordinance that wil! make {it Im- past, with obedience to laws whose obsorvance would have entailed no hardship, would have spared them all Pils trouble and incidentally saved six hundred ives. ‘ icials, and now they have to meet the consequences. It appears that managers {n genera) have not learned Iroquois lesson even yet, although we have reason fo hope that such a calamity has been made impossible lid New York. It {s said that, except in the vicinity of Dhicago, the manufacturers of asbestos and other fire- Proofing materials have noticed very little increase in Meir business since the disaster. One Eastern manager Po appreciate the full beauty of that observation it must ‘he remembered that managers are never wurned in thea- tre fires. The lives they risk always belong to other peo- ple. That fact tends to dampen popular sympathy with jhe victims of the new Chicago ordinance, whose advan- bne of luck, not of merit. talk of his resignation ts absurd. Of course it ts. After winnihg votes, and perhaps the election, for ‘Tammany by offering himself ns a trusty watchdog of the treasury * be will not present the spectacle of the watchdog scut- ting out of the back gate at the firat kick. The Van je Wyck administration would have done a good deal morn i harm than it did {f Mr. Coler had not stayed In oMce to] % fight Ramapo and other Jobs FROM RAINES TO REFERENDUM. Yoters of this city. They heve had fun with us for a! food many years, but the idea of having Coler’s 122,000 majority repeated in a Presidential election is not one they like to think about. So they are beginning now to ‘Willing to submit Sunday opening to a vote of the peo- ple affected by it. It is an easy way to escape responsl- | pility, and the people of Now York are quite willing to! ‘ggsume the burden that the representatives of Canan-| Naigua and Goshen are ready to lay down. | ——————— | | AN AVERTED MESALLIANCE,. tlage of Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria with aj) professor's daughter was called a mesalliance, For the professor's daughter it would have been. It {s hardly that of the Hapsburgs. APPROACHING THE IDEAL. ‘The Erie Railroad has taken off twenty-nine local | trains “for the good of the service.” It {s explained that! pt moving on time. The officials do not expect to have p this ideal is reached {t will be possible really to sp within sight of the timetable, except when it snows ‘g.00w gets on the track. A WEEK'S REPRIEVE. De ice-Chairman Sullivan, of the Board of Aldermen, for another week's trial of the “near side" car- ordinance, ‘Human life,” he says solemnly, than mere accommodation of the public.” it 1s, but how about those nine thousand pucumonia last year? Doesn't wading forty * @& THE » EVENING « WORLDS » HOME This {s a « Not an inch of, ‘ possible for some, and perhaps for any, of them to open| ¢ thelr doors, A very little regard for public safety in the} | But they preferred to save a few dollars by bribing of- femarked tiat he had gone along without any accident! { to far, and he thought he would try {t a while longer.| ‘ fe over the Iroquois criminals was in almost all cases| | Bir. Gront Will Stick.—Comptroller Grout says that the ‘The Republican legislators at Albany are beginning] ‘ at last to consider the advisability of conciHating the | “ SASSY SUES By the Crearorof “Sunny Jim”\8 She Tries to Cross Broadway talk of local option on the excise question. They are| The projected but now indefinitely postponed mar-|“ likely that a chair in the University of Vienna could] 4 have been held by a man with such a family record as| : this leaves more power and more track room for the! « trains that are left, and so will give them a better chanca| { things on a really satistactory basis, however, until the| “ Oe oo 2 PESTOLHHOHHEL SHY HOE SOTTO 9009900000 $OO00060S6: ® 2 The Most Important Littl Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, 1903.) Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Tries the Mystic Lodge Sign on the Wrong Man. a AHA - ER-HUM, AT Last! HERE ComES ONE OF OUR, BROTHER Masons! SEE! HE Gives ME THE MYSTIC SIGNS T SHALL ANSWER) HIM IN ASsPIRIT.C Wwors DAT You SAWED OFF FIVE CENT PIECE! Dont You MAKE NONE OF DEM CRAZY-House PASSES AT mel yf CC %\ v [FUGES fate THe SAGNAL PEEWEE PAGE, SAY! DAT WAS GREAT FER DE Hoo Him n TH T ETL | Take pars You---; BACK TO DE DAFFY CRAZY gL GEOREE ULCOREN COs Fever eo eetete dene er cach No. 1-IRENE COLEMAN, 85 East 117th Street, New Yi rk Citys No. 2 2— ° le ourtcenth Street, Jersey City, N. J.; No. 3—A. ASSEAUD, 130 West 71st Street, N 3 No. 4-CHARLES F. RUPPEL, 966 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, N. Je i sateTeconce ts Ney teer city Sald Sue. “Dod gast this looney town! | never seen the “Hey there! You'll rig my dander If you don't let mo “Help! Help! That dratted steam-car wagon chased beat get through! me up at & Of all the people-killers on this pesky Broadway etreet) Them horses tries to eat me. Hold ’em up—i'm Saesy VIL walk to where this lane begins—no crossin’ it for: 2 Suel me!" ° PS2EOOO4-00004696090OHHO4 CHOOO Are Women bess Honest Than Men? # By Nixola Gre ing, and a girl of this type said tho other day, when discussing her com- plicated finances: “Of course I worry about my Dilla that he had 285 petticoated debtors, and | the burden of his song was that women | have no sense of financial responsibility | and cannot be trusted to pay their having transferred the burden of her support from a father to a husband, cheerfully ‘stands off’ the butcher one week and the grocer the next that she tlous than men. ‘This ts evident from the fact which scarcely any tradesman will deny that women who work, for a living almost and genuine unco: a_womuin to term: “My dear madame, let You don’t want to be Yor again through snow and slush have some mem lite? pledged imself to more the repeal of the want your in the paper,’' |, her a would not Fee eaota Tipeek oan Pee 9 But women eal They keep me awake at night. Why, hayen't slept well for three Fronx that I owe $20 for making me a may buy things she cannot afford out of her housekeeping allowance. would learn to exercise the scrupulous economy of a French peasant if she were spend- invariably pay their bills. That tg, all women who absolutely regulate their own expenses and who, when run into @ The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. 0.099600 Sod @| 3 $ $ © 4 99OOOO0OOOOe o DEOODHTODHGDLIGGBH.GIHHHHHOTDOM eley-Smith- than the average RE women less honest than men? As a matter of fact, however, women, | Nothing is tracr than that no one/in a similar position would pocket un-) muc det A There came from Brooklyn yes-| so far as they are able and when their | knows the value of money who has not| read or cheerfully tear up. even when si > does not pay terday the wail of a bankrupt) own personally contracted debts are |worked for it except that few even of | Of course, sometines they content we clothing outfitter whose books showed | concerned, are infinitely more consclen- |these do, And the very woman who,| themselves with worrying and not pay- 8 that the threat meets with smiling ern, usually brings and that his suave | nae | The Folly of the Near Side , : i Ordinance. (@@p_ swe,” cald the Cigar Store Man, “‘that this * vag of stopping the street cars on the O. P. side of the crossing has exploded quite a lot of conversation.” | “What has been bothering me,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “is who is It? Whose bdillowy brain framed up the proposition that street cars ought to 4 stop to take on and discharge passengers with the |entrance and exit in the middle of the block? Could it |have been Capt. Piper, who always rode in an automo- bile when he had an expense account with the city? Whoever it was hasn't showed. Maybe he is waiting for a car. “One feature about this car-stopping ordinance that makes a hit with mo is the way the populace has taken fountain pens in hand and hurled letters at the newspapers. You will find, if you read the letters jprinted by patient editors, that those opposing the stoppage of cars on the side of the street closest to the motorman and farthest from the rear platform are generally persons of mild manner in their communi- cations, while those in favor of the scheme show the utmost trritation. “The near-crossing advocates accuse those who want the street-cars to stop with the platforms steps at the crossing of being foolish. hysterical ond ignorant Whenever you hear a man trying to make good on an argument accusing persons who differ with him of being asinine or dippy, let it be your cue to size up the wise pereon as a shine. The tone of every letter I have seen touting for the new car-stoppage rule shows thet the writer of it rides on the ‘L.’ “One of the arguments advanced by those in favor »|of the rule is that stopping on the crossing toward | which the car is progressing prevents accidents on the cross street. Sure! After the car stops of course it don’t have to cross the street, so there can’t be an ac cident. As a matter of fact, if the rufes of the com- pany are obeyed, all cars crossing streets should be under control, and a car is more easily handled just before it comes to a stop than just after it starts. “A big element of danger lies in passengers getting off at the end of tho car farthest from the crossing and cutting around the platform to make a short cut to the other side of the street. Cars running the other way and taking on passengers at the opposite crossing at- tain momentum from the trip across the street and the length of the car beyond the crossing and are not under control. If this don't make work for the undertaker on the first rainy day, call me a bum forecaster,” “It's funny that the Board of Aldermen held up the ordinance repealing the fool rule,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. “Maybe the Aldermen are not holding up the re- pealing ordinance,” answered the Man Higher Up. “You can’t tell what is being held up in the Board of Aldermen, and I understand the street-car people would like to have the new scheme continued, becanse it makes more trouble for the passengers.” ‘fi 6 4 An Appreciation of The Man Higher Up. . Continental Tobacco Co., 111 Fifth avenue, New York, Jan. 19, 1904, To the Editor of The Evening World: It is not often that the writer has time to correspond on {subjects that are not strictly business, but he believes it ts only fair to acknowledge the merit of the gentleman who writes “The Man Higher Up" for the evening edition of your paper, That gentleman's letters on the various timely topics are, outside of the strictly news part of your paper, I believe, the most enjoyable part. As I do not know the gentleman referred to, I trust my criticism will not be con- sidered as otherwise than disinterested, but I do not believe I should enjoy his bright remar! every evening without adding a word of appreciation. § ‘ecent article on “Mark Hanna as a Maker of President’ Is so clear and true, I have bought several copies of the paper to send to my Western friends. Please present my compliments to the author, and believe me, very truly yours, 8, E, MOORHEAD. Number on Paper Money. “If any one comes up to you and wants to bet you they can tell whether the number on any of Uncle Sam's paper money {s odd or even by looking at that part of the bill on which the number does not appear, shun him as you would the plague,” said a guest at a local hotel, recently. “Why? What ts the joke?” asked another guest. “Only this,” replied the first, “I was out this afternoon with a number of men with whom I have business dealings: We ate lunch, and then one man wanted to bet me that he could tell the even or odd on the number of any bill I had, the loser to pay for the lunch, I took a bill from my pocket, folded it so that the number did not show, and after he had looked at it he said ‘even.’ “Soon afterward I got stuck for the cigars the same way. After I had been done four or five times they explained to’ ine that all of the bills marked ‘A’ and ‘C' were odd, while those marked “B’ and ‘D’ were even. It cost about $6 to lind it out, but I guess it was a good investment at thats: It is the same on all bills. Be careful when attempting to do the work not to tako the serleg letter in front of the number but hunt for a small letter on the left-hand side of the bil" If Pills Were Poison. If Detroit's crop of pills for a single year was mado of any deadly poison one-half of them would be suMclent to depopu- late the entire globe. If the annual pill harvest of Detroit was strung on thread, like Christmas popcorn, the rope of pills would reach twice around the earth, with enough over to tle in a bowknot, If this string of pills was cut in pleces of the 86,000,- 000 women and girls In America could have a different neck. lace of pills for every day in the year, with an extra long une for each Sunday. M Detroit produces 4,000,000,000 pills each year, — Leslie’ Monthly. f Saved from Disaster, es ‘The Chinese, If supsratitious, are adrolt. It was in @ naval battle when a’ Chinese vessel wan threatened with diamant Suddenly a spirit appearedand the enemy was destroyed, "Tp whom am I indebted for this supremo favor?” asked the eo lite captain, “I am the Spirit of the Target,” replied the savior, “and when you were young you often fired at me, hut you never hit me, Hence the favor I bestowed f ot The Next Prize Story