The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1904, Page 14

all Tegalating the conduct of the corporations. at FRIDAY EVENING, } JANUARY 22, 1904. \ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Ciazs Mail Matter. VOLUME ‘44.. «NO. 15,494. HOME RULE TO THE LIMIT. ‘The Citizens’ Union Committees on Laws and Legisla- ion has decided to recommend a constitutional amend- , Ment giving to this city complete home rule in the pub- lice service, with power to provide either by direct opera- Yon or by contract for such necessities as railroads, tewers, water, gas, electricity, bridges, ferrries, docks and Warehouses. The amendmegt excludes these matters trom the general powers of the Legislature and provides that investments in public-service plants shall not be counted | th measuring the debt limit. | Of course, this does not mean that the Citizens’ Union | proposes ‘to start the city into business at once, or per- tunps even at all, in al the lines enumerated in the amend- tment. It merely means that the people of New York ought to have the widest possible powers in the manage- ‘ment of thefr own affairs, s0 that when they see @ course that it would be to their advantage to adopt they will not be hampered by outside interference. THE ws ss Iv 1S MAGHIFICENT-INSPIRING— TOOTSIE OF THE COMING GENERATION BEING FORTIFIED AGAINST THE ATTACK OF IAWGNANT DISEASE: [ THOUGHT MIGHT PROVE OF INTEREST TO You To WITNESS THE ——— For mstance, the bridge cars were managed with Great success for some years by public authority. They have been run with much less success in recent times by ‘8 corporation. We may find other places in which it ‘would be a public benefit to have a railroad line run, for @ tlme at least, by the city. Perhaps the management of the first subway system may not suit us, and we may _ ‘Wish to see what improvements could be adopted in the mext tunnel we bmild. In any case, the reserved power / Ot. operation would give us the best possible handle for ‘The people of Connecticut have full power to settle all these matte>s for themselves. Why should not New York City, with fobr times the population of Connecticut, have equal powers? i] SAFETY SECURED. ‘The crisade of the city authorities for a general re- construction of the local theatres in the Interest of safety ‘geems to have lost its impetus, but in one respect, at Teast, and that the one that The Evening World has always held to be the most important, a general reform te already in full swing. The managers have found what @eems to be a thoroughly satisfactory method of fire- ; Proofing fabrics, and are giving it a general application. The mixture employed is eaid to be so effective that cigarette paper soaked in it and allowed to dry cannot ‘be burned. Not evén a glow appears when cloth, paper or anything else is tested by fire after treatment by this process, In all the syndicate theatres the scenery, the pholstery and dtapery in the boxes, the stage and the adjacent woodwork have been fireproofed by this method, and it is believed to be Jmpossible now for a ‘blaze to start anywhere. As the process is cheap and ‘simple we may expect to see it universally adopted, and ‘when that is dorie another Iroquois disaster will be un- imaginable. Wrernal Vigilance Needed.—As long as the Legislature is in session. New York must sleep with one eye open. There is a water scheme at Albany now tpat suggests a new \{ Ramapo raid. But Ramapo could not beat an aroused public opinion even under Van Wyck, and it Js still less Ukely to be successful now, . » RMR WSE iT ek ' HOPE FOR NORTHERN COMMUTERS, ‘The General Electric Company ts preparing to equip the New York Central with motors capable of making 125 miles an hour for use at the new terminal in this city. As there would bo no object in providing a capacity that ‘was never to be used, it may be assumed thet there fs @ome intention of actually transporting passengers at that rate. Of course, trains could not go at 125 or even 100 miles an hour over grade crossings, but there are consid- erable stretches of clear track near the city on the New ‘York Central, and still more on the New Haven. All trains could run at high speed between Mott Haven and the Grand Central Station. This alone would save five or ten minutes on every run. The Hudeon River trains could make another spurt between Spuyten Duyvil and Yon- kers; those on the Harlem Division could run at the top rate from the Grand Central to Woodlawn, and If the New Haven road secured motors of similar power # could use them to their rull capacity for almost the whole of its suburban traffic. With Mount Vernon brought within eight minutes of the Grand Centra! Station, and the Grand Central brought by the subway within four minutes of the City Hall, life inthe northern suburbs would tecome one grand, sweet song. A LOCAL INDUSTRY MENACED. Assemblyman Bostwick has introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor to eell gold articles stamped with a mark representing them to be of greater value than they are. The ostensible object of this measure Is to Drotect the standard of jewelry, but it is easy to read between the lines a sinister purpose to cripple one of the chief ‘ndustries of this metropolitan city—the manufacture and sale of gold bricks. It is well known that the auredte brick of commerce 4s not in all respects what it seems to the admiring eye of the visitor from the home of the Raines law. Still, the proportion of gold to brass jn it is quite as great as in articles like the Shipbuilding Trust which may be found in the showcases of dealers of unquestioned re- e@pectability downtown. As long as Wall street is not in- terfered with, {t seems unfair to Dersecute the traders ‘who’ conduct a more modest, but not less honest, busi- “ness im front. 6f the Grand Contral Station. ‘The Iidian in the Senate,—Senator May, wi adopted member of the Choctaw tribe, proposes to pant Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a State on a pledge |» that one of thelr Senators shall always be a person of ©) indian descent, But what if the time comes when no- body of Indian descent can be found? Five-sixths of the | habitants of the-Indien Territory are sald to be white dy, Will it be, necessary to form an artifi EE rnd etn ‘turniahethe y Sac SOS SOSHEFOLEHGHSHOSE PO BGSHI HES. é $ & PRIZE PEEWEE HEAD LINES for To-Day, $1 Paid tor Each: No. 1—A. Levirson, 313 First Avenue, New York © City; No. 2-H, T. Bellew. 13 La avette LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. | « There Is No Edinon Siar, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World 5 A states that Mr. Edison has invented rocess through electricity by wihlcn he Is able to produce in the heavens a star called, the “Edison star," which | has all the appearaftce of th article. B states there is no Which t# right? b “The Hardent Punch.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Who has the hardest punch, John L. Sullivan in his best days, or Jim Jer- fries to-day? sa A Jim Corbett, who fought both men, 1s undecided on this point, but gives the opinion that Sullivan had the stronger right-arm blow and Jeffries the stronger left, ach Another Problem, — '* : ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: rs An intricate mathematical problem Was presented to me last night, After struggling in vain to arrive at a con- clusion of the same I would ask if some of your clever readers cannot ald me in thin attempt, The question as pro- pounded is as follows; “What is the third and a half of a third and a halt of lor" DAVID . 193 West Sixty-seventh e Men Carter. To the Editor of The Evening World What Js the name of the actress who first took tNe leading part in “The Heart of Ma i B. BE. W. Dbrn 1879, County Clare, 1 To the Editor of The Evening World: Where and when was George Gard- her, pugilist, born? K., J, and A, Dee, 21, To the Hditor of The Evening World: Which Is the Dec. 21 or Dec. No State J To the Editor of the ivening World: What State is the capital of the United States? A claims Maryland State, B claims New York Btate, J. M, land, Wednesday. To the Editor of the Evening World: On what day did Christmas fall in reales 1QU & ty, i 5 Ba Nae) “ “ (Originally Drawn for The To BEHOLD ALL THESE YOUNG MEMBERS) t A WONT ee TOUGH, pis FUDGE! ated also, bittle Tragedies Strikingly Told i 2 WO and Only Mr. The Most Important Little Man on Earth. Evening World by Cartoonist Eid Flinn January 31, '1903.) Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Etening World. : Mr. Peewee Gets Waccinated at One of the Schools. T am a little girl and attend Public School No. 12, Erooklyn scholars are fo be vaccmated to-morrow, and I think it would be well if Mr. Peowee got vace Yours truly, No. 94 Clinton a ——— COOOO 494-3 99O9OH OOo € Fs rey I a — AHA. YouRE (Grr: NEXT My. tine \ ae Ren, MAN! Now! Tt was A MISERABLE, CONTEM PTIBLE~ DETESTABLE- REPREHENSIBLE - DES PICABLE- JASTARDLY- COWARDLY- OUTRAGEOUS ~ Oe RAGEOUS A BHORRESCENT-PUTRESCENT> 4 PREMEDITATEDLY MALICIOUS AND GRATUITOUS All the No. 4—Bernard A- Avenue, Brooklyn. LOUISE M. BE nue, Brooklyn, n Four Words.*« HOME “ws . Peewee. Avenue, New Brighton, S. 1; No. 3—Anna Parke, 514 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn; ge ee on jooKsS KEEP E RED INK, Reilly, 85 Atlantic ee png M . | | j | | The War of the ' Health Board on Microbes, SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the . Board of Health suggests that all sweeping in hoyses be done at night.” “Wise rule!” commentéd the Man Higher Up. “Keeps the microbes under cover. Microbes are afraid of the dark. Night sweeping drags them out of their caves in carpets and rugs, and when they see it {s 66 *|dark they drop dead. When a microbe {s dead he is harmless. On thc level, if it wasn’t for the way the Board of Health looks after us we'd all be performing |duty as natural fertilizer in the graveyard section. “The Board of Haalth is spreading out {ts protecting arms all the time. Not content with keeping peroxide and other bleaghing materials out of milk and forcing barbers {9 wash their hands at least twice u day, it has Set out to’ mgplish the feather duster. “The feather duster is an incubator of germs. If you .| Were a scientist you could see the germs gamboling about on a feather duster and leaping from feather to feather in exuberant glee. You could see them playing basket-ball and hockey and holding conventions to for- mulate means and methods of spreading disease. But of course you are not a scientist, and if you saw all these Performances you would think you had the willies. “Now the Board of Health has decreed that the feather duster must go. When the housewife desires to remove the dust from her furniture in the future she must use a damp cloth. This not only gathers up the dust, but it drowns the microbes and germs. A drowned microbe cannot be resuscitated. “The Board of Health has also ‘decreed that standing on the rear platforms of street cars promotes pneu- monia. The explanation is very simple: When the pneumonia germs get on a car, of course they get on by way of the rear platform, because the front gates are closed. This.is proved by the fact that motormen never have pneumonia. And wheu the germs are on the plat- form they don't take the trouble to go inside if there are men to roost on outside. Hereafter we must not ride outside. Once more {s the microbe stung. “You must not expectorate on the sidewalk, the Board of Health says. If you do not carry an individual’ cuspidor, expectorate upon a plate-glass window. Plate gless is a, non-conductor of microbes. As soon as thé Bonfd: of Health hears about that chemist out in Mil- waukee finding 90,000,000 germs on a dollar bill we may expect an order prohibiting us from carrying money.” “Such an order, would be foolish,” objected the Ciga: Store Man. “We couldn’t do business without the frog- skins.” “That wouldn't cut any ice with the Board of Health,” said the Man Higher Up. Grau: cell A The Incomparable New York Girl By Nixola Greeley-Smith. OMB lucky girls are born in New York, others almost as lucky achieve New York, and a fow un- tamed and unappreciative daughters of the Far West have New York thrust upon them, But even the small number who come to scoff at th feminine loveliness that greets the afternoon stroller on Broad- way and Fifth avenue remain to ad- mire and imitate till they, too, add by their own attractiveness to the city’s ‘ teputation for beautiful women, ‘The most charming New York girl ts of the city which But about all women who remained here long enough to be 3 ered adopted children there fs a mark as distinct though different as the sign which Paris sets upon its daughters, ‘ It would be foolish ‘to say ‘that the New York: girl is actu- ally the most beautiful in the United States. For every mid- dle-sized town throughout the country can produce wo! @ physical perfection equal to any that New Yor {t ig undoubtedly true that she produces the boauty, and that ti sees more pretty women in his daily jaunts than he would anywhere else on earth. The New York girl, taste In dress that shows ich or poor, has an unfailing good much in her selection of a dollar own that she makes herself as in the most unh: red hoice between the best and costliest costume the lress- makers of the world produce. She tx!not loud in her clothes or manner. And perhaps her most decided asset Is her walk, which {3 always erect and almost invariably graceful. - She knows that any girl with « good skin who has a tall, well-set figure can look well on the street if she !y Lecom- ingly dressed, and that in New York at least there are many more beauties of the sidewalk than of ‘the ballrom, What distinguishes the New York-girl above ull else from the woman of other cities is her repose. She 1s, even in this, superior to the women of Boston or Philadelphia be- cause she dous not tale herself so sertously, and to the per- haps more natural. Western beauty {nasmuch as she is not 80 exuberant. i “You New York women are just clotheshorses," said a Western young woman, a critical and somewhat flamboyant flower of California civiljzation, to a New York girl the other day, “You never séem to be doing anything, Out West a girl has always to be dancing or singing or telliny a funny story. I don't believe you ever think, “And I'm quite _ sure you never feel."” ‘And perhaps froin the point of manner thus ériticised the New Yori git] sruiled slightly as sho watched the Western Venus bounding about the room and admitted that perhaps she never did. a f Dined at 11 A. M. Englishmen in Queen Elizabeth's time dined at 11 A, M. ' and Shakespeare rang up the curtain at the Globe Theatre at 1 P. M., the performance ending between 6-and 6 o'clock. By the time of Charles Il, dinner had advanced to 1 o'clock and the play began at3P. M,,as Pepys records, A century”, later Horace Walpole comp! ed of dimer being as late 1 o'clock and evening not beginning unttl 6 o'clock. Up to the middle of the last century the theatres opened at 6.30, dinner being proportionately earlier, The Next Prize Story The Girl in Pink Will Begin Monday’ ' IN THE EVENING WORLD