The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 8

YANUARY #2, 1904,’ World @ublished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to @ Park Row, New York. Mntered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Ciass Mail Matter. SSS NO. 16,495. VOLUME 44.. THE ELSBERG BILL—OR WHAT? Last year the Hisberg Rapid-Transit bill was pro- 4 posed by the Citizens’ Union and defeated by a coalition | Between Tammany and the Low administration. Mayor ‘Low admitted that some legislation was needed, said \that we ought to take’ another year to mature twell-considered plan. The year has passed, the alternative plan has not been matured or apparently it, and the Citizens’ Union has brougt egain. The Low admin 1 from tho situation and Tammany h gponsibilities. dire Grady and Sullivan going to repeat their ob- structive tactics of Inst year, or will it be recognized that the subject of rapid transit fs not one to be trifled with any longer? The 1 indefinitely by a policy of « must offer something in its place, or at least etate the! « Objections to 1t, if any exist. Tiius far none have been) 4 @dvanced. None were advanced last year. fwas denounced as “ill-digested,” dering,” but no attempt was made to support theso epl- thets by specifications. Mayor Low proposed an alterna- tive measure, the Bostwick bill (pelled to’ withdraw under the Insh of an ind lie opinion, Has Mayor McClellan any destre to try his ‘hand at proparing an admin{stration measure, or is he! ‘ Willing to unite with those nvho have been studying our| ‘ transit neéds for years !n pushing tho Elsberg bill? fnherited its re- rg bill 1s not to be blocked] ¢ inaction. Its opponents The measure | “crude” and “blun- which he was com- SAND FOR ICY STREETS. The Society for the ention of Cruelty to Antma istributed eand-bags yesterday to mitigate the dange: of our skating-rink street pavements, and when these Were not to be had drivers levied on the ash-cans on the sidewalks, Presi Pic. A says he has plenty which he will glve to dri ers if they “will call for it Is not all this sr primitive for the greatest city of the western world? Why fs {t not as much the busi- ness of the municipality to keep etreet pavements | ‘ safe as it is to lay them In the first place? Why should rly keep on hand a supply of clean, -sand, with spraying machines for spriniling 1t| « nt Haines, of the 8. Over the’ ngphalt on such days as we have had this fveek? They do that In Paris—why not here? CAN AUDIENCES BE TRAINED ? 3 ontemporary, dive ing the question of fire drills! for theatrical audies s how such assemblages can hen th Very « te trained w every night comps d of differerit people | ‘ Although any given person in | « in the same theatre again, he | < re. Audiences shift, but the| ¢ ns fairly constant. And if spectators to go out by the oplo would form the habit and would happened to de. Women have been trained tc ie off their hats in theatres—why not to follow the lines of least resistance on leaving, instead of crowding to the points of g st congestion? Queer Valuess—Do New Yorkers who buy autographs have standards ditt from thowe of the rest of the com-| ‘ally true that a letter of a prince to P| 1 here at four times tM eetience may not he nearest exits * follow It they os much in ¢ Washington and| ‘ nearly four times as much as an important historical] < document fo the handwritin James Monroe? At an suction on Thursday a characteristic letter by Horace, ? Greeley brought (, an autograph meanuncript of a grent wpecoh by Dantel Webster $5, and a letter from King Hdward, then Prince of Wales, to Mrs, Langtry, $90, By the way, how did Albert Edward's private notes to the Jersey Lily happen to come on the market? AMAZING NEWARK. Can it be that within nine miles of New York there 4s a spot where cooks can be criticised with impunity for their methods of work in thelr own kite! s incredible, and yet the court records of Newark put the fact beyond doubt. A woman of that town objected be- cause her cook wore long trains in the kitchen and washed the dishes Most people in this region would be ¢ It seems. |The Black Arrow---Robert bouis Stevenson’s Best Heart Romance. 5 Wi t their dish hed ad enoug at all. “We di 1 in our kitchen,” said ithe astonishin 1. With bi ok retorted that she “had deen brow proposed to lve up to] her bringing up.” Of cour sh Of course sh did. What woman k Mead would presume to guestion im to lady: hood? All that in ed in t the world Is |t that the Indy In the kitchen wil the work for which she cond She may | do it in a court train {f that be her royal pleasu FOR MENTAL IMPROVEMENT. Tt was thought remarkable when Charles M. Se ‘ but what | nt of becomin: at forty; thit ¢ Apostolic after the to. Me Cardinal's described by + Greein - Seven of ‘Reademy-on the i c York. our of |; ‘them succeeded here 1 seventeen have failed. | > Bwenty- miers of tho same class, les& ambitious Bhd opparently nat bright, stayed at home. One cf hese haz failed and twenty-tive ae @ moral in this story, and the ~ tells what it Is Mere will be other curious and Interesting matters Ho read about to-mn The man who has been in Ay a hundred railroad wrecks, four of them in one the immigrant honsemaid who married her million- ibe employer; the blind Justice of tho United States | ime Court; Mayor McClelian as a pedestrian; the won a sult against the Pennsylvania Railroad Pat Sheedy as an art connoisseur, and May swimming In lee-water are e succeeded, There | ¢ World Maga row, r bs Mr. Peewee Shows Miss Sixfoot How to Dance the New Peewee Lope. 176 ENTIRELY i Teo ACROBATIC FU0CES FIRST PACE THE ONT ACE THe NO ORGINAL, PEEWEF PRIZE HEAD LINES for To-day, $1 Paid fee Each: No, 1-DOLLY RING, 151 East 43d Street, New York Ci 2@WM. H. HANNERS, Port Jervis, N. Y.; No. 3-MINNIE HERRMANN, 3 East 118th Street, New York City; No. 4-THOMAS 14 East 8th Street, New York City. o The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Little. Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, 19032 Deogn Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebentng World, You witt OBsERve How exrremety (AHEM!) - J icur AumostT SAY, CHILDISHLY SimpLe, It 1S! WATCH ME CLOSELY LEST YOU Miss SOmE or ITs Most GRACEFUL CHAR- ACTERISTICS — 11 dust FAIRLY CARRIES ME AWAY = zy SouLD FLY: HEARD OF TH! SaQciETY RAGE iN THE CHeREAN ARTS Meares! CALLED THE PEEWEE (Aven!) Lope— NAMED IN bid enbene ISTINGUISI Sear onli= YES,GIRLS, IT PAINS ME: TO ARROGATE To MYSELF THE AUTHOR= SHIP OF THE NEW: NoE (AHEM!) = BUT "mY RIGHT FOOT IS AISY, ap 1s REALLY THE my Lert Foor 1s CRAZY: PRODUCTION 0 , £0 Genius- SHALL) | UNAIO! You How To WE NEVER CouLD | Do THAT MR. PEEWEE! bear! DEAR! HE MUST HAVE DOESN'T HIS HEAD LOOK Swe! DANCE. OVER, MR, PEEWEES This 13 NOT OUR peeWer pace SEBOUR DIRS Hi SYNC ab is Lord Poxham was in @ place of honor on | form Dick un “I gave you fifty Innces, sir,” he said. “mt ndding, ‘Shelton, ye may go." "Stay!" youn, me, ‘Sear .PSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. learny that f Brack; th natn = ‘Sir | Ming vis father'n death, Kill the tad, Joanna comes two plight thelr troth nthe | huth twice manfully served mi CHAPTER VI The Last Arrow. Dick told Joanna ta, They neared and to ther surprise | house ablaze with leht elf hud just arrived and was supping with they wont al f the day's 6 with his good will, was re them, ek sat leaning upon one hand and terrifying countenance, Gloucester, * asked Richard, “Have ye el's head?” replied Dick, stoutly a qualm at heart, ‘1 wood fortune to re- y command, T have been, beaten." on him with a in that frown of preferment atan end. But fdabl Ar ade no reply. fs well.” sald Glouc er at last, said Lord Foxham. “This ). | of tron 1! 3 No. 2— URULL, The Rich Man's Coachman Is pe Omniscient. SEB,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the coachmen’s Black Hand Society of Chicago is threatening to make public some tabasca stuff about the Four Hundred out there un« less the prosecution is dropped on a coachman accused of trying to blackmail one of the leading families.” “It’s a four-tlush move,” asserted the Man Higher Up. “Not that the coachmen haven't got the goods. If the average Chicago coachman could write anything but. an order for ieed he could dish wp a book that would Jerk Anthony Comstock out of a sick bed. The money of many of the Chicago society leaders is so new that they can’t refrain from being familiar with their ser vants and letting the coachmen in on little affairs that ought-to be kept under cover for the relief of the over worked divorce courts. “But the coachmen’s organization wouldn't dare cut loose with a line of revelations. In the first place, the newspapers wouldn't print them, because that sort of stuff is dangerous in type; and, in the next place, the graft would be spoiled. If Chicago got a hunch that its private coachmen were suitches for the spread of scandal they would all be out of jobs and the Four Hundred of Porkville would be riding in the street« cars—as many of them do now. “We haven't got such a long edge on Chicago at that. The private coachmen of New York are walking vaults of scandal. In digging out the inside of rumore with a bad odor they have the private detective agencies beaten to a froth. Many is the coachman who has helé up @ Swell society matron, or maid, or millionaire, and nobody knew anything about it but about 2,000 other » | Coachmen. “The New York men who drive cabs for the rich | have an irregular organization that is closer than the bark on a tree. It is hard for employers who are not on | the level to dodge them. If a woman takes a pubdlio oa she is likely to hire it close to Fifth avenue, and the man who drives it never rests until he finds out who she is and whom she met. He proceeds to pass this in- formation down the line, and it gets to the coachman of the family. That is why so many coachmen and foot- men in New York practically run the households they work in, have fat bank accounts and send their children to boarding schools. “A gang of coachmen sitting around a table loaded: with highballs oan take the lids off more magnificent homes than amy other class of men. If you don't believe it, find out where they hang out, get next to one or two of them and buy a few drinks. They'll do the rest, and you'll consider yourself lucky that the only car- Tiage you ever rode in was one following a hearse at @ funeral.” “If people cai’t be on the level,” announced the Cigar Store Man, “they shouldn't let their servants know about it.” “Of course they shouldn't,” answered the Man, Higher Up; “but you'll find that nobody can get off the’ level without letting somebody know about it who is’ going to squeal or shake down sooner or later.” Cupid’s Tickef-of-Leave Man. ‘ By Nixola Greeley-Smith. - IL other words the lucky convict of matrimony whom death or divorce has released from bondage pending goud be- havior—is the immediate hankering he iscovers for the once irksome slavery and the strange fatality which leads him back to it. Perhaps from the same compelling in- stinct that is sald to drag the murderer back to the scene of his crime and some- times prompts him to re-enact its every harrowing detail, the released married 66 OOO @ 00006909 DOSDO9OS9G9 9990009 00H999-0-900H: HE most remarkable thing about mata?” “lL pratse the saimts, my lord,” Dick, “she fs in this house.” “Ia tt even so? Well, then, my lord the duke,” resumed Lord Foxham, “with your good will, to-morrow before the army maroh I do propose a mar And with these words the knight turned and began to move off under the trees, Dick watched him with strange- ly-mingled feelings, as he went, swiftly and warily, and ever and again turn- ing @ wicked eye upon the lad who had spared him, and whom he still sus- in his bosom, as if to selse a hidden weapon, steadfastly awaited his ap- proach. “Well, Dickon,” said Sir Dantel, “how 1s it to be? Do ye make war upon the fallen?’ “I made no war upon your life,” re- Black Arrow fellowatip is broken. They that live shall come to thelr quiet amd end, in Heaven's good time, for said Bilis,’ sought for ft greedil “Nay—self-detense,” replied the knight. “And now, boy, the news of this battle and the presence of yon crooked devil here in mine own wood have broken me beyond all help, I go to Ifolywood for sanctuary; thence overseas with what I can carry, and to begin life again in Burgundy or France." “Ye may not go to Holwwood,” said went a thicket, strongly matted witn Green ivy, and, even in tts winter state, impervious to the eye. Heret, all of & sudden, a bow sounded lke a note of music, An arrow flew, and with a Great, choked cry of agony and anger, the Knight of Tunstall threw up his hands and fell forward in the snow. Tiek bounded to his side and raised him. His face desperately worked; his ter. befitted her sex, to uy ye so? orted Lord Foxham. “I did myself, and for good service. dub him knight,” said Gloucester, “He It is of hands, {t {9 @ man's mind at he lacks. Ite will not rise, Lord Foxham, ‘Tis a fellow that will fight indeed bravely in a mellay, but hath not shrewdness enough nor hard- tt ia. this t when Lora ‘Hoxhin j affirmative, " he asked; noe va. ed in oi e upon "Ye are fan ee ely as they tell me, d a favor for 0 said at last, “It is black,” replied Dick gravely. Ard then, before he could add one word, a desperate seisure of pain shook the wounded man from head to foot, so that his body leaped in Dick's support- ing arms, and with the extremity of that pang his spirit fled in sflence. Wichard turned and dacountered Bilis Duckworth. “Richard,” he sald very gravely, ‘ heard you. Ye took the better part and ‘LE doom you not,” returned Richard. “Ie it so please you to set your valor against mine come on; and though I fear it be disloyal to my party I will take tho challenge openly and fully, Agnt you with mine own single strength and call for none to help me, So shall avenge my father with a perfect con- science.” “Ay,” sata Sir Dantel, “Nay, he 1s a brave lad—I know it," sald Lord Foxham,! “Content ye, then, Sir Richard, 1 nave compounded this affair aud to-morrow ye shall wed.” ‘rhe next morning Dick was afoot be- fore the ‘sun, and having dressed him- self to the best advantage, with the ald of the Lord Foxham's wardrobe and got good reports of Joan, he set forth on foot to walk away his impatience, ‘How 80?" he asked, yea naked, hare lord, For Sir Richard} before night, ell you fell you plain “f ask no more of Heaven, than but to dle chard’s’ titned Joanne, ©" Wchard’s m “Look ye at that, lord, Gloucester, turnin; Fo “Here be 6 pair for youre a in the chancel they ing, attended by a few young se *y' have a long His thoughts were both quiet and| sword against my dagger.” call 0) happy. His brief favor with the duke] “I rely upon Heaven only,” answered | parioned; I took the worse, and there they” came forth again, he could not find it in his heart to serious, into the frosty Diok, casting his sword some way be- hind him on the snow. ‘Now, if your Ml-fate bids you, come; and, under the pleasure of the Almighty, I make my- self bold to feed your bones to foxes.” ‘7 aia but try you, Dickon,” returned the knight with an uneasy semblance ugh, "I would not spill your Ught, the long 1) = ght, Arad mourn; with Joan te wife, and my Lord Foxham for a faithful patron, he looked weeny the Deke ot Glorees most happily upon the future, and in was unfolded and began the past he found but little to regret. ‘As he thus strolled and pondered, the solemn light of the morning grew more ear. He turned to go home, but even he turned his eye lighted upon a (igure behind a tree. “Stand!” he erled. ‘Who goeet” The figure stepped forth and waved its hand like a dumb person. It was arrayed like a pllgrim, the hood lowered over the face, but Dick in an instant ster's “ir,” ald Richard. “I will prey for you, indeed; though bow I may prevatt | befo I wot not. But if ye have ao long pur- sued revenge, and find it mow of such fa sorry flavor, bethink ye, were it not | Kineton well to ,pardon others? Hatch—he te| other side dead, poor shrew! I would have spared] merriment, to @ botter; and for Gir Dandel, here lies nis | “mid the soundh body. But for the priest, if I might | continually moving i Cw i anywise prevail, I would have you let ts \ooked, with aver srowine a bal h other's oyes, hg MpSonceforth the aus ana blood “Go, then, ere it be too late,” repiied long-suffering. Hind but our places been reversed, I should have been bound hand and foot some minutes past.” & man likewise had a charge from Ttmay be he hath better sped, Ghalton, heve-ye found the Be ee A flash came into the eyes of milis| “rhenceforth the dui an Duckworth dwelt” aber he said, foro Sore Chk Noes beh Dickon, I will go," replied Sir Daniel “When we next meet, 8 abatt Jeans con recognized Sir Daniel. * He strode up to him, drawing his “the devil is still , Gut heat reali the’ fileth nevermore—the and for yourself, go where your better fortune calls you, and think no more of church of Holywood, when Richara Duke of Gloucester, his brow already heavy with cares, crossed thelr path lowered, How it Tae ness of heart, Mowbeit, if he ts to] Pick, whole body was shaken by contorting| {cred you And erent age 88 became marry, marry him in the name of Mary| ‘Ye doom me,” sald Sir Daniel g100m- | gasms, x tage T and be done!” fy. “Is the arrow black?” he gasped. Thad rather eet , ad: ly, he will die Sir Sich wit" xham. men; and les of the army were al- the road: ban or And ti oop by. the green man almost inevitably returns to mat- rimony. ery woman knows that it is infin itely harder to lure a bachelor into, the matrimonial noose than it is to lasso the most festive and experienced widower or divorcee, In fact, no effort at all !s necessary to capture one of these tioket-of-leave men, They go about seeking by whom they may be devoured, They actually want it to happen, Once released from the chains that the years of captivity have lined their faces and furrowed their souls they do not know what to make of their long-wished-for frecdom—except to got rid of it. They are utterly miserable until some charita- bly disposed woman with no visible means of support and no dexire to look for any takes pity upon thelr forlorn condition : atl ripe riage. ‘This young squire’— plied the lad; “I was your true friend| pected. About 9 in the morning Lord Foxham | ind agrees to accept a life mortgage on their salaries or banig “Young knight," interrupted GHouces-) until ye sought for mains, but ye have) There was upon one side of where he) Was leading his ward, once more | accounts. } is dressed ai the] This woman need not be pretty or charming or amiable, ‘Though much sought after in a first wife these qualities are altogether superfiuous in a second, of whom it Is required only that she be willing. Indeed, men who exercised the most fastidious discrimina~ tion in the selection of thelr first wives, and even then were none too pleased with them, frequently marry for the second time women whom they would not have allowed the partner ‘| of thetr youth¢ul Joys and salaries to engage as cooks. ‘A small number, to be sure, really profit by experience andy bring as much judgment to bear upon the choice of a second wife as they do to the purchase of their ties or sticks, ‘But the great majority plunge into the matrimonial mael- stroin a second time quite as blindly as if they had never been there before. Why They “Turn.” Bright colors assumed by maples, sumacs and ampelopsia during the autumn months are the result of the oxidizing of the color compounds, or color generators, of the leaf cells, Long-protracted cool weather is most favorable ta the production of autumn tints, and slight frosts that are not severe enough to kill the cells hasten the display of beauty by producing an enzyme that brings forth the bright purples, oranges and reds, Leaves containing much tannic acid never give bright autumn tints, while those con- taining sugar give the very prettiest. and the lord, re- said ait $500 in Prizes THE GIRL IN PINK The New Prize Story Will Begin in Monday’s Evening World \ of 4 yA ’ | | | eS eee es