The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1904, Page 12

[ora PLO®PDLDOOOADL 80-566O0400000000' by the Press Publistiing Company, ‘Park Row, New York. kntered at the Post-Offtice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NOLUME 44. tee aeeeeres —___. The Most Important, Little Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, 1903.) Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Hlow the Jersey Frolley System Was Improved. LIGHT FROM A NEW SOURCE. “and Hartford, is a new Kind of railroad president. The! ¢ moveity is especially startling in the head of a corpora- Mr. Peewee Becomes a Walking “Evening Fudge.” t HEE! HEE J i, j TAKE CARE , 6 SEB,” said the Ci Store Man, “that the citizens Brera 7 nea yalvays) Heeey) ibe) punlic:te/ § AH, TOOTSIE THERES Irs afeevt Wy Now, MY GOOD eet Nou TROUSER TTT ae Honea asa gscticg testy 46 lr Gel is aie FELLOW Domr Be] sSOlt Youn TROUSER license allowing street care to run in the streets, which is a new gag on mo, because I didn't know they had street cars in Hoboken.” “Everybody in Hoboken don’t go home with a tide,® . remarked the Man Higher Up. “They surely have got street cars over there, as well os in Jersey City, West * Hoboken, Union Hill, Secaucus, North Bergen, Wee- hawken, O’Learyville and the other places where people think they are living in Jersey. They ried for etreet cars, and now that they have street cars they wish they hadn’t. FRIGHTENED! I wont HURT YOU Just BE CALM And FurRNISH ME WITH SOME IN- CIDENTS OF YouR CAREER- be THE OPPORTUNITY by Mr. Mellen has been giving the Hartford Board of J] HAVE BEEN Ne /, Yj Trade some ideas about the proper relation of corpora-| 2 FoR — THAT POO VA r SPECIMEN tions with the community. He believes that they must 3 NIGHTED _ find some way of getting over their present unpopularity. | § é IDEAL PERSON To © They must come ont into the open and see and be seen. | & hey must take the public into their confi FURNISH ME WITH/g t they want and no more, and then be pre Locat COLOR satisfactorily what advantage will accrue to the public - FoR THe NOVEL 4 are given their desires, for they are permitted to exist Z 1 AM Agour To Bet that they may make money solely, but that they may GEE! HES A SITTIN’ ON Biectively serve those from whom they derive ¢) power. ‘ WRITE. — 1 7 . Be Publicity, und not secrecy, will win hereafter, and laws SHALL Commune My FuDGE! ‘All of the street car lines runaing tuto Weehawken ‘will be construed by their intent and not killed by their wiTH HIM: and J City are owned by 5 the Pubife Service Corporation. The proper name for it is “The Public Serve Us Corporation.’ There was a time when residents of Hoboken and Jersey City could be sure that @|the cars were running without looking et the news- é |Depers. Now they have to use the telephone to find out if the power-house is in operation, and the people of Hudson County are getting wedge-shaped by natural jevolution from forcing their way into the cars. “When the Public Serve Us Conporation got fts hooks into all the East Jersey competing lines and put them under one management the people were getting a five- cent ride for five cents, and if a man rode on the care often enough he got a chance to sit down. It wasn't ‘Decessary to stand on a corner until one became an old 4 Tesident of the neighborhood waiting for a car. The service was bad enough, but the managers and employees’ 2 | Were doing the best they could. f ; otherwise yrublic utilities will be manned and operated re vognl public which created them, even though the service be "Jess efficient and the result less satisfactory from a financial _ Btandpoint. > ©The officials of the Public Service Corporation, of New | Jersey, whose outraged patrons are smashing its cars, _ $id those of the Erie, whose commuters are flocking fn mS i @roves to other roads, may appreciate Mr. Mellen’s fur- ther observation: ‘by To my mind the day has gone by when a corporation oan 4 led successfully in defiance of the public will, even ‘though that will be unreasonnble and wrong. The public ty be led, but not driven, and I prefer to go with it, and ype or modify, in a measure, its opinion, rather than be Joa from my bearings, with loss to myself and the in- “Paerests in my charge. ** hese remarks are peculiarly significant, considering their source. There ‘s no corporation that has been ‘@anaged with more hob-nalled disregard of the rights ‘and feelings of the public than the New Haven ra!lroad— ‘one that has accumulated a greater fund of unpopular dty—none whose patrons would be more ready to forsake (gh inasse for any promising competitor. Its service even yet is far from perfect, although for eome of its faults ‘the New York Central may be more to blame than {tself, ‘and its rates are still extortionate. But President Mel- Jen's enlightened words give hope that they may be “ ifollowed by deeds to match; and if they are every cor- WPoration in America will feel the effects. gonos os SAFE p §, | that outaide of the rush hours PEEWEE! passengers could get seats Oh, MR % {and that the rolling stock was kept clean, “ ‘Horrible!’ said the reorganizers. ‘These railroads ‘have got to be improved.’ “So they hunted up the worst managed system of street railroads in the world, and they didn’t have to go far to do it. They found it in the Brooklyn Botten oa Transit. Some of the bright and shining shines of the oi MR. BRYAN LOSES HIS TEMPER. ¢ and the people have been going dippy. The overdne ex * Mr. Bryan evidently feels his power slipping away of . ‘from him. His splendid digestion no longer keeps him d AREA WP 1N OUR REDTHE WL. rae - : sets ! ir He ts becoming irritable amd fil- Z 4 Wwe canes —— fae 7 to “nerves.” ‘tempered. He gives rude answers to civil questions. as in Wall etreet. When “These are symptoms well known in Soc ting * & epeculator begins to betray them his bankers ask for PIPEC OFF r : : ¥ ‘more collateral. DE RED/) pagerenheprdly = 8 Mr. Bryan used to be good-humored. He gave hard % b HEAD LINE: companies vice,” asserted the Cigur Sto “There 1s,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but the law b: t spiteful. He fought with fists, fkmocks, but they were not spi a panes seek ‘with claws. It is regrettable to observe that the im- ‘Pending collapse of his party leadership has soured his once amiable temper, but there could be no better as- -@urance of success for those who wish to see the Take Your Kisses Boiled. “Mayor McClellan offered a partial solution of the “Bransit problem in the World’s Sunday Magazine yes- terday. He walks. Blockades, overcrowded cars and dis- connected connections have no terrors for him. Every By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ‘morning he strides briskly into his office with his lungs i ‘the eustons oe full of fresh air instead of microbes, and every evening 5 Retiree, chiaren and between ‘persons he takes home a healthy appetite for dinner instead of a q fa den piraction i eeoaaee oid and Ia very lable to spread contagine O Dr. F. B. Hayni Ss tor of the Heal Minneapolis, in his report, just published, York's health experts, wh cently declared war on the microbe com. tent themselves with a denunciation the feather duster, = ‘The Western medica! expert, f fled with the abolition of « Soncsbenl article without which, unless some patio headache. The distances are so great in New York that {t 1s not jie to depend entirely on foot transit, but it is pos- 5 all Street, New York City; No. 3,1 1 ast th Street, New Yor ity; No- 4» iSwo ate. ha neat intat ot thal aonneting| $CUSHING, 203 West 120th Street, New York City. , ftort-distance traffic. Anybody in good health Hving| %600066002966060000000000< th itt ae aa 5 Be cones, Ces) ese) ot Dorineee cnet io\Pel nT ERS. IENOVEL-READING NELLIE M’GEE w« os s s s * “able to go on foot without serious loss of time. A brisk The Librarian Finds It Hard to Suit Her Taste for Romantic Literature. - two-mile walk would take half an hour. To cover the QUESTIONS, Same distance on a car would take about fifteen minutes. Allow five minutes for making connections, and you have ANSWERS. STE ay : factory aubwtitute ‘wore found, spars —— . ¢ = Y : | SSS be y ® saving of only ten minutes. Against thet think what, (ow Heifer You A S| es EY the lampetindes aon the nt bund ‘an edvantace the pedestrian has !n health and comfort,| W111 the Canal Unearth Mines? “Rot to speak ot money! On a trip of one mile the loss of | 7 in reaped Lethastreltsteh pul ‘ore adentifio readers thia time in walking would not exceed three minutes, and on question concerning the contemplated one of half a mile the pedestrian would usually do quite| work on the Panama canal: Would it le over the portrait of Coun: Potockt, strikes at the one theory warranted ts ana Gust from our lives and the cobwebs from our hearts, And while the New York officials suggest the useful but unpoetic motst mop as a substitute, the edict abolishing Kise- _ BB well as the one who waited for a car. not be well to investigate whether the ing carries with it no similar recommendation to meray. © Imagine the rellef to long-distance passengers if no gaeete 208 removed contains guld, all- Perhaps the Western Health Board thinks that with kisses, @Ble-bodied person travelling less than forty blocks| The neighborhood of silver mines oon ; vith BM rid f p |g with patent medicines, we must accept no mbtltute and us —— é t there Js no “Just as good.” Moroed ‘iis way among the strap-hanging crowds! eons 5 erelsl fesairae Se some , ©®| But after making the further declaration that “itesing ts the bane of modern civillzation and the breeder of diseases,” could not Dr, Haynes have suggested a remedial rather than -.+ a destructive measure? There is, after all, a untversal, even if unreasoning, prejudice aniong human beings in favor ot Kissing, and so long as it exists would it not be wiser for health boards to consider methods of making the kiss harm- less rather than thus waste their energies in vatn denunaia- ton and anathema? ‘When physicians united in declaring that the deadtiest dte- ease microbes swarm in drinking-water and crowd all over @ Slight Exaggeration—Even Senator Dubots, of Idaho, | PMTed feet. zB. ‘ ‘Who came into the Democratic party on the silver Jasue, Saturday. @dmits that free silver is dead, and that Mr. Bryan 1s| To the Editor of The Evening Wortds ’* Making a mistake in trying to revive it® Mr, Duboin| On wihat day of the week did July 15, @ays that free silver will have no friends at St. Louis; | 1876, fall? ac fut this ts probably an overstatement. There will surely . The Chi von. AC Re one sliver man at St. Louls, for the Democrats of| mo the Editor of the bvenne Wore Nebraska will certainly not deny Mr. Bryan the courtesy| Please answer who wen In ka football of giving him a seat tn the convention, and even if they|geme between Brooklyn High Beheol should he could get a ticket for the gallery. and the visiting players from ithe Chi-| § each other in milk they did not abolish these necessary all- —_—_——__. cago Bchoo! M. R. ments, Sut promptly filtered the one and pasteurized the An Error tn English, other. Why do they not devise some method by which WISDOM AD ABSURDUM. | To the Fattor of The Dvaning World: hygienic lovers may boll the kiss, and thus outwit and de- stroy the dendly little bacill! that lurk and leap 6n ther too sympathetic lips? Already in Minneapolis the Health Board's mandate hee divided an enraptured young man from his flancee, who, aa A result of Dr. Haynes's report, declined to kiss him, on the plea that ‘he had not been boiled." Surely before tho discussion spreads something should done to deprive the kiss of the microbe or the microbe a its fang. But in considering this interesting sclentifie prottem @ woad of caution is necessary. Perhaps love itself ts of microble 4 carious tlundor appears in a long and elaborate|, Kimlly dedde whether the verb “ia : the sentence ‘The low prices now be- Biecussion of the rapid-transit question in the Hvening| ino vied tor red hecte ie certain to Post. The writer, after producing figures to show that | discourage tmportations” 1s used oor- ithe increase in the annual number of passengers carried If ao, why? J. A. UNSWORTH. ‘Smounts to an avernge of 112,000 a day for the last five See te nerment Are ont Years, explains that this means that 112,000 more people | FEE care Were riding yesterday than the day before, that 112,000/ singular verb. are riding to-day than yesterday, that there will| a, 4, Gudger, of North Carolina, 112,000 more to-morrow than to-day, and thet this | To the Editor of The Hvening World: fy FI ag tal ly Increase has been constant for five years, Afro is the American Consul-General ied Fae Bes of pete i XU y onrry sul Pig Ot course, what the figures really show is that thero| vat ‘wise Grate nnn nara Amor Only by. psa hg 112,000 more passengers to-day than on the cor- A. G., Bchenectady, N. ¥. different degrees Fahrenhelt at which the various beelllt ting day last year. On the oF SEASONABLE, HIGH CHURCH. BOSTON LADIES, NEXT BEST THING. rivel into harmlensness can the grave danger of destroging Fe have Haig ate e sia theory nobody Ws eSe witter see ee eas “Did tt ever occur to you that news| Mrs. Rocker—I think we'd better at-| Gertrude—How do you know Mrs.| She—I wonder why they Mung that es daciline of love itself be avoided. ca “ee gore cr eeks ago, since there are ‘How at gto t fs like an egg?” tend that new church. It ts ultrafash-/Dowday makes her own clothes? Has| picture? But with a graduated scale of temperatures this gag 300, per day now, many times fapoleon Bona- ‘Full of meat, you meant’ jonable. she a sewing-woman's rorenaee?, ‘He—Porhaps they couldn't cateh the 1d he passed ond a sanitary era of boiled ictewes parte saken prisoner during bis differ-| “Wo, If it's bed it ahould be broken| Mr. Rocker—Think so? qnatiliqent—1 dont know anything about |artist—TH-Bits, Passi — t—As the ridiculous “near-| 7 PE seoraacuppy, | #ney."—Phiadeighia “Presa Mrs. Rocker—Yes, the pews rent for| her gowns Mt here Mostow Tremeiney COMPLICATED. ordinance is a legacy of the reform administration, No, 248 Gouth atreet, AhTIFICIAL HEIGHT. es much na Reandl obeee | Poxe CceeD 8IX-MONTH NIGHTS, ‘The @a4 One~I am troubled with in- t 7 ons, ahi “ml eaea Bet be restrained! qapoleon was twice taken prisoner.| “He wants to be conatderal a giant |News ‘The Greenlander—Now, I can't vote|Somnla apd cannot sleep. ‘ © expected to see the lid oe ee nt even | The first time he was sant to the tsland| 1 debate," ead one statesman. TECHNICALLY, until 5 ‘The Kuider—What ts tt, Godt or love? Cae Deca ert, OF of Biba, whence he escaped, to be re-| “Yes,” answered the other; “that’s! swmet type of man te def" The ‘Pepisren-t don't see why, The Sed One=I we “Wil admit that in this r it at least t} 4 fore night. Com- co reapec' J ¢ there Je.e: ey be eases on using aI eg ve closed the | the former, The “Oh, one of the kind you can read as for th t- Jasby eo grint.”—Chloago ‘Timea Sierald |Eierclal Tribune, interGtounta= taken about four months later and sent ‘Helena, ~ leo at.