The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1904, Page 6

ssn QATURDAY EVENTIA, YANUARY 80, 1904. eve Sh Mcatorin fubsshed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 08 to @ Park Row, New York. Hntered at the Post-Office- at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44.. NO. 18,502. THE GAS REBELLION. Robbery by gas companies is one of the accepted con- Gitions of city life, but when it is pushed to extremes the victims sometimes revolt. Such a revolution broke out some years ago. The insurgents fixed thetr attention then upon price. They demanded “dollar gas,” (5 reventually they got it, on the instalment plan. Now {ft has been discovered that “dollar gas” is a term without meaning. The bills at the reduced rate @re higher than they used to be at the old figure. The Gos Trust elmply adulterates its product and forces more of it through the pipes The customer who was formerly charged $1.25 a thousand for 5,000 feet of gas per month is charged $1 © thousand for 10,000 feet now, and he gets less value for his:$10 than he used to get for his 96.26. Hence the general-underetanding that the next point of attack must. beon the questions of quality and pres- | Sere. The trust enst not de allowed ¢o sell a compound | of-water, Texas of and air for pore coal ges. The laws | mmust reguinte the cemposition of {ts product as well | epthe price. A mffkman renders himself lable to pun- tahment when he puts chalk and water in his milk— ‘Wary should adulteration be treated any more lentently & a gas company? ‘The lawa that hamper inspection must be amended. ‘The whole purpose of the present law appears to be to @hield helpless gas companies from oppression by tyran- ‘nfeal officials. The city test ia only for street lights, and the gas must be below the standard through at least three consecutive tests, a week apart, before anything can be done about it. Bven then thé only penalty for Geteotive quality is a fine of $100. Bven if the company @i@ not care to take the trouble to furnish some pure gas nce in three weeeks to beat the inspection, it could get back s thousand times the amount of the fine from its Dublic contract alone, not to speak of tta receipts trom private customers. What is needed is a law that will enable the au- thorities to go to the bottom of things, that qwill encourage inspection every day, or every hour if neces- sary, and that will give consumers, public and private, aremedy for wrongs through their bills, 4 Choap-Gan Murdert—"Many of the gas explosions which now occur,” suid State Inspector Alexander, “and prob- ably not a few asphyxiations, are due to the bad quality of the sas which is being furnished." While the inspector ‘was speaking a ship captain in Brooklyn was dying from asphyxiation supposed to have been due to this very cause, SO THERE YOU ARE. “We are doing all we can to give good trolley ser- | vice,” sald President MoCarter of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey to the Jersey City Board of Trade. “What suits one person doesn’t sult another. So there you are.” . Sure enough, there you are. Strange that this Iuminous idea never occurred to us before! Of course, it explains everything. Some women don't like to stand on a corner for an hour In a bizzard with babies in thelr arms, waiting for a car, but others do. If you ran ears often enough to sult those in a hurry you would @isplease those who prefer the excitement of frappéd suspense. Gome people like to have cars warmed in sero Weather, but others prefer to freeze. Some like to have Cars connect with their ferryboats, but others think It fs more fun to hedr the conductor “give the bell” to pull out just as the crowd from the boat swarms through | the gates. Some like to have cars enough to hold the people who try to board them; others would rather bang on by their eyelids on the outside, or walk, especially when the thermometer ts down at the Ship- building Trust stock level. You can't please everybody. So there you are. Aa Evil of Deluy—Of the repeal of the “near-side" ordl- nance it fs peculiarly true that “if it were done * ¢ * "twere well It were done quickly.” There was a popular habit of stopping at the far crossing. If the ordinance had been repealed at once this habit would not have been disturbed, Every day's delay helps to establish a new custom, whose reversal will cause more inconventenco FOR SUNDAY READING. “T am jealous of the hour,” said Secretary Shaw, “when we shall begin to shovel dirt on the Panama Canal."". The Secretary's jealousy may be at rest. We are shovelling out the canal as fast as 3,000 pairs of arms can do it. To-morrow's Sunday World Magazine will teli' about it, illustrating the story with double-|t page profiles and bird's-eye views that will show ex-|t taetly what has been done and what there ig still to do. When -Mr. John Brisben Walker said that he bi lieved the navigation of the air would be on a com- mercial basis within twelve months he probably had in mind the wonderful developments that will be disclosed in the competition for the $200,000 in prizes offered by the St. Louis Exposition. The official plan of this un- precedented contest will be published for the finst time | ¢r in to-morrow’s Sunday Magazine. ‘They must have improved the gas," wrote Dr. D, H, Stahle, But that, it is needless to say, wasn't in New York—it was in San Francisco. esidea, vr Stablp was using the gas to commit suicide with, not to véad by, aid he wrote down all his sensations as his life ebbed away. Almost as remarkable as drinking a toast in liquid sunshine, was it not? The Sunday World Magazine tells about that, too, as well as the astounding life tragedy of Whitaker Wright, the strange case of the man who was ruined by too much money, the remark- able invention of the life-saving globe, the profoundly important discovery of a record of Christ's sayings probably antedating the gospels, and other things as | She gives him a wer % % AH, GIRLS, woULONT 17 BE A GREAT SuR- PRISE FoR You To SEE Your PEEWEE BECOME, A GREAT NAPOLEON OF FINANCE! WELL ITS NoT AT ALL I pRoBABLE.- Ive JUST HAD A CHAT With M FRIENO SULLY, THE OF THE VALUABLE INFORMATION HE GAVE ME ANO BuY COTTON THUS CLIMBING THE LADDER oF OPULENCY-ANO: SISIHILGGOS-0G4-06-90G9O0O4 PEP ODOOS3-35-S-299G6 HH OOO GSES 9SO9 GLE SSIDDO IH HOPES HOHE SPE LIGHHIIOOI IG IOHID $4 V4-HESIHG DIG ID 22S0e $O-06-066-00000060. PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1 3—JOSEPH WHITE, care of A. R. ¢Naething, No. 436 Broome street, New York City; No. 2—W. E. FER- Prize Fudge Ediforials Monday PPOEDEOLOGHHILLSOGISOERHSOIGHGOOOGIG LOCOESOSESESELIOSOSSIPODOOOO OOO OOOO OP OOOLOOP OOOO OTD The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTRRS. ® Garth, auinaker's assistant, by a yi Patr to had it not been woman had dled in childhood at a founding maylum. Dorothy living threu and thus’ deprive unleas he will ¢ Dorothy gives Mr. St fn his safe fi un iben Fairlelgh to ateal the pa: KLIN KoeR (0 Mercedes him, that a duplicate ylum's documents were In that Institution. of the a yluin and The latter at- ld man, "The assanaln ation is ween by Fath Krother of the murdered erene cantentes to the priest ter’® Ita, and’ then CHAPTER VI Facing a Marder Charge, NE priest's shout for aid ‘ol T quick response. SrA nrolane A dozen queries from hysterical ser- interesting and instructive. Bryan Wersiste—Mr. Bryan's latest explana- 3 .of his determination to wreck the Democratic party Of 16 to 1 is not that he considers the ques- int, but that if he should make the least con- Say that he had surrendered and But what difference would vants filled the room, but a hush fell as Mrs, Farleigh, a ght lounging rohe thrown on hastily over her nightgown, entered, ran forward and threw herself on her knees beside her father's body, begging him to speak to her—to look at hi ‘Thi lest lifted her to her feet, acnd- ing ntened gervant for'a doctor ay ha ry + 5. ‘< The Girl “Who did ft, uncle? Who struck him down?" whispered May Farleigh, “I cannot say,” answered the priest, his voloe stifled and faint. “Oh, if my husband were only here!" she wailed. “Why did I leave him! Won't you please have him sent for, uncle?” A word from the priest, and another servant left the house In haste, just as the hurrledly summoned doctor arrived, A hasty examination proved that life was not yet extinct. The housekeeper, a voluble woman, - of the grenadier type, bustled forward. “I was first In the room, doctor,” sho exclaimed, “I had the toothache, and I couldn't sleep, and I'a just got up to take some sleeping powders when I hear ‘| His Reyerence's yoloe calling ‘Help!’ Just ke that. ‘Help!’ says he, and"— ‘That will do, Mrs, Schurz," inter- “|posed the doctor; “we can hear your testimony later, Just now we've other it, | work on hand." He returned to his patient, A young girl who had ‘been bending over the body and who relinquished her place to the doctor gave a little cry and ran across the room, where she stooped down and picked something from the floor near the open window. It was a short steel bar, and it bore marks which clearly proved it to be the weapon with which Slocum had been struck, The finder was Blanche Slocum, Mrs, Warleigh's schoolgirl sister, a pretty, petite girl whose dainty head was crowned by @ halo of fluffy golden hair, HE An Appreciation of the Only Mr. Peewee. Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Jan. 29, 1904. To the Editor of The Evening World: Your Peewee sketches are certainly clever, timely and night to the mark. I am, however, a little surprised that the “Hvening Fudge,” after all {ts bombast about doing things original, should have the nerve to “Ikidnap in plain daylight’ your Mr. Peewee and then make siich a asillly fizzle of the Job. Your recent “Fudge” headings were terrific jabs—it's almost a shame to do It. Very truly, Cc. B. HILTON. 101 Prizes In all $500 First Prize.... (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 32) 1903.) Design Copyrighted; 1903, By The Evening World, ry » MR. PEEWEE Tries to Dethrone Cotton King Sully. + s SULLY, OLO Boy, DONT You REMEMBER ME! Ihr MR Peewes. BuY MB: 10000 BALES OF RAW. Corron FoR FUTURE DELIVERY Do You HEAR ME TALKING! HoLo IT FORA Ti S YouR RISE. PEEWEE! CR erUNGE IN COTTON You SAWED OFF BOLL WEEVIL} Lp a =n Ss or = = a i) = m < e = 5 Ge =n — o. Ge a, m 2: o ° aus >) L °Q e a PS 2. 5 Ga = 4 [=5 Ga e, mm 2 - ° ah os | ? o .-*y < 149 Broadway. gerly, and handed {t to him. With a shudder of repulsion the priest recognized it as the bar the assassin had dropped before rushing forward to make confession, man to the couch in the adjoining brary. and Fairleigh rushed tn, couch, asked his wife, hurrying to his side. “Servant? I passing the hou: battered form the lounge. ‘What has happened to him?" is regaining consciousness, They crowded about the couch. ‘The dying May bent her “Mr, Blocum," was your assailant The old wildly about’ Anas am aia Prize Fudge Ediforials Monday3 and with a final effort he forced some |, “Darling, this incoherent words through his pallid) after all our misunderstandings an@ ‘What he said wes inaudible to those who stood about him, aebching May, however, whose face was close t hel to his and who listened with straining ears, caught one word. The word was “Fairlei With a moan @ stricken animal to the foer, “What Hor husband tried to lift her, but she] | “Murderer} Fou killed my fathom Dr. Crewe meantime was directing two manservants to carry the dying Scarcely had the limp body been laid there when the door was flung open “What is it?’ he asked, his eyes rov- Ing about the group, yet falling for the moment to observe the figure on the| ‘Speak again!" pleaded Mra. Schurs, leaning over the lounge. ‘We couldn't “Didn't the servant explain to yout” wo no servant. I was on my way home. I saw a blaze of light, and, knowing what early houra Mr. Slocum's household I feared something might be the He broke off short at sight of the “Your father! he orfed, to May. room. Hush!" cautioned the doctor, “He Pugas, eyelids flickered, then opened. , kneeling to \The ‘‘Near Side’’ Ordinance and the Aldermen. Gq sum sata tuo Cigar Store Man, “that the Board of Aldermen is atill stalling on the move to repeal the ordinance compelling street cars to stop on the O. P. side of tha crossing.” “It looks funny to me,” replied the Man Higher Ure “If I waen't dead certain that every member of the Board of AMermen is on the level I'd think there was something in the proposition resembling the route to Pearl sreet. The street-car people can’t be stuck om the rule, because it delays their cars, but it would be cruel and inhuman to say that the Aldermen are holdw ing wp the repealing bill until the street-car people grease the way with the frog-skins, “The chairman of the Committtes on Railroads, Ale derman Haggerty, says that there must be a publie bearing. He ta a public servant and he don’t proposé to have any oofty goof done on the public. He wante everybody inetown to come down to the City Hall en@ explain why the near-aide ordinance is good and why iff isn’t, “Mr. Haggerty's knowledge of conditions in New York puts him in a position to dictate to the people how they shall ride on the cars or get on and off the cary He is a maa of wide experience in handling traffic an@ has made a special study of the street-car situation, having been for many years engaged in the liquor buate ness at No. 163 Avenue ©. Not a single man who hag hoisted a tall over his bar since the near-side ordle nance went into effect has made a roar about it If the patrons of Mr. Haggerty’s refined liquor store in Avee nue O do mot object to walking half-way down the block to get on a street-ear, why should anybody else That {s what Mr, Haggerty wants to know. “When Mr. Haggerty was asked to name the day) for a public hearing after the last meeting af the Board of Aldermen he said he didn’t know when it would ta held. He wants to make {t convenient for everybody—" probably on Washington's Birthday, when New Yori will be taking a rest. “I rode on a Third avenue car yesterday during tha snowstorm and it put me wise to a new hurdle in the way of understanding women. All the men that' got om the car waited at a point where they thought the reas! platform would strike, and climbed aboard as S000 a@ the car stopped. Every woman I saw with a desire to get on the car atood on the crossing and waved her muff or her umbrella at the motorman. When he came to @ full step she waded back through the snow to the plate form. The car I was on lost six minutes in two miles waiting for women to walk from the crossings to@he rear end of the car after it was stopped.” “Somebody,” said the Cigar Store Man, “told me that the Aldermen didn't want to repeal the ordinance so soom after adopting it, because such action would put a crimg in their dignity.” “That may be,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “but {f the Aldermen block the comfort of the community with their dignity for another week the people are going: to walk on it.” How to Spend a Million. I have often heard people speculate how such and such @ millionaire can poasibly spend his incoree, said a well-knowmy art oritic to a writer in London /Tit-Bits, Personally, it had a million a year I should find it the simplest matter tm the world to get through every penny of ft and yet live im my present simple style, Why, I could get rid of it come fortably in a month in cultivating a single hobby—collecting’ pictures and bric-a-brac, ‘There are heaps of pictures which you might cover twenty! deep with sovereigns and yet not produce enough gold ta buy them, and you can see some of them any day by walle ing into the Nationa] Gallery. Take that modest-looking little canvas, Terburg’s “Peace of Munster." There is lesa than three square feet of it; but, if you would buy it, evers aquare foot would cost you £3,600 ($17,500). ‘Then there ts Corregio's “Vierge au Panter,” an exquisite little painting, certainly, but you would probably cease to covet it if you were told that nothing legs than thirty layers of soverelgna; covering every square inch of it, would make it yours. Stitches of a Lifetime. ‘The other night a party was in J. Dreps's tailor shop diss eneral topics of the day, when the conversation uubject of talloring and the number of stitches required to make a garment. Mr. Dreps was timed for ona minute, and the number of stitches he made was found to be 1. ‘This makes 4,200 an hour, 24,800 per day, 21,462,000 pert year, This tallor has followed his trade for thirty years and uring that time has made over 646,860,000 stitches, ‘eg in Pink Then he looked back at his daughter, When they were alone he suid senting terrible ordeal for ya together again, “Darling, this Talgerable doubts we" — His ‘words brought her to her sensea, he repulsed Bim, look of ver her Ce. b eveeninhs ot revulsion he rev hi’ Ml itke some nis letest breath he denounc t Denounced met" sprke bewilderedly, but his fasd He. shy le. hear what you sald. Who was it that Mee ale Mantes. ‘yout 4nd tuet killed you, sir? 1 war, bee ining ¥0 believe tn vou Y; a ‘you again. an Fe Sa Sia igs aa aa ra i eatimate of you. “or the wake For the phyaitian had again pressed | your re But ‘never ce peak to meg forward to the couch, waving back the | Aever loo ‘On MY pai i denounce crny dine ReEveAte RA Fel aieain or X shall Genounee you na) the te. ig deren of ty father Now fo!" rope ano! "Dun he turn Teplied Dr, Crewe | on his heel and wi ewittly from | 1 a name of his as- vay wai stood for e full minute a th him.” joking att Fairleigh led hi the adjoining lethargieally to How to Win a Prize. WELV®P portraits will be printed with ‘Che Girl in Pink,” one with each chapter or one ‘er BAM, ing wite into . tter a . on mubmttted | gett wotiee ean tnt hoe “ee cial ot h day until-the story ends. The reader is required t@ apace provided for that purpose the names of the chu > day to day, and when the atory Is finish / portrajte and thelr names in the same envelope to nay ©, Box 23, N. ¥, City.” Don't send ca ee. No wttention will he paid to an ‘end “namon, Answers will be il F.