The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1904, Page 10

riety ttre UTED ETT ” “MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1904, o en w THE .» EVENING # WORLDS # HOME # face a oR ete rte Pre a Ml cS acre ee nate MAGAZINE # | « 5 Published by the Press Publishing Compan: Wark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44,.....500 sseeeseereeeeeNO. 16,504. THE END OF THE ROPE. | Those theatrical managers who mistook Mayor Mc-) “Mlellan’s consideration for indifference or weakness have ‘earned better now. In a letter bare of every polite dis- guise the Mayor tells the proprietors of nineteen play- houses that they have abused his confidence by breaking their promises to make the alterations declared by the| ‘ Fire, Health and Building Departments to be necessary for the safety of thelr audiences, and notifies them that | unless the work is begun in good faith by midnight to- morrow night he will use his full power to protect the | « public interests, and that for any losses they may suffer they will have only themeelves to blame. ® Mr. McClellan knows that in this stand he has the solid backing of four million New Yorkers. In his deal- ings with the managers he has carried leniency to the| { last permissible extreme. The only complaint the pub- lic has had to make of him heretofore has been that he has been too considerate of business interests in a case in which nothing ought to be allowed to weigh against; human life. The Mayor promises now that the names/ of the delinquent theatres, if any still hold out, will be) published on Wednesday morning. When that is (hits the official order to close the doors will be a superfluous! « formality. The manager who allows his house to get! on that list will find his company playing to his own! 4 ushers. | > | oo ee pees FOR HONEST GAS, It is never safe for a corporation that depends upon | the public for its living to rob its patrons openly and) insolently, however well protected !t may seem to be! behind legal intrenchments. Quiet larceny may be car-/ tied to great lengths, but when a bandit holds up the community at the point of a pistol and asks what it in-| tends to do about it, the discovery Is often made that a good many things can be done. | That law limiting the ‘tests of the quality of gaa to ome a week and making three succéssive deficiencles | ‘ necessary before a fine of $100 can be imposed looks like | 4 triumph of ingenulty. But what lawmakers can do law-| makers can undo, Even under the present statute there 3 is nothing to prevent the experts of the Department o | | | TIME FOR mt ‘Water, Gas and Electricity from making dally tests, not | Patel eta lles for the purpose of assessing the ridiculous $100 fine, but | MUROERERS to establish a record that would form a basis for pri- CRIMSON. vate resistance to extortion, as well as for better legis- Bee lation. It has been found that in the present weekly inspections the quality of the gas sometimes falls below the standard by almost three-candle power, but enough pure gas is usually pumped in on the third test to bring up the average to the required figure. That scheme could not be worked if there were a public record for| { every day. There are various other things that can be done| « under the existing laws, and Mayor McClellan's lively interest in proposed legislation shows that he intends to test what can be done, if necessary by changing the laws. It is believed by good authorities that the com- panies in the trust have forfeited their charters by their combination, and that these forfeitures can be enforced in court. It is also believed that consumers who refuse to pay excessive bills can get injunctions forbidding| the trust to take out their meters. But additional legis-| islation is plainly needed, and it ought to be prepared! by a body especially charged with the study of the sub-) > dect. . : ‘The Miller bill provides for euch a body, in the form of an investigating commission, to be appointed by the Mayor, with authority to give public hearings and recommend legislation. This bill will be considered in committee to-morrow, and !f suffering New Yorkers will make their voices heard it will be passed. AND WARM? MAY STILL BE -98-83-248-¢ $$1 paid for eac Mayor MeClellen’s Tarn.—Gov. Odell says that Mayor Mo. Clellan may have all the power he needs to deal with the gas question if he will ask for !t, Speak up, George! THE REAL TROUBLE IN THE SCHOOLS. ‘The present strained relations between Comptroller Grout and the Board of Education ought to fix public attention upon the management of the echoola’ When that is done it will be realined that there is something amiss more eerious than the question whether a few hun-| ( dred thousand dollars can be shifted from one part| ‘ of the budget to another. There is something radically ‘wrong in the whole system of education here, and the| ¢ ‘waste is one not of hundreds of thousands, but of mill-| ¢ fons, And the money is the smallest part of the loss. ‘The overshadowing wrong ia the cost in the health, the minds and the lives of the children. We have allowed a succession of theorists to stuft| > the public school courses with eupenfuities until a child| who conscientiously tried to do all the work assigned would graduate into softening of the brain. Fortunately most ohildren havo a healthy aversion to study, and] 4, contrive to slide through with nothing worse than the| ® ‘xs of the mental training thet the schools are supposed ‘to give them. After eight yearn of pumping into their heads bits of all the arts and sciences, from geology to ‘gewing (think of that for American toys!), they leave the grammar grades incapable of making out a Dill or ‘Writing @ letter in decent English. . - Wahappily there are others sureed with more alert > — @ ‘Hey, stop that car! 1 : ride! Vhat's that? stop on this side ah ‘@ainds and more sensitive consciences, who strain like 4 horses at the plough to pull the loads pied up for | net “He and 1 ‘by unimaginative mendarins, and they work, some Correct. point of mental and physical breakdown and ven to that of suicide. This sacrifice of the in- and not the question of the waste of a few here and there on school sites or unnecessary ds the thing that really demands the attention Which fs correct, “I and or “him and I did it"? A Rogues’ Gallery To the Editor of ‘The Evening above | $8DODODO9LHODODH4DODOLPHDOOODOOO HOO ‘I must come over there, you don't >PLDDIDDIDADS DOPOD DOOMED O GGT HIDE ‘To the Daltor of The Fvening World Jf @ person is arrested on suspicion, en to Headquarters and his photo- raph jaken, and he is they declared | the The Most Important Little Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, 1903.) Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening World. Mr. Peewee on a Crimson Trail Goes Sieuthing for a Gory Crime. MATTER 2 MURDER! THATS IWHATS THE MATTER. po You S&E THOSE INNOCENT LOOKING RED SPOTS ON THE SIDEWALK § NO ONE BuTA Man oF My GENIUS ogc PICION THAT THOSE INOBTRUSIVE SPECKS (OF FED Pont, TOA Gory CRime! 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Take our THINK cure { Obesity and Become al Skinny Intellect. ‘What happened? lust when he was ai restored hs s throne he dled @ miswette death. you want footstops; and lo of fatness? ree Physical culturists tent you to They tell you to ride om horse-| sleep tess, back, But YOU. PAT MAN, who honest workingman, Ci [| Tus wuxuryr” “AN You wo! You can this Ms Wo will teit ee “ as reducing) =~ WEAR CORSETS! And think youd tink ti you got t care any oe Mo] Serore: Oo O9299490099399-09809000-06 2 1367 Broadway, Joslin, No. No. 2—F. H. Meeker, No. Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 3-J. Macon street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘ve waited here an hour to get a > SASSY SUES By the Creatorof “Sunny Jim’ She Baffles the Near-Side Law “B “Wal, now, I swan! sech durn fool rules! through all that slush! An’ stan’ with all them trucks, an’ risk my-life! O tush! DIP 9F-9O40O9O0O0994O.O104-000O04 OEF4OEOG.4-99O4005 What, wade PEPPDDD FDT-H4-9-90T4 O5H99H095HGH0HO909H6 HSS G5-66 8G: 2G9EH9 OE “Tl plant myself right here—you engineman! you' get a whack! You got to stop—or murder me—for Susan’s on your trac! I say, 2 a POODOLDDHDEDHHDPHHHHHD Dia It” Teyinnocent, is hts photo put in the Rogues’ Gallery? If not, what is done ‘o it? Cam that person get his photo him did tt," | back? ANXIOUS, Le. Uf the person ts photographed by the Query, poilce in the Interest of justice the ple ture may be retained in the collection at Headquarters. Though Mo@neux was acquitted of the charge of murdor Court of Appeals refused 7 Spear one ee F World: SOE Mar Ray LETTERS, Sd QUERIES 2 AND # ANSWBRS. pligation to have his picture removed from the so-called Yea. To the Editor of The Evening Wortdt If my sister marries will her bus- band be my brother-in-law? Yes, in 1886, Ag Ge To the BAitor of The Evening World: 0d bis ap.! Did President ‘Roosevelt ever run tor! euetom wille ving i the West ¢o| fect 4 Mayor of New York City? If so, who,send them to the workkouses or other were his opponents and in what year? | institutions where prisoners might en- 3.G. | Joy them. Mrs, PAUL. Any Hospital Will Be Glad to Re-| Report to Aullding Department. cotve Them. | To the Editor of The Evening World: To the Editor of the Evening World: jceelnnia. tenant in @ three-story apart- Where can I send @ lot of magazines | ment-house, with no fire-escape or any (all of best kinds, and none over three | means of escape in case Of fire, I would or four’ months old)? It had been my/|like to know where to report this de- atime mceetineen ce § Or Phil b Rogues’ Gallery. The Question - of Corporal Punishment. 3 —___— jU° SE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the Broolt- I lyn school teachers would like to have the privilege of walloping fresh kids amidships aw , thereabouts.” “It's a 60 to 1 shot they don't get the chance,” replie®? the Man Higher Up. “They look like they had the raf) ¢ now, but wait until the mothers’ clubs get busy on thé proposition. The mothers’ clubs know all about ham dling kids, most of the married women in them having no children of their own. As for the unmarried clu® women, they have got the child question down to @ point ‘where they can tell the answer with their eye shut. “The women’s cluba brought about the scream the® abolished capital punishment in the schools. An active club woman don’t have much of a chance to keep case on her own offspring, so she butts in to run the kt@ output in general. The mothers who have to spen® twenty-four hours a day looking after a crop of young hopefuls never raise their voices in pubifc advising the ' men of the world how to run anything from a kindes» garten to a garbage reduction plant. It keeps them busy removing dirt from the maps of the juniors an@ trying to keep alive. “My experienco with the half-baked kid of New Yor® of to-day leads me to believe that frequent and vigorous application of a club to that portion of his anatomy sit uated about half-way between the ground and his hat, aft, would do him a whole lot of good. Many of the schoolboys I stack up agafnst have the manners of @ truck-driver, and thelr morals are badly sprung. Viv c Une 2 ‘ :|The Girl That's Good to Her Mother | “Training a boy is a whole lot like training a colts S You have to treat him kindly, but you have to make ‘/ | him understand that if he don't do what you want dong ; ho is going to get hurt. Moral suasion with a naturally =| obstreperous kid is of no more use than the application of mental suggestion on an overlue note, kid who is wise enough to know that by keeping his top i to the mark he will slide along easier won't get pune ; ished whether there {fs a ruie allowing teachers to chase tise pupils or not.” ' ; “Wouldn't it be dangerous to place the power a | chastisement in the hands of school principals indie |. y oe in) “If the rule prohibiting corporal punishment fs re 1 scinded some of the principals in this town are due t@ get their blocks knocked off.” t By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “\y- }.' HEN a queen like you rm, ¢ \ us with an also-ran like hen = | So the festive and nonchalant “Ki@ Garvey,” in Augustus Thomas's comedy of “The Other Girl," disposes of tha - | claims of the young woman who, am cording to the point of view, is mord j or less than just pretty. ' i) sweet and “amiable is seldom very, pretty, and that the girl of striking beauty has few excellencies other tham her surface perfection. As a matter of fact, no woman is thoroughly, beautif@® unless she possesses the very ualities that give the girl who “A boy full of natural ginger has got to collide wit®l criminately?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “W \the girl that's just good to hew | Off the stage, there is a very general ja just good to her mother her reputation for is ot the worst of it once in a while or he gets spolled. The “I think it would,” responded the Man Higher Up mother tries to foul the winner.” Idea that the wom: who ts good an@ disposition, and no woman, whatever the irregularity of h features, can be ugly if she has sweetness, intelligence what the French call temperament. eae Or perhaps it would be truer to say that one may be beawy ‘ ttful without them, but not a beautiful woman, for there an Vv doubtless many two-legged animals without feathers of thd female persuasion who would win on points in @ beauty cone test, ‘and who have no other qualities to recommend them, | But why call them women? The very word suggests genties | neus and sweetness and tender strength and should not bi applied indiscriminately, but won by merit, just as a mag ! wins the hearty indorsement of the world when it says 2 him: "He {a a man!" ‘ ‘The girl who 1s just good to her mother ts good to every body else and consequently merits the title. Her very worl anhcod makes her beautiful—that ts—oh, there is no denying {tit does ff she has a good skin. For even a; Cecilia has to prove everything good about herself if s has a murky complexion, It is not intended to introduce being good to one's moth: in conjunction with a face brush as the latest beauty cu For the qualtties of thoughtfulness” and gentle courte: which distinguish this girl are not to be cultivated succes! fully. It ts far easier to remove a bump on one’s nose or train an obstinate eyebrow 1 © aroh of beauty than is to eradicate the deeper blemishes that may obscure ‘ beauty of mind or soul. . However, the girl who is good to her mother has usually ® good kin, for a good skin means good health and goamt heaith means good nature. If beauty {8 only skin deep ft ts therefore deep enough, and there was wisdom as well as venom in the retort of @ pretty girl who, when tho proverb was quoted to her by ay “Then you had better have yous ugly and envious womai self skinned at once." The Suicide Rate. n New York stands fifth in order tn the “‘sulcide list.” Chts cago {a third in percentage In this list of fifty prinetpal Amens ican cities compiled to show the number of suicides come mitted during the decade from 1892 to 1901, and during ‘the year 1902, St. Louls heads the list. Fall River, Mass., is a the end. * ‘Thin wos brought to the attention o! the memberg of the Life Underwriters’ Association of Chicago at their banque! at the Auditorium by Ralph W. Breckenridge, of Omake, Mr. Breckenridge produced tables taken from the Speeq tator to show that suicide is on the increase; that {¢ is @ i 4 disease of civilization, and that it is transmissable by herede Ity, His argument was that a liberal insurance policy tg | fan encouragement (o suicide rather than a discouragentent. \ In regard to New York City, Mr. Breckenridge howe, { that the suicide rate between the years 1804 and 1828 whe 136. A 100,000 of population, It decreased to 8.0 during the nea! twenty-four years, but has increased since the ofvil war uf * ‘21 a 100,000 population. ’ Literary Celestials, In & Forqign Office report on the trade of Nanking tt je stated that such ts the value placed on Mterary degrees by; the Chinese that during @ period when hundreds of the habitants were dying daily from cholera no fewer than 11, students visited the clty to compete for 200 vacancies, ares