The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1904, Page 12

’ the fireproofed scenery he had tried would burn, even if " B¥on if we attribute the laxity of the managers down to by the Press Publishing Compan: Park Row, New York. Entered at the P The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The _ Evening World for 12 months, ais > January 31,°1904............ Namber of columns of advertising in ‘The Evening World for 12 months, ending F January: 34, 1903........-.ceeeeee INCREASE... 12,231% This record of growth was not equalled by any Mewspaper, morning or evening. In the United States. HOME RULE BY WHOLESALE. Ocntralised power at Albany has broken dowa, and) Ge Republican organisation has determined to rid ttaelh ef the odium of forcing unpopular policies upon hostile) @ommuniiies. Gov. Odell propowes now to give to New Work, and probably to each of the other principal ettins @f the State, the power to settle the questions of @elling, street traffic, gas and electric light supply and Sther matters of strictly local interest. “| ‘This is merely carrying out the principles of Amer-| $n government. There are twice as many people in this, ‘Bite now as there were in the whole United States when He Constitution was adopted—indeed, there are as many fh New York City alone as there were in the nation over, Which ‘Washington presided. It was not until 1810 that! the! United States reached the present population of the State of New York. But the one thing that the framers) of the Constitution dreaded above all others was « cen-| tralized government. New York, Pennsylvania and Mas-| ‘Wachusetts, each with fewer people than Erie County has mow, would not consent to have their local affairs regr-| ated by a Congress they could not control. But the Legislature at Albany makes laws for a WAkter population now than Congress did then. te 1] conceivable that men who were eo afraid of intrusting’ the interests of localities to thie representatives of four iaMlion people would have been willing to give absoiure ‘power to the representatives of nefly eight millions? "ais" Change proposed by Gov. Odell would practically| ‘turn the Board of Aldermen into a Legislature. It would, ake % necessary for us to pay some attention to the| ‘tharacter of the Aldermen we elected, which would be a e664 thing in itself It would bring power and respon- sibility together. At present a legislator from Cattaraugus ‘Ge Herkimer ‘a under no restraint whatever from pablie ‘opinion in dealing with the affairs of New York City. Tf) he chiose to sell his vote to a corporation trying to steal 3 franchise he could make it all right with his con by virtuously reguiating the personal habits) of New Yorkers. What we want is a system under which ‘the men who make rules for a community can be called 9 pccount hy that community fteelf, 4. me WILLIAM C. WHITNEY. In the Geath of William OC. Whitney the saltent fact is ‘that the country has lost a man, not a moneybags. Mr. ‘Whitney was rich, but bis fortune belonged to him, not fhe to bis fortune, His wealth neither overshadowed the man mor sucked out the juices of his humanity. All the Warled interests of mankind appealed to tlie rounded eatholicity of his mind. He was a great politician, a great business man, » great sportsman and a keenly in- telligent amateur in art, He won half a dozen different Teputations, and he took his place easily among the first in each of his varied fields of activity. His tact and inindliness smoothed his way in every direction. Nobody else could have done the work he did for Cleveland in 1892 as he did it. If he had chosen to devote himseit| exclusively to politics from the time he began the recon-| @truction of the navy his name might well have been enrolled on the list of Democratic Presidents, and the mbole history of the past dozen years might have been te re Fens Along Municipal Ownership.—if the advocates of the municipal owncrahip of public utilities should apply to the Gas Trust for a campaign contribution they would + probably be refused, but the trust ts doing more for them by its treatment of its customers than they could “meccomplish for themselves with the help of a whole | Mterary bureau, an THE LESSON NOT YET LEARNED. ,Bomie of the theatrical managers are taking a singu- (erly disappointing attitude. in the matter of public eafoty. At Monday's hearing before the Aldermanic Com- mittee on Buildings, for instance, Mr. Oonried spoke alightingly of fireproofing processes, which he eaid, had “no effect except to spoll the scenery.” The ground for that remarkable assertion was the alleged fact that all ft would not blaze. If that were true it would not help Mr. Conried’s case, for the blaze is the very thing that creates the danger. But as a matter of fact scenery properly fireproofed will not even smoulder under ordl- mary provocation. ‘Mr. Conried and others protested against putting the Proposed ordinance into effect immediately on the ground that it would take several weeks or months to Mreproof their scenery. It does not seem to have oc- _Gurred to them that the fireproofing requirement is al- ready in the law, and that if the law had been observed there would have been nothing in that line left to do. the time of the Iroquols disaster to nothing worse than, Spang there has been a month and a half since event putting their houses in order. If Mr. Con- can imagine the results of a blaze among non- ofed scenery at the Metropolitan Opera-House on fal” night, after Chicago's warning, and then pk without a shiver of his position in thia community morning after, he can congratulate himself upou ‘of nerves from his composition. Whipping Boys—Genator Foraker, Secretary ‘Master of Ceremonies McCawioy al! know how ¢ 3 vateyt oe 3 Somethin’s wrong here! gits rushin’ off to lan’-knows-where! CODED HSOVOER 644% The Most Important Little Man on Earth. (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Vakes Miss Tootsie Sixioot to the “Zoo.” THIS, TOOTSIE, 1§ THE GRANDEST ANO NOBLEST OF ALL THE Animacs! His INTELLIGENCE IS ALMOST HUMAN- SEE THE Loon OF BENIGN MEEKNESS IN HIS BYES UPON Mir APPROACH To 41m! UNDOUBTEDLY He REcocNIzes IN ME THAT SUPERIOR Domi~ NATING GENIUS WHICH Some MEN Possess OVER ANIMALS— To-day’s $5 Prize Evening Fudge Editorial was written by Louis Price, No. 376 Wythe avenue, Brooklyn. PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: @City; No. 2—J. G. MULFORD, 58 Taylor Street, Newark, N. J.; No. 3—D. J. O’KEEFFE, 116 Nassau Street, New York Clty. SASSY SUE-By the Creator of “Sunny Jim”— She Escalates on the Escalator. Hold this stair! | i PONDER! PONDER! yj 4nd use It for @ door-mat “How can J ever reach the top— The top keeps movin’; make It stop! PPOLOL0HOLOG0OL00 0060-6006 OOOOF ©OOO0000000-080906080006-0001008 G00000 52 i 1903.) WHEN APPROACHED BY ONE WHO THOROUGHLY ASSim- ILATES MIS TRUE NATURE He 1S AS HARMLESS AS A Tame RAsBrr! IT'S ALL A MISTAKE TO BEwEVE HIM CAPABLE OF CRUELTY= 17S WRONG TREATMENT MAKES THEM vicious! Now I SHALL SHOW WHAT PERSONAL INFLUENCE CAN EFFEC T— ] SONA SHAKE MY HAND eee BINGO! BINGO! GiVEM OGE Buy A FUDGE AND GET A SP TAKE ALL FouR PAWS! Onlons are a cullnary plant, having a bulbous Foot. Why Onlons Don't Have Buntons On Both Both Feet, We are T; We tell Yo eying to El Brains with “inese Eanorete aa to make ‘OU WEEP. There are eo bunions on onions ‘“ 1 WEAR TIGHT SHOES to PINCH THE EET. pdcdlat| Why don’t they ? {you can't ponder, think. This fizzling froth was spurting fc BRAINS, toa ya dat and we have written tt dewn to MAKE You ; You may patnt “Welcome” tm rea on this Editorial | Why Should the Rooster Crow When the Hen Does the More feathers? But the Heal ts something mare. The Hen ls AN BGG TRUST, len controls ‘the breakfast of tousends of our ‘ettizens. Therefore, Why docs the Rooster crew when ihe Ben lays the ee? YES, WEEP So a8 to wate the poopte up i time for becakmet. ac iy ettertan nes exes & WILL MAKE No. 1—WM. E. IRVING, 285 Mott Street, New York “Oh, lawkes! 1 got here! Help, you men! I'll never climb them steps agen!” 4 Yea. To the Editor ef The Evening World: Is it proper for a young lady to thank @ young man for paying her carfare if she meets him accidentally on @ car? L Nov. 4 To the MAitor of The Byening World: On what date did election day fall in the year 1884? P.M. Cc. So! ‘To the Eulto: The sheep problem of imple. The problem reads: the Sheep Problem. ue te n master who | at 8 4 hes ayes ree sons an seventeen sheep, ho | which he wants to divide equally among Be the ret con he gives one- A earn that LETTERS, # QUERIES # AND # ANSWERS: half; to the second one-third and to the third son one-niath. How does he do itt’ Answer—The man borzows @ sheep from a friend, thus making flock of eighteen, He then gives 0} half (nine) to the first son, being oare- ful not to select the sheep he borrowed. Ho gives one-third (six sheep) to the vecond son and one-ninth (two sheeps) N. |to the third son. Seventeen sheep in all are thus disposed of. He then takes the remaining sheep, the one he borrowed, and returns it with thanks to the owner, HTN, Jan, 1, 1006, Will Fall on ihe ay. To the Witer of The Evening tha ‘teat day, day Fanuasy, | a round, take How-Old-Is-Ann-sterg Please Answer This. abs If Johnny Jones has seven dogs And every aog is white, And fourteen cats came chasing Each one as black as night, And (ene) two oats have eighteen Less three destroyed by rats, How many lives must three dogs Before they kill eight cate? “eZ of Oakwood, Letitia, Mo- Standish, Peter Claiveres, the Saugerves en others whom 1 190, will fall on Sunday. B says that \t) way, Noche: will fall on Monday. Which ts right? AG R Old-Timers, Attention! Te the Editor of The Evening World: speak uy 1B. HARTLEY, JR, New Haven, Conn, Im the Four Gospels at of New Testament. To the Editor of The Evening World: In what part.of the Bible are the ser- mons and instructions of our Lord Philadelphia, y in U. 8. { | | brilliancy of your alway! ter column? We readers grew to look for their communications and at last felt that we almost knew the writers personally as old and dear friends. Can't they be induced to write again as| ! of yore? If this meets their eyes let them rejoin this clever column and make it yet oleverer, I'refer to C, E. Wara, Joha Henry, la A, K., John Com-! United os ‘THE w EVENING eo WORLDS Sw HOME wt MAGAZINE ey SHOULD A WIFE PRESS HUBBY'S TROUSERS? “ SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that a woman ] out in Chicago wants a divorce because her hus- band insisted that she should press his trouserm” “That's just like @ woman,” answered the Maa Higher Up. “I'll bet that before she was married ee used to sit up until 12 o'clock at night preaging bis trou ers by sitting in his lap. Now she balks because he asks her to do his sartorial press work so that he can shine a8, ® reg or some similar social entertainment peoullar ta Chicago. “From observation in this town I am tnotined to be- love that New York wives are meeker than ine Chicago Product when it comes to tailoring with a bot iron. The crease on many a pair of trousers that you observe om the streets of New York bears all the isovies of an inside dod. Maybe if the Chicago women had pressed he hubby's pants just once she would have sent him shriel> fing to the tailor, “Os the level, there arp come women wht ineiat upon pressing the trousers of the men who make money Soy them to spend. That is the reason why you-age #0 mang’ bridegreoms in moderate circumstances whose pante look like the side of an accordion in repose. A woman cam iron out delicate ruffles, she can do @ beautiful job the crimps out of a raincoat with a hair brush and the beck of a chair, but when she gets busy creasing papa’s @pparel for use below the weist line she makes him look like @ canvas cover for e trunk. “I remember one time a newspaper got up a symposium on the question of what a wife should do for her hue ‘band in the valet line, The most enthusiastic advocated of pressing trousera at home were the old maids. Thera is @ mountain of masuma in eight for the man who will etart @ pente-pressing parlor ani employ none but um married females of uncertain age to do the pressing. ‘They; will work for nothing. “Have you noticed that all the fellows in our est wead our coat sleeves creased now? Sure, Mike! We do it t show that we have valets, The best way to crease tha sleeve of a coat is to close @ door on it close to the sheul- der end then drag it slowly and carefully toward you.” “T've coam the time,” announced the Cigar Store Mam, “when I had to crease my own trousers.” The Leap-Year Girls’ Onton By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Meare eS and ft is to be by thetr efforts the universal feminine need of ships and longer marriages will be met and a riches, at least so far as the number of sandidates for her hand were concerned. But since the necessity for organization has been felt as far West as Dubuque, it is safe to assume that the husband famine {s well nigh universal throughout the United States, Of course, no American woman is so devoid of mental and physical charm as not to be able to land any husband at all, To get a man is easy. It is with the man that the difculty Nea, ‘The trouble is that the man is so very charming to other women as well as to you, and so very well aware of both their apprecjation and yours, thet he is naturally rether shy of committing himself. He dailies too long with each tempt/ ing possibility. One should plunge inte matrimony as'on¢ does into a cold bath—all at once and not gradually advanof one tim!d foot, for fear of drawing back shivering from thj shock, ‘The advantage of the leap-year club, or union for hum band-catching, {8 that a member is allowed a fair chance al the husband of her choice, free from interference by othe members. ‘What would happen tf two women happened to want tht same man? Why, the one that wanted him first would havi to have him, providing could produce @ union card and prove that she was in good standin time she mad; up her mind that had found thi But if every member were loyal to her boyeotted a man the moment another meme! him for her own and duly given formal notice to the gen council, even this difficulty might be avolded. Besides, 4 Doycott of this kind might help the man to make up hi mind. The Camel Raid, Camels in Somaliland are kept in great herds numbering 90,000, Such numbers involve wide areas grazing and consequent distarges from the few places water may be found The pi saa uowal oy te Bomatt also manage without drink for three or four days, and whed employed for herding have, like their masters, only milk to quench their thirst. Those big herds offer, of @ tremendous temptation to the raider, as many as els being taken at a time; and the excitement of eff such @ haul at full gallop for forty or fifty miles, the exasperated owner possibly hard in pursuit an@ chances of the raider finding his own camp has fallen @ to some other tribal diversion, appeals irresistibly to thd excitable Somall, Varieties. In Corea # serviceable umbrella costs about strpeneq ‘The covering is of olled paper. ‘Blindness is very common among the Moors, At their eyesight begins to fail. It ts said that this affiioties ue to the excessive us ‘A firm with an oda e does business in name ts English @& Irish, r=] Bnglish ts an Irishman, while Irish ts of English street, Buffalo. The firm’ ‘The baya, or weaver bird, of Indla, its time in catching mammoth firefil the side of its nest with moist clay. On @ dark af ‘with @ hot tron end a satin ribbon, she can straighten * ‘