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by the Press Publ: Park Row, New York. ‘ Entered at the ing Company, No. 83 to @ Oftice s+eeeeNO. 16,507. ~ The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending MMANISTY $1, 1904.........- cere ens 12,231% Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending Panuaty $2,)°1903.. 06.0006 t eee 7.856% INCREASE........ 4,374% This record of growth was not equalled by any newspaper, morning or evening. in the United States. THE PORT CHESTER OUTRAGE. ‘The members of the Rallroad Committee of the Board Of Aldermen, who found months too short a time for ction upon the honest Port Chester franchise, have found days sufficient for a favorable report upon a rival BOG9O9OO90O8400O 6 % $ $ $0 GLAD You MR PREWEE - IT MAKES ME FEEL 50 PROVO To KNOw THAT You APPRECIATE MY IMPORTANCE SERVSASIIONS Scheme that bears all the earmarks of (ad faith, end that is manifestly inferior to the other, even if its backers be sincere in their announced intention to furnish as good a service as they can. ‘The Port Chester road is a plain business proposition, ‘Which commands the enthusiastic support of all the Tesidents along its line. Its route has been carefully Surveyed and its plans, both of construction and of operation, worked out to the last detail. It is to be a four-track system, running over its own right of way, tree from grade crossings, and making direct connec- tions with the rapid-transit lines of New York. It has @ecured all the necessary consents except that of the New York Aldermen. and it {s ready to go to work the moment it gets that. All the-litigation that could delay it has been fought to a finish. After the New Haven Railroad has exhausted every other means of obstruction, a dead company with a dead franchise thirty years old has been revived, and the Aldermen's committee has shamelessly adopted this scheme in place of the one demanded by the people con- cerned. Taking the most charitable view—assuming that this is a genuine project of the Metropolitan Com- pany for a suburban extension, and not a new plan of the New Haven Railroad to prevent the construction of any additional line at all—it {s far inferior, from the public point of view, to the project the Aldermen have contemptuously turned down. It would connect with Slow surface lines, and even if the Metropolitan should @et the privilege of building a tunnel its completion ‘would be far in the future. The Port Chester line would find its rapid-transit connection all ready for it. No honest reason has been suggested for rejecting its re- quest. i Let the Narks Alone!—Notwithstanding the Mayor's di claimer, Senator Dowling has introduced bil permit- ting him to use any parts of any parks, except Central Park, as sites for temporary schoolhouses. In other words, the Mayor in to have the power, if he chogses to exercise it, to ruin the park system of New York. It {s a power that ought not to be granted to any man. ‘There are pleuty of safer ways of providing for the imme-, Giate needs of the schools, THE GAS ROBBERY. ‘A lady whose letter appeared in The Evening World yesterday had been in the habit of paying less than $2.50 a month for gas. Without any increase in the mumber of lights, her bill jumped two months ago to $4.40 and last month to $11.50. Another consumer, ‘whose bills for twelve years had run from 50 cents to $3.40 a month, was raised to $6.90 and then to $8.70. Othere have been forced up to $25 and $30. People have always complained of gas robbery in ‘New York, and the files of The Bvening Wotrhd show that they were as excited a year ago as they are now, but the trust has put on the screws within the past two months with a ferocity that makes all former » exactions seem like an application of the Golden Rule. One man was so crazed by the exciting spectacle of a gas bill growing like an inflating balloon from 70 cents to $4.20 at a jump that he tore out all the fixtures in the place, leaving the mixture of water gas, Texas oll ‘yapor and air to flood the house, and had to be sub- dued by the police. " ‘When the people are in thelr present mood they are @angerous, and even such a lobby as the Gas Trust is maintaining at Albany will not be able to nerve the Legislature to the point of denying them all relief. ition.—The Republican leaders at Albany are not sure whether home rule for New York \ would help or hurt the party. When they make up their minds on that point they will know how to act; for of course the interests and the rights of the people of New York are impertinent, irrelevant and immaterial. THE ADVERTISER'S VERDICT. ‘The year 1903 was one of ddclining activity in busi- ess. Stocks sagged continuously, factories closed, and Steel Trust’s earnings fell off by moré than one- - anit.” Yet, to judge by the advertising pages of The Evening World, one would have thought the country in the full | aavertisem sements grew from 7,856% in 1902 to 12,281% in increase of 4,274 3-4, or over 55 per cent. No sr nmeWepaper, morning or evening, in the United matched this record. 1S THAT WHY You Sent For Me!!! You KNEw You Courp DEPEND on ME-MeE- I-I Wy y 2a DED EPI-TB-B-B-GO-2-2ODOD DTTP DDO DIDS TNT DIDH GE HH ITE RAID 06-99. ° S a 9290000-98690-506-664 $ Boll Your BABIES IN MILK. | me 2 This Insures Palaless § TEETHING. is The father. of course, provides the Cvery baby must provide lis owa TEETH. how painful teething Is. BUT there BOIL YOUR BABY IN Bables come into’ CLOTHES and with. Just THINE what) & way of avoiding ALL pain. MILK, “THE w EVENING .¢ WORLD'S _ BO POOCOE GOT OO O99 The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth. Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World, Mr. Peewee Demonstrates that Hot Air CAME) irs DREAOFULLY COLO a ———— ee world withogt [ iz TEETH. { MEARS, CLOTHES, but! We all know | He docs: Tt cost iT TO Se Rockefeller MUST Eat More Bread and Milk! VE MONBY. nee 0 cents a day. Seven times 30 ts but cents ts $2.10. His income 1s $1,000,000 a week. , HE MUST EAT MORE BREAD AND’ MILK, This paper will sec fo it that he does. He must cat at least $2,500 worth a day. ey, SOMETHING WRONG with THE HEAT!!t THE SAME OLD STORY OF AN AVARIC10US Lanocoro!! cJust You LEAVE Is Warm. YES, PEEWEE Ti, SBE TAAT iy you GET HEAT. CH Buy A FubG. iB \ HAONT WE BETTER TELL Him To GO- Im AFRAID He’ Le SET THE House on FIRE! Why IS.IT You Have Only PENNIES in Your When You Want DOLLARS ? You have never givet'the matter a real THOUGHT. itis BECAUSE you THINK IN PENNIES, while your employer thinks im DOLLARS and ip THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Do-not let your elrcumstances rule your thoughts: but make your thoughts \ Burtt WAVE PDSODP-DEFOHG-9F-9TGHHIOHHISTIOD panoceT A SMUDGE Wf —— @ e STAN $ THs! 3 x $ \ Cc e ‘OF THE EVENING FUDGE?) POP POTHHISGYOSTEDD 2 $ 3 ® Pocket, much thought; bn (@ that ts only what ¢ you THINK, COMMAND your circumstances. This will TAKE BABY'S MIND OFF ITS TEETH. 4nd besides will HARDEN IT FOR | about Its tecth, ee Write us the result, PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for $To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: No 1— *CHARLES M. FERGESS, 538 East 89th St., New York City; No. 2—L. Please This paper will not temporize with Rockefeller. It wil) not accept the silly plea that he cap only bold 30 cents’ worth. HB MUST EXPAND. #2 We shall mandamus Mayor McClellan to compel Rockefeller t¢ cat all we want him to, Double Trading stamps given (o all who buy our MIDNIGHT EDITION before 9 a: m. Nassau Street, Brooklyn. don't be personal. Don't write politics. To-Day’s $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorials Were Written by Emil Finger, Winficld, L.1., and W. M. Bell, No. 4¢ a ee nn EEN, To the 100,000 Ed’ ‘o ‘ial Writers of “Evening Fudge.” Be wise, witty, encyclo- paedic, pedagogic, cogibund and thinkitudinous, as you like, but avoid abuse. Let’s have fun with the “Evening Fudge’—good, jolly, rollicking fun, but nothing nasty. Over 30,000 polltico-personal editorials received WHICH CAN'T BE USED prompts this suggestion, Lift yourself abdve your sordid environment. THINK IN DOLLARS, in HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS, o Lypreead OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, ler awhile you'll lose your Job, and you won't have ‘anything else to do but THINK, i Write us what you think of a THINKING JOB. s" ’ 17 EXC NKATIMITY: @xzr0 000% D. RICHARDS, 2444 Walton Ave. Bronx; No. 3—ELLA T. M’CARTHY, 122 West 22d St., New York City;¢ No. 4—A. BERKMAN, 171 East? 111th St., New York City. é there is no mystery about The Evening World's mong advertisers. Family trade is the basis ndg of business. The paper that goes into the one that can attract the customers the . ‘have, Consequently advertising in a Js for the merchant not a luxury, but a $0FL9D909-905$9-6499-9190F0OH0O000HHO0O04990HOHHHHDHIOH *HHHPDHHOHHOIOIHGHHD HOPOIHD $9:H9GO$OOH0GO o> ° POODODOPHSOOOOHHD 4 Eight Cows an Hour, To the Editor of The Evening World: I read that Dantel H. would lke to know how many cows can be milked by one man in one hour. Eight cows in full milk 1s about the best that can be done, the cows giving ten to twelve quarts each. One man might perhaps keep {t up for three hours. W. #. B,, Patohogue, L, I. Andrew Johnson, ‘To the Paltor of The Evening World: Who was the seventeenth President of the United States? When was he elected? R. HOB, Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth | President. He was not elected Presi- | dent, but succeeded to the office on | Lincoln's death, having been Vics-Pres- {dent under Lincoln. Published in Evening World Jan. 6, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘When are you going to publish the names of the winners of the pinhole Pigture prizes? GEORGH CROUCHER. For Larger “L” sta To the BAttor of The Evening Wor! Some movement should be started to station {s very narrow and should bo moved to a atroot where there is a wider scope for a station. N. Our Dirty Streets, ‘To the Editor of The icvening World: ‘They say a new broom sweeps clean... Not so in the case of your present ad-| ministration. Look at the condition of your streets to-day—a disgrace to any civilized country, Who {ts to blame for to know. New York's population will when he made this statement. Your Health Department hus been promising a great deal of late. What has it done so far? P. H, V. On Side Nearest Curb. lor of The Evening World To the stand for anything. Barnum was right] yo LETTERS, # QUERIGS ¥ AND ¥ ANSWBRS. providential that passengers are notjall this-Mayor McClellan or Commis- thrown on the tracks. Barclay street | sloner Woodbury, of your Street-Clean- walk tn the centre when in» company with two ladies. B bets on the side ing Department? The people would like| nearest the curb, Please decide. F.C. M. A, 7, Fichardt, Con Age’ To the MAltor of The Evening World: Has Bloemfontein, South Africa, a United States Consul? J.P. 8. The “Near-Side” Ordinance. To the BAltor of The Evening World: A says it {s proper for a gentleman to If the street railway companies were Johnny Jon A Poetical Reply. To the Eitor of The Evening World: Now as each two cats Have eighteen lives, Less three destroyed by rats, Then one lone cat Must have nine lines, Less three destroyed, that’s flat; Therefore each cat Has just six lives To go through, ere he's done, And every night He'll scratch and fight With Maria just for tun. compel the Elevated Railroad to aug- ment facilities for regulating traffic. aie then ever @ necessity on the ap- Some of the stations are very small and Now if one cat Has just six lives . To sport before he'll di, “~~. marrow, and in the rush hours it is only] Then eight sound cats, __- ‘ - How-Old-Is-Ann-sters Please Auswer This. If Johnny Jones seven dogs And every aog is white, And fourteen cats came chasing round, Each one as black as n! And each two cats have ‘eighteen lives Less three destroyed by rats, How many lives must three dogs tak 2 Before they kill eight cats? Aen Have forty-eight lives, Or I cannot multiply = ————~ gs and His Cat-Killing Dogs. So if three dogs Want to kill eight cats, The number of lives they'll take, (I think Tam right, $9 I'll say good night, And my answer ts “forty-elght.” LATTERY, the original No, &8 Enst Fifty-second street. Sayn Sixty Lives Is Anew the Editor of The Evening World: wach 2 cats have 18 lives less 8 de- stroyed by rats, leaving 15 lives to each 2 cats, Therefore 4x2 (8) cats have 60 lives for 3 days to take; “this 1s right?” ‘What? W. J. POTTER, No. 87 Brenklin avenue, Brooklyn, oan aleved FOOT nk to make @ test case the near-side ordl- nance would probably be declared un- constitutional without any hesitancy, 1t is dotestable to every one who rides in surface cars, and also, by reason of sympathetic affection, to their immedi- ate friends and familles, Why does not our well-meaning Mayor demand that the Board of Aldermen meet without delay and repeal the silly,objectionable and useless ordinance? Keep up your good work to a satisfactory finish. Mrs. LOUIS H. Three Times. Twice at Coney Ial- and, Once in England. To the Editor of The Evening World: How many times did Thomas Sharkey and Gus Ruhlin fight, and where? B.R, Against Hewitt and George. To the Bdltor of The Evening World: Id President Roosevelt ever run for Mayor of New York City? If so, when? ‘Who were his opponents? AR. Fire Engine. To the Editor of The Wyening World: Which has the right of way at fire lines, the masl wagon or the fire engine? P, B, No. 69 Hast Fifty-minth street. 2 the Editor of The Bvening World: Yes, 1886, ‘Where is the Seventy-first Regiment. ate armory? Joys of Living in the Country in Winter Tima * a en HE country for mine after this,” announced ‘ the Cigar Store Man. “As econ ag yoy, lease on my fiat runs out I’m going to move outside the city Hmits, where I can draw my breath without tearing my clothes.” “We all get a yen for the country,” said the Maw Higher Up. “If I had an income of $100,000 a year and no work to do you couldn't hold me in the city with hooks. Me to commune with nature when I get re duced down to the Rockefeller class, but while I'm drawing sudden gasps whenever I see a hundred-doller bill I guess little old New York and a fiat will keep me detained. “I am moved to this impression by a visit I paid to & man who has gone out {nto the country. I went to eee him in the evening of a nice, bracing day this week, and the melted frost has been oozing out of me eves since. “You don’t realize how cold it {s until you have ride den on a train leaving New York for about an houn When I got off at the suburban station shortly after jdark I thought maybe I had fallen asleep for a couple \of months and bad been carried on to the North Pole, |The wind was picking up the snow off the ground and distributing it on pedestrians, and maybe you think a wind in the country can’t distribute! “Then came a nice long sleigh-ride out to the aban doned farm of my friend. You never realize why they abandon those New Pngland farms until] you see them on @ moonlight night in winter with the wind blowing sixty miles an hour and doing morgue music through the trees. “I found my friend in the barn putting his horse's pajamas on. It was a nice, home-like job. The wind j was flapping the sides of the barn until you could image ine yourself listening to a dozen tenor drum solos, After putting the night-clothes on his horse, my friend had ta, melt the oats in the feed-box. The horse had breataed on the oats and frozen the grains together. “The suburbauite was better framed up for exploras tiombthan I. When he lived in New York he wore clothes of the latest style, kept his hair cut, his shoes ehined and his face shaved. Qut in the country I found him wearing rubber boots, a sweater, a fur cap and a sensational explosion of whiskers, He hadn't been to town for two weeks and sald he was glad of it. When 1 asked him if he didn’t think its was pretty cold, he said yes, but that he had a fine view in the summer time. The last 1 saw of him he was standing on the top of the hill waving a lantern at me as I drove back to town to take the train, and just at that time I wouldn’t have traded the return railroad ticket I had in my pocket for his whole farm.” “Fut think of all the joy he will get out of that place in the summer!" protesied the Cigar Store Man. “Skiddoo!" answered the Mam Higher Up. “Why, {f T could think that hard I'd take the Christian Science Church away from Mary Baker Eddy.” The Girl Who Is a Good Fellow By Nixola Greeley-Smith. W girls who prefer © be E02 fele lows? So many charmingly feminine women who would rathér be almost anything else? Why do so many flufty, frilly, ttle bundies of fun and foolish= ness sit in the windows of Broadway restaurants and make wry faces over vocktafls that they do not like, while opposite them the man behind the cigar smiles and smiles and smiles, and is, perhaps, a villain? Save for the stimu- lus of masculine soctety the ttle girl who wants to be a good fellow would rather be verched airily before a soda - fountain dipping ice cream from the messy liquid dear to the palate of feminine New York, But an unliinited indulgence in {ce cream soda. does not give her the delightful feeling of being a good fellow that one little sip of a cocktail does, It docs not make her ¢heeks flush and her eyes sparlle, nor does {t prompt her, ordin= arily so quiet and demure, to say to her escort when the elderly womun at the next table stares at her, that she knows she {s a lady and that she doesn’t care a rap what people think about her. Yet all these things she does when she gazes dreamily into the amber depths of a cocktail glass and wonders whether she will keep the cherry for the last or eat it now, And she is pleased with herself, for the,man opposite grows confidential, telling her first of some early love affairs, theh passing lightly, gracefully from his earllest admiration to his latest, which 1s, needless to say, herself—and finally, i¢ he is very crude, discussing love and herown need of tt and usking her many questions which the cocktail alone prompts her to answer. is She is the more charmed because she has a latent feeling that she {s giving a very fair imitation of women to whom life itself 1s a cocktail with a glowing cherry tn the bot. tom that lures them to drink and drink till at last they reach it and find that it {s really but Dead Sea fruit that tarns to dust and ashes in their mouths. ’ Later she may recollect with dismay theh little things she has said and done under the festive cocktail's influence. But while she is being a good fellow she doesn't care, ‘When the moment of remorse comes to her she will be Wise if she resolves never to be a good fellow again. For though there are some women who can and do drink without detriment to themselves, the number is very small, and for each one of these really good follows there are hundreds of foolish little Imitations casting discredit on their families and their,own selves. Odd Cat Facts. ‘A good oat—the kind you want to have in the house, it any—will have a round, stubby pug nose, full, fat cheeks and upper lp, and a well-developed bump on the top of the head, between the ears, betokening good nature, A sleepy. cat that purrs a good deal is apt to be playful and geod~ natured. By all means to be avolded ts a cat with thin, sharp nose and twitching ears. It must be remembered also that a ood mouser {s not necessarily a gentle or destrable pet. ‘Although any good cat will catch mice if she {s not overfed, quick, full, expressive eyes generally betoken a mouser, HY 4s it there are so many good ‘The great mistake—and probably the most common one— tn the care of domestic cats ts overfeeding, particularly too much meat. In wild life the cat has exercise enables her to digest her food. In the lazy house life the full feeding leads to stomach troubles and to fits, inl » } hei Ae HOME . MAGAZINE # 1OPDOF-DO9099O0HF9O99 SHOES ODEHOE09H 99OOO090E99000600 90 0009OH