The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1904, Page 14

Puiehed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to | © Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office 3 at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. ¢ 4 «NO. 15,508. | « -» The Evening World First. || ‘ Number of columns of advertising. in The Evening World for 12 months, ending ‘January 31, 1904. | Number of se of seul 3 ue / Evening World for 12 months, ending ; Onan $1; M903 vcd vee 7.8564 “an INCREASE. ......... 4,374% 12,231% ial ‘ This record of growth was not equalled by any /Newspaper. morning or evening. in the United States. 4 = THE OBDURATE Six. be rit is hard to understand the mental processes of men , WHI, would deliberately put themselves in such a posi- tion-as thet occupied by the managers of the six theatres Piinded yesterday by the Mayor as unsafe. It makes mondifference what the technical legal rights on either| @ f Me may be. These are important matters in dealing 4 with a gas company, because the gas company can aak, | & _ What are you going to do about it?” It knows that) 3 | est of its customers will keep on using gas, whether | 3 | WHY like their treatment or not; and the only influence| % towwhich it is susceptible is that of a club. "But a theatre is different. Its popularity is as deli- eate.as the credit of a bank. If the Comptroller of the Currency ordered a national bank to close its doors on 4 ~ the grotind that it was insolvent, the fact that it might ¢ ‘be able to put up a good technical argument against the order in court would not be of much help to its business. If the theatres condemned by the Mayor had shared fn Uhe?tallurés of this disastrous season, the obstinacy | « of their. managers could have been more easily under- stood. But they have had some of the few conspicuous successes of the year. There is not one of them that will not lose more, a dozen times over, by this official black- Msting, even if its proprietors succeed in reopening its _ @bors, than it would have cost to make the alterations| ¢ _ required. The managers profess to feel aggrieved because they| ° are expected to-do everything in a day. They have had © month and a halt since the Iroquois warning,.gnd most of ‘the things they are asked to do now ought to. have B done before that without waiting for an order. 3 will get no sympathy from the people whose mopey has supported them and whose lives they have) ; putwat hazard, ~ $ for the Gas Trust—The Gas Trust almost caught| © Vgilé Mallans in a bunch by Ingeniously varying its pres- ‘\igitre,. ‘They were all asphyxiated in one room, but aped with thelr lives through the Interference of an » jous neighbor, Abraham Cohen got off in the same vy_atter being reduced to unconactousness by a gas| ¢ we, but the trust was more successful th the case of Moore, who was killed by carelessness in chang- @& meter. This hunting with gas {8 a sport almost Sexciting as running down pedestrians with rar JUR GORGED TRANSIT CHANNELS, = ‘The representatives of the Rapid Transit Commission | © a have expressed the opinion in court that New York will $ needa new subway system ‘or its equivalent every four, © years to keep. up with the growth of population, and . that in time there will be tunnels under’ every street. /. The assertion is startling, but figures, not to speak of Pe the facts bf common observation, prove it to be well founded. In April, 1902, the transportation lines of the Bor- ough of Manhattan wore gencrally felt to be jammed tovtheir utmost capacity. Yet, in the same month a year mY later the companies contrived to pack over six million tiore passengers into their cars, an increase of more than 200,900 per day. That mere increase is enough to if crowd 420/six-car trains, with every seat filled and peo- Ple standing in the aisles. double-track elevated railroad all the business it can comfortably handle. e ‘©, It is enough to give one > In other words, one new double- year's growth of traffic, without making any impression | * on the existing congestion, The greatest number of passengers carried in one day} « ‘bythe elevated railroads of Manhattan in the first four’ ~ mouths of 1902 was 808,616. The greatest number carried in”any day of the corresponding months’ of 1903 was 917/060, an jncrease of 108.444. At this rate, if the en- levated system were duplicated by 1910 it would ‘5 crowded as the existing system was in 1902. ‘i Im the near future even a tunnel under every avenue 2 og will not be enough to take care of our passenger traffic. We shall have other deep tunnels running straight to th@gsuburbs without regard to streets or houses. We have a belt line along the water front. We shall d jap: the utmost capacities of the present systems. We shall have fast passeager boats plying up and down the tivers. We shall have automobile stage lines on those streets which, like Fifth avenue and the Riverside Driv are barred to car-tracks. And by beginning the succes #ivé improvements before we are whipped into it by the Tawh of an unevadable necessity we may eventually suc- oeeil not orfly in keeping up with the growth of our population, but in gaining on it sufficiently to give every Hew York Still Inhabitable. Grease of at least 100,000 in the population and twice that | * Aransporte'‘on lines, as well as the abnormally severs s-weather, the number of ctreet acciden in the month ‘dust closed has been only 159, against 213. for the game month last year. “port of the allegation that the lid was not ifted in|‘ 1a 2 e ttead Ts the Mintmum Kissing Aget—For the second & marriage ceremony, and his excuse for this Motion of duty is that he ts “too young." Too “Is he old enough to go to echool? te *] page up). track, railroad each year would’ just take care of the) > otwithstanding an in-| agin the number of passengers carried daily by the local| © File one more exhibit tn suj-| York on New Year's Day. \3 ) Mayor McClellan has fatled to kiss the bride after. : ‘ants | The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Spee ape Aegean The Most Important Little Man on Earth. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. ‘AH, THERE MY AF- Finity! [ kNew SHE) CovLonr RESIST MY HARMS, WHEN SHE IRST CAUGHT, SiGuT op ME! ATTRACTIVE LOOKING MAN WHEN SHe SEES One! Tir Just Fotzow THIS Ly ALLOW ME TO PRESENT. my THIRO HUSBAND mR. PEEWEE! To the Editor of The Evening World You can make a human advertisement by leaving a copy of the Evening Fudge on a trolley car seat (red Any one who sits on it gets up with a bright red smudge on his county seat. A man in New Jersey, an Erie commuter, saved enough Evening Fudge red pages to paint his barn. Another lot of commuters secured enough of the red pages to make a flag, with which to stop the trains. The red was so EXTRA hot, however, that it spread the rails si Lady readers have taken to wearing gloves. allow a rebate for the aniline found ih them, JAMES PETRIE, No. 69 Rose avenue, Jersey y. Dyers “What's that?” said Sue to Dr. Druggs, “You say I’m full of microbe bugs? DE-E-E-E-F = Lighteo!! EVERY OAY RED PAINT Y sf | PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: No. I—MISS Street, Brooklyn; No. wood Road, Flatbush, Brooklyn; No. 38—LESLIE BAILEY, 209 Washington Street, West Hoboken, N. J. To-morrow’s Prize ‘‘ Fudge”’ Editorial : “Why Chickens Do Not Smoke.’ Mr. Peewee Succumbs to the Charms of a Chorus Girt. I SHALE AWAlT. HERE UNTIL «) SmE APPEARS were THESE FEW Feminine rRiPves [ SHALL WALK RIGHT | INTO FAVOR® w- THEY etce RESIST MR. Peewee! STACE ENTRANCE Tis YOUR WIFE SHORT? O, WHY? ue ‘Fon Trinking | lemptuously refer Do Some pd cali 5 LEGGED RACE. THE SHORT-LI in ‘po You KNOW Because for untold MAN'S LEG. has made bis T ‘THINK THIS OVER! But don't think that..If man like MR. PEEWEE, short ¢ you TALLER. man WONT! per will see thal It woot. edlee make you SHORTER! COGITATE- THINK! RUMINATE! Our Editorials cou ts why tbey make su T FfeL THE War: ) ae / oe a 2 Rt ae ik ed reo to WOMAN as centuries se has been jeg the LONGER. eed you should happen 10 be a Yegepulling | going te + PULLING | BU That jain BURNING THOUGHTS. ch good CIGAR LIGHTERS. eda, s Slow OF THOUGHT THIN SEETHING in M1>y. TANK! 3To-Day’s $5 Prize ‘‘Evening Fudge’’ Editorial Was Written by T. Fleming, Hilton, N. Ji peor To the Editor of The Evening World: LIBBIE CHEYNE, 195 Eleventh 2-C. K. DE COSTA, 3111 Glen- (eT EM ALONE (AND DRINK, ees “I caught 'em In this bug house town! | feel 'em fightin’! i 1 DODOS ESOS P99OOG09 8099 SD DO DL OOF PIED 9G D PIG EIOVGOG 29D 000000 000900000 000000008 64 MK “What? Take Hold me dowr.” de Fudge Editorial Page'!!! The following was composed by @ reader who had a frozen brain for one year, but who wes cured in five minutes by the hot alr which arises from the, Evening Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as‘snow, But it got a emudge Frem our red ink fudge, And now it looks like a red flan- nel shirt. T. A. DOOLING, No. 256 Tompkins. Brooklyn. some pizen? Now you geti’ And Dr. Druggs is runing yet! . 44, sal) ins as Who Lost All the Money That - Sully Has Won? @Gp sex a ict in the newspapers about the tres | mendous excitement on the Cotton Exchange,” said the Cigar Store Man. “It's a great game, that cotton gag,” an- |ewered th® Man Higher Up.- “From what I can drag out of the truthful reports in. the newspapers, the specu- lators must be Playing it with stage money. Here is cotton worth twice as much as it was last simmer. As the honest’ stock-market reporter has {t, the Cotton Ex- change has been a continuous Performance with pan- demonium as the star. Sully wins about a million dollars a minute; John W. Gates cleans up a billion and blows it for soda water; the New Orleans clique takes its profits home on a barge. But nobody loses any- thing. . i ‘ “After careful massaging of my memory I am able to recall only one man who went to the bad on the cot- ,ton market, He was a clerk in a cotton broker's office and he bucked the game with real money. When he exploded the firm went up with him. If anybody will show me who has lost all the money that Sully and Brown and Gates and the other big winners have cleaned up I'll take him around to Huber's Museum and show him the fireproof wood “We read that the Southern cotton planters have set Sully up for théir joss and are burning tobacco in his honor, but the Southern ‘cotton planters are borrowing money from the-banks to escape being planters without &@ plant. The manufacturers are screaming about the high prices and raising the ante on made-up goods, but you don’t hear of them buying any large amount of cotton. In the mean time the supply of cottonseed oil for cooking purposes im our best restaurants remains undiminished. “If a man goes against the bank in ‘Honest John’ Kelly’s or Canfleld’s or any other gambling-house that used to run and skins the check-rack the bank is loser, ‘The boss gambler pays over the money. On the Stock Exchange or the Board of Trade, if a sueceasful corner 4s run, a lot of people in the game on the wrong side go ‘oroke. You can keep cases on those games, but the cot- ton gamble is a buried card, it seems, to ‘everybody but Bully. TAS “The reports of Sully’s stunts since he came to New York and started to boost the cotton game show that ‘ho has bought all tho cotton in sight about a dozen times. He carries a couple of million bales. There is a slump Of $8 a bale, and he never bats an eye. To make good in the game they give him credit for playing, he must have the Stahtiard-Oil Company or the United States Treas- ury behind him.” “Well, I've quit trying to get wise to it,” ‘sald the Cigar Store Man. “You can get put wise all right,” replied the Man Higher Up, “if you go to a broker, but it will cost you money.” ‘Who Begins the Flirtation?. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. b “Hl WOMAN al- ways starts -& flirtation,” said an accomplish- ed graduate of up. per Broadway the other day. “No matter how unso- phisticated she may be and how worldly wise the man in any love affair, he never does more than meet her half way." Tt seemed to the group of women lis- tening to him that they had heard something of the kind before. And one of them, avho was slightly better versed in the Bible thanthe others. quoted: “*The woman that DLOLOOOYIEDIES59E09O99OO499-94-05O99099OOH O0550E099-5-99-95-84-9-G95-5999999999S-99H9H9G-999-9G-90-9O999 $O90640G0O9-99905.99:9-9995 F939HHOGS DI DUHITITD 99E$.240006>' . “Your remark, And, indeed, » | mental advances has been one of man's most cherished tra- you see, is Just about as old as Adam.” the {dea that women make the first senti- | ditions from +time immemorial. And the most usual argument of a man who has, been plainly and flatly turned down by an unsympathetic young > {Woman {s the remark: “Well, you know you encouraged me. What would I have been doing around you so long if you hadn't?” * i y And of course the young. man may be right, but his shifting of responsibility inewtably reminds the girl of the » {old Adam and does not add to her opinion of him. Yet, do men really belleve that women start filrtations? ®| And are they justified in the bellef? The question is a very 2 |dimeutt one to decide. For what man or woman ever knew the exact moment at which the current of his or her feet- ings left the smooth roadbed of platonic friendship an¢ © |plunged into the rocky path of love? ; But one thing is sure. In New York City there ts a cer- tain class of man who. deems it his duty to make love:to any and every falrly good-looking woman he chances to meet. ‘And this without any sign of encouragement from the girl. ; y >| . If he ts introduced to a young woman of the great un- ehaperoned class, her mere passive endurance of him ‘1s suffictent to make him belfeve that in his own piotureaque phraseology he has made a hit with her. 5 And thereafter, until the girl wakens to the fact of his strange belief, the whole power of his mind when he t with her Is concentrated on making the hit greater. In this process the girl amounts to very, little It ts the, hit that counts. Like the patrons of the electric rifies at Coney: Island, he. is chiefly interested {n watehing the round black mark that springs out of nothing {f they score a hit, and he Js rather pleased than otherwise to see that it “is like the borealis race that filts ere you ean potnt the plare, for “he has demonstrated his superior. markeranship, and that Js all that reelly interests him, Perhaps in less progressive towns men may wait for some sign of encouragement from 4 girl. But in New York they take the encouragement for granted. It saves time. If the {girl absolutely falls to apprectate the honor of the atten. tions that are being paid and actually seems bent on making it at his expense, he can always say she encouraged, ‘nim, anyway, eaipge r . ev