The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1904, Page 10

_ TUESDAY EVENING, ° FEBRUARY 9. 1904. THE EVENING # WORLD'S Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 9 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44. NO. 13,512. The Evening World First. | | | Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending January 31, 1904. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, enJing January 31, 1903..... : 12,231) | 7,856 .- 4,304% INCREASE.. newspaper, morning or evening. in the United States. | | BALTIMORE'S TRIAL. | Baltimore has displaced Boston as the scene of the fecond great cor: gratien in .\merican history. In} { ont cilamity even crowds, | mere locs of money the pri | Chicago, but Chicago or possibly surpasses, that of Tetains her tragic pre-eminence by the universal sweep of her disaster— hundred thousand people turned homeless on the streets | and the 250 lives lost. good fortune, there seein to have been no deaths, except} among the intrepid firemen, who are always hazarding their lives as part of the day's work. There was no mystery about the Chicago fire. It had} | miles of wooden houses to feed upon, and the brick and| © stone buildings in its track were engulfed in a sea of flame. But when in the very next year a fire ate out the heart of the business section of Boston, containing ‘he most solid construction known up to that time, people asked whether there was really any such thing as a fireproof building. T with redoubled emphasis now that modern steel and atone skyscrapers in Baltimore have melted away like snowballs. The answer is simple. There are fireproof buildings, Dut the world has never yet known such a thing as a fireproof city, dnd it is doubtful whether It ever will There were great conflngrations in the tone and brick | cities of antiquity; there were others in the Middle Ages, and there have been others in modern times, on| both sides of the ocean. built, but people would not live in it to avold the There would have to be massive brick walls everywhere, with at question will be asked A fireproof city could be chance of a catastrophe once in a generation small windows, metal casings and shutters, and fire- proofed fittings, furniture and draperies, A modern skyscraper is reasonably safe under ordl- mary conditions, but in a furnace-hast like that of Baltimore its wooden window-casings burst into flame. the shattered glass drops out, the furniture, carpets hangings and doors blaze like kindling, the sandstone or inarble trimmings crumble under the action of heat and water, the steel beams warp and the tile floors some crashing down. mildiags that were even nominally fireproof were seat- It appears that in Baltimore the ered among others that made no such pretensions Inder such conditions they had no chance. A siogle old, inftmmable building among modern, fire-resisting structures is like a breach in a dike} While a city, unless it is built entirely, of storage ware- houses, cannot expect to be abgolutely fireproof, It can be fairly well protec of Baltimore if its massed. The:danger is greatly lessened, too, by broad streets and fraquent open AOR, A park system would be well worth its cost for this service alone. And a city afford to enough for parkways a ‘hundred yards wide dividing sd against such a calamity as that resistant buildings are might well sacrifice ground | {t Into sections that would localize a fire as a leak Is localized by che water-tight compartments of a ship. Meanwhile Baltimore can count upon | amd ald of all America happened in this country without moving the heart of the nation to an Instant response. Baltimore has only sympathy No great catastrophe his ever to tell ner needs and they will be supplied. THE WAR OF A GENERATION. The first war between great powers that this gen- eration has known has begun. In the efghteen years between 1853 and 1871 every great power In the world was engaged in at least one war of the first order. ¢ Prussia and Austria fought in two such wars and France in three. But in the thirty-thr e years sineo 1871 there has been no duel between two nations of the| © highest rank, although the military operations in the]. Russo-Turkigh war of 1877-78 were perhaps as exten- sive as they will be now. Our main interest in the present struggle will be to see that we keep out of It. The Russians have boon good friends of ours in the past, and if we have hat some disputes with them recently over trade it has never been our disposition to consider mere trad chaffering a cause for bad blocd. On the other hand we forced open the closed d of Japan and introduce vhe Japanese into the society of nations. We led the way in relieving Japin of the treaties that hampered her independence, The Japanese are not only our friends, but in a sense our proteges Te siuit wate the fight, therefore, not with a desire to take part on either side, but with regret for the Jossés of both and with readiness to take any opportu- nity that may offer for promoting the return of peace A Club for the Trust—Mayor McClellan and Cor poration Counsel Delany have prepared bill Gas Trust by providing for local inspection of meters, © for frequent tests of the quality of gas, and for v $00 fo for ® single failure to reach the stand “fy for three consecutive failures: Odell, who said Wanted, now has ag/opportunity to “make good.” This record of growth was not equalled by any) | he thousands of dwellings burned, the, j ‘The G In Baltimore, by a miracle of) 2 OOD-DE-9-9-D5-9.9-9-5-SHS-G-S-SO51F-BOOSOiS HF-5:9-5-59-S-5-90S $5625:96.9S550-0 solidly = 3.17 Rose street, New York L to curb the Instead of $100 | that the Mayor could have anything in this line that he | The Most Important Little Man on Earth. Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening World. with Mr. Jerome About Chicago’s Importance. ___Mr. Peewee Disagrees Chan! T SEE JEROME HAS BEEN SPOUTING 4, Dates THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF i a NEW YORK AND CHICAGO - ANY MAnm wit \ / RAINS KNOWS THAT CHICAGO 153A MERE € CouNTRY VILLAGE! — A PROVINCIAL “) / TOWN APEING AFTER J 0 THE METROPOLIS — Nie f p MI Ie Cuntwar QHUH’ Wors DAT ABOUT, is KAN GO» To-day's $5 Prize ‘Evening Fudge” Editorial w ittle Red Apples. ewe And there we and plucked loud in praise would undoubtedly give them colle. > IT OFF + DERE ) Im FROM S ; SHI CKAWGO[ >> n UMYSELFS CoP. ) SS aS CHICAGO: L Ban} — A Lorl orf PoRK Bur} CHERS AnD © BiG FooTeo ( \WOMEN D OURR ENING Fu E Ev TH SS ™: __| Don’t Miss To- Morrow’ CORNER OLADYS TOLD me TO WAIT FOR HER, 299990004 WHAT CAN CHICAGO Boast OF CASA City! HANE THEY GoT A mr PEEWEE! I Guess NoT!<= Do ‘rou SUPPOSE FaR A momen) A> a THAT ] wourd HAVE CHOSENIS = NEw YoRw FOR MY ABODE 0 Qual IF IT WERE Not THE ee 7 TAKE. THAT iTS SHICKAWGO+ You RoosTER- Mi Ni Seat! y x 0900090090009 eS ee. 4 GO SLOW MIDGET, Yourt TALKIN? YOU STAND ON YOUR EAR TO READ THE TG Did you ever see nvicible Whiskers Ar than Hairy Ones. raced Fact™ show ? ‘ Not Why? Because HE HAS WHISKERS. hiskers. Here Are a Few Baref Some goats have a ee wi ve eae Fi iy ‘close shaves in his life; he was WHISKERS. ea as ‘a microbe incubator which ie we as a soup strainer. Was he a success In New Yor! OE Ae ed ‘WITHOUT WHISKERS. ton freed our country 7 Daca with ‘a handicap of half a face full of whis- freed the negro, ere vat would he have do: RAZOR? SOME MORE!!! hee ‘would succeed KEEP YOUR FACE CLEAR. pan? ‘What chance has Russia t0 whip Jai N RE THINK FOR LUCK! Chale arazgr and ‘a-shaving cup full of red {nk for the best answer. This editorial entities the holder to a shave In any | / anion barber shop when presented with 15 cents. D 7% AZ / OUCH. LVE Gor A STITCH IN as written by B. A. Reilly, 85 Atlantic ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.: s Prize Winner—‘‘A Characteristic Baby Editorial.’”’ PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES FOR TO-DAY—S1 Paid for Each: No. 1—WILLIAM GILZINGER, 154 Prospect street, Kingston, N. Y.; No. 2—DANIEL R. DELANEY No. 3—MISS ROTHSCHILD, 237 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, New York City. hung temptngly mong the leaves. rafter y+ wl watehed them 1 looked and he dreamed of the wonder of havin And then one day she saw her ne arden ripen, year longed for t alone in her Uttle red apples. passing under ing, mazed at t shut eyes and we Yet she, who had met wh: ww who, paus great and marvelled at the inte wetous, half- way with reached out nd trembled with a strange fear of him, e others, Who, piu Then her neighbor spoke: nd tas These at tie first spoke am going to give you a llttl> red apple.” he sald. of the ed apples, of their chotce fla She looked at him. She had forgotten the Uttle red ap- uiciness. But after awhile they became silent lest ples, But ‘ing his volce and the proffer of what had once ring, should seek the apple tree tempted her so sorely, she remembered suddenly everything should not be enough to Around, Day af that she had heard=and there wi passed and plucked and grew old cating little evils that encompass those who » And after awhile thelr children came, and they ¢ that grow in thetr neighbors’ garden. at the tempting, roseate spheres and cove them hend. parents, though still eating the little red apples, pulled wry I don't want one.” she said emphatically. faces that the children might see and cease to want what shouldn't eat one," she sald accusingly. would I like one?! she sad& encouraging! oo A Fable # « -# 3 in outward « apple reddens, | And a season came when the apples and she grew ripe very together, ' We lose our Edens, ve wanted those little red apples, Thgre i Uvular, though {t differed not from the’ oth: red, those Wetle red coming, that she grew to covet of all earthly th w in her nelghbor's thought about it during long, wakeful hours of t it tn her ha hbor walking In the As men measure height, he was not particularly tall; as they measure wisdom, there were perhaps wise | they measured greatness, none called him great. men call the wise and the others took in them, and passed them by, save the blue sparkle of her neighbor's eyes » many things—about the Kk the little red apples So she shook her ‘Are they—do you— Her neighbor smiled. She thought at the time that the sun smiled and the stars in their courses, But later she came to know that it was only her neighbor. “You would lke it very much,” he sald, “when you have tasted a little red apple you will say there is nothing like tt in the world.” “Do you like them?" she asked, in her neighbor smiled. here is no question of my liking It," he sald. Then he by way of argument, “Your grandmother Uked tt. know ly grandmother?” 3, L mean the first one— she gasped, ‘Oh, * Then: “Ts It that kind ipple? I don't want that kind of an apple. L won't vy well,” sighed her nelghbor—she thought too pbilo- sophically, “but all little red apples are that kind, She looked at him, and newer sparkles rose in his eyes and followed and blended with one another as they do in the middle of a champagne glass. Something rose Inher own eyes, too, but she was not sure whether it was sparkles or tears. “Eve liked ft," repeated her neighbor, “Did she?” she questioned doubtingly. “I don’t think she was ever heard from directly on the subject. Besides, you shouldn't offer me apples, You are not a serpent!" “No?” sald her neighbor, and for the moment there was ¢ Better] a goat in a beauty y 7 je IF HE HAD OWNED A H r ( ( What Fun Can : Rockefeller WAS SS Enjoy Now? “] SE said the Cigar Store Man, “that John D, Rockofeller has retired.” “Yes,"" replied the Man Higher Up; “but what has he retired to? The ante-room of the recelv- Ing vault for his. After accumulating the biggest for- tune a man ever grabbed in a lifetime, he takes ‘his ball out of the game and puts his cue in the rack to enjoy himself, but he hasn't got any stomach and his physi- cian sleeps with his shoes and pants on a framework at the side of the bed, like a fireman, waiting for a call to the Rockefeller mansion any minute. “How is Rockefeller going to retire? He doesn’t know anything about anything but business. He has got himself in so deep that he has his hooks gripping every quarter of the earth. Thousands of men with axes in their hands are waiting to take a crack at those hooks. The minute he relaxes his supervision of the jayout something is going to happen and he'll have to get busy again. “Even if he could drop all of his gigantic enter- prises he wouldn't know what to do with himself. He doesn’t know haw to spend money He can't tour around the world on a yacht because his stomach won't let him take a chance at seasickness. The only form of recreation that seems natural to him is to hammer a golf ball over the country, and if there is a game more calculated to keep a lonesome, bothered man’s mind on what he is trying-to forget the inventor hasn't got it patented. He may give more money to the Chicago Uni- versity, but he is probably wise to the fact by this time that the university that has grown up on his millions 1s breeding hundreds of bright young men who will pro- ceed to knock him and his: methods as soon as they are turned loose on the world. / “William C. Whitney was about the only American of recent years who knew how to repay himself for his struggles for millions. He got out while he had his ‘health and then he went in to enjoy himself. He didn’t endow any colleges, but he spent his money like a prince. Everywhere he went there was something doing. For every minute of his waking bours he got some recom- pense for the strain he was under when he was a mar of business. He died in his prime, practically, from ¢ disease that Is likely to catch the young and strong w well as the aged, but he Jeft behind the memory of + man who, in making himself happy, made everybody else happy in his vicinity.” “Maybe Mr. Rockefeller has means of enjoying him self that you don’t know anything about,” suggested 2 |the Cigar Store Man. “Mayte he has,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “May- be he subscribes to a press-clipping bureau and laughe over the nice, gentle cartoons and articles that appear in the papers and magazines with him as a subject.” Greek and Roman Gods. Gods. Greek. * Roman, King of Gods.. Zeus, Jupiter. God of Water... Posetdon. Neptune, God of the Lower Regions Pluto, Pluto, Messenger of the Gods Hermes. Mercury, God of War.... Ares, Mars. The Gods’ Smith Hephaestos. Vulean, God of Light.. : Apollon. Goddess of Hunting. Artemis. Goddess of Wisdom. Athene. Queen of Heaven. Hera. Goddess of Tillage. Demeter. Ceres. Goddess of the Heart! Hestia. Vesta. Goddess of Beaut: Aphrodite. Venus, God of Wine. Dionysos. Bacchus, God of Lov Eros. Cupid. God of Time. Chronos, Saturn. Wife of Chronos. Rhea. Cybele. Queen of Hades Persephona —_Proserpina, Goddess of the Rainbows. Iris. Tris, Cup-Bearer to the Gods. Hebe. Hebe. Chances of Life and Death, Only 90 persons in every million die from old age. Of the 42,590 cases of small-pox reported by forty-four States in 1903, 1,642 were fatal. “Europe loses §6,f92 lives a year by accidents. Fifty-nine per cent. of the deaths from consumption are between the ages of forty-five and sixty years, while only 1 per cent, of such deaths are of persons over sixty yeara of age. i Anti-toxin treatment of diphtheria has reduced the deaty rate of that disease from 35 to 7 per cent, In the United States the annual mortality for railroadn is one person killed for every 1.052 employees; coal mirera, one person in every 744 employees; seamen in merchant vessels, one person in every 133. Pointed Paragraphs. Hy .© questions keep divorce judges busy. It is easier to make a bluff than it {s to make good. ‘A baby is either the storm centre or the sunshine of the home. It's easier to pull your Ideals down than it fs to live up & em. ee man meets with a financial reverse when he turns hf, money the wrong way. Of course the young spendthrift {s a jolly good fellow, but years later he {s apt to reallze that he's a confounded old fool,—Chicago News. F By Nixola Greeley-Smith a strange gravity in his voce. ‘What makes you so sure of that? is preciation: “I—L h But even as he sald it, he plucked a Iittle red apple, the very one of all red apples she had wanted, from the tree and 1d it toward her. Still she drew back, afraid, No, n@," she said, ‘I mustn't eat it.” Her neighbor laughed “Why, he sald, “It won't hurt you and you will like {t very qiuch. T'll take the first bite myself to prove it won't do you any harm.” So her neighbor get his teeth in the little red apple and took the first bite, leaving a great luscious, white space wi here the red skin was torn away, She looked at the great white space, and perhaps be- cause his lips had touched it she lald he; lips to the Little red apple and took a bite—a gradual, analytical bite, and her neighbon sald before she had fairly swallowed it: "How do you Mice it?" She looked at him, her eyes swimming with ecstatic ap- no words to tell you," she sald, ‘it Then she added, timidly, “And you, did so wondertul!” you Ike tt, too?" “Yes,” he replied heartily, “Oh, yes." But she noticed that his eyes had left the bitten apple in her hand and were gazing fixedly on another that looked coquettishly from the very top of the tree, “It was fine,” he sald, “very fine. But, you know—after all, it was only a little red apple.” > HOME .2 MAGAZINE #' POPES YY EET VOTH Y TYE YEOYO® ee VOvOovooow! 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