The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1904, Page 12

| WEDNESDAY EVENING .? FEBRUARY 10, 1904. i} = Che | Neorid Publishea by tho Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. {ntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter, VOLUME 44, —__—_ NO. 18,613. ‘The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending DAMIATY: 31 yAGO4 cee kee sess ois Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending January $1, 1903.......00005 7,856% INCREASE........_ 4,374% Fnis record of growth was not oqualled by any newspaper, morning or evening, in the United States. aaa BALTIMORE’S OPPORTUNITY. Baltimore hag at this moment an opportunity such £8 has been granted but once before to a great American “ity, She has 155 acres of land at her business centre | ie the form of a blank sheet upon which she may write | What she will. She may replan her streets aad build- {ngs in the light of the best experience of the world. She may do for herself what L'Enfant did for Washing- ton, knowing, as he did not, that she is planning a real, Uying city, and not a paper fantasy. In London, Paris and Berlin the authorities do not hesitate to improve their outgrown arrangements by eutting new avenues straight through blocks of costly buildings, and they find that the increased value of the land more than pays for the outlay. Baltimore will not hhave to do that. She can replace her obsolete checker- Doard plan with an arrangement of broad, radiating streets that will put the business centre into the most irect communication with all the residential quarters, ‘nd this enormous gain in convenience and beauty can ‘be gained without having to pay damages for the de- ‘Aruction of a single building. She can provide for eharming circles, triangles and squares like those of Washington. She can try, by voluntary co-operation, if not by law, to secure a certain harmony in the style and height of the buildings on the new blocks. She fan provide for fireproof construction throughout. She can rearrange ‘he. iransportation system and putida un- Werground galleries for wires and pipes of all kinds. {The first impulse is naturally to rebuild every house ob the site of its predecessor, but 1f Baltimore is wise she will take time to think before throwing away an opportunity which, it Is to be hoped, will never come again. Laying out new streets is an expensive process at any time, but no Haltimorean ‘will live to see it as cheap hereafter as {t would be to-day. 12,231% x PVOSBIG FLO JAPAN LEADS OFF. The Japanese have drawn first blood with superb eelerity, putting three Russian ships out of action with Practically, no loss to themselves. To attack a battle Geet in its own waters with torpedo-boats was an auda-| ¢ious venture, but one as shrewd as it was daring. Hed {t failed no great harm would have been done, while its success leaves the intact Japanese fleet in at least tem- porary mastery of the sea. . Even before this stroke the Japanese naval force at the scene of action was stronger on paper than the Rus- efan. Now that the Russians have lost for the time the| use of the two most powerful of their eight battleships and a fine cruiser they must be almost hopelessly over- ed, ‘unless they have a torpedo surprise of their to spring. ‘There never was a better illustration of the principle that it is not what one has that counts, but what he has dust where and when is is needed. The Russian navy is much more powerful than the Japanese, but {t is so divided that it is unable to meet the enemy anywhere In équal force. If the Japanese succeed in destroying Rus- sia’s Asiatic flect they will then be able to take oare of any ships she can smd out from Burope. It} would really have been an advantage to Russia to leave her Pacific coast bare of naval protection until she could send an overpowering force ail together, rather than to| § split up her navy and allow it to be beaten in detail. . When the Live Wire Was Basy—Baltimore's Fire Chief was disabled at the start by a live wire, Such a thing could not happen on Manhattan Island now, but if Mr. Vreeland should have his way on West street it might Without claiming the gift of prophecy, we venture to Predict that Mr. Vreeland will think again, THE MERCHANTS ON THE GAS TRUST. The Merchants’ Association has gone to the heart of the local lighting problem in its memorial to the Senate Committee on Finance, It shows: That two great monopolies, that of gas and that of electricity, “have been bnilt up on the right to use the subsurface of the public streets.” ‘That es these monopolies derive their power from the Legislature, and are based on the use of, public proper- ties, they are subject to regulation by law That the present price of gas would afford a profit of More than 100 per cent. on the net cost eighteea ye ‘ago, “since which time notable improvements in the manufacture of gas have largely decreased the net cost." That “the same conditions exist as to electric Nghting compantes. | ‘That in consequence of their control of public prop- erty “the prices which these monopolies exact for thelr commodities are not determined by the cost or value of these commodities, but by the necessities of the con. GPDDDGDDOSDO-0900-49D1-04049F04O9ODF09-HO506 6990994 9OF4D 6849600050000 H8O9 OH 99559-96-00G9 96050599908 H00OO0HH0-H SEODSOFOOFSSDOOSS0OOOTOOOE ‘The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth, : $ Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening World. $ Mr. Peewee Pops Against ‘Popper’ on the Popping Question. $ You MusT BE ~ VERY POPULAR: THI THAT DONT You ; LITTLE, PORGUN) \THINK Sot—> MR, PEE WEE’ - AS FoR ME -A MAN OF MY INDUBITABLE PERSONAL CHARM AND ATTRACTIVENESS ~WHY? — I say-wxy! sHoutp] DESCEND TO SUCH HUM- ILIATING NONSENSE |! THE GIRLS ane ALL CRAZY To Ger ME!! ¥ Have TROUBLE ENOUGH TO KEEP THEM To MEIN Oe a ee Now TooTSsie Just You — ALLOW ME TD EXPATIATE IDA UTTLE ON TAE Momenrous PROBLEM OF POPPING THE Question -[ HAVE Given THE MATTER MY DGEPEST ConsiDERATION — [ AM WHOLLY UNABLE To SEE WHY THERE IS ANY Rosa) FOR MEN POPPING , THE Quésrion ar Auc!! 2 BOELEIDO POI LOL GIG IOAN HODES , ’ Vs AR NEWS IN ANY OTHER PAPER’ ni A B) TO READ a —— o A SAT CLP ABGOT] s BAN! FAuGHTT HAVE ) VIMATS THAT ABOUT, You BET YOUR > J ASKING PAPA You Boots PAPA HAS GoT SOmeE- THING TO SAY IN THIS HERE Home! ’ EAR! tn PRovane Acai! NOTHING BUT SUPREME IN TROUB)! ' CONTEMPT FOR THE + MAN WHO PLEADS © AND BEGS FOR A GIRLS NOT TO MENTION THE WEAK KNEED MAN WHO EVEN GOES, TO ASK HER PAPA The bables of our ¢ paleolithic ances- tors were always porn with FULL SETS OF TEBTH. This is a PACT ‘A BABY EDITORIAL. Your Baby Batdheaded Is Mord Toothless? Sor we would not state It. cis re, we will tell you . Furimehecause they had no soft BREAKFAST foots, | tm these GAYS. = gre not RACTSy tls paper will MAKE. i t! . neve with ours | We never allow HISTORY to interfere : Hy ek iry to make YOU think HARD THINKING + will solve this. | weve | This ought HARD DRINKING will not If-you don’t DRINK—' ‘Anyhow—TBINK It! RED AS* The Pie era oal Se eaciees A sincere’ ‘OS curtain for our Editorial pare to our BRIGAT: BURNING thoughts. Gee! mr hie : Tegees/ 5a] $To-day’s $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial was written by Thomas Cole, 203 Thomas St., Newark, N. J. z A Fool and **The Fudae.” With Apologies to “The Vampire.” ‘There was a fool and he read the Fudge, Even as you and I, And o'er his fingers there came a smudge That wouldn't come off—that wouldn't budge, Against that paper he now has a grudge, Even as you and I, JOHN COEN, 261 Ninth avenue, City. PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES FOR TO-DAY, $1 Paid for Each.— of Southern New England Tele- phone Co., Derby, Conn.; No. 3—} CHARLES HERR, 415: E. Eighty-¢ fourth street, New York City: No. I—THOMAS F. O'DONNELL, 545 Third avenue, New York City; No. 2—WILL’A. TALMADGE, care OS239OO: : To-Morrow’s Prize Editorial, ‘RAILROADS Must INCREASE Their Fare to ro Cents.”’ $ $ A A 3 She Wins the Heavy -Weight Championship.: WHEN T AIT ¢ A MRM HE $ J O/es Twice! ‘COUNTER, | YOU uT, , DDD HOF9OOS | bl eG a | master got his ears frostbitten listening for Japar calling under the number slaughtered. w THE » EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME »# MAGAZINE Look Out for the Red Hot War Extra! HAT fs hot news we are getting from bosom of the war between the Russians and the Japs,” eald the Cigar Store Man.| “How do you play your war news?" asked the Man Higher Up; “on the red or the black; You know they have a new scheme now. You pay you benny for a red extra with a numiber on It, and if th) news comes true you get 35 cents back. Then you blo, the 35 cents for oxalic acid to eat the ink off your mi with, “You can play high and low, too. If you get early enough in the morning to get the red night ¢) tion and thero are 10,000 Russians dead in crimson ii} you wait until you find ont that a Russian ae — torpedo-boats. By writing to the editor you car / him to pay back your penny and a penny beside’ ¢ “If you buy the red extras you will know tha } is hell. The way they get out a red extra is Cane | simple, A telegraph operator has a fit. Fifteen aging editors Immediately gather in a consultatoi shake dice. The one who is stuck has to fight tht’ tle. He sends out and buys a ‘bucket of chop suey a caviare sandwich, If hé likes the sandwich b& than he likes the chop suey he licks the Japs. Othe: he licks the Russians, “Having framed up the side that Is licked, he for his trustiest slinger of words and instructs him rewrite the torpedo boat manocuvres at Newport 1 summer. Soon after the streets are suffused, so} speak, in a soft, pink glow. The red extra is out. 4 “That 1s how you come to read 1,000 word ds spatches from Muckahi describing how the torpedo! ‘boats steamed into the harbor just as dawn was bref ing; how the lookout screamed ‘Holysmokeovit Siclddooski!’ and how the torpedo boats fired a bro @ | Side of torpedoes that put the whole fleet on the blir “It must be hard to keep track of the moveny of the armies and naval forces so far away,” said Cigar Store Man. “It is," answered the Man Higher Up, “but if have a map, an imaginaticn and presses capable making an extra look like an exploded roulette wn what's the use?” ie The Irresistible Man. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. | | | We have all met the irresistible man | —you, gentle reader, with the parted | pompadour, see him whenever he gazeq| @ soulfully into your eyes and holds you | hand with a long lingering pressure an tolls you what a wonderful feeling 14 gives him to do it, } And you whose masculine and per | haps contemptuous eye has strayed mo,| mentarily from the editorial column you glance with quizzical approval =| him every time you stand on one to before the mirror and tle your necktie | Oh, no—Nobody is kidding you. For, in dead, sober earnest every man 4s {r- resistible to some woman and sometimes to many wome | the more's the pity. What makes him so? Why, it Isn't because he ts handsome, for some per irresistible mien have been so ugly as to border on the tesque. Witness Mirabeau, who, black and pitted by ¢ pox as he was, was one of the most successful lady 1 the world has kpown, and the celebrated English Wilkes, who boasting that his physical ungainliness wr! slight a handicap, that In love he was never more tha teen minutes behind the handsomest man in London, And It ts not because he's Intellectual. For there “a wonderful scholars,and scientists whose hearts from lor. use have become dry as summer's dust and in whom ¥ take no more interest than they do in specimens natural history museum. \ And there are uuthors who chloroform their own bal and other peoples and stick pins in them and spread tl out on pieces of white paper, like so many dried butterf, white or spotted, according to the buttertly—and the soul for that matter. Lut no woman ever found an author t sistible ,though she may have loved a man who wrote boc which fs quite a different thing. And yet, though a man is not frresistible because he intelligent, he certainly cannot hope to interest any but, very small number of women, unless he has brains, For no matter how silly a woman may be herself, hs always wiso enough to recognize and condemn a man’s | tgllectual shortcomin; if he has them. ‘There are certain men, as there are certain women, w are {rresiatinle without any one's being able to tell why. When peoole want to describe them they say that th are charming, without realizing that thoy have really oe nothing enlightening, since charm 1s something that can’ be explained or defined, but Junt simply ts. We find these men and women trresistible not because w| are unable to resist them, but just because they are #0 alto gother pleaning that we don't want to. Why, we wouldn* withstand thelr fascination if we could. A One-Log Log House, John Muir, the naturalist, while in a forest of huge re | woods in California, came across a mgn who was herding band of horses, When Mr. Muir asked if he might ta some flour, the man said: “Yes, of course, you may has anything I've got. Just take my track and It will lead yo to my camp in a big hollow log on the side of a meadow tw’ or tnree miles from here, I'll be back before night; in th mean time make yourself at home.” By the middle of th. afternoon Mr. Muir had discovered “his noble den in 1 fallen sequoia hollowed by fire—a spacious log-house of ont log. carbon-lined, centuries old, yet sweet and fresh. wi ther-proof, earthquake-proof, Ikely to outlast the most! durable stone castle.” A Glass House. ,.. A house composed principally of glass w9%ttles stands t the town of Tonopah, Nev., and was erected by a mine: who used the bottles on account of the scarcity of other me: DONT TICKLE ME THAT Way) | tertal, The bottles were placed in rows with the bottor ! ends outward and are held in place by mud instead | plaster. The corners of the bu€ding aro composed ‘wooden beams, also covered with mud, The walls are ab fn foot In thickness and are so well constructed that | house Is actually more comfortable in wi+ter than man; | the other dwellings In Tonopah which are built of o matertal. J¢ ts 20 feet in length, 16 feet in width and o, tains two rooms, It was bullt entirely by the owner, A Ducal Crack Shot. The Archduchess Augusta of Austria has just prove: self a good shot and a brave one, On a recent br party she ghanced ppon a large bear and coolly, sak bear and coolly. sips sumers and their p: rlessness to make a fair bargain. ‘Theee things. in the opinion of the association, de- mand a thorougt expert investigation in advance of at- tempts at permanent legislation. But the suffering pub- He is entitled in the meantime to such temporary relief Ms can be extended by an emergency measure providing oF “immediately emcient inipection and maintenance the quality of gas in the city of New York.” : he people of this city are not the only sufferers he oppression of lighting monopolies, whose ods. ywhere are the same, it is very properly -acheme of permanent reiler should be one 3309900 UHL VGd > “He ain't done nothin’ ’tall to you; it just ain't fair a bit! I'll show you how to fit a fight, if fights you got to fit! ssy Sue chanced upon Jim Jeffries's training camp. “See here! you hig galoot!" she cried, “don’t hit that little scamp! “Ye won't let up? Then clear the track! I'll puvish 9 you, my lad! ‘ 2 What? Wal s’pose Jeffrles BE yourname! I’m Sassy: $ Sue!—I’m mad!” PEOROOE LPO POO O COG HO TW HT YH HE BOY HH THDDEOEHIEG DUD VHVUOO TT OO DOCHOT OCT OOOEE DY UELLHOCOO HOCH HUH 10 0169040 OO 909 HH OOO OORRMECOOROOEROTE