The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1904, Page 12

+ MONDAY EVENING 7 FEBRUARY 15, 1904- 9 eso “WORLD'S » HOME »s MAGAZINE She Published by the Press Publishing Compan: Park Row, New York. tntered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. 15,518. R t 4 VOLUME 44.. NO. The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World tor 12 months, ending * January 31, 1904. ..... ‘ = Number of columms of advertising 12,231%| in The Evening World for 12 months, ending \e . : January 31, 1903... : 7,856'4 as INCREASE........ 4,3€4% This record of growth was not equalled by any ; newspaper, morning or evening. In the United States. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. { . Before the ashes at Baltimore were cold The Evening buliding a more beautiful, a safer and a more convenient city, and urged the authorities to take advantage cf an opening that could never be expected to come again. The suggestion has been promptly heeded. Mayor Mc- Lane has refused to give out any permits for building in the burned district until the question of an improved “street plan is settled. “I expect that there will be much teriticism of this order,” he says, “but it is imperative, and it will not be departed from. This order is issucd because now Is the time for the city to rebuild on modern | F The people are learning that safety, beauty, conven- fence and comfort in city building go together. The broad, ‘ ‘yadiating streets, the parks and open spaces that charm | *the eye, are also the most effective alds in fighting fire; “they improve the quality of the air we breathe, and they ‘help to distribute the daily crowds. The City Beautiful | “fw the City Practical as well. tj When this subject was discussed at the dinner of the Architectural League the other evening Police Commis- sioner McAdoo offered the suggestive observation: . It 1s a case of educating the public mind. The politictan ts an imitative animal, and he knows what is conducive to the gontinuanco of his Job. If you create a pwvlic opinion for a City Beautiful every Alderman will go down to the City: Hall in the garb and with the paraphernalia of an artist, and there will be nu trouble about getting legislation, Mr. McAdoo knows how the new navy was built. For years the old navy was allowed to go to decay. Congress could not be induced to take any Interest in {ts restora- tion. Buz public opinion was systematically cultivated, through’ books, newspapers, magazine articles and lec- tyres, until one day the people said “Let us have some new ships.” been worked until the naval appropriations have been And the popular sentiment so created has i would have dared to suggest when Mr. McAdoo was 1 Assistant Secretary So the agitators for civic improvement are all doing substantial work. They may not see immediate results, but they are helping to create public opinion, and some gut into the City Beautiful. THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDGE. The war in the East is strenuous, but It is a ladles’ ; é seminary promenade compared with the desperate battle that rages every day at the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge. 4 It is estimated that from 3,000 to 5 000 Russian soldiers may be carried by the Trans-Siberian Railroad to the figures collected for Mr. Langdon Smith's article in yes- | terday’s Sunday World Magaz’ne, 42,702 peop'e are poured | into the contracted funnel of the bridge in a single hour. Nearly 175,000 persons fight their way In one direction every day—an army greater than the estimated numbers of both the contending powers in Corea put together. } And yet the wisdom of two successive administrations thas not yet been equal to the task of opening a relief channel across a new bridge that has cost the city $15,000,000. Public Opinion and Jobhery.—When Croker was trying to force through his scheme for a race-track in Central Park 3 he was just as contemptuous of public opinion as the Aldermen who have garroted the Port Chester franchise are now, and apparently he had better reason to be, But when New York once roused itself Croker had to climb down, The present rulers of Tammany may profit by his experience, TEETH AND EVOLUTION. Acceptance of the theory of evolution is general. Stated in broad terms, this theory is one of growth along Unes prescribed by necessity! For instance, the formless protoplasmic mass decided that {it required a stomach, and lo! the stomach was there, save for dyspeptic after- pang doing its duty well. The advanced creature needed hair to protect it from the elements, and a hirsute blanket was slapped on. It decided that clothes would be «Jo Jo. Now comes a scientist to declare that teeth are van- dshing. If people received the boon of teeth because of a ‘detiand, evolution would be guilty of gross inconsistency _ An taking away the useful incisor and the effective molar _ favhile yet there remained the restaurant eteak. The con- iF ¢itions that suggested to the tooth the duty of sprouting “otill abiae. ke duced to the univoried gum, the race not only would -|¢@ World called attentivn to the unequalled opportunity for ‘ | Mines. We do not want Individual property owners to 60) ¢ ahead und rebuild irrespective of the general good.” \¢ pushed to a height that not a single man in America): @ay, perhaps suddenly, that public opinion will blossom | % scene of hostilities in a day, According to the official | $ $Third Avenue, New York City. > oa / more seemly, and the blanket was taken off of all save . | to change its gastronomic habits, but the absence hache would remove one of the most chastening of PODPOOEV L094 HE OOTH9 900974 LOdDOS LPQOLE*POOOVHLHOOY Only Mr. Peewee. 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RUSSIAN FLEET Why New York Isn’t the ‘City Beautiful.” SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that there ts & whole lot of talk lately about making the City of New York beautiful.” “My attention was jostled against that proposition by the dinner of the Architectural League held a few nights ago,” rejoined the Man Higher Up. They talked about making the city beautiful and how to make the city beautiful, and it all sounded funny to me, because if New York {is architecturally ugly the fact is up to the architects. — GG I “Who designed all our buildings? ‘I'ne arcnitects. Wno are designing the skyscrapers that are going up so fast all over town? The architects. Who are making New York look I!ke an eruption on the face of nature? ‘rhe architects, “Does an arohitect try to persuade a builder to put up a beautitul snack’ Not on your life. He tries to Jam as many square feet of floor space into a given area as he can without violating the building laws, ‘Ine arcnitects have invented every appliance that helps to make our buildings offenses to the eye, and instead of making con- — ditions better they are doing their level best to make them worse, “It may be that the architects are framing up for the future and working up this ‘city beautiful’ gag in the hope that public sentiment will compel the destruction of all buildings and the erection of mew ones to take their places. The more building there is the more work and mazuma for the architects. “The ‘city beautiful’ dream in this country is a long way from realization. We have got to have buildings, and it don’t cut much’ ice what they look like from ths outside. As New York grows older it will become @ beautiful city, ke the beautiful cities of the Uld World. When it comes to a show-down New York don't have to hide when it comes to the question of making an im- pression, at that. “There isn't anything in this country to approach the view of New York from the bay and the rivers, and there are few cities in Europe that can make a better all- was set to music, London makes more for veneration, but when It comes to.a city that stands up and fairly smothers you by its immensity New York has got them all skinned to a fret. A ride up the North Hiver on @ ferryboat to Weehawken at dusk when lower New York is lighting up {s enough to arouse poetry in the soul of the superintendent of a slaughter-nouse.” “After all,” mused the Cigar Store ‘Man, “it 1s better gj to be good than beautiful.” “That's what they say,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “but to be well upholstered with the cush cuts out the necessity for being either.” A Sparkorium for Lovers. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ROM Cincinnati, O., development in social settlement work, the establishment by @ philanthropic clergyman of a pubic sparking parlor, where young girls of the poorer classes may greet their young men friends and pass the afternoon or evening in their entertainment ; ‘This charitable trysting place has been Installed !n the most @ensely populated section of the city, and already the par- lors ure filled with couples sparking away to their hearts’ content, and the managing committee has recelved more bequests for cozy corners than it knows how to fill, i Surely the Rev. James,D. White, who 4s responsible for the fnnovation, Is entitled to the thanks of impoverished lovers the world over. For it 1s q peculiar fact that the tendency to spark grows Inversely as the space at the disposal of the sparkers de- creases, and that couples who might sit 10 feet apart in an unoccupled drawing-room and yawn at each other across the voluntary charm are often filled with a craving for senti- ment in the very midst of the madding crowd, whose pres- ence makes its indulgence impossible. To be sure, there are brave victims of the tender passion comes the latest who defy, when thus Inspired, the unsympathetic gaze and the unfeeling comment of the mere onlook- er, and pursue their sparking anyhow. Witness the heavily freighted benches and even the rocks of Central Park on @ summer afternoon, where, if the weather is fa- vorable, the birds sing love on every tree and underneath ft, with clasped hands, two unheeding lovers ptpo to the spint ditties of no tone. Presumably, these enamored couples have no homes where, in the dim recesses of a cozy corner they may pursue thetr sparking undisturbed. They seek in the leafy semi-seclu- sion of a park bench the privacy dented them by the con- gestion of New York life in the poorer tenement districts. But what becomes of these park couples in winter? The question is far more @nportant than tfiat concerning the last year's snows or the loves of yesterday propounded by one Francois Villon some five hundred years ago. Do their feelings fall with the temperature, or deprived of proper sbarking surroundings, must they wait more or less {m- patfently for the return of spring, which makes the pari benches habitable? Unromantic persons may suggest that they get married and therefore spark no more. But sympa- thetic henrts will rejoice in the possibility of the publlo sparking parlor and the New York philanthropists will surely not lag behind Cincinnati in its establshment. Japanese Artillery. ‘The guns for the artillery service of Japan used to be pur- chased abroad, but are now chiefly manufactured in Osaka, says “A Handbook of Modern Japan." There is an excels lent’ arsenal in the Koishikawa district of Tokio; it 1s on part of the site of the magnificent mansion of Prince Mito, whose beautiful garden still remains a delight to all visitors, This arsenal is where the once famous Murata rifle was formerly manufactured; but that has been superseded by the ‘woth Year” (of Melj!) rifle; and both of these are Japanese inventions, The arsenal is also turning out ammunition at the ordinary rate of a million rounds a day. Health on Horseback. When I first took up horseback riding, some years ago, saya a writer in Country Life in America, I romember, thet gone of the first things that impressed me wae the number of practicing physicians I mat who were regular riders, he inference seemed to be that drugs were good, enough,for thelr patients, Unt when, it_rame. to doctoring ; A