The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1904, Page 14

FRIDAY EVENING, ° FEBRUARY -19, 1904. dass tv OCR EN | @he Heaorld Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to (3 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Offico at New York as Second-Class Mail Matt VOLUME 44. [The Evening World First. 3 Number of columns of advertisinz in The Evening World for 12 months, ending January 31, 1904.... 12,2314) Number of columns of advertising ine Evening World for 12 months, ending | SAHUAPY SSP LODE nvm tse. ace 7,856'4| > w a whe AS INCREASE.... This record of growth was not equatied by ‘any newspaper. morning or evening, in the United States. MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS, The Board of Education ask for over $12,000,000 for new schoolhouses and sites. That is a large amount of 3% money, but New York is a large city. & Twelve millions for New York are about equivalent to seven millions for Chicago, or four millions for Phil-|¢ adelphia, or two millions for Boston, or $1,200,000 for! San Francisco, or $300,000 for New Haven. In other words, if the Board of Education of Yale's home town |e should ask for one good, modern schoolhouse they would |4 be relatively in just the position occupied by the Board ‘of Education of New York. ‘4 ‘With 91,000 children on half time and the Mayor lean- % - {ng toward the idea of putting up temporary butldings 4 ta “he parks, this is not a favorable moment for scrap-" {nz down appropriations. But while we are trying to 4 ; Buk roofs over the heads of the children fet us not lose aight.of the necessity of lightening the loads those heads hye to carry. The best way of saving money {s to mod- | erate the stuffing process that is wearing out the chil: | Uren’s brains, ‘ eee ‘WORK FOR THE ART COMMISSION. . Describing the duties of the Municipal Art Commis: sion, the New York City charter says: Héreafter no work of art shall become the property ot the city of New York by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless) sch work of Art, or a design of the same... shall first have been submitted to and approved by the com: mission; nor shall such work of art, until so approved, be erected or placed In or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon, any street, avenue, square, common, park, muniel pal bulla: or other public place belonging to the city, | Among “works of art” as defined by the charter are|@ included paintings and mural decorations. The pictures| 4. of whiskey and sauce bottles placed by authority of Park| } Commissioner Pallas upon the fence surrounding the! new public library are voth. By their attachment to real <. estate belonging to the city they become city property. 2 “Just think of all the lettering and pictures these ar- iists could slap on ’em!" said Mr. Pallas in discussing his ‘dea of turning all the city's open spaces into billboards. Pictures slapped on by artists plainly come under the $ ‘ .1 of works of art, whether impressionist, secessionist «2° academic does nv’ matter. They are clearly subject to the critical review of the Municipal Art Commission. |. The Deadly Transfer.—It seems that the Metropolitan Railroad philanthropists have not abandoned thetr benevolent regard for the public nafety after all. They have appealed to the Legislature for a law authorizing them to refuse transfers at points where the congestion would cause danger to life or limb. People who pay extra fares may continue to risk their necks without objection. | A VACUUM EASILY FILLED. | Whether {¢ was economy or pique against the United States that led the Russian Government to de- } cide to abancon its exhibit at the St. Jouis World's Fair, the effect of this action is not likely to be what its authors desired. It is announced that every foot of Space giver. up by Russia will be applied for by Japan. Thus the Japanese will display themselves as a power that can win martial and industrial victories) over Ruasia at the same time. Her occupation of Rus- sia’s space at St. Louis would be a veritable business conquest. Tho Japanese display would be the centre « g $ of attraction at the Fair, and the whole world would % look upon it as the symbol of the triumph of a rising over a declining power. Because a woman 1s discovered dying from the effects of a fall downstairs does not seem sufficient reason for carting her off in a patrol wagon, when the ambulance {s equally available. A fair view of the circumstance of falling downstairs te that it $s | more apt to be a misfortune than a crime, oF THE GENTLEMAN BURGLAR. There is no such creature as a gentleman burglar. |‘ ‘The term is an anomaly. However, there is a creature of the imagination who has made possible the use of & the term. He appears in a book or a play; in real life ¢ there is no place for him. Nature and circumstance | may produce a white blackbird, but before the task of 2 creating the impossible, come to a definite pause. According to report some young male suffering from that weariness wihich results from an abundance of > money, lelsure and social demands has turned burglar just for mental relief. Even then he is not a gentle- man burglar, but a particularly vulgar thief. The ordi- nary house-breaker at least refrains from betraying friends, This specimen Raffles accepts hospitality so as to spot the valuables of his host. However, since he is in quest of excitement, the best course is to give him plenty of it. To be grasped by a'policeman would abate his yearnings in a measure. To be dragged into court would reduce him to a state Gr mind almost normal. A service in the penitentiary | - would cure him. It ought to be a long term of service, partly for the crime-of burglary, but partly for the pretense of being a gentleman, bullet holes disturbing the proper functioning of his sv tem declines to state what agency mace the holes, Pe Shaps it ts not that he is of a forgiving disposition xo |, J imuch as that he is convinced two buller h _ he could stand. BF At "4 Purifying Influence.—One painful feature of of Congressman Shatrotn, of Colorado, in fraud which he admits, but in which he did ‘was planned and executed by women, ot |! lovely, 5 1€80$-4O5009O4 3495064999909 S299 HOO 9G 9 H9E G9 0490989099) $OOO001909 004000000560 09060 9644590999 99900000009: ¢ é y | ‘The Great and Onily Mr Emough as Good as a Feast.—An Itallan found with two te Eater of * jaye of War. o MAGAZINE & The Most Important Little Man on Earth. 3 Tesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebering World $ 2 pet 7 . é Jeronie is One Mr. Peewee Becomes Chesty as an “Oldest Inhabitant” in Discussing the Cold Weather. é “Gook" Ahead &) —= — PWHY, PEEWEE, Tol. aaa | if $5 —— Rd vakarabeaal CoLp! piss TUSH!! $ of Parkhurst (Ex winter!, Fupce!! Do You CALL THIS A : COLD WINTER!!! WHY I HAVENT FELTIT AT ALLY IF WE HAV MANY WINTERS AS MILD AS THIS [ SHALL CERTAINLY. EAR MY STRAW HAT AND Py suir!! How CAN You You MIGHT CATCH I've Gor MY SUMMER 0 UNDERWEAR on NOW 1 CAND Stitt T Feet STUFFY: THE TROUBLE 1S PEOPLE S BUNDLE THEMSELVES UP. ~ ' > Toe MUCH! IT'S NO SBE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Jerome is In the limelight again.” “He's in good, too,” answered the Man Higher Up. “That $405,000 scream is all to the mustard. A lot of people will think it is WONDER THEY CANT STAND A LITTLE CoLp! THE SHouLD HARDEN THEMSELVES Like ME! [ REVEL IN THIS SORT OF WEATHER! on the level. j “Jerome is no piker. When he breaks through the barrier to burn up a'millionaire’s money he {s there with »| four alarms, Jerome is cast wrong. He ought to be in the circus business or working for Sydney Rosenfeld. An imagination like his in the District-Attorney’s office {s like a gold dinner service in a Home for the Indigent Blind. “When he got back from his vacation in the frapped whisker country he found cobwebs all over the Pub- licity Department of the Criminal Courts Building. His monthly bill from the press clipping bureav was only $3.84. There hadn’t been a trick turned ip his office that was worth more than a stick in any newspaper. One of his stelwart assistants had shooed ‘The Ox’ out of the Tombs, where he had been confined for the barrel murder, but the shooing of criminals out of jail has got to be so common that’the public don’t fall to it for more than a soft grunt. S “Dr. Parkhurst had him skinned a mile Nearly every day there was something in the papers about the ‘Lid.’ It is Dr. Parkhurst’s ‘Lid,’ and every reference to it in the newspapers was a slap on the wrist to Je- tome. Then Dr. Parkhurst came into the stretch a city block ahead of all the notoriety framers by insulting the memory of Abraham Lincoln's mother, and it was up to the District-Attorney to get good and busy. “So he went up to Albany and sprung a gook with | bells on it. A plant to excite the public is like a boom for the Presidential nomination. It always goes better when it is doped up away from hc*ie. This revelation »| about the millionaire with a seven-day souse who lost | $405,000 against a brace faro bank is about as artistic les anything that has been turned out since the Cardiff Giant. The press clipping bureau that looks after the District-Attorney's office has had to put on extra hands >| and Dr. Parkhurst is biting the ends off his own whisk- ere in despair.” “Don’t you suppose that anybody told the District- *| Attorney about this young man losing $405,000 at faro?” }| asked the Cigar Store Man. “Sure,” replied the Man Higher Up. | full of stringers.” 6 The Susceptible New York Man By Nixola Greeley-Smith. «eV OU think New York men are hard Y to please, fastidious, critical, and all that,” said a visiting West ern beauty the other day. ‘And they pride themselves on being so; but, as a matter of fact, they're the most sus- ceptible men in the world. Why, they're so easy as to be scarcely worth’ while. It was certainly an original point view and so interesting that her winteldl er asked her to elucidate it. “You know," she continued, in re- sponse to the request, “I've zen all over the West and have spent weeks ir San Franciséo and Denver and Chicaw. go and I've never attracted half the attention that I do | right here In New York—no—that's not {t—N’York—you say ‘it over again so that when I go back home I'll know how. “[ wasn’t any wall-flower out West, either. The men J Itnew were very attentive to me, But in Now York its the men I don't know. “Do all New York girls look alike, I wonder, and do they all look like me? I ask because I can't walk two blocks on Broadway without some man that I can't remember | having seen before walking up to me with his hat in hie jhand and saying: "Good afternoon, Miss Johnson,’ or some | other name that I can't catch, And you know I don't re- member them and I have to say so, And the poor men look %|so foolish and walk away. I really feel sorry for them. And they are always so admiring. “The other evening just after dinner I took a letter up to the letter-box. Just half a block from our bonrding- 3 ® 2! house I was holding my muff in one hand and my skirts In | the other, and I had some trouble in getting the Ifd of the | when I looked up an awfully nice young man seemed to wer THE TEMPER. NEVER REACHED AS HIGH AS ZERO FoR PELIISOHIDDOO- GC FUDG. 7 Ale NITY STREDLE; SA cad IMPOSING DOE: STRUCTURE LO92999.0O93000: THAT s THERE BAG — wi al My PooR PEE WEE VLE, * ‘ ‘ASE OF OVERCAME } Y DE Peis EE F THE EVI Why docs not Mayor McClellan . give THE MON. | KEYS at Ceatral Park COLD TEA « for breakfast? " 0 has pointed out that the Mayor HA 5 give the poor monkeys cold teas ained inactive. wil} see to it that the mone ‘OR Will Mayor McClellan Kindly Explain? w York ts This newspaper the power, that he CAN yet thus far he has ren BUT—this newspaper keys HAVE thelr cold tea ARB, MAYOR M'CLELLAN! Way have you not given the monkeys a we ? ‘What do you suppose the people THINK of such 2 a Do you suppose for an instant that the Lacs, this GREAT CITY will re-elect a Mayor who re! notice Its monkeys ? Again we say, Mayor McClellan, Give the monkeys their cold tea! x has ts ye on you! \ | 100 mst NOT MONKEY with the city’s monkeys, — “HE EVENING FUDGE BEWARE! hoop La INSANE! OF To-day’s Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial Was Written by H. M. Le Compte, 680 E. 139th St., N. Y. City.; PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid foy each: No. 1—-MISS FREDA RICH, No. 1286 Columbus ave- nue, New York City. No. 2—C. F. SHEA, No. 303 West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, New York City. No. 3— A. V. HAINS, Mamaroneck, N. Y. To-Morrow’s Prize Fudge Editorial, “WHY DO TROLLEY CARS HAVE WHEELS?” $6-9090000-0000% oa 29S009OOH Romances of the “Personal” Column—the Winking Brunette’ PERSONAL You Must af A AW! You ARE Te MIND READER! fi fi | box open, you know. I put my muff under my arm and | have sprung from somewhere, and he was saying: ‘Pardon me, but may I assist you, Madame?’ And I said he might. | And he mailed the letter, But then he seemed to think he ought to see me home. He said such a young and beautiful girl ought not to be out by herself at that hour—it was half- past 7. I told him that it really wasn’t necessary, and he went away, But I could see that he admired me very much, p “Then you know that afternoon that I bought those two lovely opera cloaks for my trousseau? I had agreed to meet Elsie and her lance !n a Broadway restaurant for dinner, and I got there five minutes ahead of time. Well, there was a group of four men at the table next the ono where I sat, and they all admired me and talked about mo so much that I was embarrassed and thought I would go away. After a while three of the four men left, but tho one who remained was more admiring than all of them put together had been, And finally he called a waiter, who camo over to me and said the gentleman would like to know {¢ there was anything the lady would like. I returned word, ‘Absolutely nothing, thank you,’ and just then George and Blale came in.” ‘The Western girl paused, find for a while the New York girl stared at her in silence, “So you really think New York men are susceptible?” she asked finally, And the Western girl replied, perhaps: ambiguously: “[ really think they are—the Imit!"’ ‘THis Must BE) ONE oF MY OARK Oays, Eeecr See A OARKER AT 4, LAOY, BRUNETTE ? Bur | THoucHT] IT WAS oN THE Bowery. aN) LENT WH) Vee. Wik GENT. WHo WNiEQ DARK BRUNETTE AT LADY, ON SE AVE Mgr f 1 PRESUME. SAME LADY, SAME Time ff SAME PLACE, TO-DAY ] DARK BRUNETT¢ / Thinkers Live Long, ‘Thinkers #8 a rule live long; or, to put the proposition in, more general terms, exercise of the mind tends to longevity. Herbert Spencer has died in his eighty-fourth year, Darwin reached his seventy-third, Sir George Stokes hin elghty- fourth, Carlyle his elghty-sixth, Tyndall was accidentally vol. soned at seventy-three, but might have lived several years longer; Huxley wae seventy when he died, Gladatone in his >OOO9O9OO09O OO $4O9O00600060900006O ao of its owner who would esteem ft as a Yeasure. It was sent to Alabama to the girl who Is iow my wife, I recently $9$0OO0090, S30 99O$OOOOHHGHOH! 8:040O00O96006 LETTERS, # QUERIES # AND # ANSWERS. | mony. B says tt ts not omitted. Which to take out papers, as did C, his grand- is right? J. WILLIAMS. son. Is C eligible for the Presidency No Universal National Holiday. vithout taking out papers and of byl oa Sunday. Evening World in what day of the week did Feb. JM. | ent one from another.” Though a sen- | Umental meaning has been attached to 7,|the phrase, it was originally intended |usb4, fall? by Jacob and Laban merely as a Warn- |r the Ealtor of The Evening World: fonality ts C? A came acroas It. On the fly leaf in the| eighty-ninth year, Dirraell in his seventy-seventh, Ne Vm. H, Taft In Secretary of War. ing that neither must try to rob the! “4 ciaime that the United States has a| Sald to Have Recetyed $100,000, | front, of tue boos ls tus luseriptOns lived ty be eighty-five and Lord Kelvin ts sti! vigorous in » tho Editor of The Evening World other, national holiday; B claims that It has To the Editor of The Evening World: Co. M, 14th N. ¥. H. A," followed by| research in his elghtteth. To a great extent the brain js the ‘oles are wall} A says Taft 18 Secretary of Navy, B The Greek Catholic Charch, not. Kindly settle this argument. How much salary did Schwab get ajthe Scripture quotatio: reer att centre und sdat of life, what Sir William Gull called the SEPHE: Edlto > 01 and keep His commandments, STEPHEN H, To the Edltor of The Evening World nd heen Tee RCNA aay C. J. M, and F. 'T, 8, |year from the Carnegie Steel Company? Wat is the leading religion of Rus- | oe tral battery, and its stimulation undoubtedly strengthens the | followed by Definition of (Mixpah.” i “B” and “(C” Are American Citizens other extracts of Scripture. forces that make for vitality, Healthy exercise of elther Io the Sdltor of ‘The Wvenine World. | sta J. B. ble to Presidency. Who Owns This Testantént? Nd, BELTON, ~ mind or body, of course, favors length of days, but the Kindly let the writer know the mean-| Service Doesn't Require Man to To the Editor of The Evening World: Boe! To the Editor of The Evening World: A was an Englishman who came to the United States and did not take out naturalization papers, B, his son, was born here, but thought it unnecessary strivings of the thinker and writer are seldom quite-of the healthy order Darwin, Carlyle nnd Spencer were victims of , nearly Ufelong dyspepsia, and yet exceeded three score and | ten, No Universal Legal Holiday. To the Editor of The Evening World: Is there any legal holiday in the —< W. W. B, of the word “Mizpah.” JON WwW. MURPHY, | To the Bdttor of The Evening World: ‘Mizpah'’ signifies: ‘The Lord watch| A says the word “obey” is omitted on Weenane-itnd thee while we are ab-|the man’s part of the marriage cere- “Obey.” I have a small Testament which was found among the dead Federal soldiers on one of the Virginia battlefields, I would like to restore it to some relative United stateu? , ” 4