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@ATURDAY EVENING. iia) FEBRUARY 20, 1904, Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice t New York as Second-Class Mai! Matter. VOLUME 44.. «NO. 18,523. The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising fn The Evening World for 12 months, ending January 31,°1904...........5..... 12,231% Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending , JAMUBTY 31, 1903... 00s eeeeree ees 7,856% INCREASE........ 4,374% This record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper. morning or evening, tn the United States, WHY NOT GET TOGETHER? Borough President Littleton, of Brooklyn, has a plan dor handling the traffic on the Wast Kiver bridges. Bridge Commissioner Best hes another plan. His prede- censor, Mr. Lindenthal, had another, Chief Engineer Parsons, of the Rapid-Transit Commission, has a fourth. Bverybody who has anything to do with transit ques- tions seems to consifer it his duty to think up a now scheme totally irreconcilable with that of anypody else. Meanwhile people are walking across the Williamsburg Bridge and fighting for hanging room on tne Brookiyn Bridge egrs. While every member of the city government is burst- ing with ideas, the government itseif nas no ideas and Re policy, It is drifting as aimlessly and helplessly as the Russian navy. Is it not clear that it needs a think- ing department—a general stat—to plan its campaigns? Does not the Mayor see here a new reason for the ap- Deintment of that City Mian Commission which 1s to Investigate all our needs and devise the best means of Meoting them? “But, in the present situation, why cannot Mr. Me- Olellan invite Ohief Engineer Parsons and Bridge Com- missioner Best and Horough Vresiaent Lattieton and any other officials loaded with transit ideas to get together in his office and thresh out a Dian for bridge trafic ‘pon which they all can agree? THE AMAZING PALLAs. Really, Park Commissioner Pallas is ceasing to be a Joke. His letter to the ‘Municipal Art Society on the advantages of surrounding the Public Library with pni- boards 1s amusing in itseir, but wnen we renect that a man capable of seriously writing such a letter is in @beolute contro! of Ventral rark, and ot Kiverside, Morningside and all the other parks of Manhattan and Richmond, the vista of possibilities becomes ghastly. An official! who could sell for $1,500 the Privilege of _ using Bryant Park and the Public Library as a back- ground for a procession of whiskey posters, and then defend his action on the ground that whiskey sivor- tising looked better than green paint, would be |)eiy to #ee an advantageous business deal tn cutting (ows the trees of the Mall in Central Parkand selling the woou, What does Mayor McClellan really think of Mr, Pallas? AN EASY WAY OUT. \ ‘The latest Aldermanic idea on the Bronx franchise | Question {s a triumph of statesmanship. it is to give) franchises to both the Port Chester and the W estchester | compenies on their complying witn the Mayor's con- ditions, and let them tight out the question or onstruction on the ground. If the Aldermen had improper reasons for favoring one of the roads over the other, or for Preventing the construction of any road at all, this scheme would naturally not appeal to them. But if they are simply in doubt as to the comparative merits. of the two companies it looks Uke an easy way out of the uncertainty, —$—__ THE PRIVILEGED BURGLAR. Recently @ young man {n Mount Vernon, belonging to the Y. M. C. A. of that place, was found to have been etealing from the institution. ‘Inere could not pe made for tim the plea that he did not know better. He was of good family, in comfortable circumstances, and nis very surroundings were such as to sustain even the wavering morals of one having a tendency toward the larcenous amusement of kleptomania. actuat | bot it is better than the impulse which sug Bests natural depravity. TWO maids o sted a pair of hoboes who, hay os? dinner, were sneaking off without Masalling Ue oa pile, One maid wan named Gladys, and she hada ot Ing-knife. ‘The other wan Mery, and she hud qe cy a beard. Both were thrice armed, according to tha ahs Fpenrian standard, for thetr quarrel was just. ‘The a8 are in jail; the cook and laundress sing about naj? Jar tasks. Good girls! iF regu The Inevitable Poxe—Contention growing out of plage of @ enaxorial funeral must be regarded as int exousably bad taste. The desiro to be on a oan!) ought to have been subordinated wholly to the raed ©€ 8 solemn occasion. ome men in public life, hon” Geprived of the limelight, would pose in the subauey ve of the chamber of death rather than tose the ray pose. chance ¢ ~The man Who has ho, (Swindling railroads by pretended injuries wit) Vest f ¥ this particular form of labor during a term in pes Serve Dim rightly, too, The railroad is pretty weft ao to protect Itself against auch a swindler, but he unr de Pad in the way of the person who r, si ‘tally has bee Santo Domingo is willing blow itnelt up on the chances that the fragments wit ¥ im our jurisdiction. This countrty is no of & bogus republic in a condition o Baw't reed It-—Apparently “to w THE » EVENING w WORLD'S HOME » MAGAZINE « PubUshe@ by the Prese Publishing, Company, No. 63 to 63) % 3 ‘The G Ps + « J Surrose ‘rou Have HEARD OF me, Peewee!! Ip ‘You READ THE PAPERS You CERT* AINLY MUST HAVIE HEARO OF Mel! To PROTEST AG. YOUR, CONSTAN RUSHING INTO PRI NoBooy ELSE feopts 066066-. 226 ‘AH, MR. se) reat and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World Mr. Peewee and District-Attorney Jerome Engage in a Hot-Air Contest. Ul HAVE COME SiR-R! LT naee WIPED OUT! By Cook A. Pill. : 1 Stall War C tn Cape Town, South Africa) “RLARKSORIF, near’ Pretoria, Feb, 18, via Pipe) Dream Cable—Whén the wat broke out three weeks ago the Russians had ten battleships, cighieen cruisers, ninetys} four torpedo-boats and four submarines at Port Arthur. The Japanese have already sunk fifteen battleships, thirty cruisers and one hundred torpedo-boats. The submarines ‘submarined themselves and have so far failed to come up. Battleship Rubitinski surrendered without a struggle. Ad= miral Kookoo ( Japanesa) says he is now master of the situation. BALLS, ARE MADE OF FISH. By Dopey Ike. (Special Staff War Corresponger?,) , CHOP SUEY, Chinz, Feb. 18.—A heavy battle is raging somewhere. Booming of guns heard. Also terrilic. clicking of red typ ~, : To-Day’s $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial was written by R. P. [icPhee, Springfield, Mass. ~ PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: «Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 2, Miss P. V. GUEST. No. 1262 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 3, FREDERIC E, SCHMIDT, %No. 31 North Bleecker street, Mount Vernon, N. Y. ° ($0606000646-06202000884.004 Munro's Sons.) Munro's Sons. CHAPTERS. tole tne (unde 9 political body. ‘This young man was permitted to go unpunished. | | For luve Of Had he been poor, ignorant and hungry, no Such benign fempere: RNorthmague ie the outcome would have been bis portion. However, ne may | srllon . 0 have a conscience, and possibly this wil) have been at rea ei + | mo tuned by his experience up to a working pitch, dhe eared OF Of course, necessity is not'sumcient excuse ror thetr heir differences into an alliance to urn, the pa. ‘Northmour, Northmour's SHOULD have the gr I t to tell you what followed next after this tragic clrcumstance, It ia all to me. as I look back upon tt, mi strenuous and ineffectual, like the st gles of a sleeper in a nightmare. Clara, 1 romomber, uttered a broken sigh and would have fallen forward to earth had mour and I supported her in- bedy Aitacked; I do not remember even to have seen an assailant, aud I believe we desertod Mr. Muddlestone without a glance. I only remember running like a man In a panic, now carrying Clara altogether In my own arms, now shar- ing her weight with Northmour, now scuffing confusedly for the possossion of that dear burden, Why we should have made for my camp in the Hem- lock Den, or how we reached ft are points lost forever to my recollection. The first moment st which I became definitely aure, Clara has been suffered to fall agninet the outside of my little tent, Northmour and I wero tumbling together on the ground, and he, with contained ferocity, was striking for my| ¥ head with the butt of his revolver, Ie had already twice wounded me on the n ran ; | deart 1 do not think we were|" soalp, and it is to the consequent jogs of blood that I am tempted to attribute the sudden clearness of my mind _ Pop caer tenner daha ae esta Monday's Prize Fudge Editorial Gook, ‘‘Why New Yorkers Should Eat Breakfast Food.” ‘ SEOLEDESS OF9FPSLHOIGGORES F8GDGOHH “For the Love of a Woman,” by Robert Louis Stevenson. PELL DEBDEGD OOOGELEDGIOE LOGE HE HOE DHSO GOOD 64 OF 0OFGE4 844-109 9OOGD 69000-45990 0400092080SOH00 POE MODLS PEIGHP® GOHHLDHOHOGOHIDIHEHID VOD FLLOGHOOHHOOLHPGHIOOOLH INS ® é $ Little Mari on Earth, Arctic Winter Kuocks Out the Scientists. OULDN’T this make you hesitate to have your hair cut?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “I've paid more for having the snow shovelled off my sidewalk this winter than it costs me to keep the street sprinkled in summer.” “The winter of 1903-4 has certainly stood the oldest inhabitant’s acid test," said’ The Man Higher Up. “The people who have been yearning for an old-fashioned win- ter have got theirs. A lot of them figuring as material for biographies executed on stone by a man with a mel- let anda chisel. You have probably noticed that the man who hollers for cold weather is the boarding-house most frequented by pneumonia germs. “There is one thing this winter has taught me, and that {s to put a copper on the wise dope issued by the | scientists. The guy who picks out the weather from the | streaks on a goose's breastbone ranks among the aces with me since this North Pole scenery and’ atmosphere has been moved to New York. “The series of mild winters we butted into for a few years previous to our present infilction got the scientists busy. They got out search warrants for the stars and dis- covered spots on the sun. They shifted the ocean cur- THAT, YOU SAWED ore IF THERE JS ANY TALKING To BE DONE TIVE. rents, made the moon do a flip-flap, worked out some new JAPS SEGRE’ stunts on the part of Venus and gave the Dog Star hydro- By Second-Stqry Sam. phobia. To hear them tell it the Milky Way was turning (Special Stat War ) sour and would soon be on the cheese. ikado to-day * OMEGACHURA, Feb. 18.—I asked the Mik: where the three divisions‘that have started from here “ and he replied that it wag nobody's business. tit ‘own, Could hardly rgsist kicking his slats in for istence. They told us that the forces of nature were at work and that our winters would gradually grow warmer until in the course of another quarter of a century we conld go into Central Park on Christmas and pick oranges, Every one of them had a reason for the grow- ing mildness of the New York winter, and every one of them proved that the temperate zone was gradually mov- ing to the North. “Now comes along the hardest winter they have had up State in fifty years. The whole United States hgs been % | massaged by blizzards and cloaked with snow. The old- | fashioned winter is back on deck and working overtime.” 3 “Still,” said the Cigar Store Man, “our scientific | Weather Bureau has been quite successful in forecasting © | the weather.” “Forecasting the weather,” replied The Man Higher O06 pid you ever Do. the Trolley Cars see a tates 6a? 3 Up, “is like taking out a show. The weather people spot Have ‘wheels? ‘Theyare corte 3\* storm or @ cold wave when {t starts and then guess on 2 which way it is going to go.” 3 The Wily Widow--Bad Luck to Her! By Nixola Greeley-Smith. oggeran the Aquarian tat fie Nation (conyrt, 1004 by te wie fact on the fact that tre for jen purpose 4‘ SxppR OVER THIS! O8OSCOOOO HOD wheels ‘Trolley cars have land, of srinedt te ct ai Pees ea tie a, CCORDING to the latest advices ‘MEN WITH WHEE gt wheel A from Long Island City, there is other men get a Regt 3 3 war betwen the maids and the widows of that smoky town, all because the widows insist on attending a leap- year ball which the maids regard as a function to be held for their especial benent, ‘ When it became known that the left- MORE: Wey bea mechanical freak, man phy wheels wowd, Je # ercaler. ? Mier PONDERIT. : ven, of many of Long Island ot canceled transfer checks wo gi sid citizens Entended to A bunch 0) ADER who sends tn a correct bachelors with their to the FIRST Rl unmarried mature charms t women yotexted in a bod What possible chance would we have against a lot of bold things that would propose after the first dance? And they presented to the alarmed Committee on Arrangements this ultimatum: “No widows or no gitls—take your choice. ‘The matter was finally compromised by the decision that the widows might go to the ball. byt only when aceom: panied by escort: {dea being that at the ball the maids Id to themselves, DOSY DOSEGH EOE OE LD d i _ BRAIN CELL I ; No. |, HENRY LOCKWOOD, No. 73 South Third street, ided compromise was the supertor finesse of the whole widow tribe more thoroughly demonstrated. The ball ts scheduled for March 17, St. Patrick's day, anc the artful widows will have until that day to lay pipes. By arranging for their escorts so far in advance they will have eveyy opportunity of exercising their wiles upon the susceptible bachelor in the interim, and it is gafe te predict they will by that time have cornered the entire supply ef escorts jn Lo ‘When the matds p-year ball with thel: hair and their gowns neatly adjusted and thelr proposals o: marriage neatly framed, they will face an aggregation o brand-newly engaged men—and every girl knows that th North Pole ls not so hopele: inaccessible as & newly en: > te Te th vy vrist “IT dare you to," he cried. ] Started from the ground, but the volce | blood."”* i gaged man. : f ; “Norther 1 beeeeiys r osaying.| T do net Raow what A eaeraaed me; !t/of Northmour was heard suoing in the . the quickaanga of Graden Floe,” said Rates ER So ea rfp ot pe ASC “you « ome rd, Let us| was one o 5 m most |imost tranquil tones: “Come here, Cus- | Northmo ‘ ts Ainemnaity oa ee daharaed epintsy ren hougt ia my |sills, and alone: T want to show you] He continued to advance tilt we had| pable yielding to the f SPP CoNie®. Of Dies aeiihe Widewa He was at that moment uppermost. |wito used to say, 1 knew that my kisaos | something. come to the head of the beach. eed Tt would here sae bett nae altogether to the Scarcely had the words passed my lips! would be alw Weleome were she] I consulted Clara with my eyes, and.) A a further, plea , maid he. teed and allow her free to the festivities than t When he had leaped to hin feet and (dead or living; down T fell again upon |recetving her tacit permiveion, left her Thank oe ke ue ae eed toy mi the acquisition of an escort a condition of her admis. toward the tent; and the next/my knees, parted the hair from her {alone and clambered out of the den. At Hi D P! 8) sion, For this was an equivalent to an open declaration of moment he was straining Clara to his and covering her unconscious hands and face with his caresses, “Shame! I cried. "Shame to you, forehend, and, with brow. might have given; 4 t she! And now she d you waste this pr ubuse her helplessness. and Jet me help her. He confronted me for a moment, white and menacing; then suddeniy he stopped aside. “Kelp ber then,” said he. I threw myself on my knees beside her, and lcosened, as well ax I was able. her dress and ¢ but white I was may be dying; lous time, and Stand aside, Unued my efforts sill lay white and fled beyond recall, sense of utter des my heart. the most endearing but laid my Ups for a moment on that cold It was such « fear that her sweet spirit had indeed T called het by name with and beat her hands; now I tald he: head low, now supported it against my Knee: all seemed to be in vain, ei to some distance off I saw Northmour leaning against an elder, and, as soon as he perceived me, he began walking seaward. I had almost overtaken him t, war, a throwing down of the gauntlet by the Long Island the cbepest Tespes maids to ite embattled relicts, When compared with thet of the widows, the g@untlet In like @ baby’s mitten beside the mailed glove of an oldrtime knight. ‘The prow of the boat he a caress as a father the beach and a sailor jumped ashore { was such a one as with a line in his hand, Northmour!"’ was not unbecoming from a man soon /ag he reached the outskirts of the Wood. | “wai. minute, lads!" cried North-| Forewarned is forearmed. And nobody knows this bet: And, giddy though T atilt was, 1 struck |to die to a woman already dead, “Look,” sald he, pausing. mour, and then lower and to my private] 2e" than the wily widows—bad luek to them! him repeatediy upon the head and shoul-| “And now,” sald 1, “If am at your] A couple of ‘steps moore pEcushy is ear, “You had better say nothing of all ders service, Mr, Northmour,” out of the foliage. The light of this to her,” he added, ? «| He relinquished his grasp and faced} jsut1 saw, to my surprise, that he had {Morning lay cold na cle eves tA “On the colntrary,"’ T broke eut, “The ‘Mrs. Nagg’ Series me in the broken moonlight. turned his bac! i woll-nown scene, le) PRYUOR w everything that I can tell, f i Sy had You under. ant et sou ov" | uinet bus Back, pon but a ackened wreck: the root had | "Bal know eversthing that can tell - Will Make Women Better. said he; ra now you strike me!] “yes, yg eutre i + fallen in, one of the gables had ei To the Raitor of The Evening Wor! “You are tha coward,” I retorted. | save Clara, All im one to mee. {inks wai cleatrized with AUSSe BANSHEE | coaaibpitt he nddedi: with @ woe “| Homenee, T married tn 188 ona of the loveliest women tn eA BAe: one , d e, ‘Thick smoke still went |Good-by! esa 1 " ‘i t 7 5 Did she wish your Kisses whilo sho] 1 did not walt to be twice bldden: seuine usa inthe windlees alr of| [offered him my hand. Virginia and came North to better myself in a good po Was still sensible of what she wanted? | iit, stooping itgain over Clara, con. sition, My wife does not like New York City and longs for Oe Ficon't gust things Guite old home in the outekirts of dear old Richmond. She nee ine T don't wish eed o. | hax fretted and caused berselt to become so unhappy that tal business, to sit by your hearth a] every one around her nui an & reoult. white-haired w ohilé, and while she {dolizes her, she snaps at her in o dreadful manner when she {s out of sorts, and she ia that way most of the time. I do not drink, smoke or chew and lead an exemplary life; but no use, she ts driving me mad from my home, I noticed her reading the "Mra. Nagg”’ article Inst night and I fondly hope to God that she will see her error and act like @ good wife should act before it is tor “Excuse me," sald he. “It's small, 1 the morning, and a great pile of ardent cinders filled the bare walls of the house, like coals in an open grate. Close jhooner yacht lay to, nned boat was pulling the shore, to revive her, She Nfeless; I began ta and horror and a jolation seized upon he Red 3 on either one of inflections; I chafed twelve hours too lat “Feel In your pocket, Frank. Are you armed?" asked Northmour. T obeyed him, and I think T must have ‘Well, God bless you, Northmour;" I sata heartily. “Oh, yes,” he returned. and the lds still lay heavy on ner|ecome deadly pale, My revolver had] He walked down the beach; and the| late. I have an old friend who |s a wreck from drinji, thus engewed, @ grasp descended on my >| been taken from me. man who was ashore gave him an arm | caused by hin wife nageing night. noon and morning, It's shoulder, Northmour,”” T eaid, ‘there ts my| “You see, I have you in my power.’|on board, ‘and then shoved of andla jeath, You started that sevies for the Purpose of “Keep your ha hat. For God's sake bring some water! ne continued, “I disarmed you last night| leaped into the bows himself. North I honestly think that any good Northmour, fercel: from the spring.” while you were nursing Clara, but this| mour took the tiller, ¢ “Myre, Nags” series wil! become # have no bloos Almost in moment he was by my|morning—here-take your pistol. No and t) better woman, Keep it up and may it work wonders, “Northmour,” 1 cried, “4 you will| site witn the water. neither help yourself, nor let me do go, ay you know that T shall have to dill | s: 9 “That is better!" he cried. “Let her die also, where's the harm? Step aside from that girl! and stand up to fight, “You will obse * eaid I, half rising, tI have not kissed her yet," 1 have brought, Nese “Now, you can ready —~ tesa tet Scone? eee \d. “You do not grudge me the priy Wish you a good night, Mr. Casall! * Day had “Hist” sounded from r thanks!" he eried. holding up his hand, do not like them; that is the only way you can praes Bar. wed Mia ipewens to ark LOFwerd SerOns the . when the sun unks to mest the boat, and 1 followed a| {eng aceTene WHE the sun rose oy step or two behind. In front of the one word bgt RR willion ¥ paused to see where Mr. Hua.| ¥ ay after, swe, story ts done, estone bad fallen, but there waa no eae a, 4 rere F pins sounded crisp and measured in the morning alr. 4 not vet half-way to thi eet mack and } was still Wwatohing HENPECKED, Two Cents an Hour Wages, Rupslan factories are two cents an hour an4 ‘There are thougands who work fore cent an hour tons of thousands who do not receive # cents n day for more houre work. it insmy own," he come when & sbarp the thicket. by sign of him nor ao much as & trace of By: horraitaint ee Aten ian Hite “Dozens of scientists framed up a new scheme of ex-. | al