The evening world. Newspaper, February 29, 1904, Page 12

—__ SPAT I RR NICD re . MONDAY EVENING, ' at FEBRUARY 29, 1904. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. BWiorld to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office | at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. | NetaNOL 15, 332, VOLUME 44......005 oe 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, hang ay; January 31; 1903.......+ Saas 7,856" INCREASE......... 4,374% \ ‘This record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper, morning or evening, in the United States. 12,231% THE CRISIS OF RAPID TRANSIT. Delegations from the Citizens’ Union and from other local organizations will be in Albany to-morrow and) next day to present to the Cities Committees of the Sen ate and Assembly the reason why New York desires the; passage of the Elsberg Rapid-Transit dill. These reasons are simple and conclusive. The rapid- transit situation In New York has reached a critical stage. The powers of the, Rapid-Transit Commission under the old law are almost exhausted. There is hardly any financial margin left for the construction of _tew tunnels on the terms accorded to the Belmont syn- dicate. There must be new legislation, and the question 4s whether it shall be drawn in the interest of monopoly, ‘@s was the Bostwick bill which an explosion of indig- ant public sentiment killed last year, or in the interest of the community. ‘The Eleberg bill corrects the mistakes which experi- mce has found in the existing laws. People may have asked themselves why the city, which pays the bills, @hould have to choose between a Metropolitan pjan of subway extension practically confined to Manhattan Isl- and and an Interborough plan. which would accommo- date long-distance traffic but could give no local trans- fers. It is because the prevent law forbids the conclu- sion of any contract for construction which does not also include a contract for operation for at least thirty- five years. That shuts out every bidder who is not already running a railroad system. This law also for- bids the construction of pipe-galleries, which ex-Comp- troller Coler estimated would bring in greater revenues to the city than the railroads themselves. It leaves the Rapid-Trans!t Commission without any responsibility to she city government or to anybody else. These and other fatal defects must be amended, and the Hlsberg Bill fs the only measure before the Legislature that pro- poses to amend them. WHY TURN THEM OUT? General Manager Calderwood, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, announces that all the company’s motormen must take a rigid physical examination, and that those who fail to pass the test will be discharged. “We have ® lot of old men,” he explains, “who have grown old in the service. It seems a hardship to dismiss them, but we must have men who are absolutely fit for the work.” Not only “seems” a hardship, but {s a hardship. It is certainly right to have men who are absolutely fit for $ > the work, but when one has grown old in the service, fisking health and life every day for the company, might he not be retired on a small pension? The Pennsylvania thinks 80. WHAT RUSSIA REALLY TEACHES. “We see Russia,” exclaimed Representative Gillett, of Massachusetts, in the debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, “that enormous power, menaced and humiliated by a power not a quarter or a tenth her size. What would Russia give to-day if she had followed another pro- ‘gramme for her navy during the past ten years?” What would Russia give, for instance, if instead of building seventeen battleships to Japan's six she had so trained her forces that they would have been able to stand up to the Japanese, ship forship? That would have been “another programme” and a better as well as a cheaper one. An Ilustration of “Rop' '—A burglar arrested In Chi- cago with the booty on him declared to the police that he was a New York detective, and that he was in the burglary merely to get the confidence of the gang, How- ever this may be, a finer wisdom would have led him first to get the confidence of the police, The scheme he described Is a practical M{lustration of the process of|™ “roping.” It makes a detective a criminal in order to get d@ reward for catching another criminal likely to be his moral superior. PIGEON-TOED FEMININITY. One who sits in tho high place whence emanates the ukase, lrade, dictum or whatever it may be, of fashion, proclaims that many women are pigeon-toed. She pro- elaims other things also, but this !s epough for present consideration. It might almost be wished that she had not mentioned the matter. Humanity is hardened to learning that the feet of its idol are clay, but that they} should be set at an improper angle is a distinct blow. Perhaps the secret of t#e long skirt has been revealed. For many years women have insisted upon wearing a trailing garment that swept the pavement. The process did not improve the pavement, but it sfirred the dor- ‘mant microbe to motion and to lodgment in ruffle and lingerfe. By this method it was carried Into the home and there made manifest {ts presence by developing Into consumption, typhoid or diphtheria, according to its patura) bent. Often and often have people wondered that women, so exquisite in taste and demeanor in other c , should be gullty of this dangerous practice. that pride should be more potent thun the teach- perience. Alack! that the peculiarity should be sby pigeon-toes, @ Social Fad.—Reasonable doubt has been to the existence of one gentleman burglar, en four of the seeming type operate in a bunch HS22OG-04 we EVENING 2 oOe~ 9009900400000094 PPL ODO9O09O9-19O 8H 6000060000001 446O5000 aoe raga ny Ot er & feilihe Great and << Mir. Peewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth, fant HE sTucK| ON HIS SEL ft we ' SHES BEEN MapeyY DAy! OH ATING 8 SWEETNESS— ay YEARS FOR CLASP YOuR THIS DAY ARMS ABOUT Dont I SHE CANT RESIST me! P . BUY A FUDCE ANDO GET A RED SmunGe’ emo HE EVENING FUDG. Oey 3 | | » : $ 3 3 ° $ & g 3 ¢ F =e CLEVELAND Ch a BAN wee iF The $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial for To-Day Was Written by Miss R Black, No. 376 Wythe: 2 WORLD'S Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening Worlds $ Mr. Peewee Gets a Leap Year Surprise from Miss Sixfoot. ; PEEWS. 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T.’s cheap, PERSUADE sponte is use RABTS Instead of nal Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. ® PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1-GUS PAUL, No. 3230 Sixth avenue, Troy, N. Y.;2 No. 2—E. L. BULLIS, Passaic, N. J.; No. 3-SADIE FAWLOWITZ, No, 642 East Fifth street, New York City. 2 ® To-Morrow’s Prize Fudge Editorial Gook, ‘Mayor McClellan, It’s ve to You.’”’ PEPEOLOSSLOOHLOIIVGEDHO$HOH 3H OOSSHOOOH ZOOO3 $e ® DDDODHHE-9HF0OH9O-0040OO0HO00O% ans “Why «m I in such a state? Well may you ask, Mr. Nagg. Well may you ask! Your shocking language, your cruel- wo out her life? “Everybody knows how you bicker and by menials and hirelings. big hulking brute, the Janitor, took occasion to-day to abuse me shamefully while everybody was lsten- * | abu: id villifies her? It is the same with the neighbors. As I pass they say:) at's Mrs, Nagg! That's her!’ “They know what I endure, they know what I put up with and suffer in silene And they sne ES at me and laugh at me to be of a sunny and cheerful disposi- ust be spaitied that faith begins to waver. Mrs. Nagg and Mr.— By Rey L. McCardell. ty, constant and unceasing; your Inces- gant browbeating has had Its effect, “Who am I but a po Kk, foolish} an, who lets a peevish, Irritable’ n take all the joy and sunshine from, bluster at me. They know I have no one, to cherish or protect me, and In con-) sequence I am made an object of scorn ing in the dumb r shaft, He well knew that he was safe In so doing. He knew vou would rejoice, He has heard agg, and Jack imitates his I you about It? Am I not telling about it? If you eared anything e, 1f you had any sympathy for | mu would not sit silent there when ve been affronted by a hireling. w don’t lose your temper, Mr, Nags. You kngw that a hal€ dozen Umes T have ha to remonstrate with that Jgnitor because of hix rudeness, Until flow he has never dared presume to say a word, but Mstening to how you treat me has encouraged him, “Is it any wonder that I cannot keep a hired girl? Because how can a ser-, vant have any respect for a mistress! whep she sees the master of the house! “Several times a day | have to open the dumb-waiter to get some ventilation In the house.” “What about the Janitor, you say?) woman that will keep silent under your) ‘That's what I tried to tell you when! abuse rather than create a scen -| you interrupted me by your growling] “You do want to hear, and you cal and scowling. Of course I know you) thrash him {f he insulted me?, Then don't want to hear how thé brute in-| why do you dntefrupt me? Why do you sulted me, because you are not manj| try to make me change the subject? enough to go and thrash him, You can [im every way he can to make my Ute} terrorize me and bully me, Mr, Nagg,| But\be violent with me; do not go and for it, That's what I get for ¢rying tlon when I have a husband who tries Illustrated *hy GENE CARR. Seeing How She Is Treated by Her Husband, the Janitor Has the Audacity to Be Impudent to Her, And Does Mr. Nagg Cherish and Protect Her? Ah, Wait Till You Hear! People tmpose on you, Mr. Nagg, but no man can bully me, Don't you dare at- tempt {t, Mr, Nagg. Ah, but I forget; my nerves are all going to pieces; I have no strength left, no energy any more. ‘A heartbroken woman who suf- fered In silence’—let that be written on my tomb. “What was {t the Janitor sald? Now you want to start another row, am I not telling you. “Of course you don't want to hear itr But you must Hsten, Well, I have to open the dumb-waiter shaft door a good many times a day to secure better ven- tilation, For some strange reason ma- lctous maligners in this house sus- pleion I am prompted by {mpertinent curlosity. The idea! “But {t was a coinctdence that I have been at the dumb-waiter for a breath of fresh air just when the Bickersleys upstairs were having one of their dis- graceful rows. How that poor man can stand the tongue lashings, the endless fault finding of that vixenish woman, I cannot see. “several Umes the Janitor has been putting things on and has noticed me at the dumb-walter door for the sake of ventile tion, be at the open door, not Mstening, not thinking of such a thing, when Wintor- bottom the grocer was refusing to send up a dollar's worth of groceries to the Hartupps unless they sent the money down first. tor, hearing the discussion, listen to what js going doing that=and. glanc- me having the door open and f hear him say to |Decaure I am a poor, weak, defenseless) get in any brawl with a janitor. Never mind me; ¥ am of no account; I am|ing up, bi 1 to belli Ineulted and abused, LOE ee tior ubbera in ther atratony What did he say to me? and then they laugh # coarse laugh. nh, it.wasn't what he said; {t was "i am a poor, weak woman, bus A @ ‘tea- and em) the sneering look in his eyes; and only | erabbed up, the feacherehy MN mpttod he dodged mighty quick the. boiling |!* (ow D.C ie brute, but ite ocean water I threw down the airshaft would have scalded his face off. You max | Well, I will tell you, if you insist, RAAT hear he has. Fea One ie i atta iy tay hinada on hit “Just half an hour ago I happened to} ‘2 HOME » MAGAZINE The Jap-Russ War Turns Ananias Into an ‘Also Ran,”’ Japanese have bottled up the Russians at Port Arthur.” 4 “Hobson bottled up the Spinach at Santiago, too," responded The Man Higher Up, “but when Cervera got. ready to come out he came out like the froth from a bottle of fizz. This latest stunt of the Japs shows ther! facility for imitation. The Japanese bump of invention is a cavity. If Hobson ltadn’t sunk the Merrimac off Santiago the Japs wouldn’t have steered four ships against the Russians to be sunk off Port Arthur, ~ “How far the Japs played their imitative hand re mains to be seen. When Hobson sunk the Merrimac ha foundered a large, odorous case of graft. The Merrimas was a tub that loved the sea so well she had to have salt water inside and out. It would have been hard te keep her afloat much longer with a cargo ot empty tin cans. But the Government paid as much for her as It costs to build a fuir-sized ocean liner, and when ehe went down she played the part of the coffin of a nice, embalmed scandal. Maybe we'll hear what those four Japanese vessels cost the Mikado when the war is over. “It the Russians aro so easy on the seg, why did, thd “] SEE,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that the »|Japs want to bottle them in? From the first. reporta that came from Port Arthur you would be wise in bed leving that the Russian navy could be sunk by a few Japanese in rowing shells, using chocolate eclairs for ammunition. Somebody must have got Into Port Ar- thur and told the Russians that the few million dollars’ worth of guns they had were made to shoot with. “The reason you have to play the news of this wac both ends against the middle is because the war corre- spondents are up against it. Ananias could get next to the ordinary prevarication work of the Russians and Japatlese he would have a license to take an appeal on the ground that he was a piker. A session with Russian and Japanese dignitaries is enough to make Truth hunt | for a tall place to fall from. The correspondents will get all the facts eventually, but before they get them they will be twisted to know whether they are doing a war or the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.” “Did you notice that interview with ex- Mayor Low in Rome, where he sald that the town had changed great deal since he was there in 1867?” asked The Cis. Store Man. “Yes,” answered The Man Higher Up, “and still th are people who say that Seth Low is not a close server.” Man's Love Wersus Woman’s, By Helen Oldfield. HERE be some subjects of never-ending discussion, alt the inoro ene wold laren beat they are such as another. Reanelines ad sr ra oat ag pt at) Rude oy Rn profitable questions few are more thoroughly and constantly thrashed out than that: “Which loves best, a man or a woman?” To this there would appear to be but one answer, Feel- ings cannot be measured excepting by results, and even this measure js but partial. Somo men love more deeply than other men, more devot- edly than some women, and vice versa, It seems the fashion of late to insist upon analyzing feelings and emotions, to strive to grasp the impalpable, to discuss men and womer, as though they were of different species Instead of one flesh members, all, of the same family, Humanity is much tl same, male and female. At one time so wholly selfish that thinks only of its own gratification, of its own trials, vex: tlons and suffering; at another it will welcome the greate sacrifices with the spirit of a martyr, will yteld everythin and endure anything for the sake of the beloved, It trustful, yet suspicious; timid, yet bold; humble,+yet arr: gunt, One moment it 1s reproachful and complaining; at ar other dt pours forth praises and tender protestations. Wee} Ing one hour ond smiling and singing the next, no one know what to expect of it nor what phase it may assume, All th applies as well to men as to women, and none can determir upon which site the balance sways lowest. The balance of proof of strong and trresistible affection’ as evidenced by desperate deeds, such as murder and sufcl¢: {s largely upon the masculine side of tho ledger, But agair this fact may be charged another—namely, that a man ma: if he be #9 disposed, shout his love from the housetop Péople may consider him a fool and suspect him of lunao; but, since Inve fs not tnfrequently accounted madness, h will have no such measure of scorn and contumoely meted ou to him as {s (fe portion of the woman who openly parades an unrequited attachment, Tradition and custom are inflexe Ihle in demanding that she shall be silent in such case and hide her wound, however painful. It {s as instinctive with a woman as with a wounded deer to creep to cover when hurt through the heart! No one can dispute the fact that men often love devotedly and suffer cruelly from the inconstancy or heartlessness of women. but fate, here as in many other things, 4s on their side and against the woman, A man has many resources, chief among which is his business, for hard work {s a sov- ereign antidote for mental troubles, He can get away fre~ the familiar places which speak constantly of his sorre ean make himself a new Ife, and create a new atmosphe + while the woman, poor soul, must-usually “stay put.” with no chance of escape from her ghosts nor ability to seek “fresh flelds and pastures new.” ‘Woman's faith and unfaith, man's unshaken truth and man's contemptible treachery, these ara to-day, as they have. beon from the beginning, the nover-failing theme of poe ‘and romancer, the threads interwoven with all human hit tory, the underlying currents of life and love. Some shi) are wrecked and others arrive safely at their desired have and none can prophesy beforehand which shall be saved a which shal) be lust, Odd Population Points. Ireland's population decreased 16,003 last year, the ¢ now being 4.432274. Thirty thousand homeless persons walk the streat London every night and 800,... live In one-room tenem an avernge of five to a room, te Of the Immigrants landing in the United States 185,067 couly neither read nor jwrite and 511,302 hw ~ each. In 1812 ofly 400 English persons were assesse. tunes of $25,000 and upward, ‘This number has noy 4,000, ‘The War Department estimate of the Philippine 1 population is 6.976,074, Of this number about 650,000 members of wild tribes, Italy malkos $8,00,(00 a year out of foreign visitors: Out of 154,000 houses and flats in Glasgow 36,000° hay | room only and 70,000 have two rooms. Of the 122,141 Immigrants who settled in Manitoba, ¢ Jast year, 4100 were from the United ‘States, Ofsthe steerage immigration Inst year 283,646 w Jans, $2,343 Poles, 79,847 Scandinavians, 76,208 Hebret s, Germans, 9.206 Irish, 34,427 Slovak, 32,007 Croatian-Blav« | 26,451 Engtion, 27,12 Magyars and 18,000 of other nation.