The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1904, Page 10

- woclation, the annual fire loss in the dry-goods district |. «Portunities. There are six miles of wall wt THE » EVENING »# WORLD'S » HOME » MAGAZINE Published by the Press Publishing Park Row, New York, Entered at et New York as Second-Class Mail Mutter. YULUME 44. 18,534. The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending Febritary 29, 1904..........50.++. 1251824 |] Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World to: 12 months, eading February 28, 1903..........00+.++- 86,2574 INCREASE........ Tils record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper, morning or evening, in the United States. RAPID-TRANSIT NEEDS. The Rapid-Transit Commission has sent two bills to) « Albany to amend the present law governing subway ex- tensions, One of them abolishes the limit of $50,000,000 on the cost of work under the commission. The other perfects certain details of the law, relating to the juris-| % “diction of the commission and similar matters. The first of these measures is proper and necessary. The secon, judging from the tplegraphed summaries, seems unobjectinnable. But neither of them touches the conditions the Elsberg bill was designed to meet. If both of them were passed that bill would still be neces- 4 wary before the public interests could be considered safe. There are certain fetal defects in the present law, ali corrected hy the Elsberg bill, and none of them touched, so far as appears, by either of the Rapld-Transit | | ‘Commission's measures. iy "i It {s now forbidden to let a contract for the construc- * tion of a rapid-transit road unless a contract for its operation for at least thirty-five years be let at the same | 4 time. It was supposed when this proviso was inserted that there might be some difficulty in finding anybody willing to run an underground road, It is known now tat this is an enormously profitable privilege, and that | « if the city had a completed tunnel in its hands it would be overrun with offers to operate it on its own terms. It is now forbidden to construct pipe galleries in the tunnels for general use, and so the streets are left subject to constant upheavals, the city is deprived of enormous revenues, and the existing telephone, telegraph, gas and electric lighting monopolies are intrenched. It Is forbidden to tax the contracting company. The Rapid-Transit Commissioners are not required to make any report of their proceedings, and there is no | $OOO6-010090948 296 DORPPI®VORLDEDDDOYDOOGODOGOIODOD “The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth, $ Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World, Z He Claims Descent from the Van Peewees, Who Came Over in the Cauliflower. lRAvE PEO eT Te [ORM REAL “ )Fataite Tree! A PEFWEEL (AS 1 WAS SAVING, PEOPLE vou = £ PRATE AS THEY » MAY i Le 7 MERIT AND WORTH ~ BUT eu! WHEREVER You WILL FINO SOMEWHER: 2A CURRENT OR STRAIN 2. WHICH HAS LEAVENED) THE STOCK AND GivESS 17 14S DisTINGUISHHy CTRAITS OF BUY A FUDGE AND GET A RED SMUDGE? Wy OF TRUE BLUE BLOOD: BY |, Sok iserotis th ere comy ph red-hot th ier sean? ethur dnd, alter ‘Hie ale a PPSSCESGTS ty aan Sn IKEME [aS " gist yak ca SUE (CITY, HALL: March hort: i is i Bes ita Pe tered Ad + PAE? pe facet BUC he SHE EVENING FUDGE MenOED FAKEM, h tera” mite : in name of fudge? IT Dipnt Know \You HAD A sou) BROTHER! (my Ren GERAL DINE, MONT- GOMERY, SYONEY AUSTRALIA.G. 2 PEEWEE VAN PEE WEE WAS - ER-S ER: way to’hold them to any responsibility to anybody. These.and many other faults must be corrected before the rapid-transit: system will really belong to the people oft New York.’ THE SEA AGAINST FIRE. “. Mayor McClellan is carrying through his salt-water campaign with a rush. At the hearing on Mornday the ‘plan was approved with practical unanimity, and the Mayor said that the engineer of the Department of Water Supply had promised to have plans and estimates of * cost ready within two weeks, There will be nothing then to hinder an appropriation for the immediate beginming of the work. © Chiet Engineer De Varona, in charge of the Brooklyn water supply, estimates that salt-water mains and pumping stations can be installed in three Brooklyn dis tricts--Oouey Island, the dry-goods district and the river jfromt—for $1,305,000, and maintained for $80,000 a year. These three districts cover 14,000 acres of land, making the cost of installation a trifle over $92 per acre, and that of maintenance less than $6 per acre annually. Accord- ing to Mr, Frank R. Chambers, of the Merchants’ As: ot Manhattan for the past ten years has averaged $3,000 Der acre. No doubt half of that loss would be saved by , the salt-water system. If the city mains be supplemented hy efficient stand-pipes and sprinklers in each building, the logs can be reduced almost to nothing. Insurance may help to replace burned stocks of goods, but, as Mr. Bloomingdale said, it can never pay a merchant for the loss he would suffer by a suspension of business. The insurance that atms to make good the damage’ caused by a fire is at best like surgical treat- ment of a wound. It cannot prevent the wound from being a painful and dangerous thing. The beet kind. of insurance is that which throttles a fire before it has thd a chance to do the damage, ‘Time to Think.—Through the Influence of thou; claims, Mrs, Post has been curing ae ig nie passed upon the merits of the case, a court has given Mra. Font a year and a day in jail. It dees not appear that this need tn any meamure interfere with ler healing mental flow, Thought can percolate through a brick ©) | wall, and no armed guard can stop it, Indeed, if the lady 4 « desired, whe-might concentrato her mind upon her own condition and change it to suit her tastes. ‘To “think _an fron bar in two at close range ought to be easier than ‘to ‘think’ the fever, microbe, at a dirtanve away trom his chowen calling. ~-WHY NOT BE UP AND DOING? We hate to drive an overworked official too hard, but Park Commissioner Pallas is neglecting his op- round Central + Part) still undecorated by advertisements. There is a Great reservoir in Oentral Park, too, much bigger than athe owe in Bryant Park, and it is surrounded by a fence that'does not as yet bear a single corset picture or a single patent medicine testimonial. Worse yet, the old Arsenal, ‘the very, building in which Mr, Pallas thinks great thoughts for the. public ube offers no help to the wayfarer in search of the bes ‘brand of whiskey, Jt presents an expanse of blank, %, wall, broken only by some useless ivy, Mr,’ Pallas sit comfortably in his luxurious oi 09-9920$900-959. oe PO69SS9-0099 009+ $9990049400080004 To-day’s $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial was written by E. N. Ehrlich, No. 352 E. 9th st., N. Y. City. : 4 PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1—IRVING WEBB MARCLEY, No. 131 New streets? Plainfield, N. J. No. 2.—JOHNNIE M’COY, No. 89 Baxter street, New York City. No. 3—DAVID R. WILLIAMS, No. 862 3Monroe street, Hoboken, N. J. To-Morrow’s Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Editorial Gook, ‘‘The Philosophy of Being a Sawed Off.”’ DELDID® O9GHGDIIOSOHOGHHOLSGHLDIN GOSSOHHHOTHOMSDIDHIDODGGILISHFGOSSOOOSIOOO HDF9HFOFLOHOH4-H9OOOH \CHOOSE ABOUT INTRINSIC ) IT TELL You, BLoop witt) Crim A Reaccr CREAT) MAN = LIKE ME- SEAR HIS PEDIGREE AND You >EPODEDEDY EBV EOOO DE OD 9060006059 9OG000964 659099096 GOO 90E H99-0994HE6 9509809909 Or Conse, L DESPISE! MENTIONING THESE PURELY — ? PERSONAL DETAILS, BUT Tou MRE You tay BE SURPRISED To KNOW RELATED THAT MY ANCESTORS 2] WERE THE WELL KNOWN ) )} TO NAPOLEON VAN PEEWEES WHO CAME OVER _IN THE . Do you Kwow THE > O'SULLIVANSS e TA You REMEMBER THAT MEMORABLE HISTORIC INCIDENT! MY GREAT ANCESTOR “ZHAROLD VAN PEEwEE. FOUGH® VALoROUsLY, At eTHE BATTLE OFHASTINGS = ME ‘LONG Lost BRoTHER! DARN GIZZARD, GiITs 4 JUMPIN UNHAND ME Ww EXeu IMPOSTORI, 2 HOW DARE You! et LRECKERNIZE Every one knaws 1~~~ 4 JERRY! Loe the ocean is | Mpesed-of PIECESof WATER, ! Have you ever, thought UNITED toto ons soud massat tla | of building tt against the shore | Why Did They Build the Ocean Sep ret, 1904, by the Planet Pro, ce THINK tatil you get water on th You we would suggest that yor capetinest ( Ife n WRITE US what ha pPeus after that, eet ees Teader sending correc | torial gooks a Evening ! : 66 Mr, mackerel, a bottle of couple of bunches of cel Nags. And don't TY, of velvet brush binding, sweeper and a can of bath t “Write i) down for you many months I saw you loo! ant at the breakfast table, a) o happy. 1 realizes how ho breaks conduct. Maybe he hi try to restrain his vengeful and his brutal and ungover: per? But I see 1 ain wrong. “I suppose all men are hi such as mine should never ried, “I was Intended to pass m: attend to your business, do the shopping, sweeping, the dusting. I would like to see me fall ex your feet. “Yeu, I expect a new girl. disappoints me? Su; one tells her of how you Ff while this waste of the possible revenues of % Deople, is going on fault find in this ho everybody's life a m! And! [Idol Sy WANT you to mall this letter, ko to the store and order a kit of ammonia, a see anything nice that would do for supper order it in, and get have known it. For the first time in id to myself: woman of a shrinking, sensitive nature cloister, or with flowers and birds— Mr. Nagg, what are you doing with your coffee? You will stain that clean tablecloth! You know I have no gtr, and I suppose you think that It will do me good to add to my burdens by giv- Ing, me extra work to do in washing tablecloths. “In this house I do nothing bit work; -work from morning to night! You can go downtown to the office and have nothing on your mind but to But I have to the housework, the ry to them? “How can-I expect to keep. a gird? ait the work you make. Mrs. Nagg and Mr.— By Roy L. McCardell. She Begins the Day with a Happy Heart and Has a Dainty Breakfast for Him. But You Know iHow He Is! Ah, Some Day He'll Get His Deserts! forget to and if you hree yards a carpet- ub enamel, 2-1 might king plens- nd it made ‘Perhaps y heart by resolved to disposition nable tem- alike, A have mar- y life in a know you hausted at But sup. | carpets. Pose some bicker and untidins oxpect “Th 8 at the table, how ave to put up with it, up with It, spiritiess , creature, “You Den't See Any Liver and Bacon? Of Course! What with your cigar ashes over the your hats and coats left lying where you throw them down and your any girl to put up with this? But then Iam only a poor a worn and down by years of neglect and cruelty. ; —_ Illustrated by GENE CARR. Now the coffee is cold and the biscuits are burned. [ can smell them, and it's all your fault. Why didn't’ you eat your breakfast? Why did you stop and cold; just because 1 mentioned Mrs, {'Terwiliger's name, You ‘know you hate her. You hate Mrs, Gassaway, you hate Mr. Smilg, you hate the Sunshine and Kind Deeds So- , jelety. You hate anyth | thing 1 am terested in. the cat because you know it is fond of me. Yes, it did scratch me. But that was because you so bewildered the \poor creature that it has gone mad. Otherwise, why would ft stand and look at you ani meow so pitifully? “You have a busy day to-da ay? Of course you have. You usy day ahead of you every time I ask you to-do a little shopping for .me, Just a few simple things that will only sitate your going to three or four loon instead of a ick enough, you've spoiled my breakfast. You sit there and twiddle your fingers and make mo so nervous, You know it makes me nervous when you twiddle «, That's why vou do tt, t touched a thing, ‘That's because I cooked it and you want to hurt my feelings, You haven't touched the liver and bacon, ‘You don't see any Hyer and baci Of course! ‘Taunt me with that! Twit me because I forgot to put It on during the time you were raging Ike a lion Just because I asked @ou to do a little shopping for me, and just because I u in the kindest manner not to ‘our plate, Of course it's spoiled, you spolled it! ‘Then just, because mentioned Mrs. ‘Terwilliger's name howled like & tontae and shook nder the table, at me Happy Days in the County Poorhouse, SEE," sald the Cigar Store Man, “that this Noah \46 Raby, who died over in Jersey after notehing up 132 birthdays, was perfectly happy during the thirty-seven years he spent in the poor- house.” “Can you blame him?” queried the Man Higher Up. “It seems to me that after a man passes 100 years he ought to be as happy in a poorhouse as living with his rela- tions, It all depends on how étrong a hunch a man has | about how happiness frames up. Some officers of a Chi- cago bank sprung a rule the other day that none of the clerks in the place should marry unless they were on the pay-roll for stronger than $1,000 a year. One of the officers sald that he didn’t think a young man and his wife could be happy on less. “Of course everybody is wise to the game of the bank. if they can keep the clerks who are hitting the cashter for less than a thousand per year from marrying, the clerks will never have a license to make a scream for an increase of sulary on the ground that they have families to support. The limit on the marriage game as set by this Chicago bank is about $3 a day, and if the limit was universal the question of race suicide would squeeze the tariff issue into a quivering sigh. The happily married on $3 a day or less would make an army stretching half way from here to Chicago without the kids, “Happiness is largely a question of income. Some ot our most prominent millionaires were in the subcellar of pleasure, when they were getting their little $3 a day and letting a meal of chicken pot-pie mark an epoch. When they began to accumulate the mazuma and write checks they got social aspirations, the cab habit and a yen for the companionship of the Smart Set. A lot of them would be tickled to death to get back to the $3 per basis If they didn’t have to give their money away. “Who was the happiest man you ever knew?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “The happiest man I ever knew,” replied the Man Higher Up, “was a Tammany contractor who had just closed a contract to tear down a Reform headquarters.’ Woman's Heart—What's in It? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Miss Nixola Groeley-Smith: = It was with great delight 1 read wour article on the sub- fect of “Man's Hvart—What's in It?” and beg truthfully to say that you have th ughly ‘analyzed same, As a constant reader and admirer of your valuable writ- ings, I am convinced that there is no one more able or hotter fitted for the tusk, and take the liberty of asking you to favor your constant readers with the same article reversed: “Woman's Heart—What’s in It?” By so doing you would greatly gratify one of your constant readers, PF, HENNIG, New York City, OMAN’S Heart—What® in. It? W What isn't in it of love and tenderness and devotion, of malice, hatréd and insincerity? AM in the same heart? Why, yes indeed, witht hundreds of other small virtues sand pettinesses, striving constantly’ witk each other for supremacy. It seems strange, however, that ¢ man should seek for Its analysis in th: columns of a newspaper rather thas by more personal methods of inyeatl- Ration Yet men who have been trying for years to sound the depths and shallows of women's hearts—even the rare ones who have specialized and confined themselves to one wom- an heart in the hope of learning something about it~ have had In the end to confess themselves baffled, to admit that after five or ten or twenty years it is the same Chinese puszle that it was in the beginning. Yet they really should know all about it. For the aver age woman's heart ts entirely man-made and contains no good or evi) passion that was not planted by some man. If « woman whom heredity and environment conspire to render evil happens to fall in love for the first time with » man of good instinets and purposes he can make a really good woman of her and keep her one, If, on the contrary’ the noblest woman nature alive falls under an unworthy Influence when she loves for the firat time {t ts not In the power of gods or men to save it from corruption. Men are what they make themselves, but women are | what men make them, and the man who goes about decry- ing woman's shallowness and inconstancy should remem- ber this and not make tho mistake of lbelling the work of his heart and hand—or another man's, A woman does not originate, but only shares emotion, All her life she lives merely in a dim twilight of senti- ment, a radiance of refiected passion, as {t were, Her heart is an empty vase which the first man she loves can fill with myrrh and frankincense or with the bitterness of death, And thereatter the sweetness or the bitterness remains. Pointed Paragraphs. Bitter medicine, like bitter experience, 1s usually the best ‘The easiest way for a girl to catch a husband is to not ron after him. Many a good man who engages in matrimonial warfare goen to defent. Men who mind their own business are/too busy’ to quar- rel with their neighbors. It isn't what you know that counts; it's what you eah make others think you know. Only after repeated failures to catch on does @ girl an- nounce her decision never to marry. . If It’s necessary to lle in @ man's favor do 4t' while he ts alive instead of hirlng a marble-cutter to do It after he is dead. ; “ Many a man who starts out in the world with: «deter. mination to rule soon gets mgrried and retires to the rear of the procession. ; Bowing Made Easy. , A writer In a London newspaper says: “In describing: the royal progress to open Parliament one of the morning pa- pers declared that the Queen's incessant bowing in acknowl- edgment of the crowd's applause amounted to no incopsider- able physical exertion, It happened a few years ax) that the writer drove a short distance In a royal carmitye. He © waintain’ an upright pose and fot to and frequently, ‘The fact was, and ‘Is, it always is when T try to have a cony chat with vou at the breakfast table, Tam taetful. “1 never say anything that would annoy Taunt Me with That!” the most thin-skinned; and yet, when T ; speak 10. YOU, YOU scowl like ‘a pirate Ha! i¢ i had nalt a dozen servants|and get mé 0 bewildered that the things Uke that horrid oid ‘tramp Mrs “lele| yur and. then you blame me. for ft. RroMEa alt day elt eat? atone as dat | when tam #0 nervous T OUEnE to. be in b i folded) ped Mnstead of workin, ea slave You might some fault, But when dainty evuing you up a dainty breakfast while Ine, Me, bustling and cheerful, t Fou, roar ‘and rant, tag you etapa ‘i r noyre and home com at's the ‘Why, don't you take some interest 1 your home? Why don’t you make my fdends your friends? Why don't you take me somewhere? “Don't you think T over grow tired of these four walls? “You'll take me somewhere this a ternoon?. Ah, haw glibly you. said the’ Se eee 5 i if do you I do put you, you scowl Be moa ie ‘acowling. You have bebn | jc; broken that the seats of royal carriages so rest on springs ana roll- crs that bowing Is almost Involuntary, Royalty sits dowa and the seat does the rest, Smashed aComet. + In the accident to Borrally's comet a section of the head broke from the tall and travelled away at the rate of twen- ty-nino miles 4 second jn’ a retrograde direction. The showed that the tail actually moved out. the ; from: ie ae ashes