The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1904, Page 12

ie & By the Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ Row, New York. Bntered at the Post-Office = St ‘Now York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. (DLUME 44. ee “The Evening World First. LNuuniber of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending February 29, 1904...........0.664-12,51814 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, eading INCREASE........ 4,261% eo ‘This record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper, morning or eventng, in the United States. mrrvepene OUR'SHAM BUILDING LAWS. ‘ “Out of thie nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” Every precaution emtndied in our building laws has been the result of fatal experience. Every lesson we Iigve learned has beon written In somebody's blood. ‘“Uphe New York Building Code has-been s¢emingly a3 elaborate as anything that human ingenuity could devise, But fm the light of the Darlington Msaster it is seen to have jncredible defects. It appears that violating the Dujlding laws. is one of the sufest amusements a con- tractor can indulge in, as far as dealings with the public authorities are concerned. It is not so safe when the forces ot nature take a hand. The punishment of the weclilées builders in this case wes summary and pitiless. One: of them suffered the death penalty, and the others Were: subjected to’ fines that no court would ever have ventured to inflict. And there were ho delays, no appeals ‘find no new trialy. mi ras ; But human laws, it appears, are practically unen- forceable in cases like these, ‘The Building Department inapectors fle “yiclations;” the builders are notified to Stop work; they lxnore tho notice, and the next step 4p te apply for an injunction. Meanwhile tne beams aro going up, and by the time the injunction is obtained the Dulliting may be finished and ready to fall down on the beads of five hundred people. ‘course there mugt be the most rigid Investigation the responsibility for this particular calamity, and Bishment must be distributed where -It belongs. But "iidet essential thing is fo amend the law in such jon’ that when the Building Department gives a wiek contractor the word to halt ne shall stop oe hérse’ before a policeman's uplifted hand at a atheot crossing. ., HIS ONLY HORE, “: Park. Commissioner Pallas expresses some excellent fqeas about gmail parks and playgrounds, If he had con- Mined bimeelf to work of this kind his position would Abeyer best much more comfortable than it Is now, and the iying newspapers” would hate been as ready to epplaud him as they-now are to critictee nim. ‘My. Pallas has-lost a lot of ground by his foolish Gefiance of public opinion in the matter of the Public Uabrary fence. He has not heen definitely charged, at ‘Yeast in print, with sharing in the “graft” which some- body {9 undoubtedly getting out of that job, but bis piiability in tne hands of the grafters has aroused the ‘tavest fears concerning his future dealings with the “tremendous public interests in his‘ charge—the millions of park expenditures and the much more important} Denefits which those millions ought to provide. ~ There is only one way in which the Commissioner can! hope to hold his place, and that is by beginning forth- ‘with to dirplay sume fitness for its duties. He cannot ‘expect to be saved by any “pull” with the labor unions, forthe unions do not recoenize hia as a Yepresentative | labor man. They regard him as siniply a professional Politician who uses his labor affiliations, as his friend Bam Parks did, for his own purposes. Mayor Mc- | ‘Clelien is under no obligation to drag his adminivtration | through scandal for his snke, and uniess Mr, Palles! promptly “makes gccd” ho may expect to hear some- Fron. ved POLYGAMY IN UTAH, | + Tormey tht polygamy {s not practised in Utah ts to! <Perpetrate a rather stupid joke, It has been practised | @ver since Brigham Young piloted slaughtered a few allen flocks that had been tem: the _pasturage jof the Great Salt Lake ‘vailey. _Practived at ‘the time I'tah enwrapped itself in the garb ot.virtue and exme into the Union, aad the territory ; th only because it believed there would be oppor- + to snatch the garb off and quit all protense. When fare made sovereign citizens, the puzzle of i /Unmékirg them is one that might reasonabdl: be ex- ‘pected ‘to vob up. ". aoe ES Me Aud Brawn-—Chief Croker known doubticss the typa of men nevded in hin department. ‘Chey must have brawn Jand stamina and courage, Perhaps some modification of “the examination by which Mtness {x determined would & Yo out. of place, nt least as to raising the ‘physical pted by It was ‘standard. Firemen are subject to denger from exposure id fopg-cantinued exertion. They are also subject to sudden danger of emergency, which makes the m of An Alert mind as Important as that of a Syatrong body. Surely men can he found capable of Passing FParnadje mental tests and also a more rigid physical test. Ropecrnrst of New Xork.—Are Representatives Douglas Ni Dupwell tired “of public life, or is thelr action in AY plocuine” army of Italy from Josephine, who won his flock thither, and, Do Men Want to Be booked By Nixola Greeley-Smith. WRITER to IA The Evening World, ‘who thall, be nameles: because’ of the storm “of protest that might burat (Papon him tt bb name and his views were published simultaneously, has nent in a long wail about the working woman. “No woman ought | to work for a liv- ing,” he declares earnestly. “Hor do- Ing ‘so reflects upom the character and Intelligence of the men of her family, who should be able and willing to sup- port her. “If she has to work, ft is doubtless very creditable to her that she does so; but the fact that she does it in- evitably leanens her attractiveness to the average man and is @ reflection upon the chivalry of the race. “She is taking the bread out of the mouth of some man. She Is not, as she sometimes belleves, bringing two loaves into the family, but, on the contrary, 4s cutting tt In two. “The greater the success she wins in man's sphere the greater the risk she runs of utter failure in her own—that of marriage and the home. No man cares to marry an independent woman. especially one whose earning capacity is equal or superior to his own. “It fs in the nature of man to want to be looked up to by his' wife, and under these circumstances he cannot be.” Why not? Since when have women of any account looked up to a man for bis earning capacity or measured him by st? Only the last paragraph of the letter seems of general interest enough to warrant discussion. opinion of the working woman, she is an established fact, and the most com- forinble theory of economics, if not the most correct one, is that whatever is ta right. But why shoulda man be measured by his earning capacity or a woman by her lack of It? Some of the greaf- est philosophers and poets the world has known were unable to make as comfortable a living,as falis to the lot nt the aubway labérer, And some of the world’s greatest men have won thelr success “by the ‘freedom from Pecuniary cares guaranteed them by a Woman's fortune. © The old Virginian who, when George Washington asked him rather reproach- fully in the courne of an altercation where he would be If he hadn't won hiv Iud-pendenca for him, retorted, “And where would you be if it hadn't been for the Widow Custis?” was wise in his question, For Martha Washington's brond acres and many slaves did a great deal to advance the political Interests of the father of his country, Napoleon took the command of the the appointment'for him from Barras. Without it he could not have been Em- pero. Gladstone, Disraeli and any number of other statesmen, Hving and dead, did not balk at the financial superiority of thotr wives which won success for them, nor did their wives look up to them tho leas because they, were thus able to help them. It may be urged that these women did not earn money. They merely had {t. But aurely tt would have been the more creditable to them {f they had, ‘There are many women nowadays who possess a certain mental quicknes: enables them to succeed in professions | where that alertness is the chief re-| quisite of success and where men of by the thoroughness and - resultant slowness of thelr work. There !s much that passes for {rtel lays that merely gives the iluston of it—a sort of sleight-of-mind, | if ono may coin the expression, at which women are and @lways will be adept. Byt the women who possess it end win money by it when they need the mon¢y are not the less capable of ren- dering unto Caesar that which Is Cae sar's, the respett and love and obedi- ence which they have given always to what they most admire in him—which |48 not intellect, but force. And Caesar, when he ts at all worth while, knows it, and does not worry about having his wife look up to him, whatever her earning capacity was, Is, ‘or may’ be. ——— SOME OF THE BEST JOKES ‘OF THE DAY, —_— SHE MEANT IT. Miss Utaplace—Allow me {o introduce you to my perspective husband.’ Miss Parcavenue—You mean “prospecttyo husband,” don't you? Mins Utaplace—I mean exactly what 1 say. He's a draughtsman.—Baitimore American, SIGNS FOR BUSY MEN, your Dlocking New York's hoves of a new uptown post-office a ca @f simple Idiocy? In either case the result to the 7 that committed the blunder of electing them. {s “eGuully disastrou and Weat.—Mr. John N. Brooks; Torrington, asserts’ that he has broken the Connecticut ofd by baking 1,500 flapjacks at ‘tho’rate of ten a myte, <That sounds well, but did he Mip, the: Mapsacks (ouip the chimney, run out of doors and catch them on the way down. Unions he could do that he would be disquall- far any: flapjack. competition in the West. “Mike, gave mycuhildren!” New York has just the fifemien who, will do tholr best to oblige. When thelr Mves and find the precious “ehildren’ to a ni tly this experience was had ? firemen. proved themsel: Firemem.—When a woman exclaims, "Wor| When. Lou Dillon broke the record ry bird, of course, they have| Now this winter's ae Betis, We donot trust for jiquir, 86 there 1s no use to diquor, No time to talk, So take a walk As quick as scat or aulequor, Indianapolis sun. WALL STREET PROVERS, “A fool and his money,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, :“'s0on «ets on the opposite side of the mar- ket,"-—Yonkers Statesman, AN UNPOPULAR RECORD. Up To?|3 For whatever may be the individual | ‘ doubtless superior mental calibre fail { oi 2OPPOEEEOOOVOED HOSE The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee at the Dressmakers’ Convention. PELDD GHHOHDOGOD OOS OO0HO60OO099 O9G 994 HPOOS GOTH OE nats bd iadadd 47) 3 Shed wo Stans Te ME, < i $1, THAT A LITTLE AHYBOOY. bo Tome Ohjewaury. NEARING A THING LIKE PT vouLonr Loto a Dos FIGHT are iN THOSE Shocwme Ta Hockins wn BY 3 jopere Ss! I coun DO BETTER MYSELF, ‘How HIDEOUS THe SE Gowns ! NEW FIGHT ACAINGT EAD TAMMANY HALL 1 — ALO tes reer vo =: A Water Wagon Gook. (Conyret, 190% by the Planet Pub. Co.) you have not ate RELATIVES Te at al Bat it is a FACT mat ‘ TIMES SMALLER fy alent vee yu appear TO YOU to be'FOUR FEET IN LENGTH. Jse’s MILLION DOLLARS ts After that you will not ARE for fet loug OR oT, OUGHT RULES THE WORLD. Ad we are its thinkiest thinkers, Care. whether Croten burs To-day’s $5 Prise “Evening Fudge’’ Editorial Was Written by Mrs. Minna Desborough, 2460 7th ‘Ave.,N.Y.Ct PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: No. 1-JOHN KAVANAGH, No, 135 Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, No, 2—DE FOREST BECK, No. 119 Sixth street, Brooklyn. No. 3-JOHN LAMPE, corner of Smith and High streets» Perth Amboy, N, J To-Morrow’s Prize Fudge Editorial Gook, ‘‘ Why It Does Not Snow in Summer.’’ Between Battles in the “Evening Fudge”’ Office, SKK THE! HAVE iS BEAT AGOUT A FURLONG! capnelty for intellectual volte-face which! = SS IS SSIS —— SS TIC- TAC- TO TACTICS TO ECIDE WHERE / THE. FIGHTING . WILL BE... ® 8eo VOSCorsvOESw" “@ @ LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ¥ ¥ J 2 only, “No Joke."" But I hope to in sero weather, is simply, an ie felding at the old ink-| becauso he is—s goose, What says the lear Jay’ means ly to District-Attorney’s Office. ing it would leave both crossings cl f i Rua neue of The Evening World: for pedestrians and would give Uttle| resume my, pen-w! . BE. FARR, oat: ) I am one of those unfortunates who | trouble for those who wish to pera | stand, as Zi ea ek Pe we eis wed + C Engageme: a 7%, porro' money from money sharks. I| car, : 3 ; : have been paying them money for the Cc. BE. Farr Wakes Up. To the Editor of The Evening World: A Ihe: line 1 Eeeee 10 Aa at ate And try-it agajn in the Bridgeport, Gonn. « Noah Webster, ‘To the Editor of Tho: Evening World:” Did Danlél or Noah Webster compile Webster's Dictionary? J.P. G. Gilbert and Sulllva: ‘ To the Editor of The Evening World: , ‘Who wrote the operas Pinafore’ and and are the authors Itv- i ‘ ALM. were hy W. 8, .Gtlbert last fifteen months, When I firat: got Into it It was,easy, but now 1 am un- fable to come out of it. I still owe them $24. Do you advise me to stop paying? Do you think they will come to my ‘place of business or (o any of my friends and blackmail me? I. Re A Woman's Prote Editor of The ning World: ™y tin not Mr. Haggerty, neither am T| J. P, Morgan or Mr. Tim Sullivan, but | I am a common sense woman who has | tried’ the “near side’ ordinance and) And where, oh, where, ts John Henree? Is it proper for a lady who ts en- aged to be married to go riding and walking or to correspond with other gentlemen? Rr. While only a selfish lover would ob- Ject to his fancee’s having a good time in his absence, the girl in question Should ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World: “T. B. Hartley, Jr.,"" asks regarding the whereabouts of The Evening World's former letter writers, I also would like to know what has become of The Even- ing World's former letter writers and their tp-topic pens. | Serious, grave, flippant and gay, Peter Clalveres, and L. A. Ks Letitia MoStindish and John Conway, And Nochése of Oakwood, where are they? should tell her where the line’ ought to’ be drawn In accepting attentions from other men. ‘There’ was deafening applause, And. when Oldfield went his fastest ‘There were’ whoops and! wild. hurrah roke the record. Of tho very coldest. year, > int the rootors All keep, ai Wild Goose Weather Signa. To the Ealtor of The Evening World: I.note that the annual flight of wild geese was now passing over. this State) bound for the far North, settlers, found St wanting, If the Board of Al-| Has the Steel ‘Trust watered his penu- dormen would repeal the near alde or- ree? : dinance and, substitute an ordinance| As for myself, friend Hartley, I've forcing the cars of our Brooklyn Rotten | been all over the “World,” from one Transit to stop 6 fect trom the upper | section to another, and I s' ‘crossing I think it would. be more sen-| interesting ag all former edi sible, If the cats were compelled tf. 30, At present Tam nto, © Lenk thle aie pC the upper: Foe: oe and Sir Arthur Sullivan ie Mbrett! Sulltvan:is dead. “Gilbert ia still diving, On Wednesday, Feb, 24, — ‘This, in the} To: the: Waiter! of The ing World: ge by Gilbert and the music by Sulllyan. | The Whine of the Man We. Gets Stung. 469 SEH,” said the Cicar Store Man, “that business is dull in Wall street.” ‘ I “Surest thing you know,’ replied the Man Higher Up. “There are brokers who haven't turned a $100 trick for weeks, and their whines sound Mike the sitting of a gale through a million’ telegraph wires. To hear a Wall street broker talk these‘days you would think that the United States was taking mud from the heels of all the nations and thet every busi- ness man in New York was engaged on a schedule to be running mate with a petition in bankruptcy. “This is what illustrates the difference’ between. the sure-thing gamblers of Wall street and ‘the common, ordinary honest gamblers of the Tenderloin and the race-track. When the lid was put down did you hear the guys in the chance fraternity, who take theirs man to man and face to face in a contest with suckers, ex- uding any yammer to the effect that the country in Beneral was on the razz? Not’on your motherin-law’s health!. When they got hep to the fact that they were up against a case of Gatesey’s odds with McAdoo unfer- studying Gatesey—who would never play unless he was given high, low, jack and a paralyzed gamekeeper— they packed their suit cases and went out into the one night stands. “The gambler who goes after the coin with @ lag- out knows when he is up against it. He is in touch with hie position In society, and when he has over Played himself in a community you don't heve to tattoe the story on his forehead. The Wall street gamble: has been operating with the law as a plain-clothes man for his game so long that when the public refuses to bu steered he considers it an insult, “The fact of the matter is that there are only sixty suckers born an hour and Wall street. exhausted the visible supply in the past four years. Before the brokers can start in again on the trimming route that coughe Up automohiles and similar luxuries there will have to be entries in a new maiden class of Wall street lambs.” “Don't you think that when times are dull in Wall street it means that the country {s up against hard times?" asked the Cigar Store Man., “Not that part of the country that honest people Inhabit,” replied the Man Higher Up. Mrs. Nagg and Mr.—— eI TEIN By Roy L. McCardell. Even‘at the Bowling Club that Exasperating* Man Will Not Permit Her One Moment’s Quiet or Peace. Everybody Ia Ask- ing ‘‘How Can She Stand Him??? 66] DIDN'T want to come to the bowling club to-night) 1 have a headache and this dreadful weather is so Ge- Presalng, that even my sunny nature— Why don't you help me off with my coat? What are you standing there for? Come here! Look out, you are stepping: on thy skirt! There! You've ‘torn it! “Put down my ball! That's my private ball ¥ haa made for. me. How dare you touch ft? “Why don't you order me a lemon: ‘The dist has my throat parched. I never Ww such a selfish, ufthinking man, Yow would never ‘share anything you had with anj one. “How are you, Mrs. Gassaway? We are on the same sid¢ to-night. Mr. Nagg will play with Mr, Terwilligér and his side. “Thore! If the other six pins had gone down, ¥' would have made o strike. You jogged my arm, Mr. Nags. You did! After I had bowled? Yes, but I’saw you bepareelt | it made me so nervous, and that's the reason my ball off the alley, : “Oh, Mrs, Terwillixer, I am so sorry you aid so but then, dear, your eyesight, of course, isn’t wood at youl age. Hum, there she goes, I guess she felt that digt gh dyes her hair and says her daughter Mamie is only fourteen, but sho's nineteen if she's a day. “There, Mrs. Gassaway is howling out of turn! If dares come up and speak to me again, after what she Bey to Mr. Smig about me, I'll slap her face. I hate this bow} ing club. All the women here ‘are a'lot of mean, apitefu and when I get home I am so nervous that Ian burst into hysterics. But, of courso, you like tt come because it has a saloon air about it. No bar? Welk you can get drinks here if you just ring the bell, “Oh, I'm dying for n glass of beer, it's 80 warm and close’ In here, but you Insist on my taking lemonade, You did insist. You ordered one for me, just as soon as we got in, It always makes: me slek. ‘ “No, I don't want any beer! You want to see me a aip- somantuc, craving for lquors, Thht ts why you are always trying to make me drink heer. Before long I will have to be putting temperance cures in your coffee ke Mrs. Gasa- awny did to her husband before he deserted her, and you'll claim ¥ tried to poison you Ike he did, because, she put, is too mych and nearly Killed him. : ‘Why don't you get me a glass of beer? Of course, yout evil nature takes harm out of a woman drinking a glass beer, Like all people of a cruel disposition, you are a teny perance fanatio and a prude. . “My turn? Oh, yes! Oh, there goes my bail off the alley! Don't you daro laugh at’ me! Where is my own ball? .You've got it, Mr. Nagg.’ I told you not to touch it! It's my own private ball, and I give the attendant five cents a week to take care of it for me, Put. it down! Drop it! “An, if it was any other woman you would look after her ball and bring it to her, You were holding it for me? Well, what did you put it down for? I'm delaying the game?, It's you that are delaying the game. You take my ball from m¢ and hide it just because you know I.can't play with any other, No, don't you dare bring it to me now! I will gex pelt! f ae! Ja you, Mr. McCutcheon. You are always-ao gallant T could stand here all day with tears th my eyes and My Nake would never bring me my ball. This isn’t mine. 43u never mind, Mr. MpOutchepn; this one. will do all the better TU never lked that ball Mr. Nage got for me. Bee NF: oo *Bow are you doing; Mrs. Gassaway? One hun an fourteen? Isn't that lovely! 1 wish you luck, dear! 2 : { That was your fault, Mr. Nags. You this, wretched place to’'make sport of ma Anyway, St! 1s coarse pastime. And'I am too’ refined to} ih 8d len over the line! You did-that on. pur ‘ “Our cals wring me to “For in spite of how you treat woman. who you so awkward? Oh, Tam/all of | ble, but you wouldn't care no matter what happend Saat: . 4 { ye laugh, but I wouldn't, laugh even WD ye “