The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1904, Page 14

“Ny Sen. ’ £ 2 THE » EVENING . WORLD'S # HOME .¢ MAGAZINE. # hing Company, No. 68 to Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. “NO. 15,849 -_ YOLUME 44.. | The Evening World First. _ | Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending February 29, 1904....... eee A Z51814 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending Pe RELTUALY 28, 1903... .ccscecceerses Q2579% INCREASE........ 4.261% This record of growth was not equalled by any | Newspaper, morning or evening, In tho United States. Determination of the merger’s righi to exist was demanded not out of prejudice toward individuals. | ‘There was no inclination to hamper the proper work- ings of capital. The eifective desre that the law be definitely construed sprang from nothing akin to pas- gion. There was a common feeling that uncertainty, although prevailing only within a limited area, should be removed, Proponents of the coalition scheme had been amply warned. They would not ept the warming. ’ They deciined to relinquish a faith they found pleasing. They sought to build foundations ‘under castles in the air. The test case should be the only case. The de- cision is just, and -by all concerned must be regarded As final. If the framers of the merger begin at once to undo the result of their discredited undertaking, drobably the public will be content. There are other | supposed offenders. They are at liberty, without being dragged to bar, to participate in the etit of the judicial ruling. If they are wise, they will participate, The principle is settled. Necessity for putting | more contestants through the ordeal of trial would be | demonstratiot of wanton purpose to dety and defeat! 4 statute established as constitutional, There would | be for the recalcitrants less toleration than marked f n , aay © gentlemanly than ches the proceedings new ended, Similarly would at-Jice in the old-fasiicned se tempts at evasion excite clamorous hostility where had | werd. s = For instance Tt has alwaya bee been argument and moderate protest. pretty Re My understood that a gen As to sympathy for the discommoded, there isjtteman mignt not He tone. They have no reason to expect their dilemma to be viewed through tears. Long ago the truth wa recorded, “Consequences are unpitying.” A CASE OF “FRIGHTFUL NERVE.” The testimony so for given in the Inquest upon” Hotel Darlingten dis were lost, as attracted the attention it} fleserves, i Mr. Allison, of the owners, admits that with ing was being construc in accordance plans Oiffering in the most e-sential points from those ap- yroved by the Building Depart nent i Mr, Allison tolil ontr had frightful nerve’ to go ahead with thely thom whether they didn’t know they could be arrested. a fs “they of the pr might jeicouraged efforts in that direction were ret down the buikl-|tetls the truth, not becas eullne demand for tt, {ve vn plans, and asked} do a mean thing years ago to red |Gentlemanly Girl orld | Succeeds the Lady. By Nixola Gri He has within the twenty - fi In yen had falien into di omtoinal exalted u had been gradual: daily newspapers In the old fy the plirase And now turesque we ail know that veeabulary of a eli description. of gond breeding, educ v tele us ia a lady who has had an oid chook King un knows that the ter is hedged about with a hundred or of reservations ands restrictions that 4 make the dirtionary definition alto. “24 gether Inadequate. But a short time age a Iady might not She might ne walk the streeta nione. feuve or ride a wheel or practice an y of other harmless amusemen' the modern tle girl miiiar . she may « Aa at first understood, the distinct was an artificial one, Time alte cad allen skles worm geatleman, an the eontrar: the same thing 1 H ig it in Cuina, for the standay 8 world over Ina fixed one Vor this reason a great ni day dof behavior | sty y atdtude toward thelr and thelr reasons for it ow, & Ind ‘AY gs the social workl was concern He-indoed, she was frequent] to, her prateeworth: . finesse, a charming feminin thon however much man may ha alved of the small decelis of en, they were wont to regs ne encourage them, he modern well-bred girl she werespond# to the old-fashioned lady for there isn’ ry. but because of the gemtlemant ndard of truthfulness she has se aif, Alsy a gentleman is not expected t One gas leroines of the no: ag Mr. Allison was much alarmed, after a wind siorm.| jc aq mean ae aie liked. Take Thank to find the structure several inches out of plimb, Someferas's Ameta Sedley and hie Reck said eighteen inches He asket the foreman, the time-| Sharp. take te he and the lad Keeper and other minor emple whether this was aj Sl! of almost i nee prio! t serious matter! Neat ¢ soveral big cabies around the upper stories of the luilding and was told;, yi Maat 4 was back iu line again. Bret he did not think it/to purr and the other to use te cliwe ro YOUSE ~> FER HEVIN' worth while t) report the meotter to tie department, | But we have changed all chat. The} laa AN’ TNE a OY A civil engineer of the Building Department found! Modern girl ts aet mer, aay more UGH IT Quay Manges honeycombed an with blowholes where they| , met-the columns—this after the wreck! hat do you find tne one preferr he last decade, and two more or inly difference bell les. ple K that sther js. She can't afford to be. t gentlemaniy of all she gently scans her brother man The Building Department alleges lack of power: ati gentler sister woman. — For, awner pleads Inck of technica) information; the in-|Tealizes that, however regrettable spectors apparently contentel themselves with fiiing! MAY BS Ms resistor woman Is after al a hunan belag protests. —_ The Chicage disaster drew the aitention of ine ‘or to the unsefe condition of six of the theatres 1 New York, and howed a proper sense of his re- sponsibility for the public safety by peremptorily order-) ing them to be closed. This building collapse points out another source of public danger aud sugpests this question; “How many| other sky-scrapers have Leon built or are being bulit ander similar eonditio. SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY, = COMPLACENCY, eeley-Smith. been re-| ‘Z) Pentedivremark- | « ed and written | that the word lady repute, and from {ta} «. mated to the} “Helo Wanted” | columns of the days brads of a women reached ite zenith | She is a perfect lady." the ple- us elri| * deseribing her dendiiest enemy contains | % no stronger comment of contemptuous | £, nement of mind and manner, hus many women haye in the ver: general feminine invasion of man’s fleld pernaps unconsciously taken unto them- selyox bis ve: fellow-bee | | 4 them ter, in which over twenty lives|as rather pleasing than otherwise, aod who eof any mas- that a lady inight 1h te And xreatest change} 2 she n't you afraid that a great many « i at rs ly. | a- 3 1BE ©DO08 L909 994204GDOOEED HEP TOOUDECEEDDDHODOOMEMADD O00 Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. BLLDDOPO*HDCSEOS The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. Mr. Peewee Gives Miss Tootsie Sixfoot a Lesson in Housekeeping. 50960060 Now, TooTsiE J PROPOSE TO GIVE sou, Song PIN ON _GOoo, HOUSE ~ KEEPING! To BEGIN PO ere pA koom PROPERLY- THEY HANDLE BY WEEP. Ae Hoven a NEEM Fub6I Erin Go Bragh! Even Parkhurst Lauds Her Saint. 5 ‘es 2) \4 Ste 66 ELL," said the Clear Store Man, “this ts the be W day we celebrate.” “it is that same," agreed the Man Higher U “This 1s the Irish Fourth of July. ‘This is the day when the only kind of fruit permissttle is the dill pickle and the German bands have to play Irish music from sunrise until everybody is too tired te do anything but frame up a line for home. “Jf you happen to be along upper Fifth «venue this afternoon you will see 50,000 Irishmen in line and not a brick or an axe showing. The rival Irish societies have gone to the floor for the last time, and the har mony in shamurock circles {s so thick yoa could cut with a knife, Along the sidewalk wetching the parade you will see Americans, Germans, Swedes, Russians, Hungarians, Frenchmen, Spaniards and Pnglishmen, and every one of them glad to be there. Wherein the St. Patrick’s Day parade of recent years is a different affair from thet of some time back, when @ man who put on his high hat and his green badge to march in honor of his patron saint went up against about a 2-to-1 shot that he would have something thrown at him before he got YOUVE SWEPT ALL. THE DIRT UNDER. WHY, PIR, PEEWEE. BUREAU! 18 in n | eae SFB mt '} SW. WEEP Bah AWED OFF SSS <a SSS Ss ~~ A Law Should Be (Copyrot, 1 ss SSSSS THINK abou OPINION, which SSS can SSss are PROTEC! tatty uD — Wonld it not be SSSss and the rest of face exposea > Think the ma night} —— ! Hiden 27% ’ Idiotorial was written by H, Stillford, * : To-day’s Prise ‘* Evening Fudge’ 3 ‘}? street, New Vork City: No. 2-EMMA STARIN, No- 784 Gre bie HADSELL, No, 145 High street, Brooklyn. y Novel-Reading Ne llie McGee. Ole ROSETTA D.HUMPHREY, | MAS SOMETHIN’ TER SAY 1 | it mT Wil! eriticise you for beeomin, -Z The . Hotel Darlington collapsed two weeks ago.| Fich?" . Wave the inspecturs of the Building Departinent di: Yer.’ answered Senator Sorghum er yovered any sizailur irregularities since that wi 2 [Bus the chancen are that if 1 had < i ! : Hlarities since that warning? | sayea poor they wouldn't have noticed bo Ser a me even that much.’—Washington “NOTHING TO DO!” THE WAIL. eae: It is a sed affair at Albany. sothing to Jo, The nwurners The Legislature ‘has expected to forget c Vhat also it has nothing done. Days dray wearily, calendars yawn, the committee room’ “Httle gam: haz lost its Yet the Governor wou't ict the boys go home, Ct course there is the Hisberg Rapid-Transit bi! New York has watched this measure a little anxicusis, It proposes to give the elty a chance on its own tunnel! contracts—a chance such as has been worth $11.000,v00| to the present eudway construction company, But what Is there in this for “the boys,” any boys, or the Republican State Conyention? Nothing doing— nothing to do. | Similarly. there is the Governor's vaunted proposi-| ton of home rule for cities of the first class, New York confesses to e; eeopticism. The “told-you-so" / mark is on the tiome-rule bill that doos not happen. | Nothing doing—nothiny to do. Raines Jaw amendmeni—nothing doing, nothing iblican State Convention half a week later still, [t fate to assume. however, that even here there p little enough doing—fcr the State. j easy to pity the sorrows of such a poor--| ld Legislature. ‘the State where in snd, idle days, Atatesmanship decays, TO-DAY'S SLAPSTICK. Biffins—t must medicine, na—What's the matter nebod Biffins-Yes; the window sf) Yyerybody more News A FEELING MAN, ‘Thyan. feeling man | ever met does he show | Tha HOW HE FEELS. “How do you feel about hurry on with ¢his Swat! smash! bang —Balt! low Smith ts the most the skua- ly PEGED wo Evening Fudge Slogan, oh, To the Fattor of The Evening World yume must On, why Is the ceean 0 close to the| does the « shore? name is a Oh, why lay the carpet #0 close to the tox 5 “ * anawered the Emperor, “ike mit pea the sole occupant of a badly fastened towing au chicken coop when several people in the mind rule: vicinity have announced their fixed { ° rule the termination to have pot-ple for dinae CYRUS Q. STRUBLE, “Girl in LENTEN SACRIFICES. ‘ow may I have thot kiss 1 been walting for? She—No, it's Lent. He-What! Show me the gu the nerve to borrow It! American, who h Raltimo NEXT BEST. “An!” she sighed, “now nothing more to live for.” J “Oh, I don't know,’ he replied, “There re two full-page bargain ad evening’; that you have rejected my proffered hand J have Pompton, Neds In 1870. ling To the Editor of ‘The Evening World | he Kay ve a what year did the French and [iished in + | Prussian war begin? M. BH ad Pronounced ove | To the B What the name Name! To the Batt 1 would regard to vy=boats; “Joho Jones TI." '©- | To the Editor of The Bvening World: ni; | If = young man's grandfather's name john Jones and - ‘ ‘LETTERS 18 also Jonn uh Were the prize-winners* of the boats after the Mayor, hia father’s name Wha made Godan: host has, anid fitter! Ao as ov ODDS © 66 rHOOOM Jones, then his father's | President, John Jones, jr. What| Worked so hard to. on usually call himself if his}benefit for Staten Island, Iso John Jon J.R. |two other boats be named MinalanMatiert mond and the Manhattan, ns tur of The Evening World: tween those boroughs, s please discuss the fol-| Captain Ranks Above Co: stiop; Is it a fact that the} To the Bu s the body or does the body | Which Is the highest xtous. | x orge Cromwell, nk 1 Should Compet Decent Tre the poor Mosguito| In the South, id him, at least as HIGH AS His ler over, my dea Pleasant dreamst ¥ Mosquitoes wld Freeze Passed to hem in Wingatment of rot, by the Planet Pub. co.) INSIDE THAT!! Me hereatt COMPEL numang FORCE PUBLIC | during the WINTER, © It ts warmer, during the winter Months! Think og can As body aud teaving omg et tis Jungs Nos the bra UITOES WINTER} very the hoi the mosquitoes UD protection for | ly bls dear little 58 South Third street, Brooklyn. . QUBRIES AND ANSWERS. # who have ot unis much needed Tat the the Rich- plying be APLETON, mimander, of The Evening World. in the navy, MARK F. i? A Captain or Comman: Pluk” Winners Published cl Hax Insomnia. Feb, 54. 29 Editor of The Evening Worldt tor of The ng World, What can T do to make me sleep at night? plenty of exercive through th 1 don't seo why L can't slee names pub- ‘The Girl in Pink’ prize story for Sti tor of The like to say a few words in naming the Staten Island fer- I consiter it best to name one. to raise my family in the Hgious ma a religious way has been ni Lam a girl of twelve and take ne day, aud "D. MARY MURPHY. ‘Ask your parents to take you to some reputable pltysician for and. treatment. Wants Forms of Sayin examination | mz Grace. To the Editor of The Kvening World: Tam a young married man and wish proper ri and as my education | Mslocted. and George |as I've often been at homes where the iwrace (but must say | or'w PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1—J, E. DRAKE, No. 355 East Sixty-second wich street, New York City; No. 3-F, M. To-Morrow's Prize Fudge Idiotorial Gook, “The Peekaboo Waist and Fudge Circulation.” oe es A Slight Interruption Like a Live Wire Makes No Difference. a 90ee could never understand a word), would like some of your readers to t me the proper words and form of sa. Ing grace. Cc. R. soup ka reulur sunner to serve soup first? Charles Major, TO the Kilitor of The Evening World, Knighthood Was in Flower!” A Presidential Query. To the Editor of The Evening World. a man to be President of tho Unit States? Does religion a figure? H. 1 agen 4 oligton, 2 12 Oune 2) ¥t In Served After Soup. T the Editor of The vening World: Which is proper to serve, fish before | Who is the author of che book, “When ANXIOUS, What are the qualifications to enable 8. He must be a natural born American | jcitizen, not under thirty-five years of There is no restriction as to his home again. “And still the day when ‘No Irish need apply’ was # slogan of the bigoted is not eo far distant. Thero were a lot of people in those times who were afraid of the Irish. Now they are afraid that the supply of Irish won’t hold out. The falling off in Irish immigration is a ques- tion that is agitating our statesmen. The Irish have shown the United States that the people of their recs are not all woodchoppers or water carriers. They hare gone to the front in every line of intellectual endexvon, and now that things are tn such shspe in Ireland that the people are able to send their children to schou without the risk of being arrested the unstilied Irte® laborer {s @ soarce commodity compared to what he waa in the beginning of the Irish movement to the United States. “The people of New York are browl-minded enought to bury any prejudice of race, and that fs why the St Patrick's Day parade to-day in Manhattan and Brodk- lyn {s 4s mnch a city celebration as though no fieg bet ‘the Stars and Stripes was carried tn it, The men whe march to-dey to the tune of “The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow’ would as gladly march to the strains of the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ should the occasion ertee. Good citizens evory one of them, as the men of the poly glot nationalities on the sidewalks who cheer them om are good citizens. The Irish flag don't fly‘over the Hell, but the shamrock is the flower of New York day, and few there are dntolerant enoagh to make a scream against it.” “St. Patrick must have been @ great man,” saidrthe Cigar Store Man. Men Higher Up “He certainly. must,” answered the “when even Dr. Parkhurst admits it.” How Animals Travel. American raflroads have almost as meny different. ktpia of cars for carrying animals as they have cars for pemsen- gers. DG TD3DFEDDIDYIDPIHHAI 399992H-29.999-0G-9999-9O0-H 90 -09999-9.H6.0949 oe One kind of car that is used for shipping horses t= knows technically as a palace horse ear, and, excepting for fime woodwork and brasswork, it (s a palace oar, giving hossed fine accommodations. Each horse has his own, stateroom, so to speak, car is fitted with independent stalls, Each pene manger and water trough, and overhead ave reeks fon holding extra feed. ) Sheep and hogs are often carried in care with jes. These are known as double-deckers, and te rodeos aro shipped in both stories. They have room to Ie Gite gin and water {s supplied to them from pipes, .; Horses and cattle are sidetracked at intervals {the are making a long run, and the beasts are led out lowed to rnn around for exercise. Then they ave back to their cars and resume thefr Journey, Sheep arg often unloaded within a few mites destination and turned loose to rest and feed are in good flesh. This is not done merely from 5] of humanity, It has been found that the cheep awp gs D994 ® cs >| much improved by It that they bring higher prives Ahem they ‘reach the ae pease apie H ee Matrimony’s Slurap. When the Southdown drummer returned to the elty-the other day from his regular run over the Illinois clrouft tt was evident that he had run across a “new one” durng the week. Being an unusually acute observer, he rarely lets anything go by him, and, therefore, the leap~year doings down in the corn belt have not gone unnottoed, ‘Well, str, tt fact,” he said tn telling of the trip, “that the matrimonfal business has fallen off about 60’ per cent. throughout the State. I have been in about half! a doxen covnty seats during the past week, and the eounty clerks swear the marriage-lice an amazin;; manner. Last year at this time and in other years the Imsiness was brisk, but this, as the clerks way, is leap year, and as a rule young men prefer not to be married during leap year. They seem to have the {dea that their friends will belleve that the young women did the courting, and their conceit compels them to fight shy of matrimony during the year. “te you think that this leap-year business doesn't have the effect of bringime about a slump in matrimony, just go with me on one of my jnunts and you'll find that leap year 1s the poorest of all yeqrs for Mr, Cupid and his sneaking tricks." 9OO599O-99096-H The Risks of War. The introduction of rites of greater precision has lessened the percentage of men hit in proportion to the number of T! shots fred, becaure firing, as a rule, now bering at a far ell jonger range, and the troops are taught to take advantage Y-|o¢ cover. In the Franco-German War one bullet in 400 waa * | mortal, but in the Boer War the proportion was only one to 740, The total lors ts also less, In 1870 the French losses | were 2) per cont, but In the Boer War the English lost only 5 per vent, und the Boers 61-2 per cent. At Waterloo the ‘Allies lost £2 per cent. and the French twenty-four, the ayer- age losses in the preat battles of the Inst century being put down at 15 per cent, for the victors and 27 per cent. for the vanqulyhed. In the eighteenth century the losses were much higher. the defented, of course, always losing more than the winners. .Mrs, Nagg Deserves Immortality, To the Editor of The Evening World: At a meeting of our club the other evening the question of the Mrx. Nagg articles wan the theme of convetsation, Jt was contended by some that they were somewhat over. drawn, But js not all humor a slight exaggeration? Are not Mrs, Vardea and Mrs, Corney—creations of the tmmortal {Dickens—a little overdrawn? But are they not tnimitahle? ‘Are they not:classio bits of humor? For tho time Mrs, [Nae ‘amuses, Let her be heard, while we pity Mra. Naga, ts a pleasant ie oe at ae ort oo) poor Nags, the day, EPR FP LETS LE LE eM MYT er | je business has dropped off tn © \