The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1904, Page 14

by the Fress Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World in March, 1904...... Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World in March, 1903, 1,50134 aH INCREASE............ GOO’ No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in New York EVER carried in regular editions in any one month such a volume of display advertising as The Evening ‘World carried in March, 1904. MAYOR M’CLELLAN'S CRISIS. . THE w EVENING WORLD'S’ HOME w MAGAZINE. Mike, the Meddler, Fixes a Fire Plug and Plugs a White Win ww 6 2 By B. CORY KILVERT r RED Hod ALRIGHT ©) Mayor McClellan's administration has so far been| highly creditable. The World has been the first cheer- | *ully to acknowledge this. Mayor McClellan has his| thoice between increasing this good record in the public | mind, or greatly damaging it. ~ Hehas before him the East River Gas“’Grab” bill. Where are three good reasons why he should veto it, and one bad reason why he should sign it. The three ood reasons are: "1 Recause this bill violates the principle of home rule, on Which the citizens of New York have always insisted, For tho city authorities have ample right to grant to the East River Gas Company ali the power that it requires for any Tegitimate business on a fair compensation to the city. 2 Because {t violates an express provision of the City Charter that no franchise for a public utility shall be granted for a longer period than twenty-five years, But this "grab" Dill makes the company a present of a perpetual franchise which can never be reviewed or revalued. "8 Because it gives to the Gas Monopoly an enormously Yaluable franchiye for absolutely nothing. This gas com- pany's presenf illegal charter, under which it hax been un- Inwfully carrying on business since 1892, and which the pres- ent Dill is designed to patch up into legality, pretends that the company shall pay to the city 3 per cent. of its gross receipts. ‘This provision the company evades by selling its product to the New Amsterdam Gas Company, by which ft a thas been absorbed. These three reasons against the Mayor signing this “grab” bill—that it violates the constitutional principle of home rule, that it violates the legal principle of lim- Ited franchise and that it violates the business prin- ciple of never giving something for nothing—would seem sufficiently conclusive. But let us be fair and hear both sides of the case. Now comes the only rea- Son in favor of the Mayor’s signature, It is: 1, Because Charles F’. Murphy is Mayor MoClellan's per- wfonal friend and political creator; and because John J. Murphy is a brother of Charles F. Murphy; and becauso _ dohn J. Murphy is President of the New York Contracting ad Trucking Company; and because the New York Con- tracting and Trucking Company has the contract for tho New $15,900,000 plant to which the gas company will move if ita grab bill goes through. i This is the one and only reason why Mayor Mc- Clellan should sign the gas grab bill. It is the one rea- son which will cast the darkest discredit upon Mayor McClellan if he does sign it. Veto tha‘ bill, Mr. Mayor, or you will transform the’confidence of the people whom you have faithfully The Masher and the Street Car. Willie Smudge, the Boy War Correspondent, # # # s vt All Alone by Himself, and Unaided and Unarmed, Captures a Fierce Fire-Eating Cossack, By Nixola Greeley -Smith. STORY wns) printed in yea- P 1 terday's news of a young fellow who surrendered his veat In a Brooklyn car to m comely young woman, and on the strength of the courtesy he had ! sxtended to her, ned over and trled to open a con- veration. The girl had the courage to rebuke his insolence pubjicly and so put a atop to ft. But the Incident was typical of a thousand or so similar ones that take place daily in New York cars For the man who regards the cour- teoun offer of hix sent as the entering wedge to a strect-car flirtation ts nu- merous, and on the whole only leas in- solent than the masher, who, securely Intrenched behind his newspaper, at| tempts to start a playful little game | of peek-a-boo with a tired young wom- | an hanging to a strap above him. | How any man can think that any girl, no matter how badly brought up| or how foolishly coquettish, can so far| overcome her contempt for his rudeness | in letting her stand as to respond to or i By Martin Green. ‘Some of the Clever Stunts a Hypnotist Could Do on Wall Street. Sy SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that there is a project on foot to found a clinic in New York for the treatment of the poor by hypnotism.” about the only way they haven't tried on the poor,” replied The Man Higher Up. “They have clinicy now where the poor are treated all ways, from medium to flerce, and maybe this hypnotism gag would be an im provement. “They say that they can hypnotize disease out of peo- ple, and the strength of some of the stars in the business is really astonishing. I notice that Prof. Hyslop, the | hypnotic expert who carried on ull those weird experi- ments when he was connected with Columbia Untversity, says that he has got a wealthy man on his staff who will endow the new clinic, | “Of course, I wouldn't say that the Professor hypno- tized the guy with the mazuma, but think of the oper‘rg | there is for him {f he would only apply his specialty tn business lines, If he can get a financier to stake a clinic | for the treatment of the poor by hypnotism it ought to be easy for him to g> into Wall street and make it loot, like a vacant lot. served into the resentment of the public whom you have unpardonably betrayed. ‘The Lesson of Toronto.—The Baltimore fire, the Roch- ester fire, the blaze in Paterson—these all have had thelr even to tolerate his attempts to flirt) with her it {a 'diMcult to conceive, And yet day after day we see men seated in the cars smirking fatangaly into the — = faces of standing women. Columns have been written In condem- Jesson for New York. Now a $10,000,000 loss in prosperous. | nation of tho rudeness of New York 4 Progressive Toronte emphasizes the lerson. New York|men in street cars, And a great deal heeds more engines, She needs the salt-water mains and of the adverse comment hasbeen de- * > standpipes—and the sooner the better. porved; yet, according to one New York Mrs, Nagg and Mr. — By Roy L. McCardell. Illustrated by GENE CARR. “A professor like Hyslop, aided by a good business manager who knows the Wall street route, could be a Napoleon of finance ina month if his game 1s as good as he says it is. If hypnotism can convince a poor man that he is well when he is sick, why can’t it be used to convince a rich man who is well that it is up to him to invest his money in any old scheme the hypnotist wants to ring in? (Copyright, 194, by the Press Publishing Company, The New York World.) ‘ DO WE EAT TOO MUCH ? Prof. Chittenden, of Yale, has proved by experiment that the average man eats “more than is good for him.” ) Prof. Chittenden’s “starvation squad” were really not ‘starved at all. They were professors, students, private ; ane halen in the prime of life, They ate about ! the usual amount of solid foods, exercised vigor- ously, gained strength and remained in perfect health, | This fs interesting, true and—not new. The Yankee Benjamin Thompson, who became as Count Rumford great European scientist, proposed to increase the effl- ss plency of the Bavarian army by issuing half rations and making the men chew their food more thoroughly. Mr, Gladstone did that later, when he maintained his big body under exhausting labor by frugal meals, of which every morsel was chewed thirty-five times. Bismarck, even bigger and stronger phystcally than Gladstone, for years took pride in his huge appetite. He told with glee how he once astonished a waiter girl ‘Dy eating 150 raw oysters—the tiny German king But 4n later years Dr. Sohweninger prolonged Bismarck's life ‘by limiting his food and drink down to the very ounce. ‘The average American diet is the most lavish in the ‘world. “Not to stint the table” {8 a household ideal. This is a better one: “Plain living and high thinking.” 4. The young, and persons of consumptive tendency, meed light meals at short intervals. No one needs a heavy meal at any time. ‘The important thing is to keep In such perfect condi- tion az to assimilate what one does eat. !€ | MARTYRS OF THE HOSPITALS. Ludwig Knak, whose chest was crushed in by “falling - out of bed” in the Ward's Island Hospital, was an in- voluntary martyr. His death, if Mr. Jerome does look {nto it, may lead to the punishment of nurses who let (poor old men “fall out of bed.” It may remedy abuses. ~~ Another martyr—the man who knows his danger well, “yet braves it—is the hospital doctor. For instance, Drs “MaeDonald and Whitdeck, of Bellevue, have both con- wed consumption. They were young, strong men brilliant prospects. Now they are invalids, heroes ace for whom no band plays and no spectators down. The Bellevue doctors have to live ‘stuffy room. Lack of help has kept them and fatigue and bad air daily sap their "8 public hospitals are overcrowded and More money is needed. More public |, More municipal oversight is needed. plans for a new Bellevue will be put on The: Board of Estimate will be the great work of rebuilding. of the success of the appeal? man with whom the subject was dis- cussed recently, both sexes are equally at fault, for he attributed the lack of courtesy of the men in offering seats to Him Would Please Her? No, He's Just as Cruel and Carping and Selfish as He Alway. can abolish this rudeness 1f they will, and suggested the methods which they might employ in attempting the reform, They were: 1. By being courteous themselves and | ||) never forgetting to say distinctly, "I I thank you.” (So many merely bolt Into | ||/!|| a seat without a word, or mereiy mum- ble something unintelligible.) 2. By offering to return the seat when sho is about to leave the car to the gen- tleman who gave it to her if he is standing near. 8, By requesting her escort—if he falls to do it voluntarily—to «ive his seat to some woman who js standing. 4 By requesting thelr fathers, broth- ers, husbands, sons to show this cour- tesx to other women, To an observer of the fncreasing ten- Gency of men in general to allow women to stand in street cars these views seem rather utopian, But it ts undoubtedly true that the lack of courtesy in women has had # great deal to do with bringing it about it. . true that some women are rude It is enough not to thunk men who give up thelr seats to them: true that others ||| make the acknowledgmeyt in such a perfunctory, ungracious fashion as to Biscourage Chesterfield himself. There ure 4 great many women, gen- erally utterly “unattractive ones, who think it Necessary to go about with an Air of being eternally on the defense against men who were it not for their |ridiculous, bemigerent attitude would probably hot see them at all "The meekest of men does not Itke to have: the courteous offer of his seat, or his genuine inquiry of a direction from & woman who happens to be the TT . Eee", Do You Think He Would Gratify Her in the Slightest, Aithough He Knows Any Little Attention from s Wasl the equal lack of appreciation displayed | p= en: eeanciset by women tn taking them when they} |= = =e = aro offered. He sald that the women of New York i “He could make John D. Rockefeller back a chain of burlesque houses and act as business manager for a re- vival of the Lydia Thompson troupe. He could make Russell Sage buy a string of race horses and go to the track every day in a skiddoo wagon. He could mal Newton Bennington go into the delicatessen business and force George Arnold to cultivate a set of whiskers, Sully's cotton pool could have been kept going with tne aid of a good hypnotist, who could have gone to the Ex- change and put the whole bunch to sleep until Sully wag able to dent the bank rolls of his partners. It seems ta me that if I were a hypnoist I wouldn't need any finan- ciers to make good on a clinic for me.” “Do you believe that there is all they claim in this hypnotism thing?’ asked The Cigar Store Man. “Well,” said The’ Man Higher Up, “there are lots ot! things happening that can't be explained any other way —for instance, Charlie Murphy's idea that his dark horse has got a chance.” GOSPLETS By the Passer-by. We Eat Too Much! B eat too much, Oh, what a crying shame, ‘Professor Crittenden—and we're to blame, Draw near and learn, filled but repentant eaters: Reduce your appetite to beat the “aquiters,” in Rhyme. Say, would you simulate athletic size? ‘Then yearn corned beef and cabbage to despise; ‘And, lest it make you hungry to look on, only person in sight, received with the startled and dndignant alr of one re- pelling the advances of a atreet masher, “What is home without radium? There may be a bargain sale of radium any day.” ‘Dy "hes twiddle your thumbs, Mr. ple; they make rosy complexions if ‘There are many underbred or per- haps merely inexperienced women who wear this exasperating air of respect- ability rampant, Ike a chip on the shouldor of a fighting schoolboy. And they are largely responsible for the rudeness of men. Nagg! If there was ever ® | properly applied. woman who was driven clear | “£ suppose you would be glad if my out of her seven senses by a man it Isl.] janma and my little brother Willlo “Lam too gentle and forbearing with |would go away. You would Itke to you. Mother tells me I am, Mrs. have your relations come and Ilve on Gradiey tells me | am, Mrs, Terwiliger us, you would Uke to fll the hous tells me Tam, while as for Mr. Sinlg. Jwith people who would uphold you in there is a lovely man your cruelty and neglect of me, every time he meets me: wouldn't you? (mitation ts the sincere ‘ tery, Why don't your husband “You do not noglect me, you say? tate you? I do, he says, ‘I imit ou do. When we were downtown to- everything that {8 good! day you saw me looking at some radi- “You don't care what Mr. Smig says, |Um In a storo window. You heard the man say it would make diamonds you say? Of course you don't. Well, Mr. Smig is the editor of the Evening glow briliiamly, and yet you never bought me any to sprinkle over my Furlge, and he writes the loveliest edl- torlals, and the red-headed fudge 1®)/dlamond losket you bought me. . by, him for anaemia peo] “1 guppose you ing radium on thelr diamonds, and mine| Meets his wife at the door with a sm! Wil beidin- and duit when she comes home after work “It costs a million dollars an ounce, you say? “Well, suppose tt does. You might have offered to buy me some. Not that ant it, but as brother Willie says, hat is home without radium? "How do I know but that you are de- velving me as to the cost?) There may bo a bargain sale of radium any day! “Not that I want it, but it 1s the prin- ple of the Uhing. Look how th tics ii Mr, Tereriliges tp to his wie, piven when he goes oi rinking and spends all the money from her e he never twinks of caning home without bunoh at HH 9 a * “I cok all around me and I men wh) uty vw subio their wives a Bui you try to make ime unhappy. she Is employed. “As sho told me herself, keeps open every night until 10, but —— GERMS PREFERRED. Though they afirm A deadly germ Lurks in the sweetest kiss, Let's hope the day | Is far away | Of antiseptic blies. To sterilize A lady's sighs Would simply be outrageous— I'd much prefer To humor her And let her be contagious, Auanta Journal, |) smile when she comes home to cook t! supper is a great comfort to her, a Mr. Bilkings has the loveliest blue’ey “You only think of money grubb! vith vou of how the young man upsturs i) = | “You have a. grim, happy temperament, position. ° cloud even ace out whan Tet tot Ab ye, unpleasant, aod | you where whore other women will be wear-|Bilkings, who {# out of work, always late at that Bighth avenue store where her store be met by her husband with a sunny M1 day after day, and when | try to Pale how wretched magena's health Ja, and give you all the detaiIn of her symptoms, or if I go to tell you vA his Jeg amputated, are ¥ou interested? Induce the waiting mutton to be gone, Make this your rule: each day to swallow tess ‘Tu, by degrees, you live on nothingness; ‘Then, as you touch the zero-point in foods, Your buiging musoles shall deliver the goods, Nor does it seem so very wide a jump ° Of fanoy, that some day the stomach pump May turn the tables on the bold digestion . And pump us hollow at the least suggestions Or that the use of regulated fast _ May Iny us down to pleasant dreams et tast. For really, when you come to think of It, ‘We're getting used to progress bit by bit, Each year our boys with weaker eyes detects, ‘And soon, no doubt, they'll all be born with “specs” Our girls have grown so wrapped-up in their looks ‘They scorn the vey praise of being cooke; Or choose to grow anaemfe in a shop That they may. buy a hat or 'tend a hop, ‘Thus glasses sight, and shams good sense, dispiace, But leave us still, alas! an eating rave, ie ne to he