The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1904, Page 8

fi \ } . f G@ATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1904, Che & Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ ‘ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 344..... eee - The Numbe- of columns of advertising in The a Evening World in March, 1904...... 1,50134 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World in March, 1903....., 1,03214 INCREASE............ GOQ% NO. 15,5886. Evening World First. | 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. THE MAYOR'S BLUNDER. Mayor McClellan, as The Evening World yesterday pointed out, had one bad reason for signing the East River Gas “grab,” and three good reasons for not signing it. He has permitted the one bad reason to outweigh the three food ones. Brother John J. Murphy will get his $15,000,000 contract for the great plant the trust is to build in Astoria—unless Gov. Odell vetoes the bill. The city will lose valuable franchise rights, will lose its home-rule right to grant such franchises as it chooses under the charter, will lose the 3 per cent. of gross | receipts it should receive from the company—unless Gov. Odell vetoes the bill. It is unnecessary to remind Mr. McClellan that he has committed the gravest and greatest fault of his Administration. He knows that. He has committed a tactical blunder also. He has clouded a bright political prospect. He has given Gov. Odell a great opportunity to score at his expense by vetoing the “‘grab.” A SCAMP’S DESERTS. James Neilson Abeel has been found guilty by the} jury before whom he was tried of the crime of forgery in the third degree. The maximum penalty for his of- fense {6 five years in State prison. It is to be earnestly hoped that this maximum penalty will be inflicted on him; for it 1s difMfcult to imagine a more appropriate: caniiidate for a long-term residence in the penitentiary. This young rascal had ail the advantages of a re spectable family, a decent upbringing, a comfortable fortune and a good wife. Yet he wantonly sought by misrepresentation and by forgery to filch the love of an innocent girl with promises of marriage which he knew he could not carry out. He not only cruelly wronged the girl and his own wife but unscrupulously attempted to soll in the mud of the affair the name of Robert Goelet, a reputable young man who had never even heard of either Abeel or Miss Amderson, his un- fortunate dupe. In the trial Abes!’e counsel tried to show that Goelet: had spent $25,000 to bring about the prisoner's errest. If this ts so Mr. Goelet deserves credit for it. He not only cleared his own good name, and geve Miss Anderson an Opportunity to obtaim justice if not reparation, but he! did @ good service to the community, which builds peni- tentierles for just euch rogues as James Neilson A’bec!. GUARD THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. Mr. Kilburn, New York State’s rural Superintendent of Banks, explains that when reports came of the looting of the Federal concern his men were examining “one of the largest savings banks im the city.” After they had fin-| ished they tackled the gutted Federal, and after a leis- urely week closed it. Puttermg with formafities over a great bank as aolid as Gibraltar instead of dropping everything to attend to the little bank that well-informed men Knew was being plundered—what kind of common sense wus that? Tt 4s as if Mr. Kilburn were to say: ‘Yes, they told us the man wes in the pond. After we had finished our fame of golf we strotled down to pull him out. Unfor- tunately he had drowned.” If Gov. Odell can afere the time from his important ¢ampaign duties he might administer a jolt to Supt. Kilburn. . The basrks subject to State authority contain some- thing like ewo biilion dollars of the people's money. SHOP GIRLS AND THE SUBWAY. , Of course the new subways should contain pipe gal- leries—but perhaps these can be later arranged for. Ot course subway franctrises ahould be Lintited to twen- ty-five years, not seventy-five; the construction and op- erating contracts should be esparated, monopoly foiled, the elty’s taxing power guarded. But #0 long ss the Legislature is controlled by “gra! and “graft,” eo long as city and rural members are equally ruthless of the straits of nearly four million peo- ple—what is New York to do? Ver lack of means of travel men waste in clinging to car straps the strength and nerve force they might put ito business, Women and young girls who toil long hours for small wages are subjected more than 600 times @ year to intolerable discomfort, danger and sometimes ingalé im “rush hours.” The city must do something. ‘We need most of all an east side subway. We need almost as badly two great outlets by subway across the Est River—due east and due south by the shortest lines, ‘We need the widest privilege of transfers for five cents. For the Rapid Transit Commissioners to accept any- ~ thing short of that would be a grave error. 7,124 .ETTERS IN ONE DAY : IN RESPONSE TO “WANT” ADVTS, On last Monday, April 18, there were received and | counted at The World’s main office 7,424 letters an- Bwering Want Advertisements in last Sunday's World. |, « Every one who has something to buy or something to })mell.can sperk to more than one-third of all the lies in the City of New York by using a few the Sunday World alone. Try it to-morrow. {i |The Question of Glad Hose and Divorce. —_——>—— By Ing | Nixola Greeley-Smith. | HERE was an printed tho other day of a man over| in Hoboken who ts} sulng his wife for diverce on the} ground that she wears socks And They suggested tn the splendor of their varied color- ing an aurora hore- alis or @ paint shop on fire, according to the amount of poetry In the soul of the observer, To the husband they had suggested di- vorce and he told the Court that he | would cheerfully give up half his tn- come to the fair owner of the abbrevi- ated hosiery, but he would never live} in the same house with them again. The question arises as to whether or mot this husband of emphatic views In| Justifed in his aversion to gaudy howlery ‘The matter seems really to be one of taste rather than of morals and toere- fore scarcely one which a divorce court could be asked to pronounce upon There In no doubt that the wearing of variegated or abbreviated hose is an artiste error, but surely it Is as harm- 4s as it in ugly Women who wear must do s0 to please themselves, men don't ike them. * So far as stockings are concerned tho | best atage cffect in admittedly produced by plain black silk omes, and indeed there aro few persons of taste who do | not prefer these at all times. {f a girl has a yearning for sunset effects and a decent respect for | the opinions of mankind. provents her | from giving vent to it in her more vinible attire, surely the question as to whether ft shall be expressed in hose or half hose is one which she may set- ue for herself. H ‘To be sure, the voung woman whose | daintily lifted skirts reveal stockings whose riotous color rainbow has been st such socks! loud stockings | For | daring in audible and sometimes too | apprecia(ive comment from the pass. | ers-by. Tf @ man is married to one of these ladies with a tendency to hectic hose, he should object to them, not on the ground of morals, which is fruitless, but on the very superior plea that they are unbecoming. For he may talk him- self blue in the face trying to convince j@ women that her pink-and-black or purple-ayd-red hose are tmproper and at the end of his argument have fur- nished hee merely with an additional Teason for wearing them. | But if, on the other hand, he can convince her that he does not object to them in the feast except for the reason thet they spot] the exquistte symmetry of her ankles, she will discard them at once and go abroad desorously in sober black to the end of her days. The Hoboken husband must have ‘been sadly Incking in diplomacy, which {s surety the most essential quality for succeswful matrimony. LETTERS, . QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. What They Mean. To the Editor of The Evening World: Please tell me what the following words mean printed inside a violin: “Copie de Glouann! Grancino in Con- trada largha di Milano at segno dolla Corona 17H." J. H SOMERVILLE. The words mea “Fac-simile of Gio- yanni Grancino, In the country outstde of Milam, at the sign of the crown 1721." Wetrdest of “Ann's Age" Problems, To the Editor of The Evening Wé 3 ‘Ann 1s five years old, her father ts thirty-five years old, which makes the father seven times as old as Ann. They both live five years, making Ann's age ten years and her father's age forty years, which makes him only four times as old as Ann. At this rate, how long will It take before they are of the same age? JG. F. Wants to Gain Six Pounds, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I would like to gain six pounds in about three weeks. Can I do ft? A. 0. You may possibly gain the required weight by the following means; Eat heartily of fat-producing foods such as potatoes, bread, butter, rice, &c. Drink four glasses of buttermilk a day. Sleep nine hours a night in a well-ventilated room and take mild outdoor exercise, Abstain from liquor and tobacco, Our Dasty St te. To the Editor of Th wening World: I noticed a letter saying that if the Strect-Cleaning Department stop flushing the streets there would be more water for fires, Now, you can take nine out of every ten other | streets below Forty-second street, ex- cluding Fifth ayenue, and all you can see ts a cloud of dust almost enough | to suffocate any ordinary person. Your | nostrils |and throat become parched | and for the time being your clothes are ruined. Yet people talk of the air being Mled with tuberculosis and other germs. We don't use enough | water on our streets, The proper thing to do would be to supply every | Kang of street-dleaners with a few | sprinkling cans or go back to a few years ago nm We had wagons sprinkling the streets at night JOHN M. | A Spanish War Query. | ‘To the Mdltor of The Evening World A. contends that during the Spanish- | American war Capt. Robley D. Evans was in command of the Texas and made the famous speech, “Don't cheer, boys; those poor fellows are dying.’ B. contends that Capt. Evans was not | in command of the Texas and did .n make any such remark, Kindly ‘de- | olde. ALR. | Evans was captain of the: lowa. Capt. Fhillips, of the Texas, made the is apt to reap the natural harvest of her | |||) - 10 have aucted. x bittl e Tragedies PLEASE RE-ELECT YouR FAITHFUL HONEST SERVANT SWELL! (Tau apouT “NERVE — pestle Only Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee’s Appetite and Theories Clash. rion 7 Ze WE THR: THE EVE, on Uae zelital HALE (STARVED AFTER THAT FAMILY DINNER PARTY! HERE - MINION! BRING ME FouR WHOLE ROAST JTURKIES ~ PIGS KNUCK, LE AND SAUERKRAUT, FRANKFURTERS AND BRO. Ei(masnen - Looser (A LA PITTSBURGH STE by = AND A) CAVIAR SANDWICHTAND-) — THATS \WHATS THE marveR! PEOPLE EAT Too MmucH! SCIENCE MAS PROVED THAT Man EATS MORE THAN His SYSTEM \) i GL TnL $ WAITER! BRING U l A ES h rut OF SSICATED SOUP NO _A GLASS, OF Y 8 (vc FU SS Yassin! RAW OR. fSinceo? —= Hi BARRELS FOR FIRE woop YL. The Utilization of Our Wasted Time, A Gook by the Cuckoo Clock. Conyret, 190%, by the Planet Pub. Co Of these twenty- four hours 154 days are WASTED dally in various ways. This time could have been UTILIZED by devoting it to.the search for those manuscripts that have been be- queathed to us by our ancestors, that peopied this world BEFORE IT WAS CREATED, which took place TEN years after the Prench Revolution. : These manuscripts would reveal to us new and uscful ways of !nventing, manufacturing and of becoming Journalists, which would do a great deal for the THIRTY- FAPTH Century civilization, It ts therefore the duty of each member of this paper’s large family of readers to start on a tour of search to the Sahara Desert, on the barks of whose trees he will find, BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED, a strect direc- tory of New York City, a specimen of handicraft of our PRE-CREATION ANCESTORS, which will ald him in his sclentific search for those WONDERFUL manuscripts, You can also gain VALUABLE Information concern- Ing the above by watching CLOSELY the red smudge splayed daily on this paper. DEP witty. = - To-Day’s $5 Prise ‘‘Fudge’” Idiotorial Was Written by Joseph M. Cohen, No. 268 Cherry Street, N. Y. City. PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 Paid for each—No. 1, MORRIS GOLDBERG, 1701 Lexington ave., New York City; No. 2,L. M. WILLEY, 716 Jersey ave., Jersey City, N.J.; No, 3, JOHN DUNN. 418 East Sixteenth st., New York City. Monday’s ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘How to Interview a $10,000,000-a-Vear Stenographer.”’ What Is the Telephone Number? # # #& eu a 1-2-Spring (One to Spring) GERMAN WIT. “™dn't your father think Herr Engl too young to marry you?” “Oh, no! He said he would age fast enough when he began to see my dress- makers’ and milliners’ Dills,"—Daa IN DEMAND. FREELY ADMITTED. “What's that line of people in front of| She—Women may gossip sometimes, your house?” but they have better control of their “Oh, they're netghbors who have] tongues than men have. heard our cook was going to leave,! He You are right. Men wave no con- and they're waiting for a chance to en-| trol whatever of, women's ‘Gonguts,— ‘amo wer. Megane City. THE BORROWER, | He's as friendly a chap as I know— With a Sunshiny «mile as he wends His way through the world; he's, ever alert In keeping in touch with his friends. —WNaw.Osleans TimeacDemoarat. Nea’? AP orn i io her Up, By Martin Green. Do We Eat Too Muchor Is lt the Dope in Our Food That Queers Us? 667 SEE.” said the Cigar Store Man, ‘that Prof. Chit- I tenden, of Yale, has proved by experiment that we eat too much.” “His proof won't make much of a hit with about 80 per cent. of the people of this town who don't get enough of what they want to eat,” responded the Man Higher Up. “You can prove anything umder the right kind of conditions. There are reformers who have proved that ail we need to eat is the material for a table d'hote for a horse—oats, hay and water; but I’ve always had a suspicion that a healthy vegetarian or cerealiam takes a quiet sneak every once in a while to a good beanery and puts on a cargo of real food. “If the professor wants to make the average New York citizen think that he is doing something along the line of benefit he has a chance here by showing the adulteration used by grouchy manufacturers and dealers in almost everything we eat and drink. It is not the food that the people put into their stomachs that puts them to the bad, but it is the stuff the food is doped with “They have ways of treating meat and poultry to pre- serve the stuff chat are utilized not only by the little | butcher or poulterer but by the men who keep big mare kets, It is getting to a stage where the payment of w high price for food doesn't guarantee that it is pure. There are more fakes in the food and provision business than the museum proprietors of the country ever put out, In a hearing in court not long ago one of the wit nesses testified that a certain brand of salt, put up with fancy labels in fancy bags, was just the same as any other salt, but the people who bought it were given to understand that it had gone through a special process of treatment. “The heaviest eating nations have been the progres- sive nations. Mhe Japanese don’t eat much, but they are small people and don’t need much. The Coreans, a peo- ple larger in stature tham the Japanese, eat less, prob- ably, than any other nation and assay about as close to a four tlush as any collection of human beings on the face of the globe.” “How do you account for the strength of the Italian laborer whose lunch consists of a piece of dry bread ; With a piece of garlic rubbed on it?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “What stronger fodder could you choose?” retorted the Mam Higher Up. (GOSPLETS @ Rime. | By the Passer= New Local No. 1, Yy- HOUGH death should “confidence” a well-knowr | “Colonel:* Though Bryan “hire « hall" or rent a journal; Though Abeel have to take the “third degree” For bluffing he was rich—Itke you and me; * Though Thomas may not “want to be an angel,” t wander like a mad evangel; 7 y's quash of booms induce nephritis, Or Pat MeCarren’s dinners, tonailitis; | Though rapid-tire Cannon defend six wives, While others, cat-like, may enjoy nine lives; ‘Though Christian Brother break more modest vows To wed the single mate the law allows; | | Though from the Tombs arise a banker's wail, Nay, not for all let now the brave man quail. From out the cha‘t pluck forth a solid grain, ‘And hear the protest of the female plain, | “This we resolve, all we who pound the keys, hy hard work satisfy or fair looks please: | Tf one is beautiful, another deft, } it is not right that elther one get left [it Prue with patience prints a perfect row, | Matitda’s teeth may no less faultless shows If Julia's frown contrives a blotless pare, Estelle's new pleture-hat ts all the rage; Mame in that excels, and May In this; One's lips pronounce the best, another's kiss. ‘Therefore: like wages shall each gift reward, Nor pen prove mightier than a pleasant word Pleased, whether the employer seek or shun, We're equal in our Local No. 1. Japs Are Growing Tail. According to a Philadelphia physician in a generation ot two the Japs will average the same stature as Europeans, It is only their legs that are short, he says, and this comes from their habit of sutting in eramped positions on the floor. Western customs are being adopted, and he thinks the litle brown man will soon lengthen out. Of course, some of his brother physiofans pooh-pooh this notion, They point out that chairs are almost unknown among Hindoos, who on the whole are rather long legged. A Puzzle Picture.