The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1904, Page 14

the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to @ » New York. Entered at the Post-Office at Wee York as Gecond-Class Mail Matter. IM AB. oe eee e eceeesees esses NO. 18,892. Mike, the Meddler, Shows that He’s a “Fixer ‘The Evening World First. Number of cOhimns of advertising in The , | Evening World in March,.1904...... 1,50134 1,0323/ Number of columns of advertising in The, Evening World in March, 1903...... © “PAINCREASE............ 4OO% |}. WNe other. six-day paper, morning or evening, in New Work EVER carried in regular editions in any one month a vélime of display advertising as The Evening ford castied in March, 1904. THE: GREATEST WORLD'S FAIR. | ‘By as much as the Columbian Exposition in Chicago Burpassed all previous world’s fairs will the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which opens in St. Louis to- morrow, surpass Chicago. Its acreage is twice that of Chicago, and almost four times that of Paris in 1900. a ft has 55 per cent. more floor space for exhibition = - = ‘1 than either. ; | i aon peace = “3 Two great men met in world history, though not In Th G t d O | Mi P the flesh, when in 1803 Jefferson bought from Napol- | e rea an n y |e eewee. ¢on’that vast region from which Missouri, Oklahoma, and beap Year Mr. Peewee Would Like A. Carnegie to Look His Way When Seeking Heroes. Bs Arkansas, Minnesota, Wyoming, Indian Territory, 4 South .and North Dakota, Nebraska, Louisiana, Mon- Proposals. = tana, Iowa, Kansas and Colorado have since been f ; carved. «It is an area in which France and Germany er LD FRIEND By Has CREATE THE Rescue! 00! co! oo! OME. BODY 1 SAVE Him!! could be dropped and lost. | The price paid for that vast realm was $15,000,000] Nixola Greeley-Smith. | —that and the knowledge that the cession would dis- please Great Britain. Fifteen millions was the original | ogy sates creeiey-8mith: capital required for this fair. In all, more than three} ts there any law about leas year. pro times that sum will be spent in fitly celebrating this] Want to mare woud peepore to ‘the colossal national centennial. one thes tke and Ie refusedt that the A world's fair is interesting in itself; it is educative. |to be worth nor less than $0, for tne It's perhaps even more interesting and educative in the | proporat trom a indy to a man? ‘There i cs 1 y Ad @ ‘opot opportunity it gives, when held on American soil, to} to. ar ae gain under the fairest auspices knowledge of our own ; H country, = T 1ERF fs no law 5 i . about leap-vear The young man or young woman who has spent proposals, gen- (successive vacations in visiting the great fairs at te pata C) su} ; vritten Omaha, Chicago, Buffalo and Charleston, and who has Law. The accept. | i? ry " ance by o ! brought open eyes to these opportunities, knows much Beetle psn | of what the world is doing in art and industry and proposal ts just as “much also of our own country, of its thought, its de- velopment, its aspiration. GE 1) ‘TO REWARD HEROES! T OF OCCASION 15 By Martin Green. US = The Difference Between Track Bets aud Pool-room Gambling 1S INSTINCT IN TH Norton Goddard has discovered for the City PO Sor ATL Club that the Western Union supplies pool || |rooms with racing information.” “T suppose,” replied the Man Higher Up, “that the City Chib supposed that the pool-rooms got the results ‘end betting by mental telepathy. Everybody else in ‘town but the members of the City Club knew that the Western Union wires are the only wires on the race | tracks, and that the company supplies racing informa | tion to anybody that will pay for it. And why nit? “Many of our most eminent citizens are interested {n the race tracks. Racing {s the sport of kings, and the fact that it Is largely supported by suckers, chumps and panhandlers is partly offset by the congideration that it gives work to a bunch of people who would be i bums otherwise. In the foundation there is no wrong in going to a race track and seeing horses fight it out | for a purse, even if lots of them do wear lead plates, or are sent to the post waterlogged, or are subjected to the strong-arm treatment, The law says thet {t is not s i crime to bet on a horse at the track, and society has put the ribbon of approval on the betting ring; so ft | “] SER,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Capt. Fi HAVE CLAWE SSS =/=) though the {dea of | “Dinarringe hod origi- | hated in his o won #low-moving bratn. binding on him as Lawyers and the Ga Some very strong, very - able, very plausible arguments have been made for the He can be sued for signature of the East River Gas bill—by skilled lawyers | breach of “promise on tt or compelled hired for the purpose. No proper code of justice han ever | by a stern parent to:fulfl the Genied the advice of counsel to a criminal. But what] {ust as if he hed really wante pinin citiden has asked to havo this many-miillo: far as the law Is concerned, therefore, \ OTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGE “gral” a he clty ye by the Governor? | You are quite safe. grab” sanctioned at ioe. yiacexpenae © fl Mts Aoubititiitvany man pertectiy 7 Ges HEE va feel ; a Indifferent toa you oO h eee Sd _ PERDITION AT THE PLAY. him" to hecome her husband. nam J G Trust Tamper with the |W Meve,that ne work | jcan't be a sin, Riaibete Seite (ot the. mathosiee olecepel exactly a eT be ; Scheme of Creation? fj of creation was “The telegraph operators at the track s | graph opt it jend out news completed BEFORE , the Evening Pudge came Into exist-! ence, The EVEN. | ING FUDGE therefore DISCLAIMS responsibility for cer-1 tain MISTAKES In the plan of creation. i i For instance, in the SUMMER, when heat {s not, \ needed, the hot rays of the sun sre poured down int ll] USELESS profusion, WE would have arranged to save | il] some of this wasted heat for the WINTER, when the | A) POOR need it most. 1 Then, again, fp the winter the lakes and rivers are! Mi packed with ICB, This 1s CRIMINAL EXTRAVAGANCE, i | We would have arranged to fill the streams with FUEL , I} in winter and save the ice for the summer. ' The question MAY be asked, «Did some prebistoric | ‘trust tamper with the scheme of creation so as to cnable } the Misstonary Society of the Methodist Episcopal|‘ at Church. This society refused to accept the money. Its » >\ reason was that he had been burned io death in the Troquois Theatre. of perfectly legitimato transactions—just as they send out quotations on stocks. But in transit over the wires to the pool-rooms in the city this news gets all smudged. « If it lands in a newspaper office to be printed for the benefit of the public {t is all to the morality; but if it lands {n a place where men bet on it without paying $3 to the racing association for the privilege, it is all to - . feit n $0 gown rather ton future for the 5 nan with a taste Is {t not an interesting revelation that in the five) ieesuialnes twentieth century, in the United States of America, there time she wanted a should exist a large body of intelligent citizens who de- vay agen rhe could select: some de- voutly belleve that a visit to a theatre must render a be crteounet toning and legacy too tainted for acceptence, and cost the eternal) If she were very enterprising, she price of a soul's salvation? might propose to a dozen or so men These are sincere people who have a perfect right to as ahs: brew wouldn't have her, and their own theorles of the life present and to come. But! tray ts heen suicnvieblel pus: ft seems unreasonable that they should be shipping the one coy bachelor who. whispering |__|Ilf missionaries to the Antipodes to convert savages Who | he would no'er consent, consented hi do not patronize the drama, when they have ready to! Never having been privileged to see or read @ “proposal fro | of unredeemed fellow - srry AR) } their hand so many millions gentleman,” tt In impossible to comply \ could be made to exactly i A honor to himself of such a ii | , e) Fudge Came Along Too Late to mea in. Hut if he could and WW OB : TAN ka 2 2 ° f et i ‘ou’ HH the crime list. i “The telegraph operator who sits in the office at the track and sends the track odds and the betting to New York is an honest workingman. The telgraph operator i who sits in a pool-room in New York and takes the same information is engaged in crooked work. In the ||| | fraction of time {t takes the telegraph ticks to travel i from the race track to the pool-room they are changed from legitimate news to criminal {nformatjon.” We prefer to present ‘another question for you to | | THINK about. Can this unfortunate condition be! cans who nightly court perdition at the play. vit 1 0 ‘1 America) ehtly P lo eileen Turpiahis spas HI CHANGED? t | } “What causes the change?” asked the Cigar Story Redes are are . ster 5 Park Cominissioner Pallas might settle the contest Of | pie, straight-forward directness In pas We answer fearlessly, YES! How? Under tntelll- , iii | Man. Cent leadership! FOLLOW US, and it shall be changed , the Dames and the Daughters for the custody of the Jumel posals, and why sho or e1 Mansion by boarding up the windows and renting the #pac¢| Amuse tnotert | ns NO men have 1 i Uy -orr'’ heir vi ” . : for advertisenents—a 4 per cent. “rake-off" of the! value loves ou: Willy you! be my tuse for the city. band?” is a neat’ formula and cannot en fail to win a $4 dress from any man ci SOME SURPRISING ACCOMPLICES, | who ts gaitant enough to appreciate the — = _seae eee business.” r 1 | honor of a young woman's °4 = = —— SSS = == = Pool-rooms are illegal. The Western Union Tele leveniwulinoecinivicnst Proposal = graph’ Company deliberately furnishes them with the| “Sr ir ints seams ron tong ana aimeut| _ 20-Day’s $5 Prize ‘‘Fudge’” Idiotorial was Written by Louis M. Kilh, No. 229 Fourth avenue, New York City. material necessary for their existence by telegraphing to|to say, one may take off half of it- PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1. LOUIS PAPEN, 504 West 46th treet, New York City; No. 2, PHILIP REILLY, } “Two dollars,’ answered the Man Higher Up—“tht though the rivers must ran RED with floods of SMUDGE! | price of a badge. If the pool-rooms charged admisslow Aw-FupGe/ (|| |and cut it up with the racing assoolations the pools . room business would be as open and free as the liquor “Near Side’—‘Far Side’’—Which ? them the returns of the races, Therefore the Western eealees eo isay the first half—and White Plains, N. Y.; No, 8—WILLIAM CAMINSKI, 51 Exchange place, New York City. By Lurana W. Sheldon. ° reathe shyly, sweatly, WAL i zi rs a A * Union is an accessory to a felony. RUE ee To-Morrow’s Prize ‘‘Fudge”’ ldiotorial Gook, ‘‘Is Appetite a Reality or a Mere Sensation?” HE shades of night were falling fast Among the directors of the Western Union are such |” phe shorter and more romantic “Be —<—___———_— iT A sorciae BisAay, there swiftly passed trolley car of orange s! well-known names as J. Plerpont Morgan, James H.| Mine," will not do. It would Imply Sue, Roswall Sage, George Jc Gould, BH, Harriman, |an ie Wt ponraion, of ownerny tn at Is the Ielephone Number es & & mR Geman s pve mical to the masculine sense of th ‘ Morris K. Jesup, Chauncey Depew, Charles Lanter and| (itt (0) i) ene transposition, : Johp Jacob Astor. “Let me be yours” has an awkward It is to be hoped that these gentlemen will quickly | sound and would not do. It must be wipe from their names the stigma of alding and abetting | Temembered that there fo; ‘Try not to pass,” a Copper sald— The Gripman did not turn his head, But then and there that waiting throng Beheld the car go right along the commission of a crime. persue ee or ientens Bene Tie Vaan 9 4 ee — eae f ; ; They waved, they yelled, they even swore— : THE LOST BOY IN THE SNOW. a FoR YOURS J ; Some things they safd you'll hear no more; Away out in British Columbia, fn a wild, mountainous THE “HAIRY HERMIT.” § But to the lever tightly screwed . A i -old Allen . After] From all parts of North Russia peas iinat, Gripen ie eaale eves) were] ginsd ¥egion} touf-year-old len Coulter ‘was lost. A rth Russia pea Like magnets. searching jn every part of the valley the neighbors went ants are travelling on a plmrimage to 1 ‘mountal tif climb even tor a’ strong |r emt: high up the’ mountain, a stiff cl . Blevitsch, who Is known as “the hairy | man, aud there found the child, atove the spring snow | man of Archangel.” Five years agu, in| line, dead from cold and fatigue. an excess of religious mania, he cut {f Lost upon a plain or in level forest a man tends to|%% all his Mugers on his left hand. || ; i‘ When he heard that the Russians h wander about in circuits until exhausted. So strong {8 | surered misfortune in the Far FB this tendency that even experienced woodsmen armed |declared that it was the result ¢ with compasses find it hard to resist. ‘That compass | sin. which could be atoned ¢ must be wrong” {s an instinctive thought which many aj™crifice offered to Mother ‘rst he said he did Ot Kine man has needed to summon all his common sense tol nincance of this declaration Tate fight.’ John the Baptist’s day he representet ; ‘In mountain wilds the lost man’s-path of safety in| that he had been commanded to “plant © doe. Any watorcourse followed far enough will bring |mrelf in the eartn and there remain | Patidiie keen’ human /instinette! elwi until the unbelievers, meaning the Jap- always to] an were beaten, or until bireh le “ fib the next knoll or cliff or summit, the | sprouted from his fingerless hand.” He Tie eipn tho air i mtey Jost one thinks, will give him a better idea of his where- | has accordingly planted himself up to Andmuttrs ma manner eer ‘Aways the wood looks lighter and more open|th® Knees in earth in his hut. ‘There ee z “pele or downelde, far OF ne he now remains with aa A x Seria - i Nalleaelariae tin iaiece eee * IN DousT. | FEMININE Loaic, NOT IN TRAINING. Upralde or down-side, far or near? much of all this was in the poor baby’s mind as — “What Kind of a climate ts thie?” | “Great guns!’ exclaimed /the absent-| “I see that the Russian soldiers assert hare, ed the tourist, | minded man, “I just stuck the lighted | that they don’t get enough to cat. i jed‘away from home and safety up toward the} THE WORLD has opened a branch office) “Don't know,” answered the native | end of this cigar‘in my mouth.” 3 Thats too bad. The Russian officers for WANT adie 'tisements near your home Ne oor pass any ote kind of| “How fortunate tae were iB Alacer OneAC to know that thelr ean cent run Pints nous! nd out any." ering It at once, dei rejoined, his | well on an empty stomach, veland Seo list on page 2 to-day's Evening World,| suing about olimate."'—Washington Star. | good wife.—Chicago News. = Plain Dealer, * “Which {s It now?" none heard him say, | “What {s the ordinance to-day? Down-slde or up-side, far or near— Do I stop there or ts it here, \ I wonder? “Near side or far side, I forget— Shall I stop now or not quite yet; Up-side or down-side, near or far, Which is the right side for the car To stop on?" A fat man signalled from the curb. % ‘Yoo late—his cries could not disturty This man, who glided through the town Kepeating words all upside down ‘ \ And sideways, “Al right, air," peapones) ee ee Think of sending a message into 10,000 city homes for ONB clerk. ‘Do you’ want oni or , ire Philadelphia Inquirer... ,CENT. See “Want”? announcement on page 1 to-day.