The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1904, Page 14

ing Company, No. 5% to @) ark Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMce | at New York as Second-Class Mafl Matter. | — WOLUME 44........00s0c0s00s000..NO. 18,899. Leads All the Rest. During January, February, March and April of ths year The Evening World carried 5087 columns of paid cis- play advertising. No other New York papér equalled this showing. The increase over The Evening World's own record for the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% eolumns—more than twice the gain made by any other paper. A FLIMSY DEFENSE, Mr. Ctowry, the President of the Western Union, | attempts to defend the company’s course in aiding and) abetting the operations of criminal pool-rooms. He tnat | * © * It is the legal duty of the telegraph company to transmit all messages couched in decent language that are Presented to it for transmission; that a public service cor- \ poration, whether a telegraph company or a railroad com- 2 pany, has no right to be a censor of public or private morals, that being the function of the public authorities: He continues by quoting the Supreme Court of ' Indiana, which decided if © * © that the telegraph company was not authorized to in- | quire into or impugn the motives of any one who desires to transmit a message couched in decent language; that there ‘was no law which made the telegraph company or its em- ployees a censor of public or private morals; that {f the message offered for transmission 1s expressed in decent language the duty of the telegraph company is fixed by law, and it has no discretion. This is, of course, a contradiction in itself—since the company could not possibly judge whether mes- sages were “expressed in decent language” witnout thereby becoming a censor of morals. Yi But, grant that the above decision is valid and applicable; concede that the telegrapl. company as a “common carrier” has not the right arbitrarily to re- fus? certair messages, and still the unquestionable facts remain: 1—That the Western Union does possess the legal right fe arbitrarily raise its tolls aa high as {t pleases so long as Miey are raised equally throughout a whole clase of business. ‘That the Western Unton availed ftself of this right @vhen it jumped Its New York pool-room rates to $25 a day %—That if the company could raise rates for its pocket in cD the past. it could ra rates for its principles in the present, 5 find raise them to such a prohibitive helght that pool-rooms Would have to go out of existence. N-; there is only one logical reason which Mr. Clowry can advance why the Western Union should continue its pool-room service. That is that it needs its $5,000,000 criminal pool-room revenue in its © business. } $ The new Williamsburg Bridge ts getting its sad reputation # Bsa “bridge of sigh ‘ COURTING DEATH. In a town in New Jersey, last week, a little girl died of diphtheria, Four other children, stricken by the dis- tase, are in a critical condition; and the town Is in fear ef an epidemic. The reason why the four children caught the disease Bb almost beyond belief. They were permitted after the » first little giri’s death to kiss her. Leaving aside the shocking morbidness of this act, it fs 8 terrible thing to realize that, in a highly civilized pert of our country, education has been so useless, and ‘mowledge has proved so futile, that sane parents could low their children to Kiss the cold lips of a playmate @ead of such a virilently contagious disease as fipbtherta. -ffech permission overstepped the bounds of mere fgovance and was not far from being criminal. ie President Guillauseau, of the Old Dominton Line, tells fie School of Commerce students that New York's high Wharf retes drive away commerce. These rates were fixed by Pweed for plunder. They remain because, apparently, no Me cares. Here is an opportunity for Mr. McClellan to distinguish himself. KEEP OUT OF BUCKET-SHOPS. Counsel Lenney asked Manager Bruck, of Woodend Company: Were there not three ways to handle an order—first, the Consolidated Exchange; second, the New York Stock, and Yatra, ‘what became of the order?” ® The Jast operation ts simply “making” a quotation— he "bucketing” it. Mr. Bruck’s virtuous “No” was weak- tmed by his later admission that one large order for ‘ stock was not placed, but that Dr. Woodend “made it all “) right” with the customer by giving him an automobile i and some other things. The exchanges are, they say, about to take stern jeasures to stop ‘‘bucketing.” Two members of the Consolidated Exchange were, indeed, yesterday expelled, But not for this offense. This looks as if the managers Were waking up. . The exchanges should act with vigor. Wall street gambling at its best {3 bad. But a bucket-shop {s worse than a pool-room. Its customers have no chance. , The buaket-shop man seldom buys or sells a share of stock. He accepts the tiniest ‘“margins"—the smaller the better, since they are more easily “wiped out.” If the tide goes against him it is always easier to “fail” than pay. The exchanges should put a stop to the swindle. But the people can stop it easier, and save money, by keeping out. What could Alderman Haggerty have meant by saying at the Port Chester Railroad, which wants a franchise, ts “too mean?” ¥ RIB-BREAKING HOSPITALS. ‘SPAnother patient at the Manhattan State Hospital has én found, after death, to have acquired a trifling att of eight broken ribs. It is not so very long since another hospital “case,” j@ Knek, had his breastbone as well as a few ribs hed by “‘falling out of bed.” Nothing has been about it. Jerome says that the trouble is that good men ot be employed for $30 or $40 a month. It certainly seem dificult, | says further that “most of the attendants are OER eree ING w WORL “Freshness” Is | Its Own By \Nixola Greeley-Smith., I man, sured young wom- ny to decry thelr! and man T ts the custom! to sneer “fresh to nethods ners and even to eplore thelr ¢ not the young men of tay the cour nners of! roelder time the captious vivors of a more chivalrous period. Why are not the young women the sw falr nonenti-| | tles they are led to believe thetr grand-| mothers were? So far the young] women are concerned, the adequate answer les In the mere fact that they are not thelr grandmothers, As «| Whol they are, (ndeed, though tt may | be treason to say so, very grent im-! provements on their estimable ances-! tors, They are stronger physically and mentally. and thelr manners, wht} haps less formal, are more natur more sincere, The quality of which some of them undoubtedly do possess in an unpleasant degree, while It may “freshness,” not inspire liking, very often com: mands respect. by what {t accom: plishes—and no man or woman has ever accomplished anything without being considered “fresh’’ by some one But there ts a vast difference between the spirit of adventurous enterprise which led such varying men as Napoleon and Hamilton and Ben- consfeld, or to go further back, our good old friend — Columbus an@ the host of hardy adyen- turers that followed him—to success and which might have been called ‘“fresh- ness" by the slow-moving plodders of thelr differing times, and the non- chalant {mpudence of some young men of to-day whose only originality Nes tn disregarding all the traditions and con- ventions of the world they live In. These are the persons who are really fresh in the most disagreeable sense of the word, who having more or less Jus- tiflably lost faith In themselves, as- cnme that they need not therefore be- lieve In anything and allow this “nil attitude to affect their y association with their fellows. They do not believe that there are honest men in the world, and they pro- ceed to exploit this pleasing theory to any man that will listen to them, often without any idea that they are being offensive. ‘They express also a very general scepticism Ja regard to women and give their women friends the be fit of these views with no apparent consciousness of impudence. Very generally, too, they succeed in getting a hearing for the cholce bur- room philosophy without meeting with the rebuke It deserves, For “freshnet unsupported by any justifying excel- lence behind It, often wins an eusy way where merit, {f checked, as It often ‘s by diffidence, has a hard, slow road to travel. 7 are so meny callings nowadays wherein the person who makes the bigreat bluff wing out. And to make a bluff only the crass ‘gnor- ance which belleves in its own efforts Deoause it knows of no others, and the quality of serene, — unconquerable freshness whioh is its own reward—ls required. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. creder Silver. “Sterling” Silver 1 ia” To the Editor of The ning World What is the difference between storl- ing silver and polld sitver, and also which !s the more valuable? A. J. B 1“ Plea for Smokers on Went Side To the Editor of The Evening World: Now that warm weather Is here can’t we have smoking cara (or else open care in which smoking ts permitted) on the west a! LY traina (Sixth and Ninth avenues)? Root for it, readers We passengers have some rights LEROY G, FANCHER, Muat Be “Natural Born Citizen.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Must the President of the United States be a natural born citizen? Or how long must he be a citizen of th United States before he can become President? A. GN Pronounced (Kalil-vay.” To the aitor of The Evening World How is Mme. Calves name pro- nounced? GLB Yorn Oot, 15, 1858, To the Editor of The Evening World Iiow old is John L, Sullivan? PC. “Instant” Correot, Not “Instantn,” To the Editor of The Evening World Which is correct: “I have your let tors of the Sd and 4th Instant,” or "I veur letters of the ad and 4th In- stants?” ION, Legal but Not Customary. To the Editor of The Evening World Can a man be legally elected three successive terms to the Presidency of T.3.N, the United States? FOUR MONTHS’ RECORD: ‘nalZs080 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES and FOR SALE ADVERTISEMENTS Published in THE WORLD oe bittle Tragedies Told in Only Four Words. ee BD PRewenten . | The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee Has a Soul for Music, but Others Haven't. DON'T MURDER HARMONY IN THAT SOULLESS: FASHION! IF You CANT DLAY, THAT SYMPHONY RIGHT . HAND Y, Of THE VIOLIN Why the Teeth of a Buzzsaw Never Decay. Copyret. 1004, brghe Planip tb. Co SAW ANARCMIST DEPORTED. INSRECTOR ComTWmoNy many dentists? You NEVER heard ef the teeth of a BUZZSAW decay-) teeth decay? Into the question very je that “chew the rag” teeth eith an Bvening Pudge not have decayeil teeth, WB ‘still have good teeth. ; ‘YOU can also have very STRONG teeth by chewing. the Midnight Extra of the Evening Fudge twenty-six i} times BEFORE luncheon while the paper {s still hot fro~ dhe presses. Who's “bug-house?” By Martin Green, How the “Metropolitan” wed the Face Value of a Hunch, L,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, suppose you got your bank-roll down on Irish Lad in the Metropolitan said the Man Higher Up, “I played Highball. I put on the yellow peril I had on a hunch. The only. way to piay one of the big handicaps is on a hunch, When you take a dozen equines all pointed for the cush and cut out every one but about five that figure to have a chaace, the only way to gamble is to estab- lish yourself In the second-sight class, _ “It looked all like Irish Lad to me up to the night before the race, I was on my way to my humble home with the steer against my bank-roll to play Irish Lad to a case of lockjaw, when a man got on the car, and be was kippered to the soft tin. He wrapped himself up in a corner of the seat and proceeded to pound his ear to the accompaniment of a snore solo, “When the conductor came around for his fare the imitation of the Sleeping Beauty ordered a highball, He forgot that he had got away from the rum dock. His insistence on a highball was so strong that it gol under the skin to me, and when I read the morning papers and found that Highball had a chance if he could accumulate a shrinkage in his ankles I took the hunch, and not only stored it for my individual use but spread it along. “One of the men I gave it to had been to Luna Park on the afternoon of the day before, and had seen the elephants rehearse a shoot-the-chutes act. He also was @ person who fell to a hunch, and he had heard that there was to be a horse put in named Toboggan. “Before leaving home he had robbed the baby's penny bank, stung his wife on the proposition that bis mutual life insurance company had called on him for @ premature benefit, sold all the oid bottles on the dumb-waiter and borrowed money from the barber He couldn't see that Toboggan, on the strength of the elephant rehearsal, wasn't the best ever, and le was going to play Toboggan as it should be played—straight, PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day—$1 paid for each: No. 1-JAMES O'CONNOR, 110 Second place, Brooklyn; KINS, 231 West 132d street, New York City; No. 3—JOSEPH WHITE, 438 Broome street, New York City. No. To-morrow’s Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘A Half-Baked Warble in Gooky Conundruming.”’ What Is the Telephone Number? #& w& To-day's $5 Prize ‘‘Facge’’ Idtotorial was written by E. A. Kirkwocd, 234 Williams avenue, Brooklyn. 2—W. |. 7 & HOS- We 3,645 MORE Then ANY OTHER Newspaper in New York. During PIRST < MONTHS this : place and shdw. I argued him out of it, stucked him against my hunch, and all the way home night he ,& was reading advertisements of bachelor apartsents.” “There must have been an awful crush at the track," said the Cigar Store Man, “The only track I saw yesterday,” replied the Man ‘Higher Up, ‘was the track on the Sixth avenue ‘L. Don't you suppose there are any pool-rooms in th: The Clever Suburkanite. I that at last they us follows: town?” HERS was once a Clever Worker who was too Kin? « than he was earning. But he got ‘My Dear Brown, You poritively must—— Fables, Far, Far from Gay. io his Friends, and lent them Jersey, where he instituted an ingen no refusal. if you hurry w Farm by ten, ‘Phere Glorious, smooth, U man- } hing up; we enn do * with pure Spring Water from che Cistern in the Barn, Splendid! Come—we must run! Your collar Is wilted, you say? Pooh! We don't wear Collars on the Marm. Night Clothes? Rubbish, it's all one. Now for a Sprint! Faster, Mun, there's the Gong. HHilloa!—Hi!- Walt! —! Just in time, Now for a Klum: of the there's a Fo August ‘both shor Fancy! (4 ‘True for you, re once clear There a mosquito Here—but not 1 in mid dy, you sai not so bad. ‘How long, oi, Lord, bow long? € ? Let's see. Only seventy ininutes new, here, Ah—-! (Phump! whack) Here we are What a showert you say? Nothing, Old Man, nothing, Better take off your shoes and socks, Ah, I discovered the Kneip Cure before Inneip was vld enough to feel (Swat! w kK! thud!) his, Fert, ¢%2-7-7-2!) No, they are not Katydids, Mosquitoes? Yes, occasionally, have a Smaller Vuriety. at this season, especially this year, we do Darned hot, you think? Take off your coat and vest and collar—I do. Now you're beginning, to taste the delights of roughing it in Farm Life, You fee tke a Sponge full of Red Pepper, you ? (Slap! whack? thud! swat.) Never ming! Here we are, Well, Wife? What? ‘Tho Huteher didn’t come, and the Hens laid away, and the cow has eaten the Vegetables, and the Cistern tt empty, and the Windmill broke in the Storm, you say rooh! Britis ux sore biscults and— Why, Brown, Ola sian, What's ap?) (Whack?) You've forgotten an Impera- tive Engagement, you s But there's no train, (Z-n-z-m-! whaek!) You'll walk, you say? Never! Preposterous! Hey—what's that? There's ten of the twenty you owe me you say, and you'll hand me the rest to-morrow? But (Slap! thwack!) There's the other ten, Well, really, if you must. But now unfortunate) Wall, here's your collar, Confound the Collar, you say? You're nervous, my dear Fellow, Well= so long! Ta, ta! (Thwack!) “Wifle, there are compensations, T certainly missed my, vocation, I would haye made a Star Credit-House Col- lector!” : (2 you say? $o you WILL G Blowing a Penny. LACF a penny in the bottom of a wine or mousse glass, P cover it with a dollar, and then, without touching either coin, blow the penny out of the glass, while the dollar remeins In it, To do this, blow sharply on the side of the dollar whichis next to you. Your breath will cause it to tlt over as if it were on an axis, Keep on blowing and a current of alr will be produced which will sweep up the Henny and hurl {t out of the glass. Try the trick and see what success you have with it, | What Prover b Is This? |