The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1904, Page 12

Bi toundings and obtruding offensively on a fine street the minor particulars of street excavations, sl Pe. TP $s humiliating to civic pride. net JUNE 1, 1904, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 8 to 6 = % Wark Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice J at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, VOLUME 44..... NO. 1 IME “CITY BEAUTIFUL" FALLACY. Th Yforts to those of the West End Association to secure a which made the Boulevard beautiful before the subway came. The trees which once adomed that broad avenue are gone forever; the best that can be done to redeem the con- tractors’ work of mutilation will be to replace them with omamental shrubbery. ge The services of these and other citizens’ organi- zations in preserving the city from spoliation by the cohtractor deserve the praise they receive. fo accomplish what should be the duty of some official or commission—why not of the Mayor’s “beautification gommission?” There has existed for some years a livély official interest in municipal art; why is the vidlation of ifs fundamental principles so regularly couritenanced ? Why. was the subway viaduct across Manhattan valley permitted to be the inartistic structure it is? Why was the ugly Claremont viaduct allowed, qhich, as seen from the river, has the effect of a rail- road bridge disfiguring locality of great natural beauty? Why is the erection sanctioned in the centre of the Seventy-second street plaza of a subway station ap- roach architecturally out of harmony with its sur- t? “In theory we have our future “city beautiful” all Getermined upon and safeguarded against all forms of building construction not in conformity with artistic principles. In practice we permit its continued disfigure- ment as well.in works of permanent improvement as in billboards and unrepaired pavements, while looking to occasional ae Private interposition to preserve it from some more ob- ble act of desecration. The habit of reliance on unofficial bodies to impose "what restraints are put upon the offending contractors we SENATORIAL QUALIFICATIONS. ‘The candidacy of two aspirants for the United States is of especial interest because of the new qualifi- on which it is based. In Pennsylvania, Mr. Henry Clay Frick, the “steel king,” {8 desirous of suc- seeding Senator Quay. In California Mr. Henry T. the “beet sugar magni covets the seat now escupled by Mr. Bard. 8 Mr. Frick is ‘master of large steel, coke and banking m Mr. Oxnard has for years been engaged in oreing and coddilng the infant industry out of which hb thas made his large fortune. Neither candidate fs a gtetesman; neither is distinguished for oratorical gifts for profundity of acquaintance with public questions. ; But they are both “good business men.” They are; S6t untamitar with subsidies and tariff schedules and the “practical workings” of logislation—hitherto from the outside, but because of that experience acquainted ‘ith the inside point of view also. If Of and Cane Sugar could elect their representatives to the Genate, why not Steel and Beet Sugar? Under the existing standard of Senatorial fitness the candidates In 7 SMORE POWER WHERE IT !8 NEEDED. ‘The passage of the ordinance granting the Building Department larger powers of control over contractors " @iscovered violating the law in a manner endangering ' public safety is timely. In the light of the disclosures of the Darlington in- _ quest, showing divided and therefore dissipated jurisdic- » tion, the directer localization of authority which the _ @atinancé gives was demanded. The Superintendent of Buildings will hereafter be enabled to order work stopped when it appears to be dangerous, to close the “gtfeets pending the removal @f walls threatening collapse “gud to call upon the police to enforce his orders, ‘The additional authority granted him promises a cor- “responding increase of public safety through the de- tection and effective prevention of the very kind of jerry construction in which Iny one of its gravest pertis. - TEXAS DOWN ON "PISTOL PLAY." -meAcute observers from the once woolly but now effete “West admitted long ago that in the matter of “gun play” @heir section, as compared with New York City, was played out. Texas has managed up to date to retain ne close connection with the pistol habit: But the | Lone Star State has tired at last of the “shooting-up” _- Miversion and tho rangers have been called upon to assist in the enforcement of the law against concealed ‘The Texas example {8 cited with !nterest, but with » fittlé hope for local effect. In an affray on Cherry Hill, Decoration Day, fifteen shots were fired in about seconds, and the din was not unusual to this city. Even a ioud notice of reform from the |) Biggest State in the Union may easily be drowned out | by recurrent fusillaces of such nature. Besides, as the Jaw stands, the utmost penalty with which the most ess pistol carrier in New York may be threatened § fine of ten ineffective dollars. tt might not bo accomplished here could we but those rangers and turn ‘em loose! Iy-Room Stuirways.—When the firemen arrived Put out a slight blaze in a West Fourteenth street on Monday night they found a dozen women ied together like sheep” in a hallway. They had roped ther way down from the dancing academy on B floor above until overcome by fright cid halt ed by smoke, ‘Their fortunate escape only: to call attention anew to the great danger in fro or pante of a narrow and dimly-lighted “4m a building occupied on ite upper floors as hall, or lodge, or assembly room. The tn- ind Mupervision of the thousand such bulld- elty, Should be no less strict than that of Woman's Municipal League has added its But why is it necessary to look to this volunteer aid| Question would appear to be entitled to admission. % 4 ada A i ati Sr data ‘A Haicyon | Summer for Women. * —— BY Nixola Greeley-Smith. No the course of | Riper which has shown the shirt waist and the shirt-walat suit ty all {ts glory, and the flower - jad summer hat ite part! - c bloom, mas \dmiration has | ‘ more than once voiced Itself in the! remark that the omen were never | fo pretty as they are this year. Of course, there Is very little masculine admiration either of women or of women’s clothes that can be regarded as truly discriminating— men see general effocts, they condemn | or admire en masse without the eager. | diswecting eye for deta!l which almost | every wom: has, But this year they really seem to be | justified in their enthusiasm, for tho Searchlight gaze of the feminine critic, turned upon most of this season's of- Zects, can only confirm the verdict of uranalytical man. For in ooking at the summer girl, |as she floated airlly about the shopping jdiatrict In the few warm days of 1 | week, one could not help thinking ¢h. |she was the prettiest ever. Momentar- | ily the overcast sites have sent. her Kossamer finery into boxes and clothes- presses with a foolish senae of ther prematurity. But the first glimpse of | the new frilla was enough to make the |mere male prsaoner to tweeds and | serges pray Sor & return of warm weath- | or and the summer girl Only milliners and dressmaker could {tell just why this season's summer girl, seoms loveller than any that has gone before, The inexperienced eye merely notices that while some years her | clothes have produced the genera! effect lof betng too tight, and other years of | | being too v@juilnous, they give this year tho Impression of being “Just right.” Of course, the shirt waist has a grent dent to do with the high average of the summer girl's appearance. Indeed, the shirt watst practically made the sum- mer girl, It ts the only garment which may be said to be universally becoming. ‘The woman who doesn't look well in a shirt walst doesn't look well in any- thing, for of all garments it Is the most merciful to the shortcomings of the feminine figure. But there have feen shirt waists and eMrt-waist sults beforo this year? True enough, but thers seems to be some- thing about this season's cut, the com- promise between the sheath-ltke trim- ness of the «iri with the Diana figure and the Mother Hubbard tendencies of the girl with none, that !s more gen- erally becoming than anything which fashion has provided for a long time. Of course, the hats have a great dea! to do with It, And the hate thts year are gane, something that hats very seldom are, They aro neither gro- teaquely bie nor ridiculously small, an@ they have straight or slightly roll- ‘ing betms, which makes them much easter for the average woman to wear, Furthermore, they are not overloaded with what looked ike the entire oon- tents of a green-grocer’s oart, as they have been in recent years. It is dim- cult to concetve how any woman with |the trregular features which, judged ifrom @ cinasical atandpoint, most women have, ould accentuate the {r- regularity of her face by a hat éited over one ear, a@ faghion has compelled many to do, And the passing of the huge over trimmed structure careening Ike 4 wind-swept racing yacht would alone account for this year's @upremacy tn clothes, SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. st ine AVERTING AN EVIL. Schoolmistre: Gisobey me for? ‘Tommy—'Cos I thought you'd whip me. Schoolmtstress—What did you want me to whip you for? Tommy—'Cos pa sald he would if you didn't, and he hurts.—Stray Stories. IN GREAT DEMAND. “What's t Une of people in front of your how “Oh, they're neighbors who heard our cook wan going to leave, and they're waiting for a chance to engage her." Chicago Evening Post. WILLING TO LEARN. “Sonny,” said the good old man, “I'm surprised that you should tease that! cat in that way.” | “Why,” replied the bad boy, pausing! in his inhuman work, “do yer know any better way?—Philadelphia Press, SILENCED AGAIN. “Have a care, madam," said Mr.! | Meekton, summoning up a little spunk. |The worm will turn," “Did you ever know the worm to hurt janybody when it turned?” calmly asked his wife.—Chicago Tribune 1 HE MAKES TALK. McJigger—There isn't a man in town who can keep the co ‘sational ball rolling like our friend Gayrake. Thingumbob—Nonsense! He says anything worth Matening to. MeJigger—No, but he does a lot of things worth talking about,—Philadel- phia Press. GNOME MATTER. There was once a dear little gnome Who rode from his home on Cape Nome; Said a lady, “My dear, Do you know why you're here?" He looked up and answered, “Why, no'm,'* Tommy, what aid you never H. Nicholas, wv “Pigas in alt} jored | | mee: a a a AW. THE HENR. Fi vd) ot} STAND BACK, — DONT INTERRUPT)) AGENT WHEN HE’s Busy} ° SWINGIN ON THES LEASE TELL Pi Qo] ME WHEN WE) REACH —/ Gate, Maupe! ill Lose Their Jobs if They Flirt While on Duty. Jeu SomeTMes PINKS THE STURDY TICKET-CHOPPER LOVE AT HE WINDow- DARLING I’m WAITING! The Hoodoo Jockey and His “Sure Thing” Mount #« # we we wt wt Unlucky Larry Was Winning on Cross-Eyed Eli When, Alas, His Bandage Came Off! @ LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSW Pty Ath Street and Sixth Avenue, | To the Editor of The Evening World What cs the address of the Boar Health? t The Qualities for a Wife, To the Ealtor of The Evening Worl | The papers often speak of intended | brides bridegrooms ag “hest dancers,” “best golt playeyg," &c. How. much nobler to hear it sald of a young mun that he 1s making a succe: business than to learn that he driven a mile in an auto dn 9 seconds. Compare the woman who is a devoted has mother with the one who holds the record for first prizes at the whist club. And as to gooking—can any man who has gone up against the present-day servant-girl problem underestimate the value of his wife's ability as a cook “bwhen the girl leaves onan hobr's no- f his | T° A duibelaa aids ii a as tice? many women who rega A curse, household dutits as a burden jare not parallel, the houses must di- home responsibilities as ® thnk |verge ay Lop. and gn to their nature and bringing Up ¢ us more women and fewer dolls EDWARD T. H. Those Two-Mile-High Houses. tor of ‘The Evening World: AC‘ bottom would touch before walls of both to be plumb. would bo a greater distance apart at top than at bottom. ‘This ts due to the fact that gravity acts from the cen- |handsh in order for jof our acquatotances I offered my hand ouses to be plumb, @ section |to him, tre of the earth. Hence, the A b aia Ct plan I don't mean the kind of cooking through that calls for nothing more than a can mately of opener and a lace apron, We have too have to be perpendicular to the respec- motherhod as |tive radii of the earth. Your Friend Was Wrong: To the Fltor of The ¥ I am on very frien lother man whom 1 | some time, respondent asks if two houses |been very chummy, and scarcely a da: each a mile high and two feet apart at | passed that we w { reaching | company, the helght of one mile, supposing the | busy and I had not seen him for about ‘The houses |two weeks, When we met I thought ERS. * the house parallel approst- | T haven't even you In a century. co the earth’s surface would man? Shake,”’ My friend refused to shake hands with me, saying that handshaking often unviled hypocrisy among friends, Was I wrong in offering him a hearty hand- shake? CHARLES 8. You were entirely night to offer to sh hands with bim. Tf you have stated the case correctly, your friend behaved In a most boorlsh and un- friendly manner. In How Many Ways? ‘To the Faltor of The Evening World ‘phinking that some of your readers might be interested in answering a question on which opinions differ as to the correct solution, I state it below, ince the adil GW, BR. ing World ly terms with an- ve known f Ever since we met we ha ‘@ not In each other's Lately, however, he has been { eheat By Martin Green. The ‘Tammany Taint” Now and at Election Season. SEB," said The Cigar Store Man, “that the highly moral Democrats Up-State are talking about the ‘taint of Tammany. I Sure. Mike," responded The Man Higher Up. “There | | nerves of David B, Hijj and hia trainers and rubbers up- | State until Election day. Then they take the Tammany ‘vote, taint and all, and it is like sweet perfume. Democrats outside the State talk about the ‘taint of | Tammany,’ too, but if you ever happen to be out West on election night in a place where the State leaders are getting the returns you wil! fall to the fact that the place they are most anxious to hear from is New York City. ‘The loudest screams abont the ‘Tammany taint’ are put up by Demoérats from States where every offi- clal is a Republican, from the Governor to the official boot black. “I don't believe Tammany is making much of a holler | | against Murphy because Murphy refuses to nllow David | |B. Hill to make all the running for the State in this campaign. The Tammany organization furnishes close to one-third of the total Democratic vote of the State counting that, it is the strong: Democratic machine in j the city and entitled to the credit. T: ntimany Hall alone is responsible for a Democratic cif government and it the Democrats elect a Governor and carry the State for | the Democratic candidate for President next fall it will be the Tammany vote that will cinch it, “The election of a Demoy ic President would throw about 100 men holding Federal offices out of jobs in this city alone, exclusive of the Post-Office, These jobs pay from $3,000 to $12,000 a year. If Murphy cun‘t get recog- nition {n the State Committee simply because the Up- | State mem know that Tammany won't bolt when it comes to a showdown, how much of a look-in do you suppose he would get at these Federal offices if he didn't make a fight?- A Tammany man couldn't get’‘a job washing the windows of the Custom House.” "So it is all a question of patronage?" remarked The ar Store Man. You can bet your Steel common against a handful of olives it is,” replied the Man Higher Up, “aed maybe | you don’t think that Murphy don’t know that Hill could bolld wp a nice fat oppozition organization with a foun. dation of 100 Federal jobs, worth ‘about $500,000 a year.” Funny Advertisements. Tne Lyric cites the following weird advertisements: nnual sule now going on. Don't go elsewhere to he j—come in here." “A la wants to sell her plano, ag she js going abroad In a strong iron frame.” “Wanted, experienced nurse for bottled baby,” “Furnished apartinent suitable for gentlemen with folding doors.’ “Wanted, a room for two gentlemen about thirty feet long und twenty feet broad.” “Lost, a c@iie dog by a man on Saturday answering te Jim with a brass colar around his neck and a muszzle,"* “Respectable widow wants washing for Tuesday,’ “For sale, a pianoforte, the property of a musician with carved legs. * “Mr, Brown, furrler, begs to announce that he will make up gowns, capes, &e., for ladies out of their own skin.” “A oy wanted who can open oysters with a reference." “Bulldog for sale; can eat anything; very fond of chil- Yanted, an organist and a boy to blow on same." “Wanted, a boy to be partly outside and partly behind the: The Gook. The Automobile’s —— £ Te Cone Fact Ce FUDGE, wu 1904. by The Pianet Pur, Co STAND AGHAST. 1 The EDITOR of the EVENING FUDGE has ascertained” 'on indisputable authority that NO automobile bas EVER: run over or injured a bed-ridden person. f The strong, healthy, normal citizen can be run! Coron into the reoms of the BED-RIDDEN ? NO! The rich donot care whether the bed-ridde1 Hare run over or net. They speed past the hospital | it EVER THINKING to turn in This Is a HORRIBLE FACT, yet a canvass of the hospitals verifies it. Have ree oe rane NO rights? Why should the / Statistics of the various ALCOHOLIC WARDS prove | that among the vicleat patients there the BVENING 1 FUDGE enjoys its WIDEST POPULARITY. This paper | ‘Will SEB to it that the auto no longer slights its large and SMUDGE-DIGITED family of perusers. ‘ ‘The Pudge ts smudgier than the tnquest Instigator. | The Floating Triangle. Take a wet lead pencil point and draw on thick paper a triangle (which need not be mathe- matically perfect.) Take a basin of water and lay this paper on the surface of the water, with the drawing up! Very carefully fi the space inside the lines with water, (The water will not flow beyond the lines which you draw with your wet lead pencil point.) Next take a needle or pin, dip the point of it into the wet. triangle near one of the angles, but don’t let it touch the paper, Now an odd thing will happen;-the paper will be sure to’ move on the water until the centre of area comes directly | ft but right, feelin and would confer a favor by ask- ing res to work it Cae Sive their Heit possible to: arr ie ent. Books on & Prompted by a« friendly to give my friend a hearty ‘and in the presence of many under the point. You should previously have found where the centre of area is by drawing lines from any two angles to the centre of the opp: ide: (See the picture.) ‘The point where the two : rs will be the centre of area. # THE 2 EVENING # WORLD'S 2 HOME » MAGAZINE. e, kadies, Don’t Goo Goo Eye the “kb” Men wt ey An Official Notice Says They W