The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1904, Page 10

w THE # EVENING w /abiisved by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to 63 Wave Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. VOLUME 44. .NO. 15,628. 61,792 Answers to “ Wants” Advertisements in The World were re- ceived at the World Main Office last month, although not cne advertiser in three had re- plies sent care cf The World. Last year, in May, the answers were 46,704—Increase over last year 15,088, NOISE AND LEGAL REMEDIES. ‘The managers of the Columbia Theatre in Boston have secured a verdict of $60,000 against the Elevated Railway for damages caused by the noise of its trains Whe verdict is in line with previous decisions of the Court in similar suits. It should be of value as a precedent for New York In a form of litigation growing more frequent, of which the most recent case of interest is that of the property| owners who have sued to restrain the night work of excavation at the New York Central's terminal. They | Bllege that the noise interferes with sleep. In the Columbia case the relation of the cause to the} effect of diminished audiences was direct and incontro- | vertible. The more delicate relation of noise to the human nervous system makes the extent of the damage Jess readily susceptible of proof. In the Brooklyn Court 4 ©f Special Sessions so obviously offensive a nolse as that made by “fiat” car wheels has been held not to be a nuisance within the meaning of the law. * Yet the notebook of any specialist in nervous diseases qould furnish abundant proof for the lay mind that it is, | fas are countless other noises which the city suffers to the deterioration of its health. ‘The determination of the police to “watch wagon speeding fan well a5 automobile speeding more closely to be com + mended. And an eye might be kept on the “no passenger” trolley cars which are run at express speed to their barns late at night. THE CITY'S ‘FRESH AIR’ WORK. | Fifty little New York cripples have begun a two) sonths’ outing at Warren, Mass., the expense of which/ Will be defrayed by Mrs. Fdgar Van Etton, wife of tho Becdnd Vice-President of the New York Central Railroad. ‘This generous act of private “fresh air” philanthropy makes of timely interest the data prepared by Mr. William H. Allen for the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, showing the extent to which organized effort has developed this form of charity. * During the summer of 1903 twenty-four agencies in Manhattan and the Bronx gave river, seashore or country excursions to 35,195 mothers and 81,269 children; while twenty-two agencies gave outings lasting a week, or more to 7,618 mothers and 26,543 children. “Sea Breeze," the seaside home of the New York ‘Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 17,700 “day excursionists” were entertained, and 2,754 ‘were accommodated for a period of ten days. To provide _ and care for these temporary wards of the association a staff of twenty “visitors” and an examining physician "were employed, together with a seashore staff comprising @ superintendent, three nurses, a kindergartner and two stants, two swimming masters and a corps of cooks, tresses and laundry women. The Sea Breeze season has this year been lengthened to extend from May 17 ‘to Sept. 30. With this phase of the “vacation habit” even Mr. Sage cannot quarrel. It is a most admirable form of charity, It first gives its recipients health and then, In Mr. Allen's words, “it gives them hope.” They are inspired with desires “which in great measure direct their efforts , during the succeeding winter months.” ‘These are facts for the open-handed to bear in mind when a subscription paper for this or an allied form of charity comes their way. And to these considerations they should add the one that a winter of great hardship, during which children’s diseases were unusually prevalent, has largely increased the number of the pros- pective applicants for this bounty. x PRINCE PU AND THE ANCIENT SAGE, Prince Pu Lun, the kinsman of the Chinese Emperor Kuang Hsu, will shake the dust of New York from his Delestial sandals to-morrow. He has had a busy weel in the American metropolis and has applied himself dili- gently to the gaining of new wisdom. It is written in Donfucius: “From the man bringing his bundle of dried fish, upward, for my teaching, I have never refused in- struction.” In Wall street the Prince heard expounded the subtle mysteries of the sacred bulls and bears of high finance. It is not recorded that he took a flyer in fleece or horns. Said Confucius the Sage, “I do not speculate upon the ‘ereation of things, nor upon the end of them.” Not even of trusts or Securities Companies. At the Gravesend race-track, the imperial visitor noted with show of interest the running of the horses, ‘but imperturbably the thronging of bettors to the high tools of them that made books on the racers. It was not for such an occasion that Confucius wrote: “To be a . gamester or a chess-player is better than to do nothing ‘@t all.” Up and down broad streets and in dining halls ablaze, fhe Prince had read to him the American Nights tales » of wealth acquired while men waited. It is possible that | he was amazed. Again, {t may be that his mind reverted to the saying of Confucius: “Riches adorn a house and virtue adorns the person—the mind is expanded and the ‘body is at ease.” _ Very probably Pu Lun did not quite grasp the com- mities' of politics as they exist in New York and the public, It would have astounded him to learn that the yon Graft and the good great creature Reform are hydra-headed. After all, there {sa certain simplicity the conclusion of Confucius: ‘“Rectify the individual, thir will rectify the State and the Empire.” erous westward journey to the Prince and a Search for World’s Fair wisdom at St. Louls. “HOME # MA —>:< Jack, the Jester, Whose Merry Pranks Are Told in Four Words ~:— How Now ' THE BOXER Ts Bit HA! HA! . HE TRIPS TASTEFULLY ' AY, BY My TROTH QUTE GRACEFULLY? so METHINKS iT ISA SAD AND SORRY FATE, ‘THAT TERMINATES MY JOKES UP6N My PATE ‘ Nixola Greeley-Smith. are no lon er young, according 9 a decision reach- ed by the United Presbyterians 1 n general assembly tn vennsylvania a day or BO AKO. Follow- ng this. ri persons over thirty voars of aca we requeste! to with. Sip aiesieye craw from the bes eis “young people's su T gloomy cletiex’ of the! church. Intelligence for Presbyterians, and withal interesting to the unregenerate. To be old at thirty, shelved before the crucial third-of-a-century, recog- nized the world over Ufe's prime, suggests to all of us the plaintive tn- quiry: “If T was to beso suon done for, what was I ever begun for?” It ts dreadful, but with all due respect to the lurking shade of Calvin, be it asked. Is It true? A question the present gen- eration Is apt to ask ftself about any- thing too uncomfortable to be belleved in, So far ax the country of which the statement was made is concerned It Is cerlainly ridiculously untrue. For at thirty the ayerage American man—at least In the Eastern States--is apt to consider himself as just marriageable, and to be 0 considered by the mothers of ellgible daughters, Nor is the American woman of thirty {f still unmarried, ready to be classed us an “alae ran” in the matrimonial sweepstakes. It seems, indeed, that vhile a woman's chances of marrying are numerically lessened aftor sl) reaches thirty, she is then apt to marry better from a worldly point of view, if she marries at all, than if she had been led to the altar from the Kehool | The sensationally successful marriages that one reads of dally in the news- papers are rarely entered Into by young girls—a statement which, though {: Is generally heard from ladies who are "0 Jongor young, Is nevertheless ‘The American woman seldom reaches full mental and phyalcal maturity be- fore the age at which the flat of the Pennsylvania Presbyterians would rele- gate her to the dead past. And t American man before — thirty—well, really, he can scarcely be considered as quite grown-up. In extreme Southern countries, where women were reigning belles or even mothers at sixteen, they are apt to be old at thirty, And the South Amert- can, or Spanish or Italian husband of that age Is often a plodding, patient, splritless creature with a tendency to corpulency and an excessive Interest tn his meals, But precisely in these coun-} tries, where the curfew of youth 1s really sounded at thirty, and where the Presbyterian flat might dd some good, the shade of Calvin has never pene- trated. And sc the shapeless mous- tachioed ladies of the Latin race may xo on feeling young just as long as they Uke, and the American woman, just reaching the full bloom of her beauty, must be shelved, Not only does the woman of Anglo- Saxon race attain a physical perfection at thirty which she has never before known—mentally and temperamentally she {s aofter and more rounded. In France poets, novelists and artints have always been unanimous !n recog- preme charm. And in re- successfully invaded American and English fiction, prev- lously dedicated to celebrating the charms of the sweet young thing. Nevertheless the sweet young thing need not worry. The bud of sixteen can always be thirty—there timeSbut the siren of thirty cant oth it never be sixteen. She doesn't nt to be? Oh, vex, she does Whe else, the mania she So often develops for ‘sixteen's sweet simplicity of attire —for the muslin and blue mbbons that when she Wears them suggest that somehow they are never so become as when they lave ceased to be ap <<. WASTED EFFORT, Tittle Boy—Did you ever catch any whales? Captain—No, whaler, Were you ever shipwrecked? I never shipped on a ver cast on a desert island?" Never caught by cannibals?" HEN you are, thirty you The Great and Only M r. Peewee Tries Being an End-Seat Hog. Mr. Peewee You OUGHT TO KNOW, BETTER THAN, TO PUAN TE Yous CARCASS PLUM 5 ON THE ‘END-9EAT- TO THE GREAT & INCONVENIENCE; OF PASSENGERS, GYou'RE A CG Hoe! : Gre Noiscussey wy Deer ANOTHER NEW BUIL MOVE OVE ALL RIGHT, Lirtte KID I ct RAND - Did you ever Why Bridge Cars Won't Go North or South. A New and Grievous Wrong Against the Common People. Copyrot, 1904, by the Planet Pud. Co. ALL the Brooklyn Bridge cars run EAST and WEST instead of NORTH and SOUTH ? Per- haps you had not even observed that they DON'T run north and south. THEY DON'T. Any one desiring to travel north or south on the Brooklyn Bridge must WALK. No matter how tired, no matter how infirm or aged he may be, NO car willcarry him north or south. The COMMON PEOPLE bull&that bridge. The COM- MON PEOPLE use It, Yet the TRUSTS care so little for ithe need of the common people that the cars un the COM- MON PEOPLE'S bridge TRAVEL ARBITRARILY EAST AND WEST. The remedy Is {n the PEOPLE'S own hands! Next time you board a Brooklyn Bridge car, DEMAND to-be carried DUE NORTH or else UNDUE SOUTH. Anywhere, in fact, except east or west. Enforce this order by ree fusing to leave the car until you have becn carried In the required direction. MENTION THE EVENING FUDGE AS YOUR AUTHORITY. WE will stand by you. If EVERY reader insists on this, it will only te a matter of a few days before bridge-car passengers go as far north as NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, and as far south as RED HOOK (where the SMUDGE comes from). eeerst s stop to THINK why (~~ ' "|| thelr sons and temptation. Gin Ae + he By Martin Green. There 1s No Fool Like an Old Fool, Especially in Gotham. SEE," sald The Cigar Store Man, “that the asser- tion thai there is no fool like an old fool Is ha ing extensions built onto it every day in this town.” .| “Surest thing you know," responded The Man Higher p. “The New York Lothario of the Twentieth Cen- y wears long white lambrequins on his face and can’t tle his own shoes. It is a sad affair for young business | men, with families, to look at the papers every morning h a chill of fear of reading that their fathers have been sued for damages by young women who wanted to go on the stage or are trying to get back the family fortune from females eligible to membership in the Creole Burlesquers. “The aged, wealthy New Yorker js the softest mark in the world where a woman {s concerned, and the woman don’t have to be a queen either. If the public was wise to the extent of this business there would be a sensation that* would make the Platt-Ellas case look like an announcement of a bargain sale of safety pins. “Watch closely any afternoon these days and you will see that nearly every sombrely clad old gentleman with white brannigans, bound from business homeward, {s accompanied by a stalwart youth. It is a change from || | the old days when the fathers used to stand between Now tho sons hare to trail their male parents around to keep them off tne prim- rose chute.” “What do you think of having a 9 o'clock curfew law for New Yorkers over severity years of age?” asked The \| | Cigar Store Man. “It wouldn't do much good,” replied The Man Higher || | Up. “Most. of the patriarchs who are in the clutches of the New York vampires manage to do their periodical passing of the mazuma in time to be at their real homes to dinner. It would have to be a matinee curfew.” Wrote History on a Bet. ollo Ogden, In his brief and very readable blography of William H. Prescott, the historian, cites’ many passages from the diary showing Prescott's habit of flogging himself to his work by making wagers with his secretaries that he would complete a given task by a certain day, the odds al- ways heavily against himself, “Prescott always took thts betting on his own industry with perfect serlousness. Sometimes he would radiantly greet his secretary with ‘You have lost! You owe mea dollar.’ And he would exact pay- ment. Occasionally he would, with woebegone countenance, produce and pay over to the protesting secretary the $20 or $30 he himself had lost.’ One elaborately made memorandum Witnosses that a bet of $1 to $50 had been made “between E. B, Os and William H. Prescott, Esq., the latter betting $60 that he will write 100 pages of his ‘History of Peru’ in 100 days.” Jap Soldiers in Winter. No truops are better equipped for a cold campaign than the Japanese. Bestdes being furnished with ordinary winter clothes, such as they would wear in the milder climate of Japan, they are equipped with a thick fur hood, a heavy fur collar which pro- tects the neck and chest, a thick, fur-lined overcoat, a flannel undershirt, Knit, nap-lined trousers, paper undershirt and drawers, thick nap-lined gloves and an additional blanket | while during the severest part of the winter a larger blanket |1s supplied for each to wear or Me upon, A Picture Puzzle. 2-6-8— Are They? Mtor of The Evening World Jiscus# this question, readers: | Are women smarter than men? | JOSEPH W. Apply to Legal Aid Society, No, 220 Beyudway, To the Editor of The Evening World pany on my furniture and gave a chat-4 tel mortgage for tt. I only got $20, but | 0." or bitten by serpents ‘Hh! You might as well have stayed on lend,"'—Tit-Bits, is the note calls for $25 for two months. 4 | have paid $16 interest since I got it, about six months ago. Nuw I cannot! pay another two months’ extension be- L got a loan of $2 from a loan com- ae my husband is out of work. The Harlem Hoodlams, To the Editor of The Evening World: I read with satisfaction your com- ments on the “cowardly crime” nit upon Mrs, Gotshal by ulity. To residents sof Haglem the dastardly deed the least surprising. Hardly a passes that pedestrians are not men-|@ courteous reply to the effect that it unchecked hoodlum | was not aced by foy tho company was hore to-day “na told me if the $25 was not paid in 4 week they would take my furniture. Can you advise me where to appeal? Mrs, R, com- ing TuMans who abound in that lo- this part of | 8 not injasking his attention to the miry flth Now Guess What This Is? element. Cannot the police of the East One Hundred and Fourth street station concentrate their efforts toward abolish- Ing the rioting gangs in middle Harlem? A VICTIM. Tomn-Up Longacre Square, ~ ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Concerning the condition of Forty- third street at Broadway and Seventh avenue this bit of history may be not uninteresting: Some time since I wrote to the Street-Cleaning Commissioner province, xentleman wrote extent to blame, cation office mor locutory. the day jot this piece of thoroughfare. I received Can a within ‘Woodbury's | the ‘United tatea?. divided responsibility” ter, certain contractors being to some Never was circumlo- completely cireum- . H. JOCELYN, No, %6 West sori tale street. 1. ‘To the Kastor of The Hvening World: Chinaman become a oltizen of j & ea, ” w LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ¥ ¥ I then wrote to the Mayer. « polite noie from His Honor's secre- tary said that my letter ‘had been for- warded to the Secretary of the Rapid Transit Commission, After a while tis that there was about the mat- nig,