The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1904, Page 14

Hetorld _ Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ft New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VoLUME BB oes ee esseceeereresNO. 18,640. ——— OO THE FLOATING TINDER BOX. Brigid governmental inspection keeps the boilers of Ihe harbor excursion boats safe and reduces to a minl- mum the risk of accident from weakness of hull or » other defect of sea-going qualitles. The law provides for life-Boats and fire appliances. But such an inspection takes no account of the tin- fler-box nature of the superstructure of such craft. It fixes-no venalties for insecure upper decks or the layer upon layer of paint on old woodwork. It ignores the presence of inflammable material which a coal from the fire-boxes or a spark from a pipe may ignite. Nor does it secure under penalty the presence on the spot of trained men ready to put to instant use the fire bucket ana hose provided. The law cannot satis- factorily prescribe that human vigilance which is the best preventive of disaster. But at least it should be able to abolish the condi- Yons of inflammability which invite it. It should be ible to orc -r a more efficient patrol on excursion craft ind to that extent reduce the gravity of fire peril. There have been two instances within a year of ferry-boats atire in midstream, on one of which it was impossible to subdue the flames except by proceeding full speed ashore. Attention was called at the time to the grave risk run through the absence of adequate fire-fighting apparatus. The Gen. Slocum horror, which realizes what the ferry-boats escaped by sheer good fortune, will have served one good end if it prompts an investigation to devise a greater measure ot security to the innumerable »~ chousands whose lives may be in peril of a similar fate on tinder-box craft. What the Iroquois disaster accomplished In (iminish- ing the risks undergone by theatre-g-ers the burning wf the Gen. Slocum should do for au who go on harbor or river excursions hereafter. The New York City Railway Company anypunces that beginning July 1 its Jaw department will be divided into two distinct branches, to one of which will be intrusted the sole duty of defending accident cases. The road intends also to request the Supreme Court to set aside parts of various trial terms for the exclusive hearing of such cases. In these simple statements lies perhaps the strongest testimony yet adduced to the increase of the trolley peril, Considering that of the persons killed in the atreets last year by vehicles of all kinds fully one-half were trolley car victims, the company’s course will seem to be justified. e } But why not save some of the expense of a costly fegal staff by using u vigilance for the prevention of Bocidents equal to that exercised to defeat the court eases arising from them? If the hand brakes by which the heayler cars aro only partly held in control were replaced by power brakes; if there were a better equipment of fenders; If extra conduciors w' employed—if these and other equally obvious precautions were taken to avert accident its risk could be ¢ Would not such preventive measures prove decidedly more profitable to the road in the end than expensive and continuous litigation? The lesson of the transfer fight, which was that the concessions wrung from the company by the public conld more chéaply have been granted in the beginuing, would appear to be applicable to accident cases. atly lessened Binten Inland Ferry Vrospects.—The which postpones anew the opening of a service to Staten Island will hardly ser argument in favor of municipal ownership, Private enterprise could hava accomplished long ago what is BUM in the alr as the result of various and continuous disagreements, further delay improved ferry "AS a general BOYS AND MANUAL TRAINING. | Nearly 350 boys of this year's graduating classes in the New York grammar schools have applied for ad- mission to the Hewitt High School of Mechanic Arts, to be opened next Septemper. The fact is eloquent of the great place which the new institution will come to fill in the public educational system of the a A dozen uther American cities have their manual training high schools—Philadelphia and San Francisco have two each. The Hewitt will be New York's first, but by the time its doors swing open the necessity of will undoubtedly be manifest. It 1s the aim of the manual training school to turn boyish energies from the channels of destruction to those of construction; to provide an educational em- ployment which shall be more interesting than mischlet; to add to the “svund mind in a sound body" the priceless possession of the trained hand; to impress upon th Metails of work, but the of ideas principles. A recent news item told how the Japanese Naval / Office sent a ship cut of harbor, guided her thirty mile: > out to sea and brought her back to a new harbor, all by the vse merely of st ng telegraph. Men who could do this than tne mere irade of seamanship. hey were trained | to maet emergencies and to adapt fresh means to old| ends. Like faculties cau be developed in the pursult of any useful employment. They will come as the acquired / qealth of the boys who take faithful advantage of such training as the Hewitt school and its followers will a application by eis orders sent by wireless =o. 1 learned more | The fig).t for free baths at Coney Island seems almost} won, and the outlook for a great seaside park th ra aily brighter. Whe present administration can leave behind it uo ter memorial of municipal improvement than will be Ushed by this double provision for public comfort ublic health. It is a work which has been! too layed in the preliminaries of preparation. It ow be carried through with all the? despatch | the surf bathing pavilion at least made be summer Is Overy »--—---> providing companion establishments in very quick order } understanding at ‘ts most plastic period not only the \ and! | pmensurate with the needs of the Greater City grows|! [th w THE » EVENING # WORLDS «# HOME w MAGAZINE. . ~~: Jack, the Jester, Whose Merry Pranks Are Told in Four Words —— DECEITFUL , FALSE, DISSEMBLING .OREAmM ! To PLAGVE ME THus! O cRYEL TheImportance of NotBeingEarnest By Nixola Greeley-Smith. HERE has been a great deal of com- ment recently on the prevailing epl- demic of homicide and suicide among lovers — not only among the star- crossed variety, for apparently the de- sire for solf-immo- jation is as likely to strike those whose love has prospered and be realized ny those who have loved madly but fn vain People are still wondering ag to the motlyes which led the suc 11 Mayor of Baltimore to commit sul just af- ter he had married the woman of his choice, whom he had courted for seven years, Yesterday's paper told a young wife who kill her hudband, whom she 16 stories of 1 hersel€ and dot neglecting her ,and of a jilted lover who drank in poison the health of his recreant sweetheart and fell dead at her wedding feast. There have been numb other tragedies of late due to the working of that passion whieh, If we Judge it by these resullis, should be decr the] most untender of all, And tl all the Jove tragedies which have nape} pened since the beginning of tr the importance of not belng in that is, not too#mueh in eur | one falls in love ersons Who tuke thelr pleasures thelr lave Affairs seriously, who are apt to de velop suleldal or homicidal tendencies! | when things go wre Of course, some people would claim that they ave naturally of such deep, tender, earnest disposition as to.) clude the taking their amars of th heart in any other way But as a matter ot fac. the tragte| atiitude Is largely one of cultivation It Is possible as well as advisable for every one in love Lo realize that, how- ever eharming and absorbing the be loved object, there was a time when one Bot wloty very well without him or her, and that if necessary one might do it vn o-admit that all our hops and Interests a tred in another human betng ts that we are nothing in ely 1 admission that the humblest lover, man or woman, would be searvely willing to make There are times, in’ the lives of most men and women when tt cally seems as if they are thus abso- to be sure, Iutely dependent on others, ‘They vow, protest that the world without the be- loved object would be a dreary de: And It te well enough to do so provided wt hearts they know it ia an intellectual Ute v who think and may temporary intluence of another mind, owned by it Ite of absorbing Interest e thrill ot trouble that they Jet some ue which, if properly controlled, a hoor gladden, but would nev mad- degenerate Into & monomania. the question as to whe Insanity yp aften answ affirmative—and correctly In the mwered, Hor wave that leads human beings to sulelde or murder cannot be otherwise ve this mani ms form who seleleleleleleleleleleleleleleleleteletelelelesteleleteleteieteteieleiet Great Amer The Iolite ad Don TRUST TRUSTS- BuT Bust TRUSTS! BEE EE-BE-CAUSE _IF You TRUST TRUSTS~ debebebebeletebeietetetetelebeiolelelolo = [AND DON'T BUST TRUSTS, You‘Lu BUST THE PUBLIC TRUST THAT A TRUST) LIGHTFU LY "Goo KEDE 5 ican GOOK, Keep Your Eye on Him. } He Dines with the Great Trust Buster and Tells Him About Busting Trusts, “| The Man cum. Co harbor, s' liner in p "We c munity, that mak resemblo Uh son whkh the boat, deckloads | Heve im the doctrine of miracles. kick the side out of some of thg Loats that carry crowds away from the piers of this town on excursions. are not su | to save ol most of the buats the lite-preservers are nailed to the | roofs ot 73 LY am I ead to-day? Don't) * 1 es ne {t is the reaction of hay: 1 to keep up my spirits and make | Voie vers with no recom- ha vdras Mmidet OF oun imost/ tite pense wiate Wwe sivors and Jeers Hob ucee eaten nee from my nd who should bde| pes proud of me ind happy to have a kind| SOME OF THE jetnd ioving wife, like Tam | i) t Is vory seldom T give way to such BEST JOKES feclings, but when I look © happy | face of brother Willie, who ts. only OF THE DA Y-sX ad ton young to know what | And war then [ say to my- Ah, little does he , when he 1 4 80 py when As spendin) A GOOD PLAN, sea! Hie: tunic of what Mar—Are you going to the matinee und ets in store tor him | this afterno: And look at yout It te no wondes | Blanede T must stay home. The] You sit there grinnt hairdresser Is You have nothing t Man-Why don't fe two gets;| ive a Wite who d Mich cue could Clevetend| WHO keeps your houxe for you, who ds] Tear aways kind and ful! | IN Luck. “Am T not always kind and cheerful, | cheerful and happy under any and all sor drinking @ | clroumstances? Do not contradict me, | for Tam in sueh a state that | know my wife has a} 1 will have hysterics if any one and can't smell a] - a Mbany Journ INSULTED. Singleton—How Is your little boy get- Ung on at schoc Doubleton—1 have taken the boy's compositions, and I wrote | for him—-Cleveland Leader, THE REAL FOOL-KILLER, “L wonder if the fool-killer ever does | e round.’ | tertainly: Tt always does some What are you talking about?” - “Zhe clgaretis,”—Philadelda | {s so young and only thinks of hts boy- Nirs. Nags and Mir. Pd (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishing Company, The New York World. to me this blessed dav! 1 lother was here this morning worrying the life out of me. T am never {n good spirits, but what she must come and sit around and groan ebowt her health and gwbout money matters till I go almost mad. Why don't I tell her to go home? “Why, Mr, Nagg, you forget sho ts all] I have to comfort me! Brother Willie ish sports, You are never home except for your meals and then you are so glum and grumpy I am afratd to say a word, you, And, you would deny me the} only happiness I have tn this world, the comfort of a mother's tender care! "What would I do if my doar mother Hidn't come to stay with me for a few months at a thme? She is so unselfish “Brother Willie won't live tn Broolk- lyn. He stays with us because he knows 1am fond of him, because he knows his presencegand thoughtfulness cheer me 80. 1 will admit he ts a mulsance ind the house and comes in at all hours singing and shouting, and I sus- pect he {8 lazy and no account, but I will not let you or anybody else say a word to him because he is only a boy. “T know you do not want my mother to come to sce me, I know you do not want my brother to visit mo as he has been for the last year or two, but if a brother and mother can not visit me what {s the use of my tolling and struggling to keep the house together? “If it wagn’t for the baby I would go somewhere and board, -becauso I have worked myself nearly to death looking after this house, and what thanks do I get? ‘Who can one trust? How do I know where you are when you say you are apt late at tho office? You looked Lygrled and say it {s because business Tybad, but you may be leading a double life for all I know. “If you had the things to worry you T have! Ah, then there would be some excuse for you. I have worrles and sorrows, but I try to hide them from the world, them for it ls my way to make every one around me happy. “I never let Mbtle things worry mie, By Roy L. McCardell. I never say anything about | a but all this day I have been annoyed to death because the milkman left a bot- ue of milk that was sour, Of course the girl forgot to bring tt in and it stood out in the sun all morning, but if {t had not been sour in the first place standing in the sun a coupld of hours would not have hurt it, “Those are just a few things I have to bother me while you are down town at business, with nothing to worry you; and then you come home and sit and groan and look as if I were boring you to death when I try to be cheerful and make you happy. “The girl says she is going, to leave because she don't like the place, and then she fs mad because I stopped ov-t of her wages the price of a cut gluss bowl she dropped and broke when Brother Willte tried to Kiss her. You , and yet thiet You-have to ways the have a che but what you run out, “What Is the use to keep house for a "Yes it couple of chance people of Ina sna ate 243 sna A coast A Paris minutes w A 800 All elect Fifty ye In the le 1019TO answer | | HABIT 0 j follows: iia race ti ijiiicel thors NOT be relaxed. TO ADMIT The man? What Is the use to be always smiling and happy? What Is the use to avold unpleasant topes and try to be interesting to vour husband? Men don't reclata that sort of thing. ‘They dof’t appreciate anything, And yet a wife can sit home and worry herself sick about them. I think I'll put on my hat and run over to Mrs, Terwiliger’s.” HER REVENGE. First Womaa—What did your husband rmg home from his visit to the city? HIS METAMORPHOSIS. “Kandor may be brutally frank, but there's one good thing about him—he Second Woman—Two silver spoons for | doesn’t: belleve in running a man down extravagance that I went straight down him out. | no - oy 3 ” ‘The teacher sent me a note kicking on Babee or rather cylndrical, to be ex-| the children, and I was so mad at his| behind his back. that's changed now. He's bought to the store and bought me a $150 shirt|an automobile, you know."—Pittsburg walst.—Cleveland Leadar, =~. A RAISER OF PICKLES. ¢ “Anything I can do for you, madam?" asked the clork in the seed store, De 4 answered the sweet thing, tap- ping the counter with a tapering finger. "T wish to ascertain if bottled pickle seeds will grow as well as those of the bulls vatlety."—Indtanapolls Sun, tendance etc, will Th THEN Ti Might Well Ha Gen, Slocum d (Coprrot. 1904, by u may as well ask. In the days of our grandparents men were IN THE FICIENTLY ATTRACTIVE Let each jall and prison te equipped with a theatre, ti\Let a corps of attendants be emplo’ ie jails MI By Martin Green. Gen. Slocum Disastet ve Occurred Long Ago SPB,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that some people are blaming the captain and crew of the Gen, Slocum for the terrible tragedy of yesterday.” Probably the captain and crew did all they could with the tools they had to work with,” replied Higher Up. “A wooden steamtoat on fire is not a handy craft for life-saving purposes. “This disaster was due. that it happened on such a good boat as the Gen. Slo The surprising part of {t was mpared to most of the tubs that navigate this tuffed the summer long like cans of sardine with confiding citizens, the Gen. Slocum was $m ocean joint of safety onstitute a tolerant, trouble-avolding coms Every Sunday many thousands of us get aboard superannuated hulks and take chances of Ife and death e looping the loop or jumping off the Bridge an exercise in calisthenics. ave been on excursion boats going down the bay © thera was not room for another person, The careless crowd, squeezing to one side or the other of would make her list until the fact that whoie didn’t slide off into the water made one be- A strong man can There 5 aboard tho average boat le comprising a load. On utficient life- ve ne-tenth of th ser pe the cabins with slats ad spikes of strength enough to allow a person of medium weight to skin the cat on them.” “This will bo an awful lesson,” remarked The Cigaa Store Man. will,” retorted The Man Higher Up, “In @ months the same old crowds will be taking on the same old boats and inquiries about the ter will reveal that to nearly all of the the city it Is a nebulous memory." Little Facts from France. \l-eating contest in Paris a few days ago the victo ls, -defense rif weighing seventeen tons nas beet mounted at Havre. Jewelry clerk says he was hypnotized for sirteea hile the hypnotist stole a lot of diamond rings, has been founded in Paris for the prenistory study of France. A sportsman has been fined $0 for shooting a carrier pig ‘3 44) eon in flight. ric wires in Paris are underground, ars’ imprisonment was the sentence recently givea A seventeen-year-old Lyons footpad. ust year France has imported over :!,0W,0W watches from the United States, mostly of the dollar kind. The “Fudge” Idiotorial, RIAL PAGE oF THE EVENING FUDGE Why Men Refuse to Go to Jail. 1t Is Cheaper to FIN Prisons than to Extract Them. q Pianet Pub Ceo and then let THE , EVENING FUDGE , it. We are golng to answer it ANYWAY; so you , 1 f going to jail. £ach cell was thronged with | ‘et to-day FEW men go to Jalil UNLESS Warden Johnson of Sing Sing informs the Editor of the EVENING FUDGE that DOZENS OF HI! \ MODIOUS CELLS ARE EMPTY, rs ive for this, and THE EVENING FUDGE has gooked it up as There must be a reason THE MODERN JAIL IS NOT MADE SUF irsck, a bathing beach and mountain scenery, ed to make guests Discipline, however, MUST ( inmate ieys out after midnight, AT ALL, Let him sleep at { Editor of THE EVENING FUDGE {s sure that ‘oughly AT HOME, If an} when the atove reforms have been carried out, jail at- will once more pick up, and ward Seas vera ¢ fille TO EXTRACT THEM, ae Te, \