The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1904, Page 14

Published by the Fress Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. — eee = VOLUME 44 seeeeesesNO. 18,641. ————__ LESSONS OF THE SLOCUM DISASTER, “The inspectors who passed on the seaworthiness of the Gen. Slocum and the officials of the company agree that the boat had complied with every require- “ment of the law. Yet what is to be said of the thoroughness of an inspection in which not a single life-preserver was fejected, though many were found to be of inferior quality if not entirely worthless when the time came for their use? On the part of the vessel's officers it is made to appear that ample precautions for safety were exercised a and had been perfected from long famili 7g perience, The fire patrol of the boat is declared to have been exceptionally vigilant and eflicient. So “vigilant” in fact that twenty-four hours after the fire its exact origin had not been determined. So “efficient” that there was no attempt to avert a panic, to distribute life belts to the terrorized women and children, or to launch the lifeboats. It was an efficiency mocking the name. How far has this perfunctory compliance with the fetter of the law extended to the large fleet of harbor and river craft in nearby waters? How far does a like inefficiency characterize their advertised safeguards? Twenty-seven well-known boats in this fleet report a satisfactory equipment of fire-fighting and life-saving appliances. Are the conditions favorable in any for a repetition of the Slocum disaster? One outcome of this fatal lesson in excursion in- security will be the demand for a reinspection which will more thoroughly inspect, and for assurances of fire-preventive measures really such in fact as well as in name. But the most urgent need is for legislation to reduce the danger from flimsy and inflammable woodwork, in which, while it is tolerated, the worst menace to the passengers’ safety will continue to lie, The recom- J mendation of legislation to this effect is an obvious 3 duty of the official board of investigation. EVERYDAY HEROISM. It 1s reported that the trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund will distribute awards for bravery to numerous heroes of the Slocum dieaster. They will find an abundance of names from which to select those deserving of the honor. The task will be, indeed, to discriminate between claimants equally worthy. From the nurse who ‘could not swim, but who learned how in the excitement ‘ cof the moment, to the wharf rat who is credited with ' the rescue of two score victims, heroes of all kinds, many of the humblest rank in life, came forward from all sides to ald In the work of rescue and relief. There are isolated cases, perhaps to be regarded with @oubt as not well authenticated, of a selfish avoidance ‘Of participation in the salvage of human life by those on board of yachts, But no word comes of a deed of cowardice to mar the remarkable record of heroism. It was an emergency exhibition of the stuff that is in prdinary- mortals of which there 4s reason to feel proud. Krolley New York Central follows the example of the New Hngland railways tn reducing docal passenger fares to meet trolicy competition. The trolleg’s invasion of territory formerly monopolized by soads grows yearly more formidable. Electric Unes’6f modern construction, heavily ballasted and with imprqved car equipment, offer a means of transporta- local points superior in many respects to as Guad competition, which will be felt, and nioverby the wallroada, is very directly to the e@Gvartage. The end of another decade of electrical mayrece New Yorksconnected by fast) trotiey: Albay, Baltimore, Washington and —————— ‘$M: 87. MARY'S AT FIFTY YEARS. low Yorts-schoolship St. Marya, whicb left New Junetfor tts annual cpeuise-ebroad, had to put’ account. of strong head winds, and has Spathatarte@out-egain. Atmost-any safling vessel might have had the same experience, ¥et. the time seome a jep-some-facte-about the St. Mary's. | Dhisboatwas build at the Washington Navy-Yard in Td has, therefore, completed a half century of ‘Twenty-eight of its fifty years have been assed in commission as a@ schoolship, the national government loaning the boat to this city. Several years ago the question was brought up of wecuring a ship to replace the St. Mary’e in the New ork service, There were those who declared that the old vessel had outlived its safe usefulness, The ehip has ‘weathered many a storm since then, and confidence in its continued seaworthiness {s demonstrated by tho fact that this year’s gathering of boys on board ts the largest on record. Nevertheless, fifty years ts a long time in wooden hulls and in maritime equipments and methods. It is suggested that the Government should be urged to extend its generosity, to the end that a boat less ripened by years and seas may be ready for next year’s cruising nd the St. Mary’s be sent into honorable retirement. A POOR RECORD AT PRINCETON, Interesting as a matter of statistics, but disquieting to friends of the higher education, is the statement that Princeton's graduating class of 1904 has kissed 151 girls, /The class numbers 273 stalwart men, fifty of whom aro more than six feet tall. Roughly speaking, the average in osculation is five-ninths of a kiss per man, Assum- ing charitably that sisters and actual first cousins are excluded from the count, the figures remain nevertheless ‘among those statistics which acquire no glamour through ) publicity. +) It is not likely that the half kiss stands for the half yheart in this instance. Neglect of privilege has arisen ‘doubtless from a diversion of interests. For Princeton semen have done things in athletics in the year which have called for courage. L Shall it be suggested that the fish stories of the grave d portly ex officio lecturer on public policy have ‘the thoughts of youth at old Nassau from the ‘of becoming collegiate frivolity? Then fie upon you, land, for the mischief of your yarns spun un- iy! You can be, reminiscent at any time, but the oes through college only once. arity and ex-| | Jealousy and | the bovers’ Quarrel. —By— | Nixola Greeley- Smith, St Louls has A written a very tong and enrnest ler ter to this col im detaiiing a ynerrot! he has had wi newly = made | | | YOUNG man of whet was nin fn reconeilli- A proposal to reparate, then from forgiven My humiliated, but her ilecett - velled, Sia are Sree for my pride ‘count of my family and poaitioa her a plen tove was wounded. on a model wife. I am considered a kind husband. Who {ts at fault? What is the remedy?" i Whatever the nature of the aecett re-, ferred to by this perturbed husbant, it would seem as though he could find s better answer to his problem by cor sulting his own heart than by seeing wivice from any other. In his letter he does not state whether the quarrel, which it ts to be Inferrd had its origin in Jealousy, related to events prior or subsequent to his mar- riage. And, of course, on this fact, his atur ards it might largely de- pend a man who Is ad- mittedly in possession “of a devoted, a model wife,’ ought to esteem himself blessed among men, and not worry her and himself by petty quarrela and fu- tile Jenlousies, There Is no torture greater than wo all feel at times of the unshared past of those we love. Every woman knows when she meets the man she In- tends to marry that, how 1 much she may make him rit, io is not “the only woman he ever loved.” And every man old enough to have formed stand- ards other than those he inherited with his grandfather's watch and his grend- mother's mahogany, realizes that {f he happens to fall in love with a woman of twenty-five to thirty she will not be able to tell him truthfully that “she has never been kissed.” When we are very muoh in love it hurts us to think about these things, and though we may school our minds to consider them philosophically, wo can never reduce our feelings to the aume state of placidity . But Jealousy ts the result of aeit-love, not of love for another. And as the highest love ‘a that which casts out self, it should really have no place in the heart of the true lover. I knew @ young girl who, under an assumption of cynical worlaliness, con- ceuled @ heart which she hud given as instinctively and unreservedly as a child's t6 @ man who loved her and to whom she was engaged, but who was noted among his ériends for his incon- stant disposition. She was not deeply religious, but every night she went down on her knees and asked God to bless him, and, in her own ahildlah phrase- ology, “to give him whatever he wanted.” Not what she wanted, not what he ought to want, but purely and simply whatever appeated to his vagrant fancy. ‘When he was asked about wal ‘Sometimes T don’t want to may it at ei, Sometimes, I dont mean tt for the time: being, but I think sf you love any one very much that t the way you ought to feel And eo I sag it” it she of this deait wil the CI Nl See It is doubtful whether tt ean eevaees ete sar ne foes ° evn igainnnens oft oni bes. MdoTfar “ae the Gt Lous, husband ie eoncarned! howaver, the best advice to be im is to do exactly what he ‘ike—not what he ought to feel, nor what his family knowa he should feel, nor what his wife wants him to feel, but exactly what his own heart prompts. SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. SAFETY IN NUMBERS. “I wonder how the editorial ‘we! orig- (nated? “I suppose it was started by some ed- obaracter of some husky man, and wanted to make the man believe he'd have to lick more than one."—Philadel- phia Record. 1 BETWEEN FRIENDS. Mrs. Colla—And when you told him I was married did he seem to be sorry? Friend—-Oh, yes; he said so quite frankly, Mrs, Colle—Did he, really? Friend—Yes, indeed, he said he was extremely sorry, although he didn’t know the mar personally,—Tit-Bits. MENTIONS ONE, | Instructor (at night school)—What are some of the evils of wealth? Shaggy-Haired Pupll-—-Automobdiles 1s Jone of ‘em.—Chloago Tribune. FORCE OF HABIT. “Herbert has been running an auto so long that ho has forgotten all about horseback rhding.’' “What did he do when balked?" “He crawled under it to seo what was the matter.""—Cleveland Plain Dealer ON A CASH BASIS. ere you marrted on time?" sir, I paid the lcense clerk and the preacher cash down,"—Chicago Journal, NEARING THE FINISH, With flirting and foclishness now sho was done, For she meant to bo wed to this chap. “My race for a husband,’ che sald, “Is, nearly won— I believe I am on my last lap." Philadelphia Public Ledger, the horse I coneiuded to do nothing, But our J lives are not the same. There ts dis-) t ce where once there was perfect harmony, She is a devoted; Indeed, a tor who had to sail into the personal | f, ‘ a aaa a ietebetetetetnlateteteteteteetata WHATS IN A NAME @ EVERYTHING! ASK THE MAN WITH A NEW BABY + HIS WIFE WILL TELL You. HOuT CONSULTING THE EDITOR OF FUDGE ABourT IT? HE WouLD IKE TO HAVE IT CALLED FUDGEOSIA on ‘UDGEQOZLEDOM! oe - AS TO -THE NAME OF THE: YYAAS, ME Boy, =e vy DOODLE-Doo:! w THE w EVENING . WORLD'S w# HOME w MAGAZINE. & ' Iebieebeleieieieeieeieleieieicivieininivielieleleieieiebeieteb deleleicieieloieinicieieleloieleletoieieiteleloteleieleieleieleleeieieieleinbieleloioieieiinieitilob ‘The Great American GOOK. Has He Tackled You? He Protests to Secretary of State Hay Against Arbitrarily Changing the Name of This Country to America. is UNITED. erares- ‘\ WHY SHOULD YOU se CHANGE IT > DURING AN INFINITESIMAL. RECESS, TO AMERICA ren TEE EEE FEET? eon oe os FUDGE WOULD OFFER A PRIZE Mrs. Nagg and Mr, -— «¢Q] O Mr. Nagg, I will go with you N this time when you get a sum- mer suit, ‘ou are so easily imposed upon that you Just Ko to your taflor and tell him to make the sult as he thinks will be- come you best, “Now, 1 don't want to interfere and I wouldn't interfere for the world, but you are liable to be imposed upon with good hulf-cotton, so If you ever got cmught in a rainstorm, the trousers will shrink till they look like knickerbock- ers, ‘That very thing was done to Brother Witile, You know you gave him $20 to buy a blue serge sult, but the dear boy ts #o economical he thought it would be better to et a suit of Ballyhoo homespun for $3.29, a0's he'd have nome money over to'get « 10- cent rattle for the bapy—you know how fond he i of that child so long as he isn't asked to mind it-and after he bought the sult he got caught in a heavy shower and the trousers and coat sleeves, shrank 80 badly that he was in danger of being arrested for mesquerad- Ing. “He woud! have bought another aut, but he happened to stop under a shed where same ys were playing a game called craps and he lost all the rest of his money, He thinks, some of those boys got it, but he's too manly to accuse any one of stealing—and besides, when he did say he'd lost his money and do- manded it back they kicked him dread- | tuny, “I know @o far such a thing has never happened to you, but {t might. I know you think you are infallible, Mr. Nage, but you are not nearly as intelligent In such matters as Brother Wille, and so Iwill go along with you and pick out your next mult of clothes, “There ts a saarked down Teady-made clothes at the big bazaar, and I think it's shameful the way you are robbed by your tallor, “You remember you had a ready- made sult once and ft Mt you beautiful, and you gave it to the colored porter at your office just because it faded a ttle, It didn’t fade a bit on the inside of the coat or under the collar, and after the sleoves were lengthened and the trousers shortened and a pleco was | | (By Permission of George Munro's Sona.) (Copyright, 1893, by George Munro's Sons.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Rosaile Scott, a rich girl, fall in love with F,'@ poor artist, He returns her sult hopeless inarries Acciised of murdering 2 He ie inter ———— CHAPTER It. Suspected of Murder. AGERLY 1 scanned the exhaustive E account of the case, The inquest had brought out the following facts: A body had been taken out of the Thames and identified as that of Lily Baxter, who had been missing for some weeks, Three weeks before the day Gerard Baxter was arrestel on the charge of having made away with his wife—on the Sd of July—his mother-in-law, Eliza White, deposed to having gone to hls lodgings to visit her daughter, The prisoner opened the door for her and told her that her duuughter had gone oue, about half an hour before, to buy something In a nelghboring street, She went on to say that she had not culled again for several days, being yather hurt with her daughter for never coming near her, At the end of a week she went again to visit her daughter and found the door locked, then she turned into the room of a neighbor on the next floor, a woman nemed Haag, the wife of a German who vlayed the violin in the orchestra of some theatre— sho forgot what theatre, Mrs. Haag sald that she was surprised to hear hor making inquiries for her daughter, since Baxter had told them all she had gone to stay with some cousins In the country, They had not seen or heard anything of her in that house since July 22; Mrs. White herself had seen her on the 2st. Mrs. White had no difMfoulty tn édenti- fying the body, though it had been in the water a considerable time—three Weeks, the surgeon said, who made the Post-mortem examination. The face wan much disfigured from the action of the water, but the beautiful red gold hair the small, even teath, the girl's height and age, the wedding ring on hey finger, were ail conclusive evidence, When I had read tfins far something seemed to cry out to me: “He ts innocent!" Against all probability I belleved tn this votce, My resolve was quickly taken, I told Ronatt Scott T was going to London to make Inquiries in the case for myself. He strove in vain to issuade me, Finding mo obdurate, he agreed at last to accompany me. e o 8 ee T have seen Gerard in prison, Scott managed {t all for me—came with me himself to the prisoner's cell Gerard has told me his wretched story in a very few words, What he would not say in self defense to the mayistrate he eald to me—not that I might Justify him before the world— he seemed to care very little about that —but that he might juatity himself to me “Sho left the house on the twenty- second of July. and I have never seen her since, altve or dead,” he sald, pausing in his restless pacing up and down to confront me as I sat on the wretched pallet. “She ran away in a rage because I ncolded her about some- thing—and I never saw her again.” “Then why did you tell her mother what you did? Why did you Invent those storfes for the neighbors—about letters and messages?” ‘They asked me, and I had to say something,”’ “But why not have told the truth?” “I would rather have said I killed her than have told the truth.’ Ronald] f; BY ROY put jn the back of te vest that sult ‘it vou beautifully. “Tam sure you can get a nice ready- made summer sult again. It ts down- for your clothe: “Somebody must save, It makes mo 30 discouraged. to think of all the money wasted in this house on clothes. Nobody tries to economize but me, and I get no thanks for It, I am only out the things I do not buy while neither Volt nor mamma nor brother Willie be- Reudgos yourself a thing. “T got very few clothes; there is no woman of our acquaintance spends less on herself than I do. I always buy the in the end the best Is cheapest, There ts no economy in get- ng cheap or shoddy goods. I know you do not think so, and you would want me to wear calico at the opera if you id your way. “And g0 I say you must economize as get @ suit of clothes I will go along I feel sure you will be happler in get- ting @ $10 ser, ult Instead of taking ——— ee For Life and Love. By CHARLOTTE M. BRAEME. “It would have been bet ve fold the truth.” Fepeated. aetter to ve sal t she one yi mitre had gone~you knew “But I did know, or I thought I knew. She had threatened more than once 1 0 toa friend sha had in. London, nd I thought that ehe had carried out her threat—at last.’ “Where friend?” “I do not know. I have never uttered his name to any one—except to her. I know now thi my suspicions of him were groundiess—it was only the day tho police came for me that tmet him, and e asked why she had not come for any more sittings for the picture. Ho was an honest fellow though he paid her compliments sometimes—evorybody did. And I re enough about her I told her I would <I would kill her is had been the substance of Ger- story, And now, as I drive away from the ‘prison, breathing moro freely outside the shadow of those hopeless, stupendous fron-gray walls, T say to Ronald Scott, who ts sitting opposite to me, looking not at me, but out In- to the ero: ded stret “What 7b you think now, Ttona ms plausible 1 the girl's body had not heen found T might have felt inclined to be + Ove next vleft woe tn Mra White, the dead woman's mother. who had testified 80 strongly against Gerard at the in- . White was a large woman with protruding — shifting eves, She was ready encueh to tnile hen Thad Heard Nex story Tasked a f ey ‘da few questions, “Was she much changed since y. saw her in lite?” s) me “She was over three weeks in the water, my Iady—in course she” wns changed." “Yet von recoenized her, beyond any manner of doubt?” ond aay “T'was her mother, my lady. 1 would have known her IT anw nothing but her hair. Lovely golden hair it wae You may have seen It in her plcture— loia of people naw it.” “You identified her dress of cour you would remember everything. i in the habit of wearing?” ‘woman pauses, eyeing me, And at fs. Buse Ronald Scott turns round to sulinebiet (Copyrighted 1904 by the Press Publishing Co., New York World.) | for my challles, becanse in attempting well as I do, and if you are going to, with you and see you are not cheated. | {3 he—this man you call her |y L. M’CARDELL. Anything your tailor will atick on you | and charge you $50 for. | “You can give me othe other forty (dollars because I am getting a lot of right extravagance the prices you pay new summer dresses made at Madame} | Smith's, and you know her charges are high, because sho does good work. I have pald @ little extra this summer | to do with cheap goods last vear I got a lot of trashy stuff that faded in the wash and it was only money thrown away. “I know you are not paying any at- | tention to what I say, because you do not care how much money Is wasted, but Ido. I get tho blame at the end of the week when I have spent all the money getting things for the table and have to ask vou for a few more dollars, It right, Iam coming! I have been nding here half an hour listening to | you, and trying to say a word or two, but’ when you are talking I can’t get @ word In edgeways, “You have a headache, you say? “Where did you get a headache? How did you get a headache? “You would be all right, Mr. Nagg, if u didn't talk so much! T won't shut up! Shut up your- e “It would be queer if I didn't, and I figging them and her every day’ of her “It would be queer, indeed. Fecogniaed her clothes at once? “The minute I laid my eyes on them." And then I slip half ‘a Sovereign into woman's hand and turned away, nald following me. We speak no Ana you By Martin Green. A Nice Fourth of July Programme for Anti-Noise Cranks. bé6 SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that there is a I movement to have a Fourth of July with the soft pedal on.” “The people who want a noiseless Fourth of July are the people who advocate teaching children that there {s no Santa Claus,” replied the Man Higher.Up. “They are in the minority, but they can make more noise when they open up on nolse or take their pens in hand to bore the editor, than all the rest of the community. “They are the people who kick because the garbage cans are not made of rubber, because the, policemen step hard on the sidewalks at night, because the street cars and fire engines and ambulances are equipped with bells, because the ‘L’ trains don’t run in a whisper and be- cause ilttle girls have to practise a specified spell every day to become proficient on the piano. “Taese people go out of town to escape the noise, and in the country they kick because it {s so quiet. If they had their way the Fourth of July would be celebrated something like this: “8 A. M.—Opening chorus in Madison Square by the combined choruses of the deaf and dumb asylums. “10 A. M.—Games and sports Th Central Park by the inmates of the old men’s homes. “12 M.—Reading of the Declaration of Independence by a lady elocutionist from the top of the Statue of Liberty. , "3 P. M. to 7 P. M.—Everybody sleep. “10 P. M.—Grand discharge of four skyrockets in the middle of the Hackensack Meadows.” “The continual discharge of firecrackers and firearms is certainly annoying to a person of a nervous tempera- ment,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. ‘ “Sure,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “but it is a mis- take ,to assume that we are running this town for the sole benefit of people with nervous temgeraments.” The “Fudge” Idioforial. Let the Common People Whistle in Their Sleep. to Stop This Innocent Joy. Copyret, 100%, by the Planet Pub, Co, writing to the papers demanding that THE Ct PEOPLE BB FORBIDDEN TO WHISTLE IN THEIR SLEEP. Now, apart from the unwritten and unwritable | law that NO ONE shall write letters except to this paper and to Mayor McClellan, this new demand of PLUTOC: | | FUDGE reverently and lovingly depicts in its cartoonsasa One of the few pleasures left them by the TRUSTS they forget that they ‘are posing daily as the HUMAN| | demand that this sweet pastime be stopp... It shall NOT | f| and remember that we are backing you up. RACY Is a MENACE to life and happiness, ( The COMMON PEOPLE (whom THB EVENING j goggle-cyed, bald dwarf with whiskers)have SOME rights, the privilege of WHISTLING IN THEIR SLEEP. They Sweet Fudge” on. thelr lips, and im their happy: dreams DOORMAT for the tron heel of plutocracy, Yet the cor- | porations (doubtless at the request of the Whistle Trust) De stopped! It is the only thing on carth that this paper wil nat see stopped. Whistle in your slecp all you Ike The more you whistle the less breath you'll have ieft to guy the editor of the EVENING FUDGE, How a Dyak Makes Love, When a byak of Borneo makes love he helps the girl in the hardest portion of her daily toil. If she smiles upon him, no matter how sweetly, he does not immediately respond, but waits until the next dark night. Then he steals to her house and wakens her as she les asleep beside her parents, The parents, f they approve, make no sign, but sleep on—or pretend to, If the girl accepts she. rises and takes from het lover the betel and sweetmeats he has brought her. That seals thelr betrothal and he departs as he came, neither speaking nor being spoken to, ‘Jap in the Box.” A landed proprietor of the Government of Ufa, Russia, writes to a local paper: “A typical German trickster arrived ho: word until we find ourselves in the cab agrin, well out of hearing distance of W Alley’, “Well?” I sav then, stooping forward eagerly to look Into my compantion's Ace. “You would make a first-class lady de- tective, Cousin Rosalte'* “But what do you think, Ronald?" “What do you think Rosalie?” “1 think," T say deliberately, leaning back against the cushion agaln, “that hk would swear to anythin, one do T. “The body they found was not Lily Baxter's body.” “I do not think it was, . White has perjured her- self?’ “She hates her sontn-law, and will hang him {f she can,” 1 shiver in my warm cloak, But at the same time I draw a long breath of the most exquisite relict, “Do you think she knows where her daughter is, Ronald?" "No; I do not think she does, She has merely sworn to the Identity of the Nody as u means of being’ revenged on I exclaim, with a lite wamanly triumph, And you, a judge, would have con- demned him to death!" “Not quite,” Ronald says, smiling for the first tinie since we di through the prison gates an hour 4 “T suld, if the girl's body had not been found 1 would have been incilned to believe his story, And now I am of opimon that It has not been found am silen® for a minute or two, en- joying that delicious sensation of re- lef." The tension of the Inst three or four days is relaxed—I feel as if could breathe again, “Itow to find Lily Baxter!" I say, at, t ‘Ah,"* cousin answers deliberately, eenat iay So stnope easly’ sid taut mn at our village of Anastasevka on April 12 and announced that the first Japanese prisoner was coming along in an tron box, and that if the Mir (Common Council) voted a sum of two roubles the peasants would be allowed to hear him aquead for mercy and afterward sing his national war song, The Mir apparently voted the money, for the performance was ' ia Mi in full progress outside the state public house when I ar-, rived. On a table in the roadway was a small box, from a trumpet affixed to which Issued in good but squeaky Englteb the famous “Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay.' " Four Parts of a Wagon, 3 4