The evening world. Newspaper, June 22, 1904, Page 12

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 6% to 6 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Offtice at New York as’ Second-Class Mall Matter, VOLUME 44........ se/NO. 15,646, AN AUTOMOBILING ''FEAT." has just accomplished a feat of fast automobiling which will rank him high among amateur chauffeurs. Travel- ling in a ponderous sixty horse-power car he made the trip from Boston to New York in six hours and fifty- five minutes. That is, he covered the 230 and odd miles in less than an hour more than the schedule time of the regular express trains. -What a fine exhibition of dare-devil disregard of human life it was! A powerful private locomotive, theoretically under control, actually not so in the true meaning of the term, plunging along on main travelled roads and over thoroughfares dotted with traffic at an average rate of nearly thirty-five miles an hour with bursts of speed exceeding eighty-three miles! Danger of accident at every point, danger of death tt every crossroads, a reckless unconcern for all other tights of traffic, one single object in view—the attain- ment of a “record” let the cost in life and limb be what it might! It was a most extraordinary exhibition of contempt for public safety. Yet it was one which the law, while Nominally discountenancing, virtually sanctions. A ten dollar bill would have settled every violation of a local speed ordinance, and a perfunctory appear- ance before a Grand Jury would have discharged the tlebt for a life. No great draft is made on the moral courage of the chauffeur who successfully essays a feat of this nature. He is well aware that if he escapes _with his own life the bill for another's will not be too Steep for his purse. THOROUGH AND RADICAL REFORM. The testimony at the Coroner's inquest on the Gen. Blocum disaster, together with the developments of hewspaper investigation into the conditions prevailing on ferry and excursion boats, !ndicates clearly how com- prehensive the scope of the xeneral inquiry must be to satisfy public opinion and how radical a reform the verdicts of the various boards of investigators must m call for. It is not alone the “Job lot” crew of the Slocum, Its rotten life-preservers, worthless fire ‘hose, lack of discipline, neglect of fire drill and other astounding dis- closures of the criminal inefficiency of its provisions for the safety of passengers with which the public 1s con- “perned. The public is thinking also of th» ferry-boats with a reapacity of 1,500 passengers and an equipment of only $00 life-proservers; of barges without Iife-preservers of -any kind, good or bad; of inferfor and obsolete safety “appliances; of 16-cent hose and other instances of economies effected at the passenger's risk. It 1s wonder- ing how generally the conditions of insecurity revealed , on what was regarded as one of the safest of excursion _ boats obtain on others which have providentlally es- <eaped the test which disclosed the Slocum's defects. The recommendations of the several investigating «committees and boards, {f faithfully carried out, are “likely to revolutionize existing excursion boat practices. Every day brings out facts which will require an ex- tension of the scope of the Inquiry and necessitate an pverhauling of the entire fleet of passenger-carrying craft. AN IMPORTANT CONTRACT. ' The work on the vast city terminal project of the Pennsylvania Railroad has progressed to the point of Jetting the contract for excavating the site. It Is gratifying to local pride to learn that this important job has been secured by the New York Contracting and Trucking Company, !n which Alderman James E. Guffney is repiesented, and the president of which Is John J.. Murphy, brother of the Tammany leader. The terminal site covers four city blocks and it is to ) be excavated to the depth of forty feet. Nearly two years’ Lime will be required, together with an expendl- ture of $5,000,000. An army of men will be employed, a forest of derricks, steam drills Innumerable. The execu- tion of such a contract calls for executive ability of a Ujgh order. yw? Still more noteworthy, however, is the business ghrewdness or diplomacy, or whatever it was, which secured the contract from other competitors. It was * thought that Alderman Gaffney, who led the opposition to the Pennsylvania's entrance into the city, was not ex- actly persona grata to the road, and that Tammany af- fillations would not dispose it to favor one possessing them. So much greater then is the company’s achievement fn getting the big “plum” in the face of these conjectured , ebjections. See » THE PROMOTER’S "HEAVY HEART,”’ (% Sympathy should be extended to the promoter of the * suspended investment enterprise whose “heart is heavy” Mor his clients. He meant well. He intended, out of his untclpated great profits, to pay large dividends to the elderly maiden Jadies in New England who bought the company's securities. It was intended also that the Ohio clients who sent their thousands for investment in “gure things” should share in the large returns, But lveavy “expenses of promotion” and various unforeseen S¢ontingencles defeated the good intentions, nipped his SRenevolence in the bud, and left a crowd of creditors *Aamoring for money which could not be forthcoming, Hence his tears and his reported “prostration with _priet.” A similar kindly feeling for the victims of enter- prises which go wrong doubtless exists in the hearts ‘of most promoters. It doesn’t repay the customer like gash, but it should be noted as Indicating that the pro- moter ‘means well.” Probably all promoters would like have thelr clients participate in the “good thing” ith which the stream of checks and money orders fovides them. | They are not naturally selfish. They would lke to some of it along. But at the very moment of their Benerous impulse im steps the government officer The young son of a Standard Oil multi-millionaire | eat American ad * Be Sure to Choose Your Wife. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. BOSTON man has just been awarded A verdict of w0 for Na efforts in trying to find a wife tor the eon of the Rey. John Parsons, who would at the same time be acceptable to the young man and the clergyman. The commission | { had been received from the father, who was anxious to | see his son properly settled In life, and,) | needless to any, It failed—for the roung) man married a girl he selected for ‘iim self, and the disappointed marriage) ‘ broker had to sue for his money. It ia surprising that any practival man ehould have attempted so !mprac- tical a task as a search for a young woman who would fulfil an old man exactions and a young man's {desls--| for this quite impossible she does not live. ‘The Gr 9 j Cd a 2 THE w EVENING w WORLD'S 2 HOME w MAGAZINE. # ad Cd rd You'RE NOT HoT- You ONLY THINK You’RE HoT! ITS vUST AS EASY TO KEEP It In doubtful {¢ a person of one gen-| 4 eration ever fully understands a man) ¢ or woman of another, Affection may] } make the old man sympathize with tho: young one's enthusiasm or the young one condone his elder’s bitterness. Tut) youth and age speak an entirely liter ent language, and though love may fre ‘quently act as interpreter between them there are many things that even he cannot translate, One of these ts the quention of what quaildes are moat desirable in a wife. ‘The average American father, how- ever, has common sense enough ¢o realize that whether or not his son's wifo sults him ts comparatively unim- Portant, provided his son {s satisfed, Tt is generally with his mother's fixed leas of what a wife should be that & young man has to contend, Usually these ideas are as nrmly set an they are different from his, And the choice In often prenented to him of marrying some well-dowered stick of the prunes and prism variety recommended as “fust the girl 1 would Ike my son to marry,” and the altogether different girl of his own heart—as a rule he too wensible to hesitate. For ha knows the value of the advice given to a| vacillating damsel tn one of last ee: ron's plays: “Remember, my dear, thia wetting married Is a very personal mat- ter," and does as he pleases—some- | times, to be sure, to his ultimate cost, | | O0SS95552 hut nevertheless always to his satisfac- | © uon, A few more or lean Interesting re formers, notably Bernard Shaw, have recently advanced the theory that in| marrying people ought not to consult thelr own Inclination at all, giving as reason that there Is absolutely no phy feal or intellectual difference between | the children of parents who hate and those who love each other. But even| were this more than doubtful theory to be admitted, sensible people would still take advantage of the equilibrium 4 to marry whomavever they pleased, Do not marry to please your father | ‘ or your mother, Which does not mean| $ that you must necessarily marry to displease them. | The girl that your mother selects for you to marry must be elther of weak or hypocritical ¢ to please her entirely, And the same thing applied to the young man | a father regards as material for a son-in-law anusually frank young girl sald other day apr her very ath-| letic father's cholee amoung the men who call upen her THINK You'Re or} iTS EASY! BuT A Jolly DIDODDVOAD GODBOIODOOROVDOOIEOOE EDL EDOODVBA IEE LHAODHEDOOSDOD. GOOK. Gookoo! ee & & He Elucidates the Art of Keeping Cool in Hot Weather. ALL You HAVE To Do 15 TO WIND UP YOUR THINKER BACKWARCS AND THEN — For T READ !T { |In THE FUDGE | Did It Ever Happen to You? we Thing in Black, by J. K. Brya “I don't think he ever thoroughly ap- Freves any young man who doesn't! ¢ look consumptive.” And there was something in her re- mark. For strong men are apt to re- lect weak-bodled or weak-minded sons- in-lnw, If the matter {# left to them, just as strong mothers are apt to tix thelr cholce of dauchters-in-law on the feeblest namby-pamblest girls they know. Bo if vou don't want that kind of girl, speak for yourself, John—or Tom or Dick or Harry, as the case may be LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ABCTE POLLDOLOOONDDSLDOSH9OESIGEOGOOI1SH9O009 o4¢ rODSOISOI By Martin Green. The Canned Convention and Its Home-Made Enthusiasm, 6 I name of Roosevelt in the convention at Chicago yesterday.” ¥ “The delegates were probably sore, and what the re~ porters took for sounds of enthusiasm were screams of rage,” replied the Man Higher Up. “It’s fine business for a man who is a big finger in his own community to go to the National Convention and find out that the game has been sc framed up In advance that the only way he can get his name Into the metropolitan papers is to jump inta Lake Michigan or off the Masonic Teaple. “The name ‘Canned Convention’ is going to stick to this gathering as long as anybody can be found who will read the history of the Republican party. The G. 0. P. has passed into the hands of an absolute boss, and all the sub-bosses are as meek as the street-car-riding popula- {ion of the city of New York. “The first symptom of the utter elimination of the delegates in a Republican convention happened at St Louis In 1896 when Mark Hanna came into town, and three hours later loud splashes in the Mississippi River 4 | under the Eads Bridge proclaimed where the booms were | gone that had been flourishing before his arrival. Four years ago Hanna had a full-Nelson on the convention that you couldn't break with a jimmy. This year Roose= velt has not only given the convention all the Hanna holds, but has added the double clutch and the whole pro- gramme of jiu-jitsu. He hasn't been practising wrestling and Japanese athletics for his health alone.” “If the convention fs so muca like a picnic dinner why ~|do they string it out for three days?” asked the Cigar » | Store Man, “To give the cheerful Chicago bandits who keep hotels and restaurants a chance to get back the long green they put up to get the affair,” replied the Man Higher Up. SER,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that there was quite a bit of enthusiasm at the mention of the Making Zebras Useful. Since the first zebra was captured in Africa there has b & popular and general belief that the species, while intere: ing to naturalists, would forever be useless to mankind, Many times efforts have been made to tame the zebra inte @ domesticated animal, a beast of burden like the horse. Baa until very recently all these attempts have failed, Experiments and tests in the London Zoological Gardens made in the last few months show that the zebra can pe tamed and made useful. After viewing the tamed animais and seeing the great service they can perform, a commission has started from London for South Africa, where there are numerous herds of the beasts, and a “breaking camp" will’ be established, It ts possible that within a year zebras will be ofered in the American markets as animals of commerce. ‘Chey are sald to be much more hardy than mules, eat less and even live longer, although it 1s proverbial that a mule was never known to dle. ‘The commission in South Africa 1s backed by the Army Le partment, which expects to be able to use the zebra in pack trains because of its stamina, quickness and strength. ‘ne War Department at Washington has taken cognizance of the matter and ts watching the South African commission. A cross between horses and zebras has also been instttutea known as the “zebrule.” Missing Word Puzzle. Fill in the blank spaces in the ensuing poem as followst ‘The word for the first blank space, must, when deprived of {ts first letter, be used to fill the second blank space. The remainder, deprived of its first letter, must be used in the third blank space, and the resulting remnant, deprived of tts first letter, must fid the fourth blank space. When alj these changes are made, the following verse will make sense: “Among the Illy pads our oars were Our idle hands the blo I erled: ‘Away, dull car And echo answered * A Sioux Falls Samson. Peter Sater, of Sioux Falls, is the name of a strong man who {s surpassing all by his marvellous feats. He is a Nor- wegian, about twenty-four, Sater is a section hand on t Great Northern, between Sioux, Falls and Garretson. H great strength les chietly in hit jaws, On one occasion he fastened a strap around an anvil in a blacksmith shop, placed the end of the strap between his teeth and walked away with the anvil, At another time by means of a rope and his tecth he Mfted a %00-pound granite hitching block clear of the ground, Another feat is to take three sacks of sugar, weighing 100 pounds each, grasp them with his teeth py the corners and lift them clear of the cround, ANSWERS. —_-— Jane 0, 1609. To the Editor of The Evening World When did Champion James J. Jef- The “Fudge” Idiotorial. fries win the championship by knocking out Bob Fitzsimmons? 8K. Saturday. Wednesday. the Euitor of The Byening World n what day of the week did Jan, 28, 188%, and Feb, 9, 1876, fall? A. B. At Any Large Book: itor of ‘The Evening World © ean I buy or order a book in which are found speeches to be made at weddings? GK On Side Nenrent To the Kaltor of The Evening Wtrld When a man fs escorting two ladies should he walk fn the middle or on the Carb. outside? ALR. He Loves $50, To the Faltor of The Evening Wend A and B made a bet of $4, A claims tat If ost he would lose $00, 13 claims he would lose only $0. Which is right? LG To the Editor of The Evening World On what day of the week did the 24th of December, 1884, fall? cor. No. ‘To the Faltor of The Evening World: Has China as large a population as the rest of the world put together? 5. Cc. 1898-1901 Inplustye, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: How many years was Robert Van Wyck Muyor of New York City? Cee “Doctor,” sald Mm, |rich old man, “tell m shock, He's going to cago, Rooord-Herald, - 4— 2—Harlem HE TOLD HER THE WORST. the beautiful young | woman who had become the wife of a e the worst, wil) be brave and try to bear it.” Leading her gently from her suffering husband's bedside the doctor answered: “Nerve yourself, then, for a terrible | Usually | t well.”"—Chi- | « (One to Hark. m) Now Guess What This Is? In this greatcity © yesterday there { were TWO PED- | DLERS. They had | BUSHY beards, One of them HAD APUSHCART. That fs ALL about the FIRST peddier. The other had a Pushcart TOO, That fs all absat the SECOND peddler. But the moral of the foregoing touching itttle life romance ts PLAIN. It can be read between sobs, and It if Is as follows: ee ce THE PEDDLER? US gradually back te BVENIN PUDGE’S splendidly humane vA of Ptlasth pati heaith by FLUSHING THE STREETS WITH THB COM. MON PEOPLE. Not with Aristocrats, not with Plute- yj crats, not with Autocrats, not with Corporations, not with TRUSTS! But with the COMMON PROPLE The commoner the better. Then the streets will be flush | even If the COMMON PEOPLE are not. THIS PAPER WILL SEE THAT IT DOES, Weep for Those Two Peddlers! And Then Flush the Streets with the Common Peopte. Copyret. 1904, by the Planet Pus Co. (Editor's Note.—The foregoing sentence has nection with the rest of this Idiotorial, but It ONE GLEAM OF LIGHT. “There's one good thing about this war in Asia." sald the man who ta al- s looking for a ray of comfort, What is it?” 8 “It 1s not so lkely to cast the gloom over future generations that wars do, can't Imagine parents giving their children such frst nawvs as jomt" ington and ‘Togo,’ — Wash: L HER NATURE ENGAGING. Mrs. Goodwin—Sarah Snelling has promised to marry Fred Simmons and she has also promised herself to Harry Killings. I think it Is disgraceful, Aunt Jane—It is a little unconven- tional, T must admit; but, Sally, as you have often said yourself, is such an en-|ent I'm going to. go geging creature, you know.—Boston/ thankful that it isn't the Tranporipy art: ~~" ag enous,” Wa ON THE SAFE SIDE. eat to much?" “Yes,” attended to at any time. Star, “So your phyalclan tells you that you], “What are you going to do about it?” “Well, that's a difficulty which can be For the pree-| ead and be} inability to