The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1904, Page 8

f ik f by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office New, York as Second-Class Mail Matter, ‘ VOLUME 44 srosecserseeeNO. 18,649. A FRANCHISE GOING CHEAP. * ‘The-route for which the New York Connecting Rail- oad asks a franchise across the East River via Ward's and“Randall’s Islands is designed primarily for the transfer of freight from the Pennsylvania lines at Yersey City to the New Haven and Hartford yards at The other links in the route are a ferry ling from Greenville Bay, Jersey City, to South Brook- lyn‘and the Long Island's Bay Ridge tracks circuiting thé city. When this belt road is completed and fully developed, eventually with a passenger equipment, it Mott Haven. will-bting Brooklyn into close connection with the New England and New Jersey trunk roads and very greatly advantage it by providing railway accommodations, the Yack ,of which has crippled the city and retarded its commercial development. The franchise is thus obviously of double value to the failroads. Not only will it provide them with better facilities for the interchange of traffic but it will also open’ up a new territory for freight and passenger busi- ness promising to be exceedingly lucrative. And for this privilege which is asked for in per- petuity, though the limit fixed by law is twenty-five years, the road agrees to pay five cents a linear foot of track, or $264 a mile, annually, while paying for the rigtt to cross the East River the munificent sum of $100! It is a ridiculously inadequate rate of payment for a franchise of inestimable value. And on the part of the Rapid Transit Board through its grant of a per- petual right of way an exercise of powers in conflict with the city charter. It is incumbent on the Mayor and Aldermen to pre- verit this contemplated sacrifice of an invaluable fran- chisé for a song. The benefits to be derived by one borough should not be permitted to blind the view to the loss which will be sustained by the entire city through this proposed barter of perpetual privileges for an absurdly insufficient compensation. The Night-Fiying Trolley Car.—A correspondent signing imself F. W. B. writes to the Herald: “I saw a boy run and killed last night by an Amsterdam avenue trolley He could have been asuved if the car had had ita ‘The car was running at about thirty-five The Evening World has repeatedly called j attention to the continued violation of the speed ‘ ordinances by trolley cars at night. This ts particularly . t#ué of ‘no passenger’ cars on thelr way to the barns ‘They rush on at a rate of speed which puts them beyond { thé control of the motorman and imperiis vehicles and pedentrians. They are both a nuisance and a danger \‘which should be abated. .» THE AUTO BOAT RACES. ‘Tm some respects the “auto boat" races which end to-day in the North River in front of the Columbia ‘Yacht Club-House are among the most interesting speed contests of the year. Phe auto boat Is a newcomer on the river, and the Preagnt races, to which the Manhasset trials were as a preliminary or qualifying round, give the fiyst {mportant demonstration of its speediness and special qualities, Thé ‘feat of the Standard in covering the course at an oi 5 speed of more than twenty-two and a half miles an hour points to an astonisiing subjugation of the waybs by tho gasolino engine. ‘Phe multiplication of the automobile on land gives an fdea. of what may be expected of {ts progeny on water. Another Burke may be able soon to say: “No strpgm. that is not vexed by their keels, no water- course that is unfamiliar with their odors.” A few yedr&-Wili coubtiess sce flotillas of them at every 6 er resort where water is to be had, with school girls, at the helm and boys In knickerbockers at the tiller. In that popularization lies a danger which {f less reat than that arising from speed madness on land will not An auto boat In inexperienced hands mischief, ear. ‘fendér down. millée.an hour.” ') CONEY ISLAND BATH PLANS. Borough President Littleton has long had enthusiasm for a great public bathing pavilion on the city’s beach at Conoy Island. Now he has the plans, as well, The) drawings show a commodions structure, with separate booihs for men and women bathers, with a great floor for syectators and with provision for a large restaurant. Hopes are expressed that the booths, at least, may be ready for use before the present season is over. No pafs~should be spared to bring fulfilment In this particular. TC 18 a paradoxical condition which should soon be out of existence that New York, richest among cities in its available stretches of beach and seaside park lands, {s Attikingly pcor in its offering of shore and sur: pleasitres to the thousands whose purses are pinchingly small. Brifige Noot Gardeus.—A novel feature of the Manhattan Bridge plans ts their provision for roof gardens on the {) “tops of the massive towers. These, with the seats and * ¢omfort stations provided for, indicate how generally a Comparatively new idea of municipal functions ts fin sappiication, The use of a bridge tower as a sum Fesort had not occurred to the city fathers of Roebling dey. « RENTS AND REALTY VALUGS. “The rent of $15,000 paid by Miss Faith Moore for her Fifth avenue apartment furnishes an excellent illustra- tioh of the enormous recent increase of residential rentals. It is true the apartment covers an entire floor and) céitains fifteen rcoms and three bathrooms. even’ a6 representing three medium-sized apartments at fy& year the rent must ecem excessive l¢sentire area of the apartment being less than G square feet, the tenant in fact pays almost as much gwere held at within years not remote. eat increase of realty values is one of the mast le phases of Manhattan development. An of these appreciated values was given this week inchase by the North River Savings Bank on y-fourth street of a plot 50 by 100 for $400,000, ‘not for property not adjacent to d until recently have been regarded as But} hal rental as the valuable lots on which the house | , Why Are Men Afraid of Pretty Women? ad rd By Nixola Greeley-Smith, HY are me W afraid of pret- ty women? For they are. To be sure, the element of fear that enters into the masculine appreciation of fem- inine beauty 1s #0 subtle, so intangible as merely to add to the fascination it has for them. But ft 1s there, never- theless, and thare ought to be @ good reason for it, It Im not the deleted dread that over- takes the moth circling in enchanzed frenzy about the conemming flame, nor of the fly firmly enmeshed In the web of the devouring spider, For any tmago that places man in the role of victim} 4 ts absurd. But whatever the origin, ft 1m thts fear of pretty women that finds hns- bands for #9 many ugly ones. For there aro some men who marry after they nave reached a certain age solely with the idea of exchanging a minimum of independence for a maxi- ‘Mary Jang and Her Tabby Go In for Art. a — = @ et ot A Chef d’Oeuvre in Interior Decoration Which Created a Sensation. You WATCH 9D390909O0-0000 He oo mum of ease, And they believe ints ease is lows likely to be disturbed by a “ woman of whom they would have no occasion to be jealous, So, though they admire beauty, they marry the com- fort that thrives best without ft. The American man shows less of this f itn dread than his prototype of y other } { Mity, there are #0 many pretty American women as to render the pursuit of iny| ‘ other kind dimcult. But It never occurs to the Frenchman and reldom to any man of the Latin| 3) race to seek A pretty wife, Even the Eng- Hishman displays in the selection of his helpmeet a bias for more soll, if ; homelier, qualities, | One of the group of English baeris- lors dmporthd by Sir ‘Thomaa Tinton at the time ofthe last yacht races once entertained a group of young Ame girla with the definition of his wife. This was what he sald “She needn't be very pretty, must be loving; nor particularly slever,| i, but she must be loving,” and #0 on, through a whole Ktany of things that ‘2 she need not be, provided only and al-| | Ways she was “loving.” Even in America, howe | r, the pretty | woman does not seem to have any yira-| jfounced matrimonial advantage ov \ her less Uberally endowed #lster, Ad are) @ Is th | it must be because even here men | stilt more or loss afraid of her, fear Justified? | Not in the least. Look at the pte- tures of women who figure in news per scandals, Notwithstanding the fic: that artist and reporter ellke are pected to make them out as beaut! as possible, they are generally no bo-- ter looking than the leas eccentivc wives and mothers who keep out o print. rf ¢ a FZ DIDDDOOLODHYD $9999009G-909909-000-0-000-9006-0:8.066- 4 By Martin Green. Should New York-Crowds : —_ Feel Proud of Being Good-Natured? 66 SEE,” sald the -Cigar Store Man, “that talk of some indictments in- connection the Slocum disaster.” “Undoubtedly there-willbe-indictments,*tre- Pied the Man Higher Up, “butiit is-a question if:they, ‘will indict the right parties. This: horrible calamity ought to put the people of New ‘York wise to the fau. that they are getting the worstvoffit onellsides; bubour training is along the lines that ero used in training dogs, “It you take a dog and make him understandwthat h¢ has to walk on his hind feet before he can get: to eat.you evolve a dog that«walks on his hind time heds given the hunch. The transportation-corporm tions of New York work-on the principle ofthevdag trainers. “They teach the people that beforethey-camgethome at night to their dinners they must etand up in cesW and on ferry-boats, elbow each othen undergo dncon« veniences to knock-<lown the equanimity of a saint, en] pay money for the privilege. When a hungryymanivon his way to dinner will consent ¢o be treated“ike.an inside passenger on a cer in the ltve-stock express ity comes easy to him to take a nice long stand asa ‘homay sheep on the way downtown in the morning‘ breakfast. UST FELT YOU WERE bang TO Do IT— You! — dae ie RY, Bi ie a fl) me Indeed, a pretty woman ts, tf anv COST IOV ES / thing, a Mttle less Ugly to Mirt iter marringe than an sly woman, for | she has learned to regard masculln attentions As a matter of course and, not like her less experienced sister, to BL SFIARRIED make them senious by taking them «o. | Concetted men ly marry pretev| { women, for when looking about them | for a holpmeet they seem share everythiug with her ept the| | contre of the stage, and they know a {pretty woman would step right t.t0] the limelight at once. ling to ‘There are other more sensible nen who, married to pretty women, delat In the attention they attract and sre not foollshly Jealous The pretty girl who Just wants to be a le at dances and be taken to satre and to supper ean get sl) wants, but whoa it destrable husbynd nilons she comes to finding a she has to face an altogether diftss st proposition, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, —_ Yeu t Many itaces, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Did ‘Tod Sloan ever Jose a race ta this country? RK, To the Edit How 4 have bee which years A ANd WHL be leap ve. M divisible by 4, by ip years, All yoars axa 400 anid 4.00) are div dat while y my and 3M) are not ‘To tha Com Who ist to make M of Health, hority to whom ABAINAL poo i World: . 15th Year Crystal, 20th Year China, Ts the } What is the twent celebration? of The Evening Worlt th year marriage A says it is ae: says it is erystal ANNA I Saturday, Sunday, To the Paitor niay. f The Evening World On what days of the week were Dec M4, 1961; Deo, 14, 1862, and Dec. 14, 1803? « w Apply to Warden Johnson, Sin Sing. tor of The Evening World: nT obtain a sp permit to visit Sing Sing Prison? cH Win or Loset To the Editor of The Evening’ World: I give the following problem to read- ers: A man buys a cow for $30, sells it for $35 and buys it back for $33. Does ite make or lose on the transaction? ies Ae “oo"s DEDDOR A FELLOW SUGWT TO ETS GO Cale a (ee SOLUTEN eee TH IIK 90999999000099000-9-0. & DE LPOL VG VOVS 08S 9-1 OV 5059 90H 99999896 0909-2060030050239992 “Instead of making « strong roer against Gumi animal treatment from the transportation companieson land and in the harbor, the New Yorkers, male ang female, make @ joke of it. They take priderin.being tol that New York crowds are good-natured.” “How are you going to get away fromdt?” wsked:thy Cigar Store Man. “The only way I know,” responded. the- Man Highey Up,” is to go out and work as a hired-man on-e«fermy and even there the boss is crowding a]l the time,” Queen as a Shopper. The Queen, the Princess of Wales, Princess Charles of Denmark and Princess Victoria walked from the Castle into Windsor and did some shopping. ; The Princesses filled thelr pockets with lovely things, the royal party staying in the shops a considerable time, ‘They give as lttle trouble as possible, and it {s a real pleasure to wait on them.” The Queen and the Princesses would not syen trouble the shopkeepers to have some of the things wrapped in paper. They simply put the small purchases into their pockets and asked for tho larger things to be sent t¢ the Castle. Her Majesty and the Princesses did not pay for their pur chases in hard cash, but the Queen remarked to one trades- man: “You can trust me?” They seemed to make light of the unpropitious weather and the wet pavements, and tramped along quite gayly, holding an animated conversatioy and frequently stopping to look at the wares displayed the shop windows of High street. A Hunter’s Paradise. In the arid northwest regions of Cape Colony, in the hugt district known,of old as Bushmaniand, myriads of spring« bucks still trak periodically from wild to wild of this little known veldt, In July, 18%, Mr, Cronwright-Schreiner traw elled northward toward the Orange River specially to witness an immense trekbokken—probably one of the last of the mi- grations on the grind scale of these prolific In the district of Priesla alone at that time, sa; “hundreds of thousands of springbucks had been shot, and nearly as many wounded, an@ the little kids were dying in thousan, t there was wo appreciable diminution in thei», numbers. ¢ whole country was laid waste by this mighty stream of antelopes. From one point of view alone the nume« ber of rpringbucks in sight, moving over the plain, was eae {inated ty Cronwright-Schreiner and other competent judge at not less than 600,000 head! The “Fudge” Idiotorial. Don't Get Bald Inside! The Interior of the Skull Should Be Protected from Baldi- lille Microbes, Copyret. 1908, by the Planet Pud. Cm when the OUT.) SIDE of his head begins to grow bald; but thousands of’ SEEMINGLY healthy men are yearly growing bald IN- } SIDE, with never a suspicion of their danger. ’ We are a superficial nation, we Plutocrat-ridden? Americans. So long as the FUR ON TOP of our heads ( continues to wave and toss in fitful luxuriance at the 4 whim of every errant zephyr, we take no thought of the. fj) bideous BALDICILLIC MICROBE that may EVEN NOW be altacking the INSIDE of our heads and robbing them lof every vestige of hair. Last week, in Pompton, N. J., a scemingly hairy man’s skull was trephined. NOT ONE VESTIGh OF HAIR WAS APPARENT INSIDE THE SKULL, He had Grows interiorically bald without knowing Itt iE COMMON PEOPLE are foolishly content ifthey have Bair that they can SEB. They think nothing of the INSIDE of their skulls. Evea Bdward VIL ts well {| content to have 2 HAIR-APPARENT, When Baldness attacks the TOP of the head we brush ht away with am impatient gesture, When baldness } attacks the INSIDE of the head only thé Editor of this ; paper knows it, and he will SEB IT IS STOPPED, ' Se dabbles AN AIRY MANNER AND A HAIRY re Wwe eee