The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1904, Page 13

IESDAY EVENING , JUNE 29, 1904, Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ Vark Row, New k. Entered at the Post-Office ~t New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. “VOLUME 44 16,658. A SATISFACTORY VERDICT. The Coroner's jury investigating the Gen Gisaster has acquitted itself of its responsible task with Slocum an intelligence and a thoroughness meriting high praise.) ‘The verdict by meeting public expectation will win for the jury an approval and a respect which should conduve in some degree to remove the burden of reproach which} has long rested on this obsolete instrument of the law. The satisfactory thing about the verdict js its com- captain guilty. It follows the line of criminal responsi- Dility up through the supervising captain into the ex- ecutive offices of the company and locates the blame where it ultimately belongs—with the directors and the president, while Including the negligent Government inspector. The verdict thus does more than give an outraged public a scapegoat. It runs the probe directly to the source of the culpable negligence which has put a city in mourning. the deckhand and the switchman and the clerk to the It evidences a wiser pollcy of looking above “men at the top, the directors who do not direct, and @stablishes an excellent precedent. ISLAND THAT SHOULD BE PARK, An island purk, four and a half acres {n extent, 1s mong the most valued outdoor possessions of St. Paul. In the current number of the World's Work there is a story of how Dr. Justus Ohage, health officer of the city, caused this Island to he built up from a mere shoal In the Mississippi by deposits of clean waste. On this water-surrounded park St. Paul matntains a children’s playground, a small “zoo,” a vegetable garden (to support the forty uniformed attendants), public baths, with modern sterilizing plants for the bathing sults; a day nursery, 4 boys’ gymnasium, and a girls’ gymuasium. The St. Paul island is spoken of as “rescued” from the waters. New York has ready to hand, In the middle of the East River, Blackwell's Island, not four and a half acres, but one hundred and twenty acres. It need bo rescued, not from the waters, but only from 7,000 un- grateful tenants-by-compulsion. It would afford spaces) for playgrounds, promenades, pavilions, band-stands and lounging places in grateful abundance. Its trans-, formation would be its redemption and dedication. The Evening World news columns reported yester- y the gratifying progress toward the establishment of the great public sea-baths at Coney Island. It will be another day of splendid promise for expanding New York when the Blackwell's Island Park improvement cap be also recorded as under way. THE PERSONAL INSPECTION IDEA, The decision of the City Federation of Women’s Olubs to have an inspection board of {ts own, a committee of public safety recruited from among club members to inspect ferry-boats, excursion steamers, &o., {s an ex- cellent idea. It evidences a spirit of personal investiga- tion which too rarely finds active expression. The American travelling public !s notoriously easily pleased and inclined to rest content with cond{tions, as they are satisfied that they must be right because they exist and because some one at some previous time has certified to thelr soundness. The “kickers” among them are too few, ana com- jaints of bad service or of defects demanding correc- ‘ton too Infrequent. A correspondent writes to The World that when he poked about among the life- (peer of a Coney Island boat the other passengers eed upon the incident as “amusing.” They carefully refrained from assisting him and doubtless thought his Yourse ridiculous. Yet he was doing what if done on every excursion ‘oat, and railway train, and trolley car, and in theatres ‘and public halls, by some self-appolnted representative of the crowd would In the end contribute to bring about the improvement called for. From the management's point of view such an ex- hibition of inquisitiveness may be deemed impertinent. Yot the inquisitive one is well within his rights, and in a way he performs a public service. CITY HALL PARK SAFE. With the withdrawal of Commissioner Best's plan for the invasion of Clty Hall Park by a railroad terminal the Administration’s acquaintance with the popular attitude of jealous defense of the parks from violation may be coneidered to be thorough and complete. Mr. Pallas learned the lesson early, through the pro- $ tests aroused by the letting of the Bryant Park fence to : advertisers. The Mayor, whose intentions in the matter were entirely creditable, learned {t when the question of Central Park parade grounds came up. Commissioner Best has now had the lesson {mpressed on him. An Interesting phase of the opposition to even a temporary intrusion upon City Hall Park hes been its vigor and unanimity. In the lght of these develop- ments may be recognized a regard for the integrity of} the park system which may ever be counted on to preserve it from perversion to any other than tts/ legitimate uses, however meritorious in themselves, NEW YORK IN THE BASEBALL EYE, New York is very much in the eye of the baseball] public at the present moment. While its representatives} position, {ts no less sturdy athietes of the American League are giving the Boston champions a stimulating tussle for the | ship, Th situation i unique » Chicago, boweve! h its National team second and {ts Americans a hopeful third, may experience emotions similar to those of New York. | A. curious circumstance is that while the American League struggle 1s a pretty thorough mix-up of Kast and| ‘West, the Giants are the only Easterners {n the National League first division, | Supposing that the two local teams should finish each| | with a pennant, it would be a management of very poor| ~ #porting blood which should, out of ill-expreased rivalry, use {0 permit @ post-season series of games for the hd championship. prehensiveness, It finds others besides the mate and the| « In the National League have a wide margin on first! ca $4DEDOOO2BDG 6.444940 089044064 What's the Use if She Doesn't bove Me? By Nixola Greeley - Smith. Dear Misa Greeley-8mith: When a man loves a woman he should let her know it; hen @ woman loves a man sho ought to show It. Now 1 may love @ lady and cherish none above her, What's the use, If she doggn't love me, to tell her that I love-her? MATT J. HMBH seeming- ly self-evident proposttions tn verse submitted by an venting World ceader are in reality not half #0 evident as they For it is pretty gener- ily accepted that “when a man loves 1 woman he should let her know it"— provided always he is In @ position to rt that Ne is willing to take a chance on loving her forever by making her his wife. Under no other — clroumstances, strictly ‘speaking, t# the declaration pernissible, When @ woman loves a man, ought ashe to show it? Th fon of the most experie from the beginning of time ts that iy ought not. That {s, eo far as their | ‘ public utterances on the subject were concerned, For when we get down to their actual practice they seem rather | to delleve that it !s imposatble to show it too much. Women seem iivided into two schools on the question, one be- Hoving that the way to enslave a man fe by permanent and pronounced scorn, the other adhering to the theory thht caught by flattery and the ol ‘onren who snub them just a a drawn only to those who flatter. The great diMculty Iles tn de- termining which kind of man ono ta try- ing to please. If we begin by snubs on the man whose proper bait i# flattery, it ts all over, The mistake is irremediable, And If we try flattery on the man whose Vatural diet {s snubs it ds inevitably in hia nature to feel that because we think aumething of him he tn't think anything of us, Wh the use, if we are not be- loved, of telling our rove? “What's the use?" {9 the Sphinx riddle of modern times, and as yet there has arisey no Oedepus to answer it, But the true lover doesn't tell his love because he wants to or because of any good that ft may do him, but Just purely and aim- ply because he can't help it. He has told st in a hundred different unmistakab'e ways before it occurs to him to tell it in tne Iast final way— by putting ft in words. When this has happened and two people have definitely admitted to them- selves and to each other that they love, what are the first, the inevitable qu Uons that follow the admission? “When did you first make up your mind you loved me?” “When did you first find out that I love you?’ And the answer, whether given by man or woman, rarely refers to any spoken wort, but rather to fleeting silent moments embalmed in sentences like these: “When you looked at me that day after the boat race,” “When unconsciously you nestied close to me when we were caught In the storm,” and so on, the phrases varying acoord- ing to individual experte: but all showing that long before we tell our love we quite involuntarily tray It So, though t tloular use doing #0, an: re may not be any par- ing !t, we will Ko on y, Not because we want or don't want to, or because we ht to or ought not to. but just be. © we can't help it, ———__- LITERARY EFFORTS A nonnet published On her eyes Seemed to wake A mid surprise, A rondel written On her throat Caused doubt of what It might denc A Kiss he printed On her Ilpa Did ll with Jo: PV9RS1DOFE4 1 OOGOO 2 + 3 he Is ardently beloved. Both HEIGH-Ho! ANG WE SHALL \—_ HAVE RARE SPORT SHORTLY) METHINKS, WHEN YON LOBSTER DOES QUAFF ACHIS cose, wing ad ad * ‘Th ae I2OOO43DOOE 04 9O054-4.004 Jack, the Jester, Whose Merry Pranks Are Recorded in Four Words. AH HA! tT WORKS WELL! -HE PARTAKES! e Great American GOOK. Gee Whiz! He Tells the Gore-Giving Flatbusher How to Circumvent the Gore-Hungry Mosquito, : & ot Now, THE RIGHT WAY A) 70 ERADICATE MOSQUITOES Te YOU WANT To EY] SNEAK UP BE- HIND ,THEM WHEN “\ THEYRE NOT EX- PECTING Yous GRAB THEM BY WA THE NECK— et OH-!17S 4L g RiGHT! I’m DEAL $ SURE OF 1T- DIDNT & I_READ AL. ABourT, 3 MF 9906-9 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, od Pronounced “Hewaston.” To the MAltor of The Evening World: Please give correct pronunelation of ‘Houston, Texas. ALR Wants to Stop Smoking. To the MAitor of ‘The FNening World What can T do to stop tte habit of smoking cigarettes? 1am only a young boy yet, and think 1f 1 keep up smoking 1 will ruin myself. So T thought 1 would ask you If you could tell me a remedy. uM ‘The only way to break any habit ts by fleorously abstaining from Its in- dulgence. Resolve to stop smoking. Tut the matter out of your mind. The Will power which Is too k to ens able a boy to give up cigarettes will hot carry him far towant success tn Ufe. No. To the Kalter of The Evening World Were the soldiers in olfen times tn the abit of putting powder on their font Instead of saat? COR Plea for Evening Bathing. » the Editor of ‘The Evening World Despite the many bathing beaches tn and around Greater > York there | Gre very fow where one can bathe after | 7PM, Tired men, perspiring and dusty, | leave thetr offices at six, start for the shore and get there at seven only to learn that the beaches bathers, ‘This isa shame, More people can Ret AWay and bathe In the evening | than in the daytime. For ation, | health, cleanliness. and comfort let there | be evening bathing, Blectric lights would render ft s it mean | | much to fogged | took forward to such a sequel to the hot day WILTED COLLAR, May 2. To the Editor of The Evening World closed to . delightful What was the date of the first Sat- urday in May, a? - Dea | \ Bmall Boy on Breakwater—Hi, Wullie! Come up ‘ere! You can see ‘is ‘ead! SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. PATERNAL PRIDE., “When T have occasion to punish my }son, sald the austere man, “I al- ways tell hin that it hurts me more than {it does him.” “1 don't,” replied the plain, prac- tical citizen. “Johnny may be a little headstrong and disobedient, but he has jtoo much sense to belleve anything like that.—WaShington Star, SOME HOPE FOR IT YET, Asked what he thought of the atate- mont that postry is dying out, the Sweet Singer of Whitset gave the old pine box hefore the grocery store a violent blow with his fist and ex- claimed “I'l be durned if mine'll dle as long as I kin keep her a-goln'!"—at- Ianta Constitu REAL AGITATORS, “Is it true’ asked the English vau- Heyille actress, “that there are people in America who really desire the eleva- tion of the stage?” “Yes,” replied the man from across the pond, "the gallery gods.""—Chicago News, FROM EXPERIENCE. “If a man tells the exact truth at all times,.’’ said the philosopher, “he has done ag much ag ought to expected of hir "My friend answered the weather rr, “he has done a great deal mol in ought to be expecied of him.""—Washington Star, TURNS ROUND. Don't you wait, believers, ‘Vil you hear the trumpet sound— 9 OBOE OLE BOOLEDS 6£4.4F24OOO09OF-9-0O800H00OOS 4 —T Ree ye se ek Ty SSNS FASS TN FOOGPEGPDVOODDITDICHEDDPDO DID OGIIMN DY OOS HOOO OD 2 Higher Up By Martin Green. c —" Ocean Is Public Property, But You Must Pay for 2 Swim. to have a mortgage lifted off part of the oceay at Coney Island so that the citizens of New York can take a salt-water souse withou cutting up part of their expense money with a bath house keeper lovks all to the bright.” “It's a good thing we got some action,” replied thy Man Higher Up, “or the next thing the beach squatter: at Coney would have put up a fence and soaked us for the privilege of looking at the sea. With the greates: ocean front of any city in the world, New York ha: aecess to so Uttle of it free that we might as well be in Nevada. “Of course for people who can afford to pay what the bath-house people demand there is no kick on a wise guy copping out a piece of the lap of the Atlantic and charging for sitting in it, but there are many thousands in New York to whom the two bits requisite for a room | to dress in and an almost towel looks as big as a grind- stone. Baths do these people more good than anything else in ths world, and inasmuch as they are the real taxpayers, because they pay in proportion to the ac commodations the highest rents, they ought to have a chance to get out and play tag with the waves one@ in a while, “Whether an absolutely free bathing house for all classes who want to go into the ocean would be a success or not is a question that can be settled only by experi- ment. Very likely it would be better to razoo the would-be bathers for the enormous sum of two cents to pay for the towels they will carry away. A plunge in the ocean is better for the tenement dweller than ten trips to a public library. When a man, or a woman, or a boy, or a girl, Is clean the result is clean thoughts, ang clean thoughs make for cheerfulness. A big publio bathing beach at Coney Island will promote health and’ put a crimp in the suicide record.” “I don't think I'd like to let my children go to a free public bath,” protested the Cigar Store Man. “All right," sald the Man Higher Up, “why don’t you yank them out of the free public school?” 63 j SEL,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that the schem: > An Averted Tragedy. Sir Harry Johnston, the English explorer, once travelled ona ship witha pet ape. It was a great favorite with all the passengers untii there came aboard at Madeira a lady with ?]an infant, The latter received a good deal of attention, and the ape in consequence became neglected and jealous. Sir Harry Johnston followed it on deck one day just in time ‘to prevent a tragedy. The child had been left unguarded for a moment in {ts cradle. The ape had made for it, pulled it from the cradle and was Jn the act of throwing it overboard when the traveller pounced upon It. Says Slr Harry: “It would certainly have hurled {t into the sea had not my er- rival caused the guilty ape to drop the child on the deck and scrampie away." ‘The ape was relegated to a strong tror cage for the rest of the voyage, The “Fudge” Idiotovial, IDIOTORIAL. PAGE OF 3 Why Should Trains Stop Log teppei at the Grand Centrale] cabin sca | Why Not Keep Right on Down: point ' . town? t THB } Corr, 1004 by the Planet ous.co ff RIGHTS OF THE!’ } COMMON PEO- 1 |) PLE. Not content with making passengers pay fares for ! the privilege of riding on their roads, this Corporation~! hha’ Issued a PEREMPTORY ORDER THAT ALL INCOM- | ING TRAINS SHALL STOP AT. THB GRAND CENTRAL | stanton. ( hen aged or crippled persons, coming to Nqw York from COS COB and other resorts, beg the stern ; had asked: “Does this train stop when it gets to Grand Central Station?” “WELL, MARM,” retorted the HIRELING BRUTE, “IF IT DON'T, THERE'LL BE THE W)GOL-SLAMDEST SMASH-UP EVER SEEN ON THIS LINE.” You can all be mighty happy As the world turns round! The skies'll wave you welcome, An’ joy an’ love be found— You can all be mighty happy As the world (urns round! Atlanta Constitution, i Sa mean Wed TEFEN TET OT RT vw THE »# EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. 800844 2O-O0. ( 4 )