The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1904, Page 14

A hed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Row, New, York. Entered at the Post-Office “) “at New Yor:: as Second-Class Mail Matter. OLUME 44..... NO. 18,654 A FOOLISH WASTE OF MONEY. “An a he~?tred* million dollar budget a matter of $50,000 is not much between Aldermanic appropria- ons. But the proposed issue of revenue bonds to ra’se rks” and other essentials of a celebration to mark tre cpening of the subway is too conspicuously f ed. Ast few months ago the overtaxed and under- idized hospitals were closing useful wards and in other ways economizing at the expense of the sick to ‘Rreet a deficit of $20,000, almost the exact sum ex- pended for fireworks and oratorical hurrah over the 'e completion of the Williamsburg Bridge. What good fiid the city derive from that spectacular burning of és powder and outburst of forgotten eloquence? What * good it is likely to derive from the official jubilation . ver the-opening of the subway? ~ Here is the Board of Education importuning the | + &l&ormen for more money to provide extra sittings for the accommodation of school children next fall, and * wtting fori. with the eloquence of convincing figures ~ how it has been “hampered by lack of funds’ in the » « immediate past. é There is no occasion for the costly junket, great as h is proposed to commemorate. The ceremonies can be made quite as effective if simplified and contined to “speeches and the necessary official proceedings. The * * public is not hankering to be amused with a Coney i Island night at a cost of $50,000. Its elation over the es arrival of rapid transit will be sufficiently real without il rockets. It will be satisfied with the pleasure of riding ” to Harlem in fifteen minutes. 3 FIREMEN CN EXCURSION BOATS, F The Aldermanic resolution directing the Committes ’ on Laws and Legislation to “seek from the United States a, or State whatever official authority or sanction may be needed” to provide for the presence of two city firemen on every excursion steamer is a commendable act in tho d interest of public safety. The objection may be raised, as {t was with Commis- sioner McAdoo's policemen on “L" platforms, that this Prospective action by the city will be another departure % from precedent in detailing city employees to perform the duties of private corporations. i But the necessity of safeguarding the lives of citizens " is obviously paramount to all considerations of expedi- n ency, The fireman's usefulness at theatres has been abundantly attested. The decks of a crowded excursion steamer, as has been pointed out, are not unjike the in- terior of packed theatre in the general aspect of danger from panic or fire. A fireman on the spot with a Hose the tinder box conditions of danger are permitted t continue, Fi No “special firemen" of the company’s own hiring will do. We have just had an example which will serve , for all time of the unfitness for responsibility of the i iy _longshoreman In uniform. Whe Next Step—The Coroner's Jury having performed its purt well 1: beginning the series of Slocum Investigations on a high plane of cffictency, comes now the Grand Jury! One aim of its inquiry should be to pass beyond the Umited fleld of direct responsibility and take up the matter of ofl-soaked and inflammable upper decks and other danger conditions which, allowed by the law, make @ repetition of the disaster everywhere po: while tolerated. ONLY RAMAPO WATER IS SOFT, Ramapo, which played for a time at being dead, is so} ¢ very much alive that it has followed Its recent victory at| aq Albany with a winning coup in the New York Board of} na Aldermen. A committee of that remarkable local body has reported against the proposition of asking for an q extra session of the Legislature to repeal the Smith i Dutchess County water bill. So the city, secking an ‘ enlarged reservoir source, is left with only the “grab” , territory on the west side of the Hudson open to its purpose. | Dutchess County water, the committee gravely {nsists, is too hard for city uses, anyway. relish over this bit of humor can be !magined. However| it may be with the Dutchess streams, the grabsters must ~'xeflect, New York Aldermen are assuredly soft enough © when an occasion suits. In the old copybooks, it was perseverance which con-|T» the Patior of "|| quered all obstacles. According to the books of the! and monopolies of nowadays, a modicum of} with practical politics ad lib., will dissolye| Trainmen imc at anything that gets in the way. Aye ees ys WR, ROGKEFELLER ON BLENDS. ox ‘essay written by John D. Rockefeller! ‘ by a Boston magazine. In it the writer expresses his sense of serene pleasure | hor back to a past “blended as it is with joys and Avo haga aaa ; _ ~Binee he took his pen in hand to turn out this com- 4 a 4 position, Mr. itockefeller's experience with things © “Plendod has widened appreciably. He has seen the huprs, “ ‘“ampitions, doflars und lives of pioneers in oll production ierged into the pitiless scheme of aggrandizement ca ‘ried out by a single overwhelming corporation, He hai Seen controlling interests in petroleum, copper, steel, ' great railroads and vast industries absorbed by a single seurrent of “high finance.” About the only things he has not‘seen coniing together are the joys of Steel Pre- ferred and the sorrows of Steel Common. That blending has not happened. There would be mighty interesting passages in a ‘eseay conveying frankly and fully Mr. Rockefeller’s latest recollections and ideas on the subject of blends. Vhe Ineffective Hand he ear wiich rushed "© down “Pitt street hill’ uncontrollable because of a broken brake was only a liorse car, a itght vehicle as compared with the modern trolley car. The accident was serious enough in Itself; but tt otherwise conveys warning by Indicating what may happen when one of cars snaps in an emergency. The retention ot obsolete hand brake is prompted by motives of which in the event of accident may prove to dn the extreme. se this sum for expenditure for ‘carriages, tadges, music, \, in the nature of wasteful extravangance to pass UN-| The things which undo her most ar *, a 1 . * if is the engineering work whose triumphant completion would furnish the best precaution available so long ag "| make) concessions that ‘her better jude: Ramapo's smild of| 7 the Eattor of the hand brakes which inadequately control the more! Mamber of Woman’s bove of Approbation and Sympathy. By 'Nixola Greeley-Smith. Dear Miss Greeley-Smith: Woman Is the yictim of small things. ifles destroy her, yet in the presence of overwhelming disaster she tx often untourhed, exhibiting the highest quali- ties of enduring courage Intense love of approbation and a erav ing for sympathy. W. F. G. ter on “Woman sent to this column bY A young man who lesoribed himaelf as single and twenty- fnir. does In ‘ontain the ex ition of much of he unhanpiness and Hsnster hy which ymen are over. taken. For love of bation and a craving for sympathy are the qualities which lead them oftenest.to fall In love unwisely It is doubtful if it Is ever wie for n woman to fall in love-in the phrase there sounds a portent of dle anter—and she who ts truly careful of her peace of mind will merely permit herself, upon occasion, to be fallen in very HIS extract from avery interesting it V e } Sure! my paras | GOIN’ TO BUY CRACKERS-AN Some TOR- 3 PE DOES-AN’ CS ain. Zz WORT VIN OS 2 HOME BELO8OOE00O0000660660 808660 OSOHO8 ‘Mary Jang and Her Tabby in Trouble Again. # # This Time It Is a Lawn-Hose that Helps Along the Disaster. Cad as * s a AN (rs with But se this Is a rather unsati« fying form of amusement most wom en will allow thelr besetting weak resaes—again the love of approbation and the craving for sympathy. and par Vicularly the craving for sympathy—to lure them into the more exhilarating pastime of falling in love. It is a woman's love of anprobatipn that prompts her to secure a man's In terest, her craving for sympathy that urges her to fan that interes into love, agd wo long as sho herself doren’t fall in love in the process, they prompt her to her advantage. In most love affairs, and in the mar riages which result from them, there fi & passiv id ain active participant, It In the custom to say that a man mar-| ries @ certain woman, that the woman| is married to a certain man, thus taking, it for granted that his is the active. hers the passive pose. But frequently A expression is not borne out by the facts, for oftener than not it 1s the woman who, after a long. aggressive, finally triumphant campaign, marries a man who is merely meekly, resignedly married to her, But {t 1s precisely the woman who Is net too much in love who can conduct 4 successful campaign of this kind. who knows that when she has mi ed the art of self-control she has also mastered that of controlling other people, particulurly men, But often in the very midst of an emotional crisis ® woman's craving for sympathy, for harmony, for peace, will cause her to ment would not uphold. If there Is anv disputed point that stands in the wav of her being loved and petted, even for an hour or so, by a man she loves, she is apt to vteld It. often at the expense of many uncomfortable hours to come purchases, It is her fondness for approbation that causes her to rouse the love which oftener than not ends by, engiaving her. and her craving for sympathy that keeps her enslaved. ‘There are, indeed some women on whom this craving for! sickness to health hecause of the com. miseration it excites, and who would rather have husbands who would black! thelr eyes provided they remorsofully bathed them afterward than good, ac ber. evervday citizens who would do! neither one nor the other. And 80 lone} An thin morbid tendency exists men and! events will ah. $ ei shape themselves to grati-| LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, One Year Is Customary Period, The Evening World How long ought a woman to wear mourning for her mother who died six weeks apart pean " can’t help runny pe & pretty girl gets Aboard with sne-Dong hat two feet in diameter aia six Inches of opera heels, at th me wa 710 pounds, with an elghteen- ‘alst. Is ita wonder tratnmen GUARD. or “Flancet To the Editor of The Evening W. Is it a young lady's place fokentleman friend for spending money | foolishly? Is tt right to correct. him or should she mind her own business? MISS EDNA, “Friena” ‘orld: to correct Presumptuous and rude d tate his expenditures,” If ty “sien You mean “Nance,” she Js justified in Advising him to economize. Winston © To the Editor of The Dv. ing World: A claima that there is no American author by the name of Winston Churchill, B claims there 13. A says that the book “Richard Carvel” was written by Winston Churchill, ay Eng- lishman, Who {8 right? = W. J. H Winston Churchill, who wrote “Rich- ard Carvel," 1s an American, Another | Winston Churchill, an Englishman, has {won fame as a war correspondent and i Parliament. The latter Churehill is a son of Lord Randoiph Churehill and of the latter's American wite, who was formerly Miss Jerome, of New York which that moment of self-satisfaction sympathy {a a0 strong that they prefer! { Tr he ts a mere acquaintance it is both | o $32356569 POOPING AGSSSIOHOOH4GG : [Some PIN- JANE! You . WHEELS— < GET A Good AN’-SOME FLOWER PoTS CAUSE IMA 4 GOOD GIRL An’ 5 MY PAPA Loves (ME SO MucH-J Now WATCH The CLOAK MODELS RESIGN fYou mary | FOURTH OF vuiy! of ast Hivou orc PURPOSE) The Schoolmarm Beautiful—A Chicago Must. # Probably the Public Schools There Won't Be Popular When Pulchritudinous Teachers Prevail. s ad s Y RESIGNATION, FAR, SHOPMAN. THEYRE ALL GOING BACK To SCHOOL Foor voor ar ine igure! * TO GRCOMR SChOOL-ma'amo! MAVENT A CHORUS GIRL LEFT, mp, WHEN THE CHORUS BEAUTIN® ALL BECOME Teacnens TURNED -DOWN APPLICANTS. 4 TRAINING” FOR A SCHOOL J08. MA TL STAY AFTER SCMeol AND PUT YOUR RUBRERS “They With Be GRADED ACCORDING TC “PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT NOW WE'LL HAVE THE SCHOOL-DOOR Jonnmies. A news despatch says that a physical beauty is the latest ordeal for teachers applying for positions in the public schools of Chicago. DEDHO-OOHO-4 @8OOOO9O4 PEIFHEDIGOSOHOLDEDHNGHOSIHOHOH O6.H90694960 CAUSE OF THE RELAPSE, "You say the thoughtless act of Mrs Stingyleig! ous relap: o Democrat, ame ? “Why, she came right into the sick- room arrayed in a very expensive spring | « hat and dress!"—New Orleans Times- IN DISGUISE “HOW IT LOOKED, Customer—But that umbrella looks so awfully oheap and common, the price IT WAS GREEK TO HIM. “See that colored man wrinkling his caused her husband a seri- over that book?" brow the Obto What did she do, in heav-| “yes, be can’t read !t at all.’ you ask for it is preposterous. Isn't eae “Just making a bluff chat he's edu-/ Dealer~My dear sir, that’s the beauty | “iyo, cated, eh? of that umbrella. It's really the very . 7 ta yy, but it's le to appear yh, no; he's educated, but that’s a| ¢ And coinmion 40 Grae noone would he dialect story,’ — Philadelphia fhe’ it worth stealing.—Palladelphia “What, is the title of it?” negro ‘Ledger, a Is the Public Responsible For the Slocum Disaster? ‘Bll. SBE," sald the Cigar Store Man, “that the 4 “| Coroner's Jury has found a lot of people re- sponsible for the Slocum disaster.” | “Tm no prophet,” replied the Man Higher Up, © | “g0 Vd hate to make a future book on what is going to happen to the men stung by the Coroner's Jury, bat itt was making an O'Leary book I'd make my longest pricé against about the real responsibility being planted. When it comes to a showdown, if the Grand Jury does the right thing, it will return an indictment against the great New York public “This is the most shiftless community in a great many ways that is, The majority of the people ride on the excursion boats, the passe cars and the tissue paper | roadbeds “Thay crowd themselves onto the borts, see the pul- | verized cork leaking through the life-preservers, and remark: ‘Wouldn't it be funny If there should happea to be a fire.’ With ull the playfulness of a lot of festive bulldogs they Jam themselves into the ‘L’ road cars held together by paint, and venture that it would be | quite an experience if the train should run off the track. When a fuse blows out on a surface car the passengers hurl themselves into the street, and some | time later confide to the surgeon in the hospftal that there is no place like little old New York. “We are all up against it—you and I, and even the wise editors whose whoops of condemnation asiinst the transportation facilities are tempered only by the dis tance they have to travel to heir offices.” “What are we going to do about it?” inquired the | Cigar Store Man. Nothing but what we have alw: done,” answered the Man Higher Up. “Teli each other how fierce it ts and then vote for perpetual franchis Pointed Paragraphs. It is unlucky to lose $13 on jay ny aman retains his friends by refusing them loans, rimony is the destroyer of many pleasant engages Even if a woman Is self-made she wants people to thi she Is tailor-made. ' A conceited woman dubs a man a woman-hater just be- cause he de t happen to admire her. A girl may be wise, but if she wants to marry she js foolish to appear more Intelilgent than the man she Is try | ing to induce to pay her board for Ilfe.—Chicago News. “Dr. Sawem Is to read a paper before Medical Association to-day, “I don't know exactly, but the words look like Russian war news."—Cleveland ‘Leader. Pliable Marble. Pliable marble 1s @ curiosity little known to the public. In the possession of Prince Borghese some time six labs of marble which could be bent at will, cullarity 1s belleved to be due to the effect of fire. placed on end they bend backward or forward; lald hor zontally and raised at one epd they curve; placed like a s saw on a block of other material the ends droop, They were excavated at Mondragon, near Naples, and have a grain lke Carrara marble, The British Museum nas a ® | similar slab, A “Sotnia.” “A Sotnia of Cossacks” has been Irequently mentioned in. the despatches from the Far East, and everybody perhaj does not know what a “sotnia’ Js, It 1s a term which hat a social as well as a military pplication, and among the Cossacks means what “hundred” in local government used) to stand for fin England For wer purposes the mounted: Cossacks are organized in ‘“polks'' or regiments of light! cavalry about 900 strong and formed usually of six “eotnins” | or squadrons. A Curfew Horn. A curlous old custom ts sald to be still kert up at the picturesque Wensleydale village of Baintiridge, England, where every winter's night at 9 o'clock a large hoi is, blown on the village green to aid any wayfarer who might! chance to be lost on the surrounding fells to find his way" to the village. The fine horn now in use was presented to the village some years ago and at one time «dorned the head of a huge African bull. The Japanese Wife. In Japan a well-bred woman does not go to the theatre until she {s old and passe, It has not been thought proper ® |for her to understand music, ® She spends most of her time at home attending to her chile dren, ®| Several writers have sald that In Japan a womnn does not >| marry for a husband, but to be an unpaid servant in his @ | family. The “Fudge” Idiotorial. IDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGE. A Fish Story and Our Circulation. You May Think There.ts No Cone] nection, but Read This {Copyret, 1904, by the Planst Pub. Ce.) for the - {|} swer to the question, ‘Why fs the Circulation of the Bven- | arg Padge so Vast We awarded the prize yesterday for the BEST rea- iljson that was sent in. NOBODY, however, discovered the REAL REASON which we now disclose: i Did you ever hear a FISH STORY ? Fishermen who G0 out to catch poor little innocent fisbes that never did Hj them any harm are proverbially known as reat liars, fj Oue audacious angler reterus from 2 day's so-called Sport and says he caught 235 fishes, while another equally audacious, but with a livelier acquaintance with dream books, claims 427 as the result of his day’s mur- derous work. This sad process of EXAGGERATION has reached | % such a stage that at a meeting of the United States Eish. | Multiplying Liars It was decided that in future each mem- ber shall be allowed to multipy the number of fish he actually catches only by the aumber of ounces the fish or | fishes welghed. i Now for the EVENING FUDGE'S CIRCULATION. We have adopted the same rule. WE MULTIPLY the num- ber of copies of cach edition we print by the NUMBER of Hy ths edition, which will be found in the right-hand top i] corner. Thus 10,000 coples of the Tenth Edition means b] 2 circulation of 100,000. By this means whenever our REAL circulation de- creases we can casily raise our. APPARENT circulation by Jumping the number of our edition as far alead as we Hy of 987,654,321 readers wants to} know who has won same months ago