The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1904, Page 10

Pe , i jPettmned by the Press Publishing Company, No. @ to @ York Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ‘at New York as Becond-Class Mall Matter, Fat A? Neder eaters! sn lead teal PP VOLUME ABsccss.sscsseeesenesNO. 18,668, BE seereunae Sycereet es evscseseons Nae OCS HAPPY-GO-LUCKY RAILROADING, r The engineer of the locomotive which caused the) wreck on the Erle at Midvale puts the blame on the signal operator. The operator charges it to the defec- tive apparatus, which he says failed to register his signal. The circumstances of the “accident” locate the responsibility in other quarters also, Some of it must be shared by the train crew of the “special” because ot their lack of promptness in flagging the second train. Some of it must be borne by the engineer if he was aware that the crowded “special” was just ahead of him; in the circumstances full speed around the curve meant grave risk of collision, If he was not aware of it, by what oversight of “orders” was he left in ignorance of his danger? There is blame enough to go around. The un- fortunate thing is that it appears to be so widely dis- tributed as to make its exact location a matter of! doubt. Yet if every employee it touches had done his entire duty the disaster could have been averted. But beyond and above the laxity of train operation revealed in the negligence of the trainmen, what of the shortcomings of the system of which it was the outgrowth? It is here that the larger responsibility must lie. The lower officials of a railroad are what their superiors are. The lack of discipline which leads a flagman to loiter, or an engineer to “take a chance,” or allows a signal to remain out of repair, has its Source in the executive offices of a road, Is it because these offices are so “high up” that *oroners so rarely look in that direction? THE COUNTY JAIL CHARGES. The suspicion of favoritism and of the extension of epecial privileges to prisoners prepared to pay well for them which has attached to Ludlow Street Jail is given substance by the specie charges made agetnst that Institution by Dr. A. C. Valadier. He alleges the preva- jence of a form of extortion through which prisoners are “constantly bled by those in authority over them.” It should be to the interest of the warden to have the ebarges formally disproved ~ Re will be to the public's interest to have an investiga- tion of the complainant's further allegations of the ex- tstence about the jail of “sharks who prey upon ignorant foreigners imprisoned for naturalization frauds.” These charges lose none of their Importance when considered iu connection with tye ove.rional disclosures of abuses Of Htigation in east side courts, Thiy Imp)y objection. able practices ov: the y=rt of “hengers-on" wih a “pull” who are Indulled tr a lics.se vhich Is a distinet misuse ©. legal privilege. It wi', 4o no directly to the ctty’s advantage to “turn the IHght on” Nere. AT +L MMER'S WORK AND PLAY, For something like 25,000 children of New York, : “school” {8 a very pleasayt word, to-day. These thov- gands are registered for the season which began yestars | day at the elty’s vacation schools and playgrounds, and the mingling of just enough work with just enough play! ds producing anything but duiness among them Little basket-makers, little carpenters, little milliners,| ilttle cooks, little tronworkers—these and the other little artisans of the summer schools may be very busy in their classes at the moment these lines are written. In another moment they will be equally busy at romping. But all the time they will be the little folk who are to ba lsot of the handlebars. arm and may bel {do not and never will take any pro Will Woman Revive the Wheel? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. SYSTEMATIC A effort ie being made to revive the wheel. In Au- Fust & great Doyle) Hy parade will iaxe| place on the Brook: lyn cycle path, and it 9 hoped by on- thuslaste of the bi- cyole thas publio in terest in mas @ pleasure —vebicle, which has ceased a! together in the last few years, may be renewed. In considering the possible revival of) the bicycle it ts interesting to not what killed &, or rather, who Riiled {t for tt was undoubtedly to woman, who first took it up with the wholeeouled ardor she devotes to anything new, aod then dropped {t an she does all the inanimate victima ot her sudden enthus- ‘aera that it owes ite complete down fall, In the early and middle nineties the bicycle girl relgned, In the parks, at the beach, tm» mown- tain paths and sequestered valleys, one saw her spinning merrily along on her new steed or trundiing and puffing up DM with a hot and trritated clutch She was here, she was there, she was everywhere. She was It And now what {9 she? A mere dim, bloomered or short irted phantom of the dead past, a thing as extinot as the dodo, the chorus amazon or 16 to 1 Woman tired of the bicyole even as she had loved it And what was the n ? It perished from the earth. It wes and it was not, even ag she fur rowed her pretty brows in thinking how she might save on the housekeep: Ing axpenses to get one or eagerly con- ducted the junkman down cellar to sell it for the price of @ new hat. To be sure, as @ useful and cheap method of covering short distances, the bleyele still survives But only among men. There are no more trim, white shirt-walsted figuree on the cycle paths, or at least they have become #0 rare as to exolt instant comment from the passerby, For the ratio of the feminine to the masculine cyclist nowadays 18 a one to Atty WHI the fatthtul few who atili cling to the wheel as a means of recreation be able to change all this? They will) have to get the women interested if they do Sports may exist and flourish in which women take no Intereat, but the mo- ment she lays her hand, even in the way of kindness, on oroquet mallet, handle-bar, golf atlek or squash racket, , nt of pleasure, it is) | i t savor. What since the begihnin man’s perennial int politics? of time has | « 7 Init not) 4 ot taken, found interest In politios, and therefore have never made and then killed a party, @ candidate or a campaign tsaue | % by their enthusiasm and subsequent lage itude ‘ Man may not be fust, but he ts car- | 4 tainly wive in denying woman the bul For onoe in her hands she would, 3 make of polities the dearest inter moulded {nto the ruling folk of the next generation. i a the dent Sand: ak Gaads ext of her soul the firs an amuae- ‘What the city spends on thelr character-forming and) ii.q: pasable enough the aeoond year health-forming to-day will come back in returns of good! and a thing unspaykable as last soa eltizenshiv to-morrow , Let we hear never agair such a proposal as that of a) few months agu, te sacrifice the vacation schools to! official spite masqr rading as “economy.” PASSING OF THE TOOTHPICK, The order of the Washington chief of police direst- ing patrolmen to discontinue the use of toothpicks in public ts interesting as marking the alvance made by the nation in the refinement of personal habits, | The American whom Dickens saw ejecting tohacco dulce at a target and chewing toothpicks on the front] steps of populer hotels has passed with a previous) feneration. The present knows him not, or netes him] when found as a curious survival. Yet within the memory of men not old he was a numerous figure in)? front of the Fifth Avenno or the old St. Nicholas, some-! times with a toothpick of gold, which singled him out as an exquisite. Are gold toothpicks manufactured nowadays? | The passing of the toothpick has been accompanied by a stricter attention to the niceties of personal deport-| ment, which may he part of that “feminization” which) our Mosely inquisitors observed, but which at least |s making us a more refined and fastidious people We gre far less slovenly than we were a generation ago,| more regardful of the minor proprieties of the toilet,| taking greater pains to keep the nails clean and the collar as well, the shoes blacked, the halr cut, the} trousers pressed and the necktle fresh. The advent of the manicure was symptomatic of this progress in yersona! neatnese, It is an improving change which another Dickens Should make an “American note” of. THE TROLLEYS OF STATEN ISLAND, The city may reform the Staten Island ferry service, but who shall reform the Staten Island trolleys? ‘That is the query suggested naturally by The Even- fg World's story of the two lines that pull together!‘ for everything except their employees and thelr pubtie. The same control, same pay-office window, same tracks for wnsidegrable distances, same shed at St George, same way of refusing transfers from car of one| ‘Mine to car of other Iine. These are matters of company | eonduct which induce reflection on the part of regular Former employees allege that they were discharged t forming a union. Also, to make way for cheaper i the presence of green motormen, one of whom | To the may Last week's crash of cars at New Brighton re-| s bonnet or popular song the yeur Jeffermonian Demoorate and roek- ribbed Republicans should therefore) clove thelr ears to the siren songs of the! °° fragist so long as they prefer ve thelr politics a Ive {xsue rather than @ dead fad, even as the wheel, the pingpong ball and Omar Khayyam. ——- LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_—— 19 and the Slocum Disaster, the Editor of The Evening World The number 12 was fateful in the Blo-| 4 cum disaster. The week In which it oc- irred began on June 13; the boat was 13 years old; there are 13 letters tn its name, General Slocum; 13 lettera in the| | name of her sister ship, Grand Republic 3 lecters in the name of the company Knickerbocker; 13 letters in the name of Prosident Frank A. Barnaby; there was If in one party of relaives and all 13 perished BF. 8 Apply to Park Commisatoner, the Editor of The Evening World Where may I obtain park privileges of any kind? CHG Origin of the Indians, To the Biter of The Evening World Where did the first North American Indians come trom? AR Their origin ts unknown. They are thought by some to be descendants of one or more of the ten “lost tribes” of Israel ‘The Two-Fare Riot. {The Bvening World: read of the ehameful scenes on kiyn trolley lines, when people ' hot paying two fares. seracetul Deyond ex f. Do wa live In a clvi- ’ JM. G. Richmond Hin. To the Editor of The Evening World Would it be right +: it the address, “Richmond Hill, New York & visiting card, now the Richmond Hil! it for granted” that a red light was a danger by mistake. nae business of anybody who ean do eee len or “Richmond Hi oe | 4 Either “Richmond Hill, New York correct. Monk Eastman tostified tha’ he was born at Richmond Mul, LT insist. TAKE MOTHER To THE CONVENTION ANO J WiLL WASH Mary Jane and Her Tabby Display Genius. # # & They Invent a Home ‘Shoot the Chutes” and the Old Folks Get Shot! eo Se (Rae IN¢AW IS Just ae Goon AS HE CAM BE~ AT TIMES = Nh AU — A Genuine Helpmate. MARTHA, THIS 16 SUCH A SWEET DAY, SO CooL, So CALM SO BRIGHT! HOW IT LIFTS THE SPIRITS A CAUSES THEM WW 7 ~e Hill te included In Great York? | potetatoiatateteteicteieininielsteetel-lei-i-: Did Monk Eastman originally eome r from Richmond Hill? F.C, PA'S EXPERIENCE, Little Willle-Say, pa, what Is the gf intuition Intuition, my son is that whieh your mother she is right whevner te of not—fbicago News, via year? ” etly where tt is. ca in my cagtle ia Tribus JOY OF NON-EXISTENCE. The sea serpent warbled with glee, “TP Maly tated cece ways kicked the hardest by ri a ‘eile, Pr I MIC tnaieted | S“nPalladaipbia Publlo Ledges, Washington stan, DECEPTIVE. es will often We you, as a rule, ou going & Ord Have you oe a4, mond, sapphire, emerald, pearl, ¢urquolse, amethyst, aqua- marine, tourmaline, coral, laple-lemuli and all varieties agate, Pestle shoul be Worn as.much as possible cases they aremot only liable to | but to “dle’ altogether, axoepti Wear Birthstones for Luck. What the Various Jewels Are Saidto Accomplish-for Their: Devotees. ‘ OMB years ago ithe diamond renked first among pre cious stones, but of fate it bas been superseded by the Jewelers classify geme in valueses follows: Ruby, dis- owners, since when locked up for any thetr Those who in warm July are born; Thos will they be exempt and free From love's doubts and anxiety, AUGUST, Wear a eardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. ‘The August born, without this tone, ‘Tis eald: must live unloved alona, SEPTEMBER, & maiden born when Autunm’s leaves Are rustling in Beptember’s breese, A sapphire on her brow should bind; ‘Twill cure diseases of the mind. OCTOBER. October's child 1s born of woe, ' And life's viclasitudes must know; But lay an opal on her breast And hope»will lull the foes to rest, U NOVEMBER. ‘Who first came to the world below With dull November's fogs and snow, Should prize the topas's amber hue, Emblem of.friends and lovers true, DECEMBER, If cola December gave you birth, ' ‘The month of snow and ice and mirth, 1 Place on your hand a turquols blue Buccess will bless you if you do, Quick Mail Service, ‘The Italian postal authorities have examined « scheme submitted by an engineer for the establishment of an ele trie postal service. It 1s proposed to transmit letters in aluminum boxes, travelling along overhead wires at the’ » | rate of 400 kilometres an hour, A letter could thus be sent from Rome to Naples in twenty-five minutes and from Rome to Paris in five hours. The Gnawing Habit. ‘The number of fellow-creatures, young and old, who feet impelled to gnaw something 1s much larger than te generally supposed, The chronio nall-biter {s well known, but there 4 are others who either through depraved taste or psyehle » | disease gnaw wood, fur, cloth, &o,, to the great detriment o@ thelr health, 4 The “Fudge” Idiotorlal,