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= ‘aad Z | BULY. 13, 1904, cP 4 Te Che World Published by ihe Preve Publishing Company, No. 6) to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter, VOLUME 43... teseNO, 18,688, THE RAILROAD JUGGERNAUT. The figures of the anrfual report on the operations! of American railways present impressive totals of | national prosperity, Footings which run into the billions become difficult of ready comprehension even) }é by minds familiarized with the gigantic enterprises of a billion-dollar country. But it is in the tens of thousands that the most formidable exhibit is made—the exhibit of the maimed! and mangled and dead. A total of 86,393 injuries in- flicted, of which 9,840 were fatal! A city the size of ‘albany sacrificed every year to human carelessness -or mechanical defect! A city the size of Newark doomed every three years, a metropolis like Boston every six years! Managers may point with pride to the few pas- RA Word to the Gadabout Girl. By were Nixola Greeley-Smith. ; — seem 10 be tern girl the vther day, “except sit around and show nye New York ed a young oft clothes like #9 any lay figures ow, if a girl wants be popular in California: she bas be on the go al the time. She must dance, sing, walk play golf, or it doesn’t matter much what, so long as she ts doing something. At home any girl I've met ama here would be considered ‘ $6-0-9-96-66-65-0056-6-664546650000 ride . In presenting this long Iliad of @ complatht the Weatern visitor was un sengers killed—one out of every 2,000,000. Yet for very 10,000 passengers carried and for every thow sand cars of freight moved somebody—passenger or employee or “trespasser”—was killed or maimed. The pafety ratio is not one to grow enthusiastic over, It {s profitable to think of this frightful casualty list *twhile the comparatively small contribution to next j year’s totals made by the Erie at Midvale is fresh in {mind, Admitting the excusability of accidents which tare beyond the power of human prevention, accidents avert which the best human foresight is impotent, how few and infrequent they are to be reckoned by with the great preponderance of those which a loitering flagman, an incautious engineer, de- fective signal apparatus or antiquated rolling stock is Whargeable! ‘Accidents of this character furnish a grave Indict- ‘ment of American methods of haste and carelessness, of incompetency higher up, of criminal economies of operation at the expense of the public safety, They loom up behind the billion tons of freight carried and the twelve billions of dollars of capital invested as far and away the most impressive fact in the official Teport. LESSONS TAKEN TO HEART. It is gocd to note that as a result of the automobile aceident at Van Cortlandt Station the abolition of the dangerous grade crossing thera {s recommended by the State Board of Railway Commissioners, Tho gain Is not much and it has cost a human life to procure It, Dut the incident will serve as showing that a fatal Object lesson has not been entirely profitless Out of all the momentous casuaities of recent years Fome definite good has come. The Windeor fire added to the city's fire-escapes—even Uncle Sam put one on the Appraiser's stores. The Darlington collapse, though its lesson was only partly applied, hastened the passage ot an ordinance giving the Bullding Department larger powers of control. The Iroquols fire provided better safeguards for local theatres, The Harlem tunnel col- Usion blazed the way for an improved terminal, The Slocum tragedy has added a reasonable degree of security where \t was previously lacking. To estimate the improvements effected alongside the column of the dead {s to observe that the consequent reforms are overbalanced by the high price paid for them. But at least the victims of scamped bullding| construction and of graft and greed in other forms have not died wholly in vain. The city learns when the lesson is sufficiently emphatic. @leyele and Aut jov, La Follette’s plan of! using an automobile to carry him about the country tn the coming campaign in Wisconsin, and the prospect that the bleycle paths on the new Wilamaburg Bricge will be abandoned to other uses are significant of tn- When the bridge was in the pre- Uminary plan et the wheel was at its hi t pitch @f popularity. The brief interval has seen its decline | ard the usefulness of {ts rival accentuated by th projectdd employment of it by a candidate in preference to the forse and saddiebags of earlier impaigns. SUNDAY AND THE SAFETY VALVE, Twelve young men who are under Magistrate Tighe'’s holding for examination on a charge of violating the Sunday law by playing baseball have the very present comfort of knowing that the preliminary judge is not nd,” said the Magistrate when the young men were arraigned, “ls the safety valve of the city, in that it draws the people away from the thickly con- gested sections and finds for them something to do that breaks up possibly vicious tendencies, and [ regard Sunday basebali in the same light) Young men who tre full of life need a legitimate channel to turn to, an 1} that is supplied by the baseball games.” | A preacher was the complainant against the twelve There is no reason to doubt the motives from whi | entered into the case. He is conscientious a | to his views. | But it is just a little strange, in the light of modern city conditions, that he cannot see how mischievously | even for his own cause he |s trying to sit on the safer valve, THE TROLLEY “BLOW OUT," A controller box on a crowded North Bergen trolley car having “blown out” with the usual result of ' ® panic among the passengers and the removal ot ®everal of them to the hospital, seriously injured, the officials make the now familiar statement that passengers were in no danger and would not have Burt if they had noi lost their heads.” The three who fainted when the controller pox | Myrtle avenue car blew out on Monday wera thes. ly “in no danger.’ But self-control in the face of bdlinding flashes of i, # burning front platform and tha clang of engines Ws not within the capacity of the system. Some day the passenger's be educated up to the point of self-restraint ‘ cles of this nature; and it may be t Jessons offered for the acquirement om ure becoming numerous, arrives why not an escape turrent which wi)l not terrify Y unequal to ae Seppe 1% tS consclously paying the New York girl a @ very high compliment, and one which | nid, in passing, she does not| nin our very midst dw restless, feverish, excltement-seeking young person of whom the Western! 2 complainant was a type. The rarest woman on earth ts she who con be happy keeping atill, saying noth. ing and doing nothing except making) 4 herself and those about her thoroughly| ‘ comfortable. ‘To keep still and hold another's In-| « terest {9 the hardest thing on earth to} 4 do Any stage manager will teil you) 4, that thera are a hundred actors or ac- tresses who can tear up and down the stage and rant acceptably to one who] 4 can do nothing well enough to hold his| « audience, When for any reason a strained sit- uation arses between two or more per- sons, what Is the Immediate impulse of each? Ie it not to vegin to talk rap-| ( idly and at haphasard, as though seek-| ® ing to drown thetr discomfort tn a flood of words? Uniess people are thoroughly com fortable they cannot keep thelr tongue] 3 or Uelr bedies still, And when they do, it is a preity good sign that they are comfortable, ‘The woman who must always be doing something, who spends every afternoon shopping or looking for flate—this is a favorite amusement of, the gadabout New York woman, no matter how comfortably and perma nently she may be houted—and every evening calling or at the theatre, ts a bore to herself and a nuisance to her friends. She su from the fact that . rs b she has no mental resources of her own, | @. but 18 humlilatingly dependent on thowe| 4 of other people. There are actually $ women who are miserably unbappy it| 4 they remain alone for any length of| 4 time, absolutely without cause and| @ purely and simply because they have| ® never learned to be sufficient unto| themselves P These are the women who ory them- selves nick if their husbands by any chance atay downtown Inte once in a while. ‘Dhoir grief is not particularly | 4 limentary to th ds. It mere dleates that without the usual oc cupation of showing him In the evening what they a@pent his money for in the |“ afternoon and telling him what the row over the prizes at the euchre was really about they cannot find « subatitute di- version at prt notice One's mental independence ts some- thing that should be sedulously cultt vated and never surrendered Teach me. only teach love Ae | ought Twill speak my speech, love Think thy thought, won't do, Though you are the most devoted, afte nate of wives, you ould do ing of the kind. For] 4 if you do, you will have no speech and no thoughts to Interest you in the many hours that you spend alone. A man! marries a sensible, independent hu man being, and he ts usually much obliged to her if she remains one tn-| stead of becoming @ mere feeble, bratn- leas acho of himself 4 It ts this woman who has physical =2 seek in gadding about from shop t theatre to find Interests and sures that a better-balanced mind might dis cover In her own home The woman who not keep a! not read, and so misses the greates most unfailing pleasure on earth, ——— LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_->— Masimitia Faceution. ¢ Editor of The Evening World Which New York papers were in ex | | | | stence at the thme that Maximilian Was shot in Mexico} Where can I ge papers telling anything of the incidents and after his death? ps MAX D. K | Several New York newspapers were | Max ans de Jtewat 410 Suctety, 2 way, ing World ompel an unectup. wages “Schoolboy” va « To the Fulltor of The Evening World If “British Isles inks his “dog and rabbit problem" a diflcult one to solve he has underestimated American come mon sense. H would take to ca 1 feet behind the rab | 100 feat diminishing the bet ween them by one-half, Any schoolboy would ‘toll at a glance that the dog would ne catch the rabbit, even if ou friend hadn't told ws in the b that “there is no ‘catch’ tn it problem may be catchy for Englishmen, but come again, “British Isles,” with something harder If you wish to make us Americana think, AN AMERICAN 8CHOOLBOY, e South Norwalk, C Dee. 50, 1902, ‘To the Béitor of The Evening World What was the date of the Iroquois Theatre fire? ‘VM. B. =— A in every AN DANAIAADARAAAAODMABOTEDEEET ETE TES The GOO o wears THERE {it’s tne ; | I {cooxoyamal) } i GOOKOUDATE. AW~- YOURE FOotisn-imat %q \ (89 bo 15 —~ =, (uy ad { SELL TICKETS, AND 'VE THE PEOPLE G TA SEE THE % % 4 THE USE OF TAKING PORT ARTHUR -AWAY OFF IM THE WOODS WHERE } NOBODY CAN SEE YOU TAKE Now THE PROPER ~~ LTHING FoR YOU . Pf Cy » HANCE TO Lshow | Im-A f Go0K!-0GO0 Us 4 GEE viTsU: \ IM Gook!- The Two Cons Waste Their Wiles on a Seaside Belle. al ad al ead WE WERE ThE CHAMPION GEOLOGISTS hae Fl > 7 a OF IME | Tis THE Vea LOLL spay vor) FOSSILAQIUS AGE _/ |Ho TAIRUS 4 POOEOE A PEREEAA EE DEE EEE OETIEDEE FEEIEENEE EEE EOD OE EEMEEER EEE WHaT Ro [is $300040440004- “You Jub, grounds are beautiful; the golf links superb. elsewhere. the first thing that etrik: ao00 AIM, | must Visit oUF new country | sald the suburbanite. “The | proposal You won't find such scenery On entering the grounds NOW THEY DON'T SPEAK. Fdyth—You had better took out for a | from Percy Featherbrain, Mayme-Why, bas he said anything lo indicate his preference for met Edyth—Oh, no; but he proposed to me as your eye’ =) Inst night, and wheh I refused him he|in the following words; ¢ Ly 9 {" interrupted "& Goll Pelll"'~Philadeighla Press, "LITTLE JACK’S PRAYER. Five-vear-old Jack is very brave In the daytime, but an awful coward when it i dark, The other night after hay- ing prayed for all his relatives he mournfully coneluded his supplication “# THE # EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. # iT OVER TO CONEY, LANO> PUT iT UP INS? LUNA Bf They Were Getting Along Finely in a Scientific Way Until They Undertook to Know Too Much, EAGLE EA REDERD BAD D4DEEEEEEE IEEE DO9199 94000004 100046 6804400002008 K Advises the Japanese War Impresarios.' He Tells Them They Ought Not to Capture Port Arthur Anywhere Except at Luna Park, eS » . 4 * > > DEPP STE SESS GPTS ISDST ODES IODDSG EGO OSS HPSPHSHSIODL DD Its all gone, don’t let anything burt him; please don’t let anything get jing his tone to a very t one, he sald: her about him in How Old Is the Earth? Has This Planet of Ours Endured for 6,000 or Over 300,000,000 Yeara? OW long has toe earth been a planet capable of euge iH porting not only human but all forme of life? In an address Lord Kelvin once dell subject he gathered together the opinions of v tile men, which cannot but be of interest to every thinking being, Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” stated that “i I probability a far longer period than 900,000,000 years ha@ elapsed,” Lord Kelvin made an attempt to calculate the length of time during which the sun has been burnini its present rate, and in that connection he wrote: ‘It seams, on the whole, most probable that the sun has not filuminated thi earth for 100,000,000 years, and almost certain that it ha not done so for 600,000,000 years. As for the future, we may say with equal certainty that the Inhabitants of the eart) cannot continue to enjoy the Nght and heat essential tr thetr life for many millions years longer, unless new sources how unknown to us, are prepared in the great storehouse o creation,” As an example of the extraordinary range of time given to the age of the earth, says John A. Howland, In the Chie cago Tribune, consider the following statement from Prof, Juke's Students’ Manual of Geology.” He wrote: “Mr Darwin estimates the time required for the denudation of | the rocks of the Weald of Kent, or the erosion of space bee tween the ranges of chalk tells, known as the North ang South Downa, at three hundred millions of years. It may ‘be possible, perhaps, that the estimate is a hundred time too great, and that the real time elapsed did not exceed thret | million years, but, on the other hand, it is just as likely that the time which actually elapsed aince the first com mencement of the erosion till it was nearly as complete a4 it now ts, was really a 0 times greater than his om timate, or 300,000,000 of years. The loss of heat by conductlon was Lord Kelvin's firet argument for limiting the age of the earth. He found thal {f the earth haf been losing heat {n the past “with any ap proach to unfformity for 20,000,000 years, the amount @ heat lost out of the earth would have been about as much as would heat, by 10 deg. C., a quantity of ordinary sur face rock of 100 times the earth's bulk, This would be more than enough to melt a mass of surface rock equal in bull to the whole earth. No hypothesis as to chemical action, Internal fluidity, effects of pressure at great depth, or pow sible character of substances in the interior of the earth, possessing the smaliest vestige of probabillty, can justify the supposition that the earth's upper crust remained nearly as it {s, while from the whole, or from any part, ef the earth so great a quantity of heat has been lost.” Ry considering the cooling of the earth and by traciag backward the process of cooling, Lord Kelvin came to "® definite estimate of the greatest and least number of million years which can possibly have passed since the surface of the earth was everywhere red-hot.” This estimate he ex- pressed in the following words ‘We are ignorant as to the effects of high temperatures in altering the conductivities and specific heats and melting temperatures of rocks, and as to their latent heat of fusion. We must, therefore, allow wide Umits in such an estimate an I have attempted to make; but I think we may, with much probability, say that the consolidation cannot have taken pl less than 20,000,000 years ago, or we should now have more underground heat than we actually have: nor more than 400,000,000 years ago, or we should now haw less underground heat than we actually have.” A Frost-Killer. M. Bignon has recently addressed to the French National Soclety of Agriculture a note giving interesting information on the eMcacy of artificial clouds in preventing late frosts. For many years he has successfully practised this, His vineyard thus protected covers about fifteen acres and ie divided Into five parts, separated from east to west by walks 18 to 15 feet wide and circled by an avenue of equal width. These walks facilitate the placing of the fires, which are bullt in a small basin sunk into the earth and filled with fifteen or twenty pounds of resinous er and some pieces of pine and other vegetable debris, The basins are some &@ feet apart. A , The Fate of the Retvizan. (The Russian battle-ship Retvizan {s, for the fourth tima, re ported sunk.—News Item.) The Russian man-o'-war'’s man spake, and thus his tale began: “Hark ye, landlubbeerviches all, to the chant of the } Retvisao: “'Twas on the good ship Retvizan. I was assistant bunker, In Yalu Bay, on the war's first day, « Jap torpedo gunk her. Next morn @ feet rode on our lee, The cannonade be gan; And, it 00 befell, a ten-inch shell blew up the Retvisaa, “For near a week thereafter she withstood attempts to shock heer, Till a mine one day fanned her away to Davy Jones's locker, Long time thenceforward Retvisan was Terror of the Beas, Till in confilet hot a solld shot sank her with painful ease, Ah! Nobly'did the Retvizan show forth the White Csar's power! (The only ship afloat that could be sunk three times an hour!) She swept the foe from off the seas as fast as she could spot ‘em, And then, as though to dodge applause, sank coyly to | the bottom.” Cull these two morals from the tale of Retvisan's re. nown: What gots down must come up,” and you “can't keep & good ship down.” APT, The “Fudge” Idiotortal, PioloTORIAL, PAGE oF THE EVENING FUOGE To ee an WHE egstsis riizd ae rf gs z 8 dibs HE suesteaed aut 3 v a