The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1904, Page 8

by the Press Publishing Company, No, to @ Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Seeond-Clase Mall Matter, NO. i Every hour of delay in reaching: settlement/of the Aizpute between the packing-house: operators and their king employees has been at the-direct expense of the | public and for that reason the more reprehensible and A strike ur lockout which tends to increase the price ‘of a commodity of general consumptionsis {n effect | @erime against the public, the real sufferer. What the | “Felative responsibility of the two parties to this dispute| De is not eo important os the complicity of each) postponing and thwarting the adoption of a working “@greement pending: the equitable adjustment of tho at issue, The plain fact which.confronts the Ider is the unreasonably and unnecessarily Bigher price cf meat, He simply knows that those who F Rave brought about this condition are infiicting @ | grievous wrong on him. * Employer and employee have both been reported from the beginning of the strike as “willing:to make overtures.” Why were the overtures so long delayed? Arbitration was as readily possible on the day the men} Went out as It is now. The delay in adopting it is not} ' greditable, and apparently least eo, In tho circumstances, y to the masters of the monopoly which has at no time held the public interest {n regard. - RAPID.TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT, | © The assignment of a definite and near date for the @pening of the subway |e good news to millions. Neverthelcss their rejoicing at the approaching com- © pletion of this gigantic engineering work is modified, if Mot fully discounted, by their growing realization that ‘vast as it is it is but a first link in a system of under- intercommunication which will at no distant Gay unite the entire metropolitan community from the Oranges to New Rochvlle and from Flatbush to Yonkers #m close bonds of fast transit. What was yesterday a ‘Marvel is to-day a familiar thing. The great achieve- ment of building this ploneer enterprise of extended ; ‘ound transit has already before its completion ) become an old story of which the main interest now Mes in the chapters yet to come. Another four years should see tho three North River tunnels finished and in operation, each tapping & con- | gested centre in Manhattan; a new subway up the east side; a subway loop giving the lower city easier access to Brooklyn Bridge; Brooklyn itself brought mearer by two additional bridges and the Battery ex. tension of the subway; a fast electric road through the to the Connecticut line; subway and elevated express trains to Yonkers and a belt line, the franchise ‘of one section of which has already been asked for, iteulting the greater city and tncluding Staten Island. What this will mean for future civic expanalon Is self-evident, What it will mean as a stimulus to suburban development may be appreciated from the “prarly-realized boon to the Westchester commuter of five minutes from the City Hall to the (rand Central Station. Now York has heretofore lagged behind her sister cities in providing citizens with modernized “methods of transit. She is now to make amends by furnishing them with a estem nurpassing all others in a facilities and containing splendid possibilities ithproved “ ‘speed and comfort which a few years ago seemed the 4 ya of visiouari EXPLANATIONS DON'T ABOLISH, * Gov. Odell vetoed the bill appropriating the State's Share for grade crossing abolition work, That is the excuse given for the continuance of the Van Cortlandt} Park danger point where the Noakes automobile met fatal disaster, Long Island has Its quota of the State money—ac- tording to Railruad Commisstoner Baker—but localities abject to tampering with fine roads like the Merrick. Clergyman. By : THE PUBLIC AND THE BEEF STRIKE. |Nixola Greeley-Smith. 3 (a {388 BOWNE may go mad; Pastor Cordova ts happy.” So the brief head- lines of yesterday summarized the re- sult of the sonmid tragedy of New) has been ocoupying public attention for the last few months. The young girl, md jured from her fam- ‘ly by a married man old enough to be her father, who used his sway asa spiritual adviser for corrupt and debasing ends, alte brood Ing in the shuttered ailence of her home, to which base, cowardly deser tlon forced her to return, and her friends fear that she will lose her reason The shepherd of souls, her partner in gullt, has rejoined the family he de- serted. There ts talk among his con- aregation of his reinstatement, and it Is said the women of his congregation are inclined to regard him as more sinned . st than ¢inning. Their forgiveness Is bi ‘on the card which the clergy man published in his own defense sever. al days ago, This card was undoubted ly the moat foolish, feeble, hypocritical and shameless document which has ever found ite way into print. And judged by it alone, Its author must be accounted the one thing worse than a moral cow- ard—which is an tmmoral coward. ‘The reformed sinner makes the best paint, end the saint who has flung away hie eaintship the most reckless and abandoned sinner, Baudelaire and Verlaine, chiefs among French decadents, m their Ives and in the work which survives them, tHlustrated the chamelion quality of this strange sentiment, one moment steeped In vice and celebrating It In unprintable song. the next plunged in religious evstacy which found expression In the most beautiful and exalted hymns to the Virgin Mary. Pvory clergyman no matter lgnorant—and, judged from hie published manifesto, the Nev. Mr. Cordova i the most tno rant of hie idnd—knows this, If he has not read it, his daly experience soon teaches it to him It is easy for any man over thirty five to hire an inexperienced girl Into u love affiar, the end of wihieh neither of them foresees, And the leas expe reneed, the more innocent the gir the easier it Ia. If a girl ts of the dreamy religions temperament, she is the more apt t be subject 9 masculine influence, anc In the cas ( Julla Rowne both of these influences were brought to bear. It may be diMeult for & woman nut af the temperament to understand how & girl could become infatuated with the Reverend Cordova, to realise how he got over being grateful to one wo. man for having him soon enough ¢ enable him to tempt hie luck with an other. George Kllot, perhaps ¢ wisest womap that ever lived, that there were three sexes. mon, we men and clergyme, and | am not tn- clined to quarrel with her dictum, Bu It Is precisely to the dreamy religious probably nerasthenle — temperamen that thie third sex would appeal, ‘The most hardened graduate of up per Broadway would struggle agains the commission of as base an act as nd Cordova first commita Agaravates by a baser denial He might do it cartainiy, our If he did, he would take the consequences Mike a man and not cower behin That is the plea brought out by the Rockville Centra &ittomobile wreck of Wednesday evening. i “Explanations are interesting, but they do not restore 3 Wletima of slaughter, eorrect evils. . | New York, as a consolidated clty, has more than thirty grade crossings; on the Long Island Rallroad’ there are wtated to be 819, of which 500 are unprotected. | Every fata! accident at one of theae crossings is a preventable catastrophe. How long must the list of billings grow before the responsthility shall grow so! | hoary that we shall cease to be satisfled with vain Tepetitions of explanation and regret? THE CONEY ISLAND BATHS GO OVER. There are to be no public bathe at Coney Island this cgeson. In the wisdom of the Board of Estimate and Appor- tlonment, which very often jt 1s not the privilege of mere interested citizens to understand, the project soos | Over for a year. } Postponement followed a rambling discussion in Which there were traces of a desire to find some valid ) Yeason for the coming action, Park Commisstoner Kennedy's soul was stirred by fear that the bath-| would not stand. And this was but an echo of ler Grout's objections. ) President Littleton fought nobly. “T Intended,” sald with force, “to put up a building thet would r 4 “But where,” asked the Mayor, in effect, “would the . old men and women sit {f we should fill up the y with the bath house?” ) That was about all. Sometimes {t seems that the thus revealed in debate should. by charter amend- be known ts the Board of Underestimate and jntment. » CHEAP CABS IN BRONX PARK, ‘ton-cent automobile service in Bronx Park is a on for the public convenience which may be ‘Dut is welcome and sure to be widely appreciated. for which the Commissioner may come in iting Ae concession at a low figare will be Nor, without action, can they! / bespattered skirts of a woman je had shamed and degra tx! To me there seems to be Just one per son Worse than tits revman whe as doomed a young girl to the slow torture of pitUess village Keorn and that ja the woman—any woman, who turns her back bars his victim and extends the hand of forgiveness and friendship to him, Jill Bowne will find tn the angulshed shome of her own heart puntshment enough, And, if siie f On womanly " e they would do more for th ot thy " ane Rut al to preach | humanity to women. She who Is gullt- feat will probably keep on casting thi Narest stone at her erring sister and that she who aire her virtue most prob- ably knows that it needs alr —— ALL THE SIGNS OF IT, “Why do you think your son ls going to turn out to be a geniua?”’ “Well, he hates work and won't trim his finger nalla, and he's got the idea in his head that the whole blamed world js out after his scalp, so I reckon he must be one of them genius fellere and liable almost any day to d thin’ that’ Just natehelly surprise ev- eryoody clean dumb,""—Chicago Record- Herald. <scinisaliencten The Hayseed Cut-Up, the explanation that only by this means } stipulation of cheaper fares be imposed on L has hitherto been wholly st the mercy ark and the reform thus effected was Memanded. The Bronx Park is @ region of ‘. Many of its beauties which will aow be within his reach {a to be substitnted for ‘F Here fe @ very simple and amusing Jersey village which |“ toy whieh can be made in two minutes, Cut out the pieces and with one pin fasten all together. The headpiece be- BAAD EEDAD ADEE ENA DAADHED DEED DE DEDEDE POOIDEE DDD :Mary Jane fe o re) Tut Just Os LOVE DIAMONDS, * : 4 $ ® a WATCH me pive! SHE ALWAYS WANTS HER FINGERS 2008-94 ge Lf CL DHO99OD 6449044004 484-99046004: WHAT DID TELL, You ? TO SHINE LIKE DIAMONDS TOO. b299 3 ~ EPRICE ERED SEEDS HE SHE SHOP PESTO LEEPPPO SPST SHE POOLS SSS SPELL PS SIGH SE DES PPS PS SHS A LTT PDD} WHS HHH eo eo LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS o 2 Side Nearest Carb. To the RAltor of The Evening World: When @ young man walks with two young Imdies, should he walk in the middle or on the side nearest the curb? B.C. Can Serve as Often as Electe To the Editor of The Evening World: In there a law In the Constitution of the United States that a President can- not serve more than elght years In suc- cession? J, LEDER, Muonatrack, To the RAtor of The Evening World Is tt possible for a person to be moon- struck of to suffer any Injuries from 0 ? M, M Wd to have been Injured lly and physically by sleeping un- der the direct raya of the moon. Wear a Frock Cont, To the Editor of The Evening World t proper to wear a frock coat cr @ cutaway coat at my marriage in the morning? * AR Aw O44 Incident, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Jonge in front, If you have a cork to/ On Saturday evening I was ‘pig ib 0m the remult will please you, dant lita 2 itil though I am @ Roman Catholic) that I was going to renounce Teligion and be On Sunday morning, while preparing my breakfast, | said to my an Infidel. roms Aunts © tau aneny oery au despond- ‘When it is‘ impracticable for warships to go to dry ent decause of Ul health 1% ald (ah' Werks on staging Wo serapgithe bottom, as shown in the SUBNET 10 we Prt) a husband that he must ha me insane on account of the remarks I had made the night before. toasting bread when | spoke, and when Cleaning Hull of a Warship; thought 1 was 3 deta aah ide eels ABs I turned the bread over there was an imprint of a cross extending the length from end to end. Had I uged the bread toaster I would have thought nothing of \t, but I was useing @ long fork. Can any reader account for this odd hap- pening A.C. R. Boxed Exhibition Boat with Dunk- horst, To the Editor of The Evening World Did Bob Fitzsimmons fight a threo- round bout in "The Honest Black- smith?’ c. B. A Humorons B, RK, T. Suggestion. To the Biitor of The Evening World, The trouble between the B. R. T. and the publle sumges:s to me an Id would have been more effective brutal than fighting. What would fave proposed is that every man, wom- anand child traveling on the B. R T. should have paid their fare in pennies, At first it may seem a childish unworthy of consideration, tut A & moment of i00,! > . and Her Tabby at the Seaside. # & i They Provide Some Unexpected Excitement for Papa and Uncle Joe. “THE # EVENING WORLD'S # HOME » MAGAZINE. w' Old Love Letters—No. 3. : From a Young Merchant in New York t0 a Widow in Boston. Edited by Aunt Ella in the Boston Globe, T" whlow's letter to her dearest girl friend concerning the New Yorker's proposal: Dear May~You can't guess. Something hes Dep pened, What do you suppose? I have received @ propess from —, Now there, you needn't laugh. I hear you say & {a considerably younger than I. I know that, but I think @ ig one of the dearest, sweetest men I ever met. I you will say with cthers that he is after me for my , I think you are greatly mistaken, He is the soul of honor, } cannot conceive of his doing a mean thing. He has the ao blest ideas of any man I ever knew, Oh, May, If you only could understand him aa 1 do! No, 3 don't mean that, because nobody in the wide, wide world could understand the dear fellow as I do. And he ts uch @ lovely conversationulist. He ys says the right thing just the right t He wrote me such a manly letter. Oy Tm not in love with him, You needn't think that. I wrote to my brother about it and he approves of my course. } shall answer the proposal in a very dignified manner. He needn't thinis I'm just dying to fall into his arms, But by ts a doar, Oh, how I wish I could see you. I want to tell you eo mang shh No, I will not talk about him all the time, But he a » May, I never, never read a more manly letter thar that which he wrote to me. Do you think, May, that he wil cease to care for me? I mean do you think if I should ae cept him that some day he would cease to care for me? ; He seems to have suc- don't believe he would, do you? splendid principles, He is so un happy, May, don't you envy may come of this, I ant not so sure that I want to make ¢ second voynge on the vessel courtship. Please write ant tell me what you think. Ever your attached friend, —- —« P. 8.—Don't you breathe a word of what I've told you & any living soul, It is @ great secret, The friend's repiy to a widow who has Informed her of ¢ Proposal she has received: Dear Ruth--I must say I was thunderstruck when I re celved the letter In which you announced to me the proposa received from Mr, —-. I remember hearing you say onod that you wouldn't get married again for worlds; that one ex perience was enough for you, and that you would neve again bea to change, though. However, I think you ought to be ver} careful, One can't always tell whether suitors are sincere @ not By the way, your admired {s in business, I beliews. } wonder if he Is very successful, I heard my brother Jack say your admirer did most of his business on notes, whatever that means, Of course, if he married you he wouldn't need to think much about money, and certainly if you loved him you would be delighted to expend your money on business< that Is, If be should get into financial diMculties, But it such @ great pleasure to help the one we love. For my pan I would sacrifice everything I had for the man I loved, co pecially 1f he loved me, But I should hate to have a mat inarty me for my money. T don’t say thi “— may be a very worthy gentleman, and be actuated only by the purest motives, Still, you can® always tell, Ruth. Now, I heard something not so long age about Mr. —, Of course, It {sn't true and I don't suppose { ought to repeat It. Yet you and I are such dear friends tha: it cannot do any harm. At all events I think you ought te know It girls and been rejected. Of course, I don't say this for ¢ fact, He never proposed to me, but I heard on very good a thority that -—- could have him If she wanted him, but } suppose It's oll talk, anyway, b By the way, have you seen brother Frank's friend Billy <= lately? What a stunning looking fellow he ts! Tam 40 glad you are so happy, Ruth, and more than de Mmhted tbat you hi taken me Into your confidence, Ree assured I ahall know how to keep your secret. With dew wishes, your sincere friend, P. 8.—Don't for the world tell Mr, — that-T told you any of the silly stuff I heard about him. Pointed Paragraphs. Moat women study art with the ald of a mirror, ~ You may have observed that the oldest inhabitant (s neve & woman. When a girl says “no” to a young man's proposal he seldom appreciates his good luck. When a man starts out to get even with another he Never ratisfed until he gets ahead, A woman's hair is auburn when another woman {s talkty to her, but it is plain red if she is talking about her. —Chicago News. A “Dictionary” Retort. Noah Webster, compiler of Webster's Dictionary, was, as might be supposed, a stickler for good English, and often reproved his wife's misuse of the language, On one occasion, according to a fanciful yarn, Webster happened to be alone In the dining-room with the very pretty housemald and being surceptible to such charms, put his arma around het and ki her squarely on the mouth. Just at this moment Mra, Webster entered the room, gasped, stood aghast, ané in a tone of horror exclaimed, Why, Noah, I am surprised!* Whereupon Mr, Webster coolly and calmly, but with every evilence of disgust, turned upon her. “How many times must T correct you In the use of simple words?’ he re marked. “You mean, madam, that you are astonished. 3 madam, I am the one that is surprised.” The “Fudge” Idiotortal. TDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THe EVENING FUDGE | H is ag’ & PREF i F rr bsi chit repeties tpt ill re i zi rs 7 They any that he has proposed to several other: