The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1904, Page 12

*) TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1904, yj Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ Vark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York aa Becond-Class Mail Matter, pee eerenceee NO. 18,672. — VOLUME 458 TWO SCHOOLS OF FINANCE, The recent arrival in port of the mammoth Whit+ Btar liner Baltic is followed now by a statement from London of the enormous profits of the compeny owning this ocean leviathan, which must be regarded as fully a& wonderful an exhibit of conservative finance as the * great vessel is of steamship construction, In only one year since 1871 have the net profits of bis. company been less than 5 per cent. on a capital Rock of $3,750.00, while at times they have reached the traordinary figure of 100 per cent. For six years they d 50 per cent., for eleven years 40, for fifteen ars 30 and for twenty years 25. It is an instructive balance sheet of good manage- t, and one acquiring an added intevest and emphasis is a showing for conservatism when compared with the oa market value of the stock of the company, the # International Mercantile Marine, which in 1902 absorbed © @¥the White Star tine and amalgamated it with the At- lantic Transport, the American, the Leyland, the Red Star and the Dominion lines {nto the combination popu- arly known as the Shipping Trust. The preferred wtock of the trust, having a par value of $54,600,000, ts Dow worth $9,009,000 in the open market, and the com- mon stock with a par value of $48,000,000 ts worth $2,160,000. The par value of the bonds {s $68,000,000, The lines composing the Shipping Trust are all sub- Stantlal companies, Their average net profits during ihe period of four years just previous to their combina- Hon amounted to $6,107,675 a year. Why should a com- bination be weak the constituent parts of which are all strong? In the case of the British company there has been careful management and continued prosperity with enormous carnings on a restricted capital of the Arerican there has been a reckless use of trust methods, including inflation and expansion of par values, the bonding of curning capacity and the capitalization of expectations with the Inevitable collapse occurring within two years. As an object lesson in the iniquities of balloon finance this probably has no parallel, Cer- tainly in the present state of the public mind it Is not Wkely to be repeated. THE SIN OF NOT ENOUGH BEACH, Police reports indicate that a quarter of a million people visited Coney Island last Sunday, Tt was n wide-open and wide-awake day for the famous strip of sand. Restaurant keepers prospered Sen while they perspired. Amusement managers could ‘®© ave sold more tickets had their shows been in larger yaces. And this was all right. ee What was not well was that for many thousands to On the part| | Was Adam Made from Eve’s Rib? ta #8 # # & & A oo An Effort to Corner the Sausage Market Somehow Goes Wrong.$ By “There ts something in such things that seems to lend support to Prof. Lester F. Mark's conte as net forth In his Pure Soclology, that in the natural evolution of the two sexes t female was first and the male second; that he was in fact, made from her rib, 40 to speak, and not she from his.’ O the eminent S naturalist John Burroughs writing on the pri- mary role in nest- bullding played oy the secondary part therein fillod by the male launches, per- haps unconsclously, B] the latest argument Qin favor of vanced womanhood For /if first, why should We not be so served In accordance with the time-honored proverb which enabled primintive man to arrogate everythin vorth while to himself? There ts fust ne thing A woman finds more delightful (han having ber own way and that Is have lt. And now two eminent scientifle wr have proved it for her For ding to masculine ethies the first-rib priviiege has carried all others along with it, And if tt ts ours—really and rightfully ours—and has been usurped by mere man duriog the long, woury centuries of our subjection what a glorious vista of opportunity en to ust be sure, it was open any way Tut it will be so much more sativfactory to feel that we may take up the whit man's burden because it belongs to us and not to him, than just simply be- cause he lets us, The result may be the same, but we will like it better that Is, those of us who are unwise enough to wish to exchange undue thoned privileges for more or jess ques- tlonable rig That the new theory was evolved by a man and pubdticly sanctioned by an- other lends It the more welght, Vari ous iil-advised women, champions ot thelr own sex, have at times endeay- ored to prove that Shakespeare and other scarcely lesa eminent literary lights were women. But other argu: ments in support of the pleasing theory could not be regarded as conclusive even by the most biased mind. But when a son of Adam deliberately sets himself to prove that Adam was not ® whom the salt water and the sandy shore were every- © WBehing, thero was not enough beach, nor sufficient bat | * house accommodation, «© The ocean made Coney Island in the first place, It @Ais the presence of the ocean, with Its salty alr, that OV gives the great resort Its distinction for healthfulness, Every season is a season of municipal neglect which fails to witness progress toward opening to direct popular use the widest possible stretch of beach and breaker. It ie a erimo against public tntarest that the be- & sinnings of the city bath enterprise at Coney Island @ have been put over from the present summer. It will de a startling lesson In the cost of procrastination when the city, having finally awakened to the necessities of the seaside park case, discovers private amusement eventures further intrenched where It should have taken gp Possession years before, PNEUMONIA'S RAVAGES. By way of preparation for further battle against the favages of pneumonia the Board of Health has just re- ry) selved a special appropriation of $10,000, The money was, granted on the showing that during the first six months! © of the year 1904 the disease has caused 5,495 deaths in| the city, an increaso of 1,683 over the like period of last wopear, For the people at large, the word {s not so much to! Prepare, as to beware. Pure air is the greatest enemy to pneumonia. That Is) one reason why it prevails less in tha open-window ® season. But one Is to beware mistaking for beneficent pure air what is rather a maleficent cool draught; to! 8® beware a too sildden “cooling off” by any means, B& The doctore are not ready to say definitely what causes | Pneumonia’s increase among us. They do not yet affirm ‘F that it ts Infectious or contagious. Experts are to de+ ) ,Fote time and the special $10,900 to a study of the dis- ease. * ‘The destroyer is not a respecter of men's worldly elr- _tumstances. Still it ts probable that in a city with the ©S masses better housed {t wonld find fewer victims, Pend. j Ing the verdict of the Investigators {t will be well to re- * member that there can be perilous exposures in warm weather as well as in chill, ay aman at all but a woman from whose superfiuous rib his secondary masculine ancestor was fashioned, it le time for the opponents of woman's fuffrage, etc., to wit up and take notice, 4 Where be your jibes now, most supe- rior masculine person? We are nota part of you any longer, You are a part of us, Of course, Prof. Burroughs and the originator of the theory, Prof. Ward do not announce woman's prior claim to the rib as an established sclentific act. Sctence, even though pictured and written of as a woman, {8 unkind enough to require rigid proof of every new discovery, even though it be one redounding to the honor and glory of her own sex, But every logical mascu- Une mvind must admit that it ts possible and every Wogical feminine mind be sure that it ta #0. Have we not, indeed, always known it, though with the tact pecullar to our sex we have artfully concealed the knowledge under @ courteous veneer of respect for masculine attainments and veneration for masculine wisdom? Some of us, Indeed, even though we have had our inmost convietion iftvers .rierity comitmed by science, will Feep On throwing thie kindly. lite bluff and feel the more superior for it, as we d: now. And it wil be with these that the palm of popularity with mankind will Test even as |t does to-day. For though the honor of having the first rib be finuliy conceded us, we must bear it Mendy, gracefully, as we do all the otner cles with which a beneficlent fa ‘3 been pleased to adorn us. ————[—_- SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. —_—_—+ STINGY. "Why did you quit the Richleys, Jane?’ “It was the stinginess of ‘em, mum. I was a-lookin’ out me kitohen windor one day, when the mistress comes in and says that she'd give a penny for oe ra THE WOMEN’S SAFETY COMMITTEE, Another example of organized private Interference tn cipal affairs is furnished by the appointment of a mt “committee of public safety” by the City! tion of Women's Clubs, The object of this com- Mittee is to inspect excursion boats, trolley cars and! ir transportation lines, examine the conditions of curity in theatres and buildings, and generally to Make recommendations for reforms where their need fs apparent. Its work should be to the benefit of all, Women in the city, whom in effect the committee un- ly represents, This private inquisitiveness into public matters is & good cause and it has the precedent of other or- ised bodies ot citizens acting for the public interest Premise that its activity will be beneficial. The list abvtes uncoveres and corrected by private investiga-| Js long and valuable. Blown-Out Fase Again.—The latest motor-box blow: THAR (nm a Madison avenue car at Porcy-eighth was only a little one In which tut three passen- | gf * me thoughts—and them millionaires, moind you!"'—Detrolt Free Preas, BAD EXAMPLE, Farmer Hayrake—Dad-bitter dass-binged pesky varminte! Mrs, Hayrake—Why, Hiram what ails the y Farmer Hayrake—O! them pesky files ‘se so bad. Mrs. Hayrake—Well, ye hadnt oughter ewear #0. How kin ye expect them to be good considerin’ the bad example ye're — settin’ ?~Philadelphia Presa. DISAPPOINTED. “What did you think of Philadel- phiat” I ne ¢ was more Imposed on in my Ite,” ered Col. Stillwell of Ken- tueky They told me Philadelphia was famous for its mint, and all they showed me was a place where they make money.”--Washington Star, SURE SIGN, "You say he pasa visionary and im- practical nature?” “Yea,” answered the girl who Is em- ployed In the post-office, ‘He js one of were injured. The flames were oxtinguiwhed by the with a bucket of sand, Here syain, the might say by way of excuse, if the had not lost their heads they would have ‘Wijury. But the edueatiny uf the public to the total of fractured skulls and ted. How long must it contirue? and unterritying electrics! ctims| delivery stamp." —Washington Star. of the exploding fuse is seen to be] Passerdy—I thought you were blindt these people who write ‘Rush’ en an envelope instead of putting on a special MUST BE CL Nixola Greeley-Smith. |’ the female bird and we came proving conclusively that she ought to! « w THE w# EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. # @PAAGAAEADAADED IDDM NMI AR EDGR EDAROE READ BAD PDODDDDD OHOODEDOENEOEDDD ELDS 109999990046 014-040.008 0004OEOO0 14 ‘Old Love Letters.—No. 4. ., :Mary Jane, Her Tabby and the Meat Famine wit eo) From a Young New York Merchant to a Widow in Boston. > => P Edited by Aunt Billa, in the Globe ¥ AM | ROM the young merchant to his friend Btlly, who RINNE abl tie ecu COME Along? F written to dissaude him from marrying the widow! a TE SAus- lh T UND TOM, we Dear Billy: Some fellows would feel like knocking H AGES You , If! PRANK FURT MAKE lf | you down if you had written them a letter such as you eent GoT Quick ERS-UND~ Ae TAG | me last Thursday. But I have known you so long and #0 ee ee) 3 MEAT TRUST appreciate your good qualities and like ypu so much, old H\ I Gon Look LIKE chap, that I wouldn't get mad with you for the work 1 ¢ THIRTY | want to say, however, that you've got it all wrong, Your cenrs! mathematics is absurd, Billy, you would better go back to - school and study arithmetic. I know mankind figures tt ous Just as you do, but mankid fs an old fool anyway, As @ Gwurer mankind has made many mistakes. Its accounts are ny always wrong. As a bookkeeper it 1s a blooming failure, OW DEAR: Let me tell you that where love ts concerned the heart te the true arkthmetician. And to think, Billy, that you would ask me to let a mere matter of twelve years stand between nd the woman I love! You didn't dare to say anything © else; didn’t dare to bring forward any other objection. Tou couldn't, old boy, and you know you couldn't. You know. she fs an angel and that the rose on her cheeks will never. wither. Love will keep them red, Love will keep her blue tyes bright. Talk about years! Why, she looks younger than the —— girls. You may think I am prejudiced, Pere haps £ am, or rather prepossessed. But I can baek up what I say, old man. You have seen her; you have seen others. Tell me now, isn't sho superior to any of them! You know IT never paid much attention to beauty of form of figure. Heart and mind are the things for me, The world says she ix beauteful, Well, I'll take the world's word for that; yet If the world said she was ugly I would not love her lesa than T do now. I speak out to you, Billy. I hear you say, “Well, rave on, old man, you'll find out some day.” Ah, Billy, you don't know what love is. If you did, you wouldn't talk that way. Love Is the greatest—yes, the only thing In the world, And I know a woman who Is worthy of the homage of the best man in the world. Tam far from being the best man in the world. 'm @ poor chap, and I'd give up my poor life for her, Hear me go on! And I don't know yet that she'll have me, I wrote to her a week ago one of those rather formal letters almost like “Yours of the 6th inst,, at hand and contents noted.” 7 was ao seared, Billy, that I expressed myself tn about thd same terms in which you would order an automobile, Sup pose, Hilly, she wouldn't have me? Well, T couldn't blam¢ her, I'm not good enough for her, She's an angel, Yous * old friend FRANK.» OH, DEAR! THIS =, ao Dom cu ira LH —o; ea NS. y % gyre S ¥ THATS | RIGHT. BLAME iT ALL ON \ LET'S HURRY TOM, BE- FORE IT GETS To the widow from her brother My Dear Sister: Since replying to your letter concerning the proposal received by you from Mr. ——~ I have recetved An anonymous letter concerning that gentleman, Usually 1 pay no attention to letters of this kind, but your welfare {¢ 80 serious a matter that T think you should act with a full knowlenge of affales as they are The letter may be all les and it may contain some truth Tt Aaye in substance that —, who has proposed to you, if hard np financially and is looking for a woman with money to help him out. It also said that he has proposed to seve eral others and had been rejected. I don’t take any stock in the letter myself, for I don't helleve —~ {Is that sort of @ man, I suppose If ought to make some {nquirles concerning his financial affairs. If T hear of anything important I wil write to you. Have you written to him yet? Your affeo tionate brother, P. 8.—Bllly —~ dropped in just as I was closing my letter to you. T spoke to him about —— and the rumors, He go! violently indignant. He says that —— Is the soul of honor and that he had a letter from him the other day which would prove that money ts not his object, The Ungentle Dove. A recent writer says: "One he most complete misap Prehensions with regard to the voices of birddom oecourt when we listen to the monosyllabic coo of the ‘restful turtle dove.’ By no means a musical sound In itself, yet it Is 40 bound up fn our minds with the sleepy glamor of summer afternoons that we {imagine the sitting dove as crooning t herself from sheer contentment with her lot, Very different {ie the reality, That drowsy monosyllabdle Is the volee of V the male dove, Usually he fs giving peremptory orders té \ his wife to get off the nest, In order that he may take het y \ ‘ a — 2 9088 It’s Very, Very Strange, PU ISS mm Pag = raart place, and If she hesitates to ohey he enforces his commands %| with sharp pecks upon the head, At other times he seeme ® | merely to order her off the nest for the pleasure of witness $ Ing her devotion to his person."* o amoral 3 Fish by the Billion. : One no longer speaks of hatching thousands of young fish . ® | by artificial means, but of millions and hundreds of millions, The number of eggs, fry, fingerlings and adult fish distri buted by the United States Bureau of Fisheries in 1902 ag gregated 1,500,000,000. It is certain that the shad, whitefish basakar. lake trout and pike perch fisheries, each of vast importan AY OntK. 1S/R have not only been saved from entire depletion, but they have been maintained, chiefly through artifictal prope ration, at a high degree of productiveness. That these fish jerles are industries to-day, valued at nearly $3,000,000 ane nvally, is due entirely to artificial propagation, Largest Map of the World, The largest may in the world is the ordnance survey map , | of England, containing 108,000 streets, and costing $1,000,000 a | yenr for twenty years, ‘The reals varies from 10 feet to one j | elghth of an inch to the mile, The details are so minute that maps having a scale of % inches show every hedge, fence, wall, bullding and even every lated tree in the country, The plans show not only the exact shape of every building, but every porch, area, doorstep, lamp pont, railway and fire plug. The “Fudge” Idiotortal IDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDG) i GUBSS THIS 15 MORE NE THINKS vm ANGRY bare SDLBDOE HEB BS 5 FS-9OSE 6 F-OGS-9-9-3-F5-DHGOEHH FEF 94-FF GF FF POSOHSHEFT-9245- DESH STF9E DEDARADD DADE DA DDR HA PAIIAIAI DDG DO IDDOD BIPM HI DIDDRIDIDAIOID GRID DDIP ADDR DO MD 2 oe LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS 2 2 For Cheaper Fare to North Beach.| wish to call attention to the dust and) this is a catch question. Since the bul- on a clear day, One captain telis me To the Editor of The Evening World dirt these cars scatter through the alr | let before leaving the gun travels ¢r¢ from four to five miles; the second tells Now that the pubile is making jon account of their rapid motion| mile a minute, as does everything «l#@ me from six to nine miles; and another strong fight for a five-cent fare to Coney Island, why not ask for a five-cent fare to North Beach? Bergen Beach {s fur- through space, This dust contains ml-|on the train, it is obvious that It must crobes of all sorts and descriptions, and | travel at a greater speed after leaving settles on everything that happens to! the gun, and would certainly reach the Says from eighteen to twenty miles. Wil! some nautical reader kindly settle this argument by letting me know the ther than North Beach and it i resohe’ be along the route of the road, Not| man tn front. If any your read | tru, number of miles an object can be by n five-cent, fare, North jeming 1 | oaly does this dust settle on all things | ers doubts this, 1 would be pleased tO | distinguished on a clear day out on the Chak ie ts'a shame to charge a double | Outdoors and exposed, but on account | tay the experiment, providing he would | sean cout of aight of land)? 7. B. fare. GEORGE. | of its deme around to auch minuteness | stand In front as stated and let me be | by the wheels of the cars, it is wafted, | the man behind the gun. LDR | A Fioth ih Prote \ The Dusty Trolley © To the Editor of The Bvenine Wor! Has it ever ceeurred ty yuu what @ great nuisance the modern treiley car ia in the great cities of to-day? While it ls an enorméus improvement over the old-fashioned horse cars, it has, on the other hand, caused the stopekeepers | To the Miitor of The Evening World ‘ bed oie " | [desire respectfully to protest against 7 rig es or Morne Dh r M | the removal of the insane asylum at ee ane te ing at the ward “Be| Flatbush. My mother Is an inmate of pan aie p pros Bas Ned fog eg that Inatitution, and If she la transferred Eclat hh oo geal Rows TTB. Togkere. | 10 ome other Btate asylum | can never the Béitor of Evening World: ’ Pe) ‘ay| Visit ber, as my financial means and the In reply to Q. (who wants to know| The Solent ts @ bay off the English fometimes in clouds, into all the stores | and dwellings along the route, thi causing great annoyance to all con- cerned JOHN W. A. The Ballet Problem, Mendicant—Weill, boss, times is so hard and competition ts «0 great that even « blind man has to keep his eyes open nowadays If he wants to do any ‘ esinees At all. Chicago Journal, wheth bee: ese o Channel condition of my father, who is a physi- era et at the rate of a eal wreck from paralysis, will prevent mile a minute by a man on the rear of| How Far Cam One See at Seat bri a & train one mile long and travelling at | To the Bditor of The Evening World: the rate of # mile a minute would ever! 1 have inquired of three sea captains reach @ man in front), I would say tha: | how many miles one can see out on sea) along its route untold worry and annov- ance, not to speak of the Injury and damage inflicted on certain lines of merchandise. Coming right down to the point, I ee