The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1904, Page 10

Love Letters Of To-Day. No. 2. From a Poor New Yorker to a Rich Boston Girl, Wlorid Press Publishing Company, No, W te @ jew York, Entered at the Post-Ofee at New York as Second-Cines Mail Matter, DLUME 45. +NO, 16,687, HOW COAL PRICES ARE RAISED, - Wor the fourth time since Maroh coal has been ad- ten cents a (on by the anthracite operators. An- advance ie yet to be made in accordance with Qgreement ontered into last epring. The present it price of hard coal in sizes for household use Is 8 ton. G ‘The nature of the “agreement” under which the price coal ts untformly and artificially raised was disclosed the testimony of the coal road presidents before the te Commerce Commisston in May last. Mr. of tho Lackawanna, and Mr, Thomas, of the pec Deeg dln ll chi ga Mig hed Pao Valley, were both emphatic in thelr assertions| It i @ totter such as would inflame the RO combination or other form of trust existed ineamenes ue Aig d Lik ese her them. There existed merely a “gentleman's ae ace a A ake cae ef aa it” which The Evening World characterized at} might regret forever afterward, time as one of a rarely courteous and harmonious} Frankly speaking, young men, your Mr, Thomes testified that the presidents “did not letter does not rive me the tmpresston in reckiess competition,” and when one fixed the higelball ag Bit sa coool dv ape the others ratified and adopted {t. In crder to goiedied iitate arrangements this duty instead of being peta ou Piaget peice co formed in turn by the presidents was delegated “In-'nidden by her father and mother to _ fprmally” to Mr. Thomes as a man of exceptional ex-'recsive a propoml trom you Having and accustomed to conduct business “on a care. been tok that attentions from you to and conserve tive basis.” There was, as Mr. Irae (er Cnet oe tes De secewtanny Gale testified, an ional “intormal and inctdental! manty acquleacence in ara exchange of iniormation” at luncheon or over the tele- ings in a brief paragraph. I should | Phone, bat nothing that could bo called « “formal ad-|have honored you for eo doing, and fwatiee-price agreement.” ail concerned would some day have A “gentleman's agreement” conveys 8 more agrecable| C°CUrred In approving that course to the ear tan a plain, binnt term like trust. Feel eat ie eeu cat ‘ fa what essential of monopoly does {t differ trom it} duct. ‘There now remains a few things ) && tte increase at will of prices already arbitrarily) to be said specifically as to the contents ; of the letter 1 have intercepted. Ite whole tenor ta too intense, too nervous, Your p 4 Feeeeeenee Edited by Aunt Ella In Boston Globe. LADY#’S father, who has intervept- ed Arthur's love letter, replies to it as follows “Dear Oir--Exerctaing the right which y father bas, end which a wateh- one will not reliaquigh, I have care- a too curdulent reserts a __ A SUNDAY GRAB AT SATURDAY, The “Huckleberry” ‘ral!way's ban on &2 fag trolley excursions ts an astonishing piece of ha Bess. Nobody hos ever accused this compeny of harhor-| a ‘fag sentiments unconnected with the collection of fares} that you Gnd the extension of profisble routes of trae! But it! Rete Wt vata: Cheater al Maere is @ point uf commercial gain in the new vider it icing 1: goomed to emhance ite value. & quite imperceptible to the ordinary observer. So you cried oat with offers of love; As the reports stand, the “Huckleberry” managemont| ofers of your heart to buy back fis credited with yielding to the persuestor of get | ure rae few: panel tm the Bronx who claim that Saturday night excursions oho whens Sou feax 40: lade Interfere with Sunday congregations, The trolley riders,|as valuable as your heated imagination + Mt fe declared, come home in the wee hours too tired to|irads vou to think? 7 7 , i Second—Would you, If you could have get up for church, and by waking up people along tho ny Aauahter far the ashing, twink te Toute manage to spread epidemics of weariness, aa highly as you say you do now? The ministerial view of the case ts not popular,| Third—On what base do you eatimate | Neither does it seem reasonable, It is not likely that] er value? Do you value her for beauty, social porition, family history, @nybody who really wants to go to church will let a wealth. health, virtue oF dlepenition? trolley ride prevent, and It Is certain that people who Fourth—If one should agree with you| ‘ do not want to hear 1 sermon will never be persuaded |in setting so high a value on my daugh- to hear it by having thelr tun cut off. ter, what have you to offer for hert Sunday is a day of great church privileges by the law's consent. We do not think respect for those fey Privileges is promoted when any beneficiaries seek to F extend their grip over the Saturday half-hollday, which |) fe the people's play-timo by unanimous consent, aN Fis i * aH miyment" Promises—in other words, vromissory notes. Kut who will Indorse vour notes? Your anawer to that moat I'kely would be-love. And what ts love? From your letter one would be justified In inferring that] « love wan etther a deliitam, a violent | Fhe New Tenderloin Captain. Capt. Mussey’s tour of|siate of perturbation o° a trance, z the Tenderloin an personally conducted by Detective | young man, the ikind of love you are now Gonnolly is said to have revealed to the captain “many | don ing In js not unilke a ainte of trance queer things’ of Int eat. A corresponding interéet in) wy ey the new captain himself was shown by the habltues, whore acquaintance with Tenderloin captaina of recent the medium comes out of a trance he recolleeta nothing of all the predictions and promises made under J years has been extensive if not familiar, Capt. Hussey sie control of the suppostd aptrit, 80 a “had no comments to make’ in which he differed (rom | jovery like you, when they came out of some of hit Immediate predecessors perhape to hit) ine trance they call love, forges thelr advantage. | promises, while tite other person whowe —_—--— 1 ve is no trance, but the genulaa, ca *#GRAND-STAND PLAYS" AND SAFETY, |\)001!, God-given wintom your Buinae speaks of, becomes the victim-of eruel | « The Iesaces of the Grand Republic, a slater steamer) jogisct of the Gon. Slocum, having been notified to discontinue, Young man. don't delude vourselt into | | the navigation of tho boat until Its reinapection had been |'h* Mistaken belief thot vour letter is) 4 woncludes, the president of the company which {s operat-/UNW"al One coull girdie the earth : with letiers of similar purport written | 4 *j ‘Ang it is reported tc have sald: “The facts are that biter he men in the tormd gones north and + ‘whole inspection is almplv » ‘grend-stand play’ on the | south of the equator of forty vears and | “ i for which they have reoenied io wel part of the officials for campaign purposes and we do ‘frigid sone of fifty. ¥: trul Bot propore to siond the loss whicb the tying up of wel - . ay ab = boat would ental).” (Tosmorrow will be printed w letter to} % Yet on the whole the “grand-stand play” alleged |(!#dys'* fiver from Herbert who § Isecks her hand, although he has never | @ Shows forth in a better light than the attitude Of COM Howse quy encouragement ‘ | ‘temptuous indifference to the public interest which these evel pamnenine $ words reveal There are few politice! contingencies) PLAYED BACKWARD, ® More remote than Republican party advantage to be de-| Sir Frederick Hridge recently told the; 4 ) rived from the belated performance of a long neglected | Members Hs the eet pagel! we 4 yop {® MOFY about some ladies whom he) % Sree Walle the present safety of excursion passenger) 4 iistening in a country house to.a| 4 Steamers: !s » present local Issue of vital Importance. | mechanical plano player. By thelr en-| @ Any attitude 0° opporition toward It on the part of raptured expression of countenance he M4 © owner or capisin can only provoke deserved criticisn| became aware that he was hearing a! « ; classical pleee of enormous worth, | ¢ 5 ‘and censure. ; [though it sounded so very abstruse that! > a Other “lessons” of serious disasters may have been ie cit himself hardly educated up to It. | , _. permitted to lapse into forgetfulness. That of the Slocum! so in a whisper he asked what it was, | tragedy must be kept fresh {n mind unti! {t has been and recelved the reply that It was i _| Bach's fugue in D minor. He still fatied definitely applied to effect the reforms of which I* dis-| recognize It, and when the piece was closed the urgent need finished proceeded to elucidate the mys- THE FLAT-WHEEL NUISANCE. |tery. Ile then found that the fugue had }been plaved backward, as the ladies had put in the verforated paper upside ‘ The protest made to the Mayor by the residents of (4, ‘ ——- + Prospect. Park West against the nolsy flat car whe l| will revive the agitetion ageinst an evil against whics every borough in the city has just cause of complaint FOLLY’S CHARMS The interference with sleep of which Brooklyn | . eliizens complain is paralleled on all the main avenues i ha deen, wiih Go raiyi ) of travel io Manhattar. There is no more penetrating | yoy have brougit me only woe or nerve-wracking note in the city’s discord of unneces-|f We'll be strangerp from to-day fary noises Liun that made by the flat car wheel. Sucii |] AM. sou beckon, you have amiles, But Tspura you with your wiles, ® noise is a public nuisance within the meaning of the Jaw over which (he Board of Health has jurisdiction and | control. Is not the orcasion offered by this formsi pro-| test an opportune one for the institution of an eftectivd | Prosecution of those reeponcible for the nuisance? | You ahall not again decoy me, seek to lure me as you may!’ " he sald to Polly; atilt outh(ul hopes were in his breast yond him on the hill owed the goal to which pressed Through the tollaome years and long He went onward, brave nd strong. Thinking winsome Folly lingered where bis errop was confersec nt Time at last Lent down, his yaad And deprived him of hig hair "Til relax to-day," he said, “For awhile I'll cease to care.” Round his neck there stole two Hi? | REMOVAL OF A CITY BLEMISH. Opinions may differ regarding some of the purposes OF the Association of Theatre Managers, but thers can be 6 doubt that the abolition of “oniping” which they pro- nd the curtailment c! the promiscuous display of phe is a m'nor reform pseriting appre va! ” is the pasting of advertising matter on , barrels and street encumbrances, It pro- n effect {uartistic and unbeautiful in the extreme, Its share of the lesser blemishes which and to that extent postpone a realiza. ui” ideals. berry that artistic considerations era\to this act. But in view of ||. ™ ‘Reed not so much matter, . aes What sort of currency do you tender In | 4 SOME OF THE ALBERT, Let} Go To TH | | BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. TEST OF PATIENCE. “Tam afraid that your gon lacks pa- tence and determination.” | “He does, eh? sald Warmer Corn | toasel. "Weil, you jes’ ought to see Jon colorin’ a meerschaum pive."'- Washington Star. NATURAL RESULT, “I's funny that when a man starts am king cigaretieg he seldom syps.” “Simple enough. When a man has #0 | Nttle Intelligence aa to start smoking | cigarettes he couldn't be expected to} have enough Hi er t atop. = Philadepnis Ledges‘ SP) BETTER THAN A 8uiT. Mose .Mossybank—So Pete Persim- (By T. E. Powers) (No!) i, Gp. “a 7) \s oo \ | ND a4 mail a 1 i my ESS ERE OFF ) IN THE TUNNEL. DID You Lock THe Door? 4 jaf | } Wa REO HOTS To DAY = OgEF STRIKE; HIS ROOM SOUTHERN EXPOSURE pi Goooness } MY YACATION STARTS FOR Home Here Is What Happened to a Man and Wile Who Left Their Happy Home for Rest and Recreation Elsewhere. [LEPEOODPPRDEDRE HE ETE EEREEDDIEDSIOEGDD HEOOELESIGO6O6-06-0006090 9 0460566906-460000004000 000 DDOLORREDDD ©909999000088 4994940 959694004 104006004000000869900 I Vacations Are Not So Very Full of Joy. y \~ cer. ¢ THE # EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. »# By Martin Green. ") Will Lut ~U ER NEW HAVEN ROAD GAEEN CORN LESLEY SOE ROO REST OS Fe DEOL + PH OSOSES DESEO OOD POOH DOCD by, 4 % ‘ PLDT OL eH Oe eee ss Good Bishop Potter and Proposed Underground Boozorium. Potter has gone in the booze business,” “The Church {s certainly getting olose to the: few years ago if Bishop Potter had gone in to back & bug-julce emporium the resultant ecream could have matter of course as an announcement that Freddie Hem- menschlager, for many yearr the popular head bartender the street from the old stand, where he will extend the glad mitt to all his old friends, Bishop Potter opening a boozagium with an address, punctuated by the soft, suggy sound of the bung-starter kersburg, W. Va., {a golng to preach through @ megay phone from the top of a mountain next Sunday, with « becue on the side. Qut West there ere churches with roof gardens. Over in Jersey a minister has invited his minister has opened a billlard-room in the basement of the parish-house, I remember the time when I was @ & paper horn or a bag of inflamed popcorp et a Christe Mas tree, the rich man has his club where he can lap up joy-water and sign checks, and why shouldn't the poor man hare play poker at his club, too. Oz the same line of reason~ ing, why shouldn't the poor man be allowed to gamble Bishop Potter's plan of selling the best flre-water at dime a slug will eventually cultivate the public taste to nnable to sel! safe-hlow!ng compound disguieed as whis- key at the rate of two bulls for two bits.” politics in this new saloon venture?” asked The Cigar Store Man. Bishop Potter in the Subway Tavern have always as- \ serted that the saloon is the backbone of Tammany there can be any intention of making an opposition backbone out of the liqnor store at Mulberry and dome of our dear old college chum and leading Acorn, Joe Johnson, and he admits that he doesn’t know any- Astor Invented ‘0. K.” Just why the letters 0, K, should signify “all right” has ity comes out with a statement that after a careful research » | he finds that old Jacob Astor, the original of the famous ling Astor was looked upon in the early commercial circles of New York as a man of great information and sound judg- eree on the question of the solvency or standing of other traders condition or credit responsibility came to him and he found the trader responsible he would write across the note the unable to read or write correctly and that he supposed 0. K, to be the initials of “all correct.” l t he wrote “N, G.," by which he meant “no good.” And ever since then banks and commercial houses all over the world “] SEE,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that Bishop people,” commented The Man Higher Up. “A been heard ten miles, Now it {e taken as much as a at McGinnesa’s, has gone into business for himself across “In the same newspaper containing an account of opening a fresh keg, I read that a minister out In Pare tight.rope performance, a halloon ascension and a bar- men to come to church in their shirtsleeves, and another kid that all you stood to win for church attendance was “Bishop Potter takes the broad view. He says thet his club, the same he!ng the ginmil!? The riot man can at hie club—the saloon? Let us sincerely hope that 8 stage where the Broadway gilded soak resorts will be “Do you think there could possibly be anything like “Although the eminent reformers associated with Hall,” replied The Man Higher Up, “I don’t imagine Bleecker streets. The idea emanated from the luminous thing about politics.” been a question long unsettled. But now an English author+ of millionaires, was the originator, ment and took the place of Bradstreet's and Dun's aa a ref- Tf a note of Inquiry as to any particular trader’s financial letters "O. I." The English investigator sald Astor was On notes asking about traders who were not responsible » | have used the symbols "0, K." and "N, Gy” Gas Trust Death Knell. A Chicago chemist te expertraenting with water and nounces that he has discovered a method by which he decompose it into {ts constituents at practically no cost, says he Is now perfeting bis process, If he can do whet claims the elements composing water will make light heat many, many times cheaper than at present and doom the Gas Trust, i U. S. Marriage Facts. Eighty-five thousand divorced men are recprded and 11495 divorced women in this country, There are 28,600,000 single men and 3,000,000 less single women. Twenty-eight millon married persons are recorded and 4,181,1% single Of wkiows there are 2,721,664, while of the widowers only 1,183,398 ecuhs be found. ' The “Fudge” Idiotortal | {MDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGE Why Llons NEVER Bite Off Thelr Own Heads, Thta Paper Would ‘Such an Act Was Stopped. (Copyret, 1904, by the Pionet Pub Co) pilcated tricks? Yes? No? THE eee _ s gE « SACK} 47 HE FLAT What Would You Do If You Were Mayor of Greater New York? NEARLY EVERYBODY HAS SAID AT SOME TIME: “If only I were Mayor I would make such-and- such a reform, or stop such-and-such an abuse," KKHAPS you'd Improve the traction system, lower the gas bills, accel- P erate the street cleaning or garbuge collecting, change the park rules, or do any one of a dosen more things which you think would make New York @ pleasanter or better home for, you rhe Evening World will give,a prize of & for the best reply to the query ‘What would you do If you were Mayor of Greater New York?’ For the sec- ond best letter, $3; for the third, #2, Answers Bot exceed 100 words in length and must be written on only one side of the paper. Make your letter as unique or as ehoose, If there are more tian one which you tonal as you ‘Mise to institute, “i 4 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_—- No. To the Editor of The Evening World Was Sherlock Holmes a real man? E.G, Apply to Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Evening World: Where must I go in order to have my name changed? ANXIOUS. Side it Curb, To the EAitor of The Evening World: Winlch Is the correct side of ment to walk on when you a panying two ladies? No. | To the Raltor of The Evening World: Regina Maria Roohe, oe tee columa, IN THE DAYS OF OLD KING OSSIAN WOULD OUR STATEMENTS STAND MUCH WASHIN’ qur paye- accom: Ww, M.: