The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1904, Page 12

* a E ‘ fu ae pt Pit aa Body vesterd, barry Row, New York. Entered at at New ¥ —._ VOLUME 48....... the Post-Ofmce as Second-Clase Mall Matter, sNO. 18,688. DEFIANCE THAT MUST END, * Rotten life-preservers, rotten life-boats with broken @ars and missing oarlocks, life-rafts with dummy rivets and broken rudders, bursting hose, “the worst fire drill the inspector had ever seen,” ignorance on the part of the captain even of how to summon the crew to the fire drill, “soft patches” on the spection of the Grand Republic reveals conditions of criminal disregard of safety and contempt of the law's provisions hardly less astounding than those disclosed boilers—the rein- on her sister boat by the East River horror. What an indictment the catalogue of defects brings Against the original inspector by whom the boat was certified as safe when in a condition needing only a chance spark to make of her another death trap! What & revelation of sordid greed in her owners, “taking |! rou have any doubta on the subject chances” after the terrible results of that policy of economy had been shown, gambling with human life for gain! Only less emphatic than the warning of the fate of the Slocum seem the conditions of carelessness on the Grand Republic inviting a repetition of that disaster./to Kitder, Peabody & Co, of Boston The neglect of the management to apply that lesson, its failure to utilize the interval before the reinspection for the overhauling of safety apparatus which (he Slocum’s loss made a measure of ordinary precaution, and its Attitude of insolent opposition, combine to reveal an extraordinary indifference to consequences along with: Comempt for public opinion. ’ . How long is this insecure boat to of thousands of women and children continue running, Mn defiance of the law and to the jeopardy of the lives ? The inspectors have swom that it is unsafe; the evidence to that effect fs full and convincing. Yet it was running yesterday as it has been running regularly since the day it bore} or tne undesigned. She will find In me a thoughtless crowd past the burned hulk of the Slocum. time for it to exercise for the real It is high time for the Federal Government to inter- vene to stop this gambling game with death. It is} protection of the D> = public the authority vested in it for that purpose, but ‘too often, as shown by recent events, misapplied through incompetency or emasculated through collu- sion. Let it give an earnest now of its genuine cone| sideration of the public interest. Such action is demanded in the light of these revela- tions of a return to the old rut of indifference and in- security, It will be a “grand-stand play” of a kind which the entire community will approve and applaud, A “BIG SUM FOR FIREWORKS." It appears that when the question of appropriating $50,000 for a public celebration of the opening of the 7 r$ subway came up before the Board of Estimate hints were given that $50,000 is a big *Breworks und oiher luxuries.’ Numbers of peopte entertain a similar opinion of thia t ‘several sum to spend for Proposed extravagance. The managers of the Roosevelt Hospital probably take that view; that amount of money ‘would have obviated the necessity of closing many use- \ ful wards in this overcrowded and undersubsidized hos- pital. Borough President Cromwell doubtless thought likewise when he asked {n vain for a seventh of the gum for street signs in Richmond. In the northern part of Manhattan there is atill required about $10,000 for street signs which it seems impossible to obtain. Money for legitimate city uses Is often hard to get But $50,000 for a Coney Island night in which the genera pudlic ts displaying little Interest is another anatter, . WVetective Trakes.”— According to t he ‘motorman, the Mount Vernon trolley cnr wrecked on Webster avenue, to the injury of a score of passengers, was equipped with defective brakes. if the charge !s substantiated Another example will be furnished of the dear cost in the and of small economies in railway management which are effected at the expense of safety. modern pattern should be in use on all interurbar (rolley pment of high-speed schedul there as or stenin | nes, the de made their np railway trains. relatively as great Power brakes of havin, THE DIGGING.UP OF PARK ROW. One may not write that Park Row {s dug up “again.” ‘The digging-up is nearly constant. But it ts proper to tate that from Agn street to the bridge the excavations have been freshened. Of all the dl yesterday none could tell why, * It has been underground wires, under-trolleys water pipes, steam pl ggers Interviewed street car cables, pes and the sub- way, at different times. It is the same old dig with Sccompaniment of s'imy ‘tirt plies and {ll-odored smell) move + «mart he wet rubbish fires, Shopkeepers do not Ike the di @itches are enathema to pedestrians. Jack of appa direct) purpose in matter, there js an accomplishment o: gging. The ope Yet, whatever the! the upheaval of t blessing beyond. | Millions of picks and shovels must have been worn out on the Row sinec time began, with inevitable bene the grea! industries which turn out tools for digging. NEW HAVEN YIELDS A TRAIN The New Haven railway mana fallibility of Judgment, which js something, and restores one train, which Is more. That it fs not ar wholly | fafe and © on the snbject of running set i pvidence ' it Ustortion of tt one the linc “We cannot lave 2 special for every one,” sid som t the ny office asked for specials for anvbedy, Ne tains sha! ve caused to run whe before. All the public ¢ nonds ia a troin {mpreseed itcelf upon the New And profits gemer,! confesses Tht nobody ha reevon that tw one train ran service which will Meet the ceneval reed. It demands this In reason, In- Py teliigenze should have no diMeulty in making a proper} ft Is concefvable that when sound urban sense) Haven inelination seonomy along the Consolidated right of) © f will be designed which will provide ts| W ¢ Rissop 199 & man) le ene THE w EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME # MAGAZINE. &. gue SbMoatorta Pedlished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ Love erage FRADDIDIRDI PDOEEDDDD DLT 1 OOODEDDDEDODD 4PODESS 1999989400 00046-6000660096 ! Letters |: Lhe GOOK Knows All About Outing Suits. # # u wv — His Wise Advice to a Poor Unfortunate Who Had Gotten the Wrong Kind. Of To-Day. : conan No. 3. From a Poor New Yorker to a! Rich Boston Girl, (Gar tim To TAKE YOUR MEASURE FOR A NATT GALVANIZED IRON SERGE with AN INDIA RvB NOW, THE PROPER. THING FOR rou TO bo TO Cer A FEAL OUTING: SUIT THal You C4N GO OUT IN= .1 Te GO Ta See a PLU MBER-AND By Martin Green. Igo4 Crop of Swimmers © Who Forgot to Come Back to Land. Edited by Aunt Ella in Boston Globe. NEW YORKER named Herbert, who Is richer than Arthur, writes to ask Glady’s father for hie daughter's hand Dear Sir-l have aeon your daughter dys but omee, and, @ he has sot singled me out aa for her spectat favor, T admire her very much and consequently write to you for the purpose of tneulring !f you would be) kind mough to algnify whether or no/ you would look with approval on my | project of becoming your son-in-law, | Tam, as yeu mmmy mriy asveriadn, | “ SEB," said The Cigar Store Man, “that the usual crop of defunct swimmers |s being dragged out ] of the water at the summer resorts.” “Most of the drownings of the summer sea- son,” answered The Man Higher Up, “are due to the wiso, | persons Who {nsist that it is easy to swim. To read ? Ga 5EESRDREGREEGESUEEASSEIOEGES information of professional teachers of swimming, one might imagine that all that is necessary to movo »| through the water as a swimmer {s to displace some of | the fluid and Mick, Swimming is the hardest exercise on the list, and the average seashore visitor whose sole muscle-developing stunt is hanging on a strap in the ‘L’ train while going home from work is in danger of @ long, clinging Introduction to the bottom of the oceaa’ » | every time he goes into the surf. “Swimmers are born, not made, You can't make aa artificial) swimmer any more than you can make an arti- ficial baseball-player. No good swimmer ever drowns unless be overplays himself; and no bum swimmer should pver get into water deep enough to allow bis head to id ’ underneath tha surface when he is standing on his feet. “Most people get half dippy when they partly cover » | thelr outlines with bathing suits and get their bare feet » | Wet. They feel as though they could kick the ocean ad} >| over the place. The ambition of every beginner, in ‘»} swimming is to dive off the outside of the float, and @ jot of them hit their finish on the first dive, Swim ming @ block to a person not naturally gifted with the swimming spirit and stroke is as exhausting as walking , | block in deep sand with a fifty-pound dumbbell In each hand,” “I've always heard,” asserted The Cigar Store Man, “that t! hief thing to have in swimming is confidence.” “Sure,” sald Tho Man Higher Up, “all the su bathers that drown have confidence that they will yet back to shore when they start out. If there wasn't a9 muck confidence there wouldn't be so much work for the undertakers,” of good family. I also posses ample and independent menus, and am, therefore, well qualified to support your daughter in @ station similar to that to which she has deen accustomed. If you have any doubt on that head, 1 would respectfully refer you to Mor- | gan, Drexel & Co. of New York, and and, I may add, Baring Bros, of Lan- don. My funds are in no precarious enterprises, but are chiefly U, 6 Gov- ernment bonds, New York City bonds, National Dank shores and business teal estate in New York and Bostor I think your daughter would make @ sensible and obedient wite for me, and am, I assure you, thoroughly satisfed | « vith your fnanclal and soctal position. T think that the union of our families] 4 would prove mutually advantageous (0 yur estates, I cannot see how your daughter could do better than to accede | « to the proposition which I hereby Infor- mally make to her through you, namely, that she evacuate the position of single Dlessedness and become the better helt I KNow ALL [4seu 17 FOR T READ !T IN ( THE FUuoGé! LINING! THATS THE KIND OFA » * » » & very eMctont husband and not unlav> ish within reasonable limits, I have ob- served an extravagant tendency on the art of some young women of to-day, ut truss that your example of prudent economy and solvent administration of your business ventures, reinforced by] @ her mother's guiding senaibilliy, have given her a pattern which ahe can easily follow. May I not also hope that you have Instructed her in the nature of A Unique Cure. A novel cure for consumption has recently been discovered by Dr, Canu, 4 Rue Fontenelle, Rouen, France. The pathcat: | witely obedience and warned her against $ 4s first placed upon the operating table, where the usuay "OME" preannt-day extravaganes in dress, equi | saline solutions are Injected, Afterward he 1s seated upon page, Jewels, &e.t Certainly no father | 4, an Insulated table and electricity passed through him for and mothsr who have stopped even for $ some minutes by attaching the poles to metallic plates A moment to eonelder these things! ¢ which had been fastened to his breast and back. During coud be ao derelict In parental duty a9] 9 this time sparks can be drawn from any part of his body. to fail in exhorting and admonishing | @ This finished, the patient inserts the small end of a conicale thelr danehter against the evil trend of | § shaped tube in his month. Into this tube ts put a Mttle — # the times, Permit me to add that T) 4 broom previously dipped Into the necessary medicamente, / should be greatly surprised if a man for the healing of the lungs or whatever organism {s of your sound busines# sense hus not foreseen Ahe necessity of Joining your susenler to & perwon of, the famtl I, without tacked, and through ft, the man’s body, and an X ray rit in the rear goe: # electric current, carrying with {t ¢) medicinal “trons” from the broom, > The TWO CONS and Their Great Oarsmanship. us ss Had It Not Been for a Little Circumstance, Their Claim Might Have Stood, All Right, EAR NAUGHT. bons ng. may say | possess. 1 am not unaware hat one takes ret risks in matrimony, but since the Imighty has designed that state for| ran Low + determined to pow to bis A should ba whould bee Koto the in ‘ in the decrees of heaven. Beileve me, air, yours truly, German “Soft” Drinks. Though beer is admittedly the popular beverage “tole many, containing the smallest percentage of alcohol prevalent alcoholic drinks, yet efforts have been made‘to produce this, or an imitation thereof, without the infusion pment of any alcohol whatever, So far as these experiments were aimed at the creation of a beverage by An anawer by return mail would the use of and aerated water, they have proven flat y ovlee not address m ' fallures owing to the resultant unpalatable taste, At prese club or re Send to ent, however, a pinn is seriously urged which promises seem- ss—namely, tO extract the alcohol from finished y means of distillation, thus leaving as a res! ‘age which retains the taste and nourishing mt or Itself, and which can, by carbonating, be easily dered both palatable and lasting. A Record Wreck-Harbor, The harbor of Valparaiso, the important port of Chill, ie only an open roadstead, In which 12 ships have been wrecked through storms causing them to drag thelr ane chors. The water in the bay is very deep In most places, it has been declared impracticable to build a wall the mouth of the bay. Therefore a number of walls breakwaters will be built at a cost of $10,960,000, Original Auto Killer. The Idol Juggernaut and his car, which ts 20 feet high, are still in their temple at Orissa, ‘They are objects of great veneration to the Hindus and of curlosity to the tourtets, ‘The Juggernaut was once celebrated a@ the god of dew struction. | The “Fudge” Idiotortal \ [IDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGI PAGE OF THE EVENING FudG y Eventog Fudge School of Philosophy, What Is Life to a Man WheA His Wife \s a Widow? (Copyrat, 1904, by the Planet Pub. 8.) 5-6-DS- 6-2-6 26-2-286-6-3OG het office tn that in ¢ latter require: newer [ mu ily dictate one to my stenographer ——iieeen The Bishop and the Saloon. et Eve Li Id Corre: den’ Dincuos the Subway Tavern Dedieation, To the Editor of The Evening Worl! LTHOVGH Tam a total abstainer fl and a temperance advocate, | must reluctant admiration rs-action in the the Bubway Tavern, Of cou drank will drink as long as | its, the Bishop very weely decbled that would minimize the i health ond franees be ceinking pur and cheap tiq Bishop Potter has shown, {9 thts stand of hig, thar he has] ¢ a broad gage brain and that see the god of comprom Bishop ded And many drinker eeeeee ne (wy Dont ] fat You Casr Dem TH ONT ps Deondminded ut mper tyes tha may) bilous element halt wry vb wail t pre-historic Viehon sag bead tioy ith OWN scintillations. Hence this paper will hereafter publish only great thoughts by. the EVENING FUDGE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY. To.day's THOUGHT Is: “WHAT IS LIFE TO A MAN WHEN BIS WIFE IS A WIDOW?" Did you ever pause to THINK why a'man CEASES his former pleasures a9 soon as his wile be. the averags temperince or SIMON CAMEHON STABLE, TR A Crittctem of the Bishop, * Editor of The Evening World EVER pe since Sauls even N fal advent among prophe 499 fncongragus a sig t Deen | wit a th that presented by in exalted dignitary of " vg A Pr and dedica side mn And this te done, npr but with full Knowledge and use © power of newspaper advertising PPEFOSSSSOGOSSSS FINS HSHGOSE GOGH SH OCS ¢ REFORMS accompilshed. If you observe any signs of your wife becomlog a widow, WRITE TO MAYOR WCLELLAN and (his paper will see that she Jo 7) STOPPED. IN THE DAYS OF HELIOGABALUS WHO GABBLED RABID BABBLE? US! GABBLED FABULOUS! SPP PTOI? vid many a weak of tempted man vleve teat the Church countenances jes. In the evuses my see © OG B6666 6-5-56.0-0-6 6556-06-96 $ > 3 4 4 $ ? 3 rE: | 3 i e | | IN PRESIDENTIAL YEAR. | HIS WALK IN LIFE, | HOPE FOR WILLIE. REGRETS TO REPORT. What do you think of the polltleal din was walking across the Ni-| Mrs. Skemer—Willie’s teacher says) “Can vou imme a bite, ma'am?" sald * | situation ? 1 gorge on A rope. Wille never gets his arithmetic sums the ragged hobo. “I'm hungry enuft I wish there Wagn't any such thing, | I wish that mother could see me Be at all. ter eat a hose.” me of | eS tater Soot | enld the Kanens. “It $0 meny peopla| now.” ho mntittered, "besinen f kiew |. Skemer—Mebbe it'll be all for the| “I regret to any.” replied the kind other Evening World correspondents | weren't looking for political s{tuations| she'd be proud of the way her soa esa He may turn out to be an ex: | lady, “that we are just qut of horses; (Dink pont Ula: aL shall watch @ager: | there would be more willing to accept sticks to the straight and narrow path." pert short-change artist—Philadelphia| but I'll call the dog.’—Chicage Daily , DIBT CLERGYMAN. |Jobs as farm hands."—Washington Star.| —Cleveland Leader. | Press, \ News.