The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1904, Page 10

| works, asbestos furnishings, better trained crews? 18 | premonition that my new emotions would 5. Pa “¥ = box still afloat and the longshoreman | 9 Pape, “Te not ow i form? Papa cays that you will eoon forget f It is an old story of “lessons” unlearned. The Fonte nd let gp toed lleng een | Marrant fire proved the grave risk of storing high ex-lecy shakes my faith in you, as the H Ploves in drugthouse cellars. Yet as recently as] im Sar wri carve te fr | World The Evening World First ‘Number of columns of advertising in The Bvaning World during first six months, 1904.. | Number of columns of advertising in The Bvening World during first six Months, 1903.cceseceeeeevseceees 6,019 INCREASE....... 7,700 a eeeeeeaeeneene No other six-day paper, morning or evening, In Now York EVER carried in regular editions in six consecutive i months such a volume of display advertising as The Evening World carried during the first six months, 1904, I DISASTERS AND ‘'LESSONS.” “And what good came of all of it?” How has the foss of a thousand lives on the Gen, Slocum profited the community when other excursion boats, their Masters heedless of the warning, reckless of conse- Quences, continue: their trips under conditions of in- fecurity inviting a duplication of the East River horror? What good comes of any disaster after the tumult of wrath ‘has died away and the torrent of public ensure dwindled down? Some minor good, neces- sarily. The Pittsburg life-preserver factories are re- ported stripped of their manufactured product, most of which has been purchased for use hereabouts. Missing oarlocks have been returned to life-boats, new hose provided, a hasty re-examination of appliances made, and the ordinary round of precautions instituted to reduce the insecurity of life. * But what of a radical reform of danger conditions? What .of more and larger life-boats, metal upper three weeks ago, years after that emphatic warning, wwe had the chemist of the Municipal Explosives Com- mission resigning on the plea that he could not sanc- tion a similar evasion of the law; to which the ex- planation was forthcoming from the commission that some of the law's restrictions were so severe as to require “modification,” The Windsor fire gave us more fire-escapes; but what permanent improvement of fire protection in hotels did it effect? The Darlington collapse prompted am Aldermanic ordinance granting larger powers of ontrol to the Building Department—an ordinance Love Letters Of To-Day.| —eeaien No. 4 From a Poor New Yorker to a Rich Boston Girl. Edited by Aunt Ella in Boston Globe. LADYS writes the following heart- G broken letter to Arthur, the poor New Yorker: Dear Arthur—Papa bas at last re luctantly consented to my writing you, but on condition that I should tell you not to expect any more letters from me, and that I strould request you never to write to me again. It comes extremely hard to write that, Arthur, It coukd not hurt me more if the pen were @ needle puncturing my heart and not @ mere nib of gold scratching this paper, Will you not delleve me, dearest, whe I say that this parting tortures me? K tortures me not only because you are coparated from me, but because in & measure ft separntes papa and mamma from me. Heretofore they have sympathised with my every whim, my every eransient wish, my every aspiration. The firet evening we walked together at ——— under the olf cus, beneath which ¢hey oay Indiane once wor shipped, I began to feel stir within me fan emotion thet goon attached me to all that wee lovely in Ia, The fra- grance of flowers, the rustle of leaves, the breath of the wind, the ints of the skies and the rays of the sun were How real to me. I began to feel that the same power which produces the delight- ful panorama arownd me also bound me by invisible ties ¢o every manifestation of natural besuty I had thought that |e would still be life even if this world theatre of inant- mate nature should fadeaway, But now T needed the sisterhond of the stars to share In my joy, or, Arthur dear, was rn pain? Yor gid I not havea premonition of danger or suffering which made » Genine the sympathy of every one an: ‘every thing? Might tt not have been the loving. At times, after trying real hard, I become matter of fact, and say to myself that papa ie right, hat some i other girl could eaaliy fill my place tn} | your heart, and I picture you walking with her under the old oaks and whis- pering words that God meant for me alone, Then all the stage of life be- comes dark, there is @ crash and @ wreck and [ fall to weeping over the ruins of our splendid dream, Yet my doubta are only momentary. I will not believe that you are elther insincere or unwise, My faith remains steadfast atu, Oh, what would I not eive to read the On late intercepted! Did you say Ba by building interests and its repeal threatened, in ft that you loved me? Oh. I have vou id! Did tt than | Who was put in prison for that crime? The in-line tn what way did you vay It? Fin pe ; having committed a felony it was the officer's duty to bi alae Prevent his escape.” The Commissioner thinks that PY Were coming on fast, Will there next be a track Spector's punishment was retention in office. © The Iroquois Theatre fire guaranteed us better Pheatre safeguards; but has anybody gone to jail for 2 Who has gone to jail for the Midvale wreck, or what’ improvement has the Erie made in its signal Mpparatus? What grade crossing has been abolished Sa result of the fatal accidents of almost simul- taneous occurrence at the Van Cortlandt, the Merrick Rogd and the Kings Highway crossings? "The calamities of carelessness come, public indig- mation rises to fever heat, spends itself in ineffectual Protest, cools off, and matters return to normal con- Gitlons except for the adoption of precautionary measures of wunimportance. The page with the lesson’. on is then tumed for a new leaf, It is aj "renins Werld Correspondents \ e Discuss the Subway Tavera fidiculous bend ‘ Teform to come from a laboring Betleatics, THE POLICEMAN’S REVOLVER The question of the policeman’s use of his revolver, ® question of annual recurrence, has been twice brought! Up anew within a week—first by the fatal shooting of ‘William Daly, eighteen years old, by Detective McEvoy, 8d now by the similar fatal result of a Newark de- teetive’s shot. In each case a prisoner accused of ant, Merce not of extreme seriousness was killed while try-| °° ing to cecape. Commissioner McAdoo was reported as saying of the! ; Dely case that as the youth “was under suspicion of | N° 0 teach us to murmur: “Hey! This policemen should be more accurate shots, so that they could “wing” their man without killing him. | With Potter to tip us what horses to He {a} Did you say as sweetly aa you did that afternoon at when we watched the ships sall past the light- house, following them with our oyes tM each sail faded in the distance Uke a meiting snowtlake? And here am aking you questions when you are forbidden even to write to me. T ask for answers, but the only an- swers I see ure my tears on this paper. Deurest, my heart t¢ breaking. Qood- by! Good-by! Good-by! GLADYs. — The Bishop and the Saloon, _—. First Subway Tavern Bpic. To the Editor of The Evening World; We've queer sights tn Gotham—from Gook to Aquarium— From Mercerised Meat to Nearfood Sanitarium But the weirdest of all ts the Bishop's Boosarjum. old we were taught that the holy D. D. Was supposed to instruct us in pure pletee; back, 4 ABEGDDDOLD GOD TEE 44 65900-1006 104090-06-5 1005000909000 vw & & More Woes of the Commuter. & & By T. E. Powers. 9000900 OLo oe Ive lost MELLEN The GREAT WEIGHT REDUCER RIDE THRouGM Tre Tunney An0 Get Your WEIGHT ALoutco— Lint wise frow ve FAT women may Reoves THEIR WEIGHT = TAKE A Rid Ww OLD decroR MELLENS TUNNEL ON A NEWHAVEN TRAIN DOOEDO5564968-0-06-606846:25458.846 2 DHE LL Le Re HE DE ee 3 We BOTTLE OUR COAL SMOKE AND SE iv POR STove O22 One Eno of TE TRAIN /N NEW YoRK Tye OTHER ENO AT MOUNT VERNON (TS ALONG WALK PFS-FOGS8-3-3-9-0: SPS $S9OS-OG 40 SIDE TRACKED AT STAMFORD TeLeT A FACISHT Go BY A Few Swnany POA Neen ® 4 ® : F998 DEFT ESTE TITTIES BPP PESOS POE ES HEF TTPO OSPOT OES STS FFs OF HFEF O94 Hs +343 3554G048 22: 6 tOh, but It’s Hot and Turkish-Bathy on the New Haven Road 1s Commuters on the New Haven road are still kicking vigorously about the scarcity of trains and the awful sweltering experiences they have > while passing through the tunnel and in the cars of the company generally. Cartoonist Powers—who likewise commutes—here comically 2 sets forth some of the special trials and tortures he and tne rest of the suburbanites who patronize this road endure, as also the practical uses to which over-obese folks can put a summer ride on it. ; ; O94EG499404-94-04.04.44 0904445904 HIPS IDODEDODOOSODOOD bo¢ PLDPEDRD LADO 464 DDDA4DO06-46.64-40.9-6-8-.6.0000604.0.000O90009 > LETTERS, Techies Neg tas SOME OF THE . QUESTIONS, oving Vay In Japan. | BEST JOKES ANSWERS. OF THE DAY. — —_>—- TIME’S CHANGES, “Is the story you have written a his- ” It Stands for ‘Postscript.” ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Kindly explain the meaning of "P. 8." at the ending of some letters, and also where derived from aw. “Pp. &."" is the abbreviation for “Post- rorivt;” derived from the two Latin words “post geriotum,” which mean written later ‘ered the litterateur in hard modern novel now. But | be historic before 7 get it pyolished.”"~Washington Star, NOT APPRECIATIVE. q credited with saying that if some of his men whom he| And to stake his own high-church 2 knows to be expert with the revolver had killed the] canontonl “stack? 4 prisoner he would have inquired “why they did not shoot him {n the lower limbs to stop his flight.” In that Ideal condition of expert marksmanship an basi ap a ha a Officer might bring an escaping Prisoner to terms by o¢ iy petal ie to get Archlepiscopal clipping an ear or “barking” his trousers leg. But in Boore the present sate of inaccuracy of alm something more Our ancestors died ere their church- rights they'd lose. , Bo banish the creeds that our fathers Mike a forcible reprimand than tactt encouragement of hvid dear a the practice is demanded. As a matter of unpleasant | Ther* seems to be no sort of Place for them here fact,@ youth who could have been sent up for a few ears Most for petty theft and a man deatnat wn a of forgery had been brought but not proved were! to undergo @ punishment severer than that in-| on moet riurderers. The inequality and injustice) Private execution of the law by detectives must @ven the apologists of the habit of promiscuous | Te | by officers. . Hey, Potter! Look sharp with @hat fresh, keg of beer’ PEYER CLAIVERES, Pompton, N. J A Safe-Opener'a Request, Editor of The Evening World a a Ell / 9 — —-- | felwate 6 golng to open a safe eur B Change of View.—In announcing the institution of ten | some morning next week on Nastan| ew transfer points the President of the City Railway. street, acd we'd like to open It with pays: “This yoluntary arrangement of transfers, for| "the Dox logy’ Can you give us Bishe | JP. Which there ts no legal odi!gation upon either company, | op Potter's acdJres Deen negotiated for the greater comfort and con.| ON yen! of the travelling publi A year of contention! the courts anu of obstinate resistance to the now rights of the passenger has brought a chang» p which is to be commended. s10w radical! this ees may be understood from the present « ore to which the public had no claim in! any, Will a city maginuate impo iat recently It, was arbitrarily denied others to ies Loon an indulgence go with a “EYED MINE. The Sanetity of a “Subway” Jag. To the Faitor of The Evening World. If get a Jag with an arehie benediction twisted into tt at ro, what soit of pe r. me and a few masked |« Vronounced and Usually Spelled “Rabbit.” To the Edltor of The Evening World: A that Welsh “Rarebdit'’ Is pro- now! rabbit” and enetied “rarebit.” BH saya it i spelt “rabbit and oro. nounced “raredit,” Which is correct? INQUIRES. Frock Cont. To the Eattor of The Evening World What coat is it proper for a gentle man to wear bein married in the af+ ternvon? 0. GL ce of Sight. Dt Editor of The E: Wilim BH wering T. Be very regarding dist f sight at sea ‘A man at the surface of the sea ne it can see 12 ne mile higher he Tt have been at rin Parts and day one could nce of forty | As the human | glasses, On th his eye 1 foot a nd if he was miles. over a distance of | other words, that if a man 4 et high enough on thir} arth he could see to London. | would} like to know from aclentific reada thle ts 80 JAY 4,000, miles. This in a Japanese laborer travelling, with his smal! family and smaller be- jongin n search of work. [t is common in Japan to hang burdens of all sorte en} t lanced on the shoulder, The immense straw hat ard 7: woman's For Snake Bite, the Editor of The Evening World @ perron t# bitten by a anak: A Wie gratifying to note 474) Keraychtally-Indarsed) “toed of that anal portt ‘ * ba le BOY Nicicle a ro Lerchiet are the usual head coverings of the lower ¢lasses, In which, also, both % | men sad women tuck up thelr outer garments, which are often their only ones, olone, what {s the best thiag ty do Dc eS ol aa “Yes, said the man who uses old- fashioned phrases, “my daughter can make a plano fairly talk.” “If that plano was talking,” answered Mr, Cumrox, “the nature of its re- ist have been something fear- ashington Star. IN PHILADELPHIA, “That bell,’ sald the proud Philadel- Phian, pointing to the @fd Liberty Bell, ‘over one hundred years ago awoke our cltisens to the fact that whey were a free people.” “and from common report,” replied the visitor, “you have been asleep ever since.'—Yonkers Statesman, A WISER PLAN. “Don't you think the expenses of run- ning a campaign might be curtailed?” “Certainly,” answered Senator Sorg- hum. “It would be no trouble to cur- tail ‘em, But the real trick is to ex- pand ‘em and at the same time restrain idie omity concerning disburs?- ments.""—Washington Star IMPROVEMENT. “Your wife is improving with her baking, isn't she?” oy cakes and pies now are good enough to eat, en?” “Oh, no: but she's getting #0 she can make them look good enough to eat." Pailadolphia Public Ledger, By Martin Green. “_ The Reason We Should Have a $50,000 Subway Blowout. a SEE,” sald The Cigar Store Man, “that the Board of Aldermen wants to blow $50,000 for a celebra- tion af the opening of the subway.” “The movement should be massaged along,” asserted The Man Higher Vp. “After the city has put $35,000,900 into the ground, nobody but a piker can kick on sinking a little loose change in giving the enterprise a vivid debut. Let us make the opening of the subway & large, red occasion, even if it does cost a sum aggre- gating 2 1-2 cents apiece for the 2,000,000 inhabitants of Manhattan, “We have a license to feel chesty about our subwaye Tt shows how wise we are. The more we think about It the more we feel like handing ourselves quantities of fine bouquets, Every time we sce a picture of August Belmout or John B. McDonald we feel like throwing our hats {n the air and exuding whoops of joy. “For many years we have endured the punkest trans~ portation lines on the face of the earth. We have knowa for twenty years or more that we would have to build, Gn underground road, and finally we agreed that we would bulld an underground road. But did we build it? “Not on your birthday! We formed a Rapid Transit Commission that ts the most remorkable body fn the world, in that it is self-perpetuating aud responsible to nobody or no government. ‘The Kapid Transit Commis- > | sion turned the job of building the road over to a eyndl- cate, headed by August Relmont. The syndicate got the contractor's profit—and maybe there isn't a nice, juicy Percentage {n $35,000,000! And now that the subway is practically eompleted wo are going to turn it over to the syndicate to be run by tho syndicate for fifty years, ‘Then it will be ours; but by that time It 1s probable that »| the subway system of transportation will be so anti- quated that we will have to change our $35,000,000 tunnel into a sewer.” “It was a pudding for the Belmont syndicate,” re- marked The Cigar Store Man. “I know of only one thing easter,” sald The Man Higher Up. “That is blasting rocks out of a quarry, painting them black and selling them to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad for coal.” Fourteen Rules for a Happy Home. Here are fourteen rules for wives to practise if they wish to keep the uffections of that coy and elusive creature, the genus husband. They dre formulated by Miss Pdith Hen- drickson in the Philadelphia North American, and are some Wives:" L Feed him substantially, 2 Keep the home bright and comfortable. & Practice repose. 4 Train your servants well. 6. Be always ready for the unexpected friend. 6. Spend money prudently. 1. Be cheerful. 8. Be interested in his bustness and in his pleasure. 9% Keep Uttle household worrtes to yourself, 10, Be as careful in your attire and as anxious to please him as you were before your marriage, 1 Encourae your husband to spend at least one night a week at the club or elsewhere with the “boys.” 12, Encourage him to bring his friends home, and have at least one “man's room” where he can entertain them with perfect freedom. 14 Divide your time between the baby and your husband. 14 Take pains to be an entertaining, cheerful, interested Bullet-Proof Cloth. The Russtan War Department has been experimenting with a bullet-proof breastplate, the Invention of an Italian named Giorgiamo. In testing its power of resistance, a steel bayonet and a Circasslin dagger were broken against It, and a sword of Damascus sitaply made a dent in the cloth, Buls lets were then fired Into it—uch as had plerced eight one- inch planks and a two-inch steel plate—with the resu't that they were flattened against the cloth, Origin of Signing Mark. ‘The cross was used in signing in tne beginning of Christ+ fanity by all followers of Christ to distinguish them from the pagans, and it wis also assed as a pledge of the truth of the matter signed. This cross remains to this day In the signature of ecclesiastics, as well as being testimony of the iterate, A “Fat Man Tax.” The British Medical Journal s that “as luxuries should be taxed rather than necessaries a superflulty of fat, which is mostly the result of luxurious living, may not unfairly be regarded as a fitting oject of taxation.” One municipality in Sweden already taxes superfiuity of fat, The “Fudge” Idiotorial ——) Whe Did You Ever Wonder waite. sheet i What Cows Chew? srandpa’s farm or through the asy- it Is Evening Pudge Coupon by Chewing Gum. lum grounds, did (Copyret, (904, by the Planet Pum Co) you ever notice that THE COWS ARE ALWAYS CHEWING SOMETHING? Perhaps you wondered WHAT they were chewing, Maybe you thought it was CUD, IT WAS NOT CUD, IT WAS EVENING FUDGE COU-, PON CHEWING GUM. When the TRUSTS and the minions of the COR. PORATIONS forced the meat strike on THE COMMON IJPEOPLE, the price of CUD rose so high that only PLU- }TOCRATIC COWS could afford to chew It, The COM-- MON COW had to go without. to Ly Them ft was that the Editor of this paper came [ithe rescue, He had a LARGE amount of CHEWING GU! left over afer the failure of the attempt to bribe the COMMON PEOPLE with good chewing gum to read THB EVENING FUDGE. (The Common People liked thegum, 1 but they sald they’d have to BREAK THE GUM habit if i H} they couldn't get thelr chewing gum without ao Evening | Fudge on the side.) f H This extra gum the Evening Pudge distributed among , HALL cows that could produce a certificate of good char- | acter, Now the cows can safely DEFY the meat strike, ; For the suffering cows In far ARABIA we are sending | by the good ship “Dopey Isaac” a large consigament of H GUM ARABIC, ae | IN THE REIGN OF ARIOVISTUS i COULD THE COMMON FOLKS RESIST US? ' HEY HISSED US! ' ’ | of the maxims tn use in the new “sraining-Bchool for — .