The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1904, Page 8

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Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Becond-Class Mall Matter, —_ —_ — VOLUME 4B....0055 seeereeeesssNO, 18,690, The Evening World First Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six months, 1904.....sseeseeeeveasee 17700 Number of columns of leeiiint in The Evening World during first six | months, 1903 ..eeseesseeeeeneees 6,019 INCREAS ast 1,081 —_— No other six-day paper, morning or evening, In New York EVER carried {n regular oiitions In six consecutive months such a volumo of display advertising as The Evening World carried during tho first s!x months, 1904, Inewecororeccenmomnnnnnweronororoores: THE PART-TIME EVIL. ‘The near approach of the fall school term calls at- tion to the fact that the evil of part-time attendance * Das not on!y oot been remedied during the vacation sea- close of the Jast school year 75,000 children were on) part time it is expected that on the reopening of the @chools the number thus deprived of full tuition will » exceed 95,000. . This continued denial of full school privileges to | Younger children is in the highest degree discreditable © 4 wa city with a hundred million-dollar budget. A dis- “quieting feature js the likelinood, as pointed out by }, Associate Cliy Superintendent O'Brien, thet these con- * @itions can never be entirely done away with while the - Present arrangement lasts by which tne approval of} = * gehool sites and the appropriation of funds by tho} | | Boerd of Estimate is delayed and put off in a way to + Interfere materially with the efficient disposal of such| emergencies. Whatever the original cause of these unsatisfactory conditions may Le, whether or not, as alleged, they had thefr source in the lengthening of the elementary ‘choo! course by a year, the fact to be looked In the > y face is that their existence constitutes a serious short- coming of the educavional system and one which cannot too goon be rectitied. Ia there net sufficient elasticity 1n the charter, along With onergy ond a spirit of co-operation among the city | authorities, to remedy once for all this very humiliating; © @efictency of school facilities? END OF A RAID THAT FAILED, The New York and New Jersey Distributing Com- pany hes won in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, what would appear to be the clinching victory in a series of legal triumphs. Inspector Schmittberger and hia police raided the company’s offices early {In the summer in the course of the vigorous war then being wage on the pool-rooms, Telephone Instruments were seized and a manager of - the place was arrested. The company then went to court. It was the police charge that the concerp was) acting ws a centre of information for the pool-rooms, Tecetvying and sending out race-track reports no longer) ¢ furniched over Western Union special wires Justice Gaynor discharged the prisoner taken In the : faid, holding thet no law prohibits the mere gathering! Qnd sending out of news. On a writ of replevin the telephones seized by the oficers were recovered. And » Bow Justice White peremptoriiy orders the New York Telephone Company to restore ite service to he Dis- © tributing Company ‘The victories here notod are dectelve, but not for the pool.room contiugent. They constitute not a rebuff Jor reform, tnt a rebuke to improper methods af fight- dag an evil. It is ¢\- spectacular raid, with {ts accom- paniments of summary seizures and {nsuMcient evidence, Swhich has failed again. Instead of pursuing the news, Fon the theory that !f it can be stopped the gamblers {| mill of necessity corse gambling, the detectives must } how get after the guilty “sports” If they are equal to i t t ay" s | the chase the news and {ts distributers will trouble 00 -one loncer. And really a police deputation as handy with wits as with ladders ought to succeed op thia | father line. A LAW LACKING IN FORCE, iP The discovery of a lack of Federal authority to do, } More than impose fines on steamboat companies i violating the orders of Inspectors reveals a singular bea | ¥ { Potence of the law in a quarter where It was presumed | + fo be all-powerful * Given an antiquated vessel known to be unsafe and + @rowded to the guards with a precious human cargo, all } the Governmont can do, apparently, 1s to station an} ; Officer on the pier to note her departure on what may | be a mission of death and fine the owners $500, In the ! elreumstances a fine so imposed takes on the nature of| hush money paid the Government for the privilege of taking chances with death disaster, 7 There is a very obvious need of a more compre: | * hensive and stringent Jaw to cover this defect of mart- time legisiation. Not the least extraordinary result ot | the Slocum tragedy {is the radical weakness revealed) in every particular of excursion steamer traffic tol Which inquiry has heen directed—in statutes no leas} than in structural conditions, ATHLETICS AND MANLY GOSPEL. Tt ts noted in the Year Book of the order that the Young Men's Christian Associations have now over five, » > hundred gymnasiums, attended by 130,000 men and boys. | |. Thus they constitute the greatest athletic organization the world, As the chief growth of the associations’ ‘ i bervbip ia stated to have come from boys and men ae HOt affiliated with churches, it may be safely assumed “Phat the gymnasiums have played a very considerable grand body e ty” to point the good of the athletics feature tn the jon work. Under such auspices, sports and are sure to be carried on in whole-ome and ly fashion. The developments from them are rea- ly certain to he healthful and helpful. And as the ons are many and are widely scattered there is dissemination of the gospel of the “sound oulrol, iwi which there '* no more 0 The Young Met bristian conscious strength ana its trained é * gon but has been permitted to grow worse, Where at the i | Five Referms for Him, | One need not pnilosophize over “muscular Christ!- | Police and Taxes. pmultiplying their emus Love Letters Of To-Day.. _— No, 5. From a Poor New Yorker to a Rich Boston Girl. = Edited by Aunt Ella in Boston Globe, LADYS'S mother writes thus from G ‘ewport to Giadys's father “Dear Ned—I have just received a most doleful letter from Gladys In the game matl that brought one frem vou in which you told me all about the let: ter Arthur —— wrote to her and what you wrote to him in reply, Don't you think, Ned, you have been a little pre clpitate? Gladys ts just about heartbrok- en, The poor child writes me that she cannot sleep nighta, Your letter hurt her terribly, I wonder why you meddled tn the affairatall, Why did you not leave it to me? I¢ you had only sent Arthur ——~'s letter to me I could have managed the affair satisfactorily to every one, |! always liked Arthur — His family ts very well connected, you know, and he & most agreeable fellow, Tne family iy not wealthy, to be sure, but we hay money enough. anyway, | am sick and tired of this talk of money in circle where, when I was a child, the subject | © most discussed wes good breeding. Pres. | end-day talk about money t# 80 tiresom Ned, Can't Americans estimate values in anything except stocks and bonds? When 1 think of that poor child, Gladys, weeping her eyes out, | could s¢e all my shares in Manhattan and C, B. & Q tr revocably lost and feel grateful for ft I never supposed you wire auch @ bear, Ned. You clawed cur poor child's feelings like a grasly. 1 imagine you lacerated the very soul of peor Arthur Why couldn't you have displayed some tact? How ofteo have I told you that without tact society could not ex- it? Fancy if anything should happen to our darling dear! No, Ned, they are not all romances, those stories of young wrie dying on account of disappointel hopes, defeated ambitions, or thwarted love, Haven't you any feelings, Ned? You certainly had once, Yea, you @id, and you could write as pushy as any soph more, When I return to Boston I soali open that cabinet where are all the letters you wrote me when you were | at Iarvard. They would make fine reading for Arthur ——- and Gindys, How could the man who wrote those | letters, which I used to kiss and cry over, ever trample under foot the ten: der hearts of a boy and girl who love each other? I hall read one of them) to you the fiest chance q get, you cruel, cruel Czar, you Ivan the Terrible! Lov. ingly. your affectionate wite HBLON, THE EVENING WORLD offers prizes of $5, $3 and $2 for the best letters sent In anewer to the question: “What Would You Do | if You Were Mayor of Greater New York.” Letters must mot be more than 100 words in length and should be addressed to “Whatto-Do Edi- tor Evening World, Pulitzer Buliding, New York City.” Keep Factories in Town, F I were Movor of Greater New York ] I would make ft an Inducenrent to all the shops and factories not to move out of New York, beeause thousands of people have to leave thelr good homes! in New York to live tn the country, where thelr cbtldren would not get as good achooling as in the clty O. OINLSON, No, 21 Crane street, Elizabeth , J. Restrict Paving, WOULD have the streets paved I] where there are houses, not where there are empty lots. JOSEPHINE BURIAN, No, 33 Kelly street, Bronx, | F I were Mayor of New York City I would advocate the following re- forms: To provi Pleasant breathing: ces and free excursions for the poor. To have experienced surgeons on pub- lic ambulances, Instead of young phy- siclans who may be tho couse of dea of hundreds of people yearly through thetr ever-ready “intoxicated” | verdict In cases of fractured skulls, 4 Yo have swimming-tanks in public schools, so tn case of a disaster such a Locum fire the young people woul ald In reseuing the older folks, 4 T ompel railrond companies to run more irs, and (herefore prevent “car-pack- ing. 5. 1 would personally Investigate in¥ complaints made by tha | ’ DALEY, FL were Mayor I would tmprove hoe An Altruistic Plan, | pitus, give half of my money to the poor, heln the blind and give the poor men work EDWARD BROWN, No. M4? Jackson avenua Brooklyn. WOULD have the sidewa'ks of streets below Fourteenth street elevated to! the averago height of ten to twelve | feet, narrowing the present walke to [about three feet; I would etation a policeman at every eecond corner {n downtown divtricts and uptown at every fourth or fifth corner, sald o: not to be allowed to depart from his stand more than ten paces, having telephone connection with the next sta- | clon-house, 1 would recommend an al- teration of the charter to the effect that taxes bs collected for the next war tasted OOO 4 | | il |to children of for the last year; that the rest of us ang cansot do all s td -O-S-2-2 O22 CM G4A AI DYEING GA DMO BARA ODO SG 5-44-64 the tax rate be fixed for the next twenty-five years at about $2.50, and Unat the Board of Estimate be bound to make appropriations according means and not vice versa. WILLIAM D, Would Do Like McClellan. N all probability I would do fuat as our present Mayor ts doing, and that Is trying to satisfy the general miblic No matter what the Mayor's politics may be, It ta utterly tmpostble to satisfy everybody, One fault 1 have to find Is that I think he pays too much attention to Menhattan Borough to the detriment of the borough of trooklyn VY, 8 MILLER, No, 8 Welrfleid street, Brooklyo, N. Y, A Downtown College. WOULD bulld a series schools for the boys ofthis city, My alm would bo to buiki a collewe, af well as @ high school, tn the lower part of the elty. We ail know that the high schools and colleges are uptown, What can @ student who lives below Grand street do, when he |s graduated from public echool and tries to advance tn his work in a high school or college? Why, he has to pay 10 cents for his carfare, What If his parents can't afford to pay this money? He must either give up his studies or else start early and walk, But in winter, when of high "| the anow La deep, he has to stay home JOHN STRANO, No, % Elizabeth street, For Two Platoons. WOULD give to the poor, hard- working firen@n the «wo-platoon system and give them @ little recre- ation. h they need badly to betrer ther condition, 0 as to let them go home to thelr wives ald children part of thelr Ume MARY GOLD? Eleven years old. No, 1 East One Hundred and Third street Diet and Hoboes. WOULD have It seen to that stale frult, polsonous candy and the pol- conous flavoring syrups sometimes 1 ‘heap soda could pot be sold the venalty a heavy fine Grocers would not display thelr » 4s thelr stores. It should be covered over. Also hobos and beggars would be driven from the parks The hobos hold up the benches and go to sleep and the beeears annoy decent people, That buildings being | torn down must have water sprayed upon them. R. BLACK, No, 3% Wythe avenue, Brooklyn. Would Aim to Please, WOULD @o ali I could to piease the peopie living In New York. A Mayor @ only & buman being as well as or imprisonment ek out vaGa NOW MaRy VANE WE ARE | GOING OUT FoR,’ THE DAY You Syst A FIDDDDDADDDDOOEDD 64-99-446-149-4OOO64-H90. HG if You Were Mayor What Would You Do? | eoees PHIDED PADIDOIDIGODDDD 040066064 Evening World Readers dots » This Question and Make!” Some Good Suggestions to the Present Executive. | le expected of him. He te not a god and canvt make things fy. He ts just elected Mayor to try to please us Miss V. FOSTER, No. 1219 Hoe avenue, Bronx. Would Do His Best. WOULD do tho best under the otr- | cumstances In which I found myself. ALEXANDER f, TONDLER, No, % Rutgers street. Some Merry Suggestions. WOULD: Appoint myself offctal I insnectur of hosiery at Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue on all windy days. Provide an ambulance for aged Aut decreptt jokes and ats tion It in front of vaudevilila houses. Forward a mahog- Any oon to Jack Munroe at ‘Frisco, Funeral notios later, Send down a cguple of bules of hay to the starving sensors at the eauarinm, Order Theo- dore Kremer to drop his modesty and admit once for all he wrote the Shakes- peare plays }, CONDON No, 128 West Forty-tifth atre Name the Streets, WOULD put the name of every street | on every comer. Look at Green- wich strevt, for blocks no weuse s4en. People go four or five blocks out of their way, and have to cross the street and back, everywhere in the olty, They that come from out of towa would think kindly of the Mayor !f he ordere¢ more street sig J. EDMISTON, No, 18 Van Buren street. Newark, N, J. A Strenuous Schedule, WOULD strive to collect atl unpald | franchise taxes; prevail upon the Police Commissioner to have more stringent rules observed tn the regula- tlon of truckmen and teamsters; stop bill-posting abuse; probe municipal bribing scandals; improve traction ssy- tem; Bave better gas and mere strin- Kent Inspection of meters; change park rules In some respects @ better street-cleanipg in some }oealtties; install inderground = water-pipes; lower the ity's outside office rent bills; co-oper- ate with Jermme. keep building ins tom on the alert and try te prevent dis- chasgo of city employees for political pwrpores. ARTHUR B. M TAMMANY, No. 47 Booraem avenue Jersey City, Nine Things to Do. WOULD put all “grafters” out of I the government positions, I would try to enforce the raliroad com- panies to give the public comfortable accomodations in thelr cars, I would try as much as possible to stop the trusts of robbing the people, 1 would Hi Mary Jane and Her Tabby Take Care of the House.j And They Didn't Do a Thing to the Place During the Few Hours Pa and Ma Are Away, 3 PISDEVODIDD IAD FPDEDOITEEVIDGADPDDDVG1-99- 9941999999994. 99844 9OO100-0OD omergencies, I would have every. street cleaned every day by water and! broom, 1 would try to force the car companies to charge one fare on a round trip on thelr cars, I would try to stop tho franchises given to com- | panies for tho purpose of robbing the people. GEORGE POST, No, 1M Throop avenue, Brooklyn. More Engine Companies, WOULD have about five more en- | I gine companies in the Fire Depart- mens, and would have tenement- houses inspected better, and would pay bout three now fire patrols in the city, Have about one more fireboat and have a better street-cleaning de- partment, ANTHONY F, MUFEMIA, No, 192 Ninth Le A Political Theodolite, M’ first enre would be to con- struct @ political theodolite with which to measure the angles between New York, Albany and Washington with the greatest pos- sible accuracy, My subsequent acta would be directed to the ablivh- ment of an easy transit from the atart- ing to the objective points, subject te my oxclisive control, I would execute fearlessly and diligently all lawa that offer no interference with the purpose of @ healthy ambition, amd would intro- duce with enthusiagm any wort of mu- nicipal reform that might promote my Interests while @erving the common good, a. B Brighten Up Chatham Sq. WOULD try to brighten up Chat- I ham Square and its neighborhood and place policemen In positions easy to be found before I would bulld s) many ¢ymnnsiums and public butld- ings. T would also try to lower ana bile and not raise them. MAX GREENSPAN, No, 291 East Bighth atreet. Good Government, WOULD curb the trusts. ] the poor people, TI would not allow any strikes tn Greater New York. T would not allow any working on Bunday. fer the week I# toc lone for every poor workineman. T would lower the rents and raise the wares of the people 8. KRUEGER. No. 139 Gates avenie, Broaklyn, Would Abolish Dust. WOULD Improve—what I consider | the most important thing for mak- ing New York a healthful elty—the street-cleaning system, and would ar. range it as I have seen it operated in Paris. In that oity the street ‘ay | fe completed by 6 A. M, They kill i | jiower, and 1 believe the best thing to Hi THERE: By Martin Green. t ) at $3 a Gallon vs. Bar Red-Eye, “ SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, t the mane ager of Bishop Potter's saloon pays three bones @ ball,” “From the standpoint of a ginmi!!l keeper who {s in the business for all there is to be squeezed out of it,” ree for bar whiskey is a companion play to feeding money to | adog. I'd like to know where he buys It, That there ts/ & wholesaler in business who can get three plunks a gal- “They tell me that the average bar red-eye coats about 65 cents a gallon to the ginmill keeper. He buys it from @ man who makes {t himself, Most of the whiskey load of bananas. You may think when you are putting Away a snifter from a bottle that is marked ‘Bight years old’ that you are getting adult booze, but of the oceang is bob. “A good journeyman compounder can turn out te three hours a bunch of stuff that looks like whiskey, whiskey—the real distilled product of the grain—ought to age for years, and, used in moderation, !t is harmless as milk. The compounded whiskey 1s made of cologne water, colored with burnt sugar and caramel, and fim vored with extracts from a chemical laboratory, Fine for the interior works—all to the billiards.” Clgar Store Man, “Well,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “I wouldn't watt for any notification committee if somebody nominated Behind the Human Eyes. Tho diMculties opticians have experienced in arriving at an accurate diagnosis of the complaints from which thetr ing the eye. For this purpose an instrument has recently been Invented, affecting optical science in general, and the further development of the eye specialist's profession im The fact that all attempts to photograph the Interior or the background of the eye had remained frultless so far was due to the peculiar construction of the e: It te diffe one to take a photograph of it, and even in the use of strong sources of light in the exposure would require so much time that the eye would have to be fixed, which would has constructed an apparatus with which he first succeeded {n photographing the eyes of animals, especially cats, _ Subway Tavern Whiskey @ gallon for his bar booze and sells it for 10 cents piled the Man Higher Up, “paying three bones a gallon lon for booze is good news, sold in this town wouldn't know a distillery from a cam * consumed in this town every year probably 80 per cent, tastes like whiskey and would ditch a train, Honest spirits, diluted down to the strength of whiskey with “That kind of talk gives me a thirst,” announced the me for a highball right about no patients are suffering have led to experiments in photograph+ treating eye diseases and faulty vision in particular. cult to ight up the interior to an extent us to enable Mean great inconvenience to the patient. Now Dr, Thorner i Paul Kruger in His Prime. | 4/ lke In New York, worst enemy, Dust ts the human's J. GUTTMANN, No, 1468 Fifth avenue, Trusts Would Go. WOULD do away with the trusts and break up the unions, I would not bulld #0 many poorhouses, because when the poor have money they spend it too freely. They depend upon the clty for help when they have their money spent. BERNADINA AHRENS, No, &% Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn. Size Up the Graft. WOULD do as @ «reat many others Few persons would recognize this as a portrait of “Oom™ Paul Kruger, yet it la the great Boer exactly as he looked {n 1865, when he was Commander-in-Chief of the Bner army, The “Fudge” Idiotortal & would lke to do—work the job for No, 23 Last Nineteenth street. World Fer jest an hour or two, Then call up the village marshal An’ what I says for all it js worth aud then retire. A Poet's Plans. ked me what Id do Well, first I'd lock the office door, And this ts what I'd say: you, Enforce the law what's. 3 the books, F, A. KEATING, T° man who runs The Bvening ayor of old Noo York Make out a check fer pay, “Bil Jones, remember I'm the boss Jeat as you swore you' An’ then, afore the storm would break, rene the sky was clear and blue, d pack my grip and sore away, "odd Poy. to Kalamas ALGERNON M. DARSNESS, No, 127 West Forty-third atreet, Clear “L” Platforms. WOULD certainly stop one of the | biggest nuisances we have in the city to-day; namely, the overerowd- ing of platforms on the elevated trains. It ever a fire should occur in one of thelr cars people would be unable to wet ovt, ae it would be impossible for oe Guard to opea the gate, wi the crowd pushing on to those alr on the platform, J. No, 29% Third avenue, Not Too “Open” a Town, BELIEVE tn running @ city open, | but not too free, In that I mean Td close pool-rooms, policy shops and other lawless gambling places. 1 would also improve the Street-Clean- ing Department very much, by haviag leas politics and more men and brooms. As for the parks, they are all in a 3 condition and need no The bath are aiso very fine. thing should be changed. ‘That to fet the pushcarta in the They cause the most filth and Why. Apple Trees Moan * in the Wind _t it MN of A w vn yes tee home (Coprret, 1 ral regions where the VAGRANCY LAW ls not rigidly , feaferced, Perhaps, in such wanderings you bave noted | how the errant zephyrs MOAN through the apple trees, ' ! Did you ever stop to think WHY the apple trees | moan? Probably not, Yet if YOU were as full of greea | ‘apples as those apple trees YOU'D MOAN, 100, Apple trees moan because the CORPORATIONS by the Planet Pub Oo) ALL otber deceptions are SPURIOUS, and this paper will | | see that they are STOPPED, THAT IS WHY we are 30 | Ditter against THE TRUSTS OUR brand of DECEPTION, | iike our war news, Is strictly HOME-MADE, All other | decelvers are SPURIOUS, IN THE DAYS OF OLD HERODOTUS THOUGH FOLKS WERE 'SHAMED 10 NOD AT US! HOW THEY’D PROD AT US! is, not streets. dirt. The gas could also be a little r the city to set the price of I also belleve in transferring ry Crosslewn car CUARLES STUCKY, Ng 3% Clinton avenue, West Hoboken, Help for the Poor, WOULD try to better the condition ot ‘the poor people, so they should not be mm want cf anything. and out an end to the trusts, I think that Greater)