The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1904, Page 8

by the Press Publishing Company, No, 8 to @ Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Oflice G4 New York as Becond-Class Mai) Matter, :NO. 16,698. oy of columns of advertising in Bvening World during first six ‘months, 1904.. of columns of advertising in Byvening World during first six INCREASE .s..0000-0005 1,08 We other six-day paper, morning or evening, in Now EVER carried in reguiar editions in six consecutive ‘Such @ volume of display advertising as The Evening Garried during the first six months, 1904, "THE SUBWAY REALIZATION, q Row assured opening of the subway to traffic In & few weeks is a matter for general congratula- which it will hardly require speeches and music to The public has waited long for the boon of fast Bow almost within its reach. It has waited with hopefuiness and impatience while putting up @mcumbrances and impediments which tried the ‘even temper. It has forgiven these impositions, and y it takes its first ride it will forget them in its over the workmanlike completion of an engineer- of really gigantic size and scope. the construction company could do has been it has “made good” in the true sense term. Of what it has yet to do as an operating) iy im furnishing the city with the safe and rapid expected we are given an idea in the present exercised in the choice of employees. It is ot exaggeration to say that the aubway motorman will § ealled on to prove the possession of the qualifications | ® competent locomotive engineer. A fifty-mile-an- @xpreas schedule necessitates that. The public Ro cheap labor in the subway, no “economies of " and from present indications it is to get B. ) With capable mon on the cars, a signal system and eafety appliances of approved pattern, ample against fire, ventilating devices and modern everywhere, the risk of accident must appear Deen reduced toa minimum and the road s safe ws inventive ingenuity and human pean make it. vie Out of Stripes—On Cot. 1 next convicts serving ret terms ia New York prisons will doff their @uits for clothes resembling uniforms and less ot confinement. Atripes will tor convicts of previous criminal record. & badge of penitentiary servitude, follow- look-step and the vlose cropping which cannot fall to be je them, or to brand of the convict, It 01d theories of relentless G 24 COMMUTERS AND AUTOMOBILES. Ow of the ococasional revolts of commuters some always comes. uprising of the New Haven commuters following Moellen's arbitrary withdrawal of local trains ie eapecialiy interesting because of the proposed aban- 7 of the unsatisfactory train service for « line of connecting Westchester points with the city. obilo commuting may seem at first view to be Yot it ts not an oversanguine expecta- ‘® regard Its serviceable development as entirely This week has seen the achievement of a re- Ron-stop record, F. A. La Roche travelling to “‘Wauls and back, © distance of 2,450 miles, withont his engines. Every year adds improvements Promise for the near future « type of powerful am the motor efficiency of which will make bem relatively as reliable as locomotives. Lines of automobile stages of high power between towns and the city would afford a form of which, {f slightly lees fast than steam service, possces advantages of comfort, cleanliness and for which the commuter would be glad to Somewhat bigher commutation rate. 7 The establishment of such motor car lines will raise Ww questions of public safety. They would add to 4 traffic an element of ri which would lly be regarded with some concern. The popular already raised in the upper Bronx against tho of a trolley express service, which is to begin Monday, gives an inkling of the public attitude street transit innovations which threaten to Bew apeed dangers in their train, Cens’s Metr—It may be said more truly of the Cear’s jussian throne than of any other royal wv o- B { : WOULD keep the city as clean as @] pp, i “For Men.” & FOLAND. OCR IGT aT eat eran tre |] rw Sam Set fe ume | "9, tt ame pin sr) FOF Me Park ft an ‘om = slus! ind snow itn ti * . Witle qause to envy him the life of responalbility BEST JOKES ot a PM a eth orl aod cage OTT, whlcntng pont 1 woud Fle SHOULD favor the sstabliement of to which fate dooms him, with a bomb tn air above him suspended by « thread. BEACH POVERTY OF NEW YORK, current lesue of Charities calls attention in strfk- § feahion to the poverty of New York in the matter of fic beaches. Out of the miles and miles of ocean Within the municipal limits, the city owns the tiful ten acres lying in front of the Seaside Park at *Poney Island. % By mathematical processes, it {s revealed that this 14 square inches of public beach per capita for it estimated population of the city. Ocean-front condition presents another of the mattors {n which New York has been alower than gtowth. Compared with the public energy of im respect of provision for seaside and other Ours ia a the pace and Intensity of the snail com. to the legitimate “scorching” of the automobile. 4870 Boston had 116 acres of parks against our Since 1893 the Hub, through its Metropolitan Commission, hes taken over 9,280 acres of land, and the rost has come two miles of Revere Beach, 4 P d roadway, bicycle sheds, promenades, shel- AI baths, The beach had to be taken from “squat- ot unsavory resorts by a process There waa also a railway to be removed old right of way. But the Commission pro- and the city is so much the richer. 's road to beach acquisition and tmprove- tkaway and Coney Island is distinctly easier ‘s at Revere. But it is getting harder enterprise outruns city bet- } be spared #0 to shake the the City Hall that ind the for wi x % The Feminine Nixola Grecley-Smith. | ; Incident which It is honed they will take to heart. And the lesson is hurts less, Never investigate, Inves- tigators learn no good of themselves or other people. If your husband writes you that he is dead, believe him and go} 1 {nto mourning, If he subsequently | § writes you that he te resurrected, be- eve that also, and never have the in- Giseretion to point out to him that the| § two statements ever seemed in the least confiloting, his hat and go out for # good time with and ery your eyes out and not look pretty when he feels inclined to come back. suspect my husband,” said a pretty lit- ‘tle divorcee to me the other day, “to look in his pockets I did it juat onee And nothing on earth would have in- duced me to do it again—tt made me too unhappy.” Consul,” who summed the wisdom of base Indian, he threw @ pearl away small wonder that he should seak to Tecover it, he test the perfection of her training. ever, It wes not unique In my own baby, She told me that her motive for amo, and last week I got a | Virtue of Credulity. By WISE ~ Gene Carr’s New “Kid.” s He Imparts His Ideas on Bringing Up Children to a Strenuous, Hard-Handed Mother, WILLIE HERE was story printed| ° T in Friday's paper of a lady.) upon receiving! IT'S VER SyUPID To BEAT A CHILO You which read: Dear Wite-I am dead, Your hus band, Samuel Stern- berger,’ promptly took hia word for It and married again. By doing ao she gave @ touching proof of that sublime credulity whieh all bad husbands think good wives should possess, and which should have tifying to the woluntary able perversity he became angry at the} very sublimity of her faith in him and, actuated by base motives of re- venge, turned up after she was living neaceably with her second husband and denied his own death. Could anything be meaner? Yet that man had probably so trained his wife as to make her acceptance of his postal-card obituary inevitable, He! 4 had wandered in at 2 o'clock in the morning with the brief statement that “business” had detained him downtown, and If she imprudently sought further enlightenment had promptly flung out of the house again in @ tantrum of righteousness, He had taught her to accept the most palpable lies in long- enduring silence rather than risk a scene by questioning them. And yet he quarrelled with her for swallow without protest the greatest of them a! Personally, I admire that woman. Patient Griselda ween't tn it with her. No greater proof of wifely devotion could have been asked for, He wrote to her that he was dead, and, despite the evidence of her thind and senses, she believed him, Then with base mas- culine ingratitude he came back and denied it. There i@ @ lesson for wives in this briefly this: Believe everything you are told. It If you do, he will ut on REESE CYR OGY. These subjects, I maintain, are in- tice skyscrapers be bullt? Would there comprehensible to the pupils, and are] be any tunnel accidents? Would every therefore useless, If I were Mayor, my/| one ha’ decent home, with light, alr first act would be to remedy this evil.| end sanitary conditions? Would every JAMBS MORAN, JR. | one have safe travel for business or No 14 Bast Forty-sixth street, pleasure? JOHN M. PFROMMER, No Cigarettes, No, 820 Lyon avenue, Irvington, N. Y. WOULD improve New York in ¢V*TY] Logs Crowding. Tespect as much as possible; do my WOULD see that the pubic which Wtmost for the poor and needy; !n- | is crushed on the cars was cared spect all excursion boats, etc, to avert for, I would also see that there Gigastere; compel proprietors of ci£4r! should be @ policeman or two stationed stores not to sell cigarettes to boys UN-| at each “L/" station, eo that the public der sixteen yoars of age, and last, but! could walk down the stairs more easily not least, do all I could for the good) and avold all crushing. I would also of the public, BEATRICE MARIS, | o0e that there should be no spitting on any of the platforms. JOHN FORD, No, 8% Third avenue, city, To Al id the Bick. No, 66 Main street, Yonkers, N. ¥. “Greatest Achievement.” WOULD do all in my qower to im- prove the olty and the condition of the poor. I would inspect hospitals © better the conditions of the peo- I ple of thie great metropolis would be my greatest achieve- ment if I were elected Mayor of thie ctty, because @ Mayor who has that and place: charity and that the money given from the rich hed the Purpose In mind cannot but meet the approval of his fellow citizens. poor suffering patients, I would have homes with kind surroundings for home- lesa incurable consumptives, and make CHARLES GRAD, No, 106 Lewie street, city. Ashes and Parks, their last days happier. WOULD have the streets cleaned at | night between 12 and 6A. M., and the garbage and ashes taken before 8.AM, We would have cleaner streets, Some days our streets are not cleaned, and smell of garbage and ashes are flying all over our clothes while going to dusiness. The parks are most al- ways {filed with tramps night and day, which they would not be if I were Mayor, C. H, GLEICHMANN, No, 21 Dast Twenty-fifth street, New York. the boya And you will stay at home Write 100 words, not more, to “What-Would- You-Do ditor, Evening World, New York City,” nd you may win a $6, $3 or 62 prize. “It coeurred to me, when I began to hung up, No “Half Time” Schooling. ¥. G. W. SIGRIST, Jy. tor of The Evening World) 7” WOULD give every child « felt | day's schooling, have the streets ab- solutely olean, erect garbage con- suming plants, get as good @ rapid tranalt system as possible, with univer- sal transfers; try to seoure a referen- dum of the Sunday saloon opening question, spare no reasonable expense to maintata highest eMolenoy in all de partments, especially Health, Parks, Water Supply, Tenement, Building, Po- lice and Fire; seek legislation for abo ishment of Coroner's office, &. KATZ Oust the Graftere. WOULD put out all grafters and I Install men with brains, not caring whether they wore poor or rich, 1 would thon make a round of the city and try and find out all public needs. I would then invite all cttisens to write me one letter each and would have them all considered by my assistant, 1 would see that there were street signs on any and all oorners, I would have the atreets swept before 6 A, M, and have them watered during the day ali summer and winter except when there was mow on the ground or wien the weather was too cold. JOSEPH SPATT. No, #4 Thatford avenue, Brooklyn, “L" and Gas Reforme, WOULDN'T sign any corporation billa, which are intended Jor graft- toenth street, Would Teach Swimming. l to Now, this woman was wise, wise as the cynical American in “The Yankeo the ages in the remark: ‘Yea and what we don't know don't worry us." Tt ta no wonder that the hero of thir tale, Mr, Sternberger seeks to have his wife's second marriage annulled. He hee tardily realised that, like the owim, CHARLLES SAYER, No, 631 East Elghty-eighth street, Three Platoons, I richer than all his tribe and it ts It was civen to him to have « ner- fectly trained wife, yet only by taking the chance he did on losing her could iN. Splendid as was her devotion, how- * le baths, parks and piers for the poor. JOSEPH LEVY, No. 209 Meserole street, Brooklyn. “Wear No Man’s Collar.” Department Probdity. WOULD see that my assistant of- I fice-holdere were worthy and ca- pable of filling their positions, and not have saloon-keeners and gamblers in charge of the city’s welfare; and I would see that the Police Commis- sioner did not reinstate police officials prewiously dismissed for neghct of duty, And I would intervene in strikes that hinder our schoole and subway. A. GREBENSTEIN, No, $6 Bast Sixty-sixth street, N.Y. City, A Liet of Reforms. personal experience I have met with « lady of equally aublime credulity, She was a poor Jewish woman who had ad- vertised that she wished to sell her doing #0 was that she could not sup- my own. port it and her other children since her husband's death. “How @id your husband diet" I asked, And she answered: “He went West about threes months er from the office In @ business way. Tecelve all who called on the level. him saying he was drowned! Here, surety, was a perfect wife! more cars. I would see that New York should never suffer any more from the unmerciful Gas Trust, by building a gas plant owned by the city. Although the poor man could not afford to take me out In yacht to Esopus, as the rich man 4 ill I'd try my best to give him @ show and try hard not to for. get that If the rich man contributes the campalgn fund, nevertheles it is the poor man, the voter, that chooseth the man. LOUI8 LEVY, Continental Hotel, Newark, N. J, Would Have Fire Drills, WOULD look after the steamboats | to Insure the publio safety, and { would order the captain of every steamship that carries passengers to have a fire drill once @ week, and I would also at the end of every second sprinkled on Sundays as well as on week days, and make the city pay for it; compel land- lords to keep their houses In good con- dition and tenants their rooms and apartment: et rid of al] the crooks and criminals, provide employment for all and bounce those refusing to work; have homes built for the aged, and abolish red tape; find out the wealthy tax dodger, put a heavy tax on empty lost and exempt small homesteads from taxation; prevent strikes by having dis- putes quickly settled by arbitration : F. DECKMAN. No. 14 West One Hundred and Twen- ty-fifth street. “Enough Schools for All.” I WOULD have enough schools for l ‘Where wife-beaters one and all would pay Before the public ase The penalty they well deserve. If I were Mayor, I'd get a cop To satrap them good aad tight, And then with forty stripes, save one, Perhaps these “gentlemen” might Regret their treatment of their wives, If I were Mayor, I'd keep this up Until our elty courte Would witness less disgraceful scenes And hear lées bad reports From homes where love and peace should reign. MM For More Policemen, SHOULD fitst station two police- men on every block om the east OF THE DAY. od TOUGH £aas. Mre. Newliwed—I really must com- Plain of those eggs you soki me on Wednesday. They were awfw. Farmer—Why, they were perfectly fresh ma'am. Mrs. Newllwed—They may have been fresh, but they were frightfully tough. T made an omelet of them for my hue- band, and they were so tough he couldn't eat them.—Philadelphia Press. GOOD NEWS IF TRUE. She—And are you really so much bet- ter since you returned from your trip posatbl: all laws upon the books. ARNOLD J. WISCH, No, 287% Seventh avenue. For the Poor. I ALL the children. T would see to fe oi month send around an inspector to in- ft that all city nuisances were abol- : would help them myself. I would mas, 3 Shun on Hm quite anotMery sect the boatp and aee that they were| ished: that trusta were curbed, strikes pom orcs tie Catt ant ad see that no murder should be committed She-Well, I'm sure all your friends] !" 6004 order and also to Inapect the] abolished. taxes and rents lowered, #8l-| 1. eveont during the summer months, |" any house, and I would send police: will be delighted to hear it.—Stray | !f* preservers, and if anything needed] ties raised, and the price of food] iia also m: a law concerning| ™#” ail over the city to protect tt. foe, ~ fixing I would give the company a week | Products decreased; also that no more ty to aatmol, Witch would ft P. EDRICH, cies to AX It, and If nok fixed within @ week | PasseDaers were allowed on teaine and] ANT, Uo Orme Ne Ml ie] No, S Manhattan avenue Brooklyn, RENEWING HOSTILITIES, — [1 would impone a fine. In tha cars than there was seating capacity , brutally treating an animal, This law would be rigidly enforced. H.C. No, 6% Mattison avenue, Asbury Park, No Flirting Policemen, WQULD put @ stop to policemen | flirting with young girls and would order more street lights, aa some of the aide streets are ulmost in tota) darkness MARIE KANE. “Forget Politics.” court py am ot t A Lovers’ Paradies. | for, thot ashes and garbage were col- lected at night, Just at present this is done during the morning and some of the ashes files in our faces, I'd see that “gangs were not allowed to col- lect at street corners. Mrs. C. JACKSON. Corner Greene and Throop avenw Brooklyn. A Municipal Golden Rule. WOULD 4o for others and theirs as I would have them do for me and mine. Would there be paste. Seem hut there would not be any more unfi running up and down the river, ROBERT F. M'CORMACK, No. 625 West Fiftieth street, city, A School Shake-Up. © MATTER In what direction « person tur) he cannot fall to hear wrong usage of the English jangu The programme of study in use in Our public schools, is responsible for this evil. For, Instead of giving the proper amount of attention to the he Mra, Caller—I'm surprised that you recognized me, It has been more than five years since we met Mrs. Naggeby—I had almost forgotten your face, but I remembered that dreas you have on.—Stray Stories PROPER QUALIFICATION, “He has undertaken to edit a society paper, I hear.” “Yes, and he should make @ success of it.” it ete ite, write at all.” y, at Nghts to nice, love unseen and undisturbed. BILL. ay publio meetings on svery important Public question pertaining to the olty’s welfare, compel my gubordinates to do their full duty to the city, advooate and seo to it that there were plenty of Sehools, & seat in school for every child, nO matter what it would cost, even if many other improvements had to be No, 11 West One Hundred and Seven- WOULD make some arrangements by which every girl and boy in ow public schools should be taught how WOULD give the firemen three pla~ toons, pay more attention to the Borough of Brooklyn, put grafters out of political offices, eign no Remsen bills, provide more public schools, #0 that the clty should have no half-day schools, compel the B. R. T. to provide more cars on the bridge, thus avoiding numerous accidents; also station police in lonely places and provide more pub- WOULD wear no man’s collar but I would be at the office from 9 A. M. until 4 P, M, and run I rauld 1 would veto all grab bills, I would have all drivers walk thelr horses around the corners of the principal streets. 1 would have all garbage collected be tween midnight and 7 A. M. I would have more seate in the parks, and have those ecats marked “For Ladies” and more small parks in the crowded tenement sections, the betterment of the Gtreet Cleaning Department; tne 1m- provement of roads; municipal owner ship of gas-houses; single tax, 60 as to tax land for ite full value and remove taxes from the improvements pisced thereon, forcing people to build on va- cant lots and not hold them for specula- tion; give the firemen the two-platoon wystem; stop horse race gambling at race tracks and eleewhere; build an au- tomobile speedway and pay the strioiest ttention to the enforcement of WOULD help the poor, I would not want them to go begging for help. I 'D have all the denches in Central Park moved from under the gas- secluded, romantic places, where young folks could make By Martin Green. Newest Wall Street Game to Excite Suckers to Contribute, i**] “They need the money in Wall street,” re- pijed The Man Higher Up. “The summer has been al! to the cheese, There hasn't bech a good trick turned rince the hot weather set in. Brokers have been hanging around in swell offices trying to wish in enough cush to pay for the breeze off the electric fans. Some. thing had to be done and they have gone and done ft, “How? Don't ask me, If I was wise to the way they get wuckera excited in Wall street I'd declare ‘The way it looks to me the main pulleys and the dear coin, bas SEB,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that stocks are going up.” te Fel (A CHE fs es ehy as @ Russian warship. Let any boom and the public slides to bases like the vp who makes a hit to the infleld. The present riee was Metropolitan. “We have been reading in the papers thatrMetropal- {tan ts going to take in the Subway and the “ly” that {t fs going to secure control of 600 miles of railroads Jand about $60,000,000 worth of debts in New Jersagg thet it has secured an option on the trolley line be tween Nokomis, IIL, and Kankakee, and that it ts going to run the New York Central suburban service in com- g 8 e “Metropolitan goes up and the public gets @ hunch that everything {s going up. The public buys and every thing does go up. The brokers, who have bought cheap, sell and their depleted bank rolls begin to swell like specially prepared goose livers, The theatrical sexson {s opening, the Wall street angels need the masuma for shows for numerous leading ladies and wise financiers are figuring out that the market is on the rise because the alfalfa crop Js good in Arizona. “1 always thought,” confessed the Cigar Store Man, “that the stocks of corporations went up only when they were making money.” “That's what everybody who plays the Street from the outskie thinks,” answered The Man Higher Up, “put it is generally the case that stocks move up or down according as the wise guys who control them want to make money.” Squire Romanoff’s Boy. (Front the Nevskoffovitoh (Russia) Daity Argus of Aug, 12) Nick Romanoff, of Moscow Centre, is the happiest man in town to-day. It's & boy, % Our genial fellow-townsman, Mr. Nicholas R. Czar, called at this office yesterday wearing a smile a yard wide. As he handed us @ long biack cigar (such as cannot possibly Be purchased at Cheatemski's General Store for less than three scents) he remarked jovially, “New citizen of Petersburg Corners arrived this morning!" Always glad to see Nick. A suspicious character made his appearance in our thriv- ing burg yesterday (Thursday). He could give no satisfac- tory account of himself, did not know his own name and ‘was without visible means of support. But Mr. and Mra Csar, of Palace avenue, have decided to keep him in our midst and to give him a permanent home. Our congratula- tions Czarry! ‘The stork Thuredayed at the Romanoff c Imm Park. tne, at Krem- In view of a certain happy event yesterday in the Nich- olas Il, household the happy parents are advised to take our tip and thspect Bombaky & Blowemup’'s fine stock of bot- tes, teething rings and dolls, (Adv), ‘ ‘When Squire Nicholasky, of Neva Lane, strolled into the post-office store after supper last night it was noticed his face had lost the bothered look it has worn of late, “How about Port Arthur, Nick?’ facetiously inquired Haycoxki. “Scared them Japs from yer henooop yet?’ ‘Port Arthur and the Japs be gol-swizaled!" roared Nick with a grin, “The cider’s on me, fellera, It's » son!” APT The “Fudge” Idiotorial [iOIOTORIAL PAGE OF THe EVENING FUDGE - } Waal Color bs Your Peril? von Genet bat bone (Copyret, 1004, by the Planet Pu On) | | ie E i ; tt a He i i FI ite i : if i b2 A r il E i Z ef aj ef i i sf : 7 : 5 8 g ; er eon rn ee eer ee ee