The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1904, Page 8

Coes yg THE » EVENING # WORLDS. Is a Man eters P 1 Worth Three ary Jane and Her Tabby Walk on Stilts. w& Le Mm, New Te th Poa Cents an Inch ?!: » & & An Aerial Stunt That Interrupts Papa’s Reading of the Romance of ees Fall, $: ee By » Nixola Greeley-Smith. By. Martin Green. HOME w MAGAZINE. —————— ee ‘ 5 VOLUME 4B....+0++ sesseessensN@, 18,708. & \Tae Evening World First of columas of advertising in nents, We "naccess of) a Young arr World j song famed Frank Monroe, of News York; about sixty-seven Inches Hl dork MOO, 1904. crsessseseeesccsece MeTOO | [hae Write to & CR, ° © ® Hew of columns of advertising in fy “ror st 8 Bvening World during first six hs, 1903 .srreeccereesrereers 6,019 Way Should ’Rah-’Rate * ’Rah Boys Herd Together in Politics? SEE,” caid the Cigar Store Man, “that a lot of earnest ‘rab-'rah boys have formed the Demo ¢ratie Club of College Men.” “It 1 & good thing to see college men taking an tm ¢ terest in politics,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but I doubt tf a close frisk of the organizers for a good reason for forming a Democratic Club of college men would wp One tha: would stand the gaff, ured that at the tate of @ for inches, the young § “Why the college men should herd by themeclves in a, political organisation any more than the graduates of =, : i>, SEA ps, the public schools or the graduates of the business eel THE SMOKE EVIL. nin standpemets : caarch. ‘Velie t Oe many © anne ine UE yin July Chet Inspector Bene, ofthe Brook-|ieve tis e very semen ; who hangs out his tongue when he signe his. d of Health, instituted a coal-smoke crusade]% the ten gain, ee? 3 ee: woulda't know a page of the original Greelf , , from « sheet of music is just as important a facter tm! the Williamsburg water front, with immediate] rane nim and out hin out rime aint ‘ the machinery of this Government as is the man with @ , r degree from Yale or Harvard or any other institute of, Tesults. In one day he detected and took measures that ai the world wil be h seven conspicuous offenders, thus beginning | “ya jutmc nave erinatea ih encouraging vigor a campaign to abate an evil} o dey, 4 of taste Gaye ae ch official neglect had permitted to grow to serious} 42,000,007 No, indeed, ‘Not ait the gold nalion The comparatively clear sky line of Hee ag could bave purchased ene oklyn bears testimony to the efficacy of this reform, Esty gates hae + ae Bee Prege ‘What are the Manhattan officials doing to abate the} she modern New York girl seems the a cow is worst? There is evidence at aay ein ator pidiy ‘me ; of the compass of violations of the ordi-|Yestins # 'n. For that sum certainly ance which there is apparently no attempt go punish. ae x meen ok found citizen who made a trip by water from West One} voman really ment an patio esd ed and Thirtieth street to Hell Gate noted] the rewert. So me must “Mumerous “factory chimneys along the Hudson, the roung ase value to her to inches River and the Harlem belching forth black| jf, Mw* or shout A conta an ime ” He found the harbor “presenting an appear-! vertisement just once and in just one fice not unlike the conditions which prevailed during] P&P*t Probably, she took 0 eluinee p strike of the anthracite coal oe | Ferry-boat] young: man’s total value per inch to} « ers have frequent occasion to éxpress their pavement at the open contempt of the law shown by ns of tugboats, lighters and other river craft. rh law gives the authorities ample powers of cution; they may arrest all parties to the offense, the fireman to the owner of the premises, Why concerted effort made to enforce it? What is the fret of the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by Yearning and football. 3 “By forming themselves into a club the Democratic, college men necessarily abed the inference that they cam do more good working alone than with an organizatica® made up largely of men who don't belong to the Fi Bita| Pi or the O Gosha Midy or similar frats. They cannoy eay for themselves that this belief grows out of thelr’ superiority because of knowledge of palitics, because @ college man, unless he ta in active politics, doesn’t class, aaa politician, Therefore the supposition that the great Outside public must assimilate is that the college mea) are amalgamating for political purposes because they are, convinced that they stand in the front row on account) of the educational advantages they have enjoyed.” “President Roosevelt ts @ college man,” reminded the! Cigar Store Man. \ “Sure,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “but he didn't butt} in by organising @ college men’s politica: club, He joined the district organization and worked side by side with) a the bookkeepers, the bricklayers, the gas-house hands, the bartenders and citizens in cther occupations, and the fact that he was a college man didn’t wield a stroke in) = * carving out his success.” A Stone Princess, A romantic custom of the Japanese ie described in the’ “Kokoro” of Lafcadio Hearn. It is narrated that those ’ who are anxious for the safety of absent ones repair to mountain of Dakeyama to perform a aingular rite, There ia @ shrine at the summit to commemorate @ amiquity who daily watched hopelessly until she died, when her body was changed into stone, ¢ about % cents, And what disinterested | 4 person will say that any man la worth more? However, is & valuation per Inch fair? , strayed or stolen lover had been 6 feet 7 instead of 6 feet 1. His value would have been reduced to something over two cente an inch, while & midget 4 feet high on the contrary would be worth as much as four an Inch, This puts an undesirable pi mium on shortness and would make a me gE Ht i larger lighting corporations and power plants, which] sweetheart no higher than Tom Thumb looks with the eyes of @ bellever still sees the princess om Ife the worst offenders? What is their “pull?” It is| ‘Me most orecious of eh Mount Dakeyama in the shape of «perpendicular rodly : of humiliating interest that the only effective] young woman who Invests the paltry meters bee shrink are heaps of pebbles and those who age! 8 sum of #2 to secure the recovery of 0 pray for the safe home- of one they love of violators of this law within a year In| (ye, who has shown euch @ pro- take @ pebble away with them as a Ant whee at last reunited with the beloved another pilgrimage to, made to the shrine on Dakeyama to replace the pebble, with a handful of others, in devotional gratitude. Elm 172 Years Old. Would You Do Jf Mayor of New York? has been that initiated and carried through courts by the residents of an east side neighbor- against an Edison chimney. the Brooklyn example will not serve, the plucky nounced desire for emancipation as to run away makes a mistake, After all, there are so many men. She certainly overestimates his value per Inch to her by exactly three cents, Men are occa- THE PRIZE LETTERS % ™™ sionally caught on the fun, but not Piccaere reonet would tor the bene-,whioh crosses its streets; I'd controljald the companies in return by fa ‘of the little city of Mount Vernon against the use] often enough to fustify the Investment First Prize—$5. of the public and hag for the huck- | the gas company, make « healthy clty, [ing th "adaption ot laws Tooking to reel iat Jarno ing Mery Pky p NalP pentyl yy, Of soft coal on the engines of the New Haven railroad] ° two saa nertennt an Orne oe I WOULD forget pottia, In other | store and fabire. | Duving the winter [enforee all the laws, mae all ateamera[nagr7-inden trucks of tacks thir of Regthan Martiagten, whe wee & Gal OGURA A. chance, layor @ people, | months I would have the 's asphait-| sats, favor unions and do all I cou BL A. HUNT, ould avail. That is an example well worth emulat-| the coin to « fund to be Gavoted to the| 4 court ine fullest publicity of my oM;| ed streste apeinkled with fine Deach| for them, and break uo the trusts in| No. 4 West Twenty-second atreet, | Poy pepper erry expec Algo Lande helmet. and the lighters of this corporation, as being] capture of a now man. clal acts through the newspapers, hold of horses. Mall) New York City, and then, if I got to farmer and 40) Droduce o returning home, i" ‘The way to treat men and children |pubo meetings on every Important pub- be President of the United states, ra} A Municipal Ownership Basis. | trom market one day the horse was weary and lagging in the most persistent violators of the law, offet| who run away Is not to pay any at-|lc question pertaining to the city’s wel- break up every trust in the country, |p WOULD execute one sweeping re-| Ms galt; 40 to urge him along Farmer Harrington plucked excellent opening. tention to them. When this coutee, ia tare, compel my subordinates to do thelr JAMES ANDERSON M'CORD. I form, including all other reforms:|® small sapling elm from the roadside to encourage Beas pursue! they some times Dar stor; | full duty to the ctty, advoeate and see to No, Gi West Fifty-first street, New place city on municipal ownership | swifter gait When he got home the sapling was éo straight ‘ , fay al ame it ther. ae fol |Neat in oobest for eveey of eneem, 8 ioonse, Yor. at ae dasis, T would appoint « Board of aah eresatee Art AS5 ZS Ge ervent The s A that are 1» we! THE PART-TIME INJUSTICE. canard saa Hz Dit |e eal ott ven mane he Home for the Aged. (| then porehase all moana of publla cone Apparently the beet that the Board of Education can’ And this, besitos being tee eet Olly, | improvements hed to te tet tr, WOULD eee that the city had 8| veyance, gas and electric plants, sources E by way of schoo! accommodations to rectity the hog ren. 7 r. Hundred and Seven house (near churches and park) forlot water supply. Ao. For this I would Cement for verything. > | — . 014 people who are left only enough | issue bonds jn limited quantities to citl/ Ww, N, Wight, of Westwood, N. J., has made for use at ‘ injustice 1s to increase it. In the words of s i Member of the Bullding Committee” quoted he Tribune, “the Building Bureau hopes to be aus to LETTERS, } the mumber of part-time pupils within $0,000 in QUESTIONS, to get a room. By the time they get/sens, This would Insure three-cent caf-| pig home a cement stove, cement icebox, shelves arid dog settled the people they are with move, | fare, plenty of pure water and cut 988! penne! which have attracted much attention. The stove’ Then they muat find another place, A| am@ eleetric lighting bills ip half, Th] raaistes @ mild and equable heat that would not be pose house of that kind would be always a/ disposal of garbage would also be 1! sing from an iron @tove, Horse blocks, hitching posts, home for them. In a sunny comer have/ hands of city, resulting in a large profit | oa rriges houses, stables and a mushroom cellar also testify of last fall's figures.” As there were then 90,000 Morary expense fem in part-time classes the prospects are good that , ANSWERS. ‘ for them epownLt. | Ut 2 BAYT expense 08 now. | to. Mr Wisht's fondness for cement, for of this material — * ier the most favorable bullding conditions, with no es Ne, 1 Woet One Hundred and Bixth| No, G3 East Kighty-seventh street, | &¥ they built y of work because of strikes or other interter- \ atrest, elty, alot Sanday. A Programme. Drobably 120,000 puplis will be condemned to al ay ine xiuer ct tho Evening Word: Q Beautify the Tenements. Merry ware You Needn't Drown. If every peraon knew that it {s Impossible to sink if one keeps his arms under water and moves his lege as if he were going upstairs, and that one may keep this motion up for hours before fatigue ends it, there would be few casual tles. @uch te the fact, of the schoo! facilities which should of right| Cannot all parents keep thelr children thetrs. quiet on Sunday and not let them yell " However plausib! nd ecream every minute? They play s ae. he encase may be whieh are tnd yell every other day. Parents for the failure to right this wrong, and however} should make children remain at their the circumstances may have been which| own homes on Sunday, untese [eu had the “pull’ high office lends, T'4 use the pow'r for mine own Ané “shake the plum tree” for my frienda, 4 WALK im the poor quarters of the @ity le demoralizing. Something surely could be done to modity thelr wretohed surroundings and inci- dentally tnoulcate a desire for better Te} wore Spe things. Were I Mayor I would formu-/1'4 first “get solid” with the boys; oy — ft, aps fact must be faced % late @ plan through philanthropic so-| ‘Then, ane public make @ noise, “ ” 7 prov’ school children with only | say to read and be at home To have cleties or otherwise, whereby flowers/ It could not shake my equipoise. @ U ge iotoria of the Instruetion to which they aro entitled and| such yelling and ecreamiag, together| High Schoo! pupil. ullding and plants could be grown In window. If 1 were Maver, an ‘Which all the frills of later high school courses can- Third Prize—$2. beer pores hasd , t pds , ma y « few WOULD have every corner saloon: T'd be in every franchise steal; *"Twould be no use to “make @ squeal.” ra “pag the swag.” ‘Twould be “my If I were Mayor, T'a take all things sent, And ae, bo A they'd ike my ’ “pent! And put me up for President, If I were . ALA DuBois No. 29 West 13th street, city, on ‘WM an injustice which should engage the earnest heseed eas Ws Rist Age best jon of the board and prompt immediate action to France Vereus America, Goce started (mitation ‘would soon & remedy, Pare Bra To the Editor of The Evening World: and drinking cup and water running all i spread the practice, especially {f small “ysl ae A cabl patch gives some informa. | the time, for the benefit of the public, -| prises were offered for the best. Then Herter Bergiaries—The summer burglaries which |'!0n Concerning the last annual report | and take off $100 @ year from his excise | ese of all hoboes, and if investigation) what a different aspect would be cre- ‘ alarmed Harlem are one manifestation of that per- |0f the Metropolitan Railway, of Paris | (8x, a8 water now is the dearest rink yey pro to be idlera to put them lated! 0. V. HOUNSELL. criminal activity which gives such just cause (It appears that {t carried about 100,000,.|1n the elty and should be made the | %& the island to work, for which they No, 187 West Thirty-fifth street, rink. This would stop some | Could be paid, thus relieving the city against the police. Though of annual recur-|0% passengers, end that {te receipts | Cheapest di ‘op of thom, F4 dave GAP OCU et on MM ali boroughs of the city, they seem this year to | were about $8,600,000, Indicating an ay-|b00se drinking, too, It has started Poatioal Plans. more frequent, with Harlem as a centre of attack, {erage fare of about three and one-palt|™AY & man on a drunk just becausd he — pp Hien Lopravins, | TD deve s dozen sweepers cleaning the A Seaside Park. ase mainly the work of amateur burglars, profes-|cents. Of this sum the city received | Could not get @ drink of water, and in) 1) 5 4 ODE Roi, Ween tay Gust from oft each street, WOULD oo that New Yous City’s Dousebreakers not largely engaging {n them. It is| one-third. ‘The management is sald to| °** Of sckness, too, Td have a law passed to stop raising| | poor had @ beautiful seaside park, Dm fair inference that the detection of the perpetrators |be notoriously bad. It must be. An CHARLES Li ware. the price of meat, where the working man with hie for that reason be the easier, and the explanation | American railway man would be held I'd have chalre placed on each corner| family could wo for an outing at « & Hf their inereass must be sought in the relaxed vigilance |in scorn by his brother magnates if he A Good Suggestion, 80 the “eorner buma” of small cost. I hgees eee that every pint p aeape eetice, agreed to charge only three and one-| 7 WOULD make the heads of all de- ‘Wouldn't have to stand around—P4 n-| of pap dp spor York was —_—---— half cents fare and give one-third of] | partments do thelr duty and get a kage Hi ealbediedl Hy ‘eath mith ond the tent outer I woald BAIL BOND ABUSES. ial er row M. | C. SPAY SBOSeroe eee 9 Se ee Then T'd buy @ thousand cigagettes fF! 149 hat the bullding Inspectors and ten- . Recovering Lest Property, in eo doing; have the police force in- William T. Jerome, ‘ement-house inspectors performed their Ommen's avowed intention to “make @| To the Editor of The Evening World: erensed by 1,000, the fire department by T4 toll Judge Parker to invite “BI” | guises 1 would do all in rv investigation of this dirty business"—to wit,| Pease answer this question: I lost) 400 men; cgorganize the detective and Devery to his home, gh ots G Thali>bend abuse in Tenderloin police stations—witt |", "6°" aad Tope oaln wa plain pice cd branch, eg ee T'@ have two platoons for firemen, extra ; 4 gret serv system = ( n's “L” trains galore— Geeerally commended, The professional bondsman | The and Glemise ony ollsta! found 1 ds ecchnd ra wk at tas Sal i) * 98 a form of income of a despicable kind—the | *! Fay ready to pay, « colo rtising himself or his intentions; im- . & Mayor do much more? Pe from the unfortunates rounded up in police |v" Ih an apar peach and remove the majorty of mag- Ww. H, Brons. ‘ Cottrell says that the ee tae as a tage Park West brought the watelg nd appoint able jugists; stop WALTER POUNDS, ws He Se ® nO po’ le Pays that he bought it from the ng out of sympathy olther to No, 1 Chatham square, city. | Polioe, Baths, Lights and Cars, . Pail from any ove offering it who can satistyg Moder for $15, but that as he had an iy requirements, And yet it is hardly likely ea to sell it for $33 he Is entitled to bar nce i police atetions was| at amount of reward. I am willing bose prese : to give bi $15, but he will not accept Bim to be unwelcome woul! go to !ew to) it, What can 1 do about It? PA. B aright to be there. 1, If you will send the name and ad- @ Of the profit in this means of livelihood can} dress to this office we wii! heve your the collection of $30 in one evening by | oer, ea to you 3 you will present the facts to his ’ ope dt the six prisoners whose employer you doubtless pan recover it, on . A release so obtained {s| 3. You can recover your property with rights under the law, But the ori a strikers, thereby creating ararchy; have a law passed making the use of revolver or knife a felony, the casrying of which should be puntsy able by two and one-half years first! offense, five years for second, All this and more on game style | would do or wet out, EUGENTE LARSEN, Grab” bills and others of like nature, No, 42 Amsterdam avenue, New York y ambition would be ipttry toma everything Pieanane city, the people tree; solely or” the con trif_ing cost In the Municipal Court. Coney Island for the People, we p27 fan and With your authority this office will take the necessary steps tn the legal pro-|f t@ benefit the only be & few at Island, 1 would have it so that A Mass of Reforms. J Sremere 03” sepa etary WOULD use my best endeavors *o man a9 Police sioner who would inatruc! in their duties, I would Enforce All Laws. ‘WOULD live up to the oath I took, enforce all laws rigidly and impar- tially, would not sign any "Gas ernment toon system, bulld a few more city hos pitals, close up the gambling places, |portions of our city, I would insist upon not give any company the permit to|a better aystem of street lighting and sell fresh, cold water in the Park for one |street cleaning. Blocks that are tem- od Noy er | op hed Cid bot ‘2 PP