The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1904, Page 10

» Evening World First of columns of advertising in ‘The Bvening World during first six + meaths, 1904... Ne of columns of edvertising in a Bvesing World during first six 7,700 ._ 6,019 COUNTY JAIL ABUGES. of prisoners confined in the County Jal! point existence of worse abuses and grosser forms of ge there than the evils of petty blackmail and ex- Tecently corrected by the! Sheriff following the exposures. are well-subetantiated complaints of innocent {| confized tor months on civil charges without oppor. of defense. There are numerous allegations of is made without warning on ex parte affidavits and imprisonment without recourse or redress: Dore evidence of being trumped-up charges. fhe use of the jail as a place of detention for prisoners i for the more serious crimes, including nd murder, as well as for defendants in civil and the enforced asscviation of the latter with criminals, is instanced as an abuse calling ‘reform: Sheriff Erlanger’s declaration that “nine out of the civil prisoners sent to Ludlow Street Jail ever to have heen arrested,” and that “a majority civil prisoners should as @ matter of right and be set free,” ts an astounding statement to be | with apparent warrant of truth of a New York Tt contains a very grave {ndictment of a maladmin- Hon of justice which should be speedily corrected. | The Sheriff's prompt and energetic inquiry into the charges gives encouragement to the hope that Be Will follow it with an investigation of the graver complained of. Their further exposure and ty rectification would be a public service of merit, ‘THE FALL THEATRE OPENING. Ocean liners bringing actors and managers home Vacations across the sca, actrésses’ dressmakers fking overtime, reheareals in full blast, familiar stage on Broadway—the signs multiply which bear to the approach of the theatrical fall opening. } ‘actress crossod the Arabian Losert on a camel's! ‘fm search of health this year? What one went to or Hall Calne for \Jlumination? Has any leading M made a trip to Japan for war “atmosnhere?” The agent will enlighten us later on. ‘? ‘The opening of the fall season becomes yearly an of more commercial importanco to New York—to hotel-keepers, tailors, dressmakers, haberdashers, Jewellers, to a hundred retail interosts—because increased numbers of the theatrical colony, thelr alaries and more lavish expenditure, Where the ta of managers in Daly's day were reckoned Bundred thousands they now run Into the millions. ‘® clearing-house for cash, a currency-distributing Micy, the box-ofllce ranks now with more pretentious institutions, and its annual opening is an occa. Geserving moro than passing attention because of importance to the city’s volume of trade. THE EXILES FROM ERIN. Whe report of the Registrar.General of Ireland, con- statistics of the Irish population, makes a I showing of national decline. the ten years from 1891 to 1901 emigrants to Bumber of 433,526 left Ireland, as compared with during the previous decade, The births decreased 6 A48, The number of emigrants exceeded the excess Dirths by 214,541. Where the population of Ireland 3851 was 6,552,385, it had declined in 1891 to 4,680,376, “mad ts now 4,408,601. That is to say, there are left in freland only a fev hundred thousands more than the estimates of next year will give to the city of York. How abnormal this decrease of population in Ireland ie been may be seen by contrasting it with the rise of fi and Wales from 17,927,609 in 1851 to 32,526,718 1901, and the increase of Scotland from 2,888,742 to . A saddening feature of the continued exodus “ that 91.5 per cent. of the emigrants are ander thirty- Tt ts the young people who hasten away, leaving old folks at home to eke out thelr remaining years femittances from America. ft paid England to pursue the policy toward Ire. which has been responsible for this depopulation of '@ fertile land? Was what the expenditure of blood and fn the Transvaal gained worth what was lost at t Can Thibet ever compensate for the million amd more Trish deported within twenty years? A census of ‘Mew York bank precidents, lawyers, merchants and men or Pf prominence in all walks of life gives an idea of what United Kingdom has lost through a policy of op- PIE STRIKE POSSIBILITIES. ‘The threatened strike of the employees of the New Pie Baking Company bids fair to add another trios disturbing clement to dietary conditions already }, “@onsideradly out of balance because of the meat strike ‘4 and the probability of «ix-cent loaves as a result of wheat. Zhe Pie Trust has a normal dally output of 100,000 ‘the curtailment of which would create complica- in cheap restaurants and {n households in which And yet ing has well nigh become a lost art. } affording & temporary relief for the machine-ma/ sg AS unmixed evil. a pies if prolonged might lead of an abandoned household industry. Yon of ple, as promising a return to the reazon leaned and the juicy blueberry, |For be summer the “dull sea- of the mothers | bore. with equanimity § mnt Aa Wane briog geitt em. AN idized ple of commerce it would not prove to Indeed, an enforced dependence to the A Plea for the Old Bachelor. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Day tee Greeley-Smith other night one of om den 1 twink it wa you= the word boor in with old bachelors, You will find, aman is a ba selfishn for ia tty eros Untarily to give up the mioposed By of marriage to be the means of a comfort and sypport to thoi family properly denendent on Hor much higher a man ds doing this heralded than the man who, as soon he can earn barely enough for two, # his mother either to run a board- “house or to be supported by con- yitions from her richer Telave PLEAY ‘the Rine f\ voluntary wach- elor or spinater is one that no one will qi ‘el with, This particular clare of unmarried men tor:ns the real martyrs of civilization, though themasives Anection the very es much at or to the There are many, far too many, of them In New York But there !s aleo an equally large nani- ber of men whose bachelorhood Is hined on @ selfish shirking of responsibility and of women whose confirmed svin- sterhood is due to a love for independ- ence and a dread of the sacrifices that marriage would eotall upon them. Far be from me to preach to them, The poaltion of “barker to the olessed state of matrimony, #0 ably filled by amateur women reformers and -resi- dents and things, is not one that T would care to undert There a one great advantage in being a “barker,” to ve sure, which is that you don't have to be in the show or even nee It, but fast stand outside and tell about its glories. But I don't know enough about the rub- fect to fill even this Inglorious role. ‘There ie a great deal to be sald for the superior comfort of celiba Tord Bacon, “the wieest, brigh | mbanest of mankind,” uttered platitude of the he who marries and acqui and ehildgen haa given fortunes, and these hostages coming Increasingly hard to ransom. But there ts no doubt that however fine the underlying motives of a man's bachelorhood may be, its results always visible in his manner and as- ‘pect, and they are not always im- proving. | How many times Mo we not hear young women exclaim that “all the pice men are martigd!” And it really | seems to be true that marriage has 4 toftening, chastening effect on both men and women, It makes them more obliging, more considerate of others, and however un- fortunate It may be for the Individuals concerned in ft, it is usually benefical to thelr friends, ht 1s generally easier to ask a favor at a married man than of a bachelor, partioularly for a woman. He seems urnally to have @ better understanding of and a greater sympathy with women than the bachelor, The average bachelor docen't under- stand women at all, however muoh he may live them and frequent thelr so- \ety. He has elther a ridiculously ex- wited Idea of womanhood—though in theo: regions this is extremely rare—or 4n unwarrantably low one, All women are indeed angels or devils to him, not- withstanding the fact that none of them i elther. ‘The worst trait of the voluntary New York bachelor is the poor opinion of women he is apt to profess, By the time he has regched forty he has gen- orally ceased to believe in himsett and to consiler that a good and suMctent reeson fur no longer believing in other peuple, He becomes the exponent of a cheap cyniclag concerning women, a glittering barroom philosophy as unwholesome.as tho pale brandy, the amber cocktail or the dull ditch water absinthe he pours down his throat while exploiting tt. If ho is not cynical, he ts apt to de- velop & mawkish, utterly artificial sent!- mentality, to moon over some lost ideal for whom he would probably not sacri: fice his after-dinner cigar if he were called upon to prove his devotion, But whatever his point of view Re is apt to be thoroughly comfortable. Few indeed are the married men of whom | ‘ we may say as much LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_—— “Mr. and Mre James Smith.” To the Falter of The Brentag World: Which is the proper way to register at & hotel—“James Smith and wife” or "Mr, and Mrs. James mith?” J, B, Twice, 1896 and 1900, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Did William McKinley defert Bryan in 1896 and 1909 or only In 186? A Strikes and the Consumers, To the Editor of The Evening World With regard to the meat strike, I wish to state that strikes in all their phases can have no beneficial results to us consumers, The strikers may gain or they may lose, but still we, the com- tunity, muse suffer, ‘Wve consumer must always be the loser, Louis. Bride sb Provide It, To the Editor of The Evening World Bhovid the bride or the bridegroom ne bride's wedding dress? ANXIOUS. AF and M. ¥. ee Vor That Rested Feeling, Though days are warm, there's no real PPAADDDLDADDHDDD ODLIED DOD LOI ODDAGES ILE DDDOPDOODOD 94-0004. WILLIE WISE S& Gene Carr’s New “Kid” * jMary Jane’s Papa Pushes the Swing. % % %& The Old Gentleman Helps the Sport Along by Discussing Politics with a Neighbor. DE BIODEIALADENG 14 O91 OOF 4 AEDTTDE HOE DEGEEEEO DASH OEEOD armengue ao Gpentocmnneee, WANTED ALL TO KNOW. | Id1—S0 Emily captured that young fan at Inst. t think al tad a engagoment was sl aoa eee “No,” MT ide aedivecads Ay yah &) megaphone, -Chleags| friend, wit ES A CHRONIC HABIT. sald the man who had recent: liked the! ly made his fourth | THE EXACT AMOUNT. “Yes,"' sald the man who had been to the generous with his friends, “T've lost| a! can't say that) ga in peers yrevar hatha ies “OL copree antes is cheer sy sigmamne| se The Bright Boy Interrupts Real Work to Show What He Knows and Now Knows Mos: She he By Martin Green. Election Betting Just@ Now Ranks with Matching Pennies. ~ HERE was e man in here to-day,” remarked T the Cigar Store Man, “who wanted to bet 3 to 2 that Roosevelt will be elected and 2 to 1 that he will carry New York." “On the day after election,” sald the Man Higher Ups, “that Individual will be patting himself on the back for the wisest man ever or kicking himself around the block and consulting experts to find cut if he hasn't got an ossification under his hat. Betting on the election now, ranks with matching pennies ss a gamble, There is nothing to base belief of the election of elther Roosevels or Parker on except partisan enthuriasm. “Democrats who talk about 4 walk-over for Parker don’t seem to realize that Roosevelt is a hard maa to beat. Asa politician he bas got a lot of the old pappy\ z guys around political headquarters skinned four ways ‘ from the ace, In addition he has an immense personal following, especially where he is not well known, “There is a big Roosevelt sentiment in the West and Southwest. Ho {ts strong west of the Allegheny Mouns tains. Here in New York it looks now as though he would be snowed under, but you don't want to overlook * the fact that Gov. Odell 1s one of the few men who know how tar it is from Schenectady to Troy. He has built up @ machine above the Bronx that is all to the billiards, y and be is wiso to places up-State where they don’t know, enough to stop veing on election day until they get w telegram from the Fifth Avenue Hotel telling what the Democratic majority is in this town, “The people out West don’t know Parker, and they. don’t throw up thelr hats when they hear his name. As a Democrat you go away back and sit down when they talk betting to you until after the Judge comes backt from his trip to St. Louls next month. Then may be you can get a line.” “He's a bum Deiwocrat,” complained the Cigar Store Man, “who doesn't think his candidate Is\going to win.” “That's what he !s,” confessed the Man iHgher Up, “but he's a bum protector of his own mazuma who beta it on a game he doesn’t known anything about. The people of this country have made up thelr minds who they are going (o elev: President, but they haven't squealed yet a Queer Wedding Present. Among the [loongotes, a tribe of savages in the interior of Luzon, according to A. Henry Savage Landor, ‘the wed- ding present given by the prospective bridegroom to his, sweetheart does not lack quaintness, and consists of a hu- man Tiead, part of a breast and heart, as well as @ finger or two, Unless a man can produce these gifts he has to re~ main a bachelor, but these gifts are invariably procured. The ‘inclined to wed’ les in wait In the high grass until aa. unsuspecting man, woman or child happens to go by, whe a few minutes later is left dead upon the trail minus the atomical portions enumerated above."* Egyptian Rags for United States. Hundreds of tons of Egyptian rags are exported every, , year into the United States to supply the paper mills. At; Mannheim-on-the-Rhine American importers have ragpicke-! ing houses where rags are collected from all over Hurope,, the disease-infected Levant not excepted, and where women: and children, too poor to earn a better living, work day af- ter day, with wet sponges tled over their mouths, sorting these filthy craps for shipment to New York. The best’ papers are made of these rags. The common ones are made, of wood pulp, which is obtained by grinding and macer- ating huge blocks from soft-wooded forest trees, Cursing the Sea. ‘The little seaside resort of Kultchuk, Russia, has been acandalised by the introduction of mixed bathing by visi¢ tors from Odessa. Tie priests and puritan residents waa denouncing ‘the awful behavior of the Odessa devils,” whic nevertheless, is drawing crowds, hundreds of peasants driv; ing to Kultchuk to witness the novelty. Father Zachrall, @ + Jocal priest, Is conducting on the beach a propaganda against mixed bathing. He wades into the Water up to his armpits daily at noon and solemnly curses the sea for permitting the defilement. He has improvised a littrgy, which Includes the following: “Rise, ye waves, and overwhelm these unchristiag) men and women, whose conduct makes the fishes blush,” ab “ ie yt