The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1904, Page 10

@ublished by the Press Publishing Company, No. & te @ Ziek Bow, New York. Kntered at the Post-Oflice at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter, The Evening World First Number of columns of advertising in The Bvening World during firs Months, 1904,........ . 7,700 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six INCRBASE...000..00000 1,681 NEW HAVEN’S PLANS FOR THE BRONX, : Plans for the six-tracking and the electrification of the New Rochelle division of the New York, New Haven “and Hartford railway were heralded in the middle of Mast month. They are now published in full, and with ‘the Oficial authorization of President Mellen. The improvement will cost $8,000,000. If carried out Promised it will be of tremendous and expansive to the territory and towns lying between the River and New Rochelle. Further, as connec- and with the Pennsylvania routes on Jong Island, broadened road will perform a great part in the solidification of the greater city, In the present promised developments of our local transit systems, a Bast and Harlem Rivers are as if they were not. > Congratulations are due to the hustling Bronx and 4 interested localities on the prospects pointed out President Mellen, But it would probably be unwise f these communities to cease, on the strength of the Haven plans, from continuing their friendly efforts the Port Chester railway enterprise, In a territory w Varge and so destined for growth, transit accommoda- Sey ‘Maust be extensive—and competition between lines ill prove an excellent thing, Bubway. It behooves the parties on both sides of the eurrent Gispute to take into consideration the seriousness ns of this matter feom a public standpoint, and to employ | for the’ settlement of the trouble every resource of fair _ minds, There will be no public patience with either party ‘Which is seen to be using the menace to a whole popula- Mon’a uterests as a club in urging on purpuses either * seifiah of wrfair. THE LADY AND THE NEWS RECORD. “A woman led the way.” Virgil, reading the morning ‘Would find the fact he chronicled as unique re- with a variety and multiplicity of action and sufficiently extraordinary to excite remark from who live in her era of progress, In the Monday )) Morning news columns she {s revealed as— “ — Outewimming the men contestants im a race from Brook- ‘Ayn Bridge to Sea Gi > Polling highwaymen and saving a rich widow from thugs im wait to attack her; Defeating the Fat Men's Nine of Canastota In a baseball H 4 ~ © Smashing five saloons in Cuba, Kan, a _ Carrying an election at Woodmont-by-the-Sea, a New ten-mile yacht race in Oyster Bay waters; - Masquerading as a “road agent” and holding up a coach, ft 88d posing as a Sister of Charity to collect money under ¥ to tales pretenses; Stealing the mail at Sarenac Lake (a girl of twelve); Going mad through overstudy, in an ambition to become ® high-school teacher; | Figuring at the Patent Office as a prolific inventor, and ‘st the Agricultural Department in Washington as a sill and in the statistics of Northwestern University us Y on marriage after graduation; And pre-eminent stil! in activity in affaira of the herrt—, her aweetheart out of Jail by a ruse in Indiana, shot’ & love-craxed woorr, lashing her rival In a specding cab, @uing a doctor for breach of promise, and behind prison bars _ tor ettempting to kill a recreant lover. + ‘This the chronicle of one day's doings of the sex! The _ Woman's page may go trom the newspaper, but not the ‘woman from the news. Of that she remains a main in- tegral part, exciting dally wonder and speculation as to ‘what lengths and in what remote directions her activities are yet to extend, PASSING OF THE PALM GARDEN, The restaurant rounder looking in at the city’s _ ‘Bewest marble and gold hotel for a novelty to whet his ‘Appetite will note an “orangerie” where in the normal hotel the palm garden should be. A Florida environment, & hymenoal suggestion, for his crabs on toast and cup hereafter, Is the knell sounded for what hhad tome to be a stock property of the modern hotel? From its original habitat on Fifth avenue the palm garden had been transplanted to all quarters of the con- | Ment until it had come to flourish as vigorously in Rich- ~ mond and doubtless in Oshkosh as at the Waldorf. What an amount of culinary good cheer has its sheltering ’ foliage Promoted, even when the florist’s price mark on passing will be observed with regret. Drawbacks of Being a Nixola Gregley-Smith, pthere a N. GREELEY sMiTit the less endowed young women wh» even by these herole merit the coveted adjective descriptive of feminine charma there may be con rolation ln the reflection that to be con- sidered pretty {s not an unmixed de- In the first place, she has to meet the uline convietion that as no sense. Other women's brains and thelr prine! re proposed with the Interborough rapid-tranalt}be taken for granted, but she has ty prove hers, and very often she finds it a difficult thing to do. moat brillant fusitlade of wit and epi gram the average man preserves thy alr of mystified but unshaken Inered- wlity with which he watches a slelght- of-hand performance which he can't ex-| § plain, but nevertheless won't betleve tr disadvantage of being @ pretty woman is that from the very hour of her birth that respectable but earcely beautiful old lady, Mra, Grun-| 4 dy, has marked her for her very own. | § Other women less gifted with physieul loveliness may dance six times in an evening with the same man or stroll on a moonlit beach unchaperoned, and the enterprising old gossip will have not 1 word to say concerning them, But let a girl with a primrose skin and a dim- pled mouth, with corners that look as it they had been done up in curl papers] « ‘ommit any of these soctil and—""Welly, know, somebody ought ,to sp young chit about her con easy It Is to see that she has no firmly rooted ma: The inevitable penalty of being con- spicuous in looks is that of having to be inconspicuous In everything else, If you are not, people are going to ask the reasons why and to supply reasons them any. A wom- people the right st they think it does, and though she may enjoy the at- tention she attracts for a while, fi end sho gets awfully tired of being alsed up for “points” as If she were on ex- hibition at a cattle sho A pretty woman has always to be as much on the alert concerning her dress and looks as the sentry guarding & dangerous outpost In war time, If she fen't the rumor is immediately clrou- lated that she ta “going off on her looks’ or “getting terribly seedy,” &c. ot even certain that to be pretty Is an unmixed ald to matrimony, for there are some men who are afrald to marry pretty women and only feel at home with plain ones, They are the kind that never get over feeling a cer- tain awe of and discomfort in their nd who regard comfort and ynonymous terms. really just one combination n which the osses- sion of beauty Is an unmixed advanta, That is in facing a jury when on trial It has been sdid that a pretty woman can commit any crime and go unpunished in New York. It is certain that twelve men cannot be found to sentence @ pretty woman to death, possibly leas fyom sympathy with the individual than from a proper ap- preciation of the scarcity of pretty women and an unwillingness to diminish But few women will envy her this unique supremacy and still fewer put their loveliness to such a test, —[——_— SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. -_—— BETTER THAN HATCHET3, "Do you think,” querled the old lady, | ® “the thme will ever come when all na- tions will get together and bury the may bury the hatchet,” re- plied the man who ad been reading the war news, “but they will never in- ADVICE. What is the best business to n & young Man oan give his atten- tubs was yet visible to the pessimist at the feast! | Tn its provision for cosmopolitan gormaniizing th s| Jewett—His own.—Harper's Bazar. 1 die hn PROGRESS. fe Was a man jn our town, it was bad. “World Wants Work Wonders,” one jittle “ad.” store's packed to the door— dusk he works, s Want “ad” Rew hotel skyscraper will appeal to the appetite of the Most Jaded, It will be possible to dine in an Italian ma with a sumptuousness which a Colonna might| envied. Cocktails will be procurable at a Flemish | leave one stein will circulate when undergraduate good fel-j A togeiher in surroundings recalling college halls, | Jud led bones will be despatched in un {dealized wigwam| « Bd ale quaffed from the wood at tables which an old-! Herald. y ime Rhenish Councillor of State might recognize as| ‘ A HY iner-about-town Is to be well su 1 4 ! plied with be Tae thin year, Even before ise palls the Astor. ene the Knickerbocker and the Belmont will, rival attractions for him. He is entering upon DIVORCE. two from two and but I've often taken one from RETIRED. Patience—Is her } South Dakota »"—hicag> Record. usband in trade? he was sold out by the SATISFIED, xpect me to give up| al at once,” sala he rep | nothing had happenod LITERALLY, from an attack of insanity.”"—New Or- Pretty. T Is not @x- pected that the for: tunate young woman with four - inch heels and an. « eight - Ine hy f p ompadour 4 will care to read this tt- tle homily on the disadvan- tages of be- pretty of course, know none, But for FTES HSS OS devices cannot -S-5-2-3OO9OD S¢ ples may For under her iy, you to that 1. How 22434 ¢ ° the guns."—Chicago were Stites nan. “TE hope hallow. as it Super.or (Wa) AVERY STUPID SONG. LL SHow YouR EVENING STAR NOW, CHILOREN DONT FIGHT! ere ee ‘2 @ LBTITE 904000 $4-56-444406608 14646-964-146-0046, ERIES AND ANSWERS 2 2 | or wrong, If anything is missing bd The fool is sometimes not fit for dogs, Why Is nothing done to improve mat- ) clothes and on luxuries: and what part/and is realy a delight to listen | | do they put away? Does the man who/There are no less than five plano-play-| almost accuse ua of taking It. os, ray, $5 a week save a larger ing machines, all first grade, seven oF eight sraphophones, six or more really clever aspirants to opera singing, about| tersin this case? <cHAMBENMAID. two dozen sweet-sounding olanos and Ne. three or four cornetiat, A Chambermatd’s Wail, Seven Colors tn Rainbow, tor of The Evening Werld ny colors are there in the) mg (ruction than the man who makes $107 | To the © are seven colors int They ar yellow, ora Wants Housekeeping Figures. Most resent Intelil-} po the Editor of The Evening Worlt 7 od 1 would like to kuow how readers “That jones; he has just recovered | oppurtion the money they make. Take,| oid Ninth Ward, once so faméus as ray, 10a week, Vehat (racken of that do they spend 90 food, om Front, on SS ae pene To the Etitor of The Having read of “D musics! block,” permi: testimony. The neighborhood | re ia West Tenth street in the cele Greenwich village. ry Jane Had Just Read the Jeffries-Munroe Fight. @ © @© @ She Challenges Kickum to a Finish Fight and Finishes Him All Right. i PEACE TO | THEE ALL RIGHT: HAVE You BEEN ? G! uv a e AKe ME WHERE TH HOME. 4 DEUCE Is HICKUMS » THAT FIGHT-- WHEN DOES 2° 1T COME OFF “] him.” mud, To the Béitor of The Evening World: Is it proper to supply a young girl my, To the Editor of The Evening World: with money for the plate when going | Of oli poattions Is there any as mean with her? AR orated @% being a chambermaid In a hotel where Me chagoony yh is a very slave ta all driver? ),, neete =* Senator Hill 1s Making a‘ % Prima Donna Play—He Is the Adelina Patti of Politics. SEF," sald the Cigar Store Man, “that: Senator David Bennett Hill has retize2.” “It’s a prima donna play,” asserted the Man i Higher Up. “Senator Hill is the Adelina Pattt of pol tics, When you and I are eligible to the grantpa stakes and eating our food through a hose the newspapers will continue to spiel that Senator David B. Hill, having completed his lite work, has announced his intention to retire from the leadership of his proud and gratefal party and spend the remainder of his days in peaceand quiet sawing wood. “David Bennett Hill has the Presidential bug. True, he is sixty-one years old, and before he can get another crack at the nomination he will be close to sixty-five, but the Presidential bug is an indestructible Insect, Once It fastens itself to a man’s mental machinery it is there It never departs until the embalmer arrives and lays out his tools alongside the corpse. “If you marked down with straight lines on a blacks board the number of times D, B, Hill has retired the result would look like a score in a bowling alley. al) of bis retirements have not been voluntary. There have been times when some of his dear old friends got, togethe: and cut his suspenders and he went ai the way to the roof of Wolfert’s Roost before he stopped ascending. But he took on ballast and came down and framed up his game, and the next thing the people knew there was David B. back in the old stand holding four aces pat and with all the chips in the game {n front of to stick. “Maybe Hill announced his retirement to discount the rumor that if Judge Parker is elected he will make Hill Secretary of State,” suggested the Cigar Store Man, “What, David B. Hill do anything like that? B, Hill lend himself to any con? lMeve a high-minded statesman like David BR. Hill world do anything Iike that?” asked the Man Higher Up. Surely you don't bee ‘*Mediaeval” Castles. Last acquired of King Edward's dominions are the Houssa’ kest Africa, hemmed in on one side by the trackless desert and on the other by a region notorious for the most deadly climate in the world, Here, surrounded by native tribes of the lowest and most de-~ graded types, with no religion but the cult of “Ju-Ju," hae been for ages a Mussulman empire, with a population of many thousands, dwelling in fortified towns, each governe@ by its own King, but owing allegiance to a chief, the Stte Lite within these mediaeval Europe, Each is defended by a wall which forms fg respectable defense. Kano, one of the most important of the Houssa cities, possesses walls thirty feet high, with eleven gates, protected by moats and drawbridges. Over the gates are chambers for the garrison and flanking towers to shoot from, On the walls in time of war were stationed + soldiers to discharge poisoned arrows or to pour boiling oll Within such fortifications the Houssa Imposing in size, though, st of the bulldings, made only of sun-baked which He in remotest tan of Socoto, on the attacking foe. kings dwelts securely in palaces, like all the The Highest Falls, How the Victoria Falls impri Miss C, W. Mackintosh's journ: ‘Africa, Miss Mackintosh says; the falls, only seeing before us a bright green forest, apparently closing in the river, like a lake, Ten minutes’ walk brought us to the camp, on a clift which literally overhung the gorge, and we saw the cataract thundering down Into the Bolling Pot at our feet. The walls of the chasm, 40 feet high, were spanned by a rainbow, The charm of these falls lies not in the one overwhelming erash as at Niagara, but in the cumulative effect of various glimpses, the matchless beauty of the surroundings and the strangeness of the whole setting, but chiefly in the columns of spray, called the “thunderin, changing rainbows, The mile-wide river suddenly drop into a yawning crack in the ground, stretching right across the stream at right angles to the banks, a foaming trough, quite narrow, of which the walls rose 40 feet above the sure face of the water, Electric Divining Rod. Whatever merit there may have been In the old divigtis rod, divining by electricity seems likely to be successful, The electrical-wave experiments made recently on the hills about Coniaton in the English lake district have indicated the presence of a lode of copper 200 feet southwest of a rich lode which was lost twenty years ago, The mine owne ers and miners are sanguine that the new method of dl+ vining will save much toll and expense, Golden Streets. The streets of some of the mining towns of California are paved with gold. A great deal of the rock that Is taken out of the mines contains such a small percentage of gold that {t would not be profitable to take it out, so when a street needs paving this rock {s crushed, and, belng exceedingly hard, makes the finest sort of pavement, a visitor is recorded in recent tour in Souta perceived no hint of ‘een of rocky-based/ smoke" and in the ever’ Picture Puzzle.