The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1904, Page 10

~*. (Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice at York as Second-Class Mail Matter, VOLUME 48.......ccccesseeseessssNO, 18,723, The Evening World First | Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six months, 1904,. . 7,700 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six ‘ months, 1903..scsesereesseeeees 6,019 INCREAS. . 1,681 No other six-day paper, morning or evening, In New | ‘York EVER carried in regular editions in six consecutive | Months such a volume of display advertising as The Evening World carried during the first six months, 1904, CRIME'’S CONTINUED REIGN. Four autopsies performed by Coroner's Physician Weston yesterday revealed four murders, for only one of Which is a suspect under arrest. The physician's state- ment that thore is an epidemic of homicide in the city 18/4 unnecessary in the light of the convincing testimony of | the news columns to that effect which these revelations Only corroborate. They furnisA an ironical commentary on Commissioner McAdoo's complacent references to crime conditions in the city a3 not unduly serious, and cast discredit on his cheertul optimism. It is high time that police watchfulness was diverted from side doors and put to the more profitable uses of detecting the numerous murderers, burglars and foot- pads, and suppressing the still unchecked carnival of crimes of violence. Whether or not the town is wide Open, that question may be left in abeyance, and mis- demeanors let go pending the application of more vigor- us measures to end an unexampled riot of disorder, and to furnish that security of person and property which 1s the department's first duty. A DIVIDED BL4ME, The preliminary investigation of the Attorney street fire to fix the blame for the insecure and useless fire- escapes discloses singularly loose conditions of indefinite and ill-defined responsibility. It appears to be the duty of the Tenement-House Commission to order the erection of fire-escapes, and that of the Bullding Department to see that they are Secure and safo. It then becomes the divided duty of the Fire and Police Departments to keep them free from encumbrances, such as in this latest fire tragedy impeded the efforts of the tenants to escape and interfered with | the work of the firemen, Thus, while in \heory fire- escapes are under the vigilant scrutiny of four elty departmonts, in actual practice what is the duty of many becomes the business of none. In this particular inatance of official negligence there were to blame Some officer of the Building Department for failure to report the imsecurity of the upper fire-escape which gave way while the firemen were on it; Some pfficer of the Tenement Commission for sanc- Moning the removal of the lower fire-escapes in front poe pol ie ce officer for not clearing them of encum- brances. As Chief Croker well says, it is the order of the policeman backed by a threat of arrest, and not the unsupported warning of the fireman, which compels respect for this provision of the law. Inspector Schmittberger is reported now as “taking Measures to put op to the practice of throwing | Tubbish and placing mattresses on fire-escapes.” The precaution {s taken late in the day, Will it still be in force in this district when the next tenement fire breaks out? Will it require another fire elsewhere to extend it to other districts? The cumulative evidence of revent| exposures of official laxity makes the public sceptical of the sincerity of sudden spasms of reform, THE DUST EVIL. Progresaive hotel-keepers of the last generation advertised filtered water as an attraction for guests, The newest of the city's modernized hotels provides @Mered alr, from which all tangible impurities have heen removed by a perfected process, It will excite surprise even in New Yorkers familiar with the prevalence and penetrability of city dust to learn that the foreign matter extracted from the air drawn into convey more ten eas than the most impassioned lo ret, or In a pair of carefully selected socks express mor varied of tenderness than Ku- the lady who some thm To the Editor of The Evening World The Emotional | Gown and keap Vear. | By } Nixola Greeley - Smith. —_———. ROM Lon- don comes} the emo-| tlonal gown Invented} a dress. aker of ti to oxpress for Mrs, James) Brown Potter! the vary in | scale of human S heroines she) Kem presente upon A stage traverse. Nixola Greeley-Smith. ‘The Vam- pire,” “Thougats of Strange Things, “A Bilent Appeal,” “Incessant Soft De- | sire” are the names by which severil f Mrs, Potter's creations are Known. | And doubtless thelr effect upon Landon | audiences will be everything that she hones for. Lut why need this wonderful brand-| 4 new idea be limited to the stage? Why should |t not be transplanted to the realm of real emotion and confer its benefits upon young men and women the] | world over. Notwithstanding the fact that leap] 7 vear brings to every young woman the right to propose marriage to the man of her choice, and that this is leap vear, Uvere are a great many girls who hesitate to avail themselves of the leap- vear privilege, and the emotional gown seems to have been Invented saly for thelr needs. For while the bashful y well balk at a proposal in timid ‘debutante, even, need hesitate to give a stlent intimation of the #tate of her affections by donning a eclally built by her willingness to "A Silent Ap- might be one drawback, Suppose “A Silent Appeal” were expressed in a color so unbe- he wearer as practically to fects, If we vent our om tlon# in colgrg it results Inevitably th there will be ee nm emotion becom ing to brunettes and unbecoming to blondes, and vice versa, And vet they may the very sentiments that we are dying to express For the benefit of waiting femininity the London dressmaker ought to out her complete color scheme, wit emotions to match, before we buy our fall gowns, ‘Then we can learn just]? What emotions sult our complexions best, and invest our shekels accord ingly, But need the emotional color scheme be confined to women? May not the diffident, elusive bavhelor adopt a dar plan of campaign, and tell his in vividly emot al neckties of & !¥ sentimental socks? How = much awkward stumbll through unaccustomed phravyes we be saved the bashful suitor, wio one bow of parti-calored splendor migut belik's v Blessed tlonal gown, 3} the Inventor of the emo- e deserves to rank wit ago discovered 1 that we must Ss mate with @ the color of our souls, under no cireumstar soul of confileting Hut must our eme yet been = yught wo LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. — | A Modest Hero, this hotel in two days amounted in bulk to half a barrel, (And this at an upper Fifth avenue corner in an environ- ment of brick and stone and asphalt favorabie to cleanliness. A new view of the evil effects of city dust is gained by the eagerness of surface car motormen and conductors | ¥ to escape from street dust by securing employment on the subway. “No one,” said a Broddway conductor to a World reporter, “can serve on a surface car without sooner or later suffering from the dust, and many fs the man who has been put out by consumption on account| ® of it.” Trolley passengers in Manhattan know only too w the disagreeable effects of the back-draught, wisn pia them with dust when a car stops. The trailing cloud envelops and half suffocates them. This nuisance on the Boulevard drives women shoppers to the elevated on all but wet days, The subway wil! furnish them with a further refuge. But some more adequate means of relief is called for to remove this increasing source of dis- comfort and ill-health. Cannot the Street Cleaning De- beer do something to dispel the germ-carrying slow COURAGE IN WAR AND IN PEACE, The spirit of the old soldier is strong in Gen. Sickles, as it ‘* in many another veteran who has, like him, proved upon the field that his daring ts not confined to the utterance of words. “In the day we are unwilling to fight for our Uberties,” says he, replying to Mr. Nathan Straus’s plea for an cnduring peace, “we shall surely lose the respect of the world.” He pretaces this passage by a declara- tion that war iz ordained and that we shall always bare it Bas . rue that we shall aave b; time so long as the notion prevatle thet Aphis be the sole proof of courage. But when all the hatio ; have outgrown that small-boy quality of fearing to “take 4 dare” lest there follow the accusation of being atraid, dispuies will be settied by taking thought tustead of by To-day, fighting may be forced, ai ft would indeed be a pittablo, weakens, beet to-morrow of universal peace no nation will tortelt ‘Teapect by having the willingness and courage to submit cane to fag pean instead of to the generally one- GET NEW CUSTOMERS, men who find many of their old customers away or “ out” should consider the |naked eye for a distance of 8.686 ical hig, oy y ‘The World “Want” columns for bringing! miles, or 1024 statute miles At Broadway and Bleecker street one evening lately I noticed a young man step in front of a team of horses at- tached to an express wagon and pick up a little child almost from under} ¢ their feet, The young man himself ‘an knocked down and barely escaped) the wheels, After having 4 little trou- ble with the driver, the young man disappeared before his identity could be learned, This may reach his eye, and if so he will know that at least one erson saw and appreciated what he did, If it had not been for his courage the child would surely have been crushed. BROADWAY. An Unheeded Law, To the Faitor of The Evening World Of all the great reforms you have brought about there is one yet for you to accomplish, In the erection of small] « fiat-houses of the tenement sort the law regarding the laying of floors at every other floor ts deliberately violated. I and one of my fellow-workmen have | § susygined broken heads from falling} « bricks, and pretty nearly all of us haved ‘ had narrow escapes besides, When 1] « complained to the owner he told me to| ‘ tell the men upon the roof to stop let- ting bricks fall, I might as well (ell the Japs to stop storming Port Arthur. 1 complained to a building inspector, and he sald, “What can I do?” I sald, “Don't you know that the law requires floors to be laid?” Then he said he would see the framer. ‘That was a bluff. He should see the owner, not the framer. THOMAS CHARTRES, 4.186 Statute Miles from 5 Feet, To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to the question as to how far an object is visible at sea, 1 would my that this depends entirely upon the elevation of the object iiself, and also upon the elevation of the person (above sea level). Supposing a person were standing on a platform 5 feet above the sea level and the object also was § feet above sea | the object would be visible to the naked for a dis | co of 36% nautical mi 41M statute miles, Then again taking a per- son standing on @ platform. % feet above the sea level, and phe object waa the same distance above the level of the fea, the object would be visible to the MARINER, $4949 9995000900060809 E WISE w Gene Carr’s Brainy ‘‘Kid.” » wi He Knows How to Start a Balky Horse, All Right, as You Will Perceive. iWILLI 4 HOW STuPI0! 226-20662625669900 C0-6O00-9006-064-6-0-56- 265-464 THIS WOULD HAPPEN WHEN s Higher Vp By Martin Green. 7 McGraw Could Give Kue ropatkin Any Number of Points on the Art of Victory. “| SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the Polo ‘ Grounds fans love Johnny McGraw so well they broke his leg.” “McGraw holds no grouch against the fans,” replied The Man Higher Up. “If they didn't love him they would have broken his face, but it would have been @ harder job, The baseball season will bea packed away in camphor balls by the time he Is able to ‘get around with bis usual graceful agility again, but | there ts an opening for him and the Giants. With MoGraw in Kuropatkin’s place the Russian | army wouldmt be making a desperate slide for the Arctic Circle, Any man who can take @ bunch of ball players and make pennant winners out of them In two, seasons ig equal to the job of digging the Russian army out of @ deeper hole than the Japanese have put ft into, With McGraw on the coaching line the speedy Japs would dle on bases. “Kuropatkin’s men are shy on team play. There is where McGraw has an ace in the hole all the time, He is about the ouly manager in the business who can, take a vhesty ball player—and ball players are chestier than prima donnas—and make him think he {s getting all the hands when, in reality, the kind applause is for the whole bunch. “Without = weapon in his mitt McGraw stood off $8,000 enthusiastic fans who wanted to run over him yesterday and got away with a fractured prop. One | excited fan ia more dangerous than ten Japanese. Om this basis McGraw with his bare hanjls ought to be able to stand up the whole Japanese army, and with a base- | ball bat and a chew of tobacco he dopes out to put the whole slaut-eyed tunch on the run, “But McGraw can’t talk Russian,” protested the Cigar Store Man, “Maybe not,” responded The Man Higher Up, “but he can talk Englizh that even a Russian could understand.",, The Grouse’s Tricks. ‘The grouse has a hundred tricks of defense, It will lle ati until the hunter Js within a yard of It, then soar straight upward in his front, towering Nike a woodcock: again, t¢ will rise forty yards away, and the sound of wings Is his only notice of its presence. It will cower w a branch under which he passes, and his cap will not be more than a foot below It as he goes, and though ft has seen him approaching it wili remain quiescent in fear until his back is turned, It will rush then, and when he has slewed hime self hurriedly around he will catch only a glimpse of @ brown, broad wing far away. Mary Jane and Kickums as Auto-Baiters w& &}/- Their Dads Start Out to Test a Machine and Get All They Want FOOT PRINTS APPROACHING: ons and the gowns 4 n the color Of] @ ur eyes? This point SO9O26-968 Pee ee rd CAR , GEORGE ee S-2--S+S to-do 9-4 -2-9-8- Hee cee SPCC CCCCO Sooe $404400400068 TOOK HIM UP, Tramp—Madam, I'm sadly in need Madam—I should say you were. There | an’ ie @ creek Just beyond the grove. Here's soap and towel.—Detroit Free Press, WORSE YET. “Miss Oldham says she would never She'd even marry a man hPggig for him."—Chicago Record-Her- SWIFT ENDING, Pattenee-84, wrote a aong he thought uJ eo el NEW KIND OF MERGER. “Colonel never resigned—did het” jo; ho Just merged into the office, Rubber Pavement. ‘ In 1881 an incessantly and heavily travelled bit of street at the entrance to Euston station In London was expert- mentally paved with India rubber, vuleanixed for the pure A concrete foundation, finished with cement to make It smooth, was covered with two Inches of this preparation, and, when ready, the wheels of traffic were turned upon ft, They continued to roll over it without interruption untit May, 192, a period of twenty-one years, and in all that time the rubber bad not worn through at any spot. Queer Currency. A London firm recently received from a miner in Alaska this letter: “Gentlemen—Inclosed you will find an envelope, which you will tear up in small pleces and place in a glass of water, Let !t stand for an hour, then stir and drain off slowly; add more water and drain, and you will find 3 grains of gold, for which you will send me stylographic pon? wrapped up in late newspaper.” The gold thus obtained gold for $125 and the pen was duly forwarded A New Coin Trick, Here is a very simple little trick, which looks not at all easy and quite as if the performer must be very skilful n+ deed. Take a silver coin, @ quarter or a half dollar, and pick It up by placing the points of two pins one on eltheg side of the coin's ed, You may hold the coin securely in this position If you press firmly with both pins. Now, blow s-artly against the upper edge of the coin and tt will fy Around and around, revolving with great rapidity bet; the pins, Hungry Britons. It Is remarked by the London Chronicle that most of the children taken to the hospitals there need milk rather thang medicine and that “milk dispensaries” would be a useful branch of hospital service, Seml-starvation, complicated im many cases by alcohol and tobacco, is at the bottom of most of the physical {lls of the poorer classes of the Eng lish people, 30 per cent. of whom, an authority has sald, “never know what it is to have a full stomach.” The jiuman Lawn Plower. a