The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1904, Page 8

te \ rs , felleved is worked off through exercise {nto the fatigue \ / ~T BATURDAY EVENING, “"{ QEPTEMBER 10, 1904. 4 O984G404AAGSADLEL ELS EAGAN DS PDADS DIODE SIEGE DIDO DD ODDS HEEIED 446-446006-64 en eciorld by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Oflice f at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, *MOLUME 4B.....sccccsesceessessesNO, 18,720, The Evening World First Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six months, 1904... An Number of columns of advertising in ’ i 7,700 The Evening World during first six INCREASE .sseeess00006 1,08 ——— No other six-day paper, morning or evening, In New 6,019 3096000050 00060 0069006000 York EVER carried in reg ditions In six consecutive display advertising as The Evening World carried during the first six months, 1904, A CENTRAL PARK DEATH.TRAP, _ * When Central Park was laid out tour transverse roads Were cut through to accommodate direct traffic between | : the east side of the city and the west above Fifty-ninth btreet and below One Hundred and Tenth. The accom- modation provided was more than adequate for the time, But a city growth more remarkable than the imagina- ton of a Tweed park commissioner could forsee now makes heavy drafts on the capacity of these roade. This Is specially true of the Bighth-sixth street sunken road- way. Truck and delivery wagon traffic by day and at hight a continuous carriage travel make a busy Uoroughtare of what was designed to be and remain » park road. With fast troliey cars added, all the ele- mente of street danger are present in the narrow pas- bageway, and the risk of accident is increased by the ] turn at which occurred the fatal collision of night. The two fatalities for which this transverse road fas been responsible within a week sufficiently empha- bize its dangerous nature and call for its widening or dther fmprovement, including the abolition of the feath angle, before other lives are gacrificed, The trolley car, which is there by right of an old forse-car franchise, {s a most serious menace to safety, . [t serves an mportant need and {t {s there to stay. But why not put !t under ground? The World has suggested the Gesirability of a trolley tunnel through Highty- = street from Central Park West to Amsterdam enue to circumvent the opposition of property owners, \gainst which the railroad company has for years made! i hopeless fight, and to provide the through line from fiver to river which transit conditions urgently demand The extension of such a tunnel across the park is patirely feasible, [t offera what is probably the best on of a problem yearly growing worse and re- fuiring the attention of the authorities before the toll of human life grows larger, and the Masher. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, YOUNG woman, | 4 Ured of the persistent an "L" train, the other day, rolled her newspaper Into & hard club,’ and, risin smote him re- Mary Jane Finds the Long-Lost Mr. Peewee. s er) s s The Great “Fudge” Celebrity Is Rediscovered in the Midget City. NY 4 . Nixola Greeley-Smith. There perhaps, be criticism of thi jatic young person's meth: roblem of what to do with the “masher” ta 9 grave one, to which no Aingle solution is possible, and the In- dividual gil ls justified In dealing with him as shé aces fit, I remem! nalve young pcrson who when spokeo to by a Broadway lounger hurried in- ignantly in search of a policeman 10 arrest the miscreant. The incident had occurred at the corner of Forty-seventh Street and Broadway and she turned downtown to fi.d the champion provid- ed by law. Finally at Forty-third street she discovered him stroiling in dignified unconcern in the same direction, To him ahe unfolded her tale of woe, add- ing that the masher, who was htly drunk, was doubtless still to be found in front of the saloon where he had spoken to her, and that she wanted bim arrested, only to be met with the laconic reply: “This ain't me beat.” “But,” protested the young reformer, may, Pre Mounted Police at the Bridge—Tho work at the | Brooklyn Bridge entrance of what are happily called the city's “trafic cavalry" has shown an efficiency tn bringing order out of chaos which merits the highest praise. The handful of mounted policemen have dealt intelligently and competently with conditions of congestion and con- fasion which appeared to be beyond remedy, and in a day transformed a wilderness of vehicles Into an orderly pro- cession. It is now possible for the first time in years for a pedestrian to cross Park Row tn the afternoon rush hour without fear of sudden death. A CITY'S NERVOUS CHILDREN, ‘After more than a year of observation, the pedagogues ff Chicago present an estimate that one In three of the ‘@ school children is a victim of some form of ees, They attribute the troubles generally to ea Ma ean ‘ net pat fhe strenuous city life; Impure city atmosphere; the! along, and you ought to arrest him, Dringing up of children in flat buildings; nolse; lack of| ‘Now, look-arhere, young woman,” broper nutrition; late hours; residence along cablo| “#Ponded the strong arm of the law, bad trolley car lines, suppose I was to go up there and ar- rest that feller and me roundsman come No fresh allegation against urban life {s made here,| along and found me off post, what long years it has beon accepted as a demonstrable; Could 1 say to Mm? That I was chas- that for very many children the city is the worst | "5 ® ‘masher’ that insulted a young ‘ woman? Sure, me roundeman would pe bringing-up places, But in New York at least, and! yay to me, ‘And that's @ — of an very probably in Chicago If it were carefully searched | excuse.'” Uy Needless to say the “masher” exter- lor, th “ae geo {s to be found under way of the evils minator fled precipitately and has not ve long borne heavily on the nerves And | sought the ald of the police since, of the elty’s little ones, Model tenements give} A sit! of quite another stamp was living places, More numerous parks help to much more successful and original in purer alr, Playgrounds are multiplying-upon which the jan encounter with a “masher” of the j antiquated school, Ho seated himselt that easily becomes nervousness when not opposite her in the "L" and shortly afterward she was conscious of @ gen- | tle pressure on her foot. She didn’t say a word—she didn’t even look indignamt—but simply leaned for] | ward and lifted her skirt slighty as if to Investigate the source of the annoy Produces natural sleep, ‘The city’s noises do not grow greatly leas, Poverty ond its often attendant slim diet linger with us, Public bversight cannot make up for any lack of parental con: S ! ed hi in a look of eration which overpostpones the children’s hour for a i od ass ie ss ib Nevertheless, the trend of things in the modern| flirt, who flushed an apoplectio pink tity appears to be very generally to the good. Wo shal] |@4 could scarcely wait until the next always have the urban station to leave the train, Be igh their Pledge boy and girl growing up Of course, such gentle methods are not always effective. For the nerve of the masher 1s as that of a thousand BCHOOLSHIPS Two AND A DIFFERENCE | lion tamers, Mo 1s really not very The brief touching at this port {s noted of tho| merous in New York, and to the) @ e " Pennsylvania, a modet and modern steamship with a pine ano heer ees full equipment of regular naval officers and of academic priser ad gh nO very often he does Instructors. From New York the ship will go for a| not walt to see what a woman looks Yong winter's cruise in waters abroad where winter's | like before speaking to her. Frequently rigors will not be found. he approaches from the rear and re- . — ’ marks that it Is @ fine day before he On board the Pennsylvania 1s assembled a eompany| has had an opportunity to observe bf bright young Americans whom it {s proposed to do-| whether she 1s twenty or a hundred Yelop on lines of gelf-rellance, strength and the keonness| years old. Of intelligence. An educational scheme {5 here which| There are some “mashers” that sling telasses with that on New York's sohoolship, the St away if thelr presence is absolutely Mary's. But between the vessels themselves, which are tae scenes of Ilke endeavor, there {s no comparison, The up-to-date Pennsylvania, although not conducted py gable enterprise, should be regarded with interest ignored. But there aro others more persistent, who really seem to require educational authorities, as carrying a 5 , » © ugKes- of what our New York venture might be. 2 e LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS 2 Chinese. It is destined to becam universal language by gradually # lowing up the 800 tongues now in ¢: agers will put on a tuneless, stupid) “show,” and spend thousands for a sumptuous production. And what does ence. It ia the greatest clvilising) it amount to? Nothing more than @ esent. Gramatically, | is the eas! big cdition of some cheap vaudev' conversationally, the most unaffected—| sketch or some such cheap burlesqi March 80, To the Editor of The Evening World: On what date was Easter Sunday, 18M? M. 8. Paterson, N. J. Apply to Warden, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Progress, there are more nineteen-year~ boys capable of supporting a family than of old, I married with but few weil wishes and any amount of dis couragerg ,and have met with a few re- verses which I have at last fort personal chastisement, such as tyat In- flected by the heroine of the recent “L" convody, before they are willing to de- rist. worth niung about A very | But one thirg | Where can I obtai ; 7 earnest endeavor should give |him. He selects his victims elther in & pass for Sing} tunately overcome. two reasons why {t is the most popular. / show, The managers will tell you "the Give us in place of the|him. He tecomen: whom. he thiake| Sing prison? FA NINETEEN-YEAR BENEDICT. | Commercially, it is the most concise,| public want it." They are wrong. What century-old St. Mary's a modern boat, stanch, fine sure, in keeping with its mission. Certainly we| cue | ise'cho'b mid on a kindly government for our ship, But one|t Y Ss m. A D irl ol #8 expe G0 good aa the St. Mary's has been deserves gacthor realize if, she stopa to think a ly better. greater number of her experienc red during the firat 3 life. Thereafter she olse of bear jetachment fre that even the feely ventuyes synonymously, the most dimcult, the| the public wants is some genius to most beautiful and the richest (for In-| write a real comic opera. “The Mika- stance, house, home, residence, dwell-| do," “Patience,” and so on, did not ing, habitation, abode, domicile—all of) have to resort to a bevy of “Merry, which express tho same thing.) Merry Maidens,” with electric bat- F. DECKMAN, | teries and incandescent lights attached A Comie-Opera Pies. to them to make the success boy eg A And I don't believe we are any difer- bast ph apr Airy pine Dat can’t! ent to-day to what we were ten or New Yorkers stir up some commotion | fifteen years ago. 8. MARKS. Defore the winter theatrical season Pronounced “Bute.” is in full-swing, anent the s0-calied the Baitor Bvening World: comic operat We are a music-lovi: We ‘ bans lot of Nineteen, The Mold-Up Menace, To the Editor of The Evening World: frequent hold-ups on the upper west side and the Brunx are much due tv poor night patrol. There existe come- thing rotten in the police system. Eight thousand policemen in Greater New York is a vast army. Some of them shirk duty, and that cau sinccures, BOSTO: 1 wish to tay a few words in defense of “Nfneteen-Year-Ol@ Boy,” who wishes to marry, Having just passed my nineteenth birthday and being married a little over four months, I Kink I quality to advise, There is no son on earth why a ind-teasoning young / w¥ is making from $12 up, and an economical, good-housekeeping young lady should WHAT TO DO, business gets a touch of frost, lose your grip or fret, customer you've lost apt te a certan an air of business-Hke any but her own affair: most daring masher to intrude upon, Undoubtediy many eee too many IN ROAD, The Uatveresl Language, “mas do seek to address gi ho have in nO Way recognized their exist- ence, but the girl who looks like level. not to soci as # THE » EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME w& MAGAZINE. » .; WILLIE WISE+—Gene Garr’s Brainy Kid Takes Gare of a Baby. ~— ~ By Martin Green. ' That 30-Foot Winter: Skirt Decreed by the Dressmakers’, Convention. SER,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that a speale er at the Dressmakers’ Convention in Madisoa Square Garden says that 999 women out o@ 1,000 have curvature of the epine.” “The women will believe it,” replied The Man Higher Up, “because a dresemaker said it. If @ doctor should happen to let a statement of that charac, ter exude through his whiskers the women would be writing letters of denial to the newspapers, “Dressmakers ought to know about these things. If women have curvature of the spine the dressmakers are * to blame. Here comes this convention and decides that the ekirt this winter must be 30 feet around the bottom, “Phink of a pair of pants 15 feet around the bottom\ ; ofeach leg! A man would havetohire a strong valet to keop them off the ground. A skirt 80 feet around the | bottom, made of heavy material, will weigh numerous | pounds, “But the women will wear them—the smaller the woman the heavier the skirt. A 11é-pound female will | take delight in donning a skirt that weighs like a diver's, sult, a waist that buttons in the back and a sealekin coat, and go out on a cold, wet day wearing low shoes and silk stockings, “What bothers me is how the women are going to hold up those 30-foot skirt bottoms. I am told that the average skirt now {s 12 feet around the bottom and ab requires the ald of a special harness to keep it out the dirt. With a 39-foot skirt [ suppose wo shall see women wearing gold or silver derricks strapped onto their hips for hoisting purposes.” funny bow women fall to the outlandish styles set by the dressmakers,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, t's not funny,” corrected The Man Higher Up. “It’e natural. Women dress the way they do because they think the men like it.” a ‘The Cross-Eyed Man + » ~And the Man with Whiskers, ‘ $6 } They Get Into a Weird Tangle of | Talk Over the Closeness of the Election, HE Cross-Eyed Man and th n with the Whiskers boarded the Ninth avenue at Eighty-first street, i finding seats on opposite sides of the aisle and drops | ping Into stan{ conversation with all thelr old-time fue +{ ency, In less than seven seconds everyone in the car was 1 listening in pained surprise, Fr “Looks like a pretty close election,” hasarded the Man | with the Whiskers, genially. “WHAT looks like a pretty close election?” snapped the Cross-Eyed Man, argumentatively, “Can you point your finger at any object on earth and say truthfully of it: ai \ thing has the general aspect of a pretty close election: Can you"+— ¥ ‘ “No,” interposed the Man with the Whiskers, sadly, "{ can't say I can, But the thing might look more like « tion than if it were only half as pretty i. assented the Cross-Eyed Man, approvingly,’ “put on the other hand the thing wouldn't look nearly ag much Iike a pretty close election as If it looked like an election that was twice as pretty close. And a closely pretty election might"— ry “As a matter of fact,” broke In the Man with the Whis kers, “the election isn't nearly as pretty close as It will be ‘on the day before election, Then election will be closer than it Is now and”’— “] doubt,” sceptically mused the Cross-Eyed Man, “if ag election can rightly be called pretty close. With all the money and the hot alr expended, there's no real chance tor < closeness, Yet one couldn't say it looks like @ pretty ex. travagant and airy election.’ That would sound almost fo One couldn't say that.” one couldn't," agreed the Maz with the Whiskers, ‘ tae “One COULD say It if one wanted to,” thundered ¢! Cross-Eyed Man, with some asperity, “there's no law og! the statute books forbidding ene to say it if one chose, “Ot course not,” hastily agreed the Man with the White. kers. “Such a law would be an Infringement on the rigate of the Individual. It would be absurd. Don't | speak y « of it again, I hate to think of anything foolies,” “They say Roosevelt will carry Vermont and that has a fighting chance of carrying Texas,” resumed the Byed Man. “The Republican party in Texas has over Into Mexico for the fall round-up and he may not back till December. But why’—— “But why!" bellowed an Irate Old Gentleman in one con ner, “but why are you idiots’ brains like New York Ci Because they're in @ doubtful State, and"—