The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1904, Page 14

“ Che Ue by the Press Publishing Company, No, bs to a Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice Matter, NO, 18,723, 4#The Evening World First Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six months, 1904.. Number of columns of advertising in ~ The Evening World during first six months, 1903.. see eeeeeeenes INOREASEvsesssssees 1,08 —— No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in Now ‘York EVER carried in reguiar editions in consecutive J Sronihs such a volume of display advertising as The Evening ‘World carried during the frst six months, 1904, A REFORM AND ITS ORIGIN, r ‘To-day, as a tirst step toward restoring Ludlow Street Gail to its proper uses, Sheriff Frlanger will turn over to ) ® the United States Marshal for confinement in the Tombs the forty Federal prisoners now lodged there with and among the civil prisoners. The number of these latter - has recently been reduced to eleven through the release of others unjustly committed, into whose cases the ~ Bheriff inquired. The Sheriff's reform of minor abuses of extortion and favoritism at the jall has previously ~ Deen noted in this column. His activity is to extend yet further with the promised result that the jail will be finally redeemed from a reputation for maladministratton which has clung to {t for a generation, i Sequel to this purifying process, there is likely to be effected by means of legislative remedy a radical reform Of procedure in civil actions, the abuse of which is an old scandal, In considering and commending these praiseworthy J Yeforms It is woll to bear in mind that they have had their source in the complaints of a prisoner in a civil suit whose story of wrongs The World investigated and ~ made public, As an instance of the good a “kicker” may ¢ vag Moreover, as 3} » THE w EVENING w WORLD'S 2 HOME w MAGAZINE. w | THE WOES OF THE IDLE GIRLS. — = By Nixola Greeley-Smith, expressed O very often by some girl behind a coun- ter or a cash register or @ typewriter a certain query of other young women whom she sees behind well - matched horses or im- bre autos “yfurther wp town, * It does not Nixola Greeley-Smith. ocour to her that these same young women may OC castonally covet the larger independence which she possesses, and that for a time at least they would perhaps be willing to exchange their leisure for her busy preoccupation. Some of the most genuinely unhappy girls T have known have been daugh- ters of rich parents wh fter the en- thuslasm of their first waned, sought vainly for some Ing interest with which to All thelr vacant lives, Any number of them have had formless aspirations toward the Stage or literature, but there are many more, who, unable thus to concentrate their longings, entertain merely Vague ambition to be “doing some- thing’’—they don’t know what. ‘There are few women of leisure, mothers, wives or daugsters as the case may be, who possess the financial Independence of their own maida, Even With the most gnerous male relatives they cannot spend money with the care- less recklessness of the woman whose Income, however small, is the product of ber own brain or hand, The little telephone girl who starts shopping NE hears |, @ccomplish when his cause ie just the example of Dr. 4 Ay Waladier {9 recommended for Imitation. — OPENING DAY IN TOO FEW SCHOOLS. F Conditions succeed speculations to-day in the matter Of New York's shortage in public school sittings, The Doys and girls are swarming about the study-rooma in @ host—as The World pointed out yesterday—larger than the combined fighting armies in the East. It ts ¢ Mure that more than a hundred thousand of these young _ Beekers for knowledge must divide time In the classes; gf Mitre, too, that the blame for this disgraceful state of ‘@ffairs in the nation’s biggest and richest city can be € @ecurately placed. si Red tape and a lack of pushing energy in the Depart- ne ment of Education have contributed to produce the situation, What can be considered as no leas than a de- € berate disregard of vital public interests by both parties ” b» to the bullding trades war has given the finishing touch to the scandal. A letter was made public yesterday in which Richard Hi, Adams, Chairman of the Building Committee of the Board of Education, summed up the situation and ap- pealed to employers and employees in the construction | %,, Andustries to except the uncompleted schoo! buildings 3 ge from the strike-and-lockout regime. The appeal should Be even stronger and should have been made months ago. An official awakening to the school emergoncy on the eve of the school opening is hardly more timely than % @ Geatbbed repentance. A However, now that the authorities in the premises | geom to be awake, let pains be taken to keep them so. ome day, even yet, our echools may catch up to our echolars. ea SOLDIER BOYS WHO '' MADE GOOD.” The Twelfth New York comes back from Manassas | Gtter an experience in play warfare which, except for | the casualties of combat, seems to have included most of the rigors of actual service, Forced marches of ten, twelve, nineteen and twenty-elght miles, arduous outpost , “Maty and a sham battle, added to the fatiguing routine duties of camp lite, gave the regiment of unhardened eity boys a strenuous week. But they received from . Gen. Barry a bouquet of praise worth while, “Boys,” said Barry, “I wanted a New York City regi- ment in this affair, because of my pride in my native town and because I wanted to try the efficiency of an all-city regiment. You've made good in every way, I'm not much of a gallery player, but I hope that, if I ever have to command in a real war, I'll have such troops under me as the Twelfth.” It is & compliment to be proud of, coming from a soldier who knows, In the civil war and in the fight with Spain it was the regiments of city-bred boys who Won records for bravery and endurance. The way the Twelfth acquitted itself at the third battle of Manassas hows its possession of almilar soldierly qualities. THE HERO BEHIND THE FIRE HORSES. Emerscn pronounced the Judgment that a hero never reasons, therefore is never wrong. On these grounds, or pay other, the fire-engine driver who turns his machine garinst pillar or curb—as Clark of Engine 129 did @ Baturday—to save a life ahead, i very much all right. He obeys the unwritten law of a department whose watehwords are duty and courage, But the good fame of bis gallantry is his own. From another point of view there are other things to nay. The peril, if a driver of apparatus should keep on his | Tight of way, would be in most cases to the life of a gingle person “on the outaide,” so to speak. When he ' and crashes {nto an iron post. a curb, or a brick wall, the risks involved are— ‘To his own life; ‘To the lives of his company comrades; ‘To the lives of his horses; To the public apparatus he helps to run; ‘Zo the property endangered by fire, which is still further by the delay of fire-fighters. x Jooks like an overbalancing of accounts in peril. not affect the status of the driver-hero. He Setion still are right. The comparison of risks merely—and strongly—on the public duty * a . gh ’ 4 bis, Sony with the {dea of buying @ % hat and returns to her boarding-house with a $15 creation and a determination to go without lunch for @ fortnignt ¢n- Joya a larger Mberty than many wives of rich men, Women rarely thrilty with money th themselves earned, and th upporting woman may give more money in charity and certainly does give more in tips than women who, sporting gowns bhat would represent three months’ #alary to her, have not % cents that they may call thelr own, @o much more complete !s the Independence of the wage-earning woman that it Is remarkable that she in able to adjust herself to the shack- ling financial restraints of marriage whe@jt comes to her. The girl who has nove had any money of her own, aie who merely leaves off “asking papa” tor money to begin asking Tom or Dick or Harry as the case may be, passes through no such acute transition. Ot course her independence is not without Hts drawbacks, but the profes sional woman, if she finds any position she occuples unpleasant can throw It over in five seconds, with a fair pros- pect of getting another, an advantage whch her idle sister does not share, But there is no doubt that the joys of independence may be, only the exceptional woman who take delight in them for any length of time, and the girl who draws her first year's salary with almost childish exhilaration in a few years learns to re; envelope as a distinct each one brings with it a greater wear hear of soul. Economically It may be right for women to work for a living or It may not. But whatever benefits it confers on the moss the individual doesn't like {t particularly, and on the whole would rather, as a steady job, be obliged to give some unsympathetic man an Kem- fved account of “what she dd with that $2." For the joys of independence may be grent, but as yet not many women are educated up to them, i LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_—— Dresden, Germany. ‘To the Editor of the Evening World: In what city and in what country was Mayor McClellan born? BOB. If Dewey Led the Japs. To the Editor of the Evening World: Had Admirel Dewey doen In com- mand of the Japanese fieet at the com- mencement of bhe present war he would have probably salted into Port Arthur harbor during the night and destroyed the Russian ships in one forenoon, un- der the guna of their own forts, as ho did in Manila Bay at the commense- ment of the Spanish war. WILLIAM D, Enst Orange, N. J. The Anewer In “Nothing.” Ta the Baltor of The Evening World Multiply Sx4x5x0x9. A says the answer is “nothing.” B says the answer is “S0." Which 9 right? JOHN B. ‘Ta the EMlttor of The Evening World are not, please atate why AR Black is the absence of color, White ts the result of combining all the colers. Chin, vening World 1 find I am getting a double chin. What can I do to get rid of superfluous cK moderately. Avold all fried and tools and sweets. Take no tter of other fat-produe- p only & hours out of the wet plenty of outdoor exercise. A Paralyzed Mocking Bird, Jo the Editor of The Evening World | TL have just bought a mocking bird (a this year's bird), and I only had him ing diet BS ‘way and give the firemen a free road. People to do this than not to long-distance warning when a't it worth while to be as } are herole for us? rons 4 two or three days when he los: the use of both of his leas as though para- ‘yi He eats well and no one see ort. what Is the trouble with Na PLDIPDRDADADAD DIMA DDODDE EEE DDDEDDDEDEEGETEDEED EDGY LIES T4E-ODFDODDO04-9G-1 094-049-0664 04-6-446-40.96 09 OOOOODI009 Mary Jane and Kickums in Wall Street, -:- -=:- They Visit the Stock Exchange and Produce a Slump that Catches J. P. Morgan Unawarea. 4 ; By Martin Green. ‘ \, YRS 2 @He-e-> $OG0O8 G24 TEXT RANT NAY K tr val 7, the | ¢ Black and White Are Not Colors, | . Are biack and white colors? If they] ‘ een =. St. Regis Proprietor I ! Teaching the Rich to Deplete the Roll Without Taking Ether. | SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “ that a portios of spinach in the feed section of the Hotel St' Regis costs $1.98." \ “But there {3 nothing in the revised statutes to hunc! you over to the St. Regis when you get an appetite for spinach,” remarked The Man Higher Up. “In your ple belan way you have put an estimate on spinach wherein {t {8 classed in value with second-hand whiskers. You are of the opinion that the best spinach that money could buy should cost about 15 cents a trough. But thé pa- trons of the uew St. Regis are willing to loosen for spit. ach as though it grew in a gold mine, and the more we can make our people of wealth loosen up the better {t will be for New York, “For my part I'd like to eee them open a hote] where the cost of a couple of soft-boled eggs and a gold plate of toast would be $7.35. I'd like to see a beanery started for our newly arrived millionaires with a proprietor nervy enough to charge $12.50 for a modest order of beef- steak and fried potatoes, Instead cf condemning the people who look with smiling maps upon a bil! of $5 for an order of roast turkey, let us rather congratulate ours selves that there are people with eo much money that they hate it. “It ew plain, undeniable fact that a majority of the wealthy people of this city weep bitter tears every time they break a $10 Mill. The great mase of money that is exercised in this town is turned loose by the people of moderate means. Our rich are notorious tightwads in the main. When {t comes to purchasing they make a far mer’s wife negotiating a rooster for a calico dress look 1k pendthrift. ‘ “Let us hope for a 8. Regis on every block as longms the supply of well-upholstered millionaires willing te © spend holds out. The proprietor of the St. Regis is. q@ public benefactor in that he is teaching the rich to separ» ate themselves from their money without the ald of ethen The more money is spent in New York tho more fs afloat and the more chance the outsider gets to grab a pere ' centage.” id “Tt looks foolish,” complained the Cigar Store Man, “Of course {t does,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “Du think what a shine town this would be if we were all | sensible.” The Cross-Eyed Man * ~And the Man with Whiskers, They Mangle the Jap-Russo Situation in a Wordy Buzz-Sawm, Pe ares ag ae eater entered the Ninth avenue “L" at Eighty-first street and sank into thelr usual seats on opposite sides of the alsle, A nervous old lady, who had travelled on the same car with them before, burst into hysterical tears and left the train. “Wild doings tn the vicinity of Mukden!” commented the Cross-Eyed Man, glancing at a neighbor's paper, “The Jape"— “Wid Doingsl” scornfully echoed the Man with the ‘Whiskers. “Did you ever happen to get a photogragh of any wild Doings, and did they differ much from the Tame ones? What foolish things the papers write! Now, if the papers had ald: ‘A fine, wi ‘own, wild Doing was cap- tured alive after frantic resistance last week by the five- year-old daughter of tho General Passenger Agent of the Mukéen and Trans-Lisoyang Railroad, and has already become eo tame that it will eat out of Gen. Kuropatkin’s handovitch. It has been temporarily placed in « cage with the Czar's flock of domesticated Doings.’ Now, a repost Mike that would have been worth read: 1 “The Japs,” continued the Cross-Eyed Man, unheedingty, . “seem to be forging far ahead in this war. Not as tag ahead as the Russians, cf course. But farther than if they had only forged ahead half as far, and”— ‘ “But not as far as If they'd forged ahead twice es far, interrupted the Man with the Whiskers. ‘If’ — “That's true, If they had, they'd have caught up with the Russians before now. That would be the catch in the war problem. (A pleasantry on my part.) I’"— i} “Bpeaking of jokes,” broke in the Man with the Whis- kers, “I've written a poem on the Russo-Jap war, Like to hear it?’ And before the shouts of refusal from the reat of the car could reach him, he began: “The Jape are winning in e way ‘That simly beats the Dutchoviten, But they don't win as oft, they say, As if they won twice as muchoviteh, When Fujiyama’’— \ “What I can’t understand,” hastily interposed th Man, “la why the Russians don't play fair, ap a one battle and then the Russians refuse to do thety and to beat the next. They make those poor lttie undergrown Jape do all tho beating. They” “They don't MAKE them do it,” corrected the Man, with the Whiskers: “if the Japs got mad and refused to beat-the | / next battle, the Russians couldn't force them to,” “Uniess they got out a summons or an injunction something foreing them to, They might do that.” “They might, of course; but they wouldn't be likely ter® Wie ke pied wouldn't, It wouldn't be | ¢, as long as the Japs don't mind doing beating I suppose it’s no business of ours,” oe “Maybe not. But I hate to see the poor little Jape tm posed on and see those great hulking Russians make thes 4 “Say. Snow, are you a married or a single man?” “Whaf yo’ talkin’ ‘bout? Cant yo’ see Ise single by de size ob dis millyon?” ‘ do all the work. I guess I'll send a postal card of protess ! to"— { “CORTLANDT STREET!" shrieked the guard, nottme | his dissy head in both hands, The Cross-Eyed Man and the Man with the left the train together, lacking the strength to pull it apart, AP. TERHUNE, Remarkable Watchmaking, M. Leroy, @ Parisian clockmaker, has just achieved @ triumph in watches. He has been at work since 1897 ‘upon * a chronometer which he has just completed. It containg ; 96 pieces and has cost 44,100. On the case are the signs ot: the Zodiac, and on the main dial, besides hours, minutes ané@ seconds, are numerous computations of tima in years, months and days, the phases and age of the moon, the seasons, solatices and equinoxes and various time records, Then there are large and smal) gongs, and a little carillon three notes for sounding purposes. On the lesser pordh dial are 26 stars of the Boreal and 20) of the Southern Hemisphere, time at 12% different cities of the world, times » | of sunrise an® sunset, and a thermometer, a hydrometer nd a barometer, 5 Ss SS mY F994 OBGSS- PH TEDIC CSO ESE Into the Taltse now he dives— Wet cream of Tartar’s good for hives— @ The China ware was falling fast When through a Manchu village passed As he climbsd up the cold North Pols, ages tan Spa Exporting Butter. ‘The exportation of Swedish butter in 2f0¢ 4,100,402 pounds, more than two-thirds A Russian, looking very glum, While in his care this cry would come: “Banzai!” While Just a little to the rear This pleasing war cry he could he=7t ‘ “Banzai!” ‘eaees And like Eliza, ‘cross the ice, He listened to that strange device: 4 " WwW. A.B.