The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1904, Page 14

fm ta04 7 "hy by the Press Publishing Company, No, @ to @ Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofles at New York as Gecond-Class Mail Matter, "VOLUME 45 NO. 16,781, The Evening World First DE Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six months, 1904.. eeececocccones Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six MONTHS, 1IOZ.ceseeceeseesveceeee 6,019 INCREASE. sssssses0ss 1,681 «Me 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, 7,700 “GANGS” ANO THE POLICE, When police discipline is strong in New York, the gang” faits, When the police lines are loosely held, _ the spirit of outlawry rises quickly to meet encourag- ing conditions. In 1890, the city was notoriously overrun by banded _ flourished amid mischiefs of all degrees up to murder ‘V “Battle Row Gang,” the “Barracks Gang,” the “Village ) Gang,” the “Alley Gang,” the “Dry Dock Gang,” and ‘others of a long list. Presently there came to the head +f the police Thomas Byres, of previous fame as an Inspector. His methods of administration have been “eriticised, his “third degree” condemned, But Byrnes "~~ was what is known as “a born policeman.” In him the force recognized a commander, The bluecoats obeyed orders and the “gangs” went under, __. When Devery came into power the outlaws were Still feeling the effects of subjugation, and they did not hhaye much opportunity to resume their trouble-making. . The Big Chief's ideals were not high, His perform. ances would have made the Van Wyck encomium of “the best ever,” coming from a more responsible “Gource, a vast misfit. But he, like Byrnes, was a policeman who knew how to give orders so that they took effect. Under the Low administration came the mistake of etnies corrected too tardily by the-substitution of Greene. With the seating of weakness in the Commis. Sloner’s chair discipline as an established factor went of the police force, and it gill is missing, In October, 1902, The World called attention editorially to the revival of street ruffiantsm as'an evi+ _ dence of police demoralization, “Fifty Gangs Plunder- fuffians. Then and for several years following there 4 *guch organizations as the “Gashouse Gang,” the| . @ THE » EVENING ». WORLD'S » HOME w MA WILLIE WISE— The Feminine Quality of Nerve. — By Nixola Greeley-Smith. GIRL CUTS ANOTHER'S THROAT. BLACK-CLAD CHICAGO WOMAN— Lashes a Golden-Haired Girl In White and Faile to Get a Rec: reant In Time, SHOPLIFTER SHOWED FIGHT.— Had to Be Handcuffed After! Doing Up Two Women Sleuths. Girl Whose Leg Crushed Under Car Fixe: jage for It, Headlines trom Tuesday's Paper. T HESE four) single newa-| extracts modern wom- an'e most dis- tingulshing ing in New York” said the news headlines in December, ~ $4903. And to-day we have the banded thuggism which has driven east side citizens to organize for the after. dark protection of women and which has otherwise Manifested itself in other sections of the city. Men still are brave on the force, Individual acts of heroism are chronicled daily, But there'is lacking at! the top the commanding power which should compel) adiscipline and-impart a spirit of helpful unity. Politics, is not out of the police, nor the police out of politics, District Leader McAvov remains First Deputy McAvoy. | Deputy Farrell continues to be regarded as a figure in “the Murphy-McCarren fight, Deputy Lindsley is a good lawyer, who conducts police trials with decorum, _ but who can do nothing to lift the department into his own freedom from political bias, » *' Quite evidently, the situation has gone beyond McClellan, * Can you win back for the police, Mr. Mayor, the “respect of the “gangs?” ‘The Russian bear takee a good deal of teaching in the {Mammers of war, While the tunnel-openers walt for reworks, all the strap- Weary New Yorker asks is to be shot to Harlem like @ rocket, BROKEN RIBS AND HOSPITALS. Along in March Ludwig Knak, a man of sixty-six y | __-4yewrs, died in the Menhattan State Hospital, An autopsy ie “ghowed that he had eleven ribs broken, The attendants sald they hadn't noticed anything wrong with the ribs a vend wisely guessed that Knak must have fallen out ot bed. Ry On the first of May Abraham Wendorff died in the @ame place. As he had only seven ribs broken the feMicial theory—alter first disclaiming that the injury Bad been notived—was thet he must have falier out of bed less violently. _. Wendorif had rolatives who weren't satisfied to “let \ghings drop” as must things do in New York. A Coroner's Jury consisting of eight physicians and four Vaymen has just decided that Wendorff’s death woo ppastened by his ‘¥even broken ribs, and added w. That it Is the opinion of the jury that suc MOL seil-intic nd we, therefore, recommend o dnvestization by and Jur Perhaps betore Mattan Acspital in Wendortt’s “ot nature leaden-ehod justice ee mind whether he was bru : ik, a8 no one seems in his Osecutors to their proper task, it will probably fe officia! theory ¢ itfvl precipiions fo thorough y may have made up its treated or mot, As for A case to be t he oft twe wo inches. *McAdoo wants more patroinien.” The more patrolmen, Pp mote A rea! police head Is wanted tl hae the goods, but finds no buyers. jus? as b's last hope expiree Bears this news—"World Wants Work Wonders,” JADA; censing from financial Liunders. hia Juck at advertising. be ensue reewlts surprising. Commissioner McAdoo. Indubitably it is up to Mayor | ries were | i attendant who was at the Man- ‘ me has pald the debt prodding t remain yay smashed his chest flat by a t quality—that of nerve, It takes nerve to cut one's thrast, | much to cut anothers, It “R takes more to Nixola Greeley-Smilthe riggs hibition of one’s self in a public place, | @ whether a hotel where one has come unexpectedly upon one's husband din- ing with another woman, or @ store where one has been interrupted in one’s afternoon shopping by an unfeeling de- tective, Of course, those were all injudicious exhibitions of a quality displayed at its best only in the single Instance of the girl who bandaged her crushed foot and saved it from amputation, But they demonstrate equally the presence of “nerve” in the most ordinary woman of the period, Courage may be a masculine quality, but “nerve” belongs to both sexes alike, though its manifestations in men and women are strangely different, The man who has faced the perils of battle without the quiver of an eyelash will behave Ike a alx-yearold child in the dentist's chair, or under the surgeon's knife. Women, on the contrary, that a scared mouse or a particularly lively | cockroach would throw into hysterics, will, and do, endure the most harrowing physical anguish with scarcely a mue- mur. Man's courage Is often of a iimelight of battle, the vim to great dee: Once AWay from the centre of U he la apt to know aa much of }any woman. Woman's nerve on | contrary does not need to be set to muslc but thrives better In the e291 dimness and silence of the sick room, But though women fn all ages have But | s | rouble when it was thrust upon them, it is only tn recent years that they | | have developed the more musculine | quality of looking for it, It is not the | Woman who takes with fortitude a las. ‘ag that haa been seeking her from Chi- cago’to New York, but the militant nemesis who travels a thou to confer it, that Is the +0 bear what she can't | What she can't bear has d substance of from the beginning of time. But to go into the highways spalling t, In no matter how just a modern feminine manifesia- Without its alarming side. 1 keeps on! 2 the sum er murcie| f more and more the 0 he not pon her beck the bur- Snot a burden at all, pleasant than otherwise. But so our old friend Sindbad thought of the Old! ian of the Bea who grew heavier and avier and declined to be net down at all The more women learn to do things| for themselves the less they are going jto have done for them. fhe who| jchampions her own wrongs, fights ler ejand quite as| order—the noise, the martial atmosphere | hown an infinite capacity for bearing | 4 feminine philosophy | 4 of the world she may think that 5 but rather) 4 13 wrt 7 \ ~ ana, ae WA ¥ ea DM By ES etc ie Gm? ahah ete os» & ¥ ‘ Gene Carr’s Brain | ay ALL RIGHT, MARY JANE, Wwe. Show You How TO Come ON, POP, was 2 if i f ~And the Man with Whiskers, They Have a Strabismic Gabfest on ; Fall Fashions. 667 DROPPED in at the Dressmakers’ Convention yes if terday," observed the Cross-Eyed Man ab he and é the Man with the Whiskers boarded the Ninth at nue “I at Elghty-first street and sank into their seats on opposite sides of the aisle. “They seemed glad to Be eet Maes learaed’ @ Great many: ietevetive Eastin ts." *T'll bet those hints weren't half as instructively fashion able as if they were twico as fashionably instructive” | snorted the Man with the Whiskers, “And”— “But they were twice as fashionably instructive ag if > |they were only half as instructively fash’—- began the ) |Croas-Eyed Man in sel ise, When the Maa with Whiskers again broken tn, rudely: “Perhaps not: They ‘say there will be thirty feet the bottom of each winter skirt. I should think that take women look like centigedes, But I suppose >|& figure of rpeech and women won't really have P | feet. Though’ — @ | “Ot course not!” laughed the Cross-Byed at id be foolish; and anything foolish thik of such things, Feally wanted thirty feet there’ ir having many. They’— the Man wit § £ i nine rights, If women wanted thirty feet and that would go around all thirty, they coud nav {ag as 1 am concerned, Did you glean any other torical truths at the convention?” “Oh, yea, a few more. The lecturer said: Te now-eoste © $10,000 & year to clothe a belle’ But I"—— * “No wonder the bells in poor people’s houses have ae Glothes on!" indignantly cried the Man with the Whiskem, “At least nothing but a ring, and”— “Comstock ‘may start a crusade at any time now against unclothed bells," sighed the Cross-Eyed Man, “and people who can't afford to spend $10,000 nrust go te Though fewer clothes might be bought, —> an a } bought for @ dinner belle, and"— “But expensive Liberty satin would be needed for the Inés, pendence bell, and"”— “And cheap uniforms would do for hotel dell-buoys, and “Corsets must have extension shelves this year, so the convention says,” muttered the Cross-Eyed Man, perplae edly, ‘whatever that may mean. Waen lovely woman gets fitted up with extension-shelf corsets and with show-windew peekaboo waists, she'll have a goodly store of charms a MMbited. That is a witticlam on my part You see, its a play on the word ‘store,’ and’— “My wite shall never wear all those hideous roared the Man with the Whiskers, decisively, “T declare myself or insist on wifely obedience, but-my shall NOT wear such things,” “But they're fashionable, and"— “I don't care! My wife shan't wear them not, If'—— “Because I have no wife I"— “T congratulate her!” growled the Cholerto Old Genttemaa! in the corner. “She's not as much to be congratulated, sir,” answere@ the Man with the Whiskers, stonily, “as if she was"— “Cortlandt street!* bawled the guard. Maybe not,” gurlily agreed the Choleric O14 Gentieman, 4 P, TERHUND,,, Why Some People Are Poor, Their ideas are larger than their purses, They think ‘the world owes them a living,” They do not keep account of thelr expenditures, ‘They are eusy dupes of schemers and promoters, ‘They reverse the maxim, “Duty before pleasure.” ‘They have too many and too expensive amusements, ‘They do not think it worth while to save nickels ang! | dimes. ‘They have risked an assured competence in trying to get | ich quivkly. They allow ¢riends to impose upon thelr good nature an@ generosity. ‘They try to do what others dxpect of them, not what they can afford, They do not think it worth while to put contracts op { agreements In writing, 6 What Proverb Is This? od e cs