The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1904, Page 12

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THE POLICE AS THE GREAT UNSEEN, * At an unfortunate moment, yesterday, an editorial of a local contemporary felt inspired to write Current accusations against the Police Department “very vague” and “not sustained by anything can be called evidence.” Also, to remark that “it, doves his (Commissioner McAdoo’s) critics to do} (adduce proof) or else moderate the tone of thelr —* It happened that in a prevalent and Increasing law- ess upon city streets and in a long record of suc- ul thuggism there lay sufficient proof of an exist- police demoralization, even while an editorial Pen thus dipped in disavowal. But The Evening World, as an active and not a critic of the police administration, had not to tely alone upon reports of burglars undetected, thugs Uncaught and “gangs” unterrified, Even while the “editor quoted was appealing for proof, that essential ‘substance, strikingly arrayed in type and dlagram, was Being presented for the public’s use and his just as “fast as fast presses could print it. In yesterday's editions of The Evening World were the facts gathered on two midnight-to-dawn automobile » | trips of its own reporters, acting unofficially as ) roundsmen. To-day there is the tale of a third trip. The reporters in their motors visited east side and | west side, uptown and downtown, They were under =| the strictest instructions for accuracy and for fairness to the police, Their statements are of the facts © | wrthered in painstaking observation, late, they have not been patrolling their beats, Work Police Department. and demoralized, ‘the east side and sixteen on the west. They saw nty-five policemen on the east side, seventeen on twenty, in pairs, had something to talk about on ‘eincts were visited. Beginning Sunday at midnight, twenty precincts | Bered twelve, Three roundsmen were visible, ‘men were supposed to be on patrol duty in Manhattan and the Bronx, in the midnight platoons, It is discovered that patrolmen favor the avenues in work, those portions of beats which include half- ocks in side streets being covered frequently by ces down the sidewalks, The time thus saved on ost is devoted to conversation where beat meets beat. + The Evening World tourists were able in their first to cover mile stretches of pavement with no of brass buttons and shields. Richest Fifth avenue barren of policemen for long blocks—but so was Eleventh avenue. No uniforms adorned “Little aly.” Dark spots in “outer edge” Uistricts were lally shunned. A love prevails in the force, evi- mily, nd me and gayety, and good storics and c Ee edoeer McAdoo,” observed The World on Friday evening last, “is good- d and optimistic.” 1 But when the very best has been made of the con ‘itions revealed by the reporter-roundsman, ‘not even -& confirmed optimist will be able to find them good, “Mr. McAdoo,’* continued the same editorial, “is too ‘amiable for the vital part of his job.” occasional shake-up cannot take the place of nt, salutary tight line. The police body is moved by a head it does not continually feel, To return to you, Mr. Mayor, how can you win the| ject, of the “gangs” for a force which has lapsed respect for itself? Blighting the patrol is neglect of a first duty. A force| women in order to discover thelr fool- 1 that systematically and generally neglects its duty is|!"hnes™, Patent encuah te Atere ot disciplined. An organized body undisciplined is) ot matrimony. demoralized. : ae rl The last declaration fits exactly the case of the New tous hinees tat me had conned a | Iscovi whether or It Is a force undisciplined | {or 0ne tee oe eae on been. told Thugs and the “gangs” profit|py « clairvoyant the exact hour and circumstances of his proposal, any hus- ‘band whose wife sought a similar oracle y. Between Saturday midnight and Sunday at 4 A.M.,|to ascertain when his rich uncle was {The Evening World reporters travelled twenty miles on| seine to die would view the proceed west. Of these forty-two, three were patrolling; | .icars, and groaned over the witely ex- , confers; others were Posing picturesquely, ) OF talking ever, to which no oensible husband to citizens. No roundsman was seen. Thirteen pre-| could obtect. were covered and a total of sixty policemen seen,| “niet &, ladder, and then proceed on forty of whom were on the east side. One man was| with renewed hope. Patrolling as he should, The debaters in pairs num.| sur "ive, "hn, shew coring and Al the time of the reporters’ tours, about 1,017 sweethearts may demonatrate their au- ‘Superstitions of Women and Men. “py Nixola Greeley-Smith. DISCON- SOLATE men writes to know fortune tellers, palmists and elairvoyents, consulting dream books and making Nixola Greeley-Smithe rn ny only one opinion of the large class of In the light of The Evening World reports, It is| women to whom the aubject of tis eom- n that whatever the police may have been doing|>!aint belongs, which ts, that they are lacking in brain. Gome men, however, have to marry But while any man would be touched Ing with disgust, partioularly if, after the maaculine habit of calculation, be mentally converted the forfeited $1 into ite possible equivalent in drinks or travagance, There are forms of miperstition, how- ‘The other day in walking up Broad- way I noticed three separate greups of soudrettes cross the street to walk ‘This is @ form of there are any number of other equally economical ways in which wives and nerstition and their femininity without arousing masculine protest. Ladders, horseshoes. four leat clovers, &c., were all especially provided for women to be superstitious about. But fle upon for. tune tellers, palmiats and their tribe, for they cost money, Yet perhaps the very husband of a woman who demonstrates her foolishness by giving up f1 to a clairvoyant to locate her lost poodle, which she might far better Invest In a newspaper aivertisement, will sally bravely to the track some Saturday afternoon to lose his engire week's sal- lary because he got a “hunch” on @ 100 to 1 shot, But the fortune teller-clatrvoyant foolishness is not confined to women. ‘The high priests of the cult will tell you that they number among their patrons almost as many man as wom- en. With this renfarkable difference, however: The womem, with tho fatal preoccupation of their sex, all come to nore, aad love affatre; the men more often about the suoee: t of busine@ ventures. ii torah There does not seem to be any rem- $ edy for the husband whose wife wastes his substance on the exploiters of the occult. For though he may cut off her housekeeping allowance and pay tite huteher and baker and milliner by check. he will wake up some morning to Mme, Something-or-Other, who told his little blond wife that her ideal was a tall, dark, broad-shouldered here, and that her hvsand did not vrdentand me. ——— A WARRIOR BOLD, Von Lohnote (@ ponderous basso) _—_—— THE SIMPLE REASON WHY, Brown had a house to sell, Jones had a house to buy; | singing “A Warrior Bold Am I!" Two hours later, Mme, Von Loh- | note—Jacob, have ‘sand wot the firewood ready for the kitchen the discovery that @ Chinese palmist has & mortgage on the plano or that the balliffs are walting to seize the | dining-room furniture in the interests of lock door ta on ‘dare Yo wake the aby Leatey TH-Dita Mary Jane and Kickums Go in for Art But One Brush and Paint Pot Between Them, Though Too Little, Proves Too Much. ow , YOU KIDS BEHAVE ' YOURSELVES: A Rupture of Warm Hearts.in Darktown. HE-—I t’ink dat de second fiddle sounds fine, to-night, doan’ yo’ honey ? I Toro You ¥) TO STOP: I ToLo ‘You TO BEHAVE: ee ees SHE—Yaas, an’ dat am de paht yo’ am gwine to play aftah dis dance, Mistah. se By Martin Green. ‘ You Can't Dope Up Any Sure. Thing Winners in the Court ship Game. é 6 SEH,” sald the Cigar-Store Man, “that some Cupid expert has doped out thirteen ways to win @ woman.” “You can write your own ticket on a bet that his wife proposed to him,” replied The Man Higher Up. “The men who write letters to the papers telling how to win a woian are in @ class with the bachelor girls who dope out advice to mothers on how to take care of babies. Theoretical woman-winners live in bachelor apartments and confine their underwear with safety pina, se & “There are 25,000,000 ways to win a woman in the United States, This is a statement based upon the / cengus reports of 1900, showing that there were close to 25,000,000 spinstera and widows at large. Each woman has her own way of being won. There is no need of try- ing to frame up a system. The female who wants to be won picks out the man she wants to win her and tesohed him how. He don’t know te {s being taught, and when ‘ he finally gets her promise to commit matrimony with him he throws bouquets at himself for a wise guy. “The beat way to win a woman {s to go after her, It she thinks you assay to her plans and specifications for & husband she will have you buffaloed from the start, ' If ahe doesn’t think so she will put you in the shine class so suddenly that {t will take you a couple of weeks to eliminate yourself fr @ jar. “A man néver knows when he has @ woman won. She gives him all kinds of cues, but generally she has to , bring him around like mule drivers do with their beloved pete—with a smash over the head. The amorous bache- lor who goes looking for a wife!according to rules will! never enjoy the pleasure of having any kids clap hands and call him papa.” “| should think that kindness and courtesy would be &@ good foundation to build a set of rules on,” ventured the Cigar-Store Man, “Fine,” agreed The Man Higher Up. “Your founda- tion is all to the good, but you may as well shut your eyes and throw the material in when you come to put up the rest of the structure.” Our Large Physique. A firm in the North of England has compared the meas yrements for clothing made two generations ago with those of to-day, the results going to show that chest and hip \ measurements are now three inches on the average more than they were sixty years ago. The same conclusion ig reached by the experience of the ready-made clothiers, who, it is said, nearly always find that the present-day wearers of clothing require distinctly larger sizes than their an- vestore. os 4 Kaiser’s Wireless Kite, Emperor William recently had conducted before him, ang fn great secrecy, a series of experiments with a new war kite equipped with a newly perfected system of wirelesg telegraphy. The inventor is a German-American professor ving for the present in Havre, : “The Busy Bs.