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# THE » EVENING ¢ WORLD'S w HOME w MAGAZINE. oe yer and Be _Naiiiows | ms : By {The Evening World First | No Greeley - Smith. | KE ‘ A Tuc Judge haw just a quitted the survivor of wo men who atered Into & ulelde pact of a charge ot belng a cessory tu EPL AAE EADY OTAAD ETE T ED IR ED OPV TOW AOE OHOTTOEED 19 9 ddd | ? WILLIE WISE «Gene Carr’s Brainy Kid asan Archer: a s His Skill in Handling Bow and Arrow ls®Unquestioned After This Record. Che See Morld @eblished by the Presa Publishing Company, No. 6&3 to | | } Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Oflice ‘et New York as Gecond-Class Mall Matter, EAB. ceccecessseeeseqeees NO. 18,742, ( By Martin Green, Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six MONEHS, 1904..eccesesseevererees T1700 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six - 1,681 The Chances of the Proposed ‘‘Gen- LET ME GHOW teel Occupations’ ’’ Unions. You How TO USE THAT, You WISE Guy : ae | SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that there is | STUPID io. Buren . tome talk of bookkeepers, clerks and others Cee a! in the so-called genteel occupations organi i) ing themselves into unions so that they can get a crack at a bigger alice of the bosses’ money.” Ne other six » mornit in New ° Ponape altions in six scative murder, that 4 “It's a cinch,” replied The Man Higher Up, “that the he purchased & average clerk or bookkeeper is underpaid, when you uring the first six months, 1904, ih ie ° ‘ kant : g come to consider how much It costs to live in New York, — ine other ends % You will hear a lot of talk about ambition and overtime WANTED, AN INDUSTRIAL H : 4 his Ute, boosting a man to higher places, but {t dont always AGUE goth men “4% man may have ambition to throw to the birds, but ‘A settlement is expected within the week now open- " were rivals {ing of the seven weeks’ strike and lock-out in the build-| Nil Greeley-Smith. for the amtec- tions of the ving trades. ‘ jame young woman, and {t was agreed This industrial trouble has, according to current esti- vetweon them that the loser in the con test should take his own life. mate, caused the loss of $3,320,000 in wages to 25,000 “Vt quperielal wAgiment. oom - workmen. mon to lovers, it was concluded that he | A What incidental loss to storekeepers and other trades-| uv" whom the young woman conwwnted men has been involved no one can calculate. winner, So the unsuccessful candidate D__ By the strikes and lock-outs work has been inter. /[hi"ini umatlonel Orne the unuaily ©‘ Tupted on structures valued at $20,000,000, Plans of unpoeric Brutue To the disinterested ) pfmanufacturers and merchants have been interfered with, | server, however, it will seem thal Ut The schemes of life of thousands of apartment-house | was the real winner. It is comparative: tenants have been affected. The city has been plunged | “18 (0 ale far tove-navun easier tnt Anto an embarrassing extension of its school-house prob- | dces dying for love or anything else In- , volve except a few momenta of physical lem. . | discomfort more or less acute, while the | ‘These things have come to pass in a season of general) graver process of living for it entails) @ Prosperity which began with an especial fulness of |" neverending weekly grind in the ins @ “promise for the industry primarily affected, the department store, It is usual to re-| > The causes of the strike were, in the first place, *4rd the sule ; sultor as In some moasure trivial, They could have been removed readily by the| why? ‘The successful o i . heeds our sympathy a good deal more. | application of common sense in conimon straight deal \°""1,"N) Phomts of alt auicidas tor love | could come back to give thelr testimony | they would assuredly admit It, | uleide probably haa the je death, for it is not death he can’t get past a piker's salary if he hasn’t got some- thing to feed the ambition on, The trouble ifes in the fact that probably 8 per cent. of the young men starting ous in life choose the wrong road. “Many a good plumber is spoiled by a business.eal- loge training; the makings of many a good machin are getting rusty behind many a counter; regiments of men who would make good bricklayers or carpentera or stationary engineers had they made the proper dope |on their careers are writing directions on packing boxes | tor salaries averaging $14 a week. “There Is always a demand for skilled labor, conse quently skilled labor is always well paid. On the com trary, there is a surplus of supply of competent clerks, $ | Lookkeepers and office men generally, and for this reas son the pay of such is in the submerged class, Ate ® other thing that is making for lower wages for light of- | fice work is the encroachment of women, Woman never invaded a business yet that she did not cheapen from s ® salary standpoint, admitting that she is as competent ta | Jo the work as the sterner sex, The exception is in the professions. ® ?| “Hundreds of thousands of foolish young men balk ® every year at starting on a mechanic's career becatse @ ®, | mechanic has to wear overalls, get his hands dirty an@ > | wear clothes bearing the union Jabel, Not until efter the > | finis line Is reached do these men begin to realize thas ® | they have pald more for the privilege of wearing a white % collar and manicured finger nails in working hours than, ‘they have ever pulled out of salary envelopes,” “Do you think the clerks and bookkeepers will ered: > organize?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “They will,” said The Man Higher Up, “if they cam! | figure out some way to call their organization a trust.” : The Cross-Eyed Man * $! ~And the Man with Whiskers, 3|They Hit on an Astigmatized Plan ; for Stopping Flat Robberies. t “ UR fiat was robbed last night,” announced the O Cross-Eyed Man, as he and the Man with the Whis. THE TWO CONS Go Too Far as War Critics # ti on aw'a" nnn are aisle, “By robbers, most likely, They en- flat. But they didn't get anything.” slept and despoiled all the valuables of the # gf # They Deride the Japs’ Strategy In the Hearing of a Descendant of the Samurai and It’s “Banza” for Theirs, >| “"you were tortunate,” congratelated the Man with the ‘Whiskers, “very few people whose flats are robbed of their, B-B-S-E-3-3-O-4 O08 IDOHMHTTDIT-D © Os i With the trouble well under way and past immediate handling, consequences accumulated pitilessly. The | figures quoted ahove, representing the material burden en Ls Gia seman » of these conseqyences, help to show how modern in-|o¢ one very systematic sulci ©; dustrial conflicts, like modern wars of bloodier sort, |{tom Kentucky—who, ber are becoming too costly to be endured, To discuss matters in promotion of international Liable gold Mei Fiscal Luce peace, a fresh session is to he called of the World’s| easiest time, promptly swallowed the = Congress at The Hague. A conference—indeed, a| ‘rus and took his heart troubles to an- world's series of conferences—is needed not 1e5S| ‘The vrutality of thid proceeding would | <> urgently to establish lines upon which the tranquil well- tevvonplh Ryker. odes pepe La He _ being of workers and employers may be preserved. —_| ing his full faculties ever kilied himself se ——,_ Where and when shall we look for an industrial (07 ove a satan nave ; Hague, offering promotion of peace within as well aS! aied trom time to time, and worms have J eaten them—but not for love’ {is as true between the nations? as it ts frequently heard. But it only applies to men. For women have dicd and will continue to die for love once In & while, and sometimes probably get ferent poisons, and concluding from They still do some things better in the Old World, A fine) "2 Bwalts the woman of Troppen, in Austria, whose skirts are ere #7 brush the grag more out of the proceeding than if they | $' had adopted the more conventiona AS THE POLICE DID AND DIDN'T. | course of “1iving happily ever after.” ¢ }} ‘With axes ana sledgehammers Saturday afternoon the| Certain races show a marked tendency .|t@ suicide, After the Slocum disaster | « reserves of two police precincts broke into alleged pool ah cheareen of human Biceps 4408 2 tai fooms, uptown and downtown. “Now watch for an epidemio of suicides | { THE valuables are lucky enough to have none of them stolen, EQe The raids wero of the regular spectacular order. Vari-| among the survivors, These Germans iu Did you Lessa bead Cts ‘them to flight?” ” . don't show thelr feelings much, but they “I certainly " erled the s-Eyed Man, ferociously. ous “tools of trade” were seized and a number of prison. A seo Sot bdiears! "1 don’t want to seem conceited, but I was a hero, I never | Me very deep and frequently lead them ra were gathered, to be promptly released on bail. to self-destruction.” me ¢ Saturday night, at a conspicuous point {n mid-Broad-| The German lover commits aulcide as i ‘way, two men with a difference settled their score under weer of Jong and brooding melan- | prize-ring rules. A considerable number of their friends °MOly. It may take six months or « year to make up his mind, The French- Sebel the fight. The battered pair walked up the street inan, on the contrary, kills himself on Openly, after the finishing round, to a resort where the | immediate hysterical Impulso or not at 4 @rinks of a restored understanding were to be had. ine - é Not @ patrolman appeared anywhere in the vicinity, OP of the funniest things I ever read taro i ‘The pollco learged of the fight first, In all probability, vine several were aye igen mee: t sterday's newspapers, despondent lovers agree to commit sul- It # quite In accord with The Evening World's Inst-|°!s® by the favorite Brench method of y revelations concerning the state of the police patrol ‘l® <batcoal atove, Letters of tareweil| § RL week are duly written and despatched to rela- knew before that I was so sublimely courageous, Not as sublimely courageous, of course, as if I'd been twice ae courageously sublime, but a good deal sublimely courageousee, than if I'd been only half os"— “Tell me about your battle with the desperadoes whe looted your flat,” feverishly interrupted the Man with hee Whiskers, 1"-— “I knew that many flat-dwellers hide their silver under the bed,” recounted the Crosa-Eyed Man, “and I knew that the first thing the robbers would probably do would be to look under the bed for valuables, So I crawled heroically under there to be ready to spring out on them.” “Did they find you there? Did your plan of attack ste ceedr’ “Well, no,” admitted the Cross-Eyed Man ruefully, “te 00d 0644 40000066060% | _ that the sledgehammer squad should thus be displayed tives and the Commissary of Police Seat, Tee don, & ee & false alate and the robbers Gee | a# mightler than the man on post. Then the lovers spend fifteen minutes in get 40 far as the bed. In fact, the detective I called in says 1 5 tearful adieus to each other, and in an they evidently stopped before they got to our flat at api. 1 Chicago will be under water in 6,404, says a scientist. The appropriately affectionate attitude await | You see, I had them pretty well scared. But I've come ' People won't mind, by that time, if only it isn't Chicago death, growing fainterSand fainter ali memorated my heroism in a little poem. The first verse ee River water. . the time, When they are apparently a Funs lke this; “The Gothamites were quaking at the onset of the thieves, _—— the last gasp the Commissary of Polive nd the coppers’ nerves Were shaking like « swad . ; cere q al RAPID-TRANSIT DATE FIXED. breaks down the door, throws « pail of | $ MONE hero knew his Jury! From, his rat he. had pol ; a the pride of manly beauty T was erouching ‘neath: the water over the char 1 bi el 4 ; It is announced definitely by the Interborough Rapld snifls dramaticully and exclaime in die aq Transit Company that the subway will be thrown open * © ombecilea! They forgot to ‘4 for regular passenger traffic on October 27—four weeks ew pM pnt Dhar for tove | . 0 readi! : frum the coming Thursday. mind, Bue they exiat, neverthiieas acd | ha This does not answer the question, “Why not now?” should, Drvvent Alt seasible belngs. trom several times propounded by The Evening World since, be stronger than death, but ridicule te Practice trains began to find their easy way through the “tly more cruel than the grave, — tunnel, It will, however, put a period in place of the in. ferrogation point to the “When?” of a public which has LETTERS, “Pretty fine, isn't it? Like to hear some more?” i “Not just yet," pleaded the Man with the Whiskers, “$ AM MOL always have a bolt on my door 40 keep out thieves, They can pick locks, but they can't pick bolts.” “They could if they knew how. There's no law againat {t.” “But they coyldn’t if they didn't know how, Though, of’ course, if bolts grew in the park and no policemen were there to stop them they could pick a few. But”— ® “The only trouble with a bolt on the door is that ree hoot It from the outside, If'— can’ “If you were a good enough shot you could. Or if you become, not without reason, rather anxious over rapid- - pion aborted a shot It you could, bas “ ie QUESTIONS, then you coulin't ut again, I suppose, without une Undoubtedly the date has been set off with a view to ANSWERS. cou could it the door was open. Then you would”— “This is the seventh time my flat has been robbed in just the same way,” broke in the Cross-Eyed Man, “the seventies ! time is pretty often, and"— 4 “But not more than half as often as If it were the’ % “FOURTEENTH!” yelled the guard from the door, and the two friends left the train. ‘The Cholerid'Old Gentleman this time made no comments, He was too busy counting his fingers and trying to figure | out why he hadn't as many as if he had twice as more, A A. ?, TEREUWR giving the Aldermen ample time to prepare for spending that $50,000 in celebration of the tunnel opening. Not exactly fair to the strap-hangers of present local transit, genial Wee siverthalens ka hav | To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: 4 this arrai have been ex- “Gould a President vote for himself? . Ws. | In exuberant America a great event 1s a thing pri- yes, at S34 treet and Sth Avenue, pimnerily to be celebrated, and “Fifteen minutes to Har- 75 ine Editor of The Evening World: Yom” will mari an event without parallel in Metropoll. Is there a Fifty-third street station yan importance. The Interborough promise fulfilled wil] ° the Sixth Avenue "L" Rail ly ® red-letier date and justify almost an; a ae 1S Bp ang y taUeey Second Cou nn Yes, © 94 OS 04098-862-04-36-96-564% Strange, Divorce Causes, | To the Editor of The Evening World: “” it Brush haa no reason which the public will ac- A and Bare first cousins, What re- Tour queer divorce cases come from Chicago. One wom- a8 valid for preventing a world's championship series !tlon are A’s children (o B's children? | an says her husband threw @ fish at her with such force ween the Giants and the other New Yorks, if the latter Hushesonville, N. Y. QED. that it cut her arm with its sharp fing, A saloon-keeped pews also pennant-winners, Which will you be, Mr. Brusn, A French Translation. charges his wife with bombarding him with botties of beer, or & quitier? Evening World the following: “ HIS QUICK RECOURSE, in dessein funeste, wll n'est digne | 4 d’Atree, es digne de Thyeste.” 's houee and grounds were well sppointed. | shi =“ aL. f him Fate laid no snares disjointed. | It means: “A design so baleful is not clerks and business dealings | worthy of Attreus, is worthy of Thy- ot Fortune's kindest feelings. | . = Mr, Kor-Ko-Ya, a Greenlander who has Met Yes. BaMasiand, is a miniat Greenland’s Morgan.

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