The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1904, Page 10

The Heaenieiorld Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. # to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice | at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter, | Ware MARY . - SA NIKE F F WOLUME 48..cccseesesesseneseeeesNO, 15,744, Bact. FoR Y 1 T wish Hap A | Foot BALL! _: {The Evening World First Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six WOATHS, 1904. .cecccrereceveseees Number of columns of advertising in months, 1903.... | No other six-day paper, morning or evening, In EVER carried ia regular editions in six Months such a volume of display advertising as The Even! World carried during the first six months, 1904, ® 3 3 i The Evening World during first six $ $ OOO 8464 11940400-0.6-6-6-5.0.0 008 Old Wives THE GREATER PERILS OF THE RAIL. ’ With the newspapers commenting on the details of five tragedies of the rail occurring in two days, it is Interesting to turn to the record of the first bad train wreck in America, which took place on the Erie Rail- 4 way July 24, 1846, near Monroe, Pa. The railroad) and Young > —_was then five years old. Car'wheels with spokes were | 4 in use, and the breaking of one of these cast-iron rollers H usbands. | caused the accident. | = | : Six persons lost their lives through this wreck, The By © country was horror-stricken. The whole world dis-| | Nixola Greeley-Smith, | cussed the catastrophe. From this accident came the y 1% S —first damage suits ever brought by injured train passen- colt |” gers. Also, the substitution of solid wheels for wheels “J dhe , yith spokes, have mo- | { j From 1846 to 1903 were fifty-severi years of tremen- Lan acd ©, ous railway development. But the expansion in mile-) ee i age did not eclipse that in slaughter on the rail. take the sav-|% ie During 1903, according to the figures of the Inter: ings of a life: State Commerce Commission, the number of persons | killed on American railroads was 11,006; injured, 89,872. Two years earlier—for the year ending Jun: 30, 1901—there had been a record of 8,455 killed and 53,339 injured, So disaster swells its lists, The cur- rent year has been already fruitful of wrecks of the pro » portions now required to create a sensation, 4 We no longer shiver when the affair on the rails is of | > one, two or even six killed, But last Saturday there ; were sixty-two dead on the Southern Railway; in August sixty were killed on a Seabcard Air Line wreck | i and twenty-two in a Denver and Rio Grande crash; |!» hound to happen whenever @ doting : July had the Erie wreck at Midvale, with sixteen dead, | {4 °scveenarian marrien @ man ivss and a Chicago ang St. Louis smash with nineteen vic- tims; January saw seventeen killed in a Rock Island llision, And these are not all the horrors of the pasi nine months. Every littls while there comes up, as it has come up how, the question of a remedy for the intensified perils of the rail. It is no longer, as in 1846, a matter of put- ting solid wheels in place of spoked ones, Invention ‘has done its present utmost for safety, apparently, with block signals, air brakes, patent couplings and automatic apparatus of various kinds. But even to a ‘d toad like the Southern, equipped to an approximation of perfection, there comes the accident which an officer © of the company is forced to say “no foresight could in mild expos | & (ulation to al ewspaper re-| } orter, Mor.s.| Coogan, aged Nixola Greeley-Smith, *eventy - Cent whose husbgni of thirty-two had gone away with iter bank-book, apparently never L» return, Every one will agree with Mra, Ko ean that {t Is not right, but thoy will he pretty certain, nevertheless, that It ‘There is nothing at once more pitiful and more ridiculous than the love of an yd woman for a young man, Indeed, ‘than the sentimental love of an old | roman under any circumstances Love, at least so far as women are] concerned. !9 distinetly a youthful emo- tion, and should end when youth ends | Of course, we know it doesn’t; that ol! Women are, indeed, far more prone to | foolish sentiment than young ones, But the fact remains that no woman over lrorty with any self-respect ought {0 | vermit herself to fall in love. Tt Is very unbecoming, in the frst) Place—unbecoming ts usdd not ag apply: ‘ing to her conduct, but to her appear: { ance. Probably no one except the man she loves ever fully realizes how won-| ¢ derfully beautiful the face of @ young) ¢ woman in love can be, But the very ; nt,” emotions which may beautify at twenty 3 agit five may distort and earicature at py On such an occasion it is the human element that} torty-nve. Love flames and sparkles tn « fails. the eyes of a young woman, but when| 4 those eyes have locked upon nearly half) , 4 century of life it Is more apt to maki | them water than to flame, It curls the lips of the young woman Into a new, | » «miling mobility, but In the old woman it accetuates the mouth's drooping lines) , nd the flabby heaviness of the falling At Midvale, in July, somebody did not see that a de- fective block signal was promptly repaired. On the Southern Railway, last Saturday, somebody disobeyed the train despatcher's plain orders. i ing and overfatigue of mer, to illness, to carelessness, | ously handwrought on scrolls, and | parchment and vellum were scarce and to bad memory, and even to disqualification by age.| renee, it was often the custom of Time after time a great disaster has been traced to the|:ne monks to erase the early records fact that upon a single mind has been laid a complex| 1nd use the diank spaces thus obtained burden of seeing, remembering and acting. eee a rac tinue ind (Nh seat There is abundant argument in the records of railway] ‘vents ao treated were called palimp: | wrecks for The Evening World's proposition that there] seats. It has always seemed to me shall be two engineers in the “Mogul” cab and two) ‘hat the memories of Lanai eet train despatchers where vital issues centre, The law| “omen must be Uke tete Palm | which, in the interests of employces, can force the US¢| ine them, ettner of automatic couplers should exert its powers ina plain) There ts nothing more charming than case for the saving of passengers, in old lady nt to be old, nor more But law cannct cover the whole task of making the | fidlculous than an old lady crying (0) gailroads as safe, absotutely, as they may be. The tim?|ysnce knew an old Indy of seventy pe As fully ripe for the managers of the country’s pasen | sno was very rich and very much in am hale to get together and plan for the safeiy of fanny pec Of the thirty-one chief casualties on American rail-| saw roads in 1903 twenty-one were in the form of collisions,, To be sure men have ered ot women ) { * y * h hade of Nino a , $0 7 © and properly classable in this stage of railroading aso) y se vten toved at ninety, rises te E preventable. ack the assertion every time It ts made | 4 a . tHe and ths Bible injunotion not to marry ® a What are we going to do to stop the piling up 0! oe, grandmother shows that she was ag such records of deadly fault? | not regarded os altoge:her nthe alt. : - he old days, fore es Catastrophes have been attributed to the overwork-| ,,"" atta, “nen literature waa labor- | § ove with a man about half her ag n y Mi, oan r human cargoes as carnestly, at Teast, a5 now, in| ‘elected me for the conndante of het al meetings, they discuss standard rates, rebates) ‘@mtiments. One day ahe would tell me ew ‘ hat she had just made her will in his awl the war on “scalpers.”* |lavor, leaving him her entire fortune | 4 — -— without con 5. The next she ¥ duld 4 Aorm up an owe the room proclaim. ia FIRE-ALARMS AND POLICE. | ing that “ate was the. cqual of any wan without her means” and that “she vould, be loved for herself alone ar not " at_ all.” For Instance, there are these state-| She didn't get the police and the fire-alarms, repeated here rae but later ye 8 Evening World, where they were given | ’*,%,%oUo". 48 @ money ei the authority of Fire Chief Croker. ett her.“ WON Of 6.12 fires in 128) the police turned In 1.051 alarms. pOut of 6.26 fires in 180 the police turned In 1,263 alarms. of 2,555 fires in January, February avd Marca of thls " "t Facts and figures there sometimes are too eloquent to ire commen*. ts abor FESPA ETEREDEDEROED 64 G5 OS-SS2tt-2 Ot \t_man because he fried her on any ¢ became the bride urer who soe d give him and thes lie went fourteen alarms were turned tn by the police. | ¢as goine out Of 1,02 fires in April, May and June of thls year, | (4¥8 did in Mine alarms are credited to the police. sone In the ment and fi $ + 7 I said to him bet : piailly as The Evening World's reporter. | TR me Ou: 1 wien, dacling, you ¥ arms Ah Automobiles were able to do it, those| lore you ko’ ‘Mut We said Never 4, Julle. ft Eb au bv» where the mam on post fatled to be th: and by Nae ontent Ng hes store & lack of respec’ for pa. |“ rme back at all and all tha a pk T was alone and couldn't reach a drink of es 2 6 8-2 OH G0S OG 24 6-24 AND KiCKUMS TO PLAY WITH= BE CAREFUL! dane, oot ov You CATCH IT, KicKUMS, Now} V Dorothy’s Diary.—No. 3. a oe ¢& ad HOME LAS NiTE Bud SAYS IT WAS ABIRD TASY UNCLE Bob To $HOWiT MB HE SAYD IT WAS A BUTE BUT FLEW AWAY anp He WAS 50 SORRY Cus His HAD WAS TIED UP WITH ICE AND HE HA) TOTAKE NASTY MEDSON our of A SQUIRTER BOTLE. Wo Keen Repartee in Darktown’s Smart Set. 4 ven Reggie Corntassel~—| s’pose, mah friend, yo’ use yore razzah to bettah yore appeah’nces. | it BI fk gf TERE AL DAY [| Look#D FORA BEAUTY SKATE WAT UNCLE BoB BROT GRANY: SAYS WHat HE GAINS By EXPERIENCE [$ Nor | has to bet RAR AARNE | MARY JANE and Kickums Show Their Dads How to Play Football. es 6 She Sezks in Vain for a Beautiful Skite Uncle Bob Brought Home the Night Before. {OY UNCLE BOB a) ae RTH WHAT HE Los In fiuusion WATEVER THAT MEENS Zip Johnson—Yas, an’ sometimes w’en | use n mah disappeah’nces. is or » THE » EVENING w WORLD'S w HOME » MAGAZINE. | LEPOAAGG54G9 994 BODADGEL ID 14459 1F1594OO9449 DDO OOD DED 0944600600000 8046 $dd086045¢ uw gress, Snow POPLi. ) come Home, ‘ }SAY T0101} You RABCAL ON PURPOSE * ? 9010140 90090009000044 09000 $H9999O9> ?| mand quran ~% \e | who claimed ability to materialize anything from the ghost of a little child to the soul of a good Indian. She held her seauces in his house and charged 60 cents 6 throw for the privilege of seeing the performance. ‘ J SRE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Dr, Funk, manufacture phony props for splritualletié 1 | “won't shrink the crop of soft marks who seek speech | a man or a woman gets the spirit bug it becomes ce- | " | come In bottles and are pushed over bars. ! | If be takes aa hour to himself he can recall hundreds of | aboard piles up a Ine of discounts, but he puts his com. , { | | “Once upon a time I kindly volunteered to help break | ‘a man of the habit of frequenting seances and regulating “There was the usual setting of a dark room, a mélo- | —_ 7 The Spiritualist Habit Is One That the Sherlock Holmes of Spookdom, has un- eeances,” | | with the spirits of departed friends or relatives. When | me of the appetite for the assimilation of spirits thay \ 2 | “The booze ficnd {s confronted by object-iessons every | soaks who have hit a hard finish, but he never lets up. | mon sense in cold storage and keeps to his course of | his actions by the advice of a frog-eyed female medium |, | ® : & i | deon (negotiated by the medium's son), and a cabinet, ‘ Clammy hands rubbed acroes our faccs as we sat in | circle with haade joined and sang to drown the noise she | made as she shifted the props. Finally a white figure | floated around the circle, 4 The signal was given and » | those in the couepiracy leaped upon the white figure. , The lights were turned up, afd there was the medium at. | tired i. a ehvet. In the cabinet we found a long mega- phone, about'two hundred yards of white cheese cloth, & glove full of wet sawdust and other appropriate stage | settings. The medium's aon rhaterialized @ gun from his | hip trousers pockct, and we had to slap him quite severely before we could get him subdued.” “I suppose it broke the guy of falling to fake spirits?” Suggested the Cigar Store Man, “Yes, it did,” replied the Man Higher Up, “for about fifteen minutes, He admitted that the medium wes a fako, but said that her exposure only made him stronger | in the bellef that there were honest mediums who could materialize; uad the last I heard of bis family his wife was taking in plain and fancy sewing and he was playing | tho medium circuit three shows a day.” 4 | Can’t Be Fractured with a Crowban earthed s factory out in Chicago where they “Tho discovery,” remarked the Man Higher Up, | mented. The appetite for the society of spirits reminds | time he turns his head, but he keeps on hitting the booze. | | His common sense tells him that every souse he pute lapping up the distillery output. ] How Ants Sleep. During sleep the ants body is quite still, Occasionally may Se noted a regular lifting up and setting down of the fore feet, writes H. C. McCook in Harper's Magazine, one leg after anuthor, with almost rhythmic motion. The an- , tennae also have a gentle, quivering, apparently Involuntary | movement, almost like breathing, The soundness of slumber wus frequently proved by applying the feather end of a quill, The feather tip is lightly drawn along the back, rtroking “with the fur," There is no motion, Again and ogpin this action is repeated. the stroke being made gradu- lly heavier, Still (here ts no change. The strokes ary di- tected upon the head, with the same result. ° > 2 i | | | | Then the, feather is applied to the neck with a waving motion, In- na tended to tickle it,? The ant remains motiontess, Finally 5 | the sleeper ie aroused by a sharp touch of the quill. Ste stretches out her head; then her lege, which she shakes also; steps near to the light, yawns, and ‘begins to comb her antennae and brush hor head and mouth. Then she | clambers over her sleeping comrades, dives into an open | fangway, and soon has sald “good morning” to another tour of duty, De it well noted, however, that she has gone! & | | ! to work, as she and her fellows always do, not only rested, ° but with her person perfectly clean! Albino Fish. | | ©. R. Pettis. of the New York State Forest, Fish and | Game Commission, describes for Science some pecuilar fist | | that were hatched artificially at Saranac Lake in March, 18%, | | Among the fry obtained from $00,000 eggs a very small num- | | ber—perhaps fifty—were practicatly colorless, Only four ( | lived to maturity. Two of them are typical albinos, . ° | Safe Third-Rail Scheme, An electric third-rail train system that is claimed to be tafe and trustworthy has been Invented by a Chicago man. By means of his device, tn which the third rail ', !mcted, va > and practically hidéen from view, the Inventor declares it | Impossible for persons or animals to come in contact wie | toe charged rail. Last of Mormon Jail, / ‘The building at Liberty, Mo., familiarly knnwn as “the’ Mormon jail,” has just been torn down. The structure Ljberty’s jai} during the Mormon war In Missouri many ego. and @ lot of Mormon prisontrs were confined aves ‘recent -to-aee the prison aif Ped , SPA A ¥ | 3) | | old was years. at ¥ " Pe ite f My £ fs