The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1904, Page 14

Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, NO, 15,751, THE NASSAU SPEED MADNESS, 4 The automobile races, though not yet begun, | dlaimed thelr of mechanical construction or a derangement of steering gear, the fact \s significant that a high-class Ey e under speed conditions favorable to safety. If ‘uch circumstances “something goes wrong” is {t an view which apprehends disaster under abnor- i racing conditiéns, with competitors pressing hard, the public, recalling the maimed and dead of the and the accidents incidental to all international | view these approaching speed trials with alarm they question their usefulness. _ It appears that the action of the Nassau Supervisors ling the objections of citizens and granting Lm Was lndorsed with “voto of confidence” by those in tie courtroom, The Supervisors ure likely to without their host if they rely on this snap ex- Of sentiment as representative of the convie- } of the thousands in Nassau County whose roads “ate to be alienated from their use for a day's “sport.” for Lanebeon.—The prospect that subway ex- fees trains will vive Harlemites a chance to go home for midday luncheon will be viewed by Harlem wives ) mingled emotions, Such a retdrn to country town ‘His tong absence would make his new presence a ftehedutes, MANY TO BLAME, NONE TO PUNISH. _\ As The Kvening World foresaw, the divided juris- of the Tenement House and Bulliding Depart- ~ 1 fs 1 ‘This paper pointed out at the time that, msiness 1s nobody's.” All, therefore, that the gains from the/inquest, which “finds no persons e ” ‘e censure for the Building and Departments for “lack af supervielon” tion that the laws shal) specifically » the responsibility or one department of the it an@ that sucb responsibility shall be ted.” “Yo arc these lax conditions of {I!-deflned re- y to continue? Are they to remain as be- 4o “censure” and “recommendation” but in the Coroner's words, “we may look catastrophe at any moment?” Was ‘of these fourteen lives only an episode in Administration calculated to cause 4 shud~ at the moment and then be forgotten by ty complacently iting its repetition? ————$—_$_$——$ Rear Platform.—The crowded car platform Mas again become responsible for a serious and perhaps istal injury. So Jong as pasrengers are compelled to put up ith existing conditions of transit the crowded rear plat- will continue to Impede exit ahd endanger life. St. guia has solved the problem by extending the platforms thelr former capacity, thus affording ample for “atandees” and leaving an aisle clear for pas- ‘entering or leaving. It is both a simple and an solution of a difficulty which In New York grows Worse, In it not feasible of adoption here? NO PED AT THE FIRE LINES. Chiet Croker’s statistical reflections upon non- Patrolmen are to be considered in a confer- y hetween Police Commissioner McAdoo and n oner Hayes. The Chief stands by his Dut wil! diseuss them no further In public, He fa that there is no harsh feeling between his de- r and the police—an assertion which ought to true. but which in not borne out by the clashes ct fire. lines (op West Fourteenth street on Saturday ‘p Woot, Twenty-ftth street on Sunday, the fire lines it is no pollceman's business what a phiing chief may bave said about who turns in the i oie ba oo Ste. ‘the fire lines it ts no flireman’s bus'ness what re- may have come from the police force. lame, if there be ono, Is for othor tim & On the fire lincs the city’s bus paainess must be first of all aad for all be best that the men of the city’s two guord ents stould be on er fa imperative that on the fire lincs they shail of complete co-operation 'GMet Duane’s conduct in the matter of tho who was put into on ambulance by two ‘at Sunday morning's fire has been variously Tt was a picce of ofetal bo 16 be deplored not only os the manifesta. Of A Moment, but as the occasion of later il)-feeling THOUGH NOT LOsrT. 200k you're looking for you need sr no more 7 hor while you may Wasts to-day, nd other 3 and the Sow WT terms of comra by the Press Publishing Company, No. §3 to 63 , to the Automobile Club to hold their races’ fonovation. It might interfere disastrously with Old? rimopial problem for him, fsland race, the slaughter of the Paris-Madrid! It ts folly the: that old and if unmarried, thought of ever being otherwise. at thirty | to have men cal! on them, | Does a woman ever admit to herselt| @ | that she is old? I never knew one who! & did, nor one who failed to resent the | intimation of an oceasional tacticss per- | But though she It | grandmother. Hons would revolutionize many households in which | ty herself, at what a head of the house might not be persona grata at | ory be $9 considered b any of their grown children. ohiidren playing about its base. grow! mother,’ hat of an old woman of enty-five who would not allow her iP Rrandson to cail her “grand- but who had painfully taught him the diminutive French equivalent of “bonne mamma,” by which he in- Yarlably addressed her tn the presence of other veople to their mystification | and the old lady's infinite delight. Another old lady very prominent in| New York society, whe ts at least sev- enty-five. in asking me to get a notice of one of her charitable entertainments in the paper, said: > “I want you to say T looked pretty | I have just ordered a new bonnet and| @ "m going to wear a black velvet dress | with point lace, #o I really will look | nice. And last night after I went to bed I thought of something that 1| would like to see in the paper. There have been so many faise reports about my age, you know"— and the enam- elled and bewigged septuagenarian re- Peated with great unction this amazing sentence: | “Mise Blank has the complexion of a girl of sixteen and appecrs to be about thirty years ot age. though, if unkindly Gossip Is to be believed, she Is but little On the sunny side of forty.” | Needless to say the light of publicity never shone on her unique contribution | to society journalism, for it was greeted | | by an unsym: tell that old wi coming to her,” an she's | old woman ever finds out. *| By Nixola-Greeley Smith A Ta min-) 1s terial) confer ence the other day, when the age at which| women be admitted as ® deaconesses of the churen was being dis- cussed, one of the clergymen present the assertion that he judged to be about right, as that Probably,a woman had) siven up ail |idea of marriage. Now, as a matter of have | fact, we know that it is only about that first victim, Whether the accident by! time that she begins to think seriously 3 “Rigby lost his life was due to a bursting tire, a marriage, for in her teens and her “ early twenties she ts apt to leave to a (oo casual fate the solution of the mat- riper wisdom Derfected type driven by a chauffeur chosen for tells her should be handled with cold Faces because of his skill and experience was s<lence. Up to that time, perhaps, unless she is merely the willing chattel of farsighted female relatives who ransack the mar- riage mart in pursuit of eligib 's apt to expect her future husband to ‘Strained to their limit of endurance, and a crowd 00k for her, But when at thirty she @f spectators behind the fence through which the Rigby {et the marrowing vista of old maid- jenhood, she gets down to the seriou: Machine craabed its way? It is not to be wondered at] biicinocy ot Bfh, and proceeds to look should time she Tefore to Ax upon that age as one of matrimonial renunciation. | But it would be interesting to discover | at Just what vertod of her life a woman really does admit to herself that she is! renounce all Ts there such an age? I once knew twin old maiden sisters of fifty, who when in the society of debutantes would fer to the company collectively as “us and who referred sadly enough to the strictness of their octogenarian “pa” and “ma” in not permitting them may never seem olt | : may she prop- | y other people? | would seem to be a pretty safe rule jo Accept the factithat. she passes out ‘Jot the siren class when she becomes a | Of course, there have ‘deen charming grandmothers, women Whose charm greatly exceeded that of | Still, hy is hard to reconcile the idea of grand- | ‘over tenements in course of alteration acquits motherhood with that of sirenship, and of direct blame for the Attorney atreet | !t is altogether better for the mature . béllé to retire from her pedestal than ian ayes i Corcper’s jery. With nobody) | 1. acon upon her protiling grand: Dullding was subject to the scrutiny of four; One of the most pitiful and at the Y “4n actual practice what is the duty of came time ridiculous spectacles I ever the business of none.” Or, in the words "W Boholer charging his jury, “What ts every- pathetic editor with “You i all that's But that was juat precisely what no ——_ NOT BORN IN COUNTRY, Cleveland Leader, So now you leave me, turn away And from mv threshold evermore Light-foated 1 —_— et ee A FAREWELL. your face, depart! ave. ¢ forlorn of hearg! “She (s an unearthly talker.” veally 9 She never sa oF ‘what In the world *how on earth! or ‘my land! '— 7 wil not pray bereft of your sweet I shail yield me to tha fate! * amiling as y od I iu i pee a rd 2 ee Pl a Dad overs 9 ‘ * 4 64444164 ie 4ASbG4404 PDO DII EDI Theatre . Itakan? If an American, Irishman ening World Frencaman, Englishman or German ° for a gen commits an offense his race or nation evening per- lity ts not usually mentioned. It ap tr ata theatre with a lady in hat some of the papers are a Nght suit of clothes? te the impression that the 8 acca. vioutore of the : e cos! e ntry This is Wie lly = Italians are a sul volal In Defense of Itallann. Editor eo Events AN AMERKC. Antl-Trest Sasens. shed in this city men-| to the Editor of The Evening Wor tion the feet that the offender ls ane Will the American people forever x 9O99OO6 90490000 Marconi Should Be a Wizard of the Auto Also w ut} Being a Genius, It's Up to Him to Invent Something te Circumvint the Common Bicycle Copt RS, QUERIES AND ANS up with the trusts? The great mass the ur ett w THE # EVENING # WORLD'S # When | Is a Woman these tribes of huma bE hays sir Marconi pinch'd for whizzing through the streets upon his auto! It's something for a thinking man to give a [little thought to. For Marco, being a wizard chap, he cert might do some wizzing, To keep the cops from capturing the cart in which he's whizzing. MARY JANE! Kickums! DID You SEE My CIGAR! PIABEHVOAD GAGE population of of Celts, Saxons and the mixiu f sand 8) History of oyna knuwa as Frank s the indomitabie #p re WER have Loox our FOR, SHERIFF Srussens an tur Ce os ee assured cunt ourveus 4 lite. Ane hid van in :Mary Janeand KickumsTry TheirFirst Cigar. w w And Now They Wonder How It Is thst Dad Smokes So Much and Retains His Herth. PHSD > PSSSF9OOOSES4008 niy-fve he must mal « lone before FS PPEHSAE STS SSHSHD OOP HDS + €24-96480608 39413 29-060 SD b-2 2-2 S8SG-4-6-8G523 aoe. PSSLSS IPD €LSOVSS4S4S9S00OSE S 3 tempting to sow a crop of grass seed over the surface S$ 2 2 and HAKLES W bt ST sade People's Chorus, Cooper Union, olies, We have mor To the Rattor of The ne World puncles to the Inch of t be ng lady with a very dee other nation This is a pen ne, voice for singing. Can f The iaw of th “Ach S wrare 1 06a BAVe It cull rules the woe, ut reo of charge or at a on atville, N.Y. ee eB Should He Marry at eteent the Battor of The Rvening World To the Batter of Fhe Evening World Tle there two Winston Churchiils, one A correspondent asks if a young man qn Englishman and the other marry at nineteen. A young man! American? “HOME w MAGAZINE. a, * “Not if g's a good liar,” f Husband ; Who Nightly Side- steps Home, Sweet Home. SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that @ womaa, on Staten Island tried to commit sulelde be cause she couldn't keep her husband In nights.” | “He must have had a wandering foot for fair if be couldn't stay home nights on Staten Island,” | remarked The Man Higher "Ip, "You can't go anywher | on Staten Island after 7 o'clock in the evening and truth- ® | fully say ‘Home was never like this’ unless you are ec- customed to conning yoursel! “The husband who gets an impulse to propel himself” | ont of the house as scon a3 he haa stowed away his dinner scidom drives women to sulcide. Senerally he wishes he had committed sulelde himself after he geta home. The ability of a woman to remain awake at night when her husband is talking it over somewhere else is wonderful, And all the time she lies awako, waiting, she is framing up nice, warm conversation. When she? turns loose on tired papa he yearns for a sonnd-prooft Y booth in a cave in the wilds of New Jersey. “Women who complain that their husbands won't stay home nights generally have themselves to blame, After a man.has been rooting for a living all day and gets to his happy fireside at night it puts all Joyous thoughts out of his mind to be plugged full of troubles. A womaw can accumulate more troubles in the course of a day than & man cay pick up in a year. and she {nsists that her husband must koow all about them. He has troublc of bis own, and when {t comes to a proposition of Z r om work It is him for a aniet snot within ear. shot of a waiter, “The natural suspiciousness of woman contributes Sy t) q & rd make husharis flee from home at night and meet th milkman coming vack. She wants to know every move he has made, everybody he has talked to and everything he has said while he was gone. When he refuses to be bothered the wife conjures up + large bloude with dia- } mond earrings and a kalsomiaed visage for a baals of accusations. A husband pestered like this is extremely liable to go out hunting for the blonde after he has \, heard her described a few times, and he ts Hable to te main out until every place is closed and go home with a ‘ rea) bua, knowing that he can’t get it any worse for a ° complete session than he would for a walk around the block.” “Do you think a husband should tell the truth to his wife when he gets in from a night our?” asked the Cigar Btore Man replied The Man Higher una ‘Mia wife wea't believe him, anyhow,” The Gold Fever. Many years agu, gold waa first discovered in Aus @ excitement caused has probably never been equaled jin history, Oiflces were deserted, ships were left to rot at Anchor by their crews, the prisons were left unguarded *” @ thelr wardens, the streets unpatrolied by the police. Men la high othetal positions had to act as “boots’ and grooms for themseives, In Geelong there was left only one servitor; he ' had Jost his len leg and could not comfortably decamp. Everybody was gold hungry. Men slept in open streets, im tubs and boxes, In tents, and bare of cover entirely, Con- viets subbed and slaughtered; hulks were bursting with thelr loads of prisoners. It was rather a bad time while it lasted. | oe %), ae Rum Butter. In certain districts In England a mixture of butter, sugar, spices and rum, called “rum butter,” ts made when a child {a born. A special bowl! of the y \s hidden in some out-of-the-way place In the house. hen a number of young fellows of the neighborhood search for it, Sometimes they eed in tocating tt and at other times they fail, After eating the rum butter a collection is made among those present, and the money contributed ts piaced in the bow! for the newborn child, and returned along with the bowl te the house where It was procured. Omniscience. Ex-Congressman Lafe Pence tells a story of an old lady who always knew everything before anybody else, One day her niece saw her parsing the house and ran out to meet “Do come In, aunty,” she begged, “and help us, We aking charades “Certainly I will,” answered the oié lady, “I knew you were making them, because I smelled them as J came along." The “Fudge” Idiotorial Why Not Grow Hay \ Y A prominent In the East River? Then the Common People Could Feed Sumptuously, (Copyret, 1004, by the Minnet MH Writes to Ther Pun. Coo Evening Fudge ' Ef }))) hile ats Long Island fare ¢ of the East River, between the two bridges, he was arrested by a minion of the Trusts who had disguised himself as a policeman, From the fact that the man was on duty our correspondent saw at once he was no genuine policeman, This news concerning the refusal to allow an honest } Common People to plant hay in the East River veri. e d mer whose name fies The Evening Fudge's suspicions that the Trusts . | is withheld at the ; ” i are strenuously striving to break the Common People! ' East River (which is public ¢ warden’s request of the LIVING HABIT. tc., the taxpayers ' Why id not the property for whos t River be turned why: Because then the COM. into a hayfield? Thi must pay)—WHY MON PEOPLE the icculent hay theyd ° at once to Trusts interfere paper ire stopped { Mutsi-HIT-o, j folks tell Fudge to GIT ta? ' i NiT-oh! will see they in th Where did Heaven?