The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1904, Page 14

‘ Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 3 to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Oftice “Wt New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, NO. 18,766, . FUTILE SPEED MANIA, + ‘3 4 If the Long Island automobile race had been at- fended by no fatalities to point the warning of its Trecklessress the record of minor mishaps the event would serve to prove the fool- bardiness of the “sport.” Speed trials of machines which @evelop broken gear-shafts, “buckled” steering- ‘and other mechanical defects and reveal tires ¥ or slipping off under the lateral strain of i " show imitations of perfect construction in which, under the stress of high speed, Ile grave risks of serious disaster. In view of the number of the lesser accidents, in all of which there was the possibility of. a tragedy, the surprise must be that the Arents eofatality was the worst development of the day. But in what has the contest profited any one con- _ @trned to balsnce accounts with the life lost, the prop- s erty interests injured and the contempt of public senti- |. ment exhibited. It has been a costly county holiday Using advantage of one manufacturer. The only » fangible good to be derived from it by the public will come from its probable effect in influencing legislation the repeal of the existing legal warrant permitting the confiscation of the State's highways for the misuses M rpeed mania. The race has sufficiently demonstrated its dangers ‘Mfe and detriment to the general welfare to make Tepetition impossible in New York, THE DEADLY THIRD RAIL. ‘The third rail on the Third avenue line of the Manhat- @levate. added another to its formidable list of vic~ as on Saturday, Henry Walsh, a carpenter, ellpped be was crossing the tracks and his foot came in con- the charged rail. “There was a puff of smoke, ‘afd Walsh fell dead. The recent record of like om this line includes a track repairer and 4 Lilled, two workmen badly burned and six severely shocked. On the Sixth avenue line a in touching the deadly rail with a crowbar was y On the Ninth avenue line a passenger falling and grasping the exposed rail for support w® > { Fe incidental extracts from a list of fatal or ts ts caused by the third rail which canually i larger. Last November, following the alarming of accidents on the Brooklyn elevated, there i agitstion of the question of third-rail “It is perfectly feasible to remove this source of danger rl contact through a shoe touching the side fail Instead of the top. Such a protective device installed on the subway road with success, Why the “L1” OGAL TRANSIT AND LOWER FARES. e-cent fares on local transit lines were the bur of a short talk in the Sunday World by Charles A. an engineer well known !n railway circles, Mr. spoke good business sense for transit companies people too. ‘The engincer regards the three-cent fare as an inev- consequence of the proposed Manhattan Transit y's automobile omnibus service, in which pas- ‘Pengers will pay according to the distances travelled. nder this system there will be fares running as low as ro cents. a Policy might, however, move the trolley and “L” road meniagements to reduce rates even without the compul- competition. At jeast, there would be abundant in the six-tickets-for-a-quarter system which Mr, Tecommonds out of his own experience and obser- for there would be for consideration from the its" selfigh viewpoint not only the number of tickets that would inevitably be lost, or unused, but the fact as well that persons with " tickets are apt to be more liberal riders than constant payers of spot cash, It surety cannot be much longer an axiom {n metro- street railroading that if the companies will Themselves, { “THE AUTO THAT DOESN'T Stop. “The auto never stopped." Such Is the concluding gentence vf the news report of a night smash-up in Riverside Drive. An automobile bumped into a surrey and turned it over, hurting four people and searing a horse into a fatal runaway, But “the auto never ” Now, no oa believes, or wants to belleve, that tha ‘gmasority of the persons who exercise with horse ) “for the amusement of a few enthusiasts and the adver- ‘the Live rail with a “hood” and providing: the niciels tho dividend dollars will take care of willow twig and stick It In the soll St Now It’s the Kiss in Politics. By Nixola Greeley-Smith | STATE Senator ot Mon- tana, now a candidate for re-election, has| been accused} of kissing a young woman against’ her will, and, as a result of the indiscretion, leading news- papers are sald) to have with-/ drawn thelr| support from) him, fellow- cand! es have threatened to resign if he remains on the ticket, and the success of the Republican party in the State is serious- ly menaced. And all for a kiss, “the Tose dot on the | of adoration.” the “brush of a bee's wing that makes time | it, which every man admits is just a) | Mttle sweeter for bet: 5 | | Neqdiess to say, this {s not the frst) | time ‘that the kiss has figured promi-| nently as. a political Issue. The most notable instance, perhaps, of its politi-) } cal significance is that of the famous Duchess of Devonshire. who, election- ering for Charles James Fox, offered her rosy lips to grimy voters as an !n- ducement to support her candidate, But while a kiss given willingly may | help a man to popular favor it appears that the stolen variety may wreak his political ruin, But it sometimes hap- | pens that It is really difficult to diserim- inate between a willing and an unwill- ing kiss, And what Is a poor candidate for oMee to do then? Very often, indoed, the girl herseif | scarcely krows, | Kipling, to be sure, has Inid down @ | pretty safe rule in one of his many wise "Maxima of Hafz:" ‘My son, If the maiden deny thee, and scuf- finaly bid thee xive o'er, Yet lip meets with lip at the last word, be warned, she haa been thers nefore: ‘They are pecked on the ear and the chin ant the nose, who are lacking in love. But alas, not all politicians, particu- larly of the Montana brand, know their Kipling as well as they might if they were aware that it is scattered with such pearls of wisdom, It is only the unusually foolish man who ever asks a woman If he may kiss her, I remember the weary scorn with which a very pretty chorus girl once said to me of a young American mill- fonaire, “He's the kind Of fellow that aite around with his mouth open, deoj«_ his bat three of four times aiid then says, ‘Oh—ah—I beg your pardoa—but may I kiss your” But how, asks the novice, unless he, asks can he Sind out? He certainiv ean never find out by asking. 1 remember) Treading somewhere an ep! m that seemed to contyin the final wisdom on this subject of ing: | “Many a man js still wondering !f be dares long after a girl has stopped wondering why he didn't.” Any map with ordinary sense can tell, and only a conceited fool or & cad.| who really doesn’t care, is apt to , blunder, There is certain kind of man, how-| ever, to whom the girl's willingness to) be ki seems to be a matter of per- | feet irakikerence. het ne of this) eesery: literally bot | | Interested into telling him to kiss For &x months circumstances the them more or less constantly togetae’ and during Beat, tee he ry rng ‘A an opportunity of saying when ‘ve had a> half second alone with her, "Let as kiss you, please.” | ‘The girl Was at first amused and then disguned. Finally one atternvon the became so ridicuously threw up ner veil, ad with an expression nh ex-| abject that 8 Ifted her head of mingved rage and et laimed : h. weil then! Thi sitive person her manner) would have been an insult, But to him the kiss thrown as one migat a dime to a whining beggar, doultiess seemed a grand triumph, Nevertheless it was really more effective than any amount jot refusals, for he never annoyed her | agala, But for one genuinely unwilling kiss of thia deseription there are a hundred thet the raciients didn’t expect per- haos, but would nevertheless be sorry, not (o have received. | LETTERS, | QUESTIONS, | ANSWERS. | —_—_— | Nol17 State Street. | To the Editor of The Evening World: Where js the Russian Consulate In |New York City? Mr. N. | No, Two Different Vartetien. 0 the Editor of The Evening World: Is it true that If you take a common |wi'l grow up as a weeping willow, or is there a difference of species between tne common willow and te weeping | willow? cx Yes. | To the Editor of The Fvening World: | Js it m Drencn of etiquette to type write otser than bustuess letters, such an letters from a young lady to a gen- eman friend? CAROLYN MM. Friday, | To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Or what day did Oct. 2 fall In 1886? F. J. F. “Pell-Mel!."} Once in Two Months. PEnicles belong tw a ciass utterly reckless or hopelessly To the t The Evening World frresponsilie, But nobody ts doing more to lay tho How are the word palt-mail” pro- 4 foundations for such a belief and to delay a full pubtic SUPE! Dues“ Dlenwanthi < re Feconciliation to the iden of running locomotives in tho" * Mth oF every two af y , Gen streets than the chauffeur who does a mischict with Bride Shealé Provide It. . Px nachine and taen runs away. n a {7,10 atch & cake as this on the Drivo—and there have See eee ewe oy “been many siaiilar eases—the facts that the automobile has a number and the driver has a license count for ® j Rothing. No one had a chance In the Riverate over- ao to eee elther the number or the man at the é . Where, then, are we to Inok for a remedy for the smash-and-run disorder unless there can be a gen- ay eral stirring-up of auto drivers to a sense of their obll- gations to others on the road? In the ‘ntoresta of their responsible membership, can onary work Fs the associated aucamobilists dono m against the “gay the irresponsible? ‘ ‘ £3 the Editor of Bh the brid 14 wedding it? L. W. ————— A new and thrilling romantic serial, “The Sorcerecs,” based upon Victorien Sardou's great play, in whieh Mrs, Patrick Camp- bell Is to appear here, wil! begin in The Evening World of Thurs. day, Oct. 13, eternal,” as our old friend Cyrano has| 9555 36-89985985060988099O0OSS98-96-3-055005959S $36 $98060030000S08000SS* POD f POCCCELLE90E FOSS COOH ECL OOOTESOLG9OSEEOO00S9900000-09 26465 0 PPO SEHOSIM Mary Jane Couldn’t Find the Nails. . a 04 49909008000060660" ad “ SF * ad rd a MAKY JANE RUN AND GET Me SOME NAILS! DODD DHIDIO LI HG9 644000064 {Willie Wise The Brainy Kid Turns the Tables. Cad al \ @ THE w EVENING w WORLD'S w HOME » MAGAZINE. w: SOOODDOD This Time When He Butts In Somebody Else Is Stung. o ses fF & But She Found Something Better, and Dad Had to Walt, QUEER PLACE To Look * Fi FOR NAILS + I covonr FIND NO NAILS» J — | ~ { LLPODDBDHPPL SOHO 8 P FHDDHDHDDDHGHGHHHGH-D HY FPP PO GSSO@OS GOES OOHLIVDOLOHLHOHN FD OO HGH 9s oH POGSOSOGH VG PHD +2 3409 OF Soo 4 HPSS 3: ae po 3 SDD “ e , ‘ ‘ f Higher Up | | By Martin Green, Nobody Knows What Temptation Until It Has at Least Once Thrown Him Down. “T SCE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that @ in Massachusetts has been Jeft a bequest of it he keeps off boose and totacco until b twenty-five years old.” “If he gets the ten thousand bucks in a lump at ¥ expiration of the enforced water wagon and smoke! perloa,” replied the Man Higher Up, “he will hava™h. | beautiful thirst and a grand foundation for a souse, Whe & mac who gets to be twenty-five without feellng | bar rall with his right foot has a good show to a | pass on the Neal Dow and little Robert Reed line, “However, if the boy was dorn with an appetite for eye and the ilithy weed, $10,000 won't look any big him than the assets of a shoostring peddler, There men every day throwing away more than $10,000 bee: they can't keep away from the signboard that bur. ward. “Whenever you see a man who don't touch the you can make up your mind that he either don't lik | Or tiat he as afraid of it. No man is afraid of it u | after it has thrown him down, stamped on his stom | and stung him for fair. Upon emerging from such experience a fecling of being afraid, combined wi | will like the cabies of the Brooklyn Bridge, will ke | mau in tae blue ribbon class until the finish. “You can take off your hat to a guy of that so the Individual who has no more use for booze tl | girl witha a sweetheart has for onions don't moke | of a bit with the people who hear him when he # | his chest and calls attention to hin-self. Let us hop | the bey with the legacy was born with an inetin’ 7 | sidestep 3 over sign and take a chill in the proxim 9/7. | a wooden Indian, Then let us hope that he wor x4 | telling everybody how strong his graft Is.” em “Tiey say,” remarked the Cigar Store Maa, there Is daly a tare chance of a man getting good key when he lifts it over a bar,” “Well.” responded the Man iligher Up, “I'm willl take a chance /f you are.” Good Luck Storiettes, The Silver Side of Pr. Davis's Cle HE skies were not exactly bright for Henry Day is i To be sure, the fragrant honeysuckle hung in bout the trim little suburban ho! aayly In tht trees and Mrs, Davis b about with a song cn her lips and love in her heart, But all these welcome conditions could not close Hi eyes to the fact that he had almost drawn his tast 4 out of the bank, and that he was out of work, “Don't worry,” sald Henry's comforting and cheerful ‘Every dark cloud has a silver lining. . . . . . . . HE great metropolis was wide awake, Brilliant ¥ shine was flooding its busy thoroughfares, and of. them, like so many ants, moved men and animal” the dally battle for existence, The hum wag incessant, the roar at times deafening, whirl confusing, Henry Davia sat upon « park bench stiff and sore, more than a week he had searched the city for work, in vain, | No one needed a bookkeeper, His last d@linr was now gone. '% He fought againat telling his wife the true state of fairs, Suddenly » whirling gust of wind brought a newspar | fying pages open ngainst him, y Mechanieally Davis clutched It. A j For a long time he aut thus, Then to relitve his stra mind he hegan to look over the paper. It was The Wor Fventually he reached the “Want” columns, and r there with eager eyes: ob BOOKKEEPER—Wanted, a bookkedper; one familia with the silk industry preferred; good pay to righ! man. Address Rox 24 World, . . . . . . iy . SETS YOu know," said Henry Davis to Nis wite aw D later, “that when fortune » unkindest she) often kindest’ . “Didn't I tell you that evtry cloud has a allver ag | Hi replied Mrs, Davis, as she fondly kissed her husband, é “What if that gust of wind hadn't blown the | Ai World in my direction? I would never have obtained | position.” “You would have found another, for sooner or later wonld have learned the value of The World as a ‘Want medium.” Measuring Brides, It is sald that every year brides are measured for legae at St. Cyrus, a quaint little villare in Kincardineshire, & land, on the brink of the German Ocean, The story F | that more than fifty years ago a native of the village, ¢ | had been a paymaster-general of the Indian ach é) queathed a sum of money, the Interest of which was, fo time coming, to be disburse! in five equal parts every y; One part was for the purchase of meal for the poor, w the remainder was set aside to be divided among each yy four conspicuous brides—the oldest, the youngest, the to and the shortest—who were married In St. Cyrus pe chureh. The administration of the fund ia in the hanc the parish minister, and unhappy at times is his task, are the jealoustes which arise among the sompetitors there Is keen rivalry for these legactes, which amour hardly more than $20 each; but that {s quite an Important in #0 remote and simple a village, All St. Cyrus turna ou "Bride Measuring Day,” ard the occasion is madg a holl Voice Strange to Owner. That a man does not hear his own volce as afl the rex the world hears It Is shown by an Interesting expe: (r described by Dr. L. Laloy in La Nature, of Parir, Says writer: “If a person records on a phonograph a few senter pronounced by himself, together with others by his frie nnd causes the machine to reproduce these after a brief riod, it generally happens that he easily recognizes his friet voices, but not his own, On the other hand, the frie recognize his voice perfectly, This singular fact proves ¢ every one hrara his own volee differently {rom others, Fishing by Telephone. A Norwegian has invented a queer way of finding where the fish are, A microphone, which is an Instrun that will cateh and transmit the least Ittle bit of sounc lowered into the water from a fishing emack, and a from {t leads to a telephone aboard the boat. Now, ef herring, codfish and macke sols number thousané tens of thousands of fish passage through the naturally causes shing sound, which can be hear! the fishermen at the telephone, and (hus they are eng [to lower their nets at the right time and In the right plac