The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1904, Page 12

orld Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 6 to Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice | Mail Matter, 6 seeeeNO, 15,787, i IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS. MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE, THE REVOLT AGAINST THE SCORCHER, The Institntion of an organized crusade against reck- Jess automobile driving in Chicago and the action of a ‘West Virginia county in entirely prohibiting the use ot _ automobdties within the county Imits point to a con- Both in Chicago, where there have been eighty auto- : Mobile accidents within nine months, and in the West _ & Virginia county the authorities have been moved to ‘ Sdopt repressive measures because of the menace to lite {involved in an Increasing speed daredeviltry which held Jocal ordinances in contempt. If it 18 too much to ex- Dect that the racing-ear lawbreaker can ever be wholly ‘radicated, at least tho indications are not wanting that he is to be subjected to the prosecution which his abus _ Of privilege deserves. @enths trom automobile “accidents” reported in the news columns since Jan. 1 last makes a convincing showing » Of the vitel need of suppressing the scorcher as a meas- Bre of public safety. dium incurred by the scorcher it is obviously incum- bent on him to ald in this suppression. It 1s posatblo| for the Automobile Club to accomplish much to that! end. It can discountenance the false code of “honor _ #ong automobilists” and encourage its members to Teport upon speed infractions and assist in the punish- | it of the offender. The growing frequency of of road rights by reckless chauffeurs has awak-| the pablic to a full realization of its responsibility | Maelf to prevent the dangerous misuse of its high- ‘Ways. With the cautious and self-respecting chauffeur it “has m0 quarrel. But it looks to him for aid in rebuking Spd restraining his scorching brother and making the Foads sato for all yohicles, y Ss : THE EX-KING OF POLICY. a Al Adame leaves Sing Sing Prison to-day, He has out the sentence imposed by the Court. Thou- _, Sade of his victims are still serving behind the bars of| poverty some portiond of the terms of wretchedness and. _ Fegret to which be in his avarice condemned them, Many years ago, when Tweed was in his prosperous, Adams filled a useful place. He was a brakeman New York, New Haven ant Hartford Railroad. | Money itch and opportunity under an {II star took font | im from honest work into the policy gamo. He.becams| “policy King” and multimillionaire. Trainmen who i his contemporaries at the brakes died under ear ‘vith better fortune to thelr names and to the K. pets w THE » EVENING w WORLD'S | | #etted revolt against a speed law deflance too long en- ured, | The World's record of forty | If the law-abiding automobilist {s not to share In the | charmers as he sees fit. LAPOELIEDIDED 904 04 Y 99999 9G700 99904-099-0090O9.H00090 14 54 BOOS SOOEFOE LL 96-499006 000.0900.0000-00094H9000003 ® ‘At the “Zoo” Vaudeville, | | | PPOPPE LSE 2E22 'OBD3IO+ SOS POCEO9G$6-090.05200406 > y y,\ 3 Were v t wl \KA da ott Said a camel with several humps, “No, no, | have not got the mumps. | got these on mo At Coney, you si A fox, who was quite a mad wag, Propounded the following gag: “Some day if by chance | wore nice pairs of pants Would the knees have an ani An owl who pretended to know To a lady deer once murmured: “Oh! I'm onto the reasons You're liked at all seasons— Because ev'ry ons needs the doe.” Mary Jane and Kickums Try to Fly. © #& w # — They Come Dew) from the Roof Parachute Fashion Like a Thousand of Bricks on Their Otherwise Interested Da:'s eed bag?” | | | I Guess we CAN PLY~ Att RIGHT: of Going | While playfully bumping the bumes.” PO HGFSDOOTE Y Usel : selessness Mad. BY : Nixola Greely-Smith. MR. MOR- I RIS FES- baurday = en- | | > } whom | 1@ had wooed persistently for several weeks. | On Sunday! Miss Gross, happy in the contemplation her new- happl- basl teas, was star- \ Ain Waly out of we ner window when she per- MASON Gresiey-Stilte coived crore the way the form of the beloved Peachek ‘accomnanied by a atrange young woman. Needless to say she rushed from the house and demanded an explanation from the dismayed culprit, who, upon) being interrogated by his ¢ompanion, Promptly declared that he had never een the wild-eyed Nemesis before. | Confronted by this new evidence of his duplicity, there was but one thing | left for the young woman to do, She! went mad from jealousy and bas been | sent to Bellevue, leaving Peschek at MWherty to walk with ae many different _ Wor long yoars Adams sneak-thieved the bread ney, rent money and clothes money of the poor— d' even the odd pennies that fell to the little finally caught him in hor tolls, tt was to bring him tn Tetribution for the evils he had wrought the wholly in- @dequate penalty of a year and three-quarters in prison! | “Twenty-one months, minus commutation, for infliet- fing misery that cutlasted thousands of lives! ‘waa convicted, he was incredulous. He had spent 4 for- f Pronounced him “the meanest man New York ever pro- _ duced.” After hearing that he must go to prison he "railed and curséd and dared to prate of “injustice. had its promised inmate. | _ Adams goes free to-day. His punishment has been te it the ways and places that knew the “policy Know him 20 more, at PULLMAN CAR IMMUNITY. F Thodsh the Missonri Pacific trains which collded, with 7 Joss of life, were “running at a terrific rate” and F impact was so violent that the heavy freight loco- “pushed tho passenger engine back wntil it “ “4 |the inoonstant suitor with the best ex-| of the poor, And when Justice, leaden-heeled, 10° possthle for his behavior, |:.Te be sure, there is the precedent of | mv { pt ‘Whon Ada:ns was arrested, he was defiant. When ho ti tune for “protection.” In sentencing him the Judge "¥° 8s. Nowadays eternal vigilance | gaged girl who makes up her, mind that her task Is finished when the betrothal "ting sparkles on her finger has indeed Bovever, the Court had {ts way and the cell at Sing everything to learn, | one man who marries because he wants fully insufficient. Nevertheless he {s a little broken they can’t help themae Bis old défiance, The world has not had time to There Is # tide in the affairs of men | r his iniquities, But it ts willing to cry “quits”—| Ttrtacae At the flood, leads on to) “ ence on the uncertain seas of court- ship is Hable to.be most successful in themselves, knows better. a Well enough to interrogate on the sub- Ject, and it's ten to one he'll answer, The futiltty of Jealousy could not be better demonstrated than by this inci- dent. For jealousy having made her mad, her madness in turn will furnish ITS A FIN the gentle Ophelia, whose madness was brought about by the neglect of the too | Philosophic Hamlet. But it will be re-! embered that Ophelia didn't accom- ish anything by it even in her own| ima, and that her methods are alto- | other insdequate to this more progres. | Is the price of matrimony, and that en~ as I Saino BEFORE ~ TEDDY wil It ls my personal observation that for h} to there are nine who Try because And the woman with the most experi- | 4 > $€8630 uring him into the marriage harbor. Most bachelors think men marry but every married man ‘ Ask any one you know vt HOME # MAGAZIN i iT $ | Of the automobile that kills them. S-SSSIS GO5-56-6-202 PDPSSISLOSSGOS-9F-9-2969-96-060090995 SE SOR 8- >) § i A ? h PD POLAR EHOLOES SESSOROSEEDS OOS 9094090000 0008908 DEO tVITHEO ROOTS DOG # Some of the Funny Turns, # Said an amiable-featured giraffe To a monkey who tried not to laffe: “Wearing no overcoat | caught frogs in my throat-— | guess the 3 must be a whole staffe,” The Automobile Race Was Not Up to the Mark, as the Casualties Were Too Few, SEB,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that the pro» moters of the Lond Island road race say they are going to pull off another next year.” “They may,” replied The Man Higher Up, “but the indications point to a frost. The record of the last race was a shine. They killed only | two people. It ts true that another may die, but he Won't count on the straight fatalities because ke Uved longer than two days. “The quicker they dle the more stands to the credit If one of the ma chines had skidded wrong at a bend in the road, charged into a crowd and butted the lives out of eight or teu epectators the road race of 1904 would have been worthy of @ place In the record of splendid catastrophes. “The automobile |s engendering a contempt for human life that is bound to have its effect, When millionaires deliberately go out to risk their lives for the sake of showing that a certain make of automobile is f than another make it 1s a sign that the automobile bug has long, strong clamps. You can understand a man with plenty of the mazuma breeding fast horses and riding them, but automobiles are not bred. Racing au- tomobiles {s of about as much ure as racing freight cars down a grade, The people of this country don’t want faster automobiles, but they would hail with Joy a con- tewt on the order of a slow mule race in which the lay one in is the winner. Instead of training themselves up to ninety miles an hour the automobilists should be seek ing means of holding their machines to a speed that Wil sive a pedostrian within a mile of them an even break for life and limb.” “The rich have as much right to enjoy thomselves as the poor have,’ asserted the Cigar Store Man, “Sure,” agreod The Man Higher Up, “but If a poor man hires a horse and buggy and exceeds tho speed limit it's a hundred-to-one shot he gets pinched,” poeta teat te True to the Flag. Bhortly before the opening of the civH war Schley was o1 dered to the steam frigate Niagara, which was detailed to carry back to Japan the Japanese Embassy to the United States, after Commodore Perry had opened the island kings dom. In her return home the Niagara left Cape Town in March, 181, and she reached Cape Cod early in May, where & pilot named Dolliver came on boart with his pockets full of newspapers. The captain asked for the news with such eager anxiety (hat the pilot stopped to ask where the Nu had come from. ‘Then he sald bluntly: “Why, captain, country's all busted.” It was the first they knew that ot war was on, The ofticers of the Niagara were called upon to | ' Ww y hether they would stand by the old fing or not. AS r | "Well, to tell you the truth, I don’t a» decide w hy shed its way half through the first coach,” “the Pull cee jaw it sat wae Su y pol ? # new oach of allegiance was presented to all the crew. Behley F | Man remained upright and none of Its occupants was! her? No, I think not Tt just hap- | @ Tae hie pegs piel ook, i ta sae aanee eee Burt.” It was 00 in the Tennessee wreck of three weeks pened. I was as much surprised as the new oath, ee i$ . ORO, and it is usually the case that the heavy sleeping years eecape unscathed. In most head-on collisions the of the Pullman at the rear of the train aids the crushing of the egg-shell coacives, » The recent report of the Interstate Commerce Com- Bilesion showed that on trains composed solely of Pull- the percentage of accidents is remarkably low as @ompared with mixed trains. It is Spparent that a pas- Senger by the payment of an extra fare of $2 can secure Practical immunity from injury. "But why must it be necessary for him to take out) Abts {ndividual accident insurance to assure himeelf the , which the ratiroad should susrantee all passen- er Day coaches built on the Pullman pattern of sub- ‘@tantial construction mean a costly equipment, but one Which the appalling sacrifice of lite on American rail- Boads-every year should make obligate TY on first-class * i oy ‘ 1 ' ~ the management of the Olympic Theatre that that * Bowne has unjustly been refused a teense br ne statement from the Mayor's secretary that the the Fire Department “regards the bullding a+ Wee ase place of public amusement.” The reason a _ §0ed and sufficient. Whatever forgetfulness there my Be of the “lessons” of other disasters, that of the Troqu fite has been taken to heart to some Purpose, as “a action of the authorities encouragingly evidenaes, A GF anybody else," which one hears so much, Ile enough to change his mind, something a chance. gaged man is to marry him as soon as ponsible. who went mad was that she gave her other girl. of the animal that he should pr even Bell her, and tha walk thro’ overtake one’s rl | Pon mnrewwmemnraummonvnmnnnrvn | VERE L19991969-040040404400409 bout | { meroly in the fact that they give a man time The peril of long engagemen he fs very Mable to do if he has half The only thing to do with an en- The trouble with the young woman Manced time to go walking with It was only in the it. tli one ¢ not help we was a lucky ¢ rival 4 ite overtake her gh hat is usual ew ‘| anyw A new and thrilling romantic serial, “The Sorceress,” based Sow Y upon Victorien Sardou's great 7- play, in which Mrs, Patrick Camp MR. WASHINGTON LINCOLN GRANT. MRS. WASHINGTON LINCOLN GRANT—Ya © In awhile, lat Miss Greencorn-Cobbe am sentenced to work fo’ de res’ ob her nat‘ral life, so | see. | s’pose Deacon Yellowleg, dat married us, am ji fonouncin’ dom sentences ebery once. bell Is to appear here, wil! begin in Tho Evening*World of Thurs. day, Oct. 13, rs 4 ° ® ® 3 OL 4 1444094440044 490600004 06000000 1000009 POOO0OO800 | switchman had walked up the troek to a ald! » he could se@ through a hatch, chose the better part A True Bear Story. An angry black bear, through an error in ju , tee cently attacked a freight loc ve enn lonely stretch of, railway In Austrin-Mungary and came off second beat, a where he had set a switch to allow a freight train to make way for the express, It was night and he carrled a Inntern, Seoing dark, formless mos lying across the rails he went te inveath gate, The dark, forniless moss suddeniy resolved Itself into a big she-benr anid ti 8. The awitchman was surprised, In hia fright he fo pped his lantern and started to tun. The bears fo The old mother bear was rapidly outfooting the awit when the fretght train eame along, ite hendligh? glean ne the rails. Even th ter the enrnged animal. She attacked the killed. The cubs escaped “ Unreconstructed,” Great Britain's camp in Ceylon for Boer prisoners of war 7 Up some months ago. Five men out of the 6.000 < terned In the teland refused to tnke the oath or tion of allegiances and at the rame time refused to proceed elaewhere than tn South Africh. ‘They were re:sased in the Island, bit tnfornied that the Government was at any UUme ready to provide them with a parenge to any place exe cept South Africa, or to South Africa if they would declare allegiance. Two of the five subsequently complied with the condition and were repatriated. One of the last three hag died In the tsland,