The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1904, Page 12

TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBEn 18, 1904, SE 2GOHHG +496 eo =e i DH IOPDIGRAOHD Che Se Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 8 to & ark Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office t at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, NO. 18,763, | | | | | * YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. In Harlem a versewriting Goat “To a Poster Giri” lyrics would “pote,” With his subject he's filled, For his insides are billed With a three-color sheet table d’hote. 3 : 3 3 e $ $ ? 4 ° $ 4 3 Bs men in general and landiadies in particular, has written me) & long account| of the dimeul-| Hea that peset) he employed WG His \ a nan ahetatinsiensiindpibihtene ann SECURITY FOR EXCURSION BOATS, s pellean solemnly wank, : 7 nd puffed at a dudheen quite rank. 4 In its comments on the conditions of excursion boat To a Frog he said: “I «Insecurity after the Slocum disaster, The Evening World Was wondering why , _ pointed out the defects of a Gove nt inspection You're the only greenback coun this bank.’ “which “takes no account of the tinder-box nature of the seeooownre eS superstructure of such craft,” and sald: ' : , | ‘The most urgent need Is for legisintion to reduce the dan- The Maddening ‘gers from fiimsy and inflammadie woodwork, In which, while} PUL te tolerated, the worst menace to the passenger's safety Meddling : <a continue to le, The recommendation of legislation to | effect Is bvious duty of the oficial mf lf an obvious ape jeta Listed! | Woman, ‘ » This duty the Federal commission has commendably | ‘ | @incharged in a report dealing exhaustively both with the question of dfrect human responsibility for the hor- | By Nixola Greeley-Smith a Tor and also with the remoter but even more vital queg; " _ tion of the jnose reguiations governing steamboat, in- TYOUNY| | | spection. ‘The commission's report is given added force A Sane atl S _ «p by the President's lotter urging that— emphasis 6¢ laid upon the proposal of the com- Mission that there be created by law a special body thor- oughly to investigate the laws which are supposed to provide for the safety of passengers on” steamboats, especially on! excursion boats, where the prime causes of danger are the overcrowding and the flimsy and highly inflamma. | ble character of the superstracture, | ; + In that proposal for a revision of the existing laws) PY Yes the kernel of the report. The dismissal of the in-| ay _Spectors, carrying with it a complete change of the per- | ¥ of the service and a reform of Inspection methods, es ls & simple eot of justice to the victims of the disaster, _ Tt meete public expectation and approval. But the main ‘thing is the safety of future excursion parties, and to secure that new legislation must be had looking to tun: | hs ital changes |n steamboat construction. In the lodging houses that are her only sub- - “words of the commission— 5 stitute for a home. | . “IL have a room,” ‘writes the aggrieved r + 5 ‘ ‘There are many similar vessels doing service in the reader, “which ¢ preety th my| waters United States, t tion of which 1s/ fw dangerous as that of the locum, and unteas tnis| #2élady's by ‘folding doors that lock Sof construction shall be prohibited, ot modified by law, | 0 her side. As a result, no matter now| jo satety of the large number of passengers carried by. ex-| fe’ OF how busily occupied 1 may be. Pleamors.and steamers plying on the inland watars| (neve '# BO hour of the night at whien Ninised Mdtes cannot be assured. those doors are not liable to slide apart + and the voice of my landlady to an- Thay assurance inspections as at present authorized nounce that she has just ‘stepped in for »stve. Tt ean be obtained only through new regu- a little chat,’ which Is often prolonged tions as carefully covering a boat's decks and super-| {°F hours. There Is no moment of the ‘ time I spend at home that I may call ‘etruoture and furvishings 1s {ts bull and boilers. As my own, and there are a great many Evening World has said, “Far less important is tht | employed girls who are subjected to the Vengeance on guilty officials than the establishment same annoyance, which is not due to ‘of safeguards for the future.” 4 any genuine interesc In their welfare, 4 “ but simply to the desire to meddie and to spy.” ‘The troubles of this young woman are indeed general enough to be considered not aa those of an Individual, but of «| class, as any girl living away from hothe {s liable to experience them. Tt is a pecullar fact that while few Jandiadies dare to vent their meddling ‘aa THE DEADLY ELEVATOR, ‘The deadly elevator has added two ¢o its increasing of vii fm a day—a child and 1 college boy, Each tality due to an unfamiliar hand on the controlling Z or. Supt. Hopprr’s crusade for safer elevators and: ) Ueensed elevator men does not need this now proof Of| instincts by investigating the private ‘the merit of the reform he is championing. Yet it comes! afrairs of the young men who board ‘with timeliness while the Aldermen have the proposed with them, they regard young women | gMendimiént to the Ruilding Code under consideration. re va wet asian a on . It ts understood in a general way that an elevator jie 9 little before schedule thme, she 1 become a death-trap. But is the full extent of its is liable to interrupt a general inspec- ag realized? Mlevators have killed thirty persons| tion of her wardrobe, and perhaps a _ tm New York. MM tho list of automobile fatalities as| discusvion as tm how & irl who makes D> Yarge? As an older and less conspicuous death agent |PO more maven that the dove can the elevator appears to have escaped the disagreeable | ‘Publicity bf the man-slaying auto-car, Another time she may discover 6 strangé woman taking a nap on her sofa, only to be Informed casually that | "Mrs, So and So dropped in to luncheon SCHOOLBOYS AS RIFLEMEN. and I knew you wouldn't mind it she 'The War Department's Board for the Promotion of | took & little rest in your room, Rifle Practice to the untrained lodger - poe been reading, pérhaps, Mr: Kipling’s qs ee these little famillarities ‘Army of a Dream,” in which public-echool boys, begin- ana interferes with her hostess's pro- ae to drill at six, “take the rifie at twelve and record | claimed oe gy rages of hg : first target score at thirteen.” ing everybody just Uke o member of At any rate, the board has a scheme for supplying ig pag wigh Suwdld pipe pos Tenge and guns to military schools and public schools, | constant ransacking of her room, locked | ¢ the outcome of which is to be. in a few years, an army’ everything up when she was going out, | 3 of halt.a-miltion to a millon expert markamen, ready| pi tha note on the centre table ho B AS Gor any emergency call | My dear pe fo and So—The most 7 Promptly against this proposal that sentiment will interesting things are in the bureau Wanifest itself which js already strong against even the drawer. You will find the key behind militarism of the peaceful drill in boys’ schools, But cue T won't be hack till 4 “the board's scheme would have its uses, ev “ia | Sts offering of that measure of cereus dda eaten b he eA pe rere hatte juke to the Grand Inquisitor was that) S4t times as a discourager of war, Sighting a target Is on her return she was greeted by an pod eye practice, Holding s firing piece steady Is good “ST demand for her room, the land- | Berve and muscle discipline. And when, finally, there py bored Rieger hier being that she shall be trained the eyes and nerves and muscles of a, of petted al sanateaien 6 pd ihe million young Americans, why shall not these minute! indulge their idie curiosity at the ex- > men of the Republic serve to relieve us from the greater Pen Of thelr women lodgers, but as a expense and more active militarism of a standing army?) ‘W* the employed girl has to make It is not @ sin, nor necessarily an incentive to fight, to be able to shoot straight. For years Canada has had ® rifle range in every village and schools for sharp- shooters ip every province. 80 was she able to lend an abe band to the mother country in South Africa. Yet Tepe Moos not thirst for ba.t!s in propovtion to her “poctible bull's-eyes Indeed, she shares, as our country does, in that growing, world's aversion e bloodshed < Which Is voiced in the appeal for peace coming even Sal from victorious Tokio in the face of Manchuria's appall- } Ing slaughter, b Ted PEPE oPHS Hd D> S94 6-64 > nN Ss Py i Protection from meial Sharke.—The tasue of an b 7 other Post-Om: ud or Against a loreal “financial ie }.. Soneern which ts alleged to profited to the extent of “several millions” from | business methods j furnishes further evidence of jovernment’s watohfule) thar which any pol % ees of the “get-rich-quick” swindler, The disclosures her—to “keep moving | following every exposure of fraudulent finance reveal a Of course, there Is also the universal masculine panacea for feminine woes— the Injunetion to get married and give ber , ind epee for a home, in- ¢ ao | fp. © home for inde- Arustfuiness on the part of the victims clearly requiring some protection, (ncle Sam tn asruming to avert the thn Cammequences of a Wek of common sense tn investors ap- : ‘ u"** frame ine mont benereient role bey 7 Ab ato. SO HED iKE—I| s'pose I did. i Ms SOO dn DERIVED EEEELOREDODNELOG IGS POLED DODO OHODID OE £ udeville. . . . THE TWO CONS Make a Welsh “Rabbit” . . .: They Claim to Be Experts with the Chafing Dish, but, Oh, My! How They Got Dished. er all, the exchange | e404 PHOPDT SD A Hippo, who rather obese is, To a Dog being wafted to pleces, Said: “Not as a knock— Don't the Flatiron block Give some of your pants a few creases?” ~~ ® e > PODDDD 65 SOG BD O59 OGG 068-2 OH19-D 99S FOF SOG SE O9S-O094 39 PDO WE'RE SO -e O8-290-9-0\ 99-9-9-0-9.9-3-6/30-e SNOW—! s'pose yo’ came out all right wen yo’ ast Jones fo’ his daughtah, Ike? , De fust ting | knowed aftah | ast him | wuz ‘way out In de midd’e ob de road, seeeenorerecessoseseeoooooooenebeoreoneeoeeeness LEPEDERDDOOED GE AGOGSERESMONSDHINIDIG DOO RETO IGS Fun in Animal Land. -8-3-9-D-O-FF-F-9OF-9-H9O H4-H5--5-5-F2FDFHH OF Aer te wv THE EVENING w WORLD'S # HOME » MAGAZINE. & , a , se DEST TE IP IS OPPOSE EPTD ED 12 EEE BEDE SHOR OEE BO ’ / Said Br’er Dog to Br’er Rabbit: “I see You're trying to get ‘way from me.” Said Bunny: “I've strength 4 os ee PO DDDED & |The Singer Who Can Hit a High | Note Is All to the Good with Cupid, his age.” - id | “The woman has the masuma,” reaponded |The Man Higher Up. “You never hear of = young man wanting to marry a widow twice his age unloss he has | # bank account that is spread out Mike » bolled dimen |The aged spinster or widow not anxious to commit mat Al | rimony is in no danger from hot and impetuous youth! | unlees she can eign checks, “There is no reason why a man shouXin'’t sue fos breach of promise as well as a woman. Rt depends on | what he thinks of himeelf. There 1s hypnotism tm the | long green. [f it is once exercised the victim loses stght | of everything else. There are many men who think be cause somebody with money befriends them «hey have lease on.the roll of the benefactor. “This suit reminds me that a man with # beeftome op | tenor yvoloe and ability to use it has all the rest lashed | to the mast off a rocky shore when it comes to making-a ' hit with the femele sex. Who gets the mash notes in | a minstrel show? Is it the genial end man, who males \. merry st the expense of the audience, or the {ron-legged clog-dancer? Nay, it is the man who steps down ¢o the | front and warbles a song about moonlight and | mother. The higher he goes with his pipes the more of | a knockout he ts with the ladies out front | “The basso profundo i# all to the bad ..ongsite the | boy with the elevated notes, Don't ask me why. Prob- ably it is because it seems natural to hear a man sing basa, and bass singers always Insist upon singing about & the bottom of the ocean, where It is cold and damp.” “I was quite a winner when | was young,” announced | the Cigar Store Man, “and I couldn't sing a note.” | “1 just sadd,” reminded The Man Higher Up, “that you can't ever tell anything about women.” The “Fudge” Idiotorial, * SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “thet « young baritone is screaming about bringing @ sult , for breach of promise against « women twise 4q THE EVEN- . Why the Subway ING FUDGE has Deserves to Fail.—f made a START“ |] It Refuses to Carry the Common LING DISCON : ERY in respect to People Except Underground. the Subway Copyrot, 1906, by che Planet B Twelve experts ae (subletted to hia paper through ths ¢ courtesy of the Warden) have found that the Subway |has heen so MISMANAGED by the MINIONS OF CAPITAL that IT CAN ONLY BE OPERATED UNDERGROUND. | THE COMMON PEOPLE, who hoped that fie | |Subway (paid for by their taxes) would carry theny I on exhilarating rides FAR ABOVE the roofs and tree. ’ tops, will learn to their HORROR that it runs only UNDER the street." This is a grave menace to THE COMMON PEOPLE'S privileges, but THIS PAPER flaps as usual to their assistance with the following | padded-cell suggestion: When you board a subway train and ft starts torun underground, DEMAND that the motorman make it rin OVER THE ROOFS instead, and REFUSB to leave the car until he DOES SO. This paper will BACK YOU UP. The Evening Fudge speaks from EXPERIENCR, Ever since its own CIRCULATION began running so far UNDERGROUND that NOBODY COULD FIND A TRACE OF IT the Editor has longed for the good old days when he was still “UP IN THE AIR.” Vote for an OVERHEAD Subway. Refuse to eat ‘ > ANY other brand. IN THE DAYS OF EL-MAHOUND FUDGE'’S READERS ALL WERE FOUND UN. DERGROUND) a af)