The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1904, Page 12

oA TELEPHONE EXTORTION, to secure a franchise in Yonkers, the New York half. City calls now cost five cents instead of ten, and been cut from thirty-five cents to twenty-five. ‘These have becn the tmmediate beneficial effects of a as yet only in the alr and basing its expec- ‘would entertain the new company’s bid for a fran- ay ‘They are highly suggestive by contrast with New rc helplessness under a monopoly which twenty of attack at Albany has not been able to weaken which the adverse verdict in the Appellate Court ist spring in the case of an independent line seeking of way In the clty only served to confirm and In- extort: ly for telephone service as here, What he ia charged $240 for annually is furnished the Cincinnati ‘1 for $120, In Washington the charges for a full service is $125, In that city the limited ser- of 600 calls is $54, as against $90 here, In St. Louis, competition, an unlimited service costs $100, in $80, in Richmond $20, If the New York company’s charges were excessive !n with 10,000 telephones in use, to-day with 90,000 are prohibitive. The city will watch with sympa- interest and envy the efforts of Yonkers to secure lief from a burdensome imposition against which it only protest. q FLUSH TIMES IN WALL STREET. Accompanying the announcement that Wall street “gone specalation mad” is the statement that the gbiio has azain entered the market. t th it buttoned up its pockets when “Steel” was at 9, it is now buying that stock in large lots at , and the “preferred,” which it would not touch at 59, ; to acquire at 80. For the railway stocks it is am ft is paying from $12 to $36 more a share an it could have bought them for last spring. What the wirard wand that has been waved over Wall What magical inflvence has increased “values” io the enormous extent of three billions of dollars within stew months? - Flush times in Wall strect will mean a prosperous for many industries whose profits depend on the of ready cash in circulation, The demand for necklaces Will increase, and after-theatre sup- multiply. An episode of interest showing the direct of the “Street” to the city is the return of clerks but lately vacant. flood tide has followed the ebb with an extraor- Mf not a suspicious suddenness, Is not the public Itself from whose strong boxes the cheap stocks few months ago now selling dear are coming? —————_ DOKING BACK AT THE ROAD RACE, current ieeue of Automobile is devoted almost + ly it conveys the offcial voice of the promoters event. Daper fiuds that “the organized opposition to the was largely of a sort deserving of little consid- ” Far from producing good results by its late this oppoaltion “worked positive harm {h di- rer the energios of the management from attention Smportant details!” % suMeient to the unembattled farmers of Queens Mt that they shottld make a fuss over being ordered } get out of their own roads and to tie up their dogs ¥ must also, by their untimely plaints, play on the and divert the energies of the grabbers of their it IL was, as Mr. Joe Weber might say, “ot a ‘sadder than the épeed limit which the race raised. | Ip Mis enthusiasm over the scorching, the editor of neglects one point which should have seemed to him. He advances neither fact nor argu- to establish for the event a practical, world-bene- utility of any degree. The machines coms, Doomed and sometimes burst. Then the win- tovk his award, the crowd got in the way and all Over, It should be over for all time, so far as of New York are concerned, TO FIND YOUR REAL WORTH, ‘The clerk who works for ten a week May really be worth twenty, Bo if a better piace you seck It's caay to find plenty. A man gives just such sits away. ’ ‘As a first fruit of the attempt of a rival telephone iy which has the monopoly there has cut its rates charge for business and house service has been ma-| reduced. The rate from Yonkers to New York | solely on a hint dropped by the Aldermen that Nowhere else is the business man taxed #0! Just about forty times as great a chance 0 a A ie : * THE w Woman and the Man She Hunts. _—. NB of the O Passioniat Fathers in the last of @ series of ser mons on Matri. jnony, delivered n Brooklyn, an- nounced that he bad = devoted but one day to the single man and & whole week to the sin ‘m. are Nixola Greeley-Smith, jargely in ner bands, and no one will deny that the reverend father ‘was entirely right in his deduction, In- deed, there will be many who will re gard his statement as entirely too mod- erate, One of the most false and possibly for that reason the most cherished {!lusions of man ‘s the idea that he chooses his own wife, when, ag a matter of fact, he merely succumbs to a young person | that has marked him for her own as imevitably as small-pox or the Blgck Mand. sink te G #» WO EVE! a * a al ad Gentiemen! THE MAIN ISSUE IN “THIS CAMPAIGN, % A GREAT BIG The much quoted statement that any | woman can marry any man she wants | to, like most other glittering gener- | alities, Jacks confirmation in fact, But | it would he very much truer if the fair participants in the man hunt would devote their attention to @ particular | man instead of wasting time in @ scattering fire, Very often they under- | take too much and in trying to bring Tom and Dick and Harry to the pro- posal point at once, fail with all three. | The same amount of attention given | to one of the trio would have con- | vineed him that the dearest woman In the world might with a great deal of Persuasion consent to marry him and make him the most blessed among his kind, How this wonderful result is brought about only the girl knows—though very often she doesn’t know, but is, like the selected husband, just an obedient pawn in the hands of her wise and elderly female’ relatives. For a homely airl with an@experienced mother has to capture a man as a pretty girl with. cut one, Vor pretty orphan i frequently ingenuous enough to think that the feminine role in courtship con- tints in breathng a whispered yes to the most favored of half @ dozon ardent suitors, and so leaves to chance what the wiser maiden accomplishes by cold sclence, Of course, only a widow has the sclence of man-trhpping thoroughly mastered, and a new occupatfon might be furnished Impecunious relicts if some kind philanthropists would only endow a school of courtship for women and employ the widows to give object lessons in subtle love-making to the inexperienced of their sex. However, to give reality to the les- sons, men would probably have to take the passive part in them which fate Assigns the prospective husbands in real Mife, And in this event the widows would probably gobble them up faster than the faculty could supply them. For any widow can marry any man she wants, unless he ‘s warned in time and bas himself sentenced to life !m- pris@ament in Sing Sing or Auburn in self; defense. And even then it would be by no means certain. that she wouldn't get him, Wo cannot all be widows, however, | and those of us not of that privileged class can only cudgel our dull wits over the “preliminaries of marriage,” as they were styled in the Passionist {nthee’s address, and do the best we can in the serene anticipation that some time even our day of widow's weeds and wiles may dawn, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —) Wanted—A Post-Seaso To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The public want to fee a series of ames between the Giants and the win- ners of the American League. The only Series, | these games is childish on the part of ly to the recent road race on Long Island, Pre-| McGraw. If they are not played the| | public will be perfectly justified in aay- |ing that tho real reascn is that the | wedding, white or black vest and white reagon so far advanced for not playing Giants are afraid to face the Issue What we all want to see Is a post-sea- son series, Can McGraw and Brush afford to dodge? FAIR PLAY. White Vest and White Gloves, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘What is proper for a home evening or gray glaves? BRIDEGROOM A Mercury Problem, To the Editor of The Evening World Hore fs @ tough problem for readors to solve: The specific resistance of mereury 1s 87.15 microhms per cubic Inch; fiud the resistance in ohms of a| round column of mercury 723 inches! high and .W inch in diameter at % de +s Fahrenheit. BT. People's Chorus, Cooper Union. | ‘To the Etitor of The Evening World Is there any place in New York where one could have the voice cultivated free of charge, of at nominal] rates? RR “Money is tt claims tha love of mon The latter ts the correct forn In the B A Neral Query, To the Editor of The Evening Wor I would like to be Informed by some i MARY, JANE, OR YOu'LL’ Bust THE The Comic Artist Makes a Hit at Last. a WHEELS x CENTS in HERE D'S w HOME Mary Jane Tries to Liven Up the Campaign. She Makes a Stirring Big-Stick Argument from the Dining-Room Table, RN wee | warket, will get into the game, and after the election, | worked with a clutch.” The Soda Clerk Se %ai ves to Death. / Machine-Made Prosperity by Wall* Street Artisans, 4 big boom in stocks in Wall Street.” _ “They need the money,” explained the Ma: Higher Up. ‘You see also that Roosevelt is a favorite in the betting at 10 to 3 or abouts, Occasionally there !s a Democrat who is willing to take the short end for a few dollars. ’ “The Wall Street gamblers want Roosevelt elected, With the assistance of the proper peopie they can do | anything they want with stocks, A boost in stocks now | ts a con that the business people of the country are | prosperous and want a continuation of Theodore, “When the Wall Street gamblers frame up a deal to hunch stocks the process is as simple as raising a foot- ball by kicking it on the under side. One of the big financiers instructs a broker to buy a few thousand t ehares of a certain stock. Then he goes to another broker and {nstructs him to sell a few thousand shares | of the same stock. “The two brokers hurl themselves into the Stock Ex | change like men going to a show on a free pass, One of them buys and the other sells. Both are working for the same man, The same stock can be used @ dozen times a day. “When there is activity in the way of an apparent de 4 mand for stocks the prices go up. Immediately the ery goes out all over the United States that prosperity has returned and that Theodore is the man who has done it, Pretty soon the suckers, who always fall to a rising «J SEB,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that there. when everything is ripe and there is some fresh money, ~ in the Street, the big gamblers will take a fall out of tha market that will sound like the eruption of Mont Peles, | They buy stocks when they are low, sell them whem they are high, kick the stuffing out of the market, and when prices go down buy the stocks in again,” “Wall Streot,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “Is gen« erally regarded as the barometer of the business of the country.” vf “Maybe {t 18," agreed the Man Higher Up, “but 4¢ tie ¥ we @ we and His Fizzy Fountain Talky He Has a Trying Experience with an Indigenous Blonde. Clerk as he dry-shampooed the marble slab, “an@ the heart drama wasn't all on the stage either. I¢ _ was mostly in B 108-14 Second Gallery, That's where we “] WAS to the theatre last night," obgerved the Sods | lators Are Worthless and Will Be Refused at the Door,’ — “ O I want to go out somewhere! “Oh, Mr, Nagg, you are driving me| Look how Mrs, Terwiliger used to treat | plenty of spending money, because If 4 to-night? Why do you ask me) wild! Where wero you, I ask you:| that man. Suppose I was always scold. | a" looks thabby It ls impossible for im to obtaln a that, Mr, Nagg? You know|where were you last Wednesday eve-|ing and finding fault! “Why do you sit down so hard? You/$, you say. Will break that gilt chair, There! You| “wi have stuck yourself on the needle that o1 to stay out a was In my fancy work on the sofa! would pe ow, You are going cheerful and praises his wife up to | “Why do you Jump out of chatre and ir : xplanation and| everybody, And when she has the plump yourself on the sofa without |my head {s aching fit to split! |money to spare he takes her to the, “3 looking? 1 know you have broken | “You can prove you were at the of-| theatre, And when she was taken | _# spring ofa, and I have just fice? Oh, I dare say you can! All men sick and had to lay abed for two kit had it ¢ brother Willie stick by each other and help each other weeks jt would have brough} tears to aceldent out. I hav no doubt You have a how you ruin hired conspirators t swear you Ww "| your eyes to hear him ery because he You do not | the office, 1, '@ the theatre with bia! " Mr, Dubb is @ man with a heart in ars to pa him. If he could only get employ. |!” you destroy “ we au supported his ment Tam sure he would dress Mrs, “Wil leat § dott cae so it will ta A are these days!| Dubb like a queen. But he can’t get Yes, Pil go. but I don't think T will en- | 9 repair things Not that | woul) | employn although he goes down: The spring isn’t broken? Well, no | som; not say a Word; 1 town every night and stays out tilt thanks to you, you ¢ tak it!) for that. You know | early morning looking for a place as q tell You are never to the h reept ty that, end that is why you Impose on my| head bookkeeper or manager for a break things. But fempt to | good nature, | wholesale house. dodge the question by flinging your.| “If you were trented Ike some men He has been looking for work so. out | florist or horticulturist among your self around! Why. do you ait so |are! There is Mr. Terwiliger, Ho won't! long and he geta so discouraged that It Oh, I knew You didn't | readers how to keep cut ferms through. | etiffly, like @ poker was stues gown | come home, but lives in Denver and | '* 2° wonder the poor man dri Wena Worle Wont “ots” todays). [out the winter, . AEORGE K. | your back? Lima a has to atay Where for his Manta |S go ewp aicnly Gresved | Mrs, Nagg and Mr. By Roy L. McCardell. Be tho why Brother Willie you are so stingy wil t “Perhaps that you don’t want to take me anywhere. | ning till midnight? You were home at| “I see other men who are kind and| cannot get work, affectionate to their wives. Look at | With him; you do not give him enough | ’ ending money. The poor | i. It fe all the same, you would |Mr, Dubb, His wife haa to take in| 2peniine Pve must be night {f I| boarders, but he is always kind and| patient with him and look after him | he keeps neat, but we | be harsh with him; he as/ and see that must n her husband ts ao if she should say to him he would threaten to Ah, it Is beautiful to see | en a word 1 to think that Mrs. Terwit) * felt so sorry bis wife couldn't go out the spit biter, should g3 on't give him ail taking in board- Wilt I go to the theatre, vou say? vy \t. Y never enjoy anything any | eOWhat fe your hurry? you something =I forget what it| am crying. I am not al- ‘ei together adrgenea.t your | sat, You remember that tall, refined-looking lady, that in- digenous blonds who comes in here sometimes and is se / attentive ¢o me? She was the one I took, She's awful ree fined and awful quick at repartee, too, She's qlways saying the smartest, unexpectedest things without stopping te’, think them up, Why, she'll say, ‘Ob, go lay down!" of ‘Cut it out, you lobster!’ just as quick as anything, and in a way to make you roar, Awful refined; awful reparteeful, too, ¥ “No, little boy, I don’t mix prussic acid flavoring with the — ) soda. Some one's been and told you to ask that sassy queme | thon, Some enemy of mine, G’toutohere! (I'd a slapped hing in another minute.) ’ “Well, as I was saying, that girl got to talking about the theatre and how she loved it; so when the boss gave me twa! billboards that he got for putting Olga Swiggle’s pictures ty our window I asked her to go with me last night, She sald she would, but that ah ever could enjoy a play if she sas a further back than E fh the orchestra, I couldd’ s perfect lady like her that $2 per was too much for my blood, #0 I sald, just as we got to the theatre: ‘I'm sorry, but the whole hguse is sold out, All I could get was two gallery seats, They're elegant sents—in B,’ She acted awful ta chagrined, but she came along. Well, wo looked down into’ the orchestra and there we saw more'n a hundred vacant seats, Bho gl kind of gasp and says: ‘Oh, Theophilus!’ (Just like that.) So I get back by telling her how the wicked speculators buy up whole blocks of seats so as to keep people out. Then her alabaster brow c! she let me feed her on candy during the “Yes, sir, ‘A little of the same stuff I gave you for youn head last week?’ Sure. I don't know what !t was, but I'll fix it up for you In a second, I've two mixtures for bad heads, One of ‘em makes the spine bend backward tlil the heels touch the back of the neck and the other makes the >» insides of the brain flap together like a—- ‘Don’t want either,’ eh? There! I lost @ customer and—well, never mind! There ts others! “I was telling you about my theatre experience. She was all right as soon as I told her that speculators had bought all the seats, but just as we got to the door coming out ‘wo saw a big Idiotic sign. It said: ‘Tickets Bought of Specue “Oh, Theophilus!” she cries again, ‘you've deceiveed mel ‘No, I haven't,’ says I, just as quick as a flash, ‘those tickets the speculators bought were refused at the door, That's why, so many seats was empty, See?’ “She didn’t say a word, so I don't know yet whether got away with It or not, What d'ye think? “What'll you do with that prescription, maim? Well, If you was a goat you might eat It (Ain't I the cut-up, though’) A. TERHUNB, Can You Read This Proverb ?