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a ie "among its feats the tunnelling of the Alps, furnishes , few parallels of so imperial a conquest of seemingly tion ait compact. If by any chance they | * connecting loop around the outer edges of the island. . the influence it is destined to exert to change old con-|thetr ives to of © ditions other than those of travel. In England they) ivo.reat ' Mme and the Inevitable travelling time by every patron will be of moment. TO| who nave proposed to ui what use will the great aggregate of days thus re-| reat many who didn't, + aimed be put? What effect will faster communica. | [nterent, we can't aftera to qu _ the cost for injuries to persons increased from $87,000 to y \Beware | eneciord = the Chum Park Row, New York. Entered at the lost-Oftice at New York as Sevond-Class Mail Matter, «sie aaa wisely imei NO, 18,773, | | | SWPebinded by the Press Publishing Company, No, & 10 a) Habit. are fooilah Ne eae Wail danny he jurin, ec fist nine months 1904 ....,.., 10,652 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during the Al petticoated exponents of habit Is surely Increase. Bie nas mani ake & hire Yat Jens, Folume of displa: . vening Worl dri the nize mooths 1904, rlences, par ticularly those of a sent | Nixola Greeley-Smith, | mental order, but many of us are wise _|enough to reabise that we Inevitably THE SUBWAY REALIZATION, | indulge the fooUlsh craving for seit: | | revelation at our own expense, Mr. Cleveland has said that he would rather have But there remains a vast majority of womankind who, despite the disastrous: ‘@ son of his build a Brooklyn Bridge than become and it would seem warning conse- , 4 , ‘ quences of telling their best friends! President. To-day there is achieved in the completion more about themselves than they would *) of the subway a “conquest of engineering enterprise,” >* wHling to have read aloud tn church, i persist in having #ome cherished chum to use the Mayor's words, which reflects greater glory to whom they publish thelr own weak- ‘on its creator than public office could confer. The) reves to the world All women Uke to talk about their) history of engineering accomplishment, which Shows! weaknesses na all men like to boast of instances they are largely of imagina- cles as ha ade by the steam) haven't any to talk about, Invention insuperable obstacles as has been made by Pete AE AM Rg ih ttle drill and the dynamite cartridge through the rocky ribS) make thamaeives Intoresting at any comt ~ of Manhattan, | Rut to any woman who desires to en- . |tertain her intimate friend and dearest It is Significant that as the first crowds enter the Sub! chum, ac., with her private aftaira, be i : asing power of a nickel| !t sald emphatically—don't, way to realize the greatest purchasing po' Part pect bt the world has ever known, borings are being made for) tit jt t0 a member of your own fame . sit tunnels which are to provide a/!ly or a man who may not think it tn- the new rapidétransit p teresting enough to repeat | T have always thougit that, quite whi he city is celebrating is only a| part from any religious significance to foe reat event which the city g y I, dhe habit of confession must beginning of subway development for which it has} material beneAt to those who nract blazed first link in a system of under-|!t. Por it affords a sate outlet for © away. It is but a first | | Ndvnces and may thus serve as @ pro ground intercommunication which on its final comp'es| rection against other and less secure | tion will constitute the world’s new wonder, | channels | However, there are women who are Not the least important aspect of subway transit 18) nop qatinned with telitng the story of descyetion of the confidante. Every ni + have found that the fast trolley lines which carry {he | and sympathetic feminine acquaintance laboring class to homes at a distance from cities have | ental new edition of the wondrous tH they have taken all the tales ), worked a revolution in the liquor traffic, putting public | wore’ 4 wife into the secret, ), houses out of business and largely diminishing the con- 1 must tell some one~ Tt might as well be you” sumption of beer, An adjustment of business interests) secms the sum and substance of thelr to meet the new requirements and a shifting of retail | Philosophy. 1 knew a family of five sisters each ” ‘trade centres must come as a consequence of the gen-|one of whom possessed harmless but eral use of the subway with its new collecting and dis-| carefully guarded itttle secrets trom the others, but which were duly re- tributing points. The development of an underground | iates to tvé%separate chums, city which the road will stimulate, and of which there| The sreatew: nuisance of the chum habit is, that, having acquired it, It i$ already a beginning at Twenty-third street, will be| can't be shaken, Once we have told . watched with interest. The daily gain of an hour in| #he eharer of our secreta and {ce cream sodas the names of all the men other detalles of equally thr. her, of at lear: we think we can't. tion have in changing population centres? The “L"| ) The habit of allence In regard to our families and love affairs cannot be over built up Harlem. |s it an unwarranted anticipation to| developed, The only persone who never have to reproach themariver with talk- foresee the eventual removal of the city limits to the|!ne too much are Infants under a year old and the dumb—and they are the only Connecticut line on the east and the incorporation of ones who may cut-ivate tne enum habit all of Westchester on the north through the extension Ce on se f thi th enterprise i LETTERS The completion of this mammoth enterprise is co- fncident with the adoption by the New York Central, QUESTIONS, © the New Haven, the Long Island and the Erie raitroads ANSWERS. of plans for the substitution of electricity for steam on | thelr suburban linés. Is it fanciful to foresee these | dikes Chien hanios trains some day running through the city’s network | to the Rattor of The Bvenine World: C says Grand Central Depot is leased ‘of tunnels to points readier of access by commuters? |. the New York Central Railroad by Is not the time approaching when a White Plains, a) the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Ratiroad, B Saye reverse ts the Tarrytown or an Oyster Bay passenger may take his case, Which le right? C and B, train at the City Hall or the Battery? The New York and New Haven leases traffic rights and offices at Grand Cen- 1 In, view of what has been accomplished within @/ tra: Depot from the New York Cen- few years, the forecast cannot be consfdered extravagant | tral. Tho latter owns the property ‘ i An Etiqnette Query, er the possibilites of rapid-transit development out waa aand ote aces Goa Uined regarded as remote. : Does {t make any difference with Li which hand a gentleman raises his hat RAILROAD “SAFETY” MARKED DOWN, |"? & suns ley? gph hg He should raise his hat with the On the authority of an annual report it Is stated that hand furthest from ber, Thus when eertain rafiroad cut down by $20,000 last year its ex-| meeting her on the atreet and passing to her right he should raise his hat with * gemees for superintendence {n transportation. “Curt! 145 tet hand. , Gaity,” tho news item adds, ‘'the cost of clearing wrecks No. To the Editor of The Evening World: om this eame line increased from $21,000 to $34,000, and Siuse'c teltas af conmohenes ba Wiis ten on mourning stationery? J.B. A. 904,000, The saving in superintendence was wiped out tadilite at Malden’ Wales » by the loss through wrecks.” To the Bittor of The Evening World. According to the same item, other rafiroads attempted| In sending a wedding present, should | ‘also to reduce the price of safety. Vigures were given ; 4 “ba the one instance to point the lesson of compensation, | ride’s new name, or should it bear the Init of hi iden name? F. M. 8. Bayoud « doubt talse economies on the lines indteated | ‘MUS, her maiden name? Af & Reve had to do with tho past year’s frightful increase in| T the Rattor of The Evenine World: : Droad tatalitt Where are marriages recorded by the clty? EDWARD A. Bighty-five per cent. of our American rallways are Saturday, @upposed to be saving money by failing to put in blocky to the mattor of The Evening World: signals, Really, they are transferring cost from the; ©n what day of the week did Sept. 7, onstrocting and operating department to the accident | 4 fll? W. Be |¢ Yes. ) Gepartment. And there is a similar transfer wherever ro ing editor of The Evening World: ~~ @m alleged economy detracts from safety. Should an ove a: be worn with a Cheapness that 1s strained for comes high in ra{l-| Tuttdowult while out of doora? ALR ‘way management. If the companies bad to stand all tho seains | Samaier, *" ecat, the people would have no call to complain. But! ™°, yen Beater 66 550 Svening Wert © since the countercharges for neglect have to be met by _ the yielding up of lives and limbs by travellers in gen-| the name? GEORGE WN. Ww. fal, the case is one of vital public concern. Diligent) Indian summer is usually early in No | vember, The Indiana, in Colonial times ‘Gate bas ranked too long, by far, as second to dividends. | rien took advantage of these tow w. r Re aarananeanen days in Ja\ i} NOT SO DIFFICULT, “Civilized man cannot live without cooks,” . J * I" the nick: f "India the right sort 1s less hard than it looks metic. eee for the kind that will make your food seem The Former ts Correct. ‘of eome epicurean dream, To the Eéitor of The Bvenina World: jar your temper no more, on 1 f the best cooks to your door, J{w™N7-°F "¥ Maven't-draante etait nate et i ™ sLargont By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Moor women | in some! ways and some | women in all ways, but of) tolly, sho who! 2 permits herself, @ the fatal chum | the most hope: | We all like to! & i talk about our) personal expe-| 8-2 8-9- Bnd GDH SH B-2 -2-G-O--O8 thelr virtues, possibly because in both| 4 Person and leaving li eee ee a ee ee ee ore tt be engraved with the inittajs of the) At what time of the year does Indian summer commence? How does it get nd attack white settlers. us gave the November ‘Which phrase is corfect: “I haven't | ment was so slim that I had jo use force to make them swallow It.—Detrot Tree Pres ‘ tivided dered pS SANT ey seh tao . ert id « THE w EVENING » WORLD D494 499900040504 5.94 99G-09400 000060009008 00000000000 € meth ee, ammy Smudge, The ‘“‘Evening Fudge’? Wonder . . w# — ALLiltle incident of Subway Day W ich Cets Into His Red Ink Category of “All the News That's Fit to Magnif SuRE'+ SMES durin A TicKeTL Ore LL BuY The —ANO THE BAACT PRICE 19 NOT KNOWN) utumn to leave thelr win-| *#0O080090664004008004 PHDESEDE SPOS ODSEOODOSOSOOODID $4444064666 SOLERO OETES 4: 1SOPISDED-1D9G 9D FEODLID 19490000000 | | To Harlem in Fifteen Minutes+ ww: * @ @ ws Artist Powers Thinks the Subway Won’t Get Some Men Home Any Quicker Than the Old Way Did. Its Too }—— YS j ——*: GO with iT? 04 9O0O0OOO0O000O0-09 | bride's carriage ahead oF HONEST. AN IMPORTANT POINT, er—Don't you think) “The Mothers’ Club is to discuss an you bellowed a good deal in your speech |Important question to-morrow after-| justified In using deception in order to) you to take to ihe jury? noon.” Mient (to ta’ lawyer—Tes, but you see my argu-} “What is that?” Tipe t hte weed wy THE ONLY WAY, THE IDEAL PLACE. Gertrude—Do you think a woman is) The Managing Editor—Yes, we want good rest. You need badly. Go somewhere where you ve absdlutely no cares and sotfiing 4 secure a husbandt ¥rances—For merey's sake, how do “Ja one justiled in promising the| you expect @ woman \s ever t|moon to a baby who cries fur IKT"~} get married, 1 Ake to ve Nhe aes aa At TINE w &Y MARTIN GREEN. —— How Novelty May Henceforth Be Ine jected Into the Campaign. Parker has begun a vigorous campaign byy attending a performance at the Grand streed Yiddish Theatre,” “Tt wasn't a complete piece of campaiga work,” complained the Man Higher Up. ‘To make it g00d he should have gone over to Stitch McCarthy's after the show and rolled District-Attorney Jerome @ game of cocked hat. Better not try to campaign at all than to campaign like a piker, “This activity on the part of the Judge ts getting Theorore the First so far up in tho air that they are holding him with ropes, He has one of Santos Du- Mont’s difigiblo airships looking like a section of the Subway. “I have {t frean the best of authority that when the. President heard of Jndge Parker's peerless piece of cam- | paigning he insisted on starting for New York to attend | @ performance at Miner's Bighth Avenue, He telet | graphed Fairbanks to abandon his speaking tour and arrangn to spend the rest of the term before election | day sitting in a box at all the performances {n the Ital+ {an vaudeville theatre in Canal street. Don't be sure prised any evening if you happen Into the Chinese thear tre to find President Roosevelt there, with his Cabinet, applauding the 647th act of ‘A Laundryman’s Wrougs,’ * “We have Leen looking for novelty in the compatgn, and we are getting It. They tell me that on next Sature | day evening Judge Herrick is to attend the ball of the | Decorative Overall Buttonhole Workers’ Association at | Webster Hall, and on the same evening Frank Wayland | Higgins is to lead the cotillion at the annual fall funce tion of the Marble Typewriters’ Association at Germania, | Assombly Rooms, Both political parties are working | for a permit to burn car burrels in Hamilton Fish Park | on Hallowe'en " A SEB.” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Judge S | days,” remarked the Ciyar Store Man. | ‘nd that’s mo jest,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “Atout four years from now the candidate will be compelled to qualify by pushing a wheelbarrow full of | {ssues over a tightrope stretched from the roof of ther Flatiron Bullding to the tower of Madison Square Gare den,’ Mrs ner By EK . Nagg and Mr, — Roy L. McCardell. se Onn a 4477 18 & lovely afternoon, and, of course, you are late if and we can't go out for a walk, Mr, Nagg. It fe noe too late; you say? T know it Is not too late for yous Man's work Is (rom sun to sun, but woman's work is nevep dona’ “I wanted to do wo many things this week, but h ‘o! ¢ ‘Thursday, to-morrow is Friday, and the next 4 | urday—and there's the whole week gone, and I hi time to do anything. “Two weeks from now Mrs. Stryver gives her reception, 1 am sure T will get an invitation, because, although the nasty stuck up, codfish snob has always cut me, yet I let her win a cut-glass salad bow! at o progressive cuchre party last winter, If she doeen't remember that and sends me an’ | invitation to her affair I shall consider her a vulgar upstart, and will refuse to attend! “But suppose I do get an Invitation to Mrs, Stryver's? £ haven't a thing fit to wear, Yes, I have my new brown afternoon dress, but Mra. ‘Terwiliger has seen K, and Mra, Gradley has seen it, and Mrs. Dubb has seen it, “They won't get invitations; but suppose they should! & Would feel like sinking through the floor! ‘ “Everybody who haa been to one of Mrs. Stryver's affaire way they are horrivly dull, A planola recital and horrtd operatk squailing by her skinny sister, and she has her house #0 overheated and close everybody gets raging head achen. “Besides, Mrs. Colby tells me that the punch she sets out Polsons everybody, and she has about a pound of chame Pagne wafers and « dozen stale lettuce sandwiches for ree freshments for 20 people! “You may not want to get into society, you only have j Rordid idéas, But In seventeen or eighteen years baby will | be ready to make her debut in society, and unless I have 004 woclal connections formed what wit! pecome of her? “I have never had coarse or vulgai es. I love all thas is refined and cultivated, tnat ts why Iam so anxious to get? | in a better set, and if I do I will cut Mrs. Terwiliger, Mra, Gradley and all the rest of the stupid people I know. “As for Mr. and Mrs, Duby, you know Mrs. Dubb keepa & boarding-house, and, of course, she is socially impossible, “My mother kept boarders, you say? Oh, Mr, Nagg, you wish to give me a cut about that, do you? Well, mamma’s case was totally differont, Mamma was so fond of come pany, and she had a big house, ard papa suffering from chronic alcoholiam, and, besides, we | In Brooklyn, an@ mamma only accepted people of the highest socta) standing, who pald in advance! “But it was just like you to twit me about It! If mammr= Kept a boarding-house, your married sister Iwves fn an aparte 4 ment hotel, so there! I don't care if she does pay $15,000 >| a year, the principle Is the same! “You are trying to evade the question, Mr. Nagg. What, ‘ 1 was saying when you deliberately attemyed to woung my feelings by your coarse remarks concerning my mamma! was that I try at least to get into society, “You don't! You know you don't! Do you ever bring, any lovely people to tho house? No! It was I that became first acquainted with Mr, Smig, and you know that nd one in society ties his cravats #o smartly. 6 “Does Mr. Bmig come here any more? No! Oh, don't say it la because he has borrowed so much money from you that he avolds us! “That fe not the reason. I don't know wnat the reason la, but doubtless you sald something t him to affront him, And, besides, brother Willie called him names, and threat. ened to give Nim a slap on the wrist just after he sang ‘Violets’ so sweetly, ‘ “1 saw dear Mr. Smig's eyes fill with tears, and he has never been around to borrow 820 from us since. “You put brother Willio up to say and co those things, for brother Willie is too sensitive and refined to Behave that way. “How can I get into society If you act like a ruffian? & always loved society. I have attended all the weddings tm iiigh life. I have been a martyr to social ambition, “Didn't I ask you to prefer charges against the policeman e rudely to me hecause I tried to climb Into the 1 the other women outside they chureh at the Marlborough wedding? “When M’ss Goelet married the titled Englishman didn't I catch a cold that laid me tp in bed for a week, because I stood. out Im front of the house, trying to get in to see the presents, for six hours? “You don't a pe Nags? Your ambitions are’ ‘all % “It takes o versatile man to be a candidate nowae «