The evening world. Newspaper, November 4, 1904, Page 16

Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Uftee at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, NO, 16,781, og ceo aaa fist nine months 1904.5... 10,6623 Evening World during th tine months 1903 ses... 8)285% IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS |] | ta, MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. THE SUBWAY “AD” DISGRACE. The Dine advertising posters in the Subway havo! © Deen nailed to the walls, thus adding to the disfigure- | ‘Ment of tho stations the actual injury of damaged tiling. | yeliet of those responsible for them the posters to stay, except In the {inconceivable alternative u ty bond from the olty to the emount of “several millions.” Thus while the theory, as expressed ‘ords of the Brooklyn Subway contract, Is that S @unttaned by the Prose Publishing Company, No, Gd to 0 | AN i a wo THE « EVENI Woman’s Age and —_—.— ‘By Nixola Greeley-Smith USTICE has always been re ferred to as even = banded, | Out the day) when tna ept- thet was really | applicable to that —ayatero goddees Is over. For, according to a legal de- cision Just ren- Jered in Ohio, 4 woman may not enjoy the privilege of the ballot there ac- comied her if she gives her age to the untecling regis. tration officer who asks for it as merely twenty-one, It appears that many women In voting at & local election had positively de- cilned to be more definite about their ages ans that their votes had been chal- Jenged on that accoynt. The question was carried to the courts, which have now decided that in order to cast « Dallot the feminine voter will have to tel her age. Thus does the tyrant Sfan give woman the privilexe of citizenship with one Nixola Greeley-Smith, in the ? my 1 policy of the city that public property shall z Not be obstructed, disfigured or made ugly by advertise- Pudlic property has been so “obstructed, dis- and made ugly.” The failure of the ideal to Jibe with'the real 1s lamentable. HM singular that 1 has been left for what ts vir- titly mmunicipal ratiroad to sanction abuses of adver- | tig, methods not tolerated on American railways.) possibilities of profit the Pullman Company has) by neglecting, through a keener sense of the Proprieties, to rent out advertising privileges in parlor ears! A “neat and tasty advertisement,” as the Subway | Dillposters phrase {t, adorning every mahogany berth) Danglawauld contribute largely to ewell the company’s | Income, whilo exerting that “educative Influence” which) fe claimed dor the Subway posters, Why have raliwayas! teen ‘{fdifterent to the potentialities of wealth in car nd station advertisements? It te difficult to recall a| ] ett Br? suburban station on any road which has thus! MMhe precedent estabshed by the elevated road, a) eorporation chartered for gain, was bad enough. Ita emulation by the city means a degradation of ideals! (isereditable and demanding correction at tho! est opportunity, The richest of American muntcl- palities.tn a dicker for the use of one of its most artistic properties as a billboard {s revealed in a most unen-) rable Tent MRE M'AD00 AS A FRIEND, : Polico Commissioner McAfoo has made statement which reads much better, at loast, than bis “will not interest me’! comment on The Evening World's revela-' tons about vico and graft in the Twenty-second pre-| einct, ‘The Commissioner says: Bviy honest policeman in New York who ts “a duty knows that Tam his friend, pia & greteful declaration, But is it true?) , to de of any substance, must be more than | e footing and well-wishing. It anust include an willingness to be of immediate service to its bawibficlaries—to make some epectal exertion, or even tor thetr comfort and good names, W,, When @ condition of affairs fe shown In any -@t) the elty which Involves reflections upon the, with which the police work is done, it - ai ites eet Ge wes bs eaten vec on only i duty are set apart openly and credited with cea, Buch discrimination ts impossible, felis ‘alike upon the faithful and the unfaithful up the force. BH Police Commissioner McAdoo were actually a ‘to*the honest man in blue, would be got proceed to find out what ie the matter tn Capt. Hue And why, in that quarter, duty la ander handicap which amounts to a shut-out? he has Geclared that disclosures concerning conditions “will not interest” him—saying thua, effect, that he does not.care where the stigma falle— ‘ ‘van one believe in his friendship for men who, possibly blameless, yot are blamed? (Whose friend {a the Commissioner, in such a case? ce. “4 NEW YORK CLUBWOMEN, “Fem the small group of “advanced” women who, Danded together to form “Sorosis” to the membership Women's Clubs is a far cry, The development of the! clubwomen in numbers and influence ie Little lees than| extraordinary. ‘What a gain {t has been for social uplifting need not de recited. The work of women's clubs speaks for it- self, Their intelligent interest in politics, in municipal waives: in art, sclence, religion, soplology and gen- in all affairs of human concern, has been exerted Htinetly and vitally to the advantage of the com- ity; while influencing beneficially the mental ad- 9 scoffs at the association of women ip clubs. A tury's growth of an Idea which was once viewed in doubts has served completely to dispel — PURSUING BANDITS WITH Coby, lords who have occasionally crossed the ocean dunt the buffalo at Niagara Falls will envy the dis- Bnglish guests of “Buffalo BN” who, under ost’s leadership, are chasing the Cody bank rob- They are engaged in & man-bunt which pales ificance all other forme of Western sport. fortunate visitors are seeing Wild Wast lite most eae faite tac oe conditions. With seont as ir guide are pursuing the ban- their far-famed Jair, the PHole-in-the-Wall which is tie refuge of the criminal and the Ib day ply — two fights between y time the quarry is 4re promises of ox | exoved amarg ‘pertence jn sober fact the high- the unpleasant fact remains that in the Subway ponisemen Ur fon t of the ment of their members. There 46 nowadays nono, a OUt~! The ‘nd and with the other draw tt away. For the decision practionlly nullifies the wift of the ballot, What is the distran- roo at the South compares with it? For it will Inevitably | Drovent evep the most zealous of petti- coated politicians from any attempt to “shake the turrets of the land” in a polling booth, The mere fact that im order to vote ne must contpes to having attained one’s majority keeps many a frisky forty-year-old melden from exercising that glorious privilege of olusenship. And now that women will not only have to admit that thoy have passed sixteen, Dut will have to specify by how guch, the suftragiats peed opntend no longer. Theirs a a lost onus, How many women are there who tel! tbo truth about their age? If New York were to be reduced to ashes to- morrow unless ten were found, the tn- habitants of New Jersey would witness the greetest conflagration in the world's Alatory, The moment a girl pute on ankle- length dresses and turna up her braid | tm begins to aay aha is eigttyen. When she les actually reached that goal of her desire, however, ahe never wapts to leave it, And she seMom gota very far away from & within the next twenty years, Mme, de Stal, to be sura wished for "a glorious immortality of twenty- five.” Bhe might easily have enjoyed it inatead of wivhing for &. Many women without the hundredth part of her in- tallect do. Yet why ahould any woman care how O14 eho Ie provided she dooan't Inok old. lat her take care of her looks and the years will take care of themselves, The habit of Abbing abom her age @eema, however, tnatinctive with her— and perhaps she really keeps herself | Young by constantly asserting that she ie, Bt, what is the advantage of be- ing young nowadays? Does not the elderly siren sweep all before her. Does mot the young man of to-day give homage .to the fallen jowl, the piquant crow's foat, the strangled quper- abundant flesh of the middle-aged beauty? And yet, though the, successful charm- @f 18 more often forty than twenty, she would rather die than admit thet ahe was old enough to vote at the last ‘lection, What to ber Js the empty treasury or the full dinnar pall, and who cares what happens to the Fill- pinos if she has to go up and tell a horrid man with his hat what she will ‘never breathe to « living soul, Surely, ‘the death knell of the eaffvege move- mont 1s pounding. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_—_—>_— What “Mispah” ‘Steans, To the Editor of The Evening World: + Pigage inform me what the meaning of the word “Mispah" ts H. ALTHOFF. | “Mixpah” means “The Lord watch me and thee while we are) ot 45,000 now represented in the State Federation ot wwe” me and thee | Objects to Mourntag. \ To the Editor of The Bening World to plunge a whole famfy into black (as | the custom fs), causing a great deal of | @xpense and trouble which 1s unneces- mary and very burdensome to poor peo- ple. Let us do away with the plunging Of families into black end the extrave- want display often observed at funerals. “Bhow" does net tmply reapect. FR. W. | Paul Morton, To the Editor of The Evening World: Woo ts the present Seoretary of the Nevy? JOHN D, Wold Mitt State Line, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: | between the Hudson River and the Hackensack River will be annexed, 1 think, at no very distant date to royud out the future map of Greater New) York. Jertey City, Hobokea, Weehaw- keen, Fort Lee and other settlements up to the New York State line at Tappan have a population of aboug 0,00, « large proportion of whom are engaged ia business in New York City and inter. tated In its growth and prospertty, and | who would vee for annexation to se | cure the benefits to accrue from being | lncor; ed Into this great metropolis. 0 of. New Jersey for a very SATIN NTT NENT ST PNET = PNT PONTE R PR the Ballot. 1 think it le wrong, at gtme of death, | ‘The acquisition of the territory lying “fa, GLE Ww NG .¢ WORLD'S 12 HOME ws HEED EDIE HS HHL DSS BOVTIDIGED IG TE FOLIGOODHS 0 1000009 €44804O14 400000006 4.446.999 95990O90 109909990 0400090000 But It Didn’t Work. ( By T. E. Powers.) HigherUp Br Martin CReen, es ee | / BIRD AND A 1¢ os es / COLO BOTTLE | The Army of People Who $ Don’t Want It Known They Ato in New York. bb SEE," sald the Cigar Store Man, “that inother ; | bookmaker, has appeared,” “They'll hold & mass-meeting before long,” | asserted the Man Higher Up. “At the next | World's Fulr a special day will be set aside for the wit- z been @ procession over on West Broadway the day, 4 | Young died and the marchers must have been peopie % | who had no business In New York. “Did you ever stop to figure out how many people are snooping around {n this town in places where they have $|% Ucenge to frequent? It takes a tragedy like the $ | the stories the alleged witnesses tell, about every othen ® | stranger in New York must be here on the sneak an@ ready to beat it back to the woods at the first dangea 3 | smal. | witness to the shooting of Caesar Young, the | nesses In the Caesar Young tragedy. There must have | Young shooting, for instance, to bring it out, and, from | “The first man who eaw Caesar Young shoot himeel# 3 kept quiet for over a week. He explained that the reae 2\son why was that he was not supposed to be In Now | York; he was supposed by his boss to be in Philadelpila, | It 1s bad enough to be supposed to be In Philadelphia at that. ‘ 2) “The next witness shows up with a story that whit | he had a permit to be in New York from his people he 3 didn't want everyhody to know that he was on Weet 3 | Broadway at 9 o'clock in the morning. He says thas there wae another man with him whose home is in ® Colorado and who would let a woman go to the chain rather than let it be known that he was In New Yorks 3 June 4. And now comes the last witness with the tae © | formation that he kept his knowledge under his bela } | because ho was afraid he would be sent to jail.” o| “Something 1s sure to happen to a man who hikes | away from home on the q. t.,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. ans $ man who ts enjoying himeelf in New York unknown to the folks at home doing on West Broadway at 9 o'clock: {o the morning? At that hour be ought to be throwingy his shoes at a bellboy.” x ’ Wonder; ¢5 for a Limerick. # He Finds a Good Big Red-Ink Solution of the Baltic Fleet Complications. § Subway Poets Now Cut-Loose and-Earn a “V. be ¢ | Sammy Smudge, the “Evening Fudge’ ” o s s o rd a AND your best limerick on the Subway to “Subway orick Editor, Evening World, P, Q, Box WH, New RAT O'Y8 TH THEY'LL 00 ie ‘Bt | , A man from the Hub took @ pique, { And our wonderful Sub, called a friqué om He'd best have a gare, .. i As It beats the oné thera i And that Hubbite I think better anique; \ Wal, B MARSH, No, 198 Hudson street, New York City, | Serre | Submarine Boot GAbtain OBHan | | Met @ Subway employes named Ryan, x Sald O'Brien to Ryan, "Your, traln’a very An . But she can’t swim 'ngath witer ike mend?” i JOS. WHITE, NO, @% Broome street. | I once took ayride in the Sud; 1 thotight I was-in.e bathtub. j I twisted and kicked, Till my pockets were picked, 80 I now ride no more inthe Sub, 4 FL RICH, No. 315 West One Hundred and Sixteenth street, ! |The Netw Opera Coat # s \He Took tothe Play, 4 A By A. Rohe. j a ( aot will drive me cragy with thelr fool faah< | CODES OSS Pome hooray !!- tons,” growled the Pessimist, “What new complaint have you to-day?” asked the Amateur Philosopher cheerfully. | | “Complaint enough. My wife's sister bought a new eperg coat." j Well, that tan" SDE STGDOTGOOBE DS justifiable cause for a fit of depression, ir Philosopher, ' ? Well, I guess you never weft to see a play when you had to entertain an opera coat during the perform= ance, Last night I took my sister-in-law, to the thegtrey and that new opera cont spoiled the play for mo.” 4, | | “How a0?” aske. the Philosopher. .’ my | “Why, these new fool atyles make it necessary for ai to buy three seate if he wants to engdy thecpiay. tor | the lady, one for himself and one for thé pA eants | "T don't think it's quite-as bad’ss thefti@ald the Amad tour Philosopher gently. « «sient | "Well, I didn’t buy the oxtra ‘afi bak ten next time! T sat all during the performance with my teat In the aisle i was sordoched up against the arm of the cha'r, while at opera. cont was spread alt over, jy sioterrin-law'sichain and two-thirds of mine,” “Have you seen the new sivevest’ demanded the Pessi= | mist. of ae “Yes, I understand the new opera “oats are dreams,” said the Amateur Philosopher, . “They may be, but I want to get waked up then’ growled the Pessimist. “All my sister-in-law did during the evening waa to ‘fuse about that coat “I don’t know what the play was abovt, for I had no way of knowing. I pald # to entertain an opera coat and ait on the edge of an orchestra chain” | “why, I thought they bad cloak rooma at the theatres, | Why don’t your sister-lo-law leave her coat there?” asked ® | the Amateur Pbilogopher. “Leave her coat in the cloak room? OW, no, no, Clarencet; ‘Do you think @ woman with a new opera coat could be ‘aragged into a cloak Toom? Never! There's nothing to © | equal the exqutalte (pleasure she undergoes when she saile © | down the alale In her opera coat and then carelessly throws 3 ltt over the buck of her chair after making eure that everys, | body in the theatre has seen it. It looks simple enough, but It Isn't, for it's « sute thing that the woman never takes het mind off of that opera coat, And if she gets a wrinkle in it or crushes the sleeve she's miserable for the rest of the. evening.” ‘ “Well, what are you golng to do about tt?” smiled the Amatour Philosopher, “You can't exterminate women,” No," sak the Peestmist, “bit I Go think there ought be a lnw passed mdking tt a crime for women to dress in any way bot a semiblo manner,” "Did you ever suggest such a thing toa woman?” asked And, besides, who's going to set the The Way a ‘‘Personal’’ Will Sometimes Fool You. 18 |) can move “tg Ano TwANT You ro) VNDERSTANO / THAT (mM NO FURNITURE VAN ) ese 7 THAT HE 1S capa POF MOVING JN SOCIETY, CAL, ——- j standard of ef i You nts ; Why, ted) of bourse, con take women wear anys PLENTY OF ADVICE. thine W'you can Nfpnotise them into tioking It stylish, hing Soe was just due to a neg- suggest having COULDN'T BE POSSIBLE. “Your symptoma,” pronounced the INTERVIEWED, Visitor-I have here an article on the “Yes,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “but what ts @ ” P=. ~-