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4Gad EES =f Fy a S ¢ 3 : 2 EI be z = £ & e by Ue Press Pucl! Row, New York. Enter at New York eond-Cl t the Post-OMce ss Mall Matter, 22 OLUME 45. senseeeNO, 10,821} | 2 Number of columns of advertising in : ? The Evening World during the 3 first nine months 1904 ......... 10,6524 4 The Evening World during the : frat nine months 1903 ....+++._ 8285% || $ SPPe® : IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS ¢ ; THE PURE MILK CRUSADE. 4 + The conviction of thirteen dealers in impure milk « one day affords gratifying evideavo of the Board of es energetic measures to suppress the nefarlous It fe true the offenders got off with small fines where they should have been sent to jail, and where Vv ‘They will be sent, Judge Olmsted promises, for a second Offense of using formaldehyde to preserve their milk. me they are at liberty to charge the fines up to and loss and continue until caught again their tramc in the adulterated and drugged fluid which ts the @ource of infantile diseases unnumbered. But the tmportance of these first prosecutions {s more ‘th what they foreshadow in the way of a radical reform) of bed conditions tha: in the actual exposure of small | ‘The conviction of the retailer threatens to lead the frail of adulteration directly to the wholesaler. It Already hints at rascality higher up and on a larger scale @f culpability. If, as the inspectors testify, "10 per cent. | “of the milk received daily in this city is below the stand-| Victimizer —Which? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. al Nir ERE are Just two kinds of women,’ said @ feminine phi- lowopher the other day apro- posof the Chad- wick case~ ard required by law, and more is doctored with chem!- “those who are @ala;” if the dificulty the small dealer experiences tn, Minced getting pure milk is half as great as is represented by timiae 1 oh Dealer Betlman, who swore in court that he sold milk! ulte sorry $B the state {no which Le received it, the swindle is deep- 1 hear tented. ‘ of wome au As promising to lend to @ radical Investigation and) tie ad the late @ontrol of milf distribution from the dairy to the smal!) Nixola Greeley-Smith, ter class, for @ousumer these prosecutions of petty offenders are cals| 1 feet they are , | merely wiping out the acore of #0 many Gilated to be of far greater consequence than that te eee eee oe oie etter one. Nan involved in the infliction of small fines or even-| pattorson who aufers there are ten Mra, Jail sentences. They should be but the preliminaries | Youngs; for ony Mra, Chadwick a thou- | @ one of the greatest reforms ever instituted by the gnd Women who are alike the emo- Bealth Department. jonal and the financial dupes of man; > for one Hannah Bilas ten thourind man filling the role of m ne vampire to STATE ROBBED THROUGH CHILD, | perfection—reniiy, sometimes It ainoat Bomething has been stirred up in tho city by the talk | #rm ® Pity thal the Oe ae | “ capable of wreaking a vic . @ illegal child labor, There have been arrests; there) covice on mankind ta eo limited." @bould be more. The cause {8 a great one in which to) Now this may not ve-indeed It cer- ‘be persistently in earnest. First, for the children’s sake, | teinly Is not—very exalted on But Decause every there js an urderlying truth in it never- aie hae 68 absolute right to 6 fait | theless, ‘The average woman la funda- ance, Second, for the State's sake, since the Stato bas! mentally good, and she has no more ‘ap absolute right to the fairly developed capacity of tte) talent for duping others to ber own @ildren. jatvantage than she hee for throwing stones. To be sure she has « naturel It to © matter of Insurance record fu New York Oly) iis tor deception, but thie (s generally fat from the ages of ten and eleven, when the propor! ijmited to small, unimportant things, ‘then of children at schoo! remains at its high point As| whereas her capacity for being duped against those is “boundless as the ocean and as deep.” fa otardlingty coor gir py mepdogeged But 18 this feminine lack of the mean- ler sont of persploacity to be regretted? Workers as 17 to 1, at fourteen they are slightly over 3) Js tt not rather a subject of congratula-| : to 1, at fifteen barely over 1 to 2, at sixteen approxi) tion for the whole sex? There are many “ | ~—s mately 1 to 8. actual dramas in which the role of v | K 4 tim fs really the star part, and only she! : Vaquestionadly much of the employment here repre-| io whom 1t 1s allotted may hope to vee + @amted ts fllegal. So child and State are robbed by one| the limoeligti follow her about lites the same process—the former of his rights to devel- aes nig i wes Sansts the latter of its claim to native talents, Penal yi + weere, Osea i t pected of being the most credulous fool + It ts the declaration of Prof, Alfred Marshall that halt) under the sun than be thought] genius of the land is born among the working classes,/too calculatiag or selfish, But | that a large part of it 1s lost for lack of training, there are others presumably less averse, flometimes iron-hecled circumstance confirms this lack, |‘ %* s\sPloion of overshirewdnms, and ‘The least that the State can do for itself and ita own 18) cussing the manipulation of some un- ‘t@ make sure that no unlawful greed of parents or em-, usually clever woman awinidier, men- _ shall aid in the dwarfing and otiffing of natural “2? her varied and nefarious triumphs | more in envy than in disapprobation. | Btill, marvellous as Cite triumphs ot | | some women have been along the dines of dubious finance, the balance still weighs heavily on the masculine side, THE OLD HOTEL GUEST. and one Mra. Chadwick cannot maky The fight of the Gilsey “old guard” against eviction up the deholt notwithstanding = toe from the hotel which, in the words of one of them, “haa | Magnificent and unprecedented eval of been home to us for the best part of our lives,” threw an "Ae a rile. Gnteresting light on a phase of hotel ilfe of waich the] eer au or cemen" women of this kind xre Dr. | and 7 “transient” knows little, dancing dows, you are no ed at | ae census hotel the quaiity of the perf . but at Be 4 Of the older ls would show @ consider-| ing fact that they can do it at ail, | pcolony of permanent guests whose long domicile has Perbaps, it every woman were to con- Savested them with « feeling of quas!-proprietorship any | Silegus Scheming thet favasion reset trifies, there would be Mra, Chad: ee nen thar at ae of & private dwelling,| 0 every block, but aa the unive Ip the gorgeous new hostelries of gold and onyx the sur-| fault of the feminine ohar te ry lack | oy of a reser vane nder dim- Foandings of luxury hardly foster affection in long-time or eee aaloniry ia to say tne leant | tépants. But in hotels Like the St. Nicholas and the New, remote. 98 tad th of the last generation, the Gilsey, the Fifth Avenue yor ens Moar trem tt > han tat In: others that have survived unchanged into this, Vong | Sere rermaietey: + them, It] and familiarity with the comforts of home| ideal of womanhood w he tablished, a PRovided have tended to beget a feeling of almost pro- pred have tatablishe tar 1 Deletary interest in the house and lis affairs. woman may be anything “Ta the normal course of events such guests expect to, Suns Dut anrowd: may quit their hotel only after funeral services in the parlor, H m and je withont Med 'eny untimely eviction because of change of owner- wee * | 1 criticism her machina do not res serious advan’ unto her if they do! Fir itp force eoesa: ia the natural function of women add ot any necessity short of the demolition | Secewad. and dues not she wr building involves @ serious tearing up of roots, the role ‘of ¢ herself and ‘ men and In the rush of women Into PROFITS OF COLLEGE SPORTS. (nal “gr Pg ical th (Ad idea of the large financial scale on which college! shoul) develon ion rw lop 2 Are conducted may be gained from the report of {f*" Graduate treasurer on untversity athletics, It that the football eleven earned $72,669 last year baseball nine $16,674. The total gross receipts of athletic teams were $112,262. Vast amount comes within $3,000 of equalling tee entire income from all sources and witnin| Wat that of Williams College. It is nearly twice end three times that of Hamilton. It exceeds of scores of flourishing colleges of the third @t the figures from another point ot | 4 year's tuition for 1,000 Harvard, pal class. Will serve your Who Christmas Dinner? Better make your arrangements now, for there is a greut scarcity of WAITRESSES r ia puts Pd de ROT DEDEDE DS BP2-3O0S3-98 | 1 have heard many of this class, in dis- | @ Y | To the Editor of = a aaa te eC Coe Cec rere Cece HENRY WRITES HIS BRIDE |S FOND OF ners LL SEND HE $ FoR A THI ENT PEACE TO) Thee! You w77Le DGD FF-DSPHE GSE SEES OGG 21 S535 46-3 2GSF4-22 PRISE = €-oe- ee o* ® AEPPAIDD HI EAADDEAODDE DOD NOAA _ a 8 TUE w EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE $0 4oo IT'S FoR MRS. 1SWED) Mary Jane and Kickums Surprise the Dear Bishop;: $ w His Seasonable Message of Peace Does Not Receive Proper Appreciation by the Youngsters : Go ‘You WAY. bp R TRY KINONESS? A net 2 @ LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS 2 @ Enoyclopaedia ac Any Library. To the Editor of The Evening World Where can I find anything about the (he artist? Tt je a leseod the teacher told us t him. HARRY BEHLEN. Nov, 40, n our gol to flnd facta To the Kéitor of The Evening World On what day of the month Thanksgiving fall in 1876? The Man and the Squte ad J. 8 I do not agree answer to G. 7 a squirrel and man” query, To watk around a thing you must get behind tt as well aa In front of it. If the squirrel | always faces the man they are always on the same radius and the man never walks around the squirrel, but both go round the tree together, = W, B, H sh Wins ening World Stratght the Malte The Jerseyite says that in poker four of a kind beats a t flush, Bronxite flush beats any four Whied is right BRONXITE. for Hard-Worked Clerks, cof The Evening World call attention to clerks in our stores. hardly that +| Irish waters, the father being Englian »/and the mother German * fact that! ostpone thelr Christmas VPA DODIDDTEDISIDPESDEOVIDELED PF9-4.9.092 © 04 FIDDOGDOEO 14 414404$009040006444-006604 Those Well-Meaning Ghristmas Presents « That Are Not Always Appreciated{ >” FROM JAYVILLE, PLIDDD D1 HOGL16G5DO1OE4.GO44- 00D HDLDPDDIDIO4S DERDSOOOD INDO WHERE DID P iy come IT's AXMAS' FROM, MARY) | ME TO Now (ere * | LITTLE OnE. &r MARTIN GREEN, Honesty Is the Best Policy, | but It’s Very Lonesome Work SEE,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that Hetty $6 Green says that there were probably some laws | yers and bankers behind the funny financtad pe” transactions of Mrs, Chadwick.” “It's a safe bet,” replied The Man Higher Up., “Hetty ought to know. A lot of men have started | out to separate her from money, but she has been too wise. She is as competent as any woman in the country , to talk about the methods of respectable grafters who make a specialty of robbing widows and women with mazuma in their own right. “There are men in New York who study the returnm in the Surrogate’s office to get track of women who have been left fortunes by deceased husbands. Every widow left a competénce can tell a story of sudden popularity im financial circles, She gets communications from firma bearing names that rank high in the community tendem ing delice and unselfish advice about investments, Unless she good friend on her staff she falls to on® of these grafters and goes broke, But the deal ts pale ished oft with such strict attention to the forms of busle 4) ness that there is no chance for a come-back. | “If there were any men behind Mrs. Chadwick in cone structing her loose-Jointedcen they probably beat itwhile their shoes were good. ‘They will be hard to catch, When & man sees that the law is wise to him he whispers ‘Twenty-three’ to himself, and you can't see him for tne dust, It's different with a woman, “She better stayer than a man when the gai going against her, Up to the Jact Mrs. Chadwick that her experiences had been so easy another sucker | would surely drop out of the sky. The chances are that she hasn't got hep to her finish yet.” “Honesty is the best policy,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “Yes,” said the Man Higher Up, “but It's lonesome work.” The “Fudge” Idiotorial, || The Streets Are a: be Not Clean Because § Gaw Woodbury. They Are Dirty.J we cAU the |] Copyvot, 1904, by Planet Pub. Co, Commissioner of | Street-Cleaning. We ask him WHY the streets are NOT clean! HE DOES NOT ANSWER! He is silent because he does not know! The Fudge will ENLIGHTEN him! LPPHISH? DB OOO-9S-90S-0 9-09 2-1-646-3-5-90-04 5455500. Mayor of New York City? If so, in What year? Who were his opponents ind who waa elected? Did he ever run for Member of Assembly? TG Roosevelt mn for Mayor in 184 Wednesday, ainst Abram 8. Hewitt and Henry ‘ To the Faltor a World: |George. Howitt wax elected, Ivior to] “on tint days or the eek (hat time ltoosevelt had served in the |New York Assembly The Child's Natio To the aitor of The Even: I read the query cc Yesterday at about tonality of a child born on an Italian] ice officers steamship, fying a Norwegian flag, in ted traln. We Tam] tiagusting and ' Mrs. Na and | e ‘“e BS, I have deen crying, af. ogg! 1 do nat often Y give way. But there are some sorrows than cannot) w b and tro complat Mrs. Terwiliger was just in to tell me what a lovely time she had at the Little Mothers’ Bagaar at the Waldorf-As- torin last Baturday, ley that are continually Infilcted on me, I never could have gone! | such A great success and that everything would go off so) | grandly and everybody would have u lovely time? “Mra, Terwiliger told me that Mrs, Stryver and Mrs, Kit fret and got % In chaney | "I know a man doesn't have any heart for the way kind F of the opinion that the child ta Irtsh by birth and English and German descent. Any ober opinions, readers? HENRY M. LA SAUCE. Wednesday, On what days of the week did Aug. 12, 1879, and March 13, 184, fall? Pollee Offend To the Rditor of The Evening World: boarded a Third avenue During the entire trip me of the officers was about the most tent pert Mr- ntest women In New York working like Beavers till borne with smiles as I bear most of the cares) some of them fainted “Ot course,that is always the way with rich women, Ti or day a word In the face of the way you act, but get hold of every charitable affair, especially if it 1s fashion- |able, and take the places behind the booths and go round raffiing off toings. They always do that because it Is t! cheap way. They don’t give anything but their time, and “Yes, I know you are going to say I knew about it and so go around asking poor people to help a worthy cause ant But how was I to Rhow that !t was to be| sneering If they don't patronite them. “1 have seen It a hundred times, They always pose as chaperons and workers at charity teas and the like because ing a book about the poor and has already been advanced then the: erilng had a pitched battle almost because Mra. Kitteriing| admissions, a day or two before the) daimed she saw Gén, Dork Sth, thus unnecessarily Durdening tO®) som him on an opera hat that he had promised to give t The result can! Gre Bt be otherwise than that Christ mas day is not a day of joy to these | people, but rather the reverse, I think! reste 9 | if shoppers would pay attention to thie) sorg. “Look at the lawn fete the Kiod Words Club gave last summer, All the rich women were the chief cooks an: Je-washers and got tn for nothing and got their names and! every beggar that cor pictures In the papera because they worked ac hard in the| house with notes to give them old shoes and clothes, ao it le tity, but J have some} ‘ood cause, and then Mra. Stryver went around saying h hear¢| nuch It had cost her in new dresses for the affair and say- The streets are not clean because they are DIRTY, If they were not Di.ty they would be clean! Does Woodbury know NOW? We demand FERRY-BOATS across Park Row! We demand FREE GOLOSHES for the People! We demand RUBBER BOOTS for the little Boys! We demand that Woodbury RUN his department! We demand that he TAKE IT AWAY from George | Washington Plunkitt! THEN perhaps we will NOT NEED the ferry-boats, Perhaps the people will not need goloshes! Perhaps the little boys will not need rubber boots! UNTIL THEN we demand THEM ALL! Sit up and LISTEN, “Little Mayor!"’ againet the anti-spitting ordinance that! ever came under my observation. I a mume (hat 1 was wise in not revuking a) police officer in public or in not inale!.| {pe on the enforcement of the ondinance by the guard, but it would as it) such an offender should be pun! or disciplined in eome way, A. H., New Brighton, Staten Island. | Yea, To the Editor of The Evening World M. two po-| Is it proper fur a gentleman walking! on one side of the street to raisa his hat to a lady of his acquaintance eeing | the opposite side of the street? oer HENRY 8 Ww. tC offender By Roy L. McCardell, * | there were dozens of the; they donate the money they spend for clothes they have! made espectally for such affairs, and buy things themselves Instead of worrying the life out of poor people to take ¥ chances in this and that? “I know what you are going to say. You are going to way { Something, you ars golng to say something mean, Mr, Nagg, about charkiy work & “Oh, yes, shrug your shoulders! You are always sal \ ‘Terwilliger eald that money to cases of destitution you read of in the newspapers Dr, Smerk assured mé that this indiscriminate giving with out Investigation put a premiug on paupenism. He is wette 51,00 by the publishers and expects to go abroad next year, ear, “That ts the reward of the charitable. But you will never bot-| have a cent to call your own the way you give money to along and sending them here to the in go every day and do not have to pay ed no wonder you will never have anything, “Oh, well, you have no heart, no pity for any One. You people did not come and spend) not care how any one suffers, But I can't even read a 7 aver read tn.the | a because 00 there