The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1904, Page 10

‘Published by the Press Pudlishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice 7 at York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter, NO, 18,824 he tsi fast nine months 1904... 6... 10,682 , morning ot evening, in New York y ing ws te Evening Werld fam SUBURBAN SUBWAY TRANSIT. Further auguries of the approach of the commuters’ millennium, when the suburban dweller can take his train et a Subway station near his office, are furnished by the “from the Battery into Connecticut.” This {s to be et: | fected through a Third avenue underground line connect. | ing with the road's terminus on Willis avenue, Hardly is the “fifteen minutes to Harlem” desiro gratified before plans mature to make of that once remote region a way Port Chester road's promise of a fast electric service | ee eR A New De Ill, From an Old Lady in Cleveland to a Banker in Boston, Dear Sir; W: E of nay ial for security!!! The papers consist of an essay on “The Siniple ” by Mr, Charles Slobb! Another is a recipe for prune pie signed by Hetty Green! There is another from John D, Rockefeller, jr., promising mz ten mill- ions of dollars for something or other, It is rather Life, aring out the garret | found a lot that | haa forgorten | had! As it is voth sides 1 cannot sell it to the zines, so | write you asking you to lend me a couple of millions of dollars on it and keep it cma bs SOREN ARERR Oe MOEN “SPREE Fe YT Bat lial wt WORLD'S »# HOME # MAGAZINE | [a ae FRENZIED LETTER-WRITINGII! -eye- mn I have also a copy of “Ten Thousand a Year,” signed on the tly-leaf: “Don't steel this book, my hon- est friend, for fear the gallows should be your end, Andy Carnegie” !!! ions! Also a document reading: “I'll tet you a million. John W, Gates”!! I have tied all these things up neatly and find they weigh about four pounds! | have put them in a bank here and have a receipt that their value is twenty mill- If you will lend me three millions on the package | will give you forty thousand dollars bonus! If you do not, | will tell everybody you are a mean old thing and send the package to a rummage sale!!! Yours for my health, CASSIE SCADSQUICK!:! To an Old Lady in Cleveland. er | ws rather good-looking! | am sorry to say a loan of four millions on an autograph album signed I would have advanced more because the owner of the autographs are genuine!! vague, but a promise is a promise !! ‘The Fatal Gift |; ‘He Doesn’t Love Her Any More. # # # #) w# ow w Strong Proof of His Indifference ls Shown by His Actions When She Took Him Shopping: i ®| of Beauty. — By Nixola Greeley-Smith, A show girl engaged for a forthcomin New York pro- duction was lismissed some time ago on the statement from the manager, station on a rapid-tranait through line to the north and east. And this {s to be but the beginning of a transit devel- opment which will make of the entire metropolitan area to a distance of thirty miles a compact city, It is to the Subway engineer that the laurels must go as the prize monder-worker of the a It te within the bounds of sober expectation that {n five years at furthest Long Island trains entering the ‘heart of the city through the Thirty-fourth street tunnel will proceed downtown through subways; that the Erie ‘and the Lackawanna, crossing the North ‘River tn a joint tunnel to Christopher street, will discharge passengers at the various stations of the continuous terminal which a network of municipal underground routes will provide; that Pennsylvania local trains will pasa beyond that road's gigantic Thirty-fourth street station to Subway _ points more convenient for patrons, or come In via the Cortlandt street tunnel, As it is now, the Central and eventually they may in fact. The suggestion of a Central subway route down the west side to tie road's original terminal inspires hope in North River suburbs, % One point in favor of a subway distribution of sub- urban passengers |s the avoidance |t weuld effect of the regular terminala in the city. The same argument ap- echeme to divert the Bridge crowds through a loop sub- | ‘way around the lower ofty. The continuous terminal, 60 to call it, will afford a happy solution of one of the city's worst evils of trafic congestion, THE TRANSFER OF A SCIENTIST, Before Mr. “Spike” Robinson was ected from an Bighth avenue trolley car Thursday evening he had in- fured the sensibilities, garments and persons of a half _ among the women passengers, Mr. Robinson “trains in” at 130 pounds only. In the Incident of note, however, he his case generally interesting. ‘The redoubtable “Spike” had a transfer which he had taken in good faith at Fifty-ninth street ear the conductor failed to reach all hands promptly. ‘Pecause the point of transfer had been passed. came trouble for six men {n company wnlforms. ‘That Mr. Robinson should have felt himself impelled to violence is regrettable, But the riusk-hour clreum- Occurrence, and If the trolley management wil! accept the been disorderly in vain, Two conductors to each crowded ear should be the rule for safety’s sake and for expedi- {dea in type long before a 130-pound pugilist arose to accent it with his fists, ICE-COVERED SIDEWALKS. If the police possess the authority which the Corpora- ‘tion Counsel has been asked to define to make arrests under the ordinance providing penalties for failure to Temove snow and ice from sidewalks the crusade Com- missioner McAdoo seeks to institute agalust offenders on | this score will be welcomed. It {s a matter of common observation that these re- qguitemeiits are held in most contempt by agents of the large estates, particularly in the case of unimproved property, While sidewalks fn front of apartment and ' dwelling houses are customarily cleaned within the time limit, those before vacant Jots owned by real-estate oper- ators are allowed to remain in a condition which makes ‘them pitfalls for the unwary. The west-side residential } Tegion reveals many {instances of this violation of the} ordinance, A COOPER INSTITUTE FOR BOSTON, | None of Mr, Carnegie's generous gifts has been caleu- Tated to be of greater usefulness than ihe $540,000 he ts Teported to have given Boston to add to the Benjamin Franklin fund of $270,000 for the endowment of an indus trial school on the lines of New York's Cooper Union "Boston thereby becomes the recipient of a more service: able addition to her educational factiities than a mere col- Tege of the academic kind could suppiy. The bare and Rather bleak walis of Cooper Union have nurtured talent high order in humble students and fostered artistic Which could have found no equally fit expreasion | in the elty, fs Interesting to note that the $5,000 left by Frank- Invested in real estate amounts after the lapse ot only what it would have smounted to at 4| the New Haven virtually extend to Brooklyn Bridge, as‘) congestion which must otherwise remain Jnevitable at | piles here as applies to the Municipal Art Soctety's « dozen conductors and motormen, besides causing a pante 4 earried weight for a grievance suffictently heavy to make f, In the crowded |) * “When the trip slip was finally tendered It was refused 1 ‘Then stances of which he was the victim are not of uncommon |, - Obvious teaching of the incident “Spike” will not have Hy “tion in fare-collecting. The Evening World pointed this , id Interest. In that respect it has ee beautiful | enough, and, voedless to aay, she straight » way sued the un appreatative » for dam- Nixola Greeley-Smith, m A question arizes ag to whether or not she : for that mat: | tor, n for any slur cast upon her pergonal pulehritude Var be » with the slightest of law to discuss amateur the legal asp fa problem so In- trleate, But the pout of view ef outraged femint y the young lady ts undoubtedly ertited to the heaviest dawages she ean collect Surely tn eyes of every man with the least ¢ to gallantry all women In the fnmost y may admit that elroumstances whieh ' would he pardonabls, thor tot to a lady t Iynehet for horse pompud that ahe is not beautiful? Never, while Uvere la an atom of eblvalry tn Uh human breast r wutiful Is the supreme desire uitinwte alm hen she has years to ace there should intimate we man decide > There are beauty a9 Hesides, what Is ¢ Savages te bigh noses, Mie mplexious wl slit € among clvil laed there itd net be two things more widely divergent than the standard 6 ebulll ing and 2 + \9ne's Awru SOW eMC WITH “HIC~ THAT SHOPPING! TIME FER-HIC-NoTHER ORIn«! TN&EDA DRINK AND THAT'S No “(gene !! $004 IV, From a Banker in Boston Dear Mrs, Cassie Scadsquick : | AM a plain business man, but when | was young- that I can only give you two million dollars on the security you offer, because I have just mace by George Gould, J. P. Morgan, Jacob Schitf, J. J. Hill and other financial magmates!! the autograph album is a needy old lady in the Tewkesbury Almshouse, but | am not certain that Do not bother to bring the bundles of securities with HOd-94-90-00. GUESS ANOTHER BALL wouLon'y DO ANY HARM! CouRsE ne’ ¢ COLD ovr HERE! WHAT MADE YER HURRY $0? RETVRN oo) CROSSES Show! in thelt | 1s WHERE 8 HiT 3 ; Ho! 3 Jun the other hand, there te sexreely “ ‘ PQ A a . at Cee eee eae eis ton! gheen ar CAOb4090006040040900040-000000005 PEDDDD GFACIADIGIOIREAE EE RADAR DAD DD IDES PEODE DE DER DED ERD DE to vet Cavorable attention | ae . = nda or two persons in the house iid the re i a gr INSINUATING, NO CHOICE. HER DEFINITION, | THE ACCOMPANIST, + een ‘ the t “The world 1s a atage,” she said) “And what did Jane say about me?*| Mamma—Now, Elsie, dear, what !#@) Young Lady—You are a wonderful n Kiar in devall, dramatically, “and we women are really! "Well, I'd just as soon tell you, | cat? | master of the vlano, I hear c etandund oe, Sat performers, Men are mere Jano sald she thought you were ¥| Elste—Dunno, | Prof. von Snleler (hired for the oc tegularity whieh may of courte be co | clowns. honest Mamma—Well, what's that funny lt-| casion)—1 blay aggompaniments zome- existent with beauty hut la by no means "Perhaps," he retorted, glancing at! “That's nice of Jane.” tle animal that comes creeping up tie | times. her cheeks, “but it keeps the star pers, ‘Yes, She sald you didn't know) stairs when every one's tn bed? “Accompantments to singing ?"* formers busy making up."—Chicago enough to be anything else.”"—Cleve-| e (promptly) —Papa.—lilustrated Aggompaniments to gonverzations,” News |land Plain Dealer, Bi New York Weekly, A Rival of ba Sherlock Holmes (Published by R. F. Fenno & Co. Copyright, 1904, by R. F. Fenno & Co.) ayNopsra CHAPTER VI. A Momentous Telegram, FER acelng Fairholme off Brett A drove to the Prefecture, and he and the Commissary at once net in the Rue Barbette ir way Into the Turks’ j ulet within, ‘The first room t searched was empty. So waa the second: but in a bedroom, the door of which wus f treatment, their eyes Stretched on the bed, gagged and se- curely ted. was the figure of the dimin- utive Frenchman who litle more than twenty-four hours earlier had @o coolly suggested that Brett should be mur dered. Grout leather thongs were fastencd to ked and required forcible an extraordinary sight met his wrists and ankles and then tled to the four uprights of the bed. His arms und legs were consequently stretched widely apart, and the only sign of vital- {ty about the man waa the terrible ex- pression of fear and hate in his eyen as he loeked at them, The gag stuffed in his mouth pre- Vented him from utterirg the siighte coherent sound, while the agony of hls frame, owing to the position In which he ly, Jolned to the exhaustion Mauced by terror and want of food, rondered him a pittadle obfect 1 removed (he gag and cut the m ‘Den by massage ond liquor they brought the Frenchman 4° himself, “We must find these Turks," sald the “They are desperate char- Commissary. acters.” Find them by all means,” sald Brett earnestly, “but on no account arrest them.” “And why, monaleur?” cried the dkner with elevated eyebrows, “Because if you do you will paralyze e actions, When all is said the only charge you can bring against them is a trivial one, It is evident they merely tied up this man either with the object of frighte: him into a confession or to leave their hands free while they dealt with his emplovers.”” An hour later "The Worm” was taken In @ cab to the Prefecture, aa his con- dition was yet so hopeless that little real benefit could ensue from a search- ing cross-examination, 80 Brett parted company with the officials, having made an appointment with the Commissary for the next day at noon, when they assumed that the prisoner would he ecnaiderably recovered from his weag- t ness and fright The barrister resolved to pay another visit to the Cabaret Noir late that . ing, but he waited in the hotel until nearly 10 o'clock In anxious expecta- ton of a telegram from Fatrholme, At lust the message arrived. Its con- tents were laconk Right first time,” lady's name ‘Talbe hauasted, after long confin delighted. Jack visite Un Secretary to-night. We all propos joining you in Paris to-morrow. Do you approve?” Hrett promptly wired “Yes and then set out for Montmartre, drossing him- welf in the helght of fashion so far ya his wardrobe Would pe » aad done ning # flere m ne and Wik, Wil> completely alt his appearance, He coessful impresario Of ‘ft man “Invalid Somewhat ex- nt. Edson looked like a« popular | nm tenor, Rrrived the Cabaret Nolr, Brett asked an audience with Gros Jean, Mad- ieee lie's ne rpulent father, to whom epresented himself as an English manager in search of French He sald he had heard of Mile, ire’s abilit@yand desired to en- er, The father, completely de- informed him that 1 tween the private pass om the bar and the public one that led from the cafe was a room into which the light of day could not pos sibly penetrate. He was certain that no door communicated with it from the public passage, and he could pot remember having passed gne that day. when La Belle Chasseuse brought him and Faiholme Into the billiard room to display her prowess a a markswo- man. Tt was o and for so could not pri ite uy iy tl ‘<THE ALBERT GATE MYSTERY *< > Matened to m This natural hypothesis was upset by the appearance of waiter, who passed th h the b oom and Mr ge another door at end, the through which he soon emerged, carrying a fresh supply of bottles, further | me exactly as you sa At what time “It must have | obvious,” said Brett to him- | Be at if there ts no door commun! eating with the private pas the only way In which that bo reached Is by a ladder from Now I wonder why that should be necessary?" He remained jn the billiard-room some twenty minutes. When Gros Jean was called on @ome momentary errand to the front of the house he took his de- | parture, purposely making (ha mis- take of quitting the room by the wrong exit, At the same instant he stuck @ match to relight clgar, and wh an attendant rai him to direct he rapidly sur+ the passage. plaster walls smooth and unbroken their {nner side, affording no doorway exit. the answer, Pont Neuf exactly “Oh! come now, with a Knowing 4 do, Petit to convey that. you tn ou diel “On my honor’ ar o with the gravity peculiar and then, before I could w jd you o'clock the day before yesterday, od what message did you bring?” “1 wos told to ask the ‘Turkish gentle- men to be good enough to cross tho at when they would meet @ friend who de- vem id the commissary, le, You are far too old a hand ch a childish message as | What reason can you have for secking to shield these men who treated melodramatically, but Brett here inter rupted the conversatton. “Wil you allow me.” he sa'd to the comm| "to put a few questions to 4 TIHEOSH GOOCH * The “Fudge” Idioto pariure in Business—Correspondence That Only People Who Know Each Other Well Can Follow Up with Any Brilliancy! you, I do not care if they tip the scales at five pounds, that fact would have no weight with me!! Simply bring a receipt trom the storage warehosse that they have the papers you mention, and | will let you have the money! If you do not care to come to Boston, | will come on to Cleveland. Count on me to come on, Beware of swindlers! Do not go to bangs who would charge you with a high rate of interest !! 1 would suggest that you get up a petition to make robbing banks subject fo a fine of not less than ten dollars and costs! Circulaty this in the financial dise trict, and if you ean get it’signed by prominent mill. ionaires I will lend you $10,000 on it! Also, if you can get a document from Reggie Vanderbilt stating that he is your runaway father, you can have twice what you ask!! Cassie, Cassie, you're the lassie! . EZA MARK. President 'Steenth National Bank, Man sigher Up 8y MARTIN GREEN, Fate of Woman Who Plays Hash as an Economy Gig, SER,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that a Brooke lyn man blew up his happy home because his wife insisted upon utilizing left-over food from meal to meal.” “What did he expect?” asked the Man Higher Up. “This particular man signs for a season of matri-+ mony on the agreement that his wife, who has dough of ker own, shail pay half the household expenses, She | being In on what was paid ont naturally tried to shade the bills and played hash across the boards, “It is bad medicine for a woman with money to de clare herself in on the expense of running her husband's house, It is not according to the rules. She ts bound by nature to run her personal assets through a grater— unless it ts for clothes, A woman will blow herself to the limit of her bank account on clothing and subsist on ice cream and pickles and atmosphere crackers, In this play she deludes herself that she Js practising economy, | “The happlest people teamed by marringe in my ace quaintance are those who believe In the principle that the husband should be the provider, but that the wife should have the entire handling of the house- hold layouts, In the homes run by these people the hus- band hands over either a certain allowance or all he can spare to the wife and lets her do the buying. If he goes broke (hrough the week he can make @ Louch into the family stocking as a general thing. If there {s nothing in the stocking he goes without or borrows elsewhere and turns up the amount borrowed shy on the next pay day. Divorces in families run on this plan are scarce, “I know a man,” sai@jthe Cigar Store Man, “who gives | his wife ell his salary to spend,” “He didn’t marry a Up. “He married a k We notice thab Prof, Benttwigg, of the Chicago Unie versity, has figured out that the Popula- tion of the World DOUBLES ITSELF but ONCE In Two Hundred and Sixty Years! This is altogether TOO SLOW! The Populace MUST DOUBLE itself AT ONCE! Otherwise in a little while there will not be enough People in The World to tae The Fudge. WE DOUBLE our circulation Every Twenty-Four Hours! We demand More People! President Roosevelt has ALREADY answered our call! Populace Must Double Up! Copyrot, 1904, by Planet Pub. Co. ) The Kings and Potentates of Europe Should TAKE NOs | TICE! More People Should Move to Staten Island and Texast Then The Fudge can grow as it should, WITHOUT AL+ TERING its BOOKS. ByLouis * * Tracy loved by the monkey to pull the chest. Pox ot the fire, and you have only succeeded in g your own paws burnt, Your je cha! oe ot Lag now fs to inf the commissary me cxactly how you came to be mixed up. with, this affalr } . The Frenchman ¢ tr to vanish under Bre Ills winened ta nanifested faint flush of y aa the paring’ winted out how he had been duped by Ris cmployers and made to run cisks avolde r uf bis eraft was strong tn tus intiuence, and he Soemeennes an ther series of procestations, id 4 apsur yu, gentiemen.” he erted, “that with respect to the ‘Turks 1 mye ow! what o Waa: 1 was present whea get thei euttiny half-past six, which they ation to them Pet tha oF “that will not | t# or motives. sway and left you to | tii" ehelfan gentleman here was des — began the thict bating with them, and T understood that they even went so far aa to Use threats against him. My mission was to give to the leaders of the Turks a va Ringe which I did not even know conmained diamonds, either genuine oF He assured himself that he had aot _ 5 false, No one could be more surpri been mistaken. The cnly private door "was the enswer, n myself when the Turkish gentle out of the bar led Into the passage, #0 Now listen,” said Brett, sternly gaa- haced. them, . y Ing at the truculent little raseal with t vou there with the dias that the room beyond could only be t those searching eyes of his, whieh | sald Brett reached by @ stairease or through & feemet to reach to the very epine, “It | "“itven that I cannot tell you," le ‘useless for you to attempt any | pee "it was a mere chance afta ve learned something, at any further prevart ition, We ki | was seated In a cafe sipping som d passed out | actly who are te | sinthe when a mm me tf 1 would 1 imagine are ace execute a amatl ion for Tim, rn ared by the the ga | He explained that to deliver & palice. would have Deo not at A house diss acted more wiseis had she not yielded ou Urhed pg) one Rs yp vt J vo ng | Mulk the false diamonds which v« ace,” {nterrunted Brett. with the y for ore ¢ oce confederates hoped he would accept cynical smile 1 80 Often dise m- Brett kemg his appointnent with the For you to attempt now to f certed il lars Petit. “It Is hopes commissacy next mornin m the la hopeless. The #ole chanc to expect you to dell the truth, The ite Frenchman was broug3t | you have of remitting a puntshnont | Jfowover, I think I know a way tot jn, rescued from, the Rue Barbeite | hich may even lead you benewth the | your wits, You must be brought 4ate ouse. Mec aimittei he wae a thie Fulllotine is to confess fully and freely | to face with Ta Belle Chasseuse. Pere known as Le Vor (the Worm), and ie that his real name was Charles ett. “How came you to be detained in such an oniraertinary menue in the house No, 1 Rue te yesterday?” asked all that vou know concerning the out- indy Itted when vou are confronted with In the room between ihe cafe Wiiard saloon of the C: livid be ho uataned tothe” Dare fi T ‘orm™ gasped out broken: fon. monaieu Twill teh ye |