The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1904, Page 14

_ al . wu * ihe § 8 genie oe as eS Pe 1 THE_at EVENING se WORLD'S HOME wt MAGAZINE cette: aha by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to ©) } Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ottive | at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, NO. 16,826 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during the IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. DEFECTIVE ELECTRIC WIRES. | Speaking betore the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences recently Mr, C. J. H. Woodbury sald that while electric lighting has diminished fire risks from other forms of {!lumination with their attendant mishaps from irect flame, ofl, gis cxplosions, friction matches, &.,/ “It must be conceded that it cannet be claimed to he free fom hasards,” With regard to Inside wires, the speaker ‘Geclared that “the greatest amount of care should be @aken with tho work, and amateurs should never meddle with it.” r | ‘The burning of the Glen Island, which Is attributed to @ defective wire, gives the warning the emphasis of a eonspleuons instance of this danger. The records of the Fire Department supply other exemples in abundance, Ir 1899 the numbir cf fires in Manhattan or!g nating from defective insulation was 122, involving a property Hors of $222,499, In 1900 the number was 98, with a loss Of $648,901; in 1901, 90, with a los of $820,548. The seri- Ousness of this risk {g convincingly set forth by the Ng- ure of tho 1900 report. In that year electric wires were Bot only chargeable with 11 per cent, of the total fre foases in Manhattan, but they were also the most de- @tructive single cause of fires. In the same year 140 fires from Jampa and other non-electric means of light- fog entailed losses of $356,855, The blame does not lie with the manufacturer, who ‘has brought wire insulation to a high state of perfection, Mor with regular methods of installation. It Js trace- able to verious uther causes, ranging from carelessness | who has so long profested his utter “to gnawing mice. Thoee the most painstaking inspec- ton cannot wholly eliminate, Yet only through ths eternal vigilance of frequent Inspection can fire risks of this nature be reduced to a minimum which will Insure nearer approach to safoty than Is possible under present conditions, PICKPOCKETS' HARVEST. ‘The theft of $500 from a Sixth avenue car passenger Drings to light the somewhat extraordinary fset that Jdssen amounting to $2,500 were reported to the police of the West Thirtieth Street Station last week by per- sons who “could only account for them on the theory that thelr pockets had been picked.” Other police sta- . tlons are vet to be heard from, but these figures suffice to indicate that the light-fingered gentry are reaping a Tecord harvest. If the “touches” are the work of old- dimers It would be an opportune act to draw a dead-line against them for the protection of shoppers and to ban- ish Rogues’-Gallory faces from Broadway. If they are work of new hands the city somewhere contains @ ing school of Faginism which should be smoked out. FROM GREATER TO GREATEST CITY. President Orr of the Rapld-Trane!t Commission draws @ pleasing word picture of a Now York from which the “L" roads shall have disappeared and jn which all local) transit shall be accomplished safely and speedily under- ground. “New York to be u city on high stilts,” said The World of yesterday, commenting on Mr. Orr's forecast-| ing of the multiplication of subways. It will be a change radical enough and, with safety insured, a suf- Aclently gratifying change from these days, when It is only tracks and trains that are on stilts, to the darken- dng and dofacing of city streets. Aa to what sort of a city {t shal! he which will wel- come emancipation from “I. ugliness and surface -car delays, there was a double-page demonstration in the fame Sunday World with Mr. Orr's promises, A nucleus city to a metropolitan district containing 8,000,000 peo- ple! That is the well-considered prospect for 1905. In the thought should lie every inspiration to live right, hope right, vote right and Insist on right, to the end that we may grow rieht. | CLEANER MONEY. ‘The annual levy on the Sub-Treasury for fresh and rip Christmas money serves to remind the average eltizen of the improved quality of cleanliness in most of the money which passes through his hands. + The soiled bill, suggestive of disease germs, {s not out of circulation, though much less frequently seen, For this thanks are not so much due to Uncle Sam as to the fad of a few years ago in high-class stores and restau- rants, now become almost a general practice, of paying out only new bills in change. How much the cleaner Money conduces to lessen risk of contagion must be left to the imagination, Dr. Darlington’s efforts to secure Congressional action in the matter will be recalled But certainly the greater currency of crisp bills pleases the eye and the touch, while giving the pustessor a keener ~ Af fallacious sense of their nigher value. Oe nee De “Cheertl Jack” Scully punches transfers and col- five-cont fares all night. All day he studies gram- Srithmetic and solid rudiments at St. Francis's Col- Brooklyn. His nickname, quoted abuve, exactly how he takes his life of double effort. bly there are many boys in the land who as “Cheerful Jack” for the place and priv- gives. But that does not detract Of the individual case, | sticcess. His spirit lie arose and ‘The New [gevveoecccensnannenennarenesconnnententeconnnnetere 4 ssterenecceonnnies raseennenny ed I | Mothersins i The Simple Life. :Frenzied # # a | KER LOAN me) (Good MORNING : MILLION CASS, By NixolaGreeley-Smith. ¢ |, ( » Souasn/ vi ‘ psounds varadokgal to, assert that the THE CASE OF “CHEERFUL UACK.” * | Law Joke. ? ; (By T, E. Fowers.) # Letter Writing!!! More Examples of the New . School of Business Corres | spondence That Can Be Com | '* ducted Only Among the Best of Friends, qr a V. | From a Tammany Boss Vacat'n { in | Florida To a Leader in Brooklyn Who Weni't Vacate at All ‘ | | Pat MeClurtin: a S IR—When the Tiger crossed the Bridge you prom- § Bare W all fa- mitiar ‘ with the Bibll- eal injunction hat a man ‘ RB nay not marry < his grand. mother, But & whother the pages yield ing this seem: 4 ingly unneces: | 4 saryprohibition | 4 contain 11k e+ wise a similar | 4 Warning ¢ \eatnat the more ¢ . law only a close Miblical student may § determine. However this may be, the | > | telegraph wires betwen New York and @ | St. Louls Inst week chuckled over the nows they transmitted that two young men of the relty had been seported as having eloped with thelr respective | @ mothers-In- ised to obey orders! I'm the Boss! You are called “Long Pat," but I'l} make short work of you {{ you continue standing Pat againet me! I have apared you till now! But if you don’t do as I say, ! 1 will make you stay in Brooklyn all your fe! I am the Boss! ‘ It isn't for nothing that I have been known as “Gas | Wouse Charley” and you as “Standard Ol apt.” But Tl put your light out if you don’t light out yourself! Iam the Boss! . If-you surrender at once I wil be merciful and allow you the appointing of Inspector of Sparrows’ Nests tn Prospect Park! If not, not! Throe times I have sald! r) you were a dead one, and each time you have undertaken to defeat me and succeeded In the undertaking! It you will renig, resign or withdraw you will be per mitted to take dinner at the Hoffman House with Comp troller Grout as heretofore! If you do not surrender you will be barred out of the St. Regis and the Mills Hotell Tam the Boss! Meot me at the Democratic Club when I return to New » York, and if you are sufficiently humble and abject T may be merciful with you, Otherwise I will keep you penned up in Bruoklyn and you will not be permitted to | come into New York or to “cross a single street (n that | efty.” have given orders to “Little Tim” Sullivan and the Roard of Aldermen to keep you and the Portchester Reatl- | | road out of New York!! If you take off your hat to ma, you will be Al, If not, 23! ‘ LOST IN Boston GOL GREEN LookING For LAWSON la the latest edition al law joke, a time-honored | venerable but searcely the other Por | reely be conceived a su-| @ ance upon the unfeeling | t for many hundred years| 4 hor more or lees pardonable | rentricities Into comle weekly chocks than for r to turn the battery of her | « mature charms upon the son-in-law aversion to her, and triumphantly elope with him, But how can the latest remarkable achievement of the mother-in-law be expleined? Only on the theory that when once the eloping fever holds a man or woman In Its clutch, what shall constitute the other half of the elope- ment becomes a secondary consldera- tion, and, as a matter of fact, any old thing will do, However, {tt must not be overlooked that In the tumultuous progress of the last fifty years the mother-in-law has not remained staticnary, granted that the mother-in-law joke {s perennially unchanged, But tts herotne under: | 4 no & complete metamorphosi Time was when the only viston that the wor! “mother-in-law” conju one’s Imagination was that of 3 visaged old lady in a cap and bomba- zine gown. But now does It not oftener than otherwise recall somé stately, well. preserved mother of forty or so, whose figure is better than her daughter's and whose complexion 1 quite as good? It e4€ex MCCARREN BAT wir Hen GET nome” 660eeees Tam the Ross!! C.M., The Gas Man!!! _ Vi. ‘Troma Brooklyn Leader Who Won't Vacate To a Tammany Boss on His \a-ation Qns-House Charley: A! TA! CHARLUY! Don't get frost-bitten way down In Floris” So far as 1 am concerned there is nothing doing! It you don’t be good, I will come over to Mane hattan some dark night and help “Big Tim” Sullivaa | take Temmany Hall away from you! Like the head of the mule team, you are an off leadert / It ts all off with you! | So far a» my belng a dead one, don't forget that It Is | more likely that I will have the pleasure of standing over you ebortly and saying: “Doesn't he look natural?” = Don’t you remember the days in the olf times before you toox the foolish powder and thought you could throw me down In Brooklyn when we used to walk across | Fourteenth street together? Don’t you remember the day the bootblack stepped up 2 A nA | to us and aald to me: “Have a shine, slr?” and f re~ fe A Mave mw \ 0 | plied; “Thanks; I have one!” ‘That was you, Charley; In! : €, | that was you! The only thing bright about you is your feet! As for Brooklyn, the Brooklyn people stand Pat!!! If you are smart you will keep out of Brooklyn, You may not be allowed to pause until they get you to Green. | wood and present you with a quiet little place in the \ country! Be gocd; Keep away from Cassie; don't blow out the, patel “Hive a good opinion of yourself; no one else will butt ‘n on you on that, and every time you want to get ie + ' good and plenty come across the Bridge and romp with the Jefferson Club!!! Yours for the Simple Life! CHARLES MUAPHY OF NEW YORK AND T¥¢.GAS HOUSE> ON THE BEACH AY FLORIDA SOPSSSHD* DES: woman of forty was born in the Inst! % twenty-five years, but at least she has! ® been born again to a new dower of prolonged yath and carefully our- tured loveliness Of course, the mere fact of being & Pastor Wagner's Ideas Applied to a Few Persons in the News. Mary Jane and Kickums Go Xmas Shopping. Showing that, While Adults Mey “ Want but Little Here Below,” Youngsters Want Everything in Sight. mother-in-law #8 © tremendous handl- | cap, But do we not all know mothers: | |{n-law whom we regard as altogether | more charming from any point of view) @ than the daughters whose first apr@ar-| ance In soctety would once have struck the death-knell of thelr own youth? Let us not ke the mistake of under. | « eatimating mother-in-law, Let us realize that chief defense against) © her Is the fa that she fs one, And let) @ us keep alive the mother-in-law joke | ‘ as the vestals did the encred altar fire. For It Is our sole proteotion against the! new encroachments of this indomitable woman. Let us aubsoribe to the comie papers, watch them carefully for some new version of the venerable joke, and if it fails to materialize, invent one and! ¢ bombard the office with It. For only by) @ that sign—the mother-in-law joke—we LONG PAT!!! conquer, _ « re ’ LETTERS, Smokers’ Census. In France there are 6,000,100 smokers, and of every fifteen there ht who smoke a pipe, five who smoke cigars, QU ESTIONS, and fey i who use cigarsttes. Still they use more than * > {800,000,000 rettes a year, or enough to go around the worl@ L ANSWERS. } $ 00 times Yor were placed end to end in a line. —_—-— 1,2 Se Czar’s Relatives. The twenty-three nearest male relatives of the Czar each receive a aniary of %%,000 a year from the Government, They own together about 5,000 square miles of land and 3 palaces. They employ nbout 2,000 servants, Port Arthur’s Past. t ‘The Chinese ¢ for Port Arthur is Lushunkow, and it was a small place, with only a few China used it a9 a place for the deportation of criminals, The “Fudge” Idiotorial Try Y. M,C, A, Gymnastum, To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can I get exeroise which will? give me broader shoulders? I have very | 4 narrow shoulders in comparison to my | ¢ chest. QR 19 Join one of the Y. MC. A. aymna- siuma, Tho Instructor there will sug- gest the best course of exercise for you April 21, To the Editor of The Evening World: On what date in April did Good Friday | 2 fall In the year 188? ROBERT M, | ® It In Pronounced “Bute.” To the Editor of The Evening World ® Please print the correct pronunciation | ® of “Butte,” the elty in Montana. BOT. |: “WHAT shall we Many Cases Have Been Cured, | 3 Gold Bricks give a lee To the Ealior ot The tvening Wor'd i for Papa’s yet I say consumption cases have beon | ? Dp Christmas 2" ra |? © cry resoundin Latter Form Is Preferable, | a mi esa De Sea Bet Cs x onigh THOUS To the Editor of The ent World ” A claims Welsh ratebt” ts the mene | ¢ SANDS OF OUR HOMES! Is Itnot sweet music? If Papa could only hear, how GLAD his heart would be! ; But HOW shall the cry be answered ? The ED;TOR OF THE FUDGE Is not much of a PAPA, \ but he has a HEART, He will Try to tell you: BUY PAPA a GOLD BRICK! It will please him bet~ ter than the things he USUALLY gets, and, basides, it ls USEFUL! f He can USE It in his BUSINESS. How many presents does papa USUALLY get that can be usd in his business ? NONE AT ALL! form B claims “rabbit” ts better. |» Whioh ts right? HOTELMEN. | % Either form {3 correct, according to| ? various authorities; but the latter is|$ more generally accepted le At Headquarters, ‘Twenty-atxth | | and Madison Ayenne, To the Editor of The Evening World Woere can l owtan BP, C. A. badge?) vr | | Remedy for Car Delays. | To the Feiitot of Toe Evening World Much Ume is wasted in discharging ami taking on passengers in the Subway cars, Let the rear platform of each car be only for exit and the front plat. form for taking on passengers, In this way both doors, rear and front, wou.d| $e , e2e8 be opened at the mume time to allow | i all about this idea ' paesengers to @o out and in at the A THRIFTY YOUTH, WORSE THAN NOTHING, HOW IT HAPPENED, Me Larereg to Papa by hi peste time, eer ae Reet a Nell-[ believe Grace's fance {s| Mifkins—What do you think of that! Pisher—Where did you get that black She lad to please diving h'm somsr will not také twenty-five scconds at each | Bell—What makes you think so? pope oath be scm va i ; ’ ape Meo} - station, When there ia no great crowd | Noll-He Is going to give her en- ‘ : ot of a fot Cheiateaan—Detror | minda a