The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1904, Page 6

| eadegades Published by the Press Pubdlishing Company, No, 8 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office few York as Second-Cluss Mali Matter, WOLUME 45. The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during th . first nine months 1904 .,,..... 10,6524 uring fim ahve months 1903 s+... 8,285% Increase... cceecees 2,367 six-day morning ot evening, in New York EVER ned in et ecm ye scene oth of display i wwening Wor! Sad doce to hee men 1. IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS : MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. “ig " y ..NO. 18,833 THE WEST-SIDE FIRE RISK. Chief Croker's request for a larger allowance of fre Men and engines and trucks for the upper west side 18 accompa- risk there which should gain for it an immediate and favorable considcration t will excite surprise to learn that from Forty-sev- @nth street and Eighth avenue to Harlem River there are only ten engines, But the statement that In this exten- alve ard now substantially built section there ure four hook and ladder companies is calculated to a geniine amazement. The Chief is not an alarmist when he says that the remoteness of took and ladder apparatus may at any monent become responsible for loss of life In the event of a fire gaining headway in an aportment-house or charitable irstitullon. Under the best of conditions tt May require from five to six minutes for a truck to answer an alarm [n cer’ s of this territory Property interests downt: guarded against the risk of ¢ any large city. The phenc west side has of fire safeguards to correspond. T excusable because here in add'tion to there Is the grave peril of h multipiiertion of iarge teneme period in this dist as well {8 po siile In early not been attend in the 16 Want In the Childress There Juss | - tice Dewe! gave certuicates of ng the cou teal to boys who having come t Justhee ¢ 4 t - juvenile offense hav H themes * 1 to the Court's satlefartion tho boys did ome r Bot reecive tic nique Chr fi me Of yy. . "7 the forty 02 parole had ¢ piel’. | pens to be repeath Alter the fon cf the a 1 @ Christma It is to be b 1 wotr in Justice Denei's court-room will come tothe eyes of the the Patt , New Jersey judicial officers who have been requiring | & little boys to pay workly fines and chorging Ute girls prosaoty ia open town meeting with being incorrigi In the one eave there is a f the ¢ barous way of tre the childish destined malefactor. In the other t and enlightened etleavor to begin the reform with his first offense and to make of the posite le ag offen Why should it de left for Co ¢ Nutt. cf Qu Borough, to ;ontest alon e State Ra 1 roed Commiss: a I y 1 iw t line to crogs the tracks Long Istand road a ae near Ozone Park? Why was permiesion given firet place? At this point several hundred trains said to pars dally over what is slready one of the busiest crossings on 1 Teland. It 4 that sooner or later an “accident” attentet Mle will occur at this cr ng. to be followed by the enstomary clamor for its removal. W contingency have been averted by a der company’s petition at the t it wa ed? w ft is said hearing | soe only protest i "y not In the discre ‘ cumstances and } unalterable opp: request as a nv URnoCeRsArY to W tence of fatal! crossing, to efet t) ention of a public : With the ska shows convincing « ever. Pofore the sz urbe wer thronge: Batural water-course on the Policy to provide artificia the city private rinks kave otimulatod inte © Biven an impotus to the epotavilar too Margo number of entries for 1h oolloy skating cham- Wp bore iestimony to the untai ing popularity of Sport. Hockey a8; Gained & vogue which has Falsed its sintus as a sport. Bi ta caid that roller dtaling is regaining vogue after a # to a tennis court or a golf MAG AZINE reeable. -—= ‘sews’ gt THE #& EVENING WORLD'S » HO MLE, eae ry Rude and Di es Be 6 Od2 DEVOID ROTO GLAUS Gan Some STOCKING. fs EOPPEEDE ye OANT P1USED T° BELIEVE IN SANTA-CLAUS, THE CL°CK STRIKES TW," THE CLOCK S ee ee The Simple Christmas. By T. E. Powers. “THE CIECK STRIKES NE. nied by a detailed showing of the seriousness of the fire Women Oracles, By Nixola Greeley-Smith ir FoR A FAITHFUL EMPLOYEE > post, Volum SANTA CLAUS ose Invarlably » successful men in city life hike back to the acres of their ® fort? Not on your pirthday! Do they go back to where best pl together in what, with the deficleney of fire appar as must be regarded as a situation of serious danger “th The elty has been sufficten slow In discharging its heod of tar ut obligations to (is impor region In the matter of & ' Je police protection and rapid-transit fac‘lities. Tthas bean Mirlest edd tt decidedly behindland in failing to provide a tire aer- ! ee 6 ake WAR vice more adequate to the needs, is polley of delay in) oat 1 1 this perticular has been shortsighted tn the exten nowspat bin oY ‘seas : t t ferent CHILDREN AND CRIME. ae In some reepects th ost Interesting Christmas party fat vou f » cities bringing in fresh blood, Show me. The Rube wan to wonder 6 most scons criminal a good citizen. = Tals new departure from old methe f ‘udtetal por- y to p secttion [a a « fact fer rei 1" res season, * ‘ iia ’ k GRADE-CROSSING HiNUS!GHT. vitae cd Da oa yd " Drptrs neeee tes PSSEgereDesers, SSG2-2-22- +e ® © kina vents __ Bar sevcat then dao THE MAGIC 19, POPULARITY OF SKATING, 39-88 S549 86-S8-585S5O-4-48460-9060554 verre re O-2D.MO-DE eG HNSE-2-O8-2 of & graceful H set naa he form of physical, 1, ine ste spaces into which every merits, But at best it was to ray of the etar is divided put numbers iting original in benefits to be! whose sum in overy ray, when added to the nu:aber 19 In the centre, will give invariably the result 1 Al the oun must be didereny DEACON COBB—How much time wuz yo’ g HOTSPOTE JONES—Thirty dzys! $900000000000600000000 mn to pay fo’ yo’ gal’s Ci ristmas present? PROSS DEH OE RE GE re StSTOOD MY Be STRIKES, &Y MARTIN GREEN. The Good Old Farm’s Failure as a True Genius Incubator. SEE," sid The Cigar Store Man, “that a speaks $6 er in Cooper Union told an audience that the alleged ardvantuge of the country boy over the {ty boy {a all a pipe.” “It has become a tradition In this country,” responded The Mau Higher Up, “that unless a man spent | his youth in his bare fect and regarded open plumbing ae a mystery until he raised whiskers he 1s left at the - have heen devoted to the quiet, simple life of the country, the influence upon mind and body of God's fresh oir and pure water and the smell of the earth, It’s » about time that somebody bad the nerve to get out on a public platform and explode this fable, ' “It 1s true that many country-bred boys have made successes of life in cur cities. They had to. A boy with any ginger in bim will beat it from the old farm as soon as he Is able to talk plainly, Do you ever see any of the fothers to spend their declining days in peace and com- things coms from? On the contrary, as Mr, ‘© remarked, they are wise to the fact that the e {8 where the good things come to. “They talk about the influx of the country boys to our fresh from the farm fs invariably pimply from a long diet » of doughnuts, fried meat and water hard enough to chop wood with. It takes him a couple of years to accumulate 4 constitution, “Most of our old-time poets and authors came from > the farm, If they bad remained on the farm the world : would never have hoard of them. Citles were few and far apart and elty life had not taken on the distinctive tone that characterizes it to-day. President Roosevelt is ® Now Yorker born and bred, and {s one of the thousands of living examples of the fact that the cout... ‘ cubator of greatness has become frosted.” “What do you know about it?” asked The Ct 4 Mae You never lived on a farm,” ads “No,” replied The Man Higher U; » “but I’ listen to a lot of people who did.” . Hye nes Ghe Vglier a Girl Is, the More She Will Boast of Conquests By Alice Rohe, 7} i, what's the use?" sald the Pegsimist, O : ‘Meaning exactly what?” asked the Amateur hilosopher, “Well, I'm disgusted with women,” replied the Peasimist, ‘T've just had a three hours’ conversation with a kittenish yung thing of thirty, 5 been telling me all about the eft behind out in Winona, iany thing how these ardent and heartbroken Ging are always left so far behind that there's no comes back on the story, but nevertheless it puts me all to the bad to have to sit up with a trusting little Rollo-face and gtand Ly these tales of burning popularity," “Is your friend preity? Maybe oh id the Philosopher. ae : shi sinha fe “Pretty? Well, I guess not. Anyway, what's a woman looks got to do with her telling the truth?” snorted the Pessimist. “This gay gazelle (rom Winona has » face like a camel and a Agure like an attenuated meal-bag. Yot! had ¢ to sit there and hear her teil how Charile had to go to Denver for kis health because she turned him down, and haw Harold haunted ‘or house like a dog, pining for a sight of + and how everybody, In fact. was simply daffy about er," “T don't see how they have tho nerve to ait up and spin off a self-pretenting floral bouquet ike that.” sald the Philosoe pher. h M 8 ou couldn't Gotleve It till you heard it yourself; but the t type of tho sentimental woman fs the ugly kitten who sed thirty, And anocher thing you bear in mind, It's ky sylphs whore acquaintance wis men consists of @ iscuesion ot the Intest art exhiblio. or the last on philology who are the keen and reacy ones to make ‘ your life a burden telling you about their conquests. “What's the n of It atl her, “Do they belleve a men toll them? Are they being made fools of by some ungerupulows male flirt?’ “Nay, nay,” quoth the Pesstmist, “Don't worry. ‘They're not being Mirted with and deceived. They're simply waiting with nok out for any sign of recognition from an mnsuspecting man, and If he speaks to them twice In ag ‘ evening they think {t's love at first sieht." “Well some one orght to tell them different, They're happy,” eatd th Hleropher. * Pessimist. “Mo>"t vou try te ho females that thelr game 's an y be doae, eushn’’ 7 aaked the Ald the Peseimist, “Our pence ought to be pros but T evess the only way out of it fs to get a duneh of together, los mina room and let them tall themseiven to deaih, It would be a cso of Si! or ove, ang the end would Justify the means.” 1 conten ae A Dwindling Fund, ‘The Nagasak! Press says: “The Morcow Gagotte has started a subscription list to present a battleship or cruiser to the Russian Governtent. The idea began with a fourlay of patriotisin about a month ago, and up to date something Uke Atty oF sixty roubles has been colleoted—(G or §90)." “e a ie Jy = wa Ls. eybelabl ree" yee