The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1905, Page 14

Publisnen dy the Press Pudtishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New York. |) Watered at the Post-Ofice at New York ae Seoond-Clase Mall Matter: IOLUME AB. ..,..ccceessessone sees encssersseeeces NO, 18,872, BROOKLYN'S TURN NEXT. / 2) "The hearing before the Rapid Transit Commission yesterday demon- (> strated the earnestness of the Brooklyn people's support of The Evening World's plan for a subway under Gates avenue to Broadway. / "Geography and the normal march of our population,” sald A, tewart Walsh, “demand an instant central and east extension of the ray," which should be “‘in the belt of population along Gates avenue Broadway, :often called the backbone of our Borough.” » 48 The Ev-ning Wocld phrased it, ‘To Brooklyn Homes in ‘Minutes!” ? ‘Manhattan has been generously supplied with underground rapid trinsit. Brooklyn has been left to the tender mercies of the grotesquely tiscalled “Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.” What this wretched Service.is the hearings now on before the State Railroad Commission show. It is Brooklyn’s tum now for the REAL THING, The substitute | Pouite advocated at the meeting yesterday in connection with Mr, Lawrence ) Abraham's plan for two express tracks on Flatbush avenue and Fulton ‘treet meets all the conditions, sy, Oa ‘WHAT MR, M’ADOO DID NOT SAY. ‘Commissioner McAdoo appeared before the Committee of Nine day, but did not tell why: he’ does not compel the police to do duty. ‘Mr. McAdoo. did not tell the committee that he had authority under Jaw to’ dismiss from the force any policeman who is inefticient or ibordinate or, neglectful or disobedient ur who violates any of the j.of the department, He did not tell the committee that the courts Mot'interfere with the discipline of the department, and that where ve been reinstated the trial‘Commissioner had been to blame; the Commissioners in ten years had reinstated six times as many bias the courts, and that he could dismiss any policeman who was not doing his full duty in the way of protecting life’and property. Inall this talk about the police and politics the fact is carefully obscured Politics in the Police Department begins in the City Hall and at No. 0 Mulberry street. It was politics that dictated Mr. McAdoo's appoint- as Commissioner, It is politics that prevents the restoration of It is politics that inspires all the reform suggestions that ema- ‘from No. 300 Mulberry street. The McClellan administration séems oosed on the theory that it can curry favor with the public by asking f new police legislation that will not be granted, while it holds the of the politically powerful police by not administering the laws dy at hand, ts a MISERY IN LINE, , {a university ideals, What college pres- (dent 18 to be the first to take the! consistent step of following his criti- sion? Would the business management Of the college permit? ee thrown Shakespeare, Burns and Byron tn his stove as “unfit for Ubrary,"" thls study warm for several winters. Said on the Side. T appears that, while it ts wrong for I &@ telegraph y to transmit pool-room mi in plain Eng: Ush, tt ts perfectly legitimate to send them in cipher, How, indeed, Is @ racetrack operator to know that a hookmaker's dieguised message has anything to do with betting quotations? The subtle ingeniousness of the dis- tinction made qualifies {ts originator to testify before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the points of moral dif- ference between rallroad rebates and special rates, wou eee The Crar costs Russta $12,000,000 a! nually, That is the estimate of Ii year, however, not of this, eee In the heart of the automobilist whose machine ts wrecked by a trolley car there must lurk a feeling of regret that the smash occurred Ignominiously in & gity street and not on a speed-record racetrack, . Popular Subway gambling game on local trains consists tn betting on how many stations the train will skip, oe Eighteen tons of gold for the Czar In one ship's cargo, The Little Futher will not care who writes the sonnets 80 long as he can took to America for the cash, , ee THIS, 1 COULD De ALL DAY. o 8 6 “The post-office department 13 go- ing to put a stop to guessing con- tests in the newspapers.” “How I shall miss the daily tceather reports.—Cleveland Lead- er. ee 8 Three divorces and three marriages for "Kid" McCoy, and nine sets of triple for Mire, .Dunvile, of South Dakotm. Favorable opportunity for policy play- ers to call for a three-nine-twenty-seven matrimonial alg. New times, new topics, It would be Interesting to know what @ Mabher would think of a Harvard president's report dealing chiefly with the evils of footbull, The pigskin and the grid- fron have wrought momentous changes clams of the game with its suppres- aa NEVER. GEORGE, ° The Loulaville clergyman who has place in a | to keep will not lack f eee History will be onty too glad to forget Port Arthur in remembering this as the year of a new constitution for i “tt requires thousands of men to shovel the snow from the city’s ets after a storm. 1) Most of the men engaged fiave been thrown out of work by bad , Asa mule they are Warmly clothed. But there have been iredsof poor fellows at work: during?the tast week without: suf- covering for their bodies, bly keep warm. ‘But to get work, or the shovel to work with, they ‘had and three hours in the biting cold, And to get their pay they have had. to, stand in line again on-the street for two hours more, lit to work and paid off quickly. Has it occurred to the contractor owes his men decent treatment:as well as. dollars? » . TO ABOLISH “DEATH AVENUE.” | The Social Reform Club proposes legislation to drive New York trains out of west side city streets. This would mean the aboll- \ ‘Canal, Hudson and several intersecting streets, it abuses. , Its tracks ran then through country roads, among gardens * farm lands, The city has grown up and with its growth have come, hy has provided no satisfactory safeguards, But. even if the corporation done better, it would still be true that trains have no business in busy Streets, Public sympathy will be with the club and its bill, New York should by the Chicago demonstration that a Subway for freight is a bless- , fasy as one for passengers. } ‘The hearings of the State Railroad Commission have. already proved ital Brooklyn is a “grievance committee” when the Rapid Transit EE ET he People’s Corner. tters from Evening World Readers Wedding. a limited number of fleeting happy hours with our friends, the ‘ologies and ‘isms which have been comprised jn the grammar school course, A MOTHER, Laments Typewriter-Hablit, To the Kdltor of The Evening World: This 1s an age of typewriters, and 1 fm eorry for It, too, for the following reasons: First, because children will no longer have the former encouragement to lear to write good hands, A clerks ly, clear, practiced chivography was formerly prized and coveted and o:ten afforded Ite posseseor a means of live: | jHhood, But with the growing use of ‘the typewriter this form of {livelihood | is fast decreasing, Also, many of us| cannot afford to buy or rent typewriters, | iat fg the correct dress for bride- And best man at @ 2 o'clock af- i wedding, the bride wearing ailk? Aleo should gloves be worn the bridegroom and best man? If What kind? Also, dots the best man in his possession the wedding ring rs fee, and when should the ? ELHGC m and best man should wear ult and gray suede gloves, ‘The isi man takes charge of the ring and 4, handing the former to the brite Groom At the proper point in the cere- F Hence we are at a disadvantage wit! “mony and giving the latter (in an en=| those who can. Wha Weaker | learning to write, anvh na few el to the clergyman after the At | m en Ld years *vervbody will be pinching typ writer keys? (ohare mb, d Teich Swimming In Schouls, To the Zditor of The Fvening World Lett School to Be Educated. ) > Delthe Editor of The Bvening World A’ child, dependent upon me for sup-| Last yene, just after the Slocum dls: | port and pr nouneed Wy (Impartial crliics | aster, there was a plan agitated to to have ordinary human Intelligence, | teach all children to swim, Of course | wae greduated from a Brooklyn gram- came of It, Nothing ever does. Mar echool last June, He Is now, at the} 1); iikaster is now merely history, of money, taking 4 course In pen-jand the possibility of recurrent perl ‘wf MAnsh.p, arithmetic, Unglish, gpoliing |'* tvxgotten. danger 1s as in omer to be fitted for something. /to swim, Le iw be parsed requir s here, somehow, in the future, if |(ng every publ ‘onl to be provided iene: With a big awimming tank (in atue ly A quiet domestic Ife among fairly or basement) and have swimming les- leeated people, This desired re-\eins at least twice a week, The wiler Hot been obtained by three |van be slightly warmed Jn cold weather, Frenoh (taught in an) Phe rising geneation would thus learn five months of Ger- 16 anu as readily as now learns tu ‘eau. we and to i | And lt wo Gases" | Rusela—provided the Czar gives it the Opportunity, "While they were actually at work these poorly clad shovellers could) ‘The Order of American Armorial An- :. cestry seems naturally destined to a soclal distinction which will pale the to stand in line ct the contractor's headquarters sometimes for} lustre of all other associations of daughters and sons, The pride of a democratic people in heraldic frills and furbelowa is one of its most curious better system—more stations and cashiers—the men could| ‘**!* ‘tive made a few references to ‘public auction franchises" special privileges’ the Illinols Legis- Jature has determined to investigate itself, Buch a sensitiveneas! There are men at Albany who will feel sure that ill-famed “Death Avenue” and the relief from daily and deadly} , ing so entirely unpleasant has been of-| If was in 1847 that the rallway company secured the privilege which feral on the local stage this, season’ to hold the boards tor some time, From the manager's point of view @ roast it e the railroad runs, dangers to life and limb against which the com-| taint pratse. infinitely preferable to damnation with| And the — sentt- | nent, though not | eee heard for the first | time, was greeted | asked the Legislature to pase a law making the bearing of firearms a felony punishablo by heavy fine or imprison- ment, that a great many good fdeas have come out of the West? a good account of herself in real life. No. VI Latest evidence, the preevntion of a dia- a Vie mond thief's escape by sheriff's pretty RUBBERNECK COACHES. daughter In Bucyrus, entifique no court witness ever describes |the opposite a year ago, oo. “Do you think Banks ever has fooled his wife successfully?” _ “IE know it, He married. hers” Detroit Free Press...» + ° . . ° "So you think young Dubb ts going to be @ véry brilliant man?” "Yes! I think he's going to be a regular ‘shine,’ ' ee Just because an outspoken representa- Wives as and “sales ol MEN," “Ww sald Mrs, St. John Gaffney at a meet- ing of the Eclectic the Illinois legisiatons are new at their tras . The play which begins its run with! veteran critic's comment thet ‘'noth- day, "may be poet- cal ‘ilusions to } heir husbands, 60 ng as they keep hom uncertain Hibout themselves,” “Do you think this weather will ever change?” “Sure,” anawered the morose cit- fzen, “JUL probably be worse be- fore night."—Washington Star, with a good deal of applause, Why do women want to be poetical {lustons, anyway? Men don't want them to be, If they did, they wouldn't marry them, It more wives devoted their auper- fluous time and thoughts to being pleas- Ing realities, instead of poetical {!lu- sions, they might not find themselves 80 often in the divorce courts, Not, of course, that the shortcomings of thelr t 2a | Little Willie’s Guide to New York.| . Gov. Folk is now proceeding against the pietol habit In Missour, He has! Will Gov, Higgins take notice . . Critic of current fiction notes that ‘the youthful heroine seems to be fash- jonable just now.” She ts also giving sum Kindharted men diskuyverd that nu Yoark was Invizzibble to the un- draiped eye and thay Invented a lot fan event exactly ag it happened, but} of seing nu Yoark coches so that this “evidence Is more faithful and complete) *tty cood at last be beehonided and when given by women than by m gee but It was a supprize to a lot of us Now York police magistrate sald just} '0 %¢ whot soart of a burg we had bin But doctora}!fessting aul theeze yeers, heer are would not be doctors if they aid notpevm Of the grate fax the demmon- straiter toald us oanly 1 cant rito It Gleagree. haft as fast or as unpunkshuated as he ged {t heerz whot he sed, to yoor left ladise and gents yoo sée the corthouse {t wax bilt at a kost of the notorus bil tweed hoo was hanged on thig spot and sed in dying that he regreted he * ¢ had oanly one fedrel bilding on the left While the vicar of an Engllsh churen }connstruckted entlerly of tho falmus eee According to a critic In the Revue Bcl- oe “T'm ao tired, Effie.” “So am I, Cywil, Let's go and do somefing what we mustn't.’ — London Tatler, ’ was marrying a couple the bride per-J Sint palls chapel to the extreem rite | ntly refused to promise to obey, J Whare the mortal gorge washinten | ‘ou mast say it, or there will be no} mald ‘his ten blox ferther on to the sarriagy,"” remarked the vicar, Theftatery.maby weed hay herd moar of | lady locked him st ht In the fave, [the speach If lt woodent of bin for aui | but the bridegroom broke the silence} the Kids on the sldewaulx who kept by exelalming, “All right, guv'ner; I'll Prollytely adrosin us as webfured roobs s out that when | gets ‘er ‘ome. and askin us how was kropps In pomp. | Ms w en completed ton en Jay snd referin plezzently to us | . is mossupphoalstered yaps but they overy of psychic-sctence | Wer ded rong for no yap wood daly be {yt human being throws ott Pfean riding In a seing mu Yoark coche magnetic riya forming colors, which {for feer of beelng mis for it va accordance with his mental| farmer the farmer Js natchers noabl- | car If, for ins e, 2 man sheds {min he livs the simpal life and cets py | a deep-vlue Ilwht, he great thinker, f With a nife as a trooborn ammerikan | If lt is a glaty blue, the radiator ts an xhood, seelng nuYoark In a coche Is ordinary person; pale green Indicates ple seeing a pletcher of yoor oan a, good Il/e: light brown is the color of Fane you cant hardly beleey Its tis saim onv yoov bin werking ll yoor & PB Th Ni, the average man, Dark green le very! bad, aaabisinsi te ‘ By Nixola/Greeley-Smith. The Artist Says All These Jokes of H “IT never met such @ complalaing man as Kickby," ‘ “Hm! He has the automobile habit,” "T had a dreadful time getting up Stairs last night,” ut You must have had a fear- ful jag, eh?" “Nonse yeah “Well, not exactly, But every me “Oh TI got to the top step my wite would a always something wrong whth him. Joke!" Mrs. Nagg throw me down again,” Illusions. “ WONDER it wo are ever going to have good weather again, Mr, Nagg? No, I'm not peevish; I never am peevish, but if tled in the Tam you would be peevish, ther you would be even more peev- Jesh than you wae now, if such a thing Roy Ly MoCardell org possible, “You are peevish and you know ft, and then you acctise me of belng peevish! “Peovish, peevish, pee That ts your cry from dawn till dark, I hear it going to bed and I hear it getting up~I mean I hear it getting up and I hear It golng to bed, for you have me #o con- fused with your fault ‘nding and bick- ering that I hardly know what tam saying, “Ot course you don't care, for you come in the house with a grin on your face and never say @ word, and you see me so tired and wornout that I can hardly raise up my head. It {s nothing but work, work, work for me from morning till night. “Here, Della says her sister ts sick and she has been gone all day to help take care of her sister's bables, What could I gay? “T have just had to alt down and think, 1 have not got up out of this chair since Della went away, for there js the work to-morrow to do and I wanted to go out to read some stories on culture to some poor children that Susan Terwiliger will have at hér house washed nice and clean, because some Salvation Army girls go around and do such things, and they told Mrs, ‘Ter- willger about it, “But Mrs, Lerwiliger and I both agree that It ls a bad thing to bring the poor around to comfortable homes, as It makes thenr discontented with thelr lot, jand I just can't stand to think of pov- husbands would be lessened, but merely that they would have less time to think about them, If tt 1s absolutely essential to their happiness to be poetical illusions to somebody, let them try it on the head Brocery clork or the callow boy who delivers the meat, and not inflict the trying prozess on thelr husbands. It is inexplicable why so many women are constantly striving to seem what they are not, rather than to perfect what they are, The most difficult, thing in the world 1s to be a good, straightfor- ward, sensible Woman and have at the same tlme a moderate capacity for amusing and being amused, It 1s also the rarest thing in the world, But for one woman striving for this Ideal there are a hundred seeking to be poetical Mlustons, “Bhe was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my mgnt,* wrote Wordsworth of that early period of womanhood when {t Js permissible to be a poetical illusion, since there {8 really nothing better to do, But it is not the ‘poetical {iusion,"’ the “phan- tom of delight” that he dignifies with the title of “the very pulse of the ma- chine,’ but the wiser, older, less chi- merical “perfect woman, nobly planne: to warn, to comfort and com Of course, the possibility of this trai tion seems a poetical illusion in itselr, 80 very rare It 1s, The only section of the poet's ideal that seems to appeal to the actual woman Ss the privilege of commanding that the advancing years conter, Y ‘The older they get the more they want to be “phantoms of delight'—generally 180-pound phantoms, with over-substan- tial figures and very actual jowls, To reallze a man's ideal It is not necessary to be in illusion of any kind, The only masculine ideal that lasts 's) that of comfort, not that merely that comes of being well housed and well fed, but the complete mental and physi- cal polse that only a thoroughly con- | tented man can have, This fs the only poetical Huston he wants, but of course ‘i t 1s much more difficult to supply than |erty and squalor! the other sort, “Oh, don't groan, Mr, Nagg, You al- Sprinty’s Invention. “Say, Sprinty, don't you wish he was Gprinty~Ain't dis a gr@bt ideal Waal) ebb ain is idl ald ee eee Ir Ce aan oe Nlriobloteeteltabtotaltsotetsbtaitedetottoteets ‘Little Tommy Rot and Miss Heartless Flirt, The Fair But Fickle Creature Again: Puts His Devotion to the Test, Gragn, wiisrdn) HELLY, } +. By Roy L. McCardell... ae The Caré ile of Colds. By a Phyeician, UTHOUGH the weather purveyer continues to supply a clear ead cold varlety of weather !t fe & question of time when he will & lively February thaw into ¢hie bess ough, and when that thaw goete ite ine work fn on the mountains of snow thas fill the atreets of this city the remult Ma bound to produce a state of aftaire thas will not’ be conducive to the comtom and well-being of the community, - The damp, raw and chill atmosphere that usually ‘wocompantes a thaw. highly produotive of what moet look pon as @ simple matter, @ cold) In many onses, it is true, @ Cold fs @ simple matter; that, however, / 1s no reason why one should not baye’ @ care and conaider the ailment as the beginning of something’ more serle ous, suvh, for instance, ad Infuehtn, bronchitis and pnestmonia, " Upto the present time the Idatnambd disease has not been very. prevalent, but that 18 no assurance that tt will not, become so as soon ne the show beg to melt. On the other hand, gtip has been and fe still: quite prevalent will probably become more #0 as oa as weather conditions become more ‘Yorable to ita development, There are @ number of predisposing causes of colds that are usually overlooked’ by & great many people, Most Common of all, perhaps, {s the atmosphete of living rooms. a] People ehut themselves up in hot and stuffy rooms that are poorly ventilated, {f ventilated at all, and seldom yo ous in the open alr, When they do go out they pile on all sorts of heavy clothe ing. This makes vie akin extremely sensitive to every atimospheric change, and as 4 result of the slightest exe posure the heat-regulating centre 1s up- St, a chill follows and a cold or somes thing more serious is the outcome, ° A almple cold, one thet Ja ushersd fm by a feeling of chilliness, frontal head> ache, etufMness of the:nose and anedm {ng, may be broken up by taking!e Mberal dose of Villacabras water, five grains of phenacet ery two houte, and washing the nose and throat freely. with @ warm solution of listerine oF borolyptol every halt hour, This trente ment, however, to be of any vee, must not be delayed until the malady has fully developed. It should be started 48 soon as the symptoms are appre- ¢lable, If, instead of the symptoms mentioned, there ts @ pronounced chill, & fosling of tightness in the cheat and iMoulty in breathing, there is but one ‘ Gafe rule to follow, and that is, send for the dootor and then go to bed at onoe In auch cases self-treatment and delays are dangerous, Those subject to colds with every change of the weather will do well to Observe the following rules: Regulate your dist and mode of life, avold ex- cesses of all sorts, partioularly in eate / {ng and drinking, Avold coddling an@ a is Are New, eee that working and sleeping rooms are properly ventilated. In steam heated rooms {t is a good plan to keep & small basin of water standing on tho radiator, Those who are unusually gensitive may put some compound tinc» ture of benzoln in the water, The modi» cated vapor arising from the water haa & soothing and healing effect upon the. mucous membrane of the nose, throat ° and bronchi, Cold and damp should be ayvoldea | when the system is in a debilitated state, Mackintoshes and other impervie ! ous garments, also rubbers and arotica, > @nould only be worn when the ine clemency of the weather calle for ther, , A cold sponge bath in the morning, © followed by @ brisk rubbing with @ rough towel, will go far toward keep: ing the cfroulation of the skin up te): the mark, and thisjin turn 19 @ very |! great protection inet cookie, ' ‘Gracious, Marla! What discolor: this water so? Must have been milk af the bottom. of the gs "Now stop your joking, J That's milk! Fresh from the dairy,” and Mr, ways groan when I go to speak about my kindly deeds and how} en affected by such things, and you havea horrid habit of sending poor men to this house to get a cup of coffee, "It you a fond of doing that why don't you stay at home and serve them the coffee in my best china? I won't do It, I don't go to people's houses and de- mand hot ooffee on cold days, “Why don't such people stay in their own homes By the fire such days as Load But perhaps they are too pee- Rapid Traneit. “Oh, everybody {8 peevish! Don't deny it, Mr, You are peevish, Della was p ira, Terwitger was peevish, even brother Willie was peev- i to-day, when I only had $2 to give im, "T hate to tell you, Mr, Ni mamma has written me a tear i simply says if you persist in refusing to continue her allowance unt! Gizes for getting out on th nd Screaming you were a wretch and mon- ster because you would not tell us what the Masons do at thelr lodge meetings, why she will forgive you for the way you acted, and you can send hor the money by @ messenger boy, “You won't do anything of the kind, you say? Oh, very well, I see it all now, You have got peevish about poor mant- ma, too, and she always spoke kindly of you unless you had done something to annoy her! “Run out of the house! That's right! | Con.—Fare— “Oh, what's the use of mv having hys-| Pasi.-I pald my fare when tre train { terlos, nobody is here to hear me and|started, nobody would care, Thank goodness, I am not peevieh, no matter what hap- pens!"" The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial Reports from Willlamsbufg and elsewhere indicate that GAS. BILLS ARE GROWING BIGGER, This Is a way they have, The: bigger the gas company GROWS, the BIGGER the gas bills BE- Con.—There was only a email by, aboard when we started, Pass.—Well—that's me, How to Save Gas Bills. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) COME. This Is a STRIKING FXAMPLE of the law of CAUSE and EFFECT. But HOW can we AVOID this lay ? It can only be done by taking the EFEECT away from the CAUSE! Therefore TURN OUT THE GAS] If you do this the bills will CEASE TO GROW. Be certain to turn the gas off between the STREET and the METER, Others , wise the SCHEME, will not WORK! , Perhaps you will say you CANNOT DO WITHOUT LIGHT. We have thought of THAT. ia Put a copy of the NIGHT FUDGE in the chandelter, It will ! furnish LIGHT ENOUGH TO DO. COURTING BY! j rs a