The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1905, Page 10

‘by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 3 Park Row, New York, @t the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. vesssevens NO, 10,878, THE MAN LOWER DOWN. The Committee of Nine which has undertaken an investigation of New York police force should promptly turn light upon the Patrol- Benevolent Association. This unique organization is sald to have converted the uniformed ce into a body midway between a labor union and a political asso tion: It has openly conducted. a campaign of agitation for the in- midation of the Mayor and Police Commissioner, It is sald to have cted a large fund and employed agents to procure a change in the! te laws affecting the ordinary duties of policemen. “In other words, the question to be determined by fearless and Im- irtial inquiry 1s whether or not the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association by its methods, become so powerful in politics that the Mayor and osé charged with police administration are afrald of It. _ The surrender of two muntctpal administrations to the demands of he orgenized patrolmen for a three-ptatoon system, which leaves the ty short Of policemen in the streets, and present general negligence of utrol duty at night lend color to the theory that. the police force has yy definitely entered into politics and has cowed {ts superior officers, It is as if the private soldiers in the regular army should organize ind compel the War Department to shorten the hours of sentry duty lessening the punishment for breaches of discipline, THE DUTY OF INSISTING ON RIGHTS, “It is an important thing,” sald President Roosevelt in one of his addresses, “for the people of this nation to remember their rights, tt Is an even more important thing for them to remember thelr ‘An important thing which people fail daily to remember is that no it part of their duty Iles in INSISTENCE UPON THEIR RIGHTS. If everybody would insist—and persist in inslsting— ‘Transit companies would have'to furnish. adequate public service in ‘for the valuable franchises which they hold; Police service would be rendered always for public good instead of graft; i and electric companies would be forced to supply light of the oh at fair prices; (Ii place of a general corporation contempt for anti-trust statutes b would spring up a wholesome respect for the popular will behind Ky cotistant remembrance by the public of its rights, duties and would’ be a dangerous thing for extortionists and abusers of 1" J HOCH’S DOZENS OF WIVES, Johann Hoch must possess some remarkable qualities to have in- ‘0 many women to marry him. He is not good-looking, or cul- d, or attractive, or fascinating. At least he does not seem to be any things to the policemen and newspaper men who have come in with him In New York, He is rather the, opposite in appearance, miners ‘nd ‘to {he descriptions of the heroes in the women’s pa- and matinee novels most in vogue. ‘This man, fat, rather stupid, hardly cleanly, and suspected of being a n “Bluebeard,” seems to have had little difficulty in inducing two e dozen women to marry him, What Is the secret of it? Did he other men in his knowledge of the weaknesses of feminine nature, there many more women desirous of getting married than the aver- in has any reason to believe? The many Mrs. Hochs were well- ‘respectable, intelligent, and nearly all widows, They had homes pans of support of thelr own, Yet, after the most brief and casual they seemed to have married Hoch without investigation as to /hé was and surely not actuated by his personal attractions, “Truly, the motives and the ways of women are past finding out, — 4 PHONES AT REASONABLE RATES. phones at $24 a year, which a new telephone company promises, ao higher than the rate which the present telephone monopoly charges u towns near New York where it cannot get more, It Is the ‘policy. of the telephoné monopoly in establishing a new exchange zin with a modest rate and then gradually inctease It. ‘This policy is the same which the telephone monopoly pursued in Jew. York City, It adopts ‘the same tactics now in reaching out for new 6s of business, “Although the cost per call to the company diminishes to the number of subscribers, the benefit of the reduction does oto them, and the company does not even pay the city the Subway which its contract calls for. ‘Some “Big Stick” remedial legislation Is called for to protect the ul ¢ from extortion, \ ‘The B, R: T, hearings before the State Board of Railroad Commis. are over. Now let us see who has the most influence with the —the people or Mr. E, H. Harriman, cordi ¥ A Mayor’s axe may chop out the Subway signs, But who is going ) choke off the underground smoker? i ‘he People’s Cc orner. iy World Live with Them. ®00n be laying marbles on tor of The Kyeninx World: era, whut do you think of thine ent @ to allowing my SPECTATOR, and sister to live with us, al- Commaters Had to Walk, Gugh they will not be dependent on! 7 the maitor of The Evening World: bounty, as they are able to pay us] How about the Metropolitan Street SA week board apiece, We do not|/Railway? The crosstown lines, partic- the money as ry husband makes |ylarly the Twenty-third street Ine, @ week, But I like to have them are depended upon by many Jorveyites th me, and they are eager to live /and Brooklyniios. This Twenty-third ith us, Do you think my husband has street line did not run for days after py right to refuse, readers? Ought he|the blizzard, The first duy it could be 40 put my wishes ahead of his? Ho forgiven on account of the heavy fall fairly fond of my family, but says: |of snow, but up till the next Saturday fo house is big enough to hold two night no cars were running, compelling ee Mving together.” Is he right fommuters to walk, Even the Brook- this? If so, tell me, readers; for our ister sperviarealt wave its patrons me has always been happy ond I/ Metropolitan street Rallway, “it ih? ft want {ts peace and concord) Cay Up pot y AAAI even for the pleasure of my D Poltce Headquarters, nily's soctety. MRS, K. Lend wile of The Evening World: OP the Waltor of The Bvening World: saw a ma af HA few nights ago while watking along|r went buck. ty tone tote (oad urth avenue I happened to see One} ang walked two blocks wu ie ed Our police officers having more sport Pp, then two blocks down, but could not find an AN A five-year-old child. He was bav-)y went up the stairs at last. at ihe a snow fight wit risk of my life, but the man had dis. wing chunks of appeared. What shall L do In cage such sniiare—just about large enough an occurrence happens again, and low in uifiver to tackle, as they bar hard can I get poilce protection? New e there might ty You ¢hould have gone to the nearest telephone and called up Pollo |. quarters (Tel, No. 3100 Bpring). nee Las onildren,” 4 a CORRESPONDENT of an evening Cd s a a A paper warns restaurant patrons to keep a sharp eye on their over- coats, The advice sounds familiar and fe olf enough to be good, It Ia given a timeliness by the decision of Justice Un- derwood In Chicago that when a guest hangs up his overcoat without offering tt to any restaurant employee he can- ot recover damages if th rment {6 stolen, In the Justice's words, It is a oase of ‘no delivery, no recovery.” eee It has been arranged to have fourteen of "Bluebeard’ Hoch's wives meet hin at the train when he arrives in Chicago. ‘The arrangement is of course subject to Whe approval of the man at the gate, eo. * "City is promised all the law It wants,” says @ headline, Insatiate Al- bany! Will not what we have suffice? eee “Aa you know, water ehoays "When tie frowe?!—Clevelend ‘ e ° e : Polar bear frozen in Chicago, black ‘beer goes mad on theatre stage, bears in the Central Park menagerie show strong symptoms of neurasthenia, Bad year for bears of all species from Wall street to the Zoo, . ee Tt costes %0 to give away @ cigarette 4n Indiana and $600 to give away & transfer in New York, Safer to be caught with tthe goods ou than to get rd of them | |, “Bufferer,”” who writes to complain of the rudeness of New York theatre audi- ences, 1s advised that in Rome it's beat to do as the Romans do. A proper way to overcome such sensitiveness is to forget your own manners and Join the Sreat majority of the impolite, eee A Philadelphia Grand Jury holds that city's Chtet of Police responsible for the prevalence of vice, Old-fashioned towns naturally have old-fashioned no- tlona of what a police force is for, eee Grayce—Edythe won't say any- thing about her love affairs, but I have an idea that she has accepted Bapletyh, Gladye—In that case, she ts apt to soon show her hand,—Lowiaville Courter ChEMRD 6 Reports of the sagging of the City Hall occasion no surprise, The hold- up strength of the ancient structure is now oonfined to its Aldermanic Cham- ber. eee Of tho making of miliionatres there \s GREAT HEAD! l MAGNIFICENT. CONCEPTION! CHARM THEY'RE GOING Tve GOT AN IDEA. KIDS TRY TO WORRY US LETS IF THOSE PAY NO ATTENTION T 6evieve i WILL WORK ALL RIGHT lobinlelointninieleinintetmimioteloielobelat To THEM. HOOP-LA} CINCH! Hosea WE GOT RID, deleivleleivielelnioleiselnintoleled no end; a bunch of 10) werp sald to ha come Into existence over night in Pitts: bung when the Steel Trust was formed. The case of Lockhart in inferesting |’ apart from the will contest, because, though worth 150,000,000, he was as un- known to the nation at large as a stoker on an ocean liner. When The World Almanac in 1902 printed a list of Amort- can millionaires it took fifty columns of fine type to contain their names, By Present indications the woods have been full of them. It must be thought that 8 180-millionaire omits a bounden duty of wealth to soolety by not illuminating Fifth avenue with the glitter of his wold. eo ee 6 Dr. Parkhurst asks for an object les- gon in “Initial velocity.” Wait till the Mayor's comes in contact with o Bubway advertising sign, oe e “I'm going to endow one of the universities, Going to establish a The justice of subjecting any one who chair,” \ according to legal oresumption, must (© " , adjudged innocent until ac! Chale of senate clared guilty by a jury of hie peer 10) “A chair to teach graduates how to get o job."-—Brooklyn Life, . * . When Sub-Treasury exports and bank cashiers disagree as to the genuineness of a $10 gold pirge the averuge man con- gratulates himse:t w that he has so little of the ooin to handle. There Is more than appeared on the surface in the old story of the faker who offered gold pieces for sale at half price. ee ishment, another or Dr. Darlington seems to have driven ‘all the microbes out of the Health De- partment except the baolllus bipedus, who forages on microscopes, towels und lawn mowers, Correspondent suggests gymnasium cars on railroads, The Subway and the “L!' could each spare a few for trial eee ‘The next expedition to the North Pole fourteen wives will when he comes In.” Penalty of 14, Wives. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. HE Chicago police hav: extended a "ivitation to all th known wives of Jo- hann Hoch, unde arrest for wholesak vlgamy, to meet him Jat the station on his arrival fron w York, ‘lL be'teva,” sald he heartless Chie! at Police who ar- ranged the meeting, “that from ten to 1 be ready for him this gratuitous torture may be ques- tloned, But {ts ingenuity no one car deny. In it Indeed may be found a sug- gestion for a novel and efficacious pun- The idea of fourteen wives, one after {nterchangeably, may aD- peal to persons of the Hoch persuasion, But neither Bluebeard nor Solomon nor any member of New York's could stand for fourteen all togethwr, It the bigamist were to be sentenci!, not to so many years of prison associa tlon with other men who in various ways had run counter to the law, but lu a term of enforced confinement with all the injured ladies whom he had mar- ried, he would upon the completion of his sentence hie him to the desert or the mountain top: tary hermit for the The Mormons admit the impor ot two rival claimants mart set nd there live a soll- dwelling {) = will carry @ méne expert, to dynamito a passage through the ice, The Sub- way Idea seems destined to solve all transit probleme, ewe The Mald—Unhand me, stirrah! Tf you attompt to kiss me I shall scream for help. The Man—Troudle not, sweet one—I need no help ally Sloper, * Feminine dislike of short skirts is constitutional and ingrained, Here are the women of Bayonne objecting to the abbreviated costumes of amateur min- atrel girlal The most remarkable certificate of character yet given to tobacco is fur- nished by England's leading medical journal, the Lancet, Writing in that periodical F. V. Chalmers says: "In the course of my association with tobacco, about twenty-five years, I have known men all this time, every working day, to be inhaling tobacco dust or fumes produced in the process of manufacture, Uninterrupted good health ts the gen- eral rule of all persons engaged In to- bacco proceedings of every kind and generally of large consumers,” 8 ox miserble as on the the noblest Life and It jazent even “There are technical schools of cook- Ing, needlework and, I belleve, acting,” said Mr, Beerbohin Tree In a recent ad- dress, “Why not technical schools of happiness? ‘The rules of happiness and health are entirely ignored In schools, and we poor mortals have to learn them at forty years of age when they should have been taught us in rhyme per, appartment the unions, kame heer In droaves to lly, Little Willie’s Guide to New York. NO. Vill. THE FLAT-DWELLERS. Mewsik |s maid up of sharps and flats but nu yoarkors grand sweat song | of Ife is In the key of A flat, flatts wer Invented moar peeple lived | in the kountry but as soon as flats wer bilt peepie fownd thay kood be just before and unkumftble in town deer oald farm so thay a flat Is ecksampal of the Kanned teeches fammlys to exsist room for commplants ¢ Hows and givs It a naime oft sum siggar box but a flatt by anny naim wood smel as sweet espeshly when eple on the floar belo are kooking AP TERHUND, , in Tabblold Form, in moast flats thare »| kix are deliverd down the dummwater | shaft to the janniter the janniter {| = the landioards reppressentatly on erth and when the roof leeks all oaver the| spalr room bed or the furnus grait| colapees he haz to heer the tenents | tauk abowt {t down the dummwater | and in the pressens of such langwias | { doant wonder the water ts dum, | sevven rooms and a bath ts the moast | offisnnt ally of als sovslde at foarty | sumtimes the landioard puts 2 pams and @ ruberplant in the frunt haul and then he kauls the flats an peace and harmony by Insisting on A separate establishment for each, And verhaps the best remedy for thelr per- latent polygamy would lle, not In torial Inquiries or newspaper aghtation, vat In making them all live together, If Hoch could be sentenced to so mary vears of solitary confinement with his ourteen wives as jallers he would with- ‘twenty-four hours have no doubt as o the error of ways, And any vould-be imitators, hearing of his doom, would pause, shuddering, and get thom to @ monastery. The Inefflcacy of the law ts often due to Its Inability to fit the punish- ment to the offense. If a man with fourteen wives could be sentenced to a year for every wife of existence with them all, and were obliged to seek his only reilef from thelr tirades against him In Istening to thelr abuse of ead! Other, he would soon realize that the combined genius of Dante and Dore had falled utterly to give an adequate tdea of the inferno, The old homoeopathlc idea of I!ke curing like would apply as well in law as In medicine, and it ta pity It cannot be enforced, a Americanisms, John Morley, the English statesman, who was here recently, thought that some of the expressions used in this country were refreshing in their orgi- nality, “As I was standing at one of the entrances to your new subway in New York,” sald he, ‘a man passed me who apparently had gone through the demoralizing experience of being pam of a joetinig, energetic crowd, His companion asked him, ‘Well, how do you feel now, after going through the tunnel?’ ‘I feel as the porker must feel,’ answered the man, pushing the dents out of his hat, ‘which has just been forced through a sausage skin,’ ” Proof Positive. “How do you know Miss Oldone !s older than she claims to be?" “Why, when she said she was but “Well, was she pleased?’ “No; she got hoppin’ mad. ee ce A Saving Grace. He-So you're going to marry old Millions? Why, he has the ugliest shade of red hair She—But, Freddy, you know he only has a very little of it, A Kindly Concession. She—That's all very well, but what would you do if I should dle? He-—Why, the least I could do would be to go to the funeral, (Mary Jane Circumvents the Two A Brilliant Scheme to Silence Her and Kickums Goes Wrong. Now, WHAT DO twenty-two I told hershe didn't lool | tL Dads, NXg NY () TheMan — Higher Up. By Martin Green. | SER,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the olty is going to tear the advertising signa, slot machines and clgar and flower stands out of the Subway.” “Oh, very well,” replied the Man. Higher Up, ‘Let us hie to the Sub- way, tear down one of the ornate works of art and kick holes in tt, Let us break the slot machines, for- clbly remove the objectionable stands —and get pinched, “Did you ever hear of the Supreme Court? You probably know what an {ndjunction is, Keep tabs, on the Ine terborough Rapid Transit Company injunctions when it begins to injune, “It's about an even bet that they never take the signs out, At any rate the promise of Borough Preal- dent Ahearn that he will rip them ; | out in forty-eight hours is not likely to bare the station walls for good, The advertising signs are revenve producers, and when you see @ cor- poration letting go of a revenue pro= ducer without a scrap please be kind enough to put me wise, 1 want to find out which of the managers of the corporation {s dippy. “Of course, the Subway belongs to the people and tho people are sore at the signs, but that fact doesn’t purity the air.’ The Rapid Transit Come mission, which was supposed to repe resent the interests of the people in leasing the Subway to Mr, Belmont, gave permission for hanging signs on the walls and is helping the Intere borough to keep them there, “What the people in general would like to know is who is getting the proceeds of all this advertising game? By the terms of the contract with the Interborough the city is supposed to get a certain percentage of the rée celpts of the Subway, Are the ree culpis trom advertising, clgar and flower stands and slot machines counted in with the gross? Or do the directors of the Interborough propose to pay the city a percentage on the fares alone and cop off the whole bunch that comes in for the adver- tising privileges? Are they using I; |city property for profit without pay= ing any rent?” “Receipts ought to be receipts, however they come in,” observed the Cigar Store Man. “As a financier, Bo,” advised the Man Higher Up, “you wouldn't getto first base,” Mrs. Nagg and Mr. WAS at Mr. | and Mrs. Ladyfinger' s to-day, and Mr. Ladyfinger made some fudge, but he got #0 Interested reading the Ladies’ Home Journal that he let the fudge sorch, Oh, Mr. Nags, if you could have heard how his Roy L. McCardell wife talked to him! it was dreadful! Mr. Ladyfinger's eyes filled with tears and he went right upstairs’ and disrobed and retired, and we could hear him sob- bing himself to sleep, Mrs. Ladyfinger didn't xcem to care. I thought she was dreadful hard-hearted, and 1 told her 80, It I w Areadful embarrassing pos! tion for a third party to be present at such unpleasaat domestic scones, but 1 do think Mrs, Ladyfinger was unneces- sarily cruel to Mr, Ladyfinger. It ts a terribic thing to see a strong man weep. “1 think {t 1s terrible for married peo- ple to row in front of outsiders, and as J sald that day when we had words In front of Mrs, Gradiey and the Flyppe girls, if you had a wife like Mrs, Lady- finger, you would know what It was, You cannot come Into this house, Mr. Nagg, and I do not care who Is pres- entl, and put your feet up on the cozy corner, I don't care If you have your slippers on, What do you think a cozy corner {s for? “I won't have It! I won't have your Kieking the rugs, I won't have your smoking a pipe or a cigar in this house anywhere but in the cellar, and when you do go Into the cellar you get ashes all over your clothes, If you expect me to brush them you will walt a long (Ime, and so I tell you, “And your socks are in a terrible condition and all your shirts need but- tons on them, Why don't you patron- ize a laundry that does mending? 1 have gone nearly blind fixing up Brother Willie's things, and I almply The ‘ .» By Roy L. McCardell.... HOG Renee can't and simply won't be a slave fixe ing up your things when you are #0 careless, It is a shame the way you go out of this house with your trousers mot creased, and your clothes not brushed, and the buttons hanging, from your waistcoat by a string, What will people think? And mo killing myself trying to do the work of this boue with only two servants and Mrs, Stry- ver has six, “Thank goodness, I am not a hypo crite, I take notice of how you aot when strangers are around, You arg nice enough then. And yet when I try to make you comfortable at home you look as gloomy as if you hadn't a friend in the world, “Why do women break thelr hearts ‘about men who do not care for them? T was a happy girl in Brooklyn. Mamma can tell you that, [t is true that Mamma and I did not get along well together and my papa didn't appreciate me, Nor body appreciates me, You don't appre clate me, You don't even speak to met Shut up, Mr. Nagg, I don't want to hear a word from you!” A Brooklynite-Mare, REAK! creak! creak! C An ear-splitting, —halr-raising squeak ‘That startles to fright The aroused Brooklynite, As It comes ‘round the corners so bleak, Bump! bump! bump! Making nerves take a terrible jump, Making hearts stand aghast As the horror goes past ‘ With a horrible clumpity-thump, And the Brooklynite moans A few mutters and groans,— Though he knows they will not be the last, ‘Then with nerves all a-creep Once again he woos sleep, For the night-blooming ash car has passed, WALTER A, SINCLAIR, ‘Fudge” Idiotorial Let Us All Be Up and Doing. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) {OP IRN cAI ET lady wants to do, ONE thing Is A lady correspondent writes to know If she shall do what she WANTS to do MERELY be- cause she wants to do It, YES AND NO. It cepands very largely upon WHAT the certain, NO lady should EVER do ANYTHING because ANYBODY ELSE wants it done, THISIS A FINALITY, It Is better to do what you WANT to do than to NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING, ALL students of moral philosophy AGREE on THIS point, The authorities, from PLATO to JOHN BRISBEN WALKER, are in FULL ACCORD. We once knew a PRINTER who Insisted that everything that was wrong was WRITE, We COULD not AGREE with him, Many people who would like to DO AS THEY PLEASE fall short and merely do WHAT THEY CANI Hark to the song of the poet; “LET US THEN BE UP AND DOING EVERY ONE WHO COMES ALONG!”