The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1905, Page 14

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TIME FOR THE PROBE. everything 1s “square” about the Murphy contracts a thorough Mnvestigation will stmply furnish a badly needed moral reinforcement to ‘¢apital of the New York Contracting and Trucking Company. © If the rich contracts are due, as appears upon the surface, to political laence ‘hep its leverage in the clty government, the people are en- d to it, The use of the Board of Aldermen, or of any other official power, shake “plums” into the hands of a Tammany contracting company pely connected with the new boss of that organization would be a : anda differing only in kind from those which overthrew Tweed and pave Croker out of the city, i Ik was The World's persistent iteration of the unanswered question : hare did you get it, Mr. Croker?” which goaded that suddenly en- hed leader into retirement, If extorted contracts have taken the place “graft” as a source of revenue for the men who work politics t their own pockets all the time” let the public learn the facts. ik {s time for the probe—and for another question: i DOES HE:GET IT? ———_—_—— MORALITY AND THE TRUSTS. President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, says: “We can't abolish sts, We must moralize them.” And John E, Parsons, ¢sq., the yunsel af numerous great combinations, indorsed the advice of Presi- ereneevcceceess Said on the Side. MPRICA 1s @aid by Mrs, Sutro to be ‘full of Venuaos” whose phys! eal charms have nothing to fear from those of Mr, Linton's cago-aw-lait Aphrodite, Gounds heretical, but thei something in it, Most feminine criticism of the Greek statue has been directed against her large fect and robust ankles, which hardly conform to New York mod- els, and against the ample waiat, which fe innocent of corsets, Report ebroad that larger shoes are coming in fashion with the sex, but wise dealers will re- frain from advertleing ‘“Aphrodite| lasts." see “Japanese fight for passes.” News may create a bond of sympathy at Al- pany, e . e “Daring safe robbery in Tenth ave nue.” Does “daring” convey just the meaning desired? The adjective |s regarded by some punets as obsolescent @s applied to burglary in New York. oe A tiliion pounds of coftee consumed In} ¢ the United States in one year. Such & hoedlessness of those warning signé about trembling limbs and stugeish vera! eee Said by a Settlement worker to be 300,000 tenement dwellers who don't get enough alr to breathe. More “break- tastless children” arithmetic? eee “What can I do,” inquired the acheming statesman, “to twin the gratitude and favor of the public?” “Retire from public life.”— Somerville Journal. to “investigate the character of the men in charge of the big before investigating money in their stocks.” living the notion that investors or speculators and not the public Jones chiefly interested in trust abuses, how would this theory ope- re 4 more-eminently moral, not to say pious, individual in any poration than is John D. Rockefeller? Who has given more to education and. religion than he? ‘better lay churchman in the country than J, Plerpont Mor- moving spirit in many of the great trusts and combines that d the lambs to the raw and robbed consumers through tha f monopoly? ‘a sterner Calvinist than John J. McCook, whose name the the Ship-Building Trust have good cause to remember? Ht not be said of most of the\directors of the predatory trusts monopolies that “they are all honorable men’—according to Of the business world and the legal profession? “moralizing the trusts’ is like urging the altruizing of s combine. The example of a few law-defying trust mag- il would do more to end the evilsof monopoly than all the investigating that can be done between now and the end of ¢lt's second term. CO-OPERATIVE MILK DEPOT. ning World’s movement for a co-operative milk depot on 4s receiving universal support. The officers of the Univer- ht, the East Side Civic Club, the Society for the Prevention Children, the Educational Alliance and the Tammany and the istrict leaders, as well as the farmers, the milk dealers and ; have all given it their hearty indorsement. of this plan commends it. It is not proposed for the iblish retail milk routes nor for the retail dealers to buy but only to eliminate the middleman and to share his the consumer, the retailer and the farmer, This alone great gain, but beyond this is the purpose of very one con- pply pure, fresh milk at 25 per cent. less than the Trust ilk. . The difference would save the people of Greater $11,000,000 a year, without computing the value in dollars of the lives of the thousands of children annually slaughtered THE CRIME OF SELLING BREAD. oré Magistrate Crane a policeman arraigned a trembling east-side j, whose few cents a day for his wife and family come from his out of bread. He had sold a loaf last Sunday, That was his of- ‘a farce,” cried the Magistrate, “to arrest a man for selling yen on Sunday. I'll never hold.a man on such a charge.” le leaven leavens the whole loaf, A little magisterial common far, now and then, when common humanity and the blue laws mever quite a farce, however, when for a detail of Sunday perse- able-bodied policeman is drawn from the serious business of his crime goes undetected and vice stalks abroad, Sutro is not the first to make the claim that there are living with handsomer figures than any marble Venus, Byron, who tional advantages for judging, called sculptors a set of “impos- Tye seen far finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal, h “yreak in Chicago wheat prices” shall go on until every specu- has been trying to boost the price has had his financial backbone will be no mourners among the buyers of bread, ing by the reports from Manchuria the Russians are in the way ‘that “one more good licking” which is needed to turn the mind toward terms of peace. ' e People’s Corner. re from Evening World Readers Crayon Swind! some good work on the philosophy of of The Evening Wor' numbers he will find that the dog and in your paper a warning to/the rabbit will run on forever, or rather to beware a the “photo swin-\for an infinite distance without the dog I also warn them to beware, a8 catching the rabbit, because no matter the men to be the meanest! what the distance they run, there will dn existence, They offer alaiways be one-half a distance between it $4.95 that could easily be du-\them, It may be an infinitely small dis- Wi at 7 cents, If the party WhO tance, but nevertheless a distance, Now, letter signed “Bufferer’ would) a distance or one-half a distance (how- Aittle law procedure he certainly | ever infinitely smali itself), compared gem hls property. People, take) with zero or nothing, 1a Infinitely large, zon be fooled, by, the guindler |herefore there will always be an infin. BROOKLY NITE, a space between the dog pe the rab- a J, O'B,, fad Rabbit” Answer, Elmhurst, 1.’1, of The Evening World: No. eo e Noted that women in business are} % dally showing a greater capacity and aptitude for large financial transaction: ‘Well, there's Mrs, Gaffney, tary and treasurer of a million-dollar con- tracting company, » Search for the coffin of Paul Jones again proves ¢ruitlesy, Almost as hard to And thie illustrious dead man as to Giscover tho live Man wanted for the Folive Dupurtment. ee Writers on ‘the passing’ of the loco- motive” will note the B. & O, order for 259 now engines and other large orders by the Pennsylvania and the Reading. Bteam locomotive not yet Oslered, in apite of electrical progress. eee Mrs, Roosevelt's inaugural dall gown of New Jersey ellk may do, but what will fhe ladies think of her Indiana hat? eee Minister ¢rom Neighborhood House fears that if his ‘proteges in the slums’ Ineny that the giver of the Hyde ball had refused them chanty on the ground of expense ‘they would be moved to tear} ¢ him timh from llmb."" Maybe #0, But aome of them know that more of the ‘monoy spent at Sherry's came thelr way than would have been the case had it been left untouched in the bank or spent for Japanese bonds, eee “In the old Puritan days people went to ohurch carrying guns.” “While now they carry ham- The Evening World*’s Mome Magasine, py Now MOVE Teresdas Even in ° ow re ON’ You HAYSEED mers,” —-Loutsoitle Courter-Jour- Ha ti cael J ‘parm @old for $3,000,000 in Pittsburg.” Must exolte Ike Baker's envy, oe @ No'notohes in “Bat” Mastergon's gun! One by one the world's idols become as ‘common clay ay the cherished fictions ere subjected to the remorseless blue pencli of historical larga y. ee “Woman fights burglar in the dead of ‘Woman shoots man in her room,” ‘Woman rushes into a burning house to rescue her Uttle ones.” No day without {te deed of feminine herolem, and sometimes, as here, a bunch of three to chronfole, Burglars in partiou- lar heve recently made the acquaint- ‘ance of feminine valor in a way that thay here not rellehed. eee Respected citizen of Charleston, N, 5,, to kilMng peddier for his money in 1875. ‘The Bolts in real lite with the guilty secret kept for thirty years and out at last on the murderer's death bed! The mimic drama was har- rowing eniough; the genuine with an ac- using oonsolence in the Irving role year after year with the curtain only now rung down makes the fact far excel the fiction, eras Latest wrinkle in fashionable Parls weddings is an automobile in place of a coupe for the bridal couple on leaving the church, Automobile wedding jour- moys came in vogue some time ago. . ° “very few people know how to kiss,” says London ‘Truth. ‘They should do it lmhtly, delicately, vet not indifferently, It is an art that can be taught, but J suppose it would not quite do to estab- Ish a school for it, Many persons might misuuderstand.” Might make the sug- gestion to the New York Board of Hd- uecation, which always has an ear to lend to any new educational fad oy folly. eee If love 4s only a disease, As soientiats now say, 1 want to catch tt, if you please, I want it right atoay. Chicago Chronicle, eee New schedule promised for the ele- vated, Might trade the old to the Sub- way for use on local trains, oe to h New writ of habeas corpus for Nan Patterson, Anniversary of the erime h which the prisoner has been chi is soon due, A year in ja an unconvicted defendant will be some- thing extraordinary, even In the history of New York court curiosities, Effect of the siyen by the Tu ulready evident, high art reports a "Pharao! infant Moses rescued from an auction room, Indications that th will bo a notable year in the production of buried art treasures, . Dootors who made t Adolf yon Menzel's rex IMs Jungs showed he had young man from wibercwiosls; yet le lived to be nearly ninety years old. Have tho dootor's word for it that noar- autopsy on state that red as a G sks how soon @ doe willl q, the waitor of The Bvening World: WA rabbit If tho dog starts 100 fect) iy two sisters marry two men, who it and at every 100 feet aro not related to each other, do these eo between them bY mon become brothers-in-law? consult 2, B me if HH. CO. wilh ly half of mankind suffers from oon- sumption at some period Neture cunes some of her ow and leaves ‘the others to perish in splice ot physicians ie @ mystery, S Greek Empire had fallen when in the vear 1453 Mahomet II, stantinople. the Byzantine Christian Church and the conversion of the Tatars to Mahom- etanism, the only relics of Eastern Christianity, outside of the Grecian rul- Ing family and 4 few minor principall- tles who were in the remnants of the Russian Empire, centred around the Princes of Moscow, from which, on the ashes and fragments of the old Russian Empire destroyed by the Mongol in- vaslon, the Russia of to-day has arisen recreated, Modern Russia {s thus as new a coun- try as the United States, starts anew after the breaking up of the Tatar Empire almost as thoroughly as the history of New York begins with {te eettlement by the Dutch and the English, the Great and the Tenribl puled the Russian Empire hea ee) intervening between the relay Paganism of the reigning penele a the return of some of thelr success- ors to Christlanity, is fillea with a long record of princely feuds, family wats and frequent assassinations, George Dantelovitch, who hed suc- ceeded to the Tzarship after the suo- cessive assassinations of his cousin, ruled under the title of Prince of Mos- cow conferred upon him by the Grand Khan, The Grand Khan sent the baskak Seventh Bonga with & Mongol army throne, monies and while the Populace were gathered sullenly listening to the an. ael T sw the Russians, and Alexander fled, No, H came Giswatiefed and hed him mus pesiak who represented him was d'psat- vitch Stabbed by His Cousin. UCCESSIVE Khans continued to be domindnt over the Russian rulers until the sixteenth century, The entered Con- ‘With the obliteration of Its history Until the reign of Ivan nth century, the century and a half Seat Tzar George on hig Moscow After the {nauguration cere- incement made by the eny. e I i Dimitrl ‘yer, non ot Min ver, the cousin whom Tzar George 1 hi igsinated that he might as- t 6, drew hi, ‘ord when \e populace were B th ‘ords in tg but Instead Hehe : bbard he plunge in * George and revenged { Tzar George made Prince by {nherl- t bls relgn lasted onl: r th letails for hig execution makes Dimitri's brother, suc ded to the throne and raised an In- nst the Mongols, 1. oratily successful, but when hews got to the Grand Khan he an army, Which again conquered 30 — Riazan, Pure dered in Prison, IS was succeeded by the Prince Riazan, with whose actions the Ivan dered in prison (assassination No, 90), After the murder of Alexander's suc: | Khan sent word to | a vugitive In exile, | mn and do homage | to the Russia thet if he he would throne, on and y | | yeral | that Alex- a Russla | No. 31. headed by the Grand han. d Alexander to ap he Khan'| Feodor (as ing the of Russia wi going tance ho surviving Prince yas also put t essors were Killed unless thelr Hves by running away to Poland or Austria in exile ‘These assassinations and exeoutions are go frequent and such everyday affairs that the Russian historians do not for: hrone. Mongol baskak Uzbeck soon be- mally chronicle them, THE GREAT Jilexander, Ber | on |t among The Speedy Executions of Russian Rulers by Grand Khan Ivan the Terrible, Who Kept an Iron Cage with a Fireplace Under It for Those He Didn’t Like. No. 28—George Danielos NO TERAIGLE- Isfled with the doings of a Prince he had his head chopped off, or if the Prince had been doing anything of sufficient im portance to warrant it the Grand Khar ordered him sent to Asia and appropt! ately executed there, where the Grand Khan could have the pleasure of super vising the ceremonial details, Vrom ti urrection, and they were regularly 1, Under the Juced more to ou eyes Instead of killing formed possession of as much as could hold and, tn- themselves In a castle, hold vo Russian population subject The Grand Khan was eo far a that it took over a year to visit him and return, Occupied with wars tn Asia, he governed through his baskake and only at intervals found time to send in anmy to reassert his authority, It waa not until the reign of Ivan the Great and the Terrible, which began dn 14, that the Tatar yoke was thrown off. Ivan was the son of Vaasill, one of the princes whose eyes had been put they Jimothy Jimp and Slats, the Slavey, Come to Town.; ,the Mongol and Russian humor of that e to time the Russians rose | by 28, 7190350 The Man Higher Up. By Martin Green. 4 HERE'S too much pomp end display and empense abont this inauguration business,” complained The Cigar Store Man, “Here they are going to lay off the clerks in the Pension Office for three daye so that they can hold a ball in the Pension Building,” “That's right,” sald The Mas Higher Up. “Show yourself « good representative of a nation of pikera, We holler for four years about our great and glorious country and then ® |try to crab our owa game when the } | President frames vp an inauguration that he can take some interest in, “T. Jefferson rode to the White House on a mild but expensive horse when he went to be inaugurated, and tied the steed to a hitching post with his own hands, But did T, Jefferson jever hunt mountain lions? Did he > ever win a war? Did he rope, brand and tle his own party and make it {roll over like a trick dog? The sub- dued inauguration was all right for T, Jefferson, for he was a subdued man, “Some people complain that the ine nuguration parade ia to be too spec tacular. Quite the contrary. Pres» dent Roosevelt has omitted many features that he might reasonably have incorporated, | “Is there to be a calllope in the pa- jrade? J regret to say that President Roosevelt put his foot down firmly jon the proposition to have a calliope {in the parade. Neither will there be |open cages full of mountain lions, bob cats, panthers, scorpions, alligators, |behemoths and other natural exhibits, President Roosevelt wouldn't stand for such a display. Him for dignity, “There are those who thought thae the President would turn loose four or five ferocious bears in Pennsyl- |vania avenue, and while the affright- ed populace was scaling the sides of door of the White House with chaps jand sombrero on, mount a cayuse and |perform a slaying stunt, But the President would not listen to such a suggestion, Only by the exercise of vigorous persuasion was he swerved from an idea to make the members of the Rocky Mountain Guides’ Union wear plug hats,” “But look at the halting of the work, of the Pension Office,” protested The Cigar Store Man, “A majority of the taxpayers of the | United States would like to see the Pension Office working half time per _|petually,” replied The Man Higher Up. ‘Little Willie’s Guide to New York. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. once some fillanthrippests desided that nu Yoark didn't have enuff aggricul- tural advantadges so thay planted a nice yellow brick garden in the verry middie of the aitty and put a goalien figgure on top of it to skaire away the crows the figgure is called dianna and after under which this substitution of ties was made indicated the quallty of perted, Vassili squinted, which was regarded as a grave defect in a ruling prince, He had succeeded to power by alding in having his reigning relatives stabbed, and when there was an insurrection against him and he was captured his enemies they jocosely remarked that his eyes were such o deformity that he should not mind being deprived of chem, and so put out his eyes instead of chopping off his head. Ivan the Third, the son of Vaseill the eaulpter took advantage of the Grand Shan's being employed at home to re- unite Russia and to put a stop to tho lissensions and civil wars, He sorrow- tuily gathered Tagener: all hig danger- mus relatives and put them to death, At their execution, where he attended and checked off the list of names to see ss < that none escaped, he wept coplously. Ho believed that as long hy) there, were she was bilt thay found thay haddent numerous cousins and uncles and Col! onus munny left to bild anny cloathes lateral branches to rise in insurrection Neeiwouta che ‘no ‘peace in Russia, and|for her, the maddinon squaire garden though he. was very fond of some of|{s @ fertyle plot of land whare moter them, h ded it as the safest couTHe botes and sirkusses ad maskeralde balls grow in a pleezing profuzion, tho to enforce d.solpline common or garden varriety of frentch n Hmpire, When a minor displeased Fringe did something Wien Gd goundly | ball Aurishes thare eoven in the conldest chastise the ontpndlne | He. kere wether and the soll !¢ #o ritoh that on in On chee: wth a ee under it! such ockaysions the idkking often in whioh he would put all ‘oonspiring ; and turbulent people and burn them | @rows as high as a man's head, the anual horse show also Inifessts the maddison squaire garden it is a soshual evvent compoased of milyunalres and dresmatkers and sosalety peeple and dyamunds and cosstumes and box Pantys and in former days thare were a few horses too but as thay distrackted |attension from the boxes thay dropt out of the game and evver since then the horse show has grown in poppularrity, AP. TERHUNE, lve. After several years of this disolplinary training of his subjects he made war n hs neighbors, First he overthrew the old Republic of Novgorod and cut off the noses of the prisoners and sent them home, With the Boyards he took sffectual measures to prevent furthe disturbances by cutting off their heads. The old popular assembly called the Vetohe and the system of local magis- trates elected by the people he abol- ished It. must not bo forpetan, EE this —Ee abolition of the old Republlo of Nov-| Wprod did not take place until the year Finnie! Brides, Gone by a Russian Fm-) 4) purat Finland a bride weara to d|ehurch a curious combination of wed- =| ding vell and wedding bonnet, It Is a great cap with nibbon strainers behind, , Mongol rule the forms of popular tion and representation had been con: Tho elections had. been. often | tinued } oii nominal and the people had been | end an front a fall of lace which shad: foreed to accent the allots of the Kans, ows the face, Over her dark cashmere the Czars and the Emperors, but the rf CO ee eae Rea ARH Tomulce| Srenm ale. Wed) @ hesikeoeaeay season ered white apron, over had continued In theory. The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial froma. pee The nine eminent citizens‘ who Why Doesn't are peeking Into the police “sys Elihu Root? § tem” never seem to do good | eae TEAM WORK, | (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) The CATCHER ts always ab- LS sent, We refer to Ellhu Root, /A man with his name ought to readily reach the bottom of things, | If he is slow at lt there must be a ring In hls nose as well as In the Pullce Department! It is very hard to Root with a RING In your NOSE, even ff your name is Elihu and not Porcus! Some DIGGING can be done with the FEET, but the results are apt to be scattering | Beside, Ellhu Is now Rooting AGAINST digging. the Barge Canal, Its truq that THE PEOPLE voted to dig the canal, but this was BEFORE a few of them consulted Root. : It is sometimes possibleto be very GREAT without being very Whenever the Grand Khan o1| the out a6 & more appropriate Dunishmen. jan is execution. The ciroumstances GOOD, Hh §|the hotels and Washington Monu-: ment he would rush out of the back | \ —. —.