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hed by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6 Park Row, New Tork Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Clase Malt Matter, LUME 48. »NO, 18,898, TO BROOKLYN HOMES IN 15 MINUTES.” ‘The Evening World's fight for a subway line that shall enable pas- ers from this side the river to reach their “Brooklyn Homes in Fif- Minutes” is fairly won, ‘The Rapid Transit Commission has accepted the slight modification f the Gates avenue plan favored as an alternative by the Central Brook- nl Transit League. According to this the subway will run from Fulton et through Lafayette avenue to Bedford avenue, to Gates avenue, and ¢ along Gates avenue and Broadway to East New York. ‘This will accomplish the end sought by The Evening World in favor- ig a route for the accommodation of the people of Brooklyn, rather than he apparently selected in the interest of the B, R. T. Company. The relief afforded in Manhattan by the Subway and the intolerable nditions now existing in Brooklyn should stir the commission ‘o the st energetic action in constructing the extension to the Borough. of WHY DOES HE GET IT? "Brother Charles's” Dock Board leased to “Brother Jack's” contract. y and trucking company two piers upon terms thus characterized in the rt of Commissioner of Accounts William Hepburn Russell to Mayor + “It is safe to say that one week's net revenue will pay the yearly ment named in the lease, leaving profits from the remaining fifty-one for the sole benefit of the lessee.” “Brother Jack’s” company has contracts amounting to many million D for work to be done under franchises first held up and then nted by a Board of Aldermen controlled by “Brother Charlie” and his chmen, i * Last week Alderman Gaffney, the boss of the Murphy contracting pmpany, voted against the franchise for a Sixth avenue subway, so neces ¥y to the thousands who visit the great shopping district. Yesterday the nchise was granted, and it is understood that “Brother Jack’s” company Said on clean as conditions.” nearly under such ‘reasonably’ clean. cleanliness and comfort as ¢ the east side are a civic disgrace, eee treet section ‘the streets are simp! warbage, ashes, old boots, rotting vewetables, and, worse regard this as even, “reasonably clean.” Max Beerbohm recommends actors to wear thelr stage clothes on the street “to advertise the play and to lessen self-consciousness.” Such a practice would contribute greatly to the payety of Broadway, But an actor unconscious of his clothes would be missing halt the fun of his fine raiment, oe 8 Dark blue now the favorite color for @utomobdiles, A red devil under any other hue will be as dangerous to pedes- trians, eee Oity Friend—Do you keep a cow? Mr, Oulot, of Drearyhurst—l have a strong suspicion that I do, What I pay my milkman ought to be enough to keep three cows.— Chicago Tribune, eo. ° Subway aslgns, according to Dr. Park, so far trom belng baneful to the public health, promote It by acting as bacteria traps and germ killers. They are sure death to all kinds of microbes and no home should be without one, oe 8 Beef end mutton up again and ‘butohers' bills at top-notch figures, An- other knockout for the Beef Trust and the housekeeper will be undone; there the contract for the work. Is not all this a beautiful combination of polities and business—of ng and “pulling?” It beats the vulgar Tweed system out of sight. is a vast improvement upon the rich plum-gathering from the Dock Building Departments and the dirty graft through the police under ; ign of Croker. ne Md fh so much that is obvious on the surface as to “where he gets ihiere is a plain demand for a probe that will go deep enough to dis- ly he gets it, UNANIMOUS FOR PURE MILK. vening World desires to thank its newspaper brethren of the for their hearty sympathy and co-operation in the great work of g to provide a pure-milk supply for the children of the tene- the lives of thousands of whom have been yearly sacrificed indizement of the members of the Milk Trust. Irrespective ge in which they aré printed or of the nationality to which il, the journals of the east side, faithfully representing their unanimously support this movement. thetic to read in them the stories of women coming to their id telling the sad tale of children murdered by bad milk, of purses uily supplied with pennies to pay the prices which the Milk Trust pure milk, of the great foreign-born. population getting their . of the institutions and the justice of the free land of on in the treatment they receive from the great trusts which for their sustenance only the leavings and the spoiled rem- e bountiful supply which the farmers of the United States with hatuire produce. Nisa wrong which demands and must have a remedy, npressio ¥ [ACHINE TO WHIP WIFE-BEATERS, oston woman has invented a machine for giving to wife-beaters their own medicine, Being a passionless contrivance, it wiil fh an even lash, By a skilful arrangement of screws it is mi '¢ victim about so that the punishment shall be fairly distributza ther the apparatus seems to combine cleverly the virtues d im justice and the patent, pivoted broiler. The only danger of any in chastisement will lie with the attendant, who may forget the power, xt thing will be to secure official adoption for the machine, Of $250 for a wholesale lealer who supplies bad milk is too imishment. His not only guilty of fraud, but he stea! the health as the money of hundreds of customers, 0 sdon cabmen have started training classes for instruction in motor » Over here a tag is fastened behind the car and the public takes of life and death, iy ir, Park, of {he Division of Bacterio!ogy of the Health Department, bway signs kill germs. It speaks well for human beings that ivé them, e People’s Corner. sum of $117 In-an hour, what about it? Does he hope by disclosing his evi- dently to the manner born adeptness in the art of faking to stem the tide of human nature and stop the flow of the itor of The Evening World: want to get sicep when In t look .up at the crown of your} ‘and keep looking up. are victories which ars dearer than defeats, Ate It was appropriately a trust magnate who paid $4,000 for the manuscript of “The Autocrat of the Broakfast Table.” * 2 8 Book out teaching how to write “crisn, powerful, sltruight-from~the-shoulder- business English.” Wise beginners will continue to model thelr style on the advertieing columns, * 8 8 London detective robbed in the Ten- ¢erloin, Not @o sure now of the su- perior fitness of ‘a man from Scotland Yard" for Police Chief. eee Author of “Gentleman from Ind{ana”’ a victim of stage fright. usually diffident to the point of tim- idity, but certain things have Aded in creating the impression that Indiana |men were immune from shyness, o 8 8 She—And the reason you are so late getting home you were struck by a trolley car? Were you fright- ened? He—No (hic); didn’t even (hic) take my breath away, She—No; I notwe that.—Yon- kers Statesman, eee More deaths from filmsy building construction, more “gross negligence on the part of some one,” with various coroner’s quests recommendations, etc. to come, Another “lesson,” In fact, No lack of these lessons in the past year, but apparently a painful deficiency of diligence on the part of those who are expected to apply them, o ee The cowboy Inauguration cavalcade has left the ranch for Washington, the Pine Ridge braves have departed from their tepees, the Rough Riders are on thelr way, the college boy contingent, the Filfpino constabulary and’ other de- tachments are In readiness for the Penn- sylvania avenue parade, ‘The signs mul- ply that the inaugural procession will crowd hard In interest anything that ever came up the Applan way in old Rome. An added touch of ‘Smpertal realism could be given by binding a lay figure of the Beet Trust to the trium- phal chariot wheels, eee Blographer of American Governors notes that eight of those at present in office are ‘self-made.’ Public princi- pally interested in the enemies some of them have made, ® see “De man dat finds fault,” sald Uncle Eben, “never makes no dis- coveries dat pays dividends,”— Washington Star, see The “many thefts of school supplies" raise the suspicion that the crookedness is not all In the puplis’ spines, oe The King of Spain, who has been warned by a Madrid magistrate that his automobile violates the speed law should come to New York and enjoy the superior privileges of American citizenship, ‘oe South Dakota follows Tennessee 1n regulating football by law. Apparently nothing that a modern legislator hesi- ltates to tackle, College presidents will protest against infringement of tople right. tiene Astron that the new sun spots of possibly 3,000, 009,009 sq miles, Man of # € entirely ssex the settlement worker as a ready reckoner and light ning computer. ° ee Patience — (enthusiastically) — Mind sleep will come, br your mind, ‘The eye and the together. ‘Tis harder than k to Keep your mind fixed on Bpot. Do it, and you'll go to ng {milk of human kindness? By what of his justify the human family totally ignore the plaint of the needy? to fo it. The ancient writers In She to Know It In “Het? Teclpe. ROSBA, Ed The Eyening World United Irishman a It ‘or a girl's mother to let a gentleman friend tn or sb Ne, Can Diseriminnte, . she go to the door herself? his is ior of The Evening World: Rie TicaReen earathau iether \ i ape: x : , ali and e er and he “ Aaloon-keoper obliged to serve] are not pagualnted: Alas On Hot a minor aud who Ss not fated with alcoholic drinks dur- MiG logal hours of business, or has Mie to refuse to serve certain ie and oh what grounds? : INQUISITIVE, Mv the Weal Toor a Chance, bib Witor of he Aevering World: porns Mr. Wators, by simulating sBelppled cpndition, did collect the ! Tt In Not a Law, To the Editor of The Evening World: Do pawnbrokers tn New York City and Brooklyn have to show you an article pledged upon your paying them MB cents to look at it when you contem- plate buying It? A man here argues that was the law once, but not now, PETER W., MEAD, Bhelton, Conn, M analysis or logic does this experience | Nd) uion at the home When 1 first heard him sing T thought Twas in the neat world, Patrice (sarcastically)—Indeed! Which one?—Yonkers Statesman, ee | | Messenger boy guides police to poolfi got his informa fice? | . . . | Amer \is beating all and hurdle racing. Might prove recipr cally rooms, Could he try a term of American college ath- the Side. Health Commissioner to be ‘as cats can be That {s, But why should Rot the east side passenger's nickel procure him as good a quality of passen- ger In other parts of Manhattan re- celves for his? The foul, battered and il-lighted surface cats which remain on E*: SIDE CARS declared by Speaking of east side conditions, & citizen reports that in the Stanton rotting horses are the exhibit,” Can't Authors One Ivan @aused Boar ftounds to Fata Kegent. assassinated as well aa men, eral hundred virgins from all parts of cow for the Prince to choose his wife. ins expected to fill all the principal of- an Rhodes scholar at Oxford competitors at jumping profitable for English students to Pooegenaeeneesnrernreger yer revesseososonsee | Notes on Art ‘Mr. Stone Age Back in New York. # #!) and others, { “THESE NEW YORKERS ARE $0 Vip Q | A AM By Hours Py resis ORDIAle « IDON'T CARE IF I : », DOHAVEACIGAR PIANO with a history ta exhibits A ed in a Fourteenth street musio store, It 1s an Hrard,' a small upright, of the make.of moré than @ | seneration ago, in a mahogany case with ponderous gilt ornaments tn the Empire style—evidently to match a set of furnitute, This instrument 4s, oF wae, @ Roosevelt family heirloom, and young ® | Theodore used to drunt strenuously om © |{t some twenty-five or thirty years aga. % | When Mr. Roosevelt became famous > |enough to be pestered for contributions > |to church entertainments and the like he gave this plano to be raffied off for ® | the benefit of a children's ald society a¢ > | Caristadt, N. J, The winner, it seems, % | wanted something more up-to-date on which he might appropriately play “A Hot Time in the Old. Town,” ao he swapped it for a brand-new Fourteenth- Streeter, and the middle-aged Brard falls prematurely Into the innocuous desuetude of an interesting antique, oo OVELY as a half-forgotten dream, the marble Aphrodite at the National Arts Club smiles upon her dally multitude of visitors, while the spectacled quidnunos quibble and doubt her age, These ‘experts’ must do a lot of head-shaking, or they are lable td lose thelr jobs, As Mr, Pipp says, when the olive in his cock+ tall disagrees with him: “My butler gets $60 a month, so I suppose I've got to let him buttle." It would never do for a critic to stand for anything: the common crowd admires, If it could ‘be mathematically proved that the statue were commonplace or ugly, and yet of the echool and time of Praxite- les, they would fall over one another to worship, As it is, her matchless beauty Js about all she has to offer in support of her “genuineness,” ao the wise guys of Gotham stand aloof and ory: “Back to the junk-room, young woman! You can't fool us with mere good looks.” u r= —JCUTAND THEM CLOTHES ? MAKES HIM THINK OF CLIFFVILLE, q Wh . y ou ., é + Kyo» We Meee ; N the same gallery where the sen- Ker ) , y I sational Aphrodite is on view, at the : j National Arts Club, Js an ungues- tloned portrait of Titian, gainted by, himself, eome time toward tho end of. the ‘ateenth century. In the backgroung of this picture appears @ statuette of the Praxitelean Venus, or Aphrodite, Dearing a close likeness to the mysterl- ous one now exhibited in New York; also to thelr pretty aleter, the Venug de Medic! of Florence, The thought $# suggested, why might not both these statues be contemporaneous and ing cuples—for it seems the art of mal ing replica plaster casts was unknown to the anclents—of that most famous work of Greek sculpture In the age of Praziteles (B, C. 864), his nude Venus, Athens was 60 eager to own this statue that she offercd to buy it by paying the whole public debt of the Btate to which it belonged—which offer was per > |emptorily refused. If the Praxiteles ; | Statuary Company, Lamited, had been hustlers like the art-dealers of to- day, they would have started up & plant and flooded the market with @ prime article of Venuses, each and every one bearing the registered trade-mark. That would have spared us a lot of discussion in the ci of the Miss Aphrodite who at present is the talk of New York town, Little Willie’s Guide to New York. THE CITY HALL. The ajtty haul ls a large and impre siv steuckture oonveenyently site" ed midway between tammeny al aud waul streat it is the habbited mare macklellan and the man who {she tes pedierr Isenses, some time ago it was desided to cleen the exstertor of the sitty haul by sandblast and to give the venneribble bilding that pleesing toombstone effekt whitch deelights all bethesllers, then thay planned to maike the inteerior of the altty haul cloen and pure In the salme way bus they found thare wasn't enuff eand in the whole dexzert of saharra for the purpose so thay abbandund the rkeem, AFTER A BIRD-OF FINE PLUMAGE FOR THE CLIFFVILLE MUSEUM “THIS CITY LIFE 1S T00 STRENUOUS FOR ME 22 oo-9 @ Further Recital of the Record of Assassination Connected with the Russian Throne, the Regent Andrew Choulski and let\ Andrew Bogolloubskl, which Included ) against him and one night attacked him No, 32—Empress Helena, loose is a>. vino ate ‘Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible, [In the Kremlin, where they, tarew, hin] gorge washenton made his greatest | up Andrew, ry an the ere ut 4 window, stal Im to deat Poisoned, | up Andrew, thus making Iwan the et | Wo 34—Boris’s Son Simply |in'ths sourtvard, burned his body and apensh trom the, sepe of itty baal Ivan's early training taught him the took the funeral ashes, which they © demorallzed and barbarle was the! yaayon that ho could rule Hustla only A. wrapped up in a plece of cloth, and put be he caime to alt S Russian Government under the) with ‘a bloody rod of tron, and that it ssassinated. in acannon, which wae thereupon dls- folie oe pat cat GA Poppa says sed i men re; he did not ki is enemies irs hey vharged in celebration of the occasion, Tatar domination that women Were) void Kill him. Civil wat promptly be- ‘This isgagsination, No, 25, was one of | egodent have come to a better plalce General, which elected him to the throne, The astronomers predict- ed that his reign would last only seven 4 ke tt Htution saved "oars, and he did his beat to ma that he would last longer, He banished or had as- Ke ny more oonhiden ? uy Bay | sassinated every one in whom the blood about the court, and 8! ghitered hun- dreda ot the high nobly, He thors | the Romanoffs flowed, He sent an y oughly thinned out the Russian aristoc, embassy to England and corresponded *eeGraclousl” What's to become of th racy and cowed those whom he allowed with Queen Elizabeth, Receiving t€-| Amortean helreases who want to marty j ports of the English and French fash-| effete foreigners, with. moth-eaten fons, he tried to make his courtiers titles?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ivan kept with him both his sword and conform to them, Up to that time all After the death of Ivan the Great See ea eee Meat yee pearance wis to, deface tie Image, Ot | We should learn to be more Tee EE aE eto | Sats ape [saw to i that the Russians were a| charitable toward the RICHI died sudlenly and for his second wife) and many Much fault is found with them ORIS called a meeting of the States rn B the gon of the Taar was old enough to marry it was the custom to select sey- the most thoroughly conducted of them all, When the assassing had finished there was not a remnant or trace left of Otreplef. —— A NATURAL QUERY, “I see that a movement has been started to prevent the marriage of tne the bord of alldermen meet evvery, week at aitty haul and always enter the bilding on the side ferthest awam from tho pleece stayshun in the balsee ment 1 wander why, the sltty haul te the seat of loaxle guvvernment and on top of It fs @ statchu of Justis whioe has fled shreeking to the roof in @ dem prit but ven? effert to eskalp, A. P, TERHUNE, eking to retain Th gan, the high nobles see: their power and to dethrone ivan, succeeded in poisoning Ivan sey Umes, but his hardy constitution s y fter a the Empire and to bring them to Mos- ({uminm a ance at tne When he had chosen all of his wife's family came to the palace to Hye with him, and her brothers, uncles and cous- It Costs Too Much to Be Rich. A race, | e ‘Patars still left their Impress on Perrible le we pickea ot Hel lingki who, to of the most notw matrimonial eustoms and on prevent. her own nation, threw | lie suppressed the ny yr find it tance and minnera of the Rus- by the unthinking who get along ¢ s 8 rel y prison cas |all his cruelly he was popular w, ean Women hose day, sslay Fe ae tew (who, Ned What. was | people, In order to have a body In op: | wornan, Be aie ruGe Own uel wt (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.), without money because they |! AS | ACK THE PRICE] | A little headwork will show that the rich deserve sympathy! - Did you ever figure up HOW MUCH It costs to be wealthy | ‘ Rockefeller rides in a $10,000 automobile, You can GO JUST ‘asyiona, AS FAST for 5 cents In Mr, Belmont's Subway. J. P. Morgan's cigars cost him a DOLLAR each, You get yours for FIVE CENTS. Willle Vanderbilt paddles around In a yacht, You can take a \nice voyage to Williamsburg for THREE CENTS with Icebergs $ rich enough to afford It, to happen ‘to th Ina Hitter carried by lit mn, escaped tojpesition to the nobillt loth a meeting of th two| which Included the minor bons e Pp Helena | merchants and the territor reigned as regent, Her own reutlyed | "Pais body voted him appr Were dissatisned With not getting ins and In all his the offic rel w Usted be had | port of than pet gong voland. When “Phe wives of ed hemselyes elabo all | his ( su buceeedud at last Empress Helena in | her between | ther Rorls tried to change these epiracies, th poisoning the 33—Dmitri Ibanovitch ig Had His Throat Cut. i f ywis the chu jor Ly ftoh sts In onder to sur tto induce the nobility to shave. H jad become iccustamed to sinations and n insurrection their beards, ¥ ving on Boris died. No, ~PiaR polsoning the Kmpress Hel. | the li AVA AE AM eee A™ the groat nobles administered | AU Py, uxtendel Hele te Nanos W180. 8 2 ! WwW jsrown Mit the government themselves, An- |) Pandan other: members of his famliy| — W, W. Astor HAS to Ilve In London! YOU can live In Brooke Choulskl overthrew the Matro- Aig eA 'lyn—or on the way there and back! hei politan of Moscow, and appointed him-| Athen but that they § | No, 35—Gregory Otreptef,, | : SA aE 3 | letle ran jolt Regent, Ivan the Terrible, grand.|iana where. they lac gory) peel, | "E,W. Harriman travels In a PRIVATE CAR, You can count Promise made (hat as a result offson of Ivan the Great and ‘Terrible, |Biving the small lind Stabbed to Death. \the tles with YOUR FEET! ohanges ne 1 by the burning off who was allowed to maintain a Little | le” Pehor was. slekly and did. not REGORY OTREPIEF, who headed Ue Grove stre jeeb0) “a new avenue) gourt of his own and to be nominal] live. long When he died hls successor, G the Insurrection against Loris, A Fifth avenue palace costs milllons and then the owner has will be given the city.’ Good idea, {goverelgn while the Regent Andrew| Dmitri Lvanoviteh, hid tls throat cut 4eated himself on the throne, He| tg jive at a hotel | May get Eleventh avenue back somo} choulaki was the actual ruler, muce| D%rome, Godpunot, fs cousin on hi6 wa not stay thore long, because day and then there will be two, ceeded in 103 in geuting possession of |S, aha” extinguished, {par dake ae nobles soon organized an ineurrection The Rich not only need all they have-THEY NEED MORE! ‘ , ‘ PETE, tae cer aecemnam tile ltini set tiahatt ncclinnanhiniactiantitainateseyninbesiont: