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

g ef by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6 Park Row, New York, tered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter: OLUME 46 ; ‘NO, 16,000, THE INAUGURATION. The Presidential term’ to begin with to-morrow’s inauguration at hington will be the thirtieth in the history of the Republic, Theodore is the twenty-sixth individual man to hold the office of Chief pistrate, Five men, rising from the Vice-Presidency, have filled out ms begun by others. In one respect Mr, Roosevelt’s situation on Inauguration Day will be que. Although it is his first elevation to the chief place by the popular ll, there is no immediate predecessor to ride with him to the Capitol, ly the first President has matched him in his. Jefferson might have had John Adams at his side, but that grouty pentleman ran away the night before, John Quincy Adams dodged simi- ly the inauguration of Jackson. ‘Like father, like son.” These are Dt pretty petulances to chronicle, But Roosevelt, the first promoted President, on his first election succeeds himself. Out of twenty-nine Inauguration Days past, so far as there are ; equal numbers, thirteen of each condition, have been pleasant and my, No man, not even Gen. Indications, of the Weather Bureau, can Sure to-day of the weather to-morrow. The people, for an omen, may pe for fair skies, ‘ CLEAN THE STREETS. There was a noticeable increase of activity among the street-cleaners yestérday. The accumulation of dirt-incrusted snow and ice In some of ‘Side streets' was attacked with pick and shovel and the contractors’ its were more in evidence. ‘This is well, but it Is not enough. It is not emergency work on a re scale, and it is a grave emergency that confronts the authorities, To these accumulations of dirt and garbage to remain for slow disposal ‘the sun and rain is to invite an epidemic of filth diseases. If it is money that is lacking, the money should be forthcoming. If iter energy and determination are required, the Mayor ought to unite h the Street-Cleaning Commissioner and the Health Board in stirring ngs up. Clean the streets! : “ THE LATEST HOLD-UP, “At Is encouraging to lear that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company poses to resist the latest hold-up of the Tammany and Aldermanic CO tris, Since the 27th of June last a franchise to enable the Pennsylvania ) complete its great work of annexing Manhattan and Long Island he continent and to establish freight connection with the New Haven Thas been held up by the committee of the Board of Aldermen. This hisé received the unanimous approval of the Rapid Transit Commis- clixding the Mayor and Comptroller. At the public hearing held on '29 not a word of opposition was heard. The connecting link which fe provides. would be. of inestimable: value to Brooklyn and to . It wilf call for the expenditure of $6,000,000, largely for labor. “And yet, apparently because the Pennsylvania Company did not that “the tail went with the hide”—that this link y Otehy the'big.excavation contract which was given to the Murphy company franchise has been withheld. ’ r ‘Mandamus is talked of to compel the Board to act; but a better dy would seem to be to take from the Board of Aldermen the power blic franchises which it now holds and vest it in the Board of Esti- Apportionment. This ts an equally representative and much ponsible and competent body. It is high time that the scandal of many contract trust, operated through the Aldermen, were ended; PUBLICITY THE BEST CURE. icity and agitation are the best remedy for public ills,’ said ni/Darlington, of the Board of Health, at the pure-milk conference y evening, This is the belief of The Evening World, and 8.0f the publicity it has given the milk situation are already ap- The quality of milk sold in Greater New. York has’ perceptibly and nowhere more than upon the east side, where improvement conference the producers and the retall dealers met together first timé and threshed out their differences, finally agreeing that | not antagonists, but have similar interests, and that the worst Of both are the five or six middlemen who run milk-grading and ning establishments for the cheap east side trade, he result will be co-operation between the farmers and the retailers h the better class of wholesalers have announced their willingness to The first step will be to destroy the competition of watered and thereby giving a wider market to the farmers and to the honest who will be protected against iniquitous competition, , Higgins will get full credit for his strength if he can, as he half £5 t0 do, ‘pull the 80-cent gas bills out of the hole dug for them in a if ~The baseball players have gone South. It Is the obvious play of ‘spring to come North, ‘Nobody will ery over a spilled Mitk Trust, years and on each succeeding anniver- sary of marriage, birthday and Christ- mas Day from the first up to this Christmas I have my darling's letters to me, full of love, honor and kindness, A LOVED AND LOVING WIFE. Five Fridays Possible in February itor of The Evening World: wish toway that no manina miner's ip or ona ranch would be so rude considerate of women as your “bred New Yorkers. I got In a Sub- ‘train the other day, in which I was the Side. D will have served one good end if Mt results, promised, in the 00+ tnblishment of a “lost-persone bureau, with @ staff of detectives detailed solely h cases, A stricter Buropean capitals should long ago have been instituted in New York. year (1900) the police of Manhattan sent out 716 ms for missing persons, of whom 26 were never found, Of the 24 bodies received at the Morgue in tl fled, Magnitude of the police work of caring for persons who meet with mi: hap away from home is partially indl- cated by the statement thet in one year 4,046 persons were taken ill in the! streets, while 1,758 were run over, . 8 8 New York Connecting Raibway report @4 to have missed connections with the aldermanic chamber, May have neglect- ed to provide for a Subway approuch of the proper imenalgns, | A show in which Mr, Grout appeared an @ $1,000-a-second acrobat would still fely for ite main interest on the feate of the worki’s ahampion little giant "hold- up" Alderman, r e ° “Say, pa, what'e easy money?” “1 don't know, I work on a ealery.”"—Choago Record-Herald, ey 8 “May try Nan Patterson next month,” In Nan's case the Mays fade into Ovto- bers and spring terme into fall with a Leas asian unique in court calen- ee LJ Osteopathist who declined to exercise his art on the ribs of a section of lamb in the Albany Senate ohamber may have thought it was spring lamb. ee 8 Dr, Siicer’s opinion that there are no more pulpit orators because there is no longer “a convenient hell” to thun- dor at is not shared in Madison Square, Is there not atill a ldleas Tenderloin to orate about? 4 e Correspondent advances « plea to make Lincoln's birthday a Monday holl- day, preferably in Apel or October, wo ‘that tolling Wall street masses may have another triple dey off, Impression among those who cannot take advan- tage of them thet holidays ocour in “punches of three’ aufflclently often under the present calender arrenge- ment, eeenae Delaware bridegroom of elghty weds bride of fourteen, Chloroform for one perhaps not amiss in this case, eee Another theatre removes ite ban from the boycotted critic, About time now to ring down the curtain on the farce? ee 8 Dr. Silcer refers to the “passing of the ohromo pertod of religion,” and Dr. Van Dyke speaks of ‘Dolly Varden Feligious services of a skylarkative na- ture.” Mintsterfal vocabulary seems to suffer no lack of pictureaque phrase- olor. e * . To cause girls’ hearts to ache He tugs at his mustache, And goo-goo eyes doth mache— The man who's on the mache, He taches the cache, —Philadelphia Press, eee In sentencing an ¢ast side shimsha to State prison Judge Foster !s report- ¢d to havo said: “I have been askel from time to time not to use the term ‘yadet,’ But when I review tho, facts in this case I can find no better word to apply to this defendant,” But as the word is neither in the penal code nor in the dictionary is its use in ite oppro- brious sense necessary on the bench? Why give judicial sanction to {ts degra- dation, ‘Cadet’ dates its fall from grace from the women's campaign against red-light conditions in the Van Wyck administration and it iy to be wondored whether the moral good de- rived from that movemont has com- pensated for the linguistic orime there- in committe, oe e Subway management sald to be op- nly woman in my end of the car. tood, and not a single man of- me u seat, Finally a big man in ‘middle of the came up to me offerea mo his He was terner, one of your tera, but he was a gentleman. York men may be polite in in- eases, but to women In general the rudest in the United States, Mrs, MARY G, HARDING. To a Heliable One, Yes. Baltor of The Bvening World: We a little Invention which I want patented, Shall Irisk it and con- y my idea to a patent lawyer? f BRITAIN, Others Beside Mrs, Sutro, Hig tor of The Hvening World: aa the article In The Evening or entitled “Love Letters of a Hus- “written on (heir twentieth an- , and 1 thought perhaps you ys! to know that there are “T have been married forty-two ae im Leap Year, To the Editor of The Uvening World: B bets that there has been a month of February that has contained five Fridays. C eays there has not, WILLIAM J, ALLEN, No, 402 Hast One Hundred ana Twenty- fifth street, ‘What Is Lifet To the Editor of The Evening World; What {s life? Now, that's a question that all generations ask; We work awhile to keep alive and find Ife's but a task, And when the work {s finished both the foollsh and the brave ‘Will find the only way to rest is resting in a grave, GEORGE J, SCHILLING, Jr. The Question and Answer. To the Editor of The Bvening World: Why is there much disease in posed to slde-entrance cars because they would contain fewer seats for patrons, May be that corporations really have souls in spite of the law's fiction to the contrary. eee “Boccaccio” on the Broadway boards. Is Anthony Comstock relaxing his vigilance? ster “Time 1s money.” But extortionately dear when a “constructive recess’ of infinitesimal length cost the country $190,000 in congressional mileage foes, eee Now costs $50 for @ first offense and $500 with a jail.eentence added for o second to have a cigarette in one's pos session in Indigna, Effect of this proscription law on the quality of In- diana literary output wll be awaited with interest and some apprehension, * 6 6 “Ie he @ man whose opinions count for much?’ “I should say he ts, He works in the Weather Bureau,"—Wash- ington Star, . . May be more In that Indiana law for- bidding Filipino college students to woo American girls than appears on the surface, St, Louls coffee merchant, for example, has filed divorce suit alleging alienation of his wife's affections by a Filipino, and it 1s said that jthe con- stabulary at the World's Fair made numerous conquests, Fillpino students at the University of Michigan want to iknow why the little brown man may be a brother but not @ brother-in-law, and they ask for ‘justice, reciprocity and a square deal.” Seems to be something left for them to learn about American | digtinctions between theory and prac- | tce, 4 Editorial opinion that a ‘$15 man’ | should not wear a ‘dress sult” untes \he has the wherew!thal to buy one, | But a h.red “swallow tail” may Inspire lthe wearer to higher things than are possible in a sack coat, os 8 6 Fourteen divorce cases disposed of in }205 minutes before Justice Fitzgerald, | Seat to be close upon the New York record, but a Kansas City Judge could find enough constructive recesses be. tween pleas to clear his entire docke: ISAPPEARANCE of Mamle Flynn} ‘A New # #& Comic Series By Gene Carr. of the kind kept in} Ip one] % fame year 113 were buried as unidenti-f § YUL GIVE A 1.006, TO HAVE Smiths WILL PowER! All the Comforts o CAN You BEAT Him FOR Witt WONDER HAY THE Boys are ome. ¥: The “Boys” May Find Fun in Motoring—but Smith Knows Better Joys. “ Russia's Story from Peter the Great to Catherine IL The Famous Empress’s Favorite, Gregory Orloff, Chokes Peter III. to Death, carry a riding whip, and any noblemen or noblewomen who did not conform to his notions of etiquette he would thrash upon the spot, Peter Marries the First Catherine. H“ wite, Eudoxia, belonged to the Peter the Great's New Code, ETER THE GREAT Buropeanized P Russia as much as he was able. The last trace of Tartar domina- tion had vanished in the preceding reigns, when the Tartars, weakened by civil war among themsel: had thelr armies fully occupled In Asia, Peter drove back the Swedes, who had encroached upon the western confines of the old Russian Empire, and in the defeat of Charles XII, at Puitowa In 1709 the supremacy of Russia was com- pletely established. The Cossacks were organized as a branch of the Russian army and tho extension of Russia southeast to Asia Minor was further on, oun ie administrative, social and ec- closiagtical plans Peter the Great wus opposed not only by the old nobility, but by the Empreas and his son Alex! ‘Nhe ‘Tear hed ordered that the lad of the court should wear French dresses and that the family systam modelled after the Oriental harem should be abolished, Provious to his reign men and women of the higher classes did eg Ma eee ayes fore, ed "Polish municiana and urt balls in imitation of those Raven he had attended on hie Buropean “is trouble in enforcing his now code of etiquette and he took vigor- OUs measures to see that hd was obeyed, ‘At the court levees and balls ho woulill a new nobility but a new city, He ae The New York Maxim. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. man engaged in administering sim: Hy} ilar domestic discipline, what } course do | you pursue? You form one of «@ circle of two or } three hundred spectators who gather to watch the course of summary jus- i tice, but nine times out of ten you don't interfere. Why should you? It is none of your buginess, Where are the police? ‘That, too, is none of your business, un- less owing to some little fracas of your own you ‘become suddenly and person: ally {nterested Jn thelr whereabouta, Tf, leaving the lady undergoing chas- old Ruselan noble family of the Lapoukchine, She was opposed to Peter's Western notions and favored the continuance of the old Russian cus- toms, Peter, divorced her and ban- (shed her from the Russia Empire. Ho Installed in her place a Livon- fan slave named Catherine, who had been the servant of a Swedish pastor and engaged to @ Swedish dragoon, 1n the wars with Russia she ihad been cap- tured by the Ruselan eoldiers and passed a# mistress from one officer to another, Peter met her and ahe suited his democratic habits, After the ban- ishment of his wife he married Cath- erino and installed her 9s Rope, It wa In the early reign of Peter the Great that he founded St, Petersburg. Moscow was dominated by the old no- bility, whose palaces were there, and even with all his executions, ban! ments and corporal chastisements Pi was unable to thoroughly subdue th old nobility and to make them cheer. submit to his ideas of etiquette and zation, ‘Therefore he decided to found not only HERE are Jons on all sorts 0: things, But therc seems to be one subject on which practically all New Yorkers are agreed and that Is a gen eral policy of non LZ whatever does not immediately concern them, We are In- terested in our neighbors’ affairs, to be gure, That fe only human, But our In- terest stops short of Interference, and we seem to have condensed all the com- mandmenta Into a stern resolution to mind our own business, story told by Mies Mary Murray, a de- partment store detective, who, In her ef- forts to capture a man shoplifter, fol- lowed him to the street and was tripped and thrown to the ground by him before she could obtain assistance, “T hollered to the 600 people on the sidewalk to give me a hand, but thoy says ‘AW, Haye him go!’ and passed she sald, ovAnd this incident is typical of thou- jgands that occur every day, If on your way to lunch you come upon a lady per- Witness the tisement to her fate, you walk on and a young woman coming toward you exe- cutes an unexpected pirouette on tho fee and falls to the ground, do you rush gallantly to her assistance and ‘help her |up? Sometimes, penhaps, But generally you repress a smile and pass on about your business. To be sure your motive for non-interference In a case of this kind Js usually a good one, You think man to her feet she may assume 1 | "Sir-how-dare-you!" expression d treat you as if you were the unde study of all the criminals on carth And go in every other instance your motlve, or rather our motlve—for we att |Nine times out of ten it ts to get out of the way before our names can be taken as witnesses, And generally this policy of non-in- terference results well for ourselves, Tt was the eastest thing for the 600 peo. ple who saw the shoplifter knock a Woman detective down and kneel on her chest to pass on, so they thought, And so most of us would think until some ontenprising criminal converted ua Into a aimilar prie-dieu and then perhaps we ally chastlsing her husband, or @ would view our theory tn @ new light, that It vou offers to help the” young | 5 have It—Is fine, If we view an aca | of any kind what is our first Ceasers | fortress of St. Peter and St, Paul an creating a great city, ’ Peter’s Heir Put to Death by His Father. HE great sadness in the life of | Peter the Great was the conduct of his son Alexis. After the banishment of Empress Budoxla Alexis fled to Germany with his mistress, Eu- Phrosyne, In Germany and later In Austria and Italy Alexis plotted to de- throne his father and corresponded with the malcontent nobles of Russia, The Emperor learned all about these conspiracies and collecting the male membors of the Lepoukchine family to which his divoned wife belonged he japaled some, beheaded others and ex- fled the remainder, He got hold of his gon Alexis and after forcing Alexis to ign a formal renunciation of the throne @nd to denounce his accomplices a judi- celal tribunal wag called at which Al- exis was sentenced to death and by order of Tar Peter the execution was secretly carried out, in what manner history does not record, | Some of Peter's Peculiarities, | ETER THE GREAT founded the P Russian seoret police, They were organized to protect Peter against the constant plotting of the oid nobil- ity, Peter, on the other hand, was pop- ular with the common people, and es- Decially with the merchants apd manu- facturers, He gave every town and city local self-government, the burgo- mesters and the prosident forming the local governing bodies, which the citi- sena had the right to select, Peter also punished the thieving governors and Protected his subjects from the exac- Uons of the great nobility, One gov: ornor was turned over to a home of wild pigs to be devoured by them in punishment for his cruelties to the people, From Catherine I. to Cathe- rine II, N Peter's death Catherine took the throne and continued the subju- gation of the old nobility who re- sented more than ever the rule of a peasant over them. Peter 11, died of small-pox at the age of seventeen fter a period of ruling bj be r woeth, the daughter of ‘egents ter the was made Empress by the army. abeth made the Russian opera a ess hy compelling the nobiilly to nd, She favored many Woeatory, oms, but she tried to put a stop to 9 sinoking, Which Peter had In- ugurated, | Peter II], succeeded Bllzabeth, — to jwns the grandson of Peter tho’ Great |thraug’y the female Hino, | No.37—Peter III. Chohed to Death by Catherine IL.’s Favorites. P halt, who took the tltle of the Empress Catherine, Peter IIT, ETMR Ill, married Sophia of An. Gistixed the Brench fashlons, which lected a site on the Neva, where he put jhad been inaugurated by h nd- his army to work ‘bullding in_ 1703 the | ash, and which his aunt, Mae | Press Blilzabeth, favored, and sought to Substitute German fashions for them, He also noglected his wife and in- @talled gevera) mistresses, chief of them Mile, Veronnof, He separated trom the| Empress Catherine, at Peterhof Palace, The Empress solaced herself for the Emperor's neglect ‘by Installing Gregory Orloff, one of the offloers of the guard, as her lover, Gradually she won the army over to her support, and when she was sure of her ground Grogory Orloff and his brother Alexis, nt the head of the horse guards and the foot guards, went to Cronstadt, where Peter Il, was,’ and taking him to @ secluded spot in the woods they pleasantly choked him to death, (Assueaination No, 37.) No, 38—Catherine Causes the Assassination of Joon VI, aM EMPRESS CATHERINE I, who went to live promptly took passession of the throne and announced to the forelgn ambassadors her official regret at death of Peter III, through a ‘'vio- lent attack of hemorrhoidal colic,’ In order to prevent the rightful suc- cessor, Ivan VI., ascending the throne, Cathorine had him assassinated In the pyison of Schlusselburg, (Assassination No, 88) e Man Higher Up. By Martin Green, i | \ trying to crab a Dill ale lowing amateurs to play ball on Sunday,” “You can't blame the’ ministers,” asserted The Man Higher Up, “They re on the level, Sunday is their day SHB," said the Cigar Store Man, "that a committee of ministers is up in Albany 9 |for work. While the Inds in the face torles and stores are plugging’ away at their stunts from Monday to Sat- urday the average minister is getting his Sunday sermons out of the bare rel, calling on members of his cone gregation and looking after the wel= fare of his church, He 1s extremely Jealous of his right to dominate the Sunday situation, “The basis of ministerial oppost+ tion to Sunday baseball is made of false material, The ministers are against Sunday baseball becauge they, think {t keeps the players and spece tators away from church, Straight ; | investigation would show them that @ majority of the boys and men who | want to play ball on Sunday cut out the church in the afternoon whether they are allowed to play ball or not, If they can’t play ball they will do something else, “In some cities of the country pro- fessional baseball on Sunday is al- lowed. From 10,000 to 20,000 men and women end boys and girls get out {nto the sunshine and fresh air every Sunday afternoon and root for the home team. They get three or four hours of clean, healthy enjoy- ment, go home to their dinners tired and hungry, and when evening comes the most of them are content to silt around and argue whether {t was Fogarty’s error in the fourth or Schmitt's wnaccepted chance in the eighth that made the score 4 to § In favor of the visitors, t “Tt Sunday baseball were allowed in this clty the business of the Raines law hotels on Sunday after= noons would fall off 60 per cent Thousands who go to the seashore and lap up doctored beer and whiskey would be out in the open giving their lungs @ chance, Baseball is essen tially an honest game, and the trains ing it gives a boy or a young man {8 of great value in helping his ambi- tion and self-reliance.” “Sunday baseball produces a lot ot noise and disturbs people living in the vicinity of the game?” said the Cigar Store Man. ‘Yes,’ admitted The Man Higher Up,| “it does spoil: some pedple’s sleep.” Little Willie’s Guide to New York. | LONGACRE SQUARE. a few veors ago longalker squaire was a willderness Infessted oy shepherds and goates and bares and ockashunal , ° hoarse-cars, then along came f ex- sploarer and diskoverd the vlalce and { his name was osker hamerstine and he woar wiskers and a Hat that galye his faice a sort of sparsely poppulated exe preshun, he planted a roofgarden in longalker squaire and as soon as other managers saw how prophisus the soll thare was to sutch enterpryzes thay also got bizzy, also the subbway dige gers. so after a while longaiker squaire had the look of a lumber vard that had been undermined and then struk by litening, but now longaiker squalre has been maid a scene of ralr butv and is 80 poppuler that you cant throw @ brile into the crowd without branelng eeth mannager or a soobret, longat squair is the center of the werld and good acktere go thare when thare shows die on ¢he rode, ackters therse selvos never die, thay are afrade to dle annywhare except in nu yoark, and when thay get to nu voark thay are too hapy to dle, A. P, TERHUNB, a Match-Box Furniture, LONDON hotel-keeper possesses A a remarkable sult of furniture, For many years he had collected empty match boxes, which were , eventually made by a skilled cabinet~ maker into articles of fumiture, The outfit consists of a waiting table with smoking apparatus, a fire-soreen, a cab- inet, a chair and smaller articles, in the construction of which many thousands of boxes were employed, The “Fudge”. Idiotorial The Case of Jekyll and Hyde. “A POLICY Holder,” who seems to have confused ‘‘Al" Adams with the affairs of the Equitable Society, wants {0 KNOW if the HYDE who Is some: times mentioned Is the one who became mixed up with one Dr, JEKYLL some years ago, We hasten to say NO! This ls a REAL Hyde. The onemen- tloned was Invented by a man named Stevenson, who Is now dead. We do not think he was INSURED, It Is true the Invention dealt with a DOUBLE LIFE. And that the Equitable seems to be a double-Iife Insurance company, being owned by its stockholders and Its policy-holders at the same time, but NOT with the SAME results, It ts a very confusli g question and we feel that we are wan- dering. : Perhaps, as Larry Sterne sald, ‘They order this matter better In France.” Better write to Senator Depew about it, Perhaps he can RE- INSURE—we mean REASSURE youl (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.)