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ihe by the Press Publishing Company, No, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York, at the Post-Omice at New York as Becond-Class Mall Matter. BLUME AB.isecssscscesscosrreeres © «NO, 18,008 REMEMBER THE COAL STRIKE. The officers of the Interborough Company decline all offers of arbi- on to end tha railway strike, They insist that their employees made h a method of settlement impossible when they violated a definite yent made last September and struck on short notice, without sug- pestin, arbitration and without waiting for the necessary: consent of the itlonal Amalgamated Association, The officers of the local divisions of the labor organizations yester- replied to Mayor McClellan's offer to mediate or to appoint a com- ¢ of citizens to arbitrate that they are “willing to consider any prop- that may bring about an amicable adjustment of the differences existing between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and Its ‘ ” ‘Thus the conditions of the last great coal strike are substantially re. ited. ‘The Interborough officials, like the coal operators, see “nothing arbitrate,” and reject all intervention. The strikers, like the miners, willing to arbitrate. The Mayor, like the President, offers his services ) mediator, though he has not yet followed Mr. Roosevelt's example in immoning before him the chief parties to the difficulty, ‘oO. complete the parallel, the public is the greatest sufferer—the public se money built the Subway, and whose rigtits and privileges are-flouted » “fight to a finish” between precipitate strikers and obdurate em- Mir, Belmont, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hedley perhaps remember what ined when Mr. Roosevelt put his foot down and sald the coal ‘diffi. “must be settled, The people sustained him. ‘They declared that is the American principle,” and that finish fights between cor- prations and their employees are not to be tolerated when they involve B lives, the property, the convenience and the rights of the people, | This is a case for mediation or arbitration—for a prompt and peace- ttiement, guaranteeing the just rights of both parties, while subserv- ichief end—the PUBLIC INTEREST, AN EAST SIDE MARKET, public market in the heart of the 'east side is a municipal improve. ich might well be undertaken, ‘The people of the east side do not thelr food supplies delivered to them, but as was the custom in the idays of New York they go in person to the grocery, delicatessen and cher.stores for their daily supplies. : h the great scattering of the small stores the Board of Health much difficulty in preventing the sale of spoiled food. The keeping od for sale in a small front room while the family live in a connect. fick room Is also opposed by the Board of Health on proper sanitary To provide a public market built with approved attention to y requirements would supply the people of the east side with the facilities for purchase that they had in the citles from which they ‘where public markets are universal, It would also enable the Board th to exercise a better supervision over the food supply and to do hy not a great east side market? ‘ PEACK-PRESERVING LITTLE STICK, ecutive Committee of the Subway and “L” strikers assures E public that it “need have no fear of any untoward’ conduct Of our’men, who have been instructed by thelr officers to re- wiolence or ungentlemanly conduct.” Now, when the police obey Commissioner McAdoo's ex- “use force If it is necessary” to suppress “any attémpt at tess, disorder or violence,” the heads that may be cracked will i those of thugs and toughs, not of railroad men temporarily un- ‘and instructed to be gentlemanly! t power to the little locust sticks, if the need comes! ’ FREE FERRIES—AND THEN? Comptroller Grout’s advocacy of free Brooklyn ferries thers is a tr of Henry George's municipal dream that the city should regard ent sections in the same manner that the owner of an office build. 5 his different floors in providing free elevator service for both | visitors. Henry George urged that all intermural transporta- hold be: free, and that not only the ferries but the street cars and wated roads should be operated at public expense and carry passen. thout charge, The theory of this would of course extend to the ‘George’s i was that the only remedy for congested tene. borinoods was to make transportation free, and that $0 long as ‘tens of thousands of workers receiving less than $10 a week gs there would inevitably be overcrowding whenever the charge for iy transportation, amounted to 10 per cent, of the total income. [It was 's theory that by spreading out the population more the in. yvaluie of the land in the enlargedenvirons of the city would, through eollection of taxes upon the increased valuation, more than pay the snsportation cost. Nit is an interesting coincidence that Comptroller Grout should be to take the first step of Mr. Henry George’s comprehensive plan unicipal Socialism, “Whe New “L” Road Service. Humber, @o that a householder may be ‘BaMer of The Evening World: able to recognize them at the door? roads since the strike \s Well-Drensed Ho; ma, new Laing ps aa pa {T2the Badltor of The Bvening Wort: more smoothly, by the | The antt-spitting law doean't seam ti than they were moved by the | so), to well-drossed reitlemen whe. Fmotormen, The trains now run} 91 high-clags mornin, : out ef stations very slickly, ite ited ‘| and who contribute most to the filten- NERVOUS PASSENGER, |! negs of subway cars in the Gieine, ‘The Car Starer, NINBTY-NINTH 9TROMT the Hdltor of The Evening World: i RnB JOUBHE to be done to pros A Germ-Iufested sidewalk, To the Editor of The Rvening World: What “pull” has the owner of the lots At (he southwest corner of One Hun- dred and Sixth atroet and Broadway? Tho sldewalk there has been filthy the mopped. AGNES MOORK, Adoo, ask your pollcoman on that post ectrie Light In-| about 't. ANTI-GRAFTER jectorn, A Prayer in Fifty-three Languages, ‘To the Edltor of The Bye 1: the Editon Company send} 1 have In map et pended foot at dally ‘change of inspectors| square, in good condition, the Lon's t alone in &) Prayer in fitty-three. different tan: She 's admit-{ guages. Who can tell the value? It is hy Gated 101, FARO RBIRON, jomen from the persistent car! ota He site down opposite n woman Mnwlats on staring at her until she f ly frantic. He says nothing at eo if whe complains he has the law ee A Ma o ous, w w/The Man Mary Jane Gives Papa a Real Scare His Darling’s Sudden Metamorphosis Into a Topsy the Cause of It. March [Said on the Side. (SPOSITION of otherwise perfectly honest persons to beat a rallroad ‘IM LONESOME, I Guess Ti Bam out of customs du be @ pussie for studet Took only one day of the strike for Subway passengers to ‘get the habit" of pushing in past the ticket choppers without @ ticket, And remains to be ween whether subsequent remorse will owell the Interborough Regarding petty smuggling on of oharecter and honor discuss the way) in whieh they can conceal laces or rib- bons frem the officers of customs," Gomethking very subtle about ¢he fine Mine of dlstinetion between honesty and] all ready, but the Man stil! missing. ° ° e Quality of the alr in ¢ #0 much of « consideration now as the quantity of it in the brakes, . ° “Love,” satd the deautiful one toith poetio fancies, te a rove.” “Yes,” replied) the grigaly bach- clor, “and marriage i the wind that blows the petals off.” —Ohi- oago Record-Herald, STAND RIGHT THERE BY THE DOOR-I THINK HES COMING You PuT On, NIARY JANES CLOTHES Over , YOURS AND WELL, Fook MARY JANES Pop, “I always touch my hat to a police- man,” gays Edwami Everett Hale, does Father Knickerbocker in time or ‘The etx weeks’ penitence with absten- thon from the flesh pots of society has, |. Bome of the fair penitents will contrive to "'bridge'' it over. x iptvaa . Interview reported by Arthur Bour- ohter; “Manager—How long have you been on the. stage? years, Manager—Had any experience?) Aotor—None,” Apparently, competent to Diay Ibsen at'a Theatre of Arta and “Don't get angry,” says Mr, W. W. Niles, “when your, automobile. 4s held up for running too fast, guage does not help you any. Go quietly to the atation-house and deposit your $100 cash bail.” That! do the talking in its usual persuasive way, The public notices with approval, however, that in these cases money has to talk touder than formerly to be con- A $10 bill in a police court speed violation case has dwindled to an inarttoulate whisper. eo. “How oan I convince Mise Gur- ley thet I’m not altogether a pose to her, She may not accept you, but she'll stick up for your good sense ever after.”— Cleveland Lasder,, e Interborough strike revives discussion) Of the olf sugwestion of @ line of rapid tranatt river boats to carry passengers Love and Violence. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. \eurtous price, Often, to be mre, they Will take our note for jn indefinite verlod, 90 Indefinite Indeed that we are apt to forget we have given it and to making regular schedule atopa above) Fitty-ninth street, Ought to be highly) popular and profitable in the summer; months at least, and the lines to Sandy Hook, Staten Island and Sea Gate, to-) @ether with the Long Telan atreet boat show it to be feasible, The) use of the tugboat as {a interesting in this connection. hemians, Mr, Nag? Valentina, th - Ina, the Ital: Oh, no; you would. an woman undor rentence of death Yor the murder of finally called upon to pay it. And wo invoke all kinds of antt-usury acts to Svold settling, Now the price of a human life was agreed upon long ago. “Whoso aheddeth man's blood,” &c, And {t seems to me that If we feel impeltod to take a Iittle flyer in this direction we ought not to welch whon the time comes ulound to pay up. And yot we Invariably want to, and men help us to such an extent that It has become a commun proverb that a |pretty woman can do anything she likes and escape the penalty, A Safe Graft. stand no chance on afi} aad supplanted her T don't care what 1 the affections uf the car platform, and true aa it is discreditable to masouline hemian evening here at the house. We can take up the Parlor carnet and Spread sawdust and have pipes for the men. Mr, Ladyfinger thinks it will be awfully jolly to amoke cubebs In a Teal bohemian clay pipe, “Mr, Snoosir, who Is the richest and most prominent bohemian in the city, will be toastmaster, Uke Mr, Snoozir, American woman lecturer tas been {ieee eaying “woman Is not nearly eo beautiful, as man;” that “she is too short from the walst down to be symmetric: that when sho tries to run the attempt “becomes an agitated wabble,” to’ have exercised a prudbnt discretion In volcing these views out of earshot of a retort from the Rainy Daisies or Roy L McCardell, successful rival sev- performance which must be regarded as both superfluous ‘and inantistic and contrary to the first principles of murder as a fine art, However, her cage {8 not mentioned for a discussion of {ts merits, but mere- one of innumerable recent In- stances of ladies whose too vivid affec- tlons led them to violence, The most extraordinary thing about women of this type is that after the insane kill- ing of the faithless man or the sup- ‘anting woman they display a sanu and persistent clinging to life, It seems to me that when a fine frenzy of love for a man leads us to kill him we ought not to care afterward when we are placed on trial for the Uttle eccentsicity of conduct, whether we die or not. And yet Invariably we are as much concerned about living as the father of fourteen children and no I know you don't You are a Philistine, That's what Mr. Snoozir calls people who won't go to Itallan table d'hotes and eat spaghetti and cut up high jinks, “Then there is Mr, Redmugeg, real bohemian and when ho $s toast- master he won't let anybody say funny ihinka except himself, says Mr, Medmuge is on Ideal bohemian because he never pays his board or Percy—Weally, I'm afwaid peo- ple fail to—aw—undahstand me, “Will you clean my front porch if 1 mive you this nice hot pudding?” “It all depends on how I feel after 1 Agnes—Then thy don't you learn to talk United States?—Chicago Little Willie’s Guide to New York. THEATRE RESTAURANTS. after tho theenters are out thare are sevrel thowsand nu yoarkers who are eudenly strikkern mad with the dezire to est {vod becawse it is searly 3 whoale hours sinse the poor creetures finnishd thare ten-coarse dinners and the pangs of hunger malik them yern for sdllid food of some sonrt, hit the trale for the noerest aftorthee- thay are so anxslons to met a talble that thay often butt out of the theeater Ba the villen Js farely {t Is pittife to ses thate feeron hunger and the weerd kinds of stuf they fill themselves with, think tltat pseple who are so teprbly wild to eet food might beggin on ham Three railways running through Iill- nols having violated the Jaw concern- ing safety appliances, the State hes fined them to the amount of $1,800. ‘Writer some time ago noted the serlous- ness with which the West takes ite amusements and the remark seems to apply to its laws * “Brother Willie Mises bohemtans, too, snd a@ lot of the young men who be- lone to his club, the Jolly Pallbearers, are real bohemlans, “Mr, Snoosir wants ua te go to the Seven Stars Sunday Club's hohomlan Thev are rather oxpensiye| M: and evervbody says the food is so bad they can't eat it, but then It's ‘real bohemian, Almost all the men can vlay the plano and a lot of actors come, 48 guests of the club, and sing and recite because they get tholr dinnors| But this {s perhaps just a part of the general feminins tendency to repudiate Curlous Mttle comedy of clothes Infidebts whether contracted with Fate or progress at Wollesley College. Profes- sor having objected to the appearance of students in the class room in gym- nasium bloomers, they appeared next day in evening costume, only to find the wily preceptor'on the spot in a swal- lowtall “dress sult, have learned in Ch: evening clothes in the Saytine, o 1 have a theory that people can get lanything they want In this world with-|° jout walting for a poastble next ono, if they aro willing to pay the prico for it, There are certain things which the Fates have always tn stosk whlch we | jean buy at a remular moderate market | bers onct in er while, I am goin’ ter price, But {f we want anything unusual |New York ter hold up millionaires in or diMonlt thay are ont to ask us a dere houses,” “Where are you goin’, BIH? Out West ter hold up trains?” “Not fer Willlo! Dey ketoh train rob- Bp ove: FAG ENS SOI "Mr, Denothing, of Brooklyn, {9 al- ways at those bohemian dinners, {a one of the best bohemlans in the biinlness, He hasn't worked at anything else for years, and he and Mr, Red- muge hate each other, beerise each | iso how to wear now the most brilliant planet, and astronomer notes that "her superior beauty Is due to the fact that she {s much nearer ¢he earth.” Higher Up. By Martin Green. ‘6 ‘ SDH,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that a» lot of Columbin College —_atus dents have signed as strike-breakers ay® . ary ‘helping run Subway ond “‘L/ trains.” “Yes,” replied the Man Higher Up, “the ambition of some of our most conspicuous young collegians is advancing all the time, Of late years {t has hecome a college pastime to try to beat a $1.50 « duy man out of his job. “Perhaps it is the purpose of modern college education to teach young men to be rallroad firemen and brakemen and ‘L’ guarda, Ree cently when {t appeared that the firemen on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Ralflroad were going to strike, scores of Yale stu« dents volunteered to take their places, Now we find members of the Columbia University football team and rowing crew jumping tn to take the places of a bunch of affluent laborers who are supporte ing families on $10 a week, “Of course all this increases the respect of the great mass of works ing people for our leading institue |tlons of learning. It {is perfectly Japparent to the gigantic under standing of 8 man who has to strike to get $1.65 a day instead of $1.50 why a student who spends more than his yearly salary for cigarettes should try to crab his occupation, Naturally the striker, whose family 1s suffering, laughs gleefully over the exuberant spirit of youth that prompts the college student with a millionaire father to enlist as @ strike-breaker, “Of course, it's a lot of fun to break a strike—especially when you don’t need the money; it 1s fine and dandy sport to help a corporation with millions bebind it to force men into an already overcrowded labor market and compel their children to go hungry and leave the publio schools as econ as the law allows them to go to work.” “Maybe some of the husky boys think that they will have a fight with the strikers,” suggested the Cigar Store Man, “Of their belligerence,” agreed tho Man Higher Up, “there can be no question. Kingdon Gould chased some of them with an empty re | volver.” i Mrs: Nagg and Mr. + «By Roy L. McCardell.... “Mr, Redmugg ts such a humorist and Mr, Donothing sings and recites, All the people you know are sordid business: men, who can't appreciate real bohe> mians, “Mrs, Terwiliger has been to the Seven Stars Sunday Supper Club, and she used to go to the Anenia Club when It met at Shanley’s to inculcate the doctrine of good-fellowship, but Mr, Bhanley said he couldn't stand ft, bee Cause they used to have such terrible fights, “Mrs, Terwiliger says that one time she was at the Ardenia Club and every- body stood up and sung ‘For He's Such a Jolly Good Fellow’ tu Mr, Redmugs who was sitting In the toastmaster’s chalr, and he got mad because one of his friends sang it in his ear, and Jumped up and hit him over the head with a loving cup, and then there was a terrible fight and all the bohemians were arrested “Well, of course you take no Interest In good-fellowship, All you think of Is geting off somewhery with your own particular friends and smoke cigars ah play cards and Iisten to them alk, y ‘Mr, Redmugge says you got up once at a smoker and accused him of bolng }@ petty swindler, Oh, Mr. Nagg, cane | you undersiand the Irresponsible bohee mian nature?) Mr, Redinugg doesn't meon to cheat anybody, but ho ie so {rresponsible in money matters when he owes any one! “He's now suing a publishing firm that he clalins owes him a lot of money, and if he wins his suit he Intends to let hig friends give him a big dinner at the Fried Cat restaurant, “Why can't you be a jolly bohemian, r, 43? Look at Mr, Snoowr, ond of the richest men in the loan and mortgage business, and he's a real bohemian and belongs to the Thirtees Club too!” — o& 5 WHERE? ‘These are his roses; Where !s his hear\? His gift discloses Consummate art; Friendship exposes: Is love his part? These are his roses; Where 1s his heart? —Chieago Evening Post, ' The Vital Question. fave the other Is a cheap graftor, trying to get a glimpse of her Thirty- and eggs and end up with a 4-pound| ‘They are both lovely, etake but no nut thay, the cravvings of apetights wig such daynty and dyjestibble morsuls ag we'tch Tablis, skotsh woodkok, lobstérs and fiszy wine and then thay wunder next day why It is that the strenyus blzness life of a grate witty wares people out theeatre crowds misy eo mutch of the play In thare mad strug gles to got a vaykent utile at the Testrnts thut # wood be a revl blesa- ing to them if sumboddy wood set the fashun of eting aftertheeates suppers U4 the theeater be; fine for the Intelec! an the dyjeschun, good oald Auppors. A, P, TERHUNE, ee Big-Tailed Sheep. A apecles of sheep common in Syria ig #0 Inoumbered by the wetght of Its} tail that the shepherds fix a plece of thin board to the under part, where {t Is covered with thick wool, to pre- vent it from being torn by the bushes, Some have small wheels aMxed to facilitate the dragging of doans after them, The tall of a com- Mon sheep of this sort usually welghe Inds or upward, "Ia Lent a faat to keep with larder Sxpertence on the Bixth and Ninth MRB, T, 1, bare? Not with ghad in the market, bout the college stu- dent strike-breakers ts as to how, with @ twelve-hour job, they will find time for athletic traning. The Four and the Ninety-Six! From Greenkind's icy mountains A biting blizzard blowa, And Africa ahivering citizens Are hollerin’ for cloze! —Atlanta Constitution, (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) 8 but thay mre deth from Parle that wasp walats are coming in fashion again will #tir Another hornets’ nest of remarks about the dangers of tight lacing, bite ¥s The town constable of Forest, and is sald to be the smallest policeman in the world, might be that grafting would make him grow. Openings everywhere for the ‘‘com- Kansas now looking for ‘one to tackle the Beef Trist—one pre- yy, ferred ve haa ee tee tat ee She-I learned so much at cookii He-Did you learn how ¢o keep ¢ e The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial Only 4 per cent. of people who go Into business SUCCEED, The other 96 per cent. FAIL! Somebody must get away with thls 96 per cent. We belleve ourselves that Rockefeller GETS Rockefeller does not need 96 per cent, of ALL the success there fs, but he does not care how MUCH he overdoes It. No wonder the common people have SO LIT: LE share of suce cess when Rockefeller takes ALL BUT 4 per cent, of the market He must be a very GREEDY old man! What GOOD does It That Is EASY. It keeps OTHER folks from becoming rich and extravagant, It also saves them the TROUBLE of owning things, Rockefeller has no hair and a weak stomach. YOU probably. Stomach Thése things are worth ING ta ah