The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1905, Page 14

Dy the Press Publishing Company, No, 6 to 6 Park Row, New York, Rntered at the Post-Office at New York as Beoond-Class Mail Matter. NO. 18,018. ‘ THERE\IS A REMEDY FOR ROBBERY. Mayor MeClellan is quoted as saying in his testimony In the gas case before the Supreme Court in Brooklyn: ‘I am fully aware, and d we all feel sure, that the price we are called upon to pay Ig exe ive, but there seems at present to be no alternative.” \ Why is there no alternative? The Consolidated Gas Company Isa corporation operating under some very doubtful public franchises, is entifled to a fair and reasonable price for the gas and electricity which furnishes, If the Législature were to try to fix a confiscatory price the ints Would prohibit it, If the corporation seeks to fix an exorbitant se, as it did again in its bids submitted yesterday, the city has an equal igut to its legal remedy, No public corporation can arbitrarily fix prices or discontinue its . There is a wide legal and moral distinction between a publia i ration and a private business, In one case there is a public monop- ily, while in the other there is no public grant or franchise which carries duties and obligations as well as its privileges, » There is a remedy in the Legislature if not in the city government Hagainst the extortions of the Lighting Trust, and only bribery at Albany vill deny the people relief. END THE TRANSIT CHAOS.| Again The Evening World reminds the officers of the Interborough mpany that “it is up to the Operators to operate.” ‘The people of New York, whose money built the Subway, and who ye tolerated the “‘straddlebug” “L” nuisances for years from sheer /, do not endure with patience the Interborough Company's policy rippling the service on all ‘the lines in order. that it may “punish” the ‘ totormen or take them back at lower wages, ‘The ‘city’s police and public sentiment helped potentially to break ike, ‘The people have a right to demand that the Old schedules be Without further delay, ago Supt. Pierce, of the Westchester Temporary Home Children, was proved guilty of brutally treating his charges. ns andishackles upon inmates; he flogged boys with the cat- He whipped girls while they lay nearly naked in bed. The ui Sa i Oe wes Mae fer tog Pierce 1s now again under investigation, It is claimed that i¢ministered; that “bad” children are confined in cramped girl inmates, have become mothers of illegitimate the home, - of this institution are persons of the highest standing merous intent. One of them says: to thke destitute children, make them, fit members of ‘socie ping they, will be properly reared. If we are ae quit, Mag 5 Shackles and the.strap; quit the cage and the bread and Tying to do a work of mercy by an agent who ts the cruelty and of immorality, Send Flogger Pierce to join ‘This is what the managers should do; this is what | should compel them to do if they hesitate, The Evenin : Wor la °s Said on the Side. Price put the responstbility for! $A New # # ?Comic Series ’By Gene Carr. Uttered fire-escapes up to the tenement inspectors, who pase it back to the police with thelr complt- ments. Firemen are supposed to “warn” tenants of such violations off ¢ the law, but have no power to And #0 the comedy of errors and sions continues as before the Attorney street tragedy, and as it is Ikely to continue after the Allen street fire deaths are forgotten, Might make landlords and janitors responsible also, | % with the justifiable expectation that conditions which could be no worwe) < might show some improvement, ee e Btory of automobilist who doubles his} ® chauffeur's salary every month he gets through without a mis Something! Uke the Chinese plan of Ing the doc- tor only while he keeps you well, eee Bing @ sony of Osler, Tatking through his hat; Every one that hears him Feels ike saying Scat!" * —OMoago Chrontele, eee Not much chance for Senator Saxe’s Dil] locating theatres on street corners only, Undoubtedly unconstitutional be- cause of its discrimination against the) saloon industry, eee Turkish officials reported te have fled from Constantinople because of “secret police cabal,” A “system” there, too, . e e Styles change, even in matrimonial melections, London professor notes) thet the average tall man nowedaye selects a 'tall wife and @ short man a whort one, The ordinary observer sees tower instances of tiny wives mated with six-foot husbands, Same professor aya also that in modern matrimonial choloe ike attracts Mke, not only in height but even to the color of the eyes, the blue-eyed being unconscious- ly a to the blue-eyed and the brown ‘to the brown, * 8 Bpeaking of eyes, observations made among men in England show that out ‘of 1,00 peragns the éyen of 363 will be blue and those of 312 green, while 127 will have hazel eyes and % brown. ’ e e e Enthusiast—Ho made that ololin feirly speak, didn't he? Dub-at-Art—Yea, but what avftt agony it was in—Detroit Free “leg ee General disruption of the Penneyivania University Archaeological Board threat- ened over the disputed question, as to whether there was or was not a library fn ancient Nippur, Not the first time that @ “dead issue” has caused trouble, HE'S HAVING AGETTER Base with which Subway guards now open both car doors with one push sug- west that the muscle acquired in guld- ing ploughs through Connecticut and up-State stubble is finding # new useful- ‘mt ° . e Author Robert Grant, like Pastor ‘Wagner and Mrs, Van Vorst, now ap- preciates the advertising advantage of @ White House ews notice.” oe Nation's youngest grandmother lives in Minneapolis ia only thirty-four. Heroine of the ‘grandmother’ divore: sult tried before Judge Clarke was forty-five, Twentieth century grat HE ETHICS OF GAMBLING.” . ors who advocate gambling as a legitimate diversion | engaged in better business.’ Surely; there are “‘social recre- fh with ig the manifold games of chance that A is and corrupt public morals, Gambling is too often ise’’ th college to need any encouragement,. ; danger is in the abuse, not In the use,” says Prof, Herbert ‘Lord. But which is the abuse and which the use? Which is the iseful \institution—the bucket-shop, the faro layout or “‘the ponies?” the moral difference between fashionable “bridge” and vulgar ‘if the rich man who used to prefer the exclusive quarters fosses,” why may not the newsboy who shoots craps on the ik and goes without tis supper be sustained by a sense that he is idoing nothing wrong in amusing himself at his own expense? is ‘simply juggling with words and playing with fire to defend ‘on ‘any ground, The gambling habit corrodes character, It rages extravagance, leads to shiftlessness and discourages the meth- f honest labor. In the last analysis it méans that the gambler be. s is a worthy example because he plays in private and cani|- svesithat he is entitled to something for nothing, no matter how he gets lief that the common thief and cheat shares, only the latter has rage to run greater risks. LOVE IS,NOT INSANITY, | Philip Hendler’s father had him arrested on the charge of insanity nde was that the young man was madly in love and intent on té matrimony. The Magistrate held that this was no evidence of : ‘Cettainly it'was not. On the contrary It was proof of a proper and temperament in the lovemaking years of youth, Instead of in- iy it Is evidence of good judgment and sound reasoning, No man marry unless he is in love; not that love alone is a sufficient reason trimony, but no other reasons are sufficient without it, if the girl was in love with Hendler and she said she was, and Hend. earning enough money to support a wife, the Magistrate might have further than the discharge and imposed a sentence of immediate trimony, Miles of the city's streets are still a disgrace to New York and to the Neti Street-Cieaning Department, Dirt diseases are increasing, Traf- still impeded. Excuses are worn out. Wake up, Mr. Mayor! Gal. te your department, Major Woodbury! There is an election judg. ent day coming. The “double life,” as the news of nearly every day shows, usually in discovery; disgrace and death, GADZOOKS. HI8 CLAIM TO FAME, ‘our Majesty," sald the Prime Min- Tending the culprit forward, “this ‘the page who has been so loose in his iabite!'—— "I don't see that I can do anything for you,” aid the Senator trom the Far West to his caller, “I have no Tecollection of you aa @ party worker mother is an example of youthfulne: which would have been the marvel of her own grandparents, ee Batter ‘Cakes More “recommendations” by the Health Department Advisory Commit- tes for greater cleanliness in the Sub- way. Almost time now for a atronger presoription. i ee e Among Mussian losses must be men- tloned that of the syllables in geo- graphical names, From Vladivostok to Tie Pass, what @ decline and fall- oft! Me, lL, 8, M FIPLDS, of Banborn, Ia, wife of @ local phy- sictan, is suing her le threw a carefully | sonstructed batter jake on the ftoor ind requested her ].0 watch it bounce. in her petition she avers that the doo or had previously treated her batter cakes with contempt, having made faces ee 8 “Why are you soratching all those matches?" “Oh, I dropped @ match around here place, and I'nw looking for it.) No use wasting 4, you know !"—Cleveland Leader, * ° er President Harper's trip to Lakewood Qs Mr, Rockefellers guest said to be to recelve tment by X-rays. Pos- sibly a raise for his university, oe when they were brought to the table, All this, however, she bore patiently, and it was only the bouncing incident that led her to seek a separation on the Ground of extreme cruelty, Now, M seems to me that the only fair way for a divorce eult of the kind to be tried would be to have the plaintift mix 4 batch of cakes in the presence of Judge and jury, just as the fair damsels In the windows of cheap restau do, and ablde by their decision, doctor could attempt to bounce th and, Sf he aucceeded, win his point, could tl! bring a counter sult, ai- leging extreme cruelty, because for many years he was compelled to eat them, Leaving these particular batter cakes, however, and considering the subject of batter cakes !n general, it may be sald that it 1s not proper to be angered when the suggestion !s made that the product of one's hands and batter will bounce, One should rather smile sweet- ly and accept the remark as a tribute to the universal accomplishment. Howover, considering the subject more seriously, {t must be admitted that every woman ought to know how to cook, There !s nothing in the pos- session of the most superior brain that need interfere with the proper building of batter cakes, and no reason why a ° Bast side husband charged with desert- ing his wife because kept thirty cats, George Meredith recently advised the sex to give up their feline tratts, oe 6 Former Fire Chief Bonner tells a woman's club of numerous New York theatres of the older type of construc- tion in which “there is no margin of safety for the audience, If there is no panic the audience y escape; if there {s a panic they are lost.” Same thing sald by other critica after the Casino burned, but as in this case, with no exact specifications of name and location, Why not name names and enable the public to discriminate be- tween the safe theatres and the “rea- sonably water” It has rarely happened that q spring fishing season has opened with a “catch of such Importance as that made by the tramp who angled for a $0,000 brooch with a line baited with a cake of soap, . ° “Men,” writes Lady Violet Greville, “are wtill as God made them;’ women aro as the art of the costumer and the milliner has made them," And Mrs, Perking-Gilman sald the other day that man was the ‘more beautiful’ of the two, Exempt. ry ae Mra, Goodley—Do you really mean to say you are looking for work? Weary Willie—No, lady; I sald 1 was lookin’ for employmeng, For instance, [ could employ myself eatin’ pie.—PMladelphia Ledger, o * 8 Schoolboy friend of Gladstone says that he was not good at addition and division, which may explain why the “Grand Old Man" was more of @ atates- man than @ politician, eo. § The Dog—My! I'm glad the Dog “Anal” exclaimed the King; “he must or a8 & man of prominence in any way," "You haven't!" exclaimed the appli. “a royal for a posit! ot sia es AE a le ‘ Y mag in the Promise of the newly formed Lobster ‘Trust that it will not raise prices may have some truth in It, Restaurant keep- ere have already attended to that by vaaking them up to the top notch, Bhow's over! The Cat—Why? The Dog—Why, I've been hiding all week for fear somebodv'é catch me and exhibit me at them, and muttered and groaned th All the Comforts of Home. '¥. The Circus Is Great Fun for “the Boys’’—But Smith’s Happy Fireside for Him =] GY The Man Higher Up. By Martin Green, G67 SDD” sald the Cigar Btore @ Men, “that President Roose |raptd growth of cities,” velt views ,with alarm the the Prestdeht,” replied the, Man 6 | Higher Up, “hates the city. He hates % |the city so flercely that he refuses to ® |live anywhere else, There was @ time when he had a chance to become a ranchman, He lived on @ ranch long P jenough to become add: to the > jelouch-hat habit and then came back ® |to New York. 4 2] “We all hate the city—eapectally abqut this time of the year. Thon. > |sands of us are thinking of deserting > {comfortable flats and hotels and hiking out for the summer into rural: > | peace and solitude, Bilgeville, om the ® |Sound, looks good to us when the : trees are budding and the snow on the north side of the buildings is Just beginning to thaw. What do we care if there is no plumbing in the hduse? “That scratching sound you hear these pleasant days {s made by New Yorkers signing leases for summer homes within reaching distance ‘of > | business, Under the influence of a picture of a Newport villa and the burning eloquence of a real estate‘ agent a New Yorker of moderate 5 |means can be persuaded to move ®!from an elevator apartment with , artificial refrigeration to a country mokehouse with the nearest {ce lépot six miles away. “New York {s the coolest, most ; comfortable place around here in summer, Half the population emi- © | grates to the country or the seashore, ; |thus making so much work for the mosquitoes in those pluces that they have no time to visit the city, The roof gardens and beer gardens are open, and all] the fresh air in. the | world is at the disposal of a man who , has the price of a ride on a Broad+ {way car. By 10 o'clock at night the , \side streets are deserted, and the cool + | breeze watts the window curtains to: jand fro. Sound sleep is possible to | the city man in the early morning | hours when the country sojourner is | wading through dust up to his ankles |to catch the commuter’s rattler. It may be a little hot in the dayt.me, ‘but {t Is just as hot out where the |sun has a chance to get in its worl * jon the bare ground,” | “Neyertheless,” remarked the Cigar | Store Man, ‘ family to Jersey this summer,” | “Don’t you do it,” warned the Man }Higher Up. “Come with mé next | Sunday and look over a place I have \in mind up the Hudson.” ‘Little Willie’s Guide to New York. - Manhattan Seasons, 9 and Divorce. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Wage-earning woman should not beas accomplished @ cook as her more de- pendent sister, who !s rarely aeen be- low Twenty-third street, Every woman ought to be able to make a living, and every woman ought to be able to make a home, though she vannot attempt to do both at the same time-one of theses occupations is not suvorior to the other, though it may be sald that making a home is some- times about the hardest way of making a living, The working woman unskilled in poser ore ah abe helpless as the jousewlfe 't make 10 cent by, the product of her brain ‘and haild, | ‘Why should I he to cook?" asks © woman whose brain has @ market value, "I could earn two In the time It would ocoupy, But le who value their own peace are learning more and more to dis. pense with aliens in their household, nd for this reason every woman shou be able to do so in an emergency, Mrs: Nagg +. »eBy Roy L. McCardell.... OW don $ ‘N come home with o long face and te me your trouble: Mr, Nags! it on me, i had the spirit of around ny ¢ alt Uttle wor it "Have fen to the theatre have not! I wouldn't 69 when you asked me? “How did you ask me, it No, us go to the theatre.’ "Ah, when you took me away from Modern H In Chicago: Willile—Say, ma, wot makes ‘em look Mamma—No, Willle, they've just put in an application for divorce. appiness. 4 Loo w/ Crary UO wo happy? Just married? the man In aplte of fancy trimmin'’, But all J not run on this plan— "Tis corsets make the women, And so dressmakers o'er the land Have llatened to this slam, ‘Yo which they all will lend a hand “Throw out the diaphragm,” ele gaid that clothes don't make Not like one would throw out the chest But cut {t out completely f woman fair would look her best, Dressed de rigueur and neatly, Exit Woman’s Diaphragm! (Tho Dressmakers’ Convention wag told to discard the dlaphragm.—Item,) The stomach went long, long ago; Of waist there's but a sham, And now to make a better show Cut out the diaphragm. Oh, better dead than out of style And when in style near dead, Don't mind the body, Whth a smile For corsets live instead, Dispense with this and that thing, Weigh no superfluous gram; Your torso train with lacing And “duck” the diaphragm. WALTER A, SINCLAIR, 't} my happy girlhood home in Brooklyn ¥ ragman, I do believe, I can not help if business eas bad, and it Is n use to try to blamé It you man you would no anv roal bothering Roy Ls MeCardellereonie with. you you say, Mr, Nage? You simply came home and sald, ‘Let ‘hen spring hits ‘the kountry the throtes and primroazes and mallaytia, and Mr.» bewin to show thare blushing falces gloary starts but when spring gets to nu ywoark the canly way moast men find out It is heer is hy getting the bill for thare wifes spring sute, nu yoark oanly has 2 seezene and thoase 2 are the seezen when fokes freaze and the seexen when fokes sizzcl, last winter | We used to say we wood know when spring calm because by that time all the snow wood be gone from the streats but now thoase happy hoapes of cleen etreats have been foalded up and lade away like the pants of some deer ded frend, for we know that spring. yilete a qiadhe heliyged ete og) snow. nks altho 1s pler them for all he vise ther Grae end but the Ne flower that will blue | in our streets this spring is the toddy blossom and a few ys of jentle frp. Jerms, the Kaljender pays ls Jn our midst at last but our mii duazent beleey all the kale: good oald spring, A, P, TRRHUNE.” hat I loved so well you did not act hat way then! Of course I hated rooklyn so thet I would have married But that ts either here nor there! “You talk about your troubles, But 20k at my father, my poor dear papa, vho has gone to his long reat! Look at he trouble he had, “You are going to twit me with the tot that my poor dear papa drank. Yell, if he did drink it was on account { trouble, ane his trouble was whiskey, you 1) "I might have known it! have expected it! You ture ine aay @ppealing to my tender sympathetic nature by coming and telling me you are worrled, and when I am trying to comfort you you turn on me with a ' cruel and uncalled-for remark about! No Extract for Him, ay fa Se papa, } \ en I gee brother Willie doin; nicely looking tor work, and am feeling happy becauge he moves in such a nice set and Is a member of the Jolly Pall- bearers, and goes out, although he has pO Magy Kage doing what he cals ng-arm work, an Hy a id on the dark renee sneer at him! wotion Is an tneult! Don't de; Nage! Just the other Heat eat Sneeze the Fish and Robbie the Toad called here you jumped right up and locked tn your watch and the money you had been too late to te bank with, “I could see brother Willle Tegarding you with @ hurt look, You know that he told you that Sneesle the Fish ang Robbie the Toad were industrious, one of them working on pocketbooks and the other on transoms jn the big hotets "Oh, don't try to come around mo with a smile, You are a mean, suse plelous wretch, and I know it!" Your every Denttet—Shall I extract your tooth? Farmer—Naw, I don't want any o@ that stuff on It, I'd rather take gas, in —_——_ + **Fudge”. Idiotorial Is It better to be BIG than LITTLE? Isit better to be TALL, than SHORT?’ We do NOT know, Little men are often BIG | MEN, and big men often LIT- TLE! Andrew Carnegie Is a very little man tn inches, but look at the rest of his size, ; MOST glants are In dime museums! VERY FEW of them are In business, It fs better to STRETCH than to STOOP! Napoleon was a little i So ls Gen, Funston, President Roosevelt Is thick, but not tal | We once knew a VERY TALL MAN, His wife made him hang out the clothes! She sald it was ALL he was good for] Brooklyn people are growing taller all the time, They HAVE TO In order to.teach the straps In the trolley cars, The The Long and the Short of It! (Capyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co,) oy Allite man can wear SHORTER PANTS than a big onal |) oN, . g! * krocusses and affydills and @oare © ubbove the brown erth and vamel « =a ,