The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1905, Page 14

Ui) Fo the Maltor of ‘The Evening World: ‘RMatered at the Post-OMice at New York as Seoond-Clans Mail Matter, “VoLUME WB. rreresssrssccrrossemsese nesseroserceceesNO, 18,088, WHAT THE NINE MISSED. by the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ Park Row, New York Said on the Side. McAdoo, “as happens every year about this time, 1 am belog daluged with complaints from church people who want me to keep the bors, who are cooped up all the weok in tenements, from playing ball on the 1 Whe Assembly committee yesterday gave a hearing on the mouse-lke) jot on Sunday. I aay let them play, Reform. ani en a help it. ‘i What fs needed is a Commissioner with a stable tenure and with pil: @uthority over the force equal to his responsibility, who will organize and Conduct it on military lines, as absolutely independent of the “district | leaders’ as a General of the army is independent of party bosses, Com- tissioner McAdoo recognized this need in the brief statement which per to the press as his first act after taking the office, ending with words: ). property, law and order. + Instead of a “semi-military” we have had a wholly political control through the system which Is known as Tammany Hull. Until this part nership and control are broken there will be no radical reform. MUD AND DUST. F~ Capt. Gibson's st: “and doesn’t do any great harm.” If Capt. Gibson does not know that the clouds of dust are filled with germs of disease, and that dust blowing into houses and shops does more material harm than mud carried on the shoes, he Is not fit for his posi- tion. Besides, if he cleaned the streets thoroughly there would be no dust. i Capt. Gibson is right on one point: “Some people always like to make kicks.” A lot of them have kicked about the bad management of the Street-Cleaning Department for the last six months, and they will join in kicking out the “System” responsible for it, A “LITTLE MOTHER’S” BIG HEART, F" Mamie Grassner is a “little mother” of Chrystie street, To-day her small frame is swathed in bandages to relieve smarting pains and to heal wounds left by fire. After she is well there may be scars. But each mark will be equal to a medal for courage and loyalty. Mamie has proved herself a heroine. And she is only eight years old. There were three younger ones under the care of this “little mother” when it all happened. Mamie started to make tea. It was not a first experience, but this time a match went wrong. “Never mind me,” cried Mamie, when her skirts blazed up, “but don’t let the children get afire!” She ran away from her charges. No harm came to them, The “little mother’ suffers alone, A quick thought, a brave, true heart, and unquestioning faithfulness— these were Mamie Grassner’s, What big mother could exhibit more? A CORPORATION WITH A SOUL, the biting definition: “A being without a body to kick or a soul to damn,” The New York Glucose Company, whose tall chimneys on the Wersey side of the Hudson opposite One Hundred and Fifth street have for a long time poured forth a volume of black smoke that blew over ‘and enveloped the upper part of Manhattan like a pall, has abolished the ‘nuisance voluntarily by substituting hard coal at a cost, it is said, of $125,000. The dwellers and pleasure-takers on our beautiful Riverside Drive }, appreciate this relief most gratefully. But residents on the east side are +still wondering why the City Railway Company and other owners of /power-houses are permitted to pollute the air of that section with uncon- sumed carbon. ‘The city of Cleveland, which burns soft coal almost ex. ¢lusively, has reduced its smoke-clouds greatly by adopting a mechanical device for “stoking” which causes the consumption of the coal to be al- most complete. This is both economical and civilized, Is there not a combination of Taw and conscience in New York that will save our naturally pure air from the smoke nuisance. The Albany idea seems to be that the State Insurance Department should investigate itself, and that the Hyde-Harriman-Odell combination -Should investigate the Equitable Society, ~ ¢ With the Democrats carrying Chicago, St. Louis and Oyster Bay, there will be a call from the incurably hopeful to postpone the funeral of ‘the tough old party, The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers The City's Drivers, come home after a hard day's work To the Buitor of The Evening World: With his twelve dollans, but first. he My husband ts a driver In the Street | Wil stop in the saloon and get drunks Cleaning Department, Drivers are tho| And what becomes of his wife and Mt- Poorest pald people of tho city depart: | le children? Only for the tenement ments, He receives $12 a week, if he! women there would be no ehiidren at Moesn't get fined, If they lose any time| he rich would mther have a dog. or are off a day, that ts taken out, | ‘aid Is too much care, Why not seo @ven If they are sick. They work harder | that these north-side saloons ure cloned than any men in the city’s employ and | saturday and Sunday night, go that Hove longer hours Cannot something | our poor children might got a chance be done for these poor slaves? to live? Not imine alone, but others Mrs. J. D. | just as bad, ine A BROKEN-HEARTED MOTHER. The Jangling Jor To the Editor of The Evening World: | A Question of Pan, The municipal order prohibiting the! wee of “cow-bells” by Junkmen seems *0 be generully ignored or defied by this Fabs of deators, ‘Those bratn-racking bells were abolished by the Board of ‘Aldermen in Mayor Cooper's tme, and tor of The Evening World: an Italian non-citizen have stand In Clty Hall Parke oppo. site the ridge and I, a elvil war veter- an and a cripple, am refused a permit Why cu a fo fa tholr siend the x0 of five brass bella) FOR® RIE aay WAGR os permitted. Thoso latter bells are | N QUACKENBUSH, musical and do not produce that ear A Cane for Dr, Onler, @plitting nolse created by the others, It will be noticed vny of thase | and wa either the] mber, NOISH To the Eifior of The Evening World: Here ts a case for Dr. Osler; There js a young man living In the Next house to me who weighs at least 250 pounds, He 14 so heavy, in fact, they had to get special furniture for him, and he depends on his widowed mother Fe What about the poor tenoment-houso | for support, having only worked two S Women that have to suffer so much on| weeks in fourteen months, He never P.BeCoUNt of those traps that are set for | rises tlil after 11 A, M., and is out ti) sy husbands Saturday night and !iate every night. His mother is very ¥ and until $ o'clock Monday? I indulgent though of only modest mea the yeloons, The poor man will and looks on him as @ boy, V. G. G, Sanday Saloon _ ‘The administration will have constantly in mind the fact that thre police force fi @ SEMI-MILITARY BODY, upon whose efficlency and integrity depend life, atement in The Evening World to-day that “the ust is none of our business—we are not in the street-sprinkling line,” is astonishing. Even more so is his declaration that “dust simply flies about Let it be recorded that there is one corporation which does not merit Ifor dresses ordered the Court of Appeal [yous decided that the defendant made rather let them get healthy exercise on Sunday and a whiff of God's pure alr x brought forth with mountainous labor by the Committee of Nine on|nood ol4-fashioned baseball at thet. I'd > Whe trouble with this measure {s that it does not touch the root of/on the lots on Sunday than to let them the trouble with the police administration—which is its control by that of politics that “works for its own pocket all the time.” Unt shall be a reorganization of the system that will “take the police Of politics and politics out of the police” no tinkering at Albany will wo Into half of the theatres of New tom will never be wholly solved dill the ‘tenement boy ts educated up to golf and ‘wbandons his bat for a putter, Until that day comes, why not free Bunday ball grounds in the remoter public parks2, /e © Complaint that the benefit concert for an east side school settlement ‘realized very little money because of the heuvy expenses’ for talent, &c. Seems to have been an unusually glittering success. oe ‘When John D, Astorfeller start- ed in life he worked in @ country store and was glad to sleep wnder the counter.” “And now?" “He's so troubled with insomnia that he'd be glad to sleep any- where." —PhMladelphia Bulletin, . 6¢ ¢ Remains to be seen whether the Barker called to fill Dr. Osler's place can do as much for Johns Hopkins University in that line as his famous predecessor did. eee As the proper person to “sit on the Ita" while the President is away Sec- retary Taft at least qualifies in the matter of corporosity, e ee Opinion among New Jersey com- muters regarding Anthony Comstock's crusade against penny-ante poker on Lackawanna trains that it 4s in the nature of @ penny Anthony perform- ance, cee Odd feature of the discovery of a buried pot of gold in Texas {s that the Bronx real estate press agent let it (ecape from his territory, eee Battle Creek boys whu ran away from home to escape a diet of braakfast cereals must have been wilfully blind to the advantages of life in the brain food metropolls, eo 8 6 ‘wWomen," says a British author, “are placed on this earth to be the comfort of tho world, the witness for God in the world, the teachers of the world, the Peacemakers of the world, the harmony of the world.” Some curiuslty to know whether “peacen.akers” Is not @ mis- print for pacemaker: eo 8 Mrs. Homer—l'm eure my hus- band never did a thing in his life that he would be ashamed to tell me, Mra, Gabblea—Well, 1 suppose it does take a great deal to shock some tconien.—-Chicayo News, * #8 Sclence {s never so interesting as when explaining the why and where- fore of popular impressions, Reason that @ man with a long neck gets more enjoyment out of the good things he eats and drinks {6 due, according to a Chicago professor, to the greater num- ber of “taste buds’ in his vhroat. o 6 6 Commissioner Woodbury will note that the West Side Association has trained a Gunn on his “white wings"! oe 8 Interesting to learn from a morning contemporary in an articie on Hohokus that “lesa than halt a mile from the station stands the Major Provost houre where Andrew Hamilton and Aaror Burr were rivals for the hand of ¢} Continental army officer's daught over whom they later fought a duel at Fort Lee." Good opening for the au- thor of that paragraph as’ a writer of historical fletion, ee Sald by a roof-garden manager that “for every person who went to Coney Island In the evening five years ayo twenty now make the trip." Greates: Flow on earth; even the chtidren cry for it, and the parents simpiy cannot do without St, oe 8 Artist. who is exhibiting paintings which he calls ‘Impressions of the Pal- isades"’ properly paid great attention to “atmosphere.” eo 8 6 “It's bad enough ter you to come home intowicated,” suid Mra. Lasch> man, “hut why go later" “Well, you shee, m' dear, my frien's foolishly shent me home by messenger — boy." --= Philadelphia Press, * * 8 Hardly necessary to say that the glu- cose company Which has spent $125,000 to end the smoke nuisance |t created Is not a Manhattan concern, Extraordinary ac- tior of the company Indicates the eure vival In New Jersey of a respect for pub- Ne opinion on the part of corporations which 1s obsolete In York, award Atkinson, who showed how uls could be cooked with a coal oll Jamp at a cost of one cent an hour, now has a plan by which a woman can dress herself stylishly on $6 a year, As an éxponent of domestic economy Mr. Atkinson would make a good under- study for Hetty Gre oo. bot m ervant problem In Navy" now. Per- haps Phy could be Induced to take a sea trip for her health, o 4 In a sult brought in England by a firm of women's taflors to collect $1,500 the purchases “as the agent of hor hus- band” and held him Habie for the bill, Trouble with the rich, according to a popular preacher, 18 that they “havo spwvitual gout.” and what they 1 spiritually 14 “calisaya bark and qul- nine’ for the ailment, Diagnosis prob- ably correct, but some doubt as to the jeMcacy of the prescription, _ doers “Aas” says Commissioner f PEDEIOOOS COOH OEDG6E aes ZE . CATCH IT WHE! 2OO4OO0O-OO PIDDDDIG 9OOOHIH6-G9S6HOGO$ $O0.9006 D5 OEBOOOID ODOT POCPOL DO OC OED ) The Man Higher Up. By Martin Green, SEB," sald the Cigar Store 667 man, “that the Amaiga- mated Sherlock Holmeses from Albany have discove ered that the Gas Trust buys gas from itself at 82 cents a thousand feet and sells it for a dole lar,” “Have you heard the populace rie ing up and giving three rousing cheers at the receipt of this informae tion?” asked The Man Higher Up “Have you noticed a palpitating aue dlence of about 4,000,000 tearing up the seats and calling the legislative performers before the curtain? “There are State records on filo showing the cost of the materials out of which illuminating gas {s man- vfactured and the cost of converting these materials into gas. The in+ formation was gathered by the Leg- {slature when the price of gas was reduced from $1.25 a thousand feet to $1, five cents at a time. The cost of manufacturing gas varies very lt- tle from year to year when the sane materials are used. Possibly the cost of distribution increases, “The people don't care particularly about what gas costs the gas monop- oly; but they do care a whole lot jabout what they pay the monopoly for gas. They would like to have the wise legislative gazees from Albany discover why gas costs the consumer more now than it did when it wag selling at $1.25 a thousand feet, “The people are particularly Intere ested in learning whether or not the | Consolidated Gas Company has its Bas bills to customers composed by. Cole & Johnson, the eminent rage time specialists, They would like to know the name of the particular brand of dope the Consolidated In- jects into its meters that causes them to register whether gas {s passing through them or not. If the directors of the Gas Monopoly have trimmed the stockholders of several million dollars jt wou'l appear that {t ts up to the stockholders to make a holler, not the Legislature, The fact that the gas people are robbing each other don't appeal to us, but the fact does appeal to us that the gas combine {s robhing Rhinelander Depeyster Rockerbilt, John Jones, Patsy Mul- Ngan, Heine Schmitt, Abraham Love \insky, Mle Olsen, Giovanni Parchesi, Hip Sing and every other gas user out of a sure-thing percentage every ® | month,” 4 “Are there any immunes from the ® | bloated gas bills?" queried the Cigar 3 | Store Man. | “No,” replied The Man Higher Up, 2\"The {mmunes from the tavages of ®|the Gas Trust are associating with x jthe immunes from cerebro-spinal “| meningitis—in the graveyard,” oe DOOR 2SOPOEQOOSTOE DE SHEDS ODDS 2O6G6O30O4- The Pen and the Sword. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. cries out for its soul n, Hotle bitale dirite to Subject to these audden Idlocies, The only difference les in the fact that the wise don't commit them to paper. Tule of men The pen is mightier than the swor e¢ hands of persons utterly oes a great deal more harm. “Those letters will hang Nan," sister of Nan Patterson was credited as saying, when her trunk containing |{ ers fell Into the hands of vhe lover's soul, as | inflattering type. Reading it, a selt- respecting person Is never again to come | it himself in pen and ink to the ex- tent of an Invita- tlon to a children's them? Why does 8 that preside over fool~ ‘And they only ait by and grin, ——=___— THE PLACE TO STOP, Edgar—Is your father favorable to my written of the haunting horror that) Pthel-Oh, yes; everybody gets along with pa unless they try to borrow money,| of him.—Detrolt Free Press, i aia Owed Little, Owned Less nover once letting the {mage of his vic~ tim from his mind, But it seems to) me that tine writer of a sentence like that must be pursued by more furles than ever drove Orestes to his doom. How do the perpetrators of such crimes common sense et them out of thelr minds? But we will oll go on writing them, discretion we can exercise {8 In ithe line of selecting “Ulttle bitsle dirlies” or boys who have sense enough not to keep our Insane It seems to me that if I ever received a communication such as heads this column I would tury It | I would expect the shamed missive to | echo from beneath the sod the frenzied “Why didn't they bury me deep enough?" as the letter sounds, susceptible people have moods tn which y that way, Only they they feel exact on't write thelr feelings, so Inevitably to the use of diminutives that I am sure there have been occa- Barnum giant was addressed as ''Ittlo Georgle."’ We are all of us wise and foolish, The Lawyer-—What's that? !d—I way I wanter file a neti- tlon In bankerupay, imy ouly asset is dis here yaller dog, Too Much Faith in the Biscuits. 1 owe 47 cents and Doctor—I thought your wite was a Christian Sclentiat? No Chance, Mistress—The last nurse I had allowed policemen in the park to Kies the baby. Please seo that {t doesn’t happen while you are engaged here. Nurse—Oh, ma'am, I'm eure no police- man would ever kiss the baby when I waa there, Little Willie’s Guide to New York. THE AQUARIUM, the acquareum seezen oapend as yoo- sual on alprel ferst for that Is the oanly day that many nu yoarkers heer of the ackwairiem for then they call up mister fish on the tellyfoane at the rekwest of some boarn yoomerist, the acquareim 1s conveenyently sichooated at the jumping off plaice of mannhatan {lend and annyboddy who reely wants © know albbout how fishes doan't ackt in thare nativ Jares can go thare any day and see, but whats the fun of going to che acquarreum when they wount let you talke a fish poale thare and call you down {f you try to poak the fishes with your umbreler, If thay wood have fishing parties thare or have fites between whallz and sharks or battels betwean a seeserpint and an ockterpus evyery satterday thare mite be some fun In going thare but who wants to see a googoo eyed fish swim- ing around and around In a tank and butting Its noaze against the walls like a man trying to carry a Jag throo the maizes of grenniteh villy still the ac- areum Is a fine plaice in spite of the nse of the strenyous life thare filladelfia folks find it awful exsit- good 04 cauareum. Ing wood oald acaua BRHUNE, —s— A Case of Cranks. OBERL W, CHAMBERS, who at R times uses startling incidents in the construction of plots for his novels, 1s constantly recelving "crank" letters, Once a woman bombarded him with lettera for an entire year, saying that she was spending her fortune to H and destroy all of his books be- “the King In Yellow'' had made ler crazy, ominously adding that as soon as her money gave out she was coming to his home to murder him, Mr, Chambers in telling this story remarked that he was "pleased to see that her money still holds out.’ Another time a man sent him a model of a machine, claring with oaths that t Patient—she is, That's the trouble, She's been trying to raise the bread with faith instead of yeast I guems, y $10,000 for the priv! ve sbnes 1) Hebe he would her hn poisoned . a dreadful sight, and me only away saying the nelgh- neat bors thought you had risen at last and ard at the St. Regis when you had thrown me out of the house! The 4 siness trips! Do I? had her th this house only I knew you liked her! here at al say? Oh, Mr, Nagg, so that is what you really think, 1s 1t? You know we have been dear friends for years and that 1s why you say that! her song; “You do not care for her one way or By the melody and beauty of her another, you may? Ah, yes, now I see song. why you started to quarrel with me about poor Susan Terwilliger, You want me to forget the condition of this house, and me only away for two days! & joke, Ike Mr, Dubb did when ho washed the dishes with the garden hosa the week Mrs, Dubb was sick and had an explosion in the gaa range ang wrecked It! I could have stood It, Nie poor Mra, Dubb stood it, because sho had to, ff I only knew you did it for placo to THINK we go Mrs: Nagg and Mr... oe By Roy L. McCardell.... house isn’t loke, but I know you did tt on pur Ve. Everything 1s in order, You took ir meals at @ restaurant, you say? ‘Oh, of course, you took your meals ata restaurant! Isn't your own home cooking provided by your wife good for two days, visit: ing my mother, and Twouldn't have com enough for you? And yet you carry on \ i terrtole If T have lunch at the New pack from that dear stor or the Waldorf or the Cafe Brooklyn, only I r Francis when 1 am downtown shopping, celved the meanest although you never say a word “Yes, wh Iam faint for the want of letter from Susan ’ food, when I have been shopping for ‘Terwillges, hour trying to find the cheapest places, a few ry q nies, I may @o Roy L, McCardell. ay dollar oF #0 f co not go out “She wrote me Idea! Tho very idea! It any one sald It | Nob st MeN ot octa wi nemvente: and it was that mean, malicious Susan ‘Ter- | she oh, but | never got wiliger, and after all I have done for| (yw wg OU a DNC that woman, and poor, Innocent me} ¥; it ed up, and your trusting her 90 as my dearest friend! 1 aunpore no other "I always said she wasasnako in the vent frass and a person not to be trusted. ? sing yc And yet you always upheld her, she was| in r years, and it {s no use always a dear friend of yours. For my | to say anythin own self-protection I would have never ease = _—————_—— TY, Her Song. She maketh care to lighten, She maketh hope to brighten, She maketh faith to deepen, Sho maketh life to sweeten, With the magic, with the musto of “You would be glad she never came she's a trouble-maker, you She maketh old ties dearer, She maketh new friends nearer, Bhe maketh gray skies bluer, She maketh lovers tnu ‘Through the tenderness and sweet- ness of her song, By the power and the dower of her}’ song, -—Marle 8 Burnham in Sunset Magazine, “I would not mind st if you did {t for The ‘'Fudge’’, Idiotorial A Harlem man who has Just The Noisy moved Into the country tells us Country Life, J that he wants to get back to the city, where he can find QUIET (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) fg 4nd REPOSE! He say hy Idea that the country Is full of isspen- the Is A LIE! The milk wagon, he observes, doss not begin to get up AS EARLY as the rooster, and the TROLLEY CAR goes to sleep long before the BL'LLFROG. ! The dog next door makes a great deal MORE NOISE 3n the morning than the Janitor of his flat used to do, Even THE COWS are earller birds than the butchers’ boys. The birds begin LONG BEFORE the 6 o'clock whistles In the Harlem brewerles, and the elevated road Is QUIETER than the river behind his country house. His nerves are becoming so LOOSE that he imagines he can HEAR the grass grow. He dreads the time when the BOISTEROUS LEAVES will begin to rustle on the trees! ( ' ‘i It ls a sad case, but there are others. When WE need a quict down Into the PRESS ROOM. ni i chara