The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1905, Page 14

fForld’s @Pedlished by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Pal Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mal: Matter VOLUME AB... eeeeeeee ees cee ee THE CHICAGO WARNING. The election by a plurality of nearly 25,000 of a Mayor of Chicago pledged to the “quickest possible” acquisition by the city of the street car lines and other public utilities should convey a sharp and distinct warning to the holders of such franchises in ‘this city. The people of American municipalities have been disposed to Me the management of transit and lighting companies to private corporations, They have found it difficult to get honest and etticient administration of ther and more strictly public converns in their city governments, They haye nuit up with impositions and extortions by public service corporations tather than add to the “spoils” stakes in the local elections. But there is a limit to the public patience, as the Chicago election proves—where both the leading candidates were committed to the princi+ ple of municipal ownership. Here in New York the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has iong defied and outraged public opinion, The Metropolitan Company has done better in late years, but is not yet all ft should be. The elevated and subway management leaves much to be desired, And the Gas Trust, capitalized at six times its value and charging consumers three times the cost for its gas—what an argument it presents for municipal ownership! The incompetent, insolent, overcapltalized, extortionate monopolies now squatting on public privileges in New York will heed the warming from Chicago if they have any brains in their management! NO, 16,984, A PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND, K public library for the blind has been opened in Brooklyn, It starts » | with 400 books, printed not with letters In Ink to be read with the eye, but with the punctured characters for the trained and sensitive fingers of the blind. The library is located at Fourth avenue and Pacific street, and all blind visitors will be welcome, Although the books are not many in number, they take up a great deal of space, Books for the blind cannot be printed on thin paper, and the punctured characters must not be compressed, or they become blurred and more difficult to read. The Bible alone takes up three feet of shelf space. ii The blind readers who have been consulted as to the kind of books they most want express a preference for light literature. They prefer Books telling of sunshine and outdoor life, with vivid descriptions of the scenes which they cannot see and the things of which their loss of sight deprives them of first-hand knowledge. A library like this will bring more happiness than many great libraries for those who can read. The cost of preparing books especially for the blind is.so great that the purchase of single copies by the blind is rare, and a library which gives them access to current literature will do much to bring into their lives some of the sunshine which they cannot see. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN LAW. In theory a penal statute is for the punishment of offenders, In theory before the law all men are equal: the rich are entitled to no more or less consideration than the poor; the poor get justice or mercy on pre- cisely the same terms as the rich, But what is the practice? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was arrested on March 30 for running his slxty-horse-power automobile at a terrific rate of speed on upper Madison avenue, He was arraigned before Magistrate Baker, pleaded guilty and asked to be permitted to pay the usual fine, as he has done many times before. The Magistrate accepted the plea, but held the young man for trial, under bail. Verily, another “Daniel come to judgment!” For what punishment fs it for a sporting millionaire to pay a petty fine? The only penalty that he would feel would be a suspension of his license, or thirty days in the Tombs, which an offending chauffeur recently got who had presumed to race without the presence and consent of his employer. Yesterday was Mr. Alfred Vanderbilt’s day for appearing tn the Court of Special Sessions to change his plea and stand trial, or to receiva sentence, But Mr. Vanderbilt was not there, The atmosphere and the associations were not agreeable to him, His counsel was allowed to appear and plead not guilty for him, and the case was postponed with- out date, All of which tends to show that laws without adequate penalties rigidly enforced are “‘no good,” and that William Shakespeare, Esq., knew what he was writing about in saying: / —Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless falls, MARRIAGES A LA MODE, if What {s the latest fashion and fad in marriages and wedding gifts? 1 The day’s news contains the anouncement that J. G, Phelps Stokes, descendant of an old, rich and honorable American family—a Yale grad- uate, former preacher, club member and University Settlement worker— \{s to mairy “a child of the Ghetto,” who was “reared in direst poverty,” but who has a touch of genius and is a devoted worker among her own class-—the poorest of the poor. Announcement is also made of the “remarriage” of the gay son of a Pitisbuig millionaire to a girl who, after posing as an artist's model, be- caine ore of a musical comedy’s “beauty show,” Less than four years after her marriage to the som of a rich banker, the grandniece of a bishop and an admired “star” in the ultra-fashionable set is disposing of her superfluous wedding presents at a “second-hand shop” because they were “‘in the way.”” “Tis love that makes the world go 'round”—but what queer pranks the young archer, Cupid, plays with his stray shots! Vice-President Fairbanks may be interested in the news that President Roosevelt is going to hunt a grizzly bear that is the “terror of the Rock- ies.” The grizzly sometimes turns hunter himself, Letters from Evening World Readers Letter for Charley Murphy, To the Wditor of The Evening World Epldemt: rete 3 rtainly tne | teresting ery one residing That, aimless kick of Charley Murphy, in and around New York, Allow mo te manager of the Tammany Hungry|say that if the Health. Bo: Crowd Bhow, against the Republican) send inspectors a administration, reminds of a Latin| apartments hi “alrshafis" they rover) I leamed in a little town over) would be surprised to tid much mee if Hungary about ten years nico when|and rubbish accumulated at the bottom was only twolve years old, which runa| These alrshafts usually lead to. bed. room windows for light and afr, but instead they breed foul air and gorms y | Every landigd should be forced by jaw to have the bottoms of airshaiis Seaned after the close of the winter, and also Hnfected thoroughly, This would do much to help wipe out this terrible ais. “Bpotted Hever ssa, Mare y Divease-Spreading Airshaftn. Wi, Dy M6 the PAitor of THe Bvening World: ») Keur artine " |e leave |r the Side. ' answer to Osler is by physiclan who says t a° > With ite infirmities, is 1h on of the condiion ef, the blood- y “A man is just as old as his a and as that arrange ment of elastic tubes entied the arterial MN) remains thoroughly may be conasldered ever his years. tubes from play ung Hut when these el Various cau are over ‘man of thirty may of sixty, and @ man ve veins as degen-f Id be at eighty,” Lt by this criterion, be as old as a m of forty may erated as they a ull depends on the Individual, oe ‘Theatres now fireproofed while you walt. Query by an Interested public After the fresh coat of asbestos paint has been applied and the inspector's "0, KK." received, do they then become “reasonably safe?” er) Method, perhaps, in the selection of “The Magistrate’ by the Yale boys for presentation in New York, . ee Truth, crushed to earth, Will rise again— And get unother Throw-dowon then.—Judge. . 6 6 “Club to restrain chauffeurs’ epced” happens to be an automobile club, how- ever, and not a big stick. eo oe . Remains to be seen how munfctpal ownership will work in Chicago, In the case of New York and the Staten Island ferry there seems to be a seri- ous slip between the boat and the trip, eee “Millionaire of seventy to wed tele- phone girl of etwenty-teno,”” Dein't answer ‘busy’ to that call eee Capt. A, C. Aneon, “Uncle Anse,” Chicago’s new City Clerk, is mot the first professional bellplayer te gsradu- ate from the diamond imto office. Two Senators, at least one Cabinet officer @nd any number of minor officials, State and national, have been ball- tosers, Belict that many eye teeth are cut on the diamond seems justified by the subsequent careers of ballplayers| fn business as well as in public Life, oe 8 “But, pa, what ve an idle festr “There are no idle jests, my son; they are all toorking all the time,” Brooklyn Life. * 28 e In the hands of a resolute woma’. held up by highwaymen en umbrelix has been shown to be as mighty as au haipin, In ® smash-up of his $3,600 was asking no odds from any paleface in the matter of keeping up-to-date, eee “If I ever marey," says Mayor Fagan, of Jersey City, “my bride shalt ‘pe a school teacher,’ Candidates who desire to quality will note that the state- ment was made after eating @ meal teachers. prepared by cooking-school . te oti ‘The way to the masouline heart via tho old alimentary route. eee Perhaps It's due to the presence of @ little dust in Capt. Gibson's own eyes that he doesn’t see the situation more clearly, eee While inguracive topics are up for Giscussion, there's the case of the in- telligent Ape ''Conaul the Second," who carries an insurance of §0,000, Would seem to be specially eligible es a guvat at @ monkey dinner, . oe “A word to the wise te sufficient.” Te a saying we've frequently heard, But what we need now te @ mentor To tell us just what ts that word," . e ° Hard study now oid to make school children an easy prey to meningitis garm, Little while ago they were eut- toring from crooked spines due to carry- ing school books. ‘Being @ boy’ now {8 not what It wan in the days of the ltUe red school-house, o 8 Hy Professor with hie telescope keeps on “geein’ things” at might, Record of as- tronomical discoveries to date from Jan. 1 Includcs fourteen satetittes, seven by English and seven by Amertoan sky observers; a round dozen of new stars, ‘a comet or two, and now ® new milky way by Prof. Bernard. eo. Subject of @ lecture delivered at Hol- Joway Prison, in England, was “Pubic Holidays and How to Keep Them.” eee Wisdom of one generation ts the folly of the next, Used to be thought that powdered charcoal was an excellent thing for cleaning the teeth because of its antiseptic properties, Dental spe- clalist of high standing now says It was about the v sible, not only t black, but becnuse the fine particles lodging under the gum tissue favored the growth of salivary caloulus—a mom injurious deposit. No better tooth wash, acconding to this authority, than "good pure soap.’ . Newton—Old man Elsroth's boy Wed is jist a-pilin’ wp money sence ne went to Washington City, Plijah—In Congress Netwwton—He's tear in the mint,—IJndianapolis Star, oe 6 Incrense of $1,500,000 in the March importation of precions stones explaine the month's remarkabw record of los diamonds and burglarized bureau drawers, eee More farm telephones In Towa tha. in any other State, Kansas farmers paid. $60,440,000 for thelr wheat, Lang. orders for automobiles from farmers .n | Nebraska and Texas, Scems to poy to soil" “gtick Lo the London tro car conductor, moned to ¢ for carrying an execs- |sive number of passengers, pleaded in Jexcuse that he did so “out of kindness ‘to some ladi Unappreciative Judge |fned him, however, rking that | the first thing a man to learn | to resist the blandishments of ladies, New York justice would probably have bad hie sanity inquired inte, tA New # «Comic Series ‘By Gene Carr. a 24 $ B$LO2BLOIO>F DOO LCL ELDEO COSOSSSOSIE SE SESE OOO DHE DEE SOOGLEGHLEOO HOE & Y 3 Man’s Vanity By Nixola Gr Mee ene than women, So much valner that by com. parison woman has the brining violet and the retiring smowdrop beaten to @ standart ill, Woman's vanity te superfiodal, It spends itself tn a She ts not pelt, but merely of her possessions, and thewe generally include her husband. But man's wenity is of the soul. It ls not his houge, his wife, his business that fire him with self-elory. It is the Peculiar, @erene coneolousness that causes him to stroke his forehead carelessly when anybody mentions “mind,” of "thought," or ‘greatness,’ or any of the other things in which he holds a majority of the stock, Man's vanity, suMeolently manifest at all times, la never 90 apparent as in his marriage. Women speculate upon and discuss the quality that man most admires in woman, Is It, they inquire, hoauty, wit or charm? In reality, it is none these, It ie inferiority, as- gumed or real, Every man wants to be @ hero to his wife and he thinks the easiest way "fot seourtng thie ideal ts by marrying innards iy April 6, 1905. ET HR WERE. GOING JOA TURKISH, SATH, WONT YOU COME 9 Gee, BUT THIS) 19 GREAT! and His Wife eeley-Smith. some one leas clever than himself. H wants a woman who, stanting with th notion that he Is the wisest, brightest, noblest of his kind, must perforce keep It, Because ahe has the ditnd persistency of @ brain too small for an idea to turn @round in, Now, aa a matter of fact, the stupider &@ woman t# the more elavishly she be- Ueves tn the world's opinion, and If the world thinks her husband a fathire, or merely a moderately successful drudge, she ie pretty apt to share the world's opinion in the bong run, But @ women who thinks for herself, who haa the confidence of intellect in her opinions, if she once gets the in- finite superiority of a man in her head, t# apt to die with it there, Yor her faith in him ts simply falth in herself. The idea that men neosssarily prefer stupid women is exploded. Men are very @enerally philosophers, and are inclined to like what they can get, The ranks of the stupid haye hitherto pre- sented an Infinite and pleasing variety to choose from, while oleverness, on , presented uniform as- Prien leverness men shrink from, however, js not cleverness at all, but merely ‘a pretentious stupidity that fools very few people any more, ‘A really clever woman does ® man’s vanity if she cares for For with her reason has to juatity jove, and must therefore exalt him even as high as his own vision of him- self, y, mal Dere's er match fer baw Got six doga eu’ or you. "t The Social Scale, Ms PODHHHD4-ODHHHHHHHHHD HOHE HE DLGHE YG HOHOLOOOGHOCD FHOG POVDODHIOHOE HEDNOOEIDD All the Comforts of Home. The “Boys” Delight in Turkish Baths; Smith Sticks to His Own +7 Ww. > > Nore! mq GOING TO HAVE ONE. HOME a “THERE'S SOME - Seti | THING WRONG WITH TH, ICANT. OF IT! The Man __. Higher Up. | : | By Martin Green, SEE," sald the Clgwr Store Man, “that there don’t seem | (66 to be much chance og the | Legislature rewriting the Raines law.” i | “ht ls bad enough as tt 1s,” declared the Man Higher Up, "I have just! been put wise to a happening in this | town the other day that convinces me that the Raines law as a medium of coruption and a booster of vice hes even the cadet system faded, “Passing up one of the avenues tn @ respectuble part of the town last night I noticed ° | auctioneer'’s sign | hanging in front of a corner saloon that had been run for years by aman I knew, I always thought he did a profitable business and imagined that ‘ he must have died, But he wasn’t dead. He had been forced to throw up his hands by the Raines law be cause he refused to turn his place ' into a joint. “This man ran the only first-class booze camp within half a mile up or‘ down the avenue, He handled noth-+ ing but first-class goods, his place | Was clean, he closed every night at; |1 o'clock, according to law, although he had a hotel license and rented the. > | upper floors to male roomers an families. It was a rule of the concert | Never to allow a woman in the ay room, “The building was owned by « bre jery and the brewery people the rent on him the first of the He had been up against it and ther raise was more than his roll could) stand, but he made a stagger ot wines’ ning out. Two weeks ago he had go to the brewery people and wa them that the business wouldn’ stand for the extra rent. ‘ “The man he was talking to vieed him to give the respectal tenants on the upper floors the put in a register and start a Ri: law | >tel. He balked. The rum nesa, he satd, was strong enough him. So he closed the place and b it out of the neighborhood; an man has taken the lease whose cons) fsolence {s not so tender, and e thing is framed up for one of reguiation Raines law hotels, w all that the term implics.” ‘What are the neighbors 5 do atout it? asked the Cigar St Man, J “Stand for the proximity of new jotnt or move,” replied the Mi Higher Up ‘The Ratnea law has strangle hold on the family in N York City.” oe oo lty Roy L, OL, WIL- KING tele- Phoned that he would be up to the house this evening, “cc about that man, He pretends to be an Invalid end half the time he ie wheeled around in a chair, but to my mind he Roy L, McCardell. fe an artful and de- celving wretch and I do not trust him. "I know he ls a terrible mke and he tes no business trying to drag you away trom your home, You are a mar- Ned man, with a wife and children, You should be content to settle down now, Mr, Negs! For you have had your fling and tt ts thme you reformed, “But you oan never tell about men, When poor Susan Terwiliger couldn't stand for that wretch of a husband of hers any more, and locked him out of the house and burned all his pictures and books that he was fonder of than he wes of his own wife and cut up his clothes, just to show him he could not bully and ilitreat her, what did ‘Thomas Tsrwiliger do? “Ah, you well know what he did! He pretended to be an Invalid and went to Denver and made money tn the real eatate business and sends Susan Ter- wiliger a hundred dollars a week when her heart 4s breaking just for a little love and ection from him, And she swears will go to Denver herself and see if he isn't leading a double life. “Thomas Terwiliger always pretended id look how he Mr. Tenderfoot—Miss Gotrox, will you let me out of this dance, my head 1g in & whirl? Miss Gotrox—With pleasure, Mr, Ten- derfoot; to tell the truth, I am more afraid of your feet than your head. Little Willie’s Guide to New York. GOTHAM’S TWO BALL CLUBS. once thare were nine fine bacebaul players and 8 of them oame from pits: berg und two from shickaugo and 2 from denver and one from frisko and ono from pompton n, J, and becawse of that they oalld themselves the nu yoark halcebaul Klub and by and by a lot of other players jolad them and tharv were so menny that thay split up into tho jlonts and the hilenders and the Playors culme from evvery ettty exs- cept nu yoark and that ts why nu ycarkers talked luvvingly about them and calld them the Hoame Tom. and whenevver the 2 nu yoark teams hit town they go to the polo grownds and to hiland park nexst doar to eech other and peeple get bizzy figgering up bat- ting averidges and going to relitivs tunerels and spraneing thare throtor and infessting the bleecherles and gecl of the 2 teems haa Its oan wet of root ers and eech teem seems to have oanly one objeckt in Mfe and that objeckt is to Mik the other teem out when the tme comes for the 2 teems to get blazy agenst eech other at the end of the regguler acezen and proov which Is tho reel champin then boath teeme sneer the bitter werds Who's Afrade and thay loraap off in opiait direckshuns 0. as to event ill fealing cor theese youPk felera love thi f hoame #itty too Should Horses Wear Violets? (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) eats grass. the wiid violets are tame! Sally's er lucky goil, Dat feller's dad ee It Is a pily there are no BABY BLUE HORSES for viulets to ; match, There are YELLOW ale to match the sunflowers. It kt. Viole and Mr._. McCardell.... has acted; and along comes this Col, Wiikins, with an artificial limb and tries to wreck our happiness by leading} you astray! "He doga tead you astray! You know: you go to his apartunenta once or tw.0e; & week and gamble with him at chess "Tam nistaken; Col, Wilkins never gambles? Oh, yes, that is well enougis for you to suy, But what ts he coming | Mp to this house for uals mght He Wants to horrow money from vou, an You Will be foolish enough te lend it to hiner, ‘He 1s bringing vou a lot of money’ he made in Wall sivect for you, you say’ \ That 18 how you do! You trust every. Ton, dcx and Harry with your moneys How do von know but what Col. vie king Will wot run away. with’ ¥ money? Oh, Mr. Nagg, 0 any aurpr [Sb You! Xow are wo Credulotis and veo you would not let Brother Wilile have | 20. for ag ture Investment that would} have made a jot of money, only sone S\Wandiers made it come out wrong, “Here comes Col, Wilkins now. Well count your money,’Mr, Nagg. I wouldn! trust ‘him. Remember how er Wille was robbed. by man who got Into tho Jolly. Pal ers’ club-rooms under false and was Invited to play cai your «uard, Mr, aft Love’s Test. , REENCH Is not love's true test, A Nor 4s the fla!l of adverse fate; ‘The love that's faithfulest and best Is that whose ardora ne'er abate ‘Thro’ all the petty, jarring strife Of daily comradeship in life, -6usle M, eat, in Good House- Keeping, * Idiotorial | Recent events in society have raised the question whether It proper for HORSES to weaj VIOLETS on the morning drive. Like all GREAT INQUIRIES 1 gets up to us atonce, We think it ENTIRELY PROPER. Violets grow fn the grass, The ho There !s a BOND between horses and violets, Just there are BONDS between the horse's owner and Mr. Harriman, « The bond question Is always a DELICATE one, lent reason bonds are always GREEN! This1s to match the peo- ple who buy some of them. Violets are blue and gentle, Even For an excel- WADE. a love the. the Abs