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THE “POLITICAL SIDE.” i 0 to the heart of this scandal, The issuance of ola Pi chanet F. Murphy, his “Brother Jack,” Alderman Gafi- ‘and Commissioner Oakley is a beginning in the right place. bs A searching inquiry, in Counsel Hughes's gimlet style, ought to bring ‘some interesting facts on these highly relevant matters: What influences secured the city’s approval of the Remsen grab bill and Oakley lighting contract? ‘What connection, if any, was there between this approval and contract and ‘big construction Job at Astoria awarded to the New York Trucking and Con- wm i The Evening World's he announcement that the Senate Committee will on Friday in- mite ‘the political side” of the gas question is welcome to all who Said on the Side. cooks to gins in counting-rooms, Mrs. Craigie called her unfair the other day Seoretary of tho Woman's ‘Trade Union League accused her of lack of thritt, Mrs. Chapman Catt, Mre, Perkins Gil- man and others contributed their quota of flings, If the anal of the sei by the eex proceeds much further ques- ton why men don’t marry may become too obvious to require answer, . . . War tn the National Arts Club sald to be due to the exhibition of the statue ot Aphradite, Goddess continues to live up to her reputation for causing trouble, ° o 8 Now course of instruction at Marvard In settlement work. Marriage rate of estes graduates now tow, but walt till © returns are in from students who BPELE ELE GORDO Cees Magazine, LVOS FELON DOVE POOHIOGL HODLG IDG OOS HOSOOOG ED OF HOD GOIDL OF DVESPOVO VS EDOE DOSD IDI 9HOH9HHHHH 9HH9HH9SOD. Wednesday Evening, April 212, “A Necessary Amputation.”’ 1905 The Man > e 3 Higher Up. St York. By J. Campbell Cory. s 5 by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New ‘ at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Clases Mat! Matter Ms mean remarks AGU welaan 4 by women, Lady's Piotorlal NO. 18,940, calis her “anpunctual,”” and ay-} > SIB> Mastin. Ceweni —| plies the allegation to all the sex from $ $ rs 8 g é49P SEE,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that John D, Rockes feller has pressed his come tribution to the Bapties Board of Foreign Missions anothes hundred thousand.” “John D,,” explained The Mam Higher Up, “is snowballing the Taye out, He is shedding hie white chips like an able seaman with a souse, and every time one drops some con- eolentious minister of the Gospel emits a moan of anguish about > taint y Y Gow, Odell would sign the Remsen bili|** ‘A courme $ it OL COREY RE j pas Uiere an understanding that Gov, Aldermen now expertencing that hold-| ¢: “ihts | oeKetaller eines he etarted 4 if ra sta the Consolidated Gas Company-or tts officers or agents con- aauly gtd samen ect tee Sar z Co nrROLLERS OFFIC! giving away mazuma, has never mi K > te to the Tammany campaign (und a the last muntoipal election? ‘The “political side” of the gas inquiry Is the side that explains the Why of the monopoly and the Wherefore of its power. * If the cable news from Amsterdam |s true—and Dutch reliability ts Mp its favor—the great sea fight Is on between the Russian and Japanese ? t It Is a gambler’s “last throw” for the Czar, and the odds are By ageinst him, FS TWO WAYS WITH A SURPLUS, * Ym England an anticipated surplus of $15,000,000 in the Govern- nt’s revenues is promptly followed by a reduction of the tax on tea. In our enlightened country, under a nominal government “of the peo- , by the people, for the people,” a surplus is met with larger a | The idea of stopping an excess of revenue by a decrease of tax- on is quite out of date with us, Even a deficit doesn't induce economy. And yet there are persons who will maintain that the English way Is F both more democratic and more just. ing. o ee Mra. De Jarr—You forgot, sir, that you are married to a woman of sducation, I am mistress of many tongues, Mr, De Jarr—But not of your own—New York Weekly. o 8 New York «irl in Romo has etven an “original and successful” pink tea in Ther stables “among horses, doma, don- keys, monkeys and piss." Should have Temained at home to enliven a season Not consptcuous for social novelties, “Let the child alone," sald the Rev. Merle 8t. Croix Wrieht to the City Mothers’ Club, ‘Children wet Nolet and ‘whinped and rounded into shape among other children, They get independence tn this way, and that 1s really the ex- pertence of the world.” Revolutionary doctrine, but much good sense tn It, eer e Allered in proof of the infertortty of the newest Zangwil! play that {t ts “punctuated with puns.” Tastes change. and the pun is no longer what tt was asa stage mirth vrovoker, Hven pro- fanity now falls to evoke that riot of COKE POEBOOCOHOOOSOOHHOD0CLOODTG OOH 290000800299 23OS 2: piker, @ been a piker. He never made such @ liberal offer to a church as Ane drew Carnegie did—to give a million if the church would first raise twene ty-four millions somewhere else, But, I repeat, he has never been @ “Neither has he been distinguished for throwing it nway, He has gone about spreading his coin in a methe odical manner and reading only newspapers with the roasts clipped out, But, since the ministers of the Gospel have turned ypon him and handed him hot wallops about how he got {t, the way he has loosened up is something fierce. ‘It @ roast from the Rev. Mn Gladden, of Ohlo, can jar an addle tional hundred thousand through the asbestos covering of the Rookefeller roll, Dr. Parkhurst ought to be able It has @ |to shake tt up for a million, ‘ 1 Ly aie 4 hat the hotter th nd his sosuts.in Chicago apparently caught the Beef Trust, Fabia. tee acai den plane ee $ more cush they can fry out of Bey a 2 Lrracapatt 4 “What' ith nite , q UNDAY, —_fettelMadreatten dma’ ana tow mes ios tho ioeunDi Racketeiee Cokes | OUTDOOR RECREATION ON S Sih sical comedy, g 3 ne Sseisiee, CAS TaRTatN ean - Four baseball players arrested at a game on Sunday were promptly ySoeakina of om 3 B|Engage some of the heavy-welgnt ; “Wischarged. The Magistrate held that so long as no admission fee was] his letters. save: “1 remember but one $ SHeeeal reagan te MER evade )iedilected the police had no right to interfere. made by our master: Thou art Peter 3 lof the United States, playing ones oe: What is there about Sunday outdoor sports that believers in strict | (that wil T nulla. Sor’ which canotite |night stands and putting ate Md ; observance of the day find them so immoral? If proper respect is shown | Punning with me against all gainsay on the Rockefeller money under \ i Healthful | “"" e ele searchlight of publicity. By keep- ; for the Peace and quiet of others they should be encouraged. Nae Mra, Brickrow—No; she has only |ing at it consctontiously the eutire | exercise bencfits youth, morally as well as physicafly. Is it not better] rented a quiet room here, to work Rockefeller fortune may be squeezed , ' that boys should play ball on Sunday, for instance, than loaf on tha| 4 Sho 4@ writing a book on “How out of the strong-boxes, and every { i “ to Bring Up Children.” fig RiGin ay wean dibs Streets, wherc there is always plenty of mischief for idle hands to do? “Why docan't she write at homer” EOOUS heeded ey { | ___ The British Chancellor of the Exchequer has just stated that outdoor wants so vad has children!— “It's great to be # millionaire,” | ( weereations and cheap railway excursions have helped materially to re- oe sighed The Clgar Store Man. | duce driuking in England. Which is the better school of morality—the | ascent Meany Dia ertme “Also,” added The Man Higher Une | bi ow H fleid or the Raines law ‘hotel? ot manta “Nupi taeunenee brain peecest ‘ft 1s great to be a heathen.” ey a ‘Another foolish married man, fh cece as the result of a of warnings never warn? —_——_____. me) old enough to know better, has died in “street flirtation.” Why is it that some kinds A THOROUGHBRED COMPARISON, According to John E, Madden, “the nearest thing to a young race forse is a high-strung lady.” ‘This comparison by the weloee Ken- y tucky horseman was intended to be complimentary to both the horse and (the lady. It was made in a suit for damages against the Long Island d for a wreck which destroyed the nervous systems of a carloa P ef thoroughbred horses. by A race horse has the “eternally feminine” f { Tecreoers have learned to their sorrow. It goes when it pleases and it | Stops when it pleases. It has its days of amiability and its times of sulk- “ness, and no man can tell when either will come, or why. 4 Both “young race horses’ and “high-strung ladies” are objects of ) beauty, and, it may be added, of expense, but both repay many times : 7 4 3 Fusses, and cow they are going to let| things, and, as for cutting himeel¢, he » over the trouble they cause, It may be that their Pag POT etd AEC eh ee tn ae bim ameke cubs cigarettes in the pat- | always fainte q : ; y 'y uncertainty fs one of edaya seems able to get any variety perience in New Pime-Wall, thee gel ot ain't goin’ to merry one of them teng city | lor, eo pare i en are characteristics, as many centres are the first to sive way, and @ man 'faticued at the end of the week is less able to withstand temptation, Logical regult of the arrtval of the consiznments of fatixue anti-toxin now on their way should be to give the po- Mee a night off on Saturday, Duke who has got a new job as a railroad employee may rise to be a rail- way king and learn the real hollowness of inherited rank, . Noticed that Miss Roosevelt's pur- chase of @ race horse was made during & Presidential recess, ee Chicago doctor says he has chwerved in his practice among children that the dargest number of fatal capes of iiness cour with those who “use soap and are ovor-partioular about bathing," ‘Trouble with the present generation, says the doctor, is that “st keepa too clean and doesn't eat ite peck of dict © year," Saya that the benefit of a vacation is that people “eat sand and dirt” and recommends unwashed fruits and vegetables as Women Gamblers. —— By Nixola Greeley-Smith fessional yamblers, playing the races for @ living or de- pending on an eosae stoned bridge them over Anandial crises only 00 frequent in thelr \lvee? York, Mrs. 4 ID you hear D @bout poor, dear Mr. “up” to tand In a vast, mon- Tihave know? | genera that takes ber to'eo many reces! Bho says he ls a bookmaker, ber tyranny any longer, hia “breath Und ererve Mlarmed, and when he recov. bewged him to pardon them out and got him a hait dozen charlotte Nagg and Mr.—=. e.+- By Roy L. McCardell. ... Bo he held y grew ered thoy and sent pell you that house with the damp cele | Jar he owned on Juniper street that had } the bad plumbing ana s0 many people who lived there had typhoid, “Poor Mr, Grabber, how he loved met ven after he knew I was your a | fenced bride he still called under pree tense of wanting to sell us that house, | | “Mamee always eaid he loved me so | that he was in hopes we would take the | house, as you looked delicate, and then | if anything happened to you be could { come and comfort me if I was widow, | because real estate men are eo partial to witows, and anyway black is very, } becoming to me, \ “Thi is the third time poor Mr, Ladys , finger has been tempted to commit eule etfe., He would do it with » platol, only *| he can't stand the sight of the horrid "My \poor | r { Y “You should be thenkful, Mr, Nags. thak you fave no motherdn-law to tonke your life miserable for you, iike peor Mr, Ladvfinger hes. “Tt i true that my mamma does not m. 4 ed landladies, but never one ato an not spend the @reater part of Saturday afternoon in @ pool- oom or at ithe track, generally losing heavily and coming back to New York to weep upon their lodgers’ shoulders and beg for just @ little more money in advance. One of these, « Southern woman, was #0 completely in the grip of the racing mania, which HM! possemed her colored cook, that, re: geardies» of caste, the two would hie them to the ‘track together, the one betting away her rent money, ithe other @ucoesstul ageous. Geveral times he held a platol to his brain threstening to destroy hime self unless mamma gave him what money ahe had in the house to pay the bills, "He only 4i4 that Oecause he had cone trasted some debts of honor and he was ~ | too proud to owe any one a cent, “One time he held the revolver against bis heed for four hours when mamma was obdurate, and he would have pulled the trigger only the eme!l of gunpowder fumes gave him @ headache, and it was for that ceagon he left the wer in the ° Af with assistance ice were alt As free as with advice The world tcould be quite different; And couldn't st be nice? —Philadelphia Record, oe ° Writing in the Nineteenth Century on the English stage, Miss Gortrute Kingston says: "A well-known French actress said to me last year; ‘I do not understand your Engtish public. I go to the theatre and see only plays fit for children, not grown-up people, But what are your men and women made Mandy—When they come up here we'll have him make some ef them books fer us, Erasmus Hall High School girls are to “imake “home runs!” The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers A Marriage of Mated Minds, Fo the Haltor of The Evening Word: Ts not the 8 Pastor marriage play baseball. May they all Up-to-Date Precocity, The Cost of College Sport. fiewt-class football team te as cost- ly a matter as an up-to-date rac- ing stable, or a falretsed yacht, writes Ralph D, Paine in April I. In order to place eleven young men the field against Princeten and Harvard Jest autumn, $96,906.08 was spent, or more than $2,000 @ head, To ft elgtt youths worth of opium sold tn one night, re- gardiess of other dopes, something might be done to remedy the evil. “Mammea's very words were when you asked her consent to our marriage: ‘Well, X think my daughter could have been to row against Harvard, a test of twen- ing, and, anyway, he did not “@ Blant stopping stone to cauality? Ie A victim, |of? Have they no emotions, no pas- TrMlecane ite. a ty minutes, com Yale $16,696.05, oF $1,000 Sauna ala ton ent Gia te the” way. Prowgont heveapigs lett yl thin not the only way to solve our ever-|wette to a Lawyer tn the Place | #8? Do they feo! nothing of hate or @ thead, not counting the coxewain. This 4 4) bad running the war, while as for the rebela, they were brutal ito ev qi woe course, you have a fond and foots tam wite, who ts eilly enough to give (n to you in everything, and @ you have no worrtes; but if you had e wife Mike jeome men have you would know the take the risk I affair, warned ‘There is no abvesston more fatal to & woman than thet of gambling. Even |, drink! will not bring her any lower, Indeed, if @ womam gambles she és gute to drink to excess eventually, if only to drown her losses. love, of fear or tenderness, of Jealousy or rago?* jh my hands of the have always Where Uncle Died To the Bdltor of The Evening World Kendal My wite told me for the first time| 4, yesterday about an uncle who dled in|‘? Australia about eight years ago and |'? °° of @ notice sent to her father tn Ireland about a fortune and ia boat-racing at a cost of the best part of a thousand dollars a minute, The football men were equipped with the greatest possible care, Their choes alone cost $1,189, Uniforms and the armor of the football warrtor oost But her’ “And 80 poor mamma did. I might tre married one of the wealthiest real estate men in Dorough Park, but ‘when he #aw you cafling at the house The English drama, ay Mrs, aid, is still largely adapted Young Person, and judging from sional exceptions to the rule it {s probably better for her parents that tt 4s ing problem of raising poverty humanity? There are many Pastors for the finding, but the ns @ » Btokeses aro as ecarce as in the desert. MF. N, Mo, Bdeoated Haman Porkern, Se SSeS a some propert Yet women never have the true gam- $3,726.8, or nearly a hundred dollars | 1, Ceti Hvala Mra iced rad] bapiihanr helen Ct We tue mattor of THe venting Word: which were to go to him or his children, tha deat od bing Inwiinet, ‘They play to win, and for etch of the squad. ‘Hotel bills snd id yE Baye noticed that the men who ex-| He Was too poor to see alter it, iHane, 66th im thelr minds no 1s ever free from meals away from training orate the most in the care me tne|Wa# atopped,” Cun anything be dono? NaH oHotteaewaver euite harmicag, {the suspicion of #windling, cost $5,260.42, Carriage hire $74. The (nes who carry the biggest bundles of WMpapers under thelr arms, MARY L, VINCENT. baseball squad required $2,378.18 worth of merchandise and sporting goods, or about $100 worth of uniforms and shoes per man, The real gambler—as all readers of 1 for plants In pots, but} Bret Harte and lovers of Jack Hamlin ble volce was never heart and Mr, John Oakhurst know—lm ebso- day wine .[tuely tmperturbable. He wins or Soses y serv Photograp thelr except 0 Hoga Will De Hoga, A A US} abi for BeleE To the Editor of The Byoning Workd: I call your attention to the constant The ‘*Fudge”’, Idiotorial The skin of agreat auk sold4n " = ‘When I’m grown up, I’m goin’ ter saled About the I. violation of the laws of the Health De-|° thal! i ar aaa inne partment, ‘The signa and warnings pro- | Phey were a kind of gusta aoe ene aay Won't King’s rane [be & bank president, What you goin’|, Twenty yeure ego Yale football cost! The Great London the other day for $2,000 | 9 Editor of The Wvening World: uutoly ig. | tility, and they were nothing more,| h ter be?” sare 000. t A friend claims that man's miperioeity |r Muet een etre, adasoly Ie) Tava all over how, You don't pley gor & 20 to 1 shot oF lost his lage doliar | ‘7, gotn’ ter be a Mrs, Chadwick.” | even in those days, Auk’s Skcin. ff andan egg for $1,000, This is Dtrorse Ua dus to the horse's sight; Wcred: Sid even in street cars and on| Tare ait over now. | ¥ py “lon the favorite te nscrutable eoun-| “'™ In a recent year the Yale foothell a HIGH PRICE for birds without Ia, When a horse looks at a man |i, % Subway plattorms there is an) Piano, iyith your hands any longer: |?) noe does not reveal, equad was aupplied with 200 footballs, i man looks a8 Vie asa house, and pean m gueiterence to the pubite] eyelet ai Now, there {s no woman, even among A Damaged Organ. Rote ces tomginie, ier citow end! (Copyrot, 1908, Planet Pub. Co.)i™ bottles, Tho reason Is that the } i | a L} i shoul i) i ‘nose- rts bles oonapers the horse. | W. M, O'BRIEN, ‘nummer’ sirta capture negro] the, deat and dumb, who could suppress nae great auk has been exterminated, guards, 167 jorseys, 170 undershirts, and 107 pairs of hoes, Oe sufficiently her emotion as to be a Jack Hamlin in petticoats, And eince 4 ghe cannot be an artistic gambler, why strive to be one at all? ‘Phere 1s no money in tt. I never knew @ woman who made money on the races, though even when they are weep- Strict Mourning Prohibits Woman's feat of climbing over To the Ealtor of The Evening World: nllant ee Iam a member of a b which {9 to | mid cheers, sive @ play and dance shortly after | \igenos against | aster, Iw it proper for me to accept | prevents burglary," y erally wtarts in| part in this play, as f am in mourn-|Sude to reform’ 'the i viotim is ar-|!n« ¢or my futher, who died about three The careless people who exterminated the bird did not think i VALUABLE, They were unable to LOOK AHEAD, People who give away public streets and public privileges are 4 in the SAME CLASS as the auk killers. They do not look ahead thinga as they are and not to! AC), fire-escape thrills crowd," m stops @ runaway, Yoman inspector gets “Woman Strong Magnet. T® Mfting of massive iron and steel @he Deadly Drug Habit. @ Mito of The Wvening World: two of drugs opium until @ent bim to bed at § o'clook, and, while os Ve obeyed, he had renolution ty MAPIYRoy L. McCardell, plates, welghing four, six and h news space for the dally and for that reason their affairs RUN BEHIND, tb ast doings of , el ing @ petition on your shoulders they twelve tons, by magnetism, ts yebed for petty crime and in jail, Then | onthe ago? DOUBTFUL, 0 ae an formen'e deeds. “| Mh tell you of more fortunate frienda now done every workday in @ number A bird ought to be worth MORE than its skin, A well-reque ; fod friends bring them a substitute for|Ge Down by the Bem, Like Demoa-| “Fite dri empties echoo! in four} who average from $5 to $60 «day on of large ateel works. The magnets are 4 imerphine. But when they are gen- Where they cannot get dope of By. Wind. what do they do? They get smneals and a little exerciee and fe to stay awake to do a little work, mimutes."" This must be demonstration No, 10 or 12 of the admirable selt- To the Mditor of The Evening Word: control In which echool chiltren havo Where can a young man take up a|becn disatplined hold themselves in Course of public speaking free of charge| moments of d i oF at a very small cost during the sum. Reema river. 2 8 score “1 wach to be kn renainens cor cr PPA Poblle| fait ontapaiani st Gave tit kpowe ne gtime., AN, the lot oratory,’ bust ari 1¢- | way the charges ot neglect In Keewtn; to| Sonridense, whlch ie most e@sntial “by |penool-houss. Aro upplinasen In serene: tA las ata Judictous tips. . The tact that women prefer the hat- pin system of ploking a winner to any other is mot an argument agninat their wamtfing, for % is just as apt to win in the long run as the most scientific wuspended by chains from cranes, and ck wp the plates by simple contact, and lated bird should lay eggs MOST of the time. Public p:operty should pay profits to the public and NOT to Anthony N, Braay! The duane of cha fat Booae In We are ust finding out what an | Ms 2 micros the older method, It 1s also found that | KILOWATT Is when it gets loose In ou: midst, Mr. es onsets ie stil co hoe thes tt eosse and bitched {i on (oyour pcowtbo.ki , the men to Rut they can't lose mracefully, and} Wil t een ; that snouid bar them. fiom the’ eeleob Welly, got f P 15 s iy thenes, ih panics among ‘their elders in theatres and assombly-rooms during the same length of time. All the more reason