The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1905, Page 12

ore Seca Dy the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ Park Row, New York, at the Post-Omice at New York as Beoond-Clase Mail Matter. TIME WB ....cscsrccesserenn cones ssreceesensees NO, 18,045, THERE ARE OTHERS. The example of young Mr. Hyde in “giving up” to the Equitable 6.92 of money which belonged to the policy-holders should be fol- d by those of his fellow-directors who have profited wrongfully from Of the society's funds, | An spite of Mr. Hyde's disclaimer, restitution 1s confession, and if he wrong in profiting personally by syndicate underwriting and Hke ven- there are others equally culpable who should also disgorge. The be-President accuses President Alexander of sharing in the profits of the ‘Byndiicate. The Insurance law is specific on this point, It forbids any ; of a life insurance company to profit personally in any transactions the company. Violation of this provision disqualifies the offender holding office in any insurance corporation. The Penal Code makes @ misdemeanor, Yet the gaining of personal profits through sales of securities, through ) trust company loans or other devices supported by the Equitable’s enor- mous accumulations, seems to have been the chlef business of several of the directors in connection with the soclety. Will they follow Mr, Hyde’s example and “give up?!” The confession of the Vice-President puts beyond question the de- © mand for turning on ‘‘the searchlight of Publicity” by a legislative in- vestigation. It suggests also a plain duty to the Attorney-General of the State and to District-Attorney Jerome, i 7 To-day the Stevens Committee begins its examination of the “politi- eal side” of the Gas Trust scandal, and ‘Nan’ Patterson's third trial is ‘on the docket. New York is never dull. 4 MAKE A BEGINNING. “ The bill before the Legislature to prevent the corrupt use of money "th elections is not ail that it ought to be. But it should be passed as a beginning. The provision requiring publicity under oath to all campaign contributions received and expended by political committees, as well as by candidates, is alone enough to commend the bill for passage. All re- forms come slowly, It is the duty of legislators to encourage every step, however short. f ‘ Murphy and McCarren may “bury the hatchet” for policy’s sake, but will the people who don’t want either a boss or a bi-boss govern- ment bury their broadaxe? THE LIE OF SUPPRESSION. 4 Gov. Higgins is warned .in one quarter not to “go fooling with any * tax on mortgages.” In another quarter he is admonished that “a mort- * gage tax is double taxation, and this is unconstitutional.” All such criticism of the bill in the Governor's hands is either igno- rant or designed to mislead the ignorant. All individual mortgages in this State are now taxable as personal ope-ty. Those that are not hidden or “swom off” by false oaths pay regular tax'rate of $1.54 in this city. In some of the towns and cities ‘of the State, as Gov. Higgins reminded a committee from this city, “mortgages pay a local tax of from 2% to 234 per cent.” The bill now in his hands substitutes for this, on all mortgages hereafter recorded, a tax of one-half of one per cent, This is in lieu of all other taxes. The principle of mortgage taxation may be wrong, but what excuse Is there for treating this bill as anew departure? The lie of Suppression is sometimes as bad as the lie of expression, BASEBALL FOR EAST SIDE BOYS. Wo the Faitor of The Evening World: After reading your article on “Outdoor Recreation on Sunday,” I asked myself why the boys of the east side should not have a baseball field in which to play the National game. There are many excellent players among them, and 1 see no reason why this sport should not be encouraged among, the east side boys as well as the Brenx boys, 1am sure that if this topic were brought up by The Evening World it would bear fruit. Why not? The Evening World has made a success thus far of every public good it has advocated, and I see no reason why this should be an excep- flea BENJAMIN DAVIDSON, No, 611 East Sixth street. ‘The Evening World heartily approves of this suggestion; but the dif- ficulty seems to be in finding a suitable field where the game could be played without disturbing the “repose” of the neighborhood, The great American game cannot be played properly without a good deal of noise! But the boys of the crowded east side ought to have room somewhere to “play ball.” If one of the small parks in that district cannot be utilized for this purpose the city authorities ought to give the east side boys a “reservation’’ in the Bronx, and protect them in the use of it. : A al JANITORS’ AN D TENANTS’ RIGHTS, The Evening Said on the Side. OLF sald to be ousting cricket in England, but no evidence of ite In- terference with baseball. Growth of the ‘national game" in popularity makes the old-timer rub his eyes as he caste them over the packed bleachers, compares the heaped-up pile of cash 11 the ticket-sellers window with that in the bank teller’s cage and makes an truste and raihwey meager, When ls Boston golng to erect a statue to Harry Wright? Ought to be a place for him in New York'e Hall of Fame at any rate, eee Wesleyan profeseor discovers the “wpecific bacteria and mould necessary or the production of Camembert cheese." Son be importing them from Orange County, . . Dictionary of slang published and fills seven large ee Higher Up collaborated in editing oe 8 Doctor—Perhape st'e yowr cook- ing that's responsidte for your hua- band’s illness, He's got a bad pase of gastritie, “4 Mrs, Nowwite—Gastriie? But I always cook on a coal range; never use 9a9.—Philadelphia Press, e 8 6 Author of "The Geisha” eays that musical comedy ts the “national drama of England and America." Man who eaid he did not care who made a@ ne- tion's laws wo long as he could write Its songs had the right idea if he meant topical songs, Remarked before that “being @ boy’' 1s not what it was in the good old days. And now there are no more circus parades for him! Precautionary measure of the woman doctor who has had her vermiform ap- Pondix removed preliminary to a trip abroad will recat] the case of the man who drank boiled water ond avolded mioroves ali his life only to die an un- ttmely death from slipping on a banana ekin, Present generation sometimes has occasion to envy {ts ancestors their bilesful ignorance of tho perils to which the discoveries of modern medical sci- ence doom the human nice of to-day, o 8 e “Why should I apend my money!” Quoth the baldhead in despair, “Rockefeller has a tllion But he hasn't any hair.” —PMladelphia Bulletin, ° Dean of the Women's University at Toklo, who has started for home after ‘an inspection of American colleges, {n- tends to introduce basket-ball to Japa- nese girls, New era will dawn for the Flowery Kingdom when Mme, Butterfly begin to cultivate her biceps. e 8 New Haven road to use Subway to en- ter city, Time seems to be getting ul- most measurably near when the com- muter will take his train for home at the nearest Subway station. “Janitors of apartment-houses who style themselves superintendents and arrogate to themselves all the powers of monarchs,’ says Recorder Goff, “must be taught that, after all, they are merely servants, and that the tenants have some rights they must respect.’ Wonder what this janitor, if he has one, says to that, '’ ee Proposed reform of the volunteer fire companies seems to mean a revamping of the “vamp,'’ as it were. eo 8 e Expected that the tnereased price of beefsteak will be passed on by the restaurant keeper to the customer, as before, and the cost of a sirloin moved up another noteh, Net Increase at the larger restaurants within five years is about 2% per cent., as shown by a com- Parison of bills of fare. Porterhouse steak which a Tammany connol#eur regamis es of the right size now costs as much as was pald for a day's board and lodging at a New York hotel when the old St. Nicholas was in its glory. . 28 e Ma—Willie, what's your brother crying about? Willie—Just 'canac he don't want to learn anything, I jist took his candy and showed him how to eat {t,—Philadelphia Ledger, eo 8 8 ttle Playwright who is poing to act the part of the ghost In Hamlet" feels rea- sonably eure that it will walk for him, eee World's Mom" Rebellious rebellmua these days, to wheeling the perambulator next, or watering the rubber plant. what will soclety hay de Vere" with indignation at the Tennysontan in- junction to the disdainful “teach the orphan boy to read, or teach the o:phan girl to sew." boys read and girls sew? I asked, {gnor- ink the near future when a Buperin- tendent verse the dictum, Magazine, M enduy ven ieee Apel 17, 4 905. Why Go West for Big Game? By J. Campbell Cory. a y P y Higher Up. ec |By Martin Green. y Trea 1667 SHE.® sald The Cigar store ij RD j Man, “that 40,000 people at- Y, ea ae ‘| | tended the opening game of Yj : the season at the Polo Grounds," ue ee, | | shane eon “It can't be," protested The Mam reyes Teme a Oaae we ae | Higher Up. “How could 40,000 peo- SOO ee Fy Cry Omaces) ane Lee ple In this town raise the price? Don't we hear on every hand thag New York is on the plots, that the people of the tenements are starving to death and that 70,000 school chil- dren leave home every morning with- out having had ple for breakfast? | Don't we hold mass-meetings every jnight and adopt resolutions that make those outside of Now York imagine | half the people of the city are feed- |Ing on grass in Central Park? “Shame upon that frivolous 40,000 | that went out to the ball park to see the Giants play, They must form a calloused bunch. Some people—-neare ly all the people, it seems—absolutely refuse to be put wise to the true condition of affairs in this city, “Here is New York, lame and de- crepit and facing poverty and starva- tion on every hand, but 5,000 heed- lees persons throng the Hippodrome every night, Probably 5,000 more jam Madison Square Garden to see the cir cus. Although the frost {s scarcely out of the ground, from 30,000 to 60,< 000 people go to Coney Island every, Sunday, Take a walk through the east side any Saturdity afternoon and | you will discover that nearly every | young girl has on a new hat and a | stylish, if cheap, gown or spring wrap. What right have those people to look fat and happy? get next to their hopeless condition? It is enough to make us reformera feel a hunch to throw up our jobs,” “Why don't the folks who think New York {s not a fit place to live in move away?" asked The Cigar Store Man. — ————————— | them,” replied The Man Higher Up, — eee How the Nutmeg Grows, 66 NUTMEG tree," sald the New | A Haven gardener, “looks like | a laurel. Suoh trees ere rare |{n these parts, ‘The nutmeg tree begine jto bear at the age of ten years, It keeps on bearing until {t Isninety, The frult resembles an apricot, and when ripe it burste open, showing at Ke heart the black nutmeg inclosed in @ network of scarlet. The nutmeg after plucking must be dried. It is dried over u elow fire and the process tedious, It offen ees pies two mont! Before shipping the nutmegs are always steeped in sea water and Ime, This is to protect them from insects. haye nothing but insects to fear, In Insect-proof condition thes #sep—wel they keep practically forever.”” Mrs. Nagg and Mr.— .. +.» By Roy L. McCardell. ... Husbands. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. BROOKLYN | same occupation will be etrictly Hmited Jand smiled and praised everything, Uke broker, sued by the number of good-for-nothing ‘““c DON'T sea ! last week | wives, and competition will therefore be I why you do the deceitful wretch he Is, because we for divorce, assert- far less keen than in the more usua not learn to ‘could hear him quarrelling with his ed that his domes- Ue diMculties were due to his refusal to wash dishes or cook his own din- | wite because she wouldn't give him money to spend and rowing with hee carve, Mr. Nage. Mr, Dubb carver at his table and that] 1s a boarding-house, | Of course — there| flelds of masculine endeavor, Since woman is trying to beat man at his own game, all that Js left to him ts to beat her at hers, And judged by past efforts in that direction, he ought behind, although he hadn't the courage to say @ word to them, ner, hot to have any difficulty in doing It. isn't much to carve, WAKA AHA Why So aeyed: Goal All because he! Besides, he will wreak his finest because Mrs, Dubb Be aan See ee) Rea Father had not the ad-| Vengeance tn the process, For every [only feedy her Biel vsrearvee ak MN CAb\G, OUT He 18 AE vantage of the Superior woman an inferior man has | boarters on stews (ety ‘i L been or will be. And there 1s no bur- | 4 h {awkward he gets the tablecloth cove peer en t parle den Which can be thrust upon a wom: enna aH ahs, ered with gravy, and I have seen him school system, ans shoulders equal to that of enforced 1 whieh would have | 49d protracted superiority out the principal of Roy L. McCardell, | spill the chicken he was cutting wp, om taught him these pleasant Kttle family eae the thing 1s the same, and the Dubbs| the floor, taaks even at the expense of his A B \ pl do have a pot-roast on Sunday for thelr) ‘But you don't care, You leave me Husbands, anyhow, are getting vel Be True. bonrders, except In summer, when they to do all Nhe work, and by the time £ have cold meals on Sunday, “And when they do have a pot roast | on Sunday Mr. Dubb carves it and emiles, and says, ‘This is certainly a fine piece of meat!’ But the boarders only groan, and I know what I am talk- ing about, for once when my poor, dear Papa in @ rage—but It was drinking on account of his troubles that maddened his brain—well, as I was saying, when my poor, dear papa, who has gone to his long home, but {it wasn't his own heart speaking, drove us from the house and sold the furniture, mamma and Brother Willie and I went to Mra, have carved and served and cut up the children's meat and spread thelr bread They will obsect Tope true, sald the rose to June. || "Ay, ay,’ June swore, And sailed away with her sun and moon To another shore. And then, ome to? I remember reading "Lady Clara Vere as a little girl and bodllag @ second helping my dinner ts cold and Algy—She's a ringer all right. Gerald—You bet. She got @ beauty solitaire out of me, ee Wee Wizzie Wisdom. from the table and run eway and leave me aitting there all alone, all tired out, "I don't skait carves or not, becuse ther nover invite anybody to dinner, “Mr, Ladyfinger doesn't carve because ‘Bo true,” said the bee to the flower. “Ay, ay," she sald, | And waited for him long hour by hour Till she was dead, “Be true,” said the bee to the aun. Baid the sun, “I will.’ But the sands in his glass ceased not to run, beauty to Why should Maxwell rhould arise and re- thing garnished with violets, and he Why should not men cook and sew? Kuems the fern dish in order himself The Man | HRT RTT EMT EN | Can't they | | “No other place would stand foe ° when she let any of the boarders get © and given everybody else but myself | you are through, and then you jump up | know whether Mr, Cheep. | he {s too poetic and he can't eat any- | thing but delicacies and wants every- | Recorder Goff must have had experience of his own to cause his ' + fey + Sum of $1,500 paid for a lotter of Mary remarks in sentencing a janitor convicted of assaulting a tenant, The Queen of Scots comes near attaining breagh of promise figures, * ee The world’s greatest dressmakers are and have been men, and the word chef has come,to represent all that's finest and most subtle in the gastronomic art, Dubb's to board, “And everything was eo greasy, and we had to furnish our own napkin and I do think we should have a ferm dish and cut glass too, but what cam | you do when the children break every | Nor stood he still, Nor {s {t false nor strange, The web fate spun Recorder said that janitors are not monarchs, but ‘merely servants, and tenants have some rights.” It would he well to have the tenant’s rights definitely defined, Cus- fom and a desire for tranquility dictate that the tenant must take the _ newsman, the iceman, the milkman and the coal dealer whom the janitor nominates, and it will also add to the tenant's comfort and peace if he permits the janitor to decide who his butcher and grocer shall he, 1 Beyond this the janitor should not go. He has no right to thrash the tenants or to decide what paper they shall read and what kind of aA they shall buy. He should also he reasonably considerate of iralcaanil Example of Mexico in employing President Diaz to kill off the tgers that Infest ranches suggests a way for loving monarchs and chief mag- to make thelr sportamanship useful to the nation ag well as amusing to themselves. oe Among athletic schedules, that for the punlic school roof games ts not least nteresting. Evolution of the east side school-house into a clinb-house #9 @ pret: ty good elucational by-product, . ee compels him to wash dishes rebel? Let nim atrive rather to raise these arts to heights hitherto unattained by woman. The number of thing on the table? “But that doesn't excuse you from pot carving, Mr, Nags! Don't you think you ought to do something to make {8 easier for your poor slaving wife? Ob, never mind, you don't ‘© for your home, Mr, Nags, and I know it!" — The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. “Litule Fish Feed the Whale.” The Game of We cannot ALL be whales, but rings because the napkins were only changed twice a week, and we got 60 sick of hash and rice pudding and stews and brisket corned beef that I never want to see a boarding house ywain, “Well, Mr. Dubb did all the carving, For the bee and the flower, in a world where change And the Ife are one, —Charlotte Observer. Why should the husband whose wife men engaged in the, "T hear Willie Wimble was born tn mprererence as regards temperature, providing the tenant concedes the| AO Nou RAG ae Se rel Gake aterka fly wo far, Hyde and Seek. we necd not be LITTLE fish, janitorial perquisites, _m 81M," replied Jimmy. “On, auntie?" How mony of us have been ‘ q Pipe amatuivsayi elit) Velgeanr et er (Copyrot, 1908, Planet Pub. Co.) M feeding the Equitable whale? It The People’s Corner. | | Letters from Eve eet car was f | taken trouble to dissect the works | MORE FOOD. nin Wor | Ina so ar was given a site ) Ditakes the Trio ® ig Readers) ER ee |inas, ana ho Nnds that he rencives tne| Ibs good that food has become scarce, MORE money tn , ON ae ck, Giminisl from the attraction of in| Caused the ditde to fall dead a? her [co-operation of elghtcon widows, sixteen | stockings and LESS In some banks would clean up Frenzied ‘ the Balior of he ; partloles of me the earth behing au site sol auarani fog} |sons and two daughters of persona exe- BOGPSUiwith an ace and. trate 1c taro fue cnc atta could be arresioa i 8 i Jouted, elghiy orvhana ct the mate ana | Finance, 4B maya ne ean aiid an ace amd yremany eegentre Of the earth it would | vephe Chiet Maxistrate recently rec- HOUT Cermales ears Alay ing) pore How clever It Is to ralse the price of a bunco game! People | Clg mi his ys ah Rana wt on a ‘ e dness, twenty- a es, Gne taken the trick? (0 move In In: Orang Pe Le ee ak cates ian trathieldeas eeu warriglde wy [love to be TAKEN IN. The widows and orphans are safe, but It ip casvino. passes the e Pe The Stone and the Rarih, y Is for its spe é nquine of | ehildre 24 children exchanged or | Beeline. Kai Bene ok Tate WARES a a a are ena cau a tise ae ne achaneed °F |the Union Pacific for Mr. Harriman, as well as to provide for the ; Mf a hole wer ee Nip) the oarehiatauphecete Wie ry ken GUM uu which phe | books duels with awords, 185 with | FOLKS, ore nrouga the | the | there are in each currle ch pro- , ; ew U hand a rtone allowed to fall down [8° vide for tho training of boy's to be good Tera eer ee Reine rueny neae eka Mr, Hyde fs not nearly so expensive as the OTHER gentle | Wolo, it would Just pass through the A Cloud on Muntctpal Art, fathers,’ says the President of the New Me y 1 7 " Ruan IA. velsolts) would. bo ail |7™.ths Rlie of Te Bresing Wor York Mothers’ Club, And the President Bey ta alewnitinn w ane reek Pct CHEAPER than bonds and automobiles cost ' Wea ond: The error of "Ass y the Municipal Art Associa-|of the National Woman's Buffrage As- 2 s pth; ‘ rar I sing a song of drain-pipes, which means a song of spring; |innocent galley convicts, 80 freed and 36 i rn! who mays It would oncitiato| UO" Step tn and way something about |aociation says: ‘To the men who prate ; 4 DME et 8Sltne now auepcader dresses the wore: |apout arithood: and smathesncod I sing @ song of servant girls forever on the wing; encaped prisoners, 115 burglaries, 206 d's- Let us be glad that the game of HYDE and SEEK Is winding b of gravitation, | 4° wearing? It eat Pm gas he gays {t's @ girl.’ .| women must rise and tell that ther A twidor, quite smail and petite, | tlon to be good mothers. It would be inter: weul that these epi tene garments should break out 4 h hood 1 sing of parlor carpets a-waving in the breese; a {te downward aoe we are oA Gea tl ‘Our ever ene 4 oe the Stay 1 sing of rheumatism; pneumonia I oing; , 4 Lats ~ Laide of, the aneummende. > if 2p .tant. 003 The Essence of Thrills, lsa FINE, FAT whale, but ft fs CURIOUS individual has recenuy | Shrinking! It has ralsed the ante to Its agents, so as to bring in It somewhat EXPENSIVE for papa when he has to buy jfoundiings, 162 lost and 116 Kidnapped | makes 1 sing @ song of moving-vans and mud up to your knees; , traifite, 79 lunatics, 2 feigning lunatics, talse and '