The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1905, Page 12

Publishing Company, No, 68 to 6 Park Row, New York. ‘at the Fost-Omtice mt New York as Second-Class Mail Batter. NO. 15,964, FOR THE TOMB OF PAUL JONES. Joh an especially eligible burial site, de, ar York interest intensifies daily. Sympathy with the project has been Nexpréssed to The Evening World without reservation by Gov. Higgins, "By local Congressmen and the official representatives of such societies as he sons of the American Revolution, the New York Historical Association, Soclety of the Cincinnati, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the of the American Revolution, the National Society of the Cin- H and the American Historical Preservation Society, And yesterday the Board of Aldermen by resolution arranged for an reception of the body of the hero, and asked the co-operation of B Securing the designation of this city as its final resting-place. Another brave fireman—Acting Chief Wieland—has “dled at his of duty.” Peace hath her heroes not less deserving of renown than of war, FIGURES THAT TALK. Statistics sometimes tell a story of fact that is more interesting than the cobweb creations of fancy, Por example, the new Statistical Abstract just Issued by the Bureau $f Statistics at Washington tells us that: | As Inte a8 1810 Virginia ranked first among the States in population, with ew York second. In 1900 Virginia's rank was 17, while New York has stood at the head since 1820, oh Pennsylvania held second place in 1790 and has kept tt et every census since, / Wxcept in 1820, when It was third, with Virginia second, y, New Jersey was tenth {n 1800 and sixteenth tn 1900, Connecticut held the Wighth place a century ago, but has dropped to twenty-ninth. The trouble with Both our neighbors ts that they had not territory enough to enable them to ‘keep ‘BD with the procession” of young Western giants. The cost of the Government in various departments shows a re- /markable change in the elght years since the little war with Spain: In 1897 the total expenditures were (in round numbers) $448,000,000, Last “ear they were $726,000,000, The Increase in the cost of the War Department since that time bas been from 990,000,000 to $117,000,000-—more than double, ‘The Increase tn the cost of the navy has been from $35,000,000 to $103,000,000 almost threefold. iL The Department of Commerce and Labor, created in 1903, cost $10,584,000 yerr. The cost of the Government per captta tn 1897 was $6.26; in 1904, 68.68, “Truly, we have, as the Southern Congressman said, “done ex- Panded.” Whether the game is worth the candle is another question. Incriminating evidence against the Beef Trust in the shape of letters nd documents has been sent secretly to Canada to Join the vanished Employees who “knew too much.” Concealment Is confession—and still “Bo one is punished, and the President Is shooting bears, “LOCAL OPTION” GONE MAD, The killing in a Texas town of four men, including Congressman Plockney, in a riot over an attempt to enforce prohibition under the “local ‘@ption” law shows how very intemperate fanatical “temperance” can be- come. ‘ Under the provisions of a bill now before the Legislature, 40 per Gent, of the enrolled voters in any district of this city corresponding to an lection district can petition for a vote on the question of granting saloon \Meenses within their local sub-division. If a majority of the voters at _ such election shall record their protest against licenses, none can be granted ‘ therein, except to hotels having fifty rooms for the accommodation of i 5 Anything which will tend to diminish the number of unnecessary @rinking places will be a distinct public benefit. The blocks with a saloon ‘On every corner and sometimes in the middle are centres of vice and nur- series of crime. But the “local option” idea can be carried too far, What Becomes of personal rights and the public's convenience if 100 voters in an artificial district can deny the right of buying a drink to 99 other voters, unless they go outside for It? Is not this local option gone “cranky”? " The directors of the looted Milwaukee National ‘Gut a “put up” fs a good way to prevent a shut up, firm is the most effective way of stopping a run, is ‘ Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks talks well as to Bank have proved and that to stand his investiga. fon of the Equitable. For that matter, Alexander, Hyde, Tarbell—and Lou Payn too—are all smooth talkers, A Majority Don't Care To. WAltor of The Evening World: tell me why women are not d to vote? R. 8. for the War Department, BAitor of The Evening World: mother had a brother who en- 4m the army when he was eigh- years old, and if now living would three years old, Where can we no find out whether he died in army or not? AR. of War Department, Wash- D, C,, giving, if possible, date in Montana, and Crow, tn Wyoming, oF felts opened about a year hence, her time no been designated, 7 Place has A Tide Problem, Ty the Editor of The Byening World: Will some reader tell me how the following example can be figured out so that a man without a high school education can figure others Hike it: If the tide of the Hudson river runs at the rate of five miles per hour, what Will be the pressure on a equare foot of plank at five feet below the nur- face of the river? (place of enlistment, Gout ney: AD /tadian ieservations, Great Uritain, Without Colonien, MAitor of vening World: 41,005,177, the morniig World was an article | To the Rittor of The Bvening World: t the opsning of three Indian reser-| A bets B the populat, in Utah, Wyoming and Mon-| without her colonies, ts What department and at what | ures are 9,000,000, Which Ix correct? must [apply for information with Gien Cove, M. B, LL. fen, Thirty-seven treet, Near Uniteh Reservation must by be Second i To the Editor of The Lvening World; Can @ woman of twenty-four years attend night school? Which is the nearest to Beventh avenue and Thirty. \ 1 under tems of the na district is to be cre- but the President has not a it nor fixed @ piace for office Ore to be made, Viethead, “A headland on the Hudson, near the Tomb of Grant,” was art ning World suggestion of six days ago for a resting-piace for the body Paul Jones. Popular favor has met the suggestion and Mount at the foot of West Eighty-third street, has been pointed out as “The Grant Tomb is at One Hundred and Twenty-second street, the ws’ and Sailors’ Monument rises commandingly at Eighty-ninth A noble shaft or structure dedicated to our long-neglected naval hes 0 would complete a trio of most interesting public memorials along the In the general movement to bring the body of John Paul Jones to ¢ Chamber of Commerce, the Maritime Exchange und other civic bodies| the Side. EW YORK to follow the Cleveland N plan of dealing with the smoke evil, Might learn from the same clty how to check the billboard nul- pance, and incidentally take a aide, trip to Sundusky to investigate that town’ system of one-coent ‘slephone cal’y. Many new little wrinktes in municipal methods in Westem cities which would bear profitable imitation in the Hast, . . Mysterious ber) tor who left & package of §26,000 in bonds at Pastor Van De Waters parsonage door de- prived the wariens of the opportunity of deciding whether or not the gift was ‘“tainted.”” Belgian delegates to the Washington railway congress carry pasees “good ‘on every railroad in the world.” Ought to vistt Albany before the eession ai: journs to receive tribute of legislaxors' admiration, °° Well «understood principle of physics that found waves of the right pitch possess great power, Basis of the Keely Motor fraud and illustrated im the case of am organ note shaking @ ohuroh wiifice, Very interesting inetance in the falling of @ Special Beesions court- room ceiling following a heavy enesse the author of this portentous sneese is not a dweller in a Hopper apartment ° . . Mre. Smagge—Oh, you hace apotied my hat! Snagge—Jue' stepped on, that's all, Now «lt be more tke one o’ them Florodoras what's ali the atyle. Record of the Roosevelt rifle to date four black bears, two brown bears, two boboats, Well for those who bh fear of majestaets beleidigung not to proclaim the news on the boar preserves or in the royal shooting ‘boxes of the British grouse moors, e 8 “It {9 not so much your father’s at- feotion for the flowing bow] as your mother’s love of embroidery,’ according toa W. C. T, U. speaker, which is responsible for @ @on's or daughter's deviation from the path of rectitude Bpeaking of embroidery, pre’ nee of & Rood Arad of ‘open work’ may be detected in woman's chib analysis of social conditions, oe Death of Joseph Jefferson revives memories of the intolerance which gave “The Little Ohuroh Around the Corner’ Ite fame. Interesting to note concem- Ing the present ecclesiastical attitude toward the actor that Sir Charles Wyndham wes received in audience by the Pope recently, aL e “It 1s lwitcrous,"’ writes a oonrespon- demt, ‘that in a great city like New York there ahould be no through cross: town line of transit in the region be- tween Fifty-ninth street and One Hun- dred and Twenty-ffth street.” Not only ridiculous, but irrational, senseless, asi- nine and preposterous, Correspondent's recommendation of # line of through ‘buses or a depreesed roadway echoes ‘The Evening World's suggestion of one or the other of these methods to ciroum- vert the opposition of property-holders to the extension of the Highty-sixth street cross line from Central Park West to the North River, Great @uocess of the motor ‘bus in London, Paris and Berlin makes this perhaps the more feasible remedy, li a eo ee he eons of a ho wears She—Hae Mies Kockaway much nee es an monoy? He—8o much that she te almost good looking.—OMcago News. e ee e¢ Automoblling now recommended as a cure for insomnia. Bald that ‘the after sonsations seam to be much the same as those caused by massage.” Only ob- Jection to the process is the increasing number of innocent pedestrians inct- ‘mbroMiery are as ertain to go to iquor as to school, i} ind the tris either ake to Mquor or B ovateria. This would cer- tainly be @ movel theory in any other theory i# generally acoupted aa the most obvious one. age than thin, whon the least probable) Tt {s not astonishing, however, that any one who hes ever attempted em- brofdery—and Mrs Weed presumably talks from oxperfence—should associate that wearying and nerve-racking effort with the craving for spirituous forgeitulners, ‘The wonder fs that the theory shovld postpone it to the next generation, It 1s a strange thing, bv dentally ‘put to sleap."’ eo 8s New Erle locomotive which goes eev- enty-one miles an hour. Commuters would be content with a regular aver- age schedule of thirty-five qnd a halt. oe e Titinots judge rules in effect that in the way, that the actual process of embroidery should be of such slow tedium, while the mente! process which corresponds to bt should be so danger- ously rasy und beguiling, For, of course, jn the latter sense, we are nearly all past-masiers—or, more gen- erally mistresses—of the art which then more than ever, makes heavy drafts on our nervous systems. ‘The embroidery fashioned with a skilful needle and assortment of partl- colored ellks, though of alow and pain- ful construction, results generally in @ thing of beauty which when we look at it quite compensates us tor our trouble, Killing a college student a railroad did Ube boy's parents a good turn because ‘he was an expense to them,” which ie now ended. Decision seems to go that of the Jersey court which valued @ ghild’s Ufe at $1 one better, ee «6 Maxim of the defaulting Milwaukee bank president, quoted by him from Robert Louls Stevenson at the Bankers’ Convention; ‘To be honest, to be kind, to earn @ little and to epend a little less; to renounce when that e@hall be necessary.’ Trouble with maxime al- ways is that they are easier to break than to make, and are usually designed A | week." By J. Campbell Cory. Embroidery and Nerves! By Nixola Greeley-Smith. But the other kim! of embroidery, that whieh 4s not the product of one but of many minds and which results In some beautifully wrought bit of gossip is #0 nerve-destrisving in ts after effoots that it is quite possible that it may drive posterity, even unto the seventh ®eneration, to the eparkling oblivion of the flowing bowl. There is a marked difference in those two methods of em- broidery, both popular with the sex re-| puted fair. For the first, executed merely with the needle, some sort of stamped or pencilled skeleton désign| la necessary, unless the worker be un- usually skilled, But for the latter there is @ free rein and an absolutely unguided hand. It tw this sort, however, that has driven and will drive people to drink, ‘The plactd pushing of @ needle in and| out of a taut tidy etretched between | two embroidery rings hi any one any harm, But*for the other kind—beware, and yet again beware, Wor that will dedicate any one who In: dulges \t to drink without waiting for the second generation, For a Busy Society Woman. CONVENIENT article for a busy soclety or club woman Is made of a stout panel of cardboard about @ foot long, and elght inches wide. To this are attached two pock- ets, one above the other, and lettered, reapectively: "This UNext A epray of flowers is painted on each pocket in conjuretion with the fancy, lettering, The pocketa are in- tended to hold the invitations, olub notices, lecture tickets and other mat- ters for a fortnight. The pockets are rane, from ee a edors six by ur inches and a an or) t the panel by ribbon bows. paeas never done for the use of the other person, oe 6 Lottery of art values almost as my terlous as that of Steel stocks, Fain ings by Fantin-Latour, who died last yoar, now selling for $2,400 each, where five years ago they wen: for $210. On the other hand, a Landseer valued a $3,000 in 1874 sold last week in London for $85, “Why don't you yet up and give that lady your seat?" “Because she's dresses like a girl, would offend her.” . * elderly, but I'm afraid it “Wooed and won and married tn on hour’! And the bride a Piitdelp 41 girl! Fact that it happened at Atlan ic City explains much, ee O14 volunteer fireman, now elwrhty, takes up smoking in the hope of quall- fying as a centenarlan, Usually thought that a "vamp" needed no ardficlal ald to longevity. lbs Hoped for the eternal fitness of things that the boy who risked his 1ife to wave a little girl’s mitten will never be given one, | |) Admission by an automobilist that he really was golng too fast, but "the beakes failed to work," Gratifylng | Pression on you? improvement in veracity at any rate, Bobby—Wel whatever the merit of the excuse, He Was Properly Impressed. Mr. Good—Well, Bobby, how was schoo] to-day? Did anything make an tm- Jim—Say Billy, if your mouth would freeze like dat once— Billy—Hope it does soon, I've been mhistling for ice cream for an hour, oe So Sorry for Him, } ‘ Mr. Bappy (who has given Bobby » dime)—And-er-Bobby, what does your |slater think of me? Bobby—Honest, o]4 man, after takin’ lane money T ain't got the heart to ——_—_- To Get Rid of Mice. MOK® the mouse trap before plac- S ing it, for the mice ere muph more apt to enter it when this precau- tion da taken, After the oheese is se- curely fastened to the hook hold the trap over an open gas jet or lamp until the cheese !s well toasted, In this way the odor of the cheese permeates the wood and attracts the mice, and the smoked trap proves very enticing, A tiny mouse hole can be stuffed with soap, and this the mice will not dis- turb, A large hole can be stopped by crushing @ piece of newspaper, saturat- ing it with turpentine and sprinicling it with red pepper, Mouse holes stuffed in I should say eo. The teacher caught me throwing paper wads loti bed for and she took @ whip and made about @-dosen impreasiona, J guess, thia way have been left undlstur! 4) etre ? ¥ Z Higher Up. By Martin Green, SEE," sald the Cigar Store 166 Man, “that another banker | has hit the damper of his | concern for something over a million,” “Well,” remarked the Man Higher | Up, “he was no piker, He did what you could call a workmanlike job, | And when they nailed him with the | goods on he didn't hike for the near- est dock or use his head for a target in pistol practice. On the contrary |he felt rather grouchy because the | directors of the bank wouldn't take his word that he was a thief. “This Milwaukee Bank President was a great card to talk about the re~ sponaibilities of his profession at banquets. Ile was a star adviser to young men about to embark in bust- ness, His favorite motto was ‘Hon- esty is the best policy,’ but he played it with a copper on and he thinks to- day that he is better than the ordi- nary crook who breaks into a store because he {s hungry or Ifts a leather because he has no appette for work, “It is a wonder that more bank presidents and cashiers don't steal, A great many of them are honest be- cause they have never stacked up /against temptation, Any man can be honest {f he {s galted that way and nothing happens to make him change his gait. | “Naturally the minor people in the banking world are ambitious to bee |come as rich and powerful as the Yeaders in finance, And every day they see the leaders in finance called crooks in the public prints, The big guys steal, but they have lawyers to tout them to the paths in which the law places no hurdles, Maybe !f the Milwaukee bank President had re- tained a competent corporation law- yer when he started to dig holes in the bank mazuma he could have been steered onto a scheme to organize himself into a holding company that ‘would be immune from the Sheriff.” “I wonder,” asked the Cigar Store Man, ‘f the eminent Chicago business men who won the bankers’ money in the wheat game will pay it back to | the bank from which it was stolen?” “You certainly have got a vivid imagination,” re plied the Man High- er Up. e. +. By Roy L. Ow, Mr. “N Nags, if you will be a itttle patient for once tn your life with you, seldom !f ever have & wort to my in and it Roy L. McCardell. not my fault. On my own part I welcome criticism if the oriiiolam ts just, but I will not allow vou or any one else to find fault with me, because I do not deserve It. “And every time I eit down to have a ninet little chit with you, you Interfere with it by allowing some triv- {ol thing to interrupt u»—- There go 8 Lady Btryver with a new dress on, Well, with her figure nothing is be- coming, and, anyway, it is way out of have no style about them can always have good clothes when I haven't a decent rag to my back. You come home and ask me to go out with you, Mr, Nage, and if you want to know the truth, I am ashamed to be seen out with the poor old duds I have, “And yet, if I wes a woman like Mrs, Stryver ta, I auppose I would have fine clothes, too, Her husband, poor man hasn't @ word to say in his own house, although their upstairs girl told Della that the way he carried on and slammed things around when his meals didn't sult him was something terrtble, “Brother Wlllle, as I was telling you, has given up Iiterature and hes gone into art, He offered to whitewash the celtar if I would give him $2, A colored man wanted to do tt for 75 cents, but I There Was No Paul Jones! (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) burled now! Account! makes a lot of trouble and ANN lieve In annoying Heroes who ca statements, ia é 'Mrs. Nagg and Mr.—. McCardell. ... , know he wouldn't do ét intelligently, “Brother Willie 444 not give up Litera- ture on his own account, It was be- cause you caiged such @ row about bum getting @o many books by paying #1 down and $1 a week. How else couid he get books? You do not allow tim any Pocket money, and buying Pooks that wey is a swindle, because when Brother Wiliée setis them he doesn't get handy anything for them, and is threatened with arrest. “All my family is fond of art. I Jove the emell of paint, and look how mcely I painted the big rocking chair {n the parlor with gold paint, and you never sald {t lvoked nice, but raised Tow because tie gold paint came of oO our ebothas, My (Uncle Charles was, one of ti most celebrated painters in| Hrookly and painted the Brooklyn Brdge. suifered for his art, for, as you know, the had to mo to the hospital twice en- duiing agonies from painter's colic, “Nhat 18 why 1 do not want Brother Wilke to study art, The poor boy is so enthusiastic that I am afraid to let him, whitewash the cellar, although it needs It, and I wish you’ would bring home a box of sulphur candles and a Jarge bottle of chioMdes, because I am afraid of sickness, “Where ere you going, Mr. Ne can't you stay home one evening?” $a To Remove a Tight Ring, F you happen to get a ring on your I finger that fits so tight you cannot remove it, a very easy way to get It off, says Medical Talk, {9 as follower Take a plece of oom or wrapping thread and push one end of it under the ring, then, bewinaing just above the ring, wind the cord very tightly round and round the finger clear up to the tip of the finger. Now take hold of the end of the cord that was slipped under the ring and unwind the cord, As the etring unwinds the ring will be carried along with tt and removed without any diffe oulty, ’ The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. We see that a reptile con- temporary ts trying to BURY Paul Jones in New York, Wo will repel this attempt at once, There was NO Paul Jones. What is the USE of burying any more people In New York, anyway. Too MANY people aro The present excitement ts simply AN EXCUSE to bulld a mon- ument, We have been intending to build a monument for seven years, but the FUNDS seem to have become BURIED tn our Bank ' ‘The Revolutionary heroes are well cnough In thelr way, but we protest against DIGGING THEM UP simply to bury again, It OYS the HERO! We do not be- Nn no longer STAND FOR signed Let it be understood, however, that we do not object to nica, of the RIGHT PEOPLE i