The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1905, Page 10

onlpped Publisted by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York: Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mal] Matter. VOLUME BB... ccccersccssccsewenee arresesessseess NO. 16,959, ieee a EN THE STEVENS COMMITTEE'S REPORT. + The Evenin eh NERAR GRRE ETE TAR DIMI CON h Said on . the Side. OARD of Health crusade against B the Subway spitter to be con tinued, with a elde campaign against the Subway smoker. Quality of tho alr in the Subway appears to have deteriorated, as was predicted, with the approach of milder weather, and doubt The report of the legislative investigation into the lighting scandal cay bo expressed us t> whether profes- In this city sustains every charge made by The World before the commit tee was appointed, and recommends the very, remedies which The World Proposed, The fact of » complete monopoly in both gas and electric lighting was established, as were the gross overcapitalization, the extortionate overcharges, the inferior quality of the gas, the forced pressure and the inadequate inspection. The fact a araileed by The World that several of the franchises under which the Consolidated Company is operating have expired was also demonstrated and confessed. The recommendation of the committee for a substantial reduction in the price of both gas and electricity—the former to 75 cents per 1,000 feet—will be embodied in law if the Legislature is honest and free, So likewise will the provisions for a standard quality of gas and a rigid in- spection of meters, The investigation, under the intelligent direction of Senator Stevens and the able management of Counsel Hughes, was one of the most busi+ nesslike public inquiries ever conducted in this city. It should bear fruit, If Tammany shall oppose these measures for the relief of the people it will heap a whole brick-kiln upon the grave its bosses are digging for it @ext November. A COMMON MEMORIAL DAY. Memorial Day this year will witness Confederate veterans a-march- mg with Union veterans, Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, a former Confederate, will deliver the oration at the tomb of Gen, Grant. It is forty years since the close of the civil war, and it is time that the remaining veterans should march together irrespective of the sides on which they fought, The return of the captured Confederate battle flags to the Governors of respective Southem States was official recognition not only that the war is over but that all its hostile memories have faded out. It remained for the veterans themselves to take this attitude and for the soldiers of each side fully to realize that no one appreciates thelr valor more than the other, and that the memories of the civil war are the glor- fous possession of the vanquished as well as the victors. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the South is not the gainer by the civil war and the North the loser, for the blessings and benefits of the preserved Union are shared equally by each section, and the industries of the South, now rivaling those of the North in many lines, would never have reached their present development had the blight of slavery continued, “NO SMOKING,” Big placards forbidding smoking on the platforms of the Subway have finally been conspicuously posted, There was great need of it. The air of a tunnel is not fresh under the best conditions. To add to its semi-stagnation the sickening odor of stale tobacco smoke is an imposition that should not be permitted. If the Interborough management will instruct its guards to see that its new, Proper rule is enforced it will earn a new title to public gratitude, -. Of course no gentleman and no man with a decent respect for the rights of others would carry a lighted cigar or cigarette into a Subway Station or car. But it is one of the strongest objections to the smoking habit that {t develops among too many of its followers an utter disregard of public proprieties, Not tosput too fine a point upon it, it makes men hoggish when the desire for “a smoke’ is on them, Public carriers should protect their patrons from this among other forms of hoggishness, EAST SIDE MARKETS, There {s force in the argument of the push-cart men that they have m right to earn a living. There is also force in the objections to their obstructing the streets and to the difficulty of inspecting their products and regulating their conduct. The people of the east side are almost wholly dependent on the local storekeepers and jpush-cart men for their supplies, especially of food and like articles of daily consumption. The facilities in the way of refriger- ators and storage closets which exist in private residential seations have no substitute on the east side, There is no way for the individual house- keeper to store food, even if there was money ahead to bi i saat uy a quantity at Ke The pustrcart men handle a large quantity of second grade vege. tables and fruit which would otherwise be wasted, They sell at eet prices than a first-class butcher or grocer can afford. To abolish them deprives them of their present means of livelihood and wou the cast of hie and vegetables on the east side, A desirable compromise would be to utilize the s und bridge approaches both of the present Delancey street bridge and te. a bridges now building. Public markets could be established and the push- ¢art men congregated there. This would allow better inspection by the Board of Health. The rents could be placed at low figures, the streats would be cleared and the east side public would not be discommoded, A serles of east side markets is needed quite as late parts q much as more east a The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers The Composition of White Filling, Bo the Editor of The Evening World: ‘What is the eubstance known as (“white filling’ which dentists fll teeth ‘with and which becomes hard shortly after composed of? cK. The powder used in an ordinary white Milling is oxidized xinc, made by subject. ing sino 0 an intense heat. The liquid 4s pbosphorio acid. The whole combina- tion is known as oxyphosphate of zinc, Salvation Army Dells, Bo the Editor of The Evening World soWhat right has the Salvation Army to add to tho discord of Now York Mtrects by the constant ringing of bells to attract attention to their poor-boxes? esiermy ds a great and noble institu but {ts bell-ringing around Christ- Hastertide is an unmitigated BC and the Blevated, ld increase have been made late for Qn appolnt- inent by belng stopped in just this way. coe ought tobe a city ordinance for- idding the Ughting of cigarettes on the steps of “elevated atructures, ASO. Jersey Justice for Disappearing Husbands, To the Mditor of The Evenin, orld: Is there @ law in New Jurvey to force & woman's husband to ret urn to her? ih aw. here is a law in New Jerse: y Jersey by which @ man who deserts his wife ts| Mable to one year's imprisonment | Admission to Bronx Park, To the Editor of The Evening World; On Mondays ‘and Thursdays Bronx Park an admission fee of twenty. five cents 1s charged. All other days admission 1s frev, and it a holiday fails on Monday or ‘Churscay {t ts free, A number of persons who have been ro. fused admission on Mondays have asked mo about this so often that 1 at greatest nutennoes in New the habit some men have of ting the line of people on the steps gors' aMdavits to its purity will be as readily forthcoming as formerly. Hoped that the conclusion of the first half- year of the road's operation will lead to no impertinent questioning about the promised concrete flooring which was to replace the broken stone roadbed in stations, so as to permit of flushing for cleanliness, Lurking belief that some of the cigar butts there are of the vint- age of October, 1904. ee Might put a Jersey commuter or two on that commission of experts to de- termine the quality of Central Park garden mould, eee Dinner to-night for the surviving par- teipants of the Battle of Manila Bay, but @ breakast would be more ap propriate. eee Invention of a system of wireless telegsraphy in which communication la maintained by musical notes. Some- thing rather portentous in the possl- bility of messages én ragtime, with “Bedelia” or "Hiawatha" serving as 8 code for business despatches, oe “But,” protested the mere man, “I thought you hated her?" “So I do," answered the society woman, “Didn't you observe that T only kissed her twicet” e e ° Report from the Mercantile Library that the demand for Scott, Dickens, Dumas, Bulwer Lytton and other classio novelists has diminished to a point where !t averages only two calls @ year for each volume of theér works, Fact that the Mercantile'’s clientage ts of the select hotel-plagza and sum- mer-reading coterle kind, which must keep up with the fashion in popular fiction as well as in clothes, may ex- plain these figures, Reports from other free Nbraries would teil another story. eee Mayor of Kenpsha, Wis., orders strest- more cars on the city lines to prevent. overcrowding. ‘To more good Weat- ern precedents for Eastern adoption, oe e "Be a political helpmeet to your hus- band as well as a home helpmeet,” says Mrs. Philip Carpenter, Must first agk Senators Grady and MoeCarren wether that would be entirely consist- ent with “womanly womanliness,”” armen’ “The press," says Marie Corelli, is 1 greater educational force than the pul- pit, In its hands {t has the social moulding of a people." Even the mest irrational mind may have intervals of true luctdity, ee “Pittsburg millionaires” manage to keep well in rango of the limelight, Their contributions to the house archi- tecture of Manhattan are of particular Anterest, Taken together Mr, Carnegie’s Italian palace in Fifth avenue, Mr, @chwad's $9,000,000 French chateau on Riverside Drivey Mr. Phiprts's Fateh avenue mansion with Hast Indian fur- nishings, Mr. I'rick's palace-that-!s-to- be constitute the most notable addition; of recent years to the city's homes of} wealth, Formation of the Steel Trust} seems to have been of very direct ma- terial advantage to the metropolis, oe 8 They say a sailor has.a wife In every port, and ¢o It 48 no tconder all his life To sea he likes to go. —Philadelphia Record, s 8 Opening of a Fifth avenue branch of a great Weetern jewelry house is of parallel intercet as illustrating ti: of outside business capital to New Ambition of successful storekeepers in other cities to have a vast establish ment here has become responsible for a remarkable incrvase of the volume of local trade, e- Pupils at the Holy Name Parochial choo! will have the advantage of base- ment and roof-garden playgrounds, Faot| that the latter will be lighted by elec- tricity and available for use at night marks @ long advance over the primitive schoolhouse conditions of as recently as a decade ago, «8 e Plan of Mrs. Henry C, Potter to beau- ‘tify with trees and flowers at her own expense, a section of the Boulevard left arid and desolate by the Subway con- tractor, Following the instances Inst winter of citizens cleaning the streets before their homes and other examples of private enterprise In the performance of works nominally under public super- vision, Mrs, Potter's project will at- tract unusual attention, . 8 California horticulturist who trans- forms potatoes into tomatoes may yet give the world a boneless shad, * oe 8 Tax Assessor—Can you give me some idea of what your husband is worth? Lady—Really, I don't know, but I wouldn't take a@ mitHon dollars for him.—Kansas Olty Star, o 8 Easter edition of the Atlantis, New York's Greek daily, appears a waek late, In accordance with the slower Julian calendar, but with features of in- terest which show the Influence of Western newspaper enterprise on Hast- ern editorial methods. Speaks well for the growth of the Greek colony that it can support a pretentious dally journal in {ts home language, ° . Old beliet that sense of humor ts a rare possession, but according to the London Academy, “Every man of wor: an born belleves that, wlutever other quality he may lack or possers, he dp endowed with an unfailing judgment to what Is the proper ebject of laughter; what Js really funny; but jo fec] the information would ala your readers and save disappointment, Do Nit like to see the children crying when rehind is they ate leaving the subway, w' jlo they sto) ette, ¥ 4m not an > ‘Can't % the ie alae Da ea i ali {a convinced that thix unerring sense of humor ranted to very few Indoed beside himwelf.”" Some support of this view in. the performances of the comic. than a ‘glorious bat" “RETREAT THEY SHANT CUT LITTLE TAIL OFF --SO THERE ' Fa a aL RL REN hl a a i kd ea sit A Friend Indeed. By J. Campbell Cory. TAGGY -waccys TROT z meat ean Sta Woria’s «ome Magazine, Monday Kvening., May 1, 1905. The Man s Higher Up. By Martin Green, SER,” sald The Cigar Store 66] Man, “that the State Senate has Killed @ bill allowing ‘woman suffrage.” “Women,” declared The Maen Higher Up, “ought to be allowed to vote, They would meke Blection Day an occasion of sweetness and Joy. As elections are conducted, with the right of suffrage exercised only by the male sex, they are very }much on the monotony, The off. Clals are so strict now that $2 diljs no longer pass frdm hand to hand outside the polling-places, and the only way the boss of a district can. keep ap obnoxious voter away from the polls is to kddnap him, “With women voting, all this would be changed, The booths would be established in mil- Unery shops, and each party would compete for the privilege of giving trading stamps. No longer would a ;man with a waistline like @ race )track and @ face like a stone quarry ;be nominated for office, Every can- didate would have to be a second ition of Adonis, “Think of what a relief tilecwould be, Instead of hanging lithographs of candidates caloulated to make @ cab horse shy the political managers would put up frames of elegantly executed photographs in all the de | partment atores, Each slate of cane, didates would have to be composed »of 50 per cent, blond and 50 per cent, ‘brunette men, red heads barred, Ben with pasts could bave nominations; for the asking. A popular murderer, 4f run for Mayar soon enough after L acquittal, would win in a walk on, women’s votes—especially if ha had |. killed a women. “Great opportunities for fine paign work could be devised. Vinstance, if it should be found «a pedient to keep any woman sway, from the polls itwould only be necese sary to let her know that her deare est enemy was registered at the same polling-place, It's e fifty-to-one shot that she would say, ‘I wouldn’t vote : in the same place with that ola oat.“ “I suppose that all women would be anxious to vote if they had the chance,” suggested The Cigar Store Man, “Quite the contrary” replied The Man Higher Up. “When you givea woman a license to do anything she loses all interest in it” Women and Slang. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, HERE were three persons hanging from elevated train Sat- urday morning, en- gaged in a lively and apparently amusing conversa tion, Two of them were well-dressed young men and the a pretty, somewhat 7 woman. Gradually, the other passengers be- came aware that the subject of so much laughing discussion was nothing more that one of the men proudly confessed to having in- dulged in the night before. And in the lull attendant on‘a downtown stop) the young woman was heard to say in mingled accents of amusement and ad- “You must have been beau- tifully ptokled."” And all three laughed as {f she had sald something wonderfully clever, Now there js nothing quite #o easy and therefore s0 superfluous as preach- Ing. But aurely there wae not one per- even the two would-be sports, t whom {t was addressed, who was not shocked by tt. In the first place there ts no excui for the slangy woman, even if one do. not take Into account the sentiment be- hind the slang, Perhaps an occasional new!y minted word may not be amirs In the speech of any one with a wide vocabulary of standard English, But slang covers usually @ paucity of both ideas and words, If used at all it should be like the flavor of Sidney Smith's salad, wherein ‘an onion alone jJurks within the bowl, and, scarce sus- pected, animates the whole." Apart from tho slang it takes a pretty well The Thing He’s Jack—-What on earth is that. Frank—On! thinks 4 ual: son who heard that remark, including) He Hae the Bricke. hardened women to discuss dissipation from @ humorous standpoint, There may be—there certainly te— something funny {in drunkenness as) seen on the stage or In comio pictures, or in persons we don't know, But it takes a remarkable and an unenviable sense of humor in a woman to see the amusing aspect of @uch @ delinquency In persons with whom she associates and who make their wenknesses a | boast, — ——— |] He Doesn't Want Much, WANT a house with rooms to spare— Fine, spacious rooms: I want no fat— |] T lve in an apartment where I want a bey to carry this bag!" “Bay, |] Tcannot swing a emall-sized cat. Yi you don't, you want a hod I simply ache for elbow-room, carrier.” | beh at T realize we were not meant To lve in cramped, ateam-heated | gloom, |] Tm looking for @ house to rent, I wish to have it modern, though; No tumble-down old barn will do, Too far from town I cannot go; I want good transportation, too, Of course, the neighbors must be nice, i] 1! Uke the srounds of somo extent, But can't afford a fancy price, ‘Where is there such @ house to rent? a Getting Even Yes, twenty-five ts all I'll pay— Hight rooms at least, in good re- | patr, Possession by the first of May— |] I'll stand by then the country alr, I stick for flowers, felds and trees, But want the sidewalks of cement, T've looked #o long for things like these I fear thero’a no such house to rent, Chicago News, I wonder why my kitty dear Sits up to loudly cry? Why can't she sleep when she can hear Me sings a lwiaby ———— Husband Management. H’™. are some suggestions given Accustomed To. by Emma, of the Boston Globe, Advising @ Woman on the man- agement of a probable husband: When you marry him, love him. After you marry him, atudy him, If he ts honest, honor him, If he {9 gonerous, appreciate him, ‘When he {3 wad, cheer him. ‘When the {8 cross, amuse him, ‘When he Je talkative, Jealous, cure him. It he cares naught for pleasure, coax him, It he favors soclety, accom: If he does you @ favor, ‘When he deserves it, kiss Mrs. Nagg and Mr.-—= eo. By Roy L. sty DON'T who Mr, you expect me to} @ntertain your] friends night after] Dight—for this ts) the second time {1 three months Col,| Wilkins has bdeen| asked to come to} dinner—you must - give me mora mon- ey for ‘bs table! Roy L. McCardell, “IT need some new doyiles and the fern dish needs refilling, I do the best b a: Mr. Nags, and !f you had any Min your friends at the club, like Mr. Btryver does, only he has no friends. “All right, you will? I knew that! I knew you were only looking for an éxcuse to quarrel with me so you could run off to your club! “It is those clubs that break up happy om: No matter how han I try to make your home pitasant and comfort- able for you amd gever object when you fill the house with your hormd ac. quaintances who smoke up my lace ourtains—and I wish you would see the way Della has rulned those Irish point lace curtains in the parlor! “Yes, I will ery! It 1s my house and I will ory all I want to! You never want to see me enjoy myself and you always Interfere with all my pleasures, and I shan't slop crying! “All the comfort @ woman has is the solace of tears, and as soon as a brute of & man sees a woman crying he tres his best to stop her! “I don't cry on purpore just because I want something like Amanda Scaddaday does, and yet look how kind her hus: band In to her! fhe had a romance tn Things About Scarecrows! (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) and DIG UP all the seed. , the field would DO pretty well. A com ON THE TOE cani heaps omeideration for me you might enter: | McCardell. » 2a. her youth, There was @ young maa wwith the darkest blue eyes, who wae @ motorman on the De Kelb avenue cars, and his brother went out to Okla- home and had two fingers shot off by a cowboy, and the young man with the blue eyes never got his position back after the strike in Brooklyn and Aman- da Soaddaday never knew what became "Bo, yOu sce, when @ momen ctiew 2% isn't for temper, as you men thinik, bus it {9 over the memories of some deep grief, “And that js why I never could peel onions, and I suppose that Is the rea- son that you always hint around for beefsteak and onions when I have no girl and have to cook myself! “Oh, well, what Js the use to tale to you? Little does a man care, just as Susan Tenwilliger says, little does @ man care just so long as he can run out of the house and escape all the cares and worrles that his poor white has to put up with! “And yet, Mr, Nags, J remembeg when you called on me before we were married and how kind and thoughtfal you were and always lent my papa money, and would lsten by the hour to mamma as she told you how she suffered from actatica, and then you would beg me to go to the theatre with you. But now you don’t care to ge anywhere, unloss I sit down to have & pleasant chat with you, and then you look wt your watch and say it is time to be going to the office, "On, well, I won't complain! Aft you men are allke. Little dol you care what hap} just so long as you can make a convenience of your own home, and 1)! 1t with your barroom acquainte ane “And yet loot how you act when I en. terta.. iy friends or when Mr, Mrs, Ladyfinger call and try to inters ot you in literature or Mr, cor wants you to pley parcheesl!'’ The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. , It is time to PLANT CORN In these parts. The Injuns always tucked In the seed when the leaves on the elm trees reached the size of a mouse's ear. Tho leaves now measure up to-tho scale. The Important thing after the corn Is planted Isto get a GOOD SCARECROW, The naughty black crows come cawing around Without seed corn will not grow. We do not pretend to say WHAT makes the best scarecroWe. We think a few coples of our Nan Patterson edition scattered over The best scarecrow we ever saw was down In Fryeburg, Me. where the farmers bullt a fire In tho base of a hollow tree. The effect was very WOOZY and It PIXED the crows, \ of him, by Fe — —s