The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1905, Page 14

Entered at the Post-Office at New York us Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 46... —— MV ehiorreiiisenyeeteet NO! 1Bje021 PUNISHMENT ENOUGH. Patterson for murder may well be the end of the case, For whatever part she may have had in the death of Caesar Young she has been punished far more terribly than many actual murderers have been in going from a quick trial to a swiftly merciful execution. ‘The District-Attorney’s otiice has done its full duty to the cause of jus- tice. Indeed, the prosecution just closed can be adequately described with one word only: It was ferocious, If the butterfly chorus-girl, the victim + of a brutal gamester’s lust, had been a Borgia she could not have been Subjected to a more savage and relentless trial. . As the prisoner was not adjudged guilty in two such trials, there is No probability that she could be convicted on a third, Public pity would count for more if prosecution develops into persecution.: Mr. Rand has “won his spurs.” The woman has been fearfully punished, The public 1s weary of the case, We believe that public opinion and the courts will Sustain the District-Attorney in asking for the dismissal of the case. PROTECTING BRIBERS AND BOODLERS Without open opposition showing itself the Corrupt Practices bill is being stifled indirectly, Its valuable provisions have been amended until little remains, and the last amendments were for the obvious purpose of getting the bill off the calendar and relegating it to this session’s “left- overs,” This bill contains reforms that are bound to come. Corruption at the pollsihas grown to be of such magnitude that it will eventually defeat Itself, The buying of votes has become a necessity at all elections, in- Stead of only in close contests. The politicians, instead of being masters of the situation, are fettered by the obligations they must assume to the corporations from which they receive their largest contributions. Instead of being free to use their victories for their own advancement they are bound by their pre-election obligations, and their own opportunities are} teduced, By the system of corporation retainers many distinguished members of the bar have been deprived of that public influence which their per- Sonal. ability would otherwise warrant, and in like manner the politicians will‘become the servants and not the masters if the present system of huge secret campaign funds Is to be allowed. The present Legislature, by stifling this reform measure, has indeli- bly stamped itself as the creature of bribers, controlled by boodlers, The passage by the Senate of the scandalous Niagara Grab simply confirms this impression. GRAFT IN THE PARKS, The report of Comptroller Grout’s engineer and garden expert, that ite top-dressing soil supplied by the contractor for Central Park is cellar dirt and clay, “not as rich as the soil which it covers,” instead of “garden mould,” which the contract calls for, fully sustains The World’s exposure | of this scandalous “graft.” Comptroller Grout has held up the contractor’s pay. What does Mayor McClellan purpose to do with the Park Commissioner and super- intendent who first permitted and then defended this fraud? Has he not had about enough of Pallas and of a Park Superintend- ent whose training for this responsible position was that of a process- server and ward politician? A GREAT LACK, The agitation which The Evening World has renewed for a free city bathing pavilion on Coney Island discloses again a discreditable lack in New York’s provision for the health, comfort and entertainment of its People, When one sees or reads of the splendid bathing beaches secured and maintained by the city of Boston for the free use of its people, the neg- lect of New York, with the miles of ocean frontage that might have been secured for this purpose, is humiliating, It Is encouraging to note that the Mayor is investigating the project of supplying bathing pavilions, and that the Aldermen are favorably dis- posed. The Seaside Park is good, but an ocean front without bathing a facilities in the piping summer time only half fulfils its mission. “SKY OR SMOKE?" The Tribune gives its influential aid to the movement to preserve | for New York its natural “crystalline sky,” instead of the “foul and dim i Ganopy of smoke” with which the city is threatened, The smoke nuisance, it truly says, has its origin In a destre for gain; | but It urges, and proves, that if the men who use soft coal because it is| cheap “had as much sense as sordidness they would burn it in the most | economical and most effective way instead of the most wasteful,” Byery cloud of black smoke pouring from a chimney is so much ‘wasted carbon. As Mr, Barney says in his report to the Mayor on this subjects The probtem to-day !s the same as !t was when Watt undertook to solve tt. Nt ts one of stoking and apparatus, and not exclusively, as has been Insisted on,| ‘one of fuel, Some soft coal properly stoked 1s practically without hard coal, no matter how stoked, is offensive, Other cities, situated in the soft coal belt, are through proper furnaces! and improved stoking apparatus, reducing the smoke nuisance to a mini-! smoke; some mum, It is time that energetic measures were taken to enforce that |? provision of our Sanitary Code which prohibits the creating of a needless smoke nulsance, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 55 to 63 Park Row, New York, The second failure of a jury to agree on a verdict in the trial of Nan Said on the Side. IGHTH Annual Congress of Wom E on'a Whiat League opens in Phila- de a, with 1,000 delegates pres ent. Announcement In the news of the | same day that twelve coun |ow Included in the Wom | Agsoctation, Woman who letter read In a New York o that "What with bridge and squash and other diversions she was “having @ Perfect hallolujah of ma time,” appar: her sex, Observed th. ‘In these days game at which the Indies have not tried their hand. In akating and in croquet they have beaten the rude mate in open competition; in lawn tennis and golf they can easily hold their own against all but the first-rate performers.” Yertenday a glimpse of clght of them driving thelr own "coaches and four in parade luke veteran eo Said by Champion Jeffries that “pugilism does not pay. Prize ring atl] useful, however, as a preparatory sohool tor the stage, oe Aldermen to pass an ordinance for- bidding landlords to bar out ohildren. No fear that the Board will lack for toplea to occupy ita attention after ite franchise-granting powers are taken away, eo 6 6 Btated some time ago by a profes- Slonal economist that a woman should be able to dress on $63, and sald now that the avemge man can get along with a vocabulary of 6 words. To be observed that the latter recommenda- tion Is for the average "man," Some phases of economy which cannot be expected of the other sex. 8 Tt keeps a felloto guessing The while his noddle epins Just where the @ouble blessing Comes in when it ig troins, 8 6 Uncle Sam, at expense of several hun dred dollars, makes woman pay 4icent duty on souvenir spoon, Would hamlly fill the bill as @ popular hotel keeper, eee Latest addition to automobile furnish- Ings a case of surgical instruments. With an accompanying book of direc ons for ‘iret ald to the injured” it ougt to be possible to afford ready re- Met to the victim without the formality of taking him to the hospital, ee Boy “playing policeman" shoots make- believe burglar dead. Realtem which Surpassed the real it sought to imitate. oe Consumption of beer in the United States put at $1,762,000 glasses a day, an average of one for every inhabitant. Complains that Americans take too lit: tlo exercise must be regarded as with- out foundation, in view of the elghty- one millon elbows crooked daily, eo ee “In ultimate Importance to school chil. dren," says Hamilton Mable, "the fairy etory outranks the arithmetic, the gram- mar, the geography, the manuals of sel- ence; for without the ald of the imagina- tion none at these books Is really com- prehensible.”” Modern child, if he stops to think about {t, must realize thet near- ly everything !s coming his way nowa- days, and !f school days are not a grand sweet rong to him It Is not through any fault of his elders. . . “We don't want New York too fom or too bad,” says Commissioner Me-| Adoo. "We just want tt bad enough to} be Interesting." That 1s, with the lidf neither on tlght nor entirely off, bit aust lifted a little, Seems always to reavn that condition tn the end, . oo. The dealers alicays cheat me— It's just my luck; Deoiian't Icy a hattpin And not get stuck! —Cleveland Leader, * * 6 nt of view, ul Jones © catled ‘the PI ‘Rather of the American Navy, "a hero of the high seis—not of Paul that wisely enous’, never conceme] !t overmuch with hia ‘mom charac A pirate ts rot Supposed to possess one," . declared am and “theatrical bombast acter of sea heroes it !s much as it was with Grant's whiskey, Russla at ent would hardly insist on a 8 rehool certificate from Rojestvensity. e3- "Senate os Pennsylyanta Rall- roud bills Mayor's veto." Fur- ther evidence that tt wasn't a threat, but merely timely notice of the sure course of coming events, Said by Prof. Herkimer tn the House sired a pretty hat pln in former days 6,000 now desire it.’ Due possibly to wing appreciation of {ts combinat iseful defensive qualities along Ww ornamental, s 8 time for the nation ta with # gaze from Warsay foag., with lon ook Abe dra oy Importuiy window ledg The People’s Corner. The Nan Patterson Summing Up. Fo the MAltoy of The Evening World: Rekding the eumming up in the Nan “> Patterson case, I find two lawyers de- A Street-Car Masher, ‘voting over twalve hours to talking to ‘ro the Bal: /) the jury whout themselves. The whole Last ‘thing seems to have been « gra Taclo for the exploitation J thought it » B.G, D, | toxlonted } Ja tirtath Malt-Brothers or Half-Kinters, | ¢ {Bo the Wiltor of The Eventne World ) Xf @ widow who has children rem |eullty in the second in the third, trials, nd acquitted » B says he had put two ML, Sund Bet 1 © turned rek him a rey win the f Vike her t itty by irs, K, Both Are Incorrect, To the Editor of The Evening World: Is !t proper for a oridegroom to wear full dress at an afternoon wedding Is {t considered proper to wear a Prince Albert auit without a aillc bate B, Ie Right, | the Mittor of The Evening World: 4 that Roland B, Molineux was times and that tho jury dia. | A Letters from Evening World Readers | \ dusiies x When “ad We're neue overtakes a man, waiting for fe arovwnd, a Public Ledger, arrested he pol had no money, Sceptloal pollee, search. ing her, discovered $10,000 In gold and notes, "Oh, well,” sald the beggar, “it you count small change’— of feminine progress there 1s scarcely af. PEPIOEHLDIVS F-04994. 9F.9HHOHHHHFGOH HE DO: ently voiced the sentiments of others of F< _ Justice Up to Date. By J. Campbell Cory. HIDOS DOLOODD LHL DHE HHOH $OO9HOGHISOHOS, (si th ali Maz PHESS SHPO IDOHOOOHH SIP OHHOOH HIGH OO LODHI OYTOOOOONIG HH 190 5. 4, FHOSIOOS OO6£06 $240 $0¢* ODOC TOOSE-S-2 The Man Higher Up. | By Martin Green. SED," said the Cigar Store Man, “that there {s a move- ment on foot to put the push- carts out of business,” “Push It along,” advised the Man Higher Up, “Ot course the pushcart man has a right to Nye, but he ts in the wrong line of business, Instead of being a benefit to the city, he is positive Injury, and the sooner the Kkibosh {s put upon him the better it will be for everybody, “In New York, where you can stand almost anywhere, throw a rock and hit any kind of a store that any fam» lly could possibly haye need for, the pusheart is of about as much use as a atove In an fce-house, Tlie only secs ras | tlons of the clty that are free from small stores are those devoted exclu- sively to high-class residences, and the people who lve in those resi- dences wouldn't buy insect powder from a pushcart, “Merchants who pay rent, gas and water bills are entitled to all the trade of the neighborhoods they are located In, But the city sets against *| them a legalized pirate in the shape of the pushcart man, who moves his store with the crowds, pays no rent nor clerk hire and manages to under= sell the merchant In every line, “If the pushcart men gave the best value they would be entitled to the patronage of the people, but they don't. In order to sell cheap they buy cheap stuff, Some of the alleged food they sell on the east side would be refused at a self-respecting gar+ bage crematory. “The pusheart business has not even the advantage of giving men of small means @ chance to make a liv- Ing as peddiers, It has been gathered in by small monopolists, who own the carts and hire men at starvation wages to operate them. They have no cash registers on pushcarts, but they have the system figured down so fine that the employee who tries to knock down a few pennies gets it in the neck on the first deal, Tho Pusheart magnates have a political pull, and through this puil they will probably stave off the movement to take the carts off the overcrowded streets.” “The pushcarts keep down prices on the east side,” aeserted the Cigar 6tore Man. “Maybe they do,” agreed the Man Higher Up, “but they help keep up the mortality rate, belonmred fond category. From which it may be inferred that there 1s a thermometer 1 un heart which rises superior to the clit! of acwual pring lover comes even the spring delays, ¥ er, It may be bhat the P their hearts, their veins, avould June day thelr very marrows., The Sprin By Nixola Greeley-Smith. EVPRAL weeks aotly what Edwin says to Angelina on ago It was ree ry rhaps, how certainly S batt arks rop 0} rs. St the Vial Mm re weath lover's heart 1s a spring perpe no cognizance of the out have often assured though jt were winter when "she' sintied, almond flowers would bloom In primroses and violets in And, per contra, her frown turn the softest zephyr of a into @ polar bhast chilling xcellent ted upon authority he Brooklyn were alive vith a brand new f spring lov- rolling along duct In upper Manhattan last vvening, It was very nt, thous was a chill wind blowing, that the huddled figures ches set In Sts #tone niches inmistakably o the same In the yours er and that though al and world. us If only a park bench could talk, what Beautiful that “where one woman de-fiaii interesting data rev ew) possibly to our pride of race, to hear juat ex- | 6, though for the paychologlst would be In- humillating g Lover. Put Him Out. & soft summer evening, and to compare se ra Ar aren it with the preserved neconia of thelr have ered edecessors of the year before. ‘The dry me thts day, Mr, utes of a convention of park benches Nags, ts eimply tor- ntarily endowed with speech would | ible! They have Ser gOEealhs cha at Been on the rams rae, Fllot pronounced the bing of earthly records, they ane Mumbered with nglorious Milton, and we can vaguely at the idyis, the loves and lea they have (Sti Sa Childless, Let mo come in where you sit weep: Ing—aye, Let me, who have not any ahtld to dle, Weep with you for the little one Whose love I have known nothing of. t! and that crying {s good for tho chil- The llttle arms that slowly, slowly Tatas ‘Cymbal im, "hi dren's lungs and makes thelr eycs loosed : * q stronger, He says if they don't need I'll make a complaint to the landlord Their pressure round your neck; the As soon as I see him. hands you used ‘To kiss—such arma, never knew, May I not weep with you? much hands I His Face His Fortune, Fain would I be of service—say some- 4 thing, Between the tears, that would be comforting— But ah! so sadder than yourself am 1 Who have no ohlld to dle! ~James Whitcomb Riley, No Joke for Jerseyites. TRACHUR-Where are the lasycot WILLID--Over in Jerasy--mosquitoes, | Lady—Don't you work? Sonny—Naw! Lady—How, then, do you live? | Sonny—On me personal appearance, lady, dat's what! | einen The Shoe Lace Eyes Used. $62 OMB of the apparently most Ss trivial things in this world are | the most necessary things, and \fortunes are made In manufacturing them," eald Ralph L, Jenioins, “Take the lace eyes of shoes, for |Jastance, The average per-on never blves them a thought, but they are ‘ndiepensable to our footwear, and there are factories that devote them- selves exclusively to making them, Did you ever stop to think how many of those ttle things are used every year? "On tha basis of the population of the United States being 50,000,000. this country uses more than 3,000,000,000 of Jace eyes and hooks a year, Kvery man, woman and ohild will wear out on an average two pairs of shoes in t mont! The majority of people two feet and there are twenty Books in each shoe, Use your ooo0N more thas ve iv animals In the world found, Willie? page alt have my life just, worrled out of me 1 wish you would] sive them a good! [whipping all around! around and thelr screams are frightful to hear, they have been good or not, Mr, Dingle says It ts splendid exercise for him at- ter ho has been in the offico all day, the whipping to-day, or If they haven't doserved it, they will deserve it to- morrow, are, You don't take any intorest in your home life, you do nothing to make your childron at all, for the little Inter. qt you tne in them! you to whip them, Rood! but I am not strong enough, and it trea me all ou never do anything you are asked, How quickly you run to do favors for strang- ers, but in your own home you neglect your wife ond children and deny them every happiness, SHOCKED by the revelation, you do It! day, Shepard Mrs. e.-e By Roy L. day and! "When Mr, DingleL& he — children It doesn't matter whether “I don't know what sort of a man you it pleasant for the children, “One would think that they were not And so I want and whip them I tried to whip them myself, ‘But that |e always the way, You The ‘‘Fudge Protect the Mayor, (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) Nagg and Mr.— McCardell. ... "I notlosd to-day that when I told the | children you would atve thom all's @ood whipping when yor came home, they did not seem interested about your coming home at all. You are weaning your children away from you. “How they used’ to run to meet you at the door and seem glad that papa was coming hom But this very day I noticed a change In them, When they heard you coming they ran upstairs and hid, "Oh, Mr, Nagg, you may be able to deceive me but you cannot deceive an innocent child. You do not love them and they know it! “An, it 1s cruel, It 49 crue Mr, Negg, to hate your own children! To be @ father from whom they run eway an@ hide. “In my own home I never ran awey and hid from my dear papa, except af I saw he was in a bad humor, and he alk ways was in @ bad humor when he came home because he and mamma used to have terrible words. But that was only dear papa’s way, "In his own heart he was the kindest and most loving of mon, only he never showed It, Ahd ho alwaya kept bis word, except about money matters, amd In them he was #0 forgetful. But he always kept bis word when he promised us anything, I have never known him to promise us @ whipping and not give It to us, “But you ald not promise the chile dren a whipping, you say? Oh, Mr, Nagg, I know you don’t care for me, but the least thing you could do would be to care for your children, But you hate us all, dnd I know it" ’*? Idiotorial. We now know the worst! The Insolent persons who at- tempted to bulldoze our “Little” Mayor were Col, Franklin Bart- lett andthat Edward M.Shepard, We HOPE the community {s Naughty Mr, Shepard! How could The episode shows that Mr. Shepard CANNOT be a lamb! But Mr. Shepard Is NOT In He speaks gently and persuasively, He was PITYING the Mayor, not threatening, Col. Bartlett is a soldier bold and speaks In a voice of thunder that might be mistaken for a THREAT, even If he were only ask- Ing for a drink! this class, He has no ferocity. The Mayor must be getting NERVOUS If Mr. Shepard can scare him, The cares of uffice and Murphy are weighing on him, We noticed three NEW gray hairs over his left temple on Satur- Perhaps Mr. Shepard put them there. { The Mayor should be protected from assaults Ike those of | and Bartlett, Iho Is to be. A