The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1905, Page 14

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Entered at the Post-Office at New York us Second-Class Mail Matter, seerseNQ, 16,969, APPALLING DISASTERS, The day’s news of the terrible accident on the Pennsylvania road “nd the fearful work of a tornado in Oklahoma makes an appalling com- panion picture of the destructive forces of nature and of man, The tornado, which picked up, twisted into fragments and hurled through the air for miles a town with 300 houses, killing or injuring one- half of the 1,000 inhabitants, is another example of the puny helplessness of man against the elemental furies, The Pennsylvania disaster combined all the features of former fatal @ollisions with the added horror of dynamite explosions, which lifted and rended the heavy sleeping-cars as though they had been built of paste- board, Fire and water added their terrors to the scene, The proportion of killed and wounded to the whole number of passengers and train hands has seldom, if ever, been equalled. For the tornado “nobody was to blame.” For the railroad collision there Is the usual ——? Presiient Roosevelt’s talk to the strikers in Chicago was tn his very best vein. He expressed his complete sympathy with the principles and aims of labor unions, but said squarely that ‘in upholding daw and order, fn doing what he ts able to do to suppress mob violence-in any, shape or fray, Mayor-Dunne.has my hearty support.” AMERICA OR ITALY? '~ Several highly esteemed Itallans in public and private Tife have tn- terested themselves in preventing the execution of the death sentence im- upon their .countrywoman, Anna Valentina, by the law and Court of J Tin tach ttm Cle wornen stated her rivet to:doath tenot denied, but Wt fs claimed that she had great provocation, and that in Italy she would (either have been acquitted or sentenced to a short term of imprisonment. \Very lkely. But New Jersey is not Italy, It is one of the United Btxtes, And in this country neither jealousy nor taunts are by faw as a justification for murder. Is it the idea of these people that Italian immigrants shouki be permitted to naturalize here the stiletto, the vendetta and the individual trial and execution of enemies which prevail In their native land? Shall ignorance of our customs and laws exempt foreigners from observing them? The question of sex we have atready considered, If no-murderess ts to be hanged, let the law provide another punishment. ‘But the end of Justice is tmpartiality—ths essence of law is equality. To prescribe the death penalty for all murderers of the first degrea, and then to exempt some of the most crue] and revengeful because they aie women, is to make a mockery of justice and to insult the majesty of the law BEAUTY AND UTILITY IN STONE WALLS. Robert B, Roosevelt writes to the Sun protesting against being called “eccentric” because he ‘does not consider a stone well beautiful.” The particular wall in question 1s that surrounding Central Park, which the house-owners on upper Fifth avenue want removed in order to annex the park to their front dooryards, It is not primarily 2 question of beauty—though there ane many per sons who think a stone wall, with vines trailing over it and the green of grass and trees contrasting softly with Its gray, ls really more beautiful than any iron or bronze fence that was ever built, j But in this case the utility of the park wall is of more consequence than its beauty or lack of it, It separates the park from the course of traffic. It signifies to everybody that the splendid pleasure-ground of the people is set apart for thelr use and enjoyment forever. There is some- thing enduring about a stone wall. It can’t be taken down or moved whenever the freak to do so possesses somebody. Let the wall stand, and ket the park alone—this will be the first and fast.word of the people to all would-be intruders and appropriators, NOVEL BREACH-OF-PROMISE SUIT, ‘~~ Philadelphia frequently develops legal and matrimonial novelties, {The Iatest ts 2 suit for damages for breach of promise by a woman now married against her former fiance, She alleges that after their formal engagement he refused to marry her, although she had advanced some money for the expenses of the wedding. She has since married another gman, but she does not consider that a bar to ithe recovery of damages for hher prior disappointment. If this suit shall be successful ft will open a wide range of damage (possibilities. If every girl who gets married seeks to collect damages from every man to whom she was once engaged, the possibilities of liti- gation are endless, It used to be thought that matrimony was a com- plete solace for prior disappointments, What do the husbands of the somplainants think about it? |" Why Is ft that In this country, especially among women, there Is so much more sympathy and pity for murderers than for thelr victims? (Abolish capital punishment? Yes; but, as the French say, “Let Messieurs the murderers set the example!” The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers 4 No. To the WAltor of The Kvening World: Can @ man join the navy if he cannot write English but can speak it a littlet PETER R. Five Dollars 6 Day, Silver, To the Waltor ef ‘The Brening World: What are the wages of the mer qworking on the Pamama Canal? A. C, Kalsomine Problem, Baltor of The Evening World: ra, @ room {8 18 feet long, 10 the cook have to simve from B A. M, to all hours near midnight, and often have to do thelr own laundering on their "at- ternoon oft” once in a fortnight instead of being out to get some fresh air and Tecreation. The “Good home for a maid’ ‘9 thing of tho past with our present clase of women looking for red-cheeled ‘asstes from the old countries, ‘That's why the girls seek positions in the ids) And factories, where they don't ue eee every day, Sundays and ‘To th foot Wide and 8 feet high. To kalsomine Prt fre welte cole &) cents per square | A@AMnat a Shorter School Day, yard. How much does the job cost? To the Baltor of The Bye Vor} HR. | Tamia voy of toureet went nand Ty Mke to say a few words againat si; she He school day, 11 would moan hat the small children would bo Jo. out on the s aa Sparrows and Luck, Waitor of The Wvening World: wome rewder who undemitands Bi hort ™ patitions tell me if it is bad luck If arrow files in the window? I ler ‘front window open to-day and two flew in, A lady told me tt was ach Mplish some | thing and would be preparing to becom | noble citizens, It In Against the Law, “All moonshir oases Where it Is certain that the bill stores in rem'dential moc-| 7. tng raitor of The Byening Worta: Dr, Morton's “‘liquid sunshine’ cure. | wil) be paseed over the Mayor's veto, ter New York, X can wn-| is jt againat the law to carry a ye. | Bquauet for a brother physician appro- i Oh ae ®rel volver which it 1s impossible to ahoot, Ys Bi Meena: vig ‘ M8 ag tt ie rusty and the trigger i CE O9SS2G4% BULLETIN \—= SAMUEL LOBLEY ALIAS WILLIAM DAILEY SAID TO HAVE SWINDLED THE QUITABLE OUT OF a7. 0,0. 667 SEZ," ald the Cigar Store Man, ‘that this Valentina woman over in Jer- I soy, who was eentenced te be hanged, rune @ good chance of side-stepping the gallows,” “Tt te not likely that @ woman will ever be put @o death by law again fn this country,” announced The Man Higher Up. “No matter how cold-blooded the mur- Ger ef which she may be gullty, the proposition of carrying out the law in her| Case causes national hyvteria. We are establishing one set of ws for men and ancther for women where murder ts concerned, “There ty some emouse for mercy toward the Valentina woman, Judging by her standard of intelligence ahs had a perfect right to cut the woman who had @tolen ber flokle husband. Undoubtedly ehe was insane with rage and jealousy ‘when she committed the crime. “Perbaps the jury made a mistake !n finding ter cullty of murder tn the firet degree, and on this ground her sentence could be commuted, But to bar her from — Hie CITTLE RED BARN aout It is Reported that Charles ‘ May 11, 1905. 3 $ © 5200064 30929-90320 ©OOOGO000 690009090 2050096409656+0 The Man Higher Up. « & By Martin Green. paying the death penalty stmply because she le a woman is wrong, “A woman is just as handy with a revolver, a knife or a hammer as a nman— especially if she catches her victim asleep or with hie back turned. Many of the femrous killers in Alstory have been women. Some of the most brutal murders in history have been committed by women, and there ie no guarantee that the In- etinct of the jealous femole elaughterer will be extinguished by the abolition of the extreme puniehment. "So long as the Jaw providers for the death penalty for deliberate murdor, women should not be exempt. The percentage of planned murders is higher among ‘women than among men. To take away tho fear of punishment would be to en- courage women to kill We are getting so dippy that by degrees we would substl- tute one punishment for another for women murderers, until finally somebody would be forming an association to bulld statues of them fn Central Park.” ‘What kind of a looking woman is Mrs, Valentina?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “Homely, with large horny hand. replied The Man Higher Up, whe was convicted of murder in the first degree." “That's why ona ae Me tioe wines’ Murphy ‘is Installing a Burglar Alarm at His Summer Villa, GABRIEL HEATTER, | wh oto find It firme,’ however, that iM spread to a point sious fear, the exam same topl ho Strate Times, ) however, In ' says Dr, King of pélately comes from the Flower Hos- Reh ee polloe draqnet on Baster.. Decision of the Supreme Court bar- creo and the raid declared “a All of the 160 Chinamen caught in the |g Sunday: now, 6o606. vr 0644-6-000000000 4690044 P4L4O-H9O4OF:9OOO8 POO09O 4-44 O9-40OOOO «- &§§ Said we onwthe ~~ Side. # sS GECASEX common honesty," sata} ving out Ju Toy from citizenship | failure," Some method in Commis- | just ag news comes from Madras of the O the elderly ho re-| yinounts to judicial Jlu-jitsu for Ju, as! sioner MeAdoo's objection to the pres-| bagging gf a tiger and five cheetahs stored Mrs 1 $8.80). | > wore, cice of “reeluy New York"! automobiles | by the twelve-year-old daughter of the while refusing to g “No ieee in a section of the city where strangers | Tajnh of Jatprole, This precsclous body's business but my sald th Boy candidate for Annapolls who In| iene got too close a giimpse of police | oriental Diana Is sald to have killed a youth who saved a woman from drown-|o%ased his height two “inches by | viuaeville performances, tiger at the early ago of clght, and Ing In the park prvolr and maine + hing Mimself may yet give the Poth since then hax despatched thirty-six jtained a clam-like reticence about him- | an imi n of a man pulling ‘; » | head of big game “without a miss,’ Sey ' ee eee Naee( imsclf up by his boot-straps, “Nine wonren become physicians, Me ats an LeU ONe UB ROG ABEELDS I oe Hope that they More competent 19) Nowest Napolean p'ay, "The Creole," Ua an Bua Bt Se Het at Wiagnose and prescribe than the Nine/}as in ite cast wot only the Little who tried to find a remedy for “the} Corporal, himself, but two system," oe Something tn that ‘campaign in tents 4o redeem New York" if it ls made a three-ring affair, 8 @ ‘Time for all felicitous oincia slepson and stepdaugh' in wunt or two, | > | were unceremoniously ejected. | Unanimously that no more policy-holders be ailowed upon the Inequitavle'’a A Directors’ Meeting at the Inequitable, By Roy L. McCardell, ESTRHRDAY'S anonymous meeting of Inequitable Insure Ance Company was not altogether a success, because one-haif of the directors do not speak to the other halg, Most of the time was gpent in abusing each other through couusel, Some discord was also occasioned by the Cafe Sayarin orchestra, which is equally divided in its sym- pathies in the present belligerency, One-half the or+ chestra played “Alexander and the other half played “Violets,” Several lite insurance solicitors who looked in to see what time {t was complained that the trouble was playing hob, Mr. Alexander looked somewhnt pale, as he had been sitting up all night writing letters to the newspapers ad- dressed to Mr. Hyde, He also com- plained that Mr, Hyde answered these communteations in the news papers befcre he recelyed a copy of the replies. Mr, Alexander's announcement, that the reserve and surplus belonged to the policy-holders, but that there was no way for them to get It, Augmented the coolness between him and Mr. Hyde, Senator Depow on being asked why he received $25,000 a year from the company, sald it was nobody's bus- iness but his own, He then con- vulsed the meeting with merry stories of his boyhocd days in Peekskill, A communication from a Mr, Sume merfleld, dated Ossining, asking why he was not let in on some of the good things, was tabled. t will be an- swoered in due time, when it {s found Sitting Up All Night Writing Letters. who controls the company, The arrest of Samuel Lobel, allas Edwards, allas Hamilton, allas Will» fam Daily, was denounced as an outrage. He had been operating with an employee of the Incquitable under the title of “Daily & Associates” in bore rowing money on a policy, taking it out of the vaults and borrowing again, and yet again, Some of the interests present thought Mr. Daily's plan just overstepping the mark a little—but not very much. As Lobel, alias Daily and pe rest, had not been appointed a director under any of hia various names, his method of flnanclering was severely denounced. It was sald that one thing In Lobel's favor was that he imitated Mr. Hyde in wearing bunches of whiskers on his chin, Whether there was a bunch of vio- lets in Lobel's lapel could not be learned, ° One of the directors wanted to know who had called the meeting. Another director rose to announce that {t dil not matter who had called the meeting, but it was very Unpleasant to Msten to what the policy-holders were calling the directors, Mr, Frick was reported to be an- noyed that anything was being done until the result of his investigations ware announced, When this was made known to thos present, another alisnetor said that Mr. Frick need not be annoyed, Nuthing waa being done, and, according to the agents, there was nothing doing, A resolution that all directors should be insured in the Inequitable was yoted down. The better method, it was held, was for directors to take out and not put in, Mesrengers then announced that tlie dally accusations of Messrs Hyde and Alexander were ready for publication, and after a few little rows among themselves a resolution was passed that all Proceedings of the anonymous meeting be kept secret until those present had time to send typewritten ace counts to the newspapers. Several rude persons who occasioned some Alsorder In the corridor and who endeavored to excuse thelr conduct by claiming to be policy-holders And before adjourning the directors voted Stories of His Boyhood Days, premises, as thoir clamorings annoyed both Mr, llyde and Mr, Alexander, —- @ Confessions of Lillian Russell. Asked These Questions: Your favorite virtue?, Miss Russell Replied: Honesty and respectability, Lying; I hate @ lar, Queen Elizabeth, Never mind, {tll all be the same a hundred years hence; or, It will all come out in the wash, Any that dsn't taken from a comic Opera, Mary Is about the best. Any that fsn't a sissy name, John haa always been my favorite, ‘The show business, and the more of it the better, Your favorite motto?, Your favorite name for a woman?.,.. Your favorite name for a man?,,,,,., Your favorite employment?,.,.,...... Your favorite amusement?...s.....0505 Riding—horseback, motor car, yacht, trolley car, hangom, forryboat or ele- vator, I want to be on the move, Your favorite MOwer?sssserserersesees The American Beauty Rose, because tt §s the most expensive, Your favortte Con? .sssvessseserseresee Blue, when it is confined to my clothes and the sky. Otherwise, orange, Anything left us by old Matous Aure- Mus, The one that goes best, Homer, whose ‘Iliad has been plagiar- ized by every rhymester since his time, Your favorite book?.., favorite song favorite poet?, Your Your Clty in which you would rather live?,.New York, I'm used to It, Your favorite language?..sssscreseres ‘The English, because my friends oan understand it, Perfectly tranquil, thank you, ‘To have all the money I want to spend and to live where I please, ‘To be broke all the time, They are all pretty good, but I don't care for fiction anyhow, I’m a aave to the Gospel truth te hero In real Hfet.....0+ 1 think I lke George Washington vest aves of all, He was a nloo man, Jte heroine In flotion?,,....1 don’t Ike any of them, but oj oh : Hypatia is the best, Fa heroine in real life?,....Marlo Corelli, because whe isn't ahd ‘ to say what sho thinks, baht) tb ACSITORs ssersreereerreeees Yo have everything I want, and twa bel so much I won't put any one thine first, Your present state of mind?, Your idea of perfect happiness’ {den of pertect misery?. yout favorite hero in flotion? 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