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

hed by the Press Publishing Compuny, | Ehtered at the Post-Omice at New Yor! A VISITOR ENLIGHTENED, One who signs himself “A Visitor from Mars'’ writes us: rd Often on your wonderful underground railway? He sometimes bears an ow.w hand a sinall brown cylinder, lighted at one end, which emits a stale and sickening smo! As the air of your tunnel seems none too sweet at best to my celestial nos T cannot thinka gent leman would add to its badness, to the annoyance and perhaps injury of others, How do you classify this type? The type is known as the “Subway Hog’—a man who carries a smouldering stub into a close car despite the presence of ladies, in order to birds’ fine bristles do not change the nature of a Hog. THE ‘CITS'’ OPENING.” The declaration of principles adopted by the City Committee of the founded—a non-partisan and businesslike administration of city affairs. So long as it adheres to this principle and policy all talk of its “in- dorsing” McClellan is fudge and fustian, For, whatever may be the Merits or demerits of Mayor McClellan's administration, he stands boldly and honestly for the exactly opposite idea—a partisan administration. This he has often proclaimed and defended in his speeches, and has adhered to fg hls conduct. And “partisan administration of city government,” the Union truly declares, ‘means the appointment of officials as a reward for party services, regardless of specific qualifications.” That the Citizens’ Union will nominate a candidate for Mayor repre- senting its principles goes without saying. Whether such a candidate can be elected it is yet too carly to say. It will depend largely upon the ticket and upon the action of the Republican organization—which means the Odell machine—and also upon the strength of any separate “municipal Ownership" ticket, should such an one be put in the field. It is some time yet to November. Chicago's boastful motto is “I will!” The far onlookers at her street riots are asking: “Why the devil don’t you?” t PUZZLES FOR PLAIN PEOPLE. (Vi The Washington gossip of the Tribune sends this item: Robert J. Wynne, Consul-General to London, called at the White House early fn the forenoon, clad in a new suit of brown. ‘These are English—cost me $20," he exclaimed, as one of his friends remarked on the “new clothes for the new job” the was wearing. - If one of Mr. Wynne’s fellow-citizens were to order a suit just like iis, in this country, it would cost $40. The difference in the labor cost of the to could not be more than $5. Our “infan: industries” of grow- ing wool, weaving cloth and making clothes divide the other $15 between them in bounties guaranteed by our paternal government. , In the same Lne, on a vastly bigger vcale, is the Presideni’s determina- tion to buy any and all materials for the Panama Canal “in the cheapest markets in the world.” Two vessels needed, which would cost $1,400,000 here, can be bought abroad for one-half that sum, Steel dumping-cars, wheelbarrows and other machinery, utensils and supplies, can be bought abroad--even when of American make—30 to 40 per cent. cheaper than they can be bought here. A member of the Commission, defending the action of the President, says, “We must build the canal as cheaply as possible, and shall buy what we want wherever we can do the best.’ This is what private citizens would like to do, but, unfortunately, they cannot avoid customs duties, as the Government does in this case. Take it all around, from gas to railroad charges, and from clothing to other taxes, the “plain citizen” finds himself—or makes himself ?—an “easy mark,” | The dreadfulest news of the day Is that the District-Attorney threatens “another trial for Nan Patterson.” As Artemas Ward sald: “This is 2 mutch,” It almost makes the public wish that Caesar Young had not been killed, A HURRY CALL FOR FREE BATHS, Alderman McCall is right. The free-baths proposition for the Coney Island beach, now before the city fathers, does not call for a public hear- ing, The !’ye1ung World has made the details perfectly familiar. There isino popular opposition to the scheme, nor any just ground for opposition. Not a hearing, but prompt action, is in demand. The warm days Strengthen; the beach-bathing season draws near. And there will be a lot} of work to do on the pavilion, Friday's meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment should | find President Littleton, who greatly favors the venture, ready with plans and recommendations to push this great public project into realization. The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers) Plea for Crash Suita, entrance to the Stutan Island ferry- {To the Editor of The Evening World: house at the Battery. Cannot some- . In the summer of 1896 a delightful | thing be done to cause the tunnel people fashion for men came in vogue—thelto clear a passageway for people as “orash suit, It was pretty: it was be-|they now have no place to walk? Condl- eoming to every one; it was unspeak- tions nave been such for over a vear @bly comfortable and was the coolest | Le RICHARDSON, Rosebank. ot garment ever bullt. Also, it cost only + 8.1, oor $ and could be washed afty times, It has wholly gone out, Let this comfortable, becoming and inex- penalve fashion be revived this year, und let it never again “go out." FAT MAN. Apply to Board of Education, To the BAltor of the Evening World: French for (‘He In a Fool, To the Editor of The Evening World; In what language and what ts the meaning of C'est un fou?” GAPEAES, Greek Catholic, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: How may I make arrangements to| .VM*t 19 the recogontzed State church | 4et aboard *%0 school-ship? H. J. B, | Russia? GEO. P. Firemen’s Parade, In “Many Inventtona,” Po the Editor of the ening World: To the Editor of The Eve When do the firemen hold their} In what book of fu Parade this year? W.H. T, doer Rodelia Herodst so! ar? ‘There mny be no firemon’s parude this FRANK HARTLIBR. ) Pear, certuinly none before October, Fiction Character. Never Exinated, | Feshion’s “Ups and Dow: To the Editor of The Evening World: We the Ealior of The Bvening Wor! Did Sherlock Holmes ever exist and | ) Fashion is a clover ‘gal what year did he die? RW. ywho praise her claim it, Yet some- y aa /ghe'e unpractical, and here {s Cheap Dentlatry, Where I blame it: Her hand must hold | To the Editor of The Evening World: “ p Bonnet down lost in a gust it fip- bea tis query as to whether in New Sep ee tother hand must lift her Clty there was an; place where : Wort Kipling's ‘the dust it ott; lope, sjteeth may be Mllca or capped at 7 ETRE [NIA ihe reaoh. on pect people ieee Post-Graduate Dental School, College of Dah Porry Approach, of Tas ing World: d to the Dentiatry and other inotitutions in New York All and cap teeth) They practi- ly charge for material only, which b DRA Cai you tell a visitor from a far country the name of the singular being I sees Pesemblance to the persons you call “gentlemen.” But he carries furtively in his | ; $ave the remnant of a 2!4-ent cigar. Though “fine feathers make fine} Citizens? Union adheres to the fundamental idea on whicl! the Union was| SOOBSOC CS : : : : | SOCOSS PODS ENEL GE OOOOO oe ODO99: $ g @ Pg IL POROO HS Doubtless The Evening World's Home Magazine, Wednes Sy J. Campbeil Cory oN a JA. O3py— WHAT KINO oF A Za) \ ; GAME IS THIS HAUL OF FAME ? >; 1 DONT SEE MY NAME ow Ve Twant you Te HELP ME APPOINT [A PENG (DEM) CAPTIONS) (for CHARLIE 3 $ i‘ Charlie Get a ‘‘Help Me’ THE LIST AND NQl( plas BEEN INVITED AINT “aX By G&G. E. Powers, I Move, GENTS OF DE COMMIT-TEE, DAT WE WORK DE GAS MACHINES OVER TIME IN ORDER “To G\VE DE CITIZENS “oF NEW YORK CHEAP GAS SEE! WAATS YER PLEASURE GENTS SS //) Hh ie am Over: day Nvening, May 17, 1905. la oe 6006639 FPDCAPOOVGS Hr 9OBOD6 6 35-060063004.06- 15: ’ Committee, Too?: oe © ry dav aoe rons | the flve Tammany Senators who voted The Next Gas Investigation, $ | » A Vitascopic-Stenographic Report of the Cross-: 4ixamination of One o! the Principal Witnesses. By Martin Green. What Is your full name? A. Charlos F. Murphy, ‘ Q. Do you work? A Of course not; I’m the leadap of Tammany Hal. Q. Where do you reside? A, At Good Ground, L. Ly amd Mount Clemens, Mich, Q, Isn't New York good enough ground for you, A, Quit your kiddin’, Q, Where is Tammany Hall situated? A. Around the corner trom the main office of the Consolidated Gas Company, Q. Is that a volncldence? A. I couldn't say, but it's mighty handy, *! Q. Is it true that you telephoned to Albany and instructed all tho Tammany Senators to vote for 80- cent gas? A. You'll have to ask Senator Grady, Q. How are you going to discipline against cheaper gas for the people wf New York? A. They shall not be allowed to attend the Anawanda Club chowder, Q. Is it true that they call the Elghteenth Assembly District the Gas House district Lepause you own a house in it? A. I have no retort to make to that question. Q, What is your position on cheap sas? A. Cheap gas makes cheap gas stock, Q. Are you in favor of municipal ownership of lighting plants? A, I am in favor of anything that will make jobs, Ask Senator Grady, Q. Have you heard any complaints trom leaders about your frequent absences fiom Tammagy Hall’ A, Yow could I when I'm not there? Q. What did the people do with the Van Wyck administration? Aya Put it on tee, Q. Do you feel any apprehend sions that the people will asphyxiated the McClellan administration? A, eNot to any smellable extent. Q. What is your idea as to the duties of a member of the Logisla~ } ture? A. I think he ought to help tbe people who send him there, Q. How do you account for the, presence of natural gas in other& States and not in New York? A, Consolidated Gas Company won! stand for it. Q. Ie it true that the Boami Aldermen {s about to pass a resolue? tlon coimpelling the Consolidatedt Gas Company to make its water gas with eologne? A. Tammany Hall je! ‘alway trying to make it picasant for the people, Q. Have you told all you know about this matter? A, If 1 think of anyw thing else I'll write, a Van Wyck on Ice, First Aid to Novelists. By Hall Caine. Nis hersclf provides the first essential—genius—without which succem 1s Impossible, To the one happily posseeeed of {t and with a déstre to enter the field of fiction writing, I would caution him not to indulge in fw: too strenuously at first. That is apt to weaken the style. Write only when the humor, Do not try to copy other authors’ methods or style of writing—or' take thelr advice! Re yourself entirely. f Originality ts what every author should strive for. Originality, general! means popularity, and the result is I!kely to be satisfactory from the financtaléi side, ( A novel should be written over twhoe, I belleve in rewriting, for the reasong| that ft shows up the faults—and they are alweys numerous—of the previous al tempt. i To thowe who intend entering the hazardous field of novel writing a tow yoarad! spent in journalism, ospevially where the opportunities for travel are open, o} an excellent preliminary training, saye Hall Caine in the Chicago Tribune, Thero used to be a time when a woman who wrote poetry or painted picturem| or dabbled in novel writing was mecessarily considered eomething of an inke? atained or paint-bedaubed bluestoching. In tho literary fleld a woman nowada: {s not subject to such criticism; she enjoys equal privileges and opportunities | with the eterner sex, and sho has justly demonstrated her right to them. In tn: tellectuel strength and delicacy of wit in writing women have, in hundreds cases, shown a distinct superiority over men, In Iiterature @ man will invariably express himself at the time end tn =f manner best sulted to his genius, Cherlea Kingaley wrote best before ‘he had reached his majority, Smollett wrote “Robert Random" at twenty-six, Dickens produced “Oliver Twist’ at the same age. At twenty-five Goethe had alreadys: written “The Sorrows of Werther.” and Lord Lytton hie firat novel, and so itm! woes, cu Said onthe Side. A ‘THOUSAND sohool children inthe fact? What hay our sculptors, Cheluea. Mass,, cleaning the neg- | done to notify to posterity our love of! lected city streets, Another |aport? They have neglected the sub- thousand in Chicago out on . |atance of present life for the shadow thetic strike in ald of the teamaters,|4 dead tradition.” Point seems we A Chicago newsboy of twelve distin. |taken--what is @ quott-thrower o: sulshes himself by gaining the consent | ancient Greece or @ forgotten Roi of property holders to the paving of |Siadiator to @ Jeffries or his street with asphalt, securing a| Pitcher or public hearing of the question before | ‘uchdown? the Board of Looal Improvementyand|Went to Egypt for models, and thew, carrying his point. Deatinies of the |™odern should find suttable subjects ony} nation, from present appearances, may | '"¢ diamond and gridiron, No com= noon bo in the hands of the young, |P!aints then of deserted art museums, Well, perhaps, for Chicago to keep an LS eye on that newsboy or he may some| "The brass band as it now extate tm, day be bossing the town. practicaily in {te infancy” saya Muse! a eye {cal Opinion, Critic cannot be familiar Thirteen entries for: the Amorican | ith the Hitle German variety, . togm of five automobiles to race for the reat Vanderbilt Cup, Must walt for the| Professor who has built a oabin on the | accident list to see on which one tho|#nds of the lake shore #0 as to ‘got hcodoo rests, near to nature'’ is a Chicago proteasor, May be relied on not only to get near, New mammoth onyx and gold restau. | Put t0 Ret “next” to many odd notions, rant for the Lovanore district, City's 1a eae gastronomic censre follows the amusa: | Acconting to Dr. John Warriner the ment centre northward, and pitchers of | “chief factor in the cultivation of an | imported Wurabirger at $1.50 now of ole cer for music Is the onylrohment of the about where the I)-cent growl w: child during the first two or three years rushed not #0 long am, Mellcal theo (of Its existence,” Beems to explain tht the appetite grows with what it| why the bables on the block who crowd feeds on scoms to suffer from no lack | around :o hear the hand organs show of conflamation in Mamhattan. such a fontness for musical comedy im . . . aftor years, If thy project by Gen. Miles to droga Sie the Maseachusets militia in cocked hats| Appears now that tho “percentage of | 1s not knocked into one by public opin. | poor eyesight in children hes been fon the citizen soldiery of the old Bay | greatly overestimated,” as that of the , State will be gorgeous to look upon, | breakfastiess was, Hearing so much’ Question whether the plin is not an| about the little ones which isn't eo ag | Invaalon of privileges of the Governor's | to make it dimMoult to decide what in, uff and the Ancient and Honorable 2. ° Tal A larverd man gives, le $10,009 to * a.