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iat ai, World’a H Monday Event Cio Ownership? Whe Not? + Wave of the Jolly Pall Bearers. By J. Campbell Cory. A Vitascopic-Stenographic Interview with a Member of a Strenuous East Side Social Set. By Roy L. McCardell. WHAT ts your name? A. Wotcher want mo monica fer? I give yer de big nix! Q. Come now, what is your name? A. Ah, fadet Fade! Yer can't t'row de bull con into me! See? Q, What are you, a tough? A, Folat ting you know I'll holler molder! I'm a gent, ain't 1? I got a vote, ajn't I? Cheese it den! Q. Do you belong to the Monk Jasiman or Paul Kelly gang? A. Say, sand yer track! Sand yer track! Yer skiddin'! Me train with dem muts? G'wan, Ul slap your slats! & Q. Are you a dangerous loafer? A, Yer want ter chop dat, and chop it > | quick! rg Q. What sort of language is that? Ss A. Does yer tink I’m talkin’ Yut? ® Q. Do you know the Bowery and the Chinatown district? A. Say, am 1 a ribberneck topsider? Dors I know the Bowery? Say, I've loby- xowed on der Bowery before Paresis itil was put on the blink, I know it hetter than a ding knows Seventh me Magazine ie Y by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 58 to @ Park Row, New York. ‘Batered at the Post-Office at New York.as Second-Class Mail Matter, PAPODDSOOD OLUME 46. aeesNO. 18,98 7. is) RUSSIA’S SHATTERED HOPES. . )) By the irony of events Rojestvensky’s admirable feat of seamanship, he one brilliant Russian naval achievement of the war, served only to re the way for Russia's worst disaster—the practical annihilation of B fleet at a single blow. Those who in their increased sympathy for counted on superior numbers and the logical probability of a turn | fhe ill fortune of war to avail Rojestvensky reckoned without fate 4 panese preparedness, These have now tumbled insubstantial ‘ like a house of cards, and left the long series of Russian re- es unrelieved by a solitary success. They have made the further prolongation of the war by the Czar an act of national suicide, Witla ll and water communication between Russia and the East now ef- léctively cut off, the last remote hope of a rehabilitation of the Russian / campaign is dissolved, F Im estimating Togo’s laurels as the victor of perhaps the greatest fight of modern times much consideration will be given his use of the pedo-boat as a main factor in naval warfare. If the details of the mbat bear out the earlier reports of the helplessness of the battle-ships Too > aero oo OOS: é ae 204. against these hornets of the sea a large proportion of the world’s most ipensive naval armament must be relegated to the category of old junk, ply relatively more useful for defense than the ships at the bottom of he Corean Strait. “PETERING OUT.” a The failure of the third attempt to convict Inspector Lundberg on the fidictment of “fraud, misconduct and violation of law” in connection with burning of the General Slocum is believed to mark the end of the Gov- ‘emment prosecutions growing out of the disaster. A year has largely quieted public clamor and removed the political exigencies which gave original impetus to the prosecutions. It would se No extreme surprise if the recurrence of the anniversary of the dis- Wa ‘aster on June 15 were signalized by the formal dismissal of the case and t ve tacit pigeonholing of the indictments against the officers of the com- pany who are yet awaiting trial. Signs, in the expressive phrase of the mining camp, of “petering out.’ Some tangible good there has been: in the dismissal of negligent officials, in the recent State legislation providing for iron stanchions and deck beams for excursion boats to be constructed hereafter and in the new Govern- ‘anent rules for steamboat inspection, “modified” though these have been ‘and weakened by the excision of stringent regulations as “concessions to ‘vessel owners.” But of punishment to fit the enormity of the crime which cost 1,000 399299 « Oe So does the case of the people against the river death traps show 3 | trim lushes, avenue, Q Do you work at anything? A, Does I wolk? Sure, I woiks, I wos foist broom at Callahan's, and In de summer I tends bar on de ex soision boats, T'ink I'm a dip? Do I look as if I'm on de panhandle? What von trying te do, make me one on the fron? Q. Do you carry a gun? A, Say, what's eatin’ you? You are a fresh vlokle, ain't yer? * Q. I want to know if you carry a gun? A. Skidoo and twenty-three, for yours! Q. Answer my question, A, Yes, I haul a smoke wagon. Yer needn’t yodel it to the bulls. Dey're wise; dey pass me up, see? Q. If you mean do I intend to tell the police, I will say no, but do you think you bave any right to carry a deadly weapon and shoot at people in the pudlic street and endanger the lives of others? A. Say, do you tink I'm goin’ to let a lot of yeggs do me up? I'm a citizon, Iam. I got ter | perteck meself from dese strong-arm guye and a lot of Loules and molle buzzers dat are trying to get me into de gong buggy; are you wise? Q. So you think yourself a good ‘itizen. do you? A. Surest t'ing you know, I don't belong to none of dem gangs of peter-workera or burney- blowers dat lay around Pell street and Chatham square dead-houses to “Yes, | Haul a Smoke Wagon.” Q. You don't lay around cheap saloons to rob drunken men? A. Dat's what I said, I'm a voter and a citizen, and I know me rights. If any of dese cheap-skate gonefts Man Higher Up. « # By Martin Green. oi nicer san ion ot human lives, nothing at all, past or in prospect. Murphy Has Good Reason to Believe in City “SPORADIC” GANG VIOLENCE, Me Tose ENING It appears that the gang encounter which resulted in the smashing in of “Eat-'Em-Up” McManus’s head with an iron bar, and was imme- diately preceded by the wounding of two other gang members by pistol ba said The Cigar-Store Man, “that there is a great deal of Svoner or later they are dragged into the gas works, and then comes the|these gang fights? A. Nix on dat! shot and stiletto, was “only a sporadic outbreak of ruffianism.” throwing down trump cards hard enough to break the table in finish, I'm not tppin’ off de flatties: I don’t 4 ». Sporadic, by the dictionary, means “occurring in scattered instances.” the game of politics in Philadelphia,” “The directors and owners of gas works are always men of the Hiffel/ all in de bulls to square tings fer 5 ve nes b in ft ian) at ih / “Gay,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “has got ull the Phila- Tower type of respectability, ‘They are the solid men of the community.|me. Get wise to dat? . 1 last the e been o “sporadic” riots of the “Hump 8 eT he aM te Mere pee nee ue A Nay, ‘ nal ea ut py delphia politicians running in circles, Seamy-faced old Quaker business But continual talk avout gas aud occasional visits to the tank yards appear] Q. But if you murder a fellow- fackson” gang, the ‘sporadic’ outbreak of the “Yakey Yakes,” with the} men are sitting in renote corners counting thelr fingers Philadelphia ia) to spread the solidity upon their natural shrewdness. being you will be electrocuted or at murder of Jim Brennan as one of its episodes, the depredations of the] breathing gas, and somebody has got to go down flor the count. “Just why it Is !mpossible to ryn a gas plant in a big city without trying| least be sent to prison, won't you? Cherry Hill and Battle Row gangs and the disturbances of the Monk “Ever notice what a demoralizing effect gas has upon politica when poll-| to corrupt city officiids/is sometuing that the ordinary gas consumer {s A. If I got de thold-rail rocker I — Be : fi ae uf tielans attempt to extract the mazuma of the people by gue treatment? Unable to understand, If there is an easier graft than selling gas dt has| Won't switch; and if it's de booby “Dey're Wise! Dey Pass Me Upi” ©, Eastman desperadoes, Rather an over-full record of offensive activity EOE p i | Ba fi fticially das broki id dispersed by the bolle: The gas scandal in Delaware has teen furnishing a strangulation odor to been overlooked by grect financiers, Apparently it 1s so easy that they | hatch fer mine I can do me bit fer awhile; and ain't I got friends, and ain't _ for gangs officially reported as broken up and dispersed by the police. | the united States for years. Recently New York had an experience with} become hoggish, wallow in tne profits and finally suffocate thelr consclences| dey got votes, and don’t we vote straight, and ain't we got inf co? By the gang code the murder of McManus will be avenged by a gang| Consolidated Gas that impelled the people to hunt for nose guirds, Now| ‘Thai Mayor Weaver is certainly a game proposition,” exclaimed the| Pipe dat! in the fluid they’ sell.” member, that murder by another, and eventually the gangs may be wiped | comes a lea from the tanks In Philadelphia. Clee ore Man Q. The citizens of New York are getting tired of the murderous gangs of Out at each other's hands. “Nothing,” it is said, “would please the police | | Rete Gee any ae that mage fe) oo ie 10DE | ecole ehesritd niin onthe Babee tae iSaaueee telling fess Aye aletion: ET tech adet ites iy battling in the streets, Do you more than to have the gangs exterminate one another in a Kilkenny war.” | the recater chameelo: thett iach ca a ge coming: to them through ‘The test of gameness will come when he is backed ina corner by the men yes; Gai eee CUBENEDSDEY Toad . +8 to ha : ) egular channels, their bank rolls grow and the people stand for them,| who made his political cureey and forced to put up his hands alone.” FORT eee YOUR ABI; |) PAs a case in point, the last survivor of the once-powerful Red Leary gang ; ~ — - SA a ne ee ae ee | appeared in a Brooklyn court-room only the other day for sentence, OE FOOHOQOG IG 4 PDI4GDHOODISHDSDO : BE PISOUYEDOIIL$OOOEDG HHOHOBOOH: oO A 4 But pending the result of these processes of self-extermination a} + g Little Willie’s little Bicts police activity, please, to Hal the outbreaks less “sporadic.” ‘The Ideal Husband Pe By Ferdinand G. Long Th 5 Gulls to New York. Mi ‘ Y ; a eons secre : | 4) Gollege Girls Recunt!y Expressed Their “Ideal Husband” Preferences, Some of These Preferences Are Shown Here. o AST yeer a publick ea leh bot bhatmelatad bo: BALANCING HUMAN ACCOUNTS — eae UIE r VERCRERTUC L ‘a vishus muskeoter had tride to bite him so this yeor the RoRsor butions If John D,Rockefeller, jr., for conscientious reasons refuses to con- Nir! VERY POPULAR Seats ore “he TERT VaRA TR eve" Aue el yerulg om. pal ookur In grater nu tinue in his father’s business the blow will be more severe than the harsher YOURE Too HOME IN HER justrucksiuns to show ne pitty if he ‘atehes one, #0 it will eo hee wth the awdayshus muskecter that shows {ts villenus countenance in grater tummer. a thowsend dollera has been aproaprinted for the werk Canavan shun and It 1s unofishully repoarted that a reward of ten dotlers will be pade for the skalp and forepaws of anny muskvoter capptured allive or ded, muskeeters are a pest and a menzace but wnen donkter doaty asked the guvverner of statten Mend Is It troo that muskeeters carry mallaria, tho guvverner replide Wa'al thay don't acem to have carvied none of it away frum heer. the guvverner added the encurradging promise that if muskevters stinod attack statten fiend this yeer the | ‘Nenders can be relide on to come up to the skratch. good oald musker ters, i A. P. TERHUNE, Said # on & the w Side. LLEGED that the late Baron) Brunswick, Pr A Rothschild believed in the thirtesn Sarete ppeeds a the superstition and went to the|meaning to the phrase “lightning pg ‘open criticisms from clergymen, writers and hundreds of thousands of WORLD!’ common people who are embittered against Standard Oil methods. John © \D. Rockefeller may have withstood the hostility of the outside world, but {the condemnation of his son’s conscience is something he cannot escape, * There is a general balancing of human accounts in this world, and it Is rare that the process of compensation is wholly postponed to what hap- jpens on the other side of the grave. ‘ a There is William Rockefeller, who bought a princely domain in the a ‘Adirondacks, but he cannot buy the friendship of the old settlers whose former homes have been torn down, and he can never get from his estate ‘ithe same casual, thoughtless enjoyment that any passing wayfarer may my ; Sheer Aw, BE MINE; HENRIETTAY No man can always run counter to the general sense of justice and fair dealing without paying the penalty, Public opinion may be for a lime ineffective to work its will through the constituted forms of govern- ment, the legislature, the executive and the courts, but it is none the less an influence which cannot be suppressed and which in time exacts its penal ‘om every individual who runs counter to it, ia ty The People’s Corner. | Letters from Evening World Readers ft ly to Legal Aid Society, 239) costs the strong-bearded " gai Broadwna day Te he ee ee raed man 16 cents a Wo the Haltor of The ing World: i What can I do to get my salury? The frm for which 1 worked falled and I ; Rave papers which show that J am to two veeks stlary, the t which Is $26, What steps TI take to obtain the money? Lam he will pay | $65.16 Just for t vil n of face, to ‘ing of the pain, discomfort, poss! 1 eases and loves of time fron andthe unkempt. look of tha SHE OBJECTS TOA SMALL MAN. Be Quizy Now AND GO TO SLEEP! > much more In the last half of his length of offoring the municipality of Paris 15,000 francs to change the num- ber of his residence from that to a leas unlucky number, Belleved by those who take note of the prevalence of superatl- tlons that this is probably the moat general and pervading of all, Bald that thirteen has almost passed out of ex- Istence as a number for hotel rooms, eee nn of the power of the landlord | noua General impression that there's | name than there used to be, eee “British golf championship won by a boy," Btill beating the “old man” at his own game. owe A ninetecm-hour train to Chicago promised. Doubt as to why hould be needod is dispelled by the reflection that It algo runs from, Chicago to New York. ‘ ° press, . oo Right championship cricket matches , in New York and tts immediate vicinity. on Saturday, Popularity of the British game will do something to tefute the charge that Americans take thelr sports too strenuously and with too little Iel- sure, eo 6 6 Grand Duehess Cecilia reported wern out from trying on the fifty dresses which constitute her wedding troussean, Femlnine aympathy for the sufterer will be tempered by the feeling that martyr dom to much a cause carries Hts own reward, e+ 6 Complaint by a distinguished Berltm doctor that there ts ‘too mush operate ing.” Charge seems to lle against trust companies also, in tholr relation to the stools market, | fe . Said by Dan Beard, the artist, that for any reason one. d y je day is Let us his costly, foolis e beards with which Haat neards did not Have the authority of no less an ex-| fads and frills are the only things in pert than the fashion editor of the|tite worth lving for, Nobody nore London World that ‘more conquests) studying the three R' Census of have been made by girls in simple white! school children would poor girl and cannot afford to lose it, Dy ky IisSA THIS HE ‘MusT NOT G OSHS SSSSS SHE French « Weloome.” ve. | and needful purpose how most of, 4 Bash Ges weveuine trodes | nacure’ would not hive ven shent to BARGAIN. Come HOME | frocka than have ever been made by|them rondy to tao the “frilia” and let | % Pleane Interpret following sen | SEE PATE ATIOGHTiLH}S: Guewe in seburale. Sameer HOO ABE. aie Hie JAAD 5 Or | | y he, be a most dan- BI ee Freeh) ace Clean, ol Put Out Reaches, ¢ 4 24 7 : E 3FDSODODETOOD esr snare,” “Which ls undoubtedly Navy Rope Secret, PPR IE: Astor of The Kvening Workd: red eons ok, fonehies ns kes 3 Mina heh gS lh nh fue, but_no reduction of dresemakers'| ITN VERY rope used in the Britta Repro ever s i to think how i And Oa un ii a worn ber) ~ and milliners' bills ikely. E naval eervice, from heaving line we man are to follow the senze- and dust the borax q \ BPs a txpenalry conor or nari ae Some 2 of «the #« Best #» Jokes w& of # the w Day. se» ws PR ete weet @leanesiaven? 1k is rensctess, be- i eae “Don't you want me ty tell you what) "No," sald the sweet young thing to') Colonel Kaintuck—No, sir; 1 wouldn't) Police istrate—Wh has woven into one uf it ua Lor its wantoa tine nd money tor no \ the anolent but woaluiy suitor, "Edo | part with thee pooket knife. pathoeane here have I seen! a4 aining-car service on through trol-| purposes of ldcncinoation, a of tieo of pleasure. It I» un- 4 beards pecause it | When thr] not love you well enougi to be a’sistce | Mnend—But it's #0 Milepldated; all| ‘Tuffold Knutt (run in for _| ley lines between Indianapolis and Co-| ‘the presumption. Is that a lon words are axplaltied €6 me sney aro | to Four bulisundie lok if; vaudan elt Lian biaen: wee: Babies a coo rte unt ie Le Satie BITE DA OGL OEE Fea eo LA AEN In RM ARDY papers the red invona a ded for British Navs if nover hall as interesting as I Imagine | crept over her lovely face—"I will marry] Colonel Kaintuck—Yee, sub; but them to be,""—Chicago Tribune you If you Mkel''—Cleveland Leader, i corksonew len’ t.—Phijedelphia alae. oat indent ies ‘iubome bit is i