The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1905, Page 14

Ye Ma gaz Home 0 York Published vy the Preas Publishing Company, No, 6 to @ Park It waiter Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mall Wedded) Thursdanw | Rvening, Ang ee When Woman Rules the Roost—No. 4. By J. Campbell Cory. VOLUME 46. :NO. 16,081. A DIFFERENCE IN STREET-WIDENING. ; The widening of Second avenue in Long Island City shows how circumstances alter cases in the condemnation ot property for public improvement. The proceedings especially throw light on the difference u wakes when there are “friendly experts’ on the inside to look wut for owners. . In accordance with an ordinance calling for the widening of this avenue from 60 to 100 feet between Flushing and Jackson avenues Many humble property-owners who have put their life savings into their homes must move them back a distance of from twenty to sixty feet. The expense of this removal will inflict grave hardship on them, as they can expect no remuneration from the city for several years to) come. Altogether 110 buildings are affected, and the owners are given the harsh alternative of moving them back to the required line within thirty days or of having them demolished. Sales at auction began on Aug. 17, and in most cases only $1 was bid for the portions of the Property overlapping the new line. In nearly every case it will cost from $300 to $400 to move the houses the necessary distance. To comply with the requirements many householders have been obliged to mortgage their little properties. It is the misfortune of these humble property-holders that they have neglected to profit by the lesson of the extension of Flatbush | avenue to the Manhattan Bridge entrance, with the episode of the Mon- tauk Theatre purchase involved in it. They have also failed to take the tip given them in the Livingston street widening proceedings as to} how these matters may be arranged. At the first hint of the intended improvement they should have organized themselves into a syndicate of “realty associates” and bought | the property to be condemned from themselves to sell to the city) through the medium of a “construction company” at double the as- Sessment figures. They should have provided for some friendly expert in the city’s employ to appraise the property for condemnation, “made things right” with the proper political power, “seen” whomever it was necessary to see to convince of the vital need to the city of the property in ques- tion, limited the city’s option to sixty days, as in the Montauk sale, | and then allowed events to take their course. They seem indeed to have only themselves to blame because of their foolish neglect of the recognized “preliminaries” which are essen-| tial to the profitable performance of any such work of public improve- ment. They were wilfully blind to the precedents set in the highest Politico-financial quarters. They have allowed an opportunity to make a good thing out of the city to slip by and have only losses to shoy| where there should be a substantial profit. The experience of these Long Island City householders will oat IM AFRAID. Im MAKING YOUR HUBBY, ALoT OF EXTRA TROUBLE some popular sympathy. But in circles where the art of putting | thi h a Montauk Theatre deal is understood they will come in for contémpt for their ingenuousness. Wife surprises hubby by bringing a friend home to dinner. # Letters from the People. « A Man’s Views on Styles. To the Editor of The Evening World: Why will very stout and very thin | Women wear tight-fitting dresses? | There is a kind of dress women wear this year that my wife tells me is ealled a half-princess. It looks very charming on a medium-sized figure, but on a mealeack or a bean pole tt ts a horror. A fat woman on our block sports one, and I walk out of my way © avold the sight. JOHN MARSH. The Anti-Tipping Bill. To the Editor of The Evening World: Hurrah for Senator Martin Saxe, chusetts State census, 1s conducting an investiga- tion into the problem of race suicide, which he de- clares is due rather to the bachelors who refuse to uarry than to the small families of those who do. It seems to me the fault. if it be a fault, lies more with the bachelor women who refuse marriage, or, as- suming ft, shirk {ts responsibilities, C aime FELTON PIDGIN, in charge of the Massa- or elevated car, they being one and the same, simply conveyances for the travel- jing public. And under these conditions it would be litue short of absolute rude- ness on my part to take any notice of my nelghoor whatsoever. “uniess,” of course, I could be of assistance, wien I would ‘Immediately remove my ‘hat. A A Seoond and Thira Avenue Beer. | To the Editor of The Kvening World: Why can't something be done to put @ stop tw the making and selling of tho vile and poisonous stuff they call beer, especially waat you get in the can or Pitcher when you want a sucial glass hore or less unconscious attitude, and that every year will most certainly add to the number of women who re- fuse to bear a burden they do not themselves choose. If a woman marries a man she loves {t {s her duty to have children, feithor ef the Ant-Tipping bill, Hence ta Seek tet vo, the Howe. it is| though in her mind the word duty, never associates {tself with what ts the| forth his name will be a byword among) 2.7 QuKh Rstfaasee ea fs das the elags fulfilment of her highest and holiest aspirations. i grafters and will be honored by alll sell by ‘the in the bee eke ee But to make the duty imperative she will have to te allowed free, abso-| peneet msn: iNew. York: is) the moat | eee ae yeahh and etleth Jute choice of her husabnd. And that present social conditions render im- rraft-ridden ctty in the world, and it| fe aels aid Second and Third avenues 1M RC. possible. In other words, the solution of the race suicide problem lies in an affirmative answer to that old ang humorously discussed question, “Shall Women Propose?” Braving the instant assumption of the masculine reader that I am a dis- appointed old maid, I will say that ethically woman has every right to pro- pose and every right to refuse the burden of childbirth so long as she can- was high time a check was placed on such dishonesty. P, BANKS. That Elevator Question. To the Editor of the Evening World: I ave always considered myself and expect to remain “a gentleman,” yet I ver remove my hat when in the ele- vator of an office building or pubilo Concetted Man. To the Editor na World Why !s {t that @ girl can't extend the is. becomin, Jnsultingly w Many a time 1 have t (b vaue st because th ork and rer that ‘lone ik ds, only T was The Perpetual Infant and the Census—by Nixola Greeley-Smith Furthermore, 1 believe they are justified in their shrink from it and decline to use it. So would the Chinese woman whi feet were suddenly unbound be unable to walk. But it nevertheless belongs to her and she will gradually emancipate herself trom the swaddling clothes | of convention in which man has condemned her to live, a Perpetual Infant, and eventually employ it. So long as the only voice permitted a woman in the supreme question of her life ts one of passive negation she must not be blamed for using her veto power at the expense of the race by remaining single or becoming a childless wife. Doubtless {t 1s often idleness and selfishness that induces this refusal now. But she will ultimately have a better reason if'a wider liberty in the selection of the father of her children is not insured to her. In novels we marry and live happily ever after. In life we miss our {deals by ten minutes or ten years, and if we belong to the great majority that compromise with fate we marry just the same. But we do it on our terms and {f our ideas clash with the census-maker’a, our shackles and hot ourselves are to blame. According to the prevailing masculine Idea, the whole duty @ Woman is to jump through a wedging ring, like a circus pey- former, and she can’t even choose who shall hold the ring. Of course, she doesn’t object to the ring, but unless she can choose the holder she has the best right in the world to refuse the leap, And alfowing her to say yes or no to a few volunteers that she may not want does not | Ts wheels of preparation are buzzing at the Manhattan Theatre, where re- solve the problem. There is a generation of women growing up who are coming to under- stand this, and when they do get it thoroughly in their héads the oénsus- |makers may have more cause to sharpga their pencils and their wits. store for the same reason that I do not {i seve ari he Me gor At least wanted not choose the father. grow more con 5 femove my hat upon entering a trolley) cited every day. VERA M To be sure, if the right were to be suddenly bestowed upon her she would The Story of a [ \ ? , Young Girl’s Heart. 4 TED RUSS/AN situated, for th 1 RAN ERMAN fi Hen NSTEIN) ee ae a, for the wretched service ‘ RMAN BERN n the office of @ certain Governor in i me i-by."" Andrusia a ilttle child, , He loved me sincerely, honestly. And I also wept. Andrusha consoled f me, Saying that hia love for me would } last a life ot to speak of the two i promised loves her. Late: finoy, tli, her ltt and “tearns arated, oa eaure ‘actress, Helene=1004 SP Manet unchanged Jove, oes ts Tea ianoteainiies of ie ‘a divorce, Maria's brother! comes very iil. et for our | —_.—_ Ve ing’—1 ¢ Andrusha CHAPTER | What a shock! © © © Yegor tyich Old Love and New. }has willed everything to Bobka; tn jcaze of his death t Jeverything goes to J ay. |r not at a his mafority ha. Katya's oned in the Dec. GOR ILYICH has passed awi < Grandma received a letter from Wii so that according to t w she ‘ Fo ‘ ty eg } Katya, in which she describes her & only the widow's sha is, fe alii ji hi ¥ husband's death. jshe Bets back her own dowry! °° © Cy) \ Hi With the death of Yegor Ilyich, An-| Katya begs me to come to Malinoy- mT WH} Hn q @rusha's exile ends before the fixed pe-|ka. She wants to consult me with ref- WA Mit i lk ‘ riod, He will come back, and’sdon at|¢rence to her mourning costume and Wh I) ii that, © * © In the end I shall ba avout Something else. I am going. \ Hy} | obliged to tell him frankly that 1 am Malinovka, Jan. 19, | 4 - / 4 no longer free, How will that be?) Adam Adamovich Pshikskoysky—that | } When? * * Hut, then, many a thing /is the name of Katya's doctor, Oy, may happen until I see Andrusha! * * It tw better not to think now of the ‘future; tt 1s enough when I think of the past! How many toars I shed on how I dislike him, in spite of his ni little mouth and hia eyes which lov! me-nots. He 4s a poisonous |apider in the form of an innocent lady “You! You traitress, you hypocrite, you apostate!” i@ account! * * * 1 am very mush afrad thay! At heme I found » letter trom Yury éruaia, eb, 2, It was not out of Joy that I myself {se already entangled in hs cob- (i. cig tender, but ve y aad, What) Katya has come like snow Upon our extoried Andrusha's consent to part| web, made of sweet words which leave ,.” ‘ ens T \nexpected arrival fore- fs the matter with Lim’ 4 r vague with me for two yea) was demanded from us by grandma and Yegor Uyich She demanded it from me, and Yogor liyich from his V!"" bodes no good, Bhe ts contriving agme- © Ml thing. Tt is not in vain that she took (hat At= loft her mourning vail, havin “tt, 5 don't know What) nviead of salx month t 1 know that I am) af: her Husband's d ach, thing, ¢ * Andru-| y wo it is! © * Ht wee I who forced Andrusha, with |shy I could not stay there any longer. aba will understand everything and to get married. Mme. my tears, to give up & splendid posl-|I feel ashamed for my sister, and tj will forgive everything—he ioyes me, Mon & the province, where his estate the sume time I feel worry for her, * *) And 1 love Yury ae 1 never joved An- ouae coon cmee eT @ bitter taste in the mouth, 1 must cave my sister! to his le » bur it Seema that ne is afrald that 1 No, Jan. 22. I left Malinovka; after Katya began to be Jealous of me and of Pshikskoy- drusha * ° 8 Pshikskow Way fs this alone worth? #ky! tam in despair * * I am dire if despair! © * 1 have had many scenes with gra on account of Andrusha, but all taken together ure as nothing In com- parigon with the ecene between Katya and grandma on account of Pehikakov- sky, What other? ‘You want my consent to your mar- Flage to a Pole, @ Catholic! You my | walked "an crandehild, my dauxhter's daughter! 1 ‘as if there were would rather lose my arm, my right |the house. Grandi i Rg ho “one ‘and with which I christened yout’ |{00", £08 sites aa) F Donna Semrono cried krandma, in « choking voieg. iho wont about with @ red, are & hypocrite!” replied Katya, Pe grarperertec eral pag Wag, pot vet ont of hed. when and solemn aif | The end was that grandma fainted ay, und Katya became hysterical. us without bidding any one Feb, Re Vor three 948 6 Ainitaera Spe have not maid to each hot, crite! hed . 81) 1905. ust jim, and Ould Y OF tho Thecitres Hippodrome Reopens. H™= hore It Is again—the show that makes every other show look like @ sideshow, Smothered in a patriotio goulash of American, Jap and Russiangtiags, « weture of Prealdent Roosevelt looked pleasantly down on the reopening of the Hippodrome last night, while a blockful of people cheered the Hthographed peace- maker and took the kinks out of thelr lege as Conductor Klein put the British» coated orchestra through one of our many-disputed national anthems. This time the Man-Behind-the-Pass could content his soul in the Portsmoutt product, and not worry about a description, that job having been successfully cove ered some months ago by Mr. James Huneker, There was nothing to do but mie and enjoy the greatest show on earth. Except for a few new features, the Hippodrome is just as we left tt when we started off on our summer vacations. The average New Yorker is 80 glad to back that he could hug a Jamp-post, and the Hippodrome comes under the same affeatior head. The Yankee Circus and the Yankee War continue to make up the bt of the big show, but there are several new acts, Meyelists te the Cottrels turn two horses’ backs into a school (f astounding acrob: Mile. Theresa Rentz and her snowy steed are a stun- ning study tn white, and a band of Filipiros play benevolently assimilated airs cn various musical instruments. But, a before, that exquisitely beautiful bullet, “The Dance of the Hours,” 's the Hippodrome’s crowning glory. * er part The Kaufmann troupe of women F everybody whose family name appears in a novel or a play were to object to I the use of it In that conneotion, there would be no eng of trouble for authors, But doubtless few persona are so unhappy in that oolncidenc Kise girls. A single ne in “York State Folks.” now at the Majestic, caused all the trouble. Says the old organtet, Myron Coope: ¢ been over fixing tha Hotohkias girle’ organ, and I guess if there was any nows I'd have heard It over there.” Mrs. Eleanor Sidman, whose husband wrote “York State Folks" shortly be- fore his death, and who is well known in certain towns up-State, has recelved the following letter: “Dear Madam—A local correspondent of the Binghamton Press has practically Smeerted that the ‘Hotchkiss giris' of your play were my sister and myself. We do not for a moment suppose that he had any authority for his statement, being confident that Mr. Sidman would not have taken such a liberty, even If the ab surdity of putting us in that connection had not prepented. Notwitheanding nl this, we have been eo seriously annoyed as result of this stupid report that we make an earnest request that you change or suppress the name ‘Hotchkjss’ !n the play. We shall be very grateful to you for this kindness, Very truly yours, “VIOLA P. HOTCHKISS.” the Hotch- Homer, N. ¥., Aug. 22, 1905, “BX GOLLY!” remarked Mr, “Joe” Weber, sriking a rich but simple pose in front of his music hall, “I'm anxious about that Charlie Bigelow. The other day he comes into my dressing-room end he says, ‘Joe,’ he says, ‘U'm worried about this airship busines: “Let the fellow in it do the worrying,’ I says. “But s'pose criminals get using airships, how are we going to catch ‘em?’ he squeaks. “ ‘Charlie, I says, ‘you're a comedian, not a detective.’ “That's all right about my not being a detective,’ he says, ‘but I can't help thinking, even if I am a comedian, suppose a criminal makes his escape through the alr, how are you going to trace him? “He quit raving for a moment, then he said with a sigh of relief: “ “They train bloodhounds to track criminals, and maybe, after a while, they'll train bloodp!geons to do the same thing.” “It's not so bad™as long ae we're in town," ruminated Mr. Weber, ‘but what if he should get violent when we are on the road!" hearsals of Edith Ellis Baker's comedy, “Mary and John," are under way, Both John Mason and William B. Mack will bo In the cast when the pi opens the Manhattan's season on Sept. 11, but they will return to “Lean Kieschna’ when Mrs. Fiske begins her tour in Baltimore on Oct. 2, Mr. Mack will have a “character part,” the sixth, by the way, that he will have played at that theatre within a year. Charles Cartwright Is to remain in England and Frederic de Belleville will succeed him in the part of Klesciina, eo 8 © © 2 oe © © © 2 T= tell this one on a young man in ‘The Other Girl" company: His sweet- NEW drink at the Hippodrome cafe has been christened ‘The Marceline.” ‘Two of them are guarantecd to make a sincere drinker turn a some eault, heart In the play raised the objection that he kissed her too fervently, and the stage manager advised him to tone down the warm salute. “Well,” was his reply, “I'll tone 1t down !f you say go, but I'll give you to understand that I get two mash notes a day on that kiss.” . to Charles Frohman yesterday. If we were all George Ades there would be no occasion for that question, “Does a College Education Pay CHARLES DAINTON, “| UST Out of College’ is the title of a new play which George Ade delivered Out of the Mouths of Babes. AROLD hed been tn the country for two weeks, and upon his return his lttle sister asked if he had said his prayers every night. “Net once," he replied, “I just had a sure-enough vacation.” . ee Isabel, of Boston, was spending a few weeks with her cousin Bessie in the country, - “Let's go in the pantry and get some cake," sald Bessie one day. “For pity's sake, don’t say pantry any more," sald Isabel; ‘way trousery.” Teacher (to new pup!l)—Do you know anything about drawing, Tommy? Tommy—Yes, me‘am, : Teacher—What can you draw? Tommy—My breath, ma'am. oe ¢ “Now, Johnny," sala the Sunday-sohool teacher, ‘can you tell me what a hypoorite 1s?” “Yes, ma'am.” answered Johnny. “A hypocrite is a boy that pretends to enjoy hearing the minister get off u long blessing at the dinner table when he’s nearly starved." # SISTER OF THE «se yt By hin gaa PEACE ENVOY but one grandchild and ur gister is dead tg blotted out of is his sole heir. * *" Katya bears her misfortune much’,more calmness than one and should expect of hes. Her misfortuna may be compared to * thunder-cloud, whlch stare noisily ‘and with would my T said nothing in’ rely y. Feb. 23. ea Yury keep on writing tome My goul is burning as it is, ida ail to the fire. jcrelther I. nor anybody elae can keen cata from committing this” sloagal Why does all this and hi oul joy ant only smiled foolishly. and distractedly in reply to” his questions Rbich I heard, without understandtn on the contrary, seemed nna, I was unable to my grief when we "te ¢ concealed “his Joy at mest? fg 8, fortunately for mi the cloud approaching, “Andrusha ts comlr Furey ia allent, he watches me closely, And seems to be waiting for something trom me, July 46. the most unl tunaie tra Ufirtingte (Saye, at least “he moat ui fost fait Unpleasant day's "At Gay been we Hamat | etfn “Andetaha,”s sine tie naleeren ov! to-day, Bianen imanle soimewnern did not a i le word to saat nef a4, lumeto tim i ttonieal threateningly, but melts into rain, Katya sobbed and wept and—calmed down. No, such people as Katya do not "Chabarey forever bustli ebarev is now ver bustling he lowes Pahikskovaky and | about neat Katya, treating her ae kane she will m nf ny ry him. witout § asking @er- gee his favorite sister, And she, too, Why he Is marrying Is kind to him aa rot! a “t oli certain that by “and ‘perhaps, '¢ « ne Were her brother arryin! ratvis he wante to become | 1 am going ‘bale: leaving Katye. But her son’ but let Yury try | she will not be alo: heoarey. vil pay to convince” eaten ‘of this, her frequent visits. He hi Katya came here yoaterday. “Ke ts Maliovia pf but sixtonn tifies trom very sick. He ts forever coughin, Yury'in'iéaving Paris, HH thing 18 heavy and painful, reat to ne estate “Lesiey, night iw ts. perapiring? and. feverish: Pdskhalin says that Bobka ts n'a dan: Ferous condition, that he has somethl hasty consumption, which devol- pad trons a neglected forte of branes: nant Katya does not suspect that her 1s so near death, "Radam ‘will be here goon.” whe con goled herself, ‘and 1 take our sick boy to there ne MW neers! at onde My Adam "wilt eon be here, my Sage), my happiness, ¢ 6 6 But instead which | sad now pected from Pariser ak fone letter, trom whic tel . not rea Pahtkekovats ter, but T think it will serve llowue to her B » waving that he would Ur: we if i} dinns me; bux, and ror) nr ia char a Pou! he con ter ste "he ots pi!