The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1905, Page 10

Home Magazine, The Fruits of Peace. “By J. Campbell Cory. No, 68 to G Park Row, New York | 3 Mall Matter. Eblishea by the Press Publishing Company Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ch: oe poe AR AEE RR RE. .NO, 16,08 LESSONS OF THE “L”" ACCIDENT. The serious accident on the h avenue “L’” will direct spublic Alicn 10 ¥ auestions cor ing the elevated railway Do they furnish a satisfactory form of transit for the city-under the | present conditions of higher speed? | "An accident of this nature is well nigh impossible on the easier irves of the Subway. And there the danger which is ever present on the .elevated, that in the event of derailment the train may be dashed to the street, is lacking. ¥ (The accident serves, indeed, to call attention anew tothe greater) P Beneral safety of the underground lines, .\s they are not exposed io ‘weather influences they are not subject to the risks involved in an ice-/ covered third rail. The liability to rear-end collisions due to slippery) rails is absent. In spite of 1 ‘h transit under shut-in | conditions may arouse in the Subway passenger, his percentage of safety is higher than that enjoyed by the “L” passenger. | The elevated lines were constructed to meei transit demands far | Yess urgent than those which now confront the Interborough manage-| ment. In their original form they were designed to transport relatively small trainloads in light cars with “pony” engines at a low rate of speed. They have been strengthened to sa ements and in some) places rebuilt, WELL GENTLEMEN \F YOu apprehensions wh ( But it has not always been feasible to change the radlus of curves whith were intended for a slower traffic and in which any element of danger must lurk. A careless motorman or a defective motor is a possi- bili Of risk always to be reckoned with at a curve. The “L's” freedom from disaster in the past is no guarantee of immunity for the future, as yesterday ident too plainly show — —— ji i f i O i: i Ae ST pe Aare = To considerations of unsightliness and of noise that of security as SSNS N z é (OGL TL Lire ZZ PITTI nearly absolute as is procurable must be added toward establish & ? proposition that under no condition can there be any new elev: I ture to disfigure the city, and that when the system of underground com- munication has been adequately developed the question of abolishing the overhead lines will be seriously entertained. From the present outlook that date is remote. Wii way almost a year in operat er public line is under way. Al- though bids for new lines will be received by the Rapid Transit Comm! sion this month, it is unlikely that any contract can be let before next spring. Thus with nineteen subways planned, only under the North River} at Christopher street, an outside enterprise, has progressed to a point where| an approximate date can be set for its openii The north and south] lines, the really vital lines of relief, are indefinitely promised for five years} hence. As threatening yet further delay legal obstacles growing out of the questioned constitutionality of the law conferring-on the Board of Esti- mate the power to grant franchises will be interposed. The protraction of work on the original Subway, which has not yet reached Fort George on Fe the north or Brooklyn to the south, dees not tend to make the outlook any q BE more hopeful ‘How Witnesses Err ° The chances on the contrary seem good for the endurance hy the city Din nicrom he rcradiency oritielpatholeric | for years to come of transit discomforts by comparison with which those A are inclined to falsehood without ri which the first subway was vainly expected to relieve were insignificant. ae ous expert @ well-known fact that than dn height, ? | w Letters from the People, *\.e" night we see them us. Fear and s r urageous mi! a nundred bodies wedge ee Bo & Me (the He told by those who reached by criminal anthropology, one day had a homicide with dagger thrusts on) it 1s Necessary to remember that/cnacted unexpectedly in school by ¢wo students. Immediately after he assemble! to error through !naccurate observation, Prof. castle his pupils who had witnessed this sham tragedy and made them give eviden: ne is quoted as saying, by the Chicago News. Itjes if in court. Of sixty eye: jtnesses of the me age, and all of them well edu- re divided horizontally appears greater in breadth | cated, scarcely ten gave really accurate evidence. All the rest fell into more or ra greater in height than In| less errors of detail. More recently Weber ‘has related hia experience with the smaller and thinner than when | members of the Soclety of Legal Paychology at Gottingen. Weber requested from objects sudden on us on a dark, each of them a written statement of a sham crime perpetrated under their very eordinarily, The causes of psychological error! eyes, Over half their number gave inexact Information, while many of them gave tercept sensations and falsify them. An ordl-|!maginary details and agreed about the affair only on general Lines. ed in a railw. nash, declared that he had seen | Where the Earth Was Weighed. riages. As a matter of fact, there was] | only one, On m anovher man ran away, imagining that he could| hear the 4 a him for three-quarters of an hour. A criminal 2 | ONP! arance 18 e named Gusio threw hi spon his warder and the warder took to his heels in pu NE ae a aoe nits atte re Deen sndar the Bim hat he sa > in the prisoner's hand ah avendis! se, standil eporiana | the bellef that he saw n knife in the prisoner's hand; in reality {t was a fieh Se ree ee. ctieen lGanesrehat’ iF Toul Gee lbaeae se ‘The image of a moving object { total of « series of images of partial] :caaay bat within ita walla one of the| make way for modem Nastsshirdaig tages are percelved only by one set of persons: oth-| nogt remarkable feats of science was| The house has been refronted and ad: | accomplisl.ed. It was there that Henry ditions to it have been made sinc Cavendish, son of Lord Charles Caven-| Cavendish’s time. In his day only a A Discouraged Brooklynite. sin would soon have been as badly ‘Fo the Editor of The Evening World: whipped as was China, and it 19 not ;, ThouRh the bridge service of the fair that Japan should have been com- I rooklyn Rapid Transit has improved | Pelled to accept such moderate terms, Y there % scarcely a morning that I rea F. PIBRCE. New York without « delay Voters a Chance to Nominate, [or another that prevents my red my office on time. There !s a block @very morning at some portion of the © route, and I am go discouraged at the f state of affairs that I have decided self the yi “Criminal Psychology" how, assisting gloves, he asked four others present of | at an execut Bumenve. to Manhattan. ge8 ‘ nye a Ree cole aie hed wees oltes MAetaee: Sreyees ey Ware dish and grandson of the second Duke| small part of It mse ivan, up to do: ; : 20 Wlat every vote: pack, a i was sure t ay, while ro. 01 t th Ee s meetic purposes; remainder was i Jotary: of Devonshire, first welghed the world purpo! 4 ¢ Japania v Ory: Should also be permitted to vote for the | wore no In a game of dominoes the player does not count the spots! this was in 1798, and the figures he ob-| 40 Observatory, surmounted by a large | Tote Raltor of The Fvening World: fox of candidates for thelr re-|cne by one, but, having t eyes a focused image, decides that there are| (ine there were wonderfully close to| vane, still in situ, Cavendish was an I think the Japs are quite right 10) gyo, tes and that would put an| seven or nine, as the case may But, supposing these images did not conform) ;20\0 .ow generally accepted. He es-| astronomer and chemist, aa well as grumbling over the peace terms, This ¢ le forey 10 @ typo, the player would be obliged to ascertain carefully each time before Spal Saint apa) phymicie indeed, timated the weight of the earth to be| he was one of the world's greatest 5.40 tlmes that of a globe of water of| Chemists, although he “buried his sclence and his wealth in solitude,” the same elze—the accepted figure now) his cousin, a later Duke of Devonshire, $s 6.50, wrote of him. Be fs tho second time they have licked a] | a give any fit man a chance| making his total, and he would still be Hable to make mistakes, Something like mation many times their size and vecn| fo Sikelae et B88 check | ents happens in all our perceptions. \to dishonest officials when Ing T G. Fu Prof. Lutz, who has applied to jurisprudence #o many of the conclusions @espotled of the fruits of victory. Rus-' nomination. GHE FVRCGHER. HISGORY OF ss »# Bouosday Evoning, September 12, 1905. Pt : P yi: IN “4 Mashers Here and Everywhere. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ; a er rs be SEE sald a New York man, “that the City Cou iL I of Houston, Tex., has passed a law making it a misdemeanor for any male person to make g00-g00 eyes at or whistle or cough at or do anything 4 else to attract the attention of women, What horribly a crud® methods of malting love they must have down there!" “You think so?” queried the gil to whom he spoke. } INSISTS “Those methods sound. pretty familiar to me. They : flourish right here in New York, and it would be a good thing 1f our City Fathers would follow the example of the Houston Council and make street ‘mashing’ a mis- demeanor. “On my way home from the cars I have to pass an automobile garage in the basement of a large apartment-house, I havo 3 “ discovered that no girl can go by there without.a series of loud, unnatural coughs attracting her attention and a large-sized leer waiting at each of the windows {f she happens to look down in the direction of the cough. “Coming to my office in the morning,” she continued, “I receive on an average of three unmistakable winks from strect railway switchmen, for L » always sit on the front platform to practise my deep breathing exercises, $ and am therefore the most convenient recipient of these attentions when the car stops to allow them to do their work. In the ‘elevated’ there are actually mashers who have nerve enough to keep their seats and cough ; \ from behind their papers to attract the attention of a girl swinging to straps In front of them. “Of course, a man doesn’t know a ‘masher’s’ cough from any other kind, But I'll tell you this: If all the men who cough to attract the attention of women really had something the matter with their throats or lungs, Coloradg Springs wouldn't be in it with a New York City block.” The New York man who had hazarded the remark anent Houston’s crude methods of love making looked dazed, particularly when two other young women immediately confirmed this testimonial to the New York masher’s superior crudeness. 1 There is not the Slightest doubt that they Are right. In all the cata- ri . logued practices of the Houstow masher set down in the City Council's ukase his New York prototype is so much his master as to make him look like thirty cents, Mexican. The masher 1s certainly the most noxious toadstool of what has been termed our mushroom civilization, And we may be sure he flourishes bet+ ter in New York City than in rank and semi-tropical Texas scil, Aero-Aquatic Navigation, ‘Be HE newest summer water sport, practised at several of the Northern lakes I and at the seashore, 1s tv attach a captive bailoon to the bow of a row- boat and to lot ihe balloon tow the boat st high specd before the wind. A ‘ steering oar and careful ballast secp the craft from upsetting, and the balloon ean be deflated by means of a vulve-siring connetting with the boat, Plain ‘Mister’ Out of Fashion. , N American journalist, returning) a handle to, his name. Thus we have f after an absence of some years Forecaster’) Jones, | "Undertaker® Abroad, comments upon the pro-| ST en Supers fuse application of titles which Is be-) ‘/Common cilman” Shucks and coming frequent in this country, sya) ‘Yylestman’ Bumps, and so on. the Boston Herald. The practice is es-| shall end by : sentially a modern one. Daniel Webster spect and cor upon those é : painfully minute — social ‘distinetiot Jn his Ifetime was never spoken of as) Wait minute social distinotions ‘ : “Senator” Webster, but always as plain| or women Ingcribe thelr names in hotel “Mr.” Webster. Nowadays, however,| registers with the addition of euch de- it 1s invariably “Senator” this and that;|Scriptive phrases as ‘cousin : to an and almost everybody has some Kind of | Ghrporain” °F “Prother-in-law' to, = Y H. RIDER HAGGARD 1904, in Great Britain and the eo by H. Rider Haggard.) WBYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Vincey and Horace Holly, two Bos: mm, start for an unkno re ed by 1e0. She had clalined te. (000 years old and to have loved She had seem, t Nand ‘Holly gourney thither ao avalanche | bout knoll ‘on a threatens to engulf them. | CHAPTER VII. The Glacier, D the turmoil of it all! Tho Ing of the blast caused the compression of the air, iting thudding of the wal! of | endured it all and were still alive! yes, ‘of tons of snow as they ‘through space and ended their Ap the gulf, “this the worst of it, for as “wiows above thinned, great mar had been buried be- perhaps for centuries, were thelr resting places and down the hill, hurtled over and pa fell upon the little tte crest ahd bursting ran HA: ¢& In front of us the mountain side, for) @ depth of about two miles, by the width of one or more, which had been covered by many feet of snow, was now bare! rock, Piled up against the face of our hill, almost to its summit, was a tongue of snow, Sressed to the con- sistency of ice and spotted over with boulders that had lodged there. The beak itself was torn and shattered, #0 it revealed great gleaming surfaces ad pits, in which glittered mica or some other metal. ‘The vast gulf be- ‘ind was haif filled with the avalanche and Its debris, But for the rest, It seemed as though nothing had happened, for the sun shone sweetly overhead and the solemn snows reflected back {ts rays from the sides of @ hundred hills, And we had j and unburt, But what @ positon was ours! We dared not attempt to descend the mount Jest we should sink into the loose anow Und be buried there, More- over, all along the breadth of the path 0! the avalanche boulders from time to me stil thundered down the rocky slope, and with them came patches of snow that had been left behind by the big ‘slide, small in themselves, it is true. which flea tut each of them larg 4% hundred men. Hine tnd She-Who-M ust-Be-Oveyed. Author of “‘She,”’ ‘‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘‘King hide In two bundles and, having cut off some more of the frozen meat, bexap our descent, All went well until we were within twenty paces of the bottom, when we must cross a soft mound formed of the powdery dust thrown off by the ava- lanche in its passage. Leo slipped over safely, but I, following a yard or two to his right, of a sudden felt the hard crust yield beneath me, An Ml-fudged but quite natural flounder and wrigele. such as a nowly landed flat-fish gives upon the sand, completed the mischief, and with one piercing but swiftly stifled yell I vanished, Any one who has ever water will know that the not pleasant, but I can assure him that to go through the same experience in soft snow Is infinitely worse: mud alone could surpagy its terrors, Down I wo! and down, till at length I seemed to resch @ rook, which alone saved me frem disappearing forever. Now I felt |* the snow closing above me and with it pee darkness and @ sense of suffoca- jon, Bo soft was the drift, however. that before I was overcome I contrived with my arma.to thrust away the powder# dunt trom about my head, thus forming | 9 ao little w into which alr filtered slowly, Getting my tands upon the Solomon's Mines,’’ etc. Speak, man, and say where thou hast hid my lord—or die.” The vision was extraordinarily real and vivid, T remember, and, considered in connection with a certain’ subsequent as it came, 3 eft me. w light again. I heart a vole, he, cried, ‘*Horac tto the stock of the guns Noe ingly, and tifnkinig mes i drow up my logs ad by thin! a legs anc chance or the meroy of Heavety, I know hot which, ot my feet against @ ri the rock on which | was lying. i night," t's audden the #now gave, ai i that hole 1 shot like's fox thom its earth, I struck something, It was Leo strains gun, and I kn edge of the prec . leat up. inthe ir with Kreat wasps, and ont how weet It was “How long was I in there?’ Leo, wh: tat my side the ‘swent that fun from. his ci ams, Dowt know,, About twenty minuipe, ‘Twenty minutes! seomed like twenty centuries. | How aid vou get, ine uit? You could not stand upon the drist ped ies “No; pany wey kin whel thi io wns araers ani tunnelied ioe Baie you. sow h Pt. powdery at A my hands. for w Bhat fener whe anger tibet ehey ‘blue that for a few seconds 1 too Fhe let ii it st the Dutt 10 1 rain em. iy na a to oath, oe of i it could ‘never er "Thank you, old fellow,” I said