The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1905, Page 14

The Evening World’s Home M |Cory’s Aq cre G Satins Aa @udlished by the Press Pudiishing © Entered at the Post-ome apany, No, 63 to @& Park Kow, New Tork w York as Scoond-Class Mall Matter, ut ~~ ory See RTOS Koh / New York is at present wit the rights of property-hv the city has long been familiar. Grand street, where Metropolitan is preparing to instal an electric line, nas been rendered well-nigh impassable. With the gutters heaped high with dirt, the old horse cars gone and the new service in the indetinite future, the merchants get no answer to their appeals for relief. It is only in New York that the unique sight can be seen of dealers combining to) avert the threatened ruin of their business by a traction company. Lenox avenue, unpaved after months of delay, remains in the un- sightly and dangerous condition in which the Subway contractors left It. “From One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to One Hundred and Forty-ninth street are hills and hollows that are not only an eyesore but a menace to life.” After almost a year of wrangling over the question of the responsibility for repaving the avenue contracts have not yet been let. The devastation and long-ensuing neglect of the city streets is an old story. It has been witnessed in Elm street, in Forty-second, on upper Broadway, in Joralemon, on Park avenue, in Park Row, at the Manhattan Bridge approach within recent times and with varying degrees of chaos. In the general upheaval which attended the construction of the Sub- way it had some excuse of necessity, though the bankruptcy of Broadway and Forty-second street merchants, which was one of its consequences, was one of the most extraordinary episodes in municipal history. But for the customary attitude of disregard for private rights In con- struction work involving the tearing up or repairing of streets there can be no such excuse. Once the steam drill enters a street, must the shop- keeper retire behind the barricade of dirt and debris and submit to the in- evitable? | The facts justify the question. The evidence is all too abundant of a settled conviction in contractors, whether engaged on corporation or city work, that the streets are theirs to occupy at their leisure to the interference with traffic and the inconvenience and monetary loss of property-holders. Along with this unchecked right of way of the steam drill there is tolerated an abuse of the dynamite cartridge everywhere on excavation work throughout the city which should be restrained. The great amount of building going on has necessitated an unexam- pled employment of dynamite. Its perils in bulk the Park avenue explo- sion showed. To its further dangers to life and property the daily clronicle of the news bears witness. As a result of its careless use passing trolley cars have been bom-| barded with flying stones, children injured while in bed and bullding foun- dations unsettled to an extent threatening their collapse. Yet there is no recollection of careless contractors in jail or of a concerted effort to hold them to a strict accountability. { As appropriate emblems for New York's coat-of-arms a steam drill rampant and an exploding dynamite charge might be suggested. They fittingly typify the building progress which Is the marvel of the world, | But to give the designs completeness there should be represented with them’a pedestrian prostrate and a shopkeeper immured in a dirt heap, s to two examples of that contempt for ers in the matter of street ripping with which ance grafters bask. Politicians are b citing tho hook with e fat office for agazine, Friday Evening, syndicate and combine secrets. Paet performances, bursting the Gas Ring bubble, SeptembBe: a ee i hl Queer Fish I Have Known npbell Cory. tae lore. Feeds on Now troubling the soft and shady waters in which insur him, # Letters from the People, # inJustioe, but I have @ famfly myself and am not any too robust, and it ts a constamt source of worry to me. You Will Have to Be Naturalized. To the BAitor of The Bvening Work: I was seventeen years of age when I ERHAPS the most startling fect of the day in connection with medtomt came to this country with my father.| xo id) ©) education,” said Dr. G, C. Franklin to the British Medical Assocta He was naturalized when I was :wenty- A Vacation by Artthmetic. “in the apparantly Inevitable development of the specialist, One might two, a few weeks ago. Do I have 0/7 the Editor of The Bvening World: de inclined to ask whether the genera! practitioner will, as such, continue to exist, take out my own papers or can I vo! work that are undertaken by the under my father's, being under age when I landed. SERGEANT WHITH. Ask for Another Desk. "To the Eiitor of The Evening World: I am employed in an office wher “You expeot me to give you two weeks’ | Specialt. Thus there avere not only special men for che eye, ear, spine, skin pay for no work; yet you would refuse| and throat, but for almort every organ in the body. |i I asked you'to work two weeks for; ‘Two main reasons might oe assigned for thts state of things—firstly, the j@o pay.” But perhaps that man dogs! stvere competition which awaits a well-qualified man when he ‘s about to start | Work many hours overtime for his em. @m practios; and. secondly, the demand of the pubife, The public did not delieve | ‘The employer says to the employee| When one contemplates subdivisions \ there sits at the eame desk a man who exhibits every indication of having con- sumption. Not only {s Gis ovnstant coughing amd spitting annoying to me, but I feel that my own life 1s endan- gered by being obliged to work so near him, There are ten people in the room, and they all sbare the same opinion. He 1s a merried man with a family io) support, end I would not do him an ployer, his employer having no knowl- edge of it. The average man starts to work ten minutes before scheduled time, starts to work after his lunch about five minutes ahead of time, and works about ten minutes after quite time; that will be twenty-flve minutes overtime in lay or two and one half hours in the week, which equals about 190 ‘hours’ overtime in the year, oyer, what have you to fea 6° "Ww, YESHA: 1904, in Great Britain end the Cop a ae by A. Rider Hameare) 6YNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Leo Vincey and Horace Holly, two Bng- Mehmen, start for an unknown country, ne gees nape women Mao, man in Africa, eo had loved olaimod ty G00 “Years old and to fave loved have ¥ Leo former incarnation. She had seen Heo JO brisieds but Leo. in a vision te told that she stl lives and is waiting for him in Moet inountalng. As oy thither an avelanche ‘whion ‘they are ult ther. after hi nee ee from ft tty thelr id an ol8 man rerove one tee they BREN "are carried t hurts are CHAPTER X. A Strange Woman. CAN reoollect that yellow-faced ol gunrdian manding over me like @ ghost in the moonlig’t, stroking his Joug beant, bls eyes fixed upon my face, “as though ihe would search out the ae So pedeteg ‘are the men," he muttered to without dove they are the then walked io the window and some smothered words before she tuned round to the guardian, as though to) question him further. But he had gone, and, being alone, for she thought me senseless, she drew a rough stool to the side of the bed, "and on with an earuestness that was almost centrated in ber eyes, and to find expres- sion through them. Long ehe gazed thus, | hands now to her bosom and now to her stamped upon her face, as though she | struggled to remember womething and could net, “Where acd whent” she whispered. “Oh! where and when?’ Of the end of that scene I know nothing, for although I fought hard against it, obHvion mastered me After this I became aware that the regal- jooking woman called Khania was al- whys in the room, and that she esemed to be nursing Leo with great care and tenderness, Sometimes even she nursed me when Leo did not need attention, and she had nothing elae to do, cr so her manner seemed to suggest. It was as though I excited her curiosity, and she wished me to recover that tt might be eatiefled. Again L awoke, how long after I can; not say. It was night, and the room was Ughted by the moon only, pow shining in & clear sky, Ite steady rays entering at the ‘window place fel) on. Leo's bed, and by them 1 saw that the dark, imperial woman was watching at ‘his wide. Bome sense of her pi must heve communicated tteelf ¢o him, he began (q mutter tn sleep. “English, now in Arabic, She beqame GHE FVR_GHER. HISGORY OF She-Who-M Bf seating herself studied him who ‘ay there | terrible, for ber soul seemed to be con-| then rose and began to walk swiftly up| and down the chamber, pressing her! brow, @ certain passionate perplexity | } |doube. fm universalism es applied to the practice of medicine, but they pinned their faith to some mpecialist who had teken up some purticuiar allment or ongan of the body. | “a nealthy specialism has been Gsvortbed of treatment, the study of a special doma gradual growvh, m the varied experien practitioner. Something like this fies always existed in medicine, greatly (o tts adviniage, and ts very different from the specialism of what I have heard described as the ‘mushroom growth’ veriety, where chlcanery and humbug reign triumphent, “There can be no doubt that honest specialism has atvanoed the sciences and the practice of a special branch nowledge of ea natural and s & ber, surely there would be no room for Back she went again to the bed, The Specialist in Medicine, .£ . .% A Warning to the Public, art of both medicine and surgery, perticularly during the last thirty or forty years, but as bes often been observed in many ocher lines of human @ouvity, Subdivisions of labor, while advancing the best interests of the people at large, mave great disadvantages for those engeged in the work. There is then tue anger that this modern development of spectelism may tend to produce a nar- Tower type of medical men, who, like the mechanies, wil) only know their own department of work, end be unable to understand properly the relations of | special portions of the field of medicine to others, er to the system at large. ‘From my expertence of practice and patients I make bold to declare that the public might derive more help and benefit than they do if they knew whet | to have and whet to avold in the way of specialism. Now, here fs the oppor- tunity, and a well Gefined duty, for the well-educated practitioner. He will sce to tt that his patient shall not, if he can help it, patronize the false specialist, legally qualified or not, Before loaving this subject I may take te opportunity to express my regret that nothing seems to be able to be don’ to check the advertising spectalist—enterprising advertisers who olmim to oure diseases with- out seeing the patients, who claim to do, In fact, whut 1s impossible of ab- complisnment, and who ose the dally press, religious and magazine publications [for fraudulent purooses—tor that 1s what ft amounts to.” f rd uSt-Be-Obeyed. * Man..as..a..Meal. Ticket.- by Nixola Greeley-smith. DEAR MISS GREELEY-SMITH: OW ahall a man who makes $20 or $35 per week tt H among the other sex ew York and at tho sir other Uving expenses hen T came here from the South lonely, and finding that it !s hard for a man to live to himaalf I sought the acquata soveral stenogrators and office working wirls, thinking that women in thetr olreumstances would be content with 8 SL seat In the Broadway theatres and would be willing to omit the afier- theatre supper at a fashionable rostaurant Was I mistaken? Well, T guess, yes. I found that these girls oxpected all that a real goctety girl would expect, and in some cases more ‘This ts just the thing that hoa made many men quit taking ets ee? Mt ts the Uttar unreamonableners of the giris. And if I cannot afford it of $3 per week how must It affect the average young man on $20? JACK. HE problem presented in this very interesting letter was once fors mulated by Rudyard Kipling. “In America,” ho said, “the mil Monaine’s daughter may look down on the green grooer’s daughter, ) but the green grocer’s daughter doesn't look up to her.” 7 No matter how poor an Americnn girl may be, she has an innate cone | Viction that there fs nothing too good for her, and, as the New York stand= |ard 1s admittedly altogether commercial, she doesn’t like to have that feel< ing ruffled by sitting in a $1 seat when there are others at $2. Doubtless she is wrong. We are all wrong who pay more rent tha | we can afford and wear better clothes than we can pay for and dine im | first-class restaurants with seoond-class pocketbooks, But it is the penalty we pay for living in a place where wealth wears its gaudiest and most | alluring guise and poverty its most frowning aspect. If a@ girl knows @ | man well enough to assume any knowledge of his affairs and if she likes | him sufficiently ehe may often voluntarily offer to minimize his expenses, | But the ordinary good-looking girl employed in a New York office has many, | opportunities of going out to a first-class theatre in a first-class way and |to a first-class restaurant afterward. And therefore she has to like am individual man very much to go with him any other way. These are none of them my own reasons. They were furnished byt | young women to whom I referred “Jnck’s” letter, which is, frankly, toa | much for me, } Theoretically, “Jack” seems to me to be entirely right. Ané from his | Statement of the case a man in New York has either to be a millionaire | or a hermit. | But it seems also entirely within the province of the young women to determine the grade of the entertainment they will accept. New Yorls girls expect too mueh from men. Thero are actually business women who declare that they regard a mere call from a man as an intrusion. “What right has a man to take up my time In the evening after I have been working hard all day?” asked one of them. “If he wants to take me out to dinner or the theatre and give me a good time I am willing to amuse him, | But as for sitting around home talking tl nearly midnight, why, r@ | rather go to sleep!” Tt is this frankly selfish view of man as a mere meal ticket—I suppose men know how many women thus refer to them—that is the barrier te | social intercourse between young women and men of moderate incomes, and incidentally to marriage. A man would much rather see a woman in the quiet domestic atmos- Yhere of her own home than in a theatre or a restaurant, and her sentir mental appeal to him is many times as potent. Young women should get the idea out of their heads that there fs # (price upon their society and cultivate a circle of men friends whom they are pleased to see in their homes end who in their turn will be glad ta entertain them whenever they can afford it. The solution of the theatre part of the problem ts not in go!ng more cheaply but less often. Odd Facts in Popular Science. R. KARL PHARBON thinks that not only ts the English national birth rate i declining, but thet the more brainy classes are falling behind proportion- 1 ately. He thinks the decline is true of the United States, too, He says, | according to the Chicago Nowe: “The birth rate of the abler und more intel. | lectual claeses in thie country is falling relatively to that of the poorer stocks, Atatistios are forthcoming and will be shortly published to shaw that the fanillow of the intellectual classes are smaller now, very sensibly smaller, than they wera in the same classes fifty years ago; that the eame sthtement ts true of tha ablew ‘and more capable working and artisan classes; but that as you go down in the octal grade the reduction in size of families te less mirked. This ds true not only of Great Britain, but of the United States and of some of our colonios.” | Oteus Magnus, bishop of Upmla, tells how a certain noble Englishman saw, on Aug. #7, 158%, “a dead beast of yust magnitude” which had been cast up on the shore at Teignmouth. It wes ninety feet long and twenty-five feet in thick« ness, and evidently a whale from the mention of {ts blowholes, and the fact thet instead of teeth ‘there grew to his palate above 1,000 plates of hora, latry cn one | eide." ‘The noble Englishmen noted that it had “three stomachs like vast caves, and thirty throats, whereof five were very great.” pineapple” and “love apple" (tomato) are instances of the manner in which the apple hes been habitually taken us the typtoal fruit, the name of which is naturaly borrowed in christening all sorte of fruit and vegetables that only re- motely resemble {t. Dr. Murrey’s dictionary gives an imposing lst of them— Jew's apple, devil's apple, kangaroo apple, and so on. A writer of the seventeenth, century speaks of “the fruit or apples of palm trees,” und a fourteenth century man eays that ‘all manere aples that ben closyd in en harde skynne, rynds, other shale, ben oallyd Nuoes” (nuts) Y H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of ‘‘She,’’ “‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘‘King Solomon’s Mines,”’ eto, ft when I sew you first there by the low, river, Stranger with tee well-remem-| “You tremble,” she waft; “have bered face, tell me, I pray you, how/|dreams haucted you?’ of you az namedr” “Ay, extend,” I answered, “Creams that fearsome precipice and of the last “Aught eles?’ @he asked, met’ be sald, heavily, and swemed to *ink again into slumber or swoon. ‘She wetohed nim for a while very in- tently ‘Then as thoueh some force that whe could not resist drew her I eaw ber bend down ner head over his sleeping face, Yes; and I saw her kiss bim) swiftly on the lps, then spring bavk crimson to the hair, as though over- whelmed with rhame at iis victory of r mad passion, Now it was that she discovered me Bewildered, fascinated, amazed, I tad raised myrelé up on my bed, not knowing it, | suppose that I might see and hear the better, It was wrong, doubtless, but no common curiosity Overmestered me, who had my part in lal this story. More, it was foolish, but illness and wonder had killed my rea- son. ‘Yes, che saw me watching them, and | hav auch tury seemed to take hold of her that I thought my ‘hour had come. “Minn, dave you dared?’-—— she sald a and by yourself, 0 from @nolent days!’ sie Then..I sighed end pretended swoon, for I could think of nothing to do. As I closed my eyes I saw face that had been red pale as eve, for my wor might He behind them had Moreover, she was in doubt, hear her fingering the hen dagger. Then she spoke aloud, | 20F, ay, mail it ais F i E 5 He i i 3 5 Fe a zit e | Kneeling down beside Leo, and in the intense silence that followed-—for he had his mutterings—I thought that I joould hear the beating of her heart Now she bewan to speak, very low and an gre fi u al lit low Mt th ths entt'y ewoon,