The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1905, Page 16

ee Pudlivned by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to 6 Park Row, New York, Bntered at the Post-OMoe at New York an VOLUME 46... ateee wees Beoond-Class Mall Matter, seseveee NO, 16,101, The Dynamite “Accident.” As the result of another “accl- dent” in the use of dynamite on contracting work, three men are dead and a dozen injured, Incidentally a great hotel was shaken to its foundattons, glasses broken in windows a block away and passers-by tmperilled, The explanation giver of the ex- plosion at Fifth avenue and Thirty- fourth street brings the blame of criminal carelessness close home. By whose neglect was the heavy charge of dynamite abandoned after it had been prepared for discharging weeks ago? By whose subsequent negilgence were the slaughtered workmen al- lowed to use drills at this danger point? It Is idle to say, as an official | is quoted as saying, that the accident “cannot be accounted for.” It is ace counted for, and some one should go to jall for It, The grave nature of this casualty, the place of Its occurrence and the aggravated circumstances should prompt an immediate reform of dyna- mite. abuses In building construction, It is due no less to the public than to the workmen whose Iives are ally endangered that recklessness should be checked. The fatalities from this cause in the course of a year make an ominous Ilst. The bom- bardment of the streets exhfbits an audacious contempt of public rights. ‘The deafening detonations and the masses of rock hurtling over the house- tops point to a use of the explosive in charges far beyond the limits of | teety ‘The Borough, Preskfent can remedy these abuses, Will he act? And Other “Accidents.” The New York Central has added “viaduct disaster” to “tunnel dis-| aster” as a phrase of dread in this city, Where the blame may rest for the collision which cost life and serl- ous injury at mined, The ening World's i} ne Hundred and Sixth street yesterday is still to be deter- | nagement cannot in any case divert its own share of the! responsibility for so long delaying the reconstruction of Its New York) terminals in harmony with modern railroading development, . The luckless Brooklyn Bridge was this morning the scene of a less serious smash which only the greatest good fortune prevented from tak- | ing life wholesale. If the Bridge Commissioner and the politicians re- sponsible for the mismanagement of ¢ cag *s for people to climb up into they he bridge are to go on building bird might at least build them with care to avold smashing the trains on the Great Shuttle Line If 2 discredited “leader” with an objectionable candidate can make the Legis- lature “knuckle down,” the bosses will begin to think Nov. 7 was not so blustering a day alter all, A Woman’s Tongue. The whole United States laughed at the news that a court {nfunction sod building and repaire and demoll- had been asked to restrain a Jersey City woman from coming to her hus-| band’s place of business and nagging him, It was a great joke, wasn’t it? | a ny in the trial was not quite so funny, Te: she demanded money for her support, but did not use abusive language. | In two months she had received $20 Married women do not usually to live upon. “hang around on pay-day” they enjoy it, but because it is a bitter necessity, The student of highest rank at Harvard gets a book from the college author!- tles as a reward of merit. What class office will he hold? Has scholarship profited him among his fellows as much as devotion to athletics would have done? Mr. McAdi room in front” crushes > wants a trolley car squad There is plenty nen re ees CUR 1905, by Little, Brown & cl + OUAPTERS. | (Copyright, CHAPTER XII. The Gun Fight. | HE crowd broke out Inughing, half-ready, I felt then, to take the weaker side against a cow: | T ard, The patrone was #0 6 great, bo much @ men, so helpless—death io his eyes, peace te smiling Mps; and the Ryans in furs and jewelry looked ‘ rs IT had stepped back againat the wall g the middle of the bar, t t was nd here Pete," said L "to see) yan broke lyon me, | he said, “we don't need » Chalkeye Davies to Judge our play You know me, all of you; you know my reourd, and what I've done for our city I've not asked you here, eltizens, to poo marder, or i of any but to witness an of justice by this Zonl Balshannon on himeeif.” The crowd kept still, remembering @at our leading citizen had acted t for our city and bad @ right to de heard, "Maw you shall datee 9 .cttieona” to chase pickpockets of room for Mr, McAdoo outside. 7] fo} “ay ee jo) “6 LY sald Ryan, ‘between | For a thousand yea Ryans, had land a nul the I 1 to steal our }! of ns were forced to but we were ants, day, and we “Look at this la Baushannon, this tried to got me bung on » this cowantty, brut ve me and all my people @ in the bitter r women starving to death in the snowdrifts—and if you doubt me go and ask me wite We were Griven, whe and I, and all our people, out of the land we loved, out of n, beggared, hopeless, despairing ex les. Out on the black Atlante we to bury one of my iittle children in ¢te seat the «murderer! Do you ens, for wanting ver cold. Think of he Alabama Kid, “sup our side?" says them loose 6 whh M n red them loose on your ranch Balshannnon swung half round and grasped Curly McCalmont's hand. @aw nis back ghakiny with laug’ but when he faced Ryan again straightened bis lips. “Excuse me,” } suid, "Go on.” crowd remembered how Mo- “You may “Laugh, you hunds!"* litted hia hand and the crowd was al- lent. 0 But what social honors will be extended to him?) to the Eutior of T In the “plenty of Deasta, Wome Magasine, Wednesdsy Evening, Perhaps! By J, Campbell Cory. Letters from the People @ # Answers Unfinished © To the Editor of The Evenin A correspondent says that "slr there have been constant improvements Boon. ‘don going on on thie little Island Man- hattam, Will ft never be a finished y?' Heaven forbid that it should! The wife said that, W2en !t does it will be time for us workmen to get away with our fami- lies and hunt up some unfinished city, ‘There are no finished cities in the United States, but 1 have seen dozens because of them in Burope and tn them can be seen more real poverty im a day than In New York in @ century. A WORKINGMAN, Hooftums on th bway, World Theres are a throng of hoodhims (mostly boye from five to twenty) who board the uptown subway expresses at Fourteenth strest at ‘evening rush hours. Often they behave Mike wild Jostling fragfle women, push- ing past elderty men, shoving and knocking people about through sheer foree, and making the entering of the cars a menace to life and limb, Oni Arrest would gure this, A subway squad, please, Mr, Squadbutider Mo- Adoo. I'd like to hear from other vte- time of thts, BK R Plea for Office Boys, To the Biltor of The Evening World: T read the complaint of an office boy | at his bed treatment in his office and I want to say something for office boys. The average boy who (sn’t an office boy only works about five hours a day in \sohool and has his afternoons emi every Beturday for 0 end hes two or three = months | to {Mle in during hot weather, If he | gore oused as boyish fm. The ofloe boy must work from eight to ten hours @ | day @!x days a week, and at best ) jonly two weeks off !n summer, Id hi lets his boyish spirita bubble up he manded, iz boy to discharged, or at the leas }It 1s hard for a lively, er ) mischief, his prankw are ex: | work all day long every day and to be expected to act like a grown man, Be folks, 80, employers, be gentle with him and give’ him as easy and good a time as you can, | OFFICD BOY'S MOTHER. An Unsolved Problem, ‘To the Editor of Tha Evening World: Evary year | give away at least twice oa many and twice es valuable Christ- mas presents ag I reeetve. Bo do most of the people 1 know, Now, by the lew where. Who gets all the presents and stves none? Bome one must. I'd like to have thie explained. OR Centralized Immigrants ‘To the Eiiitor of The Prening World; | Why the already overtaxed and jammed City of New York should be the, yme of all linmigrants is to me, as | well as @ good many others, a thing inconcetvable. While New York, taking all parte and peoples combined, must be! sides, be usually has to help support bis | of equations, there is a mistake some- | Dece and-ls considered a wonderfully Derous and successful city, in the prism Of It6 greatness our attention must be turned to the opposite side of Question, Consider the vast |{mproperly oared for poor, While we t ifted with many fing speci- ie eal oltizens from the Old World, we have also taken the respon-| sibility of supporting and providing for, many non-worthy (o be classed as f ture ofisens, Why 10t spread the army | of {mm ® over the unsettled trac of the West, to populate and improve | op’ waste lands and reileve looal ¢onges- | tion? AR pros- he army of | How Many Poundat ‘To the BAltor of The Mvening World: A blacksmith had a stone welehing forty pounds. A mason coming Into the! shop. hammer {n hand, ck {t and broke {t Into four pieces, “There!” auys| ithe os ruined my welght "I have made it better, before weteh but forty poune now you can wel#h very pound one to forty.” Readers, what wer sizes of the pieces? D, | the mber 20, A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. HIS fs a model of the firet sewing machine ever made, It ts easy to trace from it the resemblance to the old-fashioned apinning-wheel, In fact, the resemblance between the two \s far greater than between this model and the modern ‘machine.’ The first sewing maohine was Invented tn 17% by Thomas Saint, It was of the chain- stitch type, working with the «ngle thread, and was chiefly designed for sowing leather, The West's gold output may be dow bled by the Invention of @ resident of Colorado City. It te a simple machine for saving flour gold, !s run by @ gas- oline engine, and may be teken any- whore, Experiments on twioe-treated tailings or mine refuse show an acoum- ulation of five and one-half pounds of gold tn ten days, When Str Henry Irving made his first Appearance as Hamlet, in Manchester, “properties were very difforent from those with which he surrounded himeelt tater at the Lyceum tn London, and night after night made his speech, Alas, poor Yorick!" to @ black- ened turnip and beheld King Claudius In the last act majestically drinking to his success from a marmalade jar in 1905, | ! the sticky disguise of varnished gold paint. Tt took fourteen months to drill a hole 6,500 { and three eight-hour shifts were worked dat nearly @ mile, it required trom three and on | from the deep hole, and almost ag tong to lo Point was put in order, Among the Marat and other trites of Darkest Africa the bodies and skins of animals are sup posed to retain after death certain of thelr Ife character- lation Heneoe one tribe of warriors wear for headgear great helmets mado of ions’ manes, The courage and feroc- {ty of the lion ts thereby supposed to enter Into the wear: Mustration London A metoor whose nt {s estimated ty tons recently fell In Mexico, More than ” ‘ alendars away ary. ‘in th untry every A wood, process has been thy He rey nted by an Tt has been discovered tha of cholera by means of vaooina covery will prove a great boon to poi flocks In @ few days from cholera, a the sap of treas by beet sugar or eac t deep at Dornloof, South Africa, At the depth of 5,000 feet, oF half to four hours to raise the rods wer them after the diamond drill ‘ At Grahamst South Africa, { ostriches w Wd recently for $5,000, ‘is a record price. The plucking fron icks of th's palr reallzed trom $0 to #20 a bird The renux Cast Sussex, which erected by Do- 8, Treasurer Tenry VI. It was mantied about @ 50. In Manila most of ouses and of transparent oyster shellg instead of giias, Engtis®man for giving artificial age te harine, fowls can be rendered immune from the ravages on with cultures of the cholera bactlit, The s*- iltry-ralsers, who often lose thelr entire an ofd problem that fs aroum {ng considerable interest, not only among amateur mathematiclans but among bicyclists The ofrcles In the Muatration represent four cinder pat Four cyclists started together from the centre C at noon for a run, each golag. round and round his own ctrele, Atkin went at the rate of six miles an hour, Brown at the rate of nine miles an hour, Cook at twelve miles an hour, and Dopper at fifteen miles an hour, They agreed to ride until all should meet to- gether for the third time at the centre ©. The distance round each circle was @ third of a mile, When did they Anish thelr ride? In one year this country turns out 1,60 hooks of fiction alone, The total nume | ber of books In the world Ip estimated at 4,000,000,(00, Dr. Hener, a German chemist, has been expertmenting with cocoanut off, and finds that It makes a very satisfactory article of butter. WONDERFVLLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES | walted—but what I couldn't do you dll for yourself; yes, you, Balshan- non, drinking and gambling here while your forsaken wife lay dying yonder! 1 ""Do you know you're outlawed, too?” Balshannon's face had gone dead with pain, but he never filnched. “And now," Ryan shouted at him, “you beggared gambler, you broken, er at Holy | had only to find o few friends to lend! shaking drunkard, you shall finish this | you me money, and sharpers to be after | Vengeance on yourself, which you be |rooking you of all you borrowed. Yea,|@an, which needs no hand of minel! but Balshannon | that was me vengeance. chat failed? Where td your big estate? Can you say Here! He ran forward and jammed & long knife into Balshannon's hand. Where are your cattie!, Where ta your “Bini#h! Kill yourself and have done “Yom, I failed,” said Ryan “Thad to’ wife?” filthy beast!"’ Balehannon was reeling, faint, sick, clinging to the bar for support. “Boym” I shouted, “if Ryan's a man, let bim fight. Stand aside, give him room give him @ gun, Patrone, take thia gun!" I jumped to his side, jammed one of my revolvers into his hand, then leapt back to my piace by the wall, Ryan's tin-horn pets had eso A Tale of the Arizona Desert eS~ death, had slunk away. “Help! Ryan was screaming ‘“Mur- ther!" But a gun was thrust Into his hand, and his own hired thugs shoved ‘him forward to fight Balshannon. “When 1 call ‘Threo!'” 1 shouted, and saw Balshaneon stand like a man, cool, steady, “One two, three!” Ryan fired and missed before my for shure an’ you're mot fit 10 Live ye Wieseried hms qrem his som, eonred 4 eevond onl, but at the “Throw” Bel . @ shannon's gun blaged out. J saw a lit le black hole between Ryan's eyes and he fell forward ali in w heap stone dead, { reckon that for years I'd bean heaps virtuous keeping my quick gun off Balshannon's meat, so now I was full of Joy because the patrons had Auished up all the unpleasantness and made peace without loss or damag@ No grown responsible man had any quarrel left But then my youngsters weren't grown Up @ bit, nor responsible, nor anything eles, but rattled with a gun- fight: too rich for thelr blood. Curly was soared all to pieces, Jim was right off his head, and as to my three kids outside the window, they had no sense anyways at thelr best, I ought to have thought of that before; it was too late now, ‘What matter if young Michael eased his feelings by empting off his toy at the pairone? His pellets chipped the ceiling, and dM him credit for a plous son, but only got a laugh from Bal- shannon, Michael just went on pop- ping ostentatfous, so Balshannon showed he bore no malice by throwing his owa gun on the bar, Then somebody called out for drnks as a sten of peace. But Jim only saw his father being at- tacked, and he surely never had @ sense of humor, He ,turned his wolf-how! loose and broke his gun-anm free from Curly's hoM, then started splashing lead at Michael Ryan, I saw some fur fly off from the fur coat, and the next shot dispersed young Michael's hat, but the third struck Low-Lived Joe on the shoulder, Then there was surely war, for Louis- Jana loved that Joe more than anything else on earth, and all his friends lashed om thelr Curly knelt quick be- low the blast of lead and Jim leapt @ud- don behind the,end of the bar, but tn a blaze of flame and rolling smoke I saw Balshannon olutch both hands to bie heart, then swing himeelt half round and fall, te It must have been thén that poor Curly fired the two shots which killed! Literally translated the word nagtuge louisiana and Beef Jone, the horse’ uum means — Prat nya te Dia Doatipietaes’ By Roger Pocock thief. Tt must have been then that the window close beside fell with a f of glass upon the floor and my three men, al! masked, with guns and rites poured red-hot slaughter Into the Ryan crowd. That was bad, but I felt grate- ful then, while one by one I shot out | the swinging lamps which Lit the smoke, | There wore five, making #9 many shades | Of deeper gloom, and then dead biack+ j ness pierced by flaming guns, and at the end of that etlence, with a patter of running feet, the groan of @ dying | man. (To Be Continued.) ——_—— ‘Curious Derivations, “ PIDER" ts a lees attractive word S than “aploner,” bot dt le really the same, "Spither?’ the earlier » form of the wort, stood for “spinther,” meaning spinner, the Msappearanoe of the ‘n’ before the “th’’ belng com- pensated for by the lengthening of the vowel, just ae “tooth really represents “tonth.” Says a writer in the London Chrontolet “A yulgarism—one which, Ike ‘aggre+ vate’ for ‘irritate,’ has come into use by way of the kitchen staira—l# ‘demean,' with a sense of derogation or abase- ment, It is to be seen in many a paper and even many @ book and heard iqyy many @ speech. It ls the @eoond syle © lable that has misled the popular undem - standing, but the noun ‘demeanor #hould have saved the educated from, their bignder with the verb.” t “Tirate” is a Greek word, coming dl» {) rectly from "“pelrates,” which reepna, | etymologically, “one who tries’ or ‘ets tempts'In other words, an adventures, f “Adventurer,” too, is a wont that hae lost respectability, but not 80 far ag “pirate,” which acquired ite spectal | sense at least 2,000 years ago, ‘ “Hingleader’ was at one time & goog | A century or 90 ago a greagy word, bishop wrote of Christ as leader of qur salvation.” So with “tame server.” It once helt sts rootem: of one who did service to his time, “the rings.