The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1905, Page 16

ning, Dece Eve WRAL ES | Held Up! | By J. Campbell Cory. ning World's Home Magazine, Thursday ane | i by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6) Park Row, New Tort JWntered at the Post-Offive ot New York a* Second-Class Mal! Matter, veaee NO, 16,195 The City of Violent Death. s New York become a human ' Jaughter-house Is it to-da niles for During the months from Jan, 1 to Sept. 30. of this year 2,555 persons lost their li through accident or by violence— iy homicide, train wreck and trol-| ley collision; by suicide and sun-| stroke, by tire. Every day nine lives were tuffed out by unnatural means Livery day the year through at least one person is kilied in the street A AWFUL STRONG MAN During the 120 days from Jan. { to May 1 140 citizens were slain by vehicles, by automobiles, cars, wagons and cabs, Of these the trolley cars:Slaughtered 97, sit to be wondered at that the Metropolitan and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit companies pay $3,000,000 annually to settle damage suits? Trolley cars collide because of defective brakes, maiming and mangling. Steel girders carelessly handled smash into bridge trains, Dis- regarded danger signals cause train wreck on the Park avenue viaduct. Neglected dynamite charges explode, scattering destruction and death. A tunnel caves in, imprisoning workmen, Violent hands, black or white, f hil bombs, The blazing roof of the city workhouse crushes down on the tiers of cells from which bedridden inmates are dragged to safety in the. nick of time by “trusties,” whose devotion in an hour of peril rem- edied the city’s remissness. The wanna’s brand-new terminal burns, through what particular act of negligence? These are the death-inviting casualties of a day, with carelessness in the background as the criminal cause. The death roll of violence for a! year is an appalling one, New York is as a battlefield on which perpetual | BY warfare is waged against ambushed foes, whose engines of death lie hid- f den at every corner, | Is life in any other city held as cheap as here? Does New York'| afford its citizens anything like the security of person and property which it is the first duty of a municipality to furnish? Who is going to jail for the Fifth avenue dynamite explosion which cost three lives and inflicted serious injuries on a dozen? Who has gone | to jail for any one of a score of fatal casualties arising from criminal | carelessness within a year? What effort is ever made to locate blame | with a view to the swift punishment of the guilty? In eleven “accidents” of a graver nature occurring within a brief period and causing the death of 1,396 persons not a soul has been punished by penitentiary sentence. Yet a Darlington disaster is a murder. A Slocum disaster is a mur- der, The killing of three workmen in the dynamite explosion was mur- der. The fatal outcome of criminal negligence is never an “accident,” aS the list of the slain increases year by year the burden of blood guiltyon city officers remiss in the duty of prosecution grows heavier, As ‘ the number of the slaughtered on the Eleventh avenue death tracks | mounts up, what are they doing to hold the railroad company to ac- count? What investigation have they ordered of the many cases of ine Ryiciuie to defective mechanism on the bridge trolley cars? } “Sentence Sermons, Thumbnail Sketches. Pointed Paragraphs, ask—Decoylog premiums avorite Book—"The Seats of the Mighty orite Author~Dr, Jongon. fellow who gets up and howls, When a man begins to get bald he ways keeps his hair cut snort bee: The fruits roots of love, Gladness does not need the robe of the work?) The fatalities on Fifth avenue are but the latest episode in a long in Of. like mishaps caused by negligence. What measures y | 3 to insure the greater safety of pedestrians? me of sacrifice become orite Artist--Nimrod. ty . 7 > he realizes that he can't have It long. Of accident theories the public is weary, What it wants i | Faynineet . Favorite Frult—The whole cheese \ » ry rea eth . ants is prosecu-| You do not ft another's burden by favorite Plant- re aie With men It's wine, women and song tion and the prevention which it is the P PARLE SEN eta dha dee dl treating Jt lightly. You cannot expect meaty sermons on 1 dry-bread salary—Ohicago ‘Tridune duty of vigilant city officials) with women {t's ice-cream soda, m } Instrument- The bull-fiddl tor In History—Jo, the Fat Boy to secure, (Cer right, 1905, by Tittle, Brown & Co.) | Hon. beyond the flames and smoke of | wh mber 21, 1905. — NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES By I, S. COBB. O E upon a time things got eo that the crimina), messes felt they hag v just cause for complaint againet the classap, »Of course this hap. pened a great many years ago, but at the time it was regarded as q ry sad state of affairs, Often a poor but hardworking poreh-climber hag to He in for months on a stretch because the docket was cluttered ap with/prominent lawyers. All a worthy and persevering second-story person could count on was a small head and about ten Hines at the bottom of an inside pege, while legal gentlemen, who had been caught with the materials ,;On, hogged the box-car letters and the top-of-column, exposing themselves where the double lead was thickest, in the space lately devoted to life ine surance magnates who had refused to save the core for the policy-holders. The L.sirict-Attorney of that day seemed to have a penchant for making sauce for the gouge taste exactly like sauce for the gander, One 4 ; would be applying hot bricks to the professional feet of a barrister, w ho LeT'S GO To LAW SCHOOL had frozen to a !it¢gant’s coin. Or maybe he would be calling on Putnam A. Sunder, the alimony specialist, to explain his system of combining’ criminal Jaw with the divorce pract’ce. Also there was the expert who did windleating by the day, week or Job; special reductions to clients fur- Dish ng their own witnesses; alibis cut to fit the form, And many others It becamo very annoying. Every little while some practitioner was guilty ‘of what the French scholars at the Normal school call a ‘fox pass” and moved his office 1p the river for four or five years. That was why the 0s- | sining (N. Y.) branch of the City Bar Assoc'ation, which met every Sunday afternoon during recreation hours, had such a growing membership. | THE FUNNY PART Thoy seemed to be able to beat an indictment against anybody except themselves. | ———_ ¢o2—_— —— | Chinese Fashions. i PEKING newspaper published the following as to court fashions at the A Chinese Imperial Palace this winter: “Ermine robes were first worn this ¢ 2d inst. Squirrel skins are the next on the astly sable at the new year,” to be followed by fox, ar LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Works by Mixed) Light, To the Editor of The Evening World At the desk where I work there {s an electric light. Over my shoulder comes the Ight from a window, but too dim even In recent years Jin strikes and then only to a very limited are) a murderous mob ts practically unknown, of late years, In any big city, This, to my mind, mw to be advanced But here (except * What inquiry have they set afoot into the extraordinary [7 OVE loses sight of charity UBJECT-—Grover Clevel , p ys ( inary prevalence egal 3 ‘over (Neveland. True, the world loves a quiet man. of “accidents” from the careless use of high explosives alana is Free tee RL Dede JR Favonte Syort—Decoying dicks but {t gives a lot\of attention to the use | grand opera, ohicken salad and more drid to work by without (he help of the elec ity, progress and humani tric Hat, My eyes ache badly tately,| (0° and I wonder If the eixed daylight and think ‘Gther race on eirth, electricity {s bad for eyes, 1 have heard vis claim is open to argument; so, and If jt is true I'd like some reader to suggest a substitute, How about It | experienced readers? SHIPPING CLERK An Insorance Limerick, World Ts the § f The Evening Chiet Inquisitor Hughes Surely adds zest to the nughes By exposing the workin's | Of “Papa's boy” Perkins, And giving the grafters thelr dughes —W, E, JARRATT. Are We Mob-lrooft | To the Editor of The Evening We There ls an excellence of t cain people that jas, ty my kn never before been brought to notice, vi de, |isothe onty country wher citles, a large mob is practically known, In St. Petersburg, Paris, Terlin. and even in London un- Amoer!- It in the bigger Ma- dan- but If it Is, 1 should like to hear from other readers on the subfert, PHILO YANK, Thanks a Brave Man, To the Editor of The Evening World: Allow me through the medium of your paper to thank @ young man for bie bravery In stopping a minaway hares attached to a grocery wagon just ag It was almost on top of a lot of small lidren, my own among them, who re playing outstde ‘he parsehial ol at t Ninety-first street one ternoon this week. ACR. Admires Child Gentns, To the & of The Evening World: I write to let you know we all admire the poetry and pictures of Miss Sara Homans. Give us more. We cp them out and put them tna book. Some are so yuaint and proity IR. y men—Chicago News, | serous mobs are not very uncommon, | Bloomfleld, N. J. R x WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING RUMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES 27 ns { i wee ©) C U | / , * ef: A Tale of the Arizona Desert <4» 2% By Roger Pocock funeral honors. —— 9] | Jechet, as raw somiy e Ki aa bottle be my Woley went along with It, But GYNOPSI6 OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS F eines | | wuleed wi el seen , gt hed Mt Ba this Shorty was a Lard Baishannon buys Holy ¢ or @ naturally cautious and timid strong, You rub it over s¢' face and Ma eee in Arizon&. living there with man T took fool risks in exposing Curty | Riek tnd power een he oe pale Hy th hiagrowd that danger; tut honest mange-ralsed f UF peopie, at way gait in the sad: iat bluck horse I'd lene or the bucks ‘ghters are more than a match for the el ae, Ke hea Le Gimery ee skin mare Jim was riding. Then he trod bottle ‘O1 Cipare( te ein sw rig persed, Beeldes, my your were| tenderfoot, So while they. trotted bay Borel Bar kh are test Not the ki NiNeesdinnk Fan | . dined fis nlde all black 3 Dll ‘00! , bucks ken Halabanion a” druta an * the kind to stay put in @ place of / | Vaquero, then slung On at the lvery—heres Curly Me- non's wife dies, Ryan geis him Into | * sl He r the fight, if there was) / . Clotmes OF a pods wenn | UHMONED ma " fe gang of one new 4 i “fr owt ders tried to call Shorty off, itn Muth | oat aap the ene igh fire-bell would - ow,” says Curly, “you ‘ake 1l8 (9 soak his head, re ah od hae! a Now » f the of 7 ae aint lick the gummy side, skin had white stocke pale. news would spread sw | Bile. AL om ye Hip. any soit, whereas this, mé polnts were Bast of masked robbers a’ Dago. Say, pull up. they) 1) made all the difference: me k that buckskin mare of mine for horses is blown, they’ie fun ye REE: BOO) ight in the middle - sure, There ain't another In t # saat haw Vi « eral givers, Chaikeye woeful town, They would {States [reckon with walle, p 1° say8 Brogen; they've been Shoots out the “anita a aun jbern. You empty ‘nate be chased) and I'm due to ingfire ie AosounT ts ac nes Dutiy Gnd chante eto tue mm that the riders began to crvle CHAPTER XIII ant to me, widen made ( ie | ety, Mas, changicg: too. for be pulled | ajond wn cunt | 4 ¥ . to of, bec —s e, legs of his overalis, then \ n \ i. nto thin » because I lay | ) R Welggied im down over his cng yatd about rw The City Boils Over. Out to be & modest man | hots, he t Jim's bers ; “biol I got through with shooting fipe anes d the brim dow Sure.” says he “and it's the Chiet NCE 1 remember seeing an old) ou he lights ke 8 boy, He put of tue Pollce tiv less we're talkin’ wh | men q aey old Jacke bil bear woped in the desert by coW-|t) haul me through tue word cheeks oul wi pads of wool Te | poietmom, BP Your handal’ saya Brose, bows and dr 1 by the serutt! Now ariel Troke} a farm bov, anc rat anne ating bia gun on Jin, but the young> all fo ‘ 1 whos’ they f ‘of hin neck Into the flerce electric «are | w inte Were |rode on, sat Ike n wick nf onte. wh ‘ busy rolling a clgarette, si ’ a . between the sal “Tt won't work." say “Phore’s Viy Is that gringo snowing off wits are ywemarn city: Ror mpl touristy Yarred off from a big outht ‘of peorle awecoine hase | & Kune" he asked, jn Spanien, "ha anid he looked drecdful rourh. a se 9 1) yy g wale, w from the north, Our horses are blown, | '2/k% 89 fi {ve ma‘am squodled out he was daigerous,| i hile our and thelr snorting will give us away. | Ov got to int for that buckskin awae alized he wes saved, Dit As n to the rear. § “Dot vash all righd, eave | ¢, says Broach, but Jim set in the a pre lag A be. oBiition, I tied on a That wouldn't pass for G | cool moonlight and jit his clgaret.e | mybody made ex ‘or that old bea’ Sal oh }seve Jim, “not even in a for | taking no notice. Now 1 reckon that Im just ike Mr | aide auld Shir r Mg ie | “This greasen ie lately an crt, meee tha go Tapia in my he J ! j sor.” #aya Curly; “an tie's only ‘gota’ | Hear, dragged sudden oft fa 9 ered te Nana Innovent for a dirunk in Grave Clty— {nto the Indecent Neht o! lization, | walking thelr im at Pi Nobody is going to make slowances for | : ied Grave City wet that bucks) ¥j dresdful rough, and #:vag window. I was scherm y my orders we sh ‘fork’ mare} be me if T look dre : 1 Four Mi savaee, ia eae a r ever have xern ® hair of them and dangerous wn Ve G0 #2") } , Drew |nieht, Ae it was, Docutes Marsal pe Jin knew the brand on tie 11 were ralved outside | Jin, but Just for « mome jersen and T come with full thirty x » he Was riding. icky fences of your laws, beyond hung back scared on ts of then “Indade arly th } hen a Wome along ane I don't profess I Knew either th sh} na Holy #8 bran Mt Jter of Vour reepectable customs, 1 ie warts ers Want: | seen a gunefght.” nivnaed’ ba Oh the veanrro: Garin’: mt) a Hola ree ag etre exposed to all the heat and cold, che ( > need ris ight, “L never seen one never until no black horse, a melane plug called! it nt to lve. at Wwht and derkness, (he good and ths] ks And you MeCaimont's son!” ‘| dones which I'd lent beeen ty Noe! thas buctekin maaat fi h ft f ‘ You needn't let on to him that y'U| wicker to the erav mare I pote ; . 7 bad ‘of tf e hos teeth and Az S meciuman. Wall,” he braced : atened again with als gun. claws, a# hors gun; but|™ 1 Jinn satya ated Rita It up, “‘{'m only a ‘range wolf, #0 puch Ween ih dt esate both ov tor wo for that | © had Jim had dumb yea He ged noetyt! me “took this mare in trade at fy Moca read bat if vou e m ad 0 no end of & hurty. As soo: they | One Thon Mi told ay [Qid Chalkese masked his riders, he} \; rhim pobbers ve'd be per cent, duty. on his horse, 90 1 ‘When T kn that Ralshannor 1 0 Partai sd Curly tan ¥ tf (1 robbers, I showed wolf, and| pedtersen refned up. with him my foan-b¢ Mha'to he shot ts drab, 1 ‘ ; Bebe) ith ¢ ike down his fae you're done branded with the range) sreyvive paused vou. ¢h called. |tu oblige, ag this. mare. f ; ; ; wie ‘data Nowleae y | Wolves now “Didn't they shoot me.” save Curly. [branded ‘Holy Crovs,’ rebranded ‘plie} Beaposniar irave City walked r the light wis a hin Nowieg 1)" ym ewong rourd in the swidle, look-| ery, tm kilt entotrely? © wusi fork, Perhaps the ten'lemen w!l sland Sato it. Y had the mer aa etek 1 ts there ® Vere ee inurdered |ing back at Grave City, a bad sample anny thim agin’ me and the vourg| aridet heve exmialind rf would make a « #, 9 t next thing was t¢ ; ini Febbere Ta a 8 ole HAWMs | surely among cities, but'etdll entitled to| goiter that was Along wrth me rine | wat oil," ieaid Ihishabh, in Marne fuvitat one 1 s and reload guna w ' a “inthe back ‘ateect, “They wounded p fae Bis home He toved jamavs Old Jitation. al hha wali PY om te bhek mosks | ish, w nclvaqunded tush ee Talked lon ern i nse an a alle we rod ‘ my boy Monte 10 send him robber ; ,|men, of olvilization on thelr dirth 4 weldent, ‘How do you account for tha wpd had a hand-t i siow, Jim was shaking all ur home t Pe ae La MRMEY | He get his teeth and awung to hie] “How lone since? sulle, Jim du Cheanay's Bver-toukte ; ae, ¥ i . them in for (ie ceremonies | was sobbing aloud, Monte. oe ‘ f road yall sorts. of {tA BMI a sae ne dan {con aete St ves ten me it (nic ts ane |ed,anaaie?” 1 Tf Ryan only played fal there wo Mor ve. wal vai be 1 #0 niet in Curly had some- |, “If honesty Is that,’ 8 he de- jean any, oF ee a oe LD Da vor, the saddleg! my yours lomd Bi ‘ao etait IP he beled ¥ sd MUNG KD Chae hee ev the what Jidgmentse the [terminedly, 1! herd with thievor.” |” | road to lather RpeTsaye Davies? el Senor Don Sang logo, Of Holy crags. Y ; : mene His cheeks: Ute treat them. peek ‘ lin heart de 'sight. the wornan) "l daa't ke the smell of this irai,’'| Pedersen iat epurred on. and we lhe cabullero ant to bring Webs vas going to be a sun gh masea- | lug ike wone horse, and Custer Nea gicenn 1A elke Vaya ha 'ithanks, wentianees NS OWN innooence, and [eays. Curly, none, The City Marahai| swept afte: neuitue iret Lu Ad that he might nee pbeat “before. tha ere, Why, It wee only rig at on|making Uttle yelps of joy—all we ¢ the gene |Chaikeye—y vs On the right [enyen's unselfienners, ¥ Taine Me See en? ee ” nam Metelnen hadn't pointed hi On Re ier, at's wetOiyt lady in’ Ghtve Te) rere Suet ike alpha: | SORry 88 cas wih, OUP Reeve on the! Kt tee tk a eee these tracks.” say Ii] “Brace upc younester, T saw you kill|then north, to father’s camp," trail to Las Salinas, “Xnd your own @inier obey © Hon servants should go wits him to the| Jump, the sime being natural after tae sd innoe | look thete-they ve quictin’ the mal’ | porn Beet aad. -Loujslana, bat now], “Come on,” says Jim, and swung his| We wore scarcely gone when a soc-| ~Ainstt mlaed Soker with AhwAniere \. @thex. world. That was all known to hor Nght @ pulled our by the| ont up Main @ where scores 0? | (Oad—awing Gutl” sentens | YOU'RE one all rotten,” horge to the west along @ small dead | ond outfit of fi traxglers came roll. | loanog. | Wee id skinned 4 ny sked f muth end of the city THe age sadding, mounting, and}, curly, and Jim had swung etraiah “Petween the eyes, I got Pete be- | trail. yng down the trail, headed by Shorcy | made jithid Mourieh, (wisted moa~ Bie tice masked men in amtash, and) Now.” sald I, “vou. Curly, and you, | Usene e the ewitt men calling the the ond 8 | pointe! the whole evoen the eyes! I reen his eyes goin’! “We got to change ourselves,” says | Dr vaich, one of the men who had besn | tones Re Soeme of in hie if te when Ry e) foul he was gent with | Jim, light owt ahead and keep a-nying | RAtDORMM 0° 15 lead rode Deputy. Mh well off to the Tet mo tail white-the hole between—oh, |MfcCalmont’s son, and began to loose! hurt that night in the gunfight He) And with a howl the winls crowd Louisiana, Bees Jones and four others, | {0% vld Mexico ieee e pederean, coming on. Tania. tBncr inaek amone the stones [haw T wisht 1 was daid!” foun pargels ted by to his | eiways Dated Balehe noo s folks worse) closed, Ith Tey ae teatimont? a4 ‘| Curly howled, “We ain't goin’ ¢: be ate st 5 ‘i “Poor ttle bei And one would snakes; 8 hoa r now and Curly ‘almont It Gesperadoes, to walt upon Bal \* ca one! #9 0 | Hello,” he called, ‘vou, Chatkeys If dangerous robbers were hard to oor Lia A 4 9 meee pon Baleisan: | leave you! Tee Be aide’ aime what's the Lay Yiveugh eho” mootahine: thee’ wee think Yhis wee the Ara: time you'd ever Here.” he over An rbd aig eh "the (Yo Be Continued.) ‘ if any , rhs MR ti