The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1906, Page 14

Home Magatine, Wednesday ‘Evening, wok Gass 3.. 1906, The Evenin World’s @udfivhea vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New Tore, Entered a: the Post-Offive at New York a+ Second-Class Mall Ma VOLUME 43 16,208, The Police and the Peopie. Gen. Bing! s made a good He has ished the vice squad, with symy ham fh. start. abr pathetic remarks for the poor victims whose pres- ence in the city was supposed to make it necessary. He has set the to work, with a ofilcis fidence that makes spying as ne2d- less as it is hateful. | No department of a great city so closely affects the people's daily life, as that of the police. They can make crime, shield crime, profit by crime} or prevent and detect crime. They can hamper the citizen in his rights | ‘and sell permission to break the laws to corrupt men. They can become agents of oppression. The men in Gen. Bingham's department are a fine body. They are anxious to show what they can do. ; The man who solves the police problem in New York will make for himself a name greater than Waring’s. Is Bingham the man? He does not lack energy or resolution. That he is new to New York is nothing. Waring came from Rhode Island. New Yorkers do not “know it all.” The German cities, which are among the best governed in the world, @raw their higher officers from other cities as freely as American colleges dtaw professors, and with as little regard to politics. | Bingham is welcome, carpet-bag and all. i The. chauffeur who broke his neck to avoid killing a bicyclist did a heroic thing. But if he had been running at legal speed neither he nor the wheelman would have been in danger. A New Idea in Traction. The adoption by Western steam railroads of gasoline motor cars for | short-haul passenger traffic points to interesting possibilities in traction} development. These cars were first brought to a state of operative efficiency by the Dnion Pacific. On recent trials on the Chicago and Alton they main- tained a speed of thirty-five miles an hour at a minimum of expense. They have been used experimentally on Oregon lines, and it is now an- nounced that the Illinois Central wilt equip its Chicago and New Orleans | suburban trains with this motive power. They do away with costly third rails and trolley wires. They enable all steam rail- soads to meet local trolley competition easity and at small expense. Are they destined to replace the trolley car? If, as seems likely, | they. make rural and interurban communication only a matter of right of way and rails, they should greatly facilitate transit and incidentafly herald the day of reduced fares. Millions for Luxuries. New York bought goods to the value of $823,000,000 in foreign markets last year. It is as a purchaser of luxuries that Father Knicker- bocker, who last year outdid himself in extravagance, attracts attention. He paid forty millions for diamond brooches, pearl dog-collars and gutomobiles. He spent seventy-three millions on champagne and other things to drink. His bill for fine embroideries was $12,000,000. His Letters from the People A Better Suggestion. To the Editor of The Evening World: B. W. R. asks: “Is it possible to run rallroad trains, &c., by clockwork?’ I don’t know, but I think that the wind- ing-up part is where the ‘rouble comes in. Might add, rhat an invention com- pelling certain companies to run thelT | trains LIKE clockwork would secure Its | originator a cosey corner in the hall o. fame. W. A. G. Why Guy Jerseyment for the dear little State! PK By . Sey's sea coast, her suburban towns and her Sussex County mountains afford beauty not surpassed on earth, Hurrah Snobbish Schoolchildren. To the Editor of The Evening World: I recently moved here from Boston.| Grown-up New Yorkers treat (the few we've met), but my children’s schooknates are little snobs, They os- | To the Editor of The Evening World: traclze my children because we live in J. Campbell Corv. | Reversed! | | w ww Answers to ® four-room flat and keep no servant. It Is a priva‘e school and I am told | sular service and says % ia no wonder nearly all private schoolchildren have | that foreigners laugh et our ohin-whis- similar standards. Is this true, read-| kered diplomats. As the daughter of era? NEWCOMER. |an American Consul for many years I In 1892, wish to assure him that @ Consul doesn't ra tielan ie a iat ave to be @ diplomat, and that the When did Bab Piteden es and Peter] United States Minister is charged with Maher fight their ast battle? A. C. R. | «ll the functions of diplomacy and re- Our Conduias Cluche sents any usurpation of his prerogatives, ‘The duties of a Consul in time of peace consist in aligning his name to triplicate inyofees of merchandise shipped to the Questions World derides the United States con- BOTOLPH. us well A. B. H. in a letter to The Evening ‘To, the EXitor of The Evening World: Whence the wholesale guying to which New Jersey and Jerseyven are su jected? Iam a Jerseyman and am "up" th all the history, &e., of the State am! I want to go on record as saying that ‘I (as well as every other true Jersey- j man) am proud of my stanch little State. It's history, both colonial and revolutionary, as well as since then. |shows patriotism, courage. brilllancy and generosity. As to {ts mosquitos. ‘they are not @ patch on those of Long lor Staten Island or Connecticut. It ts 'po more malarial than New York State. jIta people are wide awake and progres- sive, As for diversified scenery, Jer imported cigars cost $3,000,000, and for silks and tapestries, paintings 3 and fine china many millions more, Is there any museum in the world like the shops of New York? Is there any other So liberal a customer as the New Yorker and the visitor in New York? For him Hindoo craftsmen are fashioning ivory and hammering brass. Norman peasants are making cheeses for him and Persians are weaving carpets. Dealers are ransacking Italian palaces and plundering churches to adom his home. And he is paying the bill with a cheerful- ness engendered of good times. Does he ever stop to think that the flood tide of prosperity frequently precedes the ebb of business depression? D wy 4 a ending with the arrival of Shorty Broach to have his prickles pulled. 2 SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHARTERS Through chis disturbance I hid up with ged Balabannon buye Holy Cross, fancy | Curly in a cellar, and when there was ‘the ‘kratitude of] peace drove off alone, with my saddled 4 poriOur KAZE | horse tied behind the buckboard. After {Covyricht, 1905, by Little. Brown & Co.) eon Jim. He wins it. MeCalmont, leader of robbera, |nd ‘for years at's son, Curly, “Chaikeye” Davies (who| an hour's search I found the okt Coeur ia the at is Balsh 3 = ke nan. Se ree Hoan ha Histone teu apainat | d'Alene Mine shaft and tipped the ‘anon By are E SO a een a iinkerd ant iores | buckboard in, turning the team horses 3 plo Vint gambling "away ‘ail his fortuse. | loose to graze thelr way back to La ¢ loon, and. at the head him inte | Soledad. My dutles being all perform- | 2d, I rode back just before dawn to mg! own home pasture at Les Salinas. There 1s the whole annals of » virtu-| ous night, and yet these Grave City; fdiots defamed my character, which it makes me sick. There's a habit which I caught from | the old patrone at Holy Cross, the same, cl and Sim away trom Arizona.” > “** “M7 | being to have a cold bath. Our Arizona PR shes te a nie. Be ee rectttie, Si, water is mostly too rich for bathing, | KS tig ROT eee eing made of mud, alkall and snakes; fiyine frm the Sherif Trane, they ore] bur at Las Salinas I owned a little eloaely Yalowed ty" ts Curly. They retreat, | spring, quite good for wasning and such : eateCaimont intrusa’ Gurly” to Chatkese'a | emergences, After my bath I felt skit-| re Sati rcimniaatter fairs the str! to some olf| tish, a whole lot younger than usual, | ‘end Sorat Alta) inane aflchael Ryan | full of aching memorles about getting ices no supper last night, and pleased all to pleces to hear the breakfast howl. CHAPTER XXIV. Now, in course of these detalls, wile A we sat smoking cigarettes around te House of Refuge. door of the cabin, we saw @ sort of OOKING back upon the whole dis-| dust cloud c rolling al cussion between the du Chesnay | city. eat el and Ryan families, I ee myself “Wihich rem: gitting around meek and patient, shy,|the Grave City str timid, cautious and fearfully good, and| ing yesterday to come and hold a so- Yet I got all the blame, |clal gathering here. Mr. Davies, they's My movements all that night were! “liming to hang you some. r . and Chalkeve. with ef Jim's ald, try in vain to rescue Balshennon. wunticht ensues, Balshannon and Ryan ry hers, Chalkeye and Jim to emcape. Michael Ry: that Jim an says Ute, “that jer’ was propos- fnmocent and unobtrusive travels. When | povse, war toted belie se ran earns! ddie horses into] Doggone Hawkins went off with his cades’ and led ours Genderfoot posse to hunt ghosts I natu- | Cover; then put ‘wally slid out for home. So I met up, filing the ty minute: ‘With McCalmont, took charge of Cocky, but wanted rest of our Ur In all we butts. "| “Chalkeye, You Old Hoss Th’e!, Keep these hure struniers nm ind Ret Neve quiek, ® Prrapet had rain-spouts most convenient for shooting. Monte was laying out the ammunition. I wits eprendiny wat of in te hear a whole lot which was pretty until we're ready.’ echt Suater got joyful, he ya leper true shout poor Ourly, and that/gia wien there, was trouble’ coming, making Uttle yelps of bits. ‘anted Wi A’ not burn ft, he si Chaikeye!"" neh “You, crs i ° ets over the hay banricad. the f t Don't talk them off the range,” says! duorway, and then the Vigilance Cot" fe doorway “ho get no 3 mittee came slanting down for battle low, Seeing that Grav was al y 0 these peopl: Thumbnail Sketches. Favorite Book—‘Rollo and His Tutor’ (Expurgated). Favorite Authur—Hannah More. Favorite Artist—The crokinole champion. Favorite Frult—Tender greenings. Favorite Plant—The quaking aspen. Favorite Vehicle—The slow coach, Favorite Musical Instrument—The fine-tooth comb. Favorite Character in History—Dr. Watts. Your Spurs Off My New Cerpet!’ their best with thirty head, hb wagons a frowns AG buckboard and delivered | | | Yuu Chilkey« $ axe, cut welve | had di Carly at the back door of my cousins, | Me touRAttul way. phaies through the tdove Wali, I | using. (he! M y Ins, | By Aye loophoies igh the ‘dove \ jusing them to haul he Misses Jameson, These ladies had tie warmetiane ee told. Cust Ureak & hole inti fas Cull » Only, th he béing old Mutiny jhouted. I putup my head behind the barricade Ye “You're due to die soi now" = ed his Gone 2 an poked his gun. L out United States and in writing an occa- sfbnal report on native crops or indus- tries. The officials who edit and publish the consular reports love statistics and hate literature. So the less a Consul knows about writing ths better for hii, IT have met a great many American Cor- suls, and tne result of my experience is that the best equipment for the Job Is to know how to your name and to quit right there. Mrs. J. D. 8. For More Subways. To the Bilitor of The Evening World. I honor The Evening World’s splendid ca for more subways. Extend fred fight and demand sudw: under our across town. UBJECT—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Favorite Sport—Sitting on the football itd. Favorite Task—Discouraging red corpuscles, aye the greatest avenues and six P. B. P. WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES:AND WIDE DISTANCES Tale of the Arizona Desert <» g By Roger Pocock it the wrong funeral. My obsequles 1 postponed indefinite.” A bullet whizzed past my ear, and I mai Bot . “Ready!" yelled Monte. word and we fire.’* “And Bi says I, “you Innocent pil you've Kiven’me heaps of time y twelve men y, You've got three men in yo' posse who could hit a house from inside, the rest being as gun-shy as a achool of ts & bullet-proof fort, with shots in Arizona, ‘and tl TH spl ho’ wei med to |r that you-all has come to mourn on the ison. si ders to ‘Can, or them rep” es as, Nes my arr out the 1 “Give the; shout to roof, pe ck ve U ry ot all ba buck- e chairman to ited. buy my Grave City oF wetting’ tat NEW. YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES. By I. S. Cobb. ONSIDER now the dases of these two men: One of them had a chest iC like a baby grand and pins like twin shot-towers. He suggested @ Percheron draught horse with the forelegs removed. He was a fine upstanding figure of a man, but being too heavy for a truck driver and tee elow for a scene-shifter he naturally got a place on the force. He was @ policeman by birth, anyway, being of County Mayo nativity. : A stranger would have said that here was an excellent person to sené down to Cherry Hill to pull the wish-bones of the strong-arm boys, be eause if he ever fell on a men and hit him centre he would. mosaic him Into the sidewalk. One could imagine reading something like this in the paper: “Officer Sampson O'Slaughter, who was detailed to break up the Fwit Killing gang, reports progress. The Coroner's men are picking up Dieves all over the east side. A knee joint and three teeth were found to-day tm Great Jones street.” But no, they didn’t send him down to walk a beat amid the nattves somewhere on the lee side of that greatest common divisor, the Bowery. Being 6 feet 4 in his sock feet he was detailed to the Broadway squad, 1h where his duties consisted in giving keb-drivers hard looks and shooing i elderly persons off the car tracks. There were dangers attached to the poal- |” | tion, of course—any time he was liable to be run down by a sightseeing coach while dozing off or kissed by a member of the Lieut. Hobson Young Ladies’ Club after he had safely escorted her over the crossing. The other man was of just the right build and disposition for conduct ing the notions and white goods counter in a gentlemanly and efficient manner. But he wasn't tall enough to ever hope to confer the proper dig- nity on a floorwalker’s job, and maybe that was the reason why he went on the force, too. They had to cut his uniform down to youth’s size. Whem they put the white gloves and the long coat on him he looked like a boy | pallbearer climbing out of a blue chimney. Again the ignorant might have supposed that he would be the proper candy kid for the Broadway squad, ‘because he had small hands ard a low, sweet, shopping-district voice, and always kept his shoes shined and his nails polished; but Headquarters promptly assigned him to do evening work in the Gap. It at once became customary for the guests coming from the mixed-ale functions to look up and beat him into a wine jelly. He got to be a confirmed habit w! | many. They took him befcre dinner as a relish and after dinner as @ | cordial. He spent one-half of his time dodging and the other half in the casualty ward. THE FUNNY PART: Our Police Department is supposed to be directed with human intelli gence. Purple Poison Plants. HE colors of flowers and leaves offer numbers of interesting problems. Ne I one quite knows why the prevailing tint of early spring flowers ie efther white or yellow. Yellow, indeed, holds its own to some extent all through the summer, but the typical color of summer fs pink, while as the autumn ad- vances richer crimsons and all the rich, glowing hues of dahlias and chrysanthe- mums are seen. Horticulturists have produced poppies of pretty nearly every shade under the sun, and with many other flowers they seem able to alter the colors almost &s they please. Yet the blue rose, the black tullp and the green carnation seem as far off as ever they were in spite of constant efforts to arrive at them. Nearly three centuries ago Dutch gardeners imagined themselves on the verge of inventing a black tulip, saya Pearson's Weekly. ‘The colors of the blossoms of fruit trees are limited to white, pink, bright scarlet and purple. The reason no one knows. Nor {s {t clear why nearly all plants with purple blossoms have poisonous properties. The deadly nightshade is an instance which will be familiar to all country readers, eS eee Appendicitis in Water. T 18 a terrible thing to say, but the editor of a Paris newspaper has the ni to say it, and that Is, that appendicitis is shown by statistics to be far more prevalent among teetotalers than among moderate users of alcohol, ‘This re sult is sata to be due to the weakening of the appendix by excessive mineraliza- tion, says the Boston Globe. But the doctors tell us that none of us drinks enough water, and they keep talking about “flushing the system.” “We of the old school,” says the Paris editor, “drink our bottle of claret when dining, wit the result that we are gay and well, free from appendicitis."" But there are worse things than eppendicitis, and some of them happen to folks that drink too much claret. ends’—— Mutiny turned and bolted. One two three wae: I give the word We sprinkled the trail of the Stran- unl feeding. Pic! She chased Miss Panay Coe cutiooee: out of th th To! I rounded up all my live stock, and quitted a locality where my peace of Bind was disturbed with ropes) gunire, baad nt cominnn ioe rsine. I took my re and my rd away north, to where we could graze peaceful and vir- the chameee tuous amid the untroubled solitudes of $j bbed her hand while ake called mo the Buperstitious Mountains. | cigcoatina eeiy cee ieoeetasy Next morning I told all my boys good-| Bl a by, and streaked off to seo Curly, T | Fede till and camped with Texs ir? yo’ laigs! Oh, paw to shake, and throw ette, out—that char’ I sat on the edge of dusk Bob. a friend of mine who told me I was sure enough idiot for getting outlawed. Next evening I came to the house where my cousins lived, and crept In the dusk to scratch at their back door. I fund Miss Blossom Jamesgn alt tn | a buatls, as usual, which looked mighty smok rly,” says I, “you're shot, ou ot to be fort in a small vol soe ze “My habits," says shi & satire £ORDe dal, and 1 ain't got no more manner nor a bea. My langudge aint becoming to @ young gentlewoman, my ea! would disgrace a pinto hawas, yn't refawm me @ Ul bit, and wi 1 tries to sa, up on my tall, and pretty, they tell me rebukes for in’ my lalgs like & cowboy, ~ me Chalkeye, SJ a id the camps, n, to aleep with nn ognie UD This roof sete 1 cayn't see for my kid?" says I. ¥, she’s mo’ lke a man than a) ‘S'pose, ma'am,’ says I, ‘that you'd| been working In a stable and got whut, then run into a jail and pulled out through a hole tn the wall, and doc- ber, and chased around stars, to see In the heat. me night. I cayn't get air to ladies has roped me, and ted down for branding, dust Tit tw fro) ott She had 5 scarcely strength travel, und yet if'ahe fretted. I at being shut-up in a house, ever wet well at ail? 2 “T was raised wild"--Curly lay —"my trive are the young dT Teckon when the La serving out ness He was ‘shamed Test we'd claim our ehage, | Mies Blossom Jed mo to the house, | Mls! teling Him they'r ” pray | ¥ou come right, into the @ottin’-room,"* Why Se te ation enka ‘and Dp yo’ SPUTS | heaps of attention. } my new must have rot out y bubbled, “I'm so | they bas to seb gentin ee cttrte | tenon ia are rouse, » rte tal . wes entire, ls * Cra to wee, you looking mo. Di rm vo atiear. nerry (slik Rerontet ; the mpndertul iPpoKe. any such of Curly's, that yh’ robber. baron i says ehe, ‘98 off my mind, so db look worried. The dear little soul, she's the bravest, sweetest thing—ind the way @he bore ail that pain! Why, you br-any other man would have ‘sel around cursing all day and gro; night, but Curly—why, she ne' tm} |, Now I ask you. 1s It possl- a shot those two men? I cayn’t word, #0 It's no use your talk- vorwelt,""