The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1906, Page 14

ae. ‘Posilatied by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New York. “Bntered at the Post-Oilice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. EOMOSUME AG csscc-nscsssccoscesecesvee we sessse seaseeNO. 16.218, How Long, Mr. Jerome? low up the investigations of the cutions? Why does he delay to frame in- dictments against those involved in the insurance scandals? What is the explanation of his diminished | energy and interest? Has not his post-election repose been sufficiently protracted? It is high time for the i | fulfilment of pre-election promises. _ — When the investigating comumit- | tee was at the height of its activity in exposing insurance graft and greed | the District-Attorney entertained the idea of a special Grand Jury to deal ‘with the corruption and rascality revealed. His zeal for instant actiom was then fervent. Motives of propriety | © glone restrained him from what he thought would be interference with the | committee's work. | That restraint is now removed. Why, then, does he delay? The incriminating testimony is at his disposal. Nothing that will be contained in the committee’s report will add to the all-sufficient evidence of crim- inal culpability. Why does he hesitate to act? Why does he not supple- ‘ment the fruitful work of the committee with energetic prosecution? ~ Of exampies of moral guilt, of convictions at the bar of public opin- | » fon, the public has had enough. Light Up! People who live in New York generally live in streets. When they make for home at night well-regulated citizens generally want to find the particular street on which they happen to live with as little trouble ad Possible. Last winter they could look out of street-car windows and read the ~mumber of the streets in radiant white numbers on beautiful blue lamps, "and were able to stop the car and get off when their own streets were > reached. ’ But last March the Board of Estimate and Apportionment had a spasm of economy. They thought it cost altogether too much money to help citizens find their way home o’ nights, So they followed Othello’s example and “put out the light, and then put out the light.” Since then @ man is lucky if he can guess well enough to stop his car within five blocks of his own street. : He does not care what device the city uses to show him the number of his street at night, but he does want to be able to see that number ) somehow. The gentlemen on the Board of Estimate should light every | lamp, and keep it lighted every night, until they can hit on some ai| ternative. The Haverstraw Homicide. . In law a landslide, under natural conditions, is an act of God. But is the Rockland County Grand Jury going to take that view of the Haver- Straw horror? q Was it an act of God or of human greed that the clay bank was dug into, dwelling houses undermined and their tenants precipitated to death? j In plain phrase, it was manslaughter. In Pennsylvania it is no longer possible for a part of a city to “cave” into a mine. Law has put an end to the undermining of houses without the safeguard of props and all adequate precautions. Do the Haverstraw fatalities call for such legislation in this State? The common law is suffi- cient to cover the responsibility for the dead and injured, atory. He was @ short, stout man of thirty, with piercing black eyes, curly hair of the same color, and a mustache waxed and twisted into horns. Signor Malnat! was provokingly at- not an unusual condition for «|| ‘entive to the violin teagher, and sie good-looking man of five and Was maddeningly gracious to him, at gwenty, who fiods himself without rela-¢ least #0 Edward Merton thought. He tives and with a fortune that migat|Decame unendurable when the man have brought a youth with less self- | tok to walking home with her, Merton sates to che done, [had not been able to learn from: the | Bdward Merton was, or rather im-| YOUN lady herself where she lived;| ‘agined himself to be, a musician. In |°W he made up his mind to follow and| fan amateurish way he played the vio- | {nd out; and being a manly fellow, he lin. The practice may have annoyed | ¥#9 secretly ashamed of himself when fils neighbors in the bachelor apart-|Né started fm to play the apy. nor did ment house where ho lived, with ait bring a botcer feellug when he men- © negro man servant, but they never cor; | (ly, catted it “playing amateur detec- plained, as it scemed to delight " ifs * young performer and to amuse Ate TIED ENO 218) Detatne Dias Wanaa who visited) him: that is the memorandum Merton jotted ‘One of these friends, with an ear for |22W".{n this notebook after secing the ‘concord of sweet sounds,” advised |S°Phla Wagner and her hated escort Merton to take a course at the Con-! servatory, with a view > porfecting | what he callel his “technique,”” and it was his favorable action on this ad- yice that opened life's doors at thelr Widest to the young man and—as we shall sec-was the beginning of pro- found happiness and exquisite misery. Fraulein Sophia Wagner taught the violin at the conservatory, but from her own dislike for publ and her father's opposition she used =the most temptirie offers to appear in con- cert. Sophie's skill was marvellous, every Pupil and teacher at the Conservator herself excepted—conceded t firet day Edwerd Merton res over her skill, but after iret dhe # wus the glria exquis! my grace and ~Madonna-like Mled his heart aud made a learner. ‘ No man can for tong hide his feelings from the woman he loves—certainiy not if he seés her for an ‘hour a day and five days a week. But if Sophia Wag- ner, who may have been an excopt }. Wiscdvered her hasid: State of heart she or gesture gave any inkling of the fact, ‘end be did not dare to tel! her, If not @ sign of love, jealousy is \g@ursly its shadow. The other male ‘violin pupils were not particularly at- Sractive.. Yet Hdward Merton was ned at the thoug%t that they should yéome Into the presence of his Idol; CHAPTER I. FE The Master Musician. a DWARD MERTON was in love, enter a high, dingy apartment house in the most foreign part of New York's foreign east side. “Why, Edward Merton, me son; what brings you down here?" Merton, who was looking up at tke zigzag fire escape that hung over the front of the Tyrol like a geometric cobweb, turned to find himself face to face with Tony Mullen, who had once been In his father’s employ, and was mow on the police force, and e plain man in the Betaine district, ‘Touy; glad to meet you!" re- ed Merton with a futile effort to confusion from the keen-eyed , | offloer. “Ain't you lost?" asked Tony Mullen, with a meaning smile. “Well, perhaps I am; but take me to some place where we can have a bite , {and a quiet chat. I am out hunting In- formation, and you may be able to heip queer oharacters that ome here, anid mostly at nights’ said en, ag he escorted Merton to y back room of a neighboring aurant, the front of which was adorned with signs in five different said Merton, when the lunoheon “and then I want your ad- “Well,""tresponded Tony Mullen, when be bad heard the young mah's story. “I don't wonder that you feel the way What is Mr. Jerome doing to fol-9 Armstrong Committee with prose-| —_— _ Kidnapped in New York, (Tis, Pashinations of a Rawstan, Teor The Evening World's Home Meguzine. Wedneed “Resting By: J. ia Campbell Cory. Letters from the People trious man are better than in any other Southern city. i5.R Barriman’s Rival Humorist. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Wl no one force the niggartly B. R. T. to give decent transit service? That given at the present time would be a hardship on cattle. The writer refors particularly to the practice, reintro- duced the first of the year, of Gumping passengers of one elevated line at Van Siclen avenue and compelling them to walt for trains going through to Cy- press Hills—only four stations further on! The change followed a printed an- nouncement that marks the present People’s Chorus, Cooper Union. To the Baitor of The Bvening World: Is there any place in New York where I can study music free or at @ nominal price? HL As to #outhern Cities. To the Editor of The Evening World: Answering the inquiry of A. B rp- garding the various Southern cities where a Northerner might do well I would advise him to try Birmingham, ‘Ala. ‘The climate 1s healthful and there is plenty of work in the steel mills and cther manufacturing planta in the city and suburbs. I think the prospects of success in Birmingham for an tndus- Pitted Against the Love of a Plucky New Yorker. “My fatherd My father! They mesel’, But they are a queer Jot in that ler in the world, barrim none.” The same Tyrol. Let me explain it all’ professor but seldom ventured out, and ‘And thereupon the offlcer expiained|nwhen he did he was always ooking that all the tenants of the Tyrol were| about him, like one who is being spied ‘Rooshin spies,|on cr who expects a deadly assault. Spat it was Big. Malnat! who drove him o ton, Malnatt, as bts name implte: Btallan, and taught ame you do about that girl, Bure, she’s te most beautiful creature mortal man ever clapped his two eyes on, and if it ween't thet I have « good-lookin’ wits of cam GBS UA he ded tn dove with her , mocialists from| “Now,” said Tony ‘Mullen, in con- x discontents from] clusion, “if you only knew French and Sophia's| German and a few more of them to Tony, was ® grand- | lingoes”. Dir. “But S Answers to Questions manager of the B. R. T. a joker of the Herriman type. service on “Improved the Broadway line!” headed the en-| car and nouncement that doomed the passengers of this line to be dumped at the Van Siclen avenue stock yards. ‘Close con- nection at Van Siclen avenue with Lex- ington avenue trains!” was another of the placarded jokes—the jocular man- ‘agement! aL R Cola Trolley Cars. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: This has been such a warm winter that the usual ‘cold car” kicks have been absent, But as soon as the cold snap sets in the Manhattan trolley cars showed they have had no great change of neture since last year. I nearly froze in a croastown Etghty-sixth street “ the breaths of my fellow pas- sopgers early as if the; Were in the smokes, “Dhis coldness docs Te, One any ood. How about the heat- apparatus? 1y the A Wife's Dilemma. To the Wilitor of The Evening World: ‘Will reazters please let me know what they think of a man who expects his wife to keep house and support two ghiidren and himself and wife and pay 49.60 a month for rent out a 5 and give him $1 for himself, and pay his own car fare? How much o1 e to give? Mrs. N. M. have found him and Killed him!” man,” interrupted Merton. | ‘Well, then," continued the officer,|at the sugge: jJenvwary £720, PeOCR NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES, Society AO, 1906. y By I. @. Cobb. O Insure a successful aeason the management of a Broadway theatres tles up with a team of gentlemanly pirates producing musical comedy: T | by the acre, running foot or in plots to suit the purchaser, One of ' them reads up on the news summaries in the paper to find out what ts @imeiy for the topical hits, and by combining these with a few geneml Mmecuiies | trom the Stardard Joker he writes the book of the piece some evening efter inner. His partner's part is to hypothecate all the aire that made @ hit last year and change the words around a little. [f he ¢urns in any csiginal , music he expects to be paid extra for it. The haniest job is to Mit en @ suitable title. Some authorities favor something with the word “girl” indi, | it 1s custqmary, however, to choose an unusual word, such as would be ap- | propriate Yor a sleeping-car or as the first name of one of the Preshlentg Uttle boys, ; | ‘What follows ts comparatively easy, although expensive 2 fe mecesemry, to hire @ cast of twenty or thirty high-salarted persons, headed ty a inodh about gentleman with talented legs and adjustable comedy epebrows, a soq- | brette who can wear penwiper skirts in en efficient manner and a singing comedienne, generally a rotund lady addicted to the use of dimples, Case fs exercised in the selection of a large covey of good-looking young women to fill in the background becomingly and help out in the roumielaying. Thes | {here must be costuming enongh to fit out King Solomon's family for @ | Newport season and about half a million dollars’ worth of scenery and col- | ored light and silken draperies. Thi combination plays to capacity until the following midsummer, and in the fall goes out booked up solid, Road managers cry for it. Further down the way an effort is made to revive Shakespeare. Consid- erable trouble is experienced in bringing him to. The chief revivalist is. survivor of the classic or scenery-eating school of tragedians. When the eminent Air. Basstuba reaches a climax {t is time to remove the backdrop to a place of safety. Nearly always his chtef support is a syrupy young person who has just left a dramatic school after winning the ladies’ booby prize. She is apt to have one of those irrigated lisps, playing Ophelia with seltzer effecta and keeping the rest of the company dodging to save their makeups, Other speaking parts are in the hands of thin, rough steers, old cows and The ratio of supers is three to an army, two to a mob and one to a crowd. There are sosnic accessories, but they are nearly all accessori after the fact. The entire salary list would just about pay the weekly powder bill for the chorus up the street. Audiences are in om THE FUNNY PART: The revivers blame tt on Shakespeare. ———$—$ oo Marriage, Birth and Death Rates. marriage rate !s higher 1 england than elsewhere, being 15 per 1000. Tn Se ere cottdan i varies £rom:T 60 20 pee 160 The highest birth rate, according to a volume of statistics, referring chiefly to foreign countries, issued by the British Board of Trade, ts in Roumania—39 per 1,000. ‘That count iso has the highest death rate, 27.7 per 100. The lowest marriage rate Sweden, where it is 9 per 1,000, Pe | Favorite Task—Cunversationa! exercises. avorite Book—The unabridged dictionary, Favorite Author—Noah Webster. Wavorite Artist—Ben Tillman. Favorite Fruit~Mashed persimmon, Favorite Plant—Southern moonfiower, Favorite Vehicle—The fifth wheel. Favorite Musical Instrument—The second fiddle, Favorite Character in History—Ajax, defying the light- Square. This was just a week before Christ- mma, and already the great stores in the business centres and the smaller Big. Dialnati did mot live at the Tyrol. end the fact thet his own rooms were Hf j : fay i} i lj ith i cli iit ig i z ? Re i £ E 5 i i i ij i] i | i] s : t | “Td rent the vacant apartments 'n the) shaking the officer’ Tyrol. I know trodues you. If you study the onse at keep an eye on | me cele, sent eae Jandlord and can in- In ad@ition to