The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1906, Page 10

(Conipany, Bc Wh ion wa eke ‘the Post-Office-at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter, “Sabbath Day Morals. \. a rat Hussey the city has a resolute champion of Sunday law and Bae ; the performance of Italian opera at the Academy and ig the 3,000 would-be lawbreakers who gatheted to attend it he ht the orderliness of his precinct up to a standard which may well the envy of other police captains, That is, if The Evening World is right in supposing that before he his attention to these malefactors he had taken pains to put a stop © more objectionable forms of lawbreaking in his precinct. “Befor. he ordered his reserves to Fourteenth street it is assumed that closed all the gambling houses, dance halls and saloon side doors hiis jurisdiction; that there was no disorderly house open or panel ih progress that had escaped his vigilant eye. of course, some persons may seek to detract from the merit of the Captain's achievement. They may think that as between the 23,000-who ‘went to the opera and those others who preferred the tinkle of ‘piano music:in questionable places a discrimination was exercised which "» savored of hypocrisy. , The-astute legislators who made Sunday opera In costume a crime ~~ knew what they wanted, and the law is the law. But there is nothing on the statute books to warrant police captains in giving the suppression of ‘this particular crime precedence over well-recognized forms of Sunday Mawbreaking. 1 Blizzard coming. Of course. And will the grumblers who have been grum- Piling at the warm weather stop grumbling? Not a bit of it! 4 : The B. R. T. Habit. W Upon the face of the facts, the motorman of one of the tein was it fault in yesterday's collision on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad. ily the comparatively slow speed in taking the curve prevented a shock- disaster, \ € All the same, the B, R. T. should not get the collision habit. It has enough bad habits now. ; oo “Open Winters’’ and Trade. * ° ® January without a cake of icé cut on the Hudson is something more Whan a meteorological freak. It is a serious blight on trade and industry of -gnany kinds, ‘With the continuance of the unseasonable weather poetic contempla- _ ion of lilacs blooming in door yards wili give way to consideration of the “dlisturbance which a green winter causes to commercial conditions. i it is a winter of discontent for the furrier, the clothing dealer, the taberdasher. ‘The’liquor trade falls off ata time when hot scotches and warming “nips” lack the excuse which zero weather gives. There being ‘m0 snow. to remove there is no distribution of hundreds of thousands of | _-Mlotiars in small sums among the needy by the Street-Cleaning Department sand the car companies. The output of Welsh rabbits after the theatre “suffers a diminution. The butcher feels the effect in a measure because of {the smaller consumption of animal food when the thermometer is above fifty.) ‘Travel South is curtailed. The revenues of the livery stable keeper | tare cutiinto. Some part of the result of a stringency in any one line of | trade is inevitably passed on to others. ) A compensating feature is the | Barger amount of building construction made possible. _- Not a blizzard to date and spring bonnets almost ready for display. ‘Whe winter of 1905-06 will go down into history as the Waterloo of the weather sharps who foresaw a period of severe cold as a necessity to “ay- the summer heat, In guesses of this kind modem science, it must conféssed, is not greatly advanced beyond primeval man. y Se ee The Heaviest: Chain. NE. of the new Atlantic turbine ners carries a heavier chain than any ves- of an inch thick in the smallest part. Whoa (Ghera ike wire mace te te to the point of destruction they withstood the full strength of the power- testing machine, a tensicn of over $70 tons, I sion, “Wheat direction ai the carriage take?” “I didn't see it come nor go, sir. The porter might be able to teil you,” re- piled the clerk, whe was evidently) sincere. The porter was “Yes, oir, the cab Grove by Dutch Pete, 9 first rate feller. Me an’ him's frien’s, Which way did it «o? ‘Well, air, I didn't notice, but it seems to me It went south,” said the porter. ¥ soe i ; i ie i iz i E a my i iL “Pete,” said one cabby—thie appeared te be the opinion of his crowding com- rades who came with whips in their hands and wearing shocking high hate— “Pete left ‘bout an hour ago. Don't know where he went or when he'll be back. But the man that gave the order bad a long red beard and wore a dear- skin cost." This was Michel. ‘The perplexed Sergeant was biting his mustac! and looking desperately at Merton and Don Freeman when the sur- rounding cabbies sent up the shout: “Pete! Ho, Pete! Here's a plain clothes officer wants ye for robbin’ a bank! Hurry over an’ get run in for a Christmas gift!” =, Obeying the Sergeant's gesture, the amezed German driver reined in beside uf t i if B CHAPTER XII. A Merry Christmas to See! 'H won't give up, Sergeant! By Yingo, we're deal hot on their eee NO. 16,226, ) Letters from the People The Bridge Crush. ‘To the Editor of The Eventag World, While J, for one, will admit, although somewhat reluctantly that the bridge wervice during the rush hours may be the best under the circumstances that can be given, there are portions of the day whee conditions are as bad and worse than between 5 and 6 o'clock. At 4.15 o'clock the through elevated trains icease to run and the locals begin. There dnapped in New York, him and asked: “Vot vos all de row ‘bowd, Cap'n?” ‘Were you engaged an hour or s0 ago to take a party from the Riga Hotel?’ asked the sergeant. “T-hate dot shob, Cap'n,” answer. “Where did you leave them?* “At de Battery.” “Not on the Battery?” “No, poss, I lef dem peebles on a fellow! ‘Never Wouldn't it be was the don know dot name.” jor the name of the captaint’ ‘No, air," ‘Just where was the tug?” “Clove by canal boat basin.” “And your four passengers went — Gheard the wgt't-<— “Yes, sir.” “Were they all willing?” ‘Vell, poss, I don't know noddings "bout dot; bud dere vas no fuss vot I cold see."* “\.ank you, Pete, that's all.” Ang motioning for his companions to enter the carriage, the Sergeant ordered the driver to make for the Battery, east of South Ferry. Sophia Wagn.. was not wanting in coolness nor coupage, but she knew the men she had to deal with, and she feared tor her father’s lige if she at- tempted to thwart them by uttering 0 outcry. The professor himself was dazed, not only, by, the situation,.but from the ore of women, children and elderly persons who have read of the crush during the rush hours: and to avoid it return to Brooklyn be- fore 5 o'ckek. But what do they find? Nothing but the same crishing. crowd- ing and inhuman dreatment as the tired workers do during the rush hours, Thi locals are run on such a long head. ‘way that the cars”are jammed and the gates closed a minute or two before! : “effects of the powerful drug adminis- oe HIS picture at first glance would: » ‘seen to depict an “Aunt Sally” game or a bonneted countrywoman the stage. As a matter of fact, It is the photographed head of an Egyptian mummy, and Js ‘several thousand years — old. It Was found in Antine, Esypt is In @ state ‘of unprecedented preserva- tion. The headdress }s of heavy, dark leaves, Whidh were placed in @ sort of ‘eronet’or chaplet above the brow at the time the body was mummified. several thousand years ago, The colledtion of postals 1s more of a craze In England than anywhere elae, Germany beihg second, with France third. When the English warships re- cently visited Brest the French post- office profited ‘by more than $2,000 from the stamps ‘sold for affixing to postals for friends at home. J r6: A well-supported movement 1s on foot to erect a handsome monument to Joe Grimaldi, the clown, who died in 1897, and whose tombstone in the graveyard of St. James's, Pentonville, London, is in a dilapiduted condition. Grimaldi was the originator of the clown's slogan, ‘‘Here we are again!” If the work! were birdies, a naturalist declares, man could not “inhabit after nine years’ time, in spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manu+ factured for the destruction of Insects, ‘Iho insects and slugs ‘woud smpky Sart) all the orchards and crops in that time. Here ts @ picture of the only fish that fishes. The thread pro- Jecting from its upper Up has @ sort of fleshy protuberanes on the end. Smafier fishes see thia and try to bite it, and are at once sucked into the great mouth below. The angler fish, ‘or, to give it ite Latin name, Lophius Pisca- torlus, wee first known as the fishing-frog, or frog fish. “It is found on the coasts of Europe and America. - . ‘The most curious vegetable in the world is the truffle, since it has neither roots, stem, flowers, leaves nor seeds. In some parts dogs and pigs are trained to dig for it, the animals being guided by their sense of smell. ‘The hair of rabbits and other animals in Russia !s converted into bowls, Gishes and plates, which are valued for their strength, durability and Mght- ness, The erticles are similar in appearance to varnished leather, 2 ‘Thie ts the photographed hand of the Dowager Empress of China, Like other persons of high rank in her country, she allows her fingernails to grow to" an abnormal length, but unlike many of them, she has her nails elaborately carved and etched with quaint patterns. When a fingernall breaks she hes {t fastened back into place with silver rivets, Some of the more brittle nails are often protected by carved, painted shielis. oo ee A Thought for To-Day. ‘The people is a beast of muddy brain w Answers to Questions bist starting poe is given, There te fall of idle’ cars: a THO Or MS Home and the Man. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The sister of a deserted wife com- Plaine of men's wholesale desertions of homes. Has her sister her husband's supper ready when he comes home from his day's toll? Has she a pleasant “Good evening, John,” to offer instead & The Maéhinations of a Russian Pitted Against the Lowe of AU, © Stud: Ibe fewer desertions, ble dus, The husband te al. rule, painted black. «Bit yeas males Fg, shes husbands" comfort iy a Plucky New Yorker. (= 9 Jers under the circumstances, tered that first night by Dr, Semvitch:| During business hours there 1s no part and then fears for his daughter un- ‘of New York more crowded than south nerved him, And so it came,.to pass that when Or- loff ordered them down to the waiting carriage they quietly obey¢d,. nor at- tempted to make an inquiry as to thelr destination. Michel had been successful in: engag- ing Capt, Schurmoff, who ‘was more willing to make five hundred dol- | Ferry and the streets thereabouts, 30 that the passing of a carriage with four occupants, all of whom seemed rational, attracted not the least attention. Orloff discharged the driver at once, and, guided by Mich¢l, went at once on board the'tug, which they found tied up beside a convenient pier. Capt. Schurmof, a grissied okt Rus- >. “My darling! My darling! Thank God, | have found youl” n, welcomed his passengers, and gal- tly oonducted' the professor “and Sophia to a comfortable iittle cabin, and then came on deck and joined and Dr, Semviteh, The strain was telling on Orloff. He stroked his short beard nervously and. rocked on his heels. At Bight of the captain he called out: z “Don't whit here! We saust be off ot once!" a Tn sucha Durex, sy, Secret Society | That’ knows not tts own strength, and therefore stander Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands Of @ mere child guide it with dit Gad rein; One kick would be enough to break the chain; But the deast fears, and what the child demands It does, nor tts own terror understands, Confused and stupefied by bugbecrs vain, Most wonderful! With its oton hand it tiea And gags itself—gives itself death and war For pence doled out by kings from its own store. Its own are all things deticeen earth and heaven; But thie it knows not, and if one arise To tell this truth it kills him unforgiven, Y —Campanelia, By Arthur Rochefort; AUTHOR OF “THE DETACHED BRAIN.** Scere corn th tug captain, award Motto Peside ‘ht leaped down to the cabin, wi Freeman in close pension adnrg “sellcontfole bu control shred of that article sow, bearers he uttered a shout catching her in tis arma “My darling! My y T have found yo i and again, nor ie male ence at, resistance, thdeed Ught 15 ane Reautitul eyes 10) underst t's emotion and was pleased with Sts exhivition, T am more than de- these “Prof, Way 5 Ughted vo meet ‘you fined auspicious circuinstancest eet as he ghook the lervish. a@bunt But fueh a Chris not_withesned Btuyvesank |" ‘Aud Don Freeman was Certainly Betain n Such’ a. Chrisunaa” Eve La and I jt v father, an faithful old Hannah? »- ‘The flow other seavonable he young men ordered to sho bottles, which they ia Freeman gave the olifidren id orders bo in the ample pockets of their | And, ordered, bonfires and an ‘biddl: a Buf and tat Felts Hogger ‘ADA the sergeant and! at ie, fi being. duty, Sein Satate ek ee nd there was dancing? es, lowe. ‘or ite And when it was, ral , Bud a caterer came at: kderamd four mon tumbling out, and recognised them at once. _ Fi Dr. Semvitch ‘starmered ena gasped: “My God! we are lost!” “ous guna to: Seek, but we are not, wi we