The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1906, Page 3

— Seems oe + age ee ee | BYSTEM — EVERYWHERE. {Work Done Builds Up Green im Recruits Into Strapping th Big Men. ) rom the Time the Youth Enters © MWest Point Until He Is Grad- {&, uated, He Is Working. By Ruth Earie. 1 ate that we don't have a U,.8. je tilitary academy. Why should boys have all the fun? Don't the + girls deserve some of it? The thought of this particular sex wrong (a enough to turn every Idle lady into a woman with the cause of the Wasberican Amazon at heart. ‘Wouldn't any girl alive go to West t If she had the chance?—not to be "* to hops and football games by the gallant cadets, but to be turned fato @ etrapping army girl. with the {ner end brawn of the regular West int product. ‘fhe brawn is the thing, And when you come to investigate it you see it's no enay thing to acqutre, It takes hours and hours of hand work, and clean, herd living for a round-shouldered, hollow-chested “candidate” to be turned tn a wasp-walsted, deep-chested, grad- uated first-class man ready for his ‘commission. ‘When the youngster from the little @own in Illinois gets down at the litte! brown rallway station with the full- fledged cadets standing almost like eo Many pert young pea-cocks he grows wonscibus of beng nothing but ah awk- ward efvilian, any way, and he grips his bag nervously and makes his timid] way past the upper-classmen of the! “chesty”’ air and the frigid stare, and climbs the steep, winding road to the Post with a pretty sage sense of being in" for more than he bargained, The Cold, Gray State. Every man he meets goes by with a fook e@skance that says plainer than ywords: “Have you the cheek to think * your fit, fit, fit for a soldier?" But he's shown > bare quarters in armacks, and he gets in some of the cadet-gray togs after a while and all of a audden he forgets to feel like a Stray, homeless pup ond pulls back hia : 6 and “sets up" like an ame- feur military man, But he's a beastly “plebe" and the up- per class men take good care to tell him ao. They don't dare order him to “brace” nowadays with the Insistency of years ago, when mild hazing wasn't under the dan. But in emulution of oo honorable cadets the Purry plebe ‘braces anyway, He contracts his @iapbgram and holds his chin In ‘tll the back of his neck feels his stift collar. Maybe cadets, overbold and with rev- erence for things of precedent, accost him now and then with: “Huh! drag in your chin! Huh! brace! Don't look at me. You're a di - xe a duffer of a plebe. Straight. So the wretched fourth-class man tries harder than ever to get the poul- ter-pigeon hast i | It takes months and months of drill @nd exercise to make the green recruit “a eoldier what's fit for a soldier.” Is His Own Valet. He lives in barracks without “! at 6A. M. for reveille, is room in order, works hard at lessons and has ‘y-five minutes of exercise in the inagium each day, besides drill. ‘And then if his room is reported un- ‘or his shoes “not In alignment,” if "3 @ second late for reveille or mess, in a recitation it's all reported jor officer and gues down in| fal pewritten story of his lite. of small Offenses and he learns the routine of the y and “finds himself one morning with a clean and proper kit," like the recrulty. ‘ust so lon ras ls plucky and bright abd the John D. Rocketeller, sr, sort— Gym. work Is é bsolutely required— y-five minutes a day fi ‘or plebes and pper classmen, who ., In warmer weather, en outside rill 1s possible, the exac- ‘tons are lighter. Variety In Training. Plebes borin with the old setting-up gud then run the whole gamut clubs, appurati 3 army boys are up to. er, are drilled in exercises that they geo out thelr men to when they get commissions.” In one big room th c vm that we looked in one-half dass were playing, hero-on-the-feld- ‘ba! cat ing a fellow beyond the hen the wounded man the ambulance act him- classmen Unea, to and did guard, one!" came the order. chap “qualified 90 adroit ‘@nemy went down and bum head go hard that he didn Studies. THE JANITOR. | | Clared, Tenos src lpanne, AND UNGAINLY AS HE ARRIVES clean, bright, roomy tank where cadets swim nd play water polo in inter, ._oriter ts anxious for hia new get our new building we'll show you the finest tank in the . Tt will be tmutit in a separate wing with & eines Toot—end swiewalag there will Down tm the riding academy the cadets were doing feats i They were taking hurdles and all sorts of somersault mounts and thres-horse team work Ike circus champions. And if the stunt were new and not easy they took tuppbles on the tan-bari with- oyt a murmur. You've heard of youn centaurs, No wonder army men ride as they do. ined minutes. He’ BEGINS TO ‘Ami no wonder they dance divinely. Terpeichoring 1s part of the course— ust As qualifying used to be. But this anti-hazing crusade cut the latter out, and every man of the old Fekewe reeretn 1 pt. Koehler explained bout that gacred cusiom with much «lee. “You see, if a plebe hated to do cer- tain things—like eating prunes at mess she had to do his hateful duty till he ‘qauitified.’ ‘That w fine thet he, Fe Age) it oe _ a “If a chap pass 8 prunes by an the other fellows noticed, he was fore?d | either to eat his dally portion or else qualify before a special session of up- por classmen. If he ate a dozen dishes of prunes at one sitting and without a | murmur to the satisf action of solemn- CASTRO FACES REVOLT OF ARMY AND THE PEOPLE VenezuelanPresident Pre- paring for War While Rebellion Brews. WILLEMBTAD, Island of Curacao, Feb. 2—(Delayed in transmisston).—A traveller who arrived here to-day from Venezuela sald: “President Castro {s busily engaged In enlisting throughout the Republic and in other ways preparing for war, Gen- erals in each, state have been commis- siioned and orders have been given te call the recruits to the colors. “Information from the best sources in- dicates that the people do not support President Castro. On all sides are heard expressions of a desire to revolt and overthrow the President's government 80 goon as the French blockade ts de- “A well-Informed Venzuelan told me that the troops will desert the! col- ors, as they have all been compelled to join the army, voluntary enlistment being unknown in Venezuela, | Puerto Cabello and La Guayra are the only ports capable of making a slight de- fense. The fomner has two modern six- Inch guns and the latter has four mod~ ern six-inch guns with the usual dl play of old Spanish pieces, which would) be blown to pleces at the firat shots. ‘It 19 doubted whether President Castro can raise more than 16,00) men who will take the field with any show of spirit. The men are armed with Mauser rifles, but they never practice| shooting. They have 20,000,000 rounds! of hall cartridge and a few mountain | guns. Tho Veneguelan Navy consists of five small craft concentrated at La Guayra, “Well-poated persons express fear that the French citizens in Venesuela will be in great danger if war breaks out. Present Castro is of a revengeful na- ture and the inhabitants of the country are at his mercy. “It Is reported at Carncas that the American Minister, Mr. Russell, ts per- gona non grata owing to the apparent siding of the United States with France, | ‘and that he may be given his passports. Matters aro nearing a climax. President Castro will compel obedience to his will, “Five days ago the'El Grito Del Pueb- | lo, a newspaper, suggested that the peo- ple should not resist the French. The oditor was Immediately imprisoned with- fut a show of trial and the paper was, suppressed, een “Phe German Charge d'Affatree/indig- | nantly contradicts the reports @ald to be circulated by President Castro and others of bis surrounding that (Gor- many {9 supporting Venexeu pol- fey against France. “Gen, Alcantara, @ Venezuelan edu- cated at West Point, has been appoint- ed to the military command at La Guay- ra, He has récetved orders to fire on any French warships the moment they are sighted.” ALL CITY OFFICIALS CALLED, ON THE TB, ‘All the city officials of Bayonne, N. J., trom Mayor Gardner down to the jani- tor of the City Hall spent two hours to-day trying to lift Dennis Keating's; old white horse out of the ditch into which it had fallen, Keating had driyen in from his home in West New Brigh- ton, Staten Island, when the horse ran away on Avenue C,, finally plunging into @ trench tora up for water pipe repalrs opposite the City Hall. Keat- ing was thrown out and the horse was wedged tightly into the pit with the mn on.top of him. ¥ und Chlef of P ice ter hi Central Office, Origin of the Skiddoo Term One of Few Things We Don’t Khow—Perhaps Our Readers Can Tell. Brooklyn, Feb. 8. To the Diitor of The Evening World: ly explain to me the expression “Tweaty- three” means and from whence it was derived? I have heard half a dozem definitions, but no two alike, Yours truly, DAN MACK, Fifth street. Daniel, you have us lashed to the mast. We could tell you most any- thing—we can. even tell you what “Twenty-three” means—but we can't tell you where it originated. George Cohan, who Introduced ‘Twen- ty-three" to the stage in “Little Johnny Jones," tells us the don't know where It came from. He heard it first in San Francisco, Some delving bookworm has traced It back to Charles Dickens, When Sidney Carton, the hero of “A Tale of Two Cities,” was summoned to the tum> brel to be driven to his finish on the fj send GETS HIS HAIR, CUT NS faced cadets, he showed his superiors that he could eat prunes—he ‘qualified and could henceforth refuse ‘fruit. “It wns all harmless hazing and great ‘fun for the hazers, But it has been guillotine hie number was twenty-three. The bookworms assert that the number has since been associated with a quick departure. Somebody else advances the theory that not more than twenty-two horses are started in the big handicaps and that all over that number are gent back to the stable. On the race track, he says, “twenty-three” means to go back. Old-time followers of the ponies do not accept this theory. “Twenty-three 18 now accepted as a substitute for “On your way" or “Go henee,” or anything else expressive of desire on the part of the speaker to Inform another to depart. But we are unable to find any one who can explain how it came to be recognized or who first used It In that connection, Therefore, Daniel, we are, perforce, Inclined to leave the answer to your question to our readers. All possessing Knowledge of the subject are Invited to thelr information to "'Twenty- Three Editor, The Evening World, Pu- Mtzer Bullding, New York,” HELD FOR BOSTON POLICE. Howard, Jail Breaker, Identified as an Old-Time Crook Here. raigned before Magtstrate Walsh in the Centre Street Police Court to-day. There he was recognized as an old- | time thief, whose picture has been in| the rougiss’ gallery of this city for a nomber of years, and who was ar- Charles Howanl, who was arrested at the Catherine street ferry by Detective- Sergeants Granville and Kahn, of the yesterday changed with having broken jail in Boston with the help of his sweetheart, who sent him a wedding cake containing saws, was ar- rested Inst November for the larceny of w $1,000 gold watch from Congress- man Gollfogle 'At the request of Detective Granville Magistrate Walsh remanded Howard to the Tombs untll Feb. 12, by which | time {t is expected extradition papers ‘will be here. SOME ECLIPSES AND OTHERS. WHY NOT AU. S. MILITARY ACADEMY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN GIRLS? “TOM. JBM BOXING AND stopped," So It'a cadet can qualify In, the ex: ams. and the physical "training he “dofts the cadet gry and dons the ‘army blue. MORE MUTINY ACANST CAR BLACK SEA FLET Some Officers Jailed and{ Others Banished to Distant Ports. OF HER HUSBAND ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9.—Mutiny is still smoouldering on board several ves- sels of the Black Sea fleet, notably on the battleship Catherine II., where sev- eral officers have heen arrested. A number of naval officers, according toa dispatch to the Slovo, from Sebasto- poli have been transferred to the Fer East for petitioning the Marine Ministry for an open trial of foruner Liout. Schmidt (who commanded the cruiser Otehakoff, which mutinted in November last at Sebastopol and was subsequently sunk by the loyal ships), and for satis- faction of the service demands which were one of the main causes of the mu- tiny of sailors belonging to the Black Sea Fleet. The trial of Schmidt has been post- poned because It is thought to be haz- ardous to transfer him from the Fort- ress of Otchakoff (near Odessa), where he Is confined, to the naval headquar- ters at Sebastopol. ‘Three employees of the Putiloft Works belonging to the “Party of Ac- tive Struggle Against Revolution and Anarchy,” the so-called “Black Hun- dred,” were surprised and killed yes- terday by @ party of revolutionary workmen, They were accused of fur- nishing the pollos with lists of revo- lutionary workmen end with assisting 4m making arrests and searches, ‘The Terrorist campaign has been vig- orously prosecuted in the provinces of late. From two to ten attempts on the lives of officials and police are reported daily, _————_— Young Woman Who Drank Poison in Jersey City May Be Madeline O'Neill. The young woman who drank carbolic ack) In a Jersey City restaurant and who ts now lying between life and death in the City Hospital is believed to be Madeline O'Neill, a bride of ten months, whose husband 1s Edward O'Neill, of Brooklyn. She moans and cries con- tinually, “Why don’t you love me? I He You more than ever.” And tn de- m has spoken the supposed hus- band’s name, eT in She {8 no more than twenty-one years old and seems to be suffering as much from worry as from the poison, she wears @ wedding ring on whf was engraved “O'N, to M. ¥., May/ , 1906,"" She also carnied a torn shee/ of letter Paper on which was written! ‘And take the subway up : cevoudl street. Be sure’ ald take the ex press, Lt will go quicker, wee ibe ponition, “it you do pera ‘ou hil better gut oft alck f vil try it, out 1 think’ — hE he police ute tying to locate the eee BAIL JUMPER BROUGHT BACK Eugene §. St ley, Accused of Em- besulement, Caught, Bugene 8. Stanley, a clerk, thirty years old, who lived at No. 260 West Thiny-eighth sireet, axrived in thie city to-day from Chicago tn charge of Detective-Sergt, Howard, of this city. Stanley was confidential bookkeeper for Archer & Co., of No. 231 West For eth street, and disappeared with him, it 1 alleged, $4,000 of le was cau t Washington, D.C." and “was admitted to ball. ‘Then he jumped his bail bond ind went to Chicago, where he was re- arrested, BUTTERMILK, A Burer Way Out. The “buttermilk fad,” which its fol- lowers insisted was the cure for all the ills that human flesh Is helr to, has pretty well had its day. Buttermilk is a pleasant and healthy drink, but there are a whole lot of desirable things that it cannot do, A Nebr. woman found somethin, much more worth while. She says: “Three years ago my stomach was in such a frightful condition that I could scarcely bear to tak; at all. 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