The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1906, Page 14

Pubtisning Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New Tort ‘Bt the Post-Omice at New ‘York am Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. NO. 16,249, HE ‘CITY CLUB. “The trustees of the City Club have decided to oppose the passage vof the Elsberg Rapid Transit will.” For what reason? ~ The measure has hitherto had the club’s support, and still deserves it if the club is living up to its charter. The Elsberg bill is city-benefit legislation of a kind which it is pe- Club to promote. It was by the Citizens’ Union and has ‘favored by most public-spirited bod- ies; the Reform Club, the Central Union and the People’s Institute among them, which see in it » For the avowed reason that the necessity, under the bill, of separate : for the construction and operation of projected subways “would to the injury. of the travelling public.” ‘And because the city is financially unable to build new subways, and ¢ capital, presumably Ryan-Belmont capital, must be appealed to What are the motives behind the published reasons? It was charged time ago that the club is undergoing a gradual change of com- in its membership to align it with the Ryan interests. Can this be true? f ‘Can there have been a substantial basis of fact in the statement by a World correspondent of the highest character and credibility | year ago that, while the club is ready to denounce all forms of minor ift, excise evils, gambling, police venality, it has become strangely ‘on questions of the greater graft of quasixpublic corporations, the dangerous and insidious form of public plunder? Was thé club's underlying sentiment on'the Remsen gas bill voiced the indorsement given that iniquitous measure by a trustee and by a i: a Why lias the City Club suddenly gorle over to the other side? Silence was bad enough. If in its place there ts to be outspoken aptagonism of the public welfare, the club is masquerading under a false Banking inguiry continues to halt In the State Senate. The insurance ns continue unborn in the offices of the Attorney-General and the -Attorney. “It’s all meat, anyhow,” said the man who found a mouse POISONED COMMUNION WINE, Health Commissioner Darlington tells the Aldermanic Committee : that he analyzed a sample of “communion. wine” and found it to consist of hard cider, wood alcohol and coloring matter. ‘Wood alcohol 3 a.poison. Not long ago a number of persons were ‘Killed in this city by drinking whiskey economically constructed on a alcohol basis. “Communion wine” made of wood alcohol prob- ; kills few persons, so little of it is taken into any one stom- but it does show thé greed of the poisoners, Dr. wants money and men for a more extended cam- Paign against impure foods. That is all the city can do; that much it should do. What Uncle Sam can and should do is to frame a national pure food taw that shall stop the traffic in wood alcohol “wine,” pow- dered talc “sugar,” turnip “raspberry jam” and things that are much ‘worse. ’ ‘ ‘ a ously wlin the people who elec them become awake to their own) same Put %% te boo mt done] Setren the Horse Proniens |S Tine oun EN CHIR, [ite supe Grek and Laun one i ‘ . not do It! He says it does not @ | To the Editor of The Evening World: fen evar) danger. If 2 i hepsi iene mie much cheating rubbish and! any difference, and that I would get| In answer to your correspondent, who Says “Skiddoo” Is Greek. ot why ces fang i Seger oly piasbiocts ‘Occasionally a n fe Con; i if an; happened t hi to divide 17) horses among 3}-To the Editor of The Evening World: uestion which certainly requires some i the camels being guided by native 7 si oe Ss ON Se an ives sea en ey ee tcrminad ettore | oatsie Tivinwg the hrat (2, the second'i-3| In regard to. the origin of the slang |eluci¢ation. RICHARD B. BROWN. | ‘Thare (6 20, Oriver's nN ercams oh x mens Diack pig for me. Vit ‘im I ‘ave done for, Zut! I mock me of ‘Im. ‘BH will CHAPTER I. The Murder. %& was a pool of blood, girl must have tain unconscious The strongest possible suspicion only screamed “Murder!” and timmedi- pointed to a man who had been em-| ately fon in e fit of hysterics that lasted ployed in shoveling and carrying coal, | three-quarters of an hour. When at last cleaning windows, and chopping wood | she came to herself abe told her story, | “for several of the buildings, and who | and, the hell porter having been sum-| | had left that very Saturday. moned, Rameau's rooms were again ap- had, in fact, been committed with this | proached. qhan's chopper, and the man himself|° ‘re bicod still lay on the floor, and jad been heard again and again to) the chopper, with which the orime had threaten Rameau, who, in his brutel! ovitentiy been committed, rested against fashion, had made a butt of him. This! the fender; but the body hud vanished! fman was a Frenchman, Victor Goujon | 4 search was at once made, but 20 by name, who had fost his employment | trace of tt could be seen anywhere. It BS watchmaker by reason of an in-| On .2 yi estbie that it could have Jury to his right hand, which destroyed | 5, carried out of the building, for the its steadinors, and so he had fallen) nay porter must at once have noticed . a: Leas fen in the | 82¥Pody leaving with 0 bulky a burden, jent, of which Goujon had mado | Dil), n te building it was not to | ther a pet, and the negro would gome- ang i vse this animal as a missile, fling- ies aor ivan fntonsen of these (Ang it at the Uttle Frenchman's head. day the police were of | course still in possession of Rameau's One such occasion the tortoise struck | som Inspector Nettings, Hewilt was | tol, was in charge of the case, and as the inspector was an acquaintance of his, and was then in the rooms upstairs, Hewitt went up to see him. Nettings was pleased to seo Hewitt, end invited him to look around the roams, “Perhaps you can spot some- thing we have overlooked,” he sat, ‘wall no forcibly as to break its shell, Bnd then Goujon seized a shovel and rushed at his tormentor with such blind , after correspondence with a in France. who offered him ‘Work, gave motico to leave, which ex- on the day of the crime, At about culiarly the function of the City], form of practical relief from the encroachments of the traction | . of my husband. We have saved a little| shirts and do my own baking cook-| horses, thus distributing his seventeen | , ber of slang whrds current in 7 4 ban! 1s | ing, so I consider I do my share of sav-| horses. After which he could return the | DUN Of > Congressmen are human. They will take pure food bills more seri-| Tae?” ie Pat Mista to nave, my | INE the money. WIFE, Jersey City. | borrowed horse to his neighbor. “Come |‘ible country and in England, Dut eps Martin Hewitt, Investigator. °g° THE TORTOISE CL A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. ERE 1s a genuine scene of carnage, in miniature, reproduced from the Sclentific American. ‘The picture f is enlarged to the alze the same will ap- pear through @ powerful magnifying |= —~ glass. It showa a short section of rose i stem covered with the tiny aphis” or ant-cows. One of these ap! das has just been attacked by a sting ing fly, The plump lttle aphis, says the Sclentific American, Kk like hybrids Between @ verdant goat and a green pig, and they get about much lke over- fet swine. Their inactivity permits them to be readily attacked, and their only attempt eat defense is in wagging | their bodies from side to side, which fj eometimes for a moment disconcerts the parasite fly.” Bables arrived recently in the homes of twin sisters, lving within a blogs “ of each other in Colgan street, Louisville. There was but fifty-six minutes dlf- ference in the time of the births. Sent to bed in pinishment for @ Uttle naughtiness, some days ugo, which. transpired later, he did not commit, Harry Ambler, « fourteen-year-old boy, hanged himself. ———— upon as dead nowadays, and therefore Algeciras may be considered es a for) eaken place. Only twice has it made any nolse in the history of the ‘The first occasion was in 1944, when it withstood a long siege by Alfonso Castile, and the second: was on July 6, 180, when a British squadron under Any city which does not appear periodically in the papers may be SEN i James Gaumares entered Algeciras Bay to cut out the French fleet moored ‘under Admiral Linois, For over @ hundred years Algeciras has slept in row it is once more being talked of as the town in which the Morocco Confers ence is to be held. Here's one of the ‘The roster of oddest photographs fs Mississippl ever taken. It is a tural College spapshot of a trick dog ° leaping over two chairs and has “caught” bim at the very acme of the jump. Compare the dog's position with of ordinary you how faise is the 1dea the average person }) hes of the way a Jumping beast looks. ‘The usual drawings § @isplay far more strenuous action than is shown fn :: Qogen Township, Michigan, has produced the prize bridegroom in Georg@ Bintoa, who, st ainety-cight. and with six grandchildren, has just wedded o/ Miss Maud Love, aged thirty-four. « of j ‘Traced by the impression of his teeth in a half éaten apple left in a hous = | at Basle, Switzerland, a burglar has confessed and been sentenced. “This, the last wil and testament of me. John Thomas,” read @ recently filed document in Montreal. “I give ali my things to my relations to be di among them the best way possitte. Ni B.-If bnybody kicks up e row he isvs to have anything.” In a lawwult at Aberdeen, Wash. over a horse whose death the Swner at- tributed tc a man who had hired it, the Court dc ide\! the animal had ¢o sulcidg Letters from the People ~ Answers to Questions Husband Calls Her “Mrs, Nage.’ | that he shall do it now, and for that/ and the third 1-9, let htm borrow a horse | word “‘Skiddoo,” T would say that # is he calls me ‘Mrs, Nags.’ I am a care-| from his neighbor, which would give him |@ corruption of the Imperative form of ioBbenl qa than impoiy habia ful, economical woman, I make all my| 18 horees. Then he could give No. 19|the Greek verb “Skedao,” meaning to I would like to ask readers’ opinion| Graces, tri my hats, also mage his| horses, No. 2.6 horses and No. 3 2|scatter, disperse or run away quickly. name. He has promised to have my His Seventh Case - s ® By ANthur M ris My BE oe” Author of “ Tales of Mean Streets.% “1 ike me to look into the) way.” ; i matter’—— Hewitt began. | Hewitt took the paper, “This,” “Eh? Oh. look into it! Well, I~can't|eald, “is a different sort of and—perhaps I'll employ you, ¢h, eh? Good afternoon.” . b ‘The landlord vanished apd the in- iP i Z i I ts inder the next two ments communicate," if ‘ H a: display, end was contin- ly buytng new clothes, which, in- deed, were lying, hanging, ilttering and choking up the bedroom in all direc- . Dhe \cagaenge tal however, on He-witt's inquiring after such a gar- ment in particular, did remember one heavy black ulster, which Rameau had a waa the best man in the place, aay. Unie wora—only in the coldest | ae fn Seater (After the body was discovered,” | never heard of bis F “was | sible about, relations, We any atranger observed about the place | ing of his connections; he | on @ banker's reference,”* ER i : | ‘ “Terrible thing for my property! Terrible!” a floor, We showed it to the housemald, | ink in @ lange, clumsy tuand, thus: Rut I expect to have him by this tue icrrivie! Comes of havitte anything to md then she remembered—she wes too to-morrow. Here comes Mr. Styles, the|do with these ft i ‘orelgners, much upset to think of it before—thet landors eh? New buildings afd all—character when she was in the room the paper | Hewitt repeated musingly. Mr, Styles was @ abn vaapertorsy and nce No one come to live here now, was lying on the dead man's by an avenger of the tortoise,’ That| withered looking. man, ? enante—nolsy niggers—murtered pinned there, evidently. It must have] seems odd.” Twikoned his eyebrtwa as he spoke, in|by my own sorvanty—terrible! You dropped off when they removed the| ‘Well, rather off. But you under-| short, jerky phrases, formed’ any opinion, en?" ©# o'clock that atternoon a housematd, | ‘though it's mot a vase there can be | procending toward Ramean's rooms, met | much doubt about.” oof #m he was going away. Goujon) ‘You thinic N's Goujon, don't yout" Ter food-by, and, pointing in the| “Think? Well, rather! Look here! As of Ramoeau's rooms, said, ex- e201 ss we got here on Saturday we body, It's a ease of helf-med revenge| stand the reference, of course, Have| “No news, of, Enepector, et, eh?] ‘I dae eay I might {f T went into | Netioes «© panes on Goujon's par, pihintly, See $t;| they told you about Rameau's treat-| Found out nothing ele, eh? Torrible| the you read French, don't you?” ment of Goujon’s pet tortoise?’ thing for my property—terriblet The paper was a@ plain, large nlf) “Have you seen Goujon?” sheet of note paper, on which a sen-| ‘Well, no, we haven't, ‘There seems tence tn Franch was gonawled in sell!lto be some: Ute difialty auhost that,