The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1906, Page 10

seer ee ett ET - . e Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, February 24, 1906-7 The Evening World’s The Morin | @ebfiahea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Sevcnd-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 4G woe cee csecee ceeeee sees 16,288. THE ELSBERG BILL OPPOSITION. | What object have so many self- ' constituted spokesmen for the pub- lic in urging upon the Legislature | “something just as gaod” in place, of the Elsberg bill for the regulation | of rapid transit franchises in the} public interest? That measure having met with Disconsolate. By J Campbell Cory. | NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES. By Irvin 0 other's solar plexus. fessions. S. Cobb. UT in ‘Frisco, In the large pavilion where they hold revivals an& prize-fights, two cavemen meet for the purpose of indenting each | The ringside {s surrounded by leaders of the | local bar, prominent bookmakers and other members of the learned pro For twenty-efght splendid rounds Mr. Ignace Spogge, better known under his fighting name of Young Kid Mulligan, gallantly feeds the Horrible Hindoo his own front teeth one at a time. A magnificent speo- ; tacle 1s presented. A promoter of bull-fights from Mexico, overcome by the | Sight, falls in a faint, and several patriotic lovers of the manly or mayhem | art stand on his head, cheering happily every time the bridge of a nose be- | comes a subway or an incisor starts for its long home, | hands his opponent a transfer and puts him out on the corner, thus win- |ning the right to medium weight championship. We quote from the presat) Eventually the Kid “Round Twenty-nine—As the defeated man fell on the points of his shattered ribs a shrill, exultant voice rose above the shouts of the admiring | thousands. It was the voice of Young Kid Muiligan’s youngest grandchild, Master Morris Spogge, aged nine. The victor was embraced by his seconds, who kissed him repeatedly upon the brow. The fight is regarded as the | greatest in the history of the sport. It !s believed that the Horrible Hindoo | will live providing his spine is reset properly.” The hero of the house starts for the East, stopping over In Sioux City full popular approval, why is the City Club so desirous of pressing a substitute bill through? | Why is Senator Alfred R. Page} FRED E using the City Chib amendment to impede the passage of the Elsberg bill? What is behind the charge of bad faith and obstructive tactics made against him during debate in the Senate? What are those “motives prompting the aggressiveness of the Senator from the Nineteenth District” to which Senator Elsberg alluded? Every day of delay in advancing the Elsberg bill is a loss to the city. | which has urgent need of this measure of relief. Every attempt to force the consideration of substitute bills to that extent jeopardizes the Pros-| pects of thls paramount and essential legislation. There is too much) taking of the city’s name in vain by those whose motives are open to a} various construction. There is something particularly inauspicious in the championship of | the City Club bill by Chase Mellen, of the Metropolitan counsel. What special aptitude has he for engineering a bill prepared by a civic body B actuated avowedly by public spirit only? What is the club doing with) this legislative factotum? 80-CENT GAS. A saving of 20 per cent. in gas bills will materially reduce a drain on small incomes which had some of the aspects of extortion. Gas at $1 a thousand feet has been as great an anachronism as ten- & cent car fares. The investigations of the Stevens committee showed that 61 cents is a maximum figure at which to place the cost of making! and distributing gas. Instances were disclosed where gas was purchased from subsidiary companies at 32 cents for sale at the full rate. In gas at 75 cents, as at present economically manufactured, there fs abundant Profit on the original investment. In 80-cent gas there are possibilities for ample dividends on securities watered and rewatered. May 1 is the date set for the reduced rate to become operative. There fs still left to the company the option of recourse to the courts, but this action could but temporarily delay the inevitable. In the present temper of-the public legislative support of the commission is reasonably certain. | SOCIETY AND WOMEN NOVELISTs. x Do our women fiction writers in their novels of New York life hold y the mirror up to nature? Are the pictures of contemporary society in our “Houses of Mirth” and “Wheels of Life” true bills? | If we draw aside the portieres of Fifth avenue parlors shall we see ladies settling their bridge losses in crisp bank notes while dulling tempo- F Tary remembrance with coplous draughts of punch? Or see Proper young 213. to get a divorce at the Ladies’ Exchange. In South Dakota, as may be re called, marriage is not a contract. It’s a ninety-day option. He strikes Broadway dressed up like a tableau car, wearing a mee | morial window for a scarfpin and smaller designs in stained cathedral effects on three of his fingers. His waistcoat suggest a Bernhardt poster, ‘We know that he has a chunk of yellow {n him as big as a grape fruit, the disposition of a bone felon and the table manners of an African wart-hog. But do we stand for him? In the space of five months he opens a cafe with a brass band and closes it with a process server, stars in vaudeville, plays Bill Stkes, Claude Melnotte and the Silver King, {s presented with a | gold manicure service by local admirers, has three benefits and {s sued for back alimony. Our newsy dailies give him columus of adjectives. It is customary to refer to him as the American Gladiator. Sporting editors take off their hats if they mention his name and small boys dream of asso= clating with him when they go to heaven. But when two aspiring youths meet at the Elite Athletic Club iM an attic over a rag warehouse on Cherry street and pummel each other with the eight-ounce hair mattresses until one of them gets his ear bruised the papers denounce the affair as a brutish exhibition and call for the enforces ment of the Hortense law. 4 THE FUNNY PART: In the New York view of the prize-fighting game distance not only, lends enchantment, but pays interest on the investment. Strange Word Derivations. “ UGGHT” was formerly used to signify @ bit or lump of anything, as @ N “nugget of tobacco." Nowadays, however, {t {s used principally of gol as !t comes from the mine, This use !s Australian. Gov, Sir Witiam Denison of Australia wrote in 1852: “In many Instances the gold {s brought to market fn lumps or nuggets, as they are called.” In Queenslund there is a pe inflamed to the point of offering insult to their wives’ women ests? It is an tering tra the woman paved foloaiie. - roving on Mane. Sarah Crand, draws of modem society bios This story ie here adapted by the author from Fritzi Scheff’s comio opera, ‘‘M1le, Modiste,’’ now at the Knick- erbocker Theatre. GYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Capt. Btienne de Bouvray, Wrench nobleman, Ja betrothed by “his Bnele, the Prockar Count of St. Mar, to Mile, Fepudiates the mmtci Gallen in love with a little milliner named whom he hea known aince childhood and he 1s secretly betrothed. | Mil en, Mar also vows to ktll if Jatter does not break with tienne starts for the ecene of the pro: duet in a cab. Just before his arrive’ Aiscovers Fifi concealed in ne. Jenne if the 2nd Fit return to Paris and break- te iter ganze with St. Mar, who, in 0 with a padre. Btlenne oan leave 1y visite him there. x Ta eleht weeks Detore, Ite : hospital. Fint constant CHAPTER VI, The American. had written his uncle, renouncing for ever all claims to any share of the estate that might legally become his according to the provisions of the will of his father, carrying with them, as these conditions did, complete obedience to ‘his uncle's wishes in the matier of Btlenne's selection of a wife. Toward the Count, his uncle, Btienne mow felt no resentment. The old Gen- e@ral's devotion to his conviction that only marriage in one's own class was to be encouraged or tolerated filled Bitienne, as he reviewed !t, merely with pity. | Btlenne would now have to fight his ))@wn way in the world unaided. Per- iN | France would soon drop inio the of war, and then he would hla chano». Faithful to his threat ‘Whole, Btionne had tapdered his rea women in a bachelor’s apartments without a chaperon smoking cigarettes? Or ladies with a past sequestered in upstairs apartments? Or the wives of distinguished literary men drunk with chloral going the pace? Or husbands and brothers now off with one unrecognized alliance and on with another quite as a matter of course? Or men of social standing resignation of commission in his regi- ment the day he hed written to him his note of renunciation. But Etienne’s commander refused peremptorily to en- jurrender of his com- Piled, were rot traded in soldiers. had committed Etienne to him. his The businesa He Government It was tor the Republic only to release Bulenne, Btlenne bowed before this de- cision, although with his income reduced his commission practically meant only embarrassment for him. The afternoon was most bdeaut!ful when Etienne and Fifi, after leaving the hospital, turned out Into the broad ways leading from the Lue do Rivoll and thencs on to the narmw path that leads at this point bo the bridgo acmss the Seine. Besides being comparatively quiet, this directton would quickest car- ry Fifi back to the bonnet shop, where she was due at half-past one. Across the bridge the lovers parted tenderly for the day, Etienne to devote the afternoon and evening to seeking students, Fif again to mingle with mii- Unery and fashion in the shop of Mme. Cecile. ‘Through the entire length of the elab- orate fifth floor sult of the Hotel Ritz, in Paris, a tall, lean man, clean-shaven, of years between thirty and thirty-five, paced restlessly late one morning about eight months after the autumn after- noon when Dtienne and Bifl had parted @t the cast side of the Seine Downstairs the hotel register bore fresh recom of the tall man's arrival, together with that of the owner of the feminine wraps and sartorial adorn- ments scattered about the rooms in absence thet a finery-oving spouse shared the epartment with the alert- looking pedestrian now pacing its cham- bers, “Mrs. and Mr, Hiram Bent, Keokuk, Towa, U. 8. A." was the way the entry on the hotel blotter read, The tall man now in the rooms had so Inscribed ‘t on the book in a sweeping, assertive chi- rography that lifted it out from th mass of ‘ellows on the same page “Women in my country are always first," he had replied, with an amused smile, after registering as he met the in- quiring glance of the hotel clerk who had swung the book back to its original position, The owner of the many rich gowns that hung here and there from hooks in wardrobes, with doors that bulged from the crowded character of their contents, was enjoying her first morning ia the mmite but convincing testimony in her) Letters from the People Crowding at Ninth Street “L.” ‘To the D&tor of The wvening World: I would like to cali your attention to the awful crowding on the stairway of the Ninth street elevated station on Third avenue every morning. It 1s something awful. People are simply jammed into one little stairway to get éown to the street and many are late THE LITTLE MILLINER © enyeat | fem, ety tn the world at the commo Msstpation of shopping. { Ber eit, suggesting In the sil houettes his body offered as it passed the windows from room to room the eagle symboll: of his country, had elected to stay at home, or, at any rate, to do anything but chance a session at counters where women, as he termed it, chattered and haggled and loafed. In appearance Bent typified a cer- tain class of his couutrymen, the kind whieh hes fought an uphill struggle for to business on account of it There should be another stairway at this crowded station. 9, T. Another Farmer Puszle. ‘To the EXitor of ‘The Evening Workt: ‘The answer to the farmer and fence puzzle ts 77,440 acres and 77,440 boards— 58,080 feet on each side of the square. I have another: <A farmer gave his w # Answers to boy $100 and told him to buy 100 anl- mals. Cows cost $10 each; sheep, % each; pigs, 6 cents each. How many of each did he buy? JAMAICA. A Rare Exc. To the Diitor of The Bventne World: On opening an ogg I found inside an- other egg. It was a chicken's egg; and the inside one was of a grayish color Questions and about as big es a nut. The neigh: bore! aay <i io a sare curtosity amd Would lke readers ootnian« KW. Twice. At Coney Island and in California. To the Kéttor of The Dy World: D says TP orbett only fought James Jeffries nos enue A states they had two battles. indly de- cide and afivise vs where the ay sar it ‘two, took place, a. A \ \ \ ail has \ \ \ i ‘} \ The lovera parted tenderly for the day. 4 evidence of their combat faces that seemed tired, but were tireless, and shoulders that seemed stooped, but were strong, Bent had come over the corduroy road ot poverty to his present affluence. Orphaned early in Keokuk by the loss of his parents, at fifteen he had wut- fered more hardships than would come to most men during half the entire period of the Biblical span. Folks eround Keokuk had come to fortune and won, but bearing in aspect| regard him as a shiftless, lazy idler, He supported himself precariously, sometimes as a helper about one or an- other of the town's hotels, sometimes by carrying salesmen's samble cases from store to store, sometimes by help- ing local draymen load or unload their carts. He kept iis inherent principles Of self-respect rigidly together, notwash- standing his vicissitudes, however. Hiram was in the freight yards at Keokuk one day when a brakeman was killed in trying to effect-@ junotion of A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS two cars, All the railroads in the country, in Hiram's philosophy, were not worth one human life, For three months thereafter, then, he worked ona patent coupler, hungry most of the time, hopeful most of the time, and spurred on by the value of his con celved device to humanity all the time. Perfected at last, he showed his con- trivance to the train despatoher in the Keokuk yards, the man seneed Hiram's mado model over carelully, te: « propriates unbranded calves, he 1s said overcome one. edges, Ud % , he could ever get the raflroads to ac- cent it. ‘Then from the train despatcher Hiram had to absorb the lesson that ratlroads are run mainly for <he purpose of mak- ing money for thelr owners; that new devices mean expense; that roads often contest Improvements as a householder might the effort of a landlord to in- crease his cost of Mving. What the train despatcher told Hiram of the pol- ley of rallroade in thelr administrations of economy upset him more than all his prior fatlures. It was hard for him to aocept the realization that to succeed It seemed it was not only necessary for him %o be able to concelye an invalu- able device, but it was Imperative o# well that other power of some sort must be created to compel the use of the in- vention, even though it was an obvi- ously certain agency cheaply preventing the wanton destruction of human life. Hiram could not sleep that night, so keen was his sense of disappointment. For hours after the rest of the peopl of Keokuk were in bed he plodded the wirests through the raw wind of the March night, his emotions a torturing confilct of privation, defeat and bitter- ness. As for the fourth time he crossed over the bridge near the car yards he looked down at the passing waters of the big river and speculated whether, after all, a vault over the parapet would nat be the wiser way to end his strug- les, put Hiram did not permit his desper- ate thought to linger. In « square fur- ther on during his fourth detour of the town thet night his foot struck some- thing lying on the walk. He stopped and picked up a wallet, By the light that filtered dimly through the jaurky punes of the windowe of a fruit store a few paces further along Hiram saw that he had stumbled upon @ email fortune. In negotiable bills the wallet in his hands held something Mie $14,000; with bonds its contents aggregated a total of about $10,000, With the money was a card. ‘Phe street at the hour was dark end silent, Hiram placed the wallet in the large pocket inside his Jacket and con- tinued ‘his walk back to the square, his fect oddly maintaining thelr wonced stride, his head in @ pante. Hungry, and without funds of his own, he passed the lunch-wagon in tho squal In later years, he admitted that he would have gone into the eating place that night if the bills in the wal- let had been of denominations small enough to proffer without exciting eus- con. Dive considered himself honest; he ox- plained when making this admiseion, but at the same time he did not con Ddmeokendort, Ele pA In many English country dinlects the woni “jag” is found. @ small joad of hay, from which !t came to mean a load of drink so big as to “Jag” possesses an infinite number of meanings, The originag meaning, ‘% load,” has been extended to the journey with the load, the saddle bags which held it, and the act of carrying St, while in certain districts tt sige nifies a blister, the head of a flower, calf leather and fatigue, In addition to cotm ciding with ‘Jog’ and figuring in ordMnary English to denote rough or “jagged cullar use of the word unknown In the rest of Australia, There, when a man @p= to be “nuggeting.”” It originally meant ~ By HENRY BLOSSOM, The Famous Dramatist. that the service of finding the wallet em titled him at least to a small sum ft requital, an amount Inrge enough sure ly to pay for six or seven pans of baked | Deans at five cents par pan. Early next morning. Tram sought the owner af the card, finding him at the address tn- dicated under the name on the small Slip of white pasteboard, In Keokuk, Hiram's honesty was never questioned, however much his industry might be eritte!sed, The man's safe at his home had been rifled over night; the robbers must have dropped the wallet in their hurry to catch the westbound flyer leaving Keo~ kuk station at 2 A. M,, the train by witch ft was proved they had departed, The owner of the purse was the President of a company that manufac tured raflroad supplies Before Hiram left his presence, the victim of the robbery had taken a fancy to the leans faced youth who could talk so informe ingly about so much of most ef the Small machinery of locomotives, ‘had told him during this interview. « ‘his own patent coupler, and had deen instructed to bring his model with tng When he called next day. Mr, ‘would not Usten to Hiram'w refusal to Sccept @ reward. And with that Hiram carried away J when he left the ofMfce Whose wallet he had youth's steady rise to now found him on morning in Paris, A national repute had New York to push a pa the construction of a rom the French osital lean under the channel and straight over to the iy y of wll je] i E i da e 5 i I iil Daruinular significance, Pucing bacie “nd forth when rumini buain prujest™ was a Hable ‘with, tig, CUNneaM A shout in his walk. ‘Lhe hi of ad led’ against the furtiver gintee tion of thie reins and had bolted.” ithe animal was now dashing in foolish wal- |lopa off toward the Gua de, Louvres ‘The avck Tact Bea! S tion from i Seetint van and devoured all the beans in the| °™ | | ¢