The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1906, Page 12

hed by the Press Pubiishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New Tore Bntered at the Post-Omice at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. | MHTATINONMICSo7rG | A NEGLECTED CITY. | The Milton Club of the Univer- ity Settlement in Eldridge street has called the attention of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners to the neglect of transit facilities in the lower east side. The complaint says: Almost half a million people Hive tn} the section bounded by the Bowery,| Fourteenth street, the Brooklyn Bridge! approach and the East River. In no city| in the country of half a million tnhab- itants is the street-car equipment so anti- quated and the service so poor, Of all the lines serving this region, the club reports, the Grand street crosstown {s the only one that does ot still use horse-cars. Headway is long, speed a snail's pace, cars are ‘old, rotten and dirty. Overcrowding {s “brutal.” No one who has As a result of these conditions “thousands of women and girls em- ployed in the Broadway district must, after a long day’s toll, tramp a mile ‘or more through rain and slush to their homes on the east side.” What can the Railroad Commission do? What the Metropolitan s done is to merge with the Subway and issue $108,000,000 more of itered stock to stand in the path of any practical improvement. As the peal to the Commissioners says, “the marvel is that the people have pod it.” es If the insurance experts like Paul Morton and George Perkins can change the Tecommendation of the Armstrong Committee and the last one and all the portant ones that come between they will be not exactly satisfied but resigned let the procession proceed. Generous of them, isn't {t? THE GREAT CITIES. __ Paris began its census yesterday, acting on the theory “the better the ty the better the deed.” Parisians expect to count up 3,000,000, London has nearly seven millions, Berlin has three millions, with , Tokio will soon be in that class. Chicago, Vienna and Canton iii all have two million people by 1910, and doubtless some cities not how rivalling them will have come up to their standard. One such city d be Constantinople if it had a decent government. There may be than twenty cities in the one-million class in four years. | -. All the great cities from the foundation of the world could not to- » gether begin to equal these. Athens was second-rate in size. People have i never agreed about the greatest population of Rome; it may have been 4, 2,000,000. Egyptian Memphis, a mud city which has perished, was of greater extent but less populous. Carthage had armies of 300,000, but hey came from colonies stretched the length of the Mediterranean. the pme town was not great. Transportation makes the metropolis. Rome: had water service for . Inland mediaeval capitals were limited by the difficulty of car- ying food. The kings and nobles had to travel about their lands and eat _ up the produce as they went like seven-year locusts. The mouth went to grain because the grain couldn't go to the mouth. This is still the in Russia. London was the only city with a million inhabitants even : gai ago, except possibly in China, The railroad has changed all NIGHTSTICK ao NOZZLE | _ A Romance of Menhettan by SEWARD W. HOPKINS _ ISSN (2 The Evening World's other historic or architectural ‘wonders that oluster in and around Home Magazine, They Missed the Bull’s-Eye A \ By J. Campbell Cory. ) ete PRIRSELL OS OE a” Bees Si ANSWERS ‘a KEES New Education for Children. To the Editor of The Evening World: I have an idea foy the education of New York children, involving but slight expense and trouble on the part of parents and producing splendid effec:s. Esch Saturday afternoon take your children for some little excursion, say to the Statue of Liberty, the Natural Nistory Museum, the Museum of Art, Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive, the Bronx, S:aten Island, historic Harlem Heights, the Palisades and the score of or ely Wi) £2 [mmm mii y YS BE oa i edited to by the annexation of adjacent buildings till {t was @ veritable labyrinth af rooms, of hallways on different levels and cul de sacs that led to dead walis, where, with the flames behind to shut off return, the frantic inmates had no chenos of escape Above the roar of the fire end the tumult of the crowd that blocked the corners of Fifty-fifth street and Rroad-, way, the terrified eries of the people who thcught they were doomed could | be heard with heartrending clearness Gorman had come. Gorman wes Bat- tation Chief, “Get a ladder to that second balcony! Rip ou: that hose—be lively! Where's that ladder? Here, Hayes, hurry up ee fo bed ia ethurry crowaea | '24t fire! Get a move on with that re the t of the engine and the|ove! Bring that hose this way, dam- . pee mit! Hey! take No, 25 up to Fifty- cart. ‘As the heavy engine dashed through |*¢venth! Splice your hose there!” When Gorman's great voice was f the door, the last man from the dormi- 5 pulling on his coat in the street, | MUrled through the alr it was the giant's fan separated to permit it to pass, | “All to duty even if to death, Whe hose wagon followed closely, witn] ‘Save my aby! Oh, God, never mind Garvin in his place. me! I am a mother! I can dle! Save © The Hotel Bastick, which was very ip Jarge and very old, stood on Broadway, Detween Fifty-ffth and Fifty-sixth streets. ‘When No. 23 swung into East Fifty- Qwixth street the sky wes lurid, A pall © of black smoke was swinging over tow- ‘rd the Erst River, Crowds were run- | ping toward the burning hotel. CHAPTER 1. The Hotel Fire. HAT’S that! The Hotel Bastick!” ‘Three sixes!" shouted Tom Gar- vin as he alld down the pole Bd took his place in the hose wagon. [t was 1 o'clock in the morning, and minutes before the alarm had in the streets had seemed deserted. with that facility with which a gathers in New York at any time day or night people seemed to come Tats from their holes. Well-Gressed couples, belated over ; op post-theatre supper, jostled with lusty bakers from the nearby shops. ‘Men whose appearance indicated that ey had been partially reudy for bed or i The flames are in tho hall! get out!” "s that net? Bring that net * roared he votce of big Gor- th es from the desperato came down with the heavy 3 ike, “Catch me!” viot! came @ woman's voice ‘All fires are bad, but a hotel fire has {8d the taut net sagged as she a@lements that absorb the interest, chit | Pumped into tt heart and excite the community. jet that ladder to the second bdal- ! Run her up to the third, Here, Garvin! There is a man with two girls up there! Up!" “Tackle! howled back Garvin as his young body was seen swaying in the glare as he ran lke a cat toward the thind baloony. “Hera come the reserves!" The crowd that had intruded too far within the danger zone was hurled backward as the bluecoats with their nightsticks flung themselves into the deadly struggle for the lives of the hundreds penned in the burning bulld- ing, Ladders from three trucks were run Up agninst the front ef-the hotel, and > v Bngine No. 2% swung across Fifth vere into West Fifty-sixth street and to Broadway. It heeled to the west g.O'Brien, the daring driver, hurled peouthward. It stopped with a shook, the hose wagon was on top of it. S3t was tho first at the fire, but the of bells north and south, east and proved that tho call had been m ly by other compantes further fas they had been, the fire in wooden hotel hac gained a fear- % Ballt when that section needed but little in the way it_bed heen J only to find >LETTERS from the PEOPLE ys QUESTIONS ) Manhattan. Children would thus, while | thoroughly enjoying the outing, get & perfect knowledge of their own city—® knowledge few New Yorkers have, Pa- | rents should, of course, “read up” a bit beforehand on the various places, so 8 to be able to expiain to the little ones. MATER FAMILIAS. Red Hair and Marriage. To the Extitor of The Evening World: Do red-haired girls make good wives, readers? I'ye had a dispute on this subject, and I leave it to you. I have fallen in love with a young lady and everybody T tell about ft say “Don't marry a red-haired girl why not?" “Bad tempered and fickle!” Is jt so, readers? I am much worried, for my happiness seems to be at stake. A. O'c. Another “Three Sons" Diviston. To the Edttor of The Evening World: ‘Will any reader try to solve this prob- lem? A father gave his three sons some money. The first got one-third of the ‘otal amount. the second one-third of the remainder, the third one-third of what was left. $24 left. How much did each receive and what was the amount? JOE RUBANOW. The Train Problem. To the Editor of The Evening World: become engaged to her. Now, nearly Mr. “Wheeler” propounds this ques- ion, “If a train leaves Poughkeepsie at 9 A. M,, travelling 4 miles an Rushing through flame and smoke, they reached the ground. from two In the rear, were pouring in Axes were wielded b . men who defied the very thought of fear. Seas of water Policemen who would face an In furlated mob and charge an arme gang of rioters with clubs carried chil- dren to safety with that tenderness that only a siout hearl knows how to show. ‘The glistening rubber coats of the firemen, the soaking uniforms of the the white mehc dresses of the frenzied guests could all be seen from the crowded streets. Scores fou tuolr way to the root hat on ether side @ space feet or a fall of forty prevented 64 The stairs were burning heh em. With the terrible fate staring them with hideous close- teas in the face many dropped to the of ten or tw tin roof on thelr knees in prayer, One man, frenzied by t . choked by the smoke that rolled lack and stifling masses, drew a revolver and shot himself to avold the suffering of burning to, death. “Great God!" came in horrified ac- cents from the crowd. ‘Two figures hud appeared at the very e the peaked hat an of No. 23 and the other the uniform of the police. “That you?’ bawled the “Hello, Dave! We're in for it, 1 guess, Never mind. Y can't say we dled cowards. Hey, down there! Send up @ rope!" “Extend that ladder!" came the nightly thunder of Gorman. “Splice it jet a rove up to Garvin, Hurry up, you!" ‘The ladder swayed and seemed to be alive, as anotier length was added, and the end shot upward toward the young fireman and officer, “Haverty, get up with that rope, Hur- ry up! Stay there and help. Get that stream into that corner window. Get a |Jadder up on the roof of that building and play on the roof of the hotel. Car: ry a hoge to the roof across tne street. ‘The Chief of the Fire Department had come thundering in his automobile to the scene, He was met by the Inapeo- tor of Police. “Want anything done?’ asked the In- spector. His men were all obeying his ordera, but there might be more to do. He was there to do it. The Chief swept the terrible scene with an eye that had witnessed others just as bad, and took in every pi of the situation at a glance, “Take that stong building over there for a hospital, and heve the ambu- lances called.” The Inspector sped away, the Chief ran_to Big Gorman. “Get in there and eave what bodies you cam.” rose in @ poll of thunder above the din. The firemen on the lad- lers, those in the windows holding the ozzles and those chopping away the partiuions were getting hoarse, Gor- E got hoarse. ‘Where's Garvin? Did he fall?” Can't see," said his assistant at his e “One of the best men in 2. Can't lose Garvin. Hey, you, Schuyler!” Get up that ladder arid gee Garvin. There's an officer with him.’* Schuyler plunged int the smoke and flame. At the tap of the ladder he found Garvin with hia face covered with a wet handkerchief, carrying @ woman to she edge. Just’ behind him was the Young policeman, his collar torn, his uniform ruined, this helmet smashed 1 carrying ‘n powerful arms the uncon- acious form of a man. “The rope!” said Garvin, eunaiter come down, Tom,” sald uyler. “Come dwn? There are people here,” “Where?” Schuyler was on the roof, and lost in the emoice. ae rooment Es had returned with naineee mien, Werey_ngt one jin thelr save, lite, ° Mandow a fireman stood waiting tor the urden that he knew was Ing from sume comrade in Ca flaines, The smoke was tt thicker, flames were growing grt Ae An ocean of wat :] hour, At the end there was/ In, | ‘Wait, the | etrl less Monday Evening, March §, . 2 Za CH=, got aking no stops, and a train leav- ing New York, same time, travelling |511-8 miles per hour, making three [stops of 40 seamds' duration, which train will be nearer New York when they meet?” As a matter of fact “Wheeler's” array of figures ts merely to tonfuse the reader, as the trains will be the same distance from New York when they meet, as any one with com- mon sense can determine by merely thinking over the example. LOUIS BAYER. Report to Firm or to S, P. C. A. To the Editor of The Evening World: While looking out of my window one day this week I witnessed a driver for @ certain firm in the Bronx beat and kick a poor horse till it could hardly move. I would like to ask if something teouldn't be done to prevent drivers ‘from treating horses in such a Way, and where I shoul report’ this bru- tality? aC R steam ambng the blazing woodwork. ‘A fearrul groan Went up from “the street. Garvin's ladder had fallen. Scauyler eA tumbled down @ scuttle to the tioor below. The fireman and the policeman stood woking down upon a ghastly sea of aces. “Lenox,” sald Garvin, boys together, we were on the Sume block, and now we die in the same nite. Good-by, lt won't be long. “When {t's over we'll"— “Come on! found @ way!" It was Schuyler—Schuyler, miracus lously saved by falling into & mass of | bedding and clothing that had been | drusiged for some reason of other to the middle of ad. gro ani “we've been to give his comrades {tor ‘Ife as he had hi “Gomme on," sald x. Down burning stains they rushed, the hot wit filing their lungs, and Lenox, who Wus ahead, could fust discern thé figure of Schuyler ahead, ‘They were assing @ room. “Wait. T heard a cry!" subd Lenox, His great shoulder went Inst the dcor and Durst: it open The room, have i n cl ad Not can ire, but Was tilled with emnoke, A girl, halt tren= ied, flung herself into the policeman's arms. the same mself. She had fainted or Aled. Ie did not know which, but in’ olther case she could left now joined Garvin Schuyler after his 5 thmugh flame and smoke, they reach ‘and, rush! the «round. ‘There were still hoarse cries, there were still shouts of hbrror fi fhe crowd, but the hotel was ot mates. The fight was now to prevent the of the fire, iis burden through an adjicent building, the dooms of which had been broken in efor the hose to the rear, and worked his way through the crowd that swarmed & the corner, OW paren awa ws the inant they crowd parte? in aw9 ws he root, it fell Lenox boro had seen on tl Just before passed through with. his burden, A house on Fifty-sixth strect was ablaze with light, and the familly on the Lenox! Bring ‘There !s no city more cold end etree dare SP/atmet then New Tore ‘There is no city where there is a more foptaneots “outpouring of B24 Roe het eama city ay same city. Pert ea oun, Fit, Nir. Hamblin. 1 fear sho in ud black water dripped from ont at wel ba he carried hike Burs den to a bedroom. uy ot dead,” oetd Mra, Hamblin. fa, lave ‘cup OF coffee before you Our mn men ete, We aye made a botier full, and another 19 on, "Ana. we wil take care of her,” sald « Nai iow, er, face, She itves on eet. mena “ir that hotel?” queries Mr. Never ft tee tions, 0 for Bea tila Need of help” Bore. tie opens her even. oe bow veered me?” gasped “Dave Lenox,” said Mrs, “aphe policeman on our, beat.” (To Be Continued.) in| Dockstader—Where are you trom, eke ts ae] Hamblin. 1906. NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY-GLASSES By Irvin S. Cobb. VIDENTLY we are about to reach the etage where the run of us will 7 learn to live upon corn on the cob, and insist on plucking !t in person | to avoid substitution by the dealer. We will get into the habit of | dropping into the department store and asking the assayist at the booth next to the microbe-culture counter to apply the acid test on « sample im order to ascertain whether the chiropodist has been adulterating our proven der. | The really careful person will carry his food supply around with h'm in |a rubber pillow and take nourishment at stated intervals through a glass dropper, with a medicated bandage instead of a napkin after each meal to \ discourage the bacteria. All first-class hotels will charge corkage on hot- water bottles. But will the fair day ever come when the charter members of the self- Pickling brotherhood foreswear strong drink because the distiller and tire vintner touch up their products with fluids which are also used for painting Christmas cards and taking the spots out of clothing? We do not pause for the answer. What's the use? It’s like our feet in a Subway crush—every- body's on. What boots it to the gentleman addicted to straight licker that his tipple may either be swallowed as a stimulant or applied on the surface sor the removal of warts? Why should he care if, when he absorbs three fingers and goes home to dinner, his breath burns holes in the tablecloth as he leans | ; ae over to say grace? Does he pause and reflect on learning science has Proved to us that furniture polish, embalming fluld and rare old bourbon’ come out of the same formula? Nary pause. He fe satisfied with whatever makes a drunk keep forty-eight hours in any climate. Wil the jovial devil of the Four-Flush Land of Bohemia eaw off on - his bottle of red wine and his creme de menthe simply because we show him they are the same compounds he sees in a drugstore window with lights behind ‘em? Not eo. Will those of us who love kummel climb aboard the H*O wagon on learning that !t {s made out of canary-bird seed, thus ex- plaining why after you take two drinks you want to fly up on a perch an@ sing yourself to sleep? None whatsoever. Imagine the friend of the mint julep going in and watching the gen- tlemanly attendant building up something so full of fruit and flowers and flora and fauna and preserves and nutmeg that it only needs a crust on {8 to be a minoe ple, and then drawing himself to his full height and spurn- ing it in words like these: “Take back this tank of coloring matter, barkeep. I refuse to treat my stomach as an Easter egg. I scorn your sweatshop cherries and your sliced pineapple made on the premises. Away with the chemical cocktail, I will not drink a carpet-cleaner!” And then wake up. Squeaky volce)—Stop! I want to get on, ‘No one pays any attention to him, Finally he takes trumpet from his ear, buts {t to his mouth and blows a fish: horn blast.) Dockstader—All right, sir; I didn’e hear you at first because you are deaf. ind Man—I saw him all the time. Dockstader—I thought you were blind, Blind Man—They put the wrong sign on me when I left the asylum this morning. I am deaf and dumb. (He “s deaf man shake hands.) jockstader—To your left, ‘Twfany’s where Diamond Jim B: 1 horses shod. sigh todo Dockstader (looking up, using mega-, Dhona as telegcope)—You see here a skyscraper thirty stbries high. (All look up.) The men heave just gone to work. There is a short, thickeet man, man very tall and slim, talking to them. He 1s wearing a gold overcoat with real coal. He has driven up om top of the ekyscraver in a private. carriage. It must be the walking dele- gate, What is he saying to the men? (Puts megaphone to his ear.) He telie, them there is an ex-Confederate soldier among ‘them; they must stop working with a non-union man. They drop ev- erything. (Wbrkmen drop hammer, bricks, and finally a hod of plaster which goes over one of the rubber- necks.) Dockstader—Why do they pour us plaster? (Italian crosses with chestnut outfit) Hi, there! (Dockstader grave handful of chestnuts and begins to eat them.) Ttalian—Gimme da mon! You take 4a chestnut; gimma da mon. Dockstader—They are rotten. They @re not cooked, Itallan—Whatta do you know about da roasted chestnuts? Dockstader—What do I know about Toasted chestnuts? Say, did you hear what the critics sald about this show? (italian tries to climb up on coach, Bus. Dockstader kicks ‘him, spills chestnuts, &c.) Itallan—I will have my revenge! wara da vengeance of da black a hand! Dockstader (scared)—Ladies and gents, I don't want to alarm you, but this is ® dangerous neighborhood. That Ttal-* We are all willing to concede the danger of taking into the system adule GETS A MINSTREL GUIDE § Street sweeper sweeping dirt and sidewalk, Messenger boy on bicycle Enter Rubberneck Hack with passen- Thin Passenger—You've been saying AN—Yes; what's the matter? Why turer. (Music oue.) (Enter Doclastader, Dockstexer—Can’t help it. Started to Motorman—Where did the mule kick and the small of my beck. Dockstader—Huh! It wouldn't if he Motorman—Well, get aboard and let's aphoné.) To your left Dr. Parkhuret's takes @ vacation. euntie! (Boy climbs up, but woman ts (To woman.) Let me introduce you to THE FUNNY PART: terated foods that we don’t care for anyhow. CENE opene with Broadway set. Pedestrians passing to and fro, dust on everybody. Men and women hurrying by elbowing each other off upsetting everybody in sight. The honk of the auto horn and effects are heard, gers, Motorman—Ail aboard! thet for an hour. When ie thie thing going to start? don’t you start? Motorman—We're waiting on the lec- slow and Mmping slightly.) Motorman—You're an hour late! get here two hours ago, but a mule kicked me. you? Dockstader—In Thirty-fourth street Motorman—But that sbouldn't have detained you an hour. hadn't kicked me in the other direc- tion. get started. (Dockstader climbs up and takes meg- church! Dr. Parkhurst goes to Swits- erland every summer. The devil never (inter Little Boy.) Boy—Stop! take me and my auntie! Take me and my too fat. Bus, with ladder.) Dockstader—Here, I'll raise the ante, Magistrate Crane. (Bus. of derrick. ‘Woman 1s lifted on hack.) medam? ‘Woman—I'm from Cohoes. Dockstader—Yes; but never forget you were raised in New York. (With mega- phone.) To your right you see the Wal- Gort-Astoria. It {s rumored that John W. Gates will pull this pullding down and erect a large modern hotel on the site. The Waldorf-Astoria! Look jclosely ae we pass and you will see Oscar frying eggs on the hyphen. (Enter girl leading old man with white whiskers In three points, two each side of his face and one fron: chin, Man wears large “I am blind’ sign.) : Girl—Ob, do stop! Papa ts so anxious to see New York. Dockstader (aside)—Can you beat it? Girl—Don’t be impudent, sir, My Papa expects to be appointed Police Commissioner. Blind Man (piping voico)—Yes, sir; everybody says I'd see just as much a the rest of them about what's going|’ on. I'l be appointed Police Commis- sioner, I'll bet. Dockstader (continuing)—Yes, thts is the place. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the exact spot where on a wild No- vember night, occurred the kidnapping of Charlie Ross—and Mabel Ah, Police Headquarters. Police Com- missioner says he and the force will be @ family, the whole Dam family, I \ i .think ‘he salt! We now pass rapidly { Til have to take you up! (Extends hand.) Having ttus raised the ante I will now take up the blind,