The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1906, Page 12

& to 62 Park Row, New York. | Fublished by the Prees P: 58 Mall Mujter. Entterod at the Po: “VOLUME | | George Flake, of Carthage, O., | a strap-hanging commuter, carries | in his overcoat pocket a bit of, hoard tached that he can hang it from ir of st sit down Ss portab read the Cincinnati papers. t A clever idea, but it would n do in New York, Flake in his swing occupies, if he is a plump man of middle height, a space of 18 Standing up, he uses a space 11 inches by 18. If ith ropes and hooks so at- loops of 2 } in th inches by 24 inches. he is thin and tall the If many people in New York carried such swings and used them the number of pas rs the cars can carry would be cut down. Then Thomas F. Ryan would have Grady or McCarren or Fitzgerald or Cooper or Gardner introduce a bill to forbid the practice. Such a bill should) — r the present State Senate., ers do not always understand their responsibili { to pay profits on the new $108,000,000 of | of the Ryan-Belmont merger. Si tents as the re-| ady “amendment” in the Senate should sharply} difference is greater. have not N ties, They are expec’ watered stoc le in pa York strap-t h inci ces the number of strap-hangers fs or will be} He James H. Bre Who “never for modern hotel does than most men do. Yet t I survive ¢y men like to } by. busines: MR. CARNEGIE’S OLD “BOSS.” Jacob H. Larcombe, Andrew Carnegie’s “boss” when Mr, Carnegie} was a telegraph messenger boy in Altoona, is now a clerk in the Pension Bureau in Washington. Mr. Carnegie has written to one of Larcombe's fellow clerks that he will pension Larcombe at $75 a month. Mr. Car- negie writes: s not a bad one. It m S and combination. Mo: id their names spelled rit ersonal attention w emdency to bigne remembered er Mr, Larcombe well. He was kind to us boys. When he has to! give up work. 1 suppose you have no pension fund. * ® ® 1 will put Mr./ Larcombe's nam: on my p on lst with rare pleasure when he must give up. You know it js better to postpone that day as long as possible, for men retire to languish and die, < This is a good letter, and the statement that “he was kind to us boys” is high praise of 3 It ought not to be true that a veteran so de- scribed should “retire to languish and die.” Do men wi he has two adva: 1 remem Mr. Carnegie does not, but y of his contemporaries. He does not T Won't Support iin Pather-in-Laww. To the Eitttor of The Er Home Magazine, Monday Evening, The Logical Coal Magnate. By J. Campbell Cory. Apr * COAL TO THE CONSUMER AT cosy OF PRODUCTION |} MU Uf ULV MU bea ing in the world for But Engllsh parents use the rod on their chil- not the caso in Amertoa, hundreds of children daily chastised by means of a rod jor other instrument. ANTI-FLOG NO, & The Spectrum, ‘To the Editor of The Prening World: Are black and white colors? What are the seven colors of the spectrum? HOT, Neither black nor white {a a color. » where a gang of young beasts | time ty ETTERS from the PEOPLE eS ee ESTIONS and tnen let him report to Bingham he. and let Bingham arrest the t SALE tand any day, but you can't get a par- It In His Real Name, ent. Stick to your parents while they | To the Bitter of The Evening Wor are there, for no man’ wil love you us is Charles Dana Gibson an they do. He might say before he mar- name or ts it the artist's real name? ries you, “I will support your par | B. B., Montclair, N. J. ents." Don't trust the men. 1 The Viogging Habit. ning World: ex that he would luxury and starve ts in HE man who wri ts wife in Jaw need to worry about a livelihood and he has plenty of things to be inter-| gaugnter ne took the cit aeikan ee | Will way a i coheed pats eas colora of the spectrum are ested in, from I peace palaces to spelling reform. ¥ comem- A LOVING DAUGHTER Plog T woud tke | “let Hdig0, Blue, green, yellow, or- Few 1 ibly no man should, have as many millions ar SPAS. An Appeal to Binghan used as |“ os i H y lions) ¢ To the Editor of The Evening Wort ja reyes Promine and Performance. as Mr. Carneg I want to call the not! police | Ps ra of Eng-|79t%° Péttor of The Evening World: Remem- | to the free-for-all sarammaze every oven care, on the theory| 4. 7 Prowiewlity of promise and pov- interests for his o} ARRVERA EGE EOS UE TEAT AAT ETTAN TRON AEGAN AA ASA RG TAA AAA ROMA TOE AAAMAADOAAL OSA NE RENTON NM ME UaRETaneaueeeanaaneeaseneaasanetitruees Dae tena oas AAA! WADA dusic | — a WPIFOR CHAPTER Is | The Broken T was } Pane. nan, who in hiding. far ay 1 owed me “that waa y: me, For th ize. It ded yo wrapped up in & ‘This I saw t 6 hastily written 5 eal aNwatice "WMitterbat Ls paper was ¢ Once m with an st Ww strummai ov own time ar Mxely. Bs 1 fe pht it, and & t anyt mit of the note « ~ ’ Just then of tam th mr g h @leveres, of a Inst night nev A o) the apythin' of tt at all, and I was tan- ' ae a m orty of performance Jerome !s certainly i'P-Q-liar."” No? Yea? FRAMEL. WAAAASATANAN AAT ATA AAT ROAM NOH AUMRNOM NNER | Mr, Here i get & hus. jng on the Fourteenth strest s ab ng inflicted at th that oa right Here’ a ‘3 your paper, fe crumpled, (Gee nent. If the Wed- ave nothing to do with i may possibly want that, I guess, Mr, Hewtkt otha.” And Mr ed into a de- adventures alive Hoker plun unt of m3 from very hu: and intended to go on er. Meantime he Burope for a short ad promised him- wandering about after hie arrival In whe i to get Into conversation at a bar, w with prepossessing hil n Holker in the they sald. in which they Iden @ great num- nse yalue. which re by a man who at part of the house to be found th WAN & pap they posed to have con- ut as yat to make tt ly matter very ket possession n they would simply arch from the top: the lowermost brick them po: This deposit Id come to at y hadn't the money, seeptically d ' said Luker, “that 6 of th ne {tens, th great bulk « ight to 1! y ‘from somewhere—there's they're Inconventent ax Tl explain If you Anyway, we ain't the show away before come fn Koing te you've ¢ tty to do wit that som on the Job straight, > do with it? fin aly of ca: I had not! the Wedlako Jewels have nothing to do4 do. Hewitt, stl keep-! with it we'll say mo more about it, responded Hew relersnesa, "W ng more, Put your money nd you shall know aa much as we (To Be Continued.) | with | well, my dea I¢{ $ spose you ue ro ‘t wonder you are answered v seyrhy, Pt } must | ‘only | t the chance, I can} ething’ to prove you're! =~ il 3, 1906. A Group of Oddities in Picture and Story ERE ts a | that {ts one | of the rural won- ders of Pngland. It is on an estnte near Tring and 19 composed wholly of farm tmploments. The crosbar¥ are pltchforks, rakes, ete.; the uprights and transverse sec- tions of hoen, es, acythes and mattocks. At last fifteen implementa are contained tn the Ince Th Dalat ite “oe fate and each serves @ utilitarian purpore. Chinchitias have been eo much i request for furs in the Inst fow years that the species ta in danger of extination tn Chil! and Boltvia. Four thoussnd end sixty-one muscles have Deen observed in the body of a moth, This is probably the most expensive fowl on earth, and tn worth its weight in gold. It ts a but Plymouth Rock, winner of the Imwson silver cup at the recent Boston Poultry Show, and wus sold for $750. ngtand posreases twenty-eight 0° ws for every hundred Bo of the population, A cow's hide of RESTR has 230, average size pro- : A new prize of $10,000 1s offered tn France for the tn- duces about thirty- five pounds of leather. The smallest quad- ruped tn the world 1s the pigmy mouse of Siberia, In fifty years the It takes 40,000 tone average height of of copper a month ish men has an inch, to 5 to ratisty home and forelgn demands. feet 61-2 inches, About two hundred oysters would be required @atly to supply sufMictent nourishment for une person. most sacred “properties” con= nected with the re- travellers, and is y ¢ nned by the beak ts coversa with rare carvings, and the value of the is tncaleo- Bad sis as aes A drofger built of oak, sixty-eleht feet long, twenty-one feet wide, and drawing seven fest six inches of water, ts now fn use in Dundee harbor. It has been tn nee in the same pince for over ome hundred years, and !ts engine ts said to have been built by James Watt The Mock Orange Bridge Whist Club. By Grinnan Barrett. {Scene—Pariors of Mra. Lowlymeck’s home, where the Mock Orange (New Jersey) Bridge Whist Club {s holding its weekly meoting. Mrs, Olivet Quiver, Mrs, Bob Darrow and Mrs. Deestinger are discovered fn con- fidential conversation. Mrs. Lowlymeek, the hostess, flutters about thd picture Ike a nervoug guinea hen. Chorus of members of the clud-in the background.) NG M*=: LOWLYMEEK (ecooting up to the central group)—T-bdelleve all the others are ready to start Mrs. Oliver Quiver (ignoring the hint mand addressing Mrs Hob Darrow and Mrs. Beestinger)—You know I just peeked tn the dutler’s pantry whfle I was making belleve to fix my stock, It's the same old story —chicken salad, salted almonds, stingy lit old caviar sandwiches and cheese straws, Mrs. Beestinger—A cheese siraw for me will be the last straw; I'm sick and tired of them. Tell mo, cid you see any boulllon cups? Poal- tively, I'l shriek aloud {f she has bouillon. Mrs. Oliver Quiver—Prepare to shriek. I saw it myself—thin, instpid- looking stuff, with toast to go along with {t. Mra. Hob Darrow—Ugh! It's quite evident’'to my mind that Mrs Lowlymeek thinks “Cast thy bread upon the waters” {s a bouiNon-rectpa, Sh-h! there she comes again. ‘ Mrs. Lowlymeek (siddling up)—Excuse me, my dears, but the others are really anxious to begin playing. Er—everything is ready and waiting, you know, Mrs. Oliver Quiver (sweetly)—In just a moment, dearest. Wo wers just saying something nice about you among ourselves—something real complimentary about the beautiful way you alw entertain, (As Mrs, Lowlymeek fades away.) Lat 'em walt.{f they are so inconsiderate, Can't they see for themselves we are talking and don't want to be interrupted. As Iwas saying when that woman bobbeat up and threw mo off—really, saying, L saw four different she makes me awfully neryous—as I monograms on the forks in the butler’s pa Mrs. Bob Datrow—That means Mrs. Low! dinner with their fingers to-night. Oh, I know all about these borrowers. Why, onco— P Mrs. Oliver Quiver—Yes; and she’s got that same old bunch of-greasy wniters from Hickups & Belcher’s, Mrs, Beestinger—Then I know I shall expire, I’ve had that tall Swiss walter handing me my chocolate by the top of the cup so offen that I'@ recognize the taste of his thumb in the pltch dark. (Secing Mrs. Lowly- meck approaching.) What in the name of goodness can she want now? Mrs. Lowlymeck (with an apologetic cough)—Really and truly, my | dears, I hate to interrupt, but, you know, it’s past time to start playing; | und—and it doesn’t {nconvenience me a bit—but some of the others ara growing a mite impatient. | Mrs, Oliver Quiver (in a resigned tone)—Well, I suppose we must be | going to the tables then, but there was ever so much more I wanted to | tell you about, I know a beautiful piece of gossip that I got as a dead | secrat. I'll tell you both about it at lunch. We won't be able to eat a bite, I know, and we might as well tall a moment. Fn, Thumbnail Sketches. Alexander Dow!e, —Making Elijah turn over tn his o Task Cleaning fish, Look—"The False Prophet.” Auth or Eddy. | vorite Artist—Huogry Joe, | i vorite worlte Frutt- Plan pery lm, Favorite Vehiclawthe springboard, Nayorite Musical Inirtrument—Sounding brass, Fayorite Charncter tn History—Olly Gammon, niDgR o The | hotosraph from i London Sketch resents one of, i | | |