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Mome Magazine, Friday Evening. April 6, 1906. Yes—It IS April. ‘A Group of Oddities By J. Campbell Cory. in Picture and Story. Evening Worlds Fublished by the P: y. XN Park RTT Entered wt t s alee ota ik about this fairly : NO, 16.2 well executed picture of Car- VOLUME 40...... theses seeees seeee oeees srrssesseee NO, 16,29 Tngh's SHLAABe WRG aaSEEMEAE Fasan pana eae re | was drawn by the only r THE PIPE GALLERY GRAB. earth who works fr newspas Seen ‘ ¥ 2 Majesty King Carlos of Portu, = e ture for the Paris Fi pe; | | than from its authorship. King Carlos i 3 * the funny fellow of royalty, don- . ‘ vhict stantly doing odd things, a fattest man that si France has forbidden her ca to caricature Carlos’s fat, so Frenc! papers content th with depict | ing him in photogra such photos | further exaggeration. Sa act ne ei each oti and fray the actual cost of ma ance. i children each. vided for, but the conduit corpora , is expressly / i any other cor- up in busi- It used to be that astrono’ stupendous locitles and seemed to m authorized to demand a rental for the use poratioh. That is, the bill not ness, but grants it an immer Why was this free-gift clause all Greek to t! dians of the city’s interest in the Senate? McCarren and Cooper? Was it only t Slipped in while the search for of contracts was distracting The Empire City Subway} npany and the Consolidated Subw. Company, the beneficiaries.of the gr sel that the j mandatory tle to free s ation shows their full acquaintance with decer As the donkey leads the way for the caravan, so it is only neces to follow their trenches to learn the routes of future subways. But who drafted the joker? By whose connivance was it incorpor- ated in the bill? Who kept discreetly still? These are the interesting questions. | SUBWAY VAIN EXPECTATIONS. As a solution of the problem of subway ventilation Chief Engineer | Rice recommends automatic air valves on the street surface. They would cost $275,000 and could be installed, in an emergency, by June 1. Is not the emergency here? How long is the travelling public to he fed on “recommendations” and to be put off with tentative suggestions, such as that of an air refrigerating device “discussed, but not decided on | The Subway-has now been in operation almost a year and a half. Nearly half a million persons use it daily, as against 300,000 during the first months of operation. Yet except for a few roof openings and battery of blowers to exhaust the foul air, what has been done to remedy | the original conditions of discomfort? | The stations are cleaned by the primitive and unsanitary methods first in use. The additional air supply required by the increased patronage | has not been provided. Not a single car with side entrances to expedite the express service has been added, though such cars have been success- fully used in Boston. No attempt even has been made to eliminate th | copper-sheathed cars, the narrow doors of which impede exit and entrance | and are a main cause of disarrangement of schedule. A fuller equipment | of the wider-mouthed steel cars would distinctly facilitate time-making. The first breath of spring heated the Subway air to an amen | THE MOCK ORANG i sultriness. Is the return of warm weather to bring with it the old sweat —$——____—— - NOUTFRInGin nee ROUERe Atawas oD onrd Oo} nention, | 5 box conditions? A repetition of the discomforts of last summer will indict => LETTERS from the PEOPLE ( Aiea hak eon | 7 a ine 1 es pean Wo ae BRIDGE WHIST Cae rece PIE Sa ah the management for culpable dilatorine : | sacle Mapp aOR Se = By Grinnan Barpete ANSWERS to QUESTIONS | on bs rien a Hae oe In union there Is strength. The co-operation of the Board of Health, the AY X SCHOOL. é the M ) NJ ‘Anti-Smoke League and the Corporation Counsel to prosecute vio! of the SASS 5 « mg thts atic Smoke law promise effective results. This time let the war be y spite ‘ ern ed We a ena big offenders. Previous crusades have been directed agai igure meat | ESTA ADE REPT eee TN at ot the mabsat tee with more or less success. Now let the power plants, the lig subm 3 Rescate’ ane as: docen't 1b sound: wicked the larger factories be brought to book rl OF W r \ to talk tr forth defilement in defiance of sanitary regulations, distance | , 1 othr in| _\ pha eateee HN aaa { cuheeet abaenetate how babhddddhdhhhah hha hhh hh ahhhih hahaa aaa esaea me CiCTceeeetLeeeceeeeerereeececTccenerenrrrrererterererercecccrrcrrrarececreececrececerter] SAYIN STASANS SANA NENA ROE RTM R Ree RENEE NEEL | But % LOrRDY, wus half] with @ loud] ht 1 was te " ext e 1 was gong to g T could find one in fiful Angora, The CRITTE & | ight be lo} i { playing ‘ 24 me ¥ rs and pre Bu Arthur Worrison i : Mrs. Beckie,” he sdisacoe here AB EN ave nene Apia ee my cub LEO terrible thing that : a , say, {t amounted . sh nN on and when ons se new antiques, estinger “ re | sniffed once or twic : nd looked at the ected of | crossing marks on the bottom. And then & loud enough for y I s - sur nearly everybody to hear ler tH 5 ‘ Yung: or poor Judgment, _ uid ah a very !dentical ca ec months ago for a CHAPTER II, : ; era : . I nck 0 s wand somebody told Mrs. Yungbride, and we came away, leaving her in th A Strange Hind, ‘ ae i middle of a terrible crying epell. But it served her right, I say. People don't TE ‘nepeotor tachasioe 3 fob ee is he| halt appreciate t ding presents these days, and besides, if you are smart* boxes; & H wrone door and the] you can always ex n't like at the shops.” the locks the window, “a did not live +e i HOT GROUNDERS BY BARNES. | Line Te 1.—The Finish of Clanoy. & lhe, (3 1 1 oi /1t8) | R. CLANCY was a picher of a reputation meagre, | i ; Wh | But in farcy he was better than most any major leaguer; " H He was very, very anxious to develop and advance, end | So he pestered all the magnates wll at last he got his chunce. | ve | to t 1 | : e | 1 te et Hen the blind was up| Deep, deep worry o'er the futtire drove him to a fortune telles i tn | foun the morn ri he said, “You know the layout; how would you ailvise a feller? : : sa dark man,” quoth the lady, “who *h will come; ly a You should foil bin * eried Chane ut him on the bum! 4 ~ IIL. : 4 d ore and tied a thick knot at the top, Buoyed by what the im, Claney vowed he'd fight his battle aisn 1 {with a nerve that a » grand stand couldn't rattle, 1 u i \ " * dar-rk man! ran the slogan in his head; ints - ‘ ‘ xed to outs others will be ¢ Clancy real. wei . or M } went to tl | Nc 3 fran outside who " Aba f uM [abut you. say you ernoettih nie e oath back with DMS wwe are booked to phiy f college—4t belongs to springtime training,” men * | ere W r could then shut the win-) Said the manager; then added; “It's the only game remaining amy d from Iv and the catch would! mint we stack againat th ones, with the pennant for the grab, | 5 Into tte appointed sroove | In this allege business, Clancy, we will put you on the slab." | * 11 poth looked at the siil outatde, Tt Vv; | Ja a Sronti new alll te house ‘teelt 1") mult of confidence and smiling at the balmy spring time weather, | t { she Mace w sharply marked bit of de-| Clancy walked upon the diamond and began ‘to ¢wtrl the leather H in his last eae as ave it 7 $ pression. Look! It seems to have been! at his catcher, Denny Nolan, when he chanoed to look about to mind i ‘ eS Ne yodae EL Maete Vlamoat-| Aziied with a sharp steel point, Tt waa! 414 no eaw the college players, from @ negro sehool, come outt t 6 Sore tie ly locked, bolted and barred the front veo . VI. . ° s. W 5 : vetoed “ooo lock belt ARG] wind has since blown the powder away | wg tnt dareie man! Git th’ darrk man!" Clancy howled at Catoher Denny, | ce HoUe he door with his| Now. if man fad Cencennees EIRENE | wow! th lady never told me there wus goin’ t’ be eo many!" 4 | Riis oid 25k. o. siraget home, Te | Any PH Nil aki'e aude tee Slo Been S2ENA ON ing tous the noise wag | the endt shat was dust the sort of mark | Then he oilmbed the fence to freedom, with,e wild, daspatring sob, | took @ torn tat wkd gig Baad t to and fro @ things here; he's al considerable, There was @ sad lack of|I should expect him to leave behind, ‘That's the ead, sad tale of Clancy—chat's how Clancy lost his job. oy Balape Bnd ‘looked up each of the} "1 that there's one arer upper water himaelf, and knows better thaplow gyi and the bolts creaked: (To Be Concluded.) Arche a me ‘ - . sii Sinner vmenen tessa eS Bey daub y