The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1907, Page 6

: Evening World's Daily Magazine, Saturday, March ®; 1907; - MEAT. “JAMES. O’BRIEN: R.1.-P.. yAMES O'BRIEN. had exceeded by two years the Scrip- "| tiral-span of life when he died last Fuesday of “heart © disease. He should receive more of an obituary than the ‘réporters of this generation gave him. They knew him not in the days of his power. To them “he-was-only Jimmy O'Brien, -an-old,-broken-down politician, whose glories had departed and who lin- gered, doddering,.on the fringe of public life. Before the civil war was over James O’Brien “was -tlected>Alderman-in: the old-Gas-House-District. He was a bigger man than Richard Croker. He was elected Sheriff In 1869. A few years later he ‘de: feated Abram S. Hewitt for Congress. As candidate tion to Tammany he polled enough Democratic votes for Mayor in opposi has known. He was also State E Senator. / The roll of elective of- he held is proof of his strength jwith the people and of his political acity. ; He outlived ‘his day and ‘his -generation. The political conditions cunder which he ‘thrived ceased long” ago. The times when a young man ‘could'win his way to political power physical force, when a convic- tion for assault and battery was = father a tribute io prowess than a gma, have given way to the days ‘of cunning, of manipulation, of influence, of corporation -Is- ‘sues, of public life conducted from lawyers’ offices. Even the gashouse bidd |= tallying-point for hard-fisted workingmen to become a matter af Wall = Street speculation and franchise grabbing, The old political leaders of New York were developed in the fire- he foundry and the prize ring. The Their fists were the visible token | ‘From the street-car platform a district leader would graduafe, From the car repair shops came Richard Croker. The days of all such as these are gone. A few political relics of Tweed’s time remain. George Washington Plunkitt was the last of the] district leaders to go, Thomas J, Creamer was one of the last to hold elective office. James O'Brien was the last to pose futilely as a statesman. In the days of their power everybody knew them and their associates. Duffy ithe little Judge; Paddy ‘Divver, Judge Dan O'Reilly, Mike Cregan, Steve ~~ Prench, Charley Wilde, Andy White, Fred Gibbs; Tim” Campbell, Cot. "Murphy andthe rest’ whose “focal boss. Samuel J. Tilden was an ex-Assemblyman. State Senators and Congressmen were Pot obscure nonentities, so many markers in the game of politics. Who to-day could name any 7B gis “to elect Havemeyer, the last straight Republican Mayor New. York City BEBLOD O BUOFSHESD ELDLGOHGOGGEOLPCGOOOOL® @ o iP The Evening The Chorus Girl M @ : e ef oe AS Seen 1 Thro’ Funny ‘+ st Glasses By Irvin S. Cobb ROM New York, March 9. “Dear Green: They're going in pretty briskly for “atmosphi this seagon in the plays that the managers here have put on with the, aid of the famous New York troupe of 0 critica. and’ the performing juvenili I never knew our boy censora to be stronger for anything than thay are for that persons so puny can be so strong, Boma of the veteran critics—old heads for going on three years now—got 60 wrapped up in the task of calling for more atmgsphere that lately they al- most quit making personal comparisons who died about the time’ they put on pants. » ‘As I recall what history has to on-the subject they didn't play atmo- sphere all the way acrosa the board in tho timea of the Inte Bill the Bard. Ac- cording to my best jaformation, W. Shakespeare, Eaq.,.coultin't have put on his {mmortal works at all if he hadn't previously got-the consent of the Eliza- bethan equivalent of the Trust, the same being a noble and feeble-minded Duke 2€ Something who had a head the size of a roulette ball, but not nearly an rellable. Bill occypted w theatre which would haye made a pretty: fafr livery stable {f 1¢ had more furniture; and the stage props Were restricted to a row of tatlow—dips and a_hottle| of ho: brewed bitters for the use of the a thor. . When they got ready to play “Hamlet™ the Boas would commute in from Avon by the Erle, and round up al -of tho cast who were able to-leave the taproom and ¢he county fall. Then tne'd send around a boy with a bell and set the plece by nailing up a notice Ina plank at the back of the stage request- ing the audience to kindly Imagine that they were {n Denmark and not to throw anything at the actors except something and-tt ran five hours, ff all the troupers were sober, And longer {f any .of.‘em wero pickled and had’to take aim at tha lines. They didn't have much atmos- phere in those rare old times, But they certainly-raised- more Shakespeares per. acre. “But es for wo uns, give us atmoa- “Atmosphere” three-sheet posters on the “L/ stations. atmosphere; you'd be gurprised to note | |who have beeh out of the higt school ~q between Mansfeld and Edwin Booth, . edible, Then they started up the play |, RIXTE MAGINNIS ts jn off the road," said the Chorus Girl. “Bho Scale Girl.’ Trixie saya they done fine on the road, turning them away at CGumberland, Md., and them other towna up the creek, but she says having #0 much weather as we had this winter made them one-night atands simply ahrieks. “In them inaect! the gentlemen in the company !x expected to go to tho barber vhops and pay a quarter for the luxury of « bath. “So_fr aa a. jay hotel {a concemed. the bath tub fy Fegneded as part of the brie-a-brac.- In summer the bath tub enamei comes off on you till you emerge from It looking Ike a leopard lady, and tn winter the pipes is froze. “But don't I know? Atn't I played ‘em all from Painted Post to. Seneca: Falls? "Goldie Lestrange was with Trixte and they was tefling us that of all stars to play with Paula Ed- wardes and Eddie Foy 1s about the only ones that trent the ladies and gentiemen tn their company as {t they was. human beings, “Sho says there waa never a word except one time when Eddie Foy was telling how his grandfather got drownded in Ireland, 3 “He was rowing across a lake with two other olf | Stews to-go to-a wake when the old-tad. tis grand. father, stood up in the boat to prove that a man ait: | tng down made it sink lower in the water than wh he stood up, and he fell into the stuff on thn. aide. “He couldn't swim because he hadn't any chanct to spit on his hands, and tho old tads tn the bent tried | to lift him aboard by his hair.” But old guy's hair was a wig. It’came off and down ho went. “Everybody thought Eddie meant {t for a funny story, because Eddie looks just the same whin he taughs a9 when he cries. And wian all prasen closed _with \‘The Farland the | orous towns, mK y * eéts By Roy L. McCardell * * the “Kid” and EBBCEEHO DHESDECEOGE SHDPOS GOGOBHE GTS augh-M Doesn’t Like Her * “It made me peevish to hear the Kid titter: ‘Oh, I'd be afrald of that funny mani Ho's so slllyl'” Orleans just for that. : “But what I wanted to tell you about: Trizle Ma- Finnly and Gold!e Lestrange coming up to the flat was that they Are floating around with a female kid. | ‘low many of them haye leaw in my, met what becomes ofall them chickadeefee kids I've seen since |T've been on the stage? Ask me! “This kid was a little girl who, lke al} th rest. of }them, talked ‘ten-year-old talk, Int knew enousy to be a hundred, you bet! | ; | “You've saw them with the short dresses to their shoetopa, the prop Isp and the ey@s 20 Innocent that everything looked wicked to them? “But, oh, ain't they wise, them kid chickadees! And yet the dressing-rvom chaperons take them out every- where apd call their attention to cracks ¢hat there ain't really any harm in by saying ‘Sash! Ain't you ABTAMA to talk thmtoway before little Lilie!’ “George, the wine agent, who Is still engaged to Amy—why, theyll 66 married If this keeps up much | lorger—George saya ho can't stand for the Innocent ) moral efforts of her chorts girl guardians tum | 2n eventng of innocent merriment tnto a hypocritical | erlme. m | "Don't you dare give the kid a glass of wine! | the assoctated chaperons holler. ‘We intend to loc | after hert: ' a “Then they drink her wine and thelr own, and the next thing they know the Innocent Kid ts riding in the automobile they thought would be given to them. "The Innocent Kid tn 2 theatrical troupe ts the cen beo trouble maker. ‘Sho carries tales, sho don't tell nothing but lies, she gety the whole company scrapping. Shoe ateals Jewelry and money out of tho dressing-room and biames {t on the wardrobe woman, and even when she's found out as a sly and malicious minx tho bunch that tow her around say: “The poor kid in in- nocent of the world. She didn't know Jt was wrong! “Not for mine, them Innocent Kids, and I suppose Twa chilly to this cheeky child. a mug Eddfe's feelings was hurt and he wouldn't give a one of them a good thing he had at New| love to gush “But Matima De Branscombe and Puss Montgomery wer anything, from dogs to souvenirs Kids, They aro always brought to a wine party and| [and sald, ‘I know I'd Ike you, because you seem £0 jnix! Back to the kindergarten for yours!’ to be enatohed, and they raved over this kid's hair— they always wear it down the back till™they are twenty-eight, especially tf they, are runte—end Momma De Branscombe even took her aside to give her good-aadvice about taking cars—of-hervelf-tn—= wicked town—and she’s from Pittsburg! I could see the kid lsten'with ears and teeth, and if Maména De Branscombe was telling her anything she didn't know, you bet she was making up her mind to play tt coppered, 5 2 "The great play ‘of the Innocent Kid Ja to be afraid of something—a big horrid.man who hasn't any money, generally, “And when the kid got a peek at Dopey it didn’t need for anybody to tip her off that Dopey was the human deficit, and, my! how ecared she was of Do- ney. And poor Dopey {s the kind you could introduce {your mather to at an Arion balla 5 = “Poor Dopey {s alwnys Patsy, and I'll lay ten to one—hewas_twice as innocent as anybody in tho bureh, and when he heard that the kid had run away from achool and had ‘never had much music or yooal culture the poor slob told her If she'd come up to the flat two hours every day he'd give her piano and yotcq lessons for nothing. And he's tho star instructor, Dopey 1s, bectuse he ts always kind land patient. _ | “It mado me peevish to hear her titter at him and "On, T'a-be afraid of thet-tunny man! He's-so lyt* “Hut when George, the wine agent, came in and ahe saw all the diamonds he wore she sidled up to him refined!’ “But George gave her the han eye and sald, ‘Nix, "IT don't know whether Dopey's feelings was hurt or not. He's composing a military march to be dedi- cated to General Debiiity, whose namp he scea so mitch tn the papera, 7) “Dopey says he'd ifke to be a military man, and {ft he couldn't be a real colonel ho'd be satisfied to be a nut, “But Dopey tx the boy-from Branil ae it ls, ain't he? “Yes? No? What?" yike the real thing as a plate of Nea- palitan fee cream {9 Ike—an—Aurora | hair Senators from New York, including Grady? ~ How many men know the ~hame-of their-district leader, or their—Assemblyman, or their-Congress- ~The change which has reduced the fawyer to the'position of corpora- elon clerk has lowered the district leader, the Assemblyman, the Senator ‘and the’ Congress: The telephone has made the. giving of orders to - : ing-of-an-office-boy,—The- immensely increased Value of public franchises has made them, and not the holding of office, ‘the most jucrative reward “of political power. Truly. James. O'Brien had. outlived his time, The kindof abilit Which: brought-political success in-his-heyday is of no account now, Letters from the People. ne “Why Do Men Drink!" “To the Editor ox "Tik’Fvenitie Wor “I would like to give my own observa- tion as. to the query “Why do men @rink?” During the past ten years 1 Hhayo been tn saloons in pretty nearly ‘every city of any alze In this part of the country. During my travelling @round I have met possibly ten men | Who, haye been 0 “small that they have had to blame thelr thirst for drink on the discomforts of domestic life, “A Tan's home {a what he makes It!" There is no. monotony in any working- qan's life if ho has-ambition, Tho one ‘and only reason why a man drinks Is; ‘He has either acquired a taste for drink or wae born with « thirst for st. 2 y CONSUMER, How About the 8. P, ©. A.T Tv the Biltor ot Tie Lyeniex World: Will no one organiae a wocloty to pro- tect the poor and homlfs beasta that| ‘Foam the strecta? To protect them from the cruel boys that throw stones at ‘them? The poor creatures have no Weapons with which to defend them- M. ALS. | The Cleanest City, | Tote Eatior of The Bveninx World: \ In reference to the “cleanest and best Rept city” in the world, I think there tx HO ommercial city in the.world axclean a Berlin. 1t is true that Paris ti con- ] wish to add that It ts due to it: mag nificent buildings und possibly to the Deantiful girla you may hee there, Fur: thermore, there may posubly be some small towns fn the northern part of Italy which are known to be na clean as Berlin, but we cannot consider them, aa tt may take only a half dozen peoplo Co keep the place in its best of shape. T think that all who have seen the most {mportang citles will agree with me. iH. AMDURY, | Awrecable Agnes. To the Biltor € The Pvening Wort: Taking epecial Interest in the discus- sion. ax to the offect a girl's name often aoema to haye on her nature apd tem perament, I read @ query as to girls named Agnes. I think i{ fs a beautiful name. All the women I know by that name are truthful, sweet tempered, loyal to the very heart and kind, but a Witle too trusting. L. 1, AERSE. Nullet and Cars, To the Eiiltor of The Evening Wortdt Will readera solye tho following prob- lom? We have @ train of ftat cars one mile long, travelling at a rate of one milo & minute, A man stands on the front end, also a man on the rear end who has a rifle that sill shoot a bal} at a rate of one mile a minute. When he shoots at the man on the forward 2 to ba the most beautiful ‘city, end will the bullet reach dim or not? | mR, + draw tt. —Also-atmosph. But if they've Kot a 2a0w ‘The—Making of a City Girl “By Maurice Ketten, NEVER MIND. PUT ON THIS CONG. SIRT AND TAKE OFF THOSE BOOTS OH! THAT'S ALL RIGHT. PUT ON THIS HAT, oret ~ in—the scene, tha’ isa your atmosphe! — Atmosph-re' rio life it Is! ; ; é Boreenat soulul guape at the realism | The hee appears In wait of Tawhlde | un for JOUr Monee. TO eel | Tn sae ee otee Lor ; memories are now like ghosts in political annals. Bae ore Sabow SBwedst getetbatied | SRC Acme ere epee Se OMEN a SN oR oan teal ‘cow-puncher | hoyn gu aloft tn the files and fing down | phere ent om tke, Teck _ Who have taken their places? Thirty years ago district leaders were | SiC aaand'hiae severy rec e admte wate as tormnOT Ny RE eT a te earn, avalver fool aa fe aiving somenniy pir Stmawpnerteally, Te wwadtt._| “men of prominence whom everybody knew. Chester A. Arthur was a} fete Miley: Tie almost an Tauen (atuaway the neroine ‘must wear “K Noud dislocate hia WHat Af he tried to! Welaaco wind machine rages and haces ‘mosphere may bo merely a form ~~~ “Foxy Sam! Toe -time-there Meet {n—Worcenter, Masx.. an old naxro who had a tre- mendous tnfluence. religious and politcal. in the settlement where he lived. by @ prominent banker, but had puccess. fully evaded the payment of rent for many years, No trouble cnme, how- ever, until the banker was nominated to run for a political oMos. The next day the olf negro came Bébddiine into | hin ofMoe, : “Well, 6am,” sald the banker, accord: Ing to LAppincott's Magasfine, I suppose you've come in to DRY me Rome rent.” “Oh, no, hose“ replied the old man. “Ise just come tito pay Ine glad yo" ts Tiomtinated,-nnd-witl_teh- de-rea of dams. no ‘count niggera to yote fo' yo’ and to *-at-do-omme time dat d foot of my house is a teakin'y aa’ ie ie move out f@ ocoupled a little house ownes | * Ja man he can't belp making money. aKers Joe Miller. Discusses ef ef. Police’ Reform se se By Martin Green nual refor now under way at Albany,” remark. ed Joo Miller, the author of Joe Mil- ler'e Joke “Book, ond time on earth, bo the proposition of..reforming the police force don't put much of a» Gent in me; but to some people the spectacle of the cop having the harpeon thrown into him appears in. the light of a novelty. “The cops ‘certainly do love thetr Gommisstoner.You—ean’t blame them, When he says {n an interview that every man on the force 1s a crook, If with the goods in’ a manner, that ie amazing. If some $00 mén/weartng shields gre going .arough New York every day macing the populace, tt is remarkable that thera are a0 \irw squeals. | “From, the reformers’ tal! famMiar with New York got: the {dea that (ts metropolis has Sodom sand Go- morrah looking Mke Asbury Park end Ocean Grove. Getting down to cascs, this Ia:the cleanest town in the world, liacge-or-small, bar no entries. C jsldering the fact that-we-have a pol clot population, that New York ta the centre of Wealth, excitement, sport, theatricals, high finance, life Insurance, horse racing, wine & ts, soubrettes, authors, confidence mon, rubber-neck. wagons, bum transportation service, adulterated boore, lobstera (all species), delicatessen stores, flat houses, hurrah shipping, commerce, business enterprise and Anthony Comstock, — whe: anybody get off to. throw rocks at us bechuse burglars and Bolaup men and ve to nake a liv! ? Cee tthe present time New York “\n the Uimélight on account of the in Thaw trial, Thaw ts not a resident of this town. The man ho killed was, and there has been a lot of yammering about the kind of a moral equipment he had, ‘There are Stanford Whites In every community, but they don't happen to be as prominent in public Iife as he was. The streeta of New York are abso- ty -wafe for-any woman who minds jher-own hysluexs: at ny hour of the night. ‘ThisNe not entirely because of police vigtlant ut because of ‘the in- nate decency of men of the city. {Phere—ere—no_sinns we New Yorke Chicago, 8t. Louis, San ‘Orleans und other Ame sess. A Tespectablo woman, not ing of the existence or boundaries of the Tenderloin, might pass through it dozens of tines by day ar night and a remain in her ignorance. “The New York cop has no snap. He don't know what minute he may have to rink his Hfe; and there are no records showing that any cop ever refused to take a chance In that respect. Police ‘rancisco, New not different from other men. ‘They have the weaknesses common to the ‘longshoreman, thé ptumber,~ the ~ pro= eastonal menor the banker, Neasty- all of them have wives and children and are devoted husbands and fathers. Some of them are rich. Must a man condemn himself to poverty when be goes on the force? The average police- man who becomes rich would be a rich man Sn any line he might adopt, When. the Gent for making Modey i Dorn Mm” "You can lay odds that there are crooks on the police force. Instead of ng ull of the men in uniform the —Commtastoner “ought. to! wetat the redl crooks and oan them, Acraoked pollcs ig aa vulnerable aa & oreoked bank clerk. yarlably suffer from exaggerated "What do you auppone the n eof of m: Birt need “TR haveto ‘o- By. Nixola Gr nuggested that tho Amertcan Inatitute tention that women men, but nod one will én; than man, It {# th been woman’ Persistence, Given a man and woman of It seems to me the more intelligent a conged woman's mental equipment tho readier and power of man's mind, 80 generally recognized. matter so vast that « and inconsistent garments that all womet by the grace and beauty of the wearer, No man has brains enough to do many thin; dimming the lustre of her dntellect, in tho least, {o that brains have uundred yeara more or lesa of @ lixyry to’ woman, Men have always bad to have brains, because bral The main difference, it seems to m sity to man and until within the last make a living, Women being relieved of atty, Work doea more to develop brain of ‘woman's mind, Always there have been exceptional ‘Have Men-or Women More Brains? T a meeting of the Legislative 1. ‘ Brown discussion as tothe ri quality of the: masculine and feminin: “It te not," she said, quantity of brains. An elep! women are of a lower o: According to Darwin, Always achleve moro because hia powers of r the superior finesse of the developed feminine bi combined, The test of brain is {ta capacity for work, and the host o! working women have, I think, done far more to prore the equallt: brain than the women gentuses—Sappho, Georges Sand, George Eliot and othera- acarcaly helt a dowen {n number, eo often instanced as demonstrating r equal to man's, It is the average Woman,-however, who must prove the claim, And ghe 1a doing It to-day by the hundred tho ‘keen-reporters “at —Puttca HM for?" retorted Joe Miller, eeley-Smith, elative quantity” and obi women present will of Phrenology hay rain. Miss Fowler” thelr brains to the Just. to prove her con- ‘© more brains and more talent than “as 80 many_ people insist, the hant has more brains than a y that an elephant is more Infsuligent and yet many men say thas rier of intelligence because ft has 0 quality, 4 that a man’s brains welgh more than @ what women lack is not braing, but al gentus, he doclared the mani mut esintance and endurance are greater, | man is the greater j# his willingness to, rain, while the greater a, \s hor acknowledgment of the strength | equi It is the Ineradicable difference in quality that ts ‘not What man's brain was ever so light that adorn Its outer covering with an ontrigh feather? What woman's wealth aving pluitie deemed out of place/upon her head mman could place a rese behind his ear and escapo ridicule, or assume the abserd - of gray - t What mm wear and reconcile the observer's eye ea that any woman may without always ‘been a neces. [na are ‘necessary to that burden were under: no: such neces- than all the other forces of civilization” f independent Y of woman's women whose brains were admittedly oy they -wre—all—crooked—theyget_away kk people not hotels, grand opera singers, baseball,” “anes — n_citles pow know- inen In” Wiel tastes and“Mmetinattony are “Why does a Totcé Commissioner ta leudquarters the powee | ussend—wherever, indecd, & woman Here HE an- mation of the Po-| ° Mse-Department ja —— “This is my seo . 4