The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1907, Page 14

zine, Friday, Published Dally except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. swe g Park Row, New York. 20mer HE PULITZER, Pree 1 Rost Ted Puree. BLANGUS AILAW, Soe Trees, 91 Wet 1iAth Berek Hatered at the Post-Ofice at Now York as Second-(‘inss Mall Matter: Budscription Rates to The Canada. For England and Eyening World for the tinent and All ountries tonal One Year....eseereseare$6-70 | HREE-QUARTERS. of a million votes were cast by The’ Evening Coney dsland Mardi Gras and Ca niyal. John Econopouly led with 346,646 votes. conopouly is a seventh son, but it was his popu- larity rather than his luck which brought him in at the head of the : poll. : San His competitors numbered their he : S friends by tens and hundreds of ~ thousands. They must all feel complimented at the public tokens of “approval they have received from the people who know them and with this mark of popular appreciation. How cosmopolitan this great city has become, The winner is a (Greek, born of a Spartan family some of whose far-back ancestors may have defended the pass at Thermopylae. The next competitor is 2 popu- Yar Brooklyn man, Corse Payton, the actor-manager, whose name is known everywhere throughout the United States and who has presented ean entertainments to millions of people at moderate prices. The Evening World's Daily Maga 4 World readers for King of the] ——_Gn-the-same-honorable—roll_are—a_native—of old American stock, | _ No Hip! By F. G. Long. | No Hip! Hooray! Af STRENUOUS METHOD FOR REDUCING THE HIPS- 175 Al PIPE! t j patriot hurried to arms. In the Fi ships and eking out a bare living by acting as laundre NO. 85—MOLL PITCHER, the Heroine of Monmouth. N the first place her Christian name was not “Moll,” nor was her last name “Pitcher.” Those sppellations had their birth in the slang of an admiring army. She began life a» Mary Ludwig, in Carlisle, Pa. where, In 1744, she was born of German parents. She spent the first few years of her womanhood as a pervant; then, in 1769, married John Hays, @ | barber. Already were heard tho first mutterings of the storm which was 90 soon to burst In the full fury of the American revolution, The colonists, weary of unjust taxes and oppression from their. giish rulers, were preparing. to fight for thelr rights. When, {n 1775, the clash actually came, every illery John Hays murtng tts tard — ‘His wife followed ‘him to thé w 3 enlisted as gunner. ficers, She was a great favorite among the soldiers and In a thousand THIS WAY Chief Bull Bear; leading citizens of Irish and German nativity, several ‘Assyrians, several men whose ancestors were here when New York was a British colony, several Italians, and natives of almost every other “country on the face of the globe : The carnival, which begins next Monday, will be a greater celebra- tion that even last year’s successful carnival. Experience has pointed Oui several features which should be modified. The use of ticklers should be'abolished. The easiest way to do this is for the police to pre- vent their sale. The Board of Health last year took action against the using again of confetti whichhas been mixed with street refuse. This regulation, toa, police should carefully enforce. _SRae public should not be led by this occasion of buoyancy into areless or towdy conduct. The knocking off of hats is reprehensitie. | It leads needlessly to bad feeling and fights. iS - VERY SUCCES S = FUL- BUT DEPRESSIN THE NEW THIN: HIPLESS STYLE WiLL LEAVE MORE CHAIR. SPACE IN THE THE ORIGINAL HIPLESSES & De Se 8 Cupid's wrokshop a grocery? Does the little god lurk gr by preference behind counters heaped with mixed| For all who come in contact with Jove are cheered by It. ft te The fact ts, Young girls especially should refrain from taking part in the more boisterous phases of the carnival celebration, Good humor and ex- uberant spirits are entirely. compatible with the preservation of order. Nothing destroys the pleasure of such a celebration as 500,000 people Participated in last year as a tendency to excess. | The Evening World's best wishes go to John Econopouly, King of the Carnival;’ Corse Payton, Elias Rosenthal, Jerry Donnelly, Ch i the other desirable citizens who received votes from) The Evening World readers, with the hope that they and every one who/| participates in the Coney Island Mardi Gras shall enjoy it to the utmost. There should be more occa- —ogtons “like this. The-humdrum. of daily life needs the interruption of a holiday season. American holl- Ways are taken too serlously. They are too perfunctory. Year.afier year ‘come the same Labor Day parades, the same Thanksgtving dinners, the game Christmas trees, the same fourth of July fireworks. It Is well fo continue established customs and ieee traditional celebrations. itis -atso well to add to this the fightness of spirit of the Latin races who every year form a larger pro- portion ofthe -population-of-this city, and-to-tearn from -them-how-to take a festivity out of a holiday and how to enjoy exuberance without excess, Letters from the People. Yen, to Both Questions. — Wo the 204s ‘The Drentng World Was Shakespeare ever an actor? Are ny of Shakespeare's works based on happenings from real Hfe? GUS COHAN. A Problem tn Eoonomics. Mo the Editor of The Pyentng World: Let me submit a probiem tn to your readers. Jones is the most ble mectanto In the world, He gota, @ay, $10,000 per year, Brown, the least ts a beggar. By eome mi- x agency (or by the use of ma- ‘binery) everybody's output 1a increaped @ hundred fold except Jones‘s, His re- Tonins stationary, Jones te now the least capable man, for Brown excols him, wile Smith ts the most capable. What wages wii Smith, Brown and Jonen get, and what at the profits? What do your thinkers think? I would} 2ke to hear a protessor of economics! en thin mubjoot, for it seems to me to! be of prime importance to the tollers, WALTER GROTH. | (Between 1 Evening World: hair colored to match thelr costumes, and a few little dogs for company. Is it not a natural instinct for nan to be Indifferent to his decorative aspect. and to continue to be what nature has made him, the finished product of na- ture only? MJ 4 Baby Newlyweds Teeth. Te the Editer of the Evening World: Tam an admirer of the Newlyweds |Don't you think the New!ywed's babs ought to «row some more teeth! Or is he bullheaded tp his mouth also? ¥. F, VON KEEFUDOR?, Careleseness on Rarges. To the EAitor of The Evening World Several: lives were lost on ak barge in August by the boller exploding I was on the barge, which Iny five dasa at anchor in @ northeast gale off shots | when tbe engineer nould net mare pump “ork and the captain ooukd not handle the anchor, and made two tripe with 4 hanging from the hoas pipe. The! engineer wan under twauty-one years oli, The osptain waa an old cook and only temporarily in charge. Anothe barge belonging to the same company omica coal french for Ourselves." "To the WMltor of What ts the meaning of “entre novat'| a5 pany M.A [BMd © captain twent ven rateia a ho waa not even an a In tt The “Ornamental” Sex. strnnge that eecidents happen on con barges? W. J. Frrew. Vive Miles an Hoar, Te the Esttor of The Evening World; 1 walked thirty-eight miles | hours and thirty minutos, tw reat during that tin time about ons and « On reading Miss Gresloy-Smith’s artt- ele, “Which Ix the Batter Looking Sex?’ wor certainly agree with her if @he «aye her query the form, “Which Is the More Ornamental Creature, Man or AWomant’ for In my opinion seventy five per cent. of the New York women OP Mors for orriament than usefulness, | Wor example, when travelling on @ trol- had no bad after effects an the pace Iwas about ive miles an hour abundance of powder and print, their] pickies and homemade s? The experience of|sormetimes much more pleasant to watch than to experience, and the jolly gro- charles Durland, grocer, of Bayside, L, 1, at least lends|cer, however unconscious of the lurking love god, may have his spirits raised olor to the Idea. Eleven men clerks In scarcely «even| by spirited rontact with him. ‘ 4 months, all of whom left to walk the dovious way of mar-| A grocery wduld by a very pleasant and profitable place for Cupld to visit tage, $a the Durland record, supplemented by the quicklig tio does hot really atay there. It might teach him a little of the common matrinonfal edit of flve young women employed by Mr.|sense and worldly wisdom he sadly lacks. A brief Inquiry Into the price of tea Durland when he finully despaired of xeeping his men/and eegs, butter, potatoes and other staples, might cause him to cease tnst!- \ gating voung persons to such an inquiry as this: ‘Can two persons live com- fortabiy in New York on $3.60 a week A ule practical knowledge of waysand means on serve many of the matches he makes from disruption and divorce Goes ike @ xrocery, as the evidence he {s no Wine different from a Even Fauntleroy, Prince of Mollycoddles, “Cup..ta parts would pre- He might esta ner small by q ed to sit on a barrel tn front of “Mr, Hicks’s* stors|even leave the grocer's for a little while each day and run tn next door to the ormeTie US LIRA thes eentaterecer; hetin-for-n—eource-tn te price.and quality of moats. Grocers are possibly the cheerfilost set of men on eurth. Thetr smiling) 4. Mr. Durland, of Bayside, L. 1, really has Cupid captive in his grocery | serenity in thel midst of canned goods and vegetables has always seemed tol store, he had better keep him for a while and confer a favor on the entire me the best argument that could be preseried jn. th of vegetarianism. |numan race by making him Invente.'y the stock, wefgti out a few pounds of ten, But thetr good humor may have a subtle origin, 't orez be due to the felt butjand cotfee—to anything else, in fact, that will give him some practical knowledge | Nellie Knowitall Se wy Sure, She Can Run a Boat! kg ig By “Pop BAY GUTS You Just suvent To SEG ME dun Dao’s ew TheTeR Bont! —“TREVER San) SUCH BAGIES; Wee wiTH SSSR) WHEEL “You = rte as Dare cere y = Moron man's NUMBER) re ar ho i ( 2 The Story of the Streets of New York, . : By Alexander Patten. For Mfty years the Park Theatre, a fine bullding that was located at what ts now Nos. 21 and % Park row, waa the lending theatre for both dramatlc and heatres of Old Broadway. No,17—The Theatres of Old Broadway. was the Kreatest delight of the old-time actors and actresses who ep- operatic performances. English and American stars appeared there. pekeed-mt.(be Broadway theatres to stroll along that stroet in the fashion- In 18f7 the Broadway Theatre, that stood where there 1s now a wholesale dry able afternoon crowds. The street waa famous throughout the country J goodn rtore, near Worth street, then called Anthony, was built and became the way life and fashion were more repr a and th jented there than Jn) jeading house. Edwin Vorrest always appeared there, revetving $00 a night, | any other highway | with several benefits, and po did Charlotte Cushman, the greatest tragic actress The great Juniva Brutus Booth, the father of Tdwin Booth, came to thls | of the day. country with a big reputation In the role of Richard If{f{. But he waa a arinking | Lester Wallack made his first appearance there under the name of Lester, ran, and Tom Flynn, another good rotor, wan employed to look after him. Janda won distinction before he joined his father, z Booth was playing a moat successful engagement at the Park Theatre, when! Over on the East Side mas the old Bowery Theatre, a famous establishment, one afternoon he silpped away for @ stroll] on Broadway, but soon wandered off ana the Chatham, where ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin was fret produced and ran for to Chatham street. now called Park row, He went to a low barroom, imbibed @| several years, enriching Purdy, the manaer. deal, and finally mounted a table before the admiring crowd and pegan to Other theatres were located all along Broadway up te Union Square, Wal- Shaki «called It He wae stil] doing it when * jack had his firat Broadway theatre near Hroome str where there Is 30w # i | wholesale store; then butlt. ‘one at Thirteonth street, and Jater thera came the J out to look for Booth, and finding |cne at Thirtleth, showing haw the movement of tho fasujonablo theatre-goors | i" D ik hin violently tn dragging him | uptown took the theatres with them. ' Hooth quickly sobered to the theatre, performad-most |. The home of the Itallan opera, wan at the Astor Place Opera-House, now the fnahton Fly him Jn awny. re. Joy car I noticed that the women (al- Vd ike (> the opinion of ou) an ‘Wwpeet without an exocption) had on es at NAN, N bs EDESTRIAN, Newurk, N. J, brilliantly; but the blow injured him ao that hie volce waa never the same. [itte of the Mercantile Library; liter it went to the Academy of Musics and An Engitsh company performed ti New York as early as September, 1781, then ati] further uptown, a Ne sis d emma aktisitiee _| peror Maxmiiian, al me 'D “Ss alte RS nn id aa tins aes THE ; Ways sought to Hghten the burden of their poverty and privations. Incl Tt dentally she found time to learn quite as much about artillery practice as, | SPLIN. {did her husband. A i > COSTUME The First Artillery formed part of the garrison of Fort Clinton, on the FOR Hudson, in November, 1777. The fort was attacked by: an overwhelming GRADUALLY \ force of British and after a hot fight the gan REMOVING Lem | @n~—~~—~ ~~~ ® rison, was forced to abandon the place. Hays, 1% Fired Last Shot who had just Ighted a match to fire the cannon | CURVE- HIPS. of Battle. he was serving, dropped the match and fled with the rest. His pluckler wife snatched up the match, sighted the cannon and sent a shot crash ing into the advancing British ranks—the last shot of the battle, The following summer she was with Washington's army that was seek- Ing to prevent the embarkation of a British force at Sandy Hook. Crossing the British line of march at Slonmouth, N. J., Washington engaged the enemy {n battle on June 28, 1777. But for the Incompetence or treason of Gen. Lee the affalr must have ended fn a brilliant victory for the colonis As It was, Washington saved the day and forced the enemy to retire with a Joss of 300 to the Aniericans’ sixty-nine. But a woman had more than @ slight part-in that lucky turn of fortune. The woman was Mary Hays Her habit of carrying pitchers of water to wounded soldiers under the moss deadly fire had by this time won for her the affectionate army nickname of “Moll Pitcher.” At the battle of Monmouth she was busier than ever with hér pitcher, for the thermome' registered 96 in the nde heavily-dressed’ soldiers were mad with thirst. The battery {n which her husband served wag planted on a hillock, and became the objective point of a British Infantry and cavalry charge. Hays was shot down and supposed to be killed. His cannon was ordered sent to the rear to avold capture; But Moll, throwing down her water pitcher, sprang forward, selzed the ramnier and defied the officers to touch the gun. Shouting that she intended to avenge her husband, the fearless womart proceeded to load, sight and fire the great cannon; serving It udceasingly and skilfully until the end of the battle. Her dashing example and the °oo——_—_—ererrrrrr> | yells of encouragement with which she urged the gunners about her to their periloustask enabled the threatened battery to stand firm against the Brit ish charge that might otherwise have demalished-{t. + Next day Washington, hearing of her exploit, sent-for the powde>tlack+ ened heroine in her tattered and burned garments, and, after publicly prais ing her prowess, bestowed on her the rank of Sergeant. For nearly elght years in all Moll Pitcher remained with the army? Her heroism at Monmouth made her famous throughout the country. Shé was the pet of the colonists’ French allies, to whom her spectacular feat especially appealed: She would walk along. the French-ranks, amid shower of jokes and repartee, holding out het cocked hat while soldiers and officers filled It with coins, Garruloys, quarrelsome, Jolly, coarse, ~The Pet of the Patriot Army. | splendidly brave, she stood out as one of the most picturesque figures of thé | Revolution. After the war was over Molly settled down as cook and laundress of the Carlisle barracks and as nurse for children of the nelghborhood. Later she kept a little store In the same place. Her soft heart and rough ways en, deared her as much to the people of her native town as they had to the army. Hays died and she married a brutal sergeant named McCauley, who fll-treated her and wasted all her earnings. In 1822 the Pennsylvania to enjoy it, dying in 1823 at the age of seventy-nine. Monuments to her memory have been erected at Carlisle and on Mon- mouth battle-fleld. She is also a prominent figure in the celebrated paint- ing, "The Battle of Monmouth.” The woman's fierce patriotism, her un> Minching courage and cheerfulness under great hardships are typical of the’ spirit of her times—the spirit that set america free, Hi +t * A Trio of Singularities. ERNER VON SIEMENS, a German electrical engineer, was commissioned W in 1800 to lay the first telegraph line between Verviers and Oologne. While he was laying this cabie a pretty woman came to him and besought him to desist. ‘The telegraph, she said, with tears in her eyes, would ruin her hus? band’s business and reduce him to peaury. His business was the conduct of a huge ant successful pigeon post between Brussels und Alx-la-Chapelle, Siemens advised the young woman's husband to convert his pigeons Into # ple, and to gé to London and start a news agency there. He wouls give him, he said, valuad Introductions, The man came to London and sturted a news agency. His name was Reuter: Tira few hort seers so mirceseul was his new line of arorts, aageoo the Chicago News, he had becotne a baron-and @ millionaire. This was the origin of the European counterpart of the Associated Press. More than a century and a half ago there lived in Pesth, Hungary, a shoes maker, by name Karol Kowates. Among his many patrons was Count Andrassy) who was onoe tho recipient of a huge lump of meerschaum. He handed it to Kewates, the shoemaker, ordering him to experiment on the new rratertal, and Mf poastble, farhion from it a pipe. Kowates cut two pleces from the block and smoked one himself. The hands of the shoemaker were waxy, and the meere nchaum became waxed here and there while Kowates smoked. He found after some little time that wherever the pipe hnd been waxed a spot of pale brown appeared Ike a s-in, Still expertmenting, he waxed the entire pipe, which now, after habitual a: ing, «row to a most beautiful even brown. Inchientally, the pipe smoked sweeter than before. Meerschaum then sprang Into popularity. | Wherever that haunting air "La Paloma” ts played, tie memory of the Em- by the Mexicans June 19, 1667, should be preserved. Max-. milian‘'s final request was that “La Paloma” should be played while he stood up. to ment his doom. He died with the tune in his cars, and hin wife went med wita the shock of his execution. i —+ ‘Every Sentence a Sermon ARGE sorrows coma from little sina, I * . * . . pt The heart $a bankrupt when it has no love to spare. J . * * . * - of energy telling how busy th It takes a brave man to be willing to be called a cowant, ; . * . * * t ‘The weartest people are those who are running from duty. = * * * * . } You never taste the wine of life until some of {ts fruits are crushed. { : .« * ° ei ; It's a great pity that the péople, who Invent troubles do not patent them { * * ° ° . In the temple of a great and good life almost atl the bricks ere small. ° ° . . e ( Conactence never meskes cowards of us untt] we turn our backs en It. 4 ss 1 Where Prescriptions Are Eaten. \BET’B army is to be modernized, and with {t, probably, will be the Grand Lame’s military medical eta corps. The slok Tibetan soldier, it was re- ported « year or two ago, Wan put through & sort of falth-healing process. ysician of the old school chalked a prescription on a board; the mar ‘shed off the lettering and drank the rinsings. The plan of the was simple; he scrawled his prescriptions on a pisce-of—paper he invalid to chew and swallow, al Aw army pb (lal patients wal younger doctor and gave It to t c3 ’ Ree : A Prince’s Resolutions. a HEN Prince Edward. son of the Prince of Wiles und heir apparent to the: British throne, was about nino years old he ald to his nurse oue night before going to #l “You know that some day I shall be king. Well, when 1 am, I snall do three things. Wurst, I shall make a Inw that no one fs tov wut off puppy dows’ tails, for that is very cruel. Then I shall make a law that no one is to put bearing reins on horees, for that ts enother cruel thing. Andt 1 aball try to do away with all ain, Pune SH Ree eg fe Dogs and Horses for Diet. RING the yesr 106 there were ‘slaughtered for food Jn the Kingdom ef: Saxony (which constitutes one-thirty-sixth of tho area and contains about’ one-thirteenth of che population of the Empire) 12,22 horses and 3,796 doga, ‘This is an Increase of 2/ horses and 133 dogs over, the year 15. ° in aligGermanyy during the year 186 there wore slaughtered for food 182,009 horses, Tis te a9” of about 20,000 over 1903 and of about 47,000 over 10h nae Tet}, whic inte anteater ln $50 a year, Bur she onty tived one year