The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1907, Page 14

Dally except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to © Park Row, New York SF geen POLITEER. Pree, 1 Beet 14 Siren, AGU® SHAW, Hoe Trea, ft Wont 118 Pree 4 mt the Poat-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter n Hates to Toe lana and the Con- World for the — = | VOLUME 49.....55..-+ pris Sa NEEDLESS MURDERS. ; — REATER than the population of Ex glewood, Nyack ‘or other populous suburbs is the annual railroad death- roll. In the yéar ending June 30, for which the Interstate Commerce Commission has just finished com: piling, the statistics, the railroads of, the United States killed 10,681 per- sons and injured 97,706. Every year the roadbeds are made a vast battle-field. The slaugh- ter is greater than in any battle of) Mexico. STMT MIRE ETA Ne MS TNT we 3 when we wore tn Luna Park.“ Oompa eesterrgner™ atom 7 The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, thursday, September 19, 15 AROS RACER SSO SAAS eS ec ee gid beat ase iia eae oo : co _ ¥& The Best Fun of the Day by Evening World Humorists ~ ; The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars yy yy vy BY Roy 1, McCardell ierncrss 9 mae Sumnanss meter © you think the carnival /is as good this year as it was last?” asked Mrs, Jarr as she and her bus band loft Coney Island early in the night to_svoid f the homeward bound egid Mr, Jarr, “It's year than Inst. “Bomehow tt didn't appeal to me #0 gnuch,” said Mrs Jarr. "Ah," replied Mr, Jarr, “but that ta because t has lost the element of novelty in your eyes. We didn’t see the car- nival the first year, and last year, which was the second Mani Gras, it was all new and surprising to ua Bo It In to all who see « beautiful and, interesting thing for the first time, But seen too often. getting familinr with the best of things dutls our appreciation.” 5 “Y guess that's why sone of you men who have Koo! and go gallivanting off with affinities, isn’t it?’ masked vere standing with Mrs Rangle and the two Miss Pettigrews and Charley Spote sod and his sister looking at the folks sliding down the Helter-Skelter? “Yes, I do," sald Mrs. Jarg, “and I do believe those Pettigrew girls and that jen Spotswood had been ain down that thitig, because their facos were all And they looked #0 suspiciously at us and saked us how long we had <n watehing.”” "Oh, well," said Mr, Jarr, “what tf they were? me at Coney Island,” “I'm not out to” make a show of myself and maybe get the clothes torn off ay back @liding down a bamboo gutter for @ lot of people to Inugh ati” sald Sire, Jarr sharply. ‘We're not as young as we used to be"-— began Mr. Jarr. Cee ‘We're as young as Helen. Spotswood ér those Pettigrew girls,” sald Mra, Jarr, “At least, 1 ani, and younger, too. If Helen Spotawood didn't touch up her vilr Rhe'd be gray, and, ax it fs, that stuff #he fs putting on her hair ts just and the Pettigrer girls went through high school tn Hrooklyn a year f me, but, of course, you think everybody looks young and charming ex- | ® great might; {f anything “D 2 shed Everybody {« out for-a good wives get tired of them Mrs, J, i dt all, not at alii declared Mr. Jarr atoutly. prectates her more and more, and that reminds me,” he c saw the conversation was getting on dangerous ground and desired to hea in another direction, “that reminds me a queer thing happened this aft “A man who har a t's Just to @ ow, there's where you're wrong’ protested; Mr. Jarr.“ and F wae going to tell you. You remember ny Boling aver to meak gentleman at the other aide of the crowd?” I couldn't see him very well, he was so far away, but who was that woman with itm." asked Mra, Jarr, “She was a natural blonde and hed ‘on a small Agured challle, with brown stockings and slippers with Mexicanshoels, and a wife ap Seeing Bra. Jarr was all attention. Mr. Jarr continued: “You know when'we Even the bloodiest battles of the civil war, where hundreds of thousands ~~of men, intelligently and deliberately, tried to Kill one another, only © slightly. surpass the number of killed and do not equal the number of wounded. These killings are needless murders. i | Analyzing the Interstate Commerce Commission's statistics it is to Bejnoted that some railroads kill many more people in proportion to théir mileage and. traffic than do others. The number of murders Is + almost directly proportionate to the character of the management. + Where a-railroad’ president like Underwood, of the Erie, spends a fond part of his time at stock gamblers’ offices, such as Charles G. ‘Gates & Co., which recently dissolved, and Watson & Co., which failed, s number’ of people killed and injured by the railroad to which he be giving his whole time and attention is large. Where, on the hand, 2 railroad like the Lackawanna is managed, not for st gambling purposes, but to-earn legitimate dividends, the number of killed and wounded is small. 6 , Whére the heads of a railroad ¢orporation spend theig time watching the ticker, their subordinates naturally drift into bucket shops and pay “result appears in the death-roll. The railroads of the United States are the worst managed of any fm the world. To put it with complete accuracy they are the least man- In Europe, men who manage the railroads are railroad men, noth- Ing more, nothing less. They give their whole time and thought to the ‘operation of their railroad. They are no more allowed to gamble in Wailroad stocks than does a stock broker permit his clerks and book- The ‘biggest gamblers of Wall street recognize that to permit their Clerks to gamble means the impairment of the efficiency of their own ee sshops--—To-tet-raiiroxdremployers-2nd—efiiciats-pamble-ineyi= tably distracts their attention and produces accidents. y _ The size of the railroad death-roll is appalling. Their bad man- @gement executes more men than all the hangmen of the United States. ) These murders are needless. They shoyld be punished, The rea- sons for them can be readily traced. ‘ : When for stock manipulation purposes the road bed and equipment _aré allowed to deteriorate every murder resulting therefrom should be Promptly followed by the punishment of the executive official and ith directors responsible therefor. If at the New Jersey crossing where the schoolchildren were killed a director had sbeen tied to: the trol- meedey...polethere would have. been. several hundred fewer murders thereafter, If when there is a wreck ° through defective rails the man re- [Rf sponsible went to the’ penitentiary, the next rails would not break so easily, es between the 10,618 persons whom the railroads killed last year ‘and the speculative presidents an directors responsible therefor there is no question as to which sét of in dividuals the United States could better spare, Letters from the People. Punctuation. jSdvise whether this wax the proper ‘Be,the Ealtor of The Evening world. | Way to. nddresa the envelope. Als , A.and Q had quite a discussion in re- | Whether by envelope #0 Addressed showed any divposition on C’s part Ying about the friendship. A that thie was the only proper way to addreas the envelope and showed no |tnterest on C's part to unite A and B © claims reverse. 3. PG. Not Outside of New York City, the Edltor of The Evening World punctuation of the follow- “Kindly advise us ahtpment may be made? And obitge, yours truly.” The sentence was ask- fmm @ customer when we could deliver the goods to him. © claims that there stiould be no question mark azter| the 0 " while at there | 7, should be. ss Av and Q. | We live In an apartment house in —Panctuate It thus: Kind) oan TH ae non when shipment may > facnilies, and after 10 o'clock ¢ in Wey hall is turned , off. w tn New York to keep the lg (Blige yours truly. John Tce - Wes, if Able to Pans the Examina- don. 4 compelling land] burning on the first and third floors ali| ‘Ro the Editor of The Dvening World: Can student go three years to City College and then the Teachers’) ‘Train- N. B. eight long? We betteve it is ‘a fire law. COMMON PEOPLE. The Court Decides. To the Edltor of The Brening World: euse of divorce, ts thore a law in nce in thd State of New York that her can ue the father for the t of the child up to its twenty-| year am) thai he must support the | ad-)chiid up auntil twenty-one in case the! “Myr. | law has ordered him #9 do #02 | a B., + " Please hu, | @o the Eetitor of The Evening Words: A; Band © are ends, 1s and Cb i tng drothdrs, A.and 8 i a break friendehip, C Arai Ao wirhes lo Sa Matter to him through Me envelope as folo’ % EKindnees o} + (oh silage more attention to the stock quotations than to the traffic sheets. The] |* Dd By Maurice Ketten; STM peaaneaetoa alae sepa e Value of Beauty $400.00 ISS LYDIA PAYSCHKE, of Milwaukee, has Just M learned that her face ts her fortune, and tha com- fortable fortune of $400,000 at that. The face did not nuble her to marry a rich man. after the usuil inner In which beauty declares {ts diy: sHy pre * st who ted a'rich Mexican, who h had fallen in love with her y er his entire fortune at his denth, could love her! sald the woatthy Mexican when a friend of the girl who \d casried her photogneph with him to Mexico showed it ) him. And ho certainly proved his lo: cea ftec- on by making the pretty original of ture bis gatec. : The effect of this bequest on young women who tn the {mation of the «ober middle-aged already spend too ont of thelr mirrors -will be very bad. Who knows, the mirror sk <hemselves, but that the chance disposal of a curl will win ne from some faraway unknown, Also what a boom {t will give | photographing business. Why put our money tn savings hinks or mort- n dizgily alluring stocks, when # single photograph seen by a Th ‘By Nixola Gree stant milMonatre may win @ leacy of $400,000. It's a gan.ble, of course, and y 24 oS ch the chances are all on tho side of losing, but considering the for- iberenateessy allen to the Milwaukee g#l, wi0 Wilt rememter that -t-wendar haw the git! whose proud bonat it fa that sho would nevgr give a photosrapn nee Kiinlows sno were engaged to him’ will reconcilesherself fo this new Meahvantage, The -wayof—the-rigtdta hard enourh at best, and the xvod luck of the Milwaukee siren who gave her photogriph to a merry friend a: no won a fortune of $499,000 will not make tt exxter. Not many men, however, ponsess tho mere cexthetic a1mtration of beauty n auch degree aa tho Mexicun wenor, who might just aa woll haves left hiv toreune to the Venes of Milo for all the legatees’ beauty ever meant to him Bewaty is very soarce, no matter what axstonishing number of beautiful women we read of, and a girl of extraordinary physical loveliness, migt really bo worth endowing just 2a a nwork of art By But ft ta nelther a0 scarce nor so !mportant as beauty of chinicter, and the Mexican renot might better have endowed some, Wonlan of rue Kunniness and Sharm whore life radiates Hisht upon all those that come In contaet with I. Llowever, Ilke the rest of his sex: he probably endowed the beautiful surface with beautiful quailty of soul, much Ume in tro pacers wi f “Just Like a Woman!” By Irene Cunningham, ee & OProsiTe THE FERRY-nOUse! ors SHE KNOW THERE THERE wort! HE poeta'T Love re, on He vyouLd were. Of O Tsu Bktax iT off! T smu Join THE SUFFRIGISTS: (on isha E> ~ yjover at the old tady RE PLL TL NT OOM 1907. SALAKLKLH AS SHAH KK AL LALLA AAS LA LLIA ILS at was Will Hardcaster and his wife He has offices in our building, amd she has been 11,” replied Mr. Jarr. “For a person who complains of the istanea, You describe the lady and her attire very minutely.” “Why, I hardly got @ glimpee of her. you stood right In front of them when 2ou-were speaking with them and they left right away after that. Why didn't | 724 bring thenz over and’ introduce them? “She waan't feeling well and they wanted to get away, but they are going fo call on us." paid Mr. Jare, “and that was what I was going to ¢ell you. | They asked me which one of the ladies I was with waa Mm. Jerr and I told {them to quess.” ; Rie “If thay took me for that Helen Mpotswoot, or I mean !f they took that Gumpy Helen Bpotswood for me, of if they thought I was elther ons of those Swful looking Pettigrew girls, or I'm cure it was no complinent to bave Mra. nélo aingied out es me, with her figure and the dowdy way she dresses, I don’t thank them! But I didn’t Iike the looks of that woman—what waa her name? Ob, yes, Hardeaster! She looked very nosy and supercilious to me, and Til be just as well pleased if they don't call. The cheek of them!” “Why, hold on!" excisimed Mr. Jarr. ‘The very first glance they gave Mrs. Hardcaster potnted you out an Mra, Jarr, because shi said you were by far the prettiest and most pleasant and youngest and most Intellectual looking in the group, and Hardcaster agree¢ with her. “Ob. "I know thet Mrs. Hardcaster now," seid Mrs. Jarr, eagerly. “She's & Sreat friend of Mra Kittingty and belongs to the Colonial Club. Why d4n't you Dring tier Gver and introduce heart They say shew just lovely, and there I was with those awful Pettigrew girls ané that gabby Helen Spotnwood and no chanog to get away” “Thought you said you @Mix‘t want to meet her?’ said Mr, Jarr. “T aid nothing of the kind.” protested the lady indignantly. ‘he seemed ee) . Boarding House Fables. By Joseph A. Flynn. “J UNDERSTAND Mrs. Btarve-em .is contemplating matrimony again?! I remarked to Tess leateevening, at the same time squeezing the glass pitcher in the hope of obtaining « few drops of milk to color the coffee. “Your understanding’s correct,” she replied, carefully, adjusting her two-dollar puffs before the mirror. “The old lady had lassoed another gink, which makes quince No. 3 and next week she's going to lock the collar on his neck good and tight. Bhe's keeping him under cover, like @ new dress, and nobody's had a chance to get a pike af him, but I've got a fourteen-carat suspicion of a jong | Grink of water that used to corhe here frying to allp us tome book: “Whenever he played tag with ¢the bell the olé—tady. . Would always do a ‘fresco-chango' act with her aprda and slippers, give her mop a quick shake-down und meet him at the door with a wide ‘Howdy-Do!' Of course, I may be on the wrong car, but as sure es that coffee you're atirring never grew on a tree, that's the fellow 2 “We'd never be wise if it wasn't for that fresh bonnet with the bie windows on your floor back. Last Sunday afternoon we were all altting around after the main meal, fluttering our eyelids. Someltow— wt other the talk drifted to marriage. After every one told what they didn't know, this Henrietta looked who was nailed to the hest rocker reading ‘A Romance of the Subway; or, Far Fron Home Whholit a_Nickel,’ and sald? ‘I suppose, Mrs. Starve-em, your marrying days are over. ehT” i "Talk about Dilzzards in July! The old lady Diate, and tn a voice Ike « stone-cracker replied yo marrying days over! T guess not I wasn't given good looks and a perfect figure for nothing, and I'm going to be marriq{ again next Tuesday.’ “The funeral's going to be private, so you'd better go slow on coffin nails and save up enough mazuma to chip In for a present : “But, talking about weddings.” I'll never forget the time last June when Round Eyes, on the first floor, married that fellow with/the Jor wagon. It was ore of the swellost weddings I ever saw. Round Hy ex Hat a awelled Vi Mdn't.tnvite @ sul in the house to the wedding except the old Indy: b and I satin the back with the merry mob and piked off the whole show. i } opped that book like a hot “At 8&2 the doors blew open, everybody. stood up on the xeats..and he Now, _J_pever exchanged treo words with her in my Ife and 1 know yamade a strong crack about me aa ‘that pérson, and 1 also-knew ree queers about her that I wouldn't mention for a ten of rocks, but still at the same time Ill give her all that's coming her way. When she swiint down the main walk that night with a French breeze and two litte Gerries peddling out the real thing for her fo walk on that somebody had to pay ire money tor she certainly looked the goods. "She fad a dress on that I'd go without mealn for a week juat to wear ~ once, One old lady tn the last pew lost her roof and clapped both hands, firt Round Eyes must jaye had tin ears. for she bubbled along over the roses aw if Mt was her fAfth time. leaning on the arm of a frosty old spear-carrier hi Just for that night, as the old iady told us afterward. It was certainly a slick turn-out, “The organ played ‘Rury Me Where the Roses Grow,’ every dornet in the church turned her handkerohlef into a sponce, the Rev. Mr. Hitch Upn read the miles. made 4Hem-shake handsand thes took their corners for life ‘There's no use talking, she certainly, did look swell.” “All brides do,"" T resoined, detecting a allght revemblance between the pieve of chicken before me and the anctent veal we hadtwo days previous. “Rat, Aecomfing to your tale. the Heiderroom plays a very small port at a weddine. ~SSurest thing you know, - she fepied: fensHne a anieed SRN SHEK oh Page opposite side of the tabdle as to the provable strencth of the butter, ‘Wa wonldn’t have him thers at all. only he has to te on hand with a yell hoop and an open-faced milt to make the thing legal.’« FoR IIE ae {EIEIO ISOC IIE - Just One Minute, Sisters! % Briefs for Wives. % _ % ce % * MPTY cay mind of the past, fill [It up with the cresent and remember that the future is but a constant succession of nows, which you may fll te suit yourself. J By Helen Vail Wallace. irene an “Never suggest 6 JOUF “RUSBAHS “WRAY he dae OP TS aN ey WOR more than yourself. There are fertile places in the mind where such seeds readily take root and grow. = Never denounce or try to belittle a woman your husband admires has the effect of belittling you in his estimation, and posal! contrast, bis admiration for the other womnr ee Be tolerant, Be generous. Re sweet and joving yourself, and nover Jet envy, Jealousy or any-of that horde of demons of unrest-enter your mirpi: {f you do they will make you repellent, and then some sweet face will to loom up a8 an oasis af amlability in the desert mind of your spouse. eaine Do not try te-sastrol your husband's thoughts. This you can do only by making and keeping yourself the eweotest and most desirable woman on earth to ini, Tt only bly of Incrosaing, by sure . 8 Rememier that it 1s just as natural for human beings—partioularty men= to seok good cheer, apprectetjon and human sunshine os it {Is for a sun ('son") lower to turn ite face to the sup. ve Be wholesome-minded; sympathetic and rensible. Thus mnyort thou dell. long in peate and comfort where not even an imaginary “affinity” may set > foot beneath thy roof-tree, E ne Snuff as Medicine. HOSE who continue to ube snuff,” said|the tobacconist, “impute mexileat <T Virtues to it, Thus old-fashfoned watch-makers, gem-cutters and tally * ora think that «pinch of snuff now and then improves the’eyesight. ‘They think it refreshes and fortifies wenry eyes as a cup of tea refreshes and fortified a weary brajn. Others think snuff cures a cold. Otherm take it for the heawiache. Othera.still believe it warda off contagion. I belleve,that snufl-taking ris Seea harmful than smoking, Ite effect, too, is pleasanter than the effect of amoking—it 1s _ most soothing and fascinating effect, once you get used to it— but the habit is untidy, and therefore it can get no hold upon us In this aesthetic age” ‘ pe Our Names Lack “Color.” ” any early period, and tmdeed well toward the beginnings of modera_ Listory, proper names told eomething ax to paternity, occupation, and _ habitation; to-day they are quite coloriem A Hew Ulynscs would no | longer be Laertiien; no Peter indicates that he is the son of Paul. A Carpentier or ® Weaver in likely to be @ Mly-fingered stockbroker, ¥ ‘on the place names, complaine the Nation, have pretty mich diswppemredy — except in the cuse of nobility, ainoe the avorage gentle family Itae not for