The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1911, Page 19

Siento haem M acon —tendeaaparameaieendadenendetee sane agazine, Friday, June 2, LOL, ii By Clare Victor Dwi The Evening World D aily weer ANO REMEMBER THe Time You TOLO ME TO OPEN mY MouTH 11 1Nes, dua! V) ano sHuT MY eves 6 Youd Yes moeeo! | Gwe ME SOMETHING TK mA \Tuern wae THe] me Wise & You PuT THAT, HAPPY DAIS! | ROACH ir MY MOUTH 2 RiGHT cute iH LITre PreFAce PRUNE! Spoze eS GOT A "LOADED , THO, wit some OF THAT GREG, Herre ALT Yoo Ren SIN! You Bie PLL! Do yece of cHeese You! ‘ Rememeea The Time. be You tne Yon «9 That ot0 Colao BACK IM THE OLO DAYS, FACE of TuRs Z Yoo . wien You MADE ME EAT CMoen wiieae 4 THAT MOTH BALL because You sr 1 wad Oats IM ELL Now, WHAT fo You Know ABOUT THAT! A Pronoa Rael FRom Jimmy! Ha! HA! WELL The LITTLE mutT ant’ gucH & TiGhT wad pt Taat, CH 7 Ps! in) ossieeD, ——e THEM Was THE | [HAPPY DAYS! Dumbwaiter Dialogues —- By Alma Woodward —— Coprrtaht, 1011, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York World) Chops! oe Scene: The William Apartmenta | much THERE AR® WONDERFUL PROFITS IN FRUIT RAISING, IT'S LIKE FINDING MONEY! }T'5 NO WORK AT ALL Ive BougHT A FRUIT ORCHARD. get rib chops, There's a on them and they*#e very No. 2—Park Avenue Hotel and Seventy-first Regiment Armory Fires. HE Park Avenue Hote! and the Seventy-first Regiment Armory fires oc-/| curred on the same morning, Feb, 22, 1902, and are always associated t~ But, except that they occurred simultaneously and were fn close proximity, they were separate and distinct. eel Park Avenue Hotel fire did not start from blazing embers | blown from the armory fire. The hotel would have burned | that nicht had there been no fire tn the armory, The hotel | blaze started, in my opinion, from #pontaneous combustion at the baso of an elevator shaft, It shot up and mush-| roomed at the top. ‘The great loxs of Ife that resulted among the gueste— there were twenty deaths—was due to suffocation by emoke and the lack of ordinary fire extinguishing apparatus, There Were not even fire buckets in the hallways, The employees ‘were not drilled. There was no standpipe. There were no fire-escapes. Many of the guests were unfamiliar with the (QLEESRSER By postion of tho stairways and became fost in the smoke- filled halls, I was blamed for the loss of Iife, but was exonerated by my reinstatement by the courts as Chief of the Department. ‘The hotel had an fron front and had always been rated as @ fireproof building. It was as fireproof as any other building of thet day. It was metal on the out- eide and wood and plaster on the insite, The only fireproof building 1s one that wil! not burn, and the way to test a fireproof building {8 to set {t afire and seo if tt burns. | The fire in the armory started on the Thirty-thint atreet #ide in a room set epart for the use of the Signal Corps, It spread rapidly, and a woman carried the alarm to Battalion Chief Ross at his quarters in Thirty-third street, near Lexington avenue. Ross sent in a third alarm, There was no second. Before I got there the roof had gone down, I was out on another call. The streets were in @ wretched coniition, There had been a storm, and the subway | excavating at that point had caused a litter which mado !t hard for the apparatus, to move around, 1 eent in a fourth and put my men where I wanted them. The fire about this time got into the ammunition magazines and the work of the men was imperilied by the bursting of heavy calibre cartridges. The ahells flew about tn all directions, making everybody nervous. The wind was east by @ litte north and the burning sparks were carried all over the neighborhood, 1| figured on the fail of snow that covered tho roofs and did not worry about any wpread of the fire by that moans. erneaneaamanaaal HID fire tn 'the armory had started at 1.90 A, M., and at 2.10 about three tons ‘7 of powder stored in the sud-cellar on the Thirty-thind street #lde exploded with a deep boom. The car barns across Thirty-third street were now| threatened, and I had given orders to meet the new situation when word came| to me that there was fire in tho hotel. I sent Chief Ross over and ordered haif| my force to the hotel. I follwed and found the fire in the elevator shaft. I or-| dered the building cleared, There was a panic on the upper floors nnd when my men looked about for fire apparatus they could find nothing. There was great diMculty in getting water on the blaze. My men tn many tnatances had to crawi along the floors on thelr stomachs, carrying the pip: (Sopyrtaht, 1911, by Bobte-Merril! Company.) They fought au I never saw firemen fight I rememper Deputy Police, SYNOPSIS CHAPTERS, Commissioner Thurston, who was a guest at the b ped us py taking charge, wit ia benot fell tn tore of the police lines himself. paar’ ry wems to hang. There were many rescues made by the men that got thelr names on the roll faaby aa Har enor ons Yiealic fanioibar wiremen oeuin ane Oneatie Wee acante uestaeaea tour from "her Btainford stunmer, ome They got Barnett from “oe fifth floor, and later Do floor, using the soaling ladder, ‘The Ind fire wae burning flercely Several men of Hook and Ladder Comp: 2a man from vere ught der he used was the sixth With foe and the a band ina grin abet lie t, Is wome wort of a # father oct end of Margarat it ove ules Nos, 3 and 12 caught a man ror Named Maclean ‘gor iw agar ot and his wife who jumped from the f yor to tt hn. They i. Sosa at aae, xpet were saved from serious injury. I eent up Fireman 7 truck | that, surrounds Marquret, but fatis to. do, to fetch a man who was at a window on the fifth flo. Mra Tator disappears,” but retusa ait O'Bryon went up with a scaling ladder; and because 11 on the sixth floor re ga een fun was too wide to catch the ladder the firemen held tt standing on the| leave From’ MacLean, Crosiy “hears a @il!, and helped the man to safety. On my orders O'Bryon and Dunn of No.| Mariel tor Dr Meld. Ter eup eet MATRA 48 Cher supposed ‘brother-in-law. aby and Maclean go to a apiritualtatic eeance. CHAPTER XVII. 7 truck went up th: forcing open doors and four men from suffocation. Fireman Slater of No, 9 engine did gh the smoky halls, resculng | © koud work when he carried a woman| named Hall from the fourth floor y her clothes were ablaze and viaced her | (Continued, in an ambulance, This wor 1 ter att hospital, | AARAANAORDIRIORIA The Borderland and a HBSE were not oll the r They were merely some that I Name. | We got the fire ne ut 6 o'clock and began : an hou | Porm giles monotonous sound and the This was one of New York's bad fires. Tt was a trying | close air made me drowsy, one wh e wan no “laying down rdy’s part } thinking with the hurried I'l tell yo t I mean by laying dow hd) vividness of a doze. It was ; ree N unnatural for mysteries to Ttsd & good. I J mm T) happen tn a drawing-room; bur then, : ie : ‘ crete mysteries were themselves unnatural, was i oP ene | and t hap, If at all in th pabuinnce Go in the of there and then. 1 Aa fee ror neighborhood and fannec nw wa, | Tho ; i. z ugh. !t seemed somehow that a They held hee 4 Anally some YOURE! ghost should appear only upon the man appeare 2 fan. storied battlements of Elsinore to people aa the 1 was working over them out caine tree mong from | in archalc dress, yet to Hamer hmnene the cel ey ware: 4 on tho sidewalk, I think there Were ®| those surroundings were the ecene of couple me n I saw t and I got suspicious, jordinary days; and the persons of all The vr was for ‘s the whole crowd away with him. I|the wonder-stories had been in their couldn uiiced down to whore they could all hear and called, | own sight contemporary citizens, ‘fn oe 26 a t say I eatd 26," but I called the company to which | Macbeth saw Banquo at the dinner al but n belonged, a |table, and was the people tn the puppened? Every man of them got up snd started to| street who crowded to look upon the| | miracies, © the cellar, ' | he eventless waiting drew out se ey ae rman \terminably, There were long ailenc 7 " f, ' h o humming of some other tune Tombstone for His Pet Pig. [EER ine BITOEHOR St APE OFRK FABRE BIER MUNSON, an eccentrio but) of on or & pall of awl! to the other | coughed or atirrec. Yet the monotony, Pp rich farmer and ranch of of hogs. 3* followed Munaon wherever he! despite boredom and drowainess, did Taylor, Neb. hae erected an went, not relax the nervous tension. expensive monument to the memory of ‘Two months ago the trained hog died | I etill felt that something was going to a hog, Tho body of tho hos repores in and tho grief of Munson wae pathetic, |happen the next minute; the atr grew a homemade rosewood cavket and ts animal was burled tn the family lot |closer and closer, and the odd sense of buried in the local cemetery, cemetery and this weel {ts monu- | crowded human tntimaecy was more op- ¥ 9 Munson waa a trainer of |ment, a granite block four feet equare, | pressive than at first; and the rigid ecireid tn eirous and claims that when | came froin Omaha, On the stone {s this |regularity of Macloan’s audible breath- he was at his bost ho could make them | inscription: ing was enough to tell me that even hig do “everything Dut talk.” For several) ‘Hore lies Peter Mfunson’a hog, Sot |cenesnas was not proof egeinst the months he had been training ® Duroc | down at the beginning of its usefulness, |same influence, Jereay bog, He had educated the animal | It knew more than ita master, and had| The circle about the table were eway- © @ degree where ft would walk erect | it lived another yegr it would haveing their heads « little in time with on tte tind feet while carrying a basket! known more than ngost people” their singing, while the old gentleman Oharacts Mre, Balet, Mev. Perris, Mrs, Hart bce bids ive, but teere oe ute best meat Mrs. Haiet summons Janitor by rattling the) Mra. B. (coldly) differ with “you. " dumbwatter ropes.) Just because they cost more Is no rea- ink AP TARR \NITOR—Yes'm, what'll yo have? |*0n why they're any better. Any one TREES! WHY ALL Mra. B.—Say, janitor, did my|Who knows anything about meat knows You GOT ‘To 00 iS TO WAIT A YEAR- SELL YOUR CROP-AND You'Re) h | in the corner fidgeted uneasily. street outside a child began loudly, and was taken away ng around the corner tchought, I of all derstand that incongruous look strange things happening in actual Nf my own had been for weeks @ night mare and @ romance; and even now I Was groping mentally in the maze of a revelation that had the lurid logic of a melodrama, flawlessly plausible and in- to cry 1) wath Surely, I people ought to un- of credible only because L was unwilling to believe. Carucel'a story was a fabrication, be- cause tangled marriages and family | mysteries happen in books and nows- Papers, among printed people, not among ‘those we know; yet molodrama itself builds with the material of actual and I had een living amid mysteries. Such nus do happen some one, and that one must be toto othera—the reality that Lady was to me. T started violently my hatr tingling an and sat dolt upright, very muse ened, A dull rapp! Hk@ the #0 & hammer upon wood covered with came from th P silent, leanin hands stil, dium had su arms extended 6 them, er < & 60 her h that those n d to reach out to keep hold of her hands. And above the T saw, or Imag- ined that T saw, thi able cloudiness tn mid-a foggy night or closed eyelid 7 Mghted window. make sure that I saw doubted whe it were imagination, If you hold hand before a dark backsrot seom to seo a fingers; it w The ray ated more loudly, and throu ing In my eane and tho a suffocating oppresston, L leaught my emembering the s ot the kno Then a v lous, throaty « Jerks and pauses “Here you are aga'n —want to talk—to trouble~some “That's M burgh, in the I do not ka shock of the coincident name, or only that the heat and the excitement of the day had reached thetr natural climax But I grew suddenly hot and cold in waves; my skin crawled, and I feit at once @ otrangling hurry of heart-beats and « hollow nausea. For an instant, I eet my teeth and trled to master it; but It wae no use. T must get out Into the open light and Macbeth, a queria in In the| air, or I should make family | exhibition of CHAPTER XVII. that the shoulder chop Is tho aw Mrs. H, (mtidly)—Well, IT always pre- fer the leg chops—they have auch oute little round dones tn the centre of them! butcher leave my meat with you? Janitor—What kind av meat wus tt, Mis’ Balet? Mrs. B.—Chopa—lamb chops. test! Janitor—Watt @ minute; I'll see. Mrs. (with scorn)—Woll, of course Mrs, F. (suddenly)—Oh, janitor—jant-| there are people who can eat coara tor—did my butcher leave my meat witn| meat. I was brought up differently! you? Mra. 3B. (pugnactously)—Yes! You Janitor (from the dim distance)—What kind av meat wuz ft, Mis! Ferris? Mra, F.Chops-lamb chops. Janitor (vaguely)—I'Nl see, | Mra. 11 (bursting open door breath- leasly)—Oh, Janitor, are you there? Janitor (very faintly)—Yes'm, what'll yo have? ‘Mra. H.-I wanted to know whether my butcher left my meat with you. I was down shopping later than I thought Va be and— Janitor (troubled)—What kind av meat wus it? Mre. H.—Chope—tamd chops, Janitor (bravely)—I'll eee. were brought up on spareribs! Mrs, H. (Innocently)—Oh, I can't bear spareribs—or -araway seed! Janitor (anxious to have the agony over)—Now, there's wan bundle wid t'ree chops tn tt and+— Mra. F. (laughing ecorntully)=Three chops! Who on earth buys three chops! Mra, B. (atgnificantly)—Well, goodness knows it's better to buy three chops and _ pay for them thaa {t is to buy ten and owe the poor butcher for six months not thet I’m mentioning any names. Mre, F. (furtousty)—Do you mean to insinuate that — Mre. H.—I never owe anything! Mre. B. (eigsiing)—Why, ten't that| Janitor (above the olamor)—An’ there's funny? We all have lamb chaps for| wan bundle wid four tn it, an’— dinner! Mra. F. (continuing)—Because tf you were I guess I could tell you a thing or two you wouldn't care to hear! Janitor (wildly)—Say!! ‘Mrs. B. (preening)—Thank goodness, I have nothing to conceal! Janitor (in Gimgust)—Aw! look out fe yer heade—I'm sendin’ all t'ree up an’ yes o'a fight it out between yest ——_————_ 80 SUDDEN. Bhe had not dreamed he would propose; And this { her confession: Bhe bore up bravely to the close, ‘Then lost her welf-posseusion. Woman's Home Companton. Janitor (appearing with three parcels) —Well, here's three av thim all right— an’ they're all diffrunt shapes. Beg- orra, I didn't know there wus ohope in all av thim shapes! Mrs. F. (proudly)—Well, mine are rib chops: Janitor (eager for information)—An’ ‘what may be the shape of thim! Mra, F. (indofinitely)—Well, there’e a round piece of meat and a long bone and a Iittle bone across the top, and— Janitor (decidedly)—There’s nothing lke that down here! Mra, F. (distreased)—But there must By Wells Hastin And Brian Hoo ‘spirit’ called Miriam to cap the cli- gs ker I made my way against the streaahwith t iMeulty; and myself. I rose and tiptoed hurriedly max fome ¢ ; ast across the room through an atmosphere Doctor Reid Resides, It you sit for two hours in a| destination the aimeutty tn bi that seemed like a heavy auld, dlzzily oe dark and stuffy room waiting for some: | eddying mass of humanity Aled dhe aware that Maclean had followed me | OR a block or Tatil felt althing strange to happen something | narrow sidewalks and overfawed tw a step or two and that the group around little queer and giddy, but air}usually will, At brad as 3 T had had an fe errest among fumbling rage the table looked after mo in surprise. |f I ent soon set all co! in ing experience, For a m rampling, scrambling horses; gaa No} ¥, I found the door-handle. 6 and, movemsasssaon # it occurred to me that the episode might | workmen with thelr se an rights, and after @ walk back to the club and a comfortable bath I felt weil as ever, and rather wondered at my @udden upset While I groped for my hat in the hall- I heard the querulous Jerky voice aking again inside the room, And ext moment T was standing on the 8p) the sun-baked sidewalk, blinking my eyes| Evidently tt had been only the heat st the glare, and breathing in deep |@nd tho nervous excitement of the day, A flower-vender called on the|and I had been foollsh to take Scotch corner, above the distant drone of a] With my luncheon in such weather, T hiand-organ. remembered that I had been out of ge: a bit #ince the morning; Maclean's reve lation must have shaken me more than I had admitted to myself, and It only wanted the startling coincidence of « Horses clumped heavily past. And a sparrow sat for a second upon the green top of m hydrant, then fluttered away, chattering. Summer Resort Puzzles. By Sam Loyd. What two New Jersey resorts exe represented in this pioture? Anawer to yesterday's pussie: “Bullhead end "Squaw. toola, nervor | Preoccupled business men, pallid ef and stenographers, and droves of tory hands, men end women have been prearranged by Mac, with the {dea of conveying to me in that way something which he did not wish to tell, but that was not like him and was a) clamoring in @ very Babel of surdly ched besides, T noticed but one other man If the name had been taken somehow | ward the waterside—« heavily pull from my own thoughts, it was a remark-| low with @ red handkerchief about Able case of telepathy; but no, it had | neck, been the professor, not the medium, who had named tho voice; and by his tone, this had been a familiar one often heard before, If the name had any other than a chance connection with my af- fair, T could not fathom tt. me yards in front of presen as he turned avold being Jostied into a saw that 1. was Carucel, Th no mistake: {t was he, in clothes apparently, and alone, @ blocks from his own atreet, Shel! Thore muat be In ail of us an instinct /nowhere in sight: however he hed for the occult, an affinity for tlllett short- {come separated from her, with oF cuts through difficulty that comes of jagainst her will, tt was my business to mental and moral indolence—the instinct [follow him, that causes the schoolboy to look up the/ Here was my chance for a talk with answer to his problem in the back of) him ; and‘as he passed his the book, and sends ignorance running ie ner and still kept on his way eouthe to the soothsayer. ward, It began to look as If I should Here was I, an educated man with | killing two birds with one ston what I hoped was not leas than ordinary| I found tt no very hard matter te riage with her, having already @ wife om behind might spoll my whole op. An entanglement abroad. po ty by making him angrily sue Intelligence, in the grip of a crushing |keep him tn atght; for the pooullar ation; and instead of seeking certain-| brightness of the handkerchief at fh ty through ravional search, T was mull-|neok marked him @ block away. Ther ing over a mummery which purported | we r Itallang, to be mure, but none to be @ communication from another | so gorgeously bedecked, nor whose gait | world. “E was no better than a kitchen-| was 0 wondrous @ combination of @ | maid at her m book and fortuno roll, a awag@er, and a strut. To overs | teller. Caruccl had said that Lady was take him, however, among that crowd | wecretly Reid's wite-or rather that he| was not ao easy; and I was afraid bee | had gone through @ false form of mar-| sides that coming suddenly upon him | It was too horrible and too ruinous to | Piclous, | all that I most hoped for to be tr I followed, acording'y, as best T might, it was not like the people concerned, for some distance; and when at last, but ft was unbearably Ike all that I| With @ swagger of grimy magnificence, knew them to Jdiave sald and wo, oT xt through a pair of ewinging must know what the truth was; and the| dc I thought that my chance had arrived, I waited @ moment outaide, that I might not #eem too patently have followed him; and eg I stood th & precoctous email doy came up and looket mo over, Yu'ra a fly cop, ain't yu?" he ven- a ftor @ fa lar inspection, more I ehra m ken g, the moro understand fully and atill and wonder was watch Carucet on Mr.’ re he should lea would make ft my bu v him on my owt ook my head, gomen qn nate 0 off, y'are tov, 2 watahed |noon waa far gone; and yu tra 0 fainea for de jaw’ four Bon Gin’ de tienen: gas ‘ I whispered, melodeamatle Dre Na teaahoatitevoatin tants deoan | iro t'lng, Yu can’t fool me, Wot'e do mame, havin’ you're pal chase along #0 far behind "You oan search mo," 1 sal, Cremiiy Dussied, ‘Is some one alae fail, “Murest ving you know, le's * om de job,” t (To Te Continaed.) | with thetr shadows behind him, There was mockery of evening froshnoss in the alr, though the heat still poured up- ward relenticssly trom the eun-baked uncleanliness underfoot, The streete were 90 crowded with the waary turmoll of released workers that