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EVERYBODY AFFECTED Hard Times Have Actually Begun in New York. PARKSISM SCOTCHED PATTI WILL NOT "FAREWELL" AT NATIONAL CAPITAL. Sad Case of an Old Foreign Actress? Got $10,000 Out of Benefit. S|m <?:?! Correspondence "f Tlie Evening 9*?r. NBW YORK. November IS, 190S. The fact that hard times have actually begun in New York tines not mean much to the rest of the country,. Tnc causes under pins the hard times here ure purely local. New York Is now tl.e leartlng speculative town of the world. Perhaps five times as many people have been bitten here owing to the recent slump due to watered stocks as in all the rest of the country put to gether. The bitten ones, of course, have gone to cover financially. They nave sewed up their depleted wallets, and retrenchment is the word with them. Their example Is being followed by tens of thousands of others, who. though not actually nipped themselves in the- squeeze, have taken warning from the lesson and called a halt upon extravagance. Tlie recklessness of New Yorkers of the moneyed class is only seeming recklessness. They are the very first in all the country to become stampeded when the hard times wail Is started. At the first breath of that calamity moan they begin to hedge and cover. The purveyors of luxuries in this town would almost rather have the founda tions of their establishments weakened and warped by subway explosions than to hear of even a minor Wall street panic. They know by experience how even a protracted liear market cuts down their receipts. The great jewelers, for example, are mourning over the fact that their receipts during the past three months have been less than one-half what their receipts were during the corresponding months of 1902. After reading the list of presents purchased for the Roxburghe-Goelet wedding you may find it difficult to believe this. It would seem that such a tremendous in vestment in jewelry would keep the gem dealers on the top crest of prosperity's wave for several years to come. Yet the jewelers have the decreased figures to show. The New York jewelers are always the first to feej the burden of an uncertain stock market. When the Jewelers are smiling the stock manipulator operating n big bull move feels confident. and some of the greatest oper ators give shrewd attention to the state of the gem trade for the purpose of "getting an inner line on the state of the money market." Receipts Cut in Twain. The fancy restaurants immediately feel the icy breath when the "variable winds" characteristic of hard times in New York set in You do not have to bespeak a table two days in advance at the restaurant where club sandwiches are $1 apiece nowa days. The restaurateurs declare that their receipts have been cut in two. compared to last year and the year before, since the be ginning of fall The wine agents look chapfallen, and one of them, for years past one of the highest j of all the high-rollers of New York, had a disposal sale of his stable of automobiles the other day. He sold six of liis imported machines at sacrifice figures. It was very sad so it was. There wasn't a dry eye at the sale. No, nor a dry throat. The wine agent, game in adversity, was liberal in "openin" wine" while tlie sale was in prog ress. In all New York there are just three "shows" that arc "getting the money," and even at these three theaters there has been no occasion as vet for the exhibition of the "standing room only" sign. As a natural consequence?oh joy?the theater ticket ?speculators are starving to death, or going to work. Several of the most prominent "stars" of the profession have already "closed their seasons" and announced their determina tion to "take a rest." not a few of them cleverly devising little attacks of nervous prostration to fit the abandonment of their "seasons" and thus let themselves down lightly. Those that are sticking it out are. almos; as i rule, gyrating in front of long row* of empty seats. In connection with this it is interesting, l ot to sij pleasing, to state that the $J.r.o per-se t theaters are the worst sufferers. At oil' the iter. where the management has hud the wisdom to scale its seat prices to the fifty and seventy-flve-cent figure, with a dollar the limit for the best seats, they are "standing 'em on their heads." to use the expressive phr-se of the press agent. What Parksism Has Done. The town, too, has "got it both ends from the middle," as they say here. The stork stampede, of course, did not affect the arti san and laboring class-s. except indirect ly. but Sim Parksism, culminating, as it did. in the greatest strike in the building trades that has yet been experienced in tlirs ??onntry. has brought literally tens of thousands of men, skilled and other, who wo -k with their hands to a dismal state of pov> rty and distress. Park ism has b en temporarily scotched by the "sending away" of the leader of the labor grafters, but the tabor employers liuve little or no confidence cither in the stability or the fairness of men who per mit themselves to be swaypd by fellows of the Parks stamp, and it is freely predicted that years will elapse before New York again reacln s ti e state of building pros perity that it had attained before the meth ods of Parks and his followers and imi tators cast a blight upon the building in dustry in this town. There is another little fact that should not be lost sight of in reckoning up the Cannes underlying the manifest hard times in New York After a meeting, the other night, of the Metropolitan Turf Associa tion- tlie bookmakers of the New York race tracks, that is to say?the statement was blandly issmil ttint the persons in this town afflicted with the "horse bug" had w gereil about upon "the ponies" since tlie beginning of the metro politan racing season. Most of that tidy sum remained in the bookmakers' satchels, and there mo*t of it Is likely to remain. Such i sum of hard wrung money as that can I be withdrawn from general circulation. e\en in a town of the siie of Greater New York, without ?spelling stringency and n mean winter for tens of thousands. Patti's Slight to the Capital. T.et Washington repine not. nor shrivel away in sheer confusion, because the thrush-throated memory, Mme. Pnttl. is not to farewell some more at the capital on this positively-last and-flnal tour she Is under taking. The critics over here have never lieen distinguished for kindliness. Hut they have certainly imposed a heavy burden upon their consciences?supposing critics to be possessed of such incumbrances-In be ing kind to tlie faded,* husky-toned little divjt tins time. They have poured libations upon a moss covered shrine, and generously dodged the present l?sne. They have touched the lyre and diffused frankincense In memory of a woman who used to be, nobly evading the fact of the hour. The fact of the hour is that Mine Pattl can't even begin to sing any more. Her voice is tlie merest intangi ble wraith of what it used to be. The tone of the silvern bell, the crystal line clearness, the ineffable ease of a once brilllant coloratura, the muted, heart-reach ing crooning that in the old days suggested "the iiorr.s of elfiar.d faintly blowing"?all these have departed You see now a little, obviously old. painfully made-up woman, whose pathetic appeal to your sympathy soeuis to be that long, long ago she knew how to bring a lump Into your throat, try to keep it down as you would. It is an appeal based wholly upon the as sociations of that other time which he: presence?not ler voice?summons back to those of h?r auditors who h?ard lier before her on'? supreme art vanished with her youth. It comes high, however, to extend I W. B. MOSES & SONS. I W. B. MOSES & SONS. | W. B. 4?SES & SONS. 5: . B. MOSES & SONS. W. B. MOSES & SONS. W. B. MOSES & SONS. BODY 8 if Government Standard Brussels That Retails tor $1.50 and $1.65 a yd. for, CA RPETS $1.00 yd. We can sell you the standard $1.50 and $1.65 Brussels Carpet that the government buys and has bought this year direct from the mills at the price Uncle Sam paid for it. An accomplishment, of course?but we had a contract for these goods before the strike, and our claim to be able to sell you carpets for less than any other house in the country is thoroughly substantiated in the offer. 104 rolls in all?50 yards to the roll?full government standard quality. To go into technical detail, it's full five-frame, 256 picks, all three=thread, evenly woven; full nine wires to the inch and of the following quantities to the yard: Twenty ounces of best carpet worsted; five ounces of Isnen; five ounces of cotton; three ounces of jute. The lot comprises many choke patterns?some with and some without borders?some stair carpets, too. Patterns and color combinations suitable for parSors, libraries, dining rooms, halls, stairs, chambers and office room r?md the quantities in each pattern are equal to any ordinary demand. Carpet prices have advanced from 3% to 11S^ ? ,vool has advanced?cotton has advanced?Jute has advanced?and labor has advanced?everything" combines to make this sale of Body Brussels Carpet at $1.00 a yard important The goods will all be found on the second floor. A WIDE VARIETY OF PATTERNS===AND THESE ARE A FEW OF THEM A pretty Delft blue scroll pattern. A choice, rich Bokara pattern. A fine two-toned empire red. A handsome dark India blue. A neat pink and cream. A Persian pattern, camel ground, with terra cotta and blue. Yoin may buy as little as ?me yard of these carpets at the price paid by the United States government direct to the mills for the 2?,(MX? to 30,?>?(D) yards ordered for government bimildings for the present fiscal year. A dark blue ground, ori ental pattern. A rich dark blue, with pearl and Arab scroll. A pretty pink and gold chamber carpet. A neat peppered pattern, palm leaf on olive ground. A carpet with light blue ground, with pink roses. A rich dark green carpet, with pink roses. These Goods for Sale on Second Floor w. k?\ O A cfl t U $ i i ! i | * * | | v * Y t * V I I I I i ?? X i sympathy at the figures whi-ch Mme. Patti's exploiters are asking, and there are a good many shrewd people who are doubting if the impressario who has the affairs of the diva-who-used-to-be In hand is going to get out of the business with a whole finan cial skin. At Least Forty Being Drilled. There are at least forty women now being drilled in chorus antics for the production of "Parsifal" and the rest of the repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera House who can sing a great deal better than Mme. Patti now can. and tlsey will get an average of $25 a week for hard, unceasing work, and live in miserable huddles of garlicky K ist Sitle boarding houses, while the mone.vish ly alert little songs^ress-that-was will get for h?r h ilt' hour's work of an even ing?fur she sings now as if sinning were re illy work for her -and continues, as dur ing her former tours. to exact whole floors of the hotels at which she stops for her lodgment?at tho impress trio's expense. The impressario. "they sty." is figuring upon the f let that a new generation has sprung up since the little uid lady's last visit j who?im igines the impress nio?will flock to heir Patti lust to "l.c able to siy that they'd seen her." Maybe so. Hut the new generation didn't surge mil storm about the doors, so that you could notice it, during Patti's engagement here. The audiences were distinctly scrawny. ' and they seemed to l<e composed almost ex clusively ?tf elderly people who probably wanted to renew, for a little while, the days of their youth by just looking at the thin voiced little creature whose reign anted ited the ancient crinoline mania. There are a whole lot of things that a number of s ige musical managers of New York would rath er have In their safes than a contract to pay Mme. Patti J5.C.O a night during her American tour. Sad Case of an Old Actress. Just a little while ago Jhe "sad case" of an old foreign actress over here was the occasion for the exudation of a great deal of pathos on the part of people who go in strong for that sort of thing. The name of the actress with the "sad case" attach ment was, and is. Janauschek. a Polish j woman, who for a great many years did I tragedy rolls Indifferently well in this country, and always with a guttural and ; wholly impossible accent that infallibly j made her performances more or less ; ridiculous in the ears of Americans with j any sort of a sense of humor. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the Americans paid, as it was estimated the other day by a man who has these figures pretty pat. more than to listen to Janauschek tearing passion to tatters in a Polack dialect during her itinerant career !n the United States. All of this money, or her very large share of it?for she always carried companies that were simply hopeless in their incompetency and che-apness?Janauschek, who used to stamp her foot and rage at the very suggestion that Americans had enough sense to go in doors when It rained, or enough appreci ation of "art" to know the difference be tween n Velasquez and a 10-cent chromo? I all of this money Janauschek tossed away with the showy extravagance of a Russian prin-ess?an extravagance that must as suredly have been deliberately cultivated, foi Janauschek was far from having been born to the purple, or anything like it. Janauschek simply "blew in" the hun dreds of thousands of dollars that the Americans lavished upon her, and when she had got to the end of her extravagant tether and playgoers began to exhibit a preference for watching and listening to stage persons who knew something about how to speak the English language. Janau schek. and Janauschek's singularly maud lin and forgetful friends began to reproach and reprobate the American people for "neglecting Janauschek." That cry has -been emitted by them for a great many years now?ever since Ameri cans became discriminating enough to know a good tragedienne when they saw one, and similarly an Inferior one, since, too. they commenced to manifest a cer tain sort of wistful preference for hearing actors and actresses whose words they had a one-to-ten chance of understanding. The Janauschek crowd's lamentations became so loud over the "neglect" to which the American people were subjecting the Polish woman that, more to stop the noise than for any other r?ason. a big theatrical ben em was devisei'. for her in New York. Nearly 910,000 Out of Benefit. Nearly JtO.OoO was got out of that ben efit and the money handed to Janauschek in a lump, who received it with no very ob vious evidence of graciousness or gratitude, but in a way as if it were really no more than belonged to her. Not many months later Janauschek was. to use the common oxprr ssion, "brul i" again. Ti e benefit mori'y seamed to make hardly a stop-gap with her. A short time apo when a m in in a continued run of hard iuck to whom J:i;iau sohek was indebted for a great deil of I borrowed money, suggested that her out I fit of useless stage c slurries and oihtr : effec ts be sold, partly fcr his benefit, but ! chiefly for her own. a great outcry against i the "desecration" was raised by the Janau ! schek mourners. But the stuff was sold ! Tt embraced a motley collection of out- j ! worn junk, and the projectors of the sale j I "ran in" a lot of entirely new tawdry : i stuff that had never been used by Janau- j : schek or anybody else in stage productions, j i Ever sinee the sale the Janauschek people j i have been hurling expressions of vitupera- ; tion and scorn upon the whole American 1 piople for having evinced so little interest j j in the Janauschek sale and for having bid . j such "miserable sums" for the Janauschek junk that was offered at public sale. , In the meantime H ere are literally scores j ; of old, enfeebled, conscientious and unos I tentatious American actors and actresses , ! who have fallen upon poverty through no | | fault of their own. but simply because their j j day went from them, going bravely about I the streets of New York, not begging any- | thing from anybody, nourishing mourning . : lieirts as best they can and wearing mourn i ing faces of cheer as best they know how. j They are thankful to be remembered with | a kindly word, and they are not pressing , their wants even upon the world of stage : dom, much less upon the world at large. ! The contrast is, at least, instructive. Fun When Tammany Come3 In. New York is beginning to chirk up and brace itself for a lot of fun after the first of the coming year. Tammany goes in on that date?but young Mr. Jerome, the mili tant district attorney, doesn't go out. He sticks, his term of office being a four-year one. Tammany has virtually announced that the lid is going to be taken off and that the town is going to be run "wide open " Mr. Jerome says not. Mr. Jerome has a good deal of power in his job. The district attorney's billet in New York is an administrative as well as a Judicial position, and the grand jury is one of his most forceful instruments. Mr. Jerome isn't going to ask ths Taram uiy administration, he says, for one solitary sou-rnarkee wherewith to run down vice. He Is going to get all the money he wants or needs for that purpose from wealthy men belonging to the fusion outfit. And he declares that he is going to be the busiest man in any seventeen states that could be named offhand, after the in auguration of the new Tammany regime, chasing up evidences of Tammany wide openness. Tammany, on the other hand, smiles, and says that !t knows of several way:- of reducing Mr. Jerome to the di mensions of a dormant woodtick after it takes hold of the town. So that it looks as if the "lookers-on in Vienna" are sched uled for a diverting time of It when the tiger and its main baiter get at the work of clawing each other. In the meantime the betting Is about 20 to 1 that Tammany will win out In any sort of an encounter it may have with young Mr. Jerome. The Hiding Craze. From the I-.-mlon Tatler. The walking mania has given place to the craze for hiding oneself or one's possessions and challenging the world to find either one or the other. The mystery of the miss ing lady has raised the question whether it Is possible to conceal oneself In London ef fectually. There are at least a score of criminals hiding in London at the present instant whose appearances, habits and usual haunts are well known to the police, and yet they remain undiscovered. It is for the ordinary Individual an easy task if he be so minded to become lost to the knowl edge of a few dozen friends and acquaint ances among a crowd of 8.000,000 people. The chances against his. being found by one of the few dozen are millions to one. To Cure a Cold in One Day Tako Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet! All drug slats refund the money Jf It fails to cure. P. W Uroye'b signature la on each box. 25c. ocl-th ? tu-tf MATERIAL FOR NEW STATES. A Glance Into the Future?When Can ada Enters the Onion. Fr< in tho Chicago Trihuno. Le Debat. a Montreal paper, comes out flatfooted for Canada's union with the United States, provided the provinces of the dominion lie admitted as states. Some of them would be admitted thus on the con summation of the union, even if that event took place tomorrow. Ontario, with its 2 225,000 of population, its 7,?00 miles of railway, its abounding fields of wheat and barley, its generous orchards, its immense self-replenishing forests, its natural wealth of copper, nickel, iron, petroleum, gas and salt, would make a state which the entire Union would hasten to welcome. Ontario borders upon four of the great lakes, upon Georgian bay, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit river, the St. Lawrence river. Its natural facil ties for navigation in the heart of the North Ameri can continent are plethoric, and the few connecting links in the arteries of water commerce which a wearied nature had neg lected art has supplied. These bod.es of water are now the barriers of trade be tween the United States and Ontario, but were the union effected they would become, instead, highroads East of Ontario the Ottawa river and the St. Lawrence meet the great city of Mon treal, in the province of Quebec. Montreal combines the advantages of a seaport with an inland port, for the St. Lawrence flows from it to the open ocean in a siream of such width and depth as to accommodate the argosies of the world, while canals en able the barks of the five lakes to meet deep sea ships in the continuous harbor which surrounds the island of Montreal. Quebec has a population of nearly 2.000,000, noted as much for the'.r industry and thrift as for their detestation of race suicide. Its people are farmers, lumbermen, salt and fresh water fishermen, sailors, manu facturers. They exhibit the same diversifi cation of industry and enterprise as charac terizes the eastern states of this country. Quebec, like Ontario, will enter the Union a fullfledged state. The three maritime provinces have to gether nearly l.OOD.OuO people?lumbermen and fishermen, hardy people of the sort celebrated by Kipling in "Captains Cour ageous." The incorporation of such men and women as they are in our nation would do much to offset the hundreds of thou sands of the dregs of Europe which wo .yearly absorb through Castle Garden. The maritime provinces would not be asked to wait for statehood, though it were well, in deed. either for the three to combine in one state, or else for New Brunswick and Prince Edward to unite. The latter is small to be a separate state. Columbia, in the northwest, is doubling its population each decade. Though its greatest length from northwest to south west is 1,250 miles, yet its wonderful sea coast has a length Of 12,000 miles. Unde veloped as it is. Its productions are already a considerable proportion of the wealth of the whole dominion?its mines producing one-sixth of Canadian metals. Its fisheries one-third of the Canadian catch of fish. Columbia would make a glorious capstone to tho column Of Pacific states. Its name was accorded it with prophetic vision. Manitoba has over; ^SO,000 of inhabitant. Its numbers are swelling In almost equal ratio with Columbia's, and two seats in the United States Senate are waiting for it. The northwestern territories of Athabas ca, Asslniboia. 'Saskatchewan and Alberta are rapidly filling with population?much of It. indeed, being American. Whether they would be required to serve an apprentice ship as territories is a question which would be settled on the same principles as were applied to almost every state in the Union except the original thirteen. When ever their population warranted they would be admitted as states. Locally, the new states would have the same rights of self-government as belong to the constituent parts of the present United States. Nationally, they would have two senators apiece at Washington and representatives according to population. Their national legislators would have ex actly that part in the formation of national legislation to which the federal system of government entitles them. In the cabinet of the President would sit members from the new states, and whenever the wheel of political fortune made the proper revolution an inhabitant or the present dominion of Canada would be the President of tho United States. &m .v?.'yJi *i?\ c$. fei|gSa;g?*-*' Cfr * <??:--:,;,i v ' r>":-J ".a. ?M0 . V -r-' -^ P ?*?f S|S?S r?,, ?M :.*tK' :;'v. if ll?^pJS* (sill llfl ; v.. : -m ?V ' -v. 11 r ? .,. ^26 v. :. #a v:-:-4- ? if> is $ ft OVERCROWDED LONDON. ? Protest Against Free Trade in Paupers and Criminals. From the London Free L*nc<'. Some of the facts revealed by the inquiry, notably In regard to overcrowding in the east end of I/ondon. are truly awful. The overcrowding is such that, in the words of the commissioners, "health, cleanliness, de cency. even morality, must necessarily be sacrificed." Thus between 1881 and 1001 the population of Stepney, which was al ready excessive. Increased nearly 40,000 through alien immigration, without count ing the children of alien parents: while in the same period the number of houses has absolutely decreased by about 4,POO. Tlie horrors of such overcrowding do not need dwelling on. Again, with regard to crime, the report states that in 1899 the number of alien habitual criminals was 231; in 1002 it had risen to 400. At the October Clerkenwell sessions last year one prisoner In every flv6 was an alien, and, in proportion to popula tion, tn three years there were twice aa, many aliens as natives sentenced to impris onment in England and Wales. The loss in money to business men during the same j period through the fraudulent bankruptcies j of aliens has also amounted to the subbtan- I tlal sum of ?1 250.060. I Altogether It is pretty obvious that some thing must be done, and that quickly, to put a stop to free trade in paupers and criminals, to whatever country they may belong. We shall simply be following in the footsteps of all civilized nations In tak ing restrictive measures, Including our own colonies. The fact can no longer be ig nored that our population is already amply large enough for the space It has to live In, and we cannot afford to look calmly on while the underpaid, underfed foreigner is continuously displacing the native worker. Oranges and Lemons. From t he New York Press. There is something radically wrong about the oranges and lemons of today. The former are a pale yellow in color, j the latter are all rind. France getii nearly all of her oranges ajjd lemons from Spain, over 100,000,000 pounds being used annually in Paris alone. Germany ob tains her supply mostly from Italy. Eng land depends entirely upon Spain for her oranges and upon Italy for her lemons. London uses about 3.000,000 boxes of or anges annually and 500.0IM) boxes of lem ons. Italy supplies Russia, Sweden, Nor way, Argentine Kepuhllc and Egypt. The United States Imports from Italy 75,000, 000 pounds of lemons annually. Its or anges come from California, Florida, Mexico, Japn*n, the British West Indies and Italy. Our home production Is 12, 000.000 boxes a year?10.000,000 In Cali fornia and 2,000,000 in Florida. Our an nual consumption of lemons Is o.000,000 cases, of which we import 2,000,000. Afternoon Tea. From the London Chronicle. "High tea." now so prominently before the theatrical world. Is said to be of Amer ican origin: the earliest mention of it, ac cording to Dr. Murray, goes no farther back than 18T>6. In fact, tea, as an after neon meal, is not much older; It in thought to have originated. In 1S37, in the house of ilme. de Clrcourt, a Russian lady, wlioao si.Ion In Paris was at that time much fre quented by the most intellectual society of the day. The fashionable dinner hours were then getting late, and she introduced a 4 o'clock light meal, at which tea was served. Fanny Kemble. in "Records of a Girlhood." attributes the Introduction of the afternoon meal into this country to the then Duchess of Bedford. Fanny Kemble paid a visit to Belvoir Castle In March. 1N42, and slie relates how a mysteri ous invitation was received to the duchess' private rofems, where she found a stna.il group of friends partaking of tea in a pri vate and rather shamefaced way, and dales the H o'clock meal from this time. But It was several years later that the practice tectunc general. Take PUd'i Cure for Consumption for Ooagfe* C',l.!s and Omiiuinpt ion. Sold jersrywbtte.