Ladders. PAGE Paper and Cardboard. PAGE Scales. American Juvenile Bed Co.... xiii George H. Simpson & Co......596 Osgood Scale Co.... Berger Bros Lamps. xxii Passport Agents. Braman Law Co.......... Brilliant Gas Lamp Co......xxvii Patents. The Turner Brass Works.. xxix Franklin H. Hough. Quicklight Mfg. Co.............571 R. S. & A. B. Lacey.. H. Merkel Standard Gas Lamp Co...... Launches (Vapor). Lawyers. Braman Law Co...... Leather (Patent). 592 Pens. ..603 O. E. Weidlich & Co........ xxi .594 M. P. & M. Co..... Physical Culture. Seedsmen. 595 J. M. Thorburn & Co.. Clucas & Boddington. .xi Somerville Nursery.. PAGE .597 i iii ..579 .560 584 W. Atlee Burpee & Co........608 .591 Shoe Manufacturer. A. A. Welcome... vii Silverware. .587 Standard Silverware Co........579 Novel-Soap (Sulphur). .595 Prof. Attila..................................... The C. N. Crittenton Co.... ..605 .606 Springs. Belle City Bolster Spring Co.... 588. VStammering. .595 Wm. Sixsmith..................563 F. A. Bryant, M. D......... Pianos. .560 Cornish & Co...................544 International Food Co........xxii Winterroth... .585 ............... 566 Strich & Zeidler............ Picture Frames. Amer. Leather & Cloth Co...xvii Lithographers. .ii Ashler & Staab..... J. Ottmann Lithographic Co...584 The Harvey & Watts Co...... XV C. A. Edgarton Mfg. Co.......571 J. C. Schnoter Co.... ..582 587 Printing and Stationery. 568 R. Hoe & Co xlviii Telegraph Co. Legoll's Pharmacy. Dr. Alfred Sanden.. Anglo-American Tel. Co...xxxiv (Automatic Marshall Truss Co.. 564, xxxii Lubricator, Polish and Rust Edward H. Best & Co....... Improved Elastic Truss Co.....541 Magnetic Truss Co... Dr Slocum (Consumption The Philo Burt Mfg. Co. (Body Wm. H. Muller.. C. E. Brown. Royal Pharmacal Co.. 570 575 Professional. Marie Kissinger.. The Hardie Spray Pump Mfg. Co..... Switchless). Stanley & Patterson.. .......581 580 Tools (Bench and Cabinet). Rife Automatic Pump Co......599 Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co. 16 Railroads. Trunks. .577 Northern Pacific R. R.....xxxvii F. A. Stallman.... Norfolk & Western R. 583 Chicago & Northwestern ....... .578 .xl, xli Hastings & McIntosh Truss Co.597 xliii Improved Elastic Truss Co....541 ...xlv Magnetic Truss Co.... ..575 Type Founders. xlvi American Type Founders' Co..552 Map Typewriters. 589 Brooklyn Rapid Transit.. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Peabody Medical Institution...569 George Wm. Hoffman. Long Island R. R........ Hammond Typewriter Co......604 Vaults (Fire & Waterproof). .549 he Meilink Mfg. Co.......xxxvi ..584 Ventilators. Collender Metal Tiles and Shingles. Rheumatism Cured. Merchant & Co..... ..xxvii Muller Pharmacy.. S. F. Kimball.. Roofing Plates. Berger Bros.... Merchant & Co....... .571 Globe Ventilator Co. .......xxi .xxviii ...598 .xii ...568 ..595 .566 Electro-Chemical Ring Co.....597 W. J. Adam...... Rudolph Wurlitzer Co..595, 596, xlii Merchant & Co... St. Louis Post-Dispatch.. ......xxiii Rugs. Harlem Rug Co.................................... Metropolitan Safe Deposit Co..585 .vii The Cuprigraph Co........ Terwilliger Mfg. Co............597 .596 Thaddeus Davids Co......... .597 Fleischmann's ....... FOR WORLD ALMANAC ADDENDA (The Buyer's Guide), See pages 553-560. 586 .xi We carry "Tools for All Trades." including Industrial Tools and Benches, Piano, Cabinet. and Builders' Hardware, Bolts, Screws, and Factory Supplies. Write concerning catalogues. HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO., 209 Bowery, New York, since 1848. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Office, 45 William Street, Losses Paid in the United States Exceed Eighty-two Millions of Dollars. The World. JOSEPH PULITZER. THE WORLD begins the new year with a net paid, average, bona-fide morning and Sunday city circulation exceeding that of any other New York newspaper by more than 500,000 a week, or more than 2,000,000 copies a month, and with a net paid total average circulation of all editions combined exceeding that of any other newspaper printed in the United States. ICE TRUST-VICE TRUST DEFEAT. Richard Croker said in a carefully worded interview in THE WORLD two weeks after the late election which swept Tammany Hall out of office, giving the election to almost every reform candidate in all five boroughs of the city: "The entire credit for the success of the fusion ticket is due to the newspapers, and THE WORLD was away up among them." Said Edward M. Grout, Comptroller-elect: "From the start of the campaign to the finish the vigorous attacks of THE WORLD against the complicity of men on the Tammany ticket with jobs and grabs was responsible for the public sentiment in favor of the fusion ticket. While I believe that my election and the defeat of Tammany Hall came because of the corruption of that organization, I am convinced that THE WORLD more than any other agency disclosed that corruption and impressed it on the voters of New York." Samuel Greenbaum, who was elected to the Supreme Court bench, said: ་ "In my opinion the conditions created by the Tammany administration were primarily the cause of its overthrow, and the credit is due to THE WORLD for clearly exposing these conditions to the public in such a way that they could be readily comprehended." Henry M. Unger, the defeated candidate of Tammany for District Attorney, commented as follows: "I believe that THE WORLD more than any other paper contributed to my defeat. It was the wickedest agent against me, and the most unreasonable." At the first meeting of the Greater New York Democracy after the election it was resolved that "We recognize the incontestable fact that the wonderful power and influence of the press of this city, and especially of the New York WORLD, has in the main brought about the dethronement of Croker." THE WORLD accepted these compliments not for itself, but for those to whom they are justly paidits readers. It said: "THE WORLD'S arguments would have been to no purpose but for their action at the polls. They did the voting. The credit for the victory for good government belongs to them, They were the men behind the guns,' On November 9, 1900, THE WORLD gave utterance to the prophetic paragraph: "Powerful influences to rid the city of Crokerism and crush Tammany Hall's control of the municipal government at the Mayoralty election next November are at work. It is promised that there will be no let-up during the next twelve months and that the most decisive blow ever struck at local bossism will be recorded when the returns of November 5, 1901, are counted." THE WORLD concentrated its opposition and trained its guns on the three most objectionable candidates of the ring. It gave to them a name which became an immediately popular "Worldling "Croker's Triplets "-Van Wyck, Ladd. Unger, "the conspicuously unfit" candidate for the bench of the Supreme Court, whose last appearance in that court was to avail himself of his constitutional privilege of declining to answer a question which "might tend to incriminate or degrade him," in THE WORLD'S action in the Ice Trust scandal, and whose responsibility for the "Vice Trust" could not be denied; Ladd, Whalen's assistant, Van Wyck's law clerk and Croker's former clerk, to succeed Coler as custodian of the city's millions; and Unger, Asa Bird Gardiner's clerk and Croker's choice, to the most important District Attorneyship. Early and late, persistently, insistently, and consistently, THE WORLD waged war on these "Croker Triplets." The result of this concentrated campaign, continued day after day, was easily measurable in the general wreck. Van Wyck ran 28,901 votes behind Shepard in New York County and 22,964 behind the rest of the judicial ticket. He was the worst beaten man on the ticket, his opponent having 40.709 majority. Ladd was beaten by 44,976 in the whole city, while Shepard was beaten by only 31,000. Unger, who ran 8,409 behind Shepard, was beaten by 15,880, The Denver Republican's delicate way of crediting THE WORLD for its share in the work was by a play upon another of the famous "Worldlings"-" Where did he get it?" It said: "There is no need to bother Mr. Croker with the perennial question as to where he got it. It is sufficient to know that he got it-and he got it good and hard." "ON TO THE PENITENTIARY!" When the smoke of battle had cleared and it was found that the corruptionists had been routed from every point in the recent election, with Jerome to wield the public prosecutor's power, with an honestly directed Police Department to help him, THE WORLD put up the talisman "On to the Penitentiary! It pointed out some of the most deserving candidates who should be made to "do the State some service." Mr. Philbin made a good start. Wardman Bissert has already gone to the limbo of bribe-takers and extortionists at Sing Sing; Captain Diamond fined $1,000 for allowing Bissert to let vice and gambling flourish for a consideration, and dismissed from the force; Wardman Glennon, Captain Gannon, and a dozen others are tremblingly awaiting their fate, and during the next few months THE WORLD expects to point the way to several others who will be in the march on to the penitentiary." THE ASSASSINATION. When the awful news of the shooting down of President McKinley shocked the whole country, and there were the first rumblings of a mighty whirlwind of indignation that seemed about to burst into a cyclone of violence against those who were suspected of beliefs akin to those of the assassin, THE WORLD'S voice was for calmness and moderation. During those days when the life of the President flickered in a vain effort for recovery, THE WORLD performed its whole duty by keeping its readers informed about all that was going on at the bedside in Buffalo. It told the story faithfully, with dignity and in soberness, and without efforts at sensational effect. It chronicled every item that gave any information of the struggle for life that the whole nation was watching so anxiously, from the moment when the assassin's bullet found its mark until the last scene of all, eight days later. And then THE WORLD began the agitation for stringent laws to protect the country from another crime like this, to punish any assault on the Chief Magistrate adequately, and to protect the country against the breed of anarchy. In the flood of suggestions poured out in British as well as American papers for dealing with anarchy, there was nothing practical not covered by those made by THE WORLD immediately after Mr. McKinley's assassination and compactly stated in THE WORLD'S four D's: Death for any attempt on the President's life. Deportation for every avowed anarchist. The bills now before Congress nearly all have this basis of ideas presented in THE WORLD'S four D's. DAWN OF THE NEW CENTURY. At the dawn of the new century there was a remarkable special issue of THE WORLD, with notable articles on the progress of the city in the century past and prophetic views of what may be its progress in the Twentieth Century. Among the "prophets were Andrew H. Green, "father of Greater New York," the Hudson River Bridge scheme, the New York Public Library, and of Central Park and the stupendous park system of the city; H. H. Vreeland, President of the Metropolitan Street Railway; William R. Merriam, Director-General of the Census; Chauncey M. Depew, ex-Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy, Presidents James J. Coogan and Frederick Bowley, of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Queens; Henry Siegel, of Siegel-Cooper Co.: Mortimer H. Wagar, Charles Broadway Rouss, Thomas F. Gaynor, Charles W. Price, Simeon Ford, President of the Hotel Men's Association, and others. Ex-President Grover Cleveland contributed a paper on "The Presidency and the Twentieth Century;" William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, wrote of the 15,000,000 children in the country's public schools; O, Bernard Shaw dealt with Dramatic Art, and Maurice Maeterlinck of the literary trend of the drama: Carolus Duran, Bernhardt, Coquelin, Edward Everett Hale, Joseph Jefferson, Lady Jeune, Mansfield, Dr. George F. Shrady, Dr. Schweninger, Bismarck's famous physician; Dr, John H. Girdner, Sir William MacCormac, Sir Robert Ball, Camille Flammarion, Prof. W. A. Anthony, of Cornell; Stanley J. Weyman, the Earl of Wemyss, Sir Charles Dilke, the Bishop of Gloucester, Ouida, Gen, William Booth, of the Salvation Army; Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the Duke of Rutland, Max Beerbohm, Mrs. Emily Crawford, John Rhys, Mary Baker Eddy, mother of Christian Science; Frederick Harrison, the Archbishop of Armagh, Gilbert Parker, Flora Annie Steel, George R. Sims, John Dillon, F. C. Burnand, "Ian MacLaren, T. M. Healy, Dean Farrar, Andrew Carnegie, J. Keir Hardie, Ellen Terry, Colonel Muller, President of the Swiss Republic: Mrs. Ormiston Chant, Hon. G. C. Brodrick, Archbishop of Canterbury, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, W, T, Stead, Walter Crane, George Moore, M. De Blowitz, William Watson, Sir Walter Besant, Lady Colin Campbell, Karl Blind, Lord Charles Beresford, H. W. Marsingham, Duke of Sutherland, Prof. Charles S, Briggs, Cardinals Rampolla and Satolli, Bishop Andrews, Andrew Laing, Henry Clews, Manager William Sherer, of the Clearing-House; Russell Sage, Maj.-Gen. Henry C. Corbin, John P. Holland, inventor of the submarine boat; Charles Cramp, the shipbuilder; Alfred C. Harmsworth, Samuel Gompers, President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University; President Patton, of Princeton, and Governor Odell were contributors of reminiscent history or prophecy. Forty aspiring couples made an effort to win $100 in gold offered by THE WORLD to the first couple married in the new century. John Walker Middleton and Miss Betsy Mary Pierce, of Plymouth, who were married by Rev, Samuel Mitchell, Curator of St. Chrysostom's, when the century was just one second old, by the minister's certificate, won the prize. A gold medal and a brass crib to the first boy baby born in Greater New York in the Twentieth Century, and a like prize to the first girl baby, was offered by THE WORLD. EXPERIMENTAL JOURNALISM, During the first year of the Twentieth Century THE WORLD has submitted itself to two interesting experiments, by which the ideas and methods of two phenomenally successful newspaper editors of London, Alfred C. Harmsworth, of the London Daily Mail, and C. Arthur Pearson, of the London Daily Express, Pearson's Magazine, Tit-Bits, and other English publications, were permitted a complete exposition and exemplification each in a single issue of THE WORLD. This led to other editions edited by Wu Ting-fang, the eminent Chinese Minister, and others, with a single page exposition of how a newspaper should be done by Weber and Fields, and another by Rogers Brothers. The Harmsworth Tabloid Edition was on the occasion of a visit to New York by Alfred C. Harmsworth, who has worked a revolution in newspaper methods of London. Mr Pulitzer invited him to assume full editorial control of THE WORLD for the issue of January 1 and make that day's paper his own, Mr. Harmsworth is the apostle of "tabloid" journalism, and he made THE WORLD for one day a thirty-two page small quarto magazine, four columns to the page. It was an interesting experiment, but the criticisms that came from nearly every newspaper in the land, and from thousands of readers, indicated that the idea would not be popular, and that the methods of THE WORLD under the management of Joseph Pulitzer, and under which it had attained and holds first place in American journalism, still have the approval of the American people. In evidence of the unquestioned supremacy of THE WORLD, an offer of a Christmas gift of $10,000'in gold to any person who presents proof that THE WORLD'S net bona-fide, paid city circulation, morning and Sunday editions, is not more than a quarter of a million a week more than that of any other newspaper whatsoever, has been published each day for three months, and no one has ventured to claim the gift. Indicating the popular interest felt in Mr. Harmsworth's illustration of "tabloid journalism” in THE WORLD, the Pittsburgh Dispatch published a copy of the front page of Mr. Harmsworth's edition simultaneous with its appearance in New York. Just six months later C. Arthur Pearson, on a visit to America, was given editorial control of THE WORLD for the edition of Sunday, June 30, to do with it as he liked. The whole country was aroused over Mr. Pearson's startlingly novel idea of sending five representatives into Madison Square, at an announced hour, each with a crisp $100 bill in his pocket, to give to the first person who, presenting a copy of the Pearson Edition in his hand, asked: "Have you got that $100 bill?" Madison Square was not large enough to hold the 50,000 men, women, and children who gathered there at the appointed hour, each carrying a Pearson Edition of THE WORLD, and each asking and being asked in frenzied accents for that $100 bill. It goes without saying that five lucky people, two of them women and a third a newsboy, propounded the question to the right persons and got the $100 bills. Aside from this unique feature, Mr. Pearson differentiated his edition of THE WORLD by making it a means of comparison and contrast of things English and things American, through articles by representatives of both countries, on various topics. The Wu Ting-fang Edition, presenting this Oriental diplomat and philosopher's ideas, gave "Wise and Good Sayings of Great Thinkers" of all ages, and a page editorial dictated by Mr. Wu, in the form of an interview, with illustrations by Kate Carew, "For wise and good sayings," he said, "let there be some Christian sayings, some of Confucius, from Plato, Socrates, Aristotle. Buddha, and Mahomet. The people need it on Sunday." HOW PUBLICITY KILLED RAMAPO. Millions for water, but not one cent for tribute to the robbers!" was the battle cry of THE WORLD in the war it waged on the Ramapo steal. It took eighteen months and two weeks to accomplish it, but on March 1, 1901, the $200,000,000 Ramapo steal got its quietus from the Legislature, which on that day passed a bill unconditionally repealing the law of 1895, giving the Ramapo Company extraordinary privileges, by which the Tammany Board of Public Improvements sought to enter into a contract under which the Company had the right of selling $5,000,000 worth of water to the city every year for forty years. It was August 17, 1899, that this contract was introduced in the Board of Public Improvements. Next day THE WORLD showed the iniquity of the contract, and day by day THE WORLD turned the searchlight of publicity upon it. On August 22 THE WORLD obtained an injunction tying the hands of the Tammany officials. Governor Roosevelt indorsed THE WORLD'S action, and the conspirators, becoming frightened, disclaimed knowledge of the job. The job was abandoned, every jobber proclaiming the discovery of his own opposition to it. It was plain, however, that they were waiting for an opportunity to bring it forward again. A fictitious water famine was created to encourage a popular demand for quick relief, and under cover of the popular outcry the job could be pushed through. But THE WORLD did not cease its warfare nor abate the fierceness of the glare of publicity. It retained alert counsel and went to Albany demanding a repeal of the law under which the Ramapo held exclusive rights in the only available water-shed for the city's supply, and held them, like a dog in the manger, in the expectation of starving the city out. On March 1 last the repeal bill was passed, and Ramapo's death was duly certified to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of frauds or jobs against the people. Publicity, the greatest moral force in the universe, did it. KILLING THE WEST STREET BRIDGE GRAB. Under the pressure of a powerful lobby the last Legislature, in its closing moments, jammed through a bill giving to the New York and New Jersey Bridge Company, financed by a syndicate whose personality was a deep, dark mystery, a franchise in perpetuity, worth not less than $100,000,000, under the guise of a permit for a terminal and bridge approach. The bill granted the right to construct an overhead railway along the New York water-front to connect with the New York Terminal Railway's tracks of the same company's bridge on the Hudson River, and no limit to the length of the water-front overhead road was named. It might go to the Battery south and north to the Yonkers line, and a careful study of its provisions for compensation failed to discover anything under which the city could force the company to pay for this invaluable privilege more than $60,000 a year, compensation depending on computation of gross receipts by a system that would enable the company to show that its bridge earned everything, the water-front terminal nothing. THE WORLD denounced it as a steal that made the Ramapo job look insignificant. A further analysis of the bill developed the astounding fact that it did not guarantee the construction of the bridge over the Hudson at all. In other words, the holders of the franchise could build and operate the overhead road along the water front, on the recently reclaimed and enormously valuable bulkheads of the city, and practically force shipping interests to transmit goods to and from their piers on their tracks, and besides, under the provisions of the bill, the company would have the right to construct spurs and branches across town through every street, and up and down through any avenue. "Next to rapid transit," said THE WORLD, "nothing will do so much good for New York as a bridge over the Hudson annexing New York to the continent, and there must be a connecting road along the water front to collect and distribute the enormous traffic that would pass over it. But this is no reason why the city should not get a suitable payment for this privilege, and there is every reason why such a franchise should not become a perpetual monopoly." All these points were laid before Governor Odell, who vetoed the measure in a ringing message in which he recited the very objections raised by THE WORLD. CROP FORECASTING EXTRAORDINARY. Correspondents for THE WORLD sent in reports on the crop prospects from 300 different points on July 27, and on these reports was based THE WORLD's summary of the corn and wheat crops, forecasting a reduction of about 900,000,000 bushels, as compared with the corn crop of 1900, but to offset this loss the forecast was for a better wheat crop, while higher prices for both grains were to be expected, because of an unprecedented European demand. THE WORLD poll was made by telegraph, Each correspondent at 300 points in the corn and wheat belt was instructed to ignore all reports or rumors of disasters in other districts, but to send an accurate estimate of the percentage of a full crop of corn and wheat likely to be harvested in his own immediate district. Twelve days later, on August 10, the official crop report of the Department of Agriculture read like a paragraph of THE WORLD'S forecast, which trade papers had regarded as a "sensation" a fortnight earlier. |