The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-10-10
The Vigilant of the Journalistic Seas.

| think you're sailing-tubs? Why don't
you do as Vigilant's sailors did when
they learned that clever trick OF shift
Ing the spinnaker from valkyries
tars! Why don't you learn a thing or
two from the manner In which the sue
cessful Evening WORLD Is sailed?
There's the Harris case in the winds
from tho Islands OF Incident. now--the
inhuman wretch who gave his school,
girl wife. Helen Potts. morphine and
killed her-in all that appertained to
that most remarkable murder. his trial.
the hearing before Recorder Smyth
when the murderer attempted to ad-
vance reasons why he should be given
Jew trial. his attempt at suicide in
the death-house at Sing Sing. and his
final leave-taking Of this world. in which
he was such a heinous unit. his death
In the electric chair" The Evening
World" seemed to have q first mortgage
n all the news that was made by him
or in his behalf. for its stories were al
ways the best, the most ornate. the
most satisfactory. and In the case OF the
Harris electrocution a news beat was
scored that sent the circulation OF the
paper up over 10000.
Now tho queen OF the journalistic seas
is far. far ahead OF her competitors. She
Is seen to be adjusting her spinnaker
and foretopsai. The wind has shifted
from the Islands of Incident and is
wobbling from the shores OF Public
Safety. II Is a right good wind. full of
go and get-thereness. 1.-THE Evening
Worlds" sails catch It all. and. oh. my!
how she skips along. A sea-gulls flight
isn't In It whit her. Look back. The
others sails are Tapping helpless; all
hands must have gone out to take a
drink. This wind from the shores OF
Public Safety catches The Evening
Worlds" shippers eye. to speak Hgura-
lively and stern old Justice doesn't want
to lose a thimbleful Of II. In its very
FIST gusts comes the exposure of the
criminal .arelessness Of the ambulance
surgeons OF New York and Brooklyn:
The Evening World" made thorough
revelation OF the indifference to human
life shown by these surgeons In the dis
charge Of their duties, and its fight
against them resulted In the correction
NJ many abuses. 1t also exposed and de-
nounced the Health Department doctor
of Brooklyn. who demanded pay from
poor people, and in the interest OF public
health and for the purpose OF removing
menace to it. The Evening World"
insisted on the removal OF the dangerous
pest-hous in Flatbush. Its exposure
OF the shipments of paupers to this city
by tine Massachusetts authorities. and OF
the agencies which shipped men TO the
phosphate mines Of South Carolina were
achievements that contributed 10 the
strength of the safeguards which the
laws and Justice provide FOR society.
And II was In the plentiful breeze from
the shores of Public Safety that the
fight against the Brooklyn political
ring came to hurry the sails of The
Evening World" in Popularity Channel.
Il fought the ring hard and long and
showed the City Of Churches to be at
the mercy of as corrupt a lot OF states
men as a municipality ever knew. IL
insisted on seeing the minutes OF the
Grand Jury that investigated the street
railway franchise scandals, and ii was
successful IN having them published, and
in putting the Doodle Aldermen OF Brook
Ign in Il fair way to be punished.
The fight for the preservation of the
front OF Battery Park resulted In the
prevention OF a complete obstruction OF