The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1909, Page 4

t Member of the € Mahed dally by The ing Co A conference between Taft SOUNDS WHINEY and Attorney General Wicker sham is reported, the meat of which is some talk by the presi dent like this Lawbreakers must be pur accuracy and dispatch so as to it as little as possible, And furth law is inadequate,” Just why the president she the carpet to drill into him the years of national legislation bei rished and restrained, but with aterfere with legitimate business er, the machinery to enforce the wuld get his boss prosecutor on old Taftian chestnut about 125 ng inadequate is a mystery that smacks of a suspicion that Wickersham really has a notion to try out whatever there may be lf Taft doesn’t want his lit “accurate and dispatchful” (?) White House hennery and not and advise him not to go in, as It must sicken the whole ec continually whining about the criminal statutes to reach common scoundrelism, without de stroying legitimate business. | upon which illegitimate busine laws are inadequate, why not le in the law tle boy to go in sw way is to tie him up back of the imming, the to lead him down to the creek the water's cool wintry to hear its chief executive inadequacy of 5,000 volumes of Jeavens! it’s legitimate business ss has been preying, and if the t the corporation attorneys find it out? They're hired for that purpose Eleanor Glyn's record of transient Diiss has been beaten one week by Jocal elopers, bat Just now tt doesn’t look as though they were going to live happily ever after ward. There ought to be some simpler and less expensive method of lo cating these pinnacle rocks besides sending good men and ships to the bottom. Secretary McHarg’s discovery that there ts no water power trust comes too late to be of any prac tical advantage to the trust. Mr. Harriman’s announcement cause that he will yrecover will NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—An artist Dy profession and hotel clerk by eceupation is Frederick Alexander . of Ponca, Okia., who stands behind the desk at the Plaza from 21 at night until 7 in the morning Constantly in Duncan's pocket reposes his little sketch pad He sees a strikingly-gowned woman, « beautiful girl, or a man of impres- sive bearing—at once the pad ts out and Duncan ts busy with his penetl. In half a minute, with a dowen strokes, he has sketched a likeness, im later from memory. ties at the Plaza he has [ most notable people In Members of ‘the Gould, Goclet and Milis famtites among the subjects of sketches remarkable collection. On asked for a copy of the sketch. in Texarkana, which lies partiy in Arkansas Ponca, where spent six St ule, Hit ied art at va~ i fh Chandler Christy, much Interest tn ‘The young tan that New York was place him to pursue his studies, and he came. His Only Assets. When he arrived in the big city ith grt i his teachers | many of hia sympathetic neighbors on Wal) at. to postpone cashing In for some time. For all anybody knows, Joe Can- non may be giving out those {nter- views every day, none of which are fit to print Even as high a priced “after cure” as Mr, Harriman can afford cannot be as efficacious as a “be fore cure.” Now that it is all over, who ts the champeen middleweight avia- | tor, and what tf a kilometer? lke when President | It seems batt docs sit up he takes a whole} — | lot of notice. Duncan had a very limited amount of capttal, but he possessed large as- sete in the way of good breeding, « pleasant disposition. mantiness, and letermination to nucceed. He had | read in the papers out in Okiahoma of the noted men and beau al wo: lmen who stop at the great hotels of |New York, and he decided that he | could find no other place where the | very models he wanted could be had at all times and at no expense, So he got a job an a hotel clerk “1 would no’, tune the oxpertonce I have had here at thi; dek,” eid Duncan, ‘opportunity of aketching| been able to study every vartety of | dress, manner and deportment. The portunities te study the human ute of soctety people are remark able, too. “John W. Gates ts a man whom I always notice, He was onc the first of the Plasa’s patrons to engage one of the very expensive waltes. He pays $42,000 # year for (his rooms Ho in a very impatient | man... When he comes in late at | night, and just misses one of the elevators, which run every minute, he pounds on the floor with his wtick.” When Marjorte Gould was intro- duced to seelety Duncan had a great levening, Pleture after picture he made of the society girls, as they |arrived, While the great ball was lat its height, he went up to the ballroom and from one of the gal- lertes made further sketches, The material he has gathered he «xpects to be of great use to him some day, when he is further advanced in his art Wrecked Automobilist—And to t law along on this spin! ) TOUGH —— hink I refused to take my mother-in- “Ha, ha, ha! “Vot wanes id; a medizin eh I heard such a funny choke abouid a doctor.” ott” xchange for a for-| at} | ALFRED ©, CROZIER TELLS WOW IT 18 DONE BY BIG BANKS AND TRUST COMPA NIES, AND WARNS LAMBS THAT THE INSIDERS ARE GOING TO UNLOAD AGAIN ONE OF THESE FINE DAYS, BY ALFRED O, CROZIER, (Mr, Crosior te the author of The M ‘a novel in whieh J | Plery wan and other famil Hiar figures on Wall street are ple tured in their dinguise. In obtain jing material for his book, Croaler Japent months stadying the hidden Jourrents and sunken reefs of Wall | wtreot.Mdltor Over tn Wall street there extete a litte situation just now which ought to be rich food for bleating lamba. And it will be well for hard-working, salaryearning men who are tempted now and then to play with Wall street fire, to know it The pross dixpatehos have told of the latest scheme to get quick, which revelation came out of the fact Uiat a boy played it loosely and got caught. The doc tying that there must be “honor among thieves” perhaps fustifies the furor, the investigations, grand juries and indictments that fol lowed the exposure of the selling of the Heinze collateral stocks. Now one Wall complains because anot & acheme, and apparentiy with {the ald of & great trust company an a “fe worked it on an in aider instead of the public. Crime Charged. The sum involved is only about | $100,000, The erime charged te the selling of stock bold as collateral without consent of the owner That's fanny. The big banks and + devised | | dh } rieh | street operator SELLING OUT THE PUBLIC ON BROKERS’ DEBTS IS NO NEW FINANCIAL GAME ALFRED 0, CROZIER, trust companies are doing the same constantly, They are not in dicted, because the vietins are the public, | suppose. on $1,000,000 the customer broker individually of wtock owned vy of the broker, On default by the broker, without the fault or know! | edge of his cust the bank wells the stock and pockets the p coeds fn payment of the broker's! debt without the consent or know! edge of the actual owner of the se months, @ utered mt Bow flee, as second-class matter, Frequently various securities tn tho ponression of the broker, but owned by a doen different por sonw, Will be used by him to secure the same loan, bis individual debt The bank knows the facta, yet on default by the broker it anhesttat- ingly sells the property of all such persons without notice to them The surplus, if any, the bank gives to the defaulting broker, instead of to the real owners District Attorney Busy. It was when this game was worked» on ineiders that the New York district attorney got busy. 1 belleve that the volume of this sort of loans actually de all the value of ghe crops of the na tion, And every dollar so loan belongs wapecting peor who have intrusted the stocks to |banks tor safe keeping This rank custom cause the big operators who largely dominate such ble banks are the ones who borrow a good share of the money and use it to fleece the public by artificial man lipulations of the stock market Right now suck & manipulation fe on, Aa soon as the inalders can unload on the public at the present » prices, they'll withdraw their a) prevails be A bank will loan $800,000 to a| pool support, raise interest rates call loans and three will be be the smash that always follows the en trance of the public into the mar ket. I do not know when it will come, but when it does it will be the little fellow whe will get hurt And, eay, dowsn't it beat the world bow this mischief goes on year In and out, and how the dear curttion. AC this moment Institutions are than half a billion dollars of joann | scoured only by collateral owned by persons other than the borrow: | ors, And the bank has no agree ment whatever with the actual legal owners of such collaterals. such financial | carrying more! THE ARTLESS ANSWER NO. ONLY GLASS (ro orsace*** | ? oid public stands for it and the whitewashing committees are able to gloss It over? it any wonder that when the scale of the street meet at thelr clube they haha at the fools who awys come back for anoth or drubbing? Bay, ia 1 funny or in it pitiful? | STAR DUST fa! it seeme « in an of- ‘k, and when It's fa * to shut you Washington Star tr if tte or a cordial to! Carl Reiter, manager of the Or- pheum theatre, claims to have found what Augustus Thomas would call the “most tenacious man” In Seattle. Kelter, carrying several small packages, stepped into a Second ay, store to buy a box of cigars The proprietor was busy at the time, and while waiting for him Reiter tied his parcels together, using twine from a ball in a holder on the counter. “Sorry, but I haven't any more of those cigars,” eaid the proprie tor, when Reiter gave his order. * n you got them tomorrow?” “No, but I can get them day after tomorrow,” the proprietor an- swered. "Th: too Wate,” sald Reiter wry,” and he started out “Hold on,” called the proprietor “Haven't you forgotten something?” Rotter returned, looked over his parcels, said he guessed he hadn't, and started out again, we forgot to pay for that twine,” said the proprietor “What's it worth?” asked Reiter. “I think a penny will cover it.” “Are you joking or in earnest” Relter \nquired. “I'm in earnest,” said the proprie- tor. “I don't aee why I should fur- nish you with twin IT run this store to make mone: “If you make as much on every thing a9 you would on this plece of twine if | gave you « ponny you ought to be rich in about two weeks,” said Reiter, whereupos he enrefully removed the twine and returned ix. In some households along 24d av., anywhore vetwe dison and Yesler way, it is always the men who appear first on front por after the evening meal. They prop their feet up on the railing and have their cigars almost consumed before they are joined by their wives. But there is one home where the wife and her 56-year-old daughter al ways appear on the porch half an hour or so abead of the head of the | how Neighbors wondered why. On ening Inst week the little girl appeared on the porch alone. It was lonesome sitting there all by herself, so after a minute or two | she slid down out of her chair and | slipped acroas the street to pay a little call "Good evening, Helen,” greeted her host as she came up the steps, + is your mamma this even | ing? | "Ob, she’s helping daddy tonight with his dishes,” A nattily attired young woman, | followed by a frisking terrier pup, was walking down First ay. sear Madison yesterday afternoon. As soup, flab, « -, dessert, black coffes and a cordial to « Wwoman—New York Telegram “T eee & York & woman needs $70,000 clothee ‘poee here is tional case Not at all, Mvery woman needs that much Oniy they don't all get it" —Leouteritle Oouriér-Joninal. What a man could do with pt of money what he has hann't wot it nothing compar te do because he York Pree. “Watire finds an easy mark in fashions aj “Referrin she started across the track at the Madison crossing, the dog lingered behind to take # squint up and down | the track and to anfff at the Iron of | the raila, Safely across herself, bis | mistress called sharply to him. “Come here, sir.” A young man wearing light trow were and a wide brimmed straw hat, who had been lounging In the shad ot the Louvre saloon, stepped for ward with a great « of polite begs, “Certainty, mins,” he said “Oh,” she excinimod, as her pet mistake; this is the puppy I called.” IRON IN HIS SYSTEM. WICHITA medical aclence had overlooked any- [thing In the case of a local boy | whose ailment had been diagnosed as consumption, the doctors turned jan X-ray on him and found a shingle nall embedded in hie lungs. The nall serves no purpose where It fs, and thoy're going to remove It has been “puny” for the last years. He accidentally allowed the bit of hardware while engaged jin violent exercise with a bunch of |nafis in his mouth, | His folks are very much pleased six | illness to be merely a shingle nafi, j although, as the village cut up says, jt came near being his coughin’ nail jin his chest | POINTED PARAGRAPHS, A good pocket rule-Keep your hands out of other people's | A dollar bill in the hand beats two due bills tn your mat! | The milkman is someti an advocate of pure w | A man's credit tn usually [Ze | when he dovsn’t need It | It's atill a question whether love ji# an asset or m lability 6 | It's nice to Hive in the country nice for r city relations The man who marries «@ cranky old bachelor is an big a foo! an he ts came running up, you have made a/ —Just to ee whether | | The discovery explains why the boy | at discovering the real cause of his | Birnttagnaseatentes or poodieaT —-Dirmingham Ago-Heraid The ojd-t ° used to like lover now bat a dw Lt pedestrians or nature fakers tigh Detleas fee “Bhe claima in her ault for diveres bn may be; T know she used to laugh at his jokes.”—Houston Post Doeto * it's your cooking * for your husband & severe attack of Justwed—Gaetritise! But T giwaye cook on @ coal renge But- fala Enquirer tion te the most p: aln of love link World. "Pa sald we were to use the sled between us apd ain't I following 1 will go down the and then you can bring it up again!"—Chipa Hubsequent developments indicate that w 1 Adam lost a rib he a me of his backbone. or—The nolpe you make paid cash make the buying outfit easy. 1332-34 Second Av. Fiat pli Mr y) ; } well to learn how not to lose fa} | Juan inlands, him, Our Boys’ Departn coupled to prices so low. Makers Jran BOYS’ BUITS; sizes 6 to 17 years; double-breasted; knick er pants; In all the season shades and patterns; servic able fabri just right for school wear; at $3.45, $4.00 and $5.00, Hoy to ore; terns . Russian Blouse Suite; 2% ears; plain or mixed col- Boys’ Bailor Blouse Bulta; sizes 6 to 10 years; all colors, plain and MIRC sees BGO Plaited and plain gored s trimmed in seroles, Bean Pots, Shirred dozen to $9.00 cach Tea Cups and Saucers .. 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