The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1903, Page 11

~~ UP MURDERERS’ SEMINARY AT THE TOMBS 4“ HAT achool to teach murderers how to play insane in the Tombs seems to be getting away with it,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. “The alumni is a large and Mistinguished body,” replied the Man Higher Up. “For a young institution of learning it has made good Most amazingly. Give it another year and the rust on the electric chair dn Bing Sing will be so thick that you can’t peel {t off with a chisel. “It.4s safer to commit murder now than {t ts to round the small edgo ‘of the Matiron Building on a windy day. A man who comes to the realiza~ ‘ton thatrhe can make more money by keeping a pool-room than by work- ing is mn\enemy to society; a murderer ts coming to be reghrded as a Subject. ef: theoretical dissection by altenists. “There was a time when the different degrees of murder were defined with such clearness that a jury could take a fall out of a slayer and give him a bid to the end of a rope without leaving the box. Nowadays it has got to a stage where the jury don't have a chance. Tho learned legal Practitiopers for the prosecution and the defense get together, hold a few banquets with each other, throw dice for a cholce of experts and conclude thet to try a murderer would be a waste of energy, simply be- cause he lets his whiskers grow and refuses to take a bath once a week whether he needs it or not. A “Seareely a day passes that does not contain a record of a murder fm this eity. If you would hold your hand on your ear from one execu: tion ¢o anether your hand would grow there. In the mean time the mur- derers are living on the fat of the land ini the Tombs; they are comparing whiskers, getting up competitions in the wey of accumulating dirt, and ae ig knowledge about the proper way to fake insanity at two sessions a . “The District-Attorney allowed this Hooper Young person to take a hop, ekip and jump over the electric chair because the allenists said that he was mefically insane. You can go through the dives of this town and find hundreds of men who have the samo kind of a medical insanity fan- ning the windmills in their belfries. Although they are medical bugs, ce, ave foxy, and it is seldom that you find one of them taken into cus- ody. “If Hooper Young is medically insane young Durrant, who killed the girls in the church in San Francisco, was medically insane, They were as i alike as two peas in a pod. Young Durrant isn’t passing the rest of his days tm the quiet security of an insane asylum with three feeds a day @erved to him and people hired to amuse him. He had a strong pull in Gan Francisco, but he finished with a noose around his neck, Hooper “Young showed more cunning in disposing of the ‘body of his victim than Durrant dtd in covering up traces of his crimes. In fact if Young hadn't made a mistake and thrown tthe corpse into a piece of shallow water the mystery of the disappearance of ‘Anna Pulitzer would be marked down on “the forgotten list of happenings in New York to-day, “He didn't leave New York until he heard that the body was found. After this he knew that his trail was picked up and his movements were “more or iess foolish. Go long as he thought he was secure he was game, and the degree of his dottiness should be judged not by what he has done Since he wes errested, but by what he did before the fact that he was a murderer decame known. “If the victim of an unpardonable wrong should go out in this little old ‘New York end do murder; if he ghould admit it and try to justify himself, they would make @ storehouse for electricity out of him, sure. But if he @hould joim the school for teaching insanity to murderers in the Tombs it ‘would mean @ compromise, a couple of years in the best suite of a nice free bug-bouse axa then e pardon.” ' “Ase the laws wrong?” esked the Cigar Store Man, “Nobody Imows,” responded The Man Higher Up. “When a murder @ae is taken to ¢he Court of Appeals neither the District-Attorney nor the ettorney for the defense can tell what the decision is going to be, and Swhatayer it 1s both of them are surprised.” 4 ro Under the coat affords a most excellent shtelMd against January wind: Indoors, ‘too, when coal ts ecarce, one may keep mugh wanmer tn thie way and similarly St night by epreading papers between abect and counterpane one prevents the heat of the body trom escaping into the outer air. = J. 8, SUMMERFIELD. To Trace the Supply, To the Wiitor of The Wrening World Gosen“t geome combination of men smploy & couple of dozen shrewd men to ‘evel over el! the anthracite coal Toutes from the mines to the termina! cities and show up how mapy million of tore of ona me spores tora in the coe! bust are holding back ¢rom the oon- wumers? This would be worth a hun- dred conferences, SLEUTH, “(His Grievance,’ ‘ of The Wreatag World: |e see Bator i e made the 12th |™ the Béitor of The Prening Word; Fane SORE, ORDO TAS 88S a paoele have thelr particular grievances, and I want to wri regarding mine. man of amiable dispositio; sidered extreme): blesain, ite to your Tam a young o, end am con- '¥ 6004 looking. This (a3 some might regard it) has proven & curse in my case, 1 - fon of the World, tinually annoyed by reat many (he Bier of The Dveaing World: Opposite wex. They J. Corbett wes cham- me in street oars, stores and hheavy-weight pugtiist of the world, B gays he was not. Which ts right? . R. F. RATHBUN. treet until Iam heartily sick of womankind tn general. Their inter- emt and attentions are not Sppreciaied one bit, Can any reader advise me what to do? A CYNIC, Te Leasen “EL” Ov: To the Editor of The Brening Wer! Lat the ladies ome rig! shopping and not ‘look around’ ear room will be unoccupjed which they are now taking up during end they will be home in time to have & decent meal tor hubby People don't like reli ‘walking to and from work will lo them mood. If you can't do that set an euto- mobile. ONE WHO KNOWS, —WORLDS | QMBINO 52 x MEE NEYO acl plas High Winds and Soaring Skirts Lure Forth Flocks of Inquisi tive Men of Every Type, of| All Ages and All Conditions, mE O Rubber: To crane the neck after women whose skirts and liats ay skyward as they round the wind- i swept corner gf Broadway and Twenty-| third etreet."*+Definition of Policeman! Bennett, tho brawny guardian of the triangle. fudictary, tor} Magistrate Mayo, in discharging Jultus Cosio, arrested for rubbering in one of the many doorways of the white shoat of stone, known as the Fiatiron Bulld- ing, defined rubbering as “staring longer than TWO minutes.” . For this brief period of time, thero- fore, the Interested male can with !m- munity from punishment by the law observe the distressed women who, on windy days, clutch wildly at thelr skirts and hold their hats on with their ¢ brows ina brave but ungraceful effort to round the comer. “Keep one foot moving," ran the cau- tlon of the new-Daniel-come-to-Sudge- ment. “It's all right to look for a couple of minutes, but don’t rubber!” It was estimated yesterday by a con- servative merchant of tho neighborhood that the sequestered doorways of shops and offices fronting the wind-harboring | canyon between the Flatiron Butlding | and the Hote) Barthold! on Monday last | when the western sale was blowing at the rate of elxty miles an hour, con: tained not loss than 150 tdlers, gothered with the sole object of watching din- tressed shoppers am they rounded the corner, Yesterday the breege had died away to aimost nothing. So, too, had the crowd of eager men. Of the 150 or more of the day before fifteen were left at the lunch hour, when the crowd is usually very large. For {t has become @ custoin with some men employed in the nelghbor- hood to spend the greater part of the hour allotted them for internal refresh- ment in one of the many hospitable doorways of the Flatiron Butldiny, smoking an after-luncheon cigarette and regaling a rudimentary Imagination or crude sense of humor with the anties the wind plays with women's garments, Tho fifteen stood there tn little groups of two and three, sheltered from the cold, and waited. Probably no crew of a becalmed vess¢] ever wished more eagerly for wind than they. Occasio! ally a slight breeze would apring up— there 1s @ breeze ofrcling the Flatiron Building when the leaves hang limp on the trees in Union Square and the Post- Office flag droops dejectediy—and the fit- Se naaaeiimeme ** Flatiron’ HOME No **Rubber-Necking’’ on Broadway -- ” Views Add @ New Crime. teen would rejoice. The group, looked at, A short, dissipated boy—college boy~ together, seemed like any other small) smoked a huge pipe near by and ac- section of a New York crowd. One of; onslonally exchanged remanke with his thts old guard was at least Beventy years| spare peighbor. These were generally old, a man with long white hair, which! very outspoken commente of admiration the wind played with as funtastically| or disapproval of the passing women. As it did with the skirts of the women} Grouped near Gunther's doorway, on he watched with narrow, bleary eyer. | he Fifth avenue side, were several pale, Another was perhaps forty, of the! yellow youtas in concealing reglans and ‘Nean and hungry Cassius” type, with a| revealing cigarettes; a stray “masher loose overcont of Invisible plaid over his| from Twenty-third street, very much spare form and very badly Atting spats! overdressed and looking like w foreign on his long, misshapen feet. This man| bandmaster, and a stardy, middle-aged stood in the doorway for over an hour,| Amerfean of the Mark Hanna type, and smoked more than fifteen eigarettes| for his interested leer at passing women, Eee ooo De WUsuy Wi OSDA Nr auranc, binoaUAR) Ab, A003. Queer Air-Currents Around a Queer Building Lead Magis. trate Mayo to Give a Unique Decision for a Queer Crime. Inwpection of the ankles of a well- dressed and overpiump matron, inden with bundies, who stood wating for a Broadway oar, turned to his neighbor and remarked, audibly: “That ain't #0 bad, now, ts It?" to the evident discom- fiture of his yietim. ‘The matron did not tnterest his com- penton “rubberneck,"' @ wallow youth of perhaps twenty-three, halt eo much as & very young end very tall girl who rounded the corner @ moment ater. Bhe wns not apparently used to being ont alone much. She held her skirts se- ourely tn -.er eight hand and was about to pans the crowd of loungers without seelng them, when a tiny vendor of violets and Miles of the valley thrust a! cluster of tho tender white sprays into | her face with Phe tnsinuat "Only fifteen centa!"’ The girl stopped, and to reach her, purse, watch was inclosed in one of the pendant chatelaines now fashionahie, had to drop her skirts. A gust of wind, which seemed to have waited maliciousty for the moment, caught the etamine folds of her gown and swirled them above her knees, She caught sight of the watching loungers for the first time, and without buying the flowers atutohbed her skirts awkwardly with both hands to keep them down and walked on, fol- lowea by the jerring inquiry, ‘Oh, mamme?” ee were two instances of the way in which women are dally annoyed by these Idlers as they attempt to pass the Flatiron Bullding, ‘They occurred on @ windless day, when enly the most oon- firmeu rubberer would have kept his post. Apparently Magistrate Mayo's decision akes it possible for men to rubber at ‘orm-swept women for two minutes, Fven the most near-sighted lounger could make go004 use of his eyes in that time. Unless, in the case of a partiou- Jarly pleasing pair ef ankles or a ape- cially tuuicrous disposition of @rapery, indeed, {t {s hardly probable that he would care to look longer at one woman when so many passing shoppers invite Inspection. What can New York women do about this outrage, for 4t can scarcely be called lens? What are they going to do about it? There has been some talk of concerted action among the merchants facing the Flatiron Building, both on Broadway and Fifth avenue, but unless the women themseles make an active protest there js no likelihood that the evil will be is plea of as he watched anc waited. It was this man, who after @ minute (Coprriett, fb03, by Dally Story Publishing Oo.) HE sun was two hours high when lt Frits Wardetn took the train at Pine Top. The young fellow was in high spirits as he bounded into the car and took a sent by a window. He had looked forward to this day through x long years of to!l and economy. He had studied 4 starved and slaved— but how small acemed his iabor now in the sunshine of this glorious present! In his pocket he could fee! the roll of bills which represented the work and the economy which had abstained from everything except the barest. necessl tte And now he was actually on his way to college! And after college, what? Of course there could be ®ut one thing after and a warm flush rose to his face and a giad look came Into his eyes. He would go back to Neuchatel and up the valley to the chalet overlooking the Bienne. Buzel would be waiting tor him, and they would be married and come back to America and make « home. At the function he was the first to leave the train, and was rushing down the platform when he saw a patr of frightened horses approaching, Without hesitation he eprang forward to inter- cept them. But as he left the platform his foot: slipped’ and instead of striking as he intended, he fel] directly under the maddened animals. A moment later they were stopped, and he was dragged trom beneath their hoofs. When the train re- turned to Fine Top he was on board, crushed and unconsco He was taken to the place where he had worked, but no money was found on his person, and the farmer was a hard man, The next day Brite was bundled into a wagon and taken to the town farm, CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the of Amusements. Be D | ‘Bvs.8.15 Mat. To-m' wa Sat..2.15 LO De Nol oper "AL lo” emenwow tat? 0 AMBLTA BIRGAAA CO, THE PRISKY FU JOHNSON, THB, Alek at. More Names, the | To (he Wateor of The Bresiag World: names, I Ao alwaye fou: ee Lf ra vamed “Heory" to be very Pion sly and good-natured, but the majority of people need Peter fet ey acquaint. anaes seer ce, ae BROADWAY fee's icstet*wed. 2 di" MAT. TO-DAY. SPECIAL MAT, TO-MORROW. = Sir Slipper, ILESS TOWN, Lincoln's Birthai ACADEMY OF MUsiC, 1 Priees, Morore & Gat ‘ >) ver Glen AMERICAN £2."7,4 One day several new paupers were brought to the farm. Among them was @ llttle old man who was helpless wi rheumatism, He was given a bed near Fritz. One evening, ax he came into the room, the old man motioned him to @ stool by his bedside. “It's awtpl lonesome up here all day." he maid querulously, ‘Searcely nobody comes nigh me the whole endurin’ time." “Ach, well; you'll soon get better and ean come out to the flelds with us,” an- swored Iritz, pleasantly. The old man scowled “Pavmers’ flelds an’ paupers' work,” he sner “U'd ruther be here. But ‘tatn't right for me to te in much a place nohow. I could buy the whole caboodle If I had my money. Things al- lers went ag'in me." “Ach, they do seem contrary #ome- times," agreed Fritz. ‘Did you your year arterwards, # all cut down, an’ I couldn't even pick out the stun, there was eo many ef ‘om. Mebbe somebody'd dug it up 4n’ stole the money. T hung roun' a week or two, s'archin’, but ‘twan't no use. Then I got the rheumatiz an’ they brung me here.” Fritz had lstened attentively. “The Barber woods," he eaid curtously. “That ts the place T hat work. I dtd know every tree an’ stone. I mind the rock under the big pine, M14 tt ha: crack, and bushes growing on one si/e! ‘The old man mtarted and a frightened look came {nto his dim, uncertain eyes. “Are you the feller who got hurt?" he asked huskily. With a rudden effort the old ma: turned this face to the wall. “Beemed like I'd seen ye somewhore, ho muttered, “but TI never thought o' Pe} that.” Lov iha 6d Sane a «tor somo| Erie stared at him ourtously, then The old man did not answer eon went to bed, minutes. Then he looked up dejectedly. “T s'pose I mout's well tell ye ‘bout ere’s no sort 0’ chance the money ag'in, I starched @ay in an’ day out.an' couldn't find hide nor hafr on 't—even the olf rock where I hid it seemed to have sunk Into the @irth,"* “Jn, but that was bad," sald Fritz, “You see, T ain't never took no stock in banks an’ them things. They’m all thieves an’ money getters, I kep’ mine tn @ tly box, an’ when I had occasion to go away I hid it side of a rock under a big yaller pine. 1 took measure o' the trees an’ things round, wo that ¢ couldn't miss findin’ rt wa’in, Wail, i¢ you'll believe me, when I come back a A few days later he had occasion to pass what had been known 4s the Bar- ber woods, but no trees were there now, only a G¢holate field of stumps, hait hid- den by gréatwiles of cordwood and brug, ‘The trlk of the old man oc- cursed to him: Gbeylng a sudden im- pulse*he Gwent in search of the rock with the crack, Bit in spite of his familtamty with the woods ft a long time before he could discover it Waen @ returned to the town farm there was @ atrange, exultant look on his face, and every few minutes his hand returned to his Jacket pocket, es i to reassure {teelt of something there He went direotly to his room. The old stamped out. For the Girl Who Was Waiting.—ty Frank H. Sweet. | RR RR ES them Barber woods! man's face wee to the wall, “I go to the Barber woods,” Fritz began, “and 1 find the rock you haf Jom. ‘The old man ahivere@, and turned a white face towaa! him. “And I find the money,” Frits con- Unued sharply. “I haf ét in my pocket in the tin box.” The old man wes sitting up now. But dis face was not eager, only pitequs and terrified, “Ach, I haf no wish te hurt you.” sald Frits more softly, “Tf you tell me everything—true—I will say not'tngs.". | “An'—an' ye won't puntsh me?" @ ered the old man. ‘ot Mf you tell me everything.” “Wall, II driv the mall waggin that day, ‘The reglar man was sik, an’ he ast me. They put you in the Waggin, an'--an' when we got in the woods I took the money; but I didn't dast to use ft, wo I hid tt ‘side the stun an’ went of, I letted on comin’ beck arter a while an’ git it. But cuttin’ down the woode got me all mixed. Wyverything allers has worked ag’in me.” in on aggrieved voice. Fritz qi4 not answer. Going to « fox near bis bed he took out sev- eral old school books which showed marks of much use. Then he left the room. . letter yas on its way across water, and in due tne # young girl took ft ‘trom the hand of the postman and read it, while warm blushes chased each other over her cheeks. Then, with a new ght in her big, es. e went up into the ttle chalet looking the Bienne an@ dreamed of the great country beyond the ses, and of fine young fellow who was going to do such wonderful things. o_o Amusements METRO} OLITAN OPERA-HOUSE. Graud Opera Season 1902-1903. Under the gireciios of Mr, Maurice Grau. TOMIONT a 8: LOWEN ORES Peal x Fes. ¥ Fi; at a ee if fat Eve, Fe Sun ee en is at Homer Meri vE BE. Amusements. MATINEN LINCOL LOR Th F . ie Fert Die Weikure WALLACK’S; BZCOND MONTH way ve SOc Bt, pred Witty Musica! @uscess, ‘SULTAN OF SULU. 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