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een oe na arte on te ee 58 AAR HER A ea the Press PublishingyCompany, No, & to @ Park Row, New Tork ‘at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciaes Mall Matter, .NO 16, everce OLU ME 47... weeeee oe+ _———$______— POLICE BLACKMAIL. ‘According to Magistrate Walsh, the police col - paloon-keepers #9n Sunday and after hours HS portioned out in pool-room and gambling d protection. According to Magistrate Crane, F town on the face of God's green earth Aocording to Magistrate Wahle, the p 1 Sfnais promptly to the police court, <aANK YOU>) _ THANK YOUS/ “% —_— a month from , drinks epers a drinks) In return the saloon-ke — Also, according to Magi most wide-open instead of bringing crim- take them in many cases to Pofice Headquarters first, and in some cases do not bring them to court at all until the complainant has gone. Of all men in public place city magistrates are best situated to ob- serve the way in which police do their duty. The city magistrates hear the accusations in the first in- ste they see the complainant; they have a wide personal acquaint- ance, including a knowledge of the ramifications of crime and the police If every saloon-keeper in New "York pays only $5 a month, somebody gets $500,000 from this source Wf there are between two and three hundred pool-rooms, payi 06: $250 a month, samebody gets three-quartess of a millis Hf there are eighty gambling-houses paying $500 a month, there is an @ther half million for somebody. : Tt is unlikely that a city magistrate who makes specific charges and Smames. names does not know what he is talking about. Where does all this money go? j Under the old bi-partisan police boards the saloon-keepers’ mone) was handled by the commissioners’ secretaries and, presumably, divided Hi-partisanly. The first thing James J. Martin did when he became Presi- ‘dent was to abolish the saloon-keepers’ blackmail in consideration of the eepers voting the Tammany ticket. This arrangement continued a long time, the saloon-keepers being exempt from blackmail in re- for their loyalty to Tammany. Even Devery did not blackmail the rkeepers. Q ‘There is a great difference between being only “the most wide-open sftown” and the. systematic collection of police blackmail. -Selling beer on | Sunday is not a grave crime. Betting on a horse race can hardly be Pe@alled a heinous offense. Even playing faro and roulette is not ta be classed with burglary and murder. ‘ But police blackmail is. It is less destructive of the fibre of a city © that there should be murder than there should be police connivance with A Bit of Advice to the Cleveland Physician Who Tells Tea-Bitten Women They Should Take to Cigarettes. M’ DEAR DR MARTIN The charges which these three magistrates make have corrobora tion in the observation and belief of the general public What is Gen. Bingham going to do about it, and are the Mayor and the Gowernor going to do? Officer of Clev society * Cleve aeper Magistrate Moss has lost bis patience with the people who make a bung f trying tO kill themselves. They who fail may expect no mercy hereafter surrender it thi " his court. What, indeed, is the use of a great, beneficent law for the weak an ee Pespondent if it ts not to increase the ratio of “sure things" in suicide? is i sesraaprygseasall FROM SPEAKING OF RENTS, At this time the advertising columns of the papers in New York te ; with “to rent” announcements, The annual October of 3 amoving-van men approaches, There ate ¢ wellings of all degrees to be thad at all rates. It may appear particularly that newer before festival ETTERS FRO re there go many offerings of suites at “$2,000 to $2,800," at “$3,250 to $6,000") T]HE PEOPLE. em at “64,500 upward.” The great apartment-houses of Nev York are as magnificent as the Lewy Lave tee Aintonhe tet. | distances of Washington. They are built 10 accommodate large incomes, | , aie Rvening Wortd A vhen a girl with @ jonally boasts 1 ‘of its abutdance in which the city occ. What a man pays for rent represents on the average about a fifth The $2,000 apart. » of his income. Sometimes it is less, often it is more. at table 4 ment may stand then for a $10,000 s , the tf E25.000,T ns cere the $10,000 outfit for $50,000. @ accom THE MEN in THE NEWS- Straight Talks to Them—By Nixola aaa NEW YORK TH Daily Magazine, Wednesday, “Boom!” By J. Campbell Cory. J A mens t ta brand of cigarettes. The 0 Us te the acquinition of the pr t 9 tear Of heart dives, Dr. Martin t P t ts poor peticy, Dr. Martin war the « our hea sich almost everything for ° heartache. you Goctors would rt n danger of teeuse from w are Adicted your antidote. king. If we Mked the weed we wouldn't need ws # By EF Flin. DEAR Jina PY we | ote pace) Arrariony RACKET. * YOUR Counting such’ incomes and reckoning the number hig | Bevan ; houses in New York whi with hig does | the Helios fiche pot take long to run th ures into million loci se i hn eR Asa rule, these men who aré rich by the 5 So ar many of them live up to their receiy is|* mas are re gimall when they swear off tal tax assessr eo , as to what taxes they |e “ an expla w rents on tt tk ai no evening Word) the bute man, t vw m ata f the propriet 4 { " i ; 1g t fit a coming winter's “ pave a és Be . he none r than tl of how a grade Pi Gaork ‘Tee Shaka lode If all met di B-Seiiifea cesta ee ot ce the tier ty? “ JOSH BILLINGS WAS A FEW fe worse off or the better for it? Would t hment of a general ¢ ta e¢ reduct srereercalfivicmtrers of property taxes, he of any eff {the How Tew Pik Out a Kat. ‘aged gi bic " spi sieves there |* By Josh Billings, Rade @ausi be, woukl be one falling upon each qualified pa t Ry Nrfosar Bape hid te ‘Rabe st | ei his ability to pay “0 4 good ke ' no hata are @ .. 7 iis JA ed ec . hs fl ee ara Fulton stree@ from Pearl to Gold, is exhibiting signs of impatience. It has| Mf ew but 2 kate iemre wouldr heen an open trench for five weeks. Somebody says the electrical subway boss,» " would tk one and the other| Kath © ° . Phere is tovling his men; This is paintul disrespect } the New York pavement. pheliow would pik one, and at would end t | with the - ear muse tlme and tide walt, contest mat to fed, Ww dots not care b Hipping contraetor-the only man who ene me nl RD Pie QUE te OG Kak Kn Aad lh dee tai Las hig Keon es Arar | the , YEARS AHEAD OF ROOSEVELT. I cra eyes, very short whiskers, and i hile toom, ore the beat kate thane ip to lay t the Mitchen stove all day, and be t thelr tall, every fu minnie, Kata with blak eyes, nO whiwkers @t all, And | polvted ears, afe Mabel tew piteon, Ke whtake wn ° rounded best way hme a \! yung abickena,|enny picking, Set 2k MM ANA A me ERY, SHAR Ai tranwackashnin Picking out good kata ban alwus bin a mighty)» aay to do it. from the fast besinoing, the wus ben tow take them without ox they cum, end’ let them #9, Se tree emi reer gust ‘The FIFTY GREATEST |'the bloodiest and moet turtulent ever enacted. oon ded. to male . while the ancastrians (Henry d toss, The oonfiiot thoe known as "The W bewan in 146 and endured off and on | tor thirty years The Duke of York was Killed at the Battle of Wakefield 1460, but hte three Edward, George and Richard, kep| fe. Suscers fell first te one sther; and ince bat tp the main Ane ZO, 1906. EVENTS in HISTORY By Albert Payson Jerhune NO. 30,—RICHARD Iii, and the Ware of the Roses. ICHARD IlL—hero and moundrek gentus and degenerate, great king and sreoter crieninai—stands out throwgh all time as the “heavy vGlain” of mediaeval Engind’s bistory-drama And thet same Grama was one of During the four centuries wince the Norman Duke Wikam had conquers? Wag. land many changes had come to the taland kingdom. Most important of these was the ym Haxons had refused to give up their éruder native congue opla who continue to cling to thelr origifal language can wholty Ny mibdued. Bo it was with the Saxons. They, as @ body, adopt French Then, to etrengthen che ald language, Chaucer, jand and other immortal authors wrote in Duglish, Little by thts resistance, the earlier Mnglish, modified by certain Soquel forms, became the accepted tongue of che country, the sane ae the English we apeak to-day. To Saxon stubborn: yeemervalion of cur langunge. The Bick Prince's son, Riobard IL, wes deposed by his Lancaster (son of the Black Prince's younger brother), who took Henry IV, The usurper's eon, Henry ail of France and died while atill infant #on, Heary VL, was oniied well as of England But whtis France to oast off id § i t id wt —~—-~————¢ Greatest Civi! War Except Our Own. ag cf ii vent aggressive, ® turned each other in & series of ond in extent and fury only to our The ruse of these wars was as follows: Henry VI imbectia. 1 Duke of York claimed deaoant from a broth: Bieck Price <i fh den EI af i? hi H s aR, ae v astriane Gnd Was His brother Geor t undisputed King { Edward I gp. who had @nos Price arene: but had come back t had been married to historians agree) mur * widow and amr now began and wieely ? dhe he governed the coug- industries shattered England et home and abroat. 1 himeelf one of the wieest and k nerd thy Murderer Wrio Ruled Wisely © growing resttvs, imant to the crown was Oddly enough. he also and Justly. had @ strong trace of, the nt. Hrit ood, thw uniting In himeolf the Norman and early English straing He had bew shed, but in 1485 he returned to Eng- and anc “yn. Richard, at mare forces ‘met which the King ReMant was rowded with in gight Kenarotions wi Rishard 111. tn dew wart hunahbeck the pereonal featt haracter premants on? of t OWoid of aor rot tone Yer nero th battle, and ¢ roalene, GH a ee FUNNY GLASSES 4y Ipvin §. Cobb Wonder Trips Aronnd Our Town—No. IT, te not trom. HE RUBBERNECK—What have we here Teeth Valley? $ | THE WIBE GUIDE—Not wo, gente etrange His is our justly-cele- ' brated Nnuncial diatrict— the a «it money , 1h RUPWERNEC A ¥ * Rather ean orphan asylum, am @ retest for the ‘“" on of the foundling dollars of the dea@ one | | THE WISE GUIDE—You may oteerve that way to ft fee down a hill, THE RUBBERNECK~Thus I do perceive. The whieh doutt explains wt tie ao enMy P to Wall street and a ard end out ag THE WISH GUIDE—Maye tt a0, an tt please you, fair air, Yet many, 1 ete told. have aforetime gone In on thelr tacen and come out on thelr ears THE RUBRERNEX « ° th wwpers, I wot But hot. Anon I @o ditcover now tha eo clannes win euler ¢ t # wellemtaded gorge Jbetween the gold-lined canson walls, plump, well-larded men tn private auton } Dies, Keen-faced GuIeK-witted ret: th tired cxte mnt wadvered, uitappy-tooktoe t men efom and Mmping Pray. who are they? | THE WISE GUIDB—An enry question tat, oh, #laatio sojourner of the Good- ' year larynx, The proud persons in the petrole m pusher ) are members of the 1 the taif-shell hacks. | Stock Muchange. The ariful gentlemen whe are the ourh brokers. THY RUBBERNECK—And the oad dogs on fo THE Wisk GUIDE—Your pardon. er. I was rear to fomeetting them. te verily they do not count, being only the Investors. | THE RUBBERNECK-I bebold yonder, standing tn the midst of scores whe atrugale to alap his brek and clasp bis hand, ne full*lad tn elke and fine linens, wearing on his fat fingers many dikmondy and in bie pockets baying mudtt | gold. You know btm? < THE WISE GUIDE—Ho ts known and admired of all men here For he, ain, |te the proprietor of @ bucket shop which haw just been driven to the wall bbe | cuss of heavy losses. "Tis for that bin fellows now congratulate him THE RUBBERNECK—Ah, infeed! And who, pray, might be this hollow: \omeeked, hungry wretch ‘ho slides within the comer pawn-shop. carrying be neath his comt something whtoh bears a brotally frank resemblance ft a Sunday mute in a bundle? [ONERE WISE GUIDE—That te merely the pallid dub whose winnings forced | thts self-eani enterprive to the wall. But look you—see how the city constables do -belabor that scurvy wight who mought fich the wallet of the prospemus hankrupt of the bucket shop, 1 warrant me they'll beet him full sore, for below the dead tine of Fulton street no common rogue may come. | THE RUBBERNECKJrom whieh I do xnther that Wall street heids com- | petition he death and not the it& of trade ig ‘WITH NEW YORKERS. . By T. O. McGill. (CHM man who) He dia fa aiways| And this In ovbat he maya about t ih Aguring 00 “There are men who here howe etung to THARP and Wetngs they may indulge wiv ‘tage of te and | they pave retired from active work, prosperity Where | bur thay find them never more thin be onn retire frotn | nait @utiefaatory, and the man who | businems ts her-| tasted the pleasures of viewory th borin a GelMOD | terpri, and found the new parte that would make | his brain that help him to philosaghy him very mlWT | in defvat, never finds anything to | aide Hf It were to | their place when he hag retired doar true." wone clear away som It fo wuld Mr D. | ne the man who loves books or 3. Youngiing 7° | nore there ts Haid of aotivity end ‘ verday solaee, Dut HM te very seldom find & man whe realy lover both, ne of the phonters In bien boil kinds soon wet away thom. the brewing huniness in New Fork Chur. Of the world aa it moved, Youmaling wade wovern! forwunes out | 0, Me world, Wt, lh Ney Tider ot Me brow And worked eighteen hore | shown them mh on of Ht die, und M Dothere thelr vanity novi cee. When the Ammigamation of the brew- weiee of the city took place Youngling thousht it would be fine to take the epportinity to diapose of hiv interes: