The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 14

LT ccancilesidchebetbhdcien apituianbanteas = ocsunneaepepnaiitatientans tgnited them like wild beas 1 Never before in our Ristory as a democratic nation have we gone 80 far as to permit women to nominate a candidate for . the Presidency, Miss Addama received a great deal of popular * publicly expose the head and front of ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, 1} Presa Dud! Company, Ni Pedtiehed Dally Except Gupte 7 fe en F | > fe CAR PIT Poca bh be oe soanPn PULITZER, J y, Ui Park Row. Matter, patered, 6 at the Sg OE te reg Cenk A a arg ion Rates to the Continent and World for the United States and Canede, ies VOLUME 53. Nos, 68 to ron Countries in the Internat Postal APACHES. E begin to see the city as it is. Woe now know “Dago Frank” W and “Whitey Lewis” and “Jack Sullivan”—to say nothing of “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp the Blood,” whom we look to meet later. Gangsters, gunmen, wielders of the knife, dope fiends, prowlers of the night, regarding murder as a sport, ready to spill blood like water for revenge or a few dollars—we see them all. And around and above them we éce tho like of Jack Rose and “Bridgie”’ Webber and Vallon and Sam Schepps, with crafty brains and grasping fingers sneaking moncy and weaving plans to set th.'r underlings crawling through the shadows with bloody thoughts and ready guns. No big city escapes it. Every now and then the life of a great community seems suddenly to seethe and to throw off its impurities in a kind of horrid boil of murder and outlawry,’ Over and over again the West has tamed its bad men with vigilance committees and bulle's Only a few months ago Paris had its horde of bandits whose mur- derous daring horrified the world and seemed to know no bounds. New York looked on with a certain sense of superiority while the Patis police hunted down desperadoes one by one and shot and dyna- | Now we have ours. We are rounding up our savages. How shall we deal with them? We may be proud indeed if we succeed in stamp- ing out our brigandage, not by gun or nitroglycerine, but with only justice—swift and sure. ee THE SPECTACULAR CLUB. HE Spectacular Club is inaugurated. President Emeritus T Charles William Eliot of Harvard University has founded the club and presented it to those who need it. He has designated Migs, Jane Addams and Col. Theodore Roosevelt original charte members. At the initiation of these two the good Doctor, who has just travelled around the world and noted how it wags, said things worth Temembering. For instance: Women have no proper share tn a political convention. i acclaim when she seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination, It was @ very spectacular proceeding, but 4¢ was in very bad taste, The distinguished founder then conferred upon Col. Roosevelt the full privileges of the club, on the strength of a notable display of bed taste in publicly complimenting Miss Addams on her action and| — {vy no Covseliat, ad ot York Wort) iy 1912, ing Co, b OR thanking her for it. ; That, too, was spectacular, Lately he (Col. Roosevelt) acems to have been playing cards. And I was surprised that he should so unreservedly play the cards of the woman's move- ment in his convention. I think he will repent doing so. ‘The speaker then threw out a few general hints on how to qualify fer membership, concluding: I admire Miss Jane Addams for what she has done at Hull House. She is doing a splendid work in her way. But I dislike to see her held wp in the limelight as an example for all other women to follow, We need women to bear children and attend to their homes. The men ought to be able to regulate their own politics to mect all needs without direct assistance from the women, We hasten to record Dr. Eliot’s words, because there are signs that such old-fashioned discourse will shortly be among the curiosities of our national past, and we should be sorry to see the enormous membership which the new club is sure to have forget the purpose and views of its founder. ——-+-—____. r + ie Be ots. HE hypercritical need not encer at the efforts of our Aldermen to|" locate police grafters. Remember, Jonathan Wild was an ey- pert thief-catcher. $e E knew French chefs were an opinionated lot, but we never thought to see one dare to tell Boston that it didn’t know Mr, alr; “Policema: Honer”, ‘Fe the Riitor of The Evening World: Your editorial of the 2th entitled “Policeman's Honor’ is a just and cou- Fageousindictment of “Our Finest,”” Unfortunately it has been the custom Why? It's the same neck and both are Jamb! You will find, readers, as I have (Qf you lock as far as I have looked), that people with good inoomes will al bie prices, JR the ‘No, show?" Ob, Conyright, 1912, bv Th “Ww theatre between the wit that Mr, reputation turn of speech of East Malaria, tablishment weekly stipend thrust upon him, drew back abashed, nt to say, how do you ike the} said Jenkins meekly. i it's « me Jarre “drags a little and 1s reminiscent thai 1 reply. replied “rm peddling Grand Central Depotf* Tt was through such flashes of ready Jarr had established his| Possessing a satirical | I And poor Mr. Jenkins bookkeeper in the es- had Pumtishing Now York World o HY, hello, Edt" cried a ta- millar voice to Mr. Jarr, strolling in the lobby of the a for where Mr, Jarr ever in spots," @ with his best first nighter’s| the beginning | as the deuce, think 4t with at n that I the street, and have suggested Jenkins. don't think I care to, "Phat cafe across th first and second ‘Are you seelng the show? Mr. Jarr in fine scorn, js outside the ed get some- was street a} 4 but} never does any business except between the acts during the theatrical season. So whenever no show 1s running here they discharge their bartenders and put 4 crippled inmate from the industrial {natitution for the deaf and blind be- astute prober could have ascertained was that Mra. Jarr was with him, and she had permitted him to leave her side during the entr’ acte only under solemn promise that he would NOT go out and guzzle and come back smelling of clov “Didn't know you were a first-nighter,’ said Mr. Jenkins, “Who's the stunner you bowed to “Fritzl Scheff,’ Nghtly, “One misses Brady—hello, there's Murphy—you know the celebrated after- dinner speaker?—great friend of mine. @ typloal first night, what?” replied Mr. Jarr Diamond Jim ved Jenkins, “I'm here by ‘On, I premieres, frie endents, | Thinks 1 tell a My look in at most all ¢ aid Mr. Jarr, yawning. 1 of mine, big gun tn the Ind Hikes to have my opinion, an spot the sure hits and er better than the criti kins, ‘Mrs, Jarr with you?" | ‘Oh, yes, they always send us two \seats to all the first nights," Med Mr, Jarr glibly He and his wife were there on ‘char- it with tlekets p ed by Cla and which that lady, Mudridge-Sinith, of the press and from the rostrum to flatter, condone and excuse the short- comings of a subservient police force to their demoralization and the public detriment. The keynote, however, of municipal ecandal has yet to be sounded. % you will have the to courage “the powers that prey''—the controlling orgapization that represents and pra tices the most iniquitous and perfect system of municipal graft the world han ever seen, you will be doing the Public an inestimable service of enlight- emment and perhaps pave the way to real and lasting reform. ELLIOT SMITH, ‘The Price of Meat, ‘To the Biitor of The Evening Ad Recently some authority (7) stated “it fe generally conceded that moat has doubled in price within three years.” Now, this i# ridiculous. 1 noticed this sign. "Leg of lamb M4 cents a@ lb.” When was it 7 or even 10? In ex- elusive places I have noticed it at 18 and 2% cents, Is this double? Yesterday 2 hought a fine fowl for io « Ib, fricassee. Has it ever been § cents? Yes, @eak is doar, and yet there is a of 6 between Prices at Yesterday No! 4 Gor MneRieo ANO MY WIFE Listen! NLL Give You AN toga! “just ih INSISTS I ‘— hind the bar," Mr, Jarr said this with easy non- chalance, but the real fact that any Patrick Francis | ‘Do you come to many?" asked the! chanee, | I'm wih a lady,” faltered Mr. Jen- TN Copyright, 1972, by The Dress Publisling Oo, WEIMER NE NONSENSE SEMAN SEMEN EEE MONEE SANE ENN NESE MNCL SEMANA AEN Jarr Cheerfully Elects a Friend to the De eee dota Sagat Men haat td through being called out of town, could not use. | “Well, an old school friend of my wife's 1s pass! through New York on her way to Europe with her mother. ‘he mother was taken slightly {ll and lcoutdn’t come to the theatre, so I'm es- corting her. Mr. Jarr turned to Mr, Jenkins and winked a slow, phiegmatic wink. | “Honest, it's tru continued Jen- kins, ‘She was out at East Malaria visiting my wife and called my wife up when she returned to New York and found her mother couldn't go to the | theatre with her. So my wife called jme up and told me to escort her friend.” Mr. Jarr whistled a bar of “Every- body's Doing It" but made no com- ment, | ‘I'm telling you the truth!" crtea Jenkins. “Doggone tt! Do you think I'd be here on the sly with anybody?" “Not knowing, can't say," replied Mr. Jarr sly. Vell, prove what I say, You bring Mrs. Jarr out here in the lobby jand I'll introduce my wife's chum to her. We're sitting way across the thea- tre, back of you, or you could see us. I'm on the lev od | ‘I’m not saying a word against you or the lady you are with, am I?" asked rm Mr. Jarr. », but I don't Mke the way you act!” cried Mr. Jenkins indignantly. | ou bring your wife out here when the curtain wn again and I'll | intr duce the Then when your wife meets my wife she can say she met me and this lady y: August By M. de Zayas} ||| The Evening World Daily ly Magazine, Thursda-: Ki << —<_ ~~~ {sewers (4 te GS etiorio. Boring! “In Wrong” Club) | money. “Jenkins, old pal,” said Mr. Jarr, “let sleeping dogs lie and then you won't have to le when they wake up, Grant- ing all you say is true, tt dent.” | “If {t wasn't I have to take the lady to her hotel and then hurry to catch a train out to East Malaria I'd wait after | the show and introduce your wife to! wife's friend, Miss Blenkinsopp, of outs!” said the frritated Jenkins, is just as well ‘tis so," sald Mr. Jarr. “And when you see me with my) wife's dearest friend you, too, pass on. | T can only say I'm glad you are aitting where Mrs. Sarr does not see you with the lady from St. Louls, When the show | H or TH hang back with Mrs. Jar and you hurry out." Jenkins evide |way home Mrs, and then sald: “Who can you trust these days? Dia! you see your friend Jenkins with a blonde person? No? Well, I did : fo cr dd Old Tradition Gone! N the untutored mind of the + E age Is in these advanced times be- coming sophisticated. Mr. Algot Lange, author of “In the Amazon Jun- @ bad prece- my o did so, But on the Jarre was very silent gie,"” who 1s to go up the Amazon again this summer for the Untversity of Penn- sylvanta, that heads are no longer acceptable as gifts to Indians, "Savages can't be won by such trinkets nowd- days," he says, “We take hardware— hatchets, At this rate the Indians may soon demand | Wostenholm and Maydole trademarks A .th' house ‘thout goloshes In the city set ‘on thelr presents. t 22, 1913 5 & WEC295"-) SHERIDAN by ad A Series of Articles Exposing the Every-Day Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. (“Oamera-Eye” Sheridon ie regarded ae one of the dest detectives that ever existed outside of fiction. The feate of memory which gave him hia nickname, when he wae head of the Bureau of Identification of the New York Police Department, are proverbial. It has been said there is no man (m the United Btates with eo thorough o knowledge of criminals and their ways as Detective Sheridan. In this series he givet the public many vab wable potntere calculated to save them lose by swindling.) (Copreight, 1912, by W, W, Aulick.) No. 6—“THE BIG-SIX BESTERS.” HE "Big-Six Bestera” prey on the fellows who think !t no harm to turn off T & gambler, the sort of men who cheerfully beat a railroad out of its faro—+ because it Is paying big dividends and can stand the lors anyway. The “Big-Six Besters” when they find their man usually have little trouble cons vincing him that there's nothing out of the way in tossing the propricior of @ roulette parior. One of the gang after making the acquaintance of the itkely mark afte? the ganner laid down in the primer of con games sticks around with the victim until considerable mongy has been spent and many drinks consumed. After @ while the grafter opens up with his eoheme. He says he hus a friend who turné 4 wheel in a gambling house and who is sore on the boss, who has handed bit the wrong end on several occasions. The friend in his righteous indignation wants to get square with the boss, and the meet way to do this 1s to oripple Bit, in his bank roll. The crook unfolis as neat a plan for this ae was everglevised. He says tid friend by an ingenious and hidden arrangement of pins can throw the bail into any cavity he selects, make it come red or black, or slip it into the first dozen, middie dozen or third dozen. He throw the single O or the double eagle at will. He can make the roulette wheel talk, sing, dance and eat trom his good right hand. And eo Friend will toss the roll any time Mr. Grafter comes around and they wil eplit the take-in. But it will have to LOOK as if it was on the level. That 1s, the money must actually be placed on the lay-out and the ball spun, and there must be no recognition between the wheel man and his confed- erate because the boss is on the floor ali the time, moving around from table to table. And besides there is @ look-out at Friend's table, So there must be much caution. Mr. Grafter proposes that he and his friend make up a purse to go after some of this sure money.” The sugar will have to be spread three ways, taking in the ball-epinner; 80 a good etske must be won in order to make things profitable, And they better not win too much at @ single session. Otherwise suspicion might be aroused, If Mr. Bates (the all-embracing thieves’ name for sucker) waite to be shown, Mr. Gratter readily agrees. They pay a visit to the gambling house in the fore- noon when no one {s around but the Friend, who has got out of bed for this special purpose. He gives an entirely satisfactory demonstration, causing the ball to flop into any space Mr. Bates calis and showing by the stack of chips he shoves out in !Hustration just how great would have been the profits df they had been actually playing the game. His advice is that his friends do not play! the numbers, as this might attract too much attention to his table in case they” hit him for a big stack of chips. and the odds are even money. » So that night Mr. Bates and his guide find themselves {n the well-tiiled baglt, room of the flat which has been rented for the occasipn. Mr. Bates has put @. | a few hundred and wins a few hundred, Then he gets a nudge and reluctantly” quits for the evening. There is @ meeting later, and the dealer ts given his ones third rake-off. Mr. Bates ts eager for more. He argues that they might as well make a killing and be done with it. And after a while the others agree. He 1s told to bring $5,000 or 610,000 or whatever sum he is good for and this being more than his partner can put up he is to get a share of tne profits propor- tlonate to his investment. Next night, again in the room by prearrangement, Mr. Bates demands the limit be taken off. He talks boldly about being a man who likes to bet hig ‘The dealer cails over the proprietor and puts the case before him. The proprietor, much impressed by the vilitor’s sporting blood, kindly tells his dealer to take off the limit and let it go for the sky line. Mr. Bates places ali his wad on the red, the ball spins merrily, threatens half a dozen times and finally drops —black, The dealer unemotionally sweeps the checks into.the rack and Mr, Bates and his grafter companion look at each other through a haze of cold perspiration. The original toller hurries the victim into the street and gives the explant- tion that @ pin has slipped or fallen out of the mechanism and the dealer ha: been powerless to affect the roll. As his own money has gone with the money of Mr. Bates there seems no particular reason at the time for blaming him, They arrange for a further meeting, when the dealer shall be present. But it doesn't come off, and when the sucker goes back to the flat to have another look at the gambling house it {sn't there. After @ witle the thing dawns on him, but he seldom squi afford it. Not on the Hotel Register By Alma Woodward. (Remarks of the Proprietor of the Mountain House.) ait Ae Copyright, Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World). T it funny what “folks 1} do in somethin’ catchy ‘bout her. country In th’ summer time? looked like she wuz on th’ po: is. He can’t She allus t uv doin’ th’ Th’ colderndest things thet they | somethin’ devilish. But she wuz one @@ wouldn't do fer a million do! in th’| them false alarms! ‘Phe devilishest thing winter! I seen her do wuz to laugh like a nan: "goat an’ ohuck th’ book learnin’ feller, under th’ ohin—an' I watched pretty, close, too, Yuh know I come to th’ Judgment, I bin noticin’ some things quite reg’lar thls past ten year or so, an’ I seen wimmen folks thet has money an pret- tiness, too, take up with ¢h’ swimmiest lookin’, fish-eyed fools uv fellers, thot| after studyin’ summer boarders reg’lar., has to think twice ‘fore they tuy aj fer Mfteen yegr or more, thet the folks thet look Like they Reé all the gosh- darned sins in the esten@ar stacked away in ‘em somewheres Ree got th’ gentle soul uv a saint, with a wrong exe terlor on ‘em. It grim's Progres with gold letters, An’ the folks thet has the slippery lookin’ air, an’ ts shocked if a mam cusses, they're th’ ones thet has all the | high Jinks an’ home-bustin’ habite right with em all th’ time, Yuh might think this hotel-runnin’ ‘business {9 dry—an’ well it might be to sum—but not to me, Y'see thet nose fer news, thet I told you "bout a plece backs —that helps mo a lot. I kin see things in people thet no one else kin see, An’ I guess I got ‘bout as much tne format ‘pout human nature stacked. under this here sombrino as any writer feller that sells htv noticin’s to mages zines and things. pack o' cigarett I seen married men with @ fine,! healthy lookin’ family an’ @ buster uv a! wife go moonin’ over a ninety pound, thin blooded gal thet didn’t have ginger ‘nough to stand on her own feet, let alone cut up interestin’ Jinks, I seen folks thet wouldn't stir out uv in red, white an’ blue’ ‘round In damp rowboats at night with cheesecloth frocks on ‘em an’ a mist like tho pall uy doom settlin’ down aa’ drenchin’ thelr marrow. “I don't know what ‘tis, @ome book- learnin’ feller up here one summer said ‘twas midsummer madness, An’ if he spoke from experience he certainly wuz right, ‘cause {t wuz August when he sed {t, an’ he wuz th’ craglest thing thet I ever seen, just then, A reg‘lar derned fool he wuz, all ‘bout a woman we had boardin' with us, ‘ At first sight I must ‘low there wua at the theatre. New York World.) GET A STENOGRAPHER! STAND FoR ME DICTATING —— You CAN DICTATE An’ I've often thought, on wintal j nights when I ain't got much to do BU think, that some of these days, when t old woman gits worser in rheumatic 40's she can't scrub an’ churn ant things, I'll write one uv them books tiv mee-motra like yuh hear tell uy, an’ give up th’ hotel business, TAke some advertisements sez: “Yuh Y 1 gotta selze yer opportunities when they VLL GET rou + knoct at th’ door.” An’ when all kinds \F INE GOT To uv folks 4s took with this here mid- summer madness right before yer very eyes it certainly {s Uke opportunity comin’ up an’ hittin’ yuh tn th’ face, ant It ought to be sux, don’t you think? Yes, I guess thet's what I'll do, O' course tt might bring trouble Into some families if they recognize theirs selves in th’ pages uy my mee-moire, but after I don't want thelr money no more I kin use thet latest expression thet th’ married men jus’ brought up frum th’ elty last Saturday, “I should worry s9 I'm not slick an’ far-secin'y ————EE TROTTER PEEVED, ‘He was greatly dleappointed tg Papis." “Why? “Seems his chief object in going ther Was to make a pilgrimage to the home of Mente Cristo, and nobody could potng out the house,"—Louisville He suggests colors, where big bets are <7 Jus’ like bindin’ “Pile, 4 A