St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14

conspicuous. Metallic stripes and Dor
ders have few threads of copper or
gilt or silver woven in them, and there
are very neat hair-striped fabrics
with a plain band for border.
The gimp borders are woven to initiate
paSSementerie in colorS, and there are
feather borders woven in silk that look
like curled ostrich feathers stripped
from the stem. Cancels hairs in
solid colorS, with favorite figures
or stripes, are among the new
cloths, and there are combinations of
smooth and rough camefs hair in
stripes and cross bars of varied width.
Rough goods, twills and serges will be
the most popular for general service
able wear. These cloths are the natural
mixtures used extensively by English
tailorS last season, but which were
difficult to get at the shop counter.
THE MASTERS
are making fools of themselves, as ever.
and nowhere are they doing it so
thoroughly as at the Anti-PovertY fair.
That is Father McGlynn's semi-politl-
cal, seml-religiOuS enterprise. l don't
know anything about the right or wrong
Of his doctrines, but do know that his
followers include a great lot of Of poor,
OOl BlNlNA SillS- WIN tilC Oi NuN1 w
the fair. The place is the Madison
Square Garden, close to the 'mash'
part of Broadway, and every afternoon
and evening the fellows go there to get
at the anti-povertY girls. The Garden
is pOpulouS with 'FaustS" chasing
"MaTguerites." And catching them?
trust not. But the temptations which
chap with money can bring to bear on ii
daughter of toll too often glitter III her
eyes like true gold, and she learns too
late the baSeneSS of the metal. But
what one sees of the matter at the fair
is all comedy. The girls cajOle and
banter the dollars out OF the Washers,
fool and tease them, and seem to es-
cape getting mashed. But there may
be tragedies later.
Speaking of Washers, let me do bit
Of right down criminal reporting, be-
cause it pertinently tells how some or
our Washers are being made to pay for
their folly with dollars and chagrin.
get my facts from Police Inspector
ByrneS. The badger game has been
revived he says. 'rhe revivalistS
were Handsome Harry Ross and Jessie
Smith. Harry had been bunko opera
tor and a green goods SWindler. lie
was noted for his good looks, being a
siX-fOoter, with the face Of an AdOniS
and the manners of a polished gentle
man. Jessie was an equally pleasant
sight in feminine way, for she was
young, and very stylish. These two
are supposed to have begun work to-
gether not more than three months ago.
THEIR SCHEME
was bold in conception and operation.
They would go to firSt-c!ass hotel and
register as husband and wife under
some assumed name, and depOrt them
selves in the house with decOrOuS dig
nifty. except that Jesse would, at the first
opportunity. beginaD apparently sly tiirt-
alton with some transient guest. Usu-
ally she picked out a Western or South
ern merchant on business visit to the
city. Full of ambition for sentimental
cOnquests, and flattered by the covert
attention of so cOmely young woman,
he would lose no time III making her ac
quaintance. She would angle adrOitly,
and without much delay would land
her fish i'll her room. There
the couple would be surprised by the
entrance of the pretended husband,
whose simulated rage of jealousy scared
the dupe half out of his wits, and made
him only too glad to buy escape at a
price rarely less than $500, and often
much more. Certainly four of the
Broadway hotels were thus USED by
Harry and Jessie without suS-
picion on the part of the landlords. But
the success of the venture was learned
by one after another of the professional
confidence operators, and Inspector
Byrnes now admits to your correspond
ent that dozen couples have gone into
the business. Some of them are far
less discriminate in their work, how
ever, and several have dropped to the
level of decOying drunken men from the
street. That was what drew the at
tentiOn of newspaper repOrterst to the
subject. for the inebriated victims were
sometimes reckless of exposure, and
went directly to the police stations with
complaints of rObberies."
The victims of the badger game most
susceptible to ridicule. however. are
those FOUNDERS of the town who be-
lieved themselves proof against traps,
but who have been caught by
deft and clever appeals to their
vanity. Not few of these chaps. with
regulations as Washers, have proved
the easiest victims, and the clubs are
full of merry gossip about their costly
adventures. The police have gone at it
with a will, and they promise to speedily
clear the city of the revived badger
game. Jessie is under arrest and Harry
is a fugitive. CLARA BELLE.