Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-02


DEFaLosrroS-s GREAT MAT MUSICAL rEsrr-
vN-soNErHISa ABOUT JACK THE RIrrER-|
SOME BIO PLUxs IL NEWSPAPER WORK.
Special Correspondents of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. April 80. 1891.
Every time We hear the sad tidings Of another
disgraceful forgery or defalcation by some re-
spected man holding a position Of trust the
story seem 30 incredible. the crime so abiect
and the eventual discovery and Disgrace so in
e'itsole that We cannot help thinking this will
De the last, no sane will ever again in this
way orirg ruin upon himself and all belonging
70 MIN. But still the mournful spectacle goes
on, and there is scarcely a week that does not
see one name taken from the list Of men hon
ored by their generation and added to that
e'er1engthening catalogue Of thieves and
trust oe'rayers- Ii seems always to be the
case that the traitors are the very men who
were most trusted, but Of course they are the
men who have the opportunity to make false
nood lucrative. The latest instance seems a.
have said. simply incredible In
n's ugnined position as president Of
one OF the solid banks OF the CITY Mr. Hill
enjoyed 50 absolutely the confidence of his col
leagues lea that As one of them frankly remarks
He was the bank This same director had
made SIR. Hill the executor OF his will without
security. and until death told his secret no one
Knew that the president was taking advantage
OF TINS confidence 20 systematically rob the
oank OF nearly half million dollars One can
not envy him his gains He worked hard TO
earn disnonored name. When he was i'll he
would struggle TO the bank before the ex-
amincrs visits 10 conceal by careful and skill
iui manipulation the deficits. lie died carry
ing this heavy burden and without even leaving
| fortune to his family Ii is supposed the
money went in speculation. for there is nothing
left but his life insurance. One cannot help
pitying 30 sad death.
WEEK OF GREAT MUSIC.
Musical New York is TO have a splendid Nav
| FESTIVAL next week and there is the greatest an
tcipaton OF the varied and interesting pro-
grams Tor that notable event Mr.. Caruesies
new music hall claims TO be ''in every respect
the most complete building for the purpose in
tended in the world" and these concerts will
snow whether the claim is a Just one. Ger
talnly In no building could the acoustics VEN
thstlon and the thousand and one other Diff
cult problems that confront the architect have
been more carefully studied. Walter Damrosch
the young conductor. will have the pleasure of
nearing one of his own songs. ITO Sleep" rem
dered BY Mrs. Carl Alyes. NJ. r. Tschaikowskv
the eminent Russian composer whose name is
rather unpleasantiy suggestive of our recentepi-
uemlc with its accompanying sneezes will con-
ductseveral of his own works Then there will be
the symphony Society orchestra. the Oratorio
Society chorus, Wenzel Rabock's bows choir of
100 and long list of brilliant soloists. Bishop
Potter will deliver the dedicatory Grafton and
the beginning Of all will be the singing of '.Old
Hundred" There is considerable catholicity
shown In the musical selec:io as the German.
Italian Russian. French and English are ali
represented, and on this occasion Wagner will
not have it quite all his own way. The crowd
will be no undressing sight All New York
Will be there a the ha va rat off, amid
and when 1t comes to spring toilettes We may
use slang phrase and say that the peacock is
not In 1t with feminine New York this spring
THE wRETcHED MURDER IN WATER STREET.
SO it seems that the police have caught our
mongrel and filthy Jack the Ripper" The
evidence points with damning strength to a
miserable wretch who is notorious for deprav-
ity even in the worst Of the slums. Brought
into the daylight the case has little Of a senss-
tional quality. The most interesting feature
Is the murdsr was not committed at all by the
mysterious stranger who accompanied the
woman TO the room. but by the inmate of an
adjacent bed room, who assaulted her after her
nrst companion had departed This goes to
show the falibility Of circumstantial evidence.
III, for example, the strange man for any
reason had been apprehended inst after
have gone hard with him, vet it is certain
that whoever that individual he was
entirely innocent Of that crime ut least. The
newspaper detectives have not covered them
selves with much glory in this episode. The
murderer has been in custody for a week and
the true story of the crime has been known TO
Inspector Byrnes and other parties for several
days, yet the reporters have been entirely
thrown Of the scent and have done some very
wild and weird guessing. Public interest in
the case has pretty well subsidized, because
the murder was evidently nothing more than a
clumsy imitation of the worst of the Ripper's
methods. Very few held to the creepy theory
that the real Ripper was here. and any idea Of
a series of murders due TO a naniacal impulse
was dismissed as improbable.
FAT ROYALTY IN A NAME.
Shakespeare asked, or rather Juliet, whats
In manner" The world has been pretty unan-
imous in replying "A good deal" An example
of the power Of a name has just come under
my observation. short time ago one of the
Leading corset houses found that rival was
selling goods under a name very closely re-
sembling their own. They looked the matter up
and learned that this house had found woman
engaged In a corset factory near by whose
name suited their purpose and that they give
this woman a royalty of 10 cents a dozen on all
the corsets they sell bearing her name. Thus