Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Millionsires Now Have Body Guards
Methods OF the Deadbeata-Can't Judge
aMsn by His Clothes-Music and Horses
"A Christmas Episode


rrRoN STAFF CORRESPONDENT,
NHw YORK, Dec 19.-No man can b
said to be enjoying Merry Christmas whel
ne is apprehensfve of waking up and find
ing dynamite bomb in his stocking. Their
are lot of millionaires in Now York whit
have been in that state ever since the at
| tempt on Russell Sage. Indeed, the exten
OF this terror Of the unknown and the fr
t resistible can scarcely be imagined. Th.
houses of most of these people are alwav!
pretty well guarded, bat the moro timit
nave been running a small detective and
police force OF their own recently.
There is one old hard-faced f1ve-milliou
dollar man who never walks out without an
armed guard ahead Of him and another
armed guard behind him. He looks furtively
down every lane and avoids the dark cor.
ners His body guard goes with him down
town and lounges outside his Office door. II
goes with him out to lunch and returns
home with himat night. There is is relieved
by the regular house guard. wonder If the
ghosts OF ruined men ever haunt these peo-
pie Do they see in their dreams the spec.
ters OF the broken homes upon which they
have trampled to secure their wealth? Do
the faces OF men and women driven to pow
erty and suffering and to suicidal graves by
financial nanfpulations ever rise between
them and their children? II so, no wonder
the armed guard.
The Cockroach as an Editor.
He was going through the matter that
bad stopped over from the editorial waste
basket upon the Herald office f1oor-this
'cockroach. Inspecting bit of reprint,
scrutinizing bad manuscript, diving between
typewritten sheets, rolling over cigarette
stubs and disappearing and reappearing
among the newspaper fragments, bits of
torn letters and crumpled manifold, he
seemed to be infected with the general air
OF snap that pervadeu the managerial staff
at that hour in the afternoon. There was a
lean and hungry look in the long, lank fig
ment that fit the place and the season. 1t is
true. toskeep from being trodden upon by
the office boys and messengers and reporters
and visitors, he would naturally take on
lively disposition, but there was evidently
something weighing more heavily on his
mind than No shoes.
What could it be? wondered as watched
ms roachship's operations. At first he
debris. As an acute critic he could tell
mornings issue was By seeing what was
kept out. He would pause a moment over
some fragmentary writing, as If he couldn't
quite make 1t out, then suddenly turn TO
another piece, cock his head knowingly on
one side and pull his long mustache; then.
With rage or mirth, don't know which.
Once he seemed to be actually shedding
tears. picked up that piece afterward. It
was some merry Christmas" poetry that
had fallen outside the forms. Another thing
that had kept him in a brown study for sew
eral moments proved to be French manu-
script 1tapparently staggered him. Those
roach can scarcely imagine the intensely
knowing look, the solemn shake Of the head,
the qufzical humor, the occasionally aston
ished stare, the suddenly affected derision,
the Herald cockroach went over the waste
basket matter on the editorial floor. 1t was
human.
Babies Dragged to Theaters.
-"Children in arms not admitted" used
to decorate the old-time theater pro-
grammes. In New York, however, it is not
an uncommon sight to see women carrying
babies into theaters. This is chiefly on
matinee occasions. have seen a woman
with an infant not more than 9 weeks old in
q Broadway theater at night. 1t is not an
uncommon thing for mothers to drag small
children around at all hours of the night.
as anyone can testify who uses the elevated
trains, but this theatrical habit seems about
the most. reprehensible. A baby in arms
going home az 2 or o'clock in the morning
Is an exhilara.ing sight compared to baby
1e1t to you at the theater.
Ways Of the Deadbeaes.
-"There are some of the very worst
leadbeats to be seen about place like this
aid Manager Williamson, of Browns chop
louse. "They try to work us in all sorts of
Ways. have become pretty expert on char
Icter, and eight times out Of ten can size q
nan up about right. One day a slick-look-
ng fellow came in here and got his break
asst. When he got through he calmly pushed
he 60-cent check back ana said he was
'roke. The waiter came to me and asked
he man why he came there if he had no
money. He said it was all right, he'd pay it
ONE time. There's my watch said lie,
unhitching it from heavy chain |
take my watch. 1 guess that will secure |
ou.' This was done impetuousJT and with |
show of indignation. In most instances |
his offer would have made things good. / |
would probably have told him to keep his |
ow's face that made disagreeable impress |
ion on me. l reached out and took the |
Vatch. 1t looked like an ordinary hunting
ase gold watch and pressed the opening |
pring. Don't you know that there wasn't |
ign OF works in it! Fact-nothing but the
mpty oreide case: ! was as mad as a
ents now or go to jail. That fellow just de-
lberately pulled out a IS note and settled.
"For downright impudence that beat any
hing within my experfence-except one
Tas where man drove up in a cab and
sked me If 1 had rooms. 1 showed him
ONE rooms and he selected the best, hur-
led down and got his dfnner-pint bottle of
about his trunk which was to
ONE. He was q nice-looking fellow, and
aid he was an actor playing at prominent
tage manager there, and casually asked my
ew tenant what the stage managers name
.as. He gave an entirely different one.
Vhen the trunk came my suspicious grew.
t was an ordinary 81 so packing trunk, just
ut of the store. I went upstairs later and
1t contained nothing but old
nbbish. That fellow came in late in the
skiing for a loan of So till next day. Not
luchr says 1. You got dinner here and
ottle of wine and dinnt pay for it, but you
ant get anything more And 1 told him
nd mighty air, but when l let the trunk
own on him he sneaked off. His scheme
idn't work. I've got that trunk up there
Betting on a Mans Appetite.
Appearances are not only deceitful, but
,putation often crumbles away under the
st of practical facts. Don't you put too
uch trust in your eyesight and dent be-
eve every thing you hear-at least, don't
It money on it. A prominent railroad
agnate walked through a barroom near
le Equitable the other day and sat down to |
nch. He looked rather miserly, not to say
edy.
"That fellow pinches the eagle Off every
larter before he lets it 60" observed a gem
eman.
"Thats what they say-but then they say
is of things that are not so," said his COM
inion. "He comes here to eat evSry day."
EAT? I'll bet 81 his lunch viii not run
yer 30 cents"
.I'll go you," said the other. The money
as put up. Meanwhile tho innocent object
financial ,4t !
ole in the far end of the room calmly sip {
ng q glass OF beer. The gamblers on his
,petite turned their attention to the bar
+ half an hour. Still, the miser magnate