Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-10-27
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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Detective Sergeant Fogarty Of the
central office testified that he had fol
lowed the boys from the Battery to
Harlem, believing them TO be suspicious
characters. He saw them loiter in front
OF house in Columbus avenue and
they saw him watching them. To de-
oeive them he went into jewelry store
and pretended that he wanted to buy a
watch. The jeweler took him for a thief
and wouldn't show him any watches.
One of the boys kept watching him
through the jewelers. window, and, to
fool the boy, the detective took an old
clay pipe from his pocket and proceeded
to smoke it. After he had left the jew
elry store he caught the boys in the act
OF breaking into the house in Columbus
avenue.
The Pollock boy was called to testify
in his own behalf but he confessed that
he was guilty. Here is a sample Of his
testimony
Hey, judge, was fooled by the
fatty or I'd never got pinched. When
he first started to follow us, we fought
he was a fatty and stood shy Of him.
l followed him up to the jewelry store
and watched him through the window,
but when he got out that pipe and COM
menced to smoke said right dere dat
we were chumps, because de bloke in de
Jewelry shop was only harp dat just
got his dough and had a enough over to
buy cheap super y
What do you mean by fatty"
asked Judge Cowing.
"A fatty is a cop in citizen s clothes, F"
said the witness.
And you spoke of harp and
super, ," remarked the judge. WAS he
buying musical Instrument
mo-" said the witness "he was
getting next to us by making believe
he was buying a super.
Q.-What is super? A.-That's a
watch. Didn't yer ever know that be-
fore?
Dwell, what is harp? A
harp's an Irishman. All the gang call
Irishmen harps, and we call Dutchmen
pretzels.
The boys were found guilty.
Their Names the Same.
Sometimes the success of certain fig.
ures conspicuous in New York life is
little difficult to understand, although
a knowledge of the way in which it is
done sometimes explains the questions
which seem most difficult to answer
One of the men who has gained his
share Of publicity and generally man
ages TO make his presence felt on every
possible occasion bears the name of an
extremely wealthy man who came to
New York few years ago. His ex-
penditure of some of his great fortune
in way that was creditable TO his
taste and Judgment attracted a great
deal of attention. He had settled in
New York and was plainly a man to be
known. But his acquaintance were few
in number, although the circle was
quite MS large as he cared to have it.
The difficulty of becoming an acquaint.
ance was greater than it usually is in
similar cases. But the New Yorker was
determined to know him, and when ev-
cry other means had failed him took
the bull by the horns, called at the
man S house and sent in his card. He
was astonished 10 receive it, and the ex-
PLANTATION of the visitors identity by
one Of the guests at the table did not
make it any clearer why he should have
received visit from the stranger. The
servant was about to excuse him when
the visitor appeared at the door of the
room in which the man Of the house
was sitting. II came 10 call on you,
Mr. X, :" he began, "because-because
we are both of the same name, and l
thought we ought TO know each other. "
The man Of the house looked astonished.
"But l supposed, he said, THAT such
thing often happened in New York.
The city is large enough for it. Ger
tainly there were other men of your
name in town before / moved here.
The visitor was not abashed. The other
man was gentleman and in his own
house. The result was that the visitor |
staid for short visit-not very cor
dial one, but visit and enough to en-
able the stranger to include himself in
the small list of persons who were
friends of the interesting visitor to New |
York.
Hats OFF, Pleased"
Ladies will please remove their large |
hats, call the ushers as they walk down |
the aisles from the orchestra to the rear
of n Brooklyn theater. The request to |
remove hats also heads the programmes;
but, like signboards in parks, either it |
is not read, or, being read, the recon-
mendation is not applied, but there are |
few women who when the ushers walk |
down the aisles, few moments before |
the curtain goes up making the general
request, not in loud tones, but with suf |
ficient force to be distinctly heard by |
every one, can conscientiously sit with
a hat on. They have dressing room at
the theater, with maid i'll attendance, |
to take the hats if desired, but as most |
of the women keep their precious head
pieces in their laps the hat box annex is
usually empty. AS the theater hat this
season will reach higher elevation
than the drama the example set by the
Brooklyn manager ought to De followed
by others the country over.
I,,t TiLa a Major.