Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-28

higher levels, and, all in ALL the writer
could not see. after watching the plant in
operation for a while, that their shines
greatly differed from their shaves-in the
general method of attack, that Is. The
graduate Italian BARRIERS who remove hair
from the human cOuntenance at the mod
crate charge of 2 cents are waxing very
ferocious over this school for BARRIERS,
stating that it is running their business.
Still it would that there really cam
not be any great difference between a 2-cent
shave and a shave for nothing, Many OF
the high-grade BARRIERS over here are Ital-
ians. They are a somewhat garrulous lot
and full of Observation-Disclosures An
acquaintance of the writer was the re-
cipient of a shave at the deft hands of
one of them the other day.
Whata You unka da Crotona striker?
the barber inquired. with swift down.
ward stroke of the razor.
Il think it's all right-bully for them
l hope they win was the reply the bar
Der got. The writer's acquaintance didn't
think hope any such thing. but that
barber appeared to understand the handling
of his razor pretty well
An Antiquated Arch.
Quite the most disreputable sight in New
York just now is the naval arch. 1t wasn't
meant to stand all this time. being af-
fair Of the papier-mache order, but it still
looms up, grimy. broken. decayed and
genuine menace to paSsers-by and the build
ings around it. The owners of the build
irgs are entreating the city government 20
remove tne arch, but there is a hitch some
where. and there it still stands. the figures
minus their noses or feet or arms. and
small boys chopping away hunks of 1t at
will. without any Interference on the part
% the police. 1t seems incredible that
thing of such original beauty could have
so sadly deteriorated in SO short space of
time-incredbe. that is. to those who did
not have the gloomy experience of looking
upon the buildings Of the white city a few
months after the worlds fair at Chicago
was over. They arc still asitating the per-
mancnt naval arch over here, and organlZ-
ing entertainments that never seem to come
off for the thing. but the million dollars
that the New Workers We're going to raise
Immediately for the permanent arch is a
good deal more thing to jest upon now
than that 100000 Philadelphia convention
fu..d. New York goes up and comes down
like a rocket in its great public subscrip-
tons" Had not the gentleman who is now
the American minister to France jumped
into the breach. to the entire neglect of his
own business, and almost forced the money
out of the rich New Workers pockets, there
would never have been any Grant mauso-
leum.
Furnishing street Washers.
1t is a cheerful thing to be able to work
in an occasional word of praise for Gus
toms and manners over here-cheerful be-
cause it is rarely possible to do so with
truthfulness. But there is new way of
ers in New York that is worthy all COM
mendatior This new way consists in
punching the heads off the Washers. A
half dozen of them have been so treated
during the past week. and in every case
the puncher has been warmly praised in
the police courts the next day by the mag
istrates. The impudence of the corner
Washers over here. is almost unbelievable.
but the campaign against them Is on. and
maybe they'll disappear for a time. They
line Broadway all the distance from 18th
n -rla l1r- md rNftr II
stop at putting themselves directly in front
of passing women and staring directly into
their faces with idiotic. vacuous grins, but
they address them. and make insulting re-
marks to them Many of them are Cheap
actors out of work but others of them oc-
cupy stations in life where better manners
prevail. A fairly well-known sculptor for
example. saw well-dressed woman walk
ing along slowly in Broadway the other af-
ternoon and he inserted himself in front
of her and smiled at her quite hillingly.
She averted her head and walked up to a
show window. He followed her and ad-
dressed her. Then he got a belt on the side
OF the head that turned him completely
around. and the wonan's husband-Who
had simply dropped into a tobacconist's to
light a ciSar-proceeded to wallop the
maShing sculptor almost into inSenSibility
A policeman arrested both men for fight
ing on the Street-although the husband did
all of the lighting. and beautiful Job he
made of it. too-and they We're in the police
court on the following morning. The mag
the sculptor was hang-dog and had moth
ing to say
Wise Judge.
You did exactly right" said the magis-
trate to the husband. TT is a pity that
you could not lawfully have inflicted even
worse punishment upon the blackguard
No man will ever be punished in this court
for protecting women from insult no mat
ter if he oversteps the law in doing it. and
nothing would delight me more than TO see
every street masher in New York pummeled
to pulp. just as You have pummeled this
lcafer.''
Then the magistrate fined the sculptor
$50 and turned him loose with some scath-
Ing remarks and a warning. Since then the
corner Washers have been getting bruised
up a-plenty by wrathful husbands or reIa-
tives of insulted women. 1t is refreshing
sign.
Poor Children.
The Cuban fair, for the benefit of Cuban
children. was a pretty occasion. The Met
ropolitan Opera House was ornately deck
ed out, the booths were elaborate, the
costumes of the society women who pre-
sided at the booths still more elaborate.
and the articles they sold brought ten or
twenty times their intrinsic value, as usual
in affairs of this sort. Many thousands
of dollars, therefore were raised for the
benefit of the Cuban children. Now, it
may be that the children of Cuba are
pretty badly off. although it has been
derstood that since the close of the war
down there conditions have vastly iTnprOV-
ed, and that there is no actual suffering
But there are several tens Of thousands
of children right here in New York that
are pretty badly off, too. Some of the
poverty on the east side of this town, in
the tenement districts. Is narrowing
enough, and yet there does not seem to
be any elaborate fairs, managed by So
ciety women, for the benefit of the pow
erty-stric6en children of New York There
are several thousand children in the heart
of the New York tenement district that
never saw blade OF grass or a tree, and
| stme of them are more than five years
OF age. c. l.. C.
He Engaged the Boy.
From Tit-Bts.
DR. McTaViSh Of Edir bYrph was sorne