Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-13
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Chief Devery's Experience With
Emma Goldman Last Summer.
ANARCHIST TOO SMART FOR Elm
In Philadelphia She is Apparently
Taken Too Seriously.
THE SUNDAY CLOSING LAW
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, April - 1901.
Word comes from Philadelphia to the eff
feet that the police of that city have been
trying to suppress Emma Goldman, the
famous female anarchist of New York. 1t
was to be expected that the police of Phila-
delphia, who are not quite -"up-to-date'
when compared with the finest of New
York, would take the unique Emma seri
ously. AS for the New York police they
have let her alone since they arrested her
several years ago. The joke was on the
police at that time, for it was proved in
open court that all that Emma had done at
that particular time of her arrest was to
quote Cardinal Newman. When Chief Dew
cry. Assistant Chief Devery, was re-
quested to arrest her last summer, he said:
Not on your life. I had detective
watching her for a month. What do you
suppose he found ont about her? Simply
nothing. except that she spent all her days
and half her nights committing to memory
what that man Tolstoi wrote. Arrest her?
Why, she would produce the original Rus
sian and show that she was merely recit-
ing Russian literature And about six
months from now, when Tolstoi becomes
all the rage and is taken up by society
people as a fad she would have the laugh
on the police again."
The Fifth Avenue "HighIands.'
The territory on 9TH avenue In the vicin-
ity of 10Th street has been known as THE
Highlands of 9Th avenue" for several years
back. 1t is said that this name was given
to it by Andrew Carnegie, who resides on
the Highlands of 9Th avenue Henry
Phipps, another Pittsburg iron king, has
hOilOhf
street and 5th avenue, while w. G. Park
has just purchased lot near the corner of
9TH avenue and sd street And now comes
the report that C. NJ Schwab the presi-
steel corporation is the purchaser of a lot
at the corner of S9th street and 9Th ave-
nre, in close proximity to Andrew Carne-
gie's home. Mr.. Schwab denies that he is
planning a removal of his permanent home
from Pittsburg to New York, but evidence
continues to accumulate showing that this
property has certainly passed into the pos
session of one of the steel and iron kings.
Interest in Sunday Closing Law.
Interest centers in what Police Commits
sioner Murphy is going to do with the en-
fcrcement of the Sunday closing law during
the coming season. During the winter the
Sunday closing agitation Is reduced to a
minimum. The doors and windows of the
different dives and dens are closed, and 1t
Is comparatively easy for the police to reg
ulate vice. But with the coming of warm
weather saloon doors swing wide open, de-
spite the omniscience, the omnipresence of
the police. Places like Coney Island, where
a quarter Of a million persons flock every
pleasant Sunday, are extremely difficult to
hold in check. Then the sale of beer at
German picnic and family parties promises
no end of trouble 1t was the strict en-
forcement of these Sunday laws that caused
the administration of Police Commissioner
n q
some Of his Jealous policemen even arrest
ing children for getting few cents worth
of ice. If the administration OF Police
Commissioner Murphy enforceS the law 1t
will cost Tammany Hall large foreign
and saloon vote next fall. IT, on the other
hand, the saloon laws in this city are not
enforced during the coming summer Tam
many Hall will lose the remnants of the
church vote which it possesses at the pres
ent time. All in all, 1t is not a pleasant
outlook and II he Is wise individual he
will resign before the LIST of May and al
low some one else TO make q lot of enc
mics by the enforcement or the non-en-
forcement of the Sunday closing laws.
Edison's New Invention.
Thomas A. Edison Is on his way from
Florida with the plans of an invention in
his head which will place automobiles in
the matter-of-course class. In the inven-
tors mind are the germs of a storage bat
terry not half so large and even less than
half as expensive as those now commonly
In use. Edison evolved the plans for this
much-needed motor while on a vacation in
Florida. He set up few models and tried
their effectiveness on some electric launches
with results that convinced him they were
the very thing for automobiles. He is now
on his way north to organize a company
to manufacture and sell the finished article
Heretofore Edison has disposed of his pat
entS to corporations who reaped millions
In the manufacture and purveyance of the
ultimate product. He has grown wise,
however, and sees no reason why Edison
should not have some large and lasting
benefit from the fruits of his own genius
He sees much profit in this storage battery,
even at prices which will allow almost
every one to have an auto of some style
New Anti-Tammany Democratic Party
new anti-Tammany democratic party
Is to be formed to take the place of the
old county democracy and will be launched
on April IL in Carnegie Hall, where mass
meeting is to be held. Representative DEM
ocrats in this city are said to be back. of
the movement, and the name of John D.
Crimmins Is mentioned In connection with
the address to be issued on Saturday. The
new organization has not yet been named,
but will probably be known as the city
Democracy" The support of Michael J.
Coffey and Otto ]. Kempner has been en-
listed, and they will bring the newly or
ganlzed Brooklyn democracy to the aid of
the anti-Tammany body. The meeting on
April Is will be addressed by the leaders
of the movement. They Will make a strong
appeal for independence In politics and will
urge all honest democrats to unite with
them. That the present movement is con-
sidered menace to Tammany Hall is dem
onstrated by the fact that many of the
signers were induced to withdraw their
support by John F. Carroll when he heard
of the contemplated movement some
months ago. No attempt, however, has
since been made to disrupt the new organi-
cation.