The age-herald., 1901-11-10

trenched In the home of the millionaire or in the lowly fiat, or in the protected brothel, has become memorable phil hpic in the annals of our own times.
 Jerome laid bare the oid-ti,ns system of police protection--that form of of- ficial blackmal which bargains with the criminal classes. granting immunity from arrest and prosecution upon payment of toll He showed how @ set of politicians derived proft from the most unnamable practices and vices, how another Iorin- ed gambling syndicate for the promo tion and protection of pool rooms and gambling houses, and how still another levied tribute on big corporations
 His attack on the eristooratic clasSes for their apathy had the ring of g re- vtvaiist. It was like the voice of the ancient prophets in Judea crying in the wilderness It was voice that had sincepity and truth ringing through 1t. He bade them do their duty not as poii- ticians. but as Christians. He showed the awful conditions of the vice-riddeh tenements and exhorted those women of wealth and refinement to do their duty in suppressing trafiice in young giras and in destroying the "cadets."
 Not content with this he turned the searchlight of truth on to William c. Whitney, charging him with debauching political life; also on his chief of stan, Thomas F. Ryan, whom he styled "of unsavory State Trust memory" This attack on these flnanciers made tre- mendous stir. He charged them with controlling the municipal government of the city, also of the state, through it's legislature. He stated nothing not on the records, yet little spoken of, save in whispers, for the reason that these men are all-powerful.
 It is not at ali unliAeiy that now the man of daring has openly charged Mes5rs. An VNn unlike those ascribed to the Heather Chinee, ''as of ways that are dark and O. tricks that are vain," the ways Of Whitney anu Ryan are peculiar-that the old stockholders of the Third Avenue Railroad will learn why the property was wrecked.
 have repeatedly called attention to the new danger. Scarce a day goes by but we are called to witness another fearful automobile accident, with Its at tending loss oS life. Fournier, the French chauffeur, in the Rad Rover. with party of friends. speeding along country road. attempted to cross the tracks of the Long Island Railroad, when a wild engine'' struck the machine, wreciking it and seriously inturing its occupants. Just by accident William K Vanderbilt. IT., was not on board He had left the machine a few minutes before the aooi- dent
 There is no fight equal to @ fight in family. When Miss Annie Corbin. the youngest daughter of the late banker Austin Corbin. of this city married Hal Borrows against her fathers wishes the trouble began. The war did not break out until her father died. He left her property, that is her portion. tied up. She began a Mitigation. Tn every suit she has been beaten. The last was a suit brought by the holders of the stock in the Blue Mountain Forest Park Associa- tion to cause her to pay her assessment. She refused to do so. All the stockhold- CTS, other than herself, are her relatives. The New Hampshire courts have just de- oided that under the bylaws of the as- sociation she must either pay her as- sessment or receive s2o,O0o for her shares. - szs@-s.s- -SssS@e=.S@9-.