Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
CHICAGO 7OUTDONE
New York OfaB Even More Perils
to the. Unwary.
GAMBLING STItE GOES MERELY ON
Failure of Every Effort to Put a
Stop: to It.
LIKE A WIDE-OPEN TOWN
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

sldered more or less unsafe places for the
moneyed citizen from elsewhere bent on
recreation. The moneyed citizen from else
where stood an excellent odds-on chance
Whlie engaged in dsporting himself in any
one OF the communities mentioned of be-
ing pushed into dark corner and jetti-
soned or his wealth and valuables. Then
Chicaso came along and picked up some
lining Oh the same reputation. The gum
shoe persons Of the town Of Boreas at
length quit holding up men on the dark
streets; they preferred to deplete the cloth
ing OF their victims of lucre and jewelry
rlsht under the effulgent rays Of arc lights
on the main downtown corners, If only to
experience the inward satisfaction which
proceeds from the recollection of profitable
dolngs deftly and daringly ACCOMPLISHED
me Chlcago wearers of goloshes, how
ever. IL appears, became so greediy ava
t .I after their years Of immunity that
tney nnally failed to fork over the stipu-
lated cost of their immunity whereupon
Ine naturally indignant guardians of the
Snicaso law began their swoops, with the
iesul. that at this writing it is almost as
SAFE 70 pass the corner Of State and Madi-
son street In Chicago at the hour of Q
pp ;hi. as IL would be to ostentatiously ex-
ninil Two hands filled with gold in certain
4o''i 'e's VI Fort said at midnight.
Chicago Outdone
-" iepuldtlOn mas Tor numerous
years been source of much gleeful exag-
seratioh on the part of New Workers. But
IL there ever was a case of the pot calling
the Kettle black. here was one During last
week alone no less than fourteen moneved
male visitors in New York from widalv
separated communities throughout tho
country were rudey parted from their
itcieatlGn FUNDS by grafters unknown and
inexperienced; several of these victims in
led
siunsshots and brass knuckles, punctured
py knives, kicked out of recognizahIe sem,
rh,in, ana otherwise badly messed about
physically and mentally Not a few, of
them awoke in hospitals after some Iars
81 troubled doing produced by Knockout
uIoPs. All of them, it may be believed
a"on. sorIoWIut, and quite cured of their
t0rmer notion that New York was about
the right place for them In which to racrae
ate. ~ ~ 'eeie-
NON, None OF their robbers and assaulters has
treated visitors were ,picked m on pr aaai-
way corners at hours of the night When
nuch illumination was being shed nv TIA
slec.ric lamps. and yet there was nothing
agents 'ne pave
some or the victims were huge men, amply
tapaple' one would judge to look upon them.
s ~ take care OF themselves in any circum-
stdhces-seVeral OF them, in truth were per-
sons or great stature, girth and sinew from
the troubious southwest. Yet thew were
led te the shambles without any bother
whatsoever. 0A
Takes No Chances.
Ihere Is a reason for this, though. The
New York CRATER who covets the available
property OF the stranger within the gates.
ana sets out to obtain the same. does not
believe in taking chances. Unlike the Chi
cago artist of acquisitive temperament. he
neVer works In the open. The Chicago viz
nYy1iu
OF -FOUR inches or thereabouts from the
tnroobing forehead of his man, and emits
his curt demand. Not SO the New York
craftsman of the under world.
The New York CRATER employs strategy
"nen he can, and the violence of stealth
when strategy availS him not That is to
say, ne first puts his grace of manner and
conversational ability to the fest by endea
voring to captivate the visitor he has Sc
lected, and if success in this effort rewards
him he seizes his occasion to interpolate the
required number of knockout drops into the
rotations of the man with the roll. Failing
however, to scale the heights of Immediate
friendship. not to say brotherhood with the
victim OF his selection. he simply waits his
chance to steal up behind the man and de-
lvers a sufficient number Of blows with
whatever implement he has at hand. where
upon he adeptly goes through his victims
clothing and departs with all needfuI sneed.
nor would 1t really appear that much speed
were needful, when quite a number of these
affairs of last week We're pulled off close to
some Of the busiest corners in New York.
One Of the New York newspapers endea
vored recently to prove that the streets Of
New York are quite safe for women after
nightfall. The paper failed Of making ont
its case It would fail still more signally
did 1t attempt to prove that the streets Of
New York are safe for men-be the same
even piano movers or pfske fighters-aft er
nightfalI.
Such Merry Jokers.
There are so many sad wags, as It were.
over here in New York. Two of them.
young men. invited a couple of young wo
men friends to partake of food with them
at a 14th street restaurant, after roof
garden performance one night last week
The pair Of young women, both Of whom
live at home with their parents hesitated
over the uncOnventfonality Of the proceed
ing, but at length yielded to the importu-
mites of their escorts, and repaired 70 the
14th street eating house. Here food of
many different varieties and Of appreciable
cost was ordered by the two sad wags and
disposed of by the four.
At the hour Of midnight one Of tho ,narr,,
young men mentioned an appointment i'm.
mediately around the corner that would
only tear him away from the board for
about two-fifths of second. He went, and
returned not.
After the lapse Of half an hour the other
gay youth expressed some apprehens sion
lest his companion might have fallen sud
0eNiy III OF something, and said that he
would hurtle himself around the corner to
ascertain the reason for his prolonged alb
sence. 4
Likewise the skittish youth No. 2 failed
to return. When he,I too, had been gone
a half hour the waiter who had served
the quartet began to exhibit signs Of wor-
riment, for it was his hour to 90 Off watch
and there was the little assessment If
$13S5 for the food of the four vet remain
ing to be paid UP. He expressed his view
Of the case to the two young women. who
were now only holding back their tears by
main force. Both young women, in a voice.
confessed to the waiter their entire lack Of
funds, owing to the fact that they'd left
their pocket books at home, Then M
waiter called the proprietor.
The proprietor doomed over the Young
women and stormed. Nor did their torrents
of tears move him. He produced a large
chronometer from his waistcoat and pro-
ceeded to hold it5on the young women.
Put to Washing Dishes,
eff them two blk is not back here to
settle up inside of ten minutes" ragged the
proprietor of the eating house, tits youse
two to git out t tn kitchen and wash
dishes FIR the rest of the night, and don't
youse think that's no dream"
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