Evening star., 1901-02-23

cowardly masher after chasing him for
block, and that he came so close to killing
him that there was no fun in 1t. The
masher went to hospital with an array of
utterly ruined features, and large brusque
cop is still sitting alongside his hospital
bunk. ready to take him to the cooler just
soon as the doctors pronounce him half
cured of his hurts.
But what a raw plight the young matron
would have found herself in had not her
husband appeared so opportunely as he did
Nothing could illustrate the persistence
and the ingenious deviltry of the New YORK
breed of masher more thoroughly than TINS
incident. Some years ago a wealthy mid
dle-aged woman was robbed OF several
thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on
far western railroad by an amiable brig
and. who pretended to the other passengers
that she was a lunatic and that he was
conveying her to an asylum: but that job
was conceived and executed for the pur-
pose of robbery. One would not look for
the perpetration of anything so outrageous
for the mere purpose of mashery-except
one knew his New York pretty we'll
An OmciaI's Hard Luck.
The whole town-which necessarily in
cludes men of all parties-is agrn over the
scrape of that prominent official of the city
government-a commissioner of public
works-who was ''pinched'' in the pool room
raid engineered by the district attorney and
some of the members of the Croker COM
mittee or five early in the week. Could
there possibly be any more ineXcusable out
rage than the corralling of big Tammany
man, engaged in playing the horses IN
pool room. by a Tammanv roundup that
had not been clipped off, in advance?
There's not a Tammany man in New YORK
but has his tongue in his cheek vet over the
funny predicament in which the commits
sioner of public works found himself,
iammed together with a lot of tduts and
pool room plug-uglies, and frutlessly en-
deavoring to wriggle out of the grasp of
the raiding outfit. But the commissioners
explanation" of his presence In the pool
room is much funnier than any other feat
ure connected with the incident He says
that he was in the pool room in search of
an erring relative. for whom he had been
searching for a matter of three months or
So The erring relative. it would SEEM had
been a pretty elusive proposition to cause
the Tammany man all of that trouble His
idea-the commssioner's-was to nab the
erring relative and instruct him as to the
folly of the sad course he was pursuing in
gambling away his money. Thoughtful
sood-Souled commissioner! His most in
timate friends. however. right in the Tam
many organization deliberatively cross their
fingers when he tries to tell them that
story. and murmur things about folks being
caught with the goods on them"
Country Boys In New York.
The success of a couple of beardless
young lawyers in the defense of an alleged
murderer for whom they gained a second
trial after he had been under sentence of
death. and in obtaining from the trial Judge
a decision to the Introduction of expert
handwriting testimony. which is bound to
have far-reaching results. once again calls
attention to the fact that the lads from
the country. or at any rate, from outside
Of the limits of New York citv. are the
ores who get to the front in this commu-
nifty. After only two years in New York
these two lads, both Of them from a little
town up near the Canadian border called
Malone are in a fair way to become as
successful a team of criminal lawyers as
there Is in the town, and already they have
mere important cases offered tn them than
they attend to. 1t Is a difficult thing
to account for. but it has long been a we'll
krcwn fact that the men who get on top
here in New York in every industry and
profession almost invariably come here
from some other point.
The native New Yorker, except he have
behind him the advantages Of wealth and
position gained by his fathers. does not
work his way to the front. Few of the
men who are eminent in finance. or in the
arts or In the learned professions in this
city are native New Workers.. The oppor-
tunities are here. but the native does not
appear to be able to reap them. 1t may be
due to a certain lack Of stability that
Sometimes seems to be inborn in the ma
tive New Yorker: 1t NAV he because of his
lifelong subiection to temptations greater
than those which invite men in lesser COM
munities; hut whatever the reason. the ma
tive New Yorker is. a rule. distinctly
a second fiddler in all that goes TO make
I'D the mightiness of the town. There Is
nothing to exceed the fervor of the native
New Workers. protestations when you tell
him this however perhaps because ne oniy
possesses the ability to analyze and dis
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