Evening star., 1901-09-10
Arrangements Being Made for the
Jewish New Year.
CROKER EN- ROUTE HOME
Effect of Presidents illness on
Coming Yacht Races.
ASE BALL LOOK
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, September 8. 1901.
The Jewish holiday season will begin on
Friday evening, when the Introductory
New Year services will take place In every
Jewish house Of worship. The Jewish year
begins on the first day OF the month Of
Tisri. There are thousands OF Jews in
New York who never go to a synagogue
except at this time of the year, when the
chief religious festival takes place. and for
that reason the synagogues are taxed to
their utmost capacity. Besides the 100000
Jews who live in New York room must be
provided for thousands who live In places
where there are no synagogues, and who
wish to be united with their people in
prayer at the New Year festival. The
synagogues are inadequate to hold the peo-
pie who wish to attend, and temporary
meeting places have been furnished for the
accommodation of the great overflow.
There are some of these in the tenement
upper residence part Of New York. The
Grand Central Palace, the Turner halls.
Tammany Hall, Salvation Army headquar-
ters, nearly all of the Harlem and York.
vile dancing schools and dance halls
scores of lodging rooms and unoccupied
lofts have been engaged by enterpriSing
people, who have had the halls furnished
with chairs and benches, platforms for the
pit for a lecturer and space for chair.
Tickets are sold by the managers of these
places at prices ranging from 81 to IS for
the season which includes the New
Feast of Tabernacles. services which all
come within a period of about two weeks.
Croker En- Route Home.
Now that Richard Croker is on the high
seas en- route for New York his henchmen
are all expectancy. There will be great
welcome for the boss when he gets 'horne.
All the vessels of the municipal navy will
be pressed into service to take the braves
down the bay, and the pier will be lined
with the men who want to have talks with
him and who want to have them before
others see him. During the last two or
three years it has come to be believed in
Tammany that the man who gets the Gro
ker ear first is the man who makes the
deepest impression, and that his mind once
made up there Is little use in trying to
change it. Last year. 1t will be remem-
bered, Mr.. Croker made up his mind that
he was going to have plurality for Bryan
of $1,000 below the Harlem. He told this
in the most solemn manner to number of
eminent democrats. He became very angry
az some Of his advisers who told him that
he could not hope to have such a plurality,
and one of them has never been fully re-
ceiyed into the good graces of Croker since.
Crokers love of the mysterious has de-
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this country knows what his present plans
are.
The Coming Yacht Races.
There is some discussion among yachts
men as to the effect the attempted assas-
sination of President Mckinley may have
on the international cup races. 1t Is GER
tain that unless the Presidents condition
improves before the date set for the con-
tests the races will be postponed. and in
the event Of the wounds proving fatal will
possibly be abandoned altogether. In the
latter event. disappointing as 1t would be
to both the Irish sportsmen and yachtsmen
here. Sir Thomas Upton would probably
sail back with his fleet quite possibly never
to try again to lift the famous cup. Inter
national yacht races were held in 1881, the
year Of Garffeld's assassination. President
Garfield died September 10, and the races
which were between the Mischief and the
Atlanta a Canadian boat, were not held
until November and 10. The races at
that time, however. were not of such wide
spread interest. Owing to the uncertainty
of weather conditions so late in the year an
abandonment of the races would be more
probable at this time than mere postpone
ment.
Money Value of n Title.
The money value of title in other than
a matrimonial market Is illustrated by the
policy of an old-established manufacturing
ucts all over Europe. This business has
been controlled for many years by one
family. The present manager, like his
father, is very democratic, but for business
reasons he continues the policy established
by his ia ther. No agents are employ ed
abroad except men with titles. This is
easily to arrange in Germany and France
and Russia. but 1t sometimes causes in
convenience in England. A titled agent on
the continent, no matter how poor he may
be, can usually get a hearing in business
house easier than the man without the
title No bogus titles are allowed, ana the
company's list of foreign agents reads like
a court circular.
Outlook of Base Ball.
Those who have made a close study Of
professional base ball in this city, say the
public cannot hope to see much improve
ment in the condition in Harlem as long
as ANDY" Freedman continues in charge
of the New York club. Those who know
Croker's friend say that he never took
real interest in base ball, and that he
never will Base ball, they say Is full of
sentiment and local pride. The people of
city feel a sort of proprietary interest in
the team which takes the name of their
home town. This Is what largely makes
base ball the great sport it is today. Sew
eral advantageous offers have been made
to Mr.. Freedman to dispose of his stock
In the last three years, but the price he
puts or the stock he purchased so cheaply
from r. b. Talcott in 1884 Is such that a
business man could not listen to the prop
osition.