Evening star., 1901-09-14

purpose Of seeing the yacht races. that the
one view of the holders OF the charters ID
to wheedle everybody fore and aft into
"gotng up against the crooked gambling
games. But. they generally require little
wheedling. seeing as they do the gambling
going all around them, and few of them
land with the price Of car fare. Ii they
sensibly refrain from gambling many OF
them are neatly drugged by the scores of
crooks aboard and deprived of their money
while in a state of Stupor. When the VIC
Tins OF these outrages come to and report
the affairs to the police they are chided In
no gentle terms and requested to "Gwan."
The police tell the reporters who make in
quiries that they don't know nothin'
about no gamblin' or dopin on no boats"
and that's the end Of 1t.
New York Nerve.
Two women possessed of choice quality
OF Brobdignagian nerve have just been ap-
pretended over here. One of them walked
into a 9th avenue department store the
other afternoon and skilfully lifted"
coat valued at SIS. When she reached her
home and tried the coat on, she found that
1t wasn't an exact fit, although nearly SO.
What more natural, then, than that she
should, on the following day, return to the
store from which she had distracted the
garment, and demand that it either be al
tered to fit her frame or exchanged for an
other coat? This is what she did. The de-
tective of the store was waiting for her.
however, and he was full of expressions OF
admiration for her as he handed her over
to tenderloin policeman.
IF I had a Harveyized steel gall such
as you, madam possess in such cop1ous
measure" he exclaimed as he gazed at her
with manifest appreciation, Ito what eX-
allied station might l not confidently as
pire?''
The woman, shrewdly guessing that he
was being facetious at her expense, punch
ed the detective with great force on the
point of the jaw, but he never abandoned
his smile, SO intense was his admiration
for her.
The other woman of Gargantuan cheek,
If nothing worse. was collared while steal
ing choice flowers from newly-made graves
in Greenwood cemetery. 1t was ascertain
ed that she had been the thief of thousands
OF dollars worth of cemetery flowers that
had been missed during the past year
or so; and it was likewise discovered that
she made practice of disposing of the ex-
otics at handsome profit, over and above
all expenses of stealing them, at the estab-
lishment of q florist in Brooklyn This wo-
man is reasonably enough looked upon by
the thoughtful citizens of this community
as the meanest specimen of her sex who
has yet bubbled to the surface of this
foaming tide.
A Neat Robbery.
Day by day the reputation for acuteness
of New York men who-to listen unto them
know ii all and good deal in addition,
is slipping away from them. The other
afternoon a couple of exceedingly ornate
mulattos, arrayed not unlike cake-walkers
i'll the practice of their exacting profess
sion, strolled majesticaly into the estab-
lishment of a famous Maiden lane jeweler.
The proprietor himself came to the front
and waited upon them when they remarked
that they desired to inspect as hne d piato
ter full of diamond rings for males as he
had under his roof. They looked over q
trayful of the jewelers. goods with critical
eyes, finally paying 500 each in real money
for diamond rings which appealed to their
idea of the chaSte in gems.
About ten minutes after their departure
the jeweler discovered, upon looking at the
trayful more closely than he had previous
ious stones. In the form of diamond rings,
to the bad. as the saying goes. The orna-
mental colored persons had taken along
what they considered they needed In the
way Of genuine articles, and had left in
their place a quantity of rings set with
stones known to the under world as
"phonies'-stones, that is to say, that are
purchasable at a purely nominal sum per
quart.
Another One.
A couple Of days later a we1l-known 9th
avenue pawnbroker, whose assistants hap
pened to be out at luncheon refectory,
was courteously summoned to the outside
Of his display window by a prosperous
looking youth, who wanted to make some
INQUIRIES with respect to the value of a
turquoise-studded Tuscan gold bracelet in
the window. The young man appeared to
possess such remarkable fund Of infor-
nation with reference to Tuscan gold orna-
ments and the early history thereof that
the pawnbroker was quite taken with him
and stood outside talking with him for all
of four minutes. Then the young man went
his way with the remark that he'd fetch
his wife down to look at the bracelet.
About half an hour later, when the pawn
brokers' assistants had returned and were
going over the articles in the main safe.
they found that a neat little stack of goods
to the value of 81 500 was unaccountably
absent.
why" exclaimed the pawnbroker. after
long pause, slapping his thigh and gaZ-
ing about him with almost preternatural
shrewdness. "it must ha' been pal of that
young man who was looking at the Tuscan
bracelet who took the things!'
Oddly enough the police were disposed to
agree with this analysis Of the situation.
But the youth who seemed to be SO well
acquainted with the history of Tuscan
articles Of bijouterie has not yet returned.
Ruined by Ridicule.
Holahan. the Tammany district leader
who was caught in a pool-room raid last
spring and who, instead Of following the
Devery precept of owning up 'w'en caught
pened to be in the pool room in search of
his "wayward boy will probably get beat
for his district leadership at the primaries
soon to be held. The "wayward boy" busi-
ness ruined Holahan. 1t made him the
laughing stock Of the town for days, and
Tammany. like most other institutions, as
well as individuals. can stand for almost
everything else but ridicule. The leaders
Of the organization have been regarding
Holahan with exceeding freshness ever
since the incident, and when he appealed
to the organization to help him out when
another man appeared In the field to con-
test his leadership they gave him the cold
shoulder
And on top of this the horse that was
named ''Wayward Boy after the funny
pool room incident last spring recently won
a race with 200 to l chalked up against his
chances by the bookmakers, and the
wretched Hoohan didn't have a nickel on
tn skate as he gloomily confessed after
the race was run. C. L. c.