Evening star., 1901-05-30
John Most and His New Play, Der
Strike" =
BLUEJACKETS ENJn BASE BALL
A Street Where Nomen's Hats
Are Greatly HEadence.
OLD COINS UN ED
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star


production of his own play, Der Strike
Most, of course, is the star At the dress
rehearsal this new light in the theatrical
world let himself out in such a manner
that the result was appalling. AS the play
is written for himself, by himself, it may
be understood that the dramatist is
wonder and the actor worth many miles
to escape from. Der Strike seeks to in
still the news Herr Most has sought to
break gently to an ignorant people-that
all laws are made to be broken; that all
men of means are made to be robbed and
that Herr Most is an actor Der Strike
begins with a strike and ends with the up
setting of the social universe, when Herr
Most shoots Millionaire dead, dead, dead.
The play is in five acts if the audience will
kindly remain seated. Positively no money
returned at the door,
Blue Jackets Base Ball Enthusiasts.
The number of Uncle Sans blue jackets
that may be seen at a game of base ball
in this city has often been remarked.
Never game is played at the Polo grounds
In this city or at the Brooklyn base ball
park without a liberal sprinkling of jackies.
This is true not only of the "men behind
the guns" but of the officers who di-
rect the workings of the big machines of
death There are no more enthusiastic
''rooters' than are the sailors. and none
who seem to better appreciate the fine
points of the game. Every man-of-war
has it's ball team and nothing else arouses
Jack quite SO much as a meeting of the
mines of two vessels of a fleet In game
of base ball. That is the reason why the
sailor is so constant an attendant at the
ball games when he is In this port. SO
when the ball season is on even the Bow
cry, with it's attractions has to suffer, as
Jack blows in his spare change for a
ri tn q ia
various league clubs. How he manages to
know, as he does, all the pecuiarties OF
each player is a mystery. Yet such as
have happened to sit near a group of gos-
sping sailors during a game can Vouch
that he knows what he Is talking about,
and that his judgment in sizing up
player is rarely at fault. OF all the base
ball cranks he seems the most sane, at
that He rarely has a rooted prejudice in
favor of this or that .teaan.s All he wants
is to see good game, and given that he
apparently cares little which team wins
Millinery Row.
Within the three blocks Of Division street,
under the ID avenue elevated, is the largest
market for women's hats on the western
continent. Millinery Row is ancient
institution peculiar to, the east side. Its
picturesque ways Of transatting business
have nothing in common with ordinary
milliner'S methods. Its patrons num-
bered by the thousands. Yet IT is safe to say
that 30 per cent of the city which lives
north of Houston street and west of the
Bowery have never visited it. The origin
of millinery Row is buried in obScurity.
Like many other things beyond the Bow
cry, it sprang into being some fifty years
ago, when that region Of the city began to
be called the east side. Ever since then
the Row has lived and prospered on
Division street. Shoulder to shoulder, on
the south side of the street, the mili-
merry stores. The entire front Of each is
taken up with the show window, and a
row Of show cases lines the sidewalk. In
both there is display Of every variety Of
feminine hats known to the modern mind.
They are not placed in groups of two
three, but hang on hooks by the hundred,
In gay and varied miscellany. A very
essential part Of each millinery establish
ment is the "sidewalker," ''puller-in."
1t is her duty to stand in front of the shop
during the early hours of the evening
when the tide of workers Is setting home-
ward, and induce passers-by, first. to ex-
anime the glories Of the hats in the win
dows, and later to step in and purchase
The "sidewalkers possess an assurance
that might In other parts Of the city, pass
as impudence, but they are withal very
tactful, and are certainly Industrious. All
that a woman has to do Is to linger for
half a minute in front Of a window when
the "sidewalker'' is by her side, assuring
her that the hat is only $1.57, and that it is
the most becoming that ever happened"
Big Grain Elevator.
The New York Central has contracted
for the erection Of a grain elevator In
Weehawken at the terminal of the West
Shore road. 1t will have a capacity of
100000 bushels, and will cost when fin
ished almost 81 ,5OO,OOO The material used
in its construction will be cement and
steel and it will be fireproof This eleva-
tor Is part of the general plan Of en-
iargement and development of the Wee
hawken terminal, for which an expendi-
frtrn Of oil hon
old operating elevator, with a capacity of
1,2oo,OOO bushels, which has stood in Wee
haWkeen for seventeen years, will be re-
tanned. There is a storage elevator in Du-
iuth, with a capacity Of 3,OOO,O0O bushels.
but this new one at Weehawken will be
without a rival among operating elevators
Old Coins Unearthed.
A wooden shanty at the corner of Worth
and Elm streets, which is supposed to be
the main office of sections one and two of
the Rapid Transit tunnel nowadays looks
more like old curiosity shop than any,
thing else. 1t is filled with all manner of
ccins, cannon balls. human teeth and bones.
unearthed by workmen digging between
City Hall Park and Great Jones street. In
all more than 100 coins have been found
chiefly copper, and from the mints of
Spain, France, England, Belgium, Sweden
and the United States; The coins were
found from six to ten feet below the sur
face. For the past month or more they
have not been turned in to Levin and
Stone, who are in charge of the section
house fast as formerly. The Italian Ia
bcrers seem to have learned that they are
finding things of some commercial value
and recently the foreman has seen them
pause now and then as IL to cover nm
something with a handful of dirt. The
laborers when they strike a relic appear
to hide it thus IN a corner of the excaya-
tion and make away home with 1t unob-
served. What kind OF trade, If any
they carry in selling the bones and con-
pers has not yet been observed.
Memorial to Rev. Rabcock.
AS memorial to the Rev Maltbie d.
Babcock. a magnificent church house to
cost half million dollars, is planned. and
a wealthy friend Of the beloved pastor of
the Brick Presbyterian Church, who died
last week in Naples, has contributed $50.
600. His check for the amount has been
placed in the hands of William D. Bar
bour, the treasurer of the church The
sole condition imposed by the donor was
that his name be kept secret
Tom Sharkey, the sailor pugilst, got I'D
early the other morning and went to meet
his father and two sisters who oa,,ss f,ax>,