Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-05
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Pugilist Jim Qorbett Pays a Visit to
8 Croker.
COMPLAINS; Of BAD TREATMENT
Porto Rioan Cigars Scarcely Com
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petitors With Havanas.
IN A DANCE HALL
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August f. 1901.
just now the gossips are wondering what
! ex-Champion Pugilist Jim Corbett had to
| say to Boss Croker when he visited him
| at Vantage 1t is believed that Corbett's
visit means that he has carried out threat
| made some time ago. to appeal direct to
| Croker for protection against the managers
| of the combine he holds responsible for
compelling him to quit the saloon business.
| Corbett is believed to have informed the
Tammany boss of all the inside workings
| of this combine.
| When the police last May raided the ex-
| fighters saloon on Broadway he attributed
| the action to conspiracy by State Senator
| Tim Sullivan, Frank Farrell and their
| associates. Corbett averred that his re-
| sort had been closed up in order that SIM
liar establishments might thrive. He
threatened to get even, first by appealing
| to the law to prevent discrimination, then
| by taking the matter straight to Croker.
/ Corbett started his saloon just after the
| return OF Tammany to power In 1897. His
example was followed by John l.. Sullivan,
| kid Mccoy, Tom Sharkey, George Dixon
and Tom ORourke. They prospered for a
| time and dwelt in harmony. Senator Sui
| Ivan was credited with being interested
with O,Rourke in resort at Broadway
| and 10th street. A few months ago it was
| rumored that he had fallen out with
ORourke. transferring his influence to the
Considine Brothers, who obtained place
at broadway and AID street. COrbett Suf-
| fered loss of patronage with the others.
John L. Sullivan was forced to shut up
shop and is now in Buffalo. One Sunday
morning, early in May, Corbett's place was
| rafded by Capt Flood. Corbett was furi-
ous He faced Capt. Flood and declared he
knew who was at the bottom of the raid.
| he accused man who, he averred, was close
| TO Commissioner Murphy. This was
| believed among the sporting fraternity to
| be Senator Sullivan. Corbett sailed for
| England three weeks ago.
Tammany's Probable Platform.
! The platform Of Tammany in the coming
campaign will contain a strong arraign-
ment of the republican state administra-
| ton and Its legislative policy toward New
York city. The charge will be made that
the tax laws passed by the last legislature
were the result of a plan deliberately con-
! cocted to deprive the local authorities of
the power of control over it's own affairs,
| with a view to enriching the country at
| the expense of the city and for the pur-
| pose or making 1t appear that the domi-
| nant local party fwaS guilty of misgoyern-
ment. This charge will, Of course be
promptly met by the republicans, and they
may as well prepare to meet it now, for it
| Will De the only campaign Issue of conse-
| quence that Tammany will make. The
| WlgWam viii also attempt to show that
| salary increases. malfeasance, corruption
and extravaganza had nothing to do with
| the rise in taxes which this year will be
| S2.34 or $50 on each 500, against 1924
last year; that the republican legislatures
| mandatory legislation, compelling the city
| to make certain expenditures and its acts
| deprivlng 1t of the right to levy it's own
| taxes. are chargeable with placing new
and extra burdens on the taxpayers.
Anent Porto Rican Cigars.
There has been. some speculation here
since the announcement Of free trade be-
| tween the United States and Porto Rico
| as to the effect upon the tobacco trade of
| the free importation of Porto Rican eli
CARS 1t is generally conceded that it's
effect will be slight, however and will not
| affect the sale of Havana tobacco in any
| way. The Porto Rcan cigars are good,
| but, according to those familiar with the
| trade, they lack the body and aroma that
| the Havana possesses. They may take the
| place of some of the cheaper cigars, but
| will not be considered in the high-class
| trade. Some dealers say that they prefer
! the Mexican cigar or the good domestic
| brands to the Porto Rcam AS one dealer
| explained it. there is a peculiar taste to
| the Porto Rican tobacco, which is found In
all grades, and seems to come from the
| soil of all parts of the island.
Porto Rican cigars just now enjoy
| ing boom, and everywhere signs an
| nouncing the sale of Porto Rican cigars
| may be seen. 1t is question how much
| of the stock advertised as Porto Rican
ever came from the island. Some Of the
| cigars are undoubtedly of local manufac-
| ture. There is great future in this
country for the Porto Rican cigar as far
as the connoisseur is concerned, as there
| is little in it to appeal to him as compared
| with the Havana.
An Enterprising Speculator.
William Austin of Hill City, S. D., had
hopes of being corn king. That he
f,;1o H. -
and Chicago brokers, who had they exc
cuted his orders, would have sold the
| enormous total of 1,Sj0,OOO bushels for Mr..
| Austins account. The westerner hoped for
| drop in the market. and had there been
| a downward fuctuatiOn, he would have
harvested a fortune. There was a drop,
| but he failed to gain by it. as his orders
| them. While Mr.. Austin's expectations
/ were great he expected to accomplish them
on very little capital. Although his orders
| to the New York firms well as those
! in Chicago were accompanied by checks,
the bank in Omaha Neb., on which the
most of them were drawn, declared he did
there. The brokers think he was trying
to buck the market by a bold bluff; that
he hoped to acquire fortune on practi-
cally no investment. AS one expressed it,
| commissions been fulfilled as the sender
| ordered aggregate of about 100000
| bushels OF corn would have been sold in
| the New York market and 45O 600 bushels
| more in Chicago. The effect this would
| have had upon trading condition is OBJ
| yious-there would have been terrific
| slump in the cereal, the bottom would have
! dropped out and the shorts would have
| gained fortunes. So far as can be learned,
/ however not a single firm of the thirty
seven New York and Chicago houses exc
cuted an order. IL
/ Novel Meeting i'm q Dance Hall.
People to- whom the Haymarket has
heretofore been an unfamiliar place and
one regarded as a symbol of wickedness
! to be summed, Sunday night thronged Ed
ward B. Corey's dance hall. at Both street
and Sixth avenue, and joined in a rouslng
gospel meeting.
| few of the women habitues Of the Ten
| derloin. modestly, dressed and looking as
! demure as Sunday school teachers, were
| scattered througheut the audience. Middle
| aged women OF undoubted sedateness,
| grave. elderly men, who looked as if they
! might be class leaders, and Young Mems
! Christian Association workers made uD
| nine-tenths Of the congregation that made
prayer and praise take the place of rag
| time music and the climbing Of glasses
| that may be heard in the Haymarkct all
| MI w nights of the week Eut hara and