The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-27

with his whole heart, partly because
| he can't bear to see any kind of a fight
going on and not be in it; partly be-
/ cause he believes that men of clean
ideals should take part in out system
of government. He is as tireless a
worker, and as fearless fighter as
was Teddy" in his palmiest days.
Jerome is easily the most interesting
figure in the present fight. He goes
further than any of his fellows in his
attacks on Tammany, and two of his
speeches are likely to get him into hot
water. In one he declared that the
grand jury drawings were tempered
with in the interests of Tammany. The
justices who are responsible now have
the charge under advisement. In an
other address he declared that the
gambling house syndicate is run by
Deputy Commissioner Devery. Frank
Farrell, Richard Croker, Health Com
missioner Sexton and Mayor Van
Wyck. The first four will hardly care
to call Justice Jerome to account for
this; but should Van Wyck be elected
Supreme Court Justice he might deem
it necessary to take action in the mat
ter.
Anyone contemplating a descent up
on this city nowadays would do well
TO bring along a set of burglar tools.
You can't see into a hotel without
them. Such a rush for accommoda-
tons hasn't been known since 1899.
when the festivities in honor of Ad-
miral Dewey, followed by the Interna>
tional cup races filled the city to
overlooking What has caused the
present flood isn't quite clear. Cen
eral prosperity" say the hotel propri-
lN-
share of it by putting cots in the hall
ways and extra drawing rooms. AS
fast as these are put down applicants
appear. and the parlors of some of the
best hotels in town look like a hos
pital emergency ward after a big ac~
cident. What will happen when the
Horse Show influx begins, one trem-
bles to contemplate. The late corners
will either have to swing their ham
mocks from the telegraph wires or be-
come cave-dwellers in the hospitality
of the Rapid Transit tunnels.
Is there another city in this country,
1 wonder, where a bare-fist fight, con-
Quoted according to formal prize-ring
rules. such as 1 saw one morning last
week, could be carried on in the open
street for nearly half an hour, without
police interference? The scene of the
scrap" was at Lexington ave-
nue. and Twenty sixth. high
ly respectable locality; the
time 9 o'clock in the
morning. Hundreds of people saw the
night; probably thirty street cars of
the crowded Lexington avenue line
passed the spot while it was in prog
ress. The combatants were two young
men apparently about q years old, and
possessed of some pugilistic ability.
How the trouble began | do not know,
but, instead of the ordinary rough and
tumble street row. swiftly begun, fur
lively fought with an eye out for in
corruption, and soon over, it promptly
eloped into a we'll conducted battle
referee and a timekeeper were chos-
en- from the crowd and the men agreed
to break when ordered and not to hit
in clinches or on the breakaway At
the call of time they sprang forward
and went at it-swing, jab, uppercut,
block counter and side-step; all the
tricks of the trade. OF course, a crowd
soon collected. Bets were offered and
accepted by the spectators. An oblig-
ing citizen ran a block to fetch
sponge from a saloon, with which to
wipe away the blood from the contest
atns' faces btween the rounds. A pass
ing teamsters contributed two boxes to
so many wagons had pulled up in the
vicinity that the street cars were
blocked. 1t was very even fight, and
at the end of the eighth round-they
fought two minute roundabout were
so tired that they could hardly lift
their hands. The shorter and heavier
Of the contestants had one eye com.
pletely closed and was bleeding pros
fusely from a jagged cut on his cheek
bone, while his taller opponents ear
was split and his nose seemed to be
broken. What the outcome would
have been is conjectural, as the ninth
round had hardly begun when some>
body raised the cry of Look out for
the cops" and the wearied pugilists
willingly put on their coats and trot-
ted off. 1t was a false alarm. No po-
liceman came. The men might have
fought indefinitely, apparently. so far
as interruption by what Mayor Van
Wyck calls "the best police force in
the world" is concerned
Once again Roland Burnham Mol
ineauX is in the public eye. The deci-
him a new trial on the charge of pois-
oning Mrs. Katherine ]. Adams, was
generally expected by lawyers, and the
public now has in prospect a repeti-
ton of the most remarkable and sem
sational murder trial of the last dec
ade. Should Molineaux be retired the
main interest will center in his defense,
for ii will be remembered that on his
first trial no defense was put in. How>
ever. it is by no means certain that
the case will ever be called again. That
a conviction could not be had is highly