Evening star., 1901-09-07

new cop in amazement as the latter took a
clutch upon him and informed him that ha
was under arrest. What for3 Why, for
swindlng immigrants by giving them dead
and-gone paper in exchange for their gsEd.
The man with the diamonds smiled. but
ne didn't deny the soft impeachment.
however, he found IL difficult to believe
that he was really under arrest. When,
upon further inquiry, he ascertaincd that
1t was even so, he waxed most indignant.
1t was at this point that he chided the
new cop quite severely, telling him that he
was surprised at his foolishness and that
IL he knew enough to forsake the damp no
would employ himself strictly In attending
TO his own business. The young policeman,
however, turned what the 1ovelists call a
deaf ear to this conversation. and escorted
the prosperous-looking man to the station
house. Here. to the exceeding great sur
prise OF the cop, the man with the checks
and the jewels bestowed a saponaceous grin
and most meaningful wink upon the man
behind the desk, and. to the cops stHl
greater surprise, both the grin and the
wink were returned.
Released" said the man behind the desk
before the new cop had finished making bis
charge. and the man with the checks
walked out whistiing tunefully.
But" began the new cop to the man
behind the desk.
&c wan back to y'r post cut In that
uniformed functionary. AN, say, y'want
t learn somethin', see?-learn somethin'.
Youse amt tn whole ocean IL youse have
got waves In y'r hair.
The young cop Is still patrolling the Bat
terry, but there's an expectant look on his
features such as is so frequently worn by
police officers these days who arc booked
to be sent Ito the goats"
Women at New York Hotels.
Inhospitality Of New York hotel pro-
prietors in their treatment of travelling
women is well known but the fact cannot
too often be dwelt upon that New York Is
an actually dangerous place for unattend-
ed travelling women to reach after night
fall This was proven again for the
thousandth time in the case OF a couple
Of cultured and in every way high-class
women. mother and daughter, who got to
New York one midnight last week They
were the wife and daughter Of a we'll
known and wealthy western banker and
they had been visiting the Pan-American
exposition. They were due to arrive in
New York from Buffalo at . O'clock at
night, but their train was delayed by
wreck. so that the train didn't pull into
the Grand Central station until shortly
after midnight. They took a carriage and
were driven to well-known Broadway
hostelry. The night clerk frigidly informed
them that there wasn't q vacant room in
the house, and treated them in a pretty
cavalier manner in general
Ihey were driven to another hotel where
they were still more haughtily told that
they couldn't be accommodated They
were so weary that, not knowing WHY they
We're refused shelter, and believing the
SiOi n . Stoiy thdt dft the rooms were nlle.t.
they offered to take a servants room for
the night, but they were told by the clerk,
In so many words. that they weren't
wanted. The mother, a very young looking
woman, became somewhat rolled at this
and told the clerk Of their predicameut.
When she mentioned the word daughter
the clerk laughed in her face. However
hattering to her looks his refusal to be-
!leVe that the mother was old enough to
have grown daughter might have been,
her modification found vent in tears. and
the two shelterless women were driven 10
another hotel-the most famous hotel I'm
TINS OF any other country, by the way.
Here they were turned down again with
the clerks sneered assurance that the
rooms or the hostelry were all taken.
A Nice Lodging Place.
In despair, and in actual fear of their
safety. for 1t was now verging upon
O'Clock In the morning. the two women. at
the suggestion of the driver of the car
riage, were conveyed to the Tenderloin no
lice station. They weren't any too courte-
ously received there, either, but they were
given shelter In the matron's room for the
night. The mother and daughter, of course.
were far from the fiashy-looking sort and
their respectability was sufficiently obvious
10 nave been apparent to anybody but the
night clerk of a New York hotel
There are many more cases of this char
acter than ever find their way into tyne
1t Is simple unvarnished fact that no un-
known. can find refuge in a single New
york hotel Of respectability after night
Luck in Horse Racing.
1t Is not often that sickly smiles cross
the frank features Of Perry Belmont and
Clarence Mackay. but both of them as
suredly did look sheepish when they
glanced at each other out of the tails OF
their eyes on the club house lawn at
Sheepshead Bay after the finish Of the Fu-
turity on Saturday afternoon last, They
had right to look chagrined. too. A few
to John Madden the sum Of $4,000 for a
two-year-old colt called Heno. Mr. Mackay
wanted to win the Futurity and he ex-
pected to turn the trick with this pur-
Belmont had bought from Mr. Madden. for
the sum Of $4,000, another two-year-old
colt named Flywheel.
Mr.. Belmont desired to pluck the Futur-
1ty trophy, and he confidently expected to
do the same with F1ywheel. They stood to-
gether on the lawn, watching the race, and
when they saw Mr.. Madden's colt Yankee
that MI Madden hadn't said much about,
ana that he hadn't offered to sell to any
body. shake his field in the last sixteenth
and leap to the front with giant strides,
winning the race with consummate ease,
the wonder Is not great that they exchanged
sheepish glances. Heno Mr.. Mackey's racing
toy. for which he had so willingly given up
the 10000 to the astute Madden, finished
aDSoiuteiy last IN a held OF nineteen horses.
beaten quarter of a mile. FIywheeI, for
which the foxy Madden accepted a quarter
of hundred thousand dollars from Perry
Belmont, finished somewhere or other in
the race-just where nobody took any pains
to find out, for the animal wasn't within
haiiing distance when the Yankee colt that
Mr.. Madden had held OUT on his rich
clients breezed under the wire.
Mr.. Whitney's disappointment.
In another part Of the club house grounds
Mr.. William G.. Whitney was rubbing his
nose thoughtfully after the race. He had
got even harder fall. in the track par
lance. than either Of his multi millionaire
comrades in racing. A couple Of months
ago he bought from a man named Aste
known hereabouts as the king of the boot
blacks, from having followed that avoca-
tion until very recent years, for the sum OF
$4,000, a colt beautifully named Mas
turtium, by Watercress. Mr.. Whitney's
trainers were perfectly confident that Mas
turtium was capable of winning the Fu-
turity and Mr.. Whitney bought the horse
with this idea In view. To all intents and
purposes Nasturtium Is still running. That
is to say. he finished bad tenth in the
field, although he was the favorite in
a mil Of