Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22

| address the ladies. and he had consented.
| Now. st. Clair McKelway is a gentleman
OF good deal of substance, physically and
| literally and mentally. In the first place,
mes the owner and editor of great Brook
| iyn newspaper. and has been for good
| many years. He's very rich man. He's
| an extremely able writer, and can hurl
more long words into longer sentences than
| any living journalist. He's a wit, an af-
| ter-dinner talker and a parsonage with a
| capital p. Pretty nearly everybody con-
| nected with the journalistic profession on
| this side of the Rocky mountains. at least,
knows something about St. Clair McKelway.
| and there are lot of folks not connected
| with journalism who have heard of Mr..
Mckelwav.
Wei. nothing affrighted at the spectacle
| OF such an ornate collection of elderly la
| dies. most of whom were flushed either
with wrath with victory over one of the
elections that had just been held--only TO
| be thrown out as ''illegai"-Mr. McKelway
| appeared on the platform to address the
Federation of Womens Clubs. The chair-'
man rose from her seat on the platform to
! Introduce Mr.. McKelway. She "ahem'd'
| In an experimental sort of way. glanced
Just bit patronizingly at the gentleman
| him after this wise:
Ladies'. we are about TO be addressed by
| era MT Galway. l-er-am sure he will
| interest YOU with his-er-remarks He
! Is to speak-er-on The Journalism of To-
| day. L feel confident that he will beer
able 10 say some interesting things, for I
= r.
himself In some way identified with-er-
Journalism"
Mr.. st. Clair McKelway's face. during
| this Introduction. had been gradually turn
! ing as pinkish as the celebrated w'hiskers
| OF the noted ]. Ham. Lewis. But he was
| dead game. all right. He got up and said
that his name really was McKelway, and
not Galway. and then he went ahead and
maze MS little talk. Such is fame!
A Most Unpopular Alderman.
A ill,
introduced resolution providing for the
Punishment" to the country of all pet dogs
in flats and houses on Manhattan Island.
1t is certain that this silly alderman is now
about the most unpopular individual in the
city of New York. Aside from the merits
of the controversy which is now raging in
the New York newspapers to whether
IL is right or proper to keep pet dogs pent
up In hats or houses in such a cluttercd
town as New York, this alderman's resoIu-
ton was an exceedingly idotic one if for
no other reason that in the impossible event
or Its ever being taken out of it's pigeon
mole and going through the aldermanic
BODY, 1t could never, by any possibility.
whatever. be enforced. There are something
ike Sonooo owners of pet dogs Manhat-
tan Island, and the job that this municipal
lty would have on its hands if it ever tried
to separate these dogs from their owners
is something awful to think about.
This New York aldermanic body is an ex-
cessively busy outfit, but there are a whole
lot or directions In which il might better
employ its time than in the framing up of
ordinances that TO all intents and pur-
poses sumptuary. This town suffers through
out all its residential regions a Veritable
pest of bowling. yowling street-hawkers.
VINO parade through the streets in awful,
unending professions, shrieking at the top
of their voices and generally in languages
as remote from English English is re-
mote from Volapuk. Fellows with huge
bells, fellows with strident comets fellows
with horribly insistent trianges, fellows
with gigantic rattles. fellows with four
foot-long fish horns, fellows with all kinds
OF noise-making, nerve-racking, heart-break-
ing devices are permitted to stroll lesureIy
through the thoroughfares using their in
struments Of torture to attract the atten-
ton of householders to their wares or their
mending trades.
Bad Street Music, Too.
New York, too, is simply the worst-im-
posed-upon city in the matter of street
music" the face of the globe 1t is no
uncommon thing to be compelled to listen
to as many as half a dozen hand organs or
barrel pianos performing on the same block
at the same time, and the effect of this ter
ribe din upon sick folks has long been the
despair of their medical attendants. And
yet no effort is made to put a stop to the
nuiSance-the Italian vote must be coddled
Raucous-voiced brutes, bawling ''Wuxtry!'
in the middle of the night in order to sell
papers printed at O'Clock in the evening
and giving accounts of merely minor hap
penings are permitted to rouse honest folks
out of their slumbers and send nervous
ones to the point Of distra ction and COL
lapse and nothing is done about it. The
lineup loa fertile fellow who adjusts
the wash lines from the back windows of
the fiat to the tall pole-is permitted to
begin his believing at 5 o'clock in the
morning, and there is no ordinance against
him. The fiery, untamed devil wagons are
permitted to Scorch the public streets
and kill one or two young ones or old men
and women every day, and nothing prac-
tically. IS done to them. There are scores
of public nuisances to which the New York
board of aldermen might well address itself
without fixing up silly resolutions demand
Ing the exile" Of the towns pet CANNES
but 1T seems that the outfit stands in per
petual fear that some day or other it might
succeed in accomplishing something really
useful. c. L. c.