Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

hands OF .Tammany. Just why these men
of noted family. miilionaires many times
| over. should care to ask such an outfit as
Tammany has come to be for the gift OF
seats In the lower house of Congress Is a
problem too complex for the solution Of a
| good many intelligent men over this way
who have marveled over it. True, the elder
! Belmont was a veritabie pillar of democra-
| cy during his lifetime but the democracy
of the elder Belmonts lifetime and the
| Tammany of today are two very different
propositions, and old August Belmont never
accepted public office anyway. Social am
| billion is said to be at the bottom of the
Belmont ambitions for Congress, but this
said to be- doesn't carry much OF an ex-
| PLANTATION with 1t. 1t is not easy to figure
out how a seat in Congress could add any
| to the Belmont social prestige Should the
| Belmonts elect to pass their winters in
Washington even wit bout the M. c. dis
tinction it Is reasonably certain that they
would be pretty sizable factors in the
social affairs of the capital, and no WASH
| ingtonian really understands that seat in
| the lower house confers any vast amount
| of social distinction upon the holder there
| of or his women folks.
Tim Suliivan's nomination Is. of course.
equivalent to his election to Congress. for
| he comes pretty close to holding the Tam
| many end of the whole East Side in the hol-
| lew of his hand. And when Tim descends
! upon Washington the capital is going to
| one of the honest and-truiy real t'ings'
In the way of Tammany leader. a man OF
| the ''pee-pur' with vengeance. Tim
started in newsboy and bootblack, and
| If he isn't worth close on to a million dollars
today he isn't worth anything-al derived
from Tammany. '.Tim?' his East Side lieu
tenants say of him admiringly. why. say.
Gull, Tim'll bet twenty t'ousan' to race
without t'inkin' no more about 1t dan mos
pikers nd t'ink o bettin' two dollars"
Timothy is careless of criticism. His atten-
N uyls coll A1 fha fhny Il. ,1Na~
| of singularly vitriolic attacks upon him
| which appeared in some of the New York
papers.
'Aw. say fergit IT," said Tim "Jes' sem
| them editor fellers down t me an I'll stake
EN- t half ton o coal apiece"
More About New York Thieves
This correspondence has frequently, dur
| ing the past couple of years, treated of the
humorous vagaries Of the modern school of
New York thieves. Another instance of
| their versatility and their quaint expota-
| ton thereof happened few evenings ago
A wealthy family of the name of Welt.
| the head of which Is of the high OH
| Gals of the Standard Oil Company were
! greatly puzzled on this evening by the
| sounds of extraordinarily clever pianoforte
| music proceeding from the house next door
| This house next door belonged to the late
actor James A Hearne during his lifetime
| and it had been closed for several months
by the Hearne family.
AS 1t was closely boarded up, and as the
| Vets knew that the Hearnes had not yet
| returned from their summer outing. they
| were considerably mystifed over the music
! which reached their ears through the walls
! and closed windows of the Hearne abode.
Their sense of myStification. however, yield
| ed to their admiration for the skill of the
performer. who passed from melancholy
| Chopin nocturnes to the joyous wordless
| songs of Mendelssohn. with the skill and
| technique of a finished virtuoso. The Vets
concluded that some relatives of the
| Hearnes had dropped in at the Hearne
| house to look over the place. and that one
| of them a master musician, and
| they grouped themselves in the downstairs
rooms and listened admiringly to the piano
music.
| Well the piano player was a master mu-
| scian all right. but he wasn't any rela-
| tive friend of the Hearnes. He
| thief. and his end of the job was to fur
nish the diversion-to keep peggng away
at the plano while his pal or pals operated
| upon the Welt domicile. One of his pals
| slipped from Hearne second-story WIN
| dow to Welt second-story window while
| the music of the fine crescendo kind.
and the haul that he made in the top
| bureau drawer standing in the Welt room
| to which he gained admittance was pretty
rich. 1t consisted of $12.&j0 worth of Mrs.
Vets diamonds and 500 of Mrs Vets pin
| money. The tidy lift" having been accom-
plished. the fine pianoforte music ceased.
! to the great disappointment of the Vets,
| and then Mrs. Welt repaired to her up
|
| ever when she discovered the dreary va
| cancy in her jewel box she abandoned her
| idea of going to the theater and sent for
| the police instead. The police found how
| the thieves had broken into the Hearne
| domfcile through the basement way, but, as
| the rogues' gallery does not happen to con-
| tain the portrait of any housebreaker who
| is capable of giving pretty good limitation
| of Paderewski piano, they have not
| much hope of retaining the Feit biJouterle
| and cash
| Mention should have been made, in adj
| verting to the barrel-organist who sere-
| naded Mascagni of the inevitabil'ty VIII CHI
| has really arrived a bit before it was an
| ticpated-the auto street piano one OF
| them made its appearance on the DOWN
| town streets about week agH, and strange
| enough the eXploiter of the outfit Il getting
the money, for. as is so often repeated here.
| the New Workers are very, very easy
| Nevertheless, if there could by any posi-
blity be a more brazenly impudent spec
| tacle than that presented by greasy ST.
| Gillian, in charge of handsome autcmonhe
! charged with electricity and nothing
| yociferous street piano, extending his nat
| for money after a shrieking rendition or
st Patrick's Day in the Morning and The
| Wearing of the Green then the present
| writer has never CHANGED to make note
| of it.
Marine in Trouble.
! There is buck private of the United
| States Marine Corps sitting sorrowfully on
a guardhouse bunk over at the Brooklyn
navy yard who is pretty nigh convinc
| that rum is an awful awful thing. This
| young man was with the Marine Corps in
China during the Boxer outbre ak. When
| he got back to the states and to the Brook
| Ign navy yard he began to flash some
| pretty handsome diamond jewelry upon ms
| messmates, and occasionally he would
| make their eyes stick out by showing them
| rolls of bills of about the proportions OF a
| baby elephants nigh foreleg. He got hold
| of a pretty easy billet as an officer s DOG
| robber' or quarters helper, at the yard.
| and the officers whom he attended mar
| yeled to observe how ''rich and rare were
| the gems he wore while at his humble
| ia SKIS.
| The easy nature of his duties permitted
| of his going outside the yard limits good
| deal and a little while ago he became IN
volved with rum to so acute an extent that
| he committed some breach of discipline
| which caused him to be thrust into the
| "cink" And then huge trunk that he
| had brought back with him from China was
| opened, suspicion as to the contents of the
| same having naturally been aroused In the
| minds of the officers. They found a little
matter of $50 coo worth Of Chine se loot