Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07

two or three of the headquarters men were
put on the case. and after three four
Bowery hotel. She proved to be jewel thief
with record on two continents, one of
the most expert in the business, whose
mode of procedure was invariably that OF
obtaining situations with rich women and
then clipping with their jewelry The girl
had made away with the jewelry gained
from her last robbery, and she used It's
eventual production as lever wherewith
to effect a favorable adjustment Of affairs
with the robbed society woman, so that
she stands an excellent chance of getting
of with mild sentence. OF course, when
it was all too late, the New York society
woman investigated the alleged reference
that the girl had produced and found that
1t was a skillful forgery
The vast pains which English women of
the present day take in following up ref
erences handed to them by household ser
wants seeking employment have for long
been subject of admiring comment on the
part OF American detectives that have WIS.,
tied abroad, and the necessity for the
American household mistress imitation of
her English sister in this respect has never
become so apparent as during the past
two or three years.
Rathskellars Supplant Roof Gardens.
An eccentric proprietor of a New York
roof garden contrived to extract more or
less raucous laugh the other day when he
declared that in the future no champagnes
should be purveyed his roof, for the
reason that the geyser product OF Gaul
mad tendency to incite it's consumers to
too much merriment, thus causing the roof
artists to be disturbed during their per-
formances. 1t was neat little way of adj
vertiSinS his roof, but the proprietor was
not required to render himself so needless
iy ridiculous. New York habitues of roof
gardens do not need to be warned against
the effects, ddeterious or otherwise, of
champagne, for they are rot a champagne-
consuming crowd. AS simple matter of
TACT. the public and ostentatious consump-
tion OF champagne has gradually come to
pc looked upon over here as an indica-
tlon or extreme, not to say countrified anna
teurishness in dissipation, and the cham
payne boosters are complaining that this
the time -
The one-time sonorous-soundng stunt
called openin wine" is now the expensive
diversion of the ''piking sport and the oc-
caslohai consequential stranger within the
gates AS a matter of truth, the gradual
defamation of the habit of steady drinking
among individuals of the ''rounder' class
IN New York is beginning to attract the
attention of close observers of that sort of
thing. Most Of the chaps who have
achieved genuine regulations as New York
wits and men about town are men who
rarely If ever drink at all in public and
then very sparingly. A great amount of
frenzied drinking used to be done on the
roof gardens. when the open-air theaters
OF New York were novelties. and it was
this fact which led to the gradual decline
in the popularity of the roofs
The elevated places of amusement are by
no means so well patronized as they were
a very few years ago, and last summer
number of them were compelled to go out
OF business owing to a lack of patronage.
Aside from the unquestioned disrepute into
which the roofs fell owing to the drinking
feature. which was the cause of so many
unpleasant scenes. their gradual effacement
from the picture as contributory sources of
amusement in New York during the sum-
mer months has been considerably FASTENED
by the great increase in the number of
Weli-cooled and well-conducted rathskellars
and music gardens.
There are literally dozens Of such places
in New York nowadays where no charge
is made for admission, where the cost of
the reflections dispensed is extremely rea-
sonable, and where actually good music
may be listened to by folk not in search of
dissipation or anything of the sort Quite
number Of the free concert gardens pro-
vide vaudeville bills in every way as pleas
ing and satisfactory as those given on
roofs where charge of 81 or 50 is made for
admission.
A Bucolic Band Leader.
There's a new conductor over here at
the head of an all-around satisfactory band
of musicians. who has succeeded in getting
himself a good deal talked about owing to
with his audiences and to his character in
general. He is an exceedingly tall lanky
young man from the town of Economy in
Pennsylvania, and his name is Duss He is
said. on excellent authority, 20 be a million
aire- He organized his band. it seems from
among native musicians of Economy sew
eral years ago, simply out of a love for
music, and from desire to show the world
what an outfit of Economyites could do in
the way of making good music, and there
Is no question but that he has gone a long
way toward accomplishing his purpose.
He IS most competent conductor, and he
has the occasional habit of throwing his
auditors into fits of laughter by his method
of initiating other well-known conductors
at unexpected moments. On the second
night or his appearance here, for example
ne gave his audience an extremely we'll
studied and characteristic irrit"tfon of the
conducting method of John Philip Sousa-
than Wnom no musician was ever more
popular in New York-that was irresjstiblv
comic, if only for it's suddenness in being
sprung There unquestionabIy some
thing more or less buffoonish in the little
stunt, but this is a populace that will
stand for" anything that is unusual with
enjoyment. Moreover, there is something
about Duss frank way of telling his au-
dience that he doesn't have to be a band
leader, and of virtually telling them that
he could get along for forty years without
any public patronage, that is at once di-
verting and unusual. CL