Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-21
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Pool Rooms Run in Spite of
Mr.. Jerome.
OLD SYSTEM WORKING
POLICE CAPTAINS HAVE FINAL
SAY IN MATTER.
One of Them Predicts That the Re
formers Will Soon Be
at Odds.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, April 20, 1902.
Although the town can hardly be called
| wide open,' enough pool rooms and gam
| bling houses are doing business in this
borough, Brooklyn and Queens to satisfy
| men who month ago complained that
there was 'nothin' doin'." Sporting men
| and the rank and file of the police de-
partment still agree that protection money
is paid and that certain captains who are
| standing for" violations of the law are
| collecting the dough Hardly a week
passes in which District Attorney Jerome
does not send to Col. Partridge a list Of
| places where he believes the gambling law
| is being violated.
Col. Partridge sends the list to his in
spectors, who forward them to the cap
tains, who investigate and report in the
same old way. The pool room men who
were under cover for a month or so and
who were out of town during the racing
season at Washington all returned to New
York when racing began at Aqueduct. One
pool room operator says that it is not safe
now to take a chance in Harlem. The po
lice, he says, are ''all right" but Jerome, he
declares, is giving particular attention to
Harlem just at present. On the east and
west sides, between Fulton street and 59th
street, he says, there are at least seventy
five pool rooms in full blast. One police
captain, whose name has been mentioned
as being one of those Caught by jerome,
was asked how he liked the way things
were going in the police department. He
said:
I'm satisfied. It's all bluff The re-
formers don't know where they are at. In
side of six months they will all be scrap
ping, and things will be running in the old
way again.
Pneumatic Postal Service.
Before autumn comes New York will ex-
periencethe benefits of resumption of the
pneumatic postal tube service. which was
abandoned last July. through the failure of
Congress to renew the appropriation neces-
sary for its maintenance. More than that
there will be gradual extension Of the
service until, two years hence, there will be
tubular circuit that will reach every post
office but two in the burough of Manhattan,
besides branch line to Brooklyn. The law
recently passed by Congress enables the
Post Office Department to eXpend about
S44oOo0 a year in Greater New York; and
negotiations are well forward with the
Tubular Dispatch Company, which is alone
in the field, for the construction of eighteen
miles of new double tubes, in addition to
the five and one-ffth miles formerly operat-
ed IN Manhattan and the one mile connect
ing the Manhattan and Brooklyn general
offices. In the new system the saving in
time will be great. Mail can then be sent
1 from the central ONCE to any part of Har-
lem in seventeen minutes and a special de-
livery letter can be delivered any place
within the city limits in three hours at
the most. Since the abandonment Of the
pneumatic tube service last summer the
people of New York have come to realize
what this means
Tuberculosis Congress Meeting.
The american congress of tuberculosis
will meet this year at the Hotel Majestic on
May IA, Is and 49, in session with the Medi-
co-Legal Society. By permission of Secre-
tary Of State Hay invitations have been
issued to the South and Central American
governments to send delegates to the con-
gress. Invitations have also been sent to
Canada and Newfoundland. Delegates will
attend the conference from all the states
and territories of the Union, and even the
northwest territories Of Canada will send
representatives. Four symposiums will be
held, at which the subjects for discussion
will be preventive legislation for consump-
ton, and the pathological, medical, surgical
and veterinary aspects of tuberculosis
Prof. kochs theory regarding the nom
transmissibility to man of the disease in
cattle will come up for su.stantiation or
rejection. The meeting will be under the
presidency of DR.. A. N. Bell of BROOKLYN.
A display Of laboratory work and plans of
instruments will be held at the conferences.
AS to Professional Caddies.
Mrs. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, former
ly woman western champion in golf, but
W III LIDS iOl Deeu prominent on the links
within the last year, has revived the old
question regarding the propriety of en-
ploying professional caddies for women in
big tournaments. The question called for
wide difference of opinion in last years
national and metropolitan events, and Miss
Hecker, it will be remembered, was Sc
verely criticised by some of her less for
tunate players when she won the local
championship for the first time at Morris
county, for heinQ coached hy
sional caddie. Several women had profess
SIGNALS accompany them on the rounds in
the national tournament last fall at Bal
tusrol. Mrs. Taylor says plainly: THE
custom Of having professional caddies at
national or even club tournaments Is one
to be deplored. While technically within
the rules, a professional caddie is not in
the spirit of the game as played in this
country. The best men players have long
ago discarded them but some of the Wo-
men still cling to their support If there
against professional caddies it would be
wise action on the part of the United States
Golf Association, but it is so difficult to
tell where caddie stops and an instructor
begins that no rule could be made which
could not be evaded, and one must hope
that women themselves will develop sports-
canship sufficient to dispense with such
eXtraneouS aid.
parture were broken when the Deutschland
of the Hamburg American line left Ho-
boken the other afternoon to go to Eng
land. France and Germany. The regular
spring travel has hardly begun, and this
fact makes more remarkable the great
crowd that sailed off in the fastest mer-
chant steamer in the world. Three-auar-
ters of the cabin tourists were Americans.
and about SIS per cent of the entire num-
Der are bound to the coronation ceremonies
in London. For every passenger who went
away there was an average of half dozen
friends to see him of. This corwded the
pier to it's limit, and the jam at the gang
ways was so great that the ship had to be
delayed to get off the "go ashores," who
could not move lively. AS it was, man
and woman named Schmitt were carried
off into midstream, and had to get back
on a tugboat. for which they paid $40.
Cuba's New Railway.
Sir William Van Horne, president of the
Cuban Railway Company, has gone to
Havana. He has for the last six weeks been
looking after the final orders for rolling
stock and other equipment of his line,
which will be opened from Havana to San
tiago in about thirty days. The rolling
stock for the road is all being made in this
country, and it will be the Of best modern
pattern Some of the cars and engines will