Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

"tit>N OF mOCEtTN IN New
York these days. Yes. YES. Washington may
De quiet. IL may have no Coley Island
or Tenderloin. its inha ants NAV not pro-
Tess 10 be sporty and to know everything
on earth and in the waters beneath tho
earth, and a whole lot OF other .'ravs.' OF
a similar sort. but when Il comes TO being
an abiding place for sane. clear-hpaded
healthful-minded people. when 1t comes 10
being run In a sensible, decent thoroughly
eommon-sense manner, how vastly does
Washington tower above these so-calle6
great cities. with their self-satished pop
ulations,
Inconsistent Newspapers.
Taking them all in all. the Inconsistency
OF the newspapers of New York in some re
spects is beyond human understandings
For years past every newspaper in New
York has been 'hammering' the New York
pool rooms. as of course they deserve to
be hammered. They are bad outfits and
.nes are the direct cause Of the ruin of
thousands OF poorly balanced young men
every year. They are no. whit worse
than the race tracks themselves. when II
comes TO that. for the law is constantly
violated every time a bet is made at the
tracks; and the tracks. too. claim their an
nnal grist of defaulting men. who having
become possessed of the horse b1ly gel
INTO dishonest practices for the purpose
Oh gratifying the fever: but this is only an
ASIDE, and in attacking the pool rooms the
New YORK newspapers have done a public
service Yet when the police go right after
me pool rooms with a sharp stick as the
SAYING Is. and when unfortunate affair
happens in connection with the activity ,f
the police against the pool rooms the same
newspapers do not hesitate to roast the
police.
A short time ago a number OF de,ac,,,a.
on the stan of District Attorney Jerome
ralded downtown pool room the proprie-
tor of which had openly boosted that he
couldn't be put out of business The district
Tor the purpose of showing the proprietor
tnat he was laboring under a misappre-
hension-that he could in fact be nut out
OF ms nefarious business in jig-time. The
detectives found the pool room tightly
barred. and of course there was no re-
Spouse to their demand to be admitted
Then the police officers got hattering rams
and battered the door down They found
ABOUT 100 men in the room playing the
horses but they weren't after these men
They wanted the employees OF the outfit The
employees were in the act OF climbing out
on the roof when the detectives broke into
the room. The officers followed them out
on the roof. chased them over a number of
buildings. and finally herded them in a
court.
Fired on the Officer.
Then one Of the pool room men sprang
on top of low shed. and. pulling a gun
and taking aim, deliberately fired five shots
at one OF the detectives. man who has
tiAt Vi the pool room DeODle
by the earnestness with which he has gone
after them under orders The pool room
mans marksmans hip was Door and he
missed the detective all five times But
ne was still firing away when the officer
pulled his pistol and planted ball I'm the
back OF the firing pool room mans head
III this detective wasn't justified at pop
ping at a law breaker who was deliberately
trying TO kill him, then no officer of the
law ever was justified in firing at anybody.
Nevertheless, for some utterly unaccount-
able reason. the newspapers of New York
have been unanimous ever since the incl
dent in jumping upon the detective and
In demanding that he be tried and pun
ished for shooting the pool room man All
sorts of maudiin sympathy has conferred
about the gambler-who is quickly recover
ing from his wound-and the detective who
used his pistol for no other reason than To
save his own life is being reviled edtorially
in all of the sheets. District Attorney Je-
rome is manfully backing up his detective
and claiming that he did exactly right-a
fact which ought to be obvious even TO
the simple minded-and he. in turn. is being
attacked for what the New York papers
call his cold -bloodedness
What "a Good Straw Hat" Means.
A certain New York brewery, the head
man Of which is not unconnected with
the nashunal halls of legilashun'' in
Washington. as Jedge waxem used to saw
has recently had a most distressing crimp
put in its contingency fund by several hun
df ed New York barkeepers. This brewery
has for a number of years been IN the
habit of retaining the good will of the bar
tenders employed in estabi .shments retail
ing the brewerys malt liquor by giving
each summer, the barkeepers orders for
summer headgear. The orders are always
issued in the form of neatly written tick
cts, bearing the words, Give the bearer
of this good straw hat and charge same
to undersigned company, with the COM
pany's stamp beneath.
This years straw hat orders were issued
to the barkeepers simultaneously a week
ago. There is huge barkeepers associa-
ton in New York. and on the night of the
issuance of the hat orders the bartenders
who had the orders i'm their pockets got
together at meeting and reached the
unanimous conclusion that the words "a
good straw hat" meant, and. in fact, could
only mean. a hat of the Panama variety.
Any other kind of a straw hat, they
argued. would not be in it in accordance
with the present fashion in straw head
gear. So. on the following day. they one
and all swooped upon their respective hat
tiers and provided themselves with pretty
fine articles in the way of Panama head
coverings. Some of the more ambitious
barkeeps went as high as $40 FOR their
Panamas, but the averaged-priced hat
taken by the barkeeper with the brewery
order was one of the SIS variety. The hat
ters sent the orders along 10 the brewery's
treasurer for cashing in on the following
roaring around that particular brewery
when these several hundred costly tickets
came along terrified the neighborhood. A
special meeting of the brewery's director
ate had to be held over the matter. and. of
course it was decided at this meeting that
the hat bills would have TO be paid just as
they were made But it is likely that a
good many dog-day periods will come and
go before any of the New York brsweries
take chances again by issuing hat tickets
to soulless "barkeeps"
An Event in Sporting Circles.
The New York police affirm that not for
many years have they had so much trouble
with the colored population of the town as
during the past week. The sporting ele-
ment of the Afro-American residents of the
town have been rioting in one delirious
whirl of bliss ever since the day when DIR.
Saylor won race at Grayesend at odds
of 200 to L. One of the characters of the
downtown coored quarter is a coal-black
medical man named DR.. Saylor. The horse
wasn't named after him, but after a we'll
known western veterinarian. The black
sports" however. couldn't be got to be-
lieve this. They accepted the bunch
hot lr ayln nod aft no haal