Evening star., 1902-02-01

of New York life that ash and swill bar
rels line the curbs at all hours Of the day
and night. A policeman saw the ash bar
| rel as 1t toppled over, although he did not
| see how its overturning had come about
| He grabbed the young professional man and
| gruffiy informed him that he was under ar
rest. The young man knew better than to
| endeavor to demonstrate with the cop, and
went peacefully to the station, his worried
and excited aunt following along behind.
The young man was taken before a police
| sergeant who has been notorious in New
| York for decade on account OF his
! abusiveness to women. The cop preferred
| a charge of drunkenness and disorierly
| conduct against the young professional
| man; he was searched as if he mad been an
| ordinary crook, and then chucked into
| cell, to be sent to the police cou1t on the
| following morning.
| His aunt, a wealthy and sedate spinster
past middle age, viewed these proceedings
| with such alarm, not to say horror, that
| she was impelled to beg the sergeant to
spare her nephew. She endeavored to ex-
plain the circumstances. The sergeant
broke her off in the middle of her explana-
tion with a torrent of abusive profanity;
told her she was so drunk that she could
hardly stand up herself-the woman proved
to be a Kings Daughter and member of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
who had never even tasted hard cider in
her life-and informed her that If she
didn't cut out her chewin' O. the rag he'd
pinch her, too" She attempted TO expos
burst into tears.
Put Woman in a Cell, Too.
Hey, some O. youse," bawled the ser
geant to the cops playing pinochle and
dominoes in the back room, come here an
put this soused old proposition wit tn
weeps in a cell.'
She was forthwith locked up, a charge Of
abusing officer in the discharge of his
duties" being registered against her by the
sergeant.
A number of newspaper reporters who
had watched the whole business wrote an
account of it, as they had seen it, for their
morning papers, and wnen the aunt and
nephew, after their night in miserable,
clammy cells, were taken before the mag
istrate, they were promptly discharged.
The magistrate mildly reprimanded lne ser
geant.
A few days ago. the aunt and nephew
having preferred charges at headquarters
against the notoriously abusive police SER
geant, he appeared for trial before Colonel
Partridge, the new police chief. The SER
geant was sentenced to five days loss of
pay.
Devery Ito give the cloven- -hoofed one his
due) would have roasted that fe-.ow for ten
straight minutes in buZz-saw terms, fined
him the limit of thirty days pay, and then
have sent him to Staten Island or the very
goatiest precinct of Greater New York
Devery's may not have been a very capti-
waiting personality, but he had. and often
exhibited sort of rude chivalry toward
women that won for linn the warm regard
of thousands Of New Workers who utterly
disapproved Of all of his other methods and
those Of the organization of which he was
the instrument.
Rumored Birth of a "Devfl Baby,
New York may be, and unuuestionably is,
up to date in great many respects, but in
some others it is a town Of medieval igno-
rance. The Italians down on Elizabeth
street were rioting the oiher day over a
devil baby" About a month ago one of
the effect that ''devif baby had been
born in the Italian colony in Elizabeth, N.
J. 1t took about a month for word of tnIs
to percolate around among the Italians in
and around New York, and last week the
story assumed shape that the devil baby
was none other than child that had re-
living In tenemen. house in Elizabeth
street, New York. The New ork Italians
began to simmer over the news. They
passed the weird tale from one end of the
town to the other among their kind, and,
as matter of course, there finally appear
ed several excited Italian women who
with their own eyes. The infant was de-
scribed by them as having fine and we'll
grown pair of Satanic horns, cute pair of
cloven hoofs, and an excellent example of
the barbed tail imputed by general consent
to the Evil One. This description settled
The iniiamed italians started for that
Elizabeth street house with the express pur-
pose Of eliminating the devil baby" They
were gathered around the house in hun
dreds, ready for anything. even to setting
fire to the huge tenement house, when the
police reserves swooped upon them and
drove them away. Many of them were so
eager to kill the devil baby" that the po-
lice had to club them from the scene, ana
the house in which the devil baby has its
aboSe is still carefully guarded by the au-
thorities. The writer went down to the
Elizab-ts etreet house the other afternoon
and took a look at the alleged devil
baby" 1t was about as cunning-looking a
wee bit OF Sicilian as could be imagined.
A sworn affidavit may be made to the fact
that the youngster hasn't any cloven hoofs,
for at the moment OF this visit he Was en-
gagged in an Intellectual but earnest effort
to bite at all OF his ten pink toes at once;
and as to the barbed tail and the horns,
the devil baby" hadn't sign of 'em II
1t Is one of the salient characteristics of the
noisy evidence Of that fact, then this al
legged devil baby" resembles him In at
least that trait; otherwise he Is Just about
as cute and entertaining as the general
run of individuals Of his tender age
New York doesn't get out of bed on Sum
day morning untE about noon In truth, a
considerable part Of the New York popu-
lation doesn't begin to wake up and rub
its eyes on Sunday until darkness is about
to fall. There are few boarding houses in
New York where the exile from other
towns that keep reasonable hours can get
q bite OF breakfast on Sunday morning be-
fore 10 O'Clock, and the stranger in New
friends, Ii about ready to burn the house
down or do something equally desperate
by the, time he gets mcuthful Of coffee
and roll on Sunday morning. That New
Workers are ;nexcusably late sleepers on
Sabbath mornings was made peculiarly OBJ