Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06


sand pounds In two years Il is better than
dollars to doughnuts that when he arrived
here the newspapers would have taken him
up and exploited him ad nauseam with pen
anu pehSh, even TO the point OF illustrating
the kind Of 'nightie'' he prefers TO wear
while on his travels
The incidental mention above OF Prince
henry recalls the fact that large number
OF beautiful presents which upon his re-
turn TO his own land he had made for va
rious New York officials who assisted I'm en-
PERTAINING him here, arrived IN New York
the other day, addressed TO their various re-
cipients. All Of the latter were pleased To
receive the presents and graCiously ac-
knowledged the same. except one. a huge
cop. with a cops soul. who is carried on
the roll as an inspector OF police. The pres
tnt which the prince sent to this fellow was
a very handsome sold gold match box with
the arms OF Germany and Prince Henry's
Initial in enamel and diamonds on one side
oL II. II was pretty tidy sort Of present
Tor any man TO receive, and the prince con-
ierred II upon the inspector OF police In
acknowledgment OF the latter's zeal In keep
ing him from the annoyances OF cranks
ana so on, during his stay in New York.
ms cop thought he saw a chance to make
sort or a hit as an exponent OF demo-
cratic ideas and defender OF democratic in
Stltutions when the present reached him
lie slammed the gift down on his desk de-
clarng that he didn't want no such id
foolishness I'm his'n." He said that when
the prince was I'm New York he the In
In.
went on TO declare that he didn't want no
pay fr dom nothin' that the taxpayers al
ready paid him fr dom" Then he slammed
the gift down on his desk two or three more
uineS-and there the matter rests. 1t Is
not known whether he is going TO shin
Prince Henry's gift back TO Germany or
not But the naturally angered German cit
Izehs OF New York are assuredly making
some herce comments upon the ungra t.ious-
ness. TO describe It in no other way with
winch this girthy cop with the officers
rank received a gift that was sent 10 him
os kindly man in spirit OF all kindness
Whereabouts of Jerome.
WHAT'S become OF Jerome?" is a aues-
tion that was asked by a good many thou
sands OF citizens when IL was announced
IN the morning newspapers the other day
that on the previous night Frank Farrell
the pool room king OF New York, had
opened in fve-story building hard by the
w aIdoft-Astoria. the swaggerest gambling
mouse on the American continent not eX-
cepttng Cantield's in New York or Can
neld in Saratoga. Jerome as readers OF
Inc Star no doubt recall is the district at
torney OF New York who was elected with
such tremendous fanfarronade Of trlm-
pets because he declared on the sttIup no
fore the election. that he intended Ia mt
Devery behind the bars in Jig time as soon
as ne got the office, and then go after Can
held, the gambler. and land him too For
a little while after his election Jerome ex-
ecuted the Haroun- L. Raschid stunt around
the white-light district of New York. oc-
caslonally breaking into some minor gam
bling plant with the aid of his trusty az
out 1t was not long before, as Il Is said he
was tipped OFF, from some high source
that MS obstreperousness was too marked.
Jerome was snuffed out all OF a sudden.
and 1t really would seem as if he has af-
rorded the most extraordinary spectacle OF
q nash-in-the-pan reformer I'm the annals of
new YORK Big Bill Devery so far from
10 cya -.
mighty fair way to become a Tammauy dis
trict leader. with all of the sweet pickings
or that JOB. and Garfield. the cool, has been
working his game coming and going. with
plants In full operation both i'm New York
ana In Saratoga. right along without ask
ing by your leave OF Jerome or ANYBODY
else. At the present hour there are lust
fifteen large and full-fledged gambling in
situations in operation in the precinct called
the ''Tenderloin." whereas there were only
thirteen such establishments under the re-
sime OF Tammany, so that the wonder is
not great when independent voters who
were led by the wild reform hurrah -boys
campaign to vote for Jerome and reform
are asking. What in the deuce has become
of Jerome?"
Some Myths in Turf Events.
Ii would often seem that the young men
who hold the turf writer's jobs on the
staffs of the New York newspapers must
prepare their narratives Of the big races In
advance of the actual running Of the
events. simply filling in the names 81 the
winning horses when they ''fle" their copy
Assuredlv something Of this sort must have
been the case with respect to the running
or the Futurity, the great tWo-year-old
event. at Sheepshead Bay. on SATURDAY.
last The newspapers of New York were
unanimous. in their stories of that race in
declaring that the victory of Savable, the
western long-shot colt of John brakes,
that won by nose from August Belmont's
LORD OF the Vale was cheered enthusiast
tically by the $1,000 men and women on the
grounds. Now nothing could possibly he
farther from the truth.
Absolutely nothing of the sort happened
he 5oSH men and women on the grounds
didn emit so much lisp of enthusiasm
over Savable's triumph. They were abso-
lutelv stunned by the defeat of the great
eastern colts. the downfall of the tremen-
oouslY touted keene and Belmont and
Madden and Whitney representatives and
more than all. they naturally hard
hit and sulky over their own losses on the
race. for IL is a certainty that not more
than a hundred persons the grounds
PLAYED the winner Of the race. Moreover
the witnesses of the race exhibited a nat
ural. however unsportsmanlike. chagrin
over the fact that. with only one solitary
western colt in race that had a huge
field of twenty-four starters, and that colt
an equine that had been persistently de-
rided and ieered at by the New York turf
writers. the west achieved a fair and clean
cut triumph. The people I'm the stand re-
called the fact that, after a number of
eastern horses Of supposedly wonderful
calfber had been sent to Chicago this sum-
mer to make play for the Chicago Derby
this same calm Chicagoan, John Drake.
made them all look foolish with his horse
Wyeth. and therefore they were in no mood
TO burn incense at the Drake shrine when
the mighty son of Salvador came along on
SATURDAY afternoon last and trailed all OF
the eastern colors in the dust
There never was a great race decided on
a New York track that evoked LITTLE
thusiasm as this years Futurity, the New
York turf writers to the contrary notwith-
standing. even though the best horse did
win.
When an eastern equine champion goes
TO Chicago and achieves a fine victory the
folks out there are generous and sports
manlike enough to chuck their hats into
the air and shout for the victor and the
owner thereof. but there is no such fine
spirit as that animating the regular and
casual racegoers of New York c. l. C
Time to Spare