The age-herald., 1902-02-23
BY JOHN MARTHoL.

and justly done. Not enough court clerks have their noses punched, and the district attorney did it very creditably; but, that is hardly what is expected of a digpified court officer like the district attorney. He attended a dinner to Mayor Low. It was one of those grand occasions when every speaker speaks his paen of praise. That Is what it is given for. Among those who were invited to worship Seth. was William 1ravers Jerome. He says many nice things and then startles the company by declaring that if he w. 1T. Jerome, had not carried on his campaign as he did the Hon. Seth would be daily climbing the heights on his bicycle to conduct the affairs of Columbia College That may be so, but 1t was scarcely good taste to say so
 Again the Hon. John Sheehan is sur rounded by his admirers and friends of the Greater New York Democracy. din- ner Is given in his honor and as a rising sun who has caused the shadow of an eclipse to travel over the Tammany or ganization, he is there to receive his re- ward, verbal boquets and verbal incense. All goes well until William Travers Jer- ome takes the floor. He announces he has his bottle of vitriol with him. He pulls the stopper and filings it at John Sheehan, and his most conspicuous friends. He states he recognizes many who were wont to kiss Dictator Croker's feet and mentions an incident to Shee- han which causes Sheehan to deny 1t on the spot. There was truth in a good deal that he said, but there was no need of saying it. It was bad taste to say the least. A friend of mine says he would be afraid to see him at a funeral, as he might rise and say: am here because I have a kind feeling for him, as he was 1 ffta hut I xnsfl1 tn fTtlf IW is we'll that he Is dead, because if he were not I would move the grand jury to indict him, as I believe at one time he violated a statute."
 He has opinons. One of these touches on the Excise. He believes in a modified Sunday saloon law. The Rev. Busy-Body Parkhurst does not. Hence they clash Parkhurst says the district attorney must enforce the law as he finds 1t, and the district attorney desires 1t enforced as though his notifications were amend ments passed by the Legislature. Park ] hurst appeals to the Governor Odell jumps to the bat and prepares for a hit to bring down applause from the bleachors He makes a gallery play by practically telling ParKnurr to prefer charges.
 Taken, one phase with another. the most original character, the most fruitful
 
 be watched. He went up like a rocket and was dazzling in high heaven. He cannot have Roosevelt's luck, so we may watch eie he falls Ike a stick Since l Devery fell chere are none "touchin on | pertaining to' the new administration so interesting as his Honor District At toIney Jerome.
 William c. Whitney's scheme to con- trol the transportation oK passengers in Manhattan and the Bronx on the sur face, under the surface and above the surface has taken practical shape. and it is now being brought before the public l in it's regular way. His man Friday bet ter known as Herbert H. Vreeland, was the first puppet to move He announced 1 the scheme to the directors of the Met ropoltan Traction Company. When 1 Vreeland makes his announcement 1t is 1 all cut and dry. It is like Tammany Hall resolution. It is all settled before 1t goes to tEe main body. MT. Whitney un- derstands these things. He did the trick | has been done.
 The syndicate that controls New York Is a marvel. The men are masters of | finance, shrewdness enterprise and dar- | ing. It controls banks and trust com panies,it manipulates the three great in- surance companies, 1t controls the gas pipes and the electric wires for lighting the city, it controls tho transportation in the city and into the city; 1t regulates the price of coal, the price of oil, and before long it will control the price of beef and flour, The rich are growing richer and the middle man is crushed tC the earth
 
 New York City is being rapidly rebuilt | Downtown. winch means anywhere be- l low Twenty-third street office buildings are climbing skyward. The office build ings are cities in themselves. Up town the private residences are palaces. These are the homes of the money kings; fur ther up town are apartment houses, or l in fact tenements of better class. The 1 old private houses are turned into board l Ing houses. Few men can occupy their houses any more. Men who once earned