Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-19
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life in tn,
.p5s Metropolis.

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Ripples on the Current of Life in the
1909 Metropolis.
Juries IN 7 the damage cases piled TN
against the New York Central railroad on
account OF the Park avenue tunnel disaster
are giving the treasury Of the road some
very hard knocks. A verdict for $50. 900
was rendered in favor Of a widow, whose
husband was killed in the wreck. A shat
tered arm brought the owner $12, 900. The
latest verdict calls for SIS, 900 damage on
account OF a broken nose. This particular
nose belongs to a woman. and this fact
partly explains the lofty proportions of the
verdict. To break the nose of a man does
NOT under ordinary circumstance cost more
than $40, In the opinion Of the Judge who
presided In the case, but when a railroad
'distgures a woman the law gives latitude
to the judges decision that every gallant
man must endorse. 1t is the ability Of this
New York Judge to put himself exactly in
the attitude Of mind which womankind must
occupy In the matter Of accidents. which
mar the face, that is, to be admired. No
money Will compensate for charm of face
ana feature. While men have been found
VINO Will main themselves for the sake of
insurance, there is no record among any Of
the lalr sex OF such depravity Of mind. To
put the valuation on good looks that one
halI the world attaches to II, is all that this
New York judge has done. He has gone
70 the limit that the law permits him, and
It may be that 1t is but half enough. Beauty
Is woman's prerogative, and there Is no
amount OF money that can pay for its de-
struction.
A young New York bartender is now in
the Tombs, held without bail, charged with
being an accessory before the fact in a
suicide, when to the calm, dispassionate
open-minded view he seems to have been
only a sortsof sardonic humorIst.
He was seated behind his bar one night
last week when a tough specimen of a no.
good patron OF the establishment slouched
In.
"Chimmy," said the hard visaged speci-
men to the barkeep, who went on reading
the base ball score without looking UP,
Tn tired o. de game. an II I had a gun
! tink I'd blow me lid off,"
rs that so?" said the barkeep. keepins
his eye glued to the base-hit column and
reaching for a drawer with one hand.
The bartender opened the drawer, pulled
a large loaded revolver out of 1t and tossed
II on the bar.
There you go. Spike" said he to the
rock-faced customer who had announced
his world WEAKNESS. ''Help yourself. Tell
'em that I'll be along meself in about 100
years or So" and he went right on read.
ing,
Two seconds later he heard a terrific ex.
plosion, and then he had to go out and
ring for the dead wagon, for the tough
had blown the whole top OF his head OF.
The barkeep explained to the police that
the castaways were 'butting into his place"
all the time with those announcements, re-
ferring to their leave-takIng Of the world
by their own hands, and that he had kept
the gun in the drawer solely for the pur-
pose of calling their bluffs" He said
that he had handed the pistol out to about
forty maudlin would-be self-destroyers
within a year. and that all Of them upon
sight OF the revolver had taken to their
heels.
He is held for assisting a suicide" all
the same.
What is accounted the greatest horse
show Of the century was the spring turn
out on New York Speedway a few days ago.
There were thousands Of vehicles In line
and tens Of thousands OF spectators viewed
a moving panorama OF New York wealth
u hoisehesh' Uoth shO"y anu sPeeuy' inc
parade revealed one thing among the
others. 1t showed what a hold the pneu-
matte tire has taken on the horse-driving
fraternity.
The Speedway TANKS the Hudson for
miles north OF Harlem. II is one Of the
great show places OF the big town. loved
and patronized by the natives and admired
by visitors. Yet when II was FIRST pro-
posed there was universal objection, not
90 much against the project itself as to
the form II had assumed. That was to
cut a strip from Central Park on the
western side, and for the three miles OF
its length. and give II over to the fast
horses. There we're few willing to lose a
bit from this held OF heavenly rest for the
tired citizens, But when the horsemen
agreed TO a strip OF rocky ledge along the
w,satern hank OF the Harlem river the on.