The sun., 1903-06-20
TALBOT OFkLITRUDBER PLANT
now Could 4 HEARTLESS NAN
TAKE 1T FROM Mrs. ROSE?
with II Weat the Joy Of Spring From West
Thirty.nfth strert-And the :. .Par'or
Portiere and the Brass Ss0ofpinte
and the New Lock Went Before II.

Thirty-ffth street. and somebody stole
her rubber plant. That isn't all that che
has had stolen from her--not by a good
deal But that rubber plant meant lot
TO her. One Of her roomers gave 1t TO her
five wears ago. and she thought an awful
lot Of it.
But to skip four years, the story OF MRS
Roses case against the police may well
begin with the man she hired TO clean on
the sidewalk. for a5 cents. a year ago last
fall. He was just awful, but he looked
so honest and NO anxious to make some
money, and seemed 40 big: and. anyway.
il always did seem a shame that men who
wanted to work shouldn't have chance
TO work, so she hired him. And he
Just knocked a little snow on the top,
and then he came up to tho door,
Just as impudent "a he could be. and
said he wanted his 35 cents, which
he couldn't have because he hadn't
earned it, and Mrs. Rose told him as much
and then he tried to kick the front door in
and Maggie was scared and 30 was Mrs.
Rose and they tried to shut him out Of the
outside doors and he knocked her up against
the door and he talked real rough and
Mrs. Rose called to boy in the street and
told him to go for policeman and several
of the neghbors came out into the street
hut when they were asked to help they
lust said that it was just what anybody
m light expect who hired drunken man
and she shouldn't have done it and those
bows were gone whole hour before they
could find policeman and when he came
the man was gone anyway, but that shows
just how trying it is to live in neighbor-
hood where the police are 80 careless
Skipping almost a year, then, Of less
important Incidents. comes the episode OF
the light brown negro (who looked almost
like white NAM and the parlor portiere.
Mrs. Rose was just coming UP stairs at
half past in the morning when she saw
this young coored man who was so light
he wa. almost white walking out the front
door with suit case in his hand and she
called to him and said. Here. there, where
are you going?- and he answered that he
had some clothes for Mr. Aggers and there
was letter on the hatrack for Mr.. Ag-
gares, but OF course. quick as he was he
didn't know how to pronounce the name
and g. she just said to him:
"Now YOU open that dress suit case riph.
here before me" and he acted like he didn't
want to do IT, hut that didn't make any
tlHeTtlCSs H. IldNl w wv " O'''ouSe- p''IiV
aren't allowed 10 wall, in and out of houses
in hat FREQ and easy way. and he opened
it and W hat do You suplnse? There was
one of the parlol Tnrtieres in that suit
case
We'll. he said that there were lots Of
taken and she had better go hack and
500 whether the parlor nrtier"s were
missing but she didn't. shc ms, went
out in fron' and called for. the polce. and
there were three mon standing out in front
Of the Gnrrick Theatre. and they nom. OF
them did thing and that man just walked
out into the street free man, and II Is
awful annoying when the police don't
attend to their business and really she
kept watch for a week after that and It
was every BIT OF a week before police
man passed the house.
Coming down to the present summer
and passing over the explanation OF how
there happened to be two Yale locks on the
two front doors and how they came to cost
81 and how the keys Of one Of them were
all lost and she came to the habit of leaving
the outer door open IN the summer any
way. 1t is sufficient to record that some ore
stole the Yale lock from the outer door.
Likewise. a week later the brass plate
Under the belpull on the lower door and
even II they did ring the bell in prylng the
plate on nobody seems to pay any atten-
iion to 1t and you know how it il when the
bell rings late at night and everybody ~
asleep and nobody hears IT ring second
time.
But the rubber plant. 1t was a lovely
plant indeed it was and attracted atten-
lion all through the street and since IT has
been gone numbers Of the neighbors have
! told how they missed IT so because IT mds
so beautiful and stood six feet high and was
lust as straight as bee and had three
new branches this spring Just above
the middle and since the outer door
has been kept open It has been kept stand
IL, ii ri nnH oil NJ
doorway with green and was very pleasant
| and made the entrance 40 attractive that
| all the boarders were almost as much at
| tached to it. as Mrs. Rose was, and indeed
it wa. only day or two since Mr. Ureamer.
nine years, told her she ought really to keep
It in the backyard, because somebody
might steal 1t, but nobody ever really
thought that anybody would steal rubber
plant Of a. things and ;th at er,ond o"look ond Mr.
saw 1t there and they both commented on
ts being such lovely plant.
Oh. dear And at twenty minutes past
s.d =, minutes Rsst 90 " on inc -,s.
because know You're tired" and she was,
poor girl, and Mrs. Rose looked out the
front door and the r-u-b-b-e-r p-l-a-n-t
w-a-s g-o-n-e'
She went right out to md a policsemaI,
| and IL was almost an hour before she found
one and that is the way it always is
| and she told him about it and he said: -Im
sorry madam. but can't make any report
| of that for you unless you write it out and
she didn't know anything about police
| matters and had never been in station
| house in her life 80 she wrote II out.
| Mrs. Rose had some desultory disc'ssiors
| with the cab drivers opposite. There wore
only three Of them. and they all said they
didn't know anything about it,, but how
| could anybody have got that rubber plant
| awav If there wasn't a cab to,take it away
! in' TIE night passed and in the morning
she went out to try to and the police stat ion,
although she had ncver been in such place
| in her li'c. She did find policeman, then,
| on Sixth avenue.
| Mrs Rose walked right UP to him and
! said she wanted to know where the police
station was, because she had never been in
! such a place and couldn't he expected to
know where it was. and he looked at her
the q',eerest way and said; Madam, do
| YOU want NE to take you there?" and she
said no she didn't, all she wanted to know
| was how to get there and he said What's
! the matter?" and she lust told him that she
wanted to tell somebody how negligent
| the police were around there and then he
was rcal polite and told her where the
| station wns.
The man in tho station. she supposed
| hr was the Judge. hut didn't know because
she didn't know anything about police
st atons. hecause she had never had any