Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12
WOULOSPL|T B|GROLL
Alleged Heirs to Property
Worth Billions
IN HARLEM DISTRICT
REsTAURATEURs9 HAVE NEW
PROBLEM TO SOLVE. ...
Strange Young Murderess, Veritable
e-Devil-Interesting New
York Gossip.

Special Correspondents Of The Ev enins Star.
NEW YORK, December 8, 1903.
whats the use Of being piker?" the
Hon. Timothy Dry Dollar Sullivan inquired
on a famous occasion. thereby making an
interrogative maxim.
That maxim with the query mark meets
with the Endorsement Of many thousands of
cheerful workers over here who spend
twenty-five hours day, 30 to speak. in de-
vising schemes wherewith to make some
thing out of nothing-to lift themselves by
the bootstraps to the upper ether of affiu-
enceI Few Of these planners. nowadays,
go in for the chickenfeed'-lap pipes. that
is to say, to annex 1.-The small money"
They scorn the methods of the ''pikers."
To employ their own confidential express
sion, it's a case Of coping out a big bank
roll or nothing at ALL with them. and their
contempt for the artful dodgers who scheme
for the smaller and more inconseQuential
change Is variously blithe and bitter.
Now, there is nothing Of the ''piking"
spirit in the scheme lately brought to the
light here by little group of pleasant
faced but shrewd-eyed young men who an
lem away from the ownership and control
of Greater New York and make private dis
tribution Of all Harlem property as 1t
stands to the rightful heirs of the same.
This plan is certainly no mean or sordid
undertaking. There are quite a number Of
square miles Of Harlem. and Harlem prop
erty Is sold by the foot, and commands very
large prices per foot. 1t Is most cOnserva-
lively estimated that Harlem, as 1t stands.
is worth considerably more than three bill
lions of dollars.
1t will Immediately be seen, therefore,
that the young gentlemen who intend to
separate Greater New York from the north
ern end of it's domain are not permitting
fn nf-ao OF hatt sine
or dreaming powers.
Only About 40, 900 Heirs.
The generous catholicity Of their scheme
will be the better understood when 1t Is
stated that there is said to be about 10000
heirs to this Harlem section Of New York,
most Of the 10000. oddly enough. still re-
siding in or around New York.
The young men who intend to split up the
So ,OOO. 600, 600 worth Of land for the benefit
OF the 10000 heirs called q meeting which
was held In Harlem the other afternoon, of
all persona male and female having GER
tain old Knickerbocker names-ouite COM
mon and everyday Knickerbocker names
they seemed to be, too. Something like
5000 Of the possessors OF these names re-
sponded to the call.
They were a well-clad and a prosperous
looking lot of people. for the most part.
When they were assembled a young man
them and told them all about the fight he
was about to undertake to hand over Har-
lem to them and the rest of the 4O,000 folks
to whom Harlem rightfully belonged.
The most pessfnistic onlooker could
easily see that those young men with the
tkree-billion scheme are assuredly in the
way Of making good thing out of the
distribution and parceling out of Harlem.
A New Problem to Be Solved.
Is a restaurateur responsible financially
for damages inflicted upon this raiment Of
his guests by drunken waiter9 That is
problem that is about to be sifted in
answers the question with an emphatic no,
but he tempestuouslyi asserts that he will
carry the natter to the Supreme Court of
the United States before he will pay one
cent. fod 70
But he is a notoriously stormy restau-
rateur, grown gloweringly arrogant from
the patronage of the rich, and it IL not
likely that, when he cools out. he will do
any such thing, no matter IL the New York
court decides against him, as 1t decidedly
ought to, from every reasonable and decent
point of view.
A lady was dining with her husband at
this restaurateurs establishment-a place
II equented almost exclusively by the haute
ton-when, In serving the bouillon, the
waiter, who had been serving at a private
banquet during the afternoon and was
consequently unsteady on his legs, swayed
and deposited most Of the contents of two
bowls OF the hot boutllon in tho lady's lap.
She was wearing costume for which her
husband had sent away a check for $500
only few days before. That the bouillon
did not improve the costume goes without
saying.
Now the lady's husband has entered suit
against the restaurateur for the value of
the ruined frook. and the restaurstsar 10