Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-19

Five Points one Of the famous haunts
of crime I'm New York, follows Mulberry
Bend to destruction. The last Of the build
ings in that locality is being pulled down
and In few years the ground will be
transformed into a park The Five Points
park will connect with Mulberry Bend and
Paradise parks, forming group OF breath
ing spots in what was the most congested
district in the big city.
The fact that the Jewish boys and girls
Of New York capture a large majority of
the prizes and medals offered in the public
schools Is again made apparent in the list
OF honors Just made public by the faculty
OF the College OF the City of New York.
The following are the names of the honor
students who are TO deliver oratons at the
commencement exercises to be held in Car
negie hall: Arnold Jacobnitz. Morris weis-
enberg. George Frankenthaler, Isadore
Crater. Henry c. Moses and Simon c.
Grudburg.
There is lonesome looking Samuel w.
Paterson in the list and people are wonder
ing how he got there
A Brooklyn man who was struck by light
ming one day last week says the experience
is not half so terrifying as the contempla-
sneaked up behind me and hit me with a
piece OF two-by-four," he says. II had just
gone under the tree to walt for the shower
to pass. and my son was under another
and smaller tree about fifty feet distant.
Suddenly 1 felt as though 1 was going UP,
up. up. could neither speak nor move.
And there lay, unable to do a thing My
son, who had been felled to his knees by
the shock. was soon up and came running
to me 1 could not move a muscle. They
brought me home in a carriage, and after
time my speech came back 1 have not
yet, however, recovered the full use of my
legs"
A gas company has discovered that IL is
not running New York. 1t shut off the gas
Of Walter E. Cransdell because he would
not pay 70 cents charged against the man
who had occupied the apartment before
him.
Mr.. Cransdell sued for $50, which was the
amount of penalty for the period during
which the service was denied him. The
gas company fought the case, but It has
now paid him the $3.50 and enough in costs
to bring It's loss up to $500.
Mr.. Cransdell pocketed his check with the
remark. There is no law for highway rob-
berry In this country whether the bludgeon
10 USED OF gas meter.
There is no subject about which the aver
age New York magistrate is not able or
willing to give advice. The arrest of boy
for snatching a woman's chatelaine bag led
Magistrate Crane to suggest in lecture
to the complainant that all women wear
their money in little bags hung about their
necks, or in pockets made on the left side
of their waists. They can have the pock-
cts on the inside, IL necessary, and they
should get over being 80 ultra-fashlonable
as to subordinate the safety of their prop
erty to considerations of style, the magts-
trate said. 1t seems that the woman in
the case was not certain that the little fel-
low who was hauled to court was the boy
who had taken her chatelaine. and this
caused the worthy magistrate thus to an
imadvert upon feminine failings: "womens s
carelessness Is the cause of a great deal of
trouble in the world. They have no idea OF
law. and they rush their troubles into
| court on the spur of the moment, and in
volve innocent parties through their care
| lessness. Women should be made to think,
and they should be compelled to wear their
| money and jewels in secret pockets. If
these two things were carried out we would
have fewer cases of mistaken Identity and
hlched pocketbooks on the docket"
William Dean Howells-the dean of
American letters" he has lately been called
-strolled one evening through the tender
Ioin" of New York Stout broad and look
ing very we'll dressed in his loose English
clothes, Mr.. Howells glanced from right to
left incessantly. He seemed to wish to see
everything. policeman whom he knew
saluted him and said: II suppose you're
strolling about here, Mr.. Howells, picking
up character, eh2" "Well, no, not exactly"
returned the author, though plenty of
that is lost about here. I'm told"
II YOU feel like indulging in the extrava-
Rance of a 81 cigar there is dealer
who can supply It to you. He has just
receiyed a consignment of 1900 of them'
on which he paid duty OF SO cents each.
The tobacco of which they are made Is
grown In the Vuelta Abajo district of Cen
trail Cuba, and the plant is the result OF
wears of cultivation. Perfect leaves only
are used, and the cigars, each sixteen
inches long are rolled by experts who
make only eight day
CITY oficials in New York whose duties
rsouira them to visit various places are
taking to the automobile as means OF 10
comotion. the city paying the bills In some
cases. Police Commissioner Greene makes
his rounds regularly in one OF these ma
chimes as do several other department
haods An auto has been purchased Tor