Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-20
ROUND ABOUT NEW YonK.
nipples on the Current OF Life In the
Metropolis.

metropolis '
Quite a bunch Of women engaged in
"bucking the tiger in a bucket shop had
their hopes and m~editations rudely Jared
by Il raid OF policemen. who merely con-
hscated the books. The shop was in charge
Of two men, but all the spectators and spec
ulators were mere women. One Of the women
who hung around the corridors had had a
three-point margin on ten shares OF Amcri-
can Bicycle preferred wiped out and needed
a hot Scotch for a bad cold and she was
almost loquacious. She was really the
shrewdest frnancier in the party. for as
soon as the police came she dashed to the
telephone and told an evening newspaper
all about II upon promise Of remuneration
When asked who the traders were she said.
Now II you we're up TO Canfeld's on a
raid you wouldn't think of asking who the
players we're, would you? Well. it's the
same way here. They're all gentlemen at
Canfeld's and wouldn't want their names
in. Here We are all ladies. One Of the
regular patrons is the sister-in-law of a
supreme court judge. She buys 10O-share
lots and sometimes sells short. There isn't
one lady in a million that will sell short.
They haven't got the nerve. You'd be sur
prised IL l told you where some Of us live
and what our names are"
After the hot Scotch referred to above
she went on:
Mrs. Strumel runs the place. She's a
wonderful woman and the widow Of a
jeweler. Sometimes she says she's a Jap,
then a Spaniard and her last story was
that she is a Brazilian, but ehe's a wonder
full octoroon. Her father was a white man.
She is making lots of money and her am
bition is to get into the SWEETEST society in
New York. She already lives in the finest
apartment house on Central Park West,
and only the other day she went to a meet
ing of the Eclectic club as a guest of one
Of the fashionable members"
That New York has been Disseminated
against by the railroads is the contention of
the members Of the Produce exchange com
mittee on freight rates and terminal
charges. who met the New York City mem
bers of the legislature one day last week
and asked their support for a bill intended
to benefit the port of New York. The com
mittee said that there had been a steady
decline in the percentage OF exports from
New York during the last twenty-nine
years and presented a chart, which showed
that, with 100 per cent representing the
total exports from the six ports Of New
York, Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
folk and Newport News, the exports of flour
from New York decreased from 20 per cent
in 1878 to rs per cent in 1901; in wheat, from
63 per cent to SO per cent, and in corn, AZ
per cent to 20 per cent in the same period.
The proposed bill provides, in substance,
that rates charged by common carriers for
transportation OF passengers or property,
and for all criminal charges, shall be Just
and reasonable, and that there shall be
no discrimination between shippers, and
prohibits any differential or greater rate
than is charged for the same service by
the same carriers, or under an agreement
with other carriers to any Atlantic port
outside the state. It also provides for a
hearing before the Board Of Railroad Com
missioners for violations of the law, and
confers upon the board, in such cases,
power to fix the rate for the future.
Daniel j. Fogarty, a New York rounds
man, has received notice from the secretary
OF the treasury that congress has voted
to him a medal in appreciation of his brav-
cry in saving lives. Since he was APP
pointed to the police force in 1895 Fogarty
has saved five persons from drowning. He
is the third policeman since the organiza-
ton Of the metropolitan force to receive a
congressional medal.
Fogarty already has FIVE medals for life
saving, two from the Life Saving Benevo-
lent association Of New York, two from the
Volunteer Life Saving association Of New
York, and an honorable mention medal from
the police department.
Fogarty started making a record the first
year he Joined the force. One cold January
night he jumped into the Harlem river
and hauled out a Roman Catholic priest who
had been seized with vertigo and fallen off
a pier. Fogarty has never told the name
Of the priest.
Fogarty was riding on a West Farms car
on July %, 1896, when he saw a man fall
into the river from a new dock. Fogarty
ran out on the Harlem bridge and, when
he saw that the man couldn't swim, jumped
into the river. He saved the man, who was
James Harvey, a steamftter OF Albany.
Fogarty saved another man from drown
ing in January Of the same year. He had
been transferred to the Bicycle squad and
was riding down First avenue, near Ninety
eighth street, when he heard cries. This
time 1t was William O'Toole, a fireman,
who was a little the worse for drink. In
diving into the river Fogarty's leg struck
a spike. He got O'Toole alongside the pier,
but had about abandoned hope of either OF
them getting out when two other police
men appeared and pulled them both out.
His fourth rescue was Of Johnnie Grove,
a little East Side child. He fell from his
mothers lap at the foot of Peck slip on a
Sunday afternoon. Fogarty and child were
carried by the current to the Brooklyn
bridge, where they were picked UP by a
tug. The fifth person he saved was an
East Side child, also.
Fogarty is 30 years Of age.
A young woman followed by a valuable
terrier, was walking through a downtown
street several days ago, relates the Evening
Post: Suddenly, the dog was missing, swal-
W. by the earth, the young woman
thought, so quickly had it disappeared.
After a vain search Of the nel~ghborhood,
the young woman went to a nearby police
station, where she enlisted the services OF
a ''plain clothes man. The detective led
her through several streets, stopping every
now and then to ask pedestrians il they
had seen a stray dog. Finally a woman
in a tenement doorway In West street
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