Evening star., 1903-08-01


| of brusque personality and bea like man.
ners. is nevertheless the most unostenta-
| tiousfy charitable man In New York IL not,
indeed in the United States His charities
| in this city mount up into the millions and
they are such practical affairs as lying in
hospitals for poor women. training schools
| for boys and girls, and that sort OF thing
MIR Morgan, too. Is noted for his loyalty 10
| his friends. He expends all of his time in
| attending strictly and exclusively to his
| own business. He spends his income here
| with a prfnceiy hand. and he asks nothing
else at the hands Of the general New York
! pubhc than that they let him alone And
yet the ghoulish glee plainly exhibited all
! over New York when IT was thought by the
/ light-mfnded that he had hft a lee finapcial
shore last week was patent to the most cas-
ual observer
| New York has about given up hope that
| John Rockefeller will ever go broke and
be compelled to join the white wings out
| ft-but how the town would chortle with
merriment over the spectacle OF busted
| Rockefeller For one thing New York
| doesn't like Mr.. Rockefeller because he
isn't dead game sport" For another.
| they think II Is exceedingly selfish not
| to say real mean. on Mr.. Rockefellers part
| to eestow large gobs Of his oil money
| souged out OF the e-pur'-upon a Chi.
| cago university-Chicago the Idee, Fl.
| naliy. New York. whole. strongly dis
approves OF Mr.. Rockefeller because he
goes to church weak. milk and watery
sort OF thing. going to church. for q man
of Rockefeller's millions the New York.
ers take it-why isn't he raising the deuce
and getting a run for his money?
There's one speculative millionaire over
here. however. whom the New Workers Ike
SO much that they are really quite wiling
that he should hang on to his riches and
| not go broke-John W. Gates. Mr.. Gates
! is a Chicago man. but New Workers are
willing to overlook that because Mr. Gates
Is a dead game and because he spends
most of his time in New York. anyhow.
New York admires. not to say reverences,
Mr. Gates because that syritmgnf loving
gentleman plays the ponies'-he'll II stand
to lose S1tO.0U on a l to shot quickly
az a Park Row beanery waiter will tap
himself to the tune of s. on l@ to 1
chance-he likes heavy late feeds. he
doesn't mind taking a peek from boA at
a prize fight. he knows hull lots of actors
and actorinss by their first names. he
makes sudden mysterious voyages to
Pars-oh. there's no use in talking at ALL
admringly pants the New Yorker. Johnny
Gates gets the good out o his dough. Con-
sequently New York would feel right cut
up over it. New York would. If on some
fine day Mr.. Gates should be compelled to
ask for job on the police force or for
billet as letter carrier.
There's just way for he millionaire
to make hit with the New Yo-.,e.s. and
that's to go the distance" A millionaire
who lunches on graham waters and milk.
like Mr.. Rockefeller. can never hope to
win the slap-on-the- back regard Of this
dead game community. But ii Mr.. Rookie
| feller were to take it into his head to ac-
cumuiate Colossal champagne 1aS-Wltn
what riotous reverence DO they regard tho
champagne jag In this town,-and wind up
in the Tenderloin station. bowling for a
bunch of piano movers. policemen and
! longShoremen to make their instant appear
ance and get their blocks knocked Off
why. Mr.. Rockefeller would awaken in his
cell on the following morning to find HIM
self beloved and cherished by several mil~
lions of Greater New Workers..
A Mere Bite.
Careless Mag McGlone. Mag. who is
seventeen and a member OF several or the
East Side perfec' loidies' associations. went
in bathing In Coney's sobful surf the other
afternoon The poor child hadn't been in
the water more than two hours before she
was took with a cramp.'' as her friends
expressed 1t. A coast guardSman had 10
pull Mag out of the water-she was almost
drowned-and she was rolled over barrei
and subjected to quite few other indel-
cate fndignities before her breath was re-
stored to her.
"Wot's de matter wit youse. sis?" Mag's
friends said to her when she was at
length brought back to life. 'Youse must
ha' bin eatin somethin' wot didn't 80
right hey?
me?" was Miss Mc(ilene's so-newhat viva
ciOus reply Il had me lunch before l went
into de water. but wot % dat? didn
eat nothin' but four deviied crabs. some
cucumbers. tree chocolate eclairs, TWO
glasses o. milk "A hunk o peach pie.
slab o. watermelon an a dish o. ice cream
Dey wasn't nothin' in dat little snack e
holt nobody was dey? Not on yr nachul!
De trouble wit me was dat 1 went de dip
too soon after chewin'-dats all
And they agreed with her, although
medical man who arrived on the scene IN
t;,sn to listen to Mas's recapitulation Of
her MONDAY reflection, was observed 70
press his hands To his waistoanh III |
shocked sort Of way as Miss Mc'il"ne nIo,
ceeded with the recital OF what she hfd
"et.'
Absolutely New.
Naw York crooks continue to ai.'piay
their ingenuity in devising new schemes. a
piano tuner thief is the latest couple OF
years ago this crook-who has betn mug
ged'' pre4ty nigh all over the United states
as Il porch climber and hotel sneak-hotceu
that il is habit among a great MANY
nervous New York women to leave th'lr
apartments or homes whenever the piano
tuner comes around, not being able 70 en-
dure the banging on the Keys when 'he
tuner finds necessary to the aGco'ipiiSlr-
ment of his task The crook straightway
took instructions in piano tuning and be-
came an adept at the work. Then he DRUM
med up, by personal visits. hrst-cidlSs
route at rich apartments and houses. fis
got the piano tuning business at "A lot or
apartmentS and homes the mis- ,reSSeI OF
which incontiHentiy fled to save their
nerves when the piano tuner made his Vsit,
and when careless servants turned their
bac he had ample opportunity to ransack
these establishments. He was a bland,
moon faced. innocent-looking chap, who
affected a disarming German accent and he
figured correctly when he calculated mat
the hard-working piano tuner would be the
last individual to be suspected OF 1ewei
thafts on large scale. As a matter or
fact, he never was suspected until last
week when the mistress of a swagger
apartment returned suddenly to get sone-
thing that she had forgotten on going out
and caught the piano tuner in the act or
Stuffing he contents of her jewel chest into
his tool Satchei. New Workers possessed
of vaiuabies find It hard to keep abreast Of
the new ones that the crooks over this way
are thinking up all the time. q. l.. Z.
IS IT HABITp