Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-06
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current Of Life In the
Metropolis.

station raided a number OF joints, captured
126 prisoners and marched them into Magis-
trate Cranes court. When asked by the
astonished magistrate what all this meant,
German said he was trying to suppress vice
On his district. You cannot suppress vice,
for II has existed since the world began"
was Cranes tart remark. Captain German
said meekly that IL the magistrate would
assist him in cleaning his district he would
be very grateful. Crane replied contemptu-
ously that he was not doing police duty. He
then roundly scored German for making
wholesale arrests, declaring that they did
more harm than good, and discharged all
the prisoners, who hooted at the captain
as they left the court room.
Michael Coyne, patrolman of the Delan-
cey street station, is the last candidate for
the life-saver medal. One night recently,
relates the New York Sun, a drunken man
fell into the East river opposite Corlears
street. Coyne saw the struggling man in
the water and plunged in to save him. The
water was, OF course, like ice and the tide
was running rapidly. Coyne knew enough
Of the East river and of the season to know
all that before he Jumped But he also
knew that there was life to save and that
IL was the man on the spot. Coyne reached
his man and attempted to swim ashore with
him. That task was too much for him.
The tide carried him out into the middle
OF the river, but the brave policeman held
on to his man for fully half an hour before
two other policemen in a rowboat reached
him and brought him ashore with his com
panion. Only a short time ago this same
policeman saved the lives of four persons
in tenement house fire. Apparently he
has foo ~ off dra nr COyDp
is a splendid type Of the New York cop"
A collector OF Wall street trihes has as
sembled the nicknames by which the best
known stocks are known in the brokers' Of
fees. Generally speaking, they are mere
abbreviations for economy OF time and
space, but there is a dash of fun In some OF
them. Canadian Pacific is "Canuck;" Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas is shortened to TX.
T." or Katy" Missouri Pacific, Mo. p,
MOP" and Southern Pacific, by a similar
condensation, becomes Soup" Atchison,
Topeka Santa Fe preferred is big Atch"
and the common is Little Atch,'' Just as
tho preferred and common shares OF North
ern Pacific are respectively "Nipper" and
Little Nipper," which, blind as 1t may
seem, Is a pretty close approximation of N.
P. r. r. Ontario g. Western, 20. & W." is
the OlQ woman ana GeOpleb Gdsb lABHb
& Coke is "Postoflce" Toledo, st. Louis
& Western becomes "Tolu" and American
Locomotive 'Choo-Choo' for reasons suf
hciently obvious.l Either "smelts" or
STRIKERS" stands for American Smelling &
Refining, while Chicago. Milwaukee g. st.
Paul is known by both paul and "The
Saint" Colorado Southern. c. x, is still
called "Coxey," and Pennsylvania is OF
course 'Pennsy," just Jersey Central Is
Jersey" and plain Central New York Cen
| trail. Met" stands for Metropolitan Street
Railway and Telegraph" for Western
Union. "Jojo" Is the derivative nickname
for the far western st. Joseph & Grand
Island. Such familiar names as maple
Leaf" Panhandle "Big Four" etc.,
which have been semi i-of1cially adopted by
the respective railroads to which they ap
ply, are also current In the street
Ethel Bowman, who Is 20 years old.
walked for the first time In her life, one
| day last week. She is the daughter OF A.
H. Bowman of Plainield, N. j., and soon
after her birth paralysis developed in her
| ankles As she grew up she managed to
get about the house in braces and on
crutches, but she had to be lifted in and
out Of chairs and to and from her bed.
| A strong nurse was always with her. The
successes Of DR.. Lcrenz reawakened hope
! In Mr.. Bowman, and he had his daughter
| carried to the Hahnemann hospital in New
| York City.
After suitable preparations DR.. G. W.
| Roberts cut the ligaments and tendons
about her ankles. On Thursday the twenty
first day after the operation, the plaster
casts were removed and Miss Bowman was
able to walk. She uses a stick and a
crutch, but says she feels sure she will
soon be able to discard them both and
walk as we'll as Other. people do.
George Bettner OF Bayonne who has a
large collection OF geese and chickens. says
he can recognize any of his fowl. even after
| they are killed and dressed Because OF
this faculty the family of John oshaugh-
messy missed a goose dinner they had
planned.
Bettner went to feed his fock recently
and found the finest goose in the lot had
! been stolen and he determined to have re-
venge He was told by neighbors that the
| o'Shaughnessys were going to have goose
for dinner, and he sought Chief Of Police
Magner.
Then detectives started for the oShaugh-
messy domicile. As they were coming
around the corner Mrs. oshaughnessy
grasped the goose and jumped into bed.
The head of the house declared he had
seen nothing of anybody's goose, but the
youngest child prattled innocently, Mamma
has nice goose for dinner today"
| The detectives made a search They
| found Mrs. o'Shaughnessy in bed, but she
| got up on request The police wrapped
the goose in a newspaper and took It to
headquarters.
The other day a friend said TO James r.
Keene: ''Why do you work so hard? You
| have all the money you should want, and
yet you keep on as hard as when you were
collecting your first million" The veteran
Wall street operator lighted a fresh cigar
and replied: Ever see a young dog chase
a rabbit? He's just as eager after his
second and third as he was after the first
AS the dog grows old he draws all his ex-
perience to his aid. and though he may
lack speed he makes up in fnesse. He dis
plays as much desire TO catch his hundredth
rabbit as he did his first. Catching them
only whets his appetite, but does not glut
It. Say. I'd rather talk horse"
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