Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11

.SURFE|T OF CRIMSON
eotbamitss Rkevsling in Sen
sational- Events.
YELLOW PRESSES BUSY
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DEMONSTRATION OF RACIAL
FEELING m T IA ELIAS CASE.
New Turf Plungsf From the West
Gruesome DiIher Over Violent
Death OF Gambler.
Special Correspondence, Of The Evening Star.

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Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW york, June 10, 1901
For more than ten days now little old
callous, unheedful and fugacious New York
has been reveling in, a veritable cacophony
OF crimson headlines. The yellow presses
have groaned under the fierce strain of
throwing out .wuxtrys'' every ten min
utes. The saturnaHa of block-typed sala-
ciousness began when a doddering octo-
genarian accused snegress of having ex-
torted from him sum approaching three
quarters of a million dollars. Then Pitts
burg millionaire. going into the substituting
business on an heroic scale, wrenched his
children from the side of their mother at
noted New York hotel, and went rocket
ing with them to Denver. where he prompt
ly entered suit for divorce against his
wife. Then pulchritudinous bookmaker
was found dying in a hanson cab from a
bullet wound with an apple-cheeked ex-
Florodora girl seated alongside HIM. How
the town has wallowed in the details.
All New Workers. will smugly, tell you
how they deplore and despise the yellow
journalism of New York. While the New
Yorker is telling you this a newsboy with
fifteen or twenty pounds Of still inky SAT-
from "WuxtryS" goes scuttling by. The
New Yorker who despises and deplores the
towns yellow journalism halls the boy and
buys armful of yellow journals You
mutter something about his inconsistency.
oh" says the New Yorker who re-
CARDS yellow journalism as a great modern
evil but the impossible stuff that the
gory-inked papers print diverts me. Just
pick 'em up, you know, down town, and
marvel over the shreking sanguinary
headlines. and wonder what the deuce and
all are coming to when hundreds Of
thousands of readers of such insensate
bosh can be found-and then 1 toss EN-
away. A fellows got to keep up even
with the evils of the times. Wouldn't
have one of those papers kicking around
my home. though. for any money"
But the yellow papers are to be found
kicking around tens of thousands or
New York homes, just the same If the
men fail to bring them home the women
folk get them themselves or send out for
them. 1t would be a stark perversion OF
the truth to claim that the average New
York woman doesn't Delight in the fiaring
red headlines. The home-returning New
York man who carries to his fiat batch
of respectable eyeriiug newspapers fails
far short of making a. hit with the feminine
branch of his faafly4% They toss over the
bundle of evening papers that drip with no
carmined atrocitfes,ssand poutinsly inquire
of the home-retUrned, male why he has
been so selfish as to- bring home papers
for his own reading only.
Strong .HHCS ISClihS.
The demonstrate oas> around the home of
the negress accused OF blackmail on CO.
lossal scale furnished ;a99sgnificant line upon
the strong race feeling that has developed
in this town during the past decade. Great
crowds of snrly psese hung around the wo-
mans fine 'parkt ffonAtbg residence until the
doors were BIZ ttef ed VII and She was arrest
ed, and squadrouS Of mounted policemen
had all they, could do to handle these ugly
crowds. The unwise. negro men who mixed
in with these crowds were quickly singled
out and drubbed or tSent scuttling across
the park lawns.
When the woman was being conveyed
from the Tombs to the magistrates court
on the day of her preliminary examination
a riot seemed very imminent Men climbed
on to the steps of the carriage and bawled
threateningly at her. and some of them
even attempted to strike her, but were
dragged away by the police. 1t was a cow
ardly exhibition, but it would appear to go
far toward proving the contention Of inf1u-
entail and level-headed southerners resid-
ing here, that the race feeling is becoming
quite as strong in the north as 1t is in the
south. The men who attempted to mob the
Elias woman were not hOodlums or roughS
in appearance. On the contrary, they
were quite an average lot of hither and yon
New Workers of the streets.
The New York negro who values his Gu
tice has been compelled to LAT low in
this town for number of years. He Is la
BILE to be mobbed by the whites even for an
exhibition of moderate boisterousness. Sew
eral savage conflicts between whites and
blacks have taken place right In the heart
of New York within the past five years,
and it is known fact that the BLACK
Tenderloin" of New York is three times
heavily guarded by the police as any other
distinctive section of New York on account
of the wel-grounded fear of the author
tiles of the constant danger OF race riots.
The underlying reason for all of this Is
nrn Ia h IA fla nf ha ri
known as 'dead-game sports are more in
evidence in New York than in any other
American city. They are often offensive
in their public conduct, and the self-re-
specting, well-mannered people of their race
living in New York have to suffer for them.
New York. too, is the refuge to which many
negro criminals from all of the United
States flee when pursued by the law, and
the leavening influence for evil OF blacks of
this type makes for the distrust and ami
mostly with which the entire negro popula-
ton of the town Is unfairly regarded by
the lower middle class whites Of New York.
The Newest Turf Plunger.
The great white light which beats upon
the form Of the newest turf plunger now
brings out the conformation of Joe" Yea
ger, a youth from out Of the west, who has
become welded to the winning habit in
most astonishing fashion. Yeager is boy
ish-looking chap-and. come to think of it,
good many OF the dazzling turf piungerS
of the past have been boyish-looking chaps
at the outset of their plunging careers.
He is we'll under thirty. He has the pallor
of a school girl suffering from an excessive
diet of pickles and slate pencils. although
his health is excellent He chews a great
deal of gum, and he Knows how to keep
still in any number Of modern languages.
He bets all the way from $4,000 to $50
600 in the course OF an afternoon of racing,
and he wins good deal oftener than he
loses. Two years. ago. last winter he left
New Orleans with aEticket for Hot Springs
and a two-dollar note Inside of four days
after his arrival at Hot Springs he had
taken $4,000 from the Hot Springs pool
rooms causing several Of them to perma-
nently put up the~skHtters.
Now they say that he has pat million,
and $3.50, 600 invested 10 securities that are
as good as wheat in the shed. The only
advice to which he bearkens in making his
tremendous wagers Us that of one Joe"
Yeager. Mobs Off frenzied men follow him
like mad over the betting rings, crazy to
find out what young Joseph is playing
And whatever iYeager plays" several
thousand of race-goerS who find out about
it play also. Which Is why the book
makers doing business around here are
wishing that young Mr.. Yeager would go
away somewhere. 1t is grueling enough to
be manhandled and misused day after day
by the astute plunging youth himself, but
when a whole grandstand filed with peo-
pie "go to" Mr. Yeagers picks with the
rent money and the installment hold-out