Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
COTHAM|TES VULGAR
Displayed a Characteristic
Over Maybrick Landing.
WENT TOPEEK AND PEER
UNIQUE WoMEN's HOTEL IN
THRoEs OF ANOTHER STRIKE.
Wealthy New Workers Planning a
Colossal Amusement Enterprise
for Manhattan Beach.
WENTTOPEEK AND PEER

| faded, bent little woman. with silver
! streaked nair, the gray pallor of fifteen
years of prison life upon her features. ar
| rived in New York on transatlantic
| steamer the other day 1t was not con-
ceivable, except to born and bred New
Workers, that this broken woman would af-
ford much of a spectacle upon her debaik X
| alton She had not a remnant of
beauty left to reveal 10 them. She merely
had the soaring mark upon her of a bitter
expia ton, embracing the sweetest and most
potential years of life, of a crime Of
which more than half the world holds her
innocent Her one idea and hope was that
she might be allowed 10 keep under cover
| in once more setting foot on her native
soil. a wounded animal sinking into d
thicket, could make no more pltl1ul an
appeal to generous minds than the Specta-
Gle of this shattered woman ende3vorinG to
effect an unobserved landing liz the country
of her birth after enduring decade ana
half OF acute misery in Il foreign prison.
Yet the crowd that StOrmed the gates
of the pier at which the steamer carry
ing her tied up WAS greater III numDers,
and infinitely greater III TIE spirit OF Fu!-
gar, unresuained curiosity, than that when
turned out to watch the landing or Pflnce
Henry. 1t was a crowd composed chief!y
of women and girls-two OF them 10 one
man. The pier employees and the police
were powerless against them Even Ne"
York COPS cannot use their iocusts at
random upon surging mob of lnslstent'
curious women. Perhaps one woman III
every five had camera along with her.
They swept the male guardians of the pier
before them like onrushlng Dahoineyau
army and overran boxes, bales, baggage ana
all intercepting obstacles. They were tnere
to peek and peer at and Snap-Shoot Hltle
wrath of an American woman VINO hau
done time in an English prison on the
charge of having poisoned her husoaAi'
and they would not be denied
When. after all of the other passengers
of the steamer had debarked, n pallid
ticket-of-leave woman finally appeared at
the top of the gangway, the clatter or
tongues was as sharp and high as the YER
bal voleying of the stage mob OF women
sneering at the hgure OF the guiiiotihe
bound woman in the tumbril, in recent
play No attempt to soft-pedal their re-
marks was made by the mob. In high
pitched key they picked apart the details
of the woman's appearance; as. haitlngly;
and with an expression half of pain and
half of fear, she stood at the head of the
gangway. waiting for an arm to lean upon
before descending to the pier TIL snap
ping of the camera shutters was like the
muted rattle of distant musketry. 1t was
a mean, common, CJntenlptible scene. Sew
ere! of the women had provided themselves
with scissors, with which, as Mrs. May
brick passed them, they attempted to snip
pieces from her skirt-grisly souvenirs for
a feminine den or coy corner one would
imagine. There were not lacking some
raucous-voiced women who. after the mer-
est glance at the ticket-of-leave woman's
countenance, gave audible expression to
their belief in her guilt.
The saffron sheets of New York took ex-
traordnary measures to cover the
rival in New York of the ticket-of-leave
woman. and they are still covering her
Hypothetical movements and utterances to
the tune of pages of their editions.
A Spirit of Low Cunning.
Animated by spirit of low cunning.
these papers jumped to tie conclusion
when Mrs. Maybrick took the steamer on
the other side for New York, that she and
her attendai is would play some sort of a
cheap trick in order 10 escape intrusion
upon arriving here. So they took measures
to patrol every point at which it would have
been barely possible for Mrs. Ma ybrick to
have been landed before the arrival of the
steamer at the dock. Their sleuths We're
sen. out to sea in ocea1-going tugs Some
of them lowered about Fire Island on the
chance, 1t may be, that Mrs. Maybri k
might take it into Eer head to iumD over
board and swim to the island when the 1-es
sci passed within ten or fifteen miles of
thar sighting point. Others hung about the
scotland hghtship: to see whether Mrs.
M2ybrick would be taken off there and
given asylum until she could be s,nuegIad
10 Ia ~ under cover of darkness. Others n;
The yel!oWS representatives kept a kaep
tS upoil titt movements OF all of hn nil
boats, to see that none Of them skunk ont
into the open, met the steamer and oroL
Del Mrs. Maybrick through her state room
port. i0oiii
There were watchers galore for the SAT-
irons at the quarantine Station too ~
photographers for the shrieking Sheets in
leaving their offices, wee told that tba,,
might just as well commit suicide as tn re-
u turn without snapshots of Mrs. Maybrici
In every imaginable and unina ginabIe Nos
ture. More than a dOZe1 of these epan
sEotters slept all night on the brownstone
steps OF the house across the way from the
pLptetehtlous motel at which Mrs Nav
Dfick was booked to stop upon her arrival
in New York "
some of the photographers succeeded in
getting views of Mrs. Mayhrck, but ali Of
the yellow sheets, whether their phOtog-
raphers had been successful or not ~
,Lshed all sorts of photographs OF Mrs
Idaybrlck, taken by our staff nhotog
raphers. Mrs. Maybrick did not converse
win n single newspaper man in New Yorl,
upon her debarkatiOn. nor has she vet caiJ
a ltary word for publication. But unnn
the day of her arrival. the yeliows had her
oapnnhg IKE monograph fitted MARION
cue, ana Trey are keeping her babbIe I'M
riSht down to the present moment of time
Ihey are all publishing exclusive inter.
views with her in each and every edition
and some of them are still sl,pniernantina,
these weirdly fakish ''interyieyvs' Wiz
other sets of views of Mrs MAVERICK thai
look IKE composite pictures of Lydia Pink
Hdm tafrie Nation and Mary Ellen Lease
There's no necessity for these voting CON
tests rs to which flower or plant hest
symbolizes New York It's the ruhhar
plant and none other
Strike at the Women's Hotel.
There's annother strike on at the Martha
washington Hotel, that famous caravan
sary built and operated exclusively for wo-
men, The chambermaids have gone out in
body. Their grievance is that the two
dozen bell boys, the only male creatures
employed about the hotel were recently
discharged and their jobs given to two
dozen bell girls. The chambermaids sun
ported and sustained by their able chief
tainess, the housekeeper aver that the
hotel is too lonesome without the occa-
sional feeting glimpse of trousered beings
scooting through the halls. and they de-
mand the reinstatement of the bell bows as
the only condition under which they will
return to work. The striking chambermaids
declare that the bell girls, who are clad i'm
short black dresses with stiff collars look
ike an orphan asylum on parade in the
park. and give the hotel an ASPECT of
gloom.
THE bell girls look dismal enough" re-
marked the defiant housekeeper, who struck
with the chambermaids under her. ..but
when one of them wants to find a puest
and goes about the corridors calling ont
the name or room number of the guest who
is wanted it's something fierce 1t sounds