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

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Stirring Incidents and Scenes.
Here is a curious corollary of the recent
epidemic of automobile stoning in New
York. The superintendent and :reasurers
of the various charitable organizations of
New York report that their receipts from
wealthy persons of benevolent dispositions
have fallen oft alarmingly. The given rea-
son is that the wealthy subscribers to char
tiles, most or all of whom are AUTOMOBILE
lists, are announcing that they are through
giving of their substance to people who
chuck rocks and sticks at them when they
go through the streets of the poor in their
motor cars. Now, through the newspape
the heads of charitable outfits are beseech-
ing the rock and stick throwers to let the
automobiles alone, else many deserving
charitable establishments will infallibly go
to the wall through lack of funds from the
wealthy to sustain them. From which 1t
may be inferred that cause and effect are
mighty closely hitched tandem mates In
this town.
A singularly stirring scene took place at
one of the most solid and conservative
clubs in New York the other night the
sion was banquet to a Chinese prince
now touring the United States number
of japanese naval officers were present.
One of them. who had been educated at An
nspolis. asked the three hundred guests
anu they included many of the most nota,
BILE men in New YoTk-to drink "banzal
to the navy of his country.
The words weren't out OF the little Japs
mouth before all hands around the tables
leaped to their feet with hoarse cheers. Inc
''banzai'' was drunk amid an enthusiasm
such as is seldom seen at New York BAN
quets. and then every man In the crowd
broke his glass. Some OF them ground
their glasses under their heels, the idea be-
ing that no glass that had been raised IN
response to so fine a toast ought ever TO
be used for another toast. There Is GER
tain appealing elemental savagery ABOUT d
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they get thoroughly and spontaneously
warmed UP.
Feast Over Gamblers Death.
There was a gruesome sort of a dinner up
in Harlem a couple of nights ago. 1t was
feast in celebration of a mans violent
DEATH The man over whose death the
feasters glcated was Myles Mcdonnell. who
was shot to death by friend" In Albany
carly in the week. The men who sat DOWN
to the merry affair were gang OF power
full and wealthy Harlem gamblers. Ihey
drank to the health and to the getting-ciear
chances of the man who shot McDonnei 10
death. and then they drank the tender sen,
timent that Mcdonnell ought TO nave oieo
long ago. Some of them expressed the gen
eral sense of the banqueters by saying that
McDonnel's death hadn't been lingering
and pa nful enough. 1t was In general;
about as satanic an eating 1unceloH anu an,
that dinner in celebra ton OF a man Vlo-
lent and sudden death.
Mcdonnell, however, was perhaps the
most hated man among the thousands OF
vicious dead games of Harlem that ever
took I'D a residence and Opened al place
in upper New York. He was from the west
where he had a record, and he hadn't been
the proprietor of a Harlem gambling house
very long before he proved his title to the
bad mans reputation which followed MIN
east.
One of McDonr els faro dealers walked off
one night with the bank rolf of his faro
table. consisting of about Sc, 600. Mcdonnell
pursued the man and finally got him. NO
body ever learned just where Mcdonnell got
him. but when Mcdonnell returned to his
gambling establishment he took an ear out
of his pocket and nailed it to the wall
alongside the faro table al which the alb
sconding dealer had worked. The ear had
been slivered from the dealers head, and
Mcdonnell nailed it up as a warning to
weichers.''
The police got after Mcdonnell and closed
his gambling place up. whereupon McDon-
mel retaliated by making complaint of every
gambling place in Harlem. His complaints
were SO public and incessant that the po-
lice were forced to keep all the gambling
institutions in Harlem closed for quite
space of time. This earned for Mcdonnell
the hatred of the Harlem gamblers. One
night a party of them went cunning for
him. They found him in a cafe in 12oth
street, and they all began shooting at him
at once.
1t was a regular western fusillade. But
Mcdonnell had the shooting eye and the
others hadn't He killed one of them in
his tracks and shot two of the others up so
badly that their lives have never been of
any use to them since, both of them being
bedridden. Mcdonnell got out of the am
buscade without scratch and gave him
self up. He was tried and acquitted. the
members of the jury not leaving their seats.
the evidence that the prisoner had shot only
in selfdefense being so conclusive. To ev-
erybody who knew McDonnel-who for all
of his viciousness, was good father and
husband-it seemed certain that he would
sooner or later meet the violent death that
overlook him in Albany. c. L. G..