Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
GOTHAM PR0-JAP CITY
Little Russian Sympathy
Even Among Cars Subjects.
WATCHING NIHIlISTS
FOREIGN ELEMENT GENERALLY
Is FRIENDLY TO THE JAPANESE.
Troubles Of Baby Checking Bureaus.
Rainy Day Skirts Provoke Gem
ment-Child's Pathetic Case.
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. March A. 1904.
New York is the most decidedly pro-
Japanese city In America. The town IS
showing very unusual amount of interest
in the war in the far east considering the
somewhat calious and self absorbed char
aeter of the population. The man on the
street." tens of thousands of him. is wear
ing the Japanese flag in his lapel button
hole The tiny emblem of the island en-
pire is especially noticeable In the financial
district. Nearly all Of the stockholders on
the floors of the exchanges are wearing IT,
One noted broker, the son of man who
some years ago was made wealthy by rail-
road concessions gained from Russia, had
the hardihood the other day to appear on
the floor of the Consolidated Exchange
with a tiny Russian flag In his lapel. 1t
was promptly torn out of the buttonhole.
He had another one on the following morn
ing. 1t was torn out, too, and its wearers
apparel reduced to ribbons by his annoyed.
not to say Infatuated, fellow members OF
the exchange. He was informed. more
over, that he would be taking chance on
something worse Detailing him if he showed
up with another of the Russian emblems.
was promptly pigeonholed.
No Sympathy for Russia.
There seems to be not particle of sym
pathy for Russia in it's policy of ag-
grandizement on the part of any other ele-
| ment of New Yorzs population except the
Russians themselves living here, and even
| among the Russians in New York there is
| strong anti-war party, composed of sub
| Of bo W halipya that the
| is unjustifiable.
In the meantime New York is said to be
| filed with Russian spies engaged in watch
| ing the movements of the colonies of Rus
| sian nihilists located here. Evidently there
| is fear on the part of the Russian govern
ment that the nihlists will seize upon the
present occasion to demonstrate the EFF
| fectiveness'' of their propaganda. and when
some branches of the nihflfst order desire
| to illustrate their effectiveness they en-
| ploy bombs as their medium Of Illustration
| The state of opinion In New York as to
| the war In the far east has been mani
tested several times by the crowds assem-
bling around the Russian churches while
| the Russians held prayer services within
| for the success of the Russian arms. The
| crowds have not attempted to interfere
| with these services. but when the Rus
| slams emerged from the churches upon the
conclusion of the services they have teen
| jeered at and fiouted. and. on one occasion.
bombarded with snow balls by the suilen
crowds waiting outside.
100000 Jews in New York.
1t should be remembered that there are
700 600 Jews in New York. and their men,
cries of Kishinev will not down. But 1t
would not be fair to state that the tremen-
dous Jewish element of New York is alone
responsible for the decided anti-Russian
spirit over here. That spirit seems to be
in the air and it is brear1ed by men Of
all nationalitfes.
Whatever may be the attitude of Ger
many with reference to the war. 1t is GER
tain that the Germans of New York are
Overwhelmingly on the side of the Japs.
and, oddly enough, considering that France
is Russia's ally, even the French colony of
New York appears to be aligned on the
side of the little brown men.
| The knship of blood is shown in New
| York's Chinese quarter. The New York
| Chinese, despite the wallOping which Japan
gave China few years ago, rejoice just as
| enthusiastically as the Japanese every
| time Japanese victory Is announced and
that means that the frecrackers are going
| off in New York's Chinese quarter pretty
| nearly all the time.
Blood Thicker Than Water.
1t is a significant illustration of the old
adage as to blood being thicker than water.
| Some far-sighted men profess to foresee
| evil consequences as a result Of this in
evitable getting together of the men of
| the yellow races They consider it a GER
| tainty that if Japan wins her fight with
| Russia the Japanese people Will suffer
| from the complaint known as the big
| head" and be disposed to go about with
| chip on their shoulders.
The interest which is taken in the prog
| ress of the war is shown by novel scheme
which has been put into operation by
| photograph company. A noted war ex-
| pert and traveller. who is familiar. 1t
seems, with every mile of the ground
where the fighting is going on, talks into
| a monograph at the monograph COM
pany's headquarters for ten minutes each
morning, giving concise and succinet ac-
count, deduced from the dispatches of the
progress of the affair.
The cylinders containing these talks are
worked off from monographs, with huge
megaphone attachments. in number of
downtown restaurants during the luncheon
hour and the attention given to the pho
nograph talks by the hustling business
! men seated around the tables is remark
able.
Baby Checking Bureau.
| One of the large department stores Of
New York eliminated its baby-checking
bureau at one fell swoop few days ago.
The thing had not worked with any too
much smoothness from the beginning.
Women would check their babies at the
establishment and then forget in which of
the department stores with baby-checking
bureaus they had checked them. Many
historical scenes resulted from this cause.
Other women, sad to relate, would lapse
into such state of forgetfulness. owing to
the indulgence In Inwise liquid luncheons,
that they would go home without their
babies, and then, when memory regained
her throne, they would repair screeching
into the shopping district, frenziedly de-
manding their babies Of every passer-by.
The particular department store which
has cut out its baby-checking bureau, how
ever, did SO as the result of most ex-
traordinary mix-up that took place. Some
forty-eight babies had been duly checked
and tabled and placed in care of the nurses
during the day. but the checking girl be-
came somewhat mixed in her numbers.
and in several instances pinned the wrong
checks to the garments of several babies.
Early in the afternoon a woman came
along to reclaim her baby, and extraordl-
nary as it may appear. she was in such
state of observation-disclosures, due to the
heaviness of her luncheon. undoubtedly,
that she didn't know her own baby.
Did Not Know Her Own Baby.
1t happened that her baby was one of