Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-06
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.


Metropolis.
Howard Chandler Christy, the artist,
and some friends circulating about in an
automobile bumped against a hackman
who objected to the persistent ''honk' OF
the auto horn and refused to give up q
slice of the road. The horn .honked'
some more and Jehu responded with
ear and blistering the autos yarnish
Christy was much impressed by the out
burst and sought with kindly remarks 20
check the deluge, receiving whips lash
for his pains and patience. When the
Jehu landed in a police station few
minutes later he had both eyes artistically
lions of his anatomy tanned with shoe
manly the 81 1 ranks as a masterpiece.
A dealer in postage stamps commenting
on the conviction and sentence a Few
weeks ago of one of the most expert OF
stamp forgers drew attention to the
profits resulting from blunders in the gov
eminent printing office. This forger made
Il speciality of liking the stamps issued
at the time of the Buffalo exposition.
casional copies have turned up with in
verted centers Such specimens are so
rare as to command very high prices from
collections. At the trial there we've shown
dozens of these altered stamps, changed
with such deXterity as to deceive even
experts for time. Indeed, in some cases
the 1rluu cOulu not ucItclGu until lIit
stamps had been soaked in water. when.
of course, the pieces fell apart. The
profit can be imagined when it is known
that a copy of the Accent inverted-a
genuine One-SOld at auction the other day
for $3.50. Only six copies are know
Even the l and 2-cent stamps of this is
sue command prices ranging from SIS 10
SIS. Many blunders have occurred also
in surcharging stamps for use in the colo
MES" the surcharge being printed upside
down or with misspelling. The 5-cent
used in Cuba. for instance, occasionally
reads "Cupa'' and is quite valuable
There were miXups, too in the case of the
Civil War revenue stamps, few of the
old 2-cent check stamps being worth s.
each.
To see the way the excursion boats We're
packed last Saturday and Sunday for all
points along the Sound one would never
dream that the last of a thousand dead
who were lost in one of those old tubs had
not been recovered. buried and forgotten.
better but most of them not so SAFE car
ed out great crowds. and every one OF
them We're equipped not whit better
than was the Slocum. OF course. there
has been n hasty overhauling of life pre-
servers and a perfunctory drilling OF
crews for fire emergencies. but that is all.
Before the season is over the rouStabOut
crews which have been drilled will be
changed on NEST of the boats for they
seldom keep the same crowd over Il month
at time. 1t is plain that official bodies
must step in and take some action to pre-
vent future accidents. The great publIc
is as needless as ever and careless of its
own safety.
The office boy had confessed in the po-
lice court that he had stolen a dollar from
his employer.
What did you do with ito" asked the
Il went down to Coney Island and had
a good time" confessed the culprit.
Did you go alone?"
The magistrate removed his spectacles
and regarded the youthful prisoner Sc
verely. Then he made this remarkable
Don't you ever do that again. Don't be
hog. If you mus steal money. don't be
selfish and take ali the pleasure yourself.
get some pleasure. too. so that You WA
make up in some degree for your own
wickedness. It's had enough to steal.
Don't add being selfish hog to your 9th
er guilt.
The chief of the mendicancy squad in
New York, John Forbes has q very thor
ough knowledge of the hoboes tramps and
yeSgmen, and gives some interesting in
formation about them. 1t seems that sea-
class rarely make less than S. day.
They provide themselves with reinforced
pockets. which must be strong to stand
taken in on good day. The typical New
York beggars are divided into two classes
the yeggmen and the foppers-and they
are dangerous, The yeggman is peri
patetic thief, burglar and Snea king deS-
perado. who travels about the country on
freight cars and seizSs his opportunity &c
blow up safe or commit other depreda
ton. The topper Is a yeggman who elects
to make a permanent residence in city,
and usually he has lost an eye, or q foot
or hand is partially disabled in some way
This bad crowd has committed so many
assaults in New York and is apparently
so dangerous that the authorities COM
missioned Mr. Forbes and his assistants
to clean them out. and they have sue
cceded remarkably well during the last
year.
the downtown section where there are five
shops, each dealing in some artificial part
of the human body. One shop sells arti-
fetal legs and arms. another makes glase
dentists parlor while the other carries a.
complete stock of all these conveniences
m ms halt. blind. bald az and toothless
must be enormous to support the exclu-
sive business of these big places alone:
but when it is considered that they rep
in the country the good luck of persons
who are fortunate enough to be whole
can be appreciated. The shopkeeper who
sells artificial eyes says that $1,000 are
sold yearly in the United States. OF
course he does not sell that number him.
self but he is in close touch with all the
other dealers in his line and he knows.
This means that through accident or i'll
ness $1,000 people are yearly deprived of
the use of one eye. This does not take
into account those who lose the sight of
both eyes, for, obviously, artificial eyes
would be useless to them
Miss Bertha Alexander. an independent
young woman whose latest occupation
was that of cloak model, sailed aboard
the liner Majestic for Liverpool, where
she will take ship for South Africa She
hlS been hetrnthpd for SpVarol n
Lieutenant Richard Roland Thompson,
who won his title by gallantry in the Boer
war on the British side Thompson en-
listed as a private. Miss Alexander prom
Used him as soon as he was able to marry |
that she would'go to him. He became in |
terested in diamond mining after the war
sent for her to come to Kimberley.