Omaha daily bee., 1905-02-17
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life In the
MetropoIia.

| The statement is made Dy the 1eTalu
that between 5000 and 10000 idle men
are now dependent upon the charity OF
the city of New York. 1t is a larger army
of unemployed than has ever assembled
/ in the city before" comments the Herald,
| but its presence here is accounted for in
/ a simple way by those who have studied
| the conditions. 1t is merely the result or
| the supply of labor exceeding the demand
| in this particular spot--in New York city
| that has brough about the distressing con-
| dition New York's gigantic enterprises in
! transportation improvements and other
lines lured here more men than were re-
| quired to do the work. severe winter
has overtaken them without funds or
friends and they are hungry"
After two families living on the top noors
of the brown stone apartment house 60
| East One Hundred and Eighteenth street
| had fed down the fire escape from flames
| which threatened the building, Policeman
| Miller was notified that an aged man, an
| invalid, living on the fourth floor, had not
| been seen. Miller started up the stairways
| which smoke and flame made almost inn
| passable.
He found Jacob Bernach, aged 90 striving
| to crawl toward a front window on the
| fourth floor. Miller raised the helpless
| invalid in his arms and started back down
| the stairs. Spectators saw Miller stagger
| out Of the street entrance and collapse
Bernach had been saved without serious
injury, but Miller was overcome. He was
! revived with difficulty.
Charles F. Murphy the Tammany
chief" said a politician who knows whereof
he speaks, "is worth 100000. His wealth
! is increasing rapidly, and that fact alone is
causing trouble among the Tammany rank
and file, who are getting little or nothing
these days"
1t was found by inquiry among other pol
iticians that this opinion of Murphy's
wealth generally obtained. 1t was pointed
out that he was not flamboyant in the dis
play OF his newly acquired afiuence, as
Croker was, and that his money was more
securely invested than Crokers. 1T is a
| safe prediction" said the informant of the
Evening World, that when the surrogate's S
court comes to pass upon the estates OF
| Murphy and Croker, Murphys will be
| found to be much the larger" The coming
of Croker has revived comparisons between
| the eX-chief and his successor, and the
comment is Croker always looked after the
boys"
! So astonishing seemed the estimate of
Murphy's wealth, and so great an example
does 1t appear to be of the opportunities
which await energy in local politics, that
the Evening World man sought further in
formation concerning the rise of Murphy
to the dizzy heights OF chief of Tammany
and custodian of the thoughts of hundreds
of office holders. After much questioning
i'm various quarters he compiled this review
of useful and busy life which will be no
less interesting to the rank and file of Tam
|
| formers in all kinds of civic bodies who are
already with both feet and hands in the
| scramble of mayoralty campaign.
Every man in the house get up and
dance. Dance TO my music or I'll play an
other tune on this music box. Whoop."
With this order shouted a the top OF his
voice, drink-crazed man 1ourishing re-
volver proceeded to shoot up a crowded
| restaurant at Sixth avenue and Forteth
street. The place was crowded with work
men from the Hippodrome. None OF them
| seemed disposed to dance.
WELL" announced the bad man disgust
edly, will anybody fight, then?'
No one seemed disposed to fight
I've got E have some fun, anyhow" said
the amusement seeker, and leveling the re-
volver at the reflection Of a man in a mir
crash of the glass half a dozen men sprang
up and started for the door; others fiat
tened themselves out on the floor under the
tables, while the rest sprang at the dis
turber He fired twice into the crowd
A man dropped yelling In pain. and the
crowd fell back The bad man rested an
instant. smiling about the room, and one
man near the door took the opportunity to
slip out.
Crack went the gun, and the runaway
leaped forward. shot through the thigh
and ran three blocks before the pain OF the
wound overcame his terror and a pursuing
policeman could catch him.
When the police entered the restaurant
the armed man had the center OF the room
and was waving his wide cowboy hat with
one hand and taking potshots at mirrors and
crockery with his revolver. There was
not head in sight.
Re-enforced by policemen, the crowd
closed In on the desperado who fought
from one end of the room to the other be-
fore he was overpowered and pinned to the
floor by the weight of several men,
At the station house he said he was
Theron Wallace Deming OF Ashland, Green
county, N. Y
Thomas Phillips, who was shot as he at
tempted to leave the place, and Joseph
Ryan, who was struck at the first fire
were taken TO the New York hospital
Both were shot through the thigh They
will recover unless complications develop
The restaurant was dsmantled from end
to end.
This Is story OF honi soft Qul NAL
pense. 1t concerns the pocketless woman,
and then only IL she carries hers in hAr
hosiery. 1t is a bad habit. Coin of the
republic wandering about on exploring ex-
petitions inside warranted lisle thread or
web silk is apt to be disconcertlng TO the
most self-contained woman. The feminine