The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-07-21
SIDELIGHTS OF new YORK
New York Cry. N. Y
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grafton problem and Immigration evils
are prominent subjects. Wife and child
desertion and LEGITIMACY is alarmingly
in the increase, according to the report
which is compiled by the secretary, Ho-
ner Folks, former Commissioner of
Charities.
This problem touches us deeply,
says the report. in no other country is
commitment Of children SO easy. To our
foreign brother it appears quite as
custom of the country. The institution
appeals to him as sort of superior or
der of public school, where his children
not only acquire the language, but are
sheltered, fed and clothed at no ex-
pense to him. His sense of the paternal
relation steadily decreases as the city
fathers assume his responsibilities.
He soon learns that to render him
self invisible for the time being greatly
facilitates the business, and nothing is
easier for a man, who finds himself with
an uncomfortable number of children for
his wages and house room, to step aside
until the city has relieved him of his
burden or goodly proportion of IT,
Reducing the rate of mortality among
the 100 to 200 infants who are abandoned
annually in the streets from $50 per
cent. in 1880 to Io.I per cent. during last
year the institution has plan of plac-
ing the little waits Immediately with
mothers who have recently lost child.
The high death rate was that of the in
FAINT up to the age of years, and the
association feels that the success of its
plans warrants its continuance.
In the last half year this system has
reduced the death rate to Sc per cent.
About one-half of the applications are
rejected, as the homes and persons are
rigidly investigated.
In Portland, Maine, Mayor James P.
Baxter denounced the Tip" to walters
as an insult to citizenship, representing
social distinction between the giver and
the receiver, and advised student walters
TO resent such an insult at all times.
But in New York, contrasting in about
the proportion of black and white, Jas.
Farrell, cafe waiter at III University
place, was held by Magistrate Breen
for taking compulsory tip from Miss
Violet Monroe
She testified that when she showed
no intention of tipping Farrell he de-
manded an explanation. She, fright
ened, offered him dime-all the change
she had. Then, she testified:
you're cheap SPORT" Farrell said,
snatching her gold chain and lockct
from her neck and striking her on the
man, who did the rest
Samuel Brooks, bather at Audubon
Beach, thought it would be smart to
upset three girls who were rowing in
boat nearby, and he and companion,
securing opposite ends of the boat,
rocked it in spite of the girls protests,
until it upset and all three were in
the water. Then the toughs left the
girls to help themselves. Swimmers
reached them just in time to save them
from drowning.
Brooks was more unfortunate than
his companion, who escaped. He reach
ed shore to find mob awaiting him,
and was beaten with umbrellas, sticks
and fists until the police found it diff
cut matter to rescue him. He would
probably have been killed but for that
intervention.
Mrs. Josephine E. Ware, of Denver,
in criminal action against DIR. An
drew Linn Weldon, a youth-renewing
doctor, declares that beauty is skinned
deep. According to Mrs. Ware, who
has caused the doctors arrest and de-
tention in the Tombs on the charge OF
obtaining money under false pretenses,
she went to him to have some wrinkles
removed, but instead of removing the
wrinkles the doctor gave her Scared
and scared face with a carbolc wash,
and turned her into genuine fright"
She paid him $500 for the cure that
didn't cure, she alleges. Several pa
tients were found in Welden's sanatori-
UNI, one awaiting an operation to move
her ears back.
Norman Hammer, John Smith, Oscar
Garrison and James Childsworth, the sec
ond named life-saver, were drowned
off bathing houses in North River. Smith
lost his life while TRYING to save young
Flammer, who could not swim and had
padded out beyond his depth. The ex-
citement had hardly abated when Ca
risen lost his life. John F. Peterson,
who was teaching him to swim, narrow
ly escaped a similar fate when he went
to the boys rescue.
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Justice can be dispensed in shirt
sleeves as we'll as in heavy coats" an
nounced Recorder Lazarus to his jury
in the Bayonne Police Court.
He suited action to the word, remov-
ing his coat and inviting the jurymen
to do likewise. The lawyers in the case
also peeled off.
"There is no use hiding behind ones
dignity in such weather as this" said
the Court.
Declaring that he must go on with
his work, or his lions will think him
coward, Capt Jack" Bonavita of the
Bostock show, who was lacerated by
the lion Emperor in the arena on Satur-