East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, oct. 19.-The proprie
tors of the four hotels that were raid
ed by Captain Gallaher, having soft
cned their anger somewhat by round
ing up in their imaginations good
round sums as to the damages they
expect to recover from Saptain Gal
lagher and the municipality, which
employs the gallant Gallagher, are
having a great deal of fun over suit
for $4,000 damages that has been
started by man, who, with his wife. /
was refused lodging because the hotel |
clerk wouldn't register them They /
couldn't produce marriage certifi- |
cate when called upon to do so. hav-
ing left home without purposing to
stay in the city all night.
The raided hotelkeepers want 10
know what they are to do II they are
sued for not taking people in, and
then raided for extending the priv
ileges of their hostelries to persons of
at least seeming respectabilty. Mean
while the hotels have suffered severe
| ly for the untimely intrusion OF the
| police on their privacy. How respec-
/ table these hotels are may be judged
! from the fact that Mrs. jefferson
| Davis is a patron of one of them, and
other ladies and gentlemen of equal
| standing are guests of the others.
Saw His Own Brain Operated Upon.
1t was brave deed of the old
apothecary, Herman Frank, who sat
| before a mirror i'm order to see a
surgeon cut down into his brain. He
would have none of anaesthetics, evi-
IDENTIFY being so curious as to what had
allied him for these many years that
he wanted to see as soon as any one
the first fact that the scalpel should
reveal. His curiosity is not to be-
wondered at, for the doctors had also
been mystified by the old druggists
disease.
When the knife had done its work
and there lay in the surgeons hand
a cyst whose growth had pressed on
his brain and his organs of vision, so
that he walked as one having loco
motor ataxia, 1t must have been very
gratifying for him to learn what had
been the matter as well as TO feel
that his troubles from it are over.
Skyscraper Climates.
That the skyscraper section has a
climate all its own is becoming mani
fest TO even the dullest minds In the
city. The temperature in winter
shows some remarkable differences
at different points, there being sew
eral degrees lower temperature at the
corners Of Spruce and Nassau streets;
corner Church and Jay streets; Beck
man street and Park Row, Wall street
and Broadway and other places where
breezes produced by the lofty build
ings sting hapless pedestrians with
cold, while in other quarters of the
city no discomfort is experienced.
Then there have lately come to the
city varieties of winds, of sudden and
untimely guests, of bowling and whirl-
ing deverishes of blows that buffet
humanity in a manner never encoun-
tered before.
Famous Favoritcs I'm Disgrace.
Armitage Matthews, quailing before
his trial for looting an estate, plunged
head first to the pavement. James IL.
Hyde, the perfumed darling, is skulk-
ing around the danger line and is ex-
| pecting to expatriate him. Depew. the
; jaunty and really agreeable senator,
. lrops the republican convention that
) once did him high honor. The list Is
too long to quote in full but enough is
shown to make sure that the CONS
T cicnce that makes towards of us all'
is cutting wide swathes in the ranks
} of the outwardly respectable and in
wardly rascally men In whom the pub
) lie has believed.
! Who is to succeed the dethroned?
Mr. Alexander is no longer president
of the Equitable. There are others
that predict that Mr.. John A. Nc
Gail of the New York Life, and Rich
: ara A. McCurdy of the Mutual Life,
will follow in his footsteps. If this
proves true prophecy who will take
their places and reproduce the results
| these men learned in insurance, wis
, lo-1 and methods during the years
they have ruled the insurance. Large
fortunes have been made but we must
remember that It came from piles that
: these past masters of insurance, and
5 rerraps we may as well say assurance,
ha heaped to huge height.
! First-class insurance men, who
know the business from the bottom,
will have to be chosen as their sue
, cessors. OF course, there will be sew
eral years of poor results, from the
ripping and tearing that has startled