Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-22
ROUND ABOUT NEW York.
Rtpples ON the Current of Life In the
MetrODoIis

RippIes ON the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
| Extraordinary precautions were taken by
the court to guard from outside influences
the jury which tried and convicted Abra-
ham H. Hummel, the New York attorney
charged with procuring false testimony.
The members Of the jury were constantly
under guard. They were not permitted to
speak to any outsider nor privately con-
verse over the telephone. Even their mail
was examined by the judge or one Of his
clerks. The court officers guarding the
twelve good and true men for seven DAYS
and nights were under a severe strain and
one OF them collapsed before the trial was
finished
The New York correspondent OF the
| Philadelphia Press characterizes the con-
victed lawyer as n many-sided man Of the
world. In person, he is almost Insignificant
excepting that anyone who first sees him
must turn a second time to look at him.
for there are the tracings upon his face
OF great though narrow intellectual capa-
| city OF cunning shrewdness and knowledge
of men of the world and especially OF
women-all this tempered by a cordiality,
or assumption of It, a relish of humor
|
who are brilliant, although not necessarily
good.
There is something about a really great
criminal with which Mr.. Hummel seems
| to sympathize and yet no man in this
| city. of his profession, at least, has APP
peared more thoroughly to appreciate hon
| esty, both intellectual and financial, and
| n manner of life which justly brings the
esteem of all citizens than Mr. Hummel
Although the intimation has been long
! continued that in the practice of his pro-
! fession Mr.. Hummel has plowed through
the statutes and gone around them in order
/ to accomplish his ends-always skillfully
! concealing these unprofessional methods
nevertheless he has a reputation Of being
| man who having given his word, needs
to give no bond with it. That is something
that cannot be said of very one Of those
who are now occupying judicial positions.
and it was with something of this kind
in mind that Mr.. Jerome ventured openly
to crticise a portion of our higher bench.
Mr.. Humme is unmarried, but he has
been a singularly affectionate and ambi-
| tious kinsman. being proud to have MEM
bers of his family, his sisters and others,
who are dependent upon him. feel that
! dependency is based upon no slender or
grudging support, but that he delights in
/ giving them the best that his purse offers.
Building Superintendent Hopper of New
York City engaged in a legal battle not
! long ago over the question of whether the
counters, shelves and other fixtures in the
new Wanamaker store at Broadway and
Ninth street should be of fireproof material,
and today the appellate division of the
supreme court gave the victory to the
merchant. Mr.. Wanamaker had expended
more than 100000 in the fixtures that did
not meet the approval Of the building de-
partment. on application Of Superintendent
Hopper Justice Truax granted an order
that all Of the fixtures must be hreproof.
| Mr.. Wanamaker took the case to a higher
| court He contended that II would not be
practical to freproof shelving, counters,
| etc, and that such material would be in
| furious and useless for the display of dry
goods. The appellate division decides that
! the building superintendent has no juris-
diction over movable trade fixtures and that
the 1reproofing of such is not contemplated
| by the building laws The decision is
gratifying to New York merchants.
Exclusive of ashes and rubbish 600 tons
| of garbage are delivered daily to Barren
island from New York city. The New
| York Sanitary Utilization company has a
scheme for turning into salable products,
such as oils and grease, the garbage col
! lected in this city. 1t put up a plant on
| Barren island and agreed, in return for a
payment of 1922 900 a year, to take care
OF all the garbage that the city could fur
nish. Under the classification Of rubbish
are included rags. bale sacks, old pieces of
/ metal old shoes, bedding, furniture-in
fact. everything useful or once useful that
a great city casts off day after day. One
| would not think that the problem of util-
! ity OF waste could be applied to this sort
OF material with any degree of success or
! pecuniary reward; and yet it is. An
] Italian named Marone pays the depart
I ment 81, 200 a week for the privilege of going
, over the dumps picking out paper old
metal and shoes As a matter of fact
there is little that Marone doesn't md
| some sort OF use for.
jerome is a much more unconventional
man than President Roosevelt. He smokes
cigarettes and he slaps laboring men and
| district leaders on the back and he hasn't
/ hesitated to advocate some views OF which
| the orthodox would never approve. lie
! is what used to be called, before good taste
banished the word, a Bohemian" He
likes a good time over a table in the back
! room of a cafe with a set of boon COM
. panions, and it wouldn't matter in the
least to him whether they We're plain la
boring men, club members, assistants from
his Office, newspaper men, ministers or de-
tectives. so long as they were what he
! calls men"
/ II like man." he said in one Of his re-
cent speeches. And that is why | liked
Richard Croker, though | never agreed with
! an idea that he had. I liked him because
/ he had a jaw, and when he looked you in
the eye it was like a blow"
That statement furnishes the key to New
York's fighting district attorney and ex-
plains why, although he has spent his life
opposing Tammany men. some OF his best
friends are Tammany Hall district leaders
There is general regret in New York City
! over the death of TON" Dunn, ex-sheriff
Of the county. In the Twenty-sixth assem-
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