Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-03

| the ring. These alarmed menials quite fire.
| quently gave utterance to involuntary cries
| or Shrieks which not only fell inharmon-
| iously upon the artistic ears of the stick
up men. but brought members of the
| households into the halls, which neceSsi-
| tated explanations and all that sort or
| thing.
At the outset Of the campaign, too, the
| footpads quite frequently came upon stub
| born, pig-headed men and tenacious. hys-
| terical women, who unreasonapiy displayed
| their prejudice against being held up on
| the street at the point of a gun, and thus
| delayed the progress of the game.
All this has been changed now, however.
| owing to the ouickness with which New
| Workers adapt themselves to fresh situa-
| tons
! The hold-up men who operate along 9Th
! and Madison and Lexington avenues now
| find the game. so easy that they are con-
| templating amending the rules SO that
| they'll be able to get some fun, as well as
| profit out of it.
They feel, now, that it's a shame to take
| the money.
Hands His Roll to His Butler.
The wealthy householder. on his return
| from the Office or place of business in the
| evening, now slips his bank roll to the
| butler upon entering his home, at the same
time instructing the butler that if any gen.
| tleman with a gun should happen along
during or after dinner simply to hand the
| stick-up man the wad and by no means
| to arouse the household and thus inter-
| fere with the pleasures of digestion.
| The Association of Give-up Householders
| has passed resolution providing that no
| butler working for a member of the asso-
| citation shall slip a larger bundle than 81, 900
| to the stick-up man upon the latter's initial
call; but there is nothing to prevent the
| Industrious hold-up man operating on that
| beat from coming back to the same house.
| hold on the following evening and accept
| ing another 81, 600 from the butler.
! Provision has been suitably made by these
| wealthy householders to meet the require
ments of such stick-up men as object to
being sent away from the door with a
paltry $1,000 as payment for their trouble.
Some buffers are instructed that, if the
| hold-up man should exhibit a desire to
| look the house over, he shall be conducted
| to the library, where he will find the fam
| lily jewels neatly laid away in papier
| mache safe, with carrying handle at the
| top, such as is fitted to the lid of a dogs
| travelling basket. These safes of papier
mache only weigh two and a quarter
| pounds, that, loaded as they are with
only two or three pounds of precious dia-
monds rubies and other valuable junk
| and heirlooms, there is no possibility of the
| hold-up mans becoming tired in the arm
| from carrying it off.
In case the Stick-up man operating in
the wealthy quarter should express to the
! butler his desire for the family silver, the
| butler is instructed to telephone for one
of the wagons of the Hold Up Mems Union,
| efforts to gain livelihood
| Similar efforts making on the part
| of citizens of all classes in New York to
ameliorate the condition of the street high
waymen and accelerate their industry.
Pedestrians habituated to the handling of
| large sums of money now carry their bank
| rolls in their outside overcoat pockets, SO
| that when they perceive footpad coming
| I'D behind them they have only to thrust a
| hand into the overcoat pocket and draw
out the bundle and fork it over, thus obvi-
| ating unnecessary and annoying delay and
| relieving the gumshoeist from the work in
! volved in making an oral statement of his
| needs and demands.
Diamonds Worn Handily.
Women owning valuable diamonds no
| longer ride to the theater or opera in car
| riages but take the street cars, thus CIV
| ing the footpads the desired opportunity to
| scan their ornamental bijouterie and make
| a mental appraisement of its value. Ten
| thousand dollar brooches are no longer fas-
| tened to corsages by means of gold chains,
| but merely by the pins of the brooches, it
| having been found that the attached
| chains hinder the footpads who remove the
| brooches from the corsages or necklaces
| and cause them to become impatient and
| petulant.
When a lady who is escorted by gen
| elm fr'en' " is having her diamond ear
| rings and lockets and brooches removed
| from her person by a highwayman it is eti-
quette for the escort to stroll over to the
| curb and gaze up and down the street
| with an assumption of keen interest, as if
| looking for the arrival of a street car 1t
| would be deemed undue inqusitiveness on
| his part If he were to betray any curiosity
| as to the operation while his wife or lady
| "fr'en'" yielded up her shiny ornaments
| to the Woodworking gumshoeiSt
If, under the rude impulsion of wine or
| other stimulants. or laboring under the ex-
| element of the proceedings, the footpad
| should hand the lady a wallop in the eye
| and knock her into the gutter. it then be-
| comes the duty of her escort to walk to
| the nearest drug store and telephone for
| cab, so to get the lady home before she
| takes cold from wet feet.
We have it unimpeachable authority
| that that all-night bank which is about to
| be started in New York is to have spe-
| cial window, the paying teller of which
| will address himself exclusively to receiv-
| ing the deposits of stick-up men and gum
| shoestS. The projectors of this all-night
| bank enterprise found upon investigation
| that many hold-up men and footpadS have
| been subjected to genuine annoyance owing
! to the fact that they have been compelled
| to carry their loot home with them, and
| delay it's deposit in banking institutions
until the following morning. They will
| now, with the Inauguration of the all-night
| bank, be able to make their deposits of
| money and jewels and plate-for there will
| also be storage receiving window in all
| night operation-on their way home thus
making it unnecessary for them to tote
| to look upon them as commuters.
Criticism on Critics.
| How is dramatic critic going to criticisc
| II he is not allowed to take a peek at the
| show around which he desires to write a
critique?
That is 20 say, how can he be expected to
| write fair estimate of the show that he's
not permitted to get in to see?
Several of the most widely-known dra-
matte critics in the country are now wrest-
| ling with this problem.
| Among them Is William Winter, Nestor
of New York dramatic critics, scholarly
old man of kindly heart and generous in
| stincts. Like the other excluded ones, he
found 1t impossible to slop In his
| critiques of certain productions put on by
/ a firm of New York managers. So they've
| shut him out Of their chain of New York
Acton Davies. one Of the fairest. as he is