The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
NEW YoRK'S LID OFF
WIDE OPEN TOWN RECALLS THE
 NOTORIOUS DEvERY DAYS.
Death Flag Forebodes Slaughter in Chinatown--Re1ief at End of Rate Bill Uncertainty-Bad Days for Dead Men--War of Rival
 Marriage Promoters.

Dead Men--War of Rival
 Marriage Promoters.
 New York, May 26.--The lid is off in Nsw Nsc sS nSrs ind m E hss Dsen sstns Police commissioner Bingham's recent as,sncs from .9Sn t9wn when ,l,, his i'd deputy co mand, has been the signal for all re- straint to be thrown to the winds. The deepest thirst can now be nssuaged on houses fiourish almost openly, and theft touts crowd the Hobbies of certain ho- tels; the poolroom and the handbook derloiri as well as on the East Side Du- merous resorts of unsavory reputation Haunt themselves under the eye of the pssserby Several priSshghss ,.ds take bocker's town In spite of the stringent laws against public fstic encounters Ostensibly the affairs are simply. pri- bers of the sciubs where they are held. but in reality admission Is by ticket purchasabie in some neighboring sa- loon, ana the matches are are often San fintsa h;a Bill Devery held the. reins of police control has New York been so wide open. The state of affairs became clear that a prominent mining millionaire dropped $50,000 at Gottlieb Walbaum's gambling house near the Waldorf. Down m aese es are ss ofery U running. each table and each game paying $17.50 week for police pro. lection. Who is getting the moneyY partment? These are the questions puziing New Workers.
 Chinatown, New. York's caldron of isstesy ing as it h has sss not SubSied and ssethed since the rival societies. the On Leong and the Hip Sing. signed the famous
 Peaee of cninatown ,o ias' hs saoS peDrISo Now Chinatown is living in momentary ex- pectation that something will happen. Over the On Leong headquarters noats which. according to timorous Chris tianized Mongolians, is death flag and through Chinatown's crook ts sd ssgS oaons sre ieteTns whch some say. means Death to the Hip Sings" though, others maintain that the cards simply. advertise the pest place to buy chicken chow. And new faces have appeared in Chinatown. The Hip Sing men say that these are noto- rious hatchet men from San Francisco. imported by the On 'Leong. The pres ent situation is the result of an attempt on the part of the Hip Sing gentry to get the On Leong men to join them n an appeal to the District Attorney ana
  bling in Chinatown. Somehow the On Ieongers. though protesting their anxiety to banish fantan, appeared to when the time came for the signing of the appeal. The result has ben a se- were strain in the relations between the two Societies; The Hip Sings sings ", waTily tby ianguid May breezes and predict slaughter The On Leongers smile, and, in response to questions, snrug their shoulders.
 Now that the Senate has passed the Hepburn bill, with the prospect that 1t will become law without delay, ln- terest In the proceedings of Congress is at low ebb in the. metropolis. 50 far as public discussion of the com pleted bill has gone, it seems to De regarded as a generally satisfactory: if somewhat radical measure. None or the officers of the great railway sys- tems has expressed an opinion of the law for publication, but their general attitude is that they are willing to ac- cept the provisions of the pro]ectso taw hone that the politicians will turn to some other subject and leave them to devote all their energies to the task of caring for the great volume of trans portation presegad by the promise of abundant crops and unusual business actively This hope is frequently ech- oed by the investing public for nothing
 
 than Legislation dealing with economic conditions.
 These are bad days for dead men in friends fH ana relatives. for with the strike of the funeral drivers a funeral is hazardous thing, In some cases funerals have been held up for several days because of the inability to get drivers for the hearse and carriages; and in other cases, after a start had been made for the cemetery, the ada. mantins waiking ,h seens deisgateS way ppTb There have been several instances of funeral parties being attacked by strikers who lay in ambush on the road 70 the cehn- etery and let fly volleys of stones at the hearse and carriages In fact, on some occasions. 1t has been as much as ones life is worth to attend an inter ment. wedding parties have been sub iected to similar annoyances. It is said that the strike has interfered with as many as sixty weddings in 8 single day. The general opinion has It that it is straining the laoor unlon PIT prthSsi Sia or be married without permission oL the walking delegates; some rate bridegrooms have threatened to iay the state of affairs before President Roose- welt on the ground that it puts pre- nnium on race suicide
 No strikers or walking deleTltes can daunt the marriage promoters on tne East Side. Some time ago Rosey the Lawyer, Dean of the Essex Market Bar Association, announced that ne would marry free of charge all couples who came to him at any hour of the day or night. The result has been that Rcsey has been trying so many nup- tiai knots and kissing so many blushIns brides that his lips are blistered. Tn cidentally his law practice has ln- creased by leaps and bounds This process has been observed with envy hv Toe Lew the Duke of Essex Street" Rosey's principal rival in East Side legal circles, and now Levy oe- iieves he has put a trump on Roseys ace. He announces that on Sunday. from sunrise to sunset, ne VIII mary free of charge "all marriageable peo- nls of the East Side. without prejudice to size. condition or color" Moreover. esch bride will receive as a present ISEarat gold wedding ring and Nal tese cat imported from Topeka, Kan. 'rhe number of engagements announced on the East Side since Ro5eys pronuh- ciamento has been something unprece- dented in the annals of that sectloh-
 Every morning a great army or Jer- sey commuters tramp rom tns nuo son river ferries through Cortlandt Street to the skyscrapers of the Wall Street district where commuters spend fba day gathering tainted money. and sysrv evening they defile back over the sayne ground The Jersey commutef ia sui generis and looks down upon all othsr commuters as inferior varieties. Tn spite of blizzards or cyclones the Street army always comes tt is nSohahIe that if an earthquake tS s..trot,sd New York the Jersey com