The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-03

u,,am has tunnel upon NJ phonoeraphs
DOL. rH.r'rd Nv litigation w. atvg W
...lt HrI earlrimf Tho merohants
ttI..b tract afr ~ ray and two MAJ ara
,an nall rpoh ~ trial for tNlhe mua-
...rn hoirs u dry On the aims block,
.... .., Oe1rss y Olonarn, Who fBn n n0iss
,,lfultbr "NIckelodcun, and hairless
g. U..0,. 10 rival In trouble making harmony
a.. ph the 'Vir,1of Their places nj.
it.I. 40 roth s'rpr'. snd everybody know
l.l tho policeman Nv tho block, who
acclaimed that ha hnd tho nolaieqt heat
Fl, p.,, and symr1thiyed with tho merchants
= tie ro]irhhurhuli Who dealt IN ailent
tlu..
p merchants complained n NJ
s,r t.u,. ~ Magistrate Crane. Then they
... % him In re- iody. " sympathiScd
,.N tIaul. ton. Nui told them ~ report Ia
hoo f.Iir'. NJ thoy I'D that, and Capt.
a. .a = iho West i2ith street station houso
s...yued Detective Mccormick 10 get evil
cnro. II wa n shamefnlly easy Job Tor a
ssoarnrl sleuth 10 waste his time IN,
why taid Mccormick, "a Central
oo.ro man under Partridge could have
..ratsl those m'sic parlors, n might have
taken hin longer than M ordinary cop In
lain clothes, but he would ave found Ien
soon enough.
sTba only trouble I had was % separate
tho noiao and le able 10 swear what evidence
WA against the Nickelodeon and what was
against tho Nicolet. You eco, both shops
had about fifty music machines going at
tho time, and with the whirring Of q hundred
cylinders and tho grinding out Of ell those
songs. recitations and extracts from mad
scenes In shows going on at m II vas
a little difficult to put It up TO Gleason what
be was TO blame for and TO get Klein right
at the same time.
Both had big show machines with tunnels
sticking out over the sidewalk and pointed
at the came dentists parlor across the
street. | watched the neighborhood for
three days, and the only man i ever saw
who seemed to enjoy the double concert
was q man in the dentists chair at the
window. One Of the big tunnels was pour
ing out the fathers curse in From Rags
20 Riches and the other shop was repro
ducing a mother song as sung by O boy
soprano. An the s~torekeepers bad shut
their front doors, and trolley cars wouldn't
stop In the middle OF that block at the white
post to help refugees escape. But tho man
In the dentists cha ir was laughing. I
thought he was sort Of touting the game
along and went across to arrest him as an
%acconplice or detain him as a witness
anyway, but he was under the influence
of laughing gas INC was the only man on
the block who was unconscious OF the noise.
The dentist himself was taking @ nerve
powder before using the forceps.
A milliner downstairs under the dentist
was having the worst time. She said she
had Just let a $23 hat go for S9.50 by mistake
and had trimmed one romans madeover
hat with another customers real rubber
stemmed roses because she was 30 worked
up by the phongraplI that she didn't know
what she was doing.
Finally | drew W imaginary lines from
the two tunnels to a point on the opposite
curb where they met CThis is where the
real detective work came in.) by stand
ing at that point l got only q big roar that
wasn't definite enough for evidence, but by
moving slowly across the street on the
Nicolet line l soon began TO get the clues
separated.
4 Curses on you. child Of sin!' was what
/ got very clearly as l stepped into the gut
ter, and ! was about to say Ha, hal ! have
it now like the detective in the show, when
My own, my darling boy hit me in the ear
But l kept right on with my eye on the Nico-
let funnel and both ears strained. The curse
grew louder and louder, and IL was only
ever and amor that l caught the loving
CHEEKY words Of mother, growing ever
fainter, as ! approached the middle Of the
street. AS / reached the .westbound car
track / was going from south to north, as
you'll see by the blotter. / became a sting
Ing viper crawling slimily In the grass to
poison the lives Of tive fair young lady
twins who had been left orphans At the
other curb l was 'rotting for carbon. and
WV fatha. ghnlinR NTH rn no roiQnl hta
eyes toward heaven to ask the gentleman
with the laughing gas to curse me, curse
me always
Il had the case then and jumped into
the Nicolet and accused Charles p. Klein
of being guilty Of a nuisance, 10 wit a fathers
curse for sixteen hours a day, And then,
with the mastery skill of my profession,
] pointed with a harsh, sardonic laugh to
the placard on the machine-'The Fathers
Curse; from Rags to Riches
Klein didn't even try to defend himself.
An inexperienced detective might have ar
rested him merely on the evidence Of the
placard, and then the prisoner could have
said that it had been left over from the
last piece and that the machine hadn't been
giving the curse at all. But we don't do de-
'ectiye business that way in Harlem,
door, | calmly said. Mother, 1 have come
and showed my badge: You should have
seen Gleason wilt. But he quickly re-
covered his nerve and doggedly lit a cigar
cite, Then Tipping the match carelessly
like that, down the brass throat OF the
boy soprano, he muttered, Fellow, | will CO.
So | brought both Gleason and Klein TO
the Harlem police court"
And Magistrate Crane said that 1t was
q grand job that Mccormick had done
and held the two men in $500 each for trial.
1t is one of the worst outrages per-
petrated upon the people of this city,"
added the magistrate, "The managers
should be fined $40 a day for every day
they continue it. When the case goes
before the Justices Of Special Sessions,
shall see that the full Significance OF it
Is Presented to them,
t'lf you complain to these people and
ask them to moderate their noise, they
Just laugh at you. A friend of mine asked
the manager of the place opposite him to
moderate the blare. and the manager
grinned at him and offered to change the
tune the machine was then grinding out
to anything he wanted, and to play it all
day for him.
"A big politician came to me the other
d. r.