Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-02
Round ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of LIT I'm tn
MefrnnnlIa.

! The most enthusiastic optimist OF the
| American people occasionally encounters a
shadow Of doubt as TO the present and
! future. Eloquent as he may grow in
! periods Of self-praise as a sober. sensible
1 people, some boor unceremonlously butts
/ in and spoils the flavor OF the mental
] pudding Under such circumstances the
/ optimist who reaches for some implement
/ with which to deal solar plexus is not
J TO be censured.
An instance in point Congressman
| Nicholas Dongworth and Miss Alice Roose-
welt were in New York City last Tuesday
! They went there to meet the congress-
mans sister. All accounts agree that these
two people like each other They are in
that condition of mind which esteems two
as delicious company and three an
| unwelcome crowd. But they were not per-
mitted to go on their way in an orderly
decent fashion as beft respectable persons.
! Rubbernecks pestered them shamefully
Crowds Of curiosity mongers ran after their
! carriage, chased them on ferryboats and
at times blocked their journey. Camera
{ nends trained their guns" on the pair
/ at every opportunity forcing them to seek
/ relief by lodging into residences OF friends
or riding at top speed through side streets.
This incident is a type OF national
| character which causes the optimist to
pause and enquire whether insane asylums
are getting all that is coming to them.
II Mr. Longworth Is wise he should Dor
! row his father-in-law's big stick" and
take it to New York for exercise.
Wireless-telegraph stations are being
erected on many private residences in
Brooklyn, and messages from distant
points and from vessels at are being
constantly received in hal-hedrooms fitted
with wireless apparatus. One of these
amateur stations, not far from Prospect
park has a wire running from the top OF
a fagpole erected on a cupola to a room on
the first floor, and here the operator sits
amid bis buzzers telegraph key, transmit
ter. etc. catching messages through a tele-
phone receiver held to the ear.
Hear that" he said to visitor the other
day, handing him the receiver. Somebody's
practising think he must be somewhere
near Sea Gate. l often get complete mes
| sages. but tonight there's nothing diff
cult to get landlords permission to string
the wires along his house than 1t is to get
the messages. But it won't be long before
therell be amateur wireless station to
every square mile"
| Thomas Dixon, jr., was public 1outed
| Sunday afternoon after a meeting in the
| Baptist Church of the Epiphany for the
purpose of discussing What Shall We do
! With the Negro?" The audience contained
many whose sympathies were with the
/ SOU, l. great number of northerners-of
course-and a liberal sprinkng OF negroes.
Mr.. Dixon used his well-known argument
that the negro should be segregated by
! pea, eful colonization"
When he concluded crowd of obviously
southern women clustered about the plat
form to shake hands with Mr.. Dixon.
Among them was a sturdy man. When
he reached Mr.. Dixon the latter held out
his hand, as he had to the women who had
preceded him.
NO" said the man. beginning quietly,
Il didn't come here to shake hands with
you. wouldn't shake hands with you. l
| came here to tell you. face to face, what
! think of you. I want to tell you that am
surprised that man in this year of 1906
| will get up in a public meeting like this
and say the things you did"
The man paused moment. Then he con-
tinued: You're a pretty slick gentleman,
you are. You're very eloquent. You've
chosen fine way TO advertise your book
and play, you have"
Mr.. Dixon said something that sounded
like indeed. indeed" The man who had
accosted him edged away from him as
though he were something carefully to be
| avoided.
The special state tax on stock transfers,
that has been upheld by the appellate
court, imposes charge on every transfer
| or sale of stock at the rate Of cents for
every 500 of face value. regardless OF what
| The etoclr NAV sail FOR IN the of
The new law went into effect June, 1905,
| and since then the income has been at
rate calculated to exceed 100000 a year.
The sales on the New York exchange since
that time have been 1o6,52777s shares. which
at the rate of cents for each 800 has
| yielded the state S213o,Ooo. To this must
be added the sales of the consolidated ex-
change and on the curb, and in addition of
private transfers.
First Deputy Police Commissioner Waldo
drove into Chinatown Friday to look over
the Tong situation. As Captain Waldo, he
served in the Philippines, where there are
more Chinese in a minute than New York
has in a year. so that he knows something
OF their tricks and their manners.
| Ho called first on Tom Lee. Tom kindly
explained the situation. Tom said that the
Hip Sings are murderers, trouble makers
| and gamblers He explained that their
gambling habits especially are painful TO
| think Of
| The deputy commissioner then went over
to Hip Sing headquarters and called for
Mock Duck.
| Mock Duck was glad 70 see him. He was
yearning, in fact, TO elucidate the whole
situation. Mock said that there is nothing
to It, the thing is so simple. The On Le-
ongs are murderers, trouble makers and
! gamblers Mocks black eye dropped a
crystal tear on his yellow cheek he
spoke OF the awful gambling propenstios
OF the On Leongs.
The situation thus clear in his mind
Deputy Commissioner Waldo returned TO
headquarters.
Money Is rolling In to a wise young New
York dentist who uses intelligence in en-
PERTAINING his fair patients when they are
undergoing the ordeal of boring and filling.
He subscribes for the leading Paris fashion
journals and he devotes an hour every
I-evening to their perusal. In those minutes
of agony TO women when he is grinding at
their molars ne rattles on about Paquin' $
latest trlumphs the newest millinery wond-
ers OF Cecile or the gown some princess
wore at the opera. He can talk OF cos
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