Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-13
ROUND Apour NEW rORK.
RippIes on the curreat Of Life In th'
MetropoIta


Metropolis.
A reputation for generosity built up by
century Of lavish giving h mensced in an
unexpected quarter. Vestrymen in a num-
Der Of New York churches are complaining
OF the number OF counterfeit coins which
Jingle ominously In the contribution boxes
nowadays. Hitherto people who were un-
fortunate enough 20 get stuck with the
spurious coins worked them OF on street
car conductors. slot machines and other
innocent receptaeles. Evidently the game
lie worked out in these directions and the
contribution box is the last resort Efforts
to determine whence they came have been
fruitless. The phenomena is unamertcan
and mysterious. As the great ,innux OF
aliens Is held responsible for the increas-
ing troubles OF the town. so this crime OF
showing the queer into pious hats must be
charged up to the foreigner.
The intense heat has created a big hole
In the limited Ice supply of the country,
making a bad situation a good deal worse.
II Is suggestive that the New York Medi-
cal Journal recommends the establishment
Of municipal ice plants, holding that the
production and delivery OF plenty OF ice
at a moderate price to every household Is
matter scarcely less important than the
public ownership of water reservoirs and
the supplying Of citizens with water. There
is also the question OF the public health to
be considered. The medical authority
argues that the time must come for a
general Abandonment of the dependence
on natural ice. which Is precarious
crop at best, and, with the growth OF cities
upon the banks OF lakes and rivers. must
constitute an ever-lncreasing danger Arti
fcial ice now completes with natures
product, even after hard winters, and it's
substitution for the natural article Is
earnestly advised by this medical journal.
Here is scientific reinforcement for a popu-
lar idea.
Several vegetarian restaurants established
some months ago are fiourishing and many
persons are gradually abandoning the meat
habit. business man who is distinguished
by his rotundity bought meal ticket at
one Of the restaurants a few weeks ago,
thinking perhaps he would reduce his
avoirdupois. He did not touch meat and
put the kibosh on butter. Slngularly he
gained nine pounds in the first month and
II seemed that every time a punch was
made IN his ticket he took on an ounce
fighting cock and is clipper all the time.
He said the other day: Two months ago
I signed a pledge against all meat and my
diet since has been eggs. finely shredded
boiled vegetables with butter sauce Except
potatoes-they are either baked or chipped).
every kind Of fruit. salads of all kinds.
including cabbage slaw. tea. iced or hot;
coffee. milk. buttermilk bread and sand
wiches. dried beans and peas. which. boiled
generally until done In sailed water, with
pepper are most delicious. Some day I will
open a restaurant where vegetables, eggs
and milk only are served cooked in my
Style
sermon may be written, IL one were
so disposed, on the rise and fall of young
Halsey Corwin. who has been dlsinterred
from obscurtty by the recent theft of dia-
monds valued at $4,000, or whereabouts,
from his wife. His father was one of the
prominent men Of Brooklyn. and when
he died three years ago he left the young
ster more than q million dollars in cash.
He became known as the angel of Coney
Island" You may imagine what that
means. No one went thirsty who knew
him. He married the young woman who
now bears his name after a betrothal din
ner at which $4,000 worth of wine YVES
opened. He heaped rare jewels upon her
and squandered his fathers fortune as
though 1t had no end. His wife no longer
recognizes his existence. He is working
for SIS a month as ticket taker in the very
resort where he once spent money by the
thousand dollars. II any one refers to
him, 1t is with a laugh.
NH
This time he is Samuel Fuerst, Il Allen
street, who is a prisoner in the Essex
Market police court, charged with taking
ice from women and children after It had
been given to them at the Hoyle free ice
station. ...-,.
The ice wagon arrived at the Hoyle sta
ton early in the morning. Because OF the
great heat there was an unusually large
crowd. F>uerst was one of the first In line
and after receiving his allotment went
around the corner and lay In wait for
women and children. He jostled them and
made them drop their ice. Policeman
LAWYER happened to see Fuerst running
away with a little girls ice and arrested
him.
LAWYER said there are gangs of rowdies
around the various distributing stations
who make a practice of stealing ice in this
way and disposins OF It to ice cream vend-
ers for the price OF a drink. Fuerst was
fined IS. He had no money and went to
prison.
There is tall policeman stationed at
the Manhattan end Of the Brooklyn bridge
whose presence is a great boon to stran-
gers medltating a trip across the river.
No matter how remote an address may be.
he is usually able. at first breath, to rattle
of the best care line to take. transfer
points and the street at which TO get on.
The other day a skepticai Brooklynite. who
had heard OF this mans ability. determined
10 put 1t TO test. II say" he explained,
hurrylng up TO the ofscer, can you tell
me where 20 Buckingham road isr And is
the Franklin avenue or the Nostrand ave-
nue. line the best way to get thereT' The