Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-22
REGULAR
NEW YORK
LETTER
Gossip AbOnt the Affairs of
the Continents Greatest
City

| New YORK, Oct. 2O.-Leon Le-
maire. a distinguished looking but
shabbily dressed vagrant, who is
well known to the police and the
Tombs magistrates as "Chianti
Louis the crust thrower," has had
his usual donation of justice meted
out to him. and is now for the thir-
tieth time rusticating in Blackwells
island. Chianti adopted an original
idea for exciting financial sympathy
by wildly scrambling for a dirty
piece of bread which he had pre-
viously planted" before a crowd of
homeward bound theaters goers, or
persons leaving a church. The re-
suit in all cases being that men and
women reached for pocketbooks, and
| filled the old mans hand with small
coins. After a successful perform
ance of this operation women often
shed tears, treated him very kindly
and promise to get him some light
work. But Chianti is adverse to
work. On being searched after ar
rest he was always found to have
money in his pockets equal to the
weekly pay of a political district
leader. THE worlds champion
crust thrower'' as he styles himself,
IS 6S years old, the scion of a dis
tinguished French family. For 20
years he has been a familiar figure
in the little cafes of West Broad
way. where he was known as
"Chianti Leon" owing to his fond
ness for wines of that brand.
1t is TO be hoped, for the benefit
of mankind in general, that the sys-
TEN adopted by the Rev. DR.. Farrer,
pastor of the First Reformed church,
Brooklyn, for the delivery of SER
mons, will be generally followed. At
service recently in his church the
oratorio Creation" was rendered,
and on ascending the pulpit DR.. Far
rer's sermon, which was possibly the
shortest ever delivered in this coun-
try was as follows: Creation. i
do not know much about creation
All that anyone knows about II is
contained in the Bible. and what
scientists tell us. / am satisfied that
there was a creation and that 1t has
been satisfactory" What a saving
of valuable breath there would be If
all public speakers adopted DR.. Far
rer's rule.
Another OF the Bowery's "aristo-
Gratis" has passed away in the per-
son of old Isaac Schoeur. aged SO
years. who for the past 20 years
sold pencils up and down the Bow
cry. Old Schoeur during all that
time occupied a room in the Defend
er lodging house and was called an
aristrocratic on account of a certain
dignified manner and a tendency to
mind his own business. During the l
long winter nights after darkness
had fallen he would retrace his steps |
to the Defender, place his parcel of
unsold pecils away, and partake of .
his supper of dry rye bread, and |
small beer II business was good.
Then would follow long reverie
not 10 be broken unless the proprie-
tor OF the Defender. who was
only friend, came along,
During these sad reveries tears
would often tickle down his face,
but TO no one did he ever breath his
troubles. A few glimpses OF his
early life. which had been through
out told the story OF brilliant
young Hebrew. a dreamer. a philoso-
pher. who had been through a great
and knew all about the
stars. who was educated for high
church honors. but who failed 20
marry the women he loved because
her parents made her marry a man
more practical. He prayed often and
tasted much. sometimes OF necessity
and when found dead was in an at
titude Of prayer.
BY attempting to estimate the
value OF a raee-horse the treasury
officials are preparing a pretty peck
OF troubles for themselves. An Eng
lish steeplechaser brought into this
country and appraised at $1,000
when the Import duty was paid has
won $4,000 in money and plate
since his arrival in New York re-
Gently. The custom ofieials are per-
turbed in consequence, and in view
OF the seeming under valuation. are
10 exact from the importer
a mueh higher sum than was paid