Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01
| ".auar. !. with the cops withOu. being

square Z with the cops without being
taken to the station.
1t was the easiest squaring I ever did
OF New York from the Battery to High
Bridge. bat was never once taken to a
police station. Ny part was that OF rak.
fsh young dog In evening clothes. somewhat
the worse for oper-dinins. / had a working
| mate. and we'd cook up little initiation
street fights for the purpose OF being
bounced upon by the cops.
In every single instance the only thing
had to do In order to get loose from the ar
resting cop after turning a corner was to
slip him note" Generally I suggested
TINS method OF sQuaring II, but In several
cases the cops themselves gave me to un-
derstand that I was a decent-looxin' young
mug and that wouldn't make no hit in the
police court telifn' tn Judge about It and
that ne wasn't stuck on gittin' up early
20 appear agin me. nohow. and that--at
Wnicn stage or II 1 was always there with
the note. generally a five-spot. In each
ana every case when that happened the COD
grinned greast1y and invited me to drill cut
good. "'
Cops Kick the Prisoners
II 1 hadn't come t de front wit de
com Ia have been slammed into n police
| station cell, and during the night five or
SIX cops. wearing No II brogans would
have diverted themselves by coming into
my cell and kicking me- This isn't anv
overdrawn picture. either-the kicking mart
OF 1t. They're doing that with arrested and
confned men In New York police stations
an the time, and there doesn't seem to be a
cnance In the world that they'll ever be .
stopped from doing It,
There are scores and hundreds of New
lork cops who work every imaginable sort
or scheme to git de kale" and when they
are In the act of putting these schemes for
| their own enrichment through the average
CITIZEN has no chance whatever of beating
Ia
| the cops'll get him. They saw orenIv
that they'll get" any man who shows the
ilghtest inclination to show them up I'm
tneir neIarious practices. and II is only fair
70 say that they make this threat good
Ihelr power Is such, owing to their habit of
working together. that they do get" the
people who run counter to them almost In
faiiibly. The glibness the elan with which
punch of New York cops, working in uni
son. can lie in a police court against a man
mat they've got 1t In for" is a source of
perpetual per, wonder even to the most imagina-
tive New Workers.. They can act their lying
part, pull the virtuous mouth, assume the
abused, yon-wronged-me manner. get away
WITT, with the unhand-me thing, and they can
blast the most upright human being that
ever drew breath beyond the remotest
chance OF his ever squarng himself with
ms associates who only know him casually
These are incontroyertible facts and NOT
fancies. All Of the rehearsed sophistrjes
all OF the superheated steam from interest
ed parties about the New York police force
pEihg the finest body of men on earth"
All or the excusinE. apologizing fixing ,p
on earth, can never overrule nor change the
views as to the New York police formed by
men VINO nave worked alongside of them
And find very large number of peopIa
wen worth considering over here who do
nor nor IN the least hesitate to express the de-
!lperate conviction that Enrico Caruso
tenoro-lyrico, has been made a victim nv
the New York police.
Booming Of the Press Agent.
The kind of press agency that begins on
the other side of the sea with the purnose
of heralding the coming to America of some
American singer who has been studying
abroad has been pretty beautifully worked
during recent years.
We are told In cable dispatches that seem
so delightfully."- disinterested about some
american girl whose voice Is amazing Eu-
rope who has daZzled emperors with her
beauty. who has a bunch of crown princes
all eager to marry her. on her stan: who
mas been signed by the ROYAL Grand Opera
that sort Of thing. Then, after due time
York and sings.
Geraldine Farrar came to this rorntrv
staggering under burden of reliance of
this sort such as no singer ever carried ON
these or any other shores. One might we'll
nave imagined her to be, for beauty, a
Zenobla, Cleopatra and Helen of Troy ali
In one. and singer the like of whose voice
had never before been heard on earth.
L heard her as Juliet at the METROPOLITAN
Monday night. She has a large lyric so
prane voice, with tendencies toward the
dramatic. 1t Is a beautiful and a charac-
teristic voice, but Miss Farrar has vet
thrown but a pebble into the vast sea of
vocal art which still lies unconquered be-
fore her. She is pleasing to the eye, but not
the most beautiful woman on the globe by
several leagues. There are in truth. sew
eral handsomer singers with the same conn
pany as that in which she appears
we heard, too, immense amount nj
preparatory press agent prattle about Rous-
Seiliere. the new French tenor, who was the
romeo. He had been a poor stonemason
In Paris during all OF his youth: he had
been discovered with his beautiful voice az
ne sang at his chiseling by some wealthy
passerby. who promptly became his patron:
ne had been instructed and babe fair to
take the place Of Jean de Reszke. and a
great deal more of the same sort.
Rousseiliere is something better than the
conventional French tenor but he ia No
marvel. He has no more chance of eyer
making anybody forget what Jean de
has. ' a"'of
The last time I heard Gounod's "Romeo
ct JuIiette. Jean de Reszke was Romeo
ana tmma Eames Juliette. and. If / re-
member correctly. Edeuard de Reszke the
[iar. Nothing that heard or saw at the
metropolitan Monday served In the least To
aim my memory of that other performance.