Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-26
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples ON the Current of Life i'm
the Metronolfs

ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Htpples ON the Current of Life In
the Metropolis.
The industry of curing every i'll the flesh
is heir to with liquid dope out of a COM
mon bottle apparently has reached the
limit in New York. During a hearing into
the operations Of the Force OF Life COM
pany, concern which claimed to raise the
dead, a woman mixer of the elixir testi-
fed that patients were given three grades
OF dope. but that each grade was taken
from tank containing common water, and
not very clean at that. The grading was
done with artistic labels. How we'll the
company succeeded in raising the dead is
not in evidence, but the managers raised
the wind" to the amount of several hun
dred thousand dollars A motion is in order
to amend the Barnum maxim, "A fool is
born every minute" The record outruns
the time limit.
Enthusiastic and not at all bashful about
his musical ability, Jansky Rigo the gypsy
violinist. who acquired worldwide fame
several years ago by his marriage to the
Princess Chimay, formerly Clara Ward of
Detroit, reached New York last week. Rigo
declined to talk of the Princess Chimay
but he held forth at length on the subject
of his musical proves.
II am great musician" he said II am
a great success. ! will bring a wonder to
the American people with my playing. The
American people nevair heard something
like what l will play before. 1 will astound
themv
Rigo was asked IL he still considered him
self married man.
Il do not know" he replied. 81 do not
know what the princess has done. l do not
know whether 1 am divorced or not" II
was reported aboard the ship that Rigo
was much in the company of woman
somewhat resembling the Princess Chimay
on the trip across. AT last accounts the
woman was appearing in a Paris concert
hall.
Hundreds of men of national fame are
walking the streets of New York daily
without attracting the least attention.
Grover Cleveland comes up from Princeton
about once month, but his appearance on
the street never excites comment. At the
Waldorf there are frequently a half dozen
United States senators, batcf of gov
ernors and bundles of congressman. but
they pass unnoticed in the throng. Former
Mayor VanWyck is seen along Broadway
VI TiIti every udy' Dul uOl one III
10000 New Workers recognize him. Former
Senator Towne, Bourke Cochran, William
Sulzer and other New York congressman
never attract the least notice Once in a
great while some one will say, There goes
Depew," or Amt old Tom Plat looking
feebe?" but this is the extent of it.
Four New York lawyers who are now
serving prison sentences, Robert A. AM
mon, James S. Alderdice, Martin Conlon
ana Henry Corner, have been disbarred
from practice iii the federal courts. United
States District Judge George l.. Holt dis
barred them on an application made in be-
half of the Merchants Protective associa-
ton.
Ammon is serving a ten-year term, hav-
ing been convicted of completely in the
Franklin syndicate swindle, known as the
so per cent scheme. Alderdice was sem
fenced last summer to eighteen years i'm
prisonment for forgery. Conlon is serving
n two-year sentence. after being convicted
of larceny from client. Corner. who is
row nearly 20 years old, is serving an
eighteen-year sentence for subornation of
perjury.
A West Side minister who has solemnized
many marriages was called into his study
the other day by a couple, relates the Sun.
The Clergyman listened to the young mans
brief explanation of their errand.
so" he said, you want to get married,
do you?"
To his surprise the prospective bride as
sumed the responsibility of replying to this
remark
He does" she said.
And how about yourself" asked the
minister. Have you any objections to the
union?"
None" she said, except those found in
the ceremony. l have been studying up
on the subject and L find that all marriage
services employ the term woman l de-
cidedly object to that. / have never been
used to being called woman. l am from
Alabama. Down in our part of the country
nobody ever thinks of saying anything but
lady have been spoken of as lady all
my life. If you can change that to lady
/ am willing to go ahead"
The clergyman finally overcame his aston
ishment sufficiently to explain that that
concession was not possible. After arguing
for an hour he finally modified her hostil-
ity to the word woman" and persuaded
her to go through the ceremony.
Loaves of bread of special makes are
now displayed at the grocery counters in
white paper wrappings, put on before they
cool at the ovens.
This means, | suppose" said contem-
plative grocer that bread bakers are to
follow the fashions set by cracker bakers.
Twenty years ago all crackers came to us
loose, ten years ago in glass fronted boxes
and now the crackers come in individual
packages, of any quantity wanted, and put
up as neatly as a pound of bonbons The
| loaves wrapped i'm paper have made a hit
and trade rivalry will probably make other
| bakers follow suit"
| A prominent New York lawyer has pub
! licly made the statement that a search
! through the criminal records OF New York
! state will show that no murderer has ever
been executed for his crime. provided he
was rich or had strong political influence
At a meeting held the other evening
where the question Of the abolition of the
death penalty was under discussion it was
! discovered that the audience, several hun
bred in number. were almost unanimous
In favor of an abolition of this form OF
! punishment.