Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-01

many difficulties John ID. Rockefeller tr.
is going TO continue as head of his
Bible class. Whatever may be said
about him the admission that he is
game" is made everywhere, and this
quality alone should carry him a long
way. Young John D. is not a bad fell
low. Certainly he is not the kind of
man who will let self-seekers in his
class impose upon him. In other
words, he IS no sucker" Since his
| active work In the class Mr.. Rookie
feller has been the target for all kinds
OF criticism, sufficient to discourage
saint but all the slurs that have been
! hurled at him he has disregarded.
| once his mind is made up Mr.. Rookie
| feller is immovable i'm his purpose and
aims. Much unfavorable criticism
came from members of his class. men
with whom he was touching elbows,
and only recently anonymous letters
were sent to the papers claiming Mr.
| Rockefeller, as a leader, is q farce 1t
was said he extended no material help
| to the MEMBERS that he left his re-
ligion behind him when the class ses-
| sion was over: that personal appeals to
| him for assistance were met with re-
| bluffs and curt answers, and that when
he met members of the class In the
street he passed them by without sign
of recognition.
Shadow Sandwiches
Nothing goes to waste in New York.
! In the Third avenue shops where so
many Of the boarding house keepers so
! 10 get their meat supplies amiable wo-
| men customers insist upon getting all
| the trimmings from the roasts and
chops on the ground that they paid
for the same and are entitled to them.
An observer of customs remarked to-.
day: Nowhere does this subdivision
habit extend further than 1t does in the
| cheap restaurants. I've heard that I'm
| the conspicuously ow-priced eating
houses a carver who failed to make
less than 40 sandwiches out of one
chicken would be discharged. In soma
| of those places I've seen them cutting
roast beef with Il jig saw. The pieces
had queer translucent look The man
who was at work on the roast beef
sandwiches was n former godlenf
beater who was out of employment
and I'm told that after | met him he
got raise Of wages by putting the
slices between sheets of oiled paper
and pounding them out with "a wooden
| mallet until the resulting beef leaf
was credit to his art. Some of those
sandwiches are simply shadows. There
Is smoked salmon, for instance, in
sandwich form. I've heard of the habit
of certain writer's of fiction of drag
! ging the red herring over their pages
to throw the reader off the scent. Those
salmon sandwiches were like thrice
told tales so arranged that the faint
odor of the salmon clung to them and
| the little pellucid, Skein-like substance
in the middle just enabled it to qualify
with fish name-smoke sandwiches,
should call them"
What Will My Wife Say?
Some ardent admirer of Jan Kubelil<
astonished the famous young violinist
! late yesterday afternoon by sending to
him at the Hotel Manhattan Il huge
| muff to keep his fingers warm. Kuhe-
lilt was just about To conclude his daily
practices when his manager. Mr.. Goer-
! litz, rushed into the room with the
muff in one hand and big pasteboard
box in the other.
why. what is ths?" exclaimed
| kubeik.
Here is letter in the box" replied
| Manager GOerlitz. - opened the box
because the messenger would not eX-
! plain from whom it came. J did not
! know that it was not an internal ma
| chine. But you sec il is a muff, big
| Russian beur--''
Kubelik laughed rs he opened lilac
! tinted note.
| What a joke" he said. All but
what will my wife say? 1t is unfortu-
! nate that the donor does not give her
name, for l would send it back. have
a muff. What shall l do with two?
! one for each hand? That would be
funny, especially as they are not the
same size"
The note said, according to Mr.. Goer-
ltz. that having read about the $780,
900 insurance ON his hands, the donor
AIN aIfI IL l,te
small token of admiration and solici-
tude from one who hopes to hear your
divine music for many years"
Shortest Railroad
The shortest railroad in Greater
New York since the marine railway
was boWled out of existence by the
encroachments of the ocean and the
rival trolley cars, is the one that runs
along the Bush docks on the South
Brooklyn water front. The road itself
is less than mile long and runs from
alongside the Thirty-ninth street ferry
slip down TO the end of the company's S
line of stores and piers Its equip
ment consists of one ordinary passen-
ger car and one small engine that is
kept in such good condition that ii looks
as If 1t were on exhibition in an in
dustrial show.
| j lie lTdlll Is llOL rum Oll any
but simply to accommodate two classes
of passengers-fruit experts who GO
over to the warehouses to inspect con-
signments of lemons and other tropical
fruits before buying them at the fruit
exchange, and Italians who are return
ing to their native land on the line
of steamers that dock at these piers.
When the fruit experts use the one
car it's interior resembles that of the
ordinary first-clasS car on any Of the
big lines. But when the Italians fill it
with their bundles and babies il is
usually as crowded as bridge car
In the height of the rush hour
There Is another thing about this
railway that makes it unusual No one
ever pays any fare on it.
Tramp in Marble Bath
Willie Miller tramp, bathed in the
marble bath of Irving BrokaW, lawyer
and clubman, at East Seventy-nnth
street.
Because he took that bath and could
offer no other explanation than the de-
sire for it. Miller was putting up ut the
Harlem court prison last night.
The Brokaw residence is being reno
waited In the absence of the owner The
night Matchman, William Pool saw late
on Monday evening a mysterious light
In the bathroom on the second floor. He
called Policeman ZieEler, and both hur-