Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-27
GOSSIP OF ALL SORTS FROM
THE NATIONS GAY METROPOLIS

Special Correspondence of The Herald.
NEW YORK, May 26.-There is no
more lid. 1t is off; it is lost; and en-
passant it might be relevant to the
subject to whisper that there are no
efforts being made to ascertain the
whereabouts of the aforesaid lid-there
have been no rewards offered for it's
recovery. Never since the days of Bill
Devery has New York been so wide
open as it is now. The Jerome-Dowling
gambling act, which was not only to
close all the gambling houses in the
city, but also to keep them closed is a
dead letter. There are as many pool
rooms as there are churches, and almost
az many handbooks as there are
saloons. 1t is a dull night when a sport
cannot attend a prize fight; and any
gent who wants to try his luck at rou-
lette or faro can find a 'steerer" in
almost any one of the whiteway resorts.
More crooks can be found in the vicin-
ity of Broadway and Forty-second
street than were gathered there when
former Police Commissioner MCAdoO
was led to declare that was the worst
corner in all New York. The men
higher up seem to have hypnotized
the officials, and the latter have taken
to the simple life. The big and little
grafters are coming into their own once
more. If students of conditions are
rightly informed the big grafters are
getting a larger share than they did i'll
times agone Probably that is due to a
new rule in the police department
which practically makes 1t unwiSe for
q captain or a district inspector to do
any important work toward the sup
preston of vice unless the people in
command at 800 Mulberry street tell
him to do so. Some of the newspapers
are commencing to take the matter up
and it is likely that an anti-vice cru
sade will soon be undertaken here.
Rare Sight in Gotham
New York-mean, selfish, sordid New
York, where one is supposed to think
of nothing but money, how to get il
and hang on to it-New York is Just
now thrilled to the core by the sight
of a few struggling birds that, daring
Wall street and the STANDARD Oil com
pany, have made their appearance here
clad in their beautiful plumage and
apparently with no fear of being
plucked Nor is 1t any disgrace to the
city man that the recent appearance OF
a "flicker" in City Hall park should
have aroused a great deal of interest
and has proved the means of having
many letters written to the news
papers. Some of the writer's old men
have seized on the presence of the
flicker" as an excuse to live oVeI
again, or paper, their boyhood days
spent in places where the sight of one
solitary bird does not evoke all manner
of commentaries not bring back rec,
objections of times that were and are
no more. A robin has been seen anC
heard singing I'm a back yard close tC
the elevated road. A brown thrush has
been observed in a controversy with
street sparrows. A downy woodpeckei
is reported from Harlem, and the star,
ling has now penetrated quite far dowr
on the east side. In the midst Of hi,
selfish, hustling occupations your New
Yorker likes TO take notes Of incident.
of this kind. which seem to prove tina
this great crushing city is not alto
gether despised by Gods will,
creatures.
Watch the Brakeman
Did you ever hear a brakeman o
the porter OF a sleeping or parlor ca
cry out New York" when the trail
pulls into Jersey City? Everybody VIII
comes here is supposed 10 know tina
this is the getting off place. OF cours
Jersey ('itV IL NOT New York hut a 1