Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
LITTLE STORIES OF NEW YORK Police After Autoists in Su-
 hurbs of Gotham Town Niece of Mrs. Vanderbilt
 Arrested for Speeding. FIRE CRACKER DAYS Are Near-Big Convention Announced
 For Coming Week-Widow of tic
 Immortal Bill Anthony-"Bug"
 Writes Mayor Mcclellan.
FIRE CRACKER DAYS

New York, June 22-Smitten with the unreasonable idea that the inhab- itants of the small towns in the out skirts and petticoats of New York have aires of the metropolis are powerless to take away from them, the peace officers of the aforesaid villages have iinaugurated an unceasing war against automobilists who use the highways as training track for the Vanderbilt cup. Within the last few weeks many motor car scorchers, intent upon over
 taking their destination in record breaking time, have been hauled up
 before some village magistrate and made to pay heavy fines. One of the latest Sufferers" is Mrs. Thomas H. Howard, niece of Mrs. Frederick w. Vanderbilt, who was arrested in Poughkeepsie and actually taken into police court where she protested viz
 orously against the capture. The mar- ble-hearted Poughkeepsie officers re- mained defiant and unrepentant, even when they learned that their fair pris- oner was a member of the Vanderbilt family. The case has been set fore Monday, when attorneys for Mrs. How ard will answer to the charge of 1ln- lawful speeding.
 The open season for small boys, when they may be killed with impunity giant crackers and toy pistols, begins in New York today and the coming week will probably witness a great increase in the mortality rate among youngsters of all ages. In past years dealers in fireworks have been allowed to place the Independence day eXplos- ives On sale about June 10, but this year the date was made twelve days later. Commissioner Bingham hopes that these days of restraint have been productive of a spirit of philosophic calm in the patriotic breast of the small boy, convincing him that the days of barbaric noise are waning and
 
 ed by memorizing the Declaration Of l Independence and reciting "Sheridan's Ride" The supplies Of death-dealin:s fireworks now being received by me- tropolitan dealers give the lie to this fond hope. It is the one best bet Of the day that scores of youngsters will be minus fingers, toes or eyes before the dawn of Independence day and that many others will be sleeping be- meath the daisies, sacrificed to a pre- mature patriotism that didn't know it was loaded" Meanwhile, nervous men
 and women had best take to the woods
 The man with the apron and the tray-and, also, the outstretched, itch- ing palm-hundreds of him, will de- scend upon New York next week from all parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico and New Jersey to attend convention called by the Uni versal Restaurant and Hotel Employees association, the American branch oe the Geneva union, an international or ganization of chefs, head walters and common or garden walters. Men who serve dishes bearing unpronouncable French names at the Waldorf-Astoria and those juggle sinkers and hot dogs in the quick lunch resorts will fra ternize on a common level, fittingly illustrating the spirit of democracy ex- isting in America. New York walters have made gorgeous arrangements for the entertaining their brethren from other cities, the program including a grand banquet at the Hotel Astor, af- fording the walters an opportunity to play the part of guests. A represen- tative of the long-suffering common people might suggest that the dele gates have a chance to make tn econ 1 vention forever memorable by passing resolution against the tip evil'- a highly important subject that does not appear upon the printed program.
 It has developed that the bride of State Treasurer Julius Hauser, who was married in Brooklyn recently, was the widow of the immortal Bill An thony. It illibe remembered that Bill l was the marine who, when the Maine went down in Havana harbor, kow- lowed to Captain Sigsbee and for mally reported: sir, have the hon. or to report that the ship has been blown up and is sinking" The new | Mrs. Hauser was, before her marriage l to Anthony, a clerk in Broadway dry | goods shop. After the Maine explosion she wrote to Anthony. pralslng him for l l,::s gallantsy. An introduction follow