Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
IN DEAEi OLD MOO YAWK
WITH THE PRINCE AND OTHERS

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lsmbast him with their market baskets.
| shrilly accusing him of having been
| Squeezing the child's hand while he was
cropping the change into her outstretched
| PAIN. The defenseess butcher couldn't
| say anything for himself that they would
! oelleve, or that, indeed, could be heard for
| their frenzied ciamoring, and presently
| they were Joined by a horde of ignorant
| men and women from the street and the
| riot was on. The butcher was kicked and
| cutred about in his own plant dragged into
| the street. thrown down. stamped on his
| nose broken to fragments all OF his teeth
| kicked in, his clothes pulled on OF him and
| abused most shamefully before the wagon
Ioad OF police got along. Then hearing the
| nerce accusations OF the mob. the cops took
| a hack at him with their clubs and the
| butcher was limp mass OF blood and
bruises when dragged TO the hospital. All
OF mis- time the level-headed little Jewish
| girl was protesting and screaming that the
man hadn't done anything In the world TO
| deserve such horrible mistrea tment but he.
piead'ngs for him We're disregarded.
Tardy Recommendation.
AFTER the frenzy was all over and the
| man taken away-his shop was strIpped
and dismantled by the rioters-au of the
| women and girls in the neghborhood came
| forward and said that the butcher who had
| been the victim of this abhorrent treatment
| mad been the cause of comment on account
or his reserved and aloof but always res
pectful treatment of his female customers
and the men of the neighborhood too had
to own up that the attack on him had been
made on unimagfnably slim grounds, con-
sidering .-is unbroken record decent
citizen and the circumstances OF the case
Yet that man is still I'm the hospital hover
| ing between life and death and IL he does
| recover. he will be manned for life His
| business is ruined. Worse than that he is
still held in $1,000 bond for trial at general
| sessions for ''assauting child
| None of that for mine" wound up tho
| baker, In telling me this story which |
have since verified to all of its facts
When any female under sixty years OF
age comes along to my place, alone while
| this crime wave idocy lasts, that female
is going to wait on herself, and me on tho
| outside or she goes somewhere else to get
what she wants. And I'm sticking to this
| even If 1t ruins my business. and it stands a
| good chance OF running my business at that.
| But better be put out OF business than tho
other thing and I couldn't help but agree
with the mans view
A well-known magazine writer of my ac-
quantance who was assigned a fortnight
or so ago to investigate and write an ac-
count OF this so-called "crme wave in
! New York told me yesterday that, of the
| forty-eight cases that he has already run
| down and analysed to the final bottom
| fact In which men were accused of these
crimes against women and girls, Just three
and no more, of the cases were supported
| by bedrock evidence against the accused
! men. This magazine man. trained and
expert sitter OF facts of this sort, was
firmly of the opinion that all of the other
forty-fiye cases out of the forty-eight he
| had worked on were accusations built up
out out of the sudden ferocity Of mobs and
when he gets through with his sitting Job,
he's going to say in print in crime
wave magazine article, to be filled with
! facts anC figures that ought to be illumina-
| tive.
To Boom a Seller.
few afternoons ago 1 met up with a
highly concentrated and cynical publisher
| of fiction. 1 found him leaning back in his
desk chair, hands clasped behind his head,
| In a deep state of reflection.
I'm In a quandary," he said with LIE
| most refreshing candor. ITS this way:
am just about to publish six new novels
| by well-known American fctionists. All of
these novels are equally bad, hopeless, hog
washisf-all of them the most perfect truck
and rubbish you ever heard Of in your born
days. Now, I've got to boom one of 'em
to a six best seller of course; that stands
| to reason, and I'm going to so boom one of
\ EN-. But don't know which to boom into
six best seller, As Say, they re all equally
| mediocre. II not imbecile, but they're the
| best to be had Now, 1 can't boom 'em
all into six best sellers-it wouldn't be the
square. thing to the publishing trade for
| me to have all of the six best sellers, now
would It? And SO I've got to make a pick.
And II boom one particularly to that six
best seller goal. the other five author per-
! sons will get sore and sulk on me. Eheu!
It's the problem, enough. But I've
got to make a six best seller pick right
soon, for it's the booming season. Dunno
but what L might well shake dice to find
out which of 'em 1t is to be"
And this Is an almost verbatim report of
that publishers words. Deliciously frank.
not?
It's Goodbye to tho Spectator.
There's basis for faint gllmmering OF
/ hope that maybe, at some time in the
problematical future, the ticket Spectator
nuisance, which has been such an abomi-
nation in New York for many years. will
be abolished.
At least two theaters, opened for the
season last week. made a good-looking be-
ginning toward that desirable consumma-
ton. These theaters not only exhibited
large signs in front of their doors, to the
general essence that tickets bought from
spectators would not be accepted by the
| ticket-taker. but they stationed large.
husky. uniformed men with megaphones
at their entrances, and up and down the
Broadway walk for some distance on either
side of the theaters, and these persons
with -megaphones bawled something like
the following to the passers-by:
You buy tickets from spectators at
your own risk. You're giving away your
money If you do it. Such tickets absolutely
will not be taken at the door. People buy
Ing tickets from spectators are followed to
formed and such tickets are refused
There still some seats to be had at the
box office at the regular rates" and sew
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which the megaphonists had been carefully
rehearsed.
The megaphone system had a decided eff
feet. Folks who were on the point of buy
ing tickets from the misunderstanding
and badgering sharks caught themselves
when they understood the gist of the mego-
phpned announcements and went inside
and got their seats. The ticket spectators
were stuck wit DER papes" for the weeks
business, and their profane lamentations
around the concentrating spots of Broad
way were distressing to listen unto.
Now the uncrushable Oscar Hammerstein
announces that he's going to have these
ticket Crooks as he calls the ticket specu-
lators, ''pinched for obstructing the side
walk and for being vags without any visi-
BILE means of support" to quote him again,
If they line up in front of his theaters, and
nobody who knows Hammerstein has the
least doubt in the world that if he gets into
throat-to-throat scrap with the specula-
tors they'll be the deceased ones in the pit
when it's all over, for the irrepressible
Oscar has never yet lost a fight with any
body or anything.
But the New Workers. who stand for
more imposition than any other folks on
the civilized globe and who for years have
been digging up three and four and FIVE
dollars apiece to spectators for two-dollar