Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-23
ARE WITH US
AND NEW YORK REJOICES

4O\N NGJO1SAO
upper Broadway are being closed A
ments for the exceedig rich along 9Th ave.
nue. have CLOSED for repairs Some OF
those 9Th avenue and Broadway tropical
fruit plants where they peddle you
handful Of Homburg grapes in mid-winter
the shutters. The furriers stand gloomily
at their front windows. watching the
throngs glide by. The theaters are only
partly filled. Even the groggeries. alack'
mally, that "a lot o tn hish-steppers
have tagged tn, boose--can't afford 1t.
they say
And, it makes no difference what they
say elsewhere, they all put II up to the
President over here
No matter who it's up to-" the horse
show is not the same old thing. That is.
there is room and time to see the horses
before 1t is surprising what fine horses
we produce in this country. Just noticed
them.
Measles and Politics.
Here Is one of the humors OF the recent
New York campaign young cluhman
of the vulgarly termed silk stocking
persuasion was induced by his mates 10
make the run for assembyran from one
conducted his campaign along what he
considered conventional lines. Among
other vote-getting bzni. he kissed some
1500 babies IN the district. Well. he lost
his fight by two votes-maybe he'd over
looked kissing two babies. And now he's
down with a pairfectly hawwable case OF
the measles. with which. no doubt. some
of the infants he bussed were infected
It's dangerous to practice practical poll
tics over here without wearing mask
A Matter for the Judge.
Something happened here the other dav
that will be read about with interest BY
Washngtonians who are afraid to play
little game Of penny ante at home with
their own folks without pulling down tho
blinds.
couple decent-looking young chaps
were before Magistrate O'Reilly. charged
with the heinous misdemeanor Of playing
poker.
II can't see. why the police arrested
these two men" said the magistrate. with
some heat They were. as / understand
It. playing a little game of poker a. a
place where the young fellows OF their
neighborhood who don't drink and carouse
are in the habit of meeting occasionally.
Now. poker and big poker. Is played
every night in the best-known and high
est-class clubs in New York. I happened
to drop into one of my clubs on SATURDAY
| night last. and saw my fellow-members
playing poker. I would have got into the
game myself. but there already were
| seven players. The police didn't come
| around and arrest them. nor did they 90
to hundreds of other clubs where poker,
and big poker. is played nightly. These
more young men. so charged. before me.
| If you do. I'll discharge them all.
Respectfully submitted. The difference
between the situation in New York ana
Washington in this respect Is the diner
ence between tweedle-dee and tweedle-
dunn.
Chewing Gum or Tobaccop
Anybody who watches the outgoing
steamships is liable to derive some new
ideas about the American immisrat9a-
problem The immigrants are now MAX
ing their annual emigration. The exodus
will foot up total OF 800. 900 OF them this
season 1t is Estimated. conservatively.
| too. by people who know, that these
| 10000 aliens. most of whom will return
to the United States in the spring for
more. will carry s1O0o00.0u0 good An1eri-
can gilt out of the country for Christmas
distribution in foreign lands. That'l
make pretty good financial fertilizer in
| some of the poverty-stricken lands whence
these aliens hail. one imagines. The de-
parting steeragers are Of all breeds
Croats, Serbs, Slavs. Hungarians, Poles.
Roumanians. Armenians. Bulgarians-an
immense representation Of southeastern
Europe.
But this isn't the point. It's the actions
of these chaps when they're leaving the
American soil to Chamber on board the
steamships. They spit upon the soil they
| leave behind them I don't mean fgura-
lively. I mean literally. / saw scores and
| hundreds of them doing that the other
| day. They just spat with grinring de-
rision at the soil. and then laughed aloud.
| The interpreters told me that the things
they were saying about the rotten United
| States couldn't be printed.
The undigested ones, it will be replied.
1t may be. But the horde of undigested
and unassinlated ones becomes larger
every year. and If some few millions of
them get together who spit at the soil,
perhaps therell be an eventual answer.
Have You Seen the Coina
Presumably the new-gold-coin nuisance
is pestiferously active in Washington.
where the new stuff out Of the minis
usually makes its first appearance. The
new-gold-con fiend is worrying a lot of
people over here. anyhow. He has got
hold of one or two specimens Of the new
gold coins by dint of pull or pleading al
the New York subtreasury. and he's walk
ing UP and down the Manhattan world
showing it TO everybody he knowsp and
pattng himself on the back for his beat
u-all-to -it-ativeness and asking all
hands for their opinions of the artistic
excellence or botohiness of the designs and
acting in general like the unima ginative
and bothersome cayuse he is You meet
up with him in the L trains, in the sub
| way, in the theater lobby. in the restau-
rants, everywhere; and he'll fash the piece
of new minted gold on you and tell You
about the scheme he put up to get it, and
claim that he's the first New Yorker TO
have one. and ask you what you think of
| it. and what's your idea about this scheme
| lit, >
then he'll say that. motto or no motto.
he'd like to have about a million of 'em
he's a champeen exuder of bromides).
and before he let's you go hell about have
used you up. Have you met him? You
must have. He's almost as bad as the
fellow who corrals you for the purpose of
/ telling you why and how he stopped drink
ing. Almost, but not quite!
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.