Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
HOW THE NEW YORK "YELL OWS-
WRITE UP'' WASHINGTON

the wife of "A cabinet officer they both OF
lhen appeared at the dinner in their street
ciotnes-ioud plaids, | believe those street
clothes were-and they sat throughout tho
dinner in their hats, Fact
New Workers Believe It.
And. over here they read this SORT ~,
thing. and. worse they believe II ,rbsv
sulp IT whole. The paper hat printed this
Iihpecle yarn considered that the two New
iork society women did Just right SO they
u'u' IN Keeping their hats on at the dinner
uahCe' ana IL printed huge fuil-page pic
lure or them bending over their plates with
tremendous mushroom hats topped with
s"aylng p.umes. on their heads whIla
women wearing dinner costumes sat aghast
all around them
Another favorite hack that the Now yo-L
yeliows take at Washington is administered
at the corps of diplomats and attaches
stationed at the capital.
II one We're TO believe tho account, or
these gentlemen that are popping IN the
saHroniilas of New IOrl; from time. to
time. he d be compelled To regard al OF
hGr1pe as sun in state OF barbarIsm and
nhabited by caye-dw,llers.. The 'diplo-
matte bunch ara inevitably portrayed as
Observation-Disclosures chaps long and
lean, with very much pointed mustach!os
and ineradiCahle sardonic grins and they
are usually pictured as lending over the
chairs and settees of lovely young female
persons whose destruction they are clearly
contemplating
rum-dumb carousers, riding around In cabs
and kicking holes in the cab windows and
insolenuy declining to pay any damages
whatever when brought before the police
station desk. They are represented as
walking up to Washington cops and de-
posting Lockout punches on the chins OF
the policemen Just because they know they
are immune from arrest" as the saifrons
put it. They blithely written up as
obtaining unlimited hundreds of thousands
or dollars worth OF Jeweiry and-and-and
Things from Washington tradesman and
then amiably refusing to dig up when they
are recalled by their governments, and they
are pictured as kissing their hands satirl-
cally at the perspiring and worried looking
Washington trad nsmen."
Not so long ago an obstreperous coach
man. driving an ambassador through the
streets of Washington, declined to obey a
policeman who ordered him to pull up. and
dashed the cop with his whip, and ever
since that by no means remarkable oc-
currence-it happens over here every day
only the Jehus are not driving ambassadors
here-the New York yellows on the very
slightest occasion. have been printing pic
lures of Washington diplomatlsts' jehus
attacking cringing Washington cops with
horrible looking contrivances that bear a
shocking resemblance to loaded Russian
knouts. 1t is also favorIte device of tho
artist OF the Sunday yellow sheet to pic
ture diplomatists' carriages and automobiles
In the act Of running over Washington cti-
zenS ana citlzeneSses with others of the
same fleeing for their lives In the offing-
allie samee the Juggernaut car pictures.
And, Oh! the Gambling.
Yet another cherished fiction of the New
York yellows is that each and every home
in Washington. especially the homes of
Washington's social queens" is a gam
bling hell" The Moo Yawkers who like
this sort Of truck are RECALLED with pictures
of sumptuous drawing rooms in Wash
ington, converted into Monte Carlo casinos
on a small scale There are gorgeously at
| queens" bending over the roulette wheels
and the faro layouts with the gamblers
glare in their eyes" stalking their all"
Yes. they are showed playing faro bank
| no social queens establishment in
| Washington is complete. are informed.
without four or five faro layouts. The rou-
lette wheels depicted In these funny por-
trayals appear to have whole lot less
patronage than the faro tables except from
the aforementioned Mephistophele lea n look
Ing attaches with the up-twisted mus
tachios; the social queens are al for
| faro bank in the pictures. Oddly enough.
| the social queens are not represented As
shooting craps In these doublepage Illus
| ira tons of articles describing Washing
toms exclusive gambling hells" but the
| crap-shootng social queens" will app If
! in time no doubt.
| Upstage, SO to speak, in these pictures,
I noble-iooking youths in evening clothes are
| SnlWllE tlelr ndliS with expressions OF
| IRENE despair on their faces, and our inagI-
nation naturally depicts them doing deadly
| things to themselves later on with the six
| shooters that they always pack around in
the hind pockets of their evening trousers.
The recent raiding of poker game IN
which some youngish Washington chaps
were engaged started this sort of thing of
all over again and The Stars campaign to
push the handbooks and the bucket shops
out Of business was snatched up by the yell
lows here to build up some more horrible
gambling hell yarns upon. In one of theSs
stories horrifyng yarns were told OF rich
but guileiess young men who were induced
to stake their all'-thats one of the ia
vorite eXpressions-on the turn OF a card"
in the drawing room gambling hells" of
Washington. and it would seem that. If the
yellows could print TIE names of the high
personaSes" who are constantly being
broken upon the wheels of fortune that re-
volve in the ''gllded hels'' in full swing in
the "homes of the leading society women
of the nation'e capital tho, whole country
would be torn to its foundations and-and
things. And Norah and Bridget and Katie.
below-stars in the New York kitchens, are
not the only readers of the ochresques that
believe this sort of balderdash and set down
Washington the most appallingly not TO
say fascinatingly. hellsh community. to
speak. this side of the western ocean.
And the "Race War"
No black. gin-sodden coal-cart driver OF
Washington ever tries to shoot a Washing
ton cop in Saturday night melee that GER
tain Of the New York yelows do not Shrek
ingly announce that "a terrific race war is
liable to break out within a stones throw
of the Capitol at any moment.
They have often depicted the entire col
ored population Of Washington armirs
themselves secretly for the inevitable
fray" and the white citizens are exhibited
as covering in shadowy corners, tremb!iugly
awaiting the extinction OF themselves and
their families by the black population OF the
capital. The fears of the safrrons over the
probable results of these race wars in
Washington do not prevent at least two OF
them from frequently publishing, on their
editorial pages, long. solemnly worded COM
nunications from Dorsey Foultz, one of
the most prominent citizens OF the national
capital'-as they put ton heavy matters
of current interest, such as tho Presidents
handling of the railroads. and so on. These
letters. being written by Washington hu-
moristS and fired over here to the yellowS.
have time and again aroused the risibilities
of former Washngtonians eXiled for IN ar
sins to New York; but the obtuse and
opaque yellows go right on printing them.
1t Is only fair to say that very little Of
the sublnated junk of this sort printed in
the New York yellows about persons and