The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-18
DELMAS MAKES A
BIC REPUTATION
THAWs CHIEF COUNSEL WINS
SUCCESS BY FOlLlNG DIS
TRicT ATTORNEY JEROME
LATEST IN NEW YORK
Is Proposed Ar Ship Line to Coney
Island-unhappy Oil King Wants
to Die poor--Bg bitches in
the Snow.

the snow,
New YoL Feb i1.-Wha, ever Tho
final outcome Of tn TAaw Trial may
he, Dolphin NJ Delmas, OF c0uasel fol
the defense. has made iron 1t in &
single day a name ana reputation thai
will endure lorg in he annals of Grim
inal Jurisprudence in Kew York. From
the BEGINNING thc case, probably the
most sensational ever triel at the
New York bar has been ricA in dram
attic incident; but the climax came on
the second morning of the defense
when District Attorney J rome found
himself confronted by the shrewd
calm, keen-wi, ed advocate from San
Francisco instead Of the prominent
at orneY whom in a nEle day he had
succeeded in reducing TO such a state
of hopeless confusion that the friends
Of the accused were hcartsick with
apprehension and even The interest of
S nsation.seeking pectators was be
ginning 10 flag
But a change had been made over
night Before an hour had passed, the
light of hope had dawned again In the
prisoners eyes as he watcher the skill
with which the country lawyer
handl d his case Before the day was
over. tho District Attorneys some
n
opponents 'ineXpericnce in the prac-
ticc of the New York bar" had given
place to re peciful If not anxious, CON
sideratlon of his methods. Then the
sensational newspaper writer's and ar
lists sharpened their pencils afresh
and the desert NJ army of curiosity
seekers r turned literally by thou
sands, to ebsiege with every sort of
plea for admittance the court room in
which two perfectly matched masters
OF the legal profession were battling
for human life.
Paths in Snow Banks.
When Father KnickerbOcker wakes
Up on a cold winter morning and finds
the digging of paths a necessary pre-
liminary TO doing his chores. he IS
confronted with an expensive job. The
snow storm which recently swept over
the entire country left 10.7 inches Of
snow in New York and it will cost
something like 100000 for every inch
of depth to remove it from the 200
miles of streets which must b. clean
ed and dump II into the East and
North rivers That makes a total OF
$500 00l for the job, without consider
ing the immense less of business Incl
dent to impa sable streets. Such a
storm means work for every avail
able team and every idle man in the
city who can WELD a shovel When
several snow storms come in rapid
succession, as they sometimes do. it
means continuous work for weeks and
a cost that frequently reaches half
million dollars or more. Ever since
III last snowfall 600 men and 5000
teams of every description have been
working a; its removed Sometimes
tae skies are kind ana a hevy rain
or a spell of warm weather rejoices
tn heart of the Street Cleaning Com.
missioner and effects a material saw
ing in his appropriations; but this
time the weather has held steadily
cold and the department has had to
do its ~rd unaidad by Providence.
John D. Warts to Die Poor.
Nowadays the struggle for life is a
commonplace affair beside the strug.
gle to die poor. field of endeavor in
which competition has become 50
keen that the youth of the country no
longer need fear dearth of oppor-
tunity to acquire mental food. what
ever the condition may be in respect
10 plain bread and butter. Only a
short time ago the widow of Russell !
Sage gave away several millions Of |
tie slender hoard 50 hardly wen by |
laying the Tough hides Of Wall street |
bulls and bears Now the Struggle has |
roSi John ID. Rock fclICr another s32- |
100000 of hard-paTued wealth ana /
-iili the Standard Oil macnaic. accord |
.us TO thel stest available statistics |
is several millions behind Andrew /
'arneE q in The race TO poycrty. what |
'ycr their spec'ive achievements at 3
golf NAV he. The fact that education I
1i institutions are invariably he benc 1
iciaries is evidence of a III position
/" play The new game fairly. Mr 4
POckefeller's lat 81 donation to the /
'ause makes a total of $4,000. ono 4
which he has placed in the hands Of 4
he General Educational Board for ad- 4
while his gifts TO Chica- /
20 University. agaregating s21 000.-
no. and t'iipg amounts TO various
,ther temDles of learning brings the
.rand to al up TO something 1ika 800
,3S coo. a sum which makes the Sc
'o0. .geb or s7.o00 G00 with which Ezra