Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-08

16-year-old school boy, a pupil In the
Cutler school. He is the son Of one of
New York's most prominent musical com
posers. About year ago he got several
hundred dollars from his father. The boy
was perfectly frank about what the money
was to be used for. He wanted to specu-
late. His father thought It would be
good thing for the lad to lose the money.
The experience would be worth the
amount involved.
1t was not until the boys mother re-
Gently complained that the youth was neg
lecting his studies that the loan incident
was recalled. Then the father made the
astonishing discovery that the boy had
$4,000 in bank and still had an interest in
the market What shocked the father,
however, was to find that the gambling
mania had taken such a hold upon his son
that he could not concentrate his thoughts
on anything except stocks. Father and son
had heart-to-heart talk. and the boy
agreed to go back to the Cutler school and
try. to forget all about Wall street.
Meanwhile the $4,000 will be invested in
good interest-bearing securities.
"Why do the young men of America
sheer at the walters calling?" said the
quiet man in the black swallowtail coat.
"a waiter can travel all over the world,
become a modern linguist and can easily
earn from SOS to $50 a week, yet the young
clerk or salesman, with eight per- and no
future sneers at him. AS a walter travel
wherever 1 wish. One winter I'm in Egypt,
the next on the Riviera, the next in Rome.
Spring finds me in Paris, and thence leap
the channel in time for the London season,
In the autumn am back in America again
Len
German and Italian. have made friends
with many rich. intelligent, amiable people.
l have seen the world and earn 5000 a
year. Occasionally, while am serving a
meal, am given a good pointer on the
stock market. Yet clerks and counter
Jumpers think they can sneer at me. They
had better learn my trade"
Seeing New York without the expenditure
of a cent and without stirring from his
room has been devised by a man connected
with Fifth avenue jewelry house.
II take all the real estate pictures which
1 find in the newspapers" said he. land
assert them according to streets. l then
paste them In the order of the localities in
a scrap book of enormous size. The center
of It is occupied by Fifth avenue views,
and the other streets are placed in the book
with reference to their position TO the fash
ionable thoroughfare.
I'm any city where there were no rapid
changes going on this would hardly seem
an interesting scheme, but 1 ind it enter
tanning, for 1t keeps me in touch with the
wonderful transformation and develop
ments which are going on throughout New
York. and especially on the island of Man
haitian.
''There are 80 many new buildings in all
sections of the city that l want to know
about yet have not the time to walk about
and discover, that l find this way Of seeing
New York Of great convenience and value"
A gang of female thugs is operating as
highwaymen in New York City. police
inspector declared today that not in twenty
years have there been as many holdups
And highway attacks by women footpads.
His men have begun special crusade
against them. These women are not OF
the ordinary type that walk the streets,
committing petty depredations whenever
opportunity arises They are highway
women of a desperate sort One of them
when arrested was armed with a black
lack and had left her victim for dead in a
hallway. Another, a negro woman. at
tackled a wealthy merchant as he was
passing Thirty-eighth street and Park ave-
nue.. He declared in court that the woman
left him for dead in an areawhy, where he
lay for three hours before help came.
From the shadow OF the stoop the nCgress
attacked him, stretching him senseless on
the pavement and throwing him into the
areaway, well below the sidewalk, where
she rihed his pockets of Jewelry and $40 in
money