The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-27
NEWS AND VIEWS OF
OLD NEW YORK TOWN
BY Glen Guernsey.

cation. and no attention will be paid
20 letters containing less than a mil
lion dollars
Awful Word in Town.
ShlbactieSa1skabet Hermod,
come into court
That's what John McSherry, crier
IN the court of Justice Platzek. had to
Tear out of his vocal organs this week.
Al the hour of rushing to press, it is
reported that he will recover.
The ''Dam-and-so-forth" isn't a new
cuss word or the name of a break
last food, although it is quite worthy
OF either It's a Norwegian corpora
tion. and it inflicted itself upon the
New York courts by filing a suit which
mas 10 do with the stranding of the
Norwegian ship Hermod outside the
harbor of Cardenas on February 81,
1905.
Ta-ta, MIR. Devil.
MI. Henry W. SaVage's Devil"
Henry Z. Dixey, has gone hence from
the Garden Theatre, and the remain
ing disciples of Mepnistopheles are
IN number 1t is evident that the
vogue of his satanic travesty is a
tnlng or the past, and even the gen
nus OF Mr. Arliss, head Devil to
Beiasco, cannot long keep the Hunga-
Ran comedy before the American pub
nc Old Nick had a huge vogue while
he lasted, but it was evident from
the first that he was too subtle for
Americans.
drama which bears the title of
Mary James Pa" will succeed The
Devil at the Garden Theatre. and
Will have its first metropolitan ap-
pearance on Monday night Another
new dramatic Offering for Monday
night is John Valentines comedy,
The Stronger Sex" which will fol-
low Paid in Full" at Weber's Miss
Annie Russell will head the cast. The
comedy had a run of over two hun
dred nights in London.
Mental Healing.
The crude materialiEm" which
characterizes modern medical and
surgical practices, will no longer be
opposed only by Christian Scientists
and other unorthodox persons, The
Bowery already has its Episcopal
mental healer" and the same denom-
ination this week launched a move
ment whica is designed to convert
the wealthy and well-to-do. The Bos-
ton ministers who inaugurated what
they call the Emmanuel Movement
have commenced a series of lectures
under the patronage of ST. Georges
church, which has congregation COM
posed of j. p. Morgan and nearly
5000 other persons.
The "Emmanuelists" claim to be
able to cure only nervous troubles and
minor mental ID Fempers, and the per-
son with "a stDnsach-ache, a broken
leg or an uprising of the molars must
continue to seek relief through the
crude materiaHsm'' of the EN- dees
and the deesdee esses.
oh, Those Kids!
Next ThurSday,s according to the
most reliable REPORTS from Washing
ton, will be Thanksgiving day Also,
in New York, it will mark the Upris-
ing of the Kids. A hundred thousand,
more or less, of smutty-faced boys
and girls, apparently unprovided with
parents, viii smear tleir frontispieces
with lampblack and other decorative
materials and swarm out on the
streets to play the part of public beg
gars. Wearing the most outlandish
costumes available, the kids will
gather about every adult passerby and
beg DANGEROUSLY for aims The pedes-
trian who has disposed of all his avail
able pennies, nickels and dimes will
be nOoted and insulted by the little
cneruDS. AS an education In polite
ness and self-respect, Thanksgiving
Day in the metropolis is a bowling
success.
Just why parents possessed of any
remaining remnants of proper pride
should allow their young nopefuls to
participate in such debasing revels
and public exhibitions of the spirit of
street corner beggary is secret
Whicl I am unable to explain. Ger
tainly. such a general and widespread
exhibition of Juvenile cupijity would
be possible in no other city than New
York