Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-18
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street car systems Of Greater New York
lost out on his test appeal TO the courts
for damages for excess fare he claimed to
have paid. The case turned on the right
Of a street car company to refuse to issue
a transfer upon a transfer. Suit was
brought because Of the refusal and the jury
In the trial court gave the kicker a verdict
for 8 cents. The court Of appeals reversed
the verdict. holding that the plaintiff was
not entitled to ask for a transfer upon a
transfer, and saddled the costs Of the case
on him.. The decision affords timely re-
lief for the companies OF the big city
where transfers are grossly abused. In the
Third avenue road It is shown that within
ten years the transfers had risen from IL
per cent to 55,13 per cent OF all revenue
passengers, and that the average fare paid
per passenger had fallen to sic cents.
Receiver Whltridge of that road declares
that for 10 cents anybody could ride all
day and have transfers left to give away
II he survived the experience. In Brooklyn
the case is even stronger. The percentage
of transfer passengers is 55.6. and 1t re-
quires the gross receipts Of 10000 passen-
gers daily merely to pay taxes.
o. ]. Weeks, a prominent Brooklyn bust
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from jury duty on the ground. as he stated
In a very we'll written letter, that he OBJ
jected to "the method of juggling with the
law, splitting hairs, and granting appeals
on any pretext."
A wholesale confectioner Of New York. a
friend OF Mr.. Weeks, says in the Sun:
"A good many Americans. seeing how ex-
peditiously and cheaply cases are handled
abroad, and how long. and with what cost
to the taxpayers as we'll as to the contest
ants, they are dragged out here, will
heartily agree with MI. Weeks. I'm glad
he wrote his letter. Our laws do need re-
forming.
But Mr.. Weeks makes no charges
against the judiciary. He doesn't impugn
their good faith. It is only the system
that he falls upon.
II said he didn't attack the Judges.
He said he held them in no such suspicion
as a Brooklyn chicken thief held a Brook
lyn Judge last month.
This judge, he explained. said to the
chicken thief:
what 1 don't understand, Calhoun, is
how 1t was possible for you to steal those
broilers when they were ~roosting right
under their owners window, and there
were two vicious watchdogs in the yard
III NAh1hitN anu
81 wouldn't do yer a bit O. good. Jedge,
TO- me to 'splain how 1 cotched dem chick
ems, for you couldn't do 1t yo'se'f IL yu'
tried fohty times, an yo' mout git 20 hide
chuck full err buckshot. De bes' way To-
yu' ter do, jedge, is ter buy yo' chickens
In de open mahket, an when 20 wants
ter commit any rascality, do it up dar on
de bench, whah you am at home"
1t was declared some time ago, when the
New York schoolma'ams were fighting
for equal pay, hat they were not in the
same class with men teachers, and as an
argument someone remarked that the boys
were becoming "sisslfied" because Of too
much association with the women folk.
But the person who put up the argument
should have heard two future Hans wag-
ners discussing the merits of a game near
an uptown school. AN wat do ye think de
mutt does7" said one of the kids to the
gang. "'Stead Of putin 1t to de ketcher,
wat does he dor He puts It foist. Foist
amt lookin' an 1t goes over foist's head
Den the empire tries to call me men I tells
i'm wat 1 thinks o. dat fol ball plain
That doesn't SOUND as II the schoolboy Of
New York is becoming sissified.
Mollie -Reggenberger. q sleepwalker,
walked from the fourth story window Of
a tenement at Forty-second street and
Third avenue, fell to the first floor coping,
landed on the cornice and-slept on.
Relatives, with much difficulty, drew her
in through a window and took her up
stairs to her room. When she was on the
bed her sister and brother-in-law shook
her and a doctor was summoned. Finally,
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slowly opened her eyes. In a dazed manner
she inquired what the trouble was. The
doctor said Mollie was sound in wind and
limb and perfectly good all over, with the
exception of a slight wrench to her right
shoulder n a bruise on her hip.
At the suggestion of Judge Aspinwall a
jury in the criminal branch of the SUI
preme court acquitted Rosario Morrano of
the charge OF murder on the ground that
the man he killed was an undesirable citi-
zen. On February II Morrano shot and
killed John Carpienteri. The slayer's at
torney set up the pleat that his client had
shot In self-defense and It was brought
out in testimony that II Morrano had not
shot him Carpentieri would have shot Nor
rano. In charging the jury Justice Aspin-
wall said: at is plain from the evidence
that this defendant acted in self-defense
1t is also plain that the man he killed was
an undesirable citizen and that his demise
was probably a benefit to the community.
In cases where two such persons as figured
in that affair shoot at each other 1t would
be well for the public If one was as pro.
ficient and deadly in craftsmanship as the
other. In this instance the defendant wal
the better or quicker shot"
There is a shopkeeper in Twenty-Five
street who is a firm believer in the saying
Sweet are the uses of adversely as vel
as in the perversion of it in which the
last word is changed to advertisement. >
A glass show case outside the store was
broken into and despoiled the other DAY
and now II has a sign on IL which reads
"All men want our goods; when they
haven't the price, they steal them"
Personal NOTES.
Luther Burbank Of California declares