Evening star., 1908-02-04

latter was proud of the confidence re-
posed in him. and organizing a gang of
assistants distributed Mr.. Benefits mys-
terious handbills in such a manner that
nobody knew for years where they came
from. But they created a decided dis
turbance and alarm. They were as mys-
terious in language as in origin, and read
as follows:
For Observation-Disclosures!
For Mayor-Dowd!
'Nuf-Ced'
That little experience gave Tim Sulli-
van taste for political activity. and he
soon found a field of usefulness in con-
a habitual oficeholder all his life. has
served the municipality at city hall. the
state as a member of the senate and the
assembly at Albany. and went to Con-
take. for he found himself in an uncon-
genial atmosphere at Washington and
was seldom seen in his seat. He has
since gone back to the legislature. where
he Is more at home.
Big Tins Methods.
Big Tim Sullivan is one of the finest
types of the Little Father that can be
found in the tenement house districts of
New York city. Politics is his profess
sion, and he works at it three hundred
and siXty-five days in the year. He
knows every man and woman in his dis
trict and almost every child. he is IA
miliar with their secret histories. and
has participated in their sorrows and
their joys. He Orga nizes their clubs; he
manages their dances in the winter and
their picnics in the summer: he ATTENDS
every marriage and every funeral; ne
visits the sick and the afflicted; mas
shelter for the homeless and food for the
hungry. and many thousands Of dry dol
lars are handed out by him during hard
times to elieve immediate distress he
looks after the morals of his constituents
as we'll as their physical welfare ana
their political actions. He uses his in
f1uence, SO far as he can, to keep the
boys out of mischief and protect the girls
from temptation. His record as legls-
lator is not as clean as 1t might be: ne
has never been eulogiZed as an example
of purity in politics. and perhaps the
corporation lobbies of New YORK city
might tell some unpleasant stories ABOUT
their experience in securing his vote LOT
ordinances in the board OF aldermen ano
as a member of the legislature But what
ever plunder "Dry-Dollar' Sullivan has
carried off i'm public life he has divided
with his constituents and they trust him
to the last degree.
Little Tins Power.
Little Tim" Sullivan is so called be-
cause he differs in stature from his en'-
nent uncle and patron He is small
slight. active. dark haired man, while
big Tim is a sandy-haired. rosy-faced
giant But they are Of similar character
and characteristics. and Little Inn
learned politics as a sort of secre tary
anl assistant to his uncle. For seVerai
years he has been the boss of his own
district, however. and is regaroed as an
even smoother politician than MS pre-
Ger tor. He dominates the Tammany ma
- flo ri aldermen, ana
no ordinance can pass that body without
his approval; while, on the other mana.
''wha tever he says goes. Hence When
Little Tim" Sullivans ordinance forDld-
ding hotels. restaurants and care ho,D o"ness 'sh
to allow women to smoke in their pup,
lie rooms was offered nobody voted
against it.
Several of his colleagues attempted to
be facetious at his expense and made
funny speeches, to which Little Tim
replied with good humor. But most OF
them and every alderman Of experience.
knew that he had purpose In MS mino
and that it was an honorable one. lie
desired to protect. so Tar as the ponce
and girls Of the lower classes of New
York-that portion of the community in
which he is always nterested-from the
conta a mination of vice which they are
initiating from women who should set
them a better example.
Little Tim purpose.
Since the new Plaza Hotel opened. and
particularly since the orgies of New
Yer eve in the Fifth Avenue and Broad
way hotels and restaurants were de-
scribed in graphic language in the news
papers. there has been an epidemic of
cigarette smoking among young women
all over New York. There has been
rapid growth Of this habit among women
- fla alo in, homes
other private houses; but never before
this winter have women been permitted
or have they attempted to any extent to
publicly smoke in the fashionable restau-
midnight suppers and cigarettes In every
eating house in the metropolis and at
the Plaza. the Waldorf. Sherry's. Del
morico's. the st. Regis. the knicker-
booker, Martins and at all of the most
fashionable and expensive cafes and
restaurants women now smoke cigarettes
afte. their meals just as the men have
been allowed to do during the last two
or three years.
Before that time smoking was not
for that purpose and cafes In which
ladies were not served: but now men
can smoke anywhere almost-in any
dining room in New York. And women
are initiating their example The news
papers had a good deal to say about it.
The right and wrong. the question OF
propriety and refinement has Deen dis
cussed at length on one side and the
other, SO that almost every ore of the
100000 Inhabitants within reach of the
New York papers has taken one side or
the other of the controversy.
The tendency of the submerged ma
jority to initiate the follies and vices of
upper tendon is well known and appre-
ciated Since the cigarette agitation
commenced every shop girl and every
factory girl. every young woman in the
tenement-house district. has considered
it the proper thing to initiate the aris-
tocracy and smoke. And Little Tim
Sullivan. realizing the consequences to
the young women of his class who
might acquire the habit, has under
taken to check it by forbidding women
to smoke in public places.
And 1 think he is entitled to the COM
mendation and support of every person
who believes that the lips of women
should be pure and sweet
Mr.. MCINTYRE LOSES DOG.
Loss of Tag Results in Death Of