Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-11
RoUND ADoUr NEW YORK.

ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
"Humpty" jackson. the champion crook
Of Manhattan, having a record OF i01 ar
rests without seriously impairing his liberty,
has the hook IN good shape this time, and
students Of criminology are watching TO
see II he can squirm out. Jackson was
caught will the goods on, a portion OF
Sl00,OOO worth Of loot stolen from an express
company. one of the few generous things
he has lone led to his undoing. A man
who was described as a prominent mem
Der Of the community had once got him
out OF jail when he was held for vagrancy.
He has waited for an opportunity to show
his appreciation. So when he found in his
loot a beautiful tiger automobile robe he
sent II to the prominent member This
man. believing that It was stolen. Informed
the police. The climax quickly followed.
Jackson's 1Olst arrest was due partly TO
his own meanness as well as his generosity.
James Flynn, who had been arrested on n
charge of larceny, gave Jackson SIS with
which to employ a lawyer. But jackson
did nothing. He merely kept the money.
Flynn lay in jail for nine days and heard
nothing from his leader. Then he s~quealed
and told where some of the stolen goods
were concealed. A determined effort will
be made to send jackson to prison for life
under the habitual criminal act.
Most prosperous physicians in New
York are specialists. Or they become spe-
~cialists after they are prosperous.
fact often annoys the man who wants a
doctor in a hurry, as one chap uptown
did the other day. His wife was Ill; they
had just moved to a new neighborhood,
and his family physician was out Of
town. The first doctor he routed out of
bed was an eye and ear specialist, and a
mighty short-tempered one. TIL second
devoted himself to the nose and throat.
The third was a negro. The fourth
handled only surgical cases, and the fifth
was a woman. Sorry" said the searcher,
"but my wife is peculiar. I'd take you in
a minute-but I'm afraid she will not
care to trust a woman ph ysiclan."
The doctor was probably used to that
talk. She wasn't a bit annoyed, even If
she was holding the open door to the
draft. herself in a kimono and her hair
in curl papers. That's all right" said
she. I'll tell you who to get"
But this commended physician wasn't
in. The man returned to his wife, ex-
hausted, to see If she felt better before
starting out again. He told her about the
woman doctor. she seemed so sensible
that 1 would nave told her to visit you,
except that 1 knew you wouldn't want a
woman to treat you"
His wife reared up in bed. "Ive always
wanted a woman DOCTOR" said she, glar-
ing.
That Christmas stories are not all con-
tanned in books, relates the New York
Tribune, some of the passengers know
who were on a subway train leaving the
Brooklyn bridge about 5 o'clock on Christ
mas eve. Among those who boarded the
train at Spring street was a working
man, who carried a luncheon basket in one
hand and in the other and under his arms
paper parcels. He stood on the platform
of the car, and when this had started he
put one of his parcels on the floor and
reached into an inner pocket. mmedi-
ately he uttered an exclamation of sur
prise, and it became known that he had
lost his pay envelope. When he left the
train several men who had spoken to him
followed and questioned him after the
train had moved on. Evidently convinced
of his honesty and the truth of his story,
a little consultation was held, and before
the man assembled the steps he had con-
scented to take a neat little sum which
the strangers. evidently warmed by the
Christmas spirit. had made up to take the
place of the lost envelope.
II don't know how they manage It," says
a conductor on the Broadway line, quoted
by the Sun, but whenever there is an ac-
cident involving the injury of a passenger,
the claim lawyers hear Of 1t about as
quickly as the agents of the company.
There are dozens Of lawyers in the city
who have no other occupation than that
Of prosecuting damage suits against the
company, and there must be some free
masonry about the business, for no matter
how hard the company's employees may
try to keep new of IN accident from
reaching the public, the lawyers always
hear about 1t, and very often reach the
injured party before the agents of the COM
pany can get to him.
II had a friend who not long ago was
slightly hurt in a collision and being afraid
hat his injuries were more serious
than they proved to be, 1 took a day off
to go and see him. He was hurt early
Wednesday morning. 1 called on him be-
fore 3 o'clock Thursday, and he then
showed me the business cards Of twenty
six different lawyers, who had dropped
in to see what they could do towards in
ducing him to bring suit against the com
pany The claim business, however, Is not
so prosperous as 1t was two or three years
ago, for the lawyers are all careful to get
written contracts, providing that they shall
receive anywhere from 30 to 90 per cent of
whatever sum is recovered in the suit, and
besides, they sometimes manage to get in
expense items of different kinds, 80 that
even IL the suit is successful, the clients
share is usually very small. The people
are beginning to understand that they have
a better chance of fair treatment by deal
ing directly with the claim agents Of the
company than by trusting to the issue of
a lawsuit"
There is to be an afterclap to the fires
on the New York state reservations that
is Of general interest. The counsel to the
forest, fish and game commission has been
directed by Commissioner James s. Whip
pie to begin actions against railroad COM
panies for setting fires which resulted in
the destruction of timber and property OF
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