Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-28
Around New York

nipples on the Current Of Life
aH seen In thu Great American
Metropolis from nay 90 nay.
Judge william J. Geynor. TammanY's
candidate for mayor. IL a two-to-one shot
In the race In betting circles. There is not
enough OF the coin talking az that rate
to deaden the sound Of the racuous in
vective m-egaphoned from a hundred
stumps. Beyond the seriousness Of the
candidates and the solemn warnings Of re-
formers. the contest Is generally viewed
as an amusing performance. This feeling
is manifested by questions fired by some
of the audience at the speakers. The
shot and the response supplies the fun,
especially when a candidate, after exhaust
ing his store OF vituperation. essays to
discuss serious municipal problems.
Much OF the heckling comes from fun
makers. The suffragettes have a regular
staff of hecklers on the trail OF the lead
ers. and never pass up a chance TO spring
their favorlte question. The other night,
while Judge Gaynor was expounding mu-
nicipal finance, a s~uffragette stood up in
the center Of the hall and butted in.
Il want to know where you stand on
the woman suffrage question: she yelled.
The audience laughed. Judge Gaynor
paused. Then with judicial dignity he
pointed a long finger at the disturber.
My good womanl My dear lady he
said, this is neither the time nor the
place for n discussion OF that question.
May l make a suggestlon?"
You may" said the woman.
Suppose you go over TO my house and
discuss the matter with Mrs, Gaynor.
Then come to me-"
The audience yelled In delight and the
police escorted the woman to the door.
When Mr.. Barnard, the republican can
didate, was suddenly asked the same ques-
tion by the same woman. he was noored,
literally, and his speech came to an abrupt
end.
But as Mr.. Bannard is a bachelor he
could not thrust HIS wife into the breach.
A decision Of interest to every automo-
bile owner, has just been rendered by
Judge Schmuck of the New York City
court. A woman who was run down by
an owned by Colonel Augustus
G.. Paine, sued the latter and secured a
verdict against him from a jury. 1t was
proved on the trial that Colonel Paine
had told his chauffeur to take the car to
the garage, and that the latter, disobeying
the instructions of his employer, and with
out the latter's consent, took the car else
where, and in so doing ran over the
woman. Judge Schmuck, in granting a
new trial, said: There can be no uues-
ton that at the time Of the injury to
the plaintiff the servant was not actually
engaged in his masters business. 1t re-
mains, therefore, to be determined whether
his conduct was a deviation or a depart
ure from his employment. 1t is evident
that at the time Of the accident the serv-
ant had temporarily retired from his en-
ployment and was engaged in his W
affairs
If the efforts Of business houses and
residents along Fifth avenue are success
full that street is destined to become the
most brilliantly illuminated thoroughfare
in the world. An organization has been
formed which purposes to install flaming
electric arc lamps close together from the
Washington arch to Fifty-ninth street.
Each of these lamps will be of about 5000
candle power and diffuse a reddish yellow
light which will not hurt the eyes. BY
this means the hotels and business men
expect to attract thousands of persons
who now devote their time to Broadway.
Officials of western railroads witt, offices
in New York City are interested in the
success Of the Long Island railroad as a
farmer, and that corporations experiment
is likely to be repeated extensively on
waste lands along the great railway sys-
tens throughout the country. After five
years work on the eighty-seven acres of
waste lands purchased by the Long Is
land railroad at Wading River and Mud
ford, L. l., and converting into farm land
by the company, the two experimental
farms have received twenty-four first,
twenty-three second and six third prizes
at the Riverhead fair. BY placing gradu-
ates of western colleges at work the rail-
road has demonstrated that scientific
methods can convert waste lands into prof
liable and priEe-winning farms.
Two boys, sons of wealthy parents in
Toledo, o., started from home, amply SUP
piled with money, to assist the Hudson
Fulton celebration in New York. They
celebrated, largely by means Of automo-
biles, and when they woke up, as one of
them put 1t, they found that they had no
money for car fares. MAn-fashion, they
started to walk, and when the Piainfield,
N. j., police picked them up and tele-
graphed to their homes the parents Of the
boys confirmed their decisions. They came
to New York by parlor car; they will work
their way back on foot, economizlng OH
food and trusting to odd Jobs for any
spending money they may want. 1t is a
long way from New York to Toledo, and
these wayfarers will have to take up and
set down their feet a great many times.
AS Josh Billings would have expressed ii,
they will not be so handsome when they
reach home, but they will know a great
deal more.
j. Eads How. grandson Of the great
Mississippi river engineer, Harvard
graduate and reputed millionaire, has re-
turned to New York in the togs OF a
tramp after an investigation Of the problem
Of the unemployed in Europe. Mr.. How,
who organized the International Association
OF the Unemployed, announces that a con-
~vention OF delegates representing the I'M
employed in all countries will be held In
Chicago in January to protest against exist