Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-10

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point OF attack has been the es which
ancient spelling chucked into words where
they were not useful nor ornamental. and
only served to stretch the string Of
printers under the ancient piece system.
The circular contains almost 11,OO sepa-
rate words In the simplified form (such
as rhine, gard. Hand. autum, center. honor,
helth, activ. imagin, doctrin, etc.), and
1000 forms ending led" now simplified to
"a or st." according as they are pro-
nounced CAS- armd, burnd. compeld, instild.
snapt, slept, dropt, stoptl. IT makes a
pamphlet of thirty-two pages, of which
the first four contain an Introductory ex-
PLANTATION and condensed list of rules.
Every afternoon a short stocky man
with a wooden box under each arm rushes
up and down Park Row into saloons, nickel
odeons, cigar stores and restaurants, where
small change Is needed. He is known as
'the Park Row change man" and carries
from 800 TO 500 in small change on each
trip he makes.
The money is arranged in rouleaus. or
rolls, stamped and sealed, in amounts vary
ing from 81 to $40 and made up Of pen
MES, nickels, dimes, quarters and half
dollars. These he sells at an average profit
Of 8 cents a roll. shopkeepers being glad
to pay this for the accommodation. The
Park Row dispenser of lubricants, food,
cigars and other necessary things is always
ready to take all the change he can get.
Tho change man Of the row has two
assistants, who gather all the small coin
theU can get, from the circulation rooms
of the big newspaper offices, subway and
elevated stations, and the-"firm of change
a rtistas bopdIao bpp1radg ~ do1Iars a Aay
from which they derive a tidy weekly in
come.
This is only one OF the petty. paying
Industries OF the Row that few of the
hundreds Of thousands of persons who pass
up and down Park Row day in and day
out know anything about.
Voicing the opinion that journalism has
come TO occupy high public ground and that
there should be no curtailment Of the free
dom of the press in it's consideration of
~demagogues and political humbugs who set
themselves up as statesmen, Supreme
Court Justice Gaynor in an grafton on the
occasion of the laying of the cornerstone
Of the New York Press clubs new home.
gave appreciation to the efforts of fair
and honest newspapers. He said: THE
press of the country has within the last
twenty years improved vastly. Today to
meet a journalist is to meet an educated
gentleman, no matter to what department
Of the paper he belongs. Newspaper men
respect Themselves and each other. Today
a scandslmonger is shown the door in a
newspaper office sooner than anywhere
else. In their public conduct public Off
Gals are held up by the press to the full
est publicity. The press should be free to
Nttt dnpna NottA aud nAIt4faaI h,.rnh,,na
in a bunch separate, where they can be
easily distinguished. None of them can
survive the touch OF Ithuriel's spear OF
truth-the pen of enlightened Journalism
in a free country. governed in the last an
slysis by those thinking persons who make
free and lasting opinions
Mrs. Russell Sage and others have pur-
cha sed a tract of land in Jamaica, county
of Queens, for the purpose of experiment
ing in the building of model tenement
houses after the English style. The broker
in whose name title was acquired said
today:
The plan still lacks definiteness. ! have
no knowledge regarding the amount to be
expended in the buildings. nor do I know
how many or of what form or size they
VIII be-"
The site includes more than forty-eight
acres just outside the heart of the Italian
and Polish sections Of Jamaica. II the inn
provement proves successful model tene-
ment houses are to be erected in many
| places in Manhattan, II Is said.
THAT man had a positive mania for red
headed women said a witness in Justice
scudder's court, Brooklyn, testifying
aoain.t Iahn 7@xIar nunonf uyhOao wife
Helen, is suing for divorce. why. your
honor" the witness went on, "he has had
as many as three, four and even six red
headed girls with him at once in various
public places. l have seen him"
Lawyers and spectators looked inter-
ested, the justice was aroused out Of his
judicial calm, and everybody waited for
further particulars. It was Margaret Full
Ter Elser, the complaining wife's sister,
who was on the stand.
1--WE all went to Coney Island for the
Mardi Gras OF 1907" Mrs, Elser ~particu-
larized. Helen, this husband of hers, my
younger sister Gertrude, and her fiance,
John Acqueline. Dupont suddenly disap-
peared from us in the crowd and we
searched for him. We found him In a
cafe there, seated at a table. drinking
with no less than half a dozen women.
And every one OF them nau req nau.
HE apologized, Joined us again and five
minutes later was lost, as he called II,
once more. This. time we found him, an
hour later, on the beach. kissing another
woman. And she was red-headed, too!
Another time / met him coming from
a road house on Ocean parkway. He was
hugging and kissing a woman. Yes. she
had red hair. Then, again, l found him
or Park Row and at Coney Islsnd-once
with two girls; again with four. They
all had the same sort of hair-red!"
The magnitude OF the local transporta-
ton systems of New York City is made
clear by the statistics given In the report
of the public service commission for the
last calendar year.
Surface, subway and elevated lines car
ried more than 100. 1000 passengers, being
66 per cent more than were carried on all
the steam railways OF the country. II Is
as II every man. woman and child Of New
York's 100000 population rode on one Of
the local lines 325 times in the t~welvemonth.
There is no other institution that affects
so closely as the transit lines the life and
comfort OF the people OF the city. Next
in Importance come the lighting systems.
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