The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-23


by burglars of goods valued at more
than $1,000. The feature, particularly
humiliating to the police department
is, that a few days before the burg
larry the owner of the establishment
notified the police that the locks of
his factory had been tampered with
and a special watch was ordered to be
kept on his place. The front en-
trance to the building was carefully
guarded, but the thieves were so in
considerate as to change their pro-
gram and to enter the place through
scuttle in the roof.
A few nights ago two of the
trained dogs succeeded in capturing
three evil doers. who had outdistanced |
their blue-coated pursuers and would |
have escaped, had it not been for the |
four legged assistants of the police |
Some facetious individual thereupon |
sent "A letter to Commissioner Bing- |
ham, recommending, "for the sake OF
greater efficiency" to discharge the
entire two-legged police force and sub
| stitute for it force of trained police
dogs.
| The dignity of a fledgeling Brooklyn
| lawyer suffered IL Snock WlleI he ell
tered the supreme court in that bor
ough the other day and asked for an
order which he had left to have JUS
| tice Marean sign. When he received
the papers he found attached to them
a slip on which was neatly written,
II will not sign such a damn fool
| order as this j. r. NJ" When the
young attorney had partially recovered
| from the shock he asked in bewild-
cred way:
| What does this mean?"
| 1T means just what 1t says re-
| piled the clerk without any show of
sympathy. "The judge is not in the
habit Of affixing his signature to what
he regards as damn fool papers"
The youthful barrister looked about
| him in a dazed way for moment
or two and then passed slowly out
| of court.
1t appeared that he had asked the
| court to be allowed to amend a
summons and complaint so as to add
a federal trustee in bankruptcy as a
defendant. He wanted the order made
"nunc protunc, in the usual way" 1t
seemed from the brief but eloquent
1
there was no usual way" as to such
motions.
| Some of the New York theaters
| where particularly lurid shows are at
present running, must have been
stingy with their passes lately. One
of the New York assemblymen has
introduced in the legislature two
bills, which would make guilty of mis-
deamenor every person who in any
capacity prepares. advertises or par
ticipates in any indecent play or en-
tertainment, every lessee, owner or
| manager of any place who leases or
permits it to be used for such an ex-
| hibition, and every person who pre-
pares or posts in any public place
posters tending to demoralize the pub
lie morals or calculated to shock the
| sense of decency or propriety.
If these bills should become laws it
would be necessary to build large ad-
ditions to the prisons of the state to
acommodate the actors, actresses,
chorus girls, managers and bil-post--
ers, not to speak of the numerous
employees and attendants at various
theaters making speciality of "haut
gout" shows. 1t does not appear from
the bills who is to decide whether a
show is "off color" or not.
The pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church of Jersey City has de-
| cided to wage war against persons
violating the law prohibiting splitting
in trolley cars and other public con-
| Veyances. 1t is rather rough on the
| wel-meaning pastor that one of the
| New York morning papers published
| the account of his proposed campaign
! under the more than ambiguous
headline, Pastor Splitting Cru
| sader'
Work has just been begun on the
strangest ship built in this country in
nearly century The vessel in
question is a replica in every possible
detail of Robert Fulton's steamboat,
the Clermont, the first of its kind in
the world 1t was just 100 years ago
that the first steam vessel travelled
from New York to Albany, and the
copy of the original which is now
being made will pursue as nearly as
possible the same course next fall at
the Hudson-Fulton celebration The
dimensions of the reproduction of the
Ola DOat 1OlloWlnS eXdctly tHOSe or tne
original, are $50 feet in length and 10
feet in breadth, with a draught of only
two feet. AS in the first steamboat
to navigate the Hudson river, the re-
| production will have two cabins, one
} forward, and one aft. The steering
| apparatus as in the original. to the
dicomfiture of the pilot, will be IN tho
stern instead of the bow, and the en-
gne which will drive the curious 15-
foot broad paddle wheels will be un-
covered just as was the case a GEN.
tury ago. The only changes from the
original model will be the addition of
a safety valve to the engine and the
carrying of life preservers as now re-
quired by law. both of which were
unknown in the days of the first
) steamboat. The Hudson Fulton cell
ebration in which the reconstructed
Clermont will be feature is to be on a
3 large scale. More than $1,000 900, it
is stated, will be spent in commem-
Grating this anniversary. of which the
} city has given s25O0O0. One of the
l chief features will be the unveilng
. | of a towering statue to Henry Hud-
? son, which will overlook the river at
VI Spuyten Duyvil near the northern ex-
l tremity of Manhattan. This lofty
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