Evening star., 1909-09-04

another scheme of the I'VE Boys bunch.
and they cleaned up handsomely with II
IN New YORK and Washington and In
many other cities. They got hold OF a
lot of measly chromos and ten-cent
daubs from hack artists" and they ex-
hlb'ted this stuff In the cities as the work
the United States. They gave il out
that the profits of the whole affair were
to be divided among the artists" and the
weH-to-do victims who Clipped in sums
have the privilege Of selecting for
themselves specimens of the work OF these
famous artists 1t was, as saw. the
biggest kind Of a cleanup, and the Press
Ar.is1s Aan League" did mighty finely in
They worked 1t there while Congress
was In session, and many's the hoary old
senator who coughed up a large sum
lor the privilege" of selecting from this
mess of rubbish two or three cheap
prints. colored or otherwise, supposed to
be the work of some artist" of renowu
In the Illustrating or press field. The fact
that none of these prints were signed by
the artists" whose names appeared on
the letter-heads of the Press Artists
League" apparently made no difference
to the gulled ones who handed over their
soft checks to the grafters.
No less a man than President Roose
however-into one of the schemes of this
gang of I'VE Boys" grafters a few years
back. 1t was an alleged scheme to start
a magazine for the benefit of the news
boys of the United States. and so skill
fully was the thing handled when 1t was
sprung in Washington that Mr. Roose-
welt and all of the gentlemen then MEM
bers of his cabinet permitted the use OF
their names as trustees" of the fake
concern, which was engineered by ex-
actly the same man who put over tho
big Blue Pencil Club job in New York.
With his customary shrewdness Mr..
Roosevelt caught on to the phoniness OF
the scheme after little while. and put
secret service men to work on the propo-
sition. The result was. as may be re-
membered, that the President came out
and withdrew his name from all patron
ship of the scheme. he being followed In
this by the members Of his cabinet And
so the I'VE Boys scheme for a maga-
zine, the profits of which were to go to
the pore little newsboys." nattened out
under the prodding of the secret serv-
ice.
But the 1--WE Boys" bunch never become
discouraged. When they're uprooted
from one field OF operations they plug
ahead and find another field. well know
ing that In the present state of public
actual character Of newspaper men the
I'VE Boys scheme can't help but be a
winner. Probably, as say. it'll go right
on being a winner until the general pub
lie becomes familiar with the FACT that
newspaper men. whatever else their de-
merits, ARE NOT beggars In even the
vaguest or the most literally interpreted
application of that term.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
Mrs. Jobson to the door. and then called
out to her:
"Get on your bonnet and shawl and
Well take a little spinsky in this thing
Punk-looking old rattlebang kind OF q
car what? Ye-eh. perfectly rotten. Just
in from the factory this morning.
don't know thing about handling 1t
either, suppose? Oh. yes. I've had les
son or two. but this sort of thing comes
natural to me. Well joggle by Kay
streets house. / want to have that
lobster take a peep at car what is a
carl"