Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-30

some Of the worlds heroes. When the ex-
%cursion steamer General Slocum with its
load Of women and children burned to the
waters edge and sank near Hell Gate six
years ago, Lawrence Halloran. a dockman.
rescued Sixteen women and children. In
his zeal to save life he went so close to
the burning ship that his hair was burned
off and his face blistered. Two medals
for bravery were awarded him. In com
pany with a friend Halloran was returning
from Rockaway beach last Sunday, riding
on the rear platform Of a car. On the
t~restle over Jamaica bay the wind blew
off his hat and in striving to catch It lost
his balance and fell into the bay. When
the train returned to the scene Of the acct
dent, the hero of the slocum tragedy was
dead, drowned in two feet Of water.
AT a point in Brooklyn, eight miles from
Long Acre square, Manhattan. by the
usual route, oscar Hammerstein is to
build a new opera house costing 1000, 900.
Brooklyn already has one opera house
more beautiful than the Metropolitan
which her regard for precedent has named
the Academy Of Music"
An opera house ION the Surrey side OF
the Thames in London or the Quarter
Latin side Of the Seine in Paris would be
more unthinkable than almost anything
~else-except two opera houses. But in all
the world there is not other suburb like
Brooklyn, says the New York World.
There is no other nearly so large. As
a city Brooklyn was the rival not of Bos.
ton and Baltimore, but Of Chicago and
Philadelphia. The vote that Joined it to
New York was enthusiastic in the larger
city; in the smaller one close and hesitant.
Lower taxation was the bait. Manhattan
now pays nearly half the tax money spent
IN Brooklyn, yet local Autonomy is a
cry so popular that it keeps in power a
boss unrepresentative Of the community:
some brooklyn people even have the
temerity to advocate municipal divorce.
Brooklyn has an art museum which
snaps up a collection Of sargents the
metropolitan would have liked. 1t pro-
poses a Brooklyn university, to be formed
like the vast University of London. by
grouping present institutions and adding
to them. 1t plans for a confident future.
No longer famed for great lawyers or
great c~lergymen, 1t is a borough of quiet
homes. The road from the tenderloin to
Coney Island passes through and leaves It
unchanged. It has a society Of its own.
constantly drained to Manhattan and as
constantly renewed.
Sex discrimination in the privileges of
getting off at a railroad station might seem
to be carrying courtesy too far. but that is
the custom at one place not twenty-five
miles from New York. At both ends Of the
shed platform are large signs. in the ap.
proved yellow and green railroad style.
which bear in large letters the words:
LADIES NOT ALLOWED TO GET OFF
AT THIS STATION"
From the looks of the country round
about. this limitation is no deprivation.
however. A mine, quarry, and sawmill are
the only things to be seen. These are all
worked by Italians, who live In the shacks
just above. II is supposedly fear of moles-
tation by the workmen that leads to the
forbidding signs.
Any shirt-waist girl knows how easy II
is to lose the safety pin iigger that hooks
up the rear terminals Of waist and skirt.
1t is apt to come unfastened and fall out.
producing a solution Of continuity that has
to be nursed very carefully until home and
mother are reached. Well, that's a femI-
nine sorrow that the Hudson and Manhat-
tan Railroad company and President Will
liam G. McAdoo are doing their best to
ease.
TIL New Jersey girls found that out
very quickly, and there was a grand rush
for the Hudson terminal. All YOU had to
do, II you were a flustered young woman
from Manhattan to Jersey City
hV WaV nf the maui tYhaa a,I xo,,r ,vog.s |
had fetched loose In the back, was to APP
ply to the McAdoo company for a free
safety pin.
President McAdoo, inspecting the con
several weeks ago while the painters
and decorators were at work, looked in
the women's restroom.
What have we got for the women ?"
asked Mr.. McAdoo.
"Oh. the usual things" said the superin-
tendent.
Il guess we had better do a little more
than that" said Mr.. McAdoo. Give 'em
face powder and halrpins and safety pins,
and things like that"
And they did as Mr.. McAdoo ordered
hsirpins are not the flossy things. of
but plain, substantial pins that
will keep a puff or a rat or a "phony- curl !
nailed down.
For a nickel a girl can get an Individual
of soap and a towel. The company
doesn't furnish manlcurlsts and masseuses
free, because they are classed as ~luxuries.
while shirt-walst pins and hair anchors and
face powder belong to the necessities of
life, as everybody knows.
A well-dressed man hurried into one Of
the prominent restaurants on Times square
a few nights ago and seated himself at
one Of the tables waited on by Dave,
known by reason OF his dignl
fled features and portly bearing as The
I'm in a great hurry said the stranger.
How long will it take TO get me a broiIed
About fifteen minutes, sir" replied
Dave.
well, all right; but hurry It up"
Dave started for the kitchen to give the
order, but had not gone twenty steps when
the stranger summoned him back to the
table.
Get me a telegraph blank, and ring for
a messenger boy"