The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09
FLORENCE FAIRBAN
STRAY TOPICS.
New York Happenings OF More or
Less Interest and Recent Date.

Less Interest and Recent Date.
New York, June 4.-Persons who
are compelled to travel on the elevat-
ed roads or the subways during the
rush hours every week day are great
ly pleased with the just punishment
meted out to at least one of the pest
Iiferous fools who, disregarding the
rights and interests of other persons,
cause no end of delay by presenting
large bills in payment for their fare
at the turnstiles. The man who came
to grief, presented a S20-bill in pay
ment for a five-cent fare and when
ticket seller refused to make
change, insisted upon his demand and
for fifteen minutes held up the pro-
cession of tired people, anxious to re-
turn to their homes. Finally he was
arrested and taken before a magis-
trate. Even there the man refused to
get off his high horse He delivered a
lecture to the magistrate, informing
him that the ticket seller had no right
to refuse making change for the 500
bill as it was legal tender" The
magistrate did not agree with the
prisoner, but as the latter seemed to
be so anxious to get the bill changed,
he fined him So and cost, taking the
amount out of the $20-bill.
Attention has repeatedly been call
ed to the deplorable fact that the
moving picture shows, or at least
some of them, have entered into close
competition with the worst kind of
dime-novels, so far as their pernicious
influence Is concerned That these
complaints are by no means ground
less has been shown in many in
stances. The other day a boy of ten
years, who for two years has been an
enthusiastic patron of the moving
picture shows, was arrested for burg
larry in the Bronx. The boy climbed
the fire escape of an apartment build
ing, entered one of the apartments
through an open window and stole
some money and jewelry which he
found on dressing table. II saw a
man in one of the moving pictures rob
a house just like that" said the boy
when asked how he came to enter and
rob the apartment, and it looked so
/ 4 4
same thing
They used to complain that nine
teen year old Joseph Brooks, junior
at City College, was too studious and
cared too little for the Joys and
pleasures of boyhood. A few months
ago he suffered a nervous break
down from oyerwork, and his family
persuaded him to leave the college
and take up gardening, walking and
baseball. The other day the boy dis
appeared from his home. His family.
remembering his nervous breakdown.
was greatly alarmed. A few DAYS lat
er, however, came a letter from the
studious, other-worldly young man,
dated Syracuse, which read: Am well
and have plenty of funds. Am walking
to San Francisco to see Jeffries-John-
son fight Regarding this as a token
OF perfect cure, the family ceased
worrying and will let him walk
If it's in man it is bound to break
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dressed in black, carrying Bible
and a bundle of religious poems, took
his stand at Fifth Avenue and Twenty
ninth Street the other evening and
soon attracted quite a large crowd by
his eccentric actions. Whenever an
automobile approached the crossing
the young man would rush out into
the roadway, wildly waving his Bible