Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-13

The recent failure Of the newest of New
Yorks lobster palaces raises an issue that
overshadows in certain circles the home
coming Of Roosevelt Was the failure due
to a scarcity OF Holsters? or did the lob
sters resent the evening dress regulation2
Among the multitude chiefly occupied in
living to eat" the lobster suggestion Of
failure is ostracised. while the clothes ques-
tlon is received with much favor The
cynical Sun intimates that the evening
dress" crowd comes from "the provinces
bringing their swell clothes to air in the
metropolis Local Holsters would not be
restricted to swallowtails. and Stunned
the swallowtail palace, putting out Of busi-
ness an enterprise representing an outlay
OF N,0OO,OOO Its fittings and decorations
were of a Babylonian order and designed
to eXemplify the luxurious magnificence OF
the Nebuchadnezzar era. Persons without
evening dress were excluded from the night
patronage Of the palace and this rule is
held to be parity responsible for the fail
ure. "A great splurge was made when the
cafe opened" relates the Brooklyn Eagle.
"A London manager Of German name was
reputed to receive the munifcent salary
of $4,000 a year These statements were
widely believed. for in making them the
press agent crossed his heart and gave
other copper-fastened assurances of good
faith. New York likes we'll appointed
restaurants. 1t is willing to pay the price
required for their support. But 1t does not
like, or the male part Of il, at least, does
not, to be requested" to appear in swal-
lowtails and solid white shirts before order
ing an evening meal New York resented
being told how It must dress. 1t is willing
to initiate foreign customs to a certain
extent, but when initiation assumes the
semblanco Of compulsion then it kicks.
-Four hundred and fifty thousand wage
earners in Greater New York are receiving
wages below the minimum on which II is
possible to support their families in de-
cency, Ecct riding to the annual report OF
the committee on congestion OF population.
This minimum Of decency'' is set at $500
year-an increase Of about 500 over the
minimum set by the statlsticians a year
ago. The average wage of $4,000 workers
in Manhattan and the Bronx is $543 and of
100000 in Brooklyn $519.
A long lingering, quivering sound, re-
sembling that historic simile of a COW
drawing its foot out of the mud. accom-
pdiASu ny olBhS VI odNlSldINlOh anu lAllb
sQueals of delight, attracted the attention
of the passengers in one of the coaches of
Sea Beach train bound Coney island
ward.
A hasty survey of those in the car finally
revealed startling sight. Several women
in the coach were especially affected. There
in a rear seat sat a young couple wound
so tightly in each others arms that at first
ba In,
the case was trying to throttle his fair
companion. At least that was the story
later told by the conductor.
The passengers stood 1t as long as they
could and finally one of the women pas
sengers called Peter Nicholson, the con-
ductor.
Make 'em stop it," she ordered. "The
idea of them carrying on like that in
public place"
Nicholson, with jaw firmly set, ap-
preached the couple, and after considerable
prying it is alleged. finally succeeded in
sepaTat Rg the loving pair. BY this time the
train had reached the station at Ninth
street and Fifth avenue, and Nicholson,
with his hand firmly entwined in the low
ing youths collar, bundled him off the
train and downstairs to the street, where
he placed him in charge.
Ten years ago. relates the New York Sun,
commenting on the death of the popular
young writer Myra Kelly, a newspaper
man was dining one evening with Dr.
James T. Kelly, who asked for advice con-
cerning his daughters troubles with maga-
zine editors. This seemed like the preface
to a familiar story-the young woman had
literary ability which the editors persls-
tenty refused to recognize. What was to
be done?
But the story was not along that familiar
line.
my daughter. Myra," said DIR. Kelly
when his companion asked how he could
help, sis teaching in a downtown East
Side school. All of us at home have been
entertained by her stories of her pupils
and 1 urged her to write some of them.
She was timid about it because OF the
tales of often rejected manuscripts by un-
known writers and did not say that she
would make the trial
Unknown to me she did, though, and de-
termined to get over the agony Of unani-
nous rejection as soon as possible she
made three copies OF her story and posted
one each to three magazine editors,
This morning she came to me in dismay
with three letters from three editors, three
checks and three requests for more stories"
DR.. Kelly's companion agreed to act as
diplomatic agent saw the three editors,
settled the matter Of first choice by lot
and gave the bowildered young school
teachers promise OF other stories in turn
to the other two editors.
That was the unusual manner of en-
trance into the field of story writing OF
Myra Kelly, then a teacher In the primary
grade OF public school lH.
The opinions of the magazine editors
were speedily justified. Readers de-
manded more stories about "Isdore Bel
chatosky." there were enthusiastic eneores
for further comment by Morris Mo
jeIslxy." subscribers would not be denied
more OF the wisdom of Becky zalmon-
owsky." and Patrick Brennan" whose
father had resisted the tide which had
swept most of his race away from Pow
erty Hollow. had friends by the thousands
among magazine readers.
For her first story Myra Kelly was glad
to accept $50; within a year she got $500
for every story she wrote.
And all she had done, she often said,
was simply to write down the stories she
told at home of the queer deeds and Views