Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-12

The first appearance Of a mutton trust In
/ New York happened about 1890 when Jacob
/ Appley a shrewd Spectator OF the day,
4 cornered the sheep market and squeezed
several thousand dollars out Of the "ultl-
mate consumer" The deal netted a fraC-
/ ton less than $4,000. sum considered a
huge fortune I'm that time. The sum was
invested in New York City real estate.
Appley died in 1874, leaving an estate
which, when converted into cash, realized
100000. score Of heirs started three
cornered row over the fortune, fought for
it up and down the courts sixty six years
years, and last week agreed on a com
promise division that was proposed and
rejected thirty years. More lawyers than
heirs have had whack at the stakes, but
the interest on the money. together with
the courts check on legal rapacity. leaves
I the original sum practically intact for
present-day heirs. The record in this case
puts the Iowa and Missouri calf cases out
OF the running for age, besides indicating
that provision corners are not a recent
invention,
His quavering voice growing stronger
with Indignation as his story went along
George w. WImust, 81 years old, $50 Hewes
street, Brooklyn, told his troubles to Magis-
--~AN'sf az NAAS ANNAeih 3AhNhAN
court
II want you to do something with my
boy" he said He's getting so bad
can't handle him. why, the way he acts
when he comes home with few drinks
in him, your honor, is just scandalous
He posters the rest Of us sick, he does.
wish you'd-well, | don't care what you
do II TIN only make him behave"
As the old man glared toward a rear
corner of the courtroom his boy started
nervously toward the bridge. The boy was
Frank Wilmust, 81 years old.
What do you know about this hayward
person." the magistrate asked Frank un-
der the impression that he was a witness.
wei, you see -" began the papa boy,
but the older man interrupted with:
That's him. Amt he a son to be proud
off,
"Fm,' remarked the magistrate. 81
guess 1 won't advise the spanking l had
in mind Somehow a slipper at GA seems
unfit. III bind this STRIPPING over for a
hearing Wednesday on a charge Of va
grancy. In the meantime you have a talk
with him, and IL he doesn't agree to obey
the commandments and ordinances in this
case made and provided IN see what an
other sort of talking to will do"
The father was perklly triumphant as he
led his child from the room.
THE aristocracy Of New York dwells in
it's slums." Fresh from a journey Of ex-
ploration through the lower east side,
Father Bernard Vaughan, the Jesuit
preacher, whose reproaches have so stirred
London society for the last five years,
summed up in these words his first i'm
IT ~,
I'm London" he said. my work takes
me into quarters that the police often hest
tate to enter. 1 find there the life that
interests me most--the life that seems to
me more important than any other in So
cety. The Classes after ALL form only a
very little part of any people. and the
man that would know a people must know
the masses. So what / did in London do
last night in New York
Fifth avenue is not in 1t with your
slums. Your east side is a wonderful place.
could live and love the living there.
Your slums are a paradise compared with
the damp and sunless alleys and courts
of our East End.
las 1 walked through them 1 saw all
around me crowds of happy children
playing under the electric lights, while
their parents looked on from steps and
doorways. All the nations Of Europe
seemed to be there-Poles, Jews, Italians,
Irish and English, meeting on a common
ground and living a common life.
THE children shouted and sang and
danced around hurdygurdies; they scam
pered away for sweetmeats; they shared
their treasures as they shared their games |
have a particularly lively recollection
Of some little Italian children who danced
tirelessly while they ate huge pieces OF
melon.
The millionaires of your Fifth avenue
are not to be compared with these people !
their children are not to be compared with |
these children. God would feel at home
in your slums the aristocracy OF New
York dwell there"
A maid at the Hotel Knickerbocker found
two diamond and pearl rings the other
evening lying on the washstand in the !
womens dressing room, just off the main !
restaurant She reported the find imme-
diateiy to the office, and the rings were
placed in the safe until the owner dis
covered her loss and returned for them.
An hour later a woman entered the hotel
in a hurry and reported the loss OF two
rings which she said were valued at
1900. The rings were produced and the |
woman Immediately Identified them as her
own. Meantime the management had
summoned the maid to tell just where she
had found them.
I'm 50 glad TO get them back" said
the woman, as she took the rings. Then
she opened her purse and handed the maid
50 cents as a reward
Before she had time to turn and so the
manager of the hotel gave the maid $40
as a mark OF appreciation for her honesty