Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-01

Metropolis from Day TO Day.
For the first time since the consolidation
of the boroughs comprising Greater New
York an actual reduction in the city budget
has been effected. Heretofore increases
Iapproximating IS 100000 year has been the
rule. This year budget estimates have
been reduced s24,OOO0OO, and the total of
| ST., 900 900 provided for is less than the
preceding year According to the budget
committees estimate the borrowing ca
pacity of the city at present is $9S,519,6 37
Against this sum, however, there is now
registered $50 $4,000 in the form of con-
tracts and other liabilities. OF this sum,
about $5SOOO,OOO is in contract liabilities
which cannot be revoked,
| A we'll dressed woman stood before
shop window on Broadway the other day
She gazed intently at the display Within
| so intently in fact that other women no.
tced her and stopped to see for them
| selves what the attraction was. A little
group had gathered, when suddenly the
first woman turned and hurried into the
\ store with the air of a woman who has
made up her mind. The others followed
| fully convinced that it was a time for
| special dispatch in bargain buying.
| "A new way of drawing customers"
| said an onlooker to a friend. "If you
watch long enough you will see the original
| bargain hunter reappear and resume her
post at the window, ready for the next
bunch of women who are willing to DO
shown what to buy
| After bending over washtub for twenty
two years, fighting to support herself and
one child it sounded good to Mrs. Gather
inc Allitzhauser when she learned that her
husband, from whom she had been
separated for twenty-five years, had Just
inherited 100000 through the death OF his
father, all of which explains the : suit
brought by the laundress against George 4.
Allitzhauser recently in the supreme court
for separation, with the customary attend
ant alimony and counsel fees.
When the case came up before Judge
loGorman, that official Immediately fol-
lowed his usual policy of endeavoring to
bring the litigants together whenever pos
sible, thereby making a happy ending to
the divorce action.
1t required but hint Of what the alterna-
tive might be to the defendant to make the
latter think seriously OF the suggestion
and even that was emphasized when Judge
IOGorman granted Mrs. Allitzhauser a
monthly allowance of 100 and postponed
further hearing indefinitely in the hope oil
"a reconciliation between the two people.
Judge O'Gorman is inclined to the belief
that the separation suit of the Allitz-
hausers will never be mentioned again In
his court except for final dismissal.
Judge Badgley, once the bench III
California and well-to-do, but now so years
old and public charge in the Home for
the Aged and 1nfirm on Blackwells island
mumbled his prayers feebly Sunday while
Bishop Partridge, head of the Protestant
Episcopal church in central Japan, con
firmed thirteen inmates of the home.
Beside the judge sat Harry Courtaine, II
his day an actor famous for his rendering
Of Simon Legree, the cruel slave master II
Uncle Toms Cabin" Courtaine Travelled
far and wide with the play, and he and
Judge Badgley often talked of old days
on the Pacific coast.
Scattered among the 400 inmates of thu
home who attended the services were man,
other men and women who could tell o.
days when they little expected to becom,
public charges. A lawyer, a graduate O
Amherst, now In his SEVENTEEN year;
broker who once handled thousands o
shares on the stock exchange. and actress
4 whose voice and manner charmed many
/ an audience-these and scores of other
rubbed shoulders with those who hat
known nothing but poverty since their ear
Hest days and who had long looked to tn
Home for the Aged as haven of rest.
b The thirteen applicants for confirmation
n included three women-Fanny McDermott
a aged 6s Julia Engelhart. 70. and Heller
y Klat. 65. The ages Of the men range,
from IS to so, the most active of then
r being Alexander Dunstan, who came fron
S Aberdeen, Scotland, twenty years ago. HI
o wife is at the home. too.
}, The most pathetic figure In the Thirteen
f was Peter Schmidt. 70, blind and paralyzed
5 He was carried to the chapel and Blsho
Partridge had long talk with Peter afte
y the service. Schmidt came to this countr
: thirty years ago and took up farming d
i Staten Island. His wife and children ar
: dead He told the bishop, u have n
y friend now except the LORD"
= Stanislaus Niemaszak, u years old, wa
;, discharged as a bankrupt by Judge TIE
u Eyck, in the court OF common pleas 1
Newark the other day. One result OF thi
case is that the laws OF the state hav
y been changed so that in the future childre
2 under l6 years cannot be jailed In civil &C
tions.
The arrest OF the boy was made after
n Judgment in a suit for damages had bee
10 entered against him. He was release
D under bonds. The suit grew out of tn
Is stabbing OF another boy. Edmund WI
mansky OF q Prince street. The judg
. ment given was for so and costs, amount
n ing TO $685..
= In his petition Nemaszak gave his as
lie sets as 70 cents and his liabilities a
In $685. the latter representing the Jndgmer
and costs rendered against him. When n
DIT case came up for a hearing Nlemasza
C, assigned all his property except the clothC
lie he had on TO Thomas McI.eland, cler
re of the court. The consideration mentione
at in the case drawn up was so cents. ATT
IN this was done the judge discharged n