The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-27
Some Gossip Gathered From
The. Gay American Metropolis

NEW YORK, Aug. 36.-Meat prices
have gone up and are stiIl continuing
their upward movement az ii they In
tended to establish an altitude record.
The poor consumers of New York.
with the emphasis on the poor" VIII
have the choice between bankrupting
themselves to buy meat and pulling
their belts tighter after having strick-
en- meat from their bill of fare. 1t is
alleged that the higher prices of corn
Compelled" the meat trust to raise
the price of meat. az IL the meat trust
ever bothered about 90 trivial a thing
as a sufficient reason for its doings.
Whatever the primary cause may be
or may have been, the fact remains
that the trust has given the jack-screw
forcing up the prices another turn and
the retailers, not to be outdone, gave
the same screw not one but two or
three turns II the packers raise the
price one cent a pound. the retailers
promptly charge to the consumers
from two to Ave cents more per pound.
Many people are of the opinion that it
is about time to reopen the cold-stor-'
age investigation.
Three New York detectives, attach
ed to some of the Brooklyn police sta
tons, distinguished themselves the
other day by a clever piece OF work.
for which they deserve considerable
credit. A physician, returning from a
confinement case at night, was run
down on his way home by speeding
auto and killed. The auto, which car
ried five men at the time, sped on at
ter having run down the physician and
was quickly lost in the darkness. With
practically no clue for a working ba-
sis the three detectives began their in
yestigation and search for the ma
chine and before twenty-four hours
had passed they had not only found
the machine but arrested every one of
the five men who had been in the ma
chine that fateful night. What made
the achievement of the detectives ev-
en- more noteworthy was the fact that
they found the machine and arrested
the men in spite of the assistance CIV
en- to them by some eyewitnesses.
friends OF the doctor who was killed.
Two Of them stated positively that
they saw the license tag on the ma
chine and could swear that the license
number contained the figures and Z,
although they were not sure which
relative positions the figures occupied.
AS a matter of fact the license num-
Der of the machine was 16,545, con-
tanning neither 8 nor q Z.
New York City Is seriously threat
ened with a water famine and the
diency Of reducing the pressure to
diminish, as much as possible, the
wasting water. The citizens have been
requested to be economical in the use
of water and to reduce the number of
their baths. There are some sections
in the city where such request would
be entirely superfluous and where. on
the other hand, an order for bathing
at any time would cause a riot. 1t is
not in those sections, however. where
any considerable amount of water Is
wasted.
The police authorities of New York
are confronted with trunk mystery
which has some rather peculiar fea-
lures. The other night a good-sized
trunk was found on the street at Fiji
teenth street and Fourth Avenue.
When 1t was opened it was found to
contain four coats, 9 vests. II outing
shirts, 4 nightshirts, towels, 20 ties
4 pairs of shoe laces, 10 pairs of socks,
z suits Of underwear, 8 handkerchiefs.
/ pair of white kid gloves, So collars.
81 pairs of cuffs and but one solitary
pair OF trousers. The clothing was OF
good material and bore the tags Of
Paris tailors. Many OF the articles
were embroidered with the name IS
Koaras," which name also appeared
upon the tag OF the trunk. How the
trunk happened to be abandoned on
the public streets and what has be-
come of the owner Of the trunk, who
is supposed to have arrived here on
one of the late steamers. the police
have been unable. so far. to ascer-
tain.
Mayor Gaynor is man Of many ac-
complishments and Of an outspoken-
ness that is quite startling at times.
The other day he gave the most con-
vincing proof that he has the making
OF a good literary critic in him, gift
hitherto unsupported by the general
public. Some time ago the committee
on book selection of the Public Lii
brary decided to exclude from the
shelves of the library new novel OF
stage life by an American author.
Mildred Holland. President Of the Act
Fors Church Alliance wrote letter to
Mayor Gaynor, protesting against this
decision OF the Library board and con-
tending that the novel was by no
means immoral. Mayor Gaynor OBJ
tanned q, copy Of the book and having
read it, sent letter to Miss Holland.
answering her protest. With the ut
most candor he Informed Miss Hol-
land that he had read the book and
had found it quite harmless but very
stupid and that he felt sure the book
had been excluded for no other reason
than its stupidity.
Some of the magistrates and JUS
tices of New York are not particularly