The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-14

NEW YORK, October 14.-At last
the wave of higher prices mas reached
the East Side and the poor, of whom
there are many thousands on the
East side. are beginning to feel it's ef-
fects. With them to feel the effects
of that wave means to suffer from it,
Nearly all the small lunch places scat
tered through the East side districts,
and almost exclusively patronized by
the poorest class of people, have post
ed notices informing their customers
that from now on a cup of coffee and
doughnut, formerly sold for three
cents. would cost four cents. Extra
doughnuts are still sold for one cent
apiece, but, while their circumference
is the same as formerly, the hole in
the middle is preceptibly larger.
During the month of September,
thieves and burglars reaped big
harvest in New York City. 1t is es.
timated that during the past month
silverware and jewelry worth more
than $4,000 was stolen. The thefts
in the city during during the months
of June, July and August aggregated
$500, 900, an unusually large sum, but
September proved even more profit
able for the crooks. The most aggre-
waiting feature is that the metropoli-
tan police seem powerless to arrest a
single thief or burglar or to recover
any of the stolen property. New York
the crooks of the country.
According to statistics gathered by
the National Protective society 43 per-
sons were killed and 234 seriously in
jured by accidents due to 'vehicular
traffic" in the streets of New York
city, during the month of September.
Twenty of those killed were children
under sixteen years of age. Eleven
persons were killed by automobiles,
fourteen by trolley cars and the rest
by other vehicles. Automobiles in
jured 107, trolleys 81, and wagons 60.
The city of New York has an official
body known by the name of Inebriety
Biard, appointed under law passed
by the legislature in 1910, to deal with
the subject of inebriety in this city.
When the board was first appointed
great deal of fun was made over it's
peculiar name and over the duties
which it was supposed to have. The
members of the board, all worthy gen.
tlemen, who take themselves and their
duties as members of that board seri-
ously, have held many meetings and
have discussed the problem of inebrie-
ty with profound learning and philan-
thropic enthusiasm, but an embarrass-
ing lack of practical knowledge based
upon experience.
In keeping with the modern tenden-
cy to treat all individuals with abnor-
NAL cravings, be it liquor. other peo-
pies property or something else, with
sympathetic kindness, the Inebriety
Board has come to the conclusion that
habitual drunkards could be cured and
reclaimed if they were placed in pleas
ant surroundings and exposed to the
sedative effects of farm life. Police
Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo is
so much interested in the work and
the plans of the board that he has Of
fered to donate to the 1nebriety Board
a fine farm of eighty acres near Flush
ing. l.. l., upon which the board may
establish an experimental colony of
drunkards.
The value of sign display space in
the best parts Of the city has just been
shown to an unusual degree by the
leasing of the roof of the Studebaker
Building for electric sign purposes
for price close to $4,000 a year. This
is the highest price, it is said, ever
paid in the city TO ra sign privilege on
the top of building. The new sign,
which will cast it's blaze of light down
Broadway in the theater district, will
proclaim the virtues of certain
breakfast food.
The Sullivan gun law, one of the
most absurd laws ever placed upon
the statute book, received black eye
the other day when Supreme Court
Justice Gavegan decided in a test case
that a pawnbroker may not be pun.
ished under the law for having fire
arms in his possession. The District
attorney will take the case to the APP
Del1ate division at it's next term and