Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
Just a Line
About Men
You Know

Counselor James r. McDermit Learned
in the First Precinct ant room il st
week that his chest expansion Is
not as great as he thought. he
was telling Court Officer Will
lam Rommeihs. who has an ex-
pansion across the chest OF 46 inehes'
that he was sure lie was just as iarse
AS a result he offered to wager that his
o~verooat would fit the large man. ROM
meihs Obliged by putting the overeoat
on, but he had difficulty in getting II
off. As d result the seams were burst
and Mr.. McDermlt was compelled TO
walk home with the coat upon his arm
AS a matter of fact, our friend Jimmy
allowed himself to be measured, and II
was found tina he was just IS inches
across the chest. Some difference.
Former Judge Chauncy II. Beasley
was addressing a jury the other day
and wished TO bring out the point that
there are certain people who will trust
no one but themselves to carry out the
simplest details of their business. 10
Illustrate, he told this story:
"a man of this sort sailed for Europe
leaving in his brothers care a parrot,
of which he was very fond. Ali the
way across the Atlantic he worried
about the bird, and no ooner landed at
Liverpool than he sen this cablegram
to his brother:
- D ,,,-, ,A5 Paa1 xhA no riot >
And the brother cabled back;
"'Have fed him, but he's hungry
again. What shall 1 do next?'"
An English army officer was being
entertained in the officers rooms of one
of the New York regiments recently and
was boasting Of the superiority of the
English officers over those of America.
Herbert DeWilde. the Newark automo-
bile dealer, is an officer of the regiment
In question, and sat silently while the
Englishman discoursed thusly:
For mastery retreats. there have
been few generals equal TO Butler in the
Boer war. on several occasions he
made a retreat without losing an Off
Ger, a man. a gun or a flag"
"or a minute" quietly remarked De-
Wilde.
The English officer did not seem to
appreciate the joke,
Louis Rommel, sergeant-at-arms of
the criminal courts, thinks he has a
violin that is a real Stradlvarius of the
year 1902 variety. Louie was reading
the other day about such a violin
worth 81, 900 being in the famous Have
meyer collection.
by jimmy, l think 1 got one of those
kind myself" said Louie" to County
Detective Joe Quicker.
And, sure enough, when Louie got
home n examined the instrument it
had all the markings OF a real old
"Strad." Rommel intends taking 1t to
New York TO have it examined by an
expert. The instrument has been in his
possession for more than twenty years.
That old habits, mental or otherwise.
are hard 10 shake off was once more
aptly illustrated by Judge William p.
Martin in the Court of Common Pleas
the other day while he was on the
bench hearing a certain case. Two
lawyers. Joseph Kahrs and City Attor-
ney Herbert Boggs, were in a weari-
some wrangle. They appeared as far
from a conclusion at the end of half an
hour as they had been when they
started. The judge had been following
the words with interest, when he sud
denly began to grow restless and x
claimed with an emphatic thump of the
gavel:
Gentlemen, gentlemen, there is no
motion before the housed"