El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-21
CURFEW LAW
FOR WHITE
WAY
Loiterers Must Go Home AT
ter IL "Blind Beggar"
Slavery the Latest.
SDEBURNS FOR
MEN, THE LATEST

New York, N Y. Sept. 21.-New
Yorlx's Great White Way is up in arms
over the most surprising hit of news
that it has heard IN years. which is so
revolutionary in its character as
actually TO threaten the early morning
activity for which the thorOughfare IS
famed. The remarkable bit of news
is to the effect that Broadway is to have
a curfew rule, and, although curfeW
will not ring, fguratively. until mid
night, instead OF at the conventional
hour Of 9 o'clock. its enforcement is
likely to change the early morning
hours from the gayest in Broadway's
whole day to ones of quiet and desc
At IL o'clock. according to the new
rule, no one will be tolerated along the
Great White Way who has not good
excuse for being there, and persons
arrested for violating this rule will
have to face either a fine or a work
house sentence. Moreover, it is said
that the excuse Will have to be good
one and genuine as well. No lettering
or Strolling aimlesSly about will be
tolerated, and it is still an open ques-
ton whether Che desire to satisfy ones
hunger OF thirst will be accepted as
valid excuse.
There are also many places along
Broadway where turkey trotting is in
dulged in after midnight, and much in
terest is evinced as to whether a desire
to indulge in this dance will be regard
ed as a sufficient protection against
arrest. As the gayeSt hours of the day
only begin at midnight along the Great
White Way, and continue practically
until sunrise, the working of the new
curfew rule may result in an upheaval
which may make the gayety of this
street only memory.
Although arrests have already been
made under the new rule, prominent
BroadWayites are hopeful that the
duration of its enforcement viii be
short, as has been the case in other re-
form movements. Meanwhile the own
ers of cabaret shows, restaurants, cafes
and big electric signs, all of which so
to make up the night life OF Broadway,
are wondering what their fate will be
if the new curfew rule is rigidly en-
forced
Blind Slave Trade.
While New York has for years be-
come excited over various kinds of
slavery notably in the case of the
white slave trade, it has remained for
the discovery of what is believed TO Oe
a blind beggar slavery to top the list
of strange methods of making money
through the labor of others. The be-
lief that such a slavery exists, under
which the pleadings of unfortunate
.beggarS1 are used to swell the pocket
books of persons who use them as a
source Of income, has been brought
about by the arrest of a man, who. it
contributions Of the public to a blind
beggar, now said to be under his con-
troll According to the story, this man
kept the blind beggar at his home, Sc
Letting each morning the place at
which he was to beg, taking his saw
ings at night, and then OBTAINING him
upon scanty rations until the next day.
The earnings of the beggar are said to
have amounted to between three dol
lars and five dollars daily. and the po-
lice claim that the result of the blind
mans begging has Melted the man in
question more than $1,000. In support
Of lei 10
man has three times secured the re-
lease Of the beggar from Institutions
to which he has been committed for
mendicancy. The case when it comes
to trial is likely to arouse considerable
interest, since, in view of the many
channels of graft which have recently
been exposed, the suggestion has been
advanced that organized begging d.
rected by a number of men who get
the money may yet be added to the
already long list of parasitic methods
of gaining an increased income.
Sideburns For Stylish Men.
After a generation during which prac-
tically all male New Workers under so
who desired to keep up with the proper
now looks as if Whiskers are again to
have an inning. Apparently not salts
fed with setting the styles in feminine
dress, the word has now come from
Europe that facial hirSute decorations
will be the correct thing this winter
for the man who desires to be emf
nently proper. The most fashionable
kinds, it is said, will be those which
adorn the side Of the face only, but
many are mentioned as being at least
not in bad taste. Among these are
Dundrearys. Galways, Roscommons and
Paisleys, to mention few of the long
of inquiries concerning the character
of these various styles since New York
has gone beardless for so long that the
names mean litele or nothing to the
the new fashion will be remains to be
seen. and can hardly be determined IN
til the whiskers have had time to at
tain healthy growth. There is more
than suspicion, however, that it will
not prove popular here if for no other
reason than the statements put forward
by various physicians that it is not
sanitary. Likewise it is likely to meet
the. unqualified disapproyaI of all the
BARRIERS
Deaths From CnreIeSsness
Aerial death is rapidly becoming so
common in New York that it now seems |
likely that some sort of legal steps
may shortly be taken to eliminate it, /
so far as that is possible. This, how |
and their use, but instead with the
shower of death dealing missiles vary
ing in size from a brick to a huge slab !
of granite or a steel girder which of |
late has been dropping from the great |
Skyscrapers in the process of construc- |
ton upon the unsuspecting pedestrians |
below. The latest and most Spectacu-
lar of a long list of such accidents has |
finally aroused public feeling suffi- |
GENTLY to indicate that something is !
likely to be done. In this accident, /
which occurred as thousands were i
hurrying home from offices in the con- |
gested downtown district, a workman /
on the 36th floor of the new municipal |
building was crushed to death by /
huge granite block partially released |
by the breaking of a derrick arm. Had /
the mass fallen to the pavement it /
might have caused a dozen deaths It |
has frequently been suggested that the /
sidewalks adjacent to buildings in the
course of erection be rooted over /
This would of course provide protection |
against smaller missiles, but would be /
no matter how strongly con-
structed. against ton of granite or /
steel falling several hundred feet
Abolishing the law of gravity seems to ]
be about the only sure protection, but !
are nevertheless working on /
different plans which they hope may
make pedestrians reasonably safe in
he vicinity of a skyscraper in the
course of erection.
Climbing Fish.
The biggest fish story of the season !