Arizona republican., 1912-09-23
CURFEW THREAT
 ST|RS BROADWAY
New York Considering Rule by Which Frequenters of Great White Way Shall Be Sent Home at Mid night


 revolutionary in it's character as ac-
 tuaily 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 curfew rule, and although
 curfeW will not ring, figuratively. until midnight, instead of at the con- Nentional hour of nine o'clock, it's enforcement is likely to change the
 early morning hours from the gayest in BroadWay's whole day to ones of quiet and desolation. At twelve o'clock according to the new rule no one will be tolerated along the Great White Way who has not a good eX-
 cuse for being there, and persons ar
 rested 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 a good one and genuine as well. No lettering or Strolling aimlessly about will be tolerated, and it is still an open question whether the desire to satisfy ones hunger or thirst will be accepted as a valid excuse. There are also many places along Broadway
 where turkey trotting is indulged in after midnight, and much interest 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 a memory Although arrests have already been made under the new rule, prominent Rroadwayites are hopeful that the duration of it's enforcement will be short, as has been the case in other reform movements. Meanwhile the owners of cabaret shows. restaurants, cafes and big electric signs, all of
 which go to make up the night life of Broadway, are wondering what
 their fate will be if the new curfew
 rule is rigidly enforced.
 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 be blind beggar slavery to top the list of strange methods of mak ing money through the labor of oth CTS. The belief that such a slavery exists, under which the pleadings of unfortunate beggars are used to swell the pocketbooks of persons who use them as source of income, has
 been brought about by the arrest of
 man who it is alleged has been profiting by the contributions of the
 public to a blind beggar, now said to be under his control. According to the story this man kept the blind 1 beggar at his home, selecting each ] morning the place at which he was to beg, taking his savings at night and then detaining him upon scanty
 rations until the next day. The earn ingS of the beggar are said to have amounted to between three dollars and five dollars daily, and the police claim that the result of the blind mans begging has netted the man in question more than 5000. In sup port of their claim they point out that this man has three times se
 cured the release of the beggar from
  l committed for mendicancy. The case 1 when it comes to trial is likely to arouse considerable interest since in 1 view of the many channels of graft which have recently been exposed the suggestion has been advanced that ! organized begging directed by num- l Der of men who get the money may 1 yet be added to the already long list l of parasitic methods of gaining an | increased income.
 After a generation during which practically all male New Workers un- i der fifty who desired to keep up with l the proper fashions have gone clean shaven. it now looks as if Whiskers l are again to have an inning. Appar- 1 ently not satisfied with setting the l styles in feminine dress. the word 1 has now come from Europe that facial hirsute decorations will be the | correct thing this winter for the man 1 who desires to be eminently proper. | The most fashionable kinds it is said 1 will be those which adorn the side Of the face only, but many are l mentioned as being at least not Tn | bad taste Among these are Dun drearyS, GdlWdyS, hooCoiililioio dii" | Paisleys, to mention a few of the | long list At present barbers report flood of inquiries concerning the | character of these various styles since | New York has gone beardless for so long that the names mean little
 or nothing to the younger generation 1 Just how popular the new fashion | will be remains to be seen, and can l hardly be determined until the Whls- | kers have had time to attain healthy l growth. There is more than sus- 1 picion, however, that it will not prove l popular here if for no other reason 1 than the statements put forward by
 various physicians that it is not san | itary. Likewise it is likely to meet
 the unqualified disapproval of all the ] barbers.
 Aerial death is rapidly becoming 1 so common in New York that 1t now seems likely that some sort of lega
 steps may shortly be taken to ellm'
 mate it, so far as that is possible
 This. however, has nothing to do Wltf
 aeroplanes and their use, but instead
 with the shower of death dealing
 missiles varying in size from a brlct | l,,ro ,IaL 1f granite ar a StPp