The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-12
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10y IleIbcIG SolSSsy
Perhaps few people-eNcept David
DAMON and the members of his gang
are vitality interested in the fact that
Damon will soon be murdered. He is
the stoolpiseon who gave the police
the tip that resulted in the capture OF
Lefty Louis" and Clip the Blood
who killed Herman Rosenthal las'
summer. Judge Rosalsky incautiouslI
revealed that fact in open court. Dan
ion was annoyed.
why" he asked bitterly. cant a
guy keep his o shut? Now they
bump me off for sure"
was only last week that Jerry the
Lunchman died in the smoke-his
gang having Just learned that he had
turned STOOL There are the forgot.
ten cases of scores of others. Damon
might escape by leaving town, OF
course. But no New York gangster
ever leaves He'd starv to death
if he got from between stone walls
No one pays any attention to the
street killings. One gang leader is
authority for the statement that ten
ganssters were killed last week.
And it vas Il quiet week at that
said he.
Eut-ronceding that Mr.. Damon is
about to leave us-the town is OF
should be interested in the form Of his
departure. The gangSters of late
have been killing folks in as loud and
clamorous and messy a as
possible. They conduct a murder as
though it was n minstrel show, and
never shoot a man full of little blue
holes until he is in the middle of a
large and happy crowd. This is hard
on the nerves of the crowd. Besides
IL ynnpooc in1n1innfn M nnnElnolnS
reason has yet been offered why they
| should not do their killing on the side
! streets, and do, it noiselessly.
The pressure against arson has been
lifted a bit in the uptown belt, but it
is still regarded as more or less of an
offense against good taste. Insurance
! adiusters visit flats before the fire
nowadays instead of afterward. Fire
Commissioner johnson thinks the loss
by arson will be cut by millions this
year.
"A year ago people didn't think OF
the possibility that a fire had been
| set" said Adjuster Leist. Nov they
| don't think of anything else. The
other day 1 had to Investigate a small
fire.
What do you think was the
cause" I asked the %ianitor.
1T looks to me- said he. like the
friction between a $500 value and a
81 1000 policy"
other day Harry Proctor Waugh tool
a friend out to drive. The friend had
! a little son.
After about a mile the horse be-
/, gan to lather." said Mr.. Waugh. 81
commented on the fact.
Why said the friends little son
don't you look under the hood?'"
Perhaps George G. Tyler Of the
Liebler company is right in his belief
hat the playgoers of the United States
hat it is useless to produce a serious
play. OF course serious plays have
been produced and have succeeded
But it Is quite obvious that the laugh
coaxing shows are the n that have
won lately.
That is the very reason" said the
Rev. Mr.. Weirs of the Unity church
Of Montclair, why we are organizing
a playgoers' club in our church. The
attitude of church members has toe
often been n of blind opposition tc
the stage and all that is on it. 1t IL
about time that we realized that we
can make our opposition to the worse
things Of the stage more valuable II
We give our support to the things D!
t'1e stage ihr ;.ra worth White"
That TN hurrh ; a wpndarfu'
institution When tlic cost OF living
rose too high, the Unity church or.
ganized a cooperative store. 1t tough,
the wrong sort of moving pictures by
giving the right sort of moving pic
lures in the church building-evel
reconstructins the building to compl,
with the fire laws. Some of it's mem.
bers are troubled with expansion o,
the waist line, and 80 they organized
a Strollers' club and walked off tns
surplus. A Sight Seers club visit,
places Of interest every now and then