Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-04-03
STRAY TOPICS
FROM NEW YORK
BREEZY BITS OF GOSSIP
AND HAPPENINGS OUT
OF THE ORDINARY

sion ana are MAKING me H'hl pl"lif
able use o. their opportunities The
police authorities OF ne city are too
busy Qith raiding poolro0ms. lamb
/ Ing muses.. dlsorderly houses and
places where the liquor laws are VIC
lated 70 give much attention 10 SAT"
robbers. automobile bandits, burg
lars aud black handler There IS no
doubt that the police graft inyesiiEn-
ton has completely demoralzed me
police department owing 20 the IN
easinsss among the numerous Nom
bers OF the sraitlng fraternity.
The citizens are becoming some
what tired of the existing state o.
Ihffairs and are complaining of me
lack Of protection against depreda-
lions by criminals IN the mean
while the investigation still coutinu-
es ana the end IL not yet IN ieht
Ibiatrict Attorney Whitman deserves
great deal OF credit Tor hts reieni
less work ln oleanin up the Augehn
stable Of graft In tHe police depart
meni Tho better riasso among the
citizens are To- fun sympathy With me
efforts OF the district attorney. vet
Jew o. them are optimistic enough
10 believe that the elimination and
punishment Of score or so OF graft
ers I'M the police force Nill put an
end To grating IN the department.
one set of grafters may bc removed.
hut after the excitement has blown
over. there viii probably Doe another
set Of grafters 20 lake tho places oI
the men DISCHARGED The system
seems to be wronr and he tempia
ton too great.
well dressed Woman accOmpnn
led BY her daughter, O girl Of u
wears and a man Of about % years
whose legs are so badly crippled That
he can only get around ou his han
land knees. made an early morning
call Al the house Of the town clerk
of Riverhead. l.. the other day
10 obtain licenso Tor the marriage
TOT her daughter a. The cripple When
the clerk learned that the girl was
under age and had been taken away
from her mother and placed 10 an
institution by the authorities De
cause she had been reared IN an i'm
proper environment he refused TO is
sue the license without the consent
Of the probation officer who was ap-
tpoiuted the girls legal guardian
The trio departed in an automobile
and tried to obtain license from
the town clerk AZ Patchogue. The
llicense was refused and the party
lcrossed the river 90 New Jersey, ev-
lidently determined 10 obtain Tie
ensc The probation officer IN whose
charge the girl is supposed to be
was notified and Is making efforts
10 locate the rio and find ont wheth-
or the girl and the cripple were mar
ried n the marriage was perform
ed tho probation officer Intends 10
prosecute the ripple and the mother
Of the girl u has been learned
THAT on becoming OF age the girl VIII
come into possession Of about $40
GOO left 10 her by her father
The Academy OF Misapplied
Arts" held lbs first annual yarnish.
ing day reception IN the auditorium
IN the new lighthouse for the
Blind" In East Finy-ninth street
The academy Is composed of all the
leading artist and sculptors OF Ne"
York aud the exhibition arranged by
them was really a burlesque upon
the insanity of he Cubists, Fuiur'
lists. Post lmpressionists and Others
of that ilk who recently held an eN-
hibition ia the Snthy-uinth Regi-
ment Armory The Academy eN-
Ihlbitlon was a howling success
About two hundred pictures and
works of spulptors were exhibited IN
which the artists tried to 'out-cube
l,he Cuhists and put the Futurisis IN
10 the middle OF the past tense
John Tanfield. a clerk. died under
\ peculiar circumstances the other
ldav lie came TO the Prospect
Heights Hospital. Brooklyn. 70 visit
his wife who Is patient there
While waiting In the reception room
for admission 20 his wife's room Tan
field suffered an apoplectic stroke
and when the nurse came mot the
reception room 90 inform him that
his wife was ready 10 receive him
she found the man dead
Russell Sage Rapheal. a Wal
street broker. living in Bayome, y
H.. has refused an offer by Mrs Rus
sell sage OF S2o 900 for portrait
OF the hate Russell Sage which he
) has In his possession, Raphael's IA
lther was friend and business asso-
ciate Of Russell sage When young
Raphael was baptized Mr. sage was
his godfather The financier took a
great liking 10 the boy and presented
him a. baby with the only portrait
for which he ever sat As ther,
Is no other portrait OF the deceased
financier IN existence. Mrs. Russell
sage was very ANXIOUS 10 obtain pos
session Of the picture owned by Mr.
iRapheal. but he refuses TO sell at ans
lprice and has stated that he would
not part with % even u he were
lpenniless
An Indian camp on the roof of a
fashionable ho'.l In the center OF
the city. about - stories above
broadway. Is somewhat OF a cnrio'