Semi-weekly herald., 1913-01-20
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STRAY TOPICS FROM
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK

The New Workers, or at least a
great many of them, evidently are not
satisfied with the safe and sane cele-
brations which the municipality pro-
vides on special occasions like the
Fourth of July, Christmas and New
Years day. They do not object to
the entertainment provided, but they
want in addition to it as much of
the old unsafe and insane ways of
celebrating as they can possibly get.
The New Years eve celebrations in
New York, especially during recent
years, were disgrace to the city.
1t seemed as if all the pent up rowdy
ism of the multitude, all the hysteri
cal craving for noise and excitement
sought an outlet and qualification on
that night and all night pandemonium
reigned supreme along Broadway and
practically all the streets of the Bow
cry and the tenderloin districts. 1t
was with the hope of putting an end
to the senseless noise and the dis
display of rowdyism on New Years
that the city authorities, supported by
the better elements among the citi-
ing public celebrations with music and
other features of entertainment. But
the rowdyism would not be downed
so easily and there was enough of it
throughout the city to satisfy the
toughest hoodlum.
The suicide the other day under
rather peculiar circumstances of Bar
rington Hutton, young man of q
years, and the son of wealthy re-
tired. business man, attracted consid-
cradle attention. Last winter the
young man was working contentedly
with the railroad company at Panama,
but il the spring his father, who
missed the companionship of his fa-
vorite son, called him home. Since
then young Hutton had nothing to do
and being of an active disposition,
the feeling of being dependent upon
his father had highly depressing in
fit cree upon him. In his morose con-
dition the young man began to worry
over religions matters and to attend
church and Sunday school exercises.
He attended meeting of the Y NJ
c.. A. at Tarrytown and heard SER
mon by John ID. Rockefeller, jr., the
sanctimonious son of the oil king.
Hutton's mind being in an abnormal
! condition made him reception for all
the cheap claptrap of the sermon. So
deeply did the young man become i'm
pressed with Mr.. Rochefeller's words
that he went home and hanged him
self. The fact that he took the SER
mon seriously is considered proof of
the abnormal condition of the young
mans mind.
Burglars entered the office of a
manufacturing concern in Mattantan
and removed safe weighing 800
pounds from the building and carried
it to Long Island City, blew it open
in an open field and after taking all
the cash they could find, left the shat
tered safe on dump. Boys found
the safe several days later. The au-
thorities are now looking for finger
prints.
To make things little livelier the
striking walters made an attack with
bricks and paving blocks upon the Ho-
tel Astor which was filled with merry
making crowds. The police reserves
had to be called out to subdue and
disperse the strikers. Some of them
were captured and order was finally
restored. 1t is safe to say that the
striking walters did not win much
sympathy from the decent element
among the citizens by their violence
| There has been a great deal of noise
throughout the country about the high
| price of eggs, due to the tactics OF
the egg trust, but nowhere did the
prices reach the record established last
week by poultry man exhibiting at
the Madison Square garden poultry
show. He sold eggs at the price of
| S5 piece or $50 dozen and there
seemed to be considerable demand for
these eggs. There eggs came from a
new breed of chickens which a noted
eastern fancier is raising and are,
at least for the present, not intended
for food purposes.