Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-01

the wearers to don heavy stockings and
underclOthing as a foundation. Then
the men would not care to look at them,
and besides it will be too cold to stand
on the streets, anyway. If, as harsh
men say, the women wear daring cos.
tunes only to attract male attention,
then winter weather will cause the slit
skirt and its attendant sheer styles to
die natural death. That is the med
ical mems solution of the "fashion
evil. :"
Winter Will Be Severe.
The winter will be long and Sc.
we're one in New York, according to
all the authorities. The official wealth
er man says that the outlook is for
a hard winter. "Bill" Snyder, head
keeper of the Central Park Zoo, says
so too, and "Bill" knows, for he got
his information from the gray squir.
rels of the Park. He says that he
has been taking the gray squirrel
weather representations for gospel for
twenty years, and they never fail, beat
| ing Uncle Sam weather sharks of
ten-times. When the gray squirrels be
gin to build their nests, it is a sure
sign that winter is on the way, and
when they begin early and build I'M.
usually substantial nests, it is an in.
Snyder says the squirrels got busy four
weeks ahead of schedule this year.
Queer Source Of Reverses.
The coming of cold weather cuts off
peculiar source of revenue in the
case Of the policemen who are on duty
on Riverside Drive. About dawn ev-
cry summer morning, policeman may
eb seen walking rapidly down the
walks that interlace the slopes along
side the Drive, Carefully he peers un-
der every one of the benches that Faith
or Knickerbocker has put there for the
crowds. Under many of the benches
the policeman may be seen TO stOop and
pick up something. An elderly visitor
to New York who could not shake his
home habit of arising at daybreak, saw
the policeman make his round of bench
es on several mornings, and finally un-
able to restrain his curiosity, asked the
officer what he was doing. The police
mpn explained that the benches were
occupied far into the night by men and
women, boys and girls. Lots of them,
especially the "spooners lose money
and valuables, which roll under the
benches. Jewelry and articles of great
value were turned over to Police Head.
quarters to be held for Identification,
but loose change was pocketed by the
policeman who sometimes collected sew
eral dollars daily in that way.
Easy to Get Lost.
Greater New York, with its hundreds
of miles of streets and its nearly six
millions of people, is a big city and
one in which it is easy to get lost. Ev-
cry day men, women and children disap-
pear and their relatives and friends
see them no more. Their disappearance
is reported to the police, and that ends
it.
"Big Tim" Sullivan, congressman,
theatrical man, philanthropist, politi-
elan and millionaire, was killed by a
railroad train and his body lay on a
slab alongside Of half dozen other
unidentified bodies of men and women
for thirteen days in three different
morgues without being recognized. The
face was unmarried and the morgue
keepers, policemen and coroner's as.
sistants who perfunctorily looked at
the body were, some Of them, personal
acquaintanees and political henchmen
of the former East Side boss, yet
they did not know him.
During all those thirteen days "Big
Tim was known to be missing from
the home Of his brother in East Ches.
ter, where he escaped from his nurse at
four O'Clock in the morning and there
was u statewide hue and cry, but still
none identified the body.
Stupidity Of Police.
II was sent to Bellevue and prepared
for Burial in POtter's Field before
Identification was made, and then It
was newspaper men who recognized the
body. 1t is natural question, there.