The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-08-25
BUYERS OF THE NATION
FLOCK TO new YORK
Studying the Newest Things Discriminating One
OF the Great Crafts That Formely Held
Sway in Gotham.

written for the United Press

(WrlLIen IOr the UnlIeu ProSS)
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-They ar
with us again! Who, the ingenue
and the chorus girls? No; the buyers
From the far and middle west, ant
from the south, they are here, the jol
Hest aggregation that Broadway sees
Ostensibly they come to buy hats
shoes, cloaks and suits, and they buy
them, too But primarily they come
to open the annual bottle of wine ant
7 to see the new shows. 1t is for the
regular New Workers that the thoatri-
cal season opens in the middle oil
August? Hardly It is for the buyers
those happy spenders who come from
Kankakee, Kalamazoo, Milwaukee and
tuscaloosa that the new shows are put
on while the New Workers are still at
the seashore and in the mountains.
They are good sports, the BUYERS, and
they always are warmly welcomed on
the Great White Way which is just
now infested with them.
Just Getting Wise.
Some of the congressman at Wash
ington have been surprised to learn
through the lobby inquiry that certain
Wall street operators" of doubtful
on
names, but the practice is long ia
miliar one to public officers in New
York. and the district attorneys Of
flee in this county has just succeeded
in stamping it out.
The custom of delivering" the pro
secutor without his knowledge is eX-
actly the game that was tried IN the
Union Pacific blackmail conspiracy
that has just been exposed. The meth
DDS of the court room tout and the
wall street wolf are nearly the sumo.
only the rewards are much bigger IN
the financial district. Lawyers ana
others whose business takes thelll
daily to re criminal courts building
have noted Of late the discontinuance
of the practice of delivering the pro-
secutor, which has been for more thah
twenty-five years {. llh.ral help 10
livelihood with the queer gc'itr! ~"''
FREQUENT The place lose shlfty-eycd
individuals " 10 live ~ their wits and
variously known as "panhandlers,
"steerers" and runners.
Conditions are Changed.
That this old method of obtaining
money from criminal class whlcn
ia proved upon very nearly as much
as it pneys, mainly the interests which
keep dirorderly and gambling houses
is now out of fashion in the under
world. is due to the record OF conVlc-
lions of men and women who operated
the "vice trust in the last two years.
The very fact that wrong doors of this
kind can be tried and convicted With
out fear or favor has convinced the
vicious element that it is of no longer
any use to give up money in the nope
that some official will accept it for a
bride and in return consent to a sus-
pended sentence or proceed lightly
with the prosecution.
But there was time not SO long
ago-before and just after the Famous
Essential murder and it's subsequent
exposures when the men who made
a practice of delivering" judges and
accomplished almost daily
such bold and glazing receptions that
it was impossible for one not familiar
lawbreaker could become such dupe.
The following story will illustrate the
methods of one phase of the many
schemes:
Bought Wrong Man.
There came two "panhandlers" into
the hotel of a man in Harlem who had
been indicted for keeping a disorderly
resort. The day before his trial was
picked by the 'panhandlers." One of
them who was unknown to the hotel
man, hung his overcoat on peg, and
sat down near table in the bar, or
lering drink. His associate, known
@ the proprietor sought out the accus-
ID man and whispered
THAT man in the bar is the as
,istant district attorney. You know
What to do. He wont take cent less
han $400."
The hotel man did not hesitate, but
took $500 from his cash
lrawer, and walking into the bar, stuff
ed it into the fellows overcoat
rocket.
The next day the indicted man faced
n assistant prosecutor whom he had