The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-26
Miscellany
Minutes in Manhattan.
By Gotham Knickerbocker.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Yon have all
heard the story about the group dis
cussng who is the greatest inventor
the world has ever known. As you re-
member, they all had had their say on
Edison, Marconi, Stephenson and the
unknown geniuses responsible for the
bow and arrows, and the first wheeled
cart, when a commercially minded gen
tleman spoke up;
"'That feller what invented interest
was no fool! -
This anecdote was recalled to my
mind by an incident in which George
S. Dougherty, deputy police commits
sioner in charge of the detective service
Of the metropolis, figures. He had be-
| fore him gray haired burglar, first
put in prison for practicing his profess
sion thirty-two years ago, and now ac-
cused of a series Of "jobs" in Har-
lem.
| "You re the man that invented
blowing safes with nitroglycerin. aren t
your thupdered the commissioner.
"No, sir" protested the aged crimi.
| nal "I wouldn't know bottle Of
| soup If / drank it.
Now here is fine condition of al
fairs. A man who, my friend Dougher-
ty says, invented a device which has
enriched thousands, besides relieving
many thousands of that which oft
causes cares and worries, refuses to
take the glory Of his service to human.
| ity. 1t is very curious. If had
thought up such a contrivance as this
method of safe.cracking, l would Ger,
| tainly claim equal emInence with the
inventors of the subway side door, the
ate, the divinity Of the mail service
and the policy Of 'watchfui waiting" "
Woll, New York always was place
where you had to jolly your servants
along. The lecture received from your
wife on arriving home from poker
game at the club is nothing compared
to the words which freeze ones bones
from the cook and the waitress Gf You
have both) on sitting down to the
dinner table later than $50 sharp.
But to the gilt-edge example. A
young woman hired as housekeeper
declares in court that she was to re-
| ceive 5000 month, and that some OF
her perquisites were frequent visits to
Martin g, Sherry's and Maxim s and
the right TO have things charged to her
dealing in women s finery.
Heavens and earth! She goes on to
complain because her employer left his
own home and took his own furniture
with him. Hesdid it roughly and in
rude and violent manner. And he spoke
harshly to her. Perhaps he said:
~ m broke, and you did it!''
| The latest novelty in entertainment
| is the "Omar Khayyam. A society
| leader on a recent evening received her
guests on a salon floor entirely trans
| formed into a diminutive Persian gar
| den. The pink roses, the fountain. the
well Quilt Of white stones and filled
| with punch), the peacock, the white
bird of paradise, the lilacs and the
grapevines all were on view.
The invitations were in the form of
parchment scrolls rolled and placed in
white boxes with crimson borders. They
read:
| Bring your book of verses underneath the
I bough.
| Leave your loaf and jug OF wine to me,
And whomever old Omar meant by
thou"
If this were Paradise enow for him.
What moro wouldst thou or anyone
The Snow may make wilderness
without.
But Paradise awaits you by my fire.
| In one of the larger rooms was
Persian rug Of bygone century which
| is supposed TO have q hypnotic spell
woven into its mesh. The walls were
covered with Persian and Arabic tex
| titles and manuscripts. Minarets and
ancient walls were seen hmned in artl-
| ficIal moonlight,
| The supper courses were Persian, One
dish was peasants. 1t was found inn
possible to procure enough peacocks ;
tongues for pot pie.
The favors included for each of the
| $50 guests a copy Of the Rubaiyat. -
special edition fooled and engraved
There were also Persian caps for the
women and Astrskhan caps for the
men.
After supper fortune teller de.
scribed the future and the bay couples
| danced around the we'll and fountain
and through the trellised gardens.
|
In one Of the numerous reporters
| rooms about town T don Z mention
which for obvious reasons) three poker
games were proceeding at the usual hot
pace recently, when the door opened
and two strangers blew in. Each wore
| a soft hat with the bow planted north.
northwest and both had Morningside
heights written all over them
| 1--WE re from the school of journal
ism, and we came down to see how Won
work. - explained the shorter of the
two. Then they both looked more fool.
| ish than before.
"Well. this is us, and we re work,
ing said facetious newspaper man.
"Looks will cost You 10 cents a hand ~
Some of the other scribes considered
this a bit rough and immediately
brought forward chairs for the new ar
rivals and gave them a more courteous
invitation to sit in, explaining the fun.
! damental place poker has in journal.
| ism.
| Twenty-Five minutes later each Of
the young men from Columbia had a
| large stack Of blue and white ones he.