Evening star., 1914-02-07
RULES OF CITY BANK
GIVE HIM RUDE SHOCK
Westerner Unable to "Open an Ac-
count" With Real
Good Money.
Evidence of Progress In New York's
Change of Dope-Detec-
tives in Mix-Up.
special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
NEW YORK, February 3, 1914
Tom Bateman thinks he may never be-
come perfectly used to the ways of New
York bankers. Bateman used 10 live IN the
west. Out there very few persons cross
themselves when they catch sight of a
iinancier.
Il wanted 10 open an account in a
New York bank said Bateman so 1
fiied my pockets with large, pretty bills
and went to it. on the way downtown
wouldn't let any one come near enough
20 hand my change I thought the
whole town knew that I mad money. like
saloonist on Saturday night There
was a long line ahead of NE at the bank
window. BY and by I got to where 1
eouId look at the top Of the head of the
paIlid little runt who wore these mourn
iug-rim glasses that hook over the ears.
States His Business.
I want to open ar account 1 said
TO him
.IIe never looked Up, Just kept on
scratching with his little pen.
Here's the money I said, pushing a
tnick wad of plush under his LITTLE gate
al him
He didn't ask my name. or where I
anne from, or how 7 liked New York.
lie just said.
You'll have TO get couple of in
dorsers'
HUN? I said Huh? You mean I've
got to get q couple of hackers before 1
can even put money in your doggone
bank?
He said that I had correctly appre-
nended the drift OF his oral communica-
ton.
Give me back that money 1 said.
If man ever hit the town I come from
with $50 every banker III the burg would
meet him at the depot with automo-
bileS' -
Is Sure a Progressive Town.
This is one of the most progressive lit
tie old towns that ever was New York
can get a habit-especialIy a bad habit
before the rest of the world even sus-
poets it. BY comparison the rest of our
fair country makes one think of Doc
Ferguson away uptown. He's been
mighty busy lately.
How long does it take to learn the
turkey trot?" he asked the other day.
My! myt said the young lady he ad-
dressed You mustn't think of learning
the trot, doctor. Why, nobodv's doing II
now''
of 1t yesterday"
To get back to New York: heroin
has completely supplanted morphine
and cocaine with our young set of
Sunnnen. 1t is cheaper. for one thing.
and the dwarf desperadoes who shoot
one another on Sd avenue and other
vital spots throw away nickels as
though they were buying Imousines.
And it is a good deal more destruc-
tive. and the habit is harder to cure.
Which would be an excellent trait in
heroin. If only the present users could
oe kept from making recruits
There are perhaps 1900 users of
heroin in town.. said one authority.
One man alone made $4,000 last year
peddling il about the streets in ten
and twenty-five cent lots The priests
and policemen VINO are most active in
nghting gangsters say that the grave
increase in the number of thieVlsh and
rnurderous gangs lately is largely due
10 the heroin habit
Once g boy begins on the happy
powder he will not work. said
Father McGrath, who whips the water
rront bullies with his clerical fists
every now and then He must have
more heroin. So he steals.
Has Melancholy Tinge.
This story is full of melancholy and
vice.
Persons from out OF town always 20
10 the hotel detectives when they want
10 do something which, n found out,
would break up a home Perhaps they
want to garnble-or even play roulette,
which as conducted on the New fork
plan, isn't gambling-or otherwise while
away winter evening The hotel de-
tectives always know just where to take
them One hotel detective is worth a
quarter of q million dollars because he
knows There are few hotel detectives
who haze been on the job for few
Years who 90 not regard the income tax
as q hideous assault upon the rights of
the individual. Detective Commissioner
Dougherty has begun TO weary OF these
gentry. He sent his own men out after
them.
Get a line on these silk-lined ginks,'
said Dougherty. And find out where
they're sending this vegetable ivory from
the interior states
So the regular detectives came tramp
ing into the hotels with suit cases in
hand. and registered from Tulsa, Okla,
and Live Oak. Texas, and acted like play
ful vesteruers out To give the metropolis
a touch of opulence. And they were sue
cessful for :, while. and then the hotel
detectives found their game was being
grabbed. Whereupor tt.y invaded the
roo1l Of one of tll.. InCckrakers, and
beat him TO d stiff foam. and then
took his city badge away from him,
and said they'd 90 worse to the others
fast as they were caught.
This tale has no moral