The Washington herald., 1914-07-22
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
By O. O. MCINTYRE.

New York, July H.-If you ask Sheriff
Stephen Petit Of Freeport, he will more
than likely tell you that all OF the nuts"
do not come from Brazil Freeport has
become the storm center OF the Carman
murder case and all OF the various
species Of bugs are nockIng there TO
worry the hard working authorities
There, for instance, was the Duke de
Leon, who said he came from the Bronx.
His cards read, Meyer Newman, alias
Duke de Leon" When asked where he
got the name Of Duke he said some one
told him he looked like one. I'm the
leader OF a gang Of gunner" he said.
and taking him at his word he was i'm
mediately searched and a gun was found
on him. He'll probably get fve years
The next day Frank Farrell, alias Cullen.
blew into Freeport He said he was in
the rear OF the Carman home and saw a
woman IRE the shot and run. He was
stuck in a cell for drunkenness. good
laugh came from a youth named
Nicholas NIchoroda. OF Garden City. He
was acting suspiciously about the ro-
tunda Of the courthouse and the sheriff
nabbed him.
What are you doing here?'' inquired
Sheriff Petit.
"oh. I just heard that Mrs. Carman
was going to be electrocuted this morn
ing and / thought I'd come over and see
It come on" he replied. He pointed to
a big circular radiator which he thought
was the electric chair.
There is some splendid philosophy in
the story OF Isidore Greenberg. known
to all Lower Broadway as 'Newsie
Izzy" the newsboy. "IZZy" has been on
the streets for thirteen years selling
newspapers and now he Is going 10 be-
come a 'rah, 'rah. 'rah boy. He is going
to enter Cornell and what do you sup
pose he is going to study? Scientific
agriculture!
Listen to 'Izzy': I've watched the
faces Of thousands Of men and women
who pass me in the crowds and II struck
me that a lot OF them were playing
losing game. They were prisoners Of the
city. serving a life sentence.
People have forgotten that all Of the
wealth in the world comes out Of the
ground. They've left the open places
Of the earth and have crowded into the
markets in the cities, and they are step
ping on each other and narrowing them
selves. mentally and physically. while
they grub for pay dirt. Pretty soon they
are going back TO nature and when the
back TO the soil movement starts the
man who has specialized In scientific
agriculture is going to have his day"
Joe Jackson, the heavy hitting out
fielder of the Cleveland Maps, cannot
read or write. Jackson comes from the
mountain districts OF Tennessee and be-
gan playing ball before he donned long
trousers. He has been playing ball ever
since and has never had a chance to
study. He is sensitive about his lack Of
knowledge and even to the members NJ
ha he Fvfn ~ tNgFI,
he can read and write. He always man.
ages to dine with some members of the
team and as they order from the bill Of
fare he will say to the waiter, Just
give me the same" At the Polo Grounds
recently Jackson received a telegram
while on the field. He opened 1t and
looked at It carefully. A member of the
team knew the telegram would worry
him and he slipped up behind him and
read the telegram over his shoulder. RE
saw II was nothing serious and walked
away. Later jackson. still fearing the
telegram was bad news. went to a fellow
player. handed him the telegram. and
said: "Ain't that tough luck?" The tela-
gram happened to be from Jackson's
and said: viii arrive
Wednesday"
Irwin Cobb fuses to be classed with |
the literary genus and says he Is not
a high-brow, but a human being. but
he r7osened up the other |
lay lag enough to comment upon books |
u Edgar Allen Poe were alive today" |
no said' he wouldn't write the things |
re did, because he couldn't sell them.
Poe was the first author whose writ |
ngs showed the depressing influence Of |
living in the Bronx. II he had lived |
here now, and had to reach home on |
Lenox local his books might be a good |
ieal gloomier."