The Washington herald., 1914-08-10
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. O. M,INTYRE.

New York, Aug. 9-There seems to be
a fine opportunity for some of our hard
working specialists to pick up S3.s50. 600
providing they can deliver the goods
Mrs. Isabel Lara. the Hetty Green Of
Central America, has arrived from Costa
Rica and offers this sum-her entire for
tune-to the specialist who viii restore
her sight. She is almost blind She
made her money herself in farming and
real estate. and although seventy-six
years Of age is spry and keen of percep-
ton as a girl. II New York doctors can
not promise her a cure she will depart in
a week or so for Paris.
It is hard to believe IT. but ancient wire
tapping game is being pulled on in New
York every week and there seems no
way TO stop IL. ''Shifty joe coyne. one
OF the star confidence workers. said no
more than a month ago that II he went
broke right now he Eould dispose Of a
few gold bricks on Broadway. He hon
estly believes he could do II. ]. H.
Adams. an EngIishman, arrived here the
other day after making the friendship OF
smooth talking gentleman on the
steamer. Adams was labeled Easy
when he hit the city Two or three days
later he was escorted to a racing CON-
missioner's Office and in an hour and a
half was buncoed out of $3.50.
The new workmen's compensation
board. sitting in the Metropolitan Build
ing. is showing how to snip red tape with
nonchalance and care free abandon. In
jured men and women and the surviving
families Of workmen Killed in the course
OF their duties appear before the board
daily. and awards are made without de-
lay OF haggling. So simple is the pro-
cedure that even the personal appear
ance at the hearings is unnecessary, pro-
vided the proper papers have been FLED
The tedious litigation and appeals. the
lawyers fees swallowing up the bulk Of
the verdict, the wrangiing and fI-feeIing,
the misery and the suffering are ended.
Becky EdeIson. the Queen Of the
Reds. is in a high dudgeon. because blase
New Workers will not take her hunger
strike seriously. When she expects The
populace to weep they laugh and instead
Of giving her pity they give her jeers
1t is a rough old world, Becky went TO
Blackwells Island on July n. and she
Immediately declared that she would
emulate the celebrfed Mrs. Pankhurst.
Instead. however. it is declared that she
was eating an egg or so on the quiet
and one scoffer suggested that she BE-
given an omelet and the strike be de-
clared OF. II was at the Tarrytown
trial that Becky was the most amusing
She was called as a witness and was
taken into court in a Morris chair. Her
pallor was due to bit Of chalk and her
quivering voice was pitched in the lower
register that sounded like Ala Nan
nova at her best. Even the Judge re-
fused to take her seriously and when
she insisted upon being tried with the
others he merely 1said; Next case
The first Chinaman ever arrested in
New York for yagrancy was brought up
in Mist Court the other day. He was
absolutely without funds and did not
seem to have any place to go. The
sight of a "Chink vag'' was something
Of novelty to the hardened court at
tendants and they looked at him won
deringly. Down in Chinatown, Mock
Guy declared that had any Of the Chi
nese population been told Of their fellow
cOuntryman's plight he would have been
taken care Of The residents have 4
fund TO take care of the sick. aged and
poor and do not in any case let their
fellows become public charges il they
can help it