The Washington herald., 1915-04-30

Special correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, April 29.-Big Bill Devery,
New York's best police chief is show
ing signs of coming back down at the
Rockaways where he is tipped for
mayor Those who say they never come
back may soon see Big Bill slapping
Mayor Mitchell on the back and re-
ferring to us mayors"
He fostered a bill to sunder the Rock
Always from the greater city and con-
stitute the beaches and dunes full
f1edged city and it passed the lesisla-
ture. One of the latest stories told by
Devery deals with house in Rockaway
that had the reputation OF being
"hanted."
One of the town negroes consented on
a wager TO sleep in the house all night
for six bits The next morning the
only trace of him was the sash of the
window that he had leaped through. He
wasn't seen until the end of the third
day, when ragged and scratched up he
entered the village
Fob de lans sake. Nose" inquired
an acquaintance, where have you
BEEN"
.Ise been comm back"
A New Yorkcopy reader nearly pulled
an unconscious libel the other day when
ne wrote nedullHe ItSdIulhS lilt lt-
fusaI of Henry W. Ford. the automobile
man, to accept the nomination for Presi-
dent Here is the headline he wrote:
FORD WON'T RUN.
And witty paragrapher called the
arnes-Roosevelt libel suit barne storm
ing.
He was a young man with a grievance
and justly so for he had fused for
two days over a poem and then mailed
it to New York editor. That night
he saw his brain-chud in print but
it was mutilated almost beyond recos-
milton.
He wrote at once to the editor sau-
oily: After changing one line complete
IL and Strengthening out two more of
a four-line poem. why sign my name
to it,
And then came the cruel retort from
the editor: The punctuation was all
yours anyway
The New York Tribune refers TO Helen
Hathaway. now the wife of a well-to-do
multi-millionaire." This immedlat ely
sent G. S. X of the Mail on the hunt
of a poverty stricken multi-millionaire.
Tammany Hall deserving Fourteenth
street is sad blow TO that district.
When the hall was put up there it was
designed to serve its purpose for half a
century. The new hall was opened July
I. 1858, for the National Democratic Con-
venton.
1t is now believed that Tammany Hall
will be moved perhaps to Fifty-ninth
street. perhaps beyond Central Park. The
present hall was put up In the era of
the powerful Tweed and of organized
sun Building was the first home of
Tammany.
When II was decided to put up the
Fourteenth Street Building 1t was an
nounCed that loan of $4,000 was de-
sired for a fund. On the spot. SIS, goo
was pledged fifteen leaders standing for
$1,000 each and the rest of the money
was quickly in hand.
The '1ay-off' season is nearing along
Park Row. Most of the editorial STATS
are cut down during the summer months
about one-third. The more prosperous
reporters and copy desk men go abroad,
those less fortunate generally assign
themselves to rowing commissions and
drift about the country from job to job
keeping in Geographic touch with the
office. Many newspapermen are planning
to take in the California Exposition dur
lg the lay-on period. Incidently it is
stated by those in a position to know
that the salaries Of newspapermen have
shown a trend upward in New York dur
ing the last year.