The Washington herald., 1918-03-07

! Special Correspondent Tie Washington Herald
New York. March 6-The troup of
Metropolitan burglars, which. due 10
the high cost Of explosives, Is remov-
ing safes intact this season; removed
-four safes this week. thereby keep
ing up their average.
Even the police are growing sus-
picious OF the bold. bad band. When
A safe will not so OUT the door the
/ burglars simply teaT out the doorway O..
A policeman in Chinatown passed a
butcher shop in Mott street at about
! O'Clock in the morning. He noticed
nothing unusual
At = o'clock he passed the store
again and things looked even less un-
usual than usual. Then at the
butcher came and found n s"ene which
he is still describing with gestures.
The entire front of lis store was
torn out and his safe was gone. When
the burglars get through drilling and
filing they will find the safe contains
500 in liberty bonds and one gold
bracelet.
1t is not much. of course. but still
| the work is light and tine hours- eN-
cellent. Down in a big ofTice build
( ing on lower Broadway an inSuTanc"
! man went to his Office and found
! his large safe not where it should
/ be
He inquired if anybody had by
chance taken it nome for the ii',ht
and found out they had not. so he be-
ban TO investigate. The more he in
! vestigated the less he knew. Tho Only
explanation was that the safe had
cvaporatcd
1t was too large to go out .he door
| and too large to go out the window
but II went out someway Just the
same. The fact that the safe weighed
a ton or more increases the my Stery.
Seen around the town: A Westerner
blowing the foam of Of his glass Of
beer in one of the ultra hotel cafes.
An old woman begging from a funeral
/ party on the steps of a church. A
| family from Holland asking a railroad
ticket clerk il there was any dangers
| of Indians in Chicago. A man i'll
the lounging room OF a Fifth avenue
club wearing a Palm Beach suit 4
woman in an art store crying over a
| picture. An automobile wrecked in a
! park with three empty charn2asme
bottles near it.
| The craze of New Workers for
| Hooded dogs was forcefullY illus
trated at the Madison Square annual
| dog show. All the moguls and moS-
| Elesses of the social register Were
| there and also two princes. a real
live marquis and an English lord.
More than 800 dogs We're exhibited
There were dogs as large as a burro
and dogs that could be sinped into
a quart cup. There were bead leashes
! Of pearl, silver and Roman gold There
| was much rivalry and one woman
went into a fit OF hysteria when her
: Pomcranian failed to set the blue rib
! bon. Three doctors were called.
Frank NJ. o'Brien. in his delightful
story of the history OF the Sun, has
| recalled vividly that New York does
| progress. In September. 1888, NeT
York was the size Of Indiana POLLS
| Only 5000 people lived above Twenty
third street There were twelve
! schools The postmaster had on"
| clerk 10 sort all the mail that came
| into the city from the rest Of the
world. The Sun was the first news
| paper sold on the streets. Its first
newsboy grew up to be Barney Will
iams, the famous comedian. The Sur
had a circulation OF 5000. which was
the largest in the city.
Chauncey NJ. Depew stated that any
man who couldn't skate vas stin.
| Their he went out skating and had a
hard fall. Lies little iTonies AGAIN