The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-02-16
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New York. - Distances mean moth
ing to Nathan Cohen, structural
ironworker. He plunged from the six
teenth floor Of Broaway building the
other day, landed on canvass sheet
hung at the Fifth floor, adjusted his
coat a big and went back to work.
After all there'e an appeal in the
things we are familiar with, and
suppose one has a right to submit art
to the same test that applies to any
thing else. So thought woman viz
itor at the Metropolitan Museum, at
any rate. She and another woman with
much the same tastes wandered rath-
er discontentedly through a room Of
misty Corots. They looked at "Sa-
lone" minute but voted her queer"
II never saw such purple water MY
SELF" said one of them after looking
at an opal tropic sea. "Oh, come in
here" cried the other, See that little
girl. She's awful cute" That's what
like" and the other breathed sigh
of contentment, "a painting that looks
like somebody you'd know"
| If there is any awe-inspiring and
law an dorder compelling combina-
ton in the world, it would seem to be
a public prosecutor and murder
trial. And yet Assistant District At
torney Henry Goodman, while in the
very act of examining suspects in the
Turk murder case, had his pocket
picked. His wallet was stolen con-
tanning considerable money and some
valuable papers. They've no respect
for the dignity of the law" sputtered
Goodman. That's what's the matter
with these pickpockets.
1t remained for a physician to come
forward with the most practical solu-
ton yet announced for frequently
disturbing question. DR.. Oscor c.
Reeve is separated from his wife. The
other day she instituted habeas corpus
proceedings to obtain possession of
their daughter Delora. Butthe doctor
says the child needs his care, too.
Whereup on he offers to take double
house, install his wife in one half,
himself in the other, and let the child
run back and forth at will
Poor serious, New Workers, accused
of -mindedness, of lack of inter-
est in any part fthe country but
their own crowded islands, and of low
ing physical comfort above everything
else! In that light, what about this
The two railroads between New York
City and Washington, D. c., have been
running excursions every other week
this winter. The excursion trains
leave at midnight, Saturday, reach
Washington Sunday morning about s,
and depart at 5 in the AFTERNOON on
| the return trip. And 1900 people take
every one of these trips. There is
nothing but day coaches, so the ex-
cursionists sit up all night, sight-see
about the capitol all day and get home
at midnight the next night. Some OF
them are travellers, to be ure, but
most of them are New Workers, who
do all that for an opportunity to see
their nations capitol at a price they
can afford to pay.
A millionaire engine crew brought a
Swedish-American liner into port the
other day. Just as the vessel was
about to leave Gothenberg, labor trou-
bles came to head and the engineers,
oilers. and stokers went on strike, the
first-clss engineers demanding $4,000
year more than Sweden pays Its
ministed to the United States. There
was a millionaire contractor down at
the dock an dhe volunteered to come
along and swab decks. He was ac-
cepted. Thei Sigurd Bjorkstrom, port
engineer of Gotherberg recruited a
force of youths from Swedish tech
meal schools and himself took charge
of the ships engine room. As soon as
the ship locked at Fifty-fifth street
an dthe Hudson River, the entire staff
dressed in their best and went ashore
to see the sights, and buy Metropol-
itan Opera tickets for the evening.
A movement has been started 10
establish in this city permanent me-
mortal of the late Augustin DAILY, and
to have some producer name a theater
after him. "Augustin Daily would
spend a fortune on a Shakespearian
production which he knew would
never make a penny, just for the good
fthe American theater." sad Cyril
Scott. "He worked for the highest
possible development of the theater.
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