Show THE COLDNESS OF NEW YORKERS i Ten Commandments I Howard JrInterstato Jot Ioartl JrIntertte mandments Other Matters Special Correspondence NEW YORK June ro I dont think I look like a tramp a well western newspaper worker now in the known newpapr I metropolis lO wer sd t mo the other day but if I though I meant it at our as ment say good morning a tough ou sy boarding Jo house the person I say it t will look at me suspiciously a i saying Ah you laugh dollar A hearty want to borrow a dola heary would shake borT down the wall I fear s we all sit touching elbows three times a day and nve7sPea good leisurely meal is un never speak A Jo leiurly i u known Everybody swallows his victuals 8 Everbdy S55 toSJ wSaVinful God had inflicted though t cat was a painful duty G flicted upon him Every now and again I meet some old college chum and I hearty erecting seems to amaze him Like ones fellow boarder he will look at me with suspicion suspi-cion and after shaking hands in a kind of abstracted way as though inwardly offering an apology t his couwience for doing s will Uuii away jlad t know ho has escrd being askeu Lor 1 loan iuy ueiul war in my ear for half an hour over the cold suspicion sus-picion with which he swears New Yorkers regard strangers and I dont know out after all be l half right S Joe Howard has been made famous by many newspaper tales and a many villainous villain-ous cuts His personality i marked One would notice him in any assemblage I because there is something about him though widely different from his fellows lows which says newspaper man from I head to heeL He has a peculiar easy famil ia air which says t dignity you are a sam When he makes a speech his remarks are sure t smack of this personality and u his bald head rolls around on his shoulders that his spectacled eyes may take in every individual in-dividual in the assemblage he will talk by the hour apparently withouteffort crowding versatile nothings together in such fashion that every one i < entertained On the street his head gear i sure t b tbe latest silk tile glistening and new His shoes gleam also and a dark suit with cutaway coat bright and natty completes the equipment Since his quarrel with Pulitzer of The World Mr Howard ha not been connected with the staff of any New York paper The Brooklyn Elevated Railroad company persists in keeping a singular rule in force cash fares are required and tickets are not sold under any circumstances except at the bridge and Fulton ferry where they are sold one at a time or enough t pass a party but let in bunches The employes say there is notl single advantage in this system that all the New York roads sell packages of tickets ant that crowds could be much better handled it tickets were sold in quantities The parks teem with people these warm days Ban carriages roll about by the dozen and little girls bring croquet sets set them up in the playgrounds and knock the striped balls about by the hour while the boys turn somersaults and roll down the knolls with a zest which i healthful even t sec Fat complacent nurses gossip under the trees benignant papas read tho papers and provident mammas knit and look on from some shady nook When night come on homeless vagrants cur up on the benches amid there pas the night > Somebody has sent the West Shore railroad rail-road people here the following ten command melt professing t eive the substance of the interstate commerce law 1 Thou shalt have no other interstate commerce com-merce bill but the Cuhom bill 2 Thou shalt not make Into thyself any rules and regulations for carrying of freight and passengers pas-sengers in the likeness of atiiiatr tLai is I in the hwvens aboe or un the tart beneath or tt bIn b-In the water under the earth 3 Thou shall not bow down to any railroad president or general passenger agent or freight agent for we the commission R not so greens as we look and if then is to bj any bowing Coins down and doing tho grand we want a then i 4 Remember the 5th of April and dout you forget for-get it 0 ye who have beeu getting over the country on annuals for then did le posses fa like the leaves of the chestnut tree In a November Novem-ber gale and there i no helpin ye 5 I you must cuss cuss Culloin for his i the bill that th > stiiator from Illinois girth thee 6 Thou shalt not unjustly I dsiTninale We will never agree a t what unjustly means so you must b particularly careful uoout ue ucth commandment 7 Thou shall lot commit thyself to I greater l itent for C short haul tiau for a IOIIJT tau even If it docs take more carpet for a Ion 1 g silence Thou shalt not have any addiuL division 9 Thou shalt not bear railroad stocks urless thou art short in the market 10 Thou shall not pass thy neighbor uo thy neighbors wife nor his man nt nor his maid servant even If he traveleth with his ox and his aso and the other members of ihi oui mission Appended And thou shalt rub in all tLrfe coniiuandments until the people weary M uu sts and imagine a vain thing and orc up thu s LuincS A New York journalist has oeen so unfortunate unfortu-nate a t lose the sight of ono eye Thorn not at all sensitive on the subject it bus Ls come a bore to answer inquiries about how the loss came about He wns greeted by a old friend in acionded railway station with Why halloo John how did jou lose 1 ou eyesight Well replied the journalist rolling out the word iu a solemn and high sounding manner but with all seriousness 1 contracted con-tracted muco purulent conjunctivitis and a bad cold supervening it modified to purulent opthalmia which resulted in ulceration of the cornea this progrcnaed to the point of sta phyloum w hich finally healed with cicatriza tion and consequent opacity of the cornea The friend stired a moment but a he turned on hia heel muttered The dd thing did well to go out C C McDoVALD |