Show MANHATTAN HYSTERIA I Caruso Caru the greatest tenor ton or of his day rl was fined nO 10 in a 8 New York court yesterday yes yesterday es esterday for insulting attentions to a wo woman woman woman man who 00 did not appear in court as a witness The Th dispatches and the NewYork New NewYork I York newspapers show how that the inci incident incident dent flent was magnified into a great sensa sensation sensation sensation tion Photographers mobbed the defendant de defendant d men crowded and fought tc to get Into court the whole ceremony at attending attending tending the trial was made a spectacle such as a sanE people should be ashamed of and thoughtful people will take as an evidence of community degeneracy de degeneracy degeneracy I From the vague and unsatisfactory reports cne ne gathers that Caruso made mad made eyes e es at r t woman in m a public place In vulgar parlance he lie would be called flirtatious in every ery European city his hi performance would be repeated by any an man who happened to notice a handsome hand handsome some BOme woman unattended d looking his way To the uninitiated foreigner there is no more harm in such an episode than there would wO ld be in fn chucking a pret pretty pretty pretty ty peasant girl under umer the chin yet et the American people and the American press preM have made it as ns significant and important as ItS a n great battle between nations or the death of a great ruler From the provincial standpoint of the New Yorkers the tl e arrest of Caruso maybe may maybe maybe be of oC stupendous importance but to the wild lId and wooly west it looks as though they were desperately short of ot news or else suffering buffering from local hys hysteria hysteria hysteria teria The fine fin that closes the incident is a fairly accurate meas measure measure measure ure of its importance |