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# "The Judge" Magazine Page Analysis The main cartoon depicts **President Chester Arthur's visit to New York**, where he met with local political operatives nicknamed "the boys"—including figures like "Jake" Hess, "Sol" Smith, and others listed in the text. The satire mocks Arthur's transformation from a dignified president into an angry, agitated visitor after spending time with these political cronies, suggesting they corrupted or frustrated him with their scheming. The accompanying article criticizes **bogus mining companies**—fraudulent stock schemes that victimized investors throughout the 1870s-80s. The piece details how swindlers printed worthless stock certificates, extracted money from victims with false telegrams about needed machinery or water discoveries, and disappeared to Europe when exposed. The satire targets how these scams persisted despite repeated exposures. Both pieces exemplify *Judge's* role as a reformist satirical publication attacking political corruption and financial fraud of the Gilded Age.

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and 36 SLISIED yrth Moore Street, N.Y. ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Bar FOsTAGe FuKE. “eo Auldress THe JepGe PeMLusMtye Co,, 36 and 34 North Mo NOTICE: ¥ will he regarded) as gratuitous, inclosel for return postage. with name an The President in New York. We should not be held guilty of betrayin mitidence if we disclose the fact that Pr nt Arthur came to New York the other day | to see the “boys.” And he did see them, not. | withstanding all r » the contrary. Rumor had it that it was his purpose to swit his long legs over the Peck Slip pi day of old, and fish for cod and Spanish mack- erel, but such was not the fact. When the President had visited his home in Lexington avenue, and listened to the arguments ot several | plumbers who were in possession of his man. sion, he was escorted to the Fit Avenue Ho- tel, where the ‘boys were iting him. * Jake” He ack "1 Sol” Smit “ Barney ” Biglin, “Georgie” Kraus, ‘Mi Cregan, “Charley” ‘ art, “Mike” Burns, ny O'Brien, “Steve” French, and the rest of the * boys” were there. What transpired in the hotel rtments we cannot divn It is enough nt, usually ave ani polite, seemed transformed into an enraged Zulu, after a stay of twenty-four hours, and gave express: away that alarmed the guests of the hotel In a calm moment he said that he would soon he unable to recognize the President if they ‘id not hasten their re ras in the aw weon, Spencer, aps ion to his feelings in Bogus Mining Companies. Tue bogus mining companies of this country ¢ so numerous that columns might be filled with lists of them, and should such lists be printed there would probably be no decrease in the number of victims to the mining craze, Exposures of the ways of mining sharps have frequently been made in New York as well as in California, but the sharps continue to grow richer and the stockholders poorer. Mines | which never existed save in the imagination of swindlers are floated on the stock day as easily as they glided hither and thither thirty years ago. Brown, Jones and Robin- son form a mining company with less trouble, perhaps, than O'Brien, MeCarthy and) Flana- market to- | ures, | tied that Mr. Schepp killed him. THE JUDGE. gun started Af ne in the early days of Cal « handfuls of quartz may be obtains illy held up investors, now as then. ‘The oilicers of mining companies find that the printing of stock certificates is but nia. ing gaze | a small item to them, and they smnilingly give these beantifial of paper for the hard-earned money of their victims. In order to vary the monotony of the enter- prise occasional telegrams, which set forth that there is water in the mine, that now machinery must be purchased, or that some- thing terrible has occurred which will neces- sitate the expenditure oflarge sums m Then ssments upon each are le} and the stockholder ling to pay this ment disc 3 that his stock has been soll to some one else. At length, just be being taken to the insane asylum, divesting himself of his alleged brains with a pistol ball, he learns t tematically robbed. by a g: never saw a mine, pieces ed, share of stoc who may be unable or as ve we. or before at he was simply sys- ang of sharp , plumber, presi- dent of a tottering bank, chief mogul of a bogus mining or insurance company, gifted cler; rinding merchant, betake themselves to Europe, to the pleasant secnes out of the city of the year, leaving their miser behind them. And while the former are thus hugely enjoying themselves, the latter may have the satisfaction of knowing th: bereft of the society of such charming 1 ‘Therefore those who groan because they cannot afford a summer va need our sympathy. man and side, or to ason they are ation do not Let us rather congratu- late them that they are to remain in quiet, | peaceful New York, where opportunities for real enjoyment are more plentiful than in any other place in this free and enlightened land. Undisturbed by the wolves who prey upon them in the cooler months, they may know that their lives are not to be altogether unhappy on now Dr. Witiiam R, Urnam died in Yonkers a few days ago, and District-Attorney Baker, of Westchester County, tried to show before a coroner's jury that the doctor was killed by Leopold Schepp, a wealthy manufacturer of this city. Mr. Schepp had obtain is wife, and Dr. Upham had figured in the divorce proceedings. Therefore, when Dr. Upham died, the district-attorney was. satis- But three distinguished physicians testified that Dr. Upham died from hypostatic pneumonia, su- perinduced by malnutrition of the system, and the district-attorney failed to brand Mr. Schepp as a murderer. District - Attorney Baker should be sent to New Haven to assist Prosecutor Doolittle in the trial of the Malley youngsters and the Douglass girl. THE snobs of the Coaching Club have been airing themselves in public, and have again been betraying their early education as pro- nal coachmen < | the few survivors of the Jeannette’s se adivorce | Wu does Justice Theodorie R. Westbrook | intend to sue the majority of the New York newspapers for libel ing to Hamil ton Harris, he is one of the purest jurists who ever graced the bench of this State, and he has been grossly misrepresented. Ham ris, as Tweed would have said, “is one ofthe boys, and ought to know,” ‘Tue daily newspapers are complaining of a dearth of exciting ne Now that all the | venerable steamboats in the neighborhood ot New York covered with fresh paint, and are ready for trips to summer | resorts, newspaper men may soon be busily engaged in writing up “teri have been Tus is a bad year for reformers in Albany, judging by the records members of the Legis lature are making. | Prosecutor DooLittLer’s case against the | Malleys and Blanche Donglass is ina bad way for him, He is the New Haven official who publi announced —b the trial begun that he would * try them togethe viet them together, aud hang them together, the murder of poor Jemie Cramer,” and he has rested his case without a scintilla evidence that f the was con: would convict either cused, Four men arrived at this port in the steam- ship Celtic on Sunday last, who were among ess One of them, nearly bling, | expedition to a frozen world, Lieutenant Danenhower, ws another, Jack Coles, a sailor, was insane, and two others, Raymond L. Newcomb, the | naturalist of the expedition, and Long Sing, | a Chinaman, were, strange to say, in their senses. No one was bold enough to ask either of the survivors whether the knowledge ob- tained by them in their voyage will benefit the rest of mankind, but it is safe to predict that there will be no rush of summer visitors to the regions explored by the Jeannette party We have received information from a re- liable source that Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is “ very mad” in consequence of the revolt of the Republicans of the Key- stone State against his dictatorship. | ‘Tue Star Routers, thanks to that remark: able specimen of humanity, Colonel George Bliss,of New York, have not yet been brought to ‘rial. ‘Tur free baths are open, and the superin- tendents stand around to break and pole away the ice so as to give the boys a chance. At Coney Island bathers are using Boyton armor in order to enjoy tho surf. And yet some people think the season is just a little back- ward Fist lies begin to pan out pretty well, con- sidering the backwardness of the season. But up to the hour of going to press, the Chicago Inter-Ocean is entitled to the pudding, taking it with ‘a sixteen-pound trout, taken | from a stream two inches deep.” as comicbooks.com