Life — October 19, 1905 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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least a human creature with feelings and emo- tions akin to our own, These Mrs. Carter brings into very graphic being, and in this rile there is no denying her power of depic- The indefatigable Mr, Belasco is now laying the keel of a new play for Mrs, Carter. in which she is to appear in surroundings en- tirely different from any he has yet provided for her. * . . cratic friend, the New York /erald, does most remarkable things in a jour- nalistic way, especially in dealing with the theatre and things pertaining to the theatre. it has carefully nourished the fortunes of Mr. Charles Frohman, and points with pride to the fact that it christened him * The Napoleon of the Drama.” Sunday ,a week ago, it printed among its numerous supplements devoted to different which dealt espe- cially with theatrical matters, It had a large number of more or less interesting, recent and interests on: moth-caten half-tone pictures of artists of both sexes, Also it printed reproductions of the h nd intellectual faces of the managers of the theatres in New York, why this collection should have su dsome Rogues’ Gallery to the mind which controls the Herald is perhaps difficult to understand, but it is nevertheless true that among them ap- peared the portrait of Kothschild, the ex- tof the defun.t Federal Bank, whos fj a term in the Sing Sing prison, A presid: more remarkable thing is that to this portrait of a attached the name of manoger, Me. convict w. Herald's 1 Frohman Charles Metcalfe. An Amusing Dilemma. ISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME is 1n formal nor: ination for reelection to the office he has filled so creditably for one term, and at present writing the Republican and Democratic organizations are wriggling between the desire to gain the strength which would accrue to their respective tickets ndorsing the nomination, and the re to keep out of this ant position an individual who ¢ his official powers in a way that might prove embarrassing to pro- It's an amusing situation to those on the outside. The politicians hate Judge Jerome because they can't count en him and don’t know just what he m: do next. At the same time the Tam- many machine and the Odell machine would each like to use him to whip the other. -LIFE- Whether he is endorsed by either of the machides, or bo h,and no matter who is nominated against him, Judge Jerome is in the fight and the people « CARLOTTA NILLSON IN “THE MAN ON THE Box." New York owe it to themselves to re- elect him. His continuance in office is a deterrent influence on the large num- ber of rascals and criminals in this communit All of them, including the insurance get-rich-quickers, will do their best to beat him, and it behooves all the rest of us to see to it that the: don’t succeed, The Rule of Club and Fist. R. WILLIAM McADOO seems set on impairing his reputation as auseful Police Commissioner. |} shielding of the brutal Schmittbei is a disappointment to those who arded Mr. McAdoo's sel his important post as one of the redeem- ing appointments of Mayor McClellan's first term as Mayor of New York. Schmittberger is a police inspector, is a graduate of the Captain Aleck Williams's school of police, in which it was taught that a policeman and his club and his fist are above the law, and that the citizen no rights which a policeman is bound to respect. On this theory a so-called ‘raid’ s recently made on a building in which it was suspected that there was a pool-room, 463 It has not been denied that entry to the building was forced without a warrant. A number of men found in the building were beaten and clubbed by the policemen under Schmittberger’s command, and the furniture and fittings were reduced to a mass of wreckage by the policemen’s clubs. The men belonged to the submerged tenth, and among them may have been But about even criminals aw is supposed to throw its protec- tion when they are not engaged in crime. So far as the legality of the thing is concerned, Schmittberger and his policemen might equally well have broken into the Union Club and beaten the respectable citizens who ornament its Fifth Avenue windows. But Schmittberger did only might have been expected of him, con- sidering his personality and histraining. ‘The surprising thing is that Commis- sioner McAdoo, compelled to it by pub- lic indignation, started an investigction, but preceded it by a public annoxnce- ment which made it apparent that any witness who testified to the occurrences would henceforth be made the object of a police persecution eq to ban- ishment from any place where the police can exert their remarkable pow- ers, Naturally there were no witnesses at the hearing, and Schmittberger and his police associates were permitted to tell their own story uncontradicted. Judge Gaynor has had a good deal to say about the absolute disregard of the police for the safeguards which the of the citi- what law throws about the rights zen to be secure in his person and hi property of Messrs. McAdoo, Schmittberger, ef a/. spectfully directed to the sayi writings of Judge Gaynor. And incidentally they should remem- ber that Russian police methods are all right in Russia, but that the City of New York is quite a few versts distant from Moscow. is re- and Too Small. REAT MAGNATE: want a million! I can gi but one hundred thousand. CouLece Presipent: That won't do. As long as we're going to tainted money, we must have enough t pay for the damage to our reputation. What! You rou comicbooks.com