Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

War in Europe Finds an Echo on the Bowery NEW YORK.— The war Is on every lip. Whether It Is a Fifth avenue drawing room or a Bowery saloon, its occupants invariably turn to the world conflict as a favorable topic of discussion, and frequently the argument

waxes hot and vehement. Michael Ginanski, twenty, a laborer, of 340 Bowery; Nicholas Romanoff, twentytwo, of 223 Bowery, and John Schultz, twenty-two, of the same address, met in a Bowery saloon. Although of different nationalities they had been friends for a long time. When drinks were ordered arid served and glasses clinked Ginanski turned to the Russian and said: “A man with the name of Romanoff slrbhld not drink with one by the

name of Schultz, especially at this time.” Then a discussion of the war started, and in less time than it takes to tell it the interior of that saloon resembled a bombed section of Reims. The combatants went to it with the ferocity of tigers, and every man in the place was taking either a healthy wallop or a vicious kick at everybody else. All were impartial in the delivery of their blows. It was a case of'whenever a head bobbed up to knock it down. In the heat of battle Ginanski cried out that he had been stabbed. Schultz and Romanoff dived for the door, but were stopped by combatants. An automobile filled with secret service men was passing and hearing the uproar in the saloon they stopped. They arrested Schultz and Romanoff and sent In a call for an ambulance. Then they piled their prisoners in the car and started for police headquarters. Patrolman Bowers of the Fifth street station, who had just heard of the fight, ran up and, thinking the two combatants were being spirited away by friends, leaped on the running board of the car and with pistol drawn ordered the chauffeur to stop. Explanations followed and all went to the police station. Ginanski will recover. The two prisoners were charged with felonious assault and held in $1,500 ball each.

Up-to-Date Settlement of Matrimonial Tangles HAVRE, MONT.—When a man falls in love with another man’s wife, usually there’s a shooting affray, remarks the Detroit Free Press. And, again, when a woman gets to liking another woman’s husband better than he*

own there’s the deuce to pay. But not so here! "? When Mrs. T. W. Turcotte, wife of a prominent Havre lawyer, felt she loved the husband of Mrs. Henry Jordan better than her own mate she" didn’t hide the matter. Nor did Mrs. Henry Jordan when she fell in love with Mr. Turcotte. Nor .did Mr. Jordan when he became fonder of Mrs. Turcotte than of his own wife. Their way out of an unusual love

tangle was to trade wives and husbands. Mrs. Jordan agreed to swap her husband to Mrs. Turcotte in exchange for Mr. Turcotte with nothing to boot. The husbands were willing enough to be traded. In fact, they were well along on a plan to trade wives with- each other. So, Instead of any killing or unwritten-law defenses or suits for alienation of affection, there evolved two unique matrimonial trades. The Jordans and Turcottes agreed to get divorces.. Divorce decrees were granted them at Boulder Hot Springs. Then the former Mrs. Jordan became the new Mrs. Turcotte,' and the former Mrs. Turcotte became the new Mrs. Jordan. The two couples stood up together at the ceremony, and the friendliest relations exist between them. Now they are living again as neighbors in all good fellowship. Before the divorces the Jordans and Turcottes were next door neighbors. It was then the husbands and their wives concluded they were wrongly mated and decided to back out of their matrimonial ulliances and start anew. Both couple/i had children, each a boy and girl. After the matrimonial swap one couple tool? the two boys and the other took the two girls. This gives each father and mother one own child and a stepchild.

Beer Mask Proved Antidote for Ammonia Fumes DETROIT. —“The Germans have taken Bates street and have pushed as far east as headquarters. They are gassing the Gold Dollar bar and the chop suey joint.” The ice man thus reported a sad incident Monday afternoon

at police headquarters. Over in the alley that runs west from Fanner street, between Monroe avenue and Bates street, a battle continued with unabated fury, as the war offices say. Somewhere down in the depth of the chop suey emporium un ammonia pipe on the refrigerating plant had sprung a leak. An Ice wagon horse, left to an unkind fate, sneezed until' his checkreln broke. ' His mate’s eyes flowed until little puddles bathed his hoofs. The heartless driver poured

copious tears into a tall shell in the adjoining saloon. Except for the weeping horses the alley was empty for over an hour. Inspector James Sprout volunteered to cross the street 1 and direct the operations of relief, but one whiff from the alley sent him back to the highest step of the headquarters grand stairway. By four o’clock the leak had reached such proportions that several passing Harper and Fourteenth cnrs were seen to shake as with a fit. But one of these shuddering vehicles brought the man who solved the problem. He was a negro who used to work in an ammonia factory in Cincinnati. Entering the bar he ordered a burlap sack soaked with beer. Wrapping the dripping sack around his face “Ammonia Bill” went into the cellar. “Send down another sack, ’n soak it well,” he called up In about five minutes. The sack went down and the first one came up—dry as flint. Half a dozen times the brew-dripping bags went down and came up dry. By that times the fumes had disappeared. The proprietor of the case invited the ammonia plumber toTiavc a couple without having to wring them out, and traffic was resumed.

Food Conservation Vitally Interests the Movies CHICAGO. —Now it is proposed to Hooverlze the drama. Thomas H. Inc*, member of the food commission of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, in a telegram to Chuck Czar Hoover recommends the elimi-

nation during the war of scenes in motion pictures and plays calling for the use of food. He estimates the food wasted in such scenes amounts annually to several hundred thousand dollars. It’s a blow to art. no doubt of that. What will the comedians do without custard pies to throw? Picture the desolation of Fatty Arbuckle when he is told that he mustn’t peal potatoes ■ with an electric fan. How will Charlie Chaplin exist without hurling

’a cream puff into the face of a policeman every morning? And then, too, what about the more or less legitimate drama? Really there will be nb use far the pestered heroine to put on her black shawl and, sniffling- into her soggy handkerchief, go out into the bitter night where the property snow is falling, unless she can leave a roast turkey on the dining-room table with a lot, of wolves around it about to pounce on the bird. Wba* will be done about the banquet scene In “Macbeth?" Must Gobbo give up his apple? Shall Jack Falstaff drink his cup o’ slack without a toast lift? Shall the good knight's boon companions, Nym, Bardolph and Pistol, fusty trencherman all, go unHned with capon? Why, this Hoove* person might evei bar chickens from the musical shows!