Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — HAPPENINGS in the CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Gilded Youths of Gotham Stage/ “Rfoughhouse” NEW YORK.—Of course there must be tricks in every, trade, but It isn’t every day that they are unmasked as vigorously and with the acclamation which greeted the unveiling of a haberdashery plot at One Hundred am*-JJ

Sixteenth street and; Broadway. - section of the’.city’s at present to be decorated Columbia students, and ItSiyas in about these that the skirmish and ended. / ' ' . Those of the population of irtgßfde ‘Heights who were to be in at the death were first introduced to the carnage when two youths met at the subway exit at that point. To avoid extravagant'language, each vonth was garbed as beautifully as

the fairest lily of the field. From lightly crushed fedora down a panel of ■ expensive, looking vest expanse to the tip of resplendent Russian leather shoes the two youths were immaculate. ’ From a sartorial ‘Standpoint’the two lads were most emphatically there. None J)ut a cross-eyed old maid could have passed the "two without sighs for a. cozy corner, dim light and Romeo-ano-the-balcony small talk. And none but the mildest mannered of their own sex could have passed them without hoping inwardly and almost outwardly that some motorman would get careless. ■ and bump them into the nearest hospital. That’s the kind of lads these were. ’ Consequently, when suddenly they met, engaged each other in spirited conversation and then fell to with short jabs and counter-uppercuts and right hooks, there was little hurrying to classes in lab. 3 or philosophy 4. While the dust flew with it went brilliant neckscarfs, canes of gilt knobs, pieces of . silk shirts and gore. But finally, unfortunately, a policeman from the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station arrived and pried the two apart, still gnashing collar buttons and gold teeth at each other. And he proceeded at once to delve 'into the origin of the riot. And this, is the explanation he got: The two were representatives of clothing concerns near Columbia who have been made stalling horses for the trade of the students. Their job consists of lolling around, impersonating clothing posters, anfl, whenever a student appears interested, telling him where similar garbage er that is, garb—can be obtained.“ YesteTday the rivals met and learned for the first time they were rivabj, One called the other a chorus mgn. That was toofar. The reader and Morningside- Heights now know what followed.

Temper and Temperament Cause Domestic Mixup KANSAS ClTY.—“Abrams and Johns,” principals In a comedy playlet, “When Hubby Realizes,” greeted Judge Fred W. Coon in a North side court. Judge Coon smiled appreciatively. “It’s nice of you to bring your sketch

down here,” he said. “A friend told me it was a good act, and I was going to see it at the theater tonight. Go ahead, if you’re ready.” “We’re not ready, and we won’t be, and we didn’t bring the sketch here, and it isn’t going to be at any theater any more,” said W. R. Abrams, husband of Miss Johq£. “Absolutely,” said Miss Johns. A patrolman explained: “She had him arrested after the performance last night for peace disturbance.”

"He lms too much temperament,” Miss Johns said. “He me, and my arms are black and blue, and my nerves wrecked from his brutal treatment.” “She has too much temper,” said Abrams. “I didn’t beat her. The marks on her arms are where I held her when she was trying to hit me with two soda pop bottles. She bit me and pulled my hair.” Judge Coon asked them how long they had been married. “Two years,” Abrams said, “and we’ve been ‘teaming’ together in vaudeville eight years.” “You look like nice people',” the court admonished, “and I’ve heard you have a fine act. Better make up and go on with it. There aren’t any too many good vaudeville sketches.” “No!” in unison. “We’ve canceled!” « “Well, I’m going to continue this case,” Judge Coon said. “Both of you come back Friday and tell me you’ve made up.” They went away in different directions.

Soldier’s Bravery Rewarded by Rehabilitation WILKE S-BARRR, PA. —Several years ago Thomas Butklewlcz, Jr., was a highly respected lavVyer in Luzerne county. He fell. Misappropriating funds of some clients he was disbarred by the bar association. His troubles

multiplied. His young wife, a bride of a year, died. An infant son followed her to the grave. Broken in heart and spirit, Butkier wicz turned to the war. He enlisted in the Seventy-first New York regiment and went to the Mexican border. When the regimeht was mustered out he enlisted in the American Red Cross for service in France. Then he became a private in the American sanitary section. He was promoted to commander of his section.

September 24 he was cited for bravery, the official report saying: “In March, 1917, in a dangerous section, during an attack, he assisted in extricating a great number of wounded on roads exposed to.heavy enemy shell fire under extremely dangerous conditions; also, upon the occupation of a section recently conquered, he organized the carrying of the wounded under a heavy bombardment of high explosive shells, with great mastery of command and firmness which imparted to the men always the same confidence.” News of his brave actions under fire reached his former friends and associates. A movement was set on foot, to honor him. Yesterday he was reinstated to the bar on the petition of scores of lawyers. The American sanitary section has been mustered out of service. Butklewlcz has been offered a commission as first lieutenant in, the American army. • r-- 4

Misfortune Due to Efforts to Help His Friends M PLYMOUTH, MASS—Benjamin C. Reed, sixty-eight years- old, 1 former tax collector and treasurer of'Whitman, and widely known as "Honest Ben, began a two-year term In the house of correction after pleading guilty to the

larceny of town funds amounting to 525,000. Reed made a remarkable statement to the court in pleading to the charge. "I may have done wrong. I realize It now and am willing to take my- punishment,” he said. “I did the best I could. Not one cent of the $25,000 in my defalcation has been appropriated to my own use, but rather to meet outstanding taxes which threatened to expose my own peculiar style of bookkeeping.” The bld man re-

lated that at the time of manipulating his accounts business was dull in ' Whitman and many of his friends were unable to pay their taxes on time. “I knew that If I pressed many of them who owed taxes,” he went on, “It foeant the losa of hundreds of homes and the wiping out of small bank accounts. I collected money and applied it to the accounts of those who could not pay year after year and the two offices I held made it possible for me to transfer from one account to the other. Part of my salary also was used for this purpose.” District Attorney Katzman admitted there was no evidence that Reed used Hie monev In any other way than he stated. He had. been in affics • Ince 1903. . f • • , I • " i