Unshaven and shabbily clad, “Colonel” William Wayne Beldin, who says he was at one time independently wealthy, was found guilty of mendicancy by Magistrate Deuel, in the Tombs police court, New York, and sentenced to the workhouse for ten days.
Beldin, who retains traces of his former gentility, says he was at one time vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Unfortunate speculation in Wall Street, he says, dissipated his fortune, and for a time he was supported through allowances paid to him by relatives and former friends.
Five years ago these funds ceased to be forthcoming, and he obtained a position as a waiter in a small restaurant. Finally he lost even this humble position.
According to Patrolman Gavan, of the Old Slip Precinct, Beldin was begging Saturday night from passers-by opposite the Stock Exchange. After he was placed under arrest, he told the police he had relatives in the South who would be glad to care for him if he could find them.
One Day of Rest Upheld.
The constitutionality of the law securing to employees in factories and mercantile establishments twenty-four consecutive hours of rest every week, as applied in New York State, was upheld by a unanimous decision of the court of appeals in that State.
The decision was given in an appeal from judgments of the city court of Buffalo convicting the Klinck Packing Company, of that city, of violating the law. The statute is known as “the one day of rest in seven” law. The employers will carry the case to the United States Supreme Court.
Death Valley Now an Eden.
Death Valley, recently placed on the social map by a dance to which girls were invited and provided with transportation by the bachelors of the mining camps, is about to be transformed from an Eveless Eden into an Eden densely populated with femininity.
Following Death Valley’s great ball and the importation of music from Los Angeles, a deluge of letters from Adamless Eves has descended on the mining camps.