New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-24
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

The stores kept late hours Saturday night and
everybody went home with bundle under his arm
Shopkecpers ovcrtaxed all last week tha' III
many instances they refused point blank to guarantee
the delivery of parcels at the homes OF purchasers
Those who undertook TO make deliveries said they
were ten DAYS behird with orders and warned Gus
toners against running the risk Of receiving their
goods some time after New Years.
Hugh J. Grant. Mayorelcct, and Buck' Grant,
son of General Grant, live side by side in what resi-
dents of tina. rapidly improving part Of the city call
West End. London has its West End, why not New
York; new conner in the district IS Nat Good
win the actor who has Just bought OF ". T. ID.
Stokes for 5000 the dwelling house at NO. 22o
West End-avc Mr.. Goodwin. who married recehuS
for tho second tme could not settle down to the
comforts of domestic life In charming neigh
borhood 1t speaks we'll for the stage when one sees
actors and actresses investing snug fortunes IN COM
Portable homes Lotta who IS regarded as the richest
actress in the United States, not even excepting Mrs
Langtry has added TO her already large
real estate possessions tho property a.
the northeast corner Of seventh-ave. and
One Hundred-and cghecnth-st, which she purchased
on Saturday of Frederick c. Bliss, for saoo'ooo
The difference in prices of building materials in the
large cities OF the United states is astonishing to per
sons who study the cost Of house for the first time
White pine boards in New-York cost builders and
tractors from sos TO $50 thousand feet In Boston
the same material costs $50 a thousand, in Chicago
s47 Philadelphia s55. Georgia yellow pine, on
the other hand is cheaper in New-York than in the
other cities selling for 500 thousand here while in
Boston the price is sos, in Chicago $2a and In Phade
phia $50 The prices of brick considerably. Tho
cheapest pale brick cost SO so thousand Baltimore
brick regarded as the best pressed brick in the market
are worth S37 thousand. firm in Chicago makes
a moulded brick that readily sells FOR $3.50 thousand
An odd sight was witnessed on Brooklyn Heights
Yesterday about the time that people were going home
from the morning church services. A welldrcsseu
man. who could be called neither young nor middle
aged was to be seen in Clintonst, carrying seal
skin muf He did not hold IT in the manner customary
with ladies' but carried it in one hand In rather
awkward and embarrassed way OF course he at
racted the attention of every one he met, and many
curious chances directed toward him. There was
come doubt in the minds Of those who observed him
as TO whether he the pioneer OF new custom
and whether be the correct thing for fas HON
able men TO carry muiTs hereafter IN cold weather
The man thus accoutred walked rather rapidly ana
apparently did not enjoy the curious glanccs so Freely
thrown in his direction. 1t was noticed that when ne
reached Fulton-st he disappeared in cigar shop
When he emerged he was carrying package wrapped
in newspaper under his arm. The probable eNplana-
ton of the episode that the mans wife had suffered
a temporary lapse Of memory and left her muf behind
her in church and that her husband had gone back
| alone after IL.
Now and then you hear Of neighborhood combining
against the encroachments of the clearinghouse
/ element New-York comes as near being one big
! clearinghouse as any city In the world over
900 900 people, according 10 the latest statistics
live In tenements, but that figure does not In
clude all who board. Residents Of that portion Of
Twenty-third-st between Eighth and Ninth ayes. In
Guiding Mrs. Langtry and the family Of Charles r.
Catln ex-Cnlted States Consul at Berne Switzerland
are overjoyed by Justice Andrewss action IN grant
ing a permanent Injunction restraining Mrs Mary
White from bringing boarders into the block Mrs
White is the mother OF Sadie Martinez, the actress
When she leased Mrs. Crier's brownstone house she
signed an agreement not TO take boarders. About a
week ago, says ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, her counsel
! she advertised I'm morning paper that she would
take boardeIs Mrs. Grer the advertisement, and
through her lawyer. Francis 5. Turner, asked for an
Injunction restraining Mrs. White. The case was not
brought 10 trial, Mr. DittenhOefer, on reading the
agreement, Acknowledging without argument that his
client having violated her contract. had no defence