New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-13
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

The significant odor OF naphtha g1stho most volatile
the most infammable and the most explosive of the
Illuminating gases-is again to be shifted in the streets
VIII -rever they "upr for any purpose. And. In
deed don't they to be up everywhere, for
almost every purpose except b. be rclad properly
Not for that day or two ago a young and sturdy
looking workman was lifted out Of the man hole'
why not mantrap at Forty s-condst and Fifth ave.
In state Of almost complete asphyxlaton. This
was at hslfpast 10 in the morning; crowds were
passing I'm carriages and afoot and q few feet
away some other worknen were making sparks fly
from the granite blocks with their heavy sled e. ham
II there had been an explosion, would Ii have
been a " mysterious scch1ent'?
It sounds strange to hear OF vast sums yet to be
spent for private residences in Fifth-ave anywhere
below Fifty .nnih-st when one reflects the rapid
progress the business houses are making up that
once exclusive thoroughfare toward Central Park
Heretofore property-owners have experimental with
such makcshift schemes putting plate-gass win
dows in the basement and first floor fronts Of the
old brownstOne Mansions but that process now IS
repair are being ruthlessly torn down TO make way
to attic wholly 70 the Of trade. The handsome
honse OF Mrs Paran Stevens for instance now holds
the fort absolutely acne, in the block nom twenty
seventh to Twenty-eghth-st. on the west side
The leasing Of Gardiners Island. in Long Island
Sound the other day, for a game preserve, and the
have brought prominently into notice tho advantages
to be derived. both OF a sportsmanlke and OF
financial kind, from securing tracts OF rugged and
uncultivated land the city. stocking them with
game birds and Attending the game proper protection
frOrs poachers and pot.htnters The Quah that were
thus set loose in Tuxedo Park some years ago have
now Increased to such extent that noe only do
members of tho club excellent sport in season.
but good quail-shooting Is to be had all about the
park for miles that strong feeling against poach-
ing on the preserve has sprung up even among me
most confirmed pothuners who shoot over
the outlying farms. One OF the most lucrative
sources OF income of many Scotch laird is the letting
and hills and why could not the same thing be done
here with success There is plenty OF praotceny
'n3 wnd 'p rSs will grow IN any lake about
here with muddy bottom and viii attract the Wild
oG5 to f the Northern markets IS already an established
one the cost OF stock not high aud the cost of feed
willing to pay we'll for days permit to shoot over
ground the city where there Is ghost OF cnahce
Them as any pestered Long Island farmer will tell you
at any and al seasons Of the year.
prominent fault to be found with New-York drsw-
Is the too great profusiOn OF furniture and
bric-a-bac crowded into them. 1t trips you up on the
floor, drops down at you nom the chandelier ana
conlces makes dan gcrous 10 stretch your legs OF
move your elbows when you sit, and renders 1t i'm
possible to find BIT Of unoccupied wall big enough
to lean against It is great pleasure OF course to
have lots of pretty things but they need not all be on
exhibition at once. One fashionable woman in this
city. who can afford TO buy almost anything ina.
strikes her fancy, has storeroom In her house nIled
with choice bric-a-brac and furniture Every week a
dozen of these precious treasures are Drought
ont and arranged about the rooms, and as mary
Others that been duty for a time are packed
away again. Thus her parlor has always certain
expression about 1t. so 10 speak widely dilferen'
from the look Of bazar highly fashionable, but ex-
ceedingy unrestful, that too-well-hlled room mas
variety of desirable things are advertised In the
many columns OF short announcements on the nitn
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