New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-12
CHANCES HEPE AND TE ere.

inc average New-Yorker is likely to think OF bis
friends IN smaller cities hardly equal to himself
70 heen business sagacity, but now and then some
body from small town or even from the country
shows himself 10 this quality quite worthy of tho
metropolis. New Rnglander, who may be called
Mr. Higgins man who stands six feet two In. his
STOCKINGS and is Wen proportioned, landed from
SOUL steamer fhe OTHER morning and was ereefed
with the familiar Good morning, Mr. Higgins SO
giad 70 see ycu here But I'm afraid don't re
member TO-" The usual introduction aud exylana-
lions followed, and then Mr. Higgins started witt,
the stranger to "call some friends. After walk
iig few blocks they cana into small side street
Sad here Mr.. Higgins interrupted the flow of RENT
nisecnces by setting down his valse the sidewalk
and laying his oycrcoat upon IT, This surprised HIS
eompanion who asked: "what Is the matter, Mr.
Higgins What are you going to do?s
II am goIng,' replied Mr.. Higgins calmly, ato
Ick bnnco steerer within an inch Of his life.'
But the New-Yorher, who had no taste for spar
ring matches, had suddenly remembered an engage
menu In another part OF the city, ~
The system Of tips TO walters In restaurants
seems an evil which no man IN this city can afford
to Ignore and reain the respect and attention OF the
servtor bns the system of "iips' paid to hotel EN-
ployes ny tie slightest service, and which they ex-
pecs ana sometimes demand, might DO sugmatized
as almost ownrght robbery. An amusing story is
told by young y an who is working hard for small
wage, wllle AIS father lives uxuriousy at the St.
Jsme5 Hotel The othor evening" he said, al
called the govethor get some cash. but could
screw up my courage to the sticking point to ask
him. Meanwhile bottle Of champagne and the neces-
sary glasses had been ordered and when the hall
boy brought them the old gentleman tipped him
with dollar. / did not say anything, but when !
walled home twenty three blocks at O. m, with
four cents in my pocket, really envIed that hall
a quarters 49,
Everybody knows that great many so-called fire.
proof" buildings are mere re-rapss rather. but the
full extent Of iiremans dislike for such structures
Is not generally appreciated. After recent fire in
largo building In Houstonst.. . fireman called auen-
ton to the fact that the floors we're supported by
massive wooden columns. and said he would rather
fight fire In such place that than the majority
OF the buildings that are advertised freproof 1t
would take long while FOR even the fercest fire to
burn clear through those thick columns" said he and
during that time we could extinguish the flames II
we had any show at ALL But these big buildings
with the iron columns and the wooden girders aud
floors, they are the ones that give trouble. One
real hot blast Of flame sweeping against an iron
Column VIII warp 1t all out OF shape. and the 6rsc
thing you know the roof and floors fall In These
buildings, half iron and haf wood. are much more
dangerous than the od-fashioned but weLconsrucsed
buildings in which iron was used for nails and
hinges only Comparatively few Of the FIRE proof
buildings are made like The Tribune Building where
all the furniture in the Office DO burned without
endangerng any OF the neignbors- aa4
1t would seem as II ticket-selIers ON an elevated
railway ought, OF all I'm the world to be quick
and accurate In making small calculations. They
may be so indeed as rule but passenger the other
day found exception when he handed q fvedollar
bin through the window and asked for twenty tickets
The ticketsellcr began slowly TO count of the
twenty tickets, and The passenger, by way Of
k.T. la "a q, fnu fc1 40 Of
strip; there are hye tickets to fold"
"0b are the1el7 said the ticket man, In tone Of
admiration at hrs customers sagacity Well, come
around In nero and count them yoursef' The pas
senger went into the ticket office and helped himself
to twenty tickets and then the ticket man asked with
a puzzled asr: AThaps Just dollar, isn't Il 2"
4ce.stily,n. said the passenger, and the ticket
man labC. 1siy counted out "a In silver In the
nsae zine foas trains had passed
! Tho changes wrought by time in the police force
Of this city many, but one OF the most striking
Of all tho results OF the constant addition Of now
names to tho roll Of captains and the retirement
OF the old timers "a the serious loss TO the fund
of Renaissance Of the great draft riots Of 1868.
All the old timers. had participated In those stirring
scenes in this city, all of them had borne themselves
vallantly, and any ono OF them could sit By the
hour in the big front room at Police Headquarters
| and entertain an awestruck group OF youthful
listeners with stories OF prOdiros Of valor, Of pesous
eas In the face OF rain Of bricks and cobblestones,
aud Of tho cracking of msddened rioters heads by
| the 1t did not detract ono Dit from the III
terst of these narratives that the mist Of two decades
added somewhat to the sze Of the yarn every time
an aold-timers told Of his adventures on Second
aye's bloody field or related how under Captain
Thorne dong since dead no helped sweep the
rioters from the City Hall plaza like brown leaves
| before a Dakota blizzard.
young man who sometimes forsets to take cards
| with him when he goes TO mako calls received
lesson few evenings ago that he probably Will not
soon forget A lady to whom he had not sent up his
name Kept him waiting for some time, and when she
finally came in, remarked al am sorry to have made
Won walt so long was not really prepared to receive
| callers but as you did no. send up your name, 1
decided not to say that was not at home, because
I thought it might be somebody that wanted 20 see'
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TIE IOWA IDEA OF AN IYToxroANT.
| From The Milwaukee sentinel.
At last we have legal definition Of an iItoSca.