The evening world., 1889-04-22

Have n Very Good Tine Mt the Anui-
versary-DecOratinG Going on Along
Ffnh demonstrating Rumors Of Boz
gus Tickets for the Grand stands-Per-
mits for Trucks.
As a result Of the suggestion made some time
ago by The EVENING WORLD, a Bureau of Public
Comfort Ia TO be opened to-day at 80 Union
Square. and II has already issued a request that
all those having rooms or accommodations at
their disposal shall send in their names to the
Bureau.
The hotel men will have charge of this Bureau,
although at first they decided not to have any
thing to do with it, and will act INDEPENDENTLY
Of the Centennial Committee.
The manager Of the Bureau is Mr.. p. r.. Wall,
the genial clerk Of the Hoffman House and pro-
prietor Of Fenwick Hall, also a director in sew
eral charitable and philanthropic organizations.
S MI; %Sli ~ 7 the 3ns' b tas m %ep for os t Rsll place as sb in c the
%tennial Committee, and he thinks that his
Bureau will be instrumental in finding ac;
commodations for several hundred thousand
care of.
up his list Of respectable Observation-Disclosures, and
incoming strangers will probable find no diff
Guilty IN obtaining comfortable lodgings al
reasonable prices.
DECORATING NOW IN ORDER.
As only one week now remains before the big
celebration takes place, preparations for the
event are going on more aCUlNely tnan ever.
Occupants of hou! es along the line of march
are busy with their decorations, ~festoons of
flags and bunting are being put up over the
saloons and little corner groceries in all the side
streets, and especially in the uptown districts
the city is beginning to assume a gala aspect.
All along Fifth avenue hundreds of carpen-
ters' hammers are beating n merry tattoo, and
the stands are growing apace at every available
Travellers IN the Fifth avenue stages can OBJ
serve some interesting sights, and the trip from
Fifty-ninth street to Washington square has
| hnHnT1E q mi nnn Wit fhnAn Nlu "A Na
anxious to zee how the big city is going to cele-
brate the centennial anniversary Of the most i'm
portant event in Its history.
MAY be SOME UNwELCoME VISITORS. TOO.
The police are waking up to the fact that not
all the visitors at the Centenninl " Il be welcome
ones to the people of Gotham, and Inspector
raid upon the army Of crooks who will be at
tracted to the city. from all parts of the country
by the prospect Of a rich harvest to be rcaped
from the unwary visitors in the metropolis.
According to his estimate, at least 5, 600 pro-
fessionsl thieves are to be counted upon, and II
he he proposes to do, &c Inspector and his IS sharp
eyed detectives will be kept pretty busy.
for the occasion by the soventy-fye ward de-
~tectives and a score or more special policemen,
during the present week, so az to enable them to
spot Mt once the members of the liRht-fingered
gentry as they arrive in town by way of the fer
Once in the city they would be about as hard
to find as needles in a haystack; The Inspector
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let any chances for arrest OF suspicious charac-
tiers slip through his fingers.
II propose to arrest every thief and crook
that ] can lay my hands on, he said this morn
ing, and have 50 Instructed my men,. l am
tect the public aud their property, and / propose
to do so by locking up men who are known to be
criminals. The only persons who can. object TO
my proceeding in this matter will be the thieves
themselves. their patrons and sympathIzers, and
no one cares what they think.
" II the prisoners are discharged by the Court
l will have them rearrested AZ soon as they
| reach the street and will keep the business up
until the celebration IL over.
- intend doing this for the public good and
think il il better to arrest a thief before he robR
some one than to give him q chance to steal half
a dozen watches before he is put in a safe place.
The good. honest people who come TO this city
tected than they ever have been before"
LOOK OUT FOR BOGUS TICKETS.
Another thing that New Workers., as well as
strangers in town, will have to look out for is
the sale of bogus tickets for the various grand
stands.
Several attempts have already been made to
impose upon the public in this way, and it il
and the counterfeiters are only waiting FOR the
crowds of gullible strangers to arrive in town to
begin operations in earnest.
Ticket spGculators have also succeeded in
and other desirable stands, which are offered at
from s. to $40 apiece already.
Supt. Murray il overwhelmed with applica-
| tions for truck permits for the side-stieet inter
date 8, 900 nave been received and as there are
only accommodation for about fifteen hundred
trucks along the line of march the Superinten-
dent wishes IL to be understood that no further
applications will be considered, There are 352
corners and there will be four trucks at each OF
them.