The morning news., 1892-02-28
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
SOME BRIGHT FEATUREs OF NET
ROPOLITAN LIFE.

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Charity and neutrality-suspicious. and
Their Origin - Fifth Avenue VS..
the Bowery-Pen Sketches of Noted
Men.
Copyright 1892. By the United PressN
New YORK. Feb. 27.-More money is
given to charity In New York than in any
other city ia the world. Between s., 200. 900
and $1,000. goo are annually given TO chari-
ties that are more or less public. that is the
gifts are recorded In the newspapers.
How much Is given in private charities,
Of which the public know nothing, there is
no means of finding out. An appeal for aid
for sick or starving family is never made
in vain. While there is a popular belief
that the rich give very literally in a private
way still there Is much ostentatious charity
in New York. An appeal through the news
papers always meets liberal response and,
Ia most cases, the donors give their names
A workman who tainted while at work
at the ruins of the burned Hotel Royal
said he was weak with hunger, but was
trying to keep his family from starving.
The newspapers promptly took up his case.
because 1t was pathetic. The man said he
| OhAJ WohbC0 bouibOtutl EciloA AbE nlh ldlilllY
and q chance to work. but a generous public
| gave him $500 In money. food and clothing
by the cart load, and he was offered more
than q score of good positions. The news
papers had made him a hero and there was
q rush 60 contribute.
WHY FAsHIoNs CHANGE.
| Men ana women who set the fashions in
dress strive TO keep ahead of the masses Of
the people, and shopkeeperS know this to
their cost. When bonnet or a garment,
| once stylish, has been copied by everybody
the dealers who serve fashionable people
must invent or discover something new.
| A dealers newest designs are part OF his
| stock in trade. and often very valuable, aud
this is especially true Of the millinery trade,
and when a new bonnet is placed on exhibi-
tion In the window Of Fifth avenue shop,
a stalwart man is employed to guard It,
His position 10 on the sidewalk In front OF
the window. and it is his duty to keep away
sketch artists aud kodak fiends.
| The enterprising dealers on the Bowery
employ artists to watch these Fifth avenue
windows and get pictures of all the new de-
signs. Some Of these artists are women
who carry pocket kodaks concealed under
their wraps, and the watohmen In front of
the shop windows must be constantly on the
| alert.
A new bonnet will not sell uptown to
fashionable customers when the same design
Is on exhibition In the windows Of the Bow
cry shops. This keeps fashions changing
very rapidly and the fashionable dealers
who fail to keep their newest designs secret
until they have served their own customers,
are sure TO lose valuable business
MINDED HIS OWN BUSINESS
An old man was found dead In his room
in this city last week, and the newspapers
| gave several columns each to the story of
/ his life rba Onlpr fhincy ha had 10 M
TO make him famous was to mind bis own
| business.
He had lived very quietly and made few
| acQuaintances because he never asked cues.
tions or meddled in other peoples affairs,
and declined 10 take servants boarding
house keepers and curious persons into his
confidence. He was not eccentric and GER
tainly not insane, yet when he died the
newspapers made him famous because he
had gone through life attending strictly to
| his own business.
If he had been a talkative, meddlesome
man, taking every one into his confidence,
and intruding on their private affairs in re-
turn, a Slime funeral notice would have
] been all the newspaper mention he would
have received when he died. Moral--If
you want good obituary notice, mind your
own business.
MEN YOU READ ABOUT.
Strolling about the corridors of the Fifth
avenue hotel in the early evening may be
seen one Of the most remarkable men In
New York. His faultless dress and aristo-
cratic bearing will attract attention. He is
a dude in dress. and his cane, which Is the
very latest style, is always carried at a cor
rect angle. A stranger would put him
| down as rich man about town, with no
aim in life beyond training the crease in bis
trousers. But this well-dressed man, who
| is always at bis ease, ls one of the most
successful and one OF the busiest men in
| New York.
He has been a member of congress, he is a
| brigadier general in the state militia, he Is
one of the Four Hundred whose dinners are
| works of art, heis writer Of ability and an
editor of worldwide fame. This well
dressed. we'll hammered man is Gen. Lloyd
Brice, editor of the North American Re
vfel0.
A man who strolls on upper Broadway at
| rare intervals, attracts more attention thau
any other person on that crowded thorough
fare because so many people know him aud
| stop to shake his hand
He is well dressed, but he is not a dude.
| His clothes are always Of the best material,
| they are cut in the latest fashion and fit
! him perfectly. But they are never loud in
color and he wears no jewelry except q
plain gold band around bis dark colored silk
tie. This man is tall and straight as an
arrow.
He is graceful in every movement, and
| bis build is that of an athlete. As he strolls
leisurely aloug, his big gray eyes read at q
glance every face that passes. Millionaires
| stop to shake hands with him.
Policemen raise their helmet when he
passes, men about town. prominent actors
aud leading actresses bow and smile at him.
Politicians of national reputation always
have q pleasant word for him. Strangers
turn and look at him until he IL out of
sight.
Who is this man so wellknown and so
popular2 Inspector Thomas Byrnes, chief
Of the detective bureau OF the metropolitan
police.
There Is a man who is occasionally seen
| strolling on Fifth avenue or riding in the
elevated trains, at whom men and women
always look second time, because they all
recognize him by his great resemblance to
the newspaper pictures of him.
He is not handsome, and is rarely well
dressed. but there is an air about him that
says palmer than words. 81 am perfectly
satisfied with myself" This man always
looks straight ahead, and the movement
with which he strokes his iron gray mus
| tache and goatee, is one that is always ac-
quired by years Of practice.
Persons who are not in his social set
always smile when they look at him. Then
they nudge each other and in audible
whispers esq, Know himP Often he cannot
avoid seeing these smiles and hearing the