The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-07

contest. Men smiled while they were be.
ing crushed by the crowd behind and
clubbed by the policemen in front, vet nine
out OF every ten Of them knew in advance
that the boxing would be humbug OF the
rankest kind
The following night S 200 other persons
struggled into the garden to witness a cake
walk which they pronounced the greatest
humbug OF the season.
night later 5000 persons paid $40 each
TO get in. and from ESQ TO S3O0 each to get
out of a masquerade ball which they all
agreed was fraud Of the first water.
DID they kicki only in private. The same
persons can be humbugged tomorrow lust
as easy as they were at the boxing match,
the cake-walk or the masquerade ball. The
moral of this is that there is always money
In humbug.
ENTERPRIsING BILL POSTERS.
Ask me to name the most enterprIsinR
class OF men In New York and | would
answer, without moments hesitation, the
bill posters.
They are abroad with bills and posters at
all hours Of the day and night, seeking new
walls and fences TO decorate. When a
building burns the broken walls are often
covered with bills and posters before the
firemen cease playing on the fire. A pile Of
building material or boxes of merchandise
with "snipes," as small bills are called by
the bill posters When a horse dies IN the
street he is often covered with "snipesn and
theatricals and sheet posters before he is
cold.
Rival bill posters will fight for the right
to put up "snipes" on an ash barrel left on
the sidewalk for the scavenger carts No
spot Is sacred TO the New York bill poster.
lie would paste farce comedy posters on the
tombstones il he could get into the ceme-
teries. and on the door K obs Of the churches
he would hang hand bills OF Bob Ingersoil's
lectures on hell, IL the sections did not chase
him away and call ON the police.
UNTAxED REAL ESTATE.
One-third of the improved real estate 10
New York Is untaxed. A law that has been
on the statute books since the days when
York was one Of King Georges colonies ex-
empis all the property Of churches and
charitable institutions from taxation.
The churches and the charity organiEa-
tions now own one-third OF the realty of the
city. The richest corporation in the city is
Trinity church and the second richest the
New York hospital Under existing laws
any organization that gives certain amount
to charity annually, and gets a charter as a
charitable institution, can escape taxation
on all property owned.
A bill has heen introduced In the legisIa.
ture to repeal this old law, and tax ali rich
corporations like Trinity church and the
New York hospital. If 1t Is passed the tax
rate on private property can be greatly re-
duced.
THE INFLUENCE OF FASHION.
People who come to New York from the
south, the west or New England may retain
some sectional customs and manmerisms for
time, but not long.
They soon fall into New York WAYS al.
most unconsciously, and after residence
OF six months there Is nothing about them
TO betray their provincial origin. The fret
sectional characteristic they drop is dress,
and after few weeks most of them dress
like any other New Yorker.
notable exception to this rule was Col.
j. Annoy Knox, the Texas humorist, and
one of the founders Of Teras Siftings.
The colonel has lived In New York for
several years and until quite recently he
was striking figure on the streets and about
the hotels. He wore n cowboy hat, long
hair, a long black frock coat and long Texas
sidewhiskers. But at last the influence of
fashion was too much for the colonel, and a
few days ago he surprised his friends by
appearing in a silk hat, a suit of fashion,
able cut, and with his flowing locks ana
sidewhiskers closely trimmed. While tho
quality Of his humor remains the same, Col.
Knox is now typical New Yorker in dress
and appearance.
NEW CITY BUILDINGS.
The municipal government outgrew fts
present quarters several years ago, and a
number OF the departments are quartered
in rented buildings. A new criminal court
house, the largest and finest in tho country,
is now being built near the old Tombs
prison, and few days ago site was Sc
lected for a new municipal building that is
Iarna anOnuh a. all
ments of the city government.
These preparations for new buildings re-
vive stories OF Tweed's plans to provide
New York with the grandest public build
ings In the world. He got no further than
the building Of the big white court house
in City Hall park that is called the Tweed
monument 1t cost the taxpayers OF New
York s13, ,OO0, 900. but architects and build
ers say thatit should not have coat more
than S2,000.000. It is ssid enough money
was paid for plastering this court house 70
have plastered Central park four feet deep
all over.
The finest public building In the country,
In proportion TO cost, is the present ity
hall, which was completed In 1911. IL Is
built OF white marble, and is a splendid
piece Of architecture. The skilled laborers
who built It received 81 per day and COM
mon laborers so cents day.
New York has fewer large and imposing
public buildings than any other city of the
same population in the world. The Astor
library, the Cooper Union and other old
time public buildings look small and ugly by
the side of the big private buildings erected
in recent years. The Metropolitan museum
Of art, the American museum OF natural
history and other modern buildings are not
yet completed, but they are all planned on
a scale that is small for big city like New
York. CURTIS KISGLAKE.