The morning news., 1894-07-08
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
What the Summer HaS Brought Forth
in the Way Of Oddities.
Fighting Walls and Statues-How
Leaders of New York Society Are
BlackmaiIed by Police.
(Copyright)

New York, July1.-An immense amount
OF intrigue is certainly being carried on
in New York city at the present time
with the names of Richard Croker and
Thomas f. Gilroy as the most prominent
therein. w. Bourke Cochran figures in
the business as a character, concerning
whom much might be revealed that
would surprise most of the constituents
In the personal quarrel of Croker with
Cochran, during which the boss hurled
opprobrious epithets at the congressman,
certain things were revealed to the many
onlookers which were hushed up at the
time. Some of these things are begin
ming to crop out, with the result that
Cochran finds himself in an embarrassing
position.
a curious story was circulated in this
connection very recently to the effect that
both Cochran and Croker are interested
in quiet effort to have the city acquire
property for the sake of duplicating that
famous prison, the Tombs. The Tom bs
is an historic old structure, and while ad-
mittedly inadequate to the demands made
upon it, will hardly be relieved of the
STRAIN by the construction of another
Tombs. Not only is Croker not inter
ested in the deal for the new prison site
but neither he nor Cochran is concerned
to as great an extent in realty transac-
tions as many suppose.
OPPOSITION TO WALLS.
New York city has not suffered as much
from the building of garden walls as have
some other municipalities, but it seems
likely that the Astor case of the stable
will be paraleled before long by the at
Il
length by the trustees of a large estate.
The opposition to these walls on the part
of the inhabitants of the upper sections of
New York city is based on the fact that
they render the street so bleak and ugly,
particularly when the walls are high.
The ideal wall is admitted to be q low
affair, with trees towering above it, but
these do not insure as much privacy as do
the high ones. AT present this whole sub
lect of city walls and the laws bearing
upon them is being investigated for the
estate in question by an eminent lawyer.
Nevertheless, the architectural tastes
of the wealthy New Workers are showing
decided tendency to the wall as insur-
ing privacy. Whenever a Gotham mil
ionaire gives an unusually elaborate
social affair the crowds of idle onlookers
make things unpleasant by staring at the
guests as they arrive and depart. Here
tofore the only way of avoiding the uui-
sance was to pay the policeman on the
beat to drive the crowds away. And in
this connection an interesting narrative
might be made up from the experiences
of the more fashionable portion of the
metropolis with this famous police force
of ours. 1t is a regular thing for the
people of fashion to be blackmailed on the
plea that their entertainments in the sea-
son are noisy and interfere with the sleep
of less fashionable ueighbors, not 10 speak
of the impediment to pedestrians in the
shape of carriages, awnings and footmen.
The Astors have been known to give
money to the policemen on the beat as a
Christmas present, but the Stevenses, the
kipses and others are declared to be
forced into it. Perhaps, therefore, the
New York men of millions are putting up
garden walls to protect themselves from
therpolice.
GRACE CHURCH AT WORK.
Until the summer activities of Grace
church, New York's most picturesque
edifice of worship, began in earnest, such
a method in ecclesiastical propaganda was
new TO the metropolis At the present
time tine young men of this parish are
very conspicuous among the workers in
the interests of the poor. DIR. William K.
Huntington, the rector, has the distinc-
tion of being the spiritual adviser of more
wealthy young men than any clergyman
in all New York.
These young men, mostly sons of mil
lionaires or leaders of society in the sea-
son, are now handed together for vista
tions TO the sick or to the prisoners in the
city Jail. They bring food, books, flowers,
money or whatever is needed for the COM
fort Of prisoner, innocent or guilty, and
the further rule is adopted of refraining
n IN Of tat.
less the prisoner shows au eagernass to
do so.
The work thus being carried on is
positively unique, but is it is not a rich
mans work entirelyl Many poor young
men help IN it, they being mostly artists,
teachers and clerks. The Brotherhood
of ST. Andrew is the name under which
all this work is done. The order is
spread all over the United States, and
had its origin in Chicago, but New York
is now in the lead in the development of
it's powers for good.
There will be a convention of this
society IN New York in the not distant
future, and it is expected to afford a re-
futation of the charge that'the wealthiCr
young men of the country do not interest
themselves in loftier occupations than
pleasure seeking or personal gain. Dr.
Wells of Grace church Is at the head of
Luc WOTh VI INC bIOguCIuOOu VI d. All
drew in New York.
ICEBERGs TO ORDER.
The newest industry in New York
since the outbreak of the summer heat is
the manufacture of icebergs. The huge
objects are turned out by the artificial
ice-makinR companies and are then sub
jected to a peculiar melting process
which gives them the jagged edges pecu-
liar TO the bergs we see in pictures
When one of these homemade arrange
ments, smaller, needless to say, than the
ocean prototype, IS set in great trough
and allowed TO melt slowly, while leaves
and plants are wreathed around it, the
effect is wonderful. The idea is entirely
a New York one and the object of their
users is TO cool room or to suggest cool
ness wherever guests assemble these
warm days.
The largest of these icebergs 20 TO the
summer homes around the metropolis.
and are pushed into the little artificial
ponds which millionaires have on their
estates They do not melt as quickly as
one would suppose, and add much to the
effect Of piece of water on hot day.
OF course, when wagon pulls up at a
Fifth avenue residence and a great mass
of ice goes in, those who are about at the
time gaze with interest as the mass goes
in at the door. IL would not do TO de-
liver the bergs early in the morning,
since they would melt. But all the
trouble and expense Of having them IN
the house is repaid when the guests sit
around the mass TO eat or to talk.