The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Bright and Interesting Bits Picked
Up in the Great Metropolis.

bright and Interesting Bits Picked
Up in the Great Metropolis.
New York Letter in Chicago Tines
fortunes told here" "Corns cured.
Dogs boarded here" and other amazing
enterprises can be seen placarded in the
windows Of handsome uptown Nat. sub
let to colored citizens by a reckless ten
ant. The woman who owns the apartment
house is hopping mad. Of course. and will
seek legal aid to curb the eccentricities Of
her new rent payers. Almost everything.
goes here, but most all residence districts
draw the line on dogs boarding-houses.
A picturesque thing about the BROOKLYN.
strike is the cheerful way the new con-
ductors have of pocketing fares. From
one run over there yesterday a conductor
collected nickels from eighty-one persons
and rung up twenty-seven fares. On the
same car last night which was so packed
that fifteen people stood on the rear plat
form. the register at the end Of the trip
recorded thirty-fve fares. This is hardly
fair, as the motorman has the cold end OF
the job and takes all the chances to boot.
The conductors secured on the outside
are evidently not so green as the gen.
eral public imagines.
IF the souvenir fad spreads much fur
Their among the theaters where bills sell
dom change during the season silver will
find a new market The latest gifts to pa
irons of some theaters are of genuine
sterling silver, and are pretty as well as
serviceable. At one house silver bon-bon
boxes were given to every lady and they
cost the management $3.50 each wholesale
They bore the mark of the maker, whose
reputation is a sufficient guarantee Of the
genuineness. The day of the satin pro-
gramme and the trashy statuette has dis
appeared and something worth saving
win in the future coax people to the play
house on souvenir nights.
Red tape in life is bad enough, but when
ii interferes with funerals It is much
worse. The other day the coroner signed
a certificate and handed il to an under
taker far uptown. The latter then went
ahead with the funeral of a babe, and
at the proper time the cortege reached a
Brooklyn cemetery. The certificate was
handed to the superintendent Of the city
of the dead, who, as soon as he glanced
at it, said: This burial cannot take
place. There has been mistake This Ger
tihcate is for birth, not for death and
so it was. The bereaved family had to re-
turn to this city with the body of the
child, secure a regularly signed death GER
tificate, and once more drive over the
long route to the grave. Some depart
ments of municipal government are a
great deal more particular than Others.
Every Sunday afternoon there is con-
gress of deaf mutes at the Fifth Avenue
hotel In the broad corridors and other
wise deserted cafe the noiseless takers
gather by the hundred, their number NOT
infrequenuy reaching 500. 1t is their
weekly reunion and the sight is an IN
teresting one. Notwithstanding their az
Fiction the young men look happy ana
judging from their animated though Sc
lent conversation, they are not the least
bit melancholy. They come from two
churches where Sunday afternoon ser
services are conducted in their language
The mute worshippers of St. Francs
%avier's have a society at the meetings
of which they engage in debate. oceas..
ionly they give public performances Ok
plays in the mute language Curious
crowds who watch the speaking Hngels
and study the faces of the speeches.
ones go away convinced that the mute
lot is not SO sad as it really seems.
At must do something to keep from
sinking remarked a gentleman OF ass
to-day, who has some sporting Dloou y
his veins, as he handed roll OF Dli'
to a young man who knows the lnNes.-
l440hA IOPES mere. 4 Neh
Why they are pulling my leg to the 1lHs
of at least $50 a day. My wife's down ~
Florida, and it costs about S25 aay !"
keep her there. Jacks over in WasnlAs
ton and he needs about $40 per diem "
keep in the swim. Tom, well mes 70
ing around here and fifteen bones ago-
keeps him in carbonic. Of course
got to blow myself occasionally az
there you are Now take the roil anu -
if you can't do something to keep m
from going under" The man who lalAs
in the above strain is worth al - ~
81 100000 but, like thousands Of other ~ ~
folk her, be must have diversion an. am
gets it out of the stalking OF cls
young man who knows his ous-I~ :,
whether he runs up against hoIses
stock and who is honest to 1aIl|
few hours after the conversation !,
the active partner and he was roHHs he
wealth. Look here" he sald, .r, a.
showed a couple of bank rolls r.-s,s
the old man with his profits ana o51.t
my commission. This morning ! n@l rs
enough to pay for a shoe shine nov hls
different. See?" And he unwouhu .sot
wealth in a way that convinced nls i,
he had scooped a couple Of hunaIe Ike
very short time at least. He may DC rats
before this goes over the WIRE bsis
the way of the speculative NoI-'
nowadays.
D. e. Davis Of Columbus, ONO .be ia