The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-25


Gotham decided to open cooperative
restaurant for the purpose OF furnishing
work for unemployed tip-takers. There's
an army of them here. and n good many
would quit their jobs if they couldn't rake
III from SO to So day extra.
Walhala Hall is about to change It's
name In the effort to change its luck. No
ball in this city has enjoyed greater no.
torety than Walhalla. OF late years the
East Side statesmen who have opened
headquarters in Walhalla have met their
Waterloo at the polls So the name of
the hoodoo has been changed. and it is
now Prospect Hall.
Frau Mohor Ravonstein has been secured
by Walter Damrosch for his German Opera
company to replace the late Frau klafsky,
who died last month. The newly engaged
singer was first dramatic soprano when
Weingartner was director at Mannheim,
and the latter is reported to consider her
one of the best impersonators OF the role
of "Brunnhilde."
Peeplng from folds of soft silk in a glass
case in front of new dry goods shop is
pretty pink foot. Every one in passing
stops to loot at 1t. The foot Is a womans.
II is an ideal realized. For a small sum. in
siGe Che shop. Z woman may have her own
feet snGde SO far as possible, to resemble
the wax model. There's no limit to features
in the modern metropolitan department
store
A young soubrettc whose dazzling teeth
are one of her greatest attractions rushed
TO her dentist the other day in agony. The
dentist. who by the way. was the same
man who had supplied her with the most
dazzling of her front teeth. told her that
there nothing for il hut to pull the
tooth. Very well. doctor" remarks the
actress, with a sigh as she removed the
plate. II suppose I'd better take out my
orchestra chairs that YOU get at
my back rows" Actresses will talk shop
Many OF the old fashioned brown stone
fronts on the streets between Sixth and
| Madison avenue have been replaced with
more modern fronts, in which the archi-
tects have exhibited variety Of ideas The
/ old houses so treated look like new ones
/ from the street, and they are, in most
4 cases a pleasing contrast 10 their conven-
/ tlonal neighhors. The fad for brown stone
/ has passed, and the fronts that are made
Of it more often protect n boarding house
}
/ One Of the largest and finest banking Of
fees in the world is to be erected by Will
4 lam Waldorf Aston. on a site bounded by
( Broadway, Exchange place and New street.
! in the very heart Of Wall street The cree
ton OF the building is to be begun May l..
II is to cost from So ,0000 900 to 81 900 900.
| The excavations alone will make an ex-
pcnse of $4,000 The details are not yet
public prope rty. but the plans are well I'M
| der way. the contract has been let and
the tenants occupying offices in the struc-
lures TO be torn down have been notified.
The Bowery mission has a practical
warning outside its windows II Ia in the
form of a picture. showing the FIVE de-
grees Of ran. as the mission people have
evidently seen him. They range from tho
well dressed man. wearing a shining silk
hat. to the drunkard on the street. The
silk hat the clothes and the man grow
more and more dilapidated in each pict .
ure. Each degree has a heading. from tho
first Made With a Stick in It." to the
last, Never Refuses Drink" Above the
illustrations arc the words. Young man.
take warning" 1t might do more good on
| Broadway,
Crowds went down to Coney Island the
other day to look upon the ruin wrought
by tho wind dashed sea After looking over
the ground the general verdict was that it
would be impossible to adequately de-
scribe the effect Of the STORM To those
who did not know the formation Of tho
shore between the shelter houses and
Balmcrs Pavilion It did not seem as
though much damage had been done The
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