The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-18
GOSSIP or GOTHAM.

New York, November 15.-There are any
number of "Beefsteak Johns" In this city;
but It will surprise most people to learn
that the only restaurant owner who has
right to that title is woman She re-
Gently fled trade mark certificate of the
name "Beefsteak John" which she saws
she inherited from her first husband. and
she proposes to make 1t hot for others who
put "Beefsteak John" on their signs.
A woman who believes that the youth
OF this city should go to bed at . o'clock
p. M wants to introduce the curtcw bell
she will soon submit her proposition to
the city fathers, but she will only have
her labor for her pains Some of the dads
even go so far as to suggest that 1t would
be the better part of wisdom to protect the
public from the advocates of such revivals
Of the middle ages.
The dangers that menace pedestrians
here are to be added to. The horseloss mail
wagon is to be introduced. 1t will take the
place of the big white mail gathering
wagons that have been pronounced sue.
cess after q fair trial The first horseIoss
affair is now being built. and postofice ex-
perts say that the service will be greatly
improved when sufficient supply is Sc
cured.
The colored man and brother has az
last been recognized by the METROPOLITAN
police board. The first negro to be so hon
ored is special" The old police board
always refused to give the power of arrest
10 negroes and kept the special force az
free from them as the regular force. Now
mat the color line has been bent, IL not
broken, the chances are that other colored
applicants Will bob up 10 plague the Off
clals VINO don't believe that blue and black
match we'll.
The theaters are not suffering any from
the counter attraction in Madison SQUARE
Garden Al the houses are drawing crowds
and happier lot of managers never before
trod the well worn section of broadway
known as the Riato. and. what is good
to say, the American dramatist is strictly
In it, With only two exceptions. the cur
rent successes are home products The
stars and stripes are strictly In 1t. from
theatrical standpoint, this trip.
The Cuban colony here discussed with
fervor and admiration the other day the
news Of prospective fight for fair" be-
tween General Weyler and the Insurgents.
| In all the large cigar factories. the work.
ers employ what is known as render"
/ VINO sits at one end Of the worl, room. aud
/ IN snnornus Spanish. recitcs all the news
Of the day, translatlng as he goes along.
/ rms does not interfere with the busy work.
/ ers at the bench. ami the faster the reader
reads, the faster the fingers fly in the
rolling of cigars ard cigarettes.
Sandwich inns must go. The father OF,
lp .gf-
an amendment to the section which defines
a hotel as having ten sleeping rooms The
amendment provides that in cities Of the
FIRST class (Ncw York. Brooklyn and Buf.
falol hotel shall have twenty-five rooms.
/ A meal rs not defined, but MS all the rooms
! in the RainCs hotel of the future must
have window either opening upon the
I street or upon an open airshaft the make
believes in the metropolis will have to 60
Moody and sanksy are renewing here the
series Of revival meetings with which they
set the whole theological world alame
twenty years ago. Tho large hall OF Coop
er Union is packed daily with people OF
all conditions They drink in the preachers
discourse, which is full of home-like sim
plicty and pathos. and are all the better
lNl II, GOOD lNpa OF the sort OF sinners
who crowd around the mourncrs' bench
can he gathered from the following words.
which dropped from Mr. Moody's Inns to-
day I'VE are getting some of the right
kind of people. he explained. "a man had
his oyercoat stolen here yesterday" WIS.,
itors who do not go to such places to scoff
Will find much to interest them ut Cooper
Union during the present revival
One of the scenes In a play to be pro-
duced at Palmer's this week contains a
dinner-n real cranberry pie. ginger ale
and chicken layout. The hero Of the piece
becomes suddenly wealthy and he blows
OFT $50 children of the street. To secure
the young "supers." the MANAGEMENT ad-
vertiscd for 500 children. OF course, you ali
know what advertising does II almost
caused a blockade There were at least 1000
boys and girl applicants for positions as
eaters Some OF tho boys" wore flown.
whskers, and these were the ones who in
CURED most anXiougly when the first dres,
rehearsal was TO take place, Some ~ the
girls" took their children and grandchu-
dren with them as evidence OF respectable
ty.