The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-04

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rived by the Cunard Line, which mad,
n total of 81 trips; 16,S59 on the Am
erlcan Line, with 81 trips, and 1911;
by the Hamburg American Line, will
a total of 100 trips. The total arrivals
of steerage passengers were 252 $50
Of whom the North German Lloyd car
ried 3S,034, or more than any of tn,
other lines. The American Line landed
1880.
| To Regulate Height OF Buildings.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to regulate the height OF
something was done in that direction
or, If not Of limiting the height of
buildings, of providing that no more
than certain percentage of the total
frontage of lot should be occupied
by building, as has been suggested
lately by well-qualified engineer
| The Charitable Rich.
| Miss Helen Gould represents one of
| New York's wealthiest families in the
charitable world. She has devoted her
| life to the poor, and spends more than
half her income in caring for frlendless
and homeless children. Her pet charity
| Is Woodycrest, the home which she
| supports at Tarrytown, where she
cares for a number of little ones who
would otherwise be without support.
Her dinners to newsboys have become
| famous, and she celebrated her sis
ter's marriage to the Count Castellanc
| by giving a royal feast to the inmates
Of several newsboys' homes of this
city. Mrs. George Gould is also in
terested in charity, her favorite pro-
ect being the kindergarten and Pot
ted Plant Association, now called the
Gould Kindergarten. This society has
4 day nursery, where poor children are
cared for while their mothers are at
work, and one Of the prettiest IDEAS
was the distribution Of growing plants
among the tenement districts and the
hospitals. Mrs. Russell Sage Is one of
the most charitable women in New
York. She works very quietly and per-
sonally investigates every call that is
made on her for help. Her husband is
Interested in her work and contributes
literally to all of her charitable
schemes. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is n
liberal contributor to charity and has
endowed several Summer homes by the
seaside for sick children, where care
and medical attendance are given to
little street waits, besides n week or
more of fresh air and of good food.
Mrs Astor, Mrs. Sloane, Mrs. Hooker
IIamersley, Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes
and Mrs. NJ. w. Lanicr are prominent
society women who are all deeply in
terested in the various charities of the
city.
Gossip About the Charter.
The Greater New York Commission,
IN its draft of the new charter. has re-
.ained the name New York" to desig-
nate the whole Of the territory en-
braced in the consolidated municipal
ity. One of the speakers at a public
hearing objected to the term New York
rs the name for city 300 years old.
But the Commission Is right in retain
ing the old appellaton, for it would
take more than legislative enactment
TO change a name associated with the
history Of over two centuries. But the
new city will be known as Greater
New York. The term Greater" has
apparently come to stay. But while
holding on to New York, the name
given to the city after ii passed into
The possession of England, the new
is 70 th,t
are even older and better. In dividing
the big city into boroughs, the charter
assigns to all that territory on Manhat-
ian Island the ancient Indian name of
Manhattan, and thus, for the first
time, this name Is to be grated on a
Legislative enactment. The fine old
name of Brooklyn, from the Dutch
Breuklandt (brokcn ground is also
preserved, and thus the territory now
known as the city of Brooklyn will not
lose its distinct identity. "Brooklyn
people will continue to be Brooklyn
people. The new charter gives the IL
dian name Bronx to that section of the
city now ill-described as 1.-THE annexed
district" of the North Side" Bronx
Is the name of the most romantic of
little streams and is an appropriate as
well as picturesque designation for this
part of Greater New York. The pub
he hearings on the Greater New York
charter have influenced the Commits
sion in making several changes in the
draft OF the document, which. how
ever, in main part is likely to go to the
Legislature substantially as it stands
now. The chief changes made are in
relation to the powers of the Mayor.
the size of the Common Council and
The Constitution of the Police Board.
If the four Police Commissioners. rep
reSenting the two parties get in a dead
lock, II Is now proposed that the Mayor
SHAH have the power to break it by
voting on one side Of the other. Two
Commissioners and the Mayor would
,hus constitute controlling majority
1t Is proposed also to reduce the City
Council from 30 members to 2S. exclu-
sive of the President, and to reduce
he Board of Aldermen from 1O4 men,
IN and