Arizona republican., 1897-10-06
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

Low banner hangs high in Platt stronghold in Brooklyn. It is said that the painter was compelled to work over time on it, his patrons be- ing fearful lest their candidate would withdraw before he finished it. But the woods are full Of campaign liars.
 Miss Knickerbocker is tilting her picture hat in decidedly rakish manner. This Parisian folly will, Of course. not be tolerated by the wo- man who is strictly good form; but as there are whole lot of others on Broadway just now, 'the line" IS good deal more picturesque than it was few weeks ago.
 There are plenty of policemen in every concert hall on Manhattan Is land tonight, ready to make arrests if the law is violated; but the manag- CTS were tipped" and no high kick ing will be mixed with the vocal ef- forts of the performers at these "sacred" shows Reform is breaking out in fresh spots every hour.
 One young woman who is employed as a silk designer by a firm here, earns on an average SI50 every two or three weeks for original designs made for her employers. This goes to prove that if the proposition to es- tablish a school for American silk designers ever goes into effect, it will fill much felt want and open new avenue for the production of pin money.
 According to a supreme court de- cision handed down the oher day, a husband can use all the "cuss" words in the calendar during family jar without giving his better half a good ground for separation with an ali mony attachment. If he threatens his wife, however, a dissolution of same Solomon who renders the decis- ion referred to sits in judgment
 The fatal fall of the white cat and the subsequent slump in sugar, which have already been chronicled, have boOmed superstition in 'the street '' The players there, however, are al ways superstitious. Some of the plungers regularly consult astrolo- gers, clairvoyants, mind readers, palmists and the rest of the stripe, and follow their advice in the mar ket. The antics of q Thomas cat may some day cause panic in Wall street.
 It is announced that the new thea ter to be built at Sixty-fifth street and the Boulevard will be nlanaged by the gentlemen who are now direct ing the fortunes of St. Nicholas Mu- sic hall. They propose to run their new building on similar lines. Ru- nor has it that still another play house is to be erected at One Hun dred and Fourth street and Columbus avenue, and the people who live up- town can now enjoy all the pleasures of old New York without wasting money and time on long hauls.
 It turns out that the Austin Cor bin estate only foots up a little over $2,0OO,000, instead of over $40,O ,O0O, ,OOO, as the gossips had It. This bit of news developed the other day when the wife of Ha1lett Alison Borrowe. formerly Miss Corbin, applied to the executors for her "divy"-$6O0, 900 ' for towJ~ house and not quite that amount for pin money, which her eel ebrated hubby possibly needs in his business. As the late 1amenIted mil lionaire did not bestir himself to bless this union the people who are handling the estate seem to be in no great haste te split at up.
 A Brooklyn man has gone in for sunf1ower culture, but not on Oscar Wilde lines. He is now harvesting forty-one acres of sunfower, from the seeds of which is manufactured a table oil worth SIPS 8 gallon, bush el of seed yielding two and a half gallons. He counts on 100 bushels of seed to the acre. The cake left after the oil has been pressed makes fine poultry food, hence he has added a chicken yard to his sunf1ower farm But his profit doesn't end here. The stalks vii be made into a fine fibre which goes into a certain texture re sembling silk. This is the sunfower farmers first year, but he says it won't be his last
 Any person who SO desires can SC. cure object lessons in underground trolley building in all its various stages by visiting this city There are miles and miles of it now under way, and some idea of the magnitude 7cf the work undertaken may be gath cred from the following facts: IT each block of roadway there are sev. enty-two tons or iron and steel put into place, this quantity be- ing made up of 5,112 differ. ent pieces; 4y16O lineal fec of duct laid; 34S cubic yards of exca vation; 160 cubic feet of concrete laid and $50 square yards of paving done The work involves the employmen; of iron workers, concreters, duct lay CTS, caulkers, plumbers, pipe movers pavers and blacksmiths The i'm provement is now one of the sight in the BOwery.
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