The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-11
GOSSIP or GAY GOTHAM.

New York, December Sit Is expected
that the city of New York will be obliged
to issue $4,000. 900 of new bonds next year
| for public improvements.
The steamer Trojan Prince arrived this
week with 1860 Italian immigrants. Nose
OF them are in extreme poverty, and as a
whole they are the poorest lot of immi-
grants who have arrived in long time
Many of them will be detained at the ex-
rense of the steamship line responsible for
| their coming.
The board of estimates has just made lib-
eral appropriations to the free circulating
| libraries. The New York Free library,
which is the largest institution of the kind.
and which may be consolidated with the
new public library. received $50 900. Tho
Aguilar library received SAL 500.
District Attorney Olcott- has finally de-
cided to accept the place on the city court
bench vacated by Mayor elect Van Wyck
He had at first declined. but the governor
urged him TO take the position He is only
80 years old, but has been a member of the
bar ever since he was of age. He has
served one year as alderman and year as
district attorney.
Because DR.. Parkhurst made no reference
TO wicked politics during his sermon last
Sunday the belief is general that the cler-
gyman is going to devote himself entirely
to theology until Tammany or Tom Plat
does something real deYilish- Just how the
Doctors flock will accept doses of straight
spiritual advice can not be ascertained IN
til the next pew auction.
There's "hell's kitchen in the Wall
street district. II is ramshackle building
that has become famous because of the va
rous games" which have been carried on
by some OF its tenants at different times
during the last twenty years. The building
contains a nest of buclIetshops small and
precentious. 1t is said that the police will
soon swoop down upon the tenants.
Some OF the old-fashioned places are
growing quite giddy. The west end Of the
Fifth Avenue hotels roomy refreshment
quarters is a dream OF ease and warmh.
Huge red rugs, soft. plush-covered arm
chairs and comfortable sofas lure even the
Temperature to hpger long over the straights |
and mixes Messrs. Aston and Boldt are |
held responsible for this rather surprising |
addition to the city's historic hosiery.
The famous Old Guard is to have new |
armory. 1t has outgrown tho quarters that
it has occupied for more than quarter Of |
century and wil-take an entire new
building at Broadway and Forty-niuth
street. Aside from he needs and uses to
which the building Will be adapted, the
general effect will be fetching in the ex-
ll.,,cr g.f
dieval castle rather than the usual barn
like appearance of an armory The mill
tary structures Of the metropolis are pic
turesque as they are plentiful.
New York society is no longer a Four
Hundred. It is not even One hundred and
Fifty. such as it was reconstructed into
few years ago. THE rural society of New
York said one of It's arbiters, Z" the creme
de la creme or, to put it SO the vulgar may
understand 1t, the real thing is the
'Thirty-five.' They cons itute our real arts
tocracy, and IL this country were conducted
on proper lines every one OF them should
nave title The revised list omits the
names of Mrs. Q. H. p. Belmont, Mrs.
Whitney and 1863 others.
Visitors who have sized up Sherry's new
place. on Fifth avenue probably wonder
why caterer needs such huge home. but
they overlook the bachelor, A large part
OF the revenue of the structure will come
from the leasing OF the rooms over the res
taurant and rooms reserved for business.
Many of these quarters are to be most
sumptuous. and one apartment is already
rented for the pleasant sum of 10000
year This sounds rather steep but people
VINO are on Sherry's lis, say it is dirt cheap.
aS the suite takes in both the Fifth avenue
ana forty-fourth street fronts. Tone comes
high here 49,