The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-24
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

| New York. July 2i.--New York's first
public convenience station will be an elab-
crate underground affair. 1t will cost
| SIS. 200 and will be built under Mail street
| and the Broadway side OF City Hall park.
| It Will he finished in marble. and when
completed will be the finest thing OF the
kind in the world.
| Sensational journalism has ita serious
| side one young man who wrote up a
| certain matter few days ago has received
| a polite note from an interested party re-
duestipG him to name his weapons. The
| challenger is Heidelberg student, 'nll OF
muscle and scars. The challenged one is
now taking boxing lessons from wei!
known wearer of two-ounce gloves and as
he has the choice of weapons he sleeps like
TOP.
Grace Church. the picturesque, ivy-cov-
cred edfice on Broadway and Tenth street,
has unique fund. The interest derived
from IL is used for the floral decorations
OF the chancel at Easter. and 1t is called
the golden wedding fund. The donors were
tho first bride and bridegroom united IN
the church. and they celebrated their
church celebrated its semi centennial,
when this fund was presented.
II is lust as easy to get Jag at the
soda fountain or the candy counter as In
the bar room The demand for stimu-
| lating influence in the drink is most read
ilv met with alcohol under another name.
There is popular drink at present i'll de-
maud at the drug store In which strong
mort wine Is used in equal parts with
drug which is supposed TO furnish the
cured by taking few drinks of his com
pound.
Several club and society women Of this
CITY, whose names are to be made public
soon, have given to the School OF Indus
trial Art and Practical Design a limited
number OF free scholarships. The scholar
ships will enable the beneficiarics TO be-
come self supporting. by giving thcm In
struction in practical designing Gor silks.
wall papers and all textiles printed or
woven. Tho other day ] sat near lady
in n restaurant whD is decorating q swell
home uptown She is simply coming cash
with her calling.
a great many colored people in Gotham
are masauoradlng in white peoples lair.
There stands outside OF one Of the smaller
stores On Sixth avenue. not far from the
shopping district, a glass show case which
is filled. as II is marked, with human
hair goods" There is nothing Unusual
about any OF these. except the color Of the
hair. II is all Of an inkly blackncss MD
closely curled The establishment does
enc of tho largest businesses in the city
In false hair for colored poo0ie. y white
man prcsides over tho destinies OF this
queer shop.
The Harlem speedway. which will he
omen for borscmen and whoelmen IN nhout
six months. viii be ono OF the most pic
turesoue driveways in the metropolis.
Nearly all the speedway is made land. 1t
is about twenty-five feet above the waters
of the river. and when finished Will be
very artistic. Al tho outer wal, s 10 begin
sidewalk twenty feet in width, Next to
this il to come n trench. in which are TO
be planted trees and flowers. ten fert wide.
Within this is to extend the roadway. rans-
ing from seventy to ninety feet wiio. Be-
yond lis to be another trench for trees and
next to the cliff second sidewalk fifteen
feet broad. II Will be as level as DANG
Ing floor.
On Friday afternoon last nervous,
slight Young man strolled into a down
town restaurant. He ordered a modest
IL anu
while some OF the si0-a-wcek clerks in tho
place were wondering how they could XII
another hour. The nervous man was b.
II. Borden, son OF the millionaire mill
owner. n. @. u. Borden. and this same
young man made exactly 100000 the day
before. He bought all tho cotton he could
Law his hands on when the prices n.oke 50
badly last week. In three hours afterward
the price advanced fve points. BORDEN
turned around. sold out oil his holdings
and came out Of the deal 100000 letter
OF than no had been three hours lc'ore.
And he's not a steady player at that.
The excise folks have hard row 10 hoe.
The other night an officer arrested the bar
keeper. Of o Raines hotel for serving him
sandwich and = drink In nn,ail rnom
back Of the damp counter. When ar
raisned the next day tho man ~bp wesrs
the white tscket insNtcd that The littlo
room Wa Z REGULAR dining room. WY"
said the naaRlstrate. take ! hotel HE
tho Manhattan. for lna(ance. II has
large dlnink room and pevefet .tnAu rooms
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