Arizona republican., 1897-09-11
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

New York, Sept 1O.-The shopping district is arrayed in autumn garb. There's an end to the f1imsy and cheap summer wear in every show window. and flaming and sumptuous stuffs now dazzle the eye and depIete the pocket book. Signs of better times are to be seen all over town.
 Some idea of the composition of the population of this city can be had when it is stated that n.5O0 members of one Austrian family are now living. here They have taken steps to or ganize strong family mutual be- nevolent and aid society. The Sulli- van and Reilly families long ago formed similar associations.
 Many of the lower west side streets must be extremely puzzling to strang- CTS seeking their way in that locality For instance, West Fourth street be- gins at Broadway and terminates at West Thirteenth street. There are numerous other like surprises in the topography of that section of the city. The lower west side is a veri- table maze.
 A feminine cologne drunkard was picked up by the police today. It seems that she mixed her drinks with disastrous results. After taking a goodly dose of cologne she entered a drug store and called for a. cherry phosphate. The acid in the latter had some strange and unaccountable ef- feet on the cologne, but the hospital folks hope to save her fife.
 The aristocratic reed bird, the fes- tive oyster and the nomely, but lus- cious rail bird are each and collective ly in season and epicures are happy. Oysters are very plentiful and blue points brought 60 cents a hundred this morning, while Rockaways sold for S125 Ten thousand oysters were delivered from Washington market to the chief of the White Star steamship Majestic, which sailed Wednesday.
 It is announced that at least six of the largest bicycle firms in the coun- try will place chainless wheels on the market in large numbers, and thus for the first time the chainless model will be in general use. That those ma chimes will supplant the old style chain gear within the next year Is not claimed by their most enthusiastic supporters, and under no circumstances is it believed that next years sales of the chainless wheel will approximate more than a small percentage of the sales of the chain model.
 A novel settlement of college girls exists in a modest house in Avenue B. They have taken up their abode there to study the labor and social problems of this city in a practical way. The objects are to aid those who are in need of either advice CT tenn porary assistance, and to promote the physical, intellectual and spiritual inn provement of the women and girls of the crowded east side tenement house districts generally. It is the first metropolitan college settlement with a gospel attachment, and has just been incorporated.
 Every visitor to the city who goes down town to see the bulls and bears in their daily scrimmage has his at attention attracted by group of well dressed young men who stand near the entrance to the Mills building Sometimes the men get little excited and their hands fly up in the air Then the unsophisticated rural1st thinks there is a street fight, and he hastens up to see the fun. But blood is never spilled. The excited crowd is composed of curbstone brokers, and it is one of the features of Wall street The other day the police drove them from the street to the stoop line ol the Mills building, which will here- after be their permanent exchange r