The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-10
GOSSIP OF GAY GOTHAM.

New York. December There arc 80
many banks in New York that many have
recently been obliged to consolidate, and
y,st this fact does not prevent the organt-
cation OF a now bank, to be named the
Astor National. and which win have quar-
ters IN the Astoria hotCl. John Jacob As
toi Is Interested in the new venture.
A statement given ont at Albany by the
Stac excise commissioner shows that
there are ~ excise certificates issued in
this city, And that the number of places
whore liquor is drunk on the premises is
6i97. which Is 200 less than under tho old
excise law although tho revenue from
sli0N ono moro than under the former law
The number of drinking places is less
In proportion 10 the population IN the city
than in Bulfa.o and Albany.
All sorts of rumors have been fly
ing around concerning the hotel to be
built on the sito OF the old Tabernacle.
on Thirty.fourth street near broadway.
Some said 1t was to be Mills Hotel No,
=. and others that it was to be "A woman's
hotel but the truth has leaked out at
last than the property has been bought
by a svudenle Of capitalists who VIII
huilI a magnificent hotel there FOR tina
ton just whore or when hotel b,dldin.
VIII stop here. nobody knows.
The Christmas outlook is far from
merry on tho teeming East Side. This
was the FIRST day OF idleness for the 1000
unemployed garment workers thrown out
of work by the closing of Shops or re-
lnctiol of forces by the contractors. B"-
tore the 2O,coo people anectcd by tho
~ eSeNt depression in the cloak trade
There is a very dark prospect. Hardly
one IN seven are prepared for thu two
months of ldleness which stares them in
the face. stoves are cold and cupboard;
are bare IN many tenement; and to make
matters worse. the garment makers are
very proud.
Tho doctors are preparing TO force
the legislature TO place the free dis
penearies here under surveillance The
remedy for tho evil complained of calls
for The imposition Of fine for we,l-to-
do people who assume the roll of pow
erty to secure treatment, sufficient evil
dence has been gathered to provo that
the poor get the worst OF this charity
VI is said that almost half the patients
receiving medical aid at the free dis
pousaries are we'll able to visit doctors
and druggists, The Other day woman
worth $1,000 was caught among the APP
p,icauts at an East Side dispensary. and
the woods are full of th5m. When tho
m,sery rich rob the deserving poor, it's
about time for somebody TO get a move
on,
Brooklyn's financial plight seems to be-
come worse as the date OF consolidation
approa ches Today IT looked as II Con-
trolle' Palmer would have to suspend
payment permanently, and hang up
all bills and salaries until the new con-
solldauon officials took charge. Many
employees have not yet received their NO
vemhel salaries, and the outlook for De-
comber Is as dreary as tho weather the
city has reached its legal borrowing
limit and there IS a S5.NNnOO1 tax arrears
ara deficit Just how tlis Us - he mes Is
the problem over which all the bother -
White they are trying 70 solve it some OF
mo onicia.s find romf0ri IN the discovery
that The tax arro2rs IN New York fact un
q sam IN excess OF $4,000 900. ana. ukr
Warren Hastings, they are astounied ut
thelr own moderation in handing Rrook-
lyn over to her new rulers wish some
few shrNdS Of her munioiral credit left
Although those near 20 Russell sage
either ch5m to be entirely ignorant or
the matter, or else allsge that tha stony
is nothing but fake, the published
runaor that Mir, Sage was to leave $50
onor. or n.no-,enths OF his fortune, 20
charity and education. Grated consider
able talk IN Wall street Aceord,n.
to the will makers, Uncle RusselI
WIN turn Madison Square Garden into