The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-07
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

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New York, August 4.-The itinerant
photographer is reaping harvest these
days. In the uptown streets he is to be met
any bright afternoon focusing some little
group of tots, who make an interesting pic
ture while being took"
| Under the spells system. in 1885, street
cleaning in this city cost 81, 2l2 Ash and we
had filthy streets Under Warng, in 1896.
street cleaning cost 50 .2S3 1858; and we have
now clean streets, improved health, re-
duccd death rate. Today 433 miles of city
streets are cleaned from one to five times
| daily.
The New York Turner society is to put
up new building at the corner Of Licking
toa avenue and Elghty-ffth street. which
Ia to cost in the nelghborhood o. $40 600
1t will be equipped with every convenience
and will be ready for occupany in about a
year hence
Tom Gould, who usel to be regarded as
the wickedest man in the Tenderloin has
just won the first part of the hardest fight
of his llfe--a rough and tumble with par
| dlISIS. llS nave lc1l MN SO wan ana
| haggard and bcset that few OF his intimates
would recognize him. | saw him lettering
along Broadway today, almost total
| wreck.
| The percentage of people owning their
own homes in the metropolis is smaller
than In any other city Of the New World.
There are at least seven individual blccks
n Nprl i,ip
pie each, according to statistics recently
gathered by n society that is helping to
solve the problems of city life.
A white haired coored man controls a
handy combination shop In the corner of a
Broadway hotel. There one can get
shave, shine, have his hat cleaned his
clothes cleaned, pressed or repaired and
his linen washed The shrewd proprietor
doesn't spend much Of his time there, but
the cash register and a ''spotter"--the en-
ployes call him a "knocker faithfully
guard his finances.
Tho work OF laying the pneumatic tubes
for the carrying Of mails will be begun in
a few days, 1t Is expected that the tubes
will be in working order early in October
Produce exchange to the general postoffice
and the other from the general postoifice
to station A. at the Grand Central palace,
or Lexington avenue. near Forty second
street, With intermediate stations at other
points. Other routes will be laid later in
GLIDING one to Brooklyn. This town Is
growing swifter, but the swiftuess isn't of
the old sort.
int
seductive cigarette has been known for
some time. The knowledse has not cause
much excitement, but the cigarette habit
has progressed further than was supposed
At its present state of development, ac-
cording TO one authority, 1t occupies sew
eral hours OF its feminine victims day II
demands enc entire room in her house, and
requires q smoking costume and accessories
and appurtenances without number Ths
New York woman who smokes evidently
makes business OF It; yet it is only re-
Gently that the smoning room has been ar
ranged as an adjunct to the boudair
A woman 20 years old stood before the
magistrate in the Jefferson Market court
the other day the charge against her being
fortune telling In answer to u question,
she said that fortune telling isn't a crime,
and added: do you know. Judge, that
sized up the pair and discharged the aged
they?" queried the court. We'll, II your
honor plensss, they are willful murder.
highway robbery, incendiarism aud out
rage Now. ii you are fortune teller
what am | going to do with your" asked
the magistrate We'll. judge, there is
sort OF veil over the law. II is hard to pene-
trate, But you might discharge me.
though" She knew moro about the future
than she did about the criminal code, for
sho was discharged.
There Is society in this city which has
for its object the encouragement OF matri-
mony. IT cffers dowry Of $500 to any or
phan girl who selects deserving man and
marries him. or allows the society to select
a husband for her. Three such marriages
hayo already taken place The president
OF this unique organization Is SO years old
and weighs ITO pounds. He Is bachelor.
TIE young woman who keeps house fer
him weighs 200 pounds. The other day she
diasged him before the bar Of justice on a
charge OF trying TO kiss her. The masis.
,rate smiled when he heard the complaint.
mere are but four criiaes?'' what are
Lcthario. The young woman only recently
arrived from Germany and isn't well ac-
quaintcd with the ways OF the metropolis.
Houstontan Abroad.
To the Editor of The Post.
Monterey, Cal. July 3l.--From San Joss