The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-02
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

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| an epidemic OF counterfeiting here lust
| now The latest discovery is that some
swindler is manufacturing limitations OF
peddlers badges which are the outward
tokens Of licenses costing s25, which raise
an annual revenue of about SIS 900 for the
city.
Strangers In New York wonder at cards
In big buildings advertising lofts to let
on all floors" The provincial notion ia
that loft must be at the top OF Il struc-
turc. but In this metropolis the term is
applied to any undivided floor used for
manufacturing or storage purposes above
the street level.
Two bright green lights hanging high
over Governors Island a night or two ago,
which would have sent any wild Western
town into crazy airship fever, were hard
Nv noticed here. though they did arouse a
mild wonder among the few who happened
to see them The lights were attached TO
three kites sent up to an elevation of 500
feet for experimental signaling,
These who believe that roofing las
become an Indispensable part of baseball
should see the vigor of the game as played
and dumb out on the Boulevard Lafayette;
but league umpires who fear the outcries
of bleachers over unpopular decisions
should what the umpires OF the deaf
mutes have to undergo. The menace of
that unspoken language is terrific In such
moments of excitement.
THE Peoples Institution has Just been
Incorporated here by sociologsts minis
tiers. philosophers, labor leaders and others
anxious TO provide common ground for the
discussion of questions of public interest
bY all sorts and conditions of men. The
PAPERS 10 be read and debated will be
classed under sociology. literature and his
tory and there is every indication that the
plan will prove popular as a means OF
informal education.
The formal opening of the first pier roof
garden at East Third street here the other
night is the first completed and the small |
est of four like structures the city now
has under way. Though the project was
first mooted fifteen years ago and a reso-
luton was introduced for it in the board
OF aldermen more than two years since |
this summer resort OF the people, with an
area OF 800 by so feet. occupied only seven
weeks in building and cos: only $1,000. |
There are to be band concerts every Satur- |
day and Sunday afternoon and on the even !
ings of all other days. The boon it will be !
TO the poor in the hot weather is incalcu-
liable.
Sshtseers in New York rarely visit the
prim building on Second avenue which has
been the home OF the New York Historical
society for the last half century, yet the
place well repays inspection and is full of
interest for those with antiquarian in
clinations. There is library of more than
100000 books. but the passing visitors find
most attractive the collection of American
relies, among which is conspicuous the
colonial flag carried at the battle of Louis
burg and the gallery of early American
paintings, comprising work by West, peale,
l'rumbull. Stuart and the like. AS the
society has bought site for finer build
ing in Central Park west the days OF the
old place are numbered.
A dirty. mean. little place on Orchard
street is frequented by women whose dress,
manners and general appearance seem
strangely ct odds with the surroundings;
but their presence is less astonishing when
one learns that the ill-smeling swcatbox is
run by man with a genius for fits" at
low prices. That his employees under
paid and their products need well airing
before wearing, cuts no figure with bar
gain hunting women who have high es-
TEEN for well-cut clothes at wcll-cut prices.
But one of the most remarkable things
about the place Is It's proprietors wonder
full talent for remembering He mover
makes note OF any OF the seven or eight
measurements necessary for dress, but
carries them, with tbs names and addresses
Of his patrons, in his mind, aud can cut a
costume from the mere memory of dimen-
sions taken twelve months back. =
No sentimental hesitation, but thor
,ughly work-a-day vigor, characterized the
lotions of the laborers who shoveied out
skulls and thigh bones and other specimens
II anatomies which once were human,
While digging a foundation last week at The
'orner of Read street and Broadway. The :
number of the bones indicate that the site
vas once a regular place of burial. Some
Indians and some an early Dutch
but no one seemed TO know posi- 4
lively. plan OF New York surveyed by
Bernard Ratzer in 17I6, shows the ''negrusa'
'urial ground where the bones were found
nut in a survey made by John Hill. six
ears later. II does not appear The great
negro conspiracy scared New York In lTii. /
nd of 1874 negroes imprisoned then thirteen
we're burned at the stake, eighteen hanged
md the rest transported.
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