The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-17
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

| New York, June l4.-one would hardly
look for haysceds in the hair of such men
as William Rockefeller and II. Mex.
Twombey yet they wers amcng those who
exhibited their spring products the other
| Jay at the Farmers clubs last meeting
for the season In this city.
| June's masquerade as January has gone
beyond a ioke here, and the temperature
ought to be raised. even 4 it involve some
firing. But 1t is funny"to find that as
much fighting is necessary and forthcom-
| Ing to obtain covered street cars on me
| Broadway cable line as was needed to OBJ
| tain the introduction OF open vehicles.
| Multiplication OF women's clubs here has
| led to desire to excel in orato-y, and
that to the establishment of school OF
| clocution designed to prepare women for
| platform appearances with a speaking part
| in conventions or congresses. And so the
| popular superstition that all women are
| expert takers must tie supplanted by the
admission of many, who realize that they
| can not speak without learning.
| There will probably be an appeal, but
meanwhile decision was given in the city
| proprietors responsible fer the property OF
their patrons despite their printed no
uces to the contrary. This knowledge may
! make the wooing OF slumber less difficult
| for sleeping car passengers. but it is to be
| feared that something more than anxiety
| keeps travellers awake.
II you want wild goose chase In New
York. policeman will probably be able
TO direct you. as the force is expert in
that sport. But IL duck be the game of
which YOU arc in search. you VIII hnd
them trespassing on the reservoir in Cen
trail park. where they have taken up breed
! ing quarters. The fidelity to nature shown
by the landscape architects who made that
wilderness to blossom like the rose could
hardly receive o more striking tribute
than this paid unconsciously by the orig
inally shy wild fowl.
When the superintendent OF education
says. as he just has done. that thirty new
| schools arc needed in this city to allow
proper reduction in the size OF classes
and provide room for 81 600 children, whom
that process would crowd out to the streets,
IL Is evident he Is either exaggerating, or
tho public instruction in New York fas
been woefully mismanaged in the past
The evidence is all in favor of the latter
Interpretation, though that by no means
necessarily implies that the present sys-
TEN is immaculate. The new board has
still TO prove what 1t can and will do
under tho new arrangement OF power.
Time hurries on. but seems to leave
some people untouched. There lives in
Harlem Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, VINO
eighty years ago made her debut in Drury
Lane theater, and now hacks little oil
century of life. Her autobiography. edited
by Douglass Taylor, has just been pub
lshed. and how full Of interest 1t is FOR
those who care for stage lore should be
evident when It Is known that she was
the original Albert to Macreadys William
Tell: played Ophela to the Hamlet oil
Charles Kean. Edwin Forrest and Charles
kemble; Susanna to Charlotte Cushman
Countess, and other parts with other ia
nous actors, whom she well remembers
though they have long since made their
las! bow on the stage OF this world.
No one suspects the Western Union
building on lower Broadway of intenper-
ance. yet more regularly than most clock
work, and with the set habit of a con
hrmed topper, 1t has put down It's 'hish
BALI AT noon every day for years past
The operation has become one of the IN
stitutons OF the city. and men in that
vicinity nave grown accustomed to setllnS
their watches by il. Under such circum-
stances imagine, II you can. the consterna-
ton OF these who anXiously counted the
minutes while waiting for the performance
tho other day prepared 10 swear that
every timekceping apparatus which failed
to agree with their favorite must be wrong,
only TO discover that tho infallible Ind
failed and the ball stuck atop its pole. de-
spite all protest.
She was quietly gowned dame of the
old school. evidently little accustomed TO
city ways. Looking in wonder Mt bar
gain pile OF rocketbooks in all colors in a
department store she asked her companion
why there was much variety. why
auniie,' said the younger woman. who
was thoroughly up to date, you see it's
the style 10 have pocketbook to match
each OF your street dresses" My when
was girl we made our dresses to match
our purses, but they've reversed all that.
II seems. tho rural relative replied, In
evident disapproval
Unit on All Questions.
Grandyiew Graphic.
Strict regard for the truth and desire