Arizona republican., 1897-12-17
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK

It is expected that the city of New York vii lbe obliged to issue $40, ,000,- 900 of new bonds next year for public Improvements.
 Tlhe steamer Trojan Prince arrived this week with 1,O50 Italian immi- grants. Most of them are in extreme poverty, and as a whole they are the poorest lot of immigrants who have arrived in long time Many of them will be detained at the expense of the steamship line responsible for their coming.
 The board of estimates has just made, liberal appropriations to the free circulating libraries. The New York Free library which is the larg- est institution of the kind, and which may be consolidated with the new public library, received $S2 ,OOO The Aguilar library received $41 800
 District Attorney Olco.t has finally decided to accept the place pn the city court berch vacated by Mayor elect Van Wy'ck. He had at first aclined, but the governor urged him
 take fhe position. He is only 35
 S old, but has been a member
 6 &ar ever since he was of age
 hns served one year as alderman Id a. year as district attorney.
 Because Dr. Parkhurst made no reference to wicked politics during his sermon last Sunday, the belief is gen eTsal that the clergyman is going to devote himself entirely to theology until Tammany or Tom P,ntt does something real devilish Just how the d2ctoais flock will accept dcs, S of ght spiritual advice cannot be as4 ned until the next pew auc-
 ere's a "hells kitchen in the
 Ill street district It is ram- shnckle building that has become famous because of the various games" which have been carried on Pfoy some of its tenants at different -1mes during the last twenty years The building contains a nest of buck Pt shops, small and pretentious It is fald that the police will soon swoop aown upon; the tenants.
 Some of the old fashioned places are growing quite giddy. The west end bf the Fifth Avenue hotels roomy fefreshment quarters is dream of Pase and warmth. Huge red rugs, Foft, plush covered armchairs and comfortable sofas lure even the tenn perature to finger long over the stsaights and mixes. Messrs. Asto- and Boldt are held responsible for this rather surprising addition to th., eity's historic hostIery.
 The famous Old Guard is to have D new armory. It has outgrown the Auarters that it has occupied for more Lhan quarter of a century and will take an entire new building at Broad way and Forty ninth street. Aside from the needs and uses to which the building will Ibe adapted, the gen. eTaa1 effect will be fetching in the ex- reme, recalling the interior of some medieval castle rather than the usual barn like appearance of an ai imory. The military structures of the me- J-opolis are picturesque as they are plentiful
 New York society is no longer a Four Hundred. 1t is not even a One Hundred and Fifty, such as it was reconstructed into a few years ago. ''The rural society of New York, D said one of it's arbiters, "'the creme de la creme or, to put it so the vul- gar may understand it, the real thing is the 'Thirty-fve.' They con- stitute our real aristccracy, and if lHIo COuuly WeHt COHuucueu OH prop CT lines every one of them should have a title." The revised list cmits the names of Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. Whitney and 363 others
 Visitors who have sized up Sher- rvs new place on Fifth avenue prob ably wonder why a caterer needs such "a huge home, but they overlook the bachelor. A large part of the rev. enuo of the StrI1ctIlra will cnmn from