Arizona republican., 1897-12-08
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

The board of estimate has approv- edp lans for a new bridge over the Harlem river, to cost $1,246,000.
 High water mark was reached th's S week for the 1OO,OOO,OOO of Presi- dent Cleveland's last issue of per cent bonds, which the Wall street syndicate expected to get for 1O4, but which were finally sold to the public at from no to Ill. Today's quota tion for these bonds was 129.
 The park commissioners have juzt appropriated $75 ,000 to build an up
 town speedway for the army of bike fiends, $15O,O0O for new parks north
 of the Harlem, S5,0O0 additional for
 an aquarium and $5,000 for the plant
 ing of trees on West End avenue. Af-
 ter awhile Paris won't be in it.
 The mother of the late lamented
 Old Hoss Hoey, for whom a monster benefit is being arranged, may get goodly lump of cash from another source. Some time ago the old lady l placed her foot and hand on a Broad way cable car Such action always prompts the conductor to give the ] ssgo-ahead'' signal, but in this instance Mrs. Hoey landed on the hard stones | instead of the platform. Acting on 1 the advice of. a physician and law yer, she will sue the company.
 The biggest street railroad system i of Brooklyn, which is headed by r. | H. Flynn, won a notable victory in | the board of aldermen of that city. l The board granted to the East River
 and Atlantic Ocean company, organ | ized as one of the adjuncts of Flynn $ ] Nassau railroad system, franchises for l twenty-five miles of new street rail- way from the Brooklyn bridge to the Atlantic ocean. The compensation to | the city is per cent of the gross re- l ceipts. The company also agrees to l sell six tickets for 25 cents.
 | The buffaloes which the estate of
 Austin Corbin lent to the city on 1 condition that the city should care | for them, and which proved to be l white elephants, were sent back to | the Corbin estate in New Hampshire | this week. They have been roaming l in Van Contlandt park for about two years, destroying grass, shrubbery l and trees. Yesterday Major McKin- ley" the bad buffalo of the herd, cap ped the climax by tossing his keeper | over barbed wire fence. This was too much, hence the banishment of the
 noble beasts to the wildsof New Eng | land.
 What is the market price of white
 whales? This was the ques ion pro- pounded by Comptroller Fitch at a meeting of the. board of estimates. The mayor had said he was in favor
 of an appropriation of 5000 addi- tional for the aquarium because the city needed new white whale. The
 comptroller said that his deputy was in doubts when tGle bill for the last
 white whale was received some time ago. He is expected to see that the
 city does not pay more than the mar ket price for anything it buys, and
 was in a quandary over the market price of white whales. He finally took the word of the superinte ndent of the aquarium for it.
 The membership of the Klondvke club at the Hoffman house increases Pat Calvin and his wife and sister
 sailed for Ireland on the Luciania
 the other day. Mr. Calvin refused
 $50O,000 just before sailing for one
 claim at the junction of Ell Dorado and Bonanza creeks. Frank Phisca-
 ter of Dawson City. who is at the
 Hoffman, sold his Klondyke holdings for $1,0O0,0O0 Friday to an English syndicate, through representatives in
 this city and Montreal. MT. Phisca- ter, whose home is at Brodie, Mich, was the discoverer of the gold field
 on El Dorado and staked the first
 claim. He went to Alaska three years ago, and has travelled 1000 miles in prospecting. Henry G. Somers of Dawson City, who is also a member
 of the clubs, sold a claim for $1 ,O0O.- 900 last week. This town will prob
 ably get the cream of the lucky Klon-
 dykers. After New Year's it may be
 as lively as Dawson City, in spots.