Arizona republican., 1898-04-05
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

Christianized Indians with their inter preters, are about to visit this city and speak in half a dozen or mere Baptist churches. They are Lone Wolf for many years chief of the Kiowas, and Buffalo Meat" the chief warrior of the Cheyennes.
 Space costs money here. A young man who occupies hall bedroom had
 a large low box made to fit into the
 space beneath his couch In it he
 keeps his dress suit and his frock coat.
 Outsiders who may ask themselves
 why hall bedroomite needs such lux
 uries should remember that appear
 ances go long way in this town.
 Parasols grow more elaborate as spring advances. In the show wind
 ows of a Broadway house that dis
 plays coat-of-arms some elaborate
 un-shedders make the women sigh as they size up their pile The parasol of '9S will hardly become common.
 Probably two-thirds of the fire
 horses in this city are now shod with shoes with rubber pads, to give them
 a securer footing upon asphalt pave | mentS under all weather conditions. | The horses so shod are stationed chief 1 ly above Fourteenth street, where
 smooth streets are now numerous. 1 The pitfalls of price to the unen l frightened are many here. A woman
 who admired the design and finish of some rock crystal goblets in a friends home decided to investigate the matter
 and see if similar ones were within
 her ample but not luxurious means ] Looking over the stock in a shop she 1 found, after a little search, design
 that pleased her and inquired the price, l They were s425 a dozen, and they are | still in stock.
 The head of the Rapid Transit com | mission says that the actual con-
 struction of the underground railroad
 will be begun in a few weeks time
 It is announced that there will be two
 or three bidders for the big job, in
 spite of the fact that the contractors
 must file a mond for S15, ,0OO 900 as a
 guarantee of good faith and so forth Unless there is some unlooked-for ob- stac1e there will soon be new work in sight here for 50,0OO toilers.
 In the course of banquet given to him at St. Petersburg a few weeks ago Ambassador Hitchcock boldly an- ! nounced that he could procure from the United States as fine a set of cut glass as it was possible to procure in England or elsewhere The statement was challenged and a wager was made The minister to Russia immediately | cabled to firm in this city, ordering the best set which money could pro- cure. A service was accordingly pre-
 pared and shipped to St. Petersburg few days ago. The manufacturers are confident that our patriotic represent ative at the court of the cZar will
 easily win his wager and possibly open
 up market for our cut glass.
 The Western Union and Postal Tele-
 graph companies sent to Washington twenty-f1e extra operators for service there during the war excitement Chauncey M. Depew said last night that the telegraph companies, next to the banks would profit the most by reason of war, and his assertion is
 confirmed by the large increase in busi-
 ness done by them since the sinking of the Maine. The correspondents in New York of newspapers in other
 cities have sent every night an average of 50,000 words in excess of the usual amount dispatched over their regular leased wires From Key West the press dispatches every night have aver aged 10000 words at 10 cents a word
 Rev. Dr. Iglehart of the Simpson Methodist church, Brooklyn, preached a regular war sermon Sunday War horrible though it be-" he said. ''is ] not always wrong; it is often right, and the arm of God for the mainten-
 arce of the right. The United States he declared, should drive the Span so,,I ,I1 r,,1,1 %I,1 z diplomacy if possible, by the bullets of war if necessary" Rev. Henry
 Frank, in the Metropolitan church. spoke in favor of recognizing the in
 dependence of Cuba. There is but
 one word" he said, tour nation need
 speak at the present moment, and that
 word is Stop Stop murder, stop this
 infamous barbarism, stop starvation,
 assassination, stop thrusting swords through shrieking women, impaling
 children on bayonets, crushing the