Arizona republican., 1898-03-22
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

New York, March 21-An effort will be made to reclaim the low meadow lands in Jamaica bay which is now part of the city of New York. There are over 10000 acres of land. which. it is believed, belongs rightly to the city, and which, by the expenditure of best manufacturing site in the state, with a value of $5OO0O,OO Congress will be asked to deepen the bay to twenty-five feet.
 A southern lady in reduced cir cumstances' supplies a growing eli entele with old fashioned corn bread daily. A tinker is building up a prof mending broken dolls. The men who seem to be on Easy street. A list of the odd occupations of this town would make interesting reading.
 New York state is at least making a beginning in the direction of good roads. The appropriation of S5O,OOO for this purpose is, of course, absurdly small in such a great state as this, but its significance lies in the fact that it is a start in the right direction, and. a start having been made, the good roads movement will surely spread as rapidly as it has in the state of New Jersey, where the farmers have become as desirous of macadam thoroughfares as are the riders of bi- cycles and the drivers of pleasure ve- hicles.
 Since the introduction of the new fangled pneumatic tube system of mail delivery business men here don't know whether to order their letters served hashed or stewed. Sevral bulky deliveries have been masticated, and people who have depended upon the postoffice folk to deliver checks and so forth with neatness and dispatch are beginning to look as if Uncle Sam has an underground pulp mill on his hands
 A very woe-begone looking equine figures prominently in the finale of one of the acts in "A Normandy We'd ding" at the Herald Square theater At the matinee today an officer of the $. P. c. A. appeared on the scene, hav- ing been warned by certain tender hearted woman that a dumb brute was being maltreated for the sake of comic opera effect. The officer was taken behind the scenes, only to discover that the foot lights are responsible for many illusions. The horses at tenuated condition was due entirely to the artistic use of grease paint It was horse on the S. F. A. c. man.
 The number of cats in the big post office building has been gradually in creasing, both by birth and by immi- grafton from the restaurants across Park Row, and now it is estimated that there are at least sixty of them helping the clerks, instead of about if teen, which is regarded as the proper number to keep down the rats that play havoc among the mail and mail bags. One clerk acts as caterer to the rat catchers, and he has the felines down so fine that not one of them will touch another's food while he is par ceiling out the portions.
 May IA has been selected as the date for the wedding of Miss Katherine Duer and Clarence Mackay, son of Bonanza Mackay. Mrs John w. Mac kay, mother of the bridegroom-elect, will make her second trip to this coun- try in season to be present at the we'd ding, which will be gorgeous affair. and will be conducted by Archbishop Corrigan. It will not be a cathedral function, however. as the bride-elect. who was one of the duchess of Marl- borough's bridesmaids is a Protestant. It will be mating of youth and mil lions, and it will, no doubt. turn out happier than the match which enabled the daughter of the house of Mackay herself Q of C-1 Onna line.
 It seems that just now societys fancy runs to bath rooms. and the more gorgeous and elaborate this one apartment in a nabob's house can be made the more are they satisfied There is quite a rivalry in these apart ments and the VanderD1Its. Sloanes Whitneys and the others are at present waging fierce bath room war. The ex-secretary of the navy has ordered $15,000 bath room for his new house and he is to have, besides a swimming pool and Ruso-Turkish establish ment complete with attendants. In fact, it is the Russian bath which is the fashionable craze at present, and 1t is in this form that the parties are to take place. Every one who is hay ing a large house built is having it fitted up with the complete apparatus for such establishments and others are instantly having them added to their mansions. The authority quoted states that Mrs. Ogden Mills, who has | already bar and a bartender at her mansion, will add the Turkish bath and swimming pool arrangements very shortly. It is in these private bath drawing rooms where the tea c