The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-28
GOSSIP OF GAY GOTHAM.


New York, October 25-Plans for a spite
fence" that breaks ali records have been
filed with the department OF buildings by
a rich but angry woman. The drawing
calls for four and half story sheet-iron
structure, to be erected in the. rear Of a
tfiee-story ard basement dwelling In East \
Eighteenth, street. The reason the woman
advances for raising this fence is the Gu
riosity Of the tenants of IL ive-story aparf
mens house. which she ayers Is acute and
vtry painful to her. She complains That
when her husband and herself dined under
their jupiner tree and fig vine. as they
were won't to do during the hot months
the tenants OF the apartment house would
eongregate at some or all of the sixtean
windows and watch the progress of the
meal, to their own apparent entertainment
hut to the great embarrassment Of the
diners. Life In large cities Is full OF roses
and ihorns but 1t seldom develops fenc-
ing match of such magnitude as this one
Columbia university. supposed to be ON
all kinds of velvet, needs money to nav {
d DTS and current expenses. Its most press.
ing need now is to provide $i50.OO0 an
n,al interest, in addition to tho 100000
annual current expenses. Columbias new
lJrln6 occupies lUul CITY DiOChS on DlCtur-
esque Morningsiie Heights. OF the 81 ,0oo.-
COO indebtedness ti5at has been incurred In
estatii h the beautiful and magnificent
group Of buildings s3,750,000 remains un-
paid The aid asked for will no doubt he
promptly furnished, as Columbia Is one Of
tho we-point- with-pride objects of the
town.
Three New York clergymen are to BE-
married this week Rev. Andrew r. Schulz
berg, assistant minister at St. AIMS
church. Brooklyn, who has accepted a call
to the Episcopal church, at Radnor, Pa,
will be married Friday night to
Miss Mary J. Brenton. Rev. George C,
Carter of the Church of the Redeemer,
Brooklyn, will be marrieb in Philadelphia
tonight to Miss Mary w. Benson. Rev.
Herbert Stanley Smith. son of Rev. II. X.
Smith will be married tomorrow to Miss
Edith Galaudet, daughter of Rev. Thos
Galauiet, Manhattan. The fathers Of tae
bride and groom will officiate.
Many women who heretofore ordered
dresses made for Hhsm, because of the I'M
probability of getting custom made gown
to fit and please, are buying ready
dresses this fall The news that a boss
recently kicked from his shop a non-union
cutter who had ruinei thirty womeu's
ceats has alarmed the tailor made woman
1t is announced that the most prominent
society leader in town will be asked to act
as mediator in the much talked-about
strike OF the Fifth avenue tailors.
The registration of this year fell behind
that of last by several thousand. In the
county of New York the falling off occurred
in nearly every assembly district. The dis
! trc,s which show an increase are claimed
| republican stronghods. In Brooklyn there
| was also a gain in some districts. but 1t is
| evident that the vote on election day will
| fall q few thousands short of that recorded
at the last mayoralty election.
| At the present time the North Side. now
known as the borough of Bronx. is In
creasng in population probably more than
/ any other Of the five bordughs which go to
! make UP the greater city, and the number
! of churches is proportionately increasing
{ There are in it seventy-tive Protestant
churches, chapels and missions, and eigh-
teen Roman Catholic Churches and cnapels,
and Ground hiss been broken fer two more.
/ In a laboratory here which furnishes MIX
especially prepared for the varying PERIODS
of a. child's growth the supply goes out
daily to customers in tiny bottles that are
SCI in baskets, each resting in cotton
welded recess Each bottle holds enough &
milk for o. single feeding. The bottles afe
returned to the laboratory daily, where caey
are washed and sterilized by the most ap-
proved process. Germ catching is now To-
duced TO science.
A new danger confronts the perampulas-
ing public The tire of the horseless car
Ill f1fal