The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-02-10

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Walking down Broad
way the other day, Il Baltimore friend said o
me, apropos of the hurryirg, jostling Groves
that thronged the sidewalk and made cur
progress difficult, New Workers al seem 70
me so busy minding their own affairs that trey
have no time to mind or NEEDLE with other
peoples" which was rather apt statement
of the situation not strictly accurate.
There is, of course, an AtleLian element who
spend their time. or much of it, endeayo riug
ITO see or to hear some new thing" composed
chiefly, alas of the great army of the unem-
1loyed." or the spasmodc ally employ ed, which
is almost rs fatal These swarm like bees about
eny street incident, taking the deepest inteIes:
10 every detail; but with the msj )riGy Jhe hour
Iy happenings of the street evoke scarcely an
exclamation or IL moments glance. As Il bust
ness man said the other day, passing the wreck
CT runaway where the inlaid monogram and
silver mountings had Drawn the usu Il quota of
the "Athenians," 10, well see it, all 10 the
headlines of this afternoons extra what's the
use of stopping row. and he hurrie on to his
luncheon. But what most mpresse provin-
c!al visitor is the ability of New Yor Aers to live
side by side for live and ten years. and never
discover each others names. ii young art
student told me la It week that she4.ad occupied
for over two years, and while she had made
! number of delightful friends through her work
or through letters of introduction. she was
barely on bowling terms with her fellow dodgers,
which reminds me in oblique way OF the
project long discu. sed and now beginI ing 10
materialiZe for "bachelor.maid" apartment.
4 There have long been bachelor quarters and
1 minimum from the little two-room pigeon
hoIe affair to the most sumptuous suite, sup
! pied with all the comforts and conveniences OF
1 n miniature home. Many of the semi-"sky
| scrapers in the uptown districts are bachelor
| apartment" buildings, and so far these luxuties
have been for men only. Now Miss Grace
| Dodge, with several socially influential people
| and Al few capitalists, have put their shoulders
| to the wheel, which means that the next turn
| will give New York women as comfortable and
| commodious an apartment-house as the most
fastideous men now possess. There is very
| large and constantly increasing element of i'm
dependant women here; those who, either per
| force or by choice, are earning their own liv-
ings, and earning them alone. Heretofore these
have been OBJ iged 10 pigeon-hole themselves in
| some of the innumerable boarding or lodging
houses with which the city is honey. combed,
hotels being beyond the horizon of the average
wage Garner. In this new "woman's building
however, Miss Dodge intends that the comforts
of private apartment shall be combined, with
all the conveniences of hotel. She believes
women Iced and enjoy the freedom and indie
pendence CT such life equally with theil
| bachelar brothers. and the capitalists who are
backing her to the extent of S10O, 900 believe
| it will be paying investment. Still, apropo;
| of women, a foreigner visiting here noted, with
/ astonishment, the number of woman's clubs il
| the city. He had counted, l think he said, ove
one hundred and thirty, and these were no
personal or merely social circles, but effective
| organizations that substantially assist the
/ smooth-running of the social and politica
mechanism. The "Woman's Health Protectiv,
Association" has, almost unaided, secured thu
| passage of an act regarding the uniform heat
ing and also the perfect cleanlin ess of stree
cars. Now they have taken up the cudgel
against the practice of expectorat:ng on thu
sidewalk us well, and are waging war alst
against the use of soft coal in factories etc
The lower portions of this city, IS well a
Brooklyn, are fast rivalIng Pittsburg in grimy
| ness. A local politician said the other day
when a woman is Inconvenience she viii
move heaven and earth to make herself com
| Portable" which may or may not be true
Certain it il, however, ut least in matters abov
: | mentioned, that her comfort meant the CON
8 | fort of everyone else rs well.
t | Theyarious political organizations of wome
i here, and they are numerous, are rejoicin
:, over Senator Coggeshall's bill, now DISGUISE
Q in Albany. extending the franchise to wome
= | in certain town elections, under n propert
| qualification. The bill provides that ever
! person twenty-one years old, who shall hay
d lived in the town Thirty days next precedin
d rhe election, and is the owner of property i
s. that town assessed'on the last preceding roll
II shall be entitled to vote on propositions for c
z against the expenditure of money. This
q | along the line of franchise extension suggeste
by Governor Roosevelt. His idea is to make