The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-01
SOME GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

New York, June 2S.--The death Of James
(Fatty) Walsh has taken from the chill
dren Of the East Side one of It's most
famous and benevolent characters. Fatty
has always been power in Tammany and
many have attributed much OF 1t to this
great popularity with the children. He
knew them all and was so kind to them
that the voting members OF their family
could not well conscientiously go against
FATTY One Of his favorte pastimes was
his regular Saturday night distribution Of
pennies to the East Side youngsters.
Every one who could show clean hand
was given penny, those with two elem
hands captured two. Many amusing
stories are told of how men now prominent
In ~7'h"r used to lick their hands in
order to secure Fatty's penny. He had
many good traits and was wrapped up in
the success of his daughter, Blanche, who
Is an actress of much prominence.
Within few days the building famous
as the quarters of Mayor Patrick Je-
rome Gleason of Long Island City for
twenty-seven years will be torn down
to make way for an office building. The
versatile politician has moved out, bag
and baggage, although technically speak
ing he Is serving term in jail hut Glea-
SON. in way peculiar, had the Jail limits
extended to cover the entire county of
Queens. which contains numerous large
summer resorts. 1t was in this building,
during his first term as mayor of Long
Island City, when his opponents refused to
give him office room in the old city hall
that he opened the mayors Office and ran
the CITY g0yernment
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The newest parasol handles seen In the
smart uptown stores are made of birds
heads with the real feathers, For in
stance. a parrots head. covered with tiny
green and red real feathers. following ex-
actly the cooring of the live bird; a
golden pheasant, a peacock, a dove--they
are all to be seen, and even II little
fragile. they are very lovely and quite
new Just how the society organized for
the protection of the feathery tribes will
take this fashion Innovation when the
handles appear on promenade after the
foolish" season will be interesting. in
view of their recent crusade against wear
ing birds as headgear ornaments
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George Washington is now hopelessly
RELOCATED to second place, with Abraham
Lincoln n bad third, for having babies
named after them. Dewey did it. The
number of newcomers named after the
hero Of all heroes now number 400, and
they are still coming-habes and names
too. 1t has been figured out that, accord
Ing 10 the ratio in a country of 10000, 900
people. the number of the admiral's name
sakes should reach about 5000 now. Not
only the boy babies are eligible to the
honor, but many girls have been named
Georgiana Dewey. and a few have been
called Dewiana. There is one in this city
called Dewana Dooley.
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Broadway has another new hotel, located
near Bond street. The house has been
dubbed THE Bay State Hotel" but the
occasion for name like that for ces-
mopolltan house has not, been made known.
The new hosiery opened today is very
palatial one. but the proprietor, Isaac
Green. seems to be taking a losing chance
in going so far downtown when almost
every one, outside of the wholesale mer-
chants. is in danger OF having his neck
broken in the rush to secure uptown sites.
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The most plentiful article OF commerce
in New York in summer is Ice AT the
first hearing, this statement of fact may
sound comforting, but it suggests various
considerations. A glass of iced tea or iced
coffee for example, ordered In the aver
age restaurant is one-eighth drink and
seven-eighhs ice. Fish out the Jumps of
ice and see how much remains. II you don't
believe 1t.