Evening star., 1899-02-01
New York Hotels Profit by the Boom
in Stocks.
WOMEN TAKE 70 SPECULATION
Mrs. Sloane's Return to Society
Causes a Stir.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ME- s
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
NEW YORK. January 81. 18

week STOCK market is plainly reHected.
| 1t is usual at this time of the year for many
| visitors to be IN the city, some for pleasure
and others to buy for various western
houses. but the crush just now is almost
| beyond parallel Many of the larger hotels
are daily turning away many wou1d-be
guests. There is hardly hostelry of con-
| sequence in this city at which room can
be secured without being previously re-
served. The visitors from all sections
of the country, and every one of them seems
to be prosperous and to have a great deal
of money.
All the visitors from the Pacific slope,
| from Canada, from the south and from the
great west tell of unusual prosperity at
home. The commercial buyers say they
have never heard of such "a demand for
goods al home as there is this year. Nearly
every man has taken a great interest in the
stock market, and in many instances the
visitors have been heavy buyers of stock in
Wall street. In many of the uptown hotels
where the brokers' offices for the last two
| or three years have stood idle and the
| ticker pounded away noisily with no one to
heed, there are several tckers, and
| each the center of an interested group.
Every one seems to be enjoying the boom
| and none more than the hotel proprietors
The ladies are once more taking a hand
| in the speculation of the street for the
| mania has apparently spread to them. Doz-
| ems of the big Wall street firms who have
| uDlpWn branches 1urnlSh taNOrlte places in
| which the women stake their money on the
| chances of the market. Some of them are
learned In the devious ways of the stock
| exchange, talking sagely of selling short
and 10 per cent margins and all the rest
of it. Others. woefullv ignorant walk up
to the cashiers window and seem very
| much dazed when asked what stocks they
want.
| The uptown clerks have some distra citing
| times for most women are exceedingly bad
! losers. Occasionally one of them. on find
ing that none of her account remains will
burst into tears. declare that the game is
not fair and the brokers should return her
| money. The market so far has been rather
| favorable to the general run of women in
veStorS, since they are ALWAYS buyers. Few
women can master the method of making
money by going short" 1t is hard for
| them to realize that it Is possible to win
| by drop in values.
| PIntt and Roosevelt Mt Odds.
| Governor Theodore Roosevelt and Senator
| Platt if repo t be true are unable to agree
| upon new police legislation for the greater
| city. 1t is stated that Senator Platt feels
| that trouble would ensue if the governors
plan for a sinsle-headed police commission
! We're adopted In the debates over the
Greater New York charter the organiza ton
| took the stand that bipartisan commits
| sion was the most desirable and effeCtual
solution of the police problem while the
| reformers, and especially Seth Low and
| other close friends of Governor Roosevelt,
| held that one man should nave entlre con-
troll of the force. They were confirmed in
| this opinion by the unfortunate squabbles
| in the police board during the Strong ad
| ministration. Col Roosevelt often deplored
| the deadlock which hampered the work of
! the department, and said time and again
| that the only way to prevent a recurrence
| OF the difficulty was to vest the supreme
| power in one man.
| Aside from the question of the concentra-
| ton of power in the police board there is
involved that of local Self-government The
| governor favors the vesting of the appoint
| ment of commissioners in the mayor, while
! the organization leaders believe that the
| best interests of the city will be conserved
| If the appointing power is given to the
governor. To this plan, it is said Governor
Roosevelt is firmly opposed While he may
compromise to the constitution of the
| board he is desirous of keeping the ap-
pOintment of commissioners where it now
is, so to shut off any complaint that the
administration has any intention of cur
failing the power of the mayor, or taking
away from the city one of the most i'm
portant rights of self-government. 1t is
| said the police department will be stripped
| of all control over elections, and its duties
| in that regard transferred TO the state bu-
reau of elections, of which eX-Chief of Po-
lice McCulagh is the head. The adoption
| of this plan would entail several important
amendments to the election laws
Changes in Railroad management
II is rumored that Uncle Russell Sage
| is to quit the directory of the Manhattan
| Elevated railroad in order to make way for
| a younger man and great improvements
| tlat have been planned for Manhattan.
| The rumor also says that the new partner
of George Gould in the proposed improve
ments will be ]. Pierpont Morgan. 1t is
said that there is an understanding be-
| tween the Manhattan and New York Cen
| trail whereby the latter road and its SUBJ
urban branches will connect with the ele-
| waited tracks, thereby enabling the Central
| to run its suburban service the length of
| the Il" roads.
Once in while somebody thinks of the
sweat shops, and then committee is ap-
pointed, which goes over on the East Side
and inspects them. Recently some repre-
sentatives of organized labor thought of
| United Garment Workers of America, COM
| prising Herman Robinson of the Brother
| hood of Tailors and Benjamin Schweitzer
and two others from the garment workers
! of Baltimore and Rochester They found
! that all the evils that formerly existed in
such places are fouriShing there still and
| that the provisions of the state factory law
are being violated grossly and openly. Fif-
| teen to eighteen hours a day in vile i'll
smelling places are still the prevailing
| hours and the prevailing rates are little
| better than ever. In some places five con-
| tractors were found in one place, for which
| only one factory permit had been issued.
The first places visited Were worse than
| the Others for the reason that in some way
I
| progress. and managed to send away many
| minors and get their premises into better
| condition for visitors.
Bible kissing Abolished.
An old custom has been done away with
in at least one court room. In the future
| in any court room where Magistrate Pool
| presides the Bible is to be excluded Not
| because of any irrelgious motives says the
magistrate, but because in the court room
| ttl IIa1, ;e,
| ease.
why should / compel person to kiss a
| Bible reeking with filth, which has been in
| use for generations, when there is no law
! compelling him to do so?" says Magistrate
| Pool II would no more think of kissing
| one of those court Bibles than l would a
| mad dog. Only the other day a prisoner
| appeared before me in the Morrisania court
| whose mouth was covered with sores As
! he was about to address me court officer
! mechanically handed him the court Bible,
| which he kissed. When the next prisoner
| appeared told him that he need not kiss
| the Bible unless he liked. All diseases