The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-02
SOME GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

able inspiring TO une maHHN'
in which YOU choose to look at It, There
is only one condition upon which 1T loses
all tts agreeable qualities and becomes alb
solutely appalling. That is when tire
bursts. bursting bicycle tire VIII some
times make a very respectable report, like
a revolver or very large popgun. An cleo
trlc cab tire. in the matter of bursts
bears the same relation to bicycle tire
that a battleship's 13-incher does to the
toy brass cannon of school boy Wnen
one explodes pedestrians hold their ears,
horses run away and nervous gentlemen
sitting in club windows swear off drink
ing A rather neat looking cab suffered
this calamity lust in front OF Delmonico S
this afternoon. Its passengers were two
very smartly clad girls. who were convers-
ing with great animation when the crash
came 1t sounded as If the statue OF LIB
eny had scared from her island and dived
headfirst into Broadway. 1t frightened
everything and everybody but the stage
horses, which now that they know their
time has come, are no longer susceptible |
to emotion. The noise, indeed, was eX-
ceeded by nothing but the profanity of the
motorman. AS for the two girls, they
preserved their composure, but their con-
ve-satlon ceased abruptly.
~
The Ghetto has many unique Charity
organizations and societies for improv-
ing the condition of the submerged 'ten'
but that OF the University Settlement So
ciety has bossomed into one OF the grand
est institutions of the country. From its
humble beginning in two small rooms it
has eypanded until it now owns ana oc-
cupies a large tive-story bullolhg III FL
dridqe street 1t is here that the minus
, Of hundreds OF little ones are nodded ana
! ended into proper channels and the KIND
" influences engendered by the settlement
, are unbounded The kindergarten accom-
mcdates fifty children and at present there
+ are 100 on the waiting list. After uhe pub
. lie school exercises are over each day an
army of children invade the library,
which has on its shelves 5000 volumes OF
. history romance and fiction. club ne
' is the one central idea in the settlement
both for girls and boys. GymnasIc OK
ercises are INDUCED in before the boys
: start in on their studies or forms Of rec
, reaton, or the girls write their compost
= lions or take sewing lessons
y =
Il Managers wageuhals & Kemper have
" engaged Mr.. Chas, B Hanford, the well
d known shakeapearean actor. for the COM
II ing season as co-star with Mr.. Louis James
i and Miss Kathryn Kidder. The engage
d ment of Mr.. Hantord will add material
II strength to the combination. His long as
n sociation as leading man with Booth &
&c Barrett. as co-atar with Thomas w,
\, Keene, and as principal in the late Han
II ford Tyler MacLean combination has
sr served to place him in the foremost ranks
10 OF American tragedians Mr.. Hanford has
IA youth training and experience, and his
10 association with Mr.. James and Miss Kid
~. der supported by the Wagenhas e KempeT
r company. will make a combination of rare
id strength and magnitude. Mr.. Hanford Will
10 be seen in such parts as Captain Absolute
o. in The Rivals" the king in Henry "
~ Napoleon in Madame Sans Gene" Leon
,e ties in Winters Tale" Joseph Surface IN
III The School for Scandal" and Marc An
n tony in Julius Caesar
nd ~
III The Chinese of New York will do them
&c selves proud at the Grand Central palace
during the first ten days in June, whel
an they will hold the first Chinese fair o
Ia which. they say, there is any record. The,
',t have fetes in China but no word to eN
90 In EUROPE aud America, 1t is not ever!
Nv fair that is honored with the ATTENDANCE
a at its opening Of both branches Of tn
,r municipal legislature, but the Chinese f1i
vs. will be. The opening exercises will includ
=, an address IN Chinese ana one in Eng
~ lish. Special features Will be a Chimes
W. restaurant, Jess house, orchestra, tie
garden, theater, drug store, Chine3
B.. food show. with specimens OF veget abies
w. meats FISH, fruits, pastry and variou
" Chinese delicacies
lr- Poor old Couey Island Is being thumpe
'r- hard these days. 1t came up smiling afte
~ the ruinous FIRE and in twnkling con
in gregated It's shredded resources in tn
sed building of new life. But all its energ
of and enterprise was in vain Today til
lay police department nut its foot down en-
md phaticaly on 'the concert halls and gay
his a negative decision In the matter of til
IL proposed tented city on the fre-swoI
us field. Only the houses carrying a hot
e a license were allowed to sell liquors. Or
ow industrious promoter managed to hX up
gal place on the forbidden ground, hut Il
ope liduids he sold resembled the real stuff
only in color The crowd of visitors W,
ng- as big as ever. however.
nd ~
ms Rev. Or. Morgan Dix OF Trinity parii
,itb has held that position for nearly thirt
,at- seven years. 1t has been rumored OF la
} TO that he was planning to retire on 4
tortieth anniversary Of his passionate Tn
ttee is still a good while to come, but it
OF not true that he is planning TO retire
ling that day or any other time Trinty's we
sted book. Just issued. states that the numb
was OF commandments In the ten places OF VIC
leet shin is 1921 and the number OF Sund
som school scholars is 4143 The total q
for bursements were Sl56.S24. including $50 {
om- appropriated for the aid OF other churct
loon and institutions.
nil
suse One of the finest structures in Woo
80, lawn cemetery is the 500, 900 tomb OF
nded NVs'e' ishiS' ~ mas Just been co
the pleted and yesterday the bodies of
ears two brothers, Robert and Ogden Goe
ltion were placed there. side by side. T
,tion cemetery now takes precedence OF Gre
ne " oil as the mo favored OF Nav Yol
their mSny cities OF the dead.