Evening star., 1901-11-14
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Capt. Stoddard May Succeed Murphy
as Commissioner.
odd MARKING OF THEATER SEATS
Another University CIub-Super-
stitions of Brokers.
NEW JEWELRY FOR MEN
ODD MARKING OF THEATER SEATS
NEW JEWELRY FOR MEN


Now that the election is over the burn
ing question is Who will run the police de-
partment? Capt. F. Norton Goddard is the
man most prominently mentioned to sue
ceed Michael c. Murphy as commissioner
of police. His record as a republican
leader and other qualifications are believed
to make him most eligible for the place.
Mr.. Low has so far given no hint as to his
idea of the proper man for a place over the
head of Devery and in the chair of MUIR
ply. Besides Capt. Goddard the names of
John McCullagh former chief of police,
now superintendent of elections, and John
c. Sheehan have also been mentioned in
talk. Frank Moss also has many support
ers. The succession in the Mulberry street
office arouses more discussion than any
other appointment to be made. 1t was
upon this branch of the Tammany admins.
tration that the heaviest fire of the fusion
campaign was concentrated, and many
good men have been named for the office.
There is no man who may be said to have
claim upon the appointment. Capt. Cod
electing a fusion alderman in Richard
Croker'S own district. Had he not been SO
closely identified with the republican or
ganization there are many who believe
he might have been the nominee for mayor
when he was considered by the fusion COM
mttee. John McCullagh was chief of po-
lice in 1897 and 1885, after having served
on the force as patrolman, captain and
sergeant for nearly thirty years. He was
retired by Tammany at the time Charles
Hess was made a police commissioner. He
is said to have the support of Gov. Odell,
who mentioned him for the position in such
a case this at the time he declined to
remove Commissioner Murphy.
Augustin Days Idiosyncrasies.
The late Augustin Daily had many idio-
off E nf1 hi i,t,
patrons of his theater experienced. But
there was one popularity of his theater for
which Mr. Daily was not responsible. That
was the lettering of the orchestra chairs
from back to front the last row being A
and the one next to the orchestra rail be-
ing u. Daly's Theater was the only one in
New York so arranged. How the original
style of lettering came to be adopted has
never appeared in print. ChandoS Fulton,
one of the founders of the Lotos Club, was
lessee of Daly's when it was known as
the Broadway Theater, which title remain
ed on the 9th avenue side for many years.
The lessor of the house was the late John
Banvard, who called himself artist be-
cause he had painted and exhibited with a
lecture moving panorama of the Mis-
sissippi river.
In the articles of agreement between
landlord and tenant it was stipulated that
on the first night of every production Ban
ward was to have, without paying for them,
twenty-four seats in rows A and B, the
seats so lettared at that time being next
the orchestra. Mr.. Fulton found this too
much of a tax on his slim receipts, espe-
cially when he learned that Banvard, in
stead Of giving the seats to his friends,
sold them to the best advantage. Fulton
resolved to correct the abuse, and began
lettering his seats from the back of the
house, so that Banvard's patrons got the
worst seats. When Mr.. Daily came into
possession the reversed lettering of the
seats suited his fancy and he allowed the
popularity to remain. And SO it remained
until Daniel Frohman came into possession,
when "a change was made.
New University Club.
The number of clubs in New York for
which only college men are eligible is al
ready large and very soon it will be in
creased by a University Club in Brooklyn,
which has been organized with a member
ship of 145 names. This Brooklyn organiza-
ton has grown naturally out of the Uni
versity Glee Club, which has fiourished
over there for several years, and Brook
lyn is a city of college men the new club
has excellent prospects of success. There
are in New York at least a score of clubs
for college men, ranging in size from the
big University Club, which admits to
membership only men who have obtained
degree from a college OF university or
have graduated from West Point or An
napolis, down to some very small college
fraternity clubs to which any member Of
the fraternity is eligible whether he OBJ
tanned his degree or not Yale, Harvard.
Princeton and Cornell are each represented
by large clubs and every eastern college
fraternity now has it's own clubhouse.
Some of the latter clubs have beautifully
appointed clubhouses. The Women's Uni
versity Club, which has opened it's house in
East oath streets, starts with a membership
large enough to guarantee expenses for the
first year and it will be run are the regu-
lar women's clubs of London, with the
omission of a smoking room, for which
there is no demand.
Superstitions of Brokers.
"Wall street brokers as class are as su-
perstitious as women" said one of them,
land there is hardly a speculator in the
street who could not own up to some pet
superstition If he v-ouId. I mean the kind
of nonsensical superstition that decides AIS
action occasionally. My own is about as
silly as that of any mans, but as 1t has
won me lots of money l am going to cling
to it. 1t originated about eight years ago,
when l found a 50-cent piece on the side
walk. 1t was the first money that had
ever found in that way, and l had a feel
ing that luck was with me on that day. I
plunged on everything that had been hesi-
tating about, and when l settled up I
found myself way ahead. After that fell
coins in the street. You would be sur
prised to see the collection that l have at
home, for l have never spent any of this
lucky money 1t now amounts to more
than Sc, and that first 50-cent piece is the
largest in the lot. On days when I have
found a coin I have pushed my luck sue
cessfuly. Once or twice when l have hes.
itated about doing anything in the market,
have gone out and walked around the
streets hoping to find coin. never have
found one on such excursions, and each
time I stayed out of the market, which
proved to be the thing to do. / know as
well as you do the foolishness of supersti-
tion but can't shake 1t out of me. Every
one of my friends downtown has some pet
superstition, but none Of them Is quite as
foolish as mine"
Hotels Doing Good Business.
All the hotels in the city are doing a rec
ord business this fall. and the amount Of
trade that they are having can be COM
pared only to the days of the fall OF 1909.
when the homecoming Of Admiral Dewey
and the fetes in his honor, together with the
cup races, brought such throngs to New
York that every hotel was taxed to its ut-
most. That week has been known as
Dewey week. among the hotel men. and
they never thought that they would see
anything that would approach It In the size
of the crowds and the amount of money
that the people were anxious tn spend This