The sun., 1901-06-18
1--we TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

on the Battery last Friday there wer many who
were cool. brave men. but there were also some
neither oool-headed nor courageous. Awoman
passenger. who Is prone neither to Mysteries
nor to exaggeration. told after she was put
| ashore and she was one OF the last to get
thereof being rudely thrust aside by man
when she tried TO seize q life preserver ana
! after that Of being pushed away from the
! staircase leading to the upper deck while
| string OF dozen laborers from the mems side
OF the boat got up the stairs nrst sns mIgnt Sad
not male fellow passenger none 700 sal-
wart. but plucky enough. butted Into the Ine
%ho %en ana s ibs M
precede him to the uppcr deck.
II Il comforting 70 American pride TO know
this way say that il was almost entirely the
foreign born passengers on the boat. chleny
Italian laborers going over 70 Staten Island.
this way The deck hands, waist deep in
| water some OF them. headed on the scramble
| Of rghtened men as well as they were able,
| There was no danger. as everybody VINO
knows New York harbor would have realized
| On the wayto Staten Island as In the channe
| In the Northand East Rivers there are scores OF
| places where the water Ia more than sixty
feet deep. but CLOSE in shore near the piers
can sink much below the leyel Of her hurri-
cane deck. and in this case there were nearly
| a score Of small craft at hand TO take on the
| passen gers To jump overheard, as many
did. was foolhardy. but many 0l the passen-
great deal OF discomfort and some risk might
have been spared to them.
Some persons who look upon Col. Michael
C. Murphy as merely n political fgurehead
in the Police Department are occasionally
surprised on meeting the Colonel on depart
ment business to find how much ne has
learned in a comparatively short time about
| It's workings and how closely he watches
what his men are doing In matters which
| IL might be expected he would leave to his
| subordinates.
Il didn't see you yesterday. said the Com
| missioner Il few days ago. to one OF the re-
portsrs who are In the habit of interviewing
| him daily on department matters.
The reporter explained that he had been
| at work on a murder mystery which had
| occupied a prominent place In the days news
about %' xhy yr.spanded sSn d09 the conc to :ss
! could have given you some Information
I didn't think you bothered yourself with
| individual crimes OF that kind. Colonel. :"
| said the reporter. Haven't you enough to
| do without that2"
plenty to d9 g0pdnss' P6ss sSa
and as long as I'm at the head Of this depart
| ment | want TO know just what IL being done
about every important crime. Now about
| And he proceeded to discuss the murder.
stating facts and discussing theories con,
that he had thoroughly studied the details
| OF the crime and knew almost as much about
| IL as the detectives who had the task OF un-
| rivelling II upon their -hoIlders.
! Twenty sixth street between Third avenue
and the East River. might be called Under
| takers lane Just beyond First avenue
| are the gates OF Bellevue Hospital and at
| the extreme end OF the street nett the river
| l. the Morgue To reach either the pedes-
| trian must run the gantlet OF at least twenty
| undertakers' establishments. the proprietors
| Of which are neither modest nor considerats
where business is concerned Al Bellevue
| they say that a person who has been TO the
| dispensary for optic treatment cannot pass
through the street wping his eyes without
| having half hundred black-edged business
cards thrust upon him
| Nearly twenty bodies day pass through
| the Norgue and the competition Tor burial
| fees over there Is fierce In the old days,
nurses. orderlies. clerks and Morsue at
tendants were in the pay OF rival under
takers who on a tip that patient was dying
| would race to get first hands on the corpse
| The scandal resulting put an end to the tout
Ing IN the hospital Now dSae Outside b6..
| shops line East rwenty-sxth street "a many
| more have touts who hang about the hos
who are likely to have relative or friend
| 10 bury In the street one Of the under
takers shops now boasts an Illuminated
pngilist saloonkeepers esta ishments on
Broadway The touts ot another are in
structed to lay stress Gn ;J.' he fact that he
"Color- the cheeks and reddens the lips
| natural "a life, SAYS the tout; satisfaction
| guaranteed and prices reasonable We're
| the only house in the trade that does II right
| While the Committee of Fifteen has been
| raidnr. Long Island City has been tho mecca
| Of tho poolroom men Every afternoon a
| stream of bettors could be seen In the last
few weeks making their way over 10 the
East Thirty-fourth street ferry 10 the new
| happy hunting ground where the Fifteen
| didn't bother anybody When troubles came
thick upon the rooms in Manhattan one we'll
| known Tammany politician quickly closed
| his poolrooms on this aid" Of the river and
| opened two new ones IN Long Island CITY.
| a fcv blocks away from the ferry Others
| followed suit BlisSville, one part of the
| territory that tho late Mayor Gleason used
| 10 rule, became full Of poolroonS and the
| henchmen Of the politicians In Queens were
| in clover-fst poolroom lobs were 10 be had
| for the asking by ANYBODY WITH pull
| Rut now II seems to he all over. The pool
| room men nrr getting ready to move back
| agoin az soon ne they are quite certain that
| t6a Fifteen wont begin TO make trouble
| again and their harvest time in Bllssvile
| VIII he over.
Throughout the past year the managers
| NJ 81 Iukes Hospital on Morning gside Heights
| hays lodged number ~ complaints nt Coz
| umbia University owing to the continual
disappearanco II Handsomely enamelled ign-
| reading cathedral Heights, which had
| heon placed on the grounds or the hospital
| and ON those Of the new Cathedral Of ~
Iobn the Divine Tho Columbia authori.
ties have never been able to find any one
| unon whom to place the blame The student
| body. II was known, obiect"d to the name
| cathedral Heights, pr"icrrng columbia
| Ueiyhts or IN lien Of that, MOrnlugSde
| Heights for the cminence in question, hut
| A. far "a was known no active steps We're
| eyer taken to make known their desires
| When the university first moved 70 H. now
| sIte Tho trustees voted that the acropoll-
| "a called should be known A. MornlUR-dc
| Height II nov appear, That III" secret
| Serra society Organized by IN" student
| last year was for the sole purpp>" NJ relunN-
inR The hospital and cathedral signs Tn"
| snriety'- badge consists oi u saw with thf
word Sierra" engraved on II. and the az
| nloit. of its members wer" done In the dead
| ii The night when the Objectionable signs
wore removed ~ fast n they were erected
| The no!ice and hospital guards have beer
| rersistentlv cluded and the sawed-oh sign
| nre 70 he seen In tho rooms of many Student'
| drapcd in deepest mourning The trophi"'
| nre pri,ed 10 such an eItent that SeverH
| dollars was recently paid for one by n stu
| dent not n member Of the Sierra Society
| S,bvl Sanderson, who II mentioned "a
rrobable member of tho opera company n
the Metropolitan next wnt"r, sang here ii,