Evening star., 1901-04-24
HAS TWELVE LION SKINS
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

1eet hlgh. Above the barrier Is fifty feet
of space where the clamor of the men who
sell grain and the men who sell stocks will
clash. On the produce exchange side seats
are worth $500; the other side of the
fence seats are selling for s65,OOO.
The removal will involve many novel ar
rangements. One Of its complexities will
be the rearrangement of the electric ticker
system, that sends out stock quotations to
New York and the rest of the country.
To install this system in new home will
require great electrical skill, particularly
since good part of the work must be done
between Saturday noon and Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. The homeless brokers,
the men of the curb are also figuring out
just where they will do business. These
nomads of 1.-The street" have persistently
held to the asphalt on Broad street, In
front of the Mills building, for several
years. 1t is their game to be somewhere in
the neighborhood Of the stock exchange,
and when the removal Is made in all prob
ability they will infest. as it were. some
area near the produce exchange building.
The new stock exchange building will be
an ornament to the Wall street district
The governors hope to have it ready for
occupancy about May 1, 1902.
The Progressive Dinner Party.
Among the innovations of the year is the
progressive dinner party, which Is war
ranted to drive away dull formality and
put everybody in such high good humor
that the affair ceases to be a mere social
function. The progressive dinner gives
everybody a chance to talk to everybody
else, and from oysters to cordials not a
dull moment can mar the perfection of the
feast. 1t is the successor of the dinner
which several years ago attained some de-
gree of popularity. The feature in that
entertainment was the change in cabs
from restaurant to restaurant with every
course. Several progressive dinners have
been given recently at the Hotel Marie
Antoinette, and score or more have been
served within the last few weeks in private
houses. The arrangements for the occa-
sion depend largely upon the number Of
guests and the number Of courses. In some
cases the hostess progresses. In others
the men guests change their seats.
At the first of these dinners the hostess
invited twelve women and twelve men,
which made twenty-six persons at round
table, including the host and hostess The
men moved to the right at the end Of
each course, carrying with them an alumi-
mum tray bearing their wine glasses. There
were thirteen courses, and the man who
originally sat at the hostess right return
ed in the order of the courses for the close
of the dinner There were seven tables at
a progressive dinner given few days ago,
and at each table there were six guests.
An extra chair was placed at each of the
tables for the hostess. Seven courses were
served. The dinner included oysters, soup,
fish, entree, roast punch, salad and cheese
and crackers. The hostess changed tables
with every course, returning to the table
from which she started for coffee. A
clever woman is said to have invented this
kind Of entertainment in order to meet an
emergency. She had among her guests
several Frenchmen who could speak no En-
glish, and the majority Of her guests could
not converse in the language Of France.
There were members of the clergy present
and some who were not students of the
ology. There were guests who talked well
and others whose ideas were not evolved
6irr, fo1 II mid of Drtxy
composed of many elements, was one of
the most successful the hostess ever gave
The advocates of the progressive dinner
say that 1t is an institution which is here
to stay.
Mr. RooseveIt's Trophies of the Chase.
Skins from twelve Rocky mountain lions,
some of them monsters of their kind, and
five lynx skins, stretched out for the tax
idermist at the store of C. G. Gunters
Sons, tell in emphatic silence about the ad-
ventures Of Vice President Theodore
Roosevelt in his recent western hunting
trip. The skins, just as they were stripped
from the animals who fell victims to the
coloneps aim, were received the other day
from Meeker, Col, and are now on public
exhibition. Every one of the lions was
shot by Colonel Roosevelt himself. One of
the skins measured eight and a half feet
from nose to the end of the tail and six
feet two inches from paw to paw. In life
he weighed 261 pounds, and was one of the
largest ever shot. But he died easily COM
pared with another that wore one Of the
skins soon to be made into rug. Three
Sits in the left side of the skin show where
the former governor thrust his knife in
hand to hand struggle with the wounded
and angry beast. The gaping wounds give
undeniable evidence that the wild stories
of Colonel Roosevelt's doings in the west,
published while he was still there, were not
fiction.
Sale of Gambling Paraphernnlia.
Dealers in mechanical goods and novel;
ties who handle roulette wheels and other
gambling paraphernalia as adjuncts to
their stock have been surprised to find
that the recent raids and to so-called ''anti-
gambling crusade" instead of interfering
with business. have considerably stimulat-
ed it. A merchant who sells the wheels in
connection with his other business says
that more wheels have been sold in the last
few months than for years before. "Who
ton. well, good many. you'll find, end
up in downtown office buildings. People
keep them in a closet or somewhere during
business hours, and trot them out for
few minutes play at lunch time or late in
the afternoon. There are more than you
think in private houses, too, though, of
course, not all of these are used for actual
gambling. Now. that the professional
fellows that have the gambling habit are
bound to find some other place to play.
Small wheels aren't expensive, though the
hig ones for professionals cost hundreds of
dollars A few fellows can easily club to-
gether and buy one. I don't suppose this
is the best kind Of business to be in, even
a side issue. I'm not gambler myself,
even in the smallest way. But my idea is
that the best cure for the gambling habit
is to get bit, and-well, give fellows the
chance to get bit. Seer
Assets of Franklin Syndicate.
Creditors Of the Miller or Franklin $40
per cent syndicate expect to receive dur
ing the coming week about ~ cents on the
dollar for their claims. The trustee has
collected about $4,000 for the creditors.
This includes balances found in two or
three banks where Miller had run large ac-
counts, the cash seized by the police in the
raid on Miller's Office, the selling price of
the Office effects and a few securities found
in the office safe. There are more than
1900 claimants among whom to divide this
sum. They claimed $400. 600. but the court
cut down this sum. Individual claims run
from $5 to 1900, and only about half of
those who had invested with Miller put in
a bid for reimbursement Belfer & Flash.