The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-07
SOME GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.

New York April Members of the older millionaire
colony have combined for the protection OF the Fifth avenue
residence district against trade Fashionable milliners semi
fashionable boarding houses and art dealers have been slowly
moving the thoroughfare with of small shop
keepers in their wake Several times the residence section
has been compelled further up town. to get out OF
this constantly widening trade circle Now, being threat
ered BY new invasion in the district north of Foysecond
street organized effort is being made by such million
aires az Perpon Morgan and Eibrdgc I. Gerry to con
all real which might be sold for business purposes
One after another OF old exclusive families have been
driven OF their homes along Fifth The last to
90 the Lorilard Kip mansion the southwest corner
Of Forteh street followed almost Immediately by the an
that Frederick X Vanderbilt had put his brown
stone front likewise the OF Foreth for
sale Under the protective plan devised check the nroads
business Ebridge Gerrys arcade the site of the
Windsor hotel between Forty-sixth and Forty seventh
streets will be the northern barrier OF commerciaism in
Fifth and likewise the southern gaze of Mionares
is believed that this arcade with the Union
club will fix barrier against the further advance of trade
up Fifth for the next twenty years.
More Easter eggs will be sold this year than before
certain overworked dealers who trying to keep
with the demand New York is proving better market for
Western country farms than ever and products
coming here by the carload 1t estimated that last night
there 7oooooo eggs here for distribution about
piece for the entire population OF the Nation Strangely
enough the largest number of eggs sold in New York
from beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers At one
it needed and the hens kept busy that
Now however the demand has grown beyond New England
and great chicken farms in Michigan Wisconsin and Nc
braska depended AS result of increased sales the
decorators of Easter find their services in like demand
Some pretty and elaborate designs shown in the shop
windows and many thin fragment of white shell becomes
valuable after its transformation by deity welded brush
y 4 4
Temperance workers who have been studying the army
canteen questions at Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth,
New Yorkd eca
that the ntcaneen law has worked wonders in the way
moral Improvement the rank and file of the army At
Fort Wadsworth where 800 stationed 900 quarts
OF milk have been sold daily during the past month The
sales at the Fort Hamilton exchange for March equaed the
usually realized from the canteen Pay DRINKS were
conspicuous by their absence To be many
inanymen and artilcrymen find milk poor substitute for
whisky but that so-quart speaks Tor itself The
Womans Christian temperance Union had the anti-cauteen
law passed and its members, who have been detailed
watch the various posts declare that
followed the abolition of the cauteen
According man who is said to be the biggest dealer
in palms in New York, above 100000 OF them dis
rbuted throughout the country for church SUNDAY
Thomas D. Egan OF Barclay is this authority Egai
supplied the majority of the New York churches with palms
In 1876 he attended Easter service Charleston S. c.
church and for the first time palm leaves used as
altar decorations In the North and hemock had been
used lie began importing palms New York and the bust
ness became profitable
In seeondstory window OF Sixth avenue apartment
house hangs the sign Miss - epairer OF bric-a-brac
She is clever little woman who has discovered new voca-
ton for the genter which pays infinitely better
than enogaphy school teaching The delight of patch
ing pottery is hers and by artstcay mendng broken vases
antique furniture articles of and in fact all sorts of
rare and fragile articles she makes excellent living One
OF her riumphs the restoration vase that has been
broken into over 700 pieces.
Hope has been strong at the plavers' -.
and among actors in general that Maurice Barrymore might
return to the stage after brief period of rest in private
sanarium This hope has been pahecaly strong in Mr.
BaTrymores own family An eminent aienist skaters it
cruelty Mr. Barrymore is hopclessy insane said he he
VIII never play again He has paress is going as Scan
Ion and Mccullough went. The end may come swiftly"
Two money-maSing productions have closed their New,
ork engagements-"Mrs. Danes Defense" and THE Girl
FROM UP There Mrs Dane and her past will be exnlod
IN San francisco by the original company this spring while
me Gri From Up There after week in BROOKLYN takes
snip Tor London where Edna May thinks she will he better
appreciated than by critical New Workers Dan Dav 1f
Miss Mays support last night
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS