The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-04
NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP
SINCE FEE is ABOLISHED FEW
NEW CITIZENS RECEIVED

NEW CITIZENS RECEIVED
Bellevue Insane Hospital of Unsavory
Fame Makes Way For Reception
Hospital - Brooklyn Has "BIock
Beautiful" Created by Agreement.
| NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Because the
IL fee was abolished by congress, men
OF foreign birth can become citizens
OF the United States in the borough
OF Manhattan at present only if Unit
eu states Commissioner Alexander and
MS subordinates "have time" That
i means, 1T is estimated, there will be
several thousand fewer votes at the
Forthcoming election than there 9TH
| erWise would have been, for time ap-
pears 70 be scarce at the commission
| er's Office
During the vacation of the state SUI
| preme court in summer the work Of
naturalization falls entirely on the fed
eral courts. United States Commits
sioner Shields never does this work,
and, consequently, his colleague, Mr..
Alexander, has to do it.
In other years, when the law re-
warded the commissioner with 81, ev-
cry applicant was received with open
arms and the ceremony of swearing
allegiance was expedited. Sometimes
two or three hundred were examined
IN a day. But when the fee was cut
Off on July l and it was declared that
1t should cost nothing to become citi-
zens change was noticeable.
Mr.. Alexander cheerfully acknowI-
edged the state of affairs
1T is exceedingly unfortunate" he
| said, "but what am I to do? The law
has abolished the fee, making it en-
tirely honorary labor for us, and there
nISn II
pleasanter work. Bankruptcy cases
pile up on us so rapidly now that really
most OF our time is taken up with
them. Ii after these and other routine
matters are cleared W for the day,
we have any time, we consider appli-
cations for citizenship
AT least seventy-five applicants were
turned away between 8 and 1 O'Clock
in one day, and similar scenes may be
witnessed daily.
Insane Pavilion Disappears.
Plans have been adopted by the state
commission in lunacy for the abolition
OF the pavilion for the insane which
for many years has been part of Belle
vue hospital, and in which a long sue
ceSSion of scandals in regard to the
treatment of insane patients has aris-
en-.
1t is the intention of the state COM
| mission in lunacy to construct two re-
ception hospitals, one in Manhattan
and one in Brooklyn, to which sus-
pected cases of insanity may be sent.
After having been kept under obser-
walton for a sufficient length Of time
to enable the physicians to determine
the character Of the disease from
which the patient is suffering. he will
be sent either to a private institution
or committed to one of the state hos
pitfalls.
1t is intended to make the Manhat-
tan reception hospital large enough to
hold one hundred patients. If an at
tack of insanity seems to be merely
temporary, the patient will be detained
in the reception hospital until he re-
covers or his case becomes ehornic.
The Manhattan institution will prob
ably be placed at the foot of East
Eighty-sixth street.
Brooklyn Has "BIock Beautiful"
Last spring the Municipal Art So
ciety of New York conceived the plan
of creating a block beautiful on the
Heights in Brooklyn. All the resi-
dents in the block bounded by State
street, Garden Place, Joralemon street
and Sydney Place were asked to plant
trees and vines and to decorate their
houses with window boxes and bal
cony boxes Of flowers. Miss leila Mil
hau, of Henry street, was made COM
m1ttee to induce others to join in the
plan. and thoroughly canvassed those
who lived within the area chosen. Miss
Milhaus house is near the center Of
the .@block beautiful" and she began
her work by erecting window boxes
and planting them and also by plant
ing trees in front Of her house. The
growth of the flowers has been rapid
and the aspect of the house front has
been considerably improved already.
Across the street from Miss Milhau,
are the two most attractively decorat-
ed houses in the "block beautiful
The prettier of the two has each of the
eight windows on the lower three floors
decorated with a box of flowers and
vines, which cannot fail to charm the
beholder. Mrs. Russell, the owner, was
the pioneer of the ''block beautiful"
and is one of it's greatest enthusiasts.
She says the cost is not worthy of
mention and that the pleasure amply
repays her for all her labor. Another
pretty house is that of Rowland An
thony the architect, and it's decorative
gardening is confined to a single box
above the door, in which are flowers
and vines and two small evergreens.
The effect is pleasing to a marked de-
gree. Both Mrs. Russell and Mr.. An
thony have planted a tree just within
the curb, and both trees are thrifty.
Gardens BY Boys and Girls.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-One hundred
and fifty miniature farms and as many
diminutive farmers are the admiration
and envy of all the less fortunate lads
and lassfes of the tenements in the
neighborhood of Dewitt Clinton park
new city breathing spot on the North
River, between Forty second and Fiji
ty-fourth streets.
1t is hardly a park yet, for no grad
ing or beautifying has been done. But
a small field has been closed by pick
ct fence and divided into 150 lots, each
numbered and each containing 100
square feet. Each lot is a farm and
it is the complete charge of a girl or
boy.
Mrs. Henry Parsons. West Forty
fourth street, conceived the idea, and
aided by the board Of education. plan