Evening star., 1902-04-05
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Democrats Striving to Reunite
the National Party.
AN "AT HOME" APRIL IA
CLEVELAND AND BRYAN HAVE
BOTH BEEN INVITED.
Town is "Wide Open" Again-Begin-
ming Of the Trout Fish
ing Season.
special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. April 3, 1902.
The board of governors of the Democratic
Club have decided to have an "at home
Monday evening April IA, and to invite all
the prominent democrats Of the country.
Among those to whom invitations to be
present are to be sent are ex-Presdent
Grover Cleveland, William j. Bryan. Will
lam c. Whitney, David B. Hill. John G.
Carlisle, Daniel s. Lamont. Arthur Pue
German and all the United States demo-
cratic senators and congressman. 1t Is the
first time the Democratic Club has attempt
ed to bring all the gold and silver demo-
Gratis and representatives of other factions
together. 1t was at first intended to have
the function on Jeffersons birthday, April
2. but 1t was found impossible to arrange
for that in time. One of the board of gov
ernors then broached the idea of an effort
to bring about party harmony, in which he
said the Democratic Club ought not to be
behind, and he declared all democrats
should be invited to an "at home This
was Immediately agreed upon and the
names of Messrs. Cleveland and Bryan
were put down side by side on the list.
There will be reception at the club house
at $50 o'clock in the evening. A supper
will follow at 10 o'clock. No agreement
was reached about speeches. but this will
be decided upon very soon. The invitations
have been sent out.
Senator Tim Sullivan has caused the busy
democratic bird of harmony to take high
perch by announcing that David B. Hill
would name the next candidate for COVER
nor that nobody was hunting for NiXons s
scalp, that it would be a walk-over for the
democrats this fall, and that everything
was beautiful in the democratic camp. The
sage Of the Bowery also ventured the
M nhapI hot I'd al 4 So
next democratic candidate for governor
and that he would win. The fact that
Sullivan recognizes David B. Hill as state
leader is sure sign that something has
since Croker left. Such an admission while
Croker was in the country from a Tam
many leader would have been treason.
Town Running Wide Open.
In the language of the sporting fraternity
the town is wide open," except, 1t is said
In those districts controlled by the police
captains Of the Leonard street and East
I'D street stations. Pool rooms are to be
found almost everywhere, while handbook
operators are doing business in about every
other cigar store and saloon IN the Tender
loin and in the southern part Of the city
1t Is common talk that there will be no in
reference If the games are run straight
While it is claimed with good deal Of
positiveness that there is no collusion be-
tween the police and the gamblers. and that
nothing is paid for protection, there are
circumstances which indicate that the po-
lice annoy persons who do not do what GER
tain leading politicians expect of them.
Resentful at what they term the encroa ch-
ment Of the rapid transit commission In
their field of endeavor, in obtaining an
amendment of the bill for the granting of a
tunnel franchise to the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, members of the board of al
dermen, 1t is reported, are planning to de-
Foo hn froY Ylp1f or aIc ,,.1r-
the company great sum of money to OBJ
tain its passage.
II Lepers in Brooklyn.
Brooklynites are much interested to learn
that more than half the lepers found in
New York state after two years hunt
by the United States leprosy commission,
are at large in their borough. This infor-
nation is contained in the report of the
the local health authorities. however, there
Is no occasion for alarm, the lepers in
Brooklyn number only four, and they have
form of leprosy which is not regarded as
contagious except in warm climates. Only
seven cases were found in the state by the
commission. four In Brooklyn and three in
Manhattan. The officials of the health de-
partment in Brooklyn know the where
abouts of three of the lepers in the bor-
ough. One Of them is said to be a business
man of some prominence, another is a la
borer and the third a boy thirteen years
old. negro girl who has the disease for
merly lived in Pacific street but the health
officials have lost track of her. The lepers
in the borough are permitted to go about
their business, and no restrictions are
placed upon their movements by the au-
thorities
Trout Fishing Season Begins.
The trout fishing season In this state has
just opened, and the outgoing trains on the
Long Island railroad bear crowds of fisher
men, armed with rods and reels bound for
the various Long Island localities where
trout fishing may be enjoyed by the lucky
member of a fishing club or the early ar
rival at some unrestricted stream. Most
of the good trout streams on the island are
owned or leased by the wealthy sports
mems clubs, which vigorously enforce the
law against trespa ssers, but there may be
yet found a few streams where the public
may fish. Almost Immediately after the
season opens the chances of catching any
trout in these is gone, owing to the eager
ness with which they are whipped by an
glerS. There are even one or two streams
In the limits Of New York city, toward ia
maica. where trout are said to have been
caught by the initiated. The best fishing
however, is on the south shore of the is
land. Swan river Carman's river and Ca
naan mill pond, near Patchogue, and the
Nissequoque, near Smithtown, are favorite