Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-26
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples in the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.

Metropolis.
Just twelve years ago there was a rail-
road wreck at Hamburg, N. Y, ten miles
from Buffalo. Several persons were killed,
among them the parents of a baby girl.
Frank Conger of Brooklyn, N. Y, one Of
the uninjured passengers, removed the in
FAINT from the arms of its dead mother, took
the little one to his home, adopted the
child and cared for II ever since. Last
week MIR. Conger died in a hotel in De-
troit. In his will he bequeathed his for
tune, estimated at Sc, 900, 900, to his adopted
daughter, Oressa Stewart Conger. The will
states that the girl, whose income will be
$4,000 a year, was the daughter Of Rev.
E. e. Stewart and wife OF Rochester, N. Y,
who were killed March 6, 1890, in the wreck
on the Lake Shore road at Hamburg, N. Y.
During a blizzard a passenger train broke
in two on a heavy grade and the runaway
portion, consisting of a drawing-room
coach and four heavy sleepers, overlook the
day coach and smashed 1t into kindling
wood. Conger and others found the infant
in the arms of her dead mother and con-
hded her to the care of Mrs. Conger in the
d~rawing-room car. A Masonic pin In the
child's dress attracted his attention. and as
he was a prominent Mason he took up a
subscription from the members of the order
on the train and another at Buffalo and
took care of the parents bodies. After
the coroner's inquest releases were OBJ
tanned from the grandparents of the babe
and Oressa was legally made the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Conger.
What will be the next move In apartment
houses, one wonders The Ansonia, with
its thirty-room, 500, 900 apartments, its hot
air and cold air pipes, it's special elevators
for automobiles, 30 that the happy mobll-
list can step from his own tenth floor apart
ment directly into his machine and be
transported in glory to the street, and its
other unimaginable conveniences, seemed
to have just about reached the limit. But
now there is a newer wrinkle in apartment
houses. One of them over near the river
front advertises, besides it's automobile
storerooms and elevators, a "private yacht
landing" Although the advertisement fails
to state the facts specifically, l infer that
there must be a water lock whereby the
craft can be navigated into the basement
and the wearied yachtsman be transferred
from his own quarterback to his downy
couch without the intermediate use Of a
small boat. Or, perhaps, a steelyard
reaches out to his anchorage in the river,
A6t hlAA bCINlg III a DltCudulNdA kIdbp
and swings him aerially home.
Fully 300 wives, daughters and sisters of
policemen invaded the city hall last Friday
to ask the mayor to restore the three
platoon system in the police department.
TIT women were ushered into the council
chamber, where they held a meeting. Alder
man Doull presiding, and the mayor a pa
tient listener. The women told him that
the present two platoon system broke up
the family life of the policemen and made
them strangers to their own children. The
mayor said that he was much impressed by
what he had heard and promised to give
the matter his most earnest attention.
Park avenue people are booked for more
nerve-racking excitement. The effect of
the tunnel explosion is revived by unex-
pected cave-ins, both of sidewalks and
building fronts, apparently undermined by
the excavations or the explosions OF rock
blasts. The first serious cave-in occurred
when the idewalk and areaway Of 30 Park
avenue sank to a considerable depth, leav-
ing the front wall with no support and ex-
posing the cellar. The houses on either
side Of No. 90 were also rendered unsafe.
Later In the afternoon there occurred a
further settling of the walls and sidewalks
and the residents on the east side of the
block were ordered by the police to leave
their homes.
The tunnel along Park avenue, where the
trouble occurred, is bored through solid
rock, seams of rock for a distance Of about
sixty feet commenced to slide in a lateral
direction into the tunnel Wednesday night.
1t was not believed, however. that any
great damage would be done until recently.
when the first cAve-in occurred. The fnan-
cial loss was estimated at $75, 900 TO $780,
900.