Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-13
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current OF Life In the
Metropolis.

SEINE 10 FRANCE, many 70 the meulterranean
loads to southern ports and enough to
populate a small town every week in the
season to one or another Of the Cuban
ports. So notable is the travel between
here and Cuba that within the last year
one line has added two magnificent steam
ers to the feet, and applications for ac-
commodation has to be made weeks in ad-
vance. Travel today touches q velumc
that Is positively amazing and a vivid proof
Of general prosperity. 1t is interesting to
note how many Of these variously headed
passengers seek their ways for health,
pleasure and entertainment. Thousands go
for business purposes, to be sure, but
steamship dividends would be much smaller
IL travel was confined to merchants,
tradesmen and business people alone.
1T stands to reason, II thousands of men
and women Of varying social status, busi-
ness interest, find It convenient to 20
abroad. or ravel from point to point of
this section of the universe, that business
must be good So I find It In all the
range Of mercantile endeavor. This, among
people who love the family, ss all decent
Americans do, leads to Indulgence In all
forms Of entertainment and amusement, as
well as In the more expensive luxury Of
travel. l doubt II our theaters have ever
had q season that equaled the enc now
closing.
"And hotelsH Bless your heart, an our
wealthy men are crazed on the subject Of
hotels. The marvellous financial success Of
AstoTs original venture in the oId-time
Aston house, started . fever, and the fever
spread. Today Aston IL building two
tremendous hotels, Gerry is thinkinR Of
duplicating his Windsor, in the destruction
Of which by IRE fifty lost their lives:
Stokes Is putting up a corker, on Broad
way to cost millions; Mills makes much
money from his cheap houses, and others,
whose names are better known to the tax
commissioners than the public, are follow
ing suit The hotel fad Is something sur
prtsing. Tens Of millions Of good Ameri-
can dollars are now invested, and other
tens are simply waiting for a chance-and a
site. :
The outlook?
%, bother the future. It's q pretty
bright chap who can keep up with the
procession Of today"
For more than eleven years a man has
been buried alive In the heart of New
York City. He lives in q cave. He has
not a single human friend. He has never
been seen to speak to anyone. He lives
ike the most abject pauper. Yet he
ruoely resents by curses and growls any
attempt to aid him. Through the bliz-
zard and the sweltering summer days he
has lived the life Of a cave dweller. The
snclent Troglodytes Of Egypt never lived
IN more seclusion than does this man.
NO one knows exactly what his name Is
OF where he came from. He Is known 10
the police as William Calvin and he lives
L I'M a nile nf RnnEa NJ 49, 80
sixteenth street, on the water front.
His house Is one Of the straneest IN
the world. One has to search to and n.
From the outside the pile of rock would
not lead one to suppose that 1t gave shell
ter to a living human being. The pile oc-
cupies q city block between Fifteenth and
sixteenth streets. It is composed of
paving stones which city contractors have
rejected as defective.
III you climb to the top Of this pile. which
Is about twelve feet high by 100 long, you
VIII come upon a square sheet OF rusty tin.
ABOUT Tour feet square. You might, per-
cnance, walk across this tin. It gives
under your foot a hollow crackIe. :
You are on the roof of William Galyfn's
mansion. II you do not get OF promptly,
you VIII hear a growing voice. It is the
hermit cursing you for disturbing his rest,
One OF the senior officers Of the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern. reports the Evenins
POST Is enjoying the efforts of some Of his
comrades to acquire American slang. and
he tells Of the results.
won -" said the officer, was enter
tSineo oy an enthusiastic American, who
emphasizes his remarks with the express
slon' by the gods OF Rome and gives vent
70 enthusiasm with the exclamation. Great
Caesars ghost The young ofBoer wifi
an imperfect comprehension of English
broke out at the ward room mess the otbe,
evening with, Crosse Kaiser's goat apt
before we could determine whether yor
= was committing lese majestic or not
he exclaimed, Ply der gots Of rum
the song, Coon, Coon would hardly b,
recognised in the deep cultural efforts o.
one or the officers, who labored to At int
the syncopated melody 'schwarzmann
Schwarzmann.'
The expression, She's a peach seemed
70 strike one young ofieer, who at the FRS
opportunity described a young woman a,
elm APPEL much to the amusement of thos,
who were better acquainted with America,
slang"
Lemuel Meekins and Miss Laura MorRen
son, lovers residing In a New York suburb
, have signed two agreements to remain tru,
to each other for q period Of three year,
and six months and then wed. Meekins "a q
and is to enlist for service In the Philippine
for three years. The prospective bride 4
about Fl and Is q telegraph operator. Tn,
agreement signed by Meekins is as follows
II, Lemuel Charles Meekins, do sacredI,
vow TO remain unmarried and unenRaRe,
for . period OF three years and six month
a from date. To pay no marked attentions 4
= any unmarried woman or widow during sal
v period, other than the attentions due from
any gentleman. To. carry on no correspond
ence by mail or Communication by tele
O phone with any unmarried woman o
|, widow; or, wounded on the field Of battle
to receive care or attention only fror
those employed regularly as nurses, an
e to receive no attention frem any sehoc
teacher who may be in the Philippine
"a during said period. and I do further ACRE
e to save from my regular pay rs per cen
II OF all moneys received from the Unite
MATES government during the term OF m
enlistment"
D. Miss Morgenson's agreement is equalI
interesting. 1t is as follows:
Il, Laura Amelia MorRanson ID sao.odI