Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-07
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RtppIes on the Current OF Life in n
M~etronoIIs.

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RippIes on the Current OF Life in the
Metropolis.
II takes a large roll OF money to keep
the municipal machinery Of New York
going day and night. When the project
Of a greater New York was under discus
sion champions Of consolidation argued
that it would uproot Tammany and give
economy an inning. But Tammany took the
reins as soon as consolidation was effected
and the cost Of city government went sky
ward-far exceeding the total Of the sep
arate boroughs. One hundred millions Of
dollars annually was touched in 1900, but
not exceeded. The expenses for 1902, totals
$97, 119. 031.1O, or 1910. 2S7.64 a day. This
total is about $500, 900 less than that Of
1901, which decrease was made possible by
a decrease in the state tax Of 5 1906, 1852.
The city controller says that a reform
is to be inaugurated in the financial de-
partment so that hereafter every expendi-
ture on the part Of the city which ex-
ceeds the increase in the city's revenues
and the tax returns from new property
will be a change which must show in the
tax rate and which cannot be covered up
by changes in assessed values.
H'Nis moihihb a udlht NulOh-StN hldu hiu9
be seen walking up and down Broadway,
between Twenty-third and Thirty-third
streets, reports the Evening Post. Often
he pauses several times to accost som of
his fellow pedestrians, but sometimes he
walks his beat without giving more than
a glance to the passersby. This man Is a
dealer in old clothes. and for the last If
teen years he has done most of his business
in this particular part Of the city. A
great many OF the men he meets are HE
regular customers, and he never worries
them by look or word, knowing that they
will always come to him whenever they
have cast-of garments to sell. But if the
dealer sees a stranger-and he has a
faculty for picking strangers out Of a
crowd-he Immediately selects that man
for his victim. The "old-clo'" man says
that in addition TO his regular customers
he catches many strangers, and altogether
the business is profitable"
A Brooklyn churchman adve=tises for a
minister to fill a vacant Episcopal parish
in that borough. The salary is $1,000 a
year, and these are the modest qualifca-
lions the successful candidate must pos
sess:
81. He must be a man who has a deep
and permanently settled conviction of the
truth Of Christianity. My friends feel that
this is indispensable. as they are terribly
afraid Of getting a man that might be
tainted with Orientalism.
"2. He must be a man who thoroughly
understands Jesus Christ and can inter-
pref Him infallibly.
"3. He must have a vision of the condi-
tions Of today and be able to apply to them
the teachings of the Master.
a. He must be, If not an orator, at least
a forcible convincing and, by all means, an
extemporaneous speaker.
"5. He must have the gifts of sociability
and of sympathy, so as to be able to re
ioice with those that do rejoice and weep
with those that weep
sc. He must have good judgment, great
tact. a patience that endureth all things;
he must be an active worker. one Of those
men who never let the grass grow under
their feet"
She was a fashionably gowncd young
woman who boarded a Broadway car at
Thirty-fourth street yesterday. relates the
New York Herald. After carefully arrang-
ing her silken skirts, she ensconced herself
comfortably in a corner scat and began to
read a paper covered novel.
There's a spotter," whispered the con-
ductor to me.
Where? % said /.
why, that woman who just got In fhe
car and is now reading that book
'Impossible!"
mo at all. She is in the employ of the
company to keep an eye on the conductors,
but we are all on to her. She caught quite
a few Of us mapping, because no one would
suspect such a pretty woman to be in that
line OF business, but she has been pointed
out to us and we all know her now"
I watched her for a time, and noticed that
she was not reading the book at all, but
kept a close watch on the conductor from
the corner of her eyes. She did it so
cleverly, however, that no one would ever
suspect 1t.
Yes said the conductor, 'the company
got tired of employing men for this kind Of
work and are now trying women. It's not
a bad idea. because women are more clever
and not so easily detected by the men on
the line, but this woman is known now, and
If she catches any more of us she is a good
one"
In the library OF a New Yorker, whose
books are a hobby. is one volume greatly
pTlZeu. II CCuplCS III lhNOhSPlNuOuN pioSSt
however, and is never read; its pages are
never so much as opened, yet it is eloquent
to its owner. It is a work on English liter
ature, a standard text book, and more or
less worn. To intimate friends who ap-
p~reciate souvenirs the volume is some
times shown, and even they do not open its
pages. The reason the pages are never
opened is adequate. they have been pasted
together in a rectangular block. This is
what the owner prefatorily tells those to
whom he shows the book:
"a long time ago l was a cadet at the
United States -- academy. Smoking was
forbidden. but INDUCED in, and cigarettes
had to be secreted past finding. Therefore