Evening star., 1902-01-21
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Tammany to Give Dinner to Its
Departing Boss.
Fine COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES
The Question of Sunday Opening
Still Being Agitated.
STATUES OF THE APOSTLES
pecial Correspondence Of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, January 90 1902.
There is much curiosity in the Demo
cratic Club to learn the bill of fare for
the dinner on next Tuesday night in honor
OF Richard Croker John Whalen, one of
the hosts, has been on a milk diet for a
long while. Robert B. Roosevelt feeds on
patent crackers and mild tea. More Of the
hosts-John Fox, John Halloran and Dave
Gideon-went to the West Baden Springs
after the election with Richard Croker.
The ex-Tammany leader then, as now, was
on diet of hot vichy, with occasional
crackers and milk. Among those who will
need a real bill Of fare are Van Wyck and
Fromme, the beefsteak eaters; Justice
Miles Beach, who is a scientific diner; Chas.
H. Knox and James J, Coogan. A man
without much appetite will be former Sher-
if Dunn. His Kilkenny stomach was for
a long time impervious to the assaults of
Tammany society, but. as Tim Sullivan
says, he went the limit" Mr.. Dunn may
try a bird without the bottle. Lewis Nixon
and Thomas F. Smith will do straight-out
eating. 1t is said they can begin at the
head of the list and go through without a
miss. Judge Lewis j. Conlan, who is an
expert cerver of steaks and judicious
consumer of hot meat, will be near Van
Wyck and Fromme. Q. II. P. Belmont,
who is dyspeptic, and Whispering Larry
Delmour, who dotes on fish, will have little
use for the rich bill of fare, but they will
be far better off than Croker, HaHoran,
Gideon and Fox.
Presentation to Croker.
Il is said there will be a presentation to
Mr.. Croker by the forty-nine who will dine
him. Croker told John w. Keller he hoped
there would not be any thank offering, but
there may be one at the feast despite his
will. The dinner will cost $40 a plate.
Lewis Nixon won't be seated on the right
of Larry Delmour. When Larry decides
to whisper he pincheS a mans arm. Nixon
wanted his LOCO men in his shipyard vac
cinated last week because of smallpox near
by. He couldn't get them to accept the
vaccine until he barred his own arm. 1t is
a little sore now, and he wants to be away
from Delmour. Vaccination is good
thing; I'll try it on Tammany next" says
Nixon.
Butterflies for the Museum.
The Very Rev. Dean Hoffman of this
city has informed President Morris K.
Jesup of the Natural History Museum that
he will present the Strecker collection Of
butterflies to that institution. The collec-
ton is the largest in America, If not in
the world, and this addition to the collec-
ton already in the museum will probably
make it the most complete in existence.
There are at least 100000 specimens in the
Strecker collection. Representatives of
many museums have visited the home of
the late DR.. Herman Strecker at Reading,
Pa, and made overtures to his heirs with
a view to securing the famous collection
for their respective institutions, but none
was willing to pay DR.. Strecker's estimated
value of it-S20, ,000-until Dean Hoffman
came along. DR.. Strecker, whose assiduity
as a collector earned him the soubriquet
1.-THE butterfly man." was also writer and
illustrator of works upon lepidoptera that
| n~l- IIA ftoir Cd ai,,nr1
a sculptor when young man. Mrs. NJ. s.
Elliot gave the Elliot collection consisting
of 5000 butterflies, TO the museum in 1880.
Sunday Saloon Problem Again.
A determined effort to obtain from the
legislature a referendum in the matter of
Sunday opening Of saloons 1t is said, will
result from the final meeting of the citi-
zens and members of the clergy who have
interested themselves in the betterment of
existing excise conditions In this city. An
agreement will be reached on the three
methods TO be submitted to them and
strong concerted action will follow. Ac
cording to those who are most closely In
touch with the members of the committee,
the almost unanimous sentiment among
them is strongly in favor of a referendum.
Statues OF the Apostles.
People hurrying down Broadway early
Saturday morning saw huge white figure
Trinity Church, and, ascending some fifty
feet, swing into one of the inches beneath
the clock. 1t was an imposing image Of a
man with heavy beard and bald, bowed
head. A book was in his hand, a lamb at his
feet. He was conspicuous against the back
ground of stones turned black and brown
and green with age, and all the morning the
approaching throngs lifted their eyes to
look. One, little more curious, or with
more time to spare, stepped inside the gate
and talked with the foreman who was
directing the placing. An enormous plank
box just opened was being pushed on roll
ers under the derrick that rose above the
inches. A rope was made fast, five men
began to pull, and another stone giant was
lifted from the straw to an erect position
and slowly upward.
DO you know how much they weight"
Sure. How could 1 gauge the tackle
else? They weigh three tons"
who are they?''
"Mattoo, Marx, Locke and John"
How did you know that?"
by the invoices-sure-and the names on
s.-s~.