The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-16
NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP
POWERS OF TREASURY as ro
CUSTOMS cuRTAlLEp
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Fearing Lest
Anyone Steal Her Ideas COPYRIGHT.
Ball Favors-orange Board Saws
Every Customer Must Have a Clean
Glass.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The board Of
classification Of the United States gen.
eral appraisers has rendered a decision
that the jurisdiction and authority Of
the board are absolute and not shared
by the treasury department.
On the part of the treasury depart-
ment the practice has been growing Of
withdrawing protests that had come
before the board, presumably to correct
errors, and lose the cases, as thew
would never again be brought before
the board. The department would
SIMPLY give ruling covering the par
tlcular case.
The board Of classification now holds
that such action is the exercise of ju-
d1clal functions concurrent with the
board. usurpation without warrant.
The board of the United States gen.
eral appraisers decides that matters
which come under it's Jurisdiction can
not be decided by the treasury.
If the supreme court, after the case
shall have run through the federal
courts, shall affirm this decision, it will
curtail the powers of any administra-
ton which might attempt to introduce
new customs methods.
Judge Somerville argues that the
customs administrative act of June 10,
1890, repeats sections 1881 and 1892 of
the United States revised statutes,
thereby abrogating the Jurisdiction for
merly conferred on the secretary Of the
treasury to decide protests of duty by
collectors.
The protest arose from the assess
ment laid upon a cargo of pfneapples.
She Copyrights Favors.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, apprehensive
lest anyone should appropriate her va
rious notions in connection with her
colonial ball at Newport, on Aug. %,
and destroy their novelty by possibly
using them for some other entertain
ment taking place prior to her own, has
made arrangements to copyright ev-
erything In connection with the affair,
down to the very costumes and menu.
COpyrighting bids fair to become a
popular fad in society. For last win
ter one Of it's best known and most
respected members is known to have
gone to the length of attempting to
copyright her name as Mrs. Wander
bilt" without any initial or Christian
name, in order to prevent her daugh-
ter-in-law from styling herself as
"The" Mrs. Vanderbilt.
Must Have Clean Glass.
The Orange board of health has
passed an ordinance which requires
that all BARRIERS shall thoroughly wash
all brushes, combs, raZors, cups. tools
and utensils in boiling water before
beginning business each morning.
AFTER un1SnlnS WIN eacn customer a
barber, before using a razor again,
must thoroughly wash it in a solution
of corrosive sublinate of formaline.
The board also adopted an ordinance
requiring saloon and restaurant keep
ers to thoroughly wash in water which
has been used for no other purpose,
every glass or drinking vessels before
serving a drink. A penalty of $40 is
fixed for every violation of either
ordinance.
Fifth Avenue Illusion.
For a person walking down the west
side Of Fifth avenue on a sunny morn
ing, and stopping on the sidewalk
about the location Of the Holland house,
a view from there down the avenue
will seem to show that the east side
Of the avenue below Twenty third
street is nearer by 20 per cent to the
west side than on the same avenue
above Madison square.
Since the completion Of the great
white wedge shaped structure on the
plot termed the fatiron, bounded by
Broadway, Twenty-second street and
Fifth avenue, the Illusion becomes more
apparent the longer one views the
north vertical verge of the structure.
The width of the avenue is the same
above Madison square and below
Twenty third street, but the illusion is
there, Notwithstanding.