Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of life In the
Metropolis.

Metropolis.
Lyman J. Gage. former secretary Of the
treasury, Is definitely located in New York
City as president Of the United States Trust
company, with a satisfactory salary at
tached. Mr.. Gage succeeds John A. Stewart.
who held the position for nearly ATTY years.
The United States Trust company Is the
strongest organization OF its character in
the United States. II has a capital Of So
100000, a surplus OF $40. 900, 900, and gross
deposits Of upward OF $40, 600, 600. II in
cludes in its list Of trustees representatives
Of some Of the strongest financial interests
In the nation.
Mrs. wiessner Of Hoboken has caused the
arrest OF her husband because he would not
give her money for the purchase OF an
Easter bonnet. Mr.. w. is earning IS per
week; the price Of the adornment she had
in mind was $4.69. 1T is a dream said
the wife. You Just keep on dreaming until
you get t." responded the husband.
oh, IL 1 could only have him tried be-
fore a jury of women!' says the woman;
but under the laws of staid old Jersey this
cannot be done.
The average cost Of a home in Brooklyn
II SatoVVs Nut average NoSl ol " nVWt III
Manhattan is nearly three times as great.
Eighteen per cent Of the families in Brook
lyn own their homes. and only 8 per cent
in Manhattan. The tenement house popula-
tion Of Manhattan Is about 20 per cent OF
the whole, while in Brooklyn It is only 40
per cent. 1t is no wonder, therefore. that
Brooklyn's population has increased with
marvellous rapidlty. II has gained nearly
400, 900 in ten years. This increase has been
so rapid that the transportation facilities
could not keep pace with It. When the
bridge was built. nearly twenty years ago,
the city had about SOC. 900 Inhabitants. Now
1t has 1900, 900 and. OF course. the struc-
ture is unequal to the demands upon It.
A young woman in the tbrong on Sixth
Avenue paused before a show window, re-
lates the New York Times. but not to in
spect the goods therein, as indicated by
her actions. Her eyes wandered TO a quaint
figure Of foreign outline-a man in the
romantic garb OF Italy. He was standing
in patient attitude beside a high tripod on
which rested a bird cage with many feath-
cred occupants Of gaudy colors.
Suddenly the young woman gathered her
skirts about her and passed on, keeping her
face turned resolutly away from the Ital-
Ian. She crossed the street and hurried into
a ~neighboring store as though flying from
some invisible pursuer. Directly she reap
peared, plainly under the strange domina-
tion OF the Italian, who stood stolidly be-
side his bird cage. Her eyes rested upon
him wistfully while her teeth were sunk
into her lip. She moved toward the crossing
slowly and with heightened color. Her mind
was not made up. She imagined the gaze
OF the public consuming her with curiosity,
perhaps reading her purpose, for all she
knew. Abruptly, as she stood upon the
curb, she frowned at the passing populace
de1antly and with resentment. Determine
ton seized her. She stepped from the curb
and swiftly approached the spot where
stood the Italian.
Just then a party of shoppers greeted her
by name, and she gasped as though struck
but the consciousness that she had not
committed herself enabled her to face them
and smile. She passed on. not daring to
look at the Italian.
At the first side street she left the thick
of the crowd and her pace slackened grad
ually. She watched the vehicles speeding
across the rift of Fifth avenue in the dis
lance, still thinking of the Italian, though
she had turned her back upon him. BY
turns she stood still or forged ahead. until
she had reached the middle Of the block.
There she wheeled and retrsced her steps
to Sixth avenue with her head down and
her step firm. Once more her eyes were
upon the Italian. steadily. not furtiyely,
fearing perhaps to encounter the gaze Of
others. In her glove she clutched a small
coin, which she produced in silence. hand
ing 1t to the foreigner, beside whom she
stopped. He smiled like a craven image
coming to life. without a word he opened
the cage. A bird from its perch few down
to the tray Of printed cards before the door.
One OF these cards the bird seized In its bill
and the Italian signihed that his fair client
should take it.
She took 1t and fed-not even stopping to
read, but, nevertheless, convinced that the
story OF her future wns in her grasp. Turn
ing into Fifth avenue she smoothed out the
crumpled card and scanned it eagerly.
Then she flushed with anger. The legend
on the card ran as follows: