Evening star., 1902-03-19
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Kaiser's Yacht Meteor Will
Soon Be Ready.
CLUB HOUSE FOR D. A. R.
CHARITY ENTERTAINMENTS CON-
TINUE TO ATTRACT SOCIETY.
Col. Lefferts Bucks Romance = Plans
for New Hotel to Cost
$4,ooo,o0O.
CLUB HOUSE FOR D. A. R.

100000.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, March 1S, 1902.
One hundred expert mechanics, under the
direction of Mr. Theodore E. Ferris, the
experimenting constructor of the Townsend
& Downey Shipbuilding Company, Shooter
Island, are at work finishing the German
emperor's schooner yacht, the Meteor. Inc
company wants to complete her In te"
days, and then the yacht Will practlcaily
be in the hands of the crew, that is, II the
riggers in the meantime are up to the marx
with their work. 1t is said at the island
that everything about the vessel is in a
most satisfactory condition. and that the
men are working diligently and accomplish
ing all that is possible. Capt. Ben Park
er and his crew have fallen in love with
the Meteor and the boys have already pic
tured to themselves the many races which
they will win. BY the time her racing rig
is fitted at Southampton they will be some
what familiar with the yachts pecuiarities.
and so will cross the starting line in her
maiden contest with confidence. The yachts
trial trip is now being talked of at the yard.
and though the date is not yet fixed, 1t
soon will be. In this trial Mr.. A. Cary
Smith, who is a veteran at such work. will
be in control and it is thought that there
will be a small fleet Of tugs carrying inter-
ested yachtsmen to accompany her. If the
trial is satisfa actory the Meteor will soon
after take her departure for Southampton.
Club House for D. A. r.
New York City Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, is to have fine
building to be used as club house. relic
hall and assembly place. The land has
a., h,s1 Ill oct =
is said. about $4,000. For more than a
year a promoter of the patriotic project,
who organized for the citizens of Vermont
the plans for the erection of the Dewey
memorial Of Vermont. has been anxious to
interest New York City Chapter in a plan
to build the hall of relics To Mrs Donald
McLean's surprise. when she returned in
the latter part of February from the con-
gress of the general society in Washington,
she found awaiting her a communication
from the patriotic promoter, saying that II
the chapter would agree to erect $4,000
building a patriotic man of this city would
give plot of land.
Mayor Low Receives Many Petitions.
No other mayor of the old or greater city
Of New York ever received so many letters.
petitions and delegations Mayor Low
His secretaries, clerks and stenographers
often work far into the night in order to
answer the letters that are deemed worthy
of reply. In addition to this enormous
mail there are scores of letters every day
that either do not call for reply or else are
clearly the production of cranks or idly
curious persons that no attention is paid
to them. In addition to the letters the
mayors office is fairly crowded with Wis
itors most Of whom merely imagine that
they have a right to audience. Besides
the visitors who come singly it Is dull
day in the course Of which there are less
than score of delegations Of men or wo-5
men who imagine they have some griev-
ance that only the mayor can redress. Be
cause Mayor Low was elected on a plat
form of general campaign policy of turning
out Tammany and substituting government
In the interest of all the people, almost
every citizen who feels that he or she was
not properly treated in the past rushes to
the city hall with a complaint and demand
for redress. Most Of the complaints that
go there should be addressed to some Of
the departments. and these mistakes and
misunderstanding vastly increase the cor
responde .ce forced upon the mayors office.
Charity Entertainments Popular.
The enthusiasm with which society con-
tfnues to patronize all the Charity enter
tainments, recitals, concerts, lectures and
what not, that go on and on in every avail
able hall and studio and in many private
drawing rooms, is amazing. Each affair
seems to draw people enough to make it
pay, and cards for all sorts of things keep
3, j
ming, instead Of being near it's end So
ciety people with easy good nature appear
In force at the benefits to which they
lend their name.
center for many of the musical and dra-
matte entertainments, and there has not
been blank week during the season
Col. Bucks Romance.
If the new East River bridge, now in
course Of construction, had never been
thought Of Colonel Lefferts Buck chief en-
gneer Of the department of bridges. and a
bachelor. sixty years old, might not now
be engaged to marry Miss Lydia r. Gould,
one of the handsomest young women In
Kentucky. According to the story, Colonel
Buck met some old Kentucky friends at
his home, and with the party was Miss
Gould They were sightseeing. and the
greatest marvel they had seen was the un-
finished bridge, with its narrow fOotWay,
swinging high over the water. Being ven-
turesome Kentuckians they wanted to test
its dangers. Chief Engineer Buck, tall and
rugged, led the way, and the next in line
and the arial footway was uncertain
path that the engineer took the girls hand
to help her along, while the more timid
turned back.
While they stood there, high above the
water, their coats wrapped tight around
them and the girls hair flying in the face
of the man who steadied her, he said:
THE building of this bridge has been my
dream. When 1t is finished it will be the
gre atest bridge In many respects In the
world, and then l shall be happy" Care
fully he helped her down the swaying curve,
and the young woman went her way and
the engineer his. But they met again
when the work on the bridge was further
advanced, and it was not difficult or so
dangerous to walk in the middle of the
great span. He would not be altogether
a ha hn hrf6 moo ovlo OF hn
had found out, and he told her why. Colo
mel Bucks best friends say, and he would
not deny 1t, that while swinging there high
over the busy East river he told her that
he wished she would share his honors with
him. She asked hm to help her down to
earth first and then she would answer
him. She finally told him not to give up
hope. but that he must come to see her in
the blue grass state and there she would
give him her final answer.
Colonel Buck has just returned from
Kentucky and announced his engagement
to his friends.
New Hotel for New York.
New York is to have a new hotel to cost
$4,000. 600 1t is to cover an entire block of