The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-24
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
VILE INTRODUCE ORDINANCES
AGAINST UNGUARDED AUTOS
ART Club Starts Fund to Rebuild Cam.
Panile - Actors Alliance Protests
Against Sunday Performances
Strike Delays Work on the carneoie
Mansion.

NEW YORK, July 23.-Frequent ac-
cldents caused by the carelessness of
owners or automobiles in leaving their
machines unattended in the streets will
lead to the introduction of an ordi-
nance at the next session of the hoard
to be imposed in such cases.
When the attention of President
cantor was called to the accident on
the East side, When an automobile ran
WHO, lnJuring five Children, he said he
would heartily agree to support anv
movement that will protect the peonIe
from any repetition Of this rnishan
lie VIII offer an ordinance at the next
meeting of the aldermen which will put
neaVy penalty on such carelessness.
Ihere should be some way to lock-
every machine so that in no possible
manner could it be put in motion if il
Is left without chauffeur.
he believes that such an ordinance
would have the support of all interest
ed in automobiles both as a sport and
from practical standpoint. An empty
auto with no one near to guard ii offers
peculiar temptation to the small bows
or any mischievously inclined.
NO one should object to such a law.
IL Is strange that such an ordinance
has never been passed.
To Rebuild campaniIe.
subscription has been started az
the Arts club, West Thirty-fourth
street, in aid of the fund for rebuilding
the Campanile but 1T is not Intended
10 conf1ne subscriptions to the men,
bers. All persons who love Venice and
feel grateful for the pleasure she has
afforded them with her palaces and art
galleries., her kindly populace and her
uhrlValed beauty, are asked to contrib
ute as large or small sums to the
u MN II
willing or able.
Actors Alliance Protest.
A new branch of the Actors Church
alliance, to be known as the New York
chapter, has just been organized for
meeting for the purpose took
place in the basement of st. Chrysos-
toms church last week. A feature ia
that started by Mrs. Sol Smith. the
Well known actress. She is campaign
ing for the abolition of the Sunday
performance as an injustice to the
actors and actresses who need the day
for rest. To accomplish this She asks
the cooperation of the clergymen in
every town she visits. Their help will
take the form of counsel from the pull
pit to their congregations not to at
tend Sunday performances.
Strike Delays Carnegie House.
Work on Andrew Carnegie's town
house, at Fifth avenue and Ninety-
second street, was stopped Monday by
order OF the Board Of Building Trades.
The board ordered a strike owing to
a quarrel between two painters unions,
and unless compromise is quickly
reached the splendid home which Mr..
Carnegie has been anxious to complete
as quickly as possible will be indefi-
nitely delayed
The strike will also affect the new
Union club building at Fifty-frst
street and Fifth avenue. The plans
for the new Carnegie residence call
for an establishment which will share
with the Riverside drive palace pro-
jected by President Schwab. of the
steel trust, the honor of being the most
magnificent residences in New York.
Sends $1,000 Anonymously.
The Rev. William West Kirby, arch
deacon of Christ church, Rye-on-the-
Sound, which Mayor Seth Low and
other m1llionaires attend, is trying to
learn what summer resident made him
a gift of $4,000.
He was the most surprised inhab-
liant of that summer colony when he
received from the hands of a messen-
ger, sent by parties unknown, a COM
merc1al enveloDe. Upon opening the
missive he found three $1,000 bills.
with note saying that the cash was
to be applied to the endowment fund
or All Saints church, Harrison, which
the archdeacon erected at his own ex-
pense as memorial to his daughter,
Louise Kirkby, who died in 1898.
1t is believed that a New York mill
llonaire who summers at Harrison and
who attended the golden wedding an
niversary of the archdeacon recently
made the present.