New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH.

rstrrafv OF a spare, slender build. the Rev. Dr.
Newell Dwight Hills has. since he came 10 Brook
I'm some years ago. gradually become stouJer MS
face has become FULLER and his bearing more erect
DR. Hills says that the Improvement IN his phSsl-
cal condition IS undoubtedly due to exercise, 10
which he has devoted himself more every year.
BE IS particularly fond Of horseback riding ana
rolf On his summer vacations he frequently taxes
lour cross-country walks Speaking OF his iar from
robust body in early life Dr. Hills said the other
asvvhen I was young I wanted 20 be foreig s1a
t5ey rejected me after measuring my girth They
said ] didn't have enough stomach 10 maze booo
s-S brain 10 last me out IN those strenuous cOun-
tries They seemed 10 think wouldn't last long
but think they mace mlshe LOT pt anyway a.
] couldn't be foreign miss ;. o-t 90 Tr,ts
have always done all 1 could Tor the ciI-e- 5tS
fbaf is contrIsated by Plymouth Church to the
support OF foreign missionary
Speaking Of the stern and apparently unsymPa-
thefic disposition Of the old New-England chaTac-
ter Dr. Hills told incident regarding his tather
the other day. My father never got hold OF the
,ae. ~ nraise until Il was too late praise me-,
said Dr. Hills. Then he wanted to oveTlnoulEe
NV boy When the boy wanted sugar father woUio
say TO me: Dwight u the BOY WINS 1,,TeeS II
TO him Nature doesn't ask Tor an! InIls UiAleSS -
Eve Wen father. said to him. sugar wasn't good
changed since then, eh?''
As IS usual in most tragedies. there were some
humorous incidents in connection with the rear emo
coIlision on the Ffth-ave. elevated railroad last
Thursday. Hundreds OF women went to the scene
Of the accident, having heard that many passer-
gers on their way from Manhattan had been killed
T,hev were looking for husbands, fathers and sons
who had been delayed in getting homo from work
Their anxiety was pathetic enough, and the story
OF certain woman was no less heaTtrenllng mn mn
the others until its ludicrous sequel came, LltS
woman was that her husband nae peeil hl4lt-
and she related the bystanoers now heI hgsLs.L.u
had been Obliged to go 10 Manhattan on an lLpv4-
sapt matter and should have been on ms way nome
Sd the time OF the accident She then began TO ten
~ hts virtues his s0hriety and the iact t2dt ne
never deceived her after the manner o. some nus
hands Just then party emerged from q near ~
saloon. The man IN particular was tiolg uIl,L
snfuence of nouOr. which, from ms reIlldIfAS' ~
1as surrnised he had been mbib1E In the aforesaid
saloon during the entire afternoon, Wnen ms We
supposed he was in Manhattan On important JUST
ness.
SHAY. boys" ne said. reelng up to the group
where his wife happened 20 be, we've haQ q JyiiIy
rood afternoon. but the old lady thinks m In the
CITY, and think T6 better be going nome. -,.
then the ''Cid lady" looked UP ana CftIALlt
sdrht Of her drunken husband. With one bound she
vas al his side and with a let hand swing boxed
brute" she screamed. and led the halt-cazed man
sway by the ear
The old ShauEhnessy Hotel at ocean bonIeNdIU
ana Fort Hanilton-ave.. which for forty years has
been q landmark in that part OF Kings county -
being tern down In its place model hotel Is 10 80
nm For years Shaughnessy's was one Of the most
s,ouular places down the road i was a EflCa5
old colonial building. and the Wreckefs nave loCS
saet 4 withSto0d The raTaEes OF lln9 50 ca
thsf their task has been unusually hard