The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-20
 GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK The Fight for the Mayoray the Most Important Question of the Day-G. Mcclellan the Man to Lead Democrats
BY JoH N MARTHoL.

E MART HOL.
 farcied some of them humming the old song, Memory is the only thing" etc. They are all now among the bald-pates.
 
 The tallest policemen In the world are now to be found on Broadway. For years and years 1t has been the policy of the police administration here to put the biggest men on the force in the Broadway squad' but the officers two or three decades ago were pigmies com pared with the giants of the present day. Adeauately to describe them has been found necessary to hit upon new phrase which was suggested by their architec- tural environments, namely, police sky scrapers." The sergeant of them runs up to an elevation of six feet six. Among them is little chap of five eleven Sho, if he does not "get a growth on him shortly will have to get out
 A lamentable effect of the long-contin- ted labor troubles is the immense num- Der of assertions by young mechanics of. their wives. No income coming in, the landlord clamoring for rent the install- ment furniture man for his weekly pay ments, the butcher and the grocer refus- ing further credit, made up the grim com bination which put apart the dishearten- ed pairs of whom the church or the eiVil magistrate had made one in some sort or fashion. Hundreds of arrests. have been made. but the magistrates for the most part deal lightly with the offenders on the promise to rennlte with their wives when the disastrous conflict comes to an end. No single man n many years if ever, has wrought more misery in the ranks of la ha ie victed as he is certain to be, life sen- tence would be hardly too severe a pun ishment Tor him.
 The servants quarters in the palaces of the new milionares here would be re- garded as lu7xur- -ous by many of the plu- tocratie owners of thess establishments when they started on their careers twen- ty or thirty years ago. l went through one of them the other day with the own CT, a millionaire western miner. On the top floor were suits of rooms for about twenty meh and women. They were far better finished as to their woodwork. light. etc.. than expensive rooms in dinary good hotels The head butler had a suit of three, sitting-room, bedroom and bathroom. And so on of the others. The bathroom was everywhere in evil dence In all of them. In the old man. sons built fifty years ago the servants rooms were wretched as a rule. This is the objection to some or those houses now. Highclass servants demand better accommodations and won't sleep in dark closets.
 One of the theaters has been obliged to build a new stage as a result of a blund- CT in a telegram from the manager of 1t in Boston. Cut" wrote tLe manager. "a trap-door in the stage big enough for two men" By the time the dispatch got here it ready twenty men.
 Coney Island, beyond question. holds the record as a popular resort over every other place of the kind on this whirl'ng globe. Some one has been compiling statistics about 1t. with this result: More than a million glasses of beer are sold every week, enough to float battleship. In the way of chowder, it manages to get along with seventy-fve thousand gallons in the same period. Other items are: Bread, 25,000 loaves; crackers, 1000 pounds; rolls, 250 O0O, all weekly. Cuts of roast beef for sandwiches, 200,0O0 frank furters, generally eaten by visitors while walking along the beach, 300000. and so on and so on. he only thing that does not appear to go on the island is water.
 Prophet Dowie's invasion of New York next month is considered rather amusing and there can be no doubt that great crowds will go to hear him in Madison Square Garden out of mere curiosity. His house to house visitation on the part of his followers Is something that will not be tolerated. New Workers do not pro- pose to have any such nonsense. and they won't stand it. Dowie's army is certain to get into trouble along that line of en- terprise. and it is more than probable that half of it will be haled before the police courts as nuisances and disturbers of the peace No nominal fines will be imposed. either, so that Dowie's bank ac- count is certain to be considerably cut down before his crusade comes to an end