Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current Of Life IN the
Metropolis.


Ripples on the Current OF Life IN the
Metropolis.
Since the edlct that gambling must 20
struck Chinatown and Mulberry Bend
policemen and plain clothes men re-
sponsible for the integrity Of that region
have had a world Of trouble to convict the
celestials pulled in for playing. Scores OF
Chinese gambling houses have been raided
with Indifferent results. As a consequence
the sleuths have been ordered to get next
to the Chinese language. and their gray
matter is In a state of agitation perilously
close to brain fag. one day last woek
Grimshaw and Powers. two Of the sleuths
attached to the precinct, took their first
lesson In Chinese. They had been sent to
raid a fan-tan game at No. % Pell street.
Standing at the door OF the house was a
Chinaman. AS the detectives approached
he sang out See maa.' A door slammed
on the second floor and the sound OF bolts
being shot was heard. Grimshaw and
Powers walked around the block and came
back from the other side. Once more the
bland fat Chinaman sang out See maa,'
and the door was shut. The detectives
went through the house, but were unable
to get into any of the rooms.
Seeking a Chinese merchant of repute
they found that See maa" meant shut
the door" They also learned that another
Chinaman whom Powers had thought Of
arresting for singing Erin go Bragh" was
in reality giving vent to Fri go Lab"
which 10 Chinese for The police are COM
ing" Back TO the gambling house went
the detectives and arrested the fat, bland
Chinaman and his companion. They were
fined 50 each in Jefferson Market court,
despite their protests that they were stand
ing in front Of No. % Pell street for the
purpose Of filing their lungs with fresh
air.
One Of the most magnificent Railways
in New York is in the financial district,
where It is generally supposed that moth
ing but austere architecture and severe
designs In color prevail. 1t Is the entrance
hall of the new hanover National bank,
at the corner OF Pine and Nassau street.
The scanolding was taken down recently.
The walls OF the hallway are of gray veined
marble. with many slabs of pink lined
onyx, delicately shaded. veined, marbled
and streaked with pale blue and white.
Around the bottom of the walls there runs
a base of black. onyx. 1t gives a peculiar
effect. There is one great arched window
running through the wall. which is nearly
six feet thick. The window IL about six
feet broad and high, so that It looks like
a deep box. The whole of II is faced with
colored onyx in varying shades. The cell
ing is Moorish in color and Corinthian In
architecture. 1t is done in solid gold shades
except for. a tracery Of green on the highly
ornate holdings that surround each square
Of II.
The stranger who visits New York to-
day will find a number Of streets In a low
tide Of travel, so different from their usual
full-to-the-banks and seething currents.
This is because thousands OF men are on
strike, thousands of horses are having an
unusual rest and one wagonload Of build
ing material is seen where there are usually
ten.
The forces have been marshaled in a
great labor struggle and the effects are
felt by all classes, from the man who wants
his window screens put In to the bank
that has given up its old quarters on the
expectation of getting into its big, new
structure In the early fall.
A calculation has been made by a mem
Der of one of the associations that 100000
skilled men has oeen thrown out of en-
ployment because of fhe strikes Of the
unskiiled trades. The loss was an average
of "a a day. or 100000 a Gay in wages, .l:at
never could be made good to the men thus
forced to be idle.
They are progressing pretty rapidly along
the line OF shop window exhibitors In TINS
town. says a New York letter. The most
aruring AFFAIR of that sort yet out IL hap
pening Just now in the big show window
of a Sixth avenue hosiery establishment
A large sheet Of spotless white canvas Is
suspended from the top to the bottom OF
the rear OF the. window space. A dozen
neat. round holes are cut in a row ABOUT
two feet from the bottom of this sheet OF
canvas. Protruding through these holes
at frequent Intervals during the shopping
hours, are six pairs of extremely shapely
feminine limbs, dressed in most elaoorately
clocked and ornamented silk stockings. held
IN Mace above the knee by carriers with
diamond buckles. The limbs are rights ana
lefts truly enough. and they have a sing
ularlv ufe-like appearance. They move
in fact. in the most human manner.
The crowd standing in front OF the WIN
dow is startled, after watching the ex-
hibition of life-like-looking limbs ior Ten
minutes or so. to see the same suddenly
rIthdravn. Then the white anvas sheet
"a quickly rolled up. and six pretty girls,
neatly dressed-their skirts OF conventional
l~enRth-stand side by side, blushing' The
spectators are privileged to guess whether
the hosiery had been displayed upon the
human models. The writer is In a position
TO state, in strict confidence, that 1t had.
They've got an extra force OF cops 10
handle the crowds in front of that store
In confirming the finding Of the commits
, sion on the Pennsylvania tunnel the appel
, late division of the New York supreme
, court has finally wound up the last spool
of legal red tape whereby the progress
/, OF the plan has been hindered and de-
layed. The scheme has been approved by
/, the Rapid Transit commission the board
of aldermen and the special commission
named above, which was appointed to hear
:, protesting property owners, and the WORK
, Of bringing New York half an hour closer
: n. philadelphia may now begin.
II Is proposed by som capitalists In Ne"
Work. 10 erect a seventeen-story building on
q a lot twenty-six by forty feet. thus con-
tanning 1.O4O square feet. 1t will be the
.Ltantest" skvscraper in that city of