The sun., 1903-03-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

the city Magistrates by a peace officer
from Massachusetts. who wanted her held
TIL he could take her back TO that State
under requisition. The Magistrate asked
what the charge against the girl was.
Stubbornness.' replied the officer.
Stubbornnessf' echoed the Magistrate
why, that's no crime. II 1t was, there
wouidnt be jails enough to hold the
ITS a statutory offence in Massachusetts,.
thoogh, said the officer, -and this girl es-
caPed from a penal institution, anyway
As no said that the Attorney Gene raj
OF Massachusetts intended TO send papers
TO Albany for Gov. Odell's approval, the
Magistrate held the girl in custody.
ramble through Central Park Just now
brings up "reminiscences Of the real forest
Park employees may be seen choppins
down trees and cutting them up In short
lengths and looping of branches from
standing trees here and there. The cut
timber Is piled up much as the woodsman
arranges his winters supply Of fuel. and
heaps OF brushwood dot the Park here and
there. A stranger might get the impres.
sion that the Park was in process Of re.
moval, but he would be wrong.
For the first time since the Park was laid
out, fifty years ago, the trees and shrubbery
are being scientifically trimmed Dead and
dying. trees are being felled, overgrown
shrubbery Is being thinned out and the soil
is being strengthened wherever II has be-
come impoverished. New trees are to be
planted 70 replace those cut down.
The three worst street crossings in town
at night are on Broadway at Thirtieth
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, when
people are going to and coming from the
theatres. At Thirtieth street four theatres
release their audiences, three about the
same time. Often the cars are blocked,
and the yelling Of cabmen, policemen and
carriage callers makes an awful din.
The crossings at Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
streets will not be half so bad now that the
opera season IL ended. The carriages
from the opera house caused most Of the
trouble. Every subscription night at the
opera brought on an average 500 carriages
TO the Metropolitan.
Park Commissioner Wilcox comes from
Schenectady. He is great lover Of horses
and knows a good horse when he sees one.
He is frequently seen on the Speedway
driving pair of handsome hays in a light
weight runabout. According TO the bills
in the Comptrollcr's Office. the horses cost
$500. II used to be customary for the city
TO pay not more than $3.50 for the one horse
Devery upset the tradition during his reign
as Chief Of Police by getting an $500 rig
The cheap horse and wagon FOR the use OF
city officials has become a thing Of the
past
Probably the most exclusive organiza-
ton in this city is a secret-society lodge
with only seven members, every one Of
whom is wealthy. The membership of the
lodge has never been greater, although
it il one of the oldest in the State. Its
meeting place is said to be the most luxuri-
ously equipped lodge room in the city and
the paraphernalia owned by the lodge
represent small fortune.
The membership In just large enough
to fill in rotation the Offices prescribed
by the constitution. and IL has been agreed
among the members that their number
shall never be increased beyond seven.
vacancies occur through the death Of old
ones. As a rule. a son or other male relative
OF the dead member is chosen to fill his
place.
The order Of which this lodge forms a
subordinate part does not look upon IL
with unmingled favor. Some outsiders
condemn il uneduivocally, and threats
have been made more than once that the
lodge should be compelled either 10 increase
it's membership or to surrender its charter.
stranded on the lavish generosity which
the lodge displays toward all charitable
institutions organized under the auspices
OF the order.
A big lettered stone is set in the walk on
the south front Of the Post Office II is
hardly to he distinguished from the rest
Of the concrete except whom a wet spell
washes it clean. Black letters in the com
.ug.iz. ..on sDaIIa,ior'a- .nI ,o,ki,u
more. Yesterday a countryman out sight
seeing with a city friend stopped to read
the legend
Il thought this here was the Post Office
he said.
$50 IL is replied the city man. THAT
must be a stone put there by some ~ the
Revolutionary Danes. ] guess it's the
name Of a Frenchman that used Ia run q
saloon here way back IN the old days
A bystander took the trouble To go into
the Post Ohice Ia ask about the stone
The superintendent thought the name was
that ~ the man who laid the sidewalk. but
couldn't tell positively because all the
old plans and specialization ~ the building
are in Washington. Finally the oldest
employee was called la. he recalled that
the stone originally read 'Pelle'ier's Paten,
sidewalk Forgotten repairs have OBJ
liberated all bu' th. first linz 81 the legend
mart ment ar. the mounted meu in central
park They have Rn advantage over
other polic..Inen. beoAu-. they -@e good
Tiding ln the Park aud can oopv whatever
ttyl. u isett.r thnn that they have lsarn"d
from their own drillma-teT
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