Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-11
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on h Current OF life on the
Metropolis.

p on the Current OF AhNe On Nhe
metropolis.
The strenuous life among the wealthy
has its pathetic side. Yesterday morn
ing" relates the New York Sun. "an auto
mobile rolled up Fifth avenue. A very
young child and his nurse we're the occu-
pants. The uncovered chauffeur kept the
vehicle moving at a moderate rate. Only
a short distance behind the FIRST vehicle
there rolled another private automobile.
II proceeded with the same elaboration
and It contained a child not more than 8
years old and her nurse. The two vehicles
continued on their way to the park and an
hour later were making down the avenue
again.
Both OF the children were born to wealth
and position. The mother OF the sable
decked youngster in one automobile is now
in Europe living with her second husband,
who is no relation to the child. He re-
mains with the father when the father hap
pens to be in New York. The father OF the
child in the second automobile has a second
wife and this child lives with her mother
that is to say, she lives with her when
the mother is not at Aiken or in Florida in
the winter and in Europe or at Newport in
the summer. In spite of the servants, the
furs and the automobiles there was an un-
deniable pathos about the little procession
OF orphans-orphans of a new kind, but
none the less bereft for that reason.
Sixty gay, laughing, giggllng, garish
school girls scrambled into the last car Of
a Ninth avenue elevated train at One Hun
dred and Sixteenth street on Tuesday aft
ernoon. Their ages were from IL to II.
Many were we'll dressed. Many were
pretty. They owned the car, which might
have been reserved for them, as only two
men were In It when it reached their sta
tion. At Ninety-third street an old woman
entered, looking feeble and tired, but not
one Of all these maidens offered her a seat.
She supported herself by leaning on the
back OF a cross-bench until the car arrived
at Warren street, where many of the girls
got out. Surely the home training Of those
girls has been sadly neglected.
The New York Central's plans for the
expenditure of about 500, 900, 900 in recon-
structing it's terminals in New York City,
including the abolition OF grade crossings
In outlying districts and the substitution
Of electricity for steam as the motive
power for trains within the city, we're con-
sidered by the board of estimate last
HGehs III lu6 lOEm VI DlllS luul nave uten
drafted for Introduction in the legislature.
The interesting fact was disclosed that
the officers Of the company are considering
the erection of a station on Forty-second
street, which will include a twenty-story
hotel and possibly a large department store,
after the manner of the large terminal
hotels and stations often seen in England,
While II cannot be stated definitely that
such a station will be erected, the English
plan is finding much favor in New York
A large modern hotel, a department store
and two or three theaters may be built al
the Pennsylvania station, and, whether oil
not the Central constructs a combined hotel
and terminal, one or more large hotels will
be built near the station on Forty-secont
street. The Central plans include a con.
nection with the subway. 1t is said thai
work will begin in thirty days after tn,
necessary bills are passed and that all o.
the improvements will be completed within
FIVE years. The agreement between thu
city and the company will probably be en-
tered into this week.
A compromise payment Of $115, 900 Il
David c. Johnson, a well known sporting
mar in New York City. has revealed tn,
fact that young Theodore Hostetter, thu
New York and Pittsburg millionaire, hat
lost 81, O00, 900 In the year preceding hi
death in New York gambling houses. Mr.
Hostetter died last August. Johnson deniet
that the S115, 900 was entirely a gambling
debt. It's payment in part, he said, wa
for borrowed money. He said that fire.
quently when Hostetter wanted money in
hurry he had loaned him from 5000 L
$40, 700. He says he also gambled witt
Hoataffar uhan tho lottar wIchad e. m
that Hostetter had won $50, 900 from hir
on the last presidential election. He hal
also matched pennies with him at $1,000
toss. 81 did not intend to sue; 1t wa
merely for my own protection, and with n
idea 1t would get into the courts, that
put my claim into the hands of Howe 1
Hummel," said Mr.. johnson. MRS. Hos
letter will say, I am sure, that l Away
treated her husband as a sincere frien
and that / was more service than loss t
him when It is considered what a plunge
he was. / helped him to win many thou
sands by advising hin in his bets. ]
Theodore Hosetter lost 81, ZOO, 900 here I d
not know anything about 1t. I want to sa
right now that he was the n~erviest gentle
man plunger that I ever saw, and you ma
say the luckiest al we'll"
A suit against the Hosetter estates wa
brought in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania
several weeks ago. The court records shoN
that the papers were marked compromise
and settled"
There is no city in the world where
! woman, during a days shopping. can &c
SO many things for nothing as she can 4
; New York, according to the Times, : Ne
and women are employed especially t
I, make her comfortable. In any one Of
dozen large department stores there is
. parlor where she can write all the letter
she wishes to, make appointments with he
friends by telephone, find a maid to wal
upon her. a compartment to put away an
purchases she may make and have theI
all tied up until she is ready to take tn
train for home.
She need not leave any one store all da
: II the weather happens TO be bad. sh
can get an excellent meal there at a req