The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-03
The Racket About Her Present
Residence Too Much for Her.
UNCLE RUSSELL SATISFIED
No Doesn't Want 10 Leave the House on
Fifth Avenue Where He Has Lived for
IS Years.

New York, June 3.--Whether Mr.. ana
Mrs. Russell Sage desert the home that
has been theirs for i2 years and move
farther north on Fifth avenue away from
.trade." depends less on the negotiations
for the old Rouss house. No. 6S2 tifth
avenue. now pending. than on the diner
ence OF opinion OF Mr.. Sage and his vile
ON the desirability OF a change.
7, Is largely n question OF Mr.. Sage 5
ability 10 sleep. The man OF millions
slumbers like an infant. undlsturpeo oy
the clang OF Forty-second street cars OF
early morning milk wagons. lie is' 'ne'e
fore, inclined to let well enough aione'
Mrs Sage Is the victim. .,o
Her affections are so bound w III nr,,,,, ga,
brown stone mansion at NO QUO ~, ~.
avenue that when Commodore Gelt
tackled Sl2500 on the rent she peggeo ne.
Mrs. Sage reckoned without the new
noises of the neighborhood. with snops
ON either side of her there is vast diner
ence from the tranic that the guleI e,t az
Iacted. Now she wants 10 move,
MRS. SAGE LIES AWAKE.
II suppose ! am a little nervous; % s,san saan
very soundly. and the noise about TINS
house disturbs me. love my home, but
I love peace more. II appals me TO think
OF moving after ~ years; but l must es-
I'm the morning i hear the ice carts
come next door TO the candy snop. hey
chop the ice up before taking IL III tIoI
Is done as quietly as possible. Mr.. Sage
sleeps like q little child-never stirs all
night--and these things do not bother
him: During the day In our dimng t2onl on
we hear the incessant whirr of the eiec-
trio fan which cools the ice cream parlor'
s.Then the carriages that come there
fill the street. They are undoubtedly
those OF the best people, but the fact
remains that j have the greatest dinh
Guilty TO get in my own door. A car
riage Is always there when l drive In
This is particularly Objectionable on my
reception days. One morning the butcher
came here to deliver some meat. ana
while he was inshde the house his wagon
was crowded from before my door and
turned driyeriess into the middle of the
street."
AND DOGS EATING ICE CREAM.
Another matter which Mrs. Sage has
found distaseful is the number OF women
who take the dogs into the ice-cream
parior and treat them TO the same kind
of sweets as they themselves partake OF.
II went I'm one day said Mrs. Sage.
land was amazed to see two ladies with
a magnificent pair OF collses, who were
slipping their cream with the same zest
Is their mistresses. Each OF the women
had a small dog under her arm, and the
little dogs were trying their best TO get
down with the others. l asked the man
ager II that sort OF thing was permit
ted, and he said: oh. yes the dogs have
10 come in for their cream. too. IL seem
ed 10 me very unnecessary and absurd.
1t surely must be bad for the dog
All these things are told every night
to Mr.. Sage. who feels the necessity OF
immediate departure--until he goes TO
bed Awaking refreshed from undis-
turbed slumbers the next morning the
worries OF the situation appear remote
The old house seems very comfortable
Mr. Sage does not want TO move.
The Charles Broadway Rouss house
81 opposite st. Patrick's Cathedral. next
the home OF ID. Ogden Mills. Mr.. Sage
has a five-year lease on his present
home.