Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-02
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RiPples on the Current of Life In In,
Metropolis.

In the october Worlds Work NJ O..
| Cunnin describes the unique personality OF
New York's district attorney in an ar
ticle. jerome: a Man" The following in
oident is related:
A New York reporter once telephoned to
the proprietor OF q gambling house who
had defied the law for years and said, in
QuirinEly;
I'VE have heard that you were raided
this evening. Is 1t trus7"
mo, 1t isn't true" replied the gambler.
Me run a gambling housed What are you
| giving us7'
But our information came from the dis
trict attorneys once" objected the re-
porter.
"oh. Jerome told you. did he7" came
after a pause We'll. II you got 1t from
Jerome it's straight was raided, and you
can take it from me. young Teller, that
anything Jerome tells you is on the level
1 don't care what II Is"
Ice cream sandwiches Ice cream sand
wichesl Here you are, your Ice cream
sandwiches, only a penny apiecel"
The cry is familiar around New York.
but few would suppose that the man who
| originated It in this country made a for
tune out of 1t and has now retired FROM
business, with house in town and a coun-
| try place on Long Island.
-Four years ago, relates the Tribune, he
was an East Side pushcart man, but he
saved enough to return to Europe in the
steerage. and on the way back he stopped
in England. There he saw in London the
ice cream sandwich man, and he decided
that there would be as much. and even
more, money in 1t in this country than
there was in England. All his little capital
he put In the necessary waters and brought
them to this country. He started out in
modest way, with only his own cart,
but, before the end Of the first week. the
cry, ice cream sandwiches" had become
so popular on the East Side that he had
a dozen men working for him and as many
more eagerly awaiting the chance.
But the proprietors supply of waters
was running low and he could not get them
in this country. That was, perhaps, the
reason he made his fortune, for his agents
could not secure these essentials without
applying to him. He began, then, to i'm
port them regularly, and all that summer
hardly vessel came to New York from
England that did not bring its quota of
| cases of Ice cream sandwich waters
BY the next year the American biscuit
manufacturers had discovered what was
going on and all the hokey-poke men
could buy their own waters right here in
New York. But in that one summer the
| ex-pushcart man had reaped his harvest,
and ice cream sandwiches no longer inter-
ested him.
New York's expenses are more than
keeping pace with the rapid growth of the
city. When the city budget reached $780,
1000 three years ago the heavy expendi-
lures in the conduct of the city govern
ment made Father Knickerbocker gasp.
Now some economical souls are appalled,
at the prospect of a &125, 900 budget for
1906, an increase of 100000 over the an
nual expenditures of 1905.
All of the various departments are asking
for more money. The Board of Education
has decided that 1t would need $25, 900, 900
for school purposes next year. This is an
increase of 100000. The increase is at
tributed to the extension of the system,
the opening of new evening trade schools
and a new parental home and the adoption
of a new system of employing janltors
and their assistants.
The probability that the new budget will
reach $125,O00Oo0 Is further explained by
several important schemes under way or
contemplated. The new Bellevue hospital
is estimated to cost $8000,0 900, and con-
siderable part of this amount will come
out of the 1906 budget The new Fordham
hospital will cost 100000, ana there are
also many minor hospital improvements to
be considered.
Besides the normal statutory increases
in the school teaching forces, the police
department will require wages for 1000
additional men.
New York is a city Of $4,000 acres,
equivalent to a little more that 300 square
miles, says the Sun. From this area there
must be deducted $3.50 acres, parks and
park lands and $3.50 acres of cemeteries.
mostly in the boroughs of Queens and
Brooklyn. There are 1900 acres In docks,
streets public buildings and river front.
unavailable either for business or for resi-
dence
The three urban boroughs, Manhattan,
Brooklyn and The Bronx, which together
includes 3, 10000 of the 100000 inhabitants
of the city, have an area of 40 square
miles only. Chicago, far behind New York
I'm population, and since the creation of
the Greater New York probably destined
always to be 1.-THE second city," has an
area Of 1877 square miles, and Philadelphia,
which years ago ceased to be a rival of
New York in population. has 100. 1t is OF
about the same size the one borough
of Queens, the most sparsely populated
OF the five in the Greater New York.
New Orleans is territorially larger city
than New York. Washington has a greater
area than Manhattan and The Bronx COM
blned; that is, then the old city of New
York.
AS the figures Of this years spring
census, already known In substance though
not in detail, will show, New York is not
becoming oVercrowded, but is less crowded
than was the case five years or even ten
years ago. The outlying districts have,
through improved means of transit, been
gaining the pressure of the most crowded
East and West Side districts having been
diminished.
A leading Photographic concern has a
number of branch offices in New York City
and Brooklyn. People who do business
in them are surprised at one thing. No
matter how often they may call, they
find a new man in charge,
The explanation is easy enough. A man
left too long in one place would form the
acquaintance OF his customers, and become
solid in the neighborhood. The possible
and probable result would be that he
would open a shop Of his own next door
and bid his former employer TO drop of
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