Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-24
RoUND ABOUT NEW YoRK.
RipPIes ON the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis.

ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Rtpplea ON the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
Wall street has ceased to murmur about
the stock transfer tax and Is paying UT
with reasonable cheerfulness Couldn't
dodge the penalty without moving into
New Jersey and that was too much. Dur
ing the FIRST month the tax yielded about
100000 Legitimate stock transactions were
not diminished, but fictitious attempts TO
shect the market were rendered prohtless.
II is estimated the tax will yield New York
state 100000 a year This" says the
Philadelphia Press, rs a fair illustration OF
various sources Of revenue IL the taxation
In American states and cities were made
more general than Il is. instead Of resting
almost exclusively on real estate, with the
result Of adding to the cost OF living by in
crease in rents"
The Peoples Kitchen, where you can get
a square meal for cents opened it's doors
at 1876 East Broadway and proved to be a
great success. For cents one gets soup,
roast meat, bread and tea, with milk and
| sugar.
Constantine Geller is the owner He
originated this plan to reach those who
cannot anord to pay more than cents for
a meal. He says he will make money out
OF It, too, as the business done already In
] dicates, and Il is his intention to open g.
cent meal houses all over town.
Gelier expects TO feed about 1900 men and
women day. How he came to start it
was that day after day men came to him
at his other lunch place, s15 Canal street,
| asking for free meals. He talked to his
friend, Abraham schoenberg, who keeps
| lunohroom at 150 Spring street. and to-
gether they planned the enterprise.
The dining room will hold about 1872 per-
sons at time. 1t will be open daily from
| II a. m. to p. m. and from 5 10 s D. m. 1t
Will be closed for three hours to clean up
Wen known citizens and philanthropists
on the East Side are watching the expert
ment, and II It comes up to their expecta-
tions they will advance the money for
similar places I'm many sections along the
East Side.
There appears TO be an increasing belief
among residents OF other sections of the
country that New York is a desirable sum-
ner resort. The hotNNs and the "sight-see-
ing" automobiles and Auides actually com
| plain that they cannot Accommodate those
desiring their services.
In many ways the city's attractions are
unique. Many OF it's modern hotels have
roof gardens where dinner is served after
! sunset. Every known artificial appliance
for keeping cool is In use within forty
minutes of most of the dwelling places OF
clubs are excellent sea bathing resorts. II
is quite possible for any one to leave busi-
ness at or o'clock and be in the ocean
within an hour. After the bath a good
dinner, after the dinner an entertainment
quite inexpensive, including comic opera OF
fireworks.
A summary view of New York az the
very beginning of the nineteenth century
has come to light in a stray copy of Aynes'
Nouveau Dictionaire Universal de Geo
graphic, published at Lyons in 1904 (An
KID. To New York City is apportioned
Just half OF an octave page, conveying the
Following information, among other statis-
ties
New York, an American city, capital OF
the province of the same name; built on
the little island of Manhattan, at the
mouth of the Hudson river, thirty-six
miles northeast of Amboy It was partly
burnt in the war of independence All that
has been rebuilt is quite fine. We cite par
tioularly the street of Broadway, which
Is mile and a half long and seventy feet
wide' and at the south ends in handsome
park, where there is a promenade
The water is generally bad The prisons
are well built and we'll conducted, their in
terror administration being intrusted TO the
Quakers. The number of inhabitants was
very considerable, but yellow fever depop-
ulated 1t in 1923 and in 1903 The finest
building In New York is Federal hall, where
washington and congress took the oath at
the beginning Of the federal constitution.
Beyond the park there is building today
the elegant and new city hall willie de
halD. The pound of 20 schiilinRs Of -
pences is current, and is worth 10 francs Is
centlmes."
Tourists have queer tastes, and nowhere
are they displayed so plainly as in the
Seeing New York" wagons. When these
wagons began to run In New York no
thought was taken of a visit to Steve
Brodie's commonplace and unwholesome
little saloon on the Bowery, but the demand
Of patrons became so strong that It is the
chief sight, next to Chinatown. The Met
ropolitan Museum OF Art the beautiful
Lenox library building. Grants tomb and
Riverside Drive are not nearly so popular
as these places. Many visitors TO New
York insist on seeing the city prison (the
Tombs), where Nan Patterson and others
who gained wide notoriety were locked up
Tea spectators In New York who pur-
chased large quantities of Japanese and
Formosa teas in anticipation Of either an
ultimate Russian victory or the Indefinite
prolongation Of hostilities in the far east
now are having diniculty in disposing of
their holdings. Except for two weeks.
when the Russian Baltic sea fleet was ap-
preaching Japan the exorts from that
country have not been interrupted and the
new crop OF tea now is coming forward in
large quantities. The crop from Japan this
year is estimated at 100000 pounds
against 100000 last year. This falling OF
is more than counterbalanced by the old
tea held over, which Is now being offered
at sacrifice. Formosa tea, which sold
readily at 1411 cents a pound before the re-
cent japanese victories Is now offered as
10y as 1S cents, and sales are slow. The
American market had been overlooked.
and for this reason an unusual dulness
set In.
Discretion of Hyde.