Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-10
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
nipples on the Current OF Life in the
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| Inc lhN rate lot lniS year IN Grchtel
New York has been pulled down from SIS
on the 500 valuation to t1.47. The prime
cause OF the reduction is the great increase
in the assessment roll amounting to s27l..
10000 over last year. Real estate valua-
lions increased S2o6,O000OO and personal
property S65,000OOO. The total assessment
roll for the greater city is S5.sl2. 10000.
The budget for this year is 500 S17. 598.
The general fund will this year aggregate.
it Is estimated S22 979 o02. leaving $50 ISIS. 500
to be raised by taxation.
Among the highest assessments which
have been held on the personal tax rolls
are: Andrew Carnegie, 100000; John d.
Rockefeller, S2,5OOOOO; Russell Sage, $1,000 p
600; Alice G. Vanderbilt, 100000; william
| X. Vanderbilt $1,000 900, while an assess
ment of 100000 on John r. Plat also
stands.
There are many once famous people
living In New York whose names have
| almost faded from memory. 1t is only
| when they become seriously i'll or die that
| the public is reminded of their existence
| Old General Sickles, hero of Gettysburg
| has not been mentioned I'm the newspapers
| here for two years, yet he continues to
move about in his old haunts. General
Egan of "embalmed beef fame during the
standardization war, has a quiet home
! on Madison avenue. short time ago
| his existence was revealed through a COM
plant made by him at the police station.
| The little boys in the neighborhood made
| too much noise for the old gentleman.
\ Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the con-
tederate president, is living quietly at the
| Hotel Gerard. She is 50 years OF age and
very feeble. When she is we'll enough
she finds her greatest pleasure in the visits
which southerners pay to her. and when
| her strength allows she rarely refuses to
see any southern woman who pays this
visit of respect and interest. She can
move only with the aid of a cane
Surrogate Fitzgerald is considering the
case of Samuel Fales Dunlap, an octo-
genarian who died last March Mr.. Dun
| lap had lived in his house for many years
alone with the servants. He left two Wills
| disposing of his estate of more than
100000. One is dated October rs, 1903, and
makes a cousin Halliburton Fales the sole
| beneficiary. The other will is dated Janu-
airy 2, 1904. In It William Halliburton,
Samuel w. and Joseph Brldgeham, also
cousins, are named, with Rose Ealden,
who for many years was Dunlap's house
| keeper Halliburton Fales Is made residuary
| legatee. The three cousins other than
Fales contest the 1904 will on the ground
| that Dunlap was incompetent.
One Of the witnesses was DIR. Edward p
Fowler, who was Dunlap's physician for
forty years. He said his old friend had
eccentric habits Mr.. Dunlap wore his hat
and his coat in the house until he went to
bed and would buy suit of clothes only
once in fifteen years. DIR. Fowler was
asked to what extent Mr.. Dunlap used in
| toxicants.
Il have known him to drink a pint of
brandy, half pint of whisky and a bottle
of champagne in twenty-four hours" said
DR.. Fowler. This he did almost daily"
TT has long been known that the popu-
lation of no great city would increase, or
even remain stationary, but for the inces-
| SAINT influx OF newcomers from the rural
districts from foreign countries" says
| Harper's Weekly. This seems to be pc
culiarly true of New York. AS DR.. John
H. Girdner puts it in his book entitled
| New Yorkitls the inhabitants of the Amer
lean metropolis are driving themselves and
being driven like beasts of burden. They
work like dynamos all day, and play like
idiots all night The reports OF the health
| department show that the number Of sud
| den deaths in New York has recently in
creased out of all proportion to the growth
| in population. Thus, in 1904, 1t seems that
| 5000 persons fell dead, or died soon after
| they were stricken-an increase of 800 over
! New York's record In the previous year.
In the first three months of 1905 no fewer
than 100 cases of this character were re-
ported, and as these figures were for cold
months when the brain or the heart is not
as liable to crack as 1t is in hot weather,
| It is expected that the victims of living at
high pressure will number in the present
year more than twice as many as they did
in 1904"
1.-THE man or woman who has never been
across" said an officer of a transatlantic
liner, 'is delighted when friends send Of
ferlngs of flowers before the boat sails
at times so many of them as to leave no
place for a steamer trunk.
1.-THE novice holds onto them until they
are so withered as to have lost their beauty
or until the odor makes him sick. But the
old traveller has learned better way.
HE waits until the generous friends
have gone down the gang plank and then
quietly heaves the whole bunch overheard.
The result is that he has all the room
that belongs to him and is saved no end
of discomfort and annoyance. The flowers
are not lost, as boatmen hover about the
big liners in the harbor and pick them up
and carry them to the city to be sold
again"
The tallest structure in the world is
soon to be erected in New York. When
completed it will occupy the space at
the southeast corner of Twenty-fourth
street and Madison avenue, where DR..
Parkhurst's church now stands.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance COM
pany will erect this magnificent tower,
which will be higher than Washington mon
ument Plans for its construction are