The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-28
GOTHAM GRQNAING'
FROM DUST CLOUD /
,ivsritable Plague Of Dirt Has
Assailed City-No Relief
ii, Sight.
OFFICIAL BooTBLAck DEAD
An Immense Insurance Upon
Charles NJ. schwab's River
side Palace.
OFFICIAL BooTBLAcK DEAD
fsnf,c,a, 10 The T1mes-Dispatch.)

az Especial to The -Dtspatch)
y & NEW YORK. April 2i.-A veritable
g plague OF dust and dirt has assailed the
j city, and there does not appear to be
any relief in sight When Woodbury.. first
assumed tho re.ns In the street cleaning
department he did we'll but It would
seem that IL was the old old story-a
new broom sweeps clean" for his fall
Ing down has been most lanentahle ana
complete. During the winter he failed
to handle the snow With anything likc
satisfaction.
Now that the spring and summer sea-
son Is well upon us with all the an
noyancc that Is hound TO arise when
the streets are flii of dust, even If the
sprtnklins carts are in action. the tnahil-
,ty Of Woodbury. to properly conduct his
A department becomes more and more man
,fest. There are no sprinkiing carts at
work, and Woodbury. calmly informs the
public there will be none-if the citizens
want the streets sprinkled, IL is up 70
them as individuals. In q WORD. they
must dig into their pockets ana pay 1or
sprinkl.ng on private contract.
When one considers that 1t costs this
city more e than q million dollars
to conduct the street cleaning oepar t1nent
1t is strange that We can get no more
for this vast sum of money than We DO.
Since the tnx transfer OH! Was ~
aEitated In tho State Legislature there
have been rumors and rumors that If it
became law the .'hig" and little ex-5
changes would take up their abode in
New Jersey where the lntSuities OF the
law could be avoided It would seem to
the ,,nthinldng that 1t Is just this and
nothing more that is now to happen,
for Incorporation papers for q stock eX-
change have been filed with the Secro-
tary Of State of New Jersey.
hardly think that such a course is
likely to see fruition, however, for the
reason that there is little or no reason
why the brokers should go to all the ex-
pense and Inconvenience of doing business
IN Jersey, to avoid this tax when 1T
Is perfectly feasible for the brokers to
make the spectators pay the tax II
the. brokers decide to charge tho tax up
to- their customers, their listeners sWilNl
have to stand the charge. and grin Tor the
simple reason that they will have to DO
their buying and selling wherever the
brokers hold forth
8t3 w hen q J Johnny" Day died Of consunlp-
ton In ST.. ,Joseph's Hospital this week
there passed away a unique character OF
the criminal courts building. For, more
than thirty years, Johnny mas p pee the 9,
5.tofficial" bootblack OF the judges OF the
courts and many famous lawyers He
was the bootblacll most favored of all In
the days of Boss Tweed and the Old
&..Tweed Courthouse 3s i95}s3 IS
DAILY began his career as a bootblack
in the county courthouse when 1t was
first opened and remained there until
few months ago when the &ravages of the
disease. with which he suffered. com-
PEELED him to abandon work. Besides
polishing the boots Of the justices he
often carried notes for them and through
this was dubbed i'm McClue," by which
name he was better known to many who
frequented the building than by his own.
In fact, there were many Of the younger
generation Of lawyers who did not know
that his right nalne7wa John DAILY.
h Besides establishing some records in the
granting of divorces this city has now
gone on record as fixing the largest
amount of alimony arrears ever set by
a court. The case is that Of a wealthy
iron manufacturer, Ferdinand Hofele.
who has been ordered by the courts to
pay his divorced spouse the sum of slb.lS5
Il In almony arrears.
4, Hofele was divorced from his wife
a twenty-thrce years. ago and ordered to
nay her $50 per madhth, and. according
q to the papers flied IN the recent suit to
compel him to pay his arrears he has
never paid Mrs. Hofele but sl,S75. Hofele
has been successful all this time In MAX
q ing many people believe that he is q
Il poor man, solely to avoid tho payment
of. the almony due his ex.wife. But It
would seem that she has finally caught
IN with him and at the same time es-
tabnshed a new record for nlmony judg-
ments.
When Emma I5ames recently sang fol
,9Es.(~harity', and her manager, Henri Con-
reid, collected the neat sum OF $500 for
her Kindness in SO doing, there was q
considerable protest. When it was learn,
ed that the net. result OF this charity hac
amounted to only few hundred dol
lars for the promoters, everyone wht
understood the circumstances was of the
opinion that Mr.. Conreid had rubbed u
H." Now Conreid has made contrac,
Z for two more OF his opera singers Il
I; appear in concert once more for char