Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03
LIFE AS 1T IS LIVED IN
AMERICAS METROPOLIS
Father Knickerbocker's Big Realty HOldings-A
Trip Along PetticOat Lane-Condemned
Gambling Room-High Living


invisible dining rooms and self-risinR
kitchens, a collapsible poolroom should
be nothing odd. The New York gam
pier Is nothing II not UP TO date. The
latest fire escape, the newest steel
door, the most modern alarm for this.
Hence the folding gambling den" The
police Of the Mercer street station
raided n place suspected of being a
gambling house. They found no trace
of the usual implements of the game,
and were about to depart when the
captain paused and propounded this
conundrum: What has four legs and
feathers like chicken?" Then all the
eyes turned upon a folding bed. This
was quickly let down. In the bed in
stead of bedclothes, were q roulette
wheel and sweatboard sleeping
peacefully, while n faro box and 1000
chips had been hastily spanked and
put to bed. An inoffensive looking, lit
tie, upholstered tabourette, with fan
cy scroll work and jeweled sides, was
found to contain an electrical key to
control the game. 1t was brace"
Chinese In New York
Cinnamon in New York are con-
stantly broadening the field OF their
activities. Already many of them are
employed as household servants and
Wallets and few days ago one Of them
opened up an American tailor shop.
Not few have gone into the station
cry and tobacco business in q small
way. The first Chinese tailor to open
an atelier In New York is Yum-Chuun,
originally of Fu-Chau and latterly of
San Francisco. "I like not that Pa
cific so much as that Atlantic" he
said confidentially to the oriental trav-
eler who met him in Chinatown the
other day. "They no like Cinnamon in
Gala, no matter If he high or low
caste meet one rich Joss man, him
bishop you call, and he say come along
New York with me: you no like this
place. So / come by me by"
High Living Indeed
The quetest place In the whole world
at night is Wall street. Many Of the
big financial maj gnates have found
this out and they have fitted up sleep
ing apartments on the top floors OF
the big skyscrapers. A whisper may
be heard block in this quarter after
nightfall, and at midnight there is no
spot on the western plains half so
lonely and deserted. Roof restaurants
in the financial district are becoming
popular for the same reason. There
is an air of quiet about these places
200 feet above the street level which
attracts the man who has been in the
hum Of the street all morning. There
will be a downtown Waldorf or st.
Regis one of these days, and 1t will
have no sleeping rooms below the
tenth floor. About the only noise
heard in Wall street after o'clock
is the distant toot of whistles in the
harbor, and on foggy nights the dreary
drone of the ferryboat horns.
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An almost devilish ingenuity is ex-
hibited by the men who make tests
among roundsmen and patrolmen for
promotion. One of the most diaboli-
cal schemes to disqualify fat and
pudgy policemen is called the pea
nut test" The competitors for promo
ton are obliged to run past small
peanut stand and grab handful in
their flight. The man who shows the
largest number of peanuts gets the
highest mark. AT a recent test climb
ing a rope hand over hand was one of
the stunts. Another extremely inter-
esting feature was called cheese 1T,
the sarge" All the men took part in
this and the results were very close.
The men worked in relays here. Fifty
roundsmen were placed in comfortable
positions about the room, most of
them reclining and feigning sleep. A
trolley car going at one end of the
room was suddenly rung announcing
the coming of sergeant. The winner
of this contest had strapped on his
belt placed his helmet on his head and
begun his patrol in four seconds; the
loser did the same thing in six, which
gives fair idea of the closeness of
the contest and the skill of the men
taking part in it.
Old RIind RiIIv Gon.
William Fitzpatrick died at 333