Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-08
ROUND ABOUT NEW YOnK.
nipples on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis,

Metropolis.
Builders OF the Hall of Records are ener-
getically striving to reach the altitude Of
cost attained by the Philadelphia city hall
and the New York state capitol. The Hall
OF Records has already cost 100000 and II
the whims Of architects and contractors are
approved with the cash it will achieve
distinction as a haul of fame. The building
is considerably smaller than the congress
sional library in Washington; It covers
about one-sixth the area and contains
about two-thirds the room Of the national
building. yet its cost overtops the con-
gressional library more than $4,000. The
great expense of the Hall of Records, the
many delays in its construction and its
present state OF incompleteness have con-
WINGED many citizens that the prospect Of
housing all the municipal departments in
one or more structures OF similar archi-
tectural grandeur is far distant.
The New York Judge who remarked
''seven months in Jail" to the man who
reflled special water bottles with Croton
fluid and sold It as the genuine stun, places
himself as a bulwark between the people
and one of the meanest forms Of fraud.
There are many business cheats who would
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prison sentence.
The whiskey sellers are also complaining
Of frauds of the same nature. Their bot
ties. warranted 10 contain the pure juice OF
the grain, right from Kentucky, are emp
tied and refilled with decoction of wood
alcohol and dye stuff, and sold as the
original brand.
One of these whlskey makers declares
that while there are in New York City
1000 places where liquor is sold, not over
5000 are guiltless of this form OF graft.
Detectives. have been at work for some
time, nightly filling their skins with drinks
of the spurious stuff and their pockets
with bottles of the same, and proceedings
are to be commenced soon that will be
followed, It is promised, with startling
revelations.
THE people," said one OF the whiskey
makers, "are told much about pure food.
1t is just as important that they should
be guaranteed pure drinks"
Speaking of his reasons for planning to
build another hotel for the housing of
the respectable man whose resources have
been reduced to a few pennies, or, at
most, to a few dollars, d. o. Mills is
quoted as saying
my other two hotels have been a sue
cess; hundreds of men are turned away
from them nightly, and there is evidently
room on Manhattan Island for another
house of the kind"
The two hotels Mr.. Mills has already
built are conducted so well and so cheaply
that they are paying investments, though
a good clean room in them may be had for
20 cents a night and a good dinner be
served for 10 cents.
Mr.. Mills called attention to the fact
! that George Francis Train lived happily
| for several years in the Mills hotel No. l..
He often said that the happiest days OF
his life were spent there in his little
room. 1t cost him about IS cents a day
| at the hotel. AS far as could be learned,
! he had an income of something like $26
a month, and out of that he saved $40 .
month, so that at his death he had several
hundred dollars laid by.
There are many other men like Train
at the Mills hotels One would be sur
prised to know how many men who were
formerly well to do. some of them for
merly wealthy. are living at these hotels.
Men are there who have been on Wall
street and who once occupied important
places In business. They live there be-
cause they can be in a respectable atmos-
rhere at a small cost.
Within few days work will be begun
on Mills hotel No. 3, which is to be erected
at Seventh avenue and Thirty-sixth street
About 100 years ago a man sold an acre
OF ground in the financial district for a
pair of spawned mules. He had use for
the mules, but the land was a burden,
| because it called for the payment of taxes.
Today the same plot of ground is valued at
| "a square inch, according to the latest
sale. Some of the heirs of the man who
sold the plot for the mules are living I'm
New York flats and paying rent. They have
a picture of their farseeing forefather on
the walls and are proud of him, although
they are broke.
The stock transfer tax is proving an ex-
cellent source of income for the New York
state treasury. During November the re-
ceipts were more than 100000. This is
the record month for receipts from this
new tax. Controller Kelsey plans for a
more thorough administration of the stock
transfer tax which was provided for al
the last session of the Legislature Up tc
the present time no machinery had beer
provided for supervision to see that the
state stamps were used on all shares OF
stock held. Inspections are to be made
by number of examiners who are familiar
with brokerage business and understand
the provisions of the new law.
At the recent election in New York Tam
many thugs tried everywhere to drive
Jerome watchers away from the polls ThC
latter were nearly all young, intelligent
fellows and some OF them were brutalIy
beaten for refusing to depart. At on,
polling place the watcher, little more thar
a boy, was ordered from his post, but re
fused to move The Tammany leade
growled: None o. yer lip or I'll pusi
yer face In" The young fellow turne,
pale, but he answered quickly: "Of cours
you can do me up II you like / can
protect myself. But you may have notice,
, me writing. have put down. among othe
things, the names of every officer, watcher
! judge, inspector and clerk here today an,
L have mailed those papers 10 a friend.
, He kept his post.
t The proprietor Of one Of the leading New
York restaurants wants all his walters t
wear mutton chop whskers This is In tn
. European fashion and is esteemed the onl
5 correct thing in high-class foreign estab
! lishments. There is one merit about tn