Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-04
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.


RippIes on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.
Natives of little old New Yauk" are
slow to admit that the city furnishes its
full quota of easy marks" for every game
played by sharpers. Even In affairs mat
rimonlal 1t is conceded to be a clover
patch for modern Bluebeards Those who
think" writes a correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch, that New York girls are
wiser than their sisters OF the west need
only study the news columns OF recent
date to find establishment, The Wits
hoffs, HochF and Cartons found the great
est number of their victims right here in
Greater New York. What ails the women,
anyway As men go there are plenty
of them in the world and plenty who,
IL they would not make ideal husbands,
would at least draw the line at desertion,
robbery and sudden death. Some of these
are going up and down the earth Wireless
and not a woman will look at them. Hoch
has a thick neck and a low brow. Carl
ton has a disagreeable face If ever a man
had such thing. witshof, as the latest
and apparently the most successful of the
three, shows a soda water countenance,
which need not have turned the head Of
shop girl He is no longer young and
he wighs 100 pounds"
Upon 1900 firemen in Greater New York is
placed the responsibility Of defending from
flames 100000 people, about 100000 build
ings, and these extending over more than
O9, 900 acres of ground says Leslie's Weekly
Within the city limits of the metropolis is
area enough for more than $500 farms Of
eighty acres each, and were the space al
lotted equally among the fire-fghting force
each man in the department would be re-
sponsible for sixty-fve acres OF ground But
the hrehouses, of course, are not distributed
according to territory but according to the
height and density OF buildings and the con-
gestion of population, fire companies being
located more closely together nearest the
apex of the island.
The pay OF the firemen Of the metropolis
is not small The salary of the chief is
5000 year; of the deputy chiefs, of which
there are five, 200 year; OF the battalion
chiefs, OF which there are seventeen, 50, 800
a year; OF captains of companies. $2.16O;
Meutenants, $500: engineers, $500; firemen,
first grade, 800; firemen second grade
1900; hremen, third grade $1,000; firemen,
fourth grade $780, firemen on probation,
$500. The term OF probation of the fireman
is thirty days. When that is over he be-
comes a fireman of the fourth grade, and
advances year by year to first grade.
After twenty years OF service In the de-
partment fireman may retire on half pay.
His retirement is not compulsory, however,
| II he is able to perform his duties; and
there are New York flremen who have
been in the department much more than a
quarter OF a century, and are still in active
service. The regulations require that the
man who becomes fireman in New York
must be p years of age and not over 30.
A forty-story hotel will soon be con-
structed in Thirty-second street, west OF
! Broadway, on the site of the old "House
| of All Nations" When this structure is
completed It will be the highest hotel
! building In the world and one OF the most
magnificent The Pennsylvania railroad
! terminal when finished will be only one
half block distant from the hotel, and 1t
is expected to furnish the hundreds of
patrons necessary to make the big hotel a
success.
| Albert J. Adams, formerly known as the
policy king" who recently went to Mex
! leo, saying he would spend the remainder
OF his days there and devote his large
! fortune to investment purposes for the
| benefit OF his children, is at the head of n
syndicate that will conduct the operation
and which has been already capitalized at
IS, 10000.
1t is understood he will not return to this
| country even to see the structure when II
shall have been completed, preferring TO