Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-01
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes ON the Current of Life I'm the
MetrnnoIla.


Metropolis.
Because a man bears an Irish name it
does not follow that he is a son or grand
son Of the "ould sod" Although the real
article has enough troubles OF his own he
is credited with many troubles provoked or
perpetrated by persons sailing under false
names. Take. for instance, the recent
crimes committed at the meeting OF the
Paul Kelly association in New York The
name Kelly smacks of the turf, yet the
/ bearer OF II in this instance is an Italian
born. And nearly all the men concerned
in that shooting are Italians. but all give
Irish names zone would think" says
| the correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch, referring to the case. that all the
thugs of New York were Irishmen, to read
the names of defendants. This is a race
libel familiar enough to the knowing ones.
but the general public may not know about
II. II is the same with prize fighters.
Not half the scrappers who assume Irish
names are really the goods, Even the
Jews adopt the 'O's' and the Macs to
give terror to their pretentions. A good
| Irishman is always terror in a fight but
he does not, as a rule, fight for money.
| There is a compliment implied in the gem
| eral use OF Irish names for lighting pur-
poses, but honest Irishmen do not approve
of the practice"
At the Manhatten end OF Brooklyn bridge
there is a saloon which averages a sale
of ninety barrels of beer a day. 1t is
probably the greatest suds parlor in the
world. The yearly profits are $4,000 These
facts are stated preliminary to the more
important one that the saloon is soon to
vanish. The city needs the room for an
| extension to the terminal facilities. Prob
| ably no other saloon in New York does so
| big a business as Andy Horns. 1t is
really q hotel, but not one customer in a
| thousand guesses that. In hot, dry
weather it is no uncommon thing for 1900
thirsty souls to cross it's threshold during
| the day-parched and anxious going in
| moist and joyous going out. On a mild.
sunshiny, mellow day, with just a hint of
| autumn GOODNESS in the air, not more than
seventyfive barrels of beer are sold, but
| on a scorching day in August more than
100 barrels float across the bar in schoon-
| ers, schoppens. seidels, stems, shells, stan
gels and prominentes. Lashins of whisky,
| too, are consumed on the premises every
day. And at least four cases of champagne
are sold every twenty-four hours. The
total draught of moist joy sold at Andy
| Horns every day is enough to float a
! steam yacht of six tons displacement
! A visitor from a small town in Michigan
paid a visit to the New York city hall.
where's the elevator" he asked of an
| attendant in the main corridor.
Haven't any"
what! No elevator in the New York
city hall?"
mo, sir"
"Well you fellows better take in your
horns. We have two of them in our city
hall. and it amt half as big as this one.
! Why don't you get a move on? Talk to
me about New York;"
In its treatment of Mrs. Molly Combes
| the Long Island railroad has disproved
the old saying that Corporations have
no souls" Early in the summer Mrs.
| Combes' HUSBAND was killed while en-
| ployed as a brakeman. Doubling her
| ability to care for herself, Mrs. Combes
made application to the railroad com
| pany for employment. She informed the
! officers of the company that it was not
her intention to bring suit against them
for damages, but she merely asked for en-
! ployment
| Though she had had no experience, she
| was given some clerical work, but owing
to her recent shock coupled with her in
| experience. she soon began to show the
strain upon her nerves, and it was at once
| decided that she was endeavoring to do
! too much. The railroad officials decided
to send a typewriter to her home, and,
with the aid of an instruction book and
| an occasional visit from one of the office
| typewriters she soon learned to operate
| the machine. Now she is employed in the
Long Island City office. copying the many
| deeds for real estate growing out of the
| company's purchases in Queens borough
| and Brooklyn. 1t is proposed after the
| first OF the year to give her a course in
stenography. If the proper progress is
made, she will be made member of the
| once staff.
Ever since she started to work the COM
| pany has paid her $40 a month, and she
has nothing but praise for the company.
Two elderly country women were sight
| seeing in New York and found themselves
| on Fifth avenue The old ladies had heard
! OF the public automobiles that take visit
! ors on sightseeing trips through the park,
| so they accosted a young man in an auto
mobile coat about to climb into a large
motor car standing at the entrance. They
expressed their desire TO make the trip
through the park and proceeded to climb
into the machine The young man looked
somewhat surprised, but politely helped his
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