Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-16
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.


Metropolis.
A fine appetite is highly esteemed by
healthy people, especially when means are
abundant to crafty It. But, like many
other Eood things, II can be pushed be-
yond bounds, when something has to give.
A New Yorker with the melodious name
Of Dooner possesses the most extensive,
varied and tasteful appetite ever observed
in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Coney island.
Constant practice gave It an artistic polish,
expanded capacity for gustatory ecstacy
and increased demands for toothsome luxu-
ries Dooner gave free reign to his APP
petising talents, his purse gave way under
the strain, and the bankruptcy court was
invoked to act as financial guardian.
For many years Dooner has been IA
miliar ngure around hotels and restaurants,
and the tales told of the meals he ate
sound like a list of supplies taken on big
Tim" sullivan's annual chowder. On a
wager with "Jim" villepigue the Sleeps
head bay innkeeper, Dooner once con-
acted TO eat q quail day for thirty days.
He did II, and to be liberal he slowed away
half a dozen birds on the final day. He
was a great champagne drinker, and once
said that he made II a rule to consume
four quarts a day. On gala occasions he
has been known to do better in less than
a day.
Dooner once startled the management of
a Baltimore restaurant by ordering 800 ter
rapins for a party Of ten. Padden was In
the party. and he declares that Dooner
got away with twelve plates, and at bed
time felt faint and had TO have something
to eat. There was one meal that the con-
tractor tabooed This was breakfast, which
l.. "a
ice cream.
Mr. boomers appetite, his chief asset, is
not involved In the proceedings.
There is in New York $1,117 5s7 worth
Of property exempt from taxation. Figures
showing this we're made public in the city
record last week by the department OF
taxes and assessments. All OF the exempt
property is the property of the state and
national governments, of the city itself and
property used for church purposes.
Chief among the items exempt from tax
alton is Central park, which is carried on
the books as worth 100000 The subway
is valued at $40.O00.OO0. the city hall park
and buildings at &2S3O0,O00 Governors is.
land at $5,66o,00o, Union square at $4,000
st. Patrick's cathedral at $6,000,000 Black
wells island and it's buildings at S12, 0OO, 600
Mt. Morris park at $500, 900, Bronx park al
8, 000. 900. Jerome park reservoir at g. 900, 600
postoffice building at SO. 600 900, Battery park
reservoir at t2600.oo0, the new custom house
at $,sooooo and the old custom house al
A.5oO.ooo.
The sight of men using American flags
to clean windows and brass work al
Laue's hotel. Thirty-ninth street and Sixth
avenue, caused a riot that threatened to
wreck the place. The hotel is owned by
Henry Laue, who was away.
What his views on patriotism may be
nobody knew until this afternoon, when
two men appeared outside the place with
bundle Of American flags. They were
part OF the Fourth Of July decorations
With the stars and stripes the worlmeu
began to rub the windows and polish the
brass trimmings. A crowd collected and
demands were made that the men change
their polishing rags. They refused to dc
80 and the mob, which by this time num-
bered nearly 300 persons began to throw
stones at the building. Windows were
smashed and the two men were being
roughly handled when police reserves ar
rived and restored order.
Tho men finished the work with other
cloths than the American flag
Vice Chancellor Pitney in Newark last
week declared that the defunct New York
Building ana Loan Banking company was
a fraud, and those who had invested in II
need not expect to receive more than d
per cent OF their original investment. The
vice chancellor also said that the concern
could hardly pay per eft honestly.
The case came up in the chanoery court
on the return OF an order 70 show cause
why the final accounting OF Charles M
Preston, an ancillary receiver in New Jer-
sey, should not be approved The order
also included a proposed additional allow
ance Of 5000 TO the receiver and $500 to
Frank p. McDermott of Jersey City. The
latter requests were allowed.
According to the ancillary receiver
mortgage claims involving several hun
dred properties in New Jersey have been
settled without single foreclosure, and
in New York. out OF several thousands OF