Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-26
GOSSIP, GRAVE AND GAY, OF MORE
THAN PASSING INTEREST In GOTHAM

. forced upon them. The fact is that 95
per cent of the habitual diners at the
Waldorf fall into the "open face" habit
naturally, But to attempt to enforce
any style of dress would be absurd.
Besides, nobody seems to object to
sword swallowers and table knockers.
Surely they are more Objectionable
than men i'm business clothes who have
the ordinary table manners.
Cab Robbers in New York
1t is said that only royalty rides
first class in Europe and that only mill
iionaires and suckers use cabs in New
York. The drivers here seem to spend
their time searching for suckers, and
they resent the approach of a man
who knows his business and who asks
the fare before taking a seat A we'll
dressed woman with two pieces of bag
gage may take q cab at any one Of
the railroad stations here, and unless
she has the spunk to resent a fragrant
overcharge she may be obliged to give
UP as high as 81 or S. for half an
hours service or less. The best plan
is to make definite agreement with
the cabman before entering his vehicle,
giving him to understand that you
know the rates and will not be im-
posed upon. 1t is n waste of gentle
manners to talk decorously to a New
York cabman. The average one of
the breed has the soul Of sewer rat
and the conscience of famished wolf
Only the other day a poor Swedish
girl came over from Jersey City with
small handbag and so cents in
change. She wanted to go to the
Grand Central station and the cabman
took her money and told her to get in.
Instead of delivering her at the sta
ton, which he promised to do. he drove
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out on the curb a few hundred feet
away from the point from which she
started. The full fare to the station
would have been about rs cents, but
the wolf on the hurricane deck of the
cab could not let that half dollar get
away from him.
A Lone Woman Passenger
With only one woman passenger in
the first cabin the steamship Hamburg
of the Hamburg American line reached
New York today on her last trip prep
aratory to going into royal commits
sion for the summer cruise in the
Mediterranean of Kaiser Wilhelm. Mrs.
George Bartol was the woman pas
senger. She was travelling with her
husband, president of the Philadelphia
bourse.
rVctte 1ullpeTI an AMERICAN
Yvette Guilbert. who is here to sing
and talk in specially arranged after
noon entertainments rejoices in the
fact that she is now an American citi-
zen. Her husband, DR.. Schiller, is a
naturalized American and, according to
the rules of the international game, this
includes her. The famous chanteuse
will make a point of costumes during
her stay in New York. She has one for
which she paid 10000 francs and a num-
Der worth upward of $4,000 francs each.
Yvette, Guilberts Gowns
Yvette Guilbert begins her trick to-
morrow afternoon at the Lyceum and
society has already bought up all the
seats. There is an impression out that
she is going to wear the most stunning
gowns ever seen on or off the stage.
Madame, Guilbert will wear a Pompa-
dour gown reproduced on the lines of
the costume worn by Madame Pompa-
dour in the we'll known Vatican paint
ing while singing the numbers of the
earliest period, and she will wear other
gowns, also typical of the first song
cycle; the "Chansons Crinoline'' will be
sung in spreading lowered skirts, such
as are seen in the prints of that time.
There are many of the various songs in
the Selecteu program.
At Quarantine
The troubles of the voyager who has
finished a trip over unruffled seas in a
modern marine hotel begin when he
reaches quarantine and do not end until
the customs inspectors chalk his bag
gage at the liners pier and restore him
to his interrupted freedom. Quarantine
that is, the land part of the station
is as picturesque and healthful q spot
as may be found on Staten Island. 1t
is not uninviting even IN winter, and in
the summer is an ideal place to loaf
and dine. Less than an eighth of a,
mile from the little pier at the base OF
the hill are the anchorage grounds of
the big and little ships from all the
great ports of the world. There, by
the rigorous law of the Empire State,
every vessel, steam and sail, must stop
and permit herself and passengers. If
she has any, to be examined for pos
sible infection. The rules are most
vigorously enforced against great ships
that bring the prosecuted, the adven-
turesome and the home seeking throngs
from the peasantry and occasionally
from the slums of Europe Frequently
the prosecuted are also the great UNI
washed and therefore considered more
highly than the others to spread, if not
to catch, communicable disease. Ships
that bring this class are generally held
in quarantine longer than those that
do not.
Solving Water Problem
1t is probable that within the next
four months the important problem of
the future water supply of New York
city will come nearer solution than it
has at any time since the subject has
come under consideration. Tests in the
territory which embraces Queens, Mas
sau and Suffolk counties have proved
beyond reasonable doubt that a great
| area in central and northern Long ISL
and conceals under coat of varying
thickness remarkable subterranean
streams OF fresh water that vary in
volume, but which, taken in the aggre-
gate, are sufficient TO supply Brooklyn
with water for fifty years to come and
leave a surplus large enough to aid
Manhattan without recourse to the
watershed of the Catskills. The city
| of New York is now under contract