East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-02
NEW YORK LETTER


New York, Aug. CLERKS of the
fashionable stores along Fifth avenue.
Twenty-third street and Broadway,
know by sight a colored woman who
is frequent visitor in her automobile
to the shops where the finest things
are to be bought. She makes large
purchases. The woman is Mrs. Pay
ton, wife of Philip Payton, jr., the
negro who has made fortune In real
estate, and is back of plan In Har-
lem to form a colony of well-to-d do
colored persons. Her tastes are re-
fined and supported by the credit of
her husbands name. she is able to
crafty desires which only the wealthy
dare to entertain.
Payton, as a real estate dealer, 10
daring, and not afraid to stand by his
colored brethren. He 1t was who
evicted all the white tenants from a
large and fashionable apartment
house in fashionable neighborhood.
and filled the apartments with colored
tenants. He is making money by 1t
and is pleasing colored people of
means, but he isn't pleasing the rich
white people who have to move from
flats they had held for some time.
There are plenty OF colored people in
this city now that can afford all the
luxuries that Mr.. Payton can put into
house for them to occupy, and he
can get as much rent from them as
from whites. hence he will continue
to enlarge the moundaries of the flats
occupied by heightened blacks.
"Bill' Rockefeller Sneaks In.
William Rockefeller was so afraid
of having the public know of his
movements that he made his way
home from France by very circuit
oYs route. He took the steamer to
Quebec, and thence came by motor
car to the Adirondacks, where he
stayed a week to recuperate. And
then he took train quietly for Tar
| rytown, and got there so quietly that
/ his presence was not suspected for
some days. Verify, the ways of the
rich in these latter days are not the
/ ways of pleasantness and peace
| Havemeyer had almost as hard time
of getting into Tarrytown as he will
/ encounter when he approaches st
Peter at the pearly gates.
An Impcrsonating Swindlc.
A new kind of swindle has sprung
up in the theatrical profession. Some
talented and attractive chorus gir
has gone around and secured CON
tracts in various names, and ther
/ transferred the INTO others. they tax
ing the names in the contracts. a!
a consequence managers have no
found the merits they bargained fo1
! when the contracts were signed. Thi!
had greatly puzzled them until the!
had unearthed the swindle. Now the!
have a chorus girl photographed a
soon as the contract Is signed, ant
the portrait appears as part of th'
contract. It is said considerable ha
been done in this new kind of fax
impersonation.
Story of the East Side.
A pathetic story comes from tn
East Side, that fruitful source o
striking stories. John Burns. VIII
has a wife and two sons in Eas
Forty-fourth street, was sent to Belle
vue hospital for general debility
Soon after he arrived another job
Burns was brought in in a desperat
condition of alcoholism.
When Mrs. Burns the first went
the hospital to see her husband, sh
was told that he had been transferre
to the Metropolitan hospital o
: Rlackwelrs island. She decided
wait. and a couple nights later sh
received news that her husband wa
; dead. She went to the morgue, ant
with her sister identified the body a
: that of her husband. The body wa
delivered at the house, and frienC
were invited to the wake, for whic
extensive preparations had bee
made. In the course of the afternoo
s an old woman friend came in. ST
4 took one look at the corpse. shoe
r her head and broke out with: ''Sur
an If ye are John Burns your no:
! bellies ye. John was no drinkir
r, man."
Mrs. Burns got out photograI
of her husband, and compared
with the face of the corpse. The
:. was a general resemblance, but fea
a ure by feature there was differenc
g Wondering whether she was wife
widow, Mrs. Bunrs telephoned Il
II undertaken and asked what was Il
It cause of Burns death at Blackwell
3 island alcoholism" came back Il
X answer. After more telephoning
was learned that the Burns who didr
!, make a widow Of his wife was
Bellevue alive and better. The corp
was taken back to the morgue wi
:, much rejoicing.
:, Horse vs. Automobile.
The report of the coroner for &
borough of Manhattan has caus
g. considerable surprise by the stat
a ment that of 15S deaths caused
d street vehicles only 16 were caus
d by automobiles. Vehicles propell
n by horses caused four times as ma
deaths and streets cars, subway al
ls elevated. five times as many.
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