Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-08

island Tor year of Sundays WitHoue
coming upon the unpretentlouS DROWN
house where the service of the paiale
had come so near perfection. But d
select company knew and appreciated
the place. Bankers, artists, literary
men. newspaper men from PARK TOW
ana managers of big hotels desirous VI
getting tips on new daintIeS 1or tHeii
bills of fare. We're among the frequent
ers of the place. Officers of the DIE
transatlantic liners knew IL anu
dropped III " hen in port to chat wiz
Papa LaZZari and perhaps present MN
with bottle of fine cognac. A young
literary man, who has since won inter-
national fame, used to occupy a room
at the place during periods of com
position. Some of the little walking
clubs that haunt Staten Island liked to
end their tramps with a feast such as
only Lazzari could provide. Nowhere
else could such exquisite pasties, such
palate-tickling special dishes, and
above all, such tender Holsters, be
found. There was a wonderful con-
coction prepared by Mama Iazzari. Of
fresh young vegetables. mushrooms.
calves brains and veal, "frittO-misto'
ny iiuhiC, Which tuTIitu SpiSoiS' NV
poets. But the best of good things
perish Papa Lazzar. suffering from
an asthmatic affection, must move to
the raler air of the Adirondack Noun
tains, and within the month the Old
house will be razed and a factory
erected on its site.
New York's aged Senators are not
her only representatives at the national
capitol who do not cOndeScend to at
tend the present session of COngr ess.
Timothy d. sullivan, Tammany car
of the East Side and representative of
the Eighth Congressional district of
the city. has not been present in the
House since the opening day of the
session, somewhat over five months
ago. Mr.. Sulhvan's sole appearance at
Washington occurred a few days ago
when he flew out to attend a meeting
of the Committee on Coinage. Weights
and Measures and press the bill to
establish the metric system for use by
the Government. big Tins" as
siduity for the metric system is a
puzzle both to the city at large and his
constituents. The Bowery has never
given any thought to the metric
system and would probably be appalled,
if 1t had to fill its beer cans by the
litre instead of the pint. After at
tending the committee meeting at
Washington, Mr.. Sullivan hurried back
to Albany where he has stayed all
winter attending to his interests"
He does not care for Washington. and
Il hi Job re n Z =
the end of his term and have himself
elected State Senator again-a position
he graced for many years. There's
always something doing at Albany" he
says, explaining his preference for the
State capitol. In the light of recent
yellow dog revelations. Father
Knickerbocker does not question this.
The inalienable right to uniOnize has
been exercised by the bootblacks of the
city who have formed an organization
with the formidable title of the United
Bootblacks' Protective League. Here
after the union shine will be in order,
and the man who has the misfortune
to own a pair of scab-made shoes may
find himself put on the blacklist and
unable to get his boots decently
blacked. A nine hour day and Sun
day closing hour at 3 o'clock are re-
forms contemplated by the union.
And just to show that the organization
is fully organized and up-to-dat
charges of graft in the union have
already been made. An Italian boot
black On Times square alleges that he
was ordered by the union to close on a
certain day, which he did, and behold.
all the officers of the union continued
to do business and stole his custom.
Il pay tree dol to join and feefty
cents a month";" he said Somebody
gitta da mon and I gitta da lemon"
To get a lemon, in the parlance of the
street, is to be buncoed.
There are no volcanoes in New York,
but eruptions of a dangerous character
have been driving thousands of
tenants away from the neighborhood
Just below Central Park on the West
Side. The trouble has been with the
heavy iron lids covering the sewer
manholes. which of late have acquired
the habit of soaring skyward amidst
great explosion and upleap Of flames.
sometimes as many az twenty of these
manhOle covers have blown out at once
with force that shattered all the
windows in the neighborhood damaged
houses and injured pedestrians in the
streets one frightened householder.
driven out of his parlor when one of
the great iron discs crashed through
the window, took refuge in the cellar
Whereupon the cellar floor suddenly
blew UP and mashed him against the
ceiling. The trouble originated in the
big automobile garages in the neigh
bofhoOd, which We're accustomed to
pass waste gasolene into the sewers
The gasolene got ignited and caused
the blow-ups This week a committee
of residents stOrmed the Mayors office
and demanded that the sewer bonn
DardmentS be made to cease Ac-
cordingly the aldermen passed an
ordinance banishing gasolene from the
sewers.
LONGACRE.
KILL NEWSPAPER.
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