The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-13

man place, looking more and more in- congruous amidst It's towering neigh bors, remained. Stilliman would not sell Once a real estate speculator of- fered to pay for the ground by covering 1t with silver dollars. But Silliman in sisted on gold dollars and the deal fell through. Thereafter there were no more offers during his life. The price recently realized by his son Is proba- bly enough to cover more than two- thirds of the ground with gold dollars. Western capitalists are erecting the new skyscraper.
 Bluejackets of the United States na- WY, from the fleet at anchor in the Hudson river, were much In evidence in the city streets this week. And very well-behaved sailormen they have been. Though half the men of the fleet crews have been constantly on shore leave during the week, thus let ting loose some 4,000 jackies upon the city,. at once. the metropolitan police have not been worried by the invasion In the least. In the one case of vio- lence that came to the attention of the police .the sympathy was all with the sailors.
 While three jackies were drinking in a Bowery resort of thievish reputation. some crooks picked the pocket of one or them ana then uEONe tAc Iio Ahto the streets. The three told their story to some of their comrades. with the result that soon a band of 300 sailors marched on the place, burst in, and proceeded to make the band of crooks candidates for hosiptal. Someone sent for the police, but by the time the reserves of the nearest station arrived, the trouble was almost over. Every glass and every stick of furniture in ha hat ships now in the harbor are Rear Ad- miral Evans's flagship Maine and the battleships Kearsage, Kentucky, Mis- souri, Alabama, Iowa, Illinois and In- diana, and the cruisers West Virginia and Colorado. They will remain until June
 As an aftermath of the Centennial Dinner of the 7th regiment, supposed to have been the largest banquet ever held in the metropolis, at which 2,25S persons feasted, the caterers give some interesting statistics. It took $50 walters to serve the dinner. Altogeth- CT, 23,000 pieces of china were used and more than 10000 knives, forks and spoons One thousand five hundred beef tenderloins were gobbled up in short order, as were forty gallons of lobster sauce and forty more of mush-
 
 gallons of minced chickens and 10000 hard shelled crabs were used. Pota- toes and string beans amounted to half a ton each. There were 5000 rolls and 250 pounds of butter. The diners ate 300 gallons of Ice cream with 200 pounds of cake. With the 200 gallons of coffee were served 4.500 cigars, and 1.500 boxes of cigarettes.
 Hundreds of persons who were in San Francisco during the earthquake and fire have drifted back to New York during the past fortnight, and all sorts of odd souvenirs of the disaster are now being exhibited about the city. One of the most curious souvenirs Is in the hands of an officer of the Her ring-Hall- Marvin Safe Company. It Is just a plain Havana cigar, but the owner would not part with 1t for it's weight in gold. The cigar was in one of the company's safes on the fifth floor of a steel frame building on Mar ket Street which collapsed with the earthuuake Afterwards fire swept the district. A few days later. when the safe was pried out of the ruins, its con tents, including the cigar, were found to be in perfect condition. The weed is probably the only Havana in the city that will never be smoked.
 The station attendant near the nov ing stairway at the Twenty-third Street station of the elevated railroad de- clares that he has an infahible test for distinguishing native New Workers from visitors from out of town. The stran- ger in the city, he says. steps on the moving stairway and lets 1t carry him up to the station from the street, while the New Yorker runs up the escalator as if it were an ordinary stairway. Tn this way, says the attendant. T cal-