Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
GOSSIP GATHERED HERE AND
THERE ABOUT NEW YORK CITY

fault can be found, but in others the
law is being violated apparently with
out fear. This is one of the most subtle
systems for polluting young minds
running unchecked at the present time.
Although signs are displayed in many
places refusing admission to children
under 16 years of age, not in the COM
pany of adults. the rule Is very sell
dom enforced. Some managers. in fact,
have gone so far as to supply stools
for children who otherwise could not
peer into the picture machines. 1t is
said that the reformers will not con-
fine the work to this city alone. Re-
ports of conditions in Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Hoboken, Philadelphia and Tren-
ton are now in course of preparation.
Honor Former Kings Memory
The Danish Americans of New York
and vicinity have started movement
to interest their brethren throughout
the country, having for it's object the
erection of a memorial to the late
King Christian TX. 1t has been thought
fitting to erect in Copenhagen a monu-
ment as testimonial to the fatherland
from the Danes in America. 1t is in
tended that this memorial be erected of
American granite, that it be modelled
by Danish-American artists, and that
the funds be raised by general contri-
buttons. Foremost among the leaders
of the movement is Jacob A. Riis, the
presidents friend. The Home Trust
company of Brooklyn, being the only
banking institution in New York de-
voting itself to the interests of Scan
dinavians. has been selected as deposit
tory for funds.
A Palace for the Ice King
Fashionable Fifth avenue is interest
ed in a report that Charles w. Morse
will erect a three million dollar palace
on Fifth avenue between Fifty-sixth
and Fifty-seventh streets. With the
land and furnishings the total cost of
this home will be about five million
dollars. Only one other home among
the houses along Fifth avenue repre-
sents greater outlay than that pro-
posed by Mr.. Morse. That is the Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt place at F'ifty-eighth
street.
Old Theatrical Relic to Go
The Herald Square theater, destined
to disappear to make way for a COM
mercial building, contains one historic
relic, more interesting than any Incl
dent in it's career. When the house
was built various parts of the interior
of the famous Booths theater, which
had just been destroyed to make way
for a department store, were used.
Chief among these was the proscenium
arch. For some years it was adorned
with the same figure of Shakespeare
that had been a notable detail of
Booths. The arch was later repainted,
but it is still the same that witnessed
the most famous attempt to found a
representative American theater that
the country ever knew.
Passengers Saw the Eruption
The White Star line steamship Re-
public. which is the first liner to arrive
in New York since the beginning of the
recent eruptions of Vesuvius. reached
port last night, having left Naples the
morning of April. s. the day the first
big eruption occurred.
I'VE left Naples the morning of 9
o'clock April s." Captain McCauley of
the Republic said. AT that time the
eruption had just begun and before
the ship was half way out of the har-
Dor the decks were covered with ashes
to the depth of an inch. Many of the
passengers We're awakened by the
noise. At sunrise a large mass of
flame and smoke was plainly seen issu
ing from the crater of Vesuvius, but we
lost sight of 1t as the day advanced"
Making General Kick
New Workers just now are troubled
with a lfew disease, which might be
called rapid transitkickita. They
are kicking against every branch of
the rapid transit system, be it surface,
elevated or subway. There is much to
kick about too, but in some cases the
objections registered are without
foundation and foolish. For instance,
this afternoon at Seventy-second street
the motor OH subway train broke and
the passengers were requested to get
out and wait for the next train. Some
of them did; many of them refused to
bulge. These latter. after abusing the
guards, the motormen. President Bel
mont and everybody connected with
the road, condescended to do as re-
uuested. When the next train came
along it soon became crowded. When