The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10

various churches in New York have passed
into general usage. The church then pre-
sided over by DR.. Bellows at Twentieth
street and Fourth Avenue he called the
1Beefsteak Church, )" the Reformed Dutch
Church at Fifth avenue and Twenty-nlnth
street The Church Of the Holy Shanghai
from the rooster which serves as a weather
vane, and DR.. Houghton's rambling church
in Twenty-ninth street the Church OF the
Holy Cucumber Vine" which designation
it retained until the incident of the actors
funeral changed its nickname to Little
Church Around the Corner"
The doctor used to spend his summers
at the Profile House in the White Noun
the early day social life there famous. That
group succeeded in h~umbugging p. T.
Barnum. They were sitting on the piazza
one afternoon when DR.. Peters proposed
a race to a fence about fifty yards away,
the last man to touch it to pay for ham,
payne. Barnum saw many men there less
ablebodied than he n was willing to
come into what seemed to him an easy
thing,
The race was ruin and nobody touched the
! fence but Barnun. lie was cheerful about
the champagne, saying it was but just
he should take a little Of his OVID medicine
once in a while,
There was a high spirited girl at the Profile
House one summer who numbered among
her many accomplishments an ability to
| throw fits that would have shamed a Bowery
faker. One afternoon there came a hurry
call for Dr.. Peters and he was hurried into
the parlor to find the young woman on the
floor, surrounded by symputhizing women,
and apparently in the throes OF an epileptlc
CONFUSION.
DR.. Peters took up her hand, lifted her
! eyelid with his thumb, turned his back,
put his hands in his pockets and walked
out, deaf to the circumstances of the
agitated women who were aghast at such
an exhibition Of hard heartedness by one
whom they idolized as the kindest OF
men. They could get nothing out of
him, however, except an assurance. that
she did not need treatment and would be
all right shortly, as the result proved.
Some years afterward n woman, accom-
panied by her husband, Was shown into the
doctors office. She appeared " know him,
although he did not at first recall her.
You don't remember me, doctor. Per-
haps you will when / tell you that 1 am the
person who had the fit in the parlor OF the
Profile House five years ago, / made up
my mind then that if ! ever had occasion to
employ a doctor in New York it should be
you, Before we go n further please tell
mo how you knew there was nothing the
matter, l had tried that on many doctors
and had never been caught before"
why" said DR.. Peters, when l came into
the room l saw that YOU had picked out the
handsomest rug on the floor asa background
| for your performance, That was suspicious
in itself, but when I pulled up your eyelid
and Jaw your bright and wicked eye | knew
that you were perfectly well and up 10
some deviltry Of your W which | thought
| wouldn't Interfere with
You we're right about tho dcviltrv "A "oI
were about the fit. | had made a bet uf a
dozen gloves that | could hoodwiaN you"
DR.. Peters attended in his last illness the
father of a woman as notorious for her rio hes
as Tor her parsimony. As death approached
he considered it necessary TO make more
frequent visits. This visibly annoyed the
lady for she knew the doctors charges
were high. He determined to make q last