Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-24

Ripples on the Current of Life in the
MetPonoIfa

Rippies on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
Save the pennies the dollars will take
| care OF themselves" is the motto Mrs.
Hetty keeps firmly in mind and in opera
ton OF all her deals. Business is business
with her, and when she is obliged to pay
| out even a small bit of her boarded coin
| invariably demands a receipt. At Hoboken
| the other day Mrs. Green appeared at the
office of the Public Service corporation
| and solemnly paid 5. cents on account OF a
| fare which one OF the conductors had
| trusted her. Mrs. Green demanded re-
ceipt in order that the weighty transaction
might never bob UP again to worry her
| in her declining years.
/ The officials Of the company filled out
| an imposing document, reading that the
| sum of cents had been received from
| Mrs. Hetty Green for one ride on their
cars in Hoboken Thursday, January IS.
| 1906, under the following circumstances;
When the said Mrs. Green boarded a
car near her place OF residence, at No.
| 1908 Washington street. she was asked
| for her fares cents. She handed half
dollar coin to the conductor.
Sorry, madam, but l can't take that:
| it's not good"
Mrs. Green then searched in her pock-
etbook but found she had no more money.
II guess you can trust pe for ride
| to the ferry" she said.
"You can ask the postman sitting OPP
| posite who 1 am. He will tell you my
credit is good"
After thirteen years Of building the
great Croton DAM which has cost the city
50, 900, 900, was completed Wednesday of last
week.
The last stone, a piece OF coping on the
spillway, was laid by Comptroller Metz,
| the official guest of honor of the contrac-
| tors. After the ceremony, there was a
banquet In celebration of the event.
The reservoir is one of the largest in
| existence, being nineteen miles long and
two and a half miles wide. Its capacity
| is 800, 900. 900 gallons of water.
| The dam should have been completed
| some time in the sos, but after the work
| had progressed considerably, 1t was dis
| covered that the engineers had miscalcu-
lated as to the size of the foundations, and
they were demolished and rebuilt at an
enormous loss to the city.
An elderly beau sat in a northbound car
Monday afternoon, relates the New York
Times. A we'll fitting coat moulded his
| slim figure and a very shiny tall hat added
| distinction to well cut features set of by
| a white moustache. Most of his fellow
passengers were women, and his gaze wan
! dered over them, lingering critically on
| EACH to revert decisivey to two, young
and evidently foreigners, sitting almost OPP
posite One of them appeared to possess
a particular fascination for him.
She was chatting with animation to her
| companion. Now and then she would turn
| her eyes and her glance would shoot over
| and on each side of her admirer into the
| street beyond. II for moment 1t rested
| upon him it was an unseeing glance, for,
absorbed in the subject of her conversation,
| there was no consciousness in 1t. Equally
absorbed in her, his face reflected the
swiftly changing expression of the girl.
When she smiled he smiled When she
| looked grave the merriment died out OF
| his eyes.
| The other passengers were taking 1t all
! in, some without any attempt to disguise
| their interest, others-women of the KIND
! who see everything without appearing TO
! look at anything in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
a twinkling of intelligence and the sus-
picion of q smile If their eyes CHANGED to
meet.
Finally the elderly man awoke to a
| realization of the attention he was attract
ing and rising with much dignity, left
| the car. But as he passed the girl who
| had been the object of such interest 10
him, he detached a gardenia from his coat
I and dropped it gently into her lap.
| The look of unutterable establishment that
followed this tribute caused everybody
elses face to expand in broad smile and
a couple OF the misses Uttered; but the
beau VOTED neither of the girls amaze
Inent nor of the hiarity of his erstwhile
! fellow travellers. with stately gait he was
| already threading his way through the
cross streams OF vehicles in the street
Recently a rich man who had been
snatched from the grave by the skill of a
famous New York physician showed his
gratitude by giving bonus check of $4,000
in addition to the regular fee. These wind
falls do not occur often, yet there are IN
the metropolis today several physicians re-
ceiving incomes more than double the
salary OF the president OF the United States
Six of them at least can truthfully confess
incomes of s125,o00 a year. This city also
boasts OF ten physicians with incomes OF
$50 900 and some nifty more who earn and
pocket $500 Treading their trail are up
ward of 200 who garner $1,000 annually
leaving about 1900 doctors ana surgeons
who barely earn a livelihood, the average
income OF a metropolitan physician not ex'
ceeding 5000 a year.
The Belt line horse cars and st. Pauls
church are not the only antiquities left In
Greater New York. In this city one car
still see in the Bronx and In the borough'
OF Queens and Richmond the old type OF
.t,nar Ntgar fli.lra
ing fame. the dirt-blackened incandescent
electric bulb, and last, but not least. II
Tompkinsville, Staten Island. one can still
see a town lit by the kerosene oil, open
fame lamp, possibly the first successor tC
the whale oil lamp. The lamps until re-
Gently were maintained by a man with q
name as old as his lamp, Van Pelt. ant