Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-03
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes ON the Current of Life In the
MetrOPolla.


Ripples on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
Truly these are melancholy days for
Thomas Collier Plat, New Yorks senior
senator. Famous the Easy Boss" who
for score OF years shaped the destiny of
the republican party in the Empire state,
Senator Plat now is broken In health,
shorn Of his political power and threatened
with divorce court scandal. Reports
have It that Mrs. Plat has grown weary
OF the aged senator and is unusually in
terested in men nearer her own age, caus-
ing grief in the family household and
threats of divorce proceedings To cap the
climax Senator Platt's famous Amen cor
ner" at the Fifth Avenue hotel has passed
away Since 1853 the republican headquar-
tiers have been located in the Fifth Avenue
hotel, except for the years 1884. 1885 and
1856. when they were transferred to the
Giisey house. Since 1887, however. they
have remained in the Fifth Avenue. Only
one employee of the republican state COM
mittee. who has been continuously with 1t
since 1852 is left. He is stephen A. Smith,
confidential messenger.
The name Amen corner" was applied
to the plush covered ssats in the corner
Old Guard gathered and said Amen to
everything Boss Plat did in the committee
rooms. 1t was also the rendezvous of the
newspaper men, who in the past years of
Platts rule formed an association known
as the amen Corner" which gives annual
dinners at which prominent politicians are
present. The association is Incorporated,
and 1t will continue in existence as re-
hinder of the times when the Fifth Avenue
was the Mecca OF republicans.
Upper Broadway between Forty-second
street and seventy-second street, has been
named Garage Row by the automebilists.
In the last two years automobile garages
have strung up there at a great rate.
Most OF the ground which the garages
now occupy was vacant lots couple OF
years ago; some with squatters' shanties on
them. Then one automobile manufactures
erected temporary garage above Fifty
ninth street 1t was hit from the start
and other manufacturers followed suit and
erected garages.
At first the garages were only temporary
affairs, the majority being only two stories
high. As business increased substantial
buildings took the place Of the temporary
ones.
Each builder tried to Guido his rivals in
the appearance of his garage, with the re
suit that some of the garages resemble
private dwellings more closely than bush
ness buildings.
Down with the robber landlords Is the
keynote OF the Tenants union. which num-
hers 1900 members. The union holds large
open air meetings in the evenings and has
for its president Con Sullivan, an old
time Tammany orator. The meetings are
opened with prayer, but they do not al
WAYS close with benediction because some
times they almost end in a fist fight. The
union was appropriately organized May l
last. Of all the days of the year the most
calculated 10 infuriate tenants against land
lords, rents. janitors ond owners of mov-
ing vans At a meeting OF the union the
other night the orators spoke from a truck
that was brilliantly lighted. They declared
the landlords form the biggest. greediest
trust on earth They gave horrible exam
ples OF the rapacity OF the landlord octopus
and swore that the janltors are the only
tentacles OF the tehant-devouring monster
A lonely reporter sat a stoop down on
West Thirty seventh street early one morn
ing recently, waiting for some new devel-
Onlnenl IN d UlufutI " bN hAfNA
out at the police station. The midnight
squad of cops had tramped OF to post and
for over an hour no footstep had sounded
on the pavement. The reporter called
over one of the night prowing pussies to
him and by dint OF honeyed urging In
weighed the lean black shadow to slip up
between his knees.
While the reporter was stroking and cud-
ding the tramp cat other shadows APP
peared from dark corners. and. after much
circling around and hesitating advances,
one by one six Tables came 20 join the
impromptu family reunion. The cats rubbed
against the reporters legs, climbed 10 his
shoulders and in every one of the coy
pussy cats ways OF expression the seven
tramps OF Hells Kitchen showed their
gratitude for the first petting they had
probably ever received
No developments In the murder mystery
came into the police station, and at i;9o
O'Clock in the morning the amateur Pied
Piper started for the elevated to go back
TO his once Seven vsgrant pussy cats
followed him to the corner. there stopped.
crouched down and watched him climb the
stairs TO the train platform.
Half OF New York lives in the street
Overlooking from their crowded fats and
uncomfortable rooms. the people pour out
onto the front steps, the sidewalks. the
city parks and the great highways. Chill
dren play all over the street in continual
danger. and their elders scatter about.
singly or In groups. but always In
the garish light This. of course. IL In
the districts OF the poor. whore hats are
stuffy and rooms crowded with humanity
but Il is not so different in the ether
sections where the mats become apartments
and light and Sunshine illunine them. The
spirit Is Characteristic OF New York. aud
the safe restlessness that drives the poor
to the curb sends the rich into public
dininE-rooms for a long drawn-out meal