Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-08
RouNp ABour NEW YoRK.
some Of the Events OF the nay In tn
Huny Metropolis.

dam avenue and Broadway became indig-
nant over a sign put up IN front OF me
ive-story apartment house at 525 West one
Hundred and F1fty-frst street reading
Choice four and five-room apartments 20
let for colored tenants" The house has
been leased for a term OF years by the
Afro-American Realty company, and II was
rimored in the neighborhood that Hannah
Elias was interested In the deal. The house
was originally built by Herman Raabe a.
Sons and two months ago was sold 20 the
Louis Meyer Realty company, 800 Broad
way There are several private houses and
number Of apartment houses on the same
block and some Of the tenants say that
they will get out rather than live in a
neiRhborhood with a houseful OF "niggers."
Mrs. Philip Roth. janitress Of the house
was sitting on the stoop with her children
when one OF the agents came up, accom-
panied by a negro, whom he introduced as
the new agent of the house. She was told
to tack the sign up. She refused, and told
the agent that II he wanted the sign pu:
up he could go to the cellar and find nails.
There are twenty-four apartments in the
house and twelve Of them are occupied
Mrs. Roth went among the tenants and
spread the news that their new landlord,
after August 1, would be a negro. They
said that they would get out right away
Mrs. Alexander Tardes, wife of a lawyer,
said that Il was an outrage to fill such a
house with colored families. When the news
spread along the block crowd gathered
in front of the house. Some boys got Il
rope and when the janitress was in the
house attending to her work they pulled
the sign down and broke it in pieces.
A member Of the Afro-American Realty
| company told the janitress that it was the
intention to rent the apartments to re-
spectacle colored families and that notices
would be served on the white tenants to
get out by the first of the month.
Punch, by his intelligence and fidelity dur
ing his fourteen years in the police service,
earned the pension OF ease and good living
he was assured when Inspector Cross came
from Brooklyn to Manhattan to attend the
sale of condemned horses Of the depart
ment and outbid all others for the faithful
old animal. It is not often that a horse
25 years old unfit for hard service, brings
1925 at auction in New York or anywhere
else II is less frequent that men and
women who have never seen a horse of
such age and infrmities come from miles
| around to bid for him, not for his value,
but through real love for an intelligent an
| innal they have heard may fall into the
hands Of some sordid purchaser who will
wiring out in slavery his last few years of
strength. They came from as far as Ja-
maica and gathered in front OF the Leon
ard street police station to bid for Punch.
Most of them. including one particularly
persistent bidder, a woman, had never seen
Punch and knew him only by his reputa ton.
With him were five other and much younger
| police horses, condemned but able to do
| good work in other than police service for
| years None OF them brought anywhere
near Punch's price. When Punch was put
| up for sale the auctioneer was amazed ut
the number of bids. The woman from ia
| maica was most aggressive till the bid
reached $40, made by Inspector Cross, and
! then with sigh she retired and others
carried the price up 10 the 1928 at which
the inspector bought the horse. Punch has
a strong Arabian strain and is beautiful
brown animal. with flowing name and tail,
the head of a thoroughbred and the de-
pertinent of an aristocrat still in spite of
his years. He will be put on a farm to
roam at will and enjoy life without work.
He recognized Inspector Cross as soon as
the latter appeared and whinned n greet
! ing which Insured him the last dollar in the
| inspectors pocket, II such bid became
necessary
Punch is the hero of many runaway res
cues and knew his duties we'll that with
out the pull of rein he illed any detail
his master Of the moment was covering. He
played roundsman on his own account and
signalled with his neigh to the horses of
mounted men when his rider was on tours
Of inspection.
Through the resourcefulness and inse-
|
the pier, Bernard Bailey, % years Of age,
a carpenter of Fairfield. Conn, was
saved from death at the pier, at the foot
Of East Twenty-second street, Manhat-
tan. Bailey, who fell from the string
piece Of the pier, was in danger Of drown
ing and from being crushed between the
pier and the steamer Bridgeport as the
steamer was about TO tie up The pilot
jlngled the bells in the engine room, and
signalled 10 back water, but to several
hundred persons who had gathered on
the bow OF the steamer the mans death
seemed unavoidable. When the steamer
was within fifteen feet of Bailey
who, unable to swim, was houn-
dering in the water with one hand
resting on a Spite. Martin F. Buckley, OF
1856 West Eighty-nnth street, and Jere'
miah Mccarthy, OF SOl Avenue A. who
had seen him fall, ran to his assistance
Buckley wound his legs around an iror
hawser bit, and, holding Mccarthy by the
legs, lowered him so that he could graf
the man in the water. Bailey, who wal
very frightened and saw the big steamer
still making Roadway toward him, didn
wait to be pulled out of the water, bu
used the bodies OF his rescuers as a lad
der and crawled up McCarthys back t
the pier. Then Buckley hauled McCarth!
up and the crowds on the steamer anC
pier cheered the rescuers Bailey, be
: yond being badly scared, was not mucI
worse off for his ducking.
A fat and hdgety woman accom-
panied by her two daughters, aske'
: Policeman Rempe. Of the Park Roy
entrance to the bridge, the way to tn
Barclay street ferry.
What are those things?" the police
man said, pointing TO something tn
three women had strapped around thei
waists.
They're life preservers." answered tn
elderly woman.
: whats the matter, are you cold?
= the policeman asked, wiping his perspir
+ ing face.
r "Oh, no, we're just wearing them I
e be sure wen be saved" the woman SAID